8vo (165 x 95 mm). Half-title. (Marginal staining, very light occasional spotting.) Modern cloth. Provenance: Christopher Marshall (1709-1797), chemist and diarist (ownership signature).

James Murray was a Presbyterian clergyman known for his strong anti-authoritarian views, especially toward the political and religious establishment. Sermons to Doctors in Divinity was his follow-up to the much more notorious Sermons to Asses, which he dedicated to George Whitefield, John Wesley, and other prominent evangelical Methodists. Ironically, Murray was also known for his bitter opposition to the American Revolution.

The present volume bears the signature of Philadelphia chemist Christopher Marshall, whose diaries of the Revolutionary period were published in 1839 as Extracts from the Diary of Christopher Marshall, 1774-1781.