[Rarebooks] FS: Exorcism and the Kiss of Peace, 1758, Illustrated

[Charles Agvent]

[CRANTZ, David] [MORAVIANS and NATIVE AMERICANS]. BRIEVE & FIDELE 
EXPOSITION DE L'ORIGINE, DE LA DOCTRINE, DES CONSTITUTIONS, USAGES ET 
CEREMONIES ECCLESIASTIQUES 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. n.p., 
1758. First Edition. 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 16 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. (#013577) $4,000.00

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