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Recherches sur Differens Points importans du Systême du Monde by ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond d’

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Title: Recherches sur Differens Points importans du Systême du Monde
Author: ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond d’
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Six folding engraved plates. lxviii, 260 pp.; vi, 290 pp.; xlviii, 263 pp. Three vols. 4to, cont. mottled calf (lower cover of Vol. II a little wormed), spines gilt, red morocco lettering pieces on spines. Paris: David, 1754-54-56. First edition. “Devoted primarily to the motion of the moon (Volume II included a new set of lunar tables), it was written at least partially to guard d’Alembert's claims to originality against those of Clairaut. As was so often the case, d’Alembert's method was mathematically more sound, but Clairaut’s method was more easily used by astronomers.”–D.S.B., I, p. 114. Clairaut’s anonymous and unfavorable review of the third volume, published in the Journal des Sçavans, caused a bitter, famous, and extended controversy which continued until Clairaut’s death in 1765. Fine set. From the library of Marchese Giulio Stanga Carlo Trecco (d. 1832), amateur mathematician and physicist who formed a large collection of scientific instruments, with his shelfmark label at head of spine. ❧ Lalande, p. 453–“On trouve dans le premier volume des recherches savantes sur le probléme des trois corps.”.

Quaker Farmer Writes to Congressman Morgan to Condemn Stephen Douglas’ Nebraska Bill Allowing Slavery in New Territories by JOHN SEARING

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Title: Quaker Farmer Writes to Congressman Morgan to Condemn Stephen Douglas’ Nebraska Bill Allowing Slavery in New Territories
Author: JOHN SEARING
Seller: Seth Kaller, Inc. (United States)
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Description: "what shall I say of Douglas's infamous Nebraska bill now I suppose pending in the Senate I feel indeed at a loss for language to convey my abhorrence of so vile a scheme.... I never knew such united indignation against any thing as pervades the community here respecting the bill…" A Quaker farmer in western New York writes to his representative in Congress, mentioning a petition (not present) and universal opposition. He praises Morgan's letter to New Yorkers as "plain unvarnished protest against wickedness." Within three months, the Nebraska bill became the Kansas-Nebraska Act. JOHN SEARING. Autograph Letter Signed, to Edwin B. Morgan, February 20, 1854, Poplar Ridge, New York. 2 pp. plus integral address leaf, 7¾ x 9¾ in. Complete Transcript Poplar Ridge 2ndmo 20th 1854 Esteemed friend E B Morgan It has afforded me pleasure to be remembered by thee in the reception of the speech by Gerrit Smith in the house of representatives I also recd one or two other packages some time ago for all of which I return my sincere thanks Subjects of deep interest engage the attention of both the State and national councils & should the latter act with as much wisdom, as I trust the former has thus far, on one important subject at least, there would be cause of rejoicing; I suppose the fate of the Canal is about settled it is to be completed forthwith. But what shall I say of Douglas's infamous Nebraska bill now I suppose pending in the Senate I feel indeed at a loss for language to convey my abhorrence of so vile a scheme. I have read thy letter to the New Yorker's and was much pleased with it I considered it a plain unvarnished protest against wickedness. I think I never knew such united indignation against any thing as pervades the community here respecting the bill I have mentioned It appears to be irrespective of sects or parties I think those northern members who may see fit to vote for it, ought to have the benefit of having their names put on parchment and posted through the length and breadth of the land I hope Gov Seward is not struck dumb with the amount of perfidy threatened but that he will ere long in the right time protest against it with that logical clearness that so characterizes his speeches please give my best respects to him if convenient There seemed to be so much feeling here on the subject of the Nebraska Bill that I thought best to endeavor to demonstrate it I have accordingly got up a remonstrance which I shall trouble thee with. could I have time to go around with it I could no doubt enlarge the numbers of signers to an almost unlimited extent, for all seem desirous to sign it; but I haste to send it before the iniquity shall be consummated Respectfully thy friend John Searing [Return Address:] Poplar Ridge / Feby 20 [Address:] E. B Morgan, M.C / Washington / D.C. [Docketing:] John Searing / Feby 20/54 Historical Background On January 4, 1854, Senator Stephen Douglas introduced the Nebraska Bill which sought to organize the vast Nebraska Territory (now Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and parts of Colorado and Idaho) under the principle of popular sovereignty, which allowed the territory's residents to decide whether they wanted slavery. This would have repealed the 1820 Missouri Compromise, which prohibited slavery north of the southern border of Missouri (except for Missouri, where slavery was allowed). On January 23, an identical bill was introduced in the House of Representatives. Debate began throughout the nation. On March 4, less than two weeks after Searing wrote this letter, the Senate passed the bill by a vote of 37 to 14. When the House voted in late March to refer the bill to the Committee of the Whole as a delaying tactic, President Pierce made the act a question of Democratic party loyalty. On May 8, debate began in the House. Two weeks later, when Ohio Representative Lewis D. Campbell led a filibuster against the bill, Virginia Representative Henry A. Edmundson had to be restrained from making a violent attack. The sergeant at arms arrested Edmundson, and debate was cut off. On May 22, the House passed the bill by a vote of 113 to 100, with 21 abstentions. Morgan was one of 51 northern Whigs who voted against the bill, which President Pierce signed into law on May 30. The Society of Friends (Quakers) were the first organization to take a collective stand against both slavery and the slave trade. Throughout the nineteenth century, Quakers increasingly took part in antislavery activism, and Searing's opposition to the Nebraska Bill fits in this long tradition of Quakers' antislavery stand. John Searing (1796-1884) moved from Long Island to Poplar Ridge, Cayuga County, in 1823. He lived there until his death six decades later. A farmer, minister, and member of the Scipio Monthly Meeting, he contributed to organizations assisting African American refugees and Swarthmore College. The Friends' Intelligencer printed a two-column tribute to him when he died. His daughter Anna Hutchinson Searing taught freed blacks in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War. She then attended medical school and became an early New York woman physician. Edwin Barber Morgan (1806-1881) became a clerk in his father's mercantile business at age thirteen and managed it at age twenty-one. He bought and shipped agricultural products and built boats. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for three terms, from 1853-9, he was successively a member of the Whig, Opposition, and Republican parties. He supported high tariffs, Free Soil, and the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act. He was a director and the first president of Wells Fargo Express Co, organized in 1852 by his neighbor Henry Wells, who had been in 1850 a founder of the American Express Company, for which Morgan also served as a director. In 1854, Morgan founded the United States Express Company to provide similar express mail services for the southern states. During the Civil War, Morgan raised and equipped New York regiments. He later served as president of Wells College from 1878 to his death, and as a trustee of Cornell University (1865-1874) and Auburn Theological Seminary (1870-1881). Condition Old folds. The address leaf is torn where seal was opened, with old tape repairs not affecting the letter.

Villette by [Bronte, Charlotte] Bell, Currer

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Title: Villette
Author: [Bronte, Charlotte] Bell, Currer
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Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. First American edition. Very Good. With original front wrapper lacking rear wrapper. Front wrapper with a few short tears. Spine worn, with most of backstrip perished. Plain rear wrapper added later. Octavo (226 x 142 mm.). A textually complete copy, including 4 leaves of advertisements at the rear. Text in double columns, collating: 184, [4 leaves ads]. A bit of foxing, otherwise a Very Good copy. Smith claims no priority between this edition and the one in cloth, but the differing page-counts suggest priority exists (the type was completely reset and the clothbound copy has over 500 pages); either way the wrapper edition is much scarcer. Housed in a custom paper-covered slipcase. "Charlotte Bronte's final masterpiece powerfully portrays a woman struggling to reconcile love, jealousy, and a fierce desire for independence. Having fled a harrowing past in England, Lucy Snowe begins a new life teaching at a boarding school in the great capital of a foreign country. There, as she tries to achieve independence from both outer necessity and inward grief, she finds that her feelings for a worldly doctor and a dictatorial professor threaten her hard-won self possession. Published initially in 1853, Charlotte Bronte's last novel was written in the wake of her grief at the death of her siblings. It has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as a striking modernity of psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness" (Vintage). Harper's Library of Select Novels, No. 182. Smith 146-152. Very Good.

Carriages Without Horses Shall Go" , Being a Reprint of a Paper on Horseless Road Locomotion Read before Section G of The British Association, Liverpool, September 23, 1896.; To which is added, remarks on the future of horseless road locomotion, notes on the new enactment, the Locomotives on Highways Act, 1896, evolution in modes of travel, the "Engineer" competition 1897, the Local Government Board regulations, and other matter by Sennett, A. R.

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Title: Carriages Without Horses Shall Go" , Being a Reprint of a Paper on Horseless Road Locomotion Read before Section G of The British Association, Liverpool, September 23, 1896.; To which is added, remarks on the future of horseless road locomotion, notes on the new enactment, the Locomotives on Highways Act, 1896, evolution in modes of travel, the "Engineer" competition 1897, the Local Government Board regulations, and other matter
Author: Sennett, A. R.
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
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Description: London: Whittaker & Co, 1896. First edition. Ex-library. Hardcover. xvi,131,(1)pp. 8vo. Frontispiece and 40 illustrations on 30 plates of horseless carriages. Recent quarter leather, gilt spine titles, cloth sides, marbled endpapers. Ex-library copy with stamp and number on the title page; general soil throughout, esp. the title, and a few closed marginal tears (no loss). Scarce. The first books on the automobile appeared in English in 1896; this is one of them.

NOSTROMO. A Tale of the Seaboard by Conrad, Joseph

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Title: NOSTROMO. A Tale of the Seaboard
Author: Conrad, Joseph
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Description: 1904. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1904. Original green cloth decorated in orange and black. First American Edition of Conrad's well-known novel involving a South American silver mine, and the corruption and dishonesty fostered by its riches. Conrad was extending his "Lord Jim" theme: that the man who slowly grows rich can be a victim of the silver, not its conqueror; that wealth is not something gained but a trap for those who relinquish, however momentarily, their sense of themselves... [Karl] This copy is bright and near-fine (very slight rubbing at the extremities). Cagle A10b.

Success [Signed] by AMIS, Martin

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Title: Success [Signed]
Author: AMIS, Martin
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Description: London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20.5cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; yellow topstain; dustjacket; [6],7-224pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Base of spine gently nudged, with some faint, scattered soil to lower edge of textblock, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced £3.95 net), with light wear to extremities, and just a hint of sunning to spine; Near Fine. Attractive copy of the Amis's third novel.

THE AUTOGRAPH OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, WITH FAC SIMILES OF HIS SINGATURE AS APPENDED TO VARIOS LEGAL DOCUMENTS; TOGETHER WITH 4000 WAYS OF SPELLING THE NAME ACCORDING TO ENGLISH ORTHOGRAPHY by Wise, George

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Title: THE AUTOGRAPH OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, WITH FAC SIMILES OF HIS SINGATURE AS APPENDED TO VARIOS LEGAL DOCUMENTS; TOGETHER WITH 4000 WAYS OF SPELLING THE NAME ACCORDING TO ENGLISH ORTHOGRAPHY
Author: Wise, George
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Description: Philadelphia: Peter E. Abel, 1869. Hardcover. Octavo, 32 pages. In Good minus condition. Rebound in green cloth with no text on spine. Boards have bowing to corners, bending and fraying to spine edges, and mild shelf wear. Text block has sticker on front pastedown, staining to original front cover, and original rear cover missing. . 1373363. Special Collections - Downstairs.

Fake Fish: The Theater of Kobo Abe. by [ABE, Kobo]. Shields, Nancy K.

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Title: Fake Fish: The Theater of Kobo Abe.
Author: [ABE, Kobo]. Shields, Nancy K.
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Description: NY & Tokyo: Weatherhill, (1996).. First edition.. 189 pp w/notes. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Foreword by Donald Keene. Dated (June 16, 1998) and INSCRIBED by Shields.

Prisoners’ Inventions. by Angelo. Elms, Anthony; Editor.

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Title: Prisoners’ Inventions.
Author: Angelo. Elms, Anthony; Editor.
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Description: Chicago: Whitewalls, (2003). Octavo, softbound (black and white illustrated stiff wrappers), 119 pp. Fine. Contents: Editorial Note; Introduction; Home Furnishings: Pillows; Cell Door Stops; Air Vent Covers; Light Covers; Work Tables; Entertainment Center; Contraband Radio; Modesty Curtain; Covered Wagon; Storage: Shelves; Hook Assembly; Clothing Hanger; Property Locker Organizers; Ballpoint Pen Organizers; Pencil Box; Color Pencil Organizer; Sanctuary; Cooking: Heating Food with Cell Light; Stingers (Immersion HEaters); Steamer-Cooker; Hotpot; Toilet Paper “Bombs”; Cooking with Toilet Paper “Bombs”; Using the Cell Property Locker as a Grill; Cottage Cheese; Extra Finger; Eating Off the Floor; Toilet Paper Mache Cup; The Tumbler; Insulated Bag; Cooling Drinks; Salt and Pepper Shakers; Personal Maintenance: In-Cell Workout Weight; Doing Laundry; Clotheslines; Double-Edged Razor; Bathing: Sink Nozzle; Shower Nozzle; Bird Bathing; Smoking: General Information; Conserving Paper Matches; Reconditioned Cigarette Lighter; Battery Cigarette Lighter; Wicks; Wick Vent; Wall Socket Cigarette Lighters; Electric Cigarette Lighter; Cigarette Lighter with Water Resister; Cigarette Lighter; Candle; Recretion: Pooling/Flooding; Prophylactics; Muff Bag; Seagull Rocket; A Fishing Tale; Gaming: Paper Mache Dice; Dice Table; Chess Board; Arts & Crafts: Tatooing; Picture Frames; Palette; Special Brushes; Stipple Brushed Portraits; Card Game; Glossing Over; House of Cards; Hobby Hot Glue Dispenser and Cigarette Lighter; Christmas Tree; Coca-Cola Machine; Little Extras: Stationery; Pets; Wake-Up Alarm; Speakers/Audio Aids; External Speaker; Typewriter Ribbon Slitter; Mini Lathe.

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The Cave and the Cathedral: How a Real-Life Indiana Jones and a Renegade Scholar Decoded the Ancient Art of Man by ACZEL, Amir D.

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Title: The Cave and the Cathedral: How a Real-Life Indiana Jones and a Renegade Scholar Decoded the Ancient Art of Man
Author: ACZEL, Amir D.
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ISBN: 9780470373538
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Description: Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2009. First. hardcover. very good(+)/near fine. Some illustrations, a few in color. 242 pages. 8vo, black boards, d.w. (Hoboken): John Wiley & Sons, (2009). First edition. Pages are uniformly toned, else a near fine in near fine dust wrapper.

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