Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 227

Price Realized: $ 6,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(MORMONS.) Campbell, Alexander. Delusions: An Analysis of the Book of Mormon. 16 pages. 8vo, modern 1/4 calf; minor foxing. (MRS) Boston, 1832

Additional Details

first edition of what may be the first anti-Mormon pamphlet. It had previously appeared in the 7 February 1831 issue of the Millenial Harbinger, a Virginia magazine, and is here printed separately for the first time. The author was a founder of the Disciples of Christ, a rival new religious movement. Includes a preface by Joshua V. Himes which is directed to a New England audience. Howes C87 ("aa"); Flake 1107; Sabin 10206. No other copies known at auction since 1957. Provenance: sold by Edward Eberstadt to the consignor, circa 1964.