Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 56

Price Realized: $ 1,950
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
DONNE, JOHN. Biathanatos. A Declaration of That Paradoxe, or Thesis, that Self-Homicide is not so naturally Sin, that it may never be otherwise. [18] (of [20]), 192, 191-218 pages, but with *² (Authors cited in this Booke) bound between pages 216 and 217; lacks initial blank. 4to, 186x140 mm, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, hinges reinforced; marginal toning, scattered ink blots and minor marginal stains, 18th-century owner's notes on front free endpaper. London: Humphrey Moseley, 1648

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first edition of Donne's justification of suicide, "a virtuoso display of learning in history and in civil and canon law" (DLB); second issue, with cancel title dated 1648. Keynes (Donne) 48; Wing D1859.