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1829BL4542Philadelphia:: Society of Friends 1829. 1829. Volume III only. 8vo. iii-iv 3-298 2 pp. Missing title page and pp. 1-2. Original full mottled calf red gilt-stamped spine label "Quaker"; spine damaged rubbed. Ownership signature of Fannie Comstock. As is. This serial publication survived for just four years ca.1827-1831. Contains sermons or letters written by James Cockburn Dr. John Moore Jesse Kersey Stephen Crisp Elias Hicks Edward Stabler Thomas Wetherald Amos Peaslee etc. Society of Friends, 1829]. unknown books
1861480881861. QUAKERS: SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. THE AMERICAN ANNUAL MONITOR FOR 1861; OR OBITUARY OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS IN AMERICA FOR THE YEAR 1860. NY: Tract Association of Friends/ Samuel S. & William Wood 1861. 16mo. embossed brown cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition. Very Good minor wear very shallow chip title page. $35.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
189528317Philadelphia: Published for the Yearly Meeting 1895. 127 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed wrappers stapled postmark on upper cover. Some light soiling and wear to wrappers and edges else very good. 127 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. From the collection of the Seaman family of Glen Cove and Westbury Long Island and Woodbury Falls New York who were longtime members of the Society of Friends. <br/><br/> Published for the Yearly Meeting unknown
189628318New York: Published for the Yearly Meeting 1896. 142pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Some light soiling and wear to wrappers and edges first few leaves of text quite soiled else very good. 142pp. 1 vols. 8vo. From the collection of the Seaman family of Glen Cove and Westbury Long Island and Woodbury Falls New York who were longtime members of the Society of Friends. <br/><br/> Published for the Yearly Meeting unknown
1843E13387BPhiladelphia: Joseph Rakestraw 1843. Wraps. Near Fine. Pamphlet of 84 pp. in printed wrappers. A tight near fine example light even embrowing to the wraps and a small strip of loss to the spine. <br/><br/> Joseph Rakestraw paperback
189628308New York: Press of Corlies Macy & Co 1896. 20 pages. Illustration of Academy. 1 vols. 8vo. Original wrappers. Corners torn binding separated from text lower outer corner gnawed sometimes affecting a word or so on a page light soiling of wrappers else very good. 20 pages. Illustration of Academy. 1 vols. 8vo. From the collection of the Seaman family of Glen Cove Long Island who were longtime members of the Society of Friends and several of the Seaman children are students at the time of this catalogue Edith Jacob T. Mary W. Mary E. Frederick W Samuel J. and R. Frank T. Samuel J. Seaman became a trustee several years later. <br/><br/> Press of Corlies, Macy & Co unknown
189936486Kansas City: Hudson-Kimberly 1899. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. 191 pages. Illustrated with photographs. Gray cloth hardcover with title and illustrated wreath on the front cover. Title on the spine. Some shelf wear and light soil to the binding. Both hinges were broken and glued. Text block is secure untrimmed and not shaken. Interior contents are clean. Fair only. <br /> <br /> Inscribed by the editor on the right front flyleaf "For Mr. and Mrs. Larsney With Kind regards. Laura Coates Reed. John Lindley Coates. Arthur Chandler Coates. May 1899 all names written in same hand." Underneath the inscription is a pencil bame of Mitchell Behen. Located ihe upper left corner of the front paste down is a small label "Library of Mitchell Behen." Folling the title page is a tipped card "Compls. of Mr. Homer Reed."<br /> <br /> Contents include moving from Pennsylvania the Civil War a trip out west and more. From find a grave:<br /> <br /> Social Reformer. Headed a local Woman’s Suffrage Club for several years and was a personal friend of Susan B. Anthony. She served on many boards and helped found a group that became the Missouri Federation of Women’s Clubs. She was born in Pennsylvania. Her husband Kersey Coates was also born in Pennsylvania and practiced law there. He moved to the area that became Kansas City Missouri about 1854 where he was a director of a railroad partner in a bank and a real estate investor. He developed the bluffs on the west side the area that became known as "Quality Hill". During the civil war he was with a Pennsylvania unit of the Union Army. Union troops in Kansas City stabled their horses in what was the foundation of the coming Coates House Hotel that had been boarded over. His hotel opened about 1868. In January 1978 there was a large fire in the building killing 16 people. It was very cold at the time and the water being used accumulated on a hook and ladder truck causing the frame to break from the weight. The building was restored and still stands today at the corner of 10th & Broadway in downtown Kansas City Missouri. Hudson-Kimberly hardcover
1871086QTract Association of Friends Philadelphia: 1871. 1871 427 p. Slightly age stained. 12mo. Black publisher's cloth binding. Head repaired. Bookplate 1899 of William Pennell Jones 1837-1903 who was a Delaware County Quaker Hicksite. Very useful biographical record of Pennsylvania Quakers. PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 59 Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good. Tract Association of Friends, Philadelphia: 1871. hardcover
1805095QKimber Conrad & Co. Printers Philadelphia: 1805. 1805 4 p. 8vo. Plain wraps. "Signed by appointment on behalf of the said meetings respectively held the 26th 27th and 29th of the Third month 1805. David Bacon John Parrish Jacob Tomkins John Elliott Nicholas Waln Daniel Drinker." AI 8487. Very Scarce. Language: eng. Signed by Authors. Soft cover. Very Good. (Kimber, Conrad & Co. Printers) [Philadelphia]: 1805. paperback
1821090QSolomon W. Conrad Philadelphia: 1821. 1821 184 p. Text damp stained and aged. Sm. 8vo. Disbound. Early manuscript ownership of John Lester. PA 60 Rt Stk Language: eng. No Binding. Good. Solomon W. Conrad, Philadelphia: 1821. unknown
18525992Genève, Paris Émile Beroud, Grassart 1852 In-8 576 pp, Extraite des mémoires publiés par ses deux filles et enrichie de matéraiaux inédits par l'auteur des biographies d'Albert de Haller, Jean-Gaspard Lavater, etc. Orné d'un portrait gravé. 2è édition revue et augmentée. Toutes tranches marbrées, mouillure d'angle sur l'ensemble du volume, rousseurs. dos orné de caissons et filets dorés
1861011467New York: Tract Association of Friends / Samuel S. & William Wood 1861. 4" wide by 6" tall. Lower corners worn through else Very Good condition. Clean square tight unmarked copy. Inner hinges are sound. Biographical profiles of American Quakers who died in 1860 arranged alphabetically. Many listings are brief but others are quite substantial. For example the entry for Richard H. Thomas of Baltimore fills more than 13 pages. Original brown cloth with spine lettered in gold and covers blind-stamped. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition. 204pp. Tract Association of Friends / Samuel S. & William Wood Hardcover
1808WRCAM49717Philadelphia 1808. 31pp. Folio on a folded sheet. Old fold lines minor soiling and wear. Very good. Extracts from the yearly meeting of the Religious Society of Friends commonly known as the Quakers containing highlights of the meeting. These include reports on the education of Quaker youth and a mention of the Committee in charge of the conversion of Native Americans. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 15076. unknown books
1882006205Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co 1882. Hardcover. Very Good . xxviii 378 p.; 20 cm. Publisher's dark red-brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; boards have bevelled edges. Black endpapers. Includes index. First American edition. Former owner's inscription on front free endpaper: "S. S. Stafford Feb. 1882." Former owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Jack Fox with illustration of a fox with a book. Caroline Fox 1819-1871 a member of an English Quaker family recorded her observations of prominent scientists and intellectuals of her time including John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle. Her father Robert Were Fox 1789-1877 was a geologist and inventor. In Very Good Condition: edges lightly rubbed; slightly cocked; minor loss at head of spine; clean and tight. J. B. Lippincott & Co hardcover
189828311Locust Valley 1898. 1 vols. 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches image size. Original photograph on a slightly larger board. Some fading of image soiling of board and photograph inked identification under photo else very good. 1 vols. 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches image size. From the collection of the Seaman family of Glen Cove Long Island who were longtime members of the Society of Friends with the inscription on the verso reading "Presented by Laura F. Craft Ninth Mo. 10 1898 Marianne Seaman. " Laura F. Craft had attended Friends' Academy at the same time as the Seamans. <br/><br/> unknown
185228314New York: R. Craighead Printer 1852. 26 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green printed wrappers. Some soiling and staining of wrappers light spotting and marginal staining of text some gnawing of edges else very good. 26 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. From the collection of the Seaman family of Glen Cove and Westbury Long Island and Woodbury Falls New York who were longtime members of the Society of Friends. <br/><br/> R. Craighead Printer unknown
184310911Philadelphia: Joseph and William Kite 1843. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo. 359pp. plus index. This copy has gift inscription to Sarah B. Cope Nordhoff Mother of author Charles Nordhoff with the Walter and Sarah C.W. Nordhoff blindstamp on title page. Plain brown pebble leather binding spine stamped in gold. Endpapers and first and last few blanks browned page edges also. Nice tight copy from 1843. <br/><br/> Joseph and William Kite hardcover
180830732Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Crukshank 1808. First published in London in 1795 it was first printed in America in 1799. 70pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Later grey plain wrappers. Some light discoloration and light wear else very good. First published in London in 1795 it was first printed in America in 1799. 70pp. 1 vols. 8vo. S & S 16230. S & S 16230 <br/><br/> Printed by Joseph Crukshank unknown
186135341Philadelphia: William W. Moore 1861. Hardcover. Fair. Quarto. 1 viii 832 pages. Marbled paper covered boards with leather corners. Leather spine with title. The boards are very worn. Most of the paper on the back cover is missing. Leather spine is rotted dried and cracked. Light toning and scattered foxing to the contents. Last few pages are damp stained and soiled. Fair only. <br /> <br /> Contents include 52 issues covering parts of 1860 and 1861. Article headings include Africans in Key West recaptured from the Slavers; Cotton Spinning; The Slave Trade; A Journal of the Life of John Gratton; Thoughts on Emigration; Origin and Introduction of Railroads Into America; Slave Statistics; and much more. William W. Moore hardcover
18211015808vo leather spine label gilt lines on spine 184 pp. Top hinge cracked some minor wear to extremities volume slightly bent small hole through pages 7 and 8 some slight foxing but internally generally bright and clean. This is a collection of short biographies of notable Quakers who passed away between 1783 and 1820.While much of the text appears to talk about the personal challenges these people faced some comments are directed at their works with others including native Americans. Solomon W. Conrad,
1880013272Cambridge MA: Printed at Riverside Press 1880. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG. 8vo greenish-blue cloth stamped and ruled in black on cvoers gilt titles to spine xiv 236. Bookplate fron pastedown Covers miderately worn. Internals quite nice. Printed at Riverside Press hardcover
1877013271Philadelphia: Society of Friends 1877. Hardcover. Near Fine. Later reprint undated circa 1877. 8vo. brown cloth triple blind ruled coves gilt rules and titles to spine beveled edges 480. Neat older ownership name Philadelphia address handwritten on ffe. Newer ownership address label on pastedown. Solid clean copy. (Society of Friends) hardcover
18211015808vo leather spine label gilt lines on spine 184 pp. Top hinge cracked some minor wear to extremities volume slightly bent small hole through pages 7 and 8 some slight foxing but internally generally bright and clean. This is a collection of short biographies of notable Quakers who passed away between 1783 and 1820.While much of the text appears to talk about the personal challenges these people faced some comments are directed at their works with others including native Americans. Solomon W. Conrad, books
1871000472London Eng: F. Bowyer Kitto 1871. First Edition. Very Good -. London: F. Bowyer Kitto; Carlisle: Chas. Thurnam and Sons. vii 3 208 p.; 20 cm. Reddish-brown pebble-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and black-stamped decoration of both boards. Pale yellow endpapers. Binder's label on back fixed endpaper for Westleys & Co. London. Front free endpaper bears the names of two former owners: Thomas Drewry 1871 and Jesse Darbyshire 1901. A third name was erased at the head of that endpaper. The author states that about one third of these biographical sketches of early English Quakers first appeared in the Carlisle Journal. This is the first edition in book form. The appendix contains relevant excerpts from Besse's Sufferings. In Very Good- Condition: spine sunned; somewhat cocked; cover is slightly soiled; edges lightly rubbed; pp. 1-16 partially detached; pp. 154-55 have a shadow in the gutter from former newspaper bookmark; a few pencilled marginialia and occasional soiling in the margins. F. Bowyer Kitto unknown
18308959New York: Isaac T. Hopper 1830. Unbound. Very Good binding. Octavo. 8 pp. Folded sheet never bound; untrimmed. Separation at the folds of the outer two leaves; toning and soiling; pencil notations. A laudatory biography of Elias Hicks who had led a umber of Quakers into schism. Sabin 31718; American Imprints 1510. Isaac T. Hopper unknown