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Albert Einstein Beautiful Signed Photograph at the Metropolitan Opera, on His Visit to the U.S. in 1930 by Albert Einstein

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Title: Albert Einstein Beautiful Signed Photograph at the Metropolitan Opera, on His Visit to the U.S. in 1930
Author: Albert Einstein
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 12/12/30. We obtained this photograph directly from the Guard heirs, and it has never before been offered for saleIn December 1930, Albert Einstein visited America for the second time. It was originally intended as merely a two-month working visit as a research fellow at the California Institute of Technology, but Einstein’s popularity made the trip headline news. After arriving in New York City, Einstein was taken to various places and events, including Chinatown, a lunch with the editors of The New York Times, and a performance of Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera on December 12, where Einstein, an opera buff who revered Mozart, Bach, and other great composers, was cheered by the audience on his arrival.William Guard was engaged by the Manhattan Opera Company as a press representative upon its organization in 1906. Upon the company's dissolution, he took a similar position with the Metropolitan Opera, remaining with the company until his death in 1932. Einstein met Guard at his office on his visit to the Met.Newspapers reported on December 14, 1930: “Einstein Theory Defined in Sentence”. “At last Prof. Einstein has hit upon a one sentence definition of relativity which anyone can understand. He was chatting recently in the office of William Guard, factotum of the Metropolitan Opera. ‘Professor,’ said Guard, ‘I have a definition of your relativity theory, and I would like to know if it is correct.’ The Professor smiled. There are presumed to be only a handful of wise men in the entire world who are able to understand it. ‘My definition is this,’ said Guard. ‘There is no hitching post in the universe—so far as we know.’ Einstein laughed and nodded assent vigorously.”A spectacular 8 by 10 inch photograph of Einstein, inscribed and presented by the great scientist to Guard on his visit to the Met: ""Mr. William J. Guard / A. Einstein / 12. XII.30.” We obtained this photograph directly from the Guard heirs, and it has never before been offered for sale.

President Benjamin Harrison Writes Railroad Magnate Chauncey DePew Requesting a Private Car for His Sick Sister-in-law by Benjamin Harrison

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Title: President Benjamin Harrison Writes Railroad Magnate Chauncey DePew Requesting a Private Car for His Sick Sister-in-law
Author: Benjamin Harrison
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 01/01/1891. Though there is a date of 1891 marked in an unknown hand at the top, it would seem likely that the sick woman is the sister of Harrison’s second wife, Mary Scott Lord who was the widow of Walter E. Dimmick, especially since a name is crossed out by Harrison which looks like it was “Mrs. Lord.” Mary Lord married Benjamin in 1896 after his presidency, thus the date is uncertain. DePew was President of the New York Central from 1885 to 1898 after which he became a U.S. Senator.Autograph Telegram Signed, no date, to Chauncey DePew at the New York Central Railroad Office in New York. “My wife’s sister is ill at Stamford, Conn. and I would like to have a special car with a bed to bring her to New York tomorrow or Friday. If you can arrange for it advise Mrs. Mary Dimmick care of Mr. Leeds, Stamford and they will name the time. Please have the R.R. send bill of expenses to me and greatly oblige me. Benj. Harrison. Charge my account.”

Couleur Amour 13 Aquarelles. Gouaches, Lavis de Marc Chagall by Marc Chagall, Jean Cassou

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Title: Couleur Amour 13 Aquarelles. Gouaches, Lavis de Marc Chagall
Author: Marc Chagall, Jean Cassou
Seller: Marninart, Inc (ABAA-ILAB) (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: Couleur Amour 13 Aquarelles. Gouaches, Lavis de Marc Chagall. Au Vent d'Arles. Paris 1958 Preface by Jean Cassou. Large portfolio with 13 pochoirs realized by Daniel Jacomet after Chagall art works. Limited and numbered edition of 300 copies in Arabic (N. 29) + 20 out of commerce in Roman I to XX, printed in Richard de Bass paper especially watermarked for this edition. Loose as issued and collected in the original pictorial cloth portfolio folder especially executed by Chagall.

XXe siècle, N.26, 1966. Quatre thèmes: Chagall, portes d'Afrique, la ville, 1907-1917 by Marc Chagall, Vieira da Silva

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Title: XXe siècle, N.26, 1966. Quatre thèmes: Chagall, portes d'Afrique, la ville, 1907-1917
Author: Marc Chagall, Vieira da Silva
Seller: Marninart, Inc (ABAA-ILAB) (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Revue XXe siècle, Paris. Cover by Chagall. With two original lithographs in color (one in double page) by Chagall, and one in color by Vieira Da Silva. Richly illustrated with one page quadrichromies (four color process) by Chagall, Greco, Vieira Da Silva, John Martin, Moser, Picasso, Braque, Delaunay, Kandinsky, Bazaine. Introduction by Camille Bourniquel. Text in French.Very good conditions.

Revue Cahiers d’Art, 22nd year. 1947. by Rene Char

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Title: Revue Cahiers d’Art, 22nd year. 1947.
Author: Rene Char
Seller: Marninart, Inc (ABAA-ILAB) (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: Cahiers d'art, Paris, 1947. Thick issue including Text in French by Zervos, poet by Rene Char illustrated by Braque, an extract of Georges Braque cahiers, letters inedited by Apollinaire to Picasso, Picasso collages and objects, and many illustrations and photographs. Cover by Braque.

Three Sonatas for the Harpsichord ... By His Majesty's Royal Patent. Price Two Shillings by SARTI, Giuseppe 1729-1802

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Title: Three Sonatas for the Harpsichord ... By His Majesty's Royal Patent. Price Two Shillings
Author: SARTI, Giuseppe 1729-1802
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: London: Printed and Sold by Henry Fougt, at the Lyre and Owl, in St. Martin's-Lane, near Long-Acre, 1769. Folio. Disbound. 1f. (recto title with woodcut device incorporating rocks, a cave, a torch, foliage, and an owl perched atop a scale, verso blank), 1f. (recto "The Resolution of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, in London" dated December 28th 1768, verso blank), 23, [i] (publisher's catalogue) pp. Typeset. Fougt's catalogue to final page includes works by Uttini, Sabatini, Croce, and Sarti. Slightly worn, browned, and soiled; edges dusty; some leaves creased; minor imperfections. An attractive, wide-margined copy overall. First Edition. Rare. BUC p. 922. RISM S1067. Sarti was a leading figure in late 18th-century opera. Each of his three sonatas are introduced by a "Preludio," incorporating a variety of through-composed arpeggiation figures, as well as whole-note chords meant to be arpeggiated at the discretion of the performer. Stylistically straddling the area between baroque and classical styles (despite being a contemporary of Haydn), Sarti employs forward-looking figurations like bold chromatics and almost pianistic broken-octave patterns in these works. The preludes are followed by binary form sonata movements with lively melodies, Alberti basses, walking basses, and sparkling scales and arpeggios. The "Preludio" of Sarti's second sonata appears to quote the Allegro moderato of Sonata IV of Domenico Alberti (ca. 1710-1746). Fougt (1720-1782) was a Swedish printer and publisher active in London. "After studies at Uppsala University and some years of clerical work he became a general book printer. About 1760 he developed his own version of Breitkopf's improvements in printing music from movable type, using a system of 166 characters. He applied for a patent in 1763, and in the following year was granted a privilege for music printing in Sweden for 25 years. Lacking economic support, however, he left Sweden in 1767 and in November of that year arrived in London, where he began to issue music in his new type. After submitting his first work, an edition of Uttini's Six Sonatas op. 1, to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, he obtained a resolution from that body that his method of printing was superior and much cheaper than any that had been in use in Great Britain; he later printed this resolution as a preface to his edition of Sarti's Three Sonatas. Fougt may be considered a pioneer of cheap music, for he sold his music at 'one penny per page, or 18 for a shilling', far less than the sixpence a page which was the average price of music at that time. He apparently aroused ill-feeling among the rest of the trade, though Hawkins was probably wrong in saying that they drove him out of the country by undercutting his publications. During his three years in London he published about 80 sheet songs and instrumental pieces, and eight more substantial items, including the sonatas mentioned above, others by Croce, Leoni, Menesini, Nardini and Sabatini, and Twelve of the most Favourite French Songs collected from the Comic Operas. The typography is of excellent clarity, though the results are not as elegant as the best engraved music of the period. In 1770 Fougt sold his plant and type to Robert Falkener and returned to Stockholm, where in 1773 he was granted a new privilege by Gustavus III and enjoyed patronage as royal printer. Falkener, who was also a harpsichord maker, continued to issue sheet songs in Fougt's style until 1780, and was the author and printer of Instructions for Playing the Harpsichord (1770)." Krummel and Sadie: Music Printing and Publishing, p. 246. "The Society took into Consideration the Specimen of Mr. Henry Fougt's New-invented Type for Printing Music: Resolved, That Mr. Fougt's Method of Printing Music is an Improvement superior to any before in Use in Great-Britain; and That it appears to answer All the Purposes of Engraving in Wood, Tin, or Copper, for that end, and can be performed with much less Expence." (Resolution) A rare example of Fougt's innovative music type.

Autograph letter signed to N. O. Round by Silliman, Benjamin

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Title: Autograph letter signed to N. O. Round
Author: Silliman, Benjamin
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: New Haven, 1852. Silliman, Benjamin (1779-1864). Autograph letter signed ("B. Silliman Senior") to N. O. Round [?]. Bifolium (4pp.). New Haven, 14 September 1852. 206 x 134 mm. Small tears along folds, light soiling but very good.

Food allergy: Its manifestations, diagnosis and treatment with a general discussion of bronchial asthma. 2nd printing by Rowe, Albert H.

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Title: Food allergy: Its manifestations, diagnosis and treatment with a general discussion of bronchial asthma. 2nd printing
Author: Rowe, Albert H.
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1932. xi, [1], 17-442pp. 234 x 149 mm. Original cloth, light edgewear. Library stamps and shelfmark. Good+.

Lot of 10 World War II Related Propaganda Pamphlets

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Title: Lot of 10 World War II Related Propaganda Pamphlets
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG. All housed in an archival folder.
Description: Primarily US: Government printing Office, etc., 1946. Ephemera. VG. All housed in an archival folder.. Posters Used by American Industries as War Production Incentives S.D. Warren Company. Boston, MA. September, 1942. -Some soiling on rear panel. 47 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm OCLC: 9186366 $150 Posters for Production National Association of Manufacturers. New York, NY. June, 1943. -VG Outdoor Advertising a Channel of Communication in the War Effort Outdoor Advertising Association of America. New York, NY. March, 1943 -VG. 20 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. OCLC: 48159422 Effects of the War on Advertising The United States News. New York, NY. 1942 -VG. Crease across center. United States Savings Bonds: Direct Obligations of the United States government, Add One-Third to your Investment in Ten Years. Government Printing Office. Washington, DC. March, 1936 -VG. 16 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm OCLC: 54838733 Our Job with the WPA Government Printing Office. Washington, DC. March, 1936 -VG. 29 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm OCLC: 21699429 Manpower: One Tenth of a Nation Government printing Office. Washington, DC. June, 1941 -VG. [16] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm OCLC: 13529945 ... and the Gatepost Chatto & Windus. London. 1940 -VG. xiv pages, 1 leaf, 16 plates (some color) illustrations 19 cm OCLC: 3459315 “Mister Showman” March 1945, Vol. 3 No. 3 & February 1946, Vol. 4 No. 2 National Screen Service. New York, NY. 1945-1946 -VG. Comparison of Resources of Japan and the United States WWII Air drop leaflet.

A Manual of Percussion and Auscultation .... by Laennec, Merie'dec (Sharpe, James B) - HEART SOUNDS

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Title: A Manual of Percussion and Auscultation ....
Author: Laennec, Merie'dec (Sharpe, James B) - HEART SOUNDS
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Good; spine cloth somewhat abraded through rodent nibble; light tide mark throughout.
Description: New York: Samuel Wood & Sons, 1832. First American Edition.. Original (?) publisher's half linen backed boards.. Good; spine cloth somewhat abraded through rodent nibble; light tide mark throughout.. 12mo, [6 - adverts], xviii (includes frontispiece), [1] - 120 pp. + frontispiece. One of the earliest works on the stethoscope - after Stokes in 1825 - and heart sounds in diagnosing serious cardiac disease. A handful of articles, or "reviews", appeared in the French medical literature within the first year or so after Laennec published his milestone work. These, however, did not receive wide circulation and therefore had little impact on medical practice of the day. It was the work of Laennec's cousin in 1824 that Sharpe used as the basis for his published remarks offered here. It precedes the publication of Barth & Rogers on heart sounds by 13 years. Rare in trade. Bedford #477 - only a much later printing; see Kligfield Collection Duke Univ. under Stokes (#1108).

The Priscilla Cook Book. Published by the Priscilla Club of the First Congregational Church of Berkeley. The proceeds to be contributed to the fund for the new church building by [First Congregational Church (Berkeley, Calif.); Priscilla Club; Mrs. J.F. Furtado (edited by)]

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Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink

Title: The Priscilla Cook Book. Published by the Priscilla Club of the First Congregational Church of Berkeley. The proceeds to be contributed to the fund for the new church building
Author: [First Congregational Church (Berkeley, Calif.); Priscilla Club; Mrs. J.F. Furtado (edited by)]
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: [Berkeley, California: James J. Gillick & Co., Publishers, 1923. Octavo (20 x 13.5 cm.), [iv], 240 pages. Various tables at end. Blank leaves at end of each section (not used). Evident FIRST EDITION. The Priscilla Club of the First Congregational Church of Berkeley had been founded in April of 1921, by our editor, Mrs. Joseph F. Furtado. A notice to that effect, with a list of officers appears on page [ii]. There are no local advertisements included, but there is a list of individuals and businesses that had contributed to the Church Building Fund in relation to the book. Many of the recipes are attributed. Narrow tideline throughout the text block; some light soiling. In publisher's decorated white oil cloth,with an image of a young woman seated with a mixing bowl in her lap and whisk in her hand. Some rubbing to extremities and light soil, otherwise very good. Ownership inscription "Mrs. L.T. Sprague, Xmas, 1923" to free front endpaper. Handwritten recipe, "Crisco's Pie Crust" laid-in. [OCLC locates eighteen copies; not in Brown].

Under the Southern Cross in South America by Buckman, Willamson

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Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books

Title: Under the Southern Cross in South America
Author: Buckman, Willamson
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine/Fine
Description: New York: Book Publisher's Press, 1914. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Fine/Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo., xvii (2) 482pp. Beautiful First Edition bound in bright blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front board. Decorative palm tree stamped in green on front board. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save some gentle bumping to the spine ends but quite minor, Fresh and bright and remarkably well-preserved. Very attractive and quite uncommon unclipped, though unpriced, dust-jacket, has some fairly mild edge-wear and light soiling. But quite clean with no chipping or tears. A sharp example of an early 20th century wrapper. A detailed account of the author's travels to several countries in Central and South America. A simply gorgeous collectable copy and quite scarce in such high-grade condition and with dust-jacket.

Law Intelligence: Fogarties & Stillman Vs. The State Bank..(Charleston [S.C.], 1860

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Title: Law Intelligence: Fogarties & Stillman Vs. The State Bank..(Charleston [S.C.], 1860
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (United States)
Description: 1860. Octavo. . 11 pages. The large part of the substance of this document on banks and use of checks was reprinted in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review with some variations: it deletes Law Intelligence and has an inserted summary, also it omits the name of John Belton O'Neall, the well-known attorney in South Carolina who was the author of Biographical Sketches of the Bench and Bar of South Carolina (Charleston, 1859). Staple bound in orange wrappers.

The Journals of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Sergeant John Ordway by Quaife, Milo, ed.

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Title: The Journals of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Sergeant John Ordway
Author: Quaife, Milo, ed.
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: Madison: Published by the Society, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Large 8vo. 444pp. Clue buckram, gilt spine title. Illustrated with plates and maps, some folding. Light wear to the hinges and corners else a near fine copy. Wisconsin Historical Publications Collections Volume XXII. .

More Books: The Bulletin of The Boston Public Library: Vol. IV, #7, September, 1929

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA

Title: More Books: The Bulletin of The Boston Public Library: Vol. IV, #7, September, 1929
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston: Boston Public Library, 1929. Softcover. Very Good. Very good in wrappers, a paperback. Contains pages 265-312. Pages light brown, clean text. Stamp on front cover. Very tiny tears on edges of green cover. Edges of cover light brown.

Threads: Rosa Luxemburg From Prison by COOPER, Jane

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Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Title: Threads: Rosa Luxemburg From Prison
Author: COOPER, Jane
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition: A fine copy
Description: Flamingo Press, 1979. A fine copy. 8vo. Printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION.

The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons by Powell, John Wesley

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Title: The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
Author: Powell, John Wesley
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780142437520
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Penguin Books, 1987. Paperback. Fine. Introduction by Wallace Stegner. Later Printing. Near Fine. Wraps with a faint crease on the front cover. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Powell's classic account of his expedition through America's western canyons.

Improvement Era vol 32 No.8 June 1929

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Title: Improvement Era vol 32 No.8 June 1929
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: YMMIA, 1929. Very Good. Improvement Era vol 32 No.8 June 1929. Salt Lake City: YMMIA, 1929. Illustrated. 8vo. Wraps. Book condition: Very good.

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