A FRIENDLY ADMONITION TO THE DRINKERS OF BRANDY, AND OTHER DISTILLED SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS. THE SECOND EDITION.
London: Printed for Joseph Downing, 1734. 24pp. Stitched and disbound, Scattered spotting. Good plus.
First published in London in 1733, this is the second edition. Only London editions were printed in the 18th century, according to ESTC.
Hales warns of liquor's "pernicious Effects upon human Bodies. . . And the same holds true of Rum, which, it is well known, destroys such Multitudes in America, as even in a manner to depopulate whole Countries." This is a truly passionate dissertation on the evils of "spirituous liquors."
Despite the terrible destruction caused by liquors, "No man layeth it to Heart, excepting the Heads of the poor wild Indians in New-England, Carolina, and other Parts of North America, who being sensible of the great Destruction, Distill'd spirituous Liquors have made among them, have frequently and earnestly desired that no such Liquors might be sold to their People."
ESTC T26127 [8 locations, two of them in the U.S.: U MN and Yale]. Not in Field or Sabin. Item #42172
Price: $1,500.00