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Evangelium: Book of Gospels

Evangelium: Book of Gospels by (Binding: Margarete Seeler)

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Evangelium: Book of Gospels
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(Binding: Margarete Seeler)
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n.p.: n.p., n.d.. Hardcover. Fine. A magnificent binding incorporating panels by Margarete Seeler. The eight cloisonné panels and the cloisonné figure of Christ were commissioned by Chauncey Stillman in 1960. In 1983, Mr. Stillman caused the nine panels to be incorporated into hand-wrought metal covers and affixed to the leather binding of this Evangelium. The artist used copper panels with 18 carat gold for the nine enamels and all cloisonné wires. The metal support is fine pewter. Silver is used in the bezels of the semi-precious stones and in the three small panels which cover the silver nuts and bolts. The rear cross is outlined in seed pearls. The text is an extract of the four Gospels from a nineteenth century printing of an Allioli Bible in German. Manuscript notes designate the days on which excerpts are to be read in the Liturgy. A hand-calligraphed vellum page gives the history of the binding, and is signed by Chauncey Stillman, Margarete Seeler, and James Strait, the Abbot of Erlac Monastery, now extinct, for whom the binding was commissioned. Wear to the text pages, but the binding is in fine condition. Housed in a custom clamshell case. .
The Ingoldsby Legends (in 3 vols.)

The Ingoldsby Legends (in 3 vols.) by [Fine Binding - Bayntun of Bath] Ingoldsby, Thomas [Richard Harris Barham]

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The Ingoldsby Legends (in 3 vols.)
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[Fine Binding - Bayntun of Bath] Ingoldsby, Thomas [Richard Harris Barham]
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Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
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Fine
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London: Richard Bentley, 1855. Tenth edition. Fine. Three octavo volumes (7 5/8 x 4 3/4 in; 193 x 121 mm). xii, 338, [2]; iv, 288; vi, [2], 364 pp. Twenty engraved plates by George Cruikshank and John Leech, including frontispieces. Uniformly bound c. 1925 by Bayntun of Bath (stamp-signed to front turn-in) in full crushed blue morocco with a multi-colored pictorial onlay vignette to each upper cover, the vignette within an enchanting arabesque-bordered frame with extensive gilt dots as background. Wide turn-ins with triple fillets. Gilt rolled edges. Gilt ornamented raised bands. Gilt framed and ornamented compartments. All edges gilt. Pink marbled endpapers. A fine set, handsomely bound. The exquisite multi-color leather inlays on the front cover of each volume depict as follows: First Series: The Great Lord Cardinal from the Jackdaw of Rheims (opposite page 221) Second Series: Shylock from The Merchant of Venice (opposite page 45) Third Series: Sir Christopher Hatton from The House-Warming, A Legend of Bleeding-Heart Yard (opposite page 292) The Ingoldsby Legends are Richard Barham's famous series of often-macabre and politically-incorrect parodies of myths, legends and ghost stories, with illustrations by George Cruikshank and John Leech. Barham's pieces began appearing in Bentley's Miscellany in 1837 (at about the time Oliver Twist was appearing there), and were immensely popular with that journal's readers-so much so that they were subsequently collected in these three separately-published volumes. Though Barham's work is largely forgotten today, we do have several hold-overs from it-such as the tale from which Walt Disney devised "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and the earliest published version of the children's poem about the dog "Bingo." George Bayntun (1873-1940) was the founder of Bayntun Bindery. Trained by apprenticeship with the Taylor family, Bayntun opened his own book bindery in 1894 dedicated to using traditional hand-crafted techniques and high-quality materials. The Bath-based firm acquired the Rivière Bindery in 1939, transforming into the "Bayntun-Riviere bindery," which is still in existence and family owned. Fine.
Three Signed Offprints on Nerve Fiber Classification

Three Signed Offprints on Nerve Fiber Classification by Gasser, Herbert S.

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Three Signed Offprints on Nerve Fiber Classification
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Gasser, Herbert S.
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Biblioctopus (United States)
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1941. First Edition. Gasser and Joseph Erlanger received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibers. The work recognized by Stockholm had its origin in a single instrumental decision: in 1922, working together at Washington University School of Medicine, Gasser and Erlanger adapted the cathode ray oscillograph (then a novelty in physical laboratories) to the recording of nerve action potentials, producing for the first time electrical records whose time resolution was equal to the speed of the events they were measuring. What that instrument revealed was that the nerve trunk, previously treated as a functionally uniform conductor, was in fact a bundle of distinct fiber populations each with its own conduction velocity, diameter, and physiological role. The classification of those populations (into the fast-conducting myelinated A fibers, the intermediate B fibers, and the slow unmyelinated C fibers) occupied the next two decades of Gasser's career and transformed neurophysiology's understanding of how the nervous system encodes and transmits information. The clinical applications of that classification remain in daily use: the differential susceptibility of fiber classes to local anesthetics underlies selective neuraxial blockade, eliminating nociceptive transmission (e.g. pain) while preserving motor function; nerve conduction studies, which diagnose carpal tunnel syndrome, peripheral neuropathy, and demyelinating disease in hundreds of thousands of patients annually, measure the fiber properties Gasser and Erlanger quantified; and the identification of C fibers as the carriers of slow pain has informed the development of targeted analgesic therapies, from capsaicin-based preparations to ion channel blockers, that remain active areas of clinical research. The three offprints offered here trace that program from its instrumental foundation to its synthetic consolidation: the 1922 paper establishing the method and the compound nature of the action potential; the 1930 paper providing the definitive quantitative characterization of the slow-conducting fiber populations; and the 1941 classification lecture in which Gasser draws the full program together and articulates its implications for the timing and integration of nerve impulse transmission. All three are signed. [with] Joseph Erlanger. "A Study of the Action Currents of Nerve with the Cathode Ray Oscillograph; Reprinted from the American Journal of Physiology. Vol. 62, No. 3, pp. 496-524." Bethesda, MD: American Physiological Society, 1922. Offprint, 8vo (267 × 184mm), pp. 29. From the Laboratory of Pharmacology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine. Wrappers, staple-bound, wear to the extremities, light toning, else very good. Signed by Gasser on the front wrapper. The founding paper of Gasser and Erlanger's Nobel Prize-winning research program, in which they establish the cathode ray oscillograph as a practical instrument for recording nerve action potentials and demonstrate for the first time the compound nature of the nerve action current. Previous galvanometric methods were too slow and too subject to mechanical inertia to resolve the millisecond-scale electrical events of nerve conduction. Gasser and Erlanger's adaptation of the cathode ray oscillograph, whose electron beam responds to electrical changes without mechanical lag, overcame this limitation entirely. The paper describes the instrument and its calibration in detail, illustrated by diagrams of the apparatus and photographic plates of oscillograph traces, and presents action potential curves from frog and mammalian nerve trunks showing that what had previously appeared to be a single wave was in fact a compound event composed of multiple overlapping components traveling at different velocities. This observation (that a single nerve trunk conducts impulses at multiple velocities corresponding to distinct fiber populations) was the central discovery that the Nobel Committee recognized in 1944, and every subsequent paper in Gasser's career, including the fiber classification work and the pain studies, is a development of the question this paper first made it possible to ask. [with] Joseph Erlanger. "The Action Potential in Fibers of Slow Conduction in Spinal Roots and Somatic Nerves; reprinted from the American Journal of Physiology, Vol. 92, No. 1, pp, pp. 43-82." Baltimore: American Physiological Society, 1930. Offprint, 8vo (256 × 176mm), pp. 40. From the Physiological and Pharmacological Department, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis. Wrappers, toned, spine rubbed, soiling to the wrappers, else very good. Signed by Gasser on the front wrapper. The most substantial single paper in Gasser and Erlanger's research program, providing a detailed characterization of the slowly conducting fiber populations whose existence the 1922 cathode ray oscillograph paper had first made it possible to detect. Using high amplification to resolve the small, slow waves that follow the large initial deflection of the compound action potential, Erlanger and Gasser identify and characterize the B and C wave components, demonstrating that they represent the activity of distinct fiber populations conducting at velocities far below those of the A fibers. The paper presents extensive quantitative data on conduction velocities, stimulation thresholds, and the areas of the component waves, and includes a detailed analysis of the relationship between fiber diameter, myelin status, and conduction velocity that would become the foundation of the Erlanger-Gasser fiber classification. The reconstruction of fiber populations from their action potentials and the tabulation of their properties across species constitutes the primary evidentiary basis for the work recognized by the Nobel Committee in 1944. "The Classification of Nerve Fibers; reprinted from The Ohio Journal of Science. Vol. 66, No. 3, pp. 145-159." Columbus: The Ohio Journal of Science, 1941. Offprint, 8vo (254 x 176mm), pp. 15, [1]. Gray printed wrapper, staple -bound, some soft crease, light soiling and toning, else near fine. Signed by Gasser on the front wrapper. A synthetic account of the nerve fiber classification program that Gasser and Erlanger had built over the preceding two decades, presented here as a formal lecture at a moment when the work was approaching its definitive formulation. Gasser reviews the relationship between fiber diameter, myelin status, and conduction velocity across the full range of somatic nerve fibers, presenting the velocity-diameter curve and its implications for understanding how the nervous system achieves the precise timing of impulse transmission on which synaptic integration depends. The paper situates fiber velocity in the context of neural function generally (noting that impulses carried in A fibers travel at up to 90 meters per second, those in B fibers at intermediate velocities, and those in the unmyelinated C fibers at approximately one meter per second) and develops the classification through oscillographic records and quantitative diameter measurements. The discussion of the C fiber population and its relationship to pain transmission gives the paper particular significance, anticipating the explicit treatment of pain-producing impulses that Gasser would take up in the 1943 paper. With its synthesis of two decades of experimental work and its clear articulation of the three-class fiber system, the paper represents the closest Gasser came, before the Nobel lecture itself, to a comprehensive public statement of the classification that Stockholm recognized three years later.
Juan Soto, Gobernador Constitucional del Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz, Considerando: Que la Justicia, el Honor Nacional y la Conveniencia Publica, Demandan Imperiosamente Que Sostengamos con Teson y a Todo Trance, la Guerra Que Ha Provocado la Desleal Republica Vecina... [caption title and first lines of text]

Juan Soto, Gobernador Constitucional del Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz, Considerando: Que la Justicia, el Honor Nacional y la Conveniencia Publica, Demandan Imperiosamente Que Sostengamos con Teson y a Todo Trance, la Guerra Que Ha Provocado la Desleal Republica Vecina... [caption title and first lines of text] by [Mexican-American War]

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Juan Soto, Gobernador Constitucional del Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz, Considerando: Que la Justicia, el Honor Nacional y la Conveniencia Publica, Demandan Imperiosamente Que Sostengamos con Teson y a Todo Trance, la Guerra Que Ha Provocado la Desleal Republica Vecina... [caption title and first lines of text]
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[Mexican-American War]
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McBride Rare Books (United States)
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Huatusco: May 31, 1847. Very good.. Broadside decree, 17.5 x 11 inches. Printed on lined paper. Previously folded, with a couple of very small losses at central fold. Minor wear at edges. Light dust soiling and toning. A rare broadside decree that establishes guidelines for the collection of funds and donations for guerillas and their families continuing the fight against the American invasion around Veracruz in 1847. The important port city had fallen two months prior, and Santa Anna was routed at Cerro Gerro by Winfield Scott a month earlier. All that was left for Mexican forces in the region was sustained guerilla harassment of the American army. In this decree, a separate account from regular government monies is established for funds raised, and various government departments of the state of Veracruz are ordered to encourage donations and to publicize contributions, and children are even encouraged to contribute food to the soldiers. A desperate plea for a desperate situation; dated May 31, 1847, and signed in type by Veracruz state president Juan Soto in Huatusco, the temporary location of the displaced government. OCLC locates no other copies.
[Two Mounted Photos of an Electric Car Driven by Automotive Pioneer Dr. Carlos Booth]

[Two Mounted Photos of an Electric Car Driven by Automotive Pioneer Dr. Carlos Booth] by [Automobiles]

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[Two Mounted Photos of an Electric Car Driven by Automotive Pioneer Dr. Carlos Booth]
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[Automobiles]
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McBride Rare Books (United States)
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[New York: May 30, 1896. Very good.. Two mounted albumen photographs, 3.75 x 4.75 inches on cards 4.25 x 5.25 inches. Contemporary ink annotations on mounts, minor wear and soiling. Two photographs of one of the vehicles in the second-ever American automobile race, which began in New York City and ended in Westchester County, near our offices. The first race was held on Thanksgiving Day in 1895; this race was run six months later, on May 30, 1896. Six cars participated, five of which were imported from Europe. The sixth car was a DIY affair built by Dr. Carlos Booth, an Ohio physician who disliked horses and had eagerly embraced the new horseless carriage. Thus, these photos would seem to show one of the first-ever American-built cars. Both show the car at the starting point in City Hall Park in Manhattan, one with a view of the front of the car and the other showing the rear of the vehicle. Dr. Booth's car did not win the race, alas, but it did manage to reach the finish line in Ardsley.
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Surgical observations, with cases and operations by Warren, Jonathan Mason

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Surgical observations, with cases and operations
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Warren, Jonathan Mason
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
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Boston: Ticknor & Field, 1867. First edition. First Edition. Jonathan Mason Warren, son of renowned American surgeon John Collins Warren, made significant contributions to plastic and reconstructive surgery, performing the first rhinoplasty in the United States (see Garrison-Morton 5743.3) and the first operation for closure of complete clefts of the palate (see Garrison-Morton 5745). "In the present work, Warren discusses his work in plastic surgery, including rhinoplasty and staphylorrhaphy. He was especially expert at repairing clefts of the palate, having observed Dieffenbach and Roux while in Europe and being familiar with his father's work. The book also contains chapters covering the head and neck, chest, genitourinary system, abdomen, arteries and veins, tumors, injuries and diseases of the nerves, and anesthetics" (Heirs of Hippocrates 1762). The chapter on tumors (Chapter IX) contains four sections: "Tumors"; "Tumors in the Parotid Region"; "Leucocythaemia"; and "Operations for Cancer." "Through his techniques and writings and his prominence in American medicine, [Warren] made his profession aware of what this kind of surgery could offer the patient" (Goldwyn, p. 466). Goldwyn, "Jonathan Mason Warren and his contribution to plastic surgery," in McDowell, Source Book of Plastic Surgery, pp. 460-66. .
Primera parte de la Choronica avgvstiniana de Mechoacan. En qve se tratan, y escriuen las vidas de nueue varones apostólicos, Augustinianos

Primera parte de la Choronica avgvstiniana de Mechoacan. En qve se tratan, y escriuen las vidas de nueue varones apostólicos, Augustinianos by Juan González de la Puente (1580-16?) and Nicolás León from the library of George Foster

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Primera parte de la Choronica avgvstiniana de Mechoacan. En qve se tratan, y escriuen las vidas de nueue varones apostólicos, Augustinianos
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Juan González de la Puente (1580-16?) and Nicolás León from the library of George Foster
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The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
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Very Good
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509+ix pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6 1/2") bound in quarter leather with raised spine bands over marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Published under the direction of Bishop Plancarte y Navarrete, with a brief bibliographical note by Nicolas Leon. From the library of George Foster. Second edition. Juan Gonzalez de la Puente, born a Spaniard, undertook to chronicle the Augustinians in Michoacan and to write the lives of nine "apostolic varones". Part 1 of his Chronica appeared not long after its composition about 1623. In 1630 the chapter meeting of his province in Tiripitio, Michoacan, authorized him to publish the second part, but no trace of part 2 has to date been uncovered. In the extant manuscript, he wrote the biographies of the nine friars, scattered over three books. They are Juan Bautista de Moya, Juan de Median Rincon, Diego de Chaves, Sebastian de Trasierra, Francisco de Acosta, Juan de Montalvo, Francisco Lopez, Pedro de Vera and Diego de Villarubia. As a matter of fact, none of these belonged to the Michoacan province, but were from Santisimo Nombre in Mexico City; but as they had been active in Michoacan, before the latter was an officially established province, Puente included them. Book 1 contains no lives of these men, but instead is devoted to a wide range of topics. Among them is the discovery of the New World, the conquest of Mexico, and Augustinian activities in Mexico after arrival, as well as in Persia and the Orient. Book 2 contains biographies of the first five missionaries and recounts, in entire chapters, Augustinian efforts among the Indians of Michoacan as well as to missions in China and Japan. The remaining four missionaries appear in book 3, which completes the account (to his times) of the Augustinian ministry to the Tarascans. At the edge of the text Puente indicates his main sources. His ideas are easy to follow, but occasionally he lapses into a diffuse style, especially when extolling the virtues of his brethren. He also has a predilection for the unusual and the extraordinary. His Choronicaof Michoacan appeared in the same year (1624) as Grijalva's of Mexico, although the latter province had been founded some 67 years earlier. A relative rare work, the 1624 edition of which this was reissue.George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications, his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics, including acculturation, long-term fieldwork, peasant economies, pottery making, public health, social structure, symbolic systems, technological change, theories of illness and wellness, humoral medicine in Latin America, and worldview. The quantity, quality, and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.Condition:Spine sunned, some shelf wear and fore edge wear, points rubbed, pages age toned, George Foster's stamp to title else about very good.
KAWS One

KAWS One by KAWS

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KAWS One
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KAWS
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Tokyo: Little More, 2001. Fine in illustrated boards, in a fine obi.. First Edition. Small quarto. The artist's second book, published in conjunction with a 2001 solo show at Parco Gallery, Tokyo. Classic ad disruptions and the Kimpsons.
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A Correct List of the Members of the Last House of Commons, distinguished according to their Votes in certain late public Questions, in which the Rights and Liberties of the People were essentially concerned.

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A Correct List of the Members of the Last House of Commons, distinguished according to their Votes in certain late public Questions, in which the Rights and Liberties of the People were essentially concerned.
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Savoy Books (United States)
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London: For J. Almon and Debrett, 1780. Book. Double folio broadside, 32 x 21 1/2 inches, untrimmed. Folded, worn and separated along folds, with occasional loss of letters. Large anti-royalist broadside which lists votes on 6 questions such as payment of the King's debts, abolishing the Board of Trade, and decreasing the Crown's influence. Each member is listed by name, together with his voting record, and his ties to royalty, if any. The list is followed by an anonymous address "To the Electors of Great-Britain", anti-corruption in theme, with mention of the expense of the American war..
AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM WASHINGTON, 15 FEBRUARY 1827, TO HUGH PEEBLES, CONCERNING WOOL'S MORTGAGE ON REAL ESTATE WHICH PEEBLES WISHES TO SELL

AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM WASHINGTON, 15 FEBRUARY 1827, TO HUGH PEEBLES, CONCERNING WOOL'S MORTGAGE ON REAL ESTATE WHICH PEEBLES WISHES TO SELL by Wool, John E.

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AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM WASHINGTON, 15 FEBRUARY 1827, TO HUGH PEEBLES, CONCERNING WOOL'S MORTGAGE ON REAL ESTATE WHICH PEEBLES WISHES TO SELL
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Wool, John E.
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David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
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Single leaf, 7-7/8" x 9-5/8," Old folds, entirely in Wool's hand in neat ink manuscript. Signed at the end, with a flourish, John E. Wool. Very Good. Wool writes that he "has recently been informed that you are about, or have already agreed, to sell your house and lot, on which I presume I have a mortgage, to E. Wilson Esqr. Apprehensive that you may have been induced to the agreement, under the expectation that I should indulge Mr. Wilson in the payment of the mortgage, I conceive it my duty to inform you, that, when Mr. Wilson suggested to me the idea of purchasing the property in anticipation of such indulgence, I expressly stated to him it could not be granted and that I could not consent to any arrangement other than that which existed between you and myself." Wool acknowledges that "the subject is a delicate one, and relates to a family nearly connected with Mrs Wool." After his signature, Wool appends a postscript, stating that he "should be pleased to receive a line from you on the subject of this letter." [With:] 5-3/8" x 7-1/4" engraved portrait of General John E. Wool (toning, staining to edges). New York: Johnson, Fry & Co., 1858. Facsimile signature beneath engraving. When he wrote this Letter Wool, a career Army man, was Inspector-General of the Army. During the course of his long career-- which included service in the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Civil War-- he earned a well-deserved reputation as an extraordinarily capable soldier and organizer. The oldest general on either side of the Civil War, the 77-year-old Wool commanded the Department of the East.
1829 – A letter from a young man to his cousin, who he fears is romantically toying with one of his friends

1829 – A letter from a young man to his cousin, who he fears is romantically toying with one of his friends by “Edward C.

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1829 – A letter from a young man to his cousin, who he fears is romantically toying with one of his friends
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“Edward C.
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Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
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Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, 1829. Envelope or Cover. Very good. This three-page stampless letter was written by “Edward C.” in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania to his cousin, Louisa Elliott in Harrisburg. It is dated May 14th, 1829, and bears a double-circle Huntingdon postmark dated May 15 along with a somewhat ornate manuscript “Paid 12½” rate mark. In this letter, Edward questions his cousin with regard to her affection for her fiancé, his friend “K”, while expressing some rather harsh opinions regarding the fickleness of women and beseeches her to contact K rather than flirting with others. It reads in part: “I received a letter from K. by last Monday’s mail. He speaks of you as one not altogether indifferent to him. He says change of places may . . . produce change of feelings, although he says he does not fear it. . .. Does he place too much confidence in you or is he deceiving himself” From your letters to me, I suspect he is, and that grossly, notwithstanding you took the precaution to say that you were only almost in Love!!! Did I not tell you often that if you was away you would soon forget him? Think well of what you are doing. I know that it is the nature and disposition of the females to fall almost in love with every new face they meet provided the person pays them a little attention. I do not say that is really the case with you but it might be. It is not right to be flirting about with every fellow that wears a fine coat and more particularly after you have solemnly engaged yourself to another. . .. Louisa cast not off a well time love for a pleasant or good looking Esau. K. says that you have not replied to his two last letters. He says it may mean something. He regrets very much that the chance of communications between you & him is broken by your absence. . .. Write you do write to him he says he will not know where to direct his letters. Write to him then Louisa put his poor heart at rest. I have fellow-feeling for him or any . . . who has been so unfortunate as to fall in love. I have given you [this information so] you can decide whether you will write or not. . .. Do as you think best and all will be well.”. This relationship scenario sounds like it could have been pulled from an American version of a romantic Regency Era novel.
The Sultan's Pleasure: Turkish Cookbook

The Sultan's Pleasure: Turkish Cookbook by Ayarslan, Soydan; Dona Bretherick (editors); Carèl Bertram Snyder (illustrator)

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The Sultan's Pleasure: Turkish Cookbook
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Ayarslan, Soydan; Dona Bretherick (editors); Carèl Bertram Snyder (illustrator)
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[Berkeley, California: Noh Directions Press; Turkish Educational Foundation, 1970. Comb-bound, octavo-sized book (21.5 x 15 cm.), viii, 126 pages [2]. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook to benefit the "Turkish Educational Foundation, Inc. to further the education of Turkish schoolchildren in need. A statement (page ii) indicates the "Project was initiated by Association of Turkish Students, University of California, Berkeley." Recipes are not attributed, but a list of Contributors is included (page ii). Recipe titles are provided in both English and Turkish but the text is otherwise in English. Chapters include Mezeler, Soups, Corbalar, Salads, Salatalar, Fish, Balik yemekleri, Eggs, Yumurtalar, Meat; Et yemekleri, Meat cooked with vegetables, Etli sebze yemekleri, Vegetables, Sebzeler, Chicken, Tavuk yemekleri, Rice & dough dishes, Pilavlar ve hamur isleri, Desserts, Tatlilar, Miscellaneous, and an Appendix. Internally clean and sound, bound in a white, plastic comb binding. Stiff white boards, printed in red; slight soiling to the boards, otherwise fine.
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The Ladies' Note-Book and Calendar: with select receipts and household information by [Almanac]; World's Dispensary Medical Association

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The Ladies' Note-Book and Calendar: with select receipts and household information
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[Almanac]; World's Dispensary Medical Association
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Buffalo, N.Y.: World's Dispensary Medical Association, 1887. Further title from cover: "Compliments of World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N.Y., 1882. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1880, by the World's Dispensary Medical Association, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington". Machine-sewn booklet (15 x 9 cm.), 24 pages. Calendar. Illustrated. Later issue, with the first published in 1880 and carrying a calendar for 1881. A promotional almanac, calendar, and recipe book, for the World Dispensary Medical Association, manufacturers of Dr. Pierce's Standard Medicines. This issue includes calendar pages for 1887 and lined pages for memoranda, and these have been used, with typical household notes. The calendar pages are interleaved with recipes, testimonials, text and advertisements for various of Dr. Pierce's medicines and supplies and other advertisements. The series appears to have continued at least through 1914. Some light soiling and edge tears some pages and to illustrated wrappers, otherwise near very good. [OCLC locates two copies of this 1887 issue].
The Cockpit

The Cockpit by ZANGWILL, Israel

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The Cockpit
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ZANGWILL, Israel
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: Macmillan, 1921. First Edition. First Printing. (Nov. 1921); Octavo (19.5cm.); blue boards titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; uncut pages; 264pp.; light rubbing along bottom edge and corners; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $1.60) light rubbing and edgewear; chipping to extremities including spine ends; Very Good.
Contes D'Andersen [INSCRIBED by TRANSLATOR]

Contes D'Andersen [INSCRIBED by TRANSLATOR] by Andersen, Hans Christian, Paul Leyssac (translator) and Vilhelm Pedersen (illustrator)

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Title
Contes D'Andersen [INSCRIBED by TRANSLATOR]
Author
Andersen, Hans Christian, Paul Leyssac (translator) and Vilhelm Pedersen (illustrator)
Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition
vg
Description
Paris: Librairie Stock, 1930. Fourth edition. Softcover. vg. 8vo. 224 pp. Decorative paper wrappers. Inscribed by translator on title page "Pour Stephen Green. En souvenir d'une matinee de l'alliance Americaine de Boston. Le 11 mars 1933." Illustrated with a number of lovely-quaint b/w facsimile drawings of scenes from the story line. Includes a b/w facsimile photograph of the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen at Odense, Denmark cut out from a newspaper that someone has laid in the book as well as a publisher's advertisement. In French, translated from the Dutch. Uneven pages. Some age wear to wrappers, otherwise book is in very good condition.
Stranger at the Window.
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Stranger at the Window. by ALCOCK, Vivien.

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Title
Stranger at the Window.
Author
ALCOCK, Vivien.
Seller
Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780395816615
Condition
Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description
Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0395816610 . First printing. Near fine in a near fine (light sticker residue on front panel) dust jacket. .
Wish You Were Here; a Tour of America's Great Hotels During the Golden Age of the Picture Post Card
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Wish You Were Here; a Tour of America's Great Hotels During the Golden Age of the Picture Post Card by Zaid, Barry

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Title
Wish You Were Here; a Tour of America's Great Hotels During the Golden Age of the Picture Post Card
Author
Zaid, Barry
Seller
Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780517580097
Description
New York: Crown Publishers, 1990. 1st Edition. 95 [1]p., colored illus., dj, orblong quarto format, near fine.
Marvel Movie Premiere No. 1

Marvel Movie Premiere No. 1 by Wolfman, Marv (Editor)

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Title
Marvel Movie Premiere No. 1
Author
Wolfman, Marv (Editor)
Seller
Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
New York: Marvel Comics Group, 1975. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 66pp. Lightly rubbed and edgeworn, else very good.
Young socialist, vol. 9, no. 2 (Whole Number 67), Nov.-Dec. 1965

Young socialist, vol. 9, no. 2 (Whole Number 67), Nov.-Dec. 1965 by Sheppard, Barry, editor

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Title
Young socialist, vol. 9, no. 2 (Whole Number 67), Nov.-Dec. 1965
Author
Sheppard, Barry, editor
Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
New York: Young Socialist Alliance, 1965. 31p., stapled wraps, 8.25 x 10.75 inches, illus., wraps worn, staples rusted, previous owner's name penned on first page else very good condition. Cover story on the Bring the Troops Home Movement and the recent protests against the Vietnam war.