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Esquirol, (J.-E.-D.)Antiquariat.de

Allgemeine u. specielle Pathologie u. Therapie d. Seelenstörungen. Frei bearb. v. K.Ch. Hille. Nebst e. Anh. krit. u. erläut. Zusätze v. J.C.A. Heinroth.

WHYTE Sir William 1843 1914ABAA

Contemporary typescript copies of two letters written by a Canadian railway executive to President of the Grand Trunk Railway T. G. Shaughnessy recording in great detail a trip on the Trans-Siberian Railway and his impressions of the line and region

190138770Winnipeg 1901. 4to. 10pp. and 43pp. respectively plus 31pp. of additional tables of customs schedules and weight of merchandise through Vladivostock. Early grey cloth upper cover lettered in gilt. An interesting contemporary account of the Trans-Siberian Railroad by an important Canadian railroad executive. "After a short career with a Scottish railway William Whyte emigrated to the Canadas in 1863 and accepted a job as a brakeman on the Grand Trunk Railway. Rising through the ranks he served as freight and station agent at various locations culminating his career with the company as the assistant superintendent of its central division. In October 1883 he moved to the Ontario and Quebec Railway as its general superintendent and a year later when this company was leased in perpetuity to the Canadian Pacific Railway he became the superintendent of the Ontario division. In 1886 he was transferred to Winnipeg as the superintendent of the CPR's western division . In 1901 Shaughnessy who had succeeded Sir William Cornelius Van Horne as president of the CPR in 1899 appointed Whyte his assistant to advise him on 'all matters connected with colonization proposed extensions of the Companys railway system the development of industries along the Companys lines the establishment of new business connections and the administration of the Companys lands town-sites and other properties of that description.' In 1903 Whyte was elected second vice-president in charge of the western lines. He was promoted vice-president in 1910. Whyte's most pressing problem from 1901 was to solve the recurrent blockages hampering the export of grain from the prairies. Under his direction the company constructed nearly 4000 miles of branch lines within a decade multiplied its rolling stock and experimented with ever-larger locomotives" Dictionary of Canadian Biography. The primary reason for this trip would appear to be to ascertain whether the Trans-Siberian railway would make Siberia a significant competitor to Canada's grain exports. Focusing on Siberia Whyte's epistolary reports goes into great detail on the route from Cheliabinsk to Vladivostock the agricultural prospects and natural resources along the way with a particular emphasis on Irkutsk and the articles imported. Much of his information came from first-hand examination as well as conversations with government officials and local merchants. He also comments on the construction of the railroad itself. unknown books

Donald Heald Rare Books · États-Unis850,00 $US≈ 719,19 €

Muir John 1838 1914ABAA

THE CRUISE OF THE CORWIN

191769840Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Large Paper Edition this is number 129 of 550 copies. This copy comes from the library of Lucretia Thatcher Perry Osborn 1858-1930 with her bookplate to the front pastedown and a holographic note in her hand on the front flyleaf "This narrative is one of John Muir's earliest chiefly written from his diary of the North". Lucretia and her husband American paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn 1857-1935 were close friends and benefactors of John Muir. Henry accompanied Muir on his fifth trip to Alaska 1896 and later Muir spent time at the couple's summer house in Garrison New York working on the final proofs of The Yosemite 1912. A fantastic association. In addition to its regular arctic duties as a United States Revenue Service Cutter the Corwin steamed out of San Francisco Bay on May 4 1881 with orders to search for the American polar exploration vessel Jeanette which had not been heard from since 1879. Muir shipped onboard as a naturalist and correspondent for the San Francisco Daily Bulletin and this work consists of the 21 letters that he wrote to the Bulletin during the more than five-month voyage supplemented with notes from his daily diary and the two scientific reports on botany and glaciation that he wrote for the government. Muir was a gifted journalist with a reporter's instinct for the dramatic. Filled with colorful details of the arctic natives and their customs the stark landscape and frequently perilous adventures in an inhospitable and hazardous environment his despatches were eagerly read by a large audience. Edited by William Frederic Bade 1871-1936. Hand-colored photogravure frontispiece with 26 plates consisting of one map eleven halftone reliefs from photographs eight halftone reliefs from sketches by Muir and six line blocks from drawings by Muir. Octavo. Original green laid paper covered boards with a green cloth spine and a brown leather spine label stamped in gold. Partially unopened. An especially crisp and bright example. Later bookplate to a prefatory blank leaf. The spine is lightly faded along the spine with a tiny bit of wear to the spine heel and some very mild rubbing to the rear board. Kimes 347. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books

johnson rare books & archives · États-Unis800,00 $US≈ 676,88 €

Johnson Warren Illick 1914 88ABAA

PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD OF AN AMERICAN GI IN TRAINING AND EUROPE DURING WORLD WAR II

73706A collection of four photo albums three panoramic photographs and other material associated with the service of Warren I. Johnson of Northampton Pennsylvania in the U.S. Army during World War II. Extensively annotated the albums are accompanied by 16 issues of the mimeographed shipboard newspaper - Noah's News Noah News is Good News - published aboard the SS Noah Webster during Johnson's return voyage to the United States. Johnson was working as an elementary school teacher in Columbia Pennsylvania at the time of his enlistment on May 20 1942. The first album which contains 149 original photographs corresponds to his basic training in Miami Beach Florida; radio school in Scott Field Illinois and in Orlando Florida; assignments at Hammer Field Squaw Valley and Hamilton Field California; and service with the 356th Fighter Group in Tonopah Nevada and Santa Rosa California in the spring of 1943. The second album houses 67 photographs taken at Camp Edwards in Massachusetts and Camp Davis in North Carolina and a color rendering of Flick-Flak a cartoon mascot designed by Walt Disney that was adopted by the 247th AAA SL Battalion. In September 1944 Johnson attended infantry school at Fort Benning Georgia which is extensively shown in the third album. There are 97 original photographs and several acquired images in this album. It also covers his service in England France Belgium Holland and Germany beginning in December 1944. Of particular interest are the seven photographs from Johnson's assignment guarding political prisoners at the internment camp in Schwarzenborn Germany. The final album which includes 64 original photographs covers the remainder of Johnson's service from October 1945 to February 1946. It opens with images from General Dwight D. Eisenhower's visit to Seventh Army Headquarters in Heidelberg and also shows scenes of the German countryside the SS Noah Webster at the docks in Bremerhaven and the evacuation of a seriously ill solder off Plymouth England. The albums are accompanied by three panoramic photographs: a printed 42" x 10 Â½" image of Camp Davis in North Carolina; a 23" x 8" portrait of Class 73 2nd Platoon - 19th Battery at Camp Davis on September 27 1943; and a 40" x 8" portrait of the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Officer's Candidate School Course No. 73 at Camp Davis on September 30 1943. All the men pictured in the second image are identified on the verso while those in the 19th Battery are identified on the recto of the third. All three photographs were rolled for storage. Also present here is a spent anti-aircraft shell label July 1942 and a Souvenir Edition of Noah's News which corresponds with the aforementioned shipboard newspaper. The photographs are tipped or pasted to the black paper leaves and labeled by hand in white ink below the image. Many of the earlier photographs are additionally labeled on the verso. They vary in size from 2" x 2 Â¾" to 8" x 10" with most measuring 4 Â½" x 3 Â¼". A very small number of photographs appear to be missing. The bindings of the last three albums are loose particularly the second album which is partially disbound. However the images are clean and neatly organized offering a unique glimpse at the American GI experience during the Second World War. unknown books

johnson rare books & archives · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

Theodore Low De Vinne 1828 1914ABAA

Aldus Pius Manutius. With an Essay by Theodore Low De Vinne Together with a Leaf from the Aldine Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Printed at Venice in 1499

1924SBS220-001San Francisco CA: The Book Club of California 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Series: Book Club of California Publication No. 22. 4to. 12 x 8 1/4 inches. Unpaginated. 32 plus the original leaf bound in between pages 6 and 7 pp. Title page printed within an elaborate architectural border 2 headpieces decorative initial and 2 illustrations reproduced without redrawing from originals in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili printer's device on the colophon; text clean unmarked. Black cloth spine titled in gilt brown paper over boards illustrated paper label on front cover; binding square and tight rubbed with some insect freckling to cloth spine. SBS220-001. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 250 copies this is number 154 printed at the Grabhorn Press in handset Poliphilus types on handmade Kelmscott watermarked paper. Only 192 copies with original leaves were distributed in 1924. This is the second use of Poliphilus type a Monotype Studio design by the Grabhorns who were the first in the United States to use it in another book they published earlier in 1924. The first leaf book produced by the Book Club of California. Theodore Low De Vinne was an American printer and author on typography whose scholarship did much to improve the art of printing in the United States. Perhaps the text here is an excerpt from his volume Notable Printers of Italy during the Fifteenth Century 1910. See: Wikipedia. This book was originally issued at 3 or more price points depending on whether the original leaf had ornamentation or woodcuts; this copy contains a leaf with only type foliated 92 in pencil on the upper right corner. One of the Fifty Books of the Year. REFERENCES: De Hamel and Silver Disbound and Dispersed No. 8 checklist No. 22; Heller and Magee Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press 1915-1940 No. 67; Mcgee The Hundredth Book No. 22. The Book Club of California hardcover books

John Howell for Books · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

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