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181841562<p><strong>1818 US NAVY Rules Regulations Crowninshield USS PEACOCK Provenance Pirates WOW</strong></p><p>Exceptionally rare the "<em>Rules Regulations and Instructions for the Naval Service of the United States</em>" is a formal guidebook created under the authority of Benjamin Williams Crowninshield the Secretary of the Navy 1815-1818 to streamline and standardize practices across the naval forces of the United States. <strong>First published by Edward De Krafft in Washington 1818</strong> the book was a response to an Act of Congress from February 7 1815 during James Madison's presidency which called for the establishment of the Board of Commissioners to oversee the Navy Department. This text served to guide the transition of the Navy into a peacetime force after the War of 1812 laying out detailed instructions for various ranks and positions from yard personnel and warrant officers to high-ranking officials. It covers a wide array of topics including ship maintenance naval ceremonies discipline and provisions as well as specific instructions for surgeons pursers marines and midshipmen. The regulations also provided for the handling of convoys and established <strong>clear guidelines for salutes military honors and other ceremonies. This text played a crucial role</strong> in shaping the growth structure and discipline of the U.S. Navy during the early 19th century especially during the presidencies of James Monroe John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.</p><p><strong>This particular copy belonged to the famous USS Peacock a sloop-of-war that played a significant role in the U.S. Navy during the early 19th century!</strong> Commissioned during the War of 1812 it was part of various naval operations including suppressing piracy in the Caribbean and patrolling South American waters during regional independence movements. After decommissioning in 1827 it was rebuilt for exploration and participated in the United States Exploring Expedition in 1838 eventually meeting its end on the Columbia Bar in 1841. The ship also took part in diplomatic missions such as conveying Francis Baylies to Argentina and engaging in treaty negotiations in Asia. Throughout its service the Peacock navigated various challenges including severe weather conditions and health crises among the crew. The fascinating post-war exploits of the USS Peacock's diplomatic and explorational missions are recorded in American diplomat Edmund Robert's notes that were published in 1837 under the title "<em>Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China Siam and Muscat in the U.S. Sloop-of-war Peacock</em>".</p><p>Item number: #41562</p><p>Price: $2500</p><p>CROWNINSHIELD Benjamin Williams; BOARD OF NAVY COMMSIONERS OF THE UNITED STATES</p><p><strong><em>Rules Regulations and Instructions for the Naval Service of the United States: Prepared by the Board of Navy Commissioners of the United States with the Consent of the Honorable the Secretary of the Navy; In Obedience to an Act of Congress Passed Seventh February 1815 Entitled "An Act to Alter and Amend the Several Acts for Establishing a Navy Department by Adding Thereto a Board of Commissioners."</em></strong></p><p>Washington: E. De Krafft 1818. First Edition.</p><p><u>Details</u>:</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Collation: Complete</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->75 26 ii</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Provenance: <strong>Handwritten – U.S. Sloop-of-War Peacock</strong></p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->"<em>For the use of the U.S. Sloop of War. Peacock - It is to be observed that the attendences or additions in pencil or in writing are not a part of the regulation to be observed but should all be erased. -Morris 2 March 1832</em>"</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->The USS Peacock was a sloop-of-war warship with a single gun deck in the United States Navy during the War of 1812.</p><p> <!--endif-->The Peacock was authorized by an act of Congress March 3 1813 laid down July 9 1813 by Adam and Noah Brown at the New York Navy Yard and launched on September 19 1813. Peacock served in the War of 1812 capturing twenty ships. Subsequently the ship <strong>served in the Mediterranean Squadron and in the "Mosquito Fleet" which fought to suppress Caribbean piracy. She patrolled the South American coast during the colonial wars of independence.</strong></p><p> <!--endif-->The Peacock was decommissioned in 1827 and broken up in 1828 to be rebuilt as USS Peacock intended as an exploration ship. She sailed as part of the <strong>United States Exploring Expedition in 1838</strong>. Peacock ran aground and broke apart on the Columbia Bar without loss of life in 1841.</p><p> <!--endif-->The fascinating post-war exploits of the USS Peacock's diplomatic and explorational missions are recorded in American diplomat Edmund Robert's notes that were published in 1837 under the title "<em>Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China Siam and Muscat in the U.S. Sloop-of-war Peacock</em>".</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->References: Sabin 74115</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Provenance: Edmund Roberts <em>Embassy to the Eastern Courts… 1837 – </em>Forbes 1123; Sabin 71884</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Language: English</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Binding: Leather secure</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Exceedingly rare and desirable!</p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p>41562</p><p>Photos available upon request.</p> E. De Krafft hardcover
1797List2522New Orleans 1797. Three pages of a bifolium 8 x 9 ½ inches New Orleans; May 31 1797. Fair only with moisture damage and some text illegible. Fair. An interesting document from the period following the Treaty of San Lorenzo and before the eventual surrender of Natchez to the Americans in 1798 in which the governor of Louisiana and West Florida Francisco Luis Hector de Carondelet issues a statement regarding the delayed withdrawal of Spanish troops from the region. Carondelet is concerned with the British presence in the area and notes that it is a violation of “the treaty concluded with Spain†- or Pinckney’s Treaty which opened up navigation rights of the Mississippi to the United States. The letter describes the possibility of escalating hostilities between the United States Great Britain and Spain as a result of an impending American mission against the Illinois the motives of which Carondelet questions as he notes that “These hostile dispositions can naturally only concern these provinces because the U.S. are in peace with all the savages…†He raises the possibility of British invasion of Louisiana and potential danger to the city of New Orleans and states that the Spanish will maintain their presence at Natchez and Walnut Hills unless the American soldiers withdraw. This is a copy of Carondelet’s speech in the hand of Lieutenant Piercy Smith Pope and we find no other record of it. A full transcription follows:<br /> <br /> “The Government being informed by his Majesty’s Ambassador to the U.S. that an expedition assembled on the lakes was intended to attack the Illinois has judged necessary for the surety and tranquility of Lower Louisiana to suspend the evacuation of the posts of Natchez & the Walnut Hills being the posts that cover it; the possession of which will put the English in a situation to disturb and ravage the country in case they rendered themselves masters of upper Louisiana with so much more facility as by an article of the treaty concluded posteriously with Great Britain the U.S. acknowledge that the English may freely navigate and frequent the posts belonging to the said States; situated on the river in general lakes &c being a manifest contradiction to the treaty concluded with Spain which it appears. because by this the U.S. acknowledge that no other nation can navigate upon the Mississippi without the consent of Spain.<br /> <br /> . the legitimacy of these motives the .presented to the Congress of the U.S. with all the necessary veracity and intimated by our orders in the Commissary of Limits as well as to the Commandant of the Detachment of American troops now at Natchez. We are now informed that a detachment of the army of the U.S. cantoned on the Ohio are on their way by Holstein towards Natchez while the Militia of Cumberland are intimated to hold themselves ready to march at the first notice.<br /> <br /> These hostile dispositions can naturally only concern these provinces because the U.S. are in peace with all the savages the anterior menaces of the Commissary of Limits & the Commandant of the detachment of Americans now at Natchez; the immediate rupture & if the American Gazettes are to be believed already effected between France our intimate ally and the U.S. engage us to be on our guard to defend our property with that valor & energy which the inhabitants of these Provinces have manifested on all occasions with the advantage and superiority which a knowledge of our local situation will procure and that confidence which right and justice inspires. If the Congress of the U.S. had no hostile intention against these provinces they will either leave the post of Natchez or Walnut Hills the only bulwarks of Lower Louisiana that can stop the courses of the English or that they give us security against the article of the Treaty with Great Britain which exposes lower Louisiana to be pillaged and destroyed down to the Capitol. We will then deliver up the said posts and lay down our arms which they have forced us to take up by arming their Militia in time of peace and sending a considerable body of troops by round about ways to surprise us.<br /> <br /> New Orleans 31st May 1797 <br /> <br /> A copy of the Baron de Carondelet’s Proclamation. <br /> P. Popeâ€<br /> <br /> Overall a document of significance in United States / Spanish relations in the period following Pinckney’s Treaty worthy of further study for scholars of the diplomatic history of the period. unknown
53906The late Patrick Eddington was a Utah artist and former high school art teacher who had as a goal the desire to create “The Cat Project†where literary and visual artists from around the world were asked to produce original works about cats which would be included in a traveling exhibition and book unfortunately never realized. Doris Lessing 1919-2013 born in what was then Persia now Iran spent her childhood years in southern Africa. The author of nearly 50 books she received the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature becoming only the eleventh woman to receive literature’s most prestigious award in its 106-year history. Her works are often viewed as in-depth studies of twentieth-century living conditions behavioral patterns and historical progressions. Her masterwork is considered to be The Golden Notebook a postmodern feminist work published in 1962. Interestingly Lessing who was a devoted cat lover throughout her life is also the author of a book which conjures up the subtleties of feline existence On Cats. With regards to this small archive it is significant that this rather busy Nobel-Prize winning author would provide Eddington a high school art instructor and small press printer with a piece of original prose regarding cats supplied specifically for him at a relatively low cost.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Included in the archive are the following:<br /> <br /> <br /> TLS. Letter 8†x 10†from Doris Lessing to Patrick Eddington sent from London and dated 17th January 1986. A letter in which Lessing discusses her feelings with regards to one of her earlier works “A Small Personal Voice.†Eddington had recommended it to a friend and Lessing claims “The trouble is I wrote some of it a long time ago and I no longer agree with a lot of it. I wonder if she would like to read something more recent I wrote and read five lectures for C.B.C. under the title of Prisons We Choose to Live Inside. This represents what I think now not what I used to think in the ‘fifties.’†Signed “Yours Doris L.†at the foot.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ALS. Letter on a sheet of paper 7†x 9†written by Doris Lessing to Patrick Eddington. Not dated. In the brief letter Lessing thanks Eddington for the book by Barbara Kingsolver and writes “I am glad u sic like Brian Aldiss. He is one of my favorite people.†She closes the letter assuring Patrick that if she writes something suitable regarding the subject of cats she will remember him.<br /> <br /> <br /> TLS. Brief letter 8 ¼†x 11 ¼†from Doris Lessing sent from London and dated January 6 2000 addressed to Patrick. Lessing opens with “OK I’ve done a short piece. It is not a question of being paid but of time- am as usual in the middle of something. I don’t need a thousand dollars… Perhaps 500 I don’t need a Navajo rug….†Signed by Lessing.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Typed letter 8 ¼†by 7 ¾†from Lessing’s literary agent Jonathan Clowes to Patrick Eddington dated 10 January 2000 written in reference to the piece written by Doris Lessing titled “About Cats.†Clowes writes “We are happy for you to use this piece for the sum of $500 and perhaps you could let us have further details of your publication so that we can send you a permission contract for non-exclusive rights in the work. In particular please let us know which territories the book will be published in and how many copies will be printed.†Signed by the literary agent at the foot.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Typed manuscript signed 8 ¼†x 11 ½â€. “About Cats†by Doris Lessing. The original piece that Lessing sent to Patrick Eddington titled “About Cats†containing periodic manuscript corrections made by the author. Cat lovers will immediately recognize this as a keenly insightful succinct piece regarding the precious feline’s nature. Within the work the author muses “People who do not observe their cats but only rely on ‘received’ wisdom miss out. A cat gives back what you put into it returning affection and attention but withdrawing in dignified silence if ignored. No creature is more sensitive to slights and taunts and even teasing. Too much and they will take themselves off in search of a more sympathetic home. And yet one may not generalize: people who have had more than one child know that every baby is born different and similarly in a litter of kittens each one will be an individual. Like humans they are coarsegrained and sensitive stupid and clever clinging and standoffish. They may be talkative and silent show-offs and modest introverts.â€. unknown
1888242176Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons 1888. First edition. iv 257; iv 249 pp. 24 pp. catalog. 2 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth stamped in red. Very good. First edition. iv 257; iv 249 pp. 24 pp. catalog. 2 vols. 8vo. Romance and tragedy in which the villain persuades the hero who had a blood transfusion that he had killed his uncle because the blood was that of a murderer.<br /> <br /> Roy Tellet was the pseudonym of the Rev. Albert Eubule Evans 1839-1896 prolific novelist whose works were a staple of the Tauchnitz and SPCK lists. OCLC records only three locations for the first edition of The Outcasts BL Cambridge NLS.<br /> <br /> RARE. Not in Wolff or Sadleir William Blackwood and Sons unknown
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 neither a Catholic nor 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 an unclear 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. Charles Leib unknown
188062021Minneapolis MN Chicago IL Santa Cruz CA San Antonio TX Denver CO Milwaukee WI & Chicago IL Toronto ONT: Anderson; Brand; Brush; Esson; Floyd’s Studio; Jacoby; McKean & Ort; Paris & Rothwell Art Studio; Rothberger; Rugg; Scotford Studio; Stein; Taylor & Martin ca. 1880-1892. Oblong 4to. 12 x 8.5 in. 30 pp unpaginated. thick double-sided faux-wood grain printed card-stock leaves die-cut windows for inserting cabinet card & boudoir-sized card albumen photos gilt borders. With 30 original albumen photographs 3 boudoir-sized albumen mounted on studio board approx. 7 x 4.5 in. photographer’s imprints at margin or w/in negative; 27 cabinet card albumen photos mounted on studio boards most sized approx. 4.5 x 6 in. photographer’s imprints at lower fore-edge or on versos one small mounted lozenge CDV of Civil War Corporal. Contemporary dos-a-dos blue & red padded velvet binding articulated piano-hinge spine nickel plated bosses on both covers still preserving original nickel-plated clasp decorated pastedowns preserving original label for the Art Album Co. of Battle Creek Michigan a.e.g. minor chipping & tears to a couple of the die-cut windows some wear & rubbing to velvet still a remarkable exemplar with all the images retaining excellent bright contrast & clarity. An outstanding Victorian dos-a-dos parlour photo album from a seemingly notable and well-to-do Minneapolis Minnesota family in the Gilded Age. On the “Blue†side the album opens with albumen boudoir-sized art photos of early Toronto including a “birds-eye†view. The first boudoir photo includes a ink manuscript list of “a few interesting dates†with mentions of Edward Murphy Jr. settling after 8 weeks passage presumably Ireland in Toronto followed by his family of 9 in 1837. Other dates mention settling of George & James Walker in Toronto 1837 Andrew joining the Volunteers on the Frontier and in 1843 Edward opening his business a “98†Long Street and building of the Terauley Street House near present-day Univ. of Toronto Toronto General Hospital etc. There are additional dates and note that John Walker and family “went West†in 1846 but unfortunately for this cataloguer there were a myriad of Edward Murphy’s John Walker’s and similar named families none of whom seemed to match either the entry date points. Only documentary evidence was that an Edward Murphy Jr. appears in the 1837 Toronto ONT street directory. Edward’s business appears to have been prosperous as this album incorporates a wide range of studio photographers during the Gilded Age from San Antonio to Chicago Milwaukee to Minneapolis. Two of the albumen studio photos 1 boudoir 1 cabinet interestingly depict a montage of smaller cabinet photos capturing all the images of Company A First Regiment N.G.S.M. or the storied Minnesota First Regiment National Guard at the time commanded by Captain John Amory. The Minnesota First Regiment is perhaps best remembered for their heroic charge in 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg and in the subsequent decades never lacked for sufficient recruits. The mounted CDV of an unidentified Civil War Corporal is included in the album and may have been from either the Murphy or Walker sides of the family if the internal MS notes are to be referenced. Of special interest are the four wonderful albumen cabinet photos depicting the N.S. Toboggan Club -- North Star Toboggan Club founded in 1886 and formed for tobogganing sporting events during the Saint Paul-Minneapolis Winter Carnival as well as competing against the Makwa Club Flour City Club and Snowshoe Club on their individual Toboggan slides -- basically uncontrolled and fast ice luge racing. The North Star Club’s slide was West of Minnesota on Glenwood Hill in what is now Theodore Wirth Park. The toboggan slide was probably located near where ski jumps were built later after the area became Saratoga Park then Glenwood Park and finally Theodore Wirth in 1909. The group shot provides first names or monikers of the eight intrepid toboganners in Feb. 1887 and the three individual ones depict Boyd Ballard & Dane all wearing their price ribbons from the competitions. Many of the extended family members were captured by such Minnesota studio photographers as H.A. Anderson who operated at 428 Nicollet and was the successor to H.R. Farr; the very popular James A. Brush whose studios tented to move up and down Nicollet Ave. and Hennepin Ave. from 1875-1890; G.W. Floyd who first partnered with Power and then expanded to three studios himself on Fifth and Hennepin; and William H. Jacoby 1841-1906 who with his son C.L. Jacoby produced the Minnesota First Regiment Christmas souvenir montage photos and was active until his death in California and even partnered with Haynes for a while and perhaps best remembered for his robbers’ portraits of the participants in the famed “Northfield†robbery. The photo of “Father†probably Edward Murphy Jr. while in San Antonio TX on business was taken by the Paris & Rothwell studio operated by Arthur C. Paris and Isaac N. Rothwell on 11&13 West Commerce until 1892. See: Harry Perry Robinson The Makwa Club’s Lake Calhoun Toboggan Slide Minneapolis Park History Nov. 9 2012; Glenwood Toboggan Slide: 1887 Jan. 25 2011; Report of Adjutant General State of Minnesota Matches at Camp Lakeview Minnesota National Guard Regiments 1890. Anderson; Brand; Brush; Esson; Floyd’s Studio; Jacoby; McKean & Ort; Paris & Rothwell Art Studio; Rothberger; Rugg; Scotford S hardcover
005509266Supreme Court of the United States 1974. First Edition. Unknown. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Complete set of period autographs of the Supreme Court of the United States during the Watergate era under Chief Justice Warren Burger. Crisply signed in ink by each Justice next to the photographs on a 4-page biographical pamphlet on the Court dating from the 1973/1974 term. Included are Chief Justice Warren E. Burger; and Associate Justices William H. Rehnquist Lewis F. Powell Jr. William J. Brennan Jr. William O. Douglas Thurgood Marshall Byron R. White Harry Blackmun and Potter Stewart. The pamphlet is titled 'The Justices of the Supreme Court' and is printed on both sides of a single 9 x 11.875 inch sheet folding to form 4 pages paginated pp 9-12. The text at rear provides statistics from the Term ending July 1973 so this dates from the Watergate term. There is a light pencil date of 7/74 at foot of last page. Included is a vintage COA from a prominent firm founding members of IADA.B/W Photographs. Supreme Court of the United States unknown
1968140946341San Francisco: The Church of Satan 1968. Near Fine. Original Church of Satan decal bumper sticker 15 x 4". Near Fine with three small pinholes at top left corner. "May 22 REC'D" stamped twice on verso with handwritten date of 1968 below. <p>A truly scarce piece of early Church of Satan promotional ephemera declaring "Regie Satanas" Latin for "Reign Satan." Reputedly after LaVey had these printed he didn't like them so they were never distributed. From the collection of Randall Alfred a former Church member who began his association with the church being a journalist and scholar covering new religious movements. [The Church of Satan] unknown
160801New York and Boston: N.p. 1979. Collection of nine posters for performances by New York no wave artist and avant-garde musician Glenn Branca. One of the posters dates from 1975 five from 1978 and three from 1979. Locations include The Bastard Theatre The Kitchen Franklin Furnace 3 Mercer Store Tier 3 and Max's Kansas City. <br /> <br /> The posters in the collection advertise performances by Branca and his bands The Static Theoretical Girls and Daily Life as well as theater pieces by Branca and frequent collaborator John Rehberger. Posters also advertise contemporary No Wave bands including Y Pants The Gynecologists and Arsenal and creative luminaries of the period including Laurie Anderson John Lurie Ann Messner and Rhys Chatham. <br /> <br /> Avant-garde composer guitarist and luthier Glenn Branca first rose to prominence as a driving force in the New York no wave music scene helping to lead to the formation of groups such as Y Pants and Sonic Youth. As well as no wave Branca was a formative influence in totalism and noise rock in the 1980s as is today often credited as a post-minimalist. <br /> <br /> Posters xerographically duplicated one hand-tinted. Variously measuring 20 x 14 inches to 8.5 x 11 inches. Near Fine overall. N.p. unknown
1852070616Charleston: Walker Richards and Co 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. RARE. FIRST EDITION 1852. "This is a pleasant little tale designed to correct a spirit of exclusiveness.rife among a portion of the white population of South Carolina; those of English descent looking down upon those who derive their lineage from the Huguenot." Praises the "genial scenes.full of the vigor an animation we are always sure of having from Mr. Simms." William Gilmore Simms: A Reference Guide by Butterworth Kibler Jr. p. 84. Hardcover. Bound in brown publisher's cloth with blind stamped decoration on the cover. Gilt lettering on the spine. Soft pink endpapers. 168 pp. <br><br>CONDITION: This rare first edition is "good" only. Cover shows soiling and wear with erosion to the backstrip on the spine. Foxed with continuous dampstain throughout yet text is fully legible and pagination is complete. Unmarked except for previous owner's names written on the front flyleaf. Hinges are strong and binding is sound. A very readable scarce copy. A treasure for any antiquarian book collector. Full refund if not satisfied. Walker, Richards and Co hardcover
18122890London: Carpenter & Son 1812 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 5 volumes. First English edition translated from the Spanish by G. A. Thompson. Quarto. Approx. 550pp. per volume. Collated complete. Early 20th century three-quarter polished tan calf marbled boards. Small contemporary engraved bookplate. Corners show light wear. Ex-library copy withdrawn with bookplate to front and rear endpapers perforated library stamp to title pages and a few unobtrusive ink library stamps. Light foxing to preliminary and end leaves. Overall a very good set generally very clean. Originally published at Madrid 1786-89 this great work is a valuable and comprehensive geographical historical and commercial gazetteer of the Americas. It covers the entire history of the Americas and is particularly rich in data relating to the Spanish possessions with particularly extensive sections on Chili Mexico Peru Venezuela etc. It also includes numerous entries dealing with Canada and the United States. The general section on "Nueva España New Spain is very well covered and begins with "A spacious kingdom of North America the limits of which toward the north are unknown.". California is covered giving a great deal of statistical information and includes a list of the missions of "New California" founded up to 1803. Appended is a vocabulary of provincial terms largely Spanish forming a catalogue of American plants birds and animals. A supplement provides the text of the Treaty of Peace between the United Kingdom and the United States War of 1812. "Thompson's edition for its additions etc. is infinitely superior to the original." Sabin. Sabin: 683. Carpenter & Son hardcover
1897545195Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co 1897. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Edited by a committee appointed by the Students' Association of the College. Small octavo. 155pp. Illustrated from photographs. Frontispiece of female students dissecting a brain. Gray cloth lettered in red. Tiny light contemporary name a little soiled on the boards near fine. Ten short pieces by recent female medical doctors and current students that include anecdotes from their school days study abroad and medical practice as well as one fantasy story about a doctor who builds a machine to make a man smarter. Among the contributors are Dr. Rosalie Slaughter Morton the first woman faculty member at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons; Dr. Kate C. Hurd-Mead founder of the Evening Dispensary for Working Women and Girls the first institution in Baltimore to employ women physicians; Dr. Anna Martha Fullerton the head physician of the Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia; and Eleanor Hiestand Moore author and chemistry teacher at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania who also edited Godey's Lady's Book and coined the suffrage phrase "Ballots for Both." Very scarce. OCLC locates eight copies. Wright III 1400. George W. Jacobs & Co hardcover
1849587978Bonaire Leeward Antilles 1849. Very Good. Partially printed document measuring 8’ x10†completed in manuscript. Signed and dated July 29 1849 by U.S. Vice-Consul William Boye and blindstamped with the U.S. Consulate seal of Bonaire. Partially split along two horizontal folds very good. A rare well-preserved document from the Denis Vandervelde Collection of Disinfected Mail of the World 1590-2020 see below.<br /> <br /> The certificate reads in part: “I William Ernst Boye Vice-Consul of the United States of America for the port of Bonaire do hereby certify that the Schooner … Sylvan of Stockton California of the registered burden of 137 tons whereof B.E. Young is Master … being in all Seven persons on board cleared this day at port for Boston. I further certify that in this port and its vicinity good health prevails without suspicion of plague or contagious distemper whatsoever … .â€<br /> <br /> To prevent the spread of serious diseases ship Bills of Health were issued by government officials to certify that a ship’s cargo passengers and crew were likely free of contagious disease. Bonaire at this time had been established by the Dutch government as an official slave plantation for the harvesting of salt. According to an accompanying note by Denis Vandervelde who over nearly 50 years assembled a collection of more than 3000 items of disinfected mail "letters that have been punctured perfumed or otherwise purified to prevent the transmission of disease" the Sylvan was registered at Stockton California which had been founded in 1849 by the German Captain Charles Weber on a grant of 50000 acres from the Spanish government to accommodate the initial waves of '49ers and other participants in the gold rush.<br /> <br /> An exceptionally scarce document linking public health the California gold rush and the African slave trade. unknown
199622106ESanta Monica CA: Lightstorm Entertainment 1996. First Edition. Group of three important pieces used in the creation of the classic fim. Original 153 page shooting script for the Oscar winning film Titanic. Bradbound. About fine copy with a trace of handling to the printed studio covers. With a 70 page one-line shooting schedule for Titanic dated June 28 1996 also bradbound in plain blue cardstock covers and in similar condition. Plus another full 153 page script which is a photocopy of the heavily annotated script used by the film script supervisor which was made at the end of principal photography for use by the editorial team in editing the movie. Fine in printed studio weappers. The film was directed written co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. The film garnered fourteen Academy Awards nominations tying the record set in 1950 by Joseph L. Mankiewicz's All About Eve and won eleven including the Best Picture and Best Director. It also picked up the awards for Best Cinematography Best Costume Design Best Visual Effects Best Sound Gary Rydstrom Tom Johnson Gary Summers Mark Ulano Best Sound Effects Editing Best Original Dramatic Score Best Film Editing Best Original Song and Best Art Direction. Kate Winslet Gloria Stuart and the make-up artists were the only three nominees that did not win. Lightstorm Entertainment unknown
1818100292<p>Washington 28th March 1818. 1818. Very good. - One-and-a-quarter pages consisting of over 155 words penned on two sides of a 9-3/4 inch high by 8 inch wide sheet with an integral address leaf. In his letter Henry Clay the Speaker of the House introduces the Colombian diplomat Manuel Torres to Secretary of the Treasury William Harris Crawford. "Allow me to present to you M. Torres Eq. the bearer hereof whose acquaintance I have had the pleasure to have for a year or two past." Torres who was also an economist proposed a new way by which to make revenue collection and spending more efficient. "Mr. Torres supposes that he has made a discovery of an error in the fiscal operations of our Country by which it is annually subjected to great loss. He has thought of presenting to Congress a petition to invite the appointment of a committee to receive & judge of this discovery." He closes "I have ventured to assure him that you will give him a reception in accord with your known candor & liberality." "Signed "H. Clay". Additionally addressed by Clay in his hand on the integral leaf. Folded vertically and horizontally with a portion of a red wax seal along the edge of the blank verso of the address leaf. There are a couple of tiny holes at the junction of the folds with a small tear at the bottom of the seal. Very good.</p><p>The American lawyer and statesman Henry Clay 1777-1852 represented Kentucky in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. He served as Speaker of the House the youngest one until then and the second longest to hold that position. He subsequently served as Secretary of State under John Quincy Adams. Clay helped found both the National Republican Party and the Whig Party unsuccessfully running for President on 3 occasions. He was often known as the "Great Compromiser" for his role in defusing crises and alongside Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun was considered one of the "Great Triumvirate" of Congressmen.</p><p>The American politician William Harris Crawford 1772-1834 served as U.S. Secretary of War and subsequently as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.</p><p>The Colombian diplomat publicist and economist Manuel de Trujillo y Torres 1762-1822 became Colombia's first Ambassador to the U.S. being received by President James Monroe in 1822. This was the first recognition by the U.S. of the independence of a former Spanish colony. He foresaw the economic depression of 1818-1819 which was largely caused by the dwindling reserve of gold and silver and championed the importation of specie from South America to bolster both the U.S. and Colombian economies. In 1818 through his rapport with Henry Clay he suggested to Congress that he'd discovered a new way of making revenue collection and spending more efficient. He would reveal his approach if he was promised a share of the savings. The proposal was referred to the House Ways and Means Committee but they found it too complex.</p><p>"Foreseeing the calamitous results of a specie shortage Torres early championed the importation of specie from South America. His plan was supported by Langdon Gheves president of the second bank of the United States and by others who realized that the economic depression of 1818-1819 was largely caused by the dwindling reserve of gold and silver. William Duane editor of the Philadelphia Aurora and a personal friend of Torres roundly abused the government for neglecting the opportunity to procure many million dollars worth of specie from Mexico and South America specie 'which would have averted the present distresses of the nation.'" "The crusading editor was determined that Torres' ideas for fiscal reform should not go unnoticed. In a letter to Secretary of State James Monroe Duane expressed hope that Torres would be permitted to reveal to the Department of State 'some financial views which I consider of the greatest value and worth the attention of the Government.'" . "On April 1 1818 Henry Clay brought before the House of Representatives a memorial stating that Torres '. had discovered that the United States sustains great loss in the receipt and expenditure of the public revenue; and that he . had also discovered the means by which this loss may be avoided.' Torres offered to submit his findings 'upon the assurance of receiving a portion of the moneys which may be saved to the public by means of . said discovery.'" Quoted from Charles H. Bowman Jr.'s article "Financial Plans and Operations of Manuel Torres in Philadelphia" published in "Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia Vol. 82 No. 2 June 1971 pp. 106-116.</p> Washington, 28th March, 1818.
19209322Honolulu: Patten Company LTD and Honolulu Star Bulletin LTD 1920. Octavo beige wrappers 4 134 pp. Sixth edition first published 1879 of this important Hawaiian community cookbook. The preface notes that one of the goals of the cookbook was "to feature cookery of Hawaiian food products" and so the text contains many recipes making use of bananas papayas alligator pears breadfruit taro coconuts mango guava and more. There are many American recipes that make use of these ingredients such as sliced papaya pie banana pudding mango jelly and mango brown betty and a recipe "to prepare cocoanut juice for gravies." Additionally the book contains recipes with a Hawaiian influence including six recipes for taro including taro cakes boiled taro fried taro and "ha-ha" four recipes for breadfruit including stewed and baked breadfruit poi cocktail and mashed kalo. One section titled "Hawaiian Fish: How to Cook Them" prints a reference chart of local fish and is followed by a series of fish recipes many making use of the native Hawaiian names for various fish species i.e. "Aawa" "Akule" "Hee or Squid" etc. A section at the end of the book prints luncheon recipes and menus including "A Hawaiian Feast 'Ahaaina' Or More Commonly Called 'Luau'" 2 pp "Kulolo Something Good" "Poi Luncheon Cooked Over An Ordinary Fire Or With A Fireless Cooker" and "Curry Luncheon" noted in the text as "essentially Hawaiian." Finally the book contains much in the way of standard American fare as well as recipes titled "Fish Moultee Indian Recipe" and "kohl-rabi Chinese turnip." Toning to pages staining and wear to covers. Patten Company, LTD and Honolulu Star Bulletin, LTD unknown
191030781<p>N.p. 1910 Large manuscript map measuring 40 x 103 ¾ inches pen and ink with pencil additions on drafting linen some minor soiling to edges else in very good clean condition.</p><p>Large scale manuscript map which delineates the territory from Skagway portions of British Columbia the Yukon and Klondike Country as far north as the Porcupine River. The map shows the rivers creeks settlements rail roads N.W.M.P. barracks timber berths and reserves.</p>
196817153JNew York: Simon and Schuster 1968. First Printing of The Blue Angel script signed to the title "Marlene Dietrich" in black ink. Excepionally rare signed. A little light spotting to front cover otherwise in fine condition. From the collection of Paul McMahon a critic photographer and artist who worked for more than 13 years touring with Marlene Dietrich as the icon’s stage manager announcer dresser secretary and escort and later spent 25 years as an arts and entertainment reviewer and photographer with Gay Community News Esplanade Tommy’s Connection The Mirror Bay Windows and other publications. Simon and Schuster unknown
81211Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Original acrylic and watercolor art for Mrs. Munck by The Dillions the husband and wife art team Leo and Diane Dillion. Image matted to approximately 11½" x 17". Unsigned. Fine. Accompanied by a first edition copy of the book. Bookplate on the front fly else fine in fine price-clipped dust jacket. The Dillons were an interracial couple who first met at the Parson's School of Design and worked in close collaboration on much of their work. The pair won consecutive Caldecott Medals the only artist to do so in 1976 and 1977 and have been recognized for the ethnic diversity in the art. Houghton Mifflin hardcover
184742792Philadelphia Jewish Publication Society 1847. Hardback. 5607 1847. 1st English-language edition. Original boards 12mo 4 140 pages. Singerman 968. Rosenbach 609. Simon Gratz’s copy with designation bookplate from Gratz College the Jewish institution established by his family. The copyright page notes "Entered.in the year 1847 by John Moss Mayer Arnold and Gratz Etting." Copyright holder Gratz Etting's obituary from Isaac Leeser's Occident can be viewed at http://www.jewish-history.com/occident/volume7/jul1849/obituary.html. Gratz Etting's father Reuben Etting was the brother of Solomon Etting was the first American-born shochet ritual slaughterer who was married to Rachel Gratz only daughter of Barnard Gratz. The Gratz family tree showing both Simon Gratz this book's owner and Reuben Etting and Rachel Gratz the parents of copyright holder Gratz Etting can be viewed at https://d5iam0kjo36nw.cloudfront.net/V06p082001.jpg.<br> Published by Isaac Leeser's first Jewish Publication Society; Isaac Leeser had himself famously published the first Jewish translation of the 5 books of Moses into English just 2 years earlier in 1845. Leeser's monumental Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures the first Jewish translation of the 24 books of the Bible into English would not appear until 1852. <br> <br> â€Simon Gratz 1840-1925 was among the most recognized and respected Jewish Americans in the city of Philadelphia. He was born into one of the oldest families and perhaps most notable. He inherited a legacy of high ambition and accomplishment going back to the family’s early settlers in the United States—Barnard and Michael Gratz. The Gratz Brothers were most enterprising in shipping land acquisition and trading which allowed for the cementing of the strong and influential relationship between the family and the city. Simon’s father Edward Gratz was known for his activities with the construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad and his most famous aunt Rebecca Gratz for her ‘charm’ and philanthropy†Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The author Jonas Ennery 1801-1863 was a French deputy. He was for twenty-six years attached to the Jewish school of Strasbourg of which he became the head. In collaboration with Hirth he compiled a Dictionnaire Général de Géographie Universelle 4 vols. Strasburg 1839–41 for which Cuvier wrote a preface. Soon afterward he published Le Sentier d'Israël ou Bible des Jeunes Israélites Paris Metz and Strasburg 1843. At the request of the Société des Bons Livres he took part in the editorship of Prières d'un CÅ“ur Israélite which appeared in 1848. In 1849 despite anti-Jewish rioting in Alsace Ennery was elected representative for the department of the Lower Rhine and sat among the members of the "Mountain." He devoted his attention principally to scholastic questions. After the coup d'état he resisted the new order of things and was exiled for life in 1852. He retired to Brussels where he lived as a teacher until his death. <br> For a brief overview of the Gratz-Etting family around the time of publication see https://archives.cjh.org/agents/families/13583. <br> OCLC: 77743372. OCLC and Singerman together list 6 copies of this separate first edition from 1847 American Antiquarian Penn YU Free Lib Penn Library Company Phila PPRF. Gratz stamp on blank front pastedown period paper label on boards internally very clean and nice Very Good Condition. B AMR-57-9B-BD!X-'kk. Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society unknown
05172London: Printed for W. Bent 1833. With an Exquisite Fore Edge Painting of St. Giles's Church Cripplegate<br /> By The "Dover Painter"<br /> <br /> FORE-EDGE PAINTING. The "DOVER PAINTER" artist. ALLESTREE Richard. The New Whole Duty of Man Containing The Faith as well as Practice of A Christian: Made Easy For the Practice of the Present Age. London: Printed for W. Bent 1833. <br /> <br /> With an exquisite fore edge painting beneath the gilt of St Giles's Cripplegate Fore Street London <br /> by the "Dover Painter". The painting is full of Dickensian style characters.<br /> <br /> Octavo 8 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches; 218 x 136 mm. ii i-x 1-542 pp. Engraved frontispiece of Moses with the Ten Commandments. Neat ink name and date on top blank margin of title-page "Hugh William Williamson/--April 13th 1838".<br /> <br /> Bound ca. 1900 in full maroon straight-grain morocco covers decoratively bordered in gilt and blind spine with four shallow raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments decorative gilt board edge and turn-ins blue marbled endpapers all edges gilt. With the armorial bookplate of Walter Edwin Frew on front endpaper. <br /> <br /> The fore-edge painting which we believe was executed sometime around 1925 depicts St. Giles's Cripplegate and exhibits an unusual degree of detail art and craft; the coloring is quite extraordinary. <br /> <br /> St Giles-without-Cripplegate is an Anglican church in the City of London located on Fore Street within the modern Barbican complex. When built it stood without that is outside the city wall near the Cripplegate. The church is dedicated to St. Giles patron saint of lepers beggars and the handicapped. It is one of the few medieval churches left in the City of London having survived the Great Fire of 1666. John Milton author of Paradise Lost was buried in the church in 1674.<br /> <br /> The "Dover Painter" an unknown English artist - probably worked on commission exclusively ca. 1920-1930 for Marks & Co the London booksellers. By 1928 Dawson's Book Shop in Los Angeles headed by Ernest Dawson began a relationship with Marks & Co. "a reciprocal agency agreement" that included sending crates of books to America via the Panama Canal. Several hundred fore-edges came to Dawson's. Sesslers' in Philadelphia bought and sold examples of the "Dover" painter's work as fore-edges by this and other artists turned up in the B. George Ulizio collection at Kent State University. Other fore-edge paintings were imported via J.W. Robinson Company department stores Los Angeles. The Robinson Co. books came with added new Sangorski & Sutcliffe slipcases made especially for them and sometimes included a typed identifying slip mounted on the end-leaves.<br /> <br /> Provenance: Walter Edwin Frew 1864-1941. President Corn Exchange Bank New York City. London: Printed for W. Bent, 1833 unknown
1789W2124Boston: Adams and Nourse 1789. Complete Collection of Adams & Nourse Printings of Massachusetts Laws 1783-1789. Compilation of the acts passed by the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1783 through 1789. 1-746 pages followed by 63 pages numbered 433-495 of "Perpetual Laws." Sympathetically rebound in full brown leather. The title page carries a publication date of 1783 but the consecutive pagination suggests to me that the title page may have been inserted from another disbound book at the time this volume was rebound. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Collectible-Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Book. Adams and Nourse Hardcover
197716766JLos Angeles: Robert Stigwood Organisation September 29 1977. Bee Gee Robin Gibb’s own original 82 page personal shooting script bound in gilt-stamped blue leather with Robin Gibb’s name stamped in gold in the lower right hand corner. With blue and pink rewrite pages. Fine. Laid in is a letter of provenance from The Bee Gees personal photographer who was given the script by Robin Gibb. The film stars Peter Frampton Barry Gibb Robin Gibb Maurice Gibb Donald Pleasance Steve Martin Alice Cooper Billy Preston Keith Carradine Robert Palmer Tina Turner Bonnie Raitt Tina Turner Johnny Rivers Wolfman Jack etc. The shooting script for the film that was inspired by The Beatles classic album and was directed by Michael Schultz. Robert Stigwood Organisation hardcover
195912811959. Very good. Original working manuscript of "Getaway John" from the album At Large handwritten by Dave Guard founding member and leader of The Kingston Trio. Titled at top with chord symbols full musical notation in treble and bass clefs and complete lyrics written in phonetic spelling for singing pronunciation in dark pencil with several neat revisions and corrections and erasures throughout; on recto of a 12" x 16" sheet of yellow 12-staff manuscript paper. Measure numbers and structural notations appear at bottom. Guard's complete arrangement of the traditional folk ballad previously recorded by the Carter Family in 1929. John Hardy was an actual historical figure executed by hanging in West Virginia in 1894 for the murder of a man following a card game though the killing apparently stemmed from a love triangle. The ballad's final verse references Hardy's religious conversion during his imprisonment when authorities permitted him to undergo baptism in a river on the morning of his execution.<br /> <br /> The Kingston Trio achieved immediate commercial breakthrough in 1958 with "Tom Dooley" which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 sold six million copies received the inaugural Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording 1959 and earned induction into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry. The single's extraordinary success catalyzed the folk revival that dominated American popular music through the early 1960s establishing commercial viability for performers including Peter Paul and Mary Joan Baez and Bob Dylan. This folk boom subsequently enabled the development of folk rock when groups like The Byrds and The Animals electrified traditional arrangements during the mid-1960s but the genre's mainstream acceptance originated with The Kingston Trio. Guard the sole member possessing musical literacy and notation skills functioned as the group's principal arranger and architect of their distinctive sound until his departure in 1961. unknown
195812821958. Original recording session working manuscript 2pp rectos only handwritten on 12" x 16" sheets of yellow 12-staff manuscript paper by Dave Guard founding member and leader of The Kingston Trio. Titled at top with chord symbols full musical notation in treble and bass clefs structural performance markings numbered sections "IN" "OUT" chorus designations and complete lyrics written in phonetic spelling for singing pronunciation executed in dark pencil and pen with corrections in white-out pencil and erasures throughout. Fine condition. The Kingston Trio first recorded their arrangement of "Zombie Jamboree" originally a Calypso song by Lord Invader on a stereo concert album in 1958 followed by its appearance on their From The Hungry i album in 1959. The group achieved immediate commercial breakthrough in 1958 with "Tom Dooley" which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 sold six million copies and received the inaugural Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording 1959. The single's extraordinary success catalyzed the folk revival that dominated American popular music through the early 1960s establishing commercial viability for performers including Peter Paul and Mary Joan Baez and Bob Dylan. This folk boom subsequently enabled the development of folk rock when groups like The Byrds and The Animals electrified traditional arrangements during the mid-1960s but the genre's mainstream acceptance originated with The Kingston Trio. Guard the sole member possessing musical literacy and notation skills functioned as the group's principal arranger and architect of their distinctive sound until his departure in 1961. unknown
