Life of the Right Reverend Dr. White Kennett, Late Lord Bishop
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[NEWTON, William]. The Life of the Right Reverend Dr. White Kennett, Late Lord Bishop of Peterborough. With Several Original Letters of the Late Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Tennison, the Late Earl of Sunderland, Bishop Kennett, &c. and Some Curious Original Papers and Records, Never before Publish'd. London: Printed for S. Billingsley, 1730. 1st ed. xx,288,[1, postscript], [1, advertisement] pp. 19th-century paneled calf, raised spine bands, gilt-chamfered edges. Hinges tender but holding, else a very good copy. Sabin 37449. European Americana 730/164. Kennett was the author of the first English bibliography of the New World, the Bibliothecae Americanae Primordia, published in 1713. He had many American connections and interests, and this work includes an account of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in America.
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