Benjamin Ferris, Used (6 results)

Wrappers. Condition: Good. 28 pages. Very slim oblong format paperback brochure/exhibition catalogue, staple-bound in illustrated paper covers. There is some handling wear, but the binding remains tight, and the interior is clean and free of markings. Text in English. 39 paintings illustrated. in color. Published on the occasion of the exhibition.

Softcover. Condition: VG. Color wraps. 28 pp. 5 bw, 39 color plates. Four page essay on these two artists by Robert Wilson Torchia, with copious notes. Lovely color reproductions. This catalogue is also known as Philadelphia Collection 61 from this gallery. Each of the pictures is annotated, and most are either floral compositions of scenes from France. Catalog of 39 paintings by Benjamin Ferris Gilman and Claudine Scott Gilman, painters associated with Philadelphia (Pa.)--and Paris (France).

front stiff paper wrapper. Ferris, Benjamin (illustrator). 8vo. front stiff paper wrapper. 40 pages. B1-1084A. With contributions by Lewis P. Bush, Henry C. Conrad, David Ferris and Pennock Pusey. Front wrapper chipped with pieces missing along edges; back wrapper missing.

hardcover. Condition: Good. 1856 printing, slightly different cover. , Ex-Library hardcover book no dust jacket, usual library marks are present. Has some light reader wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Select Works of William Penn. To Which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life. London, Printed in the Year 1771. n.p.leather binding, lxi, title page lacking & replaced in manuscript form, 862 pp, 16 x 10", folio. ***Includes a manuscript leaf copy from the minutes of the London yearly Quaker meeting, which comments: "By the foregoing minute it appears that this Volume of the Works of William Penn was published under the sanction and by the direction of London Yearly Meeting in 1768." In poor condition. As is. Front board detached from binding; rear board attached by cording only, fragile. Full leather boards moderately to heavily scuffed at edges and especially at corners. Head and tail of leather spine lacking. Title label lacking. Raised bands on spine are rubbed with exposed cording. Water dampness staining exhibited at bottom of fore-edge. Pasted-in manuscript page entitled "Yearly Meeting 1768" found on front paste-down, with old-hand ink marginalia below. Old-hand ink marginalia also found on front end-page (verso), along with a signature: Benj. Ferris, Wilmington. Manuscript title page's ink slightly dulled at top edge, but remains clean and bright overall. General toning and foxing throughout text-block, with some instances of age-staining. Chipping to pages 364-365, loss of some text. Binding is intact, but very fragile. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. William Penn (1644-1718) was an English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Providence of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era. Penn, an advocate for democracy and religious freedom, was known for his amicable relations and successful treaties with the Lenape Native Americans who had resided in present-day Pennsylvania prior to European settlements. Benjamin Ferris (1780-1867) was a watchmaker and historian from Wilmington, Delaware. Ferris was born sixth of seventh children to Ziba Ferris (1743-1794) and Edith Sharpless (1742-1815) in a house on the northeast corner of Third and Shipley Streets in Wilmington. He was a descendant of Samuel Ferris, who had come from Reading, England, in 1682 to settle at Groton, Massachusetts, and of John Ferris, who was among the first settlers in the city of Wilmington in 1748. As a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Ferris was a proponent of the views of Elias Hicks, claiming "obedience to the light within" as sufficient for salvation, and publishing a debate with an evangelical minister which contributed to a schism in 1827. In 1839, Ferris was appointed to a committee of the Yearly Meeting of Friends of New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, to investigate wrongdoings against Seneca Indians. Although the treaty he recommended was ultimately rejected by the Senate, he was successful in brokering a deal which resulted in about half their land being restored to them. Ferris was a true "renaissance man," ambitious, self-educated, well-versed in the classics; a watchmaker, surveyor & finally historian. David Ferris (1707-1779), London Yearly Meeting extracts were found with his documents, was a third generation member of the Ferris family, son to Zachariah and Sarah Ferris. His parents were Presbyterian and it was noted his mother was "religiously deposed." In August 1733, he moved to Philadelphia where he joined the Society of Friends having previously attended their meeting on Long Island "to discover whether they were living people or not." He married Mary Massey in 1735. In 1737, his family moved to Wilmington, Delaware, where he would remain for the balance of his life. David was a shopkeeper & his first efforts as a minister were recorded in 1735, but it was not until 1755 that he primarily devoted himself to the ministry with took him throughout America. Benjamin, most likely, came to own this work and the manuscript notes from his ancestor David. David and Benjamin were a generation apart, and David died the year before Benjamin was born. However, they are a part of the same family line that first settled in Wilmington, Delaware. RAREA1771ITVQ 04/25 - HK1406.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. quarto, 4 pages, including stamp-less address leaf, formerly folded, else in very good clean condition. A detailed account of Canby's week of travels in upstate New York to visit relatives and fellow Quakers, after sailing from Boston to New York: "My Dear Anna, . we left town in the Hudson Packet for Fishkill, we chose the above in preference to the Steam Boat on account of her being so much retarded by a strong head wind as to prevent her passing thro the Highlands before daylight the succeeding morning - we arrived at that narrow pass about seven oclock first day morning and was exceedingly gratified by the magnificent scenery, the mountains presented. I can scarcely convey to thee in this way an idea of the stupendous scenery, the mountains presented. I can scarcely convey to thee in this way an idea of the stupendous Grandeur of this remarkable place, the river thro the pass is about one mile in width but owing to the height of the mountains on either side appears very narrow and a sloop of much larger dimensions than those employed at B[randy] Wine when close under the shore appears little larger than an oyster boat - indeed when we were passing I could scarcely believe my own eyes. when coming along side a vessel which a few minutes before appeared a mere Sail Boat, I found her equal in size to that in which I was. We were gratified by seeing several places which were of much note and importance during the War of Independence - viz. the Fort called Stony Point stormed by General Wayne and West Point where Arnold and the British Adjutant General completed their infamous bargain., and the rock from which the former escaped on board the ship of war, when that bargain was discovered. We arrived at Newburgh at one oclock and immediately crossed over to Fishkill." With a friend, Canby, "proceeded to the top of the mountains . from which the scene was beautiful beyond description particularly that part of it that lies to the northward, in that direction the eye wanders over a great extent of fertile country through which the noble Hudson pours his current until the sight is lost in the Kaatskill ridge which appears like an immense bank of dark clouds. it was necessary for us to be in Newburgh to take the Steam Boat for New York at three oclock in the morning . we got on board in the midst of a most violent shower of rain . we had a rapid passage down and were gratified by getting a prospect of that part of the river and its borders that we passed in the night on our way up." Arriving in New York, Canby "took up our lodging. at a house in broadway." visiting friends who "make their house at Willet Hicks . about two miles from town in the pleasant village of Greenwich. please convey this to . that part of our family now at B[randy]Wine respecting our peregrinations etc. Perhaps thou may obtain something handsome from Peale for this letter for his Museum." A letter of early American travel with some intriguing historical hints: Robert Fulton's first Steam Boat trip from New York was only three years before Canby described sailing on the scenic Hudson. A year earlier, Quaker Willet Hicks, in the "pleasant village of Greenwich", had been the death-bed companion of the radical Thomas Paine. Charles Wilson Peale, painter and renaissance man, married to a Philadelphia Quaker, had established the first popular museum of art and natural science; he was also an inventor who collaborated on several projects with Thomas Jefferson. This is significant because Merrit Canby's father, William, a flour miller and Quaker leader who lived in the Brandywine River village of Wilmington, Delaware, was a close friend of Jefferson's. In 1802, when son Merrit was 19 and about to leave home to seek his fortune in Philadelphia, his father visited Jefferson at the 'President's House' in Washington, in company with an English missionary, hoping to per. Handwritten.