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

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Lot 637
  • 637

Person, David

Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 USD
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Description

  • Varieties: or, A surveigh of Rare and Excellent matters, necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons. Wherein the principall heads of diverse sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of naturall things unfoulded,... London: by Richard Badger [and Thomas Cotes], for Thomas Alchorn, and are to be sold at his shop, in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the green-Dragon, 1635
  • ink, paper, leather
4to (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.; 190 x 140 mm).  Title-page within woodcut border, A1 present; spotting to fore-margins of final quires. Contemporary blind-ruled calf; lower joint repaired, some loss at spine ends, upper corners worn.

Provenance

Sir Robert Gordon (J.G. Cochrane, 25 March 1816, lot 1865) — Bent Juel-Jensen (bookplate). acquisition: Juel-Jensen

Literature

STC 19781; ESTC S114573  

Catalogue Note

First edition, presentation copy "Ex-dono authoris Robert Gordone" on blank recto of A1.  Sir Robert Gordon's collection was dispersed at auction in 1816.