NOYES, John H[umphrey]

The Berean: A Manual for the Help of Those Who Seek the Faith of the Primitive Church [With Perfectionist extra number]

Putney, VT: Office of the Spiritual Magazine, 1847. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Brown cloth, blindstamped, titled in gilt on spine; pale green endpapers; [i]-viii [9]-504pp. With an undated extra number from the Perfectionist tipped in at rear, containing an article on "The Origin of Evil." Marks of the Vermont Historical Society, including stamp to contents leaf and call number at base of spine. Straight but much rubbed, with chips to cloth, lower joint cracked but holding, damage to endpapers, occasional discoloration: Good. Anthology of previously published articles summarizing Noyes' religious doctrines and arguments, "considered the 'Perfectionists' Bible.'" WELLS (The Oneida Community Collection in the Syracuse University Library) p.11. DARE (American Communes to 1860) 1478.

Price: $600.00

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