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17727530Poplin 1772. Docketed on April 19 1776; a promissory note signed within the text one page 7 1/2" x 5" written on July 9 1772. Promissory note reads in part: "I Nicholas Gorden.promise to pay to Josiah Bartlett on order Twenty one shillings & three pence.with interest till paid for value received." Very good to fine. Josiah Bartlett 1729 - 1795 First Governor of New Hampshire Revolutionary patriot member of the Continental Congress Jurist and the SECOND Signer of the Declaration of Independence from NH. <br/><br/> unknown books
19093212San Francisco: International Printing Company 1909. First edition. Original publisher's cloth binding. Fraying to corners and extremities of spine. General spotting to cloth. In a contemporary hand several names and addresses of women from San Francisco and Atlantic City to the pastedowns and endpapers. Generally toned with occasional staining; in the same hand as the preliminaries occasional additions modifications and annotations to recipes. Quite a scarce community cookery particularly in such presentable condition it has the distinction of being the first Jewish cookery published in California and among the earliest west of the Mississippi.<br/><br/>An excellent early example of women's use of the domestic space as a site for social activism. Organized in 1893 and based out of Chicago the National Council of Jewish Women worked to "shape the destinies" of Jewish women and families by offering community support in the form of assisting immigrants with integration advocating for women's rights and providing support including financial assistance and job training. Under the leadership of Hannah Greenebaum Solomon the women desired to carve out space for Jewish women's identities and contributions operating on a model similar to other national figures such as Jane Addams and Susan B. Anthony. Within seven years the San Francisco section was founded and ran under the leadership of Hattie Hecht Schloss a philanthropist and the wife of a progressive associate justice of the California Supreme Court. With her guidance "the Council established San Bruno Settlement House to aid newcomers to San Francisco with classes for boys and girls.Aiding immigrants and later veterans.these issues at the forefront then prompted petitioning for legislative reforms such as immigration equal suffrage child labor human trafficking abolition and health centers for women and children" NCJWSF. The present text was published at a time when a number of women's groups were realizing that community cookeries were effective methods of fundraising and promotion. Drawing strength and authority from the expectation that they feed and nourish their families the women of the Council could justify feeding nourishing and otherwise supporting the community at large; and the money from this cookery supported a number of their programs. Notably this California chapter of the NCJW did include a chapter on Passover Dishes; yet they also include a range of dishes traditionally not considered Jewish or acceptable in Jewish households including lobster and other shellfish dishes common to the region. An excellent opportunity to research Jewish women's contributions to California culture and the extent to which regional foods shape Jewish households in the West. International Printing Company unknown books
179063676New York: Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine 1790. First published edition of this act establishing the Federal court system in North Carolina. Printed broadside 13 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches the headline printed bold the text arranged in four paragraphs below the title. Signed in type below the text by Augustus Muhlenberg Speaker of the House of Representatives John Adams Vice-President of the United States and with approval June 4 1790 notes George Washington. The act established one district to be called "North-Carolina district" to be presided over by one judge who was to reside in the district and hold four sessions of the court annually at the town of Newbern as well as two circuit courts. Not in Evans Shipton & Mooney or Bristol. ESTC W14372 American Antiquarian Society South Carolina Archives. OCLC locates three copies American Antiquarian Society Minnesota North Carolina. Some stab holes in the left margin where previously bound with other similar acts a little browning around the edges but a lovely copy in original condition. Original untrimmed edges. 11134. <br/><br/> Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine unknown books
1817306781London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press 1817. First edition. Hundreds of engravings and examples of type etc. Slip announcing vol. IV of Typographical Antiquities inserted before half title of Vol. I. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo. Original drab boards printed spine labels untrimmed. Old clean repairs to the joints of vol. I; joints of vol. III a bit rubbed. Ownership signature of Mary Curteis Dec. 29 1817 on pastedown in each volume; bookplate of Charles Sarolea and his signature on title page; small morocco label; printed label of Claude Smith on flyleaf. Very good. Cloth slipcases. First edition. Hundreds of engravings and examples of type etc. Slip announcing vol. IV of Typographical Antiquities inserted before half title of Vol. I. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo. Windle & Pippin A28; Jackson no.40; Hart no.186; Bigmore and Wyman pp. 169-70 Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press unknown books
1668WRCLIT67650Mogvntiæ i.e. Mainz: Sumpt. Ludovici Bovrgeat . Typ. Christophori Kuchleri 1668. 820112044blanks2044blanks201 1pp. Small octavo. Four parts in one volume. Later limp vellum. Engraved title illustrated with four hundred circular engraved emblems within 7x7cm frames. Loss from lower margin of engraved title and first four prelims due to worming with no loss of letterpress and some repairs to foremargins the same worm track recedes to nothing by A8 part of one line of text marked through in early ink on 2M6 short tear in corner of one leaf mended at an early date; main portion of the text block apart from some tanning characteristic of the paper very good. A collective edition of this popular series of emblem books uniting the four sequences: I. Stirpium; II. Animalium quadrupedium; III Volatilium & insectium; and IV: Aquatilium & reptilium. Camerarius 1534-1598 the son of the German humanist was a practicing physician and botanist and served as dean of the medical college at Nuremburg until his death. This work originally published in sequence in Nuremburg 1590-1604 prints each emblem accompanied by a Latin distich along with an essay in Latin. It proved a model for further works in the genre including a continuation by Jacob Bornitz. The fourth century devoted to aquatic animals and reptiles was published posthumously under the supervision of his son Ludwig Camerarius. The original editions feature large in Nissen and Hunt where the engravings are ascribed to Hans Sibmacher. The engravings were reworked for the Frankfurt editions of 1654-61. BRUNET I:1513. OCLC: 17421505. Sumpt. Ludovici Bovrgeat ... Typ. Christophori Kuchleri hardcover books
196211432Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1962. First edition of Friedman's magnum opus. Octavo bound in full morocco gilt titles to the spine raised bands gilt ruled to the front and rear panels marbled endpapers all edges gilt. In fine condition. "Friedman a laissez-faire economist and professor at the University of Chicago is considered one of the leading modern exponents of liberalism in the 19th-century European sense. In Capitalism and Freedom he argued for a negative income tax or guaranteed income to supersede centralized bureaucratized social welfare services which in his view are inimical to the traditional values of individualism and useful work" Britannica. Selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the "hundred most influential books since the war". It also placed tenth on the list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the twentieth century compiled by National Review and on Time Magazine's top 100 non-fiction books written in English since 1923. University of Chicago Press hardcover books
535894to. 10 pages rectos only though Gould has sketched a map with troop placements and annotations on the verso of one leaf approximately 1200 words. Folded corners of two leaves chipped some edgewear. Some browning but quite legible throughout. After a quarter century during which time he published a history of his regiment John M. Gould. History of the First-Tenth-Twenty Ninth Maine Regiment; Portland 1871 Gould is still searching for the identity of the Confederate regiment that faced his near the East Woods at Antietam. Reporting to Law the commander of the 4th Alabama Infantry in that bloody battle Gould relates his findings in excruciating detail quoting correspondents from a dozen regiments commanders junior officers and non-commissioned officers from both sides who have given him conflicting reports almost all of which stand at odds with official published reports as to the deployment of their units in the chaos of Hood's counter attack against Hooker's corps that blunted the initial Union assault early on the morning of 17 September 1862. _"It is quite clear that Hooker's fragments did not offer very serious resistance to Hood's advance. As far as the East Wood is concerned the 10th Maine was their first real obstacle . Judge Smith of the 5th Texas writes of the exceedingly severe fight the 1st was having with some Union forces & that both parties were showing their best 'staying qualities.' Then Gen. Hood noticing a force coming out of the East Wood said to Capt. Turner 'You may attend to those people!' I can't understand who this Union force was . this succession of events is extremely puzzling." Gould closes by asking Law not to refer to printed sources all of which he was familiar with but asked for any personal comments on his long commentary. "At present it appears to me that Gordon's Brigade did not follow up Hood sharply or at all & that Ripley & Colquitt replaced Hood but the latter line was considerably south of yours. How does that accord with your idea" In addition to his history of the regiments he served in during the Civil War Gould contributed a number of articles to the "National Tribune" relating to Antietam and corresponded with veterans from both sides as referred to often in this letter seeking information on various controversies surrounding the battle. He later donated hundreds of these letters to the Antietan Battlefield Board. Detailed letters on major Civil War battles by participants even those fueled by recollections shaded by decades of discussion and dispute are uncommon in trade. <br/><br/> unknown books
1866245761London: Printed for Private Circulation by Smith Elder and Co 1866. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait and 14 tipped in original photographs. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in full green morocco gilt extra maroon morocco doublures t.e.g. by the Harcourt Bindery. Spine toned to brown else fine. In open-faced slipcase. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait and 14 tipped in original photographs. 1 vols. 8vo. WITH 14 ORIGINAL PHOTOS INSCRIBED TO PRINCIPAL OF ST. ANDREWS. Inscribed on blank preliminary leaf "For the Reverend John Tullock D.D. Principal of St. Andrews from Victoria Balmoral Sept 22 1867." The Principal is the chief executive of the University. Printed for Private Circulation by Smith, Elder and Co unknown books
1933211411Half-Way House / Steyning Road Rottingdean 1933. 2 pp in ink on personal letterhead. 1 vols. 4to. Very good. 2 pp in ink on personal letterhead. 1 vols. 4to. A Plea to TE Lawrence re the Memory of Albert Ball. Baring discusses the recent appearance of and furor over a new book on the WW I flying ace Albert Ball CAPTAIN ALBERT BALL VC DS by RH Kiernan which Baring considers "a noble tribute to a great boy. His father Sir Albert Ball Mayor of Nottingham misreading it has seen red & considers it a slander on his son and an insult to the RAF."<br/><br/>Baring continues "To me this is as if the Spartan fathers had considered Simonides' epitaph on the fallen Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae . a slur . " Noting that Ball had spoken critically to the press about the book Baring asks Lawrence if he might consider reading it and giving his opinion. unknown books
193727580Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran 1937. First American edition. 1 of 56 copies issued for copyright purposes. 8vo. 4pp. Original printed cream wrappers a little darkened at the edges. Very good. O'BRIEN A199. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Doran unknown books
1927308297London: Jonathan Cape 1927. First London edition one of 315 large paper copies. Illustrated. Folding map at end. 2 445 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Brown pigskin and tan boards. Faint traces of rubbing at head of spine. Early gift inscription on front pastedown dated March 21st 1927. Fine. First London edition one of 315 large paper copies. Illustrated. Folding map at end. 2 445 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Revolt in the Desert was an instant bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic and "within weeks of publication the combined royalties from Revolt were more than sufficient to pay off the Seven Pillars overdraft. Lawrence's Trustees therefore invoked a special clause inserted in the contract with Cape to protect his privacy and halted publication in England. Revolt continued to sell well however both in the United States and in translation" Wilson 1988 pp. 180. Lawrence was characteristically of two minds about the book: dismissive of the text which he viewed as an embarrassment to himself and yet attentive to the critical response. O'Brien A105;Macro 1439 Jonathan Cape unknown books
18818281San Francisco: The Bancroft Company 1881 Large folding black & white lithographed pocket map. 63x75 cm. plus borders. Original shoreline hand-colored. Light creases where once folded into wrappers a few short tears to right blank border 4 inch repaired tear to edge some reinforcement to rear at fold junctions. Very good condition. An extremely detailed and handsome map of San Francisco on a scale of 2500 feet to the inch. Along the bottom border is a lengthy "Reference List of Prominent Places" about 380 places which keys their location on the map. The prominent places include cemeteries churches hospitals hotels parks public buildings railroad depots schools theaters wharves and ferries etc. An inset on the right provides a skeleton map showing the relative position of San Francisco to the surrounding Bay Area. The original western shoreline before the landfill is shown and highlighted with color. The Bancroft Company unknown books
1828302753London Charles and Henry Baldwyn 1820-1828. 1828. 8vo. Title page vignettes. Contemporary 3/4 tan calf over marbled boards red and dark green spine labels minor rubbing. An attractive set. 16 volumes. Bookplates of F. Barham Zincke of Wherstead. Volumes 15 16 are edited by Henry Southern and Nicholas Harris Nicolas published by Baldwin Cradock and Joy; and Payne and Foss. Printed by Thomas Davison. Volumes 1-14 printed by D.S. Maurice. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1820-1828. hardcover books
177745115Norwich CT 1777. 1st printing Bristol B4457; Shipton & Mooney 43243. Printed self-wrappers stitched. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning to paper. Abrasion to lower left of text block tips rounded. Very Good. 22 2 pp. 12mo: A - C4. 6-7/8" x 4-1/2" <br/><br/>Early Colonial publication on the subject in which the author proclaims that the second coming of Christ "is nigh at hand even at the very Door and That it is very probable this glorious Day will begin or commence in America." RBH has no sale record for this work solely noting its inclusion in 'Evans' though technically it was not recorded by Evans being added by Bristol. OCLC records just 3 holding institutions: Yale AAS & the Library Co of Philadelphia. Rare. unknown books
177557996Amsterdam: Chez Marc-Michel Rey 1775. First continental edition after the first edition in Russian of 1766. 8vo Two volumes pp. 408 110; 375. Bound in full calf that shows some light rubbing to head bands and edges free endpaper loose in volume one. A nice clean copy. Illustrated with 4 folding tables. Scarce. Cioranecu 38333; V. Gestel-Van het Schip 14; Mortier & Mat Diderot et son temps 196 note; STCN 4 copies. from Wikipedia: "Catherine II Russian: Yekaterina Alekseyevna; 2 May O.S. 21 April 1729 - 17 November O.S. 6 November 1796 also known as Catherine the Great Yekaterina Velikaya was Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796 the country's longest-ruling female leader and arguably the most renowned. She came to power following a coup d'état when her husband Peter III was assassinated. Russia was revitalised under her reign growing larger and stronger than ever and becoming recognised as one of the great powers of Europe. She enthusiastically supported the ideals of The Enlightenment thus earning the status of an enlightened despot. As a patron of the arts she presided over the age of the Russian Enlightenment a period when the Smolny Institute the first state-financed higher education institution for women in Europe was established. At the instigation of her factotum Ivan Betskoy she wrote a manual for the education of young children drawing from the ideas of John Locke and founded 1764 the famous Smolny Institute which admitted young girls of the nobility." Betskoi who had worked with Diderot was Catherine's chief advisor for this enlightened educational initiative. Catherine was not advocating universal education but girls were included with boys and children of the petit bourgeois were mixed with children of the nobility in pilot schools. This idea along with that of Catherine's orphanage and theories on the duties of enlightened rule were an attempt to assimilate the advances in political thinking on the continent with the traditional Russian temperament while establishing Catherine as a center of European thought. Chez Marc-Michel Rey unknown books
1990108728London: Hodder & Stoughton 1990. First British edition of The Dalai Lama's autobiography. Octavo original cloth illustrated. Boldly signed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed. "Throughout his story told with great humility the Dalai Lama reveals his obligation both to address the time-honored spiritual needs of his people and to help them deal with the practical considerations of their disrupted lives. Anyone wanting to understand Tibet today will do well to read this priest-king's tale of coping with the ancient and modern worlds that have shaped him" Chicago Tribune. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover books
1935278565London: Cape 1935. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Illustrated with three manuscript facsimiles and forty-seven plates including four in color. Four folding maps. 1/4 pigskin over brown buckram; patterned end-papers gilt top with other edges uncut.London: Cape 1935. Limited issue of the first edition for General Circulation.<br/><br/> Minor scuffing on the spine ends; two corners bumped bookplate. Number 158 of 750 copies.<br/><br/> Cape unknown books
197310805London: The Arcadia Press 1973. Deluxe Limited Edition. Full leather. Near fine. Deluxe Limited Edition of The Book of Kings: A Royal Genealogy signed by The Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Small folio three volumes xix 1 511pp Vol. I; 512-1086pp Vol. II; 394pp Vol. III. Complete with 24 monochrome plates in Volume III. In publisher's royal blue morocco covers gilt titles on spines raised bands gilt decorations on covers. Light toning to spines. Silk endpapers decorative gilt turn-ins. All edges gilt. Publisher's red cloth slipcase lined in velvet royal crown stamped in gilt on sides. Bound by Zaehnsdorf of London for the publishers. This limited edition of 55 copies of which 50 were offered for sale was signed by Lord Mountbatten in Volume I. This is number 30 of 55. An incredibly attractive binding and presentation. This book contains detailed descriptions of the family trees of western European nobility. The Earl Mountbatten of Burma was a British naval officer uncle of Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh and the last Viceroy of India. He was killed in 1979 when his boat was bombed by the IRA in an infamous act that soured relations between Britain and Ireland for many years. Mountbatten has found renewed fame in recent years as Uncle Dickie on the Netflix series The Crown. He is portrayed by Greg Wise. The Arcadia Press unknown books
16356Amistad mutiny. Schooner Amistad. US Congress 29th Congress 1st Session: 1846. Report No. 753. Washington D.C.: June 24 1846. 17 pages. 9 x 6 in. First edition Report on the ongoing tension between the US and Spain in the wake of the Amistad mutiny in 1839 in which 53 African slaves took control of the Spanish ship that was transporting them and sailed to the United States; the slaves were granted freedom in a landmark case that reached the Supreme Court The United States vs. The Amistad 1841. Spanish authorities declared this an illegal act and an overstepping of American authority and thus engaged in a several years long battle for indemnity and damages from the US government. <br/><br/>This report documents the exchange of letters between official representatives of the United States and the Spanish minister to the United States Mr. Calderon de la Barca. The Minister lists specific articles of the 1795 treaty between the US and Spain which specifically deal with ships and merchant property. The US had freed the slaves years earlier Spain still demanded indemnity "for the Spanish vessel called the Amistad her cargo and the slaves on board of her" page 4. At this time owning slaves was legal in the United States although importing slaves from Africa or the Caribbean was outlawed. Under this framework the Supreme Court justices determined that the mutiny aboard the Amistad was not from slaves but "kidnapped and free negroes". The Africans aboard the ship were thus liberated and returned to Africa. Spanish representatives considered this to be an illegal seizure. Very good condition. Disbound slight crimping and light foxing of text. Rare. unknown books
193020204526c1930. Edge wear on cover; Faint coffee splash on blank front end paper. Small ink smudge margin dedication page. Creative - Charming - Skillful - Whimsical In what appears to be the grips of the Great Slump depression a family elects to give one of the daughters the gift of verse and original art as a wedding present. The introduction reads: This book so filled with folly In foolish sketch and rhyme Comes to wish our Collie Joy till the end of time. A pen and ink drawing of a bride and groom standing between two trees adorns the cover. It includes 44 pen and ink drawings some with watercolor and relevant original limericks or often rhyming verse. Each is Initialed by a family member. With one exception the writer of the verse was also the illustrator of the relevant drawing. The book begins with "A dialogue on an Important Subject between members of the Pryke family". It discusses the lack of funds in the family to purchase an appropriate wedding present for one of the daughters "Collie". Titles of the verses include The Lobster Tragedy Household Hints for the Newly-Married. -Saturday's Lunch Bunnies Little Black Sambo Grown-ups Horrors The Sweet Old Lady The Frustration of a Crime 3 pages of text and 3 illustrations Lucy Adventures of My Relatives in 3 parts Riddle-Mee- Ree Bounce Mars An Escape From Dartmoor I Wonder Aunt Fanny The Sea- Serpent the Explanation and A Moral Tale. The last is a rhyme of a young girl who disobeyed her mother and fell from a tree. It concludes with MORAL Now all you little children here Take heed of what I say Always obey your parents dear Or you'll be layed in clay. The limericks include a person from Spain an old lady from China a policeman whose feet a boy from Madrid an old lady of Slough a bold lady from Bristol a young lady of Zenda an old fellow of Louth an old dame in Peru a young man of Forquay a professor at Oxon an old person of Frith a person of London an old lady of Bucks an old man of the Hook and There once was a lady whose face Had slipped by mistake out of place She didn't know where Though she sought it with care So she filled up the gap with French lace A family of equal opportunity insulters leading to some remarkably creative illustrations. A majority of the pages in the book are used. Appears complete as written. Measures 9" x 7 1/4". <br/><br/> unknown books
179547834Philadelphia: March 16 1795. 4to 10 leaves the last blank; original drab blue paper wrappers stitched as issued; previous folds and a couple of short splits at them entering from the fore-margin; all else very good. Docketed on the back wrapper: "An act passsed 1795 with forms accompanying." Following the passage of "An Act making further provision in cases of drawbacks" the Secretary of the Treasury issued instructions for using the forms and with explanations of seven forms to be used by customs collectors under the terms of this Act. The three pages of explanations are signed in ink by the Treasury Secretary Oliver Wolcott followed by copies of the seven forms printed on rectos only in question viz: Coastwise goods to be exported to another district; Exportation of goods from a district other than that into which they were imported; Bond for delivery of goods; Debenture form; Abstract of goods exported from any district other than that into which they were originally imported; Abstract of drawbacks or debentures payable in consequences of exportations; and Abstract of debentures paid. Evans 29764 noting "pp. 3"; no hard copy found in OCLC but a copy also signed by Wolcott apparently resides at AAS however AAS notes "the one recorded copy is not available"; Bristol; B9392 locating the Rosenbach Foundation copy only and noting "1 p.l. 6 p."; Shipton & Mooney 47657 "8 pp. The one recorded copy is not available". <br/><br/> March 16 unknown books
187029455London: printed at the War Office 1870. First edition folio pp. 2 11 1; 2 folding plates 7 folding tables and graphs several printed in color; original blue printed wrappers; wrappers curled at fore. and bottom edges a few short tears entering from the fore-margin; all else very good. This copy with a presentation from Sir Frederick Augustus Abel to the renowned natural philosopher John Tyndall inscribed and signed by Abel at the top of the front wrapper. From the time he became ordnance chemist at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich till his retirement in 1888 Abel 1827-1902 was the chief government authority on all matters connected with explosives and the man who invented the smokeless propellant cordite in 1889 in collaboration with Sir James Dewer. "He was a member of the ordnance select committee was expert for submarine defense and smokeless powder and from 1888 until his death was president of the explosives committee. The transformation of arms and ammunition which took place during his thirty-four years of service at Woolwich necessarily occupied the greater part of his scientific career though almost ever branch of technical science was enriched by his labours" DNB. Sir Frederick invented an instrument to test the flash point of petroleum products electrical fuses and other applications of electricity to warlike purposes. He was knighted in 1891. The report was prepared by C. W. Younghusband at the request of J. H. Lefroy Master of Ordnance. Only University of Chicago and a copy in the Netherlands in OCLC. <br/><br/> printed at the War Office unknown books
182623980London: John Murray 1826. First edition 4to 2 volumes in 1; pp. x 2 xi-xlviii i.e. lxviii 335 1; 4 269 1; 38 engraved plates and maps 1 folding and backed with linen 1 hand-colored 6 wood-engraved vignettes in the text; half brown morocco over marbled cloth rebacked old gilt-decorated spine neatly laid down; very good sound copy. Denham 1786-1828 made extensive and important explorations in Africa. When he accompanied Bornuese troops in an expedition against the Fellatah they were put to utter rout and only Denham escaped with his life "after encountering dangers and deprivations his narrative of which reads like a frenzied dream.The work which went through several editions has numerous illustrations from sketches by the author together with an Appendix of Natural History and other notes" DNB. He was later appointed lieutenant-governor of the colony of Sierra Leone where he died of the African fever. Ibrahim-Hilmy p. 172. <br/><br/> John Murray hardcover books
192742306New York: George H. Doran 1927. First American edition limited to 250 copies on large paper this is copy #10 small 4to pp. xvi 4 335; folding map 8 mounted plates and portraits in black and white and 11 color portraits after Eric Kennington W. Roberts Augustus John and others; largely unopened; original blue cloth t.e.g. maroon leather label on spine; front and back panels of the dust jacket are present but the jacket spine is largely perished although the spine title remains tissue guard for frontis torn at the gutter; publisher's slipcase ever so slightly faded. All else fine. O'Brien A105. <br/><br/> George H. Doran hardcover books
185154166Liverpool: printed by R. James 1851. First collected edition 8vo steel-engraved portrait frontispiece of Pratt 2 preliminary leaves title page and contents leaf plus: Divine Authority or the Question Was Joseph Smith Sent from God Parts 1-7 all published each separately paginated; Divine Authenticity of the Book of Mormon no. 1-6 all published pp. 96 continuous; Reply to a Pamphlet Printed at Glasgow . Entitled "Remarks on Mormonism" drop title pp. 16; Absurdities of Immaterialism or a Reply to T. W. P. Tadyler's Pamphlet entitled "The Materialism of the Mormons or Latter-Day Saints Examined and Exposed" drop title pp.32; Great First Cause or the Self-Moving Forces of the Universe drop title pp. 16; Report of Three Nights' Public Discussion in Bolton between William Gibson . and Rev. Woodville Woodman . Reported by G. D. Watt Liverpool: published by Franklin D. Richards 1851 pp.46; Three Nights' Public Discussion between the Revds. C. W. Cleeve James Robertson and Philip Cater and Elder John Taylor . at Boulogne-sur-Mer France . Also a Reply to the Rev. K. Groves. Liverpool: published by John Taylor 1850 pp. 49 1; Tipped in at the rear pastedown is the folding plate "Fac-simile of the Brass Plates Recently taken from a Mound in the Vicinity of Kinderhook Pike County Illinois." Together 18 pamphlets in 20th-century half polished tan calf gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments red and green morocco labels in 2; the title page is in Crawley's state B no priority Crawley 551; Flake 6542: Originally published as separate pamphlets. A title page table of contents and a portrait of Orson Pratt were published and the work bound in an official press binding of 3/4 embossed leather stamped 'O. Pratts Works &c.' The title page table of contents and portrait were apparently also sold for individual binding." <br/><br/> printed by R. James hardcover books
