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Mimeographs of manuscripts, with occasional illustrations by SHANGHAI, Textbooks of the New Chinese Medical College

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Title: Mimeographs of manuscripts, with occasional illustrations
Author: SHANGHAI, Textbooks of the New Chinese Medical College
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Seven vols. 8vo (260 x 148 mm.), orig. semi-stiff wrappers with pasted-on title-slips, orig. stitching. Shanghai: Xinzhongguo yixueyuan, ca. 1941-42. A collection of textbooks issued by the New Chinese Medical College of Shanghai (Xin zhongguo yixueyuan 新中國醫學院), established in 1935, as the city's third modern medical school. The teaching faculty, including many leading figures in the modernization of Chinese medicine, sought to integrate traditional Chinese and modern Western medicine within a coherent pedagogical system. Giving equal weight to the medical theories, terminology, and treatments derived from longstanding Chinese practices as well as modern scientific research, these textbooks pioneered the Sino-Western hybrid approach of medical instruction (zhongxiyi jiehe 中西醫結合) that was unusual at the time but has since become widely accepted. Copies of these textbooks, printed by mimeograph for the students, are difficult to find today: we do not locate any in WorldCat, although a copy of the 1936 school code is held at Berkeley (accession no. 46645586). The individual titles of the seven volumes are as follows. • Tonglun ke jiangyi 通論科講義 [Lectures on General Theory]. By Liu Zhongqi 劉仲琪. 22, 28, 34, 23, 5 folding leaves. • Yaowuxue jiangyi diyice 藥物學講義第一冊 [Lectures on Pharmacology, Vol. 1]. By Zhu Zhicheng 朱志成. [1], 171 folding leaves. Final leaves wormed on upper corner. • Yaowuxue jiangyi dierce 藥物學講義第二冊 [Lectures on Pharmacology, Vol. 2]. By Qian Jinyang 錢今陽. [1], 94, [1], 43 (unnumbered insert between ff. 20 & 21), [1], 34 folding leaves. Includes materials for the second year of the course. • Houke jiangyi 喉科講義 [Lectures on Otorhinolaryngology]. By Xu Banlong 許半龍 (author) and Shen Zongwu 沈宗吳 (instructor). 48 folding leaves. Followed by Zhenduanxue jiangyi 診斷學講義 [Lectures on Diagnosis]. [Anonymous?]. 28 folding leaves. Followed by Zabing jiangyi 雜病講義 [Lectures on Miscellaneous Diseases]. By Qian Gongxuan 錢公玄. 30, 10 folding leaves. Followed by Yaowuxue changshi 藥物學常識 [Common Sense Pharmacology]. 37 folding leaves. Final leaves wormed. • Erke jiangyi 兒科講義 [Lectures on Pediatric Medicine]. By You Xuezhou 尤學周. 92 folding leaves. • Fukexue jiangyi 婦科學講義 [Lectures on Gynecology]. By Jin Shaoling 金少陵. [1], 152 folding leaves. Preface dated Minguo 31 (1942). • Neijingxue jiangyi 內經學講義 [Lectures on the Inner Canon]. By Jin Shaoling 今少陵. 69, 20, [2] folding leaves. Postscript dated Minguo 30 (1941). Divided into two years of instruction. Very good copies. Light worming, foxing, and staining appear throughout but rarely affect reading. Lightly annotated throughout in red and black. Blue collector's seals 國華 and 國華藏書 appear at the beginning of volumes. ❧ 裘沛然 et al. (eds.), 杏苑鶴鳴：上海新中國醫學院校史 (上海中醫藥大學出版社, 2000), esp. pp. 58-67.

Manuscript on paper, entitled on first leaf of text “Shōkaku fugō.” by SHŌKAKU FUGŌ 省画符号 (JAPANESE SHORTHAND)

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Title: Manuscript on paper, entitled on first leaf of text “Shōkaku fugō.”
Author: SHŌKAKU FUGŌ 省画符号 (JAPANESE SHORTHAND)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 18 folding leaves. 8vo (262 x 186 mm.), orig. brown wrappers, new stitching. [Japan]: late 19th century. “At the end of the Edo period Japanese ambassadors traveling abroad noted the presence of stenographers during their interviews, and after the Meiji Restoration a few Western books on shorthand appeared in Tokyo bookstores and in the private libraries of government secretaries. On several occasions in the first two decades of Meiji, individuals or groups sought to adapt Western shorthand for Japanese, but their attempts were quickly aborted, often owing to a dogged insistence that the essentially phonetic script preserve the ideographic utility of Chinese characters. As the Meiji period progressed and political assemblies, including rather spirited speeches and debates, added momentum to the development and circulation of newspapers throughout the nation, the need for an effective method of transcribing oratory kept alive the quest for a Japanese shorthand. From 1878 through 1881 Takusari Koki 田鎖綱紀, 1854-1938, a young man of samurai heritage from Iwate prefecture [who had received rudimentary lessons in Graham shorthand from the American Robert G. Carlyle, a mining specialist employed by the Meiji government], toyed with possible Japanese stenographic systems and then approached the task with greater seriousness, using various Western shorthand systems as well as inventing those of his own… “At first, like his predecessors in the enterprise, Takusari concentrated on abbreviating both sounds and kanji, but this system quickly grew ungainly owing to the large number of distinct characters. He then adopted a phonetic approach, modeled upon Graham and more suited to Japanese, that separated vowel sounds and initial consonants into marks representing the angles found in a circle… “In 1882 an enthusiastic supporter of Takusari’s embryonic shorthand system published an article in Jijishimpō describing Takusari’s plight and indigent circumstances, waxing eloquent on shorthand’s potential… “After the appearance of this article several would-be students approached Takusari about the possibility of his offering a training program in sokki. By the end of the year he had enrolled forty students, seventeen of whom continued through the primarily theoretical course to graduate in May 1883. Some of these first graduates went on to become professional stenographers, and others later became famous teachers or politicians. Over the following few years new members joined their ranks and a number of alternative sokki styles, suited to the pragmatic demands of simultaneous transcription, branched off from Takusari’s prototype.”–J. Scott Miller, “Japanese Shorthand and Sokkibon” in Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 49, No. 4 (Winter 1994), pp. 473-74. Our attractive manuscript begins with a description of the shorthand system, starting with two syllables reduced to one shorthand symbol, up to 11 syllables. It continues with variations and other phonetic and grammatical considerations and complications. Fine copy. Minor worming.

Russian Literature [spine title: "Ideals and Realities in Russian Literature."] Author's Presentation Copy, Inscribed to Isaak Vladimirovich Shklovsky by [ANARCHISM] KROPOTKIN, Peter

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Title: Russian Literature [spine title: "Ideals and Realities in Russian Literature."] Author's Presentation Copy, Inscribed to Isaak Vladimirovich Shklovsky
Author: [ANARCHISM] KROPOTKIN, Peter
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Duckworth, 1905. First Edition. First impression. Inscribed by Kropotkin in Russian, on the front endpaper, to fellow revolutionary and prominent Anglo-Russian journalist Isaak Vladimirovich Shklovsky, "..with fraternal greetings," signed, dated August, 1905. Octavo. Deep red cloth; gilt spine titles; top edge gilt; xii, [1]-341pp. Externally rubbed and worn, with some loss of gilt on spine; bookplate of the Lyceum Club of Piccadilly to front pastedown, with stamp of same to title page at bottom edge of text block; partial split rear endpapers at hinge; else Good and sound. A notable association copy with equally notable provenance. The recipient, I.V. Shklovsky (who wrote under the pen name "Dioneo") was an exiled Russian revolutionary who, like Kropotkin, made his home in England after escaping prison in Siberia (Kropotkin beginning in 1886; Shklovsky a decade later). Though we can locate no English-language documentary record of Shklovsky's and Kropotkin's friendship, it is safe to assume that as fellow revolutionaries and members of London's Russian exile community the two were well known to one another. While Kropotkin's autograph is not notably rare, personally inscribed copies of his books, especially those with association value, are infrequently seen. This copy from the library of the Lyceum Club of Piccadilly - the organization's charter location, founded by Constance Smedley in 1904. The Lyceum Club, founded expressly for the use of women from London's professional and arts communities, became a hotbed of feminist progressivism, led not only by Smedley herself but also such charter members as Millicent Fawcett, Frances Balfour, and Enid Moberly Bell. The Club's attractive bookplate, depicting a rugged yawl in rough seas, crewed entirely by women, is signed in the block by the London illustrator Marion [aka Marian] Dawson. Though the Lyceum Club movement lives on, with affiliates in eighteen countries, the Piccadilly branch went bankrupt in 1933, at which point we presume its library was dispersed.

Living My Life by [ANARCHISM] GOLDMAN, Emma

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Title: Living My Life
Author: [ANARCHISM] GOLDMAN, Emma
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Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First Edition. First Printing. Two large octavo volumes (24.5cm); pale blue cloth, with titles stamped in navy blue on spines and front covers; charcoal gray topstains; dustjackets; xi,[3],4-503,[1]; [viii],[504]-993,xvipp; illus. Spines and upper board edges gently sunned, light wear to spine ends, upper board corners on Vol.1 gently tapped (though still sharp), with two small stains to lower corner of textblock on same, and a few faint, tiny stains to right edge of textblock on Vol.2; contemporary ink ownership signature of Gertrude Edelstein on the rear pastedown of each volume; Very Good+, lacking the dustjackets. First edition of Goldman's monumental autobiography, an undisputed high-spot of women's writing and one of a few truly important 20th-century radical memoirs. Goldman was reputedly furious with Knopf for issuing the book in two volumes at the height of an economic depression, and considered the publication price of $7.50 to be exorbitant. The book indeed sold poorly, despite strong reviews, and has never been common.

A Widow Against the Courts by [WOMEN'S HISTORY] [LAW] VAUGHN, Maria R.

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Title: A Widow Against the Courts
Author: [WOMEN'S HISTORY] [LAW] VAUGHN, Maria R.
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Description: Trenton: Privately Published, 1939. First Edition. Octavo. Gilt-decorated cloth (hardcover); 162,(2)pp. Stamped "Complimentary Copy," with presentation inscription from the author to a Samuel D. Lenox, dated November 28, 1939. Title page foxed, with scattered toning to contents; light external wear and soil; Very Good. An uncommon first-hand account by a self-professed victim of legal treachery. Mrs. Vaughn recounts her adventures with the New Jersey civil court system following the death of her husband and the challenging of the will by his children. In her epilogue, Vaughn concludes, "I wish to remind the reader that all my trouble came as the result of lawyers, for believing that they are supposed to advise one in the best way, I foolilshly relied upon them." Based on the author's somewhat obsessive tone and the trial transcripts recorded here, however, it is unclear whether it was Mrs. Vaughn, or the lawyers she hired, who had the stronger grievance. The inscribee was the principal of the prominent Trenton law firm Lenox, Giordano, Devlin, Delehey & Socey (a firm apparently not involved in any of Mrs. Vaughn's various civil actions).

Songs from the Trenches: the Soul of the A.E.F. A Collection of Verses by American Soldiers in France...from Poems Submitted in the Prize Competition of the New York Herald by [WW1] GIBBONS, Herbert Adams

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Title: Songs from the Trenches: the Soul of the A.E.F. A Collection of Verses by American Soldiers in France...from Poems Submitted in the Prize Competition of the New York Herald
Author: [WW1] GIBBONS, Herbert Adams
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: Harper and Brothers, (1918). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; xvi,207pp. Two ownership signatures to front endpaper, else tight, straight and unmarked; Very Good or better. In the scarce printed dustwrapper, slightly chipped at extremities with a few brief, closed tears; Very Good. Among the hundred or so contributions are two early works, "Chant of the Army Cooks" and "Apres La Guerre," by the noted American writer, editor and bibliophile John T. Winterich, at this time a Private assigned to the staff of the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes. Scarce in jacket.

The Note-Book of An Intelligence Officer by WOOD, Eric Fisher

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Title: The Note-Book of An Intelligence Officer
Author: WOOD, Eric Fisher
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Description: New York: Century Co, 1917. First Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's original ribbed bottle green cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. [xii]; 346pp. Light rubbing and edgewear, minor bumping to spine ends, gilt bright, cloth clean, a slight spine lean; internally clean, illustrated throughout with numerous plates, some folding. A very good, bright copy indeed. Eric Fisher Wood Sr. was an American in Paris at the outbreak of WW1, volunteered as a US attaché, served as an Ambulance Driver, returned to the US to take part in an initiative to form a foundation of military preparedness during WW1, returned to Europe and joined the British as a Major, was wounded at Arras, and gassed at Meuse. Clearly a man for whom military service had been invented, he ended up as a Lieutenant Colonel, after having served as Chief of Staff for the 88th Infantry Division, among a host of other more clandestine responsibilities. Upon his return to the US in 1919 he was enlisted by General Pershing and Theodore Roosevelt Jr. as a founding committee member and administrator of what would eventually be called The American Legion, the first properly funded and administered US military veteran's association.

Vicarious Philanthropy by [ANARCHISTS & I.W.W.] SWIFT, Morrison I.

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Title: Vicarious Philanthropy
Author: [ANARCHISTS & I.W.W.] SWIFT, Morrison I.
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Description: N.p., N.d., but ca. 1890. Small octavo (19.5cm.); sewn pamphlet; printed self-wraps; 24pp. Front cover soiled, with faint institutional hand-stamp; text clean and unmarked. An early work by the prominent Anarchist, utopian novelist, and eugenicist; a criticism of top-down social reform measures, encouraging would-be philanthropists to "repent of their crimes against the toilers...withdraw from corrupting alliances with caste and cultivation, and .. become Socialists, Anarchists, revolutionists." No date, but mentions the University Settlement of New York (founded in 1886) as "embryonic.

Twelfth U.S. Infantry. Its Story - By Its Men 1798-1919 by [WW1 REGIMENTAL HISTORIES] ALOE, Alfred

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Title: Twelfth U.S. Infantry. Its Story - By Its Men 1798-1919
Author: [WW1 REGIMENTAL HISTORIES] ALOE, Alfred
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Description: [New York]: By Members of the Twelfth U.S. Infantry, 1919. First Edition. First printing. Large octavo. Blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; xvi,425pp; illus; frontispiece portrait of Col. Alfred Aloe, Regimental Commander and 13 inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones) not reckoned in pagination. Mild bumps to board corners and edges, still a tight, clean, Very Good or better copy. Includes a brief Foreword by William H. Taft. A nicely-preserved copy of this well-produced WW1 regimental history.

Cyclopaedia: or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences: by Chambers, Ephraim (~1680-1740).

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Title: Cyclopaedia: or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences:
Author: Chambers, Ephraim (~1680-1740).
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition: Text, very good; boards, acceptable
Description: London: printed for D. Midwinter, [etc., including 16 additional firms], 1738. The second edition, corrected and amended; with some additions. Text, very good; boards, acceptable. Two volumes folio (420 x 280 mm), continuously signed. Titlepages in red and black. Folded engraved frontispiece and 21 engraved plates, eight of them folding. In contemporary speckled calf over boards, double ruled in gilt, spine in seven compartments, title labels missing, volume numbers applied directly in gold, and gilt tool stamped in remaining compartments. Red speckled edges. Binding scuffed and abraded in places, revealing wood substrate; worn at corners, edges, and at spine ends, joints split, boards held on with later adhesive strips applied to hinges. Frontispiece partially split along fold, with some loss. Text block otherwise strong and entire, with plates clean and intact. Reference ESTC T136232, etc. EXTRA SHIPPING CHARGES WILL APPLY. The first English encyclopedia, and an undertaking as massive and comprehensive as its subtitle might suggest. The great French Encyclopédie edited by Diderot and d'Alembert originated in a proposal to translate this second edition of Chambers. Indeed, the second edition, published ten years after the first, is copiously enlarged from its original printing, "retouched," Chambers writes in a preface, "and amended in a thousand places." Chambers appears to have been largely self-taught, having apprenticed at a young age to a globe-maker and bookseller. That the Cyclopaedia was the work of a single clerk (albeit one who was ultimately elected to the Royal Society) rather than a committee of doctors makes its scope, detail, and accuracy all the more awesome. The entertainment value of the Cyclopaedia should not be ignored: it has taken us several hours to write this short description, having gotten quite lost in reading the fascinating and lucid articles on, for example, paper and type (a Caslon specimen sheet folds out), on Spinozism, on optics, the Nimethulehites, or on enthusiasm ("a poetic or prophetic rage, or fury, which transports the mind, and raises the imagination, and makes it conceive and express things extraordinary, and surprizing.

The Hand Book of Illustrated Proverbs: Comprising Also a Selection of Approved Proverbs of Various Nations and Languages, Ancient and Modern, Interspersed with Numerous Engravings and Descriptions: Adapted for the Use of All Ages and Classes of Persons by BARBER, John W.

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Title: The Hand Book of Illustrated Proverbs: Comprising Also a Selection of Approved Proverbs of Various Nations and Languages, Ancient and Modern, Interspersed with Numerous Engravings and Descriptions: Adapted for the Use of All Ages and Classes of Persons
Author: BARBER, John W.
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Condition: Very good
Description: New York: George F. Tuttle, Publisher, 102 Nassau Street, 1856. Cloth over board. Very good. [INSPIRATIONAL]. Cover title: Barber's Illustrated Proverbs 12mo; 252pp; brown ribbed cloth, blind-stamped decorative frame around a gilt-stamped title, gilt lettering and vignette on spine; pale yellow endpapers, ownership on ffep; five-panel leporello frontispiece; wood-engraved illustration at the beginning of each chapter; scuffing to boards with loss at head & tail of spine and corners, foxing but clean and without odors; very good. Twenty illustrations appear on the five-panel frontispiece titled "The Proverbs of Solomon, King of Israel." Four of the illustrations use proverbs to warn against alcohol, fitting in with the Temperance social movement that was growing in strength at this time. One surprising illustration, warning against evil, has a couple surrounded by roses with the woman's breast exposed. Sixty-two illustrated chapters, each with a traditional (not biblical) proverb, a description of the illustration and an explanation of the wisdom. The end of each chapter lists many other common or simple conventional truths that relate to the one highlighted. A thought-provoking look at common cultural wisdom during the 19th century.

The Thirteenth Edition of Rigby's Reliable Candy Teacher, with Complete and Modern Soda, Ice Cream and Sherbet Sections by RIGBY, W.O. and Fred

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Title: The Thirteenth Edition of Rigby's Reliable Candy Teacher, with Complete and Modern Soda, Ice Cream and Sherbet Sections
Author: RIGBY, W.O. and Fred
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Topeka, Kansas: Rigby Publishing Company, 1920. Cloth. Very good. 8vo; [vi] 271pp; grey illustrated cloth wrappers with a chef pictured on the front cover; light soiling to cover and a few pages; very good.

A Maritime History of Bath, Maine and the Kennebec River Region by BAKER, William Avery

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Title: A Maritime History of Bath, Maine and the Kennebec River Region
Author: BAKER, William Avery
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Description: Bath, Maine: Maritime Research Society of Bath, 1973. [STATE OF MAINE]. The Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine, printers. Two volumes. Small 4to; Vol. I: xviii, [1-2], 3-564pp; Vol. II: viii, [1-2], 565-1160; crisp red cloth over board, gilt lettering on spines; map eps; ship-plans, fold-out maps, b&w illustrations; light pencil marginalia; near fine. Housed in a tan slipcase. The history of the mid-coast Maine town of Bath, which is known for shipbuilding, and the Kennebec River that flows through it.

We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy, Two Nursery Rhymes with Pictures by SENDAK, Maurice

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Title: We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy, Two Nursery Rhymes with Pictures
Author: SENDAK, Maurice
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ISBN: 9780062050144
Condition: Fine
Description: [New York]: Michael Di Capua Books, Harper Collins Publishers, 1993. First Edition. Boards. Fine/Fine. Maurice SENDAK, illustrator; Jeanyee WONG, hand lettering. First edition. 8vo oblong; [52pp]; smooth tan paper over board, title in brown to spine; tan textured endpapers, ownership in neat marker to front pastedown dated "Christmas 1995"; color illustrated half-title and title page; color illustrations every page with text; heavy paper stock; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket; fine in fine dj. Hanrahan 138. ISBN: 0-06-205014-1. Front flap of dust jacket, "Two Traditional Rhymes from Mother Goose, Ingeniously Joined and Interpreted by Maurice Sendak". Busy and bright illustrations accompany the rhymes and tell the story of an abandoned child and his homeless rescuers living in the dump.

Peter Arno's Sizzling Platter by ARNO, Peter

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Title: Peter Arno's Sizzling Platter
Author: ARNO, Peter
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Condition: Very good +
Description: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949. First Edition. Boards. Very good +/Very good. First edition. 4to; 118pp; half-bound in black textured paper over orange textured board, cartoon vignette stamped in black to front; bookseller's ticket to front pastedown; b&w cartoon style illustrations with captions; scuffing to board edges loss at corners, head & tail of spine; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, chipping and light creasing; very good plus in vg dj. Peter Arno (1904-1968) was an American cartoonist featured in the The New Yorker magazine, frequently satirizing the New York society of which he was a part. Much of his humor can be found in the culture of the mid-20th century and is sexist in nature.

Circa 1851-1857 - Letter sent via the Augusta & Atlanta Rail Road (later the Georgia Rail Road and Banking Company) regarding the delay of a visit home because the family and its enslaved workers had contracted Scarlet Fever by A. M. Fannin

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Title: Circa 1851-1857 - Letter sent via the Augusta & Atlanta Rail Road (later the Georgia Rail Road and Banking Company) regarding the delay of a visit home because the family and its enslaved workers had contracted Scarlet Fever
Author: A. M. Fannin
Seller: Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Envelope or Cover. Very good. This stampless letter measures 15½" x 9¾". It was sent by A. M. Fannin and M P Allen to their relatives, care of "Miss L. A. Fannin / Madison / Ga." It bears a faint circular red "Augusta & Atlanta R.R." station agent postmark and a manuscript "5" rate mark. In this letter Fannin and Allen express their concerns about a Scarlet Fever epidemic that has struck their family and its enslaved workers at Madison. "All said all the negroes have had the sarlet fever Sis was so uneasy was the reason why we did not write is it so All had a very sore throat and high fever Ms Allen gave him Dr. Simmon's fever medicine he has quite recovered. . .. you must not expect us down till you all get well I would not have the boy exposed to the scarlot fever. . .. Mrs Chercer is quite sick, Mrs Tom Gibbs is in very poor health unable to leave the house. [the] little girl has gone entirely blind. . .." . Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, Scarlet Fever, was a mostly benign childhood disease. That changed abruptly around 1820, when a pandemic of particularly severe strains periodically erupted around the world. Although many outbreaks remained mild, often they resulted in a number of fatalities. An especially lethal outbreak occurred at Augusta, Georgia in 1832-3. No doubt that was bearing heavily on the Fannin families minds when this letter was written in the 1850s. Although the letter is undated, we know that it was sent between 1851 and 1857 because of the rare Augusta & Atlanta R.R." station agent postmark. Although most of the word, "Augusta" is very faint, probably due to an off-center strike, enough is visible that it can be identified as the #455-A-4 postmark in Towle's U.S. Route and Station Agent Postmarks; this postmark was only used during those years. Very little information about the Augusta & Atlanta Railroad is available. It was originally chartered in 1833. Several years later that charter was amended to include banking operations and the company's name was apparently changed to the Georgia Railroad & Banking Company. Although the banking side of the business was extremely successful, railroad operations remained small. By 1850 it operated only 213 miles of track, and by that had only increased to 232. As a result, the quantity of mail processed by the company (which was also referred to as the Georgia Railroad) was small. (For more information see Martin's Atlanta and its builders : a comprehensive history of the Gate city of the South, Katz & Moren's "Severe Streptococcal Infections in Historical Perspective" in Clinical Infectious Diseases Vol. 14 and Storey's "Georgia Railroad" in Georgia's Railroad History and Heritage accessible via the Internet Archive Way Back Machine.) At the time of listing, no other examples of mail processed by Augusta and Atlanta are for sale in the trade. None have appeared at auction per the Rare Book Hub and none are held by institutions per OCLC. The Stamp Auction Network shows one example has appeared in a philatelic auction (Lot 1032 in the Schulyer Rumsey Auction Sale 45, 24-27 January 2012 which realized $850). .

An examination of the "Remarks" of considerations suggested by the establishment of a second college in Connecticut by Baldwin, Roger Sherman

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Title: An examination of the "Remarks" of considerations suggested by the establishment of a second college in Connecticut
Author: Baldwin, Roger Sherman
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: Hartford: printed by Peter B, Gleason & Co, 1825. 8vo, pp. 26, [2]; stitched, as issued; very good. Founded as Washington College in 1823, it is the second-oldest college in Connecticut, after Yale. It was renamed Trinity College in 1845. Like many of his Yale alumni, Baldwin declines to support Washington College. Baldwin, later a U.S. Senator from Connecticut, was best known for his defense of the African slaves in the famous Amistad case. American Imprints 19503; Sabin 15721.

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