Aviation History / Promotional Booklet. Collyer Charles Bascom Drury 1898 1928. Mears John Henry.ABAA
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192838239New York: The Stillson Press 1928. 1st printing. Color pictorial paper wrappers stapled. Rear wrapper & inner front wrapper with adverts. Modest wear & a hint of age-toning to wrappers. A few leaves with top corner dog-eared. Withal a VG copy. 3 - 18 4 pp. Text double column. 4 pages of adverts conclude booklet. 16 Illustrations from b/w photographs. 2 page map at center depicting the "Route of the Collyer - Mears Record Breaking Flight Around the World." 11" x 8-1/2" <br/><br/>A special edition of "The Fairchild Aerogram" providing an account of the 1928 round the world trip made by Charles B.D. Collyer and John Henry Mears. OCLC records 6 holding institutions. The Stillson Press unknown books
1814007642London: Printed for R. Lea; J. Nunn; Lackington Allen and Co.; White Cochrane & Co.; J. Faulder; and J. Walker and Co. 1814. Two volumes bound as one xix lxxxiv 261 8 360. In early 20th century quarter buckram over brown cloth gilt lettering at spine Very Good small hole in buckram at spine end pages moderately foxed both volumes. Contents clean and unmarked a quite usable well-bound copy of this classic history. . First Thus. Quarter Leather. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Printed for R. Lea; J. Nunn; Lackington, Allen, and Co.; White, Cochrane & Co.; J. Faulder; and J. Walker and Co. Hardcover books
19751208815Washington D.C.: Freer/Smithsonian/University of Michigan 1975. First Edition. Quarto; 205pp; full tan cloth; no dustjacket as issued; light bumping and shelf-wear; contents clean and unmarked; profusely illustrated. volume 10 of the series dedicated to Professor Max Loehr. <br /> <p><br /> Shelve:<br><br /> HISTORY - CHINA<br /> <p><br /> Spine is beige cloth with black text. 1208815. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Freer/Smithsonian/University of Michigan unknown books
1994003228London: Merrell Holberton 1994. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket with a tiny rub at the bottom edge rear panel. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Merrell Holberton Hardcover books
1954005741New York: Oxford University Press 1954. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end page - " To Carl from Hellmut". Near fine slight soiling to fore edge in a Near Fine dust Jacket faded at spine light rubbing. The first study in English on how the Nazis and the Soviet Union used art for propaganda purposes during and after WW II. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Oxford University Press Hardcover books
1647046538Amsterdam: Elzevirium 1647. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Attractively rebound in modern full calf old ownership marks and a long pen mark to title modest foxing and age toning to pages clean overall and a nice copy. 8 80 192 119 1 60pp; 8 62 8pp. <br/> Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 046538. Elzevirium hardcover books
192220620Firenze: Tip. Barbera Alfani e Venturi 1922. Softcover. Very good. 6.75 x 9.25 in. 32 pp in photographically illustrated wrappers with 11 half-tone illustrations in the text. Light dust soiling wear to spine ends; very good. Describes the work of an asylum for war orphans opened in 1921 by the Florentine branch of the Associazione Nazionale Mutilati e Combattenti--an organization formed in the aftermath of World War I to assist those disabled or mutilated during the war. Illustrations show some of the facilities and groups of orphans who received education work experience and recreational opportunities and the final pages list individual and organizational donors to the institution. Not found in OCLC. Tip. Barbera, Alfani e Venturi paperback books
1982202761New Haven: Yale University Press 1982. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/no dust jacket. Previous owner's name stamped on front free endpaper. No pencil or ink markings in text. Boards clean; binding sound. Green cloth gilt lettering. ~. Very Good binding / no dust jacket. Yale University Press unknown books
195345293Worcester 1953. 1st Edition. Commercial metal snap-ring binder of black pebbled vinyl with gilt title lettering to front cover. Binder & photographs: Nr Fine. Text: age-toning Very Good. 14 single sheets with type-written double-space text to recto of each staple upper left. Text contains 4 different "pitches": "A Wind That Kindled A Spirit" 3 pp Untitled 2 pp "Our Lady Of The Tornado noted at top: 'For a Catholic Audience' 4 pp "A Revisit To Assumption College" 5 pp. Illustrated with 4 "before" images of the unharmed campus followed by 10 "after" views of the heavily damaged builidings. All photographs b/w 8" x 10". 4to. 11-5/8" x 9-7/8" <br/><br/>"Assumption College was founded in 1904 by the Augustinians of the Assumption a Catholic order under the Augustinian Rule dedicated to service through teaching and the hastening of the Kingdom of God as reflected in their motto "Thy Kingdom Come." The original campus was in the Greendale section of Worcester on a tract of hillside land. . In June 1953 a tornado cut a path of destruction through several western and central Massachusetts communities including the city of Worcester. Several campus buildings were destroyed or severely damaged." This portfolio binder of original photography undoubtedly assembled as a fundraising document to aid in the rebuilding of the campus following this devastating tornado assualt documents a significant mid-20th Century western Massachusetts disaster from which "the college relocated to a new campus off Salisbury Street on the west side of the city officially opening in 1956." Wiki. unknown books
1982204712San Francisco: San Francisco Lesbian & Gay History Project 1982. Twelve fliers 8.5x11 inch sheets various colors some printed both sides advertising a talk by Allan Berube on the topic at various locales including bookshops halls and churches in San Francisco Los Angeles Santa Rosa Oakland Portland and beyond. Nearly all the handbills have the same or similar images and text with only variant dates and locations and different colors yellow orange blue or white. San Francisco Lesbian & Gay History Project unknown books
199138115NY:: Routledge. Near Fine. 1991. Paperback. 0415040612 . A later paperback printing. Near fine in pictorial wraps. . Routledge, paperback books
200435677NY: Basic Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 046509063X . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Basic Books hardcover books
1974009611NY: Rand McNally 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. An apparently unused copy as new in fine dw. Rand McNally hardcover books
1924008248Paris: Société des Atlas Pittoresques éditions Attinger 1924. Four volumes bound in two books in publisher's original red embossed cloth gilt lettering marbled end papers. Each book running to 400 pp 800 pp. per volume. Each page with 3 or 4 black and white photographs many pages with maps. A massive undertaking covering every section of France. Very Good Plus cloth at spines a bit dulled wear to cloth at spine ends. Very heavy and oversize set that will require additional shipping charges for priority or international shipping - please inquire before ordering. . Second Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Société des Atlas Pittoresques ( éditions Attinger ), Hardcover books
6315CONGRESSO NAZIONALE DI STORIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA. ATTI DEL LO CONGRESSO.29- OTTOBRE 1936. Firenze: Sansoni 1938. Small 4to. Wrappers. iii-xxii 290 1 pages 50 plates. First edition. The conference papers include 14 articles on the dome in Italian architecture and 19 articles on the architecture of the Renaissance. Small water stain at foot of spine else very good. unknown books
1962M5970Torino:: Ospedale Maria Vittoria 1962. 1962. 249 x 176 mm. 8vo. 700 pp. Illus. list of participants. Printed wrappers. Unopened. Very good. Ospedale Maria Vittoria, (1962). unknown books
1958011723Bologna: Società Italiana Di Storia Della Medicina 1958. Torino 1-3 giugno 1957. 294p. b/w illus. original stiff wrappers. Società Italiana Di Storia Della Medicina unknown books
1969003601Roma: Società Internazionale Di Storia Della Medicina 1969. 2 vols. li 1824p. b/w illus. original stiff wrappers. Contains 208 papers in four languages. Società Internazionale Di Storia Della Medicina unknown books
1979M6355Casale Monferrato:: Societa Italiana di Storia della Medicina 1979. 1979. 240 x 163 mm. 8vo. vii 442 pp. Illus. Printed wrappers. Ownership rubber stamp on title. Very good. Societa Italiana di Storia della Medicina, 1979). unknown books
1957006306Melbourne Australia: Colorgravure Publications 1957. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase one corner of the slipcase with a tape mend. #4314 of an edition of presumably 5000copies. Profusely illustrated with both B&W and color photographs. 200 pp. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition. Colorgravure Publications Hardcover books
27881folio two pages of a four page bi-folium old folds in very good clean legible condition. Retained copy of orders marked "Most Secret" sent by Nepean Secretary to the Board of Admiralty to Samuel Hood Commander of forces on Barbados which read as follows: By the Commissioners for executing the Office Of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom Of Great Britain and Ireland &c. " In pursuance of the King's pleasure signified to us by the Rt. Honble Lord Hobart one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State; You are hereby required and directed to make such a disposition of the Force under your command as you may judge most adviseable with a view to the obstructing the arrival of any reinforcement of Troops at the French Islands within the limits of your Station and in the want of any attempt for that purpose you are to intimate to the officers in Command of such reinforcement that although he cannot be permitted to Land his Troops in any of the said Islands he is at liberty to proceed to any other station that he may judge most convenient. If notwithstanding such communication the officer in command of the French Armament should manifest an intention of proceeding to any of the said Islands he must be informed that Force will be resorted to to prevent his carrying such an intention into effect and if he should persist in his design you are in such case to take such measures as may be most effectual for detaining and bringing the said armament into some part of the British Islands there to remain until you shall receive Instructions for your farther proceedings. By Command of their Lordships Evan Nepean" <br /> books
18510291121851. Manuscript. Very Good. folio 2 pages on four page bi-folium old colds and creases remains of wafer postal markings and some soiling on integral address leaf else in very good clean legible condition. Lloyd in this letter writes his uncle asking for funds and is unable to find other employment. Lloyd had apparently been working for Rufus W. Bailey the American Colonization Society Agent in Virginia. Lloyd writes: "I hardly know how to begin writing but I am situated so that I cannot move at all. I have tried to get a situation here in place of the place but unsuccessfully and all because I am not a good writer & Bookkeeper. I feel very anxious indeed to get back to New York but Mr. Baily has no money to pay my expenses back and can not let me have it for 6 or 8 weeks. He is about sending a Ship of Emigrants to Liberia and is getting them down the Vally sic as fast as possible but they will not be ready to sail before October 1st. He then expects to have $ 1000 at last and more if he sends over 100 emigrants. He is obliged to pay all their expenses until they go and told me yesterday he could not possibly let me have a dollar until his ship has sailed." During the Liberian emigrant voyage discussed in this letter which sailed November 1 1851 on the Morgan Dix approximately 37 of the 149 passengers died on board ship or during the acclimation period in Africa. <br /> books
028874Manuscript. Very Good. quarto three page letter inscribed on a four page bi-folium formerly folded with splits along several folds remains of sealing wax Canton Michigan postal stamp else in good clean legible condition. An interesting letter with exceptional content on the election of 1840 and on the origin and significance of Harrison's Log Cabin and Hard Cider emblem: "I am pleased to hear of the zeal among the Whigs of V.T. I have great hopes of a favorable result. Your objection to the use we are making of the Log Cabin & Hard Cider emblem surprises me. I glory in it & deem that we are making just use of what was intended to sneer & ridicule us & our candidate. And besides it is a beautiful emblem of the purity & simplicity that should again prevail at the seat of Govt. where corruption riots in the treasury that are created by the tenants of Log Cabins. You must recollect that we are indebted to the Van Buren press for the watchword of L. Cabin & Cider. They said after the nomination in allusion to Harrison's imbecility & vanity that give him a pension of $ 2000 plenty of cider & a Log Cabin to live in & he would be contented - & again that the old ladies of Washington were making up a present of old clothes for him and requested contributions of old cloths shoes &c to send to the poor old General - such things were enough to arouse the feeling of every Whig & it has done so as well as many Democrats & when a whole nation are animated by the same feeling it must not be deemed "childish absurd ridiculous silly or immoral." And again the Whigs never wished to discuss or bring before the people his military life. It was forded upon them by wholesale charges of cowardice against Harrison" <br /> books
028875Manuscript. Very Good. quarto two pages inscribed on a four page bi-folium old folds and creases remains of sealing wax free frank and Schoolcraft Michigan postal stamp in good legible condition. Cobb writes to relatives back home with news from the West family news hard times and also touching upon political matters: "the times are said to be very hard produce very low money scarce so much for Vanburenism and Slavery and the Whigs are wide a wake for Harrison and Slavery and I am like old Billy Wood of two evils I choose neither. The Locofoco Dems & Whigs have almost ruined our country it is time to look out for honest men I am traveling a circuit this season there is a little moral virtue left in our country and much kneed sic of a general reform Death is at hand and we must get ready for it" <br /> books
27983folio two pages of a four page bi-folium some splits along folds remains of sealing wax on integral address leaf docketed "Jo Whipples Letter." In very good clean and legible condition. Joseph Whipple collector of customs at Portsmouth brother of General William Whipple 1730 - 1785 revolutionary War General and Signer from New Hampshire writes to John Langdon 1741 - 1819 Senator and first President pro-tem of the Senate thanking Langdon for his help and influence in obtaining a post in the new government and comments upon the recent establishment of the Federal court and judicial system. Langdon a Portsmouth native was the right person to ask as he was also a friend of the President George Washington. "Dear Sir I have the Honour this moment to receive your favour of the 5th & am much obliged by your kind assurances of attention to my business and also for having seasonably lodged my name with the President - I should have wrote now to him agreeably to your intimation but am discouraged from the consideration of his having no personal knowledge of me and that it might on that account appear and interested application which might operate to my disadvantage - and I conceive also that your influence with the President on which I have rested my expectation is such as I need wish no other. - But if you conceive that it would be of use to hand my name with your recommendation to Mr. Vice President to Mr. Morris Mr. R H Lee Mr. Dalton your Colleagues or others as you may think proper I should consider myself further & greatly obliged - but I think your interest requires no aid - as it will of course be represented by you that I am in the office of Colltr. - To some of the names that I have mentioned I am known - others of them were formerly either officially connected or intimately acquainted with my Brother on which account I should have applyd to them for their influence - I imagine also that all appointments will be completed tin a few days if not by this. - You will hear that the Judiciary bill is not relishd this way I have not seen it but think that the plan of one Judge to the District Court would be an objectionable one to most people in the Northern states - and the joining the Prov of Maine to N. H. districts no less so to N. H. - However the Acts may be finishd I hope & trust they will terminate in a system that will insure Peace and a happy Government." John Langdon brother of Woodbury Langdon was a merchant Delegate and Senator from New Hampshire. He was active and prominent supporter of the revolutionary movement member of the Continental Congress 1775-76 participated in the Battle of Bennington and commanded a company at Saratoga and in Rhode Island. Member of the State senate 1784 President of New Hampshire 1785 1788; again a member of the Continental Congress 1787 delegate to the Federal Constitutional Convention in 1787; member of the state ratifying convention elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4 1789 until March 3 1801. He was elected the first President pro tempore of the Senate on April 6 1789 in order that the Senate might organize to count the electoral vote for President and Vice President of the United States. American National Biography vol. 13 pp.138-139 Dictionary of American Biography vol. 5 pt. 2 pp. 587-588 <br /><br /> books
