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197324352Milwaukee: Morgan Press 1973. First Edition. Wraps. Near fine. 4.5'' x 3.5'' oblong manila card wraps in brown photographic jacket. Edition of 400 copies printed in hand-set Centaur type on 90 lb. Vicksburg Briston paper using a 6x9 Sigwant hand press. Unpaginated. Near fine. <br/><br/>Lovely small-press poetry collection from "hannibal". "I am so scared of you / world / that I put you on paper / so I always know / where you are." Morgan Press paperback books
188236689Maine 1882. 2 pp plus integral blank leaf. Old hinges from prior mounting on blank last page. Very Good.<br/><br/> Writing to "Hon. F. Haines" Hamlin explains that he has "no time to look over files of letters to see what I can find that you would want." He's "very busy in getting our house in order." He will take a look when he finishes that task but advises "I have parted with all that I could spare of Prest. Lincoln and have none from Hayes."<br/> He promises to review his "many letters from such persons as you name but the difficulty will be in finding just such as I would deem proper to make public. But I will see what I can do. I do not think it necessary at all for you to come here. Yours truly H. Hamlin."<br/> Haines 1840-1925 was a successful businessman and developed an impressive side business in coins and other collectibles. The Library of Congress owns a few of the correspondence between the two men. Hamlin of course was Abraham Lincoln's first Vice President and an early Republican. He was dumped from the 1864 ticket in favor of Andrew Johnson. unknown books
352395" x 8". Laid into a crude mat. Recto is glued to the mat which is cut to expose the areas of text and to cover the blank areas. Some light glue stains not affecting legibility. Except for the choice of matting Very Good. <br/><br/> Vice President Hamlin's Letter suggests the impotence of his office. Writing from his home or law office in Hampden he appeals for help from his fellow Maine politician E.B. French. French had just completed his term in Congress; President Lincoln appointed him Second Auditor of the Treasury on August 3 1861. Hamlin is anxious to correct the bureaucratic snafu for which at least in part he seems to blame himself. These efforts would prove successful: Executive Proceedings of the Senate show J.C. Peterson's name on a list proposed by the Secretary of War for appointment as Captain of the Fifteenth Regiment of infantry as of August 5 1861; Lincoln officially nominated all those on the list on December 6 1861; and Peterson was among the appointees receiving the Senate's blessing. Executive Journal of the Senate 37th Congress 2d Session Dec. 12 1861. <br/> Originally a Democrat and a long-time political fixture in Maine Hamlin left his Party as an opponent of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. He was elected Maine's Republican Governor in 1857; in 1860 Lincoln picked him as his running mate in an effort to unite northern Unionists.<br/> John C. Peterson 1831-1867 a homeopathic physician and surgeon is listed in the 1850 Federal Census as a 19-years-old physician. He enlisted on April 15 1861; and served as Captain in the 15th U.S. Infantry Regiment from August 1861 to August 1864. By early 1863 he was attached to Gen. Rosecrans' staff as Assistant Inspector General Army of the Cumberland. His death is listed in the Coroner's Inquest Reports of Seneca County New York as suicide by self inflicted gunshot wound on October 7 1867. THE NEW-ENGLAND MEDICAL GAZETTE. VOLUME V. Boston: 1870 pp.260-263; THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. SERIES 1 VOL. XXIII IN TWO PARTS. PART II. Washington: 1889 pp. 77-78; 'Furlough" posted March 15 2013 at website of Blue Gray Review. unknown books
200435009Cambridge England: Cambridge University Press 2004. Hardcover. VG/VG. Black cloth/very light blue DJ. xi 289 pp. Several bw illus. This book examines the powerful influence of the biblical Psalms on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature focusing on literature from major writers like Shakespeare and Milton as well as less prominent ones like George Gascoigne Mary Sidney Herbert and George Wither. Cambridge University Press hardcover books
185833705Washington D.C. 1858. 16pp. Caption title as issued printed in double columns disbound. Light scattered foxing. Very Good.<br/><br/> Lincoln's Vice Presidential running mate opposes Southern attempts to take Kansas into the ranks of slave states by fraud. unknown books
1967152029San Juan: the author 1967. Hardcover. 129p. text in Spanish illustrations in-text very good third revised edition blue cloth boards. Children's book. the author hardcover books
1964110991Buenos Aires: Emece Editores 1964. Hardbound. VG- slight wear or nicks to the extreme edges. Internally very fresh. 2 vols. Brown cloth with brown leather spine with gilt lettering. Volume 1: 236 pp. color frontispiece no other illustrations. Volume 2:. This is a set of two volumes lacking a slipcase which may have contained them. Volume I is the text volume describing the 202 mostly color plates contained in the 192 pages in Volume II. It contains a massive bibliography that lists over 450 references. Volume 1 also contains very detailed artist biographies and a most detailed chronology. No foxing. Ths is a substantive and important work detailing and illustrating highlights from Argentine art of the period 1536-1860. Preface by Antonio Santamarina. This set is copy No. 19. text is entirely in Spanish. Emece Editores hardcover books
1949WRCLIT41638Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press 1949. Quarto. Pictorial cloth. Near fine in good edgeworn and lightly chipped dust jacket. First edition. A superb photo-essay by this FSA and OWI photographer conjoined with Buitrón's text treating the development of outside commerce in native goods by communities in the Otavalo valley. Univ. of Chicago Press hardcover books
1980106034New York: Pathfinder Press 1980. 47p. wraps slightly worn first printing. Pathfinder Press unknown books
197256389Caracas: ediciones en haa 1972. First edition. 63 pp w/index. Some light sunning to rear panel else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems with illustrations by José Albreu. Caracas: ediciones en haa unknown books
50614México D.F: Casa del Tiempo Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana UAM 22 de octubre al 30 de noviembre 1998. 32p color and b/w plates bio./chron. cat. fldg. color pict. and b/w port. wrps. Exhibition of driftwood sculptures and acrylic paintings by artist from Baja California Sur b.La Paz BC 1943 . LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 Casa del Tiempo, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, UAM unknown books
1799D8074Leipzig: Friedrich August Leo 1799. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 4to 140 x 106mm. iv 91pp. 29 finely hand-colored engraved plates fully captioned depicting costume and peoples of the world. Period boards backed in cloth; some light outer wear early ownership signature in ink on top edge of front free-endpaper and title page light marginal thumbsoiling of plates; else contents are clean; very good. <br/><br/>Childrens book of Continental costumes printed in Leipzig at the turn of the 19th century. A rare illustrated work first published in 1796 plentiful in delicately hand-colored engravings of native peoples from around the world. This the second part was probably written solely by Karl Seidel a teacher at the Tochterschule Public Girls School in Dessau. This Gallery of People was designed as a picture book for young children not yet in their early childhood to expand their knowledge and satisfy their curiosity about faraway lands. The first part not included here included nations professions and items that were sorted in alphabetical order from Abbess Admiral Amazon and Armenians to Dwarf Gypsy and Wizard. The lives portrayed are wide ranging and include simpletons butchers slaves gardeners and fools. This second part organizes the peoples usually a man woman and native all with appropriate props by continents: Asians Africans Americans and Indians and Europeans. The illustrations for Native American peoples are of high interest not only for their expert work but for the range of tribes and geography even the Acadian peoples of Canada are represented. This type of book departs from the common ABC books as the pictures and text have a social studies meaning. Rarely found only two copies located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at Princetons Cotsen Library. Friedrich August Leo hardcover books
196926426New York: 0 To 9 1969. First edition. Paperback. Very Good . Tall side -stapled wrappers. The fifth issue of Acconci and Mayer's much sought after artist / poet periodical. Experimental poetry fiction and conceptual art mix in the era's most thought provoking journal. A particularly well-preserved copy. Front cover intentionally wrinkled by the publishers. Staples still holding very well. 96 pp. 0 To 9 paperback books