May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 220

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
PARMLY, LEVI SPEAR. A Practical Guide to the Management of the Teeth; comprising a Discovery of the Origin of Caries, or Decay of the Teeth; with its Prevention and Cure. Engraved plate. 198, [9] pages, including publisher's catalogue at end. 12mo, 145x86 mm, early 20th-century Latin American tree sheep gilt with red morocco lettering piece; some light browning on opening leaves, contemporary signatures of N. H. Morgan and Eli Hall on title. Philadelphia: Collins & Croft, 1819

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first american edition of a work originally published the year before in London. The 1816 London and Philadelphia editions noted by Asbell are apparently ghosts. Asbell 7; Austin 1453.