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67168ACC Art Books 2020. Film reference FIRST EDITION. Small folio 33 x 29cm. With contributions from actors including George Lazenby and Jane Seymour. Foreword by script writers Robert Wade and Neal Purvis. Publisher's photographic paper-covered boards black cloth spine blocked in silver. Unopened in the original shrinkwrap purchased upon release and carefully dark-stored since. The James Bond movie phenomenon as documented by one of the world's greatest photographers. This is his classic work with the famed film franchise including portraits and on-set photography. ACC Art Books, 2020 unknown
69091Cheltenham: The Collector Ltd. 2023. Bibliography A high-quality colour advertising lithograph printed on art paper for the Winter 2023 issue SIGNED by contributor Jon Gilbert. Conservation framed and glazed; in an elegant acid-neutral white card mount backed with pH neutral corri-cor barrier board beneath 2mm float glass bespoke smooth black moulding. Approx. overall dimensions 21 x 17 inches. Fine / as new. Not intended for commercial use- this is one of only four copies printed for The Book Collector. The corresponding issue contains a comprehensive account of Ian Fleming's role in the Printing & The Mind of Man exhibition a review of Nicholas Shakespeare's biography of Ian Fleming and a bibliography of Fleming biographies by Jon Gilbert. Cheltenham: The Collector Ltd., 2023 unknown
193868928Chicago Illinois: Industrial Workers of the World IWW / I.W.W. 1938. Magazine. Good. Thirteen issues. All issues: 34 pp.; small quarto 27 cm; saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers. Profusely illustrated. Rare.<br /> <br /> Condition is mostly Good or slightly worse some Very Good. Some age-toning occasional brittling to paper is consistent throughout. Some wear minor splitting and chipping around edges also consistent. Text is clean and unmarked throughout. Further notable condition remarks listed with each issue below.<br /> <br /> –Volume 1 Number 1. January 1937. Very Good.<br /> –Volume 1 Number 2. February 1937. Wraps at fold splitting. Some soiling.<br /> –Volume 1 Number 3. March 1937. Lightly foxed on front wrap.<br /> –Volume 1 Number 4. April 1937. Wraps are completely split and detached cleanly at the fold but present.<br /> –Volume 1 Number 5. May 1937. Very Good.<br /> –Volume 1 Number 6. June 1937. Corners bumped. Some print offsetting to internal pages.<br /> –Volume 1 Number 7. July 1937. Very Good.<br /> –Volume 1 Number 8. August 1937. Good to Very Good.<br /> –Volume 1 Number 9. September 1937. Fair only. Wraps are completely split and detached cleanly at the fold but present. Some other chipping splitting toning brittling etc.<br /> –Volume 1 Number 11. November 1937. Fair only. Wraps are split detached but present. Age-toning and brittling.<br /> –Volume 1 Number 12. December 1937. Fair only. Wraps are split detached but present. Age-toning and brittling.<br /> –Volume 2 Number 1. January 1938. Rear wrap is missing. Front wrap detached but present. Age-toning brittling.<br /> –Volume 2 Number 2. February 1938. Wraps cleanly split detached but present. A nice run of this official monthly publication "Issued by Industrial Workers of the World to promote the solidarity of labor."<br /> <br /> Illustrated with many cartoons drawings and black and white photographs. Issues contain a variety of IWW reporting editorial organizing efforts and other literary contributions. This "New Series" or "Second Series" of The One Big Union Monthly was the official monthly periodical of The Industrial Workers of the World which ran for eighteen issues from January 1937 to June 1938. This publication was preceded by The Industrial Pioneer which ran February 1921 to September 1926 though publication was suspended for fifteen month from February 1922 through April 1923 and by the "First Series" of The One Big Union Monthly which ran March 1919 to January 1921.<br /> <br /> It is immediately noticeable how many of the contributors and artists signed their work using pseudonyms their IWW card numbers or simply chose to remain uncredited more than likely due to the repression and fear of retribution that unions especially IWW members faced during this time in American history. Furthermore it seems as though the canons and biographies of many of the highly accomplished cartoonists and illustrators featured in this publication artists such as Pashtanika Dust Wallin Fred Jerger among several others uncredited or unidentifiable to us remain surprisingly under-documented and/or inaccessible to our online research attempts while cataloguing. Although we must note here that the website "Cartooning Capitalism" created by Michael Mark Cohen does provide some good coverage on the subject https://www.cartooningcapitalism.com/. Franklin Rosemont's 1987 essay "A Short Treatise on Wobbly Cartoons" sheds good light on the subject as well — Rosemont's essay is reprinted in more recent editions of Joyce L. Kornbluh's classic work "Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology" PM Press 2011.<br /> <br /> Miles 4778. Industrial Workers of the World [IWW / I.W.W.] unknown
196313967Milan: Marzorati - Editore 1963. First edition. Boards. Good condition but mild ex-library. Octavo vol. 1 pp. 867; vol. 2 pp. 1701. Indexed. Marzorati - Editore hardcover
1849BOOKS230054New York NY: G. P. Putnam. G/NO DUSTJACKET. 1849. First Edition. ClothHrdcvr. 12mo. 215 16 pp. Foxing stained corners rubbed. . G. P. Putnam hardcover
72945various places. Bondiana Five volume group. Octavos three in publisher's cloth hardcovers one with jacket two in illustrated softcovers. Very good. A curious collection of unrelated books each bearing a title also used by Ian Fleming for his books/stories or for the James Bond films based on his characters. 'Rough Justice' was the title of a chapter in Moonraker also the title of an episode of the unrealised James Bond television series and later the working title for 'For Your Eyes Only'. 'Talk of the Devil' was an early title for 'Diamonds are Forever' and later used for a volume of Ian Fleming collected articles and essay. From the comprehensive archive assembled by Jon Gilbert pencil signature within. His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming 2012 won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Gilbert p.385. various places unknown
218559Japan. Twenty one postcards 5 in colour the rest black and white photographic images. Some occasional spotting and browning light wear edges and one creased in places. Presented in a slightly chipped black lacquer box. Overall the collection is in fair to good condition. An interesting miscellaneous collection of twenty one Japanese postcards in a black lacquer box mostly dating from the 1910s and 1920s. Fourteen of these show scenes from a large Japanese military training exercise held in November 1919. Each card has a commemorative stamp of the Army Training Exercise and its date November 1919. There is also a card featuring a painting of the OSK line ship "Amerika Maru" and another with a picturesque Japanese scene and an inset photo of the OSK ship "Konan Maru" possibly a souvenir card given to passengers on the ship. Two other cards are New Year's greeting cards one of them dated 1939 and rather curiously written in Russian although it appears to have been sent from one Japanese man to another. Perhaps the most interesting in the collection is a postcard from Crown Prince Hirohito's 1921 visit to England which shows the Crown Prince shaking hands with one of Lloyd George's grandchildren although the scene is completely stolen by another small grand-daughter who stands in the middle of the photograph completely ignoring the presence of the Crown Prince. The collection also includes a 1948 entry permit to a market run by the Osaka Fruit and Vegetable Association. . unknown
87584Tokyo: Misawa Homu Sogo Kenkyujo Misawa Homes Research & Development Institute Company 1989-1995. Volumes one through fifteen. Reprints of volumes 1 through 8 First Editions of volumes 9 through 15. Quartos variously paginated 250 to 380 pages per volume profusely illustrated. Publisher's decorated paper over boards using different designs & colors in pictorial dust jackets & cardboard sleeves with applied title labels. Text in Japanese. Occasional lightly bruised corners cardboard sleeves with modest shelf wear generally Near Fine.The separately titled volumes from one to fifteen include:<br /> <br /> Nihonjin; Tensai Jinsai; Kenko Ningengaku; Kanka Katsujin; Shiki Yujin; Jinsei Saiji; Shitsurai Senjin Konjin; Dogu Ningen Kaoku; Kajin Sandai; Ningen Seichoki; Teitaku Kajin; Sankai Jinkzo; Shumi Ningen; Chikuzo Ningenshi; & Kotei Kojin.<br /> <br /> An exhaustive survey of the life & culture of the Japanese people centering on their homes both traditional & contemporary. The series provides essays by scholars intellectuals & professional writers with innumerable illustrations in color by eminent photographers on a wide range of topics. Each volume focuses on different areas including religious life festivals the Tea Ceremony education leisure recreation multi generation households architecture design & more. A beautifully-produced set scarce in Western collections. Misawa Homu Sogo Kenkyujo [Misawa Homes Research & Development Institute Company unknown
1753856P6London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper c1753. Leather. Good. 7" by 4". Not Stated. A complete set of the popular short-lived periodical by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele complete with a frontispiece to each volume. Complete in eight volumes.Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume.'The Spectator" was a daily publication than ran from 1711 to 1712 created by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. It was widely read despite its modest circulation including being read by James Madison when he was a teenager.Richard Steele was an Irish politician and playwright. He was a member of the Kit-Kat Club an English Whig club with strong literary and political associations. His first successful play was 'The Funeral' which was performed at Drury Lane.Joseph Addison was an essayist politician and playwright. He also held form the Kit-Kat Club which renewed his friendship with Richard Steele whom he at met at Charterhouse School. His most famous work was 'Cato a Tragedy' a successful play about Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis.Addison and Steele founded several publications during their friendship including the literary and social journal "Tatler" which published from 1709 to 1711. Steele also founded the short lived "The Guardian". None of these publications are related to the modern day ones which share their same names. In a half calf binding with marbled paper to the boards neatly rebacked with the original boards and spines restored. Externally rubbed mostly to the boards. Minor bumping to the extremities. Discolouration to the extremities. Crack to the rear joint of Volume I. Backstrips are worn with some loss and surface cracks repaired with the rebacking. Cracks to the joints of Volume II III V VI and VII. Front hinge of Volume III is strained. Front hinge of Volume V is starting but firm. Stain to the bottom edge of Volume VII affecting the text. Internally firmly bound Volume VII is weak and textblock may fail even with careful handling. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with scattered spots a little heavier to the first and last few pages. Good J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper hardcover
84566Paris: ca 1951-1956. Six black-and-white press photographs each approx. 19cm x 13cm ca. 7" x 5" or the reverse; and four snapshots 8cm x 11cm ca 3" x 4-1/4". Press photos with attached printed snipes; five back-stamped "AGIP Michael Cohen" the sixth stamped "A.D.P. / Agence Diffusion Presse"; the snapshots are unidentified though each bears pencil annotations on verso in an unknown hand. Some curling to the press photos with typical soil to versos; some minor chemical staining from processing else minimal creasing and wear; Very Good or better. <br /> <br /> An attractive and interesting grouping of images all capturing Baker towards the end of her performing career. The press photos are of Baker at a variety of events in the early-to-mid Fifties including four in performing costume. The snapshots in three of which Baker appears look to have been taken at some outdoor festival at which Baker was a featured guest also circa mid-1950s - possibly a reunion of French Resistance fighters as one of the spectators may be seen wearing the characteristic doubled-cross armband of the maquis. unknown
199886622Boston: Little Brown and Company in association with Bulfinch Press and The United States Holocaust Museum 1998. First American Edition Second Printing. Quarto. 31cm. Publisher's blue cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 254pp. Very light wear to spine ends and corners strong and tight; internally clean and fresh bookplate to front pastedown lavishly illustrated throughout; in a strong clean dustjacket with some very light edgewear in places. A bright near fine copy. <br /> <br /> Published to coincide with a two year exhibition at the USHMM gathering together a moving and informative assemblage of photographs physical evidence journals diaries and spoken memorials to the Jewish peoples who suffered through the Nazi eradication of the Lithuanian Jewish population during WW2. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn noted poet translator and anthropologist with his bookplate. Little Brown and Company in association with Bulfinch Press and The United States Holocaust Museum unknown
77733's-Gravenhage The Hague Martinus Nijhoff 1910. 8vo 25.0 x 16.0 cm. x 361 pp. 31 photographic plates portrait frontispiece tissue-guarded. Original pictorial wrappers. = Franz Junghuhn 1809-1864 was one of the great researchers of present-day Indonesia mainly as geologist volcanologist topographer and botanist in particular of Java. He died of a combination of several horrible tropical diseases and the refusal to any help. This memorial volume includes a large section of Junghuhn bibliography by Muller. Deals with Junghuhn's contributions to the palaeontology of Java by K. Martin; geology by Verbeek; ethnography by Nieuwenhuis; botany by Koorders and Niermeyer. On the front wrapper the title is given as F. Junghuhn. Gedenkboek 1809-1909. In the rear are reproductions of 48 photos made by Junghuhn. Uncut. Provenance: the name F. F. N. v. d. Veer written in the top margin of te front free endpaper recto. Slight shelf-wear andfoxing to the wrappers only internally clean. A very good copy of this seldom-seen work. unknown
194060221New York: Plimpton Press 1940. First Edition. Small octavo. Original green cloth with printed paper spine and cover labels; frontispiece portrait; 6521pp. Spine slightly faded else a Near Fine copy in the original unprinted acetate jacket and publisher's slipcase mildly toned on edges but still Near Fine. <br /> <br /> A finely-printed keepsake in honor of Alfred A. Knopf "as a tribute of affection and congratulation from his fellow members of the Book Table." Includes contributions by Carl Van Vechten Carl Van Doren Willa Cather H.M. Lydenberg H.L. Mencken Thomas Mann Henry Seidel Canby B.W. Huebsch and Adolf Kroch. Five of these contributors -- Van Vechten Van Doren Lydenberg Mencken and Huebsch -- have signed the volume on the rear flyleaves as have twenty-six others all presumably members of the Book Table including Elmer Adler Donald Brace Bertram Wolff Frederic G. Melcher Whitney Darrow and numerous others. Plimpton Press unknown
713961894-c.1910. . Oblong 4to 280 by 390mm; 42 albumen prints mounted on card 36 of which hand-coloured Japan all approximately 210 by 280mm occassional touch of marginal fading; contemporary gilt ruled half morocco cloth boards scuffing to corners and spine a very good copy.<br /> A charming collection of photographs heightened in hand-colour of Nikko and Kyoto in the Meiji era. The final six photographs are made up of one of Honolulu and five of the Canadian Rockies.<br /><br />Japan had only opened up to the West following the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854 and the Boshin War of 1868-9 delayed any considerable interest from Europeans until the start of the Meiji period. By the mid to late Meiji period wealthy European tourists started to appear more readily and the attitudes of Japan shifted to capitalise on the growing interest. In 1907 the Hotel Development Law allowed the construction of publicly owned hotels and in 1912 the Japan Travel Bureau was established. Luxurious hotels had already started to cater to Western tastes: the Yaami Hotel in Kyoto pl.30 was built in 1879 by Inoue Manchiku and renovated into the Western style as seen in the photograph in this album sometime in 1894.<br /> [1894-c.1910]. hardcover
195811447Westerham Kent UK: Privately Printed Westerham Press 1958. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo 31pp. plus back matter. A fine copy in the publisher's thin grey wooden veneer boards with plain white spine. Spine gently and evenly faded but with the gilt still bright. Else very fresh and handsome. To paraphrase from Lane's Foreword the illustrations herein were created for various Penguin trade publications over the previous ten years. Since the thin mass-produced paper cannot give the full flavor of these wood engravings Lane decided to have this little volume made on thicker handmade paper Hosho-Shi from Berrick Brothers in London which does more justice to the engravings. With contributions from Reynolds Stone Cecil Keeling Derrick Harris Imre Reiner Roy Morgan George Buday David Gentleman and Diana Bloomfield. A lovely little book. Laid-in is a Christmas card from H. F. Paroissien who seems to have been a Director at Penguin at the time of publication. Privately Printed [Westerham Press] hardcover
26433Hull: The Larkin Society. April 1996October 2023. 53 issues: 156 lacking 35 52 and 55. Original illustrated stapled paper wrappers. All issues are near fine clean and unmarked. From the library of Professor Edwin Dawes. Edwin Dawes 1925-2023 was appropriately Reckitt Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Hull later serving as the University's Pro Vice Chancellor Dean of Science and also as Chair of the Library Committee. Dawes initially got to know Larkin in the latter's capacity as chief librarian at the university but they soon became good friends. Dawes was later a founder and chairman of the Philip Larkin Society. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Hull: The Larkin Society. April 1996October 2023. unknown
187600008892New York: Printed for the Society 1876. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5vol. 8vo. 12 494 4; 10 494 4; 12 494 4; 13 2-500 2; 9 x 5 2-553 5 pp. Bound in green pebbled cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the spine. Several leaves unopened. Gephart 13815. The set contains all of the papers and letters including his letters to Congress of General Major Charles Lee and the proceedings of his General Court Martial at the order of George Washington Lee's papers range from 1754 to 1811. The collection from 1875 contains the letters of Major General James Pattison. Publisher's notice laid in to the 1875 collection letting the subscriber know that the seventh volume of the society's series Lee Papers Volume IV will be issued after the 1875 collection's publication. A Very Good set with the rear hinge of volume one faintly cracked a few traces of wear to the boards and volume two showing mild foxing. Printed for the Society hardcover
2023375348Legendary Comics 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Kickstarter-exclusive Hardcover and slipcase! Volume’s special edition cover and slipcase are not available in the retail version of the Legends of The Monsterverse Omnibus. From publisher standard edition: Godzilla Kong and everything else that crawls swims or flies between the Hollow Earth and Skull Island. This MONSTER collection features every comic that Legendary Comics has ever published on the Monsterverse - plus an exclusive new story only to be found here! Contains: Godzilla Awakening Skull Island: Birth of Kong Godzilla Aftershock Godzilla Dominion Kingdom Kong and one never before seen story by Zid all with a brand new cover by Jonathan Marks Barravecchia! First edition first printing. Near fine hardcover in fine slipcase. Some minor creasing on hinge and insignificant indent on crown of spine else fine. Slipcase has sharp edges and corners.<br> Legendary Comics hardcover
020074Lansing MI: Sunflower Publisher. Tabloid. Good. no date presumed 1970. Tabloid newspaper format. 12 pp. Black and white photos throughout. First issue of a total of two published of this underground newspaper devoted to LGBTQ issues. This issue discusses lesbianism hypocrisy in the gay movement and suggesting men have a lot to learn from the women's movement legal issues facing the gay community etc. GOOD condition. Moderate toning. Horizontal fold crease present. Faint dampstaining present to the upper and lower portions of the paper. Minor soiling. 6 inch horizontal tear to the lower front cover. Sunflower, Publisher unknown
199481477Washington DC: US Government Printng Office 1994. First Edition. Octavo. 23cm. Original printed green card wraps titled in black to spine panel and front wrap. 1075pp. Some light creasing to corners and some very slight sunning to the spine panel a very good strong clean copy. Internally clean. The report and findings of the Committee on Armed Services under the Clinton Administration that produced the infamous "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy. US Government Printng Office unknown
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 1794–1871 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 Bedford’s economy—supporting shipbuilding refineries toolworks and more—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.<br /> <br /> Offered here is a collection of letters mainly to Bartlett’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.<br /> <br /> 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:<br /> <br /> “I 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 seem’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<br /> <br /> Most of Bartlett’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:<br /> <br /> “The fact appears to us that speculation and the calculation of holders put the price kept it so high that it considerably lessened consumption – so much so of late that some have been disposed to slide it off below New Bedford rates very quietly.†October 23 1852<br /> <br /> 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. 1823–1888 who writes from Bangor:<br /> <br /> “I see by to day’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<br /> <br /> Overall a look at the dealings of maritime merchants in the mid-nineteenth century particularly in the critical east coast whaling industry.<br /> <br /> 1 “Death of a Well-Known Merchant†The Standard-Times February 6 1871 2. unknown
1791mon0003166971Philadelphia: Carey Stewart & C 1791. Single Issue Magazine. Good. . Single issue without original wraps that looks like it was once bound together with others. Shows minor wear tanning. Philadelphia: Carey, Stewart & C unknown
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.<br /> <br /> Contents:<br /> 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. <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> 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
196787644Austin: University of Texas Press 1967-72. First Edition. Five quarto volumes 28.5cm. Blue cloth hardcovers; dustjackets; 331258306290529pp; illus charts maps some folding. A fine virtually unworn set in the original dustwrappers a few of which are lightly rubbed at edges still Near Fine. From the library of noted anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn with his printed bookplate inside each volume. Comprises: <br /> <br /> v.1: Environment and Subsistence 1967<br /> v.2: The Non-Ceramic Artifacts 1967<br /> v.3: Ceramics 1970<br /> v.4: Chronology and Irrigation 1972<br /> v.5: Excavations and Reconnaisance 1972. University of Texas Press unknown
47618Various publishers & dates. Extensive photographic archive documenting events on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico Border during the Mexican Revolution focused primarily on the Border Wars in Texas and the Veracruz Incident of 1914 comprised entirely of contemporary images all but a few of which are original vintage prints. The collection includes: <br /> <br /> • Sixty-one commercially-produced real-photo postcards ca. 14cm x 9cm or the reverse; <br /> • Six commercially-printed postcards using non-photographic processes same dimensions;<br /> • Three carte-de-visite portraits ca 9cm x 6cm mounted to cards;<br /> • Eight small-format photographs ranging from 14cm x 8cm to 11cm x 16cm of which three appear to be commercial images; <br /> • Three 8x10 20cm x 25cm photographic prints printed at some later date from original plates but apparently not contemporary; <br /> • One vintage 4x6 10cm x 16cm photograph mounted on board. <br /> <br /> All but a dozen or so images are captioned in the negative and most are additionally captioned in pencil in a later hand on verso. Approximately half the images include no photo credit; of those that do we have identified the following photographers: W.H. Horne D.W. Hoffman Walter P. Hadsell Van Zile & Chalk and L.O. She. <br /> <br /> Condition is generally Very Good. Two of the photo postcards are damaged with abrasions to significant portions of image area; the remainder show various degrees of edge wear aging and creasing but by and large image quality remains excellent. None of the postcards are postally used though a few include brief contemporary notes on verso. The refusal of Mexican President Porfirio Dîaz to cede power to his rival Francisco Madero in the elections of 1910 resulted in a violent large-scale revolt by campesinos and leftists setting off the thirty-year long Mexican Revolution. American involvement in the conflict began in 1911 when President William H. Taft under the guise of heightening border security moved to back Díaz against the rebels. The resulting mobilization - Taft sent more than 20000 American troops nearly a quarter of all American forces to the Mexican border with especially heavy concentrations in Texas and New Mexico - was to that date the largest mobilization of American military forces in peacetime. At the same time many Americans whose sympathies were not aligned with the Díaz dictatorship including anarchists wobblies Native Americans and more than a few soldiers of fortune went south to fight on the side of the rebels. The resulting border conflict which took place over nearly a decade occasionally pitting American insurrectos against American Federal troops resulted in thousands of Mexican and hundreds of American deaths. <br /> <br /> The Border Wars reached their climax around the period 1912-1914 which happened to coincide with a near-hysterical vogue for postcards among the American public. The result is that the Mexican Revolution is perhaps the first major armed conflict to have been extensively photo-documented in real time and certainly the first to have had a significant mass audience for that documentation. At least three hundred commercial photographers have been identified in association with the Mexican Revolution and they produced tens of thousands of images ranging from the relatively innocuous e.g. peaceful street and harbor scenes in Veracruz to the horrific lynchings and sidewalk cremations. <br /> <br /> This entire range of content is represented in the current collection along with portraits of most of the key players on the Mexican side including El Presidente Porfirio Díaz; his primary rival and successor Francisco Madero; Madero's successor by coup Victoriano Huerta; and various military figures including General Juan Navarro Felipe Angeles Ramírez and numerous others. Many of these semi-professional images though produced with commercial intent "professional" remains a guarded term in the context of what was essentially battlefield exploitation photography are valuable for their almost off-hand depictions of violent day-to-day life on the contested border including the casual destruction and acceptance of death from both sides that seemed to define this conflict. Of particular note are numerous of photographs of African-American troops the so-called "Buffalo Soldiers" as well as at least one image depicting Native American soldiers in uniform. Locales represented include Camp Grossmont in California; El Paso and Laredo in Texas and their cross-border sister cities Juarez and Nuevo Laredo; Veracruz site of the American incursion of 1914 known as the "Veracruz Incident"; and various unidentified encampments and battle sites in both Texas and Mexico. <br /> <br /> A wide-ranging and compelling photographic collection documenting not only a key period in U.S. military diplomacy - one which for better or worse set the tone for American-Mexican relations for the succeeding century - but also a tangible manifestation of the first widespread public incarnation in America of the picture-postcard as a vehicle for both propaganda and photojournalism. unknown
