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1838291492New Orleans 1838. unbound. very good. Rare autograph document signed: The Citizens Bank of Louisiana trades shares in the capitol stock of the bank for parcels of land and slaves. Folio 4 pages City and Parish of New Orleans Louisiana September 8th 1838 whereby Demey Kemp and wife who are wealthy land owners with many slaves enters into a contract with Victorin Patin President of the Citizens Bank of Louisiana to secure the sum of fifteen-hundred dollars the amount equal to fifteen shares in the Capital Stock of said bank with fifteen shares in an additional allowance of stock for the following described property to wit as adjudicated by Judge Samuel Leonard and certified by Theodore Seghers notary public in small part: ".that including four tracts or parcels of land in the Parish of St. Helena containing two-thousand and forty acres; a tract of land situated on the River Licksaw containing six-hundred acres. Likewise further: Demey Kemp declares that one of the Slaves therein mentioned and named Adelin aged nine years has died since appraisement; and he referred to the title papers in the possession of the said Bank to show from when the appraised property is derived; with the exception of twenty-eight slaves who were born on the property. A mortgage is granted by the said Demey Kemp . to secure fifteen additional shares allowerd on his subscription in the Capital Stock of the Citizens Bank of Louisiana. According to the Judge's certificate there is no mortgage in this office on the different described properties except the mortgage granted in the sum of two-hundred schares in the Capital Stock of said Bank . then this said . Demey Kemp will be recognized as a stockholder of the Citizens Bank of Louisiana for fifteen additional shares." This document has been certified by Justice Samuel Leonard on verso with his signature and embossed seal October 6th 1938. Condition: usual folds with light soiling and minor toning on the Court Filing page: Very good.<br/><br/> Between 1831 and 1866 Citizens Bank of Louisiana currently owned by J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. accepted 13000 slaves as collateral on loans and repossessed 1250 enslaved individuals on loans that plantation owners defaulted on. Though this information is readily available through extensive historical research much of it financed by J.P. Morgan Chase and personally authorized by Jamie Dimon 2003-2005 this is the first document we have ever encountered whereby Citizens Bank of Louisiana is knowingly trading stock in their bank for slaves to shareholders.<br/><br/> unknown books
1859620331859. Oblong folio sheet 7 1/4 x 14 in. staff ruled by hand in red ink. Music notation with corrected lyrics on recto additional verses on verso.<br/>An extremely rare complete vocal score with accompanying dance entirely in Emmett's hand. Emmett joined Dan Bryant's minstrel troupe in 1859 when the company introduced his "Dixie" on the New York stage as well as the present composition for which sheet music evidently was published in 1860 although locating a recorded copy has proved unsuccessful. <br/>Virtually all of Emmett's manuscripts were deposited early on in the Ohio State Library and are now in the archives of the Ohio History Connection. There are three drafts of the 'John Come Down de Hollow' there: a pencil ms. of words only entirely different from the finished version about a slave pursued by a bulldog in the rain; a fragment of Emmett's walk around in a different key a variant setting and the first two lines of lyrics only dated 1860; and a fair copy dated 1859 comparable to ours with full score and extra verses on the verso. Ours contains a textual revision not in the OHC copy. The lyrics of Emmett's song involve the dandy John's courtship advice to the ladies on how to avoid ending up an old maid the dandy John and the efforts of the singer to avoid marriage. Written in dialect with the usual stereotypical transgressions such lyrics are now generally accepted as having been appropriated and adapted from African-American sources. Intriguingly William Cullen Bryant collected the lyrics of a work-song version of 'John Come Down de Hollow' from slave sources during a visit in 1843 to a plantation in South Carolina. There "he witnessed a corn-shucking arranged for his benefit by the obliging proprietor unnamed but it may have been William Gilmore Simms. See Norris Yates "Four Plantation Songs Noted by William Cullen Bryant" in Southern Folklore Quarterly v. 15 1951. As described by Bryant "The negroes began to strip the husks from the ears.keeping time to the music.the songs were generally of a comic character but one of them was set to a singularly wild and plaintive air which some of our musicians would do well to reduce to notation." The differences between Bryant's 'plaintive' version and Emmett's provides a rare documentation of the typical way in which African-American sources were changed into comic minstrel repertoire.<br/>At the conclusion of the vocal score is a "Dance" in ten measures which would have been the 'walk round' element of the song mentioned in the title a minstrel dance which Emmett introduced in 1859 to the Bryant's Minstrels' performance routine one which typically closed the first half of the show. It is generally thought to have its origins in African circle shouts brought over by slaves and typically included a competitive element in which each dancer gets a chance to display his best moves while others clap or 'pat Juba' on their bodies. All stops were pulled out for these boisterous minstrel finales which were soon adopted by other bands and Emmett's walk-'rounds defined the type and are considered his most significant contribution to minstrelsy. Hans Nathan devotes an entire chapter to the walk-'rounds in his definitive biography of Emmett and closes with particular mention of "John Come Down de Hollow." As previously mentioned the song was evidently published as sheet music but Nathan could not locate a copy nor have we succeeded.<br/>Although he is today remembered chiefly as the composer of "Dixie" Emmett's importance to minstrelsy the overwhelmingly dominant American musical entertainment of the 19th century can hardly be underestimated. He was a founding member in 1843 of the Virginia Minstrels generally accepted as the first black face Negro minstrel troupe with what would become the full complement of banjo fiddle bones and tambourine. Their popularity and influence quickly spawned the genre with numerous imitators on both sides of the Atlantic and the devoted following of both white and black audiences. He was an accomplished banjoist and his many compositions were central to the repertoire. Hollywood produced a movie of his life starring Bing Crosby in 1940 and he was inducted into the Song Writer's Hall of Fame in 1970. For the definitive study of Emmett and his music with an entire chapter on Emmett's walk-rounds see Hans Nathan's "Dan Emmett and the Rise of Early Negro Minstrelsy." Apart from later transcriptions and quotes from "I Wish I was In Dixie's Land" and a transcription of seven verses of "Old Dan Tucker" which sold at auction in 1978 the present manuscript is the only strictly contemporary full draft of any of Emmett's numerous other compositions to appear in the auction records of the past fifty years this copy in 1964 to 2016. <br/><br/> unknown books
182041461London: Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees No. 39 Paternoster-Row 1820. 1st edition thus. 80 volumes in original publishers quarter-bound cloth beige spines over light blue paper-covered boards black lettering printed to front board and paper title labels on spine. 7 volumes period half-bound in black leather spine and edges with gilt & brown lettering and labels to spines over green cloth boards. Boards heavily worn and rubbed edges bumped and spines chipping. Some boards detached. Some volumes with previous owner signature penned to front board B. Fulford. Binding and paper age-toned as one would expect with the ages of the titles with the occasional stain & foxing. Withal a Good original set sold w.a.f. 87 volumes total. 80 of the Cyclopaedia 7 volumes of Plates. 7 volumes of plates b/w engravings. Cyclopaedias: ~ 11-1/4" x 9". Plate Volumes: 11" x 8-3/4" <br/><br/>"I. The Work will be printed in Quarto at the Office of A. Strahan Esq. with New Types cast for the Purpose and on a superfine yellow woven Paper. II. The Work will be comprised in about Twenty Volumes. III. Three sheets stitched in blue paper will be regularly published every Week till the whole be completed price One Shilling. IV. Numerous Plates engraved in a superior stile sic of elegance will be given in the course of the Publication. V. A Part of Half a Volume containing Seventeen Numbers together with the Plates will be regularly published in advance price Eighteen Shillings in boards. VI. A few copies will be printed on a superfine royal woven Paper with proof impressions of the Plates to be sold in Parts of Half Volumes only price One Pound Sixteen Shillings in boards. VII. Number I and Part I was published on Saturday January 2 1802." <br /> <br />"The encyclopaedia was largely Rees' own work and was especially strong in new and well-written biographical articles. The articles on music were written by Dr. Charles Burney and those on botany were mostly written by Sir James Edward Smith the founder of the Linnean Society.Rees's Cyclopaedia is said to have outclassed the Encyclopaedia Britannica of that time and 'remains a monument to the memory of another native of Wales namely dr. Abraham Rees the Encyclopaedist who was a native of Llanbrynmair Montgomeryshire." Cyclopaedia - dot - org. <br /> <br />Dr. Rees' Cyclopaedia is known all over the world and is often hailed as one of the greatest collections of material in the field of Encyclopedias. Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, No. 39 Paternoster-Row hardcover books
184561443Wetumpka Alabama: printed and published by Charles Yancey 1845. First edition originally published serially in Charleston SC in "The Magnolia" Jan. -- Oct. 1841; the original manuscript was destroyed when the author's Savannah house burned and had to be reconstructed for the serial publication. 8vo. iv 248 pp. Noted as "Two Volumes in One" on the front wrapper with a separate title page for volume two but continuous pagination and chapter numbering throughout. Hubbell "The South in American Literature p. 497: "His best novel." BAL 2795: "Written not later than July 1838." Wright I 495 noted as one of 45 novels published in the South among the 2775 entries in that volume covering 1774-1850 in the University of Virginia online catalogue description. Ellison 530 calling for 246 pages. For a full account of the book's writing publication and reception see Curtis C. Davis "Chronicler of the Cavaliers" Richmond 1953. Gift inscription at the head of the front wrapper: "C. B. Adams Daily Journal / from T. H. Pease. / July 16 1847." After studying at Yale and Amherst Charles Baker Adams 1814-1853 became State Geologist of Vermont Thomas H. Pease was a mid-century bookseller and publisher In New Haven Ct. Scattered foxing but still a very good copy. Original printed blue-green wrappers soiled some old insect damage at lower front corner spine ends show a little wear. 9756. A novel of colonial Virginia Governor Alexander Spotswood's service 1710-1722. Harper had published Caruthers' earlier novels but his loss of the original manuscript in the fire combined with the 1837 economic crash closed that door; after the serial publication he looked south to Charles Yancey brother of congressional firebrand William Lowndes Yancey in the boomtown of Wetumpka Alabama "about to try very patriotically to establish a Southern Publishing House for ourselves." <br/><br/> printed and published by Charles Yancey unknown books
18301071768vo. London: William Pickering 1830. 8vo 188 leaves 1-5 6-14 360 =376 pp. With 90 wood engravings after Holbein by John and Mary Byfield. Original red/pink silk somewhat worn section within foxed or stained withal a decent copy of a great rarity. Enclosed in a red morocco pull-off box. § Large-paper copy of the first edition with an introduction by Dibdin. Limited to 12 copies of which three are known today including this one. Jackson states 12 large-paper copies on india paper; published at one guinea. The Rylands copy is in calf-backed red silk. The Old Testament text accompanying each engraving is in five languages. The advertisement in vol.II of the Pickering Aldine Poets 1830 includes the note ‘Dr. Dibdin has given five specimens of the wood cuts in his Bibliographical Decameron vol. i. 174-180 where will be found a copious account of this work.’ Windle and Pippin A54a. Jackson 73. The Robert Pirie copy with his bookplate and a note at the front that this and a copy on vellum were both lost after he purchased them -- the vellum copy has never been found. William Pickering hardcover books
1809307574London: Printed by T. Bentley Bolt Court Fleet Street for T. Cadell and W. Davies in the Strand and W. Miller Albemarle Street 1809. First Edition. Illustrated. vi 375 1 blank; ii 511 1 blank pages. 2 vols. Imperial Quarto. Contemporary straight-grain red morocco with elaborate tooling and nautical motifs in gilt and blind; spine with five raised bands lettered and stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. Board edges worn particularly at corners joints neatly repaired. Two bookplates including famous Napoleonic collector Calvin Bullock and A.F. Woodward to front endpapers of each volume gift inscription at front preliminary "To Captain Henry Fisher R.N. with every good wish from Frances & Augustine Woodward in perfect remembrance of Feburary-1895.". Interior generally clean and bright. Handsome. First Edition. Illustrated. vi 375 1 blank; ii 511 1 blank pages. 2 vols. Imperial Quarto. Printed by T. Bentley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand and W. Miller, Albemarle Street unknown books
182516960New Haven CT: Yale College 1825. 1/4 leather. Very Good . The 1825 Yale College Yearbook then called "Class-book". This copy belonged to a student named Oliver Ellsworth Huntington who had this copy bound in a decorative red leather over marbled boards with his name in gilt block letters printed across the front panel. This is by far the earliest yearbook this bookseller has seen some 14 years before the advent of photography. Apparently each Yale student was given a blank book at the beginning of the school year and was expected to have his classmates fill the book in during the course of the year with handwritten tributes to the particular graduating senior. Apart from the yearbook's obvious scarcity in its own right what's also so notable is some of the classmates of Huntington who wrote tributes many of them quoted poems but many also long heartfelt digressions. Among Huntington's classmates were Samuel Augustus Maverick the legendary Texas lawyer and land baron who was an original signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. With his fiercely independent streak Maverick was also responsible for inspiring the creation of the word "Maverick". In addition to Maverick other classmates included 1 Rev. George William Perkins Abolitionist active in the Underground Railroad; 2 Elias Warner Leavenworth Mayor of Syracuse and Congressman from NY 1875-1877; 3 William Moseley Holland Co-Valedictorian; 4 Willis Hall Co-Valedictorian and NY State Attorney General 1839-1842; 5 Rev. Richard Falley Cleveland Father of President Grover Cleveland; 6 Rev. William Twining established a young ladies' seminary in Madison Indiana which became Wabash College and was a noted Abolitionist; 7 Worthington Hooker Professor of Medicine at Yale VP of the American Medical Association 1864; 8 William Bennett Fleming Georgia Congressman 1879; 9 John Simkus Butler Author of pioneering works on the study and "curability" of insanity; 10 Seabury Ford Governor of Ohio 1849-1850; 11 William Gelston Bates Massachusetts House of Representatives 1868; 12 Simeon North President of Hamilton College 1839-1857. Given its age the book has held up very nicely and remains solid firm and VG to VG with light forgivable rubbing along the panels and a bit of wear at the spine and its crown. Huntington's son has written in ink on the front free endpaper: "The Yale College Class-book of my Father Oliver Ellsworth Huntington". The book measures 7 1/2" tall x 5" wide and includes the lengthy inscriptions of 80 some classmates between the Class of 1825 AND the Class of 1824. A wonderful piece of Americana -- and of course of Yale history. <br/><br/> Yale College hardcover books
18957527New York: American Bible Society 1895. Hard Cover. First edition of this Bible volume I only; folio 14" x 13" 164 leaves embossed in the New York Point Alphabet for the Blind which is a system of tactile raised dots similar to Braille. Contemporary 3/4 calf over tan cloth covered boards spine ruled in gilt; spine label is absent. New York Point for the Blind was invented by William Bell Wait 1839-1916 educator for the Blind as an alternative to the "Line Letter" system consisting of raised letters of the standard alphabet which was in use in the late 19th Century and lasted for several decades. But Braille had been invented by Louis Braille in 1824 but fell into disuse only to be revived in the early 20th Century and Braille remains today the standard in reading and writing for the Blind throughout the world. Internally quite clean with the embossed dots in very good condition; small loss at head of spine and corners worn through; a very good copy now quite scarce on the market. <br/><br/> American Bible Society hardcover books
186837342aOblong 4to. 2 15 1 plus 66 color lithographed plates with facing page of description. A strikingly handsome illustrated survey of all the wharves piers and slips along the East and North Rivers. The purpose of this survey was to enable the repair and extension of the piers which were city property and deemed by the Commissioners to be among the City's most valuable assets. They sought to substantially increase the value of this property by repairing and maintaining it. The plates are colored in varying shades of blue and red with dimensions depths and other statistics in red and black. The facing page gives a description valuation and estimates of repair costs and final value. There is a light waterstain in the lower gutter margin visible mostly on the blank backs of the plate and text pages. A few pages show very light foxing some of the lithos are tanned and the text for Pier 20 is bound upside down. Overall an exciting visual artifact of Manhattan's waterfront history in excellent condition. Front hinge cracked. Bound in half black morocco over green boards with a leather label bearing the name William H. Graham in gilt on the front board. With a copy of the enabling legislation "An Act to Create a Harbor District and a Board of Wharves and Piers Therein. State of New York 1868" layed in.<br /><br /><br /> NY Printing Company hardcover books
1801006406London: J. Debrett for Life; Sportsmen: self-published printed by J. J. Stockdale 1801 1814. Full Decorated Morocco. Near FIne. Extra-illustrated three volumes with 96 additional plates 45 of the plates being hand-colored and beautifully bound by R. Wallis in full straight-grained red morocco. 8vo. The two works are not exactly the same size although they match very well and work well as a set. A number of folding plates as well and of these two frontises folding and hand-colored. The two volume Life is 21.5 by 13.5 cm the To All Sportsmen: 22.5 by 14.5 cm. Life: 330 474 pp. Sportsmen: 226 8 pp. Extra plates include many portraits and also architectural views of people and/or places with some nexus to the texts and as typical of Graingerized books that nexus at times might seem tenuous. Still the plates especially the color plates are a pleasing addition to the books. Hanger 1751-1824 also known as the fourth Baron Coleraine is one of the great picaressque figures of the Regency period. He commanded troops for the British during the American Revolution during which he was injured and because of his recklessness or incompetence his troops were ambushed and bested in battle. Upon return to Britain he became a close friend of the Prince Regent and was appointed his equerry. While flirting with politics Hanger racked up debts that ultimately led to his going to debtor's prison. Throughout his "career" he was a notorious womanizer as well as a holder of many unconventional views on just about everything. But he was widely regarded as an authority on sports and thus "To All Sportsmen" his final publication. In The Life it is fair to say that Hanger was more concerned about entertaining his readers than literal veracity of the events related. Binding with five raised bands gilt decoration including hunting devices on spine a fox a greyhound a horse head a horseshoe and a shooter with pointer device as centerpieces on all the boards with the spine devices repeated in each of the corners. Gilt ruled perimeters on the boards palmette-based turn ins marbled endpapers. Gilt edges to Life with Sportsmen because of uneven page edges no edge decoration to text block. Condition: all volumes with light rubbing in typical places -- joint extremities spine extremities corners. Typical offsetting of plates. Some light scattered soiling but overall volumes read as clean and bright. <br/><br/> J. Debrett for Life; Sportsmen: self-published, printed by J. J. Stockdale unknown books
181864316Washington City 1818. 4to. Three-pages approximately 600 words; the Monroe response approximately 80 words in full below. Folded for mailing; otherwise fine in all respects. Lt. Jones a Naval officer prefaces his case with a reminder to President Monroe that they had met in July when Jones reported on "the motives and feelings of the Mediterranean Memorialists" referring to the September 1816 dispute between Commodore Oliver H. Perry and one of his officers Capt. John Heath who commanded a detachment of Marines aboard the U.S. frigate Java in the Mediterranean and the resulting court martial convened aboard ship in December of that year. The subaltern officers aboard ship including Jones signed a petition protesting the actions of Com. Perry toward Capt. Heath. This resulted in a request by their superior officers that all the subalterns who had signed the petition be recalled to the United States. see: "American State Papers" 15th Cong. 1st session 1818 Naval Affairs pp.453-6. Jones who had begun service in the Navy at the age of 15 appeals to the President regarding the resulting suspension of his promotion without the chance to defend himself in the more formal setting of a court martial: "How hard is my case! Condemned without trial; even without a hearing. To submit was my duty. To appeal is my right." Monroe's response some 80 words is written on the verso of the second integral leaf in full: "Lt. Jones of the navy. Will it not be proper to make some nominations of the young men who have made the atonement required The public attention was drawn to the object & feeling much excited which are reasons for terminating the affr. in favor of this young man many members have spoken to me. Still I would wish that the particular can be taken up by itself. JM / If any nomination is made it had better be added to those going in." A native of Virginia Thomas ap Catesby Jones continued to serve in the U.S. Navy until his death in 1858. He saw service in the War of 1812 including in the New Orleans campaign and the Mexican War and commanded the Pacific Squadron in the 1840s. He was by many accounts a controversial figure who in his later naval career meted out harsh discipline to his crew. Herman Melville who served aboard Jones's flagship the "United States" in the Pacific is believed to have modeled the captain of "White Jacket" and "Commodore J" in "Moby Dick" on Jones. " In 1850 in a politically charged court-martial shortly after White Jacket was published Jones was found guilty on three counts mostly related to 'oppression' of junior officers and relieved of command for several years" Wikipedia. <br/><br/> unknown books
1817306787London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press 1817. First edition with half-titles and errata. Hundreds of engravings and examples of type etc. some tinted in red and blue. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo. Contemporary straight-grained red morocco by Charles Smith covers gilt ruled with gilt side-pieces along central panel spines in six compartments with elaborate gilt scrollwork gilt turn-ins blue silk doublures with gilt cornerpieces duplicated on silk free endpapers a.e.g. Foxed minor rubbing to boards an attractive copy. First edition with half-titles and errata. Hundreds of engravings and examples of type etc. some tinted in red and blue. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo. Bound by Charles Smith. Dibdin's lavish work in an ornate binding by Charles Smith one of the more active and competent binders in London of the 1810s-'30s with his "13 Church St Soho" ticket in volume 1. Windle & Pippin A28; Jackson no.40; Hart no.186; Bigmore and Wyman pp. 169-70. Provenance: R.P. Hooper bookplate Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press unknown books
1858240889London: Published by W.S. Johnson & Co 1858. First edition. iv 328; iv 304; iv 320 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Bound in contemporary presentation green pebbled morocco gilt extra a.e.g. by Leighton Son and Hodge. Spine faded else fine. First edition. iv 328; iv 304; iv 320 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Presentation Binding Inscribed to His Daughter. Inscribed by the author 1814-1880 to his Daughter "To Violet Kate Egan/ from her father/ Pierce Egan/ with his tenderest love and/ affection/ March 8th 1870." Sadleir 811; Wolff 2045 Published by W.S. Johnson & Co unknown books
1857197Mayhew the Brothers <i>Paved With Gold or the Romance & Reality of the London Streets. An Unfashionable Novel. </i>London Chapman & Hall March 1857- March 1858 all 13 installments boxed. Illustrations by H. K. Browne Item 221 featuring the English painter and engraver Henry Thomas Alken also known as Ben Talley O. with his color portrait. Condition is generally good but Part XIII shows separation wear. All installments are present and complete housed in a hard folding cloth box. Chapman & Hall paperback books
189456228N.p. Cambridge Mass. 1894. 4to approx. 200 pages several diagrams and drawings in loose sheets often with paste-overs and cancels and bound in contemporary marbled boards tied with string and nearly broken; spine perished; good or better and legible. For a good account of Holmes see DAB. Born in 1815 in Peterborough N.H. and a graduate of Phillips-Exeter Harvard and Harvard Law he removed to St. Louis where he was first the city then the county attorney. In 1868 he returned to Cambridge where he became a professor of law at Harvard. He "did no legal writing but was widely interested in other subjects. His Realistic Idealism in Philosophy Itself 1888 exhibits extensive philosophic and scientific reading but has no perceptible influence and now seems unreadable . His scholarship and fairness have been praised by his opponents. In his old age he compiled a Genealogy of the Holmes Family of Londonderry N.H. containing garrulous sketches of his relatives and a long autobiography" DAB. As well as this extensive treatise on gravitation and electricity begun when he was nearly 80. <br/><br/> hardcover books
184556973Baltimore: published by F. Lucas Jr. 170 Market Street 1845. 8vo pp. x 2 xi-xii 2 11-334 2; frontispiece and 4 chromolithograph plates of signal flags; contemporary full sheep neatly rebacked new black morocco label on spine; the plates lightly spotted but on the whole very good and sound. This copy with a presentation on the front pastedown: "To the Association of New York Pilots with the compliments of Messrs. Rogers and Black per Colt & Robinson proprietors of the New York & Offing Electro-Magnetic Telegraph." Dedicated to Samuel F. B. Morse "inventor of the American Electro-Magnetic Telegraph." Rogers a trained engineer from New York City worked as Morse's assistant in constructing the first telegraph line from Washington to Baltimore. He was himself an inventor and pioneered the use of insulated cables for use underground and underwater. During the Civil War he helped develop the military telegraph system. American Imprints 5604; see Sabin 72626 for a later edition. <br/><br/> published by F. Lucas, Jr., 170 Market Street unknown books
18333474London: Longman Rees Orme Brown Greene & Longman 1833. First edition. Near Fine. Publisher's cloth binding retaining the delicate paper label to front board. Some bumping to corners and faint spotting to boards but a pleasing square copy in all. Internally a clean with just a bit of scattered foxing to endpapers and preliminaries. Scarce on the market this book documents Marcet's efforts to expand knowledge access to the working classes in order to make political self-advocacy possible. Presented by Marcet to Professor Pierre Prevost the philosopher and physicist best known for his experiment on the body's radiation of heat this copy bears his ownership signature on the front endpaper and an inscription from Marcet at the header of the title: "Prof. Prevost from the Author." <br/><br/>A peer of such feminist thinkers as Maria Edgeworth Marcet is considered one of the most important figures in the history of women's education in science and economics. Her "Conversations" books which include texts on politics economics and science were ranked among the best-known educational texts of the nineteenth century. In addition to making these rigorous fields accessible to women who might otherwise be denied such training they also welcomed in young boys whose access to quality education might be hindered by class. Among her most famous readers was Michael Faraday who encountered her books while serving as a bookbinder's apprentice and was inspired to delve more deeply into the sciences Science History Institute. The present work seeks to popularize economic theory and put forward an argument for decreasing wage gaps among rich and poor; and in line with her overall project Marcet seeks to make her argument accessible to readers of all education levels. Wrapped in allegory in order to welcome in labor-class readers who may not have complex economic vocabularies Marcet's tale posits the need for new economic policy into a series of nine allegorical essays told "through the eyes of honest John Hopkins a laborer on low wages" Liberty. Scholars have increasingly viewed John Hopkins as an important and previously undervalued piece of Marcet's oeuvre; and her desire to bring the working class into dialogue about their own economic state signals an important cultural change. "Marcet was engaged in the work of the knowledge broker -- creating and maintaining networks between and among scientists and the larger public. Knowledge sharing was based upon the personal and social connections she facilitated by bringing together bankers scientists and professional economists such as Malthus Ricardo Mill and others. It was extended to the popular culture through the many editions of her Conversations addressed to the middle classes and enlarged to include the working classes with her John Hopkins's Notions on Political Economy" L. Forget. Lesser known but nonetheless one of Marcet's culturally important contributions this volume contains important lessons on how to expand a class's knowledge base and provide the tools for political and economic self-advocacy. Notably this copy reveals the influential scientific communities she participated in connecting her to men in the hard sciences who knew of and read her work.<br/><br/>Feminist Companion 713. Women in Science 125. Dictionary of Economics. Near Fine. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Greene & Longman unknown books
18112473New York / Philadelphia: I. Riley and P. Byrne 1811. First American Edition. Full leather. Very good. From the personal library of President James Buchanan The Law Dictionary signed by Buchanan on the title page. Octavo ii 553pp. Full period calf title in gilt on spine over red morocco label. Statement on title page that this is the First American Edition from the Second London Edition. Spine repaired at ends reinforced hinges. Some age toning with foxing on endpapers. This is Volume V from a complete set of 6 volumes. Signed by President James Buchanan on the title page. This law book is from the personal library of President James Buchanan. His library was primarily held at his home in Lancaster PA called Wheatland. The majority of his presidential papers correspondence and books went to Dickinson college his alma mater. After graduating with honors in 1809 James Buchanan moved to Lancaster and became a legal apprentice to James Hopkins. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1812. Buchanan would go on to serve in the House of Representatives from 1821-1831 United States Senator 1834-1845 then as the 17th Secretary of State under President James K. Polk. He was elected President of the United States in 1856 serving one term. He predicted in retirement that "history would vindicate my memory" but his inability to stop the succession of the southern states has sealed his legacy as one of the least successful presidents in history. I. Riley and P. Byrne unknown books
184958811Cincinnati OH: Various publishers 1849. First editions. 1 "An Address on the Bonds of Professional Union Delivered before the Medical Association of Adams Brown and Clermont Counties O. at Batavia October 30 1847." Cincinnati: Atlas Job Room Print 1847. 27 pp. OCLC locates three copies National Library of Medicine Cincinnati History Library Countway; 2 "Valedictory Address on the Sources and Benefits of Professional Earnestness Delivered March 3 1849 to the Graduates of the Medical College of Ohio." Cincinnati: Printed at the office of the "Western Lancet" 1849. 15 pp.; 3 On the Formation of Professional Character: An Introductory Lecture Delivered Nov. 4th 1844." Cincinnati: Printed by R.P. Donogh 1844. 15 pp. American Imprints 44-2945; 4 "An Introductory Address Delivered to the Students of the Medical College of Ohio November 3 1847." Cincinnati: Collins & Van Wagner Printers 1847. 16 pp. OCLC locates five copies Rochester Medical Clendening Medical National Library of Medicine Cincinnati History Library Cincinnati Public; 5 "An Introductory Lecture on the Reciprocal Obligations of the Medical Profession and Society Delivered November 2 1846." Cincinnati: Printed by Looker & Co. 1846. 28 pp. American Imprints 46-3181. OCLC locates 8 copies; 6 "Clinical Lecture on Cholera" caption title. Cincinnati 1849. 8 pp. OCLC locates two copies Chicago Cincinnati History Library; 7 Manuscript copy of the address delivered by Dr. John C. Warren at an October 23 1849 meeting of the Boston area members of the American Medical Association occasioned by the death of Dr. Harrison. 4to. 5 pp. approximately 750 words. Harrison fell victim to the cholera epidemic that was discussed in the final pamphlet in this volume. Some foxing but a lovely presentation of a career's work from a son to his mother. Presentation binding of contemporary black morocco gilt boards framed with quadruple thin gilt rules floral ornaments at each corner spine with gilt rules on raised bands marbled endpapers all edges gilt. #5997. Harrison 1796-1849 a native of Louisville Kentucky studied medicine there and at the University of Pennsylvania returning home to begin his practice at the newly founded Louisville Hospital in 1820. He was appointed to his position at the Medical College of Ohio in 1841 edited the medical periodical "Western Lancet" and served as vice-president of the American Medical Association. For a longer biographical sketch see Kelly and Burrage "American Medical biographies" 1920 pp. 497-498. Dr. Warren's address reads in part: "This gentleman was one of the ablest practitioners in the United States. In the West he was considered as without a superior . while warm & decided in discussion he was not dogmatical and gave an agreeable influence to all he said by the openness and amenity of the manner in which he said it . the respect for him of the profession and community is derived from the noble manner in which he contended against the fatal epidemic of cholera . he continued to expose himself to the disease till he was destroyed by it." Also laid in is a 1961 letter of presentation from one Harrison descendant to another. <br/><br/> Various publishers hardcover books
181864900Windsor VT: Vermont Republican & Yeoman 1818. Monroe's second State of the Union address. Printed broadside 20 x 12 inches the title printed above the first column of the message's text with no other news or advertisements. A rare printing in fine original state from the American provincial press of Monroe's second annual address delivered before Congress on November 17 1818 one of much more than ordinary interest. The first three columns are devoted almost in their entirety and in great detail to conflict with Spain in Spanish Florida where "Adventurers from every country fugitives from justice and absconded slaves have found an asylum." In addition to discussing the threats to American citizens posed by the Seminole Indians encouraged by Spain Monroe defends American action in the taking of Amelia Island off the coast of northeastern Florida which the pirate Louis Aury had seized on behalf of the Republic of Mexico. Another full column is given to the American position vis-a-vis Spain and the Latin American Wars of Independence. A half-column is devoted to affairs with Indian tribes in Michigan and Illinois Territories in Ohio and further west: "With a view to the security of our inland frontiers it has been thought expedient to establish strong posts at the mouth of the Yellowstone River and at the Mandan village on the Missouri and the mouth of St. Peters on the Mississippi." Monroe goes on to articulate the fundamentals of future American Indian policy. "Experience has clearly demonstrated that independent savage communities cannot long exist within the limits of a civilized population . to civilize them and even to prevent their extinction it seems to be indispensable that their independence as communities should cease and that the control of the United States over them should be complete and undisputed." This extra dates from the first year of publication of the "Vermont Republican & Yeoman" 1818-1829. We could find no listing for this separate broadside but it appears that the American Antiquarian Society has a copy. This printing is not in Servies but cf. Vol. I 953 for a separate communication on the Seminole War sent to Congress on March 25 1818. Neither American Imprints nor OCLC record this broadside; OCLC does locate several pamphlet printings and one copy Library of Virginia of a broadside printing from the National Intelligencer in Washington. Paper flaw resulting in a small hole touching several letters in one column else fine. Untrimmed broadside as issued. 11138. <br/><br/> Vermont Republican & Yeoman unknown books
1898265060London: Lawrence and Bullen Ltd. 16 Henrietta Street Covent Garden 1898. First edition. 40 full-page photogravures and other illustrations throughout. Original parts issue each with 2 photogravure plates numerous advertising inserts. 2 vols. 4to. Original pictorial wrappers with design by E. Caldwell. Largely unopened. In two half red morocco boxes. First edition. 40 full-page photogravures and other illustrations throughout. Original parts issue each with 2 photogravure plates numerous advertising inserts. 2 vols. 4to. IN PARTS. From Aardvark to Zebra a very beautifully produced and useful reference here in its rarest state. Includes Angling Big Game Coursing Dogs Football Golf Hunting Shooting Wrestling etc.<br/><br/>Articles by Lydekker Aflalo Millais F.C Selous H.A. Bryden Prince Demidoff J.E. Harting Warburton Pike and many others including Theodore Roosevelt who wrote the articles on the American Bison Caribou Opossum and Raccoon Peccary Prairie Chicken Pronghorn Puma Turkey Wapiti and Wolf Coursing.<br/><br/>SUPERB CONDITION. Phillips p. 113; Petit catalogue 755 parts issue in wrappers Lawrence and Bullen Ltd. 16 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden unknown books
1836665381836. Concord NH 1836. Concord NH 1836. "Oh! Lust Accursed Lust! 'Twas This for Which I Did the Deed" Broadside. Murder. Private Individual at the Bar. Abr'm Prescott's Confession of the Murder of Mrs. Sally Cochran of Pembroke N.H.--June 23 1833. Concord NH.: S.n. 1836. 17" x 11-1/2" broadside. Two-columns of verse in twenty stanzas within woodcut ornamental border text headed by large woodcut vignette of a coffin. Light browning and a few minor stains faint horizontal and vertical fold line chipping to edges section lacking from bottom margin just touching bottom right corner of border a few tears along fold lines with no loss to text later repairs to verso. $2500. Abraham Prescott was found guilty of the murder of Sally Cochran in two separate trials held in Concord in September 1834 and September 1835. Despite a well-crafted insanity defense he was sentenced to be hanged on December 23 1835 in Hopkinton New Hampshire. The execution was postponed to January 6 1836. The verse account in this broadside presents the murder as a crime of passion: "Oh! lust accursed lust! 'twas this for which I did the deed; Forfeiting heaven and life and bliss Forfeiting all I need." See McDade The Annals of Murder 769. OCLC locates 7 copies American Antiquarian Society Brown Dartmouth Harvard Peabody Essex Museum University of Michigan Yale. unknown books
18479675n.p. 1847. 1 vols. Folio. Sewn into original brown wrappers worn. 1 vols. Folio. 215 ORIGINAL SPORTING DRAWINGS. The artist from internal evidence seems to be Rev. H.L. Bennet--clearly an ardent and well-connected sportsman as most of his sketches are portraits and caricatures of well-known hunting men and women of the day many of whom are identified. These include a portrait of Lord Jersey who Nimrod called "perhaps the most elegant rider for hounds the world has ever seen" and many others. The drawings are skilfully executed and are often amusing. A unique production of one of the golden ages of British sport.<br/><br/>Including : Examples of 2 pages 7 images: Mrs. Rowley's Groom on his Compact Mare Rush Esq Farthgghoc Col. Joddsch Lord Anson's steward M-- Wyatt. J.H. Jr T.T.D.<br/><br/>Another: 2 pages; Rev. G. Loyd T.T Darke Esq. 2 others<br/><br/>Another: 2 pages; Col. Goodell 4 others Mr. Drakes Grey's horse. unknown books
186085724Chicago: Charles Leib 1860. Very Good. Four-page newspaper. A couple of small holes various brown spots and other bits of minor wear A campaign newspaper for Abraham Lincoln in the Presidential Campaign of 1860. We note a half-column story on the front page of this issue that accuses Senator Douglas of being a Roman Catholic -- a charge based partly on the fact that Mrs. Douglas was a Catholic as were their children -- probably an effective charge in largely Protestant mid-19th century America. Our brief research suggests that Douglas was not a Catholic or a formal member of any other organized religious group. The purpose of another half-column story on the front page was to make it clear that Lincoln had publicly condemned the actions of John Brown and did not object to Brown's execution. Charles Leib the editor was a political operative with a murky background who had previously edited a Democratic campaign newspaper on behalf of the Buchanan campaign in 1856. Leib served briefly as an Assistant Quartermaster in the Union Army before heading to new Mexico probably in 1863 and died there in 1865 at the age of 38. <br/><br/> Charles Leib unknown books
1883S13230London:: Royal Society 1883-1899. 1883. 3 volumes. 4to. approx. 1000-1200 pages total pagination varies. Title-pages bound in numerous plates. Maroon cloth with "Physical Papers" gilt-stamped on each spine; minor kozo repairs. Ownership signatures in all three vols. of L.R. Wilberforce Professor of Physics London. Very good. WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM JOSEPH JOHN THOMSON 3 JOHN S. TOWNSEND 2 CHARLES THOMSON REES WILSON 3 & 12 PAPERS INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHORS. Remarkable collection of 36 physics papers written by mostly members of the Cavendish Laboratory including 12 papers which are inscribed to the owner Lionel Robert Wilberforce who also worked at the lab. Among the papers are two by J.J. Thomson winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize for Physics and Rutherford who won the 1908 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. One of his papers was a precursor to the first Marconi wireless telegraph and radio stations. Three papers are inscribed by 1927 Nobel Prize winner Charles Thomson Rees Wilson the inventor of the cloud chamber. CONTENTS: 1. Volume One: J.J. Thomson One Some Applications of Dynamical Principles to Physical Phenomena. 1885. Sir Joseph John Thomson 1856-1940 OM PRS was an English physicist and 1906 Nobel laureate in physics credited with the discovery and identification of the electron; and with the discovery of the first subatomic particle. // 2. Hugh Longbourne Callendar 1863-1930 On the Practical Measurement of Temperature: experiments made at the Cavendish Laboratory Cambridge. 1887. "Callendar made elaborate experiments on this subject at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge in which he compared the platinum resistance thermometer with Regnault's normal air thermometer and from which he deduced that the resistance of a properly made platinum wire can be related to the reading of the air thermometer by a parabolic formula that was accurate within 1 percent." :: DSB. // 3. Ernest Howard Griffiths 1851-1932 On the Determination of Some Boiling and Freezing Points by Means of the Platinum Thermometer. 1891. INSCRIBED by the author. See: L.B. Hunt "The Origin of the Platinum Resistance Thermometer" Platinum Metals Rev. 1980 24 3 104. // 4. Ernest Howard Griffiths; & Hugh Longbourne Callendar On the Determination of the Boiling-Point of Sulphur and on a method of standardizing platinum resistance thermometers by reference to it. Cavendish Laboratory. 1891. INSCRIBED by Griffiths "E.H.G." // 5. Ernest Howard Griffiths The Value of the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat deduced from some experiments performed with the view of establishing the relation between the electrical and mechanical units . . . 1893. Compliments of the author was once written on the copy but now erased. // 6. Ernest Howard Griffiths The Latent Heat of Evaporation of Water. 1895. "With the Author's Compliments." Griffiths. // 7. John Walton Capstick On the Ratio of the Specific Heats of the Parafins and their Monohalogen Derivatives. 1894. INSCRIBED "From J.N. Carpenter". John Walton Capstick 1858-1937 joined the Cavendish Laboratory and held a prominent role from 1891 to 1898 and in the administration of Trinity College from 1895 until 1910. // 8. John Walton Capstick On the Ratio of the Specific Heats of Some Compound Gases. 1895. // 9. Volume Two: John Henry Poynting On a Determination of the Mean Density of the Earth and the Gravitation Constant by Means of the Common Balance. 1892. With the Compliments of the Author. Poynting 1852-1914 British physicist In the late 1870s he worked in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge under James Clerk Maxwell. Poynting won the University of Cambridge John Couch Adams Prize in 1893. // 10. Oliver J. Lodge Aberration Problems. A discussion concerning the motion of the ether near the Earth and concerning the connexion between ether and gross matter: with some new experiments. 1893. INSCRIBED "With the Author's Compliments." Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge FRS 1851–1940 British physicist "best known for his advocacy and elaboration of Maxwell's aether theory." // 11. W.C. Dampier Whetham On the Alleged Slipping at the Boundary of a Liquid in Motion. 1890. William Cecil Dampier Whetham 1867-1952 studied at Trinity College Cambridge and then began his research work at the Cavendish Laboratories in 1889. // 12. J.J. Thomson On the Determination of the Number of Electrostatic Units in the Electromagnetic Unit of Electricity. 1883. // 13. J.J. Thomson; & G.F.C. Searle A Determination of "v" the ratio of the electromagnetic unit of electricity to the electrostatic unit. 1890. // 14. R.T. Glazebrook 1854-1935; & T.C. Fitzpatrick On the Specific Resistance of Mercury. 1888. Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook KCB KCVO FRS English physicist studied physics under James Clerk Maxwell and Lord Rayleigh at the new Cavendish Laboratory and in 1880 was appointed a demonstrator at the laboratory. In 1899 he became the first Director of the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington. // 15. R.T. Glazebrook; & S. Skinner On the Clark Cell as a Standard of Electromotive Force. 1892. // 16. W.C. Dampier Whetham On the Velocities of the Ions. 1895. INSCRIBED "L.R. Wilberforce Esqr. With the Author's Compliments". // 17. James Alfred Ewing 1855-1935 Experimental Researches in Magnetism. 1885. Sir James Alfred Ewing KCB FRS FRSE MInstitCE 18551935 Scottish physicist and engineer best known for his work on the magnetic properties of metals and his discovery of and coinage of the word hysteresis. // 18. James Alfred Ewing 1855-1935 Effects of Stress and Magnetisation on the Thermoelectric Quality of Iron. 1886. // 19. James Alfred Ewing 1855-1935; & G.C. Cowan Magnetic Qualities of Nickel. 1888. // 20. James Alfred Ewing 1855-1935 Magnetic Qualities of Nickel. Supplementary paper. 1888. // 21. James Alfred Ewing 1855-1935; & William Low On the Magnetisation of Iron and other Magnetic Metals in Very Strong Fields. 1889. // 22. Volume Three: S.W.J. Smith On the Nature of Electrocapillary Phenomena. 1899. // 23. Hon. R.J. Strutt On the Least Potential Difference Required to Produce Discharge Through Various Gases. 1900. Robert John Strutt 1875-1947 4th Baron Rayleigh FRS. // 24. Ernest Rutherford 1871-1937 A Magnetic Detector of Electrical Waves and Some of its Applications. 1897. Rutherford worked with J.J. Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory and in 1908 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 'for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements and the chemistry of radioactive substances.' "The magnetic detector or Marconi magnetic detector sometimes called the "Maggie" was an early radio wave detector used in some of the first radio receivers to receive Morse code messages during the wireless telegraphy era around the turn of the 20th century. Developed in 1902 by radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi from a method invented in 1895 by New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford it was used in Marconi wireless stations until around 1912 when it was superseded by vacuum tubes.". Signed by Wilberforce. // 25. George Frederick Charles Searle 1864-1954 Problems in Electric Convection. 1896. Inscribed by the author. Searle FRS British physicist & teacher of Searle's bar fame was responsible for the practical laboratories at Cavendish where he worked under J.J. Thomson. // 26. John S. Townsend 1868-1957 Magnetization of Liquids. 1896. INSCRIBED: "L. R. Wilberforce Esq. With the Author's Compts." Sir John Sealy Edward Townsend Irish mathematical physicist. // 27. G.T. Walker On Boomerangs. 1897. Communicated by J.J. Thomson. Sir Gilbert Thomas Walker CSI FRS 1868–1958 nicknamed "Boomerang Walker" English physicist and statistician. "Walker studied mathematics and applied it to a variety of fields including aerodynamics electromagnetism and the analysis of time-series data before taking up a teaching position at Cambridge University." // 28. A.M. Worthington; & R.S. Cole Impact With a Liquid Surface Studied by the Aid of Instantaneous Photography. 1897. Well before the photo-work of Harold "Doc" Edgerton 1903-1990 working with a stroboscope. "Arthur Mason Worthington CB FRS 1852-1916 was an English physicist and educator. He is best known for his work on fluid mechanics especially the physics of splashes; for observing those he pioneered techniques of high speed photography." // 29. C.T. Heycock; & F.H. Neville. Complete Freezing-Point Curves of Binary Alloys Containing Silver or Copper Together with Another Metal. 1897. INSCRIBED "With the Compliments of the Authors." // 30. Prof. Osborne Reynolds; & W.H. Moorby. Bakerian Lecture. The Mechanical Equivalent of Heat. 1898. INSCRIBED "With Prof. Osborne Reynolds Compliments." // 31. Richard Threlfall; & Joseph Henry Draper Brearly Researches on the Electric Properties of Pure Substances. 1896. // 32. John S. Townsend 1868-1957 The Diffusion of Ions into Gases. 1899. INSCRIBED "With the Author's Compliments." see above. // 33. James Alfred Ewing 1855-1935; & Walter Rosenhain Bakerian Lecture. The Crystalline Structure of Metals. 1899. // 34. Charles Thomson Rees Wilson 1868-1959 Condensation of Water Vapour in the Presence of Dust-Free Air and Other Gases. 1897. INSCRIBED to "L. R. Wilberforce Esq. With the Author's Compliments." Wilson CH FRS was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the cloud chamber. // 35. Charles Thomson Rees Wilson 1868-1959 On the Condensation Nuclei Produced in Gases by the Action of Rontgen Rays Uranium Rays Ultra-Violet Light and Other Agents. 1899. INSCRIBED to "With the Author's Compliments." This won him the Nobel Prize for physics in 1927. see below next item. // 36. Charles Thomson Rees Wilson 1868-1959 On the Comparative Efficiency as Condensation Nuclei of Positively and Negatively Charged Ions. INSCRIBED to "With the Author's Compliments." // PROVENANCE: Lionel Robert Wilberforce 1861-1944 graduated from Trinity College 1884 Professor of Physics London physicist best known for the Wilberforce pendulum. His history explains why this collection was kept: Wilberforce worked with J.J. Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. He taught at University College Liverpool. See: DNB. Royal Society, 1883-1899. hardcover books
