Pearl of Great Price: Being a Choice Selection from the Revelations, Translations, and Narrations of Joseph Smith, First Prophet, Seer, and Revelator to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Liverpool: Published by F.D. Richards, 1851. First edition. Octavo. 56 pp. Contemporary quarter black morocco over marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine. Complete with all three plates, including a three-part folding plate. Covers rubbed and corners bumped. Some foxing, very faint water stain to bottom right corner of the first few pages. Overall, very good copy with no writing. Very scarce.

The Pearl of Great Price is considered one of the four standard works of the Mormon Church. The others being The Book of Mormon, The Holy Bible and Doctrine and Covenants. Joseph Smith translated the Book of Abraham from papyri found in mummies that was purchased from a traveling exhibition in 1836. The book relates Abraham's journeys in Egypt, containing many Mormon doctrines such as Exaltation, the plurality of Gods and Kolob.

This is a first person narrative of Joseph Smith, Jr.'s life before the founding of the Church, including an account an account of the first vision of God the Father and Jesus Christ and other heavenly visitations.

HBS 67569.

$16,000.