Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2621BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 18, 2012 11:00AM
Description:
Leslie, Charles (1650-1722)A Reply to a Book Entitul'd Anguis Flagellatus, or a Switch for the Snake. The Opus Palmare of the Quakers. London: for C. Brome, and G. Srahan [i.e. Strahan], 1702.
Octavo, first edition, in contemporary calf, boards starting.
Author of numerous controversial pamphlets, Leslie had disdain for many religious groups, including Quakers, Jews, Roman Catholics, Socinians, and Deists.
Estimate $500-700