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A History of the Lutheran Church in South Carolina

1971188843The South Carolina Synod of the Lutheran Church in America 1971-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Dust jacket and book are clean has a good binding and crisp pages no marks or notations. Light age toning and foxing minor wear to dust jacket. Dust jacket is wrapped. HB HS The South Carolina Synod of the Lutheran Church in America hardcover books

Ed's Editions, LLC · États-Unis20,00 $US≈ 16,92 €

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A Group of Images of Henry Ward Beecher

1857001118Keene N. H.: Photographed by S. C. Dustin 1857. Softcover. Three CDVs one of them a miniature portrait n.d. ca 1850s; approx. 2 1/4 x 3 1/2 ; a few spots ; card stock with occasional minor nicks to edges; overall in very good condition.Three images of Congregationalist clergyman abolitionist and brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe - Henry Ward Beecher as a relatively younger man. Unusual as most original photographs sold at auction seem to be of him at a considerably older age. The most interesting of them is the miniature portrait in an ornate embossed card stock frame by "Salisbury Bro. & Co." of Providence RI known for their beautiful "Carte de Visites of Noted Persons" including Abraham Lincoln Horace Greeley and others. Keene, N. H.: Photographed by S. C. Dustin paperback books

ZH BOOKS · États-Unis150,00 $US≈ 126,92 €

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A GrabHornBag. Original Pages Found by Excavators at 642 Commercial Street San Francisco

1940045453San Francisco: Grabhorn 1940. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition. 18 various leaves and pamphlets in the original cloth portfolio. Lacking the introductory pages if they were ever present. Small bookplate on endpaper. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; Inventory No: 045453. Grabhorn hardcover books

Pazzo Books · États-Unis150,00 $US≈ 126,92 €

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A General Survey of Events Sources Persons & Movements in.

1998215321998. ISBN-13: 9781886363472; ISBN-10: 1886363471. Maitland Frederic William. A General Survey of Events Sources Persons & Movements in Continental Legal History. By Various European Authors. With an introduction by Albert Kocourek. Boston: Little Brown 1912. liii 754 pp. Reprinted 1998 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781886363472. ISBN-10: 1886363471. Cloth bound hardcover. New. $21.95 Published as part of The Continental Legal History Series under the auspices of the Association of American Law Schools. A survey of legal history in Western Europe from medieval to modern times the work includes translations into English from leading authorities on European legal history such as Carlo Calisse Jean Brissaud Heinrich Brunner Richard Schroeder Rafael Altimara and Frederic W. Maitland. unknown books

The Lawbook Exchange Ltd · États-Unis21,95 $US≈ 18,57 €

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A Gallery of Distinguished English and American Female Poets.

1860263094Philadelphia.: E.H. Butler. 1860. . Hardcover full green morocco raised bands gilt and black elaborate blindstamped decorations black silk endpapers all edges gilt. . Corners and spine extremities worn spine darkened ownerâ€™s script ink name to second endpaper light offsetting from engravings otherwise a very good tight copy in an attractive binding. . 4to. Introduction by Henry Coppee. Numerous engraved portraits. E.H. Butler. hardcover books

Zephyr Books · États-Unis120,00 $US≈ 101,53 €

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A Complete Unbroken set of the Lakeside Classics from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin to Nurse and Spy in the Union Army

1903TB31835Chicago: Lakeside Press 1903 to 2019. The first 25 volumes bound in dark green cloth covered boards 1903-1926 of this complete set are in very good to near fine condition. The exceptions to this average are the 1908 and 1910 printings of Memorable American Speeches I and Memorable American Speeches IV both of which are ex-library copies with the ghosts of spine labels and with penciled library notations otherwise in very good to very good conditions. The red cloth covered volumes 1927-1952 are generally between very good to fine conditions. The blue cloth covered volumes 1953-1977 are also in very good to fine conditions. The brown cloth covered volumes 1978-2002 are in very good to fine conditions with 13 titles still in their original shrink wrap. The 19 teal cloth covered volumes 2003-2019 are all in fine condition and with one exception are in their original shrink wrap. This is a remarkable complete collection of all 119 volumes all of which are in collectible condition. Only 5 of the first 25 volumes have a prior owner's name or book plate. And one of the volumes 1919 has the signature of Thomas E. Donnelley on the third free end page. Lakeside Press hardcover books

Town's End Books · États-Unis11 500,00 $US≈ 9 730,15 €

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A Collection of Russian Georgian and Bulgarian Poster Stamps

1950002496Various: Various 1950. First Edition. Near fine. Ninety one poster stamps covering the 1950s and 1960s; various sizes but approx. 2 x 1 1/2; most in near fine or better condition several unevenly trimmed a few with light wear to edges; a small number of duplicates; very good to near fine or better condition. One in Georgian/Russian four in Bulgarian eighty six in Russian. Inspired by the invention of the postage stamp the first poster stamps debuted in the mid-19th century and were predominantly used to seal envelopes. Later on they would be used as an advertisement political propaganda etc. The current collection presented a fabulous array of subjects mostly arranged in groups by topics which advertised businesses and covered festivals home appliances health topics Russian authors men in space nature landmarks and even lottery tickets. Various unknown books

ZH BOOKS · États-Unis350,00 $US≈ 296,14 €

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A Collection of Quack Products' Labels

1890002757Various places: Various publishers 1890. Very good. One hundred labels ca 1890s to 1930s; various sizes - from tiny 1 3/4 x 1 to 5 x 3 1/2; some of them illustrated with photographs engravings drawings and chromolithographs; condition varies from fine - with no defects - to good - several of them with chips splits and ink-bleeding due to exposure to moisture. A beautiful collection the largest we have seen it encompassed decades and reflected people's fascination with patent medicines and the breadth of quack products in the late 19th- and early 20th centuries. With manufacturers spanning the entire United States - from Natchez through Davenport to Chicago and from Albany to Tacoma and San Francisco the labels advertised remedies potions pomades and salves and included innocuous mustache wax and rose hair oil the amusing "Spray-A-Cow" which made satisfied cows the dubious "Claro-Derm" depilatory to be aplied and then scraped off with a silver knife the bombastic "Red Hot Heave-Bouncer" for coughs in horses and the "Gypsy Wonder Salve" and the "Brain Duster" the horrid "Blumer's Requi Salve" containing turpentine and carbolic acid and designed to be applied to unmentionable places and the dangerous "FixiT" which was supposed to be a non-poisonous restorer of meats ie it made spoiled meat edible once again. The largest number of labels belonged to products manufactured by Lincoln Chemical Works - established in 1886 in Chicago remembered for their astoundingly-massive line of quack products and known for encouraging every-day people to distribute the company's fares in their spare time. Other names included Geo. Waldman in Iowa also famous for their straight razors Boyston's Pharmacy in San Francisco Leavitt & Smith Pharmacists in Hudson NY and many others. Various publishers unknown books

ZH BOOKS · États-Unis350,00 $US≈ 296,14 €

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A Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for the Government of the Royal Household Made in Divers Reigns. From King Edward III to King William and Queen Mary. Also Receipts in Ancient Cookery

1790CAT000513London: John Nichols for the Society of Antiquaries 1790. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Good Condition. Half blue bonded leather over cloth. Minor scattered foxing otherwise bright internally. xxii 476pp. Cagle 624 Bitting 532. Scattered food mentions in the ordinance section including a long section "A Declaration of the Particular Ordinances of Fares for the Dietts to be Served to the King's Highness the Queen's Grace." and then transcription of a ca. 14th century cookery manuscript from page 425 to the end. Potage de Frumenty Drawen Benes Felettes in Galentyne. Interest in the culinary history of England was just awakening and a number of important works were unearthed and printed around this time. Size: 4to quarto. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Law & Criminal Studies. Inventory No: CAT000513. John Nichols for the Society of Antiquaries hardcover books

Pazzo Books · États-Unis400,00 $US≈ 338,44 €

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A collection of offprints of historic experimental papers in 20th century biological sciences: biochemistry cell biology genetics molecular biology. More than half of the items included are from winners of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine or Chemistry and other prominent scientists are included. Approximately 125 items

32458Highlights include: Seymour Benzer's revolutionary genetic mapping paper "Fine Structure of a Genetic Region in Bacteriophage" 1955'; Albert Claude "Fractionation of Mammalian Liver Cells by Differential Centrifugation" 1949;' Max DelbrÃ¼ck's seminal talk "A Physicist Looks at Biology" 1949; Alexander L. Dounce "Duplicating Mechanism for Peptide Chain and Nucleic Acid Synthesis" 1952 important early theoretical work on genetic coding and protein synthesis; H. Fraenkel-Conrat and Robley C. Williams "Reconstitution of Active Tobacco Mosaic Virus from its Inactive Protein and Nucleic Acid Components" 1955 - the first reconstitution of a virus; J.C. Kendrew G. Bodo H.M. Dintzis R.G. Parrish H. Wyckoff and D.C. Phillips "A Three-dimensional Model of the Myoglobin Molecule Obtained by X-ray Analysis" 1958 - the first structural description of a protein. 20 papers by H.G. Khorana on nucleic acid synthesis and sequence analysis establishing the basic techniques of nucleotide chemistry 1954-1962; Joshua Lederberg "Gene Recombination and Linked Segregations in Escherichia Coli" 1947 - the first genetic map of e. coli.; E.L. Tatum and Joshua Lederberg "Gene Recombination in the Bacterium Escherichia Coli" 1947 is the first complete paper on the subject of bacterial mating. AndrÃ© Lwoff Louis Siminovitch and Niels Kjeldgaard "Microbiologie - Induction de la production de bactÃ©riophages chez une bactÃ©rie lysogÃ¨ne"1950 - the discovery of induction and another dozen important papers from Lwoff and his group; Jacques Monod Germaine Cohen-Bazire and Melvin Cohn "Sur la biosynthese de la -galactosidase lactase chez Escherichia coli. La specificite de l'induction" 1951 - the discovery of galactosides with other papers by Monod Linus Pauling and Robert B. Corey "A Proposed Structure for the Nucleic Acids" 1953 - Pauling's incorrect "triple helix" theory and other Pauling papers. J.D. Watson and F.H. Crick "Molecular Study of Nucleic Acids: A Structure of Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid".; M.F.H. Wilkins A.R. Stokes and H.R. Wilson. "Molecular Structure of Deoxypentose Nucleic Acids;" Rosalind E. Franklin and R.G. Gosling. "Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate" 1953. The rare three-paper offprint printed in a single column format from the single most important discovery in the biological sciences during the 20th century. M.H.F. Wilkins W.E. Seeds A.R. Stokes and H.R. Wilson "Helical Structure of Crystalline Deoxypentose Nucleic Acid" 1953 and Rosalind E. Franklin and R.G. Gosling "Evidence for 2-Chain Helix in Crystalline Structure of Sodium Deoxyribonucleate" 1953 - the first experimental confirmation of the Watson-Crick double helix hypothesis; M. Meselson and F.W. Stahl. "The Replication of DNA in Escherichia coli" 1958 - the first proof of semi-conservative replication of DNA as predicted by Watson and Crick's double helix model termed "the most beautiful experiment in biology" Other authors represented include: Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein Nobel Prize 1985 S.S. Cohen Arne Tiselius Nobel Prize 1948 Robert W. Holley Nobel Prize 1968 R. Dulbecco Nobel Prize 1975 Ugo Fano Leo Szilard. The majority of the items have the ownership stamp or signature of Eugene Goldwasser 1922-2010 biochemist at the University of Chicago. Before beginning his long-term project of purifying the hormone erythropoietin Goldwasser worked in the University of Chicago's phage group 1948-49 and on enzymes and RNA synthesis at Hans Kalckar's Institute for Cytophysiology in Copenhagen 1949-52. Almost all items are in fine condition. A complete list is available upon request. unknown books

Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books · États-Unis150 000,00 $US≈ 126 915,00 €

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A Collection of Material Related to Samuel Morse and the Telegraph

185000182872057593498894297: Various 1850. Softcover. Seven pamphlets published between 1842 and 1872 related to artist co-developer of the Morse Code and co-inventor of the single-wire telegraph system Samuel Morse 1791 - 1872 and the telegraph. - Morse Samuel; et al Electro-magnetic Telegraphs. Report No. 17 To Accompany Bill H. R. No. 641. December 30 1842. S. l. Washington DC: s. n. 1842. First edition; 9 1/2 x 6 1/2; pp. 13 unopened; light age-toning; two punctures for filing to left margin; a small nick to head of spine; small contemporary manuscript note to first page; illustrated with a wood-engraved diagram of "the alphabet for Morse's electro-magnetic telegraph;" very good condition.Printed for the 3rd Session of the 27th Congress of the House of Representatives the pamphlet contains a letter to Samuel Morse complimenting him on his invention by scientist first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and inventor of electromagnets Joseph Henry 1797 - 1878 a letter by Morse describing the history of his electro-magnetic telegraph two reports from the Committee on Commerce and the Committee of Arts and Sciences of the American Institute etc.- United States Department of Treasury Electro-magnetic telegraph. Communication from the Secretary of the Treasury Transmitting the Report of Professor Morse Announcing the Completion of the Electro-magnetic Telegraph between the Cities of Washington and Baltimore. Doc. No. 270 June 6 1844. S. l. Washington DC: Blair & Rives Printers 1844. First edition; 9 x 6; pp. 3; deckled fore-edge; age-toning to margins; a few spots of foxing; very good- condition.Published for the 1st Session of the 28th Congress of the House of Representatives Treasury Department the pamphlet presents a report by Samuel Morse on the experiment and successful completion of establishing a "system of electro-magnetic telegraphs between Washington and Baltimore. Also included is an estimation of the cost for his American telegraph compared to the cost of the English one.- United States Department of Treasury Magnetic Telegraph. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Transmitting a Letter from Professor Morse Relative to the Magnetic Telegraph. Doc. No. 24 December 23 1844. Read and Laid Upon the Table. S. l. Washington DC: Blair & Rives Printers 1844. First edition; 9 x 6; pp. 18 partially opened; spots of foxing mostly to margins; a few nicks and wrinkles to edges; two punctures for filing to left margin; illustrated with an wood-engraved diagram and tables; very good- condition.The pamphlet contains a letter by Morse to Chairman of Committee on Commerce Isaac Holmes describing new developments surrounding his electro-magnetic telegraph as well as various experiments conducted.- Vail Alfred Description of the American Electro Magnetic Telegraph: Now in Operation between the Cities of Washington and Baltimore. Washington DC: Printed by J. & G. S. Gideon 1845. First edition; 9 x 5 3/4; pp. 24 lacking back wrap else complete; front beige wrap with an elaborate engraved border; small loss of paper to lower corner and a penciled-in note to front wrap; illustrated with 14 large wood engravings; two punctures for filing to left margin; good to very good condition.Alfred Vail 1807 - 1859 was the co-inventor together with Samuel Morse of the telegraph. He was in fact the recipient of the first message transmitted in Morse Code - "What hath God wrought" - sent by Samuel himself. He would be responsible for several innovations and improvements to the system expanding Morse's numeric code to include letters and special characters. The booklet described in detail the components of the telegraph its principle "specimen of the telegraphic language" what would become the standard version of the code etc.- Houston John House of Representatives. Legislative Telegraph May 18 1848. Laid upon the Table. Report No. 642. S. l. Washington DC: s. n. 1848. First edition; 8 3/4 x 5 1/4; loose sheets pp. 8; uniform age-toning with a few spots of foxing; discolored spot to upper half of sheets; some nicks and cuts to edges; good or better condition.The report discusses the inventions by Francis H. Smith Stephen Bowerman and R. E. Monaghan and possible applications of a machine for accelerating the taking of Yeas Nays and other votes in the House of Representatives.- Kendall Amos Morse's Patent. Full Exposure of Dr. Chas. T. Jackson's Pretensions to the invention of the American Electro-magnetic Telegraph. Washington: Printed by Jno. T. Towers 1852. First edition; 8 3/4 x 5 3/4; pp. 64; uniform age-toning to wraps; a small discoloration to upper corner; a few spots of foxing; very good condition.Amos Kendall 1789 - 1869 was a lawyer journalist politician and business manager of Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail. His current rebuttal was prompted by Dr. Charles T. Jackson's 1805 - 1880 claim that he had discovered the telegraph before Morse and Vail. Jackson was a physician and scientist notorious for his continuous claims of prior discoveries of major scientific inventions. Apart from the telegraph Jackson had also started controversies over William Beaumont's digestive action of the stomach William T. G. Morton's anesthetic effects of Ether and others.- Smith Francis O. J. History Getting Right on the Invention of the American Electro-Magnetic Telegraph. S. l.: s. n. n. d. 1872. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. 21; scattered small spots; a manuscript note to title page; thin strip of paper loss to last leaf not affecting text; very good condition.Concerning more drama surrounding Morse's invention of the telegraph the pamphlet was written on the occasion of the erection of the Morse Monument in Washington and contained articles and letters claiming that scientist Joseph Henry rather than Morse had invented the system. The author Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith 1806 - 1876 had been Morse's publicity agent counsel and quarter-interest partner but eventually had had a falling out. Various paperback books

ZH BOOKS · États-Unis3 500,00 $US≈ 2 961,35 €

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A Collection of Material Presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty on Bolshevism and Other Affairs in Russia 1919 - 1921

1919002055London: His Majesty Stationary Office 1919. Softcover. A small collection of three volumes of reports published as white papers between 1919 and 1921 they were filed by returning diplomatic representatives in Russia and by appointed British officials and released by the British Government to highlight the "disaster" caused by the Bolshevik rule. - "Russia. No. 1 1919. A Collection of Reports on Bolshevism in Russia." First edition; 13 x 8 1/4; pp. 1 iii-vi 1 2-88; printed off-white wraps; last leaf pp. 87-88 and back wrap perished replaced with a facsimile; front wrap with a bit of dust-dulling and a small handwritten number to upper corner detached; text block clean; good or better condition. After its publication the document was immediately withdrawn and reissued with various excisions and alterations because of its vicious anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and only a handful of copies the original first printing have survived. While some of the verbal attacks on Jews were more subtle others such as that of M. Oudendyk the Netherlands' Minister to Petrograd outright stated: ".I consider that the immediate suppression of Bolshevism is the greatest issue before the World not even excluding the war which is till raging and unless as above stated Bolshevism is nipped in the bud immediately it is bound to spread in one form or another over Europe and the whole World as it is organized and worked by Jews who have no nationality and whose one object is to destroy for their own ends the existing order of things." Also often discussed in the reports was the demise of the Romanov family. - "Miscellaneous. No. 13 1920. Interim Report of the Committee to Collect Information on Russia." First edition; 13 x 8 1/4; pp. 1 3-23; printed off-white wraps illustrated with a vignette separating from the text block; back wrap with cuts nicks and loss of paper along edges not affecting text; cut to bottom edge of front wrap; good to very good condition. The committee was appointed in 1920 and consisted of several prominent British figures including Sir William Ryland Dent Adkins and Alfred Emmott 1st Baron Emmott. Its purpose was "to inquire into conditions under which British subjects were recently imprisoned or detained in Russia and generally to obtain information in regard to the economic and political situation in that country." Some of the topics covered conduct of prison officials and "sidelights of prison life." - "Russia. No. 1 1921. Report Political and Economic of the Committee to Collect Information on Russia." First edition; 13 x 8 1/4; pp. 2 4-167; printed off-white wraps illustrated with a vignette; back wrap separated from the text block; front wrap with a bit of dust-dulling and small chips to corners; very good- condition. Following the previous interim report the current one focused on the political and economic conditions in Russia and covered the effects of the Revolution on the country the attitude of the Soviet Government towards other countries etc. London: His Majesty Stationary Office paperback books

ZH BOOKS · États-Unis1 200,00 $US≈ 1 015,32 €

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A Change Is Gonna Come Vol. 1 nos. 4-5 April & June 1971

197126869San Francisco: Change 1971. First Edition. 2 tabloid issues 44.5cm.; illus. Previous folds as issued light toning else Near Fine. Short-lived San Francsico-based Women's Liberation news journal. Includes interviews with women suing Bank of America for sexual discrimination; a guide to natural beauty; a review of Doris Lessing's Children of Violence; and the column "Picking up the Wrench" which covers various car troubles and how to fix them yourself. Change unknown books

Lorne Bair Rare Books · États-Unis75,00 $US≈ 63,46 €

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A Catalogue of the Works of Linnaeus And Publications More Immediately Relating Thereto Preserved in the Libraries of the British Museum

1990043603Martino 1990. Revised Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Near Fine Condition. Reprint of the 1907 edition in green cloth. Limnited to 100 copies - undated ca. 1990. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; ISBN: 1199639214. ISBN/EAN: 9781199639219. Inventory No: 043603. Martino hardcover books

Pazzo Books · États-Unis50,00 $US≈ 42,31 €

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A Bulletin of the Phillips Collection Containing Catalogue and Notes of Interpretation Relating to a Tri-Unit Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture February to May 1928

19287052Washington DC: Phillips Collection 1928. Softcover. VG clean and tight. Cream stapled wraps with bw illus. and lettering. 62 pp. with bw frontis and 28 bw plates. Contents include a survey of the contents of the Lower Gallery Little gallery and Main Gallery; section on acquisitions of the 1927-28 season calendar of exhibitions and press comments and correspondence on A Collection in the Making Volume I and an Announcement of Volume II in preparation. Phillips Collection paperback books

Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB · États-Unis25,00 $US≈ 21,15 €

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A bond requiring a white man to appear in court on the charge that he furnished "spirituous liquor" to another man's slave

1848009349Forsyth County Georgia 1848. Unbound. Very good. In this one-page document bondsmen pledge $100 as a guarantee that: "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. . . ."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 Journal of Black Studies Jan. 1995. 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. . . ." 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. books

Read 'Em Again Books & Paper · États-Unis200,00 $US≈ 169,22 €

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A "WHO'S WHO" GUESTBOOK OF PASSENGERS ON AND VISITORS TO ISAAC STERN'S LEGENDARY STEAM YACHT VIRGINIA; Guest Book of the Virginia owned by New York's legendary department store tycoon Isaac Stern along with Ten Thousand Miles in a Yacht which chronicled its trip up the Amazon River in 1911

1900009646The Virginia's 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. The Virginia was an incredibly luxurious 441-ton steam yacht built in 1899 at Bath Maine for the New York department store magnate Isaac Stern. 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. Some signatures are from diplomats consuls foreign ministers military officers and no doubt quite a number of wealthy businessmen financiers and socialites. 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. The accompanying first edition book Ten Thousand Miles in a Yacht chronicles a trip on the Virginia 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. 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 U.S.S. Vedette 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. 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. 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

Read 'Em Again Books & Paper · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 269,15 €

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9th Annual Volume of the Walpole Society 1920-1921

192113648Oxford England: The Walpole Society 1921. Hardcover. Good- bookplates inside front cover cover worn along edges spine very worn with tears and minor losses. Blue boards. 95 pp. 36 mostly bw plates. The Walpole Society was founded in April 1911 to promote the study of British art history. Contains these chapters: "Queen Elizabeth's Visit to Blackfriars June 16 1600" "Canaletto in England" "Documents Relating to an Action Brought Against Joseph Goupy in 1738" and "An Authentic Portrait by Robert Peake." Issued only to subscribers. The Walpole Society hardcover books

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9 Items of Ads and Articles Detailing the First U. S. Personal Computers

1976430various: various 1976. Wrappers. Near fine. 13 vols. All are the 1st appearances anywhere. All in original wrappers near fine. 1: Scientific American Sep. 1971. Page 194 the first ad for the first personal computer Kenbak-1. 2: QST Mar. 1974. Page 154 the first ad for the first Mini-Computer Scelbi-8H. 3: Radio-Electronics Jul. 1974. Pages 29-33 Jonathan A. Titus: Build the Mark 8 Minicomputer the first magazine project microcomputer. 4: Popular Electronics Jan. 1975. Pages 33-38 Edward H. Roberts and William Yates: Altair 8800 Minicomputer part 1. 5: Popular Electronics Feb. 1975. Pages 56-58 Edward H. Roberts and William Yates: Altair 8800 Minicomputer part 2. 6: Byte Magazine. First 5 issues Sep. 1975-Jan. 1976. Loaded with goodies. 7: Computer Notes Altair Users Group Nov.-Dec. 1975. Page 19 Bill Gates: The Status of BASIC the primitive interpreter originally on paper tape first revealed in Mar. 1975 a month before Gates and Allen founded Microsoft. 8: Computer Notes Altair Users Group Jan. 1976. Page 1 announcement of the first Altair Convention. Page 13 Bill Gates article on programming. Page 14 Bill Gates article on software. Issues of Computer Notes are all scarce. 9: Computer Notes Altair Users Group Feb. 1976. Faint stains. Page 3 Bill Gates: An Open Letter to Hobbyists Feb. 3. A highly important statement outlining what became the Microsoft business model and clarifying distinctions between proprietary vs. open-source software Altair licensed Microsoft BASIC. Footprints on the summit are soon blown away but each of these items made their mark briefly for those who cared at the time so remain worth revering. In Jul. 1975 the first computer store opened in L. A. In Mar. 1976 Albuquerque hosted the first World Altair Computer Conference see no. 8 and by then even novices knew something was happening. And I note that the word "something" as I've used it in the last sentence has no synonym. various unknown books

Biblioctopus · États-Unis2 500,00 $US≈ 2 115,25 €

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70th Annual Volume of the Walpole Society 2008; LXX Seventieth Volume

2008132141Oxford England: The Walpole Society 2008. Hardcover. VG. Blue boards with gilt stamped lettering. 416 pp. followed by 112 bw plates. The Walpole Society was founded in April 1911 to promote the study of British art history. Contains the following chapters: "Early Mezzotints: Prints Published by Richard Tompson and Alexander Browne" and "George Vertue as an Engraver". Issued only to subscribers. The Walpole Society hardcover books

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6th Annual Volume of the Walpole Society 1917-1918

191813646Oxford England: The Walpole Society 1918. Hardcover. VG- soiling to covers foxing to endpapers minor chipping to cover edges. Blue boards. 130 pp. 1 color 43 bw plates. The Walpole Society was founded in April 1911 to promote the study of British art history. Contains the following chapters: "Two Anonymous Portraits by Cornelius Johnson" "The Lumley Inventories" "A Lumley Inventory of 1609" "Gawen Hamilton: An Unknown Scottish Portrait Painter" "Liverpool Art and Artists in the Eighteenth Century" "Further Leaves from Turner's 'South Wales' Sketch-Book" "Two Early Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds" "An Additional Gheeraerts Illustration" and "The Papers of the Society of Artists of Great Britain". Issued only to subscribers. The Walpole Society hardcover books

Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB · États-Unis100,00 $US≈ 84,61 €

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6th Annual Volume of the Walpole Society 1917-18

191813706Oxford England: The Walpole Society 1918. Hardcover. Good significant wear to spine which is ripped covers worn. Blue boards. 130 pp. 1 color 44 bw plates. The Walpole Society was founded in April 1911 to promote the study of British art history. Contains the following chapters: "Two Anonymous Portraits by Cornelius Johnson" "The Lumley Inventories" "A Lumley Inventory of 1609" "Gawen Hamilton: An Unknown Scottish Portrait Painter" "liverpool Art and Artists in the Eighteenth Century" "Further Leaves from Turner's 'South Wales' Sketch-Book" Two Early Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds" "An Additional Gheeraerts Illustration" and "The Papers of the Society of Artists of Great Britain." Issued only to subscribers. The Walpole Society hardcover books

Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB · États-Unis80,00 $US≈ 67,69 €

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66th Annual Volume of the Walpole Society 2004; LXVI Sixty-Sixth Volume

2004132136Oxford England: The Walpole Society 2004. Hardcover. VG. Blue boards. 254 pp. followed by 132 bw plates. The Walpole Society was founded in April 1911 to promote the study of British art history. Contains the following chapters: "Engraved Portrait Heads and the Rise of Extra-Illustration: The Eton Correspondence of Revd James Granger and Richard Bull 1769-1774" by Lucy Peltz; The Cosway Inventory of 1820: Listing Unpaid Commissions and the Contents of 20 Stratford Place Oxford Street London" by Stephen Lloyd; The Academy Diary of John Green Waller F.S.A by Lyn n Robert Metteson; An Archive of Letters to John Sheepshanks by Martin Royalton-Kisch. A very well-illustrated volume. Issued only to subscribers. The Walpole Society hardcover books

Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB · États-Unis50,00 $US≈ 42,31 €

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65th Annual Volume of the Walpole Society 2003; LXV Sixty-Fifth Volume

2003132139Oxford England: The Walpole Society 2003. Hardcover. VG. Blue boards. 273 pp. followed by 27 mostly bw plates. The Walpole Society was founded in April 1911 to promote the study of British art history. Contains the following chapters: "Letters of James and William Tassie to Alexander Wilson 1778-1826" "John Ramsay's Italian Diary 1782-84" and "Lord Lindsay: Travel in Italy and Northern Europe 1841-42 for Sketches of the History of Christian Art". Issued only to subscribers. The Walpole Society hardcover books

Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB · États-Unis40,00 $US≈ 33,84 €

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