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18666615New York: Methodist Episcopal Church 1866. Good or better. New York: Methodist Episcopal Church 1865-1866. Twenty-four volumes in one; tabloid format 36cm.; contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards; 96pp.; illus. throughout text in triple columns. Boards quite rubbed and leather dried and chipped one-inch losses at both spine ends shallow damp stain to textblock fore-edge general old soil throughout else Good internally sound.<br /> <br /> Complete single year of this religious juvenile periodical edited by Daniel Wise corresponding secretary of the Sunday School Union. Includes myriad moral parables and poetry many signed in text by "The Corporal." Other contributors include Emily Huntington Miller "The Gentleman and the Rascal"; and word games with the occasional faint contemporary pencil juvenile marginalia. Methodist Episcopal Church unknown
174730038Boston: N.E.: Printed by Rogers and Fowle in Queen-street 1747. Very Good. Boston: N.E.: Printed by Rogers and Fowle in Queen-street 1747. First Edition. Octavo. 28 4 pp. Removed. Ex-library but with stamp to rear as only institutional marking. Lightly rubbed along edges; long tear to front wrap with neat paper repair to verso; old dampstain along bottom half throughout though text remains legible and still a Very Good and sound copy of a scarce colonial printing. Printed by Rogers and Fowle in Queen-street unknown
176829377Boston: Edes and Gill / Bulkeley Emerson 1768. Very Good. Boston: Printed by Edes and Gill in Queen-Street for Bulkeley Emerson of Newbury-Port 1768. First Edition. Small octavo 21cm.; removed; 471pp. A-F4 collated complete. Scattered foxing to textblock leaves trimmed affecting author inscription at head of half title "A. Eliot / The auth. else Very Good and sound.<br /> <br /> Ordination sermon followed by a Charge by Paine Wingate and "The Right Hand of Fellowship" by Thomas Prentice.<br /> <br /> EVANS 10825; SABIN 3456. Edes and Gill / Bulkeley Emerson unknown
179029350New-Haven: A. Morse 1790. Very Good. New-Haven: A. Morse 1790. First Edition. Octavo; removed spine backed with black cloth tape; 291pp. lacking half title page otherwise collated complete. Foxing throughout textblock most heavily to later leaves else Very Good and sound.<br /> <br /> Ordination sermon providing an unusual biographical sketch of the late pastor being replaced Warham Williams. The sketch appears in a lengthy footnote spanning pp. 23-25 and includes mention of his ancestors Doctor Stephen Williams and Reverend John Williams of Deerfield Massachusetts who were both taken into "Indian captivity" to Canada in 1704 following the Raid on Deerfield.<br /> <br /> EVANS 22538; SABIN 27884; TRUMBULL 764. A. Morse unknown
179129322Hartford: Elisha Babcock 1791. Very Good. Hartford: Elisha Babcock 1791. First Edition. Small octavo; modern blue wrappers; 231pp. A-C4 collated complete. Leaves trimmed mostly erasing contemporary ownership inscription at head of title page light toning to textblock else Very Good and sound.<br /> <br /> Ordination sermon delivered by Enos Hitchcock 1744-1803 who served as a chaplain for the Continental Army in Massachusetts during the Revolutionary War before settling in Providence Rhode Island. The present oration delivered in the long wake of hostilities stating at one point that "It is our happy lot my fellow christians sic to live in a country that has the honor of exhibiting the first instance the world ever saw of a civil government established in favor of universal liberty" p. 17.<br /> <br /> ESTC W030803; EVANS 23442. Elisha Babcock unknown
189532733<p>Chicago: The Progressive Thinker Publishing House 1895 Likely First Printing copyright date of 1894 in original gilt-stamped burgundy cloth boards floral patterned endpapers no markings NOT ex-lib boards rubbed & a little soiled with softening to ends & corners hinges sound pages brittle and age-toned else Very Good copy of very scarce title; 8vo; 400pp illus; frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.</p> Chicago: The Progressive Thinker Publishing House hardcover
179526877Portsmouth: John Melcher 1795. Very Good. Portsmouth: John Melcher 1795. First Edition. Octavo; removed remnants of old spine leather present; 46pp. A3 B-F4 lacking half title but otherwise collated and complete. Textblock rather spotted else Very Good and sound.<br /> <br /> Uncommon New Hampshire Christmas sermon: "Alas! O wretched men that we are! The strongest powers of mortal vision beholding through a glass darkly are inadequate to these Pisgah heights of sublimest contemplations" pp. 16-7 etc etc. <br /> <br /> ESTC W37642; EVANS 29410. John Melcher unknown
167032689Amstelodami Amsterdam: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii Andreas Frisius 1670. Very Good. Amstelodami Amsterdam: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii Andreas Frisius 1670. Two volumes bound in one; 12mo; full contemporary blind-embossed parchment faint manuscript spine titling; 1222725; 12517pp. both volumes collated complete; added engraved half title page to first volume two folding plates steel engravings throughout text. Parchment uniformly dust-soiled brief ink dash across upper cover else Very Good internally clean and sound. <br /> <br /> Posthumous editions of two works by the Italian Catholic Bishop and historian brought out by the Dutch publisher Andreas Frisius known for issuing such stylishly-illustrated Latin works in the 1660s and '70s. Sumptibus Andreae Frisii [Andreas Frisius] unknown
160530767Venetia Venice: Presso Marco degli Alberti 1605. Very Good. Venetia Venice: Presso Marco degli Alberti Alla Libraria della Speranza 1605. New Corrected Edition. Small octavo; full contemporary parchment contemporary manuscript spine title all edges stained blue; 1699pp.; woodcut title page vignette initials head- and tail-pieces. Light scuffing and soil to parchment small gouge to upper cover fore-edge else a Very Good fresh and sound example.<br /> <br /> Updated edition of this guide to good pious living and happiness by the Florentine academic Giovanni Battista Gelli 1498-1563. Presso Marco degli Alberti unknown
170232775Venetia Venice: Appresso il Ciera 1702. Very Good. Venetia Venice: Appresso il Ciera 1702. Quarto; full contemporary pig skin gilt tan spine label all edges speckled blue; three parts bound in one volume collated complete; woodcut printer's devices to each title page. Boards a bit soiled faint contemporary manuscript shelf number to spine foot occasional light finger soil throughout else a Very Good fresh and sound example.<br /> <br /> The Italian Cardinal's history of the Eighty Years' War first translated into English by Henry Carey in 1654 as "The Complete History of the Wars of Flanders. Appresso il Ciera unknown
178727337New-Haven: Daniel Bowen 1787. Very Good. New-Haven: Daniel Bowen 1787. First Edition. Slim octavo; early 20th-century three-quarter morocco over marbled boards upper cover lettered in gilt marbled endpapers; 30pp. A4 B-D4 collated and complete including half title and final blank. Leather rather dried and scuffed at extremities small loss at spine crown top margin of half title trimmed affecting contemporary gift inscription of a Sam Russell textblock uniformly toned and a bit foxed else a Very Good untrimmed copy overall.<br /> <br /> "The foundation of Mr. Whittelsey's eminence in life was laid in superior natural endowments and an early thirst for knowledge. Suavity of temper and dignity of manners with an early and decided choice of religion commanded respect. From youth to old age he had a reputation which is better than gold" p. 21. <br /> <br /> ESTC W21686; EVANS 20316; TRUMBULL 545. Daniel Bowen unknown
199546366Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1995. Very Good/Very Good. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1995. First Edition. Large quarto 28.5cm; publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; 2xxx672pp.; sixteen leaves of color photographic plates halftone text illus. throughout. Light shelf wear to cloth and jacket margins corners bumped ownership inscription to front free endpaper; Very Good and sound overall. Cambridge University Press unknown
173531032Basileae: In Officina Episcopiana 1735. Very Good-. Basileae: In Officina Episcopiana 1735. "Edition Novissima." Thick octavo 18cm.; full contemporary blind-tooled roan unadorned spine in five compartments; 1697676pp. collated complete; engraved portrait frontispiece woodcut initials head- and tail-pieces. Leather significantly scuffed joints cracked paper remnants to both boards and spine crown occasional foxing and finger soil to textblock small losses to fore-edge of five leaves N3 S3 T1 2K6 and 2P2 with very brief loss of text contemporary 1756 ownership inscription to front free endpaper mid 20th-century typescript biography of Buxtorf in Slovak tipped to rear free endpaper.<br /> <br /> Oft-reprinted Hebrew Aramaic and Latin lexicon by the Hebraist professor Johann Buxtorf 1564-1629. In Officina Episcopiana unknown
178831050Litchfield: Thomas Collier 1788. Very Good. Litchfield Thomas Collier 1788. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 262pp. collated complete with half title page. Half title spotted and soiled textblock toned light wear to margins else Very Good and sound. <br /> <br /> Ordinance sermon full of advice to the rising minister reminding him that "A severe and overbearing manner of address in preaching as if the speaker's mind were agitated with personal resentment against his hearers is by no means suited to promote their salvation" p. 9. <br /> <br /> ESTC W020496; EVANS 21133; TRUMBULL 802. Thomas Collier unknown
179029342Providence RI: Bennett Wheeler 1790. Very Good. Providence: By Bennett Wheeler at His Office on the West Side the River 1790. First Edition. Small octavo; modern blue wrappers; 271pp. A-C4 D2 collated complete. Very occasional spotting to textblock stock a bit browned else Very Good and sound.<br /> <br /> Concludes with the minister recalling a sermon delivered at the same meeting house in 1775 "how you hung on his lips and with what ardour many of you were engaged to follow him under Michael your prince in the war with the Dragon even tho the horrors of intestine war then were just bursting over your heads." This memory is accompanied by the footnote "This was but a very few days before the Lexington battle and commencement of hostilities at the opening of the late desolating and bloody war between Great-Britain and America" p. 27. <br /> <br /> EVANS 22558. Bennett Wheeler unknown
168531054A Paris: Chez la Veuve d'Edme Martin & Jean Boudot rue Saint Jacques au Soleil d'or & au Sacrifice d'abel 1685. Very Good. A Paris: Chez la Veuve d'Edme Martin & Jean Boudot. rue Saint Jacques au Soleil d'or & au Sacrifice d'Abel 1685. Latest edition revised and corrected. Quarto. 16; 604; 20pp. collated and complete. Contemporary calf; five raised bands and gilt tooling to spine; edges sprayed red. Boards rather worn with exposure to edges and cracks to spine ends. Nevertheless secure in binding. Ex-Congregation de Notre Dame Verdun with their rubber stamp to title page and a few ink annotations to preliminaries. Mild creasing and spotting to a few leaves else unmarked; a Very Good copy. <br /> <br /> Marie Cramoisy widow of Edme Martin took over the printing house after his death in 1670. In 1677 however she entrusted the printing to her son Gabriel Martin while she continued to run the bookstore. Books under the imprint of Chez la Veuve d'Edme Martin were published throughout the 1680s though so clearly her influence endured and she continued to work with her son and son-in-law Jean Boudot.<br /> <br /> Bibale 60538. Chez la Veuve d'Edme Martin, & Jean Boudot, rue Saint Jacques, au Soleil d'or, & au Sacrifice d'abel unknown
172446617Rouen: Robert Machuel 1724. Very Good. Rouen: Chez Robert Machuel derriere la Choeur de S. Martin-sur-Renelle 1724. First Edition. Quarto; full contemporary speckled calf elaborately gilt spine in six compartments all edges speckled red; 10564pp. collated presumed complete; engraved portrait frontispiece and two leaves of plates one folding woodcut initials head- and tail-pieces. Leather a bit worn with exposure at corners shallow surface scuffing joints very slightly tender else a Very Good and sound example. Handsome contemporary engraved armorial ex libris to front pastedown. <br /> <br /> Account of the life and exploits of Georges d'Ambroise 1460-1510 who was elevated to cardinal and prime minister under the reign of Louis XII leading the French army into Milan 1499 during the Italian Wars and wreaking such havoc Leonardo Da Vinci's magnificent horse sculpture was destroyed after the French used it for target practice that a revolt broke out in 1500 in favor of Ludovico Sforza. D'Ambroise returned to France where he commissioned a butter tower for the Rouen Cathedral and negotiated the Treaty of Blois and the League of Cambrai. Robert Machuel unknown
17975237Philadephia: Thomas Dobson 1797. Third Edition. Very Good. Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson 1797. Third Edition. Duodecimo. 318 pages plus 2 pages of advertisements. Full contemporary sheep with red spine label. Translated from Dutch. The translator's "Advertisement" claims that this work is an extension of Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa" though the title and names have been altered because "it has been objected. that it does not coincide with the Work to which the title seems to connect it."<br /> <br /> Boards are rubbed and worn and some staining to spine. Corners are bumped and cracked and slight roll to spine. Binding is sound. Numerous ink drawings and other annotations/scrawlings to endpapers and first five leaves including title page. Prize bookplate from the Union Philosophical Society of Dickinson College to front pastedown. <br /> <br /> From the estate of author columnist and Presidential speechwriter William Safire. Thomas Dobson unknown
179527223Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin 1795. Very Good -. Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin 1795. First Edition. Octavo 21cm.; full contemporary sheep brown gilt spine label; ix10-5191pp. collated complete. Leather scuffed and worn small rectangular loss of leather mid-upper cover top third of front free endpaper clipped attractive contemporary library ex libris of the Ellsworth Library to front pastedown else a Good or better internally clean and sound copy.<br /> <br /> Concludes with lengthy list of nearly nine hundred subscribers including such post-Revolution luminaries as Barnabas Bidwell Timothy Dwight Ezra Stiles Noah Webster but just fifteen women.<br /> <br /> The detailed ex libris provides an excellent but also truly complex window into the early post-Revolutionary circulating library: "THIS BOOK may be drawn or returned on the third THURSDAY of every Month; two hours preceding sunset.Quarterly Library days are the third Thursday of January April July and October; when this Book must be returned by three o'clock afternoon.Penalty for lending this Book ONE DOLLAR: --for tearing a Leaf not less than SIX CENTS: --for breaking or bruising the Cover; turning down a Leaf; soiling or defacing not less than THREE CENTS; and more if the Librarian shall adjudge." And so forth. <br /> <br /> ESTC W31452; EVANS 29298; TRUMBULL 1237. Hudson & Goodwin unknown
167632685Mirandola: s.i. 1676. Very Good. Mirandola: s.i. 1676. 12mo; original drab card wrappers retaining original leather ties; 24226pp. collated complete. Wrappers a bit rubbed at margins and rather heavily soiled especially rear cover occasional internal soil else a Very Good still quite sturdy example leaves untrimmed in the original temporary binding. <br /> <br /> Posthumous edition of this minor work by the Catholic friar humanist and Galileo collaborator Paolo Sarpi 1552-1623. Here Sarpi delineates the history of ecclesiastical almsgiving a seemingly harmless topic from someone who frequently found himself scrapping with the Catholic Church. s.i. unknown
173930871Venezia Venice: Presso Andrea Poletti 1739. Very Good. Venezia Venice: Presso Andrea Poletti 1739. Later Edition. Two parts in one volume continuous pagination; quarto 24.5cm.; modern paper-covered boards new endpapers; 16170pp. lacking final blank otherwise collated complete; woodcut vignettes initials head- and tail-pieces throughout music on final leaves of text. Ex-Bibliothek Hennef with their rather dark interior rubber-stamps to title page recto and verso contemporary ownership signatures to title page boards a bit sunned else a Very Good fresh and sound copy deckled leaves pleasingly untrimmed.<br /> <br /> Later edition of this guide to the works and philosophy of the Italian Jesuit preacher and ascetic Paolo Segneri 1624-1694. Presso Andrea Poletti unknown
17870005177Madrid: Imprenta de Benito Cano 1787. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Small quarto x 139pp. full contemporary sprinkled calf extra gilt spine inked initials on title-page which is clipped across the top with loss of an inch marbled endpapers. <br/><br/>This is a new version of one of two of Jesuit Fr. Rapin's major works on ascetical theology The Perfection of Christianity 1673: he was a major opponent of the Jansenists. WorldCat cites only 1 copy of this in Mexico; Sommervogel vol. 6 Rapin no. 24b . Imprenta de Benito Cano hardcover
195333553Orgonon Rangeley Maine: Orgone Institute Press 1953 First Edition First Printing a Limited Edition of an undisclosed number black-stamped heavy orange-brown mottled cloth no markings NOT ex-lib binding tight pages bright limitation 'Copy No.' space left blank per usual fragmentary dust jacket included in 4 pieces & including only a tiny portion of the spine the full cloth boards excellent & unfaded with only a little softening to spine ends very slight discoloration to rear panel cloth else a clean tight exemplary copy dj portions now in mylar protector; tall 8vo; xvi 228pp illus. First Edition. Hard Cover. Orgone Institute Press hardcover
177430023New-Haven CT: Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green 1774. Very Good. New-Haven CT: Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green 1774. First Edition. Octavo. 29 pp. Printed wraps removed. Light staining and spotting; a couple ink marks to front and rear; binding sound and interior unmarked; a Very Good copy. Scarce in retail. <br /> <br /> Sabin 22387. Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green unknown
179426884Sagg-Harbour: D. Frothingham 1794. Good. Sagg-Harbor: D. Frothingham 1794. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 42pp. A3 B-E4 F1 collated and lacking half title and final leaf of text errata; title page printed within thick black rule. Faint dampstaining along spine edge of rear leaf textblock a bit toned contemporary ownership signature of a Susanna Miller at bottom of p. 9 else a Good albeit slightly incomplete copy of an uncommon Sag Harbor imprint. <br /> <br /> Tragic sermon delivered "in a season of unusual mortality" upon the occasion of the death of a three-year old child. <br /> <br /> ESTC W19336; EVANS 26709. D. Frothingham unknown
