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Public Sale of Mathematical Instruments ... of the Estate of B[enjamin] Stancliff .... by Stancliff, Benjamin - AMERICAN INSTRUMENTS - MANUSCRIPT

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Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books
Title
Public Sale of Mathematical Instruments ... of the Estate of B[enjamin] Stancliff ....
Author
Stancliff, Benjamin - AMERICAN INSTRUMENTS - MANUSCRIPT
Seller
Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
Very good; some old folds.
Description
[Philadelphia], 1834. Not bound.. Very good; some old folds.. Folio sheet folded as 4 pp.; last page is a blank. The estate inventory of Benjamin Stancliff who was a maker of optical, philosophical, and mathematical instruments in Philadelphia from the late 18th to early 19th century. The inventory lists the tools, supplies and instruments in his estate and what they sold for as well as an accounting for the total. Such inventories are exceptional and rare given the handful of people engaged in this trade. It offers a unique insight into the mode and manner of production and commerce in scientific instruments in colonial America. See Skerritt, Catalog of the Charles E. Smart Collection ....; NMAH web page for Stancliff in Wash. DC for citations and instruments.
[Three Manuscript Letters Sent to Aristarchus Champion from New York Correspondents Just Following the Mexican-American War, Concerning Mexican Claims, New York Real Estate Prices, a Proposed "Road to Lake Erie," and Art Purchases]

[Three Manuscript Letters Sent to Aristarchus Champion from New York Correspondents Just Following the Mexican-American War, Concerning Mexican Claims, New York Real Estate Prices, a Proposed "Road to Lake Erie," and Art Purchases] by [Mexican-American War]. [Champion, Aristarchus]

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[Three Manuscript Letters Sent to Aristarchus Champion from New York Correspondents Just Following the Mexican-American War, Concerning Mexican Claims, New York Real Estate Prices, a Proposed "Road to Lake Erie," and Art Purchases]
Author
[Mexican-American War]. [Champion, Aristarchus]
Seller
McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
New York, 1850. Very good.. Three manuscript letters, totaling nine pages, and approximately X words. All on single folded sheets, all addressed on the verso of the second leaf. Old mailing folds, minor foxing and wear, small hole in second leaf of two letters from removed wax seals. An informative trio of manuscript letters sent by Thomas Spencer and William W. Bliss from New York City to Aristarchus Champion in Rochester. Aristarchus Champion (1784-1871) was a Yale graduate in 1807 and spent a long career as a lawyer, real estate speculator, and philanthropist. He was involved in business dealings with both of his correspondents here, and the letters detail some of those activities. The letter by Thomas Spencer is dated April 10, 1849, and concerns business dealings relating to both Mexican claims and New York real estate. Spencer writes in detail about a farm he attempted to sell "for the Mexican claims, but could not make it go." He also discusses further speculation in Mexican claims in a long paragraph on the second page, throwing out numbers like $50,000 and $90,000 as proposed totals for various deals before returning to further detailed discussion on the prospects of selling his farm. The remaining two letters are written to Champion by William M. Bliss, a business associate of Champion's. In his first letter here, written in January 1849, Bliss writes about the state of bonds, potential liens, and other financial matters relating to his company's business interests with regard to a new "road to Lake Erie" and Binghamton. Bliss's second letter is entirely concerned with the potential purchase of several paintings, including a "landscape on the Delaware River" by Walter Mason Oddie and a "scene in Gray's elegy" by an English emigrant artist who has become "an adopted citizen" of the United States. Bliss notes several prices in the process of discussing these various paintings. These letters concern a wide range of business dealings in New York in the mid-19th century, including Mexican claims and current art prices, providing a solid opportunity for studying contemporary real estate and art markets.
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The San Carlos Apache Police by Clum, John P.

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Title
The San Carlos Apache Police
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Clum, John P.
Seller
Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
Condition
Very fine
Description
The New Mexico Historical Review, 1929 Book. Very fine. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Thin octavo. (18pp.). Frontis plate from a photograph. Gray wrappers printed in black, stapled as issued. A fine copy. First separate edition, first appearing in the New Mexico Historical Review, July, 1929. Excellent historical sketch of the Apache Indian police at the San Carlos Indian reservation. The author was Indian Agent at the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona for three years beginning in 1874. He implemented a limited form of self-government on the reservation that was so successful that other reservations were closed and their residents moved to San Carlos. Clum was also the agent that captured Geronimo in April of 1877. Faced with many superior officers who strongly disagreed with his methods, and dogged by an uncaring Indian Bureau administration, Clum finally left his post as Indian Agent July 1, 1877. .
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The History of Nippon by AKIYAMA, Kenzo

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Title
The History of Nippon
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AKIYAMA, Kenzo
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Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
very good(+)
Description
hardcover. very good(+). Frontispiece and other illustrations. 279pp. Small 4to, textured boards, Tokyo, 1941. A very good(+) copy.

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