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Lot 759 · Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts

the shepheards calender. conteining twelve aeglogues proportionable to the twelve monethes. entituled, to the noble and vertuous gentleman most worthie of all titles, both of learning and chivalry, maister philip sidney. london: printed by iohn windet, for john harrison the yonger, dwelling in pater-noster roe, at the signe of the anger, 1591

Edmund Spencer

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Estimate
$3,000–$5,000 hammer
Result
Performance
Sale
Sotheby's — Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts, New York · 4 December 2015
Dimensions
193 x 132 mm
Record ID
TB-2026-4422442
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Edmund Spencer, the shepheards calender. conteining twelve aeglogues proportionable to the twelve monethes. entituled, to the noble and vertuous gentleman most worthie of all titles, both of learning and chivalry, maister philip sidney. london: printed by iohn windet, for john harrison the yonger, dwelling in pater-noster roe, at the signe of the anger, 1591. Sotheby's, 4 Dec 2015, lot 759. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4422442.

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Edmund Spencer, the shepheards calender. conteining twelve aeglogues proportionable to the twelve monethes. entituled, to the noble and vertuous gentleman most worthie of all titles, both of learning and chivalry, maister philip sidney. london: printed by iohn windet, for john harrison the yonger, dwelling in pater-noster roe, at the signe of the anger, 1591. Sotheby's, 4 Dec 2015, lot 759. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4422442.

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From the same sale Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts · Dec 2015

LotArtistEstimateResult
A Volume of Six Tracts $5,000–$7,000
Establishment Book $8,000–$10,000
Scribal copies of two letters Donne, John. 1573-1631. $1,000–$1,500
Speech adjourning the House of Commons Charles II $500–$700
The vith booke of vergills Eneads Sir John Harington $40,000–$60,000
Autograph letter, to James Gillman Samuel Taylor Coleridge $2,000–$3,000

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