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President Martin Van Buren Orders Official Ratification of the Fourth Ever Treaty Between the United States and Mexico

President Martin Van Buren Orders Official Ratification of the Fourth Ever Treaty Between the United States and Mexico by Martin Van Buren

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Seller: The Raab Collection
Title
President Martin Van Buren Orders Official Ratification of the Fourth Ever Treaty Between the United States and Mexico
Author
Martin Van Buren
Seller
The Raab Collection (United States)
Description
08/02/1839. One of the key points of conflict between the United States and Mexico was the status of Texas. Initially, the United States claimed Texas was part of the Louisiana Purchase, acquired from France in 1803. The Spanish disagreed, and the issue was resolved in Spain's favor in the 1819 Adams-Onís Treaty, in which the United States released hold on Spanish Texas and instead was allowed to acquire Spanish Florida. Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821, but years of turmoil followed until the creation of the Republic of Mexico in 1824.Meanwhile, Americans led by Stephan F. Austin and others began settling in eastern Texas, soon coming into conflict with the Mexican government, since they sought both autonomy and the introduction of slavery into Mexico, which had abolished it in 1829. This led to the Texas Revolution and the establishment of the Texas Republic in 1836. During the 1820s and 1830s, citizens on both sides of the shifting border made claims against the Mexican Republic and the United States. In September 1838, Secretary of State John Forsyth and Mexican minister Francisco Pizarro Martinez negotiated a Convention to evaluate the claims and determine compensation. President Van Buren forwarded it to the Senate, and the Senate approved it on January 31, 1839.Document signed, as President, Washington, February 8, 1839, directing the Secretary of State to “affix the seal of the United States to the ratification and the ratified copy of the Convention with the Mexican Republic for the adjustment of claims of citizens of the United States.” This was just the fourth treaty ever concluded between the United States and Mexico.But things did not do as planned, as the Mexicans refused to ratify this version because the part to be played by the King of Prussia as arbitrator was not sufficiently spelled out for them. Instead the convention was tinkered with in April 1839 and the final version passed and ratified. It would be implemented in 1840.
The Rocky Mountains (Lander's Peak)

The Rocky Mountains (Lander's Peak) by Bierstadt, Albert

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Seller: De Simone Company, Booksellers
Title
The Rocky Mountains (Lander's Peak)
Author
Bierstadt, Albert
Seller
De Simone Company, Booksellers (United States)
Description
New York: Edward Bierstadt, 1866. Image size including text: 425 x 705 mm., (16 3/4 x 27 7/8 inches). Steel engraving by James Smillie after a painting by Albert Bierstadt that was completed in 1863.  Signed in Pencil by both Bierstadt and Smillie. A few brown spots removed by expert paper conservator.  Excellent condition.      "This painting is the major work that resulted from the artist's first trip to the West. His intention to create panoramic views of the American frontier was apparent by December 1858, just before he embarked on the trip. In early 1859 he accompanied a government survey expedition, headed by Frederick W. Lander, to the Nebraska Territory. By summer, the party had reached the Wind River Range of the Rocky Mountains in what is now Wyoming. Bierstadt dubbed the central mountain in the picture Lander's Peak following the colonel's death in the Civil War. This was one of a number of large works painted after Bierstadt's return from these travels. It was completed in 1863, exhibited to great acclaim, and purchased in 1865 for the then-astounding sum of $25,000 by James McHenry, an American living in London. Bierstadt later bought it back and gave or sold it to his brother Edward"  (MMA)  Due to its huge popular success, Bierstadt immediately asked James Smillie, America's premier engraver, to produce an engraving. However, it was not until December 1866, after three laborious years in the making, that this engraving was published.  The advertisement for the print issued by James Smillie in 1866 reads in part:              "This picture possesses a geographical and historical value, such as few works by             modern artists have obtained. Nor will time destroy its worth, but rather add to it. It              is not only a correct representation of a portion of our country of which we as yet              know comparatively little; but it introduces into it the every-day life of that race              which, before the advance of civilization, fades away like the mists of morning              before the rays of the rising sun. Their customs and habits through it will be              preserved when, perhaps, the scene which it depicts, will no longer echo to the ring             of their war-cry, or mark their stealthy step following in the chase. Upon that very             plain where now an Indian village stands, a city, populated by our descendants, may              rise, and in its art-galleries this picture may eventually find a resting place."  Nancy Anderson and Linda S. Ferber, Albert Bierstadt Art and Enterprise, pp. 272-273, number 77, illustrated figure 80. Brucia Witthoft, "The History of James Smillie's Engraving after Albert Bierstadt's The Rocky Mountains," American Art Journal, vol. 19, no. 2 (Spring 1987): 40-1.   https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10154 .
BONNY BAIRNS

BONNY BAIRNS by Waugh, Ida; Blanchard, Amy Ella

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Seller: Type Punch Matrix
Title
BONNY BAIRNS
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Waugh, Ida; Blanchard, Amy Ella
Seller
Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Very good plus.
Description
New York: Worthington Co, 1888. Very good plus.. First edition of this collection of rhymes illustrated with darling chromolithographs of Victorian children by Ida Waugh. BONNY BAIRNS lives up to its name: its pages are full of lovely Victorian children frolicking in gardens, playing with toys, and being comforted by their elegant mothers. Ida Waugh paints an idillic picture of upper-middle-class 19th-century childhood in her illustrations, similar to her contemporary Maud Humphrey. An attractive production. 10.25'' x 8''. Original color pictorial boards with gilt elements. Chromolithograph frontispiece with chromolithographs and color illustrations throughout. 48 pages. Gift inscription to front flyleaf, dated "X'mas 1888." Boards with light edgewear, some bumping, rear hinge repaired. Leaves with occasional offsetting, mild soil to margins. Colors vibrant.
OLD SCHOOL

OLD SCHOOL by Wolff, Tobias

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Title
OLD SCHOOL
Author
Wolff, Tobias
Seller
Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN
9780375401466
Condition
Fine in near fine jacket.
Description
New York: Alfred K. Knopf, 2003. First printing. Fine in near fine jacket.. Signed first edition of the award-winning memoirist's first full-length novel, a story of high-stakes literary competitiveness set in a 1960s New England prep school. 9.25'' x 6''. Original quarter grey and cream paper boards with copper lettering to spine. In original unclipped ($22.00) photographic dust jacket designed by Carol Devine Carson. 195, [1]. Jacket with "Autographed Copy" sticker to front panel, else fine.
1941 – A letter from a Shanghai trader soliciting clothing and textile business from the San Diego Submarine Base in anticipation of a coming war between Japan and the United States

1941 – A letter from a Shanghai trader soliciting clothing and textile business from the San Diego Submarine Base in anticipation of a coming war between Japan and the United States by The Reliance Company

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1941 – A letter from a Shanghai trader soliciting clothing and textile business from the San Diego Submarine Base in anticipation of a coming war between Japan and the United States
Author
The Reliance Company
Seller
Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Shanghai, China, 1941. Envelope or Cover. Very good. This one-page typed letter from The Reliance Company of Shanghai, dated 12 July 1941 was sent to “The Ship’s Service Dept.” at the” U.S. Naval Station U.S. Submarine Base” in San Diego, California. It is enclosed in its mailing envelope with appropriately franked Chinese stamps canceled by legible Shanghai postmarks. In nice shape. The letter repeatedly references “world conditions” and suggests that orders should be place quickly. It reads in part: RE: Special Sales of Emb’d Linens, Lace Dry Goods, Chinese Silk Underwear, Appenzell, Emb’d Handkerchiefs, Etc. Amounting to US$150,000 Approximately. . .. “Supplies of both your Officers and Clients. . .. we are glad to applicant ourselves to serve you with all of our famous products of the same. . .. “We have been well communicating with all those famous Post Exchanges & Ship’s Service Stores . . . in Coco Solo, Fort Davis, Fance Field, Port Amador, Fort Clayton . . . US Government Establishments in St. Thomas, V.I.; Tientsin, China; etc. . .. “We wish to state that at present, we are having the fresh stock of a fine variety of Emb’d Table Cloths & Napkins, Tea Sets, Slucheon Sets . . . Sheets and Pillow Slips, Handkerchiefs, Coilies, Runners, Silk Underward, Men’s Robes, Mandarin Coats, Pyamas, etc. . .. All are of the best makes. . .. “Owing to the present world conditions prevailing, it is understood that for the complete defence of your place, both of USN Naval Force and the requirement so our lines are greatly increased, so that as for your future demands, we wish you would AT ONCE to send us your valuable orders. . .. “As to the prices, there will be no question at all. . .. It’s possible for us to give you the most remarkable low prices for the best goods obtainable. . .. “We are having a whole confidence in US Government Organization, and so, we need not deposits for any of your sized orders placed in with us. . .. “Please note that due to the disturbed conditions existing, yet we are wondering if it is still possible for us to make our further shipment just as smoothly as before, so that you are strongly requested as to consider to send us order in an early date. . ..” . An interesting commercial solicitation from a company that would soon no longer exist sent to an organization that would soon be too occupied to worry about silk underwear and mandarin jackets. At the time of listing, there are no records of similar items for sale in the trade, having appeared at auction, or held by institutions. .
The Japanese Tea Garden, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California

The Japanese Tea Garden, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California by ASAWA, Ruth (illustrator) and Elizabeth McClintock

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The Japanese Tea Garden, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California
Author
ASAWA, Ruth (illustrator) and Elizabeth McClintock
Seller
Harper's Books (United States)
Condition
Fine, in illustrated wrappers.
Description
San Francisco: John McLaren Society, 1977. Fine, in illustrated wrappers.. First Edition. Octavo. A guide to the oldest public Japanese garden in California—nurtured by Makoto Hagiwara after its establishment during the 1894 World's Fair in 1894; the source for one of Ruth Asawa's most long-standing civic engagements. For this guide, which features both architectural details and a list of the garden's plants, Asawa supplied 7 charming botanical drawings; two of them printed in red, to the verso of the insert map. Contents: [58] pages, with text by Elizabeth McClintock.
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Hans Hofmann, New Paintings

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Title
Hans Hofmann, New Paintings
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Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
VG-: Some foxing to the wraps. Some warping and creases to the edges.
Description
New York: Kootz Gallery, 1963. VG-: Some foxing to the wraps. Some warping and creases to the edges.. Glossy, color-illustrated folded exhibition catalogue. [2] pages.
Crossing Boundaries: A Global Vision of Design

Crossing Boundaries: A Global Vision of Design by Wolf, Vincente

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Crossing Boundaries: A Global Vision of Design
Author
Wolf, Vincente
Seller
Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9781580931816
Condition
Very Good
Description
NY: Monacelli, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 232pp. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. Inscribed and signed by Wolf on the front free endpaper.
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Deluge: A Romance by WRIGHT, S. Fowler

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Title
Deluge: A Romance
Author
WRIGHT, S. Fowler
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Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description
New York, Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1928., 1928. First edition (so stated). 8vo. Dust jacket (unclipped; with old repairs on verso and green tape on edges). Good. 395 pages. No signatures or bookplates.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good.
Graphic Work From the Bauhaus

Graphic Work From the Bauhaus by WINGLER, Hans M. (editor)

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Title
Graphic Work From the Bauhaus
Author
WINGLER, Hans M. (editor)
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780821203217
Description
Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society Ltd, 1969. First U.S. edition and first printing. Hardcover. 168 pages. Edited by Hans M. Wingler. Translation by Gerald Onn. Includes 11 tipped in color plates and 73 black and white illustrations. A tight near fine copy in cloth boards with some minor wear and in a very good plus dust jacket with some light wear.
Lee Krasner. Recent Paiintings. Marlborough Gallery. April - May 1973

Lee Krasner. Recent Paiintings. Marlborough Gallery. April - May 1973

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Lee Krasner. Recent Paiintings. Marlborough Gallery. April - May 1973
Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Marlborough Gallery Inc, 1973. Wraps. Fine. Lee Krasner. 4to.

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