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148863Rare Reach Official American League Baseball signed by a legendary group of baseball legends and Hall of Famers. Signed by Babe Ruth on the sweetspot setting the tone for one of the most remarkable gatherings of baseball legends captured on a single ball. Surrounding the "Sultan of Swat" are the signatures of Lou Gehrig Jimmie Foxx and Al Simmons — for a total of four of the five Hall of Famers famously struck out in succession by Carl Hubbell during the 1934 All-Star Game. Additionally signed by Connie Mack Lefty Grove and George Earnshaw. Crowning the collection is the autograph of Hank Aaron the man who ultimately eclipsed Ruth’s career home run record bridging two eras of baseball greatness. In fine condition. Housed in a plastic case. Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from Beckett Authentication Services. Babe Ruth Lou Gehrig Hank Aaron Jimmie Foxx Al Simmons Connie Mack Lefty Grove and George Earnshaw collectively embody the pantheon of Major League Baseball legends whose careers span the sport’s formative decades and its evolution into a national institution. Each figure holds a distinct place in the game’s legacy: Ruth and Gehrig as the iconic heart of the New York Yankees’ dominance in the 1920s and 1930s; Aaron as the embodiment of consistent excellence and the breaking of Babe Ruth’s home run record; Foxx and Simmons as prolific sluggers of the Philadelphia Athletics’ golden years; Mack as the longest-serving and most storied manager in baseball history; and Grove and Earnshaw as dominant pitchers who shaped the Athletics’ championship success. Together these figures represent a cross-generational legacy that defines baseball’s golden age and its enduring mythos. unknown
1907579131907. Fine. ca.1907-2003 30 x 32 cm Maurice BLANCHOT Extraordinary collection of Maurice Blanchot's original photographs taken in the family setting the only printings C. 1907-2003 272 photographs various format Blanchot challenged photographers and caricaturists of the literary press for a long-time. His 'portraits' over so many years are minimalist and rare: in 1962 in L'Express a hand holds up a book at the bottom of the page; in 1979 in Libération a blank square is in the middle of the page with only Maurice Blanchot's name and a quote from the Entretien infini as a caption: an empty universe: nothing that was visible nothing that was invisible' C. Bident Maurice Blanchot. In 1986 at the time of an exhibition of writers' portraits he requested that his photo be replaced by a text showing his desire to appear as little as possible not to glorify his books but to avoid the presence of an author who was entitled to an independent existence. A photo taken without him knowing by a paparazzi in a supermarket carpark was used as the writer's portrait for a long time before his friend Emmanuel Levinas revealed a few rare photographs of their youth. The fact that Maurice Blanchot did not oppose this release and the fact that this was his closest friend's deed could be explained by what Bident calls the spacing of worry as the revealed portraits were not up-to-date similar to the postponed publications of his books L'Idylle Le Dernier Mot L'Arrêt de mort. Only a few photographs gathered on the central pages of the Cahiers de l'Herne issue dedicated to Maurice Blanchot and published in 2014 supplement these unique shots of the 20th-century's most secret writer. In his chapter The indisposition of the secret Christophe Bident devotes several pages to the almost total absence of images of this invisible partner questioning the intellectual and psychological motivation of the writer who was aware of the inevitable future revelation of his appearance: Everything must become public. The secret must be told. The darkness must emerge. That which cannot be said must however be heard. Quidquid latet apparebit all that is hidden is that which must appear. Maurice Blanchot L'Espace littéraire In general Maurice Blanchot refused to be photographed even in private life as confirmed by the family of his sister-in-law Anna who revealed in a letter to her nephew that she had not taken any photographs of the writer thus respecting his wishes. However the photographs taken with his close family show us a perfectly willing Blanchot and one even playing very elegantly with the image of himself that he projects to the photographer generally his brother. As such we discover an elegant man posing proudly on a boat pontoon or on the banks of the Seine or more mysteriously playing with lighting effects in the corner of an empty room. Here we see a real photographic staging and a symbolic reappropriation of image particularly in a surprising seated portrait of the writer holding the Inconnue de la Seine death mask in his arms the well-known plaster head of a young woman supposedly drowned who adorned artists' studios after 1900. A true romantic legend this sculpture with a mysterious post-mortem smile is at the heart of Aragon's novel Aurélien and haunts the work of artists at the beginning of the century including Rainer Maria Rilke Vladimir Nabokov Claire Goll Jules Supervielle Louis-Ferdinand Céline Giacometti and Man Ray who produced a worrying photographic portrait of the mask at Aragon's request. Maurice Blanchot described the unknown woman as an adolescent girl with her eyes closed but full of life with a smile so slender so rich . that we could believe that she was drowned in a moment of extreme happiness. This photograph of an impervious Blanchot cradling the white mask of the Mona Lisa of suicide asserts itself as a true deconstruction of representation. It becomes an ill unknown
1769125438London: Printed for David Henry and sold by Francis Newbery 1769. First complete edition of "the most important scientific book of 18th-century America" and "America's first great scientific contribution" PMM. Octavo bound in full contemporary calf with gilt ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands red morocco spine label lettered in gilt double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels. With the rarely found half-title. Advertisement & errata leaf bound in following the preface. Illustrated with 7 copper-engraved plates 4 of which are folding. This the fourth first complete and most desirable edition of Franklin's important work contains for the first time complete notes on all of the experiments as well as correspondence between Peter Collinson Franklin and several other collaborators. The earlier editions each issued in three parts as separately published pamphlets usually bound together were carelessly published. Franklin edited this new one-volume edition himself significantly revising the text adding for the first time a number of his own philosophical letters and papers introducing footnotes correcting errors and adding an index Cohen Benjamin Franklin's Experiments. In near fine condition. Expertly rebacked. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box. Franklin's most important scientific publication" Experiments and Observations contains detailed accounts of the founding father's crucial kite and key experiment his work with Leiden jars lightning rods and charged clouds Norman 830. "The most dramatic result of Franklin's researches was the proof that lightning is really an electrical phenomenon. Others had made such a suggestion before him-- even Newton himself-- but it was he who provided the experimental proof" PMM. "The lightning experiments caused Franklin's name to become known throughout Europe to the public at large and not merely to men of science. Joseph Priestley in his History of Electricity characterized the experimental discovery that the lightning discharge is an electrical phenomenon as 'the greatest perhaps since the time of Isaac Newton. Franklin's achievement. marked the coming of age of electrical science and the full acceptance of the new field of specialization" DSB. Printed for David Henry and sold by Francis Newbery hardcover books
1851150358New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1851. First edition first issue binding of Melville’s masterpiece. Octavo original red variant cloth BAL’s A grain covers stamped in blind with Harper’s circular device at the center of the front panel within a heavy blind ruled frame plain orange endpapers. Issued in a single volume in black green blue red purple slate or brown cloth gilt. The first state of the binding has a circular device at center of covers that is absent from the second state binding. Much has been made of whether the earliest copies bound should have orange-coated end papers but in fact there is no priority between copies with orange dark orange maroon veined in gold or marbled end papers. Of uncertain status are three copies that have been seen with plain white end papers and a copy seen with yellow-coated end papers. Copies in bindings with beaded rope-like designs or Grolier-esque strapwork borders are very likely copies that survived Harper's terrible fire of December 10 1853 which destroyed 287 copies 212 were still unbound in sheets. The first printing by Harper's in 1851 numbered 2915 copies approximately 300 copies were destroyed in a warehouse fire in 1853 and as late as 1854 copies of the first edition were still available from the publisher. A second printing of 250 copies was issued in 1855 and in 1863 the third printing of 253 copies was issued. In very good condition rebacked. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. Rare and desirable in the rare variant publisher's red cloth. Initially panned by critics and readers when published in 1851 "in the 20th century Moby Dick would be rediscovered and acknowledged as possibly the greatest of all American novels" Chronology of American Literature. Arguably the greatest single work in American literature Moby-Dick was initially “a complete practical failure misunderstood by the critics and ignored by the public. Nevertheless Melville’s permanent fame must always rest on the great prose epic of Moby-Dick a book that has no equal in American literature for variety and splendor of style and for depth of feeling†DAB. Harper & Brothers, Publishers hardcover
18941307<p>London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press 1894. Limited First Edition. green goatskin. Fine. 16mo: 5 13/16" x 4 1/8" x 3/4" 14.8 x 10.5 x 1.9 cm.</p><p>First Printing. Printed by and sold by William Morris. Bound in fine tooled in gilt by Deborah Evetts with a diaper pattern of alternating small Kelmscott flowers and dots across covers and spine title running across top and bottom of upper cover uncut stamp-signed "DE'08" on rear turn-in. One of 20 at two guineas velum copies plus 525 at seven shillings and sixpence on paper; this copy on vellum. Colophon in red and black. iv 130 pp.</p><p>Printed in black and red throughout in the Chaucer type designed by Morris for his press. Woodcut frontispiece title within a floral border and facing page with full woodcut floral page-border borders 11a and 11. Numerous 7- 6- and 3-line woodblock initial capitals all designed by Morris engraved by William Harcourt Hooper. Shoulder notes and some lines including colophon in red.</p><p>A medieval French tale translated by Morris who found them in a collection of medieval romances printed in Paris in 1856 NOUVELLES FRANcAISES EN PROSE DU XIIIEME SIeCLE. The Kelmscott Press also published two other works from the same source. THE TALE OF EMPEROR COUSTANS was the source of THE MAN BORN TO BE KING in THE EARTHLY PARADISE. The second story is A TALE OF OVER SEA. Cockerell 26. Peterson A26. Walsdorf 26.</p><p>Housed in green buckram drop-back box brown goatskin label titled in gilt on spine. Condition overall: Fine.</p> Kelmscott Press
180858602Charenton asylum: S. n. 1808. Fine. S. n. Charenton asylum août 1808 17.50 x 21.50 cm broché sous chemise et étui The complete original manuscript of one of Sade's first works ruled in pencil throughout comprising 40 leaves written recto and verso. This manuscript like the other extant items from the Marquis was dictated to a scribe and corrected by Sade himself. Contemporary green paper wrappers with a small lack to middle of spine. Ink title partly erased to upper cover: 9/ Net et corrigé en août 1808 bon brouillon. Les Antiquaires. Comédie en prose en 1 acte Copied and corrected August 1808 a good draft. The Antiquaries. A prose comedy in 1 Act. This title is repeated on the verso of the upper cover. Numerous manuscript corrections annotations and deletions in Sade's hand principally adding blocking and rich in both stage and acting directions. Written in 1776 and re-copied at Charenton in 1808 and most likely augmented at the time with various topical references notably including an allusion to Napoleon of whom he was hoping in vain to receive permission to leave the asylum at Charenton as a free man p.94 Les Antiquaires is one of the first theatrical pieces written by the Marquis and therefore one of his first literary works overall written eight years before the Dialogue entre un prêtre et un moribond Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man. Though the precise dating of these pieces is made difficult due to the lack of the original manuscripts several clues have allowed bibliographers to date the initial composition of this piece to 1776 possibly with a corrected version during the Revolution and a few final changes at the time of this last edit which is today the only extant manuscript of this play. These clues include the status of the Jewish and English characters the style of the dialogues and Sade's correspondence with theatres; the strongest clue being biographical in nature. Les Antiquaires can essentially be considered the true theatrical version of Sade's Voyage en Italie with which it shows a sustained intertextuality. The play is about an antiquary in the 18th century sense of the term which is to say a learned devotee of Classical culture who wants to marry off his daughter to a friend with the same passion who nonetheless finds a way of convincing him to let her marry her young lover. Whether it be in the learned dialogues of the antiquaries or in their eccentric parody by the young lover imitating them Sade draws upon his own experience and observations from his travels which he expands or twists according to the viewpoint of his various characters. Hence the description of Mount Etna by the lover Delcour is a parody of Sade's detailed description of the Pietra Malla volcano and the made-up subterranean tunnel linking Etna to America is directly inspired by the tunnel of the Crypta Neapolitana described by Sade in his Voyage. The Marquis would reach back to this same experience of volcanoes in one of the most famous scenes in his Histoire de Juliette. Barely returned from his latest grand tour and almost at the same time as writing his passionate and detailed account of the experience Sade was thus also writing a satirical version of his own work until his problems with the military authorities. The work is at the same time a social critique of pointless erudition and a self-mockery of his own passion for history and of his zeal to see everything his insatiable curiosity cf. Maurice Lever preface to Voyage en Italie. This virulent satire is paradoxically twinned with a very erudite display of the author's knowledge of the latest architectural discoveries and the major contemporary questions in the field. This was in fact the element criticized by the two heads of theatres to whom Sade sent the play for consideration most likely during 1791 or 1792: The work is well-written. It shows the author's spirit and depth of knowledge but it's too serious too scientific S. n. unknown
184387676Paris: Chez Gihaut frères Edit. Boulevard des Italiens 5 1843. Fine. Chez Gihaut frères Edit. Boulevard des Italiens 5 Paris s.d. 1843 36.40 x 49.80 cm relié Complete set of 13 original lithographs by Eugène Delacroix in first edition first issue with the letter one of 20 copies on Chine paper pasted on laid paper: ""It was originally printed in a few proofs on Chine the format of which exceeds the square line by one or two centimeters. They are highly sought-after even though they bear the letter"" Robaut. Bound in the original publisher's brown half-shagreen binding title gilt stamped on first board original first cover wrapper preserved. Small restored tear to the margin of the wrapper over 5 cm sunned spine joints and corners rubbed scattered foxing and a dampstain to the lower part of the laid paper on which the lithographs are pasted on without affecting the lithographs themselves. Exceptional and rare set of original lithographs by Eugène Delacroix on Chine paper illustrating Shakespeare's masterpiece. A cornerstone of Romantic art this series was ""made at M. Delacroix's personal expense. Only 80 copies were printed 60 on blanc and 20 on chine and these were sold out at the time of the author's death"" Henri Béraldi. It is now esteemed as Delacroix's most accomplished graphic undertaking which took him more than ten years to achieve and generally considered to be one of the first modern livres de peintre. This is Delacroix's second lithographic portfolio based on a literary work after Goethe's 'Faust' in 1828. Strongly influenced by Goya's Caprices the plates feature deep black tones and striking contrasts magnified by the Chine paper: ""No one is unaware of the important role played by Delacroix in lithography . in the Hamlet in the Horse struck down by a tiger or better still in the Lion of the Atlas and the Royal Tiger these marvels he shows what vigor and color the lithographic pencil can acquire in the hand of a master""Henri Béraldi. Despite good reviews from Théophile Gautier and Jules Janin the Hamlet suite remained little-known from the moment of its publication by the Gihaut brothers upon Delacroix's request: ""I had them printed in small numbers and I was well advised for they were not successful and were far from having met printing costs"" wrote Delacroix in a letter to Champfleury May 1 1852. Even in the 19th-century copies on Chine paper were almost impossible to find: only twenty years after publication Philippe Burty considered the set ""so rare now"" regardless of its different issues Colonel De La Combe sale 1863. His contribution to Hamlet's visual imagination and iconography is immense. Delacroix first created the pose of Ophelia's lifeless body lying horizontally on the water - foreshadowing John Everett Millais' famous painting. It was from these lithographs that a number of his paintings were created: ""Between the 1830s and his death Delacroix also painted oil versions of a number of lithographs including Hamlet and His Mother now in the Metropolitan Museum."" Alan R. Young Hamlet and the Visual Arts 1709-1900. Delacroix showed interest in Shakespeare's theater - and Hamlet in particular - early on. As a youth he signed some of his letters ""Yorick"" when recounting his first passions for the young Englishwoman Elizabeth Salter. According to his diary studied by Luciana Lourenço Paes he probably read the play in the original English and identified with the main protagonist who inspired his ""Self-portrait as Hamlet"" now in the Musée Delacroix. In 1825 the painter traveled to London where he attended several of the Bard's plays and apparently regretted missing the Hamlet performed by the legendary Henry Keane at the Drury Lane Theater. Two years later Delacroix was among the Romantics who fell under the spell of a special performance of Hamlet at the Théâtre de l'Odéon by the English company of Covent Garden director Charles Kemble. It was the first time Shakespeare had been played in his origin Chez Gihaut frères, Edit. Boulevard des Italiens, 5 unknown
185783397Paris: Michel Lévy frères 1857. Fine. Flauberts masterpiece on deluxe paper bound at the time Michel Lévy frères Paris 1857 11.50 x 18.50 cm relié First edition one of the very rare copies on heavy vellum paper Clouzot counts 75. Bound in contemporary half navy blue shagreen spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt garlands partly faded and tooled with gilt fillets and fleurons gilt roll at foot dark blue paper-covered boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns a period binding. Some occasional foxing. Unlike the trade copies printed in two volumes the deluxe paper copies are presented in a single volume without title-page or half-title for the second part the gatherings being continuously signed. They also retain all the first-issue points including the misprint ""Sénart"" on the dedication leaf. A very rare deluxe paper copy strictly bound at the time of publication. Michel Lévy frères hardcover
197375634Paris: Libération 1973. Fine. Libération Paris 1973-2004 6200 numéros en feuillets Complete run of the first twenty years of the newspaper Libération founded in 1973 by Jean-Paul Sartre Serge July Philippe Gavi Bernard Lallement and Jean-Claude Vernier. 6200 issues in pristine condition never opened. This unique collection comprises 6200 issues of Libération in impeccable condition never opened and is absolutely complete including all the numéros zéros promotional issues special reports thematic supplements including the entire series of the celebrated Sandwich issues and the commemorative twentieth anniversary album from Monday 5 February 1973 to Monday 3 January 1994. The collection is offered with its custom-made display unit 2.60 m high 4.20 m wide and 50 cm deep. It consists of 35 stackable compartments each measuring 84 x 36.5 x 50 cm each housing two sliding drawers. Each drawer holds approximately one hundred issues of the newspaper. Provenance: Frédéric Fredj Collection. Libération unknown
186983415Leipzig: Verlagsbuchhandlung von J.J. Weber 1869. Fine. Verlagsbuchhandlung von J.J. Weber Leipzig 1869 14.50 x 23 cm relié Inscribed copy concealing the secret truth of Wagner's thwarted love story Second edition with parts previously unpublished with a new preface ""An Constantin Frantz"" dated April 28 1868 Tribschen bei Luzern. The first edition was published by the same publisher in 1852. Full burgundy morocco binding spine with five raised bands gilt date at foot marbled endpapers and pastedowns gilt turn-ins original first softcover preserved top edge gilt gilt leading edges. Some foxing more pronounced on some leaves a small restoration to the upper right-hand corner on pages IX-XIV not affecting the text pencil annotation on pages 116 and 139 skillful restorations to head and foot of the upper joint. Exceptionally and intimately signed and inscribed by Richard Wagner to a mysterious dedicatee:« Hierbei sollst du meiner gedenken denn alles habe ich ernstlich gemeint. R. W. » At this you shall remember me for I have meant everything seriously. This moving autograph confession with its highly personal tone written on the most important of his theoretical writings radically differs from the hasty ""Zur Erinnerung"" written by the composer on his opera scores or the little notes he used to hand out to patrons after concerts. We did not find any other inscribed copies of Oper und Drama' on the market or in public institutions. However the composer's autobiography and correspondence reveal the existence of two dedications on this major work. The first was addressed to Theodor Uhlig on the original manuscript with an autograph inscription inspired by Goethe. The second and only other inscription mentioned in a letter from Wagner is said to have been made for Malwida von Meysenbug on the same edition as our copy. Although it is not impossible this could be the very same inscription written on the ""book of all books on music"" according to Richard Strauss the style and content of the inscribed words allow for an even more prestigious attribution. A ""VERY SOLID"" MANIFESTO In February 1851 Wagner completed Oper und Drama. This ""very solid book"" - as described in a letter to Franz Liszt - sets out the revolutionary principles of Leitmotiv and Gesamtkunstwerk political and aesthetic utopia of a musical drama acting as a synthesis of the Arts. The text is part of his Zürcher Kunstschriften three seminal essays written during his Swiss exile along with Kunstwerk der Zukunft' and Die Kunst und die Revolution'. He outlines in his treatises the shape of his future scenic festival"" - the celebrated Ring and includes his reflections on the relationship between art and society as well as his theories on the future of opera. In 1868 he decided to complete the composition of this monumental tetralogy and simultaneously worked on the second edition of Oper und Drama' published at the end of 1868 - mistakenly stated on the cover as 1869. In the end it differed from the previous edition only in its new preface the very few changes proving once more the permanence of his musical and artistic vision almost twenty years after it was first written. Wagner will tirelessly defend and promote his ideas which found their ultimate achievement during the 1876 Bayreuth festival. This second corrected edition with a revised preface is an integral part of the artist's creative process giving his reflections the status of a political and musical manifesto as evidenced by the intimate and enigmatic dedication on our copy. The importance of this work in the eyes of the composer the absence of any explicit attribution to the inscription's recipient the use of the familiar form of address and the content of the message confirm the importance of the dedicatee and his place within the author's inner circle. Among the personalities around the master at the time of this inscription several may have inspired these words: FRIEDRICH Friedrich Nietzsch Verlagsbuchhandlung von J.J. Weber paperback
1965149476Yonkers: Educational Heritage Inc 1965. First edition of this comprehensive anthology that compiles historical documents speeches and firsthand accounts to trace the evolving struggle for African American freedom and equality. Quarto original publisher's orange cloth boards with black and white illustrations. Association copy inscribed by Martin Luther King Jr. to Sammy Davis Jr. on the front free endpaper "To my Dear Friend Sammy Davis Whose Friendship I Cherish very deeply Martin Luther King." Sammy Davis Jr. 1925–1990 was an American singer dancer and actor whose extraordinary versatility made him one of the most celebrated entertainers of the twentieth century. As the only Black member of the Rat Pack Davis broke racial barriers in entertainment while confronting segregation both on and off stage. His friendship with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. began through Davis’s activism and fundraising for King’s civil-rights efforts and deepened during the Civil Rights Movement. Davis used his fame to raise awareness and funds for King’s initiatives performing at civil rights benefits and supporting the 1963 March on Washington. In near fine condition with a small loss to the crown of the spine. Edited by Alfred E. Cain. Illustrated by Horace Varela. Housed in the original orange cloth slipcase within a custom folding chemise within a custom half morocco slipcase with gilt titles to the spine. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 through 1968. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using the tactics of nonviolence and civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs and inspired by the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi. King led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and in 1957 became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC. With the SCLC he led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany Georgia and helped organize the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham Alabama. He also helped organize the 1963 March on Washington where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. On October 14 1964 King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In 1965 he helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches and the following year he and the SCLC took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing. In his final years he expanded his focus to include opposition towards poverty and the Vietnam War alienating many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled "Beyond Vietnam". In 1968 King was planning a national occupation of Washington D.C. to be called the Poor People's Campaign when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established as a holiday in numerous cities and states beginning in 1971 and as a U.S. federal holiday in 1986. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington D.C. was dedicated in 2011. Educational Heritage, Inc hardcover
1769116750London: Printed for David Henry and sold by Francis Newbery 1769. First complete edition of "the most important scientific book of 18th-century America" and "America's first great scientific contribution" PMM. Octavo bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards morocco spine label. Advertisement & errata leaf inserted following preface. Illustrated with 7 copper-engraved plates 2 of which are folding. In very good condition. First editions are rare exceptionally so in a contemporary binding. Franklin's most important scientific publication" Experiments and Observations contains detailed accounts of the founding father's crucial kite and key experiment his work with Leiden jars lightning rods and charged clouds Norman 830. "The most dramatic result of Franklin's researches was the proof that lightning is really an electrical phenomenon. Others had made such a suggestion before him-- even Newton himself-- but it was he who provided the experimental proof" PMM. "The lightning experiments caused Franklin's name to become known throughout Europe to the public at large and not merely to men of science. Joseph Priestley in his History of Electricity characterized the experimental discovery that the lightning discharge is an electrical phenomenon as 'the greatest perhaps since the time of Isaac Newton. Franklin's achievement. marked the coming of age of electrical science and the full acceptance of the new field of specialization" DSB. Printed for David Henry and sold by Francis Newbery hardcover books
123102Fine bronze bust of George Washington after the famed Houdon bust of 1785 which is considered the most accurate depiction of Washington. Bronze mounted on a marble pedestal. French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon was revered for his life-like portrayals of numerous notable eighteenth-century philosophers inventors and political figures including Jean-Jacques Rousseau Voltaire Benjamin Franklin Thomas Jefferson Napoleon Bonaparte and George Washington. In 1784 the Virginia General Assembly commissioned a statue of George Washington "to be of the finest marble and the best workmanship" necessitating a European craftsman. The Governor of Virginia gave the responsibility of selecting the artist to Thomas Jefferson then ambassador to France who together with Benjamin Franklin recommended that Jean-Antoine Houdon the most famous sculptor of the day execute the work. Unsatisfied to work from a drawing of Washington by Charles Willson Peale sent for the project and lured by a potential commission for an equestrian monument by the Congress of the Confederation Houdon agreed to travel to the United States to work directly from Washington. In early October 1785 Houdon and three assistants arrived at Washington's plantation Mount Vernon where they spent two weeks taking detailed measurements of Washington's arms legs hands and chest and made a plaster cast of his face. Before returning to France to perfect his work Houdon presented his first draft of the bust sculpted in terra cotta to Washington which he is known to have placed in his study. The final statue was carved from Carrara marble depicting a standing life-sized Washington with a cane in his right hand and cape in his left. Chief Justice John Marshall a contemporary of Washington's said of the work "Nothing in bronze or stone could be a more perfect image than this statue of the living Washington." In fine condition. The bronze casting measures 14.25 inches in height. The entire piece measures 17.25 inches in height. American statesman and soldier George Washington served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and later presided over the 1787 convention that drafted the United States Constitution. He is popularly considered the driving force behind the nation's establishment and came to be known as the "father of the country" both during his lifetime and to this day. unknown books
1785139571Mount Vernon July 28 1785. Rare letter signed by George Washington to his land agent in Virginia Battaile Muse. Quarto three pages on a single folded leaf the letter is addressed to Mr. Battaile Muse. The body of the letter in a secretarial hand reads in full: "Mount Vernon July 28 1785 Sir: A few days ago by a Mr. Hickman who either is or wants to be a tenant of mine in Frederick County. I sent you a Dozen Blank leases. The Tract on which he says he is fixed is part of two lots which I purchased at the sale of Colo. George Mercer's Estate in the year 1774: a plot of which I send you that the whole may be arranged into four tenements as conveniently disposed as water &c. will admit. In Sept. last whilst I was at my Brother's in Berkely sic many Persons applied for this Land. But from causes which then existed I came to no positive agreement with any; referring them to Mr. Snickers who was so kind as to promise that he would fix matters for me as I was in a hurry and could not go upon the Land myself on the terms which if I recollect right I gave him in a letter. Some time after two men of the names of Winzer and Beaver with the letter enclosed from Mr. Snickers came here and were told that I would comply with whatever agreement was made with them by him: among other things they said Mr. Snickers had promised them Leases for fourteen years: this I observed could not I conceived to be the case because I had expressly named ten years the term for which Mr. Burwell let his Lands adjoining but notwithstanding if the case was so and Mr. Snickers would declare it the Leases should be filled up accordingly: this I repeat and as far as the matter respects Winzer for it seems Beaver has changed his mind the other conditions endorsed on the back of Mr. Snicker's letter to me are to be granted him: he paying all the taxes which may be on the Land he holds However as filling up one Lease may be a guide with respect to the others I enclose one in the name of Winzer with the blanks as completely filled as I can do under my uncertainty with respect to the term of years for which he is to have it and which is to be determined by Mr. Snickers: and for want of the quantity of acres in and description of the Lot which he is to have. There are already three Tenants on this tract to whom you may fill up Leases on the same terms and I have done for Winzer and whenever they will bring evidences to prove them I will sign them. As Beaver has declined taking the Lot which he agreed first with Mr. Snickers and afterwards with me for you may let it to any good tenant who offers upon the terms the others are held. The three now engaged will have rents to pay thereon the first of next Jan. It will be necessary to take an Assignment of Mr. Whiting's Lease before one can be made to Mr. Airess; or some instrument of writing by which it will be can be cancelled in order to render the new one valid; and I hope payment of the money due on the Replevy Bonds of the former will not be delayed longer than the time mentioned in your last letter viz Sept. Having got a Gentleman to assist me in my business I hope shortly to have my Accts. so arranged as to send you a rental of what is due to me in London Fauquier and Berkely sic Counties. I have a Lot in the town and common of Winchester which when you have occasion to go thither I beg the state and condition of them may be enquired into and information given what can be made of them. The one in the Town I believe a Doctr. McKay has something to do with. I would be obliged to you for enquiring of Mr. Wormley's manager if he has any good red clover seed for sale; what quantity and the price thereof and let me know the result by the first conveyance to Alexandria." Washington closes his letter and signs the letter in his own hand: "I am Sir Yr Very Hble Serv G Washington." In very good condition with an archival reinforcement to the inner fold remnants of earlier mounts. Housed in a large custom slipcase. The recipient Battaile Muse was the son of Colonel George Muse who served with Washington in the Virginia Regiment during the Fort Necessity Campaign. Washington hired Battaile in November 1784 as his agent for land in Berkeley Frederick Fauquier and Loudoun counties a position he would hold until 1791. Prior to his presidency Washington was by occupation a planter and he imported luxuries and other goods from England paying for them by exporting tobacco. In 1765 because of erosion and other soil problems he changed Mount Vernon's primary cash crop from tobacco to wheat and expanded operations to include corn flour milling and fishing. His success in these new endeavors led him to soon be counted among the political and social elite in Virginia. From 1768 to 1775 he invited some 2000 guests to his Mount Vernon estate mostly those whom he considered people of rank. Following the conclusion of the Revolutionary War Washington returned to Mount Vernon where he oversaw the completion of the remodeling work at Mount Vernon which transformed his residence into the mansion that survives to this day although his financial situation was not strong. Creditors paid him in depreciated wartime currency and he owed significant amounts in taxes and wages. Mount Vernon had made no profit during his absence and he saw persistently poor crop yields due to pestilence and poor weather. Again Washington diversified by undertaking a new landscaping plan and succeeded in cultivating a range of fast-growing trees and shrubs that were native to North America. American statesman and soldier George Washington served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and later presided over the 1787 convention that drafted the United States Constitution. He is popularly considered the driving force behind the nation's establishment and came to be known as the "father of the country" both during his lifetime and to this day. unknown
biblio18<p>Hand-drawing Chinese propaganda poster: "Holding highly the flags of Maoism Thought to eliminate leptospirosis thoroughly." 1971. 89cm x 62cm. All of the painting and red Chinese characters are hand-drawing only the below black Chinese characters were typed on a paper and then adhered to the painting. Have slight fold which probably can be recovered because the fold is formed by whole put together with others.</p><p>The soldier worker and peasant are holding a red books with title "Maoism Thought" . The three banners are captioned with "Ready for Battle Ready for Famine For People" "Long Live For the Victory of the hygienism Route of Chairman Mao’s Proletariat Revolution" and "Put the emphasis of the work of hygienism and Health into Rural Area" respectively. The two plates are captioned with "Must Demolish thoroughly the remaining toxin of the hygienism Route of Anti-revolutionary Revisionism" and "Must eliminate leptospirosis thoroughly " respectively.</p><p>At the bottom the adhered small paper was typed "printed by Revolutionary Committee of Epidemic Prevention of Yunnan Province printed in June 1971" so it is the original hand-drawing poster for printing in 1971 but do not know if its printed counterpart had been publised later because as far as I know I have not seen its printed counterpart.</p>
187381415Bruxelles Brussels: Alliance typographique M.J. Poot & Cie 1873. Fine. Alliance typographique M.J. Poot & Cie Bruxelles Brussels 1873 12.50 x 18.50 cm relié sous étui Une saison en enfer A Season in Hell Alliance typographique M. J. Poot & Cie Bruxelles 1873 125 x 185 cm full morocco and custom slipcase First edition published in small numbers at the author's expense. Binding in full black morocco elaborately decorated in blind original wrappers preserved half black morocco slipcase outstanding binding signed Semet & Plumelle. This very scarce first edition of Une saison en enfer is a major collector's piece on several counts: it remains the only work published by Rimbaud himself then a young unknown 19-year-old poet. He eventually never honored his debt towards the printer. The latter therefore kept almost the entire print subsequently forgotten in the workshop Arthur Rimbaud obtained only a dozen copies offered to his friends. The stock was found in 1901 by a bibliophile who retrieved the well-preserved 425 copies and destroyed the rest damaged by humidity. The curious composition of the work is also a surprising peculiarity of this precious edition: without a title page nor endpapers the text begins ex abrupto after the cover and finishes the same way the seventeen blank pages inserted far and wide in the book as well as the misprints and spelling errors peppered through the text are also curiosities studied by scholars. Sought-after and collected very early on by bibliophiles copies of this mythical edition were bound by the greatest French binders namely Pierre Lucien Martin Semet & Plumelle Paul Bonet or Georges Leroux. A very beautiful copy set in an outstanding blind tooled full morocco binding by Semet & Plumelle. Alliance typographique (M.J. Poot & Cie) unknown
1937761711937. Fine. s. d. ca 1937 9 x 12.90 cm un dessin Eva original drawing signed ca 1937 9 x 129 cm one drawing Original drawing signed by Constantin Brâncui in brown ink on cream paper from the collection of Ion Alexandrescu a stone mason who worked with the sculptor in 1937-1938 on the creation and installation of the monumental ensemble at Târgu Jiu and more specifically on The Door of the Kiss and The Table of Silence. Brâncui's preparatory drawings for his sculptures are extremely rare as opposed to most of the few drawings by the artist seen on auctions which are mainly figurative women and anatomical studies. We submitted this unpublished work to renowned Brâncui specialist Dr Doïna Lemny who authenticated and dated it with precision. As an honorary curator of the Musée National d'Art Moderne Georges-Pompidou in Paris where she was in charge of the Brâncui collection for thirty years she is the author of numerous monographs and essays on the artist. She provided the drawing's analysis: This small drawing traced in ink with a quick hand on small paper calls out by the novelty of the composition of geometric forms: two superimposed cubes supporting an oval head framed in a square acquire a caryatid posture supporting an architrave clearly drawn at the top of the figure. The quick firm line indicates the artist's intention to note elements for a more complex composition that he would have intended to make. Although undated this drawing can be related to two other similar compositions made on 3 November 1937. The first of the same size 9 x 13 cm bears the title Eva and is enriched on the reverse with a drawing of the Kiss and a message addressed to Ion Alexandrescu. The second is larger 22 x 32 cm and has the same composition as our drawing but with proportions that more explicitly evoke a female figure see opposite. In these two other drawings Brâncui indicates the materials he plans to use for this future set of sculptures: wood in Romanian: lemn and plaster gips. The drawing we offer is untitled and does not bear indications regarding the materials but is in coherent with the tangible research of the other two compositions and could be a stylisation of the original drawing for a more abstract sculpture project. The interest in this biblical female figure crossed Brâncui's artistic career. As early as 1916 he sculpted a curvaceous Africanising wooden figure to which he gave the title Ève. Reworking it he finally created a more totemic sculpture in 1921: Adam and Eva. As a ""constructed"" work Adam and Eve already announced Brâncui's intention to take up the theme of the original woman mother and protector who is here pruned of male attributes and made into an elevation of primary and matrix forms: the block the egg and the surface. Provenance: collection of the stone mason Ion Alexandrescu friend and close collaborator of the Romanian sculptor. unknown
1995000854nENGLAND BROADMOOR PRISON PARKHURST WAKEFIELD. Very Good. 1995. On offer is an original exciting massive archive of correspondence some hand-drawn art other writings including poetry articles postcards photos greeting cards and both terrifying and humorous intimate personal letters news clippings and ephemera relating to and created by Charles Bronson - born Michael Peterson his named was changed by his boxing manager - who is considered to be Britains most feared in/famous and notorious prisoner. He is also the author of ten books a poet armed robber kidnapper philanthropist philosopher boxer award winning fitness expert and former circus strongman. Mr. Bronson was first arrested as a 19 year old in 1974 and has been in prison for 34 years and over 28 years in solitary and has been free less than 120 days in that 34 years. He has been moved over 150 times to and within different prisons. Mr. Bronson has also committed some renowned notorious acts while in prison including a number of spectacular hostage-takings; they include a two day rooftop protest at Broadmoor Prison in 1983 which caused three quarters of a million pounds damage. In a 1994 kidnapping/escape attempt he demanded a helicopter an inflatable doll and a cup of tea as ransom for the release of the guard he was holding at Woodhill Prison. There is a worldwide petition to free Charles Bronson based on the fact that he has suffered an extraordinarily lengthy incarceration while never having killed raped or molested anyone. Free in spirit Mr. Bronsons original conviction of 7 years for armed robbery has blossomed to 34 years due to his numerous prison scrapes with authority. Many organizations for prisoner's rights have declared him a political prisoner making his long term incarceration all the more untenable. This archive is the accumulation of approximately 15 years by a woman who at one time was engaged to be married to Mr. Bronson. As such the correspondence is of an intimate nature on all levels of Mr. Bronsons personal and penal life; relationships activities hardships with all of its tragedies and comedies. Further correspondence details every aspect of his life in jail his attempts to be free his physical fitness program. Mr. Bronson is an incredibly expressive and prolific writer and there are many many streams of correspondence; writings to and from his fiance lawyers publishers editors other convicts fans and friends. He is obviously intelligent and a very driven man in many ways. Some of this material is not for the weak of heart and some will have you laughing hard. Mr. Bronson also had a number of interesting friends; he is godfather to the son of Ronald Biggs of the Great Train Robbery fame; a pal to the Kray Brothers leaders of an infamous family run crime gang of whom he wrote a book based on their lives and relationship with him are but a few. We noted a Christmas card to Mr. Bronson's fiance with his and perhaps 30 autographs of other well wishers for example. This archive is the definition of 'one of a kind' as a unique unparalleled look into the essence of criminality law enforcement criminal psychology and the British government and it's penal system. It is also a one of a kind portal into the heart soul mind and demons of a long term convict a noted artist prolific writer poet with the added perspective of a romance and long distance relationship of very high intensity. There are many many hundreds if not over a 1000 pages of correspondence filling a 22 x 16 x 7 inch tub right now and will probably ship in one banker's box and will require a secure shipping method like UPS. We noticed about half a dozen pieces of original artwork a small number of large and small format postcard style paper with artwork and then doodles and drawings throughout the correspondence. Overall condition is VG.; Manuscript; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF HANDWRITTEN PARKHURST WAKEFIELD CRIMINALITY CRIMINOLOGISTS CRIME PRISON PRISONER STORIES PRISONER MEMOIRS PRISON DIARY CRIMINAL LIVES PENAL DELINQUENCY ILLEGALITY KIDNAPPING ARMED ROBBERS LAW LEGAL JUDICIAL CUSTODY SOLITARY CHARLES SALVADOR FITNESS IMPRISONMENT DETENTION CONFINEMENT MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito Papel . unknown
1685151905Boston n.d. 1685–1723. Rare late 17th to early 18th century autograph manuscript of a sermon or devotional essay in the hand of the "first American Evangelical" Puritan clergyman Cotton Mather. Duodecimo comprising two bifolia prepared from a folded and cut sheet of paper to a total of 8 pages penned in dark brown ink very densely written as is usual with Mather two columns with notes and glosses in the left column the text in sections I-VIII the numeral III apparently used twice several thousand words in all. An unusually lengthy manuscript likely written while Mather was assisting his father Increase as the preacher at the Second Church of Boston 1685–1723. Mather was one of the preeminent American intellectuals of the era. He was not simply a theologian and philosopher but was deeply interested in the sciences conducting experiments on inoculation against smallpox plant breeding meteorology and a wide variety of other topics in a broad range of disciplines. He was a member of the Royal Society of London in large part because of his botanical researches which were reported in his book Curiosa Americana. Although his involvement in the Salem Witch Trials has complicated his legacy he remains in many respects one of the most intellectually curious and progressive figures of colonial America. The text of the present manuscript is in large part a theological analysis of the implications of the Doctrine of the Divine Decree in which Mather speaks out against what he sees as the sophistry of the moral position "If all is predestined why should I make any effort for my salvation" This he refutes in detail in these pages with much apparatus and inspirational text ending his argument on the words "Methinks then we should long for heaven! Oh my companions if you would not long for Heaven I can foretell that there are more sorrows on earth to come upon you . Will you long to be where ye weary are at rest. But then Oh Lord how long how long how long!" With this ringing conclusion to the final page the text ends apparently complete. Given the small format of the manuscript it seems likely that it was used in delivering a sermon or homily. In near fine condition with scattered small areas of ink erosion noted. Housed in a custom modern cloth case and accompanied by a complete transcription of the text; with a letter dated September 29 1937 on New York Public Library stationery signed by the late Victor Paltsits Keeper of Mss. indicating that he authenticates the manuscript as in Mather's hand and a note signed by Louis Henry Cohn of House of Books regarding provenance. Rare. hardcover
186879508Paris: Michel Lévy frères 1868. Fine. Michel Lévy frères Paris 1868-1870 11 x 18 cm 7 volumes reliés et une lettre montée sur onglet uvres complètes with an autograph letter: Les Fleurs du Mal Curiosités esthétiques L'Art romantique Petits Poèmes en prose Histoires extraordinaires Nouvelles Histoires extraordinaires Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym Michel Lévy Frères Paris 1868-1870 11 x 18 cm 7 volumes bound in shagreen & one letter Extremely important edition according to Clouzot: More and more sought after rightly so it includes in first edition: part of Fleurs du Mal Petits Poèmes en prose Curiosités esthétiques except the two Salons L'Art romantique except Gautier and Wagner. The Fleurs du Mal is in its third edition the last version revised by the author in part original with the correct date of 1868. Twenty-five poems from Fleurs du Mal are published here for the first time. Volume 1: Les Fleurs du Mal volume 2: Curiosités esthétiques volume 3: L'Art romantique volume 4: Petits Poèmes en prose volume 5: Histoires extraordinaires volume 6: Nouvelles Histoires extraordinaires et volume 7: Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym. Half burgundy shagreen spine in five compartments decorated with gilt fleurons marbled paper plates caillouté marbled endpapers contemporary bindings. A very evocative letter quoting each work in progress from Charles Baudelaire signed C. B. addressed to Auguste Poulet-Malassis has been mounted on the guards at the beginning of Fleurs du Mal. Four pages written in pencil on a double sheet dated 13 June 1859. This letter has been published in Les Lettres Mercure de France 1906. Baudelaire wrote to his publisher from Honfleur where he had been with his mother since April 1859. She reserved two attic rooms in her house for her son and the proximity to the sea seems conducive to work: You will tell me what you think of my Salon. And of my Gautier In a short while I will be able to deliver your Opium et Haschisch and shortly thereafter Curiosités complètes which will be followed by Nouvelles Fleurs. The poet must work tirelessly to pay off his Parisian debts and in particular those contracted with the recipient of this letter: Can I go to Paris without fear Without worry I am referring to the bill of 430 430. You would quarrel with De Broise if you had a protest and if I have one here my mother would fling me out the door. However I want to use the good work arrangement where I am until the end of the year. Rare and precious complete set in uniform contemporary binding of the famous first edition of his works. Preceded by Théophile Gautier's beautiful foreword paying tribute to his impeccable disciple enriched with a beautiful handwritten letter in which the Albatros talks of his works. Michel Lévy frères unknown
189879719Paris: Charpentier & Fasquelle 1898. Fine. Charpentier & Fasquelle Paris 1898 13.50 x 19.50 cm relié sous étui First edition one of the rare leading copies on Japan paper limited to 50 numbered copies and a few name-specific copies the tirage de tête. Binding in full green morocco spine in five compartments set with gilt stippling and adorned with double gilt panels decorated with gilt fleurons intheir centres recolouring and discreet restoration to a joint gilt roll tooling on the spine ends frame of double gilt fillets on the boards brightened in the corners with a set of interlacings and gilt fleurons iridescent green silk endpapers frame of five gilt fillets and gilt floral motifs in the corners of the pastedown endpapers covers preserved top edge gilt double gilt fillets on the leading edges superb binding signed Gruel. Extremely rare and magnificent copy of the most popular play in French theatre the tirage de tête set in a perfect binding in full morocco signed Gruel. Charpentier & Fasquelle hardcover
18950002437GROTON MASSACHUSETTS HYDE PARK CHICAGO. Good. 1895. Full-Leather. On offer is an extraordinary collection of diaries that give incredible insight into young Franklin Delano Roosevelts years at Groton--one of the most exclusive preparatory schools in the United States at the time--from the perspective of his closest schoolmate James Lippincott Goodwin. In these six diaries a young J. L. Goodwin chronicles his daily life from 1895 to 1898 and 1903 and features a cast of characters whose family legacies live on to this day. Classmates mentioned include Robert Rutherford "Colonel" McCormick who went on to become owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune; J. R. "Tadd" Roosevelt Jr. nephew to both FDR and Colonel John Jacob "Jack" Astor IV; Lathrop "Jake" Brown who was FDRs roommate at Harvard and who would go on to become a member of the U. S. House of Representatives; and most significantly Franklin Delano Roosevelt who became 32nd president of the United States and who along with Winston Churchill would lead the free world through its darkest days in WWII. Goodwin himself was also part of a well-connected family. His father owned a railroad and two insurance companies and was the cousin of American financier J. P. Morgan. Goodwins brother Philip was one of the architects of New Yorks Museum of Modern Art. J. L. Goodwin and FDR were both new to Groton School in 1896 and these outsiders became fast friends as they adjusted to student life. Both boys were prolific writers and FDR mentions Goodwin in his letters home. Similarly FDR appears often in Goodwins diary entries. For example: "Passed with Riggs and Franklin Roosevelt during our time after school but it was very disagreeable on account of the ground being so wet" May 3 1897. "This is a legal holiday being Lincolns Birthday. Mrs. Roosevelt is visiting came up today" February 12 1898. "Franklin Roosevelt was down from Harvard. Saw him at the fence a while" May 18 1903. J. L. Goodwin graduated from Groton in 1900 and Yale in 1905. He later pursued a Masters in Forestry and was a noted conservationist and pioneering forester. Although the diaries do not bear his name there are ample contextual clues to determine that they were indeed kept by Goodwin. His collected papers reside in the James L Goodwin collection at Yale University. In this archive there are six personal diaries of J. L. Goodwin: 1 1895: 5.75" x 3.5" 122 pages 100% complete good condition. 2 1896: 5.75" x 3.5" 183 pages 80% complete good condition. 3 1897: 5.75" x 3.5" 183 pages 70% complete good condition. 4 1897: 8.75" x 4.5" 198 pages 50% complete fair condition. This diary was kept at the same time as the other 1897 diary. Some entries overlap but it contains entries that were not entered in the 5.75" x 3.5" 1897 diary. 5 1898: 5.75" x 3.5" 365 pages 75% complete good condition. 6 1903: 5.75" x 3.5" 365 pages 85% complete good condition. Also included in this archive is a first edition copy of the 1947 book "F. D. R. His Personal Letters: Early Years." It is the first in a 3-volume series collated and published by FDR's son Elliott. Many of these letters were written by FDR from Groton School at the same time as J. L. Goodwin was writing his diaries and the volumes are a wonderful complement to each other. This exceptional archive offers historians scholars and collectors valuable information about the formative years of F. D. Roosevelt J. L. Goodwin and many of their prestigious contemporaries who went on to shape the history of the United States. ; Manuscript; 5.75" x 3.75"; Keywords: J. L. Goodwin FDR History of Groton Franklin D. Roosevelt President of the United States Pre World War I Groton School Yale Robert R. McCormick James Roosevelt Roosevelt Tadd Roosevelt Hyde Park Eleanor Roosevelt J. P. Morgan Americana handwritten manuscript autographed authors document letter autograph keepsake writer hand written documents signed letters manuscripts historical holograph writers autographs personal memoir memorial personal history archive diary diaries journal log primary source first hand account social history personal stories living history antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier antike brief pergament dokument manuskript papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito papel biography biographical autobiographical autobiography personal narratives . hardcover
19520001038HOLLYWOOD LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA CA. Very Good. 1952. On offer is an exceptional archive of original color slides positives featuring the most remarkable female beauty of the 20th century being Marilyn Monroe. Ms. Monroe is candidly captured during a rehearsal and live performance of Edgar Bergen's radio show October 26th 1952. The writer of the show featuring the internationally famed Bergen and his equally famous puppet Charlie McCarthy was Mr. Zeno Klinker. Mr. Klinker the character Effie Klinker is named after the man besides being a talented writer and comedian his sister also a creative talent being the renowned Death Valley artist Orpha Klinker was also a passionate photographer who photographed nearly every visiting actor actress or celebrity on the Bergen show and at this particular broadcast he had direct access to Marilyn Monroe. She is absolutely ravishing and at the height of her beauty and appears to be having a sensational time. A number of group shots include Monroe Bergen and other cast members. Collectors and historians of Monroe's life and career will recognize that as her star was ascending and she gaining some small influence due to her roles in 'The Asphalt Jungle' and 'All About Eve' at this broadcast of one of the most popular radio shows ever she was a mere three months before the 1953 film noir movie 'Niagara' would launch her to stardom. This archive is comprised of 42 different unpublished images that have been stored for more than 50 years. Klinker captured two near identical photos of each image to use in a stereographic type viewer and create a 3-D effect so while there are 42 images they are meant to create 21 'stereoviews'. The color positives have sleeves that would slip into the stereo-viewer. There is no stereo-viewer with the archive. VG.; EDGAR BERGEN CHARLIE MCCARTHY MARILYN MONROE VENTRILIQUIST MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY NORMA JEAN NORMA JEANE BAKER EPHEMERA PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF RADIO Norma Jeane Mortenson . unknown
179752680Philadelphia: John Bioren for John Fenno 1797. Rare first edition of one of the major causes celebres in American governmental history. Octavo bound in contemporary morocco marbled endpapers. In near fine condition. This first edition of 1797 is rare as it was bought up by the <span class="match">Hamilton</span> family in an effort to suppress it but was ultimately reprinted in 1800 by <span class="match">Hamilton</span>'s political enemies. Housed in a custom half calf clamshell box. Alexander Hamilton resigned as Secretary of the Treasury in 1795; two years later "a baseless accusation against his honesty as secretary of the treasury brought by Monroe and others forced him to make public confession of his intrigue some years previous with a Mrs. Reynolds . his confession had the merit of a proud bravery for it showed him willing to endure any personal humiliation rather than a slur on his public integrity" DAB. Mrs. Hamilton tried to buy up all copies of the 1797 pamphlet but some escaped. In 1800 in the midst of the Jefferson-burr election anti-Federalists such as William Duane reprinted Hamilton's admission of infidelity. John Bioren for John Fenno unknown books
179752680Philadelphia: John Bioren for John Fenno 1797. Rare first edition of one of the major causes célèbres in American governmental history. Octavo bound in contemporary morocco marbled endpapers. In near fine condition. This first edition of 1797 is rare as it was bought up by the Hamilton family in an effort to suppress it but was ultimately reprinted in 1800 by Hamilton’s political enemies. Housed in a custom half calf clamshell box. Alexander Hamilton resigned as Secretary of the Treasury in 1795; two years later "a baseless accusation against his honesty as secretary of the treasury brought by Monroe and others forced him to make public confession of his intrigue some years previous with a Mrs. Reynolds … his confession had the merit of a proud bravery for it showed him willing to endure any personal humiliation rather than a slur on his public integrity" DAB. Mrs. Hamilton tried to buy up all copies of the 1797 pamphlet but some escaped. In 1800 in the midst of the Jefferson-burr election anti-Federalists such as William Duane reprinted Hamilton's admission of infidelity. John Bioren for John Fenno unknown
