Lot 463
  • 463

Hobbes, Thomas

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  • Hobbes, Thomas
  • Historia Ecclesiastica carmine Elegiaco concinnata. Augustae Trinobantum [i.e. London]: Anno Salutis, 1688
  • ink, paper and cow
8vo (6 x 3 1/2 in.; 154 x 89 mm). Contemporary notes on pages 10, 26, 32. Stain on first few leaves including title page. Wing H2237.
[Bound with:]
Giraldi, Giovanni Battista. Poematia. Basel: Robert Winter, March 1540. Second edition. Woodcut initials. Contemporary annotations on title-page, a6, A4, A5, D5, K1, K2, K3, N7 & colophon; lower margin of title torn away, margins of E3, E4 & E5 verso closely shaved with slight loss of text, lacks the final blank, occasional light waterstaining. Adams G713. 

Two works in one volume. seventeenth-century calf, morocco lettering-pieces; extremities rubbed, old repairs.

Provenance

acquisition: Bernard Quaritch, 2003

Literature

Hobbes: Wing H2237