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Large cabinet size by Maull & Polyblank with original printed folder & text by Brodie, Sir Benjamin C.

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Title: Large cabinet size by Maull & Polyblank with original printed folder & text
Author: Brodie, Sir Benjamin C.
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: London: Maull & Polyblank.., 1856. 30.5x 25.5 cm (portrait 19.5 x 15 cm). Small tear on spine of cover, otherwise very good.

"Copy of an Act for Surveying and Apportioning the Lands Granted to the Illinois Regiment and Establishing a Town within the Said Grant," - Manuscript Copy by William Munford, Keeper of The Rolls, from the "Original in My Custody" dated January 16, 1818 by (Illinois)

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Title: "Copy of an Act for Surveying and Apportioning the Lands Granted to the Illinois Regiment and Establishing a Town within the Said Grant," - Manuscript Copy by William Munford, Keeper of The Rolls, from the "Original in My Custody" dated January 16, 1818
Author: (Illinois)
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description: folio, three pages, old folds, small hole in first page, affecting several words, paper a bit tanned, else very good, docketed in in ink: Copy of an Act for Surveying and apportioning the lands granted to the Illinois Regiment and establishing a Town within the said Grant.For Locating and surveying the one hundred and fifty thousand acres of Land granted by a resolution of Assembly to Colonel George Rogers Clarke and the officers and soldiers who assisted in the reduction of the reduction of the British posts in the Illinois; Be it enacted by the General Assembly that William Fleming, John Edwards, John Campbell, Walker Daniel gentlemen, and George Rogers Clarke, John Montgomery, Abraham Chaplain, John Baily, Robert Todd and William Clarke, Officers in the Illinois Regiment shall be and they are hereby constituted a board of Commissioners, and that they or the major part of them shall settle and determine the claims to Land under the said Resolution - That the respective claimants shall give in their claims to the said commissioners on or before the first day of April one thousand seven hundred and eighty four, and if approved and allowed shall pay down to the said commissioners one dollar for every hundred acres of such claim to enable them to survey and apportion the said lands ..." The commissioners were charged with appointing a principal surveyor, and to contract with him for his fees, to lay off the 150,000 acres of land on the north west side of the Ohio River, and after surveying the land to lay out "one thousand acres at the most convenient place therein for a town." They were to divide the land in fair and equal lots among the claimants, a patent would then be issued to the commissioners or their survivors, who would execute and issue deeds to the various claimants. The plat of the town above mentioned was to be returned to the clerk of Jefferson County, and who would grant the commissioners to lay out the township in half acre lots, with "convenient streets and public lots, which shall be and the same is hereby established a town by the name of Clarksville, who would then be empowered to sell the various lots at prices they deemed suitable or at auction. The purchasers to hold the land and build a structure upon it within three years, among other considerations and restrictions. The document ends: I do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the original in my custody - Given under my hand (there being no seal of office) this 16th day of Jany 1818 - (Signed) Wm. Munford1 Keeper of the Rolls (Copy of Exemplification)" The Treaty of Paris (1763) transferred the area of Illinois to the British. It was two years before they able to send a garrison to Fort de Chartres. From it the territory was ruled during the British period by military authority. Although, intermittently, private persons and ministers considered establishing colonies within the area of the state with a measure of self government, the Quebec Act of 1774 finally annexed the territory to the province of Quebec. July 4, 1778, George Rogers Clark took possession of Kaskaskia in the name of Virginia, and established Virginia's authority in the Mississippi River settlements and at Vincennes. Until 1782 the territory was included in the Virginia county of Illinois. Although Clark failed to occupy the whole territory of the present state, he kept the British out of it and maintained garrisons in the Illinois and Wabash villages. In 1783 the territory became part of the United States by the Definitive Treaty of Peace. It was part of the Northwest Territory, organized in 1788 under the Northwest Ordinance. It remained a part of Indiana Territory from 1800 to 1809, when Illinois Territory was established, including the present State of Wisconsin. At the outbreak of the War of 1812, the garrison at Fort Dearborn at Chicago was massacred by the Indians. Indian trouble continued in the state throughout the war, and one pitched battle was fought by the British and American forces near Rock Island. At the end of the War of 1812 population flooded into the state. A series of Indian treaties between 1795 and 1833 cleared the state of Indians claims. On December 3, 1818 it was admitted to the Union, with a population of about 40,000. In disregard of the Northwest Ordinance, the northeastern boundary of the state was set so as to include the site of Chicago within it. 1. William Munford (1775-1825) lawyer, legislator, court reporter, poet and classicist, see Dictionary of American Biography, volume VII, pp., 326-327

DUKE ELLINGTON (1950) by Universal

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Title: DUKE ELLINGTON (1950)
Author: Universal
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Just About Fine
Description: Universal. No binding. Just About Fine. [Hollywood]: Universal Pictures, 1950. Vintage original 10 x 8" (25 x 20 cm.) black-and-white print still photo, JUST ABOUT FINE. Portrait of Duke Ellington at the piano for a 15-minute short subject film by Universal Pictures in which he and his band play various of his classic numbers, including "Take the 'A' Train".

Is Sex Necessary by James Thurber; E.B. White

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Title: Is Sex Necessary
Author: James Thurber; E.B. White
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929. Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929. First Edition, stated and with I-D code (September 1929) to copyright page. Octavo. 197 pp. Illustrations. Black cloth spine over green paper-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Lacks dust jacket. Boards worn along edges with brief exposure to corners and top edge; general soiling and spotting; rubbing to spine. Binding is sound. Small bookseller ticket of International Bookfinders Inc of Pacific Palisades, CA to rear pastedown. Pages a bit toned but unmarked. Humorous collection of essays that helped launch Thurber and White's careers. Scarce in retail.

TM-E 30-451: Handbook on German Military Forces, War Department, 15 March, 1945

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Title: TM-E 30-451: Handbook on German Military Forces, War Department, 15 March, 1945
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1945. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated with black and white photographs, charts, figures, and color illustrations. Modest rubbing, else a fine copy.

THE KEEP by Wilson, F. Paul

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Title: THE KEEP
Author: Wilson, F. Paul
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description: THE KEEP, Morrow, 1981, first edition, just about fine in vg+/near fine dust-wrapper with some slight wear. Vampires and Nazi's and Jews, oh my !!! The source book for the film of the same name. Signed by the author.

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Oprah's Book Club, 2020) by Wilkerson, Isabel

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Title: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Oprah's Book Club, 2020)
Author: Wilkerson, Isabel
Seller: Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN: 9780593230251
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Description: New York: Random House, 2020. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 6x1x9. Reprint. An exceptional copy. 2020 Hard Cover. xvii, 476 pp. Pulitzer Prize Winner. "As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people's lives and behavior and the nation's fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people - including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball's Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others - she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their out-cast of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. Beautifully written, original, and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today.

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