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Relation des missions des PP. de la Compagnie de Iesus dans les isles, & dans la terre ferme de l'Amerique Meridionale. Divisée en deux parties. Avec une introduction à la langue des Galibis Sauvages de la terre ferme de l'Amerique by SOUTH AMERICA CARIBBEAN. Pelleprat, Pierre, S.J. (1606-1667)

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Title: Relation des missions des PP. de la Compagnie de Iesus dans les isles, & dans la terre ferme de l'Amerique Meridionale. Divisée en deux parties. Avec une introduction à la langue des Galibis Sauvages de la terre ferme de l'Amerique
Author: SOUTH AMERICA CARIBBEAN. Pelleprat, Pierre, S.J. (1606-1667)
Seller: Liber Antiquus (United States)
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Description: Paris: Chez S. Cramoisy & G. Cramoisy, 1655. SOLE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. A fine copy in its original binding of 17th c. mottled French calf, spine gilt and with red morocco label (minor wear to the spine.) Fine and fresh with just the occasional small rust spot. Engraved arms of the dedicatee, Nicolas Fouquet, on the second leaf. First edition of this rare relation describing the Jesuit missions in the Caribbean and on the South American mainland, providing one of the earliest systematic accounts of the Lesser Antilles and Guiana. Much of the book is based on the author's firsthand experiences. He describes the foundation of churches, the conversion of enslaved Africans and Indigenous nations, Indigenous culture, the moral and physical trials of evangelization, and the natural history of the islands and mainland. Of special importance is the third part of the work: the author's grammar and vocabulary of the Galibi language, one of the earliest printed studies of a South American Indigenous language. Pelleprat explains the purpose of understanding Galibi: "I have composed a small grammar and vocabulary of the Galibi language, so that our Fathers who shall come after me may speak to these peoples in their own words and more easily win their souls to God." In 1651, Pierre Pelleprat was sent from France to the Antilles, joining Fathers Denys Mesland, François Gueymeu, and Guillaume Aubergeon. The Jesuits served the indigenous Amerindians, enslaved Africans, and Irish and French settlers. Two years later, Pelleprat and Mesland sailed for the mainland, where they established a mission on the Guarapiche River near the Gulf of Paria. After Mesland's departure was, Pelleprat remained alone, continuing his missionary work and studying the local language. Illness forced him to return to the islands in 1654. He petitioned to return to Europe but was denied and instead lived out the remainder of his life in Mexico, dying at Puebla de los Angeles in 1667. The preface outlines the establishment of the Jesuit mission in the French Caribbean following the founding of Martinique and Guadeloupe in 1635. Pelleprat recounts the arrival of the Jesuits and their efforts to learn the native languages in order to communicate doctrine, record confessions, and translate prayers. His descriptions of the climate, geography, and local governance of the islands are accompanied by remarks on Indigenous customs, domestic life, and religious beliefs. Pelleprat portrays the Indigenous inhabitants with clarity and sympathy. They are "without guile or malice... and capable of every good doctrine... They are neither cruel nor treacherous, as some have claimed; rather they are generous and easily moved to affection when treated with kindness." He notes the Galibis skill in painting and weaving: "They take great care in painting their bodies and in making their cotton cloths, which they dye with beautiful colors." The author records local fishing and hunting practices, the use of pirogues (canoes) along the coasts, and the construction of dwellings raised above ground: "They live by fish and roots, in houses built upon poles to guard against the waters and the reptiles." He marvels at the beauty and richness of South America: its landscape, flora and fauna: "the trees of these islands bear fruit twice a year, and the soil is so rich that it needs only to be turned over to yield harvests beyond expectation". The Galibi Language Pelleprat's introduction to the Galibi language is one of the earliest printed attempts to describe and translate a South American Indigenous language. He explains the purpose of understanding Galibi: "I have composed a small grammar and vocabulary of the Galibi language, so that our Fathers who shall come after me may speak to these peoples in their own words and more easily win their souls to God." Pelleprat opens by justifying his study as a means to conversion, writing that "the barbarous nations... are so docile and so well disposed to receive the Gospel that they await only its preaching." His goal is not philological in the modern sense but practical: to prepare future missionaries to communicate Christian doctrine. Even so, his careful observations show an emerging recognition of linguistic structure. He notes that "this language has its own rules, its order, and its way of composing words," an acknowledgment that Amerindian languages were coherent systems rather than the "corrupted" or "primitive" speech often imagined by Europeans. The Introduction proceeds systematically, identifying letters, pronunciation, and basic grammar before offering a brief bilingual vocabulary. Pelleprat outlines nouns, pronouns, and verb forms, and includes everyday expressions drawn from conversation. The vocabulary reveals the priorities of the missionary encounter, pairing religious and material terms: "God" and "Devil," "soul," "heaven," and "earth," alongside "river," "house," and "friend." Through such juxtapositions, the work translates the Christian world into the idiom of local experience. Pelleprat also recognizes the limits of his own learning, admitting that he "has gathered what he could learn from the natives themselves" and that the book is only a "first attempt." The Islands of America Pelleprat opens with the Jesuits' first arrival at Martinique and he describes the founding of chapels, the teaching of catechism, and the first baptisms. When the mission expanded to Guadeloupe and Saint Christopher (St Kitts), he wrote: "we carried with us neither gold nor silver, but the Cross of Christ and a heart desirous only to win souls. With this we founded our first church on the edge of the sea, the waves serving us for organ and bells." (p. 17) Pelleprat relates the successful conversion of enslaved Africans: "for although they have been reared in brutishness, many become so chaste and honest when they are Christians that they would rather die than commit the least indecency." (p. 33) Irish Catholics who had been exiled by the English sought out the Jesuits for Mass and confession, and Pelleprat recounts the secret ministry carried out among them and the extraordinary virtue of an Irish girl raised in disguise to preserve her chastity. "I cannot omit the victory that a young Irish girl won over the weakness of her sex... This girl had come very young to America, and her father, to protect her, had disguised her and raised her in the dress of a boy." (pp. 49-50) Pelleprat explains how conversion altered conduct during epidemics and famine, and the devoutness of the newly converted: "In the time of pestilence, when even the air seemed to breathe death, our new Christians came in great numbers to confession and communion, choosing rather to die reconciled to God than to live without His grace." (p. 47) The Mainland of South America The second section records numerous observations on the geography and natural history of Guiana: "I saw serpents with wings like bats, and fish that fly above the water; trees whose leaves close at night as if they slept, and others that exude milk when cut." (p. 88) "The rivers here are broader than many seas, their waters dark as ink under the forest's shadow. The land breathes a perpetual spring; trees bear fruit without ceasing, and the air is so temperate that one would think Nature had chosen this region for her rest." (p. 60) Pelleprat records the manners, dwellings, and ceremonies of the Guianese nations: "They are of good stature, well-formed, their countenance open and agreeable. Their huts are made of palm leaves, their hammocks of woven cotton, their vessels of baked clay painted with strange figures . . . When we entered their villages, they offered us cassava bread and the drink of their country, pressing us to sit in their hammocks, which they esteem as the greatest courtesy." (p. 67-69) Chapter VI outlines the political and moral order of Indigenous societies. Government, Pelleprat notes, is communal and tempered by reason: "Their government is gentle; they obey the oldest or the bravest, and all decisions are taken in council, with much shouting but little injustice." (p. 92) "When one dies, they burn his hammock and his weapons, believing that he will find them again beyond the river of souls." (p. 93).

Hand-Painted Original Postcards by Antoni. de P. Rigau Tolosa

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Title: Hand-Painted Original Postcards
Author: Antoni. de P. Rigau Tolosa
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Description: Barcelona, 1910. Very Good +. Wonderful collection of 32 hand-drawn and painted postcards, housed in clear plastic sleeves mounted within a period brown-cloth album and, as such, are easily removable (and begging to be displayed). Created by Barcelona artist Antoni de P. Rigau Tolosa (b. 1886), these enchanting cards, post-marked between 1908-1910, bear frequent illustrated cut-outs mounted atop images that capture either the Art Nouveau style of the period, or use images and scenes particular to a resident of Catalonia. Rigau was a highly-skilled illustrator best known for his fiesta posters.

Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn, with Life and Memoirs (in 6 vols.) by Behn, Mrs. Aphra

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Title: Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn, with Life and Memoirs (in 6 vols.)
Author: Behn, Mrs. Aphra
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: John Pearson, 1871. First Thus. Facsimile reprint edition of the 1724 third edition of the Plays and 1735 edition of the Novels. Finely bound by Sotherans in half speckled calf with ornate gilt and morocco to spines. Top edges brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Morocco bookplates of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedowns of each; bookseller's ticket of W. G. Foyle to rear pastedown of each. Measuring 105 x 175mm each. Complete, including frontis. Internally fresh and unmarked. A lovely example with trivial wear, most noticeably to the upper front corner of volume II and the spine ends of volume IV. Most often noted as the first professional woman playwright in England, Aphra Behn used her literary works to promote the employment of women (casting a notably higher percentage of actresses than her male contemporaries), to depict the social and economic precarity of women in her time, and to present women writers as equal in intelligence and irreverence to men. Here, her works are beautifully drawn together; and then as now, they offer a new generation the opportunity to witness her genius.

AMERICAN SCENERY; or, Land, Lake, and River. Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature by WILLIS, N. P

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Title: AMERICAN SCENERY; or, Land, Lake, and River. Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature
Author: WILLIS, N. P
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Description: London: George Virtue, 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. Endpapers foxed, plates generally clean with some light to moderate foxing, mainly in the margins. Light wear to bindings with rubbing, mostly to the joints; covers tight. Very Good. W. H. Bartlett. Two 8-1/4" x 10-3/4" volumes in publisher's gilt-decorated full green morocco leather, all edges gilt. Beautifully illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait and map, 2 engraved title-pages, and 117 steel engravings after W. H. Bartlett, all with tissue guards.

ROBERT WISE DIRECTS | ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (1959) Set of 2 BTS photos by United Artists

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Title: ROBERT WISE DIRECTS | ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (1959) Set of 2 BTS photos
Author: United Artists
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Description: United Artists. No binding. Fine. [New York]: United Artists, 1959. Set of two (2) vintage original 8 x 10"" (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white print still photos, fine. Multi-talented director Robert Wise managed to create classic films in virtually every film genre and, as to noir, Odds Against Tomorrow is one of four films noir that he directed. Here we have one behind-the-scenes image of Wise working with Harry Belafonte and Kim Hamilton, and another of him standing behind the camera as the crew looks on.

Hints to Servants; Being a Political and Modernised Version of Dean Swift's Celebrated "Directions to Servants," in Which Something is Added to the Original Text, but Those Passages are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Kitchen by BY AN UPPER SERVANT

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Title: Hints to Servants; Being a Political and Modernised Version of Dean Swift's Celebrated "Directions to Servants," in Which Something is Added to the Original Text, but Those Passages are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Kitchen
Author: BY AN UPPER SERVANT
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Description: London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1843. Leather bound. Very good +. Kenny MEADOWS. 12mo; 76pp; gilt stamped contemporary calf, 5 banded spine, red leather label, gutters and spine professionally restored; dark teal endpapers; inside dentelles; original cloth front wrapper bound in after text; light scattered foxing to verso free endpapers and fly leaves, small scratch to front board leather; very good plus. A humorous and satirical poetical work about the life of servants referring back to Jonathan's Swift's (1667-1745) essay.

THE BEATLES' YELLOW SUBMARINE CALENDAR 1969

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Title: THE BEATLES' YELLOW SUBMARINE CALENDAR 1969
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Description: NY: King Features / Golden Press, 1968. 1st Edition. No Binding. Fine. An unused copy. In the style of, but not, Peter Max, the 12-sheet (each 12.25 square), spiral-bound calendar measures 24.5 x 12.5 if it were wall displayed. In illustrated envelope, designed to be used as a mailer. The calendar has been re-issued over the years; 1969 was its first appearance.

A digital computer for scientific applications. In Proceedings of the IRE 36, no. 12. Original printed wrappers. Very good copy by West, C. F.; J. E. DeTurk

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Title: A digital computer for scientific applications. In Proceedings of the IRE 36, no. 12. Original printed wrappers. Very good copy
Author: West, C. F.; J. E. DeTurk
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Report of the Special Committee on the Disposal of the Public Lands of the United States in California by ANDERSON, A., et al

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Title: Report of the Special Committee on the Disposal of the Public Lands of the United States in California
Author: ANDERSON, A., et al
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Description: [n.p., n.p.]. 1852., 1852. 6 1/2" x 10". 35 pages stitched together, uncut and unopened. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. In the Senate, Session of 1852. Presented February 5, 1852. Printed by Eugene Casserly, State Printer. The other committee members were: Jacob R. Snyder, James Walsh, S.C. Foster and James M. Estill.. No Binding. Very Good.

Coroner's Inquest Cold Spring Harbor NY -Queens County July 16, 1859 regarding the death of Scudder? Lewis

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Title: Coroner's Inquest Cold Spring Harbor NY -Queens County July 16, 1859 regarding the death of Scudder? Lewis
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CIRCLES CYCLES IN THE AIR by Turgut A. Akter

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Title: CIRCLES CYCLES IN THE AIR
Author: Turgut A. Akter
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ISBN: 9780533101726
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Description: New York: Vantage Press, 1992. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing of Turgut Akter’s book of poetry, Circles Cycles In The Air. Previous owner’s name and rust stain from a staple on the front endpapers. Else no marks. Very Good dustjacket, with minor shelfwear. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

Shaker Life, Art and Architecute: Hands to Work, Hearts to God by Swank, Scott T

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Title: Shaker Life, Art and Architecute: Hands to Work, Hearts to God
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Description: New York: Abbeville Press, [1999] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. With 250 illustrations, including 150 in color. Fine in fine d.j.

"On the Connection Between the Cluster Model and the SU[3] Coupling Scheme for Particles in a Harmonic Oscillator Potential." Offprint from: Amsterdam, Nuclear Physics, 9, 1958-59. by BAYMAN, B. F. [Benjamin]; Aage BOHR (1922-2009).

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Title: "On the Connection Between the Cluster Model and the SU[3] Coupling Scheme for Particles in a Harmonic Oscillator Potential." Offprint from: Amsterdam, Nuclear Physics, 9, 1958-59.
Author: BAYMAN, B. F. [Benjamin]; Aage BOHR (1922-2009).
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Description: Amsterdam:: Amsterdam, Nuclear Physics, 1959., 1959. 8vo. pp. 596-599. Self wraps. Very good. It is shown that the cluster model of Wildermuth and Kanellopoulos provides an alternative description of certain states in the SU3 coupling scheme of Elliott. The author was associated with the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Copenhagen. "With the help of a Fulbright Scholarship, I then did graduate work in physics at the University of Edinburgh, where I earned my PhD. From 1956 through 1960, I was a Ford Foundation Fellow at the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen. From 1960 through 1965, I worked in the Physics Department of Princeton University, as Research Associate, Lecturer, and Assistant Professor. In 1965, I joined the Physics faculty of the University of Minnesota as an Associate Professor, and was promoted to Professor in 1968. I retired in 2000. I continue to do research in theoretical nuclear physics, mostly in collaboration with colleagues at the Universities of Padua and Milan." Aage Niels Bohr was a Danish nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 with Ben Roy Mottelson and James Rainwater "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection". WITH: BAYMAN, B. F. "A Derivation of the Pairing-Correlation Method." Offprint from: Amsterdam, Nuclear Physics, 15, 1960. 8vo. pp. 33-38. Self wraps. Very good.

[General strike handbill against Scott Walker's anti-labor bill]

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Title: [General strike handbill against Scott Walker's anti-labor bill]
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Description: [Wisconsin]: [Unlimited Wild General Strike?], 2011. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill calling for a general strike against Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker's anti-labor legislation. Handbill takes aim at those who only promote sanctioned protests instead calling for an unlimited wild general strike.

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