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A trove of manuscript insider reports & accounts on the two Perry expeditions and the turbulent Bakumatsu period that followed

A trove of manuscript insider reports & accounts on the two Perry expeditions and the turbulent Bakumatsu period that followed by THE PERRY EXPEDITIONS AND THEIR AFTERMATH

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A trove of manuscript insider reports & accounts on the two Perry expeditions and the turbulent Bakumatsu period that followed
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THE PERRY EXPEDITIONS AND THEIR AFTERMATH
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Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
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Several dozen manuscripts in various formats, incl. long folded sheets, stitched pamphlets, sewn volumes, and letters. Japan: ca. 1853-63. A substantial group of documents revealing internal, high-level debates and discussions in response to Commodore Perry’s landings and later controversies that arose as Western powers established a foothold in Japan. This is an exceptional collection, filled with top-secret information on government intrigues as the Japanese state responded to aggressive foreign expansion and dissenting groups within the government urging top-to-bottom reforms. The manuscripts touch upon pivotal events in Japan’s history: –Commodore Perry’s two expeditions (July 1853 & February-March 1854) and the resulting ratification of the Treaty of Shimoda. –Japanese translations of the treaties signed with the United States, Russia, France, and the United Kingdom from 1854 to 1858. –The assassination of Ii Naosuke in March 1860, also known as the Sakuradamon Incident, which precipitated a violent backlash against foreigners under the banner of Sonno joi (“Honor the Emperor, expel the barbarians”). –General dissatisfaction with the bakufu and efforts to reform it. –The attempted assassination of Ando Nobumasa, a chief councillor during this period. –The Namamugi Incident, in September 1862, when the British merchant Charles L. Richardson was killed by Satsuma domain warriors. –The bombardment of Kagoshima (August 1863). Among all these materials, we must highlight several examples of manuscript kengen, proposals and commentaries written by aristocrats with policy advice on the difficult situations faced by the Japanese state. These offer compelling perspectives on the most pressing dilemmas of the day. While they were not composed by the decision-makers, these documents are filled with the minutiae and data employed in the policy-making process. All of the items are in a fine state of preservation. ❧ John McMaster, “Alcock and Harris. Foreign Diplomacy in Bakumatsu Japan,” Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 22, No. 3/4 (1967), pp. 305-367.
Jérémie, Poëme en quatre chants. Avec sa priere, et sa lettre aux captifs, prêts a partir pour Babylone; dedié à Madame

Jérémie, Poëme en quatre chants. Avec sa priere, et sa lettre aux captifs, prêts a partir pour Babylone; dedié à Madame by TORCHON-DESMARAIS, François (1736-1808)

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Jérémie, Poëme en quatre chants. Avec sa priere, et sa lettre aux captifs, prêts a partir pour Babylone; dedié à Madame
Author
TORCHON-DESMARAIS, François (1736-1808)
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Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
Paris: G. Desprez, 1771. 8vo (200 x 130 mm). 126, [2] pp. Additional engraved title, 6 etched and engraved plates after Pierre Thomas Le Clerc by various engravers; woodcut headpiece by Caron, woodcut tailpieces, six different type-ornament headpieces. Printed on thick laid paper. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, covers with gold-blocked arms of Pope Clement XIX, fleurons at corners, smooth spine panelled with fleurons, stars, and other small tools, gilt edges (joints and extremities rubbed). Provenance: early price note on title; Pope Clement XIV (1705-1774), supra-libros; Jayne Wrightsman (1919-2019), bookplate.*** first edition of a poem using Jeremiah’s Lamentations and the Babylonian assault on Jerusalem as an allegory for a bien-pensant defence of the Church against the philosophes and their leader Voltaire. “The figure of Jérémie was so deeply embedded in French culture that in the vitriolic debates of the eighteenth-century French Enlightenment, opposing sides could equally claim him as their own” (Callaway, p. 39). Using the trope of Jeremiah’s tears, Voltaire had skewered Arnaud’s 1752 Lamentations de Jérémie, odes sacrées, in a famous epigram, later “reheated” to make fun of Le Franc de Pompignan’s Poésies Sacrées. While Desmarais was thus not the only 18th-century defender of the “True Religion” to embrace the Jeremiah allegory, he was evidently more successful than his predecessors. His five chants and poetic interpretation of the Epistle of Jeremiah “interweave the story of Jérémie, the Passion of Christ, and the troubles of contemporary French Catholics. Desmarais’ Jérémie embodies the Baroque asthetic of intense emotion extravagantly expressed... [and] encodes the painful experiences of French Catholics smarting under the intellectual critiques of the philosophes and the undermining of their political power in the ruling Parlement.” (ibid., p. 42). The Vulgate text of the Book of Lamentations and of the Epistle of Jeremiah are printed at the end. The five chants and the Epistle poem are each illustrated with an engraving after P. T. Leclerc, explained on the facing versos. “Three of the six illustrations [for chants 2, 3, and 5] particularly embody Desmarais’ fusion of Jérémie’s, Christ, and the attack on True Religion in a single narrative” (loc. cit.). The illustration for chant 2, depicting the high priest striking Jeremiah, who looks suspiciously like Jesus, shows a woman nursing a baby and in the background a crowd in front of a building that contemporaries would have immediately recognized as the Bastille. The author, an erudite Trinitarian, doctor of the Sorbonne, was named in 1770 prior and curé of the village of Regniowez (Regnauvé on the title), in the Ardennes. He founded a school in his village for local children, many of whom could attend gratis. A legend that he was one of the many illegitimate children of Louis XV appears to be apocryphal. In a note to the reader the printer Desprez states that the original (unnamed) engraver was taken ill, hence several other engravers had to fill in on short notice (Pepin, Saillier, C. Macret, R. Delvaux, and S. C, Miger). His boast of the beauty of the typography is not unmerited, if only for the six delightful typographic bandeaux. The preliminary matter of the second edition, printed in Ypres in 1772, includes a transcription of the author’s letter to Pope Clement XIV, presenting him with a copy of the book, and the Pope’s response. This copy with the Pope’s arms may be that same copy (no copy is listed in the Vatican Library’s online catalogue). The dedicatee, “Madame,” was then seven-year old Élisabeth of France, sister of the Dauphin and soon to be Louis XVI. The Morgan Library holds a copy with her arms, presumably the dedication copy, also later owned by the noted collector and philanthropist Jayne Wrightsman (most but not all of whose books were left to the Morgan). OCLC locates 2 other US institutional copies (UCLA and Harvard). Cohen-de Ricci 298; Thieme-Becker 22: 523; Michaud, Biographie Universelle (1854), vol. 41:672 (”ce poëme qui respire une certaine verve poétique ...”); M. Callaway, Jeremiah through the Centuries (Hoboken 2020), pp. 39-42 & passim.
On Loan." Numbered Edition, "3 of 15," Coracle Press, London, 1980, Signed by the Artists

On Loan." Numbered Edition, "3 of 15," Coracle Press, London, 1980, Signed by the Artists by ON LOAN. CORACLE PRESS BOX

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On Loan." Numbered Edition, "3 of 15," Coracle Press, London, 1980, Signed by the Artists
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ON LOAN. CORACLE PRESS BOX
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Schulson Autographs (United States)
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'On Loan' an exhibition of borrowed art lent by artists. Nov. 22-Dec. 19th , 1980...Cambridge Road, London...." Our edition consists of a cream colored labeled box, numbered on the bottom, that holds small library card holders and cards identifying artist and their artwork. Some of the holders include cards with the images of the artwork, and several cards are not in holders. The cream colored box is inserted in a heavier structured paper box also numbered on the bottom. Our edition is number "3 of 15" and consists of 33 signed card holders and 61 cards. The small cards measuring 3 1/4 x 2 inches are printed in black as are the library card holders of similar dimensions. Artists participating in the exhibition have signed their respective named card holders. Artists' signed library card holders or cards: David Brown, Roger Ackling, Les Coleman, Simon Cutts, Stephen Duncalf, Barry Flanagan, Bill Furlong, Hamish Fulton, John Furnival, Gerry Hunt, Glen Baxter, Sandra Fisher, Marc Chalmovicz, John Christie, Laurie Clarke, Robin Kiassnik, Brian Lane, Richard Long, Leonard McComb, Stuart Mills,Roy Perry, Eduardo Paolozzi, David Pescod, David Roe, Martin Rogers, Gallery East, Joe Tilson, Ian Tyson, Simon Cutts for Peter Turner, Steve Wheatley, Stephen Willats, Jonathan Williams, Richard Wilson.
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Laws as to Licensing Inns by OKE George C.

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Laws as to Licensing Inns
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OKE George C.
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
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1874. OKE, George Colwell. GLEN, W. Cunningham, editor. The Laws as to Licensing Inns, &c. &c. Containing the Licensing Acts, 1872, 1874, and the Other Acts in Force as to Alehouses, Beerhouses, Wine & Refreshment Houses, Shops, &c. Where Intoxicating Liquors are Sold, and Billiard and Occasional Licences. London: Butterworths, 1874. 12mo, contemporary full straight-grain morocco gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. $1250.Uncommon treatise on licensing laws for taverns, the first edition to include the Licensing Acts of both 1872 and 1874, handsomely bound.The complex Licensing Act of 1872—intended for ""repressing of drunkenness, and restraining the inordinate haunting of inns, ale-houses, and other victualling houses""—caused a great deal of confusion regarding new regulations on sales, ingredients, hours, etc. George Colwell Oke, chief clerk to the Lord Mayor of London and author of a number of well-regarded books on legal topics, published the first edition of this treatise shortly after the passing of the act to provide a complete explanation of the law as it affected taverns as of that date. The work appears here in a new, updated version following the Licensing Act of 1874, edited by Middle Temple barrister William Cunningham Glen after Oke's death. Despite the title page calling this the second edition, it is in fact the first to incorporate the changes of 1874. Sweet & Maxwell II, 261. Contents extremely clean and fresh, in a lovely binding with the spine evenly toned by age.
[Collection of Eight Manuscript Letters from a Young Man Working in Wyoming and Alaska in the Early-20th Century]

[Collection of Eight Manuscript Letters from a Young Man Working in Wyoming and Alaska in the Early-20th Century] by [Wyoming]. [Alaska]. Platt, William Sherman

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[Collection of Eight Manuscript Letters from a Young Man Working in Wyoming and Alaska in the Early-20th Century]
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[Wyoming]. [Alaska]. Platt, William Sherman
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McBride Rare Books (United States)
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Very good.
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[Alcova, Wy.; Gulham and Achorage, Ak, 1922. Very good.. Eight autograph letters, signed, totaling approximately [32]pp. All in original transmittal envelopes. Old mailing folds, minor wear. A small archive of letters documenting brief bouts of time in the life of a young Massachusetts man working in Wyoming and Alaska in the years during and just after World War I. William Sherman Platt (1896-1969) was born in Troy, New York. Throughout his life, he worked as a shipper at a lumber yard and eventually as the manager and then proprietor of a coal company by 1950. He served in the military during the latter portion of the First World War, but apparently did not serve in Europe. Later, at the age of 46, he filled out a draft card for World War II, but it is unclear whether he served during the war, likely not. The present collection of his letters document two brief snapshots of Platt's life as a young man, from about ages eighteen to twenty-six. Platt wrote his earliest five letters from Gate Ranch in Wyoming to his parents back in Leominster, Massachusetts. Platt's earliest letter from Wyoming, dated July 4, 1914, includes his initial reaction to the place and a stark appraisal of the locals: "I think I will enjoy things here very much indeed when I get accustomed to the place & the people. They are, for the most part, ignorant animals, but they all mean well." In his second letter, Platt complains about the slowness of the mail, then offers an appraisal of the food in Wyoming: "The food is plain but well cooked and palatable and there is always plenty of it." In his third letter, Platt describes the road work he was performing in and around Alcova: "Last week, myself and two other fellows went down toward Alcova, fixing the road.... We were fixing up an old wood road for Mr. Schoolmaker to use as an auto road We camped out, cooking out or meals and sleeping in our tents. It was very interesting." He describes some of his other work in his penultimate letter from Wyoming on July 30: "You want to know what I am doing. Well, I am working. So far I have worked at carpentering, surveying, irragating [sic], road building, and fence repairing, beside hoeing weeds and helping a little with the chores once in a while. I don't know what I may strike yet. I am very busy, but it is not what you would call distinctively Western work. I might do it anywhere. Still it is all right." He then provides another impression of the locals in Wyoming: "I have more fun than a little listening to these fellows around here talk. They are mostly old American stock who think that they are as good as anybody and a little better. They have views on all conceivable subjects, which they are glad to air on all occasions, aided with a copious flow of profanity. They sure are some fun." Platt writes his last letter from Wyoming on August 2, and reports further on his activities (reading, helping the cook), the food (again), and also discusses his prospects for college, which he apparently meant to start soon. He prefers to attend Clark University in Worcester, but also mentions staying on the ranch in Wyoming ("to learn something about ranch work") until December and then heading home to Massachusetts after going to see San Francisco. Apparently, Platt enlisted in the Marines sometime in 1917, as one of his letters is dated September 16 from that year while at Paris Island, South Carolina. Platt details his training and "hard labor" in the military. He had apparently left the military for the timber industry in Alaska by 1920, as his final two letters emanate from Chitina, Alaska in the Fall of 1920. Platt's first letter is dated October 5, 1920 and describes his work in Alaska: "Since I wrote last I have been working in the woods steadily...so long as I stay here.... Really, the logging here is a joke. The timber is small, scattered, and almost all rotten at the butt. Today there were 7 of us in the woods and we only got 70 logs, short ones at that, 12 to 16 ft. I have been climbing the trees all the time, and I guess that will be my regular job from now on. It is easy. Most of the limbs are dead and break off." He also describes the short working day, his camping rituals, his like for malamute dogs and their work, eating caribou, and more. The present collection also includes two letters from Platt's mother sent to him in Alaska, reacting to his activities but largely reporting on events from home. Platt's second and last letter from Alaska dates from January 11, 1922 from Anchorage, when he writes a friend also named Bill. Platt spends about half of this letter detailing the opportunities for mining in Alaska, and describes a trip into the Alaskan interior: "But there is all kinds of mining on all sides of it. For quartz why the Willow Creek District is about the best. There is probably a dozen outfits operating. There is also a few coal mines in operation, some at Kenana, Healey, & Eska Creek and a few other smaller layouts in different places. Summer before last I took a trip in through the Interior, but I found it very unsatisfactory. Very expensive to move and the wages wasn't over 5 or 6 dollars a day and board for labor." In addition to his own letters, the present group includes a 1917 letter from Platt's grandmother asking him to stay away from the current "awful war," as well as four family letters from the late-19th century. A small but informative group of letters surrounding a young Massachusetts man adventuring in the American West and Alaska in his younger years.
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An inquiry into the nature and treatment of gravel, calculus, and other diseases... by PROUT, William

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An inquiry into the nature and treatment of gravel, calculus, and other diseases...
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PROUT, William
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Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
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London: Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy, 1821. FIRST EDITION. With 9 mounted coloured examples of sediments on the final leaf. Recent calf-backed marbled board, spine label. First edition. Prout was among the first to divided food components into fats, carbohydrates and proteins. This work led to his discovery that the gastric juice contains free hydrochloric acid.
Luis Riel, Martyr du Nord-Ouest. Sa Vie-Son Proces-Sa Mort

Luis Riel, Martyr du Nord-Ouest. Sa Vie-Son Proces-Sa Mort

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Luis Riel, Martyr du Nord-Ouest. Sa Vie-Son Proces-Sa Mort
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James Arsenault & Company (United States)
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Montreal: Publie, par le journal La Presse, Imprimerie Generale, 1885. Hardcover. 8vo (8.25" x 5.5"), half leather, red marbled paper, original pink front and back wrappers bound-in. [3], 96 pp., 5 b&w illus. Ownership inscription of one "Papineau" in pencil at head of wrapper front page. CONDITION: Good, ex-library, front hinge cracked and nearly detached, loss from library label removal at bottom spine edge of upper cover, library label and accession number at foot of ffep, remnant of library pocket at back free endpaper, bookseller ticket at back pastedown, paper residue at original front wrapper. Cinquieme edition. Luis Riel was a leader of the Métis people of Red River, a mix of French, English, and Cree and trappers of various origins who rebelled against the expansionist Protestant Canadian government, resulting in the establishment of the Province of Manitoba while setting the stage for Reil's eventual execution for treason. The illustrations show the execution and portraits of a few Métis figures.
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Cone cut corners: the experiences of a conservative family in fanatical times. Involving some account of a Connecticut village, the people who lived in it, and those who came there from the city. By Benauly

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Cone cut corners: the experiences of a conservative family in fanatical times. Involving some account of a Connecticut village, the people who lived in it, and those who came there from the city. By Benauly
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Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
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New York: Mason Brothers, 28 Park Row, n.d., 1855. 8vo, pp. xi, [2], 14-456; tinted lithograph frontispiece, wood-engraved chapter headings and tail-pieces; original blindstamped brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine; binding a bit skewed, spine ends cracked, corners worn; good and sound. Wright II, 257: "A joint temperance production of the Abbott brothers, Austin, Benjamin, and Lyman.
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AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED by ANDERSON, MARY

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AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED
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ANDERSON, MARY
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See Description. Signed-Autograph Very Good ANDERSON, Mary Antoinette [de Navarro]. Autograph Sentiment, New York, 1899. 12mo card, with stamped envelope postmarked New York, May 17, 1899.. Signed by Author(s).
The Last French-Fried Potato and other poems

The Last French-Fried Potato and other poems by Williams, Emmett

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The Last French-Fried Potato and other poems
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Williams, Emmett
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[New York: Something Else Press, 1967. A Great Bear Pamphlet. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (14 x 22 cm.), 16 pages. Checklist of works in the series on rear wrapper panel. Title from cover. FIRST EDITION. "A small bouquet of typical recent works by one of the founders of Concrete Poetry" (from the checklist). Dick Higgin's Something Else Press published the Great Bear Pamphlets between 1965 and 1967. The contributors were a who's who of the sixties avant-garde, including George Brecht, John Cage, Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Nam Jun Paik, Diter Rot and Emmett Williams.Internally very good, but wrappers stained at edges, with upper right corner of front panel with a tiny chip. A good copy.
Author's Choice Monthly Issue 22 - Charles De Lint

Author's Choice Monthly Issue 22 - Charles De Lint by De Lint, Charles

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Author's Choice Monthly Issue 22 - Charles De Lint
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De Lint, Charles
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Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
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Eugene, OR: Author's Choice Monthly, 1991. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo., Wraps. 115pp. Beautiful Unread First Printing of this monthly anthology. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, tears or toning. A gorgeous collectable copy and surprisingly uncommon.
Los Incunables de la Biblioteca Nacional Jose Marti. La Habana, octubre de 1974 Ano del XV Aniversario

Los Incunables de la Biblioteca Nacional Jose Marti. La Habana, octubre de 1974 Ano del XV Aniversario

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Los Incunables de la Biblioteca Nacional Jose Marti. La Habana, octubre de 1974 Ano del XV Aniversario
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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La Habana: Consejo Nacional de Cultura, 1974. Pamphlet. 25p., softbound, a 10x6.5 inch pamphlet in decorated stapled wraps; contents exclusively facsimile reproductions in sepia with short descriptive captionings, exhibit texts in Latin and captions in Spanish. Staples mildly rusted with a touch of migration, lower edge of item is impacted, bent, and creased irregularly for about a quarter inch (an eyesore slightly affecting ease of handling), else a good copy. As an example of the holdings, find Torquemada, "Tractatus notabilis, Tratado sobre la potestad del Papa. Impreso en Colonia, Alemania, por F.Quentell, en 1480. Pertenecio a la Coleccion Nestor Ponce de Leon". Also find instruction in geometry with a complex diagram, a fullpage woodcut urban scene, much Catholic imagery, and musical notation.
Fitz Hugh Lane 1804-1865: American Marine Painter

Fitz Hugh Lane 1804-1865: American Marine Painter by Wilmerding, John

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Fitz Hugh Lane 1804-1865: American Marine Painter
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Wilmerding, John
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Gloucester: Peter Smith, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. x, 92pp+ indices. Very good hardback in a slightly darkened jacket that has a closed tear at the top of the spine.

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