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1947Best.-Nr. 56194Chicago: Rand McNally & Company 1947. First edition. Very good in restored dust jacket. Scarce doubly signed first printing of one of the most beloved horse stories ever told winner of a 1948 Newbery Honor. Based on the true story of the charismatic island-dwelling ponies of Virginia and the people who care for them MISTY OF CHINCOTEAGUE brought attention to the curious lives of the feral horses. The story was adapted into a film in 1961 and the real Misty even attended the premier. 9.5'' x 6.75''. Original blue cloth binding with yellow pictorial stamping. Original unclipped $2.50 color pictorial dust jacket. Color pictorial endpapers of a pony running across a sun-dappled wetland. Illustrated in black and white with color pictorial title page. 174 pages. Signed by Henry and Dennis in blue ink to verso of front free endpaper. Jacket with restoration to head of spine and folds; neat archival tape reinforcement to verso along folds spine and some margins. Book with minor edgewear and soil shallow chip at spine head light marginal toning to textblock extremities. Firm. Rand McNally & Company unknown
1947Best.-Nr. 56194Chicago: Rand McNally & Company 1947. First edition. Very good in restored dust jacket. Scarce doubly signed first printing of one of the most beloved horse stories ever told winner of a 1948 Newbery Honor. Based on the true story of the charismatic island-dwelling ponies of Virginia and the people who care for them MISTY OF CHINCOTEAGUE brought attention to the curious lives of the feral horses. The story was adapted into a film in 1961 and the real Misty even attended the premier. 9.5'' x 6.75''. Original blue cloth binding with yellow pictorial stamping. Original unclipped $2.50 color pictorial dust jacket. Color pictorial endpapers of a pony running across a sun-dappled wetland. Illustrated in black and white with color pictorial title page. 174 pages. Signed by Henry and Dennis in blue ink to verso of front free endpaper. Jacket with restoration to head of spine and folds; neat archival tape reinforcement to verso along folds spine and some margins. Book with minor edgewear and soil shallow chip at spine head light marginal toning to textblock extremities. Firm. Rand McNally & Company unknown books
1999Best.-Nr. 51773Museum. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - 86 pages. 60 works catalogued and illustrated -- with a bonus offer-- . 1999. 0937108227 . Museum paperback
2006Best.-Nr. 90311Museum. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in English. 64 pp. ; 46 ills. -- with a bonus offer--; West Coast artist Eric Wesley was born in 1973 in Los Angeles. His work which can take the form of sculpture painting drawing architectural model or public artwork proposal often uses decrepit materials and conveys a humorous take on the world and his own identity within it. For the 2004 Whitney Biennial he created scale sets for a faux reality show; his 2000 kinetic sculpture "Kicking Ass" was a mechanized donkey that kicked holes in the gallery wall behind it. This small monograph is the first publication dedicated solely to the artist's work and is published on the occasion of his 2006 exhibition as part of the MOCA Focus series. . 2006. 0914357972 . Museum paperback
1995Best.-Nr. 25293Terrace Park OH: C. Wesley Cowan. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- with a bonus offer--; 017895-1; C. Wesley Cowan Historic Americana Auction - C. Wesley Cowan - Terrace Park OH - December 10 1995 . 1995. C. Wesley Cowan paperback
2003Best.-Nr. 14694New York New York U.S.A.: Public Affairs. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- with a bonus offer--; 014694; Clark Wesley K. Winning Modern Wars: Iraq Terrorism and the American Empire IRAQ WAR 2003 TERRORISM 2001 . 2003. 1586482181 . Public Affairs hardcover
2001Best.-Nr. 91323Museum of New Mexico Press. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 176 pages. Description: "The author weaves 135 reproductions of Dow's images with essays about the artist's personal and professional life and a clear picture of Dow's contributions to early modernist photography develops as a result." -- with a bonus offer--; The author weaves 135 reproductions of Dow's images with essays about the artist's personal and professional life and a clear picture of Dow's contributions to early modernist photography develops as a result. . 2001. 0890133832 . Museum of New Mexico Press hardcover
2008Best.-Nr. 76670Gallery. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 148 pp. With 74 ills. 59 col. . 20 x 20 cm. -- with a bonus offer--; Born in Ipswich Massachusetts Arthur Wesley Dow 1857-1922 is renowned for his paintings and prints that take their subject matter from nature and reflect the orderly design and fine handcrafting championed by the Arts & Crafts movement. This charming book presents an important discovery - a previously undocumented album titled Ipswich Days that comprises forty-one cyanotypes that Dow produced in 1899. Dedicated to his poet-friend Everett Stanley Hubbard "Ipswich Days" offers a fresh new look at Dow's attention to the abstract aspects of form colour and cropping in the creation of his designs while documenting his deep personal attachment to his rural and historic hometown. "Ipswich Days" analyzes this album and its significance in the artist's career. Each of the images depicting Ipswich's clam shanties marshes farms people trees flowers and boats alike is handsomely reproduced and reflects the beauty that Dow saw and uniquely interpreted in this quintessentially New England town. . 2008. 0300132913 . Gallery hardcover
Best.-Nr. 58078Abrams Et Al. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Corresponds to ISBN: 0810942178. 206 pp. With 164 ills. 122 col. . 25 x 24 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . 0810942178 . Abrams Et Al hardcover
Best.-Nr. 58079Abrams Et Al. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Corresponds to ISBN: 0810943840. 206 pp. With 164 ills. 122 col. . 25 x 24 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . 0810943840 . Abrams Et Al hardcover
1993Best.-Nr. 31329Westport Connecticut U.S.A.: Greenwood Publishing Group Incorporated. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- 193 pages -- with a bonus offer--; T-Horto; Horton Wesley W. The Connecticut State Constitution : A Reference Guide CONSTITUTIONS UNITED STATES CONNECTICUT POLITICS . 1993. 0313285659 . Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated hardcover
1988Best.-Nr. 74622Gallery. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 86 pp. With 233 ills. 6 col. . 28 x 22 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . 1988. Gallery paperback
1997Best.-Nr. 52263Rochester New York U. S. A.: University of Rochester Press. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - 284 pages. Book Description: "The enormous critical resurgence of interest in Ralph Waldo Emerson over the past fifteen years has restored the `Sage of Concord' to his former role as an American icon. At the same time this renewed interest raises old historical and critical questions about his place in American Transcendentalism and in American culture generally. This collection of essays seeks to address the variety of critical questions about Emerson and to reevaluate his significance through his own metaphors of insight and influence particularly that of the `circle'. ROBERT E. BURKHOLDER is Associate Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University; WESLEY T. MOTTis Professor of English at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Contributors: ROBERT A. GROSS ALBERT J. VON FRANK LEN GOUGEON RONALD A. BOSCO FRANK SHUFFELTON PHYLLIS COLE ROBERT D. RICHARDSON JR DAVID M. ROBINSON DANIEL SHEALY HELEN R. DEESE KENT P. LJUNGQUIST GARY L. COLLISON PHILIP F. GURA " -- with a bonus offer-- . 1997. 1878822721 . University of Rochester Press hardcover
1969Best.-Nr. 83778E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc. . As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - - Corresponds to ISBN: 0525095233. 168 pages many photos; folio. -- with a bonus offer--; OVERSIZE BOOK: 14 1/4" x 10 1/4" x 5/8". . 1969. 0525095233 . E. P. Dutton & Co. , Inc. hardcover
2004Best.-Nr. 21195San Francisco California U.S.A.: Encounter Books. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - 219 pages -- Interior text is clean tight and unmarked. From the publisher's description of the book: "Cloning researchers claim to have cloned an embryo that is mostly human but also part animal. Biotech companies brag about manufacturing human embryos as 'products' for use in medical treatments. Echoing long discredited master-race thinking James Watson who won a Nobel Prize for co-discovering the DNA double helix claims that genetically enhanced people will someday 'dominate the world.' Events are moving so fast--and biotechnology seems so complicated--that many of us worry that we can't have an informed opinion about these issues that are remaking the human future before our very eyes. But now Wesley J. Smith provides us with a guide to the brave new world that is no longer a figment of our imagination but right around the corner of our lives. Smith starts with the basic questions. What are stem cells What is the difference between embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells and which is most promising for medical therapy What does embryonic stem cell research involve and why is it so controversial What is its relationship to human cloning .In addition to explaining the science of stem cells this highly readable and carefully researched book reports on the gargantuan "Big Biotech" industry and its supporters in the universities and in the science and bioethics establishments. Smith shows how this lobby works and how the lure of huge riches mixed with the ideology of 'scientism' threatens to impose a 'new eugenics' on society that would dismantle ethical norms and call into question the uniqueness and importance of all human life. 'A Consumer's Guide to Brave New World' presents a clear-eyed vision of two potential futures. In one we will use biotechnology as a powerful tool to treat disease and improve the quality of our lives. But in another darker scenario we will be steered onto the anti-human path Aldous Huxley and other prophetic writers first warned against fifty years ago when science fiction had not yet become science fact." -- with a bonus offer--; TOS006624; Smith Wesley J. Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World BIOTECHNOLOGY ETHICS EUGENICS . 2004. 1893554996 . Encounter Books hardcover
2006Best.-Nr. 50442New York: Encounter Books. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - 308 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . 2006. 1594031193 . Encounter Books paperback
1987Best.-Nr. 105457Price/Stern/Sloan. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 239 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . 1987. 0843115696 . Price/Stern/Sloan paperback
1970Best.-Nr. 51705New York: Hill and Wang. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Text pristine clean & unmarked tight to spine - 632 pages -- with a bonus offer-- . 1970. 0809041715 . Hill and Wang hardcover
1894Best.-Nr. 112666Lincoln Memorial University 1894. Leather. Very Good. 1894 Lincoln Memorial University Sponsors edition #500 of unstated limitation. 12 volume gilt decorated full leather bindings top edge gilt. Fine condition with no issues. oversized and overweight. B67 Please email for photos. Lincoln Memorial University hardcover
1894Best.-Nr. 2311448Harrogate Tennessee: Lincoln Memorial University 1894. Limited Edition. Half-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Limited edition #399 of an unspecified limitation this set 'especially prepared for Harry J. Williams.' Signed by John Wesley Hill opposite limitation page. Copyright page states 1894 but this is clearly reproduced from the plates of the original - this set is circa 1905. Volume 1 has very minor discoloration to edges of cloth on rear board minor wear to corners spine a bit faded. Complete in twelve hardcover volumes. Red half-leather gilt titles and decorations top edges gilt decorative endpapers. A complete collection of Abraham Lincoln's works including speeches letters biographical writings etc. with an introduction by John Wesley Hill and special articles by various other contributors. The editors were Lincoln's private secretary and assistant secretary and also served in various other governmental roles Hay going on to become Secretary of State under McKinley and Roosevelt. Nicolay and Hay are perhaps best known for their ten-volume biographical history of Lincoln's administration originally published serially in The Century Magazine beginning in 1886 -- it remains one of the more exhaustive and personal accounts of the life of the 16th President of the United States and is notable for the inclusion of facsimiles of original drafts of important documents most importantly the Emancipation Proclamation. This set includes facsimiles of original correspondence and documents reproductions of contemporary photographs and engravings etc. Lincoln Memorial University hardcover
1894Best.-Nr. 2311448Harrogate Tennessee: Lincoln Memorial University 1894. Limited Edition. Half-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Limited edition #399 of an unspecified limitation this set 'especially prepared for Harry J. Williams.' Signed by John Wesley Hill opposite limitation page. Copyright page states 1894 but this is clearly reproduced from the plates of the original - this set is circa 1905. Volume 1 has very minor discoloration to edges of cloth on rear board minor wear to corners spine a bit faded. Complete in twelve hardcover volumes. Red half-leather gilt titles and decorations top edges gilt decorative endpapers. A complete collection of Abraham Lincoln's works including speeches letters biographical writings etc. with an introduction by John Wesley Hill and special articles by various other contributors. The editors were Lincoln's private secretary and assistant secretary and also served in various other governmental roles Hay going on to become Secretary of State under McKinley and Roosevelt. Nicolay and Hay are perhaps best known for their ten-volume biographical history of Lincoln's administration originally published serially in The Century Magazine beginning in 1886 -- it remains one of the more exhaustive and personal accounts of the life of the 16th President of the United States and is notable for the inclusion of facsimiles of original drafts of important documents most importantly the Emancipation Proclamation. This set includes facsimiles of original correspondence and documents reproductions of contemporary photographs and engravings etc. Lincoln Memorial University hardcover books
1879Best.-Nr. 422485Washington D.C. 1879. Very Good. Autograph Letter Signed by John Wesley Powell Director of the Bureau of Ethnology in Washington D.C. together with an accompanying photograph which he sent in 1880 to John S. Billings a surgeon and a statistician on medicine in the U.S. Army. The one page letter is written on "Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology" letterhead dated: "Ap. 27" 1880 and is addressed at the bottom to "Dr. John S. Billings Surgeon U.S.A. Army Medical Museum." Some water staining to the edges and related blurring to the manuscript text still legible and three-inch tear repaired with tape on the verso good only. The Albumen Print measures 9 ½ x 12 inches laid down on a cardboard mount 11 x 16". Contemporary manuscript caption in ink on the bottom margin of the mount: "3824 Photo. Tailed man" and on the back in French which identifies the photograph as a being from the Society of Anthropology in Berlin. Dated "Oct. 18" with "1879" inserted in pencil. Light soiling and toning to the mount with a tear to the top margin of the mount very good. The photograph of a tailed man which Powell takes "pleasure in sending" to Billings is an enlargement of the photo taken in 1879 by Surgeon-General Bernhard Ornstein chief physician of the Greek army. The original photo sent to the Berlin Anthropological Society sparked a decade-long debate about whether such protuberances were "atavistic tails" or "pathological protuberances." Powell was a celebrated naturalist and explorer who despite losing an arm in the Civil War led the first known passage through the Grand Canyon in 1869. When Congress created the Bureau of Ethnology in 1879 Powell was named its first director a post he held until his death. John Shaw Billings is best known as the modernizer of the Surgeon General's Library the nation's first comprehensive library for medicine. He also started Index Medicus a monthly guide to contemporary medicine that ran until his retirement at the Medical Museum and Library. A nice association. unknown
1775Best.-Nr. 378453London 1775. 7 works in one. 12mo. Contemporary calf-backed marbled paper covered boards joints starting. A few trimmed close minor foxing. Provenance: Nathaniel Barnardiston early signature. 7 works in one. 12mo. 1 Priestley Joseph. A Free Address to Protestant Dissenters as such. By a Dissenter. London J. Johnson 1771. 1431pp. Second edition. ESTC N3291. 2 Priestley Joseph. An Appeal to the Serious and Candid Professors of Christianity. London J. Johnson 1771. 24pp. Fourth edition. ESTC T22298 3 Priestley Joseph. A Familiar Illustration of Certain Passages of Scripture relating to the power of man to do the will of God original sin election and reprobation the divinity of Christ and atonement for sin by the death of Christ. London : printed for J. Johnson 1772. 2iv651pp. ESTC T35298. 4 Priestley Joseph. The Triumph of Truth; Being an Account of the Ttrial of Mr. E. Elwall for heresy and blasphemy . To which are added extracts from William Penn's Sandy foundation shaken. London : printed for J. Johnson 1778. 24pp. Second edition. ESTC N473620. 5 Priestley Joseph. Considerations for the Use of Young Men and the Parents of Young Men. London: printed for J. Johnson 1778. 24pp. ESTC T161278. 6 Priestley Joseph. An Address to Protestant Dissenters of all Denominations on the approaching election of Members of Parliament with respect to the state of public liberty in general and of American affairs in particular. London: printed for J. Johnson 1774. 16pp. Adams American Controversy 74-62; Sabin 65500; ESTC T20402. 7 Wesley John. A Calm Address to our American Colonies. London: R Hawes 1775. 23 1pp. Adams American Controversy 75-155d; Howes W263 "Essentially a condensation of Samuel Johnson's Taxation no Tyranny"; Sabin 102648; ESTC T19839. unknown
1739Best.-Nr. 98089London: Sold by C. Corbett Bookseller and Publisher against St. Dunstan's-Church in Fleet-Street 1739. 1739. Good. - Octavo 8-1/2 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Printed self-wrappers with "Price Six-pence" in square brackets at the foot of the title page. Remnants of later plain green wraps are present along the spine. The front edges of the cover page and last page are slightly chipped. 2 & 38 deckle-edged pages decorated with a title device a formal head & tail piece and woodcut initial. There is scattered dampstaining particularly to the first and last pages. Good. First and only edition. RARE. The significance of a large part of the content of this pamphlet is described in a scholarly article by the American theologian and leading authority on John Wesley Dr. Randy L. Maddox. His article John Wesleys Earliest Published Defense of the Emerging Revival in Bristol 2014 can be found at The Divinity Archive a project of The Duke Divinity School Library. Part 1 "A Compleat Account of the Conduct &tc. of that Eminent Enthusiast Mr. Whitefield &tc." pages 1-16 is a scathing denunciation of Whitefield and John Wesley pieced together by the publisher Charles Corbett. Corbett who was responsible for other anti-Methodist tracts cites an account in the high church Anglican-supported Weekly Miscellany as his source. Corbett mocks Whitefield: "There is something so extravagantly ridiculous in the Behavior of this young Man it is very difficult for a person of any Humour to keep his Countenance.". He later goes on to include Wesley in his insults: "I defy all Mankind to justify such Conduct upon any Principles whatsoever; and Mr. John Wesley is less justifiable or rather more guilty than Mr. Whitefield because he is a Man of more Learning better Judgement and a cooler Head.". Following this Corbett publishes "A Copy of a private Conversation of Mr. Whitefield's taken down in Writing after his leaving the Room and brought to him by the Rev. Mr. Tucker Minister of All-Saints in Bristol and at his Request sign'd by Mr. Whitefield himself." It is the text of a conversation Whitefield had on March 30 1739 in which he attributes his understanding of "true Christianity" to a book by Henry Scougal "The Life of God in the Soul of Man". The text was originally published by Josiah Tucker in a broadsheet dated "Bristol March 30 1739". Part II "A Method of Confession drawn up for the Use of the Women Methodists. Taken from the Original." pages 18-20. Among the questions proposed are the following: "Are you in Love / Do you take more Pleasure in any Body than in God / Whom do you love just now better than any other Person in the World / Is not the Person an Idol Does he not especially in Publick Prayer steal in between God and your Soul / Does any Court you / Is there any one whom you suspect to have any such Design / Is there anyone who shews you more Respect than to other Women / Are not you pleased with That / How do you like him / How do you feel yourself when he comes when he stays when he goes away The last ten Questions may be ask'd as often as Occasion offers." Josiah Tucker described this as "shocking scheme for confessing the women". Dr. Maddox makes a cogent argument in his essay that while differing from Wesley's original December 1738 "Rules of the Band Societies" the author of the rules published here may have been Wesley not Whitefield. Part III "Queries to Mr. Whitefield" pages 20-22 were written by Josiah Tucker and appeared around mid-april 1739. According to Dr. Maddox the queries were "highlighting his discomfort with Whitefields emphasis on extraordinary operations of the Spirit". Part IV "An Answer to the Queries sent to Mr. Whitefield from the Rev. Mr. Tucker Minister of All-Saints Bristol; in a Letter to the Querist" 22-25 is attributed to John Wesley by both the publisher Charles Corbett and Dr. Maddox in his essay. The tone of the reply is quite disdainful. The writer opens: "Had not the Bristol Queries been said to be written by the Rev. Mr. Tucker I should have imagin'd they come from one who had no manner of Notion of Divine Revelation; but as you are a Reverend Minister I must suppose you to be a Christian though you have given great room to think that you believe nothing of the Operations of the Holy Spirit by owning that you do not perceive them in yourself and are hitherto unacquainted with any extraordinary and supernatural Light". He concludes: "If I have mistaken you please to let me know it and tell me both what you mean by the Expressions in which you oppose Mr. W's Notions of supernatural Light and Assistance and what your own Notions are of these Things." Part V of the pamphlet pages 26-31 is Corbett's response to the "Answer to the Queries" followed by his negative assessment of Whitefield. "This Answer is a sophistical Evasion and a false Charge upon the Querist. It turns all upon the Ambiguity of the Words extraordinary and supernatural and feeling or experiencing. Neither the Querist nor any other sober Christian denies the Operation of the Spirit upon our Minds and Hearts; and as this Influence is added to the natural Powers of the Soul it may be called extraordinary or supernatural." Corbett's argument is followed by his contemptuous remarks regarding Whitefield. "Mr. W. in the Character signed by himself has thoroughly satisfied the World of his great natural Abilities and the following Extracts from his last Journal are as strong a Proof of his supernatural Powers and Endowments. Tho' in many of them his Humility be so extraordinary as to put him upon a level with the Prophets and Apostles only yet in others he seems to put himself upon a Foot with Jesus Christ: and the Carnal Letter-learned Established Clergy are rank'd with the false Prophets whom he very candidly threatens with Damnation for opposing him." These statements are followed by nearly three pages of extracts from Whitefield's journal. Part VI is Josiah Tucker's reply to Wesley's answer pages 31-38. It is headed: "The following Reply of Mr. Tucker's not coming to hand 'till all the preceding Part of this Pamphlet was printed off and being willing to make this Collection as complete as I could I have here inserted it". Tucker's reply is dated "OxonJune 14 1739" and includes numerous footnotes by the author. It is especially interesting in that it includes Tucker's attack on the Catechism for female Methodists. He is responding to "Rev. Mr. Hutchins" i.e.John Hutchings b. 1716 who worked closely with Whitefield in Bristol in 1739. "Agreeable to this his Friend and Assistant at Bristol the Rev.Mr. Hutchins put out some Remarks on my Queries wherein with the usual Christian Spirit and Meekness of the Sect he affirms That I had cast a slur upon my gown . . . That I ought to quit the Ministry -- And that I got it by downright Falsehood and Equivocation..His next Attack is on my Phrase and Diction: Here he says I ought not to have asked After what Manner they come into the Mind but after what Manner we are enabled to discern believe and embrace them.But before I take my leave of him I would desire him to consider that if I really was a Deist as he represents me I should not have been such a strenuous Opposer of Mr. Whitefield: No The Deists seem strongly inclin'd to favour his Cause and foment the Division. They in particular are highly delighted with his Shocking scheme for confessing the Women; the graver Part with the Abuse and miserable Perversion of Scripture Sentences and the more dissolute with his indecent and loose Interrogations. This is a Scheme so evidently calculated to promote Vice and Lewdness that many People still persist in thinking 'tis only a waggish Sneer put upon him. But the Gentleman need not be told the contrary; as he appears to be Mr. Whitefields Friend he must know that 'tis a genuine and real Piece approved and recommended by the Heads of the Sect and actually put in Practice both in London and Bristol. Since therefore he has taken upon him to vindicate Mr. Whitefields Principles and Conduct he is hereby called upon publickly to defend it." London: Sold by C. Corbett, Bookseller and Publisher, against St. Dunstan's-Church in Fleet-Street, 1739. paperback
1879Best.-Nr. 422485Washington D.C. 1879. Very Good. Autograph Letter Signed by John Wesley Powell Director of the Bureau of Ethnology in Washington D.C. together with an accompanying photograph which he sent in 1880 to John S. Billings a surgeon and a statistician on medicine in the U.S. Army. The one page letter is written on "Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology" letterhead dated: "Ap. 27" 1880 and is addressed at the bottom to "Dr. John S. Billings Surgeon U.S.A. Army Medical Museum." Some water staining to the edges and related blurring to the manuscript text still legible and three-inch tear repaired with tape on the verso good only. The Albumen Print measures 9 ½ x 12 inches laid down on a cardboard mount 11 x 16". Contemporary manuscript caption in ink on the bottom margin of the mount: "3824 Photo. Tailed man" and on the back in French which identifies the photograph as a being from the Society of Anthropology in Berlin. Dated "Oct. 18" with "1879" inserted in pencil. Light soiling and toning to the mount with a tear to the top margin of the mount very good. The photograph of a tailed man which Powell takes "pleasure in sending" to Billings is an enlargement of the photo taken in 1879 by Surgeon-General Bernhard Ornstein chief physician of the Greek army. The original photo sent to the Berlin Anthropological Society sparked a decade-long debate about whether such protuberances were "atavistic tails" or "pathological protuberances." Powell was a celebrated naturalist and explorer who despite losing an arm in the Civil War led the first known passage through the Grand Canyon in 1869. When Congress created the Bureau of Ethnology in 1879 Powell was named its first director a post he held until his death. John Shaw Billings is best known as the modernizer of the Surgeon General's Library the nation's first comprehensive library for medicine. He also started Index Medicus a monthly guide to contemporary medicine that ran until his retirement at the Medical Museum and Library. A nice association. unknown books
