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Inscribed by the Author Lowell, John Amory [1798-1881]. Reply to a Pamphlet Recently Circulated by Mr. Edward Brooks. Boston: Printed by Freeman and Bolles, 1848. [iv], 211 pp. Octavo (9" x 5-1/2"). Stiff printed wrappers. Light soiling to exterior, spine ends abraded, a few small tears to spine, "1421" and presentation inscription "Thomas Jackson Esq with Mr Lowell's regar[ds]" to head of front wrapper. Light toning, faint dampstaining to first (blank) leaf, a few partial cracks to text block, all leaves secure, internally clean. $75. * Only edition. "John Wright Boott, a prominent businessman in Lowell, Massachusetts, committed suicide. At the inquest, John Amory Lowell, Boott's friend and legal counsel, testified that Boott had been depressed over charges. that [he] had mismanaged [his father's] estate. Brooks took umbrage at Lowell's claim, and contended in court and in print that Boott had been insane. In the lengthy and complicated legal proceedings that followed, Lowell defended the claims of some of Boott's heirs against Brooks and his wife" (Cohen, internal citations omitted). Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 11354. Signed.

Zustand: Good. Original letterpress text in 4 columns pasted to a suppport sheet.Edmond Quincy (1808-1877), author and reformer was the second son of Josiah Quincy III and Eliza Susan Morton Quincy. He was an abolitionist editor and also the author of a biography of his father, a romance, Wensley (1854), and The Haunted Adjutant and Other Stories (1885). .John Lothrop Motley (April 15, 1814 - May 29, 1877) was an American author and diplomat. As a popular historian, he is best known for his works on the Netherlands, the three volume work The Rise of the Dutch Republic and four volume History of the United Netherlands. As United States Minister to Austria in the service of the Abraham Lincoln administration, Motley helped to prevent European intervention on the side of the Confederates in the American Civil War. He later served as Minister to the United Kingdom (Court of St. James) during the Ulysses S. Grant administration.Provenance: Lt.-Col. Herbert Alexander St. John-Mildmay was born on 20 July 1836.1 He was the son of Captain George William St. John-Mildmay and Mary Baillie. He married Susan Margaret Stackpole Motley, daughter of the American writere and diplomat the Hon. John Lothrop Motley (1814 -1877) , on 7 May 1884.1 He died on 21 October 1922 at age 86. He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Rifle Brigade. He was appointed Member, Royal Victorian Order (M.V.O.).

4to, 1 p. Twenty-one lines of text. Clear and complete. On aged, stained and worn paper, with a couple of small spike holes. Revealing, in the attention to detail which it exhibits. He begins by reporting that 'the Rosabella arrived safe & the books appear to be correct with the following exceptions'. Two paragraphs follow, carefully describing duplicate plates and other faults in the books received (including "Genus Plantarum"). The replacements may be sent 'through Wilmer & Smith, booksellers, Liverpool - or by Harden's express - or through Messrs. John D. Thornely & Son - merchants - Liverpool - In either way they will reach me safely'. BBTI has Rainford at a number of addresses in the Holborn area between 1826 and 1843.

Zustand: Very Good. Cambridge: John Owen, 1842. First Edition. Octavo (25cm.); publisher's black cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [4],459pp. Cloth a bit rubbed, spine crown pulled, rear endpaper quite browned, stock extremities foxed, else Very Good or better. Oft-reprinted monograph by the noted entomologist and botanist. SABIN 30524. Provenance: Contemporary engraved armorial ownership bookplate of Boston Brahmin businessman John Amory Lowell (1798-1881) featuring his coat of arms: the rather felangist hand holding three downwardly pointing arrows, the traditional stag's head replaced by an urn, and the Latin "Occasionem Cognosce." Laid in is a pencil sketch on onionskin of the bookplate, though possibly a sketch made by the later owner, John Lowell, Jr., whose 1946 ownership inscription is on the front free endpaper.

?Editio nova?. "Editio nova". 2 parts (Greek to Latin; Latin to Greek). LACKING TITLE PAGE. 1 vols. 4to. A fascinating provenance. John Amory Lowell (1798-1881), of the distinguished Boston family of that name, was a businessman and philanthropist who became the sole trustee of the Lowell Institute when his cousin John Lowell, Jr., died in 1836. John Amory amdinistered the trust for 40 years. He was a Fellow of Harvard College (1837-1877), a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Linnean Society of London. Lowell gradated from Harvard in 1815 -- and noted each of his successive undergraduate years on the flyleaaf of this book. 1851, Harvard honored John Amory Lowell with an LLD. Contemporary calf (rubbed), rebacked. With the signature ?John A Lowell 1812? on the front pastedown; and beneath, his armorial bookplate ?John Amory Lowell?, the note ?Cost 13 dollars?, and on the front free endpaper, aa chronoology of his undergraduate years at Harvard 2 parts (Greek to Latin; Latin to Greek). LACKING TITLE PAGE. 1 vols. 4to.

8vo, pp. [4], 211, [1]; original tan printed wrappers; binding a bit skewed, short tears at the bottom of the front joint; all else near fine. With a presentation at the top of the upper wrapper: "Chas. R. Codintes [?] Esq. / with the regards of / J. A. Lowell." Reply to charges against the memory of J.W. Boott as published in Correspondence between Edward Brooks and John A. Lowell, with Remarks by Edward Brooks. Boott was Lowell's old employer and partner, and committed suicide in 1845, leaving Lowell as the executor of his estate. There was much dissent in the Bootts family and they attempted, unsuccessfully, to set the will aside, which lead to a further rejoinder by Brooks which appeared in 1851 with a whopping 855-page count. Sabin 42465. All six of the OCLC records are microforms or computer files. Not that this is any indication of rarity, but I can't find any record of sale back to 1945 where it brought $7 at a Parke-Bernet auction. Surely the edition was rather small.