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1588044443Seville: Fernando Diaz 1588. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Later tree calf worn front hinge split rear starting front endpaper torn at the top corner as is the title with an old repair and manuscript UZIA in the title to replace the missing letters. A few paper repairs in the margins touching a few letters a few short tears with no real loss scattered pencil marks and a few minor marginal marks in an old hand. One group of pages trimmed a little close with loss of some text to the table on leaf 53 of the genealogy of the Kings of Austria. Generally minor scatterd foxing browning and staining - mostly quite clean. Magnificently illustrated throughout with armorial devices - first and only edition of an outstanding work on the Andalusian aristocracy. 10 348 ff.<br /> <br /> Argote de Molina great humanist and librarian also edited the first Spanish book on hunting 1582 and a history of the embassy sent by Henry III of Castille in 1403--1406 to the Court of Tamerlaine at Samarkand 1582. Graesse A195 noting that the title page is often lacking. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 044443. Fernando Diaz hardcover
1778007643London: Printed for the Author. First edition. Bound in 3/4 calf with raised bands and gilt titles decorative endpapers. Published London: Printed for the author 1778. 8vo. 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" xvi 17-543 1 pp. errata page two folding engraved maps that are fully hand-colored plus four plates - Falls of St. Anthony on the Mississippi An Indian Pipe of Peace and two plates of native peoples. Includes a Chippewa vocabulary. Large bookplate of Otto Oren Fisher on front pastedown. Jonathan Carver 1710-1780 was an explorer mapmaker author and one of the first white men to explore and map areas of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Part of a small expedition to map uncharted territory west of the Mississippi he visited many of the Native American groups residing in the area. He "penetrated farther into the West than any other English explorer before the Revolution" Howes. While French explorers had been in the area earlier they did not leave behind detailed maps or journals as Carver did. He explored the headwaters of the Mississippi and wintered with a tribe of Dakota in the Great Lakes region recording their customs. A classic of American travel it is one of the earliest and best accounts of pre-Revolution exploration. A compelling narrative of travel and adventure it was highly inspirational to post-Independence explorers and has been published in more than 30 editions. In addition to his comments on the natural history and the Native Americans of the West this work contains the first published mention of the word "Oregon." Wear at the tips outer hinge starting small tape repair to the stub of first map and free endpaper some offsetting from plates and maps to facing page else near fine clean text bright unmarked. A very attractive example. . Very Good Plus. Hard. 1st. 1778. Printed for the Author unknown
177318311London: W. Strahan and T. Becket and Co 1773. First Edition. Full calf. Near fine. The first edition of The History Of The British Dominions In North America published in 1773 with a large fold-out map of the American Colonies. Quarto 12 297pp 1 1-276pp 1. Contemporary polished calf raised bands title stamped in gilt over red morocco label. New marbled endpapers. Two archival paper repairs to title page. Faint transference from map to title page even toning to leaves throughout. Bookplate affixed to rear pastedown from printmaker Helen Hyde titled "The Mosquito." Includes the publisher's hand-colored fold-out map by Peter Bell dated 1772. Archival paper repair to verso at the hinge faint transference along bottom quarter an attractive example. Sabin 32161 Howes H527aa. This two-volume work bound as one details the history of North America from its discovery through 1763. Fourteen individual chapters detail the history of the British colonies of North America including Pennsylvania Nova Scotia Connecticut Rhode Island Florida etc. W. Strahan and T. Becket and Co unknown
1797042012-EBoston Mass. USA: W. Spotswood & J. Nancrede 1797. Book. Illus. by Various Map Makers. Very Good. Full-Leather. 1st. American Edition. 1st. Edition USA 1797 . 1st. Printing Walnut brown leather with gilded letters on the spine. Volume 1 536 page book with 11 fold out maps . Both volume have been rebound with new leather and blank end papers aging and light staining on some pages and maps. Volume 2 573 page book with 5 fold out maps and errata at back page with directions to the binder for placing the charts with a list of books by the publisher Joseph Nancrede. Condition : Very Good see Image . Note no international sale. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. W. Spotswood & J. Nancrede Hardcover
17229900002372London: James and John Knapton et al. 1722. Hardcover. Maps engravings. Folio. Two large volumes in original full leather bindings. Title pages are printed in red and black with an elegant full-page copper engraving of Camden as the frontispiece of the first volume. There are 50 double-page maps of the English counties Ireland Scotland and 'the Islands'; six of the maps are folding. There are also twelve large full-page engravings and numerous smaller engravings in the text. There is a comprehensive index and the errata page is present. A previous owner has reinforced the hinges with linen-like binding tape. The boards are quite worn and rubbed but a competent bookbinder could restore both bindings. The contents are remarkable clean with only occasional foxing and a few stained pages. The maps by the cartographer Robert Morden and which are usually removed and sold individually are all in excellent condition. Overall a good set. William Camden 1551-1623 was an English antiquary and historian who during the reign of Queen Elizabeth travelled throughout England collecting material for 'Britannia' which was first published in 1586. Initially written in Latin it is a survey of the British islands; its archaeology geography institutions monetary system and inhabitants 'chiefly intended for the instruction of foreigners' or so Gibson states in his Preface to this edition. It was first translated into English in 1610 probably under Camden's direction see Ency. Brit. 11th vol. V p. 101. Gibson's revision was first published in 1695. Our set is the undated 'Second Edition' but by comparing particulars with available bibliographical resources we believe it was published in 1722. Printing and the Mind of Man 101. James and John Knapton et al. hardcover
195684129New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1956. First Edition. First Printing with "First Edition" and the publisher's "I-F" code on copyright page. Octavo 21.75cm; dark grey cloth boards with titles stamped in white on spine and publisher's logo in white at lower front cover; dustjacket; x2762pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "August 28 1964 / Especially for Sybil / with affection and admiration / Pauli Murray." Landau was a Jewish feminist attorney and educator in New York who spent much of her career championing civil rights and lesbian causes and was an early girlfriend of Audre Lorde's. Light wear to spine ends pinpoint wear to lower board edges some offsetting to endpapers and a few tiny indentations to right edge of textblock; about Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $3.50 spine-sunned shelfworn with toning to panels a few small tears some losses to spine ends none affecting lettering and a faint splash mark to spine on verso; Good to Very Good. <br /> <br /> Murray's first major literary work a realistic and convincing representation of the Black experience and an account of both her North Carolina family and childhood and her search for identity in her past. "Her book in which history and literature intersect is the product of a lively imagination and four years of devoted research in oral and documented history. She points out that it is the biography of her grandparents the story of three generations of a family "involved in a crucial turning point in our nation's history." Much of the saga centers around the racial conflicts through which the family worked out its destiny focusing on the courage strength and fearlessness in the face of danger that all members of the group exhibited. The women both black and white are noteworthy in their independence and recognition of moral duty and the men are stalwart and refuse to accept any status less than that of honorable men. Race and sex are explosive elements of suffering and shame that Murray exorcises through her honest confrontation of them while education and tenacious survival are the foundations on which she builds a strong and positive indentity" DLB Vol.41: Afro-American Poets Since 1955 p.249. An uncommonly warm association copy from Murray to another prominent attorney. BLOCKSON 3815. 84129. Harper & Brothers, Publishers unknown
190285955Washington DC: Privately Published 1902. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.25cm; vertically-ribbed blue cloth titled in gilt with a blind-ruled border and decorations on front cover; floral endpapers; iiiiv-xvi3-3722pp with portrait frontispiece of the author and 38 plates of illustrations halftones. Light wear to lower board edges front endpaper neatly detached but present with an old very faint splash mark to upper edge of textblock; Very Good. <br /> <br /> A lively account of the life and times of Mifflin Wistar Gibbs 1823-1915 an American businessman politician and newspaper publisher from Philadelphia. Shadow and Light recalls his impoverished youth his early involvement in aiding fugitive slaves while working with William Grant Still and accompanying Frederick Douglass on his 1849 tour of New York. Gibbs moved west during the Gold Rush in 1850 sensing that there was more money to be made in business than in panning for gold; he and his partner established a prosperous clothing and dry goods business and a few years after Gibbs purchased and became the editor of the Mirror of the Times the local Black antislavery newspaper. He moved to Victoria British Columbia during the Canadian gold rush opening an additional business before returning to the U.S. where he got married began his legal education and established himself in Little Rock Arkansas. "Beginning as a lawyer he was later appointed to county attorney and in 1873 he won election as municipal judge of Little Rock reportedly the first black man in the nation to be so honored" AANB Vol.3 p.484. He lost the judgeship in 1875 but embarked on a career in local and national politics ultimately being appointed by Rutherford B. Hayes as register of the U.S. Land Office for the Little Rock District and eventually as U.S. consul to Tamatave Madagascar 1898-1901. The remainder of his life was dedicated to causes that would advance "the progress of the race." Uncommon in commerce with the last copy in the auction record offered in 1962. BLOCKSON 3987; AANB Vol.3 pp.483-485. 85955. Privately Published unknown
1681H0011a2-a6b-b7c-c7d-2315 pages. Small square octavo 7 ¾" x 6 ¼" bound in full leather. Second edition. Thomas Barlow 1607-1691 was an English academic and clergyman who became Provost of The Queen's College Oxford and Bishop of Lincoln. He was considered in his own times and by Edmund Venables writing in the Dictionary of National Biography to have been a trimmer a reputation mixed in with his academic and other writings on casuistry. His views were in fact Calvinist and strongly anti-Catholic and he was one of the last English bishops to identify the Pope as the Antichrist He worked in the 1660s for the 'comprehension' of nonconformists but supported the crackdown of the mid-1680s; and declared loyalty to James II of England on his accession having strongly supported the Exclusion Bill which would have denied the Catholic James the succession. Pope Pius V's response to Queen Elizabeth I of England assuming governance of the Church of England included support of the imprisoned Mary Queen of Scots and her supporters in their attempts to take over England "ex turpissima muliebris libidinis servitute". A brief English Catholic uprising the Rising of the North had just failed. Pius then issued a bull Regnans in Excelsis dated April 27 1570 that declared Elizabeth I a heretic and released her subjects from their allegiance to her. In response Elizabeth who had thus far tolerated Catholic worship in private now actively started persecuting them. Condition: Original bards with new period spine and red label with gilt lettering to spine corners rubbed and bumped else a good to very good copy. Printed by S Roycroft for Robert Clavel at the Peacock hardcover
1747BOOKS005853<p>24548 pages with three folding engraved maps present southern part of South America; part of the Pacific Ocean and the track of the Centurion round the world. Octavo 8 1/4" x 5 1/2" bound in full leather with five raised spine bands with red label to spine in gilt lettering with decorative blind-stamped ruled edges. Compiled from papers and other materials of the Right Honourable George Lord Anson and published under his direction by Richard Walter M.A. Chaplain of his Majesty's Ship the Centurion in that expedition. Hill I pp 317-138. Third edition.<br /><br />"This is the official account of Anson's voyage. England at war with Spain in 1739 equipped eight ships under the command of George Anson to harass the Spaniards on the western coast of South America for the purpose of cutting off Spanish supplies of wealth from the Pacific area. Lord Anson who was a friend and patron of Benjamin Robins after returning from the voyage around the world in the Centurion appears to have entrusted to Robins for revision the account of the voyage which had been compiled from the journals by his chaplain Richard Walter. It is probable that Robins revised and edited the work wrote an introduction and added dissertations." Hill. Perhaps the most popular account of maritime adventure of the eighteenth century. Anson's account of harrying the Spanish of South America and the taking of the Manilla galleon with treasure with a contemporary value of $800000 and his circumnavigation has long enjoyed a distinguished place as a masterpiece in descriptive travel.<br /><br /><strong>Condition:</strong><br /><br />Some small closed tears at the edges of the maps. Rebound in tooled leather with raised bands. Over all a very good to fine copy.</p> John and Paul Knapton and Office of the Lord High Admiral hardcover
B104636-1<p>Paris 1972. No. 1: all published. 8pp. including introduction by Goldschmidt. 20 signed and numbered contributions hors texte including original gouaches drawings collages and prints in various media etching woodcut screenprint lithography; some hand-colored by Jean-Bernard Arkitu Édouard Berreur Gérard-Philippe Broutin Françoise Canal Jean-Paul Curtay Myriam Darrell Jean-Pierre Gillard Micheline Hachette François Poyet Roland Sabatier Jacques Spacagna Jacqueline Tarkieltaub Antoine Grimaud and Patrick Poulain; an original photocopy by Pierre Jouvet two texts by Isidore Isou and Alain de Latour and a superb mixed-media assemblage by Maurice Lemaître. Lrg. 4to. Publishers chartreuse silk box and chemise hand-painted in gold on the front cover and spine. Contents loose as issued. Edition limited to 50 hand-numbered copies signed in the justification by the editors. Conceived as the first of a series of Lettrist portfolios only this inaugural volume of Jerimadeth appeared. A fine copy.</p> Paris, 1972.
18620099951862. Book. Very Good. Leather. Signed by Authors. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A large Civil War archive dated 1862-1865 featuring a Company Morning Reports ledger for Company B 52nd Regiment of Indiana Volunteers with reports dated January 1862 to September 1863 and 22 separate documents including two discharge papers orders to conduct an investigation into missing medical supplies medical inventory lists travel documents orders establishing an ambulance corps manuscript letters sick and wounded reports a list of soldier's names a period newspaper clipping and an envelope. The documents Very Good Plus to Near Fine the Morning Reports book about Very Good a 2" hole to leather at spine loss of leather at spine ends and corners and hinges broken with 2 loose pages. "The 52nd Indiana Infantry was organized at Rushville and Indianapolis Indiana and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on February 1 1862. The regiment was attached to 1st Brigade 3rd Division Army of the Tennessee to March 1862. Garrison Forts Henry and Donelson Tennessee to April 1862. 1st Brigade 4th Division Army of the Tennessee to May 1862. 2nd Brigade 4th Division Army of the Tennessee to July 1862. 2nd Brigade 4th Division District of Memphis Tennessee to September 1862. Garrison Fort Pillow Tennessee to November 1862. District of Columbus Kentucky XIII Corps Department of the Tennessee to January 1863. District of Columbus Kentucky 6th Division XVI Corps to January 1864. 3rd Brigade 3rd Division XVI Corps to December 1864. 3rd Brigade 2nd Division detachment Army of the Tennessee Department of the Cumberland to February 1865. 3rd Brigade 2nd Division XVI Corps Military Division of West Mississippi to August 1865. The regiment lost a total of 205 men during service; 2 officers and 26 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded 2 officers and 175 enlisted men died of disease."Wikipedia . A fascinating collection that provides a substantial picture of the medical challenges and issues faced during the Civil War. Hardcover
19842091502135709245Sequel document follow-up meeting 1984. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Sequel document follow-up meeting paperback
25481OXFORD PRINTED AT THE THEATRE 1702-4. FIRST EDITION THREE VOLUMES FOLIO 26 BY 40CM. 557pp 581pp 603pp. RECENTLY THIS YEAR 2016 FINELY REBOUND AND RESTORED IN QUARTER LEATHER OVER NEW BROWN BOARDS NEW ENDPAPERS. VOLUME 1: LACKS TITLE PAGE HALF TITLE PREFACE xxiii pp 557 pp. PROFESSIONAL REPAIR TO SOME EARLY PAGE EDGES. VOLUME 2: HALF TITLE TITLE PAGE DATED 1703 DEDICATION 8pp 581 pp EARLY PAGES WORN TO THE EDGES THEN VERY GOOD EVIDENCE OF WORMING TO A FEW LATE PAGES. VOLUME 3: TITLE PAGE DATED 1704 DEDICATION 603 pp INDEX. ONE VOLUME CONTAINS THE ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF WILLIAM GRIFFITH OF NORTH WALES DATED 1707. OVERALL A VERY HANDSOME AND TIGHT SET. EXTRA WILL BE REQUIRED POSTAGE OUTSIDE THE UK. OXFORD, PRINTED AT THE THEATRE, 1702-4 hardcover
160937081Printed on Bread-street Hill at the Sign of the Starre 1609. Sm. folio in sixes with wood-engraved title-vignette and several fine wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces throughout; seventeenth century calf expertly rebacked in calf to style back with five raised bands second compartment with original red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt boards moderately age-marked corners strengthened a very good bright crisp copy. With nineteenth century inscription on front paste-down and corresponding signature on title. The work comprises: 1 A Historie in twenty books wherein the Antiquity of the Jews is discovered; 2 Seven Books of the Wars of the Jews; 3 Two Books against Appion the Grammarian in Justification of the Antiquity of the Jews; 4 A Book as touching the memorable Martyrdom of the Machabees; 5 Josephus Life. Written by himself. Note that the composition of the work differs; the printed order is 1-5-2-3-4. APPARENTLY AN UNRECORDED VARIANT. The style of the title is similar to Allison 7 see plate 8: this copy carries the same text but with considerable variations in typography and the title-vignette McKerrow 335 is unframed. IMPERFECTIONS: THIS COPY WANTS THE GENERAL TITLE DEDICATION TO LORD HOWARD OF EFFINGHAM AND PP.3-10 4 leaves; it retains Lodge's dedication to Anthony Palmer and his address 'To the Courteous Reader'. This copy also retains the misprinted pages 715-716 for 719-720; 522 for 555 of Allison 7. In the absence of the general title it is difficult to be certain but it appears to be a variant dated 1609 but conforming more closely to the first edition of 1602. VERY SCARCE. Printed on Bread-street Hill, at the Sign of the Starre, hardcover
1928175911928. Industrial Extraction and Scientific Farming in the Interwar Midwest: Ruhm's Phosphate & Chemical Company Mt. Pleasant Tennessee. Photograph album documenting phosphate mining processing fertilizer application and Illinois farm yield demonstrations. Circa 1928. Oblong black album 11 x 7½ inches containing 77 silver gelatin photographs majority captioned in typed slips several with manuscript annotations and newspaper clippings; photographs range approximately 2½ x 3½ inches to 7 x 9 inches.<br /> <br /> This album documents the full industrial and agricultural chain that underwrote early twentieth-century soil chemistry and commercial fertilizer expansion. Following the 1896 discovery of high-grade phosphate deposits in Maury County Tennessee Mt. Pleasant became one of the principal phosphate centers in the United States transforming regional mineral extraction into a national agricultural input industry. Founded in 1897 Ruhm's Phosphate & Chemical Company operated within this expansion. The present album was clearly assembled as a field agent's promotional portfolio visually linking extraction mechanical processing transportation and demonstrable crop improvement. It functions as material evidence of how scientific agriculture was marketed during the interwar period.<br /> <br /> Approximately twenty-five images document mining and plant infrastructure with precise operational captions. One typed slip reads: "Showing one of the draglines digging phosphate. and shows approximately what must be removed before the phosphate is exposed." Another extended caption details the washing process describing how rock is "dumped at the lower end of this runway into a skip" passes through rollers then into "what we call a washer" before moving to dryers and stock piles. A further caption notes: "Showing a car being loaded at ground rock dock. The car is standing on the scale; the scale house is just to the right of the car the dryers being at the extreme right." These texts convert the album into a technical explanation of mineral concentration washing screening and rail shipment. Rail lines dryer towers scale houses and conveyor systems are visible underscoring vertical integration from pit to railcar.<br /> <br /> The Illinois agricultural section shifts from industrial infrastructure to yield demonstration. Photographs from Will County Joliet Kendall County and other named sites present side-by-side comparisons of treated and untreated fields. One image bears the manuscript notation: "Will Co. Yield 35 bushels per acre." A typed comparison from the Joliet experiment farm states that phosphated plots in 1928 "made a yield of 40 bu. per acre compared to 18 bu. where no phos was applied." Another detailed caption under a spreader photograph reads: "Home made spreader of Joseph Keller South of Aurora in Kendall Co. Mr Keller covered a very poor acid field with about 1300 lbs. of Ruhm's Lime Phosphate per acre in fall of 1927 getting yield of 72 bu. of oats per acre in 1928. A neighboring field of better ground yielded 48 bu. with no phosphate applied." These quantifiable comparisons demonstrate outcome-based marketing not merely testimonial rhetoric. Additional images show a "Ruhm Lime Phosphate Exhibit at Wheatland Plowing Match 1928 showing Ruhm Phosphate Spreader" and a banner reading "Ruhm's Phosphate Since 1897" documenting trade fair exhibition and public agricultural outreach. A pasted advertisement asks: "Want Bigger & Better Crops Then use Ruhm's Lime-Phosphate to build up your soil" tying the technical demonstrations to direct commercial appeal.<br /> <br /> For institutional collections this album is significant for environmental history agricultural modernization b usiness history and the visual rhetoric of industrial capitalism. It preserves named Midwestern farms documented bushel comparisons and the industrial landscape of Tennessee phosphate extraction during the 1920s. Unlike generic fertilizer ephemera this album integrates mine-level technical explanation quantified field data farm-built machinery adaptation and agricultural exhibition culture. It offers granular evidence of how soil chemistry mineral extraction and rail infrastructure were mobilized to reshape American farming between World War I and the Great Depression.<br /> <br /> Condition: Covers exhibit moderate soiling wear and edge chipping. Leaves show surface soiling and handling wear. Photographs display light to moderate wear with some ink transfer from caption slips. 77 photographs present and 10 photographs are lacking. Overall condition: Good and retaining strong documentary and research value. unknown
196887563Lahore: Nisar Art Press 1968. Gebunden mit Plastik Schutzumschlag. Nisar Art Press unknown
63186Gill's titles are 'Cradling Forest Creek 1852' 'The Claim Disputed' 'Mustering Cattle' 'Native Sneaking Emus' and 'The Bushranger Pursued'. Hamilton's titles in which the horse naturally enough features prominently are 'The Lost Bushman' 'The Found Bushman' 'Bushmen in Danger' 'Australian Bushmen' and 'The Bushman'. Unpublished but circa 1890 and based on original sketches from upwards of fifty years earlier. <p>The images are printed in brown ink on light brown arch-topped backgrounds printed surface 150 × 205 mm on uniform sheets of cream paper 200 × 275 mm. This set is in fine condition in a modern custom-made portfolio covered in brown cloth lettered in gilt on the front panel 'Scenes of Australian Country Life'. <p>The invaluable 'Dictionary of Australian Artists. Painters Sketchers Photographers and Engravers to 1870' edited by Joan Kerr has only this to say: 'MAY E.C. lithographer signed nine lithographs celebrating life in the bush and on the goldfields c.1855-60 ML. He may have been the May who was in partnership with George Walker q.v. at Melbourne in the early 1870s'. At least he appears on their radar . <p>We have established the following facts. Edgar Charles May 1867-1920 was born at North Adelaide on 27 May 1867; his name later appeared in the local Sands and McDougall's directories with his occupation listed as artist. One published example of his work not noted at all by Kerr and not attributed to May by Ferguson is '14 Views of Old Adelaide from Sketches in 1840-1849 by S.T. Gill F.R. Nixon S. Calvert and O. Korn' Adelaide E.S. Wigg 1890; oblong quarto 19 leaves all rectos blank comprising the gilt-pictorial title page signed in the image by E.C. May 14 full-page tinted lithographic views with tissue-guards the 3-page list of 181 subscribers and the key to plate 5 between plates 4 and 5'. This is Ferguson 9924e which is essentially the same item as Ferguson 9807 apart from the different publishers. We have inspected numerous copies of 9924e the Wigg version and the odd Galbraith one and it is clear that the original Galbraith imprint is masked by the gold blocking carrying the later Wigg imprint. The nature of the contents reworked material from well-known earlier artists the medium tinted lithographs printed in brown and the style of the work leave us in no doubt that May is responsible for all the material in '14 Views of Old Adelaide'. <p>We suggest that the ten lithographs offered here were prepared by him with the intention of putting out a companion volume to '14 Views of Old Adelaide'. The change of publisher after that book was printed leads us also to suggest that Galbraith or May or both lost money on the venture and who knows perhaps the Wigg issue was not a commercial success either. In any event one could see how enthusiasm for a sequel might be considerably diminished. All of these plates are rare; complete sets of them are exceptionally rare on the open market even Kerr's dictionary refers to only nine of them. Until now they have been poorly documented in the literature; fortunately some of them have survived to tell their own worthy tale. unknown
1900143581Adelaide: Government Printer 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer circa 1900. An oblong quarto photograph album approximately 250 × 320 mm containing 22 original vintage gelatin silver photographs each approximately 200 × 280 mm tipped in on the recto and verso of 11 card leaves captioned in ink on the mount. Cord-bound textured papered boards; minimal signs of age and handling; essentially in fine condition. 'South Australia' is written in ink on the front pastedown and the individual captions tend to be informative and site-specific: 'Aquaduct at the Gorge on the Torrens River'; 'View from Mount Barker'; 'Orchard & Vineyard Roseworthy College Farm'; 'Head of Gillen on the River Murray'; and 'Vineyard at Magill' are a few examples along with numerous identified bridges viaducts reservoirs and rivers. <p>This level of detail has enable us to locate thanks to Trove an article in an Adelaide newspaper 'The Express and Telegraph' Wednesday 3 October 1906 headed 'Advertising the State. South Australian Photographs in London'. The description of many of the photographs on display at the Bank of Adelaide branch in London 'The whole of these photographs were supplied by Mr. Vaughan the photo-lithographer' matches many of those in this album leading us to our attribution. <p>The article records that 'The Government recognise the value of photographs . and they have been putting the cameras in the Lands Department to good use lately for the purpose of advertising the State. A large number of pictures and slides for lantern use have been sent to the office of the Agent-General and every mail now takes a small addition to the stock. The photographs are used for advertising the State in various ways'. <p>It is perhaps unsurprising that the extraordinary portrait of the 'Port Lincoln natives - last of tribe' is not mentioned in the report. The State Library of South Australia has two examples of this print in its collection B 512 and B77443 - the latter in poor condition dated 'Approximately 1897' and '1897' respectively. Government Printer hardcover
1880104852Adelaide: Goodfellow & Hele almost certainly the Author - James Dally was convinced 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Goodfellow & Hele almost certainly the Author - James Dally was convinced 1880. Octavo 182 30 advertisements pages plus 6 lithographed plates of farm machinery by James Martin & Co. and 17 albumen paper carte-de-visite photographs individually mounted on tipped-in captioned leaves. Blind-decorated maroon cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover with a later gilt-lettered cloth title-label along the spine originally untitled; cloth a little flecked slightly sunned on the spine and a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities; some mounts lightly cockled as ever a production flaw; a few trifling signs of use; basically an excellent copy internally fine with the photographs in superb condition. A rare and desirable item attested to by the provenance of this copy: it has the armorial bookplate of Charles Glover on the pastedown and the blind-stamp of Sir Thomas Ramsay on the flyleaf 'T.M.R. Library of T.M. Ramsay'. Ferguson 11744; Holden 70. Holden's entry is more accurate and informative although the photographs may vary slightly between copies. The photograph facing page 16 in this copy is a portrait of Dr Nott rather than 'Frankel's Hotel' as called for in Holden facing page 17. Two other photographs are less-common variant images of the same subject: these are 'Fotheringham's Cordial Factory' facing page 57 and 'Stewart's Music Emporium' facing page 96. These variations notwithstanding two separate editions were produced: one in wrappers with advertisements on the verso of the front cover and on both sides of the rear cover without photographs but with the lithographs not noted by Ferguson; the other in gilt-lettered cloth without the cover advertisements containing 17 mounted photographs plus the lithographs. Both contain 30 pages of advertisements at the rear. <p>Rare in any state and in our view the version on offer is one of the more important and interesting photographically illustrated books produced in Australia. 'The handbook is illustrated with a number of views by Mr J. Taylor the local photographic artist representing the most important edifices and establishments in town' Holden quoting a contemporary review. The frontispiece is a portrait of John McKinlay 1819-1872; there are 14 pages devoted to him he married a Gawler woman in the early 1850s and was based in the town until his death. Justice is not done to the other photographs in describing them prosaically as 'the most important edifices and establishments in town'. Without exception signs of life and day-to-day activities flesh out the images and most of the businesses - butcher shop photographic studio cordial factory furnishing warehouse music emporium - feature well-stocked windows or yards and numerous staff members or customers. Holden reproduces two interesting ones including perhaps the best the butcher shop captioned merely 'Hodgson & Clements' but there are wonderful vignettes in many others. Not least of these are the horse-drawn tram in front of the 'Commercial Bank' and the ornate hearse outside 'F. Fowler's Furnishing Warehouse'. <p>While we are on the subject of death one chapter stands out. Among those to be expected say on 'Horticultural and Agricultural Progress. Gardens around Gawler' or 'The Humbug Society. Flam! Bam! Sham!' or 'The Streets - Number of Businesses - Description of Hotels' there is Chapter XI: 'The Neville and Adamson Tragedy'. Its thirteen pages describe in great detail the events surrounding the double suicide 'and its romantic accomplishment' of Neville and his partner Adamson. 'It is universally believed that Neville was the leading spirit in the suicide and so strong was Adamson's affection love friendship or whatever it may be termed for his companion that he consented to take that final leap in the dark in the wine cellar with him to visit that "bourne whence none return"'. Goodfellow & Hele [almost certainly the Author - James Dally was convinced] hardcover
125425Original sepia-toned albumen paper photographs both 158 × 208 mm unmounted as issued; short sealed tear to the bottom corner of the photograph of weapons; essentially in fine condition. Captain Samuel White Sweet 1825-1886 sea captain surveyor and photographer: after he was censured when his ship ran aground in 1875 he 'retired from the sea opened a photographic studio in Adelaide and concentrated on landscapes. With his horse-drawn dark room he travelled through South Australia taking hundreds of skilful pictures of the outback stations and homesteads. The colony's foremost documentary photographer of the 1870s in the early 1880s he was one of the first to use the new dry-plate process' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. <p>'Point McLeay Mission was founded on the shores of Lake Alexandrina in 1859 by the Aborigines' Friends Association for the Aboriginal people of the Lower Lakes. George Taplin the Congregational minister was its first administrator. Following Government administration from 1916 Point McLeay was returned to the Ngarrindjeri people in 1974 and renamed Raukkan in 1982' State Library of South Australia. <p>The group portrait depicts 55 Indigenous men women and children posed in five rows in front of one of the thatch-roofed residential cottages at Point McLeay. 'Sweet Adelaide 463' is inscribed in the negative; 'Native Mission Station Ponindie sic' is written in pencil and in error on the verso. <p>The photograph of weapons and artefacts is inscribed 'Sweet Adelaide 462' in the negative and has an early caption in pencil on the verso 'Native Ornaments & Weapons'. The objects numbered 1 to 17 in the negative are displayed against a whitewashed wall of one of the cottages. <p>We have traced only one example of the latter photograph in Trove in the National Library of Australia and none of the group portrait. 'Captain Sweet's Colonial Imagination - The Ideals of Modernity in South Australian Views Photography 1866-1886' by Karen Magee a 2014 University of Adelaide doctoral thesis accessible online notes that Sweet visited Point McLeay in 1878 and 1880. She reproduces the latter photograph in her extensive catalogue see number 811 '"Ngarrindjeri weapons and hunting implements" 1878 Point McLeay. Private Collection' but does not record the group portrait. 2 items. unknown
84787Chicago: Quadrangle Books 1971. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 24cm; sandy grey paper-covered boards and brick red cloth backstrip with titles stamped in silver on spine and in maroon on front cover; dustjacket; xviii45-3553pp. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Sandy and Ed In respect to Kirine and Emily who have help like few others "to let my people go" / Love / Bayard Rustin." Some foxing and dust-soil to backstrip and covers though clean internally; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $10.00 lightly edgeworn with a 2.75" closed tear to upper front flap fold faint evidence of a sticker removed at lower spine and a hint of sunning to the red titling at upper spine; Very Good. <br /> <br /> Substantial collection of writings by Bayard Rustin 1912-1987 a leading strategist of the Civil Rights Movement an avowed pacifist and member of the War Resisters League - the oldest secular pacifist organization in the United States. The contents span from the early 1940s through 1971 touching on nonviolence Jim Crow his experiences on a chain gang his Montgomery diary the Civil Rights Movement various letters essays and pamphlets and his thoughts on prominent figures like Langston Hughes Malcolm X Muhammad Ali John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Inscriptions by Rustin are uncommon with no examples of this title traced at auction. BLOCKSON 2737. Quadrangle Books unknown
1910List2960Southern California 1910. Ten photographs measuring 8 x 10 inches and smaller with most measuring 5 x 7 inches. Brown Brothers stamps and manuscript captions verso; some with editorial overpainting; some mounted on heavy cardstock. Marginal damage with some tears and corners missing; very good. Japanese immigration to the US began at a large scale following the midcentury loosening of Japan’s emigration laws and the US’s 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. Most Japanese immigrants entered through the west coast especially San Francisco Portland and Seattle and settled in central and southern California.<br /> <br /> Offered here are ten photographs of Japanese immigrants and laborers in California likely taken between 1900 and 1910 as one is dated 1903. Their work is mainly agricultural though one photograph possibly depicts miners: four men holding sledgehammers stand on a mountainside. Two show newly-arriving immigrants; in one women are lined up to receive a vaccine. Interestingly three of the photographs include women subjects—prior to the 1907 Gentlemen’s Agreement the Japanese population in some California counties had gender ratios of over 100 men to one woman and some simply had no female Japanese residents at all.1 One photograph that shows a woman at work in a cranberry field is identified as having been taken in Moneta California and the caption states that the cranberry farm was “leased by Japsâ€. Moneta actually had the least skewed gender ratio of any Japanese-American settlement at the time in part because its Issei residents were relatively economically better off and as the caption suggests could afford to lease or buy farmland.1<br /> <br /> Of interest to historians of Japanese immigration to California and the Japanese-American labor force around the turn of the century.<br /> <br /> 1 Lane Ryo Hirabayashi & George Tanaka “The Issei Community in Moneta and the Gardena Valley 1900–1920†Southern California Quarterly 70 no 2 Summer 1988: 127–158. unknown
187184475New York: Woodhull Claflin & Co 1871. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 23cm. Original terracotta cloth titled in gilt on spine and front cover; portrait frontispiece; 247pp. Shallow chips to cloth at head and tail of spine; corners and board edges tapped; spine gilt very slightly dulled else a tight straight Very Good copy free of restoration and with joints external and hinges internal tight and strong. <br /> <br /> Woodhull's important first book in which she analyzes the evolution of human rights through history - with special regard to the landmark civil liberties granted by the U.S. Constitution - to advocate for equality of income opportunity and suffrage for women. The book was published in conjunction with and to bolster her 1872 candidacy for U.S. President for which she campaigned under the banner of the Equal Rights Party; it was the first bona-fide Presidential campaign by an American woman. Though the run was doomed from the start - most obviously by Woodhull's gender but hindered also by her advocacy of such radical notions as free love socialism and spiritualism to say nothing of her age not yet 35 making her constitutionally ineligible for the presidency - it cemented Woodhull's place in American history. Often lost in the discussion is the significance of the current work; which though unquestionably eccentric in spots nonetheless attempted to build a clear logical and historical basis for women's equality thus establishing Woodhull as an important intellectual advocate not only for feminism but for other once-radical causes as well. <br /> <br /> The book was issued by the publishing firm which Woodhull ran in partnership with her sister Tennessee Claflin through which the sisters also issued their weekly newspaper Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly in which preliminary versions of some chapters of the present text first appeared. Though not scarce institutionally the book has become truly infrequent in commerce especially in unrestored condition; we can trace only a single copy at auction in the past two decades. FRANKLIN The Case for Woman Suffrage: A Bibliography p.45. Somehow missed by Krichmar. Woodhull, Claflin & Co unknown
1944214h1991New York: Poland Fights. Fair. 1944. First American Edition. Paperback. "The moving and almost incredible story of Oswiecim Auschwitz concentration camp. Written under the tension of the vibrant poignancy that is an inseparable part of the miseries Poland has endured. Written by a Polish Underground Labor 'historian' experienced in the underground struggle who drew his material from actual contact with persons who underwent and saw others suffer the things that he describes. A compilation of the viciousness of Nazism as seen at Oswiecim so that all who read might understand and make a just evaluation of that which Poland faces of the problem of ridding all Europe of a scourge that gives rise to such things as Oswiecim." - Foreword. 48 page stapled booklet. Includes a one-page facsimile of the cover of the 1942 Polish first edition published underground. Full-page map shows locations of major concentration camps in Poland. According to Wikipedia this book was written by Natalia Zarembina 1895-1973 and was the first documentary about the Auschwitz concentration camp based on reports from refugees or people dismissed from the camp mainly Eryk Lipinski Henryk Swiatkowski and Edward Bugajski. Also includes information about the network of slave camps in Poland including Camp Districts Temporary Concentration Camps General Concentration Camps Forced Labor Camps Concentration Camps for Clergy Concentration Camps for Women Concentration Camps for Jews Camps for "Improvement of the Race" where "the only duty that is absolutely enforced of the young defect-free Polish and German inmates is the regular performance of sexual intercourse with the partner assigned" Camps for "Correction of Youth" and Concentration Camps for Children So-Called "Educational Institutes". Front cover loose but present. Lacking back cover. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Moderate tanning to contents. Binding intact. A rare copy of this early Auschwitz exposé. 8.25" x 5.4". Weiner Library Cat. Series 7 - #1660.; Cover Art; 8vo . Poland Fights paperback
1939112519-BNew York: E.P. Dutton & Co. 1939. Book. Illus. by Author. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st. Edition 1st. Printing 1939 Light blue cloth hardcover in the dated 1/39 original dust jacket . 207 page book . With full page black & white photo illustrations by Abbott for the Production of The Federal Art Project of the W.P.A. Condition : Very Good book has ex-owners book plate on the inside board edge of book show light ware . The rare dust jacket is Very Good with edge rubs light chipping and small piece missing at the bottom dj spine. Please look at images . Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. E.P. Dutton & Co. Hardcover
