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176642036Boston: Printed by R. & S. Draper in Newbury-Street 1766. 29 1 blank pp. Disbound with mild foxing. Else Very Good.<br /> <br /> A scarce Sermon preached on Cape Cod. ESTC locates two copies at AAS and one each at Boston Athenaeum Houghton the Library of Congress and NYHS.<br /> The Sermon asserts that "Christianity contains the most perfect rules for governing the temper and conduct; it prohibits every vicious affection and passion and directs to a right behavior in every circumstance and relation of life." James counsels: "Grudge not one against another Brethren lest ye be condemned. . ." <br /> Evans 10522. ESTC W26499. Printed by R. & S. Draper, in Newbury-Street unknown
176241972Boston: S. Kneeland 1762. 28pp with the half title. Light toning imperfection at leaf 3-4 obscures a few letters. Disbound. Good. <br /> <br /> This election sermon illustrates the conditional loyalty that Colonists were willing to give their colonial government. Williams Pastor of the Church in Sandwich emphasizes that "Rational forms of government" are "conformable to the Will of God." The only legitimate function of rulers is "Good to the People." In forming Society its members do not surrender their natural rights to the fruits of their labors or the "immutable Laws of Equity." A Government "when tolerably answering the good Ends of it ought quietly to be submitted to for Conscience sake." <br /> FIRST EDITION. Evans 9310. S. Kneeland unknown
177125148Boston: Richard Draper. 1771. Half title 31 1 blank pp. Disbound. Lightly foxed. Very Good. <br /> <br /> "As we are made rational and accountable creatures the care of ourselves and of our own happiness is the first natural and reasonable concern of every man. A rational self love though distinct from is not inconsistent with the more noble principles but subserves and promotes them." A footnote states that Hilliard succeeded Reverend Joseph Green who served the Barnstable church from 1725 until his death in 1770. <br /> FIRST EDITION. Evans 12289. 664 NUC 0319346 6. Richard Draper... unknown
175512978Lindau 1755. Quaronta Historias Biblicas tscharnidas or d'ilg Veder Testament. II. Veingchia tschunc Historias Biblicas tscharnidas or d'ilg Nief Testament. Ad ils magnifigs aludeivels Cumins da Flem Uorz da Tschonz Mantongia da Trin Titelblatt fehlt.Einband. Vorsatzblatt mit Bleistift beschrieben BR 552 Ludwig Stoffel 8°. Ldr. Raetica unknown
175513587Lindau 1755. pridas o d'ilg veder a nief Testament Ohne Einband. Bucblock intakt BR 552 Ludvig Stoffel Kl.-8°. o. Ebd. Raetica unknown
175513584Lindau 1755. pridas o d'ilg veder a nief Testament . Einband geprägt. Messingbeschläge. Schliessen nicht intakt BR 552 Ludwig Stoffel 8°. Ldr. Raetica unknown
1789601760Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin 1789. Unbound. Near Fine. Approximately 6.5" x 3.75" Dated May 29 1789 paying interest on debt. Signed by Wolcott. Cancel hole punched affecting the first letter in Wolcott's signature neat old fold very near fine. Pays Davenport One Pound as interest on his state service. Connecticut official Oliver Wolcott was a Major General and Secretary of the Treasury under Washington succeeding Alexander Hamilton and was later Governor of Connecticut. Abraham Davenport was a Colonel in the Connecticut militia but mostly served as a member of various Connecticut legislatures before and during the Revolutionary War. Davenport was lauded in the 1866 poem "Abraham Davenport" Tent on the Beach" by John Greenleaf Whittier: "And there he stands in memory to this day Erect self-poised a rugged face half seen Against the background of unnatural dark A witness to the ages as they pass That simple duty hath no place for fear. Hudson and Goodwin unknown
1728A6CH5N3RHVIKAmsterdam 1728. 4to. Isaak Tirion Contemporary calf gold-tooled spine and board edges red and blue sprinkled edges. With the title page printed in red and black with 5 of 6 folding engraved maps 11 engraved plates 1 folding 2 woodcut illustrations in text 7 decorated woodcut initials and 6 woodcut tailpieces. 40 392 13 pp. Scarce reissue of the 1727 second and final edition greatly expanded and revised from the first edition of 1720 and with additional plates of a highly esteemed work on whaling. "It is by far the most important of the early authorities on the northern whale fishery and must always be one of the chief sources of information for the early history of the subject. It also gives one of the best figures of the Greenland Right Whale published prior to the present century and also one of the best early figures of the Cachelot" Allen. Unfortunately lacking the frontispiece and the map of Nova Zembla but otherwise a very good copy with some water stains and a tiny wormhole. Binding good though worn at the hinges. The definitive edition of an essential resource for any study of the whaling trade.l Allen 192 note; Sabin 106376; Tiele Bibl. 1241 note; STCN 3 copies. unknown
172019012Amsterdam 1720. 4to. Joannes Oosterwyk Contemporary half sheepskin marbled paper sides. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece by J. Folkema after F. Ottens 6 folding engraved maps and 7 engraved plates including 1 folding showing ships at sea by A. Salm after Van der Hem. Further with the title page printed in red and black a small woodcut vignette on the title page some woodcut decorated initials and some large woodcut floral tailpieces. 38 330 14 pp. First edition of the most important early account of whaling in the northern seas. The author a ship's commander in the Dutch Greenland fleet describes the history of the Dutch whaling in the northern seas. Dutch whaling dominating in Europe for most of the 17th and 18th century was not confined to the Greenland waters only but ranged widely across the northern fisheries from the Davis Straits to the Siberian Sea. The work also includes short histories of the northern explorations in Greenland Iceland Spitsbergen Nova Zembla Jan Mayen Island and Strait Davis all accompanied by the newest maps and preceded by a map of the North Pole. The plates show the different whales and ships of the whalers. To Zorgdrager's work detailed lists are added of captains ships equipment and provisions for the ships caught whales the cost of equipment and crew etc. Also the practical and technical aspects of whaling are fully described. The book was used as one of the sources for Melville's Moby Dick.With a printed ex libris bookplate of N. Du Jardin-Van der Avoort mounted on the front pastedown. The spine and boards are somewhat scuffed the corners of the boards are slightly bumped a tear in one leaf some occasional foxing and water staining the edges are slightly frayed. Otherwise a good copy of a rare and interesting work.l Cat. NHSM p. 899; Chavanne 2110; Leclerc 678; Sabin 106374; STCN 201968800 14 copies incl. 1 incomplete; Tiele Bibl. 1241 note; V. Gestel - Van het Schip Maps in books on Russia and Poland 299. ABE CAT Alaska Canada & Greenland hardcover
