Feb 21, 2008 - Sale 2137

Sale 2137 - Lot 349

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(RELIGION.) DOUGLASS, WILLIAM. Sermons Preached in the African Protestant Episcopal Church of St Thomas's in Philadelphia, by Wm. Douglass, Rector. 251 pages. Small 8vo, original blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on the spine; general light wear with a small portion of the corner of the crown of the spine nibbled; contemporary signature of "Miss Rachel Sparrow, Baltimore." Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1854

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first edition of the noted Philadelphia minister's sermons. Douglass wrote a history of St Thomas's Church, "Annals of the First African Church in the United States of America" (Philadelphia, 1862.) This collection of his sermons was his first book. Not in Blockson. rare.