18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 2045
 

2045

[Foxe] Fox (John)
[Book of Martyrs] Acts and Monuments of Matters Most Special and Memorable, Happening in the Church with an Universal History of the Same ... with the Bloody Times, Horrible Troubles, and Great Persecutions against the true Martyrs of Christ. Company of Stationers, 1684, ninth edition, three volumes, large folio in sixes, believed to be a large paper copy (pages 428mm x 275mm), portrait frontis, four plates (including two double page), engraved illustrations in text, extremely worn calf bindings with boards detached or held by cords.
[The best edition according to Lowndes p.829]

Sold for £600
Estimated at £600 - £1,000


 

Contents with a few marks but generally reasonably clean. Bindings distressed, some dampness to prelims. (See images)

 


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Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 18th May, 2022

Over 180 lots to include a broad selection, from early antiquarian books to modern first editions, alongside illustrations, private press, manuscripts, maps and atlases, early photographs, and historic documents. Amongst the highlights is a group of Victorian ephemera including a Paper Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, and a very unusual leaf-cut picture of workers around a derelict tower and trees. Of North-East interest is a collection of approximately 240 19th and early 20th century photographs, and an outstanding archive of early drawings and plans relating to Radcliffe and Broomhill Collieries.

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