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The Life of George Washington (in 5 vols.)

The Life of George Washington (in 5 vols.) by [Washington, George]; John Marshall

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Title
The Life of George Washington (in 5 vols.)
Author
[Washington, George]; John Marshall
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Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
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Near Fine
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London: Richard Phillips, 1807. First London edition. Near Fine. (In octavo). Overall a near fine and much cleaner set than is usually found with the folding plates and maps in excellent and undamaged state. Five octavo volumes (8 3/16 x 5 1/8 inches; 208 x 131 mm.). xxxvi, 579, [1], 2 folding maps; folding engraved frontispiece; viii, 245, 254-633, [3]; folding engraved frontispiece; viii, 570, folding engraved frontispiece and engraving on last page; viii, 684; viii, 843, [5], 10 folding maps, pp. Complete with three folding plates, one vignette and twelve folding maps. Volume two with paper flaw tear (no loss of text) on O2 (pp. 195-196), volume three title-page with small paper flaw crease on blank fore margin, volume four with small paper flaws to lower corner of O2 (pp. 195-196) and upper blank margin of SS7 & SS8 (pp. 637-640). A few minor marginal stains throughout and some very light and occasional browning of the text to volume five. Bound in contemporary mottled sheep, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, three faded, one missing. The hinges and spine extremities have been expertly restored. A near fine, sound and very attractive set - rarely found in its original binding. With the uniform, early ink signature of Peter Trezevant on each front flyleaf. A fundamental biography of America's most important political figure. In this significant work Marshall keeps George Washington's personality and character alive while simultaneously providing an immediate account of early American history. Washington's biography was written by the longest serving Chief justice of the Supreme court, John Marshall (1755-1835). Not only was Marshall a previous member of the House who served as John Adam's Secretary of State, but he was a friend of George Washington having served with him during the American Revolution. Marshall based his five-volume text in part of the personal papers that Washington had bequeathed his nephew Bushrod. The first London edition has five plates that were omitted in the Philadelphia edition and is the only complete edition of this monumental and indispensable work, according to Howes, the best edition of all. Howes M317. Sabin 44788. Near Fine.
Violette of Père Lachaise (Presentation copy)

Violette of Père Lachaise (Presentation copy) by Walling, Anna Strunsky

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Violette of Père Lachaise (Presentation copy)
Author
Walling, Anna Strunsky
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Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
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Near Fine
Description
New York: Frederick A. Stokes and Company, 1915. First edition. Near Fine. Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf: "Paula Woitke, From her friend Anna Strunsky Walling - New London, June 22, 1917." Publisher's burgundy cloth titled in gilt with violet design. [10], 3-198 pp. Exceptionally bright and fresh aside from some fading to spine. Some cracking to lower gutter at tail edge. Without the rare dust jacket. A Near Fine copy of an attractively designed and scarce book. Anna Strunsky Walling (1877 - 1964) was a socialist writer and activist who campaigned for the abolition of the death penalty and was involved with the founding of the NAACP. Born in what is now Belarus to Jewish parents, Walling immigrated to New York with her family as a child. In 1893, the family relocated to San Francisco, and Walling enrolled in Stanford University a few years later. At Stanford, she became close friends with Jack London, with whom she co-authored the epistolary novel The Kempton-Wace Letters (1903). In 1906, Walling married her husband, William (1877 - 1936), who became one of the founding members of the NAACP in 1909. The Violette of Père Lachaise is a socialist bildungsroman about a young woman who dedicates "herself to the revolutionary struggle, not as an act of self-abnegation or martyrdom but as 'the full flowering of her whole personality'" (Buhle). Walling imagines Violette, a talented actress who lives with her flower-seller grandfather on the edge of Père Lachaise cemetery, as a model for the socialist woman of the future: Violette is an unusually gifted artist, but her free thinking, creative personality represents Walling's ideal of a fully actualized individual. "In this way, Mrs. Walling, herself a prominent figure in the social revolution, embodies her conception of the modern philosophy of love and revolution, idealism and democracy. Violette is a forerunner of the future" (from the dust jacket). Buhle 269. Near Fine.
A Medicine for Melancholy (Signed first edition)

A Medicine for Melancholy (Signed first edition) by Bradbury, Ray

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A Medicine for Melancholy (Signed first edition)
Author
Bradbury, Ray
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Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
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Garden City: Doubleday and Company, 1959. First edition. Fine/Fine. Signed by Ray Bradbury on the half-title. A Fine copy in like unclipped dust jacket. Ink signature bleeding through a few leaves, otherwise a fresh and clean copy. In A Medicine for Melancholy, Ray Bradbury presents a collection of short stories that tug at the human imagination. Written after Fahrenheit 451 launched Bradbury to international fame, this novella was praised as having intense emotional impact. "Regardless of the outer wrappings or inner core of his story, Bradbury's touch breathes fantasy into his most prosaic items" (Galaxy Magazine, 1959). Within the stories, Bradbury weaves science fiction with tall tales and challenges our perceptions of reality. Fine in Fine dust jacket.
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Art de faire éclorre et d’élever en toute saison des oiseaux domestiques by REAUMUR, René-Antoine Ferchault de

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Art de faire éclorre et d’élever en toute saison des oiseaux domestiques
Author
REAUMUR, René-Antoine Ferchault de
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Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1751. Engraved headpieces and 16 folding engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf, spines and labels gilt, red edges, green silk markers (crowns chipped). A pretty, fresh set. Second edition of one of the earliest books on hatching and raising chicks. The first volume describes using ovens as hatcheries and how to properly build them; Reaumur invented this form of artificial incubation. The second focuses on hatched chicks: introducing hens to them, what to feed them, and different methods of rearing them and their advantages and disadvantages. The final part supplies games and amusements for poultry farmers to play with their birds; according to the author, happy birds lay more eggs, and happy farmers have more productive farms. The text refers often to the copious illustrations, and in this edition, not just the plates, but the engraved headpieces feature figure numbers for text references (very unusual!). Nissen 3314; Sander 1657.
SOME THOUGHTS UPON THE SPIRIT OF INFALLIBILITY, CLAIMED BY THE CHURCH OF ROME: OFFER'D AT THE ANNIVERSARY DUDLEIAN-LECTURE, AT HARVARD-COLLEGE IN CAMBRIDGE, MAY 11. 1757

SOME THOUGHTS UPON THE SPIRIT OF INFALLIBILITY, CLAIMED BY THE CHURCH OF ROME: OFFER'D AT THE ANNIVERSARY DUDLEIAN-LECTURE, AT HARVARD-COLLEGE IN CAMBRIDGE, MAY 11. 1757 by Wigglesworth, Edward

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SOME THOUGHTS UPON THE SPIRIT OF INFALLIBILITY, CLAIMED BY THE CHURCH OF ROME: OFFER'D AT THE ANNIVERSARY DUDLEIAN-LECTURE, AT HARVARD-COLLEGE IN CAMBRIDGE, MAY 11. 1757
Author
Wigglesworth, Edward
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David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
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Boston, New - England: Printed and Sold by John Draper, in Cornhill, 1757. 31, [1 blank] pp, with the half title as issued. Stitched. Lower blank corner of half title clipped, light foxing. Faint decorative blindstamp. Else Very Good, with attractive typography. Wigglesworth was Hollisian Professor of Divinity at Harvard. Wikipedia says, "The Dudleian lectures are a series of prestigious lectures on religion at Harvard University, where they are the oldest endowed lectureship." He devotes the occasion to "detecting, and convicting and exposing the Idolatry of the Romish Church, their Tyranny, Usurpations, damnable Heresies, fatal Errors, abominable Superstitions, and other crying Wickedness in their high Places; and finally to prove, that the Church of Rome is that mystical Babylon, that Man of Sin, that apostate Church, spoken of in the New-Testament." ESTC W29464. Evans 8064.
TO THE HONOURABLE THE JUDGES OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF COSHOCTON. YOUR PETITIONER JOHN H. HUTCHINSON RESPECTFULLY REPRESENTS UNTO YOUR HONORS THAT BY BIRTH HE IS A SUBJECT OF HIS MAJESTY GEORGE THE FOURTH KING OF THE UNITED KINGDOMS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, THAT IT IS HIS WISH AT THIS TIME TO BECOME A NATURALIZED CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES, THAT HE WAS RESIDING WITHIN THE LIMITS AND UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES BETWEEN THE FIRST DAY OF AUGUST 1822, AND THE TWENTY THIRD DAY OF NOVEMBER 1826, THAT HE HAS RESIDED WITH THE LIMITS OF THIS STATE MORE THAN ONE YEAR PRECEDING THIS APPLICATION. ALSO THAT HE RENOUNCES FOREVER ALL ALLEGIANCE AND FIDELITY TO EVERY FOREIGN PRINCE, POTENTATE, STATE AND SOVEREIGNTY WHATEVER, AND MORE PARTICULARLY ALL ALLEGIANCE TO HIS MAJESTY GEORGE THE FOURTH AFORESAID TO WHOM HE IS NOW A SUBJECT. JOHN H. HUTCHINSON

TO THE HONOURABLE THE JUDGES OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF COSHOCTON. YOUR PETITIONER JOHN H. HUTCHINSON RESPECTFULLY REPRESENTS UNTO YOUR HONORS THAT BY BIRTH HE IS A SUBJECT OF HIS MAJESTY GEORGE THE FOURTH KING OF THE UNITED KINGDOMS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, THAT IT IS HIS WISH AT THIS TIME TO BECOME A NATURALIZED CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES, THAT HE WAS RESIDING WITHIN THE LIMITS AND UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES BETWEEN THE FIRST DAY OF AUGUST 1822, AND THE TWENTY THIRD DAY OF NOVEMBER 1826, THAT HE HAS RESIDED WITH THE LIMITS OF THIS STATE MORE THAN ONE YEAR PRECEDING THIS APPLICATION. ALSO THAT HE RENOUNCES FOREVER ALL ALLEGIANCE AND FIDELITY TO EVERY FOREIGN PRINCE, POTENTATE, STATE AND SOVEREIGNTY WHATEVER, AND MORE PARTICULARLY ALL ALLEGIANCE TO HIS MAJESTY GEORGE THE FOURTH AFORESAID TO WHOM HE IS NOW A SUBJECT. JOHN H. HUTCHINSON by [American Citizenship] Hutchinson, John H.

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TO THE HONOURABLE THE JUDGES OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF COSHOCTON. YOUR PETITIONER JOHN H. HUTCHINSON RESPECTFULLY REPRESENTS UNTO YOUR HONORS THAT BY BIRTH HE IS A SUBJECT OF HIS MAJESTY GEORGE THE FOURTH KING OF THE UNITED KINGDOMS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, THAT IT IS HIS WISH AT THIS TIME TO BECOME A NATURALIZED CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES, THAT HE WAS RESIDING WITHIN THE LIMITS AND UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES BETWEEN THE FIRST DAY OF AUGUST 1822, AND THE TWENTY THIRD DAY OF NOVEMBER 1826, THAT HE HAS RESIDED WITH THE LIMITS OF THIS STATE MORE THAN ONE YEAR PRECEDING THIS APPLICATION. ALSO THAT HE RENOUNCES FOREVER ALL ALLEGIANCE AND FIDELITY TO EVERY FOREIGN PRINCE, POTENTATE, STATE AND SOVEREIGNTY WHATEVER, AND MORE PARTICULARLY ALL ALLEGIANCE TO HIS MAJESTY GEORGE THE FOURTH AFORESAID TO WHOM HE IS NOW A SUBJECT. JOHN H. HUTCHINSON
Author
[American Citizenship] Hutchinson, John H.
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David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
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Coshocton, Ohio, 1826. Single leaf, 7-1/4" x 12-1/4." Entirely in manuscript. Folded for docketing: "John H. Hutchinson | Declaration of Intention | to become a Citizen &c. | Filed November 23 1826. Common Please Record No. 31 of November Term 1826 Recorded." Light wear, a few fold splits [repaired with archival tape]. Very Good. The Constitution grants Congress the power to enact uniform laws of naturalization. Hutchinson's application was governed by the Naturalization Act of 1802, which required the applicant to be of the Caucasian persuasion; of good moral character; a resident in the United States for five years; and to declare, at least three years in advance, his intent to become a U.S. citizen. This manuscript document was Hutchinson's declaration of intention, to be followed by the later prescribed applications. Before the 1802 Act, Nativists had succeeded in requiring a 14-year residency in the U.S. as a precondition to citizenship. John H. Hutchinson [1800-1870], born in Ireland, immigrated to the United States as a young man, worked as a tailor, and then took up farming. He became Sheriff of Coshocton County 1833-1837. He married Abigail Phillips [1804-1889] who was related to the New Jersey Harts, including John Hart, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Only in America!
The Love Affairs of Some Famous Men

The Love Affairs of Some Famous Men by (Hardy, E. J.), Will Bradley

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The Love Affairs of Some Famous Men
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(Hardy, E. J.), Will Bradley
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Thorn Books (United States)
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Fine
Description
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. xx,341,(1)pp. Bound in purple T-grain cloth ands locked intricately with gilt on the spine and upper board in a design by Will Bradley. Top edge gilt. A few marginal pencil notes else a fine copy. Bambace, Will H. Bradley, A20. .
Arthurian Exhibit: Four ephemera items from the Arthurian Exhibition of 1985: Library Bulletin, Exhibition Booklet, Invitation and Keepsake printed with the Ashendene Press woodblock

Arthurian Exhibit: Four ephemera items from the Arthurian Exhibition of 1985: Library Bulletin, Exhibition Booklet, Invitation and Keepsake printed with the Ashendene Press woodblock by (Monell, Charles)

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Arthurian Exhibit: Four ephemera items from the Arthurian Exhibition of 1985: Library Bulletin, Exhibition Booklet, Invitation and Keepsake printed with the Ashendene Press woodblock
Author
(Monell, Charles)
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Thorn Books (United States)
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Fine
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var: var, 1985. Fine. In 1985, Dr., Monell hosted a traveling exhibit of books relating to the 500th anniversary of the publishing of Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Her are four items form that exhibit: 1. California State Library Foundation Bulletin, No, 12, which contains the illustrated text of Dr. Monell's speech in first edition. 2. Single page invitation to the opening of the Exhibit at the California State Library, Sacramento. 3. Finely printed broadside, 8½ by 11 inches. Printed letterpress by Saul Marks on his Albion Press for Dr. Monell's Special Exhibition of Arthuriana. Noteworthy for the use of Dr. Monell's original wood block cut by W. H. Hooper for the Ashendene Press edition of Malory in 1913. 4. Five Hundred Years of King Arthur, the Exhibition catalogue 20pp, illustrated, stapled wraps, one of 1000 copies of the first standalone edition (preceded by the Library Bulletin, above). .
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HAUSBÜCHLEIN FÜR EHELEUTE UND EHELUSTIGE by LÄSSIG B

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HAUSBÜCHLEIN FÜR EHELEUTE UND EHELUSTIGE
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LÄSSIG B
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The Book Block (United States)
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Leipzig Poeschel & Trepte, 1926 [1856]. 32mo. (1 3/4 x 1 3/16 inches) in a clamshell case measuring 11 x 8 1/8 inches. Publisher's plain red cloth over boards; the bright yellow clamshell case has a central cut out section into which the book fits, and a silk ribbon to assist in its removal. FINE. Published by the Gesellschaft der Bibliophile to celebrate their annual meeting in Leipzig 23-25 Oct. 1926, the volume contains a foreword signed by B. Lässig and is a facsimile edition of a miniature book originally published in 1856 in Olbernhau. The subject of this charming Housebook is for those planning marriage. A search of OCLC turned up JUST TWO COPIES. A SCARCE AND ATTRACTIVE MINIATURE BOOK IN FACSIMILE
Exhibition postcard: Franz Erhard Walther: 30 Elemente Für Einen Leeren Raum 1969-76 (28 January-26 February 1978)

Exhibition postcard: Franz Erhard Walther: 30 Elemente Für Einen Leeren Raum 1969-76 (28 January-26 February 1978) by (WALTHER, Franz Erhard)

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Exhibition postcard: Franz Erhard Walther: 30 Elemente Für Einen Leeren Raum 1969-76 (28 January-26 February 1978)
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(WALTHER, Franz Erhard)
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Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
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Black & white photographic illus. on recto, details on verso. Photographic postcard. Bremerhaven: Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst Bremerhaven, 1978. Postcard invitation for Walther’s 1978 exhibition at the Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst Bremerhaven. In fine condition. ❧ Exhibition installation pictured in Vorhut aus dem Hinterland (Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen: 1992).
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Exhibition card: Zeichnen / Bezeichnen, Aus der Sammlung von Mia und Martin Visser, Bergeyk und Geert Jan Visser, Antwerpen (7 February-4 April 1976) by KUNSTMUSEUM BASEL

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Exhibition card: Zeichnen / Bezeichnen, Aus der Sammlung von Mia und Martin Visser, Bergeyk und Geert Jan Visser, Antwerpen (7 February-4 April 1976)
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KUNSTMUSEUM BASEL
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Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
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Black & white illus. Folded card. Basel: 1976. Invitation to the exhibition of the Visser collection at the Kunstmuseum Basel. With a LeWitt drawing inscribed to the Vissers reproduced. Near fine; tiny pinholes.
ETUDE SUR LA VIEILLESSE ET LE RAJEUNISSEMENT PAR LA GREFFE

ETUDE SUR LA VIEILLESSE ET LE RAJEUNISSEMENT PAR LA GREFFE by VORONOFF, Serge

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ETUDE SUR LA VIEILLESSE ET LE RAJEUNISSEMENT PAR LA GREFFE
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VORONOFF, Serge
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Antic Hay Books (United States)
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Librairie Octave Doin, 1926. VORONOFF, Serge. ETUDE SUR LA VIEILLESSE ET LE RAJEUNISSEMENT PAR LA GREFFE. Paris: Librairie Octave Doin, 1926. Small 4to., printed wraps. First Edition. Signed presentation from Voronoff on the front endpaper. Good (some wear, repaired crack along edge of spine). $275.00.
The Story of a Sub-Pioneer.

The Story of a Sub-Pioneer. by Algeo, Sara M

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The Story of a Sub-Pioneer.
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Algeo, Sara M
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Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Providence, Rhode Island: Snow and Farnham, 1925 First edition. One of only a thousand copies, "the first two hundred of which will be reserved by the Author for her fellow Suffragists. Publisher's light green cloth with gilt title. Octavo. With frontisportrait of the author, nearly seventy full-page and half-page photo reproductions and political cartoons. The photo reproductions include numerous portraits of suffragists, plus suffrage rallies and meetings and groups of suffragists campaigning in the streets. Also with title-page device representing Rhode Island suffragists. Back cover lightly soiled. Foxing to fore-edge; however, very clean and fresh throughout. A very good, tight copy inscribed by the author (September 20, 1937). The "Sub-Pioneers," in the words of Sarah MacCormack Algeo (1876 – 1953), were suffragists like herself who "came into the great game of 'Votes for Women' at the Eleventh Hour," but nevertheless "played a not inglorious part." Algeo writes: "I am a feminist first, last and all the time," (p. 13). She draws on her experiences as the chair Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association and the first president of the Rhode Island League of Women Voters to construct this history of the later years of the fight for women's suffrage in New England. The present work recounts suffrage milestones like the Rhode Island State Senate hearing a suffragist speech for the first time (p. 187), the 1914 Votes for Women Week, and the visit of Emmeline Pankhurst to New England (p. 169).
Darwin, Wallace, and the Theory of Natural Selection. To commemorate the centennial of the meeting of the Linnean Society, July1, 1838, and the Papers of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace which were read there; Dedicated to the Darwin Anniversary Committee, Inc., organized to commemorate the significance of Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution

Darwin, Wallace, and the Theory of Natural Selection. To commemorate the centennial of the meeting of the Linnean Society, July1, 1838, and the Papers of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace which were read there; Dedicated to the Darwin Anniversary Committee, Inc., organized to commemorate the significance of Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution by Loewenberg, Bert James

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Darwin, Wallace, and the Theory of Natural Selection. To commemorate the centennial of the meeting of the Linnean Society, July1, 1838, and the Papers of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace which were read there; Dedicated to the Darwin Anniversary Committee, Inc., organized to commemorate the significance of Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution
Author
Loewenberg, Bert James
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Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description
New Haven: Gerald E. Cinamon, Department of Graphic Arts, Yale University, 1957. Copy 220 of a limited edition of 385 copies. NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION, COMMEMORATIVE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF DARWIN, WALLACE, AND NATURAL SELECTION--COPY OF PROMINENT DARWIN SCHOLAR. 23 x 14 cm blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed top front paste-down, "Prof. John C. Greene, Dept of History, Iowa State College," 2 blanks, [8], 97 pp, illustrations in text, [1], light pencil marginal notes by JC Greene. Near fine in custom archival mylar cover. BERT JAMES LOEWENBERG (1905-1974) earned his PhD from Harvard and was a member of the Sarah Lawrence College history faculty from 1942 to his retirement in 1971. He was Esther Raushenbush Professor of History and was a Fulbright professor at Cambridge. In addition to Darwin, Wallace, and the Theory of Natural Selection, he is author of Darwinism, Reform or Reaction, American History in American Thought, and American Democracy and World Perspective. PROVENANCE: JOHN COLTON GREENE (1917-2008) was an American historian of science. He is known for his influential study of the history of evolutionary thought, The Death of Adam, for academic controversies with Neo-Darwinians, particularly Ernst Mayr, collected in Debating Darwin. In 1939 he graduated with an M.A. in American history from Harvard University and continued studying there for his Ph.D. until 1942, becoming one of the early Junior Fellows of the Harvard Society of Fellows in 1941,[3] when his academic career was interrupted by World War II. He earned his PhD in history from Harvard in 1952. He was professor at Iowa State University from 1956 to 1962. He was from 1975 to 1976 the president of the History of Science Society. In 1983 he was elected a fellow of the American Antiquarian Society. In 1989 a festschrift of essays was dedicated to him, History, Humanity, and Evolution edited by James Moore. In 2002 he received the George Sarton Medal.
The Biology of the Internal Secretions

The Biology of the Internal Secretions by Dercum, Francis X.

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The Biology of the Internal Secretions
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Dercum, Francis X.
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Philadelphia and London: W.B. Saunders Co., 1924. First edition. EARLY TREATISE ON NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY BY NOTED AMERICAN PHYSICIAN. 8 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 241 pp, Very good in custom archival mylar cover. FRANCIS XAVIER DERCUM (1856-1931) was a noted American neurologist who in 1888 described 'Dercum's disease', which produces painful deposits of fat under the skin (Adiposis dolorosa). Biology of the Internal Secretions is one of his major works.
Budding Life

Budding Life by King, Jessie M.

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Budding Life
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King, Jessie M.
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Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
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Original pictorial wrappers with original glassine dust wrapper with price of 1/-NET stamped on upper right corner. A fine copy with no wear. Beautiful color cover drawing and 16 black and white drawings (including title page) by JMK. One of her best works, seldom found in this condition. Original Wraps. A fine copy of the third printing.
VATHEK, AN ARABIAN TALE

VATHEK, AN ARABIAN TALE by BECKFORD, William

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VATHEK, AN ARABIAN TALE
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BECKFORD, William
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Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
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About Fine, lacking the chemise, in a Very Good slipcase with a split at one edge
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[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1945. Hardcover. About Fine, lacking the chemise, in a Very Good slipcase with a split at one edge. Valenti Angelo. Duodecimo (4" x 6") bound in full orange morocco gilt-stamped with a design by Valenti Angelo. Each page of text features decorative borders by Angelo, and there are 16 full-page miniatures printed in colors and hand-illuminated in gold by Angelo as well. Copy #845 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.
Regional Cultures and Mortality in America
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Regional Cultures and Mortality in America by Kunitz, Stephen J.

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Regional Cultures and Mortality in America
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Kunitz, Stephen J.
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Brattle Book Shop (United States)
ISBN
9781107079632
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Fine
Description
New York: Cambridge University Press 2015. Hardcover. 9.25"x6.25" xv, 269pp. Glossy brown paper over boards, illustration on front, tan text. Fine condition. ISBN:9781107079632 . Fine. Hardcover .
Steward's Handbook and Guide to Party Catering-in Five Parts... Sixth edition

Steward's Handbook and Guide to Party Catering-in Five Parts... Sixth edition by Whitehead, Jessup

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Steward's Handbook and Guide to Party Catering-in Five Parts... Sixth edition
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Whitehead, Jessup
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Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
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Chicago: Jessup Whitehead & Co., Pubs, 1903. Thick octavo (23 x 15.5 cm.), v, 464, 29, [7] pages. Publisher's advertisements. Illustrated. Sixth Edition. Jessup Joseph Whitehead (1833-1889) emigrated from England as a young man with his widowed mother and brothers, settling in Kansas Territory in the early 1850s. From 1853 he is known to have worked as a cook on steamships and in hotels. In August 1862 he enrolled in the Union Army in Kansas City, alongside his brother Charles, eventually taking a position as cook for the 10th Missouri Cavalry, Company M. After the Civil War his name appears as the author of feuilletons and occasional essays for newspapers as far afield as the Laramie Boomerang and the London Telegraph, and for such trade bulletins as The Daily National Hotel Reporter and The Caterer, possibly at the instigation of Charles, who had graduated to editorial positions in several newspapers, first in Kansas, and later in California. In the 1880s he compiled and sold anthologies of his columns, and a number of them, too, are included in both the Family Cook Book and The Book of Breads and Cakes – titles that he combined under his own imprint for the first time in 1883 (cf Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography, page 493). ~ By 1887, if not before, Whitehead had become a favorite of visitors to the Sweetwater Park Hotel in Lithia Springs, near Atlanta, a famous resort which had opened in 1880. At the time of his death, in May 1889, he had undertaken to supervise the kitchen of Hotel Monte Sano, another luxury resort destination, near Huntsville, Alabama. His will stipulated that his estate be divided between his sons and the editor of his publishing enterprise in Chicago, and his books continued therefore to be issued into the 1920s. ~ Clean and sound internally. In publisher's textured brown cloth, gilt-titled. Very light wear to edges, otherwise fine.
Mary Gilman Pulsifer. In Memoriam

Mary Gilman Pulsifer. In Memoriam

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Mary Gilman Pulsifer. In Memoriam
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James Arsenault & Company (United States)
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Brookline, Massachusetts: 1953. Softcover. 12mo (7.25” x 5”), gray wrappers with gray title, bound with gray cord. Frontis. port., [9 pp.]. CONDITION: Good, some offsetting at covers, frontis. leaf with slight dent, clean and fresh interior. A memorial biography for Mary Gilman Pulsifer (1896–1953), from Kennebunkport, Maine and Brookline, MA, with acknowledgment of her many club activities and an eulogy by Rev. Ashley Day Leavitt.
Burny's Journeys; Lessons and Confessions of an Aging Hipster

Burny's Journeys; Lessons and Confessions of an Aging Hipster by Finkle, Brian "Burny

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Burny's Journeys; Lessons and Confessions of an Aging Hipster
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Finkle, Brian "Burny
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
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9781412019255
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Very Good
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Victoria: Trafford Publishing, 2004. Paperback. Very Good. Second Printing. Inscribed on the title page by Finkle. Very Good. Wraps bumped, a crease at the top spine fold. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The memoir of an Iowa man who gets drafted into the Vietnam War, returns disillusioned, and takes to life on the road and journaling.
Frederick Mulder Master Prints Catalogue 10

Frederick Mulder Master Prints Catalogue 10

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Frederick Mulder Master Prints Catalogue 10
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Near Fine
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London: Frederick Mulder, 1987. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Brown stains on back cover, else near fine in wrappers.
Up against the bulkhead. Vol. 1 no. 2 (May 15, 1970)

Up against the bulkhead. Vol. 1 no. 2 (May 15, 1970)

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Up against the bulkhead. Vol. 1 no. 2 (May 15, 1970)
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Berkeley: MDM Bay Area, 1970. 12p. tabloid format newspaper, paper toned, folded, otherwise very good. Underground newspaper by and for sailors and GIs opposed to the Vietnam War.
The Life and Art of Dwight William Tryon

The Life and Art of Dwight William Tryon by White, Henry C

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The Life and Art of Dwight William Tryon
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White, Henry C
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Boston and New York / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1930. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Front fore edge corner slightly exposed, ink name and date on front endpaper, endpapers a bit toned. 1930 Hard Cover. xv, [3], 226, [1], frontispiece and plates throughout text (30 total), 32 plates follow text. Tryon was a landscape and seascape painter in the tonalist style, whose work was influenced by James McNeill Whistler.
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Catalog of the Emilie and Karl Riemenschneider Memorial Bach Library by [BACH]. Kenney, Sylvia W.

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Catalog of the Emilie and Karl Riemenschneider Memorial Bach Library
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[BACH]. Kenney, Sylvia W.
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New York: Columbia University Press, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Boards. 295 pp.

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