Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 230

Price Realized: $ 455
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MORMONS.) Kane, Thomas Leiper. The Mormons: A Discourse. 84 pages. 8vo, modern buckram; moderate foxing. (MRS) Philadelphia, 1850

Additional Details

first edition, state without Latin inscription on first page. Kane was not a Mormon, but visited Nauvoo and accompanied the Mormons on part of their westward journey. Flake 4523; Howes K8 ("most sympathetic Gentile appraisal of Mormon conduct"); Sabin 37011; Streeter sale IV:2289; Wagner-Camp 185. Provenance: Swann sale, 22 April 1965, lot 216, to the consignor.