Nov 25, 2014 - Sale 2368

Sale 2368 - Lot 114

Price Realized: $ 1,690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Edwards, Jonathan. A Careful and Strict Enquiry into the Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of Will. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn; lacking part of front free endpaper, title page a bit worn, minor dampstaining to first few pages, moderate foxing; early owner's inscription and marks on endpapers. Boston: S. Kneeland, 1754

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first edition of edwards's most important work of the great awakening. "The publication in 1754 of A Careful and Strict Enquiry . . . revealed him as the first great philosophic intelligence in American history"--DAB. Evans 7187; Grolier Hundred 11; Sabin 21930; Streeter sale VII:4164.