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An Epistle to the Inhabitants of South-Carolina

Lot 140
27.01.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 140 | An Epistle to the Inhabitants of South-Carolina
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HUME, Sophia (1702-1774). An Epistle to the Inhabitants of South-Carolina; Containing Sundry Observations proper to be consider'd by every Professor of Christianity in general. London: Printed and Sold by Luke Hinde, 1754.

First and only edition of a Jeremiad by firebrand Quaker preacher Sophia Hume. Sophia was the granddaughter of the famous Quaker missionary Mary Fisher, who was one of the first Quakers to visit the Puritan colonies in North America. Raised Anglican in Charleston, South Carolina, Sophia move to England and re-converted to Quakerism after her husband's death and her own health crisis, which she came to believe had been a warning from God about her decadent lifestyle. The present work invokes a destructive hurricane that had struck her former home state in September 1752, suggesting that it was a “Mark of his Displeasure against your Transgressions." This is Hume's second published work, and much rare in commerce than her first, the much-reprinted Exhortation to the Inhabitants of the Province of South-Carolina. The last copy of this work recorded at auction by RBH was in 1952. Sabin 33781 (without ad leaf); ESTC T98611.

Octavo (178 x 106mm). 2pp. bookseller's advertisements at end (some shoulder notes just shaved). 19th-centry black blind-ruled calf, title gilt on spine (a little worn at extremities). Provenance: partially trimmed inscription of "Elizabeth ___" dated 1769.
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