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Newburyport, MA: Moses H. Sargent, 1851. 13.4 x 21.3 cm. Text from Matthew 9, 15. Sermon given at semi-annual meeting of the Presbytery. ""Do our churches at large enjoy the presence of their Savior?"" Preacher bemoans the low state of religion in the community, which living Christians confess and lament�.present state of things in our country... ""never was there a period in which the general mind was so vacant of all religious belief."" Paper leaflet fastened with thread stitching. Some soiling, good. . Catalogs: Religious.

Washington, DC: United States Department of Agriculture, 1925. 15 x 23 cm. Types: red, black and purple. Extent, distribution: 50,278 acres in U.S. Securing and handling nursery stock. Moisture supply in the soil. Training and pruning. Paper booklet, cover wrap slightly browned, very good. . Catalogs: Farming.

New York, NY: Nester House Publications, �1948. 14 x 22 cm. Information, history, Niagara Falls, the Rapids, prospect park, Hennepin View; Whirlpool, Cave of the winds, lundy's Land, etc. Paper booklet, light wear. Owner notes of trip to Falls in 1948 inspace provide inside back cover. Good. . Catalogs: Travel.

New York, NY: Robert Carter, 58 Canal Street, 1847. 9.5 x 15.7 cm. Rare religious guidance for Seamen and Boatmen. Address on Profane Swearing; address to youths employed as drivers on the canals; The Coming of Christ; Jonah in the Ship; Jesus in the Ship; The Sailor's Last Letter; The Orphan Sailor Boy; more. Chaplain relates his experience in saving souls aboard ship. Blindstamped cloth on board with gilt lettering on spine. Two cm. crack on front hinge on cover, some pages foxed, last 7 pages dogeared; good. . Catalogs: Religious/Nautical.

New York, NY: P.F. Collier & Son, 1904. 28 x 39 cm. Story told in excellent black-and-white photographs of conflict between Japan, only recently a world power, and Russia, pushing eastward in Siberia, over Manchuria and Korea. Most photos are by Colliers photographers, and text is by Colliers special reporters. Book tells story of cause of war --Disputed Territory; Preparatory Stages; First Battles of War; March to Ping-Yang; From Chenampo to the Yalu; Russian Advance to Front; Chroniclers of the War; Battle of the Yalu; and Honoring the Heroes and the Dead. Many photos taken in St. Petersburg and Tokio (Tokyo). Includes correspondence re negotiations preceding war with photos of Czar, Mikado, and many of their military and civilian staff. Photos of Russian Red Cross personnel, and ladies sent by Queen Victoria to observe Red Cross operations. Photos of Russian ships bottled up at Port Arthur. Paper on board with cloth spine, cover water stained, corners bumped, text block clean and very good,… Read More

Indianapolis, IN: The Epitomist Publishing Co, 1898. 12 x 17 cm. Book is intended ""for those who are about to embark on the troubled seas of poultry raising."" How to start. Varieties. What breeds to use. Hatching. Artificial insemination. Dressing for market. Diseases of poultry and treatment. Caponizing. Keeping accounts. Keeping eggs. Cold storage. Paper booklet, edgesworn and slightly nibbled by bibliopredators. Good. . Catalogs: Farming/Poultry.

Troy, NY: H.B. Nims and Company, 1886. 25.6 x 32.7 cm. Handsome folio (13"" tall) book with elegant black and white engravings of scenes in St. Petersburg, including Church of Our Lady of Vladimir, Michailoff Palace, the Admiralty, Bird's Eye view of city, Church of Peter and Paul, Fortress of Schlusselburg, Cronstadt, Palace of Peterhof; also pictures of Novgorod, people of Novgorod, Mitau; Moscow, View of Kremlin, Picture showing dress types from all of Great Russia, Chapel of the Iberian Mother of God; Siberia, picture of convicts on the way to Siberia, national types of Siberians; Transylvania and the Turkish Principalities, Wallachian people, Bosnian people; Mount Athos and Athens, Convent of Esphigmenou, Convent of Kiliandari, Propyl�a, View from Acropolis, Carnival near Temple of Jupiter, more. Decorated dark yellow cloth on board with black and gilt design, minor rubbing, minor edge wear, gilt edged pages, very good. . Catalogs: Travel/Russia/Greece.

Bruxelles: J.P. Meline, Libraire-�diteur, 1837. 10 x 15 cm. Premi�re Harmonie: Invocation. L'hymne de la Nuit. Hymne du Matin. La Lame du Temple. B�n�diction de Dieu dans la Solitude. Aux Chr�tiens dans les temps d'�preuves. Hymne de l'Enfant a son R�veil. Hymne du soir dans les Temples. Etc. Marbled boards with leather spine, covers detached. Leather of spine missing. Prize inscription dated Mai 1850 on half title page, and note inserted in book: ""This is not a Christmas present but is interesting�Published in Brussells 99 years ago.[in 1837] Given to your grandmother as a prize when she was 10 years old."" Poor. . Catalogs: Poetry.

New York, NY: New York Labor News Company, 1947. 12 x 18 cm. Text of lecture delivered at Newark, NJ April 21, 1904. Includes also Declaration of Fundamental Principles, Socialist Labor Party of America, 1940. Socialist propaganda. Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: History.

ca. 1948. 13.5 x 23.8 cm. These are the timeless adventures of Abdul Buhl the terrible, and Morbhid Dhung, his man, told in verse. Charmingly illustrated by Polly Hill, Adul and Morbhid cross a desert, go out to sea, meet some Amazons, including Sweet Ahlmad Buhl, from Abdul's clan. They encounter Whirling Dervishes, Attila's Huns, sail back over the sea to Araby the Fair. [Author believed to be the same L.F. Deacon b. 1913 who served in the RAF in World War II and taught at Tanglin in Singapore after the war, then moved to Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and then South Africa.] Green suede leather cover, text block loose from binding, poor. . Catalogs: Poetry.

Chicago, IL: T.S. Denison, Publisher, �1898. 12 x 18 cm. Includes After the Circus by Clara J. Denton; Bird Dialogue by Abby Morton Diaz; The Midshipman (opera) by L.D. Nichols; The Railroad Train by Minna D. Smith; Christmas Night by Clifton Johnson. Paper booklet, outer wraps missing, thus poor. Text block intact and good. . Catalogs: Fiction/Drama.

London, England: Whittlesey House, �1944. 19 x 26 cm. Collection of World War II era cartoons. Black cloth on board, very good. No dj. . Catalogs: Humor.

Boston, MA: American Unitarian Association, 1839. 13 x 20 cm. What is it to believe in a revelation? What is the question between the believer and the unbeliever? It is important to make the discrimination between the communication of light and truth and the record of that communication. The communication was divine; the record was human. How shall ignorance judge of wisdom, or worldliness of a spiritual religion, or vicious indulgence of immaculate purity, or an irreligious mind of the great, the peculiar, the all-interpreting manifestation of God! Paper booklet, fastened with stitching. Pages uneven. Good. . Catalogs: Religious.

London, England: Chapman & Hall, Ltd, 1910. 14 x 22 cm. Dickens' observations of his trip to America, including factories at Lowell, American railways, Washington, River travel; About Italy-- Rome, Pisa, Siena, Naples, Pompeii. Green cloth on board with gilt printing. Spine sunfaded. Very good. . Catalogs: Travel/Literature.

New York, NY: McElrath & Barker, 1854. 16 x 25 cm. Roving Englishman: Greek Easter at Constantinople; A Defense of Fleas--Turks love fleas. Gog and Magog. Regular Trappers: The Hudson's Bay Co. Fire and Snow. Paper booklet, slight fraying to edges, many pages unopened. Good. . Catalogs: Travel/History/Literature.

San Francisco, CA: California Academy of Sciences, 1915. 18 x 25 cm. Fauna of the Type Tejon: Its Relation to the Cowlitz Phase of the Tejon Group of Washington. Includes many fine plates of shell specimens. Paper booklet, cover browned, faded, edges frayed. Many pages unopened. Good. . Catalogs: Educational/Science/Paleontology.

Toronto, Ontario: Tax Sale Service, ca. 1918. 15.7 x 23.5 cm. Booklet offers parcels across Canada that were offered for sale for taxes about 1918, in Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Centerfold map shows central part of Ontario with adjoining counties in Quebec. Paper booklet, good. . Catalogs: Printed Matter/Ephemera.

Newburyport, MA: Huse & Bragdon, Printers, 1851. 13 x 21 cm. Reverend Dimmick was a well-known theologian and a literate man, and in this address before the Musical Convention he pulls out all of his stops, calling forth numerous references to music in the Bible. E.g. ""Then sung Deborah and Barak -- saying praise ye the Lord"" Judges V, 1 (pp. 19-20) and ""At the close of the Last Supper, we are told, 'When they had sung an Hymn, they went out.' Mat. XXVI, 30."" This booklet concludes with brief report on the Convention, with listing of members. Paper booklet, bound with stitching, front wrap nearly detached, wrap has minor chips, small sticker hand-labeled ""Brief Case No. 1"". Good. . Catalogs: Religious.

London, England: Adam & Charles Black, ca. 1903. 9.5 x 14.9 cm. One of a set of four small volumes about Charming women. This volume includes Story of Catherine and Mary Horneck, who charmed Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds and Oliver Goldsmith. Gossipy narrative about ""The Jessamy Bride"" and ""Little Comedy"", Oliver Goldsmith and the rest. Margaret Power, daughter of a disreputable, dissipated Irish squireen. Also Catherine Hyde, Duchess of Queensbury--skittish, eccentric, witty, warm-hearted, and beautiful. Lady Mary Isabella Somerset married Charles, Duke of Rutland, Viceroy of Ireland. Portraits and illustrations from rare and famous pictures by masters of British and French Schools. Green leather on board with elaborate gilt printing on spine, circular emblem on front. Very tight, neat and clean copy. Very good. . Catalogs: Biography.

London, England: Adam & Charles Black, ca. 1903. 9.5 x 14.9 cm. One of a set of four small volumes about Charming women. This volume provides a Foreword in which author declares that the Dainy Dames he describes are all endowed with Charm. They may not be beautiful, or famous, or witty, or good, but they all possess Charm. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire captured the attention of Gainsborough, who preserved her features on canvas, and an engraving of that famous portrait is included here. Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire. ""Sacharissa"", the sweetest of the sweet, was Dorothy Sidney, born in 1617. Finally, Elizabeth Vassal Fox, Lady Holland. Portraits and illustrations from rare and famous pictures by masters of British and French Schools. Green leather on board with elaborate gilt printing on spine, circular emblem on front. Spine damaged, left side of cover split, fron cover barely attached. Poor. . Catalogs: Biography.