Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 151

Price Realized: $ 450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
INSCRIBED WITH CONNECTICUT DEATH RECORDS (EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Stoddard, Solomon. The Safety of Appearing at the Day of Judgment. [1], iv, 296 pages. Small 8vo, contemporary calf, moderate wear; hinges split, free endpapers nearly detached, wormhole affecting final 70 pages; bookplate on front pastedown, numerous early owners' inscriptions. With D. Henchman's ad leaf, undated. Boston, 1742

Additional Details

Third edition. Inscribed with multiple signatures of Elijah Hammond, 1750-1771; and with the death records of 7 other Connecticut residents from the Bolton-Coventry-Andover area, 1750-1787, including one "taken out of ye world by ye falling of a tree." Evans 5068, Sabin 91961.