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[SPRAGUE, WILLIAM BUELL]. Letters from Europe, in 1828; first published in the New-York Observer.
New York, Jonathan Leavitt, 1828. Small 8vo, pp. 135, [1] errata; original brown cloth over tan boards, printed paper spine label; ex-Framingham Historical Society with small label on spine, bookplate on front pastedown and inkstamp on front free- endpaper, foxing mostly to endpapers, otherwise a very good, partially unopened copy. Sprague (1795-1876), an American clergyman educated at Yale and Princeton, published numerous books, of which the best known is Annals of the American Pulpit (nine volumes, 1857-1869), a biographical dictionary of American ministers of various denominations. In 1828 Sprague embarked on a trip to Europe for health reasons and he was asked by a friend at the Observer to record his journey for publication. The letters were eventually published in this volume. The better part of the letters concern religious matters. American Travellers Abroad S-129: "A health trip to Europe is described in a young clergyman's letters."
Offered for US$ 375.00 by: Rulon-Miller Books ABAA/ILAB - Book number: 29025