[Rarebooks] FS: 1796 American Imprint: Watson's Apology in Letters to Edward Gibbon and to Thomas Paine

[Charles Agvent]

WATSON, Richard. AN APOLOGY FOR CHRISTIANITY, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS, 
ADDRESSED TO EDWARD GIBBON, ESQ. AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE 
AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. bound with AN APOLOGY FOR THE BIBLE, IN A 
SERIES OF LETTERS, ADDRESSED TO THOMAS PAINE, AUTHOR OF A BOOK ENTITLED 
THE AGE OF REASON, PART THE SECOND, BEING AN INVESTIGATION OF TRUE AND 
OF FABULOUS THEOLOGY. New-Brunswick: Abraham Blaufelt, 1796. First 
American Edition. Full contemporary calf with gilt rules on the spine 
and a gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine label; 24mo (3-1/2" x 
5-3/4"), x, 136; [2] 201 pages. Half-title page present for first 
volume. Evans 31561 & 31567. This is apparently the First American 
Edition of the first title. The second title was published in several 
American locations in 1796 with this New Brunswick imprint rather 
uncommon, Light foxing. Front endpaper lacking. Near Fine.         $175.00

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