Very rare and important first edition of the co-founder of the Seventh Day Adventists, along with Ellen G.  White and James White. James the editor of his memoirs here. No copies on the market.

Excellent brief biography of him at the Encyclopedia of Seventh Day Adventists, HERE. 

White, James. The Early Life and Later Experience and Labors of Elder Joseph Bates. Battle Creek, Mich. Steam Press of the Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association. 1878. 320pp.

A good + copy, bound in cloth, a bit cocked, but generally solid, with generally bright pages and light foxing.