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1754pp. vii, 194, (6) [Publisher's advertisements]. Though continuously paginated, this includes a separate title page for: 'A SERIOUS CALL IN CHRISTIAN LOVE TO ALL PEOPLE.' Age stained. 8vo. 205mm. Broken contemporary full leather binding. Decorative acorn and tulip roll within a two fillet frame. Numerous early manuscript ownerships and comments of: John and Thomas Midlefell, Hawkeshead-field, Lancashire, ENGLAND. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 61 L Stk
1787pp. viii, 439. 8vo. 20 cm. Age stained. Disbound. Extremely useful still as a biographical reference to early American Quakers. Evans 20377; Sabin 14377; ESTC W37427. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
1783Two volumes in one. pp. 164; xxiv, 184. 12mo. Old page repairs. First fly leaves loose. 12mo. 175mm. Very worn full leather. Front board detached. Mildly XLib. Evans 18146. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 61 L stk
1772pp. 17, 184 + (1) Errata. Lacks first fly leaves. Age stained. 8vo. 205mm. Contemporary full roan binding. Detailed Quaker journal of travels in America and the West Indies. Includes a first-hand account of the Indian Treaty negotiations at Bethlehem. 1756-1759. Evans 12565, Sabin 90387. First American edition. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 59.
1859Best.-Nr. 000010694Philadelphia: Association of Friends for the Diffusion of Religious and Useful Knowledge 1859. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. 2 iii-vii 1 9-103 3 pp. Brown publisher's cloth with gold lettering on the front board. Coated yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Excerpts taken from Tracts Illustrating the History Doctrine and Discipline of the Society of Friends published in London in 1851. A few nicks to the cloth; leaves show minor foxing with a contemporary gift inscription on the front flyleaf. Association of Friends for the Diffusion of Religious and Useful Knowledge hardcover
1856Best.-Nr. 512651John W. Parker and Son 1856. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. An early printing of Trench's massively popular and influential study of the miracle accounts in the Gospels which was first published 10 years earlier in 1846. Ex-libris 'Friends' Library & Lecture Association Bristol'. 476pp. 8vo half navy polished calf over purple cloth burgundy morocco spin elabel stamped in gilt marbled edges. Extremities rubbed some typical light foxing heavier in the early pages; text clean and unmarked with sound binding. The Bristol Friends are an historic Quaker meeting first organized in 1654. This copy has their library rules bookplate to FPEP and lending label to RPEP noting 6 dates of issue from 1885-1900. John W. Parker and Son hardcover
1960102 pages. Features: Nice ad for Kraft ice cream toppings; Two-page 1960 Chrysler ad; Vintage one-page ad for Zenith pocket (transistor) radios; Oasis cigarette ad; Color Pontiac ad features a seaside blue 1960 Bonneville convertible; Our New Hospital Crisis - many unqualified foreigners are serving in US hospitals as interns and resident physicians; The Training of a Good Doctor - Susan Cook studies at the University of Chicago - major photo coverage; The Age of Payola - have our moral standards been destroyed by the pursuit of the dollar?; Vintage two-page color ad for the new 1960 Ford Falcon Wagons (both white); Pepsi ad features scene in horse barn with dalmation; Walter Lippmann explains Why We Accept Cheating; Nice photos of Connie Stevens with hunk Bill Troy, Mike McKee, and Jerry Eagle; Farley Granger in "The Third Season" - color photos; Sanka coffee ad features illustration of lady holding humongous coffee cup; article on pancakes; Modern fake flowers are very realistic; Marlboro ad features skin diver slouching in director-style chair - no wonder they adopted the Marlboro man a few years later; The Short-sleeved suit - tasteful fashion photos; Great two-page color ad for the (cream-colored) 1960 Buick Invicta Three-Seat Estate Wagon features Navajo people and a Monument Valley driving scene; The Quakers - religions in America; Basketball All America - with photos of Walt Bellamy, Terry Dischinger, Roger Kaiser, Darrall Imhoff, Jerry Lucas, Oscar Robertson, Tom Stith, Lee Shaffer, Jerry West and Len Wilkins; Hitler's Bloody Drive to Power - the inside story, with great photos; Photo Quiz; Color ad for "Man-Tan" product which tans white skin without sun (creepy); Two Young Friends Named Ellen - Ellen Erwitt and cripple Ellen Kalman of New Rochelle, N.Y. - touching photos; Back cover color-photo Lucky Strike ad shows smiling blonde injecting tar into her lungs; and more. Average wear. Nibble and short opening at bottom of coverfold. Small piece from bottom corner of back cover. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Best.-Nr. 104126Genève, J.J. Paschoud, Imprimeur-Libraire, Paris, Même Maison de Commerce, rue de Seine, 1848, 1 volume in-12 de 205x130 mm environ, xvij-218 pages, demi-basane havane, titres dorés sur dos lisse. Cuir frotté et épidermé avec mors en partie fendus (mais structure solide), des rousseurs
Best.-Nr. 896998De L'Imprimerie De J. Phillips Londres 1790 Plaquette in-8 ( 200 X 130 mm ) de 37 pages, brochée sous couverture de papier marbré. Bon exemplaire, rare.
1797Best.-Nr. 004161New York: Isaac Collins 1797. Hardcover. Very Good -. xii 2 360 p.; 18 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules; leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title "Journal of Job Scott." Early American Imprints ser. 1 Evans 32810. Howes S-228. Old inscription running vertically on front board. Inscriptions on endpapers and blank adjacent leaves containing family records for former owner Samuel Davis 1766-1809 his wife Sarah Leedom Davis 1764-1806 Ruth Anna Davis 1801-1846 presumably their daughter her husband William Chandler 1787-1878 and their 10 children. Burials are noted as being "at the Valley" at Kennett Square and at Union Hill. Written in upper part of title page: "Friends' Boarding Haus Kennet Square Pa." Job Scott 1751-1793 was an American Quaker travelling minister. In Very Good- Condition: leather is rubbed; minor loss at spine ends; light soiling throughout; some page corners creased; a solid copy. Isaac Collins hardcover
1737[14],574,[20]p. Hardcover Very good condition, in worn panelled calf
1775574, [18] p. Hardcover Very good condition, in full calf, hinges cracked Evans 13821
1812Best.-Nr. 006145Philadelphia: David Hogan; Solomon Wiatt 1812. Hardcover. Very Good -. T.T. Stiles printer. 288 p.; 19 cm. Contemporary tree calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules. Red leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: "Mosheim's E. History." Includes "Appendix: Vindication of the Quakers; To the Editors of the American Edition of Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History" signed by John Drinker on behalf of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1799. Contains Errata on p. 286. Publisher's catalog on final two pages. Scarce. In Very Good- Condition: corners are bumped and rubbed; joints just starting but still solid; 6-cm. tear at upper corner of p. 31 with archival repair; foxing; otherwise clean and tight. David Hogan; Solomon Wiatt hardcover
1791Best.-Nr. 2222185First edition thus. Folio 12 1/2" x 8". 4 pages. Old folding creases. With printed signature of Philip Debell Tuckett Clerk to the Meeting. Good age soiling. Front page title reads: "The Yearly-Epistle 1791." Quakers unknown
1791Best.-Nr. 2222185First edition thus. Folio 12 1/2" x 8". 4 pages. Old folding creases. With printed signature of Philip Debell Tuckett Clerk to the Meeting. Good age soiling. Front page title reads: "The Yearly-Epistle 1791." Quakers unknown books
New revised edition, 4to (195 x 154 mm), 484, [8]pp., cont. calf, rubbed, hinges cracked, head and foot of spine chipped. An important source on the Quakers which includes, as well, much on the Irish society, local history and genealogy. Provenance: Early ownership ink signature to title page "John Humphreys, City new, Sarum [Salisbury], L/N."
1751Best.-Nr. 25695London: From the Meeting of Suffering 1751. First edition. 4 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Disbound marginal browning tearing along folds else a very good copy. First edition. 4 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Notifying the Friends that the Committee of the Yearly Meeting had agreed to adjust records creating January as the first month of the year and agreeing to the calendar day of 2 September 1752 being followed by 14 September 1752 bringing the calendars into sequence with that of Europe. The author added "A Brief Account of the Origin of the names for some Months of the Years and of All the Days of the Week" pointing out that most of the week days are names after the Norse/Saxon gods and that the Months are after Gods Goddesses Emperors and the Ancient King of Italy and and thusly of a "idolatrous or superstitious origin". From the Meeting of Suffering unknown
1751Best.-Nr. 25695London: From the Meeting of Suffering 1751. First edition. 4 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Disbound marginal browning tearing along folds else a very good copy. First edition. 4 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Notifying the Friends that the Committee of the Yearly Meeting had agreed to adjust records creating January as the first month of the year and agreeing to the calendar day of 2 September 1752 being followed by 14 September 1752 bringing the calendars into sequence with that of Europe. The author added "A Brief Account of the Origin of the names for some Months of the Years and of All the Days of the Week" pointing out that most of the week days are names after the Norse/Saxon gods and that the Months are after Gods Goddesses Emperors and the Ancient King of Italy and and thusly of a "idolatrous or superstitious origin". From the Meeting of Suffering unknown books
1800Best.-Nr. 67831800. PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. A Vindication of the Religious Society Called Quakers: Addressed to the Editors of the American Edition of Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History. Mount-Holly N.J.: S. C. Ustick 1800. 8vo. 8 p. Stitched but stitching mostly gone. Light overall toning else fine. A rare eighteenth-century Mount Holly New Jersey imprint. The work is gathering 3E from the sixth volume of Johann Lorenz Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History Philadelphia: 1798 i.e. 1800 issued separately with an added title page. The Philadelphia Yearly Meeting had objected to parts of Mosheim's work which was then being printed by Ustick in Philadelphia. In the final volume dated 1798 but not printed until 1800 the eight-page Vindication was inserted as an appendix. See Felcone Printing in New Jersey 1754-1800: A Descriptive Bibliography 1120 for the full story. Evans 37475; Felcone New Jersey Books 1698-1900 2nd edn. 1899; ESTC W28530. unknown books
1783Best.-Nr. 16713London: Printed Philadelphia: Reprinted and sold by Joseph Crukshank 1783. First American edition. 209 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sheep. Quite rubbed surface worming on covers front free endpapers and blanks removed pencilled duplicate notation on endpaper text browned some soiling. First American edition. 209 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First published in in London in 1773. This tract as were most of Phipps works written in defence of the Quakers and in response to Samuel Newton of Norwich. Shipton and Mooney 18139 Reprinted and sold by Joseph Crukshank unknown
1783Best.-Nr. 16713London: Printed Philadelphia: Reprinted and sold by Joseph Crukshank 1783. First American edition. 209 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sheep. Quite rubbed surface worming on covers front free endpapers and blanks removed pencilled duplicate notation on endpaper text browned some soiling. First American edition. 209 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First published in in London in 1773. This tract as were most of Phipps works written in defence of the Quakers and in response to Samuel Newton of Norwich. Shipton and Mooney 18139 Reprinted and sold by Joseph Crukshank unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 54597Hamilton NY: The Republican Press 1939. Tall 8vo. 171 1 pp. Illust. title illustrations throughout. Brown cloth gilt lettering w/ d.j. cover art by Coye slight dustsoiling shelfwear NF/NF copy inscribed & signed by both authors on dedication page & numbered from the library of Martin K. Howes 1904-1972 noted collector of Robert Frost professor and librarian at Allegheny College PA. First edition signed & numbered No. 276 of 550 copies of this second title in the Meadville Trilogy largely written by these noted pacifist and Quaker poets during their extended residence in the Allegheny region of Pennsylvania. After acting as conscientious objectors during World War II and living in New York. After the War Albert 1904-1968 and Helen 1907-1968 moved to Rosemont PA founded the Ahab Press edited Toynbee’s War and Civilization and continued to publish and write anthologies of poetry and verse. Coye 1907-1981 is perhaps best remembered for his 1000s of illustrations for science fiction and fantasy magazines and the horror anthologies of August Derleth. The Republican Press, hardcover
1738Best.-Nr. 003373London: Assigns of J. Sowle 1738. Hardcover. Very Good . For the Testimony of a Good Conscience From the Time of Their being first distinguished by that Name Taken from Original Records and other Authentick Accounts; Volume III From the year 1660 to the year 1666." 2 546 xxviii 10 p.: 1 leaf folded; 20 cm. Signatures: B8x1 C-2H8 2I-2U4 x4 8vo. Modern calf with original original gilt-tooled spine label. The folded leaf contains the table A Summary Account of the Sufferings in the Second and Third Volumes. Contains: An Alphabetical Index of the Names of the Sufferers in the Third Volume pp. 479-546 and An Index Containing Some of the Principal Contest of this Third Volume pp. 1-xxviii. Includes Errata on first page following p. xxviii and publisher's advertisements on final 8 unpaginated pages. In Very Good Condition: very occasional soiling; folded leaf is intact and solid. A clean and tight copy of an important work in Quaker history. Assigns of J. Sowle hardcover
1824Best.-Nr. 2222184First edition thus. Folio 4 pages. Old folds. With printed signature of Josiah Forster Clerk to the Meeting. Very good light age stains. Printed by Solomon W. Conrad No. 32 Church Alley Philada. The first American printing. Quakers unknown
1824Best.-Nr. 2222184First edition thus. Folio 4 pages. Old folds. With printed signature of Josiah Forster Clerk to the Meeting. Very good light age stains. Printed by Solomon W. Conrad No. 32 Church Alley Philada. The first American printing. Quakers unknown books