07-20-2018 07-20-2018
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3117B Boston
July 20, 2018 12:00PMCalender
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A Description of Tangier, the Country and People Adjoyning.

A Description of Tangier, the Country and People Adjoyning.
$2,460$2,000
Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 3117B Location: Boston Date / Time: July 20, 2018 12:00PM

Description:

A Description of Tangier, the Country and People Adjoyning. London: Printed for Samuel Speed, at the Rainbow in Fleetstreet, near the Inner Temple-Gate, 1664. First and only edition, quarto, engraved portrait opposite title; rare; no auction sales since 1965; six U.S. copies in ESTC; bound in modern full calf, 7 1/8 x 5 1/4 in.

A-L4, M2.
http://estc.bl.uk/R12756
Estimate $3,000-4,000


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Samuel Speed, United States, London

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A Description of Tangier, the Country and People Adjoyning.

A Description of Tangier, the Country and People Adjoyning.

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$2,460$2,000
A Necessary Doctrine and Erudicion for Any Chrysten Man, set furth by the Kynges Maiestye of England. &c.

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Acosta, Jose de (1540-1600) Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies.

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An Olde Thrift Newly Revived. Wherein is Declared the Manner of Planting, Preserving, and Husbanding Yong Trees of Divers Kindes for Ti

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Antoniszoon, Cornelis (b. 1499) The Safeguard of Sailers, or Great Rutter. Containing the Courses, Distances, Soundings, Floods, and Eb

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Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430) Of the Citie of God: with the Learned Comments of Io. Lod. Vives.

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6
$6,765$5,500
Ávila y Zuniga, Luis de (c. 1490-c. 1560) The Comentaries of Don Lewes de Auela, and Suniga, great Master of Acanter, which treateth of

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$6,765$5,500
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries.

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