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Heading: (American Imprint)
Author: Ker, Patrick
Title: The Map of Man's Misery. Or, The Poor Man's Pocket-Book: Being a Perpetual Almanack of Spiritual Meditations: Or Compleat-Directory, For One Endless Week
Place: Boston
Publisher: Printed by T.G. [Timothy Green] for [B.] Eliot
Date: [c. 1700]
Item # : 210203
Sale Number   429
Lot Number   8
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Rare Books & Manuscripts: The Library of Kent Johnson (with additions)
Sale Date   05/27/2010
Price realized   $ 3300
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Description:
[4], 138 pp. A2-8, B-I8. Lacking leaf A1. (16mo) 13.1x8 cm. (5¼x3¼"), period full calf.
A previously unrecorded colonial American imprint. Not in the holdings of either the American Antiquarian Society or the Library Company of Philadelphia. This edition not in Evans, who records the AAS copy (Evans 615) of an edition believed by Evans to be c. 1692 but is likely 1700, the imprint on that copy reads "Printed for Samuel Phillips". Wing K341 also cites the AAS copy. OCLC WorldCat locates another copy at the Clements Library with the Samuel Philips imprint dated 1706. The Connecticut Historical Society copy, also bearing the Philips imprint, dated 1700. This copy a newly discovered edition dating between 1699 and 1714, the period of time when Timothy Green was printing in Boston. Provenance: An old Boston family, removed to Southern California.
Condition:
Binding worn, spine ends chipped; title page complete but badly torn and mostly detached, although worthy of restoration, two small holes in the imprint with the loss of the 'B' in B. Eliot and with the loss of the printed date, browning and foxing; good.
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