Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 158

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Witherspoon, John. Ecclesiastical Characteristics: or, The Arcana of Church Policy. 60 pages. 8vo, modern paper towel wrapper; uncut, tear with loss on title page not affecting text, early owner's signature on title page, inked "withdrawn" stamp on first page, dampstaining. Philadelphia: William and Thomas Bradford, 1767

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first and only american edition, published on the eve of Witherspoon's arrival as first president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton). This work is a satirical attack on religious moderates. Signed in 1838 by William Bradford, possibly a descendant of the publisher. Evans 10804.