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A sermon at the execution of Moses Paul, an Indian, who had been guilty of murder : preached at New Haven in America / by Samson Occom, a native Indian, and missionary to the Indians, who was in England in 1776 and 1777, collecting for the Indian charity schools ; to which is added a short account of the late spread of the Gospel among the Indians ; also observations on the language of the Muhhekaneew Indians ; communicated to the Connecticut Society of Arts and Sciences / by Jonathan Edwards, D.D.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Dechert Collection E90.P330 O2 1788
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Occom, Samson, 1723-1792, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paul, Moses, 1742?-1772--Early works to 1800.
- Paul, Moses.
- Execution sermons--Early works to 1800.
- Execution sermons.
- Genre:
- Booksellers' advertisements -- England -- 18th century.
- Sermons
- Penn Provenance:
- Tooker, William Wallace, 1848-1917 (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)
- Physical Description:
- iv, [1], 6-24, 15, [1] p. ; 23 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- e.it ndet Y.d. imca (3) 1788 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- London : : Reprinted ... and sold by Buckland ... Dilly ... Otridge ... J. Lepard ... T. Pitcher ... ; [Bristol] : Brown on the Tolzey Bristol ; [Leeds] : Binns at Leeds ; [Exeter] : And Woolmer at Exeter, 1788.
- Notes:
- Originally published in 1772.
- "New-Haven, Connecticut: Printed 1788."
- Signatures: A⁸ B⁴ [C]⁸.
- "Observations on the language of the Muhhekaneew Indians" has separate pagination and special dated title leaf which reads: Observations on the language of the Muhhekaneew Indians; in which the extent of that language in North-America is shewn; its genius is grammatically traced; some of its peculiarities, and some instances of analogy between that and the Hebrew are pointed out. Communicated to the Connecticut Society of Arts and Sciences, and published at the request of the Society. By Jonathan Edwards, D.D. pastor of a church in New-Haven, and member of the Connecticut Society of Arts and Sciences. New-Haven, printed by Josiah Meigs, 1787; London reprinted by W. Justins, Shoemaker-Row, Blackfriars. M,DCC,LXXXVIII.
- Booksellers' advertisement on leaf [C]8v.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Robert Dechert Americana Book Fund.
- Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2018 at auction (sale 2473, lot 6) from Swann Auction Galleries.
- Kislak Center copy has illustrated bookplate of William Wallace Tooker on front pastedown.
- Kislak Center copy has paper slip with bookseller's printed description of this copy tipped in.
- Kislak Center copy bound in half gold-tooled calf over marbled boards; author's name, title and imprint date stamped in gold on spine; gold-stamped spine ornaments; marbled endpapers.
- Cited in:
- ESTC N22725
- Pilling, J.C. Algonquian languages, page 125
- Sabin 56636
- Contains:
- Edwards, Jonathan, 1745-1801. Observations on the language of the Muhhekaneew Indians.
- OCLC:
- 9937061
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