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1542. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. With woodcut initials on black grounds; printers device on title page and final page. Printed in Italic and Roman type.12mo. Modern ½-red morocco; spine with 5 raised bands, gilt lettering. Frankfort, Christian Egenolf (1542). First Edition. Christoph Imlerus Hadamarius was a Lutheran theologian at Frankfurt during the early decades of the Reformation, whose works were consulted and used by Henri Estienne, amongst others, and whose commentaries found their way into several editions of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum printed after 1550 (including that printed at Padua in 1580). The present work consists of an influential and controversial series of exegeses and meditations upon the Epistles of John, Jude and James. It is particularly noteworthy that Imler does not use the Latin Vulgate translation for his commentaries, but uses a Protestant Latin translation instead. Presumably, the Vulgate was too Catholic a translation. Binding slightly faded at top… Read More

First Edition. Presentation copy.Inscribed to Madison Cawein.Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Original green cloth, gold-stamped. Boston and New York 1891. First Edition. Presentation copy inscribed on the front endpaper to the poet Madison Cawein, "Madison Cawein With the kind regards of Oliver Wendell Holmes Boston October 12th 1891". Also inscribed by Cawein.Madison Cawein's poetry extolled the fields and forests, springs and flowers of Kentucky. Joyce Kilmer adjudged him the greatest nature poet of his time. An interesting association copy. Front hinge starting, o/w Fine.

INSCRIBED BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWESTOWE, HARRIET BEECHER. The Chimney-Corner, by "Christopher Crowfield." 8vo. Original green cloth, gold lettering on spine. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1888. Later Edition. A series of essays written by Mrs. Stowe under a pseudonym that deal primarily with women's issues, such as property rights, the vote, education opportunities, domestic work, etc.Inscribed by Harriet Beecher Stowe on the front endpaper, "Trust in the Lord and do good. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Hartford March 1893." A fine copy inscribed by Stowe.

First Edition.Presentation copy. Inscribed by Coffin.Four Years of Fighting: A Volume of Personal Observation with the Army and Navy, from the First Battle of Bull Run to the Fall of Richmond.Hardcover. Near Fine. Frontispiece. Illustrated. 8vo. Modern black cloth. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Coffin on the front endpaper, "Capt. G[eorge] G[renville] Benedict / from the Author / C. C. Coffin / June 1st 1866." Charles Carleton Coffin was one of the best-known newspaper correspondents of the Civil War and has been called the Ernie Pyle of his era. George Grenville Benedict, who fought with 12th Vermont Infantry, was among a group of men involved in the successful flank attack on Pickett's Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg. For his action on the third day of the battle he was awarded the Medal of Honor. Benedict's esteemed two-volume set, Vermont in the Civil War, was published in 1886. Coffin was frequently the first to get war reports from the… Read More

Illustrated. Frontispiece. 12mo. Original pictorial cloth. Boston, 1881. First Edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Longfellow on the front flyleaf, "Fanny C. Stone with kind regards of H.W.L." [Frances Coolidge Stone was a friend of Longfellow's daughter Alice. She was the daughter of Eben F. Stone of Newburyport, MA, who served in the Massachusetts Senate in the 1850s and was a U.S. Congressman in the 1880s.]Longfellow has also signed his name on page 63 under his birthday listing for February 27.Many other signatures are inscribed on their birthdates throughout the book. Binding worn at edges and corners; o/w a fine copy.