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Description:
American Imprints, Pre-1750, Three Titles.
Including Henry Flynt's (1675-1760) Twenty Sermons on Various Subjects, Boston: S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1739, first and only edition, octavo; Giles Firmin's The Real Christian, or a Treatise of Effectual Calling, Boston: Rogers & Fowle for Edwards and Blanchard, 1742, first American edition, last offered at auction in 1986, octavo; [and] Isaac Watts's Orthodoxy and Charity United: in Several Reconciling Essays on the Law and Gospel, Faith and Works, Boston: Rogers & Fowle, 1749, first American edition, octavo; all volumes in contemporary boards with various defects, including dustiness, boards detached, bumps, browning to text leaves in some cases, not collated, should be seen. (3)
Estimate $400-600
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Keywords
Henry Flynt, Giles Firmin, Isaac Watts, Faith, Gospel, WorksJohn Dorfman
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