LE MERCIER, Andrew (1692-1764). The Christian Rapture. A Poem. Boston: Rogers and Fowle for D. Gookin, 1747.

Very scarce, crisp first edition of a poem by a prominent French Huguenot in Boston, the man who introduced ponies to Nova Scotia's Sable Island. Le Mercier was the pastor of the French Huguenot Church in Boston, and also involved in establishing a settlement on the infamous Sable Island—the graveyard of the Atlantic. Sabin 12920.

Quarto (193 x 142mm). Title, preface leaf, and 11pp. text (occasional foxing). Disbound, old stab holes.

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