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President John Tyler Officially Authorizes a Treaty With Mexico, the Mexican Rejection of Which President Polk Later Used to Help Justify War by John Tyler

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Title: President John Tyler Officially Authorizes a Treaty With Mexico, the Mexican Rejection of Which President Polk Later Used to Help Justify War
Author: John Tyler
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 16/02/1844. This is the earliest official ratification between the two countries we have ever seen on the market; The Mexicans refused to ratify the changes the United States made in this document An important stepping stone on the path to War; This convention predates the first formal treaty between the two countriesThroughout the late 1830s, US Embassy officials in Mexico City were inundated by the complaints and claims regarding the seizure of American vessels, mistreatment of American citizens, and alleged injuries inflicted on American merchants. These claims escalated and became a sore point between the United States and Mexico.A special agent was sent to Mexico in the summer of 1838 with full authority to make a demand for redress. The demand was made; the Mexican Government promised to repair the wrongs, and after much delay a treaty of indemnity with that view was concluded between the two powers on the 11th of April, 1839, and was duly ratified by both Governments. By this treaty a joint commission was created to adjudicate and decide on the claims of American citizens on the Government of Mexico. The commission was organized at Washington on the 25th day of August, 1840. Their time was limited to eighteen months, at the expiration of which they had adjudicated and decided claims amounting to $2,026,139.68 in favor of citizens of the United States against the Mexican Government, but leaving a large amount of claims undecided.The claims which were left undecided by the joint commission, amounting to more than $3,000,000, together with other claims for spoliations on the property of our citizens, were subsequently presented to the Mexican Government for payment, and were so far recognized that a treaty providing for their examination and settlement by another joint commission was concluded and signed at Mexico on the 20th day of November, 1843. In January, 1844, this convention was ratified by the Senate of the United States with two amendments. The US sent Waddy Thompson to Mexico to negotiate these but Mexico refused to sign these.The Mexicans refused to ratify the changes the United States made in this documentPresident Polk later used this fact as justification for war against Mexico in his State of the Union address: ""A third convention was concluded and signed at the city of Mexico on the 20th of November, 1843, by the plenipotentiaries of the two Governments, by which provision was made for ascertaining and paying these claims. In January, 1844, this convention was ratified by the Senate of the United States with two amendments, which were manifestly reasonable in their character. Upon a reference of the amendments proposed to the Government of Mexico, the same evasions, difficulties, and delays were interposed which have so long marked the policy of that Government toward the United States. It has not even yet decided whether it would or would not accede to them, although the subject has been repeatedly pressed upon its consideration. Mexico has thus violated a second time the faith of treaties by failing or refusing to carry into effect the sixth article of the convention of January, 1843. Such is the history of the wrongs which we have suffered and patiently endured from Mexico through a long series of years. So far from affording reasonable satisfaction for the injuries and insults we had borne, a great aggravation of them consists in the fact that while the United States, anxious to preserve a good understanding with Mexico, have been constantly but vainly employed in seeking redress for past wrongs, new outrages were constantly occurring, which have continued to increase our causes of complaint and to swell the amount of our demands. While the citizens of the United States were conducting a lawful commerce with Mexico under the guaranty of a treaty of ""amity, commerce, and navigation,"" many of them have suffered all the injuries which would have resulted from open war.""Partly-printed document signed, as President, Washington, February 16, 1844, ordering the Secretary of State to affix the Seal of the United States to ""a Power authorizing Waddy Thompson or in his absence, B.E. Green, to exchange the ratifications of and to sign additional articles to the Convention with the Mexican Republic of the 20th November [“1843].” This convention predates the first treaty between the United States and Mexico, which was ratified in 1848.Thompson was U.S. Ambassador to Mexico from February 10, 1842 – March 9, 1844. Thompson learned enough Spanish to make his first speech to Mexican cabinet members in that language. He became friendly with Mexican president Santa Anna and succeeded in having 300 Texan prisoners freed. Two years after his return to the United States, Thompson published “Recollections of Mexico”, and he opposed the Mexican War. B.E. Green was the Secretary of the American Legation in Mexico City.This is the earliest official ratification between the two countries we have ever seen on the market.

Ganshō sai fukushinroku 含章斎腹診録 [Ganshō’s Diagnosis of Abdomen Treatments, Listed] by WADA, Tōkaku 和田東郭

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Title: Ganshō sai fukushinroku 含章斎腹診録 [Ganshō’s Diagnosis of Abdomen Treatments, Listed]
Author: WADA, Tōkaku 和田東郭
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 14 full-page woodcuts. 50; 44.5 folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff patterned wrappers, title-slips on upper covers, new stitching. Kyoto & other cities: Hayashi Yoshibei 林芳兵衛 et al., 1850. First edition and rare; we find no copy outside of Japan. Published posthumously by disciples of Wada (1744-1803), who was the physician to a number of aristocrats. His teacher was Yoshimasu Tōdō 吉益東洞 (1702-73), head of the Yoshimasu school of surgery, one of the institutes most closely aligned with Dutch influences after their first contacts in about 1600. Tōdō is considered to be the most innovative and influential figure in the development of kampo (Chinese medicine and materia medica adapted to Japanese culture and needs). He believed that any effective technique, regardless of philosophical tradition, was acceptable and should be based on experiment and observation. As part of kampo (traditional Japanese herbal medicine), fukushin 腹診 (the abdominal exam by percussion) is one of the most important diagnostic procedures. Derived from the traditional Chinese medicine writings of Zhang Zhongjing (ca. 150-219 CE), fukushin was fully developed and systematized in Japan and is still widely practiced. Palpation is structured to assess thickness, tension, resistance, tenderness, and masses. The 14 attractive full-page woodcuts depict the areas of the abdomen suitable for palpation. The accompanying notes correct or confirm other doctors’ theories regarding the indications gained from palpation of each section. Much of the text in the first volume is given to recipes for the preparation of medicines to cure a wide range of diseases. Vol. 2 contains case histories. Fine fresh copy.

Double Award (Artist's Ephemera) by CONNER, Bruce and Kristine Stiles (performer)

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Title: Double Award (Artist's Ephemera)
Author: CONNER, Bruce and Kristine Stiles (performer)
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: Handbill in fine condition, with purple handstamp to verso: "For deposit only to the account of Bruce Conner.
Description: San Francisco: Self-published, [1981]. Handbill in fine condition, with purple handstamp to verso: "For deposit only to the account of Bruce Conner.. Handbill (3 x 6 inches), printed recto-only to textured paper. On February 5, 1981, Bruce Conner appeared before the American Arbitration Association to seek restitution from the Braunstein/Quay Gallery for failure to pay him for works sold, as well as for damages suffered to consigned works from improper storage. The arbitrator awarded Conner on both counts. Regardless, a few months later, to announce a celebration for the Quay Gallery's twentieth anniversary, Conner was listed in their press release as one of the Gallery's featured artists. To protest this shamelessness, Conner designed this handbill, to be dispersed at the anniversary party by his Assistant, Kristine Stiles, costumed as his emissary in business suit and heels. Thrown-out of the upper floor gallery by Ruth Braunstein herself, Stiles continued her performance on the sidewalk below, reportedly told by more than one departing guest: "You ruined [Ruth's] party.

America First: New York 1960s by WAKAMATSU, Tad

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Title: America First: New York 1960s
Author: WAKAMATSU, Tad
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: A near fine copy in glossy boards. Illustrated jacket with minor toning, else near fine; accompanied by original publisher's obi
Description: Tokyo: Bungei-Shunju, 1985. A near fine copy in glossy boards. Illustrated jacket with minor toning, else near fine; accompanied by original publisher's obi. Uncommon, with only 3 OCLC records located outside of Japan.. First Edition. Square octavo. "Kennedy is dead, the shadow of the Vietnam War looms, and in early 1960s New York, just before the Beatles arrived, an unpaid studio assistant has registered for the draft and follows the lives of people in the street." A poignant collection of black-and-white NYC street photography from Japanese photographer Tad Wakamatsu, best known for his photobook Ipy Girl Ipy. Concluding with an autobiographical text from Wakamatsu (in Japanese), relating his time in New York as Richard Avedon's studio assistant.

Shock Corridor (Collection of 27 original photographs from the 1963 film) by Samuel Fuller (director, screenwriter); Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evens, James Best (starring)

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Title: Shock Corridor (Collection of 27 original photographs from the 1963 film)
Author: Samuel Fuller (director, screenwriter); Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evens, James Best (starring)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1963. Collection of 27 vintage reference photographs from the 1963 film, including four photographs showing proposed advertising material for the film. All but the advertising promos photos have provenance labels on the versos. With a pink mimeograph production sheet laid in, showing credits and a brief synopsis. Samuel Fuller's hallucinatory tour-de-force, about a Daily Globe journalist who, in an attempt to win a Pulitzer Prize, has himself institutionalized in an asylum recently implicated in a murder case. 10 x 8 inches. Generally Near Fine, with some faint toning to the margins and light curling, and studio still photographs with manuscript ink and pencil layout annotations and numeric annotations on the rectos. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 19. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese, A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Spicer US. Grant US.

Ensign, Bridgman & Fanning’s Map of Illinois by ENSIGN, BRIDGMAN & FANNING

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Title: Ensign, Bridgman & Fanning’s Map of Illinois
Author: ENSIGN, BRIDGMAN & FANNING
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: New York: Ensign, Bridgman & Fanning. In the original publisher’s cloth binding, decorated in blind, gilt on front cover; list of publisher’s maps, charts and books on the front paste-down, and with the exception of a very small 2 inch tear in crease, in excellent condition. This map of Illinois shows county boundaries in different colors along with cities, towns, rivers roads and railroads. There is an inset map of Chicago at lower left, showing city blocks and the various wards. At the upper left is a table with population by county as of 1850. The map was issued as folded.

A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY. BY MR. YORICK by [Sterne Laurence]

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Title: A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY. BY MR. YORICK
Author: [Sterne Laurence]
Seller: The Book Block (United States)
Description: London J. Creswick & Co., 1794. Sm. 8vo. (6 1/4 x 4 1/16), full acid calf with a single narrow floral border on the covers; spine with five raised bands and elaborate gilt decoration. Board edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g. (by Zaehnsdorf). This exceptionally well printed edition with its six engravings by W. Bromley after drawings by M. Archer employs excellent typography and a few well chosen head and tail pieces, making it highly attractive and readable. The unfinished narrative attacks sentimentalism wherein Sterne playfully moralizes so as to present an almost delicate caricature of moralizing itself. It is hard to understand today how for so many years it was read with great seriousness. It was first published in 1768, the year of Sterne's death. BEAUTIFULLY BOUND—WITH SIX FINE ENGRAVINGS

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by Blight, David W.

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Title: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Author: Blight, David W.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
ISBN: 9781982136697
Condition: Near fine
Description: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Signed limited edition of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, by David W. Blight.. Octavo, xx, 892pp. Blue hardcover, title in gilt on spine. First edition, first printing, with full number line on copyright page. In publisher's limited edition dust jacket, "Pulitzer Prize" label on cover, retail price on front flap, a touch of shelf wear, in near fine condition. Signed by the author on tipped-in limitation page. Author and historian David W. Blight won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for History and the Lincoln Prize for this work on Frederick Douglass. This was the first major biography of Frederick Douglass in nearly three decades.

A God in Ruins by Atkinson, Kate

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Title: A God in Ruins
Author: Atkinson, Kate
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Doubleday, 2015. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Signed first edition of A God Signed by Kate Atkinson.. Octavo, 394pp, [2]. Maroon hardcover, title in white on spine. All edges dyed red, with red bookmark sewn in. Illustrated endpapers. Solid text block, a fine copy. In the publisher's dust jacket, £20.00 retail price on front flap, touch of wear to edges, otherwise fine. With a Costa sticker on the front panel advertising Atkinson's past work, Life After Life. Signed on the title page: "Kate Atkinson / 7.5.15.

The Flower-Garden, containing directions for the cultivation of all garden flowers; with selected lists of the most approved annual, biennial, and perennial flowering plants by McIntosh, Charles)

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Title: The Flower-Garden, containing directions for the cultivation of all garden flowers; with selected lists of the most approved annual, biennial, and perennial flowering plants
Author: McIntosh, Charles)
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: London: Wm. S. Orr & Co, 1839. Hardcover. Very good. New edition. 8vo. [7, iii]-iv, 515, [1] pages. Nineteen plates, of which eleven are nicely hand-colored. Contemporary full leather tooled in blind on the sides and spine. Leather lettering label, gilt. Hinges and edges rubbed, lettering label partially perished, else a very good copy. A classic horticultural guide providing detailed instructions on cultivating various flowers. .

The Return of Solar Pons by Derleth, August

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Title: The Return of Solar Pons
Author: Derleth, August
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo., 261pp. Beautiful First edition bound in original black cloth with titles in green on spine. One of only 2079 copies printed. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($4.00), has a hint of edge-wear and mildly toned flap edges. Fresh and bright with no creases, chipping or tears. A very sharp collectable copy. (Jaffrey p.56).

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Self-Interest or Communal Interest: An Ideology of Leadership in the Gideon, Abimelech and Jephthah Narratives (Judg 6-12) (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 106) (Vetus Testamentum, Supplements) by Elie Assis

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Title: Self-Interest or Communal Interest: An Ideology of Leadership in the Gideon, Abimelech and Jephthah Narratives (Judg 6-12) (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 106) (Vetus Testamentum, Supplements)
Author: Elie Assis
Seller: Ed's Editions Bookstore (United States)
ISBN: 9789004143548
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brill Academic Pub, 2005-05-14. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x0x9. Dust jacket and book are clean, has a very good binding. Gift inscription is written on the front endpaper- no other marks or notations.

The Integral Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo: A Commemorative Symposium by Sri; Aurobindo

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Title: The Integral Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo: A Commemorative Symposium
Author: Sri; Aurobindo
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Condition: Good
Description: George Allen & Unwin,, 1960. hardcover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Dust jacket and book are clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations. Red cloth boards.

Comets and Meteors (Follett Beginning Science Books) by Isaac Asimov

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Title: Comets and Meteors (Follett Beginning Science Books)
Author: Isaac Asimov
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ISBN: 9780695400477
Condition: Good
Description: Follett Publishing Co, 1972. First Edition. hardcover. Good/Good. 8x0x0. First Edition, First Printing stated. Dust jacket and book are in good condition, dust jacket has minor edge wear. Light blue cloth boards. Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations.

When the Devil Was Well by STEVENSON, Robert Louis; William P. TRENT, editor

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Title: When the Devil Was Well
Author: STEVENSON, Robert Louis; William P. TRENT, editor
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: New York: Privately Printed for Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach [by Boston: The Bibliophile Society], 1921. 4to (23 x 17.5 cm). Frontispiece portrait, folding facsimile plates of the manuscript. Original gilt-lettered parchment-backed boards; fragment of plain original dust wrapper. One of 450 copies of this "Small Complimentary Edition," issued by The Bibliophile Society as a "token of gratitude and appreciation" for Rosenbach as he had allowed them to reproduce his original manuscript of this piece.

Book marks made from Bruce Rogers' apparel

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Title: Book marks made from Bruce Rogers' apparel
Seller: Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description: np: np, 1970. single sheet. Rogers, Bruce. oblong 8vo. single sheet. A book mark made on hand-made paper by Harrison Elliott from former wearing apparel of Bruce Rogers. In fine condition. Contains a small poem about Bruce Rogers.

Scientific Explanation; A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science by Braithwaite, R.B.

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Title: Scientific Explanation; A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science
Author: Braithwaite, R.B.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Second American Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped, toned at the spine, a chip at the head, a strip of loss at the rear flap fold. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and designs on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's name inside the front board, clean otherwise. Based on Braithwaite's Tarner Lectures, this work examines the common logical features of all sciences.

Free Student: No. 3 by May 2nd Movement, Steven Newman, Sharon Krebs, Ed Lemansky, et al.

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Title: Free Student: No. 3
Author: May 2nd Movement, Steven Newman, Sharon Krebs, Ed Lemansky, et al.
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: New York: May 2nd Movement, 1965. Newspaper. 16p., folded tabloid underground newspaper, articles, news, actions, services and resources, photos, illustrations, some light stains and toning, light wear on newsprint, else very good. Newspaper of the May 2nd Movement, the student front for the Progressive Labor Party. Though not dated, internal evidence shows this was from the spring of 1965. Includes a long article on the Indonesia and Malaysia confrontation and a centerspread of photos from anti-Vietnam war protests.

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Explaining China by ALLEN, Steve

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Title: Explaining China
Author: ALLEN, Steve
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
ISBN: 9780517540626
Condition: very good
Description: New York: Crown, 1980. First. hardcover. very good/good. 150 photographs. 339 pages, large 8vo, cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper spine faded, rubbed, edgeworn. New York: Crown, (1980). First edition. A very good copy in a good dust wrapper.

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