Burghers michael 1648 (2 risultati)

Full leather. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, folio; [36], xxxii, 335, [1]pp. Bound in full seventeenth century leather, recently respined in period style over four raised spine bands between gilt double fillets with gilt lettered leather spine label to second compartment, gilt date to foot of spine, gilt fillets to head and foot of spine and blind tooling to remaining compartments. Title page printed in red and black, modern period style endpapers, early ink ownership name to titlepage ('Rich Wilson 38', neatly scored out), professional japanese tissue repairs to outer margin of engraved titepage and leaf D4, single small library stamp to reverse of title page, bound without half title or imprimatur leaf, occasional unobtrusive light soiling and stains but overall a clean copy with complete complement of 23 large engravings of each saint, separate titlepage to concluding table and extra engraved title page by Michael Burghers. A very good example of this martyrology of the early Christian church. ESTC R13780. Burghers, Michael (1648-1727) (illustratore).…

Condizione: Good. Folio. Engraving. Good with tear on top edge, both right and left edges repaired, printed on sunned laid paper. Scarce. Text in Latin. Frontispiece for a catalogue of the manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, featuring Sir Thomas Bodley. In the corners of the plate are the heads of the other benefactors of the Bodleian Library: William, Earl of Pembroke, Archbishop Laud, Sir Kenelm Digby, and John Selden.…