12th Sep, 2018 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
  Lot 44
 

44

R.B. [Crouch, Nathaniel]. Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, & Wonders in England, Scotland and...

R.B. [Crouch, Nathaniel]. Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, & Wonders in England, Scotland and Ireland...Printed by John Richardson for Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultry, near Cheapside, 1684. 12mo, half calf over marbled boards, morocco lettering piece, spine lettered directly in gilt to bottom compartment and blind tooling to 3 compartments, all edges red; engraved half title facing title, 4 plates (one missing lower half). Second edition enlarged. A rare collection of historical oddities by English printer and bookseller Nathaniel Crouch - whose pseudonym alluded to Robert or Richard Burton. According to a contemporary, he ''melted down the best of our English Histories into Twelve-Penny Books'' and became a ''Celebrated Author'', popularising history for the ''middling sort''. [Gerbier, Sir Balthazar]. The None-Such Charles His Character...Printed by RI, and are to be sold by John Collins, in Little Brittaine, 1651. 8vo, quarter leather over boards, sometime rebacked; engraved frontis., title, [4 (To the Reader)], 196, [18 (Contents)]. This work was ''Published by Authority'' to discourse on ''the late King's first publicke Motions running thouough his fatall race, and continuing to his dismall end.''

Sold for £280
Estimated at £150 - £250


 

R.B. showing signs of use, leather marked and scuffed, owner's ink inscription to ffep and notes to blanks, ink marks verso of title, some spotting, marking, creasing throughout, edges of a couple of pages a touch shaved from binding, but generally a very good, internally clean copy of a scarce work. Gerbier likewise with signs of age, leather cracked off boards, some marking and creasing internally but again a very good, internally clean copy.

 


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Auction: Books, Maps & Ephemera, 12th Sep, 2018

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