Sold for:
$154
$154
Blount, Sir Thomas Pope (1649-1697) Censura Celebriorum Authorum . London: Chiswell, 1690. First edition, folio, half-title present, title printed in red and black, bound in full contemporary English paneled calf, joints starting, 12 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. Blount begins with the Pre-Socratics and gives biographical notes, synopses, quotes, and other information on the works of his selection of authors of note, right up to the "modern" writers of his own century: Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Willis, Hugo Grotius, Julius Caesar Scaliger, and others, with index.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-11-16
