[Rarebooks] FS: Quaker Woman Traveler's journal, 1795

[Bob Petrilla]

Grubb, Sarah.  SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND RELIGIOUS LABOURS OF SARAH
GRUBB.  With an Appendix, containing an account of the Schools at Ackworth
and York, Observations on Christian Discipline, and extracts from many of
her Letters.  Trenton [New Jersey]:  Printed by Isaac Collins, 1795.

First US Edition.  pp: vi, 418.  Bound in contemporary sheepskin,
gilt-ruled spine with red leather label.  7.25" x 4.25".  Very Good
condition.

The author, a female Quaker minister, traveled widely to spread the word in
the United Kingdom and on the Continent. This book is based on her journals
and letters.  Isaac Collins, also a Quaker, and New Jersey's second
printer, printed this first American edition.  Provenance: Flyleaf
signatures of John and Elizabeth Satterthwaite and Mary Baily.  [Felcone,
New Jersey Books 110.  Evans 28776.]   $175.00

Usual trade terms.  Postpaid in the US.



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