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18723849Lyon, Imprimerie d'Aimé Vingtrinier, 1872, (1874) in-4 (315 x 235 mm.) (2) ff., XII-714 pp., (1) f., ill. n/b in-texte, 2 pl. n/b (portraits gravés), reliure demi-maroquin rouge à gros grain, dos à faux-nerfs, dos insolé, coins légèrement frottés, ex-libris collé sur contreplat, envoi de l'auteur sur page de faux-titre, très bel exemplaire.
1840793J49London: John Hearne 1840. Cloth. Very Good. 11.5" by 9.5". Not Stated. A third edition copy of this scarce work on the history of coinage in England bound in decorative cloth by Edmonds & Remnants London. Complete in three volumes.Bound by Edmonds & Remnants London with their binder's plate to the rear pastedown of Volume I. This work gives a comprehensive historical account of British coinage from earliest period until the Victorian age. In the third edition which has been corrected enlarged and with the addition of the index. Volumes I and II contain the historical account and index and Volume III contains 160 plates depicting coinage from different monarchical reigns. Also including a folding map. Collated complete. Written by Reverend Rogers Ruding an English cleric and academic during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was the Vicar of Malden Surrey from 1793 until 1820. This copy came from the library at Julians Park Hertfordshire the previous home of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie 1902-1968. She was an English socialite and through her mother was the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII. Rebound in decorative cloth by Edmonds & Remnants London with their binder's plate to the rear pastedown of Volume I. Externally smart with some rubbing to the joints and extremities. Some shelf wear and a few marks to the boards. Joints to Volume III are strained but firm. Internally hinges to Volume III are tender but firm. All volumes firmly bound. Scattered spotting to the first and last few pages of Volume I and II but otherwise pages bright and clean. Scattered spots to the plates in Volume III. Very Good John Hearne hardcover
184770979hOxford: Henry Parker 1847. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Three volumes in matching original gilt decorative stamped cloth with Oxford cameo to fronts rebacked with new spine and gilt morocco spine labels. Original yellow endpapers. The second edition published in 1847 and 1848 respectively. Corners worn but retouched; edges toned. Early gift inscription verso endpaper in one volume. Some mild scattered foxing and toning. Otherwise clean tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome set. A total of 85 plates John Le Keux after F. Mackenzie with many woodcuts in-text. Publisher's catalogue at rear of two volumes. . Henry Parker Hardcover
1817009305Glasgow: W. Sommerville A. Fullarton J. Blackie and Co. Booksellers 1817 Book. Illus. by R. Scott Engraver. Good Plus to Very Good. Full Leather. Reprint. 10 1/4 x 17 Inches. Original full reversed polished calf on boards. Front joint of Volume I is split for bottom 6 inches and Title of Volume II is split for bottom half of length at gutter. Volume I missing first free endpaper. Five raised bands each volume. Engravings and Atlas of Sacred Geography. Light surface wear to boards but no writing or foxing. Strikingly original. Volume I has 726 pp. Volume II has 672 pp. Total weight approx. 8 Kg. 17.5 lbs. Note: Since this set is on consignment our usual discount of 20% to the trade does not apply. W. Sommerville, A. Fullarton, J. Blackie, and Co. Booksellers hardcover
1895835P6London: Edward Arnold 1895. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. An association copy of Reverend Samuel Reynolds Hole's travel work on America a presentation copy from Holy to his longtime friend William Shepherd. First edition.Author's presentation copy. Loosely inserted is a signed photograph of S. Reynolds Hole signed to the caption of the photograph and inscribed to the reverse 'William Shepherd from his old friend S. Reynolds Hole Deanery Rochester May 31 1896'.Two letters from the author to William Shepherd loosely inserted in an envelope dated July 28 1893 and July 23 1896. The first letter discusses an old murder the second is a letter of thanks.Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-six illustrations both full paged and in text.Thirty-two pages of adverts to the rear.Collated complete. An extensive travel work by Samuel Hole touring America and Canada from New York to Toronto Chicago to the Rocky Mountains.Samuel Reynolds Hole was a notable horticulturist and Anglican priest. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally smart. Very light bumping and rubbing to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spine is lightly faded. A few minor marks to the boards and spine. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Edward Arnold hardcover
1836000192Paris Furne et Gosselin 1836
18497317New York:: V.G. Audubon 1849-54. First Royal Octavo Edition. Fine with original hand-coloring. A fine original hand-colored lithograph on paper. Royal Octavo 10.5 x 7 inches. Drawn from nature by John Audubon drawn on stone by William E. Hitchcock and lithographed printed and colored by JT Bowen Philadelphia. Accompanied by the original text written by the Reverend John Bachman DD. The Quadrupeds of North America; portrayals of 155 four-legged mammals native to North America depicted in their natural environment was a collaborative effort between the premier nineteenth century American Ornithologist Naturalist Artist and Frontiersman John James Audubon 1785-1851 his sons John Woodhouse Audubon and Victor Gifford Audubon and the naturalist Reverend John Bachman. The four men were unified in their desire to document and portray what they recognized as a dwindling resource; America's native animals amidst the natural beauty of the untouched American landscape. Their collective wisdom predicted the impending effects of Manifest Destiny- man's encroachment on the wilderness and natural landscape of North America- and as such was the impetus for the journey. To document and then portray America's native animals in the splendor and majesty of the uninhabited North American landscape the team traveled westward from Audubon's home in Mill Grove Pennsylvania up the Missouri River and through territory just previously explored by Lewis and Clark; from the Canadian border of the Northern Russian Territories- now Alaska- then southward to Mexico. Arduous and monumental the journey is recognized in the pathos of the compositions. However the true legacy of the work rests on John James Audubon's prolific vision and mastery of his subject and medium. Heretofore unseen The Quadrupeds of North American is a wildlife classic: an essential and timeless contribution to both Early American culture and the Art of American Wildlife Painting. The American Review a Whig journal heralded the national origin of the Quadrupeds: "We have at last have a Great National Work; originated and completed among us- authors artists and artisans of which are our own citizens the Bible of Nature!" John James Audubon in the West. New York: Henry H. Abrams 2000. Sabin 2368. Wood 208. Archivally matted & framed V.G. Audubon, unknown
18720053711872 Lyon, Vingtrinier, 1872. Grand in-quarto (257 X 326 mm) demi-maroquin noir à coins, dos à nerfs, titre doré, pièce d’armes dorée en queue, tête dorée, plats de la couverture conservés (L. Pouillet) ; XII-715 pages. Rousseurs concentrées sur quelques pages, sinon très éparses dans le reste du corps d'ouvrage.
18500010080France. Good with no dust jacket. 1850. Ephemera. On offer is an outstanding example of the Catholic Churchs teachings at a grass-roots level in 19th century France. This beautiful handwritten sermon is titled Sermon de III Dimanche de Careme Sermon for the 3rd Sunday of Lent and notes that it is given by Monsieur le Cure the Parish Priest. The handwriting is small and clear and an excellent example of the penmanship of the time. The source of the sermon is unknown. There is no specific reference to a parish community or author. We do know from its title that it was written to be given at a mass on the 3rd Sunday of Lent. The Easter Season of Lent and Easter Sunday is the most important in the Catholic church more so than Christmas. An excerpt from the sermon: Les miracles que Dieu fait en notre faveire sont toujours des marques de la bonte et de la misericordie et les infirmites que JC aurit sont la figures des differentes maladies de notre ame .Translation: The miracles that God does in our favor are always marks of goodness and mercy and the infirmities that JC would have are the images of the different diseases of our soul.Throughout his text you can see where he has crossed out words and edited expressions. This was very much a living manuscript in his hands. For a social historian this is an excellent look into the world of the average French person and into the thought processes of the clergy who so dominated life in the small towns and villages of France in the 19th century. This manuscript measures 6.0 inches by 6.25 inches and contains 34 carefully handwritten pages. It is 100% complete. The manuscript is simply folded along a centre line. There is no cover but the pages are in fine condition. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 34 pages . unknown
18494387New York:: V.G. Audubon 1849-54. First Royal Octavo Edition. Fine with original hand-coloring. A fine original hand-colored lithograph on paper. Royal Octavo 10.5 x 7 inches. Drawn from nature by John Audubon drawn on stone by William E. Hitchcock and lithographed printed and colored by JT Bowen Philadelphia. Accompanied by the original text written by the Reverend John Bachman DD. The Quadrupeds of North America; portrayals of 155 four-legged mammals native to North America depicted in their natural environment was a collaborative effort between the premier nineteenth century American Ornithologist Naturalist Artist and Frontiersman John James Audubon 1785-1851 his sons John Woodhouse Audubon and Victor Gifford Audubon and the naturalist Reverend John Bachman. The four men were unified in their desire to document and portray what they recognized as a dwindling resource; America's native animals amidst the natural beauty of the untouched American landscape. Their collective wisdom predicted the impending effects of Manifest Destiny- man's encroachment on the wilderness and natural landscape of North America- and as such was the impetus for the journey. To document and then portray America's native animals in the splendor and majesty of the uninhabited North American landscape the team traveled westward from Audubon's home in Mill Grove Pennsylvania up the Missouri River and through territory just previously explored by Lewis and Clark; from the Canadian border of the Northern Russian Territories- now Alaska- then southward to Mexico. Arduous and monumental the journey is recognized in the pathos of the compositions. However the true legacy of the work rests on John James Audubon's prolific vision and mastery of his subject and medium. Heretofore unseen The Quadrupeds of North American is a wildlife classic: an essential and timeless contribution to both Early American culture and the Art of American Wildlife Painting. The American Review a Whig journal heralded the national origin of the Quadrupeds: "We have at last have a Great National Work; originated and completed among us- authors artists and artisans of which are our own citizens the Bible of Nature!" John James Audubon in the West. New York: Henry H. Abrams 2000. Sabin 2368. Wood 208. Matted in Ivory Rag Board 12 x 16 inches. V.G. Audubon, unknown
1836002756Paris, Charles Gosselin et Furne, 1836
18744810Lyon, Imprimerie Aimé Vingtrinier, 1874 ; grand in-4 ; demi-chagrin brique, dos à nerfs, titre doré ; (2) ff. (faux-titre et titre), XII, 714 pp., (1) f. d’achevé d’imprimer, nombreux blasons in texte.
1870030898LONDON: George Bell & Sons 1870 A nice set of the second edition of Morris's History of British Birds. In 6 volumes with original decorative cloth bindings and 365 hand coloured plates as called for. The bindings are all clean with bright gilt pictures of birds to each front board and gilt titles and decoration to spine. There is some wear: volume I has some cloth splitting at the hinges and splitting at the rear endpaper with rubbing to corners; volumes II III and IV have very slight pulling to top and bottom of spine and a little rubbing at corners; volume V has very small splits at the top and bottom of the spine; and volume VI has a 1 inch tear at the top of the spine with no loss and scuffing at the corners. Internally all have the original endpapers; the first section including the frontispiece is becoming loose on volumes I II and III; volume IV is sound but the stitching is looser than on the others. There is a little spotting to some plates and text pages but in general the contents are very clean looking unread and the plates are bright and well coloured. A few plates in volume III lack tissue guards and the plate of the Whitethroat is present but detached. Volume 5 has 4 plates present but detached: the Little Stint Schinz's Sandpiper Pochard and Polish Swan - and pages 131-134 the same. A few pages have been roughly opened and a few have darkening to edges. Overall the set is complete with bright bindings and well coloured plates. George Bell & Sons hardcover
187481902Adelaide: J.T. Shawyer Printer 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide J.T. Shawyer Printer 1874. Octavo iv ii 107 pages plus an original albumen paper photographic frontispiece 184 × 113 mm. Flush-cut black cloth marked and a little rubbed at the extremities with slight loss at the head and foot of the spine; cloth on the front joint split but the joint is firm with minor conservation to one early opening; large printed paper title-label on the front cover has some loss to the bottom half mainly marginal but with the loss of one word and some letters of a few others in the bottom right-hand corner; minimal foxing; a very good copy internally excellent. The frontispiece a Townsend Duryea photograph is a composite of five numbered oval portraits; the identification key is printed on the verso of the title page. Ferguson 16706 not identifying the photographer and not indicating that the five photographic portraits are in fact one composite photograph. The revised second edition of this work Ferguson 16707 does not retain the photograph; it contains six tinted lithographs as does the version published in the 1879 collection of reprints 'The Native Tribes of South Australia' Ferguson 13095. <p>Loosely inserted is a lengthy cutting from the South Australian 'Register' of 24 April 1889: 'An Australian Native Fifty Years Ago' By the Late Mr F.W. Taplin' introduced thus: 'Subjoined is the lecture which was delivered by Mr Taplin before the Australian Natives' Association three nights before the author's tragic death in the Coffee Palace fire'. Frederick William Taplin 1853-1889 a son of George Taplin had succeeded him as superintendent of the mission 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. J.T. Shawyer, Printer hardcover
1886142541Adelaide: E. Spiller Government Printer 1886. Very Good. Adelaide E. Spiller Government Printer 1886. Foolscap folio 16 pages plus a large folding chromolithographic geological map printed surface 560 × 840 mm - and very attractive at that. Drop-title; a few pinholes and notches in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound now disbound; tiny closed tear to the map near the stub; in excellent condition. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 122 of 1886; one of 800 copies. Not in McLaren but see 15901 an octavo edition without the map published in the Northern Territory undated by McLaren but dated 1886 in Ferguson 18823. <p>Setting out from Burrundie Tenison-Woods 'examined all the places where mining has been or was actually being carried out. In the course of these journeys most of the intervening country was prospected and the geology was noted'. He then undertook 'an exploration in the less known portions of the interior. Our course was from Mount Wells to Mount Douglas and thence south-eastward across the ranges to the Eveleen mine. From thence we traced the River Mary to its sources and then having crossed a small patch of tableland reached the upper waters of the Katherine which we followed down to the telegraph station; from thence we proceeded along the line to Pine Creek. I returned to Palmerston by the overland route from Southport'. E. Spiller, Government Printer unknown
18496425New York:: V.G. Audubon 1849-54. First Royal Octavo Edition. Fine with original hand-coloring. A fine original hand-colored lithograph on paper. Royal Octavo 10.5 x 7 inches. Drawn from nature by John Audubon drawn on stone by William E. Hitchcock and lithographed printed and colored by JT Bowen Philadelphia. Accompanied by the original text written by the Reverend John Bachman DD. The Quadrupeds of North America; portrayals of 155 four-legged mammals native to North America depicted in their natural environment was a collaborative effort between the premier nineteenth century American Ornithologist Naturalist Artist and Frontiersman John James Audubon 1785-1851 his sons John Woodhouse Audubon and Victor Gifford Audubon and the naturalist Reverend John Bachman. The four men were unified in their desire to document and portray what they recognized as a dwindling resource; America's native animals amidst the natural beauty of the untouched American landscape. Their collective wisdom predicted the impending effects of Manifest Destiny- man's encroachment on the wilderness and natural landscape of North America- and as such was the impetus for the journey. To document and then portray America's native animals in the splendor and majesty of the uninhabited North American landscape the team traveled westward from Audubon's home in Mill Grove Pennsylvania up the Missouri River and through territory just previously explored by Lewis and Clark; from the Canadian border of the Northern Russian Territories- now Alaska- then southward to Mexico. Arduous and monumental the journey is recognized in the pathos of the compositions. However the true legacy of the work rests on John James Audubon's prolific vision and mastery of his subject and medium. Heretofore unseen The Quadrupeds of North American is a wildlife classic: an essential and timeless contribution to both Early American culture and the Art of American Wildlife Painting. The American Review a Whig journal heralded the national origin of the Quadrupeds: "We have at last have a Great National Work; originated and completed among us- authors artists and artisans of which are our own citizens the Bible of Nature!" John James Audubon in the West. New York: Henry H. Abrams 2000. Sabin 2368. Wood 208. Archivally matted & framed V.G. Audubon, unknown
18033374London: Captain Henry Wilson. Very Good. 1803. Fifth Edition. Later binding of half gilt ruled faux blue morocco over marbled boards. Gilt particulars and decoration to spine. Top and bottom of front hinge cracked top of rear hinge beginning. Blue endpapers. Enlarged edition with supplement by Reverend John Pearce Hockin. "William Taylor 1813" delicately inked to top right of title page. Foldout "Chart of the Pelew Islands and Adjacent Seas" to front of book suffers foxing and some creasing as well as a small closed tear to the bottom margin of a fold line not affecting text. Contains eighteen steel plates with two additional plates included in supplement along with vocabulary of Pelew language. A nice clean copy without further markings. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; xvii i 244; ii 72 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. . Captain Henry Wilson hardcover
1877124005Montreal: Eusebe Senecal Imprimeur-Editeur 1877. Hardcover. ex library-very good. 13 plates with pasted-in b&w composite photographs of churchmen with 20 p. of text. 98 portraits of Rimouski clergymen photo of Pope Pius IX. Pages opposite plates have brief biographies. 29.5 cm. Rebound in burgundy cloth with new endpapers. Library ink deaccession stamp at top of title page. Repairs throughout. Plate V has one empty frame plate VI has two empty and plate X has one empty. <br/><br/>The inspiration for this album would appear to be a work entitled: "Album Photo-Biographique du Clerge Catholique du Diocese de St. Hyacinthe" by Alphonse Denis published around 1873. Charles Guay 1845-1922 may be best remembered as the author of the Chronique de Rimouski the first history of the city and its region published in two volumes in 1873 and 1874. He was vicar at the cathedral of Rimouski. Eusebe Senecal, Imprimeur-Editeur hardcover
183421190881834. London: Edward Bull. 1834. 8vo. Original pictorial full olive morocco gilt edges; pp. viii 254 2 advertisements 25 steel-engraved plates on mounted India after William Daniell; a little wear to extremities front cover with old repair to scratch light marginal browning to plates; otherwise very good. First edition extremely rare large paper copy of the first annual in this series which was to be continued up to 1840. The fashionable preacher and writer William Caunter was fascinated by India and wrote this mix of information and entertainment probably for the family members who had remained in Britain and where not over in India. Daniell's contributions make this a very handsome publication on India under the Raj. The normal format measures just over 20 by 14 cm wereas this issue measures over 24 by 16 cm. This issue is on better velin paper and the engravings - not foxed as often - are on mounted India paper with tissue guards. This annual appeared between 1834 and 1840 8 volumes with two volumes dated 1839 as a gift book for British people who had members of their family serving in India. unknown
190023925<p>London: S.T. Freemantle 1900. leather. Very Good. 2 volumes 8vo. b&w illustrations ""The Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne & A Garden Kalendar by The Reverend Gilbert White M.A. edited by R. Bowdler Sharpe LL.D. with an Introduction to the Garden Kalendar by The Very Reverend S. Reynolds Hole Dean of Rochester & numerous illustrations by J.G. Keulemans Herbert Railton & Edmund J. Sullivan in two volumes""; Gilbert White's classic work detailing the natural history of the area around his family home at the Vicarage of Selborne composed in the form of a series of letters to Thomas Pennant and Daines Barrington; here in a new custom binding by fine art binder Karen McGuire - full green leather with four compartments to each spine being two red labels with gilt titling bird and cloud motifs to top compartments the lower compartments with gilt illustrations: vol 1 showing a tree in bloom with a mobile hare vol 2 with tree lake and foliage and birds overhead; gilt borders to boards front and rear; new marbled endpapers new prelims; both volumes with frontispiece plates and copiously illustrated throughout with full-page engravings text drawings and fold-out facsimile letters; a superb art binding enhancing Gilbert White's enduring natural history; title pages and text blocks foxed occasional light foxing in text o.w. both volumes Very Good; PLEASE NOTE: VERY HEAVY TWO VOLUME SET MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING DEPENDING ON DESTINATION.</p> S.T. Freemantle hardcover
187231740AB1872. Suffolk c.1872. 69 11 pages. Hardcover / Half Morocco with gilt lettering to spine. Very good condition. This unpublished Manuscript of an unfinished Work on the History of Finger - Rings by Reverend James Beck includes for example the following chapters: - History of Finger Rings Eqyptians as true inventors of the Finger Ring "according to Pliny the Greeks could not have known of them at the time of the Trojan Wars as no mention of them is made by Homer" - Beck dissects the meaning of Rings on certain fingers and explains why the "Ring Finger" was chosen as such: "By some this finger is called the digitus medicus or medicinalis but its more correct name is annularis Digitus anularis today known as Ring Finger" ".it was selected as annular finger because it was less employed than any of the others & it was protected by the middle & little finger hence as Atteus Capito says it was better suited for preserving a Ring. Aulus Gellius mentions that the anatomists had discovered a vein which extended from the Heart to the fourth finger of the left hand & that on this account it was selected as the ring finger." The Manuscript makes further cases for Rings worn on the other fingers on the hand. Includes sections on: - Signet Rings / Signet Rings with Crystals and Enamels / Rebus / Letters and Coronets / Signet Heraldic - Rings with angraved Cameos - Sergeant at Law - Rings The manuscript includes a larger section on Rings for Serjeants at Law - Rings of Investiture / Rings for Poet Laureates - Xtian Rings Christian Rings / Iconographic Rings - Rings for Prelates - Doctors of Divinity - Canons & Priests - Rings for Consegrated Virgins / Rings used as Reliquaries "The custom of putting Relics with Rings" - Rings as Gifts at Marriage of Servants / Ring Money - Ad Memoriam Ring etc. etc. - Finger Rings as Charms against Diseases "annali virtuosi" Beck lists here a story of a Charm - Ring against Epilepsy which was found at Kemp Weston in Somerset - Finger Rings as Talisman "Crapaudine - Talismanie" - Rings with merchant Marks Attractive quarto bound in half deep red morocco over cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Blue endpapers and paper stock throughout; circular stamp of Assay Office Library Birmingham on flyleaf. A sequence of pasted letters about 10 pages in all precede the manuscript starting with a letter to Beck from Thomas Clifford Allbutt inventor of the Clinical Thermometer and co-founder with Sir William Osler of the History of Medicine Society from the Royal Archaeological Institute about works held in their library on finger rings; a book order form from W H Smith; and a brief note from the former Bishop of Glasgow Walter Trower. Becks manuscript has a typed title page and is dated circa 1872. His history of rings runs to 69 pages with an additional 11 pages of notes laid down on the blue paper stock. Beck proceeds from the ancient Egyptians through the classical world occasionally adding illustrations dealing with signet rings and rings of office such as the Serjeant of Law as well as the ring of the poets laureate. The final notes become increasingly fragmentary at the end. James Beck 1819/20-1886 was educated at Corpus Christi College Cambridge serving as Rector of Parham Sussex and subsequently of Bildeston Suffolk; in 1867 he married Caroline Jeannette Bignell Walter. This volumes has the feeling of a family memento probably bound up after Becks death to preserve his hard work on this fascinating subject. Source of Description: Dr.Christian White. hardcover
184131857AB1841. Maynooth / Radanstown Meath / Cole Hill Longford etc. 1841-1854. Octavo. 181 pages Diary of William Handcock / 140 pages plus 4 pages of Index Diary of Robert Ball Handcock. Hardcover / Original 19th century half-leather with paper-covered boards. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Letters and Petitions and Addresses transcribed in this Manuscript - Diary of William Handcock include many Letters he wrote himself to authorities or Newspapers at the Time Letters he received as Rector of Clontarf Rector of Radanstown Meath and Rector of Kilnagross Diocese of Ross Friends Colleagues etc. but William Handcock also included transcriptions of Letters of contemporaries colleagues and people who had written to Newspapers or the Crown which he found interesting. Letters and Addresses include for example: 1. Address from the Roman Catholic Inhabitants of Clontarf to the Revd. William Handcock page 117 - 119 2. Letter to the Maynooth Grand Diocese of Meath - To the Reverend Samuel Magee - Rector of Rathmolyon Glebe Maynooth June 1848 / Page 107 - 110 3. Letter "To the Rent Charge - To the Landed Proprietors of Ireland - Maynooth Dec.15 / 1848" page 102 - 106 4. Letter from a Lady to Revd. W. Handcock on.the Right of Private Judgment in Matters of Religion - Clifton Vale April 12 - 1841 Page 73 - 77 and followed by the long answer of the Reverend William Hancock on Pages 77 - 86 And many more !!! Biographical Information on Reverend William Handcock 1795-1873 Rev. William Handcock was born on 22 December 1795 in Dublin Ireland. He was the son of Rev Robert Handcock D D and Jane Bryanton. William matriculated at Trinity College Dublin on 1 July 1811. William Handcock pensioner Mr Fea aged 15 son of Robert clericus born Dublin. William late Rector of Kilgariffe Diocese of Ross co. Cork; Leslie states: priest 1820 Dromore Vicar choral St Patrick's Cathedral 1819-21; Curate Ardee Armagh 1820 Prebend and Vicar Ballisodare Achonry 1821-9 exchanged with Charles Mulloy for Rector of Clontarf 1829-40; Rector Radanstown Meath 1840-52; Rector Kilnagross Ross 1852-8; resigned. Succeeded to his father's estate at Cole Hill co. Longford between 1820 and 1858. Rev William Handcock married Sarah Coddington on 6 January 1821. He owned an estate of just over 500 acres in the parish of Aughrim barony and county of Roscommon in the 1850s. In the 1870s Mrs Sarah Handcock of Ballyknockan House Ballypatrick county Tipperary owned 515 acres in county Roscommon. William died on 3 January 1873 aged 77. Source: Linley & Jim Hooper's family history: "The genealogy of George A A Hooper his wife Linley Maree McKenzie & her half sister Jennifer Anne Dunbar Daniels of Melbourne Australia" hardcover
1836002795Paris, Charles Gosselin et Furne, 1836
18430001770Baltimore Maryland MD - at Sea Aboard the Charles 1843. On offer are two 2 super original manuscript relics of Christian outreach and missionary work handwritten by Reverend Walter Gunn one of the first missionaries to India addressed to Frederick Schott of Waterloo New York. Bio notes follow. The first is a one 1 page letter written by Gunn dated 1843 while in Baltimore. The second letter is written by Rev. Gunn while on the boat "The Charles" heading to India in 1844. He has been at sea for 138 days. This is a 3¼ page letter. Here are snippets: 1 "Baltimore May 24 1843 Dear Brother in the Lord I should like to write a long letter to you and enter into many particulars but I have but only a few moments to spare as Bro Selmser is soon to leave B. and I have a press of business on hand. Well how do you do. How is your family and how do your souls prosper. Is Christ precious are you actively engaged in his service. O my brother watch your heart your words and your actions and strive to live so that the flame of love may burn brightly in your heart to God. How pleasant it would be for me to enjoy the hospitalities of your table again to bow with you again around the family altar to walk to the house of God in company but instead of walking the street of Waterloo I shall soon be walking the deck of the vessel that bears me to the heathen land. But shall I ever forget you and the beloved brethren of W. No. Even now while going from house to house among the brethren in imagination the tears fall upon the paper and bedew these lines I write .Your brother in Christ Walter Gunn." 2 "Ship Charles Indian Ocean March 25th 1844 Dear Brother Shutt While penning these lines I am sailing up the Indian Ocean towards the shores of Hindustan. I have crossed the equator twice doubled the Cape of Good Hope and shall in a few weeks I trust reach my field of labor. But though I am separated from you by a distance of so many thousand miles I have not forgotten you no in imagination I often walk the streets of Waterloo visit the houses of the brethren and join in your acts of worship in the congregation. The different articles of apparel that I wear at this moment remind me of you and many others in W. While contemplating the interesting scenes that transpire in your place one year ago my eyes often fill with tears. Were not those precious and heavenly seasons when you and so many of your associates and friends took a stand on the Lord's side. Though I am now denied the privilege of witnessing such glorious displays of the power and grace of God in the conviction and conversion of sinners I do not on that account conclude that I am out of the path of duty. True it would be a pleasing task for the minister of Christ to be engaged daily in the work of directing the inquiring to the Savior and strengthening those who had just commenced running the Christian course. But that privilege at present is denied me. From no one for the last few months have I heard the inquiry "What must I do to be saved." Except the missionaries who are going with me to the heathen. I am surrounded by those who seem to think but little of their undying souls .You will undoubtedly wish to know how I feel now that I am so far away from kindred friends and natives land with but little prospect of ever seeing them again. To answer for the most part I feel cheerful contented and happy. Often have I seen the ocean all lashed into commotion the vessel at one moment raised upon the top of a mighty billow and the next plunged into the fearful chasm below; at such a moment it seemed as though we must all be engulfed beneath the troubled ocean but even then my mind has been calm and unruffled .Tell your sister Mrs. Bean that the pantaloons she made me became very spotted by the damp weather around the Cape of Good Hope but that the spots did not make them any the less comfortable. Tell Jackson that I hope and pray that he may become a minister. Tell Mrs. Mayer that my wife often speaks of her and the pleasant time that they spent together in Johnstown and Whitesboro. Tomorrow or next day we expect that our vessel will anchor in the harbor of Amherst in Burmah. One hundred and thirty eight days I have been tossed upon the billows of the ocean without setting my feet on land and many more anxious days will pass before I reach Guntur the field of my labor. Pray for me and my companion that we may be preserved from the temptations to which we are exposed and that we may be the faithful servants of Christ among the heathen. Yours in the bonds of Christian love Walter Gunn. Near the shores of Burmah April 3rd 1844." BIO NOTES: "The Rev. W. Gunn. The Missionary was a graduate of Union College N.Y. in 1841; studied theology at Gettysburg; was ordained by the Hartwick Synod in 1843 at Johnstown; appointed missionary to India in the same year; arrived at Guntur on June 18th 1844 and was a faithful and an indefatigable colleague of the Rev. Mr. Heyer until 1851 when after a period of seven years service in the cause of Jesus he departed this life at Guntur esteemed and loved by all who knew him. He is spoken of as a good man full of zeal for the Lord so much so that on one occasion in the Guntur bazaar he became so indignant at some idolatrous performances of the heathen that he lifted up his voice in great earnest against the idolaters who became exasperated at him and consequently proceeded to pelt him with stones. But he prudently withdrew from the enraged rabble only to return on subsequent occasions to continue publishing the message of salvation to them. His remains rest in the Guntur Cemetery until the day of the resurrection. He died while in Guntur in 1851 from Tuberculosis." "Reverend Adam Long went to India almost immediately after being ordained. The Lutheran mission to India was still in its early phases when Long arrived it have been started in the Andhra region by Rev. John Christian Frederick Heyer in 1842 who at 48 and widowed was an anomaly compared to other missionaries. He was joined by the Rev. and Mrs. Water Gunn another Gettysburg College and Seminary graduate in 1844 and by Rev. George Martz in 1849. There these men and Gunn's wife Lorena began the task of educating and converting Indians. In a country that is dominated by the polytheistic Hinduism and Mohammedanism this was not an easy task. Traveling from village to village these men and women counted their accomplishments by the individuals that they could convert and the schools and churches that they built. . Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Manuscript. unknown
1837978K15London: Henry G. Bohn 1837-1838. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". Reverend F. W. Hope. The first and second series of this scarce entomological work signed by the author and with lovely hand coloured plates. The first edition of both works. With a hand coloured frontispiece and three partially hand coloured plates to both works. Collated complete.With presentation inscriptions from the author to the front endpapers of both volumes presenting the work to the Natural History Society of Shrewsbury. Institutional copies with stamps and bookplates to preliminaries of both works. The Coleopterist's Manual is considered a foundational text on the study of beetles and details exotic and British beetle species with descriptions classifications and notes on habitat. Aimed at naturalists and collectors Hope"s work significantly advanced entomological studies and taxonomy reflecting the Victorian era"s growing interest in biodiversity and scientific discovery.A third volume was also published in 1840.A scarce signed pair of these important texts. In publisher's green cloth. Externally smart with library annotations to tail of both volumes. Slight bumping to extremities and loss to spine labels. Institutional labels and stamps to endpapers of both volumes. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with just marginal age toning and the odd spot and handling mark. Institutional stamp to reverse of volume one frontispiece. Very Good Henry G. Bohn hardcover
