Robert Plot Lot n° 32

Staffordshire.- Plot (Robert) The Natural History of Stafford-shire, first edition, title with engraved vignette, 37 engraved plates by Burghers, 25 double-page (mostly houses), lacking the "Armes Omitted" plate (as often), also lacking the folding map and 4pp. list of subscribers at end (3M3 & 4), a few contemporary manuscript annotations, plate V torn and stained (loose), plate XV with small rust-hole to image, a few marginal tears and repairs, generally a clean tall copy with wide margins, large engraved bookplate of Rt. Hon. Washington Sewallis Earl Ferrers mounted on front pastedown, lacking front free endpaper, contemporary panelled calf, gilt, spine gilt, rubbed, spine ends and corners worn, joints split, [Wing P2588], Oxford, Printed at the Theater, 1686; sold not subject to return ⁂ With two chapters on minerals and stones, including fossils; by the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.