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Auction archive: Lot number 430

WOOD, Robert. An Essay on the Original Genius...of Homer . Dublin: For William Hallhead, 1776. 8° (210 x 121 mm.). Large folding engraved map. Contemporary tree calf, flat spine gilt, red lettering piece. Provenance : William Downes (armorial bookpla...

Auction 22.10.1992
22 Oct 1992
Estimate
£400 - £500
ca. US$662 - US$827
Price realised:
£440
ca. US$728
Auction archive: Lot number 430

WOOD, Robert. An Essay on the Original Genius...of Homer . Dublin: For William Hallhead, 1776. 8° (210 x 121 mm.). Large folding engraved map. Contemporary tree calf, flat spine gilt, red lettering piece. Provenance : William Downes (armorial bookpla...

Auction 22.10.1992
22 Oct 1992
Estimate
£400 - £500
ca. US$662 - US$827
Price realised:
£440
ca. US$728
Beschreibung:

WOOD, Robert. An Essay on the Original Genius...of Homer . Dublin: For William Hallhead, 1776. 8° (210 x 121 mm.). Large folding engraved map. Contemporary tree calf, flat spine gilt, red lettering piece. Provenance : William Downes (armorial bookplate). -- SOPHOCLES. The Tragedies...translated...by George Adams . London: For C. Davis and Stephen Austin, 1729. 2 volumes. 8° (191 x 116mm.). Titles printed in red and black, engraved portrait. Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, red spinkled edges. -- SENECA, Lucius Annaeus. The Tragedies...translated...by Sir Edward Sherburne . London: For S. Smith and B. Walford, 1702. 8° (199 x 116mm.). Engraved portrait, with the 2 final advertisement leaves. Contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt spine (a little rubbed, new lettering piece); and 5 others (Pitt and Wharton's Works of Virgil , 3 volumes, 1790; Homer's Iliad , 2 volumes, 1794). (9)

Auction archive: Lot number 430
Auction:
Datum:
22 Oct 1992
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

WOOD, Robert. An Essay on the Original Genius...of Homer . Dublin: For William Hallhead, 1776. 8° (210 x 121 mm.). Large folding engraved map. Contemporary tree calf, flat spine gilt, red lettering piece. Provenance : William Downes (armorial bookplate). -- SOPHOCLES. The Tragedies...translated...by George Adams . London: For C. Davis and Stephen Austin, 1729. 2 volumes. 8° (191 x 116mm.). Titles printed in red and black, engraved portrait. Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, red spinkled edges. -- SENECA, Lucius Annaeus. The Tragedies...translated...by Sir Edward Sherburne . London: For S. Smith and B. Walford, 1702. 8° (199 x 116mm.). Engraved portrait, with the 2 final advertisement leaves. Contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt spine (a little rubbed, new lettering piece); and 5 others (Pitt and Wharton's Works of Virgil , 3 volumes, 1790; Homer's Iliad , 2 volumes, 1794). (9)

Auction archive: Lot number 430
Auction:
Datum:
22 Oct 1992
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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