Dec 01, 2011 - Sale 2263

Sale 2263 - Lot 192

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(MUSIC.) Benham, Asahel. Social Harmony: Containing First, the Rudiments of Psalmody Made Easy; Second, a Collection of Modern Music. 56 pages, including 22 double-sided leaves of engraved music, plus one partial leaf of manuscript music at end. Oblong 8vo, contemporary 1/4 calf, moderate wear; early owners' inscriptions on endpapers. [New Haven, CT: Thomas and Samuel Green, 1798?]
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A compilation of original songs by Benham (a singing-master from Wallingford, CT) and other local composers. The music plates were engraved by Clement Beecher. Britton, American Sacred Music, page 165; ESTC W3353; Evans 33398. No copies of this or Benham's similar Federal Harmony have been spotted at auction since 1954.