KIMBALL, MosesABAA
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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 books
1962ref. 421779New York: Collier Books 1962. Softcover. Near Fine. First Collier Books edition. Mass market paperback. Foreword by Perry Miller. Modest edgewear near fine. Collier Books BS 52. Collier Books unknown books
1998ref. 417462New York: Vintage Books 1998. Softcover. Fine. First edition Vintage paperback original. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. Vintage Books unknown books
1817ref. 412850London: Published by J. Taylor 1817. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Quarto. pp. 1 2-16; 1 2-8 publisher's catalogue. With an engraved title leaf and 36 engraved plates. Original boards with printed labels. Stains on the boards and titlepage spine partially perished dampstain to the gutter at the head of the spine and scattered foxing on the plates a good copy. Presumably very uncommon in boards. Published by J. Taylor hardcover books
1810ref. 413795Haverhill Massachusetts 1810. Softcover. Near Fine. Partially printed letterpress documents. 154 documents p. 5 28-177 all but the first five documents are hand-numbered by Wingate. Each document is filled out in the hand of Moses Wingate in his capacity as Justice of the Peace of Haverhill. Formerly bound with sewing and glue marks along the spine otherwise the documents themselves are mostly near fine or better with a few of them exhibiting small chips or tears. Each document contains the names of the adversaries and usually the decision by default which is filled out and Signed by Moses Wingate. A few have extensive notes on the verso but most are straightforward defaults. We suspect most of the plaintiffs were businessmen or shopkeepers and most of the defendants were defaulters on small accounts. Wingate born in 1769 was a distinguished resident of Haverhill in Essex County near the New Hampshire border who lived to more than 100 dying in 1870 and who cast a vote in every presidential election from Washington to Grant. He was at various times a member of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives and Senate and Justice of the Peace of Haverhill for nearly half a century. Among the plaintiffs here represented is publisher and printer Daniel Appleton founder of the important publisher D. Appleton and Company; as well as members of the locally prominent Carlton Minot Emerson Ingersoll and Whittier families John Greenleaf Whittier was born in Haverhill in 1807; at least three different Whittiers are named here presumably relatives. An interesting historical insight into business and justice in the early days of the Republic. unknown books
1837ref. 408536Washington: Printed by Gales & Seaton 1837. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 15 1pp. Removed from a nonce volume. Foxing else very good or better. Printed by Gales & Seaton unknown books
1968ref. 410040Amherst Massachusetts: Massachusetts Review 1968. Softcover. Near Fine. Magazine. Small Quarto. 203pp. Perfectbound. Illustrated with black and white plates by James Jacques Tissot. Creases on the spine near fine. Notable contributors include Sterling Stuckey A. Ambrose V. Holesovsky W.R. Moses M. Goldman and others. Massachusetts Review unknown books
1969ref. 215958Piscataway New Jersey: Pharmacia Laboratories 1969. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint. Chapter 37 only. 883-978pp. Illustrated. Stapled wrappers. Covers with light edgewear very good. Reprinted from the author's 1969 Gastroenterologic Medicine published by Lea & Febiger Philadelphia. Pharmacia Laboratories unknown books
1861ref. 381919Portland: Published by the Author. For Sale by Bailey & Noyes 1861. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 349 1 errata pp. Publisher's brown cloth gilt. Contemporary owner's name slight nicks at the crown a handsome very good copy. Published by the Author. For Sale by Bailey & Noyes hardcover books
1975ref. 318038Saint Louis: The C.V. Mosby Company 1975. Hardcover. Very Good. Sixth edition. Quarto. 702pp. Owner's name on front fly corners bumped cloth lightly soiled else very good. The C.V. Mosby Company hardcover books
1745ref. 273905London: John Moon 1745. Hardcover. Fair. Second Edition. Full leather. Fair with well worn and stained boards and spine front board detached spine shows some loss contemporary owners name and date on torn pastedown title page and rear end paper loose overall internally good with first four pages torn and chipped at edges a few sporadic tears and spotty browing. John Moon hardcover books
1940ref. 101090Norfolk CT: New Directions 1940. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine lacking the dustwrapper. The first book appearance of these five poets. New Directions hardcover books
1967ref. 3733Fairfield: Ye Galleon Press 1967. Limited Edition. 62pp. Octavo 23.5 cm Brown cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good. Illustrated pastedowns. This book was the first printed history of Dakota. This edition was limited to 526 copies this is copy 196. Ye Galleon Press unknown books
1773ref. S13775London:: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly 1773. 1773. Sm. 8vo. xxxvii 3 136 pp. Engraved frontispiece. On page 121: "Inscribed to Mr. Betteroth". Original calf rebacked with handsome new spine and red morocco gilt-stamped spine label. Bookplate of Hastings Nathaniel Middleton. Some minor ink annotations to the title. Very good. Originally issued in 1729 under a slightly different title and then again reissued in 1739. This is the third edition. "Brown was an enthusiastic angler and in 1750 at the suggestion of Dr. Johnson brought out an edition of Walton and Cotton's "Compleat Angler". . . MOSES BROWNE 1704 – September 1787 was a pen-cutter from Clerkenwell London England who became a poet and eventually rose amongst the ranks of the Church of England. He made various contributions to the Gentleman's Magazine founded by Edward Cave at St. John's Gate in 1731 who awarded Browne several prizes for his contributions. Browne mixed with some distinguished literary figures of his time including befriending Samuel Johnson. Browne was appointed vicar of Olney Buckinghamshire in 1753. In 1764 Browne took on the post of Chaplain at Morden College in Blackheath London. He remained vicar of Olney at the same time as vicar of Sutton Lincolnshire until his death in 1787. See: John Bartlett Catalogue of Books on Angling: Including Ichthyology . . . 1882 page 15; DNB III pp. 52-3; Thomas Westwood Thomas Satchell Bibliotheca piscatoria a catalogue of books on angling. . . 1883 pp. 43-4. Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773. unknown books
1965ref. 560963Middletown Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press 1965. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated wrappers. Foxing to the endpapers some rubbing and light wear to the wrappers very good. Author's first book. Poetry. Wesleyan University Press unknown books
1915ref. 59904Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1915. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. x 429pp index3pp. ads. Light offsetting to endpapers else a very good hardback in a lightly rubbed jacket. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1960ref. 2337348New York: The Heritage Press 1960. Large Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 14x10x1. Vertes Marcel. Includes slipcase and Sandglass insert number X:26. Slipcase and spine lightly toned and lightly soiled. 1960 Large Hardcover. xxvii 96 pp. Two-color illustrations by Marcel Vertes. Translated into English verse by C.S. Calverley with an introduction by Moses Hadas. "Publius Vergilius Maro 70-19 B.C. known in English as Virgil was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire-a friend to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful patrons. Most famous for his epic of the founding of Rome the Aeneid he wrote two other collections of poems: the Georgics and the Bucolics or Eclogues. The Eclogues were Virgil's first published poems. Ancient sources say that he spent three years composing and revising them at about the age of thirty. Though these poems begin a sequence that continues with the Georgics and culminates in the Aeneid they are no less elegant in style or less profound in insight than the later more extensive works. These intricate and highly polished variations on the idea of the pastoral poem as practiced by earlier Greek poets mix political social historical artistic and moral commentary in musical Latin that exerted a profound influence on subsequent Western poetry. The Heritage Press hardcover books
1931ref. 564753Boston: Little Brown and Company 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Blue cloth gilt. A little spotting on the boards very good. Inscribed on the front fly to author Barrett H. Clark: "The old old story my dear Barrett - another! Sincerely Montrose J. Moses." Clark was an exceptionally important figure in modern American drama aside from authoring many books he served as the longtime literary editor for the drama publisher Samuel French. Little, Brown, and Company hardcover books
1925ref. 500610Boston: Little Brown and Company 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. xviii 474pp. Illustrated with photographic plates. Spine toned a few pages with minor foxing lower hinge neatly strengthened corners and spine ends slightly bumped and fraying about very good lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Barrett H. Clark an influential dramatist author editor and critic. Clark has initialed the title page as well as the rear fly with the phrase "read & marked"; with his underlining throughout and penciled notes on the rear endleaves. One of Clark's works is referenced in the bibliography. A nice association. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1957ref. 252439NJ: Princeton University Press 1957. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Name blacked out with marker on top of front end paper which shows up slightly on half title page spine ends very lightly rubbed a very light hint on browning on page edges dustwrapper shows light browning of spine and cover edges small tear on bottom corner of back cover a few small brown spots on back cover. Princeton University Press hardcover books
1978ref. 606462Hamden Connecticut: Archone Books 1978. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. First edition. 345pp. Good only ex-library copy with usual library markings and glue remnants on the endpapers in a very good dust jacket with a sticker on the spine a tear on the rear flap. Archone Books hardcover books
1879ref. 13751New York: Redding and Co 1879. Revised Eleventh. Full Calf. Very Good. Revised Eleventh. Full Calf. The author says in the preface that "the ritual adopted by the Modern Order of Essenes is so long that it can only be learned and retained by constant attendance at the meetings and as many are so situated that they cannot attend regularly they soon forget much that they have learned . . . " The introduction describes both ancient Essenes a branch of Judaism and to modern-day Essenes an exceedingly devout fundamentalist organization. The remainder is a lengthy series of rituals prescriptions and proscriptions. Evenly toned loose leaves a bit shaken chipped and limp else tight bright and unmarred; leather is supple. Full calf small pocket size wrap around decorative braided stamp with tongue and tab clasp. Pocket size.166pp. Redding and Co unknown books
1741ref. 560322Gloucester Massachusetts 1741. Softcover. Very Good. Manuscript. 24mo. Three quarter leaves pinned inside two outer full leaves measuring about 3 ½" x 6". One quarter leaf is loose laid-in. The full front cover leaf titled in manuscript is trimmed above the title and has one horizontal cut below the title very good. The three-quarter leaves list the names of students 75 boys and 13 girls in ink on the rectos and versos. Born in Gloucester Massachusetts in 1716 Moses Parsons graduated from Harvard in 1736 and while pursuing his theological studies he taught a private school in his native town as noted in the catalogue from 1741-44. In 1744 he accepted a call to Byfield Parish where he was distinguished as a preacher until his death in 1783 having seen the Church through the Great Awakening led by George Whitefield and through the Revolutionary War. At his school Parsons taught a veritable Who's Who of early Gloucester residents - individual and family names such as Winthrop Sargent whose son was a prominent patriot and Governor of the Mississippi Territory William Ellery Nathaniel Haraden whose son served as the Sailing Master of the U.S.S. Constitution and many others. In addition to his pastoral responsibilities at Byfield Parsons was instrumental in founding Governor Dummer Academy now known as The Governor's Academy. During his tenure at his private school Parson's calculates that he taught 75 boys and 28 girls quite a few of whom would go on to be immortalized by Gloucester historians John Babson and James Pringle. An important early manuscript documenting an overlooked piece of Gloucester's local history. Reference: William Cutter. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts. unknown books
1780ref. 423857Hartford Connecticut 1780. Unbound. Near Fine. Approximately 7" x 6. 5" on laid paper with a deckled edge. Old folds near fine. Receipt of payment from the Pay-Table Committee of 48 pounds to Moses Stoddard Signed by Stoddard as received. Docketed as received on the verso. unknown books
1858ref. 1848Philadelphia: Published by the Author 1858. First edition. 1848 COMPILATION OF MEDICAL HISTORY OF ANTEBELLUM AMERICA; PRIMARILY INFECTIOUS DISEASE. 8 ½ inches tall hardcover recent green cloth binding gilt title to spine incorrectly labeled as Vol. I only—actually 2 volumes bound as one 5 endpapers bound in front and back. Vol. I i-xvi 312 pp; Vol. II 336 pp. CONTENTS: Vol. I Epidemic Cholera Cholera Infantum Nursing Sore Mouth Medical Topography of the State of Illinois Malaria Epidemics of 1835 1855 Cholera Bilious Fever Scorbutus Scurvy; Vol. II Scorbutic Diathesis Cholera Chemistry of Medicines Climatic Influences Constitution of Seasons Laws of Epidemics Yellow Fever Doctrine of the Unity of Disease. Light foxing to preliminary pages light browning to text pages very good in custom archival mylar cover. MOSES LOWMAN KNAPP 1799 -1879 member of the first class graduated at Jefferson Medical College 1826 said that his "thesis was the first handed in to the Dean the first examined and he was understood by the professors and the class to be the first graduate." His thesis on "Apocynum Cannabinum Indian Hemp" was the first thesis published by Jefferson Medical College. He was professor of materia medica and president of the College of physicians and Surgeons of the University of Iowa also professor of materia medica in the Indiana Medical College. Published by the Author hardcover books
