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1862réf. 95814Tallahassee: Printed by Dyke & Carlisle 1862. Rare first edition documenting the acts and resolutions passed by the General Assembly of Florida in the first year of the American Civil War. Octavo disbound. In very good condition. Scarce and desirable. Among the 34 United States of America in February 1861 seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the country to form the Confederate States of America causing the outbreak of the most studied and written about episode in United States History: the American Civil War. The Confederacy grew to include eleven states all of them slave-holding. After the secession of South Carolina on December 20 1860 the "cotton states" of Mississippi Florida Alabama Georgia Louisiana and Texas followed suit seceding in January and February 1861 Printed by Dyke & Carlisle unknown books
1983réf. ULADLAD00EFHarmony Books 1983. Very Good. Ladies' Home Journal. Ladies' Home Journal Vintage Covers: A Poster Book. Blyth introduction Myrna. New York: Harmony Books 1983. 47pp. Illustrated. Folio. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed and bumped edges and lightly creased corners. Harmony Books paperback books
1781réf. 26991Paris: Chez Mr. Bailleux 1781. 5 volumes. Folio. Full contemporary mottled brown paper with red morocco title label with "Mme. Pictet. Pictet" gilt and secondary manuscript label to upper. Engraved. Series title: "Journal d'ariettes italiennes des plus célèbres compositeurs avec les paroles italiennes et françoises la basse sous le chant e toutes les parties séparées pour la facilité de l'éxécution. " - Score for Basso continuo Voice and Violino primo. 6 issues bound in 1 nos. XLIX-LIV. 6 pp. each several with blank sixth page. Text in French and Italian. Includes the following 6 pieces 1 per issue each with a printed note about who sang it and where: - Issue XLIX: Giovanni Paesiello 1740-1816. "Quell' amante che non è." "Rondeau chanté par Mme. Todi au Concert de Mrs. les Amateurs." - L: Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi 1728-1804. "Chi signor una parola." "Air Chanté par Madame Todi au Concert de Mrs. les Amateurs." - LI: Paesiello. "Care donne sventurate." "Duo de la Frascatana." - LII: Pasquale Anfossi 1727-1797. "Non fugge il buon guerriera." - LIII: Guglielmi. "Fanciulina tenerina." Air Chanté par Madame Todi au Concert de Messieurs les Amateurs." - LIV: Ferdinando Bertoni 1725-1813. "Scioglio cara un dolce riso." - Score for 2 oboes. 17 issues bound in 1 nos. XLIX LII LIV LVI-LVIII 60-64 66-70 72. Each with 1 2 or 3 pp. of music. Includes several of the aforementioned pieces as well as others by Paesiello Guglielmi Antonio Sacchini 1730-1786 Carlo Monza ca. 1735-1801 Gennaro Astarita ca. 1745-1805 Joseph Schuster 1748-1812 Domenico Cimarosa 1749-1801 Niccolo Piccinni 1728-1800 Giuseppe Sarti 1729-1802 Matteo Rauzzini 1754-1791 Giuseppe Colla 1731-1806 Giuseppe 1743-1798 or Tomasso Giordani ca. 1730-1806 and Luigi Gatti 1740-1817. Manuscript label "Arriettes Flauto. " indicates that two flutes may have performed from the present copy. - Violino primo. 12 issues bound in 1 nos. XLIX-60. Each with 1-3 pp. of music followed by 1 of 2 different catalogs by Bailleux the second in Johansson facs. 8. Includes the aforementioned pieces and composers with an additional piece no. 59 by Paesiello. - Violino secondo. 12 issues bound in 1 nos. XLIX-60. Each with 1-3 pp. of music. Includes the aforementioned pieces and composers. - Alto. 12 issues bound in 1 nos. XLIX-60. Each with 1-3 pp. of music. Includes the aforementioned pieces and composers. Spine partially or completely lacking; tender at gutter. Moderate to heavy foxing and minor to moderate dampstaining to some leaves; several leaves folded; occasional light soiling; occasional tears to blank margins not affecting music. BUC p. 774. RISM BII p. 205. Bailleux published 393 bimonthly issues of the Journal d'ariettes italiennes between 1779 and 1795. Chez Mr. Bailleux unknown books
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réf. 5300CARIBBEAN TRAVEL JOURNAL. Diary. 101 pages. The Caribbean. c. 1908-9. The handwritten journal belonging to C. B. Benson of Hudson New York. The diary recounts Benson’s experience on an organized cruise group visit to Caribbean locations such as St. Thomas Puerto Rico Kingston Jamaica Caracas Venezuela Panama City Panama Port of Spain Trinidad and Martinique. Benson records his experiences in each location including his impressions of the town the locals sights he visited and local travel. He visited forts a school churches a mill a sugar plantation and Carnival celebrations. Benson took his tour during the era of colonial rule the attitudes of which infuse both his experiences and observations. Based on his mention of an earthquake in Kingston Jamaica taking place a year or two before he travelled in 1908 or 1909. “…St. Thomas where we arrived about 6 A.M. mid morning Jan 26 is one of the Virgin group and we found her framed and frescoed in the principal churches. Columbus in 1493 gave the group of 100 islands rocks and…which comprise the group. St. Thomas is 13 miles in length and 3 miles in width at its broadest. And I guess we walked the length of it speaking broadly and in the abstract at this distance.The heat of the tropical sun also takes its toll and blurs our ideas of time and distance somewhat. The town of Charlotte Amelia contains 13000 inhabitants – merchants and black babies and they are all dressed in their Sunday best to receive us properly.Thursday morning at 8 we went ashore at Porto sic Rico.Returning thro the village streets we stopped at the market place and noticed the display of fruits in baskets a couple of men seated on low stools with blacks in front of them.a native woman…was entertaining us in the middle of the road with a dance.When passing the island of Haiti.‘Do you know why we do not stop at the Island of Haiti’ ‘No’ There are cannibals there there are so many fat people aboard you would lose your wife’ At St Thomas the American council held open house and received some of us who dared to invade this solitude.An hour’s railroad ride which was made interesting by stops at every little…and station where the bare legged boy with the oil gun in hand squirted oil…bearings sic of the cars and engine. As it was before the 17 miles came to an end the rear axle of the parlor car so called because it had leather covered reclining seats caught fire. But when this happened we were nearly at the end of our journey and we were not delayed much. At the sugar plantation where we detrained we found we had some distance to walk down…to the sugar mill. As there was no path and the sticky wet ground to soil made worse by the heavy rain of the night before.A sugar mill is never a clean place.The process is somewhat intricate but way he likened to the process of brewing.The cane piled up in the yard is boiled in a number of vats then is run off with barrels and in a black and solid state in shipped to the Refineries at New York. The fiber of the cane is then hardened and dried and is fed to the furnaces to boil…cane. After return to the town San Juan we visited the shops. Walked out to the fort at the entrance of the harbor. The town is excellently policed and paved in the principal streets with telegram blocks.As this day was Thursday we concluded that every day was wash day for the native women and girls who for want of other diversions spend most of their time in this form of dissipation. Even the balconies of the main public street filled with traffic of street cars carriages and drays had their fill of wash some of which are found laying in the street having been carried down by the wind. No one had appropriated it as yet; and we did not add it to our collection of souvenirs. At the officers quarters I applied for a permit of the officer of the day to enter the fort ‘San Cristobal’ the fort commanding the entrance to the harbor.The fort was like most forts. The high tower gave a commanding view of the town and harbor. Then we visited the Governor’s Palace. In the Reception Room hanging on opposite sides facing each other are life sized oil paintings of McKinley & Cleveland. In the garden were some large palms tropical ferns a fountain &.Jan 29. early in the morning we were at Kingston in Jamaica. The channel is narrow and tortuous but well… Taking a local pilot we soon…opposite it…of three vessels one of which was the Princess Louise that was caught in the hurricane here three years ago and…the larger of the three vessels was trying to pick up the light from the light house which had been blown down. This destruction of the hurricane.After driving about a mile thru the city the destruction to the buildings & pavements made by the earthquake here a year or two ago half of the city seems to be in ruins and no attempt has been made apparently to rebuild & restore the city. Thousands of lives were lost here at that time which did immense damage to the fruits. Most of the uninhabitable part of the island belongs to the United Fruit Company a Boston Corporation who ships immense quantities of bananas from Port Antonio. Owing to recent destruction by fire of Hotel Litchfield our stop at the port of San Antonio and stay of night at the Hotel was omitted. An excursion across the island by train to Mandeville was arranged in its place.The town of Colon in its principle streets are paved with brick and appear clean. We noticed many buzzards. The air was clear and there was a delightful cool breeze blowing.We stopped at all of the stations going to Panama and noted the wonderful impressions made by the Sanitary Commission. The well ventilated and screened houses. The plan for disposal of garbage the open drainage the cleared lands…But of course the facts are here – bug and drain – all working to the mutual exclusion of some ideas to the American white employers. Therefore after a few months they must have a reaction in the States to…and detach themselves from all absorbing facts. The fighting for life against…fires. Most things are…between the white employers and the black employees. So we find the ‘White Bar’ and the ‘Black Bar’ ‘The White Employees’ ‘The Silver White Employees’ &c as signs on the cars intended to carry workmen back and forth from the works.Caracas the capital of Venezuela is about 3000 ft up but the sun in the middle of the day we found very hot.Plaza Bolivar was decorated with rows of colored electric lights. They are preparing for the Carnival season which ushers in Lent in Catholic countries. The market place had counters for dry goods highly colored handkerchiefs etc. Another section was devoted to fruits vegetables etc. We noticed some very large apricots. Mr. Bolivar apparently has done a great deal for his native town. He has given his name – while the people furnished the funds – for the largest parks a street and the coinage of the plutocrats.The Spaniard the…Hildago -in his easy subjugation of the…pleasure loving tropical savage has replaced the native of simple taste and left in his place the mongrel half-breed with all the vices of the conqueror and none of the virtues of the…Indian savage…”. The diary is in very good condition. It is mostly written in pencil but is quite legible. hardcover books
réf. 5195NEW JERSEY. Journal. 26 pages of writing. 1846-1854. Caldwell New Jersey. A handwritten journal of expenses kept in 1840s and 1850s New Jersey by a “J G Glasby” whose name is written on the inside front cover. Glasby listed expenditures for basic provisions manly foodstuffs for people and animals. Butter was by far the most common item purchased. There are many blank pages throughout the middle and end while the last few pages have additional writing. The journal is in good condition although some of the pages have separated from the binding. It has a leather spine and marbled paper-covered boards. hardcover books
1864réf. 694531864. A Curious 1864 Case Involving Murder and Insanity Editors of the Journal of Mental Science. Insanity and Crime: A Medico-Legal Commentary on the Case of George Victor Townley. London: John Churchill and Sons 1864. 47 1 pp. Octavo 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". Stab-stitched pamphlet with untrimmed edges bound into recent cloth printed paper title labels to front board and spine endpapers added. Moderate toning to text faint vertical crease through center small inkspots to a few leaves. $500. Only edition. In this unusual trial Townley was found sane and guilty of the murder of his fiancee but insane afterwards and thus incapable of execution. The discussion of this case in the interesting pamphlets examines among other related topics partial impulsive and "moral" insanity. OCLC locates 13 copies in North America 1 in a law library U.S. Supreme Court. unknown books
1852réf. 675821852. An Interesting View of the American Legal Community in 1852 Law Journal. Livingston John Editor. United States Monthly Law Magazine. New York: United States Monthly Magazine Office 1852. Volume 6 No. 1 July 1852 Volume 5 No. 1 January 1852 Volume 5 No. 2 February 1852 Volume 4 No. 4 1852. Title page and final two pages author notice and prospectus lacking from Volume 6 No. 1. Final two leaves prospectus and advertisements lacking from Volume 5 No. 2. Octavo 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". Periodicals bound into nineteenth-century three-quarter morocco over marbled boards. Light rubbing to boards moderate rubbing to extremities with wear to spine ends joints cracked a few cracks to text block. Light toning to text slightly heavier in places. $250. The United States Monthly Law Magazine was published from January 1850 to July 1852. It specialized in scholarly essays and jurist biographies but also offered book reviews review essays court reports of American and English cases and notices. Some of the more notable articles in our volume are an anonymous critique of the Field Codes of civil and criminal procedure Volume 5 No. 2 pp. 152-172 and a biographical sketch of Sam Houston Volume 4 No. 4 pp. 567-592. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School 1909 I:824. unknown books
1996réf. 655081996. Yale Law Journal. New Haven Conn.: Yale Law Journal Co. Inc. Volumes 69 to 105 1959-1996 bound Vol. 100 no.5 Paper back Lacking vol. 100 part 3. Together 79 volumes. Ex-library with stamps faint dampstaining to margins of 9 volumes else good condition. Reprint Price USD 3695. Special $695. The Yale Law Journal is a student-run law review affiliated with the Yale Law School. Published continuously since 1891 it is one of the most cited legal publications in the nation and usually generates the highest number of citations per published article. unknown books
2006réf. 651692006. Yale Law Journal. New Haven Conn.: Yale Law Journal Co. Inc. Volumes 62 to 111; 114 to 115 no. 4 1952-2006. Lacking 15 issues: vol. 96 nos. 123; 97 nos. 678; 98 nos. 2-8; 102 nos. 28. Bound volumes: 62 to 95 upper red and lower black spine labels; 99 to 101; 103 to 106; 108 navy blue buckram in 64 books. Ex-library with stamps spine labels and letters "LL" marked to heads of spines on volumes 62 to 95 else good condition. Reprint Price USD 5695. Special $695. The Yale Law Journal is a student-run law review affiliated with the Yale Law School. Published continuously since 1891 it is one of the most cited legal publications in the nation and usually generates the highest number of citations per published article. unknown books
1893réf. 23400New York 1893. Small broadsheet 5" x 7" printed on tan card stock single hole punch at top. Rubberstamp at head of title: 'American Engineer and Railroad Journal' a few letters partly affected by hole punch. Very Good. unknown books
1823réf. 152081823. Journal. The Law Advertiser. London: J.W. Paget 1823-1831. Reprint edition. No publisher. No date. 9 volumes. Hardcover. Cloth. 1-1/2 linear feet of shelf space. Very good. $150. Includes bankruptcy proceedings parliamentary proceedings as well as notices on the national debt charities stocks patents etc. unknown books
1886réf. 6692Philadelphia and Chicago: Farm Journal; copyright 1885 by Wilmer Atkinson; Electroplated printed and bound by J.F. Dickson & Co 1886. Duodecimo 13 x 8.5 cm. 64 pages. Illustrated. Table of contents is really a short index. Second printing. The 1885 original issue appears to have been 96 pages long and larger in dimensions 18 cm. tall. A home economics manual for the rural housewife drawn from the pages of Farm Journal. Interesting topics such as Taking Care of Things Down Cellar Up-Stairs Work Comforts and Conveniences Kindlings and School Lunches are included. Farm Journal was a Philadelphia-based rural farm paper which ran from 1877 to 1939. A few clippings laid-in and a bit of offsetting as a result. A bit of edge chipping to publisher's black and red printed wrapper otherwise very good or better. Scarce. OCLC records three copies of this 1886 issue with 64 pages and four copies of all other issues; not in Cagle. Farm Journal; copyright 1885 by Wilmer Atkinson; Electroplated, printed, and bound by J.F. Dickson & Co unknown books
1899réf. 3640Pittsburgh: Mercantile Journal and Pennsylvania Grocer 1899. 30.5 x 23.5 cm 24 pages. Illustrated advertisements throughout. Single issue of this periodical for Pittsburgh grocers featuring market prices news of retail associations and obituaries. In printed wrappers some creasing and chipping otherwise very good. Mercantile Journal and Pennsylvania Grocer unknown books
1908réf. 2921New York & Chicago 1908. Thick quarto. 12 issues of this professional journal for the ice trade. Profusely illustrated with ads for all business connected to the trade. Contents include articles on large scale refrigeration installations various technical matters regional association activities trade conventions etc. Text block very good but three quarter brown morocco binding is split at the hinges and quite rubbed. Scarce in the trade. unknown books
réf. 15192Handwritten journal Notebook recording death dates and obituaries for a teenage girl in 1857 upstate New York and others in her community. 96 pages numbered in pencil with 60 pages of content. Originally owned by Anna Arthur a school girl the initial pages record daily life including her daily interests in shopping and fashion. However Anna's contributions to the journal end abruptly in 1857 when she died suddenly "of brain congestion". The remainder of her journal is carried out by a family member likely her mother. Anna's obituary is pasted in. "Died. In this Village of Congestion of the brain after a short illness of but two days Miss Anna Arthur aged 17." Followed with handwritten pencil inscription with date of death Dec. 23 1857. "Among the deaths published in our paper this week is that that of Miss Anna Arthur only daughter of Charles Artur of this village. She was in the enjoyment of usual health until a day or two preceeding sic her death and no alarm was experienced by herself or family at the slight illness which suddenly terminated in Congestion of the brain. Miss Arthur was but seventeen years of age and was a young lady of much promise. -- The mysterious Providence which in the morning of life has removed from earth a darling child falls heavily upon the heads of a fond father and mother and a large circle of youthful friends and acquaintances. Truly we are as the flowers of the valley flourishing to day to-morrow no more! Happy visions rise before us our hearts are joyous no clouds dim the bright future when without a moments warning unseen and unknown the messenger of death lays his blightin touch upon the loved one and our hearts bleed with sorrow and refuse to be comforted." Also includes a poem "Lines on the Death of Miss Anna Arthur" printed in an Essex County newspaper on Christmas day. "I gazed on a flower that modestly boomed On the breast of a maiden whom Death ahd entombed On her breast was a rose but not spirit was there.The roses that filled with their scented perfume The air which the mortals so softly did breathe: Were naought when compared witht the exquisite bloom Of those flowers that sigh where no spirit can grieve." The poems is signed off from Keeseville a small hamlet in the Adirondacks of New York. Followed by a handwritten poem "A Dirge". "Weep not for her; she died in early youth Ere Hope had lost its rih romantic hues; When human bosoms deemed that home of truth And earth still gleamed with beauty's radiant dews Her summer prime waned not to days that freeze; Her wine of line was run not the the lees; Weep not for her.Weep not for her she is an angel now And treads the sapphire floors of Paradise; All darkness wiped from her refulgent brow; Sin sorrow suffering banished from her eyes Victorious over death to her appear The vista'd joys of Heaven's eternal year; Weep not for her." Includes obituary notices for members of the local community and others in the family including brother Asahel Arthur who passed in 1914. Includes handwritten poem "Rest Thee Brother." "Rest thee brother rest thee Underneath the snow; Winds shall sing a dirge for thee Murmuring waters flow." Begins with a log of various expenses for items needed in the year 1857 for sewing projects and other fancies that a young lady would enjoy such as "velvet ribbon" "bonnet" black silk kid gloves hair pinsand linen floss among others. Leather cover in poor condition. Wrapped in an attractive marbled folder. unknown books
1851réf. WRCAM40376Primarily at sea 1851. 34pp. in a highly legible hand. Folio. Dbd. Lightly foxed. Several pages torn out. Doodles on blank versos of some leaves. Good. First-person narrative of a young man's sea voyage from Boston to Palermo and back. Though serving as a hand the young man seems to be of fairly good breeding and education having determined to teach himself the art of navigation while on board and often waxing poetic and sentimental. Departing on Oct. 21 1850 the author says the ship is "a very good looking vessel" and that the Captain and mates are "very fine men;" regarding the rest of the crew he says: "I have not been with them long enough to judge of their characters as yet." While his journal is filled with weather and wind and resetting the rigging it also has very contemplative passages: "At eight PM I went to the wheel it was a beautiful night the full moon shone in all her glory casting a mellow light on all around so light was the breeze that it scarce ruffled the surface of the Ocean our ship was gliding through the water with scarcely any perceptable sic motion ah who would not go to sea were it always thus. I have been thinking of home and friends this watch which I may never see again but I hope before many months are passed I shall return to my native land and grasp the hand of friends once more." He writes often of seeing friends and home again and of spending his future days more profitably than his past ones. On Nov. 18 he turns twenty and writes: "I must say that but a small portion of that time has been spent as it should have been but it is passed and cannot be recalled and I have only to try to do better in future and hope for success." The ship arrives at Palermo on Nov. 30 and the crew are let ashore on Dec. 8 having finally passed quarantine. The author writes at some length about Palermo and the sights seen including the King's gardens and the catacombs "where are the remains of some twenty thousand people of both sexes and all ages from the infant to the gray headed old man." But for all the sights of Palermo he is nevertheless eager to be underway again for home. One of the tasks the crew has been set to is the painting of the ship which the author finds quite enjoyable: "We have been painting the spars today which is hard work but I have a fancy for painting so I have got along very well." Impatient to be home he is not sorry when they set off from Palermo on Dec. 21: "I do not think I shall regret leaving here though I have nothing in particular to complain of respecting the town or the inhabitants." Light winds hamper their return journey and at times the ship is entirely becalmed. When they finally reach Gibraltar on Jan. 14 squalls are upon them and they have to anchor there for some days. While in port the author begins to be peevish with the Captain: ".the Capt. has found plenty of what I call humbuging sic or unnecessary work for us to do it seems strange to me that a man professing to be a gentleman should stoop to such low acts of meanness merely to show his authority and gratify a malicious spirit but so it is with some who wish to exercise a sort of tyranny over those who have not the power to defend themselves however we shall soon be on an even footing and can say and do as we please and then I shall express myself more freely." Things eventually settle out though with the Duchess arriving in Nantucket on Feb. 22 1851 ending the journal. An interesting and personal account of a trip to sea. unknown books
1839réf. WRCAM41144Boston 1839. 289-579pp. plus three plates. Later wrappers. In a folding cloth box leather label by James MacDonald. Volume 2 numbers 3 and 4 of the BOSTON JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY issued in August 1839. A survey of fish in Massachusetts' waters completed as part of a Zoological Survey of Massachusetts. hardcover books
1926réf. 2293324Privately Printed / Murray Printing Co. Limited 1926. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Limited edition #933 of 1500 copies. Former copy of the Clifton Springs Medical Library with a few marks. 1926 Hard Cover. xxxviii 633 1 pp. 8vo. Photographic frontispiece of William Osler. A collection of essays published to honor the influential physician William Osler co-founder of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler's creation of the first residency program and emphasis on teaching students through clinical experience rather than lectures led many to call him the father of modern medicine. Privately Printed / Murray Printing Co., Limited hardcover books
1985réf. S7758Bangalore:: Indian Academy of Sciences 1985-1991. 1985. 8vo. Various paginations. Articles photos figs. Printed wrappers. Fine. Articles include: "Determining the Order of Genes Centromeres and Rearrangement Breakpoints in Neurospora by Tests of Duplication Coverage." David D. Perkins; "Heat Shoch-Induced Relaxation of Restriction Enzyme Specificity in Escherichia Coli." M. C. Raja & K. Dharmalingam; & "Transposable Element-Mediated Evolution of Sex: A Population Genetic Model." N. V. Joshi. Indian Academy of Sciences, 1985-1991. unknown books
1980réf. 286458Cambridge: MIT Press 1980. paperback. very good. Illustrated. 142 pages 30 plates. 4to. thick embossed gray paper boards slightly sunned and showing a 1" split near spine. Cambridge: MIT Press 1980. A very good copy internally clean. MIT Press unknown books
réf. 16585Poems Prayer Journal Poetry and prayer journal written in many hands with entries dated from 1820-1830. Original red half morocco. Gilt detail on front cover "H. P. Tuckerman." 120 pages writing on first 76 pages. Unpaginated. 9 x 7 1/2 in. 53 handwritten entries from many different individuals. Original drawing mother and child under tissue on first page signed by "S. Tuckerman". Two pencil drawings of forest scenes. Entries include a Hymn written for the British and Foreign School Society. "The stream which once a slender wild Wholl'd scarcely seen its humble way Now gushes freely from the hill And splashes into day. Oh stream of knowledge when thy tides Brings hope and life and yonder To every tree that decks thy sides Forget not then the flowers.A thousand wreaths crown many proud brow A thousand tongues his praise accord; The marble almost living now Now the death dealing sword. His greatness lives the earth and sky and tracks the . flood But womans Happiest destiny Is only - to be good." Includes Biblical inscriptions from Luke 2 and many meditations on religious topics such as one Prayer entry dated to 1827: "The smiling sky is every bright the earth is fair with flowers There comes not night there falls not blight ton childhood's blissful hours;- Then pray-Heaven sees no sight so fair As happy childhood bowed in prayer." Many of the entries deal with themes of mortality and death. "Life is but a scanty ledge-Where the poor traveler walk suspended o'er a fathomless abyss! Oh! let him heed his footing heed his side! Chance play round him momently and each may sweep him to destruction." Another poem comes with an introduction about the untimely death of the author: "Verses on hearing an Eolian harp at midnight by a young gentleman who died of a consumption a few days after writing them. // Ye heavenly sounds! enchanting notes! That swell the whispering breeze; Lay whence your soft complaining airs Your magic power to please. Are ye some fairy tiny voice That by the glow worms light At lonely hours your vigils keep Unmark'd by mortal sight Are ye some nymph of ancient time Like Echo hapless maid In plaintive songs that woo'd your love Till changed into a shade" Other entries focus on the natural world such as a poem entry from 1828 titled "Spring Mountain": "How sweet the landscape-morning twines Her tresses round the brown of day And bright mist on the forest pines Like happy spirits float away So well on the mountain crown Whence the glad stream comes shouting down Through woods and rocks that hang on high Like clouds against the deep blue sky. Oh at this hour when air and earth Are gushing love and joy and light And songs of gladness hail the birth Of all that beautiful and bright It comes so fresh so with so sweet It draws the heart from its retreat To mingle with the glories born On the first holy light of Morn." Another reads: "What's Life the meteor's lurid glare that shoots athwart the sky: We gaze tis gone nor vestige there nor trace can we espy. Tis transient as the morning dew tis fading as the rainbow's hue tis pulsing as the boreal light Just hails the day to sink in night." Some light toning and minimal foxing. Very good condition. unknown books
2002réf. TB31694n.p. : Pediment Publishing 2002. First Edition. Fine in pictorial paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine with gilt and white text on the front board. An oblong octavo of 8 by 11 inches. Without a dust jacket. 128 pages each illustrated from images of black and white photographs of the towns listed in the title. Pediment Publishing hardcover books
