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183723104.01<p>Lincoln and John Todd Stuart cousin of Lincoln's future wife Mary Todd had served together in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1834-1836. They formed Stuart & Lincoln on April 12 1837.</p> <b>ABRAHAM LINCOLN.</b>Newspaper. <i>Sangamo Journal</i> Springfield Ill. December 23 1837. 4 pp. 18 x 24¾ in. Double matted and framed with glass on both sides to display pages one and four. Slightly chipped 26 x 33 in. frame.<p>In the upper portion of the first column of the first page appears this five line advertisement: <i>"STUART & LINCOLN / ATTORNEYS and Counsellors at Law will practice / conjointly in the Courts of this Judicial Circuit. – / Office No. 4 Hoffman's Row up stairs. / Springfield april 12 1837."</i> Two ads directly above: <i>"NINIAN W. EDWARDS / ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW / Springfield – Illinois."</i></p><p>Lincoln had moved from New Salem Illinois to Springfield in 1836. He had first met fellow attorney Ninian W. Edwards when both were members of the Illinois State House of Representatives. Edwards married Elizabeth Todd in 1832 and Lincoln met Elizabeth's sister Mary Todd at the Edwards home where Mary had moved in 1839. On November 4 1842 Lincoln and Mary Todd were married in the Edwards mansion.</p><p>The <i>Sangamo Journal </i>started publishing in 1831 shortly after a young Lincoln settled in New Salem. The newspaper faithfully supported Abraham Lincoln and the Whig Party throughout many name changes: the <i>Illinois Journal</i> 1847 shortly after Lincoln left for Congress then the <i>Illinois State Journal</i>1855. As the Whig party broke up the newspaper supported the newly-formed Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln's rising political star.</p><p><b> Condition</b></p><p>Very fine with no visible tears.</p> books
186424202<p>Two tickets to the Great Central Fair in Philadelphia. One admitted a pupil of the public schools of Philadelphia and was used on Saturday June 11 according to the stamp on the verso. The other is an apparently unused "Season Ticket" that admitted the bearer "<i>To All Parts of the Fair</i>" except the Children's Exhibitions but was "<i>Forfeited if Transferred and Not Good unless Endorsed</i>." The verso includes the oath "<i>I hereby promise that this Ticket shall be used to obtain admission to the Fair by myself only</i>" and a blank line for a signature.</p> <b>CIVIL WAR. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.</b>Great Central Fair Tickets June 1864. Pair of passes for the Great Central Fair held in Philadelphia June 7-28 1864. One ticket is for one day's admission for a public school student. The other is a season ticket. 1 p. each 3½ x 2¼ and 3½ x 2 in.<p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>During the Civil War several northern cities hosted sanitary fairs between 1863 and 1865 to raise money for the care of wounded soldiers. The Great Central Fair held at Logan Square in Philadelphia in June 1864 was a fundraiser for the United States Sanitary Commission and was one of the largest fairs. The main exhibit building constructed in forty working days by local volunteer skilled labor enclosed 200000 square feet. It featured nearly one hundred departments offering a broad range of displays from Arms and Trophies to Fine Arts to Umbrellas and Canes. Curiosities included a $1000 doll house a recreated parlor of William Penn with Penn artifacts the boat used by Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane and George Washington's carriage.</p><p>Over three weeks the fair welcomed more than 400000 visitors. The season ticket offered here cost $5 a week's pay for a day laborer or a domestic and several days' wages for skilled workers. The fair served more than 9000 meals per day in its restaurant and had a daily newspaper with descriptions of the various departments. During its existence the fair raised approximately $1 million for the Sanitary Commission second only to New York City in money raised.</p><p>President Abraham Lincoln attended the fair with his family on June 16. He also donated forty-eight signed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation printed under the auspices of George Boker of the Union League which were sold for $10 each.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Both have glue discolored on the reverse sides. The smaller card has a 1" edge tear on the right side neatly repaired with archival tape.</p><br /> books
192736305Amsterdam: H. J. Paris 1927. H. J. Paris unknown books
197469985Washington: Library of Congress 1974. Paperback. Very Good. 74p. Wrapper. 26cm. 1338 items listed. <br/><br/> Library of Congress paperback books
186732457Washington: GPO 1867. xxx 930 pp as issued. Covers absent text block split. Minor soiling. Good.<br/>Monaghan 881. GPO unknown books
19511892Girard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius 1951. Paperback. Articles by Ozenfont Van Vechten Venturi et. al. 40pp of drawings. <br/><br/>Signed on the cover. Haldeman-Julius paperback books
1951WRCLIT48836Girard KS.: Haldeman-Julius 1951. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Wrappers faintly darkened but a very good or better copy. First edition signed by the artist on the front wrapper. Includes introductory comments by Carl Van Vechten Katherine Dreier David Ignatoff et al. Walkowitz is now remembered chiefly for his association with CAMERA WORK and Isadora Duncan. Haldeman-Julius unknown books
1969044233London etc.: Oxford University Press 1969. xix 565p. b/w illus. music dj The new Oxford history of music 3. Oxford University Press unknown books
196932364London: Oxford University Press 1969. Hardcover in dustjacket. xix 565 pp. Oxford University Press unknown books
1960240443London: Oxford University Press 1960. hardcover. very good-. Illustrated frontispiece and musical notations throughout. 565pp. Thick 8vo blue cloth. London: Oxford University Press 1960. Damaged hinge otherwise a very good copy.<br/><br/> Oxford University Press unknown books
1977112010London: Oxford University Press 1977. Hardbound. Good with a few ex-lib. marks and fading to cover edges but otherwise text is very clean and tight. Blue cloth with gold lettering; 565 pp. with 7 bw plates and 207 musical figures. Volume 2 in The New Oxford History of Music series; a completely in-depth study of the Ars Nova Contintental music English polyphony and instrumental music. Oxford University Press hardcover books
50208in an autograph letter signed 26 July 1818 from Scott County Kentucky to Simeon Kirtley in Harrison County Kentucky. 8vo. Two pages approximately 135 words; addressed on the verso of the blank integral leaf. In part: "Having heard that Mr. Sims has returned from selling your drove of horses I am induced to hope it will be quite as convenient for you to pay me the $1000 with interest now . with promise that you would give me a Kentucky Frankfort note gain for it . I hope the sales of your drove of Horses has been very good." After the war Buford emigrated from Virginia to Kentucky where he served for a time as deputy surveyor see DAB for a detailed account of his estimable Revolutionary War service especially against Tarleton. Folded; some browning but very good. <br/><br/> unknown books
19471893Haldeman-Julius 1947. Paperback. Very Good. Signed by Walkowitz on front cover. Intro. by publisher. <br/><br/> Haldeman-Julius paperback books
1976027083New York and London: Holmes & Meier Publishers 1976. x 356p. stiff wrappers. Holmes & Meier Publishers unknown books
1996144832New York: Routledge 1996. Paperback. xxiv 213p. very good first trade paperback edition in pictorial wraps. Routledge paperback books
1696211441Leyden and Utrecht: Pieter Vander Aa 1696. unbound. very good. Botanical. Copper plate engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 12.5" x 8.25".<br/><br/> Abraham Munting 1626-1683 taught medicine and botany at the Academy of Groningem in the Netherlands. He had a particular interest in the uses of plants especially medicinally. This engraving is from "Naauwkeurige Beschryving Der Aardgewassen". Aging around edges. Please visit our gallery for more Munting prints.<br/><br/> Pieter Vander Aa unknown books
195945574Springfield: Charles C Thomas 1959. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth boards; dustjacket; 250pp. Tight clean Near Fine copy in lightly worn and soiled dustwrapper Very Good. Charles C Thomas unknown books
30651 p.l. 4 viii 108 2 slip of errata mounted on final blank leaf. 8vo attractive antique panelled calf some light foxing throughout spine lettered in gilt. London: Printed by W.P. and sold by F. Fayram et al. 1725. First edition. Employing the mortality statistics gathered by Edmund Halley in the 1690s de Moivre formulated the theory of annuities. "De Moivre's contribution to annuities lies not in his evaluation of the demographic facts then known but in his derivation of formulas for annuities based on a postulated law of mortality and constant rates of interest on money. Here one finds the treatment of joint annuities on several lives the inheritance of annuities problems about the fair division of the costs of a tontine and other contracts in which both age and interest on capital are relevant. Ths mathematics became a standard part of all subsequent commercial applications in England."-D.S.B. IX p. 454. Very good copy. ❧ Garrison-Morton 1690. Stigler The History of Statistics pp. 70-85. unknown books
173144795Dublin: re-printed by and for Samuel Fuller 1731. Second edition "corrected" 8vo A-R4; woodcut initials head- and tail-pieces text diagrams and tables throughout; 20th-century green cloth gilt-lettered spine; ex-Northwestern National Life Ins. Co. Minneapolis with their rubber stamps; some shallow losses to front endpaper edges textblock foxed else very good and sound. An early actuarial treatise by one of the founders of the science of life-contingencies which was first published in 1725 and dedicated to the Earl of Macclesfield see DNB XIII p. 536. See Morrison 1690 for the first edition. <br/><br/> re-printed, by and for Samuel Fuller hardcover books
19598816baDetroit MI: Friends of the Detroit Public Library 1959. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. Civil War; p. 5-8; 22.8cm; light green paper wrapper; facsimile of portion of original manuscript of President's second annual address preserved in the Burton Historical Collection Detroit Public Library; comments by James M. Babcock; reproduction of Mathew Brady portrait of U. S. pres. 1861-65; supplement in 1959 spring issue of Among Friends quarterly publication of the Friends. Friends of the Detroit Public Library Paperback books
19594641baDetroit MI: Friends of the Detroit Public Library 1959. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. Civil War; slavery; p. 5-8; 22.8cm; light green paper wrapper; facsimile of portion of original manuscript of President's second annual address preserved in Burton Historical Collection Detroit Public Library; comments by James M. Babcock; reproduction of Mathew Brady portrait of U. S. pres. 1861-65; supplement in 1959 spring issue of Among Friends quarterly publication of the Friends. Friends of the Detroit Public Library Paperback books
159037978np 1590. Image area 19 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches in 28 x 23 inch mat. Single crease down center with one 1/2 inch spot worn through otherwise a nice handsome map. Image area 19 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches in 28 x 23 inch mat. Abraham Ortelius 1527-1598 was a Flemish geographer of German origin. His major work Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 1570 with later revisions and addenda was the first modern atlas. It was based on contemporary charts and maps and contained a collection of plates engraved by Franz Hagenberg in a uniform size and format. The Theatrum preceded the first Atlas of Ortelius' good friend Gerardus Mercator. In fact popular and sentimental legend has it that Mercator delayed publication of his own work so that his younger friend's would appear first. although this simply is not true Mercator wasn't ready the legendary cartographer did compliment Ortelius for the "care and elegance" he put into his "Theatrum. unknown books
1800D7116Gottingen: Bandenhoef und Ruprecht 1800. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary half morocco and marbled paper gilt-stamped lettering in two spine labels gilt-stamped ornament at spine tips; 12mo 100 x 170 mm; pp. 32 624 plus 12 folded plates tipped onto stubs at rear. Boards and spine a bit scuffed; spine lettering a little faded. Except for a library stamp on title-p. text block is clean and unmarked. An excellent copy of what's become a rather uncommon text book. Kaestner 1719-1800 was a noted academic mathematician and epigrammist and a great influence on a number of his students at the Universities of Leipzig and Gottingen including Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben Carl Friedrich Gauss Johann Tobias Mayer Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes Farkas Bolyai and Georg Klügel. <br/><br/> Bandenhoef und Ruprecht hardcover books
1976139623Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press 1976. First edition. Softcover. Foreword by Joshua C. Taylor. Introduction by Janet A. Flint. Includes numerous black and white illustrations along with notes by Rattner. A close to near fine copy in stapled wrappers with some very slight wear. Errata slip laid in. Smithsonian Institution Press unknown books
19231259896Soho: The Nonesuch Press 1923. Limited reprint edition #568 of 725. Tall narrow thin octavo in gold hardcovers with white spine; VG; moderate soiling and shelf wear around edges; strong binding; parchment paper with deckle edges; pp. 52; text in tight print; contains seven original engravings on copper designed by Stephen Gooden; shelved in Case 0; GP consignment. 1259896. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Nonesuch Press unknown books
