The New York Missionary Magazine, and Repository of Religious Intelligence, for August 1803.

New York: 1803. Hardcover. Includes all the monthly issues for the year 1803, but the months are bound out of order; the volume begins with August, 1803. Includes an Account of the Moravian Missions, Mission Society of Africa, and Account of the Death of Voltaire. Personal copy of Elihu Carpenter (1752-1827), teacher, deacon and Revolutionary War veteran, a descendant of one of the founding Carpenter family, which sailed from England on the 'Bevis' in 1638. A further annotation at the front end paper, "C. C. Carpenter, Found in Labrador, 1864".

Volume needs re-binding. Covers are chipped, spine perished; title page missing. Internally, owner's signatures, "Elihu Carpenter, Rehoboth, Dec 24th, 1803". Pages are dusty and toned; scattered fox spotting throughout. Good -. Item #12094

Price: $175.00