Hamburg, South Carolina: Printed at the Republican Office, 1850. Octavo, pp (2), 48, stitched in self wrappers. Some foxing and yellowing; small chips to lower outer corners; soft creases; else a VG clean, unworn and largely unopened copy. The bulk of the pamphlet reprints his lengthy letter to The Christian Review headed "Woodville, near Hamburg, S.C. February 20, 1849". He is responding to an article in the January issue urging the prohibition of slavery in the new territories taken from Mexico. He correctly argues that the Bible condones slavery. "Iveson Lewis Brookes, teacher, Baptist minister, and planter, was born in Rockingham County, N.C. Brookes, a 1819 graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., amassed, through marriage and purchase, considerable holdings of land and slaves in Jasper and Jones counties in Georgia and Edgefield County and other locations in South Carolina. He also worked in schools for much of his life (teacher at Greensboro Academy, Greensboro, N.C., 1819; rector of Eatonton Academy, Eatonton, Ga., 1820s; principal of Penfield Female Academy, Penfield, Ga., 1840s), employing overseers to manage his plantations while he taught and preached at various Baptist churches. He was also active in national and local Baptist affairs and was a staunch defender of slavery." - University of North Carolina, introduction the Brookes papers collection at UNC. Hamburg, S.C., was a small all-black community across the Savannah River from Augusta, GA. It was the scene of white on black violence in 1876 during Reconstruction ("The Hamburg Massacre"). The last residents of the town left in 1929 and there are no visible remains of the community today. This is one of its earliest imprints. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.

Springfield [Massachusetts]: G. and C. Merriam, 1833. Title page continues: "his travels in America and residence in Europe; his return to this country and the causes which led him to his present profession; with his peculiar methods of calculation." 12mo, original publisher's glazed brown cloth, printed paper spine label. pp [2], (viii), (9)-204, [2] + frontispiece. Spine label is a little darkened with a bit of wear and loss of a few letters; small chip and neat repair lower spine; narrow chips and neat repair along front joint; VG otherwise, internally clean, tight, unworn, fine. Autobiography by this child prodigy and "mental calculator" who for a brief period was a sensation on two continents. "Colburn's abilities developed rapidly and he was soon able to solve such problems as the number of seconds in 2,000 years, the product of 12,225 and 1,223, or the square root of 1,449. When he was seven years old he took six seconds to give the numbers of hours in thirty-eight years, two months, and seven days. Zerah is reported to have been able to solve fairly complex problems. For example, the sixth Fermat number...The question is whether this number, 4,294,967,297, is prime or not. Zerah calculated in his head that it was not and has a divisor of 641. The other divisor is 6,700,417 and can easily be found using a calculator." -Wikipedia. He lost his powers with the onset of adulthood. After nine years of service as an itinerant Methodist preacher, eventually ended up a professor of languages at Dartmouth College. Colburn died of TB at age 34. Bell "Men of Mathematics" pp. 342-3: Sabin 14257.

Philadelphia: Printed for the American Philosophical Society, 1844. Octavo (23 cm) in original green printed wraps; 44 pp. In ink on front cover: "J. S. Da Costa Macedo, Lisbon." Light damp stain to lower inner corner of text, small creases at top outer corner, VG clean and unworn otherwise. Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (1760-1844), having emigrated from France to America as a young man of seventeen in 1777, served as secretary to Baron von Steuben with the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War, during which time he became acquainted with Alexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette, James Monroe, and other notables. After the war, he settled in Philadelphia, where he became a respected lawyer and a pioneering linguist and philologist especially noted for his study of the languages of Asia and the indigenous tribes of America. He joined the American Philosophical Society in 1791 and was its president from 1827 until his death. Includes a checklist of his publications. Macedo was Perpetual Secretary of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.

New York: Macmillan, 1917. Second edition, enlarged (first ed. was in 1908). Octavo, green decorated cloth stamped in blind and orange, gilt lettered. pp xii, (584), (4, ads), (4) + plates and a colour folding map. Soft bruise to lower inner corner of text; 1917 pencil gift inscription on front free endpaper; else a fine, very bright copy. In the uncommon dust jacket, which has some soiling and a two inch tear to lower front spine fold. "It now appears in a new edition, revised and with new matter. These added chapters have to do the latest information about the railroads, the government, mining, fishing, merchandise shipments from Alaska, and agricultural development in the land. There is also a new and up-to-date folded map in color." - jacket. Note. 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be requried.

Johann Ritter: Reading [Pennsylvania], 1807. Contemporary marbled boards and plain leather spine. [x], 176, [2] pp. Spine has chips to tips; inner hinges neatly repaired with rice paper; boards rubbed; text has yellowing, moderate foxing, occasional minor soiling, and a damp stain to lower portion from pp 155 to end including rear endpapers; text VG otherwise. This is quite possibly the first mathematics text book originally published in the United States by a German-American. A search through The First Century of German Language Printing in the United States of America turned up nothing earlier, though there were some earlier ready reckoners. There was a 1786 text by Ludwig Höcker, but it was probably an American printing of a work published in Germany earlier before he immigrated. Karpinski, Bibliography of Mathematical Works Printed in America Through 1850, p. 170.; Small octavo