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Autographed Letter Signed [ALS] Mentioning "Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

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Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company

Title: Autographed Letter Signed [ALS] Mentioning "Leaves of Grass
Author: Walt Whitman
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Camden, NJ: np, 1888. First edition. Fine. WHITMAN AS A BOOKSELLER, TRYING TO SELL LEAVES OF GRASS. In this letter, Whitman has written to New York publishers Dick & Fitzgerald mentioning Leaves of Grass. He offers the book to them at a 33% discount and signs the letter with his full signature "Walt Whitman". Framed alongside the letter is the famous photo of Whitman touching the (prop) butterfly from the first edition of Whitman's "Specimen Days & Collect". The letter, dated Feb 18, 1888 from his 328 Mickle Street address (Camden, New Jersey) reads in full: "After some delay I have succeeded in getting you a two Vol. set (in perfect order half leather binding) those portraits from life, of Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets ed'n 1876 - Shall I send the vols to you? The price is $6.66 (+10 - one-third off). [signed] Walt Whitman" Matted and framed with UV filtered glass with opening on back to show the address side of post card. Framed alongside Whitman's letter is the photograph of Whitman from Specimen Days. Dimensions - Frame: 38.1cm x 30.5cm (15in x 12in), letter: 13.3cm x 7.6cm (5.25in x 3in), Whitman print: 9.5cm x 14.6cm (3.75in x 5.75in). Fine condition with signature strong and bold.

Philosophy of Botany by THORNTON, Robert John

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Title: Philosophy of Botany
Author: THORNTON, Robert John
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description: London: T. Bensley for the publishers, White, Johnson and Co. ...and the author, 1810. Full Description: THORNTON, Robert John. The Philosophy of Botany. London: T. Bensley for the publishers, White, Johnson and Co. ...and the author, [1799]-1810. First Edition, early issue, without the words "including" on the engraved title-pages. Four folio volumes (18 1/2 x 13 1/8 inches; 470 x 335 mm). With 192 engraved plates, seven of which are folding. Uniformly bound in contemporary diced calf. Boards with two thick gilt borders and a thick border in blind. Spines elaborately stamped and lettered in gilt. Board edges gilt. Gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Green silk page markers. Drab green endpapers. Some rubbing to edges and corners. Outer joints with some wear but still strong. A few pages of occasional foxing. Overall a very good set. Comprises: Volumes I-II: Botanical Extracts or Philosophy of Botany. London: T. Bensley for the publishers, White, Johnson and Co. ...and the author, 1810. [2], xii, [1, contents], [1, blank], 308; [2], 309-625, [1, ads] pp. With calligraphic title in vol. I, Both volumes with a letterpress title with mounted woodcut allegorical vignettes by Branston after Thurston on india paper. Two engraved plates of double-portraits by Caldwell after Opie and David depicting Priestley/Lavoisier and Mayow/Evelyn and one aquatint botanical plate by Warner after Henderson. Volume III: Elementary Botanical Plates... Intended to Illustrate Botanical Extracts. London: T. Bensley for the publishers, White, Johnson and Co. ...and the author, 1810. With letterpress title; engraved allegorical frontispiece by Ridley after Russell and Opie, 27 engraved portraits, one engraved view, and 75 engraved, mezzotint, and aquatint plates of botanical, scientific, and other subjects,3 of which are double-page. The double-pages plates include scenes of volcanic eruptions. Vol. IV. [A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus. London: T. Bensley, 1799?]. Lacking calligraphic title. With engraved frontispiece by Bartolozzi and Landseer after Reinagle, 86 engraved, mezzotint, and aquatint botanical plates, 2 of which are folding, and 2 are double-page. Although there is some disagreement amongst bibliographers, the three components of this work are properly known together under the title The Philosophy of Botany and were issued as such. The high point of Romantic era botanical books and the first floral prints with landscape backgrounds. "In 1798 there appeared the first of a series of some thirty large colour plates which are unique in that they produce the first flower prints with landscape backgrounds, depicting the natural habitat of the plant. The life size flowers stand forth dramatically and the whole effect is startlingly modern. This large folio, entitled The Temple of Flora or New Illustrations of the Sexual System of Linnaeus, was published by Dr. Robert John Thornton a lecturer on medical botany at Guy's Hospital in London. "Robert Thornton was a botanist most famous for his Temple of Flora, an eccentric, albeit beautifully illustrated, work written in praise of the sexual classification system for plants introduced by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus. This work is one of his other botanical publications."(The Royal Trust Collection). Cleveland Collections 744; Nissen BBI 1956; Pritzel 9235; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 14284-14285. HBS 69432. $7,500.

His Majesties Most Gracious and Royal Commission for the Relief of Poor Distressed Prisoners by DEBTORS' PRISONS. SOCIAL JUSTICE

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Seller: Liber Antiquus

Title: His Majesties Most Gracious and Royal Commission for the Relief of Poor Distressed Prisoners
Author: DEBTORS' PRISONS. SOCIAL JUSTICE
Seller: Liber Antiquus (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Printed for M.D. and are to be sold by Nathaniel Webb, at the Royal Oak, in St. Pauls Church-yard, neer the little north-door of St. Pauls Church, 1664. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in modern quarter calf and marbled boards. A crisp copy (a few sall rust marks, final leaf dusty, verso of last text leaf lightly foxed.) The first leaf is a full-page woodcut of the royal arms. The final leaf (bound at the beginning in this copy) bears the woodcut printer's device ("Royall Oake") and type ornaments. Rare: North American copies: Harvard (4 copies), Huntington, Indiana, Newberry, Illinois. A royal pronouncement by King Charles II appointing members to serve on a commission, first established by Queen Elizabeth in 1586, "for the Relief of Poor Distressed Prisoners", that is, those debtors who "were truly and indeed poor, distressed and miserable, and wanted means to satisfie their creditors" as opposed to those "obstinate and wilful debtors" who had the means but not the will to pay their outstanding debts. The patent grants commissioners the authority to summon any imprisoned debtor and any party to whom a debt is owed, to assess the merits of the case, and to devise -in coordination with judges- a remedy that will satisfy the creditor and provide relief for "such poor and miserable persons, as have not wherewithal to satisfie their Debts", who would otherwise "be constrained miserably to perish in Prison, except in pity they shall be relieved." The Commission could do little to remedy the disfunction of the prison system or to alleviate the plight of those imprisoned for debt. Throughout the 17th c., the imprisoned vociferously protested the grim horrors of debtors' prison and the corrupt system that doomed them to rot in jail, powerless and penniless. From the 1640s onward, numerous petitions were introduced seeking debt relief and prison reform. It was not until the 1670s that these efforts would bear substantive fruit. In the meantime, appealing to the Commission offered salvation to a relative few. "Throughout the petitions and appeals, the gaolers are described as vipers, leeches, and caterpillars who "feed upon the miseries of honest men, or grow rich out of others ruines"; they are also characterized as ravenous beasts of prey, predators that "rore like Lyons, devoure like Tygers, ravine like Wolves, and like Beares crush the Prisoner under their feet." "Whether they slowly consumed or quickly devoured their victims, these "insatiable Monsters of Cruelty" threatened especially prisoners caught in the vicious cycle of financial misfortune that had led to their incarceration. "Because we are Poore," one of them poignantly protests, we have no escape: "Poore I say, and not able to fee Lawyers, Atturneys, Sollicitors, and Gaolers; for if we had moneys to satiate these Horsleeches, then (though our causes were never so unjust, and debts never so great) we should no wayes doubt the gaining of our Liberties." This injustice, another tract contends, is not merely the timeless complaint of all prisoners: "here the poorest debtor hath the cruellest imprisonment; that is the rule of these men's mercie: The greatest cheater hath the greatest favor; that is their Justice." "Quite simply, money drove the debtors to prison, and money determined their fates in prison. Much of the complaint against the rapacity of the gaolers, in fact, stems from a fee system that required inmates to pay for their own incarceration. In addition to the various chamber rents levied by keepers, all prisoners were expected to give sums to the turnkeys and porters for their services. Neither the fees nor the laws governing this practice were, however, clearly established; and prisoners complained at length and in detail "That in pursuance of their uncontrouled inhumane cruelties, Gaolers and Prison-keepers have and dayly do inforce from Prisoners their goods and moneys, illegal fees and excessive Chamber-rent."(Anselment, The Confinement: The Plight of the Imprisoned English Debtor in the Seventeenth Century) The Commission for the Relief of Poor Distressed Prisoners in the Post-Elizabethan Period: By this patent Charles II's renews previous patents passed by "Our Grand-Father"(James I) and "Our Father"(Charles I). Despite their intent, the Commissions For Relief were an imperfect solution. They met resistance from debtors who feared that their implementation would make it harder to recoup monies owed to them. Further, there was concern that unscrupulous borrowers would be emboldened to default on their debts. "Creditors needed protection against deliberate bankrupts, and poor debtors required relief against persistent creditors, yet aid to one party would have been prejudicial to the other. Upon Queen Elizabeth's death, her patent authorizing a commission for the relief of poor imprisoned debtors expired, and James did not renew it... "In the absence of a royal patent, Parliament attempted to resolve the dilemma by statutes, but its prison bills proved ineffectual. Also, as Parliament's patent of 1618 ["Acte for Recoverie of Small Debtes, and releevinge of poor debtors in London"] makes clear, the expiration of the earlier patent somewhat discouraged political debtors, but it left many bona fide debtors unrelieved, until London's jails were filled with 'the Bodies of those persons whose imprisonment cann no waie avail their Creditors, but rather is an hinderance to the Satisfaction of their Debts, for that, during the tyme of their Restrainte, they are in no wise able to goe aboute or attende their lawfull Busynes, but must of force consume themselves and that little they have miserably in prison.'"(Shaw, The Position of Thomas Dekker in Jacobean Prison Literature, PMLA , Jun., 1947, Vol. 62, No. 2 (Jun., 1947), pp. 366-391).

The Far East. Vol. 1 no. 1

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Title: The Far East. Vol. 1 no. 1
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: [Tokyo]: Kokumin no tomo, 1896. 8vo, pp. [4], 38, [8]; 1 plate, gray printed paper wrappers; spine perished, light edgewear and toning, signature of M(?) Campbell Davidson on upper cover, good and sound. The first issue of a short lived periodical that appears not to have made it past the third volume. It was published as an English language companion to the Kokumin no tomo, or Countryman's friend, which lasted a decade. Articles cover issues of international politics, Christianity in Japan, and news and notes.

FROM DEATH TO MORNING by Wolfe, Thomas

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Title: FROM DEATH TO MORNING
Author: Wolfe, Thomas
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 304 pages. In Very Good condition with Good dust jacket. Black and orange spine with fray and orange text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has chipping to spine edges and corners, creasing to rear cover, moderate edge wear, and mild shelf wear. Textblock has slight toning. 1373003. Special Collections - Downstairs.

Economic Policy in Postwar Japan. Growth versus Economic Democracy by Yamamura, Kozo

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Title: Economic Policy in Postwar Japan. Growth versus Economic Democracy
Author: Yamamura, Kozo
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: A very good copy in an edgeworn dust jacket.
Description: Berkeley: Univ. California Press, 1967. First edition. Cloth. A very good copy in an edgeworn dust jacket.. xvii, 226 pp. Illus. with 65 tables. 8vo.

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