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193054345None: early 1930s. early 1930's. 9 1/2" x 12 1/2" photograph album in embossed pictorial brown leather boards with title Photographs in gilt. Tied at spine. Contains 42 leaves and holding 234 black and white photographs or RPPCs 204 attached to pages with corner mounts and 30 laid in at rear of album. Each photo has hand-written description of location and most with brief information. Most photos measure 3 1/2" x 5 1/2." Album opens with a large photograph of Joseph Newton Barnes Vice President of John Schofield and Sons Iron Works in Macon Georgia. We assume that the album was composed by him or his wife. The photograph of Barnes is followed by eleven pictures of Mississippi and New Orleans offering pictures near Vicksburg. New Orleans pictures include statues churches buildings. These are followed by 7 pictures near Turner Falls Oklahoma. In 1936 Barnes visited Cuernavaca Saltillo Monterrey Taxco and other towns in Mexico with pictures of churches important buildings scenery street scenes ox carts natives etc. Then onto Texas which includes pictures of these are followed by pictures in Texas to include San Antonio West Texas the salt flats Del Rio the Pecos and Pedernales Rivers. Then on to New Mexico with pictures and descriptions of Santa Fe Pueblo Isleta the mission of San Antonio de Isleta Santo Domingo Pueblo Indian dwellings Aztec National Monument and ruins the oldest house in New Mexico scenery Mike Kirk Trading post Pueblo Bonito six pictures of Indians dancing Navajo weaver and silver smith at work sixteen pictures of Carlsbad etc. Finally onto Colorado with pictures of the Royal Gorge Cripple Creek Skyline Drive the Hanging Bridge over the Royal Gorge Pikes Peak the Ute Pass cabins overviews of roads . many showing cars the Summit House The Observatory. Also offered are photographs of the Painted Desert and the Petrified Forrest in Arizona. Album ends with pictures of Chapter 155 Junior Historians. Laid in are photographs of the entire third grade class of Magnolia Street in San Antonio and sixth grade West University School in Houston with all students named. Additionally some family photographs. Chipping to edges of all pages along with one leaf loose. All photos clear and bright. A wonderful collection of photographs. early 1930s. hardcover
140948406Berkeley CA: Inkworks Press 1995. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. Signed by former Black Panther David Hilliard on the third page and inscribed to the recipient with date 1-29-97. Unpaginated 90 pp. illustrated in black and white. Oblong octavo bound in publisher's printed wraps. Near Fine with light wear to covers light soiling and original barcode sticker to rear cover. Upper right corner very slightly bumped. Sheet promoting the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation laid in.<br /> <br /> <p>A wonderful collection of photographs from the movement's heyday signed by someone who was there. David Hilliard was the Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party and was intimately involved in its activities including the 1968 ambush of Oakland police officers in which Bobby Hutton was killed. In 1993 he formed the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation with Newton's widow Fredrika Newton who appears in these pages along with numerous other BPP luminaries. Inkworks Press unknown
176569380Cambridge: J. Bentham 1765. Full Description:<br> <br> NEWTON Sir Isaac. Excerpta Quaedam. e Newtoni Principiis Philosophiae Naturalis Cum Notis Variorum. Cambridge: J. Bentham 1765.<br> <br> First edition of a selection of excerpts from Newton's "Principia." Subscriber's copy. Quarto 9 3/4 x 8 inches; 248 x 200 mm. ix list of subscribers 1 corrigenda 180 pp. With twelve engraved folding plates and commentary on Newton's text by three Cambridge scholars.<br> <br> Modern full red morocco. Newer marbled endpapers. Binding with some mild rubbing. Some dampstaining along outer lower and fore-edge margins. Title-page and leaf a4 Subscribers have been remargined at inner margin. Leaf Y4 and Plate XI remargined at fore-edge not affecting text. Overall a very good copy.<br> <br> Excerpts for subscribers from "the greatest work in the history of science" PMM.<br> <br> PMM 161. Babson 15.<br> <br> HBS 69380.<br> <br> $1500. J. Bentham unknown
1748B4804London : Patrick Murdoch; Author’s Children c.1748. A very good example plates and text are clean and crisp. Edition: Second Edition. Binding: Contemporary marbled boards rebacked spine with 5 compartments of raised bands gilt lettering on two. Notes: An important commentary by MacLaurin. On Newton’s recommendation he was appointed to his chair at Edinburgh. He died in 1746 and later the work was completed by Murdoch who has added a valuable ‘Account of the Life and Writings of the Authorâ€. Size: 8vo. Illustration: With 6 engraved plates. References: Babson 85; Gray 112. Pages: P. 28 xx 392 Category: Book Science & Technology; Patrick Murdoch; Author’s Children hardcover
135044New York: Hyperion 1998. First edition of Oprah Winfrey’s emotional account of playing the part of Sethe the former slave who must come to terms with a haunting past in Jonathan Demme’s film adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Quarto original illustrated boards photographic endpapers illustrated with photographs by Ken Regan. Presentation copy inscribed on the second free endpaper by Oprah Winfrey Danny Glover Thandiwe Newton Kimberly Elise and Lisa Gay Hamilton to Bill Zwecker. A member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association Zwecker was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star his late mother Peg Zwecker was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News Zwecker began his journalism career in the 1980s and has since interviewed some of the most renowned celebrities across a breadth of industries. He has been a frequent contributor to numerous national news and entertainment programs including Access Hollywood Entertainment Tonight Showbiz Tonight Extra and the Today Show. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed by the acclaimed cast of the powerful film. Set in post-Civil War Ohio this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel concerns a runaway slave and her daughter whose lives are disrupted by a former slave a spirit and a woman named Beloved. "A masterwork. . . . I can’t imagine American literature without it" John Leonard Los Angeles Times. Hyperion hardcover
elala2792<p>London: Day & Son Limited 1865. First Edition. An account of the English archaeologist's travels and discoveries in the Levant and Asia Minor from 1852 until 1859. The work provides details regarding Newton's studies and excavations in Calymnos Halicarnassus Cnidus Branchidae and Constantinople. In 1861 he was appointed to the newly created post of keeper of Roman and Greek antiquities at the British Museum. Gernsheim Incunabula of British Photographic Literature 284. See Blackmer 1193. 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xiv 2 360; 2 p.l. vi-xiv 2 275. with half-titles. 12 engraved & lithographed maps & plans incl. 2 frontis. most folding 12 mounted albumen prints by Francis Bedford of antiquities from drawings by Mrs. C.T.Newton & 17 plates including engravings after photographs by B.Spackman etchings by W.Severn after photos by D.E.Colnaghi & drawings by Mrs. C.T.Newton & aquatints by W.J.Alais after photos by D.E.Colnaghi & B.Spackman & drawings by A.Berg. 38 wood-engraved text illus. untrimmed in original blind-stamped cloth rebacked with spines mounted bookplates removed from endleaves embossed stamp on titles</p> London: Day & Son, Limited, 1865 hardcover
2008x-0521739535Cambridge University Press 2008. 7 Paperback books. New. 1st edition. 3834 pages. 11.00x8.25x8.00 inches. Cambridge University Press paperback
1865713L6London: Day and Son 1865. First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 6". None. A smartly bound first edition copy of Charles Newton's travelogue regarding his time in the Levant. With sixteen plates to volume I with twenty-three plates to volume II. Frontispiece to both volumes James Hendrick of Font Grove New Scotland. Collated complete.Charles Thomas Newton was a British archaeologist. This work follows the greatest archaeological exploit of Newton's life. He discovered the remains of the mausoleum of Halicarnassus which is one of the seven wonders of the world. He described the results of this in his 'History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus' as well as this work. In addition to Halicarnassus this work depicts other important discoveries at Branchidae excavations at Mitylene Rhodes Kaymnos and various sites on the coast of Asia Minor. A very smart copy of this work. In a half calf binding with paper covered boards. Externally very smart with light rubbing to the joints and extremities. Light marks to the spine. Bookplate to the front pastedowns 'James Hendrick of Font Grove'. Internally both volumes are firmly bound. Pages are very bright. Occasional scattered spots to pages. Very Good Indeed Day and Son hardcover
1887007387London: Gaiety Theatre 1887. Soft cover. Fine. 5.5" x 7.5" Slim pamphlet two nestled small bifolio sheets not stapled in protective Brodart sleeve inside custom half-leather and blue cloth clamshell box with gilt tooling. Pamphlet is slightly foxed else a fine scarce programme for a theatrical adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at the Gaiety Theatre starring Nellie Farren as Dr. Frankenstein Fred Leslie as The Monster produced by Charles Harris with music by Meyer Lutz. Following Mary Shelley's death in 1851 new theatrical adaptations of her novel abounded. This play opened December 24 1887 and only ran for a week because its feministic leanings were not popular with a Victorian audience. Its reversal of sexual roles would eventually find an audience nearly a hundred years later in films like Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daugther 1966 and The Daughter of Frankenstein 1971. Gaiety Theatre unknown
1752B4844London : Samuel Peterson c.1752. . A near fine copy. Plates and text are clean and crisp. . Edition: Second Edition. Binding: Contemporary calf boards with gilt decorative borderings. Rebacked skillfully. Spine in six compartments of raised bands with gilt decorative devices and rulings. Gilt title on green calf label on 2. Notes: This is one of the most important works introducing Newtonian physics to continental Europe. Wilhelm Jacob Gravesande 1688-1742 was a Dutch lawyer and natural philosopher chiefly remembered for developing experimental demonstrations of the laws of classical mechanics. As professor of mathematics astronomy and philosophy at Leiden University he helped to propagate Isaac Newton’s ideas in Continental Europe. Size: 8vo. 184x127mm. Illustration: Illustrated with a multitude of in text equations as well as 4 fold out plates depicting mathematical relationships. Pages: P. Title Blank Preface iii-iv 1-187 Category: Book Science & Technology; Samuel Peterson hardcover
1976K-4HELMStonehill 1976-01-01. Hardcover. Like New. 1ST EDITION SIGNED BY HELMUT NEWTON. BOOK IS LIKE NEW DUSTCOVER HAS A SMALL TEAR ON TOP BINDING OTHERWISE DUSTCOVER IS LIKE NEW. CUSTOMER SERVICE IS OUR #1 PRIORITY. WE SELL GREAT BOOKS AT CHEAP PRICES. Stonehill hardcover
1979RNEWHEL00tpmCongreve 1979. Very Good. Newton Helmut. Helmut Newton Special Collection 24 Photo Lithos. NY: Congreve 1979. 1st edition. Illustrated. Folio. Black paperback with flaps. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed extremities and a few scratches on the exterior. Pages are clean and clear. In lightly rubbed protective mylar sleeve. Signed by Newton on the title page in blue ink. New York Times obituary article about Newton's death laid in. Congreve paperback
981San Francisco: The Ministry of Information 1970. First Edition Presumed Variant. Publisher's Cream Paper Photo-Illustrated Wraps with Black Printing. Very Good. A Very Good Pamphlet in Original Stapled Paper Wraps with Laid in Publication Statement. Front wrap has three small less than 1 cm round stains to top left quadrant. Wraps are generally toned. Internally toned. Free of markings. iv 5-40 pp. A scarce black and white paper wrap variant with laid in publication and mission statement 5000 copies to be sold at "$0.21 a piece" the exact price of printing in order to "educate" the people rather than "exploit" them that suggests primacy over the more common orange glossy wraps. <br /> <br /> Published by the Black Panther Party's Ministry of Information as part of a series of pamphlets and publications sometimes called the "Free Huey" material. This 40 page pamphlet outlines both Newton's ideology and his significance to the Black Panther Party as a movement suggesting that Newton filled the void left following the assassination of Malcom X. The Ministry of Information unknown
1822968Z35London: The Pamphleteer 1822. Disbound. Good Only. 8" by 5". None. The final part of John Frank Newton's highly influential early nineteenth century argument in favour of vegetarianism published in parts in 'The Pamphleteer'. The final part of a three part series published in 'The Pamphleteer' Vol. XX No. XL.The work was first published in 1911 with all parts combined. The work was then published by 'The Pamphleteer' split into three parts with part one appearing in Vol XIX No. XXXVIII part two appearing in No. XXXIX. This work in all forms is very scarce with this being a very scarce early edition. A pioneering work on vegetarianism in his work Newton explains his view that the natural food of man is vegetables and that animal flesh is unhealthy. In his work he uses personal anecdotes and explains that many members of his household adopted the diet for between three and four years prior to the publication of the work. The work influenced fellow vegetarian Percy Bysshe Shelley providing the basis of his 'A Vindication of the Natural Diet' and prompting Mary Shelley's depiction of the Creature as a herbivore in 'Frankenstein'.Disbound with all pages of this article present. Disbound with all pages of this article present. Most pages disbound all present. Pages bright with the odd spot slightly heavier to the rear pages. Good Only The Pamphleteer unknown
19170002251KINGSTON SURREY ENGLAND ST PETER DIOCESE SOUTHWARK. Good. 1917. On offer is a super fascinating British home front manuscript diary handwritten by the Reverend Newton Heelas Vicar of Norbiton Kingston Surrey 1917 where along with the mundane parish happenings he comments on war events in this month on a page 'Churchman's Almanac' making for short terse recaps of the bigger news: 29 Jan HMS Laurentic sunk 200 lives lost; 1 Feb German ruthless submarine warfare; 10 Mar Baghdad taken; 12 Mar revolution in Russia abdication of Czar; 1 April America enters war; 25 April Dangerous submarine menace 36 vessels sunk; 14 June Zeppelin shot down on South Coast; 7 July Saw Zeppelin fired at over Wimbledon; 29 Sept Air raids in London Great noise; 31 Oct 30 German Gothas. Air Raid from 12 - 2am not very pleasant; 7 Nov Balfour promises Palestine to the Jews; 9 Dec JERUSALEM taken by Gen Allenby. Overall G. ; Manuscript; 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF REVEREND NEWTON HEELAS VICAR OF NORBITON ZEPPELINS AIR RAIDS WORLD WAR I BRITISH HOME FRONT DIARY WWI WW1 WORLD WAR ONE BRITAIN KINGSTON SURREY ENGLAND ST PETER THE DIOCESE OF SOUTHWARK GERMANY THE KAISER EARLY AIR WARFARE DIRIGIBLES BALLOONS IN WARFARE KINGSTON MUSEUM AND HERITAGE SERVICE. BRITANNICA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPHED AUTHORS DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES JOURNAL LOG PRIMARY SOURCE FIRST HAND ACCOUNT SOCIAL HISTORY PERSONAL STORIES LIVING HISTORY ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPELBIOGRAPHY BIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY PERSONAL NARRATIVES . unknown
18909182London: Whittaker & Co 1890. Extra illustrated by the Hampstead antiquarian and author Ernest E Newton with around 100 additional maps illustrations letters trade cards and Hampstead ephemera. In very good robust condition bursting with additional material. Handsomely half bound in brown and blue contrasting cloth old library stamp to verso of title page. With numerous additional blank leaves and a back pouch which together contain a further array of laid in and pasted in contemporary ephemera compiled by Ernest E. Newton of Achilles Road West Hampstead who wrote extensively on local history. In addition to the inserted material there are abundant hand written pencil annotations and additions to the margins throughout in Newton's hand. Over 100 additionally laid in items of ephemera include though not comprehensively: Hand written letter and envelope addressed to the publisher of the Birmingham Morning News from German revolutionary and writer Karl Blind dated Feb 20th 1874. A hand written note mentioning poet and dramatist Joanna Baillie's book order for a sermon by Rev Richard Cargill dated 1843. 1902 hand written letter from the author FE Baines to EE Newton in response to the latter's newspaper article titled Leigh Hunt's Cottage in the Vale of Heath. A small programme produced by the Borough of Hampstead in 1911 advertising The planting of an Oak Tree on Fortune Green in Commemoration of the Coronation of King George V. A postcard depicting a b/w photograph of the planting of the Coronation Oak to commemorate King George V. Pamphlet promoting a fund-raising Garden Party for the purchase of an extension to Hampstead Heath or the purchase of Golders Hill dated July 21st 1898. Colour prospectus for the proposed building of the Central Square on the Hampstead Garden Suburb including forms for shares. Pamphlet promoting the Spaniard's Hotel printed circa 1898. Advertisement for the 'Wonder Coach' the prettiest 20-mile drive round London and a ticket advertising a four-horse mail coach ride from Charring Cross to Jack Straw's Castle c1900. Leaflet regarding the 1000th edition of the Hampstead and Highgate Express dated 1881. Advertising leaflet communicating the removal of Mother Huff from Hampstead Heath to North End at the Hoop and Bunch of Grapes. From Mist's Weekly Journal Aug 31st 1728. Stamped and post marked b/w postcard of the Bull and Bush Hampstead. Exhibition notice of the remaining works of the late Charles Green and JF Sullivan dated Oct 29th 1898 to be held at 148 New Bond St. Newspaper cutting dated 15th June 1918 titled Dickens Fellowship Visit to Hampstead. Hand written transcript of a 1748 report of the purchase by Hampstead residents of two fire engines. Pasted in illustrations and engravings include Rifle Practice at Kilburn Gate on Tuesday Last portraits of William Pitt Lady Byron Edward Mc Grath EE Newton William Murray the Earl of Mansfield John Gurney Hoarr Wellington a silhouette of Fanny Brawne Frank Holl RA W Beckford Coleridge and an engraving by WP Sherlock titled Upper Compartment of a Window in the Chicken House Hampstead published by White Cochrane & Co January 1814. Many contemporary photographs and paper cuttings dated between 1804 and 1938. London Underground advertising postcard depicting Dicken's London signed by the artist Weeks. Sotheby's sale notice dated 1917 of Dicken's letters addressed to Clarkson Stansfield RA. 3 integral maps within original volume include: Fold out map on waxed cloth titled A portion of Rocque's survey of London 1745 printed for the records of Hampstead Dec 1889. Produced by London Stanford's Geog Estab. Measures 44 cm x 38 cm. in excellent condition. Fold out map on waxed cloth titled Map of the parish of St John Hampstead NW. Drawn by Sprague & Co London 1890. Hand coloured boundaries marked and numbered in differing colours. In very good condition. Hand written pencil annotation to bottom. Measures 38 cm x 40 cm. Wax backed map of the Parish of St John Hampstead NW dated march 1890 by Spraque and Co. Very good condition Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1890 Whittaker & Co hardcover
200910283Thames and Hudson 2009. 2009. Hard Cover. FIRST THUS. Limited Edition. Folio pp. 464. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Bound in publishers' pale grey cloth in the pictorial dust-jacket. With a stainless-steel bookstand designed by Philippe Starck booklet documenting the making of this publication and in the original box. A fine copy in a fine dust-jacket. Referred to as the King of Kink Newton's provocative imaginative erotically charged work shifted the direction of fashion photography and was a mainstay of Vogue and Playboy alike. His influence is difficult to underestimate with his work still widely imitated in current fashion photography. The original production of Sumo an elephantine collection of Helmut's work published in 1999 was a publishing sensation immediately selling out and breaking records for resale price size and weight. The Baby Sumo published to celebrate the 10 year anniversary is highly collectible in its own right with copies also limited to 10000 and 400 vivid images by Newton flawlessly reproduced to the highest standard. An iconic piece of art and publication history. Please note that this is a large and exceptionally heavy item and extra postage will be requested for overseas customers. Thames and Hudson, 2009. hardcover
173858701<p>NEWTON'S RADICAL THEOLOGICAL OPINIONS SANITIZED - RARE ISSUE FOR SALE IN IRELAND</p><p>first edition issue with title page indicating for sale in Ireland 4to.26 x 20.5 cms. xvi 376pp. 3 folding plates of the Temple of Solomon contemporary sprinkled calf double gilt fillet border on sides with tiny gilt leaf ornaments at corners. spine panelled by raised bands edges sprinkled red short crack at head of front joint lacks title label on spine front free endpaper pasted down very light water mark on early leaves running to about p.80 but always light and generally unobtrusive and generally diminishing so that by p.100 it is barely discernable very light waterstain at one point on fore-margin of the last few leaves else a fresh copy.</p><p>Contemporary inscription on upper edge of a terminal blank endpaper "10s.10d To E: Hudson" and a faint early signature in a small hand at upper margin of title page "G. T. Payne".</p><p>ESTC t30722 GRAY 'Newton Bibliography' 309<br />The imprint of the standard first edition ESTC n2784 names only the London booksellers Tonson Osborn and Longman but special cancel title pages were printed for copies destined to be sold in both Dublin and Edinburgh ESTC n962 and these are understandably much rarer than the standard one. <br />Newton 1642–1727 natural philosopher and mathematician had been elected a fellow of Trinity College Cambridge in 1667 and Lucastrian professor of mathematics in 1669. Those positions combined with income from his estate made him both financially secure and almost free from prescribed duties. His great researches on optics were the first fruits of that freedom. However at the same time he became an earnest student of both alchemy and of theology. His surviving manuscripts show that in the latter field he reached firstly an anti-Trinitarian or Arian position which developed into an even more radical position which saw Jesus as merely the latest of a series of prophets sent by God to reclaim mankind from false gods a position Newton developed in the 1680s in the unpublished manuscript of "his most important theological composition 'Theologiae gentilis origines philosophicae' 'The philosophical origins of gentile theology'" O.D.N.B.<br />Such opinions were completely unacceptable to contemporary society and Newton realising that they would have undermined his position kept them a closely guarded secret but in later life he revisited the treatise and "thoroughly purged it became his 'Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended' 1728. The original treatise he kept to himself . When he died his heirs found the completed manuscript of the Chronology which they immediately sold to a publisher for £350" O.D.N.B. and the book was published shortly thereafter.<br />The book was distributed in Dublin by Smith and Bruce. John Smith an Ulster Presbyterian whose radical activities had led to his expulsion from Glasgow University in 1722 came to Dublin in 1724 where with the sympathetically minded William Smith and later William Bruce he established a book-selling business. They were notable for their intellectual and continental connections they were cousins of the philosopher Francis Hutcheson and their publication of works challenging conventional opinions. <br />E. Hudson is probably Edward Hudson 1703 ca. - 1757 of Ardee Co. Louth who having entered Trinity College in 1722 aged 19 became a Fellow in 1728 the year of publication of this book. He was later Rector of Omagh. The signature on the title page may be that of Rev. George Thomas Payne 1819-1888 of Kilkenny who had entered T.C.D. in 1833.</p> Printed for J. Tonson, J. Osborn, and T. Longman; and sold by Messieurs Smith and Bruce Booksellers on the Blind Key in Dublin hardcover
18675032England 1867. Full sheep embossed in blind with gilt to front board measuring 200 x 160mm and comprised of 155 manuscript pages. A gift inscription to the front pastedown reads "Frances Phoebe Newton A Present from her Mother Mrs. A. Morley. July 31st 1841." On the first page Phoebe has created a formal title page: "Phoebe Newton's Album. July 31st 1841." A dense and research-rich piece in which a young woman documents her reading from a variety of sources including collections of poetry popular magazines and circulars church sermons and oral stories within her community. Potential projects include but are not limited to Victorian reading practices women's reading the intersection of popular and evangelical literatures genealogy and paleaography.<br /> <br /> Within her commonplace book Phoebe gravitates toward poetry and short anecdotes in which the narrating voice calmly uses rhetoric and logic to undermine non-believers or convert doubters. Her faith is the underlying basis for each selection -- even when celebrating a royal marriage or waxing on Queen Victoria's leadership. Early selections such as Doctor Watts and Collins the Freethinker focus on how Christians unshaken in their faith can lead by calm example responding to criticism or even outright scorn by gesturing to the value of their interior relationship to God rather than to any external possessions. Doctor Watts for example responds to a coffeehouse stranger's "contempt at his diminutive appearance" with a short verse concluding "I must be measured by my soul -- The mind's the standard of the man." Similarly Collins the Freethinker "once met a plain countryman going to church" and attempted to confound him by asking about God's size. The countryman's participation in the dialogue -- and his embrace of contradiction -- impress and convert the Freethinker. "He is so great that the heaven of heaven cannot contain Him; and so little that He can dwell in my heart." In this sense Phoebe reveals in addition to her evangelical beliefs an attraction to literary realism. Rather than gravitating to soaring sentimentalism and romance the works gathered here often rely on dialogue and daily settings presenting a realistic world with idealized social outcomes. <br /> <br /> Phoebe's selections come from a variety of sources which speaks to the array of material she had contact with. Some uncredited pieces appear to be stories from sermons or overheard among family. Many include Victorian writers such as Cowper and Toplady. Still others come from popular regional magazines such as the Norfolk Chronicle and the Gospel Standard. More work could be done to identify where she and her family resided and what schooling she had access to. Additional work could be done on at least one other hand in the book several times signed John Newton and potentially her husband given that her mother Mrs. Morley gifts her the book under the name Newton. unknown
1800B4784London : Francis Maseres c. 1800. Very good condition. Text toned uniformly. . Binding: Contemporary calf boards rebacked skillfully in matching calf. Spine in six compartments of raised bands with gilt ruling and blind tooled decorative devices. Gilt label on 2. Notes: In the preface the publisher states that “The principle object of the present collection of tracts is to explain and illustrate by examples Mr. Raphson’s and Dr. Halley’s methods of resolving affected algebraic equations by approximation and to compare these two methods with each other in order to be able to form a judgment of their respective merits and determine to which of them we ought to give the preference.â€<br>Francis Maseres 1731-1824 was an English lawyer an attorney general of the Province of Quebec judge mathematician historian member of the Royal Society and cursitor baron of the exchequer. <br> Size: 8vo. 208x120mm. Illustration: Illustrated with a profusion of in text equations. Provenance: Ex Libris on the verso of half title ‘of Mathematical Society’. On the same leaf it states in period hand writing “Twelve copies of this work were presented to the mathematical society for distribution among its members by Baron Meseres. This copy was not Pages: P. Half title Blank with hand written note Title Blank Preface v-lxxii Errata lxxiii-lxxiv Table of Contents lxxv-lxxviii 1-479. Category: Book Canada; Book Science & Technology; Francis Maseres hardcover
