ADAMS, JOHN. 1704-1740.

Poems on Several Occasions, Original and Translated. Boston: D. Gookin, 1745.

Poems on Several Occasions, Original and Translated. Boston: D. Gookin, 1745.
12mo (151 x 103 mm). Crushed red morocco gilt, gilt edges, by the Adams Bindery, occasional light spotting.
Provenance: Purchased from George McManus (manuscript note).

Rare work of early printed American poetry by the late Reverend John Adams, the last copy traced at auction appearing in 1934. Includes poems on religious themes, paraphrases of scripture, translations of Horace, a poem on the death of Cotton Mather, and a complete translation of the Revelation of St. John the Divine. Evans 5527; Sabin 222; Stoddard & Whitesell 77; Wegelin 1.