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Thurnier Buch by RÜXNER, Georg

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Title: Thurnier Buch
Author: RÜXNER, Georg
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Description: Frankfurt: Gedruckt...bey Georg Ragen, 1566. Full Description: RÜXNER, Georg. Thurnier Buch. Von Anfang, Ursachen, Ursprung, und Herkommen der Thurnier im Heyligen Römischen Reich Teutscher Nation... Frankfurt: Gedruckt...bey Georg Ragen, 1566. Third edition (first published in 1530), with new woodcuts and much additional material contained in two further parts, each with its own title-page. Three parts in one folio volume (11 7/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 305 x 190 mm). [6], CCXLIII, [3, Register]; [4], LXXXI, leaves. Title printed in red and black gothic letter with large woodcut of the Emperor's court. With 121 woodcut scenes of tournaments, and numerous woodcut hand-colored coats-of-arms in the text. Also with one folding woodcut plate. The woodcut illustrations in this edition are all new. A number of the woodcuts are attributed to Jost Amman and signed "I.A." Other woodcuts signed "H.B." have been attributed to Hans Bocksperger. Large woodcut initials. Bound without final blank. Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over beveled wooden boards. With two brass clasps. The binding is tooling in elaborate roll-tools, including one comprised of allegorical biblical figures and text. Binding is dated 1568. Edges speckled red. Some rubbing and soiling to boards. A few repairs to vellum at lower spine and back board. A repair to bottom outer corner of title-page, not affecting text. Previous owner's old ink signature to bottom margin of title-page. Leaf 1 of text with a repair to inner margin, just touching initial. Repairs to the blank fore-edge margin of leaves MMii-iii, not touching text. Folding plate with renewed bottom margin, not touching illustration. Overall a very good copy. The first part of Rüxner's book describes tournaments in Germany and Switzerland from 938 to 1487. Some of these, including the Magdeburg tournament of 938, are fictitious. The author provides information on the tournament laws, the names of the participating nobility, the names and arms of the winners, and the prizes. The second part describes tournaments and games held at Vienna from 2 May to 24 June in an unspecified year in the 1560s. The third part describes the ceremonial entrance into Bintz of Charles V and his sons on 22 August 1549. Adams R877. Fairfax Murray, German, 374. HBS 69489. $5,000.

Archive of an Amateur Historian’s Writings on Small-Town Ohio History, Including His Family’s Settler Story and His Experience Teaching in Appalachian Ohio, and His Short Fiction Inspired by the Region by [Northeast Ohio – Appalachia – Settlement of Ohio] Tuttle, Harley Angelo

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Title: Archive of an Amateur Historian’s Writings on Small-Town Ohio History, Including His Family’s Settler Story and His Experience Teaching in Appalachian Ohio, and His Short Fiction Inspired by the Region
Author: [Northeast Ohio – Appalachia – Settlement of Ohio] Tuttle, Harley Angelo
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Condition varies; overall excellent.
Description: Palmyra, Ohio, 1930. Eight overall groups separated into two binders: short stories (seven items), personal and family history (six items), Palmyra history (eight items), other Ohio town histories (five items), three miscellaneous family-related items, four loose pages, and an unfinished project on the early residents of Palmyra. The latter contains several handwritten anecdotes and death notices, along with a list of names and seventy-eight pages with photographs, names, and occasionally personal details of the individuals. Totaling approximately 348 pages: seventy-eight 8 x 10 ½ inch handwritten pages with eighty-seven photographs; one 6 x 9 ½ inch typed; twenty-eight 8 ½ x 11 inch typed; and 241 5 ½ x 8 ½ inch typed. Four bound booklets comprise 162 of the latter 241 pages. Condition varies; overall excellent.. Palmyra is a small town in Portage County, northeastern Ohio. Its first European settlers arrived in 1799, and the township was established in 1810. Many of its early settlers were Welsh, and its main industry was coal mining. Harley A. Tuttle (1881–1934) was a highschool teacher, Methodist preacher, and native of Palmyra. He was also an author and amateur historian, writing columns for the Mahoning Dispatch and a history of Palmyra titled Palmyra, My Old Home Town (1930). Offered here is a large archive of Tuttle’s writing about Ohio. Besides fictional and autobiographical writing, Tuttle gives brief histories of a number of small towns in northeast Ohio, basing them partly on existing histories and partly on his own research; and writes short articles on coal, milling, early Euro-American settler families, and other topics concerning early Palmyra. He also seems to have been in the middle of working on a series of profiles of the settlers; these are very incomplete but do contain entertaining tidbits, such as Harvey Daniels’ “habit of wearing 2 or even 3 hats at one time”, George W. Tuttle “swallowing his food before it was chewed up and using vinegar to aid digestion”, and John M. Owens who would sometimes “imbibe too freely” on which occasions “the boys would play tricks on him”. The short fiction often draws on anecdotes from the histories. Two longer manuscripts especially stand out: “The Lure of the Hills” and “A Narrative Written by Joseph Tuttle”, who is Harley Tuttle’s grandfather’s cousin. “The Lure of the Hills” describes Harley Tuttle’s time teaching highschool and ministering in Appalachian Ohio – in Pine Ridge (now in Independence Township), Cow Run, and Marietta in the southeast, and further north in Peoli and Stafford. We find one other copy of “The Lure of the Hills” on OCLC, housed at the Ohio Historical Society. Tuttle is brought to work in Pine Ridge in 1905, where he struggles with the culture and the students. He writes: “I never saw such complacency in men anywhere as I did there. They would hardly stir themselves if a fast train were coming straight at them. The women work and slave as tho they considered it their proper vocation. [...] In that section the boys stayed out of school until the corn was husked. Then, having nothing else to do they were allowed to go to school. [...] They were a class who needed thorough conversion before being admitted to church. When I think of them I am quite reconciled to the mourners’ bench in the church. One evening as Perry and I were driving to Newport I heard one of the vociferous young men yelling down in the hollow “We’re the boys that make the noise”. If that were the extent of their perverted ambition! This school was located in a part of the state which has been the subject of no small amount of study by sociologists on account of its tendency to crime. [...] Well, the boys began to come to school.” Conflicts with parents and students “gradually broke [him] down” and he quits partway through the academic year. He is convinced to finish out the year at nearby Cow Run, and explains the economic state of the town: “We might say that Cow Run was the aftertaste of a town. Soon after the Civil War oil was struck on the run not far from my former school. One well was known as the School House well. People flocked there until there was a town of nearly 1500 persons. With their primitive outfit men would drill down some 200 feet and the oil would come up with a gush and often drench the workers. [...] Thenty-five [sic] years ago the day of the gusher had passed. The drillers were fortunate if they could strike a well producing a few barrels per day.” Following the school year at Cow Run, Tuttle leaves teaching, receives a chemistry degree from Ohio University in Athens, and then enters the Methodist ministry. This sends him back to Washington County on a circuit between three rural churches—Tunnel, Warren, and Bethel—in Marietta. He enters regular ministry in 1922, but in 1924 goes “back to the hills” – this time to Peoli, where a famous retiree does him a favor: “During the winter my coal played out. I spent two or three nights visiting at the homes of the people. Then Cy Young brot me a load of coal which lasted as long as I was in Peoli.” His last stop is Stafford, Ohio, formerly a station of the Underground Railroad: “Here I had five churches for a while. [...] There are also many Negroes in the neighborhood. Just before I went there some of the Kluckers in the congregation had talked of painting some of the seats another color and making the Negroes sit in them. Well, this plan was never carried out.” It is unclear, but does seem that Tuttle is suggesting that he himself put a stop to the Klansmen’s scheme. Joseph Tuttle’s (1796–1884) narrative starts nearly 150 years before Harley Tuttle’s; it is unclear how this narrative came to Harley, who was only three years old when Joseph died. Told in June 1878, the narrative gives some of the Tuttle family genealogy (including the interesting fact that Joseph Tuttle was a step-cousin of LDS founder Joseph Smith), and relates the story of this branch of the family from their time in Sunderland, Massachusetts around 1760 to the birth of Joseph Tuttle’s daughter Harriet in 1840. Most interesting is Tuttle’s telling of the family’s 1807 journey from their home in Richfield in upstate New York to try settling Palmyra. Among other incidents, he relays meeting a large Indigenous group while staying near Cattaraugus Creek: “there were about 160 Indians assembled there for a powwow. As they could not get any whiskey they behaved orderly. I recollect very distinctly of seeing the squaws plucking birds and preparing other birds for supper. There were no houses or other buildings on the east side of the creek. [...] While we were here the Indians were about, being encamped on this green. I recollect distinctly several little incidents connected with them here. Among the Indians was one called ‘The Little Fool’ and another called ‘The Big Fool’, who expressed the greatest thankfulness. He spoke in Indian and those standing by who understood him said that he called father a gentleman, gentleman.” Once in Palmyra, Tuttle learns some lore about relations with the local Indigenous people: “While we lived on our new farm the Methodists used to hold meetings at our house. A minister named Shewell used to preach then and David Diver, a local exhorter, used to speak at these meetings. I remember that on one occasion at least, he stayed at our house over night and I have often led him about on account of his blindness. He had his eye shot out several years before by some Mohawk Indians at the center of Deerfield [...]. In reference to the shooting I have heard Esq. Day of Deerfield tell father that after the horse trade between John [sic?] Diver and the Indians in which the Indians complained that they had been cheated they came to him to have him sue Diver for them but he told them he could do nothing about it and sent them back to Diver and as a result the shooting ensued.” These Tuttles only remained in Palmyra through 1809 before returning to upstate New York, though the narrator returned to Ohio to live with extended family following a series of misfortunes back home. Overall, a compelling series of pieces on personal and regional history; if not the most able writer, Harley Tuttle did have an eye for entertaining and interesting subject matter. Of interest to Ohio historians, especially of rural and settler life.

Belle Chair; Onze Poems inedits d'Emile Verhaeren illustres par Aristide Maillol by Verhaeren, Emile

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Title: Belle Chair; Onze Poems inedits d'Emile Verhaeren illustres par Aristide Maillol
Author: Verhaeren, Emile
Seller: Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Orig. buff wrappers. Fine in very good original glassine slightly nicked at extremities
Description: Paris: Edouard Pelletan, 1931. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. buff wrappers. Fine in very good original glassine slightly nicked at extremities. Maillol, Aristide. 35 pages. 30.5 x 24.5 cm. Limited edition, No.II/V of 12 roman numbered copies on Japan Pelletan, lithographs printed by E. Desjobert (of a total edition of 255), illustrated with three woodcuts and eleven black and white lithographs by Aristide Maillol. The eleven poems by Verhaeren: a prolific poets of his era, and one of the founders of the school of Symbolism. From the Library of Jacques Levy. [See: CATERERT IV, 390, SKIRA 213].

[Typed Letter, Signed, from Kate M. French, an American Baptist Missionary Working in India] by [Missionaries]. French, Kate M.

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Title: [Typed Letter, Signed, from Kate M. French, an American Baptist Missionary Working in India]
Author: [Missionaries]. French, Kate M.
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Description: Queen's Hill, Kotagiri, Nilgiris, India: June 26, 1926. Very good.. [5]pp., typed on plain folio sheets. Old folds, minor wear. An informative and entertaining correspondence by Kate M. French, written while serving as a missionary teacher at the Preston Institute in Jangaon, India. Writing to "Friends at Home," French opens by reporting that the school year started well "except for two of the boys whose mother was ill with Plague" (the mother subsequently died). French also mentions students getting stung by scorpions, a cobra snake killed by the headmaster of the school, making valentines for the entire school on Valentine's Day, and much more. French also recounts the comings-and-goings of various officials to her mission, writes in detail about her attendance at a "teachers' institute" (composed of teachers from "the American Methodist, the English Wesleyan, the American Mennonites, and our own"), details the school's commencement at the end of the term, and more. The local plague is mentioned several times in French's letter. She mentions her own inoculation against the plague. She also records that "before long we learned that there had been several deaths from plague in our town. We had nearly all our Christians innoculated some time before and Mrs. Rutherford at once had the stragglers attended to, those who had fever when the doctor was innoculating, and one or two who were not very strong and would only be done if the disease came near." Shortly thereafter, French notes that "people are leaving town on account of the plague." An interesting letter from an American woman teaching at a mission in India in the midst of the Roaring Twenties.

John Rennie, 1761-1821: The Life and Work of a Great Engineer by Cyril T.G. Boucher

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Title: John Rennie, 1761-1821: The Life and Work of a Great Engineer
Author: Cyril T.G. Boucher
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Description: Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1963. Very Good +/Near Fine. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1963. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); publisher's cloth in unclipped mint green pictorial dust jacket; x,149pp.; portrait frontispiece, eight leaves of plates. Jacket spine panel a bit faded; bowing to front board. Ownership ex libris of the late chemist and bibliophile Sydney Ross to front pastedown.

History and Bibliography of The New American Practical Navigator and The American Coast Pilot. by Campbell, John F.

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Title: History and Bibliography of The New American Practical Navigator and The American Coast Pilot.
Author: Campbell, John F.
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Condition: Standard reference for these works, and a neccessity. One of 1000 copies printed, and out of print. A fine copy.
Description: Salem, MA: Peabody Museum, 1964. Standard reference for these works, and a neccessity. One of 1000 copies printed, and out of print. A fine copy.. 17.5 x 25.5 cm. xvi, 134 pp. b/w plates.

The Inner Harbor, More Maine Coast by SNOW, [Charles] Wilbert

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Title: The Inner Harbor, More Maine Coast
Author: SNOW, [Charles] Wilbert
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Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Very good +. First edition. 12mo; 109pp; green buckram quarter bound, green paper over boards, label to spine; untrimmed fore edge; light foxing to top and fore-edge; very good plus. Wilbert Snow was an interesting man, a Mainer born in Whitehead Island, a lobsterman, a teacher, a Bowdoin College graduate, an educator, a poet and governor of Connecticut for 13 days. He returned to Maine after an exciting and illustrious career that saw him crisscross the country and died in Spruce Head, ME. Companion volume to his first book of poems on Maine, Maine Coast.

Technological Change & Employment in the Automotive Industry [Typed Letter, Signed, Bound in] by AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION

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Title: Technological Change & Employment in the Automotive Industry [Typed Letter, Signed, Bound in]
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Description: New York: Automobile Manufacturers Association, 1965. First Edition. Quarto (27cm.); publisher's white printed staplebound wrappers; 8pp. Fine condition. Typed letter signed by Harry A. Williams, Managing Editor of the Association, dated September 30, 1965, addressed to Garth L. Mangum of the National Commission on Technology, Automation and Economic Progress.

Third Congress of the Viet Nam Fatherland Front (Documents)

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Title: Third Congress of the Viet Nam Fatherland Front (Documents)
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AI WEIWEI. Sept.-Dec. 2015. Texts by Tim Marlow, John Tancock, Daniel Rosbottom, Adrian Locke. by London. Royal Academy of Arts.

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Title: AI WEIWEI. Sept.-Dec. 2015. Texts by Tim Marlow, John Tancock, Daniel Rosbottom, Adrian Locke.
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Description: London, 2015.. 237pp. Prof. illus. Lrg. s

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