THE HEAVENLY MANSIONS. A SERMON PREACHED ON MAY 14 1795, IN THE CITY OF NEW HAVEN, AT THE INTERNMENT OF THE REVEREND EZRA STILES, D.D. LL.D. PRESIDENT OF YALE COLLEGE, WHO DIED ON THE 12th OF THAT MONTH, IN THE 68th YEAR OF HIS AGE, AND THE 18th YEAR OF HIS PRESIDENCY
1795 · New Have
by Dana, Jame
New Have: Thomas and Samuel Gree, 1795. 37,[1]pp. Half title. Modern half cloth and paper boards, manuscript title on spine. Slightly later inscription on half title. Lower corner of half title repaired. Moderate tanning, occasional foxing. About very good. Funeral sermon for Yale President Ezra Stiles, delivered by James Dana, the pastor of the first church in New Haven. Dana had begun his career in the mid-18th-century as the minister of the Congregational church in Wallingford, Connecticut, and had been minister in New Haven for six years at the time of Stiles' death. EVANS 28530. ESTC W20433. TRUMBULL 553 (Inventory #: WRCAM54095)