(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT) Wise John The Churches Quarrel Espo

Sale 2368 - Lot 111

Price Realized: $ 1,500

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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Wise, John. The Churches Quarrel Espoused. 8vo, later calf, joints rubbed, sticker on backstrip; front pastedown partly detached, minor foxing, tightly trimmed, repair to leaf C4, leaf from the 1684 Boston first edition of Increase Mather's "Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences" (page 368) used as the rear pastedown; early owners' inscriptions and later library bookplate on front free endpaper. Boston: Nicholas Boone, 1715

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Second edition, after the 1713 New York edition. "The most authoritative defense of Congregationalist polity, recognized as such even in law courts"--Howes W594 ("aa"). Evans 1795; Sabin 104897.