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Two Letters Addressed to... Parliament by FRENCH REVOLUTION BURKE Edmund

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Two Letters Addressed to... Parliament
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FRENCH REVOLUTION BURKE Edmund
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1797. First Edition. (FRENCH REVOLUTION) BURKE, Edmund. Two Letters Addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament, On the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France. Philadelphia: Printed for William Cobbett, 1797. Octavo, period-style full speckled calf-gilt, red morocco spine label; pp. (1-3) 4-64, 1-22. $2800.First and only 18th-century American edition, preceded by the 1796 first English edition, of Burke's explosive demand for a ""religious war… a moral war"" against revolutionary France and its ""armed doctrine… aiming at universal empire,"" published the same decade as his Reflections on the Revolution in France. ""The fountainhead of anti-revolutionary political thought was undoubtedly Edmund Burke"" (Hartog, Trans-Atlantic Anti-Jacobinism, 135). Yet, for many, ""only at the end did he become the… scourge of Revolution. Indeed, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) is liberal compared to Letters… which demanded a war abroad and repression at home to extirpate revolutionary infection"" (Stanford Encyclopedia). In this first American edition of Burke's Two Letters, which are at the core of his four-part series known as Letters on a Regicide Peace, Burke warned that ""one kind of Europe where, as he had envisaged it, every one of its inhabitants would feel at home, was rapidly and violently displaced by another, consisting of mutually suspicious, nationalist, and increasingly racist nation-states"" (Pagden, Comment: Empire and Its Anxieties, 145). In late 1795, as ""France's internal politics showed the prospect of stabilizing,"" Burke's deep ""loss of hope at restraining the drive toward peace enabled him to overcome any remaining scruples"" about authoring the Letters, in which he stressed ""the impossibility of the English constitution co-existing with [revolutionary] Jacobinism"" (Hampsher-Monk, Edmund Burke's Changing Justification, 89). ""Burke was a Christian thinker whose conservatism has been traced to his theological presuppositions… he saw atheistic Jacobinism as a threat to Western cultural tradition"" (Stanford Encyclopedia). His series of Letters ""completely abandoned Vattel's natural law premises of nations as isolates in a state of nature,"" as he ""assembled a completely new justification for intervention, structurally unlike anything he had put forward before… Burke claimed not only that international relations with revolutionary France were impossible, but that the maintenance of an international European community of any kind required the extirpation of the revolutionary regime"" (Hampsher-Monk, 92-95).To Burke, the move toward introducing ""interests which claimed universal applicability, such as justification by faith or the rights of man, dissolved the necessary connection between a state's natural situation and the diplomatic interests it generated… he maintained that Britain and its allies were engaged against France"" in what he describes, in his First and Second Letter, as a ""'religious war… a moral war' against the 'armed doctrine' of a 'sect aiming at universal empire'"" (Armitage, Edmund Burke, 632). ""Reason and authority,"" he warns, ""do not move in the same parallel."" For some recent scholars, ""Burke's justification for intervention in French internal affairs in the name of the international community has formed a powerful strand of thought in both diplomacy and international relations theory"" (Hampsher-Monk, 65). Burke's Reflections had been earlier ""published in America by none other than the intemperate Anti-Jacobin William Cobbett,"" who notably issued this first American edition of Two Letters. ""The mercurial Cobbett proved… an important channel to warn Americans about French abuses while encouraging them into closer relations with Great Britain… Throughout the 1790s—reaching a height during the war fever of 1798,"" Cobbett's writings and publications, in which he charged the French Revolution with presenting ""nothing but a regular process in robbery and murder… [were] read by Abigail Adams, George Washington"" and many other leaders (Hartog, 136-38). First and only 18th-century American edition; preceded by the 1796 unauthorized and authorized first English editions of Two Letters. ESTC W36400. Evans 31895. Gaines, Cobbett, 102. Text fresh with light foxing mainly to preliminary and final leaves, tiny gutter-edge pinholes from original stitching, beautifully bound.
From the Library of a Congressman: The Original Publication of the Henry Papers During the War of 1812, Printed by James Madison for Members of Congress

From the Library of a Congressman: The Original Publication of the Henry Papers During the War of 1812, Printed by James Madison for Members of Congress by Americana

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From the Library of a Congressman: The Original Publication of the Henry Papers During the War of 1812, Printed by James Madison for Members of Congress
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Americana
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09/03/1812. From the collection of Dr. Otto O. Fisher, who bought primarily in the 1930s and 1940s, so this not been offered for sale in nearly a centuryThe Henry Letters were correspondence by an adventurer named John Henry with the Governor General of Canada, Sir James Craig in 1809. The letters documented Henry's efforts to determine Federalist sympathies to have the New England states leave the United States and join the British Empire. A bundle of letters was sold to President James Madison for $50,000. The letters were fraudulent, but both the President and his fellow Republicans in Congress were deceived on the eve of the War of 1812. Henry left the United States for France shortly before the letters were made public on March 9, 1812 in a message to Congress by President Madison.On March 9, 1812, James Madison wrote to Thomas Jefferson,, ""As the Intelligencer will not publish the Message & documents just laid before Congress for the present Mail, I send you a copy of the former. It is justified by the Documents, among which are the original credential & instructions from the Govr of Canada, and an original dispatch from the Earl of Liverpool to him approving the conduct of the Secret Agent. This discovery, or rather formal proof of the Co-operation between the Eastern Junto, & the B. Cabinet will, it is to be hoped, not only prevent future evils from that source, but extract good out of the past.""That same day, Madison had printed a pamphlet describing the contents of these documents. This is that book. We have not found another having reached the market, this being a print prior to the one later created by the same printer, Weightman.Message From the President of the United States: transmitting copies of Certain Documents obtained from a Secret Agent of the British Government, employed in fomenting Disaffection to the Constituted Authorities... to destroy the Union of the United States.“I lay before Congress copies of certain documents... They prove that...in negotiations on the part of the British government, through its public minister here, a secret agent was employed in certain states, more especially in Massachusetts, in fomenting disaffection to the constituted authorities of the nation...” Printed in Washington by Weightman, March 9, 1812. The recipient was Congressman Samuel Mitchell.This copy predates the more common version, referencing its referral to the relevant foreign affairs committee and not printed for broad consumption. It bears the date of Madison's release, March 9, 1812. As distributed, with sewing.
IRON MAN

IRON MAN by BURNETT, W.R.

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IRON MAN
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BURNETT, W.R.
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A remarkably very near Fine First Edition in like dust jacket of this bestselling, highly acclaimed period novel of boxing, love and loyalty, by the award-winning author of LITTLE CAESAR. This singular copy made infinitely more special and highly collectible as it is signed not only by the author, W.R. Burnett, but also by the designer of the iconic dust jacket, Edna Reindel, also the award-winning dust jacket designer of the First legal U.S. edition of James Joyce's ULYSSES.
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A history of the warfare of science with theology in Christendom by WHITE, Andrew D.

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A history of the warfare of science with theology in Christendom
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WHITE, Andrew D.
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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s cloth, author and title in gilt on front covers and spines. An excellent copy. First edition. White was one of the founders of the conflict thesis, which states that science and religion have historically been in conflict, and tried to prove it here. He lectured on the subject for years, maintaining that religion’s interference in science only results in the “direst evils” to both, but scientific investigation, regardless of the perceived danger, only results in the “highest good” to both. The topics in this work are both broad and focused, dealing with everything from creation to evolution, more specifically geography and geology, prehistoric man, magic, chemistry and physics, language, the Dead Sea legends, political economy, miracles and medicine. A fascinating work for any academic or student of history. White (1832-1918) was one of the founders of Cornell University and served as its first president for nearly two decades. He also represented America as Ambassador to Russia and Germany. Dictionary of American Biography, X, pp. 88-93.
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Observations on Fungus Haematodes, or soft cancer by WARDROP, James

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Observations on Fungus Haematodes, or soft cancer
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WARDROP, James
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Edinburgh: George Ramsay and Co, 1809. FIRST EDITION. With 6 full-page etched plates, 4 smaller etchings in the text. Modern retrospective half-backed marbled boards; minor foxing and dampstaining throughout, A sound, complete copy with the bookplates of the St. Thomas Hospital Library and R.G. Whitfield. First edition of this medical treatise on soft tissue sarcomas. The pathology of so-called “fungus haematodes” was introduced in 1803 for vascular, fungating tumors. Using several case studies, the text describes and illustrates cancerous tumors of the eyeballs, extremities, testicles, liver, spleen, kidneys, lungs, uterus, ovaries, and breasts. The detailed plates show dissections of tumors and amputated limbs, including the first illustration of an amputated arm with “soft cancer”. Wellcome V: 384; Hajdu, “Soft Tissue Sarcomas” in Wiley InterScience online.
The High King

The High King by Alexander, Lloyd

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The High King
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Alexander, Lloyd
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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Tall 8vo. Publisher's blue printed paper over boards. Trace of sunning at the edges else this is a fine copy. Dustwrapper is price-clipped and is first state, without the Newbery Award sticker. It is lightly sunned at edges and on the spine else is in near fine condition, with a short closed marginal tear on the rear panel. The fifth and final installment of the Prydain Cycle.
Through the Yellowstone Park on Horseback

Through the Yellowstone Park on Horseback by Wingate, George W.

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Through the Yellowstone Park on Horseback
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Wingate, George W.
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New York: O. Judd Co., David W. Judd, Pres't, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 250pp. 6 pages of ads. Octavo [19 cm] in original blue cloth with decorative gilt title to the front cover and spine. Bevelled edges. Decorative endsheets. Folding map tucked in at rear. Several full page illustrations from engravings. General light wear with light fraying at spine ends and tips. A bit darkening to the extremities. Top fore-edge corner of the front free endpaper cut out. Two contemporary inscriptions on the front flyleaf. The large folded map has some splitting at the folds (longest split measures 5") and a dime sized chip in the top blank margin. The author undertook this journey in June, 1885, along with his wife and eldest daughter, who was the age of seventeen. In regards to this journey Wingate states at the opening of this account, "If I had been going to Africa instead of to the Yellowstone, I could scarcely have had more trouble in obtaining reliable information in regard to the journey; and while I have undertaken, for the benefit of friends, to write such an account of it as my time will permit, I do so with the hope that it may perchance relieve others contemplating such an excursion from some of the difficulties that I experienced, in trying to learn what was to be done and what avoided." A desirable early Yellowstone title.
Autograph Letter Signed, Mt. Vernon Square, Baltimore. Oct. 22, 1854, To Count Jules Menon, former French Consul at Boston, Rue Godot, Paris, France.

Autograph Letter Signed, Mt. Vernon Square, Baltimore. Oct. 22, 1854, To Count Jules Menon, former French Consul at Boston, Rue Godot, Paris, France. by Carroll, Charles, of Doughregan (also known as Charles Carroll V)

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Autograph Letter Signed, Mt. Vernon Square, Baltimore. Oct. 22, 1854, To Count Jules Menon, former French Consul at Boston, Rue Godot, Paris, France.
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Carroll, Charles, of Doughregan (also known as Charles Carroll V)
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Quarto, 4 pages, including stampless address leaf, postal markings on address leaf, formerly folded, in very good, clean, and legible condition. The Carrolls of Doughregan: Rich life of the premier Catholic family in America "in these Know Nothing days." The only grandson of the famed Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the sole Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence, was the fifth Charles Carroll, attached Doughregan, his Baltimore manor house, to his name, to distinguish himself from his forbears. He lived a rich life (in every sense of the word), as revealed in this letter to a French nobleman he and his family had befriended when the Count, a longtime American resident, was French charge d'affaires in Washington, taking the place of a drunken, boorish, belligerent ambassador who was "despised" by President Monroe. Count Menon, on the other hand, "took a warm and lively interest in everything that related to the prosperity and progress of American institutions, and cherished the feeling of an adopted son towards the State of Maryland". He and Carroll were close friends and the American had visited him in Paris not long before writing this letter – which explains why Carroll writes to advise Menon not to incur the expense of shipping his carriage back to the United States One result of that trip was the Carroll had acquired a French chef, a Monsieur Legrane, who had found life in Baltimore lonely but now beginning to feel "more at home in America", and "having "habituated himself to our fare" (such as canvasback ducks and soft crabs) proposed to leave the Carroll household to set up for himself as a pastry chef and caterer. Carroll did not regret his departure as Legrane used so much charcoal that he might have produced "powder enough for a line of battleships." At least, Legrane's sophisticated taste in cooking appliances had convinced Carroll that his servants, who had made dinners at the Manor house before Legrane, had been suffering too long "with miserable tin pans." The Manor house Doughregan, was a colonial mansion on a 20,000 acre plantation and estate, 10 miles west of the city of Baltimore. It had been home to Carroll's grandfather, though his descendant found it more convenient to live in the city, giving management of the estate, as he wrote Menon, to one of his seven sons. Which included the charitable offering of several hundred acres to a Catholic charity for the indigent. Of the other children he mentions in the letter, one of the boys was a student at Georgetown College, and his youngest daughter, the "handsomest girl of the three", was at Mt. de Sales Academy – both upper class Catholic schools. Carroll was, of course, among the more distinguished of American Catholics. He told Menon that he had just had a visit from the Archbishop of Baltimore, who was to consecrate a newly-completed Altar for the private chapel at his Manor house, designed in Rome by American sculptor Edward Sheffield Bartholomew. The work was "classic and beautiful" and had "added much" to Bartholomew's reputation. Carroll had also commissioned a German artist in Baltimore to make 10 stained glass windows for the Chapel, each 16 feet high, and all "very well done". On another artistic vein, Carroll asks Menon to "give my best regards" to "our excellent friends" Mrs. Tifanny and her brother, who were then visiting Europe. Whether this was the wife of the Tiffany of New York is uncertain, but the famous store had indeed opened a Paris branch a few years earlier. Having, "with apparent egotism dwelt upon matters concerning me so closely", Menon ended by urging Menon to sail back across the Atlantic to again visit America. "Let not the fate of the Arctic deter you", he urged, this a reference to the recent disaster of the American steamship Arctic which, en route to America, had collided with a French vessel off the coast of Newfoundland. Only 88 of the 400 aboard had survived, mostly members of the crew; all of the women and children passengers had perished. Carroll did not apparently succeed in his urgings; both men would die during the American Civil War and it's likely that they never saw each other again. Finally, Carroll writes his only political comment, speaking sadly of "these Know Nothing times", though concluding that the anti-Catholic Know Nothings would be "nothing in a year from this", their movement suffering from "decay". It was not a good prediction. Politically, the Know Nothings, who had formed their own "American" political party, would peter out before the onset of the Civil War. But Carroll would yet live to see Baltimore torn by violence during the election of 1856, three separate riots following clashes between nativists and the growing population of foreign immigrants.
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Autograph Letter Signed, Southampton Furnace, Pennsylvania, March 7, 1835, to Jonathan Morrill, Frankfort Mills, Maine by Bradbury, Eben

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Autograph Letter Signed, Southampton Furnace, Pennsylvania, March 7, 1835, to Jonathan Morrill, Frankfort Mills, Maine
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Bradbury, Eben
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quarto, 4pp., including stampless address leaf, separated at most folds, but repaired with non-archival tape, with only slight loss of a few words of text. 1835 Long letter from a "Yankee" silversmith turned Pennsylvania blast furnace manager and later prominent Massachusetts politician. "Dr Brother, …Situated as we are here in the woods, surrounded by a population unlike that in which our earlier impressions were set…I do not know that the diversity of taste, and character between a New Englander or 'Yankee' as we are here called and the Pennsylvania population taken in the general is greater than between many other different sections of our country; certainly not so great as between some districts of our widely extended union - yet here are many important particulars in which we disagree. The population of this portion of Penn. is a quiet, orderly and thrifty community. Originating as it has from two leading stocks, the German and the English, it partakes of the characteristics of both. Although this county was taken up and settled by English people and that character had predominated till 20 years since, it is now doubtful if the German is not getting the ascendancy. Since the last war large immigrations have taken place into it from Lancaster County, the great German hive and the largest of the agricultural counties of the State. With these accessions of numbers are acquired gradually the German tastes and notions particularly among the agricultural portion of the population. If we could incorporate (I speak as a Yankee) a little of New England intelligence and enterprise upon the German honesty and thrift I think we should make an excellent cross. The most objectionable trait in the German character is their entire indifference or absolute hostility to a system of public education. An opportunity of testing the strength and extent of this feeling has been afforded in the attempt to introduce a new School system by law. A public fund has been created by the State in aid of a system rf free schools, the State has been divided into large school districts generally consisting of counties and some time of more than one county - delegates chosen in the several townships composing a school district have been assembled in Conventions under the Law to decide whether the district shall be taxed to twice the amount of the bounty from the School fund receivable from the State on that condition. In most of the great school districts the "School Conventions" have concurrently legislated, I should say, and adopted the new law. The legislature in framing this School Law dared not make it imperative but so formed it as to be optional but created the strongest motive in any district to its adoption by appropriating the funds refused to others who would accept them and comply with the Condition of the Law. This appeal was most palpably to the selfish principles of the enemies of a liberal school system and under the circumstances a politic one as the event has proved for the system has been rejected in a very few districts only. It would seem that there must have been many districts that accepted the Law who were not decidedly in favor of the system and in some sort we may say in self defence, for since the Legislature assembled in Jany, their table has been loaded with petitions for its repeal! Our present Governor stands committed to the school law and it is most likely that the friends of Muhlenberg will attempt to [?] Wolf down on the School Law as the most popular and successful ground to war upon. Gov. W. is also committed to the extensive and expensive system of internal improvement now in progress and which has saddled Pennsylvania with a debt of 23 Millions of Dollars! Those improvements are not yet productive and the landholders are beginning to fear the inevitable necessity of a system of direct taxation to meet the payment of the current interest on these immense loans. The Muhlenberg party stand ready to battle on that ground also. Whether M. will be nominated or not depends rather upon the chances of success rather than in any disposition to succumb to the Wolf party. [100?] conventions assembled Thursday last and the Anti-Masonic have nominated Ritner again who was against Wolf at last election. I have not heard from the other Convention which had commenced the first day in contending about rights to seats. The Wolf party and the Van Buren party stand in the Convention pretty much as the numbers of a Convention in Essex North in 1830 when you were visiting, i.e. its complexion depends on the decision of contested seats. Mr. Wolf is not considered at all friendly to Mr. Van Buren - indeed he is confessedly hostile to him and adheres as yet steadfastly to the same sentiments that animated the whole 'Republican' or Jackson Convention that nominated the General for the last term where Van could not get old George Kremers vote and other prominent Jackson men divided the votes of the Jackson Party. Mr. Wolf sentiments as to Van Buren would be likely to gain him a good support from the Whig party if Muhlenberg is nominated unless the Whigs will calculate on some chance for themselves. But what they will do I do not know or care for I have had nothing to nor mean to have nothing to do with politics having had enough of political contention to satisfy me that a man's true interest if he studies his own happenings is to let politics alone. The loudest pretenders to patriotism - the hungriest office seekers and most zealous demagogues carry all before them when party spirit prevails. Our institutions I consider as shamefully perverted - the press and prostituted and a miserable partisan feeling got up as a substitute for that intelligent attachment to constitutional principles that ought to characterize every free men desirous of perpetuating the liberties of our country. Having thus expended more of my sheet upon an inhospitable topic - the politics of Pennsylvania - to all elsewhere a sort of labyrinth, I come to speak of my own matters of which you know I am usually fond of talking. I came here in April 1834 and have taken half of this furnace as a partner of the concern of T. Chambers & Co. I adopted the policy of locating myself at this furnace as materially furthering the success of the business in which I am associated with Br.John at NPort. Last year nearly all the produce of this furnace which is over 400 tons of Stoves passed through the hands of [?]. Shortly after I came here we lost the former manager of the concern and greatest care and labor was in consequence thrown upon me. I had a severe and arduous summer engagement but succeeded satisfactorily to the finishing of the year's work or blast as we call it. This furnace is a blast furnace, i.e. a furnace for… [words missing]… business consists in raising the ore, preparing the charcoal, smelting the iron and casting it into Stoves. So that the Stoves are created entirely out of Labour, the ore being worthless under ground and the wood almost so upon the ground. We employ from 100 to 200 hands mostly men. We consume in a year 10,000 cords of woods (Yellow pine principally) and 2000 tons of ore making about 400 tons of Stoves and 200 tons of Pig iron. The latter we expect to make into castings the coming year at a foundry or Cupola furnace we erected further up our stream last summer. Our situation is upon the N.W. slope of a range of mountains coming out of Virginia and forming a branch from the Blue Ridge. The valley we overlook is bounded by a corresponding ridge or range of Mountains and is about from 10 to 20 miles wide. That extends from the Potomac on the South, to the Susquehanna on the north about 80 miles. (Williamsport - Hagerstown - Greencaslte - Chambersburg - Shippensburg - and Harrisburg all lie through this valley in the order I have placed them from South to North…" This closely written letter is interesting in itself as a narrative of rural Pennsylvania culture and state politics in the Jacksonian era, but it is doubly so in light of the uncommon career of its writer – from silversmith to blast furnace manager to eminent politician, albeit one who here writes here that "a man's true interest is to let politics alone." Ebenezer Bradbury was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1793. When he was 14, he became apprentice to his silversmith father, promoted at 21 to junior partner of the firm of Theophilus Bradbury & Son, which offered "soup, sauce and cream ladles, table and teaspoons, sugar basins, tea pots, cream pots and pitchers", all of their own manufacture. Other than his 1815 marriage to Nancy Morrill –probably some relation of the recipient of this letter – her death in 1832, and his remarrying just seven months later, almost nothing is known of his early life, when when he gave up the silver trade, and, as he writes here, emigrated for three years to the Pennsylvania woods as partner in a Southampton Furnace company. That partnership was dissolved in March 1837. Three months later, there are news reports of his proposing a patriotic toast at a Shippensburg 4th of July dinner. That may have been Bradbury's entry into the political world which he so disdained in this letter. Four years later, he was back in Newburyport, sporting the military rank of "Major" and leading a procession in memory of President William Henry Harrison, who had died shortly after his Inauguration. By then, Bradbury had made a firm commitment to a political career as a Whig candidate for the Massachusetts State Senate, the beginning of a decade of legislative service. In 1847, he was elected Speaker of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, and in 1849, state Treasurer of Massachusetts, remaining in office until the was defeated for reelection by a Democrat in 1851. At the same time, he maintained his business interests, evidenced by an account book, now held by the Phillips Library of the Essex Museum, which recorded expenses connected with a gold claim during the California Gold Rush. Appointed a "Land Agent" by the Governor in 1854, he was not publicly heard of again until his death during the Civil War.
Epitaph for a Spy

Epitaph for a Spy by Ambler, Eric

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Epitaph for a Spy
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Ambler, Eric
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London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1938. First edition. First edition, first impression. 287, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth with black lettering. A Very Good+, solid copy, lacking the dust jacket. Light wear, small scuff near foot, slight lean to spine. A British pre-WWII spy novel, filmed as Hotel Reserve in 1944.
High Time - Vol. 1, No. 1

High Time - Vol. 1, No. 1

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High Time - Vol. 1, No. 1
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North Hollywood, California: American Art Agency, 1960. Softcover. Near Fine. Magazine. Quarto. 56pp. Stapled photographic wrappers. Near fine with light edgewear. One of many magazine imitating the success of *Playboy* with articles, stories, or interviews. Rare. *OCLC* locates no copies.
Our Police Force: A Crownbird Special

Our Police Force: A Crownbird Special

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Our Police Force: A Crownbird Special
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(Lagos, Nigeria: Public Relations Department, 1952. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 28, [2]pp. Illustrated from photographs. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Cover illustration by J. Hindle. Very light edgewear, near fine. Pamphlet on the Nigerian police force.
[Program]: William Dorr in association with Michael White presents Tom Paine by Paul Foster, Directed by Tom O'Horgan

[Program]: William Dorr in association with Michael White presents Tom Paine by Paul Foster, Directed by Tom O'Horgan

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[Program]: William Dorr in association with Michael White presents Tom Paine by Paul Foster, Directed by Tom O'Horgan
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Arts Council, 1967. Unbound. Very Good. Unbound wrappers [6pp.] Introduced by Ellen Stewart. Age-toned wrapprs, newspaper clipping offsetting on pages. The newspaper clipping is from the first time this was performed in New York City at Stage 73 starring John Bakos and Kevin O'Connor. Play as Conceived for the La Mama Troupe.
The Hound & Horn – January:March 1934, Volume VII, No. 2

The Hound & Horn – January:March 1934, Volume VII, No. 2

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The Hound & Horn – January:March 1934, Volume VII, No. 2
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Camden, New Jersey: The Hound & Horn, 1934. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated with black and white plates. Wrappers. Wraps moderately soiled with creases on the spine, and a tiny tear at the foot of the spine, very good. Featuring: Stephen Spender, R.P. Blackmur, Sean O'Faolain, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Charlot, J.E. Scruggs, Dorothy Dudley, and more.
See-Saw" [from MOTHER GOOSE]

See-Saw" [from MOTHER GOOSE]

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Title
See-Saw" [from MOTHER GOOSE]
Seller
Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
n.p.: n.p., [19th century]. Very good.. Bright Victorian children's textile depicting a classic Mother Goose rhyme, "See-Saw, Margery Daw." This decorative textile illustrates a Mother Goose scene in action: "See saw, Margery Daw, / Jacky shall have a new master: / Jacky must have but a penny a day / Because he can work no faster." The central vignette shows little boys playing on an ad-hoc see-saw created out of logs. Smaller vignettes in each corner show other children's games in action: flying a kite, playing soccer, playing cricket, and shooting marbles. An attractive survival. 11'' x 12.25''. Single square printed in red and black. Faint central area of browning, overall a bit toned, else clean and unfrayed.
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Fight Talk

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Title
Fight Talk
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Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
G+. Spine has fraying to cloth along edges and at head of spine. Board edves have moderate scuffing and bumping at corners. post
Description
New York: General Cable Corporation, 1945. Hardcover. G+. Spine has fraying to cloth along edges and at head of spine. Board edves have moderate scuffing and bumping at corners. poster reproductions are clean and bright.. Quarto. Hardcover. Cloth spine with illustrated boards. [110] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm. "A series of wartime, incentive and conservation posters distributed by General Cable Corporation, and a record of the corporation's production achievements."--Foreword.
Calder's Portraits: A New Language
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Calder's Portraits: A New Language by Zabel, Barbara

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Title
Calder's Portraits: A New Language
Author
Zabel, Barbara
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Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780978846091
Condition
VG / VG
Description
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2011. Hardcover. VG / VG. Black cloth over boards; Red-and-white pictorial dj.; 164 pp.; Profusely illustrated in bw and color. Accompanied the exhibition of the same name; Wonderfully illustrated, extensive text.
Keep This Sex Out of My Sight

Keep This Sex Out of My Sight by Zabunyan, Elvan

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Keep This Sex Out of My Sight
Author
Zabunyan, Elvan
Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9782914563109
Condition
VG
Description
Paris: Dis Voir, 2003. Softcover. VG. Color illustrated wraps with red and black lettering, red spine with black lettering, 127 pp, illustrated in bw. English edition. Contents include: Anatomy/autonomy Elvan Zabunyan -- Iconographies of the female sex Chrystel Besse -- The female sex in religions Arlette Fontan -- Virgin or demonness: woman in Fin-de-Siècle fantasies Françoise Gaillard -- World as will and representation: the irruption of women Marie-Joseph Bertini.
Hajduk Veljko: roman

Hajduk Veljko: roman by Zivadinovic, Stojan

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Title
Hajduk Veljko: roman
Author
Zivadinovic, Stojan
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
Beograd: G. Kona, 1932. Hardcover. 279p. hardcover, a large and handsome volume with gilt titles on red cloth; 9.25x12 inches, very good. Historical novel about Hajduk Veljko and the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
Sparse Rain

Sparse Rain by Zarucchi, Roy [Leroy David Zarucchi]

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Title
Sparse Rain
Author
Zarucchi, Roy [Leroy David Zarucchi]
Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780944550199
Description
Albion, CA: Pygmy Forest Press, 1990. Paperback. [26p] 5.25x8.25 inches, very good first edition paperback in yellow pictorial wraps. Debut at age 50 of the poet, editor, teacher and retired Air Force Major who served in Vietnam. He was born and educated in California and was married to poet Carolyn Page. He passed away at age 72 in 2011.
The New Heart to Heart: the newsletter of the AIDS Emergency Fund; Spring 1998; AEF's Annual Awards Dinner

The New Heart to Heart: the newsletter of the AIDS Emergency Fund; Spring 1998; AEF's Annual Awards Dinner

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Title
The New Heart to Heart: the newsletter of the AIDS Emergency Fund; Spring 1998; AEF's Annual Awards Dinner
Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
San Francisco: AIDS Emergency Fund, 1998. Newsletter. 8p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, event calendars, resources, very good newsletter in stapled pictorial wraps. A revamped version of the newsletter for the all volunteer organization providing direct emergency financial assistance to people living with AIDS that was formed in 1982.
Saludos Amigos

Saludos Amigos

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Title
Saludos Amigos
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Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good +
Description
Walt Disney Productions, 1962. Spiral bound wraps. Very Good +. A very sharp copy of this 1962 Disney pop-up book, with text (apart from the title) exclusively in French. Clean and VG+ to Near Fine in its spiralbound card wrappers. 8 separate colorful, Disney-related pop-ups, all in very sharp condition and all working superbly. Oblong quarto, published as well by Les Editions Leho S.A.
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The Mary Flagler Gary Music Collection;

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The Mary Flagler Gary Music Collection;
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J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
First public exhibition of the collection was held from Nov. 17, 1970 to Jan. 31, 1971.
IPEK: Jahrbuch fur Prahistorische & Ethnographische Kunst...Jahrgang 1932/33

IPEK: Jahrbuch fur Prahistorische & Ethnographische Kunst...Jahrgang 1932/33

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Title
IPEK: Jahrbuch fur Prahistorische & Ethnographische Kunst...Jahrgang 1932/33
Seller
McBlain Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Berlin & Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter & Co, 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine. 24 plates, 170p. 1/4 leather (tan boards with brown leather backstrip and narrow corners). 32 cm. No Jacket. Articles in a variety of European languages (mostly German and French).
SPANGLED BANNER: THE STORY OF FRANCIS SCOTT KEY

SPANGLED BANNER: THE STORY OF FRANCIS SCOTT KEY by WEYBRIGHT, Victor

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SPANGLED BANNER: THE STORY OF FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
Author
WEYBRIGHT, Victor
Seller
Antic Hay Books (United States)
Description
Farrar and Rinehart, 1935. WEYBRIGHT, Victor. SPANGLED BANNER: THE STORY OF FRANCIS SCOTT KEY. NY: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., [1935]. 8vo, cloth in dust jacket. Reprint. Signed presentation from Weybright on front endpaper: "Spruille- From one patriot to another. The anthem will keep you in good voice- Victor 1976." The recipient is Spruille Braden, the heir to Anaconda Copper and a Latin American diplomat. Near Fine; slight wear & soil d/j. $45.00.
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LOW AGAIN: A PAGEANT OF POLITICS WITH COLONEL BLIMP, HIT AND MISS AND MUZZLER

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LOW AGAIN: A PAGEANT OF POLITICS WITH COLONEL BLIMP, HIT AND MISS AND MUZZLER
Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
London: The Cresset Press, 1938. Hardcover. Oblong Quarto, 157 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine off-white with black lettering. Dust jacket has moderate plus wear including modest soiling, few instances of chips to the head/tail edges some tape mended. Boards have very slight wear including minor wear to the head/tail edges. Text block has slight wear including mild age toning/foxing to the fore/tail edges. Previous bookshop's small sticker to the front pastedown. Gift inscription to the front free end paper. Slight offsetting to few pages interiorly. Illustrated. Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Netdesk Column QD (ND-QD). 1388646. FP New Rockville Stock.
Marin County Civic Center

Marin County Civic Center by Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Title
Marin County Civic Center
Author
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Orig. stiff wraps
Description
Marin County: Marin County Civic Center, 1957. Stiff Wraps. Orig. stiff wraps. 28 pages. 20 x 27 cm. Printed in red and black with black and white and color plates. Wright's dedication and introduction to the founding of the center and detailed analysis of all the components of the Civic Center. Plans and commentary on the construction.
Mendoza in Hollywood: A Novel of the Company

Mendoza in Hollywood: A Novel of the Company by Baker, Kage

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Mendoza in Hollywood: A Novel of the Company
Author
Baker, Kage
Seller
ReadInk (United States)
ISBN
9780151004485
Condition
Near Fine in Fine dj
Description
San Diego/New York/London: Harcourt, Inc.. Near Fine in Fine dj. (c.2000). First Edition. Hardcover. 015100448X . [very nice tight copy, the faintest bit of spotting on top edge, appears unread; jacket pristine, looks like it's been in protective cover from Day One]. Sci-fi/fantasy/time travel novel, set largely in early Los Angeles and Hollywood. .
The Psychic Adventures of Derek Acorah

The Psychic Adventures of Derek Acorah by Acorah, Derek

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The Psychic Adventures of Derek Acorah
Author
Acorah, Derek
Seller
The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
ISBN
9780007183470
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Element, 2004. Paper Wrappers. Near Fine. Paper Wrappers. 8vo. "From his hugely popular and personal readings to his hit televised explorations, Derek has dealt with some of Britain's most notorious spirits and conducted countless hauting investigations. The sceptics are being silenced. Believers are being blinded by the light. What will YOU find when you enter the psychic adventures of Derek Acorah?" (jacket). Includes descriptions of encouters with Ghosts (including Jack the Ripper's victims, King Charles I, Mary Queen of Scots, and more). Black paper wrappers gilt title to front panel and blue/white title to spine. Photographic portait of Acorah to front and spine panels. Minor scuffing to panels and very minor wear to edges, else fine. Pristine interior with tight binding. 253 pages. MYTH/042205.
Selling History

Selling History by ADAMS, Dennis and Peter Doroshenko

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Title
Selling History
Author
ADAMS, Dennis and Peter Doroshenko
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Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780936080345
Description
Houston, TX: Contemporary Arts Museum, 1995. First edition. Softcover. 79 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran November 19, 1994 through January 22, 1995. Features the text of an interview of Adams by Peter Doroshenko. Includes numerous black and white illustrations, checklist, list of previous exhibitions, and bibliography. A very near fine copy in wrappers.

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