Oct 10, 2013 - Sale 2324

Sale 2324 - Lot 87

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(CHILDREN'S BOOKS.) The New-England Primer, Enlarged and Improved. Wood-engraved illustrations. [30] of 40 leaves. 32mo, original calf-backed boards, quite worn, lacking rear board; lacking frontispiece pastedown, 4 leaves from gathering D, and 6 leaves from final gathering E. In modern 1/4 morocco slipcase. Newburyport, MA: John Mycall for John Boyle, circa 1777-85
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Evans 22694; Heartman 1934, 388. This edition not known at auction since Swann offered one on 17 February 1977, lot 476.