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185633579New Haven: Various 1856. Wraps. Fair. Wraps. Approx. 9" x 6". Condition varies. Contents printed in Latin. List of Presidents Professors graduates and subjects are found inside the catalogs. <br /> <br /> 1. Catalogus Senatus Academici Et Eorum Qui Munera Et Officia Academicia Gesserunt Quique Aliquovis Gradu Exornati Fuerunt in College Yaleensi Quod Est In Novo-Portu Republic Connecticuttensis in Nov-Anglia. Excudebant Thomas Et Thomas Green Universitatis Typographi. No date but contents list information to year 1802. 43 pages 1 page blank. Stitching is missing resulting in loose pages. Untrimmed paper has light toning and edge wear. Very faint duplicate stamp top of the front cover. Fair condition. <br /> <br /> 2. Catalogus Senatus Academici Et Eorum Qui Munera Et Officia Academica Gesserunt Quique Aliquovis Gradu Exornati Fuerunt in Collegio Yalensi Novi Portus in Republica Connecticuttensi. Novi-Portus Excudebant Walter Et Steele MDCCCXI. 54 pages 1. Untrimmed stitched wraps has light toning and edge wear to the paper. Good. <br /> <br /> 3. Catalogus Senatus Academici Eorum Qui Munera Et Officia Academica Gesserunt Quique Aliquovis Gradu Exornati Fuerunt in Collegio Yalensi Novi-Portus in Republica Connecticuttensi. Novi-Portus: S. Converse Typographo MDCCCXX. 63 pages 1 page blank. Untrimmed stitched wraps has light to moderate toning and scattered foxing to the text. Light edge wear to the paper. Duplicate stamp and date located top of the front cover. Fair condition.<br /> <br /> 4. Catalogus Senatus Academici Eorum Qui Munera Et Officia Academica Gesserunt Quique Aliquovis Gradu Exornati Fuerunt in Collegio Yalensi Novi-Portus in Republica Connecticuttensi. Novi-Portus: S. Converse Typographo MDCCCXXIII. 68 pages. Missing the blank rear cover. Untrimmed stitched wraps has light to moderate toning and scattered foxing to the text. Light edge wear to the paper. Old faded ink name Sam H Parsons and date written top of the front cover. Duplicate stamp located top of the front cover. Arithmetic notes written on the last page. Fair condition. <br /> <br /> 5. Catalogus Senatus Academici Eorum Qui Munera Et Officia Academica Gesserunt Quique Aliquovis Gradu Exornati Fuerunt in Collegio Yalensi Novi-Portus in Republica Connecticuttensi. Novi-Portus: Hezekia Howe Typographo MDCCCXXIX. 75 pages 1 page blank. Small brown spots on the front cover. Duplicate stamp top of the front cover with a date and pencil note. Untrimmed stitched wraps with some unopened pages. Light toning and edge wear to the paper. Good condition.<br /> <br /> 6. Catalogus Senatus Academici Eorum Qui Munera Et Officia Academica Gesserunt Quique Aliquovis Gradu Exornati Fuerunt in Collegio Yalensi Novi-Portus in Republica Connecticuttensi. Novi-Portus: Hezekia Howe Et Soc. Typographis. MDCCCXXXV. 84 pages. Stitched trimmed wraps with light edge wear and toning. Spine chipped. Several page corners creased. Rear cover detached. Good condition. <br /> <br /> 7. Catalogus Senatus Academici Eorum Qui Munera Et Officia Academica Gesserunt Quique Aliquovis Gradu Exornati Fuerunt in Collegio Yalensi Novi-Portus in Republica Connecticuttensi. Novi-Portus: B. L. Hamlen Typographo. MDCCCXLVII. 130 pages. Light to moderate toning and scattered foxing to the contents. A few pencil marks in the text. Old ink name M. Welles top of the front cover. Martin Welles graduated from Yale College in 1806. He was a member of the Connecticut legislature for many years. Good condition. <br /> <br /> 8. Catalogus Senatus Academici Eorum Qui Munera Et Officia Academica Gesserunt Quique Aliquovis Gradu Exornati Fuerunt in Collegio Yalensi In Novo-Portu in Republica Connecticuttensi. In Novo-Portu: E. Hayes Typographo. MDCCCLVI. 148 pages. Stitched brown paper wraps with half title on the outer cover. Damp stains on the front cover. Spine chipped. Light toning to the contents. Front cover split top outer joint. Old ink inscription from the "Hon. Martin Welles Wethersford Conn". Written top of the front cover. Welles graduated from Yale in 1806 and served in the Connecticut legislature. Good condition. Various unknown
1900303861 panneau chromolithographié contrecollé sur carton au format 43 x 33,5 cm, reproduisant les portraits en pied de 81 personnages célèbres, rassemblés devant le Panthéon, s.d. (circa 1900)
1810654051 vol. in-4 cartonnage de l'époque, contient : [ Recueil de Discours aux Prix du Concours Général, Discours latins, pour les années 1810, 1811, 1812, 1814, 1814, 1816, 1818, 1819 ] De Recepta Gallorum Libertate Oratio [... ] Ad solemnem Praemiorum Distributionem in Majoribus Sorbonae Scholis die lunae 12 mensis Julii ano Libertatis 2e 1790 A Francisco-Josepho-Michaele Noel, E Typographia Seguy-Thiboust, Parisiis [Paris ], 1790, 2 ff., 20 pp.Distribution Générale des prix aux Elèves des Quatre Lycées de Paris. Année 1810, Fain, Imprimeur de l'Université Impériale, s.d. [ 1810 ], 59 pp. [ Suivi de : ] Oratio habita Parisiss, in Lycaeo Imperiali, Septima die Junii, Anno 1810, in auspicatissimas Napoleonis et Mariae Nuptias, A. J.-C.J. Luce de Lancival, Typus Fain, Univesitatis Imperialis Typographi, q.s. [ 1810 ], 19 pp. [ Suivi de : ] Distribution Générale des prix aux Elèves des Quatre Lycées de Paris. Année 1811, Fain, Imprimeur de l'Université Impériale, s.d. [ 1811 ], 39 pp. [ Suivi de : ] Distribution Générale des prix aux Elèves des Quatre Lycées de Paris. Année 1812, Fain, Imprimeur de l'Université Impériale, s.d. [ 1812 ], 36 pp. [ Suivi de : ] Distribution Générale des prix aux Elèves des Quatre Lycées de Paris. Année 1813, Fain, Imprimeur de l'Université Impériale, s.d. [ 1813 ], 42 pp. [ Suivi de : ] Distribution Générale des prix aux Elèves des Quatre Lycées de Paris. Année 1814, Fain, Imprimeur de l'Université Impériale, s.d. [ 1814 ], 55 pp. [ Suivi de : ] Distribution Générale des prix aux Elèves des Quatre Collèges Royaux de Paris. Année 1816, Commission de l'Instruction Publique, De l'Imprimerie Royale, Paris, Août 1816, 38 pp. [ Suivi de : ] Distribution Générale des prix aux Elèves des Quatre Collèges Royaux de Paris, et des Médailles décernées aux Instituteurs primaires de l'Académie de Paris, Année 1818, Commission de l'Instruction Publique, De l'Imprimerie Royale, Paris, Août 1818, 47 pp. [ Suivi de : ] Distribution Générale des prix aux Elèves des Collèges Royaux de Paris et de Versailles. Année 1819, Commission de l'Instruction Publique, De l'Imprimerie Royale, Paris, Août 1819, 44 pp. [ Suivi de : ] Mes Adieux au Collège, Vers lus à la distribution des prix du collège royal de Bourbon le 19 août 1819 par Auguste Filon, 4 pp. [ Suivi de : ] Collège Royal de Bourbon. Vers à l'occasion de la Saint-Charlemagne, 3 pp.
1802654141 vol. in-8 reliure de l'époque demi-basane marron, toutes tranches marbrées : Recherches et Considérations Politiques sur les Récompenses Nationales, les Anciens Ordres de Chevalerie et la Légion d'Honneur, Par M. J. Gaudin, Ex-Législateur, Juge du Tribunal de Larochelle, correspondant de l'Institut national, associé à l'Athénée de Lyon et membre de l'Académie de Larochelle, Chez Rondonneau, Paris, An XIII - 1804, 1 f., VI-48 pp. [ Edition originale ] [ Suivi de : ] Discours prononcé par Lucien Bonaparte, Orateur du Tribunat, sur la Légion d'Honneur, Séance du 29 Floréal An 10, De l'Imprimerie Nationale, Floréal An 10 [ 1802 ], 19 pp. [ Edition originale ] [ Suivi de : ] Essai sur l'Emulation dans l'Ordre social, et sur son application à l'Education ; Ouvrage mentionné honorablement par l'Institut national de France, dans la séance publique du 15 Messidor an IX, par George-Marie Raymond, Professeur d'Histoire et de Mathématiques à l'Ecole Centrale du Mont-Blanc, Chez J. J. Paschoud, A Genève, An X (1802), 2 ff.,XIX-291 pp., 2 ff. n. ch., 1 f. blanc (ms.)
189935577AB[Dresden, C.C. Meinhold & Söhne], ca. 1899. Querformat, ca. 63 x 88,5 cm. Farblithographie Aus der Reihe: Meinholds physikalische Wandbilder, Nr. 14.
185532619Toronto? [Printed by order of the Legislative Assembly] 1855 In-8 n.p. (environ 250p)
182933089February 6 1829. 1829. Very good. - Quarto 9-1/8 inches high by 7-1/4 inches wide. Two-and-a-half pages. Over 180 words penned on 3 sides of a folded sheet. Herbert Taylor thanks the recipient who is caring for his brother for his letter regarding his concerns. "I cannot sufficiently thank you for your friendly & considered attention in writing to me on the 30th Jany upon the subject of the accident which unfortunately happened to my dear Brother on the 27th.". He goes on to state "I thank God that he has escaped more serious injury. It is most satisfying to know that he is in such good hands and that he has with him so kind and attentive a friend as yourself." Signed "H. Tayor". Folded for mailing the letter is mounted to stiff paper stock with glue along the edge of the blank verso of the last leaf. Very good. <p>The British Army officer Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Taylor 1775-1839 rose through the ranks after jointing the 2nd Dragoon Guards. He served as Aide de camp to the Duke of York then commander-in-chief of the British Army and as Aide de Camp Military Secretary and Private Secretary to the Marquess Cornwallis. In 1805 he became Private Secretary to the Sovereign in service to King George III. He was the first person to fill this post. From 1811 he served as private secretary to Queen Charlotte. Returning to the field to command a brigade at Antwerp in 1813-14 he then served as Member of Parliament for Windsor from 1820-23 and Ambassador to Berlin from 1820 to 1827. He was first and principal Aide de Camp to King George IV and deputy Secretary at War. Adjutant-General to the Forces from 1828-30 he became private secretary to the new king William IV and served as first and principal Aide de Camp to Queen Victoria from 1837-39. He was Master of St. Katherine's Hospital and appointed Master Surveyor and Surveyor-General of the Ordnance in 1828.<p>From the autograph collection of Mrs. Mary Ford widow of Richard Ford who wrote the popular "Handbook for Travellers in Spain". February 6, 1829. unknown
187133942Northumberland August 5 1871. 1871. Good. - Octavo 7-1/8 inches high by 4-3/8 inches wide. Over 300 words penned on all four sides of a folded sheet of creamy white paper with the address embossed in blind at the top of the cover sheet. Replying to a request for his assistance in working out a solution to the strike by engineers in Newcastle seeking that limits be placed on the hours they are required to work each day: "I also yesterday received a letter on the same subject from Mr Lowthian Bell - In answer to his letter I told Mr. Bell that I would be very glad to do anything in my power to assist in bringing the unfortunate strike at Newcastle to a close but that I fear that nothing that I would do would be likely to promote that object & might even tend rather to increase than to diminish the existing irritation between the employers & the employed." Earl Grey asks if the recipient might have some "arrangement to propose for the settlement." which might help him decide if he should get involved in the negotiations. He mentions in closing that he will be traveling over the next several days culminating with his being "compelled to go to London to vote against the ballot bill". Signed "Grey". Folded twice horizontally the letter was once mounted or tipped-in to a book with remnants of paper adhering to the top edge of the last page not affecting the text. There is also a tiny piece of dark paper near the lower center of the last page which does not touch on the text. <p>The "Nine Hours Strike" began in August of 1871 when engineers in Newcastle upon Tyne and adjoining areas requested that working hours be limited to nine hours a day. The bitter strike was prolonged when employers refused to talk and brought in foreign workers in an attempt to break the strike. Though there were a few incidents of violence many of the foreign workers soon realized that they were being used to support a system of industrial slavery and would lose their jobs anyway once the strike was resolved. The strike went on for 14 weeks before employers finally compromised and granted the strikers' request.<p>The Ballot Bill to which Earl Grey refers proposed that parliamentary and local elections in the UK take place by secret ballot. The Bill was passed in 1872.<p>Also known as Viscount Howick the English statesman Henry George Grey 3rd Earl Grey 1802-1894 entered parliament in 1826. His father became Prime Minister when the Whigs came to power in 1830 and Earl Grey then Viscount Howick was made Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. Aligned with colonial reformers he resigned in 1834 when the emancipation of slaves was made to take place gradually instead of immediately. He became Secretary of War when he entered Lord Melbourne's cabinet in 1835 and made significant administrative reforms. He again resigned in dissatisfaction in 1839 and gained a reputation for crotchetiness. He supported free trade and as colonial secretary a post to which he was appointed in 1846 was the first minister to proclaim that the colonies should be governed for their own benefit and not for that of Great Britain & Ireland. As much as possible he accorded them self-governance. He was however soon embroiled in the turmoil and discontent brewing in Ceylon the West Indies and New Zealand. He authored several works on political subjects and policy including an 1888 work on the state of Ireland and one on the United States tariff. Northumberland, August 5, 1871. unknown
18923898281T. Wilson 1892. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Medium brown cloth 8vo with simple black border and gilt lettering and small motifs on front board. Blind border on back board. Gilt lettering on backstrip. Bumped corners and light fraying. Damp staining on front board. Black end papers. Interior is secure clean and clear. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item800grams ISBN: T. Wilson hardcover
18939879457Putnam 1893. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Medium brown 8vo. Black lettering on front board. Gilt lettering on backstrip. Detached end papers. Possible Signature and Inscription of author. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item450grams ISBN: Putnam hardcover
18578668986Oxford University Press 1857. Volumes 1 to 6. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Larger purple cloth 8vo with brown sticker on sunfaded backstrip marked with black type. Lightly bumped corners and small patches of discolouration on boards. Black end papers. Interior is secure and clean. A few pages have small marginal pencil markings in vol. I. and V. Volume VI has unopened pages. Trimmed. Lightly foxed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item6100grams ISBN: Oxford University Press hardcover
18574938465Oxford University Press 1857. Volume 1-6. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Antique calf binding with gilt borders on boards and raised bands gilt decoration and gilt lettering within a red and a black panel on sun darkened backstrip. Gilt inner dentals and striped head band. One board detached a few other front boards loose. A crack in the centre of backstrip of vol IV. Vol V is missing a panel from backstrip. Marbled end papers and edges. Binding tight. Pages clean and clear. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item6200grams ISBN: Oxford University Press hardcover
18925756616Hardy & Page 1892. Volume 1-2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Medium red cloth 8vo with gilt border and gilt lettering on sun faded backstrip. Bumped corners and some grubbiness. Boards of vol I. bowed. Small tear in the top of backstrip of vol II. Yellow end papers. Interior is secure clean and clear save for some foxing. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item550grams ISBN: Hardy & Page hardcover
18884950061Newtown Pennsylvania: Globe Printing House 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. First Edition. Signed by author on ffep with additional inscription. Exlibrary marks. Shaken binding hinges starting. Clean tanned pages. Decorative embossed cloth over boards is heavily shelf worn with bumped corners. Thaddeus S. Kenderdine made his way from Philadelphia to Michigan in 1858 staying briefly before heading west. He remained in California for only a year; this visit is described in A California Tramp. Ex-Library; 8.75" tall; 416 pages; Signed by Author. Globe Printing House hardcover
184133593Raleigh: North Carolina Standard 1841. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Wraps. Approx. 9" x 6". 22 pages. Original stitched yellow printed wrappers with black title title and border decorations on the front cover. Light to moderate foxing and damp stains to the contents.<br /> <br /> Sabin 55701n. From wikipedia:<br /> <br /> Founded in 1795 the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies Inc. commonly known as DiPhi or The Societies are the original collegiate debating societies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and together comprise the oldest student organization at the University as well as the oldest public student organization in the United States. During the academic year the Societies hold regular meetings at 7:30 PM on Mondays in the Dialectic Chamber at the top of the New West Building. The Societies also hold occasional social events in the Philanthropic Chamber at the top of New East Building. North Carolina Standard unknown
18293117E.W. Metcalf and Company Cambridge 1829 Bound in half leather and brown cloth-covered boards gilt ruling and spine lettering top edge gilt 9 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches marbled endpapers 26 pp. Very good ring stain cloth front board; slight foxing pages. A beautiful binding and a clean book block. Oliver Wendell Holmes appears in the 1829 list. The Wikipedia entry on Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. is excellent. "Holmes was awarded his M.D. from Harvard in 1836; he wrote his dissertation on acute pericarditis. .He also gained a greater reputation after winning Harvard Medical School's prestigious Boylston Prize for which he submitted a paper on the benefits of using the stethoscope a device with which many American doctors were not familiar. .He often criticized traditional medical practices and once quipped that if all contemporary medicine was tossed into the sea "it would be all the better for mankindand all the worse for the fishes". .he composed a series of three lectures dedicated to exposing medical fallacies or "quackeries". .he took great pains to reveal the false reasoning and misrepresentation of evidence that marked subjects such as "Astrology and Alchemy" his first lecture and "Medical Delusions of the Past" his second. He deemed homeopathy the subject of his third lecture "the pretended science" that was a "mingled mass of perverse ingenuity of tinsel erudition of imbecile credulity and of artful misrepresentation too often mingled in practice". .In 1843 Holmes published "The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever" in the short-lived publication New England Quarterly Journal of Medicine and Surgery. The essay arguedcontrary to popular belief at the time which predated germ theory of diseasethat the cause of puerperal fever a deadly infection contracted by women during or shortly after childbirth stems from patient to patient contact via their physicians. Holmes gathered a large collection of evidence for this theory including stories of doctors who had become ill and died after performing autopsies on patients who had likewise been infected. In concluding his case he insisted that a physician in whose practice even one case of puerperal fever had occurred had a moral obligation to purify his instruments burn the clothing he had worn while assisting in the fatal delivery and cease obstetric practice for a period of at least six months. A few years later Ignaz Semmelweis would reach similar conclusions in Vienna where his introduction of prophylaxis handwashing in chlorine solution before assisting at delivery would considerably lower the puerperal mortality rate. Though it largely escaped notice when first published Holmes eventually came under attack by two distinguished professors of obstetricsHugh L. Hodge and Charles D. Meigswho adamantly denied his theory of contagion. .Charles D. Meigs an opponent of Holmes's theory regarding the contagious nature of puerperal fever wrote that doctors are gentlemen and "gentlemen's hands are clean". .In 1855 Holmes chose to republish the essay in the form of a pamphlet under the new title Puerperal Fever as a Private Pestilence. In a new introduction in which Holmes directly addressed his opponents he wrote: "I had rather rescue one mother from being poisoned by her attendant than claim to have saved forty out of fifty patients to whom I had carried the disease." He added "I beg to be heard in behalf of the women whose lives are at stake until some stronger voice shall plead for them." The then controversial work is now considered a landmark in germ theory of disease. .In 1846 Holmes coined the word "anesthesia". .While dean Holmes attempted to admit the first African-Americans and the first woman to the Harvard Medical School." 3214027. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. E.W. Metcalf and Company, Cambridge hardcover
18086869346His Majesty's Stationery Office 1808. Volume 3. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. With usual stamps and markings In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Boards detached. Internally clean. Heavily rubbed. Bumped corners. No backstrip. Foxing Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item3050grams ISBN: His Majesty's Stationery Office hardcover
18126869345His Majesty's Stationery Office 1812. Volume 4. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. With usual stamps and markings In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Boards detached. No backstrip. Bumped corners. Foxing. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item2900grams ISBN: His Majesty's Stationery Office hardcover
1846046001London: The Percy Society 1846. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition. Original brown cloth bookplate of De Guinzbourg from his proverb library on the front pastedown. Modest foxing; a very nice copy. The first of Denham's tracts published between 1846 and 1859. Scarce. iv 73pp. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Language & Linguistics; History. Inventory No: 046001. <br/><br/> The Percy Society hardcover
18265744938G. Wilkins and Son 1826. Volumes 1 and 2 bound together. 1st edition. Bound in half calf with cloth boards. Front board detached. Spine only held on one hinge and detached from the spine block. Covers rubbed and worn. Both volumes have the same engraved view of Derby taken from a painting in the possession of Mr. Harwood. Thus one is extra. At the beginning of volume 2 there is an extra plate inserted. This is a copy of the town plan of Derby from the 1610 map by John Speed. Edges uncut. Ex-library may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. 1st endpaper and 1st view plate are grubby and marked otherwise internally clean. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1450grams ISBN: G. Wilkins and Son hardcover
1846046001London: The Percy Society 1846. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition. Original brown cloth bookplate of De Guinzbourg from his proverb library on the front pastedown. Modest foxing; a very nice copy. The first of Denham's tracts published between 1846 and 1859. Scarce. iv 73pp. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Language & Linguistics; History. Inventory No: 046001. <br/><br/> The Percy Society hardcover books
18905130060Raleigh North Carolina: Edwards & Broughton Publishers 1890. Hardcover. Fair in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Exlibrary marks. Binding sound hinges broken. Clean tanned pages. Cloth over boards is heavily worn and discolored with edge wear at corners and extremities and label on lower spine. Life of General Hugh Waddell who commanded provincial troops in Rowan County North Carolina and the Ohio River Valley during the French and Indian War and Anglo-Cherokee War along with supervising the construction of Fort Dobbs. Ex-Library; 9.25" tall; 242 pages. Edwards & Broughton Publishers hardcover
1889017725London: Oxford University Press 1889 Book condition: Good in full leather binding with gilt titles and decoration; five raised bands gilt titles and decoration to spine; marbled paste-downs end-papers and page edges; a little fraying to head of spine; slight rub to corners; a little dulling and some small scuffs to spine; darkening to top closed page edges; a little foxing to blank end-papers; short ink line to margin of a couple of pages. Crest of Sherborne School in gilt to front and rear boards. An attractive copy. Oxford University Press hardcover
18534938478T&T Clark 1853. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Medium 8vo. Brown publisher cloth with decorative blind border and design mirrored on boards. Blind borders and gilt lettering on backstrip. Light fraying to ends of backstrip. Bumped corners and minor exterior wear. Binding tight. Pages clear of markings save for age toning and foxing. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item850grams ISBN: T&T Clark hardcover
18792934Butler County Democrat Print; Hamilton Ohio; 1879. 1879 Second edition "revised and enlarged". Inscribed and signed on the front free endpaper by the author's grandson Dr. J. S. H. Potter dated Apr 17 1895. A rare Ohio/American medical imprint five OCLC library holdings for this second edition; none for the first edition. Full leather gilt spine lettering 8 3/4 x 6 inches 500 pp. index two small illustrations. Good plus or very good minus. Dr. Potter assisted the escape of a fugitive slave to Canada: "Perhaps the most notable incident in the extended and eventful life of Dr. POTTER was the rescue of a fugitive slave named Jerry in Syracuse New York about 1852. It occurred soon after the fugitive slave law was passed and on the occasion of holding a national anti-slavery convention at that place. Daniel WEBSTER had recently delivered a speech to an immense concourse there threatening that "when this convention thronged the city a noted fugitive would be arrested and taken back to slavery. The United States Government would teach the people that there was potency in law." Four United States marshals had been detailed from as many adjacent cities and the whole police force of Syracuse were ready. Jerry was arrested and placed in chains. About thirty thousand people were waiting to witness the scene. The man with blue eyes red cheeks and brown curly hair with no other semblance of a negro was taken away from the officers by the mob and finally placed by Dr. POTTER in the grounds of a residence inhabited by a stiff pro-slavery man where the most active search failed to find him. After the lapse of a week and search having been made from house to house when detection was imminent the doctor arranged with Jerry's host to drive in with a meat wagon got Jerry in and covered with blankets he drove before the door of the Syracuse House hitched went in with the doctor took cigars and drove out through the city about 4 P.M. in beautiful sunshine no one suspecting the presence of Jerry. After reaching Brewerton seventeen miles; Dr. POTTER took Jerry in his carriage sending the team back and conveyed the fugitive to Mexicoville and by the underground railroad to a small harbor on Lake Ontario whence he obtained a passage on a small sailing vessel to Canada. No more noted fugitive slave case ever occurred in the United States and in it the doctor was the principal agent of success." 3214027. Signed by Authors. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good. Butler County Democrat Print; Hamilton, Ohio; 1879. hardcover
