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17861008004 page letter sheet I pp of text 13 lines of test signed and mailed remnant of wax seal labeled duplicate docketed on last page. Legible probably a second copy made for legal purposes signed by author some wear at folds and some staining second sheet split and cracked a bit but text page in very good condition. Interesting letter that appears to have the wrong date on the front page. What appears to be January 20 1706 should read January 20 1786 according to the docketted date on the last page. The letter is written by Stephen Lush 1753-1825 to Jellis Jacob Fonda 1751-1839. It relates to taxes on land in New York owned jointly by Lush and Fonda. John Lansing an attorney and former delegate to the Constitutional Convention seems to have resquested the payment of one shilling per acre on the 40000 of acres they own jointly. Provides some interesting content on land taxation for the period. Lush practiced law in Albany until the War for Independence; he was commissioned a captain and saw action in New York City but was captured by the British. Major Fonda was considered one of the first patriots of Schenectady and after Lexington he formed a company of Minutemen. He fought in the Campaign against Burgoyne and at the Battle of Bemis Heights. Fonda organization website. ny education government website. books
4713REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA LETTER. ALS. 2pg. 7 ¼†x 9â€. Kingston Jamaica. An autograph letter signed “Joram Place†from Jamaica to his wife. Joram Place was a Newport Rhode Island sailor. He wrote some spelling had been corrected to make reading easier: “I have taken this opr'tunity to Informe you the good State of my helth and well-feare since the Last hoping they may find you in the same good helth with God's blessing and all the familey and you may Exspect to see me please God in the Spring please God. My vessel saild last Sunday for the Spanish Main his voyege will be 3 months I presume and there will come sum part of North America But you will keep your one secrets as I shall not come in the harbour with the vessel as I exspect. She must go to New Found Land. I have had trouble enough here by Reason of sum friends of myne and my owners going home from here as I have been Informed By others and that and the troublesum times here and there has detaind me so long here as the owners Did not Let me know whether they would take…ports of the vessel. I could not run the risk of being taking for here is Capt. Bull of Rhod. Island and 5 others vessells now lying at port. Ryal pryses and the Captns Conferr'd onboard the admiral. I have sent by Capt. Reminton a watch which he will Deliver to you if he gets safe home.†The letter has the usual aging and is in fine condition. unknown books
1618106380<p>Entire issue small folio 8 1/2" x 11 1/2" removed disbound 473-480 pp. slight offsetting A few small holes affecting a few letters some aging and browning; otherwise about very good. At the Battle of Camden in South Carolina the Americans suffered a major defeat at the hands of the British. The British General Cornwallis defeated the American General Gates on August 16 1780 causing the American to lose 2000 men in the process. Despite its publication in a London newspaper this is an American account of the Battle of Camden which includes a letter from General Gates. history american-revolution/battle-of-camden website. </p> books
1791104028<p>A one page partially printed and manuscript folio sheet 13" x 8 1/4" considerable manuscript text on the reverse. Some browning and aging a few tiny chips or holes at folds top edge with a couple of nicks; otherwise very good. This document basically transfers pay owed to William Champlin of Rensselaer County New York who served under Colonel Robert Elliot to a Samuel Dorrance of Providence Rhode Island. Champlin appears to appoint Dorrance as his substitute to collect the balance of fourteen pounds fifteen shillings and five pence. The document is signed by various others. There is a fair amount of manuscript text on the reverse which appears to transfer the debt to at least one additional person. Â Provenance: The Calvin Otto Collection. </p> books
1781104027<p>One page folio sheet 15" x 9" docketed about ten short lines of text. Some aging and browning folds; otherwise very good or better. This is a manuscript document for payment to the Wethersfield Connecticut Selectmen for payment for clothing and the transportation of clothing and some other items to the Continental Army dated "March 5th 1781." The amount of the request is two hundred ninety-two pounds eighteen shillings and five pence. The document is signed by George Stanley and is docketed on the reverse as paid signed by a S. Hubbard. Provenance: The Calvin Otto Collection. </p> books
194115755Garden City: Garden City Pub. Co 1941. 8vo Pp. 534. Garden City Pub. Co unknown books
1782WRCAM56168Augsburg 1782. Handcolored engraving 11 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches. Some light soiling and tanning. Near fine. Matted. An attractive and well-preserved contemporary print by German engraver Johann Martin Will with delicate hand-coloring depicting the British and French fleets in combat formation during the Battle of the Saintes also known as the Battle of Dominica/Bataille de la Dominique. Britain's victory over the French navy in April 1782 effectively ended French control of the Caribbean. The engraving depicts over eighty ships which are keyed for identification in captions in German below the image. The upper middle ground depicts Rodney's flag ship "Formidable" and two supporting vessels attacking and breaking the French line. Among the many other ships identified are the flagship of the French admiral Comte de Grasse's "Ville de Paris" here identified as "Stadt Paris" as well as Sir Francis Samuel Drake's division Admiral Samuel Hood's division and the Prince George which according to this account broke its main mast while breaking the line. Also depicted is the French fleet's attempt to reestablish the line in which they have little luck as ships were already starting to flee. <br> <br> The battle was named after the Saintes a group of islands between Guadeloupe and Dominica in the West Indies. The year before the French fleet under de Grasse had decisively defeated the British fleet in the Battle of the Chesapeake and then blockaded the coast until Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown helping to secure American victory in the Revolution. This time the British fleet soundly defeated the French capturing the flagship and de Grasse the first French admiral in history to be captured by an enemy and inflicting significant causalities. This emboldened the British in the ongoing negotiations with the Americans and French as well as in ongoing conflicts with Spain. The French-American alliance effectively dissolved and Britain reaffirmed its claims on the Newfoundland fisheries and Canada. Further the French and Spanish abandoned their planned invasion of Jamaica focusing instead on protecting their existing holdings. <br> <br> Johann Martin Will 1727-1806 was a prominent engraver and publisher in Augsburg who specialized in producing images for the British and American markets. A most uncommon image of an important naval battle in the West Indies. unknown books
1862280305Richmond: Richmond Examiner 1862. unbound. very good. 2 pages of text on a single sheet 23 inches x 16 inches. Folded down the center and twice across the sheet. Richmond: Richmond Examiner 1862. Very good<br/><br/> On the front page is an extensive article on the Confiscation Act of 1862 and its passage by Congress. Included in the article is the text of Abraham Lincoln's Message on the act's constitutionality. The Confiscation Act gave legal authority to courts to implement the legal seizure of land and property from citizens who aided the Confederacy. Also in the act was a clause allowing emancipation of slaves in the Confederacy that lived in areas of Union occupation. Most of the rest of the text on both pages are small articles on Civil War battles and political news in the Confederacy. The publisher of the Richmond Examiner became anti-Jefferson Davis' political and military actions as the Civil War progressed.<br/><br/> Richmond Examiner unknown books
188658867Baton Rouge LA 1886. Estate papers. Folio 4to and 12mo. Eight pages of manuscript plus the invitation. One of the manuscript items is quite worn otherwise a very good lot. #5567. <br/><br/> unknown books
1846GG01498Cadiz:: Imprenta de D. Jose Maria Ruiz 1846. 1846. Small 4to. 252 5 pp. Title vignette; scattered foxing. Original quarter black cloth red decorative boards gilt spine title; extremities quite worn. Two rubber-stamps on title; pencil doodles on ffep. Very rare. First edition. Early work on public health in Cadiz Spain offering a discussion of hygiene for the public and private sectors. Antonio Rodriguez Guerra fl. ca. 1840 was also the author of a dictionary Medico-Vulgar o sea la Medicina Según el Vulgo Puerto de Santa Maria Imp. B. Núnez 1841. Selected contents: Of fruits flowers vegetables roots pp.106-7; mushrooms p.108; alcoholic spirits & cider p.136; coffee & chocolate p.139; enemas p.152; of opiates tooth powders and mouthwashes pp. 155-156; suppositories p.153; saliva p.154; relating to hygiene and pregnancy p. 230; another on the effects of "abuse" in copulation and hygienic rules for the same p. 192; influence of exercise on some functions & hygiene p.183. WorldCat locates only one copy: Ministerio de Cultura Madrid Spain. Imprenta de D. Jose Maria Ruiz, 1846. hardcover books
2004186362Schiffer Publishing Ltd 2004-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Dust jacket and book are clean has a very good binding no marks or notations. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd hardcover books
52697Album of 143 silver gelatin photographs largely 33 x 26.5 cm or the reverse printed on a warm and cold tone photographic stock dry mounted on album leaves 40.6 x 38 cm recto only with printed captions. Full blue morocco covers lined in blue silk gathered with screw posts and bearing the silver insignia of the Army Services Forces and imprinted "Franklin D. Roosevelt." Very good. Laid-in is a TLs from Lieutenant General Brehon Somervell on the letterhead of the War Department Army Service Forces Office of the Commanding General dated 21 October 1944: Dear Mr. President: I felt that you would be sure to be interested in this pictorial story of the Army's activities at the New York Port of Embarkation. At no other point are so many of the Army's activities concentrated. The pictures I believe will tell you the story without any further words from me." The photographs depict the full logistical operations of the New York port including machinery munitions troops and transport and range from broad views of the port to portraits of the troops. The photographic style is largely of the modernist mode with strong diagonals aerial views at off-kilter angles and close-ups of machinery and large equipment. <br/><br/>Although the photographers are not identified there is a very strong resemblance to the work of Margaret Bourke-White who did make an official portrait of General Somervell and was enlisted by the General to photograph the logistics of the North African and Italian theater in 1943; "My assignment to Italy was an unusual one. A request for my services came from the Pentagon.the Army Service Forces under General Brehon Somervell. I was pleased to learn that it was my ability to photograph engineering subjects that impelled General Somervell to ask for me. As before with the Air Force my work was for both Life and the Pentagon. This was an assignment of great scope that would give me a look at the war from many aspects." Bourke-White Margaret. PORTRAIT OF MYSELF. NY 1963. p.235. Further when LIFE Magazine published Bourke-White's photo essay January 10 1944 the introduction states: "The pictures on these pages taken by LIFE photographer Margaret Bourke-White in the United States and North Africa show the tremendous size of the job done by the ASF and the variety of items it supplies."<br/><br/>Many of these images have been digitized and are made available online from a disbound copy in the Robert P. Patterson Collection at the Library of Congress. Robert Porter Patterson Sr. 1891 - 1952 was the United States Under Secretary of War under President Franklin Roosevelt and the United State Secretary of War under President Truman from September 27 1945 to July 18 1947. One could presume that other copies of this album were distributed to others in the cabinet of President Roosevelt. <br/><br/> unknown books
19951855012Holmes & Meier Publishers 1995. Revised Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Revised edition. 1995 Trade Paperback. 264 pp. The Library Journal found this a "thorough careful and gripping recapitulation of Wallenberg's life" as it recounts his efforts to save Budapest Jews and his imprisonment in the Soviet Union LJ 7/82. This updated edition includes previously sealed Soviet prison records and archives and information on the Wallenberg family's lawsuit against the former Soviet Union. The popularity of Schindler's List will no doubt draw readers to this equally moving story. "Raoul Wallenberg August 4 1912 Holmes & Meier Publishers paperback books
1916List1025Siberia Petrograd et al. 1916. First Edition. Various documents and letters most legal format roughly 200 pages in total with three publications and several newspapers on the subject and thirteen hand drawn architectural plans for a new camp at Omsk measuring between 25 x 17 and 13 x 8 inches. During World War One a staggering number of prisoners - roughly 2.4 of the five million in total who were sent to the Eastern Front - ended up as prisoners of war in Russia. Of that number roughly two million were from Austria-Hungary. Though often neglected by historians due to the attention given to the Russian Civil War and the atrocities of World War Two the subject has drawn increased historical interest with the historian Gerald H. Davis and others calling attention to its importance in the 1980s. Davis and others have written on the relationship between the large prisoner population and the dissolution of their nations as well as the abhorrent conditions many were forced to endure partially due to hierarchical structure of treatment due to differing attitudes by their Russian hosts toward different nations and ethnicities and partially due to the lack of appropriate infrastructure and resources to support such a large prisoner population. <br /> <br /> Offered here are the papers of Herbert H.D. Pierce the Special Aide to Embassador George T. Marye in Petrograd containing a substantial amount of firsthand accounts of prison conditions from the early years of the war as well as a striking series of manuscript architectural plans for a new prison camp that was built in Omsk. Pierce a diplomat who was most famously involved with a case involving seal fishing in the Berings Strait was appointed as a Special Aide out of his retirement and served until his death in 1916. It is possible that he was assigned the task of dealing with the prisoner of war situation as nearly all of his papers that we recovered from his estate from this period deal with the subject. Pierce was involved specifically with the disbursal of relief funds received from the German and Austro-Hungarian governments that were to be disbursed to their citizens. <br /> <br /> The highlight of the collection is a series of hand drawn architectural plans for a series of POW camp structures in Omsk bearing the signature of a N. Alexandrow architect. It is unclear what Pierce's exact relationship was to this project. The plans are translated into English in ink. Of particular interest are the separate officers' barracks plans as one of the violations of POW laws in Russia was the varying levels of treatment given to different prisoners in particular in their recognition of German and Austro-Hungarian ranking officers. There were twenty-eight prison camps in Omsk this one is not identified specifically. The Siberian camps often held up to 35000 prisoners this one shows plans for 10000. There were 128 camps in the Moscow region where camps typically housed 2000-5000 prisoners. The conditions of the camps were generally abysmal with camp capacities routinely exceeded by roughly 50-100%. Frequent disease outbreaks killed thousands of prisoners during the conflict in Omsk Novo-Nikolaevsk Sretensk and Totskoe specifically. <br /> <br /> The group includes letters written to Marye describing conditions in the camps as well as reports of the Americans' own observations in Siberia Moscow and elsewhere. Most are in English though several original documents in German are included. Also included are Pierce's working copies of the Second Hague Convention guidelines of 1907 Order 697 of the War Department that established the regulations regarding prisoners of war in 1914 and a copy of the agreement made between Germany and Russia in August of 1914 which allowed for all women and all men over 45 years and younger than 17 to leave the country unheeded. Some of the letters document violations of this agreement for example a fifty-five year old Austrian man writing to the embassy stating that he had been detained. The authorship of some of the reports is often unclear - one report is credited to "A Russian Lady" another from Krasnaya-Ratchka near Khabaraovsk is an uncredited 18 page description of prisoner conditions. One uncredited report nineteen pages long on the conditions of prisoners in the Moscow Circuit may have been written by Pierce himself and is addressed to Marye. Another 44 page report on Siberian prison conditions is uncredited and likely produced by the embassy itself. A portion - perhaps 25% or so - of the reports are incomplete or unclear in origin though there is much to glean from them regardless. <br /> <br /> Also included are three printed publications. The first is entitled Rapport du Conseiller Prive E.G. Chinkevitch Membre du Comte special de secours aux prisonniers de guerre sur la visite des camps des prissoniers Austro-Hongrois dans l'arrondissement militair d'Omsk printed in 1915. OCLC locates a single copy in France. The report outlines the observed conditions and includes twenty-six photographs of prisoners. The second is a forty-three page report addressed to James Gerard the American ambassador in Berlin by an unidentified author which outlines the prisoner of war conditions in England written in February of 1915. The third is a scarce map of Russian prisoner of war camps printed by L. Friederichsen in Hamburg in 1915 entitled Karte vom Europäischen und Asiatischen Russland mit Angabe der hauptsächlichsten Orte in denen sich Kriegsgefangene und zurückgehaltene Zivilpersonen befinden sowie mit Bestimmungen über den Postverkehr nach diesen Orten. The map shows locations of prison camps throughout the Russian Empire and also shows the mail routes. It is in fine condition overall and we locate six copies in OCLC. <br /> <br /> Overall a scarce survival of primary source material on a somewhat overlooked but important period in Russian history with relevance to diplomatic historians as well worthy of further study. <br /> <br /> Works cited: <br /> <br /> Grekov N. V.: Germanskie i avstriiskie plennye v Sibiri 1914-1917 German and Austrian prisoners in Siberia 1914-1917 in: Vibe P. P. ed.: Nemtsy. Rossiia. Sibir' Germans. Russia. Siberia Omsk 1997 p. 159.<br /> <br /> Nachtigal Reinhard: Seuchen unter militärischer Aufsicht in Rußland. Das Lager Tockoe als Beispiel für die Behandlung der Kriegsgefangenen 1915/16 in: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 48/3 2000 pp. 367-368; Brändström Kriegsgefangenen 1922 pp. 41-48.<br /> <br /> Nachtigal Reinhard; Radauer Lena: Prisoners of War Russian Empire. In: 1914-1918 Online. https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/prisoners_of_war_russian_empire Accessed 5/21. unknown books
WRCLIT69563Prague nd. Folio pictorial broadsheet 41 x 29cm. Boldly printed in red and black on white stock. Old horizontal fold otherwise near fine. An original promotional poster for distribution in Czechoslovakia of the 1939 130 minute Russian film biography directed by Mikhail Romm et al starring Boris Shchukin as Lenin N.K. Cherkasv as Gorkii and M. Gelovani as Stalin. The script was credited to Aleksei Kapler and Taisiya Zlatogorova. The film was released in the USSR and the US in 1939 and was eventually distributed in Europe and elsewhere in the years following the end of WWII. The Czech release title translates roughly as "Unforgettable Year" and the film was a sequel to the 1937 LENIN IN OCTOBER. unknown books
201341958NY: W.W.Norton 2013. First edition first prnt. Accordion-fold 24 foot long black and white illustration of the battle on heavyweight paper. Issued without dustjacket. Illustrated slipcase. Includes 16pp booklet with an essay by Adam Hochschild about the day of battle. In original unopened shrinkwrap with the publisher's bookplate signed by Sacco and Hochschild enclosed in an envelope affixed to the shrinkwrap over the front board as issued. Fine condition. Signed by Author & Contributor. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. W.W.Norton Hardcover books
201341965NY: W.W.Norton 2013. First edition first prnt. Issued without dustjacket. Accordion-fold 24 foot long black and white illustration of the battle on heavyweight paper. Illustrated slipcase. Includes 16pp booklet with an essay by Adam Hochschild about the day of battle. In original unopened shrinkwrap with the publisher's bookplate signed by Sacco and Hochschild enclosed in an envelope affixed to the shrinkwrap over the front board as issued. Fine condition. Signed by Authors. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. W.W.Norton Hardcover books
1929019064Los Angeles CA: Powell Publishing Company 1929. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Signed . First Edition. Octavo 8vo. xii 413 pages of text including a bibliography and an index. Original facsimile/faux leather binding with rubbing to the extremities. Contains 15 black-and-white woodblock illustrations by Franz Geritz specially produced for this work. Signed and inscribed below the facsimile signature" on the "A Spanish Gentleman" page "with admiration for name withheld signed Juan J. de la Guerra." He served in the Civil War. Previous owner's name to whom the inscription is dedicated neatly written on a front endpaper. First edition. Powell Publishing Company Hardcover books
1863025116Frankfurt: Wilhelm Richler 1863. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fair. Scarce first edition of Sander's work on the American Civil War. 121pp - first edition - later editions 1865 etc. had maps and some added material. Sabin 76345. Front cover detached but present - wraps generally in good condition light chipping at edges and a bit soiled generally. A few loose pages and in general need of some restoration but a complete copy of a scarce civil war work typically only seen in later editions. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Americana; History. Inventory No: 025116. Wilhelm Richler unknown books
183427993Washington D. C.: n.p. 1834. First edition. Stitched self wrappers. A very good unopened copy. 13 pp. 8vo. 23d Congress 1st Session. Doc. No. 62. Ho. of Reps. Reports on the defects organization numbers and training of the militia. Scarce. OCLC shows only 2 copies. n.p. unknown books
LD16688Hardcover. Very Good. Thick scrapbook. 85 leaves with clippings on both sides. Most of the newspaper articles are from the New York Times. The photographic reproductions from other sources magazines. Included as examples: Belgians shooting a spy at sunrise various battle scenes etc. Neatly and carefully assembled compilation. 1914-1916. The red scrapbook lettered "Book Shelf Scrap Book" on front cover is copyrighted 1931 The Educational Press. <br/><br/> hardcover books
220297n.p.: SDS 196-. 8.5x11 inch mimeographed handbill creased and crinkled evenly toned a few small spots of foxing else good condition. Argues that students must unite with working people to oppose the war. SDS unknown books
1918295743New York: American Red Cross 1918. Original poster mounted on linen. Color lithograph. 27 1/4" x 20 1/8"<br/><br/> This poster was part of the Second War Fund a fundraising campaign led by the American Red Cross in 1918 with the goal of raising $100000 in a single week in May. The poster reads "All of the Red Cross War Fund goes for War Relief."<br/><br/> American Red Cross unknown books
1918295121New York: American Red Cross 1918. Original poster mounted on linen. Color lithograph. 34 3/4" x 55 3/4"<br/><br/> This vibrant WWI poster was part of the American Red Cross' fundraising campaign for the 'Second War Fund' with the goal of raising $100 million in a single week in May. Beautiful colors good condition with repair to center and repairs around margins. Poster features an outline map of North America and Europe with a pot of gold in America that reads 'Keep It Full' and a rainbow stretching from the pot to a Red Cross aid truck in Europe.<br/><br/> American Red Cross unknown books
179720431Philadelphia: Printed by William Ross 1797. 8vo. 8pp. Loose gathering uncut. Leaves splitting on folds loosening. Some edge chipping and dusting. Good. <br/>Evans 33095. NAIP w025330. Printed by William Ross? unknown books