Fine Books and Manuscripts

[Early American Imprints] Group of Seven Sermons, Mostly Boston Imprints. Including Revolutionary War-interest titles, and comprising: Jason Haven, Mr. Haven’s Election-Sermon, May 31, 1769 (Boston: Richard Draper, 1769) 55pp., the author expresses loyalty to the crown, but, quoting from Locke, also expresses that the old “doctrine of passive obedience” is “absurd”; [Sabin 30885]; Andrew Eliot, A burning and shining light extinguished. A Sermon Preached the Lord’s-Day after the Funeral of the Late John Webb, (Boston: Daniel Fowle, [1750]), 42pp., [1] ads.; Jonathan French, A Sermon Preached before His Excellency Samuel Adams, Esq…being the Day of the General Election (Boston: Adams & Larkin, 1796), 23pp.; Charles Chauncy, A Sermon Preached…At the Ordination of the Reverend Simeon Howard, to the Pastoral Care of the West-Church in Boston (Boston: R. Draper, Edes & Gill, 1767), 55pp.; Benjamin Trumbull, A Sermon Delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Lemuel Tyler (New Haven: Thomas and Samuel Green, 1793), 24pp.; Timothy Stone, A Sermon Preached Before His Excellency Samuel Huntington (Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1792); and David Tappan, A Sermon Delivered at the Ordination of Timothy Dickinson (Boston: Isaiah Thomas, 1789). Several with loose or lacking half-titles, scattered tears, soiling, and other wear.