Miniature and Diminutive Books. Owen (John), Epigrammatum, A...

Hammer

£110

Miniature and Diminutive Books. Owen (John), Epigrammatum, Amsterodami [Amsterdam]: Lud. Elzevirium, 1647, lacking portrait frontispiece, engraved allegorical title-page, the fore-margin of which is cropped to within the platemark, contemporary speckled calf, presumably English, blind-ruled and enclosing flowers, 18th c and later manuscript ownership inscriptions, 12mo in 6s (10.4 x 6cm); Classics: Anacreon, Sappho, & Erinna, [Carmina Graece et Latin], Edinburgi [Edinburgh]: R. Fleming, & P. Neill, 1766, half-title and title-page in Greek only, contemporary calf, rebacked, recornered and repaired, 48mo (8.6 x 6cm); an early 19th c children's books of British monarchs, c. 1812, lacking all before A2, letterpress leaves and engraved portrait roundels, contemporary scarlet roan, square 48mo (6.6 x 6.2cm); London Almanack, 1790, worn and stained in places, original scarlet morocco wrap, somewhat discoloured, 32mo (5.5 x 4cm); idem, 1862, some gatherings loose, original roan wrap, 32mo (6 x 4cm); 20th c blank notebook, grey leather, 32mo (3.1 x 2.3cm); 1906 polychrome printed calendar, 4pp only, pictorial covers, 16mo (6.8 x 4.7cm), (7)