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THE FALL OF THE MIGHTY LAMENTED. A FUNERAL DISCOURSE UPON THE DEATH OF HER MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY WILHEMINA DOROTHEA CAROLINA, QUEEN-CONSORT TO HIS MAJESTY OF GREAT-BRITAIN, FRANCE AND IRELAND...
by Mather, Samuel
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Boston: Printed by J. Draper, 1738.. [2],33pp. Modern half calf and cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt. Spine ends lightly worn. Bookplate on front pastedown, personal ink stamps of John Carter Brown on first text leaf and final blank verso. Titlepage with some loss at bottom corner, slightly affecting border, leaf A4 with some marginal loss and short closed tear. Patch of dampstaining at fore-edge, scattered foxing. Still a very good copy. A scarce funeral sermon by Samuel Mather, son of Cotton Mather, occasioned by the death of Caroline, the wife of George II. He was pastor of the North Church in Boston when he delivered this sermon, which is based on 2 Samuel 1:25, "How the mighty have fallen." With the bookplate of John Carter Brown, deaccessioned from the John Carter Brown Library as a duplicate. ESTC W20298. EVANS 4276. HOLMES, MINOR MATHERS 70. SABIN 46796.
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- Title
- THE FALL OF THE MIGHTY LAMENTED. A FUNERAL DISCOURSE UPON THE DEATH OF HER MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY WILHEMINA DOROTHEA CAROLINA, QUEEN-CONSORT TO HIS MAJESTY OF GREAT-BRITAIN, FRANCE AND IRELAND...
- Author
- Mather, Samuel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed by J. Draper
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1738.
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
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