[Canada]. Sammelband of American sermons with Canadian themes, 18th c.

[CANADA]

A SERMON SAMMELBAND WITH CANADIAN THEMES. BOSTON, 1747–1760 —

Together, 8 pamphlets bound together (8 x 5 in.; 203 x 127 mm). Condition of pamphlets varies, some browned. Contemporary calf, spine repaired. 

An unusual assemblage of Canadiana, comprising 8 American sermons pertaining to Canada.

The sermons include: Thomas Prince. Sermon on the General Thanksgiving … July 18. 1745. Occasioned by taking the City of Louisbourg on the Isle of Cape-Breton, by New-England Soldiers, assisted by a British Squadron. 1747 — Andrew Eliot. A Sermon Preached October 25th 1759 … For the Success of the British Arms this Year; Especially in the Reduction of Quebec, the Capital of Canada. 1759 — Jonathan Townsend. A Sermon Deliver'd at Medfield, October 25, 1759. Being a Day of public Acknowledgement of the Smiles of Heaven upon the British Arms in America; more especially in the Reduction of Quebec. 1760 — Samuel Cooper. A Sermon … Upon Occasion of the Success of His Majesty's Arms in the Reduction of Quebec. 1759 — and others.

PROVENANCE:

Joseph Jackson (signature, 1760, front free endpaper) — D. H. Planck (19th c. gift inscription from "Mrs. Smiley")