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1896W2090London: Fortescue Mann 1896. David Simkin reports "In a classified advert in an 1896 edition of The Photogram Fortescue Mann was offering "Opaline Stereoscopic Slides" at 6d each supplied from his shop at 48 Elgin Avenue Paddington London." Opaline stereoviews are albumen prints mounted on card stock and enclosed under a sheet of glass. Mann's opaline stereoscopic views were views of London Seaside resorts hop gardens county life river scenery etc. Note: There is some debate over whether the London views by Fortescue Mann were taken by John Fortescue Mann 1848-1897 or by his son Reginald Fortescue Mann 1881-1916. David Simkin Sussex Photo History attributes them to the father while Douglas Heil The Art of Stereography attributes them to the son. Both acknowledge that the latter would have been quite a prodigy to have created these fine images at the age of 15 in 1896. First Edition. Glass. Collectible-Very Good. Illus. by Fortescue Mann. 3 1/4" by 6 3/4". Photo. Fortescue Mann
1896W2086London: Fortescue Mann 1896. There is some debate over whether the London views by Fortescue Mann were taken by John Fortescue Mann 1848-1897 or by his son Reginald Fortescue Mann 1881-1916. David Simkin Sussex Photo History attributes them to the father while Douglas Heil The Art of Stereography attributes them to the son. Both acknowledge that the latter would have been quite a prodigy to have created these fine images at the age of 15 in 1896. From the collection of Robert N. Dennis. Please note that my scanner does not do well with glass stereoviews. All of the glass views I have listed for this fair have superb images especially when observed through a stereoscope. First Edition. Glass. Collectible-Very Good. Illus. by Fortescue Mann. 3 1/4" by 6 3/4". Photo. Fortescue Mann
1896W2087London: Fortescue Mann 1896. This stereoview was one of ten that Fortescue Mann exhibited at the Forty-first Annual Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society 1896 under the title Exhibit No. 367: STEREOSCOPIC TRANSPARENCIES. Ten Slides In the Stereoscope. Note: There is some debate over whether the London views by Fortescue Mann were taken by John Fortescue Mann 1848-1897 or by his son Reginald Fortescue Mann 1881-1916. David Simkin Sussex Photo History attributes them to the father while Douglas Heil The Art of Stereography attributes them to the son. Both acknowledge that the latter would have been quite a prodigy to have created these fine images at the age of 15 in 1896. First Edition. Glass. Collectible-Very Good. Illus. by Fortescue Mann. 3 1/4" by 6 3/4". Photo. Fortescue Mann
1896W2084London: Fortescue Mann 1896. There is some debate over whether the London views by Fortescue Mann were taken by John Fortescue Mann 1848-1897 or by his son Reginald Fortescue Mann 1881-1916. David Simkin Sussex Photo History attributes them to the father while Douglas Heil The Art of Stereography attributes them to the son. Both acknowledge that the latter would have been quite a prodigy to have created these fine images at the age of 15 in 1896. From the collection of Robert N. Dennis. Please note that my scanner does not do well with glass stereoviews. All of the glass views I have listed for this fair have superb images especially when observed through a stereoscope. First Edition. Glass. Collectible-Very Good. Illus. by Fortescue Mann. 3 1/4" by 6 3/4". Photo. Fortescue Mann
1896W2088London: Fortescue Mann 1896. This stereoview was one of ten that Fortescue Mann exhibited at the Forty-first Annual Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society 1896 under the title Exhibit No. 367: STEREOSCOPIC TRANSPARENCIES. Ten Slides In the Stereoscope. Note: There is some debate over whether the London views by Fortescue Mann were taken by John Fortescue Mann 1848-1897 or by his son Reginald Fortescue Mann 1881-1916. David Simkin Sussex Photo History attributes them to the father while Douglas Heil The Art of Stereography attributes them to the son. Both acknowledge that the latter would have been quite a prodigy to have created these fine images at the age of 15 in 1896. First Edition. Glass. Collectible-Very Good. Illus. by Fortescue Mann. 3 1/4" by 6 3/4". Photo. Fortescue Mann
1896W2209London: Fortescue Mann 1896. There is some debate over whether the London views by Fortescue Mann were taken by John Fortescue Mann 1848-1897 or by his son Reginald Fortescue Mann 1881-1916. David Simkin Sussex Photo History attributes them to the father while Douglas Heil The Art of Stereography attributes them to the son. Both acknowledge that the latter would have been quite a prodigy to have created these fine images at the age of 15 in 1896. From the collection of Robert N. Dennis. Provenance: from the collection of Robert N. Dennis who was one of the most important stereoview collectors in the U. S. The New York Public Library's "Robert N. Dennis Collection" includes more than 70000 stereoviews from his collection many of which can be viewed on the library's website. Please note that my scanner does not do well with glass stereoviews. All of the glass views I have listed for this fair have superb images especially when observed through a stereoscope. First Edition. Glass. Fine-. Illus. by Fortescue Mann. Photo. Fortescue Mann
1896W2085London: Fortescue Mann 1896. There is some debate over whether the London views by Fortescue Mann were taken by John Fortescue Mann 1848-1897 or by his son Reginald Fortescue Mann 1881-1916. David Simkin Sussex Photo History attributes them to the father while Douglas Heil The Art of Stereography attributes them to the son. Both acknowledge that the latter would have been quite a prodigy to have created these fine images at the age of 15 in 1896. From the collection of Robert N. Dennis. Please note that my scanner does not do well with glass stereoviews. All of the glass views I have listed for this fair have superb images especially when observed through a stereoscope. First Edition. Glass. Collectible-Very Good. Illus. by Fortescue Mann. 3 1/4" by 6 3/4". Galley/Proof. Fortescue Mann
1900964H10London: Adam & Charles Black 1900. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". None. A very scarce first English edition of Houssaye"s detailed chronicle of Waterloo handsomely bound red cloth and complete with three fold-out colour campaign maps. In the publisher's original red cloth binding with gilt blind-stamp decoration.This volume is the first English appearance of Houssaye"s classic Waterloo study translated from the 31st French edition. First edition thus.This edition features three fold-out colour maps illustrating the general theatre from Charleroi to Brussels the troop dispositions for Ligny and Quatre-Bras and the Waterloo battlefield at midday on 18 June. Collated complete.This is a full-length meticulously sourced study of the Waterloo phase of Napoleon"s Hundred Days beginning with the 15 June frontier crossings and ending with the French retreat on 19 June. His aim was to present an hour-by-hour narrative while defending several controversial French decisions notably those of Ney and Grouchy. Historians such as Peter Hofschröer and John Hussey still cite him for French staff figures and timings. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally very smart. Slight discolouration to perimeters of boards and spine. Rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in slight loss to cloth at head and tail of spine. The odd slight handling mark to boards and scattered spots of damp staining particularly to rear board. previous owner's bookplate to front paste down "Ex Libris Campbell". Slight offsetting with the odd spot to endpapers. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean if slightly age toned. The odd spot heavier to first and last few leaves and fore edge. One or two small closed tears to maps. Very Good Adam & Charles Black hardcover
185135415Georgetown: n/a 1851. Letter. Good. Letter. Approx. 8" x 10". 1 page of writing. Paper previously removed from a glass frame. Tissue repairs on the edges. Paper has multiple folds. According to a note found on the back of the glass frame William Mann addressed this letter to Col. William S. Amweg a pension attorney near Lancaster Pennsylvania area in the years 1849-1851. The number 200 is written top of the paper. Unfortunately the note affixed to the back of the frame is now missing. Col. Amweg's name is not found in this document.<br /> <br /> The letter transcribed as best as possible reads: "Georgetown June 8 1851 Sir Having heard not reading that there was an appropriation being made for the last legislative body appropriating a sum of $30000 dollars for defraying the expenses of the First & Second Pennsylvania volunteers in Mexico and not being to the whole circumstance belonging to the Co. of First Pennsylvania Ridgement under Colonel Wincape and Lt. Col. Samuel Black therefore I wish you to intercede for me and lose nothing. I have great acquaintances in your place Rea Frarer Jones B. Canfuier Dr. Casally &c. which will certify that I was there. Reece was there also. The reference would be to Brigadier General John Bennet of Philadelphia who was my captain in Mexico and who would be a friend in need. Just ask for I cannot say much at present but request an answer respecting these things and oblige yours most respectively William Mann. P.S. I would inform you that when I landed in Philadelphia I was sickly and destitute of friends that I sold my discharge papers for the sake of getting home decently and therefore have no certificate to show but making reference to General Bennet Jr. can be had nothing more at present but remain yours &c William Mann. Excuse my bad spelling for I am no scholar. Please direct to post office. n/a unknown
18530001197COUDERSPORT PENNSYLVANIA POTTER COUNTY 1853. On offer is an original manuscript letter handwritten by an important local Quaker reformer and Underground Railroad figure John S. Mann 1816-1879 who was a Quaker lawyer born in Chester County Pennsylvania. He was a teacher but moved to Coudersport in 1841. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1842. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives 1866-1868 1871; School Director 1858-1872 Coudersport Burgess 1862-1865; and Editor of the Potter Journal 1874-1879. Mann was the Underground Railroad "Stationmaster" for Coudersport which was an important stop on the route used by escaping slaves. Both his home and the building where his wife's bookstore was located were used to hide slaves. The latter even had a secret room. His son Arthur said as a young boy it was "not uncommon to find a colored person at the breakfast table". This letter dated Nov 8 1853 concerns settlers on the owner's lands addressed to 'Dear Sir' but most likely to John Keating elderly land owner of much land in Potter County Pennsylvania. Mann was an agent for John Keating 1760-1856 an Irish-French immigrant who bought 200000 acres in northern Pennsylvania in 1796 and began selling it the next year. "Coudersport Nov 8 1853 Dr Sir On my return I went to your lands as you suggested and made contracts with those settlers which had not already entered into contract. I succeeded in obtaining a contract with all but two and one of them was willing to do so but his improvement had been sold at sheriff's sale and the purchaser did not live in this county. The other one refused to contract and says he will hold by possession . I am satisfied he cannot and I think Mr. Harwick ought to take his lot at his own risk as I can furnish you a purchaser who will take his contract and not ask you to guarantee the possession of any of the lots. It took me so long to get over the tract that I am unable to make out a statement of the amount due on the old contracts and so I enclose thirteen of them herewith. Will send the new contracts by next mail together with a draft of the tracts showing the amount and location of the lots sold Yours truly Jno S. Mann". A receiving notation gives Mann's name again. Fold tear at top center overall G. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. English. unknown
1900010662Richmond Virginia 1900. Envelope or Cover. Very good. This business envelope bears the printed return address of Valentine’s Meat-Juice Company of Richmond Virgina. It was sent from Richmond to the Director of the Private Maternity Hospital of Berlin Germany. It is franked with a 5-cent Grant stamp Scott #281 that has been canceled with a Barry Postal Supply Company machine postmark dated 21 February 1900. The reverse is filled with assorted postal labels handstamps in various colors and manuscript annotations related to its delivery despite having an insufficient address. In nice shape.<br /> <br /> <p>In downtown Richmond Mann S. Valentine a prosperous merchant lived with his family in a large neoclassical home. In 1870 his wife Anne Maria fell ill from a “severe and protracted derangement of the organs of digestion†that prevented her from eating solid food. Doctors had given up on curing Anne Maria so Valentine took it upon himself to concoct his own highly concentrated protein and iron tonic which he distilled from a mix of eggs and beef broth. It worked wonders. <br /> <br /> <p>Valentine ever a merchant began to create more which sold well in his store. Seeing the possibility of ever-increasing sales he began to canvass local then regional then nationally known physicians for their endorsements. Some replied with glowing reviews reporting they used it effectively not just as a nutritional supplement but as a treatment for everything from nausea to dysentery and cholera. Valentine began to publish these reviews in advertisements and business boomed. He took his meat juice to the International Paris Exposition in 1878 and introduced it to a global market. Recognizing the importance of physician recommendations Valentine began to contact European doctors for their endorsements. This envelope was no doubt used for that purpose.<br /> <br /> <p>In 1906 the newly created Food and Drug Administration began its crackdown on patent medicines. Seeing the writing on the wall Valentine stopped promoting his meat juice as a curative and began to market it as a cooking supplement for flavoring various dishes. As such it was even more popular than medicine and became a staple on grocery store shelves throughout the country for years until demand finally wore off and the factory located at Brook Road and Chamberlayne Avenue shut its doors.</p> . Valentine amassed a fortune during the last quarter of the 19th century and became an inveterate collector of art and artifacts. In his will he provided a large endowment to establish a museum to house his collection and it much expanded continues in operation as the famed Valentine Museum in Richmond.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>For more information see “The history of Valentine’s Meat Juice†at the RIC Today website and Castellano’s “In the 1800s Valentine’s Meant a Bottle of Meat Juice†at the Atlas Obscura website.<br /> <br /> <p>Old meat juice bottles are frequently sold on or encountered in antique malls. Company envelopes used to request endorsements from domestic physician endorsements occasionally appear on or in philatelic auctions. Evidence of Valentines attempts to secure international professional recommendations are seldom encountered; this is the first we have seen.</p> . unknown
180189449CBLübeck, 1801. 1 Blatt; 32,2 x 20 cm.
185589445CBLübeck, 1855. 1 Blatt, 42,9 x 26,8 cm.
1894ABE-1680761205283Houghton Mifflin Co Boston 1894. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. The uncommon or scarce first edition green boards with gilt lettering. Studies of birds in the West as we understand it now Utah Colorado and in the Midwest Ohio which as Miller writes in her brief foreword is "West only relatively to New England and New York where most of my studies have been made." Harriet Mann Miller writing under the nom de plume of Olive Thorne Miller was one of the first three women accepted in 1901 into the American Ornithologists Union the others being Mabel Osgood Wright and Florence Merriam Bailey and like them she was a pioneering woman writing about the environment publishing articles in prominent venues like Harper's Weekly The Atlantic and the Chicago Tribune; chapters in this particular book had appeared in The Atlantic Monthly the Independent and Harper's Bazar. Ultimately Miller wrote an estimated 780 articles and 24 complete books and in particular she wrote prolifically about birds. A very good book with a slanted spine and light wear to corners and spine ends. Library stamp for the Christian Union Sunday School Rockford Illinois on the front pastedown and an 1896 gift inscription by B.R. Waldo to that school on the third blank. Slight edge loss to upper corner of first 20 pages. // Wood River = Books specializes in ecology natural history nature writing the environment and environmental literature with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston hardcover
1884130867Sydney: William Dymock 1884. Very Good. Sydney William Dymock 1884. Four large chromolithographs individually matted framed and glazed visible image sizes approximately 375 × 505 mm external dimensions 540 × 670 mm. 'View of Sydney from the East Side of the Cove. No. 1' is in excellent condition. 'View of Sydney from the West Side of the Cove. No. 2' has a closed 90 mm crack extending from the right-hand edge just above the trees. 'View of Sydney from the East Side of the Cove. No. 3' has a closed 70 mm crack extending from the right-hand edge just above the trees and a few spots of foxing. 'View of Sydney from the West Side of the Cove. No. 4' is cracked across the entire plate a little above the horizon with another thin closed crack extending about 110 mm from the bottom edge in the right-hand corner edge and a few spots of foxing. The much later frames need replacing at which stage the essentially unobtrusive blemishes to the prints can be treated if required. The full title of Mann's book is 'The Present Picture of New South Wales; illustrated with Four Large Coloured Views from Drawings taken on the Spot of Sydney the Seat of Government with a Plan of the Colony taken from actual Survey by Public Authority . with Hints for the Further Improvement of the Settlement'. It was originally published with two large hand-coloured aquatint views of Sydney in four sheets forming two impressive panoramas. The artwork was by the convict-artist John Eyre; original issues of these plates are extremely rare. <p>In 1884 William Dymock issued chromolithographic facsimiles of the four plates accompanied by a booklet of explanatory text 'A Letterpress Description of the Views of Sydney in 1810' not offered with this set of plates. See Tim McCormick: 'First Views of Australia 1788-1825' plates 94-97 and pages 314-15. 4 items. William Dymock unknown
1804M15034Boston:: Printed for Young & Minns Printers to the State 1804. 1804. 24 cm. 51 1 pp. Later marbled wrappers; text-block edges "thumbed" and spotted foxed. Bookplate of Frederick A. Frye. Very good. Rare. The author won the Boylstonian Prize for 1803 with this work. "Cholera infantum" refers to an outdated term for a severe diarrheal illness affecting infants historically prevalent in hot humid conditions. / James Mann was a prominent American military surgeon particularly known for his service during the War of 1812. He was the Medical Director of the Northern Army during that conflict where he managed hospitals established new ones and oversaw the care of soldiers. His experiences and observations were later documented in his book "Medical Sketches of the Campaigns of 1812 13 14." / The author was a Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society. See: Joseph I. Waring "American Pediatric Writings of the 18th Century" JAMA Pediatrics vol. 130 No. 7 July 1976. Printed for Young & Minns, Printers to the State, 1804. unknown
180665604Dedham MA: Printed and sold by H. Mann 1806. Stitched sheets. 26.5 cm. 32pp. Table of contents on verso of title page; music and lyrics are included. Some of the selections: Address to a Tuft of Violets Abercrombie's March Bonaparte's Grand March etc. A few closed tears verso of title page repaired with Japanese paper old staining and overall toning to text. Herman Mann was the brother of Elias Mann one of the founders of the Massachusetts Musical Society. Shaw produced some of Mann's best selling items. Shaw had lost an eye in his youth and lost the sight in the other one when he was 21 on a sea voyage. <br/><br/> Printed and sold by H. Mann unknown books
18501372328Boston: Ticknor Reed and Fields 1850. Softcover. Octavo 84 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in brown cloth with gilt text on front cover and blindstamped ornamentation on both covers. Covers have bending to corners sunning to spine and mild edge wear and shelf wear. Textblock has foxing to many pages offsetting on to title page and preceding page and offsetting from page 84 on to next page. Shelved in Room X. 1372328. Special Collections - Downstairs. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields unknown
185069881Boston: Ticknor Reed and Fields 1850. First edition 16mo pp. 84; original limp blindstamped black cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover; slight wear dampstain in lower gutter very good. See Sabin 44324. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields unknown
1853h45580Syracuse: Hall Mills and Company 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo period binding of half brown calf and paper-covered boards very good light wear and rubbing contents a bit tanned and foxed throughout 1878 pencil gift inscription on flyleaf bookseller's old tag on pastedown J. T. Heald Bookbinder Wilmington DE. 141 pp. First printings are rare in the trade and at auction. The work consists of two lectures Mann delivered in 1853 and 1854 in which he explores women's role in society arguing for the importance of education for women and their unique capacity to shape the moral character of those around them. From what we can gather from online sources in these lectures Mann who was the leading early 19th-century proponent of public school education expresses a degree of ambivalence about women's social roles and the relations between men and women. Rather than positing two entirely separate "spheres" for the sexes Mann reframed the traditional "woman's sphere" as a hemisphere - one half of a single shared orb of human interaction - emphasizing that each sex is necessary as the complement of the other. Consistent with his broader educational philosophy Mann believed women were particularly well suited to teaching and to the moral elevation of society and the lectures advocate giving women access to quality education so they can fulfill that role. He also argued that women should be permitted to participate in public life and be accorded the same legal rights as men - though a contemporary feminist critic Ernestine Rose sharply challenged his lectures accusing him of "pandering to prejudiced public opinion" by confining woman's greatest duty to the cradle and to educating children. Overall the work sits in interesting tension: progressive in its call for women's education and rights yet still tethered to 19th-century notions of feminine moral influence and domestic purpose. Hall, Mills, and Company hardcover
185570211Boston:: Ticknor and Fields 1855. Early edition. publisher's flexible gilt-lettered cloth. Cloth faded especially at the spine; a little rounded at corners. 16mo. Ticknor and Fields, hardcover
1834024808Louisville KY: Wilcoc Dickerman & Co. 1834. First Edition . Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition very good in original tree calf leather binding with a brown leather spine and red title label on spine reading "Butler's History of Kentucky". The leather is a little worn at corners and spine ends but with very little loss mainly at corners. Owner name town and date 1923 on front endpaper with single different owner name at title page. Marbling on page edges is faded; some sporadic foxing to pages throughout but fairly minimal. Frontispiece engraved portrait of General George R. Clark to whom the book is dedicated; Appendix at the rear - 396 pages. Page block is slightly stiff although tight and square. A very well preserved copy of this early history. <br/> <br/> Wilcoc, Dickerman & Co. hardcover
18341358309Louisville: Wilcox Dickerman & Co 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xi 396 pages; In Very Good Minus Condition. Bound in 20th century full paneled imitation period full tree calf paneled covers with gilt borders and spine labels with gilt lettering; Boards show light plus wear to top and bottom edges; Textblock has significant uneven age-toning to edges moderate plus foxing to pages interiorly a dampstain along the fore-edge up to p. 9 creasing to corners of several pages and significant foxing to frontispiece and titlepage; Top edge of titlepage has been repaired; RW Consignment. Howes B-1059. 1358309. Special Collections - Downstairs. Wilcox, Dickerman & Co hardcover
18341944455Wilcox Dickerman and Co. 1834 1834. Hardcover. Used-Very Good. Full calf. 396 pp. Frontis. Hinges repaired. All edges marbled. Well preserved internals. Howes B-1059. Wilcox, Dickerman and Co., 1834 hardcover
183410325Louisville Wilcox Dickerman & Co. 1834. 1834. First edition first issue with Louisville imprint. Small 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of General George Rogers Clark. Full contemporary calf gilt stamped spine marbled edges upper joint cracked some light foxing through. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Howes USIANA B-1059. F. Hardcover. Louisville, Wilcox, Dickerman & Co., 1834. hardcover books
