Nov 25, 2014 - Sale 2368

Sale 2368 - Lot 232

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(NEW YORK--LONG ISLAND.) Coale, Josiah. A Song of the Judgments & Mercies of the Lord. 20 pages. 4to, modern boards; minor foxing and toning. [London], 1669

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Third edition, expanded with other works by Coale including his deathbed words. Josiah Coale or Cole was one of the first Quaker explorers of Pennsylvania. The main body of text was written on Long Island, as noted on page 9: "Written . . . the Eighth day of the Third Moneth, 1662, as I was travelling in the wilderness . . . on Long-Island in America, and pondering in my heart the things of God." Smith, Friends' Books page 433.