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(RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE). VARIOUS ARTISTS & POETS Korneev, Boris (Ed).Biblio.com

[Massachusetts – New Bedford – Whaling – Maritime Trade] Various AuthorsBiblio.com

Collection of Letters Mainly to New Bedford Massachusetts Whalers I.H. Bartlett & Sons 1830s–1850s

1855List3333Massachusetts New York Maine Pennsylvania and others 1855. Fifty letters with four empty envelopes or covers. Forty-four letters addressed to I.H. Bartlett & Sons: two from the 1830s eight from the 1840s and thirty-four from the 1850s. With five letters addressed to Capt. John C. Blanchard 1838 1839 1844 and 1849 and one to Cumston & Hatch N.d. Overall excellent to Near Fine. Ivory Hovey Bartlett 1794â€“1871 was a merchant and whale oil seller based in New Bedford Massachusetts. Bartlett moved to New Bedford from Plymouth in 1819 first dealing in grain and later transitioning to general merchandise and whaling.1 Whale oil and spermaceti were widely used in lamps and as lubricant and whalebone baleen was used for structure in items like umbrellas and corsets. In the nineteenth century whaling was the basis of New Bedfordâ€™s economyâ€”supporting shipbuilding refineries toolworks and moreâ€”making it the wealthiest city in North America at the peak of the industry in the midcentury. Whaling declined in the 1860s with the rise of petroleum which could be both used as a lubricant and distilled into kerosene for lighting. Offered here is a collection of letters mainly to Bartlettâ€™s company I.H. Bartlett & Sons with five to Captain John C. Blanchard of Searsport Maine and one to Cumston & Hatch. The latter is unknown; Blanchard was in the cotton and sugar trades sailing between the US Europe and West Indies. Letters to Bartlett are mainly from other mercantile firms; they pay bills make purchases discuss oil prices and occasionally complain. For instance Robert Robinson of Portland Maine writes: â€œI have just got 4 Casks of my oil 3 of the last and 1 of the invoice of 30th ult. I cannot understand why my oil should be keep back in this way. Hyde had seven casks by yesterdays Boat the same boat which mine came by it seemâ€™s as if the fates where against this Oil as yesterday boat did not arrive untill late yesterday afternoon and this mornings boat has arrived without the balance there must be something wrong somewhere . I must say I think such neglect should be made known but perhaps it would be better to suffer for fear of the future. I shall not be able to get off any oil untill tomorrow as the oil was not out of the boat untill this morning. it is not thirteen days since that one cask left New Bedford .â€. October 13 1852 Most of Bartlettâ€™s customers buy whale oil though beef molasses and coal are also discussed but some are interested in whalebone; as are Wright Bros & Co a Philadelphian umbrella manufacturer who write to complain about market speculation: â€œThe fact appears to us that speculation and the calculation of holders put the price kept it so high that it considerably lessened consumption â€“ so much so of late that some have been disposed to slide it off below New Bedford rates very quietly.â€ October 23 1852 The letters to all parties are generally all business except for two of the five to John Blanchard: one from his wife Caroline Houston and one from fellow Searsport captain David Nickels Jr. 1823â€“1888 who writes from Bangor: â€œI see by to dayâ€™s Mercantile gazette that you are in trouble I can sympathize with you God knows I have had a good share of it since I left the land of Gospel light and liberty as the good people say in their prayers I have been in this place fifteen days you doubtless knew I was chartered by Capt Pendleton to go from Leith to Bangor for a cargo of slates and from here to Boston I sailed from Leith on the 27th of November last for this place I got as far as the Orkney Islands on the 30th of November the wind blowing heavy from the westward and having a pilot belonging to the Orkneys on board I concluded to take the harbour of Longhope and lay till a shift of wind or till it moderated . in spite of all our endeavouring we were driven on shore broke the keel out of her filled as high as the lower deck which was on the 3d of December and on the 22d of March we left the Orkney Islands after having been near four months there When I got here I found the man who was to freight the Barque from here to Boston had neglected to place funds in the hands of the slate agent of this place consequently he refuses to put slates on board of the vessel till he receives funds from Boston .â€. May 13 1849 Overall a look at the dealings of maritime merchants in the mid-nineteenth century particularly in the critical east coast whaling industry. 1 â€œDeath of a Well-Known Merchantâ€ The Standard-Times February 6 1871 2. unknown

Auger Down Books · États-Unis3 750,00 $US≈ 3 172,88 €

[MESMERISM] [ESOTERICA] VARIOUSBiblio.com

Black Art Pamphlets; Four works on Fortune-Telling and Mesmerism in sammelband

189082214Leipzig; Paris: Friedrich Boigt; Albert Berger; Chamuel etc. 1890's. 21cm. The whole bound in a functional dark brown cloth titled in white to spine. Some wear to the cloth cosmetic fraying to spine ends and some general wear a good solid binding performing a practical rather than aesthetic function. A rather complex little collection with two German pamphlets on cartomancy and fortune telling being duodecimo sized and the two subsequent works; a German pamphlet on magnetic healing and a French work on mesmerism being octavo. Tight and strong but perhaps a little unbalanced through necessity. Contents: 1. "Wahresagekunst The Art of Divination.aus den Linien der Hand. Die Kunst des Karteschlagens und Träume richtig zu deuten." Leipzig; Friedrich Boigt's Buchhandlung. c.1880's. Stated tenth edition. Publisher's illustrated yellow paper wraps with a hand-colored image of an elderly woman reading cards and a woman's palm simultaneously to expressions of shock and dismay from the two respectable ladies present. Some wear to the extremities of the wraps and the whole has been annotated and doodled on in pencil with notes crossings out and astrological symbols in the margins. The paper quality is pretty appalling and is heavily toned. Illustrated throughout with small in text engravings of palmistry guides and with the latter half of the pamphlet instructing how to incorporate cartomancy into the divinatory process with an extensive list of possible dream permutations and their symbolic meaning. An interesting little work that uncomfortably straddles the border of fortune telling as party trick and as occult divinatory art with the additional psychological foray into the interpretation of dreams and the acknowledgement of a symbolic subconscious. 2. "Das Karteshlagen oder die kunst sich selbst und Anderen aus der Deutschen un Französischen Karte." Leipzig; Verlag der Ernst'schen Buchhandlung. 1880's. Publisher's grey paper wraps titled and decorated in black with manicules!. 60pp. Some shallow scuffing and chipping to the wraps a very good example internally clean with the page edges a little ragged due to some clumsy opening. Internally clean although our pencil wielding devotee of the occult has made some small assaults into this work. Cartomancy and Cheiromancy presented as complimentary arts of divination with colour illustrations of card types as a frontispiece and numerous interior diagrams of palm lines and potential card layouts there also seems to be an emphasis on ambience and a certain showmanship bringing the suggestive psychological elements back into the mix and placing the varied schools represented in this sammelband back into a sort of shambling thematic order. 3. "Die Heilmethode des Lebensmagnetismus nebst einer Untersuchung uber den Unterschied zwischen hypnotismus und heilmagnetismus von H.R. Paul Schroeder." 1895. Leipzig: Verlag von Albert Berger. Stated Third Edition. 144pp. Publisher's yellow wraps titled and decorated in black. Some soiling and light wear pinhole of loss to the lower edge of the front wrap and the ownership or possibly bookseller's ink stamp of the mesmeric practitioner himself Herr Schroeder of Leipzig to the front cover. Internally clean although heavily toned due to the cheapest of paper being used. A third expanded and revised edition of Schroeder's work originally published in 1890 with case notes and accounts of treatments and responses CRABTREE 1279. Schroeder's major contribution to the annals of mesmerism and magnetism was the 1899 publication of one of the best and most comprehensive histories of the Mesmeric phenomenon. 4. "Les états Profonds de L'Hypnose." DE ROCHAS Albert. Paris: Chamuel. 1896. Stated Fourth Edition. Publisher's cream colored wraps titled in black and red. 119pp. Some marginal soiling and toning mostly due to cheap paper. Internally clean. De Rochas features rarely amongst the annals of mesmerism and hypnosis but his work was diligent and popular when published with this particular work being a companion to the earlier work The Superficial States of Hypnosis. "The rigorous notation of the phenomena observed by the author and the numerous citations of the experiments made by him make this work as valuable as a document. It constitutes in addition and outside of the occult didactic part a bundle of indisputable proofs." Caillet referring to the first edition. 82214. Friedrich Boigt; Albert Berger; Chamuel etc. unknown

Lorne Bair Rare Books · États-Unis600,00 $US≈ 507,66 €

[Sammelband].- [Various].Biblio.com

A collection of thirteen 19th & 20th century pamphlets

181787850Various London Leeds &c.: various 1817. Mixed editions. Hardcover. 1817-c.1908 Mixed edition. 8vo. Later buckram cloth. A rare and fascinating collection of pamphlets from the early nineteenth century through to the early twentieth century encompassing an array of subjects including a rare pamphlet on the SS Great Eastern 1886: 1. England's Hope Suddenly Cut Off: Authentic Particulars of the Last Illness and Much Lamented Death of Her Royal Highness The Princess Charlotte Who Expired at Half Past Two O'clock on Thursday Morning November 6 1817. Author not stated printed by R Edwards Fleet Street 1817. 32pp. Second edition. First and last pages foxed and tanned but main body of text in good readable condition. 3pp adverts for cigar importers and outfitters in Ramsgate and Margate the third page of adverts with a newspaper clipping concerning the following pamphlet laid in 2. An account of the wreck of the Indian Chief lacking covers. The Indian Chief was a barque that was wrecked in a storm in 1881 on the Long Sand off the mouth of the Thames. Twelve of her crew were rescued by the Ramsgate life-boat. Good readable condition but a printing error has left the bottom corner of page four lack a few words of text. 4pp adverts Thanet businesses some damage to one page. 3. Letter on Corpulence Addressed to the Public by William Banting. Published by Harrison London 1864. Third edition 50pp. Good clean pages bound without covers. A rare early diet plan and the first to advocate the low carbohydrate method to achieve weight loss. 4. End of this Age on April 23 1908 by Rev. M Baxter The Prophet Baxter. 32pp Biblical prophecies the end of the world etc etc in the light of political events and so on. Foxed but readable. 5. Britain or Israel The Fifth and Last and The Unconquerable Empire as Depicted in Nebuchadnezzar's Dream and its Interpretation to which is added Britain or Israel The "Ancient of Days" by John Gilder Shaw. Published by S W Partridge London. Undated c1879 includes fold-out map of "J G Shaw's Illustrative Prophetic Map" with hand-coloured figure stretching from France through to Persia. The first of a number of British Israelism texts the movement that believed the people of Great Britain are the direct descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of ancient Israel. 6. Forty-Seven Identifications of the British Nation with the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel Founded upon Five Hundred Scripture Proofs by Edward Hine. Published by S W Partridge undated c1874. 54pp. Good condition some spotted foxing. Bound without covers. British Israelism. 7. Are Englishmen Israelites A Three-Nights' Debate between Mr Edward Hine and Mr Robert Roberts in Exeter Hall London 1879 together with A Lecture by Mr Roberts in the Myddleton Hall Islington Sunday 27th April 1879. Published by F Pitman London 1879. 128pp. Assumed first. The subject of the lecture being "the true position of Britain in relation to Israel's coming Restoration and the re-establishment of the Kingdom of David." 8. Are we Israelites The Testimony of History Philology and Ethnology on the Subject by Rev Bourchier Wrey Savile with an introduction by Philo-Israel. Published by W H Guest London 1879. 63pp. Good condition foxed to page edges. 9. A Complete History of the "Great Eastern" from her First Projection in 1850 to her Visit to the Mersey in 1886. Published by Lewis's of Liverpool 1886. 32pp. An incredibly rare pamphlet produced by Lewis's the famous Liverpool department store documenting the history of Brunel's the ship from it's launch in 1858 and transatlantic crossings to its mooring as a floating advertisement for Lewis's The S.S. Great Eastern was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and was was broken up in 1889. This pamphlet has few illustrations including the Great Eastern at Sea and as the floating advert. Readable condition but delicate. Pages quite heavily tanned and bound without covers. Pages starting to work loose a little but the text is complete. 10. Croquet; The Laws and Regulations of the Game with a Description of the Implements etc by John Jaques. Published by Jaques and Son London undated c1866. 48pp many illustrations with adverts to rear. Green cover bound in contents in very good condition. 11. Thirteen plates of Thomas Rowlandson's works Vauxhall Gardens Harmony Racing Incidents etc followed by a 4pp copy of "Rowlandson's Tour in a Post-Chaise to the Wreck of the Royal George 1782" Probably the 1891 reprint published in The Graphic. 12. The History of the Convict Hulk "Success" and "Success" Prisoners A Vivid Fragment of Colonial History by Joseph C Harvie. Published by Petty & Sons Leeds 1900. Early reprint 80pp illustrations. Some tanning but good. 13. Montalembert on Constitutional Liberty A Picture of England Painted by a Frenchman being a Complete Translation of the Memorable Article entitled 'A Debate on India in the English Parliament' which has Subjected the Author to the Now Pending State Prosecution by M. Le Comte de Montalembert. Published by Effingham Wilson London 1858. First edition. 76pp. Quite a rare Montalembert title in which he praises English political freedom particularly its parliamentary system and religious neutrality in India and which left him facing prosecution in France. This copy slightly tanned and with some spotted foxing but in strong readable condition. Signature to the head of the title page is George Henry Maberly a noted London coach builder in London and founder of Thrupp and Maberly. Contents mostly in good order some foxing contents remains secure with just the Great Eastern pamphlet starting to work loose as it was produced on cheaper paper and would originally have been stapled; binding faded to spine otherwise very good. No jacket [various] hardcover

Lycanthia Rare Books · Royaume-Uni650,00 £GB≈ 742,17 €