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Newton, IsaacBiblio.com

Opera quae exstant omnia: Reprint of the edition by Samuel Horsley London 17791785.

SCHOMBERG, IsaacBiblio.com

Naval Chronology; or an Historical Summary of Naval & Maritime Events

1802182487London: printed for T. Egerton Bickerstaff and Richardson 1802. The author's seminal work on naval history First edition in an attractive period speckled calf binding. The subscribers list notes 301 copies including those ordered by Lord Nelson the Treasurer of the Navy Charles Bragge Captain Cochrane and Viscount Hood. Trinity House took 24. In particular "the comprehensive lists of ships captains and actions in volumes 4 and 5 are of value" NMM. Schomberg 1753-1813 entered the Royal Navy in 1770 serving with his uncle on the Prudent at Spithead. He was soon posted to Newfoundland on the Romney Vice-Admiral Duff's flagship subsequently transferring to the Canada on whom he saw action at Gibraltar St. Kitt's and the Battle of the Saintes. In 1786 he was selected as mentor to Prince William the future William IV on board the frigate Pegasus. A clash of characters led to a confrontation with William provoking Schomberg into "applying to Captain Horatio Nelson the senior officer on the station for a court martial on himself to clear his name - on the petty matter of not sending a boat inshore to collect sheets from the hospital." ODNB. He continued to come into conflict with senior officers for the rest of his career including one notable incident where he sent a letter of complaint to the colonial government in Madras so unnecessarily vitriolic that he was ordered to return to England. Provenance: Marquess of Sligo at Westport House then to Captain D. M. Fyffe of Trinity House with their bookplates; subsequently in the library of Clive Richards the owner of "the finest collection of Nelson letters in private hands" The Telegraph with his loosely inserted bookplate. 5 vols octavo 209 x 130 mm. Tables in text; 5-page subscriber's list and 2 pp. of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary speckled calf black and red twin labels smooth spines divided by gilt decorative rules compartments gilt-stamped with central device board edges milled in blind blue speckled edges red silk bookmarkers. A few minor abrasions to spines a few scratches to boards tips a little bumped small Japanese tissue repair to vol. II front free endpaper contents variably foxed and soiled: a very good set. NMM V 1232. "Clive Richards City financier and owner of the finest collection of Nelson letters in private hands - obituary" The Telegraph 23 April 2021. hardcover

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni1 500,00 £GB≈ 1 712,70 €

Ball, Charles; [and Isaac Fisher]Biblio.com

Slavery in the United States: The Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball a Black Man who lived forty years in Maryland South Carolina and Georgia as a slave

1836377809Lewistown PA: John W. Shugert 1836. First edition. 400pp. 12mo. Modern quarter calf and marbled paper boards. Repairs to endpapers. Provenance: Kalozetean Literary Society embossed stamps ink numerical stamp on verso of title and first leaf. First edition. 400pp. 12mo. Charles Ball was born into slavery in Maryland circa 1781 and subsequently separated from his family. He would later be hired out as a cook to the U.S.S Congress and after his marriage and birth of a child would be separated again from his family and sold to a cotton planter in South Carolina and later to Georgia. After escaping from horrendous conditions in early 1810 he would serve in the U.S Navy in Commodore Joshua Barney's Chesapeake Bay Flotilla only to be recaptured into slavery in Georgia. He escaped again and eventually made his way to Lewistown Pennsylvania. In 1830 the town raised money to purchase his freedom from his former owner who had tracked him down and sought to reclaim him as a fugitive slave. Ball's autobiography dictated to Isaac Fisher was first published by subscription by a newspaper editor in Lewistown Pennsylvania in 1836 with a more widely-published edition printed in New York the following year. Republished again with significant changes and a new title the work appeared as The Life of a Negro Slave in 1846; an abridged and more fanciful version was next published under the title Fifty Years in Chains in 1859. With each successive edition the prose of the abolitionist movement and the sensationalism of commercial ventures dramatically changed the autobiography making the first edition of the narrative particularly desirable as the true statement of Ball's original voice. "On its first appearance Slavery in the United States was issued by subscription by a small-town newspaper editor and had only limited circulation. It lacked the abolitionist rhetoric now considered a defining feature of the slave narrative. Only in 1837 was it picked up by New York abolitionists who had it repackaged as an antislavery book and circulated through their information networks alongside other tracts such as Narrative of James Williams. Finally Slavery in the United States was published in 1858 as Fifty Years in Chains by an opportunistic publisher who tapped into the new market for antislavery stories created by the resounding success of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin 1852 . All signs point to the first edition being a relatively private publication destined mainly for a readership living near to Ball himself . Thanks to the correspondence of Isaac Fisher it is now known that 3000 copies were printed and sold in the 'village' Fisher's word of Lewistown and in three Ohio counties . very few copies of the first edition remain in circulation compared with the number available of that of 1837 . the publication of the first edition was the result of private planning outside the established circles of either the commercial publishing industry or the abolitionist movement . Yet the ever wider readership of Charles Ball's narrative in the later editions corresponded to the incremental loss of its substance. There occurred a gradual adulteration of what Ball's oral testimony to Fisher in the mid1830s might be imagined to have contained. Publication under a commercial imprint in the post-Uncle Tom context only deepened this process of hollowing-out. What was left in the end was but a distant echo of the slave's original singular voice" Michael Roy The Vanishing Slave: Publishing the Narrative of Charles Ball" in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 111:4 2017: pp. 513-545. Lib. Co. of Philadelphia Afro-Americana 813; Work pages 310-311 John W. Shugert unknown

James Cummins Bookseller · États-Unis2 000,00 $US≈ 1 692,20 €

Friedlander, Isaac (1890-1968)Biblio.com

10 original signed woodcuts 1933 illustrating Shakespeare sonnets with woodcut title leaf

1933H29180New York: Self Published 1933. Very good. 11 woodcuts mainly on sheets measuring approx. 10 x 7.5 inches generally very good condition with pencil titles occasional signature and some with quotations from the poems. With title leaf 11 x 7.5 inches reprinting the enigmatic dedication to the published book of sonnets signed "T. T." -- the publisher was Thomas Thorpe -- and dedicated to "Mr. W. H." which has caused much speculation over the years. The illustration for CXXIII is dated New York 1933 and signed. Sonnet XII has the first two lines of the poem written in pencil probably in Friedlander's hand the same with Sonnet VII. Sonnet XVIII has only the title written in pencil underneath the image. Sonnet XXVII has the entire sonnet written in pencil mainly on the verso and shows light tanning and wear creases to lower left and upper right slight wear along left edge and small tissue tape on one corner of verso no stain. Sonnet LIII has two lines of the poem written in pencil underneath the image light corner creasing and toning. Sonnet XCVII has title in pencil light creasing to lower right corner some toning. Sonnet 20 measures 9 x 7 is signed underneath has wear to upper left corner: stained or perhaps singed and recornered with rice paper. Sonnet XXXIV has four lines in pencil under image shows light toning and darkening. Sonnnet 66 is titled and signed in pencil hows tiny loss to lower right corner and very faint stain to lower left and upper right corners. Friedlander was born in Latvia. He was sentenced to death at age 15 for anti-Tsarist remarks and managed to escape to Rome thanks to his friendship with Maxim Gorky and his mother selling off her jewelry; he studied at the academy in Rome and then emigrated to New York in 1929 sponsored by his cousin Joseph Hirschhorn. During the Depression he worked as an artist for the WPA. He was a prolific artist well represented in exhibits and in museum collections. Self Published unknown

Common Crow Books · États-Unis2 000,00 $US≈ 1 692,20 €

WELD, Isaac (1774-1856)Biblio.com

Travels through the States of North America and in the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada During the Years 1795 1796 and 1797

179941787London: Printed for John Stockdale 1799. Quarto. 10 7/16 x 8 1/8 inches. xxiv 464 pp. 11 engraved plates including the frontispiece 2 plans and 3 maps one of which is hand colored in outline. Complete with the rare erratum slip mounted at the foot of the plate list. Contemporary full calf. Spine gilt with black morocco lettering piece. Neat repairs to joints First edition of the travel narrative that influenced a generation of British emigrants to the Canadian provinces. Isaac Weld traveled through North America in the late 18th century and recorded his adventures in this wry series of letters. He arrived in America in 1795 at the age of 19 accompanied by a servant and traveled the continent on horseback on foot and by canoe. His distaste for American frontiersmen and the coarseness of manners in the United States would prove typical of English travelers for decades to come. Between July and November 1796 he travelled from Lake Champlain to Montréal and Québec returning through Montréal and continuing his journey to Kingston Newark Niagara-on-the-Lake Malden Amherstburg Detroit and Fort Erie. He declared the scenery from the Upper Town of Québec to surpass 'all that I have hitherto seen in America or indeed in any other part of the globe' and felt that travelling conditions between Québec and Montréal were the best in North America. Based on these observations he concluded that 'a man of moderate property could provide for his family with much more ease in Canada than in the United States' because of the abundance of affordable land. Like many other British travellers then and later Weld felt most at home in the Canadian provinces. Weld's narrative was reprinted more than that of any other European traveler to North America in the later 18th-century. The engraved plates are after sketches by the author. 'A New Map of Upper & Lower Canada' dated 1798 extends from James's Bay to the north Lake Winnipeg to the west and New Brunswick to the east with the territory of the United States below the Candian border left undefined by blank space. Cox 176; Stanton and Tremaine 708; Lowndes 2868; Gagnon I: 3701; Lande 890; JCB II: 4062; Clark II: 132; Rich 1799; Allibone 2636; Sabin 102541; ESTC T110539; Howes W-235; Story p. 103; Vlach 754; Winsor V p.284 & VIII 174 191. Printed for John Stockdale unknown

Donald Heald Rare Books · États-Unis2 000,00 $US≈ 1 692,20 €

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