The Travels and Memoirs of Sir John Reresby, Bart.

£2,500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

The Memoirs were first printed in 1734 but this is the first printing of the Travels. This is the most expensive issue, in Imperial Octavo, priced at four guineas unbound. Provenance: 1: The Hon. Richard Hobart FitzGibbon (1793-1864), M.P. for Limerick 1818-41, later (1851) 3rd Earl of Clare, sales, Sotheby, 1866 and 1881. 2: Laurence Currie (1867-1935), of Minley Manor, Hampshire, with bookplate. 3: Lindsay Fleming, F.S.A., of Aldwick Grange, Bognor Regis, Sussex, with label.

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