1793 Octavo First American Edition Sermons Preached Before The University Of Oxford By Joseph White And Printed At Boston By William Greenough

1793 Octavo First American Edition Sermons Preached Before The University Of Oxford By Joseph White And Printed At Boston By William GreenoughImportance: Joseph White (1745 1814) was an English orientalist and theologian, Laudian Professor of Arabic and then Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford. In 1783 White, one of the preachers at Whitehall Chapel, was appointed to the recently founded Bampton lectureship for 1784, his subject being a comparison between Islam and Christianity. He asked Samuel Badcock, an impoverished clergyman and newspaper writer, to write up one

Condition: Leaves (8

Hitchcock of Pembroke

and the Stonehenge which alone attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year

The copy presented here is far more rarer than the 1611 HE folio King James Bible

375”) tear into page number with tiny loss

H7-L1 small iron gal ink stain

There are 3 historiated or floriated initials indented over 4-8 lines at the start

are the two likely non-bookbinders but

He served as pastor of a church in Hardwick

Likely signed by the following: Jacob Cushing (1730-1809) was born in Shrewsbury

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to be vfed at the celebration of the Lords Supper