{"title":"Americana \u0026 History","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"1944-lillian-smith-strange-fruit-banned-book-on-interracial-marriage-signed","title":"1944 LILLIAN SMITH. Strange Fruit. Banned Book on Interracial Marriage - Signed!","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fascinating work detailing an interracial relationship told explicitly as a pre-Civil rights critique of ongoing racism under Jim Crow. In it, she uses the ultimate union of races in a romantic context as a paradigmatic rejection of all segregation, separate but equal policies, etc,. the title was derived from the title of the Billie Holiday 1939 song, \u003cem\u003eStrange Fruit. \u003c\/em\u003eThe strange fruit growing on Southern trees was of course a reference to ongoing racism and, more concretely, the practice of lynching.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSigned editions are very scarce; we are unable to trace one for sale any time recently. This one inscribed, \"With very good wishes, sincerely yours, Lillian Smith.\" It is pencil and ink signed \"Janice Scott,\" likely the 1960's \"light\" black model mentioned in the essay, \u003cem\u003eThe Color of an Ideal Negro Beauty Queen\u003c\/em\u003e in \u003cem\u003eShades of Difference\u003c\/em\u003e by Stanford Press, 2009. Then inscribed Thelma Rudd. Rudd is an activist for the presence of African Americans in aeronautics and space. She authored a biography of the first African American aviator, Bessie Coleman, \u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eetc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmith, Lillian. Strange Fruit. A Novel. New York. Reynal \u0026amp; Hitchcock Publishers. New York. 1944. First Edition. Eleventh Printing. 250pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good condition. Cloth tidy and crisp. Textually very good. Dustjacket has some chips and losses; now preserved in a transparent sleeve. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40543138185252,"sku":"","price":350.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/04-23-2024SpecsFineBooks-06567.jpg?v=1713983102"},{"product_id":"1861-anne-bowman-life-among-the-south-american-indians-of-andes-mountains-c-rare","title":"1861 ANNE BOWMAN. Life Among the South American Indians of Andes Mountains, \u0026c. Rare.","description":"\u003cp\u003eA rather obscure work, overlooked in much period research of the area, c\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ehronicling the hardships of pioneer and missionary life in early 19th century South America as well as containing first-hand accounts of nearly every facet of life in remote areas of the Andes. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe author and her family sailed from England to Rio de Janeiro via Madeira and thence to the Andes. Includes a good account of gaucho life in the Pampas and much of interest on the Indians of South America, including accounts of cannibalism, tribal wars, religious customs and ceremonies, etc., plus roving bandits and robbers, etc. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis work not recorded in either Palau or Sabin. Last recorded auction record, nearly 40 years ago when it fetched $275.00.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBowman, Anna. Adventures, Wanderings and Sufferings of the Merton Family; Or, Life Scenes among the South American Indians. Philadelphia. Published by Duane Rulison. 1861. 384pp + [8 Woodcuts]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFair only. Cloth heavily rubbed and worn, spine cloth a bit awkwardly relaid and rear hinge crushed. Text is generally very solid and clean with faint tide mark across bottom quarter of the sheet. Rear hinge through paper to mull and stiff from spine relay. That said, a serviceable example of a rare text. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40721664475172,"sku":"","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/Binding-06.jpg?v=1691694282"},{"product_id":"1798-eliphalet-porter-america-in-prophecy-and-politics-belongs-in-the-pulpit-rare","title":"1798 ELIPHALET PORTER. America in Prophecy and Politics belongs in the Pulpit. Rare.","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fascinating pesher-like use of account of the Nehemiah story in which Porter sees a direct, indeed, prophetic connection between the deliverance of Israel and the deliverance of America and the subsequent threatenings from France. A daring piece of exegesis, to be sure. But he assures us . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I have scrupulously avoided the mentioning of any thing, as an historical fact, or circumstance, which I did not find expressly recorded, or clearly authorized, by the sacred writers, or other sufficient authorities.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith this, he then intends to show that it is no mere \"coincidence\" or \"story-bending\" that makes it only seem like it is indeed a direct corollary, but is at the very least exegetically warranted, and perhaps even prophetically demanded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe continues, \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"What an instructive lesson is offered here to these United States! . . . It is highly proper that we should now take a view of of [sic] the present critical situation of the United States.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe then articulates the reasons it is proper for preaching to engage the political sphere of the nation, details the history of the Revolution, the deeds of George Washington, and notes that should it come to war with France, the American people are now ready to defend their God-given land. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePorter, Eliphalet. A Discourse, Delivered at Brookline, in the Morning, and at the First Parish in Roxbury, in the Afternoon, of the 9th of May, 1798, being the Day Recommended by John Adams, President of the United States, for Solemn Humiliation, Fasting \u0026amp; Prayer throughout the Union. Boston. John Russell. at Quaker-Lane. 1798. 36pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood -, textually complete, but disbound. Half title torn vertically with signature of John Worthington, likely that of Colonel John Worthington of the American Revolution and namesake of Worthington, Mass. Remainder clean without the tear, but essentially disbound. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41007932571684,"sku":"","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/Feb14_2024-31.jpg?v=1708106675"},{"product_id":"1890-cherokee-language-rare-vinita-oklahoma-imprint-of-presbyterian-work-on-baptism","title":"1890 CHEROKEE LANGUAGE. Rare Vinita Oklahoma Imprint of Presbyterian Work on Baptism.","description":"\u003cp\u003eVery rare translation into Cherokee by important missionary and promoter of Native American rights, Rev. Amory Nelson Chamberlin [1821-1894]. Born on the Brainerd Mission in Tennessee to a missionary family, his entire life was lived with the Cherokee, he spoke the language flawlessly from his youth, and he and his family were ultimately given Cherokee names. When his tribe was driven to the \"Indian Territory\" [now Oklahoma], his family chose to be displaced with them rather than live on land stolen from the people they loved. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe present work was printed in Vinita and was one of the earliest works ever printed in the new \"Indian Territory. \u003cem\u003eThe Indian Record \u003c\/em\u003efor 1886 notes that a printing press was being gifted, along with a specially made set of Cherokee type, to the new \"Indian Presbytery\" at Vinita. The press was to be operated under the auspices of A. N. Chamberlin for the benefit of the Indian Christians. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdwards, John. A. N. Chamberlin [Trans.] Baptism - - The Mode. 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Helper, himself a southerner, believed the truest friends of the southern states were the anti-slavery abolitionists in the population, that slavery was both a moral and economic curse to the land. His meticulously argued text was found so threatening, its distribution was banned in the south immediately after its publication. It vied for popularity with Uncle Tom’s Cabin [Howes], the two forming a potent dual-pronged narrative and didactic pair. The Dictionary of American Biography indicates that its contemporary influence was actually greater than Uncle Tom’s Cabin and that it contributed significantly toward the outbreak of the Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second edition [1859] and third edition [1860] appear more often at auction with the 1857 being rather rare, especially in this condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapters cover the comparison between free and slave states, immediate abolition, plain words to slaveholders, the author’s plan for the abolition of slavery, despotism of the slave oligarchy, mal-treatment of non-slaveholding whites, slave-driving democrats, slavery to be abolished without direct compensation to slaveholders, the American Colonization Society and emigration to Liberia, what the fathers of the Republic said about slavery [Washington, Jefferson, Madison, etc.,],the church’s testimony against slavery [Albert Barnes, Thomas Scott, Assembly of 1818, Kentucky Synod, John Jay, Francis Wayland, Abraham Booth, Baptists of Virginia in 1789, etc.,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHelper, Hinton Rowan [of North Carolina]. The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It. New York. Burdick Brothers. 1857. 420pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood + to very good, blind stamped cloth, spine dulled with minor nicks to head and tail of spine, textually very fine with only the slightest smudge to margins at a few points. Else bright, crisp, solid, and clean. An exceptional copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-single__description rte\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41188302258212,"sku":"","price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/04-01-2024SpecsFineBooks-06086.jpg?v=1712083418"},{"product_id":"1847-nathan-noyes-a-short-account-of-the-life-and-experience-of-nathan-noyes","title":"1847 NATHAN NOYES. Life and Experience of Nathan Noyes. Baptist Pioneer in Detroit - Slavery \u0026c.","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVery scare work, not present in auction records or the trade, regarding this important Michigan Territory Baptist pioneer missionary, church-planter, etc., \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOriginally from New York, he was sent out from the throes of the Second Great Awakening as a Baptist Missionary. He first arrived in what is now Northville, Michigan [Detroit] in 1833 and planted or strengthened churches in Northville, Farmington, and Plymouth. Excellent account of a revival in Farmington in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe work also contains fascinating content related to his early experiences in Michigan, his engagement with the subject of slavery and re-colonization of the slaves to Africa [Ethiopia, Liberia, etc.]. He hints at the beginning of \"reservation\" states for the Native Americans in Michigan, etc., Very scarce early Michigan \/ Detroit imprint. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-single__description rte\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNoyes, Nathan. A Short Account of the Life and Experience of Nathan Noyes: Together with his Views of the Scripture Plan of Supporting Ministers of the Gospel. Detroit. Bagg \u0026amp; Harmon, Printers. 1847. 68pp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eA very good copy, bound in cloth, very solid, generally bright pages, with light foxing and some toning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41188349247524,"sku":"","price":350.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/04-01-2024SpecsFineBooks-06077.jpg?v=1712087325"},{"product_id":"copy-of-1890-cherokee-language-rare-vinita-oklahoma-imprint-of-presbyterian-work-on-baptism","title":"1890 CHEROKEE LANGUAGE. Rare Vinita Oklahoma Imprint of Presbyterian Work on Baptism.","description":"\u003cp\u003eVery rare translation into Cherokee by important missionary and promoter of Native American rights, Rev. Amory Nelson Chamberlin [1821-1894]. Born on the Brainerd Mission in Tennessee to a missionary family, his entire life was lived with the Cherokee, he spoke the language flawlessly from his youth, and he and his family were ultimately given Cherokee names. When his tribe was driven to the \"Indian Territory\" [now Oklahoma], his family chose to be displaced with them rather than live on land stolen from the people they loved. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe present work was printed in Vinita and was one of the earliest works ever printed in the new \"Indian Territory. \u003cem\u003eThe Indian Record \u003c\/em\u003efor 1886 notes that a printing press was being gifted, along with a specially made set of Cherokee type, to the new \"Indian Presbytery\" at Vinita. The press was to be operated under the auspices of A. N. Chamberlin for the benefit of the Indian Christians. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdwards, John. A. N. Chamberlin [Trans.] Baptism - - The Mode. Chieftain Print, Vinita, Indian Territory. c.1890\/91. 8pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNear very good, but on fragile, toned paper with minor chips to base and head of spine and small tears at foredge. Ephemeral imprint and, unsurprisingly, rare in light of its localized use and inferior materials. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41261739606052,"sku":null,"price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/04-01-2024SpecsFineBooks-06361_4e68a9ee-3188-4ac6-9f0f-5063387898bf.jpg?v=1713292586"},{"product_id":"1838-39-new-yorker-magazine-trail-of-tears-abolition-slavery-mormons-and-latter-day-saints","title":"1838-39 NEW-YORKER MAGAZINE. Trail of Tears, Abolition \u0026 Slavery, Mormons and Latter Day Saints","description":"\u003cp\u003eVery rare entire year run of Horace Greeley's first publication, prior to his New York Tribune. A Whig, Abolitionist, Advocate Against the Death Penalty, Promoter of the Westward Expansion, Defender of Slaves, etc., via his expansive and influential publishing work, Greeley was one of the most influential men of the 19th century. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe present large 4to volume, near folio, contains two entire 6 month runs of The New-Yorker. It contains important primary resource content related to the ongoing Boundary Battle with Canada in Maine; Indian Battles in Florida, Texas, Iowa, Missouri, etc.; Slavery and Abolition; The Trail of Tears; etc., \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume is very sought for its early, first-hand Mormon material. Relevant to the important Mormon content, please see LDS dealer Rick Grunder's extensive description of the importance of this issue at the bottom of the catalog entry. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGreeley, Horace. Benjamin Park [Eds]. The New-Yorker. A Weekly Journal of Literature, Politics, Statistics, and General Intelligence; Containing Original and Selected Tales, Essays, Reviews, Poems, Anecdotes, \u0026amp;c. \u0026amp;c. With Notices of an Extracts from New Books of Interest; Full Accounts of All Elections, Foreign and Domestic News, Important Political Developments, General Editorial Comments, \u0026amp;c. With Twenty-Two Pieces of Music, Arranged for the Piano, Flute, \u0026amp;c. September to March, 1838. New York. Published Every Saturday by Horace Greeley \u0026amp; Co. No. 1. Ann-St. 1839. 416pp\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[bound with]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGreeley, Horace. Benjamin Park [Eds]. The New-Yorker. A Weekly Journal of Literature, Politics, Statistics, and General Intelligence; Containing Original and Selected Tales, Essays, Reviews, Poems, Anecdotes, \u0026amp;c. \u0026amp;c. With Notices of an Extracts from New Books of Interest; Full Accounts of All Elections, Foreign and Domestic News, Important Political Developments, General Editorial Comments, \u0026amp;c. With Twenty-Two Pieces of Music, Arranged for the Piano, Flute, \u0026amp;c. March to September 14, 1839. New York. Published Every Saturday by Horace Greeley \u0026amp; Co. No. 1. Ann-St. 1839. 414pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVOLUME ONE.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLynching of Two Abolitionists in St. Louis | Nights on the Hudson River | Magnetic Discoveries | The Whigs and Martin Van Buren | Indian Frontier Conflicts | Meeting of the Southern Convention [ against Northern Tyranny ] | Animal Magnetism |  Dr. Marshman of the Serampore Mission [ William Carey, etc. ] | Western Emigration | Annual Report of the New York Peace Society | Cholera in Sicily | A Chapter from the Adventures of a Lame Gentleman | The Old Soldier Visiting the Scenes of His Early Battles - A Poem by Melzar Gardner | The Punishment of Death [Capital Punishment] | Chinese English [ interesting article on Chinese accents when learning English ] | Joseph Smith and Trouble with the Mormons in Missouri | Review of Judge Harper's \u003cem\u003eMemoir on Slavery \u003c\/em\u003epublished in the Southern Literary Messenger [abolitionist, etc.] | Shocking Murder of a Wife by Her Husband in Benington Vermont | Mulberry Mania | Benjamin Franklin's Advice to Young Tradesmen | The Kushow Property [humorous series by Frederick William Shelton] | A Day on Lake Erie | On Imprisonment for Debt | A Wonderful Instance of Somnambulism | A Chapter from the History of Quackery by a Regular Physician [ Homeopathy, Phrenology, Quack Medicine ] | The Morals of the Waltz | The Removal of the Cherokee [ Trail of Tears ] | Mormons Leaving Maine | Some Thoughts on the History of the American Government [Series] | Election Frauds | Mormon Difficulties | Philosophy - Letters from M. Victor Cousin to Prof. Henry of This City [Series] | A Sister Shot by Her Brother | Counsel for those Emigrating Westward | Fruits of a Drunken Frolic | Some Views of the History of the American Constitution [Series] | Excursion to Camel's Rump by William Slade | Punishment of Death in Australia [Capital Punishment] | Proclamation of President Martin Van Buren against Americans Engaged in Hostilities against Canada | Thirty-Two Mormons Butchered at Splawn's Creek | The Trial of Mr. Mahan for Abducting Slaves from Kentucky [Fugitive Slave Act | Underground Railroad etc.] | Horrid Murders in Mississippi | The Phantom Ship | Beautiful Passages from Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature | First-hand Account of a Boy Taken by a Bear | Phrenology | Persecution of Indians in Georgia, Alabama, and Texas | An Indian's Tradition | Phantasmion | The Aurora Borealis | Indian Troubles in Texas | The Detroit Patriots Routed, etc. | The Onyx Ring by Archaeus [Series by John Stirling - First American Edition on Thomas Carlyle] | History of Quackery | The Patriots of Detroit Frozen to Death in the Woods | Murder and Piracy aboard the Eclipse | Effective Force of the Russian Army | Down-East Notions [Series - Jeremy Bentham, Aaron Burr, Matthew L. Davis, etc.] | Positive of Women [Women's Rights, Changing Women's Place in Society, etc.] etc. etc. etc. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVOLUME TWO.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInsanity | The Jews Moving for Palestine | A Scene at the Battle of the Bad Axe | The  Border Difficulties - Kennebec Militia | The Gift of Second-Sight | Pe-Wa-Tem: Or the Last Chief Huron by L. L. Noble | Fashion in Dress | Fragments of a Journal by a Virginian Lady | Education in Tennessee | Disputed Territory in Maine | Abolition of Debtor's Prisons in Michigan | The Great Presbyterian Lawsuit between Old and New School | The Battle of the Pyramids by Alexander Dumars | The End of the War on the Northeastern Border by Winfield Scott | Affairs of the East: Declaration of the United States of Cabool, Candahar, and Herat [ Afghanistan ] | New Discovery in Fine Arts [ Fantastic Article on How Daguerre and his \"Daguerreotype\" would put painters and engravers out of business, p.50-51 ] | Shakspeare's Drinking-Bout. A Tale of the Toping at Bidford by J. R. Buckstone | The Trespasser in Maine; Or, the Memorable Expulsion of a Speculator from Certain Disputed Territory | [Claim] Jumping in Illinois | Wild Scenes in the West | Lectures on Phrenology and its Application by George Combe [Series] | Diamond Cut Diamond. A Pindaric. by Robert Turner | A New Discovery in the Fine Arts - The Daguerreotype | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes | Old Ironsides on a Lee Shore by an Eye Witness | The Panther's Leap. An Adventure in Illinois | The Crater of Kirauea, Hawaii. Sandwich Islands | A Fatal Duel in North Carolina | The Influence of Religion | Sleepy Hollow by Geoffrey Crayon | The Buffalo Baiting | A Day by the Merrimac | From the Antarctic Ocean | The Red Swan - A Tradition from the Algic Indians by Schoolcraft | The Phantom Ship | James Fenimore Cooper and His Critics | The Scandal-Mongers of Literature | Mexicans and Indians in Texas | The Connecticut Temperance Law | The Florida War not Ended | The Political Writings of Thomas Paine | Affairs in Florida [Extensive] | An Attempted Suicide |  Fairy Grove | Confessions of an English Opium-Eater [series] | Santa Anna Superseded in Mexican Presidential Chair by General Bravo | War between the Chippewa and the Sioux | An Affair between a Whaling Captain and a Military Officer [Duel] | The Horrid Massacre of 120 Indians in Iowa | The Phantom Funeral | The Western Prairies | The Punishment of Death [Capital Punishment] | The Pawnees | The Lottery Ticket - A True Narrative | The Case of Dr. Holmes - The Murderer | The Outrage on the Erie - Murder of Miss Westfalls by Captain Appleby | \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLarge half leather quarto. Heavily rubbed with rear board nearly detached. As usual and expected, quite handled and rubbed. For reason, these volumes almost always seem to have textual deficits. This is textually complete as described. aside from pp.97-98 which is lacking 1\/4 sheet and pp.291-296 which shows minor losses at base of sheet impacting a few lines of text. No \"index\" to the second volume and thus ends on 414, making it textually complete aside from the index.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRICK GRUNDER'S LDS DESCRIPTION:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this complete volume we are able to see even those Mormon articles which might normally elude the LDS market (in instances where a more valuable article on some other, non-Mormon subject would typically direct a given issue of this paper to a collector or institution specializing in another field). The index pages are typical of the period, and are not very helpful in locating the Mormon articles. I have therefore examined all the pages, and located \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cu\u003eeleven historically important articles on the Mormons\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor word count reference, please note that the type of this newspaper is very small, so that a column inch of text may contain from eighty to a hundred words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArticles include:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— September 22, 1838 [VI:1], p. 12: \"\u003cem\u003eThe Mormons\u003c\/em\u003e.\" 3¾ column inches on the critical Adam Black incident. \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rickgrunder.com\/Newspapers%20for%20Sale\/NewYorker\/newyorker.htm#AdamBlack\"\u003eAn important article; see below.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— October 6, 1838 [VI:3], p. 44: \"\u003cem\u003eThe Mormons\u003c\/em\u003e.\" 2¼ column inches announcing that \"the Mormons have established a town in Missouri which they call the 'Far West,' . . . The people in the neighboring counties were very much alarmed, and are daily expecting an attack.\" The governor has called out 3,000 militiamen to protect the citizens of Missouri, and \"the supremacy of the law will be maintained.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— October 13, 1838 [VI:4], p. 59: \"The Mormons.\" 3½ column inches defending the Mormons. This important article presents the Saints' position, and reprints an affidavit signed in type by Joseph Smith, Jr., and Sidney Rigdon, insisting that the Mormons have not collaborated with the Indians \"to commit depredations upon the people of this State,\" contrary to the claims of \"a Mr. Nathan Marsh.\" \"'We have never had any communication with the Indians on any subject;\" certify Smith and Rigdon, quoted here, and we, and all the Mormon Church, as we believe, entertain the same feelings and fears towards the Indians that are entertained by other citizens of this State. We are friendly to the Constitution and the laws of this State and of the United States, and wish to see them enforced.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJOSEPH SMITH, Jr.\u003cbr\u003e SIDNEY RIGDON.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— October 27, 1838 [VI:6], p. 91: \"\u003cem\u003eMormon Difficulties\u003c\/em\u003e.\" 2 column inches, taken from the St. Louis Republican. A gentleman has arrived in St. Louis \"in the steamboat Kansas, on Saturday,\" and describes seeing \"about two hundred of the Mormons armed and prepared for conflict.\" Some eighty wagons of new Mormons have just arrived at a village, and the anti-Mormons have ordered the Saints \"to leave the country, and that if they did not go by Saturday they would be driven off.\" Real news, as it happened!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— November 3, 1838 [VI:7], p. 107: \"\u003cem\u003eMormon Difficulties\u003c\/em\u003e.\" 3¼ column inches, reprinting a letter of October 12 sent to the \u003cem\u003eSt. Louis Republican\u003c\/em\u003e. The anonymous writer has \"witnessed the departure of every Mormon in Carroll county for 'Far West,' in Caldwell county.\" It appears that the difficulties are being resolved (writes the correspondent, prematurely!), and it is a good thing: \"Had the Mormons refused to sell on the day the last proposition was made to them, it would have been a serious matter to both parties, for there was but little difference in their forces, and the citizens had come to a determination to make, if possible, a successful attack on the day the compromise was effected.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— November 17, 1838 [VI:9], p. 143: \"\u003cem\u003eThe Mormons\u003c\/em\u003e.\" 2½ column inches of dramatic news of depredations committed by the Mormons themselves. The reports are copied from the \u003cem\u003eSt. Louis Republican\u003c\/em\u003e of Monday, October 29, followed by an update from the \u003cem\u003eSt. Louis Bulletin\u003c\/em\u003e of October 31. The Mormons have burned the Court House of Daviess County, as well as the clerk's office, the Post Office, and two stores. Partial confirmation comes by travelers arriving at St. Louis on the 31st . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"By the steamer Astoria, we have a confirmation of the report of the burning of Daviess Court House, Post Office, and a store, by the Mormons.—It is stated that the Governor has ordered out 4,000 militia; and we understand that volunteer companies are rapidly being organized to march to the scene of action. The Mormons are said to receive daily accessions to their numbers, by emigrants from Canada.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis article has light staining, but is important as an essentially accurate depiction of how the Missourians viewed the Mormons at this time. The store which they burned (owned by Jacob Stollings, in Gallatin) had ironically helped the Saints by extending them credit and allowing Mormon emigrants to obtain necessities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— November 24, 1838 [VI:10], p. 159: \"\u003cem\u003eThe Mormon War Ended\u003c\/em\u003e. . . . \u003cem\u003eThe Mormons\u003c\/em\u003e.\"  5 column inches, presenting urgent and conflicting news from various Missouri papers, including the arrest of Joseph Smith, Parley P. Pratt and others; Governor Boggs' infamous Mormon extermination order; and the first intimation of the Haun's Mill Massacre. \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rickgrunder.com\/Newspapers%20for%20Sale\/NewYorker\/newyorker.htm#SmithArrest\"\u003eImportant; see below\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— December 1, 1838 [VI:11], p. 172: \"\u003cem\u003eFurther from the Mormons\u003c\/em\u003e.\" 4 column inches. This is the report of the Haun's Mill Massacre in some detail, with an indignant editorial sympathetic to the Mormons. \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.rickgrunder.com\/Newspapers%20for%20Sale\/NewYorker\/newyorker.htm#HaunsMill\"\u003eVery important; see below\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— December 15, 1838 [VI:13], p. 203: \"\u003cem\u003eThe Mormon War\u003c\/em\u003e . . .\" 1¼ column inches, taken from the \u003cem\u003ePoughkeepsie Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e. The Mormon War appears to be over. \"Joe Smith and his followers have surrendered, and Joe is to be tried, but for what crime does not clearly appear.\" The Haun's Mill reports are confirmed to be true. \"It was a bloody outrage.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— March 16, 1839 [VI:26], p. 415: \"The Mormons.\" 1½ column inches, taken from the \u003cem\u003eJefferson Enquirer\u003c\/em\u003e, quote \"an extract from a letter dated Liberty, Feb. 9, 1839:\" The report describes an apparent attempt to break Joseph Smith and his fellow prisoners out of the Liberty Jail . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"There has been much excitement here within a few days past. Several young men from Far West arrived here late one night and asked permission to see the prisoners, which was granted. They seized the jailor and endeavored to let the Mormon prisoners escape; but an alarm was given and they were all taken into custody, and are to be tried tomorrow.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The young men alluded to in the preceding extract, we presume are Mormons, as the inhabitants in and about Far West are all of that denomination, with a very few exceptions. The letter is from a source that may be relied upon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— August 17, 1839 [VII:22], p. 350 (of Vol. VII): \"\u003cem\u003eMormonism\u003c\/em\u003e.\"  ¾ column inch, learning from the \u003cem\u003eTrenton Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e that the Mormon delusion has new exhibited itself in New Jersey, \"in the neighborhood of New Egypt and other places in Monmouth co. A number of the disciples appeared there some six months ago, and have succeeded in making converts of several persons of some standing and influence; and, strange as the story seems, their numbers are increasing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e. . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA note on the price of this volume:  Over the past decade or two, I have obtained a few loose examples of the same issues which are described above, and have sold them to major LDS institutions and private collectors - some for as much as $175 for a single example. Any newspaper report from the 1830s is interesting and rare, and these are particularly instructive. The combined value of the eleven Mormon articles present here (based upon my years of experience selling thousands of early Mormon-related newspapers) is easily $1,200 or more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the summary of articles, above, I directed your attention three times to \"below.\" We are now \u003cem\u003ebelow\u003c\/em\u003e, and here are illustrations of some of the best Mormon reports which the present \u003cem\u003eNew-Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e dangles before the fortunate, future owner of this old volume of 1838-9! \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTHE ADAM BLACK INCIDENT:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis simple report belies the importance of an event which would escalate into the driving of the Mormons from Missouri with their prophet left languishing in the Liberty Jail. Here is high drama, as significant as the exaggerated text may suggest. In early August, 1838, Mormons in Daviess County, Missouri, had been barred from voting by a drunken mob of thugs. No one was killed, but rumors magnified the tension of the situation, and the Mormons began to take matters into their own hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn August 8, Joseph Smith sent several Danite leaders to visit Judge Adam Black, a reputed anti-Mormon who lived nearby. When Black refused to sign a statement that he had no connections with vigilantes, Smith showed up half an hour later with a hundred armed men. After much discussion, Black, apparently under duress, wrote out a brief certificate that he would not molest the Mormons so long as they would not molest him. Other leading non-Mormon citizens received similar treatment. It sounded even worse as reported in the \u003cem\u003eMissourian\u003c\/em\u003e newspaper of August 12, from which the present newspaper coverage is taken (\u003cem\u003eNew-Yorker \u003c\/em\u003eissue for September 22, 1838)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eARREST OF JOSEPH SMITH;  BOGGS' MORMON EXTERMINATION ORDER; FIRST INTIMATION OF THE HAUN'S MILL MASSACRE:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree crucial events come together in this dramatic article! For background and details, see Steven C. LeSueur, \u003cem\u003eThe 1838 Mormon War in Missouri\u003c\/em\u003e (Columbia, Missouri: Univ. of Missouri Press, 1987), Chapter 10, \"Surrender.\" \u003cem\u003eNew-Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e issue for November 24, 1838, p. 159.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTHE HAUN'S MILL MASSACRE:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJust as the Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah is held up by critics as the nadir of Mormon historical behavior, so do Mormons point to the Haun's Mill Massacre in Missouri as the most extreme offense which the Missouri Saints endured. The slaughter took place on October 30, but preliminary reports are now confirmed in the New=Yorker issue for December 1, 18383, p. 172. The editor can scarcely credit the full implications of this event. \"Two children were killed,\" he presumes, \". . . by accident.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe children were not killed by accident. 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It contains extensive accounts of audio and recording advances in technology, recording artists of the time, the influence of music, biographies of musicians, conductors, etc., tons of classic adverts, material related to black minstrels, etc., \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDunlop, Arthur Sheriff [Founder]. Sound Wave. The Gramophone Journal. With which is Incorporated the Phone Trader \u0026amp; Recorder. January through December, 1926. Complete. Finsbury. 1926. 896pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInscribed to W. S. Meadmore [one of the most extensive contributors to the present volume]. Good + to very good, rubbed, just through at extremities. Contents very crisp, clean, and complete. Very scarce. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents include:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Monthly Feature, \"This Month's Best Sellers,\" by Zonophone Records\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMusic Appreciation and Gramophone Culture by William B. Parkin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFull Page Adverts for ACO Records\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFull Page Advert for Military Tattoo. Band of Her Majesty's Scots Guards\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnder Which Flag - Jazz or Syncopation? By The Minstrel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFull Page Advert of Leff Pouishnoff Recommending The Cliftophone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBiography of Dora Labbette by W. S. Meadmore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFull Page Adverts for Thomas A. Edison Limited, Edison Phonographs, ec.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJapanese Musical Instruments by F. C. Prevot\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Fads of Famous Vocalists\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorld's Most Famous Dog. Nipper Who Listened for His Master's Voice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDouble Page Advert for The Algraphone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Last Appearance by M. Steen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe East London Gramophone Society\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Chocolate Coloured Coon [G. H. Elliott who performed in black-face, content in minstrels, etc.]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore Hawaiian Music on Zonophones\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFull Page Advert for Percy Grainger on Columbia Records\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMusical Appreciation and Gramophone Culture by William B. Parkin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSinging to Jackeroos. Our Camp-Fire Concerts in the Far Out-Back [ Australia ]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Great Advance in Choral Recording by William B. Parkin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Mighty Columbia Piano Recording. Percy Grainger's New Achievement\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Coates. The Arch Chanter by W. S. Meadmore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlbert Hall on Gramophone. Over Eight Hundred Voices Recorded Together\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHatch and Carpenter. Clever Entertainers Make their Debut on Zonophone  [ Vaudeville, Black Minstrels ]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe British Industries Fair\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcoustics, or the Science of Sound, Particularly as Applied to the Gramophone by Harry A. Gaydon [An Extensive Series]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFour Harmony Kings. Record for Edison Bell [ spin-off of the Jubilee Singers ]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe World of Music by The Minstrel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMusical Notes on Recorded Music. Two Great French Works by H. Wild\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrederick E. Weatherly. A Character Sketch by Irma Blanckensee\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Day at Hayes. The Romance of a Wonderful Industry by Theodore Curzon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRhene-Baton Conducts the Aeolian Orchestra. Rimsky Korsakov's \"Easter\" Overture by Apreggio\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSir Henry J. Wood by W. S. Meadmore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo Spanish Gentleman by Charlotte Mansfield\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Leslie D. Jeffries. Director of the Rialto Orchestra\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMr. Burt Reynolds, of Jake Graham, Launches Own Business.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVaughan Williams' \"London Symphony.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Modern Music Lover's Credo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReaction against the Classical Composers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMusic and Morals by William B. Parkin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElena Gerhardt by W. S. Meadmore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHomochord Progress\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmazing \"Student Prince\" Theatre Records\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSound Photography. Scientist Photograph's Melba's Voice by R. Fraser.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnclean Music. Bach as a Divine Kind of Kruschen Salts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \"King of Instruments\" on \"His Master's Voice\" Records [Organ]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore About Organ Recording by The Minstrel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTchaikovsky's First Pianoforte Concerto on Vocalion by W. S. Meadmore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColumbia Recording Artists at Covent Garden [Bruno Walter, Percy Pitt, Badini, Francesco Merli, Bianca Scacciati, Norman Allin, and Charles Hackett]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThorpe Bates by W. S. Meadmore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe First Record of a Cossack Choir\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Valuable Biography of Robert Schumann by Frederick Niecks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdith Lorand Concert\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Gramophone and Wireless. 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Wild\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Thorne by W. S. Meadmore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Aldershot Military Tattoo. Wonderful Sound Photographs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMagnetism between the Performer and Audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFull Page Advert for A New Electric Recording Triumph of Sir Henry J Wood's Mighty Record of 1812. In Five Parts - Hear the Astounding Finale!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecording by Light by \"Contact.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHubert Eisdell by W. S. Meadmore \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFull Page Advert \"First Release of Records by The Houston Sisters { The Irresistibles }\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe New Recording by Ernest Newman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Gramophonists' Alpha and Omega. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDifficulties of Contemporary Music\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Spread of British Music in Japan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Plastic Age in Music by Leighton Chambers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Revellers by Sutton Ingram\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarcel Dupre and the Queen's Hall Organ. Notable Recording. By The Minstrel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe New Viva-tonal Gramophone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Fascination of Folk-Music\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Panatrope. A New and Remarkable Reproducing Instrument\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoisewitsch Returns to America\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdwin Evan's Opinion on the Gramophone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMichael Zacharewitsch by W. S. Meadmore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArabian Musical Instruments and their European Types by F. C. Prevot\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Future of Studio Recording\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \"Nigger Quartet.\" by H. Wild [Fascinating on musical cultural appropriation of southern negro melodies, and the music of native Americans]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDale Smith. A Great Interpreter of Song by W. S. Meadmore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Twenty-Four Preludes of Chopin. by Afflatus [do we want to know how he obtained this moniker?]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Bernard Shaw Records His Voice for Posterity, etc., etc. etc., \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41353494003748,"sku":null,"price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/04-23-2024SpecsFineBooks-06554_27073d48-a67d-4e8f-a3df-0f2911499474.jpg?v=1714351730"},{"product_id":"1907-california-cultivator-rare-on-agriculture-farming-and-ecology-in-california","title":"1907 CALIFORNIA CULTIVATOR. Rare on Agriculture, Farming, and Ecology in California.","description":"\u003cp\u003eA beautifully preserved large folio of this important early California publication, issued weekly in issues of 24pp. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCalifornia Cultivator. Los Angeles to San Fancisco. July through December, 1907. 640pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrated extensively throughout, the volume contains a trove of information relevant to early 20th century California farming, culture, etc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents include: National Aid to Irrigation [on deviating water from other states to California]; Treatment of Gooseberry Mildrew; Hints for Berry Packers; Life Stock and Dairy; Cholera in Hogs; With the Citrus Growers; Subirrigation in Florida; Profit in the Poultry Yard; Bees and their Care - Colonizing a New Swarm; Sociology and Irrigation. Written by W. A. Beard, Chairman of the Committee of the National Irrigation Congress to be Held in Sacramento, September 2-14, 1907; Growing Ginseng [includes content on the Chinese]; Pruning Oranges; Orange Culture in Florida; Walnut Litigation; A Plea for More Honey and Honey Production; Grading Potatoes in California; Green Bugs and their Destroyers; California Eucalypts; The Modern Milking Machine. A Description and Photographs of the Process of Extracting Lacteal Fluid by Machinery at the Rabb Dairy near Los Angeles [series]; Pruning Apple Trees; American Apple Growers Congress; Bees and their Care; Resources of Colusa County; Nurserymen and Boards of Horticulture; a Paper Read by John Isaac before the Pacific Coast Nurserymen at Salem, Oregon; The Evil of Shipping Green Oranges; Recipes for Canning Peaches, Cherries, Plums, Strawberries, Gooseberries, etc. ; Famine in Human Hair [shortage of wigs and toupees]; Bee Sting Cure for Rheumatism; A Florida Green House System for Fancy Fruits and Vegetables; The White Fly Panic; Date Culture in the Southwest; The Great Holstein Cow; Bee Keeping in California; Anthrax; Pitch Your Tent at Home - Summer Vacation at Home may be Better than any Beach or Mountain Trip; Sacramento as a Summer Resort; Snake Bite Remedies; Avoiding Baldness; The National Irrigation Congress; Restoration of the Forests and Descration of Nature; The Raisin Festival at Fresno; The California State Fair; The Jersey as an Economic Dairy Cow; Goat Milk; Tobacco Raising in California; Billy Miller's Circus Show; Value of Bees to Farmers; Common Schools and the Farm Youth by L.H. Bailey; Contagious Abortion in Cattle; Citrus Fruits for the Nation; Irrigated Lands Demand Reforestation - Replanting Watersheds; Using of the Divining Rod; All Hallows Eve; Irrigation - The Greatest Need of Arid America; How Old Stock Ranches are Giving Way to More Scientific Stock Handling; The Dedication of Farm and State Institute; Relative Value of Horses and Mules; California Bred Prize Winners [Dutch Belted Cows; Percheron Stallion; Berkshire Pigs; Apoland-China Boar; and Shorthorns]; California Angoras; Effects of the California Peach Blight; Curing Figs; Beekeeping; The Effect of Nurse Crops on Alfalfa; Papsalum Grass a Native of America; Raising Thoroughbred Poultry; Pigeon Breeding; Pineapple Culture; Effort to Reform the Revenue Laws. 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Owned by First Conscientious Objectors in America.","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fascinating little piece of Americana, written during the American Revolution, argues \"The Spoils of Warefare to Maintain, Require the Power they did to Gain,\" as Quaker \/ Christian rational for a Christian-Pacificism during the War. \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eThis copy owned by the first Conscientious Objectors in America! \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work itself was written by prominent Quaker Physician, William Clark. Born in 1698, Clark was educated at Leyden [1727] and first practiced in London from 1728-1747. He then returned to his hometown in Bradford, practicing there until 1772. Upon his retirement, he moved to Colchester and gave himself exclusively to religious work until his death, c.1779. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the medical field, he published three works:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Effects of the Passions on Human Bodies. [1727]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Medical Dissertation concerning the Effects of the Passions on Human Bodies\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. [An expanded edition of the Above, 1753]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. The Province of Midwives in the Practice of their Art, instructing them in the timely knowledge of such difficulties as require the timely assistance of Men for the Preservation of Mother and Child. [1751]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClark was a man of some prominence among the Friends. We read in the correspondence between James Logan and Thomas Story [1724-1741] in a letter from 1738 or 1739 that Story has consulted our William Clark as a man of piety and scientific learning with regard to a work he was writing, i.e. what sounds as though it would have been a fascinating publication.* Story notes that he is a prominent person of learning, and mentions him alongside sending the same manuscript to Fothergill. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo first, our present work is a fascinating and rather scarce Quaker tract on the nature of the true Church and how that manifests itself visibly. He discusses the Anglican and Catholic churches, Moravians, Presbyterians, Lutherans and Calvinists, Baptists, etc. The end is rather beautiful [if a bit dualistic]; he argues that one true distinguishing mark of the visible church, is the absence of all forms, including writ prayers and programmed services, and a waiting on the Spirit to illumine and lead every service, etc. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe provenance is even better than the work. At the title head is a simple inscription, \"J. P. to James Pemberton. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Pemberton [1723-1809] was a prominent Quaker in the city of Philadelphia. He was one of the earliest and most vocal advocates for the rights of Native Americans and 1790 was President of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, the first abolitionist society in America. So strong were his convictions that he resigned from the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1756 when war was declared by the State against the Delaware Indians. A year later, he wrote a work directed toward Quakers, reminding them that the Kingdom of God and its way of advancing stood atop the Government's and that their allegiance was first to Christ and only second to the Nation. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the American Revolution began to take shape, he refused to fight, making him perhaps \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eAmerica's first conscientious objector.\u003c\/span\u003e He, along with 20 other Quakers, were banished to Winchester, Virginia under completely false accusations that qualified them for the banishment policy established by the Second Continental Congress. They were accused of having \"Loyalist\" sympathies. There was no evidence to support this, but instead, a simple line of logic that could not comprehend an alternative was argued to convict them. In the mind of their accusers, nothing mattered more than the Religious and Political Liberty of America. and Religious and Political Liberty must be acquired by the State. So, if someone refused to participate in that State-run military action, they must be opposed to the Religious and Political Liberty of America . . . which made them a Loyalist by default.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe J.P. of the inscription would be James' younger brother, John Pemberton [1727-1795]. He took after his brother and was active in Native American Affairs, being one of the brokers of the peace at the end of the War with the Delaware. He also was exiled to Winchester in 1777 for \"treason\" and being a \"loyalist.\" Unlike his brother, James, who was a merchant, John was a minister, traveling with John Churchman on his preaching tours of England, Wales, and Cornwall, etc. . \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe themes of disassociation from covenants and agreements that lead one to act unlike Christ to achieve the outcome of Christ, i.e. governmental power, military power, etc., i.e. present here are the same ideas that led to the Pemberton's conscientious objection of the American Revolution. A wonderful little item. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClark, William M.D. An Essay to Discover the Visible Marks of Christ's Church, According to the Testimony of Holy Writ. Colchester: Printed by W. Keymer. 1779. 44pp.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTextually very crisp and clean. Apparently lacking a drawing of Clark present in some copies as a frontis. Removed form a larger sammelband at some point. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41353513107492,"sku":null,"price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/04-23-2024SpecsFineBooks-06865_e3682409-92ca-4ace-80eb-e9517793ba59.jpg?v=1714352219"},{"product_id":"1915-anti-saloon-league-entire-year-of-prohibition-anti-liquor-periodical","title":"1915 ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE. Entire Year of Prohibition - Anti-Liquor Periodical.","description":"\u003cp\u003eVery scarce entire year, January 2, 1915 through December 25, 1915, of \u003cem\u003eThe American Issue\u003c\/em\u003e, an important Prohibitionist periodical published by the Anti-Saloon League.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe American Issue. January to December 1915. Issued weekly, 16pp each. 832pp total. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery nicely preserved small folio measuring approximately 10 x 13 inches, probably bound during the period or slightly thereafter in very good quality buckram and linen cloth by E. H. Sell of Columbus, OH. Aside from some rubbing on boards, fine, clean, and crisp. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents include: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*The Maryland-Delaware Anti-Saloon League\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Expert Testimony on Effect of Alcohol on Human Life\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Story of the Fight on Floor of Congress for Prohibition Amendment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Russia and Prohibition. Not an Arrest in Petrograd in Four Days\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Teach Fathers Fatherhood by Cora Francis Stoddard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Anti-Saloon League's Big Campaign in Louisiana\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Colorado Newspaper Thinks Wyoming will go Dry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Prohibition in Wheeling West Virginia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Russia Seeks New Use of Alcohol\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Ohio Dry Wins Legislature\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*South Carolina to Vote on State Wide Prohibition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Reasons for the Crusade against Liquor by A. C. Bane\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Wets' Fake Statistics Travel Far\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Drunk at Five Years of Age. Jack London's First Bout with John Barleycorn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Chicago Evening Post Calls Vote on Hobson Amendment Greatest Prohibition Victory Ever Scored in the United States\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Another Liquor Bugaboo Exposed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Alcohol and the Nervous System\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Moderate Drinking and Health\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*The National Convention of the Anti-Saloon League of America with Senator Morris Sheppard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*The House the Busch Built\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*The Fallacies of Charles P. Coady re: The Hobson Amendment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Alabama Repents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Ex Governor M. R. 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The Negro and the Liquor Traffic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*The Anti-Saloon League Convention in Atlantic City\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e *Prohibition and Moonshine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Billy Sunday and the Campaign for State-wide Prohibition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Mormons, Methodists, and Prohibition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Whisky the Home Wrecker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Abraham Lincoln and the Liquor Traffic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Secretary William Jennings Bryan Signs Thousands for Total Abstinence\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Dry Wave Hits Alaska\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Baltimore's Booze Bill\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*The Federal Dope Law [Prohibiting the sale of Opium and Cocaine]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*The Truth about West Virginia. The Liquor Traffic Distorts the Facts Again\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*What is a Hell-Hole?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*The Dawn of World-Wide Prohibition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*The Christian Man and the Booze Argument\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Michigan to Initiate Proposition for Constitutional Prohibition Amendment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Elder Joseph F. Smith says Church of the Latter Day Saints wants Prohibition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Rum Ridden Cincinnati Facing Bankruptcy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*The Relation of the Church to the Reform Movement\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*President Wilson's Position not Consistent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*King Alcohol Must Die\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*The Grogseller's Dream by William N. 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A very fine work investigating primary resource documents, including Colonial Charters, Laws Relating to the Import of Negroes, Slavery Laws, Case Law Involving Fugitive Slaves, Insurrection, Trials of Negroes, Regulations of Emancipation, etc., \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black;\"\u003eWest, Gerald Montgomery. The Status of the Negro in Virginia During the Colonial Period. Submitted as One of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Political Science, Columbia College. William R. Jenkins. 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The Anti-Slavery Tribune Almanac with Excellent Content.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black;\"\u003eHORACE GREELEY. 1862 Civil War Tribune Almanac.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black;\"\u003eVery nice Civil War era Abolitionist \/ Anti-Slavery almanac with excellent content. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black;\"\u003eIncludes an account of the “Rebel National and State Governments” and the breakdown of their votes for secession, An Historical Record of the Slaveholders’ Rebellion, A Census of the United States Inclusive of the Number of Slaves by State, Rattlesnakes Vs. Rebels, Sensation After Amputation [Phantom Limbs after Civil War Surgeries], The Rebel House of Representatives, Reimbursement of Washington and Oregon Territories for Expenses Incurred During the ‘Indian Hostilities,’ Text of the Act to Provide for the Suppression of Rebellion Against and Resistance to the Laws of the United States, An Act to Define and Punish Certain Conspiracies, etc. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black;\"\u003eGreeley, Horace [ed.] The Tribune Almanac and Political Register for 1862. New York. 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His genealogical record is here:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ehttps:\/\/merriamfamilytree.org\/getperson.php?personID=I5367\u0026amp;tree=MFT001\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume loaded with local and historical material of interest:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeople and places mentioned: Rev. Mr. Sanford of Boylston; Rev. Mr. Biscoe; Rev. Ethan Smith [noted as a man over 80 years old]; Rev. Mr. Bates of Northbridge; Rev. Mr. Cary of Webster; Rev. Mr. Holman of West Millbury; Rev. Mr. Houghton of Northborough; Rev. Mr. Demmon; Rev. Mr. Dennis; Rev. Mr. Tracy; Rev. Mr. Edwards; Rev. Mr. Buckingham; Dr. Wood of Upton; Rev. Mr. Clark of Whitingville; ; Rev. Mr. Averil of Shrewsbury; Mr. Smith of Worcester; Rev. Mr. Fifield; Rev. Mr Tailor; Rev. Mr. Olcut of Uxbridge; Rev. Mr. Richards; Rev. Mr. Rice of Douglas; Rev. Mr. Burdet; Rev. Mr. Beach; Rev. Mr. Jennings; Rev. Mr. Emerson; Rev. Mr. Aucutt; Mr. Bushnell Preached for Communion [new Christians added]; Rev. Mr. Wild; Rev. Mr. Kitridge; Rev. Mr. Searle; Mr. Stowell from Maine; Rev. Mr. Levett; Rev. Mr. Rawson of Southboro; Rev. Mr. Griggs of Millbury; Rev. Mr. Ritchards [at the Baptist preaching house]; Rev. Mr. Smith [at the Baptist preaching house]; \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTexts and subjects included: Ye see then how that by works a man is justified and not by faith only; be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good; the earth shall be filled with the knowledge and the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the seas; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls?; O death where is thy sting?; sermon by Joseph Tracy on Ephesians 3.10; I will pray the Father and he shall give you another Comforter; Where is the Promise of His Coming [interesting in light of the eschatological expectations which had just passed]; \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical notes mentioned: Accounts of six being added to the church by profession and baptized; attended the funeral of our daughter in law at Leicester[Jane S. Merriam, Wife of D. E. 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Wheeler was first Ordained to the pastoral charge of St. Johns, Johnstown, NY, then to Christ Church, Shrewsbury [Resigned, 1829], Zion Episcopal in Queens, New York [1830-1837], St. Stephens in Ridgefield [1838], and then Waterloo. BY 1850, at the age of 61, he returned to missionary work, pioneering a church in Vienna, Ontario.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn demand as a visiting preacher, the present sermons were preached in Waterloo, Shrewsbury, Red Bank, Point Washington, Middletown, Redfield, Jamaica, Ridgefield, North Hempstead, etc. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis brother in law was influential New Yorker, Wynant Van Zandt, who attended the Queens church. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe four sermons, with evidence of ongoing revision, improvement, etc., include:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. The Unspeakable Gift. Christmas. Text. II Corinthians 9.15. \u003cem\u003eThanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.\u003c\/em\u003e 39pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. 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