Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 585
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Milton, John

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Milton, John
  • Londoninensis Poemata.... Nunc primum Edita. London: by Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Moseley, 1645
  • ink, paper, leather
8vo (6 x 4 in.; 155 x 97 mm). Woodcut letters, head- and tailpieces; light marginal staining to last leaf, corner of rear endpaper torn away. Contemporary blind ruled sheep; spine rubbed, minor loss at head with short split to upper joint alongside.

Provenance

Christie's New York, 16 December 1991, lot 219. acquisition: Purchased at the foregoing sale through Bernard Quaritch

Literature

Wing M2159; ESTC R180606

Catalogue Note

First edition of the very rare separate issue of the Latin section of Poems of John Milton (see Pforzheimer 722, Wing M2160) in a contemporary binding. The present is the only copy at auction in three decades.