[Rarebooks] Offering: Some 18th Century Items

[Michael John Thompson]

And this one:


BARCLAY, Robert.

A CATECHISM AND CONFESSION OF FAITH, Approved of and Agreed Unto by 
the General Assembly of the Patriarchs, Prophets, and Apostles, 
Christ Himself Chief Speaker In and Among Them. Which Containeth a 
true and faithful Account of the Principles and Doctrines, which are 
most surely believed by the Churches of Christ in Great Brittain and 
Ireland, who are reproachfully called by the Name of Quakers; yet are 
found in the one Faith with the Primitive Church and Saints, as is 
most clearly demonstrated by some plain Scripture Testimonies 
(without Consequences or Commentaries) which are here collected and 
inserted by way of Answer to a few weighty, yet easie and familiar 
Questions, fitted as well for the wisest and largest, as for the 
weakest and lowest Capacities. To which is added, an Expostulation 
with, and Appeal to all other Professors. Philadelphia: Printed by 
Joseph Rakestraw. 1834. 95 pp. [issued with] THE ANCIENT TESTIMONY OF 
THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS, Revived. By the Order and Approbation of 
the Yearly Meeting, Held for the Provinces of pennsylvania, And 
New-Jersey, 1722. Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Rakestraw. 1834. pp 
[99] - 121.

12mo (180 x 110 mm), contemporary mottled calf, spine with simple 
gilt rules. Some foxing, mild (very mild!) rubbing to the binding but 
intact and the joints nice, tight and uncracked. a very good, 
attractive copy. Barclay was among the principle theologians of the 
Quakers, his CATECHISM is an oft-reprinted and important work, here 
offered in an early Philadelphia imprint, in pleasing condition.  $100.00



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