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Duncan Isdaora Walkowitz Abraham
Isadora Duncan in Her Dances. With an Introduction by Maria-Theresa Carl Van Vechten Mary Fanton Roberts Shaemas O'Sheel and Arnold Genthe
Girard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications 1945. Illus. 4to. Green printed wrappers. Front cover off and chipped. Illus. 4to. Inscribed on the title-page "With my compliments to Percy Mackay from Abraham Wolkowitz April 19 1948." Signed also on the front cover and with a note with Wolkowitz's address on it. Haldeman-Julius Publications unknown books
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Lincoln Abraham
Civil War Spy in New Mexico General Orders
Washington D. C.: War Department. Very Good. 1862. Ephemera. Single-sheet General Orders 4 1/2 x 7 inches. Three very small chips otherwise light toning to edges. Very Good. General Orders No. 174 Washington October 30 1862. 2 page summary of the Military Commission trial of suspected confederate spy charged with "Lurking or Acting as a Spy" Jose Maria Rivas. Rivas who was found guilty and sentenced to death by firing squad. President Abraham Lincoln would disapprove the sentencing with a one paragraph explanation. Rivas was associated with Brigadier General Henry Hopkins Sibley in the Confederate attempt to gain control of the American southwest and the gold fields of California. While southern troops won several southwest battles including the Battle of Glorieta Pass they were forced to retreat when their supply chains were broken. Just one of the thousands of curious stories from the American Civil War. Signed in type A. Lincoln. ; 1 pp . War Department unknown books
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Anscher Abraham
Detailed Narrative of an 1883-1884 Expedition Through Southern Africa Written by Exploring Party Leader Abraham Anscher a Jewish Chicago Immigrant
1884. 295pp. plus five additional letters totaling 60pp. altogether more than 38000 words. Composed mostly on small octavo sheets. Some wear to edges of initial and final few leaves slightly affecting text. Light even tanning. Written in a consistent legible script. Overall very good. 295pp. plus five additional letters totaling 60pp. altogether more than 38000 words. Composed mostly on small octavo sheets. An extensive and outstanding manuscript account of travel and exploration in southern Africa during late 1883 and early 1884 by Abraham Anscher a Polish Jewish immigrant to Chicago. The manuscript is composed in the form of a letter addressed to Edith Delia Rogalski but really comprises a travelogue or diary with entries written from September 1883 to mid-January 1884. Five additional letters accompany this account addressed to Edith's later husband Israel Jackson Roe; her parents Samuel and Sarah Rogalski; and her brother Benny. <br/> <br/>Anscher's descriptions of his experiences in Africa cover a wide variety of topics including big game hunting; interactions with local indigenous peoples and their rulers; encounters with white missionaries traders and other hunters; ethnographic botanical geological and zoological observations and much more. His account is by turns dramatic and amusing interspersed with personal recollections of family and home cultural and religious notes his addressee was also a Polish-speaking Jewish immigrant to Chicago and reminiscences of earlier adventures in Colorado Utah the California gold fields and elsewhere.<br/> <br/>Little can be readily discerned of the details of Anscher's biography beyond the pages of this manuscript. He was born in Mariampol then a part of Poland and today in Lithuania but clearly came to the United States at an early age and was well-educated. He was an adventurer at heart and spent several years in the West perhaps in the U.S. Army for part of this time and partly as a solo fortune seeker. At some point during the mid- to late-1870s he decided to take his adventuring talents to South Africa in order to satisfy his own wanderlust and to create a business of organizing guided African exploration and hunting. The stakes of his chosen profession are mentioned several times throughout his narrative such as when a party member dies of an unspecified illness "My lot is a very hard one just now and my position as promoter and chief adventurer is anything but enviable". From the additional letters present it is apparent that the young Ms. Rogalski was a former love interest of Anscher who spurned his affections and became engaged to a mutual friend. Indeed a letter here addressed to the fiancé offers an apology for the presumption of writing to Edith in such a lengthy and cordial manner; at one time all of the individuals addressed by Anscher were a part of the same immigrant community in Chicago.<br/> <br/>This absorbing account follows a lengthy excursion organized and led by Anscher across the Transvaal through Bechuanaland Matabeleland and beyond to a settlement he calls Tatti probably Francistown on the Tati River traveling through parts of modern-day South Africa and Botswana. They contain many details of great interest and his vignettes are well-written and dramatically delivered. An immense boa constrictor drops out of the treetops strangling a springbok before his eyes. He finds a five-year-old girl with a broken leg the only survivor of a village massacre; he sets her leg nurses her for a month and eventually conveys her to a missionary station. A young zebra joins the traveling party incurring the jealousy of the team's dogs. A large lizard is trained to sleep in a tent but only after his teeth are removed for safety. <br/> <br/>His missive begins in medias res with his party already underway in South Africa near the Orange River in what he calls the "Tarka bush" during mid-September 1883. Anscher decides having missed his last opportunity to send mail "Now to put myself on guard against mischance and not be like the traditional foolish virgins who did not keep their lamps properly trimmed.to have a so-called running letter always open and ready" for his recipient. The group first traveled northeast near and along the Orange allowing Anscher to wax discursive concerning the river's wildlife:<br/> <br/>"The wanderings of the river sometimes flowed through immense chasms over hung with stupendous precipices and then like a translucent lake with beautiful towering mimosas and willows reflected from its bosom and a rich variety of fine plumage though without a song; wild geese ducks snipes flamingoes in perfect security feeding on the banks beneath the green shade or basking in the sun's rays on the verdant islands far from the fowler's snare. The swallows also mounting aloft or skimming the surface of the mirror of the stream; while the ravens with their hoarse note might be seen seeking their daily food among the watery tribe or cawing on the bending tops of the weeping willows."<br/> <br/>The party leaves the river and skirts the southern edge of the Kalahari to reach Lattakoo modern-day Dithakong a traditional departure point for excursions deeper into the interior of Africa during the 19th century. Thence they headed north again stopping often to hunt for food and sport:<br/> <br/>"When on the Kama plains I went one night accompanied by Tytler and Winsloe and one native to a pool of water about two miles from camp. We did not wait more than about half an hour when we heard loud lapping at the water. The natives told me 'Ronimala ' be silent 'There is a lion." Our next visitors were two buffaloes but we did not fire lest we attract the attention of the lions. Next came three giraffes and one we knocked over on the spot and wounded another but who got away. I have seen plenty of game in my time. I saw and hunted antelope and elk on the Laramie plains and in the Meek Mountains in America before the Union Pacific RR was built. I saw quite enough of buffalo in the Smokey Hills and Montana as well as south of the Green Horn Mountains between California and Arizona but such a variety of game big game and in such number as I saw some years ago in the Transvaal & Swaziland and hereabouts now I never saw anywhere."<br/> <br/>As the excursion proceeds further into the interior their encounters with native tribes increases and Anscher observes them keenly and reports with a detailed if somewhat jaded 19th-century eye:<br/> <br/>"The town of Kalabeg is already in the Matabele country. Of course they have no religion of any kind for there is no such thing as natural religion. Men acquire knowledge good or bad from instruction of men with more fertile brains. This holds good all the world over. The rainmakers here hold the position of prophets and divines of the so-called civilized countries. These rainmakers who are also the doctors and sextons have great influence over the minds of the people and are held in great estimation by them superior to that of their king who is likewise compelled to yield to the dictates of this personage the rainmaker. Nothing can exceed the freaks of fancy and the adroitness with which the rainmaker can awe the public mind and lead thousands captive at his will. Each tribe has one or more of them and they generally come from other countries for a prophet is seldom honored in his own country."<br/> <br/>Arriving in Shoshong in what is now central Botswana Anscher meets some missionaries and witnesses a tribal gathering which leads him to remember the religious theories of a familial acquaintance back home:<br/> <br/>"Was present at a Pitsoh or native congress this forenoon held by the natives about some tribe affairs. About 12000 natives present and wound up the proceedings with a war dance. As these tribes are considered by some religious enthusiasts to be of the lost tribes of Israel not your own but ours and as your uncle once spoke to me about them while at Chicago I would therefore request you to kindly tell him to disabuse his mind on this point and that the only peg whereon the so-called lost tribe maniacs hang their argument in favor of their hobby is that the natives practice a certain custom which history attributes to our father Abraham. But this ceremony takes place instead of at the age of 7 days old when they are about fourteen years old and even when older. But they have no tradition as to why it is done. If this simple custom entitles them to be call Jews why for my part they are quite welcome to the honor. But this is about all there is to build the theory on." <br/> <br/>Despite his occasionally sarcastic and somewhat disparaging demeanor toward the natives he encounters Anchser seems overall to have a decent connection with them at a personal level and to understand a basic sense of shared humanity. In one particularly poignant episode Anscher meets a mother and father who have walked 300 miles to ransom their two teenaged sons enslaved by a local chief: <br/> <br/>"Neither the man's looks nor ornaments excited the smallest emotion in the bosom of the chief and when he was solicited by one who felt something of a father's love to pity the old man who had walked so far and brought his all to purchase his own children he at last replied with a sneer that one of the boys died last year and for the other he wants an ox at least. 'But I have not even a goat' pleaded the old man 'the Matabele have taken all I had and destroyed my hut.' A sigh it was a heavy sigh burst from his bosom one dead and the other not permitted to see anymore. The chief walked off while the man sat leaning his head on the palm of his hand and his eye fixed on the ground apparently lost to everything but his grief. On taking up his trinkets to retire I told him to keep up a good heart that I would try to get him his boy. He started at the sound of my voice kneeled before me and laid down his trinket saying 'take all this but get me back my boy.' I got him his boy for a colored blanket and 1 lb. of tobacco."<br/> <br/>When sad and homesick Anscher recalls his time in Chicago and in the West but it is often insufficient comfort. After departing Shoshong for Tatti Anscher must leave his group to "pioneer" a trail to the settlement:<br/> <br/>"On the evening of my first day's journey I had to off-saddle a term used here on a waterless plain picketed my horse and went to bed minus my supper or dinner. I awoke suddenly by something touching me on my forehead like the cold nose of a dog but I could see nothing in the dark except my horse who was laying down poor fellow. After this occurrence I could sleep no longer. My head was hot my lips parched and had no taste even for a cigarette. I daresay some of you have experienced waiting for a train early in the morning in some out of the way small RR station where moments appear like days. Well waiting there is not a patch to lying in the dark in Africa's solitude waiting for daylight to come. I tried to divert my mind and think of anything but water but I could not do it! I tried to cool myself by thinking of Chicago in the month of Feb. but that only led me to snow and from snow to water. One may as well try Ovid's 'Remedia Amoris' to cure him from hankering after the girl he loves as to try Chicago in my case as a remedy when thirsty." <br/> <br/>The difficulties of obtaining food and water establishing safe camp and finding routes through minimally charted territory evident in this final passage are an ever-present theme of the expedition but Anscher eventually guided his group to their destination where they intended to stay for a month or two before heading further north to Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River. The final entries describe life at the settlement and how a Portuguese colonial explorer and administrator Alexandre de Serpo Pinto whom they met in camp would be entrusted with the present manuscript as he traveled to Namaqualand on the west coast of Africa in the hopes that it would eventually find its way aboard a ship bound for America. Pinto was a fascinating figure in his own right -- he explored the interior of Africa for Portugal in the 1860s and 1870s and after this meeting with our author became the Portuguese Consul in Zanzibar.<br/> <br/>Anscher's trail goes somewhat cold after January 1884 when he relinquished control of this massive "running letter." An additional fragment of a later letter to Edith Rogalski included here forwarded via a mining acquaintance in Kimberly contains a few tantalizing details of his onward expedition including an attack on their party near Victoria Falls by a group of slavers led by "an American Negro." He was also working on a journal and taking photographs which are mentioned several times throughout this account but the survival of this other material as well as the ultimate conclusion of this expedition are not known. A wonderful unpublished account of African exploration by a seemingly unlikely and apparently otherwise unknown American character. unknown books
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN. HENRY W. BELLOWS
Lincoln Calls for the public to supports the U.S. Sanitary Commission
<p>"<i>The Sanitary Commission is … of direct practical value to the nation in this time of its trial. It is entitled to the gratitude and confidence of the people… There is no agency through which voluntary offerings of patriotism can be more effectively made. A. Lincoln.</i>"</p> <b>ABRAHAM LINCOLN. HENRY W. BELLOWS.</b>Printed Circular Letter to "<i>the Loyal Women of America</i>." Washington D.C. October 1 1861. 3 pp. 8 x 10 in.<p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>The United States Sanitary Commission USSC was a private relief agency to support sick and wounded Union soldiers and sailors. The idea began at a meeting of the Women's Central Relief Association of New York in April 1861 and was modeled on the British Sanitary Commission which operated during the Crimean War. The USSC set up and staffed hospitals and operated thirty soldiers' homes lodges and rest houses for traveling and disabled Union soldiers.</p><p>This circular urges American women to send contributions to the USSC for distribution to suffering servicemen. "<i>Every woman in the country can at the least knit a pair of woolen stockings</i>" the letter declared "<i>or if not can purchase them.</i>" The USSC sought blankets quilts pillows slippers delicacies such as cocoa and dried fruit checker and backgammon boards and books and magazines for convalescing soldiers and sailors. Before it was printed Frederick Law Olmsted wrote to Lincoln requesting "a line from the President recommending the purpose of the Commission to the confidence of the public." Lincoln's response sent the same day is included at the end.</p><p>7000 affiliated local societies held bazaars concerts raffles and plays to raise money. Beginning in the fall of 1863 major cities—including Chicago Cincinnati Brooklyn New York Pittsburgh Philadelphia St. Louis and Boston—held large sanitary fairs that lasted for weeks. With donations from many famous figures and artifacts for sale such as signed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation over the course of the war the USSC raised an estimated $5 million in cash and $15 million in in-kind contributions.</p><p>At first the Army Medical Bureau resented civilian involvement and questioned the use of women as nurses. Similar groups such as the Christian Commission argued that their counterparts were more interested in providing something for the upper classes to do in the war aside from fighting than they were in sympathizing with the plight of soldiers. But its success silenced most critics over time.</p><p>The USSC did provide significant opportunities for women to participate in the war effort. Dorothea Dix Mary Livermore and Mary Ann Bickerdyke held leadership roles. Novelist Louisa May Alcott was a nurse in a USSC hospital. One of its nurses Clara Barton became a founder of the American Red Cross. Many of the Northern women who were its grass roots workers developed an involvement in philanthropic and public affairs including the Civil Rights and Women's Suffrage movements.</p><p><b>Henry W. Bellows</b> 1814-1882 born in Boston graduated from Harvard College in 1832 and Harvard Divinity School in 1837. In 1839 he became the pastor of the First Congregational church in New York City. Gaining a reputation as a pulpit and lyceum speaker he became a leader of the Unitarian Church in America. From 1847 to 1866 Bellows edited the <i>Christian Inquirer</i> a weekly Unitarian newspaper. Bellows planned the United States Sanitary Commission and served as its only president from 1861 to 1878. In 1877 he became the first president of the first Civil Service Reform Association.</p> books
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Lincoln Abraham Littlefield John
Death-Bed of Lincoln April 15 1865
Washington D.C.: John H. Littlefield; Wm. Terry Printer 1866. Photograph by John Goldin of Littlefield's painting on printed mount. 1 vols. Image 11 1/2 x 18 3/4 in.; mounted to 19 x 24 in. Soiling to image vertical crease large chips to bottom of mount not affecting image or legend; good. Photograph by John Goldin of Littlefield's painting on printed mount. 1 vols. Image 11 1/2 x 18 3/4 in.; mounted to 19 x 24 in. A published photograph of Littlefield's hyper-realistic Lincoln death-bed painting each figure meticulously rendered from photographs. Littlefield studied law under Lincoln in 1858 stumped for him in his Presidential bid and was rewarded with a position in the Treasury Department. After Lincoln's death Littlefield invented this tableau of twenty-five people ranged around the death-bed including Vice-President Johnson Surgeon Chalres Leale and Mrs. Lincoln. "The artist used photographs as models for the twenty-five people gathered in the death room but his profile of the dying Lincoln shows a first-hand acquaintance" Ostendorf LINCOLN'S PHOTOGRAPHS p. 279. Provenance: Harper Family John H. Littlefield; Wm. Terry, Printer unknown books
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Shakespeare William Wivell Abraham
A Supplement to An Inquiry into the Authenticity & Characteristics of Shakespeare Portraits in which the Criticisms of Malone Steevens Boaden are examined . Together with an Exposé of the Spurious Pictures and Prints
London: Published by the Author No. 40 Castle Street East 1827. First edition with errata. 12 engraved portraits. 52 4 pp. with tipped-in erratum at end. 1 vols. 8vo. Original drab boards. Rebacked preserving printed spine label chipped and worn extremities worn light foxing some chipping to text at margins. First edition with errata. 12 engraved portraits. 52 4 pp. with tipped-in erratum at end. 1 vols. 8vo. Supplement to Abraham Wivell's Inquiry into the Authenticity of various Pictures and Prints which from the decease of the poet to our own times have been offered to the public as Portraits of Shakespeare London 1824. The portrait painter Abraham Wivell 1786-1849 illustrated editions of Shakespeare's works published in 1833 1846 & 1850. Jaggard p. 695 Published by the Author, No. 40, Castle Street, East unknown books
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Lincoln Abraham
Opinions of Abraham Lincoln Upon Slavery and its Issues: Indicated by His Speeches Letters Messages and Proclamations
Union League of America. Very Good. 1864. Pamphlet. An 1864 pro-Lincoln pamphlet for the presidential election. Disbound with rough binding edge and loose pages light soil and a few chips. Contains many of Lincoln's statements on slavery dating from 1858 to1864.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 16 pp . Union League of America unknown books
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Heclawa Abraham Lincoln Himmelwright
In The Heart Of The Bitter-Root Mountains The Story Of The Carlin Hunting Party September-December 1893
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1895. First Edition. Very good in light green buckram cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board. A small octavo measuring 7 1/2 by 5 inches with very light rubbing to the cloth at the ends of the spine and foxing to the end sheets. Without a dust jacket. Written in pencil on the title page beneath the pseudonym Heclawa the following inscription appears: "From the author A. Lincoln Himmelwright" The upper edge of the title page bears the name of a previous owner in pencil. Also of interest facing page 172 is a photograph titled "The Return to Kendrick" of six horsemen surrounded by many men standing in front of a building. Someone has drawn in pencil an arrow connected to one of the horsemen to the author's name also written in pencil. Given how obscure the faces of anyone are in this photograph it would have been the author or someone with first hand knowledge to make this identification. 259 pages of text and appendices followed by a fold-out map of the "Clearwater Basin and adjoining Territory" of what is now Idaho and western Montana. Illustrated with a frontispiece eleven engravings eleven photographs and one line drawing. The author published this book using a pseudonym due to the controversy surrounding the discovery of this lost hunting party for leaving their cook George Colegate behind unable to walk and thinking he was close to death. The cook's body was located year later six miles from where he had been left to die. G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
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Lincoln Abraham Quinn PT. P. T.
Pear Culture for Profit
New York: The Tribune Association 1869. Frontispiece illustrated throughout. xviii ii 13-136 pp. 12mo. Original cloth very worn and stained. Laid into a blue cloth chemsie. Frontispiece illustrated throughout. xviii ii 13-136 pp. 12mo. Lincoln's Law Partner and Biographer's Copy. Signed by William H. Herndon in pencil on the front flyleaf and again on the first blank with his notes concerning pear cultivation on the rear blanks. Mass. Hort. Soc. p. 258 The Tribune Association unknown books
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HILLHOUSE JAMES ABRAHAM
The Judgment A Vision. By the Author of Percy's Masque
New York: Published by James Eastburn Literary Rooms 1821 1821. First edition. BAL 8512. Boards somewhat stained and slightly worn; very good copy. 8vo original drab boards and printed paper label. ¶ A vision poem about the final day of retribution read by James Hillhouse 1789-1841 at the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1812. This was an early work by the New York poet predating his first book by several years but it was not published until this edition in 1821. <br/><br/> New York: Published by James Eastburn, Literary Rooms, 1821 hardcover books
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Horodisch Abraham
Amor Librorum. Bibliographic and other essays. A tribute to Abraham Horodisch on his sixtieth birthday
Zurich: The Safaho Foundation 1958. First edition one of 290 numbered copies of which 50 not for sale. xvii 304 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Crimosn cloth. Fine. First edition one of 290 numbered copies of which 50 not for sale. xvii 304 pp. 1 vols. 4to. The Safaho Foundation unknown books
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Cowley Abraham
The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley. Consisting of Those which were formerly Printed: and Those which he Design'd for the Press. Now Published out of the Authors Original Copies.WITH: The Second Part of the Works. The Fifth Edition. London Printed by Mary Clark
London: Printed y J. Macock for Henry Herringman to be sold by Charles Harper 1684. The Eighth Edition. Frontis portraits. to each part. ii xl 1-41 1 1-80 4 1-70 1-154 1- 23 1 1-148 pp. Second Part; vi 1-161 1 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Bound in mottled calf neatly rebacked Portrait backed and inner hinge strengthened else Very Good. The Eighth Edition. Frontis portraits. to each part. ii xl 1-41 1 1-80 4 1-70 1-154 1- 23 1 1-148 pp. Second Part; vi 1-161 1 pp. 1 vols. Folio. ESTC: R176387 & R21164; Wing C6657 & C6664A; Perkin B12 & B13 Printed y J. M[acock] for Henry Herringman, to be sold by Charles Harper unknown books
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Ristigouche River Lansing Abraham
Recollections. Edited by Charles E. Fitch
New York: Privately Printed by the De Vinne Press 1909. First edition. Frontispiece portrait and 7 other photographs and a colored Jock Scott fly at the end. xii 266 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth t.e.g. Light shelfwear title page foxed else near fine. First edition. Frontispiece portrait and 7 other photographs and a colored Jock Scott fly at the end. xii 266 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Scarce privately printed work with considerable sporting content.<br/><br/>Pp. 123 to 266 comprise the Logbook of Camp Albany on the Ristigouche River with entries from 1883 to 1898 on angling hunting and social topics. A prefatory note quotes from Dean Sage's classic book and an afterword by Charles H. Raymond offers an appreciation of Abraham Lansing 1835-1899 of Albany New York: "To watch his tall graceful form while casting on the river was to see the exemplar of the accomplished fisherman; the man the rod the line were together but the extension and the completion of artistic and practical perfection".<br/><br/>Inscribed by Mrs. Lansing to the Hon. Hampden Roth November 5 1909. Wetzel p. 174; Bruns L39; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 107 Privately Printed [by the De Vinne Press] unknown books
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YARMOLINSKY Abraham
PICTURESQUE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Svinin. SVININ YARMOLINSKY Avraham. PICTURESQUE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1811 1812 1813. New York: William Edwin Rudge 1930. Small folio. Cloth dust jacket. Frontispiece xviii 46 5 51 plates. First edition. One of 1000 copies. A memoir on Svinin who was a Russian diplomat artist and author with a portfolio of his watercolor sketches showing his travels throughout the Unite States 1811-1813. Introduction by R.T.H. Halsey. Very good. unknown books
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YARMOLINSKY Abraham
PICTURESQUE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Svinin. SVININ YARMOLINSKY Avraham. PICTURESQUE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1811 1812 1813. New York: William Edwin Rudge 1930. Small folio. Cloth dust jacket. Frontispiece xviii 46 5 51 plates. First edition. One of 1000 copies. A memoir on Svinin who was a Russian diplomat artist and author with a portfolio of his watercolor sketches showing his travels throughout the Unite States 1811-1813. Introduction by R.T.H. Halsey. Very good in used dust jacket. unknown books
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ABRAHAM James Johnston
LETTSOM HIS LIFE TIMES FRIENDS AND DESCENDANTS
ABRAHAM James Johnston. LETTSOM HIS LIFE TIMES FRIENDS AND DESCENDENTS. London: Heinemann 1933. 4to. Cloth top edge gilt. Frontispiece xx 498 pages with illustrations throughout. First edition. A comprehensive biography of John Coakley Lettsom 1744-1815 18th Century physician freer of slaves and man of letters. He was born in the British Virgin Islands into a Quaker family. He is best know as the founder of the Medical Society of London in 1773 -- the oldest medical society in Great Britain and he was on the cutting edge of the latest advances in medical technology and preventative medicinal care for his day. He counted among his friends Benjamin Franklin. In addition to his renown work in the medical fie he is also a major abolitionist who freed his father's slaves in 1767 once he inherited them and continued to advocate for slave abolition all his life. unknown books
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Lincoln Abraham Lorant Stefan
Lincoln His Life in Photographs
New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce 1941. First edition Number 5 of a special edition signed by the author on the half-title. Illustrated throughout. 160 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Quarter brown pebbled morocco and cloth. Fine copy in open-faced slipcase some wear to slipcase. First edition Number 5 of a special edition signed by the author on the half-title. Illustrated throughout. 160 pp. 1 vols. 4to. SPECIAL EDITION. Duell, Sloan and Pearce unknown books
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Cowley Abraham
The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley: In Two Volumes . The Tenth edition. Adorned with Cuts. with: The Third and Last Volume of the Works . The Eighth edition . Adorned with proper and elegant Cuts
London: Jacob Tonson 1708. In all 36 fine engraved plates. 3 vols. 8vo. Beautifully bound in full nineteenth-century crimson crushed morocco gilt spines green leather labels marbled endpapers a.e.g. BY RIVIERE. BEAUTIFUL SET with the engraved bookplate of "John Sheepshanks 1852" in each volume. In all 36 fine engraved plates. 3 vols. 8vo. Jacob Tonson unknown books
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Lincoln Abraham
The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Nation Mourns Its Loss
Philadelphia: The Philadelphia Inquirer 1865. 8 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Fine. 8 pp. 1 vols. Folio. The Philadelphia Inquirer unknown books
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Stern Adolf Abraham Isaac ben Jonah Prim Rabin
Sefer Rashe Tevot. Handbuch der Hebraischen Abbreviaturen
Sighetul-Marmatiei Romania: Tipografia A. Kaufman 1926. First Edition. viii. 272 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Tan cloth backed boards. Shaken acidic paper somewhat toned and brittle. Good plus. Rare. First Edition. viii. 272 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Scholarly aid to understanding common and uncommon Hebrew abbrevations compiled by Abraham Isaac ben Jonah Stern principal rabbi of Orastie Translyvania. Tipografia A. Kaufman unknown books
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North Africa Ortelius Abraham
Barbariae et Biledulgerid Nova Descriptio. Double-page map of North African region of Libya and the Sahara desert colored by a later hand
N.p. 1590. Image area 19-1/2" x 12-7/8" in 28" x 23" mat. 1 vols. Imperfectly colored along crease down center small and unobtrusive dampstain in one corner. Still a nice piece. Image area 19-1/2" x 12-7/8" in 28" x 23" mat. 1 vols. Abraham Ortelius 1527-98 was a Flemish geographer of German origin. His major work Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 1570 with later revisions and addendums was the first modern atlas. It was based on contemporary charts and maps and contained a collection of plates engraved by Frans Hagenberg in a uniform size and format. The Theatrum preceded the first atlas of Ortelius' good friend Gerardus Mercator. In fact popular sentimental legend has it that Mercator delayed publication of his own work so that his younger friend's would appear first. Although this simply isn't true Mercator wasn't ready the legendary cartographer did complement Ortelius for the "care and elegance" he had put into the Theatrum. unknown books
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Lincoln Abraham
Selections from His Writings. Foreword by Carl E. Wahlstrom
Worecster Mass.: Achille St. Onge 1950. Fifteen hundred copies by the Chiswick Press London. Frontispiece. and 2 other photographs of Lincoln by Alexander Hesler Alexander Gardner and Matthew Brady. vii 1 76 pages. 1 vols. 3 1/8 x 2 1/8 inches. Bound in full blue morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe gilt rules a.e.g. Fine. Fifteen hundred copies by the Chiswick Press London. Frontispiece. and 2 other photographs of Lincoln by Alexander Hesler Alexander Gardner and Matthew Brady. vii 1 76 pages. 1 vols. 3 1/8 x 2 1/8 inches. Inscribed by St. Onge "To Joseph Miller with kind regards Achille St. Onge. Achille St. Onge unknown books
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Venetian History Amelot de la Houssaie Abraham Nicolas Sieur 1634 1706
Histoire du Gouvernement de Venise Avec le Suplement.et l'Examin de la Liberté originaire de Venise
Sur la Copie a Paris: Chez Frederic Leonard 1677. Second French edition. Engraved title two parts continuous pagination. 24 550 38 pp. 1 vols. Sm. 12mo. Vellum. Title in pen on spine upper joint torn some soiling of binding light browning of text mostly marginal else a very good copy. Second French edition. Engraved title two parts continuous pagination. 24 550 38 pp. 1 vols. Sm. 12mo. Amelot de la Houssaye was secretary to the French embassy at Venice and his account of the Republic for the first time revealed the policy of the Venetian governement. When the book appeared the Venetian state complained to the French court and Amelot was sent to the Bastille for six weeks. Chez Frederic Leonard unknown books
Bookseller reference : 36147
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Lincoln Abraham
A Memorial of Abraham Lincoln late President of the United States
Boston: Printed by Order of the City Council 1865. 1 vols. 8vo. Original pebbled bevelled cloth. Fine. 1 vols. 8vo. Includes speeches by Mayor of Boston Lincoln Senator Charles Sumner the eulogy Charles G. Loring A.H. Rice and Richard Henry Dana Jr pp. 56-61. BAL 4465 Printed by Order of the City Council unknown books
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Nonesuch Press Cowley Abraham
Anacreon done into English out of the original Greek by Abraham Cowley and S.B. 1683
Soho: The Nonesuch Press 1923. Number 487 of 725 copies. Newly embellished with copperplate engravings by Stephen Gooden title page head-piece to the first Ode 4 full-page engravings of Cupid Bathyllus Europa & Venus & a tail-piece to the last Ode. 52 4 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Parchment-backed gilt-papered boards. Fine copy in original gilt dust jacket slightly worn. Gooden Stephen. Number 487 of 725 copies. Newly embellished with copperplate engravings by Stephen Gooden title page head-piece to the first Ode 4 full-page engravings of Cupid Bathyllus Europa & Venus & a tail-piece to the last Ode. 52 4 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The Nonesuch Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 223924
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Miniature Book Lincoln Abraham
Abraham Lincoln. President of the United States 1861-1865. Selections from His Writings. Foreword by Carl E. Wahlstrom
Worcester Mass: Achilles St. Onge 1950. One of 1500 copies printed from Monotype Plantin type on J. Barcham Green's hand made all rag wove paper by the Chiswick Press. Photographs. 1 vols. 12mo 3 x 2 inches. Bound in full blue morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. One of 1500 copies printed from Monotype Plantin type on J. Barcham Green's hand made all rag wove paper by the Chiswick Press. Photographs. 1 vols. 12mo 3 x 2 inches. Inscribed "To Joseph Miller with kindest regards Achille St. Onge. Achilles St. Onge unknown books
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Lincoln Abraham
Commemorative porcelain tile depicting Abraham Lincoln. Verso: "In Commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary Celebration of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln February 12th 1909 / Modelled from the only untouched negative in the United States taken 1864. Made by Sherwin & Cotton Eastwood Tile Works Hanley Staffordshire. Robinson & Randle Inc. Sole Agent 1123 Broadway New York City
1 vols. 9 x 6 inches framed to 17 x 14-1/2. Two chips lightly scratched. Glued in wood frame. 1 vols. 9 x 6 inches framed to 17 x 14-1/2. unknown books
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Lincoln Abraham Littlefield John photographer
Death-Bed of Lincoln April 15 1865
Washington D.C.: John H. Littlefield; Wm. Terry Printer 1866. Photograph by John Goldin of Littlefield's painting on printed mount. Image 8 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.; mounted to 13 x 17 in. Faint toning to mount; fine. Photograph by John Goldin of Littlefield's painting on printed mount. Image 8 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.; mounted to 13 x 17 in. A published photograph of Littlefield's hyper-realistic Lincoln death-bed painting each figure meticulously rendered from photographs. <br/>Littlefield studied law under Lincoln in 1858 stumped for him in his Presidential bid and was rewarded with a position in the Treasury Department. After Lincoln's death Littlefield invented this tableau of twenty-five people ranged around the death-bed including Vice-President Johnson Surgeon Charles Leale and Mrs. Lincoln.<br/>"The artist used photographs as models for the twenty-five people gathered in the death room but his profile of the dying Lincoln shows a first-hand acquaintance" Ostendorf LINCOLN'S PHOTOGRAPHS p. 279. John H. Littlefield; Wm. Terry, Printer unknown books
Bookseller reference : 238011
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Yaari Abraham
Bibliography of the Passover Haggadah From the Earliest Printed Edition to 1960 with Twenty Five Reproductions from Rare Editions and a Facsimile of a Unique Copy of the First Printed Haggadah in the Jewish National and University Library Jerusalem
Jerusalem: Bamberger & Wahrman 1960. First edition. Double column text. xi English xx Hebrew 208 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Cloth. Fine in very good dust jacket with loss on back panel. First edition. Double column text. xi English xx Hebrew 208 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Bamberger & Wahrman unknown books
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Lincoln Abraham Donizetti Gaetano
Funeral March Performed at the Funeral of Abraham Lincoln
Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co 1865. First edition front wrapper without portrait of Lincoln appearing in later issues. Engraved title and piano score; 5 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Loose as issued; split along spine with some chipping to extremities. First edition front wrapper without portrait of Lincoln appearing in later issues. Engraved title and piano score; 5 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Donizetti died 17 years before Lincoln having gone mad from syphilis. His Funeral March gained a measure of recognition in America after it was performed during Lincoln's funeral ceremonies. It is a heavy solemn piece in a minor with droning octaves in the bass a haunting chromatic figure in the middle register and a lyrical upper voice. see Barret Sale Lot 693; Stern Collection of Lincolniana Oliver Ditson & Co unknown books
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Ortelius Abraham
Angliae Scotiae et Hiberniae sive Britannica Insularum Descriptio. Double-page Map of England Scotland and Ireland with Royal Crest in upper right corner. Hand-Colored by a later hand
np 1590. Image area 19 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches in 28 x 23 inch mat. Single crease down center with one 1/2 inch spot worn through otherwise a nice handsome map. Image area 19 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches in 28 x 23 inch mat. Abraham Ortelius 1527-1598 was a Flemish geographer of German origin. His major work Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 1570 with later revisions and addenda was the first modern atlas. It was based on contemporary charts and maps and contained a collection of plates engraved by Franz Hagenberg in a uniform size and format. The Theatrum preceded the first Atlas of Ortelius' good friend Gerardus Mercator. In fact popular and sentimental legend has it that Mercator delayed publication of his own work so that his younger friend's would appear first. although this simply is not true Mercator wasn't ready the legendary cartographer did compliment Ortelius for the "care and elegance" he put into his "Theatrum. unknown books
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Cowley Abraham
The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley. Consisting of Those which were formerly Printed: and Those which he Design'd for the Press. Now Published out of the Authors Original Copies
London: Printed by J.M. for Henry Herringman at the Sign of the Blue Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange 1681. Seventh edition. Frontis portraits. 1 vols. Folio. Bound in contemporary pannelled calf neatly rebacked one joint starting. Seventh edition. Frontis portraits. 1 vols. Folio. Ownership notation on title-page by Thomas Button his book 1712. Printed by J.M. for Henry Herringman, at the Sign of the Blue Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange unknown books
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KAAU BOERHAAVE Abraham 1715 1758.
Perspiratio dicta Hippocrati per universum corpus anatomice illustrata auctore. . . Declamatio academica de gaudiis alchemistarum.
Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Samuelem Luchtmans 1738. 1738. 160 x 101 mm. Small 8vo. xvi 36 4 445 2 pp. Title in red and black printer's device on title headpieces floriated initials corrigenda. Contemporary tan calf raised bands red leather spine label; rubbed spine ends chipped joints and hinges reinforced with kozo. Ex library rubber stamps of the National Library of Medicine. Very good. FIRST EDITION. In this work Kaau Boerhaave describes the process of the excretion of sweat from the sweat-glands of the skin and the motion of fluids within the body. The book also reprints his short lecture on the alchemists for which he received a gold medal from Leyden University. In this copy the lecture on alchemy is bound at the front of the volume. There was a second edition Lovanni 1779. Stieda calls this "a brilliant work." Abraham Kaau Boerhaave the prominent physician studied medicine at Leyden under his uncle Hermann Boerhaave. After graduating and practicing medicine at The Hague for several years Kaau-Boerhaave went to St. Petersburg where he was appointed professor of theoretical and practical medicine and pharmacy. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Blake NLM p. 239; Hirsch III pp. 436-437; Waller 13832; Wellcome III p. 375. Apud Samuelem Luchtmans, 1738. hardcover books
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ALBERS Johann Abraham 1772 1821.
Dissertatio inauguralis medica de ascite. . .
Jena:: Fiedlerianis 1795. 1795. 232 x 197 mm. Small 4to. iv iv 46 ix pp. Foxed. Self wraps; last few gatherings loose. Ex library rubber stamp on title. Very good. Albers' dissertation on dropsy of the belly. Johann Abraham Albers studied under J. C. von Loder and Chistoph Wilhelm Hufeland 1762-1836. Hirsch I pp. 80. Not in RLIN. Fiedlerianis, 1795. paperback books
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FLEXNER Abraham 1866 1959.
Die Ausbildung des Mediziners: eine Vergleichende Untersuchung. Ins Deutsche Ubertragen von Walther Fischer.
Berlin:: Julius Springer 1927. 1927. 243 x 165 mm. 8vo. iv 285 pp. Index. Original printed wrappers. Very good. FIRST GERMAN EDITION of Flexner's comparative study of medical education. Flexner wrote the first systematic and thorough comparisons of the major systems of medical education with his medical education in Europe New York 1912. Here he continues and expands his work. Garrison and Morton 1766.504 English ed. New York 1925. Julius Springer, 1927. unknown books
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Rattner Abraham
TWENTY-FOUR PLATES. Signed by the artist.
Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press 1956. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. First Edition. Folio. 20 page booklet with color front cover illustration with text printed and illustrated in red an black. Booklet is signed and inscribed by Rattner "To Herbert L. Sterrett my best wishes and compliments signed Abraham Rattner." Twenty four loose folio plates are included of which six are printed in color plates are not signed by the artist. Booklet and plates measure 16.75 inches in height and are in excellent condition with only minor offsetting to verso of plates not affecting images and are protected in the original clamshell box. The box is illustrated in red and black and is moderately to heavily worn rubbed and soiled with minor splitting at several seams remaining intact attractive and functional. University of Illinois Press Paperback books
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ABRAHAM Henry J.
Justices Presidents and Senators; A History of the U. S. Supreme Court Appointments from Washington to Clinton
Lanham: Rowan & Littlefield 1999. paperback. very good. Illus. 4to pr. wrs. Lanham: Rowan & Littlefield 1999. Very good<br/><br/> Rowan & Littlefield unknown books
Bookseller reference : 286977 ISBN : 0847696057 9780847696055
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Lincoln Abraham
The autobiography of Abraham Lincoln the original which was written for campaign purposes seems to have disappeared. Collectors are apparently unable to locate it cover title
N.p.: n.d. 1914. Single sheet approx. 8¼" x 13¼" folded twice; containing a facsimile of a letter written by Lincoln to Jesse W. Fell giving a brief autobiography. Monaghan 2127: "Facsimile of original manuscript attested by David Davis Lyman Trumbull and Charles Sumner." <br/><br/> n.d. unknown books
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LINCOLN ABRAHAM
Speech of Abraham Lincoln of Illinois Delivered at the Cooper Institute Monday Feb. 27 1860 Cooper Union Address
New York: New York Tribune 1860. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST EDITION of Lincoln's historic Cooper Union Address delivered on February 27 1860 at the Cooper Institute in New York. The speech is largely credited to having launched Lincoln's Presidential bid. In the fall of 1859 James A. Briggs who served on the lecture committee of the Plymouth Church in Brooklyn invited presidential candidate hopeful Abraham Lincoln to speak to a New York audience on any subject of his choosing. Lincoln accepted the invitation choosing to speak of the current political climate in America. William O. Stoddard an Illinois journalist who worked for President Lincoln during his administration noted that "No previous effort of his life cost him so much hard work as did that Cooper Institute speech" and that the resulting speech "was a masterly review of the history of the slavery question from the foundation of the government with a clear bold statesmanlike presentation of the then present attitude of parties and of sections. It exhibited a careful research a thorough knowledge and understanding of political movements and developments that staggered even the most laborious and painstaking students. It showed a grasp a breadth a mental training and a depth of penetration which compelled the admiration of critical scholars" Stoddard Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life. <br /> <br /> "Horace Greeley had rushed out the speech in pamphlet form as 'Tribune Tract' Number 4 under the headline: National Politics. Speech of Abraham Lincoln of Illinois Delivered at the Cooper Institute Monday Feb. 27 1860. The pamphlet was ready March 6 while Lincoln was still traveling through Connecticut. When he returned to New York he found it already available to the public. <br /> <br /> "Greeley marketed the eleven-page Tribune edition aggressively. As a bonus the publication included Wisconsin Republican senator James Doolittle's February 24 speech attaching 'the new doctrine of judicial infallibility' as did Lincoln's address at Cooper Union just three days later and also like Cooper Union railing agains 'the headstrong zeal pursued by the other party to force slavery into Territories'.<br /> <br /> "It was as if Republicans were now speaking with one voice: identifying with the founders attacking the Dred Scott decision rebuking John Brown and drawing their own 'dividing line' on slavery extension. Lincoln did not say it alone; but he said it best. 'Mr. Lincoln's is probably the most systematic and complete defense yet made of the Republican position with regard to Slavery' the Tribune declared in its initial advertisement for the reprints. 'We believe no speech has yet been made better calculated to win the intelligent minds over to our standard. Will the friends of the Cause everywhere aid us to circulate it'<br /> <br /> "The answer was yes. The Tribune Tract edition proved enormously popular going through at least five additional editions. Lincoln's New York oration was enjoying a new and sustained life in pamphlet form and was being purchased individually and in bulk alike by admirers and groups across the North.<br /> <br /> "The Cooper Union address tested whether Lincoln's appeal could extend from the podium to the page and from the rollicking campaigns of the rural West to the urban East. Cooper Union held the promise of transforming Lincoln from a regional phenomenon to a national figure. Lincoln knew it and rose to the occasion." Harold Holzer Lincoln at the Copper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President.<br /> <br /> New York: New York Tribune Tribune Tracts No. 4 1860. Octavo original wrappers; custom box. Lincoln's speech comprises pages 1-11 out of a total of 16 pages. With New York Tribune ads and subscription terms on rear wrapper. Only a spot of soiling in the bottom margin of the rear wrapper creeping lightly into preceding leaves. A beautiful copy in a remarkable state of preservation. RARE. New York Tribune unknown books
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Clarke Abraham Lynsen Rector of St. John's Church Providence
The secrets of Masonry illustrated and explained; in a discourse preached at South-Kingstown before the Grand Lodge of the State of Rhode-Island; convened for the installation of Washington-Lodge September 3d A.L. 5799
Providence: printed by Brother Bennett Wheeler 1799. First edition 8vo pp. 15 1; 20th-century brown cloth-backed marbled boards gilt-lettered direct on spine; title page guarded small stain in the top gutter margin throughout; all else very good. On the verso of the last leaf: "Benjamin J. Sheffield his book bought December 23 AD 1799 price P. 4½." This discourse by a clergyman indicates the comfort of the clergy with Masonry at the turn of the century. Alden 1614; Bartlett p. 77-8; Evans 35310. <br/><br/> printed by Brother Bennett Wheeler hardcover books
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Norwood Abraham.
The acts of the elders commonly called the Book of Abraham; containing a revelation made to him at a protracted meeting to which is appended a chapter from the Book of Religious Errors with notes of explanation and commentation from commencement to termination. Calculated for the median of Rhode Island; but will answer for the New England States. Written by himself
Providence: published for the purchaser 1842. First edition 12mo pp. 160; original black cloth-backed printed paper-covered boards; very good. Chapter I verse 1: "Now it came to pass that Harrison was dead and Tyler was made President in his stead over all the United States of America." "This curious book relates to the dissensions among various religious denominations in Rhode Island. It is written in scriptural language and divided into chapters and verses." Not in American Imprints; Bartlett p. 6; Sabin 148 authorship unattributed; Sabin 55932 later editions with Norwood the attributed author. <br/><br/> published for the purchaser hardcover books
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Vechten Abraham van et al.
To the commissioners of the Albany Basin; to the original subscribers of the stock created for erecting the Albany Pier. the memorial of the subscribers owners of ground lying on the inland side of the upper part of the Albany Basin respectfully represents drop title
Albany NY 1828. First edition 8vo pp. 16; self-wrappers unopened and uncut very light rubberstamp in the bottom margin of the first leaf a few pencil marks and edgewear all else very good. A complaint that the erection of the Albany Pier was effectively a deprivation of property against the subscribers who's access to the canal became limited. American Imprints 35521; NYPL only in OCLC. <br/><br/> unknown books
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Jackson Abraham Willard Rev
Barbariana: or scenery climate soils and social conditions of Santa Barbara City and County California
San Francisco: C. A. Murdock & Co 1888. First edition 8vo pp. 48; original printed salmon wrappers; red ink mark on p. 21 and bleeding onto p. 20; all else near fine. Rocq 13510. <br/><br/> C. A. Murdock & Co unknown books
Bookseller reference : 53558
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Wolf Abraham
A history of science technology and philosophy in the 16th & 17th centuries
New York: Macmillan Company 1935. 8vo pp. xxvii 1 692; 316 figures and plates original navy cloth with gilt title on spine bookplate of O. C. Lester; fine. "A thoroughly comprehensive sourcebook it deals with all the important developments in science and many of the innovations in the social sciences British and Continental philosophy and psychology." <br/><br/> Macmillan Company hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 49210
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Hayward Abraham.
Biographical and Critical Essays. Reprinted from Reviews with Additions and Corrections.
London: Longman Brown Green Longmans and Roberts 1858. First Edition. Two volumes. Octavo bound by Thomas Beet of Conduit Street in full tree calf calf labels gilt-decorated spines marbled edges 451 pp 436 pp. Very Good; front joint of Volume I a bit tender light shelf wear. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858. First Edition. unknown books
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Moivre Abraham de
Annuities upon lives: or the valuation of annuities upon any number of lives; as also of reversions. To which is added an appendix concerning the expectations of life and probabilities of survivorship
Dublin: re-printed by and for Samuel Fuller 1731. Second edition "corrected" 8vo A-R4; woodcut initials head- and tail-pieces text diagrams and tables throughout; 20th-century green cloth gilt-lettered spine; ex-Northwestern National Life Ins. Co. Minneapolis with their rubber stamps; some shallow losses to front endpaper edges textblock foxed else very good and sound. An early actuarial treatise by one of the founders of the science of life-contingencies which was first published in 1725 and dedicated to the Earl of Macclesfield see DNB XIII p. 536. See Morrison 1690 for the first edition. <br/><br/> re-printed, by and for Samuel Fuller hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 44795
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Brown Robert McAfee Abraham J. Heschel & Michael Novak
Vietnam: crisis of conscience
New York: Association Press 1971. First edition 16mo pp. 127 2; near fine in original pictorial wrappers. "The war in Vietnam is 'impossible to justify'. An appeal of moral urgency rallying Catholic Jew and Protestant to join in blood steps to end the conflict." upper cover. <br/><br/> Association Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 35299
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Abraham Ashley P.
Some portraits of the lake poets and their homes
Keswick: G.P. Abraham 1923. 8vo pp. 52; portrait frontispiece of William Wordsworth 28 additional monogravure plates; contemporary full black morocco gilt-stamped decorative covers gilt-lettered spine in 6 compartments raised bands; front cover badly rubbed general shelf wear along edges and corners interior near fine. <br/><br/> G.P. Abraham hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 40871
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Woodhead Abraham
The Protestants plea for a Socinian.1686. Introduction by Richard Kroll
Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library 1987. 8vo pp. xii 45; facsimile reprint; original pale grey printed wrappers near fine. The Augustan Reprint Society Publication no. 243. <br/><br/> William Andrews Clark Memorial Library unknown books
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Abraham Werner & CJac Conradie C. Ja
Präteritumschwund und diskursgrammatik. Präteritumschwund in gesamteuropäischen bezügen: areale ausbreitung heterogene entstehung parsing sowie diskursgrammatische grundlagen und zusammenhänge
Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2001. 8vo pp. xii 2 148; original red printed wrappers some soiling else a good copy. <br/><br/> John Benjamins Publishing Company unknown books
Bookseller reference : 38923
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