Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 87

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
English Non-Conformist Controversial Pamphlets.
Two Examples, mid-17th century.

Including: John Geree's (1601?-1649) The Character of an Old English Puritane, or Non-Conformist, London: Printed by W. Wilson for Christopher Meredith, 1646, first edition, one of two issues with the same imprint date, this example with "Pvritane" on title; Wing G-589; ESTC R200721;

[and] Hell Broke Loose: or, a Catalogue of Many of the Spreading Errors, Heresies and Blasphemies of these Times, for which we are to be humbled, London: Printed for Tho. Underhill, March 9, 1646 [i.e., 1647], first edition, one of two with the same imprint date, Wing H-1377, ESTC R201395; both disbound quarto volumes, each title printed within a border of type ornaments, each measuring approximately 5 1/2 x 7 in. (2)