Apr 16, 2019 - Sale 2505

Sale 2505 - Lot 176

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(RELIGION.) Cotton, John. The Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven * Of the Holinesse of Church-Members. [12], 59; [4], 95 pages (second volume erratically paginated). 4to, contemporary calf, worn; first title page quite browned and worn, cropped with loss of some page numbers, dampstaining, moderate worming, lacking endpapers, final leaf worn with loss of several words. In modern 1/4 morocco folding case. London, 1644 and 1650

Additional Details

Two theological tracts by the leading minister of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The "Keyes" is the second edition, a variant reading "printed by M. Simmons for Henry Overton, and are to be sold at his shop in Popes-head-Alley." No other copies of "Holiness of Church-Members" have been traced at auction since 1979. Sabin 17067, 17073.