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1873124442c.1873-78. An early family photographic portrait in the tintype medium showing the publisher Abraham Judah Lev with his wife and children. Lev 1834-1901 was born in Russian Poland and came to England at age 19. Raised Jewish he converted to Christianity in 1854 and in 1863 set up as a printer and publisher in Whitechapel. His publications most notably the periodical The Everlasting Nation sought to convert other Jews to Christianity. Included is a document by the great-great-great-grandson of Lev noting the family history and biographical details of Lev. Tintypes are a direct positive photograph printed on a thin sheet of metal and coated with lacquer. They were invented in the 1850s and during the 1860s and 1870s were among the most popular mediums for private portraiture. They were favoured for their sturdiness unlike other mediums they did not need mounting and were relatively cheap and easy to produce. Tintype 82 x 70 mm. Faded and tarnished one face obscured but image still distinct. In good condition. unknown
187485651Berne : Librairie J. Dalp 1874. 190x130mm. frontispice chromolitho xylographies hors texte 2 cartes dpl. reliure d'diteur. Cartonnage illustr dos et coins toil rouge bord du dos fendu sur le plat infrieur. 256 Librairie J. Dalp 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
1898432451898. Autorisirte deutsche Ausgabe der zweiten Auflage von O. Reunert. - Berlin Verlag von Julius Springer 1898 8° XII 477 1 pp. orig. geprägter Leinenband; St.a.Tit. First German Edition! Abraham Jacobi830-1919 was the first in the United States to specialize in the teaching of paediatrics and in 1862 founded the first paediatric clinic there in New York. unknown
183346405Berlin G. Reimer 1833. 4to. In "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik 1848.". Entire issue offered in the original printed wrappers without backstrip. Fine and clean. Entire volume: 392 pp. <br/><br/><em>First printing of Stern's important papers on continued fractions which is the first systematic summary of the theory.As a professor at Göttingen University Stern taught Bernhard Riemann along with Gauss. Stern also helped Ferdinand Eisenstein in formulating a proof of the quadratic reciprocity theorem. </em> unknown
1817NF3108THE YOUNG MAN OF HONOUR'S VADE-MECUM BEING A SALUTARY TREATISE ON DUELLING TOGETHER WITH THE ANNALS OF CHIVALRY THE ORDEAL TRIAL AND JUDICIAL COMBAT FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES C. Chapple N.d. but 1817 first edition previous owners name on verso of f.e.p. and title page some wear to the fore edge corner tips and a bit of wear also to the cover edges some wear to the spine else a good to very good copy in what appears to be the publishers original binding of plain brown boards and blotched red cloth spine. Rare with only one copy showing up at the major auction venues after 1974. C. Chapple hardcover
1809035313London. : Printed for John Sharpe. 1809. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fair. Upper board of vol. I is detached. Original publishers casing and printed paper labels to spines. Slightly foxed. Uncut pages. 'New Edition' printed for John Sharpe 1809 London. 'Pointing out the pieces selected by Richard Hurd and including his Lordship's notes and Dr. Johnson's life of the author'. 12mo. 7". <br/> <br/> Printed for John Sharpe. hardcover
1809980Z39London: John Sharpe 1809. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5". None stated. The works of the seventeenth century English poet and author Abraham Cowley including Samuel Johnson's biography on the author bound in three volumes in modern half calf. A new edition pointing out the pieces selected by Richard Hurd and including his Lordship's notes and including Dr. Johnson's 'Life of the Author'. Bound in later half calf with marbled paper to the boards. Endpapers and blanks renewed.Illustrated with engraved title pages. A collection of works from the prominent seventeenth century English poet and essayist Abraham Cowley. This set includes his essays on topics such as liberty agriculture the danger of procrastination and his collections of love verses titled 'The Mistress' and other poetical works. A three volume complete set. Bound in later half calf with marbled paper to the boards. Endpapers and blanks renewed. Externally lightly rubbed to the boards with corners of marbled paper lifting with small closed tears to the rear board of vol II. Hinges re-enforced. Internally firmly bound with bright pages with spotting to the fronts and rears otherwise generally clean. Small tidemark to the engraved title page to vol III. Very Good Indeed John Sharpe hardcover
1900mon0000188131Funk & Wagnalls company 1900-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual markings. Hardback/Hardcover. Clean copy in good condition. Damaged dust cover. Funk & Wagnalls company hardcover
180360643Leominster Massachusetts:: by Adams & Wilder for Isaiah Thomas Jun. 1803. old full leather overlaid with an old sheep covering. . Free endpapers lacking front and rear; horizontal tear across the title page repaired with clear tape which has discolored; some moderate staining; binding very worn. 12mo. by Adams & Wilder for Isaiah Thomas, Jun., hardcover
186412394Philadelphia: Union League of Philadelphia 1864. FIRST EDITION. Wrappers disbound; light soiling and toning. First edition of this scarce pamphlet published during the 1864 elections in support of re-electing Lincoln as President. Monaghan 359. [Union League of Philadelphia] unknown
1895054951Westminster London: A. Constable 1895. Second Edition . Soft cover. Good Plus. WESTMINSTER : 1895. The Acme Library . First published in 1894. This is the first British and first published edition. Preceded by a handful of copies printed in New York in late 1894 by Theo. L. De Vinne & Co. to secure American copyright. The second book in this Acme Library series. Grey printed paper covers. Tight bright and clean. Neat contemporary owner name; no internal markings. Minor wear and a couple of neat repairs. GOOD; internally VERY GOOD. ix 165 pages. 8pp adverts to rear. ABRAHAM STOKER 8 November 1847 - 20 April 1912 was an Irish author who wrote the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the West End's Lyceum Theatre which Irving owned. In his early years Stoker worked as a theatre critic for an Irish newspaper and wrote stories as well as commentaries. He also enjoyed travelling particularly to Cruden Bay in Scotland where he set two of his novels. During another visit to the English coastal town of Whitby Stoker drew inspiration for writing Dracula. He died on 20 April 1912 due to locomotor ataxia and was cremated in north London. Since his death his magnum opus Dracula has become one of the best-known works in English literature and the novel has been adapted for numerous films short stories and plays. Sm.8vo. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books Cumberland Everyman Keswick Inklings Literature MacDonald Rarities Theology and History. SCARCE. <br/> <br/> A. Constable paperback
186482099New York:: National Union Executive Committee 1864. Creased where folded vertically and multiple times horizontally; some minor use to edges and a few tiny losses at folds; very attractive. . 11-1/2 x 8-3/4 inches. A Lincoln re-election broadside setting forth in detail and contrasting The Chicago Platform proposing "immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities" and The Baltimore Platform "quelling by force of arms the rebellion." National Union Executive Committee, unknown
186431724New York: The American News Co 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 11; 72 pages; 5. Original wraps with covers rebound in Gray paper covered boards with blue cloth spine. Gilt title "Almanac" on the upper spine. "J E Boos" in gilt letters stamped on lower spine. Light scattered foxing and toning to the contents. <br /> <br /> Bound with the Almanac preceding the front wrap is an essay titled: "An Old House Near An Old Dead Canal" by J. E. Boos Albany New York 1931. Following the last page of the Almanac are 5 bound in additional leaves of which 3 are blank. A receipt dated July 27th 1879 is pasted down on one of the pages for Adam Van Vraken donation of $66 to the poor. Another page has a pasted down blank Justice of the Peace form printed by "Websters & Skinners at their bookstore in the White House corner of State & Pearl Streets Albany". <br /> <br /> The essay in front contains 6 typed one-sided pages 3 photograph plates and one pasted down photograph of an old house Vranken's house. Page 1 of the narrative has a small circle photograph in the body of the text. Photograph plates include a floral arrangement frontispiece; The First Bridge between Schenectady and Scotia; and Some Horace Greeley 1872 Campaign Pins. <br /> <br /> In his short narrative Boos recounts a visit to the abandoned house that once belonged to Adam Van Vranken. He writes about the condition of dilapidated house describing plaster on the floors the roof falling in scattered toys and pieces of clothing a torn Courier and Ives print wreck of a Boston Rocker a paper box holding locks of children's hair papers scattered about and much more. He takes the Almanac as a souvenir: "I picked from under a pile an old Almanac that had been printed by the White Coated Philosopher Horace Greeley. I decided to carry it away before wet and mold caught up with it because it was sold when Abraham Lincoln was President in the year of his second inaugural and at the time of the ending of the Civil War." <br /> <br /> "J. E. Boos October 1931" inscription is located bottom of the last narrative page before the front wrap of the Almanac. The American News Co hardcover
1857202086<p>Boston: Gould and Lincoln 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Brown cloth boards with blindstamped decorations gilt lettering to spine yellow clay-coated endpapers frontis many in-text illustrations. Spine ends & joints repaired it is now a clean & sturdy copy. This particular copy has the ownership inscription of Joshua Fry Speed. Speed was Abraham Lincoln’s four-year roommate and close lifelong friend. The 2024 documentary film Lover of Men suggests that Lincoln and Speed had a gay relationship. For much of his life Speed was a lawyer in Louisville and from 1848-1850 he was a Representative in the Kentucky House of Representatives. Provenance: From the great-great-grandson of Edward Dorsey Hobbs who was Joshua Speed’s brother-in-law. One of Hobbs’ slaves married one of Speed’s slaves. Hobbs’ grandchild was taught to swim by one of Speed’s freed slaves.</p> Gould and Lincoln hardcover
1878180211Calcutta.: The Baptist Mission Press. 1878. vii 192pp full leather spine in compartments some even light browning titled in gilt on the upper board rubbed at the extremities and at spine. Marbled edges old library labels but in very good condition.Text in English and Hindi.<P> Reprinted from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part 1 No. 3 1878. A detailed analysis of the 14th century poem.<P> <b>When referring to this item please quote stockid 180211</b> . The Baptist Mission Press. hardcover
186041018np 1860. 8pp caption title as issued. Untrimmed and uncut. A single folio leaf folded. Very Good plus.<br /> <br /> Lincoln's great Cooper Union Address argues that the Framers and early Congresses contemplated a narrow and ever-diminishing role for slavery. Examining Constitutional and early Congressional debates he demonstrates that contemporary statesmen viewed slavery "as an evil not to be extended but to be tolerated and protected only because of and so far as its actual presence among us makes that toleration and protection a necessity." <br /> Lincoln's argument fusing the interests of all anti-slavery men whether abolitionists or not ranks among his greatest contributions to American political thought. It received wide press coverage catapulting him into presidential contention for it transported the new Republican Party into the center of American constitutional and legal thinking. He thus made it easy for moderate Northern Democrats Whigs and Know-Nothings to vote Republican in 1860.<br /> Monaghan 55. LCP 5944. unknown
1860230801860. Good. 1860. 16pp. Good condition. Large moisture stain affects pages 1-12. Age toning throughout. Light foxing primarily to first two pages. Page edges worn particularly top edge with some dog-earing to upper right corner. Paper wearing thin at the spine folds. The Lincoln speech runs to page nine followed by the speech of John Hickman of Pennsylvania through page 15. The last page includes: "The Dred Scott Decision and Douglas' Endorsement Thereof". Lincoln's famous Cooper Union speech in which he declares his view that slavery should not be extended into the Western Territories and claims that the Founding Fathers would feel the same way. An important moment in his political ascension. cfm unknown
1825694P27Hanley: T. Allbut c1825. Disbound. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A very scarce pamphlet on the biblical story of Jacob a thorough explanation written by Abraham Scott. A very scarce work. An interesting explanation on the Biblical story of Jacob. Written by Abraham Scott. Undated dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library. Numerical ink inscription to the tail of the pages. Disbound. Externally the outer leaves are lightly age-toned. Internally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with some spots. Title page may detach. Numerical ink inscription to the tail of the pages. A little edgewear. Small chips to the gutters. Good T. Allbut unknown
1812C35385London 1812. Reprint. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Bookplate to pastedown. Covers slightly rubbed and faded foxing to frontis otherwise very good. 12mo. pp viii 390. Bound in half-leather over marbled boards. Frontispiece. Reprint og the 1809 edition. hardcover
1874152259London : Williams And Norgate 1874-75 1874. First Edition. Hardback. Inst. Stamp to the title. Finely bound all in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands with gilt-blocked title and volume indications. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. An exceptional set - scans &c. On request.; 0 pages; Subject: Judaism - History - To 70 A. D. Jews - Religion. Series: Theological translation fund library ; v.3-4 & 7. Bibliography: vol. 3 p. 326-330. Translation of: Godsdienst van Israe¨l tot den ondergang van den joodschen staat. Publisher's device on t. P. London : Williams And Norgate [1874-75] hardcover
188139061New Haven Conn. J.D. & E.S. Dana 1881. 8vo. Extracted from "The American Journal of Science" Third series vol. XXII Numb. CXXVIII pp. 87- 166. With title-page to the entire volume. Title-page with a faint rubberstamp. The Michelson-paper: pp. 120-129. Two leaves with small tear to the margin. <br/><br/><em>The seminal first edition of the first description of the first version of a series of experiments with the Interferometer which was built by Michelson and with which he planned to measure the relative speeds of light-waves moving at right angles to each other - an experiment that would ultimately lead to the special theory of relativity. The series of experiments ended with the so-called "Michelson-Morley experiment" the results of which were published 6 years after Michelson's first experiment the item offered here. The 1887 paper written together with Morley constituted an improved attempt of the 1881- version of the experiment. The experiments were designed to calculate the effect of the earth's motion on the passage of light rays through the "luminous ether" which was believed to surround the earth. The experiments were negative and as such led to the introduction of relativity."Michelson tried to determinate the relation of ether drift and the velocity of light effect of extremely minute values.no drift could be found and the "negative result held revolutionary implications which led directly through Lorentz and Einstein to the acceptance of new standards of reference of time and space from geometry an cosmometry."Dibner.In 1919 Einstein met Michelson in California. At a dinner given in honor of them both Einstein said in a speech "You Michelson uncovered an insidious defect in the ether theory of light as it existed and stimulated the ideas of H.A. Lorentz and Fitzgerald out of which the Special Theory of Relativity developed. Without your work this theory would today be scarcely more than an interesting speculation." In an interview in 1842 Einstein said: "It is no doubt that Michelson's experiment was of considerably influence upon my work insofar as it strengthened my conviction concerning the validity of the Principle of relativity.On the other side I was pretty much convinced of the validity of the principle before I did know this experiment and its result. In any case Michelson's experiment removed practically any doubt about the validity of the principle in optics and showed that a profound change of the basic concepts of physics was inevitable."Michelson was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize "for his optical precision instrument the inteferometer and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations he has carried on."Dibner: Heralds of Science: 161 the 1887-experiment - Vide PMM: 378410408. </em> unknown
1840056590Edinburgh: James Taylor 21 George Street 1840. Not Given . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Small Octavo. LONDON : Circa 1840. First published in 1768. Good clear larger type. Hardback. With an Introductory essay by Thomas Chalmers dated 1828. Original brown sand-grained cloth; gilt lettered spine. Original yellow end-papers. Bright tight and clean. No owner name or internal markings. Slight browning end-papers. Internally excellent. Minor wear only. VERY GOOD INDEED. xxii 454 pages. 2pp adverts. ABRAHAM BOOTH 1734-1806 was an English dissenting minister and author known as a Baptist apologetical writer. Booth was born at Blackwell near Alfreton Derbyshire on 20 May 1734; while he was young the family moved to Annesley Woodhouse Nottinghamshire where his father had taken a small farm as a tenant of the Duke of Portland. The eldest of a large family Booth worked on the farm to age 15 with sporadic schooling. Then working on a stocking-frame he was able to support himself and get some further elementary education. He opened a school at Sutton-in-Ashfield Nottinghamshire. Baptist preachers interested Booth in religion and in 1755 he was baptised by immersion and began to preach in the Midland counties. In 1760 when the Baptists first gathered into churches Booth became superintendent of the Kirkby Woodhouse congregation but not their pastor. He changed views from General Baptist to Particular Baptist and seceded. Soon after he began to preach on Sundays at Sutton-in-Ashfield Chesterfield and elsewhere in the Midland towns and villages still keeping his school. SCARCE. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. Sm.8vo. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books Cumberland Everyman Inklings Literature Rarities Theology and History. SCARCE. <br/> <br/> James Taylor, 21 George Street hardcover
186085724Chicago: Charles Leib 1860. Very Good. Four-page newspaper. A couple of small holes various brown spots and other bits of minor wear A campaign newspaper for Abraham Lincoln in the Presidential Campaign of 1860. We note a half-column story on the front page of this issue that accuses Senator Douglas of being a Roman Catholic -- a charge based partly on the fact that Mrs. Douglas was a Catholic as were their children -- probably an effective charge in largely Protestant mid-19th century America. Our brief research suggests that Douglas was neither a Catholic nor a formal member of any other organized religious group. The purpose of another half-column story on the front page was to make it clear that Lincoln had publicly condemned the actions of John Brown and did not object to Brown's execution. Charles Leib the editor was a political operative with an unclear background who had previously edited a Democratic campaign newspaper on behalf of the Buchanan campaign in 1856. Leib served briefly as an Assistant Quartermaster in the Union Army before heading to New Mexico probably in 1863 and died there in 1865 at the age of 38. Charles Leib unknown
1862376858Boston: J.M. Forbes 1862. 7 1 blankpp. Miniature 3-1/4x2-1/8 inches. Original wrappers unstitched. Small repair to tears at gutter. Housed in a blue morocco backed box. 7 1 blankpp. Miniature 3-1/4x2-1/8 inches. The first and only contemporary printing of Lincoln's historic preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in separate pamphlet form. <br /> <br /> This small pamphlet was printed by John Murray Forbes a Boston industrialist and abolitionist for distribution by Union soldiers to African Americans in the south. In 1899 the publisher's daughter recalled the genesis of this pocket-sized edition: "With the view of placing the Proclamation of Emancipation in the hands of the negroes themselves my father had printed 1000000 copies on small slips one and half inches square put into packages of fifty each and distributed among the Northern soldiers at the front who scattered them about among the blacks while on the march. Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner approved the idea ." Sara Forbes Hughes Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes pp. 348-49. Indeed in a letter to Forbes on Christmas Day 1862 Sumner asked "Why not send to all the hospitals camps posts The more the better" However the diminutive printing's scarcity in institutions and in the market would seem to belie that notion as it is among the rarest of editions of the Proclamation no doubt in part because of its small size. <br /> <br /> The preliminary proclamation of the Emancipation Proclamation was issued on September 22 1862 shortly following the Battle of Antietam and declared the freedom of all slaves in any Confederate state that did not return to Union control by January 1 1863. The text of the final official proclamation was the result of Lincoln's consultation with his cabinet on the morning of Dec. 31 1862 in which many changes were suggested. Lincoln then retired to consider all the cabinet members' recommendations and compose the final proclamation which he completed late in the day just before it would take effect. <br /> <br /> A signal moment in American history and the ideological raison d'etre of America's bloodiest war. Eberstadt 7; Monaghan 147 J.M. Forbes unknown
