Author: Burton, Asa
Title: A Sermon Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Their Anniversary, at Dartmouth College, the Day Preceding Commencement, August 26, 1800. By Asa Burton, A.M. Pastor of the Church of Christ in Thetford
Description: Hanover [NH], Printed by Moses Davis, 1801. First edition. Removed. 18 pp. 8vo. Signed David Thurston's [copy] presented by Rev. Allen Gree[ly]. Both were students in the same class at Dartmouth, graduating in 1804, and taught by Asa Burton (1752-1836) a Congregational clergyman "best known as a teacher of theology. The number of candidates for the ministry which he trained wholly or in part, is variously estimated at from sixty to a hundred,"(DAB). OCLC shows only 10 copies. Shaw & Shoemaker 263. Sabin 9490n. A very good copy with soiling to the title page along with gift inscription (trimmed), some foxing to last leaf.

Keywords: Near East, , Americana, Near East, Americana, 19th c., Sermons, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Dartmouth College, Religion, Christianity, 2010NYCBKFR, newyork2011, Pamphlet


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