Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 233

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(MORAVIAN CHURCH.) [Cranz, David.] Briève & Fidèle Exposition de l'Origine, de la Doctrine, des Constitutions, Usages et Cérémonies Ecclésiastiques de l'Église de l'Unité des Frères connus sous le nom de Frères de Bohème & de Moravie. 16 folding engraved plates. 87 pages. 8vo, 176x112 mm, late 18th-/early 19th-century marbled boards; scattered foxing and minor stains, title soiled, cropped in outer margin and mounted, plates soiled in margins, cropped in upper margins, several with restoration in blank outer or lower margins. Np, 1758

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first edition in french of a brief history of the Moravian Church, its doctrines and observances, and its missions to Greenland, British North America, and the Caribbean. The original edition in German was published the year before.