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Lot 11
Sale 6285 - Books and Manuscripts
Mar 27, 2025
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Live / Philadelphia
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$2,000 -
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$3,520
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[American Revolution] (Price, Richard). Licentiousness Unmask'd; or, Liberty Explained
London: Printed for J. Bew, (1776). 8vo. (ii), 55 pp. Three-quarter tan diced russia over marbled paper-covered boards, red morocco spine label, stamped in gilt; all edges trimmed. Howes P-586; Adams, American Independence 224w, and American Controversy 76-118; Evans 15032; Sabin 65452; Kress 7243; Goldsmiths 11512; Reese, The Revolutionary Hundred 38 (ref.)
Price was a well-known British Presbyterian minister and the author of several notable books about moral philosophy and economics. He was particularly friendly with a number of Americans, and vigorously argued their part in the British debate over colonial taxation and government. Price was later offered honorary American citizenship by the Continental Congress, which he declined.

