[Rarebooks] FS: Braithwait's "A Nursery for Gentry" London: 1638

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Braithwait, Richard.   A SURVEY OF HISTORY: OR, A NURSERY FOR GENTRY. 
Contrived and Comprized in an Intermixt Discourse Upon Historicall and Poeticall 
Relations... The Like Whereof for Variety of Discourse, Mixed with Profit, and 
Modest Delight (in the Opinion of the Clearest and Refined’st Judgements) Hath 
Not Heretofore Bin Published. London: Imprinted by J. Oakes for Jasper Emery. 
1638. Sm. 4to. (26),416pp. Text printed within ruled borders. Added copper 
engraved title with a portrait of the author and 4 vignettes (imperceptibly inlaid 
on old paper). Large woodcut capitals. Finely bound by Riviere & Son in 
mottled polished calf, rebacked, with the old gilt decorated spine laid down. T.e.g. 
    $1,250.00 (trade discount allowed)
STC 3583a.

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