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1677418631677 La Haye. Steucker. 1677. 1 volume petit in-8, plein maroquin rouge, triple filet doré en encadrement sur les plats, dos à nerfs orné, tranches dorées, roulette intérieure dorée.(6) ff. ; 624 pp. ; (44) ff.
1629001352Rome: Typis Vaticanis / Ex Typographia Reu. Camerae Apost. 1629. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Silvester Caesius of Aquitaine Son of the Supreme Pontiff; by Abraham Bzowski a Pole Master of Sacred Theology of the Order of Preachers. Appended is the Life of Saint Adalbert the Martyr Published by the Same Silvester Defended by the Same Abraham Bzovius on Behalf of Its Author and Illustrated with Notes. Rome Printed at the Vatican Press 1629. --- together with --- The Life and Passion of Saint Adalbert Count Ursinus of Rosenberg Bishop of Prague Archbishop of Gniezno and Martyr; Apostle of the Bohemians Hungarians Poles and Prussians. Written by His Contemporary and Close Companion Pope Silvester II. Now for the First Time Vindicated on Behalf of Its Author by Abraham Bzowski a Pole Master of Sacred Theology of the Order of Preachers Divided into Chapters and Illustrated with Clearer Notes. Rome From the Press of the Apostolic Chamber 1629. The first and principal work in this volume is an exceedingly rare early modern biography of Pope Sylvester II Gerbert of Aurillac renowned as a mathematician philosopher and the first French pope. Writing in defence of Sylvester's legacy Bzowski refutes longstanding legends of sorcery and presents the pontiff as a model of intellectual virtue and ecclesiastical reform. The work exemplifies Dominican historical scholarship and forms part of Bzowski larger project to continue and expand Cesare Baronio's Annales Ecclesiastici. This book also contains his important Latin biography and scholarly vindication of Saint Adalbert also known as Wojciech a Bohemian nobleman from the Ursini-Rosenberg family bishop of Prague and missionary archbishop of Gniezno. He is one of the earliest and most important Christian evangelists in Central and Eastern Europe revered as the "Apostle of the Bohemians Hungarians Poles and Prussians." The book is an important celebration of Polish history as well as that of Eastern Europe more broadly. Born in Proszowice in 1567 Abraham Bzowski was a precocious scholar mastering Latin and music by the age of ten and studying under French humanists in Secemin. He joined the Dominican Order in Krakow later teaching philosophy and theology in Ferrara and Milan. After serving as prior in Krakow and Wroclaw he was summoned to Rome in 1610 by Pope Paul V and commissioned to continue Cesare Baronio's monumental Annales Ecclesiastici. Bzowski authored nine folio volumes covering 1198-1571 noted for their fidelity to Dominican perspectives though not without criticism. Among his other works are the Quadraginta Sermones super Canticum Salve Regina 1598 the Sacrum Pancarpium 1611 and updated papal biographies including those of Paul V and Gregory XV. His Silvester II Caesius 1629 offered here reflects both his historical scholarship and his interest in Polish and papal history. Bzowski died in Rome on 31 January 1637 having spent his final years in monastic seclusion after a personal tragedy. Size: 191 x 268 mm approx. Condition: 1 4 a6 A-O4 P6 Q2; 4 A-D4 E6 1 Contemporary full limp vellum title in contemporary MS to head of spine with 20th century tape affixed across the foot of the spine and going on to the boards. Binding secure with boards securely attached. Foxing throughout toned 20th century ownership marks including blindstamps of the Rare Book Collection of The New York General Theological Seminary Library. Collates as complete including the finely engraved portrait of Sylvester II. Both parts are present. Provenance: Formerly in the collection of the Rare Book Library at the New York Theological Seminary USA. Typis Vaticanis / Ex Typographia Reu. Camerae Apost. Hardcover
167734844Chez Frédéric Léonard | à Paris 1677 | 7.50 x 13.80 cm | relié
168133091681. 28 231 1 blank; 33 19 pp. Rare first edition of a scholarly work on British herbs including those used to prevent or treat scurvy along with a treatise on various species of the American aloë. Although the Aloidarium title-page is dated 1680 Sweerts must have planned from the beginning to include it in the more extensive Herba and completed it after most of the Herba was finished since its imprint gives nothing but the year and the index to both works begins on the verso of the last page of text in the Aloidarium. Abraham Munting 1626-1683 was born in Groningen in the northeastern part of the Netherlands. He was a physician and an internationally renowned botanist an academic professor and director of the Hortus Botanicus at Groningen. The work is beautifully illustrated with flowering plants sometimes in pots. Also interesting as a botanical Americanum.Foot margin of frontispiece repaired minor water stains plates slightly browned but still in good condition.l Bibl. Med. Neerl. 364 & 506; Biodiversity Heritage Library 97404; Hunt Library 360; Pritzel 6557-6558; STCN 097841048; not in Nissen; Sabin. unknown
1688ST13039cLondon: J. M. for Henry Herringman; Mary Clark for Charles Harper 1688; 1689. FIRST EDITION of Part III. 304 x 202 mm. 12 x 8". 58 41 1 blank 80 4 70 i.e. 68 154 23 1 blank 148; 16 161 21 166 pp. 148-9 misnumbered 140-1 2 pp. Two works bound together in one volume. <br/> Very attractive contemporary black morocco handsomely gilt. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Separate title pages for each section those in the first work dated 1687. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Archibald Philip Earl of Rosebery and the book label of Lawrence Strangman front free endpaper with bookplate of Robert S. Pirie see below for these three. Perkin B1; Wing C-6658 C-6664B and C-6665. One open tear just touching printed marginal notation small hole affecting two words light and very sparse foxing a touch heavier on a few signatures and some negligible spotting here and there otherwise A VERY CLEAN AND ATTRACTIVE COPY with only the most trivial wear.<br/> <br/> From a distinguished collection in pleasing condition and in a contemporaneous binding this volume contains the works of Abraham Cowley one of the most precocious poets in the annals of English literature. Cowley 1616-67 was producing poetic works of inexplicable sophistication before he had settled into puberty; he published his first volume of verse at 15; and he went on to become one of the most popular poets of his day. Cowley was a staunch royalist who served in the exiled court of Charles I's queen Henrietta Maria where he helped to encode and decipher messages sent between the monarchy's supporters including the royal couple themselves. Despite having been arrested and imprisoned as a royalist agent at one point Cowley escaped the Cromwell years largely unscathed and retired to the countryside in 1663. Upon his death Cowley was not only given the extraordinary honor of burial in Westminster Abbey noted by the DNB as "the most lavish funeral which had ever been given to a mere man of letters in England" but was also afforded a privileged spot next to the graves of Spenser and Chaucer. Cowley's influence on contemporary poetry was demonstrably deep; his funerary monument refers to him as "the English Virgil" and Perkin asserts that his "fame as a poet exceeded even that of Milton" during the waning years of the Restoration. The first part here contains the poet's best-known mature works while the second is composed of his early efforts and the third his writings on plants. Our volume is from the collection of Robert S. Pirie 1934-2015 an extremely successful lawyer and investment banker who amassed the finest library of 16th and 17th century English literature in private hands during his lifetime. In 1984 he was elected one of the 40 members of the Roxburghe Club the world's oldest society of bibliophiles. Our volume has a thrice-distinguished provenance. The first recorded owner is Archibald Philip Primrose 5th Earl of Rosebery 1847-1929 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during 1894-95. Earlier he had been Foreign Secretary twice as well as Leader of the Opposition. As stated in the British Armorial Bindings database Rosebery was an "ardent and discriminating book collector." Afterwards the present volume became the property of Bombay-born and Cambridge-educated Lawrence Strangman 1907-80 son of Sir Thomas Strangman Q.C. and Lady Winifred Strangman. Much of his celebrated collection went to his alma mater Trinity Hall in the University of Cambridge where it is maintained as the Strangman Collection in Jerwood Library while other portions were handled by Sotheby’s. A captain in WWII Strangman served as a distinguished Intelligence Officer. Our third recorded owner is Robert S. Pirie 1934-2015 an extremely successful lawyer and investment banker who amassed the finest library of 16th and 17th century English literature in private hands during his lifetime. In 1984 he was elected one of the 40 members of the Roxburghe Club the world’s oldest society of bibliophiles. J. M. for Henry Herringman; Mary Clark for Charles Harper unknown
171915847Amsterdam: François L'Honoré & Compagnie Libraries 1719. 440 by 520mm. 17.25 by 20.5 inches. Engraved map. Henri Chatelain's edition of Adrien Reland's important map of Japan 1715 including the place-names in phonetic Dutch. Reland's map of Japan represents a radical departure from prior European maps of Japan and is the first map printed in Japan to use Sino-Japanese characters. Instead of using the existing European geographical sources of Japan Reland utilized Japanese maps most notably a map from the library of Benjamin Dutry 1668-1751 a former director of the Dutch VOC. This was a tremendous leap forward in the geographical depiction of Japan such as in the treatment of Kyushu Island and in naming the 66 provinces. Large inset of the area around Nagasaki and an ornate dedication cartouche with about twenty coats of arms. Published in the fifth volume of the Châtelain family's 'Atlas historique ou Nouvelle introduction à l'Histoire à la Chronologie & à la Géographie Ancienne et Moderne ' 1719 when eventually extended to 7 volumes. With an inset 'Vue de la Ville de Nangasacki & de l'ile'. Zacharie Châtelain d. 1723 was the father of Henri Abraham 1684-1743 and Zacharie Junior 1690-1754. They worked as a partnership publishing the 'Atlas ' under several different Châtelain imprints depending on the Châtelain family partnerships at the time of publication. The atlas was published in seven volumes between 1705 and 1720 with a second edition appearing in 1732. The maps were accompanied by information pertaining to cosmography geography history chronology genealogy topography heraldry and costume of the world. The maps in the "Atlas Historique" were mainly based on those of the French cartographer Guillaume De L'Isle but were presented by the Châtelains in an encyclopaedia form. The accompanying text is in French and often is printed in two columns on the page with maps and other illustrations interspersed. Each map and table is numbered consecutively within its volume and all maps bear the privileges of the States of Holland and West-Friesland. Hubbard 73. François L'Honoré & Compagnie Libraries, unknown
15849733Antwerp 1584. Copper engraving 34.5 x 49.5 cm modern hand-colour centrefold reinforced on verso several neat marginal restorations Latin text on verso. The British Isles aligned with west at the top of the map and north on the right which makes better use of the available space on the page; it was chiefly derived from Mercators map of 1564. Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is widely considered the first modern world atlas originally published in 1570. Ortelius gathered and selected the maps which he believed represented the best available cartographic knowledge of his day which he then presented it in a single volume duly credited and finely engraved in a consistent style with explanatory text. The Theatrum was highly decorative and hugely popular amongst the wealthy and educated running into over forty editions in Latin and other major European languages. Shirley British Isles 139 but cf. 86.Van den Broecke 16. Map unknown
114343Antwerp Christopher Plantin for the author 1598. . Double-page copper engraved map with later hand-colouring centre fold as issued cartouches for titles and publishing privilege French text on verso; sheet size: 41.8 x 54 cm. Mounted size: 52 cm by 65.5 cm.<br /> Well-preserved example of Ortelius' map of Russia. Taken from the fifth final and most complete French edition of Theatre de l'Univers. Enriched with decorative cartouches and illustrations.<br /><br /><br />Abraham Ortelius 1527-1598 was a cartographer and publisher he was born and died in Antwerp.<br /> Koeman III Ort 32. Antwerp, Christopher Plantin for the author, 1598. unknown
62977Amsterdam 1633. Original double-page engraved map of the Middle East 42 x 54 cm.; plate mark 36.5 x 49 cm. focussing on Arabia Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean from Sicily to Cyprus published by Hondius in Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati figura reprinted in all later folio editions of the atlas. With full attractive later hand-colouring. French text to verso. Portrait of Sultan Mahumet above title cartouche. Discreet repair to lower centre fold generally a very good example. Van den Broecke 169 [Amsterdam, 1633]. unknown
62976Amsterdam 1633. Original double-page engraved map of the Middle East overall 45 x 54 cm.; plate mark 36.5 x 49 cm. focussing on Arabia Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean from Sicily to Cyprus published by Hondius in Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati figura reprinted in all later folio editions of the atlas. With full attractive later hand-colouring. French text to verso. Portrait of Sultan Mahumet above title cartouche. Some light browning and small nicks to margins centre-fold strengthened to verso generally a very good example. Van den Broecke 169 [Amsterdam, 1633]. unknown
1905mon0000039498Duckworth 1905-01-01. Paperback. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual markings. Clean copy sound binding. Duckworth paperback
186525618<p>Frank Leslie published this print as a premium for his new family magazine <i>Frank Leslie's Chimney Corner</i> and copyrighted it on April 8 1865 just a week before Lincoln's death. The image created by engraver Henry B. Major and lithographer Joseph Knapp portrays Lincoln flanked by the First Lady and Vice President Andrew Johnson greeting Julia Dent Grant wife of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant who stands nearby.</p><p>According to a notice printed at the bottom right corner "<i>Every Person who pays Ten Cents each for numbers 1 and 2 of Frank Leslie's Chimney Corner The New Family Paper is entitled to a copy of this PLATE without extra charge</i>" or individuals could purchase the print for $3.</p> <b>ABRAHAM LINCOLN.</b>Lithograph. "Grand Reception of the Notabilities of the Nation at the White House 1865" New York: Frank Leslie April 1865. 1 p. 19 x 23¾ in.<p><br /></p><p>In the first issue of <i>The Chimney Corner</i> Leslie described the "Grand Reception" image as "the most costly gift plate ever presented by any publisher in the United States having been produced at an expense of $10000."</p><p>"Every family should possess this truly national picture and carefully preserve it" Leslie continued "as it will transmit to future generations the men who have restored our great national unity. It is especially valuable as it contains an excellent likeness of our late lamented President introducing General Grant and his wife to Mrs. Lincoln." The picture contains "nearly 100 portraits of our most celebrated Generals Statesmen and Civilians also of many of our most distinguished American ladies. The likenesses are admirable having been taken from photographs by Brady."</p><p>The key giving the names of each individual portrait was published in issue number 4 of the <i>Chimney Corner</i> on June 24.</p><p>Included in the image are Generals Ulysses S. Grant John G. Foster William T. Sherman Hugh J. Kilpatrick Nathaniel P. Banks Philip H. Sheridan Winfield S. Hancock John A. Logan Joseph Hooker Benjamin F. Butler Oliver O. Howard John A. Dix and Henry W. Slocum. Admirals David Farragut and David Dixon Porter represent the Navy. Members of the cabinet include Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton Secretary of State William H. Seward and Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles. Members of Congress include Senator Henry B. Anthony of Rhode Island Senator William P. Fessenden of Maine Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts and Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax of Indiana. Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase represents the U.S. Supreme Court. New York newspaper editors Horace Greeley Henry J. Raymond and James Gordon Bennett are also present. Prominent women include First Lady Mary Lincoln Ann S. Stephens dime novelist and magazine editor Miriam Folline Squier wife of Leslie's former editor-in-chief and Leslie's future wife Julia Dent Grant wife of Ulysses S. Grant Kate Chase Sprague daughter of Chief Justice and wife of Rhode Island Senator and Adele Cutts Douglas widow of Stephen A. Douglas. Others identified in the key include Ephraim G. Squier Leslie's former editor-in-chief archaeologist and U.S. commissioner to Peru Governor Andrew G. Curtin of Pennsylvania and Ambassador to Russia Cassius M. Clay of Kentucky.</p><p>Despite Leslie's copyright Anton Hohenstein created a very similar image entitled "Lincoln's Last Reception" which also featured Lincoln's meeting General Ulysses S. Grant's wife Julia. Published by John Smith in Philadelphia in 1865 and hand-colored "Lincoln's Last Reception" also included more than thirty military and political leaders and a few prominent women among the onlookers in the ballroom.</p><p><b><i>Frank Leslie's Chimney Corner</i></b> 1865-1884 was a weekly family newspaper published "every Tuesday" in New York by Frank Leslie. Each illustrated issue of sixteen pages contained serial fiction short stories poetry biographies history travel sketches natural history anecdotes and other subjects. According to the prospectus the newspaper would be "a welcome messenger of instruction and amusement to the young and old in the family and by the fireside—that altar around which cluster our holiest and most cherished recollections." Leslie had copyrighted the title in 1861 but "the great Rebellion now happily closing intervened to put a stop to the enterprise."</p><p><b>Frank Leslie</b> 1821-1880 was born in England as Henry Carter but he adopted the pseudonym of Frank Leslie to keep his artistic activities a secret from his relatives who disapproved. He came to the United States in 1848 and settled in New York in 1853 to engrave woodcuts for P. T. Barnum's <i>Illustrated News</i>. When that publication failed Leslie began work on his own series of illustrated publications including <i>Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper</i> <i>The Budget of Fun</i> <i>Frank Leslie's Chimney Corner</i> and others. At his death he was deeply in debt but his second wife Miriam Folline Squier 1836-1914 continued his publications and again made them profitable even legally changing her name to Frank Leslie in 1881.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Spot-mounted to modern board mat toning moderate foxing minor edge wear. Would benefit from conservation.</p> Frank Leslie
186537441New York: Currier & Ives. 152 Nassau Street 1865. Lithograph print oblong 13-1/2" x 18." Uncolored depicting Booth shooting Lincoln in the back of the head Mrs. Lincoln Miss Harris and Major Rathbone sharing the theater box with him. Minor dusting in the margins. Very Good plus.<br /> <br /> A related print by Currier & Ives lists the names of the occupants in the theater box. See 165 Eberstadt 460. This variant does not list the occupants' names.<br /> "This lithograph records the shocking moment when Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth. As a famous actor Booth had free access to Ford's Theatre and had gone there to collect his mail on April 14 when he learned of the president's intention to attend a play that evening. Booth was the leader of a group of pro-Confederate conspirators determined to prevent the South's defeat and when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9 they decided to kill Lincoln and other key Union leaders hoping to destabilize the war effort and allow Confederate armies still in the field to rally. Major Henry Rathbone who rises at left to restrain Booth was subsequently stabbed but survived. Lincoln died the next morning" The MET online.<br /> Currier & Ives Gallery C0291. Not in Reilly. Currier & Ives. 152 Nassau Street unknown
68422YEAGER Abraham Hoss. Jacob Klodsoe One of the Nobodies. How He Came Home from the War--How He Grew Up and into It. Cleburne TX: T.L. Sanders Printer 1899. 1st ed. 129pp. Orig. printed wrappers. Small chip to front wrapper housed in custom red morocco-backed box else near fine. Rare. Not in any of the standard reference works on the Civil War or Tennessee. The autobiographical story of a Confederate soldier from an area described as having "Carolina's tallest peaks" on its southeastern horizon. Most names in the story appear to be fictional. Include his capture at Kennesaw Mountain in June 1864 as a prisoner of war at Camp Douglas Illinois journey home and how he came to join an infantry company. Yeager 1842-1940 served with the 29th Tennessee Infantry Confederate until his capture. After the war he was a lawyer in Tennessee then a newspaperman and farmer in Johnson County Texas. unknown
1865005102<p>Philadelphia: Barclay & Co. 1864 1865 1865. FIRST EDITION. 1 vol. 9-1/4" x 5-3/4" original pictorial wrappers illustrated pagination irregular but complete original stitching completely unsophisticated without repairs internally clean and bright mild general handling but surely one of the nicest copies you're going to encounter VERY GOOD. McDade 623 According to RBH only 2 copies have ever appeared at auction. The last one in 2008. Variant issue mentioned by Howes with the illustration of the execution moved to p 96; also with misprint of copyright date as "1864". Featuring engraved portrait of Mary Surratt on cover. The assassination of Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth on the night of April 14 1865 need no retelling. Time however which has its own way with our judgments has raised some doubts about some of these. The unfairness of the military tribunal is now manifest and the guilt of Mrs. Surratt is certainly doubtful. This was amply demonstrated by the fact that only two years after the crime the government could not obtain the conviction of her son John Surratt in the civil courts in Washington.</p> Philadelphia: Barclay & Co., 1864 [1865]
186525618<p>Frank Leslie published this print as a premium for his new family magazine <i>Frank Leslie's Chimney Corner</i> and copyrighted it on April 8 1865 just a week before Lincoln's death. The image created by engraver Henry B. Major and lithographer Joseph Knapp portrays Lincoln flanked by the First Lady and Vice President Andrew Johnson greeting Julia Dent Grant wife of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant who stands nearby.</p><p>According to a notice printed at the bottom right corner "<i>Every Person who pays Ten Cents each for numbers 1 and 2 of Frank Leslie's Chimney Corner The New Family Paper is entitled to a copy of this PLATE without extra charge</i>" or individuals could purchase the print for $3.</p> <b>ABRAHAM LINCOLN.</b>Lithograph. "Grand Reception of the Notabilities of the Nation at the White House 1865" New York: Frank Leslie April 1865. 1 p. 19 x 23¾ in.<p><br /></p><p>In the first issue of <i>The Chimney Corner</i> Leslie described the "Grand Reception" image as "the most costly gift plate ever presented by any publisher in the United States having been produced at an expense of $10000."</p><p>"Every family should possess this truly national picture and carefully preserve it" Leslie continued "as it will transmit to future generations the men who have restored our great national unity. It is especially valuable as it contains an excellent likeness of our late lamented President introducing General Grant and his wife to Mrs. Lincoln." The picture contains "nearly 100 portraits of our most celebrated Generals Statesmen and Civilians also of many of our most distinguished American ladies. The likenesses are admirable having been taken from photographs by Brady."</p><p>The key giving the names of each individual portrait was published in issue number 4 of the <i>Chimney Corner</i> on June 24.</p><p>Included in the image are Generals Ulysses S. Grant John G. Foster William T. Sherman Hugh J. Kilpatrick Nathaniel P. Banks Philip H. Sheridan Winfield S. Hancock John A. Logan Joseph Hooker Benjamin F. Butler Oliver O. Howard John A. Dix and Henry W. Slocum. Admirals David Farragut and David Dixon Porter represent the Navy. Members of the cabinet include Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton Secretary of State William H. Seward and Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles. Members of Congress include Senator Henry B. Anthony of Rhode Island Senator William P. Fessenden of Maine Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts and Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax of Indiana. Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase represents the U.S. Supreme Court. New York newspaper editors Horace Greeley Henry J. Raymond and James Gordon Bennett are also present. Prominent women include First Lady Mary Lincoln Ann S. Stephens dime novelist and magazine editor Miriam Folline Squier wife of Leslie's former editor-in-chief and Leslie's future wife Julia Dent Grant wife of Ulysses S. Grant Kate Chase Sprague daughter of Chief Justice and wife of Rhode Island Senator and Adele Cutts Douglas widow of Stephen A. Douglas. Others identified in the key include Ephraim G. Squier Leslie's former editor-in-chief archaeologist and U.S. commissioner to Peru Governor Andrew G. Curtin of Pennsylvania and Ambassador to Russia Cassius M. Clay of Kentucky.</p><p>Despite Leslie's copyright Anton Hohenstein created a very similar image entitled "Lincoln's Last Reception" which also featured Lincoln's meeting General Ulysses S. Grant's wife Julia. Published by John Smith in Philadelphia in 1865 and hand-colored "Lincoln's Last Reception" also included more than thirty military and political leaders and a few prominent women among the onlookers in the ballroom.</p><p><b><i>Frank Leslie's Chimney Corner</i></b> 1865-1884 was a weekly family newspaper published "every Tuesday" in New York by Frank Leslie. Each illustrated issue of sixteen pages contained serial fiction short stories poetry biographies history travel sketches natural history anecdotes and other subjects. According to the prospectus the newspaper would be "a welcome messenger of instruction and amusement to the young and old in the family and by the fireside—that altar around which cluster our holiest and most cherished recollections." Leslie had copyrighted the title in 1861 but "the great Rebellion now happily closing intervened to put a stop to the enterprise."</p><p><b>Frank Leslie</b> 1821-1880 was born in England as Henry Carter but he adopted the pseudonym of Frank Leslie to keep his artistic activities a secret from his relatives who disapproved. He came to the United States in 1848 and settled in New York in 1853 to engrave woodcuts for P. T. Barnum's <i>Illustrated News</i>. When that publication failed Leslie began work on his own series of illustrated publications including <i>Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper</i> <i>The Budget of Fun</i> <i>Frank Leslie's Chimney Corner</i> and others. At his death he was deeply in debt but his second wife Miriam Folline Squier 1836-1914 continued his publications and again made them profitable even legally changing her name to Frank Leslie in 1881.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Spot-mounted to modern board mat toning moderate foxing minor edge wear. Would benefit from conservation.</p> Frank Leslie books
16362226<p>Le Blond 1636. Etching. A good impression on paper without a watermark. Trimmed just showing the platemark all around. 259mm x 324mm. G.D. 1080 Blum 154 only state Paris/Tours 2004 No. 128</p> Le Blond,
189944062Cleburne TX: A.H. Yeager publisher T. L. Saunders printer 1899. 12mo.; 129pp. Original printed gray wrappers some wear to spine; text paper somewhat browned but a very good copy. First edition. Autobiographical story of a Confederate soldier from Washington County Tennessee; Civil War experiences include his capture at Kennesaw Mountain in June 1864 his incarceration as a prisoner of war at Camp Douglas Illinois his journey home and after reflecting on his childhood in east Tennessee how he came to join an infantry company as the war began. Yeager 1842-1940 served with the 29th Tennessee Infantry Confederate until his capture; though not included in this autobiography his post-Civil War years were spent first as a lawyer in Tennessee then as a newspaperman and farmer in Johnson County Texas. Rare. OCLC locates ten copies but only one in Tennessee Knox County Public. Not in Nevins Eicher or Broadfoot. Not in Sam Smith's TENNESSEE HISTORY: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. <br/><br/> A.H. Yeager, publisher (T. L. Saunders, printer) unknown books
186423516Boston: Wright & Potter 1864. First Thus. Octavo 23.5cm.; publisher's drab printed wrappers; 88cxpp.; large folding map of Gettysburg bound in. Some shallow chipping and small losses to wrapper extremities none approaching text dampstaining most heavily so to rear cover title page and preliminary leaves else Near Very Good. Includes the third or fourth earliest appearance in book-form of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address printed here on p. lxxii simply as "Dedicatory Speech." See MONAGHAN p. 48. Wright & Potter unknown books
18942311448Harrogate Tennessee: Lincoln Memorial University 1894. Limited Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Limited edition #399 of an unspecified limitation this set 'especially prepared for Harry J. Williams.' Signed by John Wesley Hill opposite limitation page. Copyright page states 1894 but this is clearly reproduced from the plates of the original - this set is circa 1905. Volume 1 has very minor discoloration to edges of cloth on rear board minor wear to corners spine a bit faded. Complete in twelve hardcover volumes. Red full leather gilt titles & decorations top edges gilt decorative endpapers. A complete collection of Abraham Lincoln's works including speeches letters biographical writings etc. with an introduction by John Wesley Hill and special articles by various other contributors. The editors were Lincoln's private secretary and assistant secretary and also served in various other governmental roles Hay going on to become Secretary of State under McKinley and Roosevelt. Nicolay and Hay are perhaps best known for their ten-volume biographical history of Lincoln's administration originally published serially in The Century Magazine beginning in 1886 -- it remains one of the more exhaustive and personal accounts of the life of the 16th President of the United States and is notable for the inclusion of facsimiles of original drafts of important documents most importantly the Emancipation Proclamation. This set includes facsimiles of original correspondence and documents reproductions of contemporary photographs and engravings etc. Lincoln Memorial University hardcover books
18942283609Lincoln Memorial University 1894. Limited Edition. Full-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. Limited edition #212 of an unspecified limitation this set 'especially prepared for Ann Emerson Strong to whom it was presented by her father Pritchard H. Strong. Copyright page states 1894 but this is clearly reproduced from the plates of the original - this set is circa 1905. Small chip from spine head of volume 7 1/4 inch tear to spine head of first volume otherwise an excellent set small bookplate with initials A.E.S. on front endpaper of first volume. Complete in twelve hardcover volumes. Red full leather gilt titles & decorations top edges gilt decorative endpapers. A complete collection of Abraham Lincoln's works including speeches letters biographical writings etc. with an introduction by John Wesley Hill and special articles by various other contributors. The editors were Lincoln's private secretary and assistant secretary and also served in various other governmental roles Hay going on to become Secretary of State under McKinley and Roosevelt. Nicolay and Hay are perhaps best known for their ten-volume biographical history of Lincoln's administration originally published serially in The Century Magazine beginning in 1886 -- it remains one of the more exhaustive and personal accounts of the life of the 16th President of the United States and is notable for the inclusion of facsimiles of original drafts of important documents most importantly the Emancipation Proclamation. This set includes facsimiles of original correspondence and documents reproductions of contemporary photographs and engravings etc. Lincoln Memorial University hardcover books
1928263Lincoln4<p><strong>ABRAHAM LINCOLN. </strong></p><p><strong>Complete in 4 volumes. </strong></p><p>MANUSCRIPT EDITION.</p><p><strong>The bindings are original. </strong></p><p><br /><br /></p><p><strong>MANUSCRIPT EDITION. </strong></p><p><strong>FIRST EDITION. </strong></p><p><strong>Printed in 1928. </strong></p><p><strong>Complete in 4 Volumes. </strong></p><p><strong>No. 122/1000.</strong></p><p>These are large volumes.</p><p>Volume one contains a handwritten page of Beveridge's original manuscript.</p><p>These are very large books.</p><p>Measuring approximately 10 inches tall.</p><p>Custom bound by the Riverside Press and signed by them.</p><p>The bindings are original.</p><p><br /><br /></p><p>In very good condition despite the age. Leather supple. Hinges sound. The bindings are original. Quality paper. Stamp on front pastedown. Dealer notation in pencil. Light generalized shelf rubs. In highly giftable condition.</p><p><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><p><strong>In highly giftable condition. </strong></p><p><strong>This set will be well protected for shipping. </strong></p><p><strong>Each book will be individually wrapped and well protected for shipping. </strong></p><p><strong>26.2</strong></p>
18666114no place given: William E. Marshall 1866. Very good . Lithograph measuring about 17." x 22.5" full margins; likely untrimmed. The image measures about 15.75" x 20.5". Matted and framed and has not been examined out of frame. Offsetting/age-toning affects the right half of the print although this is only visible at the margin not within the image. Important 1866 engraving of the recently deceased 16th president; Marshall sent copies to many of Lincoln's closest friends and colleagues and the response was one of unanimous praise. Highly detailed and dignified it presents the statesman as a figure of great worth; even of immortailty. This example handsomely presented in a double matte and deep brown wooden frame. William E. Marshall unknown
166341874Nuremburg: Heirs of J. & W. Endter 1663. 8vo. 6 3/16 x 3 3/4 inches. xiv 998 xl pp. Title in red and black engraved frontispiece and 42 plates 7 folding. Early ownership signature on front pastedown. Early 18th-century lengthy manuscript commentary referencing passages on Brahmins from a work by Johann Albrecht von Mandelslo 1616-1644. Contemporary vellum<br/> <br/> First German Edition of one of the earliest European accounts of Hinduism in Southern India by a missionary who worked in Palicatta Coromandel for ten years from 1630 enlarged by supplementary accounts of Asian African and American religions not included in the Dutch and French editions.<br/> <br/> Abraham Roger was a Dutch missionary and linguist who spent a significant portion of his career working in India under the Dutch East India Company VOC. He was stationed in Pulicat a trading hub on the Coromandel Coast of South India where he worked among the Tamil speaking population. His experiences as a missionary coupled with his interest in local culture prompted him to document Hindu religious practices and beliefs culminating in this notable work. First published in Dutch in 1651 and translated into German in 1663 it is one of the earliest and most significant works by a European exploring Hinduism in South India. Roger's approach was distinct in its attempt to understand and accurately portray Hinduism a religion he sought to comprehend despite his missionary objectives. His work stands out for its translations of Hindu hymns and descriptions of temple rituals and he drew much of his knowledge from his close collaboration with local Brahmins reflecting a relatively objective tone compared to other European writings of the period. Despite his Eurocentric and missionary perspective Roger was unique in that he did not entirely dismiss Hinduism but rather engaged with it to create one of the earliest detailed European accounts of the religion.<br/> <br/> Sabin 72603; JCB III p. 92; Ackermann V 1273; Landwehr VOC 65. Heirs of J. & W. Endter unknown
