#Pictorial family bible 1892 full

#Pictorial family bible 1892 full

A brightly illustrated family Bible in a full morocco binding, containing both the Old and New Testament, and with metal clasps in full working order.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and title page, ten colour plates and fourteen further plates. A beautifully and brightly illustrated full morocco family Bible, in an impressive full morocco binding with metal clasps. Two 'pages' as frames for Family Portraits. The pages for Marriages, Births, Deaths and Memoranda still clean. Slight foxing on the first pages at the beginning and at the end. Signature, in beautiful handwriting, on the inside of the front board. The front board a bit worn compared to the rear which is in perfect condition. The fold-out have a tear at the lower part. Gilt lettering and decorations on the spine. Indentation on both boards with 'Holy Bible' blind stamped and with gilt lettering. Elaborate design with blind stamped gilt decorations all over. Whole leather (brown) with 2 centimetres thick boards. Supplemental section has an interesting piece, with charts, on horology: 'Extract from the Judges in Horology', from the 1879-1880 Sydney International Exhibition', with three charts which compare the performance of top watchmakers of the time. Other topics in this issue of the always thoroughly illustrated Scribner's Monthly - almost all thoroughly illustrated with engravings - are: About England with (Charles) Dickens, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, The French Republic, Canada, Whippoorwills, the Grandissimes, Peter the Great, Curiosities of Advertising, American Diplomacy, Rivers (superb engravings), and the etchings of Seymour Haden. Fascinating reading, and the writing has a ring of authenticity to it, un-hyped and oddly down-to-earth, direct and sincere and simple for the language of the day - though I am certainly no expert on the subject. Dickinson's article, 'The Book of Mormon', dealing with the claim of the daughter of Reverend Solomon Spaulding that her father had, in fact, written a work which was subsequently usurped by Joseph Smith for the creation of the Book of Mormon. The original issue, in wraps - not from the hardbound aggregations - of the August,1880 issue which contains Ellen E. Contents extraordinarily clean and bright.

A Strong Very Good, or a bit more, with even a virtually complete spine (albeit end-tweaked -see scan). No, that's not a crease at lower right - that's a bit of flippancy in Scribner's Holiday Issue cover design. Some chipping along bottom edge, some soiling. 9.75' x 6.5', original pale lavender wraps perfect-bound wraps, 8 pp. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, August 1880. See more images, essays, newspapers and records about Aaron Lucius Chapin.Įxplore more than 1,600 people, places and events in Wisconsin history.Original Wraps. He was also one of the founders and presidents of the Wisconsin Academy of Science. From 1851 to 1889 he was a member of the American Board for Foreign Missions and was also a trustee of the Chicago Theological Seminary from 1858-1891, Rockford Seminary from 1845 to 1892, the Wisconsin Institute for the Deaf and Dumb from 1865 to 1881 and a director of the American Home Missionary Society from 1850 to 1883. He was the editor of the Congregational Review and the New Englander. While serving as president of the college from 1850 to 1886, he also taught civil polity, edited Francis Wayland's 'Political Economy' and Johnson's Encyclopedia and was the author of 'First Principles of Political Economy' in 1879.

He also acted as college treasurer since many of the original endowments were in the form of land grants. In 1843 he moved to Milwaukee, where he was ordained and then became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. When he and other religious leaders realized the education needs of the upper Mississippi valley, he assembled a convention of delegates from Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa which resulted in the establishment of Beloit College. In 1850 he became first president of the new college and modeled it on New England sectarian schools.

He graduated from Yale College in 1837 and Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1842. Aaron Lucius Chapin was a congregational clergyman, college president and editor born in Hartford, Connecticut.