Memoirs of Elder Jesse Mercer
Former copy from a Confederate Hospital New York: Printed by John Gray, 1844.
First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. viii, 9-455 pages, [1] page corrections, [1]. Frontispiece engraving of Jesse Mercer. Brown cloth hardcover with blind stamped border decorations on the covers. Gilt lettered title on the spine. Edge wear to the cloth. Front joint cracked and the spine is split most of the way down the spine joint section. The yellow right front flyleaf was removed. Scattered foxing and toning to the text. Pages 391 and 392 are edge chipped with no loss of print. A fair copy only.
Ex-institutional copy. On the front paste down is a hand cut piece of old blue paper with the inscription "Flewellen Hospital Library No 8." Flewellen Hospital was once a Confederate Hospital located near Barnesville, Georgia. It was named after Edward A. Flewellen, Chief Surgeon of the Army of Tennessee during the Civil War.
Mercer University in Macon, Georgia was named after Jesse Mercer.
Derenne volume 2 page 494. Fair. Item #32426
Price: $200.00