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Author: Anonymous
Title: A Whimsical History of some Part of the Iron-Age, Set for in a Predictical Manner. Or a Prognostical Account: Of some Events that will happen to fall out this Year...
Place: London
Publisher: Printed for the Author...
Date: 1727
Item # : 202560
Sale Number   402
Lot Number   6
Sale Name    
Fine Books & Manuscripts
Sale Date   04/30/2009
Price realized   $ 420
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Description:
32 pp. A-D4. (8vo) 7½x4¾, stitched into period plain wrappers.
Evidently a very rare satirical work, of unknown authorship. We find no evidence that it exists. Not in ESTC; not in OCLC; not in Copac; no copies have sold at auction since 1975 according to American Book Prices Current; no retail listings found online.
Condition:
Wrappers worn, some chipping, in shelf-marks to upper left of front wrapper; title-page soiled, darkened, contents with corners dog-eared, chip to top margin of pp. 19-20; good to very good.
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