[Quakers] [Slavery] Chace, Elizabeth Buffum; Lovell, Lucy Buffum; Lovell, Malcom (introduction by)Biblio.com
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193736016New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. xxx 1 Burgundy cloth hardcover with gilt title on the front cover and spine. Frontispiece photograph of the two sisters. Illustrated. Map illustrated front end papers. Genealogical chart for "Arnoll Buffum m. Rebecca Gould." on the rear papers. Light shelf and edge wear to the hardcover. Interior contents clean. <br /> <br /> Inscribed by the author on the half title page: "To Winthrop W. Aldrich With my very sincere regards Malcom Read Lovell 1937. Contents include anti slavery reminiscences by Elizabeth Buffum Chace pages 110-183. Liveright Publishing Corporation hardcover
202570London Luke Hinde 1760. 372pp. 8vo. Full leather slightly rubbed and edgeworn. Ink inscription to ffe. Some scattered foxing. A very good copy. London, Luke Hinde, 1760. 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,
19544307Philadelphia 1954. About very good. Thirty-five printed and typescript items approximately 150pp. total. Some staples old folds. Scattered contemporary ink stamps. Light toning and minor wear heavier in places. Scattered chipping and occasional short edge tears. A fascinating and scarce group of newsletters pamphlets and ephemera published by the American Friends Service Committee during and after World War II comprising thirty-five printed and typescript items. The Committee administered roughly one third of the camps in the Civilian Public Service system which was established to provide a means of non-military service to religious conscientious objectors during the war and also played a significant role in the anti-draft anti-conscription movement. The first group of material present here includes seven issues of the Civilian Public Service Friends Newsletter. These provide a detailed contemporary account of the overall state of the camps including camp populations incoming "campers" camp openings and closures and the financial situation. The newsletters also include news relating to the administration of the camps and developments regarding their operation and the activities of the interned objectors. Included as well are a promotional report issued on the two-year anniversary of the Service's inception and an elaborate four-page solicitation for donations to the CPS both also issued by the American Friends Service Committee. The issues of the newsletters present are: No. 5 October 30th 1942; No. 6 December 21 1942; No. 8 February 25 1943; No. 9 March 15 1943; No. 10 April 21 1943; No. 12 July 12 1943; No. 13 August 23 1943. A substantial run of a scarce and short-lived newsletter. We locate individually catalogued groups of these reports only at Bethel College and the University of Oregon and not in the Swarthmore Peace Collection.<br /> <br /> A second group of newsletters contains three issues of a weekly periodical Information and eleven issues of its monthly offshoot Information Digest dating December 1943 to July 1945 with two issues from later in 1946. These issues document the administration process of the CPS camps and contain reports on various facets of their operation including finances fundraising working and social conditions religious life and legal issues. Amongst these are reports on internal efforts and negotiations to fund the camps both within the Society of Friends and in partnership with other pacifist religious sects such as the Mennonites who were involved in camp operations. The December 2 1943 issue of Information for example contains a detailed narrative of the negotiation to fund the camps in 1944. The newsletters also contain a wealth of information on developments initiatives and daily life at the camps which include some particularly interesting reports on mental health among internees and on civil rights as the issue related to conscientious objectors but also to racial equality in the United States during the war era. OCLC locates holdings of this periodical at just a small handful of institutions.<br /> <br /> The third group of material comprises four scarce typed reports prepared and distributed by the AFSC during the war regarding the rights of conscientious objectors and their status. Three of the reports address the Selective Service Act and continued amendments thereto concentrating on the portions of the law that applied to religious objectors to military service and changes that affected objectors during the early years of the war. The first these issued in March 1942 first outlines the changes made to the draft law during December 1941 in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor and the declaration of war on the Axis powers and then provides an extensive step-by-step procedure for the application process to become a conscientious objector. Two further lengthy "memoranda" explain the rights of conscientious objectors as of December 1942 and March 1943 when each report was produced and gives advice for completing the objector application as well as for preparing supplementary documents and written statements. The other report in this group dated September 1941 gives an outline of the finances and disposition of the Civilian Public Service the system of labor camps for conscientious objectors on the eve of the war including lists of camps already in operation their capacities and statistical charts of objectors already registered and camp populations and assignments. These reports are quite striking as first-hand evidence of the role played by the Society of Friends administration in counseling their members to become conscientious objectors.<br /> <br /> Finally there is an interesting group of Quaker anti-conscription ephemera from World War II consisting of nine pamphlets that outline the pacifist views of the Society of Friends and the reasons behind them. The works go on to detail how these beliefs necessitate the Quakers' refusal to be conscripted into the American armed forces and defend this stance. Two pamphlets deal specifically with the opposition to peacetime conscription which became a political issue towards the end of the war. The individual titles are as follows:<br /> <br /> 1 "Why They Cannot Go to War." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1940.<br /> 2 "Why We Oppose Conscription." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1941.<br /> 3 "United States of America vs. Arle Brooks." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1941. Two copies.<br /> 4 Royden A. Maude. "An Unarmed State." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee N.d.<br /> 5 Muste A.J. "Conscription and Conscience." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1944. Two copies.<br /> 6 "Peace Time Conscription.A Problem for Americans." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1944.<br /> 7 "Permanent Conscription." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1945.<br /> 8 "No! To Peacetime Conscription." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1945.<br /> 9 "Advices on Conscription and War." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1954. unknown
178735617Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Crukshank 1787. Leather bound. Fair. Octavo. 439 pages. Brown calf leather binding with leather title label on the spine. Front board is detached. Leather is rubbed and pitted on the covers. Leather chipped head of the spine with a small remnant of black tape at the top. A small piece of black linen tape at the bottom of the spine. All preliminary and end sheets are removed. Title page is torn on the edge with a small amount of missing print. Text starts on the title page and ends on page 439. The last leave is partially glued to the rear paste down. Several pencil names written in the margins throughout the text including American Presidents on the early pages. Name of Richard Hopkins written in old ink on the title page. Other Hopkins family members names on the rear paste down. Small paper bookplate of Richard K. Betts on the front paste down. Persistent toning to the contents. A fair copy only. <br /> <br /> Evans 20377; Sabin 14377. Printed by Joseph Crukshank unknown
1871List3241Rhode Island Massachusetts and New York 1871. Thirty-two letters two apparently missing final pages; with fifteen pages of incomplete letter material. Excellent to Near Fine. Letters from some of the young ladies of the Hazard family primarily Gertrude Minturn 1843–1877 Anna Peace 1845–1868 and Esther Robinson 1848–d. Hazard with some from other family and friends. The family was descended from Thomas Hazard one of the founding settlers of Newport Rhode Island.1<br /> <br /> The girls were educated and often write from school; Anna and Esther attend the ‘Friends School’ in Providence which is probably the Moses Brown School and Gertrude attends Dr. Dio Lewis’s School for Young Ladies in Lexington Massachusetts. Founded by Diocletian Lewis a temperance and physical culture advocate the school incorporated his exercise system developed to condition weaker individuals. Gertrude describes a regimen of thirty minutes of walking plus an hour and a half of exercise and discusses Dr. Lewis:<br /> <br /> “Dr Lewis gives familiar lectures on any subject which the scholars propose. He is a very pleasant genial man and takes part in the games & dancing with the greatest spirit. There are about 20 scholars. Some of them board in the village but are subject to the rules of the school. This building is very large and is mostly occupied by the patients of Dr Lewis’ ‘Movement Cures’ to whom most of his time is devoted. The scholars and patients associate together. Indeed we are under very little constraint the teachers leaving our actions to be regulated by our own sense of propriety; and they seldom find occasion to reprove the scholars for misdemeanors.†November 23 1864<br /> <br /> Meanwhile Anna and Esther’s education is more on the religious side; Esther writes:<br /> <br /> “We have not been to meeting very often since we returned from our lovely visit to Newport but the first Sunday morning I did think all the time of it as I said I was going to. We were edified this morning by a sermon from Elizabeth Meader or rather a torrent of noise so that I am nearly deafened now. I don’t think I ever heard a more horrible combination of sounds from the mouth of any human being.†January 8 1865<br /> <br /> Though speaking in tongues is most strongly associated with Pentecostalism it is not unheard of in Quakerism. In his book of genealogy and reflections the girls’ father Thomas Hazard 1797–1886 connects the family’s “strong religious tendencies†to his own interest in spiritualism.2 This interest in mediumship comes up several times in the letters first in 1864 when one of the girls reports that “Pa writes us that at a circle which he attended a few days ago a clairvoyant medium described our house at Vaucluse perfectly†February 24 1864 and later when one of the girls attends a circle with their father in Philadelphia:<br /> <br /> “Yesterday morning Pa & I had a sitting with a Mrs. Robinson a trance speaking medium. The communication from mother was the most beautiful I ever heard. She spoke to us just as she used to on earth using the same expressions. It seemed as if I could almost see her – we are going again on Monday.†February 8 1867<br /> <br /> That is the pair spoke to Frances Minturn Hazard who had died in 1854.<br /> <br /> Of interest to researchers of the Hazard family and Rhode Island Quakers.<br /> <br /> 1 Caroline Elizabeth Robinson The Hazard Family of Rhode Island 1635–1894 Printed for the Author 1896.<br /> 2 Thomas R. Hazard Recollections of Olden Times Sanborn 1879 228. unknown
180976436New Bedford:: Abraham Shearman Jun. 1809. First edition. old full sheep. . Light discoloration to the text throughout the paper is not at all brittle; light rubbing to the leather; tight and sound. . 8vo. Printed by Direction of the Meeting. Annotated in an old hand at the top of the title page: "This Book belongs to Rhode Island Monthly Meeting of Friends." A note at the close of the Introduction refers to additions on three pages approx. 200 words; regarding those "out of unity with friends" inspecting testimonies and the receipt of military pensions of persons who subsequently became members. These manuscript additions are dated 1822 1811 and 1818.l Abraham Shearman, Jun., hardcover
1390660311.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
20041648<p>VG/FINE Softback Volume a new edition of the 1973 volume collecting a multitude of Quaker sources together to illustrate the relationship of early Friends with God. 622pp with index ~ 71.50 ~ George Fox Quakers Society Of Friends Pendle Hill Swarthmoor Margaret Fell ~ Religion</p> Pendle Hill Publications paperback
1736000473London Eng: Assigns of J. Sowle 1736. First Edition. Very Good -. Title continued: "for Demands Recoverable by the Acts made in the 7th and 8th Years of the Reign of King William the Third for the more Easie Recovery of Tithes Church-Rates &c. Printed and Sold by the Assigns of J. Sowle at the Bible in George-Yard Lombard-Street." xii 2 189 1 p.: 1 table; 20 cm. 8vo. Half calf with six gilt-ruled spine compartments and a gilt-tooled leather label in the second compartment reading: Prosecution of Quakers. Marbled paper over boards. All page edges marbled. Inscription largely erased from front fixed endpaper. Published anonymously by Quaker Joseph Besse who produced a number of important volumes recording the legal woes of early English and Welsh Quakers. This volume describes the prosecutions of Quakers from 1696 to 1736 in England and Wales arranged alphabetically by county. Quakers were prosecuted for refusing to pay the annual tithe one tenth of their income and other support for the Church of England. In Very Good- Condition: cover is rubbed; spine is sunned; leather is starting to separated at the head of the spine and lacking small section of leather at head of spine; first and last leaves have soiling of corners and light foxing; pages are otherwise clean and tight. Assigns of J. Sowle unknown
1738003373London: Assigns of J. Sowle 1738. Hardcover. Very Good . For the Testimony of a Good Conscience From the Time of Their being first distinguished by that Name Taken from Original Records and other Authentick Accounts; Volume III From the year 1660 to the year 1666." 2 546 xxviii 10 p.: 1 leaf folded; 20 cm. Signatures: B8x1 C-2H8 2I-2U4 x4 8vo. Modern calf with original original gilt-tooled spine label. The folded leaf contains the table A Summary Account of the Sufferings in the Second and Third Volumes. Contains: An Alphabetical Index of the Names of the Sufferers in the Third Volume pp. 479-546 and An Index Containing Some of the Principal Contest of this Third Volume pp. 1-xxviii. Includes Errata on first page following p. xxviii and publisher's advertisements on final 8 unpaginated pages. In Very Good Condition: very occasional soiling; folded leaf is intact and solid. A clean and tight copy of an important work in Quaker history. Assigns of J. Sowle hardcover
1951002847Hereford Eng: Lincoln Record Society 1951. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 volumes 149 222 217 p.: 1 map; 27 cm. Light yellow-green cloth vols. 1 and 2 and light yellow cloth vol. 3; black-stamped spine and cover titles with the emblem of the Lincoln Record Society on the front cover of each. Pages are unopened. The Publications of the Lincoln Record Society vols. 38 40 44. Published in 1949 1949 and 1951 respectively. Contents: v. 1. 1669-1689. -- v. 2. 1689-1709. -- v. 3. 1709-1719. Vol. 3 contains an index and several appendices with biographical information about Lincolnshire Quakers who are mentioned in the minutes as well as information about contemporary matters referred to in the minutes. The volumes cover a critical period in the history of Quakerism. In Very Good Condition: light soiling at head of spines; spine of vol. 2 is sunned; cover of vol. 2 is lightly soiled; otherwise all 3 volumes are clean and bright. Lincoln Record Society hardcover
1791005068London: James Phillips 1791. Hardcover. Good. The Fifth Edition. vii 1 601 3 p.; 21 cm. Signatures: a4 A-2P8 -2P7 2P8 8vo. Original plain calf boards with later plain calf spine. Modern box with gilt-tooled spine title: Chalkley's Works. The Works of Thomas Chalkley has a separate title page but continous pagination and signing. Publisher's catalog on final 2 unpaginated pages. ESTC T061338. Lengthy inscription on front free endpaper by Joseph Brinton 1754-1809 of Lancaster County Pa. who purchased the book in 1791. He was the son of Moses and Eleanor Brinton and married Susanna Rigbee in 1784. With: two small pieces of pressed seaweed left in the book. Inscriptions on back fixed endpaper indicate that over the following century the book descended through the Brinton and Cooper families. Lacking one leaf containing pages 369-70 which has been unobtrusively supplied. In Good Condition: leather is rubbed with some loss; pp. 369-70 supplied as described; pp. 495-96 has been rehinged; old dampstain along fore-edge of title page and several following leaves; occasional soiling heavy on a few pages. James Phillips hardcover
19931672<p>VG Softback volume featuring the life times and writings of the Quaker visionary. 293pp with index ISBN 185072136x ~ 16.00 ~ John BellersThe Improvement of Physicik Quakers Society Of Friends Immorality Raising a College Of Industry ~ Religion</p> Sessions Book Trust paperback
18961723<p>8vo Good Gilt Titles on Front Page Blue Boards HB No DJ. Edges turned in Pages Foxed Marks to Back Cover Watermark to endpapers with previous owner sig and inscription. Tissue transparency on title page. 296pp</p> Headley Brothers hardcover
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
19311696<p>A biography of the life of the early Quaker preacher and member of the Valiant Sixty whose deathbed statement many of the Society Of Friends have today taken to heart. Rare volume Good 8vo Browwn Boards HB previous owner sig on endpapers No DJ. Pages foxed and ends indent but good for its age. 323pp with index ~ 115.00 ~ George Fox James Nayler Valiant Sixty Quakers Society Of Friends ~ Religion</p> Ernest Benn hardcover
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
1781003539Dublin: Robert Jackson 1781. Hardcover. Very Good. xxiv 186 p.; 17 cm. Signatures: A-H12 I6 K4 -K4 12mo. Contemporary full speckled calf; six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled leather label in second compartment with title "Gough's Life." Small paper label in first compartment with number "17." Blind-tooled decoration on board edges. Printed label on front fixed endpaper for Aimwell School Library. In 1796 the Society for the Free Instruction of Female Children was established in Philadelphia by three Quaker women. The name Aimwell School was adopted in 1807. The first edition of the memoirs of the English Quaker schoolmaster and author James Gough 1712-1780. Includes the author's An Epistle to Friends in All Parts of Ireland p. 159-184. In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed; minor loss at head of spine; old dampstaining to fore-edges; light foxing throughout; otherwise clean and tight. Robert Jackson hardcover
1929002150London: George Allen & Unwin 1929. Very Good -. Lucas Samuel. First published in The History of Hitchin vol. 2 1929; this separate edition published later the same year. 150 2 p.: 9 in-text drawings 13 leaves of illustrations many by Samuel Lucas; 25 cm. Green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and decoration; gilt-stamped center medallion on both boards. Title page in red and black with decorative border. Publisher's device on page following index. Top page edges gilt. Includes bibliography and index. Faint white library call numbers on spine. Front fixed endpaper bears inscription: Friends House Preparative Meeting Library. The same with Friends House Euston Road London stamped on the front free endpaper. Former owner's inscription on front free endpaper: "Helen F. Carpenter Withleigh West Heath Rd Hampstead London NW3." A history of the Society of Friends in Hitchen Herfordshire England. In Very Good- Condition: spine is sunned slightly faded; ends of spine and corners rubbed with fraying at head of spine; remains of white call numbers on spine; cover slightly soiled; foxing primarily on first few leaves including title page; otherwise clean and tight. George Allen & Unwin unknown
1753003525London: Printed and sold by Luke Hinde 1753. Hardcover. Very Good. vii 1 194 6 p.; 20 cm. Signatures: A-N8 8vo. Contemporary full calf with blind-ruled border on both boards. Old calf spine repair. Remains of old library label on front fixed endpaper scraped through the endpaper. A Serious Call in Christian Love to all People to turn to the Spirit of Christ has special dated title page but continous pagination. Printer's advertisements on 6 pages following text. Pencil inscription at foot of p. 133: "David Reece Esq. & A. Williams deep in love." First edition. Benjamin Holme 1683-1749 was a Quaker who travelled extensively in the ministry. Various writings related to his visits to Friends in England Wales Scotland Ireland Holland the West Indies and the American colonies were brought together and published in this volume soon after his death. Much scarcer than the scarce 1754 printing. In Very Good Condition: leather is rubbed at head of spine front joint and corners; lacking both free endpapers; foxing and browning throughout; otherwise clean and tight. Printed and sold by Luke Hinde hardcover
1848005102Philadelphia: Joseph Rakestraw 1848. Pamphlet. Very Good. 16 p.; 22 cm. Lacking wrapper. Disbound from a volume of unrelated 19th-century pamphlets. "20" in ink at upper right-hand corner of title page. Enoch Lewis 1776-1856 was a Pennsylvania Quaker and a mathematician who edited several mathematical works and published several textbooks including one on spherical projections. He was an abolitionist establishing the monthly journal African Observer and taking an active role in the Underground Railroad in Chester County Pa. In this pamphlet he examines another issue of concern to the Society of Friends that of legal and judicial oaths which Friends refused to take. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition; lacking wrapper; disbound; very light foxing on title page and p. 16; otherwise clean and bright. Joseph Rakestraw unknown
2009044728Philadelphia PA: Quaker Pr of Friends General 2009. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 548 pages indexed. Hardcover in blue dust jacket. Light wear to the jacket. The text is clean. Contains some illustrations. <br/> <br/> Quaker Pr of Friends General hardcover
1812006145Philadelphia: David Hogan; Solomon Wiatt 1812. Hardcover. Very Good -. T.T. Stiles printer. 288 p.; 19 cm. Contemporary tree calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules. Red leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: "Mosheim's E. History." Includes "Appendix: Vindication of the Quakers; To the Editors of the American Edition of Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History" signed by John Drinker on behalf of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1799. Contains Errata on p. 286. Publisher's catalog on final two pages. Scarce. In Very Good- Condition: corners are bumped and rubbed; joints just starting but still solid; 6-cm. tear at upper corner of p. 31 with archival repair; foxing; otherwise clean and tight. David Hogan; Solomon Wiatt hardcover
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
