Nov 18, 2008 - Sale 2163

Sale 2163 - Lot 71

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.) [Eddy], Mary Baker Glover. Science and Health. 8vo, publisher's cloth, worn at extremities, tastefully rebacked with original backstrip laid down; title page unevenly browned, errata leaf supplied in facsimile; 1889 inscription of early owner on flyleaf. Boston, 1875

Additional Details

first edition of the cornerstone book of the Christian Science movement. Along with Mormonism, Christian Science remains the most important of America's home-grown religious movements. first issue, without index. Grolier Hundred 78; Howes E42 "c" ("quite rare, obtainable only with much difficulty"); Streeter sale VII:4281.