Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 121

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
[MANDEVILLE, BERNARD.] The Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits . . . Third Edition. [16], 477 pages * The Fable of the Bees. Part II. [2], xxxi, [1], 432, [24] pages. first edition. Together, 2 volumes. 8vo, 194x123 and 199x125 mm, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, joints cracked or starting, cover edges and corners worn, spine ends chipped, endpapers renewed; last 2 gatherings browned in Volume 1, occasional toning and foxing in Volume 2, errata corrected in ink in contemporary hand, blank upper margin of title excised, small piece missing from blank lower margin. London: J. Tonson, 1724; J. Roberts, 1729

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Third edition of Mandeville's controversial 1714 satire on the benefits of vice and the self-interest of virtue, and first edition of the continuation.