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2014153692014. Spray paint and silkscreen on cigarette pack foil mounted to cardboard. Measuring approximately 28" x 22". SIGNED and dated by artist to verso. <br/><br/> unknown books
2014153682014. Spray paint and silkscreen on cigarette pack foil mounted to cardboard. Measuring approximately 28" x 22". SIGNED and dated by artist to verso. <br/><br/> unknown books
2014153862014. Spray paint and silkscreen on cigarette pack foil mounted to cardboard. Measuring approximately 28" x 22". SIGNED and dated by artist to verso. <br/><br/> unknown books
2014153702014. Spray paint and silkscreen on cigarette pack foil mounted to cardboard. Measuring approximately 28" x 22". SIGNED and dated by artist to verso. <br/><br/> unknown books
1858List1013Montevideo: Fellowship of Reconciliation / Secretaria sudamericana Movimiento de Reconciliación 1858. First Edition. Small 4to comic book 9 ¼ x 6 ½ inches 16pp. A fine copy with the slightest crease to center of front page due to a printing irregularity unread and exceptionally bright. Fine. After producing the English version of this title in 1957 the Fellowship of Reconciliation published this edition for Latin American audiences in a run of 125000 copies. Similarly very few survived with OCLC currently locating only four copies. The entire comic was redrawn by an unknown artist. OCLC credits the publication to Secretaria sudamericana Movimiento de Reconciliación in Montevideo. A very uncommon survival. Fellowship of Reconciliation / Secretaria sudamericana, Movimiento de Reconciliación unknown books
1815008240London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1815. SCARCE. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at half-title page -" ministre des Etats Unis de la de l'auteur. Rome Avril 1819 author's initials". Two volumes rebacked in 20th c. quarter leather with gilt lettering over original paper covered boards. Eight page publisher's catalogue at front of Vol. I frontispiece portrait of bust of author xl 2 388 frontispiece map of Plan of Rome Vol. II 419 pp. Very Good 1st signature Vol. ! loose but holding boards worn at edges and lightly soiled end pages browned light spotting throughout both volumes some pages yet uncut. Lucien Bonaparte Prince of Canino 1775-1840 was a younger brother of Napoleon and a French statesman who played an indispensable role in Napoleons rise to power. He wrote this heroic poem on Charlemagne while living in exile in England where he was forced to stay after attempting to obtain a passport to go to America. SIGNED copies of his books are quite uncommon and this copy with its intriguing inscription is unique. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Quarter Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Presentation Copy. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown Hardcover books
1817261849London: 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 and slip of gold printing with directions to binder slip at vol. II p. 417. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo 9-3/4 x 6 inches. Bound in contemporary three quarters blue pebbled morocco spine gilt and marbled boards and edges. Fine small bump to some pages in Vol. I. Bookplate of The Right Hon. Charles Abbot prob. Charles Abbot 1st Baron Colchester in Vols II & III. First edition with half-titles and errata. Hundreds of engravings and examples of type etc. some tinted in red and blue and slip of gold printing with directions to binder slip at vol. II p. 417. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo 9-3/4 x 6 inches. Windle & Pippin A28; Jackson no.40; Hart no.186; Bigmore and Wyman pp. 169-70 Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press unknown books
30457<p>small quarto two pages a damp-stain has faded several words in the text some archival tissue repairs else in good legible condition. Very likely a retained copy. The intended recipient may well have been William Woodford 1734-1780 American revolutionary war general from Virginia.</p><p> The letter reads:</p><p> "My dear Sir</p><p> I am just inform'd that a letter was yesterday read in Convention from T. Hepburn to you mentioning amongst other matters his having left in Norfolk some articles of my property which from your usual goodness I must request the favor of you to secure for me. A conveyance by water will be I suppose impracticable but as the Flour Waggons are frequently returning one of them possibly may be spar'd for that purpose or perhaps they may be got part of the way to some pace of safety. As I now am asking favors I will venture another which as it will prove a means two unintelligible words …ing that humanity which has rendered your name dear to your Country-men will I flatter myself meet with success. Matt Phripp before this late unhappy affair was deservedly esteemed by most people in this country his affairs he informs me his affairs upon a better footing. Be pleased to excuse the liberty I have taken & accept my sincere congratulations upon your late victories & the honorable testimonies your conduct has justly merited from our country.</p><p> May you be happy & continue to conquer is the sincere wish of Dear Sir </p><p> yr most obedient</p><p> Ben Harrison</p><p> Wms burg 2d January 1775" i.e.1776</p><p> An intriguing letter for many reasons. The letter is evidently mis-dated Harrison dated it January 2 1775 instead of 1776 a common enough mistake early in January. The only Convention to meet in January was the one that met in Williamsburg from December 1 1775 to January 20 1776. Matthew Phripp mentioned by Harrison was a prominent merchant of Norfolk who was charged with disloyalty to Virginia in December 1775. After weighing the evidence the Convention on January 4 1776 adopted a resolution exonerating him.</p><p> The identity of the recipient who was in or near Norfolk can probably be deduced as William Woodford. Harrison congratulates his correspondent upon his "late victories". Woodford was a delegate to the Third Virginia Convention and there was appointed colonel in command of the 2nd Virginia Regiment of the Virginia provisional forces. He had just driven the royal governor Lord Dunmore and British forces from the Norfolk peninsula after the Battle of Great Bridge on December 9 1775 the first significant battle of the Revolution on Virginia soil.</p><p> Benjamin Harrison 1726-1791 Virginia planter legislator governor and signer of the Declaration of Independence was born on his family's estate in Virginia the fifth in line to bear the name and the scion of one of the most prominent planter families in the colony. He attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg but when his father died Harrison left before graduating to assume management of his family's estates. He was one of the more conservative patriots in Virginia and had been only lukewarm in supporting the more vigorous rebels such as Patrick Henry during the Stamp Act crisis. However as the time of decision drew closer Harrison threw his considerable weight to the side of the patriots. </p><p> He was one of the most powerful members of the House of Burgesses serving frequently as speaker and when he began to take part in committees of correspondence and provincial congresses in 1774 the anti-crown forces in Virginia gained strength. He was selected as one of Virginia's delegates to the first Continental Congress in 1774 and continued to represent the state until 1777. In November 1775 he was named chair of a committee to correspond "with our friends in Great Britain Ireland and other parts of the world" Congress's first venture into foreign affairs. The following year Harrison's committee sent Silas Deane and Benjamin Franklin to France as its diplomatic agents. His prestige in the House was such that he consistently was placed in the chair when Congress went into committee of the whole to debate the question of independence in June 1776. As committee chair he had the honor of reporting the approved Declaration of Independence to the Congress on the Fourth of July. Afterward he signed along with the other members of the Virginia delegation. He served in Congress until 1777 and then took a seat in Virginia's newly constituted House of Delegates. He served as speaker from 1781 to 1784. In 1781 when Banastre Tarleton General Charles Cornwallis's hard-riding lieutenant descended on Charlottesville in an effort to capture the Virginia Legislature Speaker Harrison fled across the Blue Ridge Mountains with Patrick Henry and John Tyler encountering difficulties that have long enriched Virginia folklore. </p><p> Harrison objected to the new federal constitution on account of the lack of a bill of rights but he proved a supporter of the new government when it was approved. His son William Henry Harrison and his great-grandson Benjamin Harrison became presidents of the United States.</p><p><br /></p><p> See <i>Virginia Magazine of History and Biography</i> XV 1908 148; XCIII 1910 402-408. </p><p> <i>American National Biography</i> volume 10 pp. 197-198</p> books
199068011New York: Harper Collins 1990. First edition of The Dalai Lama's autobiography. Octavo original half cloth illustrated. Boldly signed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. "Throughout his story told with great humility the Dalai Lama reveals his obligation both to address the time-honored spiritual needs of his people and to help them deal with the practical considerations of their disrupted lives. Anyone wanting to understand Tibet today will do well to read this priest-king's tale of coping with the ancient and modern worlds that have shaped him" Chicago Tribune. Harper Collins hardcover books
182864785Washington Pa 1828. Broadside. 45 x 29 cm. Text in four columns signed in type by A. Lacock at Spring Dale Pa. June 28 1828 at end along with a printed note: "Let us read this and then lend it to our neighbors." Docketted on verso: "Lacock v Jackson 1828." Paper uniformly browned some faint old staining ink note on verso bleeds through slight printers error at a fold affecting a few letters. Not in AMERICAN IMPRINTS. OCLC lists a copy at Michigan with the following catalogue note: "An attack upon Jackson's conduct in the Seminole War. Lacock had conducted an investigation of Jackson's conduct at the time." Lacock investigated Jackson as member of the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania issuing a report in 1818 Sabin 38471 in which he concluded that Jackson had lied repeatedly in an attempt to justify his actions. He says in the present piece that Jackson "delighted to dwell with composure scenes of blood and carnage." After leaving the Senate Lacock returned to western Pennsylvania. A surveyor he devoted much of the rest of his career to the promotion and construction of the Pennsylvania & Ohio canal see DAB. <br/><br/> unknown books
192715848JMelbourne/New York: George J. Hicks & Co./Doubleday Doran 1927. First Australian Edition. This book is not listed in any of Philip M. O’Brien’s three bibliographies of T.E. Lawrence. Australian publisher George J. Hicks made a deal with American publisher Doubleday Doran to release Revolt In the Desert in Australia. Using bound books of the second American printing which were shipped to Melbourne Hicks created his own dust jacket and issued the book. The front panel of the jacket has the title Lawrence’s name the classic Augustus John drawing of Lawrence in Arab garb with George J. Hicks & Co. printed along the bottom edge. The back panel describes the book using the text printed on the rear panel of the dust jacket of the first American edition and beneath which is reference to the volume as the “Australasian Edition 15/- Netâ€. Underneath is printed Hicks publishing information noting offices in Melbourne Sydney Perth Wellington N.Z.†The printed flaps of the dust jacket are most curious. The front flap has the printed text that is found on the front flap of the British first edition as published by Jonathan Cape. The rear flap contains the text of the front flap of the first American edition as published initially by George H. Doran. 16 plates and the map. Some slight mottling to the title page else a very good plus to near fine copy in a very good plus to near fine dust jacket with a tiny bit of dust soiling and a few very tiny nicks and tiny tears. Extremely rare. George J. Hicks & Co./Doubleday Doran unknown books
193727578Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran 1937. First American edition. 1 of 56 copies issued for copyright purposes. 8vo. 29pp. Original printed cream wrappers somewhat darkened at the edges. Very good. O'BRIEN A191. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Doran unknown books
1919308292Cairo: Produced by the Government Press and Survey of Egypt 1919. First edition. Frontispiece portrait of Allenby. 55 maps printed in color. 1 vols. 4to. Original sand cloth printed in black. Collaborator's copy with duplicated slip tipped to front flyleaf. Near fine copy. First edition. Frontispiece portrait of Allenby. 55 maps printed in color. 1 vols. 4to. Official history of the British campaign in Palestine and Syria leading to the capture of Jerusalem and Damascus. <br/><br/>T.E. Lawrence's contributions to this volume reporting on the "Sherifian Co-operation" and the progress of the Arab Revolt appear at the text accompanying plates 49 to 53 at the back of the volume. They are derived from material printed in the Arab Bulletin.<br/><br/>In the uncommon cloth issue this copy with presentation slip signed by Palestine News editor P.S. Taylor to Lieutenant Colonel Angus Cameron 1871-1961 officer and colonial governor seconded to the Egyptian Army in 1899 and who had served as governor of the Mogalla Kassala and Sennar provinces in the Sudan from 1906. <br/><br/>During the Great War he served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the Western Desert in the campaign against the Senussi Arabs. He was brevetted Lieutenant Colonel in June 1919. After the war he returned as governor of the Sennar province of the Sudan. O'Brien A011 "a few copies bound in sand coloured cloth" Produced by the Government Press and Survey of Egypt unknown books
186463452Richmond VA 1864. 4to one-page on blue paper the text in full: "In compliance with your request I have the honor to transmit herewith copy of my letter to the Hon. W. Porcher Miles on the subject of the torpedo boats"; with a "Rebel Archives" stamp on verso. Chambliss 1809-1875; Sussex County Virginia plantation owner and member of the Confederate House of Representatives 1862-1865 was a member of the house Naval Affairs committee and William Porcher Miles 1822-1899; Mayor of Charleston South Carolina 1855-1857 U.S. House of Representatives 1857-1860 Confederate House of Representatives 1862-1865 was chairman of the house Military Affairs committee. This letter was written several months after the Confederacy's first torpedo boat the David made its initial attack against the Union ship New Ironsides in Charleston Harbor 5 October 1863 and two months before its second against the USS Memphis 6 March 1864. After two failed attempts at a sortie in 1863 losing 13 crew members in the process the Hunley became the first torpedo boat to actually sink a war vessel successfully completing its mission against the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor on February 17 1864. Very good Mallory's signature strong and black. Folded. 10187. <br/><br/> unknown books
17564062Rome: Gioacchino & Giovanni Giuseppe Salvioni Stampatori Pontificii Vaticani 1756. 8vo 210 x 135 mm. 24 407 1 pp. 2 parts the Office of the Dead separately titled. Printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece and 12 full-page engravings by Arnold Van Weserhout and Jacob Frey after Joseph Passarus Giuseppe Passaro two engraved title vignettes and 12 tailpiece vignettes a few unsigned others by Frey after Passaro or by M. Schedi engraver 3 engraved initials numerous red-printed woodcut initials. Occasional light browning. 18th-century Roman gold-tooled red goatskin covers with densely tooled dentelle border built up from leafy plant tools sprigs floral and arabesque tools each cornerpiece enclosing a grid with gold dots blossom tools and dots in central field ornamental centerpiece of large foliate arabesque and dandelion tools spine in six uniformly gold-tooled compartments block-printed pastedown endpapers with flower and fruit design stencil-colored in red green and yellow gilt edges with gauffred border design; upper cover a bit faded and bowed corner bumped a couple of scrapes to lower cover. Provenance: Horace de Landau 1824-1904 bookplate shelfmark no 47854; Vicomte de Cossette armorial bookplate. A rococo binding on a luxuriously printed and illustrated Office of the Virgin from the Salvioni press official printers to the Vatican. The Salvioni press used several workshops sometimes collectively mislabeled as the "Vatican" or "Salvioni" bindery. Those bound for the papal library were finely executed and different binderies can be identified by their tools color of leather and stylistic details. The present pretty but crowded binding decor with its in places overlapping tooling does not seem to belong to the corpus of binderies represented in for example the Vatican Library's 1977 exhibit catalogue of papal bindings. Stylistically it uses types of tools and decoration - the wide "Louis XV" style border and the basketweave cornerpieces - in vogue during the reigns of Clement XIV 1769-1774 and Pius VI 1775-1799. Its decoration is similar for example to binding no. 262 in Legature papali but it is of inferior workmanship and does not use the same tools. It was probably produced in a Roman shop executing many commissions and forced to work quickly although it could even be a provincial binding. Cf. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Legature papali da Eugenio IV a Paolo VI no. 262 plate CXCI. Gioacchino & Giovanni Giuseppe Salvioni, Stampatori Pontificii Vaticani hardcover books
029991Large manuscript archive consisting of: -571 letters 1074 pages dated 1820s-1940s the bulk from 1898-1900. -5 Diaries 540 pp. of Thomas R. Hall of Buckhannon West Virginia dated 1937-1949 with gaps. -7 Memorandum and Account Books possibly of John P. Barger of Petersburg West Virginia 1883-1884. -572 pieces approximately of ephemera including contracts deeds agreements postcards invitations circulars receipts printed and manuscript materials such as accounts and financial statements etc. plus several photographs the ephemera dates from 1820s-1950s.<br /><br /><p><b>Archive Description:</b></p><p><b>Correspondence</b></p><p> 571 letters 1074 pp. dated between 1820s-1940s with the bulk of the letters 391 of 571 being dated from 1898 to 1900. A further breakdown of the correspondence in this collection is as follows:</p><p>1820s-1880s. 48 letters 101 pp.</p><p> 1890-1897. 34 letters 127 pp.</p><p> 1898. 110 letters 176 pp.</p><p>1899. 281 letters 387 pp.</p><p>1900s. 30 Letters 91 pp.</p><p>1910s. 28 Letters 114 pp.</p><p>1920s-1940s. 5 Letters 16 pp.</p><p>Undated letters 22 letters 42 pp.</p><p>Undated and Incomplete letters 13 letters 20 pp.</p><p> Much of the correspondence centers around John W. Gilkeson. Including 33 letters 41 pp. dated 1898-1900 on the letterhead of the West Virginia Penitentiary of which Mr. Gilkeson served on the board of directors. Other incoming letters to Gilkeson also concern the penitentiary. These letters tend to be written by other members of the board of directors and are written on that members own company letterhead but they discuss the business of the prison.</p><p><b>Diaries of Thomas R. Hall of Buckhannon Upshur County WV 1937-1949</b></p><p> 5 volumes 540 pp comprising 262 pp. of diaries plus 278 pp. of memorandum notes cash accounts and address books. Diaries measure 2 ½" x 5 ¾" bound in limp red leather format is 5 to 7 diary entry days per page mostly written in ink but with some pencil. Diary volumes dated for years 1937 1939 1945 1947 and 1949. Diary entries detail the day to day activities of Mr. Hall a father husband and insurance salesman. The memorandum notes cash accounts etc. at the rear of the diaries appear to deal with his work as an insurance salesman for Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. He keeps track of personal production income automobile repairs oil gas bus train mail other expenses etc. Individual diaries pages are as follows:</p><p>1937 - 53 pp diary 50 pp. memorandum cash accounts address book.</p><p> 1939 - 53 pp diary 60 pp. memorandum cash accounts address book.</p><p> 1945 - 50 pp diary 55 pp. memorandum cash accounts address book.</p><p> 1947 - 53 pp diary 51 pp. memorandum cash accounts address book.</p><p> 1949 - 53 pp diary 62 pp. memorandum cash accounts address book.</p><p> <b>Memorandum and Account Books</b></p><p> 7 Memorandum & Account Books possibly of John P. Barger of Petersburg Virginia 1883-1884 comprising 128 pages in total each volume measures approximately 3 ½" x 5 ¾" and is bound in paper wrappers and dated from 1883 to 1885.Two of the volumes lack wrappers. The volumes are worn mostly written in pencil but in a legible hand. The names of John P. Barger and George Harman are mentioned in most volumes.</p><p> <b>Ephemera</b></p><p>185 approximately pieces of manuscript ephemera for the Barger Gilkeson and Van Meter families includes bills receipts contracts deeds agreements memorandum notes promissory notes etc. dated c1820s-1940s mostly from the late 1880s-1890s.</p><p>200 approximately pieces of printed and manuscript ephemera for the Barger Gilkeson and Van Meter families includes letterhead receipts for various goods transport receipts hay scale receipts tax bills a couple of telegrams car registration used checks a checkbook membership cards insurance policies etc. dated 1847-1950</p><p>62 used postcards 1877-1924 mostly 1880s-1890s many to John P. Barger from his bank showing a deposit was received others between members of the Gilkeson family and their associates. Post cards addressed to Mrs. Alice Barger Petersburg WV; John P. Barger Esq. Petersburg WV; Mr. Max Barger Petersburg WV; E. M. Gilkeson Moorefield WV; Hon. John Wm. Gilkeson Moorefield WV also seen as "cashier"; Ms Martha V. Gilkeson Moorefield WV; George Harman Esq. Petersburg WV; Ms. Clarice Shobe Petersburg WV; Jos. Vanmeter Moorefield WV; Wm. C. Vanmeter Old Fields WV; J. C. Wilkins Franklin WV</p><p>75 used envelopes 1889-1936 mostly 1910s addressed to various members of the Barger Gilkeson Harman Van Meter and Whitesel families of Moorefield Old Fields and Petersburg WV.</p><p>39 pieces of printed ephemera including 9 invitations 8 greeting cards printed unfilled forms newspaper clippings circulars etc.</p><p>1 hand drawn land survey by surveyor M. D. Neville for 3 lots total of 364 acres "east of the Elk Gorden Road."</p><p> 5 manuscript pages of financial statements and comparative statements of the "Old" and "New Administrations" of the "West Virginia Penitentiary" including 2 pages of notes for a board of directors meeting 1896-1899.</p><p>2 manuscript pages on the genealogy of William Thompson Van Meter family.</p><p> 3 photographs black & white two are cdv's of women not dated nor identified the other a very small photo of two women identified as "Miss Simville & myself."</p> <b>John W. Gilkeson 1861-1917 of Moorefield WV and Van Meter family of Old Fields WV</b><p> John William Gilkeson was a prominent and prosperous citizen of Moorefield West Virginia. He had a beautiful farm and home near town and was a banker businessman a man of the highest standing and character an elder in the Presbyterian Church and had the confidence and respect of his community.</p><p> His father John Bell Gilkeson 1818-1891 was born at Romney Hampshire County Virginia later WV. He was married in 1857 to Nancy Jane Kuykendall Wilson the daughter of Nathaniel Kuykendall. John Bell was the son of James David Gilkeson 1793-1872 and Sarah Dixon Bell 1797-1850.</p><p> James and Sarah had several children Besides John; one of them was Robert B. Gilkeson 1821-1891 the father of Edwin Myers Gilkeson 1854-1946 and Henry Bell Gilkenson 1851-1921. Edward and Henry are among the correspondents of John William Gilkeson. There are at least 32 letters which the two brothers wrote to their cousin John William Gilkeson.</p><p> Edwin Myers Gilkeson 1854-1946 had his own mercantile establishment at Romney WV. He became the President of the bank at Parkersburg WV after having been the Cashier. He was at one time 1921 the treasurer of the Democratic County Executive Committee and the 1st ward leader at Parkersburg WV. He married Cora Williams Finley and had several children one of whom was Emily Gilkeson who attended along with her cousin Henry's daughter Laura the Mary Baldwin Seminary.</p><p> Henry Bell Gilkeson 1851-1921 was a lawyer politician school administrator and banker in the state of West Virginia. He was born in Moorefield in 1850 the eldest child of dry goods merchant Robert B. Gilkeson and his wife Sarah E. and was raised in Romney. He graduated from Hampden-Sydney College and became a school teacher and served as superintendent of the Hampshire County Schools from 1877-1879. He then began to study law and became a successful attorney at Romney. His popularity in education circles and legal circles propelled him to the next phase of his career that in politics. He was elected to the West Virginia Legislature as a state senator for the years 1890-1893 and as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates for 1883-85 and 1909-11. He also served as mayor of Romney West Virginia and as the first president of the Bank of Romney 1888-1913. Henry married a woman by the name of Mary Katherine Paxton 1853-1910 and had a son Henry B. Gilkeson Jr. 1890-1901. Another son Robert William Gilkeson 1887-1918 died while serving with the 316th Engineers in WWI in France. Henry Bell Gilkeson died on 29 September 1921 and was interred with his wife and son Henry Jr. at Indian Mound Cemetery in Romney. The Gilkesons had one other child a daughter Laura Paxton Gilkeson 1885-1973 who married Romney lawyer George Sloan Arnold 1885-1986.</p><p> John William was also one of the directors of the West Virginia Penitentiary at Moorefield at least for the years 1898-1904. He was also the Cashier at the South Branch Valley National bank in Moorefield and acted as a delegate to the American Bankers Association in 1901. With a man by the name of Williams he was part owner of "Williams & Gilkeson" a company that was a member in the American Short Herd Breeder's Association.</p><p> John William Gilkeson married Janie White 1861-1935. They had at least three children. John died the 5 July 1917 his wife on 14 December 1935. They were both buried at Olivet Cemetery at Moorefield. John William Gilkeson John T. Van Meter and several others founded the Olivet Cemetery at Moorefield about the year 1887.</p><p> James William Gilkeson c1847-1920 married Sallie C. Van Meter c1851-1930. Sallie was the daughter of William Cunningham Van Meter. The marriage of James and Sallie connects the Gilkesons to the Barger Harman Van Meter and Whitesel families mentioned below. James William and Sallie had at least two daughters Damaris and Martha Mattie who are mentioned in this archive.</p><p> William Cunningham Van Meter 1811-1889 the father of Sallie C. Van Meter mentioned above was the son of David Van Meter 1784-1871 and Hannah Cunningham 1793-1878. He married Martha Ann Peerce 1820-1895 and together they had at least eight children: David Peerce b. 1844; Milton Point b. 1846; Damaris Ellen b. 1848; Sallie C. b. 1851; Annie E. b. 1853 who married Edward Williams; Martha Cornelia b. 1854; Fannie O. b. 1857; and William Thompson Van Meter.</p><p><b>Barger Harman and Whitesel Families of Petersburg West Virginia</b></p><p> Alice A. Harman 1854-1942 was the wife of farmer John P. Barger 1861-1901 the daughter of George Eston Harman 1828-1899 and Mary Jane Smith 1832-1858. Alice's father was a member of the West Virginia Legislature and ran for U.S. Congress in 1890 aligning himself with the Prohibition Party.</p><p> John P. Barger died at Petersburg WV at the age of 40. He was the son of Michael Barger. Gracie Whitesel 1878- was the step-daughter of John P. Barger and the daughter of Alice who was previously married before her marriage to Barger to the Rev. James Edward Whitesel 1851-1878. Alice married Whitesel in 1875. Whitesel was the son of Simon and Catharine Whitesel. Alice and Whitesel had three children: George Harman Emmett Wycliffe and Grace mentioned above. With Barger she had one child Max. Max carried on the family farm along with his mother Alice after the death of his father Alice's second husband in 1901.</p><p> Grace Catharine Whitesel is the daughter of James Edward Whitesel and Alice Harman Barger. Grace married Wm. Thompson Van Meter at Petersburg WV on 16 December 1903. William was the son of William Cunningham Van Meter and Martha Ann Peirce mentioned above in the Gilkeson and Van Meter biography. William was born at Old Fields Hardy County WV. His ancestors were among the first to settle on the south branch of the Potomac River. At the time of William T. Van Meter's death he and his wife made their home at Mrs. Van Meter's brother Mr. Harmon Whitesel at Petersburg WV. Van Meter spent the greater part of his life in Hardy County. He was buried at Olivet Cemetery at Moorefield WV. He was a member of Moorefield Presbyterian Church.</p><p> <b>Thomas R. Hall 1878-1963 of Buckhannon Upshur County WV</b></p><p> Thomas Roberts Hall our diarist was the son of Strother I. Hall 1835-1905 a farmer of Grays Flat Virginia and his wife Mary Ann Wells 1835-1909 of Basnettsville Virginia. Thomas was the youngest of the couple's eight children. He was born in 1878 at Grays Flat. The family then moved to Marion West Virginia. Thomas later attended West Virginia Wesleyan College where he studied business.</p><p> Hall married Rosa Maude Vincent b. 4 Sept. 1881 of Upshar Co. WV. In the 1940 Census he his wife Maude V. son Frank V. b. abt. 1910 and step-mother Virginia S. Vincent b. abt. 1858 are found enumerated at Buckhannon Upshur County WV. Thomas is listed working as a general insurance salesman. The family owned their home. When he filled out his WWII draft registration card he stated he worked for the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company.</p><p> Thomas R. Hall died on 16 July 1963 at Buckhannon WV at the age of 83.</p><b>Further Description of Correspondence:</b><p> 1820s-1880s Correspondence</p><p> The earliest correspondence first 10 letters dated 1824-1839 is written to David Van Meter of Moorefield Hardy County Virginia listed on letters as "near Moorefield" this is an area that would later become West Virginia. Of these 10 letters 6 are written by his children the others from associates. After these letters to David Van Meter there are 4 letters written by members of the Ogilvie family 1850-1857. They appear to be written to John or David Ogilvie of Moorefield VA from family members in Virginia and at Warsaw Ohio John Ogilvie/Oglesbee. Then there is a letter 1857 written to W. C. Van Meter who appears to be the son of the above David Van Meter. Following this there are an additional 3 letters written apparently to John Ogilvie in 1858 two of them are from family. A letter after this 1866 is from James Ogilvie to Wm. C. Van Meter. The bulk of the remaining letters in this section are incoming letters to Wm. C. Van Meter.</p><b>1890-1897 Correspondence</b><p> The 1890s correspondence begins 11 letters written to Gracie Whitesel 6 from family and to John P. Barger 5 from business associates. In 1892 a business letter is written to J. Wm. Gilkeson. Then there are 3 further letters to Gracie Whitesel. These letters are followed by letters written between the various female members of these families in particular several letters are written to and from Mattie V. Gilkeson in 1895-1896 who was attending the Augusta Female Seminary in Stanton Virginia. She writes letters to her mother Mrs. J. Wm. Gilkeson of Moorefield WV. Letters are also written to Damie Gilkeson of Moorefield Mattie's sister. There are also a couple of business letters to John P. Barger.</p><p><b>1898-1900 Correspondence</b></p><p> Of the 571 letters in this collection 391 of the letters are dated from 1898 to 1900. These 391 letters are for the most part either written to John W. Gilkeson or written by him. For the most part these are retained copies on tissue paper but several are on the letterhead of the South Branch Valley National Bank where John Gilkeson was Cashier. A couple of the letters are written to U.S. Congressman Alston G. Dayton and A. C. Scherr among others.</p><p> Gilkeson has many correspondents two of the main writers being his relations Edward Gilkeson 17 letters and Edward's brother Henry Gilkeson 16 letters. Edward Gilkeson's letters are written on the letterhead of the Second National Bank of Parkersburg WV where Edward was Cashier. The letters discuss financial matters investments family and local news. Henry Gilkeson's letters are written on the letterhead of "H.B. Gilkeson" his law practice in Romney WV.</p><p> Other correspondents are A. C. Scherr and Alston G. Dayton. A. C. Scherr a woolen manufacturer writes 31 letters to Gilkeson many on the letterhead of Keyser Woolen Mills a business he owned at Keyser WV. Scherr served on the board of directors along with Gilkeson of the West Virginia Penitentiary. Some of these letters are personal they appear to have been friends some are business oriented Scherr appears to be in financial troubles and others speak to their activities on the prison board such as the hiring of convict labor.</p><p> U. S. Congressman Alston G. Dayton 1857-1920 writes to Gilkeson on four occasions three of which are on the letterhead of the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Naval Affairs of which Dayton was a member. Dayton was elected a U.S. Congressman from West Virginia for the years 1895 to 1905. The letters concern politics and campaigns. There is also 1 letter from Governor George W. Atkinson who was West Virginia's Governor from 1897-1901. Gov. Atkinson writes to Gilkeson about an upcoming "Congress of the National Prison Association of the United States."</p><p> The archive includes 33 letters written on the letterhead of the West Virginia Penitentiary. They are written to Gilkeson because he served on the board of directors of the prison. Some of the letter writers are S. A. Hawk the warden of the prison who writes 7 letters; A. C. Scherr a fellow board member who writes 1 letter. Gilkeson himself writes 1 letter retained copy to John A. Bloyd a fellow board member and also treasurer of the prison. Bloyd writes 5 letters to Gilkeson. The rest of the letters 19 were written by John L. Laughlin listed as the clerk and secretary of the board of directors of the prison. These 33 letters combined with the other letters of A. C. Scherr written to Gilkeson on his personal letterhead as well as several manuscript pages of accounts for the prison in the ephemera section of this archive give great insight into the financial status and the mechanics running and financing the prison from the board of directors' perspective.</p><p><b>1900s-1940s Letters</b></p><p> In this section of the archive there are 12 letters of Pvt. Bernard M. Taylor dated 1918-1919 while he was serving during World War One. Pvt. Taylor was serving in France with Co. B of the 505th Engineer Battalion. The letters are written to Damie E. Gilkeson with a couple to Mattie Gilkeson Damie's sister</p><p>Other letters in this section of the archive appear to be written to John P. Barger or other Van Meter family members and some to the Gilkeson family.</p> books
30269two letters small quarto 6 pages in very good clean and legible condition. <br /><br />The collection contains a description of the Battle of Maubeuge which featured in a plot to destroy Lafayette's reputation however his success in the field trumped this vicious plot. <p>Au Camp de Rancenne sous Givet 12 Mai 1792 </p><p>"Mon cher frère </p><p>Je n'ai aucune nouvelle de toi ni de Villers. Je ne scais quell parti il aura pris ni comment-il pourra exister quand il aura consommé le capital de son cantonment numeraire qui lui a été rembourse M. Sutaine Bertrand negt rue ceres à Rheims en depositaire du billes de 6000. Si tu lui ecris par la suite tu mettra à lt. L. Pille Volre de la 2e Come du Bord de Volont. De la Cote d'or a l'armee du Genl Lafayette au camp de Rancenne pres Givet si nous avons décampé cela non joindra . occupe toi donc je te prie de de faire payer m d'alonville sil en émigré c'est une raison de plus pour ne pas le menager le decret contre ces debiteurs en formel. Pendant que nous allons la constitution an dehors mets toi à la tete de nos petites proprietés es tâche de sauver villes de la misère qui le menace ne laissons point perdu le bien de Citry ce sera une retraite agreeable pour des guerriers si nous pourroit y revenir comme notre ayent couvers comme lui de gloire es de blessures. Si villers vouloir venir . rejoinder je lui donnerai un fusil es 15 pour jour jusqu'au que fais instructions es sa valeur merite que les frères d'armes le nomment officer sil en a le . </p><p>Nous sommes comme tu scais part de Rheims pour Meziere le 10 Mars der. Le battalion a été </p><p>Cayerne ce qui a achevé son instruction militaire de place; il sort tres bien aussi bien que quelque regimens de ligne que ce soit il est sage es plein de courage.Nos officiers generaux es ont toujours été content cela nous avalu l'avantage d'être tires de la reserve pour etre en 1er ligne et nous avons la droit l'armée de M de la Fayette. Nous sommes partis de Mezieres le 29 avril a midi et nous sommes arrives ici le lendemain à la meme heure par la traverse des Ardennes. Nous avons passé la 1e nuit au bivouac. Nous avons campe le lendemain. Nous devions nous porter sur le champs sur Namur sans l'echec des detachemens du nord Nous eprouvans ici des . froid extraordinaire . je coucher sur la paille dans deux couverturs j'aurai ce soir mon matelas. M. dela Fayette nous a deja fait manoeuvrer deux fois il est fort content de l'armée. ." </p><p>The letter closes with a sketch at the base of page three with a line drawing explaining the order of the troops delineating the relative location of the various regiments. </p><p>Au camp retranche de Maubeuge le neuf Juin 1792 l'an 4e de la liberté a l'armée de Gal Lafayette </p><p>"Nous etions depuis longtems notre cher frère dans l'inquietude sur votre compte nous ne faisons ou vous ecrire parceque nous ignorons si vous aves continue votre residence a la garniere. et nous vous vous verrons et vous embrasserons avec grand plaisir puisque son promettes de venir nous rejoindre a l'armee nous eussions bien desire vous voir reuni à nord dans la militaire n'ayant aucune retraite il nous paraissoit naturel que vous churches a vous en faire un etat avec . plus de raison que tout le servis de votre service dans les domains vous aurait compte pour etre reuni a vos service . et vous assurer un fort honnete aubout de trente ans de tons services e'st le parti qu a pris Etienne es il s'en trovera bien il a fait son service de simple volontaire avec la plus grande exactitude depuis sept mois et je vien de lui obtenir du General Lafayette la promesse de la premiere sous lieutenance vacant dans la ligne. </p><p>Nous avons à Givet chez m du craigniaux notre malle . dans la malle sont nos papiers je vais ecrire à ce citoyen de vous addresser par la menagerie en vous en donnant avis. Vous aurés alors trois papiers quell conques sans avoir besoin d'aller à Rheims ni à Dijon ou il n'y en n'a plus aucun nous vous enverrons aussi procuration pour toucher les fonds. . </p><p>Vous aves apris les papiers publis notre affaire . du 23 mai ou notre second bataillon setoit couvert de gloire. Il y avait perdu 1 caporal et 9 volontaires. Les ennemis ont fait hyer a 2 h du matin une nouvelle attacque sur cette meme avant garde de M de Gouvion avec aussi peu de uccess; mais notre second bataillon y a cruelle souffert il a fait sa retraite le derniere es il a perdu 70 hommes taillés en piece par la cavaleri ennemi il a eu en autre 18 blessés ; ses trois chefs ont ete tues les 2 collegue et bons amis . et pour comble de Malheur le General Gouvion a été tué d'un boules de canon. L'armée entier a marché mais nous avons eu le chagrin de ne pouvoir joinder l'ennemi qui s'etoi replié . nous sommes rentra à 3 h en soir dans notre camp nous attendons avec impatience le moment d'attaquer en combinant nos movement avec l'armee de Luckner et pleins de confiance dans notre General et dans le courage le patriotism la concorde de tous nos frères d'armes nord ferons tot-outard triomphes la bonne cause ." </p><p>From Bernard Sarrans' <i>Memoirs of General Lafayette and of the French Revolution of 1830 </i>is a passage outlining the May 23 affair at Maubeuge and the plot of the "Jacobin clubs" to destroy Lafayette: </p><p>"Among the intrigues foreign and domestic which were at this time carried on one was hatched for the purpose of ruining Lafayette. On the evening of the 24th he received orders to form an army-corps and a train of artillery which were to be at Givet on the 30th. All was ready in four and twenty hours and this unexpected march of fifty six leagues was performed in five days; so that while every good citizen deplored the checks sustained at Lille and Mons it was impossible to withhold thanks for the efforts and zeal of Lafayette. He directed on the enemy's territory a corps which fought valiantly near Phillipville and afterwards in conformity with a plan which left the offensive to Marshal Luckner he proceeded to occupy the entrenched camp at Maubeuge. Before that time a partial engagement took place in which General Gouvion was killed. The accidents and delays which too frequently ensue with raw troops rendered ineffective a movement on the flank and gave the enemy time to retreat. </p><p>According to the first plan which was concerted in the King's presence between the minister Narbonne and the three generals Luckner was to manoeuvre on the Rhine and Lafayette at the head of forty thousand men was to enter the Netherlands while the army of Rocahmbeau was to be in readiness to support him. However this plan was modified by Dumoriez and the jacobins who were at that time his friends. Rochambeau in disgust resigned his command and Marshal Luckner who failed in his offensive operations against the Netherlands thought proper to retire on Valenciennes. Lafayette who had occupied Maubeuge as a means of diversion dispatched Bureaux-Puzy to prevail on Luckner to make a combined attack upon the Austrians nearly at the point where the battle of Jemmapes was fought. Lafayette answered for his troops and entertained no doubt of their success for he had from the very outset constantly and publicly predicted the advantage which our new institutions and a spirit of patriotism must possess over old tactics and old armies. Luckner obstinately refused to yield to the recommendation of his colleague. This circumstance proved not a little mortifying to the enemies of Lafayette both within and without the assembly for by dint of repeating that he had prevented Luckner from attacking and had proposed that he should march on Paris Bureauz-Puzy was summoned to the bar and they themselves rendered necessary the publication of the correspondence. </p><p>Lafayette was at the same time engaged in a more perilous war against the colossal and disorganizing power of the Jacobin clubs. He was aware that the enemies of the Revolution both at home and abroad had formed the systematic design of destroying liberty by excess and licentiousness. He saw among the jacobins sincere patriots who were the involuntary instruments of intrigue fury and the counter-revolution. He determined to brave them; but he attacked them alone and his letter of the 16th of June to the national assembly openly denounced that formidable association; and specifically named the jacobins." - Bernard Sarrans <i>Memoirs of General Lafayette and of the French Revolution of 1830 </i>London: Richard Bentley 1832 volume 1 pp. 61-64. </p><p>Louis Antoine Pille whose name is engraved on the Arc de Triomphe was born in Soissons Aisne on July 14 1749 and died there on 7 October 1828. Pille after serving in an administrative capacity in the army became a lieutenant in a unit of volunteer cavalry at Dijon in 1789 the battalion commander the following November and commander of the volunteers of Dijon on April 18 1790 and part of the Federated volunteers who went to Paris on the 14 July of the same year. </p><p>He was appointed 30 August 1791 Lieutenant-Colonel of the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the Côte d'Or and served in the Army of the Center in 1792 and saw action in a number of engagements. In 1793 he went to the Army of the North and was present at the bombardment of Maastricht the battles of Nerwinde and Pellenbeck and was wounded in the head. He was promoted to the rank of brigadier general served in both administrative and military he was in charge of twelve departments in the south of France served in Italy he retired in 1815 and died in Soissons in 1828. </p> books
1855008687London: Henry G. Bohn 1855. RARE the last complete set seen at auction 1956. Six volumes published 1855-1857. Bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards backs gilt with black morocco labels end papers and edges marbled. Very Good remnants of bookplate removal front paste downs hinges Vol. I starting from top edge yet still holding wear showing at hinges other volumes spines calf darkened light rubbing at edges of boards interiors clean and lovely. Additional postage required for international and priority mail shipping. Please inquire. . First Edition. Half Calf. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Henry G. Bohn Hardcover books
1533177400Basileae: Andreas Cratander & Johann Bebel 1533. hardcover. very good. Edited by Simon Grynaus. Main title in Greek and Latin; editor's 4pp dedicatory epistle in Latin; all other text in Greek. 4 369 leaves. Printer's device on title and some other decorative woodcut initials throughout. Short thick folio bound in 19th century leather-backed marbled boards front hinge repaired; some dampstains mostly on preliminary pages and in margins towards rear; several small worm holes at front; neatly inked marginalia in Greek & Latin on scattered pages. Basileae: Andreas Cratander & Johann Bebel 1533.<br/><br/> Plutarch's Lives printed in Basel by Cratander & Bebel whose device appears on title. This edition corrects the errors of the manuscript and first Aldine edition. -Adams P1611.<br/><br/> Andreas Cratander & Johann Bebel unknown books
193257745New York 1932. Photograph 10 x 8 inches. Roosevelt's photographer for this portrait was Louis Fabian Bachrach Sr. 1881-1963 second in a three generation commercial photography business Bachrach Studios started by his father David Bachrach photographer of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg in Baltimore Maryland in 1868; Louis Fabian Bachrach Jr. representing the third generation of the family was best known for his portrait of John F. Kennedy that was used as the president's official photograph after his election in 1960. A very nice image of FDR boldly signed by him. Matted glazed and framed. #6455. <br/><br/> unknown books
1612WRCLIT35327Frankfurt: Cura ac sumtibus Zachariae Palthenii 1612. 4 471 i.e. 487 due to many errors in numbering in the late portion of the text1 blankpp. Small quarto. Slightly later plain full calf visible waste sheets from an English astronomical gazette used in the binding are for the year 1635. Alchemical device on title two marginal woodcuts several tables leaf M1 folded at fore-edge to accommodate the over extension of the table on that leaf. Crown of spine has shallow loss bookplate scar on front pastedown front inner hinge cracking and binder's free endsheet detached text block considerably browned as usual for this title 3N4 has a short clean tear in from the margin some occasional marginal discoloration occasional spotting; still a good copy. First edition of this very substantial lexicon compiled by the physician to Emperor Rudolph II and lecturer at the gymnasium at Lauingen in Swabia. "He was in favor of Parcelsus' reforms but he dealt greatly in secret remedies especially in emetics." - Ferguson. "This lexicon is very full less mystical and more practical than some later ones. Useful in explaining early terminology" - Bolton. DUVEEN p. 520. FERGUSON II:302. BOLTON I:1041. Cura ac sumtibus Zachariae Palthenii unknown books
1921248381Coblenz Germany 1921. 10 pp. and a 3 pp. cover letter on "Interallied Rhineland High Commission" stationery; the first with numerous corrections in ink; both marked "Personal" in pencil. 4to. Some wear at edges slight soiling old pinholes; overall quite good. In green and grey morocco-backed clam shell box. 10 pp. and a 3 pp. cover letter on "Interallied Rhineland High Commission" stationery; the first with numerous corrections in ink; both marked "Personal" in pencil. 4to. The Allied Occupation of the Rhine -- The American Point of View 1921. The Interallied Rhineland High Commission was a civil body formed after World War I to govern occupied Germany on the Rhineland. During the summer of 1921 representatives of the American Chamber of Commerce had visited the Commission in Coblenz to voice their concerns about the lack of a European market for American exports - both agricultural and industrial. Following that visit Stone writes this lengthy and confidential analysis to Boston merchant Filene outlining America's goals the goals of the various members of the Commission and the divergence of national interests amongst the allies. In particular the policy of the French being to ensure its security against any future German aggression; the policy of the US Stone reassures the Chamber of Commerce being one of opening markets. Stone writes prophetically: "The relations between France and Germany are the key to the situation in Europe at the present time.". unknown books
193314930New York: Blue Ribbon Books Inc 1933. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good . A solid well-preserved copy of this 1933 Mickey Mouse "Pop-Up" book complete with all 4 pop-ups all of which are in very nice working condition. Tight and VG in its pictorial boards with tender but still perfectly sturdy inner hinges. Very small neat former owner inscription at the front free endpaper otherwise clean as could be internally with no writing or markings to speak of. And in a crisp VG dustjacket with light wear at the spine ends and very minor creasng along the top-edges. Octavo both written and illustrated in rich color by the staff of the Walt Disney Studios. An attractive early Disney collectible. <br/><br/> Blue Ribbon Books, Inc hardcover books
178507935Lebanon 1785. Autograph Document Signed "Wm. Williams" one page 9" x 13" dated April 4 1785. The present legal document is regarding common land: "We the subscribers bring by the proprietors of the comon sic undivided lands in Lebanon appointed a committee and agents to sue and prosecute to final judgement and execution all persons who have committed any trespass on such common land."Light stain in lower left not affecting signature or the text of the document; wear at folds; very good with a fine bold signature. William Williams 1731-1811 graduated Harvard in 1751 was businessman partiot and Signer of the Declaration of Independence from Connecticut. <br/><br/> unknown books
195522542EHollywood CA: Allied Artists Productions Inc 1955. First Edition. Original 144 page temporary shooting script with color rewrite pages dated July 1 1955 for the Oscar nominated William Wyler directed film Friendly Persuasion. The film’s original title ‘Mr. Birdwell Goes to Battle’ as printed on the front cover has been crossed out with ‘Friendly Persuasion’ written in pencil in an unknown hand just above it. This copy was actress Marjorie Main’s working copy for her role as the widow Hudspeth and is signed by her on both the front cover and title page and has her annotations in the text. Her performance was well-received earning her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Bradbound in printed covers. Near fine copy with some faint darkening around the edges of the covers and with a couple of tiny tears. The final screenplay was written by Michael Wilson although he did not receive an immediate screenwriting credit because he was on the Hollywood blacklist at the time of the film’s release. His credit was finally restored in 1996. Friendly Persuasion was directed by William Wyler principally starring Gary Cooper Dorothy McGuire and Anthony Perkins. The film tells the story of a Quaker family with Gary Cooper as the family patriarch Jess Birdwell set in southern Indiana during the American Civil War and the way the war tests their pacifist beliefs. William Wyler received the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the film was nominated for 6 Oscars; Best Picture Best Director Best Supporting Actor Perkins Best Adapted Screenplay Best Sound Recording and Best Music - Original Song. Anthony Perkins won a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer - Male and it was nominated for Best Actor - Drama Cooper and Best Supporting Actress Main. Marjorie Main 1890 - 1975 was an American character actress and singer best remembered for her role as Ma Kettle in the Ma and Pa Kettle movies. Allied Artists Productions, Inc unknown books
