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(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Jonathan Edwards. An Account of . . . David Brainerd, Minister of the Gospel, Missionary to the Indians. [2], xii, [18], 316, [2] pages including subscriber's list and leaf of publisher's ads. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn, rebacked with part of original backstrip laid down; intermittent dampstaining and wear including slight loss of text to final two leaves, lacking rear free endpaper; early inked scrawls on front free endpaper, later owner Staats Van Deursen's pencil signatures on front endpapers and title page, 1931 inked ownership inscription on title. Boston: D. Henchman, 1749
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First edition. The earliest biography of the best-known Indian missionary of the Great Awakening. The early owner of this copy, Moses Peck, was a Boston watchmaker and enthusiastic support of Indian missions; his 1766 letter to Eleazar Wheelock regarding Samson Occom is at Dartmouth College. Howes E56; Evans 6311; Sabin 21927.

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