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1891182279Paris & Geneve.: Dentu & Trembley. 1891. Quarter black morocco over blindstamped stippled cloth raised bands gilt spine decorations marbled endpapers ribbon marker. . A very good tight clean copy a little wear to spine head private library label on front pastedown. 8vo. 17.7x11.6 cm. . French text. A report on psychics and psychic phenomena in 19th century France. weight: 1.1 lb. Dentu & Trembley. hardcover books
18357006London: Effingham Wilson 1835. First Edition. Full-Leather. George Cruikshank. 12mo. 351 pages. Bound by Reviere & Son; all edges gilt maroon coated end papers full tan calf skin; spine decorated in gilt black leather label. Internally clean. Light wear at head of spine expert repair to hinges; quite a handsome copy. <br/><br/> Effingham Wilson hardcover books
18642833371864. unbound. fine. Union Navy A.L.S. 8vo. 2 pages August 27th 1864 Aboard the USS Elfin. Just three months before she would be destroyed by bombardment while in service on the Tennessee & Cumberland Rivers. Letter from a sailor who is trying to get his Land Grant application to Wisconsin but he can't raise the $11.00 application fee on his ship. In part: "I received the papers alright and I signed an affidavit before my Commanding Officer - and I signed them and sent them off but could not get $11.00 aboard of the boat. The Captain signed them also. Write to my wife and have her send the eleven dollars down to Menasha before the 20th of September. I was transferred from the 18th Wisconsin Infantry Co. into the United States Navy as I suppose they could get Soldiers easier than they could get Sailors. I think I can serve my country better here than I could in the land service as I have formerly been to sea and I am an able seaman at present." Fine condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
18196665Mexico City: Alejandro Valdes 1819. First edition. Quarto pp 12 55. Spirited defense made against charges the veracity of the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe the most revered religious symbol of the Latin Americas. The previous a year a Spanish cleric Juan Bautista Munoz had written the indictmentwhich F. Gomez Marin here tries to rebut. The author a prominent ecclesiastic and member of the Oratory of S. Felipe Neri in Mexico City. This is a fine copy in a very nice contemporary Mexican binding -- 3/4 calf over marbled boards gilt fillets on spine and around boards. <br/><br/> Alejandro Valdes hardcover books
18195367Mexico: Alejandro Valdes 1819/20. First editions. Small quarto pp. x 201 9: x 55. Medina 11897 & Palau 111216 Guridi was an important Mexican ecclesiastic and one of the two deputies sent by Mexico to the Cadiz Cortes of 1810. Both of these books printed separately but bound here together are replies to the "attack" made on the credibility of the apparition of the Virgin Mary to Juan Diego in 1531by the Spanish historian Munoz in 1817. Mexicans everywhere felt aggrieved by this effort by a Spaniard to demean their beloved national cult. Guridi leapt to the defense reprinting Munoz' pamphlet in toto and then refuting it point by point. Gomez Medina 11486 the other author also presents a defense of the Apparition. See Brading Mexican Phoenix for a complete discussion of these works. The Guridi book according to Medina has a frontis. portrait of the Virgin by de Oca which is not present in this copy. Very good copy in contemporary full slightly stained mottled calf binding. <br/><br/> Alejandro Valdes unknown books
