Lot 174
Browne (Sir Thomas) Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk, first edition, Printed for Hen. Brome, 1658.
Hammer Price: £1,000
Description
Browne (Sir Thomas) Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk, 2 parts in 1, first edition, 3 engraved illustrations (2 full-page, one bound as frontispiece), advertisement leaf, errata leaf and longitudinal half-title to part 2 bound at end, some water-staining, later grained calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving original spine, [Wing B5154; Grolier 108; Keynes 93; Pforzheimer 110], 8vo, Printed for Hen. Brome, 1658.
⁂ A good copy of Browne's masterpiece of rhetoric with a distinguished provenance.
Provenance: William Wakeling Boreham (bookplate), thence apparnetly to John Hayward (his sale Sotheby's 14 March 1966, lot 50), bought by Seven Gables on behalf of H. Bradley Martin (his sale at Sotheby's NY, 30 April 1990 lot 2666) to Kenneth Rapoport (his bookplate). This copy also exhibited at the Festival of Britain Exhibition of Books at the V & A in 1951.
Description
Browne (Sir Thomas) Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk, 2 parts in 1, first edition, 3 engraved illustrations (2 full-page, one bound as frontispiece), advertisement leaf, errata leaf and longitudinal half-title to part 2 bound at end, some water-staining, later grained calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving original spine, [Wing B5154; Grolier 108; Keynes 93; Pforzheimer 110], 8vo, Printed for Hen. Brome, 1658.
⁂ A good copy of Browne's masterpiece of rhetoric with a distinguished provenance.
Provenance: William Wakeling Boreham (bookplate), thence apparnetly to John Hayward (his sale Sotheby's 14 March 1966, lot 50), bought by Seven Gables on behalf of H. Bradley Martin (his sale at Sotheby's NY, 30 April 1990 lot 2666) to Kenneth Rapoport (his bookplate). This copy also exhibited at the Festival of Britain Exhibition of Books at the V & A in 1951.
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