Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 27

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
STIRRING SERMON PREACHED A MONTH BEFORE BUNKER HILL (AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Langdon, Samuel. Government Corrupted by Vice, and Recovered by Righteousness. 8vo, stitched; uncut, moderate foxing, lacks final blank; library stamp and later owner's signature on half-title. Watertown, MA, 1775

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"This sermon, in which the author animadverts severely on the tyranny of the mother country, was preached while the [Massachusetts Provincial] Congress was in involuntary session at Watertown"--Sabin 38872. Adams American Independence 178, Evans 14145. Signed in 1855 by Thomas V. Sullivan, founder of the YMCA in the United States.