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1798195351798. page de titre absente - A Paris chez AndrÂŽ an VII 1798. Un vol. au format in-8 208 x 134 mm de 607 pp. Reliure XIXÂme de demi-basane marine dos ˆ nerfs ornÂŽ de filets gras ˆ froid larges fleurons romantiques dorÂŽs titre dorÂŽ toutes tranches mouchetÂŽes. Edition originale. ''Les observations que je publie aujourd'hui sont prÂŽcÂŽdÂŽes par un Voyage ˆ Canton qui donnera une idÂŽe des moeurs des Chinois du commerce que font avec eux les EuropÂŽens et des productions de cette fameuse contrÂŽe de l'Asie''. Cordier Bibliotheca sinica 2105 - Brunet I Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres 20016 - QuÂŽrard II La France littÂŽraire p. 140. Angles et coupes ÂŽlimÂŽs. Frottements ÂŽpars affectant la reliure principalement mors et coiffes. Page de titre ainsi que les 3 ff. d'Avertissement ici absents. Cerne claire en marge des premiers et derniers feuillets. Quelques rousseurs ou t‰ches dans le corps d'ouvrage. TrÂs lÂŽger travail de vers en marge supÂŽrieure de quelques feuillets. Du reste bonne condition. b42961 unknown
174578052London:: Printed for the Author 1745. First edition. later old half calf and marbled boards. Large chips to the spine at both ends; leather worn at edges; rear joint cracked and weak. Contents very attractive. . Folio. Illustrated with sixty fine engravings; most of them full-page. . Printed for the Author, hardcover
1797027305Philadelphia: Printed for the Author 1797. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original edition handsomely rebound in gray 1/4 and light blue 3/4 paper covered boards with dark red lettering on gray title label mountd on upper spine new tan laid paper endsheets and front/rear blanks. 3444 pp. of 355 index at rear. Note: as issued Vol. II contains 3554 pp. and Vol. III continuously paginated contains 367-78713 pp. so clearly this copy lacks pp. 345-55 but the index at rear 4 pp. appears complete. Slight chipping to main title fore-edge edges otherwise intact scattered interior foxing generally light. Exceptionally scarce. Evans 31918; Sabin 11006. Printed for the Author Hardcover
17962011060023Philadelphia : Printed by John Page no. 67 Mulberry Street 1796. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Presidency of George Washington Early American printing 2 volume set. Bound in contemporary American acid-calf. Rebacked with renewed spines. Red gilt-lettered spine-labels "House of Representatives." gilt-lettered cover-labels. Early bookplate of the "Library of the House of Representatives of the United States" printed circa 1815. 352 4 p. 1 folded table; v. 2: 366 4 p. Generally sound internally with occasional staining. A small chip missing from the corner margin of title page v.1. Contains the legislation of 2nd Session of the 4th Congress. Prior to 1840 private reporters such as Thomas Carpenter related Congressional debates votes and issues before Congress. Contains Washington's Farewell Address warning against partisan politics and foreign entanglements. <br> Evans 30165 & 31918. Sabin 11006. Cohen 6858. Philadelphia : Printed by John Page, no. 67 Mulberry Street hardcover
1797List2527Cincinnati 1797. Cincinnati 27th June 1797. Folded stampless letter 12 ½ x 6 ½ inches. Some tape repairs and tearing at folds fair to good but legible. With twenty five cent manuscript rate on cover. Good. Joseph Carpenter 1774-1814 was born in Massachusetts and emigrated to Cincinnati in the Northwest Territory eventually publishing the first regularly printed journal in the city the “Western Spy and Hamilton Gazette†which he first published in 1799. The journal had 1200 subscribers at the time of Carpenter’s death in 1814. He held several posts in the city including Coroner and commanded a company of militia in the War of 1812 eventually dying due to exposure to extreme cold in a march from Fort Meigs to Urbana in 1814. <br /> <br /> Offered here is a significant letter from Carpenter to Irish-American publisher Mathew Cary in May of 1797 asking for Cary’s assistance in the opening of a stationary shop and printing press roughly two years before he would eventually publish the first issue of Western Spy and Hamilton Gazette. Carpenter writes to Cary <br /> <br /> “The probability is that I should in a short time be able to pay you Sir as my prospect is very good. There will be an edition of the Laws of the territory to print soon. If I get an office I shall have the job; otherwise it will be . to Freeman & Son. Mr. McCullagh seems to incline to . in the business however should you Sir make it convenient to assist me I have friends who would help me to pay part of it. If I had a small assortment of Books & Stationery they would fill very well. I would thank you if you would write me respecting the matter as soon as convenient. I am very anxious to know if I am to do anything in this country. If I cannot succeed in getting an office I intend to go to my father’s. I however hope for the best.â€<br /> <br /> The first book printed in Cincinnati was William Maxwell’s edition of In 1796 The Laws of the Territory of the United States North-West of the Ohio published a year earlier. <br /> <br /> Overall the letter should be of interest to scholars of American territorial printing history and is also philatelically significant as an early postmark originating from the Northwest Territory. <br /> <br /> Full transcription follows:<br /> <br /> We have no Book or Stationery Store in this town. Could I be so fortunate as to procure a small office & a small assortment of Books & Stationery I should be in a fair way for making a very handsome living. I have advised a number of gentlemen of the town respecting it assure me they think it would answer a very good purpose they also assure me of all the support in their power. Some of them have offered to assist me in getting in an office. <br /> <br /> Having no other friend to write to but yourself in Philadelphia I beg you would pardon the liberty I take in writing you on this occasion The distance from my friends puts it out of their power to assist me; if this should be in your power to assist me in getting an office without embarrassing yourself you would confer an obligation on your humble servant that time never could wear off. The probability is that I should in a short time be able to pay you Sir as my prospect is very good. There will be an edition of the Laws of the territory to print soon. If I get an office I shall have the job; otherwise it will be . to Freeman & Son. Mr. McCullagh seems to incline to . in the business however should you Sir make it convenient to assist me I have friends who would help me to pay part of it. If I had a small assortment of Books & Stationery they would fill very well. I would thank you if you would write me respecting the matter as soon as convenient. I am very anxious to know if I am to do anything in this country. If I cannot succeed in getting an office I intend to go to my father’s. I however hope for the best. <br /> <br /> I saw Mr. McCullagh yesterday. He is well carries on business very briskly. He desired to be remembered to you. <br /> <br /> I am Sir with respect your most obedient and humble Servant <br /> Joseph Carpenter jun.<br /> <br /> to M. Cary. unknown
175895896Amsterdam : Aux Dpens de la Compagnie 1758. 180x110mm. 11 ff. 299 pages 2 ff. 216 pages avec la carte n/b dpliante en fin de lÕouvrage broch. Brochage en papier marbr en attente de reliure. Cachet de possesseur sur le haut de page de faux-titre. Intrieure propre. 341 Aux Dpens de la Compagnie unknown
1785ABC_46272Paris: the widow of Duchesne 1785. Uniformly bound in contemporary mottled calf gold-tooled spine red morocco spine labels with title in gold and one green morocco spine label for volume 2 with the volume number red edges marbled endpapers. 12mo. With Duchesnes woodcut publishers device DC monogram in a wreath and accompanied by oak branches and a different headpiece in each volume. 3 volumes. First edition volume 1 in the present copy with the title-page in a variant state with the year 1785 misprinted the numbers 1 and 7 are tilted to the right and the 8 is on its side printed and published in Paris of a famous and important history of the American Revolution by Pierre Charpentier de Longchamps 1740-1812. Although the title promises the description of all the wars raging in the four parts of the world the work concentrates on the American Revolutionary War or American War of Independence.The larger part relates to the military operations in North America primarily the French and British activities.In addition to the war in the North American colonies the book describes the French attacks on the English in the Caribbean India and Gibraltar.Variant issue with the year 1785 misprinted on the first title-page of the original Paris edition of this famous and important history of the American Revolution by Pierre Charpentier de Longchamps 1740-1812. Another page-for-page reprint appeared in Amsterdam in the same year followed by several other editions and translations including a Spanish translation in 1793. Foot of the spines of the second and third volumes damaged otherwise a set in very good condition.l Barbier II 812; Cioranescu 18th cent. 40820; Fay p. 21 Gephart 5702; Howes L-447; Sabin 41905. the widow of Duchesne, unknown
17681219501768. LOMONOSOV Mikhail Vasil'evich. Jean-Baptiste CHARPENTIER. Elemens de la langue russe ou Methode courte et facile pour apprendre cette lanuge conformement a l'usage. 16 368 pp. 8vo. contemporary sheep smooth spine with gilt fleurons red morocco lettering-piece "Grammaire Russe". St. Petersburg: Academie Imperiale des Sciences 1768. First Edition. A key publication in the modernization of Russia and the first significant work on Russian grammar in a Western European language. Charpentier's work is based the book Rossiskaia grammatika published in 1755 and written by the "father" of modern Russian literature Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonsov. Lomonsov 1711-1765 was one of the greatest minds in St. Petersburg during the middle of the eighteenth-century learned also in science and math and one of the founders of the University of Moscow. Elemens de la langue russe was published by the renowned St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences considered the leading publisher of secular works in Russia at the time. Before the publication of this title western visitors had no printed means to learn Russian. Aside from some slight worming through the lower margin of the front pastedown through the title-page a fine unsophisticated copy. Russia Engages the World 40 51. unknown
176955574Swanzey: March 15 1769. Two-page holograph document of dismissal against Rev. Ezra Carpenter folio approx. 12" x 15" previous folds browned small holes at folds; very good and legible. Ezra Carpenter 1698-1785 a son of Nathaniel and Mary Preston Carpenter his third wife was born March 20 1698 in Rehoboth Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard College in 1720. He was married in 1723 to Elizabeth daughter of Rev. Thomas Greenwood of Rehoboth. Their children were: Elizabeth Elijah Theodosia Greenwood Preston Olive Content married John Kilburn and Rachel. He died at Walpole New Hampshire August 26 1785 in his eighty-eighth year. He entered the Christian ministry and was ordained at Hull Massachusetts November 24 1725 at a wage "rarely more than half enough to support a family." He was dismissed from the pastorate in Hull November 23 1746. November 1752 found him preaching at Lower Ashuelot or Swanzey New Hampshire which had been burned by the Indians four years before. The town of Upper Ashuelot or Keene engaged him in 1753 to preach at an annual compensation of £50 6 s. and firewood. Keene and Swanzey then formed a single church to which he was installed October 4 1753. Written by the council of churches this document concerns his pastorate in Swanzey: "We the pastors & Delegates from the Several Churches applied to by the pastor of the Church of Christ in Swanzey being convened in council at Swanzey . after earnestly imploring the Divine Direction & assistance & reading the results of former councils & other papers necessary to give us light with regard to the separation of the Rev. Mr. Ezra Carpenter as desired to ret. by our letters missive.we come to the following results.viz." They write that although Rev. Carpenter has been a good minister "We lament the unhappy differences & irresponsible & groundless jealousies mutually subsisting between the Rev Mr Carpenter.and people of Swanzey which we apprehend have been a great means of protracting & preventing the termination of their differences and controversies." They conclude with entreaties of mercy for the reverend and for treating him "as a brother" and to consider his infirmities due to his age he was then 71. The document is signed by "Thos Fessendon moderator Samuel Hedge Micah Lawrence Samll Ashley Willm Smeed and Nathl Stevens". A note at the bottom is dated March 16 1769 and states that Carpenter was then present at the house of "Dea Jona Hammond" where the declaration of dismissal was read. Sibley's Harvard Graduates notes that concerning Carpenter's first dismissal from Hull: "Carpenter patiently endured poverty for twenty years only to be overthrown in the end by New Lights who charged that he did not preach the doctrine of grace. Itinerant zealots who invaded the town inflamed the New Lights in the congregation into bringing some fifteen charges of errors of doctrine against him." Apparently similar forces were at work in this his second dismissal. Ezra Carpenter was also chaplain of New Hampshire state troops at Crown Point. March 15 unknown
1724FGN21-C-6Paris: Chez Nicolas Le Breton 1724. Leather. Good. 6.5" by 3.5". Not Stated. A very scarce first edition of Francois Charpentier's history criticism morals and good words of M. Charpentier. A very scarce first edition of Francois Charpentier's history criticism morals and good words of M. Charpentier. Includes chapters on the story of the philosopher's stone and the bookseller's palace a dialogue between M. de Fredeville and the bookseller. This book gives the first mention of The Escole Girls an erotic work also known as Ladies Philosophy. In French. In a calf binding. Externally a trifle rubbed with loss to corners and head and tail of spine. Marks to boards and front joint starting. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown with ink marks and label with ink inscription on front free end paper. Ink stamp to title page. Internally firmly bound with light foxing to pages throughout and closed tear to page 194. Good Chez Nicolas Le Breton hardcover
1750445584Boston 1750. Softcover. Very Good. String-tied composition book. 46pp. Very good with toning and edgewear.<br /> <br /> A composition book by John Carpenter in Boston around 1750 hand-titled “Mr. John Carpenter’s Composition Book.†The book includes poetry essays and short stories handwritten by Carpenter over 46 pages with some small illustrations. He begins his writings with a poem entitled “Death A Poem†writing “Death enters with his sickle It withered in an hour God the author of it all The rich and poor great and small.†Carpenter writes thoughts on the Bible Christianity free will and one entitled “Happiness of Man†where he muses on the question of “what is happiness†One interesting page is titled “Woman†which relays the story of original sin in the Garden of Eden which reads “now we find them both plagued in deep sorror and shame and notwithstanding woman the weaker and first in transgression she is also first to return to the God she has forsaken.†He finishes his book with a drawing of a dove and a poem titled “Dove of Noah.â€<br /> <br /> A nice composition book from the 1700s including a Boston man’s views on religion. unknown
1794104292London: n.p. 1794. 1st ed. octavo half-leather dark green boards with gilt stamp to spine"Wright's Revealed Knowledge" marbled endpapers all edges marbled pp 64. No publisher stated. Previous owner's bookplate Claude Toby front endpaper. Some scuffing to corners and light rubbing to small areas at fore-edge head and foot of spine. Inscription on blank endpaper at rear which refers to citations of Wright in 1907 and 1909. Very good condition. The title page continues "now published By his Divine Command for the good of all Men. by John Wright His Servant and one of the Brethren." John Wright was a carpenter from Leeds who heard preachers speak of "wonderful light . of which Baron Swedenborg was the forerunner". In April 1788 Wright felt called to travel through London then with William Bryan through France to the society at Avignon European Illuminists where they met a group of disciples of the mystic Emanuel Swedenborg returning to London in September 1789. Much of the book is an account of "Remarkable Prophecies revealed to the Spiritual Society at Avignon relative to the Present Times and approaching Latter Days" published here in the form of a letter from Richard Brothers. Richard Brothers 1757-1824 who called himself 'the Nephew of the Almighty' and probably best known for his influence on the poetry of William Blake became a self-declared prophet: Wright Bryan and the engraver William Sharp were among his disciples. There are still believers in his teachings of British Israelism. Brothers's prophecies are followed by "A Collection of Wonderful Sentences Quotations Questions and Prophecies. selected from the Spiritual Society" and then "Sentences Moral Maxims and Spiritual Instructions extracted out of Answers from Heaven". Wright's "Revealed Knopwledge" has a Swedenborgian tone and it is possible that the Society was part of the Swedenborg Rite: a society of such was founded in Avignon in 1773 modelled on Freemasonry and based on Swedenborg's teachings. Wright's society may well have been part of the hermetic teachings of the Benedictine Monk Dom Antoine Joseph Pernety. Although he is not named in the text Pernety founded an initiate society called the Illumines d'Avignon "Illuminated Ones of Avignon". The group is said to have taught occult philosophies and meta-physical rituals drawing on alchemy and Swedenborgian ideas. The second part 'Remarkable Prophecies' mentions the prophecies of Jeremiah death of King of Prussia and the Mahometans. Wright's publication is scarce and a fascinating glimpse into the some of the spiritual and hermetic ideas of the time. From the library of New Churchman Claude Toby 1st Edition. Half leather. n.p. hardcover
