The Life of Ezra Stiles 1798 by Abiel Holmes - 1798

Rare 1798. leather. 10.5"" X 13"".

The Life of Ezra Stiles 1798 Ezra Stiles President Yale College or The Life of President Stiles by Abiel Holmes Original Edition First Edition RARE! Publisher-Printing Location: Thomas Andrews, Faust's Statue #45 NewBury Street, Boston Date:1798 Size and Page Count: 4.75 X 8 Tall, 404 Pages

Condition:-Fair- full Calf's leather in fair shape with parts of spine cover missing, cracks in leather on boards, hinge repair, inside hinges cracked, missing first title page, some pencil marks, foxing and yellowing on pages, text block tight, Ezra Stiles portrait intact,

Includes 4 page preface, 25 pages appendix and 1 page Index. Klucel G preservation of leather.

Book History: previous owners writing on end pages including Sarah P Mitchell , Portsmouth Public Library ink stamp on inside of front board and stamp sold please do not return ------- An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher or historian ---------

Ezra Stiles (November 29, 1727 – May 12, 1795) was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian and author. He was president of Yale College (1778–1795) As president of Yale, Stiles also became its first professor of Semitics, and required all students to study Hebrew (as was also the case at Harvard); his first commencement address in September, 1781 (no ceremonies having been held during the American Revolutionary War) was delivered in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic.