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Auction archive: Lot number 246

HUNT, James Henry Leigh] BERWICK, Edward. The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, translated from the Greek of Philostratus , London: T. Payne, 1809, 8°, FIRST EDITION, LEIGH HUNT'S COPY WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH TO TITLE, mounted engraved frontispiece (small marg...

Auction 28.11.1997
28 Nov 1997
Estimate
£150 - £250
ca. US$253 - US$422
Price realised:
£184
ca. US$310
Auction archive: Lot number 246

HUNT, James Henry Leigh] BERWICK, Edward. The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, translated from the Greek of Philostratus , London: T. Payne, 1809, 8°, FIRST EDITION, LEIGH HUNT'S COPY WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH TO TITLE, mounted engraved frontispiece (small marg...

Auction 28.11.1997
28 Nov 1997
Estimate
£150 - £250
ca. US$253 - US$422
Price realised:
£184
ca. US$310
Beschreibung:

HUNT, James Henry Leigh] BERWICK, Edward. The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, translated from the Greek of Philostratus , London: T. Payne, 1809, 8°, FIRST EDITION, LEIGH HUNT'S COPY WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH TO TITLE, mounted engraved frontispiece (small marginal tear to frontispiece, offsetting to title, some spotting), original cloth (rebacked), bookplates of Higginson and William Roy Smith, preserved in a quarter morocco box -- G. B. BOSCHINI (editor). Aminta, di T. Tasso , London: G. Schulze, 1809, 16°, ELIZABETH KENT'S COPY WITH INSCRIPTION BY LEIGH HUNT to front blank, reading: "Opera somigliante lei chi posserdela, -- penserosa, poetica, amabile," extra illustrated with 6 small prints, contemporary calf (rebacked, preserving old spine, front inner hinges split), bookplate of Mrs Kent. (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 246
Auction:
Datum:
28 Nov 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

HUNT, James Henry Leigh] BERWICK, Edward. The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, translated from the Greek of Philostratus , London: T. Payne, 1809, 8°, FIRST EDITION, LEIGH HUNT'S COPY WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH TO TITLE, mounted engraved frontispiece (small marginal tear to frontispiece, offsetting to title, some spotting), original cloth (rebacked), bookplates of Higginson and William Roy Smith, preserved in a quarter morocco box -- G. B. BOSCHINI (editor). Aminta, di T. Tasso , London: G. Schulze, 1809, 16°, ELIZABETH KENT'S COPY WITH INSCRIPTION BY LEIGH HUNT to front blank, reading: "Opera somigliante lei chi posserdela, -- penserosa, poetica, amabile," extra illustrated with 6 small prints, contemporary calf (rebacked, preserving old spine, front inner hinges split), bookplate of Mrs Kent. (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 246
Auction:
Datum:
28 Nov 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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