Online auction - Lot 162
Online auction - Lot 162
[Great Britain - History]
L'état present de la Grande Bretagne et de l'Irlande sous le regne de George II [...]. Traduit de l'anglois.
The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1728
Starting bid: €
60
Hammer price: €
65
€ 120 / 200
Bidding via DrouotLot description
3 vol., 12mo: [2 front.-26]-327, [2]-359, [2]-116 [= 216]-[30]; 1 pl. (sl. browning).
Contemp. marbled calf, gilt. orn. flat spine, spr. edges (tiny scratches on covers, stain on lower cover of vol. II & III). Good copy.
Continuation of "Angliae notitia or The present state of England" by Chamberlayne (1616-1703). With a large fold. engr. map of Great Britain. Enriched with "Cérémonies observées au couronnement des rois et reines de la Grande-Bretagne" and "Ordre de la marche pour le couronnement de leur majestez [...]", H. Scheurleer, 1727, printed on the same folio, large folded broadsheet (not recorded).
Ref. STCN 212782150. - SUDOC. - Not in Barbier.
Prov. Franz Pollack-Parnau (1903-1981), descendant of a Moravian family that had amassed a fortune in the textile industry (bookpl.).