(JUDAICA) Ezra Stiles A Discourse on Saving Knowledge Delive

Sale 2546 - Lot 124

Unsold

Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

(JUDAICA.) Ezra Stiles. A Discourse on Saving Knowledge: Delivered at the Instalment of the Reverend Samuel Hopkins. 48 pages. 8vo, unbound and unstitched; light toning and minor wear, a bit of tasteful conservation work, final 4 leaves apparently supplied from another volume; uncut, with half-title. Newport, RI: Solomon Southwick, 1770

Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

A sermon preached by one prominent Congregationalist Protestant minister in honor of another. Stiles was a scholar of Hebrew who helped launch Brown University and later became president of Yale; Hopkins was a very important early abolitionist. However, the sermon is probably most notable for the appearance of 5 lines of Hebrew type in a footnote to page 13, quite early for an American press. "Contains a passage in Hebrew, & an important discussion on the Trinity from statements in the Sapher Hajatzirah & rabbinical books'--Rosenbach 52. Provenance: Swann Judaica sale, 17 May 1988, lot 18 ($1000 hammer).