4th Dec, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 53
 

53

Bishop of Cloyne [Berkeley, George] A Miscellany, containing several Tracts on various...

Bishop of Cloyne [Berkeley, George]
A Miscellany, containing several Tracts on various Subjects. Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1752. 8vo, full calf, sometime rebacked; pp. 267, [1] [A3 cancel as common]; provenance: Matthew Boulton (business partner of James Watts, his Soho [Birmingham] library bookplate to upper pastedown). First London edition (previously published in Dublin in the same year).
Among the pieces present are his critical economics text The Querist and the first printings ' Farther Thoughts on Tar-Water' and the revised text of 'Verses by the Author, on the Prospect of planting Ars and Learning in America.'
Higgs 248; Sabin 4877; ESTC T39487

Sold for £100
Estimated at £80 - £120


 

Binding tight, with only slight wear, variable foxing, spotting and toning, but very good.

 


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Auction: Books, Maps & Ephemera, 4th Dec, 2019

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