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The subscribers having been personally acquainted with Mr. George Bacon for several years ... [first lines]
 [141326] (MASSACHUSETTS - BANKING) [Levi Bartlett, et. al.].
Boston: , September 6th, 1826. Quarto, bifolium. 1 p. Document Signed. Normal folds, light foxing, creases, good condition. A manuscript document autographed by seventeen men recommending George Bacon, book-keeper, to be hired as a bank clerk and addressed to Samuel Frothingham, bank cashier. The document is autographed by Levi Bartlett, George Lane, George Denny, William Benton, Henry Burditt, Albert Hobarts [?], Luther Parks, Elisha Parks, Henry Farnam, Thomas Lord, John H. Belcher, William J. Eustis, others. Apparently hand-delivered, address panel. $50
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 1900. Catalogue of Maple Park. Wm. Fisk, Proprietor, Successor to A.C. Fisk Coldwater, Mich, [Michigan]
[141126] (MICHIGAN - LIGHT HARNESS HORSE RACING) [W.B. Fisk] .
Coldwater, Michigan: “Reporter” Print, 1900. 16 pages. First and only edition? Pictorial and printed wraps. 7½ x 5 inches. Illustrated. In near fine condition. Not on OCLC. A catalog offering breeding services for harness horses: “I offer for patronage GREAT HEART, (P) 2:12½, BARON CROMWELL, JUDEAN, 2:29½, AND HIGHLAND PRINCE. Four stallions that combine the rarest blood of the most prepotent trotting families known to the trotting world; they are in the fashion, they have the size, color and superb action. They are fast trotters and pacers, and you will find one [sic] that will cross or nick with any kind of a mare. Your inspection solicited... W.B. Fisk.” Other horses mentioned are: Mambrino Russell, Alcantara, Princeps, Baron Wilkes, etc. $100
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 The Upper Peninsula. The King's Daughters' and Sons' Mission Work in Mining Districts and Lumber Camps. [Caption title]
[141189] (MICHIGAN - MINING & REDEMPTION) Emma C. Nason (1843-1916?) .
: , . [No place, no date, but ca. 1893. Signed at end in type “Emma C. Nason, Blodgett Mills, N.Y.” ] Leaflet, single sheet, 6" x 9" and printed on both sides, folded once to form four pages. Fine condition. A plea for funds for gospel work in the Great Lakes region. Nason discourses upon the immensity of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and its mining wealth in Houghton county, famous for its copper, then asks: “Shall the great undeveloped wealth of the Upper Peninsula be turned into channels of blessings or into rivers of sin?” Nason continues: “The need of Gospel work at some points is appalling. From the hard towns of Hurley and Ironwood at the west end of the field, throughout the whole Peninsula to Sault Ste Marie at the east end of the field, it is all mission ground. At least one lumber settlement of a couple of dozen houses can be counted fifteen saloons -planted to draw in men from the lumber camps- and around this centre of evil 5,000 men are scattered the camps of those forests.” Nason also notes that her mission has already saved many “hard cases,” and not just lumberman, but miners, boatmen of the lakes and soldiers at Fort Brady. $45
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 The Victim, in Five Letters to Adolphus. By the Author of “The Guide and Refuge.”
[141186] (PROSTITUTIO - SEXUAL ETHICS - Social Moirés) W. Giles .
Pittsfield, [Massachusetts]: Printed by Seymour and Smith, 1807. Small octavo, in eights, 69 pages. 5½ x 3½ inches. First American Edition? [printed also in Hartford in 1807.] Blue gray paper over wooden boards, spine backed in calf. Loss to paper and wood to upper cover; rear free endpaper with loss; long inter-textual tear to A5 now mended with no loss of text, old tobacco odor. Giles was well-known for his “Guide to Domestic Happiness” which had gone through at least eleven editions in England by 1817. The present title (published anonymously in London in 1800 by Giles) made only a brief appearance on the American market. “The Victim” warns Adolphus, a gentleman, against the depravity and immorality of prostitution and speaks of sexual ethics. This copy bears a contemporary presentation gift inscription from a Thomas Eggleston to a James R. Robbins. Eggleston's name is also on the title page. [Shaw & Shoemaker 14122, (MWA). OCLC, one location.] $125
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 The Cause of Education in Tennessee. An Address Delivered to the Young Gentlemen admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, at the first commencement of the University of Nashville, October 4, 1826. New Edition.
[141601] (TENNESSEE - PRINCETON - EDUCATION) Philip Lindsley.
Nashville: Hunt, Tardiff & Co., 1833. Octavo, 39, [1] pages. Pamphlet, rmvd., original wraps absent. Browning, general and scattered foxing. Philip Lindsley (1786-1855) Educator and Princetonian. Lindsley was persuaded to accept the presidency of Cumberland College, newly-chartered as the University of Nashville. DAB - “He gave up a secure place in the East to take charge of a struggling school in Tennessee, because he saw the possibilities of the Southwest, and its educational needs appealed to him.” Lindsley strove mightily to promote the school during his tenure and turned down lucrative offers for academic presidencies. “[Lindsley] he was a powerful educational missionary. His baccalaureate addresses were widely circulated in the state. In these and other speeches and in many newspaper articles he preached the value of education, particularly higher education, and the need of colleges and schools. His effect on public opinion appeared in the fact that by 1848 there were twenty colleges in Tennessee.” [American Imprints 19757. Eberstadt-132:693. - “This address was originally published in 1826 ... The name of the institution was then Cumberland College. An “Advertisement” on p. [3] of this new edition explains that the name was changed by the Tennessee legislature to “The University of Nashville” in November, 1826, just after the first publication of the Address. In the new edition the name Cumberland College is retained in the text though changed on the title page to University of Nashville.” - “American Imprints Inventory No. 32 A Preliminary Check List of Tennessee Imprints 1793-1840” Item 491.] $150
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 Happy Day or the Confessions of a Woman Minister [with] Autograph Letter Signed [with] Book's Prospectus.
[133307] (VERMONT - WOMEN) Emma E. Bailey .
New York: European Pub. Co., 1901. 480 pages. First Edition. Binding is cloth, hardbound. Thirty-one illustrations. Small tear to crown of spine; top-edge dusty. A very good copy. With publisher's 12 page prospectus for book loosely inserted [and] autograph letter signed from Rev. Emma E. Bailey dated 1902. Bailey grew up in Wilmington, Vermont; removed to Madrid, New York. She writes feelingly of cruelty to slaves she witnesses in North Carolina and of plantation life. Bailey eventually became quite involved with the temperance movement and ending up in Saratoga, Florida. $75
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