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A Member of the Brethren's Church The History of the Moravian Mission Among the Indians in North America, from Its Commencement to the Present Time. With a Preliminary Account of the Indians. Compiled By Authentic Sources.
London T. Allman 1838 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
"Official account of work among the Indians on the New York, Pennsylvania and other frontiers, 1735-87." - Howes L-474. 6 introductory pages. 316 text pages. Indian tribes include Creeks, Delawares, Iroquois, Chippewa, Cherokee. Reports of character, hieroglyphics, wampum, art, religion, feasts, sacrifices, sorcerers, dress, ornaments, habitations, marriages, education, food, hunting, fishing, travelling, amusements, deseases, funerals, tribal distinctions, war, massacres, treatment of prisoners, etc. Tight binding; neatly mended hinges. Generally clean pages, endpapers have some light soiling/foxing. Bookplate of William Reid Blackie inside front cover. Some soiling to green cover; gilt spine decoration/lettering is legible.
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160.00 USD
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Anselmus Solerius [of] Cemeliensis (pseudonym of Theophile Raynaud) and Hieronymii Bossii ( Hieronymus Bossus, Hier. Boss. or Girolamo Bosso) De Pileo, Caeterisque Capitis Tegminibus Tam Sacris, Quam Profanis (On the Hat, All About Headcoverings, Sacred and Secular) Bound with De Toga Romana Commetarius (Commentary on the Roman Toga)
Amsterdam Andrea Frisii (Andreas Frisisu) 1671 Leather Very Good No Jacket 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall Engraved by Corn.Galle after designs by Raymond de Hooge
Two wonderful titles on ancient fashion bound in one volume. For De Pileo: All 31 engravings (3 folding, 21 full-page including the half-title, and 7 partial-page including the title page) present. Complete: half-title, title-page, 8 introductory pages, 379 text pages, and 39 index pages. For De Toga: Large folded engraving is present. Complete: 84 pages including title page, introduction and text with 12 additional index pages. Tight binding with cracked hinges/gutters. Clean pages; several owners' names/info in preliminary pages including a small bookplate. One of the blank preliminary pages has a clipped upper corner. Fold-out illustrations are in nice shape; two short closed tears to large toga fold-out. Some soiling and minor wear to boards. Heavily worn spine covering is missing label.
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650.00 USD
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CDV Christopher Newman Hall - CDV
Boston J. W. Black & Co. Carte De Visite Very Good
Photographer's mark on the reverse reads "Black / 163 Washington St. / Boston." Upper left corner is slightly trimmed. There is a narrow strip of light toning at the top of the reverse of the card. The Reverend Hall was one of the principal 'non-conformist' British ministers of the mid-1800s. He was a strong supporter of abolition and Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War and did his best to rally the British to support the Union cause. His support was so valued in the United States that he was invited to open Congress with a prayer and deliver a speech in the House of Representatives. Hall was also a leader in the Chartist movement.
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45.00 USD
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CDV Robert Collyer - CDV
Boston J. W. Black & Co. Carte De Visite Very Good
Photographer's mark on the reverse reads "Photographic Artists / J. Black & Co. / 173 Washington Street, Boston." Marginal toning on the reverse. Collyer was an important Unitarian Minister with a wide following throughout the United States. He established the Unity Church of Chicago, and was a leading abolitionist. During the American Civil War, he served as a member of the Sanitary Commission.
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Chapin, Walter The Missionary Gazetteer, Comprising a View of the Inhabitants and a Georaphical Description of the Contries and Places, Where Protestant Missionaries Have Labored . . . .
Woodstock, Vermont Self-Published 1825 Hawaii, Sandwich Islands Leather Very Good No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Complete subtitle reads "Comprising of a View of the Inhabitants, and a Geographical Description of the Countries and Places, Where Protestant Missionaries Have Labored: Alphabetically Arranged, and so Constructed as to Give a Particular and General History of Missions Throughout the World; with an Appendix cotaining an Alphabetical List of Missionaries, Their stations, The Time of Entering, Removal, or Decease." Very early, but not first printing with four pages of reviews (from May-July 1825) instead of map. 420 pages including appendix. Incredible amount of information including brief descriptions of indigenous peoples to include Native Americans and Hawaiians. Full leather with black-gilt spine label. Tight binding with sound hinges. Clean text pages with some toning. Some glue stains to endpapers. Owner's info inside front cover. Old library stamp at base of title page.
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150.00 USD
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Cheever, Rev. George B. Deacon Giles's Distillery in The National Temperance Advocate
New York National Temperance Society and Publication House 1877 Wrapper Very Good No Jacket Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Terrific reprint of the Revernd Cheever's classic temperance broadside originally published in in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1835. The virulent satire, accompanied by a fantastic illustration depicting demonic workers in a local distillery filling whiskey barrels with "consumption," "insanity and murder," "putrid fever," "distilled death and liquid damnation," "weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth," and other such afflictions. It so incensed a local rum-selling deacon that he had Cheever succesfully prosecuted for slander. Cheever was convicted, fined $1000, and sentenced to one month's imprisonment. Upon his release, Cheever promptly published a second satire about Deacon Jones's Brewery that was even more vicious than the first. This article and distillery print fill two pages of a twenty-page temperance tabloid. The print measures 6.5" x 8.75".
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250.00 USD
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Committee of Publication, American Sunday School Union Memoirs of David Brainerd
Philadelphia American Sunday School Union 1826 Marbled Boards Good No Jacket 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
141 pages. Woodcut frontispiece shows Brainerd attempting to preach to four threatening Indians. Original marbled cover with cloth spine. Following his expulsion from Harvard for insulting a tutor, Brainerd decided to devote his life to God and embarked on a mission to covert Native Americans. He spent most of his missionary career with the Delaware Indians of New Jersy and Pennsylvania. He died--probably of tuberculosis--in the home of Jonathan Edwards, who transcribed and published Brainerd's diary in 1749. The work was subsequently revised by Sereno Dwight in 1822 to incorporate Brainerd's journal and letters and once again by the American Sunday School Union publications committee in 1826. Tight binding with sound hinges. Clean pages with light foxing. Dampstain to rear endpapers and last nine leaves of text. Cover has some wear, bumped corners. Spine label is chipped, but much of title lettering remains.
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100.00 USD
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Damon, Samuel C., Editor and Publisher The Friend: A Monthly Journal Devoted to Tempernce, Seamen, Marine and General Intelligence (Honolulu Newspaper), 25 Aug 1858; Vol 8., No. 8
Honolulu, Hawaii N/A 1858 Newspaper Very Good
Nice copy of a scarce, early Hawaiin newpaper. The Friend was originally established in 1843 as the Tempest and continued in operation until 1954. Published on a monthly basis. Besides a heavy dose of Protestant missionary zeal, temporance advocacy, and pastoral seafarer support, the paper included local news and a "Maritime Journal" containing news, information about ships and their cargoes, whaling voyages, and other Pacific islands. This issue contains reports of the whaling ships "George Howland," "General Pike," and "William Wirt;" list of whalers at Talcahuano and of Paita; and advertisements for the Panama Rail-Road Company and numerous Honolulu firms. 8 pages. Minor, light foxing. Previously bound.
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75.00 USD
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Heber, Reginald with Music By Lowell Mason From Greenland's Icy Mountains [Sheet Music]
Philadelphia J. C. Smith 1835 Sheet Music Very Good No Jacket Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
2 leaves (2 pages of music inside two blank pages). Once bound in a private volume. Circa 1835 based on the dates of other music in the same volume. This is Lowell Mason's arrangement of Reginal Heber's famous missionary hymn. "The most animating and missionary hymn ever written." see Smith's "Hymns Historically Famous." Heber wrote the words to this song in 1819 for his father-in-law's church in response to a Royal letter requesting hymns be composed in honor of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Allthough the lyrics to the hymn were were published throughout the English-speaking world, its tune varied by local until a Savannah woman requested a young bank clerk, who had a local reputation as a church composer, to write the music. That clerk was Lowell Mason who was to become the leading figure in American church music throughout most of the 1800s. Music is clean with some toning. Wear along one edge where it was previously bound.
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40.00 USD
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Kritzeck, James Peter the Venerable and Islam
Princeton, New Jersey Princeton University Press 1964 First Edition, 1st Printing Hard Cover Near Fine Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
301 pages. Very hard-to-find study on Peter the Venerable. "For more than four centuries the principal source of informed Christian European knowledge of Islam stemmed from a project sponsored by Peter the Venerable, the ninth abbot of Cluny, in 1142. The project . . . consisted of the preparation of Latin translations of five Arabic works, among them the first translation of the Koran in a Western language. . . . The resulting collection, known as the Toledan Collection, was eventually printed in 1543 with an introduction by Martin Luther. . . . Many new facts concerning Peter the Venerable's project have only recently come to light. James Kritzeck has collected the available material related to the work, including new source material, in an informative study that spans the fields of Islamic studies, monasticism, medieval cultural history, and comaprative religion." Doesn't appear to have ever been read. Tight binding with sound hinges. Clean pages. Very light cover wear. Dust jacket has some minor wear.
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175.00 USD
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Meson, Jacques L'Evangile S. Jean - Miniature Book
Enkhuizen, Netherlands Jack R. Levin 1971 First Paperback Printing Hard Cover Near Fine No Jacket 64mo - up to 3" tall Signed by the Publisher
Limited edition: #67 of 100. Facsimile of a miniature book originally printed in 1667. Selected verses from the Gospel of St. John. Illustrated title, frontispiece, and colophon. Approximately 1.75" x 1.5". Signed by Levin. Very slight cover wear.
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125.00 USD
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NA 1752 Engraving of Jesus Raising Lazarus from the Dead
Johann Jakob Sartor 1752 Leaf Very Good Folio - over 12" - 15" tall Johann Jakob Sartor
"Joh. Ja. Sartor fecit Londini". Annotated 1752 on reverse. Probably one of the 91 engravings that illustrated Thomas Stackhouse's New History of the Bible, published by John Hinton in 1752.
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50.00 USD
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NA Leaf from a 1638 Musical Psalter - The 23rd Psalm
London Robert Barker 1638 Leaf Very Good 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
The 23rd Psalm from a scarce metrical psalter bound together with a Barker King James Bible. This version of the psalm has different phrasing than that found in the King James Version of the Bible. The Old Testament Psalms were often collected together in a type of devotional book known as a psalter, which usually also contained a Church calendar, canticles, prayers, and important New Testament verses. Frequently they were bound together with Bibles. Metrical psalters paraphrased these verses into poetry meant to be sung as hymns in church.
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100.00 USD
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