(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT) Eliot Andrew A Sermon Preached befo

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(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Eliot, Andrew. A Sermon Preached before His Excellency Francis Bernard . . . for the Election of His Majesty's Council. 8vo, stitched; uncut; original owner's inscription on half-title, pencil library note on verso of title page. Boston: Green and Russell, 1765

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first edition of a 29 May 1765 election sermon given in Boston, relating largely (if obliquely) to the recent Stamp Act. Preaches a temperate response and faith in Great Britain's leaders: "If any acts have pass'd that seem hard on the colonies . . . they are not owing to any design formed against them, but to mistakes and misrepresentations. . . . There is perhaps not a man to be found among us, who would wish to be independent on our mother-country." Variant state without the price printed on title page. Adams, American Independence 12a; Evans 9964; Sabin 22124. Provenance: George Brinley auction, 1886, part of lot 8533.