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Globe Terrestre Dresse par Fx. Delamrche, Succr. de R. De Vaugondy 1832 by DELAMARCHE, Felix

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Title: Globe Terrestre Dresse par Fx. Delamrche, Succr. de R. De Vaugondy 1832
Author: DELAMARCHE, Felix
Seller: Martayan Lan, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paris, 1832. No Binding. Very Good. 9 ½ inches (24 cm.) diameter; 21 inches (53 cm.) total height. Single pedestal globe with horizon ring, armature & meridian all of wood, wear and staining on meridian at point where fits into stand, some chipping at extremities, else fine; globe with vibrant original color and clear, sharp patina; some abrasion & losses, mostly in lower and upper extremities; overall very good plus condition. An attractive, very capably executed table or desk globe, in the distinctive style of the Delamarche firm, "the most successful French entrepreneur[s] in maps and globes" (Dekker/ van der Krogt). This was an original work by the son, Felix, who succeeded his father in the management of the firm in 1817. The globe is geographically up-to-date, notably in the South Pacific and Alaska, with information from then recent Russian voyages, such as Krustenstern's. Related to this, at the time the globe appeared and reflected on it, Europeans were beginning to differentiate between various regions of the Pacific. These were based on a better understanding of cultural and other differences between the peoples of various areas encountered on these recent voyages. For example, in 1831 the French explorer Dumont d'Urville proposed the use of the terms "Micronesia" and "Melanesia" for various parts of the Pacific as distinguished from Polynesia. Printed dashed lines on this globe, labeled "Division Oceanique," roughly approximate the three eventually accepted divisions of what is referred to as the South Pacific, though the regions are not named on the globe. Delamarche also clearly identifies on the globe the more traditional divisions of the Pacific between "Grand Ocean Boreal," "Grand Ocean Equinoxial," and "Grand Ocean Austral." The Delamarche firm was the first to successfully reach a fairly sizable, general market of globe buyers. It accomplished this by reducing the cost of constructing globe stands and other parts, while maintaining a high level of quality in the maps of their globes, which are cleanly and attractively engraved. Traditional brass meridians were replaced by wooden ones, and the horizon rings and armatures supporting the rings were greatly simplified and made from either wood or stiff board. Also, the firm generally used simpler, single-pedestal stands rather than four-legged designs. Yet, as this well-preserved example demonstrates, Delamarche's design and materials proved to be very durable. Charles-Francois Delamarche (1740-1817), the founder of the family firm, was the successor of the great map and globemaking family, the Robert De Vaugondys, as is cited in the title of this globe. Delamarche, in fact, seemed to have cornered the globe market in France by also incorporating the stocks of Jean Fortin and Jean Lattre. Delamarche's son, Felix took over the firm upon his father's death and managed it until 1848, when Gosselin succeeded him. The firm continued well into the latter 19th century under yet another Delamarche descendent. Dekker/ Van der Krogt, Globes from the Western World, pp. 63, 74; Dekker, E. Globes at Greenwich, pp. 321-25; Suarez, T. Early Mapping of the Pacific, p. 25.

Winston Churchill Writes About His Articles for News of the World, Describing Major Episodes in His Life by Winston Churchill

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Title: Winston Churchill Writes About His Articles for News of the World, Describing Major Episodes in His Life
Author: Winston Churchill
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 2/1/35. Age 60 no longer seems so old to him, says one article he discusses in this letterWinston Churchill’s main source of income was not his salary as a Member of Parliament, but as an author. He wrote 43 book length works in 72 volumes, and also wrote some 10,000 articles for newspapers and magazines over a period of decades on a broad variety of subjects. In many cases, these newspaper articles were for The News of the World, which was so fond of his work that from 1936 and 1939, they paid him £400 for article, which would be £12,000 (or over $15,000) in today’s money. Quite a sum to pay a columnist during the Depression, and enough to keep Churchill in his Pol Roger champagne and Romeo y Julieta brand cigars. Major Percy Davies was director of the News of the World, and Churchill worked closely with him.In 1935 Churchill wrote a series of articles for the News of the World describing major episodes in his life. Much of the material was taken directly from his books “My Early Life”, “Thoughts and Adventures” and “The World Crisis”, but there were plenty of original observations. In the lead article, entitled “Looking Back on Sixty Years,” Churchill offered some of those observations.Churchill in 1935: “Sixty years! Not so very long ago I thought this a very advanced age. Lately I have not felt the same impression. Sixty now seems to me to be a very reasonable age…“I am for limited monarchy and a free Parliament, and the undoubted glorious right of every Briton to criticize any government of which he is not a member. I do not know whether this is Conservatism or Liberalism. I hope it is both, and honest Trade Unionism, too. They all have an equal desire to dwell in a country where the people own the Government, and not in one where the Government own the people…“I think myself very fortunate to have been born a citizen in a liberal age in this great, free, and hitherto victorious country and Empire, with its incorruptible officials and impartial Courts; with its keen sense of humanity, fair play, and good sportsmanship; where every office and career is open to talent; where men can rise from the very humblest origin to the very highest stations; and with social services incomparably more complete than exist anywhere in the world. I do not think there has been anything so good in all history. I am proud to have been allowed to take some part in the affairs of such a society from time to time.”Later Churchill wrote other series of articles for News of the World, such as “Great Events of Our Time”, “Great Men I Have Known”, and “Great Men of All Time”.Typed letter signed, on his letterhead, Chartwell, January 2, 1935, to Percy Davies, about his 1935 articles. “I have much pleasure in acknowledging the safe receipt this morning of the News of the World cheque for £4,200 for the twelve articles I have written, and note that the first of these will appear on January 13th.” He adds in his holograph, “It has been a great pleasure for me to work with you in this enterprise, & I trust it will be satisfactory in its results to the ’News of the World’"".This letter offers an interesting insight into how Churchill made his living.

The Star Conquerors by Bova, Ben

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Title: The Star Conquerors
Author: Bova, Ben
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1959. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author and inscribed to a previous owner on the title page. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine titles in dark blue. Near Fine with light edge wear and light toning to cloth, light insecting to edge of page block. In a Near Fine dust jacket with price intact, though with a small ink notation near price on flap and faint surface indents to front panel, else a very lovely example. Scarce signed.

HESPERIDES OR WORKS BOTH HUMAN AND DIVINE, TOGETHER WITH HIS NOBLE NUMBERS OR HIS PIOUS PIECES by (BINDINGS - MORRELL). HERRICK, ROBERT

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Title: HESPERIDES OR WORKS BOTH HUMAN AND DIVINE, TOGETHER WITH HIS NOBLE NUMBERS OR HIS PIOUS PIECES
Author: (BINDINGS - MORRELL). HERRICK, ROBERT
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: George Newnes Ltd, [1903]. 163 x 96 mm. (6 3/8 x 3 3/4"). Two volumes.. VERY PRETTY SCARLET CRUSHED MOROCCO BY MORRELL (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers gilt in a "Scottish Wheel" design with very intricate filigree "wheel" at center and similar fan-shaped cornerpieces, raised bands, spines gilt in compartments with delicately tooled frames and scallop shell design at center, gilt titling, turn-ins with frame of decorative rolls and floral garlands, gray-green watered silk endleaves, all edges gilt. With illustrated title pages in each volume and 26 line drawings (reproduced by photolithography and photogravure) by Robert Savage, as called for. Part of "The Caxton Series." Spines slightly (but uniformly) darkened, half a dozen tiny dark dots to boards, a hint of rubbing to joints and extremities, but still an extremely pleasing copy, pristine internally, and in lustrous bindings. Day praises the verse of "the greatest of the Cavalier poets" for its "charming daintiness" and "consummately beautiful artifice," words that could also describe the meticulously executed bindings here by Morrell. A friend and follower of Ben Jonson, Herrick (1591-1674) showed a dazzling display of technical versatility in his poetry, employing almost every stanzaic and verse form in English. In his "Hesperides," a collection of more than 1,100 poems (most of which is printed here), he expounds a hedonistic philosophy full of pagan raptures and wistful sorrow set in a joyous English landscape, and he writes with sensuous daintiness and polished artifice about bowers and blossoms without ever stopping to consider subjects of great profundity. Herrick's other important collection, "Noble Numbers" (represented here in the second volume), consists of some 270 religious poems that express in equally flawless verse the poet's satisfaction at the steady benignity of an uncomplicated deity. In her "Modern Bookbindings" of 1906, Prideaux says that Morrell at that time had a very large business that supplied "all the booksellers with bindings designed by his men," bindings that were "remarkable for their variety and merit." The present volumes are particularly pleasing, with decoration reminiscent of the so-called "Wheel" bindings originally produced in Scotland in the 18th century..

LAS GLORIAS DEL GRAN PÚAS by Garibay, Ricardo

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Title: LAS GLORIAS DEL GRAN PÚAS
Author: Garibay, Ricardo
Seller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good plus.
Description: México, D. F., Barcelona, Buenos Aires: Editorial Grijalbo, 1978. First edition (stated). Very good plus.. Narrative photobook of the story of boxing great Ruben "El Puas" Olivares. Written in a series of "rounds," journalist Garibay interviews Olivares, romanticizing the boxer's life, fights, and hedonistic exploits. The story is accompanied by numerous photo illustrations, including candid snapshots of Olivares in and out of the ring. The work was later adapted into a movie starring Olivares as himself. OCLC located three holdings. A very scarce and fascinating publication. 8'' x 9''. Original color illustrated wrapper. Fourteen full-page black-and-white illustrations. 46, [2] pages. In Spanish. Light wear to edges; sticker removal to rear cover. Hinges a little tender. Else clean and sound.

The Club Dumas (Signed Limited Edition) by Arturo Perez-Reverte

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Title: The Club Dumas (Signed Limited Edition)
Author: Arturo Perez-Reverte
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9781596062924
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed Limited Edition (this being #176 of 500); A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, without visible flaw, as new and unread. SIGNED by the author to a limitation page. A beautiful publication of this biblio-mystery from Subterranean Press. Not remaindered, not price-clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.

Decret de la convention nationale, Du 4 Juin 1793, l'an second de la Republique Fransoise, Portant que les Enfans nes hors le mariage, succederont a leurs pere & mere by Becker, Joseph

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Title: Decret de la convention nationale, Du 4 Juin 1793, l'an second de la Republique Fransoise, Portant que les Enfans nes hors le mariage, succederont a leurs pere & mere
Author: Becker, Joseph
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: A Bordeaux: De l'Imprimerie de Simon Lacourt, 1793. Near fine. Edition uncertain (only a variant copy under the same name, published in Paris in the same year recorded in OCLC; this one not recorded); 10 1/2 x 8 1/4; single leaf of laid paper, folded, pp. [4]; text to pp. 1-2 only; deckled fore-edge; small spot to lower right corner; in very good to near fine condition.A royal decree on the legal status of illegitimately-born children, inheritance and succession.

POEMS OF BYRON by Byron, Lord

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Title: POEMS OF BYRON
Author: Byron, Lord
Seller: Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
Description: London: Caxton Publishing Company, (1907). A 12mo., 298 pages, including glossary and an index of first lines. Bound in original decorative brown cloth. Top edge gilt. Edited by Oliphant Smeaton. Portrait frontispiece and pictorial title page by A. S. Hartrick. Eight full page color plates by A. S. Forrest. A bit of very light wear and endleaves browned, else a fine copy.

The Dinner Year-Book by Harland, Marion; [Mary Virginia Terhune]

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Title: The Dinner Year-Book
Author: Harland, Marion; [Mary Virginia Terhune]
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1878. Octavo (19.5 x 13 cm.), 713, [2] pages. Publisher's advertisements. FIRST EDITION, "Common Sense in the Household Series" issue; identical to the first regular issue but on cheaper paper stock, and lacking the six chromolithograph illustrations. Menus for every day of the year with recipes for each. Harland (pseudonym of Mary Virginia Terhune) attempts "To accomplish an agreeable variety in the family bill of fare." Her list of goals is long, but includes: "to build fragments into a structure about which should linger no flavor or staleness or sameness; so as to manage a long succession of meals that yesterday's repast and the more frugal one of to-day should not suggest the alternation of fat and lean in the Hibernian's pork, or the dutiful following of penance upon indulgence ; to shun, with equal care, the rock of parsimony and the whirlpool of extravagance..." Pages darkened throughout; pages approaching brittle. In edgeworn and soiled green cloth, blind and gilt stamped. Good. [Bitting, page 214; Brown 2402; Cagle 330; Wheaton & Kelly 5945].

Nothing Like It in the World; The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869 by AMBROSE, Stephen E.

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Title: Nothing Like It in the World; The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869
Author: AMBROSE, Stephen E.
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
ISBN: 9780684846095
Description: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. hardcover. Illus. 431pp. 8vo, two-toned boards, d.w. New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000). Near Fine

The Chicago Architectural Journal, Volume 1 - 1981

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Title: The Chicago Architectural Journal, Volume 1 - 1981
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
ISBN: 9780847803859
Condition: Near fine condition
Description: Chicago: Rizzoli, 1981. paperback. Near fine condition. The spine is sunned.

William T. Wiley: Caught in the Rap Sure by WILEY, William T.

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Title: William T. Wiley: Caught in the Rap Sure
Author: WILEY, William T.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: San Francisco, CA: John Beerggruen Gallery, 2006. First edition. Exhibition brochure for a show that ran September 1 through October 7, 2006. Single sheet folded twice to create six pages and measures 10" wide by 7.875" high when closed. Includes 4 color illustrations and a list of selected public collections. A fine copy. Uncommon ephemera from this American artist. Only 2 copies listed in OCLC.

Quaderni d'Italianistica - V. II #2

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Title: Quaderni d'Italianistica - V. II #2
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Italy, 1981. Very Good. First edition. Very good Cover rubbed.

Let us strengthen the unity of the Communist movement for the triumph of peace and socialism

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Title: Let us strengthen the unity of the Communist movement for the triumph of peace and socialism
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: New York: New Century Publishers, 1963. 31p., staplebound pamphlet, staples rusted else very good. Editorial from Pravda, reprinted by the Communist Party USA. Includes polemics against China and Albania.

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