Sep 30, 2021 - Sale 2580

Sale 2580 - Lot 134

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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Antonio Gavin. A Master-Key to Popery. 300 pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, minor wear; lacking rear free endpaper; Joseph May's 1775 bookplate and inscription on front free endpaper, library gift bookplate from reformer Samuel Joseph May on front pastedown, inked and perforated library stamps on title page. Newport, RI: Solomon Southwick, 1773
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First American edition after the third London edition. "Gavin acquired considerable notoriety by compiling a farrago of lies and libels, interspersed with indecent tales"--DNB. Alden, Rhode Island 513; Evans 12784.