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Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean by VANCOUVER George

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Title: Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean
Author: VANCOUVER George
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1801. VANCOUVER, George. A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World; in which the Coast of North-west America has been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed Performed in the Years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795. London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1801. Six volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter calf, marbled boards, raised bands, elaborately blind-tooled compartments, red and black labels. $8800.Second edition of this comprehensive survey of the North Pacific, illustrated with 17 plates and two folding maps.""This work ranks with the voyages of Cook and La Pérouse among the most important of the 18th and 19th centuries"" (Cox II, 30-31). ""Vancouver, who had served on Captain Cook's second and third voyages, was made commander of a grand-scale expedition to reclaim Britain's rights, resulting from the Nootka Convention, at Nootka Sound, to examine thoroughly the coast south of 60º in order to find a possible passage to the Atlantic, and to learn what establishments had been founded by other powers. This voyage became one of the most important ever made in the interests of geographical knowledge In three seasons' work Vancouver surveyed the coast of California, visited San Francisco and San Diego and other Spanish settlements in Alta California, settled the necessary formalities with the Spanish at Nootka, investigated the Strait of Juan de Fuca, discovered the Strait of Georgia, circumnavigated Vancouver Island, and disproved the existence of any passage between the Pacific and Hudson Bay. Before the narrative was finished, Vancouver died; his brother John, assisted by Captain Peter Puget, published the complete record"" (Hill, 303-04). Also Includes ""Notes and Miscellaneous Observations,"" which records several interesting conversations the author had with Captain Colnett regarding the ""Nootka Sound Controversy."" The original copper-engraved plates of the first edition's two charts were stolen: consequently, the two charts in this second edition have been re-engraved. Preceded only by the extremely scarce 1798 first edition. Hill, 304. Bookplates.Text quite clean, without usual foxing and with only very light, marginal embrowning. A most handsome copy in contemporary calf and boards.

United States Court of Appeals... Motion by DU BOIS W. E. B. ROBESON Paul DULLES John Foster

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Title: United States Court of Appeals... Motion
Author: DU BOIS W. E. B. ROBESON Paul DULLES John Foster
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1956. First Edition. (ROBESON, Paul). United States Court of Appeals. District of Columbia. Paul Robeson, Plaintiff-Appellant, against John Foster Dulles, Defendant-Appellee. Motion for Leave to File Brief and Brief Amici Curiae. New York: Hecla Press, 1956. Octavo, original cream printed self-wrappers, staple bound as issued; pp. (i)-ii, (1), 2-25 (1). $2500.First official edition of Robeson's 1956 amicus curiae brief for the long-denied restoration of his passport, a seminal document in the history of constitutionally protect freedom of speech and the right to travel, submitted by W.E.B. Du Bois and others, declaring ""to silence Paul Robeson is to immobilize an eloquent, devoted, determined and respected fighter for the full emancipation of the Negro people,"" with accompanying facsimile of letter signed by Eslanda Good Robeson, one-page document and laid-in envelope with typed address.Fearless in his lifelong struggle for Black rights, ""Robeson's achievements as a stage actor, movie star and singer are individually outstanding but collectively astounding'"" (ANB). In 1946 Robeson had challenged President Truman for refusing ""to sponsor legislation against lynching by telling him that in the absence of federal protection Blacks would exercise their right of armed self-defense"" (Buhle, Encyclopedia of the American Left, 655). Subsequently the State Department ""issued a 'stop notice' at all ports to prevent Robeson from leaving the country"" and he was ordered to surrender his passport. When he refused, it was revoked. The FBI, CIA and State Department targeted him as a communist, yet the passport decision did not require a non-communist affidavit, and did not charge him with membership in the Communist Party. A stated reasoning was that his ""frequent criticism of the treatment of Blacks in the U.S. should not be aired in foreign countries."" To the government, ""it was a family affair"" (Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights, 62). Robeson and his wife Eslanda Goode Robinson made repeated appeals for the reinstatement of his passport and were denied. In July 1955 Robeson and his attorneys, again hopeful, reapplied and were granted a meeting with the State Department, which still refused to alter its decision. With that, Robeson issued a public statement saying he was deemed a ""'threat' (a security risk) because he told the truth"" (Duberman, Paul Robeson, 434). The following year Robeson's attorneys made this amicus curiae brief on behalf of W.E.B. Du Bois, Herbert Aptheker, Eslanda Goode Robeson and others. ""To silence Paul Robeson,""it states, ""is to immobilize an eloquent, devoted, determined and respected fighter for the full emancipation of the Negro people. And it is precisely for the purpose of gagging Mr. Robeson that the Secretary of State has withheld his passport in violation of the first, fifth, eighth and ninth amendments [and] the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments."" The brief links Robeson with Black leaders such as Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown in the Black ""struggle for full citizenship."" That fight now continues, it notes, ""in a titanic struggle with white supremacists."" Referencing Brown v. Board of Education (1952), the brief asserts segregation persists in schools ""supported in part by U.S. funds"" and notes ""U.S. Senators with impunity urge defiance of the Federal law."" The government's refusal to reinstate Robeson's passport ""casts the Federal government as an ally of those southern state governments which are desperately trying to turn back the pages of history, and which deny to the Negro people basic, elemental rights."" Once again, however, his appeal for the passport's reinstatement was denied. In 1958 the Supreme Court, in Kent v. Dulles, found that ""the right to travel is part of the ''liberty' of which the citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law."" That same year Robeson's passport was finally restored to him. To his biographer, America's ""failure to set its house in order, to ransom its own promise, brought out in him uncompromising anger, a dogged refusal to bow that a man so deeply loved all over the world could evoke in his own country such an outpouring of fear and anger may be the central tragedyAmerica's tragedyof Paul Robeson's story"" (Duberman, xiii). In fine condition.

A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls and Public Buildings by Ackermann, Rudolph

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Title: A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls and Public Buildings
Author: Ackermann, Rudolph
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Ackermann, 1814. First edition. Two volumes, quarto. (13 1/4 x 10 3/4 in. ; 337 x 265 mm.) 82 plates of which 64 are colored aquatints of city views and 17 colored line and stipple engravings of University costume. Half-titles present in both volumes. Vol. 1, plate 1 in second state, vol. 2, Hartford and Pembroke Colleges, plate in first state with aquatint between the images and title on slips. Old 3/4 pebble-grain morocco with cloth sides, a.e.g., Upper joint of volume 2 cracked, but cords holding, binding extremities with light wear. Usual offsetting from plates to facing text pages, some foxing in preliminaries, else fine. Provenance: Agnew, Baronet of Lochnaw (bookplate). Tooley 5; Abbey, Scenery 280.

Unsigned, Intriguing, and Possibly Secret, Manuscript Note Concerning the Treaty of Paris 1782-1783 by (Anonymous)

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Title: Unsigned, Intriguing, and Possibly Secret, Manuscript Note Concerning the Treaty of Paris 1782-1783
Author: (Anonymous)
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: No Binding. Very Good. small folio, one page, formerly folded, top edge lightly browned, else very good. Text neatly inscribed in ink on laid paper. The sheet, judging from the fold marks was evidently folded into a very small triangle of just over an inch in size, possibly for easy concealment and transmittal. he present document is both intriguing and curious it discusses the Treaty of Paris and contains information which poses several intriguing questions: the document states that Peace would be signed on the 19th at six o'clock in the evening and with conditions which differed somewhat from the terms of the final treaty. The preliminary articles of peace were not signed until November 30, 1782, the final Treaty ending the War was signed on September 3, 1783. The terms mentioned in this manuscript differ from the final document. The questions posed by this document are: Does the present document discuss a preliminary draft? Is it incorrect or secretly transmitted information from the private negotiations? Is it deliberate misinformation? The document reads: "La paix a eté signé le 19 a six heures du soir, en vois les conditions - Les anglois rendent Gibraltar aux Espagnoles et rentrens sa possession de mexique quis repoussant pas fortfiee aux Antilles nous rend aux anglois la Grenade et St. Christophe, ils nous rendent Ste Lucie et tabago, St. Eustache revient aux holandais, nous aurons la moitié du Banc de Terre Neuve pour la peche de la marine nous gardons en Afrique les establissement sur la Riviere du Senegal et L'isle de Gorée dans L'inde pondichery a nous, madras aux anglois qui repoussant avoie qu'un seul comptoir sur la cote de Malabare Le commerce et deveniere libre sur toute les mers et les etats unis de L'Amerique recouvrer independent; La France pourra entretenir en tenir de paix vingt vaisseaux de Guerre rrive a l'Engleterre quinze seulement" The Definitive Treaty of Peace was signed at Paris, September 3, 1783. This treaty between Great Britain and the United States marked the final consummation of American independence. Coincidentally were signed peace treaties between Great Britain and each of two other belligerents, France, the ally of the United States, and Spain, the ally of France. A preliminary peace between Great Britain and the Netherlands (no one's ally) had been signed on September 2, 1783. The definitive treaties marked the end of a complicated negotiation in Paris between Great Britain and her several enemies, begun in March, 1782, by the Rockingham Ministry, and continued by the government of Lord Shelburne through its agent, Richard Oswald, who had conducted the American negotiation from the first, and other British diplomatic officers. It was featured by the separately negotiated preliminary and conditional articles of peace between the United States and Great Britain, signed Nov. 30, 1782, which were not to go into effect until peace should be signed between the American ally France, and the common enemy, Great Britain. France, in turn, deferred her peace until her ally, Spain, should have also reached a settlement with Great Britain. The French and Spanish preliminaries were signed on Jan. 2, 1783, on which date the American preliminaries went into effect, and a general armistice took place pending signature of a final and definitive treaty of peace. The three sets (Anglo-American, Anglo- French and Anglo-Spanish) of preliminary articles of peace were thus in the nature of armistice agreements which accompanied a cessation of hostilities but did not end the legal state of war. The definitive treaties, which ended the war, were deferred for several months in the hope of securing more concessions from the British, and to give the Dutch time to make a satisfactory peace with Great Britain. The Anglo-Dutch preliminary articles of peace were signed on Sept. 2, 1783, and the next day the definitive treaties American, Fr

A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles by BREE, C.R.

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Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Author: BREE, C.R.
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: Groombridge and Sons, 1864. FIRST EDITION. With 238 beautiful hand-colored wood-engravings. Original blind-stamped cloth, covers with illustration and title in gilt, rebacked, new endpapers; all tissue guards present, minor foxing, overall an excellent uncut and partially unopened set with a gift inscription dated May 26, 1943 on fly-leaf of Volume 1 and a second gift inscription dated April 19, 194? (from Celine McDade to Ben Coleman) on the fly-leaf of Volume 3. First edition, extensively illustrated with 238 beautiful hand-colored wood-engravings of continental European birds and eggs. “This admirable descriptive treatise . . . furnishes the synonymy, generic characters, distribution, and habits of those birds of Europe seen outside the British Isles” (Wood). Originally issued in 59 parts, this work was bound up with title pages varying in dates of imprint, thereby causing “considerable confusion in the dates of publication as recorded for this work” (Zimmer). This set has an early range of dates on its title pages (Volumes 1, 2 and 4 printed in 1863, Volume 3 in 1864), confirming that it is a first edition; the first edition was published continually from 1859 to 1867, and the second edition was not issued until 1875. The plates were executed by Benjamin Fawcett, whose early chromoxylographs (color-printed wood-engravings) are actually finished by hand, some almost entirely hand-colored (though the plates of eggs are clearly color-printed, but also finished by hand). Fawcett’s later works in the 1870s and 80s are almost entirely color-printed, so Bree’s Birds represents one of his earlier experimentations with color printing. Anker, 59; Nissen, 136; Sitwell, p. 81; Casey Wood, p. 254; Zimmer, 87-88.

Typographic Design By Ikko Tanaka by -

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Title: Typographic Design By Ikko Tanaka
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Condition: Collectible; Fine
Description: Japan, 1977. 1st. cloth. Collectible; Fine/Very Good. A clean, well-preserved copy of the 1977 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a bright, VG+ dustjacket. Octavo, 96 pgs. Text in Japanese, dozens and dozens of vivid color plates thruout demonstrating leading Japanese graphic design and display art.

The System Works!: The Etchings and Random Notes of Hank Virgona by -

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Title: The System Works!: The Etchings and Random Notes of Hank Virgona
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Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Collectible; Fine
Description: New York: Da Capo Press, 1977. Cloth. Collectible; Fine. INSCRIBED BY HANK VIRGONA in year-of-publication on the front free endpaper. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1977 1st edition. Solid and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket. Quarto, Introduction by Pete Hamill. Signed by Author.

Turkish Rugs by Yohe, Ralph, and H. McCoy Jones (Editors)

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Title: Turkish Rugs
Author: Yohe, Ralph, and H. McCoy Jones (Editors)
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG-, spine a tad age toned; o/w clean and tight.
Description: Washington, DC: Textile Museum, The Washington Hajji Baba, 1968. Softcover. VG-, spine a tad age toned; o/w clean and tight.. Blue, illus. stapled wraps. Unpaginated. 89 color and bw plates. Introduction by Joseph McMullan. Includes a bw map at rear. Catalogue of all kinds of Turkish rugs, each annotated and pictured in bw. From the exhibition of May to September, 1968.

Forever by Hamill, Pete

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Title: Forever
Author: Hamill, Pete
Seller: Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN: 9780316735698
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York, N.Y: Little, Brown & Company, 2003. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x1x8. First printing. Light 1/2 inch crease on front corner, light edge wear. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2003 Trade Paperback. 613 pp. Through the eyes of Cormac O'Connor - granted immortality as long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan - we watch New York grow from a tiny settlement on the tip of an untamed wilderness to the thriving metropolis of today. And through Cormac's remarkable adventures in both love and war, we come to know the city's buried secrets - the way it has been shaped by greed, race, and waves of immigration, by the unleashing of enormous human energies, and, above all, by hope. Reading group guide inside.

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