?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(BIBLIOGRAPHY.) White Kennett. Bibliothecae Americanae Primordia. An Attempt Towards Laying the Foundation of an American Library, offered with two related bookplates. [2], xvi, iii, [2]-275, [225] pages. 4to, modern buckram, minor wear; minor edge wear on title page, lacking blank leaf A after preliminaries, minor foxing, some gatherings browned, other minor faults. London, 1713 [i. e., 1714]
"The earliest exclusively American catalogue. . . . It is devoted particularly to the English colonies, and especially to New England. In order to advance the interests of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, White Kennett, Bishop of Peterborough, made a collection of books, charts, maps, and documents, with the intention of writing a history of the propagation of Christianity in the English colonies. . . . The catalogue, of which but 250 copies were printed, was prepared with much care, titles being copied at full length with great accuracy"--Church 856. "A fascinating and most useful account of his collection by perhaps the first of the great collectors of historical Americana"--Streeter sale VII:4363. European Americana 1713/104; Grolier/Breslauer & Folter 93; Sabin 37447.
With--a detached bookplate by W.H. DeBurgo, 1720, 5 x 3 3/4 inches, recorded as Kennett's final bookplate while Bishop of Peterborough.
and--a detached gift bookplate of the Society for Propagating the Gospell in Foreign Parts, 3 3/4 x 2 3/4 inches.
