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1824Best.-Nr. 295691824. SOLOMON Abraham. Laws of the New Synagogue Leadenhall Street London. A.M. 5584. London: E. Justins 1824. Octavo original brown paper-covered boards with printed paper label recently rebacked and cornered in black cloth recent endpapers. $1500.First edition of this collection of laws and codes for the New Synagogue of Leadenhall Street London founded in 1762.Sets out rules for membership and the election of honorary officers and the duties of these officers. With half-title. Small stain to fore-edge; interior generally clean. A very good copy. hardcover books
1865Best.-Nr. 6598New York 1865. Good. Broadside 23 x 17 inches. Printed in brown ink. Old folds. Unevenly trimmed at edges reinforced with later paper in several places on verso. Light soiling foxing and wear. New York Times New Years broadside for 1866 with a lengthy poem commemorating the end of the Civil War and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The text is printed in an elaborate and ornate border with decorative vignettes and the top and bottom center. The poem's couplets greet all readers of the Time from patriotic soldiers to women on the homefront to Wall Street moguls building their mansions. It then turns to address the war: "Twelve little months ago upon this morn / The bosom of the land by warfare torn / Shed tears of blood; while sounding sea to sea / From North to South cried one loud agony. / Twelve months ago and Marching Sherman's host / Struck as he said they should the Atlantic Coast; / While grim in front the rebel capital / King Death stood waiting for his carnival." After a bit the author addresses Lincoln's assassination: "Another tale will old men oft relate / Of how our Lincoln fell 'neath traitor hate; / How he we loved so much with so much pride / Struck by th' assassin's fatal bullet died. / Oh bitter tears fell on that April morn / As o'er our city the sad news was borne." Other battles and heroes are similarly mentioned as well as the mercy of nurses and the newly freed slaves: "O'er snowy cotton fields the people see / The noble spectacle of labor free. / . / And many a school-house open wide its door / To welcome thousands untaught before.". A wonderful exemplar of the genre particularly notable for its content on Lincoln and the end of the Civil War. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 692494to. One-page verso of integral leaf employed for address Philadelphia postmark approximately 100 words in part: "I have yours with the accounts which I hoped would show more money on hand for I would like exceedingly to see some come or coming." Old fold lines. Very good though Carey's small idiosyncratic hand is difficult in places. unknown books
1899Best.-Nr. 63536Cleburne TX: A. H. Yeager Publisher T. L. Sanders Printer 1899. First edition. 12mo. 129 pp. Autobiographical account of a Confederate soldier from Washington County Tennessee; Civil War experiences include his capture at Kennesaw Mountain in June 1864 his incarceration as a prisoner of war at Camp Douglas Illinois his journey home and after reflecting on his childhood in east Tennessee how he came to join an infantry company as the war began. Yeager 1842-1940 served with the 29th Tennessee Infantry until his capture; though not included here his post-Civil War years were spent first as a lawyer in Tennessee then as a newspaperman and farmer in Johnson County Texas. Not in Nevins Dornbusch Eicher Nicholson or Broadfoot. OCLC locates 23 copies but only one in Tennessee Knox County Public. Text pages a little toned but a very good copy. Original printed wrappers a little wear to the spine. 10020. A. H. Yeager, Publisher, T. L. Sanders, Printer unknown books
1800Best.-Nr. 47937Philadelphia PA: Mathew Carey No. 118 High-street 1800. 8vo. 80 pp. Bound with his: Oration Delivered in Wallingford on the 11th of March 1801 Before the Republicans of the State of Connecticut at Their General Thanksgiving for the Election of Thomas Jefferson to the Presidency and of Aaron Burr to the Vice Presidency of the United States of America. New Haven CT: Printed by William W. Morse 1801. 8vo. 111 1 pp. Contemporary leather-backed drab paper boards some staining rubbed. Very good. Third edition of the first title first edition of the second the first work also printed in New Haven 1800; Carey also printed another issue without his address in the imprint in 1800; the second title prints Jefferson's first inaugural address. Sabin 5590 and 5595. Evans 36978 and American Imprints 199. Sowerby 3235 for the New Haven printing and 3264. Mathew Carey, No. 118, High-street unknown books
1718Best.-Nr. 140950005London: Printed by W. Pearson for the Author 1718. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition of the first comprehensive textbook on probability theory. Folio in quarto format π2 A2 a-b2 c1 B-Z2 Aa-Yy2. 4 xiv 175 pp. printed on laid paper and decorated with engraved head- and tail-pieces. Skillfully rebound in period-style calf original paneled calf laid on elaborate gilt tooling and morocco title label to spine all edges speckled red. Original endpapers preserved. Near Fine with light spotting to textblock edges; binding tight. Light soiling to endpapers and widely scattered foxing and occasional smudging to contents. Bookplate to front pastedown effaced gift inscription in old hand to title page ownership signature of O. G. Gregory at upper right infill to upper right corner from removal of third ownership inscription. Dedication leaf creased and edgeworn errata list neatly crossed out in old ink. ESTC T33065. Abraham Moivre added the aristocratic de to his name when he moved from France to England as a young man one of thousands of Huguenot refugees seeking religious freedom. He taught math and within a few years met Isaac Newton who promoted his career and to whom this book is dedicated. De Moivre published several books and papers but it is The Doctrine of Chances which appealed to denizens of ivory towers and gambling dens alike for which the mathematician is most remembered. This copy was owned by the writer mathematician and astronomer Olinthus Gilbert Gregory a protege of Charles Hutton whose own major work was A Treatise of Mechanics 1806. Printed by W. Pearson, for the Author unknown books
1935Best.-Nr. S12059New York:: Macmillan 1935 1939. 1935. 2 volumes. Royal 8vo. xxvii 692; 814 pp. 316 345 illus. indexes. Navy blue gilt-stamped cloth dust-jackets. Ownership mark of William B. Bjornstad Drake University Des Moines Iowa. Fine. First American edition. Unusually fine set with jackets of the original edition. Macmillan, 1935, 1939. hardcover books
1865Best.-Nr. 38499New York: Currier & Ives 1865. Color print 11-3/4" x 15-1/2" by sight. A black man newly freed from slavery kneels at Lincoln's feet his shackles broken. He kisses Lincoln's hand. His wife and babies stand behind him. Lincoln's right arm is raised and pointing heavenward. Light uniform toning but brightly colored. Two blank margin tears at lower right corner one blank margin tear at upper left corner. Framed in wood a few small dings to overall size 16" x 20." Very Good. "This commemorative print was issued soon after the assassination of President Lincoln to comfort his supporters. The semi-allegorized representation portrayed the former president as the emancipator of enslaved African Americans guided by divine principles" Description online at The Met. Entering Richmond in 1865 Lincoln was met by many former slaves who kneeled before him. Lincoln told them to stand and thank God not Lincoln for their freedom. A decade later the Colored People's Educational Monument Association headed by the African-American abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet. created a memorial to Lincoln. The result was a sculpture erected in 1876 in Lincoln Park near Capitol Hill depicting a supplicant slave and a towering Lincoln. Known as the Emancipation Memorial or the Freedmen's Memorial it generated some contemporary criticism for its depiction of the inferior position of the black man. Gale 2311. Not in LCP Reilly or Weitenkampf. OCLC 1292616124 1- OH Hist. Connection 870219805 1- IN Hist. Soc. as of May 2024. AAS also owns a copy. Currier & Ives unknown books
1860Best.-Nr. 3104New York: New York Tribune 1860. FIRST EDITION. Original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST EDITION of Lincoln's historic Cooper Union Address delivered on February 27 1860 at the Cooper Institute in New York. The speech is largely credited to having launched Lincoln's Presidential bid. With silver print carte-de-visite of the Brady "Cooper Union" photograph. In the fall of 1859 James A. Briggs who served on the lecture committee of the Plymouth Church in Brooklyn invited presidential candidate hopeful Abraham Lincoln to speak to a New York audience on any subject of his choosing. Lincoln accepted the invitation choosing to speak of the current political climate in America. William O. Stoddard an Illinois journalist who worked for President Lincoln during his administration noted that "No previous effort of his life cost him so much hard work as did that Cooper Institute speech" and that the resulting speech "was a masterly review of the history of the slavery question from the foundation of the government with a clear bold statesmanlike presentation of the then present attitude of parties and of sections. It exhibited a careful research a thorough knowledge and understanding of political movements and developments that staggered even the most laborious and painstaking students. It showed a grasp a breadth a mental training and a depth of penetration which compelled the admiration of critical scholars" Stoddard Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life. "Horace Greeley had rushed out the speech in pamphlet form as 'Tribune Tract' Number 4 under the headline: National Politics. Speech of Abraham Lincoln of Illinois Delivered at the Cooper Institute Monday Feb. 27 1860. The pamphlet was ready March 6 while Lincoln was still traveling through Connecticut. When he returned to New York he found it already available to the public. "Greeley marketed the eleven-page Tribune edition aggressively. As a bonus the publication included Wisconsin Republican senator James Doolittle's February 24 speech attaching 'the new doctrine of judicial infallibility' as did Lincoln's address at Cooper Union just three days later and also like Cooper Union railing agains 'the headstrong zeal pursued by the other party to force slavery into Territories'. "It was as if Republicans were now speaking with one voice: identifying with the founders attacking the Dred Scott decision rebuking John Brown and drawing their own 'dividing line' on slavery extension. Lincoln did not say it alone; but he said it best. 'Mr. Lincoln's is probably the most systematic and complete defense yet made of the Republican position with regard to Slavery' the Tribune declared in its initial advertisement for the reprints. 'We believe no speech has yet been made better calculated to win the intelligent minds over to our standard. Will the friends of the Cause everywhere aid us to circulate it' "The answer was yes. The Tribune Tract edition proved enormously popular going through at least five additional editions. Lincoln's New York oration was enjoying a new and sustained life in pamphlet form and was being purchased individually and in bulk alike by admirers and groups across the North. "The Cooper Union address tested whether Lincoln's appeal could extend from the podium to the page and from the rollicking campaigns of the rural West to the urban East. Cooper Union held the promise of transforming Lincoln from a regional phenomenon to a national figure. Lincoln knew it and rose to the occasion. "As if to illustrate his metamorphosis the Cooper Union appearance also inspired the most important single visual record on Lincoln's or perhaps any American presidential campaign: an image-transfiguring Mathew Brady photograph. Its later proliferation and reproduction in prints medallions broadsides and banners perhaps did as much to create a 'new' Abraham Lincoln as did the Cooper Union address itself. "Supposedly Lincoln volunteered when he encountered the famous photographer again a few months later: 'Brady and the Cooper Institute made me President'. Make him president they undoubtedly did" Harold Holzer Lincoln at the Copper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President. Note: Although it is difficult to date the carte-de-visite appears to be a late-nineteenth century production. Provenance for the speech: From the collection of George Hambrecht first president of the Wisconsin Lincoln Fellowship and renown Lincoln scholar/collector with his signature in pencil on rear wrapper. New York: New York Tribune Tribune Tracts No. 4 1860. Octavo original wrappers; custom box. Light uniform toning. Lincoln's speech comprises pages 1-11 out of a total of 16 pages. With New York Tribune ads and subscription terms on rear wrapper. RARE. New York Tribune unknown books
1951Best.-Nr. 622831New York: The Blakiston Company 1951. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 415pp. Illustrated. Signature and stamp of a noted American psychologist boards a little sunned else near fine without dust jacket. The Blakiston Company hardcover books
1956Best.-Nr. 610794New York: Reporter Publications 1956. Softcover. Very Good. Magazine. First edition. Quarto. 134pp. Ty Cobb cigarette card tipped in illustrations by Feliks Topolski including a lard fold out poster photographs and paintings by Thomas Eakins ten photographs by Harry Callahan. Pictorial wrappers. Wrappers mildly soiled and toned short tears on spine ends else a very good copy. Containing Loren Eisley's Big Eyes and Small Eyes Ring Lardner Writes a Letter "The Wonderful World of Robert Benchley" Jan Juta To King Solomon's Mines "Lewis Carroll Writes to Some Young Friends" "Vater und Sohn" Larry Koller The American Gun Rudyard Kipling The Finest Story in the World "Mr. Lincoln Writes a Short Short Story" with a manuscript facsimile written in Abraham Lincoln's hand inserted and more. Scarce. Reporter Publications unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 601567Great Neck New York: Channel Press 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Reprint. Introduction by Carl Sandburg. 12mo. 192pp. Owner address label on front fly corners lightly bumped near fine in a very good age-toned acetate dust jacket with short tear on spine head and chips on top corners housed in a very good lightly soiled and rubbed slipcase. Channel Press hardcover books
1942Best.-Nr. 568662New York: Privately Published 1942. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 188pp. Offsetting on verso of "contents" page spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and bumped very good without dust jacket as issued. Affectionately Inscribed by Merritt on the verso of the "contents" page. Pieces from The American Weekly of which Merritt was editor. Uncommon Signed copy. Privately Published hardcover books
1969Best.-Nr. 445001Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 332pp. Blue cloth gilt. Scratching on the boards very good issued without dustwrapper. Maryland Historical Society hardcover books
1969Best.-Nr. 445000Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society 1969. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Octavo. 332pp. Blue cloth gilt. Slightest rubbing on boards else fine issued without dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author. Maryland Historical Society hardcover books
1907Best.-Nr. 582979New York: The Author 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 12mo. 206 1 pp. Text in Yiddish; bound and paginated in the Yiddish style. Flyleaves with short foredge chips and tears and a bit soiled both hinges had been badly split but have been very nicely restored but with evidence of repair and causing the front board to sit a bit proud at the foredge sound and near very good; the text has been nicely preserved. The final page prints an advertisement for other works by Cahan offered by New York's B. Weinstein. Cahan was an author and socialist leader best known for being the longtime editor of the Yiddish-language newspaper Foreword and the semi-autobiographical novel The Rise of David Levinsky. The Author hardcover books
1960Best.-Nr. 558694New York: Sterling Publishing House Co. Inc 1960. Unbound. Very Good. Portfolio. Color facsimiles of 36 historical maps. Each map measures approximately 12" x 9" printed on 17" x 11½" paper with descriptive text in the left margin. Housed with a title page sheet and unprinted top sheet in a four-fold chemise. Unprinted topsheet sunned at the edges first two leaves with some very light toning and a couple of tiny corner creases; the maps are otherwise bright and fine. The chemise is good only with toning wear and soil and a 1" creased tear on the cover panel. A nice production and the chemise has done its job keeping the maps bright and fresh. Sterling Publishing House, Co., Inc unknown books
1970Best.-Nr. 560731New York: St. Martin's Press 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. 718pp. Owner name on the front pastedown else fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing creasing and short tears. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
1960Best.-Nr. 561636Washington: The Library of Congress 1960. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Foreword by L. Quincy Mumford. Introduction by Arthur G. Burton. Quarto. xi 498pp. Gift inscription on front blank boards very slightly bowed with a tiny faint stain on the front cover and top corner of the textblock not affecting interior very near fine. The Library of Congress hardcover books
1864Best.-Nr. 544469New York: D. Appleton and Company 1864. Hardcover. Very Good. Third edition. Octavo. 65 3pp. Albumen frontispiece of a painting captioned "The Last Judgement". Two pages of music for a Gregorian Chant. Brown cloth gilt. All edges gilt. Small stain on front board some tears and light fraying at the crown very good. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1987Best.-Nr. 547321Amsterdam: Historisch Documentatiecentrum voor het Nederlands Protestantisme 1800-heden 1987. Softcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Slim octavo. 39pp. Text in Dutch. Frontispiece portrait of Kuyper. Plain perfectbound wrappers with printed dust jacket. Bottom corner gently bumped throughout else fine in fine dust jacket with corresponding gentle bumping. Features speeches by J. van Es Dr. G. Puchinger Prof. dr. C. Datema Dr. J. de Brujin and Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers and P. Oosterlee. Laid in is a modestly creased Typed Letter Signed by contributor Dr. G. Puchinger sending the book along. Speeches given on the one hundredth anniversary of Kuyper's death. Historisch Documentatiecentrum voor het Nederlands Protestantisme (1800-heden) unknown books
1992Best.-Nr. 468836New York: The Library of America 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Volume one of two only. Octavo. xix 898pp. Cloth mildly soiled mild musty odor very good in a very good dust jacket with internal soiling. The Library of America hardcover books
1895Best.-Nr. 517161New York: McClure's 1895. Unbound. Very Good. Publisher's promotional broadside. Illustrated from a portrait of Lincoln by Corwin Knapp Linson. Measuring 12½" x 19½". Several small chips and edge tears one longer closed tear at the top edge affecting the title but stopping short of the image bright and very good. A handsome publisher's broadside announcing the publication of "A New and Richly Illustrated Life of Abraham Lincoln" in McClure's magazine. The serial will publish 300 pictures the only and previously unpublished early portrait of Lincoln and "much new and valuable material from people now living about Lincoln's youth and public career. McClure's unknown books
1994Best.-Nr. 529985Chicago: Open Court 1994. Softcover. Fine. Reprint. Tall octavo. 285pp. Fine in wrappers. The replies of 60 scientists including 24 Nobel Prize winners to a set of questions about science and God. Open Court unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 466013Roseburg Oregon: Veterans Administration Hospital Psychology Service 1961. Softcover. Very Good. Second printing. Quarto. 127pp. Quarter canvas and printed green wrappers. Owner's name on front wrap a little edgewear very good or better. Veterans Administration Hospital Psychology Service unknown books
