Sep 28, 2017 - Sale 2455

Sale 2455 - Lot 113

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT--1744.) Mayhew, Experience. Grace Defended, in a Modest Plea for an Important Truth. [2], vi, 7, [1], 208 pages. 8vo, 1/4 calf over boards, worn; endpapers renewed and coming loose, moderate dampstaining; early signature on title page, 1805 inscription on front free endpaper. Boston: B. Green and Company, 1744

Additional Details

The author is today best known as a missionary to the Wampanoags of Martha's Vineyard, and author of the Massachusett Psalter. Evans 5439; Sabin 47125. One other traced at auction since 1968, at a Swann sale, 11 September 1997, lot 158.