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1815284Boston: Bradford & Read 1815. 8vo. 213 x 125 mm. 8 1/4 x 5 inches. 216 4 pp. including a leaf of instructions to the binder and errata leaf. Illustrated with 5 engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf leather label on spine; upper and lower margins with tide marks some natural toning to the paper otherwise quite a good copy. Presentation copy to Richard Fletcher whose inscription appears on the front fee endpaper detached and the title-page. First edition. Attractive copy of Job Wilson's study of the influence of climate on the epidemic of spotted fever meningitis that spread throughout New England in the first years of the 19th century. Organized in three parts Wilson begins with a short description of the climate in New England from 1630 until 1806. Wilson expands the details of his study to show climate variations from 1801 to 1814 and their correlation with the rise and fall of the disease. This is one of the earliest studies in America to offer data on climate and disease with specific reference to the outbreak of spotted fever in 1807 1809 1811-1815. Part two of the Wilson's study describes the cause for the fever with reference to its impact on the lungs liver and brain. Part three discusses the ways of preventing the disease and its spread from person to person. The unsigned engravings illustrate the impact of the spotted fever on the nervous system lungs and heart. Austin 2074. 284. Bradford & Read unknown books
181510391Boston: Bradford & Read 1815. hardcover. very good-. 5 plates 216pp. 8vo original boards neatly re-backed in blue cloth ex-lib. Boston: Bradford & Read 1815. First Edition. Presentation copy.<br/><br/> In 3 parts Part 1- A Compendious View of the Climate and Diseases of These States 1620-1806; Part 2- An Inquiry Into the Prevailing Epidemic; Part 3- Catarrhus: or Slight Inflammation from Cold Attended with but Little or no Fever. Austin 2074.<br/><br/> Bradford & Read unknown books
183617343.2Philadelphia: Printed by A. Waldie 46 Carpenter Street 1836. 1st edition American Imprints 40622; Field 1581; Sabin 97645. Later 19th C. half sheep binding with red marbled paper boards gilt stamped spine lettering. Marbled eps. Modest extremity wear joints a bit rubbed a solid Very Good copy. 38 2 blank pp. 8vo. 9" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/> Printed by A. Waldie, 46 Carpenter Street hardcover books
1834WRCAM39336Philadelphia: Printed for the Society 1834. 631pp. Original plain blue wrappers. Very minor chipping on spine lightly edgeworn mild darkening of foredges. Internally clean and bright. Very good. Job Roberts Tyson a Philadelphia-born teacher lawyer and writer served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1855 to 1857 as a Whig representative from Pennsylvania and was a prominent proponent of the Colonization movement which encouraged African-Americans to return to the homelands of their African ancestors. The present pamphlet is the publication of Tyson's speech delivered to the Young Men's Colonization Society of Pennsylvania on Oct. 24 1834. Beginning with a history of the abolitionist movement in Pennsylvania Tyson cites the development of Liberia as exemplifying the movement's ideology. In 1821 private societies began to fund and organize colonies on the coast of West Africa for free blacks from the United States and Liberia became a common destination for emigrating African- Americans. In praise of these organized "repatriation" plans Tyson wrote: "For the accomplishment of these great purposes an extensive region of sea-coast has been selected.Being intended for the abode of freemen this extensive domain bears the appropriate title Liberia." SABIN 97644. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 27171. Printed for the Society unknown books
183355435Philadelphia: William Brown printer 1833. Second edition revised same year as the first with a new preface and expanded text; 8vo pp. 105 1 errata; removed from binding wrappers wanting; "duplicate" stamp and adhesion residue on title page title page also clipped at the lower corner; good sound copy. "The history extent and pernicious consequences of that species of gambling" i.e. lotteries. American Imprints 21595 for the first edition of only 48 pages; Sabin 97643. <br/><br/> William Brown, printer unknown books
1833WRCAM45874Philadelphia 1833. viii5-1051pp. Dbd. Minor foxing. Very good. Second edition published the same year as the first and greatly expanded. "At a meeting of a number of citizens of Philadelphia friendly to the entire abolition of lotteries held on the 12th day of January 1833 an essay was presented by Job. R. Tyson Esq. who had prepared it in compliance with a previous request.Whereupon it was resolved that five thousand copies of said essay be printed for gratuitous distribution throughout the United States." An additional note indicates that they expanded the first edition for republication in November of the same year. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 21595. unknown books
1842651Philadelphia: John Penington 1842. 8vo. 64 pp. <br><br>With a presentation inscription on front wrapper in the author's hand to a named recipient undated; signed "the author". Original printed wrappers; large pieces missing from front cover without loss of printing. Only two pages soiled. Small dog-ears. John Penington unknown books
1836638941836. TYSON Job R. DISCOURSE ON THE SUVIVING REMNANT OF THE INDIAN RACE. Delivered on the 24th October 1836 before the Society for Commemorating the Landing of William Penn. Philadelphia: Printed by A. Waldie 1836. First edition. 8vo.: 38 pp. Modern maroon cloth gilt title to spine. Light soiling to cloth with light foxing to opening and closing leaves else clean. Very good plus. Sabin 97645. unknown books
1870GG01758Cincinnati:: Cincinnati Weekly Times/Times Steam Job Color Press ca. 1870s. 1870. Engraved framed print. 52.5 x 66 cm. Printed in color caption title lower left margin: "G.K. Stillman Engraver 4th & Walnut Cin."; insect damage to lower right margin affecting text but not image. age toning from backing. Gold-leaf frame probably contemporary. Very good. "A fanciful engraving of the Calaveras Grove showing the principal trees living and dead grouped around the hotel. The text identifies the trees and provides minimal statistical information. The 'Big Tree Stump' is depicted without a structure on it and 'The Mother of the Forest' is shown with scaffolding still in place. However style printing and paper would indicate a date circa 1870s or later." Currey & Kruska. REFERENCES: Currey & Kruska Bibliography of Yosemite the Central and the Southern High Sierra and the Big Trees 1839-1900 #246; Robert B. Honeyman Jr. Collection of Early California and Western American Pictorial Material. Indicating 1855 Bancroft Library Banc Pic 1963 002:0379-D. Cincinnati Weekly Times/Times Steam Job Color Press, [ca. 1870s]. unknown books
1856M13479New York:: Holman & Gray Steam Printers 1856 1863. 1856. Two papers bound together. 24 cm. 62; 299-351 1 pp. Title inscribed "from the author" . . . "and an essay on cyanosis". Nineteenth century brown cloth; extremities worn; lacks ffep first title gutter with tears to the title. Rubber-stamp on title of the Mercantile Library Assoc. NY. Good minor kozo repairs. Rare. "FROM THE AUTHOR" Smith also wrote A Treatise on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood. Philadelphia 1869. Cyanosis or "blue disease" is described here in full via the author's 2-part lecture at the New York Academy of Medicine February 18 and March 4 1863. Smith considered the talk statistical as its results are based on the analyses of 191 cases. Within his paper is a detailed history of the literature on the same topic. "It is only just to state that Dr. J. Lewis Smith of New York in his admirable work on Diseases of Infancy and Childhood gives the best consideration of this subject that I have met with among out systematic treatises." -- Frank Woodbury "The Significance of Bloody Discharges from the Bowels in Young Children" JAMA vol. III no. 7 August 1884 p. 180. Smith was born in Spafford NY. His studies took him to the Buffalo Medical School where he interned. Smith graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York 1853. He worked as physician to the Charity Hospital and the NY foundling asylum etc. Ashwal mentions Smith as one of the persons advancing the field of pediatrics which he tells started in the early nineteenth century but also developed more strongly by the middle of the century. Smith was also the second president of the American Pediatric Society the first such organization in the Unites States. -- Ashwal p 120. p. 171. Atkinson Physicians and Surgeons of the United States p. 136. See: Ashwal The Founders of Child Neurology. Cone Thomas E. Jr. History of American pediatrics Little Brown 1980 pp. 103-104. REFERENCES: These works not in Grulee. FFrye C188 Holman & Gray, Steam Printers, 1856, 1863. hardcover books
18206969baPMt. Pleasant OH: Elisha Bates 1820. Book. Hardcover. Religion; Americana; Quakers; biography; xii 2 303p.; 17.7cm; old full leather rubbed; spine damaged; owner marks; Morgan; Shoemaker 3129; Ohio imprints 580; Howes S228. Elisha Bates Hardcover books
1826WRCAM17385Np 1826. 54pp. plus errata. Modern cloth leather label. Tanned. Very good. Scott was a native of Providence who travelled widely throughout the United States. The present letter glorifies his character. SABIN 78289. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 25100. hardcover books
18202262328Elisha Bates 1820. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. Leather dried with minor loss from edges ink name and book curse written on front endpaper 'steal not this book for fear of shame for here you see the owners name' lightly foxed throughout. 1820 Full-Leather. xi 3 303 pp. 12mo. A firsthand account of Christian missionary efforts of Job Scott of Rhode Island including an account of visiting members of the Religious Society of Friends of which Scott was also a member in New York Pennsylvania and New Jersey and a voyage to England and Ireland where he passed away in Ballitore at the home of fellow Quaker Elizabeth Shackleton. Scott was a prominent quietist and his thoughts and teachings contributed to the first schism in American Quakerism the 1827 Hicksite-Orthodox split. Elisha Bates hardcover books
181054074Baltimore: published by Joseph James 1810. Second edition 12mo; pp. 3 iv-vii 1 2-200; full contemporary mottled calf gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments red morocco label in 1; joints starting with leaves moderately browned; good and sound. In the 1820s Scott's views became controversial among Quakers and were adopted by the Hicksite faction. First published in 1793 this is only the second American edition. American Imprints 21291. <br/><br/> published by Joseph James unknown books
189936737San Francisco: Independence Print 1899. Light blue stiff-stock paper printed in dark blue ink. Horizontal fold lines. Penned name & address to verso. A VG copy. Single sheet printed recto only. Typographical border. 8-5/16" x 5" <br/><br/>An invitation / handbill of sorts to attend this musical evening. "Admission / Afternoon 25 Cents. Evening 50 Cents." Independence Print unknown books
1804WRCAM7141Philadelphia 1804. v2-224pp. Contemporary calf leather label. Boards bowed wear to extremities. Tanned and foxed old rubberstamp on endsheet. A good sound copy. A survey of agriculture and agricultural practices of the day with information partially borrowed from Spurrier and Bordley as well as that gleaned from the author's own polls. Scarce here in the first edition. SABIN 71898. RINK 1148. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 7203. hardcover books
180454777Philadelphia: Jacob Johnson and others A. Bartram printer 1804. First edition. 12mo. v 3 5-224 pp. With the contemporary bookplate of "Alfred Macay of Millford" on the front pastedown; an Alfred Macay owned Milford Plantation in Rowan County North Carolina at this time. Sabin 71898. American Imprints 7203. Contemporary calf a little eroded leather label gilt rules and ornaments on spine. Persistent foxing but a very good copy. 1612. <br/><br/> Jacob Johnson [and others], A. Bartram, printer hardcover books
181681598Boston: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Piety and Charity and Munroe and Francis 1816. Hardcover. Very Good. 119 1p. plus 4p. publisher's advertisements. Original boards. Bound in prior to the work by Orton is a separately-paginated 20-page item titled "A Discourse before 'The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Piety and Charity' May 27 1816" by Charles Lowell which was apparently published in 1816 by Munroe and Francis -- publisher and date are somewhat uncertain because the title-page is firmly pasted down on the front pastedown. Some marginal staining and other wear but overall a sound and rather appealing copy. <br/><br/> Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Piety, and Charity [and Munroe and Francis hardcover books
1809WN3785ABridgeport CN: S. Backus & Co. 1809. Original brown calf with gilt and original darkened gold morocco titling piece. Some edgewear and bumped corners. A repaired horizontal split near head of spine. Pasteaction and offsetting on pre and postliminaries. Last rear endpaper missing. Ornate prior owner signatures on ffep dated 1810 and 1811. Unaccountably table of Contents appears at rear of book. First American Edition. Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Trade. S. Backus & Co. Hardcover books
1801RORTDIS00RJBNew York Times Facsimile reprint 1980 1801. Very Good. Orton Job. Discourses To The Aged. New York: New York Times Facsimile reprint 1980 1801. 340pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with a very light bump to foot of spine. New York Times hardcover books
180965157Bridgeport: Printed and Sold by S. Backus & Co. G. L. Austen Typographer 1809. First American edition. This was first published in 1769 at Salop. 12mo. Contemporary calf. Lacking label some rubbing some browning staining and spotting of text mostly marginal endpapers browned early gift presentation on front free endpaper. Maroon leather tipped marbled and cloth open end case. First American edition. This was first published in 1769 at Salop. 12mo. Shaw and Shoemaker 18306 citing two locations Printed and Sold by S. Backus & Co. [G. L. Austen, Typographer] unknown books
1809232076Bridgeport: Printed and Sold by S. Backus & Co. G. L. Austen Typographer 1809. First American edition. This was first published in 1769 at Salop. 309 7 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary calf contrasting spine label. A Near Fine tight copy. First American edition. This was first published in 1769 at Salop. 309 7 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Shaw and Shoemaker 18306 citing two locations Printed and Sold by S. Backus & Co. [G. L. Austen, Typographer] unknown books
190012240N.p. 1900. 1 vols. 13 x 10 1/2 inches. Matted and framed. 1 vols. 13 x 10 1/2 inches. Superb Heroic Watercolor by "JOB". Fine heroic portrait of Leopold of Austria on a throne in a flowering field sword half drawn with Justice and Clemency seated beneath.<br/><br/>JOB a French artist is best remembered for his picture-albums for youth commemorating monarchs and military campaigns for which this drawing must have been intended. unknown books
183648178Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis 1836. First Edition. Octavo ca. 22cm.; removed; 24pp. Light foxing and dust-soil blue paper remnants along spine else Very Good and sound. Short biographical address on the life and career of Thomas C. James 1766-1835 leader in scientific obstetrics in the United States who in 1810 presented a paper describing the first successful case of premature labor artificially induced. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 40622a; SABIN 97649. M'Carty & Davis unknown books
188328019Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1883. First edition. Removed. A very good copy. xviii 185 pp. 8vo. 47th Congress 2d Session. House of Representatives. Report No. 1863. Examines the false claims of Thomas J. Majors of Nemaha county who was nominated as a contingent representative from Nebraska which claimed that it was underrepresented because there were serious faults with the census of 1870. Majors presented an 1874 census as an 1872 census thus deceiving Congress. Scarce. OCLC shows only a single copy at Georgetown. [Government Printing Office] unknown books