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Lot 275
Sale 6370 - The Collected Library
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Nov 26, 2025
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Dec 11, 2025
Timed Online / Philadelphia
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[Literature] Loveday, Robert (translator). Hymen's Praeludia: Or, Love's Master-Piece. Being that So-much-Admired Romance, Intituled, Cleopatra. In Twelve Parts
London: Printed by F. Collins for Thomas Fabian, 1687. Later edition. 4to. 958, (1) pp, (ad). Title-page printed in red and in black. Contemporary brown paneled calf, stamped in blind, rebacked to style with original red morocco spine label laid down, extremities worn. scattered soiling to text and prelims. ESTC R39109
Robert Loveday's translation of Cleopatre by French novelist Gauthier de Costes seigneur de la Calprenede (1609-1663), first published in 1648.