Rare Book Auction
Friday, 22 July - Thursday, 11 August 2022
Pliny - C. Plinii Caecliii Secundi Epistolarum Libri X
Estimate $500 - $1,000
Realised: $260 plus premium
Lot Details
(Fore-Edge Painted) Sumptibus Editoris excudebant, M Ritchie & J Sammels, Londini, MDCCXC (1790), vi, 484 (1)pp, 8vo. contemporary green morocco, gilt lines, marbled endpapers, with concealed beneath the gilt fore-edges an attractive and well executed original watercolour of an English country mansion with anglers in the foreground and horses beneath a tree (with accompanying colour photo of the fore-edge painting) Some darkening to spine and around cover edges, spine ends rubbed, 1874 inscription giving provenance from the Library of the Duc de La Valliere. Ex Dunbar Sloane Limited, Lot 25, 30th September, 2009.
