Condition Report
Contact Information
Lot 85
Sale 568 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 1, 2018
9:59AM
Live
Own a similar item?
Estimate
$500 -
700
Price Realized
$625
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
BAKER, Richard, Sir (1568-1645). A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of ye Romans Government unto the Death of King James. London: for H. Sanbridge and others, 1684.
Folio (340 x 215 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved title. (A few minor stains, a few mostly marginal tears repaired occasionally touching letters.) 19th-century tan morocco, triple fillet border gilt surrounding central lozenge panel gilt surrounding the gilt arms of John Lumley-Savile, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in one, the rest elaborately gilt, edges gilt STAMP-SIGNED BY HERING (some minor scuffing to extremities, joints starting). Eighth edition, updated to include Charles I and Charles II. After Charles Hering's death in 1815, his family carried on his firm's name and moved to the Newman St. address (as here), where the firm operated until 1845.

