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After Investing in its Stock, Lincoln Represents a Railroad in a Precedent-Setting Lawsuit

After Investing in its Stock, Lincoln Represents a Railroad in a Precedent-Setting Lawsuit by ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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After Investing in its Stock, Lincoln Represents a Railroad in a Precedent-Setting Lawsuit
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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Seth Kaller, Inc. (United States)
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A list of stockholders, entirely in Lincoln's hand, filed as evidence in his first significant railroad case. Lincoln's own appearance in the shareholder list represents only the second known instance of a stock purchase by the future president. The Illinois Supreme Court's ultimate ruling in favor of Lincoln and the railroad set an important legal precedent, upholding the binding nature of a stockholder's contractual and financial obligations. "The decision, subsequently cited in twenty-five other cases throughout the United States, helped establish the principle that corporation charters could be altered in the public interest, and it established Lincoln as one of the most prominent and successful Illinois practitioners of railroad law" (Donald, p.155). ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Autograph Manuscript Signed by Lincoln in text, constituting his official transcript of the "Subscription Book of the Capital Stock of the Alton and Sangamon Rail Road Company," incorporated February 27, 1847, transcribed in early 1851. Comprising a cover sheet titled in Lincoln's hand, the joint stock subscription statement and list of 91 shareholders with the number of shares subscribed, and leaf with Lincoln's legal docket: "Alton and Sangamon Railroad Company vs. James A. Barret. Copy of contents of subscription book...." 8 pp., 6? x 8� x � in. With Lincoln's original stock certificate for the six shares noted in his manuscript. One of only two instances of his owning a stock, and the only certificate of his known to survive. Historical Background The Alton and Sangamon Rail Road Company was chartered in 1847 to construct a line from Alton, via New Berlin, to Springfield. In 1850, however, the Illinois General Assembly approved a more direct route, bypassing the landholdings of some investors. Claiming breach of contract, James A. Barret refused to make further installment payments for his 30 shares of stock, as did several others who no longer stood to benefit from the new line. In 1851, Lincoln was hired to compel the defaulting shareholders to pay the balance of their promised investment. The tactical details are spelled out in a February 19, 1851 letter from Lincoln to William Martin, a commissioner for the sale of the company's stock. Four suits were to be brought against stockholders who had subscribed to the initial offering, but had then failed to make the additional installment payments. In preparation, Lincoln listed the essential documents he would need in order to win a judgment. "We must prove," he advised Martin, "that the defendant is a Stockholder," "that the calls have been made," and "that due notice of the calls has been given." To show that the defendants were in fact stockholders, Lincoln explained, he needed to produce "the subscription book with the defendant's name, and proof of the genuineness of the signature, together with any competent parole or evidence, that he made the advance payment" (Basler 2:99). Lincoln's meticulous transcript of the subscription book was a key piece of the evidence filed in Sangamon Circuit Court on February 22, 1851. The book includes Barret's name, and the subscription statement (transcribed by Lincoln on page two) is explicit about the shareholders' obligations. We the subscribers to the Capital Stock of the Alton and Sangamon Rail Road Company...do hereby agree...to pay the balance of the installments due on said stock by us subscribed, when the same may be called for by the board of Directors of said Company when duly organized in conformity with the Charter approved February 27th 1847. "A. Lincoln," with six shares for $600, is prominent among the 91 subscriber names. (The only other known record of a Lincoln stock purchase dates from 1836, when he bought one share in the Beardstown and Sangamon Canal.) In June of 1847, as head of a committee to promote subscriptions for the projected railroad, Lincoln wrote an open letter to the "People of Sangamon County" appealing for their support. Railroad construction was booming, and Lincoln anticipated that a line between Springfield and Alton would prove a lucrative investment for himself and his state. "The whole is a matter of pecuniary interest," he argued. "The proper question for us is, whether, with reference to the present and the future, and to direct and indirect results, it is our interest to subscribe. If it can be shown that it is, we hope few will refuse" (Basler, 1:396-398). The list of subscribers is itself of considerable interest. It includes J[ohn] Hay (1775-1865, the grandfather of Lincoln's later secretary, John Hay, 2 shares), Ninian W. Edwards (1809-1889, husband of Mary Todd Lincoln's sister, 20 shares), John T. Stuart (1807-1885, Lincoln's law partner, 5 shares), Henry Yates (1786-1865, father of Illinois governor Richard Yates, 10 shares), Noah W. Matheny (1815-1877, clerk of Sangamon County), and others. (In the subscription book, Henry Yates, hedging his bets, has added a condition beneath his name: "if the Road intersects the M. & S R R at New Berlin.") Lincoln was mindful of the critical issues raised by the Alton and Sangamon lawsuits and "took extraordinary pains to construct an airtight case for his client" (Donald, p.155). To Martin, he pointed out the legal issues, adding "I have labored hard to find the law," in preparation for the trials. In the end, two of the defaulting stockholders paid their delinquent calls. The suits against James A. Barret and Joseph Klein came to trial in the Sangamon Circuit Court in August of 1851, with Lincoln handling both the trials and the appeals for the railroad. Lincoln's preparation proved its worth ? the rulings were in favor of the railroad. "Illinois Supreme Court Justice Samuel H. Treat ruled that public utility superseded private profit. If Barret had won the case, other stockholders would balk at fulfilling their obligations. The rule of caveat emptor protected corporate management from stockholder's personal interests and encouraged subsequent investment" (Lincoln Legal Briefs, Oct-Dec, 1990, no. 16, online). At the time he transcribed this document, Lincoln was an attorney on the 8th Judicial Circuit, and also managed a thriving appellate and federal court practice. He handled a number of railroad-related cases, representing both private individuals as well as the railroads themselves. He was not, as some have argued, a hired gun for corporate interests. Rather, as his law partner William Herndon described him, Lincoln was "purely and entirely a case lawyer." The fact that Lincoln, despite his commitment to railroading, often handled suits against the carriers casts light on his understanding of the lawyer's role in society?He simply could not afford to take only one side in legal disputes. Nor did Lincoln pursue some political or philosophical agenda through litigation. He was not concerned with developing a consistent legal ideology. His business, as Donald reminds us, "was law, not morality." (James W. Ely, "Lincoln as Railroad Attorney," Indiana Historical Society Symposium, April 15-16, 2005) Though a prominent lawyer, Lincoln was still smarting over recent political defeats. Elected to the U.S. Congress in 1846, he had served out his term, but his outspoken opposition to the Mexican-American War had cost him any chance at a second term. He subsequently failed in his attempt to become commissioner of the General Land Office. Lincoln declined an appointment as governor of the Oregon Territory, instead returning to his law practice with William H. Herndon in Springfield, Illinois. He would not attempt a political comeback until 1854. The rail line was ultimately highly profitable. Lincoln's overriding belief in the broader benefits of internal improvements is best expressed in a speech he delivered before Congress in 1848. [L]et the nation take hold of the larger works, and the states the smaller ones; and thus, working in a meeting direction, discreetly but steadily and firmly what is made unequal in one place may be equalized in another, extravagance avoided, and the whole country put on that career of prosperity which shall correspond with it's extent of territory, it's natural resources, and the intelligence and enterprize of it's people. Reference "Barret v. Alton & Sangamon Railroad," in Daniel W. Stowell et al., eds., The Papers of Abraham Lincoln: Legal Documents and Cases, 4 vols. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008), 2:172-210.
Opera

Opera by AUSONIUS, Decimus Magnus (ca. 310-ca. 395)

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Opera
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AUSONIUS, Decimus Magnus (ca. 310-ca. 395)
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Lyon: Jean I de Tournes, 1558. 8vo (166 x 110 mm). [16], 290, [12] pages, [1] blank leaf. Italic and roman types, shoulder-notes. Woodcut medallion author portrait on title, woodcut printer's device on last page, type-ornament headpiece (repeated), tail-piece and initial. Ruled in red throughout. (Marginal dampstaining to about 25 leaves, a couple of tiny marginal tears.) Contemporary laced-case binding of gold-stamped vellum, bound in 1577 for Hartmann II von Liechtenstein und Nikolsburg, covers with gilt rule border and his initials (H.H.V.L.V.N) and the date (M.D.LXXVII) stamped in gold above and below a large central gold-stamped arabesque, flat spine divided into 5 compartments by gold-tooled ornamental bands, 4 compartments with a gilt floral lozenge, the second with the gold-lettered author’s name; remains of two silk fore-edge ties, gilt edges; no pastedowns, parchment waste spine liners from a 16th-century legal document in French. Provenance: Hartmann II von Liechtenstein und Nikolsburg (1544-1585), supralibros; small ink “S” at foot of spine; Johan[n]is ?Szionizak (?), 17th or 18th-century inscription on front flyleaf; Raphaël Esmerian (1903–1976), bookplate (sale, Paris: Ader-Picard-Tajan, part I, 6 June 1972, lot 34, FF4500); purchased by an unidentified owner; sold Paris, Beaussaint Lefèvre & Alain Nicolas, 30-31 May 2007, lot 316; with Bonnefoi Livres Anciens (2008), sold to: T. Kimball Brooker (sale, Sotheby’s New York, part 1, 11 October 2023, lot 7).*** A French humanist edition of Latin epistolary poetry, in a refined contemporary gold-tooled and dated vellum binding commissioned by the first book collector of the bibliophilic family of the princes of Liechtenstein. Ausonius, fourth-century poet from Bordeaux, had an exceptional life, rising from humble teacher of rhetoric to become tutor to the sons of emperors and high-placed member of the Roman civil service. He wrote on a wide variety of subjects, which rarely included religion (he is thought to have been a “not very enthusiastic” convert to Christianity - Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911). Some of his eclogues, epitaphs and epigrams were translations of Greek originals, largely from the Anthologia Palatina. Of his own poems, best known are his “travelogue” on the Moselle, his love poems about Bissula, an enslaved Alemannic woman whom he had received as war booty and freed, and his descriptions of wine, wine-making, and other aspects of daily life, including a poem (Commemoratio professorum Burgdigalensium) containing affectionate portraits of the schoolmasters of Bordeaux. The textual transmission of his literary works has been “among the most complicated problems of classical Antiquity” (von Albrecht, p. 1327). Ausonius’ writings are found scattered through 181 surviving manuscripts, all anthological miscellanies, often filled with misattributions, and none containing the entirety of his work. Differences between the three (or four) main filiations have not been resolved (see Reynolds and Catalogus translationum). De Tournes’ edition, which contains a few poems not previously published, was the first to be based on an early ninth-century manuscript in the library of the Benedictine monastery at L’Île-Barbe, the island at Lyon (Leiden, Vossianus lat. F.111, discovered soon after 1500 by Jacobo Sannazzaro). It is now considered the most complete of the surviving manuscripts, although it lost a leaf soon after this edition was published. In preparing the edition, the Lyonese priest Etienne Charpin (d. 1567) was helped by Guillaume de la Barge, Antoine d’Albon, and Robert Constantin. While he is not named on the title-page, poems dedicated to Charpin as the editor appear on fols. A4v and A6r.  Joseph Scaliger and the Bordeaux humanist Élie Vinet criticized Charpin’s edition; they later published their own corrections and commentaries (Scaliger’s plagiarizing much of Vinet’s). This copy was bound for Hartmann II von Liechtenstein und Nikolsburg (1544–1585). Hartmann was from the Feldsberg (Valtice) branch of the lords of Liechtenstein, who supported Lutheranism “on their estates in Austria and the Unity of the Brethren in Moravia.... In October 1568 he married Anna Maria, Countess of Ortenburg, the niece of Count Joachim of Ortenburg, a prominent leader of the Lutheran nobility in the Bavarian duchy.... The marriage resulted in five sons, two of whom died in childhood, and four daughters, two of whom survived into adulthood.... In 1573 Hartmann served as the imperial commissioner who was responsible for settling border disputes between Austria and Moravia. He was advisor to Maximilian II and Rudolph II and an important creditor to these two emperors. In 1575 he managed to recover the estate of Lednice, sold between 1572 and 1573, from Wolfgang II of the Mikulov branch, thus laying the foundations for the extraordinary expansion of Liechtenstein property in Moravia in the following generation” (Czech-Liechtenstein Relations Past and Present, pp. 36-37). It appears thus that it was after acquiring back the medieval Lednice castle, which he demolished to make way for a new, Renaissance-style villa, that Hartmann had his books uniformly bound in France, in the highest quality pale vellum, the covers with a gold-tooled lozenge centerpiece, his initials (H.H.V.L.V.N.) and the year (all are dated either M.D.LXXVII or M.D.LXXVIII). His three sons converted to Catholicism after his death, “thereby clearing the way for themselves and their descendants to secure influential positions at the Habsburg courts in Prague and Vienna, in the imperial army and in the provincial and state administration” (ibid., p. 38), and enabling the Liechtensteins to become one of the three richest noble families in the Habsburg monarchy, whose art and book collections became legendary. By the 20th century, the Liechtenstein estate library totaled approximately 100,000 volumes. In 1915, Hanns Bohatta estimated over 230 of Hartmann’s books to survive. Some were no doubt lost in WW II, others are still in the Liechtenstein Princely Library (in Vienna and Vaduz), and others were among the 20,000 books sold to H. P. Kraus in 1949. A few of Hartmann’s books had left the family library at earlier dates, such as this one, with its inscription by a 17th- or 18th-century owner. Adams A-2280; BM STC French, p. 36; USTC 152527; Gültlingen, IX, p. 199: 403; Cartier, Bibliographie des éditions des de Tournes, no. 390. Cf. M. D. Reeve, “Ausonius,” in L. D. Reynolds (ed.), Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics (1983), pp. 26-28; M. von Albrecht, A History of Roman Literature (1997), II: 1320-1330; S. Prete, “Problems of the text of Ausonius,” L’Antiquité Classique, 28, no. 1 (1959): 243–54; Catalogus translationum IV (1980), pp. 196-199, 204; H. de La Ville de Mirmont, Le manuscrit de l'Ile Barbe (Codex leidensis Vossianus latinus 3) et les travaux de la critique sur le texte d'Ausone; l'oeuvre de Vinet et l'oeuvre de Scaliger (1917), 3 vols. Cf. Hanns Bohatta, “Die Fürstlich Liechtensteinsche Fideikommissbibliothek in Wien,” in Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 32 (nos. 6–7, June–July 1915), pp. 185–196); Czech-Liechtenstein, Relations Past and Present: A Summary Report by the Czech-Liechtenstein Commission of Historians (Vaduz, 2020) (online), pp. 36-37.18th-century owner.
You Can't Win

You Can't Win by BLACK, Jack

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You Can't Win
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BLACK, Jack
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Red cloth boards with bright gilt lettering to front panel and spine. Ownership inscription to front endpaper, with minor spotti
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. Red cloth boards with bright gilt lettering to front panel and spine. Ownership inscription to front endpaper, with minor spotting to margins of pp. 305-11, else a near fine copy. With a pleasing, unsophisticated copy of the scarce jacket; a damaged section to upper portion of spine and large chip to foot, but still very good. Housed in custom half-leather slipcase with pull-tab chemise, with gilt lettering to spine.. First Edition. Octavo. Autobiography from adventurer Jack Black detailing his experiences in the hobo underworld, freight-hopping around the still-Wild West of the U.S. and Canada. He tells of becoming a thief, burglar, and member of the yegg subculture, exploring themes of crime, vice, addiction, penology, and human folly from various standpoints. Cited by William S. Burroughs as an influence, with Black's mark quite clear in Junkie.
La Carte d'Après Nature (Signed)

La Carte d'Après Nature (Signed) by DEMAND, Thomas and Luigi Ghirri

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La Carte d'Après Nature (Signed)
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DEMAND, Thomas and Luigi Ghirri
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London: MACK, 2010. Minor bump to fore-edge of fully-illustrated cloth boards; near fine.. First Edition (French version). Quarto. An impressive catalogue published on the occasion of the inaugural exhibition at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (Sep. 18, 2010 - Feb. 22, 2011), as curated by Thomas Demand. This copy SIGNED by Demand to title page in black marker. Adopting the title from an arts magazine edited by René Magritte in the 1950s, Demand assembles both writings and photographs from a range of artists—Luigi Ghirri, Rodney Graham, Tacita Dean, Ger van Elk, August Kotzsch—on the themes of Surrealism and nature. Includes a separate booklet, laid loose into rear pocket, being a facsimile of an unpublished photobook from Luigi Ghirri, originally commissioned by the city of Ravenna's Environmental council.
Ragionamento di Luca Contile sopra la proprietà delle imprese con le particolari de gli Academici Affidati et con le interpretationi et croniche

Ragionamento di Luca Contile sopra la proprietà delle imprese con le particolari de gli Academici Affidati et con le interpretationi et croniche by CONTILE, Luca (1505-1574)

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Ragionamento di Luca Contile sopra la proprietà delle imprese con le particolari de gli Academici Affidati et con le interpretationi et croniche
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CONTILE, Luca (1505-1574)
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Govi Rare Books LLC (United States)
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ACCADEMIA DEGLI AFFIDATI-PAVIA Folio (349x230 mm). [6], 1-43, [1], 44-161 [recte 162], [1] leaves. Collation: *6 A-Z4 Aa-Pp4 Qq4(-Qq4) Rr8. The final quire was added later, so the previously final leaf Qq4 was excised, and its content (register, errata, and table) was reprinted on the recto and verso of leaves Rr1 and Rr8, respectively. A few other leaves were sometimes cancelled, in this copy leaves S1-2, Aa4, Bb3, Cc1, Hh4 and Mm4 appear to be cancels. Roman type, 54 lines plus headline. Engraved title page, woodcut initials, woodcut printer's device above colophon on l. Rr8r. Leaf Rr8v is a blank. With 116 engraved illustrations in the text, the first of which is full page and unnumbered, and depicts the device of Philip II of Spain, to whom the work is dedicated; the remaining half-page illustrations show the devices of the Accademia degli Affidati and its members. The illustrations are set within elaborate and elegant borders and bear both the motto and the academic name of the owner of the emblem. Contemporary vellum, modern buckram drop-backed box (traces of ties, binding crinkled and somewhat worn, spine slightly torn with old repairs at ends, front hinge repaired). Old manuscript note at the foot of the text on l. 82r, another note on l. 86r. Title-page somewhat soiled, gutter of the title-page reinforced, occasional staining throughout, a few quires slightly browned, occasional offsetting, repaired tear in Cc1, a few small round wormholes towards end. A very good, tall copy with some deckle edges. Provenance: W.D. Worthington, bookplate; Kerr & Richardson, Glasgow, bookseller's label at end; T. Kimball Brooker (Bibliotheca Brookeriana, VIII, lot 95). Original edition of this lavishly printed emblem book divided into two parts. The first part (ll. 1-43), after briefly discussing medals and hieroglyphics, deals with devices from a theoretical point of view by raising specific questions. The author, who demonstrates to be well aware of his predecessors' writings on the subject (citing, among others, Paradin, Giovio, Domenichi, Ruscelli, Ammirato, and Arnigio), distinguishes between crests, coat-of-arms, hieroglyphics, emblems, and devices, seeking to define how the latter differ from the former: the device, which in his opinion is "componimento di figura e di motto rappresentando vertuoso e magnanimo disegno" ('a composition of figure and motto representing a virtuous and magnanimous design'), is only suitable for virtuous characters and not for "li tinti d'infamia et i professori dell'arti meccaniche, eccettuati gl'ingegneri che stanno a' servigi de' principi, i pittori eccellenti e gli statuarii famosi" ('those tainted with infamy and those practicing mechanical arts, except for engineers who are in the service of princes, excellent painters, and famous sculptors'). The second part, on the other hand, is a veritable tribute to the members of the Accademia degli Affidati, whose devices are extensively commented on and enriched with numerous biographical details. The devices include that of Contile himself (l. 83), in which he provides valuable information about his life, and that of San Carlo Borromeo (l. 86). Towards the end of April 1574, the printing of Contile's Ragionamento was finally completed, and on August 23, he sent a copy of the newly printed book to the Duke of Parma, informing him that the edition had been ready for four months and, complaining about the quality of the printing, he was hoping for a second edition, which, however, never appeared. The publication had also been delayed by discussions arose among the members of the Accademia degli Affidati regarding its authorship, with some wanting the Ragionamento to be printed in the name of the Accademia, and others wanting it to be published solely under the name of its compiler; the latter party prevailed. Contile's treatise is considered the most accomplished, and certainly the most useful for the history of the genre. Furthermore, the second part is quite significant as a collection of biographical and genealogical information on the various members of the academy, almost all of which was diligently obtained by Contile through direct or indirect communication with the members themselves or their associates. And so the Ragionamento, as well as being a theoretical and practical book on the genre of devices, can also be considered as a sort of directory to the members of the Pavia academy, with information that we often cannot obtain elsewhere (cf. Abd-el-Kader Salza, Luca Contile. Uomo di lettere e di negozi del secolo XVI, Florence, 1903 (repr. Rome, 2007), pp. 234-239). The Accademia degli Affidati, founded in 1562 on the initiative of Giacomo Berretta, who was its first Prince, and of Counts Galeazzo Beccaria and Ottaviano Langosco, "is undoubtedly a source of pride for the city of Pavia and an irrefutable proof of the favor accorded to scholars of science and literature" (M. Maylender, Storia delle Accademie d'Italia, Bologna, 1926, I, pp. 76-77). The members of the academy used to meet first at the university building, then at the monastery of S. Pietro in Ciel d'Oro in Cittadella, and finally, for many years, they wandered from house to house. Luca Contile, born in Cetona (Val di Chiana), studied at Siena and Bologna, where he attended the lessons of Ludovico Boccadiferro. Afterwards he entered the service of cardinal Agostino Trivulzio at Rome, where he got acquainted among others with Annibal Caro, Francesco Maria Molza, and Gandolfo Porrino. In 1541 he accompanied the cardinal to Lucca for the entry of Emperor Charles V. A year later he moved to Milan to offer his services to Alfonso d'Avalos, marquis of Vasto. At his court Contile became familiar with Pietro Aretino, Paolo Giovio, Girolamo Muzio, and Giulio Camillo. In the summer of 1545 he travelled with his patron through Germany. When Alfonso died in 1546, his widow Maria d'Aragona moved the court to Naples and Contile followed her to Ischia. But, as soon as 1548, he was again in Milan at the service of Ferrante Gonzaga and his wife Isabella di Capua. For them he undertook several missions to Poland and southern Italy. Between 1552 and 1557 Contile served as secretary to Cristoforo Madruzzo, Cardinal of Trent. After a brief employment at Ottavio Farnese's court, in 1558 he entered the service of Sforza Pallavicino and moved to Venice, where he met Francesco Patrizi, Girolamo Ruscelli, and Ludovico Dolce. After a short period of unemployment he finally found in 1562 a stable place in Pavia, where he spent the rest of life taking part in the literary activity of the Accademia degli Affidati under the nickname of 'Il Guidato'. He died there in 1574. Contile was a very versatile writer and the author of comedies (Pescara, Cesarea, Trinozia), eclogues (Agia, Nice), poems (Rime, 1560), devotional dialogues (Dialoghi spirituali, 1543), and letters (Delle lettere, 1564) (cf. Abd-el-Kader Salza, Op. cit., pp. 1-102; see also R. Gigliucci, ed., Luca Contile da Cetona all'Europa, Atti del seminario di studi, Cetona 20-21 ottobre 2007, Manziana, 2009, passim). Edit 16, CNCE13187; Adams, C-2588; Mortimer, I, 136; M. Praz, Studies in seventeenth-century imagery,Rome, 1975, p. 307; J. Landwehr, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese books of devices and emblems, 1534-1827: a bibliography, Utrecht, 1976, 233; A.G. Cavagna, Libri e tipografi a Pavia nel Cinquecento, Milan, 1981, 407; Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Le edizioni del XVI secolo, I Le edizioni lombarde, Milan, 1981, 508.
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An Archive of Bulgarian Theater, Music, and Film Posters by Various

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An Archive of Bulgarian Theater, Music, and Film Posters
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Various
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Various: Various, 1970. First Edition. Very good. Eight posters, ca 1970 - 1974; various sizes, approx. 38 x 26 and 19 x 27; all in protective, laminated sleeves; condition varies from good, with nicks to edges, creases, and closed cuts to margins, to very good or better, with minor wrinkles and wear. A significant archive of posters, they were published at the height of the Cold War and showcased the Bulgarian performing-arts scene under the guardianship of Liudmila Zhivkova (1942 - 1981) - a senior member of the Communist Party and daughter of Bulgaria's Communist Leader Todor Zhivkov. Remembered for her goal to promote the country's culture and arts on the international stage, as well as to bring foreign culture to Bulgaria, Liudmila was a controversial figure, viewed by some as a forerunner of alternative ideas and freedom in the friggidly-unwielding totalitarian bloc and considered a spoiled, "Red Bourgeoisie" child by others. At least one of the posters, a double-sided one, promoting the screening of Mikhai Semesh's Hungarian movie "The Magic Fur Coat," was created by renowned graphic designers Anton Mechkuev (1920 - 2011) and Grigor Angelov (1941 - ). Another one, for the premiere of the Bulgarian drama "The Best Person I Know," featured beloved Bulgarian actress Nevena Kokanova (1938 - 2000), known as the "first lady of Bulgarian cinema." Several of the posters listed opera and jazz performances, a Greek play, and puppet shows at several major theaters. One was a propaganda for the "Bulgarian Musical Youth" Movement (for all young people, who were Komsomol members).
Works of Matthew Arnold, The

Works of Matthew Arnold, The by ARNOLD, Matthew

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Works of Matthew Arnold, The
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ARNOLD, Matthew
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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, Smith, Elder and Company, 1903. Ah, love, let us be true To one another..." Mathew Arnold's Edition de Luxe in an Elegant Binding by Rivière for Sotheran's ARNOLD, Matthew. The Works of Matthew Arnold. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, Smith, Elder and Company, 1903-1904. Edition de Luxe, limited to 775 copies. Fifteen octavo volumes (9 x 6 inches; 229 x 153 mm.). Title-pages printed in red and black throughout, with engraved frontispiece portrait in Volume I. Some occasional light foxing throughout. Elegantly bound ca. 1904 by [Rivière] for Sotheran's in contemporary three-quarter purple morocco over green cloth boards, covers ruled in gilt, smooth spines richly paneled and tooled in gilt, each volume with two tan morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, green paper endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut. With the armorial bookplate of Herbert Goldsmith Squiers on the front pastedown of each volume. The spines uniformly mellowed to brown, as often encountered with purple morocco, otherwise an exceptionally handsome and well-preserved near fine set. A refined Edition de Luxe of the collected writings of one of the defining literary voices of the Victorian age. Poet, critic, essayist, and cultural commentator, Matthew Arnold occupies a central place in nineteenth-century English letters, balancing Romantic sensibility with intellectual rigor and moral inquiry. His poetry - especially The Scholar-Gipsy, Thyrsis, and the immortal Dover Beach - remains among the most enduring achievements of Victorian literature, while his critical writings profoundly shaped modern ideas of culture, education, and society. This set bears the distinguished provenance of Herbert G. Squiers, American diplomat, soldier, and noted collector. Serving as United States minister to Cuba and later Panama during a formative moment in American foreign policy, Squiers assembled important libraries and collections of decorative arts, lending this beautifully bound set an additional layer of historical and bibliophilic interest.
Bas Jan Ader, kunstenaar/artist

Bas Jan Ader, kunstenaar/artist by (ADER, Bas Jan)

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Bas Jan Ader, kunstenaar/artist
Author
(ADER, Bas Jan)
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
Illus. throughout. 96 pp. 4to, orig. hardcover, orig. pictorial dust-jacket. Amsterdam: Stichting Openbaar kunstbezit, 1988. The scarce hardcover version of the first authoritative monograph on Ader (1942-75), edited by Paul Andriesse, the influential gallerist and collector. Text in Dutch and English. In fine condition, but for a minuscule tear to the dust-jacket.
NASA Lewis Research Center Affirmative Action Plan For Equal Employment Opportunity, 1966

NASA Lewis Research Center Affirmative Action Plan For Equal Employment Opportunity, 1966 by NASA; Affirmative Action

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NASA Lewis Research Center Affirmative Action Plan For Equal Employment Opportunity, 1966
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NASA; Affirmative Action
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Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description
1966. [African American], [Space] NASA Lewis Research Center Affirmative Action Plan For Equal Employment Opportunity, 1966. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Nov. 1st 1966. Tan staplebound wrappers. Measures 10" x 8". 26 pages total. An original NASA program detailing a summary of proposed programs and objectives in support of equal opportunity. The general policy contends that "Lewis management gives full support to a continuing program designed to promote equal employment opportunity without regard to race, creed, color, national origin or sex. In achieving the objectives of the program, positive steps will be taken to assure equal opportunity for all". The appendixes within are organized by categories "Specific Activities and Purposes", "Responsible Officials", "Target Date". One program proposed implements frequent contact with equal opportunity organizations including United Negro College Fund, Urban League of Cleveland, and Youth Opportunity Center. Another program implements a "more systematic follow-up" in providing counseling and advice to minority employees who are found to be under utilized". In college recruiting, they strove to seek and recruit minority graduates, with several schools including Knoxville College, and Tennessee A & I, Fisk University developing firm relations with them. Penciled ownership on front cover. Bright pages, in very good condition.
The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn

The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn by Wurman, Louis I and Eugene Feldman

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The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn
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Wurman, Louis I and Eugene Feldman
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McBlain Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Philadelphia: Falcon Press, 1962. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. illustrations (4 folding), plans, diagrams, (76)p. Original tan cloth. 38 cm. Significant cover foxing, mostly around edges.ome foxing around edges of cover. Internally sound and clean. No jacket. Copy No. 983 of an edition limited to 1800 numbered copies.
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POESIA VISUAL ARGENTINA.; Recop: Juan C. Romero; Fernando G. Delgado. Ensayos de Gonzalo Aguilar, Roberto Cinoni, Fernando Davis, Patricia Delman, Belén Gache, Jorge Santiago Perednik y Juan Carlos Romero

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POESIA VISUAL ARGENTINA.; Recop: Juan C. Romero; Fernando G. Delgado. Ensayos de Gonzalo Aguilar, Roberto Cinoni, Fernando Davis, Patricia Delman, Belén Gache, Jorge Santiago Perednik y Juan Carlos Romero
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Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
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Buenos Aires: Vortice Argentina Ediciones, 2006. color plates, ind., color wrps. Visual poetry of 34 Argentinean artists: Rodrigo Alvarez, Carolina Andreetti, Laura Andreoni, María Rosa Andreotti, Alejandra Bocquel, Andrea Cárdenas, Mónica Christiansen, Roberto Cignoni, Claudia del Rio, Lilian Escobar, Rosa Farfán, Fernando Fazzolari, Paula Ferraresi, León Ferrari, Luján Fúnes, Fernando García Delgado, Viviana Macías, Claudio Mangifesta, Maribel Martínez, Norberto José Martínez, Hugo Oscar Masoero, Alberto Méndez, Nora Menghi, Carolina Montano, Adolfo Nigro, Omar, Hilda Paz, Luis Pazos / Horacio D´Alessandro, Jorge Santiago Perednik, Juan Carlos Romero, Víctor F. Sitá, Javier Ildefonso Sobrino, Roxana Villarino e Ivana Vollaro. Each artist with a full page biography and another page of representations of their work. A good reference.
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TIPOS MEXICANOS BY OSUNA- POSTCARDS; Set of 2: Nos. 498 Tlachiquero Extrayendo Aguamiel (ferrania photographic papers; 706 Tlachiquero (gevaert photographic paper)

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TIPOS MEXICANOS BY OSUNA- POSTCARDS; Set of 2: Nos. 498 Tlachiquero Extrayendo Aguamiel (ferrania photographic papers; 706 Tlachiquero (gevaert photographic paper)
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Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
Description
Osuna was famous for his photographs of the Mexican Revolution.
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Frank Stella: Star of Persia I & II, Black Series I. by STELLA, Frank and Philip Leider

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Frank Stella: Star of Persia I & II, Black Series I.
Author
STELLA, Frank and Philip Leider
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Douglas Gallery, 1967. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran October 20 through November 4, 1967. Features a short text by Philip Leider on a folded text sheet that also includes brief information about the project. Includes 11 loose plates with 9 black and white and 2 color illustrations. Sheets are in very good plus condition with some bumping/creasing to the corners and in a very good cardstock folder that has some light wear and from the library of the Marlborough Gallery library with their sticker to the front cover but otherwise free of marks. Uncommon.
The Believer, Issue 76
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The Believer, Issue 76

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The Believer, Issue 76
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Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
ISBN
9781934781852
Condition
Very Good+
Description
McSweeney's. Very Good+. 2010. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 1934781851 . Very Good Plus / Near Fine. Very slight shelf-wear to edges of cover. Poster is present, but detached at perforation; Near Fine, never used. ; Volume 8, Number 9. The Art Issue. .
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A Fable by Faulkner, William

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A Fable
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Faulkner, William
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition
Good- to very good- condition
Description
New York: Random House, 1954. First printing. Hardcover. Good- to very good- condition. Octavo. [8] 437pp. Original burgundy cloth with black design on cover, apricot and silver lettering with publisher's device on spine; in original dustjacket with apricot lettering and publisher's device on spine. Textured blue-gray endpapers. Price of $4.75 on front flap. Title page with double cross in black and gray. "The crowning achievement of William Faulkner's distinguished and honored career, A Fable has been nine years in the writing, from the time it was conceived in December of 1944 until it was completed in November 1954. The scene of A Fable is France, the time 1918. World War I is flaming; there is a mutiny in the trenches. The story-the fable from which the book take its title-is of people, soldiers and civilians, familiar in our own lives and experience and in the ageless tragedy and triumph of the crucifixion and resurrection." (Publisher) Dustjacket with light creasing and chipping along edges, light scratching on back cover, and sunned along edges. Binding with light wear along edges. Very light staining on front free endpaper with previous owner's name inked to front free endpaper. Inside back cover with light staining and cracked at gutter. Block lightly age-toned.
Agnon's Story: A Psychoanalytic Biography of S.Y. Agnon CPS 26
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Agnon's Story: A Psychoanalytic Biography of S.Y. Agnon CPS 26 by Falk, Avner

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Agnon's Story: A Psychoanalytic Biography of S.Y. Agnon CPS 26
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Falk, Avner
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Brattle Book Shop (United States)
ISBN
9789004367777
Condition
LikeNew
Description
Leiden/Boston: Brill 2019. Hardcover. 9" x 6". viii, 766 pp. Publisher's green boards, no DJ as issued. Minor scuffs to corners. Near Fine. ISBN 9789004367777 . LikeNew. Hardcover .
Yank: The Army Weekly

Yank: The Army Weekly by KLUGER, Steve

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Yank: The Army Weekly
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KLUGER, Steve
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780312046750
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Small quarto. 356pp. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. "World War II from the guys who brought you victory: Irwin Shaw, William Saroyan, Andy Rooney, Walter Bernstein, Merle Miller, The Original "Sad Sack" cartoons of George Baker and other treasures from Yank's soldier-contributors.
Brooklyn Remembered: The 1955 Days of the Dodgers

Brooklyn Remembered: The 1955 Days of the Dodgers by Allen, Maury

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Brooklyn Remembered: The 1955 Days of the Dodgers
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Allen, Maury
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ReadInk (United States)
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Fine in Near Fine dj
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Champaign IL: Sports Publishing L.L.C.. Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.2005). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight clean book, with no discernible wear; the jacket is also quite nice, with just a touch of wrinkling along the top edge of the front panel, and a hint of surface rubbing]. (B&W photographs) This book captures "the emotion, the drama and the sweet reverie of what many baseball people and fans consider the greatest sports triumph ever, the 1955 Brooklyn [World] Series win over the Yankees." The author has drawn on interviews with "all of the 11 surviving members of that historical baseball team, [who] have contributed their poignant and personal recollections of that season," as well as additional memories from opposing players Willie Mays, Stan Musial, and Whitey Ford, opera singer Robert Merrill, and broadcaster Tom Brokaw. The Foreword is by Bob Costas. .
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Joseph Goldyne: An Exhibition of Monotypes and Monoprints, October 14 - November 11, 1976

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Joseph Goldyne: An Exhibition of Monotypes and Monoprints, October 14 - November 11, 1976
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Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
VG.
Description
London: Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd, 1976. Softcover. VG.. Quarto. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. 34 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets - An Oral History [Second Hand]

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets - An Oral History [Second Hand] by Alexievich, Svetlana; Shayevich, Bela

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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets - An Oral History [Second Hand]
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Alexievich, Svetlana; Shayevich, Bela
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Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN
9780399588808
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York, N.Y: Random House, 2016. 8th Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. 8th printing. Slight wear to top jacket edge, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2016 Hard Cover. 468 pp. Translated into English by Bela Shayevich. Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing "a new kind of literary genre," describing her work as "a history of emotions - a history of the soul." Alexievich's distinctive documentary style, combining extended individual monologues with a collage of voices, records the stories of ordinary women and men who are rarely given the opportunity to speak, whose experiences are often lost in the official histories of the nation. In Secondhand Time, Alexievich chronicles the demise of communism. Everyday Russian citizens recount the past thirty years, showing us what life was like during the fall of the Soviet Union and what it's like to live in the new Russia left in its wake. Through interviews spanning 1991 to 2012, Alexievich takes us behind the propaganda and contrived media accounts, giving us a panoramic portrait of contemporary Russia and Russians who still carry memories of oppression, terror, famine, massacres - but also of pride in their country, hope for the future, and a belief that everyone was working and fighting together to bring about a utopia. Here is an account of life in the aftermath of an idea so powerful it once dominated a third of the world. A magnificent tapestry of the sorrows and triumphs of the human spirit woven by a master, Secondhand Time tells the stories that together make up the true history of a nation. "Through the voices of those who confided in her," The Nation writes, "Alexievich tells us about human nature, about our dreams, our choices, about good and evil - in a word, about ourselves.
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We, the People; The Story of the United States Capitol, Its Past and Its Promise by (AIKMAN, Lonnelle)

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We, the People; The Story of the United States Capitol, Its Past and Its Promise
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(AIKMAN, Lonnelle)
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Argosy Book Store (United States)
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very good
Description
Washington: U.S. Capitol Historical Society, 1963. hardcover. very good/very good(-). many color illus. 4to, cloth, torn d.w. (Washington): U.S. Capitol Hist. Soc., 1963.

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