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1896réf. 20000823Boston and New York: Forbes Co 1896. Good. Dust soiling nicks/chipping to extremities modern paper repairs a few short tears within. A souvenir-style photo book featuring "130 Views" of New York City published by Moses King and promoting a Boston company by the name of John H. Pray Sons & Co. purveyors of carpets rugs and upholstery fabrics. Content includes a brief introduction to the significance of New York followed by dozens of photo illustrations of the city. Some images include: Washington Square Arch; Columbia College Library; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; St. Patrick's Cathedral; Madison Square Garden; and the Cornelius Vanderbilt Mansion. Paints a vivid picture of what these famous streets and buildings actually looked like in the 1890s. Single vol. 14.5" by 10" pp. 32 photo-illus. in original yellow and black illus. wraps with aerial view of Manhattan on upper wrapper. No copies located in WorldCat as of Sept. 2026. Forbes Co unknown books
1906réf. 52779New York: The Century Co 1906. Good plus. Scarce first edition of this turn of the century reading primer featuring the mischievous little sprites from Cox's popular BROWNIE books. Thoughtfully arranged snippets from Cox's BROWNIES books are paired with lessons and vocabulary words in this primer intended to serve as classroom text for young children learning to read. 7.5'' 5.5''. Original pictorial cloth. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout in brown with green printed text. Additional text by Mary C. Judd grading and editing by Montrose J. Moses. 108 pages. Previous owner's name inked to "this book belongs to" page; a few stray pencil notes. Bookseller sticker to rear pastedown. Book with notable soil and wear. The Century Co unknown books
1843réf. 53918London: B. Wertheim 1843. First edition. Octavo. xx xvi 259 1pp. With an index and a list of approximately 200 subscribers. Text in English with some Hebrew. Original decorative blind stamped brown cloth nicely rebacked in the 20th century with gilt lettering on spine reading "Modern Judaism Investigated." Illustrated with 7 plates depicting talith scapular phylacteries etc. The plates include a frontispiece of the religious garb of a Polish Jew and a later plate of the religious garb of an English Jew. Plus numerous text woodcuts. Front pastedown with an autograph bibliographical note in English and Hebrew. This work is very scarce in the trade. "Moses Margoliouth 1820-1881 divine was born of Jewish parents at Suwalki Poland on 3 Dec. 1820. He was instructed at Pryerosl Grodno and Kalwarya in talmudic and rabbinical learning and also acquired Russian and German. In August 1837 during a visit to Liverpool he was induced to carefully study the Hebrew New Testament with the result that on 13 April 1838 he was baptised a member of the church of England." National Dictionary of Biography. B. Wertheim unknown books
1773réf. 352513London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly 1773. Third edition. Engraved frontispiece of men fishing. xxxvii 2 136 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Later green cloth. From the Library of Mr. L. Prouty. Third edition. Engraved frontispiece of men fishing. xxxvii 2 136 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Westwood and Satchell p. 43-44 Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly unknown books
1773réf. 263320London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly 1773. Third edition. Engraved frontispiece of men fishing. xxxvii 2 136 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Nineteenth century calf gilt spine. Fine. Third edition. Engraved frontispiece of men fishing. xxxvii 2 136 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The author a poetical mainstay of "The Gentleman's Magazine" was a friend of Dr. Johnson and editor of The Complete Angler. Westwood and Satchell p. 43-44; ESTC T55148 Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly unknown books
1974réf. 42108New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston 1974. First Edition. very good in a very good jacket. An original modern folk tale about modernization and an old musician who seeks to preserve the traditions of the countryside through a handmade mandolin embued with nature's most beautiful sounds. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. Publisher's red cloth in original dust jacket. Jacket mildly edgeworn with a short closed tear at top edge of front panel. Faint touches of soil and two tiny dark spots at rear. Cloth fresh. Interior bright. Very good plus. Unpaginated. Holt, Rinehart & Winston unknown books
1642réf. 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
1823réf. 236441London: Printed by and for James Appleton Queen's Row Walworth 1823. First edition Appleton imprint. 28 of 29 engraved plates. 1 vols. Small 4to 8-1/4 x 7-3/4 inches. Original quarter morocco and boards with title label on upper cover " . Thirty Plates sic. Price Two Guineas". Piece removed from flyleaf; title page mounted. Plates clean; very good. First edition Appleton imprint. 28 of 29 engraved plates. 1 vols. Small 4to 8-1/4 x 7-3/4 inches. Delicate Flaxonesque engravings displaying Empire-style costumes and furnishings and scenes from literature Pope's Belinda and antiquity Pericles by Henry Moses 1782-1870. He enjoyed "a great reputation for his outline plates which are distinguished for the purity and correctness of the drawing. His art was peculiarly suited to the representation of sculpture and antiquities and he published many sets of plates of that class " DNB. This work was published under various titles DESIGN OF MODERN COSTUME by several different London printers. Lipperheide 994; Colas 2143; Hiler p. 633 Printed by and for James Appleton, Queen's Row, Walworth unknown books
1999réf. 17589Sequim: Holmes Publishing Group 1999. Staplebound. Near Fine. Near Fine. Card covers lightly soiled near the spine. Square and firmly bound with two staples clean internally. Holmes Publishing Group unknown books
2000réf. 17588Sequim: Holmes Publishing Group 2000. Staplebound. Fine. About Fine. Purple card covers lightly faded. Square and firmly bound with two staples clean internally. Holmes Publishing Group unknown books
1972réf. 90432Los Gatos: Poet & Printer Moses Yanes 1972. First edition. 106 pp. Near fine in wrappers with lightly soiled spine and small inked price on the first leaf. Review material laid in. Los Gatos: Poet & Printer Moses Yanes unknown books
réf. 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 Perkei 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" Fifith 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
1950réf. 61631NY: Columbia University Press 1950. Later printing. vi 327 pp w/index. Near fine in full black cloth with gold stamping. No dust jacket. NY: Columbia University Press hardcover books
1952réf. 61632NY: Columbia University Press 1952. Later printing. viii 474 pp w/index. Near fine in full black cloth with gold stamping. No dust jacket. NY: Columbia University Press hardcover books
1695réf. 871351695. JUDAICA ALSHEKH Moses. Romemot El. Amsterdam: Printed in the house of David de Castro Tartas published by Eliezer ben Haninah 1695. Small quarto period-style full red morocco gilt elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers raised bands black morocco spine label; ff. 94. $3500.Second edition the first Amsterdam edition of AlshekhÕs esteemed commentary on the Psalms beautifully bound.Alshekh d. after 1593 rabbi and Bible commentator was born in Adrianople studied in Salonika and then emigrated to Erez Israel settling in Safed where he gained prominence as an halakhic authority a teacher in two talmudic academies and a preacher. He was active in communal affairs and was a member of the rabbinical court of Joseph Caro who ordained him. This is the text that Hayyim Alshekh published in Venice in 1605 claiming that it was his fatherÕs authoritative text and not merely a preliminary draft which had been published a decade earlier in Constantinople under the title Tappuhei Zahav. AlshekhÕs Biblical commentaries which are permeated with religious-ethical and religious-philosophical ideas supported by ample quotations from talmudic and midrashic sources became quite popular and have often been reprinted.With an introduction by the publisher citing Ephraim Luntschitz on the importance of the work and quoting the authorÕs intentions in originally presenting this book to the public. Approbation on last leaf by Moses Judah ben Kalonymus Kohen known as Leib Harif the Ashkenazic Rabbi of Amsterdam. In addition the publisher adds after the first approbation: ÒAlso by the authority and with the permission of the great sage the head of the rabbinical court of the Sephardim our master and teacher Jacob Sasportas who has not however added his signature to the approbation due to a lack of time.Ó The importance of receiving even without an actual signed approbation the blessing or perceived blessing of both the Ashkenazic and Sephardic authorities suggests the sharp divide between the two Amsterdam Jewish communities. With three leaves of text ff. 10-12 replaced in neat facsimile. Vinograd Amsterdam 637. Steinschneider 6431:13. A few early ink marginalia.Tiny repair to corner of title page not affecting border and first two leaves. A splendidly bound volume. hardcover books
1970réf. 4324glsSan Juan P.R.: Plus Ultra Educational 1970. First Edition. Octavo cloth hardcover 103 pp. Very Good. Plus Ultra Educational, 1970. First Edition. hardcover books
1973réf. 51091np: np 1973. First edition. 4to. 20 pp. Uneven toning to front cover else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Ten poems. (np): (np) unknown books
1973réf. 46011Boulder Creek: Poet & Printer Moses Yanes 1973. First edition. 115 pp. Fine in printed wrappers with faint sunning to spine. Cover art and title page by William T. Williams. Review slip laid in. Boulder Creek: Poet & Printer Moses Yanes unknown books
1965réf. 25141Middletown: Wesleyan University Press 1965. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Fine in a near fine price clipped jacket. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, hardcover books
1842réf. 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
1902réf. 56644Raleigh NC: Edwards & Broughton 1902. First edition. Small 8vo. 230 pp. Illus. from photos portraits; errata slip tipped in. Howes A-221. Thornton 210. Orig. yellow limp cloth rubbed and soiled lower spine eroded. Still a good solid copy. 3053. Edwards & Broughton unknown books
1952réf. 008204New York: Harper 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in tissue dustwrapper with minor chips and a Fine slipcase. Bound in half red morocco leather and decorative boards. Illustrated with facsimiles of letters and 16 color plates of her paintings. One of 270 numbered copies of this beautiful book SIGNED by the artist on the limitation page. Harper hardcover books
1990réf. RBENGOS00drpMorning Star 1990. Very Good. Bennett Joshua Moses. The Gospel of the Great Spirit. Salt Lake City: Morning Star 1990. 661pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Book condition: Very good with bumped foot of spine. Decorative marbled pastedowns. Morning Star unknown books
1864réf. 49788N.p. 1864. Very Good. N.p.: 1864. Manuscript letter written in ink signed by Royce at the end and on the verso. Single leaf 26.5x21cm; chips and rubbing; a few closed tears with archival tape repairs; Very Good. An unusual insightful document highlighting the laws of war and murder during the Civil War. Royce's petition seeks justice for Confederate Captain Frank R. Gurley sent to the Confederate Commission of Exchange. Its author Confederate Captain Moses Strong Royce was captured in Tennessee and imprisoned at Nashville. Gurley Royce's cell-mate had killed Union General Robert McCook of Ohio near Huntsville Alabama in August 1862. In October 1863 Union forces captured Gurley and charged him with murdering McCook. Gurley Union officials claimed was a guerrilla who shot McCook while the General was lying in an ambulance. Southerners claimed that Gurley was not a guerrilla but a regular soldier in the Confederacy's 4th Alabama Cavalry and that he killed McCook according to the laws of war. Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper fanned the flames claiming that lawless Confederate guerrillas murdered the general; feelings ran high. "US General Grant wrote CS General Hardee in December of 1863 and said that although Gurley was a member of the Confederate army that did not preclude him from being tried for having committed a foul murder" online Huntsville-Madison County Public Library essay 'Frank B. Gurley's 1866 Diary'. Having escaped from prison in March 1864 Royce plead Gurley's case. "He was confined in a cell for sixty-eight days and allowed only about one hour a day for exercise and was put upon trial for the killing of Genl. McCook. He was obliged to employ counsel to defend himself at an expense of 2500 dollars in greenbacks. The evidence produced completely exonerated him of anything like murder and the argument of his counsel was a complete vindication of his right as a soldier and an officer to do all that he did in bringing Genl. McCook to his death. "When the trial was nearly ended four communications by flag of truce were sent to the court and were there read - one from Lt. Col. Hambrick one from Genl. Forrest one from Genl. Hardee and one from Genl. Johnston" assuring that Gurley was not a guerrilla but a duly enrolled member of the Confederate military forces. Nevertheless Gurley was found guilty and sentenced to death. "The undersigned believes that if an effort were to be made by the Confederate Commission of Exchange to have Capt. Gurley exchanged the Federal authorities would immediately send him forward for that purpose and as a friend of Capt. Gurley the undersigned respectfully requests General Johnston to use his influence in procuring the exchange of Capt. Gurley. Respectfully submitted M. S. Royce." Even after War's end the dispute continued. Gurley having been released from prison in an administrative snafu was re-arrested charged but finally released and placed on parole in April 1866. . unknown books
2000réf. UISEABY00drpBorzoi 2000. Very Good. Isegawa Moses. Abyssinian Chronicles. NY: Borzoi 2000. 493pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gentle bumping. Borzoi paperback books