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Binding.- Gander (Joseph) The Glory of Her Sacred Majesty, Queen Anne, in the Royal Navy...also a Treatise of Navigation and Commerce: with some Remarks on the Royal Hospital at Greenwich; and Improving the Woollen Manufactory, first edition, engraved plate depicting the fleet with a medallion portrait of Queen Anne by van der Gucht (foxed and shaved at lower edge), some spotting and soiling, mostly marginal, hand-coloured engraved bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary black morocco elaborately tooled in gilt with leafy stems & flowers, small birds, rosettes and wavy lines around a central lozenge with border of rules and tools within semicircles, spine gilt in compartments and five raised bands, g.e., a little rubbed, covers slightly splayed, corners slightly worn, spine ends a little chipped with splits to joints at head and foot, 4to, for the Author, 1703.

Lot 42

Binding.- Gander (Joseph) The Glory of Her Sacred Majesty, Queen Anne, in the Royal Navy, first edition, engraved plate, contemporary black morocco elaborately tooled in gilt, for the Author, 1703.  

Hammer Price: £1,700

Description

Binding.- Gander (Joseph) The Glory of Her Sacred Majesty, Queen Anne, in the Royal Navy...also a Treatise of Navigation and Commerce: with some Remarks on the Royal Hospital at Greenwich; and Improving the Woollen Manufactory, first edition, engraved plate depicting the fleet with a medallion portrait of Queen Anne by van der Gucht (foxed and shaved at lower edge), some spotting and soiling, mostly marginal, hand-coloured engraved bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary black morocco elaborately tooled in gilt with leafy stems & flowers, small birds, rosettes and wavy lines around a central lozenge with border of rules and tools within semicircles, spine gilt in compartments and five raised bands, g.e., a little rubbed, covers slightly splayed, corners slightly worn, spine ends a little chipped with splits to joints at head and foot, 4to, for the Author, 1703.

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