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5980157 leaves of text paginated 1-124 & 129-317 nothing seems lacking. Large 4to 318 x 215 mm cont. sheep-backed black cloth extremities slightly worn title in gilt on spine. S.l.: c. 1852. A finely written and illustrated manuscript with highly technical observations on French naval artillery training and testing in the mid-19th century which are complemented by numerous hand-drawn marginal diagrams and many tables. The present manuscript was composed by Floucaud de Fourcroy 1831-1929 a descendant of the famous chemist Antoine de Fourcroy as a cadet aboard the Uranie a former frigate converted into a training ship in 1851. By the end of his career Floucaud de Fourcroy was a highly decorated admiral and commander in the Legion of Honor. The present manuscript recapitulates the curriculum of naval artillery in the middle of the 19th century. It begins with a survey of weapons classifications artillery rifles swords pikes axes etc. and the situations in which to use them different types of ammunition and their purposes and the history of their development. There are then lengthy explanations of each weapon's size range reloading time effectiveness etc. Each of these is presented with precise measurements and dimensions. The author recounts the multitude of exercises which a cadet had to undergo and master in order to progress as a naval officer pp. 265-90. There are also extensive notes on his lessons in ballistics often accompanied by intricate diagrams and mathematical formulas. Pages 295-96 feature a section entitled in trans.: "Notes on the Practical Instruction which a Sailor-Gunner must Receive." The drawings in the margins many very complex illustrate the composition of ships weapons ammunition and instruments the trajectory of cannons and firearms the construction of equipment the optimal angles of attack the adjustments necessary to maintain accuracy while the ship is in motion etc. etc. On page 317 Floucaud de Fourcroy has drawn detailed cross-sections of five types of cannons. The tables concern the range of various cannons their effectiveness at specific ranges in terms of speed and their penetration the supply needs of cannons the number of cannons that can fit on a ship etc. A most interesting manuscript in fine condition that captures the state of French naval training and warfare in the middle of the 19th century. Pages 227-28 258-64 and 315-16 are blank. hardcover books
15846753Antwerp: Ortelius 1584. Map on thick paper measuring 8.75 x 7 in 22.25 x 17.75 cm in the image. Taken from the Theatrum orbis terrarum of Ortelius. One of the earliest maps of the kingdom of Huasteca or Guasteca present-day Tamaulipas originally printed on a single sheet with two other maps of Florida and Peru but here presented by itself alone. This is hand-colored with titles in Latin and ornate title cartouche. Very good. <br/><br/> Ortelius unknown books
1936019119Glendale CA: The Arthur H. Clark Co 1936. First Edition. Large Octavo. The editor has combined the manuscripts of Johnston Edwards and Ferguson into one work without making any changes to the text except punctuation and capitalization. All three men participated in the war against Mexico their occupation of New Mexico and California. They march from Sacramento and Missouri to take over this land for the United States under the leadership of General Stephen Watts Kearny and General A.W. Doniphan. Portrait frontispiece 368pp. folding map with an appendix containing muster roll of volunteers. Bound in maroon cloth spine lettering and top edge gilt uncut. A lovely nearly fine copy of this important historical event. The Arthur H. Clark Co unknown books
1970128965New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc 1970. Hardcover. VG- Pages have aged but consistently; plates are still vivid; front cover is slightly bowed; dj is near perfect. Crimson cloth boards with white stamped lettering maroon DJ with color illus. 328 pp. 315 illustrations 63 tipped-in in full color. In English. From the DJ: The more than 300 superb reproductions demonstrate Marini's mastery in bronze wood plaster stone cement and terra cotta as well as in oil tempera watercolor gouache ink and pastel. The illustrations also include some important documentary photographs of the artist at work and with family friends and colleagues. Harry N. Abrams, Inc hardcover books
194444278NY: Tudor 1944. Reprint. 8vo pp. 511. Chronology bibliography index. Brown cloth. VG. Biographies of fourteen Russian composers from Glinka to Scriabin. Tudor unknown books
1990Embry 180192The Classics of Medicine Library 1990. Fine. Full plumb leather decoratively gilt. Includes the "Notes from the Editor." The Classics of Medicine Library, 1990. hardcover books
199066460Birmingham:: Classics of Medicine Library. Near Fine. 1990. Hardcover. A specially bound facsimile reprint of the 1910 edition. Quarto bound in dark blue leather with gilt lettering and design raised bands along the spine all edges gilt marbled endpapers ribbon book mark. Previous owner's book-plate on front paste-down else near fine. ; 346 pages . Classics of Medicine Library, hardcover books
18661007628vo original dark brown pebbled and blindstamped cloth front cover decoratively lettered in gilt steel engraved frontispiece portrait of Lincoln 69 pp. Binding with some edge wear and chipping to spine missing about two inches of lower spine hinges a little weak but still firm ends and corners bumped a little soiling pencil signature of previous owner; else very good. George Bancroft who at one time was Secretary of the Navy deliverd this memorial address to both houses of Congress on February 12 1866. This pamphlet was also published in New York but that issue lacked the portrait. Sabin 3132 Government Printing Office hardcover books
190341285Washington: Government Printing Office 1903. 1st collected edition Monaghan 1402. Original publisher's pebbled brown cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to front board. TEG. Cloth somewhat dull. Some extremity wear. A VG copy. 246 pp. Each section prefaced with an engraved image of the slain president. Tissue guards. Small folio: 12-5/8" x 9-5/8" <br/><br/> Government Printing Office hardcover books
192741212Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Cervantes 1927. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good unopened uncut copy with darkened spine chipped at heel browned leaves. 378 pp. Sm. 8vo. Fanor Velasco V ed. Imprenta Cervantes unknown books
186236662Washington 1862. 37th Cong. 2d Sess. SED65. Broadsheet octavo. 2pp. Disbound else Very Good.<br/><br/> Lincoln refuses to mess with the currency believing that the proposed legislation would result in "the serious injury of honest trade and honest labor."<br/>Not in Monaghan. unknown books
1946UMERMET00KTAvon Book Company 1946. Very Good. Merritt A. Metal Monster. Merritt Abraham. New York: Avon Book Company 1946. Murder Mystery Monthly #41. 203pp. 12mo. Illustrated wrappers. Book condition: Very good. Minor wear to covers. Avon Book Company unknown books
9971n.p.: Golden Eagle Press. Near Fine. Hardcover. Strictures by Samuel Johnson. With sketches by Kurt Roesch. No statement of printing. A bit age darkened along the spine else near fine in a very good minor edge wear and rubbing slipcase. . Golden Eagle Press hardcover books
164886hardcover. 369pp. 12mo cloth; stain on back cover. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1963. Very good<br/><br/> unknown books
195215134New York: Dodd Mead 1952. 1st edition. Blue cloth binding. Dust jacket. VG/VG spine panel sunned/minor wear/old tape reinforcement on dj verso. 467 pp including index. Illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/> Dodd Mead hardcover books
198060059NY:: Sepher-Hermon Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0872030768 . Third corrected printing. Very good in a very good a bit faded along the spine price clipped dust jacket. . Sepher-Hermon Press, hardcover books
196680035Amsterdam The Netherlands: Erasmus Buchhandlung 1966. stiff paper wrappers cardboard slipcase. Miniature Books. miniature book 60 x 53 mm. stiff paper wrappers cardboard slipcase. 95 pages. Limited to 200 numbered copies of which this copy is in a lovely full leather and gilt binding with the original wrappers bound in. A charming little production with facsimles illustrations some color and 13 engraved exlibris of Gianni Mantero. Bookplate on front pastedown of the well-known miniature book collector Kalman Levitan. Front hinge showing moderate seperation. Gilt on spine faded else a bright unmarred copy. Erasmus Buchhandlung unknown books
186425614<p>The second in a series of four racist political cartoons published in 1864 by Bromley & Company which was closely affiliated with the Copperhead New York <i>World</i> newspaper. These prints sought to undermine Abraham Lincoln's chances for reelection by branding him as a "miscegenationist" and playing on white fears of "race-mixing." The cartoon scene pictures several interracial couples enjoying a day at the park eating ice cream discussing wedding plans and a woman's upcoming lecture. Two African American families have white employees a carriage driver and footmen and a babysitter.</p><p>The only other example traced at auction brought $7800 in 2010.</p> <b>ABRAHAM LINCOLN. RACISM.</b>Print. "Miscegenation or the Millennium of Abolitionism." Political Cartoon. New York: Bromley & Co. 1864. 1 p. 20¾ x 13â… in.<p><br /></p><p>American politics had long played on fears of sexual relationships between races. A powerful new word for "race-mixing" was coined in an anonymous December 1863 pamphlet entitled <i>Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races Applied to the American White Man and Negro</i> published in New York. Purporting to advocate the virtues of the "blending of the white and black races on this continent" it was a literary forgery prepared by <i>The World</i> managing editor David Goodman Croly and reporter George Wakeman. The authors were unsuccessful in their attempt to trick President Lincoln into endorsing the work.</p><p>At the far left of the image Abraham Lincoln declares "<i>I shall be proud to number among my intimate friends any member of the Squash family especially the little Squashes.</i>" The African American woman to whom he is speaking replies "<i>I'se 'quainted wid Missus Linkum I is washed far her 'fore de hebenly Miscegenation times was cum. Dont do nuffin now but gallevant 'round wid de white gem'men! he-ah! he-ah! he-ah!</i>"</p><p>Senator Charles Sumner says "<i>Mr. President! Allow me the honor of introducing my very dear friend Miss Dinah Arabella Aramintha Squash.</i>" A white carriage driver complains in the background "<i>Gla-a-ang there 240t! White driver white footmen niggers inside my heys! I wanted a situation when I took this one</i>" while a black man in the carriage tells his companion "<i>Phillis de_ah dars Sumner. We must not cut him if he is walking.</i>" A black woman at a table tells a white man with her "<i>Ah! Horace its-its-its-bully 'specially de cream</i>" and he replies "<i>Ah! my dear Miss Snowball we have at last reached our political and social Paradise. Isn't it extatic</i>"</p><p>To the right are two couples embracing each a white woman and an African American man. The first white women tells her partner "<i>Oh! You dear creature. I am so agitated! Go and ask Pa</i>" to which he replies "<i>Lubly Julia Anna name de day when Brodder Beecher shall make us one!</i>" The second white woman says "<i>Adolphus now you'll be sure to come to my lecture to morrow night won't you</i>" to which he answers "<i>I'll be there Honey on de front seat sure!</i>" In the background are various immigrant minorities viewing the scene. One exclaims "<i>Most hextwadinary! Aw neva witnessed the like in all me life if I did dem me!</i>" and another adds "<i>Mine Got vat a guntry vat a beebles!</i>" An Irish girl complains "<i>And is it to drag nagur babies that I left old Ireland Bad luck to me.</i>"</p><p>Manton Marble the editor of <i>The World</i> collaborated with printmaker Bromley & Company to issue a series of four anti-Lincoln "Political Caricatures." The present example was the No. 2 in that series. No. 1 was "The Grave of the Union or Major Jack Downing's Dream"; No. 3 "The Abolition Catastrophe Or the November Smash-up"; and No. 4 "The Miscegenation Ball."</p><p>Republicans responded by trying to turn the "miscegenation" charge against the Democrats. A Republican print "The Political "Siamese" Twins: The Offspring of Chicago Miscegenation" pictures McClellan and Pendleton joined together despite their very different ideas on ending the war.</p><p>Although Abraham Lincoln won New York states' electoral votes in 1860 Stephen Douglas had carried New York City and its environs. Financial elites fearing that civil war would ruin business and recent immigrants fearing competition with free black labor supported Douglas. Lincoln's unpopularity in New York City during the Civil War was a factor in the deadly 1863 Draft Riots.</p><p>In 1864 Lincoln again won the states' electoral votes while New York City favored his Democratic opponent McClellan. In fact Lincoln's majority dropped from 50136 votes in 1860 to only 7373 votes in 1864 with approximately 50000 more total votes cast than in 1860.</p><p>Bromley and Company continued to sell the caricatures after the election as this January 1865 advertisement from an Ohio newspaper makes clear. Another advertisement assured purchasers that the set of four prints available for $1 were "sent on wooden rollers to insure safe carriage."</p><p><b><i>The World</i></b> 1860-1931 a daily independent newspaper was published in New York City. Alexander Cummings founded it as a religious Republican outlet in 1860. August Belmont and others purchased it in 1862 changing the editorial focus. With editor Manton Marble 1834-1917 <i>The World</i> soon became the country's leading Democratic newspaper. In 1864 Union authorities shut down <i>The World</i>and another paper for three days after they published forged documents purportedly written by Lincoln that were really part of a hoax to manipulate the price of gold. The paper actively supported George B. McClellan against Lincoln in 1864.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Fine for exhibit despite flaws. Cropped with loss of "Political Caricature No. 2" from top edge and part of printed pricing information from bottom edge publisher's name rubbed out from the copyright statement lacking ½" from lower left corners a few short tape repairs by the edges a 2" closed tear through the second dialogue bubble along the top edge and a 3" closed tear parallel to the right edge. Mount remnants on verso.</p> books
3499Several woodcut diagrams in the text. 6 p.l. 250 pp. one leaf of errata. Large 4to cont. calf two corners a bit worn double gilt fillet round sides spine gilt morocco lettering piece on spine. London: J. Tonson & J. Watts 1730. bound with: -. Drop-title: Miscellaneis Analyticis Supplementum. 22 pp. one leaf of errata. N.p.: n.d. First edition of the de Moivre's "most important book" D.N.B. here bound with the rare Supplementum which is very often missing. The Miscellanea Analytica is the successor to The Doctrine of Chances and contains the first formulation of "De Moivre's Theorem" the formula for determining a normal approximation to a binomial distribution. This became "the most fruitful single instrument of discovery used in probability theory and statistics for the next two centuries."-D.S.B. IX pp. 452-53. The Supplementum was published by de Moivre to answer criticisms made by James Stirling after the appearance of the Miscellanea. A very nice copy from the library of Haskell F. Norman with his bookplate. ❧ Stigler The History of Statistics pp. 70-77. unknown books
1710precDisbound quarto; 15 x 23 cm; xii 56 pages; worn and soiled; blindstamp of Chicago Theological Seminary on title page.<br /><i>Seder Mitzvot Nashim</i> The Order of Women's Precepts by Benjamin Aaron ben Abraham Slonik of Grodno c. 1550–c. 1619 translated into Italian by Jacob ben Elhanan Heilbronn in 1614; this copy printed in Venice 1710. <br /><br />A practical and fairly sympathetic guide to women's ritual obligation first published in Yiddish in Cracow 1577 in Italian in Padua 1616. This was probably the most popular of the rabbinical guides to a woman's three ritual obligations: 1 the taking of a piece of dough before baking bread 2 the lighting of lights on the eve of the Sabbath and festivals and 3 observing the various rules of ritual purity during and after menstruation. It went through numerous editions in Yiddish and Italian through 1750. OCLC locates ten copies of this edition.<br /> Gioanni de'Paoli. Nella Stamparia Bragadina books
19761312380New York: Schenkman Publishing Company John Wiley & Sons 1976. Hardcover. Octavo; VG/VG-Hardcover; Black spine with white text; Heavy shelf wear and age to dust jacket white spotting age spots rubbing fading and fraying along sides and edges 3 inch tear at spine head age tone spotting along jacket flaps; Light shelf wear to boards which are strong and clean binding slightly cocked age toning spots to free end pages; Minor spots along text block exterior text block clean; 222 pp. 1312380. FP New Rockville Stock. Schenkman Publishing Company, John Wiley & Sons hardcover books
1952142845Springfield MA: George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum 1952. Softcover. Fine interior; covers solid and clean but with sunning and foxing. Cream stapled wraps with bw illustration and black lettering. 8 pp. with no illus. Catalogue from the exhibition of October 5-29 1952. Introductory text about modern German art the Blue Rider group etc. by the collection's owner Abraham Kamberg and comments by M. Louise Lochridge the museum's director. A catalogue of more than 100 prints by 52 artists listed in alphabetical order. George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum paperback books
1954142846Worcester MA: Worcester Art Museum 1954. Softcover. Fine interior; covers solid and clean but with sunning and foxing. Cream stapled wraps with bw illustration and black lettering. 8 pp. with no illus. Catalogue from the exhibition of May 16 - October 13 1954. Introductory text about modern German art the Blue Rider group etc. by the collection's owner Abraham Kamberg and comments by George L. Stout the museum's director. A catalogue of more than 100 prints by 59 artists listed in alphabetical order. Worcester Art Museum paperback books
2014020710Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. White boards are in very good condition. Title in green on spine. Bottom edge of front board has a ¼ closed tear minor soiling on edges. Mylar wrapped dust jacket is in very good condition. "This thoughtful study is the first book to explore the lake's environmental and cultural history." ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 168 pp . University of New Mexico Press hardcover books
1979WRCLIT60364Los Angeles: Frank Yablans Presentations in Association with Twentieth Century-Fox 1979. 1156 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in printed production company/studio wrappers. Near fine. A quite early "third" draft of Mayes's adaptation to the screen of Jack-Alain Léger's novel. The script for the 1982 film release directed by Frank Perry was credited on screen to Mayes. In spite of that many many subsequent drafts bear Abraham Polonsky's name exclusively. This draft differs markedly from the several Polonsky drafts that we have examined the earliest dating from October of 1979. This was the last film with which Polonsky was associated as screenwriter though to what degree it was a collaborative effort is unclear. As screenwriter for BODY AND SOUL 1947 and writer/director of FORCE OF EVIL 1948 Polonsky was well on his way toward a distinguished career in film when he was blacklisted and fired by Fox for refusing to cooperate with HUAC. He continued to work during the Blacklist either uncredited or pseudonymously and in 1996 the Writers Guild restored his real name and credits. Frank Yablans Presentations in Association with Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
