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[COOK'S FIRST VOYAGE]. An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: Drawn Up From the journals which were kept by the several Commanders, And from the Papers of Joeph Banks, Esq. [3 volumes] by [CAPTAIN COOK]. Hawkesworth, John.

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Title: [COOK'S FIRST VOYAGE]. An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: Drawn Up From the journals which were kept by the several Commanders, And from the Papers of Joeph Banks, Esq. [3 volumes]
Author: [CAPTAIN COOK]. Hawkesworth, John.
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
Description: Cook's First Voyage Accounts of the not-yet-famous Cook [Three Volumes]. Quarto. 12 x 9 inches. [20], xxxvi, [4], 456 + [4] xiv, 410 + [4], 395, [3]. 52 charts and plates, collated complete. Original calf rebacked in antique style calf, maroon leather spine labels, marbled endpapers. Library bookplates in front cover of each volume, oval library stamps on verso of folding frontis map, title page, and p. 3 of vol. I, on title page and p. 1 of vol. II, on title page and p. 7 of vol. III. Small chip to bottom edge of one plate in Vol. II, not affecting image, closed tear to large folding map in vol. III. A few minor dampstains to top edge, some light offsetting from plates. General wear to covers and corners. Overall, a very good set, internally quite bright and crisp. Second edition, published the same year as the first. Considered the best edition (by Hill). Includes the chart of the Straight of Magellan that the first edition does not. Also includes a preface to the second edition containing a reply from Hawkesworth to a letter from Mr. Dalrymple about some groundless imputations in his account of the late voyages to the South Seas. The official account of the first voyage of the not-yet-famous Cook, as prepared by Hawkesworth, upon commission of the British Admirality. The voyage was primarily scientific in nature, intending to sail to Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus, calculate the distance of the earth from the sun, and to continue the geographical discovery begun by Byron. After leaving Tahiti, Cook discovered, named, and charted the Society Islands, then continued on to New Zealand and Australia. The first volume contains narratives of the voyages of Byron, Wallis, and Carteret, while the second and third volume relates to Cook. [Beddie: 650; Hill: 783; Sabin: 30934].

Fields of Wonder (Presentation copy) by Hughes, Langston

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Title: Fields of Wonder (Presentation copy)
Author: Hughes, Langston
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Marion - who finds the world a field of wonder for her lens - Sincerely, Langston, Atlanta University, March 17, 1947." A Very Good copy in like dust jacket. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Spine slightly rubbed, extremities bumped; jacket unclipped, spine and folds browned, extremities lightly worn with a few small chips. The recipient, Marion Palfi (1907 - 1978), was a photographer who fled to the US from Germany as a refugee during the Second World War. She befriended Hughes in Harlem shortly after her arrival, and he invited her to speak to his class at Atlanta University in 1947, where he was teaching his first semester as Visiting Professor of Creative Writing (see Rampersad, p. 128). Palfi photographed Harlem Renaissance writers throughout the 1940s: her portraits are featured in Arna Bontemps's who's who of Black America, We Have Tomorrow (1945), and several of her photographs of Hughes are held among the poet's papers at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Her photographs also featured in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1950, and she won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967. Arnold Rampersad, The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II, 1941-1967, 1988.

[In Greek:] EIKON BASILIKE. [Then:] THE POURTRAICTURE OF HIS SACRED MAJESTIE IN HIS SOLITUDES AND SUFFERINGS. [with] A PERFECT COPIE OF PRAYERS USED BY HIS MAJESTIE IN THE TIME OF HIS SUFFERINGS by (CHARLES I). [GAUDEN, JOHN]

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Title: [In Greek:] EIKON BASILIKE. [Then:] THE POURTRAICTURE OF HIS SACRED MAJESTIE IN HIS SOLITUDES AND SUFFERINGS. [with] A PERFECT COPIE OF PRAYERS USED BY HIS MAJESTIE IN THE TIME OF HIS SUFFERINGS
Author: (CHARLES I). [GAUDEN, JOHN]
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: [London]: s.n., 1648 [but 1649]. 162 x 98 mm. (6 3/8 x 3 7/8"). 3 p.l., 208, 107-154, 255-302, [16] pp. (pagination irregular, but text complete). Attractive early 19th century red pebble-grain morocco, gilt, covers with double rule border, frame of lancet and volute tools, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with saltire formed by lancet tools, gilt lettering, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With a folding engraved portrait of Charles I kneeling in prayer, signed by Guil. Marshall. Front flyleaf and title page with ink owner inscription of Robert Bridge; title page with faded ink signature of Joseph MacIntyre. Almack 15; Madan 21; Wing E-283; ESTC R29848. Covers with trivial soiling, frontispiece faintly browned (and with two tiny chips and a short wormtrail), title leaf backed and slightly soiled, first half of the book with faint, narrow vertical dampstain to fore margin, last three pages lightly soiled and with a few small ink trials, but still a very good copy of a book normally found in poor shape, the text quite fresh, and the later binding with only insignificant signs of use. Nicely bound and opening with a fine and touching engraving, this is an early printing of a work purporting to be the meditations of Charles I, recorded during the Great Rebellion and originally published shortly before his execution, with copies actually being offered for sale on the day of his demise. Afterwards, the strong popular appeal of the book prompted repeated printings, produced, as Almack notes, "amidst dangers and difficulties.” Despite those fraught conditions at the press, Almack observes that "the engraved plate [in our volume] is in a fine early impression." And he mentions that the final Prayers of the Sovereign near the end of our volume--which are not listed in the table of contents and are not present in all copies--were specially printed for this edition. The work's musings on Parliament, religion, battle, family, and death present the portrait of a troubled, conscientious, and virtuous king. Royalists maintained that they saw the manuscript in the hands of the monarch, but soon after publication, a rumor began to circulate that it was the work of the ecclesiastic John Gauden (the book concludes with an epitaph for Charles I signed by "I. H."). Perhaps Gauden (1605-62) came into possession of a manuscript penned by the king, but similarities of the text here to Gauden's other writings suggest that he injected much of his own belief into the present text. Whoever the author, the book was most effective in establishing the murdered king as a martyr. Dismayed, Parliament recruited Milton to present a point-by-point answer, issued in his scathing 1649 "Eikonoklastes"--a work that got the author arrested when the monarchy was restored in 1660. Dean of Essex during the English Civil War, Gauden was initially sympathetic to republican demands, but he became more and more doubtful of the merits of the rebellion as it progressed. The execution of the anointed king was the breaking point for him, and he denounced Cromwell as a murderer. After Charles II was again installed on the throne, Gauden was given the bishopric of Worcester as a reward for his support of the restored order..

James A. Garfield Electioneering: ""Our victories have justified our fondest hopes and now I believe that 1880 is within our grasp if we act wisely"" by James A. Garfield

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Title: James A. Garfield Electioneering: ""Our victories have justified our fondest hopes and now I believe that 1880 is within our grasp if we act wisely""
Author: James A. Garfield
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 10/11/1879. He would get elected to the Senate seat, but before he could take that seat, he was elected presidentIn 1879, James A. Garfield had been in the House of Representatives for nearly 16 years, and he emerged as the primary Republican voice in the House against Democrats who attempted to attach riders to appropriations bills to eliminate oversight of federal elections in the South. Moreover, his powerful March 29, 1879, speech defending federalism unified the Republican party, securing his reputation and elevating him as a potential presidential contender for the 1880 election. So by late 1879, there was significant talk among top Republicans and in the press regarding Garfield as a presidential candidate.Initially, however, Garfield was looking toward the open U.S. Senate seat from Ohio, and many supporters and newspapers were encouraging him to seek that post. Garfield wanted the seat, but as was common then, he was unwilling to campaign on his own behalf, leaving the matter to his Republican allies, with some of whom he maintained a correspondence. He was eventually elected to the Senate seat by the Ohio Legislature in 1880, and would have taken that seat in early 1881 had he not been elected to another position in the fall of 1880: twentieth President of the United States.Autograph letter signed, Mentor, OH, November 10, 1879 to Jonathan T. Updegraff, a Ohio Republican Congressman and backer of Garfield, gauging his support for the Senate seat. “My Dear Updegraff, Your kind letter of the 16th came when I was half dead with the fatigue of our fight, & before I was able to catch up with our correspondence, I had to leave for N.Y. and did not return until last evening.“Our victories have justified our fondest hopes and now I believe that 1880 is within our grasp if we act wisely. I have had no time to look into the Senatorial question, except as I have picked up the flying comments of the newspapers, and except also the fact that quite a number of the members elect to the legislature. I shall be glad to hear from you fully and confidentially on the subject. Do you know the attitude of Hollingsworth? I see in his interview with the Enquirer correspondent of Oct. 25th he was for Danforth. Is D. a candidate? Please tell me also what you hear of Pond, Franie, and the members from Morgan and Muskingum [counties]. My friends who have looked into the subject somewhat carefully think they know of 52 members and Senators who are for me. How much is Dennison doing? Do you know what is the basis of his hope? With pleasant memories of my stay at your home, and of our journies together, I am…J.A. Garfield. P.S. I go to Washington on Saturday next. J.A.G.” With the envelope still present. The Dennison referenced was William Dennison, who did indeed run for the Senate post to which Garfield was elected.A very interesting piece of electioneering by Garfield, as he reaches out to a supporter to determine the depth and scope of his support for the U.S. Senate.

[Photo Album]: Canadian Photography

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Title: [Photo Album]: Canadian Photography
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quebec, 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. Oblong octavo measuring 9" x 5.5". String-tied gray paper boards with "snapshots landscape" stamped in white on the front board. Contains 94 sepia-toned or black and white gelatin silver photographs most measuring 3" x 4" with captions. Very good album with some spotting, bowed boards, and edgewear with near fine photographs. A photo album compiled by a Canadian man in Quebec with an eye for photography. The early images show scenes in a forest captioned “in the woods” and “on the Bridle Path.” Other images show landscape views of the area including mountain roads, rolling hills, tree-lined paths, and a nearby cemetery. A running theme throughout the album are various fires that he compiler seemed interested in. He captions them “St. Louis Fire,” “Fire Colonial Ave.”, “St. Antoine Street Fire,” and “McGill Fire” and features photography of the fire department and billowing smoke. It seems he had a fascination with fire and murder scenes, with a caption reading “where man was killed.” One section of images shows a military parade on Sherbrooke St. The final pages feature a well-dressed family camping along a lake with photos of picnicking, canoeing, and setting up tents. An interesting collection of turn-of-the-century photography with an emphasis on landscape and disaster scenes.

I Giuochi Numerici Fatti Arcana Palesati by ALBERTI, GIUSEPPE ANTONIO.

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Title: I Giuochi Numerici Fatti Arcana Palesati
Author: ALBERTI, GIUSEPPE ANTONIO.
Seller: Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Venice: Presso Giuseppe Orlandelli per la dita del fu Francesco Di Niccolo Pezzana, 1795. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 16 engraved plates. Modern cloth backed paper boards. Scattered spotting, but still a most servicable copy of a scarce magic book.

Original Cartoon Art. Little LuLu Original sketch signed by BUELL, MARJORIE "LITTLE LULU

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Title: Original Cartoon Art. Little LuLu Original sketch signed
Author: BUELL, MARJORIE "LITTLE LULU
Seller: Schulson Autographs (United States)
Description: Little Lulu Original Art Signed Marge for Marjorie Buell. Buell, the creator of Little Lulu, drew a brightly colored water color sketch of her popular and long lasting character. The cartoonist's charming sketch shows to the right of her greeting, "Best Wishes from Little LuLu and Marge." The sketch measures about 2 x 2 inches on a 5 1/2 x 3 inch government postcard, postmarked Upper Darby, Oct. 11, 1938, two years after Little Lulu was first published in the "Saturday Evening Post." Buell, who used the pen name Marge, created the popular comic strip series for "The Saturday Evening Post." Little LuLu made her first appearance in the Post in 1935 and continued to be drawn by Buell until 1947. Based on the success of the comic strip and aimed at a young audience, in 1944 Paramount brought Little LuLu to the movie screen in animated shorts. The LuLu animated movie cartoon ended in the 1960s but continued on television.

Autograph Letter Signed, Philadelphia March 22, 1794 to Jasper Yeates, Lancaster by Kittera, John Wilkes (1752-1801)

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Title: Autograph Letter Signed, Philadelphia March 22, 1794 to Jasper Yeates, Lancaster
Author: Kittera, John Wilkes (1752-1801)
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Folio, two pages inscribed on a four page bi-folium, paper browned, some paper loss on integral address leaf, else in good, legible condition. Letter from John W. Kittera, Federalist member of Congress from Lancaster, Pennsylvania to Jasper Yeates (1745-1817) jurist and justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, also from Lancaster, in which Kittera relates some of the growing tensions arising from the Proclamation of Neutrality in 1793 after the declaration of war by France against Great Britain, and the extension of the wars of the French Revolution into a greater maritime war, and the resultant seizure of American shipping by the British as well as the French. " At this most critical and alarming period when the public bodies are in a perfect state of uncertainty whether our common country shall long enjoy the blessings of peace or soon be involved in all the horrors of war, you will excuse me for intruding on you a few sentiments that have strongly impressed my mind. - While the government have declared this country in a state of neutrality, the people by their public rejoicings at the success of the French arms, by the secret aid furnished to the French, by their town meetings, hasty resolves, and newspaper publications are evidently endangering the peace of the Country. The depredations committed on our trade, particularly in the West Indies, have so provoked the mercantile part of the community that their resentments can, in many parts of the Union, with difficulty be restrained. The Judge of the island of Montserrat, an unprincipled rascal, who is said to be interested in most of the privateers, condemns all the American vessels that are tried in his Court. Injuries to our trade, of the grossest kind, are not only received from the British, who have really received some provocation, by the frauds of our merchants, and the conduct of our Citizens, but the French have detained in Bordeau above one hundred sale of American merchantmen, by an imbargo for near six months. [sic] In this State of things what is best to be done is a question of immense difficulty. Congress have had their doors shut for three or four days past, and I am at liberty to inform you that a question was taken respecting the laying of an imbargo [sic] and carried in the negative by a small majority. At first, I confess, I felt favorably disposed towards the measure, but on the discussion changed my sentiments. I never saw Congress reduced to so many difficulties - You have seen the resolves of our town meeting. Dallas and Swanart harangued the crowd from the State House window, and received a general huzza at the conclusion of each resolution. One drunken sailor had the assurance to say No for which he had two of his ribs broken, and otherways much abused. But few of the respectable Citizens attended another meeting is to be had this evening. The mob at New York assembled on Sunday week, entered the Roman Chapel playing the time of Caira drove the priest from the altar & the worshippers from the Church. These violent measures are productions of the worst of all evils, and if, instead of intrusting the management of the government in the hands of the Representatives of the people, designing men are thus frequently to assemble the people to legislate for themselves, the objection made by Despots to a republican form of government, that it is good in theory but bad in practice is a good objection. Those things are particularly improper at a time like the present. Excuse the freedom of these sentiments." For further information on Kittera and Yeates see: Dictionary of American Biography, vol. x, part two, p. 606 Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, pp., 297; 601

Washington Temperance Songs

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Title: Washington Temperance Songs
Seller: De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description: n.p., 1840. Folds, wear and stains. Five temperance songs are printed on this broadside. No other copies found.

Six Mail Art Projects/Zes Post-Kunst Projekten [Rubber, Vol. 3, nos. 7-9 (July-September 1980)] by BARNEVELD, Aart van, editor

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Title: Six Mail Art Projects/Zes Post-Kunst Projekten [Rubber, Vol. 3, nos. 7-9 (July-September 1980)]
Author: BARNEVELD, Aart van, editor
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Black & white illus. throughout. Unpaginated. 8vo, illustrated soft cover (extremities a little worn). Amsterdam: Stempelplaats, 1980. Uncommon and important issue of Rubber. Produced in an edition of 500 copies. Near fine.

Nigger Heaven by Van Vechten, Carl

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Title: Nigger Heaven
Author: Van Vechten, Carl
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover, brown cloth boards with black lettering & decoration, 8vo, 286 pp. Modest fading to spine, light wear, clean & sound copy. Despite its unfortunate name (against which he was advised), it was well received by the Black population it describes.

Vienne et les Autrichiens. by Trollope, Frances Milton.

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Title: Vienne et les Autrichiens.
Author: Trollope, Frances Milton.
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition: French translation of Mrs. Trollope's
Description: Paris: Librarie de H. Fournier Jeune, 1858. French translation of Mrs. Trollope's "Vienna and the Austrians," first published in London in 1838. Bound in quarter calf over marbled boards. Backstrips with gilt decoration and lettering. Scattered light foxing, but a very good set.. Three volumes, 20 cm. xxxii, 328; 363; 351 pp.

VAN GOGH- A STUDY OF HIS LIFE AND WORK by (VAN GOGH) Elgar, Frank

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Title: VAN GOGH- A STUDY OF HIS LIFE AND WORK
Author: (VAN GOGH) Elgar, Frank
Seller: L'Estampe Originale (United States)
Description: New York., Frederick A. Praeger Publishers., 1958. Hardcover. DJ. In fine condition with some rubbing on the dust jacket.

ZENTRALBLATT FUR BIBLIOTHEKSWESEN VOLUME 66-67

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Title: ZENTRALBLATT FUR BIBLIOTHEKSWESEN VOLUME 66-67
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Description: Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1968. cloth. thick 8vo. cloth. Reprint of the 1933 - 1935 first editions. Includes the following: 66. Predeek, Albert. Das moderne englische Bibliothekswesen. M. 24 plates. xviii, 188 pages. 67. Manitius, Max. Handschriften antiker Autoren in mittelalterlichen Bibliothekskatalogen. xi, 357 pages.

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