Fine Art Sale
Lot 860
BOATE (GERARD) AND SAMUEL HARTLIB IRELANDS NATURALL HISTORY first edition
BOATE (GERARD) AND SAMUEL HARTLIB IRELANDS NATURALL HISTORY first edition, 16mo, bookplate of W H Mullens, calf, boards detached, errata leaf wanting upper right hand corner, apparently collated for Bernard Quaritch and with his catalogue number 12869 on the endpaper, one or two pages shaved at top, 1652The first published regional natural history in the English language.
Estimate: £250 - 350
Sold for £550