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FOLIAGE; OR POEMS ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED by (BINDINGS - ZAEHNSDORF). HUNT, LEIGH

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Title: FOLIAGE; OR POEMS ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED
Author: (BINDINGS - ZAEHNSDORF). HUNT, LEIGH
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: Printed for C. and J. Ollier, 1818. FIRST EDITION. 177 x 111 mm. (7 x 4 1/4"). 39, [1], cxxxv, [1], 111, [1] pp. EXQUISITE DARK GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO BY ZAEHNSDORF (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in, gilt exhibition stamp on rear pastedown) with an all-over design of inlaid red morocco floral sprigs, semé in alternating rows of large and small blooms, the spine with a compartment containing gilt lettering, turn-ins framed by gilt vine, leather hinges, olive green watered silk endleaves, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. In a (slightly faded and marked) contemporary (if not original) tan morocco pull-off case lined in suede ◆The faintest hint of yellowing at page edges, but AN ESPECIALLY FINE COPY, clean and fresh internally, IN A PERFECT BINDING. This collection of Hunt's original poems (grouped under the title "Greenwood") and his translations from classical works (entitled "Evergreen") comprise the "Foliage" within this beautiful floral binding. A noted critic, Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) was a prolific writer blessed with talent, although not genius. He had a good eye for that quality in others, however, and was an early and influential champion of the Romantic poets. Among the poems here is one celebrating the brilliance of Keats, envisioning a laurel on that young poet's brow. There are also verses addressed to his friends Byron, Shelley, and Thomas Moore. A great admirer of Greek poetry, Hunt translates here from Homer, Theocritus, Bion & Moschus, and Anacreon, with Catullus included as "one of the very few Romans that appear [to him] to have had an original talent for poetry." Our binding is a very fine example of the work of the Zaehnsdorf firm, long a top-ranked English bindery. Born in Pest, Hungary, Joseph Zaehnsdorf (1816-86) served his apprenticeship in Stuttgart, worked at several European locations as a journeyman, and then settled in London, where he was hired first by Westley and then by Mackenzie before opening his own workshop in 1842. His son and namesake took over the business at age 33, when the senior Joseph died, and the firm flourished under the son's leadership, becoming a leading West End bindery. Over the years, Zaehnsdorf employed a considerable number of distinguished binders, including the Frenchman Louis Genth (who was chief finisher from 1859-84), and trained a number of others, including Roger de Coverly and Sarah Prideaux. It is generally understood that the Zaehnsdorf firm reserved the use of its oval stamp showing a binder at work for their finest bindings, including those entered in exhibitions..

Southern Women in the Recent Educational Movement in the South by Mayo, Rev. A. D.

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Title: Southern Women in the Recent Educational Movement in the South
Author: Mayo, Rev. A. D.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good +
Description: Washington: Government Printing Office, 1892. First edition. Very Good +. Listed on the front wrap as Bureau of Education Circular of Information NO. 1, 1892. Original printed wrappers with some minor chipping and paper loss, and with significant loss to crown and foot of spine. Front wrap loose at base but holding. Contemporary handwritten label on spine "Southern Women in Education." Two early ownership stamps to front wrapper and title page read "Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland OH" and "Compliments of Vincent A. Taylor, MC." Internally tight and pleasing, with the usual toning found in imprints of this era. While OCLC shows wide digital access to the text, only 3 institutions report the first edition in hardcopy. Rich with charts and statistics, Mayo's account of Southern education focuses in detail on women's role as educators and students in the decades following the Civil War. The report opens with information on "Schools for the Education of Southern White Girls," addressing the previous dearth of school access to girls of the region and articulating the curriculum that has developed following emancipation and in the struggle toward suffrage. Schools were to promote the idea that the new "national constitutional amendment [is] an ideal to be gradually realized" (a tacit justification here for the separation of white girls from their African American peers). For this category of student, the schools were also encouraged to focus on industrial skills and the creation of a new and advanced class of working Southerners, as well as the encouragement of women to take on new domestic responsibilites to support their families because "financial wreck of civil war [was] equivalent to reduction of supeior class to poverty." Notably, girls and women of the region were to be praised for their contributions -- the "heroic efforts of Southern women in rebuilding home life" while men of their generation struck out, often going North, to try to rebuild their fortunes. As the report continues, it also addresses the education of freed peoples as "the most memorable [movement] in modern history--a service of Southern people in giving freedmen the common schools" while acknowledging that the "path of school education is still a 'steep and rugged way' for majority of Southern youth--A full third of Southern children of legal school age are still outside school opportunities." The deeper one reads into the report, the more complex a view one gains of the South's struggles to redefine itself compared to the North in its views on gender, race, class, dialect, educational access, and job accessibility. Many of the systemic issues from before the war remain, as do hints of what would become a Jim Crow South, resistant as well to the idea of women's suffrage except insofar as it supported a more white-dominant electorate. At the same time, signs of progress also abound, and much of the praise and responsibility for it falls upon women and the rising generation of African Americans building lives in a freer nation. Very Good +.

Early Run of Los Agachados 10 Issues, Mexican satirical magazine on Vietnam, Elections, and Consumer Society,1969-1974 by Los Agachados

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Title: Early Run of Los Agachados 10 Issues, Mexican satirical magazine on Vietnam, Elections, and Consumer Society,1969-1974
Author: Los Agachados
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1969. Mexican Comics Archive of Los Agachados covering politics, religion, war, and everyday consumer life into cheap mass-circulation satire, and this group preserves that project across ten issues from 1969 to 1974. Created by Eduardo del Río, known as Rius, this collection contains anti-clerical and anti-imperialist argument is already fully formed in covers such as "Se rumora que Cristo era pobre," "Confirmado: el comunismo internacional y la CIA, culpables de las derrotas en Europa!!," and "Vietnam: la paz no es negocio cuate!." Later issues discuss Mexican identity, cosmetics, and the energy crisis. Several issues also retain interior editorials, promotional pages, and back-cover advertising that place Los Agachados inside Editorial Posada's broader world of polemical books, occult and pseudo-scientific serials, and correspondence-course marketing. Los Agachados de Rius. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, 1969-1974. Archive of 10 issues. [1] Los Agachados de Rius. No. 13. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, February 23, 1969. Newspaper-parody issue built around the headline "Se rumora que Cristo era pobre," with additional mock headlines attacking clerical authority and church respectability. [2] Los Agachados de Rius. No. 15. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, May 23, 1969. "Apúrenle a llegar a la luna antes de destruir la tierra!" joins the space race to environmental destruction in one of the run's earliest overtly global themes. [3] Los Agachados de Rius. No. 22. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, September 26, 1969. Cover text blaming "el comunismo internacional y la CIA" for defeats in Europe turns Cold War rhetoric into absurdist soccer satire. [4] Los Agachados de Rius. No. 23. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, 1969. "Lista incompleta y exclusiva de los 230 santos que ya no lo son" satirizes canonization and Catholic popular culture. [5] Los Agachados de Rius. No. 24. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, 1969. "¡Auxilio!! ¡Los hippies!!" takes up youth culture and generational panic in direct vernacular form. [6] Los Agachados. No. 33. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, 1970. Election issue with the line "Mejor yo lo invito a las elecciones!," treating formal politics as staged spectacle. [7] Los Agachados de Rius. No. 45. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, July 15, 1970. "Vietnam: la paz no es negocio cuate!" uses a skull-faced Uncle Sam cover to attack war as profit. [8] Los Agachados. Opus 68. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, May 2, 1971. "¿...los mexicanos somos seres inferiores?" marked "primera de dos partes," addressing national identity and cultural subordination. [9] Los Agachados. No. 140. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, January 23, 1974. "¿Cosméticos o venenos?" turns beauty products and chemical consumption into a critique addressed explicitly to women readers. [10] Los Agachados. No. 144. Mexico City: Editorial Posada, 1974. "La espeluznante verdad sobre la crisis de los energéticos: petróleo, electricidad, energía nuclear, etc." frames the energy crisis through the question "¿Qué conviene más comprar un coche o un burro?" These issues show Rius working across the subjects that made Los Agachados distinctive: anti-clerical satire, Cold War politics, Vietnam, elections, national self-critique, women's consumer culture, and the economics of energy and technology. The archive also preserves the surrounding print economy in which the series circulated, with advertisements for correspondence schools, Colección Duda Semanal, ¿Qué tal la URSS?, Akhenaton, and Garab Yidam El Lama, placing the comic inside the wider Editorial Posada program of popular political and quasi-educational publishing in Mexico. Light to moderate toning, handling wear, creasing, rubbing, and scattered edge wear; a few issues with stains, small chips, or old tape reinforcement, but remaining legible and largely complete. Overall in good condition. A sharp ten-issue group from the period in which Rius established the weekly comic as a durable form of political argument in modern Mexican print culture.o.

A Defence of the Minority in the House of Commons, On the Question.. by Townsend, Charles, Attributed

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Title: A Defence of the Minority in the House of Commons, On the Question..
Author: Townsend, Charles, Attributed
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Description: 1764. Relating to General Warrants. Relating to General Warrants. Inspired by the Wilkes Libel Case [Townsend, Charles (1725-1767), Attributed]. A Defence of the Minority in the House of Commons, On the Question Relating to General Warrants. London: Printed for J. Almon, 1764. [iv] 38, [2] pp. With half-title and publisher advertisement. Octavo (8" x 5"). Stab-stitched pamphlet bound into recent period-style quarter calf over cloth, raised bands and lettering piece, endpapers renewed. Light foxing in a few places, interior otherwise fresh. $250. * Second edition. "A leading opponent of the government, especially of the King's favourite, Lord Bute, Wilkes was arrested after the publication on 23 April 1763 of an article in No. 45 of his paper, the North Briton, and charged with seditious libel. He successfully challenged the use of general warrants which had been issued, but could not avoid condemnation by Parliament.... Wilkes fled to the continent in 1764.": Cannon, The Oxford Companion to British History 985. English Short-Title Catalogue T32269.

Bruno Caruso (20 May-12 June 1970) by (CARUSO, Bruno)

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Title: Bruno Caruso (20 May-12 June 1970)
Author: (CARUSO, Bruno)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 23 black & white illus. Unpaginated. 12mo, green printed softcover. Torino: Galleria Narciso, 1970. Scarce Bruno Caruso (1927-2018) exhibition catalogue, published by Marzio Pinottini’s Galleria Narciso. WorldCat records two copies in North America. Introductory essay by Pinottini, biographical notes, 23 plates, and exhibition check-list. In fine condition. Galleria Narciso Catalogue no. 91.

Light and the Behavior of Organisms by Mast, Samuel Ottmar

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Title: Light and the Behavior of Organisms
Author: Mast, Samuel Ottmar
Seller: Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 1010370064398
Description: New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1911. First printing. EARLY STUDY OF THE ROLE OF LIGHT IN GUIDING THE BEHAVIOR OF ANIMALS. 13.5x21 cm hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, i-xi, 410 pp, 19 pp publisher's catalog. Cover edges rubbed, very good in custom archival mylar cover. SAMUEL OTTMAR MAST (1871 – 1947) was an American zoologist who studied behavioral physiology, particularly the response to light in protozoa. He received a BS from the University of Michigan in 1899 and worked on a PhD in zoology at Harvard after which he taught at Hope College. He was later invited to join Johns Hopkins University by Herbert Spencer Jennings, directing the zoology department in 1938 just before retiring. Mast's major contributions included a study of locomotion in amoebae. He suggested that the cytoplasm underwent changes in its qualities in different parts, coining the terms plasmasol and plasmagel. He also examined reactions to light in protozoa and invertebrates including analyses of the spectral sensitivity. REVIEW by Parker, G. H.: Mast's "Light and the behavior of organisms". Journal of Animal Behavior, Vol 1(6), Nov-Dec 1911, 461-464. doi: 10.1037/h0064398: "This volume is the outgrowth of the author's study of the process of orientation in plants and animals, and deals with the methods by which these organisms regulate their activities so as to bend or move toward or from a source of stimulation. The reviewer notes that the book discloses a wealth of facts, many of which are the results of the author's own investigations, and the text consequently has an air of critical authority not often found in extended scientific summaries. The reviewer also notes that the one chief flaw of the volume is one that has been inherited from earlier students in this field of work, and consists in the attempt to apply the trial and error method of orientation to the movements of many of the higher invertebrates, such as the earthworm, fly larvae, etc., to the exclusion of the tropism idea. The Biology Department at Hope College has had a fairly short life as colleges go, but a full one that has led to its present position of strength for the future. The beginning period began in 1898 when President Kollen decided that Hope College needed a Biology Department and hired Samuel Ottmar Mast as the first biology professor. Mast remained until 1908 when he moved to the newly established department of biology at Johns Hopkins University where he became renowned world-wide for his study of motion and behavior in protozoa.

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