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ORATION IN HONOR OF THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT JEFFERSON AND THE PEACEABLE ACQUISITION OF LOUISIANA DELIVERED AT THE NATIONAL FESTIVAL IN HARTFORD ON THE 11TH OF MAY 1804

1804WRCAM27029New Haven: Printed for the General Committee of Republicans From Sidney's Press 1804. 24pp. Modern half morocco and cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Small old circular blindstamp on titlepage. Bit tanned. Else very good. An influential address on the acquisition of Louisiana highly partisan in outlook: "To federalists this territory for which they would have shed blood now seems a barren waste where no verdure quickens; but to us it appears fruitful abounding in broad rivers and streams producing whatever is necessary to our commerce with foreign nations." Shaw & Shoemaker distinguish two printings of this pamphlet the other originating from Hartford. It is just possible that they are one and the same printing. HOWES B472 "aa." SHAW & SHOEMAKER 5881. SABIN 5596. EBERSTADT 135:496. Printed for the General Committee of Republicans, From Sidney's Press hardcover books

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Bishop AbrahamABAA

PROOFS OF A CONSPIRACY AGAINST CHRISTIANITY AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES; EXHIBITED IN SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE UNION OF CHURCH AND STATE IN NEW-ENGLAND

1802WRCAM50572Hartford: John Babcock 1802. 166pp. Dbd. Faded library stamp and light foxing to titlepage. Scattered toning throughout else very clean. Very good. A pamphlet by this staunch Connecticut Republican discussing the continued practice of the dominance of religious institutions in New England government and the consequences in respect to the authority of the Federal government and the right to freedom of religion as put forth by the First Amendment. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 1907. SABIN 5597. John Babcock unknown books

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Bishop AbrahamABAA

REMARKS ON DR. GRIFFIN'S REQUISITION FOR 700000 MINISTERS

1824WRCAM46593New Haven 1824. 44pp. Stitched as issued; remnants of later paper wrapper along spine edge. Light soiling and foxing. Good. Remarks against Dr. Griffiths and educational and Bible societies which the author feels are a bleed on monies that should be given to more useful outlets for helping the poor and spreading the Gospel. SHOEMAKER 15410. unknown books

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BERGER Abraham Lawrence Marwick and Isidore S. Meyer edsABAA

The Joshua Bloch Memorial Volume: Studies in Booklore and History

1960234193New York: New York Public Library 1960. hardcover. very good. Frontis portrait. xix 219pp. tall 8vo blue cloth; lightly rubbed minor bumping to lower corners. New York: New York Public Library 1960. A very good copy. New York Public Library unknown books

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Bell AbrahamABAA

REPORT ON THE PETITION OF ABRAHAM BELL TO WHOM WAS REFERRED THE SAID PETITION ON THE TWENTY-SIXTH OF MARCH EIGHTEEN-HUNDRED. 2D APRIL 1800. ORDERED TO BE COMMITTED TO A COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE TO-MORROW. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

180023651Philadelphia 1800. 2 leaves versos blank. Disbound Very Good. The Committee refuses "to interfere with the rule prescribed by the Secretary of War for granting warrants for bounty land." Evans 38901. NAIP 021935 9. unknown books

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BEER Edwin 1876 1938; Abraham HYMAN.ABAA

Diseases of the Urinary Tract in Children.

1930M14059New York:: Paul B. Hoeber 1930. 1930. 8vo. x 318 pp. 50 illustrations index. Original maroon blind and gilt-stamped cloth; extremities a bit frayed. Endleaves with several rubber stamps of previous owner: Dr. Robert V. Day Los Angeles. Very good. First edition. Edwin Beer 1876 â€“ 1938 American surgeon took his medical degree at College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York. He pioneered the endoscopic treatment of papillary bladder tumors. Beer is recognized as the founder of electrosurgery of the bladder. / "The authors base their work on twenty years' experience with diseases of the genito-urinary tract in children. The preliminary chapter is devoted to the symptomatology of genitourinary disease in young life. The technic of cystoscopy and pyelo-ureterography is discussed in some detail. Intravenous pyelography by the use of sodium-2-oxo-5-iodo-pyridine-n-acetate is described and its advantages and indications are pointed out. The use of the Bucky diaphragm is not advised. Edwin Beer writes on enuresis in childhood. He emphasizes the need for a thorough examination in order to determine the etiologic factor. Hyman writes the important chapter on infections of the urinary tract cystitis pyelitis pyelonephritis. He presents the most recent contributions to bacteriologic experimental surgical cystoscopic and roentgenographic progress. He appropriately avers that "pyelitis" is a misnomer which covers a number of conditions and that "pyuria" is more applicable until the true nature of the underlying lesion is understood . . . This monograph presents the essential clinical and special urologic data in a clear practical manner." â€“ JAMA. 1930;9517:1286. See: G. W. Kaplan "Edwin Beer--a patriarch of pediatric urology." Urology 1999 Jan;531:236-8. Kiefer 634. Paul B. Hoeber, 1930. hardcover books

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Becker Abraham S.ABAA

Soviet National Income 1958-1964; National Accounts of the USSR in the Seven Year Plan Period.

1969195319Berkeley and Los Angeles.: University of California Press. 1969 . 1st edition. Brown cloth gilt spine title. . Fine in a very good dust jacket. . 24x16 cm. Publisher's copy with printer's instructions tipped in on front paste down and pre-press invoice laid in. University of California Press. hardcover books

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Baylies William and Francis; Abraham HolmesABAA

LOT OF SIX LETTERS FROM ABRAHAM HOLMES TO WILLIAM BAYLIES AND FRANCIS BAYLIES JANUARY 19 1822 - APRIL 11 1834

183435602Rochester Boston MA 1834. A collection of six letters ranging in size from 8-1/2" x 11" to 8-1/2" x 12-3/4" five complete and one partial letter. All in ink manuscript on unlined paper. Old folds light toning occasional light foxing two on untrimmed paper. Most are addressed on final blank page and have wax seal remnants with the usual tear where wax was torn open occasional loss to a few letters. Overall Very Good. Abraham Holmes was a Massachusetts legislator and attorney. Opposing ratification of the Constitution he was allied with the Anti-Federalist Otis family of Barnstable and Freeman family of Sandwich. He was an Anti-Federalist delegate from Rochester MA to the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention of 1788. He served as Sergeant in Capt. Barnabas Doty's company Col. Ebenezer Sproat's regiment during the Revolutionary War. He was admitted to the Plymouth County Bar in April 1800 at the age of forty-six. Though he had no formal legal education his admission to the Bar was permitted in consideration of his respectable official character learning and abilities and on the condition that he study three months in an attorney's office. He served as president of the Court of Sessions prior to his bar admission practiced law in Rochester until the early 1830s was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1820 and a member of the Executive Council from 1821 to 1823. Davis William T.: BENCH AND BAR OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME II. Boston: 1895. Page 235; Daughters of the American Revolution: LINEAGE BOOK VOLUME 12 1900 Page 15. William Baylies 1776-1865 and Francis Baylies 1783-1852 were brothers and partners in a Massachusetts law firm. William served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts in 1809 1813-1817 and 1833-1835; was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1808-1809 1812-1813 and 1820-1821; and a member of the Massachusetts Senate from 1825-1826 and 1830-1831. Francis was a Congressman from 1821-1827; a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1827-1832 and in 1835; and the United States Charge d'Affaires Argentina in 1832. Holmes's Letters are as follows: 1 Letter to Francis Baylies Member of Congress dated at Boston January 19 1822. Holmes then member of the Massachusetts Executive Council awaits reports of the State legislative committees the incorporation of Boston "which will serve to procrastinate the session" the "suspense of the acceptance of office of the Judge of the Municipal Court" and issues such as criminal trials and the death sentence. "We pass our time here in Boston. the frequent application for appointments of both proper and improper candidates is rather an uncomfortable circumstance; but not so distressing as in affixing the time when convicts shall live no longer. to determine whether a convict shall die or not. It is probable we shall have the trial of both soon as there has been three capital convictions since I was here; one for murder and two for highway robbery. Those trials I attended; a Mr. Simmons formerly of Taunton as I am told managed the Defence; I can not record him as possessing great oratorical abilities but for integrity of arrangement and strength and argument perhaps no man of his years stands higher." Boston was incorporated March 4 1822 and the same year the Boston Police Court for criminal cases and Justice's Court for the County of Suffolk for civil claims were established. 2 Holmes's Letter to Francis Baylies dated at Boston March 28 1822. Holmes notes that the State legislative session is coming to a close. He anticipates orations which would "cause Tully to wish that he hadn't ever learned to speak; and all this for the good of the Nation." 3 Letter to William Baylies Counsellor at Law dated at Rochester MA October 24 1828 docketed October 25. An interesting three pages for lawyers anyway written in small yet legible hand on legal size paper. Holmes discusses with "great anxiety" and detail strategies and implications of the case entitled Rounseville Spooner versus Davis et ux. presentation of which had just concluded in the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Holmes and Baylies had represented Rounseville. Judge Wilde issued his decision on the following day October 25th. The case involved land in Fairhaven conveyed by Alden Spooner to Walter Spooner which later descended to Humphrey Davis's wife; but Alden Spooner later conveyed it again to Rounseville Spooner. What will be done in the case Holmes says "God only knows." Judge Wilde's Opinion reported at page 147 of Pickering's Reports Boston: 1830 gives the victory to Holmes and Baylies. 4 Letter to William Baylies Nov. 21 1828. Holmes discusses his excitement over a favorable verdict. "I rode into the yard. Mr. Bassett's son met me and informed me that the verdict of the jury was in favour of our client. Do you think I was sorry My heart jumped to my throat and with some difficulty I prevented my immortal spirit from bursting thro' the clay tenement. I am glad now that we did not use Joshua Vincent's Deposition for they would have objected and the point next word illegible for the Whole Court./ The next enquiry is Compensation. But I must stop with my hearty congratulations." Docketed on final page in part "Thomas v. D. & wife Nov. 21 1828." 5 Letter to William Baylies dated Rochester MA April 11 1834. A lengthy poignant letter discussing his advanced age and retirement. He no longer views political issues with the same interest; despite his overall good health he is troubled with lameness and currently lives with his son and his son's wife. "Some of my old customers are not willing to apply to anyone else." 6 Partial Letter to Francis Baylies December 1821. ". I dread the power of some of your colleagues. Mr. Saltonstall whose abilities are competent to make white and black synonymous terms I understand -which God forbid is strongly intrenched in a. Battery of Bankruptcy. unknown books

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BANCKER Abraham 1760 1832ABAA

Autographed Document Signed on Vellum

1787245126Albany 1787. unbound. An endorsement to an arrest warrant for the confiscation of goods belonging to Samuel Barrow -- 1 page 11.5 x 10 inches with endorsement on verso Albany New York August 5 1787 -- ordered by Revolutionary War patriot and then-Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court Richard Morris in very small part: "The people of New York - To The Sheriff of the County of Richmond - Greeting. We command you that of the Goods and Chattels Land and Tenements of the aforesaid Samuel Barrow in your Bailiwick being Debt in the sum of four-hundred and eighty pounds.for damages.have you whole monies before us at our City of Albany.Richard Morris Chief Justice." Bancker has placed his endorsement on the verso: "The within Saml. Barrows hasth Goods or Chattels in my Bailiwick whereof the Debt and damages or any part thereof can be made." It should be noted that the entire document is in the hand of and signed by: John McKesson 1734 - 1798 an Anti-Federalist New York Attorney and staunch Revolutionary War patriot who was appointed to the Provincial Convention 1775 all four Provincial Congresses 1775 - 1777 and to the First and Second Councils of Safety. He also served as clerk of the State Assembly and to the Ratifying Convention 1788 of which he is said to have participated in the hostile negotiations which eventually led to New York finally ratifying the U.S. Constitution. This document is in very good condition with heavy natural folds and coincidentally was signed by Bancker and McKesson on the very day August 5 1787 that the first draft of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights was completed. American patriot and major in the American Revolution who as a representative of Richmond County Staten Island cast an important vote in the ratification of the United States Constitution by the state of New York. The final vote was 30 to 27 and the failure to ratify might may have brought down the fledgling nation. Soon after the Revolutionary War Bancker was appointed Sheriff of the County of Richmond. unknown books

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Baldwin Abraham ChittendenABAA

REVIEW OF A PAMPHLET PURPORTING TO BE "A STATEMENT OF FACTS IN RELATION TO THE HOWE STREET SOCIETY:" CONTAINING ALSO ADDITIONAL FACTS. BY REV. A.C. BALDWIN LATE PASTOR OF HOWE STREET CHURCH- NEW HAVEN CON

184622588New Haven: Printed by B.L. Hamlen Printer to Yale College 1846. 28pp disbound title page loosening light wear. Numerical reference in pen at head of title page. Good. Pastor Baldwin relates a sad tale of unseemly behavior by his erstwhile Congregation the Howe Street Society which stiffed him on his salary and refused to reimburse him for expenses he advanced in building and furnishing its church. OCLC 21526837 8. AI 46-413 4. Printed by B.L. Hamlen, Printer to Yale College unknown books

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Bailey Helen Miller and Nasatir Abraham P.ABAA

Latin America. The Development of its Civilization

196037046London: Constable and Co. 1960. First edition. Cloth. A very good copy clean copy. No just jacket. xiii 818 pp. Illus. with 11 b/w maps photos. 8vo. Constable and Co. hardcover books

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AZERBAIJAN. Priest Abraham ie. Qasha Auraham. i. e.ABAA

Autograph letter signed Priest Abraham evidently sent to Amherst professor William Seymour Tyler.

183719688Ooroomiah Urmia West Azerbaijan Iran March 3rd 1837. 3.5 pages in autograph ink in English on an unlined foolscap folio 13.75 x 8.75 inches approx. 850 words no cover. Docketed in autograph ink "Letter from Priest Abraham to Prof. Tyler March 2 1837. "Permit me to inform you that the year Mr. Perkins came to the county of Persia to the city of Tabreez; Mr. Perkins and Mr. Haas a German Preacher came to the country of Ooroomiah- first to Gavalan the village of Mar Yanna i.e Mar Yohanna who accompanied them to the city of Ooroomiah. They remained in the city a few days and then came to my village- viz. Geog Tapa which is four miles distant from the city and we accompanied them to Tabreez. There we read your language the English and Mr. Perkins read our language the Syriac about eight months. Then the Plague entered Tabreez and Mar Yohana and myself took leave of Mr. Perkins and returned to Ooroomiah. After about five months Mr. Perkins came again to Ooroomiah also Mrs. Perkins and Dr. Grant and Mrs. Grant." A lengthy letter in English from one of the earliest Nestorian Christians to assist the American mission to Persia launched in November 1835 by the arrival in Urmia of "the Apostle to the Persians" Justin Perkins 1805-1869 with his wife Charlotte Bass Perkins missionary physician Asahel Grant 1807-1844 and Grant's wife Judith Campbell Grant. Qasha Auraham this the Syriac rendering of Priest Abraham was a native of the village of Georgtapa just to the southeast of Urmia the nephew to village elder Muqdasi Mormezd who had suggested Auraham as the suitable local assistant for the missionary team; along with Mar Yohannon Auraham was instrumental in teaching the missionaries modern Syriac and in creating written vernacular Syriac. The goal of the American Board of Missions with the Perkins mission had been the revival of the Assyrian Church of the East rather than planting an independent Protestant church and Perkins worked with Auraham and other local scholars to create a written modern Syriac in order to translate Nestorian religious texts out of ancient Syriac into the vernacular. Linguistics in that period was something of a rugged pursuit in Azerbaijan and Auraham was instrumental in recruiting a noted scholar to the translation mission as later reported by Perkins in Nestorian Biography: "A few months after the missionaries arrived at Oroomiah Mr. Perkins sent priest Abraham of Geog Tapa and a Nestorian deacon to the mountains to obtain from thence an ecclesiastic to assist him in reducing the modern Syriac to writing and in the translation of the Scriptures. . . . There was real advantage in uniting the labors of a translator from the mountains with one on the Plain to harmonize so far as practicable the different dialects in the first reduction of the language to a written form. The messengers were charged to obtain 'the most learned' priest they could find. They boldly set off on footâ€”entered the formidable mountains and penetrated as far as Marbeshoo a large village in a secluded glen forty miles west of the Plain of Oroomiah. It was a fearful journey at that period. . . . At Marbeshoo they found priest Dunkha who had come down to that place from his more distant home on business. His fame as a very learned man was already known to the messengers and they at once engaged him to return with them to Oroomiah. A week after they left the missionary they introduced to his study priest Dunkha who though grotesquely clad in wild Koordish costume struck him as a very pleasant man." The collaboration with Dunkha is alluded to here by Auraham: "I would also inform you that we four viz. Mar Yohanna -- myself -- Joseph a brother of Mar Yohannan -- and little John the son of my uncle study your language. And Mr. Perkins and Mrs. Perkins and Mr. Grant and Mrs. Grant study our language the Syriac. We learn your language by little and little but Mr. Perkins learns our language very well. And I would further inform you that Mr. Perkins and Priest M'dunka i.e. Qasha Dunkha and myself are translating the Old and New Testament from the Syriac language into our dialect. Of the Old Testament we have translated the first book which as you know gives an account of the creation and three chapters of the second book. And of the New Testament we have translated the first fifteen chapters. If God smile upon us we shall be and by finish complete this good work." Since the first mission press would not be operational in Urmia until the arrival of printer Edward Breath in 1840 this earliest translation of the New Testament from the Peshitta rather than the Greek would not be published until 1846. Professor William S. Tyler of Amherst seems the likeliest recipient of this missive given that he had both been a friend and fellow-student of Perkins at Andover Theological Seminary and had taught with Perkins at the Amherst Academy; presumably this firsthand account from Auraham was meant both as English practice andâ€”with its mixture of exotic romance and good works to drum up for support for the mission among kindred scholars in America. Some short closed tears along old folds but no loss; some light toning a little old creasing; in very good condition quite legible. With a preliminary typescript. References: American Sunday-School Union. The Nestorians of Persia: a history of the origin and progress of that people and of missionary labours among them. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union 1848. Campbell William S. editor. A Memoir of Mrs. Judith S. Grant Late Missionary to Persia. New York: J. Winchester 1844. Murre-van den Berg H. L. "The Missionaries' Assistants: The Role of Assyrians in the Development of Written Urmia Aramaic." Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. Volume X issue 2. October 1996. Perkins Justin and Fidelia Fiske. Nestorian biography: being sketches of pious Nestorians who have died at Oroomiah Persia. Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society 1857. Tyler Cornelius ed. Autobiography of William Seymour Tyler D. D. LL. D. n. p.: Privately Printed 1912. See also the Missionary Herald December 1840 inter alia for extracts from Perkins' journal in Urmia and his accounts of both Priest Abraham and of Priest Dunka. books

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AUCTION CATALOGUE: ANQUETIL DUPERRON Abraham HyacintheABAA

Catalogue des Livres de M. A.H. Anquetil-Duperron; Voyageur aux Grandes Indes Interprète de France pour les Langues Orientales.dont la vente se fera.le mardi 2 vendémiaire an 14 24 septembre 1805 et jours suivans

30892 p.l. viii 236 pp. 8vo attractive antique calf double gilt fillet round sides flat spine gilt uncut. Paris: veuve Tilliard et Fils 1805. The rare sale catalogue of the library rich in oriental books and manuscripts of Anquetil-Duperron 1731-1805 French orientalist and brother of the historian Pierre Anquetil. Abraham Hyacinthe had a fascinating early life: while unsuccessfully studying for the priesthood in Paris and Utrecht he developed a passion for Hebrew Arabic Persian and other languages of the East. He travelled to India as a private soldier in 1754 in order to search for the works of Zoroaster. Granted free passage he learned modern Persian in Pondicherry and Sanskrit at Chandernagore. When war broke out between France and England Anquetil-Duperron travelled widely throughout India on foot learning further languages and studying the antiquities and sacred laws of the Hindus. He returned to Europe in an English vessel ultimately arriving in Paris in 1762 with 180 oriental manuscripts. He devoted many of the following years to scholarship editing and publishing many important oriental texts. The French Revolution seems to have greatly affected him: during that period he abandoned society and lived in voluntary poverty on a few pence a day. A fine copy. 1600 lots and priced throughout in a contemporary hand. From the library of Jean Viardot. ❧ Gustave Brunet Dictionnaire de Bibliologie Catholique col. 408-"Ce catalogue est curieux surtout pour les livres en langues étrangeres." Grolier Club Printed Catalogues of French Books Auctions.1643-1830 458. Peignot p. 77. unknown books

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Atkinson Geoffroy and Abraham C. KellerABAA

Prelude to the Englithenment; French Literature 1690-1740

1971008089London: George Allen & Unwin 1971. 221p. b/w front. original grey cloth ex libris. George Allen & Unwin unknown books

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ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH IN NERVOUS & MENTAL DISEASE WIKLER Abraham edABAA

The Addictive States. Proceedings of the Association December 2 and 3 1966 New York NY

196847890Baltimore: Willliams & Wilkins 1968. First Edition. Octavo. Maroon cloth; 520pp. Ex-Institute for Psychoanalysis Chicago with bookplate and card pocket. Very Good. 43rd volume in the series. Contributions include "Addiction to Barbiturate andNonbarbiturate Sedative Drugs" Carl F. Essig; "Patterns of Intravenous Self-Injection by Morphine-addicted Rats" James R. Weeks and R. James Collins; "Opioid Addiction Problems in Canada" S.J. Holmes; "Small Group Drinking Behavior: an Experimental Study of Chronic Alcoholics" Jack H. Mendelson Nancy K. Mello and Philip Solomon; etc. Willliams & Wilkins unknown books

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Ashkenasi AbrahamABAA

Modern German Nationalism

19761312380New York: Schenkman Publishing Company John Wiley & Sons 1976. Hardcover. Octavo; VG/VG-Hardcover; Black spine with white text; Heavy shelf wear and age to dust jacket white spotting age spots rubbing fading and fraying along sides and edges 3 inch tear at spine head age tone spotting along jacket flaps; Light shelf wear to boards which are strong and clean binding slightly cocked age toning spots to free end pages; Minor spots along text block exterior text block clean; 222 pp. 1312380. FP New Rockville Stock. Schenkman Publishing Company, John Wiley & Sons hardcover books

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Ashbridge Samuel H.; English Abraham LABAA

Bureau of Health Annual Report Philadelphia 1899

19002197274Dunlap Printing Company 1900. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Lightly rubbed. 1900 Hard Cover. xxvi 227 pp. First Annual Message of Samuel H. Ashbridge Mayor of the City of Philadelphia with Annual Reports of Abraham L. English Director of the Department of Public Safety and of the Bureau of Health for the Year Ending December 31 1899. Issued by the City of Philadelphia 1900. Annual reports for the year 1899 include the following: The First Annual Message. Office of the Mayor Philadelphia April 2 1900.; Department of Public Safety.; Thirteenth Annual Report of the Department of Public Safety. Abraham L. English Director.; Bureau of Health of the City and Port of Philadelphia.; Appendix to the Report of the Bureau of Health of the City and Port of Philadelphia for the Year 1899.; Medical Inspector Division of Contagious Diseases.; Medical Inspector of the Sanitary Inspection of Public Schools.; Division of Disinfection.; Division of Bacteriology Pathology and Disinfection.; Physician-in-Charge for the Dunlap Printing Company hardcover books

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ASCHER Abraham edABAA

The Mensheviks in the Russian Revolution

69318hardcover. 147pp. 8vo cloth d.w. Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1976. unknown books

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Ascher AbrahamABAA

Pavel Axelrod and the Development of Menshevism

1972260405Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1972. Hardcover. viii 420p. plus a menu of Hoover publications hardbound in 9.5x6 inch orange cloth boards and dust jacket. The dj is sunned toned and edgeworn but still serviceable while book itself is sound and unmarked. Very good copy. Incidentally the text is not illustrated but there is a vignette photoportrait of Axelrod on dj. Hoover Institution pub no.115. Harvard University Press hardcover books

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Arias Larreta AbrahamABAA

Literatura Colonial

1970181917Banfield Provinica de Buenos Aires: Editorial IndoAmerica 1970. Paperback. v 400p. text in Spanish scattered b&w images in text first edition trade paperback in frenchfold orange pictorial wraps. Slightly edgeworn "Complimentary copy" in pen on half-title else a very good copy. Historia de la Literatura. Editorial IndoAmerica paperback books

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Arias Larreta AbrahamABAA

Literaturas Aborigenes de America: Azteca Incaica Maya-Quiche

196863431Buenos Aires: Editorial Indoamerica 1968. Novena edicion. Paperback. Very Good. errata slip laid in 304p. Wrapper. 23cm. Backstrip browned. INSCRIBED by Arias-Larreta. Spanish text. Editorial Indoamerica paperback books

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Arias Larreta AbrahamABAA

Literaturas Aborigenes:Azteca Incaica Maya-Quiche

196262962Los Angeles 1962. Octava edicion. Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. 124p. Wrapper with a dj. 23cm. INSCRIBED by Arias Larreta Typed Letter signed from the author also laid in. Spanish text. paperback books

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Arias Larreta AbrahamABAA

Literaturas aborigines: Azteca incaica maya-quiche

195139793Los Angeles 1951. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 125p. Hardcover. 23cm. No Jacket. INSCRIBED by Arias-Larreta. Spanish text. hardcover books

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Anscher AbrahamABAA

Detailed Narrative of an 1883-1884 Expedition Through Southern Africa Written by Exploring Party Leader Abraham Anscher a Jewish Chicago Immigrant

18841562Various places in South Africa Botswana 1884. Overall very good. 295pp. plus five additional letters totaling 60pp. altogether more than 38000 words. Composed mostly on small octavo sheets. Some wear to edges of initial and final few leaves slightly affecting text. Light even tanning. Written in a consistent legible script. An extensive and outstanding manuscript account of travel and exploration in southern Africa during late 1883 and early 1884 by Abraham Anscher a Polish Jewish immigrant to Chicago. The manuscript is composed in the form of a letter addressed to Edith Delia Rogalski but really comprises a travelogue or diary with entries written from September 1883 to mid-January 1884. Five additional letters accompany this account addressed to Edith's later husband Israel Jackson Roe; her parents Samuel and Sarah Rogalski; and her brother Benny. Anscher's descriptions of his experiences in Africa cover a wide variety of topics including big game hunting; interactions with local indigenous peoples and their rulers; encounters with white missionaries traders and other hunters; ethnographic botanical geological and zoological observations and much more. His account is by turns dramatic and amusing interspersed with personal recollections of family and home cultural and religious notes his addressee was also a Polish-speaking Jewish immigrant to Chicago and reminiscences of earlier adventures in Colorado Utah the California gold fields and elsewhere. Little can be readily discerned of the details of Anscher's biography beyond the pages of this manuscript. He was born in Mariampol then a part of Poland and today in Lithuania but clearly came to the United States at an early age and was well-educated. He was an adventurer at heart and spent several years in the West perhaps in the U.S. Army for part of this time and partly as a solo fortune seeker. At some point during the mid- to late-1870s he decided to take his adventuring talents to South Africa in order to satisfy his own wanderlust and to create a business of organizing guided African exploration and hunting. The stakes of his chosen profession are mentioned several times throughout his narrative such as when a party member dies of an unspecified illness "My lot is a very hard one just now and my position as promoter and chief adventurer is anything but enviable". From the additional letters present it is apparent that the young Ms. Rogalski was a former love interest of Anscher who spurned his affections and became engaged to a mutual friend. Indeed a letter here addressed to the fiancÃ© offers an apology for presumption of writing to Edith in such a lengthy and cordial manner; at one time all of the individuals addressed by Anscher were a part of the same immigrant community in Chicago. This absorbing account follows a lengthy excursion organized and led by Anscher across the Transvaal through Bechuanaland Matabeleland and beyond to a settlement he calls Tatti probably Francistown on the Tati River traveling through parts of modern-day South Africa and Botswana. They contain many details of great interest and his vignettes are well-written and dramatically delivered. An immense boa constrictor drops out of the treetops strangling a springbok before his eyes. He finds a five-year-old girl with a broken leg the only survivor of a village massacre; he sets her leg nurses her for a month and eventually conveys her to a missionary station. A young zebra joins the traveling party incurring the jealousy of the team's dogs. A large lizard is trained to sleep in a tent but only after his teeth are removed for safety. His missive begins in medias res with his party already underway in South Africa near the Orange River in what he calls the "Tarka bush" during mid-September 1883. Anscher decides having missed his last opportunity to send mail "Now to put myself on guard against mischance and not be like the traditional foolish virgins who did not keep their lamps properly trimmed.to have a so-called running letter always open and ready" for his recipient. The group first traveled northeast near and along the Orange allowing Anscher to wax discursive concerning the river's wildlife: "The wanderings of the river sometimes flowed through immense chasms over hung with stupendous precipices and then like a translucent lake with beautiful towering mimosas and willows reflected from its bosom and a rich variety of fine plumage though without a song; wild geese ducks snipes flamingoes in perfect security feeding on the banks beneath the green shade or basking in the sun's rays on the verdant islands far from the fowler's snare. The swallows also mounting aloft or skimming the surface of the mirror of the stream; while the ravens with their hoarse note might be seen seeking their daily food among the watery tribe or cawing on the bending tops of the weeping willows." The party leaves the river and skirts the southern edge of the Kalahari to reach Lattakoo modern-day Dithakong a traditional departure point for excursions deeper into the interior of Africa during the 19th century. Thence they headed north again stopping often to hunt for food and sport: "When on the Kama plains I went one night accompanied by Tytler and Winsloe and one native to a pool of water about two miles from camp. We did not wait more than about half an hour when we heard loud lapping at the water. The natives told me 'Ronimala ' be silent 'There is a lion.' Our next visitors were two buffaloes but we did not fire lest we attract the attention of the lions. Next came three giraffes and one we knocked over on the spot and wounded another but who got away. I have seen plenty of game in my time. I saw and hunted antelope and elk on the Laramie plains and in the Meek Mountains in America before the Union Pacific RR was built. I saw quite enough of buffalo in the Smokey Hills and Montana as well as south of the Green Horn Mountains between California and Arizona but such a variety of game big game and in such number as I saw some years ago in the Transvaal & Swaziland and hereabouts now I never saw anywhere." As the excursion proceeds further into the interior their encounters with native tribes increases and Anscher observes them keenly and reports with a detailed if somewhat jaded 19th-century eye: "The town of Kalabeg is already in the Matabele country. Of course they have no religion of any kind for there is no such thing as natural religion. Men acquire knowledge good or bad from instruction of men with more fertile brains. This holds good all the world over. The rainmakers here hold the position of prophets and divines of the so-called civilized countries. These rainmakers who are also the doctors and sextons have great influence over the minds of the people and are held in great estimation by them superior to that of their king who is likewise compelled to yield to the dictates of this personage the rainmaker. Nothing can exceed the freaks of fancy and the adroitness with which the rainmaker can awe the public mind and lead thousands captive at his will. Each tribe has one or more of them and they generally come from other countries for a prophet is seldom honored in his own country." Arriving in Shoshong in what is now central Botswana Anscher meets some missionaries and witnesses a tribal gathering which leads him to remember the religious theories of a familial acquaintance back home: "Was present at a Pitsoh or native congress this forenoon held by the natives about some tribe affairs. About 12000 natives present and wound up the proceedings with a war dance. As these tribes are considered by some religious enthusiasts to be of the lost tribes of Israel not your own but ours and as your uncle once spoke to me about them while at Chicago I would therefore request you to kindly tell him to disabuse his mind on this point and that the only peg whereon the so-called lost tribe maniacs hang their argument in favor of their hobby is that the natives practice a certain custom which history attributes to our father Abraham. But this ceremony takes place instead of at the age of 7 days old when they are about fourteen years old and even when older. But they have no tradition as to why it is done. If this simple custom entitles them to be call Jews why for my part they are quite welcome to the honor. But this is about all there is to build the theory on." Despite his occasionally sarcastic and somewhat disparaging demeanor toward the natives he encounters Anchser seems overall to have a decent connection with them at a personal level and to understand a basic sense of shared humanity. In one particularly poignant episode Anscher meets a mother and father who have walked 300 miles to ransom their two teenaged sons enslaved by a local chief: "Neither the man's looks nor ornaments excited the smallest emotion in the bosom of the chief and when he was solicited by one who felt something of a father's love to pity the old man who had walked so far and brought his all to purchase his own children he at last replied with a sneer that one of the boys died last year and for the other he wants an ox at least. 'But I have not even a goat' pleaded the old man 'the Matabele have taken all I had and destroyed my hut.' A sigh it was a heavy sigh burst from his bosom one dead and the other not permitted to see anymore. The chief walked off while the man sat leaning his head on the palm of his hand and his eye fixed on the ground apparently lost to everything but his grief. On taking up his trinkets to retire I told him to keep up a good heart that I would try to get him his boy. He started at the sound of my voice kneeled before me and laid down his trinket saying 'take all this but get me back my boy.' I got him his boy for a colored blanket and 1 lb. of tobacco." When sad and homesick Anscher recalls his time in Chicago and in the West but it is often insufficient comfort. After departing Shoshong for Tatti Anscher must leave his group to "pioneer" a trail to the settlement: "On the evening of my first day's journey I had to off-saddle a term used here on a waterless plain picketed my horse and went to bed minus my supper or dinner. I awoke suddenly by something touching me on my forehead like the cold nose of a dog but I could see nothing in the dark except my horse who was laying down poor fellow. After this occurrence I could sleep no longer. My head was hot my lips parched and had no taste even for a cigarette. I daresay some of you have experienced waiting for a train early in the morning in some out of the way small RR station where moments appear like days. Well waiting there is not a patch to lying in the dark in Africa's solitude waiting for daylight to come. I tried to divert my mind and think of anything but water but I could not do it! I tried to cool myself by thinking of Chicago in the month of Feb. but that only led me to snow and from snow to water. One may as well try Ovid's 'Remedia Amoris' to cure him from hankering after the girl he loves as to try Chicago in my case as a remedy when thirsty." The difficulties of obtaining food and water establishing safe camp and finding routes through minimally charted territory evident in this final passage are an ever-present theme of the expedition but Anscher eventually guided his group to their destination where they intended to stay for a month or two before heading further north to Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River. The final entries describe life at the settlement and how a Portuguese colonial explorer and administrator Alexandre de Serpo Pinto whom they met in camp would be entrusted with the present manuscript as he traveled to Namaqualand on the west coast of Africa in the hopes that it would eventually find its way aboard a ship bound for America. Pinto was a fascinating figure in his own right -- he explored the interior of Africa for Portugal in the 1860s and 1870s and after this meeting with our author became the Portuguese Consul in Zanzibar. Anscher's trail goes somewhat cold after January 1884 when he relinquished control of this massive "running letter." An additional fragment of a later letter to Edith Rogalski included here forwarded via a mining acquaintance in Kimberly contains a few tantalizing details of his onward expedition including an attack on their party near Victoria Falls by a group of slavers led by "an American Negro." He was also working on a journal and taking photographs which are mentioned several times throughout this account but the survival of this other material as well as the ultimate conclusion of this expedition are not known. A wonderful unpublished account of African exploration by a seemingly unlikely and apparently otherwise unknown American character. A complete transcription of the manuscript is available upon request. unknown books

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