Haaswurth Books ~ September, 2026 New Arrivals
We have added many things to our website over the last month, and some of them are below. For the complete list of newly added items, please see our New Arrivals list. The new items take up the first five pages of the list.
Most of the new material came back with us from our recent trip to Maine, and some of it we found recently in the Mohawk Valley area of New York State.
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Here are a few items for your consideration.
Abbott, John S. C. Napoleon at St. Helena; or, Interesting Anecdotes and Remarkable Conversations of the Emperor during the Five and a Half Years of his Captivity. Collected from the Memorials of Los Cosos, O'Meara, Montholu, Autommarchi, and others. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855. (First Edition). [12429].
Adams, Daniel. The Scholar's Arithmetic; or Federal Accountant. Keene, N. H.: Printed by and for John Prentiss, 1807. Fourth Edition. [12408]. Written at a time when American money was changing from the old English system of pounds, shillings, pence, and farthings to the new American system of Dollars and Cents.
The Affectionate Daughter-In-Law. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1833. [12443]. The Bible story of Naomi, Ruth, and Boaz retold for children, with several wood engravings.
Alcott, William A. The Young Woman's Guide. Boston: Strong & Brodhead, 1849. Thirteenth Edition. [12466]. Advice & warnings for the Christian young woman.
Allen, Alexander V. G. Life and Letters of Phillips Brooks (3 volume set) With Portraits and Illustrations. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1901. [12458]. The Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts.
Andrews, E. A. The First Part of Jacobs and Döring's Latin Reader: adapted to Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar. Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1846. Twelfth Edition. [12399].
Bailey, Ebenezer. The Young Ladies' Class Book; A Selection of Lessons for Reading, in Prose and Verse. Boston: Lincoln and Edmands, &c., 1831. (First Edition). [12425]. Several hundred short entries by American and English authors.
Baird, James S. S. The Classical Manual: an Epitome of Ancient Geography, Greek and Roman Mythology, Antiquities, and Chronology. Chiefly intended for the use of schools. Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1853. [12444].
Barrows, John Henry. Henry Ward Beecher: The Shakespeare of the Pulpit. New York & London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1893. [12419].
Binder, William Earle. Madelon Hawley, or, The Jesuit and His Victim : A Revelation of Romanism. New-York: D,. W. Evans & Company, 1860. [12424]. A fictional account set in the year 1844, of an old man's story who was once a Roman Catholic priest.
Bond, Alvan. Young People's Illustrated Bible History: being A Simple and Attractive Account of the Great Events mentioned in the Old and New Testaments...&c. Norwich, Conn.: Henry Bill, 1873. [12434]. The Bible, presented in story form, with 363 chapters, each a readable story of the events described, with plates & maps.
Buckingham, J. H. [editor]. The Amaranth, A Literary and Religious Offering, designed as a Christmas and New Year's Present. Newburyport, [Massachusetts]: Charles Whipple, 1831. First Edition. [12442]. "Contains work by American writers only, according to preface. Contributors include Park Benjamin, Thomas M. Clark, Jr., H. F. Gould, Alonzo Lewis, Guy Linden, and George Lunt."
Bull, William. Music, Adapted to Language, containing Rudiments of Music, with a Choice Collection of Sacred Harmony, in a New and Simple Notation, Prefixed and Adapted to Select Hymns; The Music, by a New and Easy Method of Variation, is made always to Conform to Language, in whatever is required by the Laws of Prosody and Elocution. Greenfield, Mass.: Published by the Author. Denio & Phelps, Printers, 1819. [12404]. Contents: Rudiments of Music, pp. 3-32; Hymns, pp. 33-82; Hebrew Melodies, pp. 83-102; Prose Psalms, &c., pp. 103-123.
Chavasse, Pye Henry; Stevenson, Sarah Hackett [Introduction]. Wife and Mother; or, Information for Every Woman with Plates illustrating the Female Reproductive Organs. Chicago and Philadelphia: H. J. Smith & Co., 1887. [12392]. A book of medical advice for the new wife and mother, with chapters on health, menstruation, pregnancy, parturition without pain, labor, nursing, infancy, childhood, and youth.
[CHROMOLITHOGRAPH] Wealth and Fashion (The Parlor Library). Boston: Shepard, Clark & Brown, c. 1857. [12423]. With an early chromolithographed series title page by Blood & Evans of Boston. Sixteen stories of moral tales, including Passages in the Life of an Old Maid, Wealth and Fashion, The Blind Boy, The Bank Note, The Wedding Knell, and The Indian Fighter.
Duncan, William. The Elements of Logic in four books. Albany: Printed for Whiting, Backus & Whiting. Sold by them and Whiting, Goodrich & Co. Utica, and Whiting Bemis & Co. York, Upper Canada, 1804. [12451]. Locke & load.
Durand, Silas H. Fragments: Autobiography and Later Writings. Philadelphia: The Biddle Press, 1920. First Edition. [12420]. Silas Horton Durand (1833-1918), an Old School Primitive Baptist preacher, baptized by Elder Gilbert Beebe in 1864.
Fletcher, John; Horne, Melvill. Posthumous Pieces of the Rev. John Fletcher : by the Rev. Melvill Horne, Curate of Madeley. Philadelphia: Printed by Solomon W. Conrad, for Ezekiel Cooper, no. 118, North Fourth Street, near the Methodist Church, 1804. [12426]. “Fletcher was a man of heavenly temper; a saint in the ancient and high sense of the term, whose enthusiasm was entirely inimical with bitterness, and whose life and death are alike edifying.” – London Quarterly Review.
A Free-Will Baptist. The Church Member's Book: or Admonitions and Instructions for All Classes of Christians. In Three Parts. Part I. Experimental Religion; Part II. The Church - and Duties of Members in the Church; Part III. The Duties of Christians, arising from their Christian Profession. Dover, [N.H.]: Published by the Free-Will Baptist Printing Establishment | William Burr, Printer, 1847. First Edition. [12388]. "The repeated revivals of religion within the last few years have often suggested to the mind of the Author of the following pages, the necessity of a book which should clearly present the duties of Christians in the church."
Greenleaf, Lawrence N. King Sham, and Other Atrocities in Verse; including a Humorous History of the Pike's Peak Excitement. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1868. (First Edition). [12383]. Lawrence Nichols Greenleaf (1838-1922), b. Boston, Massachusetts; d. Denver, Colorado. A merchant, newspaperman, poet and publisher, Greenleaf was an early Colorado pioneer.
Grimke, Archibald H. William Lloyd Garrison: The Abolitionist. New York & London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1891. [12418]. Archibald Henry Grimke (1849-1930), b. Charleston, South Carolina; d. Washington, DC. Grimke was born a slave and became one of the most outstanding men of his race in the 19th century, graduating from Harvard Law School in 1874.
Harris, W. L. [editor]. The Doctrines and Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 1872. With an Appendix. New York & Cincinnati: Nelson & Phillips | Hitchcock & Walden, (1872). [12410].
Hawkins, M. A. [To the Reader]. Wrecks and Rescues. By an Early Member of the Board of Managers of the A. F. G. S. New York: American Female Guardian Society, 1859. (First Edition) Revised by the Publishing Committee. [12447]. Missionary work in the Five Points area of New York City, aiming to rescue girls from liquor and prostitution.
Henry, G. W. Shouting: Genuine and Spurious, In all ages of the Church, from the birth of Creation, when the Sons of God shouted for joy, until the shout of the Arch-Angel: with numerous extracts from the Old and New Testament, and from the works of Wesley, Evans, Edwards, Abbott, Cartwright and Finley. Giving a history of the outward demonstrations of the Spirit, such as Laughing, Screaming, Shouting, Leaping, Jerking, and Falling under the Power, &c. With extensive comments, numerous anecdotes and illustrations. Oneida, Madison County, New-York: Published and Bound by the Author, 1859. (First Edition). [12448]. When church meetings were both a hootenanny and a shindig.
Hood, Edwin Paxton. Oliver Cromwell: His Life, Times, Battlefields, and Contemporaries. New York: A. L. Burt, Publisher, c. 1900. [12382]. Edwin Paxton Hood (1820-1885), English nonconformist minister, periodical editor, hymn-writer, and author.
James, G. P. R., Esq. The History of Chivalry (The American School Library, No. 26). New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1839. [12464]. A little knight-time reading.
Jenks, William. The Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible, The New Testament (2 volume set). Brattleboro': Vol. I. - Published by Fessenden and Co.; Vol. II. - Published by the Brattleboro' Typographic Company, 1834 & 1838. [12433].
Johnson, Lyman H. A Series of Lectures on the Church of the Bible and Its Apostasy, Delivered in the Court House at Charleston, West Virginia, by Lyman H. Johnson, Of Boston, Massachusetts, July, 1905. Also a Sketch of His Life and His Battle with the Preachers' Union of Toledo, Ohio, in 1895. Kendalia, W. Va.: Owen D. Hill, 1906. First Edition. [12389]. The author asserts that Money Power controls the churches, that Protestant churches are in apostasy, and that creeds are not Biblical. He was "against money governed churches and in favor of the primitive Bible church and a pure Christianity with Christ for the only head and a separation from the world."
[Kirkland, Elizabeth Stansbury]. Dora's Housekeeping. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1883. Second Edition. [12406]. A story full of recipes and practical housekeeping advice, with an index of recipes. Party like it's 1883!
Knights of Pythias. Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Maine, 1875-1888 (3 bound volumes). Portland: B. Thurston & Co. | Dresser, McLellan & Co. | etc., 1875-1888. [12441]. A different kind of knight-time reading.
Leverett, F. P. [editor]. A New and Copious Lexicon of the Latin Language : compiled chiefly from the Magnum Totius Latinitatis Lexicon of Facciolati and Forcellini, and the German Works of Scheller and Luenemann with An English-Latin Lexicon, prepared to accompany Leverett's Latin-English Lexicon. Boston: Wilkins, Carter, & Co., 1850. A New Edition, embracing the Classical Distinctions of Words, and the Etymological Index of Freund's Lexicon. [12427].
Lonsdale, Margaret. Sister Dora: A Biography. New York: Scribner and Welford, 1880. [12414]. Dorothy Wyndow Pattison (1832-1878), "Sister Dora," Anglican nun and surgical nurse. She was a member of the Anglican Sisterhood of the Good Samaritan, and was remembered for her management of the hospital in Walsall and for her skill in surgical nursing.
Martyn, Carlos. John B. Gough: The Apostle of Cold Water. New York & London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1893. [12417]. He performed the miracle of turning communion wine into water wherever he went.
Martyn, Carlos. William E. Dodge: The Christian Merchant. New York & London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1890. [12421]. Sometimes the camel does thread the needle, as difficult as it is.
Mason, John. Self Knowledge: A Treatise, showing the Nature and Benefit of that Important Science and the Way to Attain it. Intermixed with various reflections on Human Nature. Hartford: Printed for Oliver D. Cooke | Hale & Hosmer, Printers, 1814. [12454]. John Mason (1705-1763), English dissenting minister.
McCabe, James D. The Pictorial History of the World; embracing Full and Authentic Accounts of Every Nation of Ancient and Modern Times. Philadelphia, &c.: The National Publishing Co., (1878). [12430]. With 650 illustrations.
Milton, John; Todd, Henry John. The Poetical Works of John Milton (4 volume set) with Notes of Various Authors; and with some account of the Life and Writings of Milton, derived principally from original documents in Her Majesty's State-Paper Office. London: Rivingtons; Longman and Co.; etc., 1852. Fifth Edition. [12453]. An exceptional set for your library.
Nichols, I. Hours with The Evangelists (2 volume set). Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1859. First Edition. [12403]. Rev. Ichabod Nichols (1784-1859), president of the American Unitarian Association (1837-1844), for 42 years a Trustee of Bowdoin College, and a member and vice president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Parley, Peter; [Goodrich, Samuel Griswold]. Famous Men of Modern Times: by the author of Peter Parley's Tales. Boston: Rand and Mann, 1849. [12402]. The men are Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Napoleon Bonaparte, Göthe, Robert Burns, Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson, John Milton, William Shakspere, Lord Bacon, and Cervantes.
Parley, Peter; [Goodrich, Samuel Griswold]. History of the Indians of North and South America. By the author of Peter Parley's Tales. New York: John Allen, 1844. (First Edition). [12456]. Includes portraits of Red Jacket and of Four Bears.
Parton, James. People's Book of Biography; or, Short Lives of the most Interesting Persons of all Ages and Countries. Containing more than Eighty Sketches of the Lives and Deeds of eminent Philanthropists, Inventors, Authors, Poets, Discoverers, Soldiers, Adventurers, Travelers, Politicians, and Rulers, Women as well as Men. Hartford, Conn.: A. S. Hale & Company, 1868. [12385].
The People's Scripture Gallery of Engravings. Selected from the Queen's, the National, the Dulwich, the Stafford, the Grosvenor, and other Collections, Ancient and Modern. London: J. & F. Tallis, c. 1845. [12457]. This volume has 141 fine steel-engraved plates of Bible scenes, and one of the Rev. Matthew Henry.
Pollard, R. W. Ralph J. Freemasonry in Maine, 1762-1945. (Portland, Maine): Printed by Tucker Printing Company, (1945). [12407].
Prestridge, J. N. Modern Baptist Heroes and Martyrs. Louisville, Ky.: The World Press, 1911. (First Edition). [12463]. Emphasis on Russian Baptist martyrs.
Rayne, Mrs. M. L. What Can A Woman Do: or, Her Position in the Business and Literary World. St. Louis, Mo.: F. B. Dickerson & Co., 1885. [12396]. This charming illustrated book examines the kinds of professions open to American women in the 1880’s as well as containing inspirational material to encourage them. It covers literature, journalism, law, medicine, music, clerking, photography, engraving, telegraphy, nursing, gardening, poultry raising, bee keeping, dressmaking, &c., &c.
Robertson, William. The History of America, to which is added, The Posthumous Volume, containing the History of Virginia, to the year 1688; and of New-England, to the year 1652 (Two volume set). Albany: Printed and Published by E. & E. Hosford, 1822. From the Latest London Edition. [12449]. William Robertson (1721-1793), celebrated Scottish historian and Church of Scotland minister, royal chaplain to George III.
Robinson, Robert. The History of Baptism. London: Printed by Couchman and Fry, for Thomas Knott, Lombard-Street, 1790. First Edition. [12469]. Rev. Robertson's instructive study of antiquities and ancient church practices.
Sangster, Margaret. Home Life Made Beautiful in Story, Song, Sketch and Picture. Bible House, New York City: The Christian Herald, 1897. [12398]. A book of practical suggestions and instruction on American middle-class life in the late 19th century. It is a complete how-to book for Christian women in the fields of etiquette, courtship, marriage, furnishing a home, children, family life, &c.
[Shepherd, William]. A History of the American Revolution. Published in London under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Columbus, Ohio: Published by Isaac N. Whiting, 1834. First American Edition [claimed]. With Questions: by an Experienced Teacher: and Additional Notes. [12459]. An anti-Tory English author presents an accurate history, and an American teacher adds notes and questions. Includes the U.S. Constitution, with 13 Amendments.
Soeur Saint-Pierre, Carmelite de Tours. Litanies de la Sainte Face en Réparation des Blasphèmes, et pour la Conversion des Blasphémateurs. Tours: Juliot, c. 1876. [12409]. A scarce French Catholic tract from Tours.
Sproul, E. R. Mystery [cover title: Mystery; or Mental Philosophy Applied to the Bible]. San Francisco: Printed for the Author by the Printing Department of A. L. Bancroft & Company, 1875. (First Edition). [12472]. An odd book full of strange mystical conclusions.
Talmage, T. DeWitt; Conwell, Russel H. [Introduction]. Trumpet Blasts or Mountain-Top Views of Life comprising The Most Earnest Reasonings, Delightful Narratives, Poetic Imageries, Striking Similes, Fearless Denunciations of Wrong and Inspiring Appeals for the Right, that during His Whole Phenomenal Career Have Been Given to the World.(Philadelphia): Edgewood Publishing Company, (1892). [12470]. Have a blast with Rev. Talmage.
Watts, Isaac. Dr. Watts's Divine Songs suited to the Capacities of Children. Feed My Lambs. New-York: Published by G. Land & P. P. Sanford, For the Sunday School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the Conference Office, 200 Mulberry-street | J. Collard, Printer, 1842. [12445]. A small pamphlet of hymns, with an "Helena, Me." slip of needlework.
Webster, Noah. An American Selection, of Lessons in Reading and Speaking, calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth. To which are prefixed, Rules in Elocution, and Directions for expressing the Principal Passions of the Mind.Utica, [ New-York]: Printed by Asahel Seward, One door east of the Coffee House, Genesee Street, 1807. Second Edition. [12450]. Many of the readings pertain to the American Revolution.
Wesley, John. A Collection of Hymns, For the use of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Principally from the collection of The Rev. John Wesley, A. M. With a Supplement. New-York: G. Lane & P. P. Sanford, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the Conference Office, 200 Mulberry-st. | J. Collard, Printer, 1842. [12401].
West, Nathaniel. The Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible: How to Comprehend Holy Writ from its own Interpretation, containing the Old and New Testaments, Collected and Systematically Arranged into Thirty Books. New York: A. J. Johnson, Publisher, 1869. Revised and Enlarged Edition. [12428].
Wheeler, J. Talboys. The Life and Travels of Herodotus in the Fifth Century Before Christ (2 volume set). New York: Harper & Brothers, 1856. [12415]. Title continues: An Imaginary Biography founded on Fact, illustrative of the History, Manners, Religion, Literature, Arts, and Social Condition of the Greeks, Egyptians, Persians, Babylonians, Hebrews, Scythians, and other Ancient Nations, in the Days of Pericles and Nehemiah.
Williams, Samuel. A History of the American Revolution: intended as a Reading-Book for Schools. New-Haven: Printed and Published by W. Storer, Jun., 1824. First Edition. [12452]. "Next to the Bible, the History of the American Revolution is most deservedly entitled to the attention and reverence of the youth of our country."
We have more boxes of books to unpack, and we will have some more great items for your perusal next month.
We hope that you find a few things here to add to your library!
Thank you!
Steve & Susan