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LOT 1678
Books - Comber - Companion to the Altar
PUBLISHED 1681 A.D.
7 3/8 x 4 7/8 in. (505 grams, 18.8 x 12.5 cm).
Thomas Comber D.D., A Companion to the Altar; or, an Help to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper; by Discourses and Meditations upon the whole Communion Office to which is added an Essay upon the Offices of Baptism, Catechism and Confirmation. The Third Edition. leather binding with lightly tooled borders, feint partial title to spine; frontispiece with printing details 'Imprimatur / Jan.21 / 167¾' and 'C.Smith, R.P.D. / Episc. Lond. à / sacris domesticis'; pencilled owner's autograph 'Edith C. Westercott/ May 1918'; ixpp + 489 pp + 7 pp (21 pp absent). [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex libris David M. Miller; property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.
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