Mirabilia Dei inter Indicos, or the Rise and Progress of a Remarkable Work of Grace amongst a number of the Indians in the Provinces of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, justly represented in a Journal.
Philadelphia: William Bradford [1746]. 8vo (178 x 112 mm). Half-title. Contemporary calf, covers with a gilt double fillet, spine with raised bands and stamped in gilt. Housed in a cloth clamshell box. Condition : lower corner of half title restored, foxing; restoration along the joints and tips. Provenance : Frank T. Siebert (Sotheby’s New York, 21 May 1999, lot 148). scarce first edition of the most well-known journal of a missionary among the indians of pennsylvania and new jersey. Brainerd’s journal principally covers a one-year period among the Delaware Indians in Pennsylvania and New Jersey from 1745-46. “Due to his ill health, Brainerd died when he was only twenty-nine, but the present work gave him international fame as a missionary, influencing future missionaries to North America and elsewhere” (Siebert Sale). the siebert copy . Few copies are found complete with the half-title and in a contemporary binding. This copy, obtained by Siebert in 1944 from Wright Howes, contains correspondence between the two laid in. Evans 5748; Hildeburn 968; Howes B717; Sabin 7340; Siebert Sale 148 (this copy); Vail 432.
Mirabilia Dei inter Indicos, or the Rise and Progress of a Remarkable Work of Grace amongst a number of the Indians in the Provinces of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, justly represented in a Journal.
Philadelphia: William Bradford [1746]. 8vo (178 x 112 mm). Half-title. Contemporary calf, covers with a gilt double fillet, spine with raised bands and stamped in gilt. Housed in a cloth clamshell box. Condition : lower corner of half title restored, foxing; restoration along the joints and tips. Provenance : Frank T. Siebert (Sotheby’s New York, 21 May 1999, lot 148). scarce first edition of the most well-known journal of a missionary among the indians of pennsylvania and new jersey. Brainerd’s journal principally covers a one-year period among the Delaware Indians in Pennsylvania and New Jersey from 1745-46. “Due to his ill health, Brainerd died when he was only twenty-nine, but the present work gave him international fame as a missionary, influencing future missionaries to North America and elsewhere” (Siebert Sale). the siebert copy . Few copies are found complete with the half-title and in a contemporary binding. This copy, obtained by Siebert in 1944 from Wright Howes, contains correspondence between the two laid in. Evans 5748; Hildeburn 968; Howes B717; Sabin 7340; Siebert Sale 148 (this copy); Vail 432.
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