[Rarebooks] FS: Sermon of American Patriot Preacher Samuel Langdon. Watertown, MA: 1775

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(AMERICANA) Langdon, Samuel. GOVERNMENT CORRUPTED BY VICE, AND RECOVERED BY RIGHTEOUSNESS. A Sermon Preached Before the Honorable Congress of the Colony of the Massachusetts-Bay in New England, Assembled at Watertown, on Wednesday the 31st Day of May 1775. Being the Anniversary Fixed by Charter for the Election of Counsellors. Watertown: Printed and Sold by Benjamin Edes. 1775. Sm. 4to. 30pp. With the final blank and the half-title. Untrimmed. Stabbed & tied at inner margin. Housed in a custom-made oblong clamshell box decorated with marbled papers, hand lettered spine label. Fine copy.	$2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
Samuel Langdon (1723-1797) was one of the Patriot Preachers of the American Revolution. He had been a Harvard classmate of Samuel Adams, and at the time he delivered this sermon he was President of Harvard College. The sermon condemns the use of British mercenaries and contains a contemporary account of the battles of Lexington and Concord and their aftermath, and also criticizes the excessive taxation imposed on the colonies. Howes L79.


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