Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 121

Price Realized: $ 210
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(BASEBALL.) Youthful Recreations. 15 full-page engravings. 16mo, original heavy paper wrappers, minor wear; a few leaves printed out of register. Philadelphia, [1802?]
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first american edition. "A wonderful early chapbook depicting a number of children's games . . . including one of trap-ball"--Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 184. Trap ball was an early English cousin of baseball. Rosenbach 432; Welch 1468.