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4838Seattle 1935. Near fine. 2843113432412pp. Text mostly in Japanese. Original dark green limp leatherette titles stamped in gilt on front cover in original plain cardboard slipcase with black spine titles. Very minor wear to binding. Modest wear and light soiling to slipcase. Internally clean. The last edition of the scarce yearbooks previously issued sporadically beginning in 1910 issued by The North American Times the largest and oldest Japanese-American daily newspaper in the Pacific Northwest. The NAT began in 1902 and was halted by the internment of its staff and most of its readership in 1942. After World War II the newspaper was restarted as The North American Post and is still published today. The bulk of the present volume is a directory of Japanese-American businesses and Japanese-American residents primarily in Washington but also Oregon Montana Idaho Nebraska Colorado Nevada California Wyoming Utah the territory of Alaska Illinois New York and Canada. The names are given in Japanese characters but the street addresses are provided in English. The California list is surprisingly small and there is no mention of Hawaii likely because there was an annual directory published for the Hawaiian islands by the Nippu Jiji Company. The present work is also chock full of illustrated advertisements interspersed throughout almost all of which pertain to businesses in Seattle. The work opens with a lengthy photographically-illustrated section featuring scenes in the Japanese community with group photographs of various Japanese organizations clubs sports teams and the like. There are also several pages featuring portraits of Japanese-American business and community leaders family portraits the interiors and exteriors of Japanese-owned businesses farm and nursery scenes church and school groups and more.<br /> <br /> A scarce Japanese-American directory with only a baker's dozen copies reported in OCLC -- six in a separate record for the 1936 edition with copies at Yale Lewis & Clark College Tacoma Public Library Seattle Public Library the Bancroft and UCLA plus seven copies in a serial record at Columbia Stanford Harvard the Library of Congress the University of Oregon the University of Washington and the University of British Columbia. unknown
1804044518Newbern North Carolina: Martin & Ogden 1804. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to. 501 1; 226 156 1 1 pages. Bound in full leather with a clear removable mylar cover. Early leather over boards with a modern reback in brown leather with spine rules in gilt and with a burgundy leather title label. A sound copy. Professionally conserved. Front flyleaf is tipped in. THE TITLE PAGE IS IN FACSIMILE as are the next two leaves the leaf in printed in italics front and back and the leaf on the Second Charter by Charles II front and back. Very nicely done. The leaf following the last facsimile leaf of Charles II is the remains of the original leaf on Charles II 3/4 of the page encapsulated in tissue and properly tipped in. The rear flyleaf blank is also tipped in. The leather spine is fresh and clean. The boards are scuffed bumped and abraded with a piece chipped out from the top corner of the front cover. The text block is sound likely re-sewn. The text is toned with occasional foxing. The title page to the second part also dated 1804 shows heavier foxing. The conservation work is very good. An attractive copy. <br/> <br/> Martin & Ogden hardcover
1855WRCAM55650Albany N.Y. 1855. Broadside 20 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches. Woodcut illustration in upper margin. Four closed tears no loss to text seven early repairs to tears text slightly affected old folds and crumpling some soiling but overall still sharp and clear. Good. A dramatic broadside announcing a new waxwork exhibit depicting the murder of Major Benjamin Birdsall by James Hamilton along with Hamilton's subsequent execution by hanging. At the very top there is a small woodcut of Hamilton on the gallows. The text below promises that viewers can see the scene "at the moment the ball entered the Major's side. Both the figures are dressed in the same clothing worn by them at the time the affair took place; and the Rifle in the hands of Hamilton is the identical one with which the murderous deed was committed." Visitors are also guaranteed "a correct likeness of James Hamilton on the gallows the moment previous to his execution dressed in the identical apparel worn by him at the time and the same rope round his neck with which he was hung." <br> <br> According to his brief autobiography dictated to Calvin Pepper Hamilton's was a sad story: a rough childhood in which he turned to crime and was in and out of debt and trouble until he learned that soldiers were exempt from the bailiffs and so he enlisted in the 6th U.S. Infantry Regiment in Albany in 1812. He fought at York and Fort George and was then captured by the British. After his release he bounced in and out of the Army - tried to join the Navy - and was in and out of the Army again. Despite slipping deeper into vice and debauchery he ended up in the Army one more time joining Major Birdsall's rifle company stationed at Albany in early 1818. In July of the same year so drunk he could not remember the act he shot Birdsall and was executed November 6 1818. <br> <br> The date "December 24 1818" appears at the lower left corner of the page but it is not clear what it references. The New-York State Museum was not founded until 1836 and not open to the public until 1845. It was initially located at the Old State House not "Old City-Hall" as found here and moved when the hall was demolished in 1855. No doubt the murder of Major Birdsall was still exciting news as much for the murder as for Hamilton's salacious autobiography. <br> <br> This broadside is decidedly rare. We could find no other record of it in OCLC or on the market. THE LIFE AND DYING CONFESSIONS OF JAMES HAMILTON EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF MAJOR BENJAMIN BIRDSALL NOV. 6 1818 ALBANY Albany: Calvin Pepper 1819. hardcover books
19391653681939. RODCHENKO Aleksandr. The Red Army and Navy. Unpaginated photographically illustrated throughout. Folio 390 x 250 mm. bound in publisher's blind-stamped cloth. Moscow and Leningrad: State Art Publishers 1939. Designed by Rodchenko and presumably issued as a companion volume to Soviet Aviation in the same year and in the same format. A marvelous example of Stalinist book design combining Rodchenko's modernist sensibility with typical Stalinist bombast. The large format photomontages extol the power and virtue of the Soviet Army at the dawn of the Second World War. Very slight bend to the cloth but generally an unusually fine copy. Karasik. The Soviet Photobook 1920-1940. p. 474. hardcover
1778152956Philadelphia: Chez Cellot & Jombert 1778. First. hardcover. near fine. 12 370 pages. Thick 12mo handsomely rebound in modern tree calf with red & green leather labels on gilt-decorated spine; deckled edges very light foxing and staining to some pages but mostly the text is bright and clean with wide margins. Philadelphie et se vend a Paris: Chez Cellot & Jombert 1778. First Edition. A near fine copy with original drab wrappers bound in.<br/><br/> The earliest collection of American state constitutions printed in France. Contains early printing in French in a book of the Articles of Confederation and the Declaration of Independence. "First collected edition compiled by Regnier." Howes R-111.<br/><br/> Chez Cellot & Jombert unknown books
18497441Saint Paul: James M. Goodhue printer 1849. 16mo pp. 15 1; original plain brown printed wrappers fine. A very early - if not the first - piece of printing in Minnesota exclusive of newspapers. Of the 14 pieces of printing identified by Martin in her Checklist of Minnesota Imprints 1849-1865 only two items Martin 6 and 8 broadside proclamations by territorial governor Ramsey bear an earlier date on the title-p. and one other Rules for the Government of the House of Representatives bears the same date. Includes standing rules for the legislative council rules of order and procedure of the two Houses and a list of the standing committees of the Council and joint committees of the House of Representatives. Rare. 100 copies were ordered printed. Martin 11 MHS only. Jerabek 66 identifying this as the first publication of the territorial legislature. Kreidberg Fragments of Early Printing . in the Territory and State of Minnesota p. 18: "The first public territorial issuance put into type was a booklet dated September 3 1849 which appeared under James M. Goodhue's imprint. In fifteen pages of hand-set type the territorial printer produced the Rules for the Government of the Council of Minnesota Territory. James M. Goodhue, printer unknown
18497441Saint Paul: James M. Goodhue printer 1849. 16mo pp. 15 1; original plain brown printed wrappers fine. A very early - if not the first - piece of printing in Minnesota exclusive of newspapers. Of the 14 pieces of printing identified by Martin in her Checklist of Minnesota Imprints 1849-1865 only two items Martin 6 and 8 broadside proclamations by territorial governor Ramsey bear an earlier date on the title-p. and one other Rules for the Government of the House of Representatives bears the same date. Includes standing rules for the legislative council rules of order and procedure of the two Houses and a list of the standing committees of the Council and joint committees of the House of Representatives. Rare. 100 copies were ordered printed. Martin 11 MHS only. Jerabek 66 identifying this as the first publication of the territorial legislature. Kreidberg Fragments of Early Printing . in the Territory and State of Minnesota p. 18: "The first public territorial issuance put into type was a booklet dated September 3 1849 which appeared under James M. Goodhue's imprint. In fifteen pages of hand-set type the territorial printer produced the Rules for the Government of the Council of Minnesota Territory." <br/><br/> James M. Goodhue, printer unknown books
17808583Hamburg: C.E. Bohn 1780. First German edition and first edition in a foreign language 8vo pp. xxiv 456; engraved folding map; nice copy of a scarce edition in 20th century 3/4 red morocco gilt by Stikeman. A seminal book in the history of the exploration of the American west and a cornerstone in Minnesota history. Peace between Great Britain and France at the close of the French and Indian Wars in 1763 brought eastern Minnesota under the British flag for the first time thus opening the vast territory to British fur traders. "Carver spent the winter of 1766-67 a short distance up the Minnesota River with the Sioux. He was then serving as mapmaker and advance man on an expedition led by Captain James Tute and inspired by Maj. Robert Rogers commandant at Fort Mackinac intended to cross the continent in quest of the Northwest Passage. The plan had to be given up but Carver later wrote and published an account of his travels which became a "best seller" of its day and gave to thousands on both sides of the Atlantic their first information about the Minnesota country" Fridley A Sketch of Minnesota p. 3. Sabin 11187. <br/><br/> C.E. Bohn unknown books
17808583Hamburg: C.E. Bohn 1780. First German edition and first edition in a foreign language 8vo pp. xxiv 456; engraved folding map; nice copy of a scarce edition in 20th century 3/4 red morocco gilt by Stikeman. A seminal book in the history of the exploration of the American west and a cornerstone in Minnesota history. Peace between Great Britain and France at the close of the French and Indian Wars in 1763 brought eastern Minnesota under the British flag for the first time thus opening the vast territory to British fur traders. "Carver spent the winter of 1766-67 a short distance up the Minnesota River with the Sioux. He was then serving as mapmaker and advance man on an expedition led by Captain James Tute and inspired by Maj. Robert Rogers commandant at Fort Mackinac intended to cross the continent in quest of the Northwest Passage. The plan had to be given up but Carver later wrote and published an account of his travels which became a "best seller" of its day and gave to thousands on both sides of the Atlantic their first information about the Minnesota country" Fridley A Sketch of Minnesota p. 3. Sabin 11187. C.E. Bohn unknown
48167Minneapolis: privately printed 2015. Edition limited to 50 copies this being one of 45 there are 5 artist's proofs; small tall folio pp. 24; illustrations in the text 1 full-page and in color large double-page folding plate printed in color; original stiff orange wrappers with gilt vignette the whole in a plexiglass slipcase. As new at the published price. Electric Tulips 5.1 was conceived as a dialogue between an imaginary literary critic Gallo and the poet Gallo and revolves around the writing and presentation of his poem Electric Tulips 5.1. The essay which results Future Preterite by the esteemed critic Alessandro S. Stompanado is intended to emulate that of the essay by James Joyce written under the pseudonym Vladimir Dixon; and which appeared in the Sylvia Beach publication of 1929: Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress in which Joyce writes an appreciation of his own novel Ulysses. As such the book is a multi-layered pastiche of both literary and typographic treatments along with a magnificent double gatefold presentation of the poem in eight colors each of the seven stanzas in a separate color and the seminal tulip in an eighth; the type all set by hand and printed letterpress and polymer from Permanent Headline Open from the now defunct foundry Ludwig & Mayer. privately printed unknown
71216Saint Paul: Phil Gallo at the Hermetic Press 2025. Edition limited to 35 copies on Rives BFK signed by Gallo with his initial P; 8vo pp. 56; printed in a variety of colors and in a variety of fonts; portrait of the printer by B. Kreft; original stiff cherry wrappers printed in silver; fine in original plexiglas slipcase. A retrospective of sorts of Gallo's work over 60 years. "A number of these poems were printed on 5x7-inch cards and sent to friends of the press. The Printer however being of a dilatory nature sent out so few he feels it not unwarranted to call them new 'Qfwfq' notwithstanding and to include them in this new book." Twenty or so separate items for lack of a better word composed designed illustrated and printed by one of the finest printers alive today. Phil Gallo at the Hermetic Press unknown
63023Saint Paul: Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press 2023. Edition limited to 31 copies signed by Gallo press numbered 1-26 and 5 lettered A-E; 8vo pp. 34; frontispiece printed in silver "from Bric-A-Brac J Swift and first appearance of Hermetic Press imprint :: 1966" the whole printed in red blue green and black in roman and cyrillic type on Johannot with extracts from Montaigne William Massey John Ruskin Laurence Sterne Ralph Ellison and Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Lewis Carroll's Alice Adventures in Wonderland; stiff card wrappers with black dust jacket stamped in silver in a plexiglas slipcase. An overtly political book on the "limitations if not the failings of Cancel Culture. Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press unknown
65351Saint Paul Minnesota and Stockholm Wisconsin: Midnight Paper Sales 2023. Edition limited to 70 signed and numbered copies with an additional 5 hors commerce 4to 9" x 11" pp. 36; the text was composition-cast in Monotype Menhart designed by Oldrich Menhart in Prague in 1933 and printed on vintage handmade paper at the Velké Losiny mill in the Czech Republic in the mid-20th century; bound by Matthew Zimmerman at Studio Alcyon. "In 1982 while wearing the hat of a 'small press illustrator' I was fortunate to be given the opportunity to illustrate a long prose poem by Patricia Hampl who had recently become famous with the publication of her memoir A Romantic Education Houghton Mifflin 1981. The resulting book Resort Bookslinger Editions 1982 was pivotal for me and I began angling for a manuscript from Patricia I might publish myself. It only took 40 years for one to materialize." It's Come to This . a bookend of sorts for Resort . contains drawings by Gaylord Schanilec of a wild rose and a stark sunrise over Lake Superior and color wood engravings by him of a blooming Amaryllis and a panoramic sunset over the riverfront of Saint Paul along with a cover lithograph drawn on and printed from the stone by Lila Shull. In the text Hampl contemplates her mortality as she walks her dog along the Saint Paul riverfront through that first dark year of the pandemic. Midnight Paper Sales unknown
192620993Paris 1926. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies printed by Maurice Darantiere sm. 4to pp. 5-58 5; 20 small pouchoir illustrations by Bonfils; original stiff pictorial wrappers; fine copy in a nearly fine glassine sleeve and the printed copy designation slip laid in. Tessie was the talented daughter of the famed collector of rare Americana Herschel V. Jones of Minneapolis. <br/><br/> unknown books
50252Madison Minn: The Seventies Press 1970. First edition wrapper issue; 8vo pp. 59 3; original plain tan wrappers with tan pictorial dust jacket without a price on the front flap and with the '2' in "20" on the front panel in a smaller font. This is the first state of the dust jacket see Gustafson for details. Also wrappered copies appear to be the ones first shipped from the printer. This copy inscribed to Mankato poet: "For Rezmerski John. Robert Bly and with a typical Bly drawing of what I take to be a moose and also from Tomas Transtromer." 2000 copies were printed 1000 each in boards and wrappers. Transtromer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2011. Gustafson B14. The Seventies Press unknown
197050252Madison Minn: The Seventies Press 1970. First edition wrapper issue; 8vo pp. 59 3; original plain tan wrappers with tan pictorial dust jacket without a price on the front flap and with the '2' in "20" on the front panel in a smaller font. This is the first state of the dust jacket see Gustafson for details. Also wrappered copies appear to be the ones first shipped from the printer. This copy inscribed to Mankato poet: "For Rezmerski John. Robert Bly and with a typical Bly drawing of what I take to be a moose and also from Tomas Transtromer." 2000 copies were printed 1000 each in boards and wrappers. Transtromer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2011. Gustafson B14. <br/><br/> The Seventies Press hardcover books
1982060734Reading PA: Historical Society of Berks County/George M. Meiser IX 1982. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Complete in 25 volumes accompanied by "A Comprehensive Index to The Passing Scene Volumes 1 to 10" Neiman. Issued more or less annually 1982-2018. Single-owner collection as issued or very nearly so. Some volumes show a slight binding lean typical of issue; Vol. 2 shows minor foxing to front cover gold foil in a few areas. Vol. 2 signed by primary author George Meiser other volumes unsigned. A rare opportunity to purchase the complete set of this pioneering and literally unique photographic history the most comprehensive of its kind ever issued for any county in all 50 states. Historical Society of Berks County/George M. Meiser IX Hardcover
193719149Paris, Gonin, 1937. In-8 en feuilles, couverture illustrée, chemise, étui.
1982062449Reading PA: Historical Society of Berks County/George M. Meiser IX 1982. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Complete in 25 volumes accompanied by "A Comprehensive Index to The Passing Scene Volumes 1 to 10" Neiman. Issued more or less annually 1982-2018. Single-owner collection. Some volumes show minor foxing along top text block edge and/or to front flyleaf all otherwise as issued or nearly so. Vol. 4 is a presentation copy inscribed by GMMIX to a contributor to that volume and vol. 16 is signed by GMMIX; vols. 5 9 13 17 20 22 23 and 25 are signed by both Meisers. Vols. 1 9 and 12 show a gift inscription not by the Meisers to the former owner inked on front flyleaf; Vol. 6 shows a former owner's address inscription inside the front cover in pencil; Vol. 11 shows a former owner's name and date inked on front flyleaf. Vols. 14 15 are brand new still sealed in original shrinkwrap. A rare opportunity to purchase the complete set of this pioneering and literally unique photographic history the most comprehensive of its kind ever issued for any county in all 50 states. Historical Society of Berks County/George M. Meiser IX Hardcover
1865WRCAM32129New York: Dopp & Nolan 1865. Photograph 11 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches mounted on printed card stock 16 x 19 3/4 inches. The image and card stock have equal light tanning otherwise the photograph is clean and unblemished. Minor chipping and staining to mount. Very good. Archival matting and protected with mylar sheet. A large and impressive photograph of the Stanwix Hall Hotel dating to around the end of the Civil War. The photograph shows the large four-story hotel from an elevated height across the corner of the building showing the full length of two sides of the building. Men with top hats and women with parasols are shown on two balconies and in the open windows. Three horse-drawn carriages and a buckboard are also shown. Several other people stand in the doorway and one man leans against a large gas lamp. Two businesses are visible on the ground floor one owned by "T. Flanagan" and the other a "Wholesale Liquor Store" which also sells tobacco and cigars. A sign for a wood coal yard is also visible in the foreground. The mount has dramatic large-type shaded print advertising the hotel. <br> <br> W.B. Sink moved to Rome New York in 1865 and bought the Stanwix Hall Hotel and the adjacent Mansion House Hotel. He also opened the "Sink Opera House." This poster advertising the Stanwix was likely taken shortly after Sink bought the hotel serving as a compelling advertisement for one of Rome's grandest buildings. An evocative promotional piece offering much information about American economics architecture and culture at the close of the Civil War. Dopp & Nolan unknown books
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) An extremely rare litho propaganda map published as an extra supplement to the Tercümân-i Hakîkat [i.e. The Translator of Truth] newspaper just before the proclamation of Republic in Turkey in 1923 by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938), showing the front in West Anatolia during the War of Independence (or National Struggle) between 1919-1922 against Greek forces. The upside of the map between the note as title 'Gift to the readers of 'Tercümân-i Hakîkat', Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's portrait among decorated heroic lithographed drawings. In the lower right corner, can be seen legends of the map, scale, and mapmaker's signature. Tercümân-i Hakîkat was a daily newspaper published in Istanbul between 1878-1921 during the Ottoman Empire. Tercüman-i Hakîkat, the most important newspaper published during the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II, was founded by novelist Ahmed Midhat Efendi, (1844-1912). In the beginning, most of the articles were written by Ahmed Midhat Efendi. It was an encyclopedic newspaper with the aim of inculcating and educating reading habits among the Turks and it played an important role in the training of many famous Ottoman journalists. Its first issue was published on June 26, 1878. After Ahmed Midhat's death in 1913, the newspaper changed owners, and the last issue was published on February 11, 1921. Ibrahim Alaettin Gövsa, (1889-1949), was an Ottoman / Turkish journalist, educator, and intellectual who supported the War of Independence the most. This propaganda map published in Tercümân-i Hakîkat, during the war in 1920 or 1921, is a propaganda tool that calls on the literate people belonging to a certain class, especially those living in Istanbul, to support the war, and aims to spread the word that Turkey is winning the war. Original lithograph map. 50x35,5 cm. In Ottoman script (Turkish with Arabic letters). Scale: 1: 250.000. Occasionally foxing and slight stains on paper, folded traces. Otherwise a very good copy.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original cloth bdg. with marbled boards. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 13,5 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 176, [1] p. Lithographed edition. Extremely rare first and only edition of this guide to the distances and meridian calculations of some cities from Batumi located on the shores of Black Sea, Europe until Great Britain, Asia, and Africa shores, prepared for Turkish naval officers, mariners, and vessels, describing the shores of the countries located on these routes. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ibrahim Edhem Pasha was an Ottoman statesman, who held the office of Grand Vizier at the beginning of Abdul Hamid II's reign between 5 February 1877 and 11 January 1878. He resigned from that post after the Ottoman chances of winning the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) had decreased. He furthermore served in numerous administrative positions in the Ottoman Empire including minister of foreign affairs in 1856, then ambassador to Berlin in 1876, and to Vienna from 1879 to 1882. He also served as a military engineer and as Minister of Interior from 1883 to 1885. In 1876-1877, he represented the Ottoman Government at the Constantinople Conference. He was born in Chios of Greek ancestry, in a Christian Greek Orthodox village on the island of Chios. Strangely, his connection to Chios is not well-documented: his son Osman Hamdi Bey claimed that he was a member of the Scaramanga family, but Edhem Pasha himself tried to efface his Greek connections. As a young boy in 1822, he was orphaned and captured by Ottoman soldiers during the massacre of the Greek population of Chios. He was sold into slavery, brought to Constantinople, and adopted by the (later) grand vizier Hüsrev Pasha. Lacking his own children and family, Hüsrev Pasha raised about ten children who had been orphaned or bought as slaves, many of whom ascended to important positions. The child, now named Ibrahim Edhem, quickly distinguished himself with his intelligence and after having attended schools in the Ottoman Empire, he was dispatched along with a number of his peers, and under the supervision of his father, then grand vizier, and of the sultan Mahmud II himself, to Paris to pursue his studies under state scholarship. There he returned with a Bachelor of Arts and was one of the top pupils at the École des Mines. He was a classmate and a friend of Louis Pasteur. He thus became Turkey's first mining engineer in the modern sense, and he started his career in this field. Edhem Pasha was the father of Osman Hamdi Bey, a well-known archaeologist, and painter, as well as the founder of the Istanbul Archaeology Museum and the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. Another son, Halil Edhem Eldem took up the archaeology museum after Osman Hamdi Bey's death and has been a deputy for ten years under the newly founded Turkish Republic. Yet another son, Ismail Galib Bey, is considered the founder of numismatics as a scientific discipline in Turkey. Later generations of the family also produced illustrious names. The architect Sedat Hakki Eldem, a cousin, is one of the pillars of the search for modern architectural styles adopted by the Republic of Turkey (called the Republican style in the Turkish context) in its early years and which marks many important buildings dating from the period of the 1920s and the 1930s. A great-grandson, Burak Eldem, is a writer while another, Edhem Eldem, is a renowned historian. More names include Erol Eldem, Tiana Eldem, Levent Eldem, and Ercan Eldem, an architect. (Source: Wikipedia). Özege 4522.; Only one copy in OCLC: 162837008 (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek).
1940006888Lancaster: Journal of the Franklin Institute 1940. First Separate Edition . Printed Wrappers. Very Good. 9 1/2" Tall. 454 Pp. Original Offprint From The Journal Of The Franklin Institute In Their Gray Wrappers Not Ex-Library. Gray Wrappers Printed In Black. Light Wear Fading Along Edges. Frank Malina 1912-1981 Played An Important Role In The Beginnings Of The U. S. Government's Rocket Program And Thereby The U. S. Space Program Through His Founding Role In The Galcit Rocket Research Program Working With Theodore Von Karman And A Small Group Of Cal Tech Students And Others. This Early Paper Discusses Constant Pressure Motors Which Include Either Gas Liquid Or Solid Propellants As Opposed To Constant Volume Solid Pellet Motors And Is Of Importance As Later That Year Malina Is Credited With A Major Role In The Development Of Solid-Fuel Motor Fuel Together Several Of His Co-Workers And Von Karman Was The First Or Second Director Of Jpl And Later Started A New Career As An Avant-Garde Artist And Founder Of The Original Journal Of Arts And Sciences "Leonardo". Ownership Signature Of Mark Serrurier 1904 - 1988 Ehe Son Of Dutch-Born Electrical Engineer Iwan Serrurier Who Created The Moviola In 1924 Which Became The Technology Used For Film Editing. Mark Was A Graduate Of Caltech And Went On To Work On Designs For The Mt. Palomar 200 Inch 5 M Hale Telescope. The Pioneering Truss Design He Invented For That Instrument's Massive Tube Structure The "Serrurier Truss" Is Still Used Today In Large Telescope Designs. During World War Ii Mark Worked At The Jet Propulsion Laboratory Testing Jet Aircraft Engines. In 1942 Rolf Sabersky Worked In Mechanical Design On The Southern California Cooperative Wind Tunnel Under Serrurier And Hap Richards. After The War In 1946 Mark Took Over As President Of Moviola Co. His Father Iwan'S Company. Mark Re-Designed His Fathers Invention With Many Improvements And Ran The Company Until He Sold It In 1966. In 1979 Mark Accepted A Special Academy Award For Technical Achievement" For The Progressive Development Of The Moviola From The 1924 Invention Of His Father Iwan Serrurier To The Present Series 20 Sophisticated Film Editing Equipment". He Only Accepted After Insisting That His Late Father's Name Would Also Appear On The Statue. This Offprint- As Most Early "Arroyo Seco Group" Rocket Material- Is Quite Scarce. <br/> <br/> Journal of the Franklin Institute unknown
1923007859Washington D.C.: The White House 1923. Book. Fine. One Page. 8 1/2" x 11". December 17 1923 The White House - to Lew Wallace Jr. son of Lew Wallace Union general in the American Civil War governor of the New Mexico Territory and author of "Ben Hur"- "Dear Mr. Wallace The growth of thrift and saving in this country promises well for our future. Only through sacrifice and hard work can we attain the cherished things in life. This means we must work and save. The progress of the United States Government Savings System in giving to all our people an opportunity to invest in safe securities is most worthy. By placing Treasury Savings Certyificates on sale in post offices banks and trust companies the Government has made available to everyone a security of unquestioned soundness. Their widespread sale makes for better citizenship as each purchaser holds a stake in his Government. I believe also that the enlargement of a national Thrift movement will eventually stamp out the false and unsound practices of the swindler." A 25 line roughly 225 word letter that in the last paragraph goes on to talk about the growth of this system that "will result in increased happiness for the individual and in increased prosperity in general." A Fine letter under glass in period original frame and acquired directly from descendants of the Wallace family never before offered for sale. A superb association and a letter that speaks directly to Coolidge's sense of personal responsibility and frugality. The White House unknown
175042895(Petropoli (St. Petersbourg), 1750). 4to. Uncut, without wrappers. Extracted from ""Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae"", Tom. I. ad Annum 1747 et 1748. Pp. 245-266 a. 1 engraved plate (ad. p. 251). Clean and fine.
