Daggett Naphtali (4 results)
Published by New Haven, 1770
Seller: Written Relics, Alton Bay, NH, U.S.A.Written Relics
Contact seller4-star sellerNo Binding. Condition: Good. A Sermon Preached at the Ordination of the Reverend Ebenezer Baldwin by the Reverend Naphtali Daggett. Rev. Daggett was President and Professor of Divinity at Yale-College in New-Haven. Dimensions: 8 inches tall x 5 inches wide Condition- Spine is hand stitched. Book shows heavy signs of wear.
More imagesPublished by Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green, New Haven, 1770
Seller: David M. Lesser, ABAA, Woodbridge, CT, U.S.A.David M. Lesser, ABAA
Contact seller5-star seller32pp, untrimmed and stitched with the half title. Toned, moderately spotted at the last several leaves. Good+. President Daggett's Sermon is from Galatians IV. 19, a discussion of the Apostle Paul, who "had been the principal instrument in spreading and planting the Christian Religion in Galatia, and the adjacent parts of Asia M…inor." Paul's "excellent and animated epistle to the Galatians" responded to "false teachers, who meanly endeavoured to sink his character, and destroy his influence with these converts to Christianity." The Charge to Reverend Baldwin is given by Reverend Elijah Sill of New-Fairfield; and the Right Hand of Fellowship by Reverend Joseph Peck, also of New-Fairfield. Evans 11621. Trumbull 538. ESTC W12508.
More imagesPublished by Thomas and Samuel Green, New-Haven, 1768
- First Edition
- Manuscript
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
£ 343.91
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Condition: Very Good-. New-Haven: Thomas and Samuel Green, [1768]. First Edition. Small octavo (18cm.); disbound; 44pp. (A-E4 F2); woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Stitching perished leaving most signatures loose but present, brief staining to bottom spine-edge corner, else Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound.…Detailed lecture on the requirements of the minister in speaking intelligibly to his congregation, for example "By using great care in defining and explaining out words, where there is any danger of a misunderstanding" (p. 13). Daggett also warns against "speaking in an unknown tongue, or in ambiguous, doubtful terms," as it is a "gross affront to common sense, and a manifest imposition upon those whom we pretend to teach" (p. 21). ESTC W12522; EVANS 10873; TRUMBULL 536.
- First Edition
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerDAGGETT, Naphtali. The Faithful Serving of God and Our Generation, the Only Way to a Peaceful and Happy Death. A Sermon Occasioned by the death of the Reverend Thomas Clap, (President of Yale-College, in New-haven) Who Departed This Life, Jan. 7th, 1767; New-Haven: Printed by B. Mecom, 1767. 1st ed. 39pp. Sewn. ?-title. Light sc…attered foxing and toning, rear leaf tape-repaired, else very good. $750.00[a] ESTC W27436 (locates 10 copies). Evans 10597. This copy without "An Appendix, by Another Hand. An Account of the Life, Character, and Death of Mrs. Mary Clap ." Printed by Benjamin Mecom, son of Benjamin Franklin's favorite sister, Jane. Mecom (1732-1766) had been apprentice to Franklin's partner James Parker in New York. His uncle set him up as a printer in Antigua, a venture in which Mecom failed. Mecom returned to America, where he unsuccessfully had presses in Boston, New York, and New Haven.
