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Nyiszli, Dr. Miklos; Bettelheim, Bruno [Foreword]; Kremer, Tibere; Seaver, Richard [Translators]MareMagnum

[CHINA -- CHINESE CIVIL WAR & MISSION BUILDING]. [GEBHARDT, Arnold; SIMON, Gertrude (Photographers); MUELLER, Reinhold "RJ" (PhoBiblio.com

Enshih formerly Shihnan picture album. Building Committee. . . ; Description of pictures by numbers. . . An outstanding photo album filled with numbered photographs together with descriptive list and introduction by Rev. Mueller assembled following the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod missionaries return to Shihnan station in the aftermath of the Communist-Nationalist Civil War 1927-1930.

193064035Enshih Shihnan Hubei China: R.J. Mueller Rev. Gebhardt Miss Simon LCMS ca. 1930-1937. Two vols. 1st - Oblong folio. 11.25 x 15 in. 48 pp unpaginated. thick black paper stock w/ 103 original silver gelatin photographs sized 2.75 x 3.5 in. all neatly numbered in ink MS at corners affixed to the leaves. Contemporary black flexible board post-binder punch-sewn & glued at spine in black paper paper title label partially torn on front cover Building Committee title label affixed to first page minor chipping edgewear to fore-edges some scuffing tidemark to fore-edges still a VG- exemplar w/ all images with bright strong contrast; 2nd - 4to. 8 leaves carbon copy typescript on onion-skin ruled paper some ink annotations corrections 1 pencil MS annotated correction still VG signed by R.J. Mueller on first leaf dated April 24 1937 from the library of David G. Kohl 1946-2025 former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School musician artist and historian. A remarkable photo album with images shot by three different Lutheran Church Missouri Synod LCMS missionaries in China along with the descriptive contents list compiled by Rev. R.J. Mueller detailing the purpose and composition. He writes that the Enshih Shihnan Mission had prepared three albums â€œone for the Mission Board one for the Building Committee of General Conference and one at the Enshih Station. The numbers all agree. However not all pictures listed appear in all books.â€ This â€œBuilding Committeeâ€ album was intended to focus primary on the structures homes chapels of the mission as well as surrounding areas and was intended to aid in speeding up communications for fundraising and building affairs issues as correspondents could then merely refer to the master list of numbers held by all three parties. Enshih China was one of the final mission stations established by the LCMS far from their other missions and when Gebhardt returned to Enshih following the Civil War in 1928 there was significant damage to the mission structures to be repaired. Looting by bandits and marauding soldiers had caused over $ 2000 in damage but was encouraged to find that the Lutheran evangelist Shen had continued the mission chapel school orphanage. He would later be joined by Mueller and others although primarily composed of Chinese Staff. These photos in the album includes views of Muellerâ€™s residence windows frames and gutters looted; screens torn doors boarded up as well as views of the native house and threshing floor adapted into an orphanage at Yao Wan after 1930. Several others show the extent of the protective walls built around the properties farm houses the gates as well as farms bridges and nearby fields at Enshih. Landmarks such as rocks shaped like Elephants in the river and Big and Little Hog creek below farmland. A very nice series of photos depict the Tsâ€™i Ts-ung-fu funeral the blind deaf and other orphans about 1931 as well as textiles drying in the sun. Other photos capture the Châ€™i-li-ping market fortune teller temple noodle stand and the Tâ€™ai shan shrine at Châ€™i-li-pâ€™ing. More photos depict Hu Ping-chih the orphanage secretary Yuen Ye-chih cashier in 1934 Hsieh Tâ€™i-ya seminary student who died later in 1937; along with the mission pulpit nearby streets and the rear view of the Yao Wan houses.Of additional interest are the images of the rugged roads to Liang Shui-chin the temple and steep steps drying opium in Kuan-pâ€™e which was a small town between the East Gate and Yao Wan before opium raising was banned in 1934; along with the nearby Châ€™ing-Ching Clear River at the high water stage the front of the True Light Chapel in 1934 as well as the gravestone of Mr. & Mrs. Wang Japanese-Lutherans who had died in 1930. The final photo No. 169 again shows the Clear River below the city. Mueller 1905-1998 graduated from seminary in 1929 and left for China with his wife Dorothy for the Evangelical Lutheran Foreign Mission Board returned briefly to the U.S. from 1937-1940 spent 1939-1942 teaching at a Lutheran seminary in China while being bombed by the Japanese and also served in Shanghai where he would supervise the Lutheran Hour and Lutheran Hour offices. Although he and his wife briefly returned to the United States in 1946 following World War II they subsequently served again in Shanghai China into the early years of Communist rule by Mao tse-tung before returning again to the U.S. See: David Kohl Lutherans on the Yangtze: A Hundred Year History of the Missouri Synod in China 2014 pp. 103 124 131 132 166 174 99-131. R.J. Mueller, Rev. Gebhardt, Miss Simon, LCMS, unknown

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Collection of Fifty-Two Manuscript Newark City Council Resolutions on the Civil War

186110065752 folded and docketed uniform manuscript resolutions mostly 4to typically written on one side and docketed on the back includes a contemporary cover sheet that originally held resolutions together two small pictures of Lincoln and Grant included housed in modern photo album. A few with folds at the top and minor chips normal aging and browning; overall in very good condition. These resolutions were passed by the Public Aid Committee which was created by the Newark City Council at the beginning of the Civil War to advance money to soldiers' families. These resolutions would then be given to a clerk for filing. This clerk seems to have had strong anti war or Copperhead sympathies and gradually began editorializing as he wrote out the docketing on the back of each folded document. He titled the 31 March 1862 resolution "For aid to families. in the war to abolish slavery." On 2 September it was "the war for the ruin of the country." On 26 November it became "the Negro War" and 2 December it says "the Army of Abm. Lincoln to subjugate the Southern States." This obscure city clerk took things a step further after the Emancipation Proclamation. On 4 February 1863 he titled a resolution "In aid of families of volunteers. in the Nigger War!" He must have been spoken to after this remark because he drifts into sarcasm rather than outright racism. In a later resolution he states "for the benefit of our coloured fellow citizens of African decent." However by 14 September 1863 he was back to his old tricks again referring to "Lincoln's nigger war." He continued his editorializing through June 1864. These docketed resolutons were found in the included wrapper on which a a Union soldier later wrote: "The name if it can be found out of the miserable traitor who booked the within resolutions should go down in posterity as one who should receive the contempt of loyal men." The name of that Union soldier appears to be Major W. W. Morris.

Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints · États-Unis2 750,00 $US≈ 2 326,78 €

[Con Artists - Cartography - War Correspondence - California] De Beaufort, Jack or JacquesBiblio.com

Collection of Maps Diaries Manuscripts and Photographs Documenting the Life and Work of the Con Artist War Correspondent and Cartographer Jack or Jacques de Beaufort aka â€œThe Dude Reporterâ€ with a Focus on His Cartographic and Literary Activities in Mid-Century Los Angeles

1950List2425Europe and California 1950. Includes two small diaries from 1901 and 1917 with sporadic entries a large photo album measuring 14 x 11 with appx. 400 small photographs from 1906-1909 attached to album pages most measuring 3 x 2 as well as a few larger format images laid in. With 100 plus pages of typed pages including retained correspondence story ideas and various other manuscripts. With eleven maps produced for his â€œOf Men and Mapsâ€ series including five copies of a large map entitled â€œWhither Russiaâ€ in varied states and in large sizes up to 30 by 36 inches and a handful of small ephemeral pieces. Generally near fine condition with the exception of the album which is missing its rear board and has some pages loose and torn. Very Good. J.M. de Beaufort a war correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph and New York American during World War I recounted his wartime adventures in the 1917 book "Behind the German Veil: A Record of a Journalistic War Pilgrimage." Originally arriving in Chicago in 1909 he married a steel magnate's daughter and pursued a career in show business. However by 1912 he had gone through a divorce and transitioned to newspaper work earning the moniker of the "Dude Reporter." Originally born in the Netherlands as Jacques Albert Uilenbroek he was thought to be a deserter. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States apparently jailed in San Francisco for a stint in the 1920s and eventually settled in Los Angeles. Offered here is an interesting smattering of material from the life of the mysterious De Beaufort which bookends his most unusual career and life with a large visual photographic record of his life in Europe as a young man and over a hundred pages of manuscript material from late in his life with a highlight being several maps in draft form for an apparently unpublished project called â€œOf Men and Maps.â€ As a group the material shows the work of an ex-con artist and war correspondent trying to regain his form while living in Los Angeles. He was still writing as a â€œSpecial Correspondentâ€ at this point though the title seems to have been fully honorary. Also included are two small pocket journals with sporadic notations from his life in Europe in 1900 and in 1917. In its entirety the group gives an interesting visual and manuscript record of a literary fraudulent and imaginative transatlantic life and intellect. The cartographic highlight of the group is several iterations of a large map called â€œWhither Russiaâ€ in varied forms which show an interesting interpretation of the sphere of influence of the USSR and its growth from 1939 to 1946. Also included are two drafts of a map of Operation Market-Garden in the Netherlands in 1944 an unidentifed tactical map of a military battlefield a map called â€œMiddle East Jackpotâ€ showing the division of territory between the Allied and Axis powers a map called â€œDawnâ€™s Early Light some reproduced small format maps from the De Beaufortâ€™s and a small map called â€œGifts from Yalta.â€ De Beaufort was working on these maps for a column called â€œOf Men Maps and Memoriesâ€ that was published in the East Los Angeles Tribune. He also sent the columns out in newsletter form from his address at 1635 N. Ogden Drive in Los Angeles. The collection of manuscripts drafts and retained correspondence tackle a range of subjects perhaps most interestingly those detailing De Beaufortâ€™s creative process - drafts of stories lists of ideas for stories and letters. His over the top style is on display in a lot of the writings some of which are of unknown origin and purpose. The documents contain correspondence between De Beaufort and Edwin Pauley the oil man and presidential advisor. In one untitled essay he asks himself the question â€œWhat has been your most thrilling experienceâ€ and his reply is â€œ Silly questions. Who or at least what newspaperman of some 25 turbulent years standing - and falling - could answer such a question. A reporterâ€™s life has a thousand thrills. There was that rainy day in Marcy 1915 in the fortress of Loetzen when I stood face to face with Hindenburg. Hm yes that was quite a thrillâ€¦â€ De Beaufort was entrenched in the Los Angeles journalistic scene at this point and the documents show the degree to which he relied on his former glories to attempt various career revitalizations endeavors. The album of photographs from 1906-1909 over 400 in total give a visual record of the young Uilenbroekâ€™s life in Europe. The star of the collection is his bulldog Bob who travels throughout Europe with him and eventually comes to America by 1907. Mary who we presume to be his future wife is featured heavily in the images. It is unclear whether he was working at this point the images show affluent young people and their dog in varied cities and are purely of a personal nature. Other photographs laid in are relics from his war correspondent period. The loose photographs and ephemera are a mix of portraits from different periods from his life including two pictures of Sydney Turing Barlow Lawson one signed by his widow. The journals are sporadically filled and hard to decipher though one legible passage says â€œdrinking all day.â€ Overall the group gives evidence of this intriguing life and is the only extant group of material relating to Beaufort to our knowledge with the exception of a single journal from his time in Belgium during WWI that was sold at Bonhams and is still available in the trade as of this writing. unknown

Auger Down Books · États-Unis2 750,00 $US≈ 2 326,78 €

[Mexican Border War - Cartography - Personal Narratives] Gaffney, Samuel; Rice, CA, et al C ABiblio.com

Scrapbook Documenting the Mexican Border Service Campaigns of 1916-1917 with an Unrecorded Map of the Campaign in Hidalgo County in 1916

1917List2530VP 1917. Scrapbook measuring 15 Â½ x 10 Â½ inches. With forty leaves most with newspaper clippings and varied ephemera attached. Boards detached contents generally fine. Laid in is a blueprint map entitled Map of Part of Hidalgo County Texas Showing Line of March in my Mexican Border Service 1916. Made from Survey Notes taken on the march by Corp. C.A. Rice 74 Inf. N.G.U.S. Buffalo N.Y. Armory. Map measuring 33 Â½ x 14 Â¾ inches irregularly shaped and apparently complete. Very Good. A scrapbook documenting the military service of 1st Sergeant Samuel Gaffney of the 74th National Guard New York in the Mexican Border Service. Gaffney documents the campaign in great detail through printed matter - with each of the forty leaves containing material affixed including panoramic photographs advertisements from local businesses along the routes programs from entertainment offered to the troops military orders and official correspondence and many affixed newspaper articles and photographs. The scrapbook is most notable for the inclusion of an unrecorded map by Charles A. Rice the Buffalo native who would eventually map the campaign in larger fashion in a map entitled Map Showing Lines and March and Border Patrols in my Mexican Border Service 1916-1917. The map here just showing the route through Hidalgo County is unrecorded. The larger map - which was produced as souvenirs for the other members of the 74th - is quite scarce as well with five copies known to exist per OCLC with two different numbers. This blueprint map which appears to be complete cartographically and missing only the ornamental border on one portion shows the route taken early in the campaign in 1916. The Buffalo native Rice 1885-1931 who would eventually settle in Texas after the conflict also wrote a history of the 74th during the campaign. Rice published the maps and memoir himself. The map shows the route in great detail showing the location of wells farms roads and identifying landowners. Water quality and abundance is understandably a common theme in Riceâ€™s notes. Some notes show the location of bandits smugglers and the like. We find no other examples of blueprint maps by Rice. Other highlights from the scrapbook include seven panoramic photographs of the 74th encamped at Pharr; a broadside advertisement for the shop of Agustin Acevedo in Pharr listing prices of goods; a handbill advertising the 74thâ€™s Minstrels and Great Entertainment show on September 16 1916; an advertisement for a production entitled Glorious Liberty at the National Theatre in Pharr; two circulars instructing troop movement issued by Headquarters Brownsville District; several postcards with songs about the campaign; several snapshots; a mounted albumen photograph of troops at rest with the notation â€œCorp Frederick Paidâ€ verso; a typed poem entitled â€œHome Againâ€ and a notebook page describing his activities from January 1917 onward; and a thanksgiving menu for 1916 for the holiday spent at Pharr. The remainder of the scrapbook is composed of affixed newspaper clippings which provide extensive information on the 74th collected in a single volume. Overall a significant scrapbook with much information to glean for students of the 74thâ€™s activities with the map providing a unique cartographic reference of the early days of the campaign. unknown

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Carter Solon A.: African Americana: Civil WarABAA

HEAD QUARTERS 3d DIVISION 18th CORPS D'ARMEE. GENERAL ORDERS No. 15

1864WRCAM55912Camp Hamilton Va 1864. 1p. on an octavo sheet. Faint tideline to upper left corner. Near fine. An important order announcing equal pay for "colored troops" in the Union Army issued by Capt. Solon Carter on behalf of Gen. E.W. Hinks. This is a field press printing of one of Hinks' earliest and most consequential orders upon taking command of 3rd Division of the 18th Corps of the Union Department North Carolina composed entirely of United States Colored Troops U.S.C.T. This order was issued over a month before Congress finally authorized equal pay for U.S.C.T. troops on June 15 1864. Until then black soldiers were paid $7 per month plus $3 for clothing while white soldiers earned $13. The order begins: "Soldiers of the Republic! At last justice has been awarded you by the representatives of the nation in Congress and you stand before the law upon an equality with your heretofore move favored fellow soldiers of the North." One of Hinks' other early orders was to appoint Carter then captain of Company G 14th New Hampshire Volunteers as Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers and Aide-de- Camp to Hinks. Carter later served on the staff of Gen. Charles J. Paine 3rd Division 25th Corps. For his service and bravery he was breveted Major and then Lieutenant Colonel at the end of the war. In 1900 at a meeting of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of Massachusetts Carter presented a paper titled "Fourteen Months' Service with Colored Troops" in which he praised the service of the U.S.C.T.: "The object of the present paper is to tell in simple language without exaggeration or embellishment the story of what the Colored Division of the Eighteenth Corps did and how they did it throwing here and there a side light upon previous descriptions of their deeds of valor and heroism. That the lights are of such exceedingly limited power must be attributed to the fault of the instrument rather than lack of loyalty to the memory of the gallant officers and brave men living and dead whose acts are commemorated." Carter went on to describe their role in the Bermuda Hundred Campaign leading up to the Siege of Petersburg and how they earned the respect and admiration of their fellow white soldiers. The United States Colored Troops were regiments in the Army composed primarily of African-American soldiers although members of other minority groups also served including Native Americans Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans. By the end of the Civil War U.S.C.T. regiments constituted about one-tenth of the Union Army although they had a casualty rate about thirty-five percent higher than white Union troops. The U.S.C.T. fought with distinction: fifteen U.S.C.T. soldiers received the Medal of Honor among numerous other awards. In July 1862 Congress passed the Confiscation Act freeing slaves whose owners were in rebellion against the United States and then the Militia Act of 1862 empowered the president to use former enslaved men in any capacity in the army. Lincoln opposed early efforts to recruit black soldiers although he approved of the army using them as paid workers. However once he issued the Emancipation Proclamation recruitment of African Americans became widespread. On May 22 1863 the War Department issued General Order 143 establishing the Bureau of Colored Troops to better facilitate the recruitment and mustering of African-American soldiers. Regiments of infantry cavalry engineers light artillery and heavy artillery units were recruited from all states of the Union. 175 regiments totaling more than 178000 "colored" soldiers served during the last two years of the war. U.S.C.T. regiments were led by white officers and rank advancement was limited for black soldiers with very few receiving commissions. The courage displayed by black troops during the war played an important role in African Americans gaining new rights after the war. In his speech "Should the Negro Enlist in the Union Army" delivered at National Hall Philadelphia on July 6 1863 Frederick Douglass stated: "Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter U.S. let him get an eagle on his button and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship." Douglass was a prominent supporter of recruitment for the U.S.C.T. and Douglass' two sons Lewis and Charles were two of the first to enlist in Massachusetts. We could find only two copies of this general order held in institutions: Hampton History Museum and the University of Rochester. An important early step on the road to racial equality in the United States armed forces. OCLC 1101179313. Solon A. Carter "Fourteen Months' Service with Colored Troops" in CIVIL WAR PAPERS READ BEFORE THE COMMANDERY OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION OF THE UNITED STATES Boston: F.H. Gilson 1900 vol. 1 pp.155-179. hardcover books

William Reese Company · États-Unis2 750,00 $US≈ 2 326,78 €

Civil WarABAA

Collection of Fifty-Two Manuscript Newark City Council Resolutions on the Civil War

Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints · États-Unis2 750,00 $US≈ 2 326,78 €

Civil War: Harrison Samuel Rev.ABAA

ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH OF REV. SAMUEL HARRISON CHAPLAIN OF THE FAMED 54th MASSACHUSETTS COLORED INFANTRY

1865WRCAM55438N.p. likely Boston 1865. Albumen photograph 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches mounted on card. Moderate fading a bit of spotting in the image. Verso darkened from exposure to wooden backing now removed from backing and period frame backing tape still attached to verso along top edge. Remnants from previous mat at top edge. Good and a worthy candidate for professional conservation. An apparently unrecorded image of Rev. Samuel Harrison a former slave and fierce abolitionist who served as Chaplain of the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry the famous Civil War regiment of U.S. Colored Troops. Colonel Robert Gould Shaw led the 54th Mass. Regiment the second unit of colored troops formed by the Union Army but ultimately the most famous all-black infantry unit to fight in the Civil War as seen in the film GLORY. After Shaw was killed at the Battle of Fort Wagner Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew recommended that Rev. Samuel Harrison serve as Chaplain to help the unit's morale. Harrison accepted and was also instrumental in getting equal pay for black soldiers. Harrison's demand that he receive the same pay as white chaplains led Gov. Andrew and United States Attorney General Edward Bates to write letters to President Lincoln to end the discriminatory practice of unequal pay among white and black soldiers in the Union army. In June 1864 legislation requiring equal pay for black units retroactive to January 1864 was passed in the Army appropriations bill. Images of Rev. Samuel Harrison are rare and online exemplars seem to vary widely. The present example appears to be a much younger version of Rev. Harrison compared to the image of him at age eighty-one held by the Samuel Harrison House. Here he also appears to be wearing a chaplain's uniform indicating this is a wartime or near-wartime image of him. The verso of the photograph has a penciled note reading: "Rev Samuel Harrison 54th Mass." unknown books

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Civil War: PennsylvaniaABAA

MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT BOOK SPANNING THE LENGTH OF THE CIVIL WAR FOR COMPANIES C AND D OF THE 52nd PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY REGIMENT

1865WRCAM55621Various locations in Pennsylvania Virginia and South Carolina 1865. 21987pp. Large folio. Contemporary three-quarter maroon calf and black cloth boards gilt spine titles reading: "PENN. CLOTHING BOOK COS. C & D 52nd INFANTRY P. & P. OFFICE." Spine partially split chipped and rather worn; boards soiled edges and corners worn. Binding a bit tender and bowed. Scattered occasional soiling and foxing to text. Good. A voluminous manuscript account book used to track the clothing and equipment transmitted to the soldiers of two companies of the 52nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment between 1861 and 1865. The meticulous records herein provide significant research material on the outfitting of Civil War troops and show that an army marches not just on its stomach but on its shoes and clothing as well. The majority of the entries relate to clothing including shorts pants coats caps blouses shoes socks and other materials needed by the Civil War foot soldier on the move during the conflict. Equipment listed here includes haversacks and blankets among other items. Each page is dedicated to a single soldier whose name company enlistment location and enlistment date are all recorded in the pre-printed form at top with various line items their costs the rank of the soldier and his signature recorded in the body of the ledger-like account book. Often accounts are noted as settled either before discharge or by death or desertion. Over two-thirds of the entries pertain to Company C of the 52nd Infantry. Importantly in addition to equipment and clothing the account book also records transfers death discharges and desertions. The first five entries for example provide a snapshot of the fates of various soldiers. The first soldier is noted as discharged with the last date of equipment listed as February 28 1862. The second and third soldiers were both "Killed in action at Fair Oaks Va." aka the Battle of Seven Pines May 31 - June 1 1862. The fourth soldier was discharged sometime after June 1862. And the fifth soldier "Died from wounds" after May 18 1862. Others here are noted as "Died from Disease" "Died of wound received by accident" and "Supposed to be killed by the explosion of the Gun Boat Mound City." The 52nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was an important unit during the Civil War. The regiment formed in the late summer and early fall of 1861. They were assigned to the Peninsula Campaign in March 1862 and swiftly saw action at the Battle of Williamsburg and the Battle of Seven Pines also known as the Battle of Fair Oaks which is the name used for the soldiers recorded as dying there in the present account book. The regiment then moved to South Carolina at least one soldier in the present account book enlisted there and by mid-summer they were in Charleston to witness the ill-fated Battle of Fort Wagner. For the remainder of 1863 and most of 1864 the regiment moved around South Carolina until participating in the occupation of Charleston in February 1865. Afterwards the regiment joined Sherman's march through the South and some of the regiment ended the war in North Carolina where they witnessed the final surrender of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. A valuable and research-worthy record of Civil War service covering the span of the conflict filled with unique information on the ground level needs of the Union foot soldier. hardcover books

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United States War Department Proteus Court of InquiryBiblio.com

Proceedings of the "Proteus" Court of Inquiry on the Greely Relief Expedition of 1883

1884E087321-3101-265 pages with 6 folding maps 7 photo-lithographs on 4 plates and appendix containing correspondence relating to the Lady Franklin bay expedition 1881-83 and index. Royal octavo 9 1/2" s 6 1/4" bound in half leather with five raised spine bands and gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards. Senate Executive Document 100 48th Congress 1st Session. First edition.The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881–1884 a.k.a. the Greely Expedition to Lady Franklin Bay on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic was led by Lieutenant Adolphus Greely and was promoted by the United States Army Signal Corps. Its purpose was to establish a meteorological-observation station as part of the First International Polar Year and to collect astronomical and magnetic data. During the expedition two members of the crew reached a new Farthest North record but of the original twenty-five men only seven survived to return.The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition was led by Lieutenant Adolphus W. Greely of the Fifth United States Cavalry with astronomer Edward Israel and photographer George W. Rice among the crew of twenty-one officers and men. They sailed on the ship Proteus and reached St. John's Newfoundland in early July 1881. Proteus arrived without problems at Lady Franklin Bay by August 11 dropped off men and provisions and left. In the following months Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood and Sergeant David Legge Brainard achieved a new Farthest North record at 83°24′N 40°46′W off the north coast of Greenland.By summer of 1882 the men were expecting a supply ship from the south. Neptune laden with relief supplies set out in July 1882 but cut off by ice and weather Captain Beebe was forced to turn around prematurely. All he could do was leave some supplies at Smith Sound in August and the remaining provisions in Newfoundland with plans for their delivery the following year.In 1883 new rescue attempts by Proteus commanded by Lieutenant Ernest Albert Garlington and Yantic commanded by Commander Frank Wildes failed with Proteus being crushed by pack ice. In the summer of 1883 in accordance with his instructions for the case of two consecutive relief expeditions not reaching Fort Conger Greely decided to head South with his crew. It had been planned that the relief ships should depot supplies along the Nares Strait around Cape Sabine and at Littleton Island if they were unable to reach Fort Conger which should have made for a comfortable wintering of Greely's men. But with Neptune not even getting that far and Proteus sunk in reality only a small emergency cache with 40 days worth of supplies had been laid at Cape Sabine by Proteus.When arriving there in October 1883 the season was too advanced for Greely to either try to brave the Baffin Bay to reach Greenland with his small boats or to retire to Fort Conger so he had to winter on the spot.In 1884 Secretary of the Navy William E. Chandler was credited with planning the ensuing rescue effort commanded by Cdr. Winfield Scott Schley. While four vessels—USS Bear USS Thetis HMS Alert and Loch Garry—made it to Greely's camp on June 22 only seven men had survived the winter. The rest had succumbed to starvation hypothermia and drowning and one man Private Henry had been executed on Greely's order for repeated theft of food rations. Of the seven rescued Joseph Elison died on July 8 following multiple amputations. The relief party arrived at St. John's Newfoundland on July 17 1884 from which the news was telegraphed throughout the States and a sketched portrait of the members of the Greely Expedition both living and dead was published. After a stay of ten days the ships left for New York.Condition: Rebound in period binding with refreshed end papers else very good. Government Printing Office hardcover

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Auschwitz - A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

Histoire de la Révolution d'Amérique, par rapport à la Caroline méridionale. Traduite de l'anglois

De Bello Iudaico Libri Septem Contra Apionem Libri Duo, De Imperio Rationis sive, De Machabeis Liber Unus.EIVSDEM Contra Apionem libri duo, Deimperio rationis: fiue, de MACHABEIS liber unus.

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LE FORTIFICATIONI NUOVAMENTE RISTAMPATE, CORRETTE & AMPLIATE DI TUTTO QUELLO CHE MANCAVA PER LA LOR COMPITA PERFETTIONE, CON L'AGGIUNTA DEL SESTO LIBRO.

Recueil de toutes les troupes qui forment les armées françoises. 150 planches. Dessiné et illuminé d’après nature.

WORLD WAR I Scrapbook with Over 100 handwritten Original Poems Drawings and Paintings

Official List of Officers who marched with the Army under the Command of Major General Winfield Scott from Puebla upon the City Of Mexico . and who were engaged in the battles of Mexico

Collection of Fifty-Two Manuscript Newark City Council Resolutions on the Civil War

Company Clothing Manuscript Account Book.

The Confederate Soldier; Being a Memorial Sketch of George N. and Bushrod W. Harris Privates in the Confederate Army

Collection of Maps Diaries Manuscripts and Photographs Documenting the Life and Work of the Con Artist War Correspondent and Cartographer Jack or Jacques de Beaufort aka â€œThe Dude Reporterâ€ with a Focus on His Cartographic and Literary Activities in Mid-Century Los Angeles

Scrapbook Documenting the Mexican Border Service Campaigns of 1916-1917 with an Unrecorded Map of the Campaign in Hidalgo County in 1916

HEAD QUARTERS 3d DIVISION 18th CORPS D'ARMEE. GENERAL ORDERS No. 15

Collection of Fifty-Two Manuscript Newark City Council Resolutions on the Civil War

ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH OF REV. SAMUEL HARRISON CHAPLAIN OF THE FAMED 54th MASSACHUSETTS COLORED INFANTRY

MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT BOOK SPANNING THE LENGTH OF THE CIVIL WAR FOR COMPANIES C AND D OF THE 52nd PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY REGIMENT

A Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America

Proceedings of the "Proteus" Court of Inquiry on the Greely Relief Expedition of 1883

Nutuk. [PROTOCOL COPY].

ALGÉRIE HISTORIQUE, PITTORESQUE ET MONUMENTALE. Recueil de vues, monuments, cérémonies, costumes, armes et portraits dessinés d’après nature, avec texte descriptif des localités, mœurs, usages, jeux et divertissements des habitants de l’Algérie.

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The Northampton Mercury 1812/1813/1814/1815.

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