Search Results: Authors starting with R from Howard S. Mott, Inc

READ, Daniel, author of The American Sinning Book. [DOOLITTLE, Amos, engraver]. The Columbian Harmonist, No. 1, containing First. A Plain and Concise Introduction to Psalmody fitly calculated for the use of Singing Schools. Second. A Choice Collection of New Psalm Tunes of American Composition. Oblong 8vo, original flexible marbled boards (a goodly portion of the marble paper is no longer), pp. 39, [1] Index, [4] blank leaves (with manuscript music on 5 pages), the last blank leaf pasted down, stitched. New Haven: Printed for & Sold by the Editor, Sold also by the Principal Book-sellers in the United States [1793-1794].
First Edition, second issue with variant imprint. Read (1757-1836), together with William Billing "was the most significant American composer of psalmody during the 18th and early 19th centuries."-Richard Crawford in
Grove. Other parts would follow in later years. "Engraved for the Editor by A. Doolittle 1793" at foot of the index. Advertised as just published 10… Read More

ROBINSON, S[tillman] W[illiams]. Practical Treatise on the Teeth of Wheels with the Theory and the Use of Robinson's Odontograph. Illustrated.
12mo, original printed boards (rubbed; cudely rebacked with cloth), folding frontispiece (leading blank edge a little ragged), pp. 126, [14] ads + 3 plates (1 folding). New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1876.
First Edition. A famous engineer/inventor's work on correct gearing. This copy belonged to a great American mechanical engineer, Ambrose Swasey (1846-1937) as a young man while employed by Pratt & Whitney Co., East Hartford, Connecticut. For Swasey see the DAB. With his partner, Worcester R. Warner, he founded Warner & Swasey, manufacturer of machine tools, instruments and special machinery, in Cleveland, Ohio. He built the Lick and Yerkes observatories. Swasey's ownership signature is on front cover, and he has signed and dated the book the year of… Read More

YELLOW FEVER IN FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, 1822
ROBINSON, Dr. Benjamin (Old Ben) West (1775-1857). ALS to William Haswell, Esq., Post Master Bennington, Vermont, marked "Free." 1 ½ pp., folio + integral address-leaf. Fayetteville, North Carolina, November 9, 1822.
Dr. West Robinson moved to Fayetteville from Vermont, and built the family home, Monticello. According to his obituary in the Fayette Observer, "Dr. Robinson was formerly Mayor of this town; and Marshal of the U. S. for Florida, by appointment of President Monroe, which office he resigned. In 1825 he was appointed by Mr. Adams one of three commissioners to treat with the Southern Indians. In early life he enjoyed the acquaintance of Mr. Jefferson, for whose memory he ever cherished in sincerest regard. He enjoiyed fully the confidence of all classes and parties."
Robinson writes that he has been incapable to attend to any business "in consequence of an destinate Bilious intermittent Fever-for a few days past I have been… Read More

ROUILLARD, Rene [-Jean], navy surgeon 1st Class. Dissertation physiaque et medicale sur l'humidite considérée en general, et en particulier a bord des vaisseaux dans les regions equatorials; Présentée et soutenue à l'Ecole de Médecine de Montpellier, le 8 Août 1807...pour obtenir le titre de docteur en médecine. 4to, pp. [6], 64, [1], stitched, uncut. Montpellier: De l'Imprimerie de August Ricard [1807].Only Edition. A fine, wide-margined copy, of a work on naval medicine in the tropics, humidity and temperature in particular, by Rouillard (1775-1859), chevalier de la Legion-d'Honneur, "Membre Correspondent de la Societé Medicale d'Emulation de Paris." There are approximately 160 words of manuscript notes on the effects of temperature and humidity in a contemporary hand in the margins of p. 5. Rouillard, a native of Nantes, studied medicine there at the Hotel-Dieu, and continued in Brest at the Ecole de la Marine, under the direction of the celebrated Duret. He became a first class… Read More

CREOLES "SLANDEROUSLY MISPREPRESENTED"[ROUQUETTE, Abbe Adrien E.] Critical Dialogue between Aboo and Caboo on a New Book; or a Grandissime Ascension. Edited by E. Junius. 8vo, original printed brown wrappers, lettered in black, pp. 24. Mingo City [i.e. New Orleans]: Great Publishing House of Sam Slick Allspice, 12 Veracity Street, 1880.
First Edition. Written anonymously by the author of La Nouvelle Atala ou, La fille de l'Esprit: Legende Indienne, par Chahta de la Louisiane (1879), wherein is contained Lafcadio Hearn's first book appearance. This is a vicious response to George Washington Cable's, The Grandissimes by a Louisiana Creole writer, poet and Catholic missionary to the Choctaw Indians. Cable's
Old Creole Days was received coolly in New Orleans, but "The backlash commenced, months later, with the publication of Cable's next book, The Grandissimes. Serialized in Scribner's Monthly beginning in the November 1879 edition and running for the following eleven issues. The novel, subtitled… Read More

LOTS OF CHILDREN RUSSELL, Bertha, Boston, Mass. Original sketchbook, with the ticket of "A. A. Walker & Co., Artists Materials & Fine Stationary, 538 Washington Street, Boston." 49 pp. of pencil and pen-and-ink drawings. Oblong 4to, original calf backed cloth (spine worn), signed and dated inside front cover, "Bertha Russell/Boston Mass./ (August 1887). Bertha has affixed a small photograph which we assume is of herself to a 4 x 6 ¾" drawing she has pinned to the first sheet, dating it Dec. 26th (1881). The only Bertha Russell we find that fits the bill of a young lady of Boston, married Samuel Ellsworth Winslow, Harvard '85, in 1889. She has been described as "the elegant Bertha Russell, an accomplished violinist." We don't notice any violins here, but there are a couple of cellos, or bass. She is mentioned in "Casey at the Bat. The Ballad of Sam Winslow," online, April 21, 2021.