Thorowgood, Thomas

Estimate

7,000 - 9,000 USD

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Description

Jewes in America, or, Probabilities that the Americans are of that race. With the removall of some contrary reasonings, and earnest desires for effectuall endeavours to make them Christian. London: by W.H. 1650
paper, ink, leather

4to (195 x 105 mm). One corner of title repaired, but fore-margin untrimmed with deckle edges remaining. Nineteenth-century paneled morocco, gilt.

Provenance

Brinley copy (booklabel).

Literature

Wing T1067; Field 1551; Howes T229; Sabin, 95651

Catalogue Note

First edition. "This is the first dissertation in English, on that fertile subject of controversy and hypothesis, the origin of the American Indians. The Puritans of New England awoke to it with a zeal, untempered by the knowledge that keener intellects and higher scholarship, had been stimulated by its attractive mystery a century before" (Field).

Thorowgood praises John Eliot extensively (he called him the "Indian Apostle") in Part 3 of the book and quotes extracts from the second, third and fourth of the "Indian Tracts," in pages 104-128. Rare.