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195622934France: Not Published 1956. Watercolor Paris '50s street scene on paper; inscribed at bottom left "from Claude & Denise signed Remusat en souvenir de son premier voyage a Paris 4 Mai 1956 Rue de l'Echaude" also penciled below repeating the street name; given to the former owner and friend of the artist Robert S. Greene 1922-2013 American writer jazz musician documentarian and historian by Claude Remusat 1896-1982 French artist decorated World War I veteran; approx. 11"" x 16" size; painted on good heavy paper stock with gouache heightening; light wear painted to the edge of the paper; little mounting tape residue on back; artwork in very good condition and with excellent provenance directly from the artist to the first owner and now from his estate. . Art. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published Paperback books
17039Girls Education Memory Album with 24 handwritten entries from friends and classmates of a Young Woman in Hillsboro IL from 1853-1862. A memorabilia recording many aspects of the first major movement of women's education in the United States brings depth to a movement that was groundbreaking in its time but today is largely at risk of disappearing from the historical record. 24 entries in various hands dated 1853-1862. Memory albums held autographs sentiments and reminiscences of friends and schoolmates similar to yearbooks today. "To Hettie Oh! do not say Farewell We we are going to sever Tis like sudden passing bell of Friendship gone forever. Oh seek some other language than the mournful truth to tell Say parting friends may meet again but do not say farewell." Red cloth boards with a gilt motif of a girl scattering flowers in center. 7 3/4 x 6 in. Gilt edges. 130 pages. Album includes one frontispiece engraving and 5 color illustrations of flowering plants and birds. 2 hand-drawn pictures of flowers and a hand-drawn pencil illustration of a young woman cut out into a paperdoll. Most entries from Hillsboro IL but include other location such as St. Louis. Young women particularly those finishing their time at a female academy and preparing to leave their school friends tended to be the ones to create friendship albums. Boards faded. Good to very good condition. unknown books
180926943London England: Printed for Longman Hurst Rees and Orme 1809. xx 289 pages; errata slip at back; with the half-title. Illustrated with 10 copper-engraved plates accompanying various articles. The Preface describes the ".nature and objects of this Institution and the claims which it possesses to professional patronage." with background on the early history of the Society's founding and organization. The members from its formation to March 1809 are listed alphabetically along with their positions and qualifications; this is followed by the lists of the council members for the years 1805 through 1809 and finally the list of Trustees elected at its formation. The contents consist of a group of medical accounts and cases observations and descriptions of various diseases conditions and effects by Astley Cooper Christopher Stanger Richard Pearson John Abernethy David Dundas; John Bostock Alexander Marcet William Babington Thompson Forster James Moore H.L. Thomas Thomas Chevalier Thomas Blizard James Wilson John Yelloly George William Young and Edward Jenner. The last four pages of the volume are devoted to the list of donations to the Society consisting of a list of the books and publications various manuals and pharmacopoeia given by the named benefactors. Text printed by G. Woodfall London. Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" size; bound in contemporary full polished tree-calf; flat spine with a few small gilt decorations faded. Some edge tips wear and rubbing to the binding; spine ends chipped away; leather at hinges split; text block solidly sewn. Contents with only the occasional spot of foxing; overall very clean fairly fresh and in good condition. First Edition. Leather. Good. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme books
10582Ancient Lamp from Judea circa 2nd century AD and later. 3" x 2". Lamp has a molded design in discus a sheep among other objects with dark red to brown slip. The lamp is inside a plastic display box with a wooden base. Oil lamps were made of common pottery in the ancient world people did not have much light at nights most homes would contain several oil lamps because olive oil was in abundance and therefore not expensive. There was also an oven that provided a little bit of light but the oil lamps were the main source of light in every home. In excellent condition.<br/><br/>Lamps appear in the Torah and other Jewish sources as a symbol of "lighting" the way for the righteous the wise and for love and other positive values. While fire was often described as being destructive light was given a positive spiritual meaning. The oil lamp and its light were important household items and this may explain their symbolism. Oil lamps were used for many spiritual rituals. unknown books
1802602254<p>"B. Lincoln" in black ink on partially printed document Port of Boston and Charlestown July 6 1802. 9 1/4" x 5"; 1 page recto and verso; very good to small burn holes; minor signs of handling. Countersigned by Thomas Melvill. U.S. Seal impressed at upper left corner within ornate border. Document certifying that the firm of Head and Amory imported a chest of sixty-two pounds of green tea from Canton on the Elisa Odell an American vessel. Lincoln 1733-1810 born January 24 1733 Hingham Massachusetts; died May 9 1810 Hingham Massachusetts; American Revolutionary officer; Major general in Continental army 1777 in command of the militia in Vermont; in command of American army in southern department September 1778; captured with his army in Charleston S.C. May 1779; served in Yorktown campaign 1781; elected secretary of war by Congress 1781-1783; Commanded force that suppressed Shays's Rebellion 1787. Thomas Melvill 1751-1832 grandfather of Herman Melville and one of the "Indians" of the Boston Tea Party on May 10 1773; navel officer and U.S. Collector for the Port of Boston.</p> unknown books
194020942EBeverly Hills CA: Twentieth Century-Fox Studios 1940. Original 1940 Studio Pass to Twentieth Century-Fox Studios for Hollywood columnist Jimmy Starr with his signature. Orange cardstock 3 5/8†x 2 3/8†with rounded corners. Studio passes were given to press and industry representatives allowing the bearer access to the studio’s lot and sets. It reads in full: “Press Pass to Publicity Department Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation Beverly Hills California Name Jimmy Starr typed Representing L.A. Herald & Express typed Valid Until December 31 1940 Studio Publicity Manager Harry Brand typed No. 141 This Pass Not Valid Unless Signed by the Holder on the Reverse Side.†On the verso is a printed set of basic terms regarding the holder of the pass and is signed by Jimmy Starr in ink as the recipient of the pass. Very good with some minor use and dust soiling. Jimmy Starr 1902 - 1990 is best known as a Hollywood columnist though he was also a writer and actor known for The Corpse Came C.O.D. 1947 A Night for Crime 1943 and Pink Pajamas 1929. Some of the Twentieth Century-Fox films Mr. Starr may have enjoyed include such popular productions released in 1940 as The Grapes of Wrath directed by John Ford starring Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell. The film won Oscars for Best Director and Best Supporting Actress Darwell and was nominated for Best Picture Best Actor Fonda Best Screenplay Best Sound and Best Editing. Other 1940 releases include Brigham Young directed by Henry Hathaway starring Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise with Sidney Toler and Johnny Apollo with Tyrone Power and Dorothy Lamour. Twentieth Century-Fox Studios unknown books
175929663Paris: Basan 1759. 385 x 260 mm. Printed on laid paper. <br/><br/>The outdoor scene with trees and statuary depicts Caroline and Charlotte daughters of Frédéric Sluyter performing in a production of Pygmalion at the Schouwberg Theatre in Amsterdam. The dancer at left is on her right foot with arms outstretched costumed in a dress with a low rounded neckline pointed waistline and a wide panniered skirt; the dancer at right is on her left foot with arms outstretched wearing male attire including cocked hat frock coat with stiff flared skirt breeches and heeless shoes. <br/><br/>Browned; small stain to lower right corner. Scarce. NYPL: b12155632. BM 1854 0614.342.<br/><br/>Caroline and Charlotte Frédéric were part of a troupe of child performers active in Amsterdam in the 1760s. Basan unknown books
18711247Wells VT 1871-1873. Leather bound. Leather account book with pocket. Good. 72 pages written 62 blank. 15.5 x 10 cm. Leather notebook with flap and pocket property of R.M.W Lewis Wells VT. Handwritten notebook with 16 additional daily accounts using "Lake Austin Woolen Mill" letterhead for this cheese factories daily tally. Ledger describes what seems to be a cheese co-op with dividends divided per day report of the season most milk received in one day June 16th - 9195 gallons days cheese was made per year 207 etc. Wells VT rests on the edge of Rutland county and in 1870 the populations total was 430 people. In the early 1800's a dam was built on Lake St. Catherine which enabled industry such as a woolen mill wood working shop and cheese factory to thrive. Covers worn joints cracked but holding 2 cm. loss of leather to tail of spine. <br/><br/> hardcover books
194326376Williamsport Pennsylvania: Not Published 1943. Over 300 individual pieces of correspondence sent to Betty I. Carvell later Eckert mostly from her parents and with a few from friends. A few of the letters are from women who served with her in the SPARS the women's branch of the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve established in 1942. Ms. Carvell Eckert's service career is documented by her mailing addresses: March of 1943 she attempted to join the USMC there is an official letter from their office requesting information; by August she is a A.S. W-10 billeted at the USCG women's training facility at the Palm Beach Biltmore Hotel Florida; becomes S 2/c advances to S 1/c and finally addressing her as Coxswain. Her living & working "barracks" address throughout 1944-45 was at the Embassy Hotel 154 W 70th Street NY. According to the official site 978 women officers and 11868 enlisted women served in the SPARs during World War II. Most letters are from her parents in Williamsport Pennsylvania. They usually consist of a letter each from father & mother and detail the vicissitudes of living in poverty their continuous and debilitating ill-health and their nearby relations and the struggle of finding work; having to buy expensive medicines required for their numerous maladies: rheumatism pneumonia high blood pressure sciatica nearly constant colds and bed-ridden bouts of collapse from various causes. Several letters written by the father go into great detail concerning meals that they occasionally are bought or can afford - the most basic of foods and preparation are appreciated as great important feasts. Occasionally having mashed potatoes are noteworthy as a luxurious culinary event. Local news is of great importance to Ms. Carvell who asked for the 2 Williamsport newspapers to be sent. Her parents are so poor they have to ask for money from their daughter to pay for the newspapers use the phone to call her and pay their rent as they move from place to place in the town. The father's writing is fairly literate and well-composed; the mother's is at an early grammar school level and still legible. Content includes local gossip neighborly strife and griping along with church school and other news regarding the town. During and after wartime there are concerns about brownouts due to the coal shortage worries about another war and labor & strike fears. A couple of elderly aunts run a shop rent out rooms and work until they die. At one point while still in the USCG Betty marries Robert Eckert and moves to Baltimore. Her parents are so poor they can't afford to attend. She also has a friend in Sheffield England who writes several letters to her over the years describing a pitiless tedious overworked life; a hard pregnancy; sick blind burned bruised children the telling of which hints at parental abuse; the injuries while severe are always reported as 'accidental' because the children are 'clumsy.' The post-war situation in England is rife with poverty; the most basic amenities are scarce. It was worth reporting that someone had traveled and been able to gain 4 pounds due to better nutrition possibilities and who promptly lost on return to the daily grind. Many of the greeting cards for holidays or personal events are sent unsigned. Also Betty's mom invariably signs her letters "Mother Carvell" not Mom or Mother; as if she may have been an adoptive parent; her father is always simply signed 'Dad'. A few SPARS-related items include a couple of decals and a one-stripe shoulder patch; also an official letter asking her to promote others to join the Coast Guard after her service commitment with guidelines for prospects & requirements for enlistment. There are a couple of dozen loose greeting cards and loose empty envelopes some of which may belong to the cards. There are a few news-clippings related to Williamsport news a letter from France from a service friend with a one-franc coin taped-in and some Methodist church bulletin ephemera from the town. Condition: For convenience the letters have been chronologically grouped by year and we will ship them thus. The first few years' envelopes are lacking stamps as Betty's father was collecting them; later years have their stamps & cancellations intact. Some soiling wear & tear to the envelopes; everything in very good condition. The content portrays small-town Pennsylvania American life in the 1940s and early 1950s the importance of family support and connection in the face of economic uncertainty ill-health and the struggle to start support and maintain families at all stages of life especially for women. . Manuscript. Not Bound. Good. Not Published paperback books
2085Hardcover. Tan smooth calf morocco boards. Good in custom matching slipcase good. 37 x 17 cm. 119 linen-backed leaves of manuscript notations and paste down documents. Peter Fahrney 1840-1905 president and founder of Fahrney & Sons Co. was born in Maryland to a family of herbal practitioners. His grandfather known as Ole Dr. Peter Fahrney was well known in the Boonsboro area of Maryland and his office has been preserved to this day. Peter Fahrney grew up in Pennsylvania and attended Jefferson Medical College and the Philadelphia School of Pharmacy. He began practicing medicine in Pennsylvania in 1861 at the age of twenty-one. During the Civil War Fahrney left Pennsylvania and moved to Chicago. His practice grew from general practice to the manufacturing of natural remedies which were sold nationwide. His factory burned down in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 but he was back in business within days. The Fahrney & Sons Company and his uncle Daniel manufactured similar products under Dr. Daniel Fahrney & Son. The ledger is most likely Fahrney's first: it begins in his first year of practice and in addition to patient accounting records includes costs of building his office digging the foundation laboratory supplies etc. An original order form for Dr. Fahrney's blood vitalizer is included. Many patients are listed. Included in the front of the ledger and stapled to the frond endpaper are three notarized statements authenticating the ledger. The first is by Edward J. Ryan of Cook County Illinois a former employee of Dr. Fahrney swearing to the authenticity of the ledger and confirming the handwriting found within is that of the doctor. A statement of John E. Burget confirms the validity of 21 of the persons named in the ledger with notes added: John W. Brumbaugh - My Grandfather; George W. Brumbaugh - My Mother's Uncle; John Dilling - Farmer; Dr. John Wengert - Drugs; Samuel Grabill - Merchant; David Wineland - Black smith; J.C. Sanders - Druggist; Daniel M. Holsinger - Minister; and several more. An affidavit of Christie Meyers a former patient and friend of the doctor confirms that Fahrney had a practice in Fredericksburg PA. Bound in custom later smooth calf morrocco boards gilt-lettered spine with raised spine bands with a custom matching slipcase lightly rubbed. Pages are tanned with dampstaining and spotting throughout. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1751D11029Prague: Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinand. Societat. Jesu ad S. Clem. 1751. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very rare Czech Jesuit imprint of Gottschlich’s ‘Viator per Fidem’ incorporating his dissertational work on dogma and exercising faith and published by Prague’s Clementinum Jesuit College in 1751. 8vo 165 x 100mm. 2 342 2 index. Title spreading over three pages with the dated Prague imprint below the line on first. Dedicated to Prokop Adalbert Count Czernin of Chudenices 1726-1777 head of one of the oldest and most influential Bohemian noble families. Woodcut initial and frieze at p. 1 vignette at p. 342 of angel holding bannered trumpet inscribed AD MAIOREM DEI GLORIAM. Contemporary calf spine with five raised bands; light edgewear faint foxing mostly in hinges and margins not severe and otherwise a clean copy. First edition of this extremely rare Czech Jesuit title Viator Per Fidem. which literally translates to “Traveler’s Faith.” One copy located in the National Library of the Czech Republic and digitally available through GoogleBooks. Another copy in the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek classified as a theology dissertation. By explanation of the unusually lengthy title the book was written by Carolus Gottschlich as a part of his University research; the dogmatic work examined faith issues and their resolutions. Gottschlich was a Jesuit and university professor of humanities philosophy and theology. Little is known about his connection to the Clementinum although it can be surmised that he spent some part of his teaching career here which gained him access to the Jesuit College press. Gottschlich and his research contributors are almost all but forgotten to history. <br/><br/>Prague University was put under Jesuit administration in 1620 and eventually merged with the Clementinum in 1653 to form the Karl-Ferdinand University. From at least the middle of the 17th century the Jesuits kept a stronghold on higher education and the publishing industry in Prague. University rectors at Karl-Ferdinand University ruthlessly controlled the written word and imposed strict censorship on books which lasted well into the reforms of Joseph II in the 1780s. Gottschlich’s title is a rare survival given the fraught 18th-century publishing arena of Bohemian lands. The Viator per Fidem represents the lasting effects of Catholic patriotism and the significance of Jesuit influence on book publishing a significant part of Czech literary heritage. Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinand. Societat. Jesu ad S. Clem. hardcover books
WALTER-FILM004072No binding. Very Good. Photo Vintage original 8 x 10"" 20 x 25 cm. photo UK. Tim Curry dir: Jim Sharman; Twentieth Century Fox. Notation on verso in ink which does not show through NEAR FINE. A rare British photo from this British-US co-production filmed in the UK showing director Jim Sherman lining up a shot with Tim Curry in the tank along with Little Nell Richard O'Brien and Peter Hinwood. This is the only behind-the-scenes photo that I have ever encountered from this gender-bending classic. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000167No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 11 x 14"" 28 x 35 cm. lobby card USA. Charles Boyer Rita Hayworth Ginger Rogers Henry Fonda Charles Laughton Edward G. Robinson Paul Robesoh Ethel Waters Thomas Mitchell dir: Julian Duvivier; Twentieth Century Fox. An all-star cast in a fascinating account of a tuxedo jacket which is passed on from person to person. The first owner actor Paul Orman Boyer is featured on this card with Ethel Halloway Hayworth and John Halloway Mitchell. Card has only slight signs of use VERY GOOD. unknown books
194123934Washington D.C.: Not Published 1941. Typed letter dated February 4 1941; signed "M.A. LeHand" in blue ink; According to Kathryn Smith Marguerite LeHand's biographer this is most probably a letter signed on her behalf by her secretarial staff which was often done; she is thanking a teacher-constituent for the President for the writers' ".recent letter which he has been interested in reading.The President is gratified to learn of the generous contribution of your class to the Infantile Paralysis Fund and has pleasure in sending all of you his very best wishes."; approx. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4" size; typed on eagle watermark paper; old fold lines; light wear; in very good condition. Marguerite Alice "Missy" LeHand 1898 - 1944 private secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt for 21 years; this letter being written a few months before the end of her duties in the White House caused by a debilitating stroke. . Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published Paperback books
5304Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Original etching on laid paper. Lettered along bottom "A. 1584 COLONIAE" and signed "Wilhelmus Reichius Edcudebat" with the text "SANGUINE CHRISTE TUO SIC NOS ET CORPORE PASCIS ET SIS CONCICIS ALTOR ET ESCA TUIS." 18 x 15 cm. Trimmed to the plate edge small loss at upper right corner else fine. Nicely matted to 11 x 14 inches. Provenance: from the collection of the important American composer Jerome Kern 1885-1945. unknown books
6597Frankfurt am Main: Zu finden bey denen Stockischen Erben und Schilling 1745. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 158 x 91mm. 188pp. 16pp. manuscript notes and commentary on the text on rear endpapers. Old German type. Later marbled paper covered boards paper label to spine; margins trimmed close lightly browned; spine somewhat flaking lightly worn. First Edition. Johann Adolph Stock early 18th century chronicler of Frankfurt wrote this his concise Frankfurt Chronicles which described events of the 17th century in almost neutral terms as objects of historical curiosity. Rare. <br/><br/> Frankfurt am Main: Zu finden bey denen Stockischen Erben und Schilling, 1745. hardcover books
1755D200Madrid: En la Imprenta del Mercurio 1755. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 318 x 496mm. 23 331pp. Contemporary limp vellum; text block loose from vellum front-free endpaper inscribed with date 1788 and creased spine damaged hinges loose. First Edition. Trincados important history of the popes kings and emperors of Rome Constantinople Germany France England and of many Spanish regions including Aragon Castile León Navarra and Castile. The Compendio historic also includes a significant description of the famous conquistador Cortès 1485-1547. The text is dedicated to entrepreneur Juan Fernandez de Isla y Alvear 1709-1788 and the dedication lists the works of Don Juan. The introduction in the Compendio provides valuable information on the contemporary economic history of the region of Cantabria Included are mention of the foundation of the shipyard Guarnizo and the opening of roads in the province to bring wood to build ships and establish factories in china soap paper flour and brandy. This is the first of seven editions that came out in the second half of the 18th century. <br/><br/> En la Imprenta del Mercurio hardcover books
24676Subjects include Albani Andrésen Arnoldson Bary Bori Campanini Caruso Cavalieri Calvé Clément Crafft De Luca Destinn Domingo Eames Fladung Easton Eddy Farrar Feinhals Fremstad Galli-Curci Garden Gigli Gulbranson Hauk Hempel Henke Hesch Huchet Jeritza Kappel Kellogg Kurz Leffler-Burckhard Lehmann Leider Litvinne Mapleson Martinelli Morena Müller Muzio Neilson Nilsson Nordica Novatná Olszewska Pavarotti Plaichinger Piccaver Price Renaud Rethberg Scheff Sembrich Slezak Storchio Strong Ternina Thierry Thursby Torriani Tucker Viardot-Garcia and Walker. <br/><br/>Together with assorted photographs of singers mostly reproductions of rare early images. Average size ca. 6 x 4." Subjects include 39 female singers Albani Calvé Destinn Galli-Curci Garden Grisi Lehman Lind Lucca Melba Mutzio Nilsson Nordica Patti Piccolomioni Supervia Tettrazini Thalberg Viardot and Zaré and 12 male J.B. Faure Mario de Lara McCormack Victor Manuel Eduard de Reszke and Tamagno. <br/><br/>In very good condition overall. Common defects include light wear silvering foxing soiling and minor annotations in pencil or ink to versos. <br/><br/>A full inventory is available upon request. unknown books
1643D6968Naples: apud Camillam Cavallum 1643. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio 290 x 195mm. 8 215pp. 57pp. 1. Engraved woodcut printers device of Cavallum with compass under motto Labore et constantia device also used by Freemasons. Title printed in red and black. Double column. 18th-century vellum title browned some dampstaining throughout marginal worming lightly worn. Early ownership inscriptions on front endpaper dated 1724 1731 and 1744 and dated 1749 on verso of final blank. Ex Libris Prosperi Selli Medicinae et Chirurgiae above pictorial wood-engraved ex-libris by Leo Wyatt for Lord Norwich on pastedown. <br/><br/>Polverino sought to find accurate cures for diseases. Giovanni Girolamo Polverino was an influential professor of medicine and philosophy in Naples. This work originally published in 1600 in Venice under the title De curandis juxta hodiernum usum. sought to find accurate cures for diseases and improve medical practice. This volume with its ample 18th-century inscriptions and some scattered annotations above printed marginalia gives the book a valued sense. Good solid book within the tradition of 17th-century medicine coming out of Italy during the waning of the Renaissance Polverinos ideas were contemporary to Galileo and Descartes. NLM/Krivatsy 9126. apud Camillam Cavallum hardcover books
179429828London: Anthy. Milteno 1794. St. Caecilia is seated at an organ with an open music book above the keyboard; two cherubs sing from a music book to her right. <br/><br/>The model for the painting was the singer/actress Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan née Elizabeth Ann Linley 1754-1792 daughter of the composer and conductor Thomas Linley 1733-1795. <br/><br/>370 x 280 mm. Printed on wove paper.<br/><br/>Some wear; minor chips tears and soiling to edges with remnants of former mount to upper right edge; some creasing; old paper repairs to verso; trimmed to just within plate impression. Anthy. Milteno unknown books
29753Image 305 x 228 mm overall 375 x 280 mm. Lithographic caricature featuring a dancing master playing his violin while a portly gentleman dressed in top hat and tails dances in the foreground and a dog dances in the background. No artist lithographer or printer noted.<br/><br/>Slightly worn soiled and foxed; four narrow strips of tape to upper and right edge of verso. unknown books
1764KC8048Venice: Remondini 1764. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio 315 x 240mm. 38pp. I-XXXVIII. Finely printed with decorative chapter headings and tail-pieces. Engraved printerÂ’s device of Remondini depicting bishop with putti carrying crozier and miter. Engraved vignette of muses on dedication page. Decorative paper covered boards; some minor soiling or staining joint repaired on title verso lacking first and last blanks otherwise complete and in good form with good wide margins. <br/><br/>Collection of poetic essays in song of Sister Maria Theresa Crocefissa 1645-1699 an Augustinian nun from Venice known for her long orations printed by the Remondini press. In the 16th century Venice was the marketplace of the world. Its location on the lagoon and its unique connections with the sea distinguished it as a cosmopolitan center among the great cities of the Renaissance. In this larger context commerce and trade played a central role in the development and achievements of music printing. The subject of this work is poems written as canzones and sonettoes or songs and little songs of Sister Maria Crocefissa. From an early age Maria Crocefissa was devoted to long poetic orations. Soon she was also engaged in self-punitive actions including wearing a hairshirt. At the age of 23 she experienced her first religious ecstasies. During these periods of trance some lasting well over a week she regressed into a childlike state that left her completely paralyzed. The presence of Maria Crocefissa in her Augustinian convent of San Girolamo brought about a series of supernatural episodes and mysterious sightings which interested the public. While she was still alive her papers were widely published. This particular title of her poems addressed to Girolama Gaudio is of utmost rarity not located in a contemporary library collection or market worldwide. From the Remondini press who by the second half of the 18th century were employing more than a thousand people in the Bassano del Grappa with hundreds of others busy in their local paper mills and selling their products in scores of countries making them perhaps the biggest publishers in Europe. Between 1751 and 1790 Remondini were granted more licenses for books than all the other Venice booksellers put together. Printed matter was a luxury and the Remondini press was known to employ refined typographical features to suit the tastes of buyers. In this work attention is paid to the decorative elements initials and layout of each page. Remondini hardcover books
WALTER-FILM004108No binding. Fine. Fine Art Print Vintage original 81 x 41"" 205 x 104 cm. three sheet poster USA. James Earl Jones dir: Martin Ritt; 20th Century Fox. Folded and printed in two sections as issued NEAR FINE. unknown books
194622933France: Not Published 1946. Watercolor gouache depicting the roofs of Paris and a view into the distance; inscribed at bottom right in pencil "Paris 1928 - Paris 1946 I21 Pour Paul - CR - en amitie constant.bien.Claude Remusat"; the inscription by the artist to Remusat's old war comrade and friend Paul Charles Blum 1898-1981 American comrade-in-arms from WWI service in France - Blum was awarded the Croix de Guerre on August 12 1918 for his ambulance service and returned to the United States in 1919 graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School Yale University in 1921 and became a literary agent and free-lance writer; he joined the Foreign Service during World War II; see Yale University holdings for his papers & biographical information; Blum's nephew and estate executor was also a close friend of the artist Remusat - Robert S. Greene 1922-2013 American writer jazz musician documentarian and historian; this piece descended by inheritance to him; Claude Remusat 1896-1982 French artist and also a decorated World War I veteran; approx. 18" x 23 1/4" size; painted on good heavy paper stock with gouache heightening; light wear top right corner with tiny chip little mounting tape residue on back; painted to the edge of the paper; artwork in very good condition and with excellent provenance directly from the artist to the first owner and now from Robert Greene's estate. Art. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published Paperback books
193724346St. Jean-Le-Thomas France: Not Published 1937. Original charcoal seated ¾ length portrait inscribed to the sitter "Paul C. Blum in St. Jean-le-Thomas 1937 signed Remusat" by Claude Remusat 1896-1982 French artist decorated World War I veteran and close friend of American Paul C. Blum 1898 - 1981 Yale graduate who was engaged in espionage activities for the United States via the OSS and the subject of the 1998 biography "Blum - San! Scholar Soldier Gentleman Spy" by his nephew Robert S. Greene 1922-2013 American writer jazz musician documentarian and historian. Approx. 15" x 20 ¾" size; accomplished on heavy good quality Rives watermark paper; some smudging spotting to the image & background; in very good condition. With a 1981 black marker on paper of the backstage area of the Ballet "coulisses" signed and inscribed "For Paul C.B. Bonne Annee 1981 de tout coeur - as ever" 12" x 14 ¾" ; and a pencil sketch head portrait of Bob Greene signed "Remusat - for Bob Greene Paris 23 Dec 1980" 9" x 14" on plain paper little spot below signature and with a paper window-overlay; and an ink on paper drawing of dancers inscribed "Remusat - To Bob Greene affectionally Xmas eve 1980 Paris" 11 ¾" x 14 ¾". With 6 black and white photographic prints of Remusat portraiture: Paul C. Blum Shostakovich Khachaturian Ruggero-Gerlin Hindemith Alfred Cortot. Also with a photograph of Remusat's house in St. Jean-le-Thomas taken in 2007 and two portraits of the artist both mounted in frames one taken from a periodical and the other a digital image now degraded to yellow-green tones. With the 1994 catalog of Remusat's works "Les Americains dans l'Avranchin" French & English text 1994 commentary on the works and times with biography of the artist; 24 pages oblong format color illustrated light wear and in very good condition. The Yale Guide to the Paul Charles Blum Papers MS 900 state that Blum " was born on March 31 1898 in Yokohama Japan and spent his childhood in Japan Switzerland France and New York City a private in the Yale R.O.T.C. and enlisted in the U. S. Ambulance Service in 1917. He was sent overseas in 1918 and served with the French army from March 1918 to March 1919 awarded the Croix de Guerre returned to the United States in 1919 and graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School Yale University in 1921. Following graduation Blum was a literary agent and free-lance writer. He joined the Foreign Service during World War II remaining until 1954. Blum retired to Japan where he lived until his death in 1981 " In WWII Blum was station chief for the OSS in the X-2 counterintelligence department in Bern Switzerland. During his earlier military service in France in WWI he became closely acquainted with the artist Claude Remusat and the men maintained their friendship throughout their lives. Blum's nephew and biographer Bob Greene was early introduced to Remusat by his uncle and after Paul Blum's death remained in close friendly contact with Remusat as well until the artist died. Blum was also a noted collector of books and manuscript materials on early Japan and that country's early interactions with the West endowing the Collection at the Yokohama Archives of History Library with 7000 items including foreign books and magazines about Japan dating back to the 16th century old European maps of Japan and Asia and Japanese woodblock prints. Friendship extending across generations through two wars and peace illustrated. Provenance: Directly from the estate of Robert S. Greene. . Original Art. Not Bound. Very Good. Illus. by Claude Remusat. Not Published Paperback books
