Oct 14, 2021 - Sale 2582

Sale 2582 - Lot 139

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)
Defence of Usury; Shewing the Impolicy of the Present Legal Restraints on the Terms of Pecuniary Bargains.

Philadelphia: Printed for Mathew Carey by Lang & Ustick, 1796.

First American edition, 12mo, early ownership inscription to title, one leaf of publisher's ads at the end, in paper boards, rebacked with paper, 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.

ESTC W4815; Evans 30057.