Auction Catalogue

11 July 2006

Starting at 10:00 AM

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British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 2253

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11 July 2006

Hammer Price:
£550

[Paine, T.], The Writings of Thomas Paine: Common Sense; addressed to the Inhabitants of America, Albany, 1791, 60pp; The Crisis: in thirteen numbers, written during the late War, Albany, 1792; 186pp; Public Good: being an Examination into the Claim of Virginia to the vacant Western Territory…Albany, nd [1792], 41pp; Letter addressed to the Abbé Raynal on the Affairs of North America, Albany, nd [1792], vii + 70pp; Letters, to the Earl of Shelburne…to Sir Guy Carlton…to the authors of ‘The Republican’…to the Abbé Syeyes, Albany, 1792, 24pp; Rights of Man: being an Answer to Mr Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution, 4th American edn, Albany, nd, 124pp; Rights of Man: Part the Second, combining Principle and Practice, Albany, 1794, 96pp; Letter to Mr Secretary Dundas, June 1792. Original calf; binding fragile and front cover detached, contents with some light foxing, otherwise complete and very rare; with bookplate of Henry J. Heinz on first free endpaper (£200-300)