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Very fine large scroll on high quality paper with 14 extremely beautiful paintings of plants and animals

Very fine large scroll on high quality paper with 14 extremely beautiful paintings of plants and animals by YAMAMOTO, Akio (or Keigu)

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Very fine large scroll on high quality paper with 14 extremely beautiful paintings of plants and animals
Author
YAMAMOTO, Akio (or Keigu)
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Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
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Scroll (420 x 12,000 mm.), with elaborate silk brocade endpaper at beginning. [Japan]: 1880-86. This beautifully rendered scroll of natural history paintings was executed, with one exception, by Akio (or Keigu) Yamamoto (1827-1903), Confucian scholar, doctor, botanist, and highly gifted artist. He was born in Kyoto, the son of the prominent doctor and botanist Boyo Yamamoto (1778-1859), the direct disciple of Ono Ranzan (1729-1810), the famous professor of botany who wrote a series of classic botanical books. Keigu “continued his father’s work in his private school in Osaka and spent his time organizing meetings that were regularly attended by both honzogaku amateurs and Japanese biologists.”–Federico Marcon, The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan, p. 301. Keigu travelled widely throughout Japan, drawing plants and animals. He gave botanical instruction to the Meiji emperor and other members of the royal family. Keigu also wrote several standard works on materia medica and left many sketch books and scrolls, which entered the Kyoto rare book trade in 1932; some of these were published only in the 1980s. All of his sketch books and scrolls offered valuable and unique information regarding native plants and animals as well as those that had been introduced into Japan. Our scroll contains 14 very finely executed color paintings of plants, birds, and animals. The paintings are quite unique in their remarkable spaciousness. For instance, the image of the octopus is 1410 mm. long. The images include a most unusual morning glory (three joined sheets and 1190 mm. long); an edible yellow lily (two joined sheets, 800 mm.); an ungei flower (two joined sheets, 795 mm.); a magnificent red toki (a now-endangered crane species, three joined sheets, 765 mm.); a large akowa tsuru (another species of crane, three joined sheets, 815 mm.); a young white crane (three joined sheets, 935 mm.); a sea lion (umiuso) painted in many shades of delicate black (two joined sheets, 545 mm.); a carp (two joined sheets, 597 mm.); an octopus (four joined sheets); a chameleon (three joined sheets, 844 mm., dated “1880”); a deer antler (two sheets, 545 mm.); a “Dutch” dog (two sheets, 545 mm.); a lion seen at exhibitions in Tokyo and Kyoto (two sheets, 640 mm., with a seal and note stating this was the work of “Ariyoshi,” dated “1886“); and two camels (two sheets, 545 mm. long). Four of the paintings have the signature and seal of Yamamoto, and another painting — the final — has the seal only. Three of the paintings have additional text by Yamamoto regarding where seen and painted, alternative regional names, date, etc. Very fine condition, preserved in a new wooden box. All but the penultimate painting are the work of Yamamoto.
Catalogue de Tableaux Capitaux des Ecoles de Hollande, de Flandre, d’Italie et de France, dont la Vente…aura lieu dans sa maison…le Mercredi matin 8 avril 1835…

Catalogue de Tableaux Capitaux des Ecoles de Hollande, de Flandre, d’Italie et de France, dont la Vente…aura lieu dans sa maison…le Mercredi matin 8 avril 1835… by (AUCTION CATALOGUE: LAFONTAINE, Pierre Joseph)

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Catalogue de Tableaux Capitaux des Ecoles de Hollande, de Flandre, d’Italie et de France, dont la Vente…aura lieu dans sa maison…le Mercredi matin 8 avril 1835…
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(AUCTION CATALOGUE: LAFONTAINE, Pierre Joseph)
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Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
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Wood-engraved vignettes on upper & lower wrappers, one large folding lithographed frontis. 8vo (210 x 140 mm.), orig. printed wrappers, stitched as issued. Paris: Coutellier & C. Paillet; London: Wootburn frères [sic.]; Bruxelles: Héris, 1835. A very scarce catalogue, in original state, of the personal art collection of Lafontaine (1758-1835), who “took care to prepare every new stage in his career without ever allowing himself to be affected by the political or economic changes.”–Blumenfeld, p. 218. Born in Flanders, he trained under the artists Kaplan van Neste and Jean Douelle. After his acceptance into the Académie, Lafontaine exhibited a number of paintings at the Salons of 1789 and 1791, and developed close ties with several painters, including Greuze. It also seems that Parisian experts had engaged him as an agent and scout starting in 1779; he devoted himself entirely to dealing some time in the mid-1790s. Lafontaine took full advantage of fluctuations in taste and supply and successfully arbitraged between England and the Continent throughout his career. Among countless profitable transactions, one of his most famous was an exchange with the Prince of Wales for Rembrandt’s The Standard Bearer (now coll. Elie de Rothschild) in return for a group of lesser paintings. The present auction catalogue begins with an informative memorial likely written by the expert of the sale, Charles Paillet (son of the great dealer, A.J. Paillet), who recalls Lafontaine as a helpful and enterprising colleague. It then describes 32 paintings (by da Vinci, del Sarto, Schedoni, Potter, Berghem, van Dyck, Callot, S. Bourdon, Lafontaine himself, etc.). Lot 1, a painting of Herodias receiving the head of John the Baptist (reproduced with the folding frontis.), is attributed to da Vinci; however, this composition, of which there are three known variants — one at the National Gallery in London, and another, possibly the original, at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna — is now re-attributed to Cesare da Cesto (1477-1523), one of the so-called Leonardeschi. Paillet provides measurements and lengthy descriptions for most of the paintings. The final six lots consist of drawings, books, and Lafontaine’s collection of sale catalogues. A fascinating sale catalogue of a noteworthy dealer’s personal collection. In original state and nice condition. ❧ Lugt 13949. C. Blumenfeld, “Pierre-Joseph Lafontaine and his Exploitation of European Art Market Imbalances in Paris and London, 1795-1815“ (pp. 217-30), in S. Avery-Quash & C. Huemer, eds., London and the Emergence of a European Art Market, 1780-1820 (2019), p. 218–“Lafontaine in fact played an important role in the development of the European art market during this period beset by major upheavals. For the years 1795-1815 alone, the Getty Provenance Index records 1,690 transactions under his name in Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, and Great Britain, and demonstrates that he was drawing far superior profits from the market than his Parisian colleagues. Most importantly, he was the only Fleming equally at ease in Paris and London and the only dealer whose business survived the political vicissitudes, enabling him to continue working from the 1780s to the July Monarchy.” See this chapter for a wonderful in-depth examination of Lafontaine’s evolution from artist to titan of the European art trade.
Essai sur la Peinture, la Sculpture et l’Architecture

Essai sur la Peinture, la Sculpture et l’Architecture by [BACHAUMONT, Louis de]

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Essai sur la Peinture, la Sculpture et l’Architecture
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[BACHAUMONT, Louis de]
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Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
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Engraved allegorical frontis. 1 p.l., vi, 93 pp. 8vo, attractive antique calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. N.p.: 1751. First edition. Bachaumont (1690-1771) was an influential noble who grew up at the court of Versailles during the height of its significance as the political and cultural nucleus of France. He frequented the salons of Paris and was entangled in several controversies, one in particular regarding a journal filled with gossip ascertained at the salon of Madame Doublet de Persan, for which he may have been partially responsible. By the end of his life, he was known as a cultural authority, whose opinion was sought after by artists and collectors alike. In the present work, his most important, Bachaumont espouses his beliefs on the aesthetics of art. Its publication was met with an enthusiastic reception. Fine copy. Name of author inscribed on title in a contemporary hand. ❧ Dictionnaire des Journalistes (1600-1789), “Louis Petit de Bachaumont” (online resource). N.B.G., Vol. IV, cols. 55-56.
ART NOUVEAU AND ART DECO BOOKBINDING: FRENCH MASTERPIECES 1880-1940

ART NOUVEAU AND ART DECO BOOKBINDING: FRENCH MASTERPIECES 1880-1940 by (BINDINGS - HUGO PELLER). DUNCAN, ALISTAIR and GEORGES DE BARTHA

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ART NOUVEAU AND ART DECO BOOKBINDING: FRENCH MASTERPIECES 1880-1940
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(BINDINGS - HUGO PELLER). DUNCAN, ALISTAIR and GEORGES DE BARTHA
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Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
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New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989. 292 x 235 mm. (11 1/2 x 9 1/4"). 200 pp.Preface by Priscilla Juvelis. FINE HONEY BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO, DRAMATICALLY INLAID, BY HUGO PELLER (stamp signed on rear doublure), covers with large, wavy black tentacles dotted with gilt (three on upper cover, two on lower) emanating from a yellow patch extending across the tail of the spine onto both covers, the tentacles outlined in white, a bright yellow sun-like spot on each cover embraced by two of the tentacles, smooth spine with gilt titling, black morocco doublures tooled with a spray of gilt dots, yellow morocco free endleaves. Original dust jacket bound in. Housed in a matching brown morocco-backed linen clamshell box. Illustrated throughout with many excellent color pictures of bindings (and with a few black and white text illustrations). Title page signed by Priscilla Juvelis. ◆In mint condition. This is a remarkably useful survey on modern French bindings and binders--a volume that has become an indispensable reference on the subject--offered here in an almost startling binding by one of the outstanding continental binders in the second half of the 20th century. The son of a master bookbinder, Hugo Peller (1917-2003) was a Swiss artisan whose skill as a binder was equalled by his talent for teaching; he is cited by some of the foremost designer bookbinders working today as their most influential instructor. Our binding's inlaid and onlaid leather elements, odd-numbered gilt dots of various sizes, and fillets within an abstracted image are characteristic features of Peller's bookbinding designs. He won prizes in many countries for his work, was elected a member (and served as vice president) of the Meister der Einbandkunst, and was director of the Centro del Bel Libro in Ascona from 1978-83. In the text here, the first major study of a fascinating period in French bookbinding, authors Duncan and De Bartha assess the work of more than 40 of the finest binders during the period under review. Detailed biographies and bibliographies are furnished at the conclusion of the main text. While the present eccentric--even mischievous--binding does not reflect the content of the book in a literal way (cephalopods are not even mentioned by our authors), its bold expressiveness certainly is appropriate for a work that examines revolutionary trends in modern bookbinding..
The Life of Samuel Johnson (Extra-illustrated in 7 vols.)

The Life of Samuel Johnson (Extra-illustrated in 7 vols.) by Boswell, James; [Herbert Railton (illustrator)]

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The Life of Samuel Johnson (Extra-illustrated in 7 vols.)
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Boswell, James; [Herbert Railton (illustrator)]
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Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
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London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1901. First thus. Three octavo volumes extended to seven (8 7/8 x 6 inches; 222 x 152 mm.). Extra-illustrated by the insertion of over six hundred plates including many portraits and scenes by various artists, at least one original letter (complete with envelope), pages from books and periodicals contemporary to the events being related by Boswell (including The Gentleman's Magazine), notices of marriages and deaths, bookseller catalogues, auction catalogues, etc., some items with hand-written captions, many mounted onto stiff paper with decorative borders. Bound by Pfister of New York ca. 1901, in full red morocco, covers elaborately stamped in gilt, spines with five raised bands, decorative gilt inside borders, mottled pink endleaves. With the bookplate of Robert Freeman Pick. "Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them" (Macauley). Indeed, drawing on his close and longstanding collaboration with Johnson as well as Johnson's own diary, James Boswell released a book that was a popular success and helped to establish the modern genre of biography. Still considered an important resource on the life and times of the famed memoirist and dictionary compiler, Boswell's Life of Johnson breathes vivid life into one of the most important British figures of the century. "We know of him not as he was known to men of his generation, but as he was known to men whose fathers he might have been...and long after his works may be forgotten, he will be remembered through Boswell's Life" (Macauley). F. J. Pfister was a New York-based bookbinder active during the 1890s and 1900s. A lecture in 1900 he "delivered an interesting address on the art of decorating the covers of books by means of pyrography, or of "burning in" with a heated tool the design with which the cover of a book is to be decorated, instead of impressing it, either blind or gilded, with dies or the ordinary binders' tools... Mr. Pfister pointed out that pyrography is not a recent art, but an ancient process revived" (The Booksellers' League). With the Ex-Libris in each volume of one "R.F. Pick", his name across an open book laying on two laurel branches and with a small beetle busily eating his way through the pages. Based on the name, the New York bindery, and the design of the Ex-Libris it seems highly likely that our Mr. Pick was the bookseller of that name who had an establishment at 136 E. 34th Street, New York City, and advertised his firm as "Bookseller and Importer" of "Rare and Choice Books". Interestingly, on the same page of the Literary Collector (dated October 1901 to March 1902) on which we find Mr. Pick's advertisement is one for the bindery, F.J. Pfister, directly beneath.
Galileo's Letter to the Vatican in Defense of His Astronomical Work, a Copy Created During the Banishment of his Work

Galileo's Letter to the Vatican in Defense of His Astronomical Work, a Copy Created During the Banishment of his Work by Galileo Galilei

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Galileo's Letter to the Vatican in Defense of His Astronomical Work, a Copy Created During the Banishment of his Work
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Galileo Galilei
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The Raab Collection (United States)
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01/01/1700. An anonymous copy, almost certainly written at a time when only manuscript copies were being circulated, late 17th century to early 18th centuryIn 1610, Galileo published his Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger), describing the observations that he had made with his new, much stronger telescope, amongst them, the Galilean moons of Jupiter. With these observations and additional observations that followed, such as the phases of Venus, he promoted the heliocentric theory of Nicolaus Copernicus published in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543. Galileo's opinions were met with opposition within the Catholic Church, and in 1616 the Inquisition declared heliocentrism to be ""formally heretical"". Galileo went on to propose a theory of tides in 1616, and of comets in 1619; he argued that the tides were evidence for the motion of the Earth.In 1632, Galileo published his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, which defended heliocentrism, and was immensely popular. Responding to mounting controversy over theology, astronomy and philosophy, the Roman Inquisition tried Galileo in 1633, found him ""vehemently suspect of heresy"", and sentenced him to house arrest where he remained until his death in 1642. At that point, heliocentric books were banned and Galileo was ordered to abstain from holding, teaching or defending heliocentric ideas after the trial.On the publication of Sidereus Nuncius the British Ambassador Sir Henry Wotton sent a letter to King James about the discovery of four ‘new planets’ revolving around Jupiter, enclosing a copy of the book. He added that the new little planets would affect Jupiter’s perceived astrological influence: ‘For the virtue of the new planets must needs vary the Judicial part’. A year later, a query on this matter was put to Galileo by his friend at the Vatican, Piero Dini: if the Stella Medici really existed, how could one ascertain their influence?Galileo’s affirmation that the new stars do really exist appears here as inseparable from his stating that they must also, like Jupiter, exert an influence. He also proposes what could be the first program for astrological research: from past case-histories, by scrutinizing the configuration of the little Jupiter-moons, one should in principle be able to ascertain how they work. He here disagreed with Kepler. In his letter to Galileo of 1610, the Imperial Mathematician had expressed the view that, because the new moons did not depart appreciably from the side of Jupiter, viewed from Earth, therefore they could not exert any ‘influence’ – and they must exist purely for the benefit of the inhabitants of Jupiter.Manuscript, late 17th century, early 18th century, 18 cm x 25 cm, consisting of 10 unnumbered leaves, filled in on the front and back. There is an annotation by a different, later hand which refers to a printed edition of Galileo's works ""see work of Galileo, Padua edition volume II page 430"". The Padua edition was published in 1744, so after the creation of this manuscript.Selections from the text:""I, for a full two years hitherto, have with my instrument, rather with tens of my instruments, carried out hundreds of thousands of experiments with thousands and thousands of objects, both near and far, both large and small, both bright and dark, I fail to see how it could occur to anyone that I might quite simply carry on being deceived in my observations, and that, between the perspicacity of another’s genius and the stupidity of my own, could fall such wide discrepancy, that they, without ever having seen my instrument, have discovered this fault... Let me add that it is not only my instrument, or the others by me constructed, that make visible the four Jovial planets, but all others too, made in whatever place by whichever craftsmen, provided they are well worked and show other objects large and distinct...""As for the other objection, namely that if such Planets are indeed real, they must on account of their smallness remain ineffective, I cannot see how this can be held against me, since I have put forth not a word on their effectiveness or their influences; such that if anyone judge them superfluous, redundant and of no use to the world, let them take issue with nature or God, not with me, for I have naought to do with it, claiming no more than to have shown them there in the sky, revolving by their own proper motion round the star of Jove....""I certainly do not believe that in ancient and ruder centuries nature forebore to produce the immense variety of plants and animals, of gems and metals and other minerals; to make for each one of those animals member, muscle and joint; furthermore, that she failed to move the celestial sphere, and in sum, to produce and work her effects; simply because these inexpert people knew not the virtues of the plants, the stones and the fossils, nor understood the uses of all the parts of the animals, nor discerned the courses of the stars: and indeed for my part what a ridiculous thing would it be to believe that the things of nature come into being only when we come to discover them and to understand them...""And if others too are eager to press me to say what particular influence I believe depends on these new Planets I have recently discovered; I would respond, that all the influences which they have hitherto attributed to Jupiter alone, are derived no more from Jupiter than from his satellites, and having believed that Jupiter operates alone, and not having known that he had four companions, not one authority has mastered the manner in which Jupiter might cease to have them close by and to co-operate with them. How to distinguish more particularly their effects, I would not know, unless someone were to remove his satellites from his side, and for some time make him work alone. And who would know if anger, love, hatred and other such passions reside in the brain or in the heart, lest first he try living for some time without brain or without heart?""Now I add further, that if it is true, as these astrologers and many philosophers affirm, that the stars work their operations lumine et motu, by light and motion, and if it is further true that the larger lights influence more effectively, it follows that velocity of motion and swiftness and frequency of conjunction give great advantage over the sluggish tardiness of those that wander slowly: and if this is so, the influence of the four new Planets must be most vigorous, their being endowed with such rapid orbital periods, that the slowest completes its revolution round Jupiter in little less than sixteen days, and the swiftest in less than two days. What they lack therefore, due to dimness of light, may be best compensated for by swiftness of motion; and if the light of all four together is, e.g., the equivalent of half the light of Saturn, they are, on the contrary, thousands and thousands of times swifter than him. So how much they may assist and alter the effects of Jupiter (assuming, indeed, we take him as primary among the five), may from future observations in particular be gathered, and at present be generally estimated by conjecture as to what it implies to have four stars now conjunct, now divided, now all oriental, now all occidental, now some dexter and some sinister, now all or some direct, now by contrast retrograde, now full of light and now obscured and eclipsed; all the which variations alternating from day to day. But should anyone insist on denying influences where the light of the celestial bodies which do influence does not reach, therefore saying that motion without light has no effect, I would first ask him what light have those places in the heavens where there is not a single star, nor any light of their own; as in the case of the ascendant, the midheaven, the part of fortune, and then all those other places which they, the astrologers, move by direction,10 and which, without a single star, are of all the effects that follow, in their opinion, authors. Moreover, the stars beneath our horizon must have no effect, since their light does not reach our hemisphere; or if their potency is strong enough to penetrate the celestial globe, then the so many and so large stars of southern skies ought not to be neglected. Besides, who can say the light of the Medicean Planets does not reach the earth? Would we still make of our eyes the measure of the effusion of all the lights, so that where the image of a luminous object does not make itself sensible to us, there must we declare that its light does not reach? Perhaps eagles and wolves can see such stars, which remain hidden to our feeble vision. Whereas, since visible images are but forms of light, or at least cannot diffuse without light, wherever these images arrive, there must arrive their light: now, if the images of the four Medicean Planets in diffusing fade away and are lost before they can reach earth, all Murano’s lenses put together would not suffice to make them visible, because what is not there cannot be magnified, and dilation and augmentation assume the existence of something which can dilate and augment: therefore, since the images of the four Medicean Planets can be seen so large and luminous through the telescope, it cannot be denied that their light diffuses brightly enough as far as the earth. Finally I might add, if it requires a most apparent and perceptible illumination in order to exert influence, then the effects of Mercury must truly remain null or extremely feeble, since his light remains for most of the time, indeed almost always, invisible; and Mars near the Sun, where his visual magnitude is barely one sixtieth part of that which we see at opposition, such that in size he subsides to the apparent magnitude of stars of the fourth order, must have little or no influence. Let us conclude therefore, if the other stars can influence, the Mediceans too do not cease to perform. Lastly, regarding what these Gentleman add, that of such stars, to their belief, there is no lack, I cannot deny nor affirm anything, but merely say for my part that I have not been able to discover any other than these four around Jupiter, and the two in motionless conjunction with Saturn; and I pray that if others have discovered more, they be not displeased to inform me, as I should be most particularly obliged to them. Yet I do not believe, that these Gentlemen mean stars other than the movable and wandering stars, as are the Medicean stars, since to talk about the countless fixed stars is beside the point: and I have already written, how immense is the number of fixed stars invisible to the naked eye: but since they do not induce us to establish new spheres nor to alter the universal system nor to recognize necessarily that no single orb is the centre with respect to which all the stars revolve,12 they can with less scrupulous examination be passed over. And if, as I also esteem, it is the wandering stars these Gentlemen mean in stating their belief that of such there is no lack, whence at the same time arises their difficulty in conceding these four?""
For The New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

For The New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Rand, Ayn

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For The New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
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Rand, Ayn
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New York: Random House, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Signed by Ayn Rand in blue ink on half title. viii, 242pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth, front stamped in blind, with gilt spine lettering and green ruling. Near Fine with small stain to top edge, age toning to contents, in a Near Fine dust jacket, tiny closed tear to front panel, light rubbing, front flap crased, unclipped ($3.95). A signed statement of beliefs from the originator of Objectivism and novelist who wrote Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.
1851 – An impressive multicolor two-page broadsheet for one of the preeminent hat companies in New York

1851 – An impressive multicolor two-page broadsheet for one of the preeminent hat companies in New York by Swift, Hurlbut, & Company

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1851 – An impressive multicolor two-page broadsheet for one of the preeminent hat companies in New York
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Swift, Hurlbut, & Company
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New York City, 1851. Envelope or Cover. Very good. This two-page advertising broadsheet measures 17” x 10.5” unfolded. It was sent from the Swift, Hurlbut, & Company at 207 Pearl Street in New York City to Joseph A. Johnson , a Madisonville, Tennessee merchant. It bears a circular red New York “Paid” postmark and an additional manuscript “paid” annotation. In nice shape. The front of the broadsheet, printed on blue paper, features a 2.75” x 4.25” sepia illustration of the company’s four-story New York City storefront with red and black text in a variety of fonts and sizes. The inside page advertises Buffalo Robes and various types of hats including Broad Brim, Angola, California Fur, Hungarian Fur, Jenny Lind, Kossuth, Negro Wool, Silk Plush, Glazed Silk, Oiled Silk, Glazed Lawn, Panama, Leghorn, and Palm Leaf. . Scarce. While the company is referenced in several newspaper advertisements and listed in a Smithsonian list of New York merchants, this appears to be the only surviving broadside. None are for sale in the trade. The Rare Book Hub shows none have appeared at auction, and OCLC shows none are held in institutional collections. An impressive early multi-color mail-marketing broadsheet circular. .
1775 - A warrant directing Pennsylvania sheriff arrest several men on the charge of "Felonious Trespass" signed by Justice of the Peace Thomas Smith, a member of the Bedford County Pennsylvania revolutionary Committee of Correspondence, who would become a Revolutionary War Colonel and later be arrested for opposing the state's first Constitution of 1776

1775 - A warrant directing Pennsylvania sheriff arrest several men on the charge of "Felonious Trespass" signed by Justice of the Peace Thomas Smith, a member of the Bedford County Pennsylvania revolutionary Committee of Correspondence, who would become a Revolutionary War Colonel and later be arrested for opposing the state's first Constitution of 1776 by Thomas Smith

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1775 - A warrant directing Pennsylvania sheriff arrest several men on the charge of "Felonious Trespass" signed by Justice of the Peace Thomas Smith, a member of the Bedford County Pennsylvania revolutionary Committee of Correspondence, who would become a Revolutionary War Colonel and later be arrested for opposing the state's first Constitution of 1776
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Thomas Smith
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Bedford County Pennsylvania, 1775. Unbound. Very good. This impressive warrant from Bedford County, Pennsylvania measures 13" x 4". It is dated the "Thirteenth Day of July in the fifteenth Year of [the] Reign" of George III, i.e., 1775. In nice shape. It reads in part: "George the third by the Grace of God of Great Brittain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c To the Sheriff of Bedford County Greeting We command you as we have often done heretofor Commanded that you take Pierce Noland . . . Paul Ernstberger . . . Adam Kefer . . . Henry Stegner . . . Peter Boucher . . . and Frederick Vertress . . . if they be found in your Bailiwick and them Safely keep so that you have their Bodies before our Justices as well as our Peace to keep [for] Divers Felonies Trespasses and other misdeeds within our Said County Perpetrated . . . to be Assigned . . . at our County Court of General Quarter Sessions . . . to be Held the third Tuesday in October next to answer us of a Certain Offence whereof they Stand Indicted. . .." . Perhaps as a result of revolutionary turmoil, Bedford County Court records shed little more light on the men's offences other than to indicate they were accused of "riot and assault" and that they failed to appear at court. Smith, a native of Scotland, became the deputy surveyor of Cumberland County in the early 1770s and an influential Bedford land lawyer by 1772, eventually being appointed as a Justice of the Peace. He was named as a representative to the county's revolutionary Committee of Correspondence in 1775 and commissioned as the Colonel of the Second Battalion of the Bedford County Associators in 1776. Although he helped draft the state's Constitution of 1776, he vehemently opposed some provisions and was jailed for refusing to turn over county records to the state's "Supreme Executive Council." He was finally freed after pledging to support the document; however, he continued to voice his opposition until the Constitution was rewritten in 1790. (For more information, see the Bedford County Court Records and "Thomas Smith, 1791-1794" at the Bedford County History of Judges website.) An attractive and scarce colonial arrest warrant, issued in 1775 following the battles at Lexington and Concord. Perhaps, a little more research could determine if the trespass, riot, and assault charges against Pierce Noland were related to early conflicts between American revolutionaries and loyalists. .
Hymns for Little Children

Hymns for Little Children by [ANONYMOUS]

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Hymns for Little Children
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[ANONYMOUS]
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Northampton [Massachusetts]: John Metcalf, 1838. BARBER. [CHAPBOOK] [JUVENILE] [RELIGION] [RELIGIOCENTRISM] [ETHNOCENTRISM]. [John Warner ?] BARBER, woodcut. Cover title: Hymns for Children, Northampton: J.H. Butler No date [1838-1850]. 24mo (5 1/4" x 3"); 24pp; yellow wrappers with a decorative border surrounding the lettering and a vignette of 3 children with a dog and cart on the front, the rear features a vignette of a man and young boy in a dooryard; publisher's string binding; woodcut fp titled "Going to Church" and signed "Barber"; vignette of three children kneeling in prayer on the title page; alphabets and numbers inside a border on verso of title page; small woodcut illustrations throughout; light wear and hand soiling, light foxing throughout; very good. OCLC does not locate copies with Butler's wrapper. Sixteen unnumbered rhyming hymns without musical notation follow the page of printed alphabets and numbers. These appear to be poems not to be sung but to be read as prayers at the day's beginning or end. Most have common sentiments of thanksgiving, requests for blessing and protection, and a desire to do good and please God. Two point to the religiocentrism and ethnocentrism of mid-19th century America. In "A Child's Hymn of Praise," the verses read: I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smil'd, And made me, in these Christian days, A free and happy child. I was not born as thousands are, Where God was never known; And taught to pray a useless prayer, To blocks of wood and stone. I was not born a little slave, To labor in the sun, And wish I were but in the grave, And all my labor done! I was not born without a home, Or in some broken shed; A gypsy baby taught to roam, And steal my daily bread. My God, I thank thee, who has plann'd A better lot for me, And plac'd me in this happy land, And where I hear of thee. The first two stanzas of "God every where" read: God made the world-in every land His love and power abound; All are protected by his hand, As well as Christian ground. The Indian hut, and English cot, Alike in his care must own; Though savage nations know him not, But worship wood and stone. Published or reissued by J.H. [Jonathan Hunt] Butler along with the Metcalf imprint between 1838 and Butler's move to Philadelphia in 1850.
Eastern Maine and the Rebellion: Being and Account of the Principal Local Events in Eastern Maine during the War and Brief Histories of Eastern Maine Regiments; Accounts of Mobs, Riots, Destruction of Newspapers, War Meetings, Drafts, Confederate Raids, Peace Meetings, Celebrations, Soldiers' Letters, and Scenes and Incidents at the Front, Never Before in Print

Eastern Maine and the Rebellion: Being and Account of the Principal Local Events in Eastern Maine during the War and Brief Histories of Eastern Maine Regiments; Accounts of Mobs, Riots, Destruction of Newspapers, War Meetings, Drafts, Confederate Raids, Peace Meetings, Celebrations, Soldiers' Letters, and Scenes and Incidents at the Front, Never Before in Print by STANLEY, R.H. and Geo. O. HALL

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Eastern Maine and the Rebellion: Being and Account of the Principal Local Events in Eastern Maine during the War and Brief Histories of Eastern Maine Regiments; Accounts of Mobs, Riots, Destruction of Newspapers, War Meetings, Drafts, Confederate Raids, Peace Meetings, Celebrations, Soldiers' Letters, and Scenes and Incidents at the Front, Never Before in Print
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STANLEY, R.H. and Geo. O. HALL
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Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
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Very good
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Bangor, Maine: R.H. Stanley & Company, 1887. Cloth. Very good. [OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE] [CIVIL WAR]. Press of Ford & Rich, Portland, ME. OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE of Hannibal E. Hamlin (1858-1938), a Maine state politician and son of Vice-President Hannibal Hamlin from Maine, the first Vice-President under President Abraham Lincoln. 8vo; 392pp; blue cloth over board, blind stamped borders, gilt-stamped lettering on front and spine; dated ownership signature "H.E. Hamlin 1918" on front pastedown; engraved portrait of "The War Vice-President, Hannibal Hamlin" on frontispiece; small eagle vignette on title page; 20 engraved plates incl. frontispiece; spine sunned, chipping to head and tail of spine with small closed tear, a few light spots; very good. The Civil War saw more than 70,000 men from the State of Maine engaged in the War, more than 11 percent of its population at the time. This comprehensive book reviews recruits' hometowns and the various regiments, notable officers, and important events that shaped the war. A treasure with the ownership signature of Hannibal E. Hamlin.
Arithmetical Tables, for the Use of Schools

Arithmetical Tables, for the Use of Schools by [ANONYMOUS]

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Arithmetical Tables, for the Use of Schools
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[ANONYMOUS]
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Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
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Very good
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New York: Samuel S. & William Wood, No. 261 Pearl-Street, 1842. Wraps. Very good. 4 ½" x 3 ½"; 24pp; yellow paper wrapper with wood-cut decoration of a paddle-wheeler on the front and a listing of other publisher's School Books to rear; string binding; wood-cut decoration to title page; all text within double-lined wood-cut borders; light soiling to wrapper, light foxing to margins, creasing to corners; very good. No WorldCat listings for this edition. Perhaps Dr. Alexander Anderson's wood-cuts as illustrations, he worked with the firm while they were located on Pearl Street. Text includes arithmetic tables, Federal and British money information, weights and measures, time and motion, and "Tables of Money, Weights, and Measures Mentioned in the Bible". An interesting little chapbook.
Shirley Temple through the day, No. 1716

Shirley Temple through the day, No. 1716 by [ANONYMOUS]

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Shirley Temple through the day, No. 1716
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[ANONYMOUS]
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Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
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Very good +
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Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1936. Staplebound wraps. Very good +. 8vo; 32pp; color photographic illustration wrapper with Shirley Temple waking up in bed; 2 staple binding holding tight; black and white photographic illustrations with text; bumping to wrapper corners; very good plus. Shirley Temple was a childhood star of screen, radio and television. She later was the Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. As a child star, she was Hollywood's number one box office draw from 1935-38.
Cherry Ames Island Nurse

Cherry Ames Island Nurse by WELLS, Helen

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Cherry Ames Island Nurse
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WELLS, Helen
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Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
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Very good
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New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1960. Later printing. Cloth. Very good. Later printing. 12mo; 184pp; color pictorial cloth over board; grey endpapers; b&w illustrated frontispiece; light scuffing to boards, one page creased; very good.
Ogden, Utah Paper and Billhead Becker Brewing

Ogden, Utah Paper and Billhead Becker Brewing

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Ogden, Utah Paper and Billhead Becker Brewing
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Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
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1918. 23 statements and receipts from The Fred Kiesel Co., Ogden Wholesale Drug Co., Inc. Includes statements for such items as Listerine, gauze bandages, Sulfuric acid, and Muriatic acid. The Becker Brewing Company has to be considered the most successful of all the Ogden breweries, and maybe even the most successful Utah brewery, for that matter. Becker Brewing has the distinction of being the only brewery in Utah to operate before, during, and after Prohibition. It also holds the Utah brewery record for longevity, staying in business for an incredible 75 years straight. By 1905, Becker Brewing and Malting had expanded into Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Nevada and was the preferred beer of retailers. The brewery had to expand its production since it expanded its business, so the plant underwent a renovation in 1906. The brewery never shut down business during the renovation, and, by 1906, the annual capacity had grown to 25,000 barrels of beer. The brewery had its own waterworks system, electric light system, the largest double acting ice machine in the state, and was the only Utah brewery owning its own railroad, the Oregon Shoreline. Over the years, Becker Brewing and Malting succeeded and soared in business, which prepared them for the dark years of Prohibition. In 1917, Becker Brewing changed its name to Becker Manufacturing Company, and then later to Becker Products Company in 1918. To supplement business during Prohibition, Becker went into the soda and ice business, leased cold storage space, produced non-alcoholic beer, bottled Coca-Cola products, manufactured ice, began a poultry-freezing business, turned a brewery into a slaughterhouse, and raised badgers. When beer consumption was finally legalized in Utah on January 1, 1934, Becker Products Company was the only operational brewery left in the state.
Harry Truman Thanks A Woman For The Clipping Regarding Our Daughter Margaret

Harry Truman Thanks A Woman For The Clipping Regarding Our Daughter Margaret by HARRY TRUMAN

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Harry Truman Thanks A Woman For The Clipping Regarding Our Daughter Margaret
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HARRY TRUMAN
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Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
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HARRY TRUMAN (1884-1972). Truman was the Thirty-Third President. TLS. 1pg. June 16, 1969. Independence, Missouri. A typed letter signed Harry S Truman to Mrs. Coates of Little Silver: Mrs. Truman and I were glad to have your letterand the clipping regarding our daughter Margaret. We appreciate your very kind comments and your thoughtfulness in writing us as you did. The original envelope is included.
Buddha's Lions: The Lives of the Eighty-Four Siddhas (Caturasiti-siddha-pravrtti).
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Buddha's Lions: The Lives of the Eighty-Four Siddhas (Caturasiti-siddha-pravrtti). by ABHAYADATTA.

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Buddha's Lions: The Lives of the Eighty-Four Siddhas (Caturasiti-siddha-pravrtti).
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ABHAYADATTA.
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Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780913546604
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
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Berkeley:: Dharma Publishing,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0913546607 . Translated from the Tibetan by James B. Robinson. First printing. Light foxing on edges, else near fine in a near fine (some light rubbing) dust jacket. .
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Milford Tombstone Inscriptions by ABBOTT, Morris W

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Milford Tombstone Inscriptions
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ABBOTT, Morris W
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Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Milford: Morris W. Abbott. Very Good. 1967. Paperback. B000Q1RUGU . With genealogical notes by Susan Woodruff Abbott. First edition (paperback). Light soiling to covers, else very good in pictorial wraps. .
Trifles in Verse: A Collection of Fugitive Poems

Trifles in Verse: A Collection of Fugitive Poems by Cist, Lewis J.

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Trifles in Verse: A Collection of Fugitive Poems
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Cist, Lewis J.
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De Simone Company, Booksellers (United States)
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Cincinnati: Robinson and Jones, 1845.   8vo.  190 x 125 mm.  [7 ½ x 5 inches].  184 pp.  Illustrated with a lithographic portrait of the author by Rouse.  Original cloth; scuffed and soiled, with some fading of the color; tide marks and some foxing. First edition.  Attractive and early lithograph by Samuel Rowse from a daguerreotype by Hawkins of Cincinnati.  Lewis J. Cist was a successful banker, local historian, and poet, who published most of his works in the Western Monthly Magazine and in Cists' Weekly Advertiser from 1847 to 1853.  He was also a notable collector of autographs, the sale of which was organized by Bangs & Co., New York in five sessions in 1886 and 1887.  Sabin, Dictionary of Books Relating to America, 13156.  McKay, American Book Auction Catalogues,  p. 14 and index. .
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The universal letter-writer : or, Whole art of polite correspondence, a great variety of plain, easy, entertaining, and familiar original letters . to which is subjoined an index to enable the reader . to find out any particular letter .A New Edition Corrected and Enlarged

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The universal letter-writer : or, Whole art of polite correspondence, a great variety of plain, easy, entertaining, and familiar original letters . to which is subjoined an index to enable the reader . to find out any particular letter .A New Edition Corrected and Enlarged
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Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
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Hudson (NY): William E. Norman, 1811. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good. Printed by William E. Norman, No.2 Warren Street. 8vo, half leather, 143 pages, covers heavilyworn and some signatures springing but holding, stained throughout. Definitelyunsophisticated. OCLC list 3 institutions.
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TODAY'S POETS: Their Poems - Their Voices / Volume 2 by Dunning, Stephen; Josephine Miles, et al.

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TODAY'S POETS: Their Poems - Their Voices / Volume 2
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Dunning, Stephen; Josephine Miles, et al.
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Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
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Near fine.
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New York: Scholastic Records, 1967. First Edition. Near fine.. Record with poems by Josephine Miles, William Stafford, May Swenson, and David Wagoner, each reading a selection of their own work. Second in a series. Cover design by June Martin. Liner notes in enclosed insert. 33 1/3 RPM LP album, no. FS 11002. Near fine in shrink wrap, album sleeve corners faintly bumped.
The Washington Water-Color Club Fourth Annual Exhibit, 1899

The Washington Water-Color Club Fourth Annual Exhibit, 1899

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The Washington Water-Color Club Fourth Annual Exhibit, 1899
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De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
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Single sheet, folded. Creased at fold. Many artists listed.
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May Fair by Arlen, Michael

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May Fair
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Arlen, Michael
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
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London: W. Collins and Son, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Original cloth; dw. Jacket designed by Edmond Dulac in gold and black. DJ is edgeworn and scraped with some small chips, but largely still all there. Previous ownership signature dated 1925.

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