Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
[DEFOE, DANIEL.] A View of the Invisible World; or, General History of Apparitions. 4 engraved plates. xvi, 315, [4] pages. 8vo, 201x117 mm, contemporary panelled sheep, spine and joints heavily worn; contents dampwrinkled with occasional light foxing and soiling, contemporary owner's signature on title, front free endpaper loose with outer half excised. Furbank & Owen 238 note. London, 1752

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first edition of a collection of supernatural anecdotes ascribed to Defoe, entirely distinct from his 1727 Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions. (citing this as a later edition of the 1727 work).