Nov 21, 2024 - Sale 2687

Sale 2687 - Lot 126

Price Realized: $ 812
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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT--1744.) Experience Mayhew. Grace Defended, in a Modest Plea for an Important Truth. [2], vi, 7, [1], 208 pages. 4to, contemporary paneled calf, moderate wear, rebacked with portion of original backstrip laid down; minor wear and dampstaining, without the errata slip found in some copies; early owners' signatures on front endpapers. Boston: B. Green and Company, 1744
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The author is today best known as a missionary to the Wampanoags of Martha's Vineyard, and author of the Massachusett Psalter. Evans 5439; Sabin 47125.

Provenance: Original owner Jeremiah Belknap, dated 8 June 1744; prominent intellectual Charles Eliot Norton, signed and dated in 1844 while a student at Harvard.