A constitutional view of the late war between the states : its causes, character, conduct and results ; presented in a series of colloquies at Liberty Hall
Printed at the Methodist Book Concern, for the author,
Date of Publication
1863.
Physical Description
546 p. port. 19 cm.
Summary
This is an autobiography. The author was born in Lancaster, PA, in 1811. His parents sailed from Ireland in 1801.
Notes
Maxwell Pierson Gaddis (1811-1888) was a prolific author and Methodist itinerant preacher. His best known book is his autobiography "Footprints of an Itinerant".
Records of the revolutionary war: containing the military and financial correspondence of distinguished officers; names of the officers and privates of regiments, companies, and corps, with the dates of their commissions and enlistments; general orders of Washington, Lee, and Greene, at Germantown and Valley Forge; with a list of distinguished prisoners of war; the time of their capture, exchange, etc. To which is added the half-pay acts of the Continental Congress; the revolutionary pension laws; and a list of the officers of the Continental Army who acquired the right to half-pay, commutation, and lands
Directory of Lancaster County: : embracing a full list of all the adult males and heads of families, with their occupation, residence, and P.O. address, and a classified business directory. Also, an appendix, containing a descriptive list of the courts, banking houses, public buildings, churches, educasional [sic] and benevolent institutions, secret and other societies, &c., &c. 1869-70
Des andachtigen Frauen-Zimmers Geistliches Schatz-Kastlein, Das ist: Neu-eingerichtetes Bu-, Beicht- und Communion-Buch : worinnen erbauliche Anleitung zur Gott gefalligen Busse, Ungeheuchelten Beicht, Heilsamen Niessung des H. Abendmals ... in richtiger Ordnung nach einander gefunden wird : Samt einem Anhang der darzu dienlichen Kyrchen-Gesange
Trial of the assassins and conspirators for the murder of Abraham Lincoln, and the attempted assassination of Vice-President Johnson and the whole cabinet : the most intensely interesting trial on record : containing the evidence in full, with arguments of counsel on both sides, and the verdict of the military commission : correct likenesses and graphic history of all the assassins, conspirators, and other persons connected with their arrest and trial
21-102 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., map, plans, ports. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Trial of David E. Herold, George A. Atzerodt, Lewis Payne, Michael O'Laughlin, Edward Spangler, Samuel Arnold, Mary E. Surratt, and Samuel A. Mudd, before a military commission at Washington, D.C.
Des Geistlichen Würtz- Kräuter und Blumen-Gartens, oder, Universal-Gesangbuchs Erster Theil : Bestehend In einer Auswahl von tausend/ so wohl alten als neuen geistlichen lieblichen Liedern/ Gott und seiner ewigen Weiszheit zum Preisz und Lobe und denen Menschen zum Dienst und Nutz herausgegeben
Verlegts Johann Friedrich Gleditschens seel. Sohn,
Date of Publication
Anno 1732.
Physical Description
[16] p., 2206 columns, [49] p. : front., ill. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Indispensable gazeteer of the Baroque; authorship erroneously attributed to Johann Hübner, who wrote the foreword, as the title page clearly states; real author, Philipp Balthasar Sinold.
The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised
Text printed in double column, verse form, single rule down center of page, with verse nos. indented in matching type. Title centered at top of page, with running heads, between single rules. Entire printed page within single rules. Italic chapter summaries in smaller print. References in marginal columns at both sides of page, with chronology at top of column.
N.T. has special title page and pagination.
On fly leaf: "Presented to Jno. C. Willson by his Uncle, John Wilson, Maytown, Thursday, Feb 9, 1865." with the Bible verses following.
Der Alten Trost und Licht, Das ist: Auserlessen Christliches Geb t=Buch Darin enthaloten, so wol T glich Morgan und Abe [page torn, text missing] als sonderbahre Sonn=und Fest=t gige, auch Be [page torn, text missing] Communion= Standes =und Beruffs= [pages torn; text may be missing] imgleichen in Roth, Kranckheit= und Todes=F llen dienliche Geb ter, Von Alten Personnen/ zu Huase, in the Kirche, und sonst in ihrem Unliegen stets zu gebrauchen
Gedruckt und verlegt von Johann Heinrich Meyer, Hoch=Gr ft. Lipp. privilegirten Hof=Buchdrucker,
Date of Publication
1739.
Physical Description
552 [8] p. ; 19 cm.
Notes
p 78, 134, 240, 283, 292, 396, 441, 459,and 507, printed in smaller font.
Signatures: A2-Mm5.
On front of first flyleaf: John Long his book January 26, 1800.; Elisabegth Gaul's Book, Jan 26, 1800; Elizabegth Gauls Book October 26 1803; Cash paid for Binding 20 [cents]
On front of second flyleaf: John Long, his book.
Printed in large type.
Appraiser's note: Rare to have whole book printed in such large type (Until Revolution in America, printers used large type but just for the first few pages).
Full leather binding; no spine label; front cover loose.