Self Knowledge: A Treatise Shewing the Nature and Benefit of that Important Science, and the Way to Attain it.

AUCTION 1 | Thursday, November 14th, 1996 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 12
(AMERICAN JUDAICA). MASON, JOHN.

Self Knowledge: A Treatise Shewing the Nature and Benefit of that Important Science, and the Way to Attain it.

Two parts in one. Engraved frontispiece. Hebrew type on pp. 25, 30, 94 and 179. Some offsetting on title, lightly browned, contemporary tree-calf, upper cover detached, rubbed, solander case, 8vo

Boston: I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews 1793

Est: $150 - $200
Popular work by English Nonconformist Minister. Of interest due to the early appearance of Hebrew type in this18th century American edition.