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Skillman's New-York Police Reports, Illustrated with Engravings. Written in 1828-29

Skillman's New-York Police Reports, Illustrated with Engravings. Written in 1828-29

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Skillman's New-York Police Reports, Illustrated with Engravings. Written in 1828-29
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Walkabout Books (United States)
Condition
Good
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New York: Ludwig & Tolefree, 1830. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8.5 x 5.25 inches, 151 pp, with engraved frontispiece and four additional illustrations. In original boards, with what appears to be later (but not recent) cloth over the original cloth spine. Boards worn, front board only just attached, some losses to spine cloth; good. Early ownership signature (Joshua Hodsdon, Yarmouth) on front free endpaper, printed label on rear pastedown admonishing the reader to "Never wet your thumb or finger to turn over a leaf in this or any other book." Little is known about John Skillman, but he evidently frequented the regular morning court hearings in Lower Manhattan for people who had been arrested the previous day for relatively minor crimes such as drunkenness, lewd behavior, vagrancy, petty theft, and prostitution. His reports on these crimes, which were probably modeled on those that had recently begun appearing regularly in London newspapers, take the form of brief, pun-filled comic vignettes or dialogues between the accused and the magistrate. For example, "James G----- was sent by his employer with 10 shillings to buy screws---bought 5 shillings worth, and expended the rest of the money in his own way. Is put, in poetical language, under the screws," and "Mary Stevenson entertains the opinion that 'time is money;' and having no instrument or machine whereby she might keep proper 'note of time,' thought proper to obtain one at all hazards. She is now in close confinement for a time." Beneath the humor, however, are characterizations of male and female defendants of different races, classes, ethnic backgrounds -- some flattering, some not. Scholar Brian Baaki has argued that by placing "an overwhelming volley of black malefactors" at the beginning of the text, Skillman "tries to manufacture an association between African-Americans and crime." There may be room for a more nuanced reading, but without doubt the book is of interest in the broader context of the social and cultural history of early nineteenth century New York. Sabin 81589, American Imprints 3498.
Northwest Coast of America. May 15,1826. Referred to the Committee of the Whole House, to which is committed the bill to authorize the establishment of a Military Post or Posts, within the Territory of the United States, on the Pacific Ocean, and to Provide for the Exploration of its Coasts and Waters

Northwest Coast of America. May 15,1826. Referred to the Committee of the Whole House, to which is committed the bill to authorize the establishment of a Military Post or Posts, within the Territory of the United States, on the Pacific Ocean, and to Provide for the Exploration of its Coasts and Waters by Baylies, Francis

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Northwest Coast of America. May 15,1826. Referred to the Committee of the Whole House, to which is committed the bill to authorize the establishment of a Military Post or Posts, within the Territory of the United States, on the Pacific Ocean, and to Provide for the Exploration of its Coasts and Waters
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Baylies, Francis
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Walkabout Books (United States)
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Report 213, 19th Congress, 1st Session. 22 pp, in an attractive modern binding of three-quarter leather and marbled boards, with gilt spine lettering. Light foxing and toning; very good. Congressman Baylies reviews various explorations of the northwest, including an apparently spurious one, in an effort to support the United States' claim to the Oregon Territory. Streeter (3339): "This pamphlet, after devoting a couple of pages to a report of a party in which Samuel Adams Ruddock was a member, that claimed to have made the overland journey from Council Bluffs to the mouth of the Columbia in 1821, reviews the various past explorations of the northwest coast, including those of Francis Drake, Captain Cook, and Lewis and Clark. On the basis of these accounts, it claims the 49th parallel and the Strait de Juan de Fuca as our boundary." As for the information received from Ruddock, Wagner-Camp (31) explains that "Ruddock claimed to be a member of a trading party that supposedly traveled up the north bank of the Platte River, crossing below the forks on May 26, and thence southwest 410 miles to Santa Fe, [before heading northwest and eventually reaching] "the Multnomah of Lewis and Clarke. They then followed the course of this river to its junction with the Columbia and reached the mouth of the Columbia on the first day of August, completing the journey from the Council Bluffs in seventy-five days. To reach the shores of the Pacific in seventy-five days from the Missouri River by way of Santa Fe would have been a remarkable feat, if it had happened. Unfortunately, however, no corroborative evidence has every been advanced to confirm Ruddock's fanciful story." Baylies concludes his report with a warning: "The indifference of the America stimulates the cupidity of Great Britain. Our neglect daily weakens our own claim, and strengthens hers; and the day will soon arrive, when her title to this Territory will be better than our, unless ours is earnestly and speedily enforced." Howes B-263; Sabin 4067.
Help Him to Expand His Radio Ministry. Bishop E. Nero of Landmark Spiritual Temple, 317 Divisidero, San Francisco, California. Don't Forget to Listen Each Sunday... [caption title]

Help Him to Expand His Radio Ministry. Bishop E. Nero of Landmark Spiritual Temple, 317 Divisidero, San Francisco, California. Don't Forget to Listen Each Sunday... [caption title] by [African Americana]: [California]: Nero, Bishop Ezra

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Help Him to Expand His Radio Ministry. Bishop E. Nero of Landmark Spiritual Temple, 317 Divisidero, San Francisco, California. Don't Forget to Listen Each Sunday... [caption title]
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[African Americana]: [California]: Nero, Bishop Ezra
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The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
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[San Francisco, 1940. Printed handbill, 8.5 x 6 inches, illustrated. Minor handling wear, horizontal crease. Very good. An unrecorded handbill advertising the Bay-Area radio broadcasts by Bishop Ezra Nero, leader of the Landmark Spiritual Temple in San Francisco. The work includes a photographic portrait of Bishop Nero in his ecclesiastical garb. We could locate no other copies of this ephemeral broadside.
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Christy's Panorama Songster. Containing the songs as sung by the Christy, Campbell, Pierce's Minstrels, and Sable Brothers.

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Christy's Panorama Songster. Containing the songs as sung by the Christy, Campbell, Pierce's Minstrels, and Sable Brothers.
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Savoy Books (United States)
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New York: William H. Murphy Book. nd [ca. 1846-1856]. 12mo, yellow illustrated wrappers, stitched. Pp. 71-136, (2). Frontis.; vignette illus. Fine. A robust collection of forty-six minstrel dialect songs, words only..
Nixon. Volume Three. Ruin and Recovery 1973-1990

Nixon. Volume Three. Ruin and Recovery 1973-1990 by Ambrose, Stephen E.

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Nixon. Volume Three. Ruin and Recovery 1973-1990
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Ambrose, Stephen E.
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Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
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Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1991. Signed First Edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. Odd volume. SIGNED by Ambrose. 667pp. Octavo [24 cm] Full maroon leather with the title in gilt on the spine, and elaborate gilt stamped designs on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Moire endsheets. Silk ribbon page marker. Covers just a trifle cocked. Easton Press bookplate on verso of front free endpaper (no name has been filled in). Part of the Signed First Editions series. Signed by Stephen E. Ambrose on a tipped-in page at the front.
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Modes of Being by Weiss, Paul

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Modes of Being
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Weiss, Paul
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Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1958 First trade edition. Cloth. Octavo. Light shelfwear. Very good+ in very good, lightly edgeworn d.j. with wrap-around advertising band.
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Ancient Book Illumination. Martin Classical Lectures, Vol. XVI by Weitzman, Kurt

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Ancient Book Illumination. Martin Classical Lectures, Vol. XVI
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Weitzman, Kurt
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Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Top corner lightly bumped.Very good, without d.j.
Charles Henry and the Formation of a Psychophysical Aesthetic

Charles Henry and the Formation of a Psychophysical Aesthetic by Argüelles, José A.

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Charles Henry and the Formation of a Psychophysical Aesthetic
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Argüelles, José A.
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Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. [minimal wear to book, previous owner's name and date in ink (very small) at top of front endpaper; the jacket is modestly worn at edges and extremities, some surface rubbing/scuffing, slight wrinkling at upper edge of rear panel]. (color frontispiece) "This work provides the first thorough, scholarly study of the unique personality and extraordinary achievement of Charles Henry (1859-1926). Seeking a common ground for all sensory experience, Henry formulated a 'scientific aesthetic' based on the biomathematics of the sense organs. That doctrine is psychophysics, through which Henry saw beyond the dualism which had thrown science and art into separate camps. Among those influenced by Henry's ideas, especially those concerning the perception of color, were Georges Seurat and Paul Signac as well as some of the pioneer abstractionists -- Robert Delauney, Frank Kupka, and Albert Gleizes. The study also casts new light on the poet Jules Laforgue (one of Henry's closest friends) and on the symbolism of the 1880s and 1890s. [This book] represents the first historical consideration of the phenomenon of psychophysics and its place in the history of Western thought and aesthetics. The study includes a portion of Henry's central work on psychophysics, Le cercle chromatique, a revealing interview with henry by Jules Huret titled 'Inquiry Concerning the Future of Literature,' and a bibliography of the works of Charles Henry." .

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