Sep 28, 2017 - Sale 2455

Sale 2455 - Lot 68

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(CHILDREN'S BOOKS.) The New-England Primer Improved. [80] pages. 32mo, original calf-backed boards, worn and lacking most of backstrip; fragmentary title page of an 1823 primer used as front free endpaper, leaf A1 defective and laid down as front pastedown (possibly with loss of an engraving on recto), minor worming, intermittent wear including slight text loss to B1, B5, and E8; signatures of early owner Pamela Barker on title and final pages. Providence, RI: John Carter, 1785

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Alden, Rhode Island 1012; Bristol B6119; Heartman 93 (listing three known examples).