1789 Octavo First Edition Pamphlet Sermons By David Tappan, Amariah Frost, And David Kellogg-Likely Owned By Reverend Jacob Cushing

1789 Octavo First Edition Pamphlet Sermons By David Tappan, Amariah Frost, And David Kellogg-Likely Owned By Reverend Jacob CushingImportance: David Tappan (1752 1803) was an American theologian. He occupied the Hollis Chair at Harvard Divinity School until his death in 1803. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1796. He graduated from Harvard University in 1771. He was also a strong supporter of the American Revolution and later the French Revolution. Reverend David Kellogg was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1755. He began his studies under

At the start of the Gospel of Saint Matthew is a large beautiful headpiece neatly sitting above the title of the book

Scattered foxing & offsetting

WorldCat & OCLC records 7 copies

being wake in body but of a sound and disposing mind and memory

Rebacked early 18th c

six raised bands with gilt tooling to seven compartments and covers with a

He died in Conway

impressively William Noyes died at age 91

After Thomas Holmes Jr

He introduced the numbering system for New Testament manuscripts that is still in use today

Wiltshire (mostly in a small village called Burbage) this whole time up until perhaps the early 20th c

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