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176024872London: Printed and Sold by Luke Hinde in George-Yard Lombard-Street 1760. First edition. 12 372 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary blind pannelled calf missing front free-endpaper. First edition. 12 372 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Printed and Sold by Luke Hinde, in George-Yard, Lombard-Street unknown
178715881Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Cruikshank 1787 First edition. Contemporary calf burgundy morocco spine label. Octavo. With alphabetical index. Bottom corners rubbed small chip at foot of spine some light browning. Contemporary ink inscription on front free endpaper. A very good copy. An interesting collection of short biographies of early American Quaker ministers. Over fifty of the people discussed are women. Printed by Joseph Cruikshank 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
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
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
1787088QPrinted by Crukshank Philadelphia: 1787. 1787 pp. viii 439. 8vo. 20 cm. Age stained. Disbound. Extremely useful still as a biographical reference to early American Quakers. Evans 20377; Sabin 14377; ESTC W37427. PRICE JUST REDUCED! Language: eng. No Binding. Very Good. Printed by Crukshank, Philadelphia: 1787. unknown
1760089QLuke Hinde London: 1760. 1760 pp. 12 372. 8vo. Age stain. Top edge of some leaves slightly worn away. Lacks fly leaves. Contemporary full leather binding. Front board detached. Early ownerships of Samuel and David Stockton on title page. PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 59. Language: eng. Hardcover. Good. Luke Hinde, London: 1760. hardcover
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
170650817London T. Sowle 1706. Small 4to. No wrappers. 2111 pp. Title-page soiled. The first page with a large brownspot. Outer margins shaved with some loss of lettering. <br/><br/><em>The original printing. </em> unknown
1789List2987Philadelphia Pennsylvania 1789. Single three-page letter measuring 7 ¾ x 9 ¾ inches. Folded with large tears at folds; excellent. A letter from H. Cathrall in Philadelphia to her friend Amey Thurston dated October 20th 1789. The letter discusses her health and the health and lives of their mutual friends. She also describes her experience of hearing ministry at a women’s Quaker meeting:<br /> <br /> “our yearly Solemnity was uncommonly large and much sisterly condescension was comfortingly evidencd; and thro the condescension of Isarels Israel’s King and Shepherd we were made in some sittings reverently to rejoice in that the Lord in wondrous Mercy had not forgotten Sion ‘nor yet in Anger cast off his People’~â€.<br /> <br /> Though Quaker worship meetings did not exclude women Philadelphia did have a women’s monthly meeting as well; Haverford College holds its membership book for 1793 Cathrall does not appear in it but at least one other name mentioned in her letter does.<br /> <br /> Of interest to scholars of Philadelphia’s long Quaker history especially the role of Quaker women. unknown
1755List2976Dutchess County New York 1755. Single sheet measuring 7 ¾ x 12 ½ inches. Folded and quite torn at folds; very good. A letter signed by the members of the Oblong Monthly Meeting of Friends in New York to members of the Sandwich one in Massachusetts on the occasion of the death of Nicolas Davis 1690–1755 a member of the Sandwich meeting. Davis was well-respected in his community and occasionally traveled to minister; he died in Quaker Hill where the Oblong Meeting House is located on such a trip. The Oblong Friends remember him:<br /> <br /> “His visit was well accepted his ministry being attended with the Gospel Life and Power to the Reproof of the Lukewarm & Self Indulgent Professers to the instruction of the weak and to the Edification and Comfort of the Sincere & uprightâ€.<br /> <br /> One of the letter’s signers Benjamin Ferriss is likely the same Benjamin Ferris who was one of the first Euro-American settlers of Quaker Hill arriving in 1728. The letter has eighteen other signatories: John Hoag Samuel Nothingham David Hoag Matthew Franklin Henry Chase Zebulon Farriss James surname illegible Abraham Ewing Wilm Buffett Allen Moore Dobson Wheeler Tim. Dakin Ebenezer Peaslee Josiah Akin Haas Bull. John Ewing Richard Smith and Jonathan Hoag. Of interest to scholars of Colonial-era Quaker history and New York State history. unknown