Dec 01, 2011 - Sale 2263

Sale 2263 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Whitefield, George. A Letter . . . to the Reverend John Wesley, in Answer to his Sermon, Entituled Free Grace. 12mo, worn contemporary plain rear wrapper, lacking front wrapper; first gatherings detached, minor dampstaining in rear; uncut. Boston: G. Rogers, 1740

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first edition of a letter written by the Great Awakening evangelist in Bethesda, Georgia on 24 December 1740. Whitefield warns in the preface that "many of my Friends who are strenuous Advocates for Universal Redemption, will be immediately offended." Evans 4647; Sabin 103556.