Item #27925 A Discourse, Delivered to the Religious Society in Brattle-Street, Boston, and to the Christian Congregation in Charlestown, on April 5. 1798 Being the day of the annual fast in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. David Tappan.

A Discourse, Delivered to the Religious Society in Brattle-Street, Boston, and to the Christian Congregation in Charlestown, on April 5. 1798 Being the day of the annual fast in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Boston: Samuel Hall, 1798. Good. Item #27925

Boston: Samuel Hall, 1798. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 31pp. (collated and lacking half title page). Light dust-soil and faint dampspotting to exterior leaves, signatures starting to separate, else a Good example.

"The history of the antient Republics of Greece and Rome is...particularly instructive to the people of America. The prosperity, declension, and ruin of those states experimentally show that virtue is the soul of republican freedom" (p. 19).

ESTC W38057; EVANS 34628.

Price: $100.00