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1900WRCAM35678Np 1900. 321 leaves of manuscript. Early 20th-century three quarter calf over cloth boards spine gilt. Spine worn hinges abraded corners abraded. Institutional bookplate on front pastedown early ownership and authorship signature of "J.H. Alexander" on front free endpaper and leaf facing titlepage. Internally very clean a few leaves on blue paper a few leaves smaller than text block. Very good. A manuscript concordance and analytic index to The Book of Common Prayer dedicated to the "General Convention of the Protestant Church in the United States which is the Witness and Keeper of the Prayer book." The volume entirely handwritten in a clear and small hand includes a preface table of abbreviations and over 630 pages of entries covering letters "A" through "K." The spine is marked "VOL I" in gilt; unfortunately the second volume is not included here. Although unsigned in the text "J.H. Alexander" is inscribed in pencil twice on the preliminary leaves. hardcover books
17149Girls' Education. Handwritten monthly Teacher's records from November 1873 to April 1883. Teacher's Monthly Reports for Penns Creek School Number 6 in Limestone School District Union County Pennsylvania. Issued by the Department of Common Schools Union Co. Penn. Harrisburg: Benj. Singerly State Printer 1873. Original paper boards. 92 pages. size: 16 x 11.5 in. Ledgers include names of Male and Female students in separate columns. While there is a sharp gender imbalance recorded in the first month 17 boys to 6 girls by the end of the record book there are even numbers of male and female students; and in some months such as November 1877 there are significantly more girl names listed. In the second half of the 19th century there were rapid gains for women's education in the United States as common schools spread over the Northeast and provided public education for both girls and boys. With the growth of common schools and more educational opportunities for girls more women at this time were also working in schools as teachers and headmistresses. <br/><br/>In these ledger books teachers were to record numerous statistics related to their classes including: Names and Ages of Pupils Attendance Lateness and Absence Number of Days Attended Number of Days belonged. Total Attendance for Term Progress and Conduct and Number of Pupils. "So important are the items of statistics under this head that no teacher should be allowed to draw his salary until he has them all currently entered for the month." The teachers were also instructed to record other important statistics including: Number Admitted since first of June til Date Whole Number in Attendance during Month Average Attendance during Month Average Attendance during Term till date Percentage of Attendance Visits by County Superintendent Books Used Pupils without Necessary Books and Certificates and Receipts. Includes 2 sheets about planning school curriculum pasted to back end papers. Light toning some light stains. In very good condition. unknown books
1828SEM18275Boston: From the Press of the Christian Examiner 1828. Third Edition with Alterations and Additions. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 386 pp. Full contemporary leather rubbed. Bookplate of The Bishop Vail Library of Kansas 1889. And later stamp of a seminary library. <br/><br/> From the Press of the Christian Examiner hardcover books
1778WRCAM44871London: Henry Fenwick 1778. 88; 151pp. bound with: A PETITION OF THE FREEHOLDERS OF THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX. London: Henry Fenwick 1769. 11pp. Contemporary calf spine gilt leather label. Boards heavily worn head and foot of spine chipped. Very minor scattered foxing. Good plus. In a brown half morocco and cloth slipcase. The county of Middlesex essentially London was the heart of radical politics in England at the time of the Revolution and the greatest pro-American feeling was found in the merchants and working classes of the metropolis. The colonists often appealed directly to Middlesex for support. These works contain petitions relating to the American colonies dating from June 1774 to March 1778 including petitions regarding the Quebec Act in which the people express their concern over the encroachment of Catholicism and French influence in the colony. Likewise it includes the text of a letter from John Hancock to the mayor of London dated September 1775 expressing a hope for peace between Britain and the colonies. Adams notes that these two titles are often found bound together sometimes with other publications of the Council. The petition of the freeholders of Middlesex County concerns the John Wilkes case. Wilkes ran for Parliament and was elected as a radical candidate for Middlesex but was arrested and imprisoned shortly thereafter for seditious libel. Wilkes spoke out against the British war against the American colonies and his opposition to the Crown was a rallying point for the American cause. ESTC T108621 T108605 T43921. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 78-65. Henry Fenwick hardcover books
17783057London: Henry Fenwick 1778. First Edition. Very Good/A very rare treasure-chest of source material on Anglo-American relations in the years leading up to and into the Revolutionary War. In this compendium of communications between the Court of Common Council and George III covering the years 1769-1778 one sees the London court's steadfast objections to trade restrictions placed on the American colonies in 1775 the court's recommendations to "suspend hostilities against our fellow-subjects in North America" and its extended position paper counseling conciliation with the rebellious colonies. The text reports correspondence from the Continental Congress signed by John Hancock and from Richard Price and includes discussion of the Quebec Act of 1774 and the Newfoundland fisheries. Reference: Sabin 451. 19cm; 151pages. Bound in recent half calf over marbled boards in period style with six-panel spine decorated in blind and titled in gilt. Henry Fenwick hardcover books
185553636Peoria: printed by Benjamin Foster 1855. First edition 8vo pp. iv 5-72; some foxing on the early leaves else fine in original printed salmon wrappers. "Root was a former common-school teacher who moved to Peoria County from Ohio in the fall of 1830. He apparently became a farmer after moving to Illinois" Byrd. An eccentric populist attack against big banks and the American legal system from an aging Peoria county farmer who notes that for "more than fifty years I have seen that there was some thing radically wrong in the political and religious world . I exerted myself for more than half a century politically and religiously for the sole purpose of heading and stopping those evils but all to no effect. The public journals both religious and political would not publish my communications because they were Truth." He was apparently a member of the National Reform Association an organization bent on re-Christianizing American society. He puts forth a libertarian philosophy saying that the greatest evils are: first and foremost Land Monopoly; Chattel Slavery; Alcohol; and Monopoly of the Law. Byrd 2346; Graff 3563; Sabin 73131; 4 in OCLC: AAS Newberry Illinois and the Lincoln Presidential Library. <br/><br/> printed by Benjamin Foster unknown books
185113823Columbus Ohio: S. Medary. Very Good. 1851. Softcover. Minor splitting to backstrip text foxed light soil pp 119 else G . S. Medary paperback books
22909THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. New York: New York Common Prayer and Book Society 1853. First edition thus. Original full sheep gilt morocco label gilt. Worn but a solid copy in the original publisher's binding. Twain arrived in New York City after leaving St. Louis and went to work as a type-setter at John Gray's firm on Monday August 29 1853 and stayed there until mid-October when he left for Philadelphia. He wrote home to his mother on August 31 saying that he and forty other type-setters set type for an "immense" number of books and several magazines like The Knickerbocker New York Recorder Choral Advocate Jewish Chronicle Littell's Living Age and the Irish American. Most of the books published by Gray in 1853 were religious pamphlets and some anti-slavery texts; this is one of the few substantial books he published that year. Gray's four story building was next-door to the huge Harper Brothers pre-fire complex and it is possible that they were also farmed out work by Harper for publications without using their own printer's slug. unknown books
25437BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS AND OTHER RITES CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH. Oxford: Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill and others. 1773. 8vo. Red morocco with gild stamped design all edges gilt. Unpaginated. This prayer book is bound in straight grained morocco with a simple but elega blindstamp design on the front and rear covers outlined in gold and a repeati design along the spine separated by gold bands. Early printed bookplate on front paste-down and two ownership signatures in ink on the verso of the fir blank. Front hinge weak but still attached some foxing browning to spine a edges of boards a good copy. unknown books
106783London: printed by John Baskett and by the assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills 1715. Folio 380 23 3 pp. unpaginated text ends on Aaa4 as per ESTC. Engraved frontispiece by Loggan after Caspars. Title-page printed in red and black ruled in red throughout. Contemporary red morocco covers tooled in gilt with a wide scrolled border central gilt block of the arms of the Duke of Chandos backstrip richly gilt gilt edges a lovely binding of the period in the style of Mearne skillfully restored at head and foot and along joints. Armorial bookplate of John van Hatten. § Lovely prayer book bound for James Brydges 1st Duke of Chandos 1674-1744. It once rested on an embroidered cushion in the Duke and Duchess's private pew in his magnificent chapel at Cannons described by the architect Gibbs as "the finest in England." The centerpiece of the elaborately-tooled binding is the Duke's gilt arms supported by two otters beneath a ducal coronet. Four other bindings with the block are recorded by the British Armorial Bindings database. Full description and provenance available on request. ESTC T81463. printed by John Baskett unknown books
02226Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by J. Cooke and S. Collingwood 1820. With A Fore-Edge Scene of Oxford<br/><br/>FORE-EDGE PAINTING. CHURCH OF ENGLAND. The Book of Common Prayer And Administration of the Sacraments. And Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church According to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland; Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as They are to be Sung or Said in Churches; and the Form and Manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons. Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by J. Cooke and S. Collingwood 1820.<br/><br/>Bound with <br/><br/>BRADY Nicholas and Nahum Tate. A New Version of the Psalms of David Fitted to Tunes Used in Churches. Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by Samuel Collinwood 1822.<br/><br/>Octavo 8 1/4 x 5 1/8 in; 210 x 130 mm. Unpaginated A-Rr8 Ss4; A-F8. Calendar and tables.<br/><br/>Contemporary full crimson straight-grain morocco with triple fillet border in blind and panel with large gilt corner-pieces of volutes curls and roundels enclosing a central masonic sunburst emblem in gilt with dove and Tetragrammaton to both covers. Heavily gilt tooled compartments and spine head and tail. Gilt rolls to edge corners. Gilt fillets to turn-ins. All edges gilt. With the crimson morocco bookplate of Christ's Church - Middlesex dated 1825. Housed in an early twentieth century red cloth slipcase.<br/><br/>With a splendid early twentieth century fore-edge painting by an unknown hand depicting Folly Bridge and Bacon's Tower at Oxford. <br/><br/>Folly Bridge is a stone bridge over the River Thames carrying the Abingdon Road south from the center of Oxford England. It was erected 1825-27 to designs of a little-known architect Ebenezer Perry died 1850 who practiced in London. The bridge is in two parts separated by an island. The origin of the name is uncertain although it has been suggested that it originated about 1650 after a tenant of Bacon's study. Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by J. Cooke and S. Collingwood, 1820 unknown books
2013192511Common English Bible 2013-08-01. Softcover. Good/Good. Soft alkaline cover is good with minor wear. Name date and school of former owner filled out on presentation page at front of book. Some light scratches to silver leaf page edges. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. Packaged in a glossy board box. LO Common English Bible paperback books
1955WRCLIT51533Np 1955. Volume one number one. Small quarto. Printed wrappers. Wrappers sunned toward edges very good. Edited by Elisabet Mann Borgese. Published bimonthly in both English and French editions. Prefatory message by Albert Einstein. Articles commentary and reviews associated with the movement toward a World Constitution. unknown books
196842978Paris: Éditions d'histoire sociale 1968. Facsimile reprint. Paper wrappers. A near fine copy with faint crease to front wrapper. 226 pp. 24mo. Number 149 of 1000 copies. Originally published in 1871 by Imprimerie Ve Blanchard. On cover: Paris libre du 18 mars au 4 avril 1871. Limited reprint of this scarce publication from the Paris Commune. [Éditions d'histoire sociale] unknown books
1984201295Venice Italy: Commune di Venezia Assessorato alla Cultura Centro di documentazione de Palazzo Fortuny 1984. Glossy Pictorial Cover. 57p. Text in Italian. Introduction by Silvio Fuso and Sandro Mescola. Contributions by Vittorio Fagone Flavio Albanese Peter Gordon and Studio Azzurro. Color illustrations. Fold out illustration capturing the essence of the set-up as best a static illustration can. On the exhibit "The Swimmer" based on a story by Heinrich Boll. Originally presented at the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice in 1984 this book provides details about the making and images from the exhibit. Commune di Venezia Assessorato alla Cultura Centro di documentazione de Palazzo Fortuny unknown books
166537826En te Kantabrigia: Ioannou Phieldou 1665. 12mo 14.5 cm 5.75". 36 126 2 blank pp. <br><br>as issued with the same publisher's Bible. Psalms. Greek. 1664. Psalterion toy Dabid kata tous Hebdomekonta eis ta tmemata ta en te tes Agglikanes Ekkesias leitourgia nomizomena diegemenon. 12mo. 1664. 2 115 3 11771 1 pp. and Bible. New Testament. Greek. 1665. Tes kaines diathekes apanta. 12mo. 2 419 1 pp.<br>Â Â Â Â First edition of this Greek translation of the Book of Common Prayer. The preface is signed "I.D." i.e. James Duport a popular professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge who had the year before printed a translation of the Psalter which appears here with the BCP as issued under a separate title-page and Ordinal along with the Greek New Testament and Apocrypha the title-page of the New Testament being an insert and the Apocrypha having separate pagination. This is only the second translation of the BCP into Greek following the first by Elias Petley in 1638. There were apparently two settings of this edition produced by printer John Field in the same year under the same title and imprint with priority not established; the present example has line six of the main title-page all in capital letters and the "Alma mater Cantabrigia" device following the last page of the Psalter but while the sun is on the left and the cup on the right of the Psalter title-page device they are reversed on the New Testament title-page apparently indicating that the New Testament is from a variant post-dating the BCP and Psalter.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Contemporary mottled calf Cambridge-style covers framed in double gilt fillets and panelled in triple gilt fillets with gilt-tooled corner fleurons; spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-ruled compartments.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Front free endpaper with early inscription in red pencil: "Gibson's / Queens / Oxon. / 1787." Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Biblos: Wing rev. ed. B3632; ESTC R204258; Griffiths 45:3. Psalterion: Wing B2720A; ESTC R204259. Tes kaines diathekes: Darlow & Moule 4702; Wing B2733. Bound as above worn and showing expectable acid-pitting with edges extremities and spine rubbed; spine label cracked with loss of central portion of label. Endpapers with early inked annotations in Greek and English. Central portion with top-marginal faint to light waterstaining generally though not always but a sliver; one leaf with tear from outer margin into text with loss of one letter; one leaf with short tear along paper flaw without loss of text. Final work with early inked underlining; rear fly-leaf with a few jotted references in Greek. => A scholar's copy of this nice example of early English Greek liturgical/scriptural printing. Ioannou Phieldou hardcover books
1665WRCLIT65562Cambridge: Exetypothe par'; Ioannou Phieldou i.e. J. Field . 1665. 35126; 2171pp. 12mo. Contemporary unlettered calf. Cambridge crest on second title-page. Hinges cracked but cords sound extremities worn contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage and free endsheet some spotting to A3-4 and minor soiling elsewhere; a good sound copy. The first or second edition of this translation into Greek by the Cambridge classicist James Duport 1606 - 79 of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer and the Psalms. The two titles are usually found bound together as in the present copy. Blank Q4 is present. ESTC locates another edition of the same year from an entirely new setting priority not declared. ESTC R204258 & R204259. WING B3632 & B2720A. GRIFFITH 45:3. Exetypothe par'; Ioannou Phieldou [i.e. J. Field] .. unknown books
1655671011655. Jefferson Owned a Copy of this Digest Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas. King's Bench. Judgements as They Were Upon Solemne Arguments Given in the Upper-Bench and Common-pleas Upon the Most Difficult Points in All Manner of Actions: Together with the Terms and Number-Rolls In Which the Same are Entred. As also Other Speciall Judicaill Proceedings in Order Thereunto; Taken Out of the Records of the Same Court Very Usefull for All Clerks Attorneys And Others. With an Exact Alphabeticall Table Wherein May be Found the Principall Matters Therein Contained. London: Printed by Thomas Roycroft 1655. iv 235 240-336 339-344 22 pp. Pagination irregular text complete. Octavo 6-1/4" x 4". Contemporary sheep blind rules to boards blind fillets to spine. Moderate rubbing to boards and extremities corners bumped and somewhat worn front hinge cracked front free endpaper lacking lower section lacking from rear pastedown. Light toning to text minor worming to upper margins of final eight leaves just touching headlines. $450. Only edition. Cited as "The First Book of Judgements" this is a collection of cases digested alphabetically by topic. Jefferson owned a copy of this book. OCLC locates 11 copies in North American law libraries. Sowerby Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 1922. English Short-Title Catalogue R43325. unknown books
1991140979San Francisco: Utopia Publications 1991. Pamphlet. 10p. wraps very good 5.5x8.5 inches. Pamphlet introducing life in the polyfidelity commune. Brief discussion of Abacus the Macintosh computer distributorship launched by members to help fund the commune. Utopia Publications unknown books
200147076Paris: Amis de la Commune de Paris 2001. First Edition. Large slim folio 37cm.; publisher's pictorial staplebound wrappers; 18pp.; color illus. throughout. Extremities rather worn corners starting to curl closed tear to rear wrapper fore-edge margin; Very Good only. Catalog of an exhibition commemorating the Paris Commune. Featured artists include François Arnal Henri Cueco François Féret André Fougeron Gérard Gosselin François Hilsum Ladislas Kijno Peter Klasen Jacques Monory Melik Ouzani Ernest Pignon-Ernest Jean Rustin Max Schœndorff Antonio Segui Anne Slacik Yvon Taillandier Boris Taslitzky Vladimir Veli kovic Jacques Villeglé and Catherine Viollet. OCLC does not list any copies in North America as of December 2019. Amis de la Commune de Paris] unknown books
1707WRCLIT65772London: Impresso por G. Bowyer Acosta de Fran. Coggan . 1707. 456pp. A8; b8; B-2D8; 2E4. Octavo. Old paneled calf gilt label. Upper joint cracked but cords sound shallow losses at crown and toe of spine front free endsheets detached one with early ink name small tidemark with red tinge at toe of gutter of last third of textblock modest tanning and foxing otherwise a good copy. The second edition of the Book of Common Prayer in Spanish printing a revised translation by Felix Anthony de Alvorado the minister to a congregation of Spanish merchants in London. Darlow & Moule suggest the translation was not so much a new undertaking as a simple revision and updating of Texeda's translation. It was reprinted with corrections in 1715. ESTC locates seven copies in North America. GRIFFITHS 162.2. ESTC T140403. DARLOW & MOULE II:8482n. Impresso por G. Bowyer, Acosta de Fran. Coggan ... unknown books
1616WRCLIT66045A Londres: Par Iehan Bill imprimatur du Roy 1616. 544pp. A-E4 2A-2R4; A-Z3 plus blank. Quarto. Contemporary armorial calf. Titles within woodcut borders decorated initials contemporary typographic wastesheets utilized in binding. Light smear to 2H1v occasional marginal tidemarks a couple signatures starting covers splayed and a bit discolored lower joint split early ink ownership inscription on front binder's blank more annotations on verso of rear binder's blank marginal flaw in fore-edge of 2E4; still if one elected to discard the remaining not insignificant vestigial virtues of the original binding a copy that could be rendered fairly agreeable if placed in modern dress. First edition of the first French translation of the 1603 King James I Prayer Book translated by Pierre de Laune past of the French Reformed congregation in Norwich. The translation was "originally commissioned by James I to promote a royal marriage between Henry Prince of Wales d. 1612 with the French princess Christine; some years later the project was revived in connection with the marriage of Charles Prince of Wales & Princess Henrietta Maria of France ." - Griffiths. The section of the Psalms has its own woodcut decorated title-leaf 2R4. Although common enough institutionally -- ESTC locates eleven copies in North America spread over 8 locations - the last perfect copy noted in ABPC is the Evelyn copy 1977 with only one other appearance following that a copy lacking a blank and one text leaf GRIFFITHS 36.2 STC 16431. ESTC S108736. Par Iehan Bill, imprimatur du Roy unknown books
1764WRCLIT65827Londres but possibly Amsterdam: Chez P. Vaillant & J. Nourse dans le Strand 1764. xlix1438pp. plus frontis and fifty-one inserted engraved plates. 12mo. Full contemporary olive green morocco raised bands compartments gilt with cross- hatching covers with rolled leaf and flower borders surrounding a central compass-like device of leaves stems and buds a.e.g. marbled endsheets. Text leaves adjacent to inserted plates somewhat foxed foretips bumped otherwise a very good copy. One of two impressions of 1764 under Vaillant's imprint that ESTC suggests might have been printed in Amsterdam the other without Nourse's co-imprint. The first Vaillant edition cited by Griffiths is dated 1748 with editions dated 1776 1778 1780 and 1788 following. This copy has been extra- illustrated with the suite of appropriate engravings by G.L. Smith published in London in 1773 by William Dawson Pater-noster Row evidently just for this purpose the plate utilized here for the frontis bears a caption and Dawson's dated imprint. ESTC locates only four copies with this dual imprint and ten with Vaillant's name alone. GRIFFITHS 36:25. ESTC 142212. Chez P. Vaillant & J. Nourse dans le Strand hardcover books
1961218545Washington DC: International Hod Carriers Building & Common Laborers' Union of America AFL-CIO 1961. Portfolio 9.25x12 inches portfolio staples begining to rust with fifteen plates laid in all with text and illus. and 8.25x11.25 inches plates no. 1 to 15 laid in no mention of total plates issued found. Over all in good condition. International Hod Carriers, Building & Common Laborers' Union of America (AFL-CIO) unknown books
1680653621680. The City Law City of London. Court of Common Council. Lex Londinensis; Or The City Law. Shewing the Powers Customs and Practice of All the Several Courts Belonging to the Famous City of London: viz. The Lord Majors Court. The Orphans Court. The Court of Hustings. The Court of Common Councel. The Court of Aldermen. The Wardmotes. The Courts of Conservacy for the River of Thames. The Court of Conscience. The Sheriffs Court. The Chamberlains Court. Together with Several Acts of Common Councel Very Useful and Necessary to be Known by All Merchants Citizens And Freemen of the Said City. And also A Method for the Ministers Within the Said City to Recover Their Tithes. With a Table to the Whole Book. London: Printed by S. Roycroft for Henry Twyford 1680. viii 260 12 pp. Octavo 6-1/2" x 4". Later quarter calf over moire-cloth boards lettering piece and raised bands to spine. A few minor stains to boards light rubbing to extremities corners bumped and somewhat worn crack in text block between pp. vi and vii minor edgewear to a few leaves. Light browning and faint dampspotting to text annotations to title page and margins of several leaves in an early hand. $650. Only edition. This book was the first digest of the London's laws and guide to its courts after the revisions of the city laws from 1647 and 1658. A useful work that gathered a great deal of disparate information it is a valuable resource today for students of seventeenth-century London and its legal system. Probably written by a practitioner the annotations are corrections glosses and amplifications of points in the text along with marks and underlining. English Short-Title Catalogue R2792. unknown books