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From the Battlefield Library of William Henry Harrison, Carried With Him to Inspire During the War of 1812 by William Henry Harrison

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Title: From the Battlefield Library of William Henry Harrison, Carried With Him to Inspire During the War of 1812
Author: William Henry Harrison
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 19/09/1813. The Battle of Lake Erie was fought on September 10, 1813, on Lake Erie off the coast of Ohio during the War of 1812. Nine vessels of the United States Navy defeated and captured six vessels of the British Royal Navy. This ensured American control of the lake for the rest of the war, which in turn allowed the Americans to recover Detroit and win the Battle of the Thames to break the Indian confederation of Tecumseh. It was one of the biggest naval battles of the War of 1812.https://vimeo.com/1018422019?share=copyOn October 5, 1813, General William Henry Harrison, who also was the governor of the Indiana Territory and a future president of the United States, led an army of 3,500 American troops against a combined force of eight hundred British soldiers and five hundred American Indian warriors at Moraviantown, along the Thames River in Ontario, Canada. The British troops were under the command of Colonel Henry Procter. Tecumseh, a Shawnee chief, commanded many of the American Indian warriors. The British army was retreating from Fort Malden, Ontario after Oliver Hazard Perry's victory in the Battle of Lake Erie in September 1813. Tecumseh convinced Colonel Procter to make a stand at Moraviantown.The American army won a total victory. As soon as the American troops advanced, the British soldiers fled or surrendered. The American Indians fought fiercely, but lost heart and scattered after Tecumseh died on the battlefield.William Henry Harrison Signed Copy of Plutarch's Lives, carried with him during the War of 1812, presented to his son, John Cleves Symmes Harrison, for his birthday. Specifically, the book is Volume II of Plutarch's Lives, Translated from the Original Greek with Notes Critical and Historical...; by John & William Langhorne. Worcester, Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas, Jun. August - 1804. Octavo (4.25"" x 7""), 390 pages.Harrison has written a long dedication on the first front endpaper: “Willm. H. Harrison sends this set of Plutarch's to his beloved son J.C. Symmes Harrison in the hope that he will diligently study the lives of great men contained in it & that if he is unable to rival their splendid achievements in their country's service, he will at least imitate their private victories. Head Qtr. Seneca Town. 9th Sept. 1813."" A later descendant has copied a part of this dedication on the facing pastedown.John Cleves Symmes Harrison would be celebrating his 15th birthday on September 29 of that year, and General Harrison likely sent these volumes to his son to mark the occasion.There is a second signature, an ownership signature, ""Willm Henry Harrison"" on the title page, indicating that he is passing on his own book to his eldest son. Written on the blank page facing the first page text is written: ""Presented to J.C.S. Harrison by his beloved Father / September 19, 1813"".

Hoover Thanks the Red Cross For Giving Medical Assistance by Herbert Hoover

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Title: Hoover Thanks the Red Cross For Giving Medical Assistance
Author: Herbert Hoover
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 3/2/23. After World War I ended in late 1918, Herbert Hoover became head of the American Relief Administration, which organized shipments of food for millions of starving people in Europe. He did such a fine job in that capacity, saving millions of lives, that it made his reputation and led to his political career. In 1921, President Harding named him Secretary of Commerce. From there he would go on to the presidency. As for the American Relief Administration, it wound down its activities in early 1923 and concluded its efforts in June of that year.Thomas Newkirk Phillips was a former White House pharmicist who went on to work for the Red Cross at its national headquarters in Washington. When World War I broke out, he was instrumental in coordinating Red Cross supplies being sent to Europe. After the war, he coordinated Red Cross medical assistence to Herbert Hoover and his American Relief Administration.Typed Letter Signed on Commerce Department letterhead, Washington, February 3, 1923, to Phillips, thanking him as Red Cross representative for helping make the American Relief Administration’s work a success. “Now that the final reports have been sent to the President and to Congress on the disposal of the army surplus medical stocks, which by Congressional Act were turned over to the American Relief Administration, I want to express to you my warm personal appreciation for your very fine services in connection with the selection and handling of these stocks. Without your expert help it would have been a great test for us to build up a machine competent to take care of this intricate and highly technical problem. The way in which you handled the whole thing was more than satisfactory to us, and we are deeply in your debt.”

The Poets of Great Britain (Extra-illustrated in 5 vols.) by Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Title: The Poets of Great Britain (Extra-illustrated in 5 vols.)
Author: Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York and London: Chiswick Press and Charles Whittingham and Co, 1900. Later edition. Near Fine. A nearly Fine copy. Five small octavo volumes (6 1/2 x 4 inches; 165 x 102 mm.). [iii]-lxvi, [1]-203, [1, blank]; [vi], [1]-294, [1, printers device], [1, blank]; [iii]-xii, [1]-380; [iii]-x; [1]-345, [1, printers device]; [iii]-xiv, [1]-366, [1, printers device], [1, blank] pp. Title-pages printed in black and red. With a memoir at the beginning of volume one. The last volume contains an index of first lines and a general index. Extra-illustrated by the insertion of twenty-six engraved plates, including eight hand-colored. Handsomely bound almost certainly by The Harcourt Bindery ca. 1900, in full red morocco, covers with double gilt border with fancy corner-pieces, enclosing a spray of flowers elaborately stamped in gilt and with green morocco leaf inlays and buff morocco inlaid flowers. Spines with four raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments and with three olive green morocco flower inlays. Highly decorative gilt turn-ins surrounding an oval panel of green morocco decorated in gilt with a large central gilt flower with inlaid red morocco flower head, green moire silk end-leaves, all edges gilt. Minimal rubbing and repairs to the outer joints, otherwise fine. Although unsigned the binding is almost certainly by The Harcourt Bindery. An exquisitely bound collection that celebrates the talents of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), one of the most significant Romantic poets in the English language. Husband to Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, and friend of Lord Byron, Shelley moved in a radical literary circle and died a tragic early death. From sonnet to epics, he is celebrated for his moving philosophical verse, such as famous poems Queen Maub, Ozymandias, Mont Blanc, Ode to the West Wind, or Prometheus Unbound. Since 1900, The Harcourt Bindery of Boston has made fine cloth and leather art bindings by hand, and it remains the largest for-profit hand bookbindery in the U.S. When it was founded in 1900, Boston was home to over 47 book binderies and 1,452 craftsmen (Harcourt Bindery). Since its founding the binder has weathered the Depression, WWII, and changing hands three times between 1927 and 1931. Not only does the Harcourt Bindery offer professional services, but it also offers educational courses to keep the arts of hand binding and book making alive. Near Fine.

Southern genre scene of African-American woman doing laundry by Wing, E B - WATERCOLOR

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Title: Southern genre scene of African-American woman doing laundry
Author: Wing, E B - WATERCOLOR
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Good; colors a bit faded (?); small waterstain at the edge of one vertical margin.
Description: ca1930. Not framed.. Good; colors a bit faded (?); small waterstain at the edge of one vertical margin.. Original watercolor mounted to board meas. appx. 280 x 380 mm. A southern genre scene in watercolor by E B Wing. Signed in the lower right. See C G Woodson, "The Negro Washerwoman, a Vanishing Figure" in Journal of Negro History, 15, #3, 1930.

朝井閑右衛門画集 [= Kan'emon Asai: Collected Works] by 朝井閑右衛門 [= KANEMON Asai]

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Title: 朝井閑右衛門画集 [= Kan'emon Asai: Collected Works]
Author: 朝井閑右衛門 [= KANEMON Asai]
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Hatsubai Nichidō Shuppanbu, 2000. First, Limited Edition. First printing, no. 447 of 700 numbered copies. Quarto (35cm). Cloth hardcover in dustjacket and publisher's card slipcase; 279pp; illus. A very fine copy, free of markings or wear, in like slipcase. Housed in publisher's original cardboard box with printed title label. Catalog raisonné of the painted works of the celebrated Western-style figural painter Kan'emon Asai (1901-1983). Text entirely in Japanese. Rare in the U.S., with only four locations noted in OCLC.

Highway Investment in Developing Countries: Highlights of "The Impact of Highway Investment on Development by WILSON, George W. et al.

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Title: Highway Investment in Developing Countries: Highlights of "The Impact of Highway Investment on Development
Author: WILSON, George W. et al.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 1966. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue-grey staplebound wrappers; 8pp. Near Fine condition. Brookings Research Report no. 48.

David Arnot: One by Arnot, David

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Title: David Arnot: One
Author: Arnot, David
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: New York: Self-published by the photographer, 2011. Paperback. [142p] 9x12 inches, explicit nude photos of young, virile men, near-fine first edition paperback in pictorial wraps. First book in a proposed series by the Texas photographer who works in NYC, Florida and Paris Every page but the title page and last two information pages a full-page color photo. Only 3 holdings located in OCLC as of 4/2021.

Exhibition postcard: Sigmar Polke, Fotos (April-June 1978, opens 14 April) by (POLKE, Sigmar)

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Title: Exhibition postcard: Sigmar Polke, Fotos (April-June 1978, opens 14 April)
Author: (POLKE, Sigmar)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Photographic illus. with text on recto. Pictorial postcard, mailed. Munich: Galerie Gerhild Grolitsch, 1978. Postcard invitation to Polke’s first presentation of photographs from his six-month road trip through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Fine. Mailed to the art magazine Zweitschrift in Hannover.

The monotype recorder. Vol. 41, no. 3

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Title: The monotype recorder. Vol. 41, no. 3
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: London: Monotype Corporation Limited, 1958. 4to, pp. 21, [1]; photo-reproductive plates and text illustrations throughout; printed paper wrappers, near fine. Commemorating the exhibition held at Monotype House of lettering and type designs by Eric Gill. Laid in is a bifolium of photos from the exhibition, a photo of Eric Gill guiding the hand of W. I. Burch, and a transcript of the address opening the exhibit from Sir John Rothenstein.

The Salt Lake City Post Office [1849-1869] by Whall, Les

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Title: The Salt Lake City Post Office [1849-1869]
Author: Whall, Les
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Salt Lake City, UT: Crabtree Press, 1982. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. 202pp. Octavo [21 cm] Light orange and black printed wraps. From the Preface- "In summary, Mormon Church leaders and the Great Salt Lake Valley residents were both acquainted with and dependent upon a scheduled and reliable postal service. The Church's intentional isolation in the far western Rocky Mountains brought a momentary security and seclusion, but it also immediately magnified Mormon dependence upon a very long and difficult interchange of communications between their Zion and the rest of the world.

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