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.
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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