[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce Illustrated Account of the Moravians in America, 1758

[Charles Agvent]

[CRANTZ, David] [MORAVIANS and NATIVE AMERICANS]. BRIEVE & FIDELE 
EXPOSITION DE L'ORIGINE, DE LA DOCTRINE, DES CONSTITUTIONS, USAGES ET 
CEREMONIES ECCLESIASTIQUES... n.p., 1758. First Edition. ...DE L'EGLISE 
DE L'UNITE DES FRERES CONNUS SOUS LE NOM DE FRERES DE BOHEME & DE 
MORAVIE, TIREE DE LEURS ACTES & TITRES AUTENTIQUES PAR UN AUTEUR 
IMPARTIAL, AMI DE LA VERITE ; AVEC XVI PLANCES GRAVEES EN TAILLE DOUCE, 
OU LE TOUT EST REPRESENTE AU NATUREL. Small octavo (4-1/2" x 7") bound 
in very early marbled boards with a gilt red spine label: [2], 3-87, 
[1], 16 folding plates. First Edition in French, published one year 
after the First German Edition and usually attributed to David Crantz, 
this history of the Moravian United Brethren was published not long 
after their establishment in America. The sixteen folding plates 
illustrate various customs and rites of the Moravian missionaries 
including an exorcism in the West Indies; baptisms in the West Indies, 
Greenland, and America (Native Americans); and the Kiss of Peace with 
men on one side of the room and women on the other. Sabin 7935. This 
book was published at an early and crucial point in the history of the 
Moravian Church in America when it was under attack, along with its 
Indian converts, for treason during the French and Indian War. Title 
page slightly trimmed along right border; minor tears in margins of some 
plates. Mild chipping to spine tips but binding and contents firm. Near 
Fine example of a scarce title. 		$4,000.00

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