Lot 268
Prophecy.- Mystery of Ambras Merlins (The), Standardbearer Wolf, and last Boar of Cornwall. With sundry other Misterious Prophecys..., 4pp., for Benj. Billingsley, 1683.
Hammer Price: £420
Description
Prophecy.- Mystery of Ambras Merlins (The), Standardbearer Wolf, and last Boar of Cornwall. With sundry other Misterious Prophecys...Written by a Lover of his Country's Peace, 4pp., caption title, woodcut illustration of "a Flagg figured with a White Wolf", old ink manuscript pagination to upper corner, spotted and browned, 20th century half morocco, spine faded, joints and extremities rubbed, [Wing M3182], folio, for Benj. Billingsley, at the Printing-Press under the Piazza of the Royal Exchange, 1683.
⁂ Rare prophetical pamphlet, published after the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1682, and in light of "the danger of an invation [sic] in England by the Turks", in which it is foreseen that the Turks on landing in the West country will be met by the "Boar of Cornwal" who will "fight, defeat and sink him [the Turk's Standardbearer Wolf] in the deep of the Severn sea".
Description
Prophecy.- Mystery of Ambras Merlins (The), Standardbearer Wolf, and last Boar of Cornwall. With sundry other Misterious Prophecys...Written by a Lover of his Country's Peace, 4pp., caption title, woodcut illustration of "a Flagg figured with a White Wolf", old ink manuscript pagination to upper corner, spotted and browned, 20th century half morocco, spine faded, joints and extremities rubbed, [Wing M3182], folio, for Benj. Billingsley, at the Printing-Press under the Piazza of the Royal Exchange, 1683.
⁂ Rare prophetical pamphlet, published after the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1682, and in light of "the danger of an invation [sic] in England by the Turks", in which it is foreseen that the Turks on landing in the West country will be met by the "Boar of Cornwal" who will "fight, defeat and sink him [the Turk's Standardbearer Wolf] in the deep of the Severn sea".