Apr 12, 2018 - Sale 2473

Sale 2473 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(NEW HAMPSHIRE.) [Fluery, Claude.] An Historical Catechism, Containing Ingenious Answers to Many Notable Questions. 23 pages. Small 8vo, 6 1/4 x 4 inches, disbound; quite worn, unevenly cropped, several leaves defective with substantial text loss to the second leaf; early owner's signature on title page. Keene, NH: Henry Blake, 1794

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Not in Evans or ESTC, or otherwise traced. Apparently the sole surviving copy of the first American edition of a popular work, which went through at least 40 18th-century editions in the United Kingdom.