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188432891884. A beautiful sketch book by an unknown French artist. This contains sketches of landscapes of Northern France. Also ships and parts of ships and ink portraits of gentlemen. The landscapes is often around St. Malo. These include Paramé and Saint-Servan-sur-Mer in Ile-et-Vilaine and Granville in Manche. All skillfully executed in pencil ink or charcoal. In total there are 13 pages of landscapes 13 of portraits 12 of ships and boats and 4 other sketches. There are also a few others not significant. All drawn between 1884 and 1900 - these are created by a skilled hand. There is a poem dedicated to 'Justine' with ends with the author / artist's name Louis de Crèvecoeur. 105 x 170 mm 4¼ x 6¾ inches. Un beau carnet de croquis d'un artiste français inconnu. Il contient des croquis de paysages du nord de la France. On y trouve également des bateaux et des parties de bateaux ainsi que des portraits à l'encre de gentilshommes. Les paysages sont souvent situés autour de Saint-Malo. Ils incluent Paramé et Saint-Servan-sur-Mer en Ile-et-Vilaine et Granville dans la Manche. Tous sont habilement exécutés au crayon à l'encre ou au fusain. Au total il y a 13 pages de paysages 13 de portraits 12 de navires et de bateaux et 4 autres croquis. Il y en a aussi quelques autres qui ne sont pas significatives. Tous les dessins ont été réalisés entre 1884 et 1900 - ils ont été créés par une main experte. Il y a un poème dédié à 'Justine' qui se termine par le nom de l'auteur/artiste Louis de Crèvecoeur. 105 x 170 mm 4¼ x 6¾ inches. unknown
107660London 1899. . <br /> Unsigned declaration of London rabbies concerning ritual murder allegation. December 5660-1899.<br /> London, 1899. unknown
1878012113New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1878. Hardcover. Good. Copyright date 1878. Original blue cloth boards with ornate black stamping and a color-illustrated paste-on portrait of a noblewoman. 1881 gift inscription on ffep. Residue of Victorian-era children's stickers on front pastedown and ffep. Pages show a few small spots of minor soiling. 11 illustrated plates including frontispiece. 92 pp. 6 x 4 inches. Rare. One copy located on OCLC at the Library of Congress. A tale of seafaring adventure. Harold a boy of sixteen boards a ship in New York to sail for Liverpool where he'll meet his family. After some rough weather the ship becomes embroiled in mutiny. Harold Captain Wales and couple other men are set adrift in a quarter boat to fend for themselves. After drifting for several days and beginning to despair of their prospects for survival they are picked up by a whaler headed to the Arctic. Eventually they make port in Reykjavik and board another ship to continue on their way to England arriving in London on Christmas Eve. Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover
18504829France: N/A 1850. A beautifully executed water colour of a forest scene with two women gathering herbs in the middle ground. Signed indistinctly we have been unable to identify the signature but have attached a photograph of this in close up. The painting is in excellent condition. Clean and tidy without any marks Under a slightly darkened and slightly marked card Passepartout. The hidden edges of the painting show the workings of the artist nicely. Blank and clean to the verso. Although it has not been identified the painting is French and dates from the mid-19th century. The painting is 21cm x 34cm. The card surround is 35cm x 47.5cm. . Une aquarelle magnifiquement exécutée d'une scène de forêt avec deux femmes cueillant des herbes au centre. Signée de façon indistincte nous n'avons pas été en mesure d'identifier la signature mais vous trouverez ci-joint une photographie de celle-ci en gros plan. Le tableau est en excellent état. Propre et net sans aucune marque sous une carte Passepartout légèrement assombrie et légèrement marquée. Les bords cachés du tableau montrent bien le travail de l'artiste. Le verso est vierge et propre. Bien qu'elle ne soit pas identifiée la peinture est française et date du milieu du XIXe siècle. Le tableau mesure 21 cm x 34 cm. L'entourage de la carte mesure 35 cm x 475 cm. N/A unknown
18755245France: S.P. C1875. First edition. An original water colour in the style of Daumier showing a group of four drinkers. A woman whose clothing is slipping away is leaning against a soldier where the other characters leer at her. A skilled original caricature. In excellent condition bar a very slight stain to the right edge of the sheet not affecting illustration. Held under glass in a small frame. The artwork is 8cm x 11cm. The frame is 13cm x 15cm. . Première édition. Aquarelle originale dans le style de Daumier représentant un groupe de quatre buveurs. Une femme dont les vêtements se dérobent est adossée à un soldat tandis que les autres personnages se moquent d'elle. Une caricature originale et habile. En excellent état avec une très légère tache sur le bord droit de la feuille n'affectant pas l'illustration. Présentée sous verre dans un petit cadre. L'œuvre mesure 8 cm x 11 cm. Le cadre mesure 13 cm x 15 cm. S.P. hardcover
18854622Anhée Wallonia Belgium: Abbaye de Maradsous 1885. First edition. Complete. A collection of 20 large albumen photographs laid onto backing card with description of each printed to the bottom edge showing the Abbaye de Maredsous and the Ecole Abbataile. These are held in a red clamshell box with black and gilt decoration crest and titles. The box has significant fading / spotting from damp but is still holding well and has done its job of protecting the photographs inside. The photographs are of high quality and show the building of the abbey and the new school there. They are dated by the fact that the school was founded in 1881 earliest date and that the the Abbey was completed in 1892 but in these images is still some way off completion. Interesting architectural prints but also of the students and staff at the school both being educated and relaxing. A very nice collection. Images are mostly 17cm x 24cm and backing cards are 25cm x 32cm. Box is 35cm x 27cm. Abbaye de Maradsous unknown
59024c.1690. . Hand-coloured copper-plate engraving. Dimensions: 350 x 430mm. 13.75 x 17 inches.<br /> <br /> c.1690. unknown
18885014Paris / Lille: Société de Saint-Augustin 1888. First edition. An unusual work telling the story of the Roman Catholic Missions to Africa. A large book. Soft covers bound in vellum with black printed titles and designs to the front and rear covers. The vellum is still and a little cracked with age and there is a small hole to the spine edge. It seems a very luxurious way to bind a book in the late nineteenth century! The book blok is seperate from the vellum binding - but it may always have been more of a folder / portfolio as there is no sign of it having been attached to the inside of the vellum. The binding of the book block is fragile and although it is just holding together it is a little loose. The first page is a chromo-lithographed title with gilt decoration in the style of a medieval work. The Jesuits monogram is to the centre of the design. There is a closed tear to the bottom edge. There are then 148 pages bordered in red floral design. Full of illustrations. These mark the history of Christian missions in Africa from the flight of the holy family to the late nineteenth century. Engravings steels in black and white and sepia throughout. Some in green colour. An attractive rather fragile work with light intermittent foxing. We can find only one other copy in its original binding. This was one of four works dealing with Africa Asia America and Oceania each complete in themselves. 38cm x 27cm. Conforms to WorldCat / OCLC: 7635132. The Société de Saint-Augustin was in fact a publishing arm of Desclée de Brouwer & Cie. This was a publishing house active in the late 19th century known for producing Catholic literature and missionary works. . Première édition. Un ouvrage inhabituel racontant l'histoire des missions catholiques romaines en Afrique. Un grand livre. Couvertures souples reliées en vélin avec titres et motifs imprimés en noir sur les couvertures avant et arrière. Le vélin est encore et un peu craquelé par l'âge et il y a un petit trou sur le bord du dos. Cela semble être une façon très luxueuse de relier un livre à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle ! Le corps d'ouvrage est séparé de la reliure en vélin - mais il se peut qu'il ait toujours été davantage un dossier ou un portefeuille car il n'y a aucune trace d'attachement à l'intérieur du vélin. La reliure du corps d'ouvrage est fragile et bien qu'elle tienne à peine elle est un peu lâche. La première page est un titre chromo-lithographié avec une décoration dorée dans le style d'un ouvrage médiéval. Le monogramme des Jésuites se trouve au centre du dessin. Il y a une déchirure fermée sur le bord inférieur. Il y a ensuite 148 pages bordées d'un motif floral rouge. Les illustrations sont nombreuses. Celles-ci retracent l'histoire des missions chrétiennes en Afrique depuis la fuite de la sainte famille jusqu'à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle. Gravures aciers en noir et blanc et en sépia tout au long de l'ouvrage. Certaines sont en vert. Ouvrage attrayant plutôt fragile avec de légères rousseurs intermittentes. Nous n'avons trouvé qu'un seul autre exemplaire dans sa reliure d'origine. Il s'agit de l'un des quatre ouvrages traitant de l'Afrique de l'Asie de l'Amérique et de l'Océanie chacun étant complet en soi. 38cm x 27cm. Conforme à WorldCat / OCLC : 7635132. La Société de Saint-Augustin était en fait une maison d'édition de Desclée de Brouwer & Cie. Il s'agit d'une maison d'édition active à la fin du 19e siècle connue pour sa littérature catholique et ses ouvrages missionnaires. Société de Saint-Augustin paperback
18403228Paris: Au Bureau du Journal 1840. First Edition. Beautiful suite of 24 lithographs published in the Journal des chasseurs. Depicting hunting scenes each with captions in French followed by six leaves of fanfares text and music printed to one side of leaf only. A scarce item none for sale and only occasionally at auction. Moderate foxing throughout. Creasing to front free endpaper. In contemporary buckram binding with slight rubbing to the binding. Première édition. 24 planches de scènes de chasse chacune avec légendes en français suivies de six feuillets de fanfares texte et musique imprimés sur un seul côté du feuillet. Un article rare aucun à vendre et seulement occasionnellement aux enchères. Des rousseurs modérées partout. Pliage à l'avant de la page de garde libre. Dans une reliure en bougran de l'époque avec un léger frottement à la reliure. Au Bureau du Journal hardcover
18804698North Africa: N/P 1880. A group of young children sit upon steps on the edge of the communal clothes washing area. North Africa - probably Morrocco. An adult in a white robe watches the children in the foreground with a young child in similar robe facing them. Palm trees and dust road in the background. The children seem too young to be in school. An attractive albumen image. Slightly faded but overall in good condition. H265mm x 210mm. On green backing card 430 x 350 mm. A little darkened and bumped but still in good state. . Un groupe de jeunes enfants est assis sur des marches au bord de l'aire commune de lavage des vêtements. Afrique du Nord - probablement Maroc. Un adulte vêtu d'une robe blanche surveille les enfants au premier plan tandis qu'un jeune enfant vêtu d'une robe similaire leur fait face. Palmiers et route poussiéreuse à l'arrière-plan. Les enfants semblent trop jeunes pour être à l'école. Une belle image à l'albumine. Légèrement décolorée mais dans l'ensemble en bon état. H265mm x 210mm. Sur carte verte 430 x 350 mm. Un peu assombri et bosselé mais toujours en bon état. N/P hardcover
106336London Superior Printers 1934. . Pocket journal 113 x 77 mm 20 ll. original printed wrappers edges rubbed.<br /> Pocket journal for the Jewish calendar year of 5695 Gregorian 1934-5.<br />Includes a Hebrew/Yiddish calendar with all the Jewish holidays a Gregorian calendar with some place for notes and a single journal entry made in old blue ink and many ads in English and Yiddish.<br /> London, Superior Printers, 1934. unknown
18315448Paris: ve Demoraine et Boucquin 1831. First edition. A rare item. A miniature book to be kept with the owner at all times! As well as the meteorological information it also held information about the sun and moon the births and alliances of the princes and princesses of Europe and the final section was a selection of anecdotes and scandal from the previous years. Dark red paper covers. A little darkened but without significant marking or wear. The book is oblong to be read like a flip chart. Unpaginated but 60 pages. Internally in good clean condition with just a touch of darkening. Attractive letter press printing. 8.5cm x 5.5cm. Conforms to WorldCat / OCLC: 473081525. . Première édition. Un ouvrage rare. Un livre miniature à garder toujours sur soi ! Outre les informations météorologiques il contient également des informations sur le soleil et la lune les naissances et les alliances des princes et princesses d'Europe et la dernière partie était une sélection d'anecdotes et de scandales des années précédentes. Couverture en papier rouge foncé. Légèrement foncée mais sans marques ni usure significatives. Le livre est oblong à lire comme un tableau à feuilles mobiles. Non paginé mais 60 pages. Intérieur en bon état propre avec juste une légère coloration. Jolie impression typographique. 85 cm x 55 cm. Conforme à WorldCat / OCLC : 473081525. ve Demoraine et Boucquin unknown
18905521Paris: A. Capendu Editeur C 1890. Soft covers with eight pages. Colour lithographs to front and rear covers. Black and white to the inside covers. Inside are four full page colour lithographs and four black and white printed pages of alphabets and learning aids. Stapled. Overall in good clean condition. The top and bottom of the spine has been slightly split and now repaired with archival tape. Very slight offsetting of black type in parts. Overall in very good condition. printed by Emrik & Binger Haarlem. Although undated Capendu's activity in this juvenile line generally dated from the early 1880s into the 1890s. 22cm x 19cm. Not found in WorldCat / OCLC or the BnF. No copies online at the time of cataloguing. . Couverture souple de huit pages. Lithographies en couleur sur les couvertures avant et arrière. Noir et blanc à l'intérieur des couvertures. À l'intérieur quatre lithographies en couleur pleine page et quatre pages imprimées en noir et blanc contenant des alphabets et des aides à l'apprentissage. Agrafé. Dans l'ensemble en bon état. Le haut et le bas du dos ont été légèrement déchirés mais ont été réparés avec du ruban adhésif d'archivage. Très léger décalage des caractères noirs à certains endroits. Dans l'ensemble en très bon état. Imprimé par Emrik & Binger Haarlem. Bien que non daté l'activité de Capendu dans ce domaine destiné aux jeunes remonte généralement du début des années 1880 aux années 1890. 22 cm x 19 cm. Introuvable dans WorldCat / OCLC ou la BnF. Aucun exemplaire disponible en ligne au moment du catalogage. A. Capendu Editeur paperback
3728502<p>New York 1837. Small octavo. 1 engraved title 2 91 1 1 10pp. Album with manuscript additions and two hand-drawn star charts and 13 pen and ink outline portraits. Quarter green cloth with original pale yellow silk-patterned paper covered boards; dark blue endpapers; all edges gilt. Album with engraved title leaf with vignette illustration. Album re-backed with green cloth; new cloth reinforced hinges; rubbing to edges of boards; scattered foxing; very good.</p> <p>Unusual handwritten American astrological album dated 1837 containing detailed horoscope readings hand-drawn star charts predictive portrait drawings dream interpretations and lottery number advice. </p> <p>The manuscript records two full horoscope readings: an extensive analysis of Robert H. Gould not yet twenty-one and a separate “Lady’s Horoscope†for a woman apparently born in 1810. Each section is accompanied by a hand-drawn astrological chart mapping the celestial signs governing the subject’s birth with the individuals consistently described as “natives.â€</p> <p>Gould’s horoscope is notably elaborate forecasting marriage career prospects travel to the southern United States and Mexico “In 7 years you will be in the South you will be Rich in Mexico and in the Southern States†longevity and specific advice on favorable days of action. It also provides recommended lottery numbers and predictions concerning children prosperity and personal relationships. The album includes pen-and-ink portraits depicting Gould at age twenty-one figures said to influence his future and a child identified as one of his sons.</p> <p>The lady’s horoscope offers comparable predictions including marriage faithfulness personal fortune bodily injury and death and is illustrated with drawings of her future husband or sincere friend.</p> <p>Written with confident authority the compiler explicitly distinguishes his interpretations from contemporary printed dream books suggesting familiarity with popular astrological and oneiric literature of the period. An exceptionally rare survival documenting antebellum astrology and popular belief in the United States.</p> <p>Note. 1. Album New York: Published by Solomon King 1830 unrecorded in OCLC. zxc</p> unknown
3731167<p>London: Printed. Boston; New-England Re-printed and sold by Green & Russell at their Printing-Office near the Custom-House and next to the Writing School in Queen-Street. MDCCLVI. 1756. half-title 23 1 pages. 8vo. “The Second Edition.†In fact the First American Edition preceded by printings in London and York both dated 1755. Expertly washed conserved and stitching renewed; scattered staining. A very good copy housed In a custom cloth clamshell box with a gilt-stamped leather spine label.</p> <p>Partly-untrimmed. First American edition of this eyewitness account of this terrible disaster on All Saints Day November 1 1755 that shook perspective views in the Old World and the New. The Lisbon Earthquake alarmed New England clergy and perplexed philosophers in France. For the former some ministers interpreted the event to show God expressing his angry will. For the latter some thinkers saw the disaster as evidence that no such will existed.</p> <p>The Lisbon Earthquake is estimated to have been 8.5–9.0 magnitude on the Richter scale and lt triggered a tsunami. The devastation was enormous:</p> <p>"“Not long after…a general Panic was raised from a Crowd of People’s running from the Waterside all crying out the Sea was pouring in and would certainly overwhelm the City. This new Alarm created such Horrors in the agitated Minds of the Populace that vast Numbers of them ran screaming into the ruinated City again where a fresh Shock of the Earthquake immediately following many of them were buried in the Ruins of falling Houses. This Alarm was however not entirely without Foundation. For the Water of the River rose at once above twenty Feet perpendicular and subsided again to its natural Pitch in less than a Minute’s time.â€"</p> <p>From the Rev. Thomas Prince to John Winthrop in to Voltaire to Rousseau —the intellectual luminaries of the world weighed in. Years later Goethe would write in his autobiography of his memory as a six-year old of the event: “Perhaps the Demon of Fear had never so speedily and powerfully diffused his terror over the earth.â€</p> <p>The earthquake was the “subject of anxious Church sermons across the Atlantic in New England. In fact an earthquake had also occurred in Massachusetts on the 18th of November 1755 centered east of Cape Ann. In Boston most of the damage occurred where buildings had been constructed over landfill near the wharves. John Adams who was at Braintree wrote in his diary: ‘The house seemed to rock and reel and crack as if it would fall in ruins…’†Kenneth Maxwell</p> <p>The Lisbon and Boston earthquakes became in tandem seismic cultural events as ministers philosophers and scientists contextualized one to the other. Some ministers compared the heavy damage of the Lisbon quake to the minimal damage from Boston’s and drew conclusions of moral American exceptionalism. Others used the Lisbon earthquake’s date of All Saint’s Day to suggest that God was punishing the Catholics. At Harvard professor and astronomer-scientist John Winthrop blamed volcanoes. </p> <p>By and large An Account of the Late Dreadful Earthquake and Fire… is written from neither a secular nor philosophical viewpoint. Rather it is a richly-detailed moment by moment account. It is a linear timeline written by an eyewitness who was literally on the shaky ground —when and where the dramatic event transpired.</p> <p>Charles Edwin Clark’s “Science Reason and an Angry God: The Literature of an Earthquake†in The New England Quarterly describes this narrow field of literature of the New England earthquake of 1755 —from the sermons to accounts such as the present example— as documenting a “science struggling to be born; a vigorous aggressive Protestantism on its way to becoming humanized and rationalized; a continuing consciousness of the uniqueness and special mission of America; and a scholarly approach in the best Puritan tradition to the problems of this world and the next.†Clark also provides an excellent and granular timeline of Boston’s printing and publication history concerning these two earthquakes.</p> <p>The verso of the half-title has an advertisement for the Boston edition of the Indian captivity of William and Elizabeth Fleming which is worth quoting at length: “A NARRATIVE of the Sufferings and surprizing Deliverances of William and Elizabeth Fleming Howes F-183 who were taken captive by Capt. Jakob Commander of the Indians who lately made the incursions on the frontiers of Pennsylvania as related by themselves. A NARRATIVE necessary to be read by all who are going in the Expedition The Kittanning Expedition a.k.a. the Armstrong Expedition as well as every British subject. Wherein it fully appears that the Barbarities of the Indians is owing to the French and chiefly their Priests. Price six Coppers.†After Braddock’s Defeat Capt. Jacob had terrorized the Pennsylvania population until a force armed Pennsylvanians killed Jacobs September 8 1756 in an retaliatory raid. The reader of this pamphlet would not have known of Jacob’s death because according to Clark it was published on April 1 1756.</p> <p>Evans 7602. ESTC W10073. Howes L-371 ref. ESTC records only 6 institutions all in America owning this. The “third American edition†i.e. the second is likewise rare. Ref. Maxwell Kenneth V — Lisbon 1755: The First ‘Modern’ Disaster but if modern how is it so accessed online.</p> unknown
46943with various interesting particulars relating thereto carefully reprinted from ancient documents : together with a notice of the fortifications of the town at that period its forts outworks walls gates draw-bridges &c.; and an attempt to trace and point out the existing remains of those ancient fortified barriers. Plymouth : G. P. Hearder 1843. Duodecimo modern marbled papered boards with gilt-lettered Morocco title-piece to upper board; pastedown with ex libris of G. & N. Ingleton; original printed blue wrappers bound in title with ownership inscription of noted Plymouth Dissenter Robert Govett 1813-1901 pp. 58 folding colour map; occasional light foxing a very good copy with a newspaper article on the Siege of Plymouth cut from the Western Daily Mercury 11 December 1874 mounted on 3 leaves at rear. A scarcely recorded account of the Siege of Plymouth by the Royalists in the Civil War locally published in the bicentennial year of the bloodiest episode in the city's history. Although the source documents on which the narrative is based are not explicitly stated it seems likely that the diary of John Syms Puritan naval chaplain and librarian was one of them. Having refused to surrender to the Royalists the citizenry of Plymouth signed a solemn covenant to fight to the last man; although poorly armed the defenders managed to overcome a formidable attacking force commanded by Sir Richard Grenville. The town held out for the next four years until the Parliamentary army finally prevailed over the Royalists. With the death of Cromwell in 1658 and the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 however retribution was exacted by King Charles II against the leaders of the Plymouth resistance many of whom were imprisoned. Davidson Bibliotecha Devoniensis p.71 Rare. Not in OCLC; not in COPAC Provenance: Geoffrey Ingleton his bookplate to front pastedown Ingleton catalogue number 11835 stamped on final blank. Â hardcover
18092077London 1809. Recent rebind with half tan leather and gilt titles and marbled boards. 86 pp. with contemporary annotations from Rochester Museum. City of Rochester museum bookplate to inside front board. A very nice copy. 23.5cm x 16cm. Confroms to WorldCat / OCLC: 504414102. No publisher noted. hardcover
18764687London: Published for the Crown Perfumery Company by Hamilton Adams & Co. 1876. First Edition. Hardback in the publisher's original cream cloth binding which is grubby and stained. Crown Perfumery Company advertisements pasted to front endpaper plus more advertisements to the last few pages. Pages clean and fresh. All edges red. Poems in English Sanskrit and Hindustani. vi ii 117 3 pages. 160 x 115 mm 6¼ x 4½ inches. Published for the Crown Perfumery Company by Hamilton Adams & Co. hardcover
456Browning D.M. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 1896. Washington Government Printing Office 1896. Fold-out map at back. Faint library marks on spine. Head and heel of spine taped otherwise tight. <br/><br/> unknown
15805073C1580. 2 leaves 4 pages of antiphon on vellum from a large antiphon. Possibly the Kyrie. Musical notation with accompanying verbal score for a polyphonic chant. In Latin. There is some edgewear to the thick vellum with a little loss. One small are are to the middle of the page has a slight loss affecting both sides. Overall an attractive piece. A large size having come from a Gradual of Liber Usalis. Continental. 57cm x 41cm. hardcover
18905074Nepal C1890. An attractive hand painted original Thangka Mandala. Either Nepalese or Tibetan. This is an unusual copy as it includes a representation of the black buddha to the left edge. Painted onto cloth and in excellent condition. Thangka painting is a traditional form of Tibetan Buddhist art typically created on cotton or silk. These paintings often depict Buddhist deities scenes from the life of the Buddha mandalas or other religious icons. Thangkas are highly detailed vibrant and portable designed to be rolled up like scrolls for easy transport and display during religious ceremonies or private meditation. 88cm x 62cm. hardcover
61628C.1890 . Albumen print. 28.5cm x 22cm. Window mounted. Numbered in the right-hand corner 42.<br /> <br /> C.1890 unknown
17545183Northern Netherlands: N/P 1754. First edition. A scarce engraving by an unknown engraver from 1754. It shows the arrival of Daniël Raap in Hell. A caricature on the death of the merchant and Orangist Daniël Raap on 15 January 1754 in Amsterdam. Raap with his ally Teepken in hell standing before the Devil on his throne. Details in the image numbered 1-5 but there is no legend. tipped onto a paper sheet and held under passe partout. We cannot find any other copies of this for sale and the only copy we can locate is in the Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-84.474 also with no legend. engraved area is 21cm x 31cm. Sheet is 25cm x 34cm. Passe partout is 35cm x 50cm. The sheet is a little darkened and has a closed tear to one edge not affecting engraved area. The title is added in Dutch in manuscript to the bottom right and the number 114 to the bottom left. Small area of loss to the top edge of border hidden by passe partout. A scarce item. Daniel Raap 1703–1754 was a Dutch porcelain merchant from Amsterdam who played a significant role during the Orangist revolution in the Netherlands between 1747 and 1751. He was known for his agitation against the ruling Regent class advocating for greater public influence in government and supporting the restoration of the stadtholderate under William IV Prince of Orange. Raap along with other activists published pamphlets demanding democratic reforms and hereditary stadtholder rule. He organized petitions and called for the direct election of militia captains the restoration of guild privileges and auctioning of vacant public offices. His activities led to William IV intervening in Dutch politics but when the new city government remained dominated by the traditional regent families Raap found himself at odds with both more radical democrats and Orangists. By the time of his death Raap's former popularity had turned to hostility; riots occurred at his funeral and his coffin was even destroyed by a mob. Première édition. Rare gravure d'un graveur inconnu datant de 1754. Elle montre l'arrivée de Daniël Raap en enfer. Une caricature sur la mort du marchand et orangiste Daniël Raap le 15 janvier 1754 à Amsterdam. Raap et son allié Teepken en enfer devant le Diable sur son trône. Les détails de l'image sont numérotés de 1 à 5 mais il n'y a pas de légende. L'image a été collée sur une feuille de papier et conservée sous passe partout. Nous n'avons pas trouvé d'autres copies de ce tableau à vendre et la seule copie que nous avons pu localiser se trouve au Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-84.474 également sans légende. La surface gravée est de 21cm x 31cm. La feuille mesure 25 cm x 34 cm. Passe partout mesure 35 cm x 50 cm. La feuille est un peu assombrie et présente une déchirure fermée sur un bord qui n'affecte pas la zone gravée. Le titre est ajouté en néerlandais dans le manuscrit en bas à droite et le numéro 114 en bas à gauche. Petite zone de perte au bord supérieur de la bordure cachée par un passe-partout. Une pièce rare. Daniel Raap 1703-1754 était un marchand de porcelaine néerlandais d'Amsterdam qui a joué un rôle important pendant la révolution orangiste aux Pays-Bas entre 1747 et 1751. Il était connu pour son agitation contre la classe régente au pouvoir prônant une plus grande influence du public dans le gouvernement et soutenant la restauration du stadtholderat sous Guillaume IV prince d'Orange. Avec d'autres activistes Raap a publié des pamphlets réclamant des réformes démocratiques et le règne héréditaire du stadtholder. Il organise des pétitions et demande l'élection directe des capitaines de milice le rétablissement des privilèges des guildes et la mise aux enchères des charges publiques vacantes. Ses activités ont incité Guillaume IV à intervenir dans la politique néerlandaise mais lorsque le nouveau gouvernement de la ville est resté dominé par les familles régentes traditionnelles Raap s'est retrouvé en désaccord avec les démocrates plus radicaux et les orangistes. Au moment de sa mort la popularité de Raap s'est transformée en hostilité ; des émeutes ont éclaté lors de ses funérailles et son cercueil a même été détruit par une foule. N/P unknown
3733009<p>New York 1859. 16pp. 8vo. First edition and “Printed by Order of the Society.†Original printed wraps are darkened; general creases and soft fold lines from mailing and handling. bjcb 352231</p> <p>Entirely in verse West Point Life: An Anonymous Communication Read Before a Public Meeting of the Dialectic Society… “details the intense social life at West Point on the eve of the Civil War with amusing accounts of balls and dances and courtships as well as learning soldiering.†Jenkins Authorship has been attributed to Horace C. Porter Class of 1860.</p> <p>The copy at hand gives this penciled inscription on its title-page: “To Miss Constant. With the compliments of Cadet Kilpatrick U.S.M.A.†In a later hand beneath: “Gen. Judson Kilpatrick.â€</p> <p>Later nicknamed “Kill-Cavalry†the Irish-American Hugh Judson Kilpatrick 1836–1881 was a fellow member of the Dialectic Society who acted in numerous club performances. Martin p17 Kilpatrick graduated with the Class of 1861 as did Custer and it has been claimed that he was the first regular army officer to be wounded during the Civil War. </p> <p>Kilpatrick’s exploits during the War were numerous if not at times controversial or amusing. Surprised by Confederate forces while taking his bath purportedly sprang naked into his boots and onto his horse and then led a charge against the enemy. He served under Sherman as cavalry chief on the March to the Sea and as a “cavalry commander he was a brilliant leader having originated the saying that ‘cavalry can fight anywhere except at sea.’†DAB</p> <p>In 1874 Kilpatrick co-authored Allatoona: an historical and military drama in five acts and described by Benet’s as being “one of the earliest plays to deal with the Civil War . a tale in which two classmates at West Point fight on opposite sides in the great struggle.†The play was re-interpreted in 1930 by Christopher Morley and published as The Blue and the Gray: Or War is Hell.</p> <p>Kilpatrick’s inscription here as a twenty-three year old West Point cadet is one of the earliest examples one could hope to find for this colorful Union General.</p> <p>Ref. Farley West Point in the Early Sixties. With Incidents of the War. 1902. Martin Kill-Cavalry : The Life of Union General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick… 2000.</p> unknown
18595474London: N.P. 1859. First edition. An attractive but difficult to trace collection of children's lithographic ABC / Chapbooks from 1859. There are no publisher details and no titles to any of the works. The whole is made up of seven separate children's books. There are a total of 58 leaves in the work. The majority of these are printed in colour chromolithographic plates to one side only seven of the leaves are coloured text and printed on both sides which give us a total of 65 printed pages. Six of the seven are complete and one appears to lack two leaves. The seven works are as follows: 1 Animal ABC. Seven leaves with illustrations of animals and large letters below. 2 Animal ABC. Five leaves with four animals and text to each leaf. There are only A-P present so we suspect is missing two leaves. 3 Animal poems. Eight leaves with a large picture and a short verse. Numbered 1-8. 4 The naughty Chicken. A moral tale for children with a large picture and verses below in a red decorated frame. In typical Victorian style the naughty chicken is condemned to death by the court in London and is executed. The last plate appears to show the chicken being eaten! It is this tale which gave us the date for the volume as it illustrates the Penal Laws of London 1859. Eight numbered leaves. 5 Old mother Hubbard. Eight numbered leaves with a large picture title above and verse below. 6 Nursery Rhymes. There are seven leaves of chromo-lithographs quite a few to each page alternating with seveb leaves of text. The text leaves are printed to both sides so 14 pages Including a double page ABC. 7 Who killed Cock Robin. Seven leaves of colour lithograph with verses beneath. The whole is bound in a gilt and blind stamped decorated cover. A little rubbed and bumped. The spine appears to have been restored. The pages inside are in slightly darkened and foxed condition. Some small archival repairs to some page edges and reinforcement of the end papers. A fascinating collection. 25.5cm x 19cm. . Première édition. Une collection attrayante mais difficile à trouver d'ABC lithographiques pour enfants / livres de coloriage datant de 1859. Il n'y a aucune information sur l'éditeur ni aucun titre pour les œuvres. L'ensemble se compose de sept livres pour enfants distincts. L'ouvrage compte au total 58 feuilles. La plupart d'entre elles sont imprimées en chromolithographie couleur sur une seule face sept feuilles sont imprimées en couleur des deux côtés ce qui donne un total de 65 pages imprimées. Six des sept ouvrages sont complets et il semble manquer deux feuilles à l'un d'entre eux. Les sept ouvrages sont les suivants : 1 Animal ABC. Sept feuilles avec des illustrations d'animaux et de grandes lettres en dessous. 2 Animal ABC. Cinq feuilles avec quatre animaux et du texte sur chaque feuille. Seules les lettres A à P sont présentes nous soupçonnons donc qu'il manque deux feuilles. 3 Poèmes sur les animaux. Huit feuilles avec une grande image et un court poème. Numérotées de 1 à 8. 4 The naughty Chicken. Un conte moral pour enfants avec une grande image et des vers en dessous dans un cadre décoré de rouge. Dans le style victorien typique le poulet espiègle est condamné à mort par le tribunal de Londres et exécuté. La dernière planche semble montrer le poulet en train d'être mangé ! C'est ce conte qui nous a donné la date du volume car il illustre les lois pénales de Londres de 1859. Huit feuilles numérotées. 5 Old mother Hubbard. Huit feuilles numérotées avec une grande illustration le titre au-dessus et des vers en dessous. 6 Nursery Rhymes. Il y a sept feuilles de chromolithographies assez nombreuses sur chaque page alternant avec sept feuilles de texte. Les feuilles de texte sont imprimées des deux côtés soit 14 pages y compris une double page ABC. 7 Who killed Cock Robin. Sept feuilles de lithographies en couleur avec des vers en dessous. L'ensemble est relié dans une couverture décorée estampée à chaud et dorée. Légèrement frotté et abîmé. Le dos semble avoir été restauré. Les pages à l'intérieur sont légèrement noircies et rouillées. Quelques petites réparations archivistiques sur certains bords de pages et renforcement des pages de garde. Une collection fascinante. 255 cm x 19 cm. N.P. unknown
