Item #28045 A Sermon Delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at their Anniversary, at Dartmouth College, the day preceding Commencement, August 26, 1800. By Asa Burton, A.M. Pastor of the Church of Christ in Thetford. Asa Burton.

A Sermon Delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at their Anniversary, at Dartmouth College, the day preceding Commencement, August 26, 1800. By Asa Burton, A.M. Pastor of the Church of Christ in Thetford.

Hanover [NH]: Printed by Moses Davis. 1801. 18 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. A very good copy with soiling to the title page along with gift inscription (trimmed), some foxing to last leaf. Shaw & Shoemaker 263. Sabin 9490n. Item #28045

Signed David Thurston's [copy] presented by Rev. Allen Gree[ly]. Both were students in the same class at Dartmouth, graduating in 1804, and taught by Asa Burton (1752-1836) a Congregational clergyman "best known as a teacher of theology. The number of candidates for the ministry which he trained wholly or in part, is variously estimated at from sixty to a hundred,"(DAB). OCLC shows only 10 copies.

Price: $100.00

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