Apr 11, 2011 - Sale 2243

Sale 2243 - Lot 250

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
RUTHERFORD [or RUTHERFURD], SAMUEL. A Survey of the Spirituall Antichrist. Opening the secrets of Familisme and Antinomianisme in the Antichristian Doctrine of John Saltmarsh, and Will. Del [et al.]. [48], 88, 99-354; 239 pages. 4to, old panelled calf, rebacked, endpapers renewed; margins trimmed touching some sidenotes, old institutional stamp on title, London: J[ohn] D[awson] & R[obert] I[bbitson] for Andrew Crooke, 1648 [i. e., 1647]

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first edition of an attack on sectarian heresies, in which "he traced back the varieties of contemporary heresy to sixteenth-century radicals, and argued that the subjectivism of the sects would recreate the anarchy associated with the early Anabaptist movement" (ODNB). Wing R2394.