Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 156

Price Realized: $ 1,750
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Edwards, Jonathan. A Careful and Strict Enquiry into the Prevailing Notions of . . . Freedom of Will. [2], vi, [4], 294, [14] pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn, crudely rebacked; lacking free endpapers, tape repairs to title page and several other leaves, moderate dampstaining; errata slip laid down on page 299; early owner's signature on title page, later owner's signature and pencil notes. 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.