Sep 28, 2017 - Sale 2455

Sale 2455 - Lot 112

Price Realized: $ 250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT--1738.) Mather, Samuel. The Fall of the Mighty Lamented: A Funeral Discourse upon . . . Wilhelmina Dorothea Carolina. [2], 33 pages. 8vo, later 1/4 calf, minimal wear; moderate foxing, lacking bottom corner of title page with slight loss to border, edge stain affecting several pages, short tear on A4; John Carter Brown Library bookplate on front pastedown and inked stamp on page 1, release stamp on final blank. Boston: J. Draper, 1738

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A sermon on the death of Caroline of Ansbach, Queen of England, by the son of Cotton Mather. Evans 4276; Sabin 46796. Provenance: Swann's JCB sale, 26 March 2009, lot 120.