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The Shorter Catechism, Agreed upon by the Reverend Assembly of Divines at Westminster

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Title: The Shorter Catechism, Agreed upon by the Reverend Assembly of Divines at Westminster
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition: Stitched. Toned
Description: Boston: Printed and sold by Thomas and John Fleet, at the Heart and Crown, in Cornhill, 1765. 24 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Stitched. Toned. 24 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. The standard Westminster catechism, here printed in Boston by the Fleets, who printed 4 of the twenty-some eighteenth-century editions in Boston between 1731 and 1765. ESTC records 13 locations. ESTC W3306; Evans 10206; Eames, Early N.E. Catchecisms p. 73; Rosenbach 55

Thoughts and Adventures by CHURCHILL Winston

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Title: Thoughts and Adventures
Author: CHURCHILL Winston
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Description: 1932. First Edition. CHURCHILL, Winston. Thoughts and Adventures. London: Thornton Butterworth, (1932). Octavo, modern three-quarter navy morocco, raised bands, spine compartments gilt-stamped with Churchill lion emblems, top edge gilt. $1200.First edition of this collection of essays, with photographic frontispiece portrait, illustrated with seven political cartoons.""The broadest range of Churchill's thought between hard covers, Thoughts and Adventures comprises essays on a vast array of subjects, attesting not only to the breadth of the author's comprehension but of his personal experience. Not yet 60 when it was published, Churchill had already seen enough of the world from high office to fill several political careers; he had read widely, his photographic memory recording it all for reference; he had lived through what was then thought to be the greatest convulsion in history, the 'War to End Wars' Churchill seems always a happy young warrior enjoying himself and sure of his convictions"" (Langworth, 156). Cohen A95.1.a. Woods A39(a). Fine condition.

Collection of 12 Incoming Letters, 1817-1840 to John Bouvier, the Pennsylvania Journalist, Lawyer, Politician and Judge who wrote the First American Legal Dictionary by Bouvier, John

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Title: Collection of 12 Incoming Letters, 1817-1840 to John Bouvier, the Pennsylvania Journalist, Lawyer, Politician and Judge who wrote the First American Legal Dictionary
Author: Bouvier, John
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description: 12 letters, 19 pages, mainly quarto, some damp-staining and toning to paper, else neatly inscribed in ink, in good, clean legible condition. In 1839, French immigrant John Bouvier published the first edition of his classic "Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America and of the Several States of the American Union," hoping it would be "useful to the profession" as the first legal dictionary based on American law. Well-received by such notable jurists as Chancellor James Kent of the New York Supreme Court and Justice Joseph Story of the United States Supreme Court, it was revised by Bouvier in 1843 and 1848. After his death in 1851, it continued to be updated and published anew through more than 20 editions and is still in print. These 12 autograph letter, sent to Bouvier over a period of 23 years, spanned his career from small-town Pennsylvania newspaper publisher to Philadelphia lawyer and Judge, and reveal his intermingling interest in politics and law – and the last reached him just days after the Dictionary that would make his name famous in the legal profession appeared in the bookshops of Philadelphia. The Correspondence: 1. Unsigned (and apparently incomplete) Harrisburg, Pa., January 27 – February 3, 1817, three pages. To Bouvier, then the 20 year-old editor of The American Telegraph, Brownsville, Fayette County, the weekly newspaper he had founded three years before, being resolved to "discountenance factions and factitious men" while dedicated to "exposure and support of the truth." The unknown writer, a friendly local lawyer and legislator seems "factitious" enough, inexplicably breaking off his letter in mid-sentence while castigating – for "hypocrisy, intreague, falsehood, infamy and political terqiversation" [sic] – Dr. Michael Leib, a physician, scientist, inventor and philosopher who served in the Pennsylvania Senate as well as the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. Significantly, the letter also mentions a pending petition asking the Governor to appoint Bouvier a Justice of the Peace and responds to Bouvier's declared interest in beginning to study Law, recommending Blackstone's Commentaries as a preliminary text and offers the use of his own law library as well as legal "instruction" by his law partner. 2. Stewart, Andrew, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, January 18, 1818, to Bouvier as Editor of the American Telegraph in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, 3 pages Stewart was a state legislator who proudly stated that he had "written and reported to the house … between 20 and 30 bills on various subjects …" He thanks Bouvier for information "on your Domestic politics" and describes attending, on New Year's day, the "most splendid … grand Levee" ever seen in Washington, D. C.: "Commodores, Generals … in full dress, foreign Ministers … rigged off with all the paraphernalia, badges, stars and garters, the European nobility". Like the earlier writer, he condemns Dr. Leib and his "miserable little band of factitious followers". He was also disturbed by an "infamous, garbled and mutilated … false and scandalous… report" on the coming Inauguration. Stewart, then serving as U.S. Attorney for Western Pennsylvania and soon to be elected to the U.S. Congress, Stewart was a significant figure in Bouvier's life as it was under Stewart's tutelage that he began to study law, being admitted to the Bar of Fayette County the following year. After two more years as a journalist, he gave up his newspaper in 1820 and in 1823 moved to Philadelphia to begin his law practice. 3. Elder, Thomas, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to Bouvier, Philadelphia, January 8, 1827, 1 page Elder, who had been Attorney General of Pennsylvania four years before, had been subpoenaed – as had all the attorneys of Lebanon – as witnesses in the case of a Judge who had been impeached. But, he still intended fulfilling Bouvier's request for a legal service. 4. Ellis, M. Cox, Harrisburg, to Bouvier, Philadelphia, January 10, 1827, 2 pages Concerns a judgment he had won for their client of $ 1,478. Ellis, apparently then Bouvier's law partner, had served in both the Pennsylvania and the U.S. House of Representatives. 5. Burden, Dr. Jesse R., (Signed with initials and free-franked), Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to Bouvier, Attorney, Philadelphia, January 28, 1827 Burden, a Quaker who served as Speaker of the State Senate, writes humorously about legislation in which Bouvier was interested. "If thou couldest get Friend Meredith to oppose it vehemently I really think thou wouldst obtain success … I should have no objection to aid thy friends with my obstetrical knowledge and acquirements to give it a fair chance of coming forth still-born without hurting its mother…" As to the Bridge stock, "our up-risings and down-sittings are likely to be continued in this land of Dauphin and … we shall tarry at Jericho for a season." As to Bouvier's comment about political "fractures" : "… thinkest thou that men of healing are anxious to prevent the will of Providence? I might as well say to thee, rejoice for lo! The time cometh when strife shall cease between man and man until the voice of the lawyer shall not be heard from the rising of the Sun to the going down of the same." 6. Rhoads, Daniel J., Pottsville, Pennsylvania, to Bouvier, Attorney, Philadelphia, May 9, 1831, 1 page Rhoads had just returned from a visit to his West Branch Coal Lands and would supply the money "to pay the City." 7. Todd, James, Uniontown, Pennsylvania to Bouvier, Philadelphia, August 15, 1835, 3 pages Todd writes: his "advertisement in case of the partition of the toll lands" had not yet arrived and would like them as soon as possible. "I had hoped your city printers who do so much advertising business would be prompt". He required proof of publication for a legal case. "As to the election all is yet fair in the west …Do let me hear from your prospects in the east. I think [Governor] Ritner's Prospects are good. The general impression here is by all parties that he will be elected. Indeed our friends are confident he will beat the united vote of both his opponents…" Governor Joseph Ritner was elected, much to the benefit of Bouvier, whom he appointed first Philadelphia City Recorder and then Associate Justice of the Court of Criminal Sessions. 8. Thompson, John, Unsigned, and possibly incomplete, but with his free-frank signature as state legislator on address leaf, Harrisburg to Bouvier, Philadelphia, January 26, 1836 "… our opponents are watching for every slip and anything that would lose us any one of the papers here that support your election would probably turn the current against us …those Whigs who voted with us lost face … Morris the Editor of the Enquirer attended our late antimasonic meeting … his columns have been opened to antimasonic matter … we cannot move so fast here as in the country, we have to keep our opponents in the wrong in publick estimation …" 9. Signed only "Opponent of Unlawful Combinations" Philadelphia, to Bouvier, as Recorder of the City of Philadelphia, March 23, 1836, 1 page "Having listened to your eloquent and learned charge to the Grand Jury at the opening of the Mayor's Court … and being convinced that its publication would not only gratify but enlighten many of your fellow citizens, I respectfully request you to hand it to one of the Daily prints for insertion…" 10. Conrad, R.[obert] T.[aylor], Harrisburg, to Bouvier as Judge, Philadelphia, March 5, 1838, 1 page "… I have been constantly engaged on the Court Bill" Names several legislators who were opposing it. "I think that it cannot be carried. My fears have been realized. The dangers arise from our friends. I am doing all that can be done to bring the friends of the Administrators to the charge and if I succeed, may carry the Bill, but dare not indulge in expectation. The City delegations are true …" No year on the letter, but a postscript – "Porter nominated" – apparently refers to the nomination of David Porter for Governor, opposing the incumbent, Bouvier's friend, Ritner. Porter won but the election result was bitterly contested by Ritner's supporters to the point of violence leading to the "Buckshot War" of 1838, which forced Ritner to call out the militia to restore order in Harrisburg. Conrad was later elected Mayor of Philadelphia. 11. Ronaldson, James, Philadelphia to Judge Bouvier, December 24, 1838, 1 page Concerns an unsettled bill. Ronaldson was a veteran Philadelphia printer, a close friend of Thomas Jefferson's, who established the first permanent type foundry in the United States and invented the first truly American typeface. It's interesting that this letter states the amount owed as $ 29.86 because it was Ronaldson who originated the "$" as the dollar sign for American printing. 12. Sturgeon, Dr. Daniel, Harrisburg, Treasury Office to Bouvier, Philadelphia, January 7, 1840, 1 page Sturgeon sends a check for $ 650 for the Judge's quarterly salary. Sturgeon was later elected to the United States Senate. American National Biography, vol. 3, p. 262 Dictionary of American Biography, vol. 1, section 2, pp. 490-491

Brasil Antigo por Rugendas by Rugendas, Johann Moritz (illus.) ; Murillo Mendes (pref.)

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Title: Brasil Antigo por Rugendas
Author: Rugendas, Johann Moritz (illus.) ; Murillo Mendes (pref.)
Seller: Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare (United States)
Description: Introductory essay, "A Atualidade de Rugendas" prefacing 12 plates selected by by Murilo Mendes, all of them lithographic reproductions from the monumental work, Voyage pittoresque dans le Brésil, by the Bavarian artist Johann Moritz Rugendas, published between 1827 and 1835 by Godefroy Englemann of Paris. The lithographs by V. Adam, Zwinger, Villeneuve, Joly, Maurin, and others, after Rugendas, comprise one of the most important documents on the society, customs, dress, landscapes, and native peoples of 19th-century Brazil. The item shows how Brazilian Modernists such as Mendes (a forerunners of the Surrealist movement in Latin America) revived the legacy of Rugendas among avant-garde circles of their day. An important work, and very scarce. Images include: Familia indigena botucudos -- Vestuarios da Bahia -- Lundú -- Negro e negra da Bahia -- Vestuarios da São Paulo -- Missa na igreja candelaria de Pernambuco -- Lavagem de ouro -- Negros novos -- Vestuarios do Rio de Janeiro -- Capitão do matto -- Negro e negra n'uma fazenda -- Negras do Rio de Janeiro.

A New System of DOMESTIC COOKERY; by By A Lady [Rundell, Maria]

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Title: A New System of DOMESTIC COOKERY;
Author: By A Lady [Rundell, Maria]
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Condition: Brown calf, red spine label. Good
Description: New York: R. M'Dermut & D.D. Arden, 1814. Hardcover. Brown calf, red spine label. Good. 316 pages. 18.5 x 11 cm. [9 plates]. An interesting copy of this first New York edition - it is one of those odd copies with some printing irregularities that make it just a little more appealing. Originally this copy SHOULD have 8 plates but this imprint has two #1 plates which is fortunate as the first is torn at the bottom and the second is intact. The other charming addition to this copy is the stamped/embossed exlibris of Mario Ruspoli (1925-1986), the director and actor who was also a gastronomist. The book, as the story is told, was originally conceived by Mrs. Rundell while collecting receipts of cookery and household management for the benefit of her married daughters. After sending the manuscript to John Murray, an old family friend, it was published and became an immense success. Rundell modestly claimed that her book was not only essential to the "modern" middle-class housewife but a gift to the public. Newspaper article from 1815 pasted in on interior of back cover featuring receipts for making the "delicious ginger wine" and "to prevent bugs & worms from infesting young cucumbers". Page 213 displays "231. Previous owner "America Sidney Wilson" signed on title page and back cover. Lacking rear free end paper. Bookseller's label from W. Essex & Son, Lexington (Kentucky) pasted in on interior of front board. Front board cleanly detached but undamaged. Interior lightly foxed with some soiling. [LOWENSTEIN 65].

Arman in Italy by -

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Title: Arman in Italy
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Condition: Collectible; Fine
Description: Milan: Fondazione Mudima, 1991. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Fine. A crisp, very sharp copy of the catalogue based on the March-April 1991 show at Milan's Fondazione Mudima. Bright and Near Fine in its pictorial wrappers. Text in both Italian and English.

Biulleten' Oppozitsii (Bol'shevikov-Lenintsev) No. 64 [Bulletin of the Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninists) No. 64] by Trotskii, Lev (Leon Trotsky)

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Title: Biulleten' Oppozitsii (Bol'shevikov-Lenintsev) No. 64 [Bulletin of the Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninists) No. 64]
Author: Trotskii, Lev (Leon Trotsky)
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Description: Paris: Librairie du Travail, 1938. Softcover. Single issue - 10th Year, March 1938, No. 64; 7 1/4 x 10 3/4; pp. 16; stapled wraps; uniform age-toning; horizontal fold line through middle; last leaf with a thin split along crease; illustrated with photographs; good to very good.A special issue commemorating Lev Sedov and his death a few weeks prior to publication. He was Leon Trotsky's son and editor of the journal from July 1929 to February 1938. Though the official cause of his death was ruled as complications after an appendectomy, it is believed he was murdered by agents of Stalin in Paris. Though he was a leader in his own right in the Trotskyist Movement and worked alongside his father on the journal, his name was hardly mentioned in print until this current issue as a way of protection. The Bulletin of the Opposition was published alternately in Paris and Berlin from 1929 to 1941 - at irregular intervals and never exceeding 1000 copies - by Leon Trotsky, who wrote the majority of the content, and with contributions by various exile authors. The journal was intended "to serve the present needs of the oppositional struggle" and would ultimately number 65 issues (several of them double for a total of 87 numbers) and would be of various page count and size so as to make it easier to be smuggled into the Soviet Union by diplomats, sailors, etc. The current volume contains history of the life of Lev Sedov as well as letters of condolences received after his passing.

Imperial Purple by Bradshaw, Gillian

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Title: Imperial Purple
Author: Bradshaw, Gillian
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Condition: Very good
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. Very good. Advanced, uncorrected proof; 9 1/4 x 5 1/2; pp. [10], 1-324; red wraps, printed and ruled in black; tiny nick to tail of spine and a faint indentation to bottom edge of back wrap and last few leaves from a removed paperclip; in very good to near fine condition.The story of Demetrias, a silk weaver in Tyre, in the eastern Roman Empire, is an example of the historical fiction author Gillian Bradshaw (1956 - ) is known for - as many of her novels are set in classical antiquity - Roman Britan, Imperial Rome, Ancient Egypt, etc.

History of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851. A Study of Social Control on the California Frontier in the Days of the Gold Rush (and) Minutes and Miscellaneous Papers Financial Accounts and Vouchers. by Williams, Mary Floyd.

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Title: History of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851. A Study of Social Control on the California Frontier in the Days of the Gold Rush (and) Minutes and Miscellaneous Papers Financial Accounts and Vouchers.
Author: Williams, Mary Floyd.
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Condition: Essential San Francisco history. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gold lettering on backstrips. Light cover wear, very good
Description: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1919 (and) 1921. Essential San Francisco history. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gold lettering on backstrips. Light cover wear, very good condition. Two volumes. 23 cm. 1919 volume is xvi, 906 pp. with folding map and b/w plates and facsimiles. 1921 volume is 24 cm. xii, 543 pp. b/w plates.

Beauties Without a Cause

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Title: Beauties Without a Cause
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Description: New Wave soundtrack for the short film Beauties Without a Cause (1985), a crime-caper parody by director David Weissman featuring celebrated 1980s San Francisco drag artistes Silvana Nova, Lulu and Tommy Pace (1948-1988)�the latter two former members of the Angeles of Light. Music composed by Symon Michael and Michael Helland. Transparent blue 33 1/3 RPM stereo flexi-disc affixed to white card printed recto-verso in black offset. The recto of the card features a photo from the film; the verso offers film credits and a quote from a review in a local gay and lesbian weekly, the Bay Area Reporter.

The Case of the Blue Lacquer Box by Worts, george F.

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Title: The Case of the Blue Lacquer Box
Author: Worts, george F.
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Condition: Near Fine/Fine
Description: New York: Novel Selections, Inc, 1942. 1st Paperback Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine/Fine. Digest Sized, 128pp. wraps. The Mystery Novel Classic Series #41. Sharp first paperback printing. Only original Doubleday 1939 publication date listed but actually 1942. $.25 cover price. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear or toning. Ownership signature on the top of the first page. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. Remarkably well-preserved and almost certainly unread. A gorgeous collectable copy and surprisingly uncommon, particularly in such nice condition. (Holroyd, p.379)).

The Maltese Falcon to Body of Lies: Spies, Noirs, and Trust by von Hallberg, Robert

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Title: The Maltese Falcon to Body of Lies: Spies, Noirs, and Trust
Author: von Hallberg, Robert
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ISBN: 9780826351364
Condition: Fine
Description: Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Inscribed by von Hallberg to film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum on the half-title. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. von Hallberg's examination of twenty-eight noir films that "sets out what audiences may understand about the representations of trust and commitment that noirs and spies propose.

Charles Demuth by Murrell, William

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Title: Charles Demuth
Author: Murrell, William
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Condition: VG-/VG: Wear to the edges and corners of the dust jacket. Fading to the dust jacket. About one inch is missing at the top of the
Description: New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1931. Hardcover. VG-/VG: Wear to the edges and corners of the dust jacket. Fading to the dust jacket. About one inch is missing at the top of the spine, and the bottom has a closed tear. Stamp from previous owner on the front pasted end page. Clean body pages, dark text, and solid binding.. Brick-colored fabric with gilt text over boards. There is a red dust jacket with dark red text. 54, [2] pages; illustrated in black-and-white.

Journey to the Cape by Grossman, Sid; Lamprell, Millard

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Title: Journey to the Cape
Author: Grossman, Sid; Lamprell, Millard
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Description: Grove Press, New York, 1959. 10 in. x 7.5 in., Unnumbered pages, Wrappers, With printed acetate dust jacket, discreet tape repair to front cover of dust jacket at lower right edge else in near fine condition.

John Aubrey, F.R.S., John Lydall and Science at Commonwealth Oxford. by [AUBREY] Robert G. FRANK, Jr.

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Title: John Aubrey, F.R.S., John Lydall and Science at Commonwealth Oxford.
Author: [AUBREY] Robert G. FRANK, Jr.
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Description: Offprint: London,: 1973., 1973. From: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 27, no. 2, Feb. 1973. 8vo. pp. 193-217. 2 illus. Printed wrappers. Very good. John Aubrey FRS, (1626-1697) was an English antiquary, natural philosopher, pioneer archaeologist, folklorist and writer.

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