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Life of Johnson by BOSWELL James JOHNSON Samuel

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Title: Life of Johnson
Author: BOSWELL James JOHNSON Samuel
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1887. (JOHNSON, Samuel) BOSWELL, James. Boswell's Life of Johnson, including Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales. Oxford: Clarendon, 1887. Six volumes bound in eleven. Octavo, contemporary full navy morocco gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt, uncut. $11,000.First George Birkbeck Hill edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson and Johnson's travels, extra-illustrated with 1153 finely engraved portraits, views, maps and facsimiles (including many proofs on India paper), and facsimile of handwritten note by Hill tipped in. Handsomely bound in full morocco by Riviere & Son.Hill was a renowned Johnsonian scholar; when the Clarendon Press brought out this six-volume set in 1887, ""the edition was accepted as a masterpiece of spacious editing. The index, forming the sixth volume, is a monument of industry and completeness"" (DNB). ""The fascination of [Boswell and Johnson's] dialogue, that dialogue of mind, heart and voice round which Boswell organized his great Life, is that it is not merely between two very different men but between two epochs. In its pages, Romantic Europe speaks to Renaissance Europe, and is answered"" (Wain, 229). Due to the profusion of added plates, portraits and facsimiles, each of the five text volumes were divided into two volumes, for a total of 11 volumes (the index volume is not extra-illustrated). Interiors and added plates clean and fine. Volume I, Part I and Volume III, Part I expertly rebacked with original spine neatly laid down, a few other joints slightly tender or with minor reinforcements, bindings sound. A very handsome and lavishly extra-illustrated set in excellent condition.

Broadside Printing of William Henry Harrison’s Deadly Inaugural Address by WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

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Title: Broadside Printing of William Henry Harrison’s Deadly Inaugural Address
Author: WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON
Seller: Seth Kaller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: "If there is one measure better calculated than another to produce that state of things so much deprecated by all true republicans, by which the rich are daily adding to their hoards and the poor sinking deeper into penury, it is an exclusive metallic currency...." "Always the friend of my countrymen, never their flatterer, it becomes my duty to say to them… that there exists in the land a spirit hostile to their best interests—hostile to liberty itself.... It is union that we want, not of a party for the sake of that party, but a union of the whole country for the sake of the whole country, for the defense of its interests and its honor against foreign aggression, for the defense of those principles for which our ancestors so gloriously contended...." WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON. Broadside. ca. March 1841. 1 p., 11⅝ x 19 in.On a cold, wet day, March 4, 1841, President Harrison delivered the longest inaugural address in history. Harrison wrote the entire speech himself, though it was edited by his soon-to-be Secretary of State, Daniel Webster. Webster said afterwards that in the process of editing the text, he had "killed seventeen Roman proconsuls." Contracting pneumonia, Harrison became the first president to die in office 31 days after delivering this address. His vice president John Tyler became the new president and served out Harrison's term. In an 8,460-word address, Harrison presents a detailed statement of the Whig agenda and a repudiation of the populism and policies of Democratic Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. Harrison promises to reestablish the Bank of the United States, to issue paper currency, to use his veto power sparingly, and to appoint qualified officers of government in contrast to the spoils system that Jackson heralded. He favors term limits, limits on the powers of the presidency, and devotion to the nation rather than party. Harrison avoids specifics on the divisive issue of slavery, which in theory he might have opposed, but of which he was in practice a staunch defender. Excerpts: "We admit of no government by divine right, believing that… the beneficent Creator has made no distinction amongst men; that all are upon an equality, and that the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.... Limited as are the powers which have been granted, still enough have been granted to constitute a despotism if concentrated in one of the departments." (c1) "it is the part of wisdom for a republic to limit the service of that officer at least to whom she has intrusted the management of her foreign relations, the execution of her laws, and the command of her armies and navies to a period so short as to prevent his forgetting that he is the accountable agent, not the principal—the servant, not the master. Until an amendment of the Constitution can be effected, public opinion may secure the desired object, I give my aid to it by renewing the pledge heretofore given that under no circumstances will I consent to serve a second term." (c1) "I consider the veto power…solely as a conservative power, to be used only first, to protect the Constitution from violation; secondly, the people from the effects of hasty legislation where their will has been probably disregarded or not well understood, and, thirdly, to prevent the effects of combinations violative of the rights of minorities." (c2) "The General Government has seized upon none of the reserved rights of the States. As far as any open warfare may have gone, the State authorities have amply maintained their rights.... By making the President the sole distributer of all the patronage of the Government the framers of the Constitution do not appear to have anticipated at how short a period it would become a formidable instrument to control the free operations of the State governments....the entire control which the President possesses over the officers who have the custody of the public money, by the power of removal with or without cause, does, for all mischievous purposes at least, virtually subject the treasure also to his disposal.... It was certainly a great error in the framers of the Constitution not to have made the officer at the head of the Treasury Department entirely independent of the Executive." (c2) "the delicate duty of devising schemes of revenue should be left where the Constitution has placed it—with the immediate representatives of the people. For similar reasons the mode of keeping the public treasure should be prescribed by them, and the farther removed it may be from the control of the Executive, the more wholesome the arrangement, and the more in accordance with Republican principle." (c3) "Connected with this subject is the character of the currency. The idea of making it exclusively metallic, however well intended, appears to me to be fraught with more fatal consequences than any other scheme, having no relation to the personal rights of the citizens, that has ever been devised.... If there is one measure better calculated than another to produce that state of things so much deprecated by all true republicans, by which the rich are daily adding to their hoards and the poor sinking deeper into penury, it is an exclusive metallic currency." (c3) "Our citizens must be content with the exercise of the powers with which the Constitution clothes them. The attempt of those of one State to control the domestic institutions of another can only result in feelings of distrust and jealousy, the certain harbingers of disunion, violence, and civil war, and the ultimate destruction of our free institutions." (c3) "Unpleasant and even dangerous as collisions may sometimes be between the constituted authorities or the citizens of our country…the results can be of no vital injury to our institutions if that ardent patriotism, that devoted attachment to liberty, that spirit of moderation and forbearance for which our countrymen were once distinguished, continue to be cherished. If this continues to be the ruling passion of our souls, the weaker feelings of the mistaken enthusiast will be corrected, the Utopian dreams of the scheming politician dissipated, and the complicated intrigues of the demagogue rendered harmless. The spirit of liberty is the sovereign balm for every injury which our institutions may receive." (c4) "The tendencies of all such governments in their decline is to monarchy, and the antagonist principle to liberty there is the spirit of faction.... it behooves the people to be most watchful of those to whom they have intrusted power.... When the genuine spirit of liberty animates the body of a people to a thorough examination of their affairs, it leads to the excision of every excrescence which may have fastened itself upon any of the departments of the government, and restores the system to its pristine health and beauty. But the reign of an intolerant spirit of party amongst a free people seldom fails to result in a dangerous accession to the executive power introduced and established amidst unusual professions of devotion to democracy." (c4) "Always the friend of my countrymen, never their flatterer, it becomes my duty to say to them from this high place to which their partiality has exalted me that there exists in the land a spirit hostile to their best interests—hostile to liberty itself.... It is union that we want, not of a party for the sake of that party, but a union of the whole country for the sake of the whole country, for the defense of its interests and its honor against foreign aggression, for the defense of those principles for which our ancestors so gloriously contended." (c4) William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) was born in Virginia into a prominent planter family and studied at Hampden-Sydney College and the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the army in 1791 and participated in the Northwest Indian War, including the decisive victory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794 and the Treaty of Greenville in 1795, which Harrison signed as a witness. He married Anna Tuthill in 1795, and they had ten children. In 1798, Harrison resigned the military and became secretary of the Northwest Territory. He later served in the U.S House of Representative from the Northwest Territory (1799-1800) and as governor of the Indiana Territory (1801-1812). In 1811, he defeated Shawnee leader Tecumseh at the Battle of Tippecanoe, for which Harrison was praised as a national hero. During the War of 1812, Harrison commanded the Army of the Northwest and defeated the British and their Indian allies at the Battle of the Thames in 1813. After disagreements with the Secretary of War, Harrison resigned in 1814. He represented Ohio in the US House of Representatives (1816-1819) and in the US Senate (1825-1828). After running as a regional Whig candidate for the presidency in 1836, Harrison won the 1840 election over incumbent Martin Van Buren. On March 4, 1841, a cold, wet day, Harrison wore no hat or overcoat, rode on horseback to his inauguration, and delivered the longest inaugural speech of any American president. He became ill three weeks later and died of pneumonia on April 4, having been president for 31 days. He was the last United States president born as a British subject, and the first to die in office.

Aventures d'Alice au Pays des Merveilles by CARROLL, Lewis.; DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge TENNIEL, John, illustrator

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Title: Aventures d'Alice au Pays des Merveilles
Author: CARROLL, Lewis.; DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge TENNIEL, John, illustrator
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: Londres: Macmillan and Co., 1869. Alice" en Français - One of the Great Early Translations of a Literary Classic The 1869 First French Edition, Exceptionally Preserved in Original Cloth CARROLL, Lewis [Lewis Carroll]. Aventures d'Alice au Pays des Merveilles. Traduit de l'Anglais par Henri Bué. Illustré de 42 vignettes par John Tenniel. Londres: Macmillan & Co., 1869. First Edition in French. Octavo (7 3/16 x 4 3/4 inches; 183 x 123 mm.). [10], 196 pp. Engraved frontispiece and forty-one text illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth over boards, covers with triple gilt fillets, upper cover with central oval vignette of Alice, lower cover with the Cheshire Cat, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, dark gray coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a dark blue cloth clamshell case, spine with black morocco label lettered in gilt. A near fine copy - exceptionally bright and well-preserved, the hinges untouched - quite possibly among the finest examples encountered. This 1869 French Alice - translated by Henri Bué, is the second foreign-language edition of the work (following the German edition earlier the same year), and one of the most admired early translations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The translator Henri Bué's achievement is remarkable: Carroll's linguistic play - puns, inversions, nonsense logic, and neologism - is notoriously resistant to translation, yet here rendered with grace, wit, and structural fidelity across two fundamentally different languages. The illustrations by John Tenniel are inseparable from the identity of Alice. Tenniel (1820-1914), long associated with Punch magazine, brought to Carroll's text a precision of line and a disciplined imagination that fixed the visual form of Wonderland for generations. His Alice, poised, observant, and distinctly Victorian - anchors the surrounding absurdity, while his unforgettable creations (the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts) translate Carroll's linguistic invention into enduring iconography. Few partnerships between author and illustrator have proven so definitive. A cornerstone for collectors of Lewis Carroll. Avery, 44; Williams, 16; Williams, Madan, Green & Crutch, 73.

Descrizione della Stufa di Pensilvania dal Signor Franklin Americano, introducendo la quale in Italia… by [FRANKLIN, Benjamin]

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Title: Descrizione della Stufa di Pensilvania dal Signor Franklin Americano, introducendo la quale in Italia…
Author: [FRANKLIN, Benjamin]
Seller: Martayan Lan, Inc. (United States)
Description: THE FRANKLIN STOVE COMES TO ITALY Venice, Antonio Graziosi, 1778. 8vo (18.4 x 11.9 cm), 47 (i.e. 43) pp., 1 folding engraved plate. Signatures: A6 [skip between pp. 6-11, (A4-5)], B-C6. Bound in publisher's wrappers. Complete and overall excellent. First Italian edition in book form of Benjamin Franklin's pamphlet describing the invention of his new stove, originally published by Franklin in 1744 as An Account of the new-invented Philadelphia Fireplaces. The work includes a foldout engraving copied after the engraving of Franklin's first edition, illustrating airflow through the flue, and the separate components (mantelpiece, air-box, baffles, etc.) of the stove itself. Apart from a letter to the reader, the present translation adheres to Franklin's first edition almost to the letter, including his appraisal of 'German' and 'Holland' stoves, his discussion of the contemporary literature on stove mechanics (particularly Gauger's 1709 work Le Méchanique de Feu), and his addition of a shutter in the funnel to clear rooms of tobacco-smoke. Franklin's invention—which, like so many others, he offered to the public domain—was quickly seized upon by manufacturers across the Atlantic, and a variety of designs and models had soon proliferated across the Continent, creating a significant impact on domestic architecture throughout England and western Europe. A third Italian edition was printed in 1791. OCLC: Yale, American Philosophical Society (apparently incomplete, containing only 28 pp. and a folding plate). A first edition of the work appeared in the compilation Scelta di opuscoli interessanto tradotti da varie lingue (Milan 1775). Like the Yale copy, the present copy skips pp. 7-10, as the A quire is bound in sixes, and is as such complete. With thanks to Sterling Memorial for checking the Yale copy. * Ford 42.

Two papers in Virchow's Arch. path. Anat., Volume 68

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Title: Two papers in Virchow's Arch. path. Anat., Volume 68
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1876. (1) Cohnheim, Julius (1839-1884). Erkrankungen des Knochenmarkes bei perniciöser Anämie, pp. 291-293. G.-M. 3125.1. (2) Friedreich, Nikolaus (1825-1882). Ueber Ataxie mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der hereditären Formen, pp. 145-245. G.-M. 4696 Whole volume, 634pp. 15 pll. 135 x 220mm. Contemporary off-white wrappers with the journal name and volume stamped on the front. Book description and G-M. references tipped to inside front wrapper, mentioning that "This volume also contains valuable neurological works by E.v Leyden, H. Nothnagel, Friedrich Schultze, A.Eulenburg, & L.Landois." Mostly uncut & unopened. Plates are loose and are bundled together, being fixed to the inside bottom wrapper via a ribbed strip of paper. A very good copy. (1) Cohnheim gave a more convincing account than Pepper of the bone-marrow changes in pernicious anemia. (No. 3125.1). (2) Friedreich was the first to describe a form of ataxia ("Friedreich's ataxia"), hereditary, attended with impairment of speech, lateral curvature of the spine, and with paralysis of the muscles of the lower limbs. The titles of the last two papers vary. Garrison-Morton.com No. 4696.

Greetings, 1962-1963 by Dawson's Book Shop

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Title: Greetings, 1962-1963
Author: Dawson's Book Shop
Seller: John Howell for Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Los Angeles, CA: Dawson's Book Shop, 1963. Pamphlet. 4 1/4 x 3 1/8 inches. [ii], (9) pp. Title page printed in red and black inks, with Japanese characters in red; text clean, unmarked. Paste-paper wraps with printed paper front cover label, stitched; binding square and tight. AMRB723-001. Fine. FIRST EDITION, designed, hand-set, hand-printed, and bound by Muir Dawson. Holiday and Season's greetings printed by Muir Dawson for friends of Dawson's Book Shop throughout the world, printed in English, French, Japanese, and German. "For Muir Dawson, printing is for the pleasure of it. 'I do these things because I like to di it once in awhile.' he wrote to an inquisitive collector. He was exposed to fine printing early in life through his father's book shop, and developed his techniques in college. And over the years printing has been a personal hobby and professional support to his main activity as partner and bookseller at Dawson's Book Shop." Robinson, p. 4. PROVENANCE: This copy from the personal collection of Brooke Crutchley, Cambridge University Press Printer from 1946-1974. Crutchley and Muir Dawson were close, sharing professional interests in fine printing for many years. REFERENCE: Stuart Robinson, "The Private Press of Muir Dawson," in Hoja Volante, No. 199, November, 1998, No. 24.

Sticker: "Thank You Diana / Your compassion and care for those with AIDS and breast cancer will not be forgotten"

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Title: Sticker: "Thank You Diana / Your compassion and care for those with AIDS and breast cancer will not be forgotten"
Seller: Gerard Koskovich Queer Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Sticker produced by a private individual in San Fran�cisco in response to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on August 31, 1997. Photocopied in black on coated white Fasson Crack'N Peel Plus sticker paper.In the 1980s, Diana had carried on a high-visibility campaign to support people with AIDS at a time when many treated them as untouchable pariahs. As a result, her death was felt dearly by many LGBTQ peo�ple. In San Fran�cisco, the tragedy even prompted a memorial march from the gay Castro neigh�bor�hood to the British Consulate. The sticker provides a concrete reminder of that symbolic public mour�ning and of the wider context in which it transpired: the long years of trauma and grief from massive losses to the AIDS pandemic.

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Hotel Du Pont Story by SYRES, Harry V.

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Title: Hotel Du Pont Story
Author: SYRES, Harry V.
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780914988076
Condition: Fine
Description: DE: Serendipity, 1984. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fourth edition. Fine in an about Very good dust jacket. Dustwrapper rubbed with tearing along edges and spine.

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