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[ABOLITIONIST MEDAL 1834]. "I Advocate this Bill as a Measure of Humanity" / "Slavery Abolished by Great Britain 1834 by Halliday, Thomas

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Title: [ABOLITIONIST MEDAL 1834]. "I Advocate this Bill as a Measure of Humanity" / "Slavery Abolished by Great Britain 1834
Author: Halliday, Thomas
Seller: Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: London, 1834. Very good. Commemorative medal, silvered white metal (41 mm diameter). Not formally "graded" but in very good condition and NOT a reproduction! SERVITUS NUMISMATICA! A VERY LITTLE KNOWN ABOLITIONIST COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL, CELEBRATING THE EXTRAORDINARY MOMENT IN WHICH COLONIAL SLAVERY WAS ABOLISHED BY THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT AND ROYAL ASCENT IN 1833, AND SUBSEQUENTLY BECOMING LAW IN 1834. Commemorative medals such as ours would have been distributed at Abolitionist meetings, or sold with the proceeds going to fund the Abolitionist campaign. We have found that the tactile experience of handling an actual Abolitionist medal, as here, is immensely gratifying for students and "civilians" alike; certainly its unbreakability lends itself well in classroom settings and coursework involving the study of material culture. It is believed that our medal was produced in London by the medallist Thomas Halliday (1771-1844) who is considered one of the foremost medallic engravers of the first half of the nineteenth century. It was made in silvered white metal and commemorates the abolition of colonial slavery throughout the British colonies in 1834. The obverse depicts a seated King William IV (1765-1837) attended by four standing statesmen (or advisors). The reverse of the medal depicts a group of freed male and female slaves dancing in a circle around a palm tree. In 1833 the British Parliament passed the Slavery Abolitionist Act (3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 73), outlawing the owning, buying, and selling of humans as property throughout its colonies around the world. While this did not free enslaved people in the United States (which of course was no longer a British colony), it was a source of inspiration and hope for abolitionists. Our medal commemorates the exact day that the Slavery Abolitionist Act received William IV's royal ascent, on April 28, 1833, which made the Act become law, and which came into effect the following year on August 1, 1834. Brown (in his unsurpassable "British Historical Medals") states that the design for the obverse of this medal is taken from the medal struck for the Reform Bill of 1832, the legend in the exergue being altered to suit the occasion. Two versions of the present medal exist: one in copper (examples of which are held by the Royal Museums Greenwich and the Schomburg Center NYPL); and one in silvered white metal (British Museum), as here. Literature: Naomi Gardner, Embroidering Emancipation: Female Abolitionists and Material Culture in Britain and the USA, c.1780-1865 (PhD thesis, University of London, 2016, p. 93). Benjamin Weiss, Medallic History of Slavery: Racial Oppression as Chronicled by Historical and Commemorative Medals, 2020. References: Eimer 1276. BHM 1673. Brown, Catalogue of British Historical Medals 1760-1960, vol. I (Accession of George III to the Death of William IV), pp. 383 (no. 1596), 398 (1665) and 400 (1673).

The Market Assistant, containing a brief description of every article of human food sold in the public markets of the cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn; including the various domestic and wild animals, poultry, game, fish, vegetables, fruits, &c.,&c. with many curious incidents and anecdotes by De Voe, Thomas F.

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Title: The Market Assistant, containing a brief description of every article of human food sold in the public markets of the cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn; including the various domestic and wild animals, poultry, game, fish, vegetables, fruits, &c.,&c. with many curious incidents and anecdotes
Author: De Voe, Thomas F.
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1867. Thick octavo, 455, 15 pages. Advertisements. Illustrated. First edition, second printing. Thomas F. De Voe was a butcher at Jefferson Market in New York's Greenwich Village, and he is depicted as such, top-hat and all, in the handsome frontispiece to the book. De Voe was working as a New York butcher at just the moment when improvements in transportation brought increasing abundance to the city's open air food markets. In her book, Kitchen Literacy, food historian Anne Vileisis calls De Voe, “no ordinary butcher. He might more aptly be described as an epicure naturalist, and it is this naturalist inclination that makes him so fascinating.” Internally clean and sound. In publisher's blind-ruled and gilt-lettered brown cloth; slight bit of dampstaining to front cloth panel. Early pencil ownership signature to title page; tissue guard at title page foxed, with a bit of foxing to title page. Overall, near fine. Rare in the marketplace.

Herbert Bayer: The Complete Work by BAYER, Herbert; Arthur A. COHEN

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Title: Herbert Bayer: The Complete Work
Author: BAYER, Herbert; Arthur A. COHEN
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition: As-new, fresh and bright
Description: Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984. As-new, fresh and bright. 4to (11 3/4 x 10 in.). 429, [2] pages. Original cloth; French-folded pictorial dust jacket; cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, DELUXE LIMITED ISSUE, number 26 of 100 copies signed by Cohen, with an original signed photograph "Desert Flower, Greece, 1934," laid-in.

Gerald Ford Signs A Mint White House Engraving by GERALD FORD

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Title: Gerald Ford Signs A Mint White House Engraving
Author: GERALD FORD
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: GERALD R. FORD (1913-2006). Ford was the Thirty-Eighth President. Signed White House engraving. 8 x 6. No date. No place. An engraving of the White House signed Gerald Ford on the lower margin. It is in mint condition.

Little Charley's Games and Sports Embellished With Engravings

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Title: Little Charley's Games and Sports Embellished With Engravings
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Description: Philadelphia: C.G. Henderson & Co, 1865. Paper wraps. 32 pp. Paper covers with a 16 page book catalogue.

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The Book Thief. by ZUSAK, Markus.

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Title: The Book Thief.
Author: ZUSAK, Markus.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780375831003
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description: NY:: Knopf,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2006. Hardcover. 0375831002 . Made into the 2013 film. First American printing. Spot of light soiling on front board, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. ; 552 pages .

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