Lot 42
  • 42

Boyle, Roger, 1st Earl of Orrery

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • A Treatise of the Art of War: Dedicated to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty. [London]: T.N. for Henry Herringman, 1677
  • paper, ink, leather
Folio (12 x 7 3/4 in.; 304 x 196 mm.). Frontispiece, 6 engraved plates, woodcut initials. Nice copy, repair at first blank. Contemporary English calf. Rubbed, some scratches, hinges rubbed and very fragile, top and bottom of spine damaged, corners bumped.

Provenance

R.E. Myddelton (bookplate)

Literature

Wing O499; Spaulding & Karpinski 180

Catalogue Note

First edition.