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185327146Paris France.: Garnier Freres Libraires-Editeurs 1853. 480 pages. A 19th century French translation of the Niccolo Machiavelli classic of political philosophy and a discussion of the content. Previous owner small book-number ticket on front endpaper. Volume approx. 4 3/4" x 7" size; Bound in marbled paper covered boards dark green morocco leather spine gilt decorated & titled marbled endpapers. Some edge tips wear to the binding; title page with some spotting; in very good condition. Later Edition. Leather. Very Good. Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs books
188525535Edinburgh Scotland: No Publisher Noted 1885. A large-format albumen process photographic image of this site; laid down to cardstock. Image approx. 8" x 11" size; the cardstock makes it approx. 18" x 22" overall. No photographer studio or date noted; circa 1885. Cardstock with old discoloration at right margin; does not affect image. In good condition. . Photograph. Not Bound. Good. No Publisher Noted paperback books
188025607European Origin: No Publisher Noted 1880. Large-format albumen process photographic images of a monastery; a cultivated inner courtyard & colonnaded hallway bell-towered church in background; and white-robed monks at a well with ornate wrought-iron pulley-surround. Both laid down to cardstock. Images approx. 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" size; the cardstock mounts make them approx. 13" x 15" overall. No place photographer studio or date noted; circa 1880; courtyard image with the studio number in the print of '831.' Cardstock with light edge tips wear; images clear and detailed; in very good condition. Photographs. Not Bound. Very Good. No Publisher Noted paperback books
189025534Europe: No Publisher Noted 1890. A large-format albumen process photographic image of this site; laid down to cardstock. Image approx. 10" x 14 1/2" size; the cardstock makes it approx. 18" x 22" overall. No place photographer studio or date noted; circa 1890. Cardstock with old discoloration at right margin; closed tear; does not affect image. Some fading in the town and river area; in good condition. . Photograph. Not Bound. Good. No Publisher Noted paperback books
193526569Not Place Noted: No Publisher Noted 1935. 8 pages; cover in red and black; printed one side chiefly black and white illustrations with the explicit sexual conversation & antics of Flash Gordon and Queen Undina. No publisher or date noted; circa 1935. Approx. 3" x 4 1/2" size; stapled softcover; some edge tips wear rubbing; little bit of tips dog-earing within; in good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. No Publisher Noted paperback books
1932848541932. EPHEMERA - 20TH CENTURY FOUR ORIGINAL LINDBERGH BABY ABDUCTION REWARD POSTERS. US Government Printing Office 1932/New Jersey State Police Trenton NJ 1932. Various sizes printed on one side only. 1. "$25000 REWARD! For information resulting in the apprehension and conviction of the kidnapers of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. The following is a list of currency paid as ransom. The list is arranged according to the LAST FOUR DIGITS of the serial number." Folded newsprint toned and brittle several closed tears to joints and creases with no loss except for a few small chips to edges. 27 x 17 inches unfolded. Fair to good condition. 2. "$25000 REWARD for information resulting in the apprehension and conviction of the kidnapers of CHARLES A. LINDBERGH JR." Handwriting samples from the ransom notes reproduced in facsimile. 11 x 8 1/2 inches b/w on white paper. Very good condition no creasing. 3. "To All Law Enforcement Officials Wardens of Penal Institutions Etc." Handwriting samples from the ransom notes reproduced in facsimile. B/w on white paper. 9 1/2 x 12 inches. Very good condition no creasing. 4. "WANTED INFORMATION AS TO THE WHEREABOUTS OF CHAS. A. LINDBERGH JR. OF HOPEWELL N.J."With two b/w photo reproductions of pictures of the child with a written physical description. New Jersey State POlice Trenton. B/w on white paper. Good one three inch closed tear to "WANTED" repaired on reverse with acetate tape. unknown books
18306526London 1830. Aquatints coloured by hand. A fine complete series of four anonymous prints of hunting scenes possibly after the Alkens.<br/> <br/>The style and naming of these prints suggests an Alken origin for the series. Siltzer records a number of series by the Alken family in which the first plate is titled "Unkennelling." This title appears to be unique to them and supports the supposition that the present series are after the Alkens. Henry Thomas Alken was born into what became an artistic dynasty. He studied under the miniature painter J. T. Barber and exhibited his first picture a miniature portrait at the Royal Academy when he was sixteen. From about 1816 onwards he "produced an unending stream of paintings drawings and engravings of every type of field and other sporting activity. He is best remembered for his hunting prints many of which he engraved himself until the late 1830s.To many sporting art is "Alken" and to describe his work or ability is quite unnecessary." Charles Lane British Racing Prints pp. 75-76<br/> <br/>Cf. Siltzer pp.57-76. unknown books
179542915Louth 1795. White rag paper bottom and fore-edge deckled. Black printed text. Two fold lines; occasional loss to fold lines minimally affecting text; light general wear and toning. VG. Bifolium. 2 unnumbered pages of printed text; title printed to verso of second leaf else second leaf blank. 9-3/4" x 7-5/8" <br/><br/>Auction catalogue from the 1795 sale of 38 lots of the freehold estate owned by the late Charles Chaplin Esq. with manuscript prices and related notes in pencil and ink in a contemporary hand throughout. Occasional pencil notations and markings correct the printed acreage estimates of some lots. The Chaplins were members of the upper gentry and influential landowners in Lincolnshire. When the Louth Navigation -- a canal running from Louth in Lincolnshire to Tetney Haven at the mouth of the Humber -- was completed in 1770 Charles Chaplin managed to secure a 99 year lease of the tolls despite the terms of the canal's Act of Parliament limiting such leases to just seven years. The Louth Navigation Trust per the Louth Canal website notes that control and management of the tolls became "virtually hereditary" and led to considerable commercial opposition to the Chaplins and their political influence by the 1820s. The catalog includes columns for "Names of Plots &c."; "Acres by Estimation"; "State of Land"; and "Occupiers." Anyone wishing to view the premises is encouraged to apply to one Mr. J. Curtis of Saltfleetry. unknown books
1907403892Cincinnati: Johnson & Hardin for the Author 1907. 8vo. 252 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author 57 plates. Original grey cloth blocked in red on front cover lettered on spine. A very good copy hinges cracked light wear at extremities. As-issued without jacket. SCARCE FIRST EDITION one of 500 copies of the "Subscriber's Edition" this copy out-of-series. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To my friend Henry Taylor Birch Captain of Antioch College Base Ball Team 1867-8 from Alfred K. Nippert Cincinnati O Oct 17th 1937." Birch was the pitcher in the historic first game between the Cincinnati Red Stockings and Antioch College. He later became a prominent Chicago attorney and philanthropist. A public park in Ft. Lauderdale FL bears his name and he donated paintings to the Art Institute of Chicago. Nippert was one of the most prominent judges in Cincinnati his wife was Maud Bamble Nippert heir to the Proctor & Gamble Company. Nippert traveled to Germany in 1916 with an unofficial message from President Wilson: he met with Kaiser Wilhelm stating that while Wilson did not doubt the sincerity of the German leaders he felt he had the support of the American people in his controversy with the Germans over submarine warfare. "In 1869 when the Cincinnati Red Stockings began their inaugural season as history's first professional baseball team they played a preseason game at the site of what is now the Grand Union Terminal in Cincinnati against the Antiochs who were regarded as one of the finest amateur clubs in Ohio. The game was played on May 15 1869 and Cincinnati defeated Antioch 41-7. Antioch had been scheduled to host the first game of this professional tour on May 31 1869 but pouring rain and an unplayable field kept the teams off the diamond. So while Antioch was not a part of the first professional baseball game the college does hold claim to hosting the first ever rainout in professional baseball" Guschov Stephen D. The Red Stockings of Cincinnati: Base Ball's First All-Professional Team and its Historic 1869 and 1870 Seasons Jefferson NC.: McFarland & Co. 1998 p. 45. Ellard writes of the game with Antioch on page 154 though he gets the details wrong see Dan Hotaling "The Antioch Connection The First Professional Game". Ellard's father had been a founding member of the Red Stockings often cited as the first professional club. Most of the book is dedicated to the Red Stockings of 1866-1870 which went undefeated for 1869 and much of 1870. The author had unique access to the original records of the club. . <br/><br/> Johnson & Hardin for the Author hardcover books
200428283Oakland: Independent Institute. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0945999984 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Independent Institute hardcover books
2221848<p>"Ike" 3 pages to wife Mamie no date but ca. 1944. 9" x 6". Fine.</p><p>Eisenhower pens a heartfelt letter to Mamie while in the depths of war: "The Russian fight continues to stir me to the depths of my soul. They're hitting so hard that no one can fail to admire them. I hope they kill a million Huns -- even more! And I wish we could be hammering at the d--- Germans this instant just as hard and on as big a scale as the Russians."</p><p>Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890-1969 was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United State Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe.</p> unknown books
39899TRADE SAMPLES EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH TEXTILES. A pair of manuscript broadsides or pattern cards of Londrine Seconds swatches. Languedoc France: mid to late 18th century. 24 mounted textile samples on t cards. Important documentation for the historian of textiles all in excellent condition. These two broadsides come from a French manufacturer of Londrine fulled woolen cloth manufactured specially in Languedoc in imitation of West England broadcloths and used in the Levant trade.the Moors always entertai a favorable opinion of English manufactures and the French to humor them g their cloth the name of Londras wishing to make the Moors believe it was manufactured in London." Montgomery Textiles in America 1984. The first is 19 x 13 3/4 inches and titled "Londrine Seconde" and on which ar mounted 12 large colorful swatches 2 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches each with a stock number written in ink. The second is titled "Fabrique Royale de la Bastide Rouge Peyre Londrine Second" same measurements as above with 12 different swatches and stock numbers. Government regulations for premieres Londres and secondes Londres are given i both Savary des Brusions and Diderot. Finer Spanish wool and a greater numbe of threads per inch in the warp accounted for the superior quality of the premiers. Montgomery states that there are letters in the Metropolitan Museu of Art with swatches of Londrina Seconde in bright colors from Carcassone and pattern card with eleven swatches of Londrine Secondes dating from the mid-eighteenth century at Colonial Williamsburg. Montgomery concludes by quoting Arthur Young traveling in France in the late 1780s observed that th "Londrins of which at all these towns I took patterns are a very bright beautiful well-dyed bright cloth that have had deservedly from quality and price the greatest success in the Levant; I saw the wool they are made of a should not have known it from a good specimen from the South Downs of Sussex. The present examples are particularly appealing as the colors are bright and they both have handsome calligraphic titles. Very rare. unknown books
15393Vintage Albumen photograph on heavy backing. C. 1890. A young female teacher stands outdoors with approximately 20 students of all ages. An American flag hangs on the schoolhouse wall. A rural scene with a large load of firewood visible at the back of the school building and some fog on he trees in the background. The school seems to be in an opening in a forested area. The teacher's outfit is late 19th century. Some age staining to mat Image in very good condition. unknown books
16536Autograph album given to female student in Walnut Hill KY. The Forget Me Not Album. New York: Published by Leavitt & Allen 1857. Original red leather boards. 8 ½ x 7 in. Embossed front and back cover gilt-edge pages and gilt detail on front cover and spine. 48 pages. Includes 4 portrait engravings under tissue of ladies identified as Nanette The Duke's Daughter Beatrice Katharina; as well as 1 engraving on the title page. Inscribed to Miss Virginia Holby on the front end page "as a reward of merit." Includes 17 other handwritten inscriptions from fellow students. Some foxing and toning on engraving pages. Very good condition. <br/><br/>Signature album kept by young woman Virgina Holby during the end of the 1857 school year. All of the inscriptions are dated to June 1857 as the academic year was coming to a close and students were dispersing for the summer. Virginia's classmates affectionately address her as "Jennie" throughout the album and while some write poetic verses such as "Forget me not Forget me never till yonder sun shall set forever" others leave a simple "good bye" or requests to "Write me first would you." Jennie's classmates signed their names along with their respective hometowns--some places hundreds of miles away from Walnut Hill--in Illinois or western Kentucky. At this time in the southern United States it was not uncommon for girls and young women from wealthier classes to be sent away to private institutions modeled after the English finishing school. Secondary and higher education became a symbol of class as poor or working class people could not afford this training. An album of quotes and well-wishes amongst female classmates in June 1857 as they were dispersing for the summer months. unknown books
19771325664Beyrouth: Dar El-Machreq Editeurs 1977. Hardcover. Octavo; G/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine yellow with brown print; Boards in yellow cloth with brown print wear to corners and spine caps else clean and strong; Text block has name in ink on front and rear endpapers introduction has few penciled annotations; Text in Arabic introductory matter in French; Romanization of Arabic title from Library of Congress; 267 91 pages illustrated b&w. 1325664. FP New Rockville Stock. Dar El-Machreq Editeurs hardcover books
1660LV2322Netherlands.: ca.1660-1740. 1660. 603 x 439 mm Two large folio sheets mounted on a folding sheet. Very good. A central figure Dutch figure with mustache and lengthy hair wearing a cross sits in an architectural setting surrounded by a garland of sea scallops pearls a crab flanked by Justice on one side she is blindfolded and holding a sword in one hand and scales in the other and another woman representing Christianity holding a cross. The figures above echo the spiritual and temporal themes; there are also three small scenes below the central figure; cupid a stag hunting scene and a monk with a balky horse. Four armorial helmets top a heraldic shield with cross miter Swan on top with markings of a castle sword through the center and a crown above with addition image of three-scallops in center piece flanked by two putti one holding an oyster shell with a string of pearls. This finely executed engraving is not signed or otherwise identified by its artist possibly trimmed. Three small "S" red-stamps along lower boarder. ca.1660-1740. unknown books
1885WRCLIT66997New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1885. Quarto. Publisher's mauve cloth heavily decorated in gilt and blind untrimmed. Plates and illustrations. Minor speckling to the cloth sizing at the extreme foretips some foxing early and late and occasionally to a few margins of plates institutional bookplate on pastedown otherwise about fine and bright in faintly hand-smudged printed dust jacket with some offsetting to the lower panel from the rather battered publisher's box. The "Zuyder-Zee Edition" limited to 600 numbered copies of which this is one of 250 copies on untrimmed Linen paper. However this copy is at variance with the colophon in that it is accompanied by the extra suite of ten mounted etchings specially printed on satin that was to accompany the first 25 copies rather than the two sets of ordinary impressions associated with this middle issue. The corners of the mats are a bit bumped and worn and one of the etchings is a bit foxed otherwise the suite is in very good order in the chipped remnants of the original printed paper wrapper also bearing a bookplate. This deluxe edition features original etchings some in Japon proof state by and photogravures after the likes of Pennell Gifford Vanderhoof Colman et al. The jacket is not among those selected examples of 19th century jackets cited by Tanselle. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
196751479NY:: Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. Dust jacket and chapter headpiece illustrations by Fritz Kredel. Typography binding and dust jacket design by Warren Chappell. First American edition. Very good in a very good one large chip and two smaller ones minor edge wear dust jacket. . Knopf, hardcover books
18742221880<p>"Anna E. Dickinson" in black ink on stiff card. 2 1/4" x 3 3/4". 1874. Very good.</p><p>Signed and inscribed:</p><p>"Above all things Liberty</p><p>Anna E. Dickinson</p><p>8.15 1874."</p><p>Dickinson 1842-1932 devout Quaker; her father who was a staunch abolitionist died from a heart attack after giving an agitating anti-slavery speech in 1844 when Anna was only two years old; In 1860 Anna made her first speech on Womans rights and Wrongs before the Association of Progressive Friends; probably the greatest honor of her life was an invitation to speak in the Hall of Representatives.</p> unknown books
1875603772<p>"Anna E. Dickinson" in black ink on small sheet. 5 1/2" x 2 3/4"; very good; 1875. Signed and inscribed: "Above all things - Liberty Anna E. Dickinson 5.20 1875."</p> unknown books
200638677NY:: New York University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2006. Hardcover. 0814719953 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . New York University Press, hardcover books
243692 pp. of a bifolium. Quarto ca. 198 x 161 mm. Dated Philadelphia January 28 1824. In black ink. With integral address panel with remnants of original seal. On wove paper. With minor autograph corrections. <br/><br/>A charming piece of American social history evidently written by a schoolboy to his mother pleading for permission to take dancing lessons: "for it is very unpleasant for! to see people all knowing how to dance." Cousin Abbey had come to town to attend dancing school for half a quarter and the young boy writes: "if I begin the first of February I shall have a quarter but if you thing! a quarter will cost to! much permit me to go half a quarter. Sister Francis says I better go now this winter and then subscribe next winter to the cotillion parties wich! will be but a dollar and a half. I wish you would let me know so that I can get a pair of shoes for it. I want to go very much."<br/><br/>Somewhat worn and browned; creased at folds with minor loss to blank areas; small portion of upper edge of second leaf corresponding to seal lacking. unknown books
184529671Paris: Aubert et Cie 1845. Ca. 345 x 240 wide margins. <br/><br/>Slightly browned and soiled; professional paper repairs to marginal tears with loss replaced with Japanese paper. Plate 11 in the seies "Galerie royale de costumes Costumes italiens espagnols suisses peints par divers artists. et lithographiés par Adolphe Janet-Lange et Dollet." <br/><br/>Aubert & Cie. was one of the many nineteenth-century publishing firms utilizing lithography to provide the mass public with images of travel fashions and topical events. The Galerie Royale de Costumes series published beginning in 1842 included over two hundred and fifity renderings of men and women in regional dress from numerous European countries including Italy Spain Sweden Scotland and Iceland." The Art Institute of Chicago artic.edu/aic.resources/resource/2355. Aubert et Cie unknown books
180929755London: J. Booth 1809. Image size ca. 200 x 300 mm. overall size 252 x 350 mm. <br/><br/>Slightly worn and soiled; small strips of mounting tape to upper corners of verso. J. Booth 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
