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(REFERENCE.) Sabin, Joseph.
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
[Mini-Print Edition].
2 volumes. Oblong small 4to, original cloth; minimal wear.
New York, [1967]
[200/300]
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(REFERENCE.) Sowerby, E. Millicent; editor.
Catalogue of the Library of
Thomas Jefferson.
Second edition. 5 volumes. 4to, publisher’s cloth; minimal wear.
Charlottesville, VA, 1983
[150/250]
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(REFERENCE.) Wheat, Carl I.
Mapping the Transmississippi West.
Numerous plates. 5 volumes in 6. Small folio, publisher’s cloth, minimal wear; small book-
plates on front pastedowns. One of 1000 sets.
San Francisco: Institute of Historical Cartography, 1957-63
[1,000/1,500]
Still the authoritative and indispensible carto-bibliography of the American West. Designed and
printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn.
250
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(RELIGION.) Worcester, Noah.
Manuscript sermon on the horrors of war.
Autograph Manuscript. [35] pages. 8vo, stitched gathering; minimal wear.
Np, circa 1812-15
[500/750]
Noah Worcester (1758-1837) was a Unitarian clergyman whose most lasting impact was as a
founder of the pacifism movement in America. He published A Solemn Review of the Custom
of War in 1814 and founded the Massachusetts Peace Society in 1815. He apparently
composed this manuscript sermon during the same period, as suggested by his prefatory note: “This
sermon was written to deliver at Brattle Street in the time of war, but it has not been deliv-
ered.” This sermon is based on a passage from Habakkuk 3:17 (“Although the fig tree shall
not blossom. . . “), and speaks stridently against war: “Even the desolating judgment of war
may be overruled for the benefit of the afflicted nations and of other nations who are the specta-
tors of the horrid scene. War is indeed one of the most tremendous evils with which a righteous
God afflicts a guilty people” (pages 10-11). Later in the sermon he specifically addresses the
subject of war “with the Government of Great Britain,” asking “whether we had just cause to
commence it, and whether there now exists sufficient cause for its continuance” (pages 30-31).
Provenance: stated to be from the collection of notable early American autograph collector
William Buell Sprague (1795-1876), with a descriptive sheet apparently in Sprague’s hand.
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(RHODE ISLAND.)
Acts and Laws of his Majesty’s Colony of Rhode-
Island, and Providence-Plantations.
2 volumes. Folio, original wrappers, worn, lacking
front wrapper of first volume; lacking preliminary title page of first volume reading “The
Charter . . . of Rhode-Island,” with the next leaf worn, corners dog-eared, intermittent
dampstaining, second volume cleaner with just minor foxing and dampstaining.
Newport, RI: Widow Franklin, 1745 and J. Franklin, 1752
[800/1,200]
The 1745 third revision of the colony’s laws, with the supplement of additional laws through
1752. Printed by Benjamin Franklin’s mother and brother. Alden, Rhode Island 68, 72,
128; Evans 5683, 6919; Sabin 70512, 70513.
WITH
—Acts and Laws of His Majesty’s
English Colony of Connecticut. Folio, contemporary calf, worn; title page defective and mounted
to front pastedown, other flaws. New London: Timothy Green, 1750-53.
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