Rittig, Peter - 1789 Koblenz - Rom 1840Antiquariat.de
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639-Eo.J. Bleistift, auf cremefarbenem Velin, am Oberrand bezeichnet ?Alexander Farnesius?. 20,3:11,6 cm. Provenienz: Englischer Privatbesitz, bis 1972. Vergleichsliteratur: Ausst. Katalog: Die Nazarener - Vom Tiber an den Rhein. Drei Malerschulen des 19. Jahrhunderts. Bearbeitet von N. Suhr und N. Kirchberger. Mainz, 2012, S. 65-68, Farbabb. S. 67, 182, 183, 185-187 und 189.
640-Eo.J. Bleistift, auf cremefarbenem Velin, am Oberrand bezeichnet ?Cardinal Marcellus Cervinus Dety Consl? Marcellus II PM?. 22:11,6 cm. Provenienz: Englischer Privatbesitz, bis 1972. Vergleichsliteratur: Ausst. Katalog: Die Nazarener - Vom Tiber an den Rhein. Drei Malerschulen des 19. Jahrhunderts. Bearbeitet von N. Suhr und N. Kirchberger. Mainz, 2012, S. 65-68, Farbabb. S. 67, 182, 183, 185-187 und 189.
638-Eo.J. Bleistift, auf cremefarbenem Velin, am Oberrand bezeichnet ?Odoardus Farnesius?. 20,3:11,6 cm. Provenienz: Englischer Privatbesitz, bis 1972. Vergleichsliteratur: Ausst. Katalog: Die Nazarener - Vom Tiber an den Rhein. Drei Malerschulen des 19. Jahrhunderts. Bearbeitet von N. Suhr und N. Kirchberger. Mainz, 2012, S. 65-68, Farbabb. S. 67, 182, 183, 185-187 und 189.
197166392ABKöln. London. Hellnar., Edition Hansjörg Mayer., 1971. 23 x 17 cm. Seiten nummeriert von 255-540, 6 Blatt. OKarton mit Umschlag (Schumgummimatte)., 66392AB Auflage 1000 Exemplare. Ohne das Verschlußgummi für die Matte, sonst sehr gutes Exemplar.
197466391ABStuttgart. London. Reykjavik., Edition Hansjörg Mayer., 1974. 23 x 17 cm. Ca. 530 S. Illustrierter OKarton mit separatem, eingefalteten Umschlag., 66391AB Auflage 100 Exemplare. Buchrücken gebräunt, etwas angestaubt, vorderer Einbanddeckel minimal stockig. Sonst sehr gutes Exemplar. Gesammelte Werke Band 7.
19381210306London, Constable, (1930 - 1938). Gr.-8vo. Grüne OLwdbde m. goldgeprägten Rückentiteln u. Kopfgoldschnitt (Bibliotheksexemplar m. Rsign., Ex Libris u. Bibliotheksschildchen auf den Vorsätzen, Stempel a. d. Titelrückseiten, hinterer Innendeckel m. Klebespuren; etwas berieben, wenige Innengelenke gelockert).
FH-268o.J. Farbholzschnitt, auf Japan-Bütten, mit Bleistift undeutlich signiert. Darstellungsgröße 19,5:15 cm, Blattgröße 26,5:20,8 cm.
1819ST15731bLondon: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington and others 1819. 216 x 136 mm. 8 1/2 x 5 3/8". viii 9-223 1 pp.Translated from the Greek by William Smith. <br/> Attractive contemporary oxblood calf decorated in gilt and blind covers with a wide gilt palmette frame enclosing an intricately blind-stamped panel with additional gilt decoration raised bands spine heavily gilt in compartments black morocco label gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers and edges. Front free endpaper inscribed in ink: "Miss Filliter obtained this Book as a Prize by her uniform attention to the Study of Latin during the Half-year. / June 1828." Lower corners lightly bumped a little rubbing at extremities flyleaves faintly browned occasional trivial internal imperfections but still quite a fine copy the contents extremely clean and unusually bright and in a well-preserved binding with a great deal of aesthetic appeal.<br/> <br/> In a handsomely decorated binding this is an excellent translation of one of the most important treatises of literary criticism to come out of the ancient world. First published in 1737 our translation established the reputation of William Smith 1711-87 as a "talented classical scholar." DNB A later William Smith the lexicographer said of "On the Sublime" "there is scarcely any work in the range of ancient literature which independent of its excellence of style contains so many exquisite remarks upon oratory poetry and good taste in general." Although generally attributed to the third century Greek philosopher and critic Longinus the work probably preceded him. After unsuccessful attempts to determine if Dionysius of Halicarnassus Cassius Longinus Plutarch or another was the author scholars arrived at the solution of calling the creator "Pseudo-Longinus." Our pretty though unsigned binding combines gilt and blind decoration in a particularly pleasant way. Volumes of classics in ornamental bindings were popular school prizes in the 19th century but ours is distinguished by being presented to a young lady who excelled in Latin at a time when most women received little formal education and 40 percent of the women in England were illiterate. The condition here suggests Miss Filliter and her successors treasured and cared for the present volume. Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington (and others) unknown
1808ST15731cLondon: J. Johnson 1808. New Edition. 220 x 135 mm. 8 5/8 x 5 3/8". Two volumes. <br/> VERY PRETTY CONTEMPORARY SCARLET STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO covers with gilt-ruled frame decorated with multiple overlapping gilt door handle tools and floral cornerpieces central panel with gilt-ruled lozenge enclosed by gilt rules and blind floral rolls raised bands compartments gilt wide turn-ins ruled in gilt and with repeating flower motif in blind and small gilt circles in the centers green inlaid cornerpieces with gilt tooling blue watered silk endpapers all edges gilt. With eight plates after Henry Fuseli including frontispiece to each volume. Verso of front free endpaper with armorial bookplate of Lewis Way. ◆Spines a little sunned corners a bit worn and tending to turn inward light scuffing to extremities plates lightly foxed but the text extremely clean and the pleasing bindings with minor issues only.<br/> <br/> This is an attractively illustrated and handsomely bound edition of the finely crafted poetry of William Cowper 1731-1800 the most notable English poet before the Romantics in terms of a tendency to be confessional in one's verse. Given the fact that he was institutionalized and that he several times attempted suicide these self-revelatory poems can easily be seen as a kind of therapeutic experience and it is testimony to the complexity of his personality that so much of Cowper's verse is light conversational and epigrammatic. His poems range widely from religious reflections to translations of Homer to poetry inspired by a lady's suggestion that he could write on any topic including a sofa see vol. II p. 1. The plates here were designed by Henry Fuseli 1741-1825 a Swiss-born painter who lived mainly in England. He was best known for his paintings exploring the supernatural as well as his influence on the young William Blake. DNB calls him "A superb and intensely dramatic draughtsman . . . notorious for his sensational demonic irrational and bizarre subjects" leading "the surrealists to claim him as a forerunner." Though unsigned the bindings here are extremely attractive with tasteful gilding and luxurious touches such as wide decorative turn-ins and watered silk endleaves. This copy was previously owned by Lewis Way an Evangelical reverend who made it his mission to promote Christianity among the Jews. It was his particular belief that returning Jews to the Holy Land would fulfill a biblical prophecy and to this end he secured several audiences with Tsar Alexander I in the attempt to persuade him to the cause. His home at Stansted Park reportedly contained a library that included rare Judaica and Hebraica. J. Johnson unknown
1828ST19567-013New-York: Anderson Davis and Co 1828. FIRST EDITION. 182 x 112 mm. 7 1/8 x 4 1/2". xii 13-206 pp. <br/> Publisher's gray boards backed with black roan flat spine divided into panels by double gilt rules gilt lettering. With an engraved plate depicting the recommended pruning and training of a grape vine. Front flyleaf with pencilled signature of Addie Gratacap and blue crayon signature of John Fields. Occasional neatly pencilled underlinings or marginalia in a 19th century hand. ◆Joints rubbed and cracked rear board with the tiniest bit of give spine with general wear including small losses at top and bottom boards somewhat soiled text with persistent foxing as usual in American imprints of this period; with obvious defects but what one would expect for an American book on this subject at this date.<br/> <br/> This practical guide to gardening in the United States was written in part as a rebuff to English agricultural writer William Cobbett who had cast aspersions on the type and quality of vegetables that could be grown in American kitchen gardens. After defending the honor of such American crops as lima beans Indian corn and winter squash Wilson offers advice arranged by planting season for growing asparagus peas root vegetables tender and hardy greens and varieties of squash. He doesn't quite see a central place for tomatoes in the vegetable garden finding it "the most forbidding-looking plant" and does admit that eggplant cultivation is impossible without a hothouse. Vegetables are followed by herbs for culinary and medicinal use and then by orchard fruits with apples for eating and cider leading the way. Wilson finishes with detailed instructions for grape cultivation illustrated by a plate depicting proper pruning and trellising practices. In addition to underlining key information on planting times and spacing distances in rows of vegetables a previous owner perhaps Addie Gratacap judging by her use of pencil found it amusing to count Wilson's digs at Cobbett which total 32. This work is rare in institutions and in the marketplace and is always found in unpleasant condition. RBH records just three copies at auction. Anderson, Davis and Co unknown
#[60154]The verse reads: "De schilderkonst schijnd leeven aan verw en doek te geeven. De schrijfkonst rijk van zwier geeft spraak aan stom papier." The art of painting appears to give life to paint and canvas. The art of writing rich in finery gives speach to mute paper. l Pen in brown ink and pencil on laid paper 290 x 384 mm. Unsigned and undated. Watermark: P.W. de Veyfde =Prins Willem de vijfde 1748-1806. Small repaired tear lower left and light water- or oilstains in upper corners. unknown
22653The Oxford Circuit Gloucester Reading Shrewsbury Assizes; Birmingham Assizes. A few items dated to 1887 1888 1891 1894. Lauriston Leonard Batten studied at Trinity College Cambridge see his entry in Alum. Cantab. He was admitted at the Inner Temple in 1882 and called to the bar four years later. KC 1905. Bencher 1914. The present collection is from the papers of his colleague on the Oxford Circuit Sir Richard Harington 1861-1931 12th baronet who was educated at Eton and Christ Church Oxford. Called to the Bar in 1886 he practised on the Oxford Circuit before taking up an appointment as a Puisne Judge in the High Court of Justice at Fort William in Bengal in 1899. He returned to England in 1913 and was appointed High Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1918 having succeeded to his father's title in 1911. From the Harington family papers. 27 caricatures and sketched portraits of barristers judges and others in robes including a few court scenes. In ink and pencil each on a separate piece of paper. In fair condition with light signs of age and wear. A miscellaneous collections of papers ranging from a 33 x 11 cm blue-grey strip embossed with the letterhead crest of the Royal Courts of Justice to the reverse of a 10 x 14 cm cutting from the printed calendar of charges 'Conspiring to cheat and defraud the Great Western Railway Company by obtaining and making improper use of a ticket at Didcot on the 19th December 1887.'. One caricature is on the reverse of an 20 x 25 cm piece cut from the cover of an 1894 manuscript writ. Several of the sketches are laid down on leaves torn from an commonplace book one of these leaves having on the reverse a poem 'A certain Mr. Day married a Miss Week' and humorous anecdote relating to W. R. Smith. Five items signed by Batten with his 'LB' monogram and seven items dated. Three are addressed to Harington one 'To - Richard Harington Esq: per. Great. Western. Railway.' and the material was clearly in order to amuse Harington Batten being regarded as one of the 'famous wits' of the Oxford Circuit. There are occasional annotations by Harington as for example 'A sketch taken by L Batten Oxford autumn circuit 1887' and 'Shrewsbury Assizes - 1887'. Another caption reads: 'The Under sheriff a sketch taken in court at Gloucester during the trial of Wadley. July 14th. 1887. by L: Batten.' The different drawings vary in style and those with thicker and looser lines being the most successful. Subjects and captions include 'N. T. Reid QC afterwards Lord Loveburn Ld. Ch' 'C. J. Darling Q.C.' 'Stanley Weyman' 'Queen v Pugh Cox & Wood' 'C. A. V.' a magistrate at the bench with two court officials 'Mirehouse' 'Miry' 'Hawkins' 'A. G. James. afterwards County Ct. Judge' 'Dr. Gumbleton' 'Gumby' 'Can't stand George Griffiths' 'reserved witness' judge at bench in spectacles 'Lieut Cole Master of the Rolls and his figure' 'The Prosecution which did the criminal act Reading Feb. 6th 1888' 'The Equity Junior which came special to Shrewsbury Assizes 1887' 'C. V. Called within the Bar very shortly'. Two are caricatures of a striking woman the plaintive in 'Birmingham Assizes - Aug. 4th. 1887. Timmins v Crofts for breach of promise'. Five feature Harington: one highly finished effort shows him in court with a wooden leg declaiming from 'Lay of the Citizen Diligent' by 'R. H.'; two show him in his robes grasping a money bag on which is written 'R: H: £700' in one he is running in the other captioned 'Borrows £700 and barely escapes with his life' he is being tackled by three other barristers one with a hockey stick; in another captioned 'The Red Flag of Anarchy in Gloucester Flower of D. C. C. Chipp' he flourishes a banner reading 'Briefs or Blood'; in another he stands with hands in pockets with syringe 'water-pipe' before him; in the last captioned 'In the Company's Interest - Returned Empty' shows him seated in court with another barrister 'Leslie'. The Oxford Circuit [Gloucester, Reading, Shrewsbury Assizes; Birmingham Assizes]. A few items dated to 1887, 1888, 1891, 1894. unknown
1890List1620Mostly New England: Various Photographers 1890. Cabinet cards measuring 6 ½ x 4 ¼ inches. Various settings showing the band members posed with their instruments including banjos violins trumpets drum and tubas. Varying wear but generally very good with some normal age-related fading. Very Good. Originally from Lawrenceville New York the Shepard Family Band toured throughout the Northeast in the 1880s and 1890s eventually settling in South Royalton Vermont. All members of the family were apparently musically inclined: “In addition to Minnie mother and matriarch Mary “Minnie†Shepard and her husband patriarch James Monroe Shepard all of the children were pressed into service. Daughter Laura Belle the ‘violiniste’ was getting better all the time under the instruction of a ‘competent master.’ Her fans “will be astonished at the improvement in style tone and expression.†It was said of little Lessie that ‘Among lady cornetists she has no equal.’ The darling little son of the family Master Burtie could not help but please for he was well-known to be ‘The youngest Tuba soloist in the world; only nine years of age; scarcely larger than the instrument he plays.’ He was also a ‘clever comedian singer and character artist.†The baby little Flossie “a sweet little miss of four summers’ was said to be a “wonderful mimic and impersonator…a veritable little fairy.’ Daughters Kittie and Georgia were also part of the troupe.†- Henry Sheldon Museum. A very nice collection. Various Photographers unknown
1871055863Istanbul: Matbaa-i Âmire. 1288 AH 1871. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. An extremely rare first edition of the earliest account of Muslims in Brazil documenting the second voyage to the American continent ever undertaken by the Ottoman navy and by any Muslim seafarers or travelers following Piri Reis in the 15th-16th century. The travel log that Abdurrahman Efendi wrote in Arabic after he came back to Istanbul from Brazil was translated into Ottoman Turkish by Antepli Mehmed Serif Efendi and published in 1288/1871. In this account the transit to Brazil is mentioned briefly since the writer's main focus was not on the voyage but rather on the situation of the Muslims in Brazil a group formed mostly by African slaves and their descendants who were enslaved by Portuguese and British colonists. Abdurrahman Efendi describes the lessons he gave a booklet in Portuguese with Arabic letters he prepared to outline the basics of Islam the city of Rio de Janeiro the plantations near the port some tropic fruits in Brazil vast forests from Brazil to the south of the continent the city of Ebaiye i.e. Salvador and Marnempugo diamond mining area called Lugabiryanti besides the daily life of Muslims in 19th-century Brazil such as the students' houses of worship tribal chiefs whom they call "Fa" or "Imam" etc. His Brazil travel log gives his route of return and the main points he visited like Lisbon Cordoba Gibraltar Tanca Jeddah and Mecca on his way back to Istanbul. With regard to this account two Ottoman warships bearing the names "Bursa" and "Izmir" left Istanbul en route to their new duty station in the Persian Gulf on 12 September 1865. The ships passed through the Mediterranean Sea and the Strait of Gibraltar into the Atlantic Ocean planning to follow the African shoreline to Basra. After visiting Cadiz and the Canary Islands they set sail from the Cape Verde Islands but on 19 May they encountered a storm that threw them in the Atlantic and this 17-day voyage of uncertainty ultimately brought them to the shores of Brazil where they laid anchor at the port of Rio de Janeiro. Original wrappers. Red cover. Foolscap 8vo. 18 x 12 cm. In Ottoman script. 44 p. Occasionally foxing on cover and pages. Otherwise a very good copy. Hegira: 1288 = Gregorian: 1871. OCLC 805941733. Özege 20671. <br/> <br/> Matbaa-i Âmire., [1288 AH] paperback
1861605660<p>"W.A. Buckingham" in black ink on bifold pictorial leaf State of Connecticut Executive Department Norwich letterhead February 5 1861. 5 1/4" x 8" 2 pages. Very good. To Gideon Welles: In part: ". . .I have been solicited to appoint commissioners to the convention which is to be held in Washington on the 4th inst but have not done so. . .I have received no intimation from Virginia that a representation from Conn. is desired except what I have seen in the newspapers. I telegraphed you this noon inquiring your views but as I have received no reply. . ." Welles 1802-1878 born July 1 1802; died February 11 1878; was the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869 under Lincoln and Johnson. A proposed convention of all states to try and adjust differences between the north and the south. Seven states had declared their secession from the Union and established the Confederated States of America on February 4 1861 the day before this letter was written.</p> unknown books
17764<p>Includes the following: Philips Ambrose The Distrest Mother. A Tragedy London: T. Caslong et al. 59 pp. frontispiece; Banks John The Happy Favourite; or the Earl of Essex. A Tragedy. printed for I. Hawes 70 2 pp.; Shakespeare William Hamlet Prince of Denmark printed for Woodfall 1868 72 ppl.' Shakespeare William The History of King Lear printed for Noble 1771 71 pp.; Congreve William The Mourning Bride Printed for S. Bladon 1768 71 pp.;; Shakespeare William Macbeth printed for Woodfall 1768 68 4 pp.; All of these are later editions but the compilation is a fascinating picture of what plays were popular in London in the 1760s and 1770s. . The six plays bound together in contemporary calf rebacked. Corners rubbed. Some offsetting from plates. Contemporary armorial bookplate John Beale. Also bookplate of anthropologist Frances Emma Watkins plus another ownership signature: "L. Watkins Denver Colo. 1873." A very good copy with interesting provenance. Details about library holdings of individual titles available upon request. Frances Emma Watkins 1899 – 1987 was born in Colorado and attended the University of Denver. After graduating with specializations in archaeology and anthropology in 1929 Watkins joined Isabel Kelly and Eva Horner in New Mexico on what was possibly the first excavation directed by an all-female team. Later Watkins worked as a curator at the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles where she managed the museum's archives.</p> Includes the following: Philips, Ambrose, The Distrest Mother. A Tragedy, London: T. Caslong [et al.[, 59 pp., frontispiece; Ban
1896055286Istanbul: Cemal Efendi Matbaasi. AH 1314 1896. 2nd Edition . Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original leather bdg. with traditional decorative embossing and gilt lettering of the title on boards. Roy. 8vo. 24 x 15 cm. In Ottoman script Old Turkish with Arabic letters and Persian. 480 p. Traditionally framed text. First volume all published. Early edition of this exceedingly rare Persian-Turkish lexicon which was one of the earliest Persian dictionaries in the Islamic world written by Hasan Suuri Efendi from Aleppo one of the finance officers of the Ottoman Empire. First edition was printed in 1742 and was the last book in two volumes of the first Islamic printing house founded by Ibrahim Müteferrika. This copy is the second edition. All published. Özege 5625.; 780172767 39832974 Seven printed copies in American libraries: Concordia Theological Seminary Virginia Tech Butler University Libraries Concordia College Library Morningside University Dallas Theological Seminary and Princeton University Library. <br/> <br/> Cemal Efendi Matbaasi., [AH 1314] hardcover
1886055683Istanbul: Karabet ve Kasbar Matbaasi. AH 1304 = 1886/87 1886. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original publisher's cloth. Cr. 8vo. 19 x 13 cm. In Ottoman script Old Turkish with Arabic letters. 2 volumes set: 7 128 p.; 3 87 p. Slight foxing on pages and covers and light wear to the spine a very good copy. First and only edition of this extremely rare architectural work containing an invaluable inventory of the Ottoman mosques and dervish lodges today many of which don't exist their days of acceptance for worship districts and their architects and the founders of a total of 313 lodges 172 within the walls Vol. 1 and 132 outside the walls and on the Anatolian side Vol. 2 built in the Ottoman capital Constantinople Istanbul after the Byzantine Empire. their days of acceptance for worship districts and their architects and the founders of a total of 313 lodges 172 within the walls Vol. 1 and 132 outside the walls and on the Anatolian side Vol. 2 built in the Ottoman capital Constantinople Istanbul after the Byzantine Empire. No information in the literature about the author's life except that he is an immigrant from Nis of Serbia as it's written on the book's cover. Özege 12524.; As of November 2023 several copies in the OCLC and KVK in Princeton University Library of America CTSFW Library Virginia Tech Center for Research Libraries Carl B. Ylvisaker Library DTS Turpin Library Alamo Colleges Northeast Lakeview College Library University of California NRLF UC Berkeley Libraries University of California Los Angeles Hawaii Pacific University. <br/> <br/> Karabet ve Kasbar Matbaasi., AH 1304 = [1886/87] paperback
1844biblio882<p>Very Good. This is a historically significant copy with an 1844 dedication to the renowned Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane by the author who himself was a famed surgeon general and first president of the American Medical Association. A true rarity and a remarkable find for historians both of 19th century world explorers and of 19th century medical advances as well as the A.M.A. - Scuffed leather covers worn margins small gutter tears top and bottom missing spinal title plate interior normally foxed.</p><p>Photos of this unique find on request.</p> Lea And Blanchard hardcover
196888045[Hamburg], 1968. 36 x 26 cm. Unter Passepartout (50 x 35 cm).
GOR005046594Paperback. Very Good. paperback
Very Good Arabic Original full brown morocco with traditional flap. Traditional shemses (mytical sun) embossing on boards. Large roy. 8vo. (25 x 17 cm). In Arabic. [9], 562 p. Hegira 1251 = Gregorian 1835. "A supercommentary to Ibrâhîm ibn Muh?ammad al-H?alabî (1549-)'s shorter commentary (entitled Ghunyat al-mustamlî) on Sadîd al-Dîn al-Kâshgharî (13th century)'s treatise on Muhammadan ceremonial law entitled Munyat al-musallî.". Extremely rare. Brockelmann: History of the Arabic Written Tradition Supplement, Vol. 1: Islamic literature in Arabic, Vol. 2: Post-Classical period.; 52. Sadid al-Din Al-Kashgari, seventh century., pp. 682.; Not printed copy in OCLC for Bulaq Edition, for digital register, OCLC 945200709.
1881List1934BCarson 1881. Single sided receipt measuring 7 ¾ x 4 ½ inches. Near fine with a small tear to bottom of page. Near Fine. A receipt issued for passage from Carson to Badie Nevada in 1881 aboard the Virginia and Truckee Railroad issued with a note that reads “Chinamen†in the remarks section. The Virginia and Truckee was originally built to service the Comstock Lode area in Nevada. Chinese who represented ten percent of Virginia City during the period referred to Nevada as “Yin Shan†which translates to “Silver Mountain.†Chinese people in Nevada held varied jobs in the state perhaps more so than in other parts of the United States with an 1870 census listing Chinese merchants miners laborers laundrymen cooks gamblers and harlots. Despite the heavy involvement of Chinese in Nevada during the period few ephemeral records surface in the trade likely due to the drops in population caused by the Chinese Exclusion Act and perhaps also due to the overall population drop when miners left the region. unknown
1915List1003Chicago: National Half Century Anniversary Exposition and Lincoln Jubilee 1915. Felt pennant measuring 38 x 15 inches. Lettering slightly faded very good condition overall. In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Lincoln's death the city of Chicago hosted the National Half Century Anniversary Exposition and Lincoln Jubilee to celebrate emancipation and the cultural achievements of African-Americans. The event was held at the Coliseum on August 23 - September 22 1915. The Illinois legislature appropriated $75000 for the month-long celebration. Seventeen states appointed African American delegates to attend the event as representatives. Delegates from other countries participated as well. Bishop Samuel Fallows the English-born clergyman and Union Army Colonel spent a decade promoting and organizing the event urging states such as New York to appoint representatives and encouraging Chicago's religious leaders to attend. Several hundred pastors from African-American churches did attend along with members of their congregations and most contemporary accounts of the jubilee advertise speeches by African-American religious leaders. Charles F. Gunther a local candy manufacturer and collector of Lincoln memorabilia lent his collection to the event it was later purchased by the Chicago Historical Society. The event's organizers anticipated close to half a million attendees. Though we find no record of actual attendance contemporary reports show crowds of tens of thousands attending at a time. <br /> The Colored Women's Civic League closed the exposition with a ceremony involving children. <br /> <br /> Despite the large undertaking and historical significance of the event few relics of the exhibition have survived. OCLC lists two copies of the official program for the event. The official report of the event History and Report of the Exhibition and Celebration to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negro has around 20 holdings. We find no other record of this commemorative pennant an unusual survival. Condition is very good with some light wear. National Half Century Anniversary Exposition and Lincoln Jubilee unknown books
18301891London 1830. Lithograph with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper 12 1/4 x 9 5/16 inches 312 x 235 mm full margins. In good condition with some light areas of minor foxing throughout. Hand coloring is extensive and vibrant. An ass wears his Lord Mayor's gown and chain over court dress with big bows on his shoulders. Published in November 1830 this anthropomorphic satirical caricature is of Sir John Key 1st Baronet 16 August 1794 - 14 July 1858 who was a wholesale stationer and Whig politician in England. He was elected Sheriff of the City of London in 1824 and Lord Mayor of London for two years from 1830 to 1832. <br /> <br /> An uncolored impression of this work may be found in the permanent collection of the British Museum accession No. 16302. unknown
