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The Original Appointment of the Duke of Wellington to Negotiate at the Congress of Vienna, Which Established the European Balance of Power for a Century, Signed by Future King George IV by George IV

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Title: The Original Appointment of the Duke of Wellington to Negotiate at the Congress of Vienna, Which Established the European Balance of Power for a Century, Signed by Future King George IV
Author: George IV
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 18/01/1815. By 1792 the French Revolution was in the hands of its radicals, and the other governments in Europe were convinced they had to intervene to prevent its spread. They invaded France, thus commencing a war that would not end for well over two decades. By its close, France, led by Napoleon, had conquered (at one time or another) much of the continent, and spread its influence pervasively throughout. Virtually no aspect of life in Europe was unaffected by what came to be called the Napoleonic Wars. Finally, on March 31, 1814, the Allied forces entered Paris, compelling Napoleon to abdicate and go into exile at Elba.The hostilities were suspended by a convention signed on April 23, and on May 30 the Treaty of Paris was signed ending the state of war. But this was just the start. The victorious European powers determined to reestablish, as far as possible, the order and borders in force in 1792, and to resolve the many other problems that had arisen during revolution and war. They called the Congress of Vienna, which started on September 27, 1814. The Congress proved to be the most important international conference in European history, at least until the Versailles Conference in 1919. Although these representatives wanted what was best for their own countries, they followed one fundamental principle: in order to prevent another major war, they wished to create a European ‘balance of power’ which would prevent any one nation from being able to again dominate the continent. The settlement that resulted accomplished this crucial goal, and was the first conference that foresaw what was essentially a European Union.Wellington had been appointed Ambassador to Paris after the abdication of Napoleon in 1814, but the weakness and instability of the restored Bourbon monarchy was such that by the autumn of that year the British government feared for his safety. Lord Castlereagh had been the initial representative of Great Britain at the Congress of Vienna until early 1815, when he had to return to his parliamentary duties. Wellington was chosen to replace him and reached Vienna on February 3, 1815. He was there on March 7 when news reached the city that Napoleon had escaped from Elba. A new coalition was hastily formed, and Wellington was soon heading west to Brussels and, ultimately, Waterloo. The Congress of Vienna continued to meet throughout the Hundred Days and the final agreement was signed on June 9, 1815. It was the most comprehensive treaty that had ever been agreed in Europe up to that time.This is Wellington's original appointment to negotiate a new European balance of power at Vienna. Document signed ""George PR"", at the head, addressed to the Lord Chancellor Lord Eldon, January 18, 1815, authorizing ""Full Power to our Right Trusty and Right Entirely Beloved Cousin and Councillor Arthur Duke of Wellington ... constituting and appointing him His Majesty's First Commissioner and Plenipotentiary at the Congress at Vienna"", also signed at the foot by the Secretary of War Lord Bathurst, with a copy of the 9 page instrument itself attached, papered seal, stab-stitched with blue ribbon, altogether 11 pages. George signed PR (Prince Regent) from the time his father became insane and he was named to act for him in 1811, until the time he himself became King in 1820.

An Invitation to the Coronation of King George V, Signed by Him by George V

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Title: An Invitation to the Coronation of King George V, Signed by Him
Author: George V
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Description: 24/05/1911. Very uncommon, the first such invitation we have hadThe Edwardian Age - the years of the reign of King Edward VII - lasted from 1901-1910. It was a romantic golden age of long summer afternoons and garden parties, basking in a sun that never set on the British Empire. Britannia ruled the waves, and the carnage of World War I was unimaginable and still in the future. Rapid industrialization increased economic opportunity, creating conditions that allowed for more social mobility and prosperity, and with it more social change. There was also a rise in social concerns and attention to the plight of the poor, as well as a push for women's voting rights that would soon be successful.King Edward VII died on May 6, 1910, at age 68, bringing an end to the Edwardian Age. He lay in state at Westminster Hall, where a quarter of a million people filed past his body. On May 20 he was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor. The funeral procession saw a horseback procession, followed by 11 carriages. Those attending included the Kings of Great Britain, Spain, Denmark, Greece, Norway, Portugal, Bulgaria, and Belgium, plus Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, Archduke Franz Ferdinand (whose assassination would start World War I), the brother of the Tsar of Russia, and former president Theodore Roosevelt representing the United States.The coronation of Edward’s successor, King George V, was set for June 22, 1911, and the great men of the realm were invited to attend. This is one of those invitations.Document signed, London, May 24, 1911, addressed to John Savile Lumley-Savile, 2nd Baron Savile. He was a British diplomat and sportsman, and a large landowner, holding 34,000 acres in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire. “Trusty and Wellbeloved, We greet you well. Whereas the twenty second of June next is appointed for the Solemnity of Our Royal Coronation. These are to will and command you and the Lady your wife (all excuses set apart) to make your personal attendance on Us at the time abovementoined, furnished and appointed as to your Rank and Quality appertaineth, there to do and perform all such services as shall be appointed and belong unto you respectively, Whereof you and she are not to fail. And so we bid you most heartily farewell.” The document is signed by the Earl Marshal, who was traditionally the Duke of Norfolk.The reign of George V was turbulent and utterly unlike that of his father. First, just four years into his reign, came the disastrous First World War, in which a million Britains were killed and two million wounded in a nation of but forty millions. The 1920s saw the Irish war for independence, massive labor strife, and the first Labour Party government. In 1928 he developed the lung disease that would take his life. Then in the 1930s came the Great Depression. George died in 1936.

The Green Ray by Verne, Jules

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Title: The Green Ray
Author: Verne, Jules
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883. First U.K. edition. Near Fine. First edition in English, later issue with 32 page publisher's catalogue dated September 1883 at rear (first was November 1882). A Near Fine copy. Octavo (7 x 4 3/4 in; 178 x 121 mm). viii, 312, 32 (publisher's catalog) pp. Frontispiece, title vignette and forty-three black and white plates (included in pagination) by L. Benett, reprinted from the first French edition, one map. Bound in publishers ochre cloth, front cover pictorially decorated in red and black, title lettered in gilt, rear cover decoratively bordered in blind, spine pictorially decorated in red and black and lettered in gilt, blue-gray floral endpapers. The mildest of rubbing to the extremities, internally immaculate. Inspired by the optical phenomenon-a split second flash of green light at the end of a sunrise or sunset-Jules Vernes' book is a surprising love story. Here the light plays a pivotal role in the narrative: Helena Campbell refuses to marry until she has seen the Grey Ray, which according to Scottish legend, allows you to see into your own heart and read the true feelings of others. The strange and delightful novel was first published in September 1883, a month before George Munro's pirated "Seaside Library" edition. Taves & Michaluk V023. Myers 31. Near Fine.

Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliotheque de feu M. le Duc de la Valliere. Premiere Partie contenant les Manuscrits, les premieres Éditions, les Livres imprimés sur vélin & sur grand papier, les Livres rares, & précieux par leur belle conservation, les Livres d'Estampes, &c. dont la Vente se fera dans les premiers jours du mois de Décembre 1783 by (AUCTION CATALOGUE: LA VALLIÈRE)

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Title: Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliotheque de feu M. le Duc de la Valliere. Premiere Partie contenant les Manuscrits, les premieres Éditions, les Livres imprimés sur vélin & sur grand papier, les Livres rares, & précieux par leur belle conservation, les Livres d'Estampes, &c. dont la Vente se fera dans les premiers jours du mois de Décembre 1783
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Description: Engraved frontis. port., one folding engraved plate, & four engraved facsimiles (three folding). Three vols. 8vo, cont. vellum over boards, spines gilt. Paris: G. De Bure, 1783. An attractive set of the celebrated catalogue of the first part of the most important book and manuscript collection of the 18th century. The catalogue, prepared by De Bure and Van Praet, contains MSS., noteworthy incunabula, and books printed on vellum or large paper. The sale, consisting of 5668 lots, made the enormous sum of 464,677 liv. 8 s. "The manuscripts constitute an amazing collection of early French poetry and romances."Taylor, Book Catalogues, p. 248. This set does not have the Supplément to the first part; it is very rare and is usually found only in large paper sets. Brunet, II, 554. Peignot, pp. 128-29. Pollard & Ehrman no. 297.

Robert INDIANA. NUMBERS. 1968. With 10 silkscreens by Dieter Honisch

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Title: Robert INDIANA. NUMBERS. 1968. With 10 silkscreens
Author: Dieter Honisch
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Description: Dusseldorf: Editions Domberger Stuttgart, 1968. One of 2500 unnumbered copies. Foreword by Dieter Honisch. Illustrated with 10 silkscreens in color after Robert Indiana, depicting a series of numbers spanning from 1 to 0 (zero), the illustrations accompany the poetry text in English and German by Robert Creeley. In original brown paper wrappers, and black slipcase.

A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope, inquiring into the motive that might induce him in his satyrical works, to be so frequently fond of Mr. Cibber's name. by CIBBER, Colley

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Title: A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope, inquiring into the motive that might induce him in his satyrical works, to be so frequently fond of Mr. Cibber's name.
Author: CIBBER, Colley
Seller: Savoy Books (United States)
Description: Book. London: W. Lewis, 1752. Pp. 66. [with] The Life and Prophecies of Robert Nixon, commonly called The Cheshire Prophet. The Third edition. London: for Mess. Fielding and Walker, [1780? ]. Pp. 28. Wanting half-titles. 8vo (in 4's) contemp half-calf and marbled boards, raised bands, ruled in gilt, red morocco label. First edition of Cibber's famous letter, defending himself from Pope's ill treatment in the recently published fourth book of the Dunciad. NCBEL 2, 778. Together with a rare printing of prophecies by Nixon the Prophet, a plough boy who lived by this account in the 15th century, by others in the 17th. Surviving in folk tradition and manuscript, the prophecies were first printed in 1714, with various treatments appearing well into the 19th century. The present edition has a new historical preface, and takes pains to distinguish itself from John Oldmixon's version, whichaccounts for the majority of previous printings. A checklist of the various editions appeared in Notes and Queries (4th s., xi, March 1, 1873), and it does not include this title in any 18th century edition. The ESTC records only two copies (NLS and Liverpool) of this edition, and no others of this title. Nice copies in a contemp. binding..

Six Statements for Peace in America by Harris, David; Dennis Sweeney; Stuart McRae; Bill Shurtleff; Chris Jones

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Title: Six Statements for Peace in America
Author: Harris, David; Dennis Sweeney; Stuart McRae; Bill Shurtleff; Chris Jones
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: [Stanford?]: Peace and Liberation Commune Press, 1967. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. [12] pp. incl. stapled self-wrappers. Near Fine with a hint of foxing to front wrap. Rare anti-war booklet with short essays by Stanford Movement figures David Harris, Dennis Sweeney, Stuart McRae, Bill Shurtleff, Chris Jones, and a cameo by Friedrich Nietzsche. OCLC locates only three copies in institutional holdings.

Civil War Veteran School Board Chair Cautions Teacher to Discipline Carefully by [EDUCATION]. GEORGE N. SHEPARD

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Title: Civil War Veteran School Board Chair Cautions Teacher to Discipline Carefully
Author: [EDUCATION]. GEORGE N. SHEPARD
Seller: Seth Kaller, Inc. (United States)
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Description: "...neither have the right to inflict punishment or impose restrictions that will maim, or injure the health of, the children. As to the particular case under consideration, I cannot believe that you are unduly severe or that your restrictions and exactions will hurt a robust, stubborn pupil." [EDUCATION]. GEORGE N. SHEPARD. Autograph Letter Signed, as Chairman of the School Board, to Mary D. Webster, October 5, 1891, West Epping, New Hampshire. 2 pp. and envelope. Complete Transcript West Epping N.H. Oct. 5, 1891 Dear Miss Webster, Yours of the 3d inst. is at hand. Your school supplies as ordered are sent by mail this morning. We have no Swinton's Second Readers now on hand, therefore I put in for you a McGuffy's Second Reader, which I hope will serve your purpose. In relation to authority of teachers, you perhaps already understand that they have the same as parents while the children are under their care, and that neither have the right to inflict punishment or impose restrictions that will maim, or injure the health of, the children. As to the particular case under consideration, I cannot believe that you are unduly severe or that your restrictions and exactions will hurt a robust, stubborn pupil. Of course you will be expected to discriminate so as to properly modify your discipline to suit each particular case, and be especially tender with such as are weak and frail, physically or mentally. Try to place yourself in the same relation to the children under your care and instruction, as that of a faithful, conscientious mother, possessed of good, sound, common sense, who, while she loves her children with a true and motherly love, is profoundly impressed with the importance and necessity of restraining them, and of training them in habits of studiousness and industry, as well as all the other useful activities, and you will have a guiding principle that will never lead you very far in wrong methods. My decision, then, is this, you have a right, in general, to deprive a pupil of part of the regular noonday intermission and mid-session recesses to make up delinquencies, provided that you substitute a sufficient number of recesses by himself, alone. This is, indeed, a most fitting discipline to apply to a pupil who stubbornly and persistently wastes in idleness the time regularly assigned for study. Yours truly, G. N. Shepard Ch. Sch. Bd. of Epping. George N. Shepard (1824-1903) was born in Epping, New Hampshire, and educated in the public schools and at Hampton Academy. He married Rowena Lawrence Thyng (1823-1911) in 1845. He taught school, was a land surveyor, and served as a justice of the peace. By 1860, he was listed as a farmer, living with his wife and four children. He represented West Epping in the state legislature from 1860 to 1862. During the Civil War, he rose to the rank of captain in Company I of the 11th New Hampshire Infantry from 1862 to 1865. He was wounded at both the Battle of Fredericksburg and the Battle of Cold Harbor. Afterwards, he returned to farming, then engaged in the mercantile and lumber business. He was postmaster of West Epping from 1876 to at least 1895 and chairman of the school board from 1886 to at least 1895. Mary D. Webster (1854-1935) was born in New Hampshire. By 1870, both she and her older sister Sarah (1848-1929) were school teachers still living with their parents in West Epping, Chester township, southeastern New Hampshire. By 1910, the two unmarried sisters still lived together in Chester township, but Mary listed her occupation as farming (at home).

Oeuvres de L'Abbe De Chaulieu (2 vol.) by Amfrye, Guillaume; Abbé de Chaulieu (Edited by M. De Saint Marc)

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Title: Oeuvres de L'Abbe De Chaulieu (2 vol.)
Author: Amfrye, Guillaume; Abbé de Chaulieu (Edited by M. De Saint Marc)
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: fair
Description: Paris: David, Prault, Durand, 1750. First edition. Hardcover. fair. 2 volumes. 16mo. cxxxiij. 159pp. 357pp. Contemporary leather with gilt ornaments and title plate to spine. Head and tail of spines slightly bumped and rubbed. Cracks and lining to spine. Corners rubbed and partly worn. Minor scuffing and rubbing to boards. Yellowing to page edges. Very minor sporadic foxing throughout, not affecting text. Marbled end papers. Frontispiece to vol. 1, a copper engraving. Two in-text copper engravings, one in each volume at beginning of a chapter. Ornamental printers' devices at end of each chapter. Great work of French literature, contains poetry, letters and prose. In French. In good- condition.

ABOUT ALPHABETS: SOME MARGINAL NOTES ON TYPE DESIGN by Zapf, Hermann

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Title: ABOUT ALPHABETS: SOME MARGINAL NOTES ON TYPE DESIGN
Author: Zapf, Hermann
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Condition: Fine
Description: Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1970. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine copy in fine dustjacket of the 1970 edition by MIT Press after the firts of 1960 with a new introduction by typographer and type designer Zapf. Neatly signed by him on the title page in pencil. A lovely copy.

The physical background of perception by Adrian, Edgar Douglas

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Title: The physical background of perception
Author: Adrian, Edgar Douglas
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Description: Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947. Adrian, Edgar Douglas (1889-1977). The physical background of perception. [8], 95pp. Text illustrations. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947. 220 x 140 mm. Original cloth, dust-jacket (sunned, chipped, portion torn from back wrapper). Minor toning but very good. First Edition. Adrian (first Baron Adrian) shared the 1932 Nobel Prize in physiology / medicine with Charles Sherrington for his investigations of the physical basis of sensation. The present book was based on Adrian's Waynflete Lectures of 1946. .

Battle Over Britain; A history of the German air assaults on Great Britain, 1917-18, and July-December 1940. by [WW2][WW1] Mason, Francis K.

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Title: Battle Over Britain; A history of the German air assaults on Great Britain, 1917-18, and July-December 1940.
Author: [WW2][WW1] Mason, Francis K.
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Description: St. Albans: Alban Books/McWhirter Twins Ltd, 1969. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's burgundy buckram titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 636pp. Clean, bright and strong with only the lightest wear to the cloth; internally clean and fresh, from the library of Nathaniel Tarn, noted poet, translator and bibliophile, bearing his bookplate to the verso of the front flyleaf; in a clean, strong dustjacket with some light wear and scuffing to the extremities. A very good, handsome copy indeed. A dense and expansive single volume sourcebook for all aspects of German aerial aggression against Great Britain during both World Wars, culminating in the Allied victory over the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain. Exhaustive detail of units, planes, and actions performing during the extended air war. This copy clearly printed in the UK for the US market with an Alban Books distribution label placed over the New York distributor's imprint.

The Household Guide and Family Receipt Book: The perusal of this pamphlet will amply repay the reader by [Dr. Hooker's Cough & Croup Syrup; Leet, C. D. (publisher)]

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Title: The Household Guide and Family Receipt Book: The perusal of this pamphlet will amply repay the reader
Author: [Dr. Hooker's Cough & Croup Syrup; Leet, C. D. (publisher)]
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Description: [Springfield, Mass: C.D. Leet, publisher; Samuel Bowles & Company, Printers, 1867. Cord-sewn booklet (18.5 x 11 cm.), 24 pages. Calendar. Advertisements. At head of title: "Take one". Evident FIRST EDITION. A product cookbook with testimonials for advertised products, some cooking recipes, etc., for C.D. Leet’s Patent medicines. Includes promotional literature for Dr. Hooker's Cough and Croup Syrup and Dr. Miller's Soothing and Healing Balsam or Nature's Assistant. Moderate foxing throughout; some water stains to a few leaves. In publisher's pale salmon-colored wrappers, printed in black. Scarce. [OCLC records four copies].

Literary Opinion In America. 2 volumes by Zabel, Morton Dauwen

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Title: Literary Opinion In America. 2 volumes
Author: Zabel, Morton Dauwen
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Description: Gloucester: Peter Smith, 19371968. Hardcover. Very good.

[Trade Catalog]: QRS Piano Roll Catalog 1003: World's Leading Piano Roll Manufacturer Since the Turn of the Century

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Title: [Trade Catalog]: QRS Piano Roll Catalog 1003: World's Leading Piano Roll Manufacturer Since the Turn of the Century
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Condition: Very Good
Description: (Buffalo, New York): QRS Music Rolls, 1985. Softcover. Very Good. Trade catalog. Slim small quarto. 33pp. Illustrated. Printed wrappers. Wrappers worn and with a bit of soil, small area of label residue on cover, a couple of titles faintly highlighted or with small ink checkmarks, very good. With an errata slip tipped-on inside the front wrap. Why yes, they *are* offering "Hotel California" for the player piano.

The Last Empire: Photography in British India, 1855-1911 by Worswick, Clark; Embree, Ainslie; The Earl Mountbatten of Burma

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Title: The Last Empire: Photography in British India, 1855-1911
Author: Worswick, Clark; Embree, Ainslie; The Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Seller: Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN: 9780912334998
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Aperture, 1976. Large Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. Near fine in good jacket. 2 inch tear along top jacket edge, jacket edges a bit rubbed. 1976 Large Hardcover. 146 pp. "A brilliant selection of virtually unknown and rare photographs of India taken between 1855 and 1911. Images include the work of early photographers and adventurers who first recorded the glories of the Himalayas, ancient archeological wonders and the picturesque facade of the British Raj in the subcontinent. This collection represents British views of a land that held romantic and exotic place in the western imagination.

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