26th Oct, 2022 9:30

Books & Works on Paper

 
  Lot 81
 

Raleigh. Albania, 1641 & Drayton. Poly-Olbion, 1612

Raleigh (George)

Albania, or, Certaine concernments of Great Britanny : with an explication of the present state thereof; truely represented under the faigned person of Albania, first edition, A1 – I1, lacking last page of text, title-page solied, contemporary unreadable annotations to verso and last leaf, later quarter calf over marbled boards, boards detached,[ESTC, R7782,Thomason, E.179[16]] Printed for John Sweeting, and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the Angell, in Popes-head-Alley 1641 § Drayton (Michael) Poly-Olbion, first edition, first issue, retaining only the plate of Prince Henry, first issue without ttle engrave by William Hole, text complete, first page of text and titleworn at edges not affecting image, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining original spine, joints cracked with covers almost detached, damped stained almost throughout, London : Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes: I. Browne: I. Helme, and I. Busbie, 1612. sm.4to, & folio (2)

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