(VERMONT) Allen Ethan Reason the Only Oracle of Man or a Com

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(VERMONT.) Allen, Ethan. Reason the Only Oracle of Man, or a Compenduous System of Natural Religion. 477 pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn, front board detached, original spine label reading "Allen's Theology"; minimal dampstaining, closed tear and printing flaw to leaf Bbb1; with half-title and final blank. (MRS) Bennington, VT: Haswell & Russell, 1784

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first edition of the personal philosophy of Ethan Allen, famous leader of Vermont's Green Mountain Boys. "The rarest of Allen's publications, and . . . the first work published in America in direct opposition to the Christian religion"--Sabin 802. "The entire edition, except about thirty copies, was destroyed by fire, said to have been caused by lightning, which was superstitiously deemed a judgment from Heaven at the time"--Evans 18322. Church 1201; McCorison 69; Streeter sale II:716. Provenance: sold by M & S Rare Books to the consignor, December 1973.