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  "Mary Baker Eddy was far ahead of her time in the emphasis she placed upon positive thinking, a force which modern psychology was belated in recognizing": Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures; inscribed by her to her cousin, the daughter of President Franklin Pierce

  EDDY, Mary Baker.

  Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

  Boston: Published by the Author, 1886.

  Early printing of the central text of the Christian Science which continues to rank as a best-seller to this day. Octavo, bound in contemporary three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the second free endpaper in the year of publication, "Mrs. F. McNeil Potter, with love from the Author, 1886." The recipient, Frances Maria McNeil Potter was the niece of President Franklin Pierce and his sometimes hostess in the White house, assisting First Lady Jane Pierce after the death of the president's son Benny. In the winter of 1882, Mary Baker Eddy visited Washington, where "Mrs. Potter caller on [her] several times and showed considerable interest in Christian Science. Together they drove to the Botanical Gardens, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Congressional Cemetery where they knelt at the grave of General John McNeil, Mrs. Potter's father and the cousin of Mrs. Eddy's grandmother, Maryann McNeil Moore" (Peel, Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Discovery). Potter and Eddy's correspondence continued until Potter's death and Potter remained one of Eddy's biggest supporters when many distanced themselves from the religious leader and the founding of the Church of Chr...

  Price: $15,000.00     Item Number: 90463

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