Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 285

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
SMITH, MATTHEW. Memoirs of Secret Service. 160, 24 pages, including initial blank. 8vo, contemporary calf, top of spine chipped, front joint cracked. Booklabel of Henry Massingberd of Gunby dated 1781. London: A. Baldwin, 1699

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first edition of an account of Smith's experiences as an anti-Jacobite spy for the English government, often described as the first English book on intelligence activities. Wing S4131.