Report of the arguments of the attorney of the Commonwealth, at the trials of Abner Kneeland, for blasphemy, in the Municipal and Supreme Courts, in Boston, January and May, 1834

by Samuel Dunn Parker

$75 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Boston : printed by Beals, Homer & Co., 1834. First edition, 8vo, pp. 93, 1 ; leaves variously toned, front wrapper present, but loose and torn in half; all else very good. Kneeland 1774-1847 , a Universalist clergyman and antitheist, became leader of a group known as the First Society of Free Enquirers, lectured frequently on Rationalism, and in 1831 began to expound his pantheistic views in the Boston Investigator, probably the first Rationalist

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