May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 4

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
[Economics] Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)
Defence of Usury; Shewing the Impolicy of the Present Legal Restraints on the Terms of Pecuniary Bargains.

Philadelphia: Printed for Mathew Carey by Lang & Ustick, 1796.

First American edition, 12mo, single leaf of publisher's ads after the text, contents very good, bound in full contemporary sheepskin with original red label, rubbed and lightly scuffed, joints cracked, boards attached, 5 7/8 x 3 1/2 in.

ESTC W4815; Evans 30057.