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Autograph Letter Signed [ALS] by FEYNMAN, RICHARD

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Title: Autograph Letter Signed [ALS]
Author: FEYNMAN, RICHARD
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: np: np, 1983. First edition. custom folder. Very Good. FEYNMAN OFFERS ADVICE AND ENCOURAGEMENT FOR A SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOR. An exceedingly rare two-page autograph letter from Richard Feynman from 1983, signed once in full cursive, once with a printed last name, once with his initials, and once with a printed "alias" "DR. -". Background: The recipient of the letter - Stephan Arnold Mascari - has provided (in an included letter of provenance) the context of the letter: "Here's the story behind the letter: It was in the middle of 1983 that I decided to give up being a lawyer in Washington, DC, and devote my life to resolving the greatest mystery in science-the nature of the conscious mind. I had been studying the issue since my undergraduate days at Georgetown and became convinced that the mind must have some other basis than the neural machinery of the brain. And several eminent neuroscientists had convincingly argued for a dualistic mind-a soul if you will. "But I had no illusions about the intellectual climate of the day. Materialism was (and is) the reigning dogma. Anyone is surely a heretic if they try to resurrect the antiquated notion of the soul. Even if I could discover a natural origin for souls, mainstream journals would reject my work. Why devote my life to this ancient dilemma if I had no way of publicizing my discoveries? "Surely, the answer would be to assemble a world-class panel of unbiased experts and let them pass judgment. So I wrote to Richard Feynman. After explaining my mission and strategy, I asked him what he thought of this idea and whether he would consider joining such a panel. This letter contains Feynman's response.... "I might add that Feynman himself had little to say about the nature of the mind. He did express the view in one of his books that he considered the conscious mind to be 'yesterday's potatoes' but he left it at that. When I wrote to Feynman perhaps the best book on the subject was Brain, Mind and Computers by Stanley Jaki. I photocopied and sent thirty pages of this book to Feynman to challenge his 'potatoes' comment. He read it and quoted it back to me [in this letter] but he somehow mistook my handwritten word 'Jaki' to be 'Likki.' This then is the story behind the letter." -Stephen Arnold Mascari Feynman's Response: Feynman's lengthy hand-written response to Mascari's invitation to join his panel is as follows: Sept 6, 1983 Dear Dr. +, The best way to get an idea "evaluated"* is simply to publish it freely and see what sensible people say - or better what how experiments to test its validity turn out. All this stuff about expert panels, attorneys, secret panelists or authors, etc. is all silly and unnecessary. I don't want to be on such a panel, but thank you for thinking me worthy. On the other hand, if you do ever publish it in a normal manner, please send me a copy. Also thanks for sending the note by Likki. Ten years later we are still confused. It is a wonderful (OVER) ----- *If you are unsure of its value thru your own checking, analyzing or experimenting [page 2] problem you are working on I hope you can contribute something sen sound to it and not just another hairbrained idea. "These people who make assertions so promptly" Steno warned, "... (see page 120 of Likki "Brains, Mind and computers".) Good luck. Thanks for writing. [signed] Richard Feynman [printed] FEYNMAN P.S. IF YOU CAN'T READ MY WRITING, I SAID "NO" TO BEING ON PANEL. R.P.F. (ALIAS DR. - ) -------------------------- [The full quote by Steno that Feynman cites is indeed from Brains, Mind and Computers, p. 120 and is revealing of Feynman's way of thinking: "These people who make assertions so promptly," Steno warned, "will give you the history of the brain and the arrangement of its parts with the same assurance as if they had been present at the construction of that marvelous machine and if they had penetrated all the plans of its great Architect." As for himself, he was "resolved to be persuaded only by those who in looking for a solid science are unable to find satisfaction in all that had been written about the brain." His caution stood him in good stead. It earned him three centuries later the praise of another great Danish man of science, Niels Bohr, who commended his forebear's open-mindedness in recognizing the great inadequacies in man's knowledge of his brain. Happily for science, Steno's open-mindedness is still alive in many leaders of science and causes them to reach conclusions hardly different from his. ] Feynman addresses Mascari as "Dr. +" which is a little joke on his part, and he continues the joke by ending his letter by addressing himself as "Alias Dr. -". As Mascari explained, "In my letter to him, I argued that the conscious mind cannot be explained by the known components of the brain or any other component of the universe for that matter. Something was missing from our understanding of reality. And it was my quest to discover what this missing ingredient (responsible for consciousness and mental reality) was. In other words, I hoped to add something to the inventory of reality. I assume that Feynman was trying to encourage me by designating me 'Dr. +.' (Personal correspondence.) One 8.5x11 inch sheet of paper, written by Feynman on both sides in black ink. In cursive, except for the "P.S." Usual folds, otherwise fine. Housed in handsome custom presentation folder. AUTOGRAPH LETTERS BY FEYNMAN - PARTICULARLY WITH SUCH GOOD CONTENT - ARE EXCEEDINGLY RARE.

Museum of Modern [F]art: Yoko Ono-one woman show, Dec. 1st - Dec. 15th by ONO, YOKO; LENNON, JOHN

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Title: Museum of Modern [F]art: Yoko Ono-one woman show, Dec. 1st - Dec. 15th
Author: ONO, YOKO; LENNON, JOHN
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Yoko Ono, 1971. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST EDITION OF THE CATALOG FOR ONO'S FICTITIOUS ART SHOW, SIGNED BY ONO AND LENNON, AND WITH A CARICATURE DRAWING BY LENNON. Inscribed on the cover in Ono's hand: "To Jonas / Peace & Love, Yoko" and in Lennon's hand "+ John" and with a caricature of both his and Ono's faces. The recipient, Jonas Mekas (1922-2019) was the internationally renown Lithuanian-born but New York-based filmmaker, poet and artist, known as "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema." One can view this ironic and subversive work by Yoko Ono as an embodiment of the Fluxus art movement. Fluxus projects were wide-ranging works that drew upon chance, audience participation, humor, and collaboration. In this way they paved the way for future generations of performance, video, and conceptual artists. Early works by Yoko Ono were often based on instructions that the artist communicated to viewers in verbal or written form. For example, in one of her most well known works, Cut Piece (1964) she invited members of the audience to cut away a portion of her clothing. At turns poetic, humorous, and unsettling the piece relies on audience participation, demonstrating Ono's embrace of the idea that art is live rather than static. When Ono married John Lennon in 1968 she was catapulted onto the world stage, entering a world of unparalleled fame and public scrutiny. She faced the considerable challenge of remaining visible as an artist, not just a rock star's wife. But she hewed to her craft and had her first museum exhibition, often a turning point in any artist's career, in October 1971 at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York. The New York Times covered the exhibition, writing Is Syracuse ready for Yoko Ono and John Lennon? That was the question here yesterday as the Everson Museum, which sees itself as a bastion of the avant‐garde set down in a cultural wasteland, opened the world's first museum show of Miss Ono's "conceptual" pieces, with her husband, the former Beatle, and others, as guest artists. One might wonder what role the Everson show played in the development of Ono's one-woman "exhibition" at MoMA, which she staged a few months later in December of 1971. By the early 1970's MoMA rarely showed art by either women or Asian artists, and in Museum of Modern [F]art Ono famously claimed the museum space for herself. It is a multifaceted work. Ono first took out an ad in The Village Voice promoting a one-woman show at MoMA running December 1 - 15, 1971. She then produced a film during which pedestrians are interviewed in the street and asked whether they had seen Ono's exhibition at the MoMA, to which most respond with something like "no, but I plan to". The subversive action continued when Ono purportedly released her body weight in flies into the Museum of Modern Art. In this, the accompanying exhibition catalog, she designed 138 postcards of various locations around New York City, each featuring a large arrow indicating the location of a fly, with a thumbnail close-up of the insect on the other side. The reader is invited to cut the postcards out and send them to friends. Other images include a photograph of Lennon, an advertisement for the nonexistent show torn from a newspaper and displayed at the MoMA ticket counter, maps and more. At first glance Museum of Modern [F]art is a light and humorous piece. But in reality it carries quite a bit of weight. It speaks to the representation of women and Asian artists within the art world establishment while also demonstrating key aspects of Fluxus like instructions, audience participation, and humor. It was also prescient. In 2015 MoMA held a one-woman show, Yoko Ono: One Woman Show from 1960 - 1971 that uses the 1971 piece as a departure point for exploring Yoko Ono's performance, film, and written works. Artist's book in the form of an exhibition catalogue. [New York]. Published by Yoko Ono, 1971. Quarto (305x305 mm, 12x12 in.), original wrappers; custom box. Illustrated with photographs by Iain McMillan and Ono; without the copyright stamp found in some copies. Light toning, chipping to top right of wrappers. This is the only example we have found that has been on the market signed by both Ono and Lennon.

Yellowstone Postcard Checklist Collection by [Yellowstone]

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Title: Yellowstone Postcard Checklist Collection
Author: [Yellowstone]
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description: [Yellowstone Park], 1951. 3,042 postcards: Private mailing cards (36), Undivided Back Cards (330), Divided Back Cards (1844), Haynes Oval Cards (25), Wylie Cards (13), Linen Cards (379), Chrome Cards (385), Folders (12), Trade Cards (22) Most in nice condition. No duplicates. An excellent large collection of Yellowstone cards based on the 'Yellowstone Postcard Checklist' by Michael Francis, Kathleen M. Burke and J. Michael Bodell, that is included here with the cards present checked off. Postcards were the main form of communication in the 'Golden Age of Postcards,' the period generally referred to from 1898 through 1915. The Postal Card Craze spread throughout the world in the first decade of the 20th century. The establishment of the Federal Rural Delivery in America in 1896 suddenly made it possible to send a postcard of Yellowstone Park to almost anyone in the world. Yellowstone Park and postcards are almost synonymous. Yellowstone has been defined through the images on postcards as perhaps no other place on earth.

Dresden theater by [Semper, Gottffried] - THEATER - OPERA

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Title: Dresden theater
Author: [Semper, Gottffried] - THEATER - OPERA
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: [Dresden ?]: Not published., ca 1845. Unique.. Contemporary ebony (?) frame.. Very good.. 68 mm diameter An early painted rendering on a bisque porcelain disk of what has come to be known as the Semperoper Dresden. The building was designed by Gottfried Semper, arguably the most important German architect of the Victorian era, and opened in 1841. This was his first major building - a neo Renaissance theater with subdued ornamentation and an exterior that clearly expressed its internal spaces - and the introduction of Semper's revolutionary ideas that were, ' ... to change the course of theater design.' The Bayreuth Festspielhaus was the last expression of these design concepts. Semper was the original architect but was dismissed by Wagner before the project was complete. The Semperoper of Dresden burned to the ground in 1861.Contemporary renderings of the building are all that remain. The disk bears a contemporary identification on the back: 'Koenig Theater / zu Dresden'. It is mounted in a contemporary wooden (ebony?) frame and held in place with a stamped, gilt bezel. The verso of the frame is marked with a letter M and the number 30 impressed in the wood. As if to emphasize the revolutionary aspects of Semper's design the painter illustrated the theater building from the stage side, a unique perspective when judged by the few contemmporary illustrations of the building. Given that the Meissen works were within 25 km of Dresden one assumes the bisque porcelain disk is Meissen, but it bears none of the usual marks of the great manufactory. See Mullin, The Development of the Playhouse.

Matrix 22; A Review for Printers & Bibliophiles

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Title: Matrix 22; A Review for Printers & Bibliophiles
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. One of 740 copies (from a total edition of 825) bound in the publisher's original decorated paper boards. Illustrations throughout.

Gras by Andermatt, Jürg

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Title: Gras
Author: Andermatt, Jürg
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
ISBN: 9783926048103
Condition: vg
Description: Kiel: Nieswand, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Elephant folio. Unpaginated (68pp). Decorative paper-covered boards housed in original tan and gray cardboard slipcase. Illustrated with 64 color reproductions of photographs of many different types of graminoids (grass) by Swiss photographer Jürg Andermatt. The vibrant photographs are printed on ikonorex special matt, Zanders Feinpapier. Foreword by Prof. Dr. Heinz Spielmann. Decorative endpapers. "Vierundsechzig Farbfotografien von Jürg Andermatt im Nieswand-Verlag." Minor rubbing on head and tail of spine, along joints and on corners. Minor age wear and scuffing on slipcase. Text in German. Tight copy with slipcase and binding in very good, interior in fine condition.

Oxford and Modern Medicine: A letter to Dr. James Andrew.. by Acland, Henry W.

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Title: Oxford and Modern Medicine: A letter to Dr. James Andrew..
Author: Acland, Henry W.
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Oxford, 1890. Printed for private circulation. v, 60pp. Lacking wrappers. Acland was Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford; he took a leading part in the revival of the Oxford medical school and in introducing the study of natural science into the university.

Ägyptische Altertümer aus der Skulpturensammlung Dresden. May 1977. Text by Martin Raumschüssel. by Dresden. Albertinum.

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Title: Ägyptische Altertümer aus der Skulpturensammlung Dresden. May 1977. Text by Martin Raumschüssel.
Author: Dresden. Albertinum.
Seller: Ars Libri Ltd (United States)
Description: Dresden (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden), 1977.. 79, (1)pp. 96 illus. (partly in color) hors texte. Wraps.

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