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182012893London: R. Ackermann 101 Strand 1820. First edition early issue with the plates unnumbered. 24 hand-colored aquatint plates after M. Schuetz 1 map. xiv 2 1-178 pp. 1 vols. Folio 13 1/4 x 11 in. Contemporary polished calf spine gilt all edges gilt rebacked corners somewhat rubbed offsetting from plates and text very good attractive copy. First edition early issue with the plates unnumbered. 24 hand-colored aquatint plates after M. Schuetz 1 map. xiv 2 1-178 pp. 1 vols. Folio 13 1/4 x 11 in. One of Ackermann's most breathtaking color plate books - these exquisite views of the Rhine are justly prized for their matchless beauty. Abbey Travel 217; Martin Hardie pp. 107-8 312; Prideaux p. 337; Tooley 1954 # 234 R. Ackermann, 101, Strand unknown
1826D19692New York: James M. Campbell 1826. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo self wrappers stitched as issued also stabbed as if in preparation for binding but loose at the end. 47 pages. First edition. Clason 1789-1834 was a minor actor and poet. This is his second work of poetry which according to Appleton's is "full of the New York gossip of the day and celebrating among others Madame Malibran then the chief operatic singer." Housed in a folding case. <br/><br/> James M. Campbell, paperback
1890002289Laconia NH: John J. Lane n.d. c.1890's 1890. 1 vol. 9-1/4" x 5-7/16" 48pp. original yellow pictorial wrappers several woodcut illustrations in text internally clean and bright hinges fine a VERY GOOD copy. REFERENCE: McDade 376 Laconia, NH: John J. Lane, n.d., (c.1890's) unknown
1803373879Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring for Thomas & Andrews and Manning & Loring 1803. 333 1; 287 1pp. Titles within ornamental border. 8vo. Contemporary calf covers with gilt roll tool border flat spine gilt in six compartments marbled endpapers gilt roll tool along the turn-ins minor wear and rubbing. Minor browning staining and offsetting. Bookbinder's ticket on front pastedown T. H. Burnton Exeter NH. 333 1; 287 1pp. Titles within ornamental border. 8vo. A lovely early American binding by T. H. Burnton in which the ornamental border of the title is likely used as inspiration for the tooling on the covers. According to Papantonio and Spawn & Kinsella the binder T.H. Burnton was active in New York from 1800-6 and later removed to Providence RI; neither note a sojourn in Exeter NH. Shaw 3814. On Burnton see Papantonio 40 and Spawn & Kinsella 316 Printed by Manning & Loring, for Thomas & Andrews, and Manning & Loring unknown
1827H480London: T. Cadell / B. J. Holdsworth 1827. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. First editions 1798 and 1827. 8vo mid 19th century half leather xxiii 1 272; 2 iv 256 pp. Some rubbing to leather but still solidly bound good copy with library marks call number on spine bookplates to pastedown blindstamp on title page remains of a sticker on rear flyleaf. Philpot was ordained in 1793 and was Rector of Ripple Kent 1793-1823 and Vicar of St. Margaret-at-Cliffe 1813-23. Taylor’s History of the Transmission of Ancient Books to Modern Times 1827 and The Process of Historical Proof London 1828 were later remodelled as a single work 1859 in which he attempted to show grounds for accepting literary documents like the Bible as a basis for history. T. Cadell / B. J. Holdsworth hardcover
1846ST19286London: Printed by Catchpool & Trent for Simpkin Marshall & Co 1846. FIRST EDITION. 320 x 255 mm. 12 1/2 x 10". xiii 3 96 pp. <br/> Publisher's original blind-decorated dun-colored cloth gilt titling to upper cover smooth spine newer endpapers. WITH 11 COLOR ENGRAVINGS after Frost by W. P. Chubb & Son printed in oil colors by George Baxter all with original tissue guards. Front free endpaper with small ink signature of John Hill. See: Francis Reid "Isaac Frost's 'Two Systems of Astronomy' 1846: Plebeian Resistance and Scriptural Astronomy" in "The British Journal for the History of Science" Vol. 38 No. 2 Jun. 2005 pp. 161-177. Cloth rather spotted corners bumped but the binding solid with no wear to joints or hinges. A few spots of foxing to title page half of the tissue guards with overall very faint foxing/browning the illustrations with minor foxing at edges and in margins but the images themselves clean and bright and all in all a really excellent copy the text wide-margined and quite clean and fresh and the plates with rich coloring.<br/> <br/> Illustrated with beautiful color plates this anti-Newtonian work promotes a view of the universe based on the backward-looking beliefs professed by a Protestant sect known as the Muggletonians. Named after co-founder Lodowicke Muggleton the Muggletonians emerged in London in 1651 based on the claims of two tailors who professed to be the "Last Witnesses" described in the Book of Revelation. Rejecting the new directions in philosophical reason Muggletonians believed in a purely scriptural interpretation of the universe. According to E. P. Thompson's 1994 "Witness Against the Beast" the Muggletonians had curious notions quite contrary to other Protestant denominations: they believed that the soul is mortal that Jesus and God are one and the same that Heaven was left without divine supervision from Jesus' death until the day of judgment that Heaven resides six miles above the Earth that God stands between five and six feet tall and other unconventional things. Although the sect initially avoided both worship and evangelizing during the 19th century some followers became more outspoken about their beliefs and even published books appealing to the general public. Our author Isaac Frost 1793-1858 was a prominent Muggletonian and successful owner of a brass foundry who along with his brother Joseph invested large sums to promote their belief system--the present work being an especially notable example. Divided into two main sections the text first describes the Newtonian system of heliocentric astronomy and then turns to Frost's scriptural interpretation and geocentric views. As Reid tells us "According to Frost Scripture clearly states that the Sun the Moon and the Stars are embedded in a firmament made of congealed water and revolve around the Earth that Heaven has a physical reality above and beyond the stars and that the planets and the Moon do not reflect the Sun's rays but are themselves independent sources of light. Our book was apparently written as a reaction against the lecturers who expressed Newtonian astronomy--which was often for them and their audiences simply shorthand for heliocentrism." The 11 plates that illustrate these extraordinary ideas are the work of George Baxter a pioneering printer who revolutionized color printing techniques by combining metal engravings with woodblock printing using oil-based inks to produce high-quality affordable prints. The plates here are appropriately ethereal and otherworldly utilizing a beautiful palette with subtle gradations and esoteric figures to create memorable pseudo-scientific imagery. Although this work appears at auction with some regularity it is almost always incomplete no doubt because the attractiveness of its plates encourages harvesting. Useful price comparisons include a complete copy said to be in fine condition selling for £7500 in 2016 and six loose prints from the book fetching £6875 in 2015. [Printed by Catchpool & Trent for] Simpkin, Marshall, & Co unknown
184913561Philadelphia: T. K. and P. G. Collins 1849. First Separate Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo pp. 432-654 complete as issued. Illustrated with two folding charts. A good copy in the publisher's brown cloth with a large chip to the top of the spine affecting part of the stamped title. Ex-American Philosophical Society library with a small label to the spine and their stamp on the title page else unblemished internally. A presentation copy SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Dr. Isaac Parrish a prominent member of the committee and a leading Philadelphia doctor and social reformer on the front free endpaper possibly in a secretarial hand: "To Library Amer Philos. Society from Dr. Isaac Parrish Member of the Committee." This extensive review of the condition of public health in American cities is an early example of organized public health advocacy in America. In-depth analyses of housing and sanitation infrastructure and hospital capacities are presented at length. The AMA had only been founded two years before this report in 1847 and began publishing its "Transactions" in 1848 still published today as the highly distinguished "JAMA". Thus this extensive report is one of the first large-scale studies produced by the AMA and represents a significant record of American medicine during a period of rapid change on the frontier rapidly crowding cities and the limited capacity of small local governments and a weak federal government to meet the challenges of widespread disease outbreaks.<br /> <br /> A lengthy eulogy for Dr. Parrish by Dr. Samuel Jackson presented to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia was published by Lippincott in 1853 and lists Parrish's many accomplishments. He was an early Abolitionist as well as an advocate for prison reform and other difficult social questions of the day. He wrote at length on the problems and possible solutions to various sanitary conditions in his hometown of Philadelphia and advocated for better sanitation infrastructure.<br /> <br /> OCLC holdings for this offprint are muddled with some digital-only holdings difficult to distinguish from physical holdings. Nevertheless only perhaps a dozen or so copies are retained by institutions and presumably not a great many of these were printed. The first few volumes of the AMA's "Transactions" are quite scarce and desirable in commerce. T. K. and P. G. Collins hardcover
1852323680Np 1852. 16pp. 8vo. Removed with remains of later wrappers along the gutter margins of the first and last pages. 16pp. 8vo. Scarce piece of campaign ephemera relating to the election of 1852 which pitted Democrat Pierce against the Whig Winfield Scott. Pierce won in an electoral landslide. Sabin 91531 unknown
1844150908019Boston: J. K. Wellman 1844. Hardcover. Very Good. short work of devotional and moral instruction presented as an ancient Christian text allegedly discovered on the island of Patmos—the traditional site associated with the writing of the Book of Revelation. 12mo 15 x 10 cm. 72 pp. Original brown cloth binding. Front hinge is a little weak. Pages show a bit of foxing mostly llimited to prelims. Boston: J. K. Wellman hardcover
1873E19613New York: McLoughlin Bros 1873. Softcover. Near Fine. 24mo. in illustrated yellow wraps. Unpaginated 12 pp. with four partial page color lithos. Chapbook of verses for children part of the publisher's "Illuminated Texts for Sunday School Rewards". A bright example corner dampstain lower front wrap and a small foxed spots to the first page. McLoughlin Bros unknown
1822ST20877London: Printed for R. Ackermann 1822. First English Edition. 300 x 235 mm. 11 3/4 x 9 1/2". xvi 325 1 pp.Translated by Frederic Shoberl. <br/> Imposing contemporary crimson straight-grain morocco gilt covers with filigree frame with densely massed scrolling fleurons raised bands spine gilt in compartments with radiating viny scrolls surrounded by leaves and annular dots marbled endleaves all edges gilt. WITH 13 HAND-COLORED PLATES in etching and aquatint many after Japanese artworks one folding. Bookplate removed from front flyleaf. Bookseller's ticket of J. L. Thompson & Co Kobe Japan on front pastedown. Abbey Travel 557; Tooley 489; Martin Hardie "English Coloured Books" pp. 113-14. See also E. F. Strange "Japanese Illustration" pp. xxiii-xxiv. Spine and fore-edge of upper board slightly darkened a few minute flakes to lowest spine compartment but the binding extremely well preserved with very lustrous boards. Final 10 leaves slightly creased one repaired marginal tear but still A FINE COPY INTERNALLY exceptionally bright smooth and entirely fresh and clean.<br/> <br/> This generously proportioned production illustrated with 13 vibrant colored plates is a rare European account of Japan during the period in which the country was "closed" to the west offered here in its first English edition. Originally published in French in 1820 "Illustrations of Japan" is comprised of a history and description of the Tokugawa shogunate which Titsingh had translated from the Japanese plus Titsingh's own observations on the language customs and ceremonies of the Japanese people. The present English edition is accompanied by plates in etching and aquatint enhanced with hand coloring. Our author Dutch diplomat Isaac Titsingh 1745-1812 spent 14 years in Nagasaki for the Dutch East India company and between 1779-84 he served as trade director-cum-ambassador travelling to Edo now Tokyo for audiences with the shogun and other high officials in the shogunate. Unlike most of his Western contemporaries Titsingh was open-minded and curious about the people he encountered engaging with their art and culture; in fact art historian and Victoria & Albert Museum keeper Edward F. Strange tells us that Titsingh is the earliest known European collector of Japanese prints of which a number appear in the present volume. Our publisher Rudolph Ackermann 1764-1834 made his living issuing sumptuously illustrated books such as the present volume and was an early adopter of color aquatint and lithography technologies; Hardie writes that he was "the great presiding genius before whose magic wand so many pictorial books sprang into existence." In very attractive period morocco this is a particularly appealing copy of the work free of the foxing and offsetting that often plague copies of this and other large-format color illustrated books. Printed for R. Ackermann unknown
184844325Camden: P. Keen and E. Chandler 1848. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Modern black cloth. Extremities a little rubbed dampstaining on last two leaves else vg. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Howes M 881. Howes M 881 <br/><br/> P. Keen and E. Chandler hardcover
181731527New York 1817. Engraved headpiece. 1 vols. ca. 8 x 8 1/4 inches. Regimental Orders folded and addressed on verso to Lieut. Col. Hatfield at 23 Frankfort Street. Folds oblong holes affecting two words but not legibility some light discoloration else very good. Engraved headpiece. 1 vols. ca. 8 x 8 1/4 inches. Purdy notifying the Regiment that he has been transferred to that Regiment as Colonel Commandant that the officers at to assemble at Jones' Tavern in Fulton Street with the dates of their commission and that Quarter-Master Strong will be acting Adjutant until further orders. 115th Regiment. <br/><br/> unknown
1818545Philadelphia and Baltimore: G. W. Mentz; Schäffer und Maund 1818. Oblong 8vo. 145 x 2 70 mm. 5 ¾ x 10 ½ inches. 10 2 105 3 pp. Contemporary leather spine over paper covered boards; spine and boards rubbed with a 2 x 2-inch circle of paper missing from lower board; paper stock aged brown and lightly foxed small piece missing from title-page not affecting text. This copy with the repeated inscription which reads "Henry Landis his book bought in Harrisburg January 20th 1818." With faults a very good copy of a scarce book. First edition reprinted in Harrisburg in 1822. John Wyeth was a Harrisburg printer who produced music and voice books for ministers and church groups during the first quarter of the 19th century. He was the first printer to use shape-note type in his books for the German religious community. In addition to printing for Rev. Isaac Gerhart he printed music books for James Doll and Johannes Rothbaust. Rev. Isaac Gerhart was a Reformed Minister of the Lykens Valley in Dauphin County Pennsylvania. "In addition to preaching administering the sacraments and conducting catechetical instructions Rev. Gerhart set about to improve church worship. He found a 'great defect' in the singing in those early churches. Since he had musical knowledge and talent he prepared a music book called Church Harmonia." Shaw and Shoemaker American Bibliography 44154. Arndt German Language Printing 2274. Biographical information found at LykensValley.org/rev-isaac-gerhart. G. W. Mentz; Schäffer und Maund unknown
184542820862<p>FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of the Pentateuch translated by a Jew and the first American translation of the Torah. Isaac Leeser was the single most influential Jewish figure in 19th-century America. His many accomplishments include establishing the vernacular sermon as a permanent feature in the American synagogue publishing the first successful American Jewish newspaper and founding the first American rabbinical school.</p><p>"When Leeser commences his public career the scattered Jewish individuals and the members of the congregation in the United States did not number more than from 12000 to 15000. His purpose to mold these into a community was to be achieved in part by the pulpit and in part by the press. … Leeser participated in all Jewish movements. He was the earliest promoter of all the national enterprises—the first congregational union the first Hebrew day-schools the first Hebrew college the first Jewish publication society—and of numberless local undertakings. The 'Occident' acquired a national and even an international reputation; the Maimonides' College of which he was president paved the way for future Jewish colleges in the United States; and his translation of the Bible became an authorized version for the Jews of America" Jewish Encyclopedia.</p><p>"Practically every form of Jewish activity which supports American Jewish life today as either established or envisaged by this one man" and "almost every kind of publication which is essential to Jewish survival was written translated or fostered by him" B. W. Korn.</p><p>Leeser's greatest contribution was his translation of the Bible and these volumes contain the first printing of the first and most important portion of this monumental work Leeser's English translation of the Torah. This translation was not superseded until well into the 20th century.</p><p>Emphasizing that this is an American work Leeser notes in the introduction that "I have to state that I have not looked at a single work issued by English Jews and that hence I have not borrowed a single idea or suggestion from any one of them living or dead."</p><p>Five volumes. Hebrew and English text on facing pages. Finely bound in mottled calf spines gilt a.e.g. Title neatly restored several restored perforated and ink stamps. A very handsome set in a splendid binding.</p> C. Sherman, 5605-6 hardcover
1814210937New York: Evert Duyckinck 1814. hardcover. good. of the Old Versions. Revised by Joel Barlow. Bound with: Watts Isaac. Hymns and Spiritual Songs in Three Books. 2 vols. in one. 24mo contemporary calf leather label head of spine lightly worn lacks lower half of page 7 with loss of text front flyleaf chipped some pages lightly dampstained in margin. New York: Evert Duyckinck 1814.<br/> <br/> S&S 30888.<br/> <br/> Evert Duyckinck unknown
1821621912Caldwell New York now Lake George: W. Storer Jun. Printer 1821. Hardcover. Good. First edition. 24mo. Measuring 4" x 5¾". Contemporary leather over boards. Contemporary owner name penciled on front fly. Spine perished preliminary and terminal leaves stained with some shallow marginal loss text toned and foxed more or less sound but good only. W. Storer, Jun. Printer hardcover
185896770New Haven: E. Hayes Printer 1858. 1858. Good. - Octavo 9-7/8 inches high by 6 inches wide. Softcover light grey printed wraps. The edges of the covers are chipped with a few short tears. There is dampstaining along the front edge of the front cover and bottom inner corners of both covers. viii & 456 pages illustrated with 2 folding charts.Both are charts of the "U.S. Coast Survey / A.D. Bache superintendent" the first being "Sketches Nos. 1 to 5 / Showing the set of currents in Sandy Hook Bay". The other is a folding chart depicting the "Curves Illustrating the Descent of the Sounding Weight and Line in Deep Sea Soundings 1858". There is dampstaining to the front edge of the first 74 pages and the top corner of several other pages. Good. <p>Included is an article "On an Earthquake in Western New York" by C.E. West pages 177 through 182; an article "On Chinese Poisons" by D.J. Macgowan M.D.; "Observations upon the Practicability of reaching the North Pole - with a map" by Isaac L. Hayes M.D. no map was published pages 305 through 323; an article on "The Atlantic Cable" pages 285 through 288; an article on "Photography - Sensitiveness of Photographic Reagents" page 397; W.P. Towbridge "On Deep Sea Explorations" pages 386-391; G.C. Swallow of Missouri on "The Rocks of Kansas" pages 182 through 186; "Sixth Supplement to Dana's Mineralogy" by the author pages 345 through 364; D.F. Weinland on the "Zoology of Hayti" i.e. Haiti pages 210 through 214; and Charles Lyell "On the Formation of Volcanic Cones" pages 214 through 219. New Haven: E. Hayes, Printer, 1858. paperback
184141441Charleston S. C. : Levin & Tavel 1841. 1st American Edition Original Publisher's Cloth Small 8vo 2 236 pages followed by several unnumbered pages of publisher's advertisements. Singerman 0761 Rosenbach 483. <br> <br> Jacob Rader Marcus the dean of historians of American Jewish history suggests in his work UNITED STATES JEWRY 1776-1985 Detroit 1989 that "The motive that prompted Nathaniel Levin and a Charleston associate to reprint an English translation of the sermons of Gotthold Salomon was apologetic.The book was Twelve Sermons Delivered in the New Temple of the Israelites at Hamburgh. The Hamburg temple in Germany was a liberal Jewish synagog one of the first in Europe. <br> An English translation had been made of the sermons at London in 1839 by Anna Maria Goldsmid the daughter of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid the Anglo-Jewish emancipator and religious liberal. The American reprint appeared two years later. <br> Both editions were intended not only to edify Jews but also to interest and attract non-Jews. It was Levin's hope that these sermons would remove unjust prejudices against the Jew and would present 'the lofty character of the Israelite in its true colors.' A book of this sort would help the Jews put their best foot forward." <br> Interestingly this 1st American edition of Twelve Sermons contains a new preface extolling the religious liberty of America and highlighting the refuge it afforded to the Jews. The new preface is merely signed "L" certainly referring authorship by Isaac Leeser and further supported by the fact that volume is preceded by two pages of advertisements for works by Leeser even though his works had no connection to the Charleston Publisher of this work.<br> That Leeser who would become American Orthodoxy's greatest warrior against the Reform would offer a preface to and advertise his works in a collection of sermons from the breakaway Liberal Hamburg Temple in Germany suggests that he did not yet see the coming threat from the Reform movement. <br> At the time of printing in Charleston Gustavus Poznanski 5 years into his term as rabbi and still somewhat traditional was just starting to make what felt like radical reforms as he "excised the Resurrection of the Dead and abolished the Second day of festivals five years before the same was done at the Breslau conference." <br> <br> America's first Reform import from Germany and it's first synagogue established as Reformed Har Sinai Congregation in Baltimore was still a year away from birth. Indeed the official term "Reform" did even come into use to describe Liberal Judaism except as a general adjective until 1845 even in Germany. <br> Leeser's involvement in this publication merits further study as it is not mentioned in the bibliographies nor in Sussman's comprehensive "Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism." <br> Indeed in the 1840s at the time of this printing "there was a major split in Congregation Beth Elohim which many historians of American Jewish history see as the beginning of the American Reform movement. The conflict began after the introduction of an organ into the synagogue when it was rebuilt following a fire in 1840. <br> The series of conflicts between Reform and Traditionalist elements in Beth Elohim resulted in a complicated dispute between the President who favored Reform and the Board of Trustees which was controlled by the Traditionalists. The President refused to call the Board of Trustees to meet as was required by the synagogue's constitution because he knew they would admit new traditionalist members and obtain control of the congregation. The Board ignored him and met on their own a move which the Reformers challenged in court. The resulting case State v. Ancker has become known as an early example of U. S. Courts refusing to intervene in complex religious questions" Wikipedia. <br> <br> Salomon 1784-1862 was the preacher of the new Reform Hamburg Temple. His "sermons modeled like those of other preachers on Protestant examples were praised by his contemporaries notably H. Heine." Goldsmid 1805-1889 a daughter of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid was a London author poetess translator educator and communal worker JE. Includes bibliographical references. <br> SUBJECTS: Jewish sermons. OCLC: 5001081. OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide. Ownership stamp of "Rev. E.L. Hess" on title page signiture of "S. Uhlfelder" on blank endpaper. Lacks backstrip wear and foxing occational period notes binding starting to loosen but Good Condition in acid-free book box. A scarce and important publication associated with the early beginnings of the Reform movement in Charleston and with Leeser's first years of scholarly output. B KH-9-29-BDZ-elx. Charleston, S. C. : Levin & Tavel unknown
185639486Cincinnati Printed At The Office Of The Israelite & Deborah 1856. Hardback. 1st edition. Period Cloth 8vo 107 pages. Singerman 1444. Deinard 357. <br> <br> Goldman 269: "Mayer was born in Alsace or Bavaria in 1809. He studied in yeshivot near his native town and in Frankfor am Main and he pursued secular studies in Frankfort and Mayence.<br> Mayer 'inherited a considerable property which was swept away in the German revolution of 1848' Israelite. He subsequently immigrated to America. Mayer served as a teacher and rabbi in Cincinnati Rochester and Hartford.The speech delivered by his son Alfred on the occasion of becoming a bar mitzvah was printed in Occident 17.1 31 Mar 1859 3." <br> Includes 2 title pages: The first entirely in English is dated 1856. The second primarily in Hebrew is dated 1855. For a review see Occident 14.1 April 1856 p. 39. No copy offered at major auction in the past 25 years. <br> <br> OCLC: 2269993. <br> Ex-library with minimal markings. Binding repaired some ink stains About Very Good- Condition. KH-8-18-RGGFDBYL. Cincinnati, Printed At The Office Of The Israelite & Deborah unknown
189540853Chicago: S. Ettlinger Printing Co 1895. 1st edition. Original green paper wrappers 12mo 56 pages. <br> <br> The author Isaac S. Moses is prominently listed on the title page as Rabbi of Kehilath Anshe Mayriv KAM Chicago's first Synagogue; these were sermons he delivered there.<br> <br> In addition the title page lists S. Ettlinger Printing Co. in Chicago as the publisher though the wrappers list Bloch in New York. This probably means that Bloch bought the printed run or the remains of it or the plates and put their own outer label on and then continued the distribution under their own name. Singerman 4882 simply listing Ettlinger in Chicago as publisher with no mention of Bloch.<br> <br> In his early days in the United States Isaac Moses "was considered a radical Reformer but later he took a more moderate position. In 1884 he introduced his own prayer book Tefillat Yisrael. <br> <br> Moses was a founding member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and a member of the Reform committee charged with compiling an official prayer book. The appearance of the Union Prayer Book in 1894 has been credited to his personal initiative in preparing and circulating a manuscript when the committee's work seemed to be leading nowhere. Moses also published a number of sermons and textbooks for children. His Sabbath School Hymnal first issued in 1894 ran into 14 editions. While in Milwaukee he edited the weekly Der Zeitgeist 1880-82" encyclopedia.com. <br> <br> In one of these sermons Rabbi Moses discusses the evils that occurred in Egypt and then goes on to say "Does not our civilization show the most alarming symptoms of the evils and the diseases of Egypt We have fought for the emancipation of the negro but the enslavement of the masses by our modern indutrial system threatens to become a plague worse than ever befell the birth-place of Moses." <br> <br> Subjects: Jewish sermons American. English -- United States. <br> <br> OCLC: 25225212.<br> <br> Spine rebacked coveres rubbed and worn but solid. Good Condition Overall. Somewhat scarce. B AMR-57-6-BL-'f. Chicago: S. Ettlinger Printing Co unknown
189543079Warsaw: Izdanie I.L. Perets 1895. First edition period boards 8vo 179 pages. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “The Jewish Library: A Journal for Literature Society and Economics.â€<br> Third volume of semiannual publication edited by I.L. Peretz. Di Yudishe Bibliotek was published periodically between 1891 and 1904. This issue includes belle-lettres poetry and scientific essays.<br> “To encourage Jews toward a wider knowledge of secular subjects Peretz for several years wrote articles on physics chemistry economics and other subjects for Di yudishe bibliotek which he also edited.†Encyclopedia Britannica.<br> Yitskhok Leybush Peretz 1852-1915 is one the best known Yiddish and Hebrew authors of the 19th century. Peretz was one of the three classic Yiddish writers with S. Y. Abramovitsh and Sholem Aleichem and the founder of Yiddish modernism. In the first decade of the 20th century he was at the center of an active literary circle in Warsaw. <br> SUBJECTS: Yiddish literature -- Poland -- Periodicals. Jews -- Poland -- Periodicals. Jews. Yiddish literature. OCLC: 992802478. <br> Ex-library with usual markings and normal wear and age to pages but otherwise in good condition. Good Condition. YID-46-19-GGLEX-’cc. Warsaw: [Izdanie I.L. Perets] unknown
1854List1708Philadelphia 1854. Ninth plate ambrotypes in a union case measuring 2 ½ x 2 ⅛ inches visible in larger case. With the identification of Isaac Rehn with his imprint and “Patented July 4 & 11 1854†imprinted on the case. A fine pair. A striking pair of ambrotypes of Mary and Moses Pennock who were members of the Kennett Square Underground Railroad network as well as active members of the Kennett Square abolitionist and Quaker community. Moses was one of the founders of the Longwood Progressive Meeting. In R.C. Smedley’s History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania Lancaster Office of the Journal 1883 the Pennocks are mentioned on p. 301 as working as part of the network surrounding Isaac and Thamazine Meredity. Their son Samuel who would go on to secure important agricultural patents is also mentioned twice. <br /> <br /> The images are notable from a photographic history perspective as well as being early examples of the ambrotype process that had been patented in part by fellow Quaker and spiritualist Isaac Rehn. Rehn held a partial patent on ambrotypes along with James Ambrose Cutting of Boston and became unpopular among other photographers for his efforts to extend his patent. He later practiced spiritual photography and was a Professor of Chemistry at Pennsylvania Medical University in Philadelphia. Rehn was also involved in radical politics as a founder and leader of the Philadelphia section of the International Workingmen’s Association which was later disenfranchised by Karl Marx along with several other American sections. Examples of Rehn’s work are held at the National Gallery of Art the Library Company of Philadelphia and Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library. <br /> <br /> Overall a very fine and significant pair of images. unknown
18919638Indianapolis: Isaac Doles 1891. First edition. Large format sheet music 13.5x11" 5pp including printed inner-rear wrapper. Small "testimonial" review of another of Dole's works tipped in at inner front wrapper likely as issued. Paper wraps illustrated and lettered in blue with several pieces available from the composer listed on the rear. Few edge tears splitting to spine and some soiling else a very good example. <br /> <br /> Very rare 19th century sheet music by songwriter composer and organist from Indianapolis Isaac Doles 1853-1927. Doles published several songs and even republished a few with modifications mostly on local subject matter. This piece takes its name from the newly invented aerial machine:<br /> <br /> "The air ship may prove to be a failure but 'The Air Ship Waltz' is destined to be a grand success."<br /> <br /> <br /> OCLC cites holdings at the Smithsonian Indiana Michigan and Baylor Universities. . Isaac Doles unknown
1890List01105Massachusetts 1890. Albumen and Silver Gelatin Prints 9 ¾ x 8 ¾ - 8 x 6 inches on larger mounts three with credits to Conant photographer one credited to Benjamin Freeman and one uncredited. Varying wear very good condition overall. Very Good. The Isaac Royall house in Medford which still exists as a museum is most notable for the existence of one of the only separate quarters for enslaved people to exist in Massachusetts. The house was used during the revolution after Isaac Royall Jr. fled to England and had several owners before the Daughters of the American Revolution turned it into a museum in 1898. Collected here are three photographs from the opening of the museum likely taken by Benjamin Howe Conant with Conant on rectos of two and the other matching an image currently on the museum’s site. Another larger albumen print shows the main house with a woman at the door likely from the 1880s. Perhaps most interesting is the fifth image taken by Benjamin Freeman of Somerville likely in the 1880s with the inscription “View from Slave illegible Showing House in right Driveway on left.†We find no other record of this image which features a well dressed couple in the midground and has retained excellent contrast. unknown
