Providence Unfolded: Comprising The History of Providence as Unfolded in the Book of Esther; Also, The God of Providence, The God of the Bible.  And Also, The Truth of the Gospel, Demonstrated from the Character of God Manifested in the Atonement, Second Edition, by Alexander Carson, LL. D., Edward H. Fletcher, New York, 1852, 271pp, cloth, 4.5 x 7.5", 18mo

Fair condition.  Wear and staining to front and rear boards.  Joints are cracked.  Tips are bumped with exposed boards.  Chipping to spine; illegible.  Provenance on front pastedown (M.J. Minov, 1853).  Toning, age-staining, foxing, and tea-staining throughout textblock.  Binding intact.  Please see photos.

The Book of Esther, also known in Hebrew as "the Scroll" ("the Megillah"), is a book in the third section of the Hebrew Bible.  It is one of the Five Scrolls (Megillot) in the Hebrew Bible and later became part of the Christian Old Testament.  The book relates the story of a Jewish woman in Persia, born as Hadassah but known as Esther, who becomes queen of Persia and thwarts a genocide of her people.