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Author: (American Imprints - Religion)
Title: Tappan David
Place Published: Five sermons delivered by David Tappan
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Description: 1784-17985 items. (8vo) 4 disbound, others in later boards. Comprising:
The Character and Death of the Servant of God Considered and Improved, In a Sermon Delivered at Byfield, January 18th, 1784, Occasioned By the Decease of the Rev. Moses Parsons... [with] An Oration Delivered at the Interment of the Rev. Moses Parsons. Newbury Port: John Mycall, 1784. Later three-quarter leather, gilt-lettered spine, marbled boards and endpapers.
A Sermon Preached at the Ordination of the Rev. Timothy Dickinson... Boston: Isaiah Thomas, 1789. Disbound.
A Sermon Delivered to the First Congregation in Cambridge, and the Religious Society in Charlestown, April 11, 1793... Boston: Samuel Hall, 1793. Disbound.
A Discourse Delivered in the Chapel of Harvard College, November 17, 1795.
Occasioned by the Death of Mr. John Russell, a Member of the Senior Class in the University... Boston: John W. Folsom, 1795. Disbound.
A Sermon Delivered to the Religious Society in Brattle-Street, Boston, and the Christian Congregation in Charlestown, on April 5, 1798... Boston: Samuel Hall, 1798. Disbound.
Tappan (1752-1803) was a well-known clergyman of his time and had many of his sermons published during his lifetime. He was a strong supporter of the American Revolution and later the French Revolution. Moses Parsons was the father of Theophilus Parsons, a Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court.

Bound volume extremities worn, front hinge starting, half-title trimmed 2 at top not affecting text; others with varying amounts of wear and staining