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18765071First edition in English of the I-Ching the ancient Chinese book of divination sometimes attributed to Confucius but actually much earlier possibly with origins in the second millennium and so the most ancient text of Chinese Civilization. OCLC lists but eight copies worldwide. In McClatchie's view Qian and Kun represented the "God of Heathendom. Qian or his Male portion… and Kun or his Female portion …. These two he goes on to say "are enclosed in the circle or ring… known as the Supreme Ultimate or Great One from which all things are generated." His contemporaries "ridiculed this decidedly sexual view Shchutskii described it as the product of "pseudoscientific delirium" but recent work by other scholars suggests its essential validity. Richard J. Smith "How the Book of Changes arrived in the West". This copy very handsomely bound by Bennett of New York about seventy years ago in grained sienna morocco with title & author in double gilt ruled spine compartments; tooled hubs; top edge gilt. "Shanghai 1876" and owner's name to foot of spine. Preliminaries slightly foxed. xiii vii -xiii of which are platesixvii455 i errata. Chinese and English on opposite pages. "Shanghai Nov. 1876" in light pencil to front fly. Slight loss of paper to front board. Please see images. American Presbyterian Mission Press, Trubner & Co. hardcover books
168628626Padoua: Cadorino 1686. Quarto. 32 298 10 Indexpp. including a portrait of the author. Half title. Contemporary vellum manuscript spine title<br/> <br/>First issue of Terra Rossa's famous account detailing discoveries in the New World as denoted by the 1686 date and the privilege below the imprint reading "Et Privilegio del Serenissimo Principe."<br/> <br/>Includes much information on Venetian explorers going so far as to credit Marco Polo with discovering Australia and attempts to rename Terra Australis as Terra Australe Magallanica to honor Magellan. In this work Terra Rossa "attempted to prove that Venetians had discovered all lands unknown to the ancients including America and Terra Australis." Hiatt p. 261. He also defends the claims of the Zeno brothers to have made a northern discovery of America prior to Columbus. A rare and surprisingly little-known work focused on early exploration of the Southern Hemisphere.<br/> <br/>Sabin 94858; European Americana 686/157. Cadorino unknown books
174542910San Sebastian: por Bartholome Riesgo y Montero impressor de dicha M N y M.L. Provincia 1745. First edition 2 volumes folio pp. 18 ccxxix 1 436; 2 392 12; titles printed in red and black lexicon in double column engraved amorial headpiece errata leaf at the back of vol. II; full 19th-century speckled calf red edges double gilt-ruled borders on covers gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments red and black morocco labels in 2; a few minor imperfections hinges tender else a very good sound set. Bookplate of "Milton / Peterborough." This is the first dictionary of Basque preceeded only by Oihenartus' Notitia utriusque Vasconiae tum Ibericae tum Aquitanicae Paris 1638 to which was appended a Basque word list. Larramendi also compiled a Basque grammar 1729. Entry words are in Castilian with Basque and Latin equivalents. The 230-page introduction is an extensive history and grammar of the Basque language the only non-Aryan language of western Europe and a language unaffilliated with any other. Not in NUC. Not in Collison Dictionaries of Foreign Languages; Trubner Catalogue of Dictionaries and Grammars cites only the 1853 revision. Zaunmuller col. 28. <br/><br/> por Bartholome Riesgo y Montero, impressor de dicha M N y M.L. Provincia unknown books
1817306787London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press 1817. First edition with half-titles and errata. Hundreds of engravings and examples of type etc. some tinted in red and blue. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo. Contemporary straight-grained red morocco by Charles Smith covers gilt ruled with gilt side-pieces along central panel spines in six compartments with elaborate gilt scrollwork gilt turn-ins blue silk doublures with gilt cornerpieces duplicated on silk free endpapers a.e.g. Foxed minor rubbing to boards an attractive copy. First edition with half-titles and errata. Hundreds of engravings and examples of type etc. some tinted in red and blue. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo. Bound by Charles Smith. Dibdin's lavish work in an ornate binding by Charles Smith one of the more active and competent binders in London of the 1810s-'30s with his "13 Church St Soho" ticket in volume 1. Windle & Pippin A28; Jackson no.40; Hart no.186; Bigmore and Wyman pp. 169-70. Provenance: R.P. Hooper bookplate Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press 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
1817261849London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press 1817. First edition with half-titles and errata. Hundreds of engravings and examples of type etc. some tinted in red and blue and slip of gold printing with directions to binder slip at vol. II p. 417. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo 9-3/4 x 6 inches. Bound in contemporary three quarters blue pebbled morocco spine gilt and marbled boards and edges. Fine small bump to some pages in Vol. I. Bookplate of The Right Hon. Charles Abbot prob. Charles Abbot 1st Baron Colchester in Vols II & III. First edition with half-titles and errata. Hundreds of engravings and examples of type etc. some tinted in red and blue and slip of gold printing with directions to binder slip at vol. II p. 417. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo 9-3/4 x 6 inches. 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
18367554Mexico: Abadiano y Valdes 1836 - 38. First edition. 4 vols. 4to viii 281; 158; viii 419; viii 281 pp. Vols. 1-2 edited by Bustamante from the MS: Historia civil y politica de Mexico; vols. 3-4 constitute the editor's supplement. The work is ofrten bound in two volumes but here we have it in four. Cavo was a Jesuit a native of Mexico and expelled from the country along with the others of his order in 1767. Although he made a great effort to return to Mexico later in his life dissociating himself from the Jesuits and travelling to Spain to do so but he did not succeed. The rest of his life was spent in Rome where he died in great poverty in 1803. Beristain de Souza has almost nothing to say about him as his work was not discovered until the 1830's when Bustamante ran across the manuscript in a private episcopal library and theeafter took charge of having it published with his additions.The first two books are Cavo's up to the expulsion and despite the title is a history of viceregal Mexico City.Wikipedia says: "The work is not a history in the usual sense. It is better described as the annals of Mexico City with particular emphasis on the development of political ideas. The book also contains details of colonial life that are not available in any other source. Cavo shows signs of Mexican not Spanish colonial nationality and for this reason is considered a forerunner of Mexican independence. Porrua Diccionario states that his was the first history of Viceregal Mexico. The last two volumes are by Bustamante himself an important Mexican historian after independence associated with the liberal party and they are a continuation up to 1821 being of a broader scope and containing some important documents also not published before. Bound in contemporary calf leather over speckled boards titles and fillets in gilt on spines. Very good set. <br/><br/> Abadiano y Valdes hardcover books
181234742New York: various 1812. Ten sermons bound in contemporary half sheep and marbled boards rubbed gum label at spine base. Rubberstamp on blank front pastedown. Manuscript table of contents. Each sermon as follows:<br/><br/> 1. A SERMON PREACHED IN NEW-YORK JULY 4TH 1793. BEING THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF AMERICA: AT THE REQUEST OF THE TAMMANY SOCIETY OR COLUMBIAN ORDER. BY.ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK. New York: Greenleaf. 1793. 38 2 blanks pp. Very Good. On the final blank is Miller's written notes. The Tammany Society should "stand as guardians over those inestimable rights and privileges which have been so dearly purchased." Christianity teaches the equality of all. Slavery will "be forever banished from a nation" which regards everyone "as subject to the same great laws and amenable to the same awful tribunal in the end." <br/>Evans 25823. <br/> 2. A DISCOURSE DELIVERED IN THE NEW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NEW-YORK: BEFORE THE GRAND LODGE OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK AND THE BRETHREN OF THAT FRATERNITY ASSEMBLED IN GENERAL COMMUNICATION ON THE FESTIVAL OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST JUNE 24TH 1795. New York: Childs. 1795. 32pp. Light to moderate foxing Good. Verso of title page has Miller's notes laid in explaining another of his discourses should have been inserted. His Discourse says Masonic principles "are such as the blessed Redeemer perpetually dropped from his hallowed lips." <br/>Evans 29081.<br/> 3. A SERMON DELIVERED FEBRUARY 5 1799; RECOMMENDED BY THE CLERGY OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK TO BE OBSERVED AS A DAY OF THANKSGIVING HUMILIATION AND PRAYER ON ACCOUNT OF THE REMOVAL OF A MALIGNANT AND MORTAL DISEASE WHICH HAD PREVAILED IN THE CITY SOME TIME BEFORE. New York: Forman. 1799. 36pp scattered foxing. Good. With a chart showing 2082 deaths listed by religions including eleven Jews; also listing forty-three Negroes. <br/>Evans 35821. Not in Austin.<br/> 4. A SERMON DELIVERED MAY 9 1798 RECOMMENDED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO BE OBSERVED AS A DAY OF GENERAL HUMILIATION FASTING AND PRAYER. New-York: Swords. 1798. 46 2 blanks pp. Very Good. The "events in Europe" are characterized by atheism profaneness a "selfish and mercenary spirit." Miller warns against the "curse" of "European connections."<br/>Evans 34109.<br/> 5. A SERMON DELIVERED DECEMBER 29 1799; OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON LATE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE AMERICAN ARMIES. New York: Swords. 1800. 39 1 blank pp with the half title. Light toning Very Good. Evidently Miller's sermon was similar to one delivered by Dr. Erskine of Edinburgh because an 'Advertisement' on the verso of the title page denies that "such coincidence" was the result of plagiarism. <br/>Evans 37964. Stillwell 171a.<br/> 6. A SERMON DELIVERED BEFORE THE NEW-YORK MISSIONARY SOCIETY. APRIL 6TH 1802. TO WHICH ARE ADDED THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS AND OTHER PAPERS RELATING TO AMERICAN MISSIONS. New York: Swords. 1802. 81 3 blanks pp. Lightly foxed else Very Good.<br/>AI 2660 5.<br/> 7. THE GUILT FOLLY AND SOURCES OF SUICIDE: TWO DISCOURSES PREACHED IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK FEBRUARY 1805. New York: Swords. 1805. 72pp with the half title. Mild foxing Very Good.<br/>AI 8903 4.<br/> 8. A SERMON PREACHED MARCH 13TH 1808 FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SOCIETY INSTITUTED IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK FOR THE RELIEF OF POOR WIDOWS WITH SMALL CHILDREN. New York: Hopkins and Seymour. 1808. 31 1 blank pp. Very Good.<br/>AI 15610 3. <br/> 9. THE ADDRESS INTRODUCTORY TO THE ORDINATION SERVICE AND THE CHARGE TO THE MINISTER. Pages 19-38 comprising Miller's Address in a pamphlet on Reverend Gardiner Spring's ordination AI 20738. With Miller's handwritten notes. <br/> 10. THE DUTY OF THE CHURCH TO TAKE MEASURES FOR PROVIDING AN ABLE AND FAITHFUL MINISTRY: A SERMON DELIVERED AT PRINCETON AUGUST 12 1812 AT THE INAUGURATION OF THE REV. ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER D.D. AS PROFESSOR OF DIDACTIC AND POLEMIC THEOLOGY IN THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Pages 5-54 comprising Miller's remarks in a pamphlet comprising his and other Addresses on the occasion. See American Imprints 26080. various unknown books
1824262161London: Printed for Harding Triphook and Lepard Finsbury-Square and J. Major Fleet Street 1824. Large paper copy of the first edition. li i 400; 512 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 9-3/4 x 6 inches. Full tree calf a.e. g. by Riviere. Labels reads "Dibdin's Work." Bookplates of Henry William Poor Marinus Willet Dominick Francis J. Gagliandi and Stuart B. Schimmel. Large paper copy of the first edition. li i 400; 512 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 9-3/4 x 6 inches. LARGE PAPER COPY. Pagination not as called for in Pippin and Windle who call for continuous pagination. Printed for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, Finsbury-Square and J. Major, Fleet Street unknown books
1972133104Austin TX: Pyramid Publishing Company 1972. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by Roky Erickson on the front flyleaf. With the original circular red "Autographed Copy" sticker affixed to the front board. <br/><br/>A book of poems written by Erickson legendary singer and songwriter for the 13th Floor Elevators during his stay at the Rusk Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Rusk Texas. The only physical evidence of his creative endeavors made between electroconvulsive shock therapy treatments which included the formation of a band with fellow inmates called The Missing Links and reportedly writing nearly 100 songs. <br/><br/>Working with his childhood friend George Kinney Erickson published this volume while still institutionalized. A collection of 45 poems nearly all of which are extremely positive and upbeat "Let's Have a Never-Ending Love Contest" "When You Get Delighted" and "Thank God for Civilization" are a few examples. Outside of anthologies perhaps the only volume of poetry ever published with the poems arranged in alphabetical order. <br/><br/>Erickson would take a different turn upon his release forming a hard rock band called Roky Erickson and the Aliens writing almost exclusively about Satanism and riffing on classic horror films. Toward the end of the 1970s he again went into a long period of mental decline and has only recently begun to perform again. A rare title nearly impossible to find with a contemporary signature. <br/><br/>A second collection titled "Openers II" containing Erickson's song lyrics essays and interviews was published 23 years later in 1995. <br/><br/>Very Good plus in moderately soiled white cloth-covered boards a gilt peace/cross symbol design on the front board gilt spine titles and no dust jacket as issued. Pyramid Publishing Company unknown books
1915CAT0127New York et al. 1915. Silver gelatin prints roughly 8 x 8 8 x 10 and 5 x 7 inches the last on a larger mount. Very Good. In 1914 Francis Red Fox James now presumed to be related to the Blackfoot tribe rode a horse across the country seeking states' approval for an American Indian national holiday. He delivered endorsements from 24 states to the federal government but a commemoration never materialized. The Washington Herald reported that James rode 4000 miles from a Crow reservation in Montana and was received by President Wilson to discuss the possibility of a "national Indian's Day" in October. Washington Herald 12/16/14 <br /> <br /> Although his mother was probably Blackfoot James claimed Native American heritage only as an adult. He changed his name by adding "Red" and later "Skiuhushu" to Francis Fox James. Two of the images in this collection contain familiar tropes of American Indian portraiture but the third offers an arresting image of James holding the American flag aloft as a kind of offering. This enigmatic gesture could be read as evidence of an optimistic belief in a mutual relationship between the US and American-Indian nations. It is also undoubtedly related to James' interest in legitimizing his Indian heritage as the founder of the Tepee Order a youth organization addressed mainly to white Protestant children. By 1920 the Order had evolved into an adult secret fraternal organization shrouded in mysticism. James was also associated with the Boy Scouts; he is credited with organizing the first All-Indian Boy Scout Troop in 1915. <br /> <br /> In The Search for an American Indian Identity 1970 Hazel Hertzberg writes that James "was deeply troubled by his degree of Indian 'blood.'" In addition to changing his name several times to seem more "Indian" he theorized that his Welsh ancestry was pre-Columbian using the Tepee Order to create a kind of third space a "pan-Indian society" that was neither Indian nor white. <br /> <br /> We find no other examples of these photographs though a US flag does appear on James' saddle in a photo documenting his White House visit. One picture signed by James with "Indian in Prayer "Great Spirit. / Red Fox James. Blackfeet." on recto and the following on verso: "A Gift / To my dear Friend / Eugene Beaton / c/o Burns Studio / Bucyrius sic Ohio. From Red Fox James / Blackfoot Tribe." Generally a very good collection with some fading to images but well preserved overall. unknown books
1968140941297Grants Pass Oregon: Cosmic Star Temple 1968. Comb-bound. Very Good. 55pp. Plastic comb-bound sheets. Very Good with soiling toning and light wear to wraps price sticker shadow to front cover; pages lightly toned. A very scarce UFO-related item. Violet Gilbert was a student of theosophy and a member of the "I AM" Religious Activity. She allegedly became aware of the Space Brothers in 1937 requested a healing in 1938 and prepared for an trip to Venus which took place in 1939. During this trip she received a complete physical healing. In 1955 Gilbert also claims she traveled to Mars. In 1960 she founded the Cosmic Star Temple where she used teachings from her interplanetary trips to promote healing and other occult views. Gilbert professed that the space brothers are beneficent that their purpose is to keep us from destroying ourselves and to share their advanced knowledge. Cosmic Star Temple unknown books
183542110Puebla Mexico: Imprenta del hospital de S. Pedro 1835. First edition. Modern quarter brown cloth over marbled boards leather spine labels stamped in gilt. Frontis and pp.265/6 lacking but provided in facsimile on matching paper; title page toned otherwise a very clean sharp copy in a fine modern binding. Frontis in matching period facsimile 265 2 pp. 24mo. Dual language text on facing pages in Nahuatl and Spanish by the otherwise unidentified "Cura del Obispado de la Puebla." One of a number of catechisms printed during the period in Puebla which had become a locus of religious publication. Sabin 23424. Field 516. Pilling 1251. Icazbalceta 104. Catalogue of Pre-1840 Nahuatl Works Held by The Lilly Library 40. Viñaza 436. Imprenta del hospital de S. Pedro hardcover books
1828005180London: Treuttel Wurtz and Richter 1828. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Gorgeous First Edition.4to. xvii 4 500 4 pp. 9 hand coloured plates of period costume. Half-title title and dedication page to Baron Auckland all present. Folding frontis Map and all plates present. Signed Binding by Brentanos New York in late 19th or early 20th century full dark green buckram with scrollwork decoration blindstamped in both boards with gilt borders. 5 raised bands and 6 compartments all with gilt borders. Titles stamped in gold in C2 date in C6. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Square tight and very clean pages with little or no foxing throughout. A spot here or there and a bit on the boarders of only some of the plates but not affecting the plates themselves. Truly a remarkably well-preserved interior for almost 200 years old. Fairly mild edge-wear particularly on the bottom edge and tips. A hint of rubbing to hinges but quite minor. Spine toned to almost black but supple and fresh. A beautiful copy of a fairly uncommon First Edition and at a terrific price. Treuttel, Wurtz, and Richter hardcover books
176553988London: Printed by W. Bowyer for A. Millar in the Strand 1765. Third Edition. Frontispiece in Volume I by Hoare of Ralph Allen on engraved t.p. 204; 331; 338 pp. 3 vols. 12mo. Polished contemporary calf gilt spine. Very good. Third Edition. Frontispiece in Volume I by Hoare of Ralph Allen on engraved t.p. 204; 331; 338 pp. 3 vols. 12mo. Printed by W. Bowyer, for A. Millar, in the Strand unknown books
1819007090London: Sherwood Neely and Jones 1819. Volume II only of a two volume set containg Discourses XXi - XL. RARE Worldcat lists only 2 institutional holdings. About Very Good boards and leather rubbed moderate foxing throughout top edge soiled prior owner name in pencil front end page. Reverend John Cennick 1718-1755 was an early lay Methodist preacher for John Wesley who then became a Moravian preacher and hymnist. Moravian Church. Sermons. . First Edition Thus. Quarter Leather/Marbled Boards. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Sherwood, Neely, and Jones Hardcover books
1900008172London / New York : S. T. Freemantle / J. B. Lippincott Co. 1900. # 188 of 208 copies printed for America. Two volumes in publisher's original green buckram gilt lettering at spines top edges gilt. Profusely and wonderfully illustrated. Very Good spot of discoloration rear board Vol. II scattered light toning at end papers only. A handsome set of this classic of natural history. . Limited and Numbered First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Thick 8vo. S. T. Freemantle / J. B. Lippincott Co. Hardcover books
1988222Cristoforo di Predis <i>Il Codice Varia 124 della Biblioteca Reale di Torino. Miniato da Cristoforo de Predis Milano 1476 a cura di Alessandro Vitale-Brovarone</i>. Edito in Torino dalla Società Editrice Umberto Allemandi & C. Per L'Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino 1988. <i>Edizione fuori commercio</i>. The first volume is the text which explores in detail the essential aspects of the celebrated manuscript from the <i>Libreria Viscontea Sforzesca</i> in the Biblioteca Reale the <i>Storia di Gesù e Giudizio Universale</i> a richly illustrated <i>codice miniato </i>from the School of Lombardy in the fifteenth century: the manuscript itself the texts the language the iconography Guido Gentile the artist Cristoforo de Predis Riccardo Passoni as well as the criteria for translation and indexes of places names with a final glossary. The second volume is a complete full-page color reproduction of Codice Varia 124 with more than 300 pages. Housed in a hard pale blue folding box as issued matching the blue cloth bindings on both volumes. Almost as new in pristine very fine condition. Edito in Torino dalla Società Editrice Umberto Allemandi & C. Per L’Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino hardcover books
1803265202Newburyport: Edmund M. Blunt 1803. First American Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Shaw & Shoemaker 4350. One of several works by a leading figure of the 18th century English evangelical revival. Haweis was member of the Countess of Huntigdon's "Connexion" and at her death became a principle trustee. A First American Edition of his Evangelical Principles a collection of 14 sermons which was part of the standard training of ordinands in the "Connexion". Bound in contemporary sheep with a cracked morocco title label which has some minor loss. Very Good binding. Edmund M. Blunt unknown books
1935028105Vienna: Jos. Schlesinger 1935. Octavo. 641 1 iii 3 pages 15 unnumbered leaves of plates. English and Hebrew on opposite pages. Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960. The follow of God has to knock on Heaven's Gates. In other words these are not merely verbal prayers but prayers of the heart. Is it possible Bob Dylan's early Jewish background influence his writing of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" Bound in brown cloth color pictorial pastedown within a gilt framed spine lettered and decorated in gilt color illustrations all edges gilt gift inscription "In remembrance of the engagement of Millie Hauser and Reuben Shimilove". A very nice copy. Jos. Schlesinger unknown books
1838008733London: John Murray 1838. Uncommon edition each volume has added title page engraved with vignette. Eight volumes bound in contemporary brown embossed cloth gilt lettering at spines decorative end papers. Near Fine several corners bumped prior owner initials in ink. . Later Edition. Embossed Cloth. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. John Murray Hardcover books
186670048London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Perhaps a review copy: a holographic note that reads "From the Publisher" appears on the half-title in the first volume. The story of Hereward a historical Anglo-Saxon figure who led resistance against the Normans from a base in Ely surrounded by fen land. It was Kingsley's last historical novel and was instrumental in elevating Hereward into an English folk hero. From the library of Scottish lawyer university administrator and bibliophile Dr. Alexander Bennett McGrigor of Cairnoch LLD 1827-1891 with his gilt-stamped leather bookplate to each front pastedown. Octavo two volumes. In three-quarter brown morocco over marbled paper bindings by Maclehose of Glasgow with gilt titles five raised bands and matching marbled endpapers. The original cloth has been laid down on blank leaves and bound in at the rear. The spines are a touch sun faded; otherwise very good and quite lovely. Macmillan and Co hardcover books
185770049Cambridge: Macmillan and Co 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. With the Crimean War as its backdrop this novel called attention to the issues of sanitation and public health. From the library of Scottish lawyer university administrator and bibliophile Dr. Alexander Bennett McGrigor of Cairnoch LLD 1827-1891 with his gilt-stamped leather bookplate to each front pastedown. Octavo three volumes. In three-quarter brown morocco over marbled paper bindings by Maclehose of Glasgow with gilt titles five raised bands and matching marbled endpapers. The original cloth has been laid down on blank leaves and bound in at the rear. The spines are a touch sun faded; otherwise very good and quite lovely. Macmillan and Co hardcover books
1837009320Ship Burgundy to Middletown Connecticut 1837. Envelope or Cover. Very good. This two-page folded letter measures 16" x 10" unfolded. It bears a circular red New York "Ship" postmark dated August 16 and is in nice shape. The ship Burgundy regularly brought immigrants from Europe to the United States. On this voyage which began at Le Havre in April it transported 41 U.S. citizens and 79 immigrant farmers from Prussia and Bavaria to New York see the Immigrant Ship Transcribers Guild On-Line where Ms. Gibbs reports in her letter to Dr. Jarvis that it was quarantined for three days: "Tho' there has been no sickness on board except measles - they are obliged to cleance the ship at Staten Island and then land strange passengers and our baggage cannot be taken out until the ship comes up unless we consent to it being examined by an inferior officer." Ms. Gibbs also informs the Reverend Jarvis that "I saw Mrs J and daughter a few days before I left Paris they were all well very much occupied in preparation for their return to America It was their intention to sail the 8th of this month.". No doubt Ms. Gibbs would have no idea that this information would be something that Jarvis simply did not want to hear as Sarah was returning to the United States to begin divorce proceedings. In 1810 Samuel Jarvis then a young minister recently graduated from Yale married Sarah McCurdy Hart one of the "seven graces" the most beautiful women in New England at the time. Although Jarvis became quite wealthy as one of the most prominent pastors in New England and the couple had five children together their marriage was miserable from the start. It eventually ended in one of the most notorious divorces of 18th century America and was chronicled in newspapers and pamphlets of the day. Samuel was a serious humorless and stubborn man while Sarah was high strung tempestuous and easily angered. Soon after the wedding they began to annoy anger and infuriate each other. Samuel was also physically abusive not only to Sarah but to at least one of his daughters. During the divorce proceedings which were initiated soon after Sarah returned from her mutually agreed upon exile in Europe it came to light that Jarvis had repeatedly punched her in the head seized and wrung her nose dragged her across floors held her captive in a small apartment forced her to remain silent at all times limited her food and attempted to commit her to an insane asylum. A remarkable and scarce first-hand account of the arrival of an immigrant ship in New York made even more compelling by its connection to the infamous Jarvis-Hart divorce. At the time of listing no similar accounts of an immigrant ship's arrival in New York are for sale in the trade. There are no records at the Rare Book Hub or OCLC of similar accounts being held by institutions or sold at auction. Collections of Jarvis papers are held by the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut and the New York Public Library. unknown books
17244129London. A. Bettsworth and W. Taylor. 1724. Full gilt ruled calfgilt ruled spine compartments with gilt -tooled embellishments. Raised bands. 16mo. 6th Edition. Illustrated with frontis and in text embellishments. Covers and spine worn front hinge starting else Very Good with clean crisp internals. A. Bettsworth and W. Taylor. hardcover books
