[Rarebooks] FS: TWO MEMOIRS of WREN

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Elmes, James. MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND WORKS OF SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN 
WITH A BRIEF VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND, FROM 
THE BEGINNING OF THE REIGN OF  CHARLES THE FIRST TO THE END OF THE 
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY; AND AN APPENDIX OF AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS. London: 
Priestley and Weale, 1823. xxxvi, 532, 147, [1] pp. Illus. with 11 
plates  (including engraved port. frontis and 4 folding). 4to. (30 
cm). Later cloth over marbled paper covered boards, typed paper title 
(hardback).  Freitag 13649. First edition. The centenary biography of 
Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723), architect,  mathematician, and 
astronomer. Covers his science as well as his architecture and public 
works. Illustrations engraved by Edward Scriven and Wilson Lowry, 
after James Elmes. A very good  copy, boards rubbed, mainly at the 
extremities, marbled edges a bit faded, very faint dampstain to the 
first few leaves, mainly the prefatory matter, offsetting opposite 
plates, otherwise clean and  crisp, binding solid.    [30188] $300.00

Wren, Christopher. Enthoven, Ernest J., ed. LIFE AND WORKS OF SIR 
CHRISTOPHER WREN FROM THE PARENTALIA OR MEMOIRS. London / New York: 
Edward Arnold / Samuel Buckley & Co. (Now reprinted at the Essex 
House, Campden, Gloucestershire), 1903. 259, viii pp. 4to. (30 cm). 
Blue cloth, paper spine label, fore edge and lower edge deckled 
(hardback). First edition thus. No. 97 of an edition of 250 copies. 
First published in 1750. A very good copy, boards faintly soiled, 
spine label chipped not affecting text or image, leaves fine and 
unopened  (uncut).    [30189] $300.00

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Charles Kutcher
Kaaterskill Books
P.O. Box 122
East Jewett, NY 12424.
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