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In the Lead-up to the Great Sioux War, Which Would End at Little Bighorn for Him, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer Readies His Troops and Conducts an Equipment Survey by George Armstrong Custer

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Title: In the Lead-up to the Great Sioux War, Which Would End at Little Bighorn for Him, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer Readies His Troops and Conducts an Equipment Survey
Author: George Armstrong Custer
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 04/02/1875. Every member of this Company died, including both Custer men who signed this documentBy 1875, the U.S. government had decided—quietly but decisively—to seize the Black Hills, despite the protections guaranteed to the Lakota in the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868). The trigger was the discovery of gold in the Black Hills that started the Black Hills Gold Rush, which followed George Armstrong Custer’s 1874 expedition there.In April 1875, Custer and Brig. General Alfred Terry began preparing for war with the Sioux. Full inspections and arms inventories were ordered. In July and August, the political point of no return was passed, when every Native leader rejected the terms. In November–December 1875, the U.S. government issued an ultimatum: All Lakota bands living outside reservations must report to agencies by January 31, 1876, or be treated as hostile. This order was logistically impossible in winter and was understood—by both sides—as a deliberate pretext for war.The Great Sioux War actually broke into open fighting on March 17, 1876 with the Battle of Powder River.In 1875, Custer was stationed at Fort Abraham Lincoln as commanding officer of the 7th Cavalry Regiment. Custer lived at the fort with his wife Elizabeth Bacon Custer, hosted social events, drilled troops, and conducted patrols across the northern Plains. In 1875, Company L was part of the routine garrison rotation at the fort—conducting drills, mounted patrols along the Missouri River region, and preparing for potential operations against Lakota and Cheyenne groups amid rising tensions on the northern Plains. When the regiment marched out of Fort Abraham Lincoln in May 1876 for the Great Sioux War, Company L went with it. On June 25, 1876, at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer personally led a battalion of five companies of the 7th Cavalry Regiment:Company C, 7th CavalryCompany E, 7th CavalryCompany F, 7th CavalryCompany L, 7th CavalryCompany I, 7th CavalryAll five of these companies were annihilated with Custer on what is now called “Last Stand Hill” and the surrounding ridges.Company L formed part of the southern defensive line along what is now called Calhoun Hill, where it was overwhelmed early in the final phase of the fight. Every officer and enlisted man in Company L was killed.Document Signed, 24 x 15.75 inches, Fort Abraham Lincoln, February 4, 1875, ""Inventory and Inspection Report of Clothing, Camp and Garrison Equipage"" for Company L, testifying that it has been inspected and reported on by ""Lt. Colonel GA Custer"". Signed by George Armstrong Custer and brother Thomas. Among the things listed are Crossed Sabers, camp kettles, axes, pickaxes, hatchets.The verso is signed by others involved in war planning, including Brig. General Terry. Terry was a general in the Civil War who had the confidence of U.S. Grant, and whose victory at the Battle of Fort Fisher led to his promotion to major general of volunteers in 1865. He was military commander of the Dakota Territory from 1866 to 1869, and again from 1872 to 1886. Some separation at folds repaired.The Battle of the Little Bighorn, in present-day southeastern Montana, was the most famous engagement of the Great Sioux War and one of the most devastating defeats in U.S. Army history. Lieutenant Colonel Custer fought against a massive gathering of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors led by figures such as Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Separating his command from the rest of the regiment, Custer was overwhelmed by superior numbers and killed along with more than 210 of his men, including his brothers Thomas Custer and Boston Custer. While the Native victory was total on the battlefield, it triggered an overwhelming military response that ultimately led to the defeat of the Lakota and Cheyenne resistance and their permanent loss of the Black Hills.

In the House of Lords : on appeal from Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery in England : between Sir John William Ramsden, baronet ... [et al.] appellants, and Lee Dyson, John Buckley, and James Bates, respondents Author: Ramsden, John ... [et. al.] by HOUSE OF LORDS

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Title: In the House of Lords : on appeal from Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery in England : between Sir John William Ramsden, baronet ... [et al.] appellants, and Lee Dyson, John Buckley, and James Bates, respondents Author: Ramsden, John ... [et. al.]
Author: HOUSE OF LORDS
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Description: London: Waterlow & Sons, printers, 1865. FIRST EDITION. With 9 folding albumen prints, each with an original manuscript caption explaining the image and noting the exhibit from the various affidavits, signed by Wm. Dransfield (a commissioner who administered oaths in trial court and who is mentioned in print) and some with the blind-stamp of S. Musgrave, photo-printer. Folding plan and specifications of the land and improvements at Huddersfield owned and made by James Stott, one of the witnesses. Contemporary (original) cloth, title and date in gilt on spines (somewhat faded); interiors and photographs in excellent condition. First edition. The original case was brought by tenants of Sir John Ramsden, owner of a large estate near Huddersfield. Ramsden had made arrangements with many of his tenants, often without a signed lease, which included terms of tenancies and agreements for the improvement of the properties. After Ramsden died, his heirs sought to nullify many of these arrangements and enter into specific lease terms with all tenants; those that refused were given notices to quit. Two of the tenants sued in equity court claiming proprietary estoppel, that the heirs should be estopped from terminating the lease arrangements made with the original landowner, as they had expended money on improving the land he was leasing and was under the belief that he was entitled to the grant of a long lease. The general principle of the law is that the owner of the land owns anything which is built on, or attached to, the land. In other words, any improvements to land accrue to the benefit of the owner of that land. Proprietary estoppel is a means of creating a proprietary interest in land in the absence of following formalities. The doctrine can be used to award an interest in land (such as a previously agreed-to lease) as a remedy where it would be unconscionable for the holder of the legal title to deny the claimant's entitlement. The trial court held that the two tenants were entitled to long leases of plots on the estate. They ostensibly held the plots as tenants at will only, but they had spent their own money in building on the strength of assurances, said to have been given to them by the landowner’s agent, that they would never be disturbed. On appeal, the decision was overturned. The difference of opinion was over an issue of fact, that is the substance of what was said on the occasion when some tenants agreed to be tenants at lower rents than were being paid by other tenants. This decision and the dissents became the classic authority on proprietary estoppel. One of the appellate judges, in his dissent, said: “The rule of law applicable to the case appears to me to be this; if a man, under a verbal agreement with a landlord for a certain interest in land, or what amounts to the same thing, under an expectation, created or encouraged by the landlord, that he shall have a certain interest, takes possession of such land, with the consent of the landlord, and upon the faith of such promise or expectation, with the knowledge of the landlord, and without objection by him, lays out money upon the land, a Court of equity will compel the landlord to give effect to such promise or expectation. The principle of this statement is that an estoppel will arise if (a) a landowner has created or encouraged an expectation in the claimant that she is, or will become, entitled to an interest in certain land; and (b) the claimant has acted to her detriment on the basis of that expectation.” The two volumes consist of the appendices submitted to the appellate court by both parties. Included in these appendices are the affidavits of all parties and witnesses, and the photographs are included to support the testimony. Numerous affidavits were filed by both parties. Those filed by the Respondents were directed to prove the existence of the custom or system of tenant-right tenure ... the circumstances under which various tenants built or otherwise improved on their leased sections of the estate as well as the alleged encouragement and inducements held out by the agents [of Appellants]. Many affidavits were filed by other tenants in and around the area (Appellants basically owned the entire town, which was fairly heavily populated), including issues of the value of the land and improvements thereon. The affidavits filed by Appellants not only dispute those filed by Respondents but seek to distinguish two classes of tenancies, those holding by lease and those holding by tenants-at-will. They further explain the circumstances under which the compensation to tenants on making improvements were made. Photographs started to wind their way through the court systems in America in the late 1850’s. “The use of photographs as legal evidence goes back to the very earliest days of photography, and they have been used in American trials since around the time of the Civil War” (see Cohen and Meskin, Photographs as evidence, http://aardvark.ucsd.edu/perception/agnosticism.pdf). There is nothing to indicate the earliest use of photography in a trial. It is known that in America photographs were used as exhibits in a California action to determine a land claim (those exhibits were photographs of documents). Here the photographs are used to support affidavits in which the parties were claiming improvements on and to real property. Most treatises on the history of photography as evidence in a trial relate to use in forensic matters, including crime scenes and mug shots. The practice of using photographs became more common starting in the 1870’s (see Wikipedia, History of forensic photography). It is quite possible that the photographs used in Ramsden v. Dyson were one of, if not the earliest use in a non-criminal case, certainly in a court of equity. The images include views of the house and grounds of Respondents as well as views of the nearby houses and grounds. One shows a stable built by Joseph Thornton on an adjacent plot of land. Another is a view of a building on a separate tenant-right tenure which had a previously agreed-to least term (a complete list is available on request). OCLC locates 1 copy of this two-volume set (SUNY Brockport).

Song of Hiawatha by LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth

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Title: Song of Hiawatha
Author: LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING. Rebound in half leather over marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments with morocco spine label; interior excellent. Without the advertisements. Pasted onto a blank leaf is the signature of Longfellow (“Yours truly Henry W. Longfellow”). First edition, second printing, of one of the most famous American poems of the nineteenth century. BAL 12112; Grolier American 100, 66.

Engraved portrait of Volta by Luigi Rados after Roberto Focosi by VOLTA, Alessandro; RADOS, LUIGI

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Title: Engraved portrait of Volta by Luigi Rados after Roberto Focosi
Author: VOLTA, Alessandro; RADOS, LUIGI
Seller: Martayan Lan, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF VOLTA, WITH HIS INVENTIONS,THE VOLTAIC PILE AND HIS CROWN OF CUPS BATTERY, DISPLAYED IN THE BACKGROUND Milan, Editore Proprietario Luigi Rados, 1828. Stipple engraving (53 x 41.8 cm, platemark 49.6 x 37.4 cm). Engraved caption below the image, artist "Roberto Focosi disegnò" on the lower left and engraver "Luigi Rados incise 1828" on the lower right; below caption and following the imprint, the engraved text "In segno di venerazione Luigi Rados D.D.D." Strong, crisp impression. Excellent. Separately published, fine stipple engraved portrait of Alessandro Volta, likely executed shortly after his death. Volta is depicted seated at a table, his left hand concealed within his coat and his right resting on the surface. To his right, an example of his "crown of cups" battery is prominently displayed, while behind him sits a Voltaic pile. A seven-line caption in Italian provides a concise overview of Volta's significant contributions to the field of electricity. Volta, renowned as the inventor of the first electric battery, published his inaugural paper on this groundbreaking device in 1800. His meticulous investigations conclusively established the equivalence of Galvani's so-called "animal" electricity and the electricity generated by Volta's apparatus. The Voltaic pile served as a catalyst for a series of pivotal experiments that culminated in the decomposition of water, the electro-deposition of metals, and the creation of the electromagnet, thereby ushering in the modern era of electricity. Luigi Rados (1773-1840), the engraver and printmaker, was born in Parma and studied at the Academy in Milan. He was known for works on religious subjects, portraits, and genre scenes. His son Eugenio was a sculptor active in Milan, and another son, Giovanni, was an engraver of portraits active in the mid-19th century. We can locate only one other copy on OCLC, at the Wellcome Library in London. (This OCLC record gives the following reference: R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 3083.2, but we have not been able to access this documentation.) The full caption reads: "Alessandro Volta. Nato nel 1745 in Como da patrizia famiglia, in giovanile età diè alto segno di essere inclinato alle fisiche discipline. Occupandosi specialmente dell' elettricità, mise alla luce interessantissime memorie piene di utili scoperte elettriche. Inventore della meravigliosa pila detta Voltiana procurò con questa immensi vantaggi alla fisica ed alla chimica, rendendosi per ogni dove immortale sino a che si avranno a pregio le fisiche dottrine. Viaggiando l'Europa fu onorato ed accolto dai primi illustri fisici e filosofi e particolarmente dall' Impre. Giuseppe II. I suoi talenti gli meritarono d'essere decorato di due ordini, fatto Conte e quindi Senatore; coprì con plauso cattedre le più distinte ed ammirato da estere potenze gli decretarono il conio di due medaglie; nè fra lo splendore di tanta gloria ci perdè quella modestia propria dell' uomo saggio che lo rese caro alla patria ai parenti ed alla moglie nel di cui seno spirò li 5 Marzo del 1827. Dedicato all' Illustrissimo Signor, Marchese Febo D'Adda, Vice Presidente di Governo, Cavaliere dell' I.R. Ordine di Leopoldo, Ciambellano attuale di S.M.I.R.A. l'Imperatore d'Austria ecc. ecc. ecc." Translation: "Alessandro Volta. Born in 1745 in Como to a patrician family, at a young age he showed clear signs of being inclined towards the physical sciences. Working especially with electricity, he brought to light very interesting publications full of useful electrical discoveries. Inventor of the marvelous battery called voltiana, he provided immense advantages to physics and chemistry, making himself immortal wherever the physical sciences were valued. Traveling around Europe, he was honored and welcomed by the most illustrious physicists and philosophers and particularly by Emperor Joseph II. His talents merited that he be decorated with two orders, Count and then Senator; he received plaudits from the most distinguished professors and, admired by foreign powers, they decreed that two medals be minted in his honor; nor among the splendor of such glory did he lose that modesty typical of the wise man which made him dear to his country, to his relatives and to his wife, in whose bosom he died on 5 March 1827. Dedicated to the Most Illustrious Lord, Marquis Febo D'Adda, Vice President of Government, Knight of the Imperial Order of Leopold, current Chamberlain of S.M.I.R.A. the Emperor of Austria, etc. etc. etc." * Benezit, vol. 8, p. 573 (Rados); no entry for Focosi.

OBSERVATIONS SUR LA PRATIQUE DES ACCOUCHEMENTS by VIARDEL, Cosme

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Title: OBSERVATIONS SUR LA PRATIQUE DES ACCOUCHEMENTS
Author: VIARDEL, Cosme
Seller: Boston Book Company (United States)
Description: 1748. VIARDEL, Cosme. OBSERVATIONS SUR LA PRATIQUE DES ACCOUCHEMENTS, Naturels, contre nature, & Monstrueux. Paris, d'Houry Pere, 1748. Octavo. [iv]344[12]pp. + [17]ff. Contains 17 etched plates. Three, a folding portrait frontispiece and two folding obstetrical illustrations, were in the original edition of 1671. Viardel, Royal Surgeon to Queen Marie-Therese, was unusual in presenting methods which, he says, eliminate the need for instruments in childbirth, and adds a chapter on female ailments. This edition is updated with notes. Extremely rare. Folding plates have inconspicuous archival repairs; one later plate shows light stains; faint foxing to a few pages, but on the whole internally fine. Bound in an attractive contemporary mottled calf with spine label. Light wear to extremities and small nicks to spine ends. (Walleriana 9946, 1st edition.).

Le Pistole di Cicerone ad Attico, fatte volgari da M. Matteo Senarega by CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS

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Title: Le Pistole di Cicerone ad Attico, fatte volgari da M. Matteo Senarega
Author: CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Venice: (Aldus), 1655. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Small octavo, contemporary full vellum, blue-stained edges, original spine labels, 399p + blank. Free front endpaper with some loss from indelicate erasure on the verso of some of the notations in Latin. Very nice copy indeed.

The Imperfection of the Creature, and the excellency of the divine commandment; illustrated in nine sermons on Psal. CXIX. 96 by John Barnard

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Title: The Imperfection of the Creature, and the excellency of the divine commandment; illustrated in nine sermons on Psal. CXIX. 96
Author: John Barnard
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston: Rogers and Fowle / D. Gookin, 1747. Very Good. Boston: Printed and Sold by Rogers and Fowle in Queen street, and by D. Gookin in Marlborough-Street, 1747. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); full contemporary Cambridge-style calf, unadorned spine in six compartments; [8],248pp. (A4 B-Q8 R4, collated and complete). Light wear to leather extremities, faint surface stretches to rear board, endpapers foxed, contemporary ownership signature at head of title page, 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown, else a Very Good copy in attractive early binding. Errata listed on [A4] recto, "The Author's Absence from the Press [having] occasioned some Errors which need correcting." Popular collection of sermons by the colorful Old Light congregationalist minister John Barnard (1681-1770), who spent much of the 1740s writing and publishing prodigiously in order to stem the influence of the New Lights: "Since therefore the Commandment of GOD is so exceeding broad, as to reach to us in all our Capacities, and Relations, and Designs to better us, as rational Creatures, to render our Lives comfortable to us here, and to make us compleatly happy hereafter, then it must needs be the truest Wisdom in us, thus to be religious" (p. 193). ESTC W20493; EVANS 5905.

Under Milk Wood Premiere Performance Playbill by [Dylan Thomas]

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Title: Under Milk Wood Premiere Performance Playbill
Author: [Dylan Thomas]
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Playbill, 1957. Very Good. [New York: Playbill, 1957]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's printed staplebound gilt wrappers; 56pp.; illus. throughout, including ads. Light wear from handling, tiny soil spot to rear wrapper, else Very Good and sound. Program to the premiere U.S. performance of Dylan Thomas's radio drama-turned-play "Under Milk Wood," staged at the Henry Miller Theatre, October 15, 1957, starring Donald Houston.

The Law of Auctions; or, The Auctioneer's Practical Guide by Williams, T.

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Title: The Law of Auctions; or, The Auctioneer's Practical Guide
Author: Williams, T.
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description: 1818. London: Printed for Sherwood, Neeley and Jones, 1818. 8vo, xii, 190, (1) pp. complete with addenda and publisher's catalogue on terminal leaf. An untrimmed copy in a sympathetic modern binding of half calf with backstrip lettered in gilt and brown cloth sides. Some staining and what even may be charring to the outer margins which is more curious than offensive. Very good. § Second edition. The legal underpinnings of the auction business in England with sections on the qualifications, rights, and responsibilities of auctioneers, buying-in, duties, and the illegality of "puffing" (the use of stooge bidders). "To which is added a comprehensive summary of the Law of Distress: with an appendix of precedents, and a copious index." OCLC records only three copies, although as it is a likely book to have been bound in sammelbands there are probably others. By the author of Every Man His Own Lawyer (1812). "The following work is the offspring of necessity. The inconveniences and difficulties, not to say losses and penalties to which the Author, in the course of his professional duties, has observed persons exercising the occupation of Auctioneers exposed, first suggested the publication of the ensuing sheets.

Voyages: A Smithsonian Libraries Exhibition by Thomas, Mary Augusta (curator)

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Title: Voyages: A Smithsonian Libraries Exhibition
Author: Thomas, Mary Augusta (curator)
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Description: 2001. NY: Grolier Club and Smithsonian, 2001-2003. Small 8vo, 63 pp. Blue pictorial wrappers. § Catalogue of exhibition held at the Grolier Club and at the National Museum of American History.

Catalogue de Tableaux, Gouaches et Estampes, Dont la Vente se fera les 12 et 13 janvier 1818… by AUCTION CATALOGUE: ELIE, Charles, expert

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Title: Catalogue de Tableaux, Gouaches et Estampes, Dont la Vente se fera les 12 et 13 janvier 1818…
Author: AUCTION CATALOGUE: ELIE, Charles, expert
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 38 pp. 8vo (200 x 125 mm.), orig. rose printed wrappers (some tape repairs & spine worn), stitched as issued. Paris: Elie & Bonnefond de Sarial, 1818. A scarce sale catalogue, in its original wrappers, consisting of 108 lots of mostly paintings, with a handful of drawings and prints. Administered by Elie (n.d.), who was part of the generation of experts that filled the vacuum caused by the deaths of Jean Baptiste Pierre Lebrun in 1813 and Alexandre Joseph Paillet in 1814. Trained as a painter, Elie started his activities as a picture dealer at the beginning of the century. Between 1801 and 1810, records show that he organized 13 paintings sales. The present catalogue describes paintings by Guercino, Titian, Molnaert, Boilly, Marguérite Gérard, Swagers, Senave, Drolling, Teniers père, etc. Many of the entries are lengthy and informative. A nice copy; some wear to the upper wrapper. With addressee inscribed on the upper wrapper. We locate no copy of this catalogue in North America. ❧ Lugt 9281. B. Fredericksen & B. Peronnet eds., Répertoire des tableaux vendus en France au XIXe siècle, Vol. I, pp. xvii & xix.

Loomis's No. 3 Magazine Almanac... for the Year of Our Lord 1837 by Hill, Sanford

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Title: Loomis's No. 3 Magazine Almanac... for the Year of Our Lord 1837
Author: Hill, Sanford
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Description: Pittsburgh: Luke Loomis, 1836. Paper wraps. 60 pp. Tear on front cover.

The Landscape Beautiful. A study of the utility of the natural landscape, its relation to human life and happiness, with application of these principles in landscape gardening and art in general. Illustrated b y members of the Postal Photographic Club. by Waugh, Frank A.

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Title: The Landscape Beautiful. A study of the utility of the natural landscape, its relation to human life and happiness, with application of these principles in landscape gardening and art in general. Illustrated b y members of the Postal Photographic Club.
Author: Waugh, Frank A.
Seller: Savoy Books (United States)
Description: Book. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1912. Large 8vo, gilt decorated boards, cloth spine. Pp. 336; 49 half-tone plates. Corners bumped, else a fine copy. Second printing, one of Orange Judd's most attractive productions. Waugh wrote a number of books espousing an aesthetic derived from the natural landscape..

The Virgin King by Watson, Francis

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Title: The Virgin King
Author: Watson, Francis
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Condition: Near Fine in Very Good- dj
Description: New York/London: D. Appleton-Century Company. Near Fine in Very Good- dj. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [tight, clean book, with minor wear to the extremities, light previous owner's stamp on the first two front endpapers; the jacket is moderately edgeworn, with some rubbing and scuffing to the front panel, very shallow paper loss at the spine ends, and a small (1" x 1/4") puncture-tear on the rear panel which slightly affects the text thereon]. Satirical novel of "dictatorships, colored shirts, and national salvation through 'blood, dirt, and faith'," set in a mythical Ruritanian sort of Mittel-European kingdom. In tone and substance (and chronology), the book falls somewhere in the zone between the Marx Bros.' DUCK SOUP and Chaplin's THE GREAT DICTATOR. The titular figure is a young Englishman who parachutes into "Gorboduchy" and becomes its dictator by virtue of the yellow shirt he happens to be wearing at the time; he is, however, merely a figurehead, manipulated from behind the scenes by a poet with decidedly fascist inclinations. The shots taken at Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy are unsubtle, and while one contemporary reviewer opined that the author "writes with facility, charm and impudence" and praised "his whimsical presentment of the absurdities and stupidities into which such a system leads a nation," another felt that he "has been only whimsical [and that] there is so much whimsy in his totalitarian State, in fact, that it is difficult to believe in its wickedness." (In one weird mash-up of actual history, the Yellow Shirts -- the dictator's storm troopers -- are tasked with persecuting the Gypsies instead of the Jews -- due to the country's tradition of treating the Jews well, specifically to deny them the persecution on which they supposedly thrive!) .

Loyalties by WILLIAMS, Raymond

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Title: Loyalties
Author: WILLIAMS, Raymond
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Description: London: Chatto and Windus, 1985. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (23cm); green cloth hardcover, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 378pp. Small remainder mark bottom edge, else a tight, fine copy in the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced £9.95 on lower front flap), lightly creased at extremities; Very Good or better. Historical novel set in Wales and incorporating events in the Spanish Civil War.

Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization. New York, Saturday, October 19, 1867. Vol. XI. No. 564. by [Harper’s Weekly].

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Title: Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization. New York, Saturday, October 19, 1867. Vol. XI. No. 564.
Author: [Harper’s Weekly].
Seller: Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints (United States)
Description: Folio, newspaper, illustrated, 657-672 pp. Chips, small tears and folds in margins and edges, a little soiling and darkening, normal aging; otherwise very good. The cover feature for this week's Harper was on Garibaldi and his efforts to bring a just government to Italy. He is presented in a wood engraving on the front page. Also on the front page is an illustration of a pneumatic railway, which was part of an exhibition at The American Institute in New York. There is a short article on the invention's potential. This issue includes several large wood engravings, including one on a reception for General Sheridan in Union Square.

Chronic Obstructive Lung Diseases by Voelkel, Norbert F.; William MacNee

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Title: Chronic Obstructive Lung Diseases
Author: Voelkel, Norbert F.; William MacNee
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hamilton, Ontario: BC Decker Inc, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 428pp. Quarto [28 cm] Black cloth over boards lettered in gilt. With compact disc. The extremities are gently bumped and rubbed. Short pen mark to first page, else Internally clean and bright. A book on chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases presenting the authors' collective knowledge of the process by which the lung is destroyed. The book pays tribute to the early pioneers of chronic obstructive lung disease research and to the notion of a continuum of the pathobiology of the lung's cells from inflammation to lung cancer.

The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library by Backhouse, Janet

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Title: The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library
Author: Backhouse, Janet
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780802043467
Condition: Very good
Description: Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 238pp+ index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

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