1831 JOHN WRIGHT [ED.]. Buffon's Natural History with 500 Engravings in Five Volumes. Evangelical and now that the war

and now that the war was over were "obnoxious" to the Americans

the work very scarce and desirable

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but blessed be his Everlasting Name he is to be found of them that seek Him & surly in an Especiall manner by those that are thus engaged in their Tender years for surly the Lord Loves an Early Sacrifice & pleasant it is to see the Youth to give up their hearts to him this makes the hearts of Religious parents rejoyce in seeing their Offspring to come up in Wisdoms ways & walk in her paths they knowing in a degree of Experience that her ways are ways of pleasantness & all her paths they tend to peace My pen my dear Children has gone to greater length than I Expected when I began to write but finding my heart in some degree open’d in a sence of that Love which the Tongue of the most Eloquent cannot send forth to the understanding of those that have not tasted the same with desires in my mind that you dear hearts may be frequently engaged to seek after it & then you will mee with the beloved of souls who is not Confied to time nor place but often appears to the seeking Traveller whose mind is staid on him when the hands may be engaged

depending on who was in charge of things

1831 JOHN WRIGHT [ED.]. Buffon's Natural History with 500 Engravings in Five Volumes. Evangelical and now that the warA charmingly aged set of Buffon's early American classic masterpiece of woodcut engravings of the natural world. Worn, but quite shelf handsome for the "bespoke" antiquarian library. Wright, John [Ed.]. A Natural History of the Globe, of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects and Plants. from the Writings of Buffon, Cuvier, Lacepede, and Other Eminent Naturalists. Edited by John Wright, Member of the Zoological Society of London. A New