Keith, George:

$8,500 · Offered by William Reese Company

A JOURNAL OF TRAVELS FROM NEW-HAMPSHIRE TO CARATUCK, ON THE CONTINENT OF NORTH-AMERICA. Keith arrived in Boston in 1702 as a representative of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, having renounced his previous fanatical attachment to Quakerism. His travels from New England to Carolina during the two subsequent years had him sermonizing before a good number of congregations, as well as taking part in several pamphlet controversies (Sabin attributes some fifty-two titles to him; see "Works of George Keith Printed in America" cited below). He preached at Yorktown, Williamsburg, Jamestown, and other locations along the coast, and made a name for himself by taking on the "stubborn and irascible inhabitants" of the colonies. An important narrative by a major figure of the period. This copy is signed at the top of the titlepage by William Boothly, a noted English book collector of the period.

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