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19431767181943-45. Inscribed to one of his generals Wartime pamphlets from the library of General Ivor Thomas three with presentation inscriptions from Montgomery and two with presentation letters on his behalf. Thomas 1893-1972 commanded the 43rd Wessex Infantry Division in Europe from June 1944 until May 1945. During the Battle of the Bulge Montgomery gave him temporary command of 30 Corps. He served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1950 to 1952. "Thomas commanded the 43rd Division for three years - two years of training in England and a third year of almost continuous fighting. His long tenure of this command gave him an exceptional opportunity of impressing his personality and theories of warfare upon his officers and men and this he did with marked and incisive effect" The Times obituary 1 September 1972. The pamphlets have notices warning that "This pamphlet must NOT fall into enemy hands. Officers in possession of a copy will be responsible for its safe custody". The army produced them to convey new military thinking and strategy for senior military figures. i Eighth Army. Some Notes on High Command in War. Second edition. Italy September 1943. ii 21 Army Group. Some Notes on the Conduct of War and the Infantry Division in Battle. Belgium November 1944. Inscribed on the front wrapper verso "To Major. Genr. Thomas from B. L. Montgomery Field-Marshall 1-11-44". iii 21 Army Group. Some Notes on the Use of Air Power in Support of Land Operations and Direct Air Support. Holland December 1944. Inscribed on the front wrapper verso "To: Major-Gen. Thomas 43 DIV from B. L. Montgomery Field-Marshal". iv 21 Army Group. The Armoured Division in Battle. Holland December 1944. Inscribed on the front wrapper verso "To: Von Thomas from B. L. Montgomery Field-Marshal". The odd inscription is clarified by Thomas's obituary: "his methods both in training and battle were sometimes described as German in their thoroughness and earned him the nickname of Von Thoma" The Times 1 September 1972. v 21 Army Group. High Command in War. Germany June 1945. Typed letter signed by Montgomery's MA "Dear General The Commander-in-Chief has asked me to send you a personal copy of his latest pamphlet entitled 'High Command in War'. This pamphlet is being issued through Main HQ down to the Brigadier level". vi 21 Army Group. Modern Administration in the Field in European Warfare. Germany October 1945. vii Lecture on Military Leadership given at the University of St Andrews by Field-Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery on 15 November 1945. Germany November 1945. Typed letter signed by Montgomery's PA "Dear General I enclose a copy of the publication. which the C-in-C has asked me to send to you with his compliments". Provenance: the collection of Steve Forbes chairman of Forbes Magazine and presidential candidate in the 1996 and 2000 US elections. 7 pamphlets duodecimo see note. Light toning to wrappers minor foxing and occasional pencil sidelining to contents. Very good copies. unknown
2081502111903776Shanghai Institute of Social Sciences N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Shanghai Institute of Social Sciences paperback
179688185Philadelphia: Richard Folwell 1796-97. First Edition. Three volumes. Octavo in fours 21cm; contemporary full sheep blind-tooled at board edges; red gilt morocco spine labels stamped volume numbers to spines; 494576477 Index 131pp. First volume with old stains to board edges and a shallow loss to leather at crown; else light external rubbing and wear with a few strips of flaying to leather; internally quite fresh with just scattered foxing to a few gatherings in v.I. Early ownership signature "T" or "S Belton" to endpapers. Overall a tight fresh Very Good set in an early likely original American binding we note that the bindings on practically every set documented in commerce over the past two decades have been uniform to this one. The third volume though dated 1796 was printed no earlier than 1797 per Evans.<br /> <br /> First edition of the first collected edition of the laws of the United States containing the entirety of the acts enacted by the first four Congresses as well as the texts of the Declaration of Independence the United States Constitution the Bill of Rights etc. As noted by William Reese the ".set is also important as a collection of early American treaties.including the treaties of the United States with foreign powers and Indian tribes.the official printings of these treaties are rare in the extreme.and in most cases.this set represents a very early sometimes just the second American printing." Printed by Richard Folwell with his colophon advertisement to each volume. Zephaniah Swift's substantial 131-pp Index serves as a complete abstract of the work and includes within its text a separate section titled: "Detail of Specific Articles of Import on which Duties are Payable by Law with the Specific Rates of Duty." EVANS 32973; REESE FEDERAL HUNDRED 63. Richard Folwell unknown
180288519Paris: Chez Bossange Masson et Besson 1802. First Edition. First impression. Three octavo volumes 22cm. Publisher's blue paste-paper wrappers; original printed spine labels; xlii1-370; xx1-434; viii1-452pp. A very fresh mostly unopened set; page edges untrimmed; mild wear to wrappers with some subtle re-touching to spines; expected creasing to spine labels; overall a remarkably well-preserved set in the very scarce publisher's wraps. Text entirely in French.<br /> <br /> A systematic application of Bentham's Utilitarian principles to the philosophy of law. Though adapted from Bentham's own writings in both English and French the work is substantially that of Bentham's long-time editor and expositor the Swiss political philosopher Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont 1759-1829. Dumont assembled the work from a series of manuscripts received directly from Bentham over a decade beginning around 1788; to these he applied his own organization and extensive editorial hand. The resulting work was sufficiently altered from the originals that Samuel Romilly Bentham and Dumont's mutual friend and go-between could write in a letter to Dumont on the eve of publication: "It is very entertaining to hear Bentham speak of it.he says that he is very impatient to see the book because he has a great curiosity to know what his own opinions are upon the subjects you treat of" quoted in Charles Atkinson Benthams's Theory of Legislation; Oxford: 1914 p.viii. The work was never fully reproduced in English though substantial extracts from it appeared in Bowring's edition of Bentham's Works 1838-1843 and an English-language abridgment appeared in 1863 under the title Theory of Legislation. The current French edition was reprinted in Paris in 1820.<br /> <br /> Bentham's great insight into the theory of laws and their enforcement was that both should be designed to create the greatest good for the greatest number of people - the essence of Utlitarianism. He was particularly convincing in his approach to penology to which he applied the then-novel concepts that first a criminal penalty should be proportionate to the crime committed; second that legal penalties should function as deterrents rather than simply as retaliations. To quote Atkinson "In Bentham's days it was not generally recognized that the main end of punishment was the repression and prevention of crime. There were many persons ready to act on the belief that it mattered little how many murders or felonies were committed provided only that some man was hanged in respect of each one of them.Bentham on the other hand maintained that the certainty of a mild punishment properly allotted was far more effective than the mere chance of suffering death" Theory of Legislation p.xi. The imperative of criminal repression is also evident in Bentham's invention of the Panopticon - a prison-in-the round that would allow full-time surveillance of prisoners in their cells without individual prisoners ever knowing whether they were being watched - a surefire inducement to civil behavior if also a cringeworthy negation of the right to privacy. Dumont devotes an entire substantial section of the current work to Bentham's writings on the panopticon and its applications which in addition to prisons included factories poor-houses and schools. No panopticons were build during Bentham's lifetime though a few experimental 20th-century prisons e.g. the "Presidio Modelo" on the Isla de Pinos Cuba utilized Bentham's designs which are today more likely to be interpreted as a blueprint for the surveillance state than one for reform and rehabilitation.<br /> <br /> While not strictly speaking rare the Traités are a major milestone in the real-world applications of Utilitarianism and an essential continuation of Bentham's foundational work Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation 1789. Suitable copies have appeared at auction a few times over the past three decades but we can find no evidence of a similar set in publisher's wrappers having appeared in commerce. For background see MUIRHEAD "A Jeremy Bentham Collection" in The Library v.1 no.1 June 1946 p.17ff. CHUO LIBRARY Bibliographical Catalogue of the Works of Jeremy Bentham T8.1. Chez Bossange, Masson, et Besson unknown
1719034607UK: Savoy 1719. By Henry Care and now continued with large editions by W N. of the Middle-Temple Esq. Printed by Savoy by Eliz Nutt and R. Colling for Arthur Bettesboosth and John Booke in 1719 356 pages. "Containing Magna Charta Charta deForesta The Statute De Tallagio non concedendo The Habeas Corpus Act and several other Statutes; with comments on each of them. Likewise The Proceedings in Appeals of Murder: Of Ship-Money; Of Tonnage and Poundage. etc. Lastly Of Justices of the Peace Coroners Constables. Etc. GOOD LEATHER HARDCOVER front cover present but detached from book. Internally a nice clean tight copy with exception of detached cover and front blank endpaper. Scarce. . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Savoy hardcover
16931278861693. ENGLISH LAW. Manuscript Book of Precedents. England 1673-93. Quarto modern full brown morocco; 53 leaves. $2500.17th century manuscript legal book of precedents with entries dated between 1673 and 1693 citing legal opinions generally relating to trade.This manuscript in a clear readable hand with a manuscript index contains opinions by thirteen different legal experts including William Jones Robert Stephens and Francis Pemberton. The cited opinions generally regard trade and mention corn imported flowers wine wool fish sarsaparilla vinegar gloves cattle and stockfish among other goods; there is a particular emphasis on laws regarding trade with England's growing empire: entry number 99 is ""The East India Companys Charter"" and others focus on goods specifically from Ireland or the Caribbean. First leaf misbound text complete; tape repair to top corner of first leaf. An intriguing piece of legal history. unknown
1615600611615. four titles in 1 book. 1615-1618. four titles in 1 book. 1615-1618. Four Scarce Coutumiers from Northern France France; Customary Law. Coustumes Du Bailliage De Vermandois en la Cite Ville Baillieue & Prevoste Foraine de Laon. Reims: Chez Simon De Foigny 1616. iv 108 4 ff. Bound with Coustumes de la Cite & Ville de Reims Villes & Villages Regis Selon Icelles. Reims: Chez Simon de Foigny 1615. 61 3 ff. And Coustumes de Chaalons & Ressort Du Siege Dudit Lieu En Ce Qui Est du Bailliage de Vermandois. Reims: Chez Simon de Foigny 1615. 33 1 ff. And Les Coustumes du Bailliage de Vitry en Pertois. Reims: Chez Simon & Iean de Foigny Imprimeurs 1618. 40 2 ff. Quarto 9" x 6"; 22.9 x 15.2 cm. Contemporary calf gilt rules to boards raised bands gilt ornaments and title "Coustume De Verman" to spine faint hand-lettered title to head of text block. Light rubbing and staining to boards extremities bumped and rubbed with some loss to spine ends and corners a few small pieces lacking from edges front hinge starting fragment of early bookplate to front pastedown. Light toning minor foxing to top margins light soiling to title pages small strips cut from bottom margins of two leaves of Laon for bookmarks no loss of text faint dampstaining in a few places minor tears and chips to margins of a few leaves early owner signatures most struck through one of "Lescarbotte" to first title page internally clean. A unique volume in very good condition. $2500. This collection represents a significant compendium of regional customary laws coutumes governing the vital territories of Picardy and the Ile-de-France during the Early Modern period.The primary work in this volume the Vermandois coutume served as the legal backbone for a vast jurisdiction. Composed in 1448 and undergoing a major revision in 1556 it governed lands that held immense religious and political prestige-specifically four of the six French ecclesiastical peerages: The Archbishopric of Reims and the Bishoprics of Laon Chalons and Noyon. The accompanying texts provide specific legal frameworks for the surrounding regions several of which mark significant printing milestones. Reims: Formulated in 1481 to govern jurisdictions outside of direct ecclesiastical control this 1615 edition represents its first app. unknown
1804034606Newbern: Martin & Ogden: 1804. Volume I & II bound in 1 volume. Volume I 501 pages I page Errata. "Containing the acts from 1715 to 1790 revised and published under the authority of the Legislature." Afterwards one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States and now revised by Francois-Xavier Martin. Volume II: 224 pages I page Errata. "Containing the acts from 1790 to 1803 revised and published under the authority of the Legislature." By Francois-Xavior Martin. GOOD HARDCOVER rebound into a modern brick- red linen binding with new endpapers. Internally a nice clean and tight copy. Sign by John Strother Esq and is partly scribbled out. scarce. This is the 1804 editions. . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Martin & Ogden: hardcover
1823034604Washington City: Printed by the author by Way and Gideon: 1823. 316 pages. "The fourth and last of Taylor's full-scale books on the Constitution in which he fully expounds his philosophy of government. Taylor was one of the major political theorists of the early United States as well as the most articulate and persuasive exponent of the states' rights agrarian school." Signed by J. T. Brown with somebody's pencil note saying this copy belonging to John Thompson Brown Virginia Congressman. GOOD LEATHER HARDCOVER pages foxed binding is tight. Covers has been repaired at some point. Binding is tight. RARE. . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Printed by the author by Way and Gideon: hardcover
2013481462013. ISBN-13: 9781584777816; ISBN-10: 1584777818. The Vulgate Edition in Law French Great Britain. Vulgate Edition. The Year Books; Or Reports in the Following Reigns with Notes to Brooke and Fitzherbert's Abridgments. Originally published: London: by George Sawbridge etc. 1678 1679-80. 11 volumes. Folio 9" x 14". 5802 pp. With New Introductory Notes and Tables in Each Volume Naming all Justices and Serjeants and Listing Calendar Years of Law Terms by David J. Seipp Professor of Law Boston University with Carol F. Lee of the District of Columbia Bar. Reprinted 2007 2013 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. Set: ISBN-13: 9781584777816; ISBN-10: 1584777818. Hardcover folio 9" x 14". New. $2495. Reprint of the Vulgate edition with new detailed introductions that address the history content and significance of the Year Books and tables that list all justices and sergeants as well as calendar years of law terms. The new material includes references to Seipp's Index and Paraphrase of Printed Year Book Reports 1268-1535 which is based on the Vulgate edition reprinted here. A powerful research tool Seipp's Index and Paraphrase of Printed Year Book Reports 1268-1535 is a free online database of all printed Year Book reports that indexes and summarizes almost all of the cases in this edition. It also guides the reader to later and prior proceedings of individual cases and to all case references in abridgments and other sources. It is difficult to overestimate the importance of The Year Books. As Marvin put it in his Legal Bibliography these were the "venerable books" from which Littleton Hobart Hale and Coke drew "so much valuable ore melting it into ingots and refining and sending it abroad as the correct coin of the common law" 756. As a series of notes on debates and points of pleadings they are primary sources for our knowledge of medieval common law. The origin of The Year Books is unknown. Maitland believed that the earliest volumes were notes taken by law students in court copied for the use of pleaders in later cases. Holdsworth maintained that The Year Books like other law reports were records of cases made by lawyers for their own private use with no thought toward subsequent publication. Though it is not known when the first volumes were compiled it is clear that the earliest cases date from 1268; t. unknown
1967ZB254453University of Michigan. Law School 1967. volumes 4-12 15-22 1967-1988 mostly bound ex library else text clean & bindings tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. University of Michigan. Law School unknown
1889ZB394145Harvard Law Review Publishing Association 1889-1996. Volumes 3 12 17 33 38 59 61; 65-70; 73-78; 80-81; 85; 89-101; 106 107 109 1889-1996. partly bound library markings else textually clean & tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Harvard Law Review Publishing Association unknown
185446907Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1854. Contemp. marbled boards. In: "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff" Vierte Reihe Bd. 3 = Poggendorff Bd. 93. Entire volume offered. Two stamps to titlepage. X632 pp. and 4 folded engraved plates. Clausius's paper: pp. 481-506. Internally clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First printing of this milestone paper in thermodynamics which together with his paper from 1850 established the second law of thermodynamics. In the offered paper Clausius introduces the symbol T for the universal function of temperature a 1 and he introduces the concept of "entropy" the greek word for 'transformation' but without using the word Clausius introduced the word later in 1865 he calls this new theorem "the principle of the equivalence of transformations". This principle paints a dramatic picture of the end of the world the so-called "heath-death of the universe"."Entropy on the other hand of the complementary experience of water seeking its own level of hot bodies cooling of springs untensing of magnetism wearing off and electrical charges leaking away of a destiny suchThat no life lives forever; - That dead men rise up never; that even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea: a world getting old and running down."Gillespie in "The edge of Objectivity" p. 400-01."Clausius discovered that if he took the ratio of the heat content of a system and its absolute temperature this ration would always increase in any process taken place in a closed system. A closed system is one that loses no energy to the outside world and gains no energy from it. With perfect efficiency which is never realized in the real world of course the ratio would remain constant but i would never under any circumstances decrease."Asimov. - Parkinson: Breakthroughs 1854 C. </em> hardcover
175650678London N. Gibson 1756. 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Blindtooling to covers. A neath repair at upper compartment. Spine slightly rubbed. VIII4764 pp. A very faint dampstain to lower right corners. A few scattered brownspots. Printed on good paper. <br/><br/><em>Very scarce first edition in English a translation of the relevant part of Chr. V's Danske Lov 1683 relating to the Danish West Indies. All laws and regulations on St. Thomas St. Croix and St. John were based on this lawcomplex in the period of the Danish possession of these islands.Sabin No 18501. </em> hardcover
182643632Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1826. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff" Bd. 6 7 Viertes u. Fünftes Stück. Entire issues 4 and 5 present. Titlepage to vol. 6. Pp. 369-514 a. 1 engraved plate Titlepage to vol. 7. Pp. 1-136 a. 1 engreved plate. Ohms paper: pp. 459-469 pp. 45-54 a. pp. 117-118. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First appearence of a major paper in 19th century electrical theory breaking new ground in associating an electric tension with both open and closed galvanic circuits unifying the theory of Galvanic electricity and containing Ohm's Law in the simpler and last form."Ohm's second major paper of 1826 announced the beginnings of a comprehensive theory of galvanic electricity based he said on the fact that the contact of heterogenous bodies produced and maintained a constant electric tension Spannung. He deferred the systematic exposition of thsi theory to a later work however and limited himself to stating without derivation the two eqautions that constituted its heart: X=kwa/l and u-c = /- x/lawhereX is the strenght of the electric current in a conductor of lenght l cross section w and conductibility Leitungsvermögen k produced by a difference in electric tension a at its end points. By means of the first equation one can .reduce the actual lenght of a wire of whatever cross section and conductibility to the equivalent lenght of one of the wire chosen arbitrarily as a standard. Letting l now be this equivalent lenght - called the reduced lenght reducirte Länge of the conductor - Ohm WROTE HIS FIRST LAW IN THE SIMPLER FORM X=a/l THE EXPRESSION WHICH HAS BECOME KNOWN AS OHM'S LAW."DSB X pp. 188-89. </em> unknown
1969187216London: The Arcadia Press 1969. A classic commentary Signed limited edition number 138 of 265 copies signed by the author on the title page and handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf. "Lord Montgomery's stimulating book must surely take its place as a classic commentary on the history of warfare. It is the fruit of a lifetime spent in the study and practice of war and it bears the authority of one who will without doubt be numbered among the great commanders" Howarth p. 166. The signed edition was issued from the first printing sheets of the first US edition 1968. Quarto. Illustrations and maps throughout including in colour. Original black morocco by Zaehnsdorf spine lettered in gilt cannon motif on front cover in gilt and in red and orange onlays board edges ruled in gilt turn-ins richly decorated in gilt marbled endpapers edges gilt. Housed in the original plush-lined linen solander box. A few marks to box. A fine copy. T. E. B. Howarth ed. Monty at Close Quarters: Recollections of the Man 1985. unknown
1969190308London: The Arcadia Press 1969. Deeply interesting often inspiring and intensely instructive Deluxe limited edition number 247 of 265 copies signed by the author on the title page and handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf from the first printing sheets of the first US edition 1968. "Lord Montgomery's stimulating book must surely take its place as a classic commentary on the history of warfare. It is the fruit of a lifetime spent in the study and practice of war and it bears the authority of one who will without doubt be numbered among the great commanders. Its greatest merit springs from the author's understanding of the human factor in war. That it is permeated with his particular and well-remembered idiosyncrasies the freshness and vigour of his approach to any subject will only enhance its undoubted value as a deeply interesting often inspiring and intensely instructive book" Howarth p. 166. Quarto. Publisher's black morocco by Zaehnsdorf spine lettered in gilt cannon motif on front cover in gilt and in red and orange onlays board edges ruled in gilt turn-ins richly decorated in gilt marbled endpapers edges gilt. Illustrations and maps throughout including in colour. Occasional light scratch to leather bright and clean. A near-fine copy. T. E. B. Howarth ed. Monty at Close Quarters: Recollections of the Man 1985. hardcover
1930ZB254450University of Michigan. Law School 1930/31-1953/54. volumes 30-53 lacking 33 and 45; bound ex library good; PRICE IS FOR THE LOT. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. University of Michigan. Law School unknown
1580003503Venice: apud Dominicum Nicolinum & Socios Domenico Nicolino 1580. Hardcover. Very Good . Vols. 4 & 5 of 5 only. 2 volumes in 1. "Hac novissima editione recognitum pluribusq; in locis accuratissime castigatum; cum quaestionibus summarii & indice locupletissimo." 117 leaves 234 p. 139 leaves 278 p.; 37 cm. Signatures: A-P8 -P7 -P8 A-R8 S4 last leaf blank folio. Original parchment over boards. Five spine compartments between raised bands; hand-written title in first compartment. Handwritten identification also on lower page edges. Large and elaborate printer's device on title pages which combines the earlier printer's device of Domenico Nicolino a woman holding a wreath with three others presumably of the partners Socios referred to in the imprint. In Very Good Condition: original parchment over boards rubbed and soiled with loss of parchment at ends of spine and over raised bands; loss at lower corner of front board; small stain along lower edge of 5:2-22 not impacting text; minor soiling along lower edge of 5:42 verso and 5:43 recto; marginal worming in vol. 5; otherwise clean and bright. apud Dominicum Nicolinum, & Socios [Domenico Nicolino] hardcover
18496119London: Not Published 1849. First editions. Three volumes bound in one and including a presentation inscription to the verso of front endpaper: "The Marchioness of Salisbury with Lady Colchester's Love." Additional signature to title of second volume. Full straight grain morocco presentation binding by White of Pall Mall with gilt title to spine. Boards and turn-downs stamped in gilt. All edges brightly gilt. Yellow endpapers. Measuring 187 x 111mm bound in reverse chronological order and collating complete with half titles: 8 61 1; viii 66; 2 vi 104. Spine sunned and a large patch of discoloration to the rear board; joints cracked but holding firm. Occasional marginal foxing but overall fresh with the author's occasional handwritten corrections. Each printed privately Law's poetry titles are each scarce with OCLC reporting 15 10 and 8 copies respectively. Drawn together here with feminist political associations Lady Colchester bestows the works on Mary the second Marchioness of Salisbury nee Sackville-West who was an active Tory in addition to overseeing a salon that included Charles Darwin and Benjamin Disraeli among its visitors.<br /> <br /> The author of several privately printed poetry collections in addition to published translations Elizabeth Susan Law Abbot Lady Colchester was noted in her own time for deploying "anecdotal self-deprecating and ironic" tones that complicated her otherwise polite literary output Comic Women's Poetry of the 19th Century. The three books combined here demonstrate that tendency. Folded within seemingly common upper-class topics are reflections on intelligent women's loneliness in a marriage economy that devalued their selfhood in the opening poem Le Beau Ideel of her volume dedicated to Lord Colchester; on the ways a woman's appearance might cause society to overlook her "rarest gifts.a head with heart combin'd" in the dedication of her volume to the late Sophia Countess Darlington; and on exercises of musical lyricism and translation in the volume dedicated to Joseph Jekyll the political raconteur best known for ensuring that his friend Ignatius Sancho's biography reached publication and spread the story of his birth during the Middle Passage and his life as a free Black intellectual.<br /> <br /> Even Lady Colchester's recipient speaks to her political interests. Mary the Marchioness of Salisbury was the second wife of the Marquess; and she was noted for her public engagement with political and intellectual figures including Benjamin Disraeli and Charles Darwin. Knowing of the Marchioness' own intellect and ambition her choice to present these three books speaks to the deeper meanings hidden within her own writing.<br /> <br /> Jackson 193.3 and 193.6. Not Published unknown
1857E0857<p>xxxiv516 pages with frontispiece folding map and appendix. Small octavo 7 1/2" x 5" bound in original publisher's brown cloth stamped in blind gilt titles on spine. First edition.</p><p>Frederick Law Olmsted made extensive tours throughout the region from 1852 to 1857. In 1853-1854 with his brother John he made a celebrated trip across Texas. His route took him from Natchitoches Louisiana across East Texas to Austin then south through San Marcos and New Braunfels to San Antonio. Following a side trip to Boerne and Sisterdale the brothers made their way to the coast at Indianola returned to San Antonio and then traveled to Eagle Pass on the Rio Grande where they made a brief foray into Mexico. Retracing their steps to San Antonio they headed east through LaGrange Houston and Beaumont and left Texas at Turner s Ferry on the Sabine River.</p><p>During the trip Olmsted wrote letters that commented on all phases of town and country life in Texas fifteen of which were published in the New York Daily Times. Three years after the trip the letters served as the framework for a book written as much by his brother John as by Olmsted himself entitled <em>A Journey through Texas; Or A Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier: With a Statistical Appendix</em>. The first printing 2500 copies of the book nearly sold out within one month of publication and eventually became a major source for historians of Texas and slavery.</p><p><strong>Condition: </strong>Rubbed stained and faded corners slightly bumped light foxing previous owner's name to title and end papers else about very good.</p> Dix, Edwards & Company hardcover
1857369454New York: Dix Edwards & Co 1857. First Edition. Frontispiece and engraved folding map of Texas by J. H. Colton. xxxiv 516pp. 8vo. Original cloth with gilt lettered spine printed advertisements in red on the yellow endpapers. One signature starting to come loose else very good. First Edition. Frontispiece and engraved folding map of Texas by J. H. Colton. xxxiv 516pp. 8vo. "Olmsted later famous as a landscape architect and the designer of Central Park undertook a series of travels in the American South in the 1850s which are probably the best picture of antebellum life by any single author. A careful observer and entertaining writer his description of Texas in 1856 deserves equally high praise as a picture of life in the southwest at the time" Reese. Raines p. 159; Howes 0-79; Rader 2549; Sabin 57243; Graff 3097; Jenkins 157 "The most civilized of all 19th century books on Texas this is also the most interesting and the most dependable."; Clark III:481 482; Reese Best of the West 147 Dix, Edwards & Co unknown
1948142680London: 22 October 1948. He was about to lose his Army Council Outstanding signed group portrait capturing an Army Council meeting headed by the Secretary of State for War Manny Shinwell and Chief of the Imperial General Staff Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery. The date of Friday 22 October clearly visible on the desk calendar is significant as it was the anniversary of the eve of Monty's great victory at El Alamein. That evening Montgomery attended an El Alamein Anniversary reunion at the Royal Albert Hall original newsreel footage of which can be seen on YouTube. However the business at hand at this meeting was almost certainly the introduction of National Service which Shinwell opposed and Montgomery promoted a bill for which had been approved in 1947. The financial crises faced by the post-war Labour government the Berlin Crisis and the exigencies of the Malayan Emergency which had begun in June of that year forced a re-think and "gave Montgomery the opportunity to argue that demobilization of troops should be retarded introducing de facto two years of National Service" as opposed to the proposed six months Strachan p. 42. The Chiefs of Staff argued for an extension of National Service to 18 months but Montgomery "with his vision of a mass Army to defend Europe" pushed for a two-year term "indeed on 19 October 1948 he threatened the resignation of the military members of the Army Council if such a measure was not conceded" ibid. In October 1950 in response to the Korean War Britain adopted two-year National Service. It is irresistible although perhaps facile to read an element of strain in the faces of the assembled company but Montgomery's announcement to Shinwell three days earlier that "he was about to lose his Army Council" left him "a bit startled" Memoirs p. 430. In addition Montgomery was not a success as CIGS; Templer seated second left described him as "the worst CIGS for 50 years" cited in Baxter p 122. "He fell out with both his fellow Chiefs of Staff and his own Army Council. Mutual contempt and personal antipathy shaped Montgomery's relations" Cohen p. 77. However despite their differences over National Service relations between Shinwell and Montgomery were cordial Monty describing the pugnacious Glaswegian in glowing terms: "Shinwell had a quick and clear brain and his heart was in the right place; he could understand and decide quickly. He and I became great friends. I used to tell him that when he was in his chair in the War Office from Monday to Friday he was excellent and just what we wanted as our political chief" Memoirs p. 385. Of the three Secretaries of State for War under whom Montgomery served Shinwell was "the best of the three". Signed by all figures present except as indicated from left to right: unknown not signed; General Sir Gerald Templer Vice-Chief of the Imperial General Staff; General Sir James Steele Adjutant-General to the Forces; Michael Stewart Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War; Brigadier John Faviell Joint Secretary Military; Shinwell; unknown signed but possibly the Joint Secretary Civil; Montgomery; General Sir Sidney Kirkman Quarter-Master General to the Forces; General Sir Kenneth Crawford Deputy Chief of the General Staff. Original silver gelatin print 239 x 292 mm tipped to textured paper leaf 275 x 310 mm and card mount 315 x 355 mm; signed in pencil by the photographer lower right signature obscured by those of others. A couple of small bumps to corners of card mount the image in excellent condition. Presented to style in a stained oak frame with conservation acrylic glazing. Colin F. Baxter Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery 1887-1976: A Selected Bibliography 1999; Michael J. Cohen Fighting World War Three from the Middle East: Allied Contingency Plans 1945-1954 1997; Montgomery The Memoirs 1958; Huw Strachan ed. The British Army Manpower and Society in the Twenty-First Century 2000. unknown
136780London: The Arcadia Press 1972. Hardcover. Fine. London The Arcadia Press 1972 first thus/ 1948 and 1946. Large octavo xiv 421 pages with 3 diagrams and 62 maps many printed in black and red plus a colour frontispiece portrait of the author and 26 pages of plates. Gilt-decorated full black morocco lettered and decorated in gilt all edges gilt; marbled endpapers and gilt inner dentelles; rear cover lightly marked; free endpapers lightly tanned around the edges by the leather; essentially a fine copy with the cloth slipcase. Number 235 of only 265 copies signed on the title page by the author as 'Montgomery of Alamein' and bound by Zaehnsdorf. The title page is dated 1971 but 'This Book was published on the 30th Anniversary of The Battle of El Alamein 23rd October 1972' is printed in red on the half-title. The Arcadia Press hardcover
19642110502151000933Sobunsha 1964. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 15 Sobunsha paperback
