Best.-Nr. 2513623 March and 11 May 1890. Both from Cowra New South Wales Australia. Interesting items casting light on the life of an Australian rural doctor of the Victorian period. A selection of Bartlett’s memoirs was published under the title ‘Bush Doctor’ edited by Jane Caiger-Smith and Michael C Bartlett in 2011. There is an good illustrated article on him and his family ‘A Classic Bush Doctor’ in ‘Australian Rural Doctor’ June 2013. Both letters are addressed to ‘Dear Mr. D’Eath’ and signed ‘Felix P. Bartlett’. The recipient who appears to be associated with Bartlett’s practice is possibly Thomas D’Eath 1843-1901 son of Edward William D’Eath 1819-1888 of New South Wales. ONE 23 March 1890: 4pp 8vo. Bifolium. Sixty-eight lines of text. Grubby and worn. Folded twice. As he told D’Eath he has been spending a few days at North Logan. ‘I wrote to you before going away enclosing the reference of which you were speaking & doubtless youi have received it before now. I see that the Damascus will probably leave Sydney for England next Wednesday and am hoping daily to hear of your success in getting a passage on her.’ He turns to the ‘Surgery Key’ for which a replacement has been procured and ‘Beaham’ who has ‘settled in’ while ‘Bishop’ has not yet ‘made a start’. He has had a talk with ‘Harvey’ who ‘will be too busy to go to Sydney this time’. There are rumours that he has ‘bought Mr. Dowell out’. ‘Douglas of course you will ahve seen before now as he went down some days ago I am told.’ He is delaying sending the present letter so that he may ‘enclose the amount of Mrs. Gilletts account which I can check as I told you from her bills against me.’ Bartlett has been fairly busy since D’eath’s depature ‘& Dr. Moore had a long trip or so for me whilst I was away & for the present I find I can manage the dispensing fairly well although of course it ties me down a good deal more than I have been used to’. He would like a photo of D’Eath but the only one of him he can send is ‘of myself & Garland our present member taken at Blayney about 9 years ago. If you don’t like it you can put it over the side.’ As he does not expect to write again before D’Eath leaves ‘these coasts’ he wishes him ‘complete success in all the aims which you have before you & if industry & pluck will do it success will attend you for I believe you to be an example of “nature’s noblest work” an honest man.’ He ends: ‘Be always honest of purpose & the rest will come’. TWO 11 May 1890: 4pp 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition: slightly grubby and worn. Folded twice. Begins: ‘I daresay that Harvey or some of the others will write to you by this mail but in case they should not do so I must just drop you a line to tell you of poor Walkers sudden death which took place on Friday 9th. May.’ He describes the circumstances of the death which took place at ‘Walshs’ were he was staying. He ‘came up as usual to dinner about 1-30 & went into the dining room where he sat down for about half a minute & then rather suddenly jumped up and left the room by the front door & walked along the verandah where there was a small quantity of blood which he evidently spat up & upon seeing the blood he must have gone at once to his room and closed the door.’ Bartlett was sent for and found Walker ‘lying upon his back on the bed with a blood stained handkerchief in his hand & blood over his mouth & moustache & beside the bed was a chamber utensil with about a pint of blood in it which had evidently come from the lung. He had apparently been dead about half an hour.’ He gives more information about the case the inquest ‘Harvey & Jocelyn gave evidence besides myself’ and the disposal of the deceased’s effects. ‘Poor Mc.Dowell is greatly cut up about it & had been saying the day before that he should feel terribly lonely out there but for seeing Walker occassionally - He is wanting to sell out - I only wonder that he could stay in the place so long’. In Cowra ‘we are getting it very dry again & the streets are terribly dusty’. D’Eath is no doubt ‘delighted to see the old Country again’ and Bartlett ‘would give a good deal to have a month or so there now if it could be done without the travel’. 23 March and 11 May 1890. Both from Cowra, New South Wales, Australia. unknown
2011Best.-Nr. 2-1612098290Nova Science Pub Inc 2011. Hardcover. New. 170 pages. 10.25x7.25x0.75 inches. Nova Science Pub Inc hardcover
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1968Best.-Nr. 433051New York : AMS Press 1968. Facsimile Edition. Softcover. Near fine paperback copies; edges very slightly dust-dulled. Remain particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 9v. : ports. ; 23 cm. Notes; On spine: Colonial records of Rhode Island. Contents; v. 1. 1636-1663.--v. 2. 1664-1677.--v. 3. 1678-1706.--v. 4. 1707-1740.--v. 5. 1741-1756.--v. 6. 1757-1769.--v. 7. 1770-1776.--v. 8. 1776-1779.--v. 9. 1780-1783. Subjects; Rhode Island History Colonial period ca. 1600-1775 ; Sources. Rhode Island History 1775-1865 ; Sources. New York : AMS Press paperback
1838Best.-Nr. 273070London : George Virtue 1838. First Edition. Softcover. Poor set in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age spines damaged. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; 2 v. : ill. folded map ; 29 cm. Notes; Each volume has added t.-p. with engraved vignettes. The engravings are identical with those in the work by N. G. van Kampen entitled ""Zwitzerland en de Alpen van Savoye in afbeeldingen en tafereelen geschetst."" Vol. 2 has 49 leaves of plates. Subjects; Switzerland — Description and travel. Switzerland — Pictorial works. Genre; Illustrated. London : George Virtue paperback
Best.-Nr. 128402962X-7-1-117Jones & Bartlett Learning. 2. Acceptable. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting as well as stains bent corners or any other major defect but the text is not obscured in any way. Markings in workbook. Jones & Bartlett Learning unknown
1907Best.-Nr. 36670Philadelphia: George Barrie & Sons Pub. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1907. Hardcover. Color frontis in all volumes. Apr 6 x 8" shelf legth is 20". 22 pounds. Various sepia tissue protected plates abput 70. # 887 of 1000 deluxe edition sets. Blue cloth. Paper spine lables chipped. Provenance- St Alphonsus library. Leaves unopened. . George Barrie & Sons Pub hardcover
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1999Best.-Nr. x-052157353XCambridge Univ Pr 1999. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 389 pages. 8.75x6.00x1.25 inches. Cambridge Univ Pr hardcover
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1838Best.-Nr. 1669London: George Virtue. 1838. First edition. Quarto. Nineteenth-century half-calf over marbled boards the spine ruled in gilt with compartments decorated in blind and with title label lettered in gilt. Illustrated with an engraved pictorial title page frontispiece portrait of Pardoe and 79 further engraved plates including a map of Constantinople and its Environs. pp. 4 164. A good copy only the binding firm with heaving rubbing to the boards with significant loss to the marbled paper rubbing to the joints and wear to the corners and edges of the boards. The contents with an area of abrasion to the front pastedown where a previous owner's bookplate has been removed some old damp-marking to the outer margin of the frontispiece and engraved title page and outer margin of the first 15 plates not touching the images themselves and that of the final 20 text pages and final 2 plates including the map and with the occasional odd spot of foxing or finger-marking elsewhere - the great majority of the plates however remain clean and in good order. Julia Pardoe's 1804-1862 immersive detailed account of her experiences in Constantinople and its surrounding region richly illustrated by William Henry Bartlett 1809-1854. London: George Virtue. hardcover
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Best.-Nr. 197520526X-9-1-88LWW. Tenth 12 Month. New. The item is brand new never used or read. It's in perfect condition and may include supplements and/or access codes or come shrink-wrapped. STANDALONE access code. LWW unknown
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1927Best.-Nr. 140948205New York: Privately Printed 1927. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition limited issue. One of 500 copies. xvi 170 8 pp. illustrated with plates protected by loose tissue guards. Bound in publisher's navy blue cloth boards with decorative gilt stamping top edge gilt cartographical endpapers. Near Fine with light rubbing to covers and minimal offsetting from plates. Compiled by J. Gardner Bartlett for Edward Dean Adams the latter's complimentary slip laid in. An elegantly-designed book tracing the genealogy of the English settler Henry Adams and his descendants including the second and sixth presidents of the United States. Privately Printed unknown
1927Best.-Nr. 140948205New York: Privately Printed 1927. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition limited issue. One of 500 copies. xvi 170 8 pp. illustrated with plates protected by loose tissue guards. Bound in publisher's navy blue cloth boards with decorative gilt stamping top edge gilt cartographical endpapers. Near Fine with light rubbing to covers and minimal offsetting from plates. Compiled by J. Gardner Bartlett for Edward Dean Adams the latter's complimentary slip laid in. An elegantly-designed book tracing the genealogy of the English settler Henry Adams and his descendants including the second and sixth presidents of the United States. Privately Printed unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 157585Yale University Press 1939. Hardcover. McManaway's tidy name stamp and a few ink notations shelfwear with lower corners rubbed through to the boards else good plus sound condition without dust jacket. From the library of Shakespeare scholar J.G. McManaway. 165pp. Yale University Press hardcover
Best.-Nr. 31064Small folio two pages plus integral address leaf in very good clean and legible condition. 1819 Grandson of a Signer of the Declaration of Independence supports "Toleration" School for religious liberty. The grandson of Josiah Bartlett the fist Governor of New Hampshire and second signer after John Hancock of the Declaration of Independence was not as active in national politics as his brother Josiah Jr. who served in the New Hampshire State Senate and in the US Congress but Levi took a strong interest in political affairs in his hometown of Kingston as reflected in this letter to a Methodist clergyman who was also a pioneer educator heading three schools he helped found: An Academy in his own hometown of New Market August College in Kentucky and Allegheny College in Pennsylvania a distant forerunner of Wesleyan University. Which is why Bartlett informed Ruter about a controversy over the founding of a new Academy in Kingston. But first he gave Ruter an account of proceedings at the town's Annual Meeting. Bartlett was apparently a Democratic-Republican in his politics and details the votes at the meeting between his party's candidates and their Federalist opponents for local offices for the state legislature and US Congress and for Governor and US Senator. But the main subject of the letter was the establishment of a Kingston Academy and where it should be located: "I am confident if the place of setting it can be removed from the obligation to which we all agreed to be bound can be altered the only place must be on Mr. Loverens to be generally satisfactory. North or South of these two places will produce such a collision as can be remedied only by fixing a spot and opening a new subscription for that place. Mr. Sanborn has dealt with the subscribers in such a way that his land now on any terms will be quite out of the question; notwithstanding the good opinion we may formerly have had of it. Justice will lead to Union selfish policy may prove fatal to the best of causes. I shall ever disclaim the honor of being on the list of benefactors where justice and impartiality are thrown into background. I am conscious of the rectitude of my motives for the public good in the part I have taken in this business. But Calumny hath already attributed to my generosity unworthy motives never conceived by me. I have and still wish for the Public Good in this institution; if it can be had on righteous terms; under this view any place between the two corners that will promote the public good will suit me; But placed as I am no consideration would induce me to consent to injustice. I say to you this that I may not be considered as a mere automaton as easily moulded to selfish motives as to the cause of Truth and Justice." If the highfalutin rhetoric about choosing a school site seems curious it can be understood with some background about the history of the proposed school. While it was incorporated by Methodists at Bartlett's urging they had specified that it should be a "Toleration Academy" open to all faiths - which appealed to Bartlett who was himself a Universalist "apostate" from his family's Congregationalist leanings and was instrumental in having the Methodist founders accede to these "toleration" principles: "That this Academy shall never come into the hands of any one Religious sect or Denomination whatever but shall be known by the name of Kingston Toleration Academy….That no sectarian principle of Religion shall be taught in said Academy; only General principles of Doctrine and Rules of Morality Piety Benevolence & strict Virtue be taught enforced & form a basis of Practical Religion. No one sect shall have greater liberties or privileges than another all tolerated & all put upon an equality." This may be seen in the context of the larger "toleration" movement about to be embraced by the entire state of New Hampshire which at that very moment after a long and heated debate was about to pass a "Toleration Act" which provided "That no person shall be compelled to join or support any congregation church or religious society without his express consent first had and obtained . And any person may be leaving a written notice with the clerk of the society be exempt from any future expenses." Specifically no citizen could be required to help pay funds for a school or any other religious-oriented institution which differed from his own religious faith. It was poetic justice that the grandson of a "Founding Father" should be instrumental in supporting this cause of civil liberty within his own community.
1848Best.-Nr. 1430Hard cover. Three quarter leather bound with marbled paper covered boards. Two leather spine labels gilt lettering to the spine. Octavo. xxvii 412pp. Two owner signatures to the title page including that of R. W. Steele. A contemporary newspaper article tipped in. Shelf wear to covers and edges. Sound binding. A First Edition of the groundbreaking work by John Russell Bartlett that cataloged unique American slang colloquialisms and regionalisms providing definitions etymologies and usage examples from across the country. It was the first comprehensive dictionary of its kind capturing the evolving language of a new nation and serving as a cultural snapshot of 19th century American life with entries from Native American Spanish and various regional dialects. Robert Williamson Steele the elected Governor of the Territory of Jefferson opened the first session of the Jefferson Territorial Legislature in Denver City in November 1859. This was prior to the Act of Congress organizing the free Territory of Colorado signed by outgoing President Buchanon in 1861. Bartlett and Welford hardcover
Best.-Nr. 68-3758Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin 1927. . Dust Jacket Only. 12mo. Good with tears. $2.00 on flyleaf. First Edition Scarce. [Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1927]. unknown
