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1814477781814. WORCESTER Noah. A SOLEMN REVIEW OF THE CUSTOM OF WAR; SHOWING THAT WAR IS THE EFFECT OF POPULAR DELUSION AND PROPOSING A REMEDY. Hartford: Peter B. Gleason 1814-1816. 8vo. tan full-calf leather. First Edition in eight parts. Good few holes in spine & bit of dampstaining last few pages. $175.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
181665837Cambridge MA: Printed by Hilliard and Metcalf 1816. 8vo. 32 pp. American Imprints 39872. Original printed self-wrappers trimmed not affecting text but taking almost all of an owner's signature at the head of the title page. Uniformly tanned throughout upper portion of final leaf worn at the hinge a good copy. <br/><br/> Printed by Hilliard and Metcalf unknown books
1815biblio1Pamphlet 8vo removed disbound 35 pp. Mostly disbound a bit soiled folds and creases at edges ink smudge on title aging and toning throughout. Noah Worcester 1758-1837 was born in New Hampshire and would become a noted a clergyman. He published several important tracts on religious subjects and appears to have had some unorthodox views of the holy trinity and published a few articles on the subject. However around the time of the War of 1812 Worcester reflected on the effects of war and became a pacifist. In 1814 he first published his "A Solemn Review of the Custom of War" which would continue in several other editions. In this work he argued that the violence and destruction of war was inconsistent with Christian values. He would found the Massachusetts Peace Society and this group would be in the forefront of a rather popular antiwar movement that emerged in America around the time of the War of 1812. ANB. OCLC. A. Fagan, books
18151977Philadelphia 1815. 8vo. 31 1 blank pp. <br><br>Reprinted from the Cambridge Massachusetts edition. Argues that the spread of Christianity will lead to the end of wars. The work was reprinted several times in 1815 and later but we fail to trace this particular Philadelphia printing. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in Shaw & Shoemaker. Good. Stitched; without wrappers. Uncut tattered deckle edges and outer pages lightly soiled. Paper lightly age-toned. Ownership inscription on title-page with partial loss due to chipping in margin. Rubber-stamp on front cover. unknown books
1996Embry 152589U. of Tennessee Press 1996. First edition first printing. Small owner's book label and gift inscription else fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Inscribed by the author. U. of Tennessee Press, 1996. First edition, first printing. unknown books
1959UGRETHI00RJBOxford University Press 1959. Very Good. Greenberg Noah. A Thirteenth-century Musical Drama : The Play of Daniel. Auden W. H. New York: Oxford University Press 1959. 117pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Pictorial hardcover. Book condition: Very good with very light bumping to spine ends and upper corners. Contains full score staging and costuming notes with translation of text. Oxford University Press hardcover books
4386Paris: Bureaux Du Magasin Des Familles Oblong 8vo full contemporary black morocco triple gilt fillet bordeers gilt vine design on spine gilt cover lettering moiré endpapers. Some edge rubbing but very nice. Armorial bookplate: heraldic shield with crown "Bibliothèque de Roger". Original printed and pictorial pink wrappers bound in. Cham 1818-1879 was a caricaturist and depicter of manners following Daumier and Gavarni. Sixteen lithographed pages of rebuses printed on rectos only. The illustrations representing the words are taken from contemporary French life. the explanations are printed on the original back wrapper translation available. A rebus is a puzzle in which words are represented by combinations of pictures and individual letters. . Contemporary Black Morocco. About Fine. Illus. by Cham. Oblong 8vo. Bureaux Du Magasin Des Familles Hardcover books
04977Paris: Aux Bureaux du Charivari 1871. Thirty-Nine Wonderfully Satiric Images by Daumier & Cham<br/>of the Siege of Paris by the Prussian army in the Winter of 1870-1871<br/><br/>CHAM pseudonym of Amédée de Noé. DAUMIER Honoré. Album du Siége Par Cham et Daumier. Recueil de Caricatures publiées pendant Le Siege dans Le Charivari. Paris: Aux Bureaux du Charivari 1871. <br/><br/>First edition. Large quarto 12 x 9 5/8 inches; 305 x 244 mm. Pictorial lithograph title-page Cham and thirty-nine fine lithograph plates ten of which are by Honoré Daumier and the rest by Cham. <br/><br/>Publisher's red pebbled cloth over boards front cover lettered in gilt marbled endpapers. <br/><br/>Thirty-nine wonderfully satiric images of the siege of Paris by the Prussian army in the winter of 1870-1871 originally published in Le Charivari and reprinted as an album in 1871 with a new image used for the title page.<br/><br/>OCLC locates just sixteen copies in libraries and institutions worldwide nine in the USA four in the Netherlands two in Germany and one in Australia ten of these appear to be bound without the pictorial title. It would seem that this volume was only issued with uncolored plates.<br/><br/>"For many of Daumier's admirers his lithographs of 1870-1871 represent the peak of his achievement. They are in his last style massive stripped down direct which speaks as nothing else could for this tragic period in France's history. <br/><br/>The Siege of Paris - that took place from 19th September 1870 to 28th January 1871 and the consequent capture of the city by Prussian force - culminated in France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and the establishment of both the German Empire and the Paris Commune - the radical socialist anti-religious and revolutionary government that ruled Paris from 18th March to 28th May 1871. The Franco-Prussian War had led to the capture of Emperor Napoleon III in September 1870 the collapse of the Second French Empire and the beginning of the Third Republic.<br/><br/>The Plates:<br/><br/>1. Pictorial title-page Cham<br/>2. Modes Parisiennes en prévision du bombardment Cham 112<br/>3. Le bombardment Cham 5<br/>4. La valeur Prussienne n'attendant pas le nombre des années Cham 8<br/>5. Ceci a tué cela Daumier 3845<br/>6. Plus de Gaz Cham 127<br/>7. Préparant les éntrennes pour son peuple Cham <br/>8. Pour ne pas être bléssé je n'ai qu'a mettre ce plastron Oui monsieur en ayant soin bien entendu de ne pas sortir de chez vous Cham 107<br/>9. Un paysage en 1870 Daumier 3828<br/>10. Laissez appuyer moâ sur le bras à vôs! Fallait pas me laisser amputer Cham 129<br/>11. T'allais jamais à l'Église autrefois Pour le pain bénit on ne fait pas la queue Cham 18<br/>12. Tu t'es mis un faux ventre! Pour faire des sorties pour montrer à l'ennemi que nous avons beaucoup de vivres Cham 106<br/>13. Les animaux du jardin des plantes faisant queue comme tout le monde pour avoir leur viande Cham 110<br/>14. Square Napoléon Daumier 3824<br/>15. Je me suis mis dans les volontaires! Animal! Tu n'as pas 35 ans! On va dire que nous ne sommes pas mariés! Cham 121<br/>16. Ce pauvre Henri IV voyant emmener son cheval chez le boucher Cham 130<br/>17. Épouvantée de l'héritage Daumier 3838<br/>18. Madame Putois j/aurais tout de même jamais cru que vous tueriez votre chien pour nous en faire manger - Il a bien fallu. il était enrage! Cham 17<br/>19. Maintenant j'adore les gens grêlés ils me rappellent le gruyere! Cham 120<br/>20. Plus de viande! Allons donc! Cham 123<br/>21. Rationnement du pain - un monsieur allant diner en ville Cham 16<br/>22. Les Nouveaux Gardiens de Paris Cham 111<br/>23. Six heures et demie - les chevaux de Madame la Marquise sont sur la table Cham 104<br/>24. Le danger de manger de la souris est qu'ensuite votre chat ne coure après Cham 119<br/>25. On aurait pu profiter de passage du ballon-poste pour surprendre l'ennemi Cham 96<br/>26. L'empire c'est la paix Daumier 3814<br/>27. Ils auront beau emporter les pendules ils n'empêcheront pas l'heure de la vengeance de sonner Cham 138<br/>28. Nous ne nous serions jamais doutés tout de même que nous naviguerions un jour sur ce vaisseau-là Daumier 3819<br/>29. Le nouveau char de la victoire Daumier 3849<br/>30. Le revers de la médaille de Sainte-Hélène Cham 108<br/>31. Soldats! Il fait très froid; mais si l'on est content de vous on donnera un paletot fourré. au maréchal Fritz Cham 122<br/>32. La queue pour la viande de rats Cham 124<br/>33. Pauvre France!. le tronc est foudroyé mais les raciness tiennent bon! Daumier 3843<br/>34. Tant bis! Il aurait brobablement ennuyé blu tard les enfants de Fritz Cham 6<br/>35. J'ai besoin de quitter Paris - Pour rejoinder votre femme - Au contraire; voila cinq mois qu'elle ne m'a pas quitté Cham 27<br/>36. L'unité allemande Daumier 3831<br/>37. Les Prussiens m'ont donné un cigare! - C'est bien le moins alors qu'un Francais te donne aussi quelque chose Cham 28<br/>38. Aveugle! C'est triste mais c'est encore de la chance dans ce moment-ci! Cham 22<br/>39. Moi je suis ravitaillé!. le rests m'est égal Daumier 3851<br/>40. Après le Siége Cham 113<br/><br/>"Particularly to be noted are his bitter reflections on the legend which Charlet Bellangé Raffet and their imitators had helped to create. The desolate battleground of "The empire means peace" no. 26 offers an ironic commentary on an epigram uttered by Napoleon III in 1852. His "Square Napoleon" no. 14 displays the gravestones of those for whose death the Emperor has been responsible beginning with the Boulevard Monmartre in the winter of 1851 and ending with Sedan in 1870. In Cham's "The reverse of the Saint Helena medal" no. 30 indeed the country's disaster is attributed specifically to Napoleon Bonaparte as well as to Napoleon III. Daumier's first plate for 1871 showing France "Appalled by her heritage" no. 17 is bleak indeed but a later design offers a gleam of hope: "Poor France!. The trunk blasted but the roots hold fast" no. 33.<br/><br/>It should be mentioned that Cham's contributions to this album though trivial in comparison with Daumier's monumental compositions are by no means negligible. He provides the detail that Daumier omitted. The horrors of the bombardment are recorded in his plates but so too is the black humor of Parisian life during the siege. For example he shows the population pursuing food in any form - horses cats rats even a large woman regarded with speculation by an impudent boy: "No more meat! - Let's go then!" no. 20.<br/><br/>The plates included in Album du siège were transferred to zinc for engraving by Gillot's process rather than printed directly from Daumier's lithographic stones." Gordon N. Ray. The Art of the French Illustrated Book 1700 to 1914 p. 245. Paris: Aux Bureaux du Charivari, 1871 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
2005287828San Francisco. : Foundation for American Christian Education. 2005. Reprint. Hardcover green cloth gilt titles. . Very good no dust jacket. . 4to. Heavy book- requires extra postage. Foundation for American Christian Education. hardcover books
1995136031Cincinnatti: American Drama Institute 1995. Magazine. 96p. 5x8 inches very good in original wraps. Essays on Elmer Rice Maxwell Anderson Susan Glaspell Clifford Odets and Elia Kazan et al. American Drama Institute unknown books
142762hardcover. 565pp. 8vo cloth d.w.; d.w. torn. San Francisco: Grace Books 1956.<br/><br/> unknown books
19653613New York: McGraw-Hill 1965. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. 1st edition 1965. Clean and VG in a bright price-intact VG dustjacket with very light rubbing to the panels. Octavo 456 pgs. <br/><br/> McGraw-Hill hardcover books
181243722New Haven with Hartford: Printed by Walter and Steele with Hudson & Goodwin 1812. First edition. Contemporary stitched plain paper wrappers. Good to very good both signed browned some foxing second item untrimmed and creased. 31 1 pp. & 7 1 pp. 8vo. Two early Connecticut imprints most likely signed by husband and wife. 1. War of 1812. Sullivan George. "An Address of Members of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States to Their Constituents on the Subject of the War with Great Britain." New Haven: Printed by Walter and Steele 1812. 8vo. 31 1 pp. Sabin 393. Amer. Imprints 24547. Contemporary owner's name and one line summary on first page browned else very good. An antiwar address arguing that war with Britain was not "necessary or required by any moral duty or any political expediency. "Signed on p. 25 by George Sullivan and 33 other Federalist members. Provenance: Timothy Seward signed writing: "Serious truths attempted by the honest party in Congress." Most likely Timothy Seward of Guilford 1756-1849 a Revolutionary War musician. Various editions were published. With 2. Webster Noah Ingersoll Jonathan. "An Address to the Freemen in Connecticut" Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin 1803. 8vo. 7 1 pp. Sabin 102334. Amer. Imprints 3636. Contemporary owner's name and date on title page lower edges torn roughly with loss at lower margin otherwise a good untrimmed copy foxed. A speech to a Federalist meeting deploring the changes by the Jefferson administration. A list of names chosen for nomination in the next election is appended. Skeel argues that it was written by Noah Webster. Cf. Skeel E.E.F. A Bibliography of the writings of Noah Webster 1958 Appendix A p. 523-524 no. 6. Provenance: "Rebecca Seward Book 1810" signed Rebecca Seward born Lee d. 1859 was the wife of Timothy Seward. Uncommon. Sabin 393. Amer. Imprints 24547. with Sabin 102334. Amer. Imprints 3636. Printed by Walter and Steele [with] Hudson & Goodwin unknown books
180334270Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin 1803. 7 1 blank pp. Disbound moderately foxed Good. <br/><br/> Skeel Sabin says is responsible for the attribution of authorship to Webster. The pamphlet attacks "the mad projects of designing men" Jeffersonians who favor "revolutionizing Connecticut" and who seek "to subvert the system of our State government-- to remove from office all those venerable men who have hitherto conducted our affairs and to fill their places with individuals from their own body." The author recommends a list of satisfactory candidates for the upcoming State elections. They include Oliver Ellsworth William Hillhouse David Daggett Chauncey Goodrich Simeon Baldwin Matthew Griswold Jabez Clark-- all respectable Federalists. Jonathan Ingersoll is listed as Chairman of the Meeting and S. Sam Smith as Clerk. <br/>Sabin 102333n. Skeel Appendix A106. Hudson & Goodwin unknown books
180325341Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin 1803. First edition 8vo pp. 7; removed. Skeel pp. 523-24: "A discussion of the method of insuring the election of Federalists to the state legislature . Although Webster's name nowhere appears in this pamphlet which is signed p. 6 by Jonathan Ingersoll and S. Sam Smith the compiler i.e. Skeel believes that Webster wrote it. The New York Historical Society copy has a manuscript note 'Noah Webster Esq. is the reputed author of this pamphlet'." Page 7 includes a list of approved Federalists candidates which include Webster relatives Oliver Ellsworth and Chauncey Goodrich. Sabin 102333n; Shaw & Shoemaker 3636. <br/><br/> Hudson & Goodwin 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
1849W5011BSpringfield MA: George and Charles Merriam 1849. Original calf with remnant of morocco titling piece. Marbled endpapers. Binding is heavilty worn both joints starting but gilt titling still quite legible. 1367 pgs. Prior owner signature and also a gift inscription on ffep. Considerable foxing throughout. Webster tissue guarded frontispiece by S.F.B. Morse. . First Thus. Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. George and Charles Merriam 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
185324645Springfield: George and Charles Merriam 1853. Large thick 4to pp. lxxxiv 1366 1; testimonials on endpapers; text in triple column; engraved portrait of Webster after Morse; original full sheep black morocco label on spine; extremities scuffed and rubbed but the binding is sound. Vancil p. 262. <br/><br/> George and Charles Merriam unknown books
188044329Springfield Mass: G. & C. Merriam 1880. Second printing of this edition first issued in 1879 with the supplement of new words and a revised biographical dictionary by Loomis M. Campbell; 3 volumes 4to engraved portrait frontispiece of Webster after Samuel F. B. Morse engraved vignette title page in volume II 4 color plates of flags and badges numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text; lexicon in triple column; publisher's original brown cloth elabortately printed advertisements and testamonials on endpapers in volumes I and II gilt-lettered spines; spine ends chipped extremities rubbed else good and sound. The book was also issued in a doorstop edition of a single volume. Kennedy 6539; Vancil p. 268. <br/><br/> G. & C. Merriam hardcover books
1984185342Springfield Mass: George and Charles Merriam 1984. Hardcover. VG Cover and spine have general wear fading discoloration edge damage. Bookblock has age toning. InIterior pages have age toning foxing discoloration. Some pages have tearing and bending. Brown leather boards. Black title blocks with gil lettering on 5 raised band spine. ccxliv 1512 pages 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations coats of arms portrait. Pictorial edition 1500 illustrations. George and Charles Merriam hardcover 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
190039615New York: Hurst & Company 1900. Large thick 4to pp. 1553 1; 2 plates one an engraved portrait of Webster the other a color lithograph depicting the "Flags of All Nations"; contemporary three-quarter red morocco over tan gilt-stamped cloth gilt spine; shelf wear 1-inch crack at top of spine cloth water-stained; 2 inscriptions one contemporary the other later 1979 on front free endpaper a bit stained pages uniformly toned. This edition not in OCLC. <br/><br/> Hurst & Company hardcover books
185339607Springfield Mass: George and Charles Merriam 1853. Large thick 4to pp. lxxxiv1366 1; full contemporary calf black morocco gilt spine label half of which is missing pink printed endpapers; front board detached crude tape repair perished considerable shelf wear leather badly scuffed edges rubbed and bumped exposing boards 1/2-inch losses to top and bottom of spine; contemporary bookseller's rubber stamp on front free endpaper occasional foxing text block mostly fine. <br/><br/> George and Charles Merriam hardcover books
