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- A Sermon preached before the Fatherless and Widows' Society, In the Central Church, on Sunday Evening, October 28, 1849.
- ISBN: NA Price: $86.44
- Publisher: Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, Date Published: 1849
- Description: first edition; 28 pp.; general age toning and a few small margin stains, extraction roughness at spine and now shaken in self wrappers; to be a widow is bad but to be a poor widow is much worse, the hearers are exhorted to give according to their ability even if only a small amount. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American sermons, private charity Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 753216
- The Charitable Blessed. A Sermon, preached in the First Church in New-Haven, August 8, 1810.
- ISBN: NA Price: $63.16
- Publisher: New Haven: Sidney's Press, Date Published: 1810
- Description: first edition; 30 pp. including the half title; age toning and age staining, extraction roughness at spine and now partially disbound in self wrappers but not fragile and entirely readable; includes several pages on Dwight's special interest, Charities "established for the benefit of female children of the blacks", as to the parents "We complain of their vice. Who in such circumstances would not be vicious? .. they are destitute of the advantages, which, under God, raise us above their miserable level.",. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American sermons, Congregational churches, charity, Black studies Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 665330
- A Sermon, Delivered, on The 4th of February, 1816, for the benefit of a Society Of Ladies, instituted for the Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children
- ISBN: NA Price: $25.00
- Publisher: NY: Van Winkle & Wiley, Date Published: 1816
- Description: first edition; 31 pp.; age staining and a light corner damp stain, extraction roiughness at spine and now in self wrappers, still a sound and entirely readable copy; the recipients were poor widows with two or more children under the age of ten and unable to provide for themselves, at present the Society supplies them with 75 cents a month, even in 1816 this did not go very far. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American sermons, charity, poverty, Women AAS BRP Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 819232
- A Sermon, preached in Brattle-Street Church, Boston, September 25, 1807, before the Managers of the Boston Female Asylum on their Seventh Anniversary.
- ISBN: NA Price: $93.15
- Publisher: Boston: Russell & Cutler, Printers, Date Published: 1807
- Description: first edition; 23, [1] (financial statement) pp.; general age toning and light extraction roughness at spine, complete but now disbound in self wrappers; the ladies are commended for their work not only to alleviate distress but also to prevent wickedness by training the children of the poor for "the humble stations they are intended to occupy",. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American sermons, charity, poverty, Women, AAS BRP Show items similar to this.
Request a photo for this item.- Item Number: 819234
- The day of a godly man's Death, Better than the day of his Birth. Shewed In a Sermon, Preach'd, Feb. 25, 1722. By Thomas Foxcroft, Pastor to a Church in Boston.
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,591.50
- Publisher: Boston in New-England: Printed by B. Green, Date Published: 1722
- Description: first edition; 16mo (leaves 16.5 cm. tall), [title leaf] (hand written but attempting to faithfully reproduce the original), 196 pp., errata slip mounted on inside back cover of binding, separate titles for "Two Sermons shewing How to Begin and Year, After a Godly Sort ..." with its own 1722 imprint and "The Duty of the Godly Among a People ..." but pagination continuous; contemporary plain leather very rubbed with hinges cracked, the added title detached and tattered, general age toning, repairs to A3 hit a few words but none lost and all readable, signatures of previous owners in text, one of them dated 1764, good- only; Evans 2336, Sabin 25387. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American Sermons, Bartholomew Green imprint, MW8 Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 657490
- A Sermon Preached before His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Esq. Governor: The Honorable His Majesty's Council, and the House of Representatives of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, May 26th, 1773. ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $92.77
- Publisher: Boston: Printed by Richard Draper, Date Published: 1773
- Description: Being the Anniversary of the Election of His Majesty's Council for said Province.; first edition; 45 pp.; half title torn and badly chipped but no loss, a few other early and late leaves tattered, age toning and age speckling, paper not fragile and entirely readable, good; some of the attendees probably were made uncomfortable when Turner suggested that "the public interest has, generally and on the whole, succeeded beyond all comparison, where the people have, by the barrier of a constitution, retained power in a great degree in their own hands" and that it is certainly not damnable to resist civil powers when necessary but were relieved when he turned to the "Amazing profanity especially in maritime places" and other safer topics. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American sermons, civil authority, MW8 Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 659484
- A Sermon preached To the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in Boston, New-England, June 1, 1767. Being the Anniversary of Their Election of Officers.
- ISBN: NA Price: $207.42
- Publisher: Boston: Printed and Sold by Edes and Gill, Date Published: 1767
- Description: first edition; small octavo, 43 pp.; extraction roughness at spine, title soiled and eatched with tattering at inside margin, some leaves short at bottom margin shaving catchwords but no main text touched, good in self wrappers; religion supports defensive war as justifiable among rational beings to defend their rights and oppose "the interruption of the harmony of the universe",. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American military history, war, Artillery election sermons, MW8 Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 647822
- A Sermon preached To the Ancient and Honorable Artillery-Company in Boston, New-England, June 6th 1774. Being the Anniversary of their Election of Officers.
- ISBN: NA Price: $233.18
- Publisher: Boston: Printed by Kneeland and Davis, for Samuel Webb, Date Published: 1774
- Description: 39 pp.; age staining and more than half the pages age toned, nineteenth century inscription to the A & H. A. Compy. partially eradicated, still overall good+ tied into self wrappers; follows a familiar theme in these sermons that "There may be cases in which a christian ought to unsheathe the sword and resist unto blood" but the potential enemies are still France and Spain. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American military history, Artillery election sermons, MW8 Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 647830
- A Sermon Preached before his Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; Governor and Commander in Chief, The Honourable His Majesty's Council, ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $629.12
- Publisher: Boston: Printed by Richard Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governor, Date Published: 1763
- Description: And the Honourable House of Representatives, of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, May 25th. 1763. By Thomas Barnard, A.M., Pastor of the first church in Salem.; first edition; 45 pp.; general age toning and half title lightly soiled but a very good copy, untrimmed and string tied into self wrappers as issued; Barnard takes the Parable Of The Trees from Judges 9 as his starting point and ends with a note of optimism "O America, mayest well rejoice, the Children of New-England may be glad and triumph, in Reflection on events past, and the Prospect of the future.". Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American election sermons, New England, Province of the Massachusetts Bay, MW8 Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 650655
- History of the American Privateers, and Letters-of-Marque, During Our War with England in the Years 1812, '13 and '14. Interspersed with several Naval Battles between American and British Ships of War.
- ISBN: NA Price: $34.06
- Publisher: NY: Published by and for the Author, Geo. P. Putnam, agent, Date Published: 1861
- Description: Third Edition, revised, corrected and enlarged; liv, [2], 882 pp., portrait frontispiece, 7 plates of ships (in this copy one of them in duplicate); original cloth worn and stained with front cover detached along with early leaves, late leaves damp stained and one tattered, general age toning, reading copy only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: War of 1812, naval operations, privateers, privateering Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 690655
- A Memorial Exhibition: November 11-December 14, 1969. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts. Selections from the Nathaniel Saltonstall Collection
- ISBN: NA Price: $19.40
- Publisher: Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, Date Published: 1969
- Description: quarto, unpaginated but 30 leaves, illustrations in text throughout with some color, very good+ in original paper wrappers. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: art, private collections Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 700586
- De luxe Illustrated Catalogue of the Art of the French Eighteenth Century and the Italian Renaissance, belonging to the estate of the late William Salomon ... American Art Association, Managers
- ISBN: NA Price: $149.93
- Publisher: NY: Date Published: 1923
- Description: Subscriber's Edition, limited to 600 copies, cover title "The Palatial Mansion of the late William Salomon and Its Rare and Costly Artistic Contents"; folio (leaves 35.5 cm. tall), unpaginated but over 500 pages and illustrated throughout including a frontispiece, original fold-over jacket on unprited boards; the cream colored jacket now darkened with fraying at extremities of spine, mark from book plate removal, a few leaves have pieces of now darkening clear tape but are not repairs, still overall very good; the mansion at 1020 Fifth Avenue will be the location of the auction and if not pereviously sold will be part of it. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: art, antiques, private collections Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 755546
- The Guileless Israelite. A Sermon on occasion of the Death of Mr. Joseph Breuster, delivered in the Fourteenth Street Presbyterian Church. New York, June 29, 1851.
- ISBN: NA Price: $47.77
- Publisher: NY: Anson D.F. Randolph, Date Published: 1851
- Description: first edition; 40 pp.; browning with margin and tip chipping, complete text but reading copy only in self wrappers. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 738331
- A Selection from the Sermons of Rev. John Humphrey. Edited by his father, Rev. Heman Humphrey, D. D. with Introductory Memoirs, by Rev. William I. Budington.
- ISBN: NA Price: $31.59
- Publisher: NY: Ivison & Phinney, Date Published: 1856
- Description: first edition, inscribed by the editor in year of publication; xcix, [3], 320 pp.; library hand stamp, needs rebinding . Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American sermons Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 538696
- The Young Ruler Who had Great Possessions, and other discourses, chiefly practical.
- ISBN: NA Price: $56.94
- Publisher: NY: Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, Date Published: 1871
- Description: first edition; 246 pp.; original cloth faded and rubbed, library hand stamps, text age toned and front hinge cracked at title, reading copy only; sermon. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 541974
- A Sermon, Preached at Northampton, October 27, 1808, at the Opening of Northampton Bridge.
- ISBN: NA Price: $37.00
- Publisher: Northampton (Massachusetts): Printed by Bull & Butler, Date Published: 1808
- Description: first edition; snmall octavo, 19 pp.; age toning and age staining but not fragile and entirely readable, extraction roughness at spine and now in self wrappers; a great deal on the works of God compared with the works of man but little on the bridge itself. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 665341
- A Sermon, delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. John Emery Abbot: To the pastoral care of the North Church of Christ in Salem, April 20, 1815
- ISBN: NA Price: $42.65
- Publisher: Salem: Printed by Thomas C. Cushing, Date Published: 1815
- Description: first edition; 39 pp.; general age toning, first text page clipped at top margin to remove a signature with no loss, last leaf mounted on a later sheet, again with no loss, extraction roughness at spine and now in self wrappers. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American sermons Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 665342
- The Divine Right of Government: A Discourse delivered in Quincy, Massachusetts, on the day of the Annual Fast, April 10, 1851.
- ISBN: NA Price: $31.73
- Publisher: Boston: Wm. Crosby & H. P. Nichols, Date Published: 1851
- Description: first edition; both paper sides present but tattered and disbound, complete but reading copy only; concerns resistance to laws and while not specifically mentioned obviously aimed at objectors to the Fugitive Slave Act, Rev. Lunt make a case for obeying laws even if they are in conflict with conscience, "Constitution! I am the Constitution." is not the right attitude. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 758477
- A Sermon, delivered at the Dedication of the Universalist Meeting House, in Dedham, Mass. Thursday, January 14, 1830
- ISBN: NA Price: $32.02
- Publisher: Boston: Printed at the Trumpet Office, Date Published: 1830
- Description: first edition; 21, [2] pp,; extraction roughness at spine and fore edge cut dowm, age staining, reading copy in self wrappers. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American sermons Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 797753
- The Pastor's Remembrances. A Discourse delivered before the First Parish in Cambridge, on Sunday, May 27, 1855.
- ISBN: NA Price: $31.22
- Publisher: Cambridge: John Bartlett, Date Published: 1855
- Description: first edition; 36 pp.; general age toning and now disbound in self wrappers, good only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American Sermons Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 797754
