Rev Balch (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Brown cover with brown floral endpapers and JOURNAL 1856 in gilt at the spine top. The front and rear boards sunned (purple). There's an inch bottom chip to the spine cloth (tiny one near the top) and an inch tear at the top of the spine edge. 412 pp. plus 94 pp. plus 20 (and two). Few scattered notations otherwise clean pages and a secure text block. Hardcover book. Scarce Protestant Journal in fair condition! Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Duodecimo, 252 pages, publisher's embossed cloth, snagged at head of spine [ Not in Nietz, OLD TEXTBOOKS ]. Rev. Balch was a Universalist minister who was a founder of St. Lawrence University, where he presented these Lectures on Language. "There is no subject so deeply interesting and important to rational beings as the knowledge of language . there is no other so closely interwoven with all the affairs of human life, social, moral, political and religious. . The author is aware that the principles he has advocated are new and opposed to established systems and the common method of inculcation. But the difficulties acknowledged on all hands to exist, is a sufficient justification of this humble attempt." - Preface.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. original brown blind-stamped cloth,42 pages, covers are worn, soiled, worm holes along spine, loose in binding, covers starting, scattered foxing, ink notations on end-papers, poor copy. The steamship Great Western left Liverpool, on Sept, 18th 1846, with 126 passengers, bound for NY. She encountered a storm which lasted 36 hrs. This tract tells of the storm and the efforts of the Rev's Beecher & Balch to appeal to God on behalf of the passengers. See Roorbach entry under Scott, Thomas, Rev. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

Washington: Henry Polkinhorn, Printer, 1859. 28 pages. 8vo, original printed wrappers. 1859 presentation inked to top of front wrapper. Soft vertical crease; rear wrapper with several old former crease lines. A Very Good copy. Romantic antebellum homage to Georgetown; its history told in flowery prose by local native and Presbyterian pastor Thomas Bloomer Balch (1793-1878). Georgetown's sibling rivalry with nearby Washington, D.C. shows within this text passage as Balch's gently admonishes the local citizenry: "We have now become more practical and less social in our habits. Hospitality is below par, and business has become the order of the day, and even of the night; and then we have gained nothing by the change. We must try to raise the former heat of sociability from zero to at least a well-tempered fervor, or else snow will bury the settlement, and icicles may be suspended on all our dwellings. Because we cannot keep pace with the expensive fashions of Washington, there is no reason that the antique, plain, and unvarnished hospitality of our fathers and mothers, our brothers and sisters, our uncles and aunts, should not be immediately revived. But far be it from me to reflect on a people who are objects of love to the lecturer, and not of vituperation. These remarks are intended as kind to all; for a return to our old ways will be promotive both of contentment and cheerfulness. Let us resolve to be social rather than fashionable, and generous instead of extravagant." The pastor was a "graduate of the College of New Jersey in 1813 and Princeton Theological Seminary in 1817, where he was a member of the American Whig Society. Hampden-Sydney College conferred an honorary DD on him in 1860. Daniel Webster is supposed to have described him as the most learned man he had ever known." (Wikipedia) Balch's lecture was following by a second lecture on March 9th, also published as a pamphlet. Both are scarce.