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- The Harvard Register. An Illustrated Monthly. Vol. III, January to July, 1881. Edited and Published at Harvard College by Moses King.
- ISBN: NA Price: $823.92
- Publisher: Cambridge: Moses King, Date Published: 1881
- Description: Volume 3 only; quarto, viii, 438 pp., illustrations in text, original half leather with paper sides bound in (one of the complementary copies from Macullar, Parker, & Company); binding rubbed with front hinge cracked and marks from book plate removals on both pastedowns, only light general age toning to interior. Volumes Included: 1
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Request a photo for this item.- Item Number: 650687
- Remarks on a Pamphlet printed by the Professors and Tutors of Harvard University, touching their right to the exclusive government of that seminary. By an Alumnus of that College.
- ISBN: NA Price: $24.50
- Publisher: Boston: Wells and Lilly, Date Published: 1824
- Description: 56 pp.; a very good+ copy, untrimmed and tied into self wrappers as issued. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Harvard, administration, American education, MW8 Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 647807
- An Antidote Against, and The Reward of, Toryism. Being Two Sermons Preached in the Tabernacle Church, in Salem; one at the commencement, and the other at the close of the Revolutionary War ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $514.88
- Publisher: Salem: Re-printed by Pool & Palfray, Date Published: 1811
- Description: 53 pp.; general age toning and age speckling, the untrimmed margins tattered but far from text, overall good+ tied into self wrappers; intended to keep the alive a total contempt for "black unprincipled conduct of the Tories" and to pass it along to future generations. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 653559
- Letters to a Student in the University of Cambridge, Massachusetts. By John Clarke, Minister of a Church in Boston.
- ISBN: NA Price: $203.74
- Publisher: Boston: Printed and sold by Samuel Hall, Date Published: 1796
- Description: first edition; 12mo (leaves 17 cm. tall), 148 pp.; the board sides of a later quarter cloth binding darkening but a very good, untrimmed copy with only light general age toning to text and the signature of a contemporary owner at corner of title (Wm Smith 1796); the recipient of the letters is believed to have been John Pickering, 1777-1846; Evans 30200, Sabin 40637. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 793690
- a History of the Grammar School, or, "The Free Schoole of 1645 in Roxburie." with Biographical Sketches of the Ministers of the First Church, and other Trustees.
- ISBN: NA Price: $9.63
- Publisher: Roxbury: John Backup, Date Published: 1860
- Description: first edition; small octavo, viii, [7]-202 pp. as issued, folding facsimile document as frontis.; original cloth chipped at head of spine, general light age toning, still sound and good+. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American education, Massachusetts, Roxbury Latin School, MW8 Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 650733
- The day of a godly man's Death, Better than the day of his Birth. Shewed In a Sermon, Preach'd, Feb. 25, 1722. By Thomas Foxcroft, Pastor to a Church in Boston.
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,541.74
- Publisher: Boston in New-England: Printed by B. Green, Date Published: 1722
- Description: first edition; 16mo (leaves 16.5 cm. tall), [title leaf] (hand written but attempting to faithfully reproduce the original), 196 pp., errata slip mounted on inside back cover of binding, separate titles for "Two Sermons shewing How to Begin and Year, After a Godly Sort ..." with its own 1722 imprint and "The Duty of the Godly Among a People ..." but pagination continuous; contemporary plain leather very rubbed with hinges cracked, the added title detached and tattered, general age toning, repairs to A3 hit a few words but none lost and all readable, signatures of previous owners in text, one of them dated 1764, good- only; Evans 2336, Sabin 25387. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 657490
- A Sermon Preached before His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Esq. Governor: The Honorable His Majesty's Council, and the House of Representatives of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, May 26th, 1773. ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $92.77
- Publisher: Boston: Printed by Richard Draper, Date Published: 1773
- Description: Being the Anniversary of the Election of His Majesty's Council for said Province.; first edition; 45 pp.; half title torn and badly chipped but no loss, a few other early and late leaves tattered, age toning and age speckling, paper not fragile and entirely readable, good; some of the attendees probably were made uncomfortable when Turner suggested that "the public interest has, generally and on the whole, succeeded beyond all comparison, where the people have, by the barrier of a constitution, retained power in a great degree in their own hands" and that it is certainly not damnable to resist civil powers when necessary but were relieved when he turned to the "Amazing profanity especially in maritime places" and other safer topics. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 659484
- The Life of the Very Reverend and Learned Cotton Mather, D. D. & F. R. S. Late Pastor of the North Church in Boston. Who Died, Feb. 13. 1727,8.
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,528.62
- Publisher: Boston: Printed for Samuel Gerrish, Date Published: 1729
- Description: first edition; [4] (half title, title), iv, 6 (Preface), 10 (Subscribers), 184 pp.; lacks 185/186, the last leaf of the advertisements, B1 holed with loss of words and letters, I5 chipped at fore edge with loss of a few letters, a few other leaves tip chipped with a letter or two removed; contemporary leather very rubbed, front free endpaper tattered and with old ink scribbling, age toning and age staining throughout, reading copy; Howes M 409. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American clergyman, Puritans mw8x Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 666650
- Tribute to William Cullen Bryant, at the meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, June 13, 1878. With an Appendix.
- ISBN: NA Price: $54.43
- Publisher: Boston: John Wilson and Son, Date Published: 1878
- Description: first edition; [55] pp.; paper wrappers darkened and frayed at bottom margin, interior very good and mostly unopened. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American statesmen, MW8 Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 647708
- Voices of Nature, and Thoughts in Rhyme.
- ISBN: NA Price: $44.10
- Publisher: Louisville: J. V. Cowling & G. C. Davies, Date Published: 1849
- Description: first edition; 156 pp.; original cloth darkened with front cover detached, early leaves shaken and scribbling on early blanks; the author was a Baptist clergyman and at the time Secretary of the Indian Mission Board in Louisville. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American poetry, MW8 Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 647734
- An Address delivered before the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, on the Occasion of their Sixth Exhibition, September 19, 1850.
- ISBN: NA Price: $38.10
- Publisher: Boston: Eastburn's Press, Date Published: 1850
- Description: first edition; 34 pp., light extraction roughness at spine and now in self wrappers, still well sewn onad only light general age toning; an address is support of American industry. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 647799
- A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Harvard University, for the Academical Year 1855-56. First Term.
- ISBN: NA Price: $33.73
- Publisher: Cambridge: John Bartlett, Printer to the University, Date Published: 1855
- Description: 12mo, 94 pp., extraction roughness and sewing stab holes at and near spine, both original paper sides present but now partially disbound. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 539618
- A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Harvard University, for the Academical Year 1856-57. First Term.
- ISBN: NA Price: $33.80
- Publisher: Cambridge: John Bartlett, Printer to the University, Date Published: 1856
- Description: 12mo, 96 pp., library markings, extraction roughness and sewing stab holes at and near spine, both original paper sides present but darkened and now partially disbound. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 539619
- A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Harvard University, for the Academical Year 1856-57. Second Term.
- ISBN: NA Price: $34.79
- Publisher: Cambridge: John Bartlett, Printer to the University, Date Published: 1857
- Description: 12mo, 96 pp., extraction roughness and sewing stab holes at and near spine, both original paper sides present but now partially disbound. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 539620
- A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Harvard University, for the Academical Year 1857-58. First Term.
- ISBN: NA Price: $32.48
- Publisher: Cambridge: John Bartlett, Printer to the University, Date Published: 1857
- Description: 12mo, 96 pp., library markings, extraction roughness and sewing stab holes at and near spine, both original paper sides present but damp stained on front cover, partially disbound. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 539621
- A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Harvard University, for the Academical Year 1857-58. Second Term.
- ISBN: NA Price: $36.96
- Publisher: Cambridge: John Bartlett, Printer to the University, Date Published: 1858
- Description: 12mo, 92 pp., extraction roughness and sewing stab holes at and near spine, both original paper sides present but now partially disbound. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 539623
- A Sermon preached To the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in Boston, New-England, June 1, 1767. Being the Anniversary of Their Election of Officers.
- ISBN: NA Price: $213.12
- Publisher: Boston: Printed and Sold by Edes and Gill, Date Published: 1767
- Description: first edition; small octavo, 43 pp.; extraction roughness at spine, title soiled and eatched with tattering at inside margin, some leaves short at bottom margin shaving catchwords but no main text touched, good in self wrappers; religion supports defensive war as justifiable among rational beings to defend their rights and oppose "the interruption of the harmony of the universe",. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 647822
- A Sermon preached To the Ancient and Honorable Artillery-Company in Boston, New-England, June 6th 1774. Being the Anniversary of their Election of Officers.
- ISBN: NA Price: $239.56
- Publisher: Boston: Printed by Kneeland and Davis, for Samuel Webb, Date Published: 1774
- Description: 39 pp.; age staining and more than half the pages age toned, nineteenth century inscription to the A & H. A. Compy. partially eradicated, still overall good+ tied into self wrappers; follows a familiar theme in these sermons that "There may be cases in which a christian ought to unsheathe the sword and resist unto blood" but the potential enemies are still France and Spain. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 647830
- A Sermon Preached before his Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; Governor and Commander in Chief, The Honourable His Majesty's Council, ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $615.55
- Publisher: Boston: Printed by Richard Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governor, Date Published: 1763
- Description: And the Honourable House of Representatives, of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, May 25th. 1763. By Thomas Barnard, A.M., Pastor of the first church in Salem.; first edition; 45 pp.; general age toning and half title lightly soiled but a very good copy, untrimmed and string tied into self wrappers as issued; Barnard takes the Parable Of The Trees from Judges 9 as his starting point and ends with a note of optimism "O America, mayest well rejoice, the Children of New-England may be glad and triumph, in Reflection on events past, and the Prospect of the future.". Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: American election sermons, New England, Province of the Massachusetts Bay, MW8 Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 650655
- Memoirs of the Life of the late Charles Lee, Esq. ... To which are added, his Political and Military Essays; also, Letters to and from Many Distinguished Characters, both in Europe and America.
- ISBN: NA Price: $199.30
- Publisher: NY: Printed by T. Allen, Date Published: 1792
- Description: small octavo, viii, 284 pp.; general age toning and a substantial rectangle has been cut out of the title leaf with loss of the subject's name, later cloth; general age toning and a substantial rectangle has been cut out of the title leaf with loss of the subject's name; treats General Lee as a hero and master of military science, his treachery had not yet been discovered. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 650743
