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Austin’s Essay on the human character of Jesus Christ.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 63. no. 35, Austin on the human character of Jesus Christ, 12mo.
AUSTIN,
William.
An Essay on the human character of Jesus Christ. By William Austin.
Boston: Printed for
William Pelham [by
Ebenezer French],
1807.
BT303 .A8
First Edition. 12mo. 60 leaves (including 2 blanks in the first sheet): A-P
4; the printer’s imprint at the foot of the copy-right notice on the back of the title.
Original sheep with later morocco back, plain endpapers. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. With the Library of Congress 1815
bookplate.
Sent to Jefferson by the publisher, William Pelham, who wrote from Boston on July 20, 1808: “Agreeably to your desire I enclose a copy of Austin’s Essay on the Human character of Jesus Christ. The price is
75 cents. From the smallness of the sum, its transmission by post may probably be more troublesome to you than it is worth, and it
would be a real gratification to me to offer the book to your acceptance, as an original American work.”
A letter to William Pelham dated from Monticello, Aug. 19. 04 (an error for 08?) reads: “
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to m(
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r)
Pelham and his thanks for m(
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Austin’s book, which he shall with pleasure employ his first leisure moments in reading.”
William Austin, 1778-1841, was a native of Charleston,
[
sic
--
Ed.
] Massachusetts.
[1505]
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Brown’s Dictionary of the Bible.
8
vo.
2. v.
1815 Catalogue, page 63. no. 85, as above.
BROWN,
John.
A Dictionary of the Holy Bible . . . forming a Sacred Commentary; a body of Scripture History, Chronology, and Divinity; and
serving in a great measure as a Concordance to the Bible. By John Brown, Minister of the Gospel at Haddington . . .
Second American Edition. In
Two Volumes . . .
Pittsburgh: from the Ecclesiastical and Literary Press of
Zadok Cramer,
1807.
BS440 .B7
2 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 332 leaves; vol. II, 356 leaves, collating in fours, 12 plates by W. Kneass, Philadelphia, in each volume, including folded frontispieces and 2 folded maps. Subscribers names on 6 leaves at the end,
preceded by blank pages for the Family Record, with headings for Marriages, Births, Casualties, Deaths.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Not in Sabin.
Bound for Jefferson in tree calf, gilt ornaments on the back, marbled endpapers by Milligan. Initialled by Jefferson at sig.
I and T in vol. I. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Jefferson’s name heads the list of Subscribers to this work, and a copy was presented to him by the publisher. On February
14, 1805, Zadok Cramer wrote to Jefferson from Pittsburgh: “Friend Jefferson,
"As a known friend to man, to the promotion of arts and sciencies,
[
sic
--
Ed.
] and a warm admirer of the rapid progress of our country in manufactures and useful establishments, I have taken the liberty
to address thee--to solicit thy patronage to a work which I am about to print in this place by subscription. It is Brown’s
of Haddington, historical, Geographical, Chronological, Etymological, and Critical
Dictionary of the Holy Bible, in two Royal octavo volumes, with maps and plates. No doubt but thou hast seen the work, if so, thy opinion of it will be
gratefully acknowledged. ”
