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Globe terrestre, dresse par Ambroise Tardieu, d'apres l'invention die A Weinling et cie. by Tardieu, A - TERRESTRIAL GLOBE

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Title: Globe terrestre, dresse par Ambroise Tardieu, d'apres l'invention die A Weinling et cie.
Author: Tardieu, A - TERRESTRIAL GLOBE
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Excellent with occasional light surface wear and one or two spots; the black base stand is a modern reproduction.
Description: Strasbourg: Marin & Schmidt, 1831. First Edition.. Excellent with occasional light surface wear and one or two spots; the black base stand is a modern reproduction.. The globe is comprised of 12 gores printed on kid leather and handcolored. An incredible survival including the original decorated paste paper cylindrical box it was sold in by the manufacturer. Ten years ago Sotheby's claimed they were selling the only known existing copy in private hands of this globe (June 1991, lot #404). Apparently they were incorrect. Here is another, better example. The globe was originally to be inflated for use and then deflated, taken down, and stored. It was intended for the amusement of adolescents. Both terrestrial and celestial globes were offered by the manufacturer. The globe is made up of 12 gores of kid skin and two polar calottes of the same material that are so skillfully joined as to appear seamless. The gores were printed from steel engraved plates and then handcolored. The coloring, names, outlines of countries, geographical points of interest etc. all remain fresh and legible (Dolz refers to the fact that the globe he so meticulously describes is nearly illegible because of age browning). Tardieu is recognized as one of the premier French map engravers and the globe benefits from the inclusion of the most recent mapping of the unknown portions of the world (all major voyages of discovery are included through Dumont d' Urville and Beechey in 1826/27). The diameter is appx. 8 1/2 inches with all the text in French. There is a brass valve with a stopcock at the north pole and a brass pinion at the south pole. The globe rests and turns in a wood meridian ring, horizon ring, and quadrant. The rings retain their original brightly finished orange and green enamel paint. The rings and quadrant are overlaid with paper engraved with designs of the zodiac, place names, coordinates, climate, and degree markings. There is an hour ring with a brass pointer at the north pole. The horizon ring has inset brass fittings to align the quadrant and meridian ring and provide a rigid structure when assembled. Overall the condition is excellent. A brass stand contemporary with the globe, but not original to it, is provided. The box accompanying the globe has a hole on the underside not affecting the printed surface. A wonderful cartographic artifact. Dolz, Erd - und Himmelsgloben, pp. 58-59; absent from Yonge.

Fantastic Mr. Fox by DAHL, Roald

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Title: Fantastic Mr. Fox
Author: DAHL, Roald
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. FIRST EDITION. Numerous text illustrations. Publisher’s cloth with an image of Mr. Fox on the front cover, author and title on spine, a fine clipped dust jacket with minor soiling; interior excellent. First edition, first printing (with the words “First Edition” on the copyright page) of this classic work by Dahl. The story revolves around Mr. Fox’s determination to protect his family from three farmers. Descriptions of the farmers as well as the animals around the area, including Mr. Fox and his family, are enthralling and are embellished by the wonderful illustrations by Donald Chaffin. The book was released simultaneously in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin. An animated film directed by Wes Anderson was released in 2009.

Autograph Letter Signed “Caroline”, Paris, June 8, 1834, to her cousin, Ellen Hemphill, c/o John Hemphill, Philadelphia. by Haslam, Caroline

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Title: Autograph Letter Signed “Caroline”, Paris, June 8, 1834, to her cousin, Ellen Hemphill, c/o John Hemphill, Philadelphia.
Author: Haslam, Caroline
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description: Quarto, 4 pages, plus stamp less address leaf, some old folds, some splits along folds and slight breaks at fold joints, else very good, and legible. Caroline, probably a teenager, writes to her cousin Ellen, who had sailed with her to Europe in the spring and had stayed with her in Paris, where "neither of us [were] in very excellent spirits, you were about commencing a long voyage with entire strangers, and I was soon to return to prison; but how changed you are at home amusing yourself and I am still in prison, for it deserves no better name…" She writes of the "dull monotony" of her life, the boredom of school and living with her mother and aunt, who, supported by "remittances" from America, were kept busy attending "fetes" and balls and the boring social whirl of Louis Philippe's France ("how slowly the time passes, every minute seems a day…"). Rare moments of excitement were attending the funeral of Lafayette ("very splendid, all the troops were on foot but it is suspected that it was more from fear of a new émeute than from honor to the General") and the Exposition Industrielle on the Place de la Concorde ("O! how I wish you could see it…it surpasses my expectations"). But the only real diversion was gossip: Caroline's daily companion was Eleanor (Ellen) Percy Ware, daughter of banker Nathaniel Ware, the last acting Territorial Governor of Mississippi, who raised his two girls after his wife was committed to an insane asylum. Ellen's sister Caroline Warfield – later to become the best-known southern woman novelist of the Civil War period – had just given birth to a son ("frightfully ugly, of course his parents and Ellen think him beautiful"), an inauspicious moment because her husband was so deeply in debt that his "creditors have got out a warrant against him and he has not been able to put his nose out of doors for several days, the commissaire has been watching for him", while the new mother "cried bitterly" and went off to get a loan from a friendly banker to tide her over, while awaiting the imminent arrival of her rich father, who might not "have enough money with him (please don't breathe a word about it not even to your dearest friends for I would not have it known for worlds particularly through me)" to cover his son-in-law's debts. It would prove a temporary embarrassment because the Warfields would soon inherit a large Mississippi plantation, worked by 85 slaves and the vast land holdings Ware was beginning to acquire in revolutionary Texas, while sister Caroline would grow up to marry a cousin of Robert E. Lee. Warfield was not the only American of their acquaintance to be in secret financial trouble: "Mr. Carnes has failed…he is entirely ruined, they have rented their apartment on the boulevards and gone to live at Passy, poor Mrs. Carnes, what a change for her…quite distressing…no more balls now." Caroline asked her husband not to 'breathe a word about it" because the bankruptcy of Carnes was then – and remains today – a secret. The Carnes firm of Boston and New York made one fortune importing luxury French goods to America, and then another exploiting the China trade. History records nothing of the Carnes bankruptcy in the 1830s. While Caroline Haslam knew much about the troubles of socially-elite Americans in Paris, she knew very little about her own family's "affairs" – "I am shut up the whole week…when I do come home they never tell me anything…" And with good reason. Though this letter is not signed with their surname, Caroline's mother was apparently one of the three nieces of the fabulously wealthy eccentric, French-born Stephen Girard, each of whom inherited a small fortune when he died in 1831. Caroline's father is only briefly mentioned in documents as John B. Haslam. But he was nowhere to be seen in 1834, when his wife was represented in Philadelphia legal matters by John Hemphill. He was certainly dead five years later when, as a widow, she married Benjamin Franklin Peale, son of painter Charles Peale and long director of the Philadelphia Mint. So, what became of Haslam? If he was the John Buckley Haslam who immigrated from England to Philadelphia in 1818 and became a lawyer in 1830, then he was probably the same man of that name who was found murdered by an unknown assailant in Baltimore in 1837. A single death notice records that he was a man of "liberal education" who had been forced by "pecuniary embarrassments" to enlist in the US Navy in 1834, the year this letter was written. On his discharge in 1837, he settled in Baltimore as a schoolteacher until he died from "violent blows" to the chest – none of which is recorded in the life of his wife's uncle - the richest American of his time.

Psyché Nouvelle Partition Opéra en 4 Actes Représenté à l'Opéra Comique en Mai, 1878. Paroles de M.M. Jules Barbier & Michel Carré ... Partition Chant et Piano réduite par M.M. H. Salomon et R. de Vilbac. [Piano-vocal score] by THOMAS, Ambroise 1811-1896

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Title: Psyché Nouvelle Partition Opéra en 4 Actes Représenté à l'Opéra Comique en Mai, 1878. Paroles de M.M. Jules Barbier & Michel Carré ... Partition Chant et Piano réduite par M.M. H. Salomon et R. de Vilbac. [Piano-vocal score]
Author: THOMAS, Ambroise 1811-1896
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: Paris: Heugel & Fils [PN H. 4874], 1878. Large octavo. Quarter maroon calf with marbled boards, spine in compartments gilt with titling, marbled endpapers. 1f. (decorative title printed in green and silver), 1f. (named cast list and table of contents printed in green), 2ff. (incipits), [i] (blank), 359, [i] (blank) pp. Named cast includes Heilbron, Engally, Morlet, Bacquié, Chenevière, Irma Marié, Donadio-Fodor, Prax, and Collin. Handstamps of Henri Heugel and Durand & Schoenwerk to lower right corner of title. Binding slightly worn and rubbed. Occasional light foxing and soiling. An attractive, clean copy overall. Second version. Lesure II pp. 152, 222-225. OCLC 21936559. First performed in Paris at the Opéra-Comique on 26 January 1857 and later revised for a performance at the Opéra-Comique, 21 May 1878. "In the late 1850s Thomas became a professor of composition at the Conservatoire and also had responsibility for its regional branches. From this period dates Psyché, which began life as a chamber opera but was first performed as a three-act opéra comique; it was expanded to four acts for performance at the Opéra [-Comique] in 1878." "After years of neglect, Thomas' work has seen a considerable revival in the last two decades of the 20th century, with major performances, at least of Mignon and Hamlet, being mounted in France, Great Britain and the USA. In the context of French opera of the late 19th century Thomas was a figure of considerable importance, an imaginative innovator and a master of musical characterization." Richard Langham Smith in Grove Music Online.

[Cover title:] A Catalogue of Autograph Letters, Original Manuscripts, and Historical Documents. Being Composed of James R. Osgood's Collection, and other valuable and desirable specimens.. by BENJAMIN, William Evarts

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Title: [Cover title:] A Catalogue of Autograph Letters, Original Manuscripts, and Historical Documents. Being Composed of James R. Osgood's Collection, and other valuable and desirable specimens..
Author: BENJAMIN, William Evarts
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition: Ends of spine lightly chipped
Description: New York: Benjamin, 1886. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Ends of spine lightly chipped. 8vo. 36 pages. Original light blue pictorial printed wrappers, untrimmed. A dealer's priced catalogue, offering mainly literary autographs. One can only drool at the availability of a good two-page Keats or Shelley letter for $50, an excellent Poe letter for $35, a 31-page Hawthorne manuscript of an "Our Old Home" sketch for $90. Not to mention the 790-pages of all seven of Emerson's 'Representative Men' essays for $500. Being catalogue #44. (BA).

Lettre Pastorale du Synode Diocesain de la Metropole de Paris. A Tous les Pasteurs, Pretres & Fideles de l'Eglise Metropolitaine de Paris, Salue & Benediction, en Jesus-Christ Notre Seigneur

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Title: Lettre Pastorale du Synode Diocesain de la Metropole de Paris. A Tous les Pasteurs, Pretres & Fideles de l'Eglise Metropolitaine de Paris, Salue & Benediction, en Jesus-Christ Notre Seigneur
Seller: McBlain Books (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: [Paris]: De l'Imprimerie de Baudelot & Eberhart, 1797. Paperback. Good. 14p. Pamphlet. Stitched. 21 cm. Soiling and some foxing on outer leaves. Typed along right margin of first page: 12 Nov. Picard 1931. French text.

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