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Miscellaneous Treatises [Bound Volume of Six pre-1850 American Pamphlets].
Miscellaneous Treatises [Bound Volume of Six pre-1850 American Pamphlets].
Miscellaneous Treatises [Bound Volume of Six pre-1850 American Pamphlets].

Miscellaneous Treatises [Bound Volume of Six pre-1850 American Pamphlets].

Of slavery, astronomy, class room preparations and more


A contemporary bound volume of six pamphlets from pre-1850 America, assembled by an unknown owner, viz.:

1. Michelet, M. The People. New York: D. Appleton & Co., [1846]. 185, [1, (blank)] + [6]pp. of Appleton’s publisher adverts. Of slavery, hate, labor and the working man in mid-19th century France.

2. Constant, A. Translated by Francis Geo. Shaw. The Last Incarnation. Gospel Legends of the Nineteenth Century. New York: William H. Graham. Tribune Buildings. 1848. 93, [3 (blank)]pp. This edition –with this specific imprint and A. Constant cited as author– returns only two holdings in OCLC via two accession numbers at AAS and Columbia. Another Graham edition, printed in the same year, returns four copies in OCLC. A work of fiction on the life of Jesus Christ.

3. [Tupper, Martin Farquhar]. Probabilities: An Aid to Faith. By the Author of “Proverbial Philosophy.” New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1847. 106, [2 (blank)]pp. A work of religious apologetics, that is, a defense of faith: “The certainty of those things, which most surely are believed among us, is a matter quite distinct from their antecedent probability or improbability.”

4. Whewell, D.D., William. Indications of the Creator. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1845. 86, [8 (publisher’s catalog)]pp. First American Edition. Philosophical work discussing the science of astronomy, physiology, geology, the “philosophy of biology,” and “palætiology” as they relate to belief in a creator. Extracted from the author’s books History of the Inductive Sciences and Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences. Not at AAS. About 18 copies in OCLC.

5. M’Crie, D.D., Thomas. A Vindication of the Scottish Covenanters: Consisting of a Review of the First Series of the “Tales of My Landlord.” Philadelphia: James M. Campbell and New York: Saxton & Miles. 1843. 147, [1 (blank)]pp. “Extracted from The Christian Instructor, for 1817.” Review of Jedediah Cleishbotham’s Tales of My Landlord (Edinburgh, 1816). Concerns the Scottish Presbyterian movement of “The Covenanters” as it relates to the religious and civil history of Scotland.

6. Hall, Samuel R. Lectures on School-Keeping. ...Published by an Arrangement with the Proprietors of the Copy-Right, for the Use of the Common Schools of New York. Boston: Richardson, Lord and Holbrook…Printed in Albany [New York] by Packard and Van Benthuysen, 1832. [i]–iv, [5]–100pp. Fourth Edition. Fourteen lectures on preparing teachers for the classroom. With separate section of questions on the lectures, except for the final lecture on school-houses, questions upon which were considered unnecessary.  Includes a diagram with explanations showing the ideal classroom.


Description: Miscellaneous Treatises [Bound Volume of Six pre-1850 American Pamphlets].

[Various places, imprints, dates]. Bound volume of six pamphlets, in sixes and eights. Half tree calf and marbled boards, all edges sprinkled, red leather gilt-lettered spine label. Front joint starting; spine label; spine quite rubbed. Book structure is sound and snug; internally clean; two title-pages with foxing; overall very good.

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