Description:
Early Books, Seven Volumes. Including: Owen's Of Schisme, Oxford: by L.L. for Robinson, 1657, octavo, later full leather; Norris's A Collection of Miscellanies, London: by Crosley and Manship, 1692, octavo, contemporary boards, rebacked; Edward Chandler's A Sermon Preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, London: Downing, 1719, later half leather; Vox Stellarum: or a Loyal Almanack, for the years 1741 and 1744, disbound; Shaw's Parish Law, London, in the Savoy: by Lintot et al., 1750, octavo, full leather; [and] Ray's Arithmetical Key, Cincinnati: Winthrop B. Smith, [n.d., 19th century], publisher's printed board, leather spine. (7)
Estimate $300-400
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