Moïse

King's Views of New York City A Major Association Copy

1903rif. 17370New York: Moses King 1903. Cloth. Very Good. A very important Association copy -- and a significant piece of turn-of-the-century New York history. INSCRIBED BY MOSES KING in February 1904 TO ADOLPH S. OCHS THE PUBLISHER AND OWNER OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 1896-1935 AND A MAJOR FORCE IN THE GROWTH OF NEW YORK AS A WORLD-CLASS CITY. A solid very presentable copy to boot of the 1903 installation of this photographic tribute to New York both overseen and published by the powerful Moses King himself a formidable figure in the world of New York movers and shakers. This copy is solid and VG to VG in its tan cloth with bright gilt-titling to the front panel. Light wear at the spine ends and the tips mild rubbing along the front panel's bottom-edge and very light soiling to the rear panel. Folio hundreds of crisp black-and-white plates glorifying the city's architectural acheivements. Laid-into this copy is a hand-sewn uncommon 1933 booklet called "Adolph S. Ochs at Seventy-Five" which pays tribute to the publisher's accomplishments from the perspective of Jewish theology and ideals. Moses King unknown books

Appledore Books, ABAA · Stati Uniti1000,00 USD≈ 895,10 €

Robert MosesABAA

2 Pg. TLS Addressing Fire Island

1952rif. 216371952. Letters. Near Fine. A 2 pg. Robert Moses typed letter signed written on his personal stationary with the Babylon Long Island letterhead and addressed to radio and theatre producer and director Day Tuttle. Moses here discusses the challenges and complexities of building on Fire Island and displays a firm grasp of the material citing specific causeways projects and developments. The letter 2 separate 9"x11" pages has held up very well. Clean and crisp and very well-preserved with a strong ink signature by Moses. unknown books

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Robert MosesABAA

Public Works: A Dangerous Trade The Specially-Bound Signed 1st Edition

1970rif. 21705New York: McGraw-Hill 1970. Leatherette. Near Fine/Very Good . INSCRIBED BY ROBERT MOSES on the half-title. A very solid copy to boot of the 1970 1st edition in its pebbled navy-blue leatherette. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp VG to Near Fine example of the unprinted mylar dustjacket with several tiny chips along the spine ends. Thick octavo top-edge gilt. McGraw-Hill unknown books

Appledore Books, ABAA · Stati Uniti1000,00 USD≈ 895,10 €

Robert MosesABAA

Selected Measures for the Partial Relief of Traffic Congestion in New York City

1946rif. 23879City Planning Commission City of New York 1946. Original wraps. Near Fine. Scarce November 1946 report spearheaded by the Construction Co-Ordinator of the City Planning Commission of New York the legendary Robert Moses. The report consists of research by Consulting Engineers Gano Dunn and W. Earle Andrews of Andrews & Clark and Gilmore D. Clarke Chairman of Clarke Rapuano & Holleran and includes the "Report of the Engineering Committee on New York City Traffic". Beautifully illustrated throughout with the "Perspective Drawings" by William Boice Julian Michele and Cornelius Flynn and the "Aerial Photographs" by Fried-Leder Photo-Aerographic Service. This copy is bright and crisp and very well-preserved in its maroon stapled wrappers. Internally very clean as well save for one piece of writing a small 4-word note at the top of the title page written in pencil and stating "Robert Moses's Orig copy". Though we're unable to autherticate this given the very impressive provenance of this copy shared upon request we believe it's distinctly possible. Folio sophisticated maps photographs and charts many of them in rich color throughout. Printed by Steidinger Press Inc. City Planning Commission, City of New York unknown books

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Sivers, C v (Hg); Ephraim Moses Lilien (Illustrator)ABAA

Kunstgewerbe für's Haus: Illustrierte Monats-Zeitschrift für Dilettanten. Erster Jahrgang 1900-1901 11. Heft August 1901

1901rif. 34494Berlin: Otto Lienekampf 1901. First edition. Softcover. vg. Folio. 4 323-351 3pp. Original wrappers illustrated by Art Nouveau illustrator Ephraim Moses Lilien. Exquisite issue of this early German interior design magazine published between 1900 and 1914. This August 1901 issue contains numerous b/w photographic reproductions as well as bordures motifs and illustrations by artist E. M. Lilien and others E. Lasch C. von Sivers A. von Lepell G. von Estorff etc. This copy is complete with its two large fold-out floral pattern sheets including one by Lilien and its color plate depicting a design by C. von Sivers . Page 326 features a large art nouveau pattern by Lilien 15 3/4" x 8". Pattern sheets measure appr. 52" x 45" each. Minor shelf wear. Text in German. Wrappers and interior in overall very good condition. Otto Lienekampf unknown books

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Moses, RobertABAA

Public Works: A Dangerous Trade

rif. 13888New York: McGraw-Hill 1970. First Edition First Printing. Full leather. Fine/very good. Signed first edition of Public Works: A Dangerous Trade by Robert Moses. Octavo xxxvi 952pp. Full navy blue morocco title in gilt on red label affixed to spine. Top edge gilt four gilt illustrations on the front cover. Marbled endpapers. No additional printings listed. Solid text block a fine example. In the publisher's glassine dust jacket. Signed by the author "To Annette and George / Robert Moses" on the dedication page. Robert Moses 1888-1981 was an urban planner in New York City and served as the 49th Secretary of State of New York from 1927-1929. Throughout his forty-year career Moses oversaw construction and function of Jones Beach State Park and the New York State Parkway System and was acting head of the Triborough Bridge Authority. Despite his accomplishments in public affairs Moses's reputation was diminished with the publication of Robert Caro's biography The Power Broker which described Moses as a racist official who cut corners on budgeting and restricted access to city parks for lower-class families. McGraw-Hill unknown books

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[California Gold Rush]. Pine, Moses "Old MoseABAA

Letter Written by a Miner from the California Gold Fields

1855rif. 3206Coyoteville: September 12 1855. Very good. 2pp. plus integral blank. Original mailing folds moderate toning staining and ink spotting but still easily readable. Bottom fourth of integral blank excised. An informative Gold Rush letter about mining in the long-vanished ghost town of Coyoteville which was an extraordinarily rich gold area for a couple of years in the early 1850s. A noted tunneling method nicknamed "coyoteing" was developed in the town and subsequently inspired the name of the town. In the present letter Moses Pine writes to "Catherine" in Branch County Michigan and signs his name simply as "Mose Esq" at the conclusion. The author informs Catherine presumably his wife or sister of his activities some of the economic realities and some of the practical details of prospecting for gold in California. Presuming that "it would be impossible for the whole of Branch County to raise $10 unless they sell a horse" Pine comments that he had ginger bread on the Fourth of July after working all day and yielding a "half Ounce Gold Dust." He then provides a detailed description of his mining: "I am now tunneling in a hill. We are 150 feet under the ground. Day before yesterday we got small respect 25 cents to the pan for the first and the bed rock pitching. I think we will find good pay in the going 100 feet further the expense is heavy as we have to blast and timber the tunnel." Pine also talks of his health and that "I work hard every day do my cooking and baking." He then expresses his hope to get back to Michigan to "rest a few months" but knows nothing of other Michigan folks in California: "Have not seen nor heard anything of them in a year. I guess they have all gone home with a fortune in a horn. Well good luck to the lucky. Old Mose will come home after a while with a pretty hat on." A nicely-detailed letter from an unusual and obscure Gold Rush location. September 12 unknown books

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Gettysburg Medal of Honor Recipient Moses VealeABAA

Civil War Gettysburg Campaign Muster Roll Signed by Medal of Honor Recipient Moses Veale

1863rif. 215941863. Medal of Honor Recipient Moses Veale Signed Civil War muster out roll dated June 8 1863 documents the discharge of 1st Lieutenant Orson Foot of the 60th New York Volunteer Infantry so he could accept a commission as Captain during the opening phase of the Gettysburg campaign. Issued at Aquia Creek Virginia the document bears the signature of Captain Moses Veale as mustering officer a Union officer later awarded the Medal of Honor for extraordinary gallantry during the Civil War. Veale's citation records that during the Battle of Wauhatchie Tennessee he continued directing his men after being struck by four enemy bullets and having his horse shot from under him. The presence of Veale's signature transforms the document from routine military administration into a signed record connected to one of the war's most decorated acts of battlefield courage. At the same time the roll records Foot's discharge to accept promotion during the Gettysburg Campaign. Foot Orson. Civil War muster out roll. Aquia Creek Virginia June 8 1863. One manuscript sheet completed in official Union Army muster format and signed by Captain Moses Veale as mustering officer. The document certifies that the officer "carefully examined this Roll. and mustered the said Orson Foot for discharge; and I hereby honorably discharge him from the service of the United States." It records Foot's enrollment at Ogdensburg New York on September 16 1861 identifies his rank as 1st Lieutenant in the 60th New York Volunteer Infantry and notes in the remarks that he was mustered out "to accept Commission of Captain." The sheet therefore documents the administrative transition by which an officer left one commission to assume another within the wartime command structure. The document's date and place situate it at the evacuation of Aquia Creek Landing one of the Army of the Potomac's principal logistical bases. Established during earlier campaigns in northern Virginia Aquia Creek served as a major supply depot linking Washington with Union forces in the field. As Robert E. Lee advanced north in June 1863 the Union command dismantled and abandoned the installation to support the army's rapid movement toward Pennsylvania. By the very day this roll was issued June 8 Federal forces were evacuating and destroying the depot to prevent its use by Confederate troops. Foot's promotion therefore occurred amid the redeployment that would culminate at the Battle of Gettysburg. Single manuscript sheet measuring approximately 32 x 11 inches when unfolded. Some age toning scattered ink staining and edge wear consistent with large-format wartime administrative documents; overall good condition. A substantial Civil War military document combining Gettysburg campaign context with the signature of Medal of Honor recipient Moses Veale whose later battlefield heroism makes his autograph particularly desirable within Civil War military manuscripts. A substantial Civil War military document produced during the evacuation of Aquia Creek and the opening phase of the Gettysburg campaign. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · Stati Uniti1250,00 USD≈ 1118,87 €

GRANGER, Moses MoorheadABAA

A FAIR ANSWER TO THE CONFEDERATE APPEAL AT RICHMOND

1907rif. 46511907. Granger Moses Moorhead. A FAIR ANSWER TO THE CONFEDERATE APPEAL AT RICHMOND. Self-published 1907. 12mo. printed blue wraps; 32 pages. First- and only- edition. A treatise debunking many claims made by Southern states and politicians that led to the Civil War. "Richmond" in the title refers to the unveiling of a statue of Jefferson Davis on June 3 1907 in that city and speeches at the time stating that Davis and the Southern states will eventually be vindicated for their actions leading to and during the Civil War. Granger 1831-1913 was born and also died in Zanesville Ohio where he was a lawyer and a judge. He served with Company S of the 122nd Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War where he earned the ranks of Lt. Colonel and Colonel. With an autograph note signed by Granger inside the front cover discussing some copyright confusion over the book's publication and with a "Publisher's Weekly" ink stamp on the same page. With another lengthy autograph note on the last page by Granger discussing the politics and various historic events that led to the war mentioning The Missouri Compromise The Nebraska Bill etc. Very rare with the only copies I have been able to locate in institutional libraries. Good condition some chipping covers but contents clean & tight; some repair to covers spine & inside front cover with clear archival tape. $1250.00. unknown books

Antic Hay Books · Stati Uniti1250,00 USD≈ 1118,87 €

Joy, Thaddeus; and Moses BristolABAA

ACCOUNTS OF COMPENSATION COLLECTED BY THE COMMISSIONERS JOY & BRISTOL OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND PAID TO THE NIAGARA SUFFERERS RELATED TO THEIR PROPERTY LOSSES DURING THE BURNING OF BUFFALO IN THE WAR OF 1812

1842rif. 69781Buffalo NY 1842. Four manuscript documents 4 pp. each approx. 31 cm. each docketed on verso. All in very good condition legible one document more toned. A record of moneys collected by Joy and Bristol as Commissioners for the State of New York for distribution to the Niagara Sufferers. The documents include: 1 "Amts collected including what is due & collectable." caption title. This document signed by Joseph Clary and Moses Bristol Dec. 31 1830 records amounts collected by the commissioners plus the costs for the state less assignments sent to the comptroller dividends due Joy and Bristol etc. a "statement of the affairs of the Niagara Sufferers in a/c with the Comms. J & B." 2 "Statement of the affairs of the Niagara Suffers with Joy & Bristol." caption title. Calculations on the second document signed by Clary and Bristol on Dec. 16 1833 record the total amount collected by Joy and Bristol to be $69205.30 with cash paid out to the sufferers amounting to $62913.69 plus expenses of $350. Left in the hands of Joy was $2511.30; Bristol $1649.72; Clary $1396.36; plus smaller amounts to three other people. 3 "Statement of the affairs of the Niagara Suffers with Joy & Bristol." caption title. Document dated Buffalo Feb. 1 1836 and signed by Clary and Joy. The total amount collected by Bristol and Joy amounted to $69281.39 including $42464.60 assigned to the comptroller Nov. 30 1825; plus $16955.40 on Dec. 27 1833; and $2900.50 on March 28 1835. Additional amounts were left to be distributed or recorded as expenses or paid in commissions to Joy & Bristol. A detailed breakdown of how the "Niagara suffer business stands between T. Joy M. Bristol & J. Clary" is also given. 4 "Statement of the affairs of the Niagara Sufferers with Joy & Bristol." caption title. This fourth document is a neater copy of the Feb. 1 1836 document docketed on verso: "copied from J. Clary's statement March 7 1842" and signed by M. Bristol. During the War of 1812 incursions by the British on American soil had resulted in the burning of towns the loss of property and the impoverishment of citizens. On the Niagara frontier this included the village of Buffalo which was nearly burned to the ground on Dec. 30 1813. In a letter written by members of the Committee of Safety and Relief at Canandaigua on Jan. 8 1814 it was reported that "Niagara county and that part of Genesee which lies west of Batavia are completely depopulated. All the settlements in a section of country forty miles square and which contained more than twelve thousand souls are effectually broken up. Our roads are filled with people many of whom have been reduced from a state of competence and good prospects to the last degree of want and sorrow." see: Louis Babcock's book "The War of 1812 on the Niagara Frontier" Buffalo NY: 1927 pp.253-4 These "Niagara sufferers" were among the citizens of several states who petitioned the federal government for redress of losses suffered during the conflict. President Madison and Congress responded by establishing an Office of Claims in 1816 with Richard Bland Lee as its adminstrator "to solicit claims appraise lost property adjudicate cases and award restitution." According to a "Report of the Committee of Claims on the petition of the inhabitants of Niagara county New York sufferers by the enemy during the last war" dated Jan. 15 1821 and submitted to Congress these same "sufferers" in anticipation of federal relief began in 1816 to apply for loans from a newly established bank in the village of Buffalo. These citizens "being at that time in great want of means to rebuild their houses and repair their devastated estates were induced to apply to this bank for loans of money for that purpose and which loans they generally obtained by giving mortgages on their farms accompanied by honorary engagements that they should be repaid out of the moneys received by them under the law for their relief." New York also passed a law on April 15 1815 granting state loans to the sufferers. On Jan. 29 1822 the State of New York passed "An Act Granting relief to the sufferers on the Niagara frontier whose property was destroyed by the enemy during the late war." By this act the state trusting that the U.S. Congress would ultimately repay the sufferers in full for their losses as well as repay the state for their expenditures transferred to the commissioners 'the several debts due to the people of this state for monies loaned to the sufferers. also all monies due to this state on securities taken for the payment of the debt due from the Bank of Niagara. and all interest due on said several debts and on said bills." The commissioners were authorized to extend the term of five years for the debtors to repay their debts and to "take and receive the title to any lands or tenements mortgaged to the people of the state. and it shall be lawful for the commissioners to sell and in their own names convey any lands or tenements which under this act they may acquire." Once the federal monies were received by the state the residual due to the sufferers would be calculated. The commissioners were charged with accounting to the comptroller for the execution of the trust confided to them. Record is found in the New York newspapers of the day of several sales of mortgages taken out by "sufferers" in the years following the conclusion of the War of 1812 and transferred to Thaddeus Joy and Moses Bristol Acting Commissioners. Meanwhile the federal Office of Claims under Richard Lee was closed down for a time while investigations of its awards were carried on. Sectional rivalries also interfered with settlement claims by the federal government for the losses of private citizens. Citizens from the southern states whose slaves had been liberated by British forces had managed to get a proposal for their return or compensation included in the Treaty of Ghent which ended the war. Northern states appealed for some sort of equal calculations for their losses. According to Craig Hollander in his article "The Citizen Complains: Federal Compensation for Property Lost in the War of 1812" Law and History Review Vol. 38 No. 4 Nov. 2020 pp.659-698 the civilian sufferers "deftly created a sense of sectional aggrievement to garner additional support from their Northern colleagues." By as late as 1840 however many of the claims remained unresolved. In a letter to Thaddeus Joy written by Joseph Clary on Dec. 28 1840 Clary remarks that Dr. Moses Bristol "is very anxious to have the old Niagara Sufferers affairs brot to a close. It is now near seventeen years since the law authorizing a transfer of the debts to the sufferers was passed and it would seem very much like a neglect of duty for us to let the matter run this length of time without any effort to close it with the Comptroller." Clary continued to be concerned that Joy and Bristol would not be compensated for their work as commissioners. In Louis Babcock's book on the war he notes that "documents supplying further information on this aspect of the Niagara Sufferer's Claims are lacking so that for the present the matter is left untold." Babcock pp.318-19. unknown books

Bartlebys Books · Stati Uniti1250,00 USD≈ 1118,87 €

Maimonides, MosesABAA

De idololatria liber cum interpretatione latina & notis Dionysii Vossii. Bound with: VOSSIUS Gerardus Joannes. De theologia gentili et physiologia Christiana sive De origine ac progressu idololatriae ad veterum gesta ac rerum naturam reductae: de que naturae mirandis quibus homo adducitur ad Deum. Liber I et II

1642rif. 254936Amsterdam: Jioh & Corneium Blaeu 1642. Second edition of each title. Publisher's device on title pages; woodcut tailpieces ornamental initials. Maimonides text in Hebrew with facing Latin translation by Vossius. 12 1-174. 2; 12 304; xvii 19 305-732 x 30. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary vellum with ms. spine title covers slightly soiled upper joint cracked. Institutional shelfmark in ink on title-page ; bookplae of HENRY FERGUSON of Stamford Connecticut "Henry Ferguson from the Library of Rev. FREDERIC GARDINER" and signed by Gardiner on the front pastedown "Leipzig 1854. Second edition of each title. Publisher's device on title pages; woodcut tailpieces ornamental initials. Maimonides text in Hebrew with facing Latin translation by Vossius. 12 1-174. 2; 12 304; xvii 19 305-732 x 30. 1 vols. 4to. Scarce second edition of Maimonides' tract on idolatry with an important new foreword "to the Reader" by Isaac Vossius brother of the recently deceased translator Dionysius Vossius 1612-1642 as well as a new dedicatory poem by Caspar Barlaeus. Maimonides' text is usually accompanied as it is here by the massive commentary by Gerardus Vossius father of Isaac and Dionysius DE THEOLOGIA GENTILI . a book said to have been an iinfluence on Isaac Newton; his library contained an "extensively dog-eared" copy of the book John Harrison THE LIBRARY OF ISAAC NEWTON Cambridge University Press p. 258. This particular copy has a very distinguished provenance. Dr. Frederic Gardiner was an Episcopal clergyman Biblican scholar founder of the American Exegetical Society and author of several books including a Harmony of the Gospels. Henry Ferguson of Stamford Ct. "studied theology in the Berkeley Divinity School. In 1872 he was made rector of Christ Church in Exeter N. H. and in 1878 rector of Trinity Church Claremont in the same state. In 1883 he became professor of history and political economy in Trinity College a position he filled with distinguished credit until commencement in 1906 when he resigned to become rector of St. Paul's School Concord N. H. In 1873 he married Emma J. Gardiner daughter of Professor Gardiner of the Berkeley Divinity School . His original specialty was Hebrew." Norris Galpin Osborn ed. MEN OF MARK IN CONNECTICUT Vol I p. 132. OCLC: 37317703 one copy in US; Vossius: Brunet V col. 1373 for editions of 1641 and 1668 Jioh, & Corneium Blaeu unknown books

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Maimonides, Moses (R Mosis Majemonide); Abarbanel, IsaacABAA

R. Mosis Majemonidae de Sacrificiis Liber : Accesserunt Abarbanelis Exordium seu procemium commentariorum in Leviticum: et Majemonidae Tractatus de consecratione calendarum et de ratione intercalandi. Quae ex hebraeo convertit in sermonem latinum & notis illustravit Ludovicus de Compiegne de Veil A.M.

1683rif. 14061London: Typis Milonis Flesher sumptibus auctoris prostat apud Mosem Pitt & apud Brabazonum Aylmer 1683. First edition. Hardcover. g. 8vo. 10 450pp. 3/4 Vellum over marbled boards with brown lettering and library plate to spine. Age wearing throughout binding.Some tears discoloration scuffing and rubbing to boards and spine. Some browning and foxing to pages not affecting the script. Welling to pages. Ex library. Library card pocket pasted to inside of front board. Perforation to title page: Philadelphia Divinity school. Inscribed by owner with pencil: "to Paullus Reinhardus." This first Latin translation contains texts from Moshe ben Maimon aka Rambam aka Maimonides 1135-1204 and Yitzchak ben Yehuda aka Abravanel Isaac Abrabanel1437-1508. In Latin with some writing in Hebrew. Cover in fair book in good condition. freely translated: Rabbi Moses Maimonides' volountary sacrifice: An approach to Abarbanel's introduction and commentary on Leviticus and Maimonides' Tractate on the consecrated calendar and the rational calendar change R. Moses Maimonides Rambam was a 12th century Jewish philosopher and halachic legal scholar. A highly controversial figure both during his lifetime and after his death but generally acknowledged as the preeminent Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. He was born in Córdoba Spain but fled as a child from the Almohad persecution. He eventually settled in Egypt where he served as a rabbi physician and philosopher. His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah his only work not in Arabic still carries canonical authority particularly within the Yemenite Jewish community as the codification of Talmudic law. His other work includes a commentary on the Mishnah entitled Kitab al-Siraj Kitab al-Fara'I a book on precepts and the philosophical work Dalalat al-Ha'irin known in Hebrew as the Moreh Nevukhim The Guide to the Perplexed. The major premise is an attempted philosophical/theological reconciliation of the Hebrew Bible and Greek knowledge. This work came to play a central role in all subsequent major controversies over philosophy within the Jewish community during the Middle Ages. Typis Milonis Flesher, sumptibus auctoris, prostat apud Mosem Pitt, & apud Brabazonum Aylmer hardcover books

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Maimonides, Moses; Dionysius Vossius; Gerhard J VossiusABAA

De idololatria liber A Book on Idolatry BOUND WITH De theologia gentili et physiologia christiana On Gentile Theology and Christian Physiology

1642rif. 48836Amsterdam: Joan and Cornelis Blaeu 1642. Second edition. Hardcover. Very good. Sammelband of two works jointly issued the latter in two parts quarto. 12 174 1 errata 1 blank; 12 732 pp. 353-360 repeated xvii addenda 19 index x addenda 28 index 1 emendanda 1 blankpp. All four addenda and indices to the De theologia gentili bound following the second part. Each work with woodcut printer's device at title; occasional woodcut lettrines; printed marginalia. De idololatria with Hebrew text and Latin translation in parallel columns interspersed with Latin notes. Contemporary vellum lightly soiled manuscript title at spine intermittant light dampstain largely confined to first work else crisp clean and amply margined. Collation: I. asterisk4 2asterisk2 A-Y4 = 94 leaves; II. asterisk4 2asterisk2 A-2P4 2Q-4Y4 4Z2 asterisk-4asterisk4 5asterisk2 cross-5cross4 = 414 leaves 2Y-2Y4 repeated. Re-issue of the first edition 1641 of the first two books of four of G. J. Vossius' De theologia gentili with new preliminaries including an Elegy written by Caspar Barlaeus on the occasion of the death of Gerhard's son Dionysius dated IV Kal. Novembris MDCXXXIII 1633 and a preface by another of Vossius' sons Isaac; along with an edition of the Hebrew text of Maimonides' treatment of the laws of idolotry in the first book of the Mishneh Torah with accompanying Latin translation by Dionysius Vossius. "The work has a two-fold aim. In the first place it is a Theologia gentilis. Of this the subtitle says that the work treats. the origin and history of heathen mythologies and cult forms. But at the same time the book is a Physiologia christiana a study 'de naturae mirandis quibus homo adducitur ad Deum' an account as complete as possible of the rich diversity of all creation that in the inention of the creator must serve to reveal to man the greatness of God. It is simultaneously an ambitiously arranged textbook of mythology a summary of what was written about nature in all its manifestations up until Vossius' time and finally also a first specimen of what would be done profusely in the eighteenth century a book on the natural knowledge of God" Rademaker. Provenance: The manuscript entry "Jan de Wind. 17 april An. 1697.". References: J. I. Dienstag "Christian Translators of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah into Latin" in: Salo Wittmayer Baron Jubilee Volume 31 De idololatria. Fuks/Fuks-Mansfeld 202 De idololatria ed. 1641 noting that there exist copies without the Hebrew text. The 1641 ed. contains no preliminaries after the title. Katchen Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis esp. pp.24-25. Rademaker Life and Work of G.J. Vossius Assen 1981 no. 24: "In his last large work the Theologia gentilis. he dared to make full use of Scaliger's chronological innovations" 185. For more detailed commentary see: pp. 306-310. For Dionysius see 163f. Joan and Cornelis Blaeu hardcover books

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Maimonides, Moses; Louis Compiegne de Veil (trans)ABAA

De cultu divino ex R. Mosis Majemonidae Secunda lege seu Manu Forti liber VIII. On the Divine Cult from the Book Eight of the Mishneh Torah or Yad ha-Hazakah of Rabbi Moses Maimonides WITH NOTABLE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ANNOTATIONS

1678rif. 52858Paris: G. Caillou 1678. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. 16 384pp; 3 unnumbered double-suite engraved plates with legends in the margins. Engraved printer's device at title. Woodcut head- and tailpieces lettrines. Text in Latin with some key terms in Hebrew; printed marginalia. Contemporary calf rubbed and lightly worn at extremities; spine with raised bands gilt-tooled compartments old manuscript title on paper in upper compartment. Text lightly toned throughout else clean and crisp. A good or better copy. Collation: atilde6 etilde2 e2 signed e3 A-3B4 = 200 leaves First edition of this Latin version of Sefer Avodah The Book of Divine Service being the eighth book of the Mishneh Torah Moses Maimonides' systemic treatment of Talmudic and post-Talmudic Jewish law halakhah. The nine chapters of Sefer Avodah comprise a legal digest of Israelite cult practices at the Jerusalem Temple: The Chosen Temple; Vessels of the Sanctuary and Those Who Serve Therein; Admission into the Sanctuary; Things Forbidden on the Altar; Sacrificial Procedure; Daily Offerings and Additional Offerings; Sacrifices Rendered Unfit; Service on the Day of Atonement; Trespass. "Whereas Christian interest in Maimonides' thought was focused on his philosophic work the Guide of the Perplexed during the Middle Ages -- the so-called Age of Faith -- this interest shifted during the Renaissance the Reformation and the Enlightenment to his Halakic work the Mishneh Torah. It was through the Mishneh Torah that Christian thinkers and theologians viewed normative Judaism" Dienstag. Born Daniel de Weil in the Jewish quarter of Metz Louis-Compiègne de Veil d. c.1710 was the son of the town's rabbi David Weil d. 1645 and a descendant of the Nürnberg rabbi Jacob Weil. Both he and his brother Charles Marie de Veil converted to Catholicism under the influence of the new Catholic archdeacon Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet who arrived at Metz in 1652. The archdeacon "shared in the current apocalyptic excitement of both Christians and Jewish cabbalists and the conviction of the former of an imminent large-scale conversion of the Jews" ODNB. He was sponsored at his baptism by Louis XIV as reflected in his new Christian name and went on to study theology at the Sorbonne. Both Louis and his brother subsequently converted to Calvinism and immigrated to England. "Designated sub-keeper of the Royal Library in 1678 de Veil was licensed 'ad docendum litteras in et per totam urbem Londinensem' in 1685" Massil. As noted by Dienstag de Veil "devoted himself to the interpretation of Maimonides' code Mishneh Torah." The present work was dedicated to the son of Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert the churchman Jacques Nicolas Colbert 1655-1707 who later become Archbishop of Rouen in 1691 and was one of the first members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Provenance and annotations: With the 19th-century bookplate of "Mr. F. Theremin Ministre du S. Evangile" at the front paste-down and his stamp at the bottom margin of the title-page. The opening blank end-leaf contains detailed bibliographical lists in French. The first notes thirteen authors and their works which discuss de Veil including Richard Simon Pierre Daniel Huet and Job Ludolf; the second notes seven bibliographies which include the present work followed by a list of later printings. References: J. I. Dienstag "Christian Translators of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah into Latin" in: Salo Wittmayer Baron Jubilee Volume NY: Columbia Univ. 1974 pp.288; 303 no. 4; S.W. Massil "Immigrant Librarians to Britain: Huguenots and Some Others" 69th IFLA General Conference and Council and Council 1-9 August 2003 Berlin; S. Wright "Charles Marie de Veil" in: ODNB. Full title and imprint: De cultu divino ex R. Mosis Majemonidae Secunda lege seu Manu forti liber VIII. Dividitur in IX. tractatus quorum seriem pagina è regione Elenchi posita declarabit. Accesserunt tabulae aere incisae in quibus exprimitur Hierosolymitanti templi forma accuratissimè & eleganter descripta. Hunc librum ex hebraeo latinum fecit & notis illustravit Ludovicus de Compiegne de Veïl D.A. Parisiis apud Guidonem Caillou Bibliopolam viâ Jocabaeâ sub Constantia. M.DC.LXXVIII. G. Caillou hardcover books

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Mendelssohn, MosesABAA

Gesammelte Schriften. 7 in 8 Vols

1845rif. 37452Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus 1845. First edition. Hardcover. g. Small Octavo ca. 4200pp. Original half leather over dark green pebbled cloth. Marbled endpapers and edges. Portrait lithograph of Mendelssohn by Frisch with tissue guard. Edited by Prof. Dr. G. B. Mendelssohn based on original prints and handwritings in seven volumes. Vol. 1: Biography and philosophical writings Vol. 2: Metaphysical writings Vol. 3: Correspondence and smaller writings Vol. 4.1: Smaller writings and correspondence Vol. 4.2: Correspondence. Vol. 5: Correspondence. Vol. 6: Ritual Laws of the Jews and various translations. Vol. 7: Mendelssohn's translation of the Five Books of Moses. Moses Mendelssohn was a German Jewish philosopher and practicing orthodox Jew. His ideas are credited with contributing significantly to the 'Jewish enlightenment' of the 18th and 19th centuries the Haskalah. Text in German fracture. Binding rubbed. Some volumes with professional repair at gutters starting a back gutter of volume 2 and 3. Volumes dusty and marbled edges faded. Moderate sporadic foxing of book blocks. Bindings and interior in overall good condition. F. A. Brockhaus hardcover books

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Mintz, Moses ben Isaac SegalABAA

Teshuvot Maharam Mintz Responsa of the Maraham.

1802rif. 55778Saloniki Thessaloniki: Mordekhai Nahman and David Yisraeliga 1802. Second edition. Modern cloth. Very good-. Quarto 25 by 16.5 cm. 2 136 leaves. Hebrew text in rabbinic font arranged in two columns. Title within elaborate letterpress borders with textual quotations; woodcut printer's device verso title approbations page; publication date in chronogram. Recent royal blue cloth; text block with speckled edges. Title leaf reinforced with tissue along fore-edge; title with tear along gutter 7 cm and small mostly marginal worm traces; worming vanishes by the sixth leaf with very minimal text loss; slightest marginal worm tracing at final 20 leaves; entry at bottom margins of the title and four other pages excised in black marker not affecting text; several leaves lightly toned else a very good copy with crisp clean text. Very scarce second edition of this collection of rabbinic responsa issued by Moses ben Isaac Segal Mintz 15th century. First published at Krakow in 1617 this is the author's only published work. Born in Mainz between 1420 and 1430 Moses Mintz studied with Jacob Weil and Israel Isserlein and while still quite young was appointed rabbi of Würzburg. Mintz led a peripatetic life which allowed him to investigate Jewish customs and communal regulations in many towns. After the 1453 expulsion of the Jews from Würzburg he returned to Mainz until the expulsion of 1462. He subsequently went to Landau and Ulm. In 1469 he was appointed rabbi of Bamberg. Four years later he was in Nürnberg and the following year in Posen. There he made preparations to emigrate to Palestine but for unknown reasons decided to remain in Posen until the end of his life. "Mintz's prominence and recognized authority resulted in may other rabbis turning to him with halakhic queries on such issues as issur ve-heter dietary laws and communal customs" Heller. His circle of correspondents included Israel Isserlein Joseph Colon Eliezer Treves and his cousin Judah Mintz. As the present collection notably deals with practical issues of contemporary importance especially civil and matrimonial law -- including customs and the enactments of Rabbenu Gershom -- they provide insight into Jewish life in fifteenth-century Germany. Issues of some notable responsa include taxes placed on Jews by local rulers; obligations of a wealthy man to his wife's poor relatives; a woman who committed adultery repented and swears the child is from her husband; if a person blind in one eye can be a judge in a case of halitzah when a man is released from the general obligation to marry his deceased brother's widow; and if one should mourn for a murderer. "Of special value are three responsa in manuscript entitled 'The Three Branches' which are an important source for the history of the yeshivot rabbinic schools of Germany in the 15th century. They depict the woeful condition of pupil-teacher relations which had broken down as a result of the arrogance of the teachers and their exaggerated concern for their dignity as well as because of the pupils' desire for greater freedom of activity and the acquisition of social status" EJ. Approbations of Istanbul rabbis: Ezekiel Refael Chaim Alfandari; Michael Ashkenazi; Moshe Frishko Provenance: Ink stamps of the Yeshiva Ha-Metivta ha-Gedolah Jerusalem at approbation page and bottom margin of one text page. References: Enc. Jud. 1st ed. 12: 65-66; M. J. Heller The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book pp. 346-347 first ed. 1617; Vinograd Salonica 515; Cf. Steinschneider 6529.1 ed. Krakow 1617 - but not noting the present edition! Title and imprint Hebrew: תשובות ×ž×”×¨×³×³× מינץ נדפס פה ×©××œ×•× ×™×§×™ ×™×¢×³×³× בדפוס מרדכי נחמן וחברו דוד ×™×©×¨××œ×™×’×³×” Date chronogram: 5562 = ×•×™×¨× משה Yeshiva stamp: ×”×ž×ª×™×‘×ª× ×”×’×“×•×œ× בית ×”×¨××©×³×³×œ ישיבה תיכון. Mordekhai Nahman and David Yisraeliga unknown books

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Moses, RobertABAA

Public Works: A Dangerous Trade

rif. 14102New York: McGraw-Hill 1970. First Edition First Printing. Cloth. Very good/very good. First edition of Public Works: A Dangerous Trade by Robert Moses inscribed to journalist and historian Theodore H. White. Octavo xxxvi 952pp. Beige cloth title stamped in blue and red. The first printing with a full number line on the copyright page and no additional printings. Solid text block light sunning along top edge light dampstain to rear cover. In the publisher's dust jacket retail price on front flap archival tissue repair to verso a few closed tears bright illustrations. Signed by the author "To Ted White / with high regard / Robert Moses" on the second free endpaper. Robert Moses 1888-1981 was an urban planner in New York City and served as the 49th Secretary of State of New York from 1927-1929. Throughout his forty-year career Moses oversaw construction and function of Jones Beach State Park and the New York State Parkway System and was acting head of the Triborough Bridge Authority. Despite his accomplishments in public affairs Moses's reputation was diminished with the publication of Robert Caro's biography The Power Broker which described Moses as a racist official who cut corners on budgeting and restricted access to city parks for lower-class families. McGraw-Hill unknown books

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Moses, RobertABAA

Public Works: A Dangerous Trade

rif. 140942510New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1970. First Edition. Fine. First edition first printing. Signed by Robert Moses as Bob and inscribed to a former owner on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original dark blue leather stamped in gilt with gilt spine titles blocked in pinkish-red top edge gilt. Fine in acetate wrapper. Books signed by Moses are scarce. McGraw-Hill Book Company unknown books

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Talmud; Moses Maimonides; Hendrik Houting (ed)ABAA

Masekhet Rosh ha-Shana: Tractatus Talmudicus de Festo Novi Anni ac Calendarum consecratione itamque Maimonides De Synedriis et Poenis

1695rif. 48869Amsterdam: Hendrick Boom and the Widow of Dirk Boom 1695. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two parts quarto. 8 154 2 errata; 171 2 variantes lectiones 1 corrigenda 2 blankpp. Title in red and black with woodcut vignette; half-title for the second part; woodcut lettrines. A dedication to the Burgemeisters of Amsterdam appears following the title. In the second part the Hebrew text is printed on the left side of the rectos and the right side of the versos so as to appear in the center with the Latin translation against the margins when the book is fully opened. Contemporary vellum letterpress title in black at spine. Hebrew square unvocalized and Latin text in facing columns; full-page Latin commentary in first part. Covers lightly soiled. Clean corner tear at q2 just extending into catchword. A very good copy with clean crisp text. Collation: dagger4 A-T4 V2; a-y4 = 170 leaves; blank y4. Hebrew texts of the Babylonian Talmud mishnah treatise Rosh Hashanah The New Year; accompanied by Maimonides' treatise Hilkhot Sanhedrin The Rules of the Sanhedrin from his Mishneh Torah with Latin translation and notes by Hendrik Houting fl. 1695 who often includes copious quotations from the gemara; Maimonides; Obadiah Bertinoro; the Tzemah David of David Ganz and other Jewish sources. Little is known of the editor's life apart from his association with the better-known Dutch Hebraist Willem Surenhuys 1666-1729 now chiefly remembered for his monumental Latin translation of the Mishnah 1698-1703. It is worth noting in this context that Surenhuys "was able to make use of earlier published versions for twenty-five of the sixty-one tractates" van Rooden "Hendrik Boom 1644-1709 was an important Amsterdam bookseller and publisher. He worked together with the widow of his brother Dirk since 1680. It is uncertain whether he had a printing-house of his own" Fuks. References: Dienstag "Christian Translators of the Mishneh Torah" 16. Fuks/Fuks-Mansfeld 609. Heller 17th Century pp.1286-1287. P. T. van Rooden Theology Biblical Scholarhsip and Rabbinical Studies in the Sevententh Century Leiden: Brill 1989 p. 110. Steinschneider 5252. Provenance: Presentation bookplate of Edward Hayes Plumptre Dean of Wells Theological College 1881-1891. מסכת ×¨××© השנה משנה תורה הלכות סנהדרין. Hendrick Boom and the Widow of Dirk Boom hardcover books

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MosesABAA

Two 13th Century Manuscript Bible leaves

rif. 290159circa 1250. Very good; light wrinkling and marginal foxing to pages. Folio 30.5x22.5 cm. One sheet fine vellum folded with text from the book of Numbers in two columns. weight: 0.2 lb. Unknown scribe. hardcover books

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Maimonides, Moses; Vidal Yom Tov; Abraham ben David; Joseph ben Ephraim Karo; Shem Tov ben Abraham ibn Gaon; Abraham ben Moses dABAA

Mishneh Torah hu ha-Yad ha-Hazakah COMPLETE FOUR-VOLUME SET OF MAIMONIDES' MISHNEH TORAH

1739rif. 27896Jessnitz Saxony-Anhalt: Bi-defus Yisrael bar Avraham 1739. Hardcover. Good. Four volumes folio published between 1739 and 1742. Woodcut printer's device at titles; woodcut endpieces in first volume. Hebrew text opens from right to left; leaf numbers in Hebrew characters. Hebrew chronograms yield Jewish dates of publication 5499-5502. Brown library buckram scuffed at extremities spines lettered in gilt. Endleaves renewed. A good set. See foliation and condition notes for each volume below. Scarce eighteenth-century edition of this seminal compendium of Jewish law halakhah. Compiled between 1170 and 1180 while Maimonides was living in Egypt the Mishneh Torah is regarded as the author's magnum opus. It is the only Medieval-era work that surveys the full panoply of Jewish observance including those laws that are only applicable when the Jerusalem Temple is in existence. The present edition is the first to contain Judah Rosanes' commentary Mishneh le-melekh. "Mishneh Torah" The Repetition of the Law is an appellation originally applied to the biblical book of Deuteronomy; the subtitle "ha-Yad ha-Hazakah" The Book of the Strong Hand plays on its subdivision into fourteen books: the numerical value fourteen is represented in Hebrew letters as Yud 10 Dalet 4 which forms the word "yad" hand. Maimonides sought to provide a complete statement of the Oral Law so that a person who mastered first the Written Torah and then the Mishneh Torah would be in no need of any other book. Contemporary reaction was mixed with strong and immediate opposition focusing on the absence of sources and the belief that the work appeared to be intended to supersede study of the Talmud itself. Maimonides responded to these criticisms and the Mishneh Torah endures as an influential work in Jewish religious thought. According to several authorities a decision may not be rendered in opposition to a view of Maimonides even where he apparently militated against the sense of a Talmudic passage for in such cases the presumption was that the words of the Talmud were incorrectly interpreted. Likewise: One must follow Maimonides even when the latter opposed his teachers since he surely knew their views and if he decided against them he must have disapproved their interpretation. Vol. 1: 1 title 8 234 102 3 ff. Repairs at title page with very slight loss of text at verso following leaf and the final leaf. Text embrowned often heavily in first half with some light marginal dampstains throughout. Old manuscript entries in Hebrew at title in at least three hands. Vol. 2: 1 title 148 112 2 ff. Marginal repairs to first and last two leaves no loss of text. Moderately dampstained throughout with some mild embrowning. Old manuscript entries in Hebrew at title in at least two hands; three old stamps at title including at least one censor's approbation. Vol. 3: 1 title 221 169 ff. Repairs at bottom margin to title with loss of some text below imprint and at final lines of rabbinic approbations at verso and at bottom margin following leaf with some text loss and obscuration by translucent paper tape. Small marginal repair at final leaf. Light dampstaining in first half; remaining text with mild embrowning. Old manuscript entries in Hebrew at title in at least two hands; two old stamps at title including at least one censor's approbation. Vol. 4: 1 title 135 138-154 157 1 ff. Marginal repairs to title and final leaf no loss of text. Sporadic light embrowning and marginal stains. Old manuscript entry in Hebrew at title. A complete set with only minimal text loss in a few places -- a very usable scholar's copy. References: Vinograd Jessnitz 46; Fürst 2: p. 295; Zenker p. 583 Title in Hebrew: משנה תורה ×”×•× היד החזקה להנשר הגדול ×”×’××•×Ÿ רבינו משה בר מימון זצ׳׳ל ×¢× השגת ×”×¨××‘×³×³×“ זצ׳׳ל ופירוש הרב מגיד משנה וכסף משנה ×œ×”×’××•×Ÿ המשביר רבינו יוסף ×§××¨×• זצ׳׳ל ומגדל עוז והגהות מימונייות ופירוש רבינו עובדי והרב המוסמך מדר׳׳ל ן׳ חביב על הלכות קידוש החדש ×¢× כל הצורות השייכות להלכות ××œ×• ולהלכות שבת וסוכה ×•×¢× מורה ×ž×§×•× על דברי הרב המגיד וכסף משנה ×’× שתי מפתחות גדולות ורחבות ××—×ª על סדר ×”×¤×¨×§×™× ×•××—×ª על דרך ××œ×¤× ביתה ×œ× חסר דבר מכל כפי ××©×¨ נדפס ×‘××ž×©×˜×¨×“× Rabbi Moses Maimonides the Rambam was a 12th century Jewish philosopher and halachic legal scholar. A highly controversial figure both during his lifetime and after his death he is generally acknowledged as the preeminent Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. He was born in Córdoba Spain but fled as a child from the Almohad persecution. He eventually settled in Egypt where he served as a rabbi physician and philosopher. His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah his only work not in Arabic still carries canonical authority particularly within the Yemenite Jewish community as the codification of Talmudic law. His other works include "Kitab al-Siraj" a commentary on the Mishnah "Kitab al-Fara'I" a book on precepts and the celebrated philosophical work "Dalalat al-Ha'irin" known in Hebrew as the "Moreh Nevukhim" The Guide to the Perplexed. In this latter work Maimonides attempted a philosophical/theological reconciliation of the Hebrew Bible and Greek knowledge. This work came to play a central role in all subsequent major controversies over philosophy within the Jewish community during the Middle Ages. Bi-defus Yisrael bar Avraham hardcover books

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Brown, MosesABAA

Manuscript inventory of the estate of James Angell

1786rif. 55770Providence 1786. Folio sheet approx. 15" x 12" docketed on the verso; previous folds with splits no loss; overall toning; good. Brigadier General James Angell 1723-1785 descendant of one of the first settlers of Providence died February 2 1785. This inventory was taken by Moses Brown 1736-1838 executor of the will and both a friend and relative. The Angell's daughter Abigail married a Goddard relatives of the Brown family. Among assets listed are Angell's Johnston farm lot 160 acres of Vermont land a third of an acre lot in North Providence; "we to give James and Jacob a Deed of the Whole of remd of Johnston farm & North Providence lott." James Angell was town clerk of Providence until 1775 and Theodore Foster said of him "I became intimately acquainted with the said James Angell and many of his Family Connexions among whom was the Honorable Stephen Hopkins Esq. whose Sister married the said James Angell." Documentary History of R.I. Angell was also appointed chairman of the committee to revise laws of the state. unknown books

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[Virginia, Shenandoah Valley]. YATES, Charles and John, with the signatures of Henry St George Tucker, Philip Pendleton, Moses HABAA

Archive of manuscript surveys and indentures relative to land transactions in Jefferson and Berkeley Counties Virginia 1786 to 1842.

1786rif. 969Berkeley & Jefferson Counties Virginia now West Virginia: not published 1786 - 1842. Group of ten folio manuscript documents and one partially printed document completed in manuscript involving the real estate transactions of Charles & John Yates in the upper Shenandoah Valley. Approximately 29 pp. in total all docketed. Each exhibits expected wear including original folds with associated splits and separations one document with a small area of archival tissue repair creasing tears small losses occasionally briefly affecting text soiling toning and foxing. Charles Yates 1728 - 1809 emigrated from England in 1748 first to New York and then in 1752 to Fredericksburg Virginia. A prosperous merchant and importer he was also deeply involved in real estate speculation in Berkeley and Jefferson Counties now West Virginia. Advancing in years unmarried and childless he solicited his brother John Orfeur Yates of Liverpool to send one of his sons as heir apparent. Young John Yates 1779 - 1851 then 13 years old arrived in 1792. Educated at the College of New Jersey and William and Mary John with wife Julia took up residence about 1807 at Walnut Grove his uncle's hunting lodge on some 912 acres near Charlestown in Berkeley County. Yates remained in the vicinity until his death. Quoting from Memorials of a Family in England and Virginia AE Terrill 1887 page 337 "As a citizen in his adopted country Mr Yates was active and liberal using his means and his influence in the encouragement of public improvements; more especially the making a better roads the starting of manufactories and establishing the system of free schools." Most if not all of the documents revolve around 2071 acres of land originally granted in 1751 by Thomas Lord Fairfax to Thomas Rutherford. Encompassing what became known as the Flowing Springs tract the collection sheds light on a complicated history beginning with the acquisition in 1786 of 755 acres by Charles Yates via William Orr a proxy from Robert Rutherford who apparently defaulted on a loan. Particularly interesting is a survey with large plat map accomplished in December 1812 involving a division of the lands of John Peyton 1729 - 1804 Peyton a son in law of Robert Rutherford apparently acquired the land in 1795. Additionally the documents contain the signatures of several significant participants in the French and Indian War the American Revolution or the War of 1812 including Thomas Rutherford Philip Pendleton Moses Hunter James Singleton Henry St George Tucker and George Hite. Includes: Berkeley County December 1 1786 Indenture 4 pp Charles Yates & William Orr in which Yates conveys 755 acres to Orr part of a tract of 2071 acres which was the subject of a decree issued at County Court of Frederick "May sessions last" regarding default of Robert Rutherford. Orr purchased the the land at auction for "three thousand two hundred & sixty five pounds." Signed by Charles Yates Thomas Rutherford brother of Robert Rutherford Philip Pendleton Moses Hunter and William Simpson. Berkeley County December 2 1786 Indenture 3 pp Charles Yates & William Orr in which Yates buys back the 755 acres purchased the day before at auction by Orr "which said tract of land is part of the 2071 acres late the property of a certain Robert Rutherford and which was sold by him the said Charles Yates on the fourth day of August last part to the said William Orr by virtue of a decree of the County Court of Frederick in Chancery on a certain matter of controversy then and there depending between the said Charles Yates complainant and the said Robert Rutherford defendant and which now conveyed by him the said Charles Yates onto the said William Orr by deed …" Signed by Orr Philip Pendleton Thomas Rutherford Thomas Simpson and William Sovell. Jefferson County February 12 1811 Agreement 3 pp between John Yates and Jesse Stall in which "the true course of a dividing line between the lands of the subscribers" is established Signed by Yates Stall and George Hite. Jefferson County December 17 1812 Survey with large plat map 3pp Folio 32" x 26" two sheets joined "The above plat represents a survey and division of the lands of John Peyton commonly known by the name of Flowing Spring tract executed pursuant to a decree of the Chancery District Court holden at Staunton the whole containing one thousand five hundred & thirty-five acres …" Adjacent to the plat is a list of 8 beneficiaries to the division all Peytons. Signed by surveyor William Castleman John Yates James Singleton Joseph W Davis and Rich Baylor. Jefferson County 1813 Survey with plat map 2 pp "At the request of John Yates Esq a tract of land in Jefferson County …" The docket describes this as the "Washington tract" Signed by surveyor William M. McPherson. McPherson was the first surveyor of Jefferson County after the split from Berkeley Jefferson County December 11 1813 Survey with plat map 2pp reflecting the sale of 130 acres to Adam Gather by John Yates Signed by surveyor Mark Hornsey. Jefferson County December 11 1813 Survey with plat map 2pp reflecting the remainder of land 77 acres after sale of 130 acres to Adam Gather. "This tract of land of timber land purchased by John Yates from George S. Washington remaining after sale of the other part to Adam Gather …" George Steptoe Washington was the nephew of President Washington. Signed by surveyor Mark Hornsey. Jefferson County November 4 1814 Indenture partially printed completed in manuscript 2pp in which John Yates purchases 118 acres from Robert O. Grayson and wife Marguerite Susan Grayson. Signed by both Graysons George Hite Edward McGuire and Lewis Hoff Jefferson County January 23 1837 Indenture 4 pp in which John Yates purchases from Abraham Snyder wife Susannah and daughter Elisha "a certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in the said County of Jefferson which is part of a larger tract of land called the Flowing Spring tract formerly belonging to John Peyton deceased …" An interesting addendum suggests some controversy: "We Richard Williams and William F Lock Justices of the Peace in the county aforesaid in the State of Virginia do hereby certified Susanna Snyder the wife of Abraham Snyder partner to a certain deed bearing date on the 23rd day of January 1837 and hereto annexed personally appeared before us in our county aforesaid and being examined privately and apart from her husband and having the deed fully explained to her she the said Susannah Snyder acknowledged the same to her act and deed and declared she had willingly signed sealed and delivered the same and wished not to retract it …" Signed by the Snyders Rich Williams and William F Lock. Jefferson County April 1842 Survey with plat map 2 pp "Yates to Alexander Beginning at a point in the center of the Winchester and Potomac Rail Road …" Signed by surveyor James M Brown. Jefferson County May 5 1842 Indenture Deed of Release 4 pp Henry St. George Tucker trustee Ann T. Hite John S Davison and Philip Williams to John Yates regarding "certain lots of land in Jefferson County Virginia - being part of the "Flowing Spring Mill" tract late the property of John Peyton … containing three hundred and fifty acres …" Signed by Tucker Hite Davison and Williams and Justices of the Peace George Spooner and John K Jones Jefferson County and John Magill and Jas Neill Frederick County. not published books

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Belmonte, Moses (translation by)ABAA

Paraprasis Caldayca en los Cantares de Selomoh; con el Texto Hebrayco y Ladino Traduzida en Lengua Española WITH Perakim Perkei Avot

rif. 44043Amsterdam: Yshak de Cordova 5466. Fifth printing. Hardcover. poor to g-. 16mo. 3.5x6". 167pp. missing final page. Original brown calf boards. The book is a complete Spanish-language translation of the biblical book Song of Songs Song of Solomon and Pirkei Avot Ethics of the Fathers the famed collection Jewish ethical sayings taken from the Talmud. Both of these works feature Moses Belmonte's translations which had been printed in Amsterdam since 1644. The translations are interlinear with each passage printed in Hebrew followed by the Spanish and in the case of Song of Songs the translation is followed by Spanish-language commentary. These works are related in their connection to the Jewish observance of Passover. Song of Songs is read on the Sabbath during Passover and chapters from Perkei Avot are traditionally read one each week between Passover and Shavuot. Pages 1-91 contain Song of Songs and 92-167 contain the text of Perkei Avot. As stated in the preface this is the "Quinta Imprension" Fifth printing of the work based on Belmonte's translation and that it was printed for the congregation of Rabbi Jacob de Mesa in Amsterdam. Title page bordered with a decorative woodblock motif. Decorative head and endpeices at the beginning and end of sections. Some of the translated text of Perkei Avot contains numerous in-text hand-corrections and Hebrew marginal notes in ink from the period. Text in Spanish with passages in Hebrew and some Ladino. Binding with spine missing rubbing and light chipping to extremities. Covers with some creasing scratches and abrasions. Starting at interior covers and some other pages throughout. Some sporadic water stains foxing and smudges throughout. The final section of Pirkei Avot is wormed in the upper corner with minimal loss of text overall. Page 103-104 with a vertical closed tear. A few pages have notes in ink. The final page p.167 containing the final passage of Perkei Avot verse 14 in Hebrew and Spanish is missing. Interior back cover is partially torn away from the board. Name of the previous owner in ink on the interior covers and the bottom of the title page. Binding fairly tight overall. Binding in poor interior good- condition overall. Moses Belmonte 1619 - 1647 Amsterdam was a poet and translator of Portuguese Jewish origin. Alternative titles: "Paraphrasis Caldayca en los Cantares de Selomoh con el Texto Hebrayco y Ladino traduzida en lengua Española" "Paraphrasis Caldaica en los cantares de Selomoh: con el Texto Hebrayco y Ladino traduzida en lengua Española" This copy belonged to Jacob Alvarez-Pereira 1684-1754 who was a prominent Sephardic Jewish merchant. References: Kayserling p.181 under bible; Silva-Rosa 18. Yshak de Cordova hardcover books

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