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186621446European Origin: Not Published 1866. Album of materials gathered by John Henry Cornell 1828-1894 American musical author organist and composer ".a solidly trained composer of church-music part-songs and songs.an erudite and methodical student of theory and an able author and translator." Grove; educated in New York England and Germany in 1866 he traveled once again to Europe visiting historic sites and his musical peers collecting photographs autographic materials and ephemera along the way that are preserved here; Approximately 100 pages with items usually tipped-on to one side only; including photographs of composers usually standard carte-de-visite size of fellow musicians & others including: 3 Photos on the same page of musicians Carl Reinecke 1824 - 1910 Danish composer; Ferdinand David 1810-1873 German virtuoso violinist and composer; Alexander Dreyschock 1818-1869 Czech pianist and composer; trombone virtuoso Moritz Nabich 2 one with his instrument and others of Madame and Fraulein Nabich; King John of Saxony; Fraulein Suvanny Soubrette at the Leipzig Theatre; German actress Hedwig Raabe 1844-1905 with a clipped signature - and on the same page a photo of Franz Buchner Orchestral Director with a small inscribed card; German painter Peter von Cornelius 1784-1867; a cdv-size photo of A.J. Boekelman musical director from Utrecht with inscribed card; photo of Hungarian composer pianist conductor and arranger Károly Carl Thern 1817- 1886 with clipped signature; U.S. Consul Dickinson of Indiana see below in printed ephemera for a bit more on this man; photo of Father Skelly O.S.B. Kilkenny Ireland - and almost 20 additional portrait photographs of presumed musical peers and their families some of these with signed inscriptions that have so far eluded identification; Also including and laid-into the album loosely or on pages trimmed from the album: Moritz Hauptmann 1792-1868 a small photo and two small clipped notes signed a few inches square one tipped-on below the image another note on a tipped-on card 2" x 3" loose; below the image of Hauptmann is a photo of Isaac Ignaz Moscheles 1794-1870; on another sheet Franz Wilhelm Abt 1819-1885 autograph 7-line note signed with cdv-size photo with a clipped greeting on card tipped in below the image - another unidentified musician's image above also with a signed photo & card and on the back of the sheet with the letter another two images one with signed card; Johannes Gijsbertus Bastiaans 1812-1875 and a photo of his wife both inscribed; on a loose sheet the obituary of Cornell noting his musical career marriage education and travels and that he at one time had taken Roman Catholic religious orders in Baltimore and had died within the Episcopal Church with selections of his compositions played at the funeral service held at Trinity Chapel in New York City - here are a signed card of William Reed Huntington of Grace Church 1838-1900 and an autograph of Morgan Dix 1827-1908 both men prominent leaders of the Episcopal Church of the U.S. in the 19th century - Dix was one of the officiants at Cornell's funeral - on the back of this loose sheet is a cabinet card photograph of an image of W.A. Mozart; Printed ephemera including: A 3" x 5" card printed black on pink with humorous musical-themed imagery announcing "Klapperkasten Moscheles-Abend Leipzig d. 12 May 1866 im Schutzenhaus" with a small circular albumen photo image of the composer at the side a younger cdv-size image of Moscheles and above another printed note accomplished in hand to John Cornell regarding Klapperkasten; a card printed black on blue stock "Soiree musicale von Nabich Posaunen-Virtuos" 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" - old fold line good cond. loose and a "Groot Concert te geven door den heer Moritz Nabich.B. Van der Eijken.J. Hrimaly." with the program below in which 2 pieces are by Cornell - approx. 8" x 4" Joh. Enschede en Zonen Haarlem imprint below - on the back of this loose sheet are two photographs of architecture one identified as the "House of W. Vorschuur" and three cdv-size photos: one of Dutch painter Wouterus Verschuur 1812 -1874 and his son W. Verschuur Jr. also a painter - both signed directly below their portraits on the photos and one of the performers on the concert program Czech violinist Jan Hrimaly 1844-1915; a broadside announcement for a "Musikalische Soiree" Im Saale des Hotel de Prusse with the program printed by Julius Krampe with 2 Cornell pieces played 8 1/2" x 5" one edge with some creasing wrinkling still very good; a Soiree Musicale with Moritz Nabich and Mejufvrouw Boekelman and list of works printed by Van Munster & Zoon 8" x 5" and with 2 Cornell works played too with a couple closed edge-tears and creases good; another loose piece of ephemera 4 1/2" x 3 1/4" a menu-card dinner-choice text handwritten and the rest printed by Friedrich Daehne and noted below by Cornell as "Bill of fare of our 4th of July Dinner." - on back is noted ".with U.S. Consul T. Y. Dickinson Jas. Wilson of Newport R. I. and others Leipzig"; an announcement of a concert 10" x 7 1/2" "Jena. Montag den 19. Februar 1866 im Rosensaale Concert des Academ. Gesangvereins." with the program of music tipped-on is most of a map published by C.H. Wogan "The Strangers Guide to Dublin" approx. 6" x 8" one side trimmed close with loss to two of the corner vignettes; also a folding 12" x 15" map of Berlin by Baldwin & Cradock trimmed close to the neat line all around; a curious advert for a moisturizing rejuvenating apparatus not illustrated clipped from a periodical for "Regenerators" of Leo Bohlius a hairdresser in Germany; with some additional newspaper clippings of the time and a few later also tipped-in or loose; with approximately 150 additional architectural scenery & art photos from the time averaging 3" x 3" size with a few larger images; the photos are of locales in Kilkenny Quenstown Ireland; various places in Wales & England; Altenburg Leipzig Dresden Hanover Germany; Brussels Belgium and other places; including a small photo of the Kristallnacht-destroyed synagogue of Leipzig; and another noted as the "Old Opera-House in Dresden as I saw it. Burnt down."; among these are about 10 ethnic European costume photos in cdv size also; the album approx. 13" x 11" size; the sheets only no covers; still loosely bound; many pages edge-chipped and the paper quality good; the first page with old discoloration and the "Ireland" scenery photos on that page chipped torn and worn; as noted above there are many loose and cut-out pieces - the evidence is within the album of where some of these may originally have been located - all this seems to be done by a very unskilled hand perhaps a childish effort; some leaves obviously and crudely excised at some time; by and large the photographs & ephemeral items in good condition; good also to have included here the final materials recording his obituary & death; a very interesting compendium of visual and textual information especially regarding the Romantic composers of Europe and their association with their American counterpart; we note that one of the loose albume pages contains a group of material regarding the wife of Martin Luther; including a photographic reproduction of an engraving depicting the ruins of the Kloster Nimbschen by Selbstverlag V. Peters Leipz. approx. 3" x 4" in black and white identified below as "Ruins of Nimbshcen Convent of which Katharine Bora was a member."; with an unknown gentleman's carte-de-visite-sized photo-portrait circa 1860s; with an albumen photograph also carte size approx. 2 1/4" x 3" of a portrait identified below of Katharina von Bora Luther 1499-1552 wife of Martin Luther the German leader of the Protestant Reformation; and tipped-on is a 1" x 1 3/4" thin beige leather fragment having evidence of tiny stitching and some threading around 3 edges of a "Piece of Katharine Bora's slipper" identified in the same handwriting as the above items; ".According to Dr. Stefan Rhein Director of Luther monuments in the state of Sachsen-Anhalt.Katharine von Bora was Luther's companion and equal partner the picture of a self-assured self-confident liberated woman at the side of her husband. But this most important woman of the Reformation period of the 16th century is relatively unknown for she lived in the shadow of her powerful husband." Erwin Weber Lutheran Journal 1999; for the future of the Protestant Christian faith Luther's marriage established the validity of marriage within the clergy as well as focusing attention on the importance of inspirational strong women in early Protestantism; the items with some ageing darkening; the old backer paper with some tears cutouts from paper probably from a larger sheet; list of items on the page written in a later hand in top left corner; the items in very good condition and an interesting fragment of the life of this important Lutheran woman. Manuscript. No Covers. Good. Not Published Paperback books
1711E0013iixxixvii1911blank 223 pages with 1 of 3 large fold out maps and 15 of 19 engraved fold out plates. Octavo 8" x 5" bound three quarter leather with raised spine bands and gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards. Edited by Sir Tancred Robinson. Second edition preferred over the first edition "because it has the chart of the western and southern oceans." Hill In 1699.<br /><br />First published in 1694 which contained only two maps The book is important because it contains one of the earliest English accounts of Abel Janszoon Tasman's famous voyage of 1642 from Batavia during which he discovered Tasmania and New Zealand and visited Tonga and Fiji Hill 1475.<br /><br />Rear Admiral Sir John Narborough RN was an English naval commander of the 17th century who served with distinction during the Anglo-Dutch Wars and against the Barbary Coast pirates. He was descended from an old Norfolk family. He received his commission in 1664 and in 1666 was promoted lieutenant for gallantry in the action with the Dutch fleet off the Downs in June of that year. After the peace he was chosen to conduct a voyage of exploration in the South Seas. He set sail from Deptford on November 26 1669 and entered the Straits of Magellan in October of the following year. In 1670 he visited Port Desire in Argentina and claimed the territory for the Kingdom of Great Britain but returned home in June 1671 without accomplishing his original purpose. A narrative of the expedition was published at London in 1694 under the title <i>An Account of several late Voyages and Discoveries to the South and North</i>. During the Third Anglo-Dutch War Narborough was second captain of the Lord High Admiral's ship the Prince and conducted himself with such conspicuous valor at the battle of Solebay Southwold Bay in May 1672 that he won special approbation and shortly afterwards was made rear-admiral and knighted. In 1675 he was sent to suppress the Tripoline piracies and by the bold expedient of dispatching gun-boats into the harbor of Tripoli at midnight and burning the ships he induced the them to agree to a treaty. Shortly after his return he undertook a similar expedition against the Algerians. In 1680 he was appointed commissioner of the Navy an office he held till his death. He was buried at Knowlton church Kent where a monument has been erected to his memory. The island of Fernadina the youngest and westernmost island of the Galapagos Archipelago was originally named 'Narborough Island' in his honor by the 17th century buccaneer William Ambrosia Cowley.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Marginal foxing soiling and damp staining through out paper fault across second C2 affecting one letter some rubbing hinges and corners else a better than good copy. Printed for D Brown hardcover books
1791045038Paris: Buisson 1791. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. 2 volumes bound in one in contemporary mottled calf; worn leather chipped at the head of the spine scattered mild foxing small stain to first title. Complete with the half titles reuniting the two parts of Paine's treatise on democracy and revolution that were published a year apart. There are two editions dated May 1791 on the title page with no clear priority between them. The first part was translated from the original English edition that was almost immediately edited and softened. Paine was a star in France an enlightenment philosopher of the first order and a frequent guest along with the likes of Franklin Jefferson and Adam Smith at the salon at the Hôtel de la Monnaie. "The government tried to suppress it but it circulated more briskly.Rights of Man can be seen for what it is: the textbook of radical thought and the clearest of all expositions of the basic principles of democracy." Printing and the Mind of Man xii 227pp; iv 16 224pp. Howe P-31 and 32 The English ed. PMM 241 the English ed. Size: Octavo 8vo. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Philosophy; History. Inventory No: 045038. <br/><br/> Buisson hardcover books
1802E01512 volumes with Atlas. 4xxiv385 pages with xxii-xxiv lists books of voyages available from the publisher; 4418 pages with appendix containing vocabularies of the languages of Yukagir Yakut Tungoose Kamchatka the Aleutian Islands and Kadiak and inex. Atlas with title list of plates 14 engraved plates & large folding engraved map. Text volumes are small octavo 7¾" x 4½" 19th century quarter calf & boards spines tooled in gilt morocco lettering pieces; atlas is quarto 11" x 7½" in period tree calf spine tooled in gilt. Translated by J Castéra. Howes S-117 First French Edition.<br /><br />Martin Sauer was an English civil servant who knew Russian French and German. He became acquainted with Joseph Billings in St Petersburg in the 1780s. He agreed to join Billings expedition as his secretary and interpreter. It was agreed that he would write the official account but there is some controversy about his actives when he returned to St Petersburg in 1794. It has been suggested that he left hurriedly for England with much of the important archival material from the voyage including diaries and secret reports so that he could publish a record of the expedition before Russian authorities and scholars in the Academy of Sciences could review its details. Sauer's <i>An account of the Geographical and Astronomical Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia</i> was published in London in 1802. It contains an abundance of detail about eastern Siberia and the Aleutian Islands and records the expeditions visits to Kodiak Island Prince William Sound and the coast south as far as Yakutat Bay. <br /><br />The chart was made by Aaron Arrowsmith from Sauer's notes and Billings observations and the whole complements well the other contemporary accounts of the expedition by the cartographer Gavriil Sarychev and the naturalist Carl Heinrich Merck. Aaron Arrowsmith 1750–1823 was an English cartographer engraver and publisher and founding member of the Arrowsmith family of geographers. He moved to Soho Square London from Winston County Durham when about twenty years of age and was employed by John Cary the engraver and William Faden. He became Hydrographer to the Prince of Wales ca. 1810 and subsequently to the King in 1820. In January 1790 he made himself famous by his large chart of the world on Mercator projection. Four years later he published another large map of the world on the globular projection with a companion volume of explanation.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Some rubbing and wear to coves of both atlas and text volumes some chipping to spine ends small gouge at back of atlas and stamp to front end paper else in very good condition. Chez F Buisson hardcover books
1700215202London: Printed for Ben. Griffin in the Old Baily &c 1700. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Illustrated with many copper-plate engravings of the great houses and manors as well as maps; an old note states that this copy "wants plate 27 page 262 North View of the Town of Nortford." Contemporary paneled calf rebacked leather spine with six raised bands. Very Good binding. Printed for Ben. Griffin in the Old Baily &c unknown books
1684044178Madrid: Bernardo de Villa-Diego 1684. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Later tree calf light wear at the edges quite sound and attractive. Lacking the front blank and the frontispiece title torn with significant loss at the edges and laid back down. generally mild but pervasive soiling and foxing and a number of tears with loss and repairs to the fore edge of the pages: on page 301/2 with loss of a couple of words 135/6 287/8 221/2 and 269/70 touching a few letters 187/8 touching a few letters and additionally an unrepaired tear with no loss in the gutter page 11/12 with a long unrepaired tear touching a few letters and the gloss 5/6 touching a few letters and 543/4 with a tear on the bottom corner losing a word and a few letters; last two index pages with loss at edges old notes to rear blank. Some other minor loss at the edges which may obscure some glosses scattered stains small tears etc. Otherwise complete 32-548-15 p with pagination errors of 26-27 repeated 382-3 repeated and 399-400 absent. A flawed but essentially complete copy of the first edition the only edition printed in Solís's lifetime. Translated into French Italian English Danish and German the Historia was an enormously influential history of the Spanish conquest of Mexico as well as a much imitated piece of prose. Sabin 86446. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 044178. <br/><br/> Bernardo de Villa-Diego hardcover books
006589No Place: Bernhardt Wall SCARCE. A set of 26 pencil SIGNED individual drypoint etchings plus the unsigned title page etching to Wall's book "Following Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865". With tissue guards for all but 3 of the etchings all of the etchings are Fine No Date circa 1933-1942. On heavy laid paper the sheets ranging in size from 8 1/2" x 9 3/4" to 10" x 12 1/2". Each etching with small "Lilly Library" stamp verso at corner the whole set housed in a plain manila envelope marked "Dups.". A unique array of Wall's Lincoln etchings that could if matted and framed grace the walls of any Lincoln collection. SIGNED BY ARTIST. Etchings . Fine. Bernhardt Wall Paperback books
1997006567Washington D.C.: The White House 1997. A unique personal archive of photographs and letters received by William K. Estes when awarded the President's National Medal of Science on December 16 1997. Included are a SIGNED BY PRESIDENT CLINTON photograph of Estes receiving the medal from Clinton and a SIGNED BY VICE-PRESIDENT AL GORE photograph of Estes with Gore and also two separate unsigned White House-issued group photographs one of the awardees wth President Clinton and the other the awardees with Vice-President Gore. In addition a letter on White House stationery dated May 14 1997 SIGNED by Josh H. Gibbons Asst. to the President for Science and Technology to Estes confirming his selection as a recipient a White House Press Release from the Office of Media Affairs dated April 30 1997 announcing the recipients a congratulatory letter dated December 17 1997 on U.S. Senate letterhead from the office of Senator John Kerry Mass. SIGNED by Senator Kerry and two programs for the event. Also included two congratulatory letters on Harvard University letterheads one dated Dec.18 1997 and SIGNED by Neil Rudenstine President of Harvard and the other dated Dec. 23 1997 SIGNED by Harvey V. Fineberg Provost of Harvard. All materials are in Fine condition. William K. Estes June 17 1919- August 17 2011 was an American psychologist who pioneered the application of mathematics to the study of animal learning and human cognition. He received this award "for his fundamental theories of learning memory and decision. His pioneering development and testing of mathematical models of pyschological processes have set the standard for theoretical progress in behavioral and cognitive science". That same year the other awardees included James D. Watson. Robert A. Weinberg Darlene C. Hoffman Martin Schwarzschild among other notable scientists. . SIGNED. Fine/No Jacket. The White House unknown books
1700E0566xxiii43313 table pages with two folding maps of the Marsianes and Guam. Duodecimo 6 1/2 x 3 1/4" bound in contemporary full sheep with red label in gilt spine and five raised spine bands speckled red end pages. Brunet 28230 Cioranescu 41783 First edition.<br /><br />Charles Le Gobien was a French Jesuit writer founder of the Lettres édifiantes et curieuses a collection of reports from Jesuit missionaries in China. It is a major source of information for the history of Catholic missions and life in China in those times. Le Gobien was born at Saint-Malo Brittany. He entered the Society of Jesus on 25 November 1671. As professor of philosophy and especially while procurator of the Franco-Chinese mission he sought in a series of papers to awaken interest in the work of Christianizing Eastern Asia. In 1697 appeared at Paris his Lettres sur les progréz de la religion à la Chine. Apropos of Chinese Rites controversy he published among other things Histoire de l'édit de l'empereur de la Chine en faveur de la religion chrétienne avec un éclaircissement sur les honneurs que les Chinois rendent à Confucius et aux morts Paris 1698; and in the year 1700: Lettre à un Docteur de la Faculté de Paris sur les propositions déférées en Sorbonne par M. Prioux. Under the same date there appeared in Paris the Histoire des Isles Mariannes nouvellement converties à la religion chrétienne. The second part translated into Spanish by J. Delgado is found in the latter's Historia General de Filipinas Manila 1892. In 1702 Père Le Gobien published Lettres de quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus écrites de la Chine et des Indes Orientales; this was the beginning of the collection soon to become celebrated under the title of Lettres édifiantes et curieuses écrites des missions étrangéres par quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus. The first eight series were by Le Gobien the latter ones by Fathers Du Halde Patouillet Geoffroy and Maréchal. The collection was printed in thirty-six volumes duodecimo Paris 1703–76 and reissued in 1780-81 by Fathers Yves de Querbeux and Brotier in twenty-six volumes duodecimo omitting the prefaces. New editions appeared in 1819 1829–32 and 1838-43. One abridgment in four volumes octavo was entitled Panthéon Littéraire by L. Aimé Martin 1834–43. A partial English translation came out in London in 1714. The publication incited the Austrian Jesuit Stöcklein to undertake his Neuer Welt Bott about 1720 at first considered merely a translation but soon an independent and particularly valuable collection five volumes folio in forty parts substantially completing the Lettres Edifiantes.<br /><br />This is a history of the Christian missions in the Marianas or Ladrones Islands in the north-western Pacific the principal island of which is Guam. Reprinted in the text are several letters from early missionaries Medina Clain Sanvitores &c. The Jesuit mission was established there by Diego Luis de Sanvitores. Father Le Gobien never visited the Mariana islands but based his account chiefly on the relations and letters of missionaries sent to him from Rome Spain the Netherlands etc. Includes a letter by P. Clain about the discovery of the Caroline Islands.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Rebacked with original spine laid down provenance: Jesuit College library with old stamps to front free endpaper half title and title page else about very good. Nicolas Pepie hardcover books
19243357Kentucky Wisconsin Illinois Kansas Minnesota Ohio Wyoming Michigan South Dakota Colorado 1924. Red leather sheep over card ornately stamped in gilt. Album measures 8 x 9.75 inches and is comprised of 108 manuscript pages in a variety of hands with multiple entries per page. Also includes two pasted-in newspaper clippings and a series of loosely inserted ephemera two obituary clippings for the book's owner five calling cards a church bulletin a gown ad an envelope with a death notice of a friend and a car rental flyer from Oklahoma. Tracing the life of Laura Nethers nee Earl from her girlhood and marriage to her old age. Obituaries and census records show that Laura was a resident of Colorado Springs for 56 years following her family's move from the South through the Western US.<br/><br/>The inscription to the first page of the album reveals it to be a gift: "1860. A Christmas gift from father. Covington KY." Above this is the ownership stamp of Laura L. Earl. Little did Laura know the album would follow her across 64 years and to a variety of states documenting her relationships and major moments in her life. For researchers it is an opportunity to trace a woman's development from one century to the next across multiple states in the South and West as she grew into a teacher wife and woman's club activist. Growing up in Kentucky Laura's family moved West. Entries show that she and her father lived awhile in Minnesota and she became a teacher in Wisconsin before marrying and settling in Colorado Springs. Entries come from family pastors students neighbors and friends. Many entries show women's bonds across large stretches of space and together they show what a mobile lifestyle women were increasingly living. No longer confined so a small radius or single homestead they were maintaining relationships and making friends across the miles. <br/><br/>Some early entries like that of Celia E. Hay Illinois 1878 are traditional in nature: "Over our hearts and into our lives shadows may sometimes fall But the sunshine is never wholly dead And heaven is shadowless overhead And God is over all." Students politely thank her for her work and hope they made an impact too: "I ever remain your true friend James U. Cobb. To Miss Laura Earl much Respected Teacher Ellensboro Wisconsin Feb 25 1872." People write poetic verses on friendship or her new marriage throughout.<br/><br/>Yet more often entries are personal. In 1879 Laura's father leaves her a humorous message that "It is ten o'clock and your sixty-one year old father expects a long trip to the Injun Reservation two hundred miles north in the morning.So you see I cannot write any tonight." Elva Walker writes from Colorado in 1885 "We will ever remember our camping trip.and going in a cave" and John Dietrich writes of the same trip "Did it rain while we were camping! I hope we will meet again soon." In August 1919 a friend Emma Eggleston writes an original piece about their recent travel titled Pike's Peak by Auto which begins "19 and 19 was a year to remember from the last of July to the last of September" and which documents in 36 verses the landscapes they passed and the friendship they strengthened while driving. Moments like these are a reminder of changing times -- of early attitudes toward indigenous tribes or of women's freedom as suffrage approached. <br/><br/>A charter member of the Colorado Women's Club and a participant in Frances Willard's Women's Christian Temperance Union according to her obituary Laura's friendship album is a rich space for researchers to trace her movements through communities in the West for genealogists to study the families and lives of contributors and for historians to track which entries come from other educated women and activists. The present is one of the best we've seen. unknown books
1906008510Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company 1906. The original text of the Ambrosia MS with English translation notes bibliography and index by James Alexander Robertson. Three volumes 8vo bound in publisher's original red cloth tops gilt other edges rough. Near Fine tape shadows at end pages most likely from old mylar covers since removed. First Separate Edition. One of only 350 copies printed in an unnumbered edition. Also issued as Volumes 33 and 34 of Blair & Robertson's 55 volume History of the Philippine Islands. SCARCE. A copy sold at auction 2013 previous copies seen at auction in 1950s. . Limited Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. The Arthur H. Clark Company Hardcover books
1831E01322 volumes. xxi472 pages with three maps two folding and one double page figures and 13 plates; iv452 pages with 10 plates some folding tables and appendices. Octavo 9 1/2" x 5 1/2" Bound in contemporary half leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine. Ferguson 1418; Hill I p. 19; Howes B309; Lada-Mocarski 95; Sabin 4347. Second edition published after quarto edition of the same year.<br /><br />Frederick William Beechey 17 February 1796 – 29 November 1856 was an English naval officer and geographer. He was the son of Sir William Beechey RA and was born in London. 1806 he entered the Royal Navy and saw active service during the wars with France and America. In 1818 he served under Lieutenant afterwards Sir John Franklin in David Buchan's Arctic expedition of which at a later period he published a narrative. In the following year he accompanied Lieutenant W. E. Parry in HMS Hecla. In 1821 he took part in the survey of the Mediterranean coast of Africa under the direction of Captain afterwards Admiral William Henry Smyth. He and his brother Henry William Beechey made an overland survey of this coast and published a full account of their work in 1828 under the title of Proceedings of the Expedition to Explore the Northern Coast of Africa from Tripoly Eastward in 1821-1822. In 1825 Beechey was appointed to command the HMS Blossom. His task was to explore the Bering Strait in concert with Franklin and Parry operating from the east. In the summer of 1826 he passed the strait and a barge from his ship reached 71°23'31" N. and 156°21'30" W. near Point Barrow which he named a point only 146 miles west of that reached by Franklin's expedition from the Mackenzie river. The whole voyage lasted more than three years and in the course of it Beechey discovered several islands in the Pacific and an excellent harbor near Cape Prince of Wales. In July 1826 he named the three islands in the Bering Strait. Two were the Diomede Islands that Vitus Bering had named in 1728: "Ratmanoff Island" Big Diomede and "Krusenstern Island" Little Diomede. Beechey called the uninhabited third islet "Fairway Rock" which is still its contemporary name. One of his crew Petty Officer John Bechervaise gave a detailed account of the voyage in his Thirty Six Years if a Seafaring Life by an Old Quartermaster published privately in 1839. In 1831 there appeared his Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to Co-operate with the Polar Expeditions 1825-1828. In 1835 and the following year Captain Beechey was employed on the coast survey of South America and from 1837 to 1847 carried on the same work along the Irish coasts. He was appointed in 1850 to preside over the Marine Department of the Board of Trade. In 1854 he was made rear-admiral and in the following year was elected president of the Royal Geographical Society. Beechey Island where Sir John Franklin wintered is named after him.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Name neatly excised from head corner of titles small inconspicuous stamp to last pages. Inner hinges beginning marble to boards rubbed some stains to map. some toning to some plates some plates not bound in order to the printer but are all accounted for corners gently bumped else about a very good set. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley hardcover books
1855E0558xx383 pages with hand colored frontispiece 3 maps in pockets plates many colored; vii41923 ad pages with color frontispiece and plates some colored. Small quarto 10 1/2" x 6 3/4" bound in original publisher's pictorial brown cloth with blind-stamped cover with gilt pictorial in gilt. Notes on the Natural History by John Richardson. Abbey Travel 645; Arctic Bibliography 1241; Books on Ice 5.8a; Hill 106; Sabin 4389; TPL 3409 First edition.<br /><br />Belcher's five-ship 1852-54 expedition in search of Franklin would be the last official British attempt. On the HMS Assistance Belcher successfully navigated through the Wellington Channel but beset by ice was unable to return to Lancaster Sound and was forced to abandon the ship. This account of the expedition also includes several essays on the natural history of the region by Richardson Owen Bell Salter and Reeve.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Minor wear re-backed with parts of original back-strips laid down; minor foxing short separations at folds to the largest map; inked stamps on title pages Edinger bookplates else a good set internally very good. Lovell Reeve hardcover books
1746A0068xxxvi167viii96 pages. Octavo 8 1/4" x 6 1/4" bound in full leather with decorative gilt and lettering to spine. From the library of George M Foster. First edition.<br /><br />Lorenzo Boturini Benaducci born in Italy of noble parentage studied in Milan and lived in Trieste and Vienna. He was a knight of the Holy Roman Empire. Forced to flee Austria because of the war with Spain Boturini arrived in Spain via England and Portugal. In Madrid he met the Condesa de Santibáñez oldest daughter of the Condesa de Moctezuma. The mother authorized him to collect a pension due her as a descendant of the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II from the royal treasury in New Spain. Boturini went to New Spain in 1736 where he remained eight years. During those years he assembled a vast collection of paintings maps manuscripts and native codices. He copied more than 500 pre-Columbian inscriptions and made his own drawings of monuments and sculptures and he investigated the history of the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe on the hill of Tepeyac. He traveled widely and on his travels brought together the largest collection of Mexican antiquities assembled to that time by a European. Not only did he intend to write the history of the Virgin of Guadalupe but he also had plans to crown her image with a gold crown. For that purpose he sought donations from the bishops and from the public. This brought him to the attention of the colonial government which was suspicious of the motives of a foreigner making this proposal. On June 2 1743 after an investigation the recently arrived viceroy Pedro Cebrián y AgustÃn had him imprisoned and impounded his collection. He was accused of entering New Spain without license from the Council of the Indies and of introducing papal documents without a royal permit. After eight months in prison Boturini was sent to Spain. He fell into the hands of pirates who eventually released him at Gibraltar. From there he traveled to Madrid in miserable conditions. In Madrid he met Mariano Fernández de EcheverrÃa y Veytia another passionate collector of Indian antiquities. Fernández de EcheverrÃa y Veytia offered Boturini a place to live and financial support and got the Council of the Indies to reconsider his case. Boturini was absolved. The king named him royal chronicler of the Indies ordered that his collection be returned to him and extended an invitation for him to return to New Spain. Boturini however declined to return to New Spain and his collection was never restored. It appears that he was granted recompense and a stipend to work on his projected history of the colony. In Madrid he wrote a history of ancient Mexico unpublished at the time of his death in 1753. The library at the BasÃlica de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe is named for him. The Boturini Collection was formed between 1735 and 1743 to serve as the basis of a projected Historia de América Septentrional. It consisted of many valuable documents the majority of them of Indian provenance. Among these were hieroglyphic paintings that had belonged to Juan de Alva Ixtlilxochitl a descendant of the rulers of Texcoco. Ixtlilxotchitl bequeathed these documents to Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. The collection was confiscated by Viceroy Pedro Cebrián y AgustÃn at the time of Boturini's arrest in 1743. It was deposited in the office of the secretary of the viceroyalty. The documents were neglected there for years and suffered considerable pilferage. The subsequent viceroy Juan Francisco de Güemes 1st Count of Revillagigedo granted the historian and antiquary Fernández de EcheverrÃa y Veytia Boturini's friend from Madrid the paintings and documents he solicited for his own studies. On Fernández de EcheverrÃa y Veytia's death they passed to Antonio de León y Gama. He died in 1802 and the collection passed to his heirs. Shortly thereafter 16 paintings were obtained by Alexander von Humboldt during his visit to Mexico in 1802-03. He published them in Vues des cordillères et monuments des peuples indigènes d'Amérique. The originals of these are now in the Berlin State Library. Part of the remainder of the collection may have passed to Father José Pichardo an amateur antiquarian. Joseph Alexis Aubin beginning in 1827 or shortly thereafter obtained important parts of the collection from a variety of sources. He sold his collection to Eugène Goupil who was of French and Mexican descent. This part of the collection passed by donation or purchase to the National Library in Paris where it remains under the name Aubin-Goupil Collection.<br /><br />George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Lacks frontispiece portrait. Lacks Foster's stamp or date of purchase. some damp stains to end papers neat old marginalia in Spanish to back end paper worm hole ant head and heal of spine going through spine extremities bumped and rubbed old owner's label to front paste down 1" chip at back head hinge and name to front end paper scuffed else a good copy of a rare item. En la Imprenta de Juan de Zuniga hardcover books
1811008245London: Printed for John Stockdale; F.C. & J. Rivington; J. Walker; et al. 1811. SCARCE this 8 volume edition with maps and especially so in such lovely condition. Eight volumes in contemporary full polished calf gilt backs with calf labels the covers with double gilt rules bordering blind tooled arabesque decorations marbled end papers and edges. Complete with four fold-out maps and Plan of Jerusalem all Fine- Italy. Vol. 1; Asia Vol. 2; Ancient World Vol. 5; Plan of Jerusalem Vol. 6; Germany Vol. 7. Very Good Plus light soiling and rubbing to covers gilt at spines dulled end pages uniformly toned but interiors quite clean and bright. Additional shipping charges will be requested for international and priority mail due to weight and volume of this set. Please inquire. . New Edition. Polished Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. Tall 8vo. Printed for John Stockdale; F.C. & J. Rivington; J. Walker; et al. Hardcover books
1891007675London: George Routledge & Sons 1891. RARE First Edition in English finely bound by Bayntun of Bath in half crimson morocco over marbled boards spine with five harp decorations with gilt borders marbled end pages all edges gilt. xii 499 pp. with fifty-seven wood engraved illustrations including frontispiece and 23 plates. Near Fine spine sunned light rubbing to marbled boards internally clean and bright. Gautier's classic work on chivalry in which he set out the "Ten Commandments of Chivalry" of course hundreds of years after the time of medieval chivalry. "Thou shalt be everywhere and always the champion of the Right and the Good against Injustice and Evil". . First Edition. Half Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. George Routledge & Sons Hardcover books
1695E0561xxiv21612 pages with frontispiece folding map and eight engraved costume plates. Duodecimo 6 ¼" x 3 ½" early full calf later spine label. First Edition in English. First published in French the prior year which was published without the plates.<br /><br />François Pidou de Saint Olon was a French diplomat under Louis XIV. In 1682 he was nominated as the first French resident envoy to the Republic of Genoa following the Bombardment of Genoa. He was then sent as an envoy to Madrid. In 1689 François Pidou was appointed ambassador to the court of Sultan Moulay Ismail for the signing of a commercial treaty and to release prisoners now slaves of Barbary corsairs of Salé for 233 including 29 bedridden Moroccan prisoners held by the French. His mission was not successful however he continued to stay more than three weeks more in Morocco. The book gains particular interest through its author's position as ambassador giving him access not always voluntary to areas of Moroccan society previously unrecorded by travelers. There are detailed descriptions of Moroccan dress and the book is beautifully illustrated with eight engraved plates of Moroccan men and women in traditional costume.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />With the fine copper engraved frontispiece of the overall state of Morocco which is quite rare and is often found missing in most copies. Joints cracking spine chipped at edges; foxing else very good. R. Bently hardcover books
1855008687London: Henry G. Bohn 1855. RARE the last complete set seen at auction 1956. Six volumes published 1855-1857. Bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards backs gilt with black morocco labels end papers and edges marbled. Very Good remnants of bookplate removal front paste downs hinges Vol. I starting from top edge yet still holding wear showing at hinges other volumes spines calf darkened light rubbing at edges of boards interiors clean and lovely. Additional postage required for international and priority mail shipping. Please inquire. . First Edition. Half Calf. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Henry G. Bohn Hardcover books
1882008164London: George Bell and Sons 1882. RARE. Published 1882 - 1883. Three of the Schiller volumes and two of The Goethe with frontispiece portrait engraving. Seventeen volumes handsomely bound in contemporary polished black calf over marbled boards the backs gilt marbled end papers and edges. Near Fine prior owner name one volume front joint starting to open from bottom end yet holding nicely one volume of Schiller light rubbing at corners.some spotting associated with the engravings marbled covers light rubbing. SCARCE in the complete 17 volume set and in lovely contemporary bindings. Bohn's Standard Library. Translated from the German. A heavy set please be advised added shipping charges will be requested for international orders. . Later Edition. Half Polished Calf. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. George Bell and Sons Hardcover books
1907008929Raleigh NC: North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey 1907. SCARCE in current commerce. xi 453 1 pages with 21 plates 16 of them color lithograph plates of fish and 188 figures in text. E.M. Uzzell and Co. Raleigh printers and binders. Very Good Plus no jacket bound in red cloth with gilt lettering. cloth a bit faded at bottom of spine light rubbing to boards interior clean bright and unmarked. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Small 4to. North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey Hardcover books
1936007846Novara Italy : Officine Dell'istituto Geografico De Agostini 1936. RARE. First and only edition of this children's alphabet book published specifically for Italian children living abroad intended to indoctrinate them in the strength and glories of Mussolini's Fascist government. Very Good foxing to blank paste downs boards rubbed at edges. Foreword by Piero Parini director for the Fascist flagship newspaper Il Popolo d'Italia and coordinator of Fascist organizations of the Italian diaspora. 88 pp. With striking modernist and cubist-inspired full-color illustrations every page by the poster artist C.V. Testi and poems by Vincenzo Fraschetti. RARE given the intended audience and the postwar drive to eliminate Fascist material especially from librairies. Worldcat shows 3 institutional holdings 2 in the US and 1 in Germany. . First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covered Boards. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Small 4to. Officine Dell'istituto Geografico De Agostini, Hardcover books
189444281New York: D. Appleton and Company 1894. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 17.5cm; flexible dark brown cloth boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; ii45-666pp ads. Light wear to extremities hint of softening to corners with a faint diagonal tear to rear pastedown; contemporary owners ink signature to front endpaper Gertrude H. Souther / March 1895 with holograph pencil notes relative to the weight of two babies on rear endpaper; Very Good. Influential manual for mothers and nurses by Holt 1855-1924 an American author physician and pioneer in the field of pediatrics who helped shape the New York Babies Hospital into the leading pediatric facility of its time. The book was expanded from Holt's Catechism for Nurses 1893 a pamphlet prepared for nursery-maids during their four months training at the Babies Hospital. "The nurses studied the catechism and when they graduated took it with them. There followed requests for copies from their employers and the supply was soon exhausted. It was apparent there was a popular demand for something of the kind. The catechism was expanded and in 1894 The Care and Feeding of Children made its appearance.Probably no one would have been more surprised than Dr. Holt or his publishers had they been told that they were launching a volume that was to go through seventy-five printings and which was to be translated into Spanish Russian and Chinese.The book became the mainstay of many a worried mother and exerted no inconsiderable influence on the profession as well for the practitioners had to keep abreast of the pediatric knowledge which the mothers possessed" DUFFUS R.L. L. Emmett Holt. NY 1940 pp.116-117. <br/><br/>Prior to the publication of The Care and Feeding of Children there was no standard text for pediatric care in print for laymen or medical professionals. A revolutionary volume written in clear simple language providing an orderly presentation of pediatric knowledge which empowered women to care for their children. A cornerstone work responsible for "lifting child sickness and care out of the neglect of the past" Dunn Peter M. "Dr. Emmett Holt 1855-1924 and the foundation of North American paediatrics." Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition 2000. Rare in the first edition; we find no copies for sale in trade May 2019 with the last copy at auction sold at the Streeter Sale. ATWATER 1743 citing the 1895 edition; STREETER 4159; Grolier American 100 97. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
1580046178Geneva: Johannes Laon 1580. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Half red morocco by Lhuinte light wear at edges and hinges first few and scattered other pages including title faded likely from being washed Some minor foxing and soiling. Several paper repairs to margins occasional small edge tears and few closed tears in text few holograph annotations hole in the eye of the Savonarola portrait on B3 with minor affect to text on verso small hole in text on C4 repaired paper loss with affect to border of Paulus Fagius portrait on G2. Still quite clean and attractive overall. 37 portraits and 54 frames with names for future portraits and 44 emblems at the rear. 318pp A mixture of Protestant biography and emblem book - one of the first uses of the emblem book for Reformation purposes the first was Montenay's Emblemmes ou devises Chrestiennes 1571. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046178. <br/><br/> Johannes Laon hardcover books
19133478Michigan 1913. Pebbled cloth ledger measuring 8 x 10 inches with boards rubbed and spine largely perished. Two contemporary black and white photos loosely inserted at rear with subjects unidentified. Comprised of a total of 200 manuscript pages in two hands -- 11 pages in the hand of Elijah W. Middaugh and the remaining 189 pages in the hand of his daughter Julia Edmunds Middaugh. Both leave their ownership inscriptions on the front endpaper with the latter notating that her writing picks up in 1913. A candid poetic and at times heartbreaking family history the present manuscript reveals a young woman grappling with her place in the world and seeking to create a sense of order in her own life by understanding and exerting narrative control over the unstable relationship of her parents. <br/><br/>Elijah affectionately called "Lege" by Julia later in the notebook was born into privilege as the son of a prominent Gross Pointe family. Educated at the University of Michigan and Harvard he also was under the tutelage of private instructors during a stretch in Europe. Disappointing the hopes of his own father a businessman he did not take to the workforce with aplomb. He struggled to maintain himself by selling travel stories and reports to the Detroit Free Press and was fiscally irresponsible. Initially his marriage to the working class widow Juddie Palmer Kelso seemed promising. The owner of a shop in Paw Paw Lake she seemed to provide the industriousness Elijah lacked. According to Julia "the first years of their lives were the happiest." She and her brother were born and her parents "bought a King 8 car and went traveling." Indeed this King 8 features prominently in Elijah's opening narrative wherein he records "My trip in a King Auto from Michigan to San Francisco." From its opening one gleans that Julia's later story is a mixture of fact and father worship. He writes "It was said by that great & good man Emerson that travel is the fool's paradise. Without desiring to offer my own experience in proof of this I may state that I have always found pleasure in traveling." And he scorns those travelers who do not get swept up in the romance of the road focusing instead on practicalities; "greenhorns" he calls them "who would ask how fast we could travel how much it cost per mile." Of course the trip in the end did cost the family greatly. He reports multiple breakdowns and flat tires as he tour goes on; and when his radiator fails he opts to buy a new car rather than wait for a replacement part. What's more Julia's version of the story includes a jarring fact: "It was while we were away on a trip to California that the house burned down. When my parents drove up to the lake that night cold and hungry and eager for home Lege turned the car up the lane and there in the blaze of the headlights stood the gray chimney the only remains of the life that had been."<br/><br/>Julia's longer narrative contains multiple such harrowing incidents. And while she at times praises her mother at one point she says Juddie has "more enterprise and natural courage commonly called guts than any woman I know" she frankly sees Juddie's lower class background as the root of her parents' problems and the ultimate reason for their divorce. Her father meanwhile she glorifies. Rather than focus on his failings as such she creates a hero's arc for him. He failed in business because "he was cut out to be a poet" rather than a captain of industry -- and it was a mark of his own superiority. Indeed she writes "he had a better education and his branch of the human race was a little more cultural." After her parents' split and her mother gaining custody Julia remarks "without father things just weren't the same."<br/><br/>Notably it is the women and the female communities Julia encounters in life that provide support and stability. She recounts that after the house fire her father's sister Clara takes the family into her Gross Pointe home. After the divorce when she discovers "mother and two dirty little kids with a forlorn story she said at once Juddie you'll have to come out with me." It is Clara and later the sisters in a convent where Julia goes to be educated that give the young woman space to process her family pains and reflect on how they shape her selfhood. <br/><br/>It is a unique densely written and research rich piece deserving of study. In addition to providing opportunities for genealogical research including Julia's forebears Emilie Eugene Maynard and Judge A.B. Maynard it has extensive details on early automobile road travel from the Midwest to the West Coast information on early divorce and custody including the impact on children and women's finances female communities and women-run businesses class conflict in marriage courtship and historical narrative studies both fiction and non-fiction performances. It poses a valuable opportunity to study how young women in an age of increased attention towards inequality and rights were affected. The extent to which Julia is independent and mobile links both to the women around her and to a larger movement; at the same time Julia is affected by traditional patriarchal narratives including popular novels that position gender family wealth and class as markers of superior morality. unknown books
1717E05562 volumes. 2865911 pages with 4 plates and index; 106786 pages with 4 plates one folding and index. Quarto 10" x 8" bound in half leather with raised spine bands in gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards. Streit-Dindinger VI 1418. Second edition of a 1689 history of missions to Japan prefaced with a general account of the country.<br /><br />Jean Crasset was an ascetical writer born at Dieppe France 3 January 1618 and died at Paris 4 January 1692. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1638 became professor of humanities and philosophy was director for twenty-three years of a famous sodality of men connected with the professed house of the Jesuits in Paris and was also a successful preacher. Crasset is the author of many ascetical works among which are:Methode d'oraison; Considérationes chrétiennes pour tous les jours de l'année; La chrétienne in soli tude; Dissertation sur les oracles des Sibylles which was vigorously attacked; Entretiens pour la jeunesse. He also published in 1689 a Historie de l'église du japon which has been translated into several languages but which is considered inferior to that of Charlevoix. Crasset's history was scarcely original for it was drawn in great part from the work which Father Solier had issued in 1627; he merely retouched the style and continued the narrative from 1624 to 1658. The objection is made that the work lacks precision is heavy and is crowded with details. The author attributed the origin of the persecution of 1597 to the imprudence of the friars in making their religious ceremonies public. There is a posthumous work of his entitled La foy victorieuse de l'infidélite et du libertinage. On 9 September 1656 the Bishop of Orléans issued an interdict against him for having in one of his sermons charged several ecclesiastics with sustaining the propositions condemned by the Bull of Innocent X Cum occasione 31 May 1653. The interdict was removed in the following February.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Nicely rebound in half leather. Contents toned and damp-stained St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on titles else a very good set. François Montalant hardcover books
