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Three Letters from English Immigrants in Early Republic Era New York City Discussing Class Differences, the 1807 Embargo, Houses that “might be made delightful if the inhabitants had any taste”, and the Many Individuals Enslaved by Local Merchants by [New York City – Early Republic Era – English Immigration] Bakewell, A.; Bakewell, William; Unknown Author

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Title: Three Letters from English Immigrants in Early Republic Era New York City Discussing Class Differences, the 1807 Embargo, Houses that “might be made delightful if the inhabitants had any taste”, and the Many Individuals Enslaved by Local Merchants
Author: [New York City – Early Republic Era – English Immigration] Bakewell, A.; Bakewell, William; Unknown Author
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Overall excellent.
Description: New York and (likely) Connecticut, 1809. Three letters (1795, 1795, and 1809) totalling approximately eleven pages; the larger two letters measuring approximately 7 ¾ x 12 ¼ inches and the smaller (1809) approximately 7 ¾ x 9 ½ inches. 1809 letter Near Fine; earlier letters having some damage especially at folds and margins intersecting with text, very good plus. Overall excellent.. Three letters from English immigrants to the United States sent to their cousin “Miss Gifford” in Duffield, Derbyshire. The earliest letter, from A. Bakewell, describes a stroll along the Battery and compares the classes of people in the two countries: “[My son Jon’s] favorite walk as well as mine, is the battery, it is a delightful [?] it commands a very fine view of all the ships that come up to this harbour, the opposite shores of Long Island Governors Island, & Staten Island which are very fertile one very small Island in the water, with a number of small boats & barges which are generally sailing [?] is extremely pleasant, the Idea that sometime or other I may see the ship arrive which will contain my beloved Husband, renders it peculiarly interesting to me [...] the more I see of this country the more I like it; the lower classes of people are much better informed & from the high price of wages, enabled to live more comfortably than in England, it is very uncommon to see a beggar here: one very great inconvenience is the badness of servants, they are ten thousand times worse than in England [...] I could get some that is decent here, the manner of the ladies here is much more vulgar than the women in England & they were generally very ignorant, there are however some exceptions [...].” (February 1795) The writer’s husband is William Bakewell, who writes to Miss Gifford in 1809 from what is probably Tolland, Connecticut (which he renders as “Tolland Ford”), reporting on the state of the economy and the 1807 Embargo Act: “I fear the intercourse between this country & England will be stopped for a time [...] during the continuation of this Embargo which has caused a total stagnation of business [...] I have since seen Mr Kinder (a friend of my Brother’s) & who for some time (his home being in the country) boarded with my Brother’s family in New York. He assures me that with respect to everything he observed there was as much economy as ever compatible with decency & that their table in particular was furnished in a more frugal stile than that of any Merchants he was acquainted with. [...] I hope to hear from you as frequently as is practicable while the communication is [?] between the two countries for this government will I expect pass a law to stop the intercourse with both England & France until they cease to capture American vessels. [...] [My son] Thomas is gone to NYK to wind up his adventure to New Orleans. He had 5000 dollars in silver with him. In the present uncertain state of mercantile affairs it is doubtful whether Mr Kinder will like to make any further adventure.” (January 1809) Lastly, a 1796 letter from another cousin, a sister of “A.”, opens by relating her arrival to New York City during an outbreak of yellow fever: “the worst of all was as soon as we [missing] land which we had so often wish’d to see the Pilot came on Board & told us of the fever being so bad at N York & that every Body that could had left it. I did not know in what situation I should find my Brother & his family or whether I should find them at all, but when we came to Anchor a Boy [ca]me on board & told us my Brother was at Philadelphia [...] my sister & Thomas was at long Island just [missing] the East river. [...] we staid a fortnight at the enormous expence of 30 Dollars a week for our family, we then came to [New] York the sickness being rather abated we could not get a House or part of one on long Island they being all engag’d at very high prices to people who had fled from [New] York & for miles round there was not a room to be had. We had thought of going to Albany but there was so many people gone with goods that we suposed the Market was full, my Brother was not return’d, we at last took this House at a very great rent till May it being a very Healthy situation we came here the following week & have been here ever since.” The yellow fever epidemic hit New York City in 1795, and surged several times, prompting the city to finally create a Board of Health in 1805. This is not the author’s only complaint about New York as compared to England: “the Country what I have seen of it is not so pleasant as England there being no hedges all posts & rail fences appears strange to us, there are a many very good houses 1 2 & 3 miles round this city which are very pleasant they are built of wood & painted white which looks very pretty & might be made delightful if the inhabitants had any taste for gardening, but that the Americans & Dutch have no notion of, I could be very comfortable at [New] York if we was in a way of getting a good deal but we have been spending a great deal and getting but little indeed we have sold most of our goods but the scarcety of cash occation’d by the Fall trade being spoilt with the Fever oblig’d every body to take Bills at a longer date than is usual so that we have rec’d very little there is a vast many English here I have met with some very agreeable acquaintance[s] which I shall be sorry to leave [...]” (March 1796) She also comments that “there is many Blacks here some of the Merchants keep 8 or 10 of them & I believe they are the best servants”. Though New York City had been home to a large community of freed African Americans following the British Army’s 1779 Philipsburg Proclamation, most of them had been resettled in Nova Scotia after the Revolutionary War. The author was more likely observing enslaved people, as New York did not pass its gradual abolition law until 1799 and emancipation was not completed until 1827. Of interest to historians of immigration to early republic New York City.

Boston School Kitchen Text-Book. Lessons in Cooking for the Use of Classes in Public and Industrial Schools by LINCOLN, Mrs. D.A.

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Title: Boston School Kitchen Text-Book. Lessons in Cooking for the Use of Classes in Public and Industrial Schools
Author: LINCOLN, Mrs. D.A.
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Very good +
Description: Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887. Cloth. Very good +. [COOKERY] [JUVENILE] [HOME ARTS]. First edition. 12mo; 237pp + [5], 16 [1]pp publisher's ads; tan pictorial boards, front printed in sepia featuring a girl dressed in an apron holding a cake on the front, brown cloth shelf back; gray endpapers, ownership in neat ink on ffep; light wear to boards, scuffing to corners, a few areas browned where clippings were laid in; binding tight; very good plus. A girls' instructional book for use in schools on the management of households and food preparation, with an introductory blurb from the Superintendent of Boston Public Schools. The text begins with basic household management including "Rules for Housekeepers," "Rules for Cleaning Dishes," two charts show "Average Composition of Some Common Foods" and "Food Materials Obtained for 25 cents." Included is a chapter of "Suggestions for Teachers." Twenty chapters follow these introductory sections and provide both food recipes and basic kitchen instructions. Following the text, the publisher's ads give the reader a good idea of what was of interest in the late 19th century. The author, Mrs. Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln (1844-1921), was a leader in Domestic Science who wrote using her married name during her husband's lifetime. After his death, she authored using the name Mary J. Lincoln. She was a teacher, author, and pioneer in nutrition. Further interesting information on her work and life can be found in her Wikipedia page.

Muirder In the Bookshop by Carolyn Wells

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Title: Muirder In the Bookshop
Author: Carolyn Wells
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Description: Grosset & Dunlap, 1936. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket. (Not The First) First Grosset Printing Of This Beloved Biblio-Mystery Ink Name Beautiful Copy. Rare In This Condition.

Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean, On Board An American Frigate by WILLIS, N. Parker

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Title: Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean, On Board An American Frigate
Author: WILLIS, N. Parker
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Description: Detroit: Kerr, Doughty & Lapham, 1853. Octavo (21cm). Brown cloth stamped in blind on boards and in gilt on spine; yellow endpapers; [xvii],[14]-396pp. A sturdy copy with mild wear to edges, spine sunned, neat restoration at head, scattered mild foxing: around Very Good. Travel writings by the highest-paid magazine writer of the era. This title is a "Reprint of material extracted from Pencillings by the Way, 1844, with a new 'Preface'" (BAL). This is the uncommon Detroit imprint, not noted in BAL (which records New York and Auburn imprints). Cf. BAL 22821.

Hosea: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary by Anderson, Francis I and David Noel Freedman

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Title: Hosea: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
Author: Anderson, Francis I and David Noel Freedman
Seller: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
ISBN: 9780385007689
Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Description: Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. [1980]. First Edition; Second Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 038500768x . A smart first edition/second printing in Fine condition with lightly soiled edges and slightly bumped lower tail of spine in a Very Good clipped dust jacket with discolored panel seams, chipped upper and lower edges and minimal yellowing of back panels. Black cloth bound volume with handsome silver leaf embossing. [i-x] xi-xiii [xvi] [1-2] 2-699 [700-702] pp; A non denominational translation and treatise on the Bible's Old Testament book of the prophet Hosea embracing the concept of a new style of Bible (The Anchor Bible) with content and research materials are contained in a single volume; The Anchor Bible; Vol. 24; 8vo ; 699 pages .

"It Is Sex O'Clock" by Stone, Lee Alexander, M.D.

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Title: "It Is Sex O'Clock"
Author: Stone, Lee Alexander, M.D.
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Description: Chicago: Marshall Field Annex, 1928. Book. Near Fine. Printed Wrappers. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Scarce. With a forward by Dr. W.A. Evans, Health Editor, Chicago Tribune. Orange wrappers just faintly soiled, Else Fine. 77 pages. Composed of a group of lectures , a pioneering work in sex hygiene..

Jersey Genesis. The Story of the Mullica River by BECK, HENRY CHARLTON

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Title: Jersey Genesis. The Story of the Mullica River
Author: BECK, HENRY CHARLTON
Seller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc. (United States)
Description: 1963. BECK, HENRY CHARLTON. Jersey Genesis: The Story of the Mullica River. New Brunswick, [1963]. xiv, 317 p. Illus. Cloth. Reissue of the 1945 edition, with new photographs and an index. History and folklore of the Mullica River and the towns through which it flows.

The House on Henry Street by Wald, Lillian D.

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Title: The House on Henry Street
Author: Wald, Lillian D.
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Description: New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis, illustrations, index, xzii, 317, (4)p. Original blue cloth. Inked gift inscription from former owner dated January 11, 1916. No jacket. About the Henry Street Settlement (House) in New York's Lower East Side.

The Inspector Guy Northeast Mysteries [2 volumes: They Rang Up the Police; Death at The Dog] by Cannan, Joanna

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Title: The Inspector Guy Northeast Mysteries [2 volumes: They Rang Up the Police; Death at The Dog]
Author: Cannan, Joanna
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Description: Boulder CO: The Rue Morgue Press. 1999. Reprint. Softcover. Near Fine. [nice copies, both essentially as-new with no significant wear, but each with a previous owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along the edge of the inside rear cover]. Trade PB A pair of English-village mystery yarns, both featuring Inspector Guy Northeast, described in the books' introductions as "a big, raw-boned man whose youth, slowness of speech and lack of formal education belie his very real gift for police work," and who is "a complicated character, filled with longings and regrets and saddled with unvoiced ambitions." These books, originally published in England in 1939 and 1941 respectively, were the only two Inspector Guy Northeast mysteries ever written; "Death" was published in the U.S. in 1941, but this paperback edition was the first American edition of "They Rang." The author wrote a number of other novels (both mystery and non-mystery) as well as some books for children. .

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