Quakerism from Classic Books and Ephemera

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good -. ix, [1], 301 p.: tables; 22 cm. Grey cloth with black spine title. Dust jacket. "For good or ill, the Philadelphia Quakers found themselves caught up in the burning political and moral issues of the industrial age." -- dust jacket. Book is in… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1882. Hardcover. Very Good +. xxviii, 378 p.; 20 cm. Publisher's dark red-brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; boards have bevelled edges. Black endpapers. Includes index. First American edition. Former owner's inscription on front free endpaper: "S. S. Stafford Feb. 1882." Former owner's bookplate on front… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia: David Hogan; Solomon Wiatt, 1812. Hardcover. Very Good -. T.T. Stiles, printer. 288 p.; 19 cm. Contemporary tree calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules. Red leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: "Mosheim's E. History." Includes "Appendix: Vindication of the Quakers; To the Editors of the American Edition of Mosheim's… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia, 1861. Hardcover. Good +. 16 x 10 cm. Mid-19th-century calf; black spine label with gilt-tooled title "Receipts. Blind-rolled decorative border on each board. All page edges black. Pages are ruled portrait-length. The first 2 pages contain records of payments from Samuel Bettle Jr. (1774-1861) to family members and the following 4 contain… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia: Tract Association of Friends, 1850. Pamphlet. Near Fine. 16 p.; 19 cm. Sewn pamphlet. "No. 17." No date of publication. The address in the imprint is 84 Mulberry St. The Tract Association of Friends was located at that address from 1843 to 1857. This tract is sometimes attributed to James Mott (1788-1868),… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia: Tract Association of Friends, 1890. Pamphlet. Very Good. 8 p.; 18 cm. Pamphlet without wrapper. Caption title. No publication information, but "TAF" above title. This is the emblem used by the Tract Association of Friends, established in Philadelphia in 1816. Although this tract was also issued by other tract societies, "No. 102"… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia: Tract Association of Friends, 1850. Pamphlet. Fine. 16 p.; 19 cm. Sewn pamphlet. "No. 16." No date of publication. The address in the imprint is 84 Mulberry St. The Tract Association of Friends was located at that address from 1843 to 1857. The tract contains short biographies of Pennsylvania Quakers Samuel Emlen… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia: Joseph Rakestraw, 1848. Paperback. Very Good. 16 p.; 22 cm. Lacking wrapper. Disbound from a volume of unrelated 19th-century pamphlets. "20" in ink at upper right-hand corner of title page. Enoch Lewis (1776-1856) was a Pennsylvania Quaker and a mathematician who edited several mathematical works and published several textbooks, including one on spherical… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: James Phillips, 1791. Hardcover. Good. The Fifth Edition. vii, [1], 601, [3] p.; 21 cm. Signatures: a4 A-2P8 (-2P7, 2P8) 8vo. Original? plain calf boards with later plain calf spine. Modern box with gilt-tooled spine title: Chalkley's Works. The Works of Thomas Chalkley has a separate title page but continous pagination and… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Isaac Collins, 1797. Hardcover. Very Good -. xii, [2], 360 p.; 18 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules; leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title "Journal of Job Scott." Early American Imprints, ser. 1 (Evans), 32810. Howes, S-228. Old inscription running vertically on front board. Inscriptions on endpapers and blank… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia: John Comly, 1831. Hardcover. Very Good. Vol. 1 only. viii, 534, [2] p.; 22 cm. Contemporary full tree calf with five spine compartments between double gilt rules. Red leadther label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Job Scott's Works. Errata on one page following text. "And to be had of" John Townsend,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia: James P. Parke, 1808. Hardcover. Very Good. The Second American, from the Second London edition. Vol. 1 only, of 3 volumes. xxxii, 289 p.; 18 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules; red leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title. Two inscriptions on front free endpaper: "Thomas Jackson's Book"; "Presented to Eliza… Saber más sobre este artículo

Dublin: Robert Jackson, 1781. Hardcover. Very Good. xxiv, 186 p.; 17 cm. Signatures: A-H12 I6 K4 (-K4) (12mo). Contemporary full speckled calf; six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled leather label in second compartment with title "Gough's Life." Small paper label in first compartment with number "17." Blind-tooled decoration on board edges. … Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Printed and sold by Luke Hinde, 1753. Hardcover. Very Good. vii, [1], 194, [6] p.; 20 cm. Signatures: A-N8 (8vo). Contemporary full calf with blind-ruled border on both boards. Old calf spine repair. Remains of old library label on front fixed endpaper, scraped through the endpaper. A Serious Call in Christian Love… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1783. Hardcover. Very Good. 164, xxiv, 184 p.; 17 cm. Signatures: pi1 A-2H6 (12mo). Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experiences, and Labours in the Gospel, of James Gough (Dublin: printed in 1782; Philadelphia: re-printed by Joseph Crukshank, 1783) has separate title page and pagination, but… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Assigns of J. Sowle, 1738. Hardcover. Very Good +. "For the Testimony of a Good Conscience, From the Time of Their being first distinguished by that Name, Taken from Original Records, and other Authentick Accounts; Volume III From the year 1660 to the year 1666." [2], 546, xxviii, [10] p.: 1 leaf, folded; 20 cm. … Saber más sobre este artículo

Hereford, Eng: Lincoln Record Society, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 volumes (149, 222, 217 p.): 1 map; 27 cm. Light yellow-green cloth (vols. 1 and 2) and light yellow cloth (vol. 3); black-stamped spine and cover titles with the emblem of the Lincoln Record Society on the front cover of each. Pages are unopened. The… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good +. 78 p.; 19 cm. Green cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. No dust jacket. The Swarthmore Lecture for 1949. First Edition. The author draws on his experience as General Secretary and Travelling Commissioner of the Friends Relief Service during the Second World War… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1958. Hardcover. Near Fine. [6], 53, [3] p.; 19 cm. Green cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. No dust jacket. Includes publisher's advertisements for Swarthmore Lectures through 1957. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "With kind regards, Margaret B. Hobling. 26.5.'58." In Near… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1929. Very Good -. Lucas, Samuel. First published in The History of Hitchin, vol. 2, 1929; this separate edition published later the same year. 150, [2] p.: 9 in-text drawings, 13 leaves of illustrations (many by Samuel Lucas); 25 cm. Green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and decoration; gilt-stamped center medallion… Saber más sobre este artículo