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The Italian Bride. A Play in Five Acts. Written for Miss Eliza Logan, and Published for Private Distribution

by Samuel Yates Levy

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1856. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. Original brown cloth, stamped in blind, gilt title on spine. Savannah: John M. Cooper & Co., 1856. First Edition. (Singerman 1440. DeRenne 579. American Civil War Research Database. Rosen, The Jewish Confederates. Not in Sabin, Eberstadt, Wright, Decker.) Levy, a Jew from Savannah, was editor-in-chief of the Savannah Daily Advertiser. He enlisted in the 1st Georgia Infantry in August 1861 as a Captain and was promoted to Major in November. He was listed as a prisoner of war in June of 1864 at Marietta, and released from a Union camp at Johnsons Island, Ohio, in June of 1865. In April 1868 Levy criticized in print the political views of a certain Dr. James Waring. Waring, apparently thin-skinned, demanded a duel. Levy obliged, but luckily friends were able to defuse the situation. (Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities, 2013). Eliza Logan was a popular actress of the time, daughter of Cornelius Logan, a comic actor and playwright who served as her… Read More
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The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, in the Bengali Language.

by (YATES, WILLIAM).

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Hardcover. Fine. Translated from the Greek by the Calcutta Baptist Missionaries with Native Assistants. 8vo. Contemporary full calf with black- and gold-lettered spine labels Calcutta: Printed at the Baptist Mission Press . . . 1841. First Edition. Limited to 5000 copies. This important translation was written by William Yates, an English Baptist missionary and orientalist who spent many years in Calcutta, laboring on translations of the Bible into various languages including Hindustani and Bengali. The present work was considered the best Bengali translation of the Bible produced up to that time, exceeding the previous efforts of both William Carey (1801) and John Ellerton (1819), and remaining the authoritative Bengali translation for many years. (See: The Foreign Missionary Chronicle, 1838, Vol. 6, p. 65). Published under Yatess direct supervision with attendant corrections, this is among the rarest editions of his New Testament in Bengali. This copy bears no institutional markings of any kind (a… Read More
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