Lot 38 , Somner, William - The Antiquities of Canterbury. Or a Survey of that ancient City with the Suburbs and Cathedral... the second edition, revised and enlarged by Nicholas Battely...

Somner, William - The Antiquities of Canterbury. Or a Survey of that ancient City with the Suburbs and Cathedral... the second edition, revised and enlarged by Nicholas Battely... with a prospect of the city, a pictorial plan, a folded plan of the cathedral precincts and 16 others (some d-page or folded); sometime rebound morocco backed buckram, gilt lettered panelled spine, folio. printed for R.Knaplock, 1703. * although the 1640 first edition carries the eclat of being the first history of any English provincial city, this revised printing may be considered the better - not least for its decidedly increased number of plates - inc. the fine prospect by Hollar; ex Lambeth Place Library.
£200-300

Condition:
Frontis sl. brown mark, e/ps. replaced, sm. lib. stamp gen title verso (sold by order of), some light stains (mostly upper margins) throughout; heavier fore-edge pt. marginal stain final 20ff. pagination 916), 192, 4), 80,(4),(4), 178, 70, (4)pp. Complete text and plates (inc. the 2 pt. titles, with table/errata at end); 1 text illus. (p198), pictorial plan with eng. key.