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18623568928/02/1862. <blockquote><p>He was later promoted to Lt. Colonel for gallantry in action at the Battle of Groveton</p></blockquote><p><strong>Document signed</strong> with fine engravings of an eagle flags and cannons Washington February 28 1862 naming Percy B. Spear a Commissary of Subsistence of Volunteers with the rank of Captain effective November 30 1861. The document is countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. The appointment is listed in the U.S. Army Register.</p><p>The Civil War Commissary Department was responsible for procuring storing and distributing food to soldiers. The rations managed by the department included such things as pork beef bread coffee and soap.</p><p>But Spear did not serve solely as a Commissary for the entire war. He would soon serve an aide-de-camp in the Fifth Corps in the Gettysburg campaign with Gen. James Barnes mentioning him with distinction in dispatches. Spear ended the war as a Brevet Major. In July 1865 he was appointed Lt. Colonel of Volunteers for meritorious service and for gallantry in action at the Battle of Groveton in 1862. After the war he was again named Commissary of Subsistence this time at the recommendation of Gen. George G. Meade.</p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /></p> unknown
173740577London: Chez Jean Brindley Libraire de S. A. R. Monseigeur le Prince de Galles dans New Bond-street 1737. Folio. 17 7/8 x 11 1/4 inches. Complete second edition. 43 double-page engravings after Abraham van Diepenbeke including 42 numbered 1-42 and the unnumbered 1658 title with Anvers imprint. Engraved head-piece to first dedication. Numerous woodcut illustrations throughout the text and woodcut historiated and inhabited initials head- and tail-pieces and printer's ornaments. 12 1-236. 248 pp. Letterpress title with London imprint and four dedications to Henriette Cavendishe-Holles the King of Grande-Bretagne Charles Vicomte de Mansfield and to Cavaliers. Avertissement avant-propos four livres plus an Abbrege de la Cavalerie conclusion additions table des chapitres. Text in French. Contemporary brown full morocco paneled blind with gilt filets on board edges and gilt dentelles seven raised bands forming eight compartments on a richly gilt spine with gilt-lettered red morocco titling-pieces in second and third compartments and gilt foliate tooling in rest marbled endpapers on laid paper all edges gilt<br/> <br/> Cavendish's classic 1737 treatise on equestrianism with 43 splendid double-page engravings: "The illustrations are among the most beautiful to ever grace equestrian literature." Ramsay<br/> <br/> Though considered a country of horse lovers England only produced one early master of classical riding: William Cavendish Duke of Newcastle who was a Royalist living in exile until the restoration of King Charles II. During his exile Cavendish opened a riding school in Belgium and wrote the present work La Méthode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux. This text was the first of Cavendish's two important books on breeding and training horses and was translated into French from his English manuscript and published in Antwerp in two issues: 1657 and 1658 though many of the 1657 title-pages have been altered by hand to read 1658. The first printing was largely incinerated by a fire in the bookseller's shop and is all but impossible to acquire. Brunet Offered here is the second edition of Cavendish's first book a work long cherished by bibliophiles for its typographical excellence and the masterful quality of its illustrations. It is a work that has been esteemed by countless generations of horsemen and revered by such master riders as La Guérinière Comte d'Aure and Steinbrecht. It is a landmark of equestrianism. Steinkraus Cavendish's book has been called the only really outstanding work on the subject written by an Englishman. Toole-Stott In it Cavendish discusses a wide variety of equine subjects including the recognition of the age and disposition of a horse; the characteristics of various types of horses such as the Spanish the Barb the English horse and the Arabian; methods of maintenance; and instructions on proper riding: "You must in all Airs follow the strength spirit and disposition of the horse and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order and nothing else." Of the 43 wonderful double-page engraved plates after Abraham van Diepenbeke 24 depict the multiple stages Cavendish and his assistant Captain Mazin employed in training horses in complicated maneuvers. The quality of the impressions in the present 1737 edition surpasses even those of the original edition. Steinkraus This was the first edition of La Méthode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux to be published in England with engravings pulled from the original 1658 copperplates which were acquired by the publisher Jean Brindley.<br/> <br/> Brunet I 1700. Graesse II 93. Huth 23. Lowndes 1663. Mennessier de la Lance II p. 250. Nissen ZBI 848. Podeschi Mellon Books on the Horse and Horsemanship pp. 26 49. Ramsay "Early Dressage Literature to 1800" IOBA 6.9.03. Steinkraus Introduction to A General System of Horsemanship 2000. Wing N884-87. Chez Jean Brindley, Libraire de S. A. R. Monseigeur le Prince de Galles, dans New Bond-street unknown
1868019219Chicago: Western Bank Note & Engraving Co. 1868. First Edition. Document. Recently backed with thin paper with several professional repairs of chips and tears. Very Good . Large folio 16-1/4" x 21-3/4" finely engraved and printed on good quality paper with elaborate decorative borders with a "US" monogram to upper corners a bold calligraphic heading with "ABOLISHING SLAVERY" in prominent decorated letters; at top center is a small vignette of the pyramid and all-seeing eye above an oval vignette of a slave family with child mourning over a cameo portrait of Lincoln. This is followed by the engraved signatures of President Lincoln Vice President Hamlin Schuyler Colfax and J. W. Forney Speaker and Secretary of the Senate and 164 Senators and Congressmen. An exceedingly rare and beautiful printing of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude . Shall exist within the United States." This elaborately engraved Reconstruction-era broadside is based on the special "souvenir" copies on parchment signed by Lincoln and the others of which only a handful are known to have been made. The Thirteenth Amendment represents the first substantive change to how America interpreted those liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights since its ratification in 1791. The Emancipation Proclamation only freed the slaves in the openly rebellious states. The Amendment effectively put an end to slavery once and for all upon its passage on 1 February 1865. <br/><br/> Western Bank Note & Engraving Co. unknown
186442820809<p>Oval albumen print 8 x 6 in. original printed mount trimmed at bottom removing caption signed "BRADY & CO. PHOTOGRAPHERS." Browning and offsetting to mount light toning to image. Very good. Matted and framed.</p><p><strong>The classic Brady $5 bill photograph.</strong> This celebrated portrait the basis for the five-dollar bill engraving used for most of the 20th century is one of seven poses taken by Anthony Berger at Mathew Brady's Washington D. C. studio on February 9 1864. The most prolific photographer of Lincoln Brady himself did not actually operate his cameras during the war years instead training and employing men like Alexander Gardner and his successor Anthony Berger who took this picture to operate the camera.</p><p><strong>Lincoln's son Robert Todd Lincoln declared this famous portrait to be "the most satisfactory likeness" of Abraham Lincoln.</strong></p> Mathew Brady Gallery
133797Patinated bronze portrait bust of Abraham Lincoln marked "GEO. E. BISSELL Sc GORHAM CO. FOUNDERS copyrighted" and stamped "G 47." This is one of a series of popular desktop busts of Lincoln produced by the Gorham foundry in the early part of the 20th century. In fine condition. The piece measures 18 inches in height. An exceptional piece of American history. unknown
600008"Abraham Lincoln" in black ink Washington February 10 1862. Folio. Partially printed document on vellum accomplished in a secretarial hand. Blue wafer seal intact. Lincoln's signature is dark. Appointment of Ethan Allen Hitchcock to the rank of Major General of Volunteers. Boldly co-signed by Edwin Stanton Secretary of War and Adjutant General L. Thomas a few small holes at the folds else fine fresh and dark. Lincoln 1809-65 16th President of the United States 1861-65 and one of the most important figures in American history. Hitchcock 1798-1870 Graduated West Point in 1817; served in Florida war; later with Winfield Scott in Mexico. He was commissioned Major-General of Volunteers as per this document in 1862 and rendered many valuable services to Lincoln's administration and the Union Army see Basler's Lincoln for numerous references to him. Signed by Authors. F. Soft cover. hardcover
1863372898New York 1863. 8pp. printed in six columns on a single folded sheet. Large folio. Disbound. Natural paper flaw to first leaf not affecting text of the Gettysburg Address. Cloth portfolio. 8pp. printed in six columns on a single folded sheet. Large folio. The complete issue of the New-York Tribune printing the Gettysburg Address on the morning of Nov. 20 1863 the first possible date of the speech's printing. The previous day Lincoln delivered his great address at the dedication of a cemetery on the Gettysburg battlefield four months after the bloody and pivotal battle that turned the tide of the Civil War in favor of the Union. Lincoln's speech was preceded by an address from Edward Everett the most famous orator of his day. Everett's speech took between ninety minutes and two hours to deliver and today is largely forgotten. Lincoln's speech delivered in only a few minutes stands as a supreme distillation of American values and of the sacrifices necessary for the survival of liberty and freedom.<br /> <br /> Much controversy surrounds the circumstances and content of the address as it was actually delivered at Gettysburg. The words spoken in the speech differ in the versions appearing in newspapers and the text which appeared in Washington several days later published as The Gettysburg Solemnities and known in only four copies which is now taken as the closest version to Lincoln's final intent because of its correspondence to the known manuscript versions. Interestingly and according to Carbonell the text of the first appearance of the speech in book form published a few days later as An Oration Delivered on the Battlefield of Gettysburg is taken largely from this New York Tribune printing.<br /> <br /> As it appears here the address corresponds closely to the transcription printed in the same day's edition of the New York Times with slight variations in punctuation and capitalization "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new Nation." in the Tribune versus "Fourscore and seven years ago our Fathers brought forth on this Continent a new nation." in the Times e.g. The address is printed on the first page at the bottom of the fifth column running to the top of the sixth. Significantly it notes the five places during Lincoln's speech where applause broke out thereby providing an important historical record of the reception of the speech as it was delivered by Lincoln. It is noted that the conclusion of the speech was met with "long continued applause" and that "three cheers were here given for the President and the Governors of the States." Lincoln's speech is preceded by the opening prayer of the Rev. Thomas H. Stockton and followed by Everett's speech which occupies the rest of the sixth column and the vast majority of space on page two. War news occupies the other column space on the front page.<br /> <br /> Together with examples from other newspapers of Nov. 20 1863 this issue of the New-York Tribune represents the first appearance of any version of the Gettysburg Address in print although at some variance with the version Lincoln eventually disseminated. The exact order in which the morning editions of November 20 were printed is practically impossible to determine at this point and as Carbonell states "will almost certainly never be known." Rightfully so Carbonell includes all November 20 morning newspaper printings of the Gettysburg Address as his first entry with no priority. Suffice to say this is as early a printing of one of the foundational documents of American life as one can ever encounter.<br /> <br /> "Lincoln's speech composed on the train on the way to Gettysburg and written down according to tradition on scratch-paper and the backs of envelopes comprised ten sentences and took only a few minutes to deliver. From the first words - 'Four score and seven years ago' - to the last - 'that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth' - it is immortal one of the supreme utterances of the principles of democratic freedom" PMM. Carbonell 1. Grolier American 100 72 ref. Streeter Sale 1748 ref. PMM 351 ref. Howes E233 ref. Monaghan 192 ref. Paul M. Angle "Four Lincoln Firsts" in Papers of the Bibliographical Society 36 Spring 1942 pp.13-17 unknown
169640906Leiden and Utrecht: Pieter vander Aa and François Halma 1696. Two volumes folio. 15 5/16 x 10 1/4 inches. Half title title printed in red and black with engraved vignette. Engraved additional title and 243 engraved plates. Contemporary Dutch blindstamped vellum with arabesque design.<br/> <br/> Provenance: Karl Magnussun bookplate – John David Drummond 8th Earl of Perth Viscount Strathallan<br/> <br/> First expanded edition of one of the most attractive Dutch florilegia of the seventeenth century.<br/> <br/> Munting was professor of botany at the University of Groningen and took over and enlarged the botanic garden founded by his father Henricus. The present work depicts some of the exotic and remarkable plants growing in the garden. It is one of the earliest and most important documents concerning Japanese flora and its importation into the West predating Thunbergs works by almost one hundred years. "Munting wrote a number of works on medical-botanical topics but his posthumously published opus magnum the Naauwkeurige enjoyed particular success at least in part due to the novelty of the plates which in a radical departure from the iconography of the traditional florilegium presented its plant species against a charming series of landscape backgrounds . The illustrations are remarkable for their elegance and originality" Oak Spring Flora. The initial botanical line drawings are now known to have been by about ten different but unidentified artists. Some time after Munting's death and in preparation for their publication these line drawings had tone and the pictorial back- and fore-grounds added by Jan Goeree 1670-1731 under the supervision of the publishers. The engraving and etching was then carried out by Jacob Gole and Joseph Mulder engraver of many of plates in Maria Sibylla Merians work on the insects of Surinam.<br/> <br/> Hunt 396; Nissen BBI 1428; Tomasi Oak Spring Flora 45 latin edition; Pritzel 6556; Brunet 1947. Pieter vander Aa and François Halma unknown
18638667<p>One partially printed vellum leaf dated February 21 1863 of the appointment of James Alden Jr. as a Captain in the Navy. Signed by President Abraham Lincoln and the Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles. Orange embossed seal of the Department of the Navy to bottom. Previous owner's repair to upper right corner see image. Loses at folds see image. James Alden Jr. had an impressive career in the United States Navy having been appointed by Lincoln in aiding to split the Confederacy apart along the Mississippi River ultimately helping in the Battle of Vicksburg. Alden whose direct descendant came to America on the Mayflower assisted in the Mexican-American War before joining the Union during the Civil War.</p><p>The paper measures approximately 14.5 x 17.75 in 37 x 45 cm.</p>
18573563230/10/1857. <p>John V. Drake and John C. Moses practiced law in Danville Illinois. They worked on cases appearing before the Vermilion County Circuit Court. When Abraham Lincoln had a case appearing in that court he would sometimes affiliate himself with Drake and Moses. Lincoln was before that court in October and November 1857.</p><p>Hezekiah Ballah sued John Deck and Zachariah Deck in a case heard in the Vermilion County Circuit Court. This was an action of trespass for castrating seventeen buck sheep and cutting up eight other ewes wethers and lambs. The Decks retained Lincoln who worked together with Drake and Moses in the case in October 1857. The Decks pleaded not guilty. Moreover John Deck also pleaded that he had been acquitted of the charge in Justice of the Peace court. The jury found the Decks not guilty. Hearing the case was Judge David Davis who Lincoln would one day name to the U.S. Supreme Court.</p><p><strong>Autograph document signed</strong> a draft pleading completely in Lincoln’s hand Vermilion County Circuit Court October 1857 being the pleading informing the Court that Deck had previously been acquitted of the same offense. The name of the case was John Deck impleaded with Zachariah Deck ads vs Hezekiah Ballah and it was filed In Trespass. <em>“And the said defendant John Deck comes and defends the force and injury…and says plaintiff actio non fails to act when there is a duty to act because he defendant says he is not guilty in manner and form as is in the declaration alleged; and of this he puts himself upon the country etc. citizens in a court or jury. Moses & Drake & Lincoln p.d.â€</em></p><p>Lincoln adds below: <em>“And for further plea in this behalf defendant John Deck says plaintiff actio non because he says that heretofore to wit on the __ day of __ in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven at the county of Vermillion in the state of Illinois before Joseph Peters a Justice of the Peace of said county and before commencement of this suit said defendant John Deck in a suit against him by the plaintiff herein was lawfully judged to be not guilty of the same identical supposed trespass in this declaration mentioned and this he is ready to verify therefore he prays judgment etc. Moses & Drake & Lincoln p.d.â€</em> The case is listed at lawofficeofabrahamlincoln.org.</p><p>An interesting pleading where Lincoln’s client has already been acquitted of the same offense.</p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /></p> unknown
171962639/62640<p>original outline-colour copper engravings enhanced hand-colour. EXTREMELY RARE stunning World map in 2 sheets from the extensive multi-volume 'Atlas Historique' vol. 6 no. 30 p. 117; published by Chatelain Amsterdam. One of the most informative decorative and impressive maps centered on the Pacific available. Printed on four large sheets the overall map is of wall-chart proportions and a veritable pictorial encyclopaedia of the World including the Philippines; many famous voyagers' tracks/routes are indicated. A great example of early 18th Century craftsmanship! Condition: 1st sheet - folds as issued small tear on lower centrefold; 2nd sheet - folds as issued; due to imperfect printing the neatlines are not perfectly parallel neither horizontally nor vertically. Otherwise Excellent condition. References: Not in Quirino; Phillips 579; Goss Kartenkunst Taf. 7.5; Ders. North America map 52; Portinaro/Knirsch p. 216/7 all 3 with crude but col. image.; Tooley California No. 80; Tooley Early Maps of Australia No. 66; Wagner NW Coast America Nr. 511; Lowery No. 291 only Northern part; Lietz Insulae India Orientalis p. 132<br /><br /><br /><br /></p> Chatelain, Amsterdam.
1718ST16605bWashington D.C.: U. S. Government 17 July 1862. 445 x 565 mm. 17 3/4 x 22 1/2". 17 lines of engraved text in copperplate script with names and dates completed in a fine secretarial hand. <br/> Loose as issued in an archival mylar sleeve. ◆Neatly mended two-and-three-quarters-inch tear to one edge well away from text half inch slit to end of one fold three very short separations along two folds only one touching text otherwise A FINE FRESH SPECIMEN clean and bright the signature dark and clear the wax-and-white-paper seal intact.<br/> <br/> This is an excellent example of a presidential document with Lincoln's full signature and with that of his Secretary of State William Henry Seward 1801-72 remembered for negotiating the purchase of Alaska from Russia. The consul appointed in this document Jay Haziel Sherman of Vermont served in Charlottetown Prince Edward Island from 1861 to 1865. It is likely this appointee was Jahaziel Blossom Sherman 1801-65 son of pioneering steamship captain Jahaziel Sherman 1770-1844 and that his unusual Old Testament name was misspelled by the scribe who filled in the appointment form. The younger Sherman died in Nova Scotia in 1865. U. S. Government unknown
15887526At London Imprinted by William How for Thomas Gubbin and T. Newman 1588. 1588 4to. 10 85 2 87-151 leaves. Folding table 'A generall Table of the whole Booke'. Later calf panelled in blind with a two line roll and small corner tools. The spine with four raised bands and blind lines. Evidence of a lost label. The spine darkened and minor rubs on the edges and corners. Internally clean and tight with pinholes of worm to the final three leaves mostly marginal but affecting three letters of text on Rrii. Later signature E. Dawson on the front pastedown. Fraunce was a member of Philip Sidney's circle and all his writings were dedicated to members of that group. His writings were commended both by Thomas Nashe and by Francis Meres. In this work he follows the Ramist principles he also employed in other works providing literary examples to demonstrate principles of logic. Here however he expands the approach by using common law cases from Plowden and others. ESTC S102621 . At London, Imprinted by William How, for Thomas Gubbin, and T. Newman, hardcover
131044Patinated bronze cast of Abraham Lincoln by George Bissell one of only three commissioned by Ralph Newman for THE USS AL. Boldly signed by the artist in the back Geo. E. Bissell Sc. George Bissell was an important American sculptor working in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He produced two full length statues of Lincoln: one in Edinburgh and one in Clermont Iowa. According to the letter from Lincoln College Curator Paul Beaver the present item is one of three copies made from the school's original Bissell bronze bust of Lincoln by the Van Dyke Galleries of Chicago in the summer of 1989. One copy was presented to the USS Abraham Lincoln commissioned in 1989 one copy was sold to Mel Smith and the third to Barry and Louise Taper. In fine condition. The piece measures 25.5 inches in height. An exceptional piece. unknown
19445180Washington: National Defense Research Committee 1944. First edition. <p>First edition very rare of Wald's seminal invention of 'Sequential analysis' the "notion that in some sense it is economical to observe and analyze data sequentially rather than to observe and analyze a single sample of predetermined fixed size" DSB. It is here offered in the original 'restricted' reports; it was published four years later in his well-known book Sequential Analysis. "It was Wald in 1943 who first formulated mathematically and solved quite generally the problem of sequential tests of statistical hypotheses. He introduced the particular method of the sequential probability ratio test and with Wolfowitz 1948 showed its optimal properties" ibid.</p>. THE INVENTION OF SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS - THE ORIGINAL RESTRICTED REPORTS. <p>First edition very rare of Wald's seminal invention of 'Sequential analysis' developed while he was in charge of Columbia University's Statistical Research Group in response to the demand for more efficient methods of industrial quality control during World War II. It is here offered in the original 'restricted' reports; it was published four years later in his well-known book of the same title. "Wald's second major achievement in mathematical statistics is sequential analysis. The notion that in some sense it is economical to observe and analyze data sequentially rather than to observe and analyze a single sample of predetermined fixed size was not a new one. Intuitive support for this notion is immediate; if the evidence shown in sequentially unfolding data is sharply one-sided it seems reasonable to believe that the inquiry can be terminated early with lengthier inquiries reserved for those situations in which the issue at hand appears via the sequentially unfolding data to be in greater doubt. This notion and the partial mathematical formulation of it were to be found in the statistical literature; among those who dealt with it before Wald was Walter Bartky of Chicago and among Wald's contemporaries George Barnard working in England. But again it was Wald in 1943 who first formulated mathematically and solved quite generally the problem of sequential tests of statistical hypotheses. He introduced the particular method of the sequential probability ratio test and with Wolfowitz 1948 showed its optimal properties. He found operating characteristic and average sample number functions; he introduced if he did not completely solve the problem of sequential tests of composite hypotheses utilizing weight functions; and he began vital discussions of such basic topics as multivalued decisions and optimal sequential estimation. All this plus many special problems were gathered together in Sequential Analysis 1947 a book surprisingly easy to read less formal and more elementary in structure than his work on decision functions" DSB. No copies listed on ABPC/RBH.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>"Sequential analysis is the branch of statistics concerned with investigations in which the decision whether or not to stop at any stage depends on the observations previously made. The motivation for most sequential investigations is that when the ends achieved are measured against the costs incurred including the cost of making observations sequential designs are typically more efficient than non-sequential designs .</p> <br /> <br /> <p>"The term 'sequential' is occasionally extended to cover also investigations in which various aspects of the design may be changed according to the observations made. For example preliminary experience in an experiment may suggest changes in the treatments being compared; in a social survey a small pilot survey may lead to modifications in the design of the main investigation . In a sequential investigation observations must be examined either one by one as they are collected or at certain stages during collection. A sequential procedure might be desirable for various reasons. The investigator might wish to have an up-to-date record at any stage either for general information or because the appropriate sample size depends on quantities that he can estimate only from the data themselves. Alternatively he may have no intrinsic interest in the intermediate results but may be able to achieve economy in sample size by taking them into account. Three examples will illustrate these points:</p> <br /> <br /> <p>1 An investigator may wish to estimate to within 10 per cent the mean weekly expenditure on tobacco per household. In order to determine the sample size he would need an estimate of the variability of the expenditure from household to household and this might be obtainable only from the survey itself.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>2 A physician wishing to compare the effects of two drugs in the treatment of some disease may wish to stop the investigation if at some stage a convincing difference can already be demonstrated using the available data.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>3 A manufacturer carrying out inspection of batches of some product may be able to pass most of his batches with little inspection but may carryout further inspection of batches of doubtful quality. A given degree of discrimination between good and bad batches could be achieved in various ways but a sequential scheme will often be more economical than one in which a sample of constant size is taken from each batch </p> <br /> <br /> <p>"The most appropriate design and method of analysis of a sequential investigation depend on the purpose of the investigation. The statistical formulation of that purpose may take one of a number of forms usually either estimation of some quantity to a given degree of precision or testing a hypothesis with given size and given power against a given alternative hypothesis. Economy in number of observations is typically important for sequential design" International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>"The problem of sequential analysis arose in the Statistical Research Group of Columbia University in connection with some comments made by Captain G. L. Schuyler of the Bureau of Ordnance Navy Department. Milton Friedman and W. Allen Wallis recognized the great potentialities and the far-reaching consequences that sequential analysis might have for the further development of theoretical statistics. In particular they conjectured that a sequential test procedure might be constructed which would control the possible errors committed by wrong decisions exactly to the same extent as the best current procedure based on a predetermined number of observations and at the same time would require on the average a substantially smaller number of observations than the fixed number of observations needed for the current procedure. Friedman and Wallis also exhibited a few examples of sequential modifications of current test procedures resulting in some cases in an increase of efficiency. It was at this stage that they proposed the problem of sequential analysis to the author i.e. Wald. This gave the incentive for the author's investigations which then led to the development of the sequential probability ratio test. </p> <br /> <br /> <p>"Because of the usefulness of the sequential probability ratio test in development work on military and naval equipment it was classified Restricted within the meaning of the Espionage Act. The author was requested to submit his findings in a restricted report dated September 1943. In this report the sequential probability ratio test and the basic theory is given. To facilitate the use of this new technique by the Army and the Navy the Statistical Research Group issued a second report in July 1944 which gives an elementary non-mathematical exposition of the applications of the sequential probability ratio test and contains a considerable number of tables charts and computational simplifications to facilitate applications" Wald pp. 2-3.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>The 10 parts are as follows:</p> <br /> <br /> <p>Sequential analysis of statistical data: Theory September 1943.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>Sequential tests of statistical significance April 1944.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>Applications 15 July 1944:</p> <br /> <br /> <p>Sequential analysis in inspection and experimentation Introduction Section 1;</p> <br /> <br /> <p>Sequential analysis when the result of a single observation is a classification as good or bad and when the result of the test is acceptance or rejection Section 2;</p> <br /> <br /> <p>Sequential analysis when the result of a single observation is a classification as good or bad and when the result of the test is a decision between two methods or products Section 3;</p> <br/> <br/> First report: Small 4to 230 x 180 mm original printed wrappers. Upper right corner with a slight bump. Previous owners initials to front wrapper W.L.D. Stamped RESTRICTED. IX 1179 3: blank pp. Second report: 8vo 244 x 153 mm. Original printed wrappers fine. 10 2: blank pp. Third report: Large 4to 285 x 220 mm. Original ring binder containing the six sections in original printed wrappers together with the two appendicies aslo in wrappers: S1:VIII16; S2:II22; S3:II22; S4:II22; S5:II18; S6:II18; A1:II14; A2:II22 pp. In very good condition. Also included is the mimiographed distribution list of the third report: 1 sheet typescript printed on both sides. All three reports are in the rare original issue with the text: "This document contains information affecting the national defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Act 50 U.S.C. 31 and 32 as amended. Its transmission or the revelation of its contents in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law". OCLC lists 8 copies of the first report 1 of the second National Institute of Standards and Technology and the third report is not located in any library. National Defense Research Committee unknown
BB17Venetia Per Scipion Banca 1667.<p>16mo 133 x 93 mm of 4 ll. 232 pp. 8 ll. 108 full-page engraved maps.</p><p><b>Bound in contemporary stiff vellum. Handwritten exlibris on the half-title: " </b><i><b>Bibliotheca Neorelli</b></i><b> "</b>.</p><p>Italian pocket-edition of Ortelius' atlas illustrated with 108 full-page engraved maps.</p><p>Philips 478 ; Tooley 31.</p><p>" <i>The commercial success of the pocket-atlas was considerable. It was translated into French and Latin now in prose and was reprinted several times long after Pieter Heyns had moved into the Netherlands together with his son Zacharias in 1588. In the year of Pieter Heyn's death 1598 his son Zacharias then living in Amsterdam repeated the successful best-seller of his father by publishing another Miroir du Monde using woodcut</i>". Koeman.</p><p>The illustration contains a world map and the continents' maps: Europe Asia Africa and America. The 103 other maps represent each country for which a note has been written on the opposite page.</p><p>The first edition in Italian was printed in 1608. </p><p><b>A charming copy preserved in its contemporary vellum binding.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><u>French</u></p><p>Venetia Per Scipion Banca 1667.</p><p>In-16 de 4 ff. 232 pp. 8 ff. 108 cartes gravées à pleine page. </p><p>Relié en vélin rigide de l'époque. Ex libris manuscrit sur le faux titre : " <i>Bibliotheca Neorelli</i> ".</p><p>133 x 93 mm.</p><p><b>Edition de poche italienne de l'atlas d'Ortelius ornée de 108 cartes gravées à pleine page.</b></p><p>Philips 478 ; Tooley 31.</p><p>" <i>The commercial success of the pocket-atlas was considerable. It was translated into French and Latin now in prose and was reprinted several times long after Pieter Heyns had moved into the Netherlands together with his son Zacharias in 1588. In the year of Pieter Heyn's death 1598 his son Zacharias then living in Amsterdam repeated the successful best-seller of his father by publishing another Miroir du Monde using woodcut</i>". Koeman.</p><p>L'illustration s'ouvre sur une carte du monde et se poursuit avec les cartes des continents : l'Europe l'Asie l'Afrique et l'Amérique. Les 103 autres cartes représentent chacun des pays pour lesquels une notice a été rédigée en regard.</p><p>La première édition en italien fut imprimée en 1608. </p><p><b>Seduisant exemplaire conservé dans sa reliure en vélin de l'époque.</b></p> hardcover
173741768London: Chez Jean Brindley Libraire de S. A. R. Monseigeur le Prince de Galles dans New Bond-street 1737. Folio. 20 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches. Second edition deluxe large paper issue with wide margins. 43 double-page engravings after Abraham van Diepenbeke including 42 numbered 1-42 and the unnumbered 1658 title with Anvers imprint. Engraved head-piece to first dedication. Numerous woodcut illustrations throughout the text and woodcut historiated and inhabited initials head- and tail-pieces and printer's ornaments. 12 1-236. 248 pp. Letterpress title with London imprint and four dedications to Henriette Cavendishe-Holles the King of Grande-Bretagne Charles Vicomte de Mansfield and to Cavaliers. Avertissement avant-propos four livres plus an Abbrege de la Cavalerie conclusion additions table des chapitres. With incisive manuscript commentary pencilled in the margins in both French and English. Text in French. Bound to style in eighteenth-century half leather over eighteenth-century comb marbled paper-covered boards and marbled endpapers<br/> <br/> Deluxe large paper issue of Cavendish's classic 1737 treatise on equestrianism with 43 splendid double-page engravings: "The illustrations are among the most beautiful to ever grace equestrian literature." Ramsay<br/> <br/> Though considered a country of horse lovers England only produced one early master of classical riding: William Cavendish Duke of Newcastle who was a Royalist living in exile until the restoration of King Charles II. During his exile Cavendish opened a riding school in Belgium and wrote the present work La Méthode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux. This text was the first of Cavendish's two important books on breeding and training horses and was translated into French from his English manuscript and published in Antwerp in two issues: 1657 and 1658 though many of the 1657 title-pages have been altered by hand to read 1658. The first printing was largely incinerated by a fire in the bookseller's shop and is all but impossible to acquire. Brunet Offered here is the deluxe large paper issue of the second edition of Cavendish's first book a work long cherished by bibliophiles for its typographical excellence and the masterful quality of its illustrations. It is a work that has been esteemed by countless generations of horsemen and revered by such master riders as La Guérinière Comte d'Aure and Steinbrecht. It is a landmark of equestrianism. Steinkraus Cavendish's book has been called the only really outstanding work on the subject written by an Englishman. Toole-Stott In it Cavendish discusses a wide variety of equine subjects including the recognition of the age and disposition of a horse; the characteristics of various types of horses such as the Spanish the Barb the English horse and the Arabian; methods of maintenance; and instructions on proper riding: "You must in all Airs follow the strength spirit and disposition of the horse and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order and nothing else." Of the 43 wonderful double-page engraved plates after Abraham van Diepenbeke 24 depict the multiple stages Cavendish and his assistant Captain Mazin employed in training horses in complicated maneuvers. The quality of the impressions in the present 1737 edition surpasses even those of the original edition. Steinkraus This was the first edition of La Méthode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux to be published in England with engravings pulled from the original 1658 copperplates which were acquired by the publisher Jean Brindley.<br/> <br/> Brunet I 1700. Graesse II 93. Huth 23. Lowndes 1663. Mennessier de la Lance II p. 250. Nissen ZBI 848. Podeschi Mellon Books on the Horse and Horsemanship pp. 26 49. Ramsay "Early Dressage Literature to 1800" IOBA 6.9.03. Steinkraus Introduction to A General System of Horsemanship 2000. Toole-Stott Circus and the Allied Arts: A World Bibliography 84. Wing N884-87. Chez Jean Brindley, Libraire de S. A. R. Monseigeur le Prince de Galles, dans New Bond-street unknown
161918555<p>Very Good HC. Text in Dutch blackletter; tekst in het Nederlands gotisch. Full contemporary vellum; untitled; raised bands on spine; red edges; 50 numbered full page copperplate engravings of Christian eremite saints 25 male 25 female printed recto with text pages verso; full page frontispiece for work as well as full page frontispiece for female section. Vellum in very good condition with some handling discoloration remains supple; ties at cover fore edges lacking; tightly bound; few pencil notes on front pastedown; without free end papers; lacking frontispiece for male section leaf A!; facsimile laid in; few leaves with light damp stains or soiling mostly in margins otherwise light and clean interior; one leaf B3 with large chip at top fore corner not affecting portrait but with some text missing from marginal notation on verso see photo; all leaves remain supple. 25 x 18 cm; 51 text pages; 50 numbered plates 2 frontispiece plates; in 4s. Ref OCLC #901301549.</p> Hantvverpen (Antwerp): Hieronymus Verdussen hardcover
17275737The Hague 1727. Folio. Rutgert Christoffel Alberts vols. 1-3 and Isaac van der Kloot vols. 3-4; Amsterdam Hermannus Uytwerf; Rotterdam Jan Daniel Beman Contemporary gold tooled mottled brown calf with red and black morocco title and volume labels lettered in gold each volume with a central lozenge-shaped ornament on both boards surrounded by two decorative borders gold tooled board edges marbled edges. With an engraved frontispiece 8 title-pages 6 in red and black each with one of 3 different engraved vignettes plus 3 part-titles with a woodcut decoration 224 full-page engraved plates including 1 folding and 38 double-page plates an engraving on the dedication leaf in vol. 1 and a few engravings in the text. Further with several engraved headpieces woodcut tailpieces and a few woodcut decorated initials. 6 volumes vols. 3 4 & 6 in 2 parts each bound as 7. First Dutch edition of Picart's famous and richly illustrated work on religious customs ceremonies and costumes from all over the world. With its six volumes it is the most sumptuous publication ever on the religions of the world richly and beautifully illustrated with large and sometimes double-page or even folding engraved plates by the French engraver Bernard Picart 1673-1733 who lived in Amsterdam from 1708. The text was compiled from a wide range of sources including R. Simon J. Abbadie Dupin Thiers P. le Brun Boulainvilliers and Reland and edited by the Amsterdam publisher Jean Frederic Bernard for a French edition titled Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous le peuples du monde first published in 1723. It was translated into Dutch for the present edition by Abraham Moubach.The first two volumes discuss the religion of the Jews and Roman Catholics including a double-page engraving of the interior of the Portuguese synagoge in Amsterdam. The third and fourth volume deal with the religions of the "heathens" in the Americas including Mexico India Ceylon the Brahmans in India China Japan Africa and the Persians in Iran. The fifth volume concerns the Greek orthodox church and the several groups of Protestants. The last volume describes the Anglicans and smaller groups such as Quakers Mennonites Adamites Freemasons and finally Islam. Altogether the most important 18th-century survey work on the world's religions and their customs lavishly illustrated with very finely executed plates.From the library of Frederick H. Rindge 1859-1905. The boards are somewhat rubbed. The works are slightly browned and foxed throughout with the final leaves of volume 3 affected more than the others. Otherwise in good condition.l Alt-Japan-Katalog 1149; STCN 191420778; cf. Cordier Japonica col. 435; Lipperheide 1808; Sabin 62600 all French ed. hardcover
1954250317003New York: Harper & Brothers 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. <br /> <br /> Motivation and Personality by Abraham Maslow. <br /> <br /> Finding signed documentation of any kind by Maslow is quite rare. Only a few signed copies of his publications are known. There are no other signed copies of this book Maslow's most important work listed for sale anywhere in the world and no record of a signed copy being sold in the auction record.<br /> <br /> OVERALL condition: VERY GOOD<br /> <br /> IMPORTANCE<br /> <br /> Motivation and Personality is one of the most influential and important psychology books ever written. It is a seminal work on the subject of the nature of human fulfillment and the significance of personal relationships implementing a conceptualization of self-actualization. Underachievers have a need for social love and affection but a self-actualized person has these "lower" needs to be gratified and is able to pursue his or her own path towards self-actualization.<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR & HIS WORK<br /> <br /> Maslow's book is perhaps the best-known contemporary work on human needs. Maslow postulated a hierarchy of human needs stretching from basic physical needs at the bottom to spiritual or transcendental needs at the top. In Motivation and Personality Maslow argues that in order for individuals to thrive and excel a health-fostering culture must be created. Maslow is among the psychological theorists who believe that when parents fail to provide a safe nurturing environment their children will develop deep feelings of insecurity. Maslow believes that well-being causes people to freely express their inherent potentials. Maslow is most known for his belief that humans possess a hierarchy of needs. While he had been working on this theory and other ideas explored in this book since the late 1930s he first proposed his hierarchy of needs in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" in the journal Psychological Review. The theory is a classification system intended to reflect the universal needs of society as its base then proceeding to more acquired emotions. The hierarchy is split between deficiency needs and growth needs with two key themes involved within the theory being individualism and the prioritization of needs. Maslow's hierarchy of needs is often portrayed in the shape of a pyramid with the largest most fundamental needs at the bottom and the need for self-actualization and transcendence at the top. However Maslow himself never created a pyramid to represent the hierarchy of needs.<br /> <br /> BOOK INFO<br /> <br /> Published in 1954 by Harper & Brothers in New York City. First edition early printing. Inscribed by the author in graphite on the FFEP "To the Fanciest Taxi-driver/ A H Maslow." In original brown cloth covered boards with black lettering and design work on the spine. xiv 411 pp including Appendix and Bibliography. <br /> <br /> The book is in GOOD to VERY GOOD vintage condition. Partially erased pencil writing on a few pages and about half a dozen pages with areas of ink underlining. The cloth is unfaded with a few spots of soiling on back cover. Firm binding. Former owner name in ink on FFEP. Rubbing to extremities and one bumped corner. Harper & Brothers hardcover
18771812Grand-Saconnex Schweiz: Selbstverlag 1877. First edition. In publisher’s wrappers. Collection stamp and shelfmarks written in ink and pencil on the cover and the title-page. Distributor’s stamp on the cover. With traces of folding. Cover slightly dusted. Pages yellowed due to ageing. First five leaves with minor damage to the lower corners. Overall in fine condition. First edition. In publisher’s wrappers. 24 p. <p><br /> Scarce pamphlet reflecting on the debate on early Marxist communism countering Engels for Anti-Dühring.<br /> <p><p><br /> First and only edition of the socialist theorist Abraham Enss’ pamphlet in which he criticises Marx and his followers for “doing humbug with socialism†and virulently defending Dühring from Engels’ “pseudoscientific†diatribes on him. Since the editors of Berliner Freie Presse refused to accept his writing Enss self-published his open letter dated to February 4 1877 and supplemented by two postscripts dated to March 1 and March 18 respectively in the present pamphlet in Switzerland. In response to the appearance of his writings Engels called Enss the “Sancho Panza†of Dühring who he referred to as “modern Don Quixote†while Liebknecht wrote in his letters to Engels that “Enß is stupid and will soon go to the madhouse†and that he is “generally regarded as a donkey even an idiotâ€.<br /> <p><p><br /> Abraham Enss was a follower and friend of Eugen Dühring. From 1887 he edited Der Antikrat a Dühringian paper with anti-Semitic tendencies which appeared with the subtitle Gegen Parteigewalt und Hebräer-Einfluß. Für selbständige Geistesführung und sociale Gerechtigkeit. Against Party Violence and Hebrew Influence. For Independent Spiritual Leadership and Social Justice.<br /> <p><p><br /> Scarce WorldCat locates only one copy in institutional holding in the US in the Columbia University Library in New York. <br /> <p><p><br /> Literature: Engels F.; Marx K.: Marx & Engels Collected Works. Volume 25. London: Lawrence & Wishart 1987. p. 298.; Firedlaender B.: Der freiheitliche Sozialismus: im Gegensatz zum Staatsknechtsthum der Marxisten. Mit besonderere Berücksichtigung der Werke und Schicksale Eugen Dühring’s. Berlin: Freie Verlagsanschaft 1892. p. 71; Gay J.: The Blind Prometheus of German Social Science. Eugen Dühring as Philosopher Economist and Controversial Social Critic. Universität Erfurt 2012.; Liebknecht W.: Briefwechsel mit Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 2020. pp. 212–214.; Nettlau M.: Bibliographie de l’anarchie. Année 1897. — N° 8. Bruxelles: Bibliothèque des Temps Nouveaux 1897. p. 41.<br /> <p>. Selbstverlag unknown
1730153282London: J. Tonson and J. Watts 1730. Binomial expansion First edition containing Moivre's first published attempt at approximating the terms of a binomial expansion. "Moivre's discovery greatly clarified the concept of probability in his own time and became the most fruitful single instrument of discovery used in probability theory and statistics for the next two centuries" Norman. Quarto 243 x 191 mm. Contemporary calf red morocco label red speckled edges. 18th-century armorial bookplate of Thomas Turton to front pastedown. Neat restoration to joints and extremities some scratches to covers light running staining in gutter and at head contents otherwise unmarked. A very good copy. ESTC T96683; Norman 1531. unknown
172891I90T01U79OAmsterdam 1728. Leonardus Schenk Framed 82.5 x 121 cm. Large engraved wall print on 2 sheets together 57.5 x 97 cm showing the Leiden city wall between the Koepoort and Zijlpoort with various windmills and prominent buildings in the background identified by name. The title appears in a banderole at the head with putti on either side holding the arms of Leiden and Holland. Leonardus Schenk's name appears as engraver and publisher at the right end of the banderole. Large view of the city of Leiden by the Amsterdam engraver and publisher Leonardus Schenk. The viewer observes the city from the south from between the city's Koe and Zijl gates. In the background several windmills and a few characteristic buildings are identified by name in the engraving including the university the library the Pieterskerk the Town Hall the Mare kerk the "Burcht" the fort and the Hooglandse kerk. On the quay outside the wall groups of people walk sporadically passed by small boats on the nearby city moat. In the foreground we see a typical Dutch landscape with grazing cattle farm workers a loaded hay cart and haystacks in the field. We know of several other wall prints by Schenk depicting local situations with almost photographic detail. Thanks to this detail important socio-historical aspects have been passed on to later generations giving these prints an important cultural meaning today. A few spots formerly folded otherwise in very good condition.l Overvoorde Catalogus van de prentverzameling der Gemeente Leiden 1906 no. 640; Waller Biogr. woordenb. Noord Ned. graveurs p. 287. unknown
1728A2RGD4WT38YEAmsterdam: Leonardus Schenk 1728. In black passepartout and gilt frame 82 x 121 cm. Large engraved wall print on 2 sheets together 58 x 97 cm the sheets overlapping each other slightly showing the traditional business centre of the city of Leiden. The title both in Dutch and French is printed in a banderole at the head with putti on each side supporting the arms of Leiden and Holland. Leonardus Schenk's name appears as engraver and publisher at the right tip of the banderole. A large engraved wall print in two sheets showing the trading and commercial centre of the city of Leiden at the convergence of the Oude Rijn and Nieuwe Rijn canals. Unlike most other Dutch towns Leiden had no central market square so that the waterways formed the major access routes for merchandise. On the banks of the canals there is a lively market that converges on the bridge central in the print. Market traders and customers come and go. Women from the coastal fishing villages of Katwijk and Noortwijk display fresh fish for sale. Right in the print we see the monumental "Waag" the weigh-house built in 1658 following a plan by the Dutch architect and engraver Pieter Post. The splendid relief designed by Rombout Verhulst that crowns the entrance is reproduced with a sharp eye for detail. In front of the building commercial goods are hoisted up from carts and a number of ships for transport to the weigh-house. Several other ships had moored and now continue to their destination. A boat flying the Dutch flag brings in a prominent party while a herald standing precariously at the bow trumpets for right of way. We know of several other wall prints by Schenk depicting local situations with almost photographic detail. Thanks to this detail important socio-historical aspects have been passed on to later generations giving these prints an important cultural meaning today. With some faint foxing otherwise in very good condition.l Overvoorde Catalogus van de prentverzameling der Gemeente Leiden 1906 no. 964; Waller Biogr. woordenb. Noord Ned. graveurs p. 287. Leonardus Schenk, unknown
1658ABC_47326Amsterdam 1658. Folio. Pieter Goos Contemporary vellum with a manuscript title on the spine. With a half-page engraving on the half-title a woodcut vignette on the title-page 6 folding engraved tables and numerous woodcut mathematical diagrams figures tables and other illustrations in the text. With woodcut tailpieces and woodcut decorated initials. 7 parts in 1 volume. 1 1 blank 8 39 1 blank; 2 4 45 1 blank 90 5-91 1 blank; 96; 86 2 blank; 39 1 blank; 60 18 2 blank; 96 7 1 blank pp. Rare first edition of Abraham de Graaf's mathematical work published for nautical experts studying navigation. The mathematical and astronomical theories are illustrated with countless woodcut diagrams and figures in the text and 6 additional folding engraved plates. Included are numerous incredibly detailed logarithmical and other mathematical tables mainly in the second book. "The tables are the first logarithmical tables in a Dutch navigation book. The tables are probably computed and computed and enlarged by Adriaen Vlacq and based on those of John Napier and Henry Briggs" Crone 210.The present work comprises 7 parts with individual title-pages each dated 1657 bound and published as one with two general title-pages and a comprehensive index. The subject of the "books" include for example: astronomy geometry calculations regarding compasses cartography concerning "paskaarten" a type of nautical chart and observation and navigation at sea.Binding browned and somewhat worn mainly the back board some mould spots on the pastedowns and flyleaves some light water staining to the head margin slight foxing throughout. With a tear in the 3rd and 4th folding plates. Overall in good condition.l Bibl. Nautica 2048; Cat. NHSM p. 666; Crone Library 210; STCN 09324195X 6 copies; WorldCat 1156962499 1 copy 993578800 1 copy 1154627661 8 copies; for the author: NNBW part 10 cols. 293-296. hardcover
