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Governor Thomas Jefferson, in a Letter to Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene Calls His State to Arms: ""Cornwallis has advanced to the Roanoke."" by Thomas Jefferson

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Title: Governor Thomas Jefferson, in a Letter to Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene Calls His State to Arms: ""Cornwallis has advanced to the Roanoke.""
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 17/02/1781. With Cornwallis and the British converging on Virginia, Jefferson reports to Greene that he will defend the state Jefferson notes “the arrival of a sixty four gun ship and two frigates of thirty six guns each, part of the French fleet at Rhode Island” This is our first letter of Jefferson to Greene, nor do we recall seeing another[embed]https://vimeo.com/1186337282?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci[/embed] As 1781 dawned, Virginia had been essentially out of the war as a theater of significant armed conflict, having experienced just a few nuisance raids in the Tidewater country early in 1776 and some raiding parties in 1779. However, the fall of Charleston in 1780 set in motion a significant expansion of the British southern offensive, both as a way to offset the stalemate in the Northern theater, and as part of a “Southern strategy”, in which British forces attempted to retake control over the South under the belief that there was a significant and sympathetic Loyalist population there.Virginia became a focus. On the first of January 1781, the British sent an expedition into the Chesapeake Bay of Virginia under the command of their new general, Benedict Arnold. Arnold conducted a lightening raid up the James River to Richmond, severely damaging or destroying American logistics lines and supply capacity. He then returned to the Chesapeake, fortifying his army at Portsmouth.The Battle of Cowpens was fought on January 17, 1781, near the town of Cowpens, South Carolina. An American army of regulars and militia under Gen. Daniel Morgan defeated a force of British and Loyalist troops, in the worst defeat suffered by the British in North America since the 1777 Saratoga campaign. Tactically, the battle demonstrated that militia, when deployed properly, could defeat experienced regulars, something which American military and political leaders had previously considered impossible.Morgan's militiamen disbanded after the battle, leaving 550 regulars under his command. British General Lord Cornwallis pursued Morgan, who evaded Cornwallis and joined Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene’s army. Throughout early February, Cornwallis pursued Greene, aiming to destroy the American army in the South. Greene’s army successfully crossed the Dan River from North Carolina into Virginia on February 13-14, escaping Cornwallis. Seeing that Greene had crossed the Dan, Cornwallis withdrew and encamped in North Carolina. But Virginia remained on Cornwallis’ radar, and he would attack it ere long.In February 1781, Washington dispatched the Marquis de Lafayette with some 1,200 men to Virginia’s aid. Also in February, a small French naval squadron under Captain de Tilly was dispatched from Newport, RI, to Virginia to assist Lafayette against British forces under Arnold. This squadron arrived in the Chesapeake Bay area, capturing the British frigate HMS Romulus and several transports. The larger French fleet would not arrive until August.Meanwhile, Jefferson received a report that Cornwallis had already established a position at the Roanoke River in Virginia, which alarmed him. His alarm was increased when he received a letter from Greene dated February 15, 1781, about the urgent need for defensive measures in Virginia. Greene wrote, “The Country is inevitably lost unless decided Measures are taken. You will consider the necessity and act accordingly. I have not time to enter into a farther detail of matters, being pressed on every side with a multiplicity of business, and almost fatigued to death having had a retreat to conduct for upwards of 200 Miles maneuvering constantly in the face of the enemy, to give time for the Militia to turn out and to get off our Stores. In addition to the common difficulties incident to all retreats, we have had several large rivers to cross and the enemy at our heels before we could get over. Necessity has and will oblige me to take many measures to effect the removal of our Stores contrary to the established laws of the different States; the occasion must justify the measure, and I trust the Legislature will make charitable allowances accordingly. The Army is all that the States have to depend upon for their political existence. I trust therefore whatever is necessary to its support will meet their approbation.”Jefferson responded quickly. Letter signed, two pages, Richmond, February 17, 1781, to Greene, reporting that he has ordered over 1,000 rifleman to join Greene, that even more reinforcements might arrive, and showing his concern that Cornwallis might already be in Virginia. ""In the moment of receiving your letter of the 10th, I issued orders to the Counties of Washington, Montgomery, Botetout and Bedford for seven hundred and odd riflemen, and to those of Henry and Pittsylvania for four hundred and odd of their militia. Yet my trust is that neither these nor the adjacent Counties have awaited orders, but they have turned out and will have joined you in greater numbers than we have directed. The reinforcement from Chesterfield Courthouse cannot march these ten days. I shall be glad if you will call on the neighboring county Lieutenants for any succurs which you may want, and circumstances forbid to be delayed. A minute communication of events to us will be very necessary as we wish as far as we are able to increase the opposing force, if that already ordered shall be insufficient. This change of position has thrown us into great doubt where to collect our provisions.""Two days ago I received notice of the arrival of a sixty four gun ship and two frigates of thirty six guns each, part of the French fleet at Rhode Island. Having yet had no communication of the views of the commanding officer (Commodore Tilly) I cannot say to what measures this aid will lead. They are equal to the destruction of the British Vessels could they get at them, but these are drawn up into Elizabeth river into which the sixty four cannot enter.“P.S. Since writing the above we are told Ld. Cornwallis has advanced to the Roanoke. I am in consequence issuing orders to embody every man between this & that for whom a firelock can be procured, & that they march to join you.""The next battle occurred at Guilford Court House in North Carolina on March 15, and it resulted in a British victory. Virginia continued to be threatened for another seven months. On April 18 the British began a major campaign up the James River, striking at Yorktown, Williamsburg, and the Virginia state naval docks on the Chickahominy River. Cornwallis then went to Petersburg on May 20, with the aim of cutting off American supply lines and forcing a decisive battle. He combined forces in Petersburg, uniting with roughly 3,500 men under generals Phillips and Arnold. They then chased Lafayette and launched raids. In June, Jefferson stepped down as governor and narrowly escaped capture by the British at Charlottesville. In August Cornwallis made his base at Yorktown, but this turned out to be a trap instead of a springboard. The following month the combined Continental Army and French forces, with George Washington at the head, laid siege to the place. On October 19, 1781, Cornwallis surrendered, ending not merely the threat to Virginia but the entire British war effort.

LES RUINES DE PAESTUM, OU DE POSIDONIE, DANS LA GRANDE GRECE by (ARCHITECTURE - ANCIENT GREEK WORLD). MAJOR, THOMAS, Engraver

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Title: LES RUINES DE PAESTUM, OU DE POSIDONIE, DANS LA GRANDE GRECE
Author: (ARCHITECTURE - ANCIENT GREEK WORLD). MAJOR, THOMAS, Engraver
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Description: London: Chez l'auteur, 1768. First Edition in French. 590 x 380 mm. (23 1/4 x 15"). 52, [2] pp. Modern brown quarter morocco over green linen boards, brown morocco label with gilt lettering on smooth spine, edges untrimmed. WITH 25 FULL-PAGE ENGRAVED PLATES OF GRECIAN RUINS, and seven smaller engraved plates in text (including one on dedication page). A Large Paper Copy. Fowler, p. 157; Millard, British 41; Blackmer 1065; Brunet III, 1329. Head of spine partly torn (but with no loss), contents with not infrequent light marginal soiling (though plates uniformly clean), other minor imperfections, but an excellent copy with greatly generous margins, with deep impressions of the type, and with strong impressions of the plates. This work is the first significant account of the ancient city of Paestum, being, in the words of Blackmer, "larger and much more complete than any of the previous publications." Located in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of southern Italy, Paestum (or Poseidonia in Greek) was founded by Greek colonists in the sixth century B.C. and still contains beautifully preserved ruins from that period, including temples, an amphitheater, and painted tombs. Abandoned in the Medieval period, Paestum wasn't rediscovered by the West until the 18th century, with the first modern publication of the site not appearing until 1764, when a suite of plans by G. P. M. Dumont appeared (with no text), based on the observations of Jacques-Germain Soufflot. As Millard indicates, the genesis of the present publication has an extremely complex history (we do not even know with certainty who wrote the text), but we do know that engraver Thomas Major (1729-99), whom DNB calls "the first great English landscape engraver," was responsible for preparing the plates. Because he had no first-hand knowledge of the site, Major relied on images by other artists, including Antonio Joli, Gaetano Magri, Robert Mylne, and Jacques-Germain Soufflot. The text was first published in English, and then in French the same year. According to Fowler, "this work . . . was an important eighteenth-century pioneer contribution to the knowledge of Greek architecture in England"; and Millard tells us that "the book was surprisingly well received by reviewers" in both England and France, remaining "the standard reference to Paestum until 'Les Ruines de Paestum ou Posidonia' by C.-M. Delagardette was issued in 1798.".

Basquiat (Inscribed) by BASQUIAT, Jean-Michel and Tony Shafrazi

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Title: Basquiat (Inscribed)
Author: BASQUIAT, Jean-Michel and Tony Shafrazi
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Condition: Fine in a fine illustrated jacket.
Description: New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1999. Fine in a fine illustrated jacket.. First Edition. Large quarto. Edition of 5000 copies. SIGNED by Shafrazi with a lengthy inscription to Diego Cortez: "To My Friend Diego, Who was there so early, a young warrior prince who saw it all and help make it all so much more meaningful and significant for us all. Forever with love and admiration - Tony Shafrazi New York April 26, 2001." Beautifully produced monograph on the artist. Contents: 336 pages, with almost 200 images, including extensive reproductions of the artist's best work, and many never-before-seen photographs in an illustrated biography and chronology. With essays and remembrances of Basquiat by critics, colleagues, and friends.

Skillman's New-York Police Reports, Illustrated with Engravings. Written in 1828-29

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Title: Skillman's New-York Police Reports, Illustrated with Engravings. Written in 1828-29
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Condition: Good
Description: New York: Ludwig & Tolefree, 1830. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8.5 x 5.25 inches, 151 pp, with engraved frontispiece and four additional illustrations. In original boards, with what appears to be later (but not recent) cloth over the original cloth spine. Boards worn, front board only just attached, some losses to spine cloth; good. Early ownership signature (Joshua Hodsdon, Yarmouth) on front free endpaper, printed label on rear pastedown admonishing the reader to "Never wet your thumb or finger to turn over a leaf in this or any other book." Little is known about John Skillman, but he evidently frequented the regular morning court hearings in Lower Manhattan for people who had been arrested the previous day for relatively minor crimes such as drunkenness, lewd behavior, vagrancy, petty theft, and prostitution. His reports on these crimes, which were probably modeled on those that had recently begun appearing regularly in London newspapers, take the form of brief, pun-filled comic vignettes or dialogues between the accused and the magistrate. For example, "James G----- was sent by his employer with 10 shillings to buy screws---bought 5 shillings worth, and expended the rest of the money in his own way. Is put, in poetical language, under the screws," and "Mary Stevenson entertains the opinion that 'time is money;' and having no instrument or machine whereby she might keep proper 'note of time,' thought proper to obtain one at all hazards. She is now in close confinement for a time." Beneath the humor, however, are characterizations of male and female defendants of different races, classes, ethnic backgrounds -- some flattering, some not. Scholar Brian Baaki has argued that by placing "an overwhelming volley of black malefactors" at the beginning of the text, Skillman "tries to manufacture an association between African-Americans and crime." There may be room for a more nuanced reading, but without doubt the book is of interest in the broader context of the social and cultural history of early nineteenth century New York. Sabin 81589, American Imprints 3498.

Northwest Coast of America. May 15,1826. Referred to the Committee of the Whole House, to which is committed the bill to authorize the establishment of a Military Post or Posts, within the Territory of the United States, on the Pacific Ocean, and to Provide for the Exploration of its Coasts and Waters by Baylies, Francis

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Title: Northwest Coast of America. May 15,1826. Referred to the Committee of the Whole House, to which is committed the bill to authorize the establishment of a Military Post or Posts, within the Territory of the United States, on the Pacific Ocean, and to Provide for the Exploration of its Coasts and Waters
Author: Baylies, Francis
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Description: Report 213, 19th Congress, 1st Session. 22 pp, in an attractive modern binding of three-quarter leather and marbled boards, with gilt spine lettering. Light foxing and toning; very good. Congressman Baylies reviews various explorations of the northwest, including an apparently spurious one, in an effort to support the United States' claim to the Oregon Territory. Streeter (3339): "This pamphlet, after devoting a couple of pages to a report of a party in which Samuel Adams Ruddock was a member, that claimed to have made the overland journey from Council Bluffs to the mouth of the Columbia in 1821, reviews the various past explorations of the northwest coast, including those of Francis Drake, Captain Cook, and Lewis and Clark. On the basis of these accounts, it claims the 49th parallel and the Strait de Juan de Fuca as our boundary." As for the information received from Ruddock, Wagner-Camp (31) explains that "Ruddock claimed to be a member of a trading party that supposedly traveled up the north bank of the Platte River, crossing below the forks on May 26, and thence southwest 410 miles to Santa Fe, [before heading northwest and eventually reaching] "the Multnomah of Lewis and Clarke. They then followed the course of this river to its junction with the Columbia and reached the mouth of the Columbia on the first day of August, completing the journey from the Council Bluffs in seventy-five days. To reach the shores of the Pacific in seventy-five days from the Missouri River by way of Santa Fe would have been a remarkable feat, if it had happened. Unfortunately, however, no corroborative evidence has every been advanced to confirm Ruddock's fanciful story." Baylies concludes his report with a warning: "The indifference of the America stimulates the cupidity of Great Britain. Our neglect daily weakens our own claim, and strengthens hers; and the day will soon arrive, when her title to this Territory will be better than our, unless ours is earnestly and speedily enforced." Howes B-263; Sabin 4067.

Help Him to Expand His Radio Ministry. Bishop E. Nero of Landmark Spiritual Temple, 317 Divisidero, San Francisco, California. Don't Forget to Listen Each Sunday... [caption title] by [African Americana]: [California]: Nero, Bishop Ezra

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Title: Help Him to Expand His Radio Ministry. Bishop E. Nero of Landmark Spiritual Temple, 317 Divisidero, San Francisco, California. Don't Forget to Listen Each Sunday... [caption title]
Author: [African Americana]: [California]: Nero, Bishop Ezra
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Description: [San Francisco, 1940. Printed handbill, 8.5 x 6 inches, illustrated. Minor handling wear, horizontal crease. Very good. An unrecorded handbill advertising the Bay-Area radio broadcasts by Bishop Ezra Nero, leader of the Landmark Spiritual Temple in San Francisco. The work includes a photographic portrait of Bishop Nero in his ecclesiastical garb. We could locate no other copies of this ephemeral broadside.

Christy's Panorama Songster. Containing the songs as sung by the Christy, Campbell, Pierce's Minstrels, and Sable Brothers.

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Title: Christy's Panorama Songster. Containing the songs as sung by the Christy, Campbell, Pierce's Minstrels, and Sable Brothers.
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Description: New York: William H. Murphy Book. nd [ca. 1846-1856]. 12mo, yellow illustrated wrappers, stitched. Pp. 71-136, (2). Frontis.; vignette illus. Fine. A robust collection of forty-six minstrel dialect songs, words only..

Nixon. Volume Three. Ruin and Recovery 1973-1990 by Ambrose, Stephen E.

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Title: Nixon. Volume Three. Ruin and Recovery 1973-1990
Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
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Description: Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1991. Signed First Edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. Odd volume. SIGNED by Ambrose. 667pp. Octavo [24 cm] Full maroon leather with the title in gilt on the spine, and elaborate gilt stamped designs on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Moire endsheets. Silk ribbon page marker. Covers just a trifle cocked. Easton Press bookplate on verso of front free endpaper (no name has been filled in). Part of the Signed First Editions series. Signed by Stephen E. Ambrose on a tipped-in page at the front.

Holstein: Katalog 30. Moderne Kunst und Literatur

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Title: Holstein: Katalog 30. Moderne Kunst und Literatur
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Description: Frankfurt: Jürgen Holstein Antiquariat, 1971. First edition. Spiral Bound. Octavo [24 cm] Metal spiral binding with pictorial wraps, and an additional clear plastic front wrap, with the title and contents printed in red. Very good. German text. A catalogue produced by the Frankfurt bookseller, Jürgen Holstein Antiquariat, with the theme, "modern art and literature." Inhaltsverzeichnis: Allgemeines; Architektur; Bauhaus; Film, Foto, Theater, Tanz; Illustrierte Bücher und Mappenwerke; Internationale Ausstellungen London 1851 - Paris 1937; Einige interssante Kinderbücher; Künstlermonografien; Kunstgewerbe; Manifestationen moderner Kunst; Museum of Modern Art, New York; 1914-1945 in der Literatur; Rußlands Beitrag, 1917-1930; Typografie, Buchkunst und Plakate; Zeitgeschichte, Kunst- Literatur- Politik 1914-1945; Hervorragende Zeitschriften und Sammlungen.

Modes of Being by Weiss, Paul

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Title: Modes of Being
Author: Weiss, Paul
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Description: Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1958 First trade edition. Cloth. Octavo. Light shelfwear. Very good+ in very good, lightly edgeworn d.j. with wrap-around advertising band.

Ancient Book Illumination. Martin Classical Lectures, Vol. XVI by Weitzman, Kurt

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Title: Ancient Book Illumination. Martin Classical Lectures, Vol. XVI
Author: Weitzman, Kurt
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Description: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Top corner lightly bumped.Very good, without d.j.

Charles Henry and the Formation of a Psychophysical Aesthetic by Argüelles, José A.

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Title: Charles Henry and the Formation of a Psychophysical Aesthetic
Author: Argüelles, José A.
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Description: Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. [minimal wear to book, previous owner's name and date in ink (very small) at top of front endpaper; the jacket is modestly worn at edges and extremities, some surface rubbing/scuffing, slight wrinkling at upper edge of rear panel]. (color frontispiece) "This work provides the first thorough, scholarly study of the unique personality and extraordinary achievement of Charles Henry (1859-1926). Seeking a common ground for all sensory experience, Henry formulated a 'scientific aesthetic' based on the biomathematics of the sense organs. That doctrine is psychophysics, through which Henry saw beyond the dualism which had thrown science and art into separate camps. Among those influenced by Henry's ideas, especially those concerning the perception of color, were Georges Seurat and Paul Signac as well as some of the pioneer abstractionists -- Robert Delauney, Frank Kupka, and Albert Gleizes. The study also casts new light on the poet Jules Laforgue (one of Henry's closest friends) and on the symbolism of the 1880s and 1890s. [This book] represents the first historical consideration of the phenomenon of psychophysics and its place in the history of Western thought and aesthetics. The study includes a portion of Henry's central work on psychophysics, Le cercle chromatique, a revealing interview with henry by Jules Huret titled 'Inquiry Concerning the Future of Literature,' and a bibliography of the works of Charles Henry." .

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