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172130780Londini London: Typis Gulielmi Bowyer 1721. Very Good-. Londini London: Typis Gilielmi Bowyer 1721. First Edition. Octavo 24cm; contemporary paneled calf gilt spine in six compartments all edges speckled; 6646444pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece and two leaves of plates including one other portrait and a folding table. Leather quite scuffed and rather dried joints rubbed with exposure of spine chords spine gilt mostly effaced 20th-century ownership inscription to front free endpaper else a Good to Very Good internally clean and sound copy. Preliminary text includes the extensive list of subscribers.<br /> <br /> Posthumously-published biography of the late Dean of St. Paul's John Barwick 1612-1664 by his brother Peter 1619-1705. "Begun in 1671 Vita was clearly intended as more than simply a memoir of Barwick's brother; it is perhaps better understood as a statement of his own commitment and lifelong zeal for the restored Anglican church and its royal head" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.<br /> <br /> ESTC T088503. Typis Gulielmi Bowyer 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
175020228AB1750. Anderer Theil. Brünn Johann Paul Krauß o.J. ca. 1750 16 : 10 cm. Titelkupfer 200 Seiten. Pergamentband der Zeit. In großen Lettern gedruckt. - Einband etwas bestossen und fleckig 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
175026970Boston: Printed and Sold by John Draper in Cornhil 1750. Very Good. Boston: Printed and Sold by John Draper in Cornhil 1750. First Edition. Octavo. 20 370 pp. 1 page errata. Contemporary calf boards recased with new leather spine repair to tips and new endpapers likely 19th century. Boards bumped and worn with signs of repair along edges and joints. Binding sound and endpapers rubbed and faded. Likely contemporary ownership inscription "Mrs. Braughton" to front flyleaf. Very mild toning to pages else unmarked. Very Good.<br /> <br /> Quincy set off from his hometown of Boston for a missionary position in Georgia in 1734. Records are vague but it appears his stay was tumultuous at one point reporting he had performed thirty-four christenings thirty-eight marriages and 156 burials — a less-than-uplifting picture is painted. Quincy was then elected rector of St. John's in Colleton South Carolina and later St. Philip in Charleston where he served for two years before returning to Boston. A scarce colonial imprint with the subscriber list which includes many individuals residing in South Carolina. <br /> <br /> Sabin 67275; Pennington The Georgia Historical Quarterly Vol. 11 No. 2 JUNE 1927 pp. 156-165. Printed and Sold by John Draper, in Cornhil unknown
179925887Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin 1799. Very Good. Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin 1799. First Edition. 12mo; full contemporary calf red gilt-lettered spine label; x3051pp. A-2B6 2C4 collated complete. Light shelf wear endpaper margins quite browned occasional spotting throughout textblock contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper and 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown else Very Good and sound.<br /> <br /> Collection of discourses "especially for the instruction and edification of young people; to.awaken their highest solicitude to walk with the wise and fly the way of evil men" title page. Concludes with an enormous subscriber's list eleven women only and errata printed at the end of p. 305 which concludes "In several pages there is an omission of the comma which the learned reader will naturally correct."<br /> <br /> EVANS 36455. Hudson and Goodwin unknown
171130900Londini London: J. Wyat 1711. Very Good. Londini London: Impensis J. Wyat ad Insigne Rosae in Coemeterio Divi Pauli 1711. First Edition. Octavo 20cm. full contemporary calf unadorned spine in six compartments; 162151adspp. collated presumed complete. Leather a bit scuffed at margins with some exposure at corners lacking rear pastedown brief scribble to front pastedown dated 1837 and extensive ownership inscription on front flyleaf of a Widow Wotton quoting extensively and laboriously from Corinthians. Overall a Very Good fresh and sound copy.<br /> <br /> Grim Anti-Roman screed by the Church of England clergyman Daniel Whitby ca. 1637-1726 the bulk of whose writings were preoccupied with the author's perceived spread of Catholicism in the high-church party. <br /> <br /> ESTC T109206. J. Wyat unknown
179433926New-York: Printed and Sold by William Durell at his Book Store and Printing Office No. 19 Queen-Street Near the Fly Market 1794. Very Good. New-York: Printed and Sold by William Durell at his Book Store and Printing Office No. 19 Queen-Street Near the Fly Market 1792-1794. First American Edition. Folio. 723pp.; directions to the binder; 2pp. list of subscribers; 57 plates; 3 maps including fold-out of Jerusalem collated complete. Bound in full modern speckled calf; six raised bands; original red morocco label laid to spine; new endpapers. Tight in binding; marginal staining and spotting; Very Good in a handsome binding.<br /> <br /> The Maynard Josephus is not only a fascinating illustrated tour of the ancient world but per Sabin it is "worthy of notice for the specimens of early engraving in the United States." Tiebout and Anderson the latter responsible for the fold-out map of Jerusalem in this volume were barely 20 years old at the time. An impressive and striking production. <br /> <br /> Sabin 3666; Evans 27174. Printed and Sold by William Durell, at his Book Store and Printing Office, No. 19, Queen-Street, Near the Fly Market unknown
171331386London: William Pearson for the Company of Printers 1713. Very Good . London: William Pearson for the Company of Stationers 1713. Octavo 20cm.; full contemporary black gilt-tooled morocco spine in six compartments preserving both steel clasps all edges gilt marbled endpapers; 304pp. A few faint surface scratches to leather spine gilt a bit dulled else a wonderfully preserved copy in Very Good or better condition.<br /> <br /> Front front flyleaf verso adorned with four ownership inscriptions: "For my Daughter Susan Morley the Gift of Her Affectionate Father / Octr. 22 1720"; D. Harvey undated; "Bridges Harvey's from his Mother / 1812"; and Charles H. Vickermore 1877. <br /> <br /> OCLC locates one copy of this edition as of December at the National Library of Wales described as having 350pp. possibly in error. William Pearson, for the Company of Printers 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
176226126Boston: Richard Draper / Thomas Leverett 1762. Very Good. Boston: Printed and Sold by Richard Draper in Newbury-Street and Thomas Leverett in Cornhill 1762. First Edition. Octavo; modern stitched card wrappers yapp edges manuscript spine titling; 118pp. A8 B-O4 collated and complete with half title. Ownership rubberstamp inside upper cover brief spotting to half title page else a Very Good quite fresh copy.<br /> <br /> The earliest in a series of tracts by the Congregationalist clergyman Charles Chauncy 1705-1787 arguing against the encroaching episcopacy in the colonies fearing that a bishop sent by the Church of England would wield both political as well as religious power and stifling the colonists' freedom to appoint their own churchmen. <br /> <br /> EVANS 9089; ESTC W29647; SABIN 12331. Richard Draper / Thomas Leverett unknown
174628679Boston: D. Gookin 1746. Very Good. Boston: Printed for D. Gookin in Marlborough-Street over against the Old South Meeting House 1746. First Edition. Octavo; removed modern stitching; 3-331pp. A-C4 D5 lacking half title and final blank else collated complete; woodcut initials head- and tail-pieces. Old leather remnants along spine edge a hint of dust-soil to margins else Very Good and sound.<br /> <br /> Sermon delivered by the Pastor of the First Church in Higham. "Under the Pretence of magnifying his Office let not a Minister by lordly and over-bearing in the Exercise of it lofty and imperious in his Carriage toward any let him not treat the very meanest and worst in his Parish with supercilious Fatuousness" p. 21.<br /> <br /> ESTC W16934; EVANS 5779. D. Gookin unknown
174726934Boston: D. Henchman 1747. Good. Boston: D. Henchman in Cornhil 1747. First Edition. Octavo; removed leather remnants to spine; 234pp. A3 B-D4 E3 collated and lacking half title and final leaf otherwise complete; decorative initials head- and tail-pieces. First and final gatherings separated small dark dampspot to title page fore-edge textblock rather foxed very occasional manuscript corrections made by a contemporary hand throughout text else a Good copy of an uncommon pamphlet. <br /> <br /> The twenty-five-year-old Congregationalist minister's earliest published sermon delivered upon his installment to the Pastoral Office over the Church of Christ in Worcester. The youthful minister concludes his address by shrewdly reminding his congregants "People should also express their Thankfulness for their faithful Ministers by supporting them agreable to their Station and Character not suffer them to be in low and penurious Circumstances" p. 31. <br /> <br /> ESTC 3592; EVANS 5988. D. Henchman unknown
173928658Boston: S. Kneeland 1739. Very Good. Boston: Printed by S. Kneeland Printer to the Honourable House of Representatives 1739. First Edition. Octavo; modern stitched card wrappers upper cover titled in calligraphic manuscript; 2582pp. A-H4 lacking half title page else collated complete with final blank. Moderate foxing and faint dampstains to textblock brief contemporary manuscript division equations scribbled on verso of final leaf else Very Good and sound.<br /> <br /> Election day sermon providing Peter Clark's four major requirements for a just government: loyalty to God "Observance of positive Institutions" keeping up "Family Religion" and most importantly "the Observance of Spiritual Evangelical Duties." <br /> <br /> EVANS 4350; SABIN 13349. S. Kneeland 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
179329347New-Haven: T. & S. Green 1793. Very Good. New-Haven: T. & S. Green 1793. First Edition. Octavo; removed modern stitching applied; 32pp. Moderate soiling to external leaves especially along spine edge of half title else Very Good and sound.<br /> <br /> Congregationalist ordination sermon providing the usual advice to a young minister assuming his first congregation: "How express and repeated are the apostle's cautions given to a young minister to shun controversial preaching which young ministers especially are most apt to adopt" p. 17 "controversial" in italics. <br /> <br /> EVANS 25374; TRUMBULL 550. T. & S. Green unknown
174450111London: Edward Wicksteed 1744. 8vo ii x 540 10 pp. Frontispiece lacking front endpapers and with some loss to those at the rear. Contemporary calf some marks corners and spine ends worn otherwise sound. The second part "Private Devotions" is dated 1759. Many editions were published in the mid-18th century all anonymous. London: Edward Wicksteed 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
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
174726588Boston: Rogers and Fowle / D. Gookin 1747. Very Good. Boston: Printed and Sold by Rogers and Fowle in Queen street and by D. Gookin in Marlborough-Street 1747. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm.; full contemporary Cambridge-style calf unadorned spine in six compartments; 8248pp. A4 B-Q8 R4 collated and complete. Light wear to leather extremities faint surface stretches to rear board endpapers foxed contemporary ownership signature at head of title page 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown else a Very Good copy in attractive early binding. Errata listed on A4 recto "The Author's Absence from the Press having occasioned some Errors which need correcting."<br /> <br /> Popular collection of sermons by the colorful Old Light congregationalist minister John Barnard 1681-1770 who spent much of the 1740s writing and publishing prodigiously in order to stem the influence of the New Lights: <br /> <br /> "Since therefore the Commandment of GOD is so exceeding broad as to reach to us in all our Capacities and Relations and Designs to better us as rational Creatures to render our Lives comfortable to us here and to make us compleatly happy hereafter then it must needs be the truest Wisdom in us thus to be religious" p. 193. <br /> <br /> ESTC W20493; EVANS 5905. Rogers and Fowle / D. Gookin unknown
176226181Boston: Fowle and Draper 1762. Very Good-. Boston: Fowle and Draper 1762. First Edition. Slim octavo; 19th century glazed boards gilt calf spine label later endpapers; 1236pp. A4 B-F4 collated and presumed complete; decorative head- and tail-pieces. Boards scuffed at extremities with exposure at corners spine partly perished some soil to rear board and textblock else a Good or better internally sound copy. <br /> <br /> Two sermons issued together with separate title pages and pagination but continuous collation attributed to Edmund March ca. 1704-1791. Quite uncommon none in the trade as of April 2023; last seen in the auction record in 1917. ESTC W14481; EVANS 9168 & 9169; SABIN 28443. Fowle and Draper unknown
176825796New-Haven: Thomas and Samuel Green 1768. Very Good-. New-Haven: Thomas and Samuel Green 1768. First Edition. Small octavo 18cm.; disbound; 44pp. A-E4 F2; woodcut initials head- and tail-pieces. Stitching perished leaving most signatures loose but present brief staining to bottom spine-edge corner else Good to Very Good internally clean and sound. <br /> <br /> Detailed lecture on the requirements of the minister in speaking intelligibly to his congregation for example "By using great care in defining and explaining out words where there is any danger of a misunderstanding" p. 13. Daggett also warns against "speaking in an unknown tongue or in ambiguous doubtful terms" as it is a "gross affront to common sense and a manifest imposition upon those whom we pretend to teach" p. 21. <br /> <br /> ESTC W12522; EVANS 10873; TRUMBULL 536. Thomas and Samuel Green unknown
174225903Boston: G. Rogers for M. Dennis 1742. Very Good. Boston: Printed by G. Rogers for M. Dennis near Scarlet's Wharff 1742. First Edition. Octavo 18cm.; removed all edges stained blue; 40pp. A4 B-E4 collated and complete with half title; decorative initials head- and tail-pieces. Brief contemporary manuscript marginalia to half title partly trimmed occasional contemporary manuscript corrections throughout text; a Very Good copy overall. Inscribed at head of half title: "The gift of Mr. Maccarty to John Angier."<br /> <br /> Old Light sermon delivered at the height of the Great Awakening religious revival the speaker reminding his listeners "That none but converted Persons can be instrumental of begetting Souls to God and of carrying on the Work of Grace where it is begun" even if "this Hypothesis is warmly denied by many in our Day" p. 8. The text concludes with two short pieces "The Charge given by the Rev. Eells of Scituate" attributed to Nathaniel and Edward Eells; and "The Right Hand of Fellowship given by the Rev. Mr. Lewis of Pembrook" attributed to Daniel Lewis. <br /> <br /> EVANS 4963; ESTC W20318; SABIN 28383. G. Rogers for M. Dennis unknown
176629355Boston: Edes and Gill 1766. Very Good. Boston: Printed and Sold by Edes and Gill in Queen-Street 1766. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 391pp. lacking half title otherwise collated complete. Title page starting to separate foxing to external leaves light toning to textblock else Very Good and sound overall.<br /> <br /> Ordination sermon by Charles Chauncy a strong opponent of Jonathan Edwards'. His oration followed by a Charge by Samuel Checkley and "Right Hand of Fellowship" by Samuel Cooper.<br /> <br /> ESTC W30941; EVANS 10256. Edes and Gill unknown
178326932Boston: T. and J. Fleet 1783. Very Good. Boston: Printed and Sold by T. and J. Fleet at the Bible and Heart in Cornhill 1783. First Edition. Octavo; removed old leather remnants to spine; 2ii96pp. A2 B4 C-N4 collated and complete. Textblock a bit browned and brittle else Very Good and sound.<br /> <br /> Doctrinal rebuttal by the pastor of the Third Church in Roxbury in answer to Charles Chauncy's tract "Salvation of All Men." <br /> <br /> ESTC W38203. T. and J. Fleet unknown
