PORTEUS, BEILBY, 1731 - 1809 - A Sermon preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts ; at their Anniversary Meeting in the Parish Church of St. Mary-Le-Bow, On Friday, February 21, 1783. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Beilby Lord Bishop of Chester.

London, Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington, 1784. petit in-8 : 34 pp. dont le titre, 1 f. (page de titre salie avec de petits frottements). cousu (exemplaire non coupé). "Beilby Porteus, successively Bishop of Chester and London was an Anglican reformer and leading abolitionist in England. He was the first Anglican in a position or authority to seriously challenge the Church's position in slavery". This important sermon is among the African slaves in the British West-India Islands. Provenance : Bibliothèque Frossard. Emilien Frossard (Paris, 1802 - Bagnères de Bigorre, 1881) était un pasteur de l'Eglise réformée, un pyrénéiste, un dessinateur, fondateur de la société Ramond. Ses deux fils, Charles-Louis et Emilien-Sigismond suivront ses traces, à la fois comme pasteurs et comme pyrénéistes.