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Album de Sainte-Pélagie, Prison de la Dette by ADAM, Victor

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Title: Album de Sainte-Pélagie, Prison de la Dette
Author: ADAM, Victor
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: Paris [&] London: V. Morlet [&] McLean, 1830. Twelve Superb Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates Depicting Scenes from the Debtor's Prison of Sainte-Pélagie ADAM, Victor. Album de Sainte-Pélagie, Prison de la Dette. [Gravures réhaussées à l'aquarelle. Douze scènes intérieures dessinées et lithographiées d'après nature par V. Adam]. Paris [&] London: Publié par V. Morlot [&] Mc.Léan, [n.d., ca. 1830]. First edition. Oblong folio (10 5/8 x 13 7/8 inches; 270 x 352 mm.). [4] pp. of descriptive text. Twelve numbered hand-colored lithographed plates. Plates lithographed by Bernard. Each plate with the publisher's oval blind-stamp in lower blank margin. Bound without the printed title-page. Mid-nineteenth century quarter red calf over marbled boards, smooth spine ruled and lettered in gilt. A superb example with fine contemporary hand-coloring. The plates are captioned: "L'Écrou;" "Chambre du détenu malheureux;" "Chambre du détenu philosophe;" "Les Élections;" "Le Cabinet de lecture;" "Le Cabaret;" "Le Café;" "Le Repas dans la cour;" "Les Jeux dans la cour;" "Le Bain du créancier;" "Le Paye;" and "Sortie du débiteur;." A rare album depicting various scenes at the Parisian prison of Sainte-Pélagie. This prison, once located in the 5th arrondissement, was active from 1790-1899 and housed many renowned prisoners during and after the French Revolution, including the Marquis de Sade. In this series, Adam conveys in various scenes of prison life the dignified squlor to which its inhabitants were reduced. Exceptionally rare. We have only seen this book once before - a copy with modern hand-coloring which we sold in 2003. OCLC locates just one copy - BCU Dorigny (Lausanne, Switzerland). Jean Victor Adam (1801-1866) was a French painter and lithographer. Born in Paris he was the son of Jean Adam, an esteemed engraver. During the years 1814 to 1818 he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and also in the ateliers of Meynier and Régnault. In 1819 he exhibited 'Herminia succouring Tancred.' He was almost immediately afterwards employed to paint various subjects for the Museum at Versailles, amongst which are, 'The Entry of the French into Mainz,' 'The Battle of Varroux,' 'The Taking of Menin, 'The Battle of Castiglione,' 'The Passage of the Cluse,' 'The Battle of Montebello,' 'The Capitulation of Meiningen;' the last three in association with Alaux. He also exhibited down to the year 1838: 'Henry IV., after the Battle of Coutras,' 'Trait of Kindness in the Duke de Berri,' 'The Postillion,' 'The Vivandiere,' 'The Road to Poissy,' 'The Return from the Chase,' 'Horse-fair at Caen,' and numerous other subjects. He then retired from publicity, till 1846, when he appeared as the exhibitor of some works in lithography, to which branch of art he afterwards restricted himself. In this line he produced a lithographic album, 'Views in the Environs of Paris,' 'Studies of Animals for an edition of Buffon,' &c. He obtained a gold medal in 1824, a second class medal in 1836, besides several others from Lille, Douai, and other cities. He died at Viroflay in 1866. "Beraldi assigns between 7000 and 8000 designs to Victor Adam [1801-1865]...A Parisian by birth, he remained in the capital all his life, but this did not prevent him from drawing negroes, Turks, Chinese, and other peoples all over the world in his Paris studio. He was famous, indeed, as a faiseur de bonshommes, that is to say a specialist in adding groups of small figures to the foreground of architectural or landscape drawings by other artists...His immense production contains many amusing albums concerning the life of the time" (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, p. 194). Sainte-Pélagie was a debtor's prison in Paris, in active use from 1790 to 1899. The former Parisian prison was located between the current group of buildings bearing No. 56 Rue de la Clef with Rue du Puits-de-l'Ermite in the 5th arrondissement of Paris at the old Place Sainte-Pélagie. The penal structure held many noted prisoners during the French Revolution, with Madame Roland, Grace Dalrymple Elliott and Marie-Louise O'Murphy being among the known prisoners. After the revolution, the Marquis de Sade was imprisoned here, as was the young mathematician Évariste Galois. During the July Monarchy, the "April insurgees" were also detained there, and some managed to escape through a tunnel. The painter Gustave Courbet was also imprisoned there for his activities in the Paris Commune. Bobins V, 1524.

A Further Inquiry Concerning Constitutional Irritation, and the Pathology of the Nervous System by TRAVERS, Benjamin

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Title: A Further Inquiry Concerning Constitutional Irritation, and the Pathology of the Nervous System
Author: TRAVERS, Benjamin
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: G. Woodfall for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1835. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, edges gilt. Ownership inscription of John Davis on the title. First edition. Part I covers inflammation and localized ailments; Part II explores the nervous system and its disorders. This work follows his 1826 An inquiry concerning that disturbed state of the vital functions usually denominated constitutional irritation. Travers (1783-1858) was an apprentice to Sir Astley Cooper, with whom he wrote Surgical essays published in 1818-1819. A vascular and ophthalmic surgeon at St. Thomas’ in London, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1813 and ultimately acquired much of Cooper’s practice. He was “the first hospital surgeon in England to devote himself to the surgery of the eye.” DNB, XIX, pp. 1085-1086; see Heirs of Hippocrates, 1227.

The WGN Broadcasting Auditorium Competition (With Its Original Shipping Carton)

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Title: The WGN Broadcasting Auditorium Competition (With Its Original Shipping Carton)
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: WGN (The Chicago Tribune), 1934. Pictorial boards. Near Fine. Uncommon 1934 announcement --in book form-- of the upcoming "WGN Broadcasting Auditorium Competition". (The opening paragraph: "WGN, the Chicago Tribune radio station, proposes to erect on the property at Michigan Avenue and Illinois Street, adjoining Tribune Tower, a building which will house its broadcasting studios. The building when completed will contain a large broadcasting studio to which the public will be admitted. This large studio should therefore fulfill the requirements for a public auditorium."). Clean and very sharp in its dark pictorial boards, with bright gilt-titling along the front panel. Thin quarto, floor plans in addition to text. Also includes the fragile, dark cardboard "WGN Broadcasting Auditorium Competition" shipping carton, which shows just a bit of wear and offsetting along the edges.

Trow's General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx City of New York Vol. CXIII. For the Year Ending July 1, 1900

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Title: Trow's General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx City of New York Vol. CXIII. For the Year Ending July 1, 1900
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: New York:: Trow Directory, Printing & Bookbinding Co., 1899. Hardcover. Good. stout quarto, folding map, iv, [2], [17]- 1407, 52, 111 pp., ex-library, handstamps, rebound in later cloth, red and black leather spine labels, call number on spine, else a good copy.

The Negro in New York: A Historical-Biographical Evaluation From 1626 [Signed and Inscribed] by James Egert Allen

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Title: The Negro in New York: A Historical-Biographical Evaluation From 1626 [Signed and Inscribed]
Author: James Egert Allen
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Exposition Press, 1964. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Exposition Press, 1964. First Edition, stated. Octavo (21cm); typographic dust jacket with $3.00 price intact; boards in gray cloth with black lettering; 94pp. Jacket edgeworn with a few shallow tears; fairly heavy toning to front, rear, and spine, with foxing to flaps; toning and foxing to verso. Boards square with light rubbing at corners and spine ends. Foxing to rear endpapers, else interior unmarked. Binding sound. Signed by the author on front free endpaper with inscription "To Mrs. Gussie Corley Peters, A Connecticut Yankee whom I admire. James Egert Allen, June 7, 1964.

The Herbal of al-Ghafiqi: A Facsimile Edition of MS 7508 in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, With Critical Essays edited by F. Jamil Ragep and Faith Wallis with Pamela Miller and Adam Gacek. Fine copy in fine dust jacket

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Title: The Herbal of al-Ghafiqi: A Facsimile Edition of MS 7508 in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, With Critical Essays edited by F. Jamil Ragep and Faith Wallis with Pamela Miller and Adam Gacek. Fine copy in fine dust jacket
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.

Good News Bad News by ABBOTT, Keith

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Title: Good News Bad News
Author: ABBOTT, Keith
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Monte Rio, CA: Doris Green Editions, 1984. First edition. Softcover. A collection of poems printed in an edition of 250. A close to near fine copy in side stapled wrappers.

Around Klamath Country

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Title: Around Klamath Country
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Klamath Falls, OR: CareFree Living Productions, Inc, 1981. Hardcover. 252pp. Quarto [31 cm] Brown textured vinyl spine and boards with raised gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover, and an embossed covered wagon vignette, along with a yellow, blue and red ink stamped design of the state of Oregon on the front cover. Near fine condition. Profusely illustrated. With "The History of Klamath Country" written by Devere Helfrich.

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