The Catholic History of North America: Five Discourses; To which are added Two Discourses on the Relations of Ireland and America

Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Verlag: Patrick Donahoe, Boston, 1855

Beschreibung

Firts edition. 12mo. hardcover in darl brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Engraved frontispiece "Landing Of Columbus" and smaller engraving "Discoverers Of The Compass' on title page. 239 pp. A tight example but with some shallow holing primarily to the cloth of the spine strip. Light 1857 ownership name and place front pastedown. Transcriptions of five discourses (plus the two additional discourses noted in the sub-title) delivered during the lecture season of 1853-54 in New York, Boston, Cincinnati, Washington, and Baltimore. The frist two pieces deal with Columbus and his successors in the New World, the aborigines and missionaries, Catholics and the American Revolution, and the Church in the early Republic. The two additional discourses involve the historical relatation between Ireland and America as well as the then actual relations. Appended are the will of Christopher Columbus and letter and Papal bull 1493 of Pope Alexander VI in relation to the discovery of America as well as a 1537 letter of Paul III declaring American Indians to be "rational people". (Sabin 43261, TPL 8434). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers E25127

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Catholic History of North America: Five ...

Verlag: Patrick Donahoe, Boston

Erscheinungsdatum: 1855

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: First edition.