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Thoughts on Emigration by COOPER Thomas

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
Thoughts on Emigration
Author
COOPER Thomas
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1794. First Edition. COOPER, Thomas. Thoughts on Emigration, in a Letter from a Gentleman in Philadelphia, to His Friend in England. London: No publisher, 1794. Slim octavo, modern marbled paper wrappers, paper cover label. Housed in a custom half cloth portfolio with attached chemise. $2400.First separate edition of this letter between Thomas Cooper and Joseph Priestley, treating America as a haven for Dissenters, abolitionists, and all those British citizens no longer sympathetic with the British government.Born in England and educated at University College, Oxford, Thomas Cooper became a barrister in 1779. Cooper was political from the outset. In 1790, he joined the Dissenters, who were arguing for greater religious tolerance in England. His fervor was so threatening to the establishment that he earned a mention in Parliament by Edmund Burke. Cooper surrounded himself with the era's radicals, including people fighting the Church of England's control over British life and abolitionists. One of Cooper's closest friends was Joseph Priestley, the chemist and Franklin collaborator who was, at the time, perhaps best known as a powerful voice on behalf of the Dissenters. When Priestley was driven from his home by anti-Dissenter riots, it became clear to Cooper that his security in England was not guaranteed. The French Revolution grabbed Cooper's focus in, in 1792, he was sent to Paris by the Constitutional Society of Manchester. Cooper and his comrades vocally supported the Jacobins. As a result of his many radical allegiances at this time, Edmund Burke once again attacked Cooper in the Commons. In 1794, Cooper acknowledged that it was time to leave England and thus left for America with his friend, Joseph Priestley. Once there, Cooper anonymously published a pamphlet, promising English emigrants ""asylum from civil persecution and religious intolerance"" in America. He also encouraged rights activists and abolitionists to join him in the States (though not in the South for obvious reasons). Unsurprisingly, Cooper recommended Pennsylvania, the original seat of the American independence project. In 1799, Cooper published an article in a local newspaper and was sentenced to a $400 fine (around $10,000 today) and six months in prison under the Sedition Act. Cooper thus became disillusioned with America and its government. Nevertheless, Cooper was popular with Thomas Jefferson and began to absorb his politics, including a states' rights orientation. Cooper moved to the South where he taught chemistry and, though he always agitated for political rights, he became an ardent slavery supporter and actually purchased at least eight slaves. Structured as a letter between Cooper and Priestley, this work stems from Cooper's American idealism period, when he still fervently believed in emigrating to America and had even purchased several hundred thousand acres of land. Here, Cooper carefully examines the states in terms of economic opportunity, slavery, climate, cost of land, and other amenities, with special attention to the risk of Native American incursions in the less colonized states. Originally published as ""Letter 1"" of Cooper's Some Information Respecting America, 1794. This is the first separate edition of that letter. This same letter was also published as Extract of a letter from a gentleman in America to a friend in England, on the subject of emigration the same year. 123 Eberstadt 39. Sabin 95678. ESTC N46500. Only a few small spots to interior and toning patch to title pages, wrappers fine. A lovely copy in near-fine condition.
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Essai de psychologie; ou considerations sur les operations de l’ame, sur l’habitude et sur l’education. Auxquelles on a ajoutédes principes philosophiques sur la cause premiere et sur son effet by BONNET, Charles

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Title
Essai de psychologie; ou considerations sur les operations de l’ame, sur l’habitude et sur l’education. Auxquelles on a ajoutédes principes philosophiques sur la cause premiere et sur son effet
Author
BONNET, Charles
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Londres: [n.p.,], 1755. FIRST EDITION. Woodcut headpieces and decorations. Contemporary calf, boards and corners worn and rubbed, joints starting; marbled endpapers, illegible stamp on title. Overall a very good copy. First edition. As with the philosophical musings of Locke and Condillac, Bonnet here reveals his own philosophy of psychology, ushering in the age of behavioral neuroscience. He treats the fields of psychology and education, tracing the evolution of human psychology from childhood to adulthood and its relationship with nature, close to Condillac’s sensationalism. Newton’s concept that auditory and visual images were transmitted by vibrations and that these vibrations were transduced to vibrations in nerves strongly influenced Bonnet, who presents here for the first time a rather more elaborate model of the internal representation of ideas. Bonnet’s movement or “vibration” model proposes that an understanding of animal and human behavior requires, first, knowledge of how the nervous system functions. Bonnet’s focus on the current standards of psychology and education are based on a foundation of tolerance and understanding; for example he criticizes the teaching of the catechism, aimed at instilling terror with the evocation of angels and demons, punishments and chastisements, rather than at educating nature and feelings. With the present work, Bonnet became a pioneer in the study of the physiological bases of behavior, and his theories and experiments on the relationship between psychological and physiological processes were much ahead of his time. The fictitious place of publication “London” seems to be explained by the short preface in which the author addresses his unnamed friends, expressing his thanks to them and dedicating the book. Blake 58; DSB II, pp. 286-287; Gascoigne 10837.1.
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Gilbert Baur ... merkwurdige Regeln was und wie einem Kranken und Sterbenden zuzusprechen by Baur, G - DEATH

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Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books
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Gilbert Baur ... merkwurdige Regeln was und wie einem Kranken und Sterbenden zuzusprechen
Author
Baur, G - DEATH
Seller
Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
A very good copy.
Description
Augsburg: M Rieger, 1811. Fifth Edition (stated).. Contemporary three-quarter leather.. A very good copy.. 8vo. A most unusual and little known book. The aim is to advise individuals on how to approach and deal with those that are sick and dying. The text is specific in how to make inquiries, dealing with incoherent replies, what to say, how to say it, providing medical assistance and comfort, simple rules to follow etc..
In the Heat of the Night

In the Heat of the Night by Ball, John

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Title
In the Heat of the Night
Author
Ball, John
Seller
Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good in a Good dust jacket, unclipped ($3.50), affixed to the boards. Black cloth. Square, bound with reading wear, scars from library sticker removal on the rear endpaper, some date stamps. A decently presenting ex-library copy of this classic crime novel adapted into the film of the same title starring Sidney Poirtier and Rod Steiger.

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