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D’Amboinsche Rariteitkamer, Behelzende eene Beschryvinge van allerhande zoo weeke als harde Schaalvisschen, te weeten raare Krabben, Kreeften, en diergelyke Zeedieren, als mede allerhande Hoomtjes en Schulpen, die men in d’Amboinsche Zee vindt: Daar beneven zommige Mineraalen, Gesteenten… by RUMPF, Georg Eberhard

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Title: D’Amboinsche Rariteitkamer, Behelzende eene Beschryvinge van allerhande zoo weeke als harde Schaalvisschen, te weeten raare Krabben, Kreeften, en diergelyke Zeedieren, als mede allerhande Hoomtjes en Schulpen, die men in d’Amboinsche Zee vindt: Daar beneven zommige Mineraalen, Gesteenten…
Author: RUMPF, Georg Eberhard
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 1705. Added fine allegorical title, vignette on printed title, fine port. of Rumpf, five head- & tail-pieces, & 60 fine plates (all engraved; two small & unimportant wormholes in outer margin to the final 50 plates, not touching the images). Title printed in red & black. 18 p.l. (incl. added title & port.), 340, [43] pp. Folio, cont. blind-stamped panelled pigskin over wooden boards, Jesuit stamp in center of upper cover, orig. clasps & catches. Amsterdam: F. Halma, 1705. First edition, and a magnificent copy, of this notable cabinet catalogue, which describes Rumpf’s great collection of marine flora and fauna, minerals, and fossils. This is one of the most important of the early shell books: “A signal early modern publication on shells…The very title of The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet places the book in dialogue with collections of the time, whose curious contents redounded to the social, epistemological, and political credit of their owners.”–Claudia Swan, “The Nature of Exotic Shells,” in Bass et al., Conchophilia. Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe (Princeton University Press: 2021), p. 22–(Rumpf’s book is continually referred to throughout). Rumpf (1627-1702), went to Amboina, a relatively small island in the Banda Sea west of New Guinea, in 1653. There he gathered natural history specimens and experienced a remarkable series of disasters: he went blind, his wife was killed in an earthquake, the original drawings for his Herbarium Amboinense were consumed in a fire, and the manuscript of the first six books of the same work was destroyed during a French military action. “This remarkable man was employed by the Dutch East India Company and spent the greater part of his life on the island of Amboina (Ambon), a small but important trading centre in the East Indies, where he conducted innumerable observations on plants and animals…Day by day Rumphius accumulated manuscript descriptions and drawings of everything he observed. Alas, total blindness robbed him of the chance to publish his work himself…Even a cursory examination of the Amboinsche Rariteitkamer reveals the outstanding talents of its originator; for the ‘Amboinese Curiosity Cabinet’, despite its unpromising title, is full of accurate and detailed observations on the invertebrate animals encountered by him and molluscs are given special attention.…He was a brilliant field naturalist. He was also a man with a remarkable gift for descriptions.”–Dance, Shell Collecting. An Illustrated History, pp. 46-48. The finely engraved added title-page is a masterpiece. We see a shell museum with a group of scholars studying and arranging shells, with cabinets flanking and behind them. The room is viewed through an arch with a shell-cartouche, with “Arcimboldo”-like shell grotesques, flanked by statues of Cybele and Poseidon. Bearers bring baskets and boxes of shells and other specimens to the scholars. An East Indian landscape is in the background. The fine portrait shows the blind Rumpf at his desk, surrounded by books, shells, plants, and other natural history objects. Very fine copy. Most of the engraved plates are after drawings by Maria Sybilla Merian. ❧ Casey Wood, p. 545–“This rare folio is important because of its early descriptions and depiction of faunal (mainly marine) life in the Dutch East lndies (the Moluccas especially) at the end of the seventeenth century.” Schuh, Mineralogy & Crystallography: A Biobibliography, 1469 to 1920, 4210–“Rare.” Wilson, The History of Mineral Collecting 1530-1799, pp. 191 & 222.

SPRINCHORN, CARL. "To Emphasize Space." Original Drawing with Text. Signed by SPRINCHORN, CARL

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Title: SPRINCHORN, CARL. "To Emphasize Space." Original Drawing with Text. Signed
Author: SPRINCHORN, CARL
Seller: Schulson Autographs (United States)
Description: CARL SPRINCHORN, Original Drawing Signed, titiled, "To Emphasize Space," with text incorporated into the artwork. The drawing accomplished in artists crayon measures 11.5 x 8.5 inches and is laid onto a 16 x 20 inch cream mat. Along the left edge and bottom left, the artist has written in pencil, "1. to embrace the mental as well as the visual 2-to emphasize space 3- life size on small canvas - a problem to solve." On the lower left corner, he continues, "on small canvas," and signs with initials in lower right corner, "C. Sp." The drawing is titled on verso in another hand.

1948-1950 – Two mimeographed letters from a China missionary, one just after he returned to the country as the Nationalist Government was on its last legs and the other shortly after Mao Tse Tung’s Communist Government had taken over by George W. Hollister

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Title: 1948-1950 – Two mimeographed letters from a China missionary, one just after he returned to the country as the Nationalist Government was on its last legs and the other shortly after Mao Tse Tung’s Communist Government had taken over
Author: George W. Hollister
Seller: Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Hinghwa, Fukien, China, 1948. Envelope or Cover. Very good. The earliest letter has two pages and is datelined “Hinghwa, Fukien / October 30, 1948 China” in the final days of Chaing Kai Shek’s Nationalist Government. The second has three pages and is dated April 6, 1950, shortly after Mao Tse Tung’s Communist Government had taken over. The mimeographed form letters were sent by George W. Hollister to Mrs. Fred C. Rice in Canton, Ohio. Both are enclosed in typically narrow envelopes, and both bear Nationalist stamps as the Communist had not yet produced any of their own. The letters are in nice shape; the envelopes show some postal and opening wear. Hollister and his wife, Mary Brewster Hollister, returned to China in 1948 after an 18-year absence. Both served at the Methodist mission in Hinghwa where George taught at the missionary school. Their chaotic arrival was, no doubt, directly related to the death-throes of the Nationalist regime. Their first letter to supporters reads in part: “Here we are back in Hinghwa, at last. . .. Arriving in Shanghai soon after the inauguration of the Chinese ‘austerity’ program, designed to stabilize Chinese finances, we found unusual difficulty in clearing . . . customs. Duty was sky high 150% on [some items.] They opened every piece of baggage and . . . each box taking out what they decided to tax. [All] were opened at one time and the contents hopelessly scrambled. . .. “Finally a small steamer was scheduled to sail [but] we were reused permission to get on board. [Then] at suppertime I [received] a telephone message to get on board that night as the boat would leave . . . early in the morning. . .. When we reached the boat, the customs officer said no baggage was allowed on board. [After he finally consented, he demanded to see} my re-export permit. [As we had none] I had to go to the customs house while the officer telephoned his superior, and then [once more through] the austerity ‘search’ group. . .. Will some of you suggest appropriate theological language for me to use under these conditions? “The first steamer . . . a freighter [had no accommodations for passengers [so] we rented a cabin from the crew [that had not] been cleaned for months. I sprayed the cabin with DDT but that only made the cockroaches more lively. My wife says two ran over her face [and] a rat ran over my legs. [Surprisingly] all fifty pieces of our baggage arrived in Hinghwa safely . . . without serious pilferage. [That] is an accomplishment these days. . .. “We found the government making a determined effort to [confiscate] gold and silver. . .. About three weeks ago [there was] almost a complete sellers’ strike [and] prices for most commodities have . . . tripled and many necessities are almost unobtainable except . . . at black market prices. The news from the fighting in North China is unfavorable [and] the bottom has fallen out from under the new currency. . .. We are headed for the worst economic conditions we have faced. . ..” Hollister’s second letter written shortly after the Communist had taken over shows considerable regret that the U.S. has not embraced the new government although he readily acknowledges the tyranny of Mao’s regime. “You will want to know something of the perplexities and uncertainties we face [but] I shall try to avoid all statements having political or military significance. . .. There has not yet been time to learn definitely what official [Communist] attitudes will be toward missionaries and work of the church [and] our problems . . . are multiplied by the refusal of the U.S.to recognize the present [Communist] government. The Chinese papers and vocal propaganda are bitterly anti-American. The attitude of the U.S. . . . puts all of us Americans under suspicion. . .. Now we must have passes whenever we want to leave the city. . .. Yesterday the chairman of the [church] committee meeting was quizzed almost two hours. The police wanted to know exactly who was present and what was discussed. . .. We may not be able to leave the city until Formosa has been ‘liberated’. . .. One who owns more than enough land to support a family is [now considered] an ‘oppressor’ of the poor [and] the government seeks to correct this form of inequality. [They claim] it is more important that the soldiers have food than it is for the orphans to eat [and] there is not enough [for us] to feed the children. . .. All land will be redivided this fall. . .. There is no freedom of thought in the class room. . .. on campus, even in dormitories or teachers’ homes. [When] one of our agricultural workers [tried to] warn the villagers against the disease of rice plants, [what he said was decried as] ‘American imperialism!’ [In revolutionary China] it is easy for those . . . without homes to turn against those who have; for those with no secure livelihood to turn against those with jobs; for those with inferiority complexes . . . to get minor positions in which they have a chance to satisfy repressed desires. . .. Pray for us that we may have the grace to recognize the present struggle as one of God’s gifts.” . Within a month or two of Hollister’s letter, the mission would be shut down and its missionaries deported back to the United States. A terrific pair of letters documenting the impact of China’s transition into a tyrannical Marxist state. At the time of listing, no other similar original source material is for sale in the trade or shown by the Rare Book Hub as having appeared at auction. OCLC records show that seven institutions appear to hold personal paper collection containing similar items. .

To Whom It May Concern: The Story of Victor Ilyitch Seroff by Werner, M.R.

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Title: To Whom It May Concern: The Story of Victor Ilyitch Seroff
Author: Werner, M.R.
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj
Description: New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith. Very Good+ in Fair dj. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice solid clean copy, slight fading to cloth at ends of spine; the jacket is a bit on the tattered side, with numerous small chips, tears, etc.]. Very uncommon account of the early life of Victor Ilyitch Seroff (1902-1979), whom the author (Werner) met in Paris in the late 1920s, and found so fascinating that he "laid aside other projects and devoted himself to writing [Seroff's] story." Seroff was a young musician who had escaped from Russia in 1920 "on the last American oil tanker to leave [Batoum, his birthplace in the Caucasus] before the Bolsheviks took it over." The book is written in the first person (i.e. narrated by Seroff himself), who describes "his desperate and sometimes humorous effort to gain self-support and continue an artistic career in Constantinople, Vienna and in Paris" during the 1920s. Of particular interest is the last chapter, which presents "a new and penetrating study of the late Isadora Duncan, [including] a moving narrative of her last years and death." (Isadora had attended a piano recital in Paris where she was impressed by Seroff's playing, and he soon found himself drawn into her circle of intimates.) He later became a musical biographer of some note, writing books about Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Berlioz, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Ravel and others, as well as a biography of Isadora Duncan herself. .

Grundlagen der marxistisch - leninistischen Philosophie

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Title: Grundlagen der marxistisch - leninistischen Philosophie
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Germany: Dietz Verlag, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good or better in a Very good plus dust jacket. Book and dust jacket lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, book foredges lightly soiled, pages browned at edges, dust jacket lightly worn, in German.

The war in Vietnam by [Jenness, Douglas and Robin Martin]

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Title: The war in Vietnam
Author: [Jenness, Douglas and Robin Martin]
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: New York: Young Socialist, 1965. Pamphlet. 15p., 5x8 inches, very good in stapled wraps; introduction by Peter Camejo.

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