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1787ref. 256660New York: Samuel Loudon 1787. First. hardcover. very good. Illustrated with 2 plates one torn and one edgeworn and 1 table torn and with some paper loss. 602 pages with continuous pagination. Thick 8vo contemporary leather-backed boards with red label well-worn but sound and attractive. New York: Printed by Samuel Loudon and sold for the printer by Messieurs Berry and Rogers Hodge Campbell Allen and Greenleaf December 1787 - July 1788. 8 of 12 issues bound together. First editions. Some light toning and foxing and a handful of contemporary ink marginalia still a very good copy of these scarce American periodicals edited by Noah Webster. OCLC list NO physical copies in any library. Issues include: moral fiction curiosities travel descriptions of unusual or exotic places science religion biographical anecdotes poetry etc. A section of European and American current events marriages and deaths concludes each issue. Samuel Loudon unknown books
1790ref. 465383Hartford: Printed by Elisha Babcock 1790. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Edited by Noah Webster and signed by him on the dedication page. Octavo. 6 364 4pp. Contemporary calf over boards with leather titling label on spine. Two contemporary owners' names in ink at top margin of title page. A third autograph has been neatly clipped from the top edge of the title page. Wear to the edges of the boards and corners spine back and label are scuffed front joint is split both hinges neatly reinforced with one thin strip of cloth tape a good copy with modest scattered foxing. Copied from Winthrop's original manuscript by Connecticut Governor John Trumbull the editor is identified as Noah Webster by Skeel and by his signature in this copy. A desirable copy of Winthrop's historically important journal which includes the first written account of the ascent of Mt. Washington in 1642. ESTC W20590; Evans 23086; Skeel E.E.F. Webster 781; Trumbull J.H. Connecticut 1695. Printed by Elisha Babcock hardcover books
1794ref. 20219Boston: Printed and Sold by John W. Folsom 1794. An early edition of a popular guide reprinted well into the 19th century first printed in Hartford in 1791. 96pp. Leather backed birch boards. Most paper worn away from boards 20% loss to rear board which is detached. Lacks free endpapers. Else a sound copy. SABIN 102383. EVANS 28050. hardcover books
1815ref. 216654Cambridge Mass.: Hilliard and Metcalf 1815. First edition. 31 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Removed. Very good. First edition. 31 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Hilliard and Metcalf unknown
1815ref. b34695Philadelphia 1815. Soft cover. Very Good. Very good handstiched. Small corner folds and pages uncut. paperback
1815ref. biblio1Pamphlet 8vo removed disbound 35 pp. Mostly disbound a bit soiled folds and creases at edges ink smudge on title aging and toning throughout. Noah Worcester 1758-1837 was born in New Hampshire and would become a noted a clergyman. He published several important tracts on religious subjects and appears to have had some unorthodox views of the holy trinity and published a few articles on the subject. However around the time of the War of 1812 Worcester reflected on the effects of war and became a pacifist. In 1814 he first published his "A Solemn Review of the Custom of War" which would continue in several other editions. In this work he argued that the violence and destruction of war was inconsistent with Christian values. He would found the Massachusetts Peace Society and this group would be in the forefront of a rather popular antiwar movement that emerged in America around the time of the War of 1812. ANB. OCLC. A. Fagan,
1818ref. CORnu[WO85Boston: Joseph T.Buckingham May 25 1818. 1818. 8vo. pp. 24. Uncut & stitched in original printed wrs. spine perished 3 library stamps some foxing. "Issued as an appendix to vol. 1 of Worcester's The Friend of Peace the work concerns a mission from Boston for the relief of the inhabitants of St. John's who had suffered two disastrous fires the 7th and 21st of November 1817." TPL O'Dea 341. TPL 7023. Not in Casey. Hardcover. Boston: Joseph T.Buckingham, May 25, 1818. Hardcover
1786ref. 30995Newbury-Port: Printed by John Mycall 1786. 61 1 blank pp with the half title. Stitched in contemporary drab wrappers. Untrimmed. A lovely copy with occasional mild foxing. Near Fine. Half title inscribed "Edw. Titcomb". The pamphlet is Worcester's argument in his doctrinal dispute with Reverend Murray the founder of Universalism. FIRST EDITION. Evans 20158. NAIP w003489. Printed by John Mycall unknown
1821ref. 60035Boston: published by Joseph T. Buckingham; and Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf 1821. 2 volumes 8vo containing 24 issues for the first two years each separately paginated; contemporary and likely original quarter sheep over marbled boards red morocco label on gilt-paneled spines; ex-Pepperell Public Library with their rubberstamps on the endpaper and front flyleaf of volume I small pressure stamps on the title pages and with old stickers on spines. Issue X with gathering '4' in duplicate and wanting gathering '3'. All else very good and sound. Bound in at the back of the second volume is: A Catalogue of the Officers and Members of the Massachusetts Peace Society Including Nine Branches or Auxiliaries March 1 1819. Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf 1819 pp. 12 3 1; includes Constitution of the Massachusetts Peace Society second count American Imprints 48638; A Catalogue of the Officers and Members of the Massachusetts Peace Society including Thirteen Branches or Auxiliaries March 1 1820. Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf 1819 pp. 15 1; American Imprints 2176; Address delivered at the Fifth Anniversary of the Massachusetts Peace Society December 25th 1820 by the Hon. Josiah Quincy Cambridge: Hilliard and Metcalf 1821 pp. 32; American Imprints 6529; Fifth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Peace Society drop title pp. 8; American Imprints 2178; Sixth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Peace Society drop title pp. 8; American Imprints 9430; Bogue David. Appendix to No. 4 vol. II of the Friend of Peace drop title pp. 8; not found in American Imprints; A Solemn Review of the Custom of War Showing that War is the Effect of Popular Delusion and Proposing a Remedy. By Philo Pacificus i.e. Noah Worcester . Fifth edition Cambridge; printed by Hilliard and Metcalf. Sold by Wells & Lilly No. 97 Court-Street Boston 1816 pp. 32; American Imprints 39872. Worcester 1758-1837 was a fifer in the Revolution and later a clergyman who "came to regard war whether offensive or defensive as unjustifiable" see DAB. A pioneer of the American peace movement in December 1814 he published A Solemn Review of the Custom of War under the pen-name Philo Pacificus "still considered one of the best pieces of anti-war literature ever committed to print and as relevant today as then. In 1815 he founded the Massachusetts Peace Society serving as its secretary until 1828. From 1819 to 1828 he tirelessly edited The Friend of Peace a quarterly periodical of the Society as well as wrote most of its content. In 1828 the Massachusetts Peace Society merged with the newly formed American Peace Society" Wikipedia. Among the contributors besides Worcester himself are Thomas Jefferson and John Jay each contributing letters Thomas Paine and extracts from William Penn and Benjamin Franklin etc. Hilliard & Metcalf unknown
1821ref. 57146Boston: West & Richardson; Joseph T. Buckingham; & Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf 1821. Ten issues in all 8vo the first two issues with some worming; all else generally very good in original printed blue wrappers. Worcester 1758-1837 was a fifer in the Revolution and later a clergyman who "came to regard war whether offensive or defensive as unjustifiable" see DAB. A pioneer of the American peace movement in December 1814 he published A Solemn Review of the Custom of War under the pen-name Philo Pacificus "still considered one of the best pieces of anti-war literature ever committed to print and as relevant today as then. In 1815 he founded the Massachusetts Peace Society serving as its secretary until 1828. From 1819 to 1828 he tirelessly edited The Friend of Peace a quarterly periodical of the Society as well as wrote most of its content. In 1828 the Massachusetts Peace Society merged with the newly formed American Peace Society" Wikipedia. Among the contributors besides Worcester himself are Thomas Jefferson and John Jay each contributing letters William Cowper a poem "Pity for Poor Africans"; and extracts from William Penn and Benjamin Franklin etc. Most inside front wrappers and the back wrappers are generally advertising Worcester's text books geographies spellers gazetteers etc. as well as other books published by West & Richardson Joseph T. Buckingham and Cummings & Hilliard. Present in this gathering are: Vol. VIII - XII Boston 1817-1818; Vol. II nos. 3-5 Cambridge 1819; Vol. II no. 12 an Vol. III no. 1 Cambridge 1821. Several of the issues bear the ownership signature of the deacon and sawyer Eleazar Spofford for whom see Wikitree.com. Hilliard & Metcalf unknown
1786ref. 30995Newbury-Port: Printed by John Mycall 1786. 61 1 blank pp with the half title. Stitched in contemporary drab wrappers. Untrimmed. A lovely copy with occasional mild foxing. Near Fine. Half title inscribed "Edw. Titcomb". The pamphlet is Worcester's argument in his doctrinal dispute with Reverend Murray the founder of Universalism. FIRST EDITION. Evans 20158. NAIP w003489. Printed by John Mycall unknown books
1821ref. 60035Boston: published by Joseph T. Buckingham; and Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf 1821. 2 volumes 8vo containing 24 issues for the first two years each separately paginated; contemporary and likely original quarter sheep over marbled boards red morocco label on gilt-paneled spines; ex-Pepperell Public Library with their rubberstamps on the endpaper and front flyleaf of volume I small pressure stamps on the title pages and with old stickers on spines. Issue X with gathering '4' in duplicate and wanting gathering '3'. All else very good and sound. Bound in at the back of the second volume is: A Catalogue of the Officers and Members of the Massachusetts Peace Society Including Nine Branches or Auxiliaries March 1 1819. Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf 1819 pp. 12 3 1; includes Constitution of the Massachusetts Peace Society second count American Imprints 48638; A Catalogue of the Officers and Members of the Massachusetts Peace Society including Thirteen Branches or Auxiliaries March 1 1820. Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf 1819 pp. 15 1; American Imprints 2176; Address delivered at the Fifth Anniversary of the Massachusetts Peace Society December 25th 1820 by the Hon. Josiah Quincy Cambridge: Hilliard and Metcalf 1821 pp. 32; American Imprints 6529; Fifth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Peace Society drop title pp. 8; American Imprints 2178; Sixth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Peace Society drop title pp. 8; American Imprints 9430; Bogue David. Appendix to No. 4 vol. II of the Friend of Peace drop title pp. 8; not found in American Imprints; A Solemn Review of the Custom of War Showing that War is the Effect of Popular Delusion and Proposing a Remedy. By Philo Pacificus i.e. Noah Worcester . Fifth edition Cambridge; printed by Hilliard and Metcalf. Sold by Wells & Lilly No. 97 Court-Street Boston 1816 pp. 32; American Imprints 39872. Worcester 1758-1837 was a fifer in the Revolution and later a clergyman who "came to regard war whether offensive or defensive as unjustifiable" see DAB. A pioneer of the American peace movement in December 1814 he published A Solemn Review of the Custom of War under the pen-name Philo Pacificus "still considered one of the best pieces of anti-war literature ever committed to print and as relevant today as then. In 1815 he founded the Massachusetts Peace Society serving as its secretary until 1828. From 1819 to 1828 he tirelessly edited The Friend of Peace a quarterly periodical of the Society as well as wrote most of its content. In 1828 the Massachusetts Peace Society merged with the newly formed American Peace Society" Wikipedia. Among the contributors besides Worcester himself are Thomas Jefferson and John Jay each contributing letters Thomas Paine and extracts from William Penn and Benjamin Franklin etc. Hilliard & Metcalf unknown books
1821ref. 57146Boston: West & Richardson; Joseph T. Buckingham; & Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf 1821. Ten issues in all 8vo the first two issues with some worming; all else generally very good in original printed blue wrappers. Worcester 1758-1837 was a fifer in the Revolution and later a clergyman who "came to regard war whether offensive or defensive as unjustifiable" see DAB. A pioneer of the American peace movement in December 1814 he published A Solemn Review of the Custom of War under the pen-name Philo Pacificus "still considered one of the best pieces of anti-war literature ever committed to print and as relevant today as then. In 1815 he founded the Massachusetts Peace Society serving as its secretary until 1828. From 1819 to 1828 he tirelessly edited The Friend of Peace a quarterly periodical of the Society as well as wrote most of its content. In 1828 the Massachusetts Peace Society merged with the newly formed American Peace Society" Wikipedia. Among the contributors besides Worcester himself are Thomas Jefferson and John Jay each contributing letters William Cowper a poem "Pity for Poor Africans"; and extracts from William Penn and Benjamin Franklin etc. Most inside front wrappers and the back wrappers are generally advertising Worcester's text books geographies spellers gazetteers etc. as well as other books published by West & Richardson Joseph T. Buckingham and Cummings & Hilliard. Present in this gathering are: Vol. VIII - XII Boston 1817-1818; Vol. II nos. 3-5 Cambridge 1819; Vol. II no. 12 an Vol. III no. 1 Cambridge 1821. Several of the issues bear the ownership signature of the deacon and sawyer Eleazar Spofford for whom see Wikitree.com. Hilliard & Metcalf unknown books
1815ref. biblio1Pamphlet 8vo removed disbound 35 pp. Mostly disbound a bit soiled folds and creases at edges ink smudge on title aging and toning throughout. Noah Worcester 1758-1837 was born in New Hampshire and would become a noted a clergyman. He published several important tracts on religious subjects and appears to have had some unorthodox views of the holy trinity and published a few articles on the subject. However around the time of the War of 1812 Worcester reflected on the effects of war and became a pacifist. In 1814 he first published his "A Solemn Review of the Custom of War" which would continue in several other editions. In this work he argued that the violence and destruction of war was inconsistent with Christian values. He would found the Massachusetts Peace Society and this group would be in the forefront of a rather popular antiwar movement that emerged in America around the time of the War of 1812. ANB. OCLC. A. Fagan, books
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1893ref. 1940New York: Scribners 1893 Four uniform bindings written by the following authors: A. W. Greely Noah Brooks W. O. Stoddard P. G. Hubert Jr. A really nice illustrated set! Very minor defects light stain on backstrip very minor bump to corner. Same date on copyright page and title page on all volumes. Scribners hardcover
1967ref. 82518New York: The Macmillan Company 1967. First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Very good/Good. DJ is price clipped. DJ has some wear and soiling. Includes Introduction by Admiral E. M. Eller Director of Naval History. Editor's Note Journal of the First Cruise and Journal of the Second Cruise. Also includes 9 illustrations including two maps. The Journals of Two Cruises Aboard the Privateer Yankee are an exciting historical find. Written by a young ardently romantic ship's clerk who signs himself "A Wanderer" they record the heady adventures of the American privateer Yankee on her first two voyages during the War of 1812. Only recently discovered among the possessions of a New England family they are printed here for the first time. The author was listed on the Yankee manifest as Noah Jones but in all probability his real name was Noah Johnson according to descendants. These historic journals bring vividly to life sea voyages that epitomized Yankee daring and skill dedication to freedom and Christian charity in dealing with conquered enemies. What life was like aboard a privateer and how these warships were manned sailed and deployed against the enemy is nowhere better illustrated than in these superb firsthand accounts. The private fleet of James De Wolf which sailed under the flag of the American government in 1812 was most likely a key factor in the naval campaign of the war. De Wolf's ship the Yankee was possibly the most financially successful ship of the war. Privateers proved to be successful than their US Navy counterparts claiming three-quarters of the 1600 British merchant ships taken during the war although a third of these were recaptured prior to making landfall. A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war. Since robbery under arms was a common aspect of seaborne trade until the early 19th century all merchant ships carried arms. A sovereign or delegated authority issued commissions also referred to as a letter of marque during wartime. The commission empowered the holder to carry on all forms of hostility permissible at sea by the usages of war. This included attacking foreign vessels and taking them as prizes and taking prize crews as prisoners for exchange. Captured ships were subject to condemnation and sale under prize law with the proceeds divided by percentage between the privateer's sponsors shipowners captains and crew. A percentage share usually went to the issuer of the commission i.e. the sovereign. Privateering allowed sovereigns to raise revenue for war by mobilizing privately owned armed ships and sailors to supplement state power. For participants privateering provided the potential for a greater income and profit than obtainable as a merchant seafarer or fisher. However this incentive increased the risk of privateers turning to piracy when war ended. The commission usually protected privateers from accusations of piracy but in practice the historical legality and status of privateers could be vague. It took 150 years for this journal to make it to print but when it did it allowed the world's greatest military power to look back at a time when its European counterparts controlled the seas. The Journals of Two Cruises aboard the American Privateer "Yankee" in the War of 1812 reflects a time when The United States had practically no navy when British outrages on the high seas notably the impressment of American sailors led the two nations to war. The British controlled the seas and America was virtually helpless to defend itself from ocean-based attacks. President Madison turned to America's merchant and other ships for help. Private ships were authorized to engage in "privateering" a polite word for legalized piracy. These privateers were able to harass British shipping in a manner similar to the way the Royal Navy was able to disrupt American shipping. This journal of life on board the "Yankee" sailing out of Bristol Rhode Island gives an inside view of life on a privateering ship during America's first war. The Macmillan Company hardcover
1922ref. 6523Armand Colin 1922 238 pages in12. 1922. reliure editeur pleine toile. 238 pages. Récit humoristique et fantaisiste des aventures de la famille Noé à bord de l'arche présenté comme un livre de bord où Noé note les événements y compris les tempêtes qui menacent le navire. Ce livre illustré s'adresse à la jeunesse
2002ref. Q-1887953329Alderac Entertainment Group 2002-07-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Alderac Entertainment Group paperback
ref. 6200081794.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1939ref. R200102820Louis & Jean-Matthieu Doulladoure / Chez l'auteur. 1939. In-8. Broché. Etat passable, Plats abîmés, Dos abîmé, Rousseurs. 124 pages. Pliures. 1er plat désolidarisé. 1er et 2ème plats déchirés et avec quelques manques. Vendu en l'état.. . . . Classification Dewey : 270-Histoire et géographie de l'Eglise
1988ref. 50801Stuttgart, Steinkopf Verlag, 1988. Erste Auflage, 8°, mit zahlreichen Abbildungen, 167 S., kartoniert
1975ref. Q-0827600763University of Nebraska Press 1975-06-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! University of Nebraska Press paperback
2015ref. Gyan-9789333624466Facsimile Publisher 2015. Vol. 2. Hardcover. New. 22.59 x 14.34 x 3.37 cm. English Facsimile Publisher hardcover
2015ref. Gyan-9789333624466Facsimile Publisher 2015. Vol. 2. Hardcover. New. 22.59 x 14.34 x 3.37 cm. English Facsimile Publisher hardcover