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Lot 387
Sale 532 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Dec 6, 2017
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[MORMONISM]. PRATT, Orson (1811-1881). A Series of Pamphlets...with a Portrait. To which is appended a Discussion...between Elder William Gibson...and the Rev. Mr. Woodman. Also a Discussion...between Elder John Taylor...and Three Reverend Gentlemen. Liverpool: R. James, 1821.
8vo (206 x 133 mm). Portrait frontispiece. (Some spotting throughout.) Modern green quarter leather. FIRST EDITION. Though the appended "discussions" are mentioned in the contents, they bear separate imprints: Report of Three Nights Public Discussion in Bolton [Eng.], between William Gibson ... of the Church of ... Latter-Day Saints, and the Rev. Woodville Woodman ... of the New Jerusalem Church. Reported by G. D. Watt. Liverpool: Franklin D. Richards, 1851. - Three Nights Public Discussion between the Revds. C. W. Cleeve, James Robertson, and Philip Cater, and Elder John Taylor, of the Church of ... Latter-Day Saints, at Boulogne-sur-mer, France ... Also a Reply to the Rev. K. Groves, M.A. & Charles Townley, LL.D. Liverpool: John Taylor, 1850. RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, only three copies of this work have appeared at auction in the last 35 years; no copy has been offered in over 20 years. Sabin 64962.
