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1806184040Philadelphia PA: Wm. Duane 1806. Hardcover. Good- front board nearly split yet firmly held; rattled. boards edge-worn & rubbed; moisture spotted. portion of spine top missing & chipped; tail rubbed torn at edge & flapped. pastedowns & endpapers tanned & foxed w/ pencil notations & names; front pastedown has paper remnants & dampstaining; back pastedown & endpaper has dampstaining to upper edges. pgs 264 to closing have tanned dampstaining to upper edge. leather boards w/ gilt ruled spine & maroon leather gilt printed title plate. 307 pgs. Narrow previous owner's name label to spine. Some instances of dampstaining to lower page edges. Page 166 has black ink spattering to lower text and page edge A few pages darkly tanned with higher concentrations of foxing. Instances of light to moderate foxing throughout; text dark. An uncommon 1806 edition. Wm. Duane hardcover
1806184040Philadelphia PA: Wm. Duane 1806. Hardcover. Good- front board nearly split yet firmly held; rattled. boards edge-worn & rubbed; moisture spotted. portion of spine top missing & chipped; tail rubbed torn at edge & flapped. pastedowns & endpapers tanned & foxed w/ pencil notations & names; front pastedown has paper remnants & dampstaining; back pastedown & endpaper has dampstaining to upper edges. pgs 264 to closing have tanned dampstaining to upper edge. leather boards w/ gilt ruled spine & maroon leather gilt printed title plate. 307 pgs. Narrow previous owner's name label to spine. Some instances of dampstaining to lower page edges. Page 166 has black ink spattering to lower text and page edge A few pages darkly tanned with higher concentrations of foxing. Instances of light to moderate foxing throughout; text dark. An uncommon 1806 edition. Wm. Duane hardcover books
200676532Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2006. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. iv 1580 pages. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Serial No. 109-70. Format is approximately 5.75 inches by 9.25 inches. Cover has some wear and soiling. This is the first of a series of hearings that the Subcommittee planned to hold examining the Voting Rights Act also known as the VRA. It had been 25 years since Congress last extended the number of the temporary provisions of the VRA. Six provisions were scheduled to expire in 2007 including sections 4 5 6 7 8 and 203. These hearings will examine the impact of the Voting Rights Act over the last several decades and its continued role in protecting minority voting rights. The ability of our citizens to cast a ballot for their preferred candidate ensures that every voice is heard most importantly the right to vote safeguards our freedoms and all other rights enshrined in the Constitution. The sacredness of the right to vote is reflected in the protection afforded by the 15th amendment which States ''the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race color or previous condition of servitude.'' For too many of our fellow citizens in our history this has not always been the case. Our country has had a troubled history of invidious and disparate treatment in the most fundamental process of a democracy namely voting. The VRA pushed back against this history and challenged racial discrimination from a number of different angles. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
200676534Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2006. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. Serial No. 109-79. Volume I ONLY. Volume I v 1 1684 6 pages. During this hearing Representative John Lewis of Georgia stated "The Voting Rights Act helped expand our democracy and open up our democracy to elect hundreds of thousands and millions of our citizens who had been kept out let them in. The Voting Rights Act was needed then and it is needed now. The purpose of section 5 is very unique and very important. It prevents discriminatory plans from being enacted in the first place. It put the burden on the judiciary to show that the plan does not discriminate against minority voters. Congress Lewis continued "Prior to section 5 the burden was on the minority voters to challenge the voting practice; and every section was good at coming up with different procedures that had the same result discrimination. Anita Earls' testimony talks in some detail about the recent example how this is still happening. The difference is that we have section 5 to prevent these practices from harming minority voters. Many people like the court said that we have come a long ways; and again today I would say that we've come a distance. We've come a long way and that is true. We're not the same Nation that we were 40 years ago but it's clear today that we have not come far enough. Section 5 is still needed. Today section 5 prevents discrimination and redistricting and changes that move voting locations out of minority neighborhoods into less accessible areas. These are issues that are different from the fight to register to vote but they are no less fundamental." U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
200676535Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2006. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. Serial No. 109-83. Part I ONLY. Volume I iv 1446 22 pages. This Committee will focus on section 203 the provision authorizing bilingual language assistance to American citizens who are members of covered language minority groups and who have limited English proficiency. Section 203 has not been revisited by Congress since 1992 and like the sections that we have discussed in previous hearings is set to expire in 2007 unless reauthorized. The Voting Rights Act was enacted in 1965 in response to a history of racial discrimination against some of our Nation's citizens. In 1975 Congress expanded the Voting Rights Act to include section 203 and its companion section 4f. Section 203 requires certain jurisdictions to provide bilingual election assistance-including notices instructions information and ballots-to citizens who are members of a designated language minority group and who have limited English proficiency. As cited in the 1975 House Report section 203 was added in response to ''an extensive evidentiary record demonstrating the prevalence of voting discrimination and high illiteracy rates among language minorities.'' This record revealed that similar discrimination patterns and practices that had been used to prevent African-Americans from voting were being administered against Asian-Americans American Indians Native Alaskans and citizens of Hispanic origin. These citizens are more than likely to live in environments in which the dominant language is other than English. Section 203 breaks down these barriers by providing citizens in a language minority group with the assistance necessary to participate in the political process. Section 203 has enabled an increased number of minority citizens to register and cast ballots as revealed in the last Census and latest election records. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
200676538Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2006. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. Serial No. 109-103. Volume IV ONLY. Volume IV v 1 4297-5711 3 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. This volume contains the Appendix to Hearings: Table of Contents and Appendix Materials Continued from the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act. The Subcommittee will be holding its tenth hearing examining the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the temporary provisions that are to expire. They're set to expire in 2007 unless we reauthorize by Congress which I think most of us anticipate will occur. The Subcommittee examined each of the expiring provisions in great detail. This afternoon we examine the evidence of continued discrimination against racial and language minority citizens since 1982 that have been compiled by a number of non-governmental organizations who will be testifying. I'd thank these organizations for completing these reports and in making sure that this Committee has before it a complete and accurate record of discrimination over the last 25 years. In continuing to reauthorize the temporary provisions Congress on four separate occasions examined the extent to which discrimination continued to exist by analyzing information such as enforcement statistics minority voter registration rates minority voter turnout and litigation pursued to protect minority voting rights. Federal agencies such as the United States Commission on Civil Rights were instrumental in investigating analyzing and reporting back to Congress on the state of minority voting during each consideration. Each time Congress concluded based upon the evidence presented that the exceptional conditions which existed in 1966 continued to exist in 1970 1975 1982 and in 1992 when it was last reauthorized. This afternoon the Committee continues to examine whether the exceptional conditions warranting the extension of the temporary provisions continue to exist in 2006. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
Very Good French Original journals. Folio. (32 x 25 cm). In French. 3 issues: (4 p.; 4 p.; 8 p.). Ahmet Riza Bey was an Ottoman-born Turkish political activist, scientist, statesman, educational reformer and a prominent member of the Young Turks, during the Second Constitutional Era of the Ottoman Empire. In 1908 he became the first President of the revived Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Ottoman Parliament, and in 1912, he was appointed as the President of the Senate (the upper house) as well. He also served as Minister of Education from the Liberal Union party, the main opposition party to the ruling Committee of Union and Progress. In 1908, his name was among the candidates' list for the next Grand Vizier. He was the leading negotiator during the failed agreement of coalition between the Ottoman Empire, France, and Britain for World War I. Ahmet Riza has been described as a polymath by some authors. He was born in Istanbul in 1858, the son of Ali Riza Bey. His father was nicknamed Ingiliz ("Englishman") because of his command of the English language and admiration of the British Empire. His mother, Fraulein Turban, was born in Munich but was of Hungarian origin. She moved to Vienna, where she met Ingiliz, and converted to Islam to marry him, taking the name Naile Sabika Hanim. He graduated from Galatasaray High School in Istanbul and subsequently studied agriculture in France. As a young man, he sought to improve the condition of the peasantry in the Empire. He was concerned with the conditions of the farmers and wanted to implement agricultural methods, supporting the ideas of the French sociologist, Auguste Comte. In 1894, he published a series of publications on unification of Islamic and Ottoman traditions of consultation. In 1895, Mesveret (Meshveret, or, Mechveret), the journal that he published, became a locus of the exiled Young Turks movement. Ahmet Riza opposed the maverick Prince Sabahaddin's calls for revolution and European intervention in the empire at the 1902 Congress of Ottoman Opposition in Paris. According to a customized book in 1889, on the pretext of participating in the exhibition organized for the centenary of the French Revolution, there was a customized letter, which indicated he escaped to Paris and did not return. He became an interpreter as he learned French. At the University of Paris, he continued his lectures on positivism, taught by mathematician Pierre Laffitte, as he was influenced by Laffitte's thoughts about Islam and Eastern civilization in particular. Laffitte believed that Islam was the most advanced religion, so it was easy for Muslims to pass through positivism. Ahmet Riza became one of the most active members of the Société Positiviste (Positivist Society), and since 1905 he has appeared as a "representative of Muslim communities" in the Comité Positif Occidental, establishing the spread of positivist international platitudes. During his first years in Paris, he attempted to respond to various newspapers and magazines, which were writing unfavourably about the Ottoman Empire. In 1891, he wrote a letter to the postal and telegraph chronicle in Istanbul as he did not obey the instructions of the center of Paris to return to his country due to his use of the expression "liberty" in a lecture on Ottoman women and stated that he did not belong to any secret cemetery. Ahmet Riza sent his thoughts to Sultan Abdul Hamid II in 1893. He continued to send sheets upon the request of his encouraging response and continuation; he tried to convince him that the constitutional regime was not a bad thing. In the case of sending the sixth party, he began to write political writings in French, which was published by the former Syrian deputy Halil Ganem. (Source: Wikipedia).
19153463222Berlin, Vahlen, 1915-21. Ca. 5700 Seiten. Originale Halbledereinbände (Stempel auf Titel, teils etwas bestossen) bzw. originaler Halbleineneinband (Bd 11).
222938Paris, Imprimerie de la République, 29 floréal an XII (19 mai 1804) in-4, 40 pp., dérelié. 8 premières pages rognées un peu plus courtes.
1795177010De l'Imprimerie de la République A Paris, de l'Imprimerie de la République, 1795 - An IV. In-16 relié demi-basane blonde à petits coins, dos lisses, filets dorés, pièces de titre. 1 ff blanc, titre, X + 360 page, 1 ff blanc. Constitution de l'an III, qui contient une Déclaration des "droits" de l'homme revue et corrigée, mais aussi des "devoirs" de l'homme. C'est la seule Constitution française qui définit le territoire, c'est aussi la plus longue constitution. Adoptée le 5 fructidor an II (22 août 1795), elle sera appliquée durant quatre ans, jusqu'au coup d'État de Bonaparte, le 18 brumaire an VIII. Bel exemplaire très propre et bien relié.
17983458Londres, 1798
1773488133Londres (= Amsterdam), 1773. VII, 232 S.; 2 Bl., 280 S. Leder d. Zeit (fleckig u. vor allem am Rücken berieben, Gelenke geplatzt, Ecken u. Kapitale bestoßen). [2 Warenabbildungen]
1850610707Braunschweig, Vieweg, 1850-57. XIII S., 1 Bl., 523 S.; VIII S., 1 Bl., 501 S.; X, 734 S. Marmorierte Pappbände d. Zeit mit grünem Rückenschild u. etwas Rückenvergoldung (berieben, Ecken bestoßen, Rückenbezug verblaßt). [2 Warenabbildungen]
20013474569München, Vahlen, 1999/2001. XXVI, 2396; XXXVI, 2744; XLVI, 3143 S. OLwd (mit OUmschlag).
184137248Providence 1841. Elephant folio sheet folded to 16-1/4" x 21." 4 pp. A persistent but light circular spot in the center of each page. Untrimmed a bit of crimping. Good.<br /> <br /> The "Proposed Constitution" adopted at "the Convention of the People" on 18 November 1841 is printed. It would grant the suffrage to "Every white male" adult. Articles favoring is adoption are printed along with Rhode Island's 1790 Declaration of Rights.<br /> The New Age a rare newspaper was an organ of the Rhode Island Suffrage Association allied with Thomas Dorr urging universal white male suffrage. unknown
184137252Providence 1841. Elephant folio sheet folded to 15-1/4" x 21-1/2." 4 pp. Old folds light foxing. Good.<br /> <br /> The "Proposed Constitution" adopted at "the Convention of the People" on 18 November 1841 is printed. It would grant the suffrage to "Every white male" adult. Articles favoring its adoption are printed along with Rhode Island's 1790 Declaration of Rights. Articles on national and local political affairs plus numerous advertisements are also printed. <br /> In 1843 Thomas Dorr was arrested at the offices of the Republican Herald for high treason. unknown
1884622541884. The Mexican Constitution in 1884 Mexico. Constitution. Coleccion que Comprende la Constitucion General de la Republica con sus Adiciones Reformas y Leyes Organicas Expedidas Hasta el 30 de Junio de 1884 y las Constituciones Especiales de Cada uno de los Estados de la Federacion. Mexico City: Imprenta del Gobierno en Palacio 1884. ii 451 2; ii 440 1 pp. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5-3/4". Later cloth red and black lettering pieces to spine endpapers renewed. Some soiling light fading to spine light wear to edges of lettering pieces. Moderate toning to text light foxing in a few places. Ex-library. Location label to spine stamps to title page annotations to verso. A solid copy of a scarce title. $450. Only edition. Mexico's 1857 constitution remained in force until 1917. It received numerous amendments and additions until its repeal which is why annotated editions from different periods are helpful. Coleccion also includes state constitutions. OCLC locates 7 copies in North American law libraries Columbia Harvard Library of Congress LA County St. Louis University University of Michigan University of Minnesota. See Clagett and Valderrama A Revised Guide to the Law & Legal Literature of Mexico 10. unknown
1884622541884. The Mexican Constitution in 1884 Mexico. Constitution. Coleccion que Comprende la Constitucion General de la Republica con sus Adiciones Reformas y Leyes Organicas Expedidas Hasta el 30 de Junio de 1884 y las Constituciones Especiales de Cada uno de los Estados de la Federacion. Mexico City: Imprenta del Gobierno en Palacio 1884. ii 451 2; ii 440 1 pp. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5-3/4". Later cloth red and black lettering pieces to spine endpapers renewed. Some soiling light fading to spine light wear to edges of lettering pieces. Moderate toning to text light foxing in a few places. Ex-library. Location label to spine stamps to title page annotations to verso. A solid copy of a scarce title. $450. Only edition. Mexico's 1857 constitution remained in force until 1917. It received numerous amendments and additions until its repeal which is why annotated editions from different periods are helpful. Coleccion also includes state constitutions. OCLC locates 7 copies in North American law libraries Columbia Harvard Library of Congress LA County St. Louis University University of Michigan University of Minnesota. See Clagett and Valderrama A Revised Guide to the Law & Legal Literature of Mexico 10. unknown books
184137248Providence 1841. Elephant folio sheet folded to 16-1/4" x 21." 4 pp. A persistent but light circular spot in the center of each page. Untrimmed a bit of crimping. Good.<br/><br/> The "Proposed Constitution" adopted at "the Convention of the People" on 18 November 1841 is printed. It would grant the suffrage to "Every white male" adult. Articles favoring is adoption are printed along with Rhode Island's 1790 Declaration of Rights.<br/> The New Age a rare newspaper was an organ of the Rhode Island Suffrage Association allied with Thomas Dorr urging universal white male suffrage. unknown books
184137252Providence 1841. Elephant folio sheet folded to 15-1/4" x 21-1/2." 4 pp. Old folds light foxing. Good.<br/><br/> The "Proposed Constitution" adopted at "the Convention of the People" on 18 November 1841 is printed. It would grant the suffrage to "Every white male" adult. Articles favoring its adoption are printed along with Rhode Island's 1790 Declaration of Rights. Articles on national and local political affairs plus numerous advertisements are also printed. <br/> In 1843 Thomas Dorr was arrested at the offices of the Republican Herald for high treason. unknown books
2092902139100004Jinjashinposha N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 878 pages Jinjashinposha paperback
1817466150Frankfurt, Andreä, 1817. XVIII, 845 S. Pappband d. Zeit mit Rotschnitt (beschabt, Ecken u. Kanten bestoßen). [2 Warenabbildungen]
64 pages. Features: Great photo ad for International Trucks on page 1; Junior Boxing Champion of Quebec - Laurier DesRochers is featured in full-page Cream of Wheat ad; Judgement (short story); Taming the Seven Sisters - gigantic hydro-electric development in Manitoba - article with photos; Dusty Courage (short story); Maker of Champions - Captain J.R. Cornelius trains the Hamilton Central Collegiate track team to success - article with photos; A Salute for the Constitution - a plea for veneration of the document that makes us what we are; Dancing Partners (short story); How I Do Love Water-Lilies!; The Kincade Mystery - Who Killed Ethel Kincake of Hamilton? - article with photos; The Beggar of Ur (shorted story); The Queen of the "Turks" - Turkey farmer Mrs. W.A. Freeman of Ardenode, Alberta - article with photos; Premier of Nova Scotia - Hon. Gordon Sydney Harrington - article with photo; Mr. Gobbins Falls In (short story); The Silver Scale (part I); Political article by Sir Austen Chamberlain, with his photo; Canada's pioneer steam engine, long lost, returned to Nova Scotia - the 'Samson'; full-page Dodge car ad; full-page ad for the new Reo Flying Cloud car; Nice full-page photo ad for Hoover vacuums features cute chilid on vintage phone; Nice full-page ad for Auburn cars features the 5-passenger 2-door Brougham $1445; De Soto Six ad; The School Lunch - article with photos; crossword; Transforming the Cellar - article and photos with ideas of how to transform waste cellar space for an extra games and play room; Nice full-page Studebaker ad; Nice colour Calay soap ad inside back cover; Colour Old Dutch Cleanser ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage issue. Book
109045A la Librairie Constitutionnelle de Baudouin Frères, rue de Vaugirard, N° 36, Près la Chambre des Pairs, 1819, 2 volumes in-8 de 210x130 mm environ, Tome 1 : 1f.blanc, viii-320-194 pages, 1f.blanc, - Tome 2 : 1f.blanc, 565 pages, 1f. (errata), 1f.blanc, reliures demi basane vert sombre, dos lisses portant titres et tomaisons dorés, gardes marbrées de couleurs, tranches finement mouchetées. Edition originale. Ex-libris sur les premiers contreplats.Restauration ancienne p.215 (tome 1), rares rousseurs, petit manque de papier sur le coin inférieur de la p. 161,sinon bon état.
M12072Couverture rigide Sl , 1714 , un vol reliure à nerfs , cartonnage vert. Mors faibles , manque de papier sur qqes cms au bas de la 1ère page de titre , ainsi qu' au bas de la 1ère page , travail de vers marginal dans les dernières pages. Un grand moment de confrontation entre l' eglise gallicane et Rome. Langue: Français
