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Les Étrangers à Paris by DAUMIER, Honoré

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Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc.

Title: Les Étrangers à Paris
Author: DAUMIER, Honoré
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: Paris: Chez Aubert, 1844. One of Daumier's most Iconic Albums from the early 1840s Published at the height of Parisian Tourism and Bourgeois Curiosity Twenty Magnificent Hand Colored Lithographs DAUMIER, Honoré de. Les Étrangers à Paris. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1844. First edition. Folio (13 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches; 333 x 251 mm). Complete with twenty magnificent hand-colored lithographs heightened with gum arabic, drawn and lithographed by Honoré Daumier, printed on strong wove paper. Publisher's dark blue ribbed cloth, covers bordered in blind, upper cover decoratively lettered in gilt. Smooth spine, original pale yellow endleaves. Sixteen-page Aubert publisher's catalogue at rear, moderately foxed. Plates crisp and luminous, colors vibrant and unfaded, gum arabic highlights glossy and intact; with just a few faint marginal fox spots. A fine, fresh, and very scarce complete copy of this celebrated satirical album, caricaturing foreign tourists and provincials adrift in mid-nineteenth-century Paris. Rarely found with the hand-coloring so vivid and the publisher's binding so well preserved. Les Étrangers à Paris stands as one of Daumier's most iconic albums from the early 1840s, published by Aubert at the height of Parisian tourism and bourgeois curiosity. It forms a satirical ethnography of the provincial, rural, and foreign types who, in increasing numbers, descended upon the capital with wonder - and were swiftly disillusioned or ridiculed. These lithographs were originally issued separately in the Charivari and then collected by Aubert for publication in this folio edition. The rarity of complete hand-colored examples, especially in such crisp condition with the original Aubert publisher's cloth binding and catalogue, cannot be overstated. Two of the lithographs (nos. 3 & 14) are featured in Daumier 120 Great Lithographs edited by Charles F. Ramus (nos. 48 & 49). 1. L'arivée 2. L'Indispensable visite chez le tailleur du Palais-Royal 3. Ce qu'on appèle diner au restaurant 4. Quelques lègères emplèttes 5. Un obligeant cicerone 6. Une émotion au jardin des plantes 7. Une lègère queue a la porte du Palais de L'Industrie 8. Un èpisode de l'Exposition 9. Ce qu'on appelle les sèductions de Paris 10. La visite a L'Hotel des Invalides 11. Une Llègère promenade en omnibus 12. Un diner a prix fixe 13. Un bal champètre de Paris 14. Grandes eaux à Versailles! 15. Les Étrangers dévisagés par eux memes 16. Le portrait au daguéréotype 17. Les magasins de plus en plus monstres 18. Le chapeau qu'on rapporte de Paris 19. Voi-tu cet imbècile qui ne s'appercoit pas que son tonneau fuit... 20. Le départ Carteret IV, p.130 ("rare et recherché"); L'Archtambault, Catalogue de l'œuvre lithographié de Daumier (p. 238); Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 162; Vicaire III, 190.

Charles A. Lindbergh at the Dawn of His Career as a Professional Pilot by Charles Lindbergh

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Title: Charles A. Lindbergh at the Dawn of His Career as a Professional Pilot
Author: Charles Lindbergh
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 30/04/1925. Acquired from the family and never before offered for saleIt also also relates to his other passion - his motorcycle, which started his interest in machines and transportation while he was a teenagerWhile barnstorming in southern Minnesota, Charles Lindbergh met a graduate of the Army Flying School who told him that cadets flew the most modern and powerful airplanes. Lindbergh enrolled right away and arrived in San Antonio, Texas, on March 15, 1924. Lindbergh was joined by 103 other young men. He graduated first in his class from U.S. Air Service Flying School at Kelly Field in San Antonio, on March 14, 1925. He was commissioned second lieutenant in the Air Service Reserve Corps at that time. Following graduation, in late March 1925, Lindbergh went to Lambert Field in St. Louis, Missouri, to find a job in aviation. In April he accepted a job with the Robertson Aircraft Corporation as chief pilot. Robertson was an aviation service company based at Lambert Field, and it had been awarded the St. Louis-Chicago airmail route. While waiting for that contract, Lindbergh flew at Lambert Field, now as a professional pilot.While Lindbergh is well known for his exploits in the field of aviation, becoming the first pilot to complete a transatlantic flight in 1927. Yet few know that before becoming an airplane pilot, his interest in machines and transportation led Lindbergh to spent his passion and a fair amount of time piloting an Excelsior motorcycle.In 1919, when Lindbergh was in high school, he ordered a new twin-cylinder 1920 model Excelsior ""X"" motorcycle from Martin Engstrom's hardware store in his hometown of Little Falls, Minnesota. The Engstrom and Lindberghs were friends in that town. He paid $290 for the motorcycle and was known around town for his fast and sometimes reckless riding. Locals remember him riding along the steep banks of the Mississippi River past a local power plant on his way back and forth to town. Lindbergh didn't just use the Excelsior for around town rides, it also carried him some significant distances, especially considering the roads at that time. In 1920, he rode from Little Falls to Madison, Wisconsin to attend engineering school at the University of Wisconsin. His marathon Chicago-Louisville run was made in the summer of 1921, when Lindbergh traveled from Madison to Camp Knox, Kentucky, for ROTC training in field artillery. A year later he made a trip to Lincoln, Nebraska where he entered flight school.Lindbergh loved the Excelsior and kept it for 23 years, until finally donating it to the Henry Ford Museum in 1943. Ford and Lindbergh were good friends, so he thought it would be a fitting place to display the motorcycle. The bike sat in original condition for around 30 years, before being fully restored in the 1970's.Autograph letter signed, Anglum, Missouri, located adjacent to Lambert Field near St. Louis, April 30, 1925, to Engstrom, who had sold him the motorcycle. “Several years ago I bought a motorcycle from you and have lost the bill of sale. In order to get a Missouri license, a bill of sale is required. Can you send me a duplicate? I am flying at Lambert-St. Louis Field here at present.”So in this letter Lindbergh not only talks of flying, but mentions Lambert Field. It is the earliest letter of Lindbergh mentioning flying that we have ever seen or can find in a search of public sale records going back decades. That alone makes it an extraordinary find.It is also the only letter of Lindbergh relating to his love of motorcycles we can find. It comes with a photograph of Lindbergh’s motorcycle, on the verso showing the imprint of the Henry Ford Museum. At top left is written, “I sold this motorcycle to Charles Lindbergh in 1919. In 1927 it was put in the Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Mich.” It is signed M.A. Engstrom and dated October 1st, 1970. Engstrom was elderly when he wrote this, and got the date of Lindbergh’s flight and the date of the donation of the motorcycle wrong. We know from an earlier account by Engstrom that when Lindbergh completed his epochal flight, that in the town of Little Falls, ""People were just wild — they acted like they were mad around here.” There are two other pictures showing Lindbergh on this motorcycle included.

David Rittenhouse Writes To John Nicholson About Tax Dodgers: I Know Of No Better Way Of Preventing Them From Cheating Than To Allow Interst To The County Treasurer by DAVID RITTENHOUSE

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Title: David Rittenhouse Writes To John Nicholson About Tax Dodgers: I Know Of No Better Way Of Preventing Them From Cheating Than To Allow Interst To The County Treasurer
Author: DAVID RITTENHOUSE
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: DAVID RITTENHOUSE (1732-1796). Rittenhouse was an American inventor, clock maker, mathematician, stateman and financier. He was the first director of the United States Mint and belonged to the American Philosophical Society.JOHN NICHOLSON. Nicholson was a Revolutionary-era Pennsylvania state official. He partnered with Robert Morris in western land speculation that bankrupted both. He was sent to debtors prison in 1800 and died there shortly thereafter.ALS. 1pg. 8 x 6 . January 20, 1787. No place [likely Philadelphia]. A rare autograph letter signed D. Rittenhouse addressed to John Nicholson. Rittenhouse was then the Treasurer of the State of Pennsylvania: I think it will be difficult to prevent the Collectors from taking the Dollar Money in Taxes and I know no better way of preventing them from cheating than to allow Interest to the County Treasurer to the first of January 1787 only. I had already recommended this to the Treasurer of Bucks on his application to me on the Subject. It is addressed to Nicholson on the verso, and he docketed it Letter from David Rittenhouse Esqr Jany 20th 1787. There is a professional tape repair on the verso to a vertical tape separation and other lesser defects. Rittenhouse ALsS are rare.

Club Book of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club of New York 1905 by Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club

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Title: Club Book of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club of New York 1905
Author: Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Description: (NY), 1905. Color plates, folding b/w chart. 12mo. 174 pp. plus 15 color plates. Early and rare. Officers, members, yachts, races, rules, uniforms, signals, club house regulations, etc. The folding chart is of Cold Spring Harbor and vicinity, and the 15 color plates contain multiple images - eighteen per page - of the private signals of member yachts. Backstrip perished, else VG

Lona: A Fairy Tale. by WRIGHT, Dare.

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Title: Lona: A Fairy Tale.
Author: WRIGHT, Dare.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket
Description: NY:: Random House,. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. B0007EFBLW . Illustrated with black and white photographs by the author. First edition. Previous owner's stamp inked out on front free endpaper, else very good in a fair (edge worn with several small chips and tears, clear tape repairs along the top and bottom edges) dust jacket. .

Cheating at Bridge: Go Home with the Winners by Cameron, Judson J.

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Title: Cheating at Bridge: Go Home with the Winners
Author: Cameron, Judson J.
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Las Vegas: Gambler's Book Club. Near Fine. (c.1973, 1933). Reprint. Softcover. [nice clean book, faint external wear, former owner's embossed stamp on title page (see Notes)]. Trade PB (B&W illustrations) Reprint of a book originally published in 1933, with the cover blurb noting that "since that time hundreds of books about Bridge have been published [but] none mention cheating, while almost every one written about Gin or Poker has something to say about advantage playing." (Nice euphemism, that!) However, whatever the game, "when the play is for money, marbles or chalk, there is always a possibility that something is going on! The best protection is knowledge, an awareness of the ways to cheat. ... Some of the cards illustrated are obsolete, but the text is as up to date as the day it was written." The embossed ownership stamp on the title page indicates that this copy came from the library of Alfred Sheinwold, one of the founders of contract bridge, and known in later life as "the Grand Old Man of Bridge." (The purchaser will, of course, be expected to use this book responsibly, at the risk of being haunted by the ghost of Mr. Sheinwold.) .

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