Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 166

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
INSCRIBED WITH THE BIRTH REGISTER OF A PENNSYLVANIA PIONEER FAMILY EDWARDS, JONATHAN. The Great Christian Doctrine of Original Sin Defended. xv, 341 pages. Large 16mo, contemporary calf, worn; hinges starting, minor toning and dampstaining; bookplate on front pastedown and early owner's inscriptions on free endpapers and flyleaves. Wilmington, DE, 1771

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early delaware imprint. Second American edition. Includes a manuscript birth register titled "A record of the age of the difrent children born to Samuel Irwin sun of William Irwin one of the first livers in Cumberland County in West Pennsborrow Township on a place nowen by the name of the Walnet Bottom." Lists eight Irwin children born from 1768 to 1785, as well as an Elizabeth Murphy born in 1793. Evans 12032, Rink Delaware 59, Sabin 21942.