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Braithwaite, Richard
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description
- Barnabees journall, under the names of Mirtilus & Faustulus shadowed: for the travellers solace lately published, to most apt numbers reduced, and to the old tune of Barnabe commonly chanted. By Corymboeus. London: by John Haviland, 1638
- paper, ink, leather
12mo (112 x 72 mm). Engraved title portrait by W. Marshall; browning. Diced calf, gilt, with extravagant vines, grapes and foliates to sides, by Roger Payne; covers detached. Full morocco case by Rivière.
Provenance
Frank Bemis — Harold Greenhill — E. M. Cox (bookplates)
Literature
STC 2556; Grolier 77; not in Pforzheimer
Catalogue Note
first edition. "A sprightly record of English travel, in Latin and English doggerel verse..." (D.N.B.). Rare.