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Lot 58
Sale 588 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Nov 13, 2018
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[BURNET, Gilbert (1643-1715)]. A Relation Of the Barbarous and Bloody Massacre Of about an hundred thousand Protestants. London: for Richard Chiswel, 1678.
8vo (187 x 133). (Some light chipping to title, in margins and gutter, some light browning.) 20th-century red calf gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt, black morocco lettering-piece gilt (slight sunning, a few pale stains.) FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, of an English account of the 1572 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. ESTC R4018.
