First edition of a worldly work on offer in Essex
A handful of copies of Robert Morden’s 'Geography Rectified, or a Description of the World' have made a little more at auction than a 1680 copy offered in a Stacey’s (24% buyer’s premium) sale of September 10 – but all bar one of them were second or third editions of 1688 and 1693.
The first edition of this little work that made £2800 in Essex is one of only three to feature in …