May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 26

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 700
[Economics] Mably, Gabriel Bonnot de (1709-1785)
Remarks Concerning the Government and the Laws of the United States of America: In Four Letters Addressed to Mr. Adams.

Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Moncrieffe, Jenkin, Walker, Burton, White, Byrne, Cash, and Henry, 1785.

First Dublin edition, octavo, half-title present, old oval ink stamp abraded from inner margin of title, not affecting text, but causing thinning and two holes in the sheet, ex libris I. Fellows's Library, with large engraved bookplate inside front board showing a woman reading with "Society in Solitude" below, and a beehive at the top of the plate with the line, "Tolling from every Flower the virtuous sweet," engraved by Scoles, possibly John Scoles, a New York engraver active in the late 18th century through about 1850; some spotting and toning to contents; bound in full contemporary calf boards, rebacked, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.

ESTC T109656.