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[East India Company]
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2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description
- An Impartial Vindication of the English East- India-Company, from the unjust and slanderous Imputations cast upon them in a Treatise intituled, A Justification of the Directors of the Netherlands East-India-Company... [With:] A Justification of the Directors of the Netherlands East-India-Company, as it was delivered over unto the . . States General of the United Provinces, the 22nd. of July, 1686... London: Samuel Titmarsh, 1688
- paper, ink, leather
Two works in one volume, 8vo (190 x 120 mm). A fine copy. Handsome contemporary binding of full dark blue turkey, outer edges double-ruled in gilt framing a central rectangle with urn and flower device at corners, dentelle and board edges with gilt flower heads, spine in six compartments, four with gilt double-ellipse; very minor rubbing.
Literature
Wing 190; J1259
Catalogue Note
A fine seventeenth-century binding by Robert Steele. Steele was apprenticed to the Mearne bindery and took over the business upon the death of Charles Mearne in 1686. He continued to use many of the tools used by the bindery's founder, Samuel Mearne. The urn and flower device found here was used in a Mearne binding for Charles II (see Maggs Cat. 489, item 9) and the cross-hatched flower heads are also occur on a Mearne binding from 1685 (Maggs Cat. 966, item 69).