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180270450New Haven: William W. Morse. Very Good. 1802. Hardcover. - Williams John. THE REDEEMED CAPTIVE RETURNING TO ZION.or A faithful history of remarkable occurrences in the captivity and deliverance of Mr. John Williams minister of the gospel in Deerfield; : who in the desolation which befel that plantation by an incursion of French and Indians was by them carried away with his family and his neighbourhood into Canada.-- / Drawn up by himself. ; Annexed to which is a sermon preached by him upon his return. ; Also an appendix by the Rev. Mr. Williams of Springfield. ; Likewise an appendix by the Rev. Mr. Taylor of Deerfield. ; With a conclusion to the whole by the Rev. Mr. Prince of Boston. New-Haven: : Printed by William W. Morse. 1802. v 2 8-188 p. Later edition of Howes W-461. S/S 3561. . The last leaf has corner torn off losing a few words. Original leather binding worn but holding. The lower couple of inches of the spine is missing. Williams a Harvard graduate in charge of the church at Greenfield when it was attacked by Indians in 1703 was taken with others to Canada. His wife and two of his children were tomahawked on the way. "As a powerful picture of Indian cruelty ranks next to the Rowlandson captivity narrative published in 1682." - Howes. HOWES W461 later edition. Ayer 311. S/S 3561. . William W. Morse hardcover
1807Alibris5059Printed for Richard Phillips by J. G. Barnard 1807. Hard cover. Very Good. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Bound in green ribbed cloth lightly dampstained with red leather labels on spine. 64 pages. Light foxing and staining as noted above. Dampstain across one third of the pages no sticking. Page 55-56 torn and taped but complete. 2 plates one is fold out. No maps. Spine reads 1805 publication date is 1807. Terribly scarce. John Jacob Grümbke September 6 1771 in Bergen March 23 1849 ibid was a German historian and geographer. He extensively researched the history and culture of Rugen and was founder of rügenschen own research German Wikipedia. This is his first published work. See also: megalithic sites of Rugen painted by Caspar David Friedrich and others. Some think Rügen island might have been the home of the Greek temple of Apollo in 500 B.C. Apollo was the god of light and the sun-god who loved amber and amber was thus considered sacred. The largest deposits of amber in the world and those exploited the longest were on the shores of the Baltic Sea in northern Europe. Baltic amber has a rich history of ancient trade supported by guilds of amber craftsmen and stunning works of art. Apollo's love of music poetry and all the fine arts made him the perfect god for the craftsmen on the island. Annotation by Margaret Odrowaz-Sypniewska Printed for Richard Phillips by J. G. Barnard hardcover
1855321544Washington: No publisher 1855. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Brown cloth stamped in blind and titled in gilt. Page 147 has one section cut out and removed affecting the text spine ends worn in the case of the crown down to the text block a little foxing leaf with the cure for yellow fever tipped-in apparently as issued a very good copy. Howes B138. [No publisher] hardcover
182829279Nürnberg Schrag 1828. Cont. marbled boards. Gilt back. Gilt titlelabel. Lightly rubbed. XVI282 pp. and 4 folded engraved plates. Titlepage lacks and with a hole in pp. 1-2 loosing some words on p.2. A few leaves with marginal browning otherwise clean and printed on good paper. <br/><br/><em>Second German edition the first published 1821 translated from the Swedish original from 1820. The classic work on the blowpipe and its history. </em> hardcover
184789026Cincinnati: Derby 1847. First Edition. hardcover. very good. 501pp. 16pp. of ads. Tall 8vo original brown cloth; ex-lib spine repaired. Cincinnati: Derby Bradley 1847. First Edition. Very good.<br/> <br/> "Thomson No. 142: `The work is in reality an autobiographical sketch of the author accompanied by facts and incidents of early settlement.'" Eberstadt 112:56. Howes B-997.<br/> <br/> Derby unknown
1860369131New York: D. Appleton and Company 1860. Illustrations. 473pp. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth minor chip at top of spine. Provenance: L. M. Sargent Jr. signature on title. Illustrations. 473pp. 8vo. The stunning achievements of Paul Morphy in Europe in 1858 established him as the reigning world champion and one of the greatest chess players of all time. Those games were first published in America in 1859. The following year the grand master Johann Jacob Löwenthal seized upon his friend's popularity to publish the present work. D. Appleton and Company unknown
18481125Ulm 1848. Vortheile u. Handgriffe um aus der Bienenzucht. Quellen u. Forschungen z. Bündner Geschichte Bd.1 Es fehlen die letzten 16 Seiten ansonsten guter Zustand Friedrich Ebner 8°. Pbd. marm. Landwirtschaft unknown
1835407707Boston: John Allen & Co. 1835. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. 271 pages embossed green cloth covers. Most of the cloth backstrip is gone exposing the bound spine. However the binding is solid and clean internally with only light foxing. End papers with dust soiling. Record # 407707 John Allen & Co. hardcover
182232794Milano P. Hugues 1822. Folio. 48x325 cm. Bound in one cont. hcalf richly gilt back and title-label with gilt lettering. Title-label a little torn. Lightly rubbed along edges and spine ends but good. Engraved ornamental title-page printed in brown. 6 engraved leaves with text and 4 plates with descendt-line skeletons etc. 17 printed leaves of text 25 engraved leaves with text Indices and text. And in all 89 fine stipple-engraved plates 4 separately numb. I-LXX I-XV. Plates with engraved frame and at bottom engraved text in Italian.A large uncut copy with broad margins. Scattered marginal brownspots a few tears to margins images clean and bright. <br/><br/><em>Scarce title-issue of this important and perhaps the largest monograph on primates apes and monkeys from the 19th century by the French painter Nicholas Henri Jacob. The original issue was published in 2 parts 1812-14. This title-issue has a reset title-page a new dedication and the text beneath the image is in Italian. The illustrations in these splendid stipple-engravings are the same.The plates depict apes monkeys and lemurs from the Old World and The New World in 5 Classes: 1. Genere; Orang; Pithecus. 2. Genere. Babbuino. 3. genere. Guenone; Cercopithecus. 4. Genere. Sapajù; Cebus. 5. genere. Sapajù-Sagoino; Callithrix.- Part II: Famiglia. I Maki; Lemures.Wood p. 402. - BMC NH II:916 but with the year 1823 "This is the same as the original from 1812 except in the setting of the title-page of the dedication and of the translations of the introduction." - Nissen. 2080. </em> unknown
1869BOOKS254885New York NY: L. H. Frank & Company. FR/No Dustjacket. 1869. . Cloth. Raphael Family Geneaolgy in part 3 . 8vo. v. p. rubbed stained foxed frayed yellowing missing ffe . L. H. Frank & Company hardcover
18642497321864. 1 vols. 8vo. Yellow pictorial covers some staining. 1 vols. 8vo. The account lists the items sold the names of the purchasers and the amount paid with payment records and executor's notes in the back. $61.00 for a wagon and 10¢ for a picture. <br/><br/> unknown
1824531York County Pennsylvania 1824. Oblong 12mo. 88 pp. Contemporary calf backed wall-paper covered boards; binding rubbed at edges with minor loss of paper and leather otherwise very good. Eichelberger's account book contains a list of expenses as well as income relating to the Eichelberger farm. Entries are organized chronologically and list the item received or service performed as well as the price paid for the item or service. Eichelberger listed prices in both dollars and pounds. Typical expenses include the hiring of farm hands food often dried pork county taxes and the digging of a well. Eichelberger records far more income than expenses. He sold a number of items including wheat apples beef rye and animal fat. Eichelberger provided board to a widow by the name of Miller. Perhaps the most interesting sources of Eichelberger's income are the animals he sold. Between 1806 and 1809 Eichelberger records the sale of 86 horses accounting for the vast majority of his income during those years. He also records the sale of a few steer sheep and hogs but never in quantities as great as the horses. Several pages of the book record Eichelberger's duties as the executor of the will of his father George Allen Eichelberger. These entries list the name of the beneficiary the amount of the estate granted them and the date on which the transaction took place. The final entry in the book which is chronologically out of place and dated 1807 records Eichelberger's activities following the death of his father such as traveling to Carlisle for the reading of the will and appraisal of the estate. Curiously the entries in which the estate is divided among the beneficiaries are dated between 1824 and 1825--seventeen years after the initial reading of the will. This hints at the protracted probate disputes and complications involved in executing a will in the early nineteenth century. Also of note in this book is the inexplicable changes in the way Eichelberger spelled his name. In the earliest entries of the book it is spelled "Echelberger" then appears as "Eichelberger" and finally beginning around 1810 appears as "Higleberger". While the record book mentions no place names other than Carlisle a prosperous farm family by the name of Eichelberger resided in York County Pennsylvania for many years in the eighteenth century. It is very likely that Jacob was a member of this Pennsylvania-German family. unknown
1810215799Philadelphia 1810. 1-1/2 pp. on verso and recto of first leaf; second leaf docketed on veso "Bond - I Whelen & Jacob Downing to S.-P. Bridge ccmp.". 1 vols. 4to. Witnessed by John J. Downing and Robert Clinton with their signature. 1-1/2 pp. on verso and recto of first leaf; second leaf docketed on veso "Bond - I Whelen & Jacob Downing to S.-P. Bridge ccmp.". 1 vols. 4to. "Know All Men by these present that M. Israel Whelen and Jacob Downing of the City of Philadelphia are held and firmly bound unto the President Directors and Company for erecting a Permanent Bridge over the river Schuylkill at or near the City of Philadelphia in the sum of Ten Thousand dollars - Money of the United States of North America to be paid to the said President Directors and Company . unknown
187551479Paris: Auguste Fontaine 1875. First edition. No. 8 of 50 copies on Whatman Paper. Frontispiece portrait in two states. 4 xv xvi blank 510 2 table 8 Extrait du Catalogue Auguste Fontaine. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed wrappers all edges uncut. Some browning to wrappers partial split at spine of front wrapper two small chips from margins of front wrapper else very fine unopened copy. First edition. No. 8 of 50 copies on Whatman Paper. Frontispiece portrait in two states. 4 xv xvi blank 510 2 table 8 Extrait du Catalogue Auguste Fontaine. 1 vols. 8vo. Printer's apprentice turned prolific author Restif de la Bretonne 1734-1806 was one of the distinctive literary voices of late eighteenth-century France whose works chronicle the excesses of the ancien régime and the tumults of the Revolution.<br /> Exceedingly scarce édition de tête of this bibliography which remains important and has been reprinted on several occasions. Auguste Fontaine unknown
18758344Paris: Auguste Fontaine Libraire 1875. 1875. Very good. - Octavo original printed gray wraps rebound in reddish brown cloth; gilt-lettered label on spine; deckle-edged. The covers are bumped rubbed & soiled & the label is chipped. The original wraps are soiled with the corners creased; the front wrap is detached with a small stain & pencil notations. xv & 510 pp. B&W frontispiece. The contents are bright and very good. <p>Limited edition of 500 numbered copies on Holland paper.<p>The rare first edition. Paris: Auguste Fontaine, Libraire, 1875. paperback
1898455013New York: Century Co 1898. Unbound. Fine. Illustrated broadside printed in orange and black on white paper. Measuring 13½" x 20". One barely visible tear repaired on the verso else about fine. Poster for a magazine issue. Image along the left margin displays an illustration by Jay Hambidge of a fireman scaling a house to reach a man in dire need of rescue. The right side of the broadside provides a long list of the other articles in the issue. Century Co unknown
18906184821890. Unbound. Very Good. Sepia-toned gelatin silver boudoir photograph. Image approximately 7.5" x 4.5". on a slightly larger card mount. Light fading at the upper extremities very good or better. Contemporary ink caption on verso noting "Headquarters of the Beekmanites 6 miles from Rockford Ill." with a few later and erasable pencil notes. The Beekmanites were and still are to some degree an obscure religious cult. In the 1880s Dorinda Beekman declared herself Jesus and began her own religion on Weldon Farms in Winnebago Illinois outside of Rockford and declared the farm as Heaven. When Beekman suddenly died and didn't return from the dead three days later one of her disciples a red-headed man named George Jacob Schweinfurth declared that her spirit had taken over his body and he continued the religion and where he lived in luxury enjoying the company of the female "Angels" who worshipped him and who soon began to give birth to red-headed children causing the patriarch to be driven from the property and move to Chicago where he took up Christian Science. His story attracted some attention including a visit by and published article in The New York Times. A nice artifact of an obscure byway in American home-cooked religions. unknown
181643452New-York: Re-printed: For John Reid Bookseller 1816. Hardcover. First American edition. Original Boards. 8vo. 79 pages. 23 cm. In English with some Hebrew. Singerman 0260. <br> Copy belonging to Simon Gratz 1773-1839 with his signature and date 1817 the year after publication on the front end paper and on the title page. The signature matches examples of his signature which can be seen online at <br> www.kaplancollection.org/item/deed-simon-gratz-to-james-duncan-and-2b696467<br> The book then bears the donation bookplate of another later "Simon Gratz esq" 1837-1925 who was a prominent 19th-century Philadelphia lawyer educator and civic leader. The bookplate is from Gratz College which the later Simon Gratz helped found. <br> Nikelsburger takes on an apostate Jew Rev. Frey who is intent on converting his former coreligionists to Christianity. In his opening letter to Frey Nikelsburger does not hold back: "In your eagerness to convert the Jews to your way of thinking you make no scruples of converting and perverting the prophets by turning their words to a meaning which you conceive to be best adapted to your purpose; and in doing this you make them not only flatly contradict each other but themselves also." <br> "For American Jews Koul Jacob seemed an appropriate answer to Frey a Jewish convert to Christianity who had resumed his missionary activities shortly after his arrival in America. It was a well-tempered but firm refutation of Frey's arguments. Moreover its author was an English Jew and if American Christians were to take offense at it its European authorship distanced American Jews from it" Berlin G. Defending the Faith. Albany: SUNY 1979.<br> <br> "Simon Gratz 1773-1839 and Hyman Gratz 1776-1857 inherited their father's business. Their store was at the Graff House 7th & Market where Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. Both Simon and Hyman Gratz were treasurers of Mikveh Israel. They were among the founders of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Simon served in the Pennsylvania Volunteers during the war of 1812." www.ushistory.org/mikvehisrael <br> Simon Gratz' sister was Rebecca Gratz 1781-1869 the founder of the first Jewish Sunday school in America and who was also "said to have been the model of Rebecca the daughter of the Jewish merchant Isaac of York who is the heroine in the novel Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. Scott's attention had been drawn to Gratz's character by Washington Irving who was a close friend of the Gratz family" Wikipeida. <br> In addition Simon Gratz was a participant in the famous US Supreme Court real estate case of 1848 Gratz Vs. Cohen see: Solis-Cohen J. "A FAMOUS FAMILY FIGHT ABOUT REAL ESTATE: GRATZ VS. COHEN." Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society no. 37 1947: 345-52. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43058341 .<br> <br> OCLC: 5192299A copy with no special assocation sold for $1000 with commissions at auction in 2005. Rear board detached light wear to boards some staining nice copy. Good Condition. RAB-58-16-MLDB. New-York: Re-printed: For John Reid, Bookseller hardcover
183950727New York: Samuel Colman 1839. Very good. Early edition of the book that made the Rollo series big intended to instruct the novice American reader by combining a mature vocabulary with a lively series of animal metamorphoses and moral lessons. The hapless and ungrateful Rollo made his first cameo appearance in the rare THE LITTLE SCHOLAR LEARNING TO TALK: A Picture Book for Rollo by His Father reissued in 1839 as ROLLO LEARNING TO TALK. ROLLO LEARNING TO READ is thus technically the second Rollo book but the first "devoted wholly to Rollo" Blanck and is the title responsible for the series's popularity and influence. 6.25'' x 4''. Original gilt-lettered blind-stamped green cloth. Illustrated with black and white frontispiece and full-page wood engravings. 180 pages. Moderate edgewear and scuffing to boards sometimes exposing bits of board. Pencil to front free endpaper. Mild foxing throughout. Samuel Colman unknown
184410168616mo leather spine and boards 4 illustrations including frontispiece 144 pp. Some wear to spine and extremities foxing a bit heavy in places; otherwise good. Jacob Abbott 1803-1879 is considered one of the most prolific writers of children's books in the 19th century. He and his brothers produced a well received set of historical biographies which included stories on Xerxes Darius the Great and Alexander the Great. He also produced a few travel and adventure books. The current tile is about life along the Erie Canal in the mid 19th century. The OCLC locates 6 copies of this edition. heritage-history website. OCLC. T. Harrington Carter & Co.,
184310168516mo leather spine with gilt title and illustration 2 illustrations including frontispiece 140 pp. Some wear to spine and extremities a bit of foxing one signature partially sprung; otherwise very good. Jacob Abbott 1803-1879 is considered one of the most prolific writers of children's books in the 19th century. He and his brothers produced a well received set of historical biographies which included stories on Xerxes Darius the Great and Alexander the Great. He also produced a few travel and adventure books. The current tile is about life along the Erie Canal in the mid 19th century. The OCLC locates 4 copies of this edition. heritage-history website. OCLC. T. Harrington Carter & Co.,
1835828261835. ABBOTT Jacob. New England and Her Institutions. By One of Her Sons. Boston: John Allen & Co. 1835. 1st ed. 12mo. 271 1 pp. Orig. blind-stamped cloth. Textblock is a trifle shaken else fine. American Imprints 29903. Sabin 33. Most known for his Rollo and The Young Christian series this volume of history and observations of New England by Abbott is remarkably uncommon in commerce. Similarly OCLC locates only 10 institutional holdings. A very nice example of an unusual publisher's binding in a diced cloth forming a diamond pattern with ornate frame and central ornament stamped in blind. This copy with the name label of Lansing Pruyn on the front pastedown and in pencil on the title page. unknown
184073710Boston: William Crosby and Company 1840. First edition. Twelvemo. 189 1 pp. plus four full-page hand colored plates. Publisher's blind-stamped sand-grain mauve cloth with gilt cover lettering. Chemised and in a half morocco slipcase with gilt spine lettering. Possibly recased and with very minor and scattered foxing. Overall a lovely presentation of an excellent copy.From 1825 to 1829 Jacob Abbott was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Amherst College; was licensed to preach by the Hampshire Association in 1826; founded the Mount Vernon School for Young Ladies in Boston in 1829 and was principal of it in 1829–1833; was pastor of Eliot Congregational Church which he founded at Roxbury Massachusetts in 1834–1835; and was with his brothers a founder and in 1843–1851 a principal of Abbott's Institute and in 1845–1848 of the Mount Vernon School for Boys in New York City.He was a prolific author writing juvenile fiction brief histories biographies religious books for the general reader and a few works in popular science. He wrote 180 books and was a coauthor or editor of 31 more. His Rollo Books such as Rollo at Work Rollo at Play Rollo in Europe etc. are the best known of his works. William Crosby and Company hardcover
184173260Philadelphia: Hogan & Thompson 1841. Second edition. Twelvemo. 189 1 pp. Publisher's quarter black rain over marbled boards gilt spine lettering. Most of marbled paper gone leaving bare buff boards. Some wear to spine ends. Still a very good copy of the second edition of one of the titles in the first American juvenile series.Together with Rollo at Work and Rollo at Play; both 5th editions and both dated 1841. Both with binding issues but bindings are original. All three books are inscribed to John Elgar Hallowell by either his mother or his father. John Elgar Hallowell was the son of Benjamin Hallowell 1799-1877 renowned Quaker educator and abolitionist. Hogan & Thompson hardcover
1840010948Boston: William Crosby and Company 1840. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Cloth. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 189p. frontis. 3 plates. A good copy the covers show moderate soil a little wear at the spine ends the former owner's signature and address on the front paste-down endpaper and a piece at the lower forecorner of the free blank back endpaper about the size of a quarter is lacking. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. William Crosby and Company, Hardcover