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1872664781872. Baltimore S.n. 1872. Baltimore S.n. 1872. "For the Alleged Seduction of Mary Driscoll Virginia Hopkins &c." Trial. Huston Lorenzo Dow 1820-1887 Defendant. The Trial of the Rev. L.D. Huston for the Alleged Seduction of Mary Driscoll Virginia Hopkins &c; Giving a Full and Complete Account of All the Testimony Taken Before the Ecclesiastical Court And Containing all the Evidence that has Been Withheld from the Public With an Elaborate Article from Dr. Huston's Legal Counsel. The Only Authentic Edition Containing All the Suppressed Testimony. Baltimore S.n. 1872. 64 pp. Main text in parallel columns. Laid-in portrait plate issued with some copies not present in this copy. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5-3/4". Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Light toning a few chips and minor tears to title page and final leaf which is detached. Early notes in pencil to foot of p. 64. Ex-library. Small embossed stamps to a few leaves. A scarce title. $150. Only edition. As Karin Gedge notes Huston a Methodist Minister and teacher was a clever practitioner of a "seduction theology that persuaded girls to reluctantly accept sexual behavior that was clearly contrary to most Christian teaching." Eventually tried but acquitted he seduced at least three girls. OCLC locates 11 copies 5 in law libraries Harvard Social Law UC-Berkeley University of Missouri US Supreme Court. Gedge Without Benefit of Clergy: Women and the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth-Century American Culture 55-57. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School II:1109. unknown books
1896RTHA00DGDeseret News Publishing Company 1896. Fair. Woodruff Wilford. The Thatcher Episode: A Concise Statement of the Facts in the Case. Snow Lorenzo; Smith John Henry; Grant Heber; Teasdale George; et al. SLC: Deseret News Publishing Company 1896. 48pp. 12mo. Stapled salmon wraps. Book condition: Fair with chipped edges; covers have separated along fold. Details surrounding the controversy surrounding Moses Thatcher's estrangement from the Quorum due to ""disharmony"". Deseret News Publishing Company paperback books
180456036Windham CT: J. Byrne 1804. First edition 16mo pp. 164; contemporary calf covers; rubbed; scabbard boards; edges speckled blue faded; textblock toned throughout; lacks front endpaper; otherwise very good. Ink ownership inscription on rear endpaper: "The property Molly Tripp book Meriden bought March 7th ad 1819" "The author a native of Connecticut was an itinerant preacher who in the exercise of his vocation travelled through most of the United States." Sabin 20757; American Imprints 6190. <br/><br/> J. Byrne hardcover books
1804218551Windham: J. Byrne 1804. First. hardcover. good. 164pp. 24mo contemporary calf spine ends lightly worn covers rubbed corners lightly bumped some light browning and some scattered foxing small light dampstain to margin of four pages. Windham CT: J. Byrne 1804. First Edition.<br/><br/> Author was the noted itinerant evangelical preacher who was loosely associated with the Methodists. Dow frequently preached in the Southern United States and also he preached for extended periods in Ireland and England. Shaw & Shoemaker 6190.<br/><br/> J. Byrne unknown books
1851RSNOONL00TWW. Bowden 1851. Very Good. Snow Lorenzo. The Only Way to Be Saved. An Explanation of the First Principles of the Doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. London: W. Bowden 1851. 2nd edition 1st state. 8pp. 8vo. Printed wraps. Book condition: Very good with subtle yellowing and a few faint creases. Flake 8213 Crowley 639. W. Bowden paperback books
1888RBUDMIL00EFChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 1888. Very Good. Budge William. The Millennial Star volume 50 1888 bound with seven pamphlets. 54 issues. Snow Lorenzo; Roberts B. H.; Teasdale editor George. Liverpool: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 1888. 840pp. 8vo. Book condition: Very good with slightly cracked hinges. Rubbed and lightly bumped edges light stains and a couple of small spots of translucent wax on boards. Rulon Allred's address label and a binder's label on front pastedown. Endsheets are lightly yellowed at edges. A few pages have light spots and all are faintly yellowed but clean. Ex-libris Rulon Allred founder and leader of what is now the Apostolic United Brethren a breakaway sect of polygamous Mormon fundamentalists. Scarce. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints hardcover books
186318287Philadelphia: Lippincott & Co. Very Good. 1863. Hardcover. Vol 1 only scarce; very light foxing; wear to covers; else Good . Lippincott & Co hardcover books
1833118447Norwich CT: Wm. Faulkner 1833. 704p. fourth edition 'revised corrected and improved' staining and foxing throughout full calf casing is exceedingly rubbed and worn with a torn head yet still intact and handleable spine label present but illegible. The autobiography of one of the great itinerants of the second great awakening with much on abolitionism among other topics. Wm. Faulkner unknown books
18267538Mexico City: Mariano Galvez Rivera 1826. First edition. Quarto size pp 8 276 8. A history of Texcoco a city built by the Acolhuas a pre-Columbian people of the Náhuatl-speaking group of tribes and once the chief seat of Aztec culture. There is much information on the legendary past and particularly the great king of Texcoco Netzahualcoyotl. It appears that the text is basically that of Veytia based on notes and other material of Boturini with some editorial additions by Bustamante. Boturini 1702-51 educated in Milan and Vienna arrived in Mexico in 1736. Fired with the intention of writing a history of pre-Conquest Mexico he assembled a collection of mss in Náhuatl and Spanish now principally preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris which has never been equalled. Returning to Europe in 1744 Boturini worked on his Idea de una nueva historia general de la América Septentrional fundada sobre material copioso de figuras symbolos caracterer y jeroglÃficos cantares y manuscritos de autores indios ultimamente descubiertos Madrid 1746 which is an inventory of pictorial texts of Spanish-Indian history. In that work he was assisted by Mariano Fernández de EcheverrÃa y Veytia. Veytia 1718 - 80 a native of Puebla was one of the great historians of pre-conquest Mexico of his day along with Clavigero and wrote on that subject as well as a history of his "querida" Puebla. He was a close friend of Boturini whose work in Mexico inspired his own studies. Carlos MarÃa de Bustamante 1774-1848 Mexican patriot politician journalist and pamphleteer was one of the intellectuals of the Insurrection movement. As well as recovering pre-Columbian and colonial mss Bustamante produced a number of historical works the most important of which is his Cuadro histórico de la revolución de la América mexicana 1823-32 which covers the period 1808-21. Ownership inscription on title-page: "Mexico 28 May 1834 J. H. Fritsch". Sabin 6835: Palau 33791. Some copies apparently have a folded map of the lake Texcoco - this copy does not and follows Palau's and Sabin's collation in that respect: further no plates or maps are called for in the index and no copies at auction indicate a map or plates. Contemporary mottled calf; covers decorated with a gilt border; gold-tooled spine; yellow-edged leaves. Very nice copy in excellent condition. <br/><br/> Mariano Galvez Rivera unknown books
186236081n.p.: n.p. 1862. Second edition. Removed. Removed from a larger volume else a very good copy. 8 pp. 8vo. "Sherwood opposed slavery and argued that Congress had the right to decide the slavery question in the territories. Maligned by opponents for his views including support for free-soil doctrines and federal government supremacy he was driven from the legislature in 1856 labelled anti-southern threatened with death should he chose to speak and kept from serving as a delegate to the Secession Convention" Diana J. Kleiner "Sherwood Lorenzo" Handbook of Texas Online. Sabin 80448. See LCP Afro-Americana 9391. n.p. unknown books
183026365New York: E. Bliss 1830 1830. First edition. Sabin 38084; American Imprints 2139. Head and foot of the spine slightly chipped; hinges just starting but firm; some foxing; very good copy. 12mo original brown quarter calf marbled boards gilt lettering untrimmed. ¶ An assortment of entertaining epistolary essays on American characters political and literary with observations about the city of Washington the Capitol building Library of Congress the literature of Washington New York poets American painters etc. by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp 1783-1838 one of the more colorful literary figures of his era. See the DAB. <br/><br/> New York: E. Bliss, 1830 unknown books
188734932Guatemala: Tip. de El Progreso / La Union 1887. First editions. Vol. 1 quarter red morocco; vols. 2-7 original blank paper wrappers as issued. Volumes 2-7 unopened uncut and untrimmed as sold hence some edges worn and soiled scattered foxing blank wrappers quite worn torn and soiled some toning to half titles or titles otherwise trimmed size is internally near fine; volume 1 extremities worn small chip at head of spine and joint split at top. Booksellers stamp to title page of one volume. Illus. 8vo. This is the most famous 19th c. work on Central America and a very important regional history by an anti-clerical and liberal historian Lorenzo Montufar y Rivera Maestre 1823-1898 who as foreign minister of Costa Rica helped organize the Central American defense against William Walker and was frequently exiled for his opposition to the dictator Rafael Carrera. Bancroft and many other historians relied very heavily on Montufar's work and thus his subsequent influence on both English and Spanish language histories has been quite substantial. Stamp of bookseller: Libreria Juan Capella en Guatemala on one leaf. Uncommon in this mostly unaltered state; ABPC shows only one copy at auction in the last quarter century. Palau 179837. Spain & Spanish America II 393 V.1-5. Grieb Central America 263. Villacorta BibliografÃa guatemalteca 1078-1084. Griffin 4376. Tip. de El Progreso / La Union unknown books
187241726Washington 1872. 272 pp. <br /><br />The first and still the best source for the history of American fisheries. Prepared for the Treasury Department Sabine presents detailed histories of the various fisheries along with a great deal of statistical information. Canadian fisheries are included as are the whale fisheries with text of Jeffersons 1791 message on the cod and whale fisheries reprinted. A classic text scarce in its original configuration as this one is. Bound in original cloth. Front hinge weak top of backstrip chipped away. hardcover books
1853403806Washington D. C.: Robert Armstrong 1853. 8vo. 198 pp. 78 lithographed plates after R.H. Kern by Ackerman N.Y. some tinted one folding and large folding map. Modern red half leather. Some very pale cockling to some plates at end generally clean and bright. FIRST EDITION. Sitgreaves and his party traversed the country from northern New Mexico to San Diego in the summer and fall of 1851 crossing northern Arizona and descending the Colorado to Yuma before crossing the desert. This report is notable for its many lithographed plates of scenes along the route as well as flora and fauna and ornithology perhaps the reason for its appeal to Woodhouse and Cassin. The natural history specimens are described by John Torrey. Wheat calls the map "a monumental achievement. generally correct and exceedingly well done." Field 1414; Graff 3809; Howes S-251; Meisel III p. 134; Sabin 81472; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 VI p. 403; Wagner-Camp-Becker 230:1; Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 763. <br/><br/> Robert Armstrong hardcover books
185318346Washington: Robert Armstrong 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Senate issue 32d Congress 2d Session Executive No. 59. Complete as issued with 198 pp 79 lithographed plates 23 views 6 mammals 5 birds 21 reptiles 3 fish 21 botanical plates and large folding map. Original brown cloth with chipping and tears to spine cloth. Spine cracked at pp 174/175; intermittent foxing primarily affecting the title page occasional text margins and about 20 plates mainly mammals birds reptiles and botanicals as opposed to the views which are generally clean. Map has a few splits at the intersections and one closed tear that has been repaired on the verso. This was the final expedition made by the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers in connection with the Mexican War. In addition to Sitgreaves the expedition party included J.G. Parke Richard H. Kern as draughtsman S.W. Woodhouse as physician and naturalist and Antoine Leroux as guide. Its purpose was to determine whether the Zuni River actually emptied into the Colorado and to examine the territory en route. The party followed the Zuni from Zuni Pueblo in western New Mexico to the Little Colorado then continued west reaching the Colorado near the Mojave villages and then proceeding south to Camp Yuma and San Diego. Wheat 3: 22-24 notes that the map is very detailed and calls it "a monumental achievement.generally correct and exceedingly well done." Howes S-528 Wheat 763 Wagner Camp 230:1 Graff 3809 Field 1414. Robert Armstrong hardcover books
1853WRCAM18968Washington 1853. 198pp. plus large folding map detached and seventy-eight plates one folding some tinted. Original blindstamped cloth rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Light scattered foxing else very good. Sitgreaves and his party traversed the country from northern New Mexico to San Diego in the summer and fall of 1851 crossing northern Arizona and descending the Colorado to Yuma before crossing the desert. This report is notable for its many lithographed plates of scenes along the route as well as flora and fauna. The natural history specimens are described by John Torrey. Wheat calls the map "a monumental achievement.generally correct and exceedingly well done." HOWES S521. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 763. FIELD 1414. WAGNER-CAMP 230:1. MEISEL III p.134. SABIN 81472. GRAFF 3809. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE VI p.403. REESE BEST OF THE WEST 130. hardcover books
1854WRCAM38923Washington: Beverley Tucker 1854. 198pp. plus seventy-eight plates some tinted one folding and large folding map. Original blindstamped cloth. Slight wear at head of spine and corners. Six-inch closed tear in map in a blank section with no loss. Scattered foxing on plates. A very good copy. Second printing with the same collation plates and maps as the first printing of the previous year but with plates 10 11 14 and 16 re-engraved and the misnumbering of the reptile plates corrected. Sitgreaves and his party traversed the country from northern New Mexico to San Diego in the summer and fall of 1851 crossing northern Arizona and descending the Colorado to Yuma before crossing the desert. This report is notable for its many lithographic plates of scenes along the route as well as of flora and fauna and its large map. Of the latter Wheat remarks: "a monumental achievement.generally correct and exceedingly well done." Natural history specimens were described by John Torrey. WAGNER-CAMP 230:2. FIELD 1414. HOWES S521. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 763. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE VI p.403. MEISEL III p.134. REESE BEST OF THE WEST 130 ref. Beverley Tucker hardcover books
1836SEM18276Rome: Published by Litografia Siotto 1836. Hardcover. Very Good. Slim quarto. Contemporary marbled paper over boards; vellum spine. 3128 pp 5. 19th century facsimile edition. <br/><br/> Published by Litografia Siotto hardcover books
186720876Washington 1867. 8pp folded folio leaf. Untrimmed lightly worn. Caption title Good to Very Good. Sherwood and his National Cheap Freight Railway League seek "to lessen the cost of transportation" by breaking up "the monopoly system" and pattern of "exclusive privilege" that have oppressed small business and farmers and by opening the railway network "to free competition in transportation." They also support government subsidies for "a railroad to unite the Gulf of Mexico at Mobile and Pensacola with the lakes at Cleveland and Chicago." The League's membership roster which includes many members of Congress is printed. The pamphlet includes a Letter from the League to the organizers of a mass meeting of the 'Cheap-Freight Railway League' in Houston and prints various endorsements of the League's goals. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 66046. unknown books
1866List806Washington: For the Author 1866. 8vo blue wraps 42 pp. Apparently a gift copy from Curtis. Near fine overall with minimal wear. Near Fine. A scarce survival from Lorenzo Snow's trial in the U.S. Supreme Court for polygamy under the Edmunds Act where two of his three convictions were eventually overturned as the court determined that the offense was continuous and therefore only warranted a single conviction. George Ticknor Curtis defended Snow and published this edition of his speech himself. Curtis argued that Snow had lived continuously with one woman and defended his right to have multiple "wives" as a matter of religious freedom. This copy with "From the Author" on the top margin of the title wrap apparently presented as a gift from Curtis. For the Author unknown books
183819435Philadelphia: For Sale Wholesale and Retail by Fowler and Brevoort Practical Phrenologists at the Phrenological Athenaeum 1838. Evident first edition. Small marginal tear to the outer edge of the inner wrappers and some wear to the corners of the wrappers; some light general soiling and light staining; in very good condition. 4 leaves of manuscript stitched together with the Synopsis into contemporary blue-green wrappers 7.63 x 5 inches this stitched into contemporary stiff gray wrappers titled in autograph ink "M. S. Lincoln April 4th 1839" 7 1 24 pages blanks completed in autograph ink. Illus. A relatively early and extensive phrenological reading from the hand of one of the great Fowler brothers himself; besides the descriptive analysis in manuscript the numerical measurements of the various traits are given in autograph ink in the margin of the printed pamphlet. Despite the Philadelphia Phrenological Athenaeum imprint to the printed chart the reading may likely have been delivered at the Fowler New York studio where Lorenzo had first established his business. For Sale, Wholesale and Retail, by Fowler and Brevoort, Practical Phrenologists, at the Phrenological Athenaeum, unknown books
184819210New York: Fowler and Wells 1848. First edition. Some closed tears some light foxing and soiling and wear; a good sound copy. Original pictorial self-wrappers 7.5 x 4.5 inches 46 2 pages. Illus. A modicum of almanac information well fleshed-out by phrenological studies of various persons of note with the occasional interpolated advertising notice for Fowler publications clairvoyants mesmeric anesthetists etc. Fowler and Wells, unknown books
184824145New York: Fowlers and Wells 1848 1848. First edition. Moderately foxed; very good copy. 12mo recent paper spine original self-wrappers 48 pages. One of the many publications on phrenology by Lorenzo Niles Fowler and Samuel Robert Wells with their famous phrenology head on the front wrapper. Among the subjects studied in this almanac are Charles Dickens and Harriet Martineau. <br/><br/> New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1848 unknown books
18552303669New York / Rochester: Richard C. Valentine 1855. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Front matter foxed. 1855 Hard Cover. 508 pp. 8vo. Red cloth gilt titles marbled edges. Two titles bound in one volume. The memoirs of Lorenzo Dow reissue of Howes D441 bound together with an 1842 edition of an account of approximately 10000 miles of travel throughout the American continent recounted by Lorenzo Dow through the use of his wife Peggy's detailed journal. Dow's memoirs at one point were only outsold by the Bible. Sabin 20759. Howes D-442. Vicissitudes describes one of the most amazing trips ever made by a woman down the Ohio from Wheeling to Natchez on the Mississippi thence overland through the hostile Creek country to the Georgia settlements Carolina & Virginia. Lorenzo Dow was a Methodist evangelist and one of the most widely traveled and most eccentric of early American gospel preachers. Richard C. Valentine hardcover books
1874USNOONL00JNJoseph F. Smith circa1874. Very Good. Snow Lorenzo. Only Way to Be Saved. Liverpool: Joseph F. Smith circa1874. 8pp. 8vo. Disbound pamphlet. Book condition: Very good with stitching holes and glue residue from previous binding visible at spine. Otherwise very good clean and tight. Flake 8225. Joseph F. Smith unknown books
