Pareus, David (1548-1622) Ad Hebraeos

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Pareus, David (1548-1622) Ad Hebraeos. Heidelberg: Rosa, 1613.
Quarto, ex libris puritan minister and poet Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705) and Reverend Samuel Cheever (1639-1724),with both signatures on the front free endleaf, contemporary English calf, with remnants of older paper covering, mostly adhering to turn-ins, and early printer's waste endleaves, back board detached, contents uniformly browned throughout.
Wigglesworth wrote the poem "Day of Doom" a mainstay of puritan devotees for more than a generation. Cheever, who served his Marblehead congregation for years, gave written testimony during the Salem witch trials on behalf of his parishioner, Sarah Buckley.
Estimate $400-600

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