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1848009349Forsyth County Georgia 1848. Unbound. Very good. <br /><br />In this one-page document bondsmen pledge $100 as a guarantee that: <p style="margin-left:3%; margin-right:3%;">"Adam Campbell shall personally appear before the Superior Court when held for said County on the fourth Monday in August next then and there to answer . . . for and concerning the offence of a Misdemeanor for furnishing a certain negro man slave by the name of Buc the property of one Captain McQuering with spiritous liquor for his own use. . . ."<p>Although during the earliest days of slavery in the American colonies slaves were permitted to use alcohol and beer in ceremonies and rituals that they had practiced in Africa as their numbers increased colonial governments began passing laws regulating the practice. By the middle of the 18th century most colonies were severely limiting slaves' access to liquor "based on the notion that Blacks were too irresponsible to be trusted with the use of alcohol or fear that Blacks would be less accepting of the conditions of their servitude more difficult to control and more prone to violence. Concern regarding mass drunkenness and potential revolt was heightened following Nat Turner's and Denmark Vessey's revolts." See Christmom's "Historical Overview of Alcohol in the African American Community" in <i>Journal of Black Studies</i> Jan. 1995. <br /><br />From the size of Campbell's bond it would appear that he may have previously been convicted for the same crime as in 1848 the Georgia Code specified that if any "person whatsoever shall sell to or furnish any slave . . . spirituous liquor wines cider or any intoxicating liquors for his own use or for the purpose of sale such person so offending shall upon conviction thereof pay a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for the first offence and upon a second conviction to be subject to a fine and imprisonment in the common jail of the county at the discretion of the court not to exceed sixty days of imprisonment and five hundred dollars fine. . . ." <br /><br />Rather scarce. At time of listing there are two similar documents for sale in the trade and the Rare Book Hub shows two have been sold at auction. OCLC shows three similar documents are held in institutional collections. <br /><br /> books
196825043Nishinomiya: Kansei Gakuin University Zengakukyotokaigi Shuppankyoku 1968. Fine in plain black wrappers near fine photo-illustrated wraparound card jacket very lightly edgeworn with a tiny nick at the top of the front panel. First Edition. Oblong octavo. 96 pages photographs in letterpress. Collection of excellent Japanese protest images shot by uncredited photographers in and around Kansei Gakuin University. One of the rarest and most dynamic Japanese protest books of the era. Heiting and Ryuichi 222. Nishinomiya: Kansei Gakuin University, Zengakukyotokaigi Shuppankyoku unknown books
1900009646The <i>Virginia's</i> guest register is a bound leather book measuring approximately 8.5" x 10.5" with approximately 250 gilt-edged pages. About 75 of those pages are filled with notes signatures and drawings by visitors and passengers. The cover is adorned with enameled metal ornaments in the shape of New York and Manhattan Yacht Club burgees. The frontispiece appears to be hand-painted and shows the same two burgees with text reading "Steam Yacht Virginia". All of the entries are in ink. In nice shape.<br /><br /> The <i>Virginia </i>was an incredibly luxurious 441-ton steam yacht built in 1899 at Bath Maine for the New York department store magnate Isaac Stern. <br /><br /> Entries in its guest book begin in February of 1900 and contain messages from about 400 people from around the world. I noticed notations from Belgium Cyprus Egypt England including the Isle of Wight Germany Greece India Turkey and the U.S. East Coast in a variety of languages including Arabic English French German Greek and Japanese. <br /><br />Some signatures are from diplomats consuls foreign ministers military officers and no doubt quite a number of wealthy businessmen financiers and socialites. <br /><br />Many of the entries refer to attendance at specific events like the Hudson-Fulton Celebration including its Naval Parade the International Yacht Race of 1903 and Yale-Harvard Races. The last entry in the guest book is dated September 25 1910 just before Stern's death. <br /><br /> The accompanying first edition book <i>Ten Thousand Miles in a Yacht</i> chronicles a trip on the <i>Virginia</i> organized by "Commodore" E. C. Benedict a New York financier who chartered the vessel from Stern to make the cruise with ten friends and a crew of 33 officers and men between November 1904 and January 1905. Benedict felt his own yacht was not up to the voyage. Apparently Stern retained the guest book during the voyage as no entries were made during that time. <br /><br />Contemporary newspaper articles suggest that following Stern's death Benedict purchased the vessel after first chartering it once more from Stern's estate to undertake a second Amazon River voyage. He in turn sold the vessel to F. K. Vanderbilt the grandson of Cornelius. During World War One it was acquired by the U.S. Navy on a free-lease renamed the <i>U.S.S. Vedette</i> and deployed on patrol duty escorting convoys in the Atlantic where it rescued survivors from a torpedoed Greek ship as well as a disabled French seaplane and its crew. Following the war the yacht was returned to Vanderbilt.<br /><br /> Isaac Stern and his brothers sons of German-Jewish immigrants opened a one-room dry goods store in Buffalo New York in 1867 and moved their operation to New York City not far from Washington Square Park the following year. They relocated to 22nd Street near Madison Square Park and continually enlarged their business until it became an enormous and elegant six-story department store known for selling a wide range of goods from working-class merchandise to elegant Parisian fashions coveted by New York's wealthiest women. After the business was purchased by the Allied Stores Corporation Stern's acquired a number of defunct Gimbles and Gertz stores throughout the region. Allied Stores was in turn acquired by Federated Department Stores which in 2001 converted most Stern's stores into Macy's or Bloomingdale's and closed the rest. <br /><br /> A unique first-hand testament to the life of the ultra-rich in the early pre-World War One years in New York City. hardcover books
190728652London: T.C. & E.C. Jack 1907-1910. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo 20.5 cm. Brown paper boards with black titling and color pictorial pastedowns. Deckle edge. Each volume with color frontispieces and 8 color plates. Bookplates of Thomas Jefferson Murray on inside fronts. Soiling to boards foxing to pages and fraying to spine ends. A handful of the volumes with chipping to spines. Volumes include: Velazquez Reynolds Turner Romney Greuze Rossetti Bellini Fra Angelico Rembrandt Leighton Raphael Holman Hunt Titian Millais Carlo Dolci Gainesborough Tintoretto Luini Franz Hals Van Dyck Leonardo da Vinci Rubens Whistler Holbein Burne-Jones Vigée LeBrun Chardin Fragonard Memlinc Constable Raeburn and Sargent. Will require extra postage. T.C. & E.C. Jack hardcover books
1945W096NPMiddlebury VT: Otter Valley Press Inc. 1945. Beige paper wraps with blue and black titling. Edges untrimmed. Browning and chipping on edges and spine. Owner signature on ffep. Contains 9 poems in French by 9 different French authors. No. 68 of 400 copies for the trade. Limited. Paper Wraps. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Otter Valley Press, Inc. Paperback books
1854011641D.Appleton & Company 1854. Book. Near Fine. Full-Leather. Beautiful Full-Leather Brown Copy.Terrific Tooled Leather.1854. Exceptional Copy. Great Illustrations. Hand Colored Plates. D.Appleton & Company Hardcover books
18531285321New York: G. P. Putnam and Co 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 366pp.; VG; bound in original brown cloth paneled spine with gilt lettering embossing to cloth; all edges of text block gilt; mild wear and rubbing to boards; marbled endpapers; bookplate on front pastedown; contains engraved title page 19 steel engraved plates including frontispiece 16 facsimiles of manuscripts 15 hand-colored mounted proof-paper illustrations; contains a handwritten letter torn naturally along creases detailing the gift of this book to a Anna Kelsey. Anna Halleck Kelsey was a teacher of Elocution and English literature towards the end of the nineteenth century.; shelved case 12. 1285321. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. G. P. Putnam and Co hardcover books
185255897New York: G. P. Putnam and Co. Very Good. 1852. Hardcover. Previous owner signed blue baords with gilt stamping are scuffed and worn page edges are gilt contents are clean and complete a very good copy. . G. P. Putnam and Co. hardcover books
188454941New York: Orange Judd Company. Very Good. 1884. Hardcover. Green boards have gilt and black stamping spine ends and cover corners are gently rubbed showing just minor wear previous owner signed overall a clean nice copy. Very Good. . Orange Judd Company hardcover books
188266856London: Samuel Golbourn. Good. 1882. Hardcover. 128 pages. Stiff paper-covered boards. The covers are soiled and chipped but the contents are bright and complete. Good . Samuel Golbourn hardcover books
1988217771Geneva.: Rotovision. 1988. Black cloth. A very good copy in a very good dustjacket. 4to. Heavy book requires extra postage. Color photo illustrations. Rotovision. hardcover books
191250255sNew York: The University Society 1912. Ten Volumes. Octavo olive pictorial cloth hardcover 205 468 pp. Very Good with edgewear light speckling to some volumes ffep stamped stating ‘For Library Sale.’ Volume Titles: Fun and Thought For Little Folk Parts I and II; Famous Tales and Laughter Stories Parts I and II; Nature and Outdoor Life Parts I and II; Historic Tales and Golden Deeds Parts I and II; Children’s Book of Fact and Fanc Parts I and II; Index. The University Society, [1912]. hardcover books
60656bdVarious Concert Halls 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927. Eighteen programs total octavo stapled wrappers. All in Very Good condition. In addition to describing the performance the programs contain a number of adveritisements for New York city businesses and also for other musical performances and related musical products. unknown books
1869190903Stuttgart. : Julius Maier. 1869. First year of publication. . Contemporary quarter green morocco over marbled boards raised bands gilt spine decorations. . Very good light shelfwear to extremities light scattered foxing. 4to. 24.7x16.5 cm. . German text. Bound volume of 12 monthly journals with index. weight: 2.7 lb. Sparsely illustrated with vignettes and maps one folding map of Germany one full-page map of Formosa. Julius Maier. hardcover books
1865189628Chur. : L. Hitz. 1865. 1st Edition. Publishers yellow printed wraps. . Very good old ink name to title page. 8vo. 19x12.5 cm. . German text. weight: 0.4 lb. Two folding maps. L. Hitz. paperback books
19821043974to. London: The Bibliographical Society 1982. 4to vii 316pp. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt to backstrip. Some very light rubbing and shelf wear else near fine. § First edition. Includes a brief introduction. As Oak Knoll states in their description “This is an essential book to help the scholar find the appropriate article on book history published during this period.†The Bibliographical Society hardcover books
1832182278New York & Philadelphia.: Foreign and Classical Bookstore. 1832. Elaborately tooled and gilt black calf gilt borders inside covers all edges gilt glossy endpapers. Very good light wear to corners. 12mo.16.2x10 cm. . French text. Souvenir books for visitors to America with a collection of contemporary literature and steel engravings in an elaborate binding. weight: 0.7 lb. 11 engraved plates including frontis. Foreign and Classical Bookstore. unknown books
1914Embry 166627The Daily Telegraph N. d. Circa 1914. Endpapers lightly browned front endpaper and half-title creased light to moderate soiling very good with hinge firm. Tipped-in full-page color illus. by Arthur Rackham Edmund Dulac and others. Cream cloth stamped in dark green. Published to benefit the Daily Telegraph Belgian Fund. The Daily Telegraph N. d. Circa 1914. hardcover books
1837184003Paris. : Les Bureaux D'Abonnement et de Vente. 1837. Publisher’s dark pink cloth. . Good plus spine edges and corners worn ink name to ffep contents very good. 4to. 29.5x19.8 cm. . French text. Annual collection of this popular profusely illustrated general interest magazine. weight 2.3 lb. Numerous illustrations of varied subject matter. Les Bureaux D'Abonnement et de Vente. hardcover books
1833184000Paris. : Les Bureaux 1833. Publisher’s pink cloth. . Good plus spine sunned glue repair to rear hinge ink name to ffep contents very good. . 4to. 29.8x19.5 cm. . French text. First annual collection of this popular profusely illustrated general interest magazine. weight 2.2 lb. Numerous illustrations of varied subject matter. Les Bureaux hardcover books
1835184002Paris. : Les Bureaux D'Abonnement et de Vente. 1835. Publisher’s pink cloth. . Very good spine sunned ink name to ffep. . 4to. 29.5x19.3 cm. . French text. Annual collection of this popular profusely illustrated general interest magazine. weight 2.2 lb. Numerous illustrations of varied subject matter. Les Bureaux D'Abonnement et de Vente. hardcover books
1833186206Geneve.: L.Collin. 1833. Green marbled boards vellum spine label yellow edges. Good plus moderate shelfwear to cover contents very good. 8vo. 22.5x14 cm. French text. First 12 issues of this periodical of instruction in useful arts. weight: 1.2 lb. L.Collin. hardcover books
1833186205Geneve.: L.Collin. 1833. Quarter red leather over marbled boards. Good plus moderate shelfwear to extremities contents very good. 8vo. 22.5x14 cm. . French text. First 12 issues of this periodical of instruction in useful arts. weight: 1.1 lb. L.Collin. hardcover books
1833290264Paris. : Bureau de Journal. 1833. Contemporary marbled boards no spine label. . Good plus covers shelfworn scattered moderate foxing dampstain to a few pages. 31x24 cm. . French text. Journal of science literature fine arts and morals with articles by many popular authors of the time. Heavy book weight: 3.0 lb. may require extra shipping. Bureau de Journal. hardcover books
1834183661Paris. : Bureau de Journal. 1834 . Contemporary marbled boards no spine label. . Good plus covers shelfworn scattered moderate foxing dampstain to a few pages. . 31x24 cm. . French text. Journal of science literature fine arts and morals with articles by many popular authors of the time. Heavy book weight: 3.0 lb. may require extra shipping. Bureau de Journal. hardcover books
