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NIETO, ISAAC. A sermon preached in the Jews Synagogue, on Friday, February 6, 1756: Being the day appointed by authority for a general fast...Translated from the Spanish Language by the Author. London, 1756. The first Jewish sermon preached in England to be published in English. Roth, p. 323 (B10, no. 17) [Bound with:] STEBBING, HENRY. A Sermon preached at Gray's Inn Chapel...Second Edition. London, 1756; OLIVEYRA, FRANOIS XAVIER DE. A Pathetic Discourse on the present calamities of Portugal. London, 1756; SEWARD, T. The late dreadful Earthquakes no Proof of God's particular Wrath against the Portuguese: A Sermon preached at Litchfield, on Sunday, December 7, 1755. London, 1756; TERRICK, RICHARD. A Sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Westminster, on Friday, February 6, 1756...Second Edition. London, 1756. Together 5 sermons bound in one vol., 4to, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, binding worn. All concerning the shock and grief occasioned by the Lisbon earthquake of 1 November 1755, which, with the following tidal wave up the Tagus, claimed 30,000 to 40,000 dead and 20,000,000 destruction of property.