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1892rif. 376200New York: Feast of Saint John the Evangelist 1892. Printed on pure vellum. Artist's rendering of the cathedral on last page. 6 pp. Printed by the DeVinne Press. 1 vols. 4to. Blue cloth upper cover titled in gilt with paper label for Rev. E.A. Hoffman a.e.g. Loose in binding. Bookplates of General Theological Seminary and perforated stamps to bottom margins of first and last leaves. Printed on pure vellum. Artist's rendering of the cathedral on last page. 6 pp. Printed by the DeVinne Press. 1 vols. 4to. Order of service for the start of the construction of the New York City landmark. Dean Hoffman was head of the General Theological Seminary. Just a few copies were printed on vellum. Uncommon. Feast of Saint John the Evangelist unknown books
1857rif. 010266Bowmanville Ontario Canada 1857. Book. Very Good. Flexible Leather. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Bound in contemporary embossed flexible leather approx. 256 pages 8 blank 25 lines per page approx. 225 words per page manuscript writing each page mostly unpaginated. Sermons begin with a phrase of Biblical Scripture each sermon dated with place given as Bowmanville. Signed by Slater at front end page with Bowmanville 1857-58 in ink. James C. Slater b. England 1824- was a Wesleyan Methodist Minister whose ministry began in 1847 and was active as late as 1874. He was Chairman of the Bowmanville Circuit in 1860. Very Good loss of leather at base of spine hinges starting. An historically important and RARE contribution to an understanding of Methodist Church teachings and thought in mid-nineteenth century Canada. . Hardcover books
1843rif. 4025Berkeley: T.R. Marvin 1843. First edition. Very Good . Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to front board. Minor loss of cloth to crown of spine. Faint residue of removed library label to spine and front board. Peach endpapers. Light scattered foxing as is typical of the period. Inscribed on the front endpaper by Ward's husband the compiler: "Reverend Mr. Ellingwood with the respects of J.W. Ward." Bookplate on the front pastedown reveals that the recipient Rev. Ellingwood went on to donate the volume to the Theological Seminary of Bangor Maine. A scarce and important example of a published American elegiac volume produced in this case by an eminent family to mourn the loss of an educated woman. Memoirs is unrecorded by OCLC and has never appeared at auction. In their marriage James Wilson Ward and Hetta Lord Hayes Ward united two prominent Northeastern families. A senator and Congregationalist minister James descended from the founders of Plymouth and had attended Andover and Amherst. Hetta the daughter of a judge and niece of a Dartmouth president was herself a graduate of Miss Grant's Seminary Academy. The present volume released "exclusively for private circulation among the friends of the deceased" is a testament to Hetta's value not as a daughter who married well or a wife who effectively managed a house but as a companion an intellectual and an individual. In this sense it deconstructs the period's expectations of separate spheres or hierarchy between sexes. With an opening letter by Susan Hayes Hetta's mother as well as a copy of the eulogy conducted by her husband the book reveals vast details about who Hetta was as a person. Both describe her as tender and affectionate; but time and again emphasis is placed on her mind. Though Hetta was skillful with a needle as a child according to her mother "her numberless questions interested and surprised me.She acquired a fondness for poetry.She became as much interested in the in the study of the exact sciences as in the works of imagination making herself acquainted with the higher branches of Mathematics Algebra Geometry etc." James similarly eulogizes his wife. What becomes clear is that he is grieving the loss of a companion and equal. "If we have found a friend of distinguished excellence and for years rejoiced with that friend in mutual interchange and warm affections it is natural when death intervenes and separates us from the dear object of our love to contemplate their virtues.First characteristic which I would notice which she possessed in an eminent degree is an ardent love of truth.She possessed great powers of abstraction.She saw with great clearness the point of an argument and was quick to distinguish between sophistry.She loved to trace the workings of the human mind." Not satisfied simply to have their own testaments to Hetta's extraordinary mind the compilers included to the last half of the book a collection of her own poetry and prose. A scarce work in a genre underappreciated in American literature and history. Such coterie publications of intimate mourning were uncommon for the time particularly for a woman. National Cyclopedia of American Biography 148. Very Good . T.R. Marvin unknown books
1888rif. 40926Savannah Ga.: The Morning News Print. 1888. 20 360 pp. Frontis illustration of the First African Baptist Church and another full-page illustration preceding the table of Contents. Well-used with contemporary ownership signatures of "Mr. Cornelious Adams 1819 Reynolds." Inner hinges cracked and some loosening from binding scattered foxing. Text portraits of the pastors. In original cloth binding some spotting and extremity wear. Gilt-lettered title stamped on front cover. Good. "The oldest colored Baptist church in America" it was organized in January 1788 at "Brampton's barn three miles west of Savannah by Rev. Abraham Marshall white and Jesse Peter colored." Its trials triumphs schisms relations with their Caucasian co-religionists and biographies of its ministers are chronicled here by the Church's black Pastor Reverend Love. FIRST EDITION. De Renne 868. Work 405. LCP Supp. 1320. Not in Blockson. The Morning News Print. unknown books
1817rif. 261849London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press 1817. First edition with half-titles and errata. Hundreds of engravings and examples of type etc. some tinted in red and blue and slip of gold printing with directions to binder slip at vol. II p. 417. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo 9-3/4 x 6 inches. Bound in contemporary three quarters blue pebbled morocco spine gilt and marbled boards and edges. Fine small bump to some pages in Vol. I. Bookplate of The Right Hon. Charles Abbot prob. Charles Abbot 1st Baron Colchester in Vols II & III. First edition with half-titles and errata. Hundreds of engravings and examples of type etc. some tinted in red and blue and slip of gold printing with directions to binder slip at vol. II p. 417. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo 9-3/4 x 6 inches. Windle & Pippin A28; Jackson no.40; Hart no.186; Bigmore and Wyman pp. 169-70 Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press unknown books
rif. 576745No place: The Author 1990. Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 8 leaves printed rectos only. Stapled black card wrappers with applied printed labels. Taped and stapled to rear wrapper is an unopened condom as issued. Inscribed by the author: "To my friend P.J. from Pedro. 38-E. 594-5058." The author is unknown to us. The slim volume came from the library of a noted African-American scholar and the rhymes are reminiscent of rap lyrics but alternatively there is some reason to believe it might be the work of Nuyorican poet and playwright Pedro Pietri. Rare. OCLC locates a single copy SUNY Buffalo. The Author unknown books
1892rif. 376201New York: Feast of Saint John the Evangelist 1892. Printed on pure vellum. Title page with seal printed in red. Vignette of eagle at head of first page of service. Artist's rendering of the cathedral on last page. 6 pp. Printed by the DeVinne Press. 1 vols. 4to. Blue cloth upper cover titled in gilt with paper label for J. Roosevelt Roosevelt lower cover with eagle in blind a.e.g. Fine. Bookplate of General Theological Seminary. Printed on pure vellum. Title page with seal printed in red. Vignette of eagle at head of first page of service. Artist's rendering of the cathedral on last page. 6 pp. Printed by the DeVinne Press. 1 vols. 4to. Order of service for the start of the construction of the New York City landmark. Just a few copies were printed on vellum. With a presentation inscription from the original owner "To the Rev. Howard C. Robbins Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine J. Roosevelt Roosevelt May 16 1922" James Roosevelt Roosevelt 1854-1927 was half brother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Uncommon and beautiful. Feast of Saint John the Evangelist unknown books
1900rif. 592001Savannah 1900. Softcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Frontispiece portrait of Craft. 16mo. 24pp. With five illustrations. Stapled in rose-colored printed wrappers. Loose chip from one rear corner laid in light wear at the edges including a few shallow chips and light creases. A pamphlet published by Rev. William L. Craft field secretary of The National Baptist Young Peoples Union Board used for recruitment efforts in the early 1910s. It provides a brief history of the church from its foundation as the Negro Baptist Church by George Leile in 1777 to the then present day under the leadership of Rev. Richard Henry Boyd; lists the organization's various presidents board members and officers; provides an overview of domestic and international missionary work; and prints a selection of various "don'ts" from spreading gossip and chewing tobacco to casting judgment and harming others. Also of interest is a small section on the importance of the number seven "a mystical and symbolic number in the Bible" likely to attract the attention of fellow African descendants who still retained spiritual belief in numerology. A rare pamphlet that we've not seen before. OCLC locates no copies. unknown books
1933rif. 87897London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co 1933. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo 24cm; publisher's teal cloth titled in gilt to spine; dustjacket; 307pp. Slight scuffing and bumping to corners and spine ends; boards noticeably bowed; internally clean with some light foxing and spotting mainly confined to the page edges illustrated with full page plates; in a clean strong price-clipped dustjacket with some light spotting and soiling to the front and rear panels and some visible toning to the spine panel with some shallow fraying to the spine ends. All in all a Very Good solid copy of a book that is often considerable less pleasing. One of the definitive "modern" sourceworks for werewolf and lycanthropic myth legend and study. Alongside Sabine Baring-Gould's "The Book of Were-Wolves" from 1865 which Summers' work references frequently it is the generally acknowledged source-work for the field of werewolf were-creature and shapeshifter folklore. Summers whose reputation for eccentricity and obsessive study were not even slightly exagerrated writes with an accessible and informed confidence on a number of esoteric subjects with this work and his twin studies on vampirism "The Vampire in Europe" and "Vampire; Kith and Kin" forming a triangle of weird alternative and occult texts that in all likelihood are the origin of most of the commonly understood tropes and memes regarding the field. Summers' primary skill aside from being pre-eminent in spinning a good yarn was in academic research the advantage of this is that all of his major works regarding occult and esoteric subjects are essentially reading guides towards an expanded library of the subject gathered together in one easily accessible and compelling form. Whilst he may indeed have been madder than a sack of weasels and perhaps not the sort of chap you would want to leave in charge of a school bus his contribution to the fields of alternative study are undeniable and his books highly collectible in first edition. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co unknown books
1862rif. 353071862. First Edition. STERN Reverend Henry A. Wanderings Among the Falashas in Abyssinia; Together with a Description of the Country and its Various Inhabitants. London: Wertheim Macintosh and Hunt 1862. Octavo original blue cloth rebacked with original spine laid down marbled endpapers. $2800.First edition of this fascinating look at Ethiopian Jews one of the earliest obtainable works in English on the Falashas with eight tinted lithographed plates in-text engravings and one folding map.Henry Aaron Stern was born a Jew in Germany in 1820. Upon converting to Christianity in 1840 Stern joined the Hebrew College of the London JewsÕ Society with the intention of becoming a missionary. He traveled widely working as a missionary to Jewish communities in Baghdad Jerusalem and Constantinople among other places. The London JewsÕ Society became particularly interested in the fate of EthiopiaÕs Jews and requested that Stern travel there. In 1863 he became a captive in Ethiopia where he Òwas subjected to especially cruel tortures and indignities for he was charged by the king with having reflected in his book entitled ÔWanderings among the FalashasÕ on the kingÕs ferocity and with having stated that his mother was a vendor of KossoÓ DNB a common medicinal plant. Interior fine. Rebacked original cloth quite clean with original spine laid down. An excellent copy. hardcover books
1745rif. 42910San Sebastian: por Bartholome Riesgo y Montero impressor de dicha M N y M.L. Provincia 1745. First edition 2 volumes folio pp. 18 ccxxix 1 436; 2 392 12; titles printed in red and black lexicon in double column engraved amorial headpiece errata leaf at the back of vol. II; full 19th-century speckled calf red edges double gilt-ruled borders on covers gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments red and black morocco labels in 2; a few minor imperfections hinges tender else a very good sound set. Bookplate of "Milton / Peterborough." This is the first dictionary of Basque preceded only by Oihenartus' Notitia utriusque Vasconiae tum Ibericae tum Aquitanicae Paris 1638 to which was appended a Basque word list. Larramendi also compiled a Basque grammar 1729. Entry words are in Castilian with Basque and Latin equivalents. The 230-page introduction is an extensive history and grammar of the Basque language the only non-Aryan language of western Europe and a language unaffilliated with any other. Not in NUC. Not in Collison Dictionaries of Foreign Languages; Trübner's Catalogue of Dictionaries and Grammars cites only the 1853 revision. Palau 132048; Zaunmuller col. 28. por Bartholome Riesgo y Montero, impressor de dicha M N y M.L. Provincia unknown books
1849rif. 42915New York: John James Audubon 1849. First edition hand-colored lithograph by John T. Bowen of Philadelphia after John James Audubon. An iconic image of Western Americana from the folio first edition of Audubon's "Quadrupeds of North America" the greatest work of natural history illustration produced in America during the nineteenth century: "As long as our civilization lasts America will be in debt to this genius." Peterson This fine plate is from the folio edition of Audubon's The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America which was produced entirely in the United States. The work was Audubon's last and by 1846 he had to hand over the drawing of the final fifty plates to his sons John Woodhouse and Victor Audubon. The production of the Quadrupeds was begun by Audubon and his sons at about the same time as the commercially-successful octavo edition of The Birds of America. Unlike the double-elephant folio the Quadrupeds was produced entirely in the United States. Reese notes that "By 1843 the Audubon family business was a well-oiled machine involving John James his two sons and various in-laws and friends. The octavo Birds was still in production when Bowen began to produce the plates for the folio edition of the Quadrupeds the largest successful color-plate book project of 19th-century America. It took the family five years to publish 150 plates in thirty parts. The massive project was a commercial success thanks to the close management of Victor. There were about three hundred subscribers." Reese Like Birds of America the Viviparous Quadrupeds was intended to be a comprehensive visual catalog of North America animalia with Audubon's focus here shifting from birds to four-legged land mammals. Accompanying each image was correlating didactic text written primarily by Bachman that informed the reader of the animal's habits diet habitat and gestational period. Totaling 150 prints the project was rushed to completion as Audubon's health declined. Emerging in the shadow of its acclaimed predecessor Birds of America the Viviparous Quadrupeds has not received the adequate attention nor recognition it so richly deserves. This image is of a family of American buffalo the most iconic animal indigenous to North America whose presence was integral for Native American life and whose near-extinction spurred on the conservation movement in the US. The buffalo is today the state animal of Kansas Oklahoma and Wyoming. Bennett p.5. Peterson Birds of America passim. Reese Stamped with a National Character 36. Sabin 2367. Wood p.209. John James Audubon unknown books
