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Photography Books & Fine Books in All Fields
11:00 AM PT - Dec 12th, 2008

 

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Lot 4566 save

Elias Ashmole The Order of the Garter 1672

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Title: The Institution, Laws and Ceremonies of the Most Noble Order of the Garter
Author: Ashmole, Elias
Description: [12], 130, 135-136, 149-720, [104], [1] errata. License leaf present. 35 copperplate engravings, including 16 folding (10 of the single-page engravings are printed back-to-back on 5 sheets). Lacking the frontispiece portrait of Charles II not present in all copies. (Folio) 15¾x9¾, period full calf with modern calf rebacking, endpapers replaced. First Edition, Second Issue.Second issue with pp 717-719 reset and various mispaginations corrected. Includes a fine series of engravings of Windsor Castle by Wenceslaus Hollar. Wing A3983.
Heading: zzkPlace Published: London
Publisher: Printed by J. Macock for Nathanael Brooke
Date Published: 1672

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Some edge wear and scuffing to leather; light foxing; else very good or better.

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