[Rarebooks] For Sale: Rare Unitas Fratrum publication, 1768

[Norman Kane]

We are pleased to offer:

[SPANGENBERG, AUGUSTUS GOTTLIEB,]  ("IN THE NAME OF THE DIRECTORS OF 
THE MISSIONS OF THE BRETHREN'S CHURCH AMONG THE HEATHEN.")
   A CANDID DECLARATION OF THE CHURCH KNOWN BY THE NAME OF THE UNITAS 
FRATRUM, RELATIVE TO THEIR LABOUR AMONG THE HEATHEN.   [London, 
1768.]  Quarto, sewn, as issued, approx. 11 X 7 inches, 8 
pages.  Moderate age wear and soiling, tiny hole, but a very good, 
complete copy of this rare defence of their "ancient 
church-constitution and privileges" & their missionary work, against 
the "libels and virulent pamphlets" of Lutherans and others.  "We are 
at present actually engaged . . . among the Indians in
North-America  as also among the Negroes in Jamaica, Antigua and 
Barbados; and . . . amongst the Esquimaux in Terralabrador; and . . . 
our mission in Greenland."   OCLC & RLG report only the N.Y.P.L. 
copy.  The entry in Sabin is for a later edn.  Rare and important.  $2000.00

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