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'A Neutral Observer' [ 'The Bath Contest' for the Office of Master of Ceremonies, 1769, followinng the death of Samuel Derrick ]Biblio.com

'The Bath Contest' for the Office of Master of Ceremonies 1769. Printed handbill by 'A Neutral Observer' addressed 'To the Ladies and Gentlemen who are yet uninfluenced by Party or Faction in the Present Election.'

18004Bath Somerset. 4 April 1769. 1p. 8vo. roughly 27.5 x 18.5 cm. On a piece of watermarked laid paper. The present item is the original handbill reproduced on pp.41-44 of 'The Bath Contest: Being a Collection of all the Papers Advertisements &c. Published Before and Since The Death of Mr. Derrick By the Candidates For the Office of Master of Ceremonies And their Friends Digested in Regular Order' Bath: Archer and Cruttwell 1769. It is scarce: no other copy being traced either on OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC. A frail survival on aged worn and creased paper with loss at head and to left-hand margin. It has lost the top line of the two-line heading consisting of 'To the Ladies and Gentlemen who are yet uninflu-'. The only other part of the text lacking is the number 4 of the day of the month in the bottom left-hand corner leaving 'th April 1769.' The initial paragraph is addressed to 'Ladies and Gentlemen' and this is followed by one addressed to 'Ladies' with the last four paragraphs addressed to 'Gentlemen'. The document begins: 'Ladies and Gentlemen Your Interests are united by the strong Hand of Nature. She hath given to both Sexes those Powers which equally promote each other's Happiness.' It concludes: 'What a Scene for your Sex to appear in Your Absence may shame them into Temper. A Room full of Men! What a ridiculous Sight! What Wretches should we be without You.' Note: Captain William Wade was appointed MC in 1769 -1777. [ Bath, Somerset. ] [4] April 1769. unknown

Richard M. Ford Ltd · Royaume-Uni90,00 £GB≈ 102,76 €

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The Famous Twenty Mule Borax Team from Death Valley California.

192574084New York: Pacific Coast Borax Co. ca. 1925. First edition. Small twelvemo. The title page reads "Concerning Borax Bill and the Famous 20 Mule Borax Team from Death Valley California." 116 pp. including frontispiece of Borax bill. Charmingly illustrated through and with a half-tone of the mule team across two pages. Publisher's brown printed wrappers with highlights in red. Excellent condition. he wagons were among the largest ever pulled by draft animals designed to carry 10 short tons 9 metric tons of borax ore at a time. The rear wheels measured seven feet high with tires made of one-inch-thick iron. The wagon beds measured 16 feet long and were 6 feet deep and were constructed of solid oak. They weighed 7800 pounds empty; when loaded with ore the total weight of the mule train was 73200 pounds. Long after the transportation of the borax was mechanized the company sent. out these 20 mule teams as a sort of advertisement. Promotional team appearances ended with an outing in the January 1 1999 Rose Parade. They have become perhaps the leading symbol of Death Valley. Pacific Coast Borax Co. unknown

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(DEATH VALLEY; MINING)Biblio.com

The Keane Wonder Mine Sale Documents.

190676852Tonopah: N.p. 1906-06. Two legal Agreements and other ephemera detailing the proposed sale of the Keane Wonder Mine in Death Valley owned by John Keane and Domingo Etcherran to E. H. Wedekind for $150000 in 1905. The 1905 Agreement is 6 pp. printed on rectoss only and details a payment plan fofr Wedekind It is signed by John Keane and Domingo Etcherran and their attorney Thomas Keane attorney signed for all parties as it is likely that John Keane and Domingo Etcherann were Illiterate. The seond official Agreement is only two pages long and it is attorney-signed for the J. Keaned and D. Etcheran and this one was signed by E. H. Wedekind. It just seems to add a proviso that the two men couldd continue theri mining until January 20th of 1906. The original Agreement was never signed by Wedekind and obviously fell through. Homer Wilson and John Campbell were the final purchasers again in 1906 of the twenty claims that comprised theKeane Wonder Mine. Keane Wonder Mine. Agreement 1905. E. H. Wedekind to purchase the Keane Wonder Mine from John Keane and Domingo Etcherran for $150000 with $10000 down. The 1905 contract was drawn up in Tonopah NV and it is not signed by by E. H. Wedekin Five yellow legal pages unsigned with pencil notes concerning deferred payments stock payments payment timing an option memo to John Keane and bond information. Similar terms had been offered to Captain J. R. Delamar in 1904; he was given one year to pay but failed to do so whereupon the mine reverted to Keane and Etcharran and Wedekind was sought as a new purchaser. Wedekind was a prominent California mining engineer incorporator of the Falls City Belt Line Railroad fiscal agent for the Elgin Quicksilver Mines until finally striking it rich in Ryholite. The yellow legal pages bear a â€œSunsetâ€ watermark listed in the 1910 directory as belonging to H. S. Crocker of San Francisco. 2011-114 N.p. unknown

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Twenty-seven Stereoviews of an Early Prospecting Expedition in the Funeral Mountains of Death Valley.

190976832Death Valley: N.p. 1909. Twenty-seven noncommercial stereoviews 7 x 3 1/2 inches. The photographs are very sharp and mounted onto plain gray mounts. Overall excellent condition.We can find no other history of a stereoscopic documentation of a gold prospecting expedition in Death Valley nor anywhere else in California for that matter. Almost all of the cards are dated and they bear the same date of January 1909 which leads one to think that they packed it up after a month. The ostensible first view is the exception; it is dated Dec. 1908 and shows a couple of the party standing next to two of Smith's huge borax wagons in Ludlow California. Ludlow was the southern railhead for the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad operated by the Pacific Coast Borax Company and bringing borax and other mining products from Death Valley and Beatty Nevada to long distance Santa Fe Railway lines. The mere fact that one of the exploring party carried a stereoscopic camera is in itself remarkable as a decent such camera is 1909 cost between $50 and $75 dollars or between $2000 and $2500 in today's dollars. Death Valley prospector's were not known for their wealth and a burro was their usual big ticket item.The majority of the cards have annotations on the verso. From those we learn some of the party's names "Emmit" "Dickie"etc. but no last names and the names of the places in the Valley where they prospected. Their main site seems to have been Gold Basin in the Funeral Mountains of the eastern part of Death Valley. There is no record of a Gold Basin in the literature of Death Valley. Place names in Death Valley were still fluid at this point and the name was likely made up at the time. Probably it become what is now called Golden Canyon. We do know that they were solely active in the Funeral Mountains and this was likely due to the fact that the most successful strikes in Death Valley were also in the Funeral Mountains. The famous Keane Wonder Mine was still very active in January of 1909 and some $600000 in gold and silver were mined before it began to fizzle in 1911. Some of the other places named and shown in the stereos are South Mountain. Gold Mountain Rhode's Wash Scott's Canyon and Scott's Cave Death Valley Narrows Saddle Horseshoe Ridge and others. Again none of the names given by this party survived. Member's of the prospecting party are shown in 16 of the views and it seems to have consisted of six members. One interesting view is captioned "Prospector's Camp and Forge Bill Keys of Death Valley." At age 15 Keys left home to work as a ranch hand smelter worker and miner honing skills that would define his later years. His early adventures took him to Arizona where he served as a deputy sheriff in Mohave County and to Death Valley where he befriended the colorful prospector Walter â€œDeath Valley Scottyâ€ Scott. The year after this photo was taken Keys took a job as custodian and assayer at the Desert Queen Mine in what is now Joshua Tree National Park. He soon took ownership of the land and it became the famous Desert Queen Ranch.Why these views were taken remains something of a mystery. It is more than likely especially when keeping in mind the outrageous cost of a stereoscopic camera in 1909 they they were to be used as an advertising ploy to lure investors into investing in mining Death Valley. The two most famous and best producing gold mines in the history of Death Valley Skidoo and the Keane Wonder Mine were both at their height in 1909 and western Nevada with its mining booms in places like Goldfield Tonopah Rhyolite Bullfrog etc. was also in full-swing. We can be thankful that the anonymous photographer was very skilled; the images are very sharp and he often conveyed the desolation and grandeur in a way not seen before. In recent times taking a trip to Death Valley is considered just another fun road trip but in 1909 is was a perilous endeavor not to be undertaken lightly. N.p. unknown

Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA · États-Unis3 500,00 $US≈ 2 961,35 €

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Invoice for a Funeral.

191874831New York City: G. B. Perazzo 1918. Billhead invoice dated April 1 1918. 8 1.2 x 14 inches. The billhead has a photograph illustration of the undertaker G. B. Perazzo who was located on Bleecker Street. Filled in in manuscript. One short tear to top and expected fold lines. Very good.An itemized invoice for the burial of Vincenzo Petello. His family James opted for the Lavender Casket for a whopping 70 dollars. The 7 coaches used to convey the mourners to the grave was only 49 dollars."During the heaviest years of Italian immigration to the South Village businesses in the neighborhood were typically operated by and mostly catered to local Italian clientele. The Porto Rico Importing Company established in 1907 by the Longo family has had several South Village homes over its more than 100 year history including 194 Bleecker Street and its present location at 201 Bleecker Street. The funeral business begun by Giovanni Bautista Perazzo in the building he constructed at 199 sic Bleecker Street in 1924-25 sic also endures today. Many Italian businesses employed their own family members particularly in smaller-scale operations like food-related businesses such as butcheries and bakeries where specific skills were passed down through generations" South Village Historic District Designation Report 2013. G. B. Perazzo unknown

Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA · États-Unis75,00 $US≈ 63,46 €

(Holocaust: Death Camp; Concentration Camp; Dachau)Biblio.com

Never Again / Jamais Plus

195050266Munich: Philipp Rauscher 1950. First edition. Softcover. Good condition. Sextodecimo. 59 1 1 folding plan. Original tan illustrated wraps with black lettering and double frame on cover. Guide through the memorial sites of the former Concentration Camp Dachau. Pictorial and written reports on the suffering and death of uncounted prisoners from countries around the world. "The booklet was written without any thought of hatred or revenge; it shall give the visitors of the Dachau memorial sites information on everything that has happened here without any exaggeration but also without any extenuating phrases. The attached plans will give detailed orientation on the memorial sites at the Crematory on "Leitenberg" and "Waldfriedhof" in Dachau." Introduction. Profusely illustrated with b/w reproduction of photographs artistic renderings and tables conveying overwhelmingly the horror and suffering that took place in the concentration camp. Includes photographs of the postwar tribunal the memorial sites and plaques and a folding map of the Crematory and the surrounding area at the camp. All images with captions. Text in English and French. Booklet age-toned and back cover with mostly closed tear small chips half way down the spine repaired with japan tissue. Philipp Rauscher unknown

Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller · États-Unis175,00 $US≈ 148,07 €

(PHOTOGRAPHY: DEATH VALLEY)Biblio.com

Original Photograph of a 14 Mule Team Hauling a Water Tank across Death Valley.

190076064N.p.: N.P. ca. 1900. Original albumen photograph 6 6/8 x 5 inches. the photograph bears a caption in the print sating merely "Death Valley Calif." Not on a photographer's mount but flat and clean. When you see an image with a long string of horses/mules hauling something one generally think of the famous Borax Twenty Mule Team. But the cargo in this picture is a huge metal tank of water; a rather necessary item in Death Valley. Likely bound for Ryan. N.P. unknown

Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA · États-Unis150,00 $US≈ 126,92 €

, Kiko Nakajima Destruction of life and death 40 pagesBiblio.com

Kaitenkutsujin Kiko Nakajima 70th anniversary memorial record <Japanese Version>

19322110502150400734Dainippon Martyrdom Association Headquarters 1932. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Dainippon Martyrdom Association Headquarters paperback

Potato Head Bookshop · Singapour263,00 $US≈ 222,52 €

03 [Another Chicago Reform Rabbi Explains the Jewish View of Jesus' Death] Hirsch, E G [Emil]Biblio.com

THE CRUCIFIXION. VIEWED FROM A JEWISH STANDPOINT. A LECTURE DELIVERED BY INVITATION BEFORE THE "CHICAGO INSTITUTE FOR MORALS RELIGION AND LETTERS

189243449Chicago: Bloch 1892. paperback. 1st edition original printed green paper wrappers 8vo. 49 pages. Singerman 4345. Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch 1851-1923 "who headed Chicago's Sinai Congregation for forty-two years and led Reform Judaism into the Progressive movement and down social justice pathways was born in Luxemburg. One of several Jews involved in founding the NAACP Hirsch was married to the daughter of abolitionist rabbi David Einhorn and served in his father-in-law's former pulpit in Baltimore before moving to Louisville Kentucky and then Chicago. He was professor of rabbinical literature and philosophy at the University of Chicago in 1892 active in the Republican Party and editor of several influential Jewish publications" Lawrence Bush in Jewish Currents "Hirsch and his congregants struggled to come to terms with the large number of Jewish immigrants who moved to Chicago after 1880 boosting the Jewish community from about 10000 in 1880 to over 300000 in 1920.For the established Jews represented by Sinai the Jewish 'Ghetto' - the immigrant neighborhood on the city's West Side - appeared to represent a world apart and a sharp contrast to Sinai's radical and inclusive reform agenda: a highly visible expression of Jewish ethnicity and traditional Judaism which Reform Jews associated with isolation discrimination and exclusion." Nevertheless during the 1890s "Hirsch spoke up against the deplorable condition of Jews in the Russian Empire and reached out to West Side residents. His support for workers' rights also won him much support among Jewish immigrants who overwhelmingly belonged to the working class. "Hirsch worked closely with Jane Addams and other members of the Hull House circle. In 1908 Hirsch and Addams were among the co-founders of the NAACP. Hirsch inspired several members of Sinai congregation: Sears and Roebuck president and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald was one of Hirsch's closest associates so was legal scholar Julian Mack who presided over a widely noted juvenile court in Chicago in the first decade of the 20th century. Hannah Solomon was one of the founders of the organized Jewish women's movement in the United States. Joseph Schaffner and Harry Hart were the leading partner of the clothing manufacturer Hart Schaffner & Marx one of Chicago's largest employers. Influenced by Hirsch's social theology Schaffner and Hart settled with their workers during the 1910-1911 clothing strike recognizing their right to form a union" Tobias Brinkmann. SUBJECT S : Jesus Christ -- Jewish interpretation. Jewish Christ -- Crucifixion.OCLC: 13532781. Light wear excellent condition a beautiful copy Very Good Condition B AMR-2-2-XLF#. Chicago: Bloch unknown

Dan Wyman Books · États-Unis225,00 $US≈ 190,37 €

1 La Morte Delle Maschere (un Prologo); 1 La MorBiblio.com

L'Orfeide

0282242643.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback

Bonita · États-Unis56,96 $US≈ 48,19 €

25th anniversary of Dr Yamauchi's death [edit]Biblio.com

25th Anniversary Commemorative Collection of Dr. Kiyoo Yamauchi's Demise <Japanese Version>

1996209290213760206725th anniversary of Professor Yamauchi's death 1996. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 282p version 119p size: B5 26cm number of books: 1 25th anniversary of Professor Yamauchi's death paperback

Potato Head Bookshop · Singapour100,00 $US≈ 84,61 €

578 Men and Women Executed on Texas Death RowBiblio.com

Final Words

2023DADAX081319783XUniversity Press of Kentucky 2023-11-14. hardcover. New. 6.40x3.10x8.80. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. University Press of Kentucky hardcover

Ergodebooks · États-Unis99,27 $US≈ 83,99 €

578 Men and Women Executed on Texas Death Row (Corporate Author)/ Horton, Randall (Foreward By)Biblio.com

Final Words

20231-081319783XUniv Pr of Kentucky 2023. Hardcover. New. 1200 pages. 9.00x6.00x2.25 inches. Univ Pr of Kentucky hardcover

Revaluation Books · Royaume-Uni61,75 £GB≈ 70,51 €

; illustrated by Joe Maneely, Robert Q Sale, Gene Colan, Art Peddy, Mort Lawrence, Werner Roth, Bob Powell, Don HeckBiblio.com

Atlas Comics Library No. 5: Police Action

2025ATLASLIB5Fantagraphics 2025. Hard Cover. New. Joe Maneely Robert Q. Sale Gene Colan Art Peddy Mort Lawrence Werner Roth Bob Powell Don Heck. Pre-Code cops and robbers' action from the early 1950s! The fifth stand-alone genre-themed collection in Fantagraphics' archival series of mid-century Marvel Comics. Before focusing on tales of justice via superheroes under the Marvel banner the publisher covered ground-level crime across a range of comics titles and true-crime magazines. Under the Timely imprint from 1947 and Atlas from 1951 up to eleven graphic series including Justice Comics Official True Crime Cases All-True Crime Crime Cases Crime Can't Win Crime Must Lose and Crime Exposed all muscled each other and competitors for space on the newsstands. For the first crime-themed volume in Fantagraphics' ongoing project to restore and resurrect pre-Marvel pulp classics the Atlas Library has selected a book that debuted as the genre peaked just before a Senate hearing and the institution of the Comics Code banned the use of the word "Crime" from even appearing in a comic's title. Escaping that fate Police Action had a seven-issue run of violent and noir-ish morality plays pitting the officers of the law against the forces of urban malevolence and was produced by the cream of the Atlas freelance roster including Joe Maneely Robert Q. Sale Gene Colan Art Peddy Mort Lawrence Werner Roth and Bob Powell. Rounding the volume off also presented is a post-Code one-shot Police Badge #479 a snapshot of the industry's attempts to adapt to new strictures on the genre: here we view "our boys in blue" in the fight against rank corruption highlighting the work of Don Heck and Joe Maneely. 254 pages. Full Colour illustrations. 8" x 12" 198mm x 297mm. 2.5 Fantagraphics hardcover

Print Matters · Royaume-Uni55,00 £GB≈ 62,80 €

[Australian Artists] Mort, EireneBiblio.com

Alphabet Frieze

19869948Canberra: National Gallery of Australia 1986. Four accordion fold leaves 13x13cm folded printed on one side only in blue 6 panels each with UV and XY appearing together to make 24 panels in total. Housed in blue printed box. Fine condition box with some wear. Eirene Mort's 1879-1977 charming Australian Alphabet printed by the National Gallery which purchased the designs from the artist's estate in 1984. The designs were drawn in London in 1902 when Mort was 23 and were intended to be produced as a book though it was never published. OCLC cites just the Australian Alphabet book publication from 1986 with introduction by John McPhee. Perhaps this frieze was published alongside or at a later date by the gallery. In any event we find not mention of it. National Gallery of Australia unknown

Peruse the Stacks · États-Unis75,00 $US≈ 63,46 €

[Bataan Death March] Knox, DonaldBiblio.com

Death March. The Survivors of Bataan.

198129366New York:: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1981. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good plus copy in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear to the estremities. Donald Knox tells the story of the Bataan campaign the Death March and prison camp life under the Japanese in the words of the survivors themselves. Over a period of seven years he interviewed over 200 veterans; the voices of sixty-eight were selected to provide the personal side of the horrors and heroism experienced in these events. The interviewees all American are mostly enlisted men; however a few officers and nurses also tell their story. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, unknown

Gregor Rare Books · États-Unis65,00 $US≈ 55,00 €

[CALIFORNIA -- DEATH VALLEY]. FRASHER, [Burton (Photographer).]Biblio.com

Death Valley National Monument. Frasher’s quality photos: 12 scenic views.

194358524Pomona CA: Frashers Inc. 1943. Oblong 12mo. 3.75 x 2.5 in. 12 miniature Real Photo Postcards w/ text w/in the negative preserved in original mailing portfolio die-cut window on recto canceled stamp & address on verso minor dustsoiling shelfwear to portfolio still NF set of RPPCâ€™s from the library of George Stein 1914-1988 stationed at Camp Haan in World War II and was a longtime driver and heavy equipment operator for the Clark County Highway Dept. son of Gran Duchy of Luxembourg immigrant farmers and later builder in Vancouver WA. This complete miniature set of Real Photo Postcards shot by the iconic California photographer includes such images as â€œ20 Mule Team Borax Wagonsâ€; â€œFurnace Creek Campâ€; â€œSalt Pool and the Devilâ€™s Golf Courseâ€; â€œDeath Valley Scottyâ€; â€œMushroom Rockâ€; and others. Frasher 1888-1955 opened a commercial photography studio with his wife Josephine Angel in 1912 with her shooting portraits and Frasher traveling Eastern California by automobile in the 1920â€™s and 1930â€™s on photographic expeditions. He would eventually produce over 60000 negatives and his stock-in-trade Real Photo Postcards were very popular. See: Peter Hiller Visions of the West; The Photographic Legacy of Burton Frasher Sr. Postcard History March 30 2020. Frashers, Inc., unknown

Zephyr Used & Rare Books · États-Unis125,00 $US≈ 105,76 €

[Civil War – Massachusetts – Death and Burial] Trustees of the North Sudbury Burying GroundBiblio.com

Notice to Stone Layers / Proposals will be received on FRIDAY the 17th instant at the / North Sudbury Burying Ground / for laying about 25 rods of wall around the addition to said ground

1863Cat320Concord Massachusetts: Benjamin Tolman 1863. Printed broadside 11 Â¼ x 10 inches. Some tearing at folds very good. A straightforward but telling piece documenting the expansion of a Massachusetts burying ground during the American Civil War signed in type by three trustees of the North Sudbury Burying Ground. As casualties mounted and remains were returned to hometowns existing cemeteries were frequently enlarged with new land enclosed and improved by contract. The specification of â€œ25 rodsâ€ over 400 feet of wall indicates a substantial addition typical of mid-war efforts to increase capacity in established town burial grounds rather than create entirely new sites. Sudbury contributed roughly 150â€“170 men to Union service of whom approximately eleven died a scale of loss consistent with small Massachusetts towns and sufficient to register locally in burial and memorial practices. We find no other records of ephemera or broadsides relating to Civil War-era cemetery expansion. This notice is not at AAS. Benjamin Tolman unknown

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[COOK: DEATH] WEBBER, John, engraved by Francesco BARTOLOZZI and William BYRNEBiblio.com

The Death of Captain Cook In February 1779 by the murdering Dagger of a Barbarian at Carakakooa in one of the Sandwich Isles. He having there become a Victim to his own Humanity. The Distressing Scene is Part of the Original Plate after Webber by Messrs Bartolozzi & Byrne

17843603426London: Sold in Spur Street Leicester Square 1784. Small crease in lower corner in good condition. Oval engraving 350 x 265 mm. image size; mounted. Rare variant of the famous engraving of Cook's death showing as the caption notes "Part of the Original Plate after Webber" and presumably quite literally printed from an oval cut from the fuller engraved copper. This is only very rarely seen: the single example noted by Joppien and Smith was in the British Museum. The full-size engraving was first issued early in 1784. Based on the oil painting executed by Webber soon after he returned to London in 1780 the figures were engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi and the landscape by William Byrne. Quickly becoming the most famous of all eighteenth-century depictions of the massacre the view appeared at about the same time as the official third voyage account was published. This was no coincidence: although lavishly illustrated by Webber the official account did not include any depiction of the most famous scene of the entire voyage the death of Captain Cook. As a result the iconic engraving is often seen bound into extra-illustrated editions of the third voyage account. Reflecting the general opinion prevailing in published accounts of the voyage the original image as Joppien and Smith argue appeared to show Cook as 'an innocent victim killed in the act of pleading for peace'. This is here heightened by the changed composition as the oval shape dictates a radically different impact to that of the original engraving omitting the dramatic conflict between the British sailors and the Hawaiians and thus implying a scene in which Cook his arm raised in supplication to his men offstage stands alone and is overwhelmed by a seething crowd. The only copy noted among Australian holdings appears to be the heavily clipped copy in the National Library of Australia part of the Nan Kivell collection. . Sold in Spur Street, Leicester Square unknown

Hordern House Rare Books · Australie7 750,00 $AU≈ 5 108,03 €

[DANCE OF DEATH].Biblio.com

La Danse des Morts a Bale.

18603220383Chromolithograph panorama 8.8 x 296 cm on five conjoined strips; folding down into the original black cloth covers 9.1 x 11.2 cm.Rare and attractive if rather disconcerting tourist souvenir panorama of the Dance of Death.The panorama contains 43 separate scenes and is a reproduction of the 63 metre-long fresco painted on the inner wall of the cemetery of the Augustinan Convent Basel c.1440. that was possibly created under the influence of the plague epidemic of 1439. The sequence emphasises the vanity of social distinctions each character dancing with death. The wall and fresco were demolished in 1805 however a number of fragments survive in the Historisches Museum Basel.Identifications of the subjects is given in the bottom margin in French English and German. The English identifications read from left to right: Preacher Charnel House Pope Emperor Empress King Queen Cardinal Bishop Duke Duchess Earl Abbot Knight Lawyer Alderman Canon Doctor Nobleman Lady Merchant AbbessCripple Hermit Young Man Maiden Minstrel Herald Judge Headsman Jester Pedlar Blind Man Jew Pagan Paganess Cook Peasant Painter Painter's Wife Paradise and The Dance of Death. As a tailpiece a view of Todlenanz as it appeared in 1800.The panorama is derived from a watercolour copy by the still life painter Johann Rudolf Feyerabend 1779-1814 that was completed in 1806 and is also housed in the Historisches Museum Basel. [Basel?]

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[DANCE OF DEATH -- WOODCUT ENGRAVINGS]. HERMANN-PAUL, [Rene Georges]Biblio.com

La danse macabre. . . gravures sur bois par. . . .

191962005Paris: Chez l’imprimeur Leon Pichon 5 Rue Christine 1919. 12mo. 6.5 x 6.5 3 leaves unnumbered. title w/ woodcut borders & printer’s device 20 numbered woodcut engraved plates. Softcovers minor shelfwear w/ woodcut-decorated jacket folded over the covers minor spotting foxing on back cover very minor bumping to corners still VG copy numbered on colophon & ownership markings on ffep. First edition No. 353 of 400 copies printed of the noted engraver’s first major post-World War I work as a Dance of Death depicting Death’s passage in the blighted and stricken era and a firm protest against modern mechanized warfare. Hermann-Paul 1864-1940 rose to fame during the Belle Epoque with his cutting satiric depiction of the foibles of French Society was a noted defender of Alfred Dreyfus whom after the war departed from his previously leftist ideals of the Parisian art scene and spent much of the between-the-wars period as an outsider. Chez l’imprimeur Leon Pichon, 5, Rue Christine, paperback

Zephyr Used & Rare Books · États-Unis400,00 $US≈ 338,44 €

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