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184738728Providence: Charles Burnett Jr. 1847. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. Very good wrappers foxed small chip to bottom fore edge corner. 32 pp. 8vo. Freedom of religion. The Hon. Job Durfee was the Chief Justice of Rhode-Island; he had previously been a member of the U.S. House Representatives for Rhode Island. A second issue was published which included a poem by Sarah Helen Whitman. Charles Burnett, Jr. unknown books
1832bas27Providence RI: Cranston & Hammond 1832. First Edition. Octavo tan cloth hardcover paper label 200 pp. Fair with edgewear that includes chipping to spine; foxing age darkening throughout. Cranston & Hammond, 1832. First Edition. hardcover books
1801RORTDIS00RJBNew York Times Facsimile reprint 1980 1801. Very Good. Orton Job. Discourses To The Aged. New York: New York Times Facsimile reprint 1980 1801. 340pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with a very light bump to foot of spine. New York Times hardcover books
187423871New York: Scribner Armstrong & Co. 1874. 8vo. xxvi 2 633 pp. <br><br>The "rhythmical version" is by Tayler Lewis of Union College. "A commentary by Otto Zockler. Translated from the German with additions by Prof. L. J. Evans. Together with a general introduction to the poetical books by Philip Schaff. Publisher's black embossed cloth with decorative design on boards. Spine with extremities frayed and gilt-stamped title dimmed. Binding is shaken but in generally good condition. Ex-library: call number on binding bookplate on front pastedown. Scribner, Armstrong & Co. hardcover books
181681598Boston: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Piety and Charity and Munroe and Francis 1816. Hardcover. Very Good. 119 1p. plus 4p. publisher's advertisements. Original boards. Bound in prior to the work by Orton is a separately-paginated 20-page item titled "A Discourse before 'The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Piety and Charity' May 27 1816" by Charles Lowell which was apparently published in 1816 by Munroe and Francis -- publisher and date are somewhat uncertain because the title-page is firmly pasted down on the front pastedown. Some marginal staining and other wear but overall a sound and rather appealing copy. <br/><br/> Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Piety, and Charity [and Munroe and Francis hardcover books
18202262328Elisha Bates 1820. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. Leather dried with minor loss from edges ink name and book curse written on front endpaper 'steal not this book for fear of shame for here you see the owners name' lightly foxed throughout. 1820 Full-Leather. xi 3 303 pp. 12mo. A firsthand account of Christian missionary efforts of Job Scott of Rhode Island including an account of visiting members of the Religious Society of Friends of which Scott was also a member in New York Pennsylvania and New Jersey and a voyage to England and Ireland where he passed away in Ballitore at the home of fellow Quaker Elizabeth Shackleton. Scott was a prominent quietist and his thoughts and teachings contributed to the first schism in American Quakerism the 1827 Hicksite-Orthodox split. Elisha Bates hardcover books
189936737San Francisco: Independence Print 1899. Light blue stiff-stock paper printed in dark blue ink. Horizontal fold lines. Penned name & address to verso. A VG copy. Single sheet printed recto only. Typographical border. 8-5/16" x 5" <br/><br/>An invitation / handbill of sorts to attend this musical evening. "Admission / Afternoon 25 Cents. Evening 50 Cents." Independence Print unknown books
1842651Philadelphia: John Penington 1842. 8vo. 64 pp. <br><br>With a presentation inscription on front wrapper in the author's hand to a named recipient undated; signed "the author". Original printed wrappers; large pieces missing from front cover without loss of printing. Only two pages soiled. Small dog-ears. John Penington unknown books
184385836Providence: B. Cranston and Company 1843. Paperback. Very Good. 52p. pamphlet. 22 cm. Disbound removed from a bound volume. Stitch marks along left side. Wrapper not preserved. Durfee served as Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court for the last 12 years of his life 1835-1847. <br/><br/> B. Cranston and Company paperback books
1809WN3785ABridgeport CN: S. Backus & Co. 1809. Original brown calf with gilt and original darkened gold morocco titling piece. Some edgewear and bumped corners. A repaired horizontal split near head of spine. Pasteaction and offsetting on pre and postliminaries. Last rear endpaper missing. Ornate prior owner signatures on ffep dated 1810 and 1811. Unaccountably table of Contents appears at rear of book. First American Edition. Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Trade. S. Backus & Co. Hardcover books
1895139390Paris: Librairie D' Education De La Jeunesse 1895. First Edition. First Edition. Portfolio. Very Good plus. Unbound signatures interspersed with 40 color chromolithograph illustrations by classic French illustrator Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Breville credited here as "Job". <br/><br/>Light dampstain to the top of the title page light toning to the leaves and owner bookplate on front pastedown. A bright presentable book. Librairie D' Education De La Jeunesse unknown books
183648178Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis 1836. First Edition. Octavo ca. 22cm.; removed; 24pp. Light foxing and dust-soil blue paper remnants along spine else Very Good and sound. Short biographical address on the life and career of Thomas C. James 1766-1835 leader in scientific obstetrics in the United States who in 1810 presented a paper describing the first successful case of premature labor artificially induced. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 40622a; SABIN 97649. M'Carty & Davis unknown books
1826WRCAM17385Np 1826. 54pp. plus errata. Modern cloth leather label. Tanned. Very good. Scott was a native of Providence who travelled widely throughout the United States. The present letter glorifies his character. SABIN 78289. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 25100. hardcover books
18206969baPMt. Pleasant OH: Elisha Bates 1820. Book. Hardcover. Religion; Americana; Quakers; biography; xii 2 303p.; 17.7cm; old full leather rubbed; spine damaged; owner marks; Morgan; Shoemaker 3129; Ohio imprints 580; Howes S228. Elisha Bates Hardcover books
1834WRCAM39336Philadelphia: Printed for the Society 1834. 631pp. Original plain blue wrappers. Very minor chipping on spine lightly edgeworn mild darkening of foredges. Internally clean and bright. Very good. Job Roberts Tyson a Philadelphia-born teacher lawyer and writer served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1855 to 1857 as a Whig representative from Pennsylvania and was a prominent proponent of the Colonization movement which encouraged African-Americans to return to the homelands of their African ancestors. The present pamphlet is the publication of Tyson's speech delivered to the Young Men's Colonization Society of Pennsylvania on Oct. 24 1834. Beginning with a history of the abolitionist movement in Pennsylvania Tyson cites the development of Liberia as exemplifying the movement's ideology. In 1821 private societies began to fund and organize colonies on the coast of West Africa for free blacks from the United States and Liberia became a common destination for emigrating African- Americans. In praise of these organized "repatriation" plans Tyson wrote: "For the accomplishment of these great purposes an extensive region of sea-coast has been selected.Being intended for the abode of freemen this extensive domain bears the appropriate title Liberia." SABIN 97644. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 27171. Printed for the Society unknown books
188328019Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1883. First edition. Removed. A very good copy. xviii 185 pp. 8vo. 47th Congress 2d Session. House of Representatives. Report No. 1863. Examines the false claims of Thomas J. Majors of Nemaha county who was nominated as a contingent representative from Nebraska which claimed that it was underrepresented because there were serious faults with the census of 1870. Majors presented an 1874 census as an 1872 census thus deceiving Congress. Scarce. OCLC shows only a single copy at Georgetown. [Government Printing Office] unknown books
181054074Baltimore: published by Joseph James 1810. Second edition 12mo; pp. 3 iv-vii 1 2-200; full contemporary mottled calf gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments red morocco label in 1; joints starting with leaves moderately browned; good and sound. In the 1820s Scott's views became controversial among Quakers and were adopted by the Hicksite faction. First published in 1793 this is only the second American edition. American Imprints 21291. <br/><br/> published by Joseph James unknown books
187618618Washington D.C.: Printed and Bound at the National Republican Printing House 1876. Original printed wrappers with wrapper title and caption title as issued. Stitched 17pp. Folding map sketch of the area in question. Wrappers moderately worn Good. After his War service in the Union army Barnard settled down to a legal career in Crown Point Indiana. He took on this case after he moved himself and his practice to Washington. His Brief in this case provides a history of the surveys and land ownership of the Northwest corner of Indiana from the inception of statehood in the mid-1830's. FIRST EDITION. Not located on OCLC. Printed and Bound at the National Republican Printing House unknown books
1856M13479New York:: Holman & Gray Steam Printers 1856 1863. 1856. Two papers bound together. 24 cm. 62; 299-351 1 pp. Title inscribed "from the author" . . . "and an essay on cyanosis". Nineteenth century brown cloth; extremities worn; lacks ffep first title gutter with tears to the title. Rubber-stamp on title of the Mercantile Library Assoc. NY. Good minor kozo repairs. Rare. "FROM THE AUTHOR" Smith also wrote A Treatise on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood. Philadelphia 1869. Cyanosis or "blue disease" is described here in full via the author's 2-part lecture at the New York Academy of Medicine February 18 and March 4 1863. Smith considered the talk statistical as its results are based on the analyses of 191 cases. Within his paper is a detailed history of the literature on the same topic. "It is only just to state that Dr. J. Lewis Smith of New York in his admirable work on Diseases of Infancy and Childhood gives the best consideration of this subject that I have met with among out systematic treatises." -- Frank Woodbury "The Significance of Bloody Discharges from the Bowels in Young Children" JAMA vol. III no. 7 August 1884 p. 180. Smith was born in Spafford NY. His studies took him to the Buffalo Medical School where he interned. Smith graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York 1853. He worked as physician to the Charity Hospital and the NY foundling asylum etc. Ashwal mentions Smith as one of the persons advancing the field of pediatrics which he tells started in the early nineteenth century but also developed more strongly by the middle of the century. Smith was also the second president of the American Pediatric Society the first such organization in the Unites States. -- Ashwal p 120. p. 171. Atkinson Physicians and Surgeons of the United States p. 136. See: Ashwal The Founders of Child Neurology. Cone Thomas E. Jr. History of American pediatrics Little Brown 1980 pp. 103-104. REFERENCES: These works not in Grulee. FFrye C188 Holman & Gray, Steam Printers, 1856, 1863. hardcover books
183617343.2Philadelphia: Printed by A. Waldie 46 Carpenter Street 1836. 1st edition American Imprints 40622; Field 1581; Sabin 97645. Later 19th C. half sheep binding with red marbled paper boards gilt stamped spine lettering. Marbled eps. Modest extremity wear joints a bit rubbed a solid Very Good copy. 38 2 blank pp. 8vo. 9" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/> Printed by A. Waldie, 46 Carpenter Street hardcover books
184740377Providence: Charles Burnett jr. 1847. 8vo 22.5 cm 9". 42 5 1 pp. <br><br>Durfee 17901847 Chief Justice of Rhode Island expounds on "the Rhode-Island Idea of Government" p. 40 and his words were "Published at the request of the Society" title-page. This was first printed in the Journal of the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction Providence: Charles Burnett Jr. 1847 vol. II no. 1.<br>Â Â Â Â But for many of far more interest is the "Poem by Sarah Helen Whitman. Recited before the Rhode-Island Historical Society on the evening of January 13 1847; previous to the delivery of Judge Durfee's discourse" sectional title at rear. Whitman 180378 was variously a poet essayist Transcendentalist spiritualist and romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe! The author of her page on the Poetry Foundation website characterizes her as "intelligent gifted witty and warm" and says "She was widely read." The fact is she is one of few women given space in the Bibliography of American Literature that bastion of white male authors.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Gift inscription on front wrapper "Jno. McClellan Esq. with the respects of E. Dyer Jr. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â BAL 21359B; Sabin 21425. Yellow printed wrappers. Very good. Charles Burnett, jr. unknown books
183355435Philadelphia: William Brown printer 1833. Second edition revised same year as the first with a new preface and expanded text; 8vo pp. 105 1 errata; removed from binding wrappers wanting; "duplicate" stamp and adhesion residue on title page title page also clipped at the lower corner; good sound copy. "The history extent and pernicious consequences of that species of gambling" i.e. lotteries. American Imprints 21595 for the first edition of only 48 pages; Sabin 97643. <br/><br/> William Brown, printer unknown books
1836638941836. TYSON Job R. DISCOURSE ON THE SUVIVING REMNANT OF THE INDIAN RACE. Delivered on the 24th October 1836 before the Society for Commemorating the Landing of William Penn. Philadelphia: Printed by A. Waldie 1836. First edition. 8vo.: 38 pp. Modern maroon cloth gilt title to spine. Light soiling to cloth with light foxing to opening and closing leaves else clean. Very good plus. Sabin 97645. unknown books
184956158Providence: Gladding and Proud 1849. First edition 8vo pp. xxvi 523 1; contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards; binding scuffed ex-Brown University with an Ives Collection bookplate withdrawn call slip on the rear pastedown; no external markings; good and sound. Durfee was the jurist who first called the Dorr Rebellion illegal and treasonable. Includes two lectures "History of the Subjection and Extermination of the Narragansetts" and "The Idea of the Supernatural among the Indians." Bartlett p. 115. <br/><br/> Gladding and Proud hardcover books
184355252Providence: B. Cranston and Company 1843. First edition 8vo pp. 52; removed from binding wrappers wanting; very good. Durfee here propounds the theory that "the recent revolutionary development of steam power was not merely an instance of man making progress it was a revelation of the divine 'law of progress' and of a 'higher destiny' planned by God himself for the new age" Schneider History of American Philosophy. These ideas were adumbrated by Durfee in The Panidea; Or An Omnipresent Reason Considered as the Creative and Sustaining Logos 1846 "a pretentious work that nobody read" DAB. More charitable comments are made by Joseph Blau in his collection of American Philosophic Addresses 1700 to 1900 page 381 ff where the Oration is reprinted in full. An important aspect of Durfee's deterministic theory of history is that "there is no absolute undefinable popular sovereignty which can in a manner its own and at any moment carry a certain supposed natural equality into social and political life and thereby elevate poor human nature however rude and degraded in condition at once as by a sort of magic into a state of supreme and absolute perfection" quoted by Blau. This is because the advances of science and technology impose conditions upon society which democracy cannot control and to which it must adapt. Blau notes that Durfee's views were influenced by German transcendentalism as mediated by Coleridge and Cousin. Not surprisingly given his skepticism on the efficacy of popular sovereignty Durfee as Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court played a prominent role in opposition to the Dorr forces. Not in American Imprints Bartlett or Parks; Sabin 21427 note. <br/><br/> B. Cranston and Company unknown books
