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An Original Order from Napoleon, Readying His 8th Corps for the Invasion of Spain and Portugal by Napoleon Bonaparte

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Title: An Original Order from Napoleon, Readying His 8th Corps for the Invasion of Spain and Portugal
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 23/09/1809. A rare full, signed order by BonaparteIn 1809, a formation known as the Reserve Corps of the Army of Germany was assembled. This later became a new VIII Corps that served in Spain in 1810. The Reserve Corps was under the command of Marshal François Christophe de Kellermann. Its three divisions were led by Generals Olivier Rivaud de la Raffinière, Eloi Laurent Despeaux, and Joseph Lagrange.The siege of Astorga was an attempt by French forces to capture that town as part of a campaign of the Peninsular War. Astorga was located on the flank of the French invasion path to Spain and Portugal, and was meant to be used as a headquarters during the campaign. The French overpowered the Spanish garrison inside and took the city on April 20, 1810, with a loss of 160 men. It took, however, the arrival of ammunition and weapons for the attack to begin.The 8th corps was ordered to march to Spain and its first units reached Burgos.Order signed, Schonbrunn, September 23, 1809.""His Majesty Orders:1) The 22nd regiment of line infantry and the 65th of the line, which are part of the 8th corps of the army, will each have their 8 stores of ammunition for infantry and 8 for their military transports. The quartermaster general will take the necessary measures to ensure that those regiments that do not have proper munitions and have not exhausted the funds allowed to each regiment for this object that he will contact them without delay and procure the munitions necessary. The quartermaster general of the artillery will take responsibility for those measures that relate to the artillery.2) The 8 4th battalions that form the Rivaud division will each have their own infantry and military transport munitions supplies. The necessary funds for the creation of these will be placed at the disposition of the authorized officer of the 8th corps to be made at Nuremberg, Bareuth, or Wurtsbourg... The horses will be furnished by the administration, as we order below.3) The artillery of the 8th corps will be composed of 4 pieces of 12; 16 pieces of 6; 6 pieces of 3 and 6 howitzers, having a double approvisionnement harness. The Saxon artillery of General St. Cyr's division will have its cannon piece including 4 of 12, which forms for the 8th Corps, 60 pieces of cannon, independently of the regimental pieces.4) The engineers will have after the 8th corps at least 1,500 tools which will be carried on harnessed carriages, as well as the ropes and tools necessary for the prompt repair of a bridge.5) Three hundred horses shall be raised in the land of Bareuth, a hundred in the land of Erfurth, and a hundred in the land of Hanau, in all five hundred which will be distributed in the 8th corps as follows, namely: for the artillery 300, for the transports of the 8 battalions of the Rivaud 50 division, for the transports of the engineers 50, for the three provisional regiments of dragoons 100. The price of these horses will be set from the inhabitants according to the tariff which will be regulated by the general steward.6) An advance of two thousand francs will be made to each of the squadrons which form part of the six provisional regiments of dragoons. These 2,000 francs will be taken from the regiment's casks by the Minister of War Administration. The distribution between the different mannes will be made by General Fouler for the 1st, 5th, and 4th. One and the other of these generals will assure the Minister of War Administration of the distribution they have made between the mannes. The squadron leaders and captains commanding the squadrons of the six provisional regiments will immediately use this fund to prepare their squadron.""Complete orders of Napoleon are very uncommon.

Experimenta circa Effectum, etc. Expériences sur l'effet du conflict électrique sur l'aiguille animantée by ØRSTED [OERSTED], HANS CHRISTIAN

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Title: Experimenta circa Effectum, etc. Expériences sur l'effet du conflict électrique sur l'aiguille animantée
Author: ØRSTED [OERSTED], HANS CHRISTIAN
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Paris: Crochard, 1820. First edition. Original wrappers. Fine. ONE OF THE FIRST TRANSLATIONS OF ØRSTED'S FAMOUS AND UNOBTAINABLE LATIN PAMPHLET ON THE DISCOVERY OF ELECTROMAGNETISM, PUBLISHED IN THE FOLLOWING MONTH IN FRANCE, AND IMPORTANT FOR ITS CONNECTION TO AMPÈRE'S EXTENSIONS OF ØRSTED'S RESEARCH ON ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA. A MAGNIFICENT COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. In July of 1820 the Danish scientist Hans Christian Ørsted announced his discovery that a magnetized needle could be deflected by an electric current. The discovery created a sensation among European savants, and shortly thereafter Ampère extended Ørsted's work by showing, among other things, that parallel current-carrying wires repelled or attracted one another, depending upon the whether the two currents were in the same or opposite directions. A little over a decade later, Faraday showed that moving magnets could induce an electrical current in nearby conducting wires, and by 1865 Maxwell had developed a complete quantitative theory of the relationship between electricity and magnetism. It was Ørsted's discovery that provided the first hint of such a relationship - a relationship that both stimulated the development of Einstein's special theory of relativity and is now understood as a necessary consequence of that theory. As Nobel Prize winner Edward M. Purcell observed, "Whether the ideas of special relativity could have evolved in the absence of a complete theory of the electromagnetic field is a question for the historian of scientist to speculate about; probably it can't be answered. We can only say that the actual history shows rather plainly a path running from Ørsted's compass needle to Einstein's postulates." Edward M. Purcell and David J. Morin, "Electricity and Magnetism", 3d edition (Cambridge Univ. Pr. 2013). Ørsted's discoveries were first described sometime between July 10 and 14, 1820, in a little-read Danish literary and intellectual journal, Danske Litteratur-Tidende; and were subsequently described in more detail in a Latin pamphlet dated July 21, 1820, with the title Experimenta circa effectum conflictus electrici in acun magneticam, which was privately distributed to a carefully selected set of leaders of the European scientific community. The Latin pamphlet is now a famously unobtainable rarity. However, shortly after it was issued it was translated into the principal languages of western Europe and as a result became known to a wider audience. Bern Dibner describes these translations as "almost simultaneous" (B. Dibner, "Oersted and the Discovery of Electromagnetism" (1961)), and we have been unable to establish any priority between them - except that the English version in the Annals of Philosophy, not published until October, appears to have been the laggard. (Facsimiles of these translations of Experimenta circa effectum ..., including one into Danish, are provided in Absalon Larsen, "La Découverte de L'Électromagnétisme Faite en 1820 par J.-C. Oersted", published in 1920 to commemorate the centennial of the discovery.) However, the French translation offered here was certainly among the first, and moreover is important because France was the location of the earliest most important extensions of Ørsted's work, by Ampère. Ørsted's paper describes his experiments on what he described in the original Latin version as "Electricitate, Galvanismo et Magnetismo" - electricity, galvanism, and magnetism. At the time, "[e]lectricity meant electrostatics; galvanism referred to the effects produced by continuous currents from batteries, a subject opened up by Galvani's chance discovery and the subsequent experiments of Volta; [and] magnetism dealt with the already ancient lore of lodestones, compass needles, and the terrestrial magnetic field. It seemed clear to some that there must be a relation between galvanic currents and electric charge, although there was little more direct evidence than the fact that both could cause shocks. On the other hand, magnetism and electricity appeared to have nothing whatever to do with one another." Purcell, op. cit. "[E]lectricity and magnetism were generally thought of [in the early 19th century] as completely disconnected phenomena. Their causes and effects were utterly different: electrification required a violent action and implied violent effects such as sparks and thunder, whereas magnetism seemed a very quiet force. The magnetizing effect of thunder, which had long been known, was regarded as a secondary effect of mechanical or thermal origin." Oliver Darrigol, "Electrodynamics from Ampère to Einstein" (Oxford Univ. Pr. 2000). Ørsted, however thought that there might be a connection between the two phenomena. He was an adherent of a philosophical position known as Naturphilosophie, which grew out of certain Romantic and idealist strains in German philosophy, and which held that "there is an eternal and unchanging law of nature, proceeding from the Absolute, from which all laws governing natural phenomena and forces derive." Oxford English Dictionary. As early as 1812, Ørsted had proposed "that experiments with galvanic electricity should be made to find out 'whether electricity in its most latent state has any action on a magnet,'" a proposal that derived from his "belief in the unity of the chemical, thermal, electrical and magnetic forces of nature, a belief showing the influence of Naturphilosophie ...." R.C. Stauffer, "Persistent Errors Regarding Oersted's Discovery of Electromagnetism", Isis 44(4): 307-10 (1953). Indeed, Ørsted himself, writing in 1830 in the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, attributed his early opinion "that the magnetical effects are produced by the same powers as the electrical," to "the philosophical principle, that all phenomena are produced by the same original power." (Some scholars dispute the nature and extent of the relationship between Naturphilosophie and Ørsted's discovery. See generally Christensen, op. cit., at 5-7.) "The sequence of events leading to his important discovery still remains ambiguous but it seems that one of the advanced students at the university related that the first direct event that led to the publication of Oersted's discovery occurred during a private lecture made before a group of other advanced students in the spring of 1820. At this lecture Oersted happened to place the conducting wire over and parallel to a magnetic needle. Another student related that the experiment concerned the heating of some platinum wire by means of an electric current and that a compass needle happened by chance to be near and underneath the conducting wire." Dibner, op. cit. Although the recollections cited by Dibner imply that the demonstration was a serendipitous accident, Ørsted's own account of his discovery in the Edinburgh Encyclopedia suggests that it was a deliberate attempt to test a hypothesis he had developed. In any event, a small deflection of the needle was observed in the lecture. Following this initial demonstration, he entered a busy period in his personal and professional life, including the grading of student papers and carrying out an assignment for the Danish government on the country's system of weights and measures. By the beginning of July, however, he was able to return to his experiments, using more powerful batteries. return to his experiments, using more powerful batteries. "On Sunday, 9 July [1820], Ørsted hired a cab to pick up his old father in Amaliegade. The professor appeared to be in an extraordinarily good mood, and the old pharmacist could not guess why his son would suddenly take him on an outing along the coast to the Royal Deer Park to have a drink. He was bursting with excitement, for he wanted to tell his father about a series of experiments with his galvanic trough apparatus and a magnetic needle. Actually, it was already three months since he had seen the compass needle deflect. At long last he had marked the heap of philosophicum assignments and found time to repeat the experiment he had made before an audience in April. ... Now he had shown that the negative pole of the conductor attracted the north pole of the magnet and the positive one the south pole. If he reversed the electrical poles, the magnet would deflect to the opposite side. In other words, the electrical conductor behaved like a magnet. Hence he called his discovery electromagnetism." Christensen, op. cit. Ørsted reported that if a conducting wire is placed parallel to a freely rotating magnetic needle, the needle would be deflected in a direction depending on the direction of the current. The effect was not observed, however, if the conductor was placed perpendicular to the wire. (This is because what we now call the magnetic field lines are circular, in a plane perpendicular to the conducting wire.) He also reported that the magnetic influence of the current could penetrate glass, wood, and brass. After the publication in Dansk Litteratur-Tidende (which generated very little reaction, either within Denmark or outside of it), Ørsted conducted further experiments and prepared the Latin pamphlet Experimenta circa effectum ..., which was dated July 21. It was mailed to 48 European scholars on July 26 and 27. Among the recipients were Humphry Davy in England; Ampère, Arago, Biot, Fresnel, and Laplace in France; and Berzelius in Sweden. Christensen, op. cit. The paper created a sensation throughout Europe. However, as mentioned previously, it was in France that the most important early discoveries building on Ørsted's work were made. François Arago learned of Ørsted's experiments at a demonstration in Geneva on August 9, 1820, and published a French translation in that month in his journal, Annales de Chimie et de Physique (the item offered here). In a footnote that he added to the translation, Arago stated that "[t]he readers of the Annales should have remarked that we only publish with care the announcements of extraordinary discoveries, and until now we can be satisfied with these reservations. However, as far as the Memoir of M. Oersted is concerned, the results it contains, how strange they may look, are accompanied by too many details to be suspected of any error. I would add that M. the professor de Rive of Geneva, who himself discovered extremely curious phenomena with the powerful voltaic batteries he owns, allowed me to see the verification he made of Oersted's experiments .... I could thus be convinced of the exactness of the main results obtained by the learned Danish scientist." (Translation of Arago's footnote from James LeQueux, "François Arago: A 19th Century French Humanist and Pioneer in Astrophysics" (Springer 2016).) "Back from Geneva, Arago again carried out Oersted's experiments at the Academy of Sciences [at the Louvre], on 11 September 1820. He spoke of it with enthusiasm to his friends, and looked for batteries for his own experiments. ... Ampère had seen Arago's demonstration of Oersted's experiments at the Academy, and was very excited." LeQueux, op cit. Seven days later Ampère "presented a paper at the Académie des Sciences in which he mathematically analyzed Oersted's work and added some clarifying experiments of his own to prove that an electric current was capable of creating a full and true magnetic field. ... This was then extended to conductors having spiral or helical shapes, indicating the cumulative values of the magnetic forces. ... With this demonstration Ampère had made the great leap forward for he showed that no only could an electric current influence a magnet but it was in itself capable of producing magnetism. ... Until then only the lodestone was held to be the source of magnetic power. A new and more powerful agency for creating magnetism had thus been discovered." Dibner, op. cit. IN: Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Tome XIV, August 1820, pp. 417-425. Octavo, original wrappers, uncut; custom box. The entire issue offered. In remarkable condition: a nearly perfect copy. A STUNNING COPY IN RARE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF A HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL PAPER.

The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith by [Fore-Edge Painting] Currie, Miss C.B. (artist); Oliver Goldsmith

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Title: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith
Author: [Fore-Edge Painting] Currie, Miss C.B. (artist); Oliver Goldsmith
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Macmillan and Co, 1902. The Globe edition. Octavo (7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 180 x 121 mm.). [ii, Miss Currie signed limitation, verso blank], [i-v], vi-lx, [ii], [1]-695, [1] pp. Inserted photogravure portrait frontispiece of "Mr. Quick as Tony Lumpkin". Laid-in is the original catalog description and receipt from Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, Los Angeles, dated March 5th, 1986. Bound ca. 1931 by Rivière & Son for Henry Sotheran. Full dark blue straight-grain morocco, covers elaborately tooled in gilt and blind, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled in gilt and blind, and lettered in gilt in compartments. Gilt -ruled board edges, gilt decorated turn-ins, gray endpapers, all edges gilt. With the bookplate of Brooklyn Public Library (Ramsay fund) on front paste-down. Housed in a fleece-lined quarter black morocco clamshell case, spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in compartments. With a very fine fore-edge painting by Miss C.B. Currie of Lucan House, Dublin. Inserted limitation leaf at front "This is No. 157 of the Books/with Fore-edge Paintings/by/Miss Currie/The Painting under the gold/is a view of/Lucan-House, Dublin./Signed/ C.B. Currie". A very fine example. Goldsmith was an Irish novelist, playwright, and poet whose facility among different genres brought him fame and friendship with many great eighteenth-century British authors. Kept busy by writing quickly and voluminously for Grub Street, the center of London's disreputable part of the literary world, Goldsmith nevertheless also found time to hone novels such as The Vicar of Wakefield, poems such as The Deserted Village, and plays such as She Stoops to Conquer. Contemporaries celebrated Goldsmith's ability to craft deceptively complex characters, most notably in the case of Charles Primrose, the vicar from The Vicar of Wakefield. Goldsmith counted Samuel Johnson among his closest friends, and Johnson wrote the epitaph that appears on Goldsmith's memorial in Westminster Abbey's famous Poets' Corner: "To the memory of Oliver Goldsmith, poet, philosopher and historian, by whom scarcely any style of writing was left untouched and no one touched unadorned, whether to move to laughter or tears; a powerful, yet lenient master of the affections, in genius sublime, vivid, and versatile, in expression, noble, brilliant, and delicate, is cherished in this monument by the love of his companions, the fidelity of his friends, and the admiration of his readers." "The miniature painter "Miss C.B. Currie" (b. December 12, 1849; d. April 2, 1940) was one of the most prominent fore-edge artists in the twentieth century. A master of the art of miniature painting, she excelled as a copyist working for Henry Sotheran Booksellers, London. She became famous for her miniature paintings applied to two art forms. First on ivory, mounted on Rivière bindings and named by her employer as "Cosway" bindings. Later she expanded her work into the art of painting on the fanned edge of a book -- called a fore-edge painting. Most of these paintings were signed and numbered by the artist. Whereas fore-edge painting history is replete with unknown artists, Currie is a notable exception. Even today, many fore-edge artists remain anonymous. In the book world, the name Miss C.B. Currie is widely recognized, yet her personal life and real name remained guarded and unknown until now. It turns out her name was, in fact, partly a pseudonym. Though her work is highly prized, there is no known published biography. Her correct full name was recently discovered to be Caroline Billin Curry. During her entire artistic career Curry used the slightly altered version of her name "Currie". Her true full name is not to be found in any published record of her work from Sotheran's. Her private affairs remain mostly unknown to us, and sadly no portrait photograph is known... The earliest year Currie fore-edge paintings appear in Sotheran catalogues is a 1913 supplemental leaf, and after that not until 1924 (see Currie 20). Since nineteen fore-edge paintings were made prior to 1924 and none of these appear in the Sotheran catalogues available to me from 1910-1923, it is unclear as to when the fore-edge painting effort really began. She may have made a few fore-edge paintings from ca. 1911 to 1914, and then discontinued until after the war. The number 172 was reached by 1933 and it seems unlikely that many more were done after that date..." (Weber, 273). Provenance: Bloomsbury Book Auctions, London, Feb. 6th,1986, lot 153, purchased by E. Joseph, London; Sold to Zeilin Ver Brugge (1986); Sold to Randall Moscovitz (1986). Weber. Annotated Dictionary of Fore-Edge Painting... Catalogue Raisonné No. 157 (p. 343 with color photograph).

Address of the Carriers to the Patrons of the Republican Banner. December 25th, 1861 [caption title] by [Carrier's Address]. [Civil War]

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Title: Address of the Carriers to the Patrons of the Republican Banner. December 25th, 1861 [caption title]
Author: [Carrier's Address]. [Civil War]
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Good plus.
Description: [Nashville, 1861. Good plus.. Small broadside, approximately 11 x 7.25 inches. Creased along lower edge; ink burn causing a dime-size paper loss at upper right, slightly affecting border, plus a few additional stray ink marks. Later, faint pencil annotations on blank verso. Moderate tanning and dust soiling. A scarce Confederate carrier's address, published on Christmas in Nashville during the first year of the Civil War. The Republican Banner was formed in 1837 from a merger of two other periodicals, and was the first permanent daily newspaper to serve the Nashville area, as well as the first to operate its presses by steam. Tennessee officially seceded from the Union on June 8, 1681, but Nashville surrendered to Gen. Grant's troops on February 23, 1862, whereupon the Republican Banner suspended publication for the remainder of the war. As a result, the present broadside is only carrier's address issued by the paper that is also a Confederate imprint. The text is printed in two columns with in a decorative border, and the title is illustrated with a vignette of a newsboy making a delivery. The verse itself exults in the success of the Confederate rebellion thus far, regaling its reader with the progress of secession and naming the recent battles that were Confederate victories, including Fort Sumter, Bull Run, Bethel, Lexington, Leesburg, Springfield, Oak Hill, and Belmont, due to the supposed righteousness of the Southern cause and its superior fighting spirit: "'Twas Southern valor won the undying name / Of conqueror, o'er the unconquered till that hour. / And when upon Manassas' awful plain / The Federal hordes fled back aghast in woe, / Not courage only heaped the field with slain, / The majesty of right o'erwhelmed the foe." The broadside also mentions, somewhat optimistically, England’s support of the Confederacy, and names specific figures including Generals Lee, Beauregard, Johnson and President Jefferson Davis, among a number of others, as emerging Confederate heroes. Parrish & Willingham record a single copy, at Vanderbilt, and OCLC adds nothing further. A rare example of a Confederate carrier's address. Parrish & Willingham 6498.

Manuscript Fourth of July Oration, written in 1844 and Delivered July 4, 1845 by Jones, M. M.

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Title: Manuscript Fourth of July Oration, written in 1844 and Delivered July 4, 1845
Author: Jones, M. M.
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Description: legible condition. A manuscript note on the last page states: "This oration was written for July 4, 1844 & for which I received the second prize, a silver medal from the Young Men's Association of the City of Utica – It was not delivered – M. M. Jones. Delivered with the amendments in red ink at Hampton July 4, 1845" Fourth of July Oration written by Jones a young man from the Utica New York area is fairly typical in its patriotic effusions of similar productions of this genre a staple of Fourth of July Celebrations during the 19th century. Many of them were printed in pamphlet form, this one was apparently never printed or published. Below is a quote from Jones' address which resonates today: "It is not in a splendid government, supported by powerful monopolies and aristocratical establishments that the people will find happiness or their liberties protection, but in a plain system void of pomp, protecting all and granting favors to none" …"

Minutes of the Committee and First Commission for Detecting Conspiracies - 1776-1778 (Two Volumes)

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Title: Minutes of the Committee and First Commission for Detecting Conspiracies - 1776-1778 (Two Volumes)
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Description: New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1925. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo. 24 by 15 cm. xix, [1], 548, 97 pp. Light wear. A lovely copy.

Morton Andersen Oslo F. [SIGNED LIMITED EDITION] by Andersen, Morton

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Title: Morton Andersen Oslo F. [SIGNED LIMITED EDITION]
Author: Andersen, Morton
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ISBN: 9788299532617
Condition: Near fine condition
Description: [Oslo]: Morton Anderson/HitMe!, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition. Signed Morton on colophon. 187/500. Oblong Duodecimo ((6 7/8 x 9 18"). Unpaginated. Original photo-illustrated boards with white lettering on cover and spine. Gray endpapers. Documentation of architectural details, graffiti, objects and vegetation in the Norwegian capital by Norwegian photographer Morton Andersen. The volume is published with two hundred and twenty-four b/w photographs exclusively. There is not text except for the colophon. Morten Andersen: "When I finished my second photo volume 'Days of Night' (with pictures from New York and Tokyo) I was broke and had no ideas either. So it was not the best of times when I got a call from a press photographer friend of mine. He had gone digital and had cleaned his car, his apartment, bags and jackets and ended up with three big bags of films he was going to throw away. But maybe it was easier to get rid of it by calling me?! I was happy and even bought him a beer! But what to shoot…? Some of the films was pretty old, some had been in and out of x-rays at airports, some even maybe used so I started slowly to test some films shooting in my neighborhood in the inner city of Oslo. I looked at architectural details, graffiti, objects, plants and vegetation which is often temporary and overlooked, but are important parts of the city's identity. Time and history becomes very visible in the city's architecture, etc. and shows the city's transformation processes. Large parts of modern Oslo's were established at the end of the 19th century and literature and paintings from this period has partly been an inspiration for the project. The title is inspired by the movies 'Christiane F. vom Bahnhof Zoo' and 'Døden på Oslo S.' (death at Oslo central station). What the F stands for is open, but it can be fiction, foto, fantasy, flowers, etc., or a fictional area of the city.

Group of 3 offprints. Includes: ZOLLNER. "Beobachtungen von Protuberanzen der Sonne." by ZOLLNER, Johann Carl Friedrich (1834-1882).

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Title: Group of 3 offprints. Includes: ZOLLNER. "Beobachtungen von Protuberanzen der Sonne."
Author: ZOLLNER, Johann Carl Friedrich (1834-1882).
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Description: Offprint from:: Berichten der Koniglich Sachsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 1 July, 1869., 1869. 8vo. 6 pp. Folding color engraved plate of solar flares. Self-wraps. Rubber stamp of Lick Observatory on cover. Very good. Zollner was the first to use the term 'astrophysics', and importantly designed the reversion spectroscope. He made several important contributions to the study of the sun, and to the science of spectroscopy. WITH: ZOLLNER. "Ueber die Temperatur und Physische Beschaffenheit der Sonne." Offprint from: Berichten der Koniglich Sachsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2 June, 1870. 8vo. [103]-123 pp. Engraved color plate of solar flares. Original plain wrappers; lacks rear wrapper. Rubber stamp of Lick Observatory & early ms. on cover. WITH: ZOLLNER. "Uber das Rotations-Gesetz der Sonne und der Grossen Planeten." Offprint from: Berichten der Koniglich Sachsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 11 Feb., 1871. 8vo. [49]-113 pp. Engraved color plate of Jupiter. Original plain wrappers; lacks rear wrapper. Rubber stamp of Lick Observatory & early ms. on cover.

Vietnam War Sketches: From the Air, Land and Sea by WATERHOUSE, Charles

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Title: Vietnam War Sketches: From the Air, Land and Sea
Author: WATERHOUSE, Charles
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780804806152
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle, 1970. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Paperback original. Glossy pictorial wrappers. Front cover beginning to separate from the foot of the spine, faint spotting at margin of title page, near fine. Price tipped-in on title page. Follow-up to a previous book of Vietnam Sketches from 1968. A nice copy.

The Long Charade: Political Subversion in the Vietnam War by CRITCHFIELD, Richard

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Title: The Long Charade: Political Subversion in the Vietnam War
Author: CRITCHFIELD, Richard
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Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1968. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. xi, 401pp. A bit of bumping at the extremities, else fine in a lightly rubbed, very good or better dust jacket with several bumps along the edges and a few nicks and small, creased tears.

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