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The General History of China Containing a Geographical, Historical, Chronological, Political, and Physical Description of the Empire of China, Chinese-Tartary, Corea, and Thibet by [Du Halde, Jean-Baptiste] [Richard Brookes, translator]

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Title: The General History of China Containing a Geographical, Historical, Chronological, Political, and Physical Description of the Empire of China, Chinese-Tartary, Corea, and Thibet
Author: [Du Halde, Jean-Baptiste] [Richard Brookes, translator]
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Printed by and for John Watts, 1736. First edition in English. Near Fine. First published in French in Paris the previous year. Four volumes, octavo (120 x 192 mm). [14], 509; [12], 438; [14], 496; [14], 464 pp. Complete with nineteen plates (eleven folding), including the four frontispieces, and four folding maps. Full contemporary polished calf. Volumes one and two rebacked with original spines laid down. Some edgewear and bumping to corners. Armorial bookplate to upper pastedown of each volume. Small hole to upper flyleaf of volume one; upper flyleaf of volume four coming loose (but still holding). Archival tape repair to verso of one map. Small contemporary ink ownership signature to each title-page. A very handsome set, remarkably clean and fresh throughout. Near Fine. Though Jean-Baptise Du Halde (1674 - 1743) never traveled to the land he described in his work, he used the accounts of Jesuit missionaries to compile an encyclopedic description of all aspects of Chinese society - from religion to language to silkworm breeding. The General History of China was "more elaborate and authentic than any other account of the empire that had appeared previously...it was an encyclopaedia of information, a rich quarry for writers who happened to be interested in Chinese affairs in the mid-eighteenth-century" (Löwendahl, Bibliotheca Asiatica). The work "served as the premier source of European knowledge of China for much of the eighteenth century" and was admired by Voltaire (Royal Collection Trust). Near Fine.

Three Southworth & Hawes Daguerreotype Portraits of William B. Reynolds and Elizabeth M. Carter, circa 1850 by REYNOLDS, William Belcher and Elizabeth Margaret (Carter). (Southworth & Hawes)

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Title: Three Southworth & Hawes Daguerreotype Portraits of William B. Reynolds and Elizabeth M. Carter, circa 1850
Author: REYNOLDS, William Belcher and Elizabeth Margaret (Carter). (Southworth & Hawes)
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: [Boston, 1850. Near Fine. A collection of three Daguerreotypes consisting of one large half plate portrait of William B. Reynolds, and two individual sixth plate portraits: one of Reynolds, and one of his wife Elizabeth. All three images are neatly housed in the original leather cases (with an interior brass mat, preserver, and felt cushion lining). The cases are lightly rubbed, modest shadow toning at the edges of the half plate image, the sixth plate portraits have modest spotting at the corner edges of the brass mat, near fine overall. All three cases match those used by Southworth & Hawes at their portrait studio in Boston during the mid-19th century, and the Reynolds are listed in the studio’s record books. William Belcher Reynolds (1797-1866) was a prominent Boston merchant and founder of St. Paul’s Church in Boston. His half plate portrait bears a close resemblance to Southworth & Hawes famous portrait of statesman Daniel Webster. The sixth plate portraits of Reynolds and his wife are equally striking, and appear to have been taken at about the same time. The partnership of Southworth and Hawes was established in Boston at the dawn of photography in the 1840s, and resulted in some of the most stunning portraits ever made. From 1843 to 1861 the partners achieved considerable fame as the most fashionable portrait studio in Boston. They also experimented continually to improve on all aspects of the daguerreotype process. A scarce, beautifully preserved collection of three Daguerreotypes representative of Southworth and Hawes finest portraits.

[Memory Book of a High School and Art Student] by Van Lopik, Gertrude

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Title: [Memory Book of a High School and Art Student]
Author: Van Lopik, Gertrude
Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Colorado and Michigan, 1916. Very good. Suede over flexible card, handmade school emblem to front. Pp. 136 with copious illustrations, 56 photographs, 102 clippings and 68 items of ephemera adhered (17 are laid in). Photos range from around ½" x ½" to 6½" x 3" and a handful are captioned. Very good minus: covers lightly pilled and soiled; most leaves wavy, one detached; a few bits of loss from former adhesion; some scattered faint spotting and foxing. This is a substantial memory book beautifully handcrafted by an art student in Colorado, Gertrude Van Lopik. Gertrude Elizabeth Van Lopik was born in Michigan in 1894. Her family moved to Colorado and she graduated from Colorado Springs High School in 1914. By 1919 she was teaching art in Detroit public schools and through the 1920s she made national headlines for facilitating the arrest of Rev. R.A.M. Brown, "one of the country's most notorious love pirates" (and her former beau) for bigamy and check fraud. She married Allison Lawton Jones in 1926, and started a family in Detroit. We gather that at some point she retired to Florida; we found a website for Gertrude Vacation Rentals, "dedicated to Gertrude Van-Lopik Jones, an early pioneer of both adventure and life experience travel, vigorous lover of life, Siesta Key resident, and model for standing above the everyday." The present item is largely Gertrude's handmade high school memory book. It has lovely hand-colored page borders and headings, and autographs of what might be the entire student body (as well as some faculty), many denoting club officers and college plans. There are photos of Van Lopik "As the greenest of Freshies," posed for portraits, celebrating "Sweet Sixteen!" and the summer after graduation with friends at Denver City Park and "Some Carnival! at Grand Haven, Mich." She pasted in copious clippings from school publications, many with images like the "English department at work," "Faculty Females on a Spree" and identified "Football leaders." Keepsakes include dance cards, programs for plays and other events, clippings and campaign ephemera revealing members of the school "Senate" and other associations. Many pages hold her handwritten observations on social encounters and reports of graduation gifts. The book also documents Lopik's tenure at the Colorado Springs Academy of Fine Arts. There are several images of her work, clipped from newspapers and what might be school publications, as well as ephemera from the annual students' exhibition. One great photo shows a mixed-sex, androgynously-dressed group of students "Fussing! Not exactly" and there's a charming list of questions and their answers "with 2 words beginning with your initials" (our favorites: "What is your occupation? Giving Love" and "Do you sing? Glory, Loads"). A lovely and creative memory and autograph book of a young woman in Colorado.

PAST AND PRESENT by Carlyle, Thomas

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Title: PAST AND PRESENT
Author: Carlyle, Thomas
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good-
Description: London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-. Octavo. A very good- copy bound in original brown cloth with pale yellow endpapers. Rear inner hinge cracked. Wear, slight loss to spine tips. Scattered foxing. vi, 399 pp.

WRITERS WRITING DYING by Williams, C.K.

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Title: WRITERS WRITING DYING
Author: Williams, C.K.
Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780374293321
Condition: Good
Description: NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2012. First edition, first prnt. Signed by Williams on the title page. Backstrip ends lightly pushed. Near Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Uncommon signed. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

In and Around the Isle of Purbeck by Woodward, Ida

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Title: In and Around the Isle of Purbeck
Author: Woodward, Ida
Seller: McBlain Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: John Lane Company, 1908. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. color frontis and illustrations (by John W. G. Bond), xiv, 237p. Green cloth. 26cm. Cover has some scuffing and minor wear. Cover cloth bubbling along front joint. Free endpaper creased. No Jacket.

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