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

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Lot 777
  • 777

Sylvester, Joshua

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Sylvester, Joshua
  • The Parliament of Vertues Royal: for Nomination, creation, and Confirmation of The most Excellent Prince Panaretus [By J. Bertaut.] — Berthulians rescue. [By Saluste du Bartas.] — Little Bartas. [By Saluste du Bartas.] — Micro-cosmo-graphia; from H. Smith — Lachrymae lachrymarum — Elegiac-Epistle. [London: H. Lownes, 1614]
  • Ink, paper and cow
8to (5 x 3 1/8 in.; 127 x 80 mm.). Nineteenth-century straight-grained English brown morocco.

Provenance

Bent Juel-Jensen (note)

Literature

STC 23581

Catalogue Note

Collection of Bertaut and du Bartas translations by Sylvester with later issues of his own works.