[Rarebooks] Two 18th Century American Imprints

[Garry R Austin]

For your consideration; Two 18th century American imprints. Each is offered postpaid, trade discounts apply @ 20%

Necker, Mr. OF THE IMPORTANCE OF RELIGIOUS OPINIONS. Boston: Press of Thomas Hall, 1796. First edition. Duodecimo. Full tree calf with a red spine label. 230pp. (ii). Moderate edge wear, corners worn. Spine worn at ends. Toning. Upper rear joint started but still firmly attached. Faint waterstain affects the first 50 pages. A better copy that it appears in catalogue.  Ornamental devices at the beginning and end of the text. Advertisement states; "In rendering this work into English, some liberties have been taken by the translator, which seemed necessary to preserve the original."; That translator was Mary Wollstonecraft. Her translation was executed in 1788. Evans 30835. $225.00

A Layman. (Thomas Cogan). LETTERS TO WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, ESQ. M. P. ON THE DOCTRINE OF HEREDITARY DEPRAVITY. Boston: J. Nancrede printed by Manning and Loring, 1799. First edition. Duodecimo. Quarter brown leather and marbled boards. 132pp. including 7pp. Nancrede's ads.  Moderate edge wear, corners worn. Spine worn and rubbed but "Letters" in gilt readable. Last leaf of ads trimmed without any loss of text. Toning. Gift Inscription on the front free fly leaf; Eben Francis Cambridge Mass. gift of L. B. Sparhawk... 1806". A second ownership name appears at top right of the title page; "Charles Coffin".  Thomas Cogan (1736–1818) was an English nonconformist physician, a founder of the Royal Humane Society and philosophical writer. His Letters to William Wilberforce..., by a Layman (pseud. i.e. T. Cogan), in which he denounced the view supported by William Wilberforce in his Practical View of the Prevailing Religious Systems of Professed Christians, and argued for the happiness of all mankind. These letters originally appeared in 1799, and were printed in cheap editions for Unitarian book societies. Evans 35318. $450.00 


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