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Sermon Preached before His Excellency Francis Bernard.... May 25th, 1768 by AMERICAN REVOLUTION SHUTE Daniel

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Title: Sermon Preached before His Excellency Francis Bernard.... May 25th, 1768
Author: AMERICAN REVOLUTION SHUTE Daniel
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1768. First Edition. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) SHUTE, Daniel, A.M. A Sermon Preached Before His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; Governor, His Honor Thomas Hutchinson Esq; Lieutenant-Governor, The Honourable His Majesty's Council, and the Honourable House of Representatives, Of the Province of the Massachusets-Bay in New England, May 25th. 1768. Being the Aniversary for the Election of His Majesty's Council for said Province. Boston: New-England: Printed by Richard Draper, 1768. Small octavo (5 by 8 inches), period-style full speckled calf gilt, red morocco spine label, marbled endpapers; pp. (1-5), 6-70 (2). $4000.First edition of Shute's provocative Sermon delivered in the aftermath of the Stamp Act and other punitive British legislation, asserting the basis for ""political resistance"" against violation of Americans' ""natural and civil rights,"" affirming historians' view of colonial rebellion as fueled by clergy such as Reverend Shute, demonstrating ""religion was a fundamental cause of the American Revolution.""Following Britain's 1765 Stamp Act and 1766 Declaratory Act, seen as establishing ""the same principle of political absolutism,"" American clergy such as Congregationalist minister Daniel Shute ""played an important role in shaping the public mind and provoking the response to the British that became the American Revolution"" (Steward, Justifying Revolution, 52, 1). Historians increasingly assert the role played by religious leaders such as Shute when they note ""the genius of the creation of the American Republic was the ability to fuse the formerly opposed motives of transcendence and bodily well-being it is this synthesis that constitutes the fundamental unity of the various strands of thoughtProtestant, liberal and republicandominant in America's beginnings"" (Hancock, Religion and the Limits of Limited Government, 699). One of the era's ""strong proponents [of] political resistance"" (Steward, 69), Reverend Shute here affirms ""life, liberty, and property, are the gifts of the creator,"" yet also argues ""the line between one society, and another, is not drawn by heaven; nor is the particular form of civil government."" He states civil government ""is not a refiguration of natural privileges, but that method of securing them."" Shute's principles and the persuasive eloquence of his Sermon reveal what historians increasingly note in the era: a demonstration of how ""religion was a fundamental cause of the American Revolution"" (Bridenbaugh, Mitre and Sceptre, xx).Shute asserts that for the colonists""every privation of their natural rights is subversive of their happiness."" He significantly points to how Americans, who are made subject to the laws ""by civil rulers may be morally obliged to resist them."" Speaking against a doctrine of ""passive obedience and non-resistence [sic],"" he declares this ""came not down from above, as it can be supported neither by reason nor revelation, and therefore may be urged with a better grace by the rulers of darkness than by those powers that are ordained of God for the good of mankind The welfare of the province,"" he asserts, ""demands the attention of the guarantees of our natural and civil rights."" Key to this is Shute's bold claim that Americans, in order ""to complete our political happiness [exert] ourselves to aid the civil power and instead of leaving the magistrates unaided, should voluntarily rise up for them against the evil doers"" (original emphasis). His electrifying Sermon richly demonstrates an emerging belief that the American Revolution depended ""upon a faith that took forms both Christian and non-Christian; and the framing of the Constitution of the U.S. represented, not an abandonment of that faith, but an attempt to embody and promote it"" (Hancock, 698). First edition, first printing: title page with uncorrected ""MDCCXLVIII"" for 1768. With errata (p. 70). Evans 11071. Sabin 80802. ESTC W29294. Early scattered owner signatures to half title and rear blank, with ink marginalia in a similar cursive to two text pages.Small spot stain and repaired tiny hole to half-title, otherwise text generally fresh.

The anatomy of melancholy, what it is. With all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, and severall cures of it. In three maine partitions with their severall sections, members, and subsections. Philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened and cut up. By Democritus Junior. With a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse by BURTON, Robert

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Title: The anatomy of melancholy, what it is. With all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, and severall cures of it. In three maine partitions with their severall sections, members, and subsections. Philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened and cut up. By Democritus Junior. With a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse
Author: BURTON, Robert
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: Peter Parker, 1676. EIGHTH EDITION. With the famous illustrated title page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Printed in double columns. Contemporary full Oxford-style calf worn and rubbed, spine label; interior overall fine with some minor spotting and a few annotations. Bookplate of Septimus Scott, possibly the famous British artist (1879-1965) whose works included oil paintings, book illustrations, advertisements, comic book covers, and so much more. He has exhibited in the Royal Academy and was a member of the Royal Watercolour Society. Eighth edition of this medical masterpiece, considered by Osler as the greatest treatise on the subject ever written by a layman as well as a classic of literature. Burton (1577-1640) sets out by claiming that melancholy is "an inbred malady of everyone of us." He defines the causes, symptoms and properties of melancholy, discusses cures, expounds on love and religion, and examines fear, women’s melancholy, and anatomy of the soul . In truth, this work covers a much wider scope than the "medical" aspect upon which it is based. Using quotations, humor and pathos, Burton covers the entire life of man, including social and political reform, as well as bodily and mental health. The impact of this volume is solidified through the personal annotations of previous readers, including the passionate notes, “Life is so ful of miserie; were it not better not too be” (p. 219), and “Is this the only kind of jealousy? Would to God it were! Cannot of two friends one become jealous of the others growing partiality for an other? What is the cure for such a case?” (p. 373). This book is a testament to the fact that maladies of life are not century specific, and melancholy has plagued the masses as long as time itself. Garrison & Morton, 4918.1; Printing & the Mind of Man, 120; Osler, 4624; STC, 4159 (all first ed.).

[FRENCH REVOLUTION] [REIGN OF TERROR] THE ACCUSATION, TRIAL, DEFENCE, SENTENCE, EXECUTION, AND LAST WILL OF LEWIS XVI LATE KING OF FRANCE AND NAVARRE; GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS MAGNANIMOUS BEHAVIOUR FROM THE DECREE OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION TO BRING HIM TO TRIAL AS A TRAITOR, TO HIS LAST AFFECTIONATE INTERVIEW WITH HIS UNFORTUNATE FAMILY ... [BOUND WITH] AUTHENTIC TRIAL AT LARGE OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, LATE QUEEN OF FRANCE, BEFORE THE REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL AT PARIS ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1793

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Title: [FRENCH REVOLUTION] [REIGN OF TERROR] THE ACCUSATION, TRIAL, DEFENCE, SENTENCE, EXECUTION, AND LAST WILL OF LEWIS XVI LATE KING OF FRANCE AND NAVARRE; GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS MAGNANIMOUS BEHAVIOUR FROM THE DECREE OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION TO BRING HIM TO TRIAL AS A TRAITOR, TO HIS LAST AFFECTIONATE INTERVIEW WITH HIS UNFORTUNATE FAMILY ... [BOUND WITH] AUTHENTIC TRIAL AT LARGE OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, LATE QUEEN OF FRANCE, BEFORE THE REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL AT PARIS ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1793
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good binding
Description: Edinburgh | London: J. Elder, et al. | Chapman and Co, 1793. First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good binding. 8vo. (8 1/2” x 5 3/8”); in half-tan calf over marbled board with morocco label (Trials K & Q of France); [4]. 108 pages, 2 plates as frontispieces; 92 pages, with portrait frontiespiece; the first frontispiece of Louis XVI is hand colored; the second is of a guillotine, with a handy head-catching basket; the second book has a frontispiece of Queen Marie Antoinette; the book is well foxed; the front endpaper has been cut in half vertically; there are two previous owner names on the recto of the frontispiece; lacking the rear endpaper.~~The second of the two titles (Authentic Trial of Marie Antoinette) appears to have been first printed by J. Evans in London the same year as this Chapman imprint. (T80476; T96760). Very Good binding.

Of Time and the River by Thomas Wolfe

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Title: Of Time and the River
Author: Thomas Wolfe
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. A solid, very serviceable copy of the 1935 1st edition (with both the Scribner seal and the letter 'A' on the copyright page). Tight and Near Fine (bright gilt-titling along the front panel and spine) in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with fading along the spine and creasing along the lower front panel and the base of the spine. Still though, quite presentable.

LIFE BEGINS IN 40 - ELEPHANT FIGURE WITH CONSTITUTION by Political Memorabilia

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Title: LIFE BEGINS IN 40 - ELEPHANT FIGURE WITH CONSTITUTION
Author: Political Memorabilia
Seller: Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts (United States)
Description: LIFE BEGINS IN 40 - ELEPHANT FIGURE WITH CONSTITUTION. Political Memorabilia. Figurine for the Presidential campaign of Wendell Willkie in 1940. A plaster of Paris elephant on a base raises its head, its trunk wrapped around a stylized rolled document incised with the word "Constitution." On the front of the base is inccised "Life Begins in 40," on the left side is incised "GOP," and the right side is incised with the copyright sign, "1939/A D Cookson/Green Bay Wis." About 7 inches tall, 6 inches wide. A few very inconspicuous flakes, else in Fine condition. The image was used on a campaign button, but the plaster figure appears to be uncommon, even scarce.

REVISED REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE RELATIVE TO THE SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY, TOGETHER WITH THE ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTS, AS REPORTED TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA

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Title: REVISED REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE RELATIVE TO THE SOLDIERS' NATIONAL CEMETERY, TOGETHER WITH THE ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTS, AS REPORTED TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
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Description: Harrisburg: Singerly & myers, 1865. Hardcover. Octavo; 211 pages; G; Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine; Bumping and rubbing to corners, wear along spine, bumping along head and tail edges, bending along spine edges; Textblock has age toning to pages, foxing to pages, writing in pen on both pastedowns; RWO. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Wegewood Section. 1362164. Special Collections.

Privates' Lives by Armour, Richard (verses); Middlecamp, H. (drawings)

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Title: Privates' Lives
Author: Armour, Richard (verses); Middlecamp, H. (drawings)
Seller: Americana Books ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Octavo. 79 pages. Illustrated drawings. Yellow illustrated hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. Slight dulling to the dust jacket. Jacket is chipped on the spine. Pencil page numbers written on the contents page. Inscribed, signed by the author Richard Armour on the right front flyleaf.

Class A Pass. Fort Douglas, Utah

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Title: Class A Pass. Fort Douglas, Utah
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Ephemera. Pass printed on thin card stock, 10 cm x 6.5 cm. "Joe Bush" (in pen) (and father) of The Salt Lake Tribune and Telegram has permission to be a guest at Fort Douglas on Wednesday, December 16, 1942, in recognition of HIS EXEMPLARY RECORD as an agent of the United States treasury in the soliciting of War Bond pledges and the sale of War savings stamps.

Problems of Communism.# Volume IV (1955)

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Title: Problems of Communism.# Volume IV (1955)
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1969. Six bimonthly issues, various pagination, handsomely reprinted and bound in 11x8.5 inch red cloth boards, very good, no dj. Issues typically include sections for critical articles on the USSR and Eastern Europe, with additional material on China, etc. Includes cartoons reprinted from socialist countries.

The Earliest Diary of John Adams, June 1753-April 1754, September 1758-January 1759 by ADAMS, John

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Title: The Earliest Diary of John Adams, June 1753-April 1754, September 1758-January 1759
Author: ADAMS, John
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: very good
Description: Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966. hardcover. very good. Ed. by L. H. Butterfield. Illus. 4to, green cloth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966. Very good

Master Print Collection 1977

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Title: Master Print Collection 1977
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: Associcated American Artists, 1977. First edition. Softcover. 12 pages. Exhibition catalog. Includes numerous small black and white illustrations. A very good copy in stapled wrappers. Uncommon.

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