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Auction archive: Lot number 47

HOBBES, Thomas. Leviathan: Or, the matter, forme & power of a Common-Wealth, ecclesiasticall and civill, London: Andrew Ckooke, 1651 [but Amsterdam, circa 1651], 2°, second edition with bear ornament on title page, engraved frontispiece, folding lett...

Auction 04.02.1994
4 Feb 1994
Estimate
£900 - £1,300
ca. US$1,331 - US$1,922
Price realised:
£3,080
ca. US$4,555
Auction archive: Lot number 47

HOBBES, Thomas. Leviathan: Or, the matter, forme & power of a Common-Wealth, ecclesiasticall and civill, London: Andrew Ckooke, 1651 [but Amsterdam, circa 1651], 2°, second edition with bear ornament on title page, engraved frontispiece, folding lett...

Auction 04.02.1994
4 Feb 1994
Estimate
£900 - £1,300
ca. US$1,331 - US$1,922
Price realised:
£3,080
ca. US$4,555
Beschreibung:

HOBBES, Thomas. Leviathan: Or, the matter, forme & power of a Common-Wealth, ecclesiasticall and civill, London: Andrew Ckooke, 1651 [but Amsterdam, circa 1651], 2°, second edition with bear ornament on title page, engraved frontispiece, folding letterpress table (some browning, F3 repaired at lower margin, Q3 with burn hole affecting several letters), 19th century half calf, spine gilt [Wing H2247] -- Thomas BROWNE. Pseudoxia Epidemica Or Enquiries into very many received tenets and commonly presumed truths, London: A. Miller for Edw. Dod and Nath. Ekins, 1650, 2°, "second" [in fact third] edition (title browned at margins), contemporary calf (rebacked) [Wing B5160; Keynes 74] -- Francis BACON Of the Advancement and Proificiencie of Learning, interpreted by Gilbert Watts , London: for Thomas Williams 1674, 2°, engraved frontispiece, with final blank (frontispiece creased at margins, some browning, final leaves wormed at lower margin), contemporary panelled calf (upper cover detached) [Wing B312]; and 8 other books in large format by Bacon, Charles I, Cowley, Thomas Fuller Ben Jonson, John Sandys, Philip Sidney and Jeremy Taylor, all 17th-century. (11)

Auction archive: Lot number 47
Auction:
Datum:
4 Feb 1994
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

HOBBES, Thomas. Leviathan: Or, the matter, forme & power of a Common-Wealth, ecclesiasticall and civill, London: Andrew Ckooke, 1651 [but Amsterdam, circa 1651], 2°, second edition with bear ornament on title page, engraved frontispiece, folding letterpress table (some browning, F3 repaired at lower margin, Q3 with burn hole affecting several letters), 19th century half calf, spine gilt [Wing H2247] -- Thomas BROWNE. Pseudoxia Epidemica Or Enquiries into very many received tenets and commonly presumed truths, London: A. Miller for Edw. Dod and Nath. Ekins, 1650, 2°, "second" [in fact third] edition (title browned at margins), contemporary calf (rebacked) [Wing B5160; Keynes 74] -- Francis BACON Of the Advancement and Proificiencie of Learning, interpreted by Gilbert Watts , London: for Thomas Williams 1674, 2°, engraved frontispiece, with final blank (frontispiece creased at margins, some browning, final leaves wormed at lower margin), contemporary panelled calf (upper cover detached) [Wing B312]; and 8 other books in large format by Bacon, Charles I, Cowley, Thomas Fuller Ben Jonson, John Sandys, Philip Sidney and Jeremy Taylor, all 17th-century. (11)

Auction archive: Lot number 47
Auction:
Datum:
4 Feb 1994
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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