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2091202133303102human value N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 303p Size: 23cm human value paperback
B9781009619394Hardback. New. A sustained study of Harriet Jacobs's as a political philosopher casting her as major theorist of nature of slavery. Bringing Jacobs into dialogue with Frederick Douglass the author argues that Jacobs's emphasis on sexual abuse and the importance of slave relationships offers us a basis for a feminist republicanism. hardcover
A9781509519071Hardback. New. Famous as the author of <i>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman</i> Mary Wollstonecraft was a wide-ranging and controversial moral and political philosopher. She engaged with many of the most polarising issues of her day: criticising social hierarchies advocating for educational reform analysing the French Revolution and challenging men’s political dominance.<br /> <br />In this illuminating introduction Alan Coffee argues that the originality of Wollstonecraft’s feminist arguments is best understood within the context of a systematic and comprehensive philosophical system built up from a set of ‘simple’ theological and moral principles. An effective way to approach this is through the concept of freedom as independence. Drawing on all of Wollstonecraft’s works including her novels reviews and letters Coffee shows how the ideal of independence illuminates and unites many of her intellectual preoccupations and her contribution to contemporary debates such as on the structural nature of social injustice and the republican notion of freedom as non-domination.<br /> <br />This gripping account of Wollstonecraft’s work sheds new light on one of the most important eighteenth-century thinkers. hardcover
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1947144819Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1947. Vintage photograph of director Charles Vidor and stars Rosalind Russell and Melvyn Douglas speaking to Orson Welles on the set of the 1947 film. Welles was directing the classic Columbia Pictures film "The Lady from Shanghai" at the same time. Mimeo snipe and agency stamps on the verso.<br /> <br /> Janet Ames Rosalind Russell seeks out five soldiers who her husband sacrificed his life for during World War II. After suffering a serious injury she meets Smithfield "Smitty" Cobb Melvyn Douglas who helps her find the men her husband saved though he does not tell her he is one of them. He tries to help her reconcile her pain and guilt while he treats his own pain from the war with heavy drinking. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
14719Pen-and-ink illustration and calligraphy with onlaid silver gelatin photograph on thin card 420 x 200 mm sheet; a few light marks to the upper margins otherwise fine condition. A significant piece of ephemera from one of Melbourne's most famous dining establishments of the 1890s and early 1900s the Vienna Café which occupied the grand premises at 25 Collins Street East. The Australia Hotel was later built on the same site. This unique ""sign"" was probably created in-house on the occasion of a special banquet held at the Vienna Café a private function for the 17 young men in the photograph. Note that each of them has a letter ""B"" for ""Besse"" displayed in his lapel. ""Completed in Collins Street in 1939 to a Leslie M. Perrott design the Australia Hotel replaced an existing hotel of that name which had been established on the site of the highly fashionable and popular Vienna Café Hotel 1890-1915 Gunsler's Café Hotel 1879-90 and the City Club Hotel established about 1872. In 1908 the Vienna lease was acquired by Anthony Lucas who in 1916 contracted Walter Burley Griffin to remodel the interior to form a banquet hall incorporating a balcony mezzanine for his Café Australia Hotel. When Fred Matear and Norman Carlyon purchased the freehold and rebuilt the hotel in 1939 elements of the Griffin ceiling were incorporated into the ballroom of the new hotel."" Chrystopher J. Spicer eMelbourne unknown
192061528Sydney Australia New York & San Francisco CA: Oceanic Publishing Co. A.M. Robertson 1920. Tall 8vo. xiii 1 375 1 pp. tipped-in blue errata slip on p. vii. Photo frontisp. photo plates illustrations maps. Blue publisher’s cloth white lettering & ruling front cover & spine w/ d.j. chipping & tears head & foot of spine minor loss to spine old tape repairs still NF/G- copy. First edition of the Polish-American/Australian author’s autobiographical memoir relating his travels over 40 years first as Journalist for the New York Herald and other papers and then subsequently as publisher and director for Oceanic Publishing. Coffee 1852-1929 details his travels through British Columbia the Pacific Northwest Hawaii including an automobile trip around the Island of Oahu trips to Easter Island New Caledonia Samoa Tonga Fiji New Guinea New Zealand Japan Alaska and more. Work was reprinted with corrections and additions in 1925. Very scarce in original dustjacket. See: Terry Fogarty & Joan Antarakis Frank Coffee Historical Willoughby 2024. Oceanic Publishing Co., A.M. Robertson, hardcover
15358Kingston Jamaica. 1785 1787 1789 1791 1792 1795. Chester Vale a substantial estate of 1420 acres paid taxes on 124 slaves in 1801. McLarty d.1844 was Physician-General for Surrey Jamaica and several letters written by him from the island are in the National Library of Scotland and are quoted in Alan L Karras's 'Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake 1740-1800' Cornell 1992. In 1794 he acquired Chester Vale on his marriage to Elizabeth Susanna Breon whose father Edmund Breon had died in 1792 leaving her the ward of the solicitor Thomas Cockburn. The six items in good condition lightly aged and worn. ONE: Docketed 'Edmund Breon Esqe. Sales Coffee &c Acct Current'. Signed 'Errors Excepted July 1st. 1785. for Mark Howard Breon's agent - S White'. 3pp. small 4to. Bifolium. Covering the period of May and June 1785. The first page is headed 'Sales of Coffee on Account of Edmund Breon Esqe.' and the central two pages give double-entry accounts headed 'Edmund Breon Esqre. In Account Current with Mark Howard'. Contains references to orders by John Sleater Doctor Davison and Moses Stobo. TWO: Docketed 'Acct. Sales of Coffee & Indigo Steph Cooke'. Signed 'Errors Excepted Kingston 1 Jany. 1787 Stephen Cooke'. 1p. foolscap 8vo in height 12mo in width. Headed 'Account Sales of Coffee & Indigo recd. from Mr. Edmund Breon'. Entries dating from February 1786 to July 1787. In the form of a table including columns for 'Pounds of Indigo' and 'Pounds of Coffee'. Containing references to Alexander Innes Bernall & Henriques Bayard Hankinson & Barrow Grant Archibald Galbraith Aikman Nelson Lindsay Haughton John G. Yonge Budgen Lewis Captain Smith George Shaw and Stephen Cooke. THREE: Solicitors' accounts relating to the action 'Breon ads Thomson & al'. Docketed 'Account Edmond sic Breon Esquire to Cockburn & Davis'. 1p. foolscap 8vo. Headed 'Edmund Breon Esquire To Cockburn & Davis'. Entries dating from February to November 1789 and in another hand 15 November 1794. Entries include: 'Drawing Defeazance from Henry Tippett Esquire to you & Engrossing the same Containing 3 sides of Royal paper' and 'November To attending Secretary's Office in Spanish Town and Searching for Conveyance of Equity of Redemption from Bridges P Attorney & Edwards & at to Fell when you found that it was not on Record and Searching if ditto from Bridges to Fell was Recorded when found it was Lib 294 fo: 135'. FOUR: Solicitors' accounts relating to action 'Breon ads Richardson at September Kingston Court'. Headed 'Edmund Breon Esquire To Cockburn & Robertson'. 1p. landscape 8vo. Dating from May to September 1791. Entries include: 'June . Motion and Order upon reading your Affidavit & Examining Deputy Marshal that the said actions might be returned Process which was granted'. FIVE: Solicitors' accounts. Headed: Thomas Cockburn Esquire Guardian of Miss E. S. Breon To Cockburn Robertson & Vassall'. 1p. foolscap 8vo. Docketed 'Miss Elizabeth S. Breon to Thomas Cockburn her Guardian'. Entries from January 1792 to May 1793. Entries include 'Mar. In Chancery. In the matter of Guardianship of Miss Elizabeth Susanna Breon' and 'September To attending Secretary's office in Spanish Town Searching where Mortgage Breon to Tippet of Chester Vale was dated & paid for Search' and 'Apl. To Attending the Provost Marshal's Office in Spanish Town bespeaking and afterwards Obtaining a List of Writs against Edmund Breon deceased'. References to Counsellor Peppard and Daniel Pennington. SIX: Solicitors' accounts dated from 'Kingston Jamaica 31 Decembr 1796 Errors Excepted'. Headed 'Colin McLarty Esquire in Account Current with Ballantine Fairlie & Co'. 2pp. small 4to. Double-entry accounts dating from December 1795 to December 1796. Entries include: 'January 26 To Cash paid your Order to William Bailey for Cost of 4 Mules'. References to Christie Lara Cockburn Shaw Inglis & Holt Henriques Barnett Henry Tippett Brockhurst vs Breon. Kingston, Jamaica. 1785, 1787, 1789, 1791, 1792, 1795. unknown
32911Brazil: TH Preising S. Paulo Caixa postal 2380 n.d. Album. Very good. Oblong string tied souvenir photograph album with title in Spanish on the front cover. Contents include 10 glossy black and white photographs approximately 9" x 7" with short descriptions at the bottom. These photographs depict coffee farms workers production etc. in the Sao Paulo Brazil region. The covers are edge worn with some dark stains on the back cover. The pictures are in very good condition. No dates provided. Possibly 1930's Scarce. TH Preising S. Paulo Caixa postal 2380 unknown
1776List3149Knaresborough England 1776. Single three page letter measuring 6 ¼ x 7 ¾ inches. Normal wear; Near Fine. A letter from Nathaniel Sharpe in Knaresborough to Edmund Green a merchant in London addressed to Green at the Jamaica Coffee House. This café the first of its kind in London was established in the mid-17th century; in 17th and 18th century Britain coffee houses were popular meeting places particularly for conducting business. Sharpe writes to Green:<br /> <br /> “Your Esteem’d favour of the 22d is before me and the picture you have drawn of the situation of publick affairs are truly very alarming and have no doubt but the Representation is a very just and real one. . But to the following Fact place yourself in my situation and give me your Candid opinion Wether I am safe in letting £2200 lay any longer or whether I ought to call it in and place it out on a Security in this Country.â€<br /> <br /> He describes his investments and states that:<br /> <br /> “I have not one shilling in Trade since 1760 and in Decemr. 1762 Retir’d to this place and found myself in possession of a Happiness that I could ill brook to part with. And which I would wish to preserve. Should this sum be in no danger I can live as usual.â€<br /> <br /> The American Revolutionary War had a significant impact on the British economy; at the time Sharpe was writing although the conflict had been ongoing for some time the war itself was in its early days and uncertainty was high.<br /> <br /> Other than asking for financial advice Sharpe tells Green that Green’s “Brother Tommy had . taken a Cup of Liquor rather too freely and had been drawn into Cards†alarming their mother who had requested that Sharpe inform Green about the event; asks Green to visit her; and sends his good wishes to a mutual friend. unknown
193124176New York: Charles and Co 1931. Hardcover. Very good condition. Profusely illustrated catalogue of products on offer by Charles and Co. the New York City purveyor of fine foods noted for their "Bon Voyage" Steamer Baskets. Each class of goods lavishly illustrated along with printed price lists. For example a wonderful gilt and red tea box illustration for Ming Cha "Golden Tea Hours" p17. <br /> <br /> Fine foods in this catalogue include teas and coffees delicatessen health foods dietetic foods biscuits bakery goods candies bon bons & chocolates cigars cigarettes & tobacco non alcoholic beverages and mineral waters. Two printed letter headed order forms loosely inserted.<br /> <br /> 8vo 389pp. Embossed green cloth decorated covers. Slightly rubbed base of spine. Charles and Co hardcover
19296Sept.1815-March 1820. Seven pages folio folded minor damage with no loss of text good condition. Baker Gabb member of Welsh landowning family presumably in his role of solicitor acting for the Harington Family giving a detailed record of financial activity with Welsh property mainly involving the "Rents of Cadvor" giving details of income from tenants crops stock etc. and outgoings concluding with the balance due to Sir John Harington £2989.19.1. Also the Royal Oak Abergavenny. With 10 further MS items including: A. Three draft letters Harington's hand presumably relating to Cadvor accounts; B. Account Sir J.E. Harington re. Cadvor June 1814-July 1815 generated by Gabell another solicitor presumably handling accounts before Gabb see Note below expenses including rum poor rate printing handbills for sale ploughing hedging etc etc 3pp. fol.; C. "Sir J. Harington in Account with c. Gabell from Decr. 1813 to the period of his delivering over charge to Mr. Gabb in Augt 1818 2pp. cr.8vo; D. "Receipt & Disbursements of the Cadvor from the Commencement of Mr. Gabb's agency to the 10th January 1820 one page fol. with two summaries on same subject and range; E. "General View of Accounts of Mr. Baker Gabb with Sir J. Harington from 15 Augt 1815 to 10 Jany 1820 one page cr.8vo; two further brief accounts one Gabell from Dec. 1813 to June 1815. Note: Walter Savage Landor in his Llanthony days had dealings with Gabb and Gabell and apparently pilloried them as rascals in a poem but see Malcolm Elwin "Walter Savage Landor": "Baker Gabb i 756-1 821 resided over his office in Monk Street House in Abergavenny ; with him . By his negligence evasions and talent for perquisites Gabell deserved Landor's indignation but Gabb was a man of repute"; Elwin also says "The Gabbs were an old family of repute in Abergavenny; besides their hereditary practice as attorneys and stewards to the barony" as in this collection. Sept.1815-March 1820 unknown
178420089London: Printed for J. Walker 1784. 92 pp. 8vo. Stitched as issued. Stitching lacking loosening gatherings some light spotting or soiling of front and back leaves and general edgewear else a very good copy. A contemporary owner has annotated and underlined several sections in the Tea Act. 92 pp. 8vo. These acts passed that years were seen by the author as being the most pertinent and so included in this work the rest of the acts of Parliament were to be released shortly thereafter in a second part.<br /> <br /> The acts abstracted were the 1 Tea and Window repealing the several Duties and for granting other duties in lieu and duties on coffee and cocoa nuts Act 2 The Game Act hunting license 3 The Horse Act granting duties on riding and carriage horses 4 The Postage Act increasing postage rates 5 The Pawn Broker's Act trying to reduce the handling of stolen goods 6 The Soap and Starch Act requiring the licensing of makers of starch and instilling new laws on soapmakers 7 The Cotton and Linen Act placing duties 8 The Hatter's Act requiring licenses laying additional duties on imported hats 9 The Excise Goods Act laying duties upon licences to be taken out by the makers and delers in exciseable commodities 10 The Candle Act cancelling the duty on wax candles made in Britain 11 The Distillery Act trying to discourage home distillation by discontinuing the duties uon low wines and spirits for home consumption. 12 The Hackney Coach Act increasing the charge for Hackey license 13 The Smuggling Act trying to prevent 14 Brick and Tile Act placing duties on brick and tile made in Great Britain and additional duties on those imported 15 Wax Candle Act placing additional duties on all candles except wax and spermaceti candles. Printed for J. Walker unknown
1939100049<p>Rio de Janeiro Brazil: Departamento Nacional do Cafe 1939. 1939. Very good. - Octavo 9-1/4 inches high by 6-3/8 inches wide. Softcover bound in stapled white wraps titled and illustrated in black & gray. The corners of the covers are slightly bumped. 31 & 1 pages including the covers illustrated in black & white. Very good.</p><p>First edition.</p> Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Departamento Nacional do Cafe, 1939. paperback
1849373676Washington: C. Alexander Printer 1849. Softcover. Very Good. Revised edition with printed order from W.L. Marcy indicating that fact. Small octavo. 38 10 blank pp. Quarter black calf with marbled paper over flexible boards. Signature of Andrew Jackson Coffee on front board and then repeated twice once as a Major and again as a Lt. Colonel in both cases noting he was a paymaster on the titlepage. Ink blots on front board endpapers with ink calculations on one blank is a list of his expenses of a trip Charleston to Savannah to Tampa Bay to Fort Myers to New Orleans.<br /> <br /> Coffee was the great nephew of Andrew Jackson and was forced to resign from West Point for demerits in 1836. After resigning he became an engineer and paymaster in the Army and went on to serve as aide-de-camp for Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War where his actions the Battle of Buena Vista in 1847 precipitated his promotion to Lt. Colonel. Taylor chose Coffee to report to President James K. Polk about the battle. Afterwards he was an Army surveyor in California. A pleasing copy with an interesting association. OCLC locates a single copy of this book at West Point. C. Alexander, Printer unknown
a52590NY 1958. 4to 144pp. one very large foldout map in rear pocket map is fine wraps. VG light wear. Very hard-to-find title. . paperback
18353960Washington: GPO Printed by Duff Green 1835. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 771 PP. Original publisher full tan sheep binding with red and black spine labels. Square and tight overall. Bookplates to endpapers and ink number "726" on title-page a private library notation we assume. Incredibly important 1835 record of various actions against and treaties with the various Indian tribes of North America. Includes a census of the Creek nation as well as the first print appearance of several Indian treaties. Toning to text. A Very Good copy of a very rare book. GPO (Printed by Duff Green) hardcover