Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 98

Price Realized: $ 455
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
[JOHNSON, SAMUEL.] Thoughts on the Late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands. [4], 75 pages, including half-title. 8vo, 210x130 mm, later 19th-century 1/2 sheep gilt; small stab holes in blank gutters throughout, marginal fingersoiling on preliminaries, heavy foxing on half-title, light foxing on title, 20th-century inscriptions on front endleaf. London: T. Cadell, 1771

Additional Details

first edition of a pamphlet on the dispute between Spain and Britain over the Falkland Islands that nearly brought to 2 countries to war following a Spanish incursion there in 1770; second issue, with cancel K2. Courtney & Nichol Smith, page 115.