Mayhew, Jonathan:

PRACTICAL DISCOURSES DELIVERED ON OCCASION OF THE EARTHQUAKES IN NOVEMBER, 1755.

Boston, New-England: Printed and Sold by Richard Draper, in Newbury-Street, and Edes and Gill, in Queen-Street, 1760. [6], 377, [2], [1 blank] pp, lacking half title. Except as noted, Very Good in contemporary gilt-ruled calf, raised spine bands and decorated spine [some rubbing, hinges starting]. Bookplate of J.M. Wainwright on front pastedown, probably Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright [1792-1854], an Episcopal priest whose mother was Jonathan Mayhew's daughter.

A religious work consisting of thirteen sermons by the extraordinary minister who led the struggle for the integrity of American religious institutions and of whom John Adams wrote, "To draw the character of Mayhew, would be to transcribe a dozen volumes" [DAB].
Page [378] is an 'Advertisement' dated March, 1760, explaining, "Divers things have concurred to retard the publication of these discourses: But this delay has been chiefly occasion'd by the Author's ill state of health." Page [379] lists this title, as well as another by Mayhew as among the books "to be sold" by the Printers. "There are but few of them to sell."
FIRST EDITION. Evans 8667. ESTC W27785, Item #38735

Price: $850.00