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Lot 62
First book written in North America.- Ovidius Naso (Publius) Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished by G[eorge] S[andys], 1626.
Hammer Price: £1,600
Description
First book written in North America.- Ovidius Naso (Publius) Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished by G[eorge] S[andys], engraved additional title by T. Cecill (a little browned with edges frayed), engraved portrait of Ovid to [a]3 verso by William Marshall, with the initial "The minde of the frontispiece" f. and final imprimatur f. with woodcut device, damp-staining towards end, occasional light browning and some marking, the odd pencil note or glossing, ink ownership inscriptions to endpaper, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, some chipping and wear, [Sabin 76456; STC 18964], sm. folio, [by William Stansby], 1626.
⁂ The first edition of Sandys' translation of Ovid, written in part whilst he was employed as treasurer for the colony of Virginia.
Provenance: Ralph Barsham (ink inscription dated 1700).
Description
First book written in North America.- Ovidius Naso (Publius) Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished by G[eorge] S[andys], engraved additional title by T. Cecill (a little browned with edges frayed), engraved portrait of Ovid to [a]3 verso by William Marshall, with the initial "The minde of the frontispiece" f. and final imprimatur f. with woodcut device, damp-staining towards end, occasional light browning and some marking, the odd pencil note or glossing, ink ownership inscriptions to endpaper, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, some chipping and wear, [Sabin 76456; STC 18964], sm. folio, [by William Stansby], 1626.
⁂ The first edition of Sandys' translation of Ovid, written in part whilst he was employed as treasurer for the colony of Virginia.
Provenance: Ralph Barsham (ink inscription dated 1700).
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