Lot 57
Botero (Giovanni) Relations of the most famous Kingdoms and Commonweales thorough the World, Printed for John Jaggard, 1616.
Estimate: £1,000 - 1,500
Description
Botero (Giovanni) Relations of the most famous Kingdoms and Commonweales thorough the World, head of title torn away losing all of woodcut decoration, woodcut initials, brown stain to lower margin of last third, getting heavier and encroaching on text block towards end, other foxing and sopiling, lacking 2F4 (?blank), contemporary limp vellum, soiled and stained, head of spine defective, [STC 3403; Sabin 36283], 4to, Printed for John Jaggard, 1616.
⁂ Second edition extended with a final chapter of 14 pages on America.
Provenance: Nathaniel Curzon of Keddleston, Derbyshire (bookplate); Alexander R. Boteler (ink inscription dated 1852 on front pastedown).
Description
Botero (Giovanni) Relations of the most famous Kingdoms and Commonweales thorough the World, head of title torn away losing all of woodcut decoration, woodcut initials, brown stain to lower margin of last third, getting heavier and encroaching on text block towards end, other foxing and sopiling, lacking 2F4 (?blank), contemporary limp vellum, soiled and stained, head of spine defective, [STC 3403; Sabin 36283], 4to, Printed for John Jaggard, 1616.
⁂ Second edition extended with a final chapter of 14 pages on America.
Provenance: Nathaniel Curzon of Keddleston, Derbyshire (bookplate); Alexander R. Boteler (ink inscription dated 1852 on front pastedown).
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