[Mandeville (Bernard)], The Fables of the Bees, Part II, fir...

Hammer

£160

[Mandeville (Bernard)], The Fables of the Bees, Part II, first edition of an entirely new set of six dialogues from Mandeville, London: Printed: And Sold by J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, 1729, black-ruled title-page, pp: [1], xxxi, [1] (errata), 432, [24] (index), contemporary marbled calf gilt, 8vo, (1); a later edition, The Fables of the Bees [...], two-volume set, ninth edition, Edinburgh: Printed for W. Gray and W. Peters, 1755, disbound, 12mo, (2), [3]

Provenance: 1st: Rodolph De Salis/1932, his dated ink MS ownership inscription.