Apr 16, 2019 - Sale 2505

Sale 2505 - Lot 92

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Pemberton, Ebenezer. A Discourse . . . Previous to the Ordination of the Reverend Mr. Joseph Sewall . . . Affirming and Proving the Validity of Presbyterial Ordination. [4], 14 (of 15) pages. 8vo, unbound with stitch holes; toned, label remnant on title page, lacking final leaf (provided in facsimile). Boston: James Franklin, 1718

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Printed at James Franklin's printing house, best known for the 12-year-old apprentice who began work that same year--the printer's younger brother Benjamin, who likely assisted in this printing. Franklin learned the printing trade at this shop, but fled four years later. Originally issued with Thomas Prince's Sermon on the ordination of Sewall (lacking here). Evans 1996.