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2005réf. 303875London : Hodder & Stoughton 2005. First Edition First Impression. Hardcover. Signed by the author. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Not price-clipped. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 669p. ; 24cm. Subjects: China -- History 1912-1928 -- Fiction. London : Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
2004réf. Q-0340827874Hodder & Stoughton 2004-03-31. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Hodder & Stoughton paperback
1811réf. 0012294Hardin County Kentucky Elizabethville. Good with no dust jacket. 1811. Non-Book. On offer is an original 1811 manuscript documenting the financial machinery of government in early Kentucky and the involvement of some of the state's most prominent pioneers. At the center of the document is William Withers an early settler of strategically situated West Point and Hardin County sheriff from 1811 to 1812 entrusted with collecting and remitting the county's public revenues to the Commonwealth. The document records the $10000 state-revenue bond required of Withers upon becoming sheriff of Hardin County in 1811. Acknowledged in court on January 14 1811 Withers and his seven sureties all exceptionally prominent early settlers jointly guaranteed that he or his deputy would properly collect account for and remit every tax interest payment and other sum owed to the Commonwealth during the year. Before professional bonding companies and centralized tax departments Kentucky's county sheriffs personally collected the taxes and other public money owed to the Commonwealth. To protect the state against loss a sheriff was required to enter into a substantial bond supported by financially responsible local sureties. The sureties form a remarkable cross-section of early Kentucky's frontier governing class. They include: Benjamin Helm former sheriff and county clerk James Crutcher Merchant judge and legislator Samuel Stevenson Legislator Christopher Miller and Adam Miller brothers from a prominent pioneer family with Christopher a noted frontier scout who later served as magistrate legislator and sheriffDaniel Waide Elizabethtown innkeeper postmaster academy trustee and future state senator Christopher Bush father of Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln Note: At the date of the bond Sarah was still married to Daniel Johnston; eight years later she married Thomas Lincoln and became Abraham Lincoln's stepmother. Biographical sketches of the sureties plus William Withers himself can be found at the conclusion of the listing. The document captures state administrative processes and the personal stakes of accepting prominent roles and responsibility in early 19th century America. These men were not merely endorsing Withers's appointment but pledging their own estates to secure his handling of Kentucky's public money. An excerpt from the document reads: "We bind our selves our heirs Executors and administrators Jointly & Severally firmly by these presents. "The recto is a contemporary clerk's manuscript copy of the bond including six of the subscription names and written indications " Seal " rather than six individual autograph signatures. The verso however bears the names Christopher Miller and Daniel Waide. The hands seem different than that of the recto so it is possible that the names on the verso are signatures of Miller and Waide though this is unconfirmed. The docket reads: William WithersTo Shffs BondCommonwealth1811 January CourtackdCopiedThe docket records the bond's acknowledgment in the January 1811 court and its entry into the official county records. Rather than an isolated financial instrument the manuscript preserves both the administrative process and the personal network through which public revenue was secured in frontier Kentucky. Biographical Notes of Men Named in the BondWilliam WithersWilliam Withers was Hardin County sheriff from 1811 through 1812 and was responsible for collecting and remitting the county's public revenues. He belonged to the early West Point settlement at the confluence of the Ohio and Salt rivers. By 1800 two of his daughters had married Robert Bleakley and William Montgomery Irish-born merchants who opened an Elizabethtown dry-goods store. Withers was thus connected by family to the commercial community whose members helped guarantee his bond. Benjamin HelmBenjamin Helm was one of early Elizabethtown's principal administrators. He qualified as Hardin County's first surveyor in 1793 became an original town trustee served as sheriff in 1807 and was county clerk from about 1800 until 1817. He erected Elizabethtown's first brick house riding ninety miles to Lexington for its wrought nails and later became the first president of the town's independent bank. His clerk's office recorded this bond although a deputy may have prepared the copy. James CrutcherJames Crutcher was a prominent merchant cattle dealer tavern proprietor judge and legislator. Appointed one of Elizabethtown's original trustees in 1796 he built a tavern beside the public square in 1798 and marked it with a sign bearing a lion rampant—the establishment later operated by Daniel Waide. Crutcher also served with Helm and Waide as a Hardin Academy trustee. Six weeks after this bond Daniel and Sarah Bush Johnston conveyed a 730-acre tract to him. Samuel StevensonSamuel Stevenson—also recorded as Stephenson—became the first teacher of Hardin Academy when its schoolhouse opened in 1806. The academy served an Elizabethtown community of only about 300 people emphasizing how prominent its teacher would have been locally. Stevenson subsequently became a tavernkeeper merchant and Kentucky legislator. In 1812 he again acted as a financial guarantor joining John Canady as surety on William Vittitow's $1000 constable's bond. Christopher BushChristopher Bush belonged to the Bush family identified among the early settlers of Severns Valley by 1782. A landowner and Hardin County constable he was remembered by Haycraft as an industrious man with a large family. His daughter Sarah Bush Johnston was then married to Daniel Johnston; in 1819 she married Thomas Lincoln and became Abraham Lincoln's stepmother. Her February 1811 land transaction with James Crutcher directly connects the Bush family with another surety named in the bond. Adam MillerAdam Miller belonged to a pioneer family recorded among the Severns Valley settlers by 1782. He was a son of German-born settler Ernest Miller and a brother of Nicholas and fellow obligor Christopher Miller. According to Haycraft Adam was captured in his youth and remained within an Indigenous community for approximately fourteen years. Unlike his politically prominent brothers he apparently held no major public office and was remembered instead as a quiet respected man and church member. Christopher MillerCaptured by Shawnees as a youth Christopher Miller lived among them for years and became fluent in their languages and customs. His knowledge later made him valuable to General Anthony Wayne as a messenger and scout and in 1796 he accompanied a delegation of Indigenous leaders to Philadelphia. In 1819 the Kentucky legislature petitioned Congress to compensate Miller for this service noting that he was then poor and supporting a large family. He later became a legislator magistrate and Hardin County sheriff. Daniel WaideDaniel Waide was an Elizabethtown innkeeper Hardin Academy trustee and postmaster. He operated the "Sign of the Lion" tavern built by James Crutcher in 1798 and helped develop the property into the later Eagle House. He served on the academy board with Crutcher and Benjamin Helm while postal records identify him as Elizabethtown postmaster beginning January 1 1811 thirteen days before this bond. Waide later entered the Kentucky Senate; tax rolls also record him as an enslaver. SourcesBrown Stephen A. "A Conversation with Abraham Lincoln. " Kentucky Humanities Fall 2013 pp. 6–9. Hardin County Court. Order Book C 1812 p. 2. Transcribed by Patricia O'Connor for Kentucky GenWeb. Hardin County Sheriff's Office. "History of the Hardin County Sheriff's Office. " Accessed August 2 2026."Hardin County Kentucky. " American History and Genealogy Project. Accessed August 2 2026."Hardin County Kentucky Timeline of Events. " Genealogy Trails History Group. Accessed August 2 2026. Haycraft Samuel Jr. A History of Elizabethtown Kentucky and Its Surroundings. Written 1869. Elizabethtown Kentucky: Woman's Club of Elizabethtown 1921. Hutton Paul Andrew. "William Wells: Frontier Scout and Indian Agent. " Indiana Magazine of History 74 no. 3 September 1978 : 183–222. Kentucky: Counties & Towns: Elizabethtown—Haycraft's History. Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection undated. National Park Service. "Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln. " U. S. Department of the Interior. Accessed August 2 2026. Sweeney Mary Angela. "Postal Communication in the South-West 1789–1813." Master's thesis University of Louisville 1928. Warren Louis A. Lincoln's Youth: Indiana Years Seven to Twenty-One 1816–1830. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts 1959. Winstead Mrs. Thomas Durham comp. Chronicles of Hardin County Kentucky 1766–1974. 1974. "Hardin County Kentucky Timeline of Events " transcribed by the Genealogy Trails Transcription Team. ; Manuscripts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1 pages; Signed by Author .
2017réf. AME_9781847665683Edward Elgar 2017. 3rd. Hardcover. New/New. _ Edward Elgar hardcover
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1986réf. 113163New York: Henry Holt & Company Inc 1986. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in boards.; 6.20 X 4.70 X 0.40 inches. Henry Holt & Company, Inc hardcover
réf. Q-1402724764Sterling Pub Co Inc 1899-12-31. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Sterling Pub Co Inc paperback
2013réf. USD_9780521869263Cambridge University Press 2013. 1ed. Unknown Binding. Used - Like New/Used - Like New. _ Cambridge University Press unknown
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1830réf. 1125031Londini: Veneunt apud Whittaker et soc. 1830. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. green blind-stamped cloth gilt spine pp. viii 673 6 adverts. ex library with slight trace of library sticker on lower spine. a tight clean copy PYPER WILLIAM 1797-1861 Scots classical scholar professor of humanity latinist. His published works include. 'Gradus ad Parnassum and 'Horace with Quantities London 1843 Size: 8 vo.19 cm. Veneunt apud Whittaker et soc., Hardcover
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1925réf. 913T22London: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1925. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 12" by 9.5". William Hole. A smart first edition of this illustrated historical work on the Old Testament. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and seventy-five colour plates. Collated complete. A historical study of the Old Testament of the Bible with chapters on Isaac and Rebekah Joseph's Rise to Power The Wanderings in the Wilderness David's Successes and Failures and Palestine under the Babylonians. Written and illustrated by William Brassey Hole a Scottish Victorian painter illustrator etcher and engraver known for his industrial historical and biblical scenes. With a preface by Sir George Adam Smith a Scottish theologian. Dated from the British Library. In the original full cloth binding. Externally smart with minor wear to the extremities and the odd small mark to the boards. Light sunning to the spine with minor discolouration to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot and light age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed Eyre & Spottiswoode hardcover
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2005réf. Atlantic-9781904933137Routledge 2005. 1. Hardcover. New. Routledge hardcover
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