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Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 12 pages. Illustrated. (SL#44).

Condición: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Octavo. 111, [i]pp. First and only edition. Original boards, rebacked. Original label on upper cover. Hinges repaired internally. With two engraved plates. Some waterstaining, affecting mostly the second plate, and the pastedowns. It looks like the second plate was previously bound close to the lower pastedown, where the staining is more prominent. One of the earliest, if not the earliest books on curling.

19cm. 104pp. Origial lien-backed boards, paper spine label. Extremes and label rubbed with wear; boards soiled.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good with no dust jacket. THEOLOGY; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; -FIRST ATHEIST PUBLICATION in America- (Free Thought) Reason, the Only Oracle of Man; or, A Compendious System of Natural Religion. By Col. Ethan Allen. To which is added, Critical Remarks on the Truth and Harmony of the Four Gospels, with Observations on the Instructions given by Jesus Christ, and the Doctrines of Christianity. By a Free Thinker. Original muslin boards, quite darkened (orig. Paper spine label worn but readable. The two works are separately paged, have separate title pages, and are separated by an integral blank leaf. American Imprints 35708. A later edition of Allen's Oracle, originally printed in Bennington in 1784, considered the first anti-religious or atheistic work published in America. Following in Allen's footsteps, "A Free Thinker" finds the Virgin birth and similar "improbable stories (we use his phrase) to be impediments to conventional reliance on the Gospels. 106, [2], 70, [1] pp. , with 4 page "Catalogue of Liberal Works," for sale by G. W. & A. J. Matsell. Volume is sound with light foxing. Provenance- Hall Park McCullough bookplate. In the introduction Ethan states, ". And as to being a Deist, I know not strictly speaking, whether I am one or not, for I have never read their writings." He employs 'Free Thought' to formulate his conclusions, which are Deistic, and places 'Reason' above faith.

Softcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. Large but slight damp stain to first 44 and last 62 pages approximately. Slightly foxed, a little darker on a few pages. Brief notation written in pencil on title page. ; Disbound, no covers. Two titles published together. First title page has the combined titles, second title also has its own title page. Separate pagination. Book dealer's blind stamp on first (blank) page. ; 176 pages.

First Edition. First edition, 12mo, viii, 303, [1]; original drab boards, printed paper label (somewhat toned) on spine; very good and sound. With an early owner's inscription on the front cover reading in faint ink: "James Maxwell Esq. / of Kirkconnell." And with the heraldic bookplate of Maxwell of Kirkonnell. Contained in a blue cloth clamshell box with black morocco label lettered in gilt, with the bookplate of Geoffrey Cains. Only 5 copies located in OCLC: Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, University of St. Andrews, and only Wisconsin in the U.S. To which can be added the copy at the BL.