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Life of George Washington Commander in Chief of the American forces during the war which established the independence of his country, and first President of the United States, The by [WASHINGTON, George]; MARSHALL, John

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Title: Life of George Washington Commander in Chief of the American forces during the war which established the independence of his country, and first President of the United States, The
Author: [WASHINGTON, George]; MARSHALL, John
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1804. The "Best Edition" of Marshall's Classic Biography Near Fine in Contemporary Mottled Sheep [WASHINGTON, George]. [MARSHALL, John]. The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American forces during the war which established the independence of his country, and first President of the United States. Compiled under the inspection of the Hon. Bushrod Washington, from original papers bequeathed to him by his deceased relative. To which is prefixed, an introduction, containing a compendious view of the colonies planted by the English on the continent of North America. By John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States, &c. &c. London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1804-1807. First (and best) London Edition (in octavo) and, according to Howes, the best edition of all. Five octavo volumes (8 3/16 x 5 1/8 inches; 208 x 131 mm.). xxxvi, 579, [1], 2 folding maps; folding engraved frontispiece; viii, 245, 254-633, [3]; folding engraved frontispiece; viii, 570, folding engraved frontispiece and engraving on last page; viii, 684; viii, 843, [5], 10 folding maps, pp. Complete with three folding plates, one vignette and twelve folding maps. Volume two with paper flaw tear (no loss of text) on O2 (pp. 195-196), volume three title-page with small paper flaw crease on blank fore margin, volume four with small paper flaws to lower corner of O2 (pp. 195-196) and upper blank margin of SS7 & SS8 (pp. 637-640). A few minor marginal stains throughout and some very light and occasional browning of the text to volume five. Overall a near fine and much cleaner set than is usually found with the folding plates and maps in excellent and undamaged state. Contemporary mottled sheep, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, three faded, one missing. The hinges and spine extremities have been expertly restored. A near fine, sound and very attractive set - rarely found in its original binding. With the uniform, early ink signature of Peter Trezevant on each front flyleaf. The first London edition has five plates that were omitted in the Philadelphia edition and is the only complete edition of this monumental and indispensable work. John Marshall (1755-1835), served in the House of Representatives (1799-1800), was Secretary of State (1800-1801) under President John Adams, and was the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. During his thirty-five year tenure as Chief Justice, Marshall served under six presidents. He established the Judiciary as independent from, and equal with, the Legislative and Executive branches of the U.S. government, and affirmed that the Court was entitled to exercise judicial review - the power to strike down laws deemed by the Court to be unconstitutional. He made key legal decisions regarding the balance of power between the federal government and the states, and in McCulloch v. Maryland supported an elastic interpretation of the enumerated powers of the legislature in Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution. During the American Revolution he participated in many battles, including Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Stony Point and Paulus Hook. He was at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, during the winter of 1777-1778 with General George Washington's troops, and it was during his military service that he became personally acquainted with Washington. Present at the creation of the republic, a personal friend of many of the founding fathers, and close friend of Washington, in 1800 Marshall was approached by Washington's nephew, Bushrod, to whom the first president has bequeathed his papers. Marshall agreed to Bushrod's request to write a biography of Washington and, beginning in 1801, Marshall continued to write for five years, ultimately penning over 3,200 pages. More than 7,000 copies of the biography were sold at one dollar per volume. The resulting five volume work, which includes a history of the American colonies omitted from subsequent editions, is considered to be the definitive biography of George Washington. Accurate and comprehensive, it is the primary source to which all subsequent biographers and historians reference. Not just a biography of Washington, it is a detailed, panoramic history of the colonies and early United States. Howes M317. Sabin 44788.

Discorsi... intorno al comporre de i Romanzi, delle Comedie, e delle Tragedie, e di altre maniere di Poesie. Con la tavola delle cose piu notabili in tutti essi discorsi contenute by Giraldi, Giambattista Cinzio (1504-1573)

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Title: Discorsi... intorno al comporre de i Romanzi, delle Comedie, e delle Tragedie, e di altre maniere di Poesie. Con la tavola delle cose piu notabili in tutti essi discorsi contenute
Author: Giraldi, Giambattista Cinzio (1504-1573)
Seller: Liber Antiquus (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari e fratelli, 1554. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Contemporary limp vellum, colored edges, some light marginal foxing, v. light stain on p. 80. A very nice copy with the 18th-c. engraved bookplate of Felice Durando Count of Villa (1729-1791), famous for his erudition and his famous library. With the printer's device on the title page and at the end of the volume. FIRST EDITION of Giraldi's most important contribution to literary criticism and his most lasting influence on dramatic theory and practice. Almost all the main issues in Renaissance dramatic criticism are examined somewhere in his various works and prefaces. Giraldi rejected the Greek arrangement of plays into prologue, episodes, and choral odes and returned to the five acts of the Roman theatre. He reasoned that a good play should first present the argument, direct the argument toward its end, present obstacles to its resolution, offer a means of removing the obstacles, and end with a resolution, all arranged in five acts. In contrast to only three or four speaking parts in some Greek plays, he increased the number of actors used in a play to as many as twenty. Following Seneca, he emphasized the function of the messenger, whose arrivals and reports cause the audience to experience 'all the horror and compassion which are the pith of the plot'. Consequently, he used soliloquies freely. In drama he preferred verse, rhymed or unrhymed, to prose and favored the separation of stylistic levels between comedy and tragedy. He believed that the proper function of tragedy was both to teach and to delight as well as to induce wonder, pity, and horror. Although he used historical plots in several of his tragedies, he was willing to expand the traditional themes of Italian tragedy to non-historical and fictitious plots; the seven plays taken from his own novelle all fall into this category. While he never used the term tragicomedy, his concept of ‘tragedia mista’ (mixed tragedy - tragedy with a happy ending) combines the goal of arousing emotions of horror and pity with the more pleasant satisfaction of seeing good characters rewarded at the end of the play for their virtue. For example, the Orbecche, his most influential work, was a Senecan horror tragedy dealing with Sulmone, king of Persia, and his daughter, Orbecche. It presented both Orbecche's murder of her father and her subsequent suicide directly on the stage, a practice imitated in scores of gory scenes in the theatres of Renaissance Italy, France, and England. Giraldi's treatise reflected his belief that the classical epic was not the only proper form for narrative poetry, and in it he defended Ariosto's Orlando Furioso against its detractors. In such matters, he stands on the side of progressive critics in the early literary quarrels that came to be known as the "Battle of the Books" between the ancients and the moderns. Thus, while he admits the necessity of poetic unity, he denies that it is only of the kind Aristotle observed in Homer. In effect, he defines the poem of Ariosto as evolving from a different source (the romanzi) than its classical antecedents, although he believed that all forms of the epic, both ancient and modern, belonged to the same genre. The grounds of Giraldi's defence are twofold. In the first place Giraldi maintains that the romance is a poetic form of which Aristotle did not known, and therefore do not apply; and in the second place, Tuscan literature, differing as it does from the literature of Greece in language, in spirit, and in religious feeling, need not and indeed ought not to follow the rules of Greek literature, but rather the laws of its own development and its own traditions (cf. P. Osborn, G.B. Giraldi Cinthio's dramatic theory and stage practice: a creative interaction, in: ''Scenery, Set, and Staging in the Italian Renaissance: Studies in the Practice of Theatre'', Lewiston, NY, 1996, pp. 39-58). “The first sketch of a theory of acting was not to originate from the professional comic actors but in the academy, where in the mid-sixteenth century debate was developing on Aristotle’s Poetics and attempts to fix the rules of composition for literary works were multiplying. In 1554 there appeared the Discorsi... by Giambattista Giraldi Cintio, an eminent intellectual and the author of various tragedies, who held a prominent position in Ercole II d’Este’s court at Ferrara” (C. Vicentini, Theory of Acting III. The Early Italian Tratises and the Theoretical Acting Model, in: “Acting Archives Essays, AAR Supplement 3, April 2011, p.1) Giovanni Battista Giraldi, surnamed Cinzio, was born at Ferrara and educated at the university of his native city. He became professor of natural philosophy in 1525 and, twelve years later, succeeded Celio Calcagnini in the chair of rhetoric. He also acted as private secretary to Ercole II and Alfonso II d'Este. Apart from his tragedies, he is mainly remembered for his prose work Hecatomithi, a collection of tales in the manner of Boccaccio and Bandello, which, directly or indirectly furnished the plot for several of Shakespeare's plays (cf. R. Bruscagli, B.G. Giraldi: comico, satirico, tragico, in: ''Il teatro italiano del Rinascimento'', Milano, 1980, pp. 261-283).

Works, in Greek. Euripidis quæ Extant Omnia: Tragoediæ nempe XX, præter ultimam, omnes completæ: item fragmenta aliarum plusquam LX tragœdiarum; et epistolæ V. Nunc primùm & ipsæ hùc adjectæ: scholia demùm doctorum virorum in septem priores tragœdias, ex diversis antiquis exemplaribus undiquaque collecta & concinnata ab Arsenio Monembasiæ Archiepiscopo. ... Operâ & studio Josuæ Barnes S.T.B. Emmanuelis Collegii apud Cantabrigienses Socii maximè senioris by Euripides (484-406 B.C.); Barnes, Joshua (1654-1712), editor

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Title: Works, in Greek. Euripidis quæ Extant Omnia: Tragoediæ nempe XX, præter ultimam, omnes completæ: item fragmenta aliarum plusquam LX tragœdiarum; et epistolæ V. Nunc primùm & ipsæ hùc adjectæ: scholia demùm doctorum virorum in septem priores tragœdias, ex diversis antiquis exemplaribus undiquaque collecta & concinnata ab Arsenio Monembasiæ Archiepiscopo. ... Operâ & studio Josuæ Barnes S.T.B. Emmanuelis Collegii apud Cantabrigienses Socii maximè senioris
Author: Euripides (484-406 B.C.); Barnes, Joshua (1654-1712), editor
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Description: Cambridge: Ex officinâ Johan. Hayes, celeberrimæ Academiæ typographi. Impensis Richardi Green bibliopolæ Cantab, 1694. FIRST EDITION of Joshua Barnes’ Euripides. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary English calf, rebacked preserving the original spine. The boards are blind-ruled in compartments; there is an attractive red morocco lettering piece, gilt, on the spine. Aside from light wear and bumping to the corners, the binding is very well preserved. Internally, this copy is in excellent condition throughout. The Greek text is surrounded by the Greek scholia and flanked by a Latin translation, in smaller type. The second part is introduced by a divisional title page. “The merits of all preceding editions are eclipsed by this celebrated one of Joshua Barnes. Fabricius observes that ‘the text is accurately revised and printed, the metrical rules of Canter diligently corrected, and the entire ancient scholia on the first seven plays subjoined and enriched by excerpta from a manuscript in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The notes of various learned men, and those of Barnes accompany the scholia; the fragments of Euripides are carefully collected and displayed, with Greek and Latin notes as far as verse 2068; lastly, there are some epistles, attributed to Euripides.’”(Dibdin, 2nd ed.).

L'esperance [Book-mark made up of Australian [New Zealand?] gold nugget beads] by Anon. - BOOK-MARK

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Title: L'esperance [Book-mark made up of Australian [New Zealand?] gold nugget beads]
Author: Anon. - BOOK-MARK
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Condition: Very good.
Description: ca1875. As found.. Very good.. A Berlin Work book-mark made up by applying a matrix (90 x 25 mm) for the gold to a strip of white silk (430 x 25 mm). The name, "L'esperance" is spelled out with small, solid gold beads, pierced and threaded together. The weight is appx. 0.1 Troy oz. L'esperance is a solid rock out-cropping in the South Pacific constituting the southern most of the Kermadec Islands north of New Zealand. One can only imagine the story behind this artifact given the series of gold rushes in Australia and New Zealand during the closing decades of the 19th century and celebration of such a dramatic geologic anomaly as L'esperance. See Howgego III, 423-432.

... Knitting Machines, Winders, etc. .... by Aiken Knitting Machine Company - BROADSIDE

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Title: ... Knitting Machines, Winders, etc. ....
Author: Aiken Knitting Machine Company - BROADSIDE
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
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Description: New York City: Aiken Company, [ca1880]. As issued.. Very good.. Broadside measuring 420 x 260 mm. Illustrated with renderings of the machinery for sale. The company was incorporated in NYC but the factory was located in Franklin NH. The text on the broadside states that the pamphlet (not present here) provides full details for the machines. Prices, use, production sizes are, however, given on this broadside. Absent from Romaine and McKinstry.

On the vibrations of a vortex ring. Offprint by Thomson, J J.

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Title: On the vibrations of a vortex ring. Offprint
Author: Thomson, J J.
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Description: London, 1882. Offprint from Philosophical Transactions. This was Thomson's first publication on this subject.

Practical dietetics. With special reference to diet in disease by Thompson, W. Gilman

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Title: Practical dietetics. With special reference to diet in disease
Author: Thompson, W. Gilman
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Description: New York: D Appleton, 1897. 2nd printing.

Moss Rose by Shearing, Joseph (Pseudonym of Gabrielle Margaret Ver Campbell Long)

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Title: Moss Rose
Author: Shearing, Joseph (Pseudonym of Gabrielle Margaret Ver Campbell Long)
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Description: New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 8vo,, 340pp. Beautiful First American Edition of this classic historical mystery based on a true crime in Victorian England. Published in the UK by Heinemann the previous year. uncommon, story about time travel to prehistoric times. Bound in red cloth with lettering stamped in black on front board and spine and floral decoration in black on front board. . Blue top-stain. Tight and clean throughout with very minor edge-wear. Very slight spine lean. Shallow vertical spine crease. Still very well-preserved. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($2.00 net), has some splitting and split along the top hinges and front fold. Small chips from spine ends. Creases to rear panel. Mild soiling. Not perfect but still fresh and bright and present quite well. Made into the 1947 film of the same name starring Peggy Cummins, Viictor Mature, Ethel Barrymore, Vincent Price and directed by Gregory Ratoff. A sharp collectable copy and quite uncommon in any condition. (Hubin, p.362; Johnson, The Dark Page, p. 220-221; IMDB).

AN ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH NATION, ON THE ACCESSION OF THE PRINCE REGENT TO POWER by Arnot, Hugo

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Title: AN ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH NATION, ON THE ACCESSION OF THE PRINCE REGENT TO POWER
Author: Arnot, Hugo
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Description: London: Printed by Charles Squire for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1812. 32pp, with the half title. Disbound, with some loosening. Light tan and fox, Very Good. Inscription, slightly trimmed, at head of half title: 'The Hon. Geo. Bradley, with Mr. Dickins's ComplimentsLondon, February 15, 18__.' Arnot takes a critical look at British policies under George III. Throughout his reign "our national councils have been misguided, and policy mistaken." He scores England's actions that led to the American Revolution, "a storm of rebellion, excited by measures equally impolitic, oppressive, and unjust, and ending in the premature, unnatural, and violent dismemberment of a valuable portion of the empire." OCLC 6607397 [3].

Comme Septieme d’une Serie d’Expositions Organisee a Anvers Par MTL/Bruxelles et Art & Project/Amsterdam (12 March-6 April 1974) by DARBOVEN, Hanne

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Title: Comme Septieme d’une Serie d’Expositions Organisee a Anvers Par MTL/Bruxelles et Art & Project/Amsterdam (12 March-6 April 1974)
Author: DARBOVEN, Hanne
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Description: Manuscript facsimile throughout. [4] pp. Single folded A3 sheet. Amsterdam & Brussels: 1974. A “bulletin” jointly issued by MTL (Fernand Spillemaeckers) and Art & Project for a show by Darboven (1941-2009). Her drawings are reproduced within. In excellent condition. Mailed to Karl Heinemann of Mönchengladbach. ❧ Art & Project. A History (2023) E111.

Youngblood Hawk by Herman Wouk

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Title: Youngblood Hawk
Author: Herman Wouk
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Description: Doubleday & Company,Inc, 1962. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket.$7.95 On Flap. Stated First Edition Excellent Fresh Copy..

John Ball: Member of the Wyeth Expedition to the Pacific Northwest, 1832; and Pioneer in the Old Northwest. Autobiography by Ball, John

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Title: John Ball: Member of the Wyeth Expedition to the Pacific Northwest, 1832; and Pioneer in the Old Northwest. Autobiography
Author: Ball, John
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Description: Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1925. First Edition. 230pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Green cloth with title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Well written memoir by the early Oregon pioneer and Michigan promoter, who's travels also took him to Hawaii, Rio de Janeiro and around the Cape. "The autobiography was written by Mr. Ball in his eightieth year, 1874, being taken from scanty diaries kept on his trips; old letters, and from memory. It was written in a journal and the manuscript is more legible than the writing of many a younger man. It is not only of local historical value but of national interest, dealing with the early history of New England, where he was born, early Michigan and pioneer western history, Mr. Ball having been a member of the third expedition to cross the Rocky Mountains." - 'Grand Rapids Chronicle' May 29, 1925.

A Straight Deal or the Ancient Grudge by WISTER, Owen

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Title: A Straight Deal or the Ancient Grudge
Author: WISTER, Owen
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Description: New York: Macmillan, 1920. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Red cloth titled on paper labels to front and spine, in cream dust jacket; [viii],287,[1]pp. Straight, pushed at spine ends, two small dark stains to edges of front board, endpapers discolored, Very Good. Jacket dustsoiled, rubbed at edges, large chip to lower front corner and smaller chips to lower edge and spine ends, inch-long tear with attendant creases to lower rear edge: Good or better. FPAA p.394.

National Guardian; Vol. 18, No. 9, 1965, Dec 4 the progressive newsweekly by Belfrage, Cedric, ed

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Title: National Guardian; Vol. 18, No. 9, 1965, Dec 4 the progressive newsweekly
Author: Belfrage, Cedric, ed
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Description: New York: Weekly Guardian Associates, 1965. Newspaper. One issues the folded in half tabloid newspaper, paper browned, shelf worn, "re Viet Nam Convetion" red penciled in on cover wrap, else in readable condition. Progressive weekly founded in support of the 1948 Progressive Party campaign of Henry Wallace for President. Much coverage of the post-WWII nascent Civil Rights movement with left wing responses to the rise of McCarthyism. As she decades progress the National Guardian becomes a paper of the new anti-Vietnam War movement.

IN TRIBUTE TO C. WILLIAM SCHNEIDEREITH 1886-1976

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Title: IN TRIBUTE TO C. WILLIAM SCHNEIDEREITH 1886-1976
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Description: (Baltimore: Schneidereith & Sons, 1977. cloth. Schneidereith, C. William. 8vo. cloth. 62 pages. Tribute to a third-generation Baltimore printer and his family's printing firm. Frontispiece color illustration. Foreword by C. William Schneidereith, Jr. Necrology table. Covers foxed, else fine.

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