Beschreibung:

The Notes of the True Church With the Application of them to the Church of England, And the great Sin of Seperation from Her. Delivered in A Sermon preached at Trinity Church in New-York, Before the Administration of the holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper. The 7th of November, 1703.
New York: William Bradford 1704. [8], 20 pp. small 4to (185 x 140 mm). Half morocco over marbled paper boards by Bradstreet, t.e.g. Condition : crease to the lower inside corner of the title and first few leaves, else quite clean internally; binding rubbed along the joints, light fading to the spine. Provenance : Henry C. Murphy (Leavitt & Co., 5 March 1884, lot 1370, with the lot number in pencil on the front free endpaper); John Carter Brown / Harold Brown (armorial bookplate with inked duplicate release stamp); Michael Zinman (booklabel). first edition of a significant keith tract published by bradford. In his Journal of Travels (London: 1706), Keith writes under a November 7, 1703 entry: “I preached at New-York, on Acts 2.42 and that Sermon was soon after Printed at New-York, at the desire of some who heard it, and did contribute to the Charge of its Printing.” This sermon, among many given by Keith during his 1702-04 tour as a missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, was particularly noteworthy, which explains in part its printing by Bradford. “For the history of Keith’s life this is a document of great significance. He had now come around in his religious theories, after a widely different career, to the Church of England---the church to which the Episcopal Church in America is in fact affiliated at the present day” (Church). This copy with esteemed provenance to the famed 1883 Murphy sale (in which it fetched $23) and Harold Brown, the son of John Carter Brown. Church 815; Evans 1162; Grolier Club, The Bradford Exhibition 40; Reese, George Keith’s American Imprints 30 (Princeton University Library Chronicle, Spring 1977); Sabin 37204.