Mar 22, 2007 - Sale 2108

Sale 2108 - Lot 106

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
JUDGE THIS BOOK BY ITS COVER (EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Tennent, Gilbert. Sermons on Important Subjects; Adapted to the Perilous State of the British Nation, lately preached in Philadelphia. xxxvii, [3], 425, [1] pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, covered with floral cloth at an early date, worn; lacks the front free endpaper, browning and staining; early owner's calligraphic inscription on the rear blank ("Mary Bodle's Book February 20th 1798"). Philadelphia: James Chattin, 1758

Additional Details

The home-made floral patterned linen "dust jacket" is likely by the early female owner who has inscribed the rear blank. Evans 8266; Sabin 94704.