Description

[Sandys (Sir Edwin)] Europae speculum. Or, a View or Survey of the State of Religion in the Westerne parts of the World, woodcut ornament on title and decorations, d & h signatures misbound, staining to upper margins, with medical recipes relating to the plague of 1636 written in a contemporary hand on front free endpaper, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, rubbed and stained, [STC 21719], 4to, by T.Cotes, for Michael Sparke, 1632.

⁂ Sandys (1561-1629) was one of the founders of the Virginia Company of London which established the settlement of Jamestown in 1606, the first permanent English settlement in America.

Lot 22

Sandys (Sir Edwin) Europae speculum..., with medical recipes relating to the plague of 1636 written in a contemporary hand, by T.Cotes, for Michael Sparke, 1632.  

Hammer Price: £650

Description

[Sandys (Sir Edwin)] Europae speculum. Or, a View or Survey of the State of Religion in the Westerne parts of the World, woodcut ornament on title and decorations, d & h signatures misbound, staining to upper margins, with medical recipes relating to the plague of 1636 written in a contemporary hand on front free endpaper, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, rubbed and stained, [STC 21719], 4to, by T.Cotes, for Michael Sparke, 1632.

⁂ Sandys (1561-1629) was one of the founders of the Virginia Company of London which established the settlement of Jamestown in 1606, the first permanent English settlement in America.

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