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James Madison’s First Inaugural Address, Asserting Neutral Rights in Prelude to the War of 1812 by JAMES MADISON

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Title: James Madison’s First Inaugural Address, Asserting Neutral Rights in Prelude to the War of 1812
Author: JAMES MADISON
Seller: Seth Kaller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: "Indulging no passions which trespass on the rights or the repose of other nations, it has been the true glory of the United States to cultivate peace by observing justice, and to entitle themselves to the respect of the nations at war by fulfilling their neutral obligations with the most scrupulous impartiality." When President Thomas Jefferson followed George Washington's example and declined to seek a third term, he selected James Madison as his successor. Reflecting challenges within his own party, Madison won the Presidency over fellow Democratic-Republican DeWitt Clinton, who was endorsed by some state Federalist parties, by a narrow margin. JAMES MADISON. Newspaper. The Repertory, March 14, 1809. Boston, Massachusetts: John & Andrew W. Park. 4 pp., 13¼ x 20¼ in.Madison's first administration was dominated by growing conflict with Great Britain over British impressment of American sailors and attacks on American shipping that culminated in the War of 1812. Although a supporter of a smaller federal government, Madison asked Congress for appropriations to increase the size of the Army and Navy. Excerpts: "The present situation of the world is indeed without a parallel, and that of our own country full of difficulties. The pressure of these, too, is the more severely felt because they have fallen upon us at a moment when the national prosperity being at a height not before attained, the contrast resulting from the change has been rendered the more striking. Under the benign influence of our republican institutions, and the maintenance of peace with all nations whilst so many of them were engaged in bloody and wasteful wars, the fruits of a just policy were enjoyed in an unrivaled growth of our faculties and resources." (p1/c5) "Indulging no passions which trespass on the rights or the repose of other nations, it has been the true glory of the United States to cultivate peace by observing justice, and to entitle themselves to the respect of the nations at war by fulfilling their neutral obligations with the most scrupulous impartiality. If there be candor in the world, the truth of these assertions will not be questioned; posterity at least will do justice to them." (p1/c5) "To cherish peace and friendly intercourse with all nations having correspondent dispositions; to maintain sincere neutrality toward belligerent nations; to prefer in all cases amicable discussion and reasonable accommodation of differences to a decision of them by an appeal to arms; to exclude foreign intrigues and foreign partialities, so degrading to all countries and so baneful to free ones; to foster a spirit of independence too just to invade the rights of others, too proud to surrender our own, too liberal to indulge unworthy prejudices ourselves and too elevated not to look down upon them in others; to hold the union of the States as the basis of their peace and happiness; to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect the rights and authorities reserved to the States and to the people as equally incorporated with and essential to the success of the general system; to avoid the slightest interference with the right of conscience or the functions of religion, so wisely exempted from civil jurisdiction; to preserve in their full energy the other salutary provisions in behalf of private and personal rights, and of the freedom of the press; to observe economy in public expenditures; to liberate the public resources by an honorable discharge of the public debts; to keep within the requisite limits a standing military force, always remembering that an armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics—that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe; to promote by authorized means improvements friendly to agriculture, to manufactures, and to external as well as internal commerce; to favor in like manner the advancement of science and the diffusion of information as the best aliment to true liberty; to carry on the benevolent plans which have been so meritoriously applied to the conversion of our aboriginal neighbors from the degradation and wretchedness of savage life to a participation of the improvements of which the human mind and manners are susceptible in a civilized state—as far as sentiments and intentions such as these can aid the fulfillment of my duty, they will be a resource which cannot fail me." (p2/c1) Additional Content This issue also includes a lengthy address from the Massachusetts legislature to the people in opposition to the embargo system (p1/c1-4, p4/c1-2); a proclamation by lieutenant governor Levi Lincoln (p1/c4-5); an early editorial on the gubernatorial race between Christopher Gore and Levi Lincoln (p2/c2); and a variety of notices and advertisements. James Madison (1751-1836) was born in Port Conway, Virginia, and graduated from Princeton University in 1771. He entered politics in 1776 and played a major role in the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Later known as the "Father of the Constitution," he authored the Federalist Papers along with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay. Madison helped found Thomas Jefferson's Democratic-Republican party in opposition to Hamilton's financial proposals. Madison's served as Jefferson's Secretary of State (1801-1809), and then succeeded him to the Presidency for two terms (1809-1817). Madison's administration saw the culmination of Anglo-American tensions that resulted in the War of 1812, which officially began on June 18, 1812, and concluded with the Treaty of Ghent on December 24, 1814. The last years of Madison's second term saw the transition to the Era of Good Feelings, as the Federalist party declined. When he left office, Madison retired to Montpelier, his tobacco plantation in Virginia. He also assisted Thomas Jefferson in the establishment of the University of Virginia, where Madison succeeded Jefferson as rector when Jefferson died. The Repertory (1803-1827) was a semiweekly Federalist newspaper first published in Newburyport, Massachusetts, by John Park (1775-1852) as the New-England Repertory. Relocating to Boston in February 1804, it became The Repertory and was published under that name and as The Repertory and General Advertiser until 1827, when it became the Boston Advertiser. Initially published by John Park, his brother Andrew W. Park later joined him as a partner, and they sold the newspaper in 1811 to William W. Clapp, who in 1813 began the Boston Daily Advertiser as Boston's first daily newspaper, while The Repertory continued as a tri-weekly edition until 1827, when its name changed to the Boston Advertiser.

ETHAN FROME by Wharton, Edith

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Title: ETHAN FROME
Author: Wharton, Edith
Seller: Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description: 1911. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. 1 preliminary page + 4 pp undated ads. Original red cloth. First Edition of Edith Wharton's best-known book, a grim novella sited on a bleak Massachusetts farm. "As in THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, the central problem is that of the barriers imposed by local convention upon an individual whose happiness depends on rising above them" [OCAL]. This copy's leaves have a gilt top edge, and the word "wearily" is printed properly at the bottom of p. 135. Both copies with gilt top edge and copies with plain top edge appear with this word both perfect and battered: therefore, although it is generally assumed that "wearily" became battered during the 6000-copy print run (though it's possible it became battered and was then fixed), one cannot assume that the 2500 copies with gilt top edge were printed or issued earlier than the 3500 copies with plain top edge. In any event, this is a very good-plus copy (light wear at the spine ends, minor dulling of the red spine as usual). Garrison A19.1.a; Merle Johnson High-Spot pp 76-77.

[Flyer]: Join the Thoreau Walk from Walden Pond to Boston April 14 and 15, 1965

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Title: [Flyer]: Join the Thoreau Walk from Walden Pond to Boston April 14 and 15, 1965
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Voluntown, Connecticut: New England CNVA [Committee for Nonviolent Action], 1965. Unbound. Very Good. Mimeographed sheet printed both sides. 8.5" x 11". Folded in thirds as mailed. Small nicks, tear at the edge of one fold, about very good. Addressed to Vietnam War activist Richard Hathaway. Flyer and schedule for the 25 mile walk to protest the Vietnam War.

Gods' Man: A Novel in Woodcuts by Ward, Lynd

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Title: Gods' Man: A Novel in Woodcuts
Author: Ward, Lynd
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good +
Description: New York: Peter Smith, 1933. Sixth printing. Hardcover. Good +. Octavo [21 cm] Black cloth over boards with black and white printed labels on the backstrip and front board. Publisher's black top stain. Black endpapers. The spine is lightly rolled, the cloth of the boards and backstrip is mildly sunned, the front hinge is a bit shaky, and there is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. The first of Ward's six wordless novels that is told exclusively through 144 striking woodcut illustrations. Lynd Ward was not only a talented printmaker, but he was a socially-conscious storyteller as well. "Gods' Man," a modern morality play, was the work that built his reputation. It depicts the deadly bargaining of the soul that a struggling young artist is willing to make.

W. EUGENE SMITH by Smith, W. Eugene (photographs of)

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Title: W. EUGENE SMITH
Author: Smith, W. Eugene (photographs of)
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Condition: Fine
Description: Millerton NY: Aperture, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. An Aperture Monograph. Fine copy in near fine dustjacket. Tidy bookplate front pastedown.

Bartolini, Burri, Baj: opera grafica (16 January-9 February 1971) by GALLERIA NARCISO

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Title: Bartolini, Burri, Baj: opera grafica (16 January-9 February 1971)
Author: GALLERIA NARCISO
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Three black & white illus. Single long folded sheet forming [8] pp. Torino: 1971. Rare exhibition catalogue published by Galleria Narciso. WorldCat records just one copy, in Italy. With three illustrations and a check-list of works shown. Near fine. Galleria Narciso Catalogue no. 95.

Der Holzschnitt by AMANN, Per

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Title: Der Holzschnitt
Author: AMANN, Per
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ISBN: 9783763501304
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Description: Kirchdorf. hardcover. fine. Color frontis., numerous plates, a few in color. 211pp., tall 4to, glossy pictorial boards. Kirchdorf, Germany: Artbook International, (1988). Fine. Woodcuts from 1510 to 1979.

Escultura de Louise Bourgeois: La elegancia de la Ironía: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Junio de 1995 by BOURGEOIS, Louise (artist); Richard MARSHALL

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Title: Escultura de Louise Bourgeois: La elegancia de la Ironía: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Junio de 1995
Author: BOURGEOIS, Louise (artist); Richard MARSHALL
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN: 9789686623246
Condition: Some minor shelfwear to wrappers, generally fine
Description: Mexico: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, 1995. Softcover. Some minor shelfwear to wrappers, generally fine. 96 pages. Wrappers. In Spanish. First edition.

Crusade, Commerce & Culture by ATIYA, Aziz S.

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Title: Crusade, Commerce & Culture
Author: ATIYA, Aziz S.
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Description: Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1962. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo (20cm). Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 280pp. Very Good or better in slightly rubbed, price-clipped dustwrapper.

The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks by Stoneman, Richard

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Title: The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks
Author: Stoneman, Richard
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ISBN: 9780691154039
Condition: Fine
Description: Princeton University Press, 2019-02-05. hardcover. Fine/Fine. 6x1x9. Black cloth boards under photographic dust jacket. First printing with full number line. Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping.

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