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Maimonides, Moses; Solomon D Sassoon edBiblio.com

MAIMONIDIS COMMENTARIUS IN MISCHNAM Mishneh Torah Facsimile 3 Volumes

1956ref. 7237Ejnar Munksgaard 1956. Leather. VERY GOOD. Complete facsimile of the autograph original in three volumes: v. 1 Introductio. Zeraim et Moed v.2. Naschim et Zeziqim pars I v.3. Neziqim pars II et Qodaschim. Vol. 1: 56 pp. LXI plates from left 416 pp. from right; Vol. 2 380 pp. from right; Vol 3: 29 2 XVII plates from left 2 381-784 pp from right. Folio half black calf over olive green finished paper over boards black calf labels with gilt lettered and ruled titles tan endpapers sepia tone plates. Publisher's reinforced binding. Some rubbing to covers text very clean and sharp binding tight. The magnum opus of the preeminent scholar in post-Talmudic Judaism. The survival of Maimonides autograph original in the Cairo Geniza is one of the great wonders of intellectual and religious history. "No praise can be too high for the outer form of his works both in language and logical method. The Mishneh Torah was the only work which he wrote in Hebrew and the language is superb clear and succinct. . The Mishneh Torah is a model of logical sequence and studied method each chapter and each paragraph coming in natural sequence to its preceeding one." In 14 subdivisions Maimonides classifies "by subject matter the entire talmudic and post-talmudic halakhic literature in a systematic manner never before attempted in the history of Judaism." While ostensibly a strictly halakhic compendium the work allows for natural excurses on the many facets of Maimonides's broad learning including Medicine Philosophy Civil Law and refutations of Islamic and Christian theology. The very splendor of this work was itself the main concern of its critics who worried that "the architectural beauty of its structure its logical arrangement and ready-reference nature . would turn students away from the study of the Talmud and commentaries." Encyclopedia Judaica. Ejnar Munksgaard unknown

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Thomas Pennant; Moses GriffithBiblio.com

Pennant's Travels: A Tour in Scotland. MDCCLXIX Part 1; A Tour in Scotland. MDCCLXIX Part 2; A Tour in Scotland. MDCCLXXII; A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides; A Tour in Wales MDCCLXXIII; Touring to Snowdon; Touring from Chester to London. A Collection of Six Works

1776ref. 2307070032London: Printed for Benjamin White; John Monk; Henry Hughes; 1776 - 1782 1776. Hardcover. Very Good. An Illustrated Tour of 18th century Britain 6 volume set. Quartos 24 x 18 cm. Handsomely bound in uniform contemporary polished calf. 6 gilt spine compartments. Minor cracks to joints. Includes fold out map and illustrations. Detailed list of Contents: v.1. A Tour in Scotland. 1769 B. White 1776. Folding engraved map at front engraved title with vignette 42 engraved plates. 4th ed; v.2. A Tour in Scotland. 1772 B. White 1776. Folding engraved map at front engraved title with vignette 47 engraved plates; v.3. A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides. John Monk 1774. Engraved title with vignette 44 engraved plates; v.4. A Tour in Wales. 1773 H. Hughes 1778. Engraved title with vignette 26 engraved plates; v.5. Touring to Snowdon. H. Hughes 1781. Engraved title with vignette 36 engraved plates 2 engraved vignettes in text; v.6. Touring from Chester to London. B. White 1782. Engraved title with vignette 22 engraved plates. Thomas Pennant 1726-1798 was a Welsh naturalist traveler zoologist and antiquarian. Pennant is most known for his works on British Zoology and the History of Quadrupeds. For his contributions to natural science he was admitted to the Royal Society. His travel books predated Samuel Johnson's and influenced his writing. Significantly Pennant's travels helped popularize Scotland to British travelers and provide a valuable insight into the land during this period. "Pennant's travels and natural history are distinguished by his personal energy a keen observational sense and by methodological organization and attention to facts. In such ways and in his friendship and widespread correspondence with others of like interests throughout Britain and Europe he may be said to exemplify those gentleman scholars of nature in the later eighteenth century whose interests in natural knowledge aimed at national improvement through intellectual enquiry." - DNB. In 1771 Pennant published his 'Tour in Scotland' describing the journey made by him in 1769. He says he had 'the hardihood to venture on a journey to the remotest part of North Britain' of which he brought home an account so favourable that 'it has ever since been inondee with southern visitors'. Starting from Chester on 26 June 1769 Pennant visited the Fern Islands off the Northumbrian coast and noted many species of sea-fowl that resorted thither. He made nearly the circuit of the mainland of Scotland observing manners and customs and natural history. On this occasion as on all subsequent tours he journeyed on horseback and kept an elaborate journal. The success of the 'Tour in Scotland' led to his undertaking a second Scottish journey beginning on 18 May 1772. He visited the English lakes proceeded to the Hebrides and was presented with the freedom of Edinburgh. Moses Griffith q. v. the Welsh artist attended him on this journey as also on his later tours making sketches and drawings afterwards reproduced in Pennant's published 'Tours.' Pennant made tours in various parts of England including Northamptonshire 1774 Warwickshire 1776 Kent 1777 Cornwall 1787. As the outcome of several journeys in Wales he published his 'Tour in Wales' the first volume appearing in 1778." - Warwick William Wroth DNB v.44 p. 320-322. London: Printed for Benjamin White; John Monk; Henry Hughes; 1776 - 1782 hardcover

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AMYRAUT, MoiseBiblio.com

La vie de Francois seigneur de La Nouë dit Bras-de-fer.

1661ref. 116711Leiden: Jean Elsevier 1661. Iron Arm First edition of the first significant - and conspicuously scarce - biography of the "Huguenot paladin" François de La Noue 1531-1591 one of the great Protestant captains of the 16th-century Wars of Religion; an attractive copy with an appealing naval provenance. The distinguished American historian John Lothrop Motley described La Noue as "not only one of the most experienced soldiers but one of the most accomplished writers of his age" Motley p. 480. At the siege of Fontenay in 1570 his left arm was shattered by a bullet and a mechanic fitted an iron limb that earned him the sobriquet of "Bras-de-fer" - "Iron Arm". He was a correspondent of Sir Philip Sidney and acknowledged by Montaigne in the Essais "for his goodness gentleness of manner and scrupulous courtesy. He is an important figure with regard to his political and religious affiliations as well as with regard to his Discours politiques et militaires 1587" Heitsch p. 134. The author Moïse Amyraut 1596-1664 was one of the leading French Protestant theologians of his day who numbered William Penn among his many students. The book is decidedly uncommon commercially and thinly represented institutionally: Library Hub cites 10 copies in British and Irish institutional libraries we have also located a copy at the Royal Collection; WorldCat locates no copies outside of European libraries. Provenance: armorial Elden Hall bookplate of Augustus Viscount Keppel 1725-1786 naval officer and politician: "a sailor from the age of 10 Keppel served actively throughout the Seven Years War 1756-63. In 1762 he served under Admiral Sir George Pocock in the British expedition that took Havana and he received £25000 in prize money as a result. He became a rear admiral in 1762 and vice admiral in 1770" Encyclopaedia Britannica online. ODNB describes him as an "outstanding" naval officer "especially in combined operations". Also with the 20th-century bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst Lancashire retail chemist and bibliophile whose main library of naval history was complemented by a subsidiary collection of 18th-century literature in well-preserved contemporary bindings. Small quarto 190 x 144 mm. With 2 folding genealogical tables; Elsevir's device on title page. Early 18th-century English speckled calf decorative gilt spine with red morocco label red speckled edges. Head of spine chipped front joint split but sound corners a little worn one or two slight scrapes or abrasions. A very good copy. STC French A426. Dorothea B. Heitsch Practising Reform in Montaigne's Essais 2000; John Lothrop Motley The Rise of the Dutch Republic vol. III 1855. unknown

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[Civil War - Prisoners of War] [General McCook's Murder] Moses Strong RoyceBiblio.com

Manuscript Petition in Regard to Capt. F.B. Gurley - 4th Ala. Cav

1864ref. 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

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[Civil War - Prisoners of War] [General McCook's Murder] Moses Strong RoyceABAA

Manuscript Petition in Regard to Capt. F.B. Gurley - 4th Ala. Cav

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KIMBALL, MosesBiblio.com

Holograph Travel Letter Narrative and other Writings 1834-35

1834ref. 436962Connecticut New York Ohio 1834. Very Good. A small archive consisting of one two-page narrative letter and 10 loose sheets about 20 holograph pages of miscellaneous writings by Moses Kimball including one page with pen and ink illustrations. Modest toning and a few tiny tears three manuscript sheets are partially split at the folds including one with a neat Japanese paper tape repair about very good overall. Born in Connecticut in 1741 Moses Kimball served in the Revolutionary War as a soldier under Brigadier General Samuel McClellan 1781-82. A devout Universalist he taught navigation and civil engineering and was a prosperous land owner in Norwich Connecticut. The letter and miscellaneous writings of poetry and short sermons retained here date from the last two years of his life when he left Connecticut to live with a grandson in Norwalk Ohio. In the letter written to a friend in Connecticut Kimball describes in detail his 15-day journey undertaken in May 1835 from Poquetanuck to Norwalk: He left via sloop for Albany then traveled along the Erie Canal and completed the last leg of the trip by steamer on Lake Erie. In his verse and short sermons he lays out his strong Universalist beliefs and philosophy of life. He died happy at the age of 93 in December 1835 just a few weeks after his arrival in Norwalk. A few extracts from the letter together with a sample of his verse follows: 1. ALS. 2pp. Small quarto. Norwalk October 14th 1835. Addressed to John Harkness at Preston Connecticut: "My good friend having an opportunity to give you some account of my journey to this place I gladly embrace it. It is a beautiful country suitable for farming a rich soil . We have an academy of learning for young gentlemen with 108 scholars and another for young ladies with 98 female scholars . We left Poquetanuck the 11 day of May & arrived at my Grandson Moses Kimball's the 25 of May. We went in a sloop . to Albany there I saw great improvements . They have made an Island in the river half a mile long . forming a basin between that & the main land with draw bridges at each end. There we left the sloop and entered on board a canal boat and past on our way drawn by horses day and night. Thus we past on up to Little Falls . and so on to Fort Stanwix . there at the height of land we left the Mohawk River and past a flat level country for 60 or 70 miles without a lock. The country all low and intersected with drowned land . and all along this wet country where the land rose a little . there would be some inhabitants settled with a bridge or two over the canal . when we got to Lake Erie at Buffalo we left the canal boat and got into a steam boat the largest vessel that I ever saw . this boat that cost thirty-five thousand dollars my grandson Moses owns one-tenth part . When we came over the lake . there were seven hundred passengers in her . So you see it is no wonder she earns money . ." 2. Miscellaneous Verses and Short Sermons 1834-35: 10 octavo sheets/about 20 holograph pages including one page with pen and ink illustrations. The following is quoted from a poem written by Kimball on his ninety-third birthday "May 17 A.D. 1834": This day my years are Ninety-three The time is past & gone from me Brought into being here to stay To wait for time to pass away . And when my earthly body dies To God my spirit will arise And live with him and there remain Till Souls to bodies join again . A compelling and historically important small archive of writings that also serve as a testament to Kimball's remarkable physical health and mental acuity. unknown

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KIMBALL, MosesABAA

Holograph Travel Letter Narrative and other Writings 1834-35

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Moses, Henry (Ill)Biblio.com

Sketches of Shipping Drawn and Etched by Henry Moses 1824 TWENTY ORIGINAL ETCHINGS BOUND WITH ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATED WRAPPERS

1824ref. 55402London: Henry Moses 1824. First edition. Hardcover. Very good to fine condition. Oblong Octavo. 20 etchings plus original illustrated wrappers. Bound in Royal blue leather retaining original wraps; gilt lettering and ruling on leather label mounted to spine. Cream endpapers. Tan wrappers with etching and brown lettering on front back cover plain. Our collection of "Sketches of Shipping" on the River Thames appears to be the earliest state published by Henry Moses with front wrappers dated Dec. 1 1824 and all twenty etchings dated in plates Oct. 1 1824. An 1826 advertisement in the Quarterly Review indicated that six parts of the Sketches with five engravings each had been published up to that time and announces the publication of two additional issues. The front wrapper stating publication date as Dec. 1 1824 as in our copy appears to have been used in various editions including some containing eleven plates dated March 1 1825 in plates or lettered in ink "Nos. 5 & 6" corresponding to the 1826 Quarterly Review advertisement. The irregularities and/or contradictions in tracing the publication of these Moses etchings suggest that due to the constrictions of the medium these popular etchings were published in limited numbers in variant editions as identified by the dates in these plates to satisfy the public demand of the time. In our copy all 20 etchings are dated in plates Oct. 1 1824 with two of the plates containing additional dates etched into the plates as indicated below: 1. Sailing Match Aug. 16 1824 2. An Indianian in Barnard's Yard Deptford 3. Trafalgar 120 G 125 4. Midway 5. Midway Aug. 9 1824 6. Blackwall. Dutches of M. 7. Blackwall Basin 8. Trafalgar P - 120 Guns 9. Sheerness Yard from a Window of the Fountain Inn 10. Sheerness 11. Sheerness Yard from a window of the Fountain Inn variant motif 12. Trafalgar 120 Guns 13. Trafalgar in the Basin Sheerness 14. Hulks at Sheerness 15. Blackwall 16. Untitled 17. City Canal 18. Basin at Blackwall 19. Blackwall - Wellington Indiaman 20. Surat Castle All etchings but plate 12 with H. Moses printed to plate. Plate twelve with Henry Moses. Printed by Chatfield and Coleman. Inked name and date on front free endpaper. "12/." inked to upper foredge corner of cover; this with a few small damp stains on front and back covers. OCLC lists an 1837 copy with 57 plates incl. 2 engraved title pages published in London by Ackermann a 1824 copy with nineteen plates 1825 and 1837 copies with thirty plates the latter published by Ackermann an 1837 copy titled "The Marine Sketch Book" with twenty-eight plates an 1826 copy with nine plates titled Sketches of Shipping: View in Portsmouth Harbour" and an 1827 copy with thirty plates titled "Shipping at Portsmouth and Spithead" publisher W. B. Cooke. Henry Moses hardcover