Lot 318

W[oodroffe] (B[enjamin]) The Fall of Babylon. Or, Seasonable Reflections on the Novelties of Rome: With The Rise, Growth, and Final Overthrow of Anti-Christ now at Hand..., first edition, for George Powel, 1690.

Estimate: £200 - 300

Description

W[oodroffe] (B[enjamin]) The Fall of Babylon. Or, Seasonable Reflections on the Novelties of Rome: With The Rise, Growth, and Final Overthrow of Anti-Christ now at Hand..., first edition, errata f. at end, small ink-mark to head of title, small puncture-mark to inner-margin of first few ff., affecting couple letters to a1, C3 with hole affecting few words, few ink corrections or annotations in early hand, occasional small and faint damp-staining to lower-margin, scattered light foxing, light soiling near end, modern calf-backed boards, spine little faded, slightly rubbed, [Wing W3467], small 4to, for George Powel, over against Lincolns Inn-Gate in Chancery-Lane, 1690.

⁂ A reply to John Gother's Nubes testium (Wing G1332). Rare, we cannot trace a copy at auction in over 50 years. A variant has "and to be sold by Randal Taylor" in the imprint.

Description

W[oodroffe] (B[enjamin]) The Fall of Babylon. Or, Seasonable Reflections on the Novelties of Rome: With The Rise, Growth, and Final Overthrow of Anti-Christ now at Hand..., first edition, errata f. at end, small ink-mark to head of title, small puncture-mark to inner-margin of first few ff., affecting couple letters to a1, C3 with hole affecting few words, few ink corrections or annotations in early hand, occasional small and faint damp-staining to lower-margin, scattered light foxing, light soiling near end, modern calf-backed boards, spine little faded, slightly rubbed, [Wing W3467], small 4to, for George Powel, over against Lincolns Inn-Gate in Chancery-Lane, 1690.

⁂ A reply to John Gother's Nubes testium (Wing G1332). Rare, we cannot trace a copy at auction in over 50 years. A variant has "and to be sold by Randal Taylor" in the imprint.

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