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154 ● (JUDAICA.) Brothers, Richard. A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies
and Times, Books One and Two, bound with, as issued, Nathaniel Brassey Halhed’s
Testimony of the Authenticity of the Prophecies of Richard Brothers and of His
Mission to Recall the Jews and A Calculation of the Commencement of the
Millennium. 84, 139, 47, 28 pages. 12mo, contemporary calf, moderate wear; lacking free
endpapers, ink stain in bottom margin of some interior pages, minor dampstaining, moder-
ate foxing and page wear. Philadelphia, 1795 [500/750]
Brothers bills himself as “The Man that will be Revealed to the Hebrews as their Prince and
Prophet.” Evans 28356, 28359, 28791, 28789; Rosenbach 97, 105, 104.
155 (JUDAICA.) [Sewall, Stephen]. An Hebrew Grammar . . . Containing a
Specimen of the Whole Hebrew Language. Contemporary 1/4 calf, moderate wear,
front board detached; occasional early annotation; early owners’ signatures on front free
endpaper, bookplate removed from front pastedown.
Boston: R. & S. Draper for Harvard College, 1763 [500/750]
FIRST EDITION. In 1761, Sewall replaced Judah Monis at Harvard, and thus became the second
college instructor of Hebrew in America. This book was the second published in America with
extensive Hebrew text, following Monis’s Dickdook Leshon Gnebreet. “The Hebrew types
used in its printing were destroyed by fire in January 1764”—Evans 9514. Goldman,
Hebrew Printing in America, 172; Rosenbach 43; Sabin 79458.
156 ● (KANSAS.) Kenney, Daniel. A soldier’s letter describing his journey to Fort
Scott. Autograph Letter Signed to friend James Wells of Pennsylvania. 4 pages, 93/4 x 73/4
inches, on one sheet; separations and tape repairs at folds, moderate staining.
Fort Scott, KS, 24 June 1848 [200/300]
Native Pennsylvanian Daniel G. Kenney (1806-1848) enlisted in the Army in 1841, but
was weakened by chronic bronchitis. By the time of this letter seven years later, he and his wife
had removed to Fort Scott on the western frontier, where he was able to do some light clerical
duty as an ordnance sergeant. This letter describes his harrowing journey and gives a pleasant
picture of the landscape at Fort Scott. His army enlistment shows that he died there two
months later.
157 ● (LANGUAGE.) [Thornton, William.] Prize Dissertation . . . Cadmus, or a
Treatise on the Elements of Written Language. Folding table. Small 8vo, disbound,
defective plain front wrapper; title page quite defective, with part of errata slip cello-taped
to bottom, gatherings H and I transposed, scattered early annotations; early owner’s
signature on front wrapper. [Philadelphia, 1793?] [200/300]
An important volume on phonetics which includes an essay, “On Teaching the Surd, or Deaf
and Consequently Dumb, to Speak.” Evans 26258; Sabin 95646.
158 ● (LAW.) Adams, John. Défense des Constitutions Américaines. [4], xxiv, 547;
[4], 503 pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, moderate wear; with half-titles; early
Argentine library tags on front pastedowns. Howes A60; Sabin 237. Paris, 1792 [250/350]
159 ● (LAW.) Constitutional Law, Comprizing the Declaration of Independence
. . . and the Constitutions of the Several States. 12mo, original paper-backed boards,
minor wear; moderate foxing; uncut; early owner’s signatures on endpapers. Sabin 16133.
Washington, 1820 [400/600]