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President Chester A. Arthur Sends Condolences to Grand Duke Frederick of Baden on the Death of His Relative, Margrave Maximilian by Chester A. Arthur

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Title: President Chester A. Arthur Sends Condolences to Grand Duke Frederick of Baden on the Death of His Relative, Margrave Maximilian
Author: Chester A. Arthur
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 18/05/1882. Arthur unexpectedly became President when Garfield was assassinated, and once in office confounded all expectations. He saw his duty as no longer limited to party or supporters, but expanded to encompass what he sincerely thought was best for the country. He shocked everyone by becoming a firm champion of civil service reform. In 1883, he saw through Congress the Pendleton Act, which established that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. It established a bipartisan Civil Service Commission, forbade levying political assessments against officeholders, and provided for a classified system that made certain government positions obtainable only through competitive written examinations. The system also protected employees against removal for political reasons. Arthur’s achievement was extraordinary, as this was the greatest measure of governmental self-regulation passed up to that date. Publisher Alexander K. McClure recalled, ""No man ever entered the Presidency so profoundly and widely distrusted, and no one ever retired...more generally respected.""Grand Duke Frederick of Baden was considered a liberal supporter of a constitutional monarchy. He was an ally of Prussia, helped to found the German Empire, and was present at the proclamation of the Empire in 1871. He also had a role in the history of Zionism. In 1896 he met Theodor Herzl and helped Herzl in obtaining his audience with Frederick’s nephew, Kaiser Wilhelm II.Document signed, Washington, May 18, 1882, ordering the Secretary of States to cause the seal of the United States to be affixed to an envelope containing letter addressed to ""His Royal Highness Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden, on the death of His Grandducal Highness the Margrave Maximilian of Baden…” The Margrave was the son of Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden, and thus a close relative of Grand Duke Frederick.

Photo Album. Cartes-de-visite.

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Title: Photo Album. Cartes-de-visite.
Seller: Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: Very Good+. Embossed green morocco with gilt-stamped lettering and detail on upper board (4.25” x 5.5”) and spine, 4 knobs mounted to each board, all edges gilt, gold clasp; contains an assortment of 50 mounted albumen prints and tin-types (some of them hand-colored). Spine quite worn; scuffing along edges of boards; some faint dust-smudging here and there, but images are overall bright and clean. Mostly portraits of men, women, and children, as well as some images of art, sculpture, and a cat. Cartes-de-visite.

Autograph Letter unsigned, and Helen Lynde, Autograph Note Signed, St. Alban’s Vermont, March 22, 1840, to Frances Ellen Lynde c/o Dr. William Beaumont, St. Louis, Missouri by [Aldis, Asa O]

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Title: Autograph Letter unsigned, and Helen Lynde, Autograph Note Signed, St. Alban’s Vermont, March 22, 1840, to Frances Ellen Lynde c/o Dr. William Beaumont, St. Louis, Missouri
Author: [Aldis, Asa O]
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description: Quarto, 4 pages, plus stamp less address leaf, in very good, clean and legible condition.1840 Letter from a future Vermont Supreme Court Justice to the young woman tutor to the children of Dr. William Beaumont, "Father of Gastric Physiology" "My dear Frances, Your letter of the 3rd instant was received…I am very glad indeed to hear that you are at St. Louis and have found a resting place so pleasant and welcome to you. How we should have felt had you died on that steamboat! If you should ever see Mr. Beau again or have chance to send word to him – tell him – he little knows under what obligations of gratitude his courtesy and kind attentions to you have placed your friends here, and that we thank him much…I suppose that my letter of last month directed to you at Simpsonville [Kentucky] has ere this reached you – and I assure you it delights me to think that your own good sense has without my advice done what I thought best. After all, Fanny, like a singed cat you are better than you look – and now that you have to act without advice your good sense begins to show itself verily and truly and without flattery, I have great faith in you – your judgment and the first efforts of your unassisted firmness bespeak your parentage. I was really afraid that the next news we should hear from you was that you was married to that 'inkeeper's son', as John called him! You have no idea how vexed John and Helen were! John was quite of a mind to write you a letter of remonstrance! I cooled him off by telling him that he had better be careful what he put on paper for it would be but a few years before he would be in a great deal worse scrape and you would then give him as good as he sent! All I have to say about 'Tom' is – if he be a sensible, likely, steady young man and you like him, marry him, but first give us a chance to know something about it. But what shall I do now, by dear little Fan? If you jilt poor Tom as you intimate, will his and your friend Miss Crapster have me? You know that trade of your promising me to her is one of your making and I think it cruel in you after getting me all on fire with the idea, by your own act to destroy all my hopes. I wrote you that I should go to the West and wanted to know where you would be on 15th May. From what you say in your letter I suppose you now intend to stay at Dr. Beaumont's through the summer. I wish you would write m immediately what your plans are. If you think it consistent with your relations to Dr. Beaumont and his wishes and if it is your wish – for you to come home this spring, I will try to come on after you and will be at St. Louis by the 1 June. But you have got into Dr. B's family so lately that perhaps regard for him would requi4re you to stay a year or so. About all this judge for yourself and decide and then write me. By the way I should hardly be willing to go there during the sickly season – and if you depended on my coming after you it would not probably be till a year from May…Since I wrote you last circumstances have transpired which would make it somewhat inconvenient for me to go there in May. Ann Eliza has lately been attacked with an alarming disease – the Epilepsy…DR. Hall recommends travelling and a sea voyage…for her and her mother…They are very anxious to have Miranda accompany them as a companion. If she should it would interfere somewhat with my plans…It is a sad thing and throws much gloom over the family. She is I suppose engaged to Hale – and to have all her pleasant plans and hopes dashed at once – to be attacked by such a disease in the morning of life and have the future, perhaps a long future, present a hopeless prospect of sickness, gloom and perhaps idiocy of mind – is most painful…Emily is now at home and is giving lessons in Music. Our school is getting along famously – there are about 60 scholars in the female department…I really miss you Fanny and wish you was here. What a good social time we would have this Sunday evening if you were here. I hope you have not got Kentucky-fied – do you ever say 'chivalrous' – I hope not…The village is full of bright, pretty looking young girls going to school – but alas! They do not shine for me. They are all shy and 'so much alarmed that they are quite alarming'. We are getting to repair the church after a ? plan, drawn by the Bishop, at an expense of 1500 to 2000…They say that Dr. Marsh and Miss Denning are to be married – now isn't that too bad? Always my luck to lose all those good chances – to say nothing of her $50,000. By the way Fanny and between us – if I should chance to come across a young lady of fortune (say 50,000) and fall in love with her and marry her, would you call me venal, mercenary – a fortune hunter and such other hard names? I am only supposing a case….I hear nothing from Plattsburgh except that Yates has failed and Woodward is not married but now gone to Washington. Of your friend Palmer, fame speaketh not. What would you do Fanny if he should fall in love and marry before you return – if you should want Sappho like to jump into the lake, I will show you a place – where the water is not deep! I saw John a few days since in Burlington - he is well and doing well, said he should write you soon. You talk about your little sis – she is as large almost as you, reads Latin and plays on the piano better than you. If i give up my long cherished plan of travelling West this spring, it will be with much reluctance. Even if you do not come home, I may go to Niagara and back by Quebec perhaps. How can I bear to think of not seeing you till a year from May – and then not see dear little Fan but some Mrs. Thingumbob! Please present my best respects to Dr. Beaumont and Lady – their friends here are well. Mrs. Ferris is now and has been for 4 or 5 weeks at Plattsburgh with her daughters. If you call on Mr. or Miss Crane don't tell them any Burlington news from me – for you see it will come straight back. Be prudent for my sake. I will give you good reasons some time. Helen sends a great deal of love, sorry you was sick, glad you are well – wishes there was room for her to write etc. See now dear Fanny, there not being space I shall not tell you how much I love you – only you must write me often; I really here resolve I will write you oftener than I have, for it does seem a shame to live 6 or 8 mos and not a word between us. Don't fall in love while at S. Louis with a pair of Epaulettes and striped pantaloons. It is the meanest dog's life that, in the world. ….[from sister Helen] My dear sister, I am very glad indeed that you are at St. Louis. Aunt Miranda sends love and says that the night she heard that you was at St. Louis that she went to sleep very contentedly thinking of you that she had any night since you have been gone. Grandma says she is glad you are amongst your friends. Emily is here and feels very sad that you do not write to her. Mr. Aldis wont let me have any more room and I must sign myself, your affectionate sister, Helen" Although unsigned, it's likely, based on the text, that the bulk of this letter was written by St. Albans attorney Asa O. Aldis, the brother-in-law of Frances Lynde. He was a widower who had married Frances' older sister Elizabeth, who had died in 1837, two years after their wedding. A year after writing this letter, he would remarry and then go on to a brilliant legal career, becoming a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court (while his sister Miranda, named in the letter, was married to another Justice of that Court). During the Civil War, having been an early supporter of Abraham Lincoln, he would receive presidential appointment as US Consul at Nice; after seven years in France, he returned to become a member of the Southern Claims Commission, settling claims for property damaged by Union soldiers during the War. Frances Ellen Lynde, the recipient of the letter, born in Plattsburgh, New York and resident in St. Albans, Vermont, was a graduate of Emma Willard's Female Seminary in Troy, New York. She had just arrived in St. Louis after a year of teaching in Kentucky, to join the household of legendary physician Dr. William Beaumont, the US Army Surgeon whose bizarre experiments with an American fur company employee who had a hole in his stomach from a firearms accident led to publication of his classic, Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion, which earned him the honor of being the "Father of Gastric Physiology". Beaumont had originally practiced medicine in St. Albans and had known Lynde and Aldis from his earlier years. When he decided to leave Army service at the end of 1839 and settle in St. Louis, he employed Frances Lynde to become nanny and tutor to his son and daughter, writing his friend and patient Ethan Allen Hitchcock (later Major General and a chief administrator of Lincoln's War Department during the Civil War) "The family are delighted with their prospects and perfectly happy. The children are looking for Frances Lynde every Boat now, to join and instruct them. The water has been so low that boats could not navigate the Ohio and many have been struck on Sandbars, filled with passengers, for a month or two past, amongst whom we suppose Miss Lynde is, as she wrote that she could start in October, and we have heard nothing from her since. I hope she will not disappoint us, for we are all prepared to receive her and the children emulous to commence receiving instructions from her..." As this letter makes clear, Lynde, having been stuck on a steamboat, did not arrive at the Beaumont's until early 1840. By then, as Beaumont told Hitchcock, his family was "very pleasantly situated" in their new home, "enjoying many comforts, with our charming friend, Miss Lynde to instruct the children…Mrs. Beaumont to nurture and caress them, myself to scold and admonish them; a choice few friendly visitors occasionally from the city to enjoy our cheer, plenty of room to ramble and ride, swing, frolick and gambol; indeed, few things only seem wanting to make it a paradise…." It was a life equally appreciated by Lynde, whose daughter later recalled that "she was extremely happy there and was very fond of Dr. B, of Mrs. B…" (whom she called "Aunt Debby") and of the children. "There must have been a very pleasant circle gathered about the Beaumont home. My mother spoke frequently of the Lees, the distinguished Army family, and of General Hitchcock..." The "Lees" were none other than the family of Beaumont's other good friend, Robert E. Lee, then a Captain of Engineers, and his wife, the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington. Lee was no longer an eligible bachelor like Hitchcock, but no doubt they brought other Army officers to visit the Beaumonts, which might explain Aldis' warning to Lynde not to "fall in love with a pair of Epaulettes and striped pantaloons". In fact, Frances Lynde, as Aldis surmised, had other plans. After spending a pleasant year at the Beaumonts, she returned to St. Albans to marry Plattsburgh attorney George Palmer, who, like Asa Aldis, had a promising political future in store. Elected to the US Congress in 1856, during the Civil War, the President Lincoln appointed him US Consul at Crete, where he remained with his wife and children until becoming US Judge on the International Court for Suppression of the Slave Trade of West Africa. One final point of interest in the letter. Aldis' cousin Ann Eliza Brainerd, the daughter of a US Senator, who, Aldis notes sadly, suffered from Epilepsy, apparently made a rapid recovery. Two years later, she married businessman J. Gregory Smith, a future Governor of Vermont, as was their son. Mrs. Smith went on to become a noted novelist and feminist who would go down in history for her incredible bravery in opposing the Confederate marauders raid on St. Albans during the Civil War.

Voyage d'un Francois en Italie, fait dans les annees 1765 & 1766 [Tome II]

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Title: Voyage d'un Francois en Italie, fait dans les annees 1765 & 1766 [Tome II]
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Paris: Chez Desaint, 1769. Hardcover. Small leatherbound octavo. G+ condition. Brown leather spine with gilded text on red/yellow spine labels. Boards strong, binding strong, general shelfwear, rubbing to corners; Textblock slightly darkened from age, occasional foxing, otherwise clean. 640pp. 1321170. Shelved Rockville Bookstore.

Japan Sample Show 1956. Chicago, San Francisco

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Title: Japan Sample Show 1956. Chicago, San Francisco
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Japan Sample Show Commission, 1956. 90p., paperback, wraps somewhat worn and foxed; listings of manufacturers have occasional penned notes by at attendee of the show. Catalog for the show by Japanese exporters.

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