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Funding the Wilkes Expedition, Which Played a Major Role in the Development of Science in the United States by John Q. Adams

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Title: Funding the Wilkes Expedition, Which Played a Major Role in the Development of Science in the United States
Author: John Q. Adams
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 07/07/1841. The funding request “was presented yesterday to the Secretary of the Navy, and accepted by him.” It was an era of American exploration, one that led to the Mexican War and the westward expansion to the Pacific Ocean. One of the foremost manifestations of this was the famed United States Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842, which was an exploring and surveying expedition to the Pacific and Antarctic Oceans and surrounding lands. President John Quincy Adams initiated the idea and requested funding of Congress in 1828, however, Congress would not implement funding until eight years later. In May 1836, the oceanic exploration voyage was finally authorized by Congress and created by President Andrew Jackson. Navy Lieutenant Charles Wilkes was placed in command of the 7-ship exploration. From 1838 to 1842 Wilkes and his expedition explored and surveyed the Antarctic Ocean and along the Antarctic barrier, where he reported land at a number of points in the region subsequently known as Wilkes Land. He visited islands in the Pacific, including Hawaii, Australia, and Tahiti, explored the West Coast of what is now the United States, including California and Oregon, then recrossed the Pacific and reached New York in June 1842, having sailed completely around the world. He was advanced to the rank of commander in 1843. From 1844 to 1861 he prepared reports of his expedition.The expedition is sometimes called the ""U.S. Ex. Ex."" for short, or the ""Wilkes Expedition"". It played a major role in the development of 19th-century science in the U.S., particularly in the growth of the American scientific establishment and in the then-young field of oceanography. Many of the species and other items found by the exploration helped form the basis of collections at the new Smithsonian Institution.Though funding for the exploration was authorized by Congress, the details of paying for it were more complex. Banks advanced the funds to Wilkes, but to be reimbursed the Secretary of the Navy had to approve the bank’s disbursements. To speed up the reimbursements, at least one bank in particular determined to use its representative in Congress - in this case John Quincy Adams, who as president had first advocated the expedition. It involved a bill of exchange - or a check - made out to Wilkes for his expedition by the Navy Department, with the funds laid out by the Old Colony Bank in Massachusetts, Schuyler Sampson, president, and ultimately payable by the government to that bank. Sampson then endorsed the bill to Adams’s order to get it collected, and the Navy Secretary approved the disbursement.Autograph letter signed, Washington, July 7, 1841, to Schuyler Sampson, bank president and Collector of the Port of Plymouth, Mass. “The bill of exchange for 1500 dollars, drawn in favor of Charles Wilkes, Esq. commanding the U.S. exploring expedition, upon the Secretary of the Navy and payable at 30 days sight, and enclosed payable to your order, and by you to mine, enclosed in your letter of the 29th ult. was presented yesterday to the Secretary of the Navy, and accepted by him. He inquired in what manner it was desired it should be paid at its term, and I told him you had suggested a draft upon the Receiver General at Boston. I shall pay due attention to this at the proper time.”This is the first time we have ever seen a letter or document relating to the Wilkes Expedition, which played a key role in the development of science in the United States. That it involves Adams - first proponent of the idea - is all the better. Public records disclose no other.As for Wilkes, the Civil War brought him even more fame. When Wilkes, now an admiral, learned that James M. Mason and John Slidell, two Confederate commissioners to Britain and France, were bound for England on a British ship the Trent, he ordered the steam frigate USS San Jacinto to stop them. On November 8, 1861, San Jacinto met Trent and fired two shots across its bow, forcing the ship to stop. A party from San Jacinto led by its captain then boarded Trent and arrested Mason and Slidell. Wilkes was officially thanked by Congress ""for his brave, adroit and patriotic conduct”, but the British saw the affair as a violation of their neutrality. This almost led to war between the U.S. and Britain, but cooler heads on both sides prevailed, the Confederate diplomats were released to continue on their trip to Britain, and conflict was averted.

Sancti Patris Nostri Cyrilli Archiepiscopi Hierosolymorum Cathecheses Illuminatorum Hierosolymis XVIII & 5 Mystagogicae by (Cyril of Jerusalem, Saint)

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Title: Sancti Patris Nostri Cyrilli Archiepiscopi Hierosolymorum Cathecheses Illuminatorum Hierosolymis XVIII & 5 Mystagogicae
Author: (Cyril of Jerusalem, Saint)
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Cologne: Apud Maternum Cholinum, 1564. First edition in Latin. Hardcover. Very good. Folio. (xx),205pp. Printer's device on title; woodcut initials. First Latin edition translated by John Grodecius. The dedicatory matter is followed by a Life of St Cyril, a discussion of his works and an index. Early 19th century marbled paper boards, later lettering label, gilt; page edges stained yellow. The text block is generally clean and crisp, with an ownership name on the title and two stamps from Domkapital Munchen; the title page is lightly soiled, front free endpaper has been replaced, and with short marginal tears (no loss) to the final 11 leaves. The binding has wear at the spine tips and edges, later free endpapers, else is very good. Originally published in Greek, this is the first edition in Latin of the famous Catechetical Lecturs of Saint Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem. Rare. Obly five copies located in OCLC .

British Indian Army From the First World War to the Final Years of British Colonial India, Archive of 31 Photographs, 1914-1945 by British Indian Army

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Title: British Indian Army From the First World War to the Final Years of British Colonial India, Archive of 31 Photographs, 1914-1945
Author: British Indian Army
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1914. British Indian Army photo archive spanning both World Wars, depicting colonial recruitment, military training, the Indian Air Force, military ceremonies, and Burma-front service into the final decades of British rule in India, circa 1914-1945. The British Indian Army was the largest non-conscript force in history: roughly 1.3 million men were recruited during the First World War and 2.5 million during the Second. Indian troops were deployed to the Western Front, Mesopotamia, East Africa, and Egypt during the First World War, and to North Africa, Italy, the Middle East, and Burma during the Second. British power in India had grown from East India Company conquest in the eighteenth century, passed to Crown rule after the 1857 uprising, and was nearing collapse during the time which these press photographs document. The Quit India movement, the 1943 Bengal famine, wartime censorship, and anti-colonial organizing made British authority increasingly untenable even as Indian troops mobilized in record numbers. The archive records the last colonial wartime mobilizations of India before independence in 1947 and Partition remade the subcontinent. Photo archive of 31 silver gelatin photographs and four real-photo postcards, various sizes ranging from 4 x 2" to 10 x 6.5 inches, India, France, and Burma, circa 1914-1945. The four French-printed real photo postcards, date to the First World War and document Indian Expeditionary Force service: "1914 - Soldats anglais et indiens / Indian and English soldiers," showing a horse-drawn carriage driven by an Indian man with three uniformed soldiers seated inside; "1914 Indian Army - Attelage de Guerre / War Team," depicting a military draught team; "Indian Army Conveyer," showing an Indian soldier with four pack donkeys; and a 1919 postcard documenting the arrival of a British detachment at a colonial camp. A formal group portrait of approximately nineteen Sikh soldiers in khaki service dress and regulation dastaars stands before a row of tents at a North-West Frontier camp. Sikh troops fought throughout both World Wars in their turbans, the only major military force to refuse steel helmets on religious grounds. The remaining photographs, 1940-1945, document Sikh, Gurkha, Punjabi, and other Indian troops in khaki drill tunics, shorts, puttees, regulation turbans (dastaars), kullahs, slouch hats, pith helmets, steel helmets, and web belts, carrying rifles at the shoulder or raised in training exercises. The combination of regulation turbans with British-style khaki uniforms was standard British Indian Army dress, formally accommodating Sikh and other religious traditions within Empire military regulation. A vernacular view captioned "Some of our boys at camp, Ksli India" records ten uniformed men wading through a knee-high river with rifles held across their shoulders. Troops march past Buddhist stupas in Burma, kneel in brush with bayoneted rifles, fire from jungle cover, operate a field telescope behind sandbags, and sit beside motorcycles and jeeps on a rough military road. One photograph carries the studio stamp of Mela Ram & Son, Peshawar, a leading early-twentieth-century North-West Frontier military photographer. Press captions identify "Punjab's in India join army," "Gurkhas open fire during a training exercise," "British troops in India prepare for Burma campaign," "Indian troops in Burma," "Burma advance," "Viceroy presents Victoria crosses to Indian heroes," "Tunisia Day celebrated in Calcutta," "Troops on the parapet of Matta Post watching the bombardment" (North-West Frontier, July 1940), "Supreme Commander," and "Services Sweetheart," the last identifying Miss Joy Thompson of Bombay and Sgt. A. Pickles of Leeds. British India entered both world wars by imperial decision. The same years that produced the photographs in this archive also produced the Quit India arrests of 1942, the Bengal famine of 1943, and intensified military recruitment across a country already moving toward independence. The archive preserves official publicity, press distribution, and soldier-level record-making from a colonial army fighting for Britain while British authority in India was approaching its end. Creasing, surface wear, fading, caption-label remnants, press stamps, and occasional abrasions; overall very good condition.

US Magazine. Volume I Number I. [February 1954]

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Title: US Magazine. Volume I Number I. [February 1954]
Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Description: Memphis, Tennessee: US, Incorporated, 1954. 12" x 9". Stapled wrappers. Pp. 32. Very good plus with minimal wear and light toning. This is the first, and only, issue of US Magazine, published by a group of noteworthy African Americans in Memphis, Tennessee. It's filled with well-written articles, features and over 80 images covering important African American individuals and accomplishments in the 1950s. As this was its inaugural issue, the editors dedicated an entire page to sharing the goals of the magazine. US wanted to "portray the achievements of the Southern Negro in pictorial format" and to "spotlight the efforts of persons of good-will who seek America's greatest destiny in improving race relations and establishing greater understanding among all her citizens." It touted itself as "the authentic voice that will tell the thrilling story of the New South" and promised to be "wholesome, educational, inspirational, entertaining, and, always, a synonym for human dignity." Importantly, the magazine brought together prominent African Americans as writers, advertisers and other positions. One of US' two associate editors, Nat D. Williams, likely wrote this issue's main photo essay, "Beale Street, U.S.A.," about Black Memphis. Williams, known as "Nat D," became the first African American disc jockey in Memphis, in 1948, when he went on the air for WDIA. Known for his "jive" patter on the air, Williams is credited with heralding the change of radio to appeal to the Black community. He is in the Memphis Music Hall of Fame, the Tennessee Radio Hall of Fame, and the National Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame. He was also the first city editor of the Black Memphis newspaper, the Tri-State Defender. The other associate editor, Mae Jones Street Kidd, was a biracial businesswoman, civic leader, and a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1968 to 1984. She was also hired by the National Negro Insurance Association to create a public relations plan for all of its member companies. Kidd organized the first Louisville Urban League Guild, served as President of the Lincoln Foundation, and was a frequent presence in civil rights marches and events. Another important contributor to the magazine was A.A. Latting, listed as its Counselor. Augustus Arvis Latting was one of Tennessee's first Black lawyers. He went on to become a judge, and was known as the "Dean of Black lawyers." Other photos and features in the magazine highlighted Jacques A. Beauchamp, who "blazed the trail for Negro Boy Scouts in the South" and Hollis F. Price, an educator at LeMoyne College in Memphis. Entertainment and sports were also featured including an article on Memphis's Melrose high school football team, who came in first in the 1953 Negro Prep football competition. A number of profiles were also included, such as one on Lelia O'Neal Walker, a "prominent Negro church and club woman." Rare, well produced, and documenting the efforts Black leaders hoping to share both the mundane and extraordinary aspects of African American life in the South in the 1950s. OCLC shows one holding.

PICKLES by Aldin, Cecil

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Title: PICKLES
Author: Aldin, Cecil
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Good, with rear flyleaf supplied in facsimile.
Description: London and New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. Good, with rear flyleaf supplied in facsimile.. First US edition, written by Aldin for his daughter and told from Pickles the puppy's point of view, an energetically illustrated story of the trouble Pickles causes when his owners are out. 11.5'' x 10''. Original cloth backed color pictorial boards. Pictorial endpapers of puppies. 24 full-page color illustrations on heavy green paper.[104] pages. Tidemark to the margins of some leaves. Repairs to spine and hinges, rear flyleaf supplied in facsimile, edges a bit worn.

The Book of Ruth: From the Translation Prepared at Cambridge in 1611 for King James I.

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Title: The Book of Ruth: From the Translation Prepared at Cambridge in 1611 for King James I.
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good -
Description: New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1947. 1/4 leather. Very Good -. Arthur Szyk. The 1947 Limited Editions Club, #1,193 of 1,950 copies signed (at the limitation) and illustrated by the great Arthur Szyk. Solid and VG- in its 1/4 leather over off-white, gilt-decorated boards. Chipping along the spine (especially at its ends) and light soiling to the rear panel. Lavishly printed by the Aldus Printers.

[Business Card] H. B. Fargo, Representing Fine Tailoring... Office, 158 E. 2nd So. Room 4. Salt Lake City, Utah

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Title: [Business Card] H. B. Fargo, Representing Fine Tailoring... Office, 158 E. 2nd So. Room 4. Salt Lake City, Utah
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Ephemera. Card [10 cm x 6 cm] Light ink staining in red. Contemporary name and address in pencil on the reverse.

ASCENDING PECULIARITY: EDWARD GOREY ON EDWARD GOREY by WILKIN, Karen

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Title: ASCENDING PECULIARITY: EDWARD GOREY ON EDWARD GOREY
Author: WILKIN, Karen
Seller: Antic Hay Books (United States)
Description: NY: Harcourt, Inc., 2001. First Edition, first printing. Signed on the title by Wilkin. Uncommon to find signed copies. 8vo., yellow boards in dust jacket; 292 pages. Illustrated.. Fine (covers nice; contents clean & tight); very nice d/j.

Advertisement for the Community Church Of the Air

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Title: Advertisement for the Community Church Of the Air
Seller: Eclectibles (United States)
Condition: General wear. Letter folds.
Description: Harrisburg, PA: Community Church Of the Air, 1933. General wear. Letter folds.. This flyer is for three different musical groups: the Community Church of the Air, The Swalm Brothers Quartette, and the Boys Orchestra. However the flyer supplies little information beyond the performers names and the black and white printed photograph of each group. All three groups were scheduled to perform together on Tuesday, February 28, 1933 according to an article in the Harrisburg Telegraph on February 23, 1933. It is therefore likely that this flyer was simply given out at the performance as an advertisement for the three groups. Half of the flyer is promoting The Community Church of the Air, who seemed to be hosting the event. Harrisburg, PA is misspelled on the flyer as Harrisburgh, PA. Single page, one-sided. Measures 12" x 9" The Community Church of the Air was run by Rev. Roy O. Musser (1892-1981) and his first wife Clara Alberta Messerschmidt (1891-1953), and featured their three children in various parts: Iva Mae Musser Cook (1913-1996) as the alto singer, James Isaac Musser (1915-1970) as the Telephone Messenger, and Clara Ruthannah Musser Cook (1919-1995) as the soprano singer. The flyer provides information on the group's regular radio broadcasts which occurred on the second and fourth Sundays of the month from 3:30 to 4:30 PM on the radio station 249.9 WCOD. The Community Church of the Air shows up throughout the newspaper printings of the radio schedule between 1932-1933, but otherwise little information on the group can be found. The Swalm Brothers Quartette (aka Swalm Brothers Quartet or the Swalm Brothers Male Quartet), features the brothers Roy Swalm (1901-1962), Edgar Swalm (1905-1957), Harold Swalm (1907-1969), and Roosevelt Swalm (1913-1990). They were popular in the 1930s in and around Harrisburg, but did continue performing into the 1940s. The last group, the Boy's Orchestra, was made up of five boys named Bill, Earl, Ivan, Clyde, and Albert, who played on guitars and banjos. Little else is known about them.

BANK OF THE FUTURE. OPENNESS, SIMPLICITY, CARE

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Title: BANK OF THE FUTURE. OPENNESS, SIMPLICITY, CARE
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9789187543142
Description: Stockholm: Arvinius+Orfeus, 2014. First edition. Quarto in orange cloth with brown and grey DJ in brodart; VG/VG; spine white with black letters; end pages slightly soiled; DJ, boards, paper and text in good condition; pp. 216; contains series of interviews and photographs in color and black and white; shelved in Architecture (Theory) section. 1257798. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

The Summer of Black Widows (First Edition, inscribed to author Chris Offutt) by Sherman Alexie

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Title: The Summer of Black Widows (First Edition, inscribed to author Chris Offutt)
Author: Sherman Alexie
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
ISBN: 9781882413348
Description: Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, 1996. First Edition. First Edition, softcover issue, issued simultaneously with the hardcover. Association Copy, playfully INSCRIBED to fellow author Chris Offutt on the title page: "For Chris 'Little Hack' Offutt / In friendship / Sherman Alexie." Alexie's fourth book of poetry. From the collection of Chris Offutt. Offutt is the author of "Kentucky Straight" and other short story collections, novels, nonfiction, and memoirs. In 1996, he was named one of the twenty Best Young American Novelists by "Granta" magazine. He has also written for popular television shows and national publications, has been visiting faculty at numerous institutions including the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and others. Slight lean, overall Very Good plus in perfect-bound wrappers.

The Summer of Black Widows by Sherman Alexie

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Title: The Summer of Black Widows
Author: Sherman Alexie
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9781882413355
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, as new and unread. SIGNED by the author to the title page. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.

Papyrus Bodmer II: Evangile de Jean, chap. 1-14 by Martin, Victor

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Title: Papyrus Bodmer II: Evangile de Jean, chap. 1-14
Author: Martin, Victor
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
Description: Cologny-Genève: Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, 1956. 152p., 3 colored facs., original stiff printed wrappers, ex libris (Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, 5).

Irving Ramsey Wiles, 1861-1948 by Wiles, Irving Ramsay ; Nelson C White

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Title: Irving Ramsey Wiles, 1861-1948
Author: Wiles, Irving Ramsay ; Nelson C White
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: Good- (some wear to edges of wraps, pages tanned, some staining on few pages at edges, content unmarred)
Description: New York, NY: Chapellier Galleries, 1967. Softcover. Good- (some wear to edges of wraps, pages tanned, some staining on few pages at edges, content unmarred). Stapled wraps with color illustration and black text. 51 unnumbered pages. 70 plates, mostly bw. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Chapellier Galleries, New York.

SWING: "The Bold One" - Vol. 1 No. 9

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Title: SWING: "The Bold One" - Vol. 1 No. 9
Seller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good plus.
Description: np: np, 1972. Very good plus.. Pornographic newspaper focused primarily on swinging and swingers, but also orgies and BDSM. Includes a lengthy personals section. Folded newspaper (15" by 11.5" approx). Mild toning as usual near edges. Small closed tears to several pages, but no losses. Clean, crisp throughout. 23pp.

Het Zoone Lied van Achnaton by Achnaton [Akhenaton]

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Title: Het Zoone Lied van Achnaton
Author: Achnaton [Akhenaton]
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Haarlem, The Netherlands: Carlinaper, 1977. Softcover. Very Good. Softcover. [IN DUTCH] Akhenaten was the heretic of Akhet-Aton, rebelling against powerful priests. This is a limited edition of the Dutch translation of Akhenaton's Song of the Sun by Professor A. de Buck, first published in 1938 by the World Library to Amsterdam. This booklet was hand-set, printed and bound by the Carlinaper in Haarlem, using Janson type for the text and Romanee Italics for the introduction. It is printed on Unicorn paper by Van Gelder. The 175 numbered copies were intended for the members of the "de Roos" Foundation in Utrecht. A number of copies were also printed for employees and the archive. This is copy #149. Octavo. Brown paper wrappers. Sunning to top of front wrapper and to spine. Pages are bright and clean. 17 pages, plus colophon. DUTCHLANG/022924.

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