Research Catalog

Title

Elements of moral philosophy / by the Rev. R.H. Rivers, ... ; edited by Thomas O. Summers.

Author

Rivers, R. H. (Richard Henderson), 1814-1894

Publication

• Nashville, Tenn. : Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1859.
• Nashville, Tenn. : Stereotyped and printed by A.A. Stitt, 1859.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Stitt, A. A.
• Summers, Thomas O. (Thomas Osmond), 1812-1882
• Southern Methodist Publishing House, publisher.
• Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, Bookplate.

Description

381 pages; 19 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Subjects

• Bookplates (Provenance) !2 rbprov
• Christian ethics
• Slavery > Justification
• Slavery > United States > Controversial literature

Genre/Form

Bookplates (Provenance) !2 rbprov.

Note

• Also availlable on Microfilm; researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro R-4852.
• "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by R.H. Rivers, in the Office of Clerk of the District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee."--copyright statement, verso of title page.

Indexed In (note)

• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Provenance (note)

• The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division's copy (accession no. F521253) includes the "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection" bookplate.

Call Number

Sc Rare 170-R (Rivers, R. Elements of moral philosophy)

LCCN

33030639

OCLC

10202572

Author

Rivers, R. H. (Richard Henderson), 1814-1894, author.

Title

Elements of moral philosophy / by the Rev. R.H. Rivers, ... ; edited by Thomas O. Summers.

Publisher

Nashville, Tenn. : Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1859.

Manufacturer

Nashville, Tenn. : Stereotyped and printed by A.A. Stitt, 1859.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 7, page 6500, column 1, row 1

Provenance

The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division's copy (accession no. F521253) includes the "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection" bookplate. NN

Local Note

Probably one of the books added to the collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian and Lawrence Reddick was the Curator. Lacks original covers, bound in hunter green cloth over boards library binding, gilt spine; and currently housed in an avocado green paste-cloth over boards Ocker and Trapp Library Bindery's box with gold title gilt on spine, date: Apr. 15, 1982.

Source

F521253. NN

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Place of Publication

United States Tennessee Nashville.

Added Author

Stitt, A. A., printer.

Summers, Thomas O. (Thomas Osmond), 1812-1882, editor.

Southern Methodist Publishing House, publisher.

Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, Bookplate.

Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995, Curator.

Other Form:

Online version: Rivers, R.H. (Richard Henderson), 1814-1894. Elements of moral philosophy. Nashville, Tenn. : Southern Methodist Pub. House, 1859 (OCoLC)657175335

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 170-R (Rivers, R. Elements of moral philosophy)