Blackstone 1841 (5 results)
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Seller: Hawking Books, Edgewood, TX, U.S.A.Hawking Books
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Language: Hebrew
Published by Fleming H. Revell Company, New York, 1925
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Seller: Meir Turner, New York, NY, U.S.A.Meir Turner
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. In Hebrew. V, 198 pages. 194 x 134 mm. William Eugene Blackstone (October 6, 1841 Adams, New York - November 7, 1935) was an American evangelist and Christian Zionist. He was the author of the Blackstone Memorial of 1891, a petition which called upon America to actively return the Holy… Land to the Jewish people. Blackstone was influenced by Dwight Lyman Moody, James H. Brookes, and John Nelson Darby. Blackstone was born in Adams, New York and became an evangelical Christian when he was 11 during revival meetings at a local Methodist church. He enlisted for military service during the American Civil War but was not accepted due to "frailness of body." Instead he joined the United States Christian Commission (similar to the modern Red Cross) and was stationed much of the time at General Ulysses S. Grant's headquarters as coordinator of medical services for injured combatants. On June 5, 1866, Blackstone married Sarah Lee Smith (daughter of Philander Smith) and settled in Oak Park, Illinois in 1870, where he very successfully engaged in the "business of building and property investments." Blackstone, in a single night of personal spiritual struggle, decided to dedicate his life to God. Renouncing material pursuits, he devoted the rest of his long life, in his preaching as well as in his writing, to the premillennial return and rapture of the Church. As he ministered across the U.S., Blackstone spoke with increasing fervor in support of Jewish restorationism. In 1878, he wrote, Jesus is Coming. His book became the veritable reference source of American dispensationalist thought. Over the next 50 years, Jesus is Coming sold millions of copies worldwide and was translated into 48 languages. He initially focused on the restoration of the Jews to the Holy Land as a prelude to their conversion to Christianity, out of a pious wish to hasten the coming of the Messiah; but he increasingly became concerned with the deadly, Russian, government-instigated pogroms and believed that it was necessary to create a Jewish homeland in Israel. He was, furthermore, persuaded that neither the European nations nor the United States would accept as many Jews as needed to escape from Europe, Blackstone and his daughter traveled to the Holy Land in 1888. He returned convinced that a return of the Jewish people to its ancient homeland was the only possible solution to the persecution Jews suffered elsewhere. On November 24-25, 1890, Blackstone organized the Conference on the Past, Present and Future of Israel at the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Chicago where participants included leaders of both Jewish and Christian communities, albeit not leaders of the Reform movement. The conference issued a call urging the great powers, including the Ottoman Empire, to return Israel to the Jews. Resolutions of sympathy for the oppressed Jews living in Russia were passed, but Blackstone was convinced that such resolutions, even though passed by prominent men, were insufficient. He advocated strongly for the voluntary resettlement of the Jewish people, suffering under virulent anti-Semitism, in Israel. A year later in 1891, Blackstone led a petition drive that was approved by the conference. It was later known as the Blackstone Memorial. The memorial was signed by 413 prominent Christian and a few Jewish leaders in the United States. Blackstone personally gathered the signatures of men such as John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Cyrus McCormick, senators, congressmen, religious leaders of all denominations, newspaper editors, the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and others for the "Blackstone Memorial." He presented the "Memorial" to President Harrison, March 1891, calling for American support of Jewish restoration to Israel. His petition presaged and paralleled the later ideas of Theodor Herzl.
Rare 19th century Mississippi signed binding. COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND: IN FOUR BOOKS; WITH ANALYSIS OF THE WORK . . . WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, AND NOTES . . . AND REFERENCES TO AMERICAN CASES. VOLUME I and II. [Vol. One-1 & Two-2.]
Blackstone, William, 1723-1780. Edward Christian, 1758-1823; Joseph Chitty, 1775-1841; Thomas Lee; John Eykyn Hovenden; Archer Ryland.
Published by Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1857., 1857
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Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
Contact seller5-star sellerVOLUME I AND II (complete set). Poor condition. Full title: COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND: IN FOUR BOOKS; WITH ANALYSIS OF THE WORK. BY SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE . . . IN TWO VOLUMES, FROM THE NINETEENTH LONDON EDITION. WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, AND NOTES BY CHRISTIAN, CHITTY, LEE, HOVENDEN, AND RYLAND; AND ALSO REFERENCES T…O AMERICAN CASES, BY A MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK BAR. Full leather-bound hardcover volumes, approximate dimensions H 23cm x L 14.5cm. VOLUME I (containing Books I and II): missing front free endpaper to title page inclusive; first page present is Preface (page 3); paged 3-404, 1-452; worn spine leather complete detached from backstrip and now laid-in; scuffed front and rear boards tenuously attached by to spine by threads; large loss of surface leather to rear board along spine edge; soiling and staining as well as foxing and browning to interior leaves; bug damage along margins of rear pastedown and two rear flyleaves; one rear flyleaf has large loss as well as pencil notes; various pencil marks/notes and occasional faded antiquarian ink notes in page margins. VOLUME II (containing Books III and IV) paged as i-xx, 1-369, [1], 1-402; spine leather completely lacking; front board along with front free endpaper and front flyleaf completely detached; pencil ownership inscription of a "W.C. Shumaker" of Macon, Mississippi dated 1883 on detached flyleaf; rear board tenuously attached; strong browning to interior leaves with some moisture stains. Binding leather of Vol. 2 is of light brown calf whereas Vol. 1 has dark brown patina; there is also a fractional difference in book dimensions and the paper quality between the two volumes differs as well so it is likely that Vol. 1 is of a different publisher or at least a different year than that of Vol. 2 but, of course, the former is missing its title page. Both books, however, have a large antiquarian bindery ticket for "Clarion Book Bindery Jackson, Miss" located at the top left corners of their respective front pastedowns. Jackson, Mississippi's Clarion-Ledger newspaper started in Jasper County near Meridian in 1837 as The Eastern Clarion but did not move to Jackson and become The Clarion until just after the Civil War. Presumably Clarion Book Bindery (I have also encountered tickets for "Clarion Office Book Bindery") would have been an ancillary business to the newspaper company and would probably make the binding date to circa 1865-1880. Nineteenth century bindery or bookseller tickets for Mississippi are quite uncommon. British jurist Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780) was the colonial era's eminent legal scholar and his Commentaries were requisite reading for every lawyer in the nascent American republic. Poor copies in need of re-binding but still with an unusual quality for a Southern collector.
