Royal Naval Biography; or Memoirs of the Services of the all the Flag Officers, Superannuated Rear-Admirals, Retired Captains, Post-Captains, and Commanders by Marshall John - 1823

No date [Ca. 1850]. Good softcover. Center-stitched pamphlet in self-wraps. First page/front cover is age darkened with some soiling and staining and has a 3/4 x 1.5 inch chip missing at top fore corner - 1st page text not affected, 2nd page missing 1st letter of first three lines; last page/rear cover is age darkened with light foxing and few small pencil marks at top fore corner and has contemporary black stamp 'For Sale in Williamsville, Vt. | By W. L. Williams.' ; tightly bound; few interior pages are age darkened with foxing, most are fairly bright and clean but for some pencil marginalia; all text is easily legible; all leaves remain supple. Consists of 4 page narrative about captivity by Indians and white man William Wallace's exposure to Indian remedies; remaining 12 pages are ads for 'Brant's Indian Pulmonary Balsam' and 'Brant's Indian Purifying Extract', which cure scrofula, fevers, liver complaints, abscesses, consumption, piles, mercurial diseases, female complaints, etc. Not dated but… Read More

1537 1ed Orthodox Saint John Chrysostom On the Priesthood + Brixius Marburg

A rare 16th-century printing of works of John Chrysostom. Chrysostom was one of the most important Early Christian Church authors and preachers and is most remembered for his sermons and homilies. He preached on many different subjects, but his most frequented topic was helping the needy. Chrysostom calls for followers of Jesus to set aside their material desires to help the poor, often in a way that shamed the rich and guilted them in to giving.
"Do you pay such honor to your excrements as to receive them into a silver chamber-pot when another man made in the image of God is perishing in the cold?" (Chrysostom in Liebeschuetz)

One of his most important treatises was 'On the Priesthood' in which he describes his experiences becoming a priest and living as a priest. Interestingly, this work was popular during his lifetime as he made references to it in his other works.
This extremely rare 16th-century edition of 'On the… Read More

London.: Richard Bentley.. 1861.. First edition, hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece and black and white text illustrations, [i]-xxxii + 350pp with a final advertisment leaf of Bentley's Standard Novels, 19.4 x 13cm, original blind-stamped blue cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine (dulled) and gilt vignette of a ship with pennants a flutter to the top board, slight spotting mainly limited to the endpapers and age toning to the edges of the text, old varnish to the boards (obscuring gilt lettering to spine and dulling the gilt to the ship vignette) corners tender, but a good clean example of a title scarce on the market. Written in the year Japan opened its doors to foreign trade (but published three years later), by the first British Consul to Nagasaki, Christopher Pemberton Hodgson (he also served as French Consul). As well as giving a key survey of a landmark period (including the structure of society, religion and Japanese attitudes to the West), Hodgson importantly includes a catalogue of… Read More

[New York]: [G. P. Putnam's Sons ("for private circulation")], 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Octavo, 155pp., illustrated. A crisp, clean copy, very near fine, in the publisher's navy cloth. Bottom corners bumped, contemporary owner's name on the front free endpaper and again on the title page, else a nice, clean copy, with a few pages unopened. Extremely scarce memoir of this Civil War General from Indiana, who served as aide-de-camp to McClellan at the start of the war, then being elected to Congress, and later serving as Judge Advocate General of the US Army. During his time in the Indiana state Legislature and in the US Congress, he was a vocal opponent of the expansion of slavery into the west, and some of his speeches to that effect are included in this book. This privately printed volume was evidently produced in very small numbers; we count just two holdings in OCLC (Indiana State Library, App. State). Missed by Broadfoot, Nevins, etc. Untraced at auction. An elusive rarity among… Read More

Paris: Chez l'auteur, 1677. Scarce. Original full leather binding. Gilt decorations and title to spine. Marbled endpapers. Beautifully illustrated with a double-page engraved title and hand numbered double page table of contents. Contains 34 double-page engraved maps, mounted on tabs. Uncoloured. Boards are a little rubbed at edges, contents in very good condition. 165 x 110 mm (6½ x 4¼ inches). . Rare. Reliure d'origine plein cuir. Décors dorés et titre au dos. Gardes marbrées. Magnifiquement illustré avec un titre gravé en double page et une table des matières en double page numérotée à la main. Contient 34 cartes gravées en double page, montées sur onglets. Incolore. Plats un peu frottés sur les bords, contenu en très bon état. 165 × 110 mm.

No date [Ca. 1850]. Good softcover. Center-stitched pamphlet in self-wraps. First page/front cover is age darkened with some soiling and staining and has a 3/4 x 1.5 inch chip missing at top fore corner - 1st page text not affected, 2nd page missing 1st letter of first three lines; last page/rear cover is age darkened with light foxing and few small pencil marks at top fore corner and has contemporary black stamp 'For Sale in Williamsville, Vt. | By W. L. Williams.' ; tightly bound; few interior pages are age darkened with foxing, most are fairly bright and clean but for some pencil marginalia; all text is easily legible; all leaves remain supple. Consists of 4 page narrative about captivity by Indians and white man William Wallace's exposure to Indian remedies; remaining 12 pages are ads for 'Brant's Indian Pulmonary Balsam' and 'Brant's Indian Purifying Extract', which cure scrofula, fevers, liver complaints, abscesses, consumption, piles, mercurial diseases, female complaints, etc. Not dated but… Read More

1537 1ed Orthodox Saint John Chrysostom On the Priesthood + Brixius Marburg

A rare 16th-century printing of works of John Chrysostom. Chrysostom was one of the most important Early Christian Church authors and preachers and is most remembered for his sermons and homilies. He preached on many different subjects, but his most frequented topic was helping the needy. Chrysostom calls for followers of Jesus to set aside their material desires to help the poor, often in a way that shamed the rich and guilted them in to giving.
"Do you pay such honor to your excrements as to receive them into a silver chamber-pot when another man made in the image of God is perishing in the cold?" (Chrysostom in Liebeschuetz)

One of his most important treatises was 'On the Priesthood' in which he describes his experiences becoming a priest and living as a priest. Interestingly, this work was popular during his lifetime as he made references to it in his other works.
This extremely rare 16th-century edition of 'On the… Read More

London.: Richard Bentley.. 1861.. First edition, hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece and black and white text illustrations, [i]-xxxii + 350pp with a final advertisment leaf of Bentley's Standard Novels, 19.4 x 13cm, original blind-stamped blue cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine (dulled) and gilt vignette of a ship with pennants a flutter to the top board, slight spotting mainly limited to the endpapers and age toning to the edges of the text, old varnish to the boards (obscuring gilt lettering to spine and dulling the gilt to the ship vignette) corners tender, but a good clean example of a title scarce on the market. Written in the year Japan opened its doors to foreign trade (but published three years later), by the first British Consul to Nagasaki, Christopher Pemberton Hodgson (he also served as French Consul). As well as giving a key survey of a landmark period (including the structure of society, religion and Japanese attitudes to the West), Hodgson importantly includes a catalogue of… Read More

[New York]: [G. P. Putnam's Sons ("for private circulation")], 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Octavo, 155pp., illustrated. A crisp, clean copy, very near fine, in the publisher's navy cloth. Bottom corners bumped, contemporary owner's name on the front free endpaper and again on the title page, else a nice, clean copy, with a few pages unopened. Extremely scarce memoir of this Civil War General from Indiana, who served as aide-de-camp to McClellan at the start of the war, then being elected to Congress, and later serving as Judge Advocate General of the US Army. During his time in the Indiana state Legislature and in the US Congress, he was a vocal opponent of the expansion of slavery into the west, and some of his speeches to that effect are included in this book. This privately printed volume was evidently produced in very small numbers; we count just two holdings in OCLC (Indiana State Library, App. State). Missed by Broadfoot, Nevins, etc. Untraced at auction. An elusive rarity among… Read More

Paris: Chez l'auteur, 1677. Scarce. Original full leather binding. Gilt decorations and title to spine. Marbled endpapers. Beautifully illustrated with a double-page engraved title and hand numbered double page table of contents. Contains 34 double-page engraved maps, mounted on tabs. Uncoloured. Boards are a little rubbed at edges, contents in very good condition. 165 x 110 mm (6½ x 4¼ inches). . Rare. Reliure d'origine plein cuir. Décors dorés et titre au dos. Gardes marbrées. Magnifiquement illustré avec un titre gravé en double page et une table des matières en double page numérotée à la main. Contient 34 cartes gravées en double page, montées sur onglets. Incolore. Plats un peu frottés sur les bords, contenu en très bon état. 165 × 110 mm.