Secure Checkout

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption

Cart Totals

Promo Code:	– $0.00
Subtotal:	$9,820.00
Shipping:	$27.00
	$0.00
Donation Amount:	$0.00
Total:	$9,847.00
Change Currency:

Contact

Email Address

Re-type Email Address

Shipping

Expedited shipping $55.00 3 - 6 days

Standard Shipping $27.00 4 - 14 days

All fields are required unless marked optional.

Add Shipping Note

Payment

Verified and Secured. Guaranteed.

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption

Please select your payment method from the following list:

PayPal
Credit or Debit Card
Express Wallet

Click the button to checkout with PayPal.

You will be charged $9,847.00 when completing this purchase.

Cart Totals

Subtotal:	$9,820.00
Shipping:	$27.00
:	$0.00
Donation Amount:	$0.00
Total:	$9,847.00
Change Currency:

You are about to purchase:

Alessandro Volta. Engraved portrait By Rados after Focosi by Volta, Alessandro

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $7.00

Details

$4,000.00

( US$)

Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.

Title: Alessandro Volta. Engraved portrait By Rados after Focosi
Author: Volta, Alessandro
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Milan: L. Rados, 1827. Volta, Alessandro (1745-1827). Engraved portrait by Luigi Rados (1773-1840) after Roberto Focosi. Milan: presso l'Editore Proprietario Luigi Rados, 1828. 490 x 347 mm. Small repairs to margins, some faint stains, otherwise very good. This fine portrait, engraved after Volta's death, shows him seated at a table, his left hand inside his coat and his right resting on the table, with an example of his "crown of cups" battery at his right and a Voltaic pile behind him. A 7-line caption in Italian gives a brief resume of Volta's achievements. Volta, the inventor of the first electric battery, published his first paper on it in the Phil. Trans. in 1800; his investigations proved the identity of Galvani's "animal" electricity with the electricity generated by his apparatus. The Voltaic pile made possible the experiments leading to the decomposition of water, electro-deposition of metal, and creation of the electro-magnet, initiating the electrical age. Benezit for the engraver. .

Novum vasorum corporis humani systema by Vieussens, Raymond

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $5.00

Details

$3,500.00

( US$)

Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.

Title: Novum vasorum corporis humani systema
Author: Vieussens, Raymond
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Amsterdam: Paul Marret, 1705. Novum vasorum corporis humani systema. [48], 260pp. Additional engraved title page, engraved title vignette and coat of arms, engraved plate. Amsterdam: Paul Marret, 1705. 161 x 100 mm. Vellum ca. 1705, title in ink on spine, a bit stained. Very good. First Edition. "Vieussens was among the first to describe the morbid changes in mitral stenosis, the throbbing pulse in aortic insufficiency, and the first correctly to describe the structure of the left ventricle, the course of the coronary vessels, and the valve in the large coronary vein. He was the first to diagnose thoracic aneurysm during the life of the patient. Vieussens included a classic description of the symptoms of aortic regurgitation in his book" (Garrison-Morton.com 2729). .

South Carolina Impressment Agent Negotiates With General Beauregard for the Release of Slaves to their Masters by WILLIAM SHANNON

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $3.50

Details

$2,000.00

( US$)

Seller: Seth Kaller, Inc.

Title: South Carolina Impressment Agent Negotiates With General Beauregard for the Release of Slaves to their Masters
Author: WILLIAM SHANNON
Seller: Seth Kaller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Shannon, a militia colonel and state agent for the impressment of slave labor, requests the discharge of a number of slaves impressed for labor on military fortifications in Charleston, from the chief of staff of General Beauregard. Local planters depended on Shannon to force the state governor and the Confederate army to abide by the terms of the legislation granting the power to impress slave labor, in this case for a month's time. A rare document concerning the joint effort between the Confederate government and the local planters to use slave labor for military fortifications. "I am officially identified with the success of a scheme which I have labored earnestly to make efficient, outside of that motive no man can be more deeply interested than I am in the success of the defence of Charleston, but I feel constrained from a sense of duty to ask the discharge of those Negroes furnished under the call for the 15th July, who have worked over thirty days and which are relieved by the supply rendered in the past few days. The motive prompting this direct application is that I am informed by the Engineer Department that the Negroes could not be discharged…" WILLIAM SHANNON. Autograph Letter Signed, to General Thomas Jordan. Charleston, August 17, 1863, 2 pp. With: newspaper advertisement, entitled: "Labor For Coast Defences," a public letter from Governor M.L. Bonham, August 19, 1863, 1 p. Complete Transcript Charleston So. Ca. Augt 17th 1863 Genl Thomas Jordan Head Quarters Genl As agent of the State of South Carolina I delivered to the Engineer in charge, under the call for 15th July ult some Thirteen hundred & fifty negroes, which since that time have been engaged in labor in the defences around Charleston, Within the past two days I have delivered to the Engineers in charge some eleven hundred & fifty negroes under the call for the 14th of August. Neither of these numbers have any connection with the voluntary supply rendered in response to this call of the Governor and the Commanding General. The act of the Legislature under which these Negroes are furnished authorizes the call only for 'thirty days labor,' and requires the negroes to be discharged at the end of thirty days when relieved by a fresh supply, authorized [2] by the enactments of the law, by the practice of the past six months, & by assurances of the Confederate authorities I have not hesitated in all my calls to the people to pledge the return of the Negroes at the end of the thirty days & the people of the State have relied on my pledge. I am officially identified with the success of a scheme which I have labored earnestly to make efficient, outside of that motive no man can be more deeply interested than I am in the success of the defence of Charleston, but I feel constrained from a sense of duty to ask the discharge of those Negroes furnished under the call for the 15th July, who have worked over thirty days and which are relieved by the supply rendered in the past few days. The motive prompting this direct application is that I am informed by the Engineer Department that the Negroes could not be discharged. It is dire to the slaveholders of the state to say that I have received notice from several planters authorizing me to retain their hands, but no notice has been given of any such intention & nothing like general information has reached them that there is any design to retain them and therefore I have heard but from few – Very respectfully Yours, Wm M. Shannon Agt of the State of So. Ca. [newspaper advertisement:] Labor for Coast Defences Executive Department, August 18, 1863, The labor which under the call of Col. Shannon, has been at work on the coast for the past month, is now entitled to be discharged, according to the provisions of the Act of the Legislature. But the Commanding General deems its retentions so essential to the safety of Charleston and the State, that the Governor does not hesitate to retain it for the present, and to appeal, and appeal with confidence, to the patriotic owners of that labor, to allow it to remain a month longer, if General Beauregard shall so long need it. If the owners insist upon its discharge, on application to Major Echols, Broad street, the labor of the owners applying will be discharged. But being satisfied, from personal observation, of the pressing need of this labor at this time, to the safety of Charleston and the State, the Governor trusts that it will not be withdrawn. The owners will receive credit for it on any future call. Voluntary labor will still be received, and is much needed. Those who have contributed no labor, cannot render a more important service to the country than by sending it forward now. M.L. Bonham. August 19 Historical Background Shannon requests the discharged of slave labor used in coastal defenses in the summer of 1863, but as Union forces encroached upon Charleston, and especially after repeated attacks on Fort Wagner on Morris Island, Confederate authorities scrambled to build up Charleston harbor's defenses. Thomas Jordan (1819-1895), a Virginian, was the roommate of William T. Sherman at West Point, graduating in 1840. He served in the Mexican War, and was assistant quartermaster on the eve of the Civil War. He served as a staff officer throughout the Civil War, most prominently as chief of staff to G.T. Beauregard. He was promoted to brigadier general for valorous service at the Battle of Shiloh.

Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

A Like In the 20 Century by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $5.00

Details

$195.00

( US$)

Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB

Title: A Like In the 20 Century
Author: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780395707524
Condition: Fine
Description: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Presentation By Author. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket. First Edition/First Printing WithoutWear. $28.95 Flap..Excellent Fresh Copy Presentation Copy To .Good Friends(Art & Louise) Beautiful Copy..

Islamic Architecture of The Indian Subcontinent by ALFIERI, Bianca Maria

4 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $6.50

Details

$125.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books

Title: Islamic Architecture of The Indian Subcontinent
Author: ALFIERI, Bianca Maria
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Laurence King Publishing, 2000. First U.K. Edition. Quarto. 31cm. Publisher's black cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 320pp. Very light wear and scuffing to extremities; internally clean and fresh; in a bright, strong dustjacket. A near fine copy with some very light wear. A lovely piece of coffee table book presentation, beautifully photographed by Federico Borromeo, examining the often neglected Islamic inspired architecture present in India before the Mughals.

Secure Checkout