Item #25887 Twelve Discourses, comprising a systematical demonstration of the divine origin of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. Benjamin Trumbull.

Twelve Discourses, comprising a systematical demonstration of the divine origin of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments

Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1799. Very Good. Item #25887

Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1799. First Edition. 12mo; full contemporary calf, red gilt-lettered spine label; x,305[1]pp. (A-2B6 2C4, collated complete). Light shelf wear, endpaper margins quite browned, occasional spotting throughout textblock, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper and 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown, else Very Good and sound.

Collection of discourses "especially for the instruction and edification of young people; to...awaken their highest solicitude to walk with the wise, and fly the way of evil men" (title page). Concludes with an enormous subscriber's list (eleven women only), and errata printed at the end of p. 305 which concludes "In several [pages] there is an omission of the comma, which the learned reader will naturally correct."

EVANS 36455.

Price: $200.00