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[Photo Album Depicting Native Americans at the Rosebud Indian Agency] by Anderson, J[ohn] A[lvin]

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Title: [Photo Album Depicting Native Americans at the Rosebud Indian Agency]
Author: Anderson, J[ohn] A[lvin]
Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: South Dakota, 1893. Very good. 6¾” x 11¼”. Steel post binder with contemporary semiwraparound enclosure made of thick wood boards, held together with a calf backstrip. 25 thick card leaves, most of which are interleaved with typing paper with a total of 50 albumen photographs glued down, one per page. Photos measure 4 3/8” x 7 5/8” and 39 are captioned in the negative, though a few are hard to read. Album very good: moderate wear, leaves a bit wavy; photos generally near fine or better. This is an album of large photographs depicting the Sioux at the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation (RSIR, also known as the “Rosebud Agency”) in South Dakota. The album also features some of the early work of an important photographer who dedicated his life to documenting the Rosebud Sioux, John Alvin Anderson. According to an article by Claes H. Jacobson, Anderson emigrated from Sweden at the age of one in 1870, and his family eventually settled, in 1883, in Sparks, Nebraska, close to the border of South Dakota and near RSIR. (“John Anderson: A Swedish Immigrant and Pioneer Photographer among the Rosebud Sioux Indians” (Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, v. 60, no. 2: Swedish-American Historical Society (April 2009)). John became a carpenter as a teenager and purchased his first camera in the mid-1880s. Per Jacobson, “At this time . . . John became an apprentice to [a local photographer]. Unfortunately, no exact date has been found to confirm exactly when John took his first photographs, but it was probably around 1885.” Anderson also started collecting Lakota artifacts around this time and ultimately spent forty-five years on the reservation. Over that period Anderson built a collection that led to his becoming a museum curator for its exhibition, though he sold the collection to the BIA in 1938. Per Jacobsen, Anderson's “interest in photography on Rosebud Reservation was an important part of his life . . . there he met daily with tribal members in the store, learned to speak the Lakota language, became close friends with many of them, and developed opportunities to photograph them in his small studio or in outdoor settings. His photographs, taken between the mid-1880s and the late 1920s show not only the Sioux of the past but also what he witnessed of their daily activities in the transitional years.” Anderson ultimately issued two photobooks on the Sioux, 1896's “Among the Sioux,” and “Sioux Memory Gems,” published in 1929 and including poems from Anderson's wife, Myrtle. With a few exceptions, all of the photos here depict Sioux and/or their living conditions. Per Jacobsen, Anderson recorded visiting Rosebud in May and June 1889 when the Sioux Land Commission visited for a “Great Council” with General George Crook. Crook then hired Anderson to take photos of Sioux for $20, thereby establishing him as a professional photographer. The few dated photos here show either 1889 or 1893. Jacobson pointed out that Anderson's existing notebooks mention that he was hanging around the reservation's corral and witnessed a slaughter of cattle in June 1889 and that in July he witnessed “Indians . . . dancing all day in spite of the hot weather,” allowing for the inference that some of the undated dancing and allotment photos mentioned below were taken as early as 1889. According to Jacobson, “The Rosebud Sioux, or Sicangu Lakota Oyate (Burnt Thigh People), or Brule Sioux, as they are also known, are part of the larger Teton Sioux group who once lived as nomads and hunters on the prairies of central North America from about the 1750s until the mid-nineteenth century . . . by the beginning of the 1880s, the buffalo had been virtually wiped out. The last buffalo hunt of the Sioux took place in 1882 and thereafter a lifestyle and livelihood disappeared. As part of peace treaties between the Sioux and the United States government, the Sioux were forced onto a number of reservations, including the one at Rosebud in south central South Dakota, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs became responsible for providing the Sioux with meat to prevent mass starvation. Large herds of cattle were driven from Texas to the reservations in South Dakota to be slaughtered in corrals . . . Between 1890 and 1915, the Rosebud Reservation was home to some 5,000 Sioux.” Approximately 15 photos relate to cattle and/or allotments. More than one shows huge crowds of hundreds, if not thousands, of Sioux on horses and with covered wagons awaiting receipt of supplies. One shows several men butchering a steer and there's a great shot of a lone woman with her horse, surrounded by dogs, with the caption, “Sioux Squaw on way home from beef issue.” Another shows a series of tipis in the foreground with the slaughter and issue house in the background, while several show men working with cattle in the corrals themselves. At least ten show Sioux around their homes. These include a great shot of a woman tanning a hide, while another shows two women preparing a meal. Another amazing shot shows a family sitting outside their tipi with much of their belongings off to one side and what appears to be hides drying on wooden poles. At least 12 photos depict dances/religious ceremonies. Two of these are captioned “Squaw Dance.” One shows a large crowd watching a single dancer with the caption “War Dance,” another with the same caption shows several dancers. One captions reads “Sioux Indians Dancing the Omaha,” another reads “Scalp Dance,” a third reads “White Buffalo Dance.” There's also a shot of a log and mud structure captioned “Sioux Indian Dance House.” Other images include the Sioux mounted police force and a great birdseye view of a large swath of the reservation. One, with a caption, “Modern Indian Village,” shows several buildings made of cut logs alongside a few tipis. The Nebraska State Historical Society has a collection of Anderson Rosebud photographs but they are otherwise institutionally rare and a collection of 22 photos sold at Cowan's in 2020. Exceptional images documenting the Sioux during a significant time of transition at Rosebud and taken by a photographer who spent much of his life preserving their culture.

The patient's dilemma: The quest for medical security in America. Inscribed copy by Cabot, Hugh

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Title: The patient's dilemma: The quest for medical security in America. Inscribed copy
Author: Cabot, Hugh
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1940. Cabot, Hugh (1872-1945). The patient's dilemma: The quest for medical security in America. x, [2], 284pp. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1940. 204 x 135 mm. Original cloth, spine faded, lower extremity frayed. Very good. Presentation Copy, inscribed by Cabot on the front endpaper: "To Curtis Bok Esq. With kindest regards Hugh Cabot." First Edition. Cabot, Professor of Surgery at the Mayo Clinic, was a strong advocate of group medical practice and of establishing a partnership between the federal government, medical schools and hospitals to combat the problem of providing health care to low-income and poor Americans. In the present work Cabot discusses some of the socio-economic issues affecting medical care, such as the impact of scientific discoveries (which often drive up the price of care), the need for medical security, the advantages of organized or group medical practice as opposed to individual practice, and the role of government and voluntary agencies in shaping medical care. The recipient of this copy was Curtis Bok (1897-1962), a Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice and philanthropist. Garrison-Morton.com 13352. .

Die Anaesthetica. (unbound) by Tauber, Eduard

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Title: Die Anaesthetica. (unbound)
Author: Tauber, Eduard
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Description: Berlin: Hirschwald, 1881. (235 x 159 mm). 116 pp. "Tauber, E. 1881." written in pen at the top of the title page. Library stamp on title-page. Very good.

REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE, AND ON THE PROCEEDINGS IN CERTAIN SOCIETIES IN LONDON, RELATIVE TO THAT EVENT. IN A LETTER INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN SENT TO A GENTLEMAN IN PARIS by Burke, Edmund

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Title: REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE, AND ON THE PROCEEDINGS IN CERTAIN SOCIETIES IN LONDON, RELATIVE TO THAT EVENT. IN A LETTER INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN SENT TO A GENTLEMAN IN PARIS
Author: Burke, Edmund
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: Philadelphia: D. Humphreys, for Young, Dobson, Carey, and Rice, 1792. 256pp. Lacking boards. Light to moderate foxing, Good+. "One of the most brilliant of polemics" [PMM]. Although Burke had supported the American Revolution, the slaughter and excesses of the French Revolution were more than Burke could stomach. This is the best book written in opposition to that Revolution. This second American edition was printed after the 1791 New York. The first edition issued from London in 1790. Evans 24157. Bristol B7946. Shipton & Mooney 46401. Printing and the Mind of Man 239. Todd, Burke 53gg. Grolier 100, 63.

Jeff in Petticoats. A Song for the Times by [Civil War – Political Satire – Sheet Music] Cooper, George; Tucker, Henry; Eno, Henry [illustrator]

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Title: Jeff in Petticoats. A Song for the Times
Author: [Civil War – Political Satire – Sheet Music] Cooper, George; Tucker, Henry; Eno, Henry [illustrator]
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Condition: Typical light age toning and minor edge wear; very good example with strong impression, remnants of string at spine, removed fro
Description: New York: Wm. A. Pond & Co, 1865. Folio sheet music, lithographed pictorial cover. 6 pp. (including cover). 9.5 x 12.25 inches. Typical light age toning and minor edge wear; very good example with strong impression, remnants of string at spine, removed from a larger volume.. A vivid piece of end-of-war political satire commemorating the capture of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, whose attempted escape in May 1865 quickly became the subject of popular ridicule in Northern newspapers and song sheets. The cover lithograph depicts Davis fleeing through a wooded encampment while dressed in women’s clothing, a reference to widely circulated reports that he attempted to evade Union troops by donning a shawl or petticoats; in truth, he had borrowed a shawl from his wife. Behind him a Union soldier points in recognition while onlookers react with amusement. The music was written by Henry Tucker, a prolific mid-nineteenth-century songwriter known for sentimental and topical pieces, with lyrics by George Cooper, one of the most active American lyricists of the period and collaborator with composers such as Stephen Foster and J. R. Thomas. Together they produced a number of patriotic and topical songs during the Civil War years. The myth of Davis in women’s clothing was represented a few different ways, though this large lithographic illustration, done by Henry C. Eno, is possibly the most iconic.

Autograph Letter Signed, Aug. 11-14 [1830?] to Samuel Freeman, Saratoga Springs, New York by Taylor, John W. (1784-1854)

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Title: Autograph Letter Signed, Aug. 11-14 [1830?] to Samuel Freeman, Saratoga Springs, New York
Author: Taylor, John W. (1784-1854)
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description: Quarto, three pages, plus stamp less address leaf. Significant letter with several faults: Lacking a first page or pages written at an earlier date than the remaining text. Band of staining across all 3 pages some holes in the paper, affecting signature and 3 or 4 lines of text on each page with the loss of several words. 1830s Former Speaker of the House of Representatives recalls the transition from the John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson Administrations and the "folly to which demagogues would lead the people." "Aug. 11. If the gravity of the last page needs apology, you see by the date it is a Sunday exercise and gravity can not be unsuitable to one obliged to say with Job in affiliation 'I am made to possess months of vanity and wearisome nights are appointed to me.' But while I write Sarah Jane comes with Album in hand and asks if I remember the Jubilee party [50th anniversary of Independence], at the same tire presenting a memorial of a meeting sufficiently joyful, however, otherwise some reflections may now be arising from it. After the public exercises were over in which I made an oration acceptable to my friends, you with a few others came in the evening to close the celebration in my drawing room. In the course of conversation it was proposed all should write their names that it might be seen how many could be found at the next Jubilee. Sarah Janes album was honored with the entry as follows 'Jubilee July 4, 1826 Samuel Freeman MD, Anson Brown [long list of names]… The simple copy tells a tale of grave import. In reviewing the past I find some political errors among these I reckon my refusal to be a candidate for nomination as governor. I preferred remaining in Congress, thinking it necessary to secure the election of Mr. Adams, as it proved in fact to be . Without the vote of the Saratoga district N.Y. would have been divided. With it my constant and earnest efforts barely saved the state. This event then considered so important to the country was likely injurious. As Jackson was to be President, it probably would have been less injurious in 1825 than 4 years after when his passions had become heated by the protracted contest. At the first period he would have fallen into the hands of safe counsellors. Mr. Adams honored me by asking my advice whether if Jackson was elected he ought to remain secretary of state. To which I said yes with good reasons. Clay too might have occupied an eminent post. And even Calhoun saved from the comet course of disappointed ambition. In my last conversation with Calhoun he attributed the political calamities of the country to the error above mentioned. But we acted uprightly and did not foresee the folly to which demagogues would lead the people. Again. In the office of governor I should have exerted the proper influence of the station to prevent or at least to postpone mad projects which have involved N.Y.in debt, until the enlargement of the Erie canal was completed. This last work can not be delayed without serious injury from the competition of the Welland, Pennsylvania and Chesapeake & Ohio canals. I might enlarge but am admonished to forbear. With all my offences and imperfections, this comfort remains. My conscience acquits me of any vote or act against the public good or the very right of the case, according to my judgment after diligent examination or any neglect to vote in Congress or the legislature. Nor can I recollect any offence growing out of envy, hatred or revenge. The prosperity of others has always given me pleasure and I have forborne to retaliate injuries against my bitter enemies when effectual means were in my hands; feeling how much I needed forgiveness of God I sought to practice it towards others. If I have been saved from this class of offences I attribute it under Providence in a good degree to the wise counsels of my excellent mother who in early youth impressed my mind with a horror of malignant passions by shewing their natural tendency to lead to the catastrophy exhibited by Cain. Her counsels were forceably brought to mind by a toast given at the semicentennial celebration at Union college. 'The lectures delivered form the chair of a pious sensible mother.' These I have felt from experience constitute the best part of education. The toast is form memory not literal but the substance of Bishop Doane's remarks and sentiments I fear you will find this epistle very tedious. From day to day I have taken en in hand as I felt able to write a few lines. By concentrating the vision and partly by habit I make out to write that, which it is more difficult to read for correction. I therefore send it with all its errors… Aug. 14 P.S.Owing to some mistake Mrs. C. left without [?] Oscar is to be here in a few days on his way to NY and will take it. We now have a visit from my nephew Elisha T. and his wife and Ann Eliza Holllister. Mr H has left Burnt Hills and has a fine farm in Elba Gennessee Co. 7 m. from Batavia. I hear that Mrs C makes her first visit at Glens Falls and returns hence to Saratoga. Her mother well remembers Mrs GF before marriage. The Western Reserve College at the village of Hudson near this keeps up the New England custom of having the commencement proceeded by aconcio ad clerum address to the clergy, herewith I send a page noticing the address of Mr. C. the medical department of the College is stablished in this city, where the U.S. are no erecting a hospital on a spacious lot, years since purchasing it for the purpose. Aug. 21" John W. Taylor was in his fifties when he wrote this retrospective letter, recalling his years of service as Speaker of the US House of Representatives in the 1820s, during which he saw John Quincy Adams defeated for the Presidency by Andrew Jackson (that being the foundation of the two-party political system in America), guided the Missouri Compromise through the Congress and was boldly critical of his southern colleagues who insisted that Slavery was essential to their existence. After leaving Congress, he returned to his law practice in upstate New York, at which time he wrote his retrospective letter. John W. Taylor (March 26, 1784 – September 18, 1854) was an early 19th-century U.S. politician from New York. He served twice as speaker of the House of Representatives. Taylor was born in 1784 in that part of the Town of Ballston, then in Albany County, New York, which was, upon the creation of Saratoga County in 1791, split off to form the Town of Charlton. He received his first education at home. Taylor graduated from Union College in 1803 as valedictorian of his class. Then he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1807, and practiced in Ballston Spa, New York. In 1806, he married Jane Hodge (died 1838), of Albany, New York, and they had eight children. He was a member from Saratoga County of the New York State Assembly in 1812 and 1812–13. Taylor served in the United States House of Representatives for 20 years, from 1813 to 1833, and was twice elected as Speaker of the House: in 1820 and in 1825. In 1819, he supported the proposed Tallmadge Amendment regarding the Missouri Territory's admission to the Union as a free state (which passed the House, but was defeated in the Senate), and was a staunch proponent of the subsequent Missouri Compromise of March 1820. During the floor debate on the Tallmadge Amendment, Taylor boldly criticized southern lawmakers who frequently voiced their dismay that slavery was entrenched and necessary to their existence. After leaving Congress, Taylor resumed his law practice in Ballston Spa, and was a member of the New York State Senate (4th D.) in 1841 and 1842. He resigned his seat on August 19, 1842, after suffering a paralytic stroke. In 1843, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, to live with his eldest daughter and her husband William D. Beattie and died there 11 years later.[2] He was buried in the Ballston Spa Village Cemetery.

GEORGETOWN COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURE - WISCONSIN AVENUE by (WASHINGTON DC)

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Title: GEORGETOWN COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURE - WISCONSIN AVENUE
Author: (WASHINGTON DC)
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Description: (WASHINGTON DC) GEORGETOWN COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURE - WISCONSIN AVENUE. Washington: Commission of Fine Arts, 1967. 4to. Wrappers, comb binding. 108 pages. First edition. Including the West Washington Hotel, the John Lutz House, and Grace Episcopal Church. Very good.

Eroticism in Western Art by Lucie-Smith, Edward

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Title: Eroticism in Western Art
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The Mapmakers. by WILFORD, John Noble.

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Title: The Mapmakers.
Author: WILFORD, John Noble.
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Description: New York:: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981., 1981. Fourth printing. 242 x 170 mm. 8vo. xi, 414 pp. Maps, figs., bibliog., index. Brown cloth-backed tan boards, printed dust jacket; jacket worn. Very good.

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