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1870réf. 30687London: Alexander Murray 1870. Reprint. Hardcover. g. Octavo. 8 400pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine and blind-stamped printer's device on covers. In this captivating book Locke pleads for the universal toleration of all modes of worship not immoral in their nature or involving doctrines inimical to good government - placing in the latter category some of the doctrines of the church of Rome. This work is the reprint of the seventh edition published in 1758. Spine age toned. Minor rubbing along edges. Previous owner's ex-libris on inside of front cover and free front endpaper. Moderate foxing throughout. Binding in overall good- to good interior in good condition. Alexander Murray hardcover books
1638réf. 66431London: Printed by John Haviland for Thomas Alchorn 1638. LOCKE John; TYMME Thomas. From the Library of John Locke LOCKE John association. TYMME Thomas. A Silver Watch Bell The Sound whereof is able by the Grace of God to win the most prophane Worldling and careless Liver if there be but the least spark of Grace remaining in him to become a true Christian indeed that in the end he may obtain everlasting Salvation; Whereunto is adjoyned A Treatise of the Holy Sacrament of The Lord's Supper in part augmented. By Thomas Tymme. XVIIIth Impression. London: Printed by John Haviland for Thomas Alchorn 1638. Small octavo. A1 tipped-in leaf with title supplied in ink on recto A3-A8 B-H8 I1 I3-I8 K-T8. 2 blank 2 title in ink verso blank 6 Dedication 4 To the Reader 2 Contents 12-114 117-188 pp. Lacking A2 title-page and I2 pp. 115-116. Text within double-ruled border with headline page numbers and marginal glosses inside outer border. Sixteen head-pieces fourteen ornamental initials and two tail-pieces. Contemporary marbled boards rebacked possibly in 1915 according to pencil note on front pastedown with speckled calf modern red and white paper spine label lettered in ink. Plain endpapers all edges speckled red some trimmed close to headlines and in a few cases to marginal inscriptions. Boards worn hinges cracked. Tiny rust or ink hole to top of front free endpaper tiny wormhole to outer margin of beginning leaves affecting a letter or two of marginal glosses. Over-opened at a few places. Still a very good copy. A popular much-reprinted work Tymme's little religious book was first published in 1605. This copy contains ink inscriptions signatures and marginal notations in at least five different hands: John Locke dated 1669 on p. v Ri. Yolland undated Emmanual Bayhind undated William Yoo dated December 21 1782 on p. 244 and Rietteel dated N. York 1819 on front free endpaper and title-page. We have been unable to locate any information on the later owners of the book. While many of the annotations in the volume are by its later owners pp. iv and v contain Locke's signatures and inscriptions including a quotation in Greek. Numerous other pages pp. 4 6 9 66 78 80 101 118 134 139 144 146 165 228 229 232 234 and 238 contain marginal notes often in Greek in what appears to be the same handwriting. Locke may have noted in the margin of p. 96 the date he purchased the book its cost and a selected list of page numbers; though partially obliterated by a later owner the note seems to read "166.his book of Mr. florins." On p. 176 there appears in the margin a figure which may perhaps be an early crude version of Locke's paraph-the distinctive mark he used to authenticate his signature on legal documents and occasionally to mark his books for an unknown purpose see Harrison and Laslett pp. 41-2. Locke may have marked the spine with a label or press-mark but if so this has been lost when the volume was rebacked. During the period that Locke 1632-1704 acquired and annotated this volume he was a tutor at Christ Church Oxford. A book collector as well as physician writer and scholar Locke amassed his library primarily for his own research purposes. In 1669 however he did not have the bulk of the volumes which would comprise his library at Otes in the 1680s and '90s. In those later years Locke was faced with a rapidly expanding library which confounded attempts to find any particular volume in it. Locke therefore developed a complicated cataloguing procedure to allow him easily to locate the volumes he needed. Though he generally made notations for his own reference on the title-page spine and last page of a work-and often also made a list of page numbers for future reference on a fly-leaf-he typically did not underline words or phrases in his books. "On the whole he left his margins well alone and made his notes in his notebooks" always showing "much admirable respect for the whiteness of his pages and the general appearance of the volumes standing in his boxes" Harrison and Laslett p. 39. It is important to remember though that Locke's cataloguing procedures were developed and perfected in the 1680s and 1690s-this was the first period in his life when his books were physically all in the same place: "Books which went out of Locke's possession in earlier years would have far less and less regular markings-some of them perhaps not marked in any way. But the over-lining and underlining would probably be present with sometimes the author's name. A spine label giving author and a digit indicating size might also be present.These signs are not unusually found in Otes books which had been with Locke before 1683 and occasionally the two figure press-marks there can be seen to have been converted from the one-figure marks which we believe characterized the books in Christ Church in 1681" Harrison and Laslett p. 43. Tymme's volume then is probably one which Locke sold or gave away possibly to a current or former pupil before he perfected his cataloguing method. See Harrison and Laslett The Library of John Locke1965. HBS 66431. $25000. Printed by John Haviland, for Thomas Alchorn unknown books
1691réf. 66937Amsterdam: Chez Abraham Wolfgang 1691. A Founding Document of Democracy The First of John Locke's Works to be Translated from His Native English LOCKE John. Du gouvernement civil ou l'on traitte de l'origine des fondemens de la nature du pouvoir et des fins des societe politiques. Traduit de l'Anglois. Amsterdam: Chez Abraham Wolfgang 1691. First edition in French of Locke's groundbeaking work and the first of his works to be translated from his native English. Twelvemo 5 7/16 x 3 inches; 138 x 75 mm. 12 321 1 blank pp. Title page with printer's woodcut device. Short marginal tears to M7 & 8 repaired and with no loss. Contemporary light salmon paper over boards rebacked at a very early date in similar paper manuscript spine lettering red speckled edges. Small number of upper blank of title and front endpaper. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell case. Overall an excellent copy; very clean and in a contemporary binding. Originally published in 1690 as 'Two Treatises of Government'. "Locke's anonymous text is here an anonymous translation traditionally attributed to David Mazel. 'One of the Huguenot pastors living in Holland' of the second treatise in its 1R version with the first chapter omitted" Yolton. "The second treatise contains a plain statement of the principles of democracy. In an age and country in which the practice of democracy had just been triumphantly vindicated Locke's theories although anticipated to some degree by the 'Whig' tradition of political thought-Aristotle Aquinas Hooker Grotius-had all the freshness of novelty. Like Hooker Locke presupposes an original and necessary law of reason and bases the constitution of society on it rather than on the de facto existence of a government based on the actual submission of the governed to the rulers. This consent is thus a prior condition of the 'social contract' not a result of it so that the civil rulers hold their power not absolutely but conditionally; government being essentially a moral trust which lapses if the trustees fail to maintain their side of the contract. Locke was to reinforce these liberal opinions by his Letters on Tolerance and they combine with the Treatises on Government to provide a classic example of the empirical approach to the social and political economy which has remained ever since the basis of the principles of democracy" PMM. Its influence on the development of French and American political though cannot be overstated. Graesse IV 243. Printing and the Mind of Man 163. Yolton Locke 46. No copies of this edition have come up at auction in the last thirty years and OCLC only located twelve copies. HBS 66937. $6000. Chez Abraham Wolfgang unknown books
1696réf. 66981London: Printed for A. and J. Churchill 1696. Several Papers Relating to Money Interest and Trade &c. Writ upon several Occasions and Published at different Times. London: Printed for A. and J. Churchill 1696. First collected edition of Locke's important writings on the fundamentals of economics. Small octavo 6 5/16 x 3 3/4 inches; 159 x 95 mm. 4 4 192; 24; 16 111 1 advertisement 1 eratta 1 blank pp. With general title-page and separate title-pages for Some Considerations and Further Considerations. Contemporary full speckled calf rebacked to style. Boards stamped in blind. Red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Boards a bit chipped and bumped. Overall a very good copy. Comprised of: The Second edition Corrected of: Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and Raising the Value of Money. In a Letter to a Member of Parliament 1691. London: for Awnsham and John Churchill 1696. and Short Observations on a Printed Paper Intituled For encouraging the Coining Silver Money in England and after for keeping it here. 1695 and Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money. Wherein Mr. Lowndes's Arguments for it in his late Report concerning An Essay for the Amendment of the Silver Coins are particularly Examined. London: Printed for A. and J. Churchil 1695. ESTC lists two variants: one has "By John Locke Esq;" on the title-page 'Further Considerations' dated 1695 and 111 pages. The other issue has "By Mr. John Locke" on the title-page "Further Considerations" dated 1696 and 112 pages. This copy is a combination of the two with 'Further Considerations' dated 1695 and "By Mr. John Locke" on the title-page. "'The Great Recoinage' controversy of the 1690s was the impetus for Locke's writings on mercantile and monetary theory. In the 1660s Sir Josiah Child had argued that the legal rate of interest should be lowered. It was still a topic for political discussion in the early 1690s: Child was still pressing the argument and was supported by London merchants. Locke however defended a legal rate of interest but refused to fix it below the current rates. This was the occasion for his publishing Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and Raising the Value of Money in 1692. When William Lowndes Secretary of the Treasury proposed in 1695 to raise the nominal value of coins Locke slightly revised Some Considerations and also published two further pamphlets Short Considerations and Further Considerations. At that time gold and silver coins had a value equivalent to their metal content representing nothing but their silver or gold quantity. Locke rejected devaluation basing his argument on this 'commodity theory' of money. He considered 'raising of the denomination or the increase of alloy' to be debasement and fraud" Yolton. "Locke's second major essay Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money 1695 while it reiterated many of his earlier arguments was mostly concerned with the issue of recoinage. Locke took issue with a proposal to devalue the official coinage by 20 per cent and argued strongly for recoining at the old standard the currently circulating coins debased by clipping and normal wear and tear. Money Locke argued was equivalent to gold and silver. People contracted for gold and silver and a government stamp was simply an assurance of the specie content of official coins. Hence a devaluation would only confuse trade and cause an increase in prices denominated in terms of pounds and shillings" The New Palgrave. Einaudi. Goldsmiths'. Kress. HBS 66981. $9500. Printed for A. and J. Churchill unknown books
1808réf. 56263Woodbridge VA ca. 1808-1809. Manuscript Portion of Weems's Biography of Francis Marion A working manuscript draft in the hand of Mason Locke Weems of a section from Chapter XIV of The Life of Gen. Francis Marion. pp.120-22 in the accompanying copy. The section is titled "A Conversation Between General Marion & a Whig Boy" and describes a scene just after Marion and his men have taken a brief rest in Waccamaw. A boy has been sent by his father to warn Marion that Tory forces are gathering up the Little Pedee Pee Dee River. Marion is calm and sanguine in his reply to the news "Very well my son I thank you and your daddy too for letting me know it. I believe I must try to meet the tories there." The boy is almost incredulous at Marion's cool demeanor: "O la sir general try to meet em indeed! yes to be sure! dear me sirs hearts alive that you must sir general! for daddy says as how he is quite sartin if you'll be there tomorrow night you may make a proper smash amoung the tories." The boy goes on to explain that the Tories have heard of Marion and that they're coming after him with "a tarnal nation sight of pistols! and bagonets! and swords! and saddles! and bridles and the dear knows what else besides!" As he goes on the boy grows a bit unsure of Marion: "But to be sure sir general you look like a mighty small man to fight them great big tories there on Pedee. But daddy says as how the heart is all and he says too that though you are a little man you have a monstrous great heart!" The manuscript text is almost identical to the final printed version except for a few minor word changes and some additional punctuation. The manuscript is accompanied by a 1841 copy of the biography published in Philadelphia by Joseph Allen. General Francis Marion nicknamed "The Swamp Fox" was one of the leading American commanders in the Revolution in the South. His brilliant operations in the Carolinas kept thousands of British troops tied down and contributed immensely to ultimate American victory. Plain and unassuming he was widely beloved by his contemporaries and after his death this book began the process of his ascent to legend. Peter Horry his second-in-command for part of the war supplied many of the facts although he was allegedly disgusted by Weems' flowery passages and disclaimed any connection with the book. What he disliked others embraced and the book went through many editions. Surviving manuscripts - even a portion thereof - of American books from the early nineteenth century are quite uncommon. This manuscript is especially notable for being in the hand of Mason Locke Weems examples of whose letters and writings are exceedingly uncommon in the market. Weems not only enhanced the reputation of Francis Marion but famously did the same for the legend of George Washington through his popularization of the "Cherry Tree" story and its central role in shaping Washington's character at a young age. Manuscript: Old folds. Right edge of recto unevenly torn affecting a few letters of text. A few spots of spilled ink some damage to lower margin due to ink burn affecting two letters of text. Book: Contemporary calf spine ruled in gilt brown morocco gilt label. Boards lightly rubbed corners bumped joints starting to split textblock split but holding. Light tanning and foxing throughout. About very good overall. hardcover books
1824réf. 49827Philadelphia: M. Carey & Son 1824. Self-styled seventh edition. General Francis Marion "The Swamp Fox" was one of the leading American commanders in the Revolution in the South. His brillant operations in the Carolinas kept thousands of British troops tied down and contributed immensely to ultimate American victory. Plain and unassuming he was widely beloved by his contemporaries and after his death this book began the process of his ascent to legend. Horry his second-in-command for part of the war supplied many of the facts although he was allegedly disgusted by Weems' flowery passages and disclaimed any connection with the book. What he disliked others embraced and the book went through many editions. This edition not in Howes or any other standard sources. This copy with the ownership signature and bookplate of J.K. Paulding on titlepage and front pastedown. Paulding was a writer and U.S. Secretary of the Navy from 1838-1841. 12mo. Contemporary calf spine gilt leather label. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown 19th-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Very light scattered foxing toning throughout. Good. HOWES H650. hardcover books
1856réf. 50507Chicago. 1856. Espousing the Virtues of Western Canada A rare and important polemic "written in bitter hostility to the Hudson's Bay Company and exposing their operations on the Pacific Coast and among the Indian tribes and fur traders from the earliest times" Eberstadt. Scripps is perhaps best known as the author of one of Lincoln's earliest biographies penned for the 1860 presidential campaign. A journalist in Chicago he was the founder and chief editor of the Chicago Democratic Press until it was purchased by the Chicago Tribune in 1858 after which he served as chief editor of the latter for a number of years. In amongst his numerous criticisms of the Hudson's Bay Company the author also includes a discussion of the depopulation of indigenous tribes through war and illness and laments the lack of success by Christian missionaries in the region. "Scripps author of an official life of Lincoln visited the Lake Superior Country in 1855 and upon his return made an extensive study of the region from the Great Lakes westward with special reference to the fur companies the inhabitants Hudson's Bay Company water courses and minerals. He also points out the economic advantages of the Northern region for the United States" - Decker. "Scripps who was editor and publisher of the DEMOCRATIC PRESS had visited the Lake Superior country in 1855. He discusses here primarily the area of western Canada from Lake Superior to the Pacific with comments on the Minnesota region south of the international boundary. He has a good deal to say about the fur trade and the Hudson's Bay Company. 'There can be little doubt but that the sole reason why the company maintains its posts in Oregon and Washington is to induce brother Jonathan to 'shell out' liberally for them'" - Streeter. The Streeter copy sold to an order bidder for $200 in 1969. Modern half morocco and marbled boards spine stamped in brown and gilt. Text trimmed close at fore-edge costing portions of words throughout. Good. EBERSTADT 114:690. DECKER 39:360. STREETER SALE 3721. CHICAGO ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS 221. GRAFF 3717. BYRD 2357 HOWES S248 "aa." SABIN 78485. hardcover books
réf. 2940First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with only light rubbing to the spine ends and a couple of tiny stains to the back panel. An outstanding copy of this highly acclaimed detective novel starring Darren Matthews and Highway 59 in East Texas. Not remaindered not price clipped $26.00 intact not ex-library; in a protective cover and will ship in a sturdy box. Mulholland Books hardcover books
1925réf. 140949243New York: Albert and Charles Boni 1925. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. xviii 446 pp. Bound in publisher's blue paper-covered boards over buckram spine cloth lettered in blue; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with moderate rubbing and toning to covers boards exposed at edges. Dust-soiling and light staining to upper edge of textblock contemporary bookplate and several small abrasions to front endsheet. Contents slightly overopened at several places. A landmark African American anthology featuring stories essays and poetry by the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance movement: Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston James Weldon Johnson Countee Cullen Claude McKay Jean Toomer and more. Albert and Charles Boni unknown books
1925réf. 140947068New York: Albert and Charles Boni 1925. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing of this Harlem Renaissance cornerstone. Bound in publisher's original blue paper-covered boards over buckram spine cloth lettered in blue. Very Good with rubbing through to edges with heavier wear to corners and spine ends covers worn. Contents tanned with several leaves roughly opened. The leading African American poets and writers of the early 20th century are featured in this important anthology which came to define the Harlem Renaissance movement: Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston James Weldon Johnson Countee Cullen Claude McKay Jean Toomer Georgia Douglas Johnson Jessie Fauset and more. Albert and Charles Boni unknown books
1940réf. 140946343Washington D.C.: Associates in Negro Folk Education 1940. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. Signed by Alain Locke and inscribed to "an old friend" Allan R. Freelon on the front free endpaper. Freelon 1895-1960 was a prominent Harlem Renaissance artist pioneering educator and civil rights activist. 224 pp. with color frontispiece "Mother and Child" by Sargeant Johnson and 4 pp. color insert "The Amistad Murals" tipped in facing p 124. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with darkened spine and edges with light soiling overall. Extremities lightly worn with minor foxing to endsheets. Faint toning to edges of textblock. No jacket likely as issued. An important association between Locke "Dean" of the Harlem Renaissance and popularizer of African American art and Freelon on the first serious book-length study of Black artists. Two of Freelon's Impressionist-style paintings are featured in this work alongside work by Edmonia Lewis Henry Ossawa Tanner Hughie Lee-Smith and Jacob Lawrence. Associates in Negro Folk Education unknown books
1925réf. 140945556New York: Albert and Charles Boni 1925. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Bound in publisher's original blue paper-covered boards over buckram spine cloth lettered in blue. Very Good with with rubbing to boards especially at edges two indentations to rear cover at spine and a light crease the rear board at the top corner. Former owner bookplate to front free endpaper. Pages tanned with occasional soiling several preliminary hinges slightly over-opened. The leading African American poets and writers of the early 20th century are featured in this important anthology which came to define the Harlem Renaissance movement: Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston James Weldon Johnson Countee Cullen Claude McKay Jean Toomer Georgia Douglas Johnson Jessie Fauset and more. Albert and Charles Boni unknown books
1933réf. 140945023New York: Harmon Foundation Incorporated 1933. First edition. First edition. 56 pp. Bound in publisher's illustrated stapled self-wraps. Near Fine with light wear to wraps. A rare catalogue of African American art with a short essay "The Negro Takes His Place in American Art" by Alain Locke. Exhibiting artists include Malvin Gray Johnson Richmond Barthe Sargent Johnson Lois Mailou Jones Samuel Albert Countee William Arthur Cooper James A. Porter and Hale A. Woodruff. Harmon Foundation Incorporated unknown books
1936réf. 140944642Washington D.C.: Associates in Negro Folk Education 1936. First edition. First edition. Signed by Alain Locke on the foreword dated 1937. vi 122 pp. Bound in publisher's stapled wrappers. Very Good wraps a little stained and toned light foxing along edges wear at foot. Called the "philosophical architect" and "ideological genius" of the Harlem Renaissance in this booklet Howard University professor Alain Locke traces the history of art by and about African Americans. Associates in Negro Folk Education unknown books
1945réf. 140939613Albany: Albany Institute of History and Art 1945. First Edition. About Very Good. First edition. Original wraps. About Very Good with staining and separation to front wrapper at bottom staple small chip nearby; faint dampstain to fore edge of prelims and front wrap. An illustrated collection of biographies of prominent African American artists with an introduction by Alain Locke the philosophical architect of the Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro Movement. Each artist is listed with a biography and pictures of select works. Artists include Romare Bearden Eldzier Cortor Lois M. Jones and many others. Uncommon. Albany Institute of History and Art unknown books
1710réf. 6255London: A. and J.Churchill and Samuel Manship 1710. Sixth Edition. Sixth Edition. Two volumes 8vo. 32 371 1: 16 340 28 pages additional blank leaves at front and rear of both volumes. Contemporary paneled calf with central patterning blindstamped design work on both covers. Portrait frontispiece to volume one none to volume two as called for early owner's name on recto of frontis and fly leaf of second volume bearing the date 1712. Wear to spines lacking spine labels. This appears to be a particularly scarce edition with none other bearing the date 1710 found in commerce. A. and J.Churchill and Samuel Manship unknown books
1824réf. 337587London: Rivington 1824. Reprint. hardcover. very good. 2 volumes. 8vo rebound in older 3/4 brown calf; marbled boards and marbled page edges gilt-stamped spine with black leather labels. London: Printed for C. and J. Rivington et al. 1824. The twenty-fourth edition. A very good copy - bindings rubbed and with some repairs to spines but pages remarkably clean. Rivington unknown books
1879réf. 1873Boston: Graves Locke & Co. Publishers 1879. Wraps. Very good. TRAVEL SOUVENIR EPHEMERA. Boston Stereotype Foundry No. 10 Spring Lane printers. Cover title: Old Orchard Maine Map: Plan of Ferry Beach Park Cottage Lots Ferry Beach Saco Maine 2 pp Fold-out illustrated bird's-eye-view map with vignettes: Balloon View of Old Orchard Me. along with On the Beach at Low Tide and 11 vignettes of guest houses and one of the Rustic Observatory at Ferry Beach Park. 12mo; 48pp; 2 staple binding; pale green stiff wrapper printed with two vignettes of homesteads and title; 4 wood-cuts of guest houses; age-toning of paper; fold-out map has 2 small tears through the neat line with loss and one short separation at fold intersections; very good minus. The preface starts with the statement 'When an individual becomes distinguished there is a demand for his biography; and when a locality springs into notoriety there is a demand for its history.' A promotional pamphlet for a popular 19th-century vacation area on the coast of Maine. Included are wood-cuts of the Falmouth Hotel Biddeford House Saco House all in Maine and the Tremont House Boston. Graves, Locke & Co., Publishers unknown books
2019réf. 108976n.p.:: John Locke. Fine. 2019. Paperback. Black and white illustrations. First edition paperback. INSCRIBED by the author to a previous owner. Fine in illustrated wraps.; Signed by Author . 0359690769 . John Locke, paperback books
1952réf. 625240Chicago: William Benton / Encyclopedia Britannica 1952. Hardcover. Fine. Reprint. Volume 35 in the series. Tall octavo. x 509pp. Spine mildly age-toned else fine. William Benton / Encyclopedia Britannica hardcover books
1927réf. 603799New York: Harper & Brothers 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Decorations and illustration by Aaron Douglas. Introduction by Alain Locke. Octavo. 430pp. Quarter cloth and illustrated paper over boards with applied paper spine label. Contemporary bookplate of Lowell Thorsen Blanchard on front pastedown rubbing at the edges of the fragile Douglas-decorated papercovered boards modest loss at the paper spine label lacking the rare dust jacket. A collection of 20 plays for the Negro theatre by both Black and White writers including Jean Toomer Georgia Johnson Willis Richardson Lucy White Eulalie Spence Ridgley Torrence Eugene O'Neill and Paul Green. Exceptionally scarce. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1818réf. 1710Philadephia: For the author 1818. Octavo-sized pamphlet x cm. 63 pages. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION overall the Sixth Improved Edition. With an engraved frontispiece possibly by William Charles depicting a drunken rider felled by a low hanging branch. Thirteen woodcuts in the text by William Mason. The rare wrapper here with the front panel present only contains yet another woodcut likely also by Mason. A temperance tract by the famous Parson Weems inventor of the George Washington cherry tree incident. A series of well written cautionary tales often quite humorous. "As the wan countenance of the lust-worn harlot becomes still more dark and dismal at the sight of a young female fresh and blushing in all the charms of virgin innocence so does the soul of a filthy drunkard experience a quickened hell at the site of a gentleman well drest and breathing the cheerful air of cleanliness and sobriety." The pamphlet is worn with a small one-eighth inch hole in the engraved frontispiece and one page torn through the text due to a careless page separation. The illustrated wrapper panel is worn but the text and illustrations are unscathed. In all a decent survival. Shaw & Shoemaker 46749 MWA PPL; Hamilton 1019; Sabin 102467; American Imprints 46751. For the author unknown books
1916réf. 012504Milford N.H.: W.B. And A.B. Rotch 1916. Front cover lettered in bright gilt. "Geography and geology of Amherst life and character of General and Lord Jeffery Amherst reminiscences of "Cricket Corner" and "Pond Parish" districts by Prof. Warren Upham archaeologist of the Minnesota Historical Society". Illustrated throughout in black and white one folded plate of "The Second Church". Historical poem entitled "Fragrant Memories or The Dead of the Hundred Years 1760-1860" By Edfward D. Boylston at the end. A crisp clean copy of a scarce title. 122pp. First Edition. Brown Cloth. Light Edge Wear./No Jacket. Thin Octavo. W.B. And A.B. Rotch Hardcover books
1929réf. 05905ANCESTOR JORICO Dodd Mead 1929 first edition 1/4 inch closed tear at the head of the spine else a tight bright vg copy in a near vg pictorial dust-wrapper save for shallow chipping to the dust-wrapper spine extremities and some clear tape inner reinforcement. Adventure and mystery in search of a treasure. Dodd Mead unknown books
1700réf. 05904AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMANE UNDERSTANDING IN FOUR BOOKS Printed for Awnsham and John Churchil at the Black-Swan in Pater-Noster Row; and Samuel Manship at the Ship in Cornhill near the Royal-Exchange 1700 Fourth Edition Revised and Enlarged the last edition to be published in Locke's lifetime four books in one volume complete folio 438 pp plus 12 pp index and errata full leather covers detached and worn base of leather spine chipped lower fore edge corner of front free end-paper and title page chipped and worn however with no loss of text to the title page much less chipping and fore edge damage to the next seven leaves again with no loss to the text some staining to the bottom section and center gutters of the last 31 leaves entering the text but never defacing it faint narrow and unobtrusive stain to the lower fore edge section of most pages some staining to the first 20 leaves again entering the text but never defacing it. A decent candidate for rebinding as a majority of the text block is without significant damage. Printed for Awnsham and John Churchil, at the Black-Swan in Pater-Noster Row; and Samuel Manship, at the Ship in Cornhill, near hardcover books
