DONNE, John. LXXX Sermons. 1640. FIRST EDITION of the first collection of Donne's sermons.
Sale 1336 - Fine Books and Manuscripts, including Worlds of Tomorrow, and Americana
Jun 7, 2024
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$800 -
$1,200
Sold for $572
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Lot Description
DONNE, John (1573-1631). LXXX Sermons. London: Printed for Richard Royston and Richard Marriot, 1640.
Folio (330 x 214 mm). Title-page doubled ruled with woodcut printer's device, additional engraved title-page by M. Merian, woodcut initials and headpieces. (Engraving laid down, soiled and with contemporary ink markings, minor marginal worming to last 30 leaves, short closed marginal tear to Mmm6, tear to bottom corners of last three leaves without loss text, lacking first and final blanks.) Modern paneled calf antique (spine sunned). Provenance: Dewhurst family (annotations in an 18th-century on D4).
FIRST EDITION of the first collection of Donne's sermons, which includes the first printing of Izaak Walton's The Life and Death of Dr. Donne. Engraving in the second state, as "in most copies of the book". Keynes 29; Lowndes 660; STC 7038.
Property from the Collection of Dr. K. William Harter, Alexandria, Virginia
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