Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210

Sale 2210 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 132
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
THE BOOK OF ACCIDENTS . . . written by a Son of Abraham, during his Residence in Great Britain, to his brother in Arabia Felix. Engraved frontispiece. 96 pages. 12mo, contemporary (original?) wrappers, worn; some marginal soiling; uncut Nottingham: C. Sutton, 1804

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Scarce political satire. "The subjects recorded in these chapters, especially those which relate to the proceedings of the Tory party in 1794, are all literally true" (Preface). OCLC locates only the Cambridge University copy, not noting another in the British Library.