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1417D7017Harwich MA 14 April 1763. Paperback. Near Fine. Original wraps; 12mo; completely full with 34 manuscript pages numerous emendataions with one revised page pinned into the volume. Later sticker at top corner of front cover not infringing upon text. <br/><br/>The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War on 10 February 1763. By April news was just reaching the English colonies. This sermon was delivered from Daniel 2:20-21 and reads in part "we no longer hear ye alarm of war but hope for ye establishment of peace on very advantageous terms to us who dwell in this land. Let us consider yt it is God who hath given us this quietness." It is not signed but Dunster's name is penciled on the wrapper and the handwriting matches Dunster manuscripts held at Harvard University. A notation on the front cover shows that he delivered this sermon again in 1773 and 1786. Isaiah Dunster 1720-1791 was a Congregational minister at Harwich on Cape Cod from 1748 until his death in 1791. His headstone in Brewster Cemetery says of him that he was "The most beloved Pastor of the First Church in Harwich. He graduated at the University in Cambridge. In native Town was ordained Nov'r 18 1748. After a judicious pertinent and faithful discharge of related ministerial duties satisfied with Life and confident of Immortality He died Jan 18 1791 in the 71 year of his age and 43 of his Ministry." This remarkable manuscript is an extremely scarce pre-Revolutionary survival. paperback
1417D7017Harwich MA 14 April 1763. Paperback. Near Fine. Original wraps; 12mo; completely full with 34 manuscript pages numerous emendataions with one revised page pinned into the volume. Later sticker at top corner of front cover not infringing upon text. <br/><br/>The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War on 10 February 1763. By April news was just reaching the English colonies. This sermon was delivered from Daniel 2:20-21 and reads in part "we no longer hear ye alarm of war but hope for ye establishment of peace on very advantageous terms to us who dwell in this land. Let us consider yt it is God who hath given us this quietness." It is not signed but Dunster's name is penciled on the wrapper and the handwriting matches Dunster manuscripts held at Harvard University. A notation on the front cover shows that he delivered this sermon again in 1773 and 1786. Isaiah Dunster 1720-1791 was a Congregational minister at Harwich on Cape Cod from 1748 until his death in 1791. His headstone in Brewster Cemetery says of him that he was "The most beloved Pastor of the First Church in Harwich. He graduated at the University in Cambridge. In native Town was ordained Nov'r 18 1748. After a judicious pertinent and faithful discharge of related ministerial duties satisfied with Life and confident of Immortality He died Jan 18 1791 in the 71 year of his age and 43 of his Ministry." This remarkable manuscript is an extremely scarce pre-Revolutionary survival. paperback books
179273Massachusetts: By Brother Isaiah Thomas Printed at Worcester Massachusetts 1792 1792. Second Edition. Bound in full calf.Quarto 9.5x7.5 inches 1 Frontis. XVI 1 18-288pp. 2 English Condition: Good with heavy foxing ink stains and a poor spine repair. Good. Thomas Isaiah <br /> <br /> The Constitutions Of The Ancient And Honourable Fraternity Of Free and Accepted Masons : Containing Their History Charges Addresses &c. Collected And Digested From Their Old Records faithful Traditions and Lodge Books : For the Use of Masons : To Which Are Added The History of Masonry in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts And The Constitution Laws and Regulations Of Their Grand Lodge : Together With A Large Collection of Songs Epilogues &c. 1792 <br /> <br /> Publisher: By Brother Isaiah Thomas Printed at Worcester Massachusetts 1792 <br /> <br /> Quarto 9.5x7.5 inches <br /> 1 Frontis. XVI 1 18-288pp. 2 <br /> English Condition: Good with heavy foxing ink stains and a poor spine repair.<br /> <br /> This second edition work is regarded as a highly important piece of Freemasonry literature. This work was prepared by a committee of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts under the supervision of Thaddeus Mason Harris and it is attributed to James Anderson by Evans. The book is dedicated to George Washington with an engraving on the frontispiece created by Joseph Seymour. <br /> <br /> The contents are divided into four parts. <br /> Part I. Sketches of the ancient history of the ancient history of Masonry.<br /> Part II. Sketches of the modern history of Free Masons. <br /> Part III. Charges addresses prayers &c. <br /> Part IV. Oratorio odes anthems prologues and songs.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Bound in full tree calf with five gilt bands a gilt title over a red paste-downspine a full-page engraving frontispiece an engraved seal to the sanction page and two small engravings to the last couple pages. PROVENANCE On the endpaper and inside the front boards there are extensive annotations by a previous owner Frederick Lewis Weis a Master Mason and esteemed genealogist. Weis is highly regarded among American historians for his significant contributions to genealogical research. One of his most famous works "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650" remains a key reference today. These notes provide a detailed genealogical record of the men in his family who were Freemasons including their initiation dates and lodge locations. It is truly remarkable to see his handwritten work preserved in such an important volume<br /> <br /> It is in Good condition with heavy shelf wear/staining a poor repair to the spine which includes strips of tape on the top and bottom and the corners and edges are rubbed. Inside the first blank page is barely attached there is considerable foxing with the worst being the frontispiece/title page p.169-185 237-242 and 249-259. There is a considerable ink stain to the top pages with the first few pages being affected the worse does not affect text and on p. 273-276. There is also a handwritten song on the bottom margin of p.279. The book while being a bit worn is still in stable condition! By Brother Isaiah Thomas, Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts, 1792 unknown
1880364056San Francisco: Taber Photo 1880. Ephemera. Fine. A terrific 19th century Chinatown albumen photograph that offers an interesting contrast to Taber's many well-known photographs of Cheong Wo & Co. a butcher shop that was located nearby. This view was just a half-block away at the corner of Washington Street and the Washington Place alley. The shops in this photo are grittier and less-well tended.<br /> <br /> Taber managed to catch a poultry butcher at the far left in a beam of light. Directly in front of him a fast-moving pedestrian is just a blur. A number of Chinese men stand on the sidewalk or walk down the alley. Instead of the elaborate displays of Cheong Wo most of the merchants on this street have only small round tables of goods in front of their stores. Piles of crates and boxes line one side of the alley. <br /> <br /> Taber's 1889 catalog of images includes four labeled "provision market." One is identified as negative 2869; that may be the same as this image with two numbers transposed.<br /> <br /> The albumen print measures 9-1/2 by 7-1/2 inches and is captioned in the image in a narrow strip along the bottom of the print. A very good print a bit over exposed in the center where sunlight falls on the alley some prints have better contrast in this portion of the image. There is a bit of discoloration on the left margin of the photograph which is otherwise near fine. Never mounted. Taber Photo unknown
1836WRCAM52182Bilbao; Castro Urdiales; Santander 1836. 36pp. Loose gatherings. Previously folded with some separations and paper loss along old folds slightly affecting text. Written in a small but legible hand. Very good. An engaging account of travels along the north coast of Spain in the Basque country during the First Carlist War the civil war fought between the conservative followers of Carlos V and the liberal defenders of the succession of the infant Isabel II between 1833 and 1840. The Basque region was a Carlist stronghold and Townsend's account includes descriptions of encounters with the forces supporting Carlos as well as being a narrative of the journey around the region from Bayonne to Santander. The diary was composed in three separate parts from different locations in the Basque region in January and February of 1836 and is addressed to his sister. <br> <br> Isaiah Townsend Jr. descended from a prestigious New York family that included Solomon Townsend industrialist and state politician after the Revolution and his father Isaiah Sr. a prominent Albany merchant. On a prior Grand Tour of Europe in 1831 and 1832 he met David Baillie Warden author of BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA with whom he would become great friends and whose library Townsend would broker to the New York State Library in 1844. <br> <br> A well-written travel diary by a notable New Yorker and close acquaintance to an important American bibliophile filled with fascinating detail about the Basque area and the events of the day. unknown books
64452[Nürnberg, Anton Koberger, 1487]. Fol. Mit einer goldgehöhten Anfangsinitiale u. einem Textholzschnitt. Durchg. m. eingemalten Initialen in Rot u. Blau sowie rubriziert. 82 nn. Bll. (Got. Typ., 2 Kol., 72-73 Zeilen, Text von Kommentar umgeben), Geheftet (ausgebunden; ohne Einband).
2968Worcester Mass: Printed by I. Thomas by whom subscriptions essays &c. &c. for this work are taken in 1786. 8vo. 19th century three quarter red morocco with marbled paper boards. 110 pp. 30 pp. of ads extracted from the rear of each issue. <p>The first nine issues of this continuation in magazine form of Isaiah Thomas' newspaper The Massachusetts Spy a format to which Thomas resorted as a means of avoiding recently instituted tariffs on paper and taxes on newspaper advertisements.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>In a broadside he published addressing the matter Thomas observed "The tax on news-paper advertisements has a direct tendency not only to restrain but to destroy those necessary vehicles of publick information by taking away their only support.these considerations have induced the printer of the Massachusetts Spy although with greatest reluctance to discontinue the publication of that news-paper." The scope and nature of its content remained essentially unchanged in its new form.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>The present issues include such items as the text of a November 1785 treaty with the Cherokees the speech of a Seneca chief delivered at Carlisle Pennsylvania an article on the growing Russian Empire extracts from History of the Late War in America from the British Annual Register for 1776 and Dr. Johnson's Meditations on Pudding. Also includes numerous interesting advertisements some of them illustrated with woodcuts. A partially trimmed early ownership inscription appears at the foot of one leaf apparently reading "Doctr. Porter." A short-lived title The Worcester Magazine was published from 1786 to 1788.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>REFERENCES: Lomazow 20.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>CONDITION: Most issues good issue for 2nd week in May 1786 lacking leaf pp. 71-72 rubbed along the extremities and spine with some loss marginal losses from a few leaves in one instance affecting the text of an advertisement for "Stages From Portsmouth in New Hampshire to Savannah in Georgia" but this ad appears several times.</p> Worcester, Mass: Printed by I. Thomas, by whom subscriptions, essays, &c. &c. for this work are taken in, 1786 unknown
178827177Printed at Worcester Mass.: Isaiah Thomas 1788. First edition. Full calf. Boards quite tender though holding worn circular stain to front board chips to rear board leather separating spine label lacking head and tail bands chipped dampstain to free front endpaper scattered foxing and toning small worm hole to rear pastedown impressions quite strong with only the odd crease. A good copy. 8 5-389 pp. 5. 8vo 21 cm. p. 231 mis-numbered 431. Lacking only the final rear blank. The first true compilation of the complete laws of Massachusetts published the same year as the ratification of the Constitution. Called the "Baskerville of America" by Ben Franklin Isaiah Thomas 1749-1831 founder of the American Antiquarian Society was an anti-British radical and leading publisher as well as the author of History of Printing in America with a Biography of Printers and an Account of Newspapers 1810. Signed by C. H. Witt. Evans 21245. Sabin 45932. ESTCW6813. Barlow 1592. Rich 348. Isaiah Thomas hardcover books
178827177Printed at Worcester Mass.: Isaiah Thomas 1788. First edition. Full calf. Boards quite tender though holding worn circular stain to front board chips to rear board leather separating spine label lacking head and tail bands chipped dampstain to free front endpaper scattered foxing and toning small worm hole to rear pastedown impressions quite strong with only the odd crease. A good copy. 8 5-389 pp. 5. 8vo 21 cm. p. 231 mis-numbered 431. Lacking only the final rear blank. The first true compilation of the complete laws of Massachusetts published the same year as the ratification of the Constitution. Called the "Baskerville of America" by Ben Franklin Isaiah Thomas 1749-1831 founder of the American Antiquarian Society was an anti-British radical and leading publisher as well as the author of History of Printing in America with a Biography of Printers and an Account of Newspapers 1810. Signed by C. H. Witt. Evans 21245. Sabin 45932. ESTCW6813. Barlow 1592. Rich 348. Isaiah Thomas hardcover
2015Manohar-9781857434439Routledge 2015. Hardcover. New. Routledge hardcover
2015Manohar-9781857434439Routledge 2015. Hardcover. New. Routledge hardcover
1993803F3London: John Murray 1993. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9" by 6". None. The signed first edition of Isaiah Berlin's study of the work of Johann Georg Hamann a man he describes as a 'radical Enlightener'. The signed first edition first impression of social and political theorist and philosopher Isaiah Berlin's study of the work of German Lutheran philosopher Johann Georg Hamann in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Signed by Berlin to the title page and dated by him 14.10.97 only one month before his death. Edited by Dr. Henry Hardy Berlin's study of Hamann demonstrates the German theologian and philosophers 'queer mixture of visionary pietism and sceptical empiricism' while discussing the origins of modern irrationalism.A scarce signed copy of a work Berlin. In the publisher's original cloth binding with price unclipped dust wrapper. Light shelf wear to back strip tail with bumping to back strip head. Light marks to dust wrapper front and rear wraps close to back strip. Dust wrapper otherwise exceptionally bright. Internally firmly bound. Signed by Berlin to the title page. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine John Murray hardcover
1830839521830. ROGERS Isaiah. A Description of Tremont House with Architectural Illustrations. Boston: Gray and Bowen 1830. 36pp. Frontis. 31 plates some colored. Later three-quarter red leather and marbled boards with gilt spine titling. Frontis. torn and repaired at gutter else fine. Tremont House was a hotel in Boston designed by Isaiah Rogers 1800-1869 and built in 1829. It was the first hotel with indoor plumbing and running water. With the bookplate of William S. Reese on front pastedown. unknown
178870531Isaiah Thomas 1788. Full-Leather . Good/No Jacket. The Perpetual Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from the Establishment of its Constitution to the First Session of the General Court A. D. 1788. Brown calf leather original. Decorative stamped borders. Five raised bands on spine leather label with gilt lettering. Corners bumped. Endpapers have some chipping and staining. Name on title page. Edges are toned foxing throughout. Some marginal soiling. Binding tight. Wove paper. Boards are secure and sound. Size: 8vo - over 7-3/4 - 9-3/4' tall. Isaiah Thomas hardcover
180228803Worcester. Printed by Isaiah Thomas Jun. May - 1802 1802. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 17.5cm first edition thus viii13-1542p. publisher's ads. original boards rebacked in quarter brown crushed morocco blind ruled raised bands crimson morocco label gilt titles contemporary book plate a fine copy rare. cgc. Worcester. Printed by Isaiah Thomas, Jun. May - 1802 hardcover
71823London: Chatto and Windus 1968. Russian Politics and Philosophy LEATHER-BOUND REVISED EDITION IN ENGLISH first impressions thus. Complete in four volumes. Octavo 23 x 15cm pp.2 xlvi; 385 3; pp.2 vi; 386-1019 3; pp.2 vi; 1020-1514 2; pp.2 vi; 1515-1908 2. Recently re-bound in navy half morocco with raised bands gilt titles to red labels on spines and matching cloth over boards. Some minor marks to edges otherwise crisp clean copies presented in an attractive new leather binding. Garnett's English translation was first published in 1924. London: Chatto and Windus, 1968 unknown
1890364055San Francisco: Taber Photo 1890. Near fine. An unmounted imperial cabinet card-sized albumen silver print of the exterior of the Hang Fer Lo restaurant and the Colombo cigar factory on Dupont Street between Sacramento and Clay Streets in San Francisco's Chinatown.<br /> <br /> Hang Fer Lo was the leading Chinese restaurant in the city before the earthquake. It operated on two floors above the cigar factory. This image probably dates from the 1890s it is not in Taber's 1889 catalog of images. A small area of the Colombo sign has been painted over adding the words "Bong Mon Cigar Factory." At the time there was some prejudice against Chinese-made cigars. In 1887 the Oroville Weekly Mercury August 5 issue ran an article criticizing a business owner in Chico California for selling Colombo brand cigars instead of "white labor cigars."<br /> <br /> The upper floors of the building belong to the Chinese restaurant and are adorned with paper lanterns plants and carved decorations. A sign reading "restaurant" is visible at the top center of the image.<br /> <br /> 7-1/2 by 9-1/2 inches. Captioned in the negative in a narrow strip along the bottom of the image. A near fine image with a bit of creasing. Never mounted. Taber Photo unknown
1801127782Boston MA: Thomas & Andrews Newbury St. 1801. Leather Bound. Very Good. 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. Thomas & Andrews Newbury St. Boston MA 1801. 452 510 403 68 pages. Contains Vols. I II and IV. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Vol. IV 1807 is 1st Editon. 1st Printing. All volumes have Very Good bindings hinges and text pages. Vol. II Title page missing bottom tip. Size: 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Law/True Crime::Law Law/True Crime::Creating the Constitution RBR27 RBR27 Thomas & Andrews, Newbury St. hardcover
06549London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1897. The Grand Banks - Where Boys Become Men"<br /> A Classic of the Sea<br /> <br /> KIPLING Rudyard. 'Captains Courageous' A Story of the Grand Banks. With illustrations by I. W. Taber. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1897.<br /> <br /> First edition. Small octavo 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 184 x 121 mm. viii 245 1 blank 2 advertisements pp. With twenty-two full-page illustrations by I. W. Taber.<br /> <br /> Publisher's blue cloth front cover and spine pictorially decorated in gilt dark gray coated endpapers all edges gilt. Minimal rubbing to extremities small bookseller's description neatly affixed to front paste-down. A touch of very light foxing otherwise a near fine copy the notoriously fragile endpapers remarkably fresh and intact.<br /> <br /> One of Kipling's most enduring and widely read novels Captains Courageous stands apart within his canon as a pure sea story drawn from his own experiences aboard fishing vessels off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. First published in 1897 it tells the story of Harvey Cheyne a spoiled American boy transformed by hardship discipline and camaraderie after being swept overboard and rescued by a Gloucester fishing schooner.<br /> <br /> The novel's vivid depiction of life at sea - its dangers routines and moral code - owes much to Kipling's gift for observation and his admiration for working seamen. The result is a narrative at once adventurous and deeply humane often compared to the great maritime traditions of Dana and Melville but with a distinctly Kiplingesque emphasis on character and duty.<br /> <br /> Isaiah West Taber 1830-1912 is a slightly deceptive figure in this context - he was not primarily a book illustrator but one of the leading American photographers of the late 19th century based in San Francisco. That explains why the plates in Captains Courageous feel unusually "real": they are derived from photographic studies not traditional drawn illustration.<br /> <br /> The publisher's pictorial gilt cloth binding with its bold maritime design is particularly attractive and increasingly difficult to find in such well-preserved condition especially with the delicate coated endpapers intact and the gilt still bright.<br /> <br /> A handsome and increasingly scarce first edition of one of the great literary evocations of the sea. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1897 unknown
1980YY7673Hogarth Press 1980. Inscribed: For Larry from Isiah with his love 31/10/80. Top edges faintly foxed. 14 illustrations. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 1st edition. Signed by author. Binding sound text unmarked. Signed by author . Binding sound text unmarked. Very Good/No dustwrapper. xxx 219pp. Hogarth Press Hardcover
SLIVCN-9781607416616NOVA SCIENCE PUBLISHERS INC (8/2010)
199676376London: Chatto & Windus 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed and dated by Isaiah Berlin on a prefatory blank leaf. The British philosopher and historian of ideas Sir Isaiah Berlin 1909-97 is regarded as one of the founders of the discipline now known as intellectual history. Eight of the nine pieces included in this collection are published for the first time and their range is characteristically wide: the subjects explored include realism in history; judgement in politics; the history of socialism; the nature and impact of Marxism; the radical cultural revolution instigated by the Romantics; Russian notions of artistic commitment; and the origins and practice of nationalism. The title essay starting from the impossibility of historians being able to recreate a bygone epoch is a superb centerpiece. From the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Parks. Edited by Henry Hardy with an introduction by Patrick Gardiner. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover
179939640Worcester Mass.: Isaiah Thomas. Fair. 1799. Hardcover. Contemporary leather well worn. Contains Old and New Testaments. Lacks main title page. Includes New Testament title page. Concludes with "The End" at Chapter 22. Some foxing and stains. PO names on rear blank and inside front cover. Front hinge weak. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall . Isaiah Thomas hardcover
1887364053San Francisco: I. W. Taber Pho. Photographer 1887. Fine. An unmounted imperial cabinet card-sized albumen silver print of five idols in a Chinatown temple. Most likely this is the temple at 9 Brooklyn Place off of Sacrament Street where the Lung Gong Association Longgang gongsuo; now the Lung Kong Tin Yee Association had its headquarters in the late 1880s. This image is dated 1887 in the negative an unusual feature of Taber photographs from this period. <br /> <br /> 9-3/8 by 7-1/4 inches. Captioned in the negative in a narrow strip along the bottom of the image. A fine image a bit faded around the edges but with excellent focus and contrast. Never mounted. I. W. Taber Pho. [Photographer] unknown
1880364047San Francisco: Taber Photo 1880. Near fine. A very nice ninethenth century albumen street scene photograph of San Francisco's Chinatown. <br /> <br /> This photograph shows a sunlit Clay Street looking down hill possibly from just below Stockton Street. A Chinese man in a work apron is walking in the foreground facing the camera. Other men walk away from Taber's lens or cross the street as the Clay St. Hill Railroad cable car no. 2 reaches the intersection. Signs for two businesses are clearly visible on the right hand side. The tall vertical sign in the immediate foreground advertises Yuantang's 元堂 shop with medicinal herbs from various provinces of China. A sign farther back at the corner of the next street advertises Tai Ning Tong 太寧堂 another Chinese medicine shop.<br /> <br /> This is an albumen silver prints on thin photographic paper roughly 4-7/8 by 7-9-16 inches captioned in the negative in a narrow strip along the bottom of the image. This image is included in Taber's ca. 1889 catalog of images available in his gallery. This image has very good contrast with better detail than the previous version of this print I have had. This print is not mounted but it has small surface scars on the verso leaving the already-thin paper even thinner but intact in a few places. Taber Photo unknown