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183238696Boston: Leonard C. Bowles 1832. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. Very good few tears along the edges and spine ends scattered foxing. 13 pp. 8vo. Cover title: Mr. Greenwood's fast discourse. American awaited the 1832 Cholera outbreak as reports from Europe arrived. Unlike many others Greenwood did not see the epidemic as a cleansing purge by God to punish the wicked. "Let us then confess our faults one to another and let us pray one for another. Let us confess our faults to God and pray for ourselves. If our prayers are fervent and righteous; if they awaken us to the evil and danger of sin; if they make us humble and unassuming; if they inspire us with a cheerful courage united with a rational prudence we may be confident that they will avail much. They have availed much. They have prepared us in the best possible manner against the hovering pestilence; they have saved us from sin which is more dreadful than pestilence. God has heard them; and he will answer them if not by temporal immunity yet by the answer of eternal salvation." Francis William Pitt Greenwood 1797-1843 was a Unitarian minister of King's Chapel in Boston. His written works were published in the Christian Examiner as well as the Boston Journal of Natural History The Token and Atlantic Souvenir. His sermons were published in 1844 in two volumes by former Boston Mayor Samuel A. Eliot. Sabin 28686. American Imprints 12733. Leonard C. Bowles unknown books
1849283685Utica 1849. unbound. very good. Fine content A.L.S. 4to. 2 pages Utica New York July 6 1849 in part: ". Dear Father . we think of you these Cholera times and particularly as we hear that it has visited Rome and sometimes wish you could all be here again as the city is comparatively healthy but we must all endeavor to keep cool. with caution" ".We have all been well except Brother Bob who has been complaining a little for a few days though not of anything bearing the nature of the epidemic - we have induced him to remain quiet and I believe he has mostly if not entirely recovered." Boldly written with extremely light mailing folds.<br/><br/> unknown books
183246999Hartford: H. and F. J. Huntington 1832. First edition. Folding map. 368 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Red cloth leather spine label. Spine faded front board loose foxed throughout. First edition. Folding map. 368 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Amariah Brigham 1798-1849 was the first superintendent of the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica. While there he founded the American Journal of Insanity in July 1844. The present title served as a compendium of the existing knowledge of epidemic cholera. DAB III: 42-3. Reynolds 670; not in Sallander Bibliotheca Walleriana H. and F. J. Huntington unknown books
18322902New York: Jonathan Leavitt printed by G. P. Scott and Co 1832. Good. 8vo in 4's. 4 9-40 pp. Bound in sympathetic wrappers evidence of stab-stitching. Foxing and browning throughout as is true in all copies. An interesting sermon preached in the midst of the 1832 cholera epidemic in New York complete with the characteristic "fire and brimestone" judgments on the sins of the people.<br/><br/>Cholera reached the Western Hemisphere during the second pandemic 1829-1851. Many contemporary journalistic sources associated the disease with "large numbers of Irish and other emigrants" a "class of persons particularly exposed and carrying the disease wherever they go." This particular sermon preached upon Isaiah 26:9 "When thy judgments are in the earth the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness" lays the blame not on recent emigrants but rather on a wicked and atheistic generation who no longer fear God and has forgotten Him. "Most were thought to have willfully weakened their bodies through unwholesome ways of life and were now being punished for their sins. According to religious leaders the three prominent abominations of the time were sabbath-breaking intemperance and debauchery and cholera was viewed as here as a disease of "'mental and corporeal debility.'"<br/><br/>The preacher Gardiner Spring 1785-1873 was an American minister of the Brick Presbyterian Church from his ordination in 1809 until his death as well as prolific religiou author. He is perhaps most famous for his Gardiner Spring Resolutions which effectively precipitated the creation of the Presbyterian Church of the Confederate States of America and the schism of the Presbyterian Church along regional lines which lasted from the American Civil War until 1983.<br/><br/>Checklist American Imprints 14822. Sabin 89779.<br/><br/>REFERENCES: New York Commercial Advertiser. 1832 Jun. 18. Referenced in: "AIDS: The Burden of History" Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox eds. Jonathan Leavitt, printed by G. P. Scott and Co unknown books
