(GEORGIA) George Watts A Sermon Preached Before the Trustees

Sale 2564 - Lot 223

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(GEORGIA.) George Watts. A Sermon Preached Before the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America. 27 pages. 8vo, later 1/2 gilt morocco by Bradstreet, minor wear and staining; bookplate removed, joints split, moderate foxing, repaired worming in upper corner not touching text; top edge gilt. London: M. Downing, 1736

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Urges the colonists to "prepare themselves a city to dwell in, to sow their lands, and plant vineyards to yield them fruits of increase," so that they could turn the "wilderness into a fruitful, well-watered habitation" (pages 3-5), in the hope that "so healthy, pleasant, and fruitful a country, under so mild and secure a government, will make this the common asylum of all who are persecuted for conscience sake" (page 17). Sabin 102173. None traced at auction since 1987.

Provenance: Georgia historian Charles Colcock Jones Jr. (1831-1897); Richmond Literature Company's Edward N. Crane sale, 25 March 1913, lot 336; American Art Association sale, 26 February 1917, lot 77 (describing the prior provenance and now now-absent bookplate); Parke-Bernet sale, 7 February 1940, lot 481.