Oct 27, 2020 - Sale 2549
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Sale 2549 - Lot 80

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Lancaster, Peter (fl. circa 1722-1730)
A Chronological Essay on the Ninth Chapter of the Book of Daniel. [...] Whereby the Jews [...] might certainly know the very Year in which the Messias was to Come.

London: Printed [by William Bowyer] for William & John Innys, 1722.

First and only edition, quarto, A4, a4, B-U4, X2; a beautifully preserved example, in full contemporary English tan calf, sprinkled and tooled in blind compartments with ornamental tools in the corners, spine with gilt lettering piece, contents quite clean, some bumping to corners, rubbing to spine, 9 x 6 3/4 in.

ESTC T75711; Maslen & Lancaster, Bowyer Ledgers 824; http://estc.bl.uk/T75711; rare, ESTC lists four copies in North American libraries; last copy offered at auction was likely this copy, sold in these rooms in 1953.
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