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Twenty Four Subjects Exhibiting the Costume of Paris

Twenty Four Subjects Exhibiting the Costume of Paris by CHALON, J[ohn] J[ames]

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Twenty Four Subjects Exhibiting the Costume of Paris
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CHALON, J[ohn] J[ames]
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David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
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London: Published by Rodwell and Martin, 1822. A Tall Copy and Rare With the Lithographic Title-Page CHALON, John James, illustrator. Twenty Four Subjects Exhibiting the Costume of Paris, The Incidents taken from Nature, Designed and Drawn on Stone by J.J. Chalon. London: Published by Rodwell and Martin, 1822. First edition. A Large Paper copy bound from the original four parts. Large folio (17 5/16 x 12 inches; 443 x 306 mm.). Lithographed title and twenty-four hand-colored lithographed plates. Plates printed by C. Hullmandel. The title-page is watermarked 1821 and the plates are watermarked J. Whatman 1821. Contemporary quarter tan roan over marbled boards. Spine decoratively tooled in gilt, black morocco gilt spine label. Joints a little rubbed. Armorial bookplate (unidentified) on front paste-down. A very attractive, remarkably clean copy with vivid hand-coloring. The plates are captioned: "La Marchande de Tisanne;" "Les Bonnes;" "La Petite Fruitiere;" "La Dame du Café;" "Le Café;" "Les Tondeuses de Chiens;" "Les Brodeuses;" "L'Escamoteur;" "La Porte Cochère;" "Le Journal des Débats;" "Le Restaurant;" "La Loueuse de Chaises;" "Une Matinée aux Thuilleries;" "Le Marchand de Brioches;" "Le Porteur d'Eau;" "Le Petit Décrotteur;" "Le Marche aux Fleurs;" "La Prise de Tabac;" "Les Adieux;" "Les Dames de la Halle;" "Le Cimetiere du Pere la Chaise;" "Les Dames Artistes;" "La Charette du Blanchisseur;" and "La Marchande de Modes." "According to Beraldi (XII, 232) this 'very curious and rare album' appeared as a small quarto in London. These plates, which are large folio in size, may represent a French issue of the work, though the English edition had captions in French. Jean-Jacques Chalon was a French artist born in Switzerland who eventually settled in England. His designs are by no means mere costume plates. Instead they are animated and faithful studies of Parisian manners and costumes in the years 1820 to 1822. There is hardly a touch of caricature, though the profiles of his personages have a family likeness which suggests a domesticated Girodet" (Ray). "Published in four parts. The plates show people of various occupations, shoeblacks, venders, politicians, and general scenes, etc" (Hiler). This copy is unusually tall: Abbey's copy measured 15 x 11 1/4 inches uncut, and lacked the lithographed title-page, as did Sadleir's (though Sadleir's copy was slightly larger than the copy under notice). Only four copies with the lithographed title-page have come to auction within last 31 years. Five copies only located in KVK/OCLC but the presence of the title page is not noted. Quite rare. Abbey, Travel, 108. Colas 588. Hiler, p. 156. Lipperheide 1185. Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 124.
Domus Aureus. Plate # 9

Domus Aureus. Plate # 9 by CARLONI, Marco; SMUGLIEWICZ, Franciszek BRENNA, Vincenzo

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Domus Aureus. Plate # 9
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CARLONI, Marco; SMUGLIEWICZ, Franciszek BRENNA, Vincenzo
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Rome: Ludovico Mirri, 1776-1778. Emperor Nero's Golden Palace The Domus Aureus CARLONI, Marco (1742-1796) after SMUGLIEWICZ, Franciszek (1745-1807) and BRENNA, Vincenzo (1745-1820). Detail of a fresco in the 'Domus Aureus'. Rome: Ludovico Mirri, [1776-1778]. Plate # 9. Original engraving with later hand coloring. Fine in a stunning gilt frame. Framed size: (31 1/2 x 21 inches; 800 x 533 mm.). Plate mark: (22 7/8 x 12 1/4 inches; 581 x 311 mm.). A fine plate from 'Vestigia delle terme di Tito e loro interne pitture' of an ancient fresco from the 'Domus Aureus', Nero's sumptuous imperial complex in Rome. The image depicts two male figures draped in blue/green robes admiring the frescoes and statues. The Domus Aurea (Latin, "Golden House") was a vast landscaped palace built by the Emperor Nero in the heart of ancient Rome after the great fire in 64 AD had destroyed a large part of the city and the aristocratic villas on the Palatine and Esquiline Hills. It replaced and extended his Domus Transitoria that he had built as his first palace complex on the site. Designed by architects Severus and Celer. The magnitude and decadent extravagance of the impressive gold-covered, jewel bedecked palace was intended to glorify the Emperor's reign. Its rooms were filled with lavish furniture and its walls and ceilings covered with decorative late-Hellenistic murals by the renowned ancient artist Fabullus. Nero, who died in 68 AD before the Domus was totally completed. In 1480, practically forgotten, the Domus was excavated, and its subterranean passages and rooms thereafter became known as 'le grotte' (cave). Many of its original frescoes survived, and their motifs and ancient style of ornamentation, called 'grotteschi' (grotesque) after 'grotte', became extremely popular during the Renaissance, influencing many prominent artists such as Raphael, Michelangelo, Ghirlandio, and Pinturicchio. Published in 1776-1778, 'Vestigia delle terme di Tito e loro interne pitture' is an elaborate album of engravings depicting the stunning 'al fresco' and 'al stucco' murals of Nero's Domus Aureus. Carloni's beautifully rendered plates faithfully capture the ancient Roman grotesque style, which became a hallmark of Renaissance Art.
A Rare Manuscript from Livy’s Seminal Work: From a 15th c. copy of the History of Rome

A Rare Manuscript from Livy’s Seminal Work: From a 15th c. copy of the History of Rome by Medieval History, Literature, Law|Ege|All Medieval Historical Documents

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A Rare Manuscript from Livy’s Seminal Work: From a 15th c. copy of the History of Rome
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Medieval History, Literature, Law|Ege|All Medieval Historical Documents
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The Raab Collection (United States)
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01/01/1450. A very uncommon leaf from Livy, very few manuscript examples having survivedRome, having survived the invasions of the Celtic Gauls in the early 4th century BC, set its sights on further expansion in the middle part of the century. They re-conquered those Latin and Etruscan towns that had left the fold during the Gallic occupation, and in absorbing others, reconsolidated their position as the dominant force in Latium and Central Italy. With their home turf secured (or so it seemed) the Romans looked south towards Campania.At this time, the Samnites had moved into the fertile lands of Campania, from the south-central Appenines. They already controlled the towns of Capua and Cumae to the south of Rome, and held sway to the east, as well. Rome, to protect its flanks while still in the midst of re-taking Latium and Etruria, wisely entered into an alliance with the Samnites in 354 BC. Conflict with Samnium over Campanian dominance was inevitable, however, and would soon turn into a series of wars lasting from 343 - 290 BC.The years surrounding the Samnite Wars were not only one of military prowess for Rome, but of great public works, as well. In 329 BC, the Circus Maximus got one of many face-lifts throughout its history, gaining permanent horse-stalls and starting gates. The first Roman road, the Via Appia, was constructed from Rome to Capua in 312 BC and the first aqueduct, the Aqua Appia, was also established at the same time. These magnificent structures not only were of great benefit to Rome and her people, but proved the flourishing disposition of the state even during time of war and expansion. At the end of the Samnite Wars, Rome held perhaps as many as 150,000 people making it one of the largest cities in the Mediterranean region. As many as 1,000,000 people claimed citizenship to Rome, and vastly larger numbers were obligated through Latin rights and allied status.With the defeat of Samnium, the last major Italian threat, Rome was the master of nearly the entire Italian peninsula, save for the Gauls occupying the Po valley in the north and the Greek holdout cities like Tarentum in the far south. This growing power soon gained the attention of regional powers in Greece and later, the masters of the Mediterranean, the Carthaginians.Livy, or Titus Livius, (59 BC - 17AD), wrote his history of Rome starting with the foundation myth of Aeneas (510 BC) up to the successful German campaigns and death of Emperor Drusus (9 BC). This history comprised 142 books. Of those books, 35 survive to present day, with the bulk being the first 10 years (Books 1-10), fragments of 11, Books 21-45, fragments of 91, and scattered quotations preserved in secondary works.Though the accounts differ, the destruction of Livy’s work has been attributed to the hand of Pope Gregory the Great (590–604), who was trying to eliminate pagan works from Christian hands. This biblioclasm, whether it was through the Pope’s doing or through the natural loss of material to time, has severed us from an important access point to Roman history, as some of the material used by Livy has not been found in his source texts.With the bulk of the texts destroyed, Livy’s History of Rome passed into the Middle Ages primarily through summary, and with the extreme length of the work, the original Classical and Early Medieval manuscripts were not recopied and fell into decay and loss. Thus, by the so-called 12th Century Renaissance, Livy’s historical writing was quite rare. It was not until the 1300s that Livy regained popularity. Dante was one of those who respected Livy, and in his Inferno the poet references Livy, ""come Livïo scrive, che non erra"" (as Livy wrote, who does not err).The hunt was on for Livy’s lost manuscripts, even just a fragmental scrap was a treasure worth finding in the 1300s. Even Pope Nicholas V turned his efforts towards finding these rare manuscripts, some of which had been destroyed by his papal predecessor. The Italian Humanist period into the Renaissance increasingly sought any extant versions of this history; as the esteem for, and ardent imitation of, Greco-Roman culture increased, so did the need for access points to this history. Entire country homes in Italy were sold to buy a single manuscript of Livy’s works, copied by one of the men primarily responsible for the new handwriting style, now known as the Humanist hand. Scholarship and commentary, ranging from England, by Dominican Friar Nicholas Trevet, to Italy, by Laurentius Valla, paved the way for further analysis of the Roman historian.This Italian manuscript leaf, likely from the mid-1400s to the very early 1500s, comprises part of Book 9, from BC 308. With only minor deviations from the Loeb Classical Library text, which is the scholarly standard. These deviations indicate that this manuscript descends from a different stemma than the most common, or most “correct,” one which was for the Loeb edition, further painting the picture of the Humanist effort to grasp this fading history from the jowls of history, and the pains to retaining the original text despite the lack of exemplars.In addition to representing an important moment in the recuperation of history, the script throws us into modernity. Towards the end of the 14th century, several Italian humanists, including Niccolò Niccoli and Poggion Bracciolini, began set about to reform the increasingly dense Gothic handwriting which had dominated book making since the mid-13th century. The Gothic script, whose legacy in printing extends to 20th century German fraktur found in pre-war books, was full of letters fused together, ornate thorns and hairlines, and single strokes called minims which became impossible to read. These 14th century Italians set about to recreate a script that utilized space between each letterform and simpler strokes— a new take on the handwriting endorsed by Charlesmagne himself for the education of his Holy Roman Empire. This script, known as Humanist, caught on and proliferated. By the time texts were bring printed at the end of the 15th century, the printers looked to this script to make a font and further, our modern Times New Roman font is based on the Humanist script, which is, in part, why this text of Livy is so legible to us as a modern audience.Pierre Maréchaux, “The Transmission of Livy from the End of the Roman Empire to the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century: Distortion or Discovery, a Story of Corruption,” A Companion to Livy, ed. Bernard Mineo, (John Wiley & Sons: 2014), pp. 437-452.More detailsLEAF FROM LIVY’S AB URBE CONDITAS, in Latin, text manuscript on parchment [Northeastern Italy, perhaps Padua, 1456] Single column of 34 lines written in brownish ink in Humanist hand with some slant and ligatures. Letters beginning sections set in margins, with two hatch marks in pen next to all but one of the initials. Single correction, indicated by strike through with amended word written above (line 15, recto); Ruled horizontally in red ink. Distinct hair and flesh sides. Modern pencil number 185 at the bottom left hand of the column on verso. Provenance: Sothebys, March 1825, Payne and Foss, 1825, Sothebys, 1902 & 1923, Parke-Bernet 1941, Otto Ege. Gwara Handlist 52.Text & Translation:…ruperat, Fabius consul nec dubia nec difficili victoria dimicat. Ipsum oppidum—nam ad moenia victor accessit—cepisset, ni legati dedentes urbem exissent. Praesidio Perusiae imposito, legationibus Etruriae amicitiam petentibus prae se Romam ad senatum missis consul praestantiore etiam quam dictator victoria triumphans urbem est invectus; quin etiam devictorum Samnitium decus magna ex parte ad legatos, P. Decium et M. Valerium, est versum; quos populus proximis comitiis ingenti consensu consulem alterum, alterum praetorem declaravit.XLI. Fabio ob egregie perdomitam Etruriam continuatur consulatus; Decius collega datur. Valerius praetor quartum creatus. Consules partiti provincias: Etruria Decio, Samnium Fabio evenit. Is profectus1 ad Nuceriam Alfaternam, cum pacem petentes, quod uti ea cum daretur noluissent, aspernatus esset,oppugnando ad deditionem subegit. Cum Samnitibus acie dimicatum. Haud magno certamine hostes victi; neque eius pugnae memoria tradita foret, ni Marsi eo primum proelio cum Romanis bellassent. Secuti Marsorum defectionem Paeligni eandem fortunam habuerunt.Decio quoque, alteri consuli, secunda belli fortuna erat. Tarquiniensem metu subegerat frumentum exercitui praebere atque indutias in quadraginta annos petere. Volsiniensium castella aliquot vi cepit; quaedam ex his diruit ne receptaculo hostibus essent; circumferendoque passim bello tantum terrorem sui fecit ut nomen omne Etruscum foedus ab consule peteret. Ac de eo quidem nihil impetratum; indutiae annuae datae. Stipendium exercitu Romano ab hoste in eum annum pensum et binae tunicae in militem exactae; ea merces indutiarum fuit.Tranquillas res iam in Etruscis turbavit repentina defectio Umbrorum, gentis integrae a cladibus belli, nisi quod transitum exercitus ager senserat. concitata omni iuventute sua et magna parte Etruscorum ad rebellionem compulsa tantum exercitum fecerant ut relicto post se in Etruria Decio ad oppugnandam inde Romam ituros, magnifice de se ac contemptim de Romanis loquentes, iactarent. Quod inceptum eorum ubi ad Decium consulem perlatum est, ad urbem ex Etruria magnis itineribus pergit et in agro Pupiniensi ad famam intentus hostium consedit. Nec Romae spernebatur Umbrorum bellum, et ipsae minae metum fecerant expertis Gallica clade quam intutam urbem incolerent, Itaque legati ad Fabium consulem missi sunt, ut si quid laxamenti a bello Samnitium esset, in Umbriam propere exercitum duceret. Dicto paruit consul magnisque itineribus ad Mevaniam, ubi tum copiae Umbrorum erant, perrexit.Repens adventus consulis, quem procul Umbria in Samnio bello alio occupatum crediderant, ita exter-ruit Umbros ut alii recedendum ad urbes munitas…In the same year the consul Fabius fought a battle with the remnants of the Etruscan forces near Perusia—which, together with other cities, had broken the truce—and gained an easy and decisive victory. He would have taken the town itself—for after the battle he marched up to the walls—had not ambassadors come out and surrendered the place. Having placed a garrison in Perusia and having sent on before him to the senate in Rome the Etruscan deputations which had come to him seeking friendship, the consul was borne in triumph into the City, after gaining a success more brilliant even than the dictator’s; indeed the glory of conquering the Samnites was largely diverted upon the lieutenants, Publius Decius and Marcus Valerius, of whom, at the next election, the people with great enthusiasm made the one consul and the other praetor.In recognition of his remarkable conquest of Etruria, Fabius was continued in the consulship, and was given Decius for his colleague. Valerius was for the fourth time chosen praetor. The consuls cast lots for the commands, Etruria falling to Decius and Samnium to Fabius. The latter marched against Nuceria Alfaterna, and rejecting that city’s overtures of peace because its people had declined it when it was offered them, laid siege to the place and forced it to surrender. A battle was fought with the Samnites, in which the enemy were defeated without much difficulty, nor would the engagement have been remembered but for the fact that it was the first time that the Marsi had made war against the Romans. The Paeligni imitated the defection of the Marsi, and met with the same fate.Decius, the other consul, was also successful in war. When he had frightened the Tarquinienses into furnishing corn for the army and seeking a truce for forty years, he captured by storm a number of strongholds belonging to the people of Volsinii. Some of these he dismantled, lest they should serve as a refuge for the enemy, and by devastating far and wide he made himself so feared that all who bore the Etruscan name begged the consul to grant them a treaty. This privilege they were denied, but a truce for a year was granted them. They were required to furnish the Roman army with a year’s pay and two tunics for each soldier; such was the price they paid for a truce.The tranquility which now obtained in Etruria was disturbed by a sudden revolt of the Umbrians, a people which had escaped all the distress of war, except that an army had passed through their territory. Calling up all their fighting men, and inducing great part of the Etruscans to rebel, they mustered so large an army, that they boasted, with much glorifying of themselves and fleering at the Romans, that they would leave Decius behind them in Etruria and march off to the assault of Rome. When this purpose of theirs was reported to the consul Decius, he hastened by forced marches from Etruria towards the City, and encamped in the fields belonging to Pupinia, eagerly waiting for word of their approach. At Rome no one made light of an Umbrian invasion. Their very threats had excited fear in those who had learnt from the Gallic disaster how unsafe was the City they inhabited. Accordingly envoys were dispatched to carry word to Fabius the consul, that if there were any slackening in the Samnite war he should with all speed lead his army into Umbria. The consul obeyed the order, and advanced by long marches to Mevania, where the forces of the Umbrians at that time lay.The sudden arrival of the consul, whom they had believed to have his hands full with another war in Samniurn, a long way from Umbria, so dismayed the Umbrians that some were for falling back on their fortified cities, and others for giving up the war…
Becoming an Imperial Count Palatine, A Grand, Golden Document Signed by Prominent Citizens of Padua in 1585

Becoming an Imperial Count Palatine, A Grand, Golden Document Signed by Prominent Citizens of Padua in 1585 by Medieval History, Literature, Law|All Medieval Historical Documents

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Becoming an Imperial Count Palatine, A Grand, Golden Document Signed by Prominent Citizens of Padua in 1585
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The Raab Collection (United States)
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25/09/1585. The Renaissance was a period of crucial cultural, artistic, social and financial development in late Medieval and Renaissance Italy, and particularly the affluent cities of Florence, Venice, Genoa, and Padua.The Holy Roman Empire spanned central Europe, in one form or another, for the span of a millennia. For much of that time, it contained vast swaths of Italy, mainly in the north, and included the Italian city of Padua, which would become a hub in the Renaissance in that country and a major university center. As the Middle Ages bled into the period of the Renaissance, the Empire slowly lost direct control over Italy. It managed to maintain its power into the 16th century in part via old established orders that maintained local control.Among these Holy Roman imperial titles was the ""comes palatinus caesareus"" or the imperial count palatine. The office of imperial count palatine was hereditary and the emperors seem to have used it to create an Italian aristocratic class loyal to the empire. In 1357, the Emperor Charles IV added the power of conferring licenses and doctorates of civil law to those of the counts palatine. Later on, they acquired the power to confer doctorates in general. In 1363, Charles himself bestowed this honor to Giacomo Santacroce. His heir to this title and power given by it, which was significant, was Giovanni Santcroce, who, in addition to being the benefactor for religious and cultural efforts in the region, was a businessman.The Facino (or Facini) family was a prominent one from the town of Feltre. The Ioannes Baptista Facinus, namd in the document, was prominent in the cultural community. There remains today a church bearing the crest of this family, constructed shortly before his birth.Francisco Fabriano and Andreas Tinto were important functionaries and notaries of the period in Padua.Document signed, September 25, 1585, in Latin, using the Latin names of the people involved, including The Holy Roman Emperor Charles, signed by important figures of the late Italian renaissance. In it, ""Ioannes Sancta Cruce"" bestows the position of ""comes palatinus caesareus"" on ""Ioannes Baptista Facinus"" and all his male heirs. The document is witnessed and signed not only by Santa Cruce himself, described as ""the most excellent lawyer, lord, count, soldier, knight (horseman) of the Court of Caesar"", but also by Fabriano and Tinto. The document is likely in the hand of Tinto himself.Such Italian Renaissance documents are very uncommon. The most direct comparable was acquired by J.P. Morgan and is now in the Morgan Library.There is an extended portion in the middle about Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, who, it describes, in 1357, added the power of conferring licenses and doctorates of civil law to the position.
3 Versions of The Game of Nations - 1875, 1889 and 1908

3 Versions of The Game of Nations - 1875, 1889 and 1908

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3 Versions of The Game of Nations - 1875, 1889 and 1908
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New York & Springfield: McLoughlin & Bradley, 1875-1908. All complete with instructions. Very good condition.. Three (3) different versions of Game of Nations presented together to compare and contrast the evolving interpretation of the various world cultures/ethnicities. All of the playing cards are grouped by continent and include a map, an interpretation of a typical male, female and child, a dwelling and in the case of the 1908 set an animal instead of a dwelling. In each set the card with the highest value is the map; the next highest the man; then the woman; child and etc. The first is from McLoughlin dated 1875, top opening box with applied litho with decorative devices on cover. It consists of 52 cards and includes nine (9) instead of five (5) dwelling cards. It also includes a 12pp instruction booklet with for four (4) different games to be played using the deck of cards including Game of Nations, Game of Catch-all, Game of Monkey, and Follow the Leader. Measures 4.25" by 3". The second, titled "The Game of Nations" also published by McLoughlin c1889 includes 36 cards An applied litho on the top depicts two Asian men in traditional attire. Includes single fold instruction. The object is to see which player receives ten (10) points first. Measures 7" x 5". The final titled Game of Nations is from Milton Bradley, 1908. The applied litho on the box lid depicts three (3) studious boys pinning flags of various nations on a globe. This set also has 36 cards, but animals instead of dwellings. Measures 8" by 6/25".
Fairbanks and Pickford Signed Color Photograph, 1928

Fairbanks and Pickford Signed Color Photograph, 1928 by FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS, SR., AND PICKFORD, MARY

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Fairbanks and Pickford Signed Color Photograph, 1928
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FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS, SR., AND PICKFORD, MARY
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Pickford and Fairbanks were founding members of United Artists film production studio along with D. W. Griffith and Charlie Chapiln and also founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. They were both actors, writers, directors and producers. Douglas Fairbanks hosted the first Oscar Awards Ceremony in 1929. Fairbanks and Pickford married in 1920 and divorced in 1936. Fairbanks was known as the "King of Hollywood," a title passed on to Clark Gable. The photograph shows Pickford sitting in a chair wearing a fur trimmed coat and hat with Fairbanks, in suit and tie, leaning on the back of the chair. He inscribes the photograph, signs in full and dates, 1928. Pickford signs in full. The photograph measures 8 x 10 inches.
Telephone Workers on Strike from Bell System Photo Archive Showing Picketing, Scuffles with Police, and Labor Voting, November 1950

Telephone Workers on Strike from Bell System Photo Archive Showing Picketing, Scuffles with Police, and Labor Voting, November 1950 by Bell System; Communications Workers of America

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Telephone Workers on Strike from Bell System Photo Archive Showing Picketing, Scuffles with Police, and Labor Voting, November 1950
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Bell System; Communications Workers of America
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1950. [Labor][Union Orgazning] Bell System telephone workers on strike in Philadelphia press photo archive, November 1950, recording the Communications Workers of America's fight for better wages and working conditions in the postwar wave of American labor conflict that followed WWII wage controls. Captions identify the strike as part of a national stoppage, with one Washington image stating that "7,000 members of the CWA CIO Communications Workers of America walked off their jobs at 6 A.M. as a nation wide telephone strike got underway today," while the Philadelphia images show the local mechanics of that conflict at exchange entrances, on sidewalks, and in police custody. The group makes the system visible at street level: organized picketing, strikebreaking protection, arrest processing, and the use of municipal police power to keep telephone exchanges operating during a politically sensitive communications stoppage. Photo archive of 7 silver gelatin press photographs, ranging from 7 x 9 to 7 x 7inches, Philadelphia and Washington D.C., November 1950. All retain typed press captions printed on or attached to the image identifying Bell Telephone exchanges and specific episodes of confrontation. One caption reads, "One of the Telephone strikers being removed form the picket line by a policeman," while another states that "some 150 strikers tried to prevent workers from going through the line," and a third describes "striking telephone equipment and installation workers scuffling with police for nearly 30 minutes." The pictures themselves are tightly focused on action: uniformed policemen gripping picketers by the arms and collars, one officer pulling a striker backward across the pavement, another forcing a man down while officers crowd around him, and groups of detained workers being escorted back from a police station after fingerprinting. The Washington photograph broadens the sequence beyond arrest scenes, showing suited picketers outside the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company building with placards reading "WE MUST STRIKE WE ARE NOT HAPPY" and "OUR WAGES WILL NOT SUPPORT A HOME AND FAMILY," making wage grievance and public messaging part of the same visual record. American labor activism between the 1940s and 1950 reshaped transportation, steel, auto, mining, and communications industries. Telephone workers entered that national movement as unions pressed to convert wartime labor gains into durable postwar bargaining power. These photographs document the realities of mass strikes at the street level: pickets, replacement or continuing workers being moved through police-cleared entrances, men arrested following scuffles, and news agencies rapidly distributing images of labor conflict to national audiences. Light to moderate surface wear, scattered creasing, some staining and chipping to margins not affecting images. Overall very good condition. A press record of postwar American labor conflict in the communications industry.
The Witch in the Wood

The Witch in the Wood by White, T. H.

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The Witch in the Wood
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White, T. H.
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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. First US edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Blue cloth, gilt. Top edge red. A fine copy. The dustwrapper has some repair at the spine tips, noticeable along the top of the spine and affecting the letters of "THE", but still presents a near fine, bright appearance. Second book in White's Arthurian saga, and its only appearance under this title. .
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PAPERS RELATING TO AMERICA. Presented to the House of Commons, 1809

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PAPERS RELATING TO AMERICA. Presented to the House of Commons, 1809
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1810. PAPERS RELATING TO AMERICA. Presented to the House of Commons, 1809. London, 1810. viii, 178, [4] p. Contemporary calf (pockmarked); rebacked with original spine mounted. A very nice copy. First edition. Relating largely to the 1807 naval encounter between the American frigate Chesapeake and the British ship Leopard. Howes P60.
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LASSES WHITE'S BOOK OF HUMOR AND SONG: Lasses and Honey, Dixie’s Sweetest Combination, Songs, Parodies, Jokes, Poems [cover title] by WHITE, Lee Roy

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LASSES WHITE'S BOOK OF HUMOR AND SONG: Lasses and Honey, Dixie’s Sweetest Combination, Songs, Parodies, Jokes, Poems [cover title]
Author
WHITE, Lee Roy
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Bartlebys Books (United States)
Description
[Nashville, TN?]: Lasses White, 8221. 8vo. 18 pp. Illustrated from photographs including White and his partner Lee Davis “Honey” Wilds” in blackface), music and lyrics to songs, a page of jokes, etc. White (1888-1949) began his career while still a teenager in minstrel shows, forming his own troupe by 1912; at the time of publication of this work, he and his partner were one of the mainstays of the Grand Ole Opry, and he finished his career as a cowboy sidekick in many Hollywood films. OCLC locates on a 1935 edition (in five copies). Original illustrated yellow wrappers, stapled, Very good.
To Themis Poems on Famous Trials With Other Pieces

To Themis Poems on Famous Trials With Other Pieces by Blunden, Edmund

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To Themis Poems on Famous Trials With Other Pieces
Author
Blunden, Edmund
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Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Orig. basket weave cream cloth and patterned boards. Near fine
Description
London: Beaumont Press, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. basket weave cream cloth and patterned boards. Near fine. 58 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Limited edition copy 125 of 405 on hand made paper, frontispiece and and title page designed by Randolph Schwabe, typography and binding by Cyril William Beaumont. Laid-in Richard D. Friedlander bookplate and letter of Gordon Bottomley, English poet, known particularly for his verse dramas discussing one of his plays, dated 21st Jan. 1923. Bright, crisp copy, spine a tinge darkened.
THE LAST GOOD TIME

THE LAST GOOD TIME by Bausch, Richard

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THE LAST GOOD TIME
Author
Bausch, Richard
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Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780385272315
Condition
Near Fine
Description
NY: Dial Press, 1984. First edition, first prnt. Review copy with the publisher's slip laid in. Spine end cloth wrinkled, dustjacket with wrinkling at spine ends. Unread copy in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover.. First Edition. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Review Copy.The image is of the book described and not a stock photo.
Marc Chagall: Il teatro dei sogni

Marc Chagall: Il teatro dei sogni by Chagall, Marc

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Marc Chagall: Il teatro dei sogni
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Chagall, Marc
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Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN
9788820213473
Condition
Very Good.
Description
Milan: Mazzotta, 1999. Very Good.. Rather uncommon book on Chagall in Italian with full color reproductions. Paperback. 4to. Very good plus with just touches of rubbing and shelfwear. Spine uncreased. Clean, bright and sound throughout.

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