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Washington AnonymousABAA

PICTORIAL LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON: EMBRACING ANECDOTES ILLUSTRATIVE OF HIS CHARACTER. AND EMBELLISHED WITH ENGRAVINGS.

JUVENILE. Anonymous.ABAA

The Voice of a Departed Teacher to Sunday Schools.

182319968Boston: Published by Samuel T. Armstrong and Crocker & Brewster No. 50 Cornhill 1823. First edition. Original pictorial wrappers 5.5 x 3.5 inches 36 pages with the frontispiece first leaf mounted to the inside front wrapper as published. "Thus died an amiable and excellent youth. His parents lost a beloved son and the Sunday-school a valuable teacher and society a useful member. There was much energy in his character which promised to be very beneficial to mankind. He was a very active member of the committee of the Bible Association. He regularly collected from several of its districts and from the workmen of the manufactory where he was employed as clerk; he obtained upwards of forty subscribers to the Bible Society since April last." The supposedly biographical account of the deathbed conduct and conversations of a pious 17-year-old confident in his new birth in Jesus and full of parting counsel for his younger siblings etc. with a remarkable coda as narrated by the departed young man from beyond: "You remember me when I wore an earthly form and spoke to you in human language. Many of you followed my body to the grave and wept as you saw my coffin committed to the ground. My spirit dwells not there. Through the riches of the Savior's love and the power of his grace I have reached the skies." The anticipation here in voice and approach to the trance medium messages from later Spiritualist accounts is not far to seek suggesting that the language of spirit communication may have awaited only the scientific explanations of mesmerism trance clairvoyance etc. to become empirical truths rather than simply theological allegories. OCLC suggests two locations AAS Free Library of Philadelphia plus the OCLC FAST Project--a location one half-suspects is as insubstantial as the nature of spiritual communication itself. Some light foxing and soiling and wear; a very good copy. Published by Samuel T. Armstrong, and Crocker & Brewster, No. 50, Cornhill books

Garrett Scott, Bookseller (ABAA) · États-Unis225,00 $US≈ 190,37 €

European History / Napoleonic Wars. Anonymous Baines Edward 1774 1848?ABAA

HISTORY Of The WARS Since The FRENCH REVOLUTION from the Commencement of Hostilities in 1792 to the Termination of the War and Resoration of a General Peace after the Memorable Battle of Waterloo in 1815; Comprehending the Civil Military and Naval History of That Most Eventful Period and Biographical Sketches of Public Characters. Embellished with Portraits of the Most Distinguished Characters and a Plan of the Battle of Waterloo

181743954London: Published by Sherwood Neely and Jones Paternoster-Row; and Simpkin and Marshall Stationers' Court; Sold Also by T. Rogerson Manchester; and by All Booksellers 1817. Original publisher's blue-grey paper-covered boards backed in green paper tan spine labels printed in black. Binding worn and rubbed particularly extremities of Vol I with light sunning and soiling; heel of Vol. I backstrip partially perished; front hinge of Vol I starting; page blocks a bit toned; light foxing to endpapers. Texts clean and unmarked bindings still quite sound overall. Good. Two volume set. 459 1 pp; pp 3 - 480. Illustrated with a total of 7 b/w plates and maps multiple engraved portraits to some plates. Plates published by T. Rogerson. 8vo. 9" x 5-1/2" Text appears to be the same as that in Baines' History of the Wars of the French Revolution published by Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown the same year albeit with a slightly different title and with attribution to Baines. The Longman edition may have been preceded by an edition in parts advertised as "The Cheapest History of the Wars" in the Literary Gazette London: Henry Colburn 1817 and first published on March 1st by Simpkin and Marshall and Sherwood and Co. and sold by T. Rogerson. This edition bears the pronounced error of the "1792" on the title pg of Vol I being printed as "1793" on Vol. II's title page. The work Baines' first -- significant portions of which were later found to have been lifted verbatim from an earlier history by Alexander Stephens -- was wildly popular upon publication and would have likely been in high demand in any form; it was reissued as part of Baines' larger work on George III published in 1820. Uncommon in the trade. Published by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row; and Simpkin and Marshall, Stationers' Court; Sold Also by T. Roger hardcover books

Tavistock Books, ABAA · États-Unis275,00 $US≈ 232,68 €

EULENSTEIN Charles Anonymous John Sayer?ABAA

A Sketch of the Life of C. Eulenstein the Celebrated Performer on the Jews' Harps

183326134London: James J. Welsh 1833. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; original red cloth printed cream paper cover label; 4693adspp.; engraved portrait frontispiece. Expertly rebacked to match original cloth a bit faded along extremities; frontispiece heavily foxed recent bookseller label to front pastedown else Very Good and sound. Errata slip bound in rear. With numerous contemporary holograph corrections throughout most likely made in preparation of the second edition as many are of a semantic rather than purely factual nature for example on p. 12 lines 2 and 3 from the bottom the text reads: ".figures of the poverty-stricken music-professors of Heilbronn haunted their imaginations". A second edition was published by the London firm of C. & H. Senior in 1840 published under the authorship of a John Sayer and revised by "a lady intimately acquainted for a long period with the circumstances of Mr. Eulenstein's life by whom a few additional facts have been supplied." Whether the annotations in this copy are in Sayer's Welsh's Senior's or the lady's hand is unclear. Traces of a contemporary inscription on original pastedown now obscured by new pastedown would potentially reveal the original owner. Short biographical sketch of the popular German musician Charles or Carl/Karl Eulenstein 1802-1890 whose performances gained him celebrity in Great Britain in the late 1820s and whose preferred instrument the Jews' harp Eulenstein also played the guitar is described on p. 1 as both "eminently beautiful" and in a quotation in a footnote more dissonant than "the creaking of hinges or the mewing of cats." Etymologically the Jews' Harp is not in fact a Jewish musical tradition but a corruption of "Jaw's Harp" one of the oldest known musical instruments dating as far back in China as the 4th century B.C. OCLC locates 11 copies as of April 2015 only 4 outside the United Kingdom Iowa Newberry Texas and Western U. Ontario. James J. Welsh unknown books

Lorne Bair Rare Books · États-Unis650,00 $US≈ 549,97 €