Sep 28, 2017 - Sale 2455

Sale 2455 - Lot 111

Unsold
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT--1726.) Willard, Samuel. A Compleat Body of Divinity in Two Hundred and Fifty Expository Lectures. [2], iv, 3, [3], 158, 177-914, [1] pages. Folio, contemporary paneled calf, moderate wear, rebacked; lacks frontispiece as usual, marginal repairs to title page; title page in red and black; early inscriptions on title page and endpapers, modern bookplate on front pastedown. Boston: Green and Kneeland, 1726

Additional Details

"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. Provenance: Jonathan Fuller (rear free endpaper); gift from the Rev. Richard Salter (1721-1787) to his grand-nephew Richard Salter Storrs (1763-1819) in 1782 (front free endpaper); M.S. Carothers (bookplate).