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The first English Guide Book to the Continent

£10,000

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The post for diuers partes of the world

to trauaile from one notable Citie unto an other, with a description of the antiquitie of diuers famous Cities in Europe.

ROWLANDS [alias VERSTEGAN], Richard
London,
Thomas East,
1576
8to (140 by 93 mm), title within typographic ornamental border, woodcut initials. (Lacks second part [8 leaves], clean tear to fol. F1.), 19th-century half brown morocco and marbled boards, spine in black morocco gilt-lettered.
1327

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notes:

FIRST EDITION. The author states in his preface that the work is an expanded translation from the German, and that his text was also published in French and Italian.

bibliography:

STC 21360.

provenance:

Provenance: Ashburnham, Bertram, Fourth earl of (1797-1878, small wax seal on front paste-down); Sir Thomas Phillipps (note on front paste-down and binding); William P. Davisson (his sale, Christie's New York, 19 April 1999, lot 308).