Adam Alexander 1741 1809 Benjamin Gould (2 results)

Leather. Condition: Good. Heavily scuffed/rubbed leather covers. Heavily foxed but certainly readable. No markings in book. Binding is tight. No DJ.

Full title - ADAM'S LATIN GRAMMAR, WITH SOME IMPROVEMENTS, AND THE FOLLOWING ADDITIONS: RULES FOR THE RIGHT PRONUNCIATION OF THE LATIN LANGUAGE; A METRICAL KEY TO THE ODES OF HORACE; A LIST OF LATIN AUTHORS ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THE DIFFERENT AGES OF ROMAN LITERATURE; TABLES, SHOWING THE VALUE OF THE VARIOUS COINS, WRIGHTS, AND MEASURES, USED AMONG THE ROMANS. i-ix, 10-299, [1] pages. Hardcover: H 18.75cm x L 12cm. Contemporary full calf leather binding; boards rubbed and scuffed with corners worn; slender splitting lengthwise along front joint but hinge is reasonably firm with only fractional pliability to board; slight splitting at ends of rear joint but it too remains firm; scuffed spine has shallow chipping at ends and has black title label still retaining fairly bright gilt lettering "Latin Grammar." Front and rear endpapers plus rear flyleaf have various ink and regular and colored wax pencil inscriptions/signatures and some random writing by brothers John A. McCreary and James H. McCreary of an illegible Alabama town on ffep; rear flyleaf has inscription of Samuel McCreary, Turnbull, Monroe County, Alabama also in a youthful hand but with similar writing to that of sibling John; "J A M" initials in somewhat smudged colored wax pencil at top of page iii. Rear free endpaper has loss jagged loss to fore-edge area of leaf; possibly missing a front flyleaf; old pencil note from 1866 on torn sheet laid-in between pages 132-133; light to occasionally mild foxing throughout. Text block is firm. A good antiquarian copy. Publisher advertisement on verso of page 299. Uncommon Northampton, Massachusetts imprint of Butler and Bridgman which was apparently was a short-lived partnership between J.H. Butler and probably Thomas Bridgman. Samuel Preston McCreary (1837-1861), James Hunter McCreary (1839-1927), and John Adam McCreary (1842-1914) were sons of Samuel McCreary (1811-1861); the genealogy between father and the namesake first born is a bit confusing but it appears the father was killed in action early in the Civil War at Culpepper Court House, Virginia while serving in Company C, 5th Alabama. Evidently brothers John and James earned notoriety as abusive landowners on their McCreary Plantation and are profiled in the narrative of freed slave Sarah "Sallie" McCreary (1849-1928) within the 2010 book "Riley's Crossing" by Kathy McCoy.