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14194Nouveau Continent Avec Plusiers Isles et Mers" original copper engraving Figure 86 taken from "Description de L'Univers" 1685 by Allain Maneson Mallet. Later hand coloring. Attractive map of North and South America showing California as an island 4.5"x6.5" inches matted to 8.5"x11" inches. Among the features noted are "Amerique" "N. Mexique Septentrionale" "Californie Isle" "Mer de Californie" "Magellanique" Teres Arctiques" "Teres Australes" and at the very bottom of the map "Terres Incognues." A small ship can be seen sailing in the Pacific Ocean. Attractively matted with light scuffing to matte. The map itself is in very good condition. unknown books
1882244258London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1882. First edition. Illus. viii 154 8 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original pictorial yellow paper boards signed R.B.M. Rear hinge just starting otherwise a fine copy of a fragile book. First edition. Illus. viii 154 8 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington unknown books
1928003636London: Country Life Ltd. 1928. First Limited Edition. Full Pictorial Pigskin. . Near Fine. No. 65 of 150 Edition de Luxe limitation signed by author and the illustrator using his pseudonym. 4to. 11.5 by 9.5 inches 29 by 24 cm. 240 6 pp. The illustrations through the body of the work are sprightly colorful fun and perfect exemplars of a twenties to thirties highball sophisticated aesthetic -- a sporting extension of the sleek look associated with thirties screwball comedies and musicals! The book makes riding and all its mishaps seem like one endless lark a party in which nothing really bad could possibly intrude. This is the kind of work that everyone will have a favorite image but few can not but admire the frontis of horses' heads awash with a gilt border. Much of the illustration by the way appears as if it were applied directly by hand and this slapdash manuscript quality greatly adds to the charm of the production. The pigskin binding has a film of soiling but remains attractive especially with its inked title and inkwell and feather quill pen imagery. With also a letter from the publisher. <br /><br /> Country Life Ltd. books
18977833Pueblo: The Church 1897. Octavo 23 x 15.5 cm. iv 88 pages. Table of contents. Lists of compilers and contributors. Possessive apostrophe in title on cover only. Evident FIRST EDITION. A densely filled church cookbook with four hundred attributed recipes weighted to baked goods and sweets. Among them: Hominy Muffins Steamed Maizene Loaf Hickory Nut Custard Cake Date Cake Almond Macaroons Stuffed Figs Citron Preserves Red Currant Jelly Apricot Sponge Peach Pudding Popcorn Candy. ~ Presbyterians are documented in the Kansas and Nebraska Territories at the height of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush just before the federal incorporation of Colorado Territory in 1861. An itinerant missionary and purveyor of geological curiosities by the name of Lewis Hamilton 1810-1881 was even credited with founding a church at the Irwin mining camp at an altitude of 10500 feet. It was his hand too that guided the first Presbyterian congregations in Denver and Central City but by then several other colorful figures were furthering the cause. By 1890 there were four Presbyteries governing eighty churches as well as a Presbyterian College at Del Norte. The consolidation of Pueblo from four previously incorporated towns came comparatively late 1886-1894 as did the formation of its Presbyterian congregation. ~ A list of the compilers appears on the title page and it seems probable that the name Jennie Weed set off and centered might indicate the "Leader" in the title-page attribution. The Mesa Presbyterian church a handsome stucco building at the corner of East Routt Avenue and Michigan Street dates to 1886 a date that connects the Cook Book to the tenth anniversary of its consecration. Any argument that the intervening years have been kind to it would be strained. The congregation dissolved in 1966 and in 1974 the church was converted into a restaurant with table seating in the former sanctuary. In 2014 the building was sold to The World Mission Society Church of God a bitheistic Korean movement that acknowledges Ahn Sahng-hong and the Mother of God Zahng Gil-jah as deities. ~ Some staining and edgewear; one leaf loosened. Still good in mock lizard-skin green boards bumped and abraded titled in black. Includes five recipes handwritten in ink on blank "memoranda" leaves. Scarce; known only via the later 1907 edition. OCLC locates no copies of the 1897 edition but six copies of a later edition dated 1907; Cook page 37 with the 1907 edition as the source; in neither Brown nor Cagle. The Church hardcover books
1767292663Boston: Printed by Thomas and John Fleet Cornhill 1767. Full Leather. Good binding. Please note that the first volume of what would become a 4 volume set of Hutchinson's Massachuetts-Bay history IS LACKING THE TITLE PAGE. The title and publication information is by inference. The first leaf of Volume I is the Contents leaf. There is on the pastedown the plate of the Woburn Public Libary about which is penned Vol. 1 Mr. Hutchinson's History. The collation following the Contents leaf is iv 566 2. ~~The second volume from 1767 is intact though lacking the rear endpaper. Title page is present followed by the Contents leaf with errata on the verso iv 539 pages. There are two extraneous items clippings tipped in at 106/107 and at 316/317.~~The front board of each volume has been reattached. Labels are lacking. Howes 853; II Streeter 698 699; Sabin 34076 Sabin 34078; Evans 9705; Evans 10658. Good binding. Printed by Thomas and John Fleet, Cornhill unknown books
5180NEW JERSEY IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. DS. 2pg. August 2 1780. N.p. A document signed “Joseph Cosgrove Leut†relating to the New Jersey militia during the American Revolution. “A return of those warnd to Appear the Second Septem At Coalts sic Neck for their monthly Tour of Duty 26 names appear Duly Warned to Appear the Second Aug 1780 Joseph Cosgrove Leutâ€. The document is in very good condition. Colts Neck is in Monmouth County. New Jersey Revolutionary War documents are uncommon. unknown books
192561378New York and London: Longmans Green & Edward Arnold & Co 1925. First American edition from British sheets. Large thick 8vo. xi 372 pp. Illustrated from photographs plates some in color double-page panorama large folding map at rear. With a commemorative stamp celebrating this expedition mounted on the front endpaper and signed by N.E. Odell one of the members of the expedition and a contributor of several chapters to this work underneath also underneath his ink inscription written in a local language Nepali or Hindi perhaps "The noblest lore of frontiers". Neate 573: "Norton climbed to a height of about 28100 feet without oxygen." Very good. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth. #8425. <br/><br/> Longmans, Green & Edward Arnold & Co hardcover books
4357PHILADELPHIA IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. ADS. 1pg. 8†x 6 ¼â€. May 7 1777. No place Philadelphia. An autograph document signed “John Young Secy†stating: “At a meeting of the Committee of Fifty May 7 1777 On motion. Voted that a Committee be appointed of this board to assist the Commisarys – the better to enable them to prosecute the Arduous works for which this board was instituted. Messrs John Lisle Robert Smith & Edward Evans were unanimously chosen.†Philadelphia’s Committee of Fifty was chosen in April 1777 to remove all the provisions and stores in the city so that they did not fall into British hands. In early 1777 Washington was uncertain of the British plans but he suspected they involved capturing Philadelphia. In September following Washington’s defeat at Brandywine the British began an eight month occupation of the city wintering in relative luxury while the Continental Army suffered at Valley Forge. There were some prestigious citizens on the Committee of Fifty including the painter Charles Willson Peale. The verso states “Copy of the Vote of the Committee of 50 appointing assistant commissary.†The document has a few vertical folds light chipping to the margins and is in very good condition. Most unusual Revolutionary War content! unknown books
4496Each of the five mounted photographs is preceded by a protective sheet of tissue paper in tact though wrinkled. The five photographs show a group of luminaries in the following fields: "Politicians Conservative" "Politicians Liberal" "Authors and Novelists" including Charles Dickens Wilkie Collins Thomas Carlyle "Science" including Charles Wheatstone Michael Faraday "Artists" including J. M. W. Turner John Everett Millais and Edwin Landseer. The page preceding the last group photograph of English Artists indicated that a second volume was anticipated "early in 1877." The artists' page has separated from the spine as has the first copyright page which is chipped along margins creased and missing upper left corner. The pages are securely held together at the spine even though they have lost their cover. The albumen plates are somewhat light as might be expected. Various degrees of foxing throughout chipped corners of the photographic boards. Overall condition is fair to good. A fascinating assemblage of 19th century English culture. unknown books
176323620Chatham 1763. 1 vols. Folio. To Captain Archibald Kennedy. Two leaves docketed on the verso of the second folded and creased tears in margins and along folds affecting a few letters or words but not legibility some browning else very good. 1 vols. Folio. Kennedy was the Commander of H. M. S. "Coventry." Document instructing him that his ship was being outfitted to be sent to North America and requiring "utmost despatch in getting her ready for the Sea." <br/>Following the end of the French and Indian War the British sent ships and troops to deal with the problems of the Indians insurrections primarily Indians of New France who did not agree with the surrender. Although Sir William Johnson attempted to allay the problems in the spring of 1763 the Indians under the central direction of Pontiac chief of the Ottawa attacked British posts from Niagara and Fort Pitt to Mackinac and St. Joseph as well as settlements many of the forts and settlements falling to the Indians in "Pontiac's Rebellion or War." <br/>Captain Archibald Kennedy later eleventh Earl of Cassillis was the son and heir of Archibald Kennedy the British colonial official in New York who was expecially noted for having bought Bedlow's Island in New York Harbor for one hundred pounds in 1746 and sold it to New York for a thousand pounds twelve years later. The father wrote several pamphlets relating to the British interests in America and lived in America from 1710 on. He was infirm and ill the time of this document and died the 14th of June 1763. <br/>James Harris 1709-1780 is best known as the author of "Hermes". PR 1b unknown books
193448644Boston MA: The Rushlight Club 1934-1965 & 2000-2012. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. 65 volumes in 10 bound volumes 1934-1965 48 unbound numbers from 2000-2012 including 3 Rushlight Cumulative Indexes and 1 pamphlet: ÒThe Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Rushlight Club 1932-1957Ó. Boston MA: The Rushlight Club 1934-1965 & 2000-2012. ÒTo shed light on the lights of the past.Ó. 10 vols. Numerous b/w photographs and illustrations. Volume pagination pp. Hardcover. Small 4to. Dark red cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Very lightly bumped and rubbed at head heel and corners; interiors clean and binding tight. A very nice uniquely interesting set. Very good/No jacket issued. Multiple volumes - extra shipping charges apply Insurance required to ship this item. The Rushlight Club hardcover books
177536879Moscow: Meisto Pechati first piece 1775. 2; 6 2 blank. 1 vols. Folio. The two pieces loosely stitched together. Some stains not affecting legibility stitchmarks light soiling else very good. 2; 6 2 blank. 1 vols. Folio. Decrees relating to the military issued by Catherine II. These were issued the year following the end of the Russo-Turkish wars and the treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji signed the 21st July 1774 and after the Cossack rebellion lead by Ymelyan Pugachev who claimed to be Peter III and who was finally captured and executed at Moscow the 11th of January 1775. As a result of the wars and the rebellion in 1775 Catherine seriously reformed the provincial and urban administrations giving greater control to the central government. The first decree lists eight numbered points perhaps officers for promotion or commendation it has the Royal titles as a caption title and commences citing the decree of 3 August 1744. The second piece bears no caption title or heading but lists 47 separately numbered points each a short paragraph imprint on final leaf of text. Meisto Pechati [first piece] unknown books
186865220Knoxville TN 1868. Broadside. 21 x 14cm. Six six-line stanzas. Some stains and two small holes one affecting two words. Short break at one fold. See BAL 17099 for two sheet music printings ca. 1866. A famous poem in perhaps the first or only separate non-music printing. OCLC lists only musical scores. <br/><br/> unknown books
192038055New York: The Misses Selby 1920. 1 vols. 8-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches. Printed label on verso. "Misses Selby 628 Fifth Avenue. 1 vols. 8-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches. Inscribed "To my dear little friend Isabelle Leighton faithfully David Belasco. Nov. 22nd 1920. " Signed in pencil below image "The Misses Selby N.Y. The Misses Selby unknown books
19450088251945. Very good. Envelope only no letter. <br /><br />The envelope was addressed to Private First Class Walter Mikucki at the Osaka Yodogawa Bunsho POW Camp in Japan. It has a typed "Prisoner of War Postage Free" free frank in the upper right corner and has received a Chicago "War Savings machine postmark dated Jan 13 1944. The envelope was opened by a U.S. censor and resealed using censor tape annotated "Examined by 6587." The address was subsequently obliterated with a red cross and black bands using grease pencil or crayon. It has a circular handstamp in the lower right corner dated Nov 20 1945 with text that appears to read "LIBERATED HQ. USMC. WASH. D.C." There is a USMC "pointing finger" return-to-sender hand stamp that point to the return address. <br /><br />Pfc. Mikucki was a member of the 4th Marine Regiment when as war clouds rumbled in the Pacific it was sent from China to Corregidor to defend Manila Bay in the Philippines. Shortly after its arrival Japan launched its infamous sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and allied bases throughout the Pacific. Corregidor was bombed continuously from late December 1941 until May 5 1942 when an overwhelming force of Japanese soldiers landed on the island. After tanks were brought ashore the following day Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright realized defeat was imminent and surrendered fearing the thousand or so wounded men and bedraggled defenders would be annihilated. <br /><br />Although most of the 4th Marine Regiment had been killed the remaining men were transported to prison camps in Japan. The Yodogawa Bunsho Camp near Osaka was one of the smallest Japanese prisoner of war camps and records in the National Archives identify only 12 prisoners that were known to have been held there. Pfc. Mikucki's name is not on that list. <br /><br />Other records show that Mikucki may also have been imprisoned at various times at the Itchioke Chikko and Umeda Bunsho camps. He died from unknown causes on March 11 1943. <br /><br />Clearly this information was not provided by the Japanese to the Red Cross as Mikucki's parents sent this letter ten months later. <br /><br />Examples of mail sent to American prisoners held in Japan are very scarce and this example may be unique for at the time of this listing I find no mention in philatelic or ephemera auction records in sale listings or institutional holdings of other returned mail for Corregidor Marines who died in Japanese prisoner of war camps . Also there is no mention of anything similar in Gruenzner's <i>Postal History of pf American POWs</i>. <br /><br /> books
P5277Paris: Izdanie Soiuza Tsarskikh Oprichnikov 1923. Octavo 23 Ã 15 cm. Original printed wrappers; 28 8 pp. Stamps of the Mladoross Organization library in Paris. Spine covered with opaque tape; the fragile wrappers somewhat chipped and tearing along tape edge; text toned; still good or better. This issue reproduces previously unpublished material that asserts that Tsar Nicholas II survived and was saved along with his entire family. The supposed witness and the author of these recollections is a certain Captain Poliakov who asserts that he met and conversed with the Tsar after learning about his fate in a letter in 1922 and embarking on a long and difficult search for the ruler. Bound with a previously unpublished 8 pp. essay printed in Belgrade entitled "The Russian truth about the autocratic Tsar." Laid in is a typewritten description most likely by Aleksei P. Struve the Paris bibliographer and book dealer who describes the journal and notes that no further issues were published. Extremely uncommon with no copies located at past Russian or Western auctions. KVK OCLC only show one other copy the second issue at Nanterre. We can trace a sole complete set at the Czech National Library. unknown books
196058268NP 1960. 9 x 7 1/8 inches. Black and white photograph a publicity still bears no attribution on the verso. Stravinsky is generally acknowledged as one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. Among his works are the ballets The Firebird 1910 and The Rite of Spring 1915 and the opera The Rake's Progress 1951 with libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman. Very good. #5145. <br/><br/> unknown books
1986688851986. Slip Opinion. Signed by Justice Blackmun. Slip Opinion. Signed by Justice Blackmun. Slip Opinion of an Important Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States Concerning Reproductive Rights Signed by Justice Blackmun Supreme Court of the United States. Blackmun Harry 1908-1999. Thornburgh Governor of Pennsylvania et al. v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists et al. Slip Opinion. Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1986. iii 1 23 1 10 4 29 1 20 pp. Complete. Signature of Justice Blackmun to head of first page. Fine. $750. Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists involved a challenge to Pennsylvania's Abortion Control Act of 1982 which aimed to limit abortion rights. Blackmun's majority opinion for the Court rejected this act and reaffirming Roe. Bench opinions are issued by the U.S. Supreme Court immediately after the announcement of a decision. Slip opinions are issued afterwards. They are the first printings of a decision intended for wide dissemination and review often incorporating corrections. After that stage the revised slip opinions are added to the latest paperback volume of United States Reports. A year later that volume is printed in its final authoritative hardcover form. unknown books
1988688841988. Slip Opinion. Signed by Justice Rehnquist. Slip Opinion. Signed by Justice Rehnquist. Slip Opinion of an Important Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States Upholding the Constitutionality of Special Counsels Signed by Chief Justice Rehnquist Supreme Court of the United States. Rehnquist William 1924-2005. Alexia Morison Independent Counsel Appellant v. Theodore B. Olson Edward C. Schmults and Carol E. Dinkins. Slip Opinion. Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1988. 38 38 pp. Complete. Signature of Chief Justice Rehnquist to foot of first page. Small crease to head of first page otherwise fine. $750. Morrison v. Olson confirmed the constitutionality of the provision in the 1978 Ethics in Government Act that established the Office of Special Counsel. Rehnquist wrote the majority opinion. Bench opinions are issued by the U.S. Supreme Court immediately after the announcement of a decision. Slip opinions are issued afterwards. They are the first printings of a decision intended for wide dissemination and review often incorporating corrections. After that stage the revised slip opinions are added to the latest paperback volume of United States Reports. A year later that volume is printed in its final authoritative hardcover form. unknown books
1989691501989. Slip Opinion. Signed by William Rehnquist. Slip Opinion. Signed by William Rehnquist. Pre-US Reports Printing of an Important Case Concerning Abortion Signed by Chief Justice Rehnquist Supreme Court of the United States. Rehnquist William 1924-2005. Slip Opinion Webster Attorney General of Missouri Et al. v. Reproductive Health Services Et al. Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1989. vii 1 23 1 11 1 7 1 23 1 14 pp. Complete. Signature of Chief Justice Rehnquist to head of first page. A few tiny marks to p.i otherwise fine. $750. A decision that undermined a key provision of Roe v. Wade Webster v. Reproductive Health Services upheld a Missouri law that imposed restrictions on the use of state funds for services relating to abortion. Chief Rehnquist wrote the opinion of the Court for all but Parts II-D and III. Only Justices White and Kennedy joined the opinion in its entirety. Bench opinions are issued by the U.S. Supreme Court immediately after the announcement of a decision. Slip opinions are issued afterwards. Often incorporating corrections they are the first printings of a decision intended for wide dissemination and review. After that stage the revised slip opinions are added to the latest paperback volume of U.S. Reports. A year later that volume is printed in its final authoritative hardcover form. unknown books
194016723Manchester Circa 1940s. Very good. White card box measuring 12.75" x 6.25" x 2" with blue paper label pasted at front containing six individual sections containing cotton samples at progressive stages of manufacture including: raw cotton; cleaned cotton; card sliver; slubbing; roving; mule cop; ring tube; and seven completed fabric samples mounted on blue cards. Each sample labeled with blue cards. Box sound lid suffers some soiling and wear at edges. Contents generally fine. <br/><br/>Educational aid issued by the Labour Department of the UK's Cotton Board for the demonstration of textile production from raw cotton to various finished fabrics. From a difficult time in the history of the cotton textile trade in the UK once a world powerhouse at the time struggling against globalized markets industrial development and the emergence of synthetic fibers. A remarkable survival in excellent condition. <br /> <br /> unknown books
1903292353London: Duckworth and Company 1903. Three Quarters Leather. Very Good binding. From The Spectator 20 June 1903: "In the last few years an immense quantity of papers has been discovered in the great houses of England and given to the world. Of these few possess the same charm as The Orrery Papers now edited by Lady Cork." A lovely edition with color frontispiece and extra-illustrated with a number of engraved plates throughout. Handsomely bound in gold morocco with raised bands and gilt decoratoins all edges gilt tissue guards etc. There has been some very discreet repair to a small crack in the gutters. Very Good binding. Duckworth and Company unknown books
195322350ELos Angeles: CBS Television 1953. Original shooting script for an episode titled The Irene Dunne Show for the long-running comedy television series The Jack Benny Program signed by Jack Benny on the front cover. 36 pages dated July 2 1953 with its air date 12-6-53 written in an unknown hand on the front cover. With 6 additional pages of commercial script for its sponsor Lucky Strike cigarettes and show credit material. This is the 5th episode is from Season 4 and co-starred with Benny Irene Dunne Vincent Price and Gregory Ratoff. Near fine copy with some minor age-toning to the edges and with some very light handling. This episode tells the story of how Jack attempts to steal a movie role from Vincent Price whom has been promised the lead in Irene Dunne's next picture by inviting himself to the audition. CBS Television unknown books
1959184731959. Circa 1959 from the Tony Award-winning 5 Broadway show which ran for 719 performances; the show about the early life of Helen Keller and her teacher Annie Sullivan; with this stellar cast signed in full by Anne Bancroft Patty Duke James Congdon Patricia Neal; 6 1/2 " x 9" approx. printed two sides; all four autographs are on the front in blue ink; some edge tips wear darkening a little spottiness a little splitting old fold-lines with no loss; in good condition and great autograph theater history ephemeral item. . Good. unknown books
1214London: Fortune Press. Collectible; Very Good. The uncommon signed/limited circa early 1920s. #10 OF ONLY 70 COPIES SIGNED BY MONTAGUE SUMMERS AND PRINTED ON ENGLISH HANDMADE PAPER. Beige cloth over 1/ 4 vellum. Gilt-lettered vellum spine. A well-preserved VG to VG copy. Octavo 183 pgs. Deckled fore-edge and bottom edge. Crisp gravure frontispiece photograph of Summers by Vaughan A. Freeman. Reverend Summers was a major figure in the world of early 20th cent. occult literature. Author of Witchcraft and Demonology 1927 The Vampire: His Kith and Kin 1928 and The Werewolf 1933 he is probably best remembered for his seminal 1st English language translation of Malleus Maleficarum a 15th cent. Latin text on the hunting of witches. Signed by Authors. <br/><br/> Fortune Press hardcover books
