JONATHAN EDWARDS An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend

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JONATHAN EDWARDS. An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd, Minister of the Gospel, Missionary to the Indians. [2], xii, [18], 316, [2] pages including subscriber's list and leaf of publisher's ads. 8vo, contemporary tooled calf, front board coming detached, moderate wear and staining; minor foxing and dampstaining to contents; early owner's inscriptions on front free endpaper and flyleaf dated 1753 to 1783, modern collector's bookplate on front pastedown. Boston: D. Henchman, 1749

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First edition. The earliest biography of the best-known Indian missionary of the Great Awakening. The early owner of this copy, Moses Peck, was a Boston watchmaker and enthusiastic support of Indian missions; his 1766 letter to Eleazar Wheelock regarding Samson Occom is at Dartmouth College. Howes E56; Evans 6311; Sabin 21927.