Apr 14, 2015 - Sale 2380

Sale 2380 - Lot 115

Price Realized: $ 650
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
THE FIRST COFFEE TABLE BOOK? (EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Willard, Samuel. A Compleat Body of Divinity in Two Hundred and Fifty Expository Lectures. [2], iv, 3, [3], 914, [1] pages. Folio, contemporary calf, moderate wear, tastefully rebacked; lacks frontispiece as usual, moderate foxing, minor dampstaining, small inked number stamp on title page and final page; title page in red and black; signature of collector William E. Barton, 1849 manuscript book label, and related clipping on front pastedown. Boston, 1726
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"The first folio volume, other than Laws, and the largest work up to this time printed in the United States"--Evans 2828. Sabin 104075; Streeter sale II:675.