Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 131

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Vauts, Moses à (no known dates, possible pseudonym)
The Husband's Authority Unvail'd; Wherein It is Moderately Discussed whether it be Fit or Lawfull for a Good Man to Beat his Bad Wife.

London: Printed by T.N. for Robert Bostock, 1650.

First and only edition, quarto, (lacking O4, final blank); bound in later half leather, boards detached, some scattered spotting, waterstaining, stains to title, ex libris John Delaware Lewis, with his gilt-tooled morocco book ticket past inside front board; some headlines cropped, 7 x 5 1/4 in.

Wing V-163; ESTC R205920; ESTC locates seven U.S. library copies.