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Fascinating, genuine mid-19th-century Sammelband containing 18 historically significant American pamphlets, sermons, and addresses bound together into a single hardcover volume. Dating from 1829 to 1859, this collection captures a remarkable cross-section of pre-Civil War American intellectual life, spanning crucial theological controversies, political shifts, the temperance movement, early medicine, and social reform.
Binding: Bound in a period-appropriate hardcover cloth/boards binding. The binding is structurally sound, holding all 18 titles securely.
Condition: Overall Very Good. The internal text blocks are clean and bright with only minor, expected age-toning or occasional light foxing consistent with paper of this era.
Important Bibliographic Note: As is typical for historical Sammelbands, the original outer paper wrappers and advertisement leaves were removed by the binder when compiling the volume. Edges are neatly trimmed to fit the binding. No major tears or missing text pages noted.
COMPLETE CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE 18 BOUND TITLES:
1) 1829 [1830 printing] A Sermon Delivered before the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians... by Benjamin B. Wisner. (44 pp., Putnam & Hunt).
2) 1839 A Discourse on the Latest Form of Infidelity... by Andrews Norton. (64 pp., John Owen). [A foundational text of the Transcendentalist Controversy against Emerson].
3) 1836 Remarks by Samuel Hoar... On The Resolutions Introduced by Mr. Jarvis... (13 pp., National Intelligencer Office, Washington). [Scarce Congressional/Political history].
4) 1837 A Tribute To The Memory of the Rev. Noah Worcester, D.D... by William E. Channing. (28 pp.) [By the legendary \"Apostle of Unitarianism\"].
5) 1841 An Address Delivered At The Fourth Anniversary of the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary... by B.B. Edwards. (34 pp., Allen, Morrill and Wardwell). [Early women\'s higher education history].
6) n.d. A Scriptural View Of Temperance. By a Temperance Man. (15 pp.)
7) 1835 Address to the Young Men of Worcester County... Young Men\'s Temperance Convention. (20 pp., S.H. Colton And Co.) [Scarce regional Massachusetts social reform].
8) 1840 Christian Hope. A Sermon... Funeral of Mrs. Ann W. Park... by Robert Carver. (20 pp., Printed at the Argus Office).
9) 1832 To Young Householders In The Second Congregational Society, Worcester. By Aaron Bancroft. (20 pp.).
10) 1846 Tract On Missions. \"Go not into the way of the Gentiles...\" (40 pp., Salem).
11) 1856 An American Voice On The Late War In The East. By William R. Alger. (47 pp., John P. Jewett). [Fascinating American perspective on the Crimean War].
12) 1859 The Dying Christian\'s Estimate Of Heaven... Memory Of The Late Rev. Andrew W. Black... by John Niel McLeod. (30 pp., W.H. Trafton & Co.).
13) 1848 A Discourse, On the Soul and Principle of Instinct As Physiologically Distinguished From Materialism... by Martyn Paine, M.D. (40 pp.) [Important early American medical/scientific lecture against materialism].
14) 1857 Social Reform; A Discourse... Church of the Messiah, of St. Louis... by William G. Eliot. (20 pp., George Knapp & Co., St. Louis). [Scarce Western Americana / Missouri imprint by the grandfather of T.S. Eliot].
15) 1841 Massachusetts Election Sermon (Before Gov. Marcus Morton) by David Damon. (34 pp.).
16) 1840 Massachusetts Election Sermon (Before Gov. Edward Everett) by John Codman, D.D. (32 pp.).
17) 1842 Massachusetts Election Sermon (Before Gov. John Davis) by Ezra S. Gannett. (46 pp.).
18) 1843 Massachusetts Election Sermon (Before Gov. John Davis) by Samuel C. Jackson. (55 pp.).
Note: Titles 15 through 18 represent a highly desirable, consecutive 4-year run of the historic Massachusetts Election Sermons, printed uniformly by Dutton and Wentworth, Printers to the State.
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