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Street View of Dance Halls in San Francisco’s Barbary Coast Neighborhood, c. 1910 by [African-Americana – Jazz – San Francisco] Unknown Photographer

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Seller: Auger Down Books

Title: Street View of Dance Halls in San Francisco’s Barbary Coast Neighborhood, c. 1910
Author: [African-Americana – Jazz – San Francisco] Unknown Photographer
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Some damage to edges and corners with one tear at right middle, some residue from pasting a now-missing object; overall very goo
Description: San Francisco, California, 1910. Single photograph, approximately 6 ½ x 9 inches, manuscript verso reading “SF Barbary Coast 500 Block of Pacific ”THE SO DIFFERENT” now 550 Pacific Ave 1911”. Appears to be trimmed from a larger photograph. Portion of image cut and pasted with editorial overpainting. Some damage to edges and corners with one tear at right middle, some residue from pasting a now-missing object; overall very good.. A photograph taken on Pacific Street in about 1910, showing a group of men standing by the curb in front of The Midway, The Bear, and The So Different nightclubs (note that the sign for The Midway is pasted in). This block in Barbary Coast—”Terrific Street”—was home to a number of dance halls and early jazz clubs many of which, like Purcell’s So Different Café, were “black and tan” – catering to all races. Founded by former Pullman porters Lew Purcell and Sam King shortly after the neighborhood was rebuilt from the 1906 earthquake and fire, Purcell’s was one of the better-known clubs. Influential ragtime and jazz pianist Sid LeProtti led the So Different Jazz band, and King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton are among the alleged guest performers. Patrons could buy twenty-cent vouchers for a quick dance with one of the girls who worked, and sometimes lived, at the venue. Around 1913, though, police began to crack down on drinking and dancing in the neighborhood, and by the 1920s the venues were gone.

A Manuscript ‘Public Statement of protest’ Recording the Hostile Actions of a French Privateer Against a Portuguese Merchantman, in June 1813 by [Piracy - Atlantic Trade - Peninsular War] Galindo, James (Notary); Hawkins, Isaac (Commander); Ignacio, Don Jose et al.

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Title: A Manuscript ‘Public Statement of protest’ Recording the Hostile Actions of a French Privateer Against a Portuguese Merchantman, in June 1813
Author: [Piracy - Atlantic Trade - Peninsular War] Galindo, James (Notary); Hawkins, Isaac (Commander); Ignacio, Don Jose et al.
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Plymouth, 1813. Plymouth, Devon, England: 21st July 1813. Folio, 7 pages (13 1/8 x 8 ¼ inches), duty blindstamp, small ink stamp to upper inner margin of the first page, two seals to the last page, signed twice by Galindo. Toned, some small repaired tears (using reversible archival ph-neutral paper-repair tape), very good to near fine. Very Good. An interesting document of privateering in the Peninsular war, this ‘Public Instrument of Protest‘ documents a Portuguese captain and crew complaint (in detail) to an English notary. After sailing from Calcutta to Brazil and then from Rio to just outside of Lisbon, their ship, the 700-ton ‘Oceano’, was seized and comprehensively ransacked by a French privateer (the ‘Lion’ out of Lorient). Most of the crew and passengers were offloaded onto a passing American vessel, the ‘Leda’ bound for Lisbon. Meanwhile, the ‘Lyon’ escorted her prize towards the nearest French port, but before a friendly haven was reached they were both set upon by the brigantine HMS ‘Achates’. The ‘Lyon’ escaped but the ‘Ocean’ was captured by Commander Morrison and the ‘Achetes’. The ’Ocean’ was taken to Plymouth, and moored in the Hamoaze. The remaining Portuguese crew who had been forced to remain aboard the ‘Ocean’ by the French, got a message to the ‘Ocean’s Master Dn. Ignacio Joze Martins and he, and the boatswain, made their way to Plymouth as quickly as possible. The sworn statement presented here is in English, thanks to the translation given by Francisco Martins d' Magalhaens, master of a Portuguese ship “now dwelling in Plymouth” The ’Oceano’ sailed from Calcutta to Brazil, arriving 10th February 1813. She left Rio on 4th April, all was plain sailing until the afternoon of the 7th June (off the Rock of Lisbon) when the ‘Lion’ showed up, first under false British colors, then French. The fighting was fierce (the privateer was driven off once) but eventually the ‘Oceano’ was taken. The night of the 7th June was spent by the French ‘conveying everything Moveable and Valuable from the Ocean to the Privateer’. The ‘Leda’ (the US vessel) landed the majority of the ‘Ocean’s crew, including the Master, in Lisbon on the evening of the 9th June.Monday 14th June, the ‘Lyon’ engaged in a running battle with HMS ‘Achates’ and escaped, but the ‘Achates’ did capture the ‘Ocean’. Wednesday 16th June the ‘Ocean’ arrived in Plymouth under the watchful eye of the ‘Achates’. Receiving the crew’s message, the Captain of the ‘Ocean’ left Lisbon for Falmouth and then Plymouth arriving on the 20th July. The document was dated 21st July 1813. Full transcription available.

POEMS, BY FELICIA DOROTHEA BROWNE by HEMANS, FELICIA DOROTHEA BROWNE

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Title: POEMS, BY FELICIA DOROTHEA BROWNE
Author: HEMANS, FELICIA DOROTHEA BROWNE
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Liverpool and London: Printed by G. F. Harris for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1808. FIRST EDITION. 285 x 226 mm. (11 1/4 x 9"). xxvii, [1], 111, [1] (blank) pp. Complete with half-title. PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL BLUE BOARDS, flat spine with original printed paper label, EDGES UNTRIMMED. Large wood-engraved vignette by G. Cuitt on title page, 10 headpiece ornaments and one tailpiece. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of William Garnett. A Large Paper Copy. Minor soiling and chafing to boards, corners rather mashed, leaves a shade less than bright, with tiny dots of foxing, trivial smudging, and some corner creases, but still an excellent, copy--the text fresh and printed within enormous margins, and the unsophisticated binding entirely sound and an immensely appealing survival. This is the rarely seen first work of a writer described by DNB as "the most considerable woman poet of the Romantic period," offered here in remarkably well-preserved publisher's boards. Felicia Browne Hemans (1793-1835) published 20 volumes during her fruitful career, along with being a regular contributor to several magazines and periodicals. The present work is distinguished by being issued when she was only 14 years old. Her poems had garnered the attention of lawyer and abolitionist William Roscoe (1753-1831), who arranged for the book's publication. Subscribers included Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Thomas Medwin, who showed the work to Percy Shelley. Intrigued by the book--and apparently by reports of the young writer's beauty--Shelley attempted to correspond with her, only to be firmly thwarted by her mother. Our copy is from the collection of William Garnett (1818-73), a Lancashire landowner and MP. He evidently treated his books with great care; the fragile unsophisticated boards here are minimally worn, and the margins occupy more space than the text. "Poems" comes to market fairly infrequently: we could trace just two copies at auction since 1983..

Hard Times by Dickens, Charles

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Title: Hard Times
Author: Dickens, Charles
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description: 1854. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854. 8vo, viii, 352 pp. Publisher's green moiré cloth, pale yellow endpapers. Skillfully rebacked, repairing a some loss to the original backstrip, light sunning to backstrip and board edges, minor thumb-soiling and spots to text block edges, slightly loss in the gutter of p.1/2. Contemporary ownership inscription dated 1853 on half title. § First edition in book form in the first issue binding with "Price 5/" at foot of spine and all internal points noted by Smith. A nice copy. Smith I, 11. Dickens's shortest novel, first published in serial form in Household Words in the same year.

Due Tribuni. Studiati da un alienista by LOMBROSO, Cesare

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Title: Due Tribuni. Studiati da un alienista
Author: LOMBROSO, Cesare
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Rome: Casa Editrice Sommaruga, 1883. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers, front wrapper detached. Unopened. First and only edition of Lombroso's intriguing study of a persecution complex in which he compares and contrasts eccentric personalities. He here describes one Tito Livio Cianchettini (1821-1900), a Roman newspaperman also known as "the philosopher of the sidewalk" who published, edited and distributed his own satirical journal, "The Traverso of the Ideas," in which he criticized the evils of humanity. While many regarded him as crazy, a few, including Lombroso, thought he was a genius. Through his analysis of characters like Cianchettini, Lombroso proposes a new psychiatric-zoologic theory and concludes with examples of "crazy politics" to highlight his theory. Lombroso (1835-1909) produced numerous volumes of work on a variety of deviant behaviors. His interest and activity in criminology arose out of the conduct and demeanor of tattooed soldiers he observed while a physician in the Italian army. He went on to study, first, the psychological and physiological differences between criminals and lunatics, and then the wider analysis of the criminal compared with those deemed to be either genius or insane. A follower of Auguste Comte, Lombroso was a professor at Pavia who went on to become director of a lunatic asylum in Pesaro, then Professor of Forensic Medicine and Psychiatry at Turin.

Sport - Talk by Anon. - ILLUSTRATION [Ring Lardner]

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Title: Sport - Talk
Author: Anon. - ILLUSTRATION [Ring Lardner]
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: A very good copy with fresh color.
Description: ca. 1920. Unique.. Watercolor paper mounted on board.. A very good copy with fresh color.. Small 4to. Unique watercolor and black ink illustration. It meas. appx. 5.5 x 6.5 inches. An ink and watercolor drawing of a teenage boy running bases under the heading Sport - Talk. The illustration looks to be for a periodical. The author of the piece is identified as Ring Lardner; unfortunately there is nothing in the Lardner bibliography resembling this item.

Daleko li do Saigatki? by Perfil'eva, A.

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Title: Daleko li do Saigatki?
Author: Perfil'eva, A.
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Description: Moscow/Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1948. Hardcover. First edition (presumed - OCLC lists only a later 1962 edition); 7 x 8 3/4; pp. [2], 3-219; [5]; clothe-backed pictorial boards; some wear and rubbing along edges and a few spots to margins of covers; foxing to first and last page only, else clean; small personal stamp and a number to endpaper and title page; illustrated in b&w by B. Vinokurova; overall in good to very good condition.Published in a relatively small run (30 000 copies), the book tells the story of little Varia who is visiting her grandparents in the village of Saigatka. When the Great War breaks out and the peace is shattered, Varia decides to run back to Moscow and her parents. Whom will she meet on the road and will she ever manage, on her own, to find her way home?

The Alleged Malpractice Suit of Walsh vs. Sayre by Trial; Sayre, Dr Lewis A, Defendant

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Title: The Alleged Malpractice Suit of Walsh vs. Sayre
Author: Trial; Sayre, Dr Lewis A, Defendant
Seller: The Lawbook Exchange Ltd (United States)
Description: 1870. A Groundless Malpractice Suit [Trial]. Sayre, Dr. Lewis A. [1820-1900], Defendant. The Alleged Malpractice Suit of Walsh vs. Sayre. New York: Geo. H. Shaw & Co., 1870. 190 pp. Octavo (9" x 5-3/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers. Light soiling, a few chips to wrappers, spine worn, front wrapper detached, rear wrapper lacking, minor wear to corners of a leaves at ends of text, internally clean. Ex-library. Small stamps to front wrapper and title page. $75. * Sayre, the first professor of orthopedic surgery in the United States and a founding member of the AMA, was a leading physician of the nineteenth century. In 1870 a suit alleging malpractice was brought by John F. Walsh, the guardian of Margaret Sarah Walsh, a six-year-old girl. It was shown to be a groundless case and Sayre was acquitted.

A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomaniacs, and the Eternal Passion For Books by Basbanes, Nicholas A.

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Title: A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomaniacs, and the Eternal Passion For Books
Author: Basbanes, Nicholas A.
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780805036534
Condition: Very Good
Description: NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. xvi, 612pp+ index. Very good hardback in a jacket that shows the lightest bit of unavoidable rubbing in a few small spots.

Paolo Emperor of Rome by Barnett, Mac

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Title: Paolo Emperor of Rome
Author: Barnett, Mac
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9781419741098
Condition: Very good
Description: New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2020. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. Unpaginated. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

The Man With the Golden Arm; 50th Anniversary Critical Edition by ALGREN, Nelson

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Title: The Man With the Golden Arm; 50th Anniversary Critical Edition
Author: ALGREN, Nelson
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: fine
Description: New York: Seven Stories, 1999. hardcover. fine/fine. Edited by William J. Savage and Daniel Simons. 8vo, black boards, d.w. New York: Seven Stories Press, (1999). First Edition thus.

Cook It Outdoors by Beard, James

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Title: Cook It Outdoors
Author: Beard, James
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: M. Barrows and Company, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Salter, Stephan. Sea green cloth boards under yellow & red illustrated dust jacket, duotone plates of barbecue construction, 200 pp. Minor edgewear to DJ, generally clean and bright. 11th printing 1953. Originally printed in 1941, this is the second book by James Beard. Born in Portland, Oregon, James Beard was an accomplished chef but was famous for his books, most of which concentrate on American cookery, and America's most prestigious gastronomical award is named after him. What's more American than the ol' BBQ? This book includes sketches & general descriptions of outdoor ovens, but not detailed plans. Unlike more modern cookbooks, this covers barbecues, portable stoves, outdoor ovens, and more. It has recipes for soups (not in your normal BBQ cookbook!), as well as for 6 barbecue sauces, plus additional barbecue sauces: Texas, Mexican, Italian (pre-war), Southern, Pork, and Olive. A great cookbook from a great author.

JARDINES DE LUZ: CEMENTERIOS DOMINICANOS MARITZA ALVAREZ

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Title: JARDINES DE LUZ: CEMENTERIOS DOMINICANOS MARITZA ALVAREZ
Seller: Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
ISBN: 9788493063870
Description: Santo Domingo: Editora Cole, 1999. b/w plates, map, fldg. pict. wrps.

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