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184844590Springfield: George and Charles Merriam 1848. First edition of the first Merriam-Webster dictionary; thick 4to pp. lxxxiv 1367; engraved frontispiece portrait after Samuel F.B. Morse; full original sheep lacking spine label; the whole quite scuffed and rubbed preliminaries foxed with one soil spot; previous ownership signature on front flyleaf has been neatly cut out; texblock very good and sound. Vancil p. 262. <br/><br/> George and Charles Merriam unknown books
1802WRCAM50026New York 1802. viii22748pp. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards leather label. Two faint ink library stamps on titlepage. Very good. A scarce collection of essays by the noted lexicographer. The four essays herein included are "An Address to the President of the United States" on the subject of his administration; "An Essay on the Rights of Neutral Nations" in vindication of the principles asserted by the northern powers of Europe; "A Letter" on the value and importance of the American Commerce to Great- Britain; "A Sketch" of the history and present state of Banks and Insurance Companies in the United States. All put forward Webster's Federalist views. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 3520. HOWES W206. SABIN 102369. SKEEL 733. hardcover books
1865BB006<b>ONE OF 250 COPIES</b> printed on Large Paper this 1864 first version known as the <i><b>Unabridged</b> </i>edition overhauled by Yale University professor Noah Porter containing 114000 entries which replaced unsupportable etymologies based on Webster's attempt to conform Biblical interpretations to the evolution of language. James A.H. Murray editor of the <i>Oxford English Dictionary</i> 1879–1928 says this edition "acquired an international fame. It was held to be superior to every other dictionary and taken as the leading authority on the meaning of words not only in America and England but also throughout the Far East." <br /><br /><i>Historically important work in its rarest deluxe format</i>.<br /><br /> printed at the Riverside Press for G & C Merriam, [1864] books
184831188Springfield: George & Charles Merriam 1848. First edition of the first Merriam-Webster dictionary; thick 4to pp. lxxxiv 1367; engraved frontis portrait after Samuel F.B. Morse slightly offset onto title-p.; full original sheep gilt lettered direct on spine; some rubbing and wear but sound. <br/><br/> George & Charles Merriam unknown books
180882504New York: D. Longworth 1808. First edition of "the most important Jewish lay leader of the early 19th century" Mordecai Noah's early play published when he was only 23 years old. 12mo bound in modern calf gilt titles to the spine lacking the 2 advertisement leaves called for by Singerman. In near fine condition. Rare. Born in Philadelphia on July 14 1785 Jewish American playwright diplomat and journalist Mordecai Manuel Noah became the most important Jewish lay leader in America in the early 19th century and the first Jewish American to reach national fame. After studying law in Charleston South Carolina Noah moved to New York where he founded and edited The National Advocate The New York Enquirer later merged into the New York Courier and Enquirer The Evening Star and The Sunday Times newspapers. A prolific writer he also enjoyed the reputation of being the most popular American playwright in early 19th century America with his Fortress of Sorrento She Would Be a Soldier and The Seige of Tripoli attracting wide audiences. D. Longworth unknown books
1880170909006New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. ix 188 6pp. Original brown cloth lettered and decorated in black and gilt yellow endpapers. Housed in a plain brown cloth slipcase. Very Good or better with some rubbing and scuffing to cloth slight lean to spine former owner's bookplate on front paste down a few reading smudges. An attractive unsophisticated copy of the early baseball novel written by a friend of Abraham Lincoln's and set in Brooks' boyhood town of Castine here called "Fairport" Maine in the 1840s. Among the ways in which it was ahead of its time is its sympathetic includion of a young African-American baseball player. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1810252348New Haven: Oliver Steele 1810. First. hardcover. very good. Folded plate. Slim 8vo vi 216 pages browned 3/4 brown morocco marbled boards rubbed bookplate small stamp on verso of title page. New Haven: Oliver Steele 1810. First Edition. Very good .<br/><br/> Contains 17 papers by Noah Webster Elizur Wright John Smith Elizur GoodrichBenjamin Silliman Nathaniel Dwight Jared Mansfield David Daggett Benjamin Dwight Jerimiah Day and others. The Connecticut Academy of the Arts and Sciences was established to cultivate all aspects of the sciences arts and humanities.<br/><br/> Oliver Steele unknown books
1820WRCAM55522New York: Printed by G.L. Birch & Co. 1820. 214pp. 16mo. Modern paper-covered boards leather label. Leaves a bit tanned else very good. An interesting work on saving and thrift by a consequential American diplomat. Most of the essays blame poverty and bankruptcy on moral faults such as reckless spending and devotion to fashion. Among the examples of moral failings Noah offers are rowdy teens at a late-night oyster house and Wall Street wives bidding recklessly at a silverware auction. Mordecai Noah 1785-1851 was U.S. Consul in Tunis during the Barbary Wars and as such was responsible for freeing American seamen. Noah was notable as one of the first American Jews to hold an important diplomatic post and was ultimately removed from office for anti-Semitic reasons. He was editor of the NATIONAL ADVOCATE in New York for over a decade beginning in 1817. SHOEMAKER 2557. WOLF UNRECORDED JUDAICA 50. BAL 14997. Printed by G.L. Birch & Co. hardcover books
1819WRCAM51854New York 1819. vi24311xlvii pp. plus frontispiece and four plates one folding. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards spine gilt neatly rebacked with original spine laid down edges stained yellow. Boards rubbed. Later ownership inscriptions on front endpapers scattered notations on some leaves frontispiece with pencil embellishment. Light foxing. Very good. Noah was U.S. Consul in Tunis during the Barbary Wars and as such was responsible for freeing American seamen. The present account is based on his experiences while in that office in addition to his travels in Europe. Noah was notable as one of the first American Jews to hold an important diplomatic post and was ultimately removed from office for anti-Semitic reasons. This volume prints letters of support from Jefferson Madison and John Adams. The Jefferson letter is particularly famous for its support for fairness to Jewish citizens. SMITH N17. ROSENBACH 205. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 48941. hardcover books
1840D17813New York: M. M. Noah & A. S. Gould 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. In his preface Noah discusses the rather mysterious origins of The Book of Jasher. Original cloth worn. In plain modern slipcase. <br/><br/> M. M. Noah & A. S. Gould hardcover books
181927297New York: Kirk and Mercein; London: John Miller 1819. First edition 8vo pp. vi 2 431 1 xlvii; engraved frontis portrait and 4 engraved plates 3 with contemporary hand-coloring and 1 folding; contemporary full sheep red morocco label on gilt-paneled spine; spine scuffed and with a small chip out at the top minor foxing; all else good and sound with the full compliment of plates in an unusual colored state. Early ownership signature of "Richard L. Schieffelin New York 1819." Noah 1785-1851 was a lawyer playwright and journalist. He was born in Philadelphia of Portuguese-Jewish ancestry. "In 1813 he was appointed consul to Tunis with a special mission to Algers. He was instructed to negotiate for the release of some Americans held as prisoners by the Algerine pirates. On May 23 1813 he sailed from Charleston but his vessel being captured by the British he was taken to England and detained two months. In October he arrived in Cadiz where he contracted with Richard R. Keene an American who had become a Spanish subject to affect the release of the twelve Americans . After being detained in France and Spain for more than a year Noah finally arrived in Tunis. On July 30 1815 he received a letter from James Monroe secretary of state revoking his commission and hinting at irregularities in his accounts. Monroe's treatment of Noah was never satisfactorily explained though his association with Keene who had been accused of treason was doubtless detrimental.In January 1817 however Noah received a letter from the Department of State which vindicated his conduct and returned several thousand dollars due him in the enterprise which resulted in the release of the American captives" DAB. Rosenbach 205; American Travellers Abroad N17. <br/><br/> Kirk and Mercein; London: John Miller unknown books
1819D17816New York and London: Kirk and Mercein 1819. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Inscribed by the author and rare thus. This volume recounts Noah's experiences as American consul to Tunis where he successfully negotiated for the release of captured seamen and then was recalled by James Monroe on at least partially anti-Semitic grounds. Rosenbach 205. <br/><br/> Kirk and Mercein hardcover books
183234082London: published by Black Young and Young foreign booksellers to the King 1832. First English edition used by Webster as a template for his 1841 octavo "reprinted by E.H. Barker Esq. of Thetford Norfolk from a copy communicated by the author and containing many manuscript corrections and additions: with an appendix by the editor"; 2 volumes 4to; pp. viii i-civ plus unpaginated lexicon in triple column; 2 and unpaginated lexicon; the publisher's advertisements noted by Skeel have not been preserved in this copy. A good sound copy in mid-19th century half calf over marbled boards rubbed and scuffed top of one spine with small chip; good and sound. One of the scarcest of the early editions of Webster. Of note is the inclusion of Joseph Worcester's "Synopsis of Words pronounced by different Orthoepists" extracted from the American edition of 1829 which was edited by Worcester and published prior to the rift that developed between the two lexicographers. As to the text of the lexicon itself Skeel notes that it "was reworked by the English editor and was not merely a reprinting." Vancil p. 260; Skeel 589A. <br/><br/> published by Black, Young, and Young, foreign booksellers to the King hardcover books
183950059New Havens: S. Babcock 1839. First edition small 8vo pp. viii 9-248; full contemporary sheep rebacked; good sound copy with an important presentation "To Professor Silliman with the author's regards." A tear through the presentation has been skillfully mended and as the inscription is written in red pencil it is a bit faint. With Silliman's bookplate on the front pastedown and the subsequent bookplate of Henry McIntosh. In a quarter brown morocco clamshell box. Skeel 574. Silliman was perhaps the best-known scientific man in America in the first half of the 19th century a highly respected professor of chemistry and natural history at Yale and a long-time friend of Webster's. Like Webster he was an editor a compiler of textbooks and a prominent Connecticut citizen and Yale alumnus. <br/><br/> S. Babcock unknown books
1842309481New Haven: Published by the Author. Sold by Crocker & Brewster Boston etc. . Printed by B.L. Hamlen 1842. Second edition first octavo edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. I by Asher Brown Durand after Samuel F.B. Morse no printer's name given. lxxvi 938; 1004 pp. 2 vols. Large 8vo 10-1/2 x 6 7/8 inches; 269 x 174 mm. Contemporary speckled sheep contrasting morocco spine labels marbled endpapers marbled edges. Covers scuffed joints worn some light spotting to text some worming to vol. I not affecting text. Morse Samuel French B. Second edition first octavo edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. I by Asher Brown Durand after Samuel F.B. Morse no printer's name given. lxxvi 938; 1004 pp. 2 vols. Large 8vo 10-1/2 x 6 7/8 inches; 269 x 174 mm. The Second Edition The First Unabridged Octavo Edition. A fine copy of the rare octavo edition of Webster's unabridged dictionary the last that Webster published before his death in 1843. This is the textually best edition published in Webster's lifetime incorporating his final revisions some 5000 new definitions and a preface and introduction "on the origin history and connection of the languages of western Asia and Europe with an explanation of the principles on which languages are formed." Skeel notes that 3000 copies of this edition were printed fewer than the 5 or 6 thousand that Webster wanted but more than the 2500 of the 1828 first edition. A prospectus Skeel 585 advertised the edition at $13 sheep and $14 calf gilt. The work was in the press for over a year; a note in Webster's hand on a copy in the Connecticut State Library states "First signature of this edition impressed Oct. 22 1839. Last sheet impressed January 30 1841 15 months & days." The edition sold slowly with nearly half of the run still in sheets at the time of Webster's death.<br/>An attractive copy bearing the ownership signatures of George W. Turner dated the year he bought the mansion and farm of Elmscourt now Elms Court in Natchez Mississippi. Skeel 586; cf. Grolier American 36; cf. PMM 291; cf. Sabin 102335. Provenance: George W. Turner of Elmscourt or Elms Court Natchez Mississippi inscription in both volumes dated 1842 Published by the Author. Sold by Crocker & Brewster, Boston, [etc.] ... Printed by B.L. Hamlen unknown books
1828140938425New York: S. Converse Printed by Hezekiah Howe New Haven 1828. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. Complete in two volumes. Contemporary mottled calf with black morocco spine labels lettered in gilt with the "Additions and Corrections" leaf bound at the end of Volume II; November 28 Advertisement absent as is nearly always the case. Engraved frontis provided in sympathetic facsimile lacking tissue guard. Internally Very Good with offsetting and several instances of penciled marginalia. Previous owner name in light pencil on title page. One of only 2500 copies. An extremely important early declaration of American cultural identity which heralded the nation's linguistic independence from Britain inspiring the many dictionaries that to this day carry Webster's name. S. Converse, Printed by Hezekiah Howe, New Haven unknown books
1828102755New York: Published by S. Converse. Printed by Hezekiah Howe 1828. Rare first edition of Webster's monumental American Dictionary one of only 2500 copies with <span class="glossaryQtip qTip">frontispiece</span> portrait of the pioneering lexicographer in full contemporary calf. Quarto two volumes bound in full contemporary calf marbled endpapers illustrated frontispiece tissue guard present. In near fine condition light toning to the text. Most rare and desirable bound in contemporary calf. An exceptional example most rare without any restoration. In 1807 Webster began compiling a fully comprehensive dictionary An American Dictionary of the English Language; it took twenty-eight years to complete. To evaluate the etymology of words Webster learned twenty-six languages including Old English Anglo-Saxon Greek Hebrew and Latin. Webster completed his dictionary during his year abroad in 1825 in Paris France and at the University of Cambridge. His book contained seventy thousand words of which twelve thousand had never appeared in a published dictionary before. As a spelling reformer Webster believed that English spelling rules were unnecessarily complex so his dictionary introduced American English spellings replacing colour with color substituting wagon for waggon and printing center instead of center. He also added American words like skunk and squash that did not appear in British dictionaries. At the age of seventy Webster published his dictionary in 1828 registering the copyright on April 14. Webster did all this in an effort to standardize the American language. "This dictionary which almost at once became and has remained the standard English dictionary in the United States was the end-product of a stream of spelling books grammars readers and dcitionaries which flowed from the pen of the industrious Noah Webster.Webster's great dictionary all the 70000 entries of which he wrote with his own hand has been reprinted and brought up to date innumerable times.the book marked a definite advance in modern lexicography as it included many non-literary terms and paid great attention to the language actually spoken. Moreover his definitions of the meaning of words were accurate and concise.and have for the greater part stood the test of time superbly well" Printing and the Mind of Man. "As a whole Webster's American Dictionary was a scholarly achievement of the first order richly deserving of its great reputation at home and abroad" DAB. With definitions for "some 70000 words--15000 more than any previous English lexicon. Although only 2500 copies of the first edition were printed the work established Webster as a lexicographer of international repute" Lathem 76 United Statesiana 9. Published by S. Converse. Printed by Hezekiah Howe unknown books
