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Negro Legislators of Texas and Their Descendants. A History of the Negro in Texas Politics from Reconstruction to Disenfranchisement by Brewer, J. Mason

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Seller: McBride Rare Books

Title: Negro Legislators of Texas and Their Descendants. A History of the Negro in Texas Politics from Reconstruction to Disenfranchisement
Author: Brewer, J. Mason
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Good plus.
Description: Dallas: Mathis Publishing Co, 1935. Good plus.. x,134pp., plus five pages of photographic plates. Original crimson cloth with gilt titles on front cover and spine. Original green dust jacket ruled in white with black titles on front cover and spine and a color reproduction of the Texas state flag on the front panel. Modest wear to extremities and dust-soiling to cloth, rear hinge partially separated. Minor surface wear and edge wear to jacket, spine head chipped but not affecting spine text. A notable work of Texas African-American history by the state's trailblazing African-American historian. J. Mason Brewer was the first African-American member of the Texas Folklore Society and the first Black author elected to the Texas Institute of Letters. The present work is his second book of history, in which Brewer details the background of political participation by African American Texans from Reconstruction through the "Disenfranchisement of the Negro in Texas," tracing the rise and fall of African American voting rights in the process. The individual biographies of the legislators provide invaluable background information on a generation of Black men attempting to participate in the government in Jim Crow Texas. The photographic plates picture several of the legislators, some of their descendants, Rev. R.T. Andrews (identified as the grandson of Richard Allen), and a group portrait of the Ladies Reading Circle of Dallas, Texas (to whom the work is dedicated). The present copy is notable for retaining the original dust jacket, which we had never seen before.

Map of Arkansas [caption title] by [Arkansas]. Fort Smith Lumber Company

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Title: Map of Arkansas [caption title]
Author: [Arkansas]. Fort Smith Lumber Company
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Good plus.
Description: Des Moines: Kenyon Map Company, 1911. Good plus.. Folding pocket map, 12.5 x 14.5 inches. Original printed card wrappers. Wraps somewhat worn and dust soiled, a with a few small chips at edges. Two separations along folds from lower edge, one with minor loss. Short closed tear from left edge at attachment to wrappers. Postmark and manuscript address on front cover; map overprinted in red. An interesting cartographic advertisement for the Fort Smith Lumber Company, using a map of Arkansas by the Kenyon Map Company to promote its land sales in the state. The map is overprinted in red to highlight a tract of 35,000 acres being offered by the company at 15¢ per acre in Perry and Yell Counties, east of Fort Smith and to provide the information of the local agent, Philip R. Toll, and the head of the Land department at the Kansas City headquarters, Reginald Davidson. The verso prints extensive descriptions of the land, terms, and contract, as well as several testimonials, including one from an N. Robinson, who writes that, "This looks to me like a case of Oklahoma 5 or 7 years ago. Better get in quickly." The present copy was mailed to a potential investor in Joplin, Kansas; we locate no other examples of this map as an advertisement for Fort Smith Lumber Company or with the additional promotional text.

Collection of Adultery Trials by ENGLISH LAW

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Title: Collection of Adultery Trials
Author: ENGLISH LAW
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1780. (ADULTERY). Collection of Adultery Trials. London: various, circa 1780-1808. Octavo, contemporary full tan calf gilt, raised bands, marbled endpaper and edges. $3500.A collection of reports of 11 adultery trials from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, combined with 30 engravings of scandalous encounters.Published accounts of adultery trials were very popular in late-18th/early 19th-century England, a way to indulge a taste for the erotic and the scandalous under the (thin) veil of condemnation. Included here are the trials of Robert Gordon for adultery with the wife of Joseph Seymour Biscoe, Rev. Mr. Cooper with the wife of Lord Cadogan, Sir John Bennett Piers with the wife of Lord Cloncurry, ""Thomas Theaker, Coachman, for Adultery with Mrs. Gregson,"" Thomas Sheridan with the wife of Peter Cambell, Captain Elwin with the wife of Sir George Brograve, J. Hacket with Mrs. Mansergh, R. J. Fergusson with the Countess of Elgin, Lord Borringdon and Sir A. Paget ""for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife,"" Colonel T.R. Powlett and Lord Sackville with another plaintiff's wife, and Ralph Benson with the wife of Thomas Parr, The collection of 30 engravings bound at the back of this book are taken from Trials for Adultery: or, a History of Divorces, a multivolume work published beginning in 1779. First two trials without title pages; ink marks to a few early pages; expert repair to contemporary binding.

Considerations generales sur la classe des insectes by DUMERIL, Andre-Marie-Constant

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts

Title: Considerations generales sur la classe des insectes
Author: DUMERIL, Andre-Marie-Constant
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Paris: F.G. Levrault, 1812. FIRST EDITION. With 60 engraved plates made after drawings by Pretre. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, head of spine worn and the covers a bit faded; interior excellent. First edition of the author's major work on the classification of insects, with the exquisite and detailed illustrations. Duméril (1774-1860) was a protégé and close friend of Cuvier. According to Bourdier (DSB), "his skills in preparing anatomical demonstrations and the clarity of his exposition brought him rapid success." He edited the first two volumes of Cuvier's Lecons d'anatomie. In addition, Lacépède chose him as his substitute in the chair of zoology specializing in reptiles and fish at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle.

THE POEMS OF THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I & II by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Title: THE POEMS OF THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I & II
Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good binding
Description: Boston and New York | Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company | The Riverside Press, 1897. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Thomas Bailey Aldrich’s Poems, complete in two volumes. From the larger eight volume set of the writings of Aldrich’s Writings. Portrait frontispiece. Previous owner’s name and blindstamp on the first flyleaf. A clean copy, with no other marks of any kind. Minor wear to the binding. Half green morocco over marbled paper boards. Raised bands, with lettering and devices in compartments. Top edges gilt. (BAL I 379). Very Good binding.

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