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Dred Scott v. Sandford by DRED SCOTT CASE HOWARD Benjamin C. TANEY Roger B

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Title: Dred Scott v. Sandford
Author: DRED SCOTT CASE HOWARD Benjamin C. TANEY Roger B
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1857. First Edition. (DRED SCOTT CASE) HOWARD, Benjamin. C. Dred Scott v. Sandford. IN: Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States. December Term, 1856. Volume XIX. Washington, D.C.: William Morrison, 1857. Octavo, contemporary tan cloth, tan and black morocco spine labels. $5200.First edition of the complete report of the landmark Dred Scott decision that divided a nation, became a prominent cause of the Civil War, and ultimately generated the 14th Amendment, with complete opinions of all nine judges, including that of Chief Justice Taney.""The Dred Scott decision is erroneous,"" pronounced Lincoln in 1857, and it is ""based on assumed historical facts which were not really true The court that made it, has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it over rule this"" (Basler 355-57). ""What troubled Lincoln most"" about Dred Scott ""was the Chief Justice's gratuitous assertion that neither the Declaration of Independence nor the Constitution was ever intended to include blacks. Lincoln declared bluntly that in order to make Negro slavery eternal and universal, the Declaration [was] 'assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it"" (Donald, 201). ""Dred Scott was the most controversial decision of the century, and perhaps in the history of the Supreme Court. [and] the best known U.S. Supreme Court decision of the 19th century In Dred Scott, the Court declared that a major piece of legislationa linchpin of the Compromise of 1820 (the Missouri Compromise) was unconstitutional All nine justices on the Court wrote opinions, but Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's 54-page opinion was designated the 'Opinion of the Court.' It was, with a few exceptions vilified in the North and cheered in the South [Of] three new amendments to the Constitution [following the Civil War], one of these, the 14th Amendment, was particularly aimed at the Dred Scott precedent"" (Finkelman, 43-5). ""The decision so inflamed sectional hostility as to be a prominent cause of the War Between the States"" (Grolier American 100:68). The Dred Scott case begins on page 393 and takes up the last two-fifths of the volume. When this official reportpreceding all of the separately published editionswas finally issued after Taney's delays, it stirred up such excitement that Congress ordered a separate printing ""of the original report of this case found in 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857). It was published by Benjamin C. Howard, the reporter for the U.S. Supreme Court, in an effort to profit from the case. This edition retains the original pagination and headnotes found in United States Reports"" (Finkelman, 49). The U.S. Senate compensated Howard $1,500 for that edition, anticipating sales lost by a subsequent Senate printing distributed free by senators to their constituents. Blockson 9906. Sabin 33241. See Howes S218. Harvard Law Catalogue I:957. Interior generally clean, text block expertly recased using original endpapers, expert repairs to joints and spine ends.

Lezioni Accademiche by TORRICELLI, Evangelista/BONAVENTURI, Tommasso, ed

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Title: Lezioni Accademiche
Author: TORRICELLI, Evangelista/BONAVENTURI, Tommasso, ed
Seller: Martayan Lan, Inc. (United States)
Condition: First edition of 12 collected lectures composed for the Academia della Crusca, posthumously published; “an important summar
Description: Florence: Jacopo Guiducci & Santo Franchi, 1715. First edition of 12 collected lectures composed for the Academia della Crusca, posthumously published; “an important summary of Torricelli’s theories,” including reprints of his important letters on the barometer. Torricelli (1608-47) was Galileo’s pupil and secretary, succeeding him as professor of mathematics at Florence. Calling himself “a Galileist by profession and sect,” Torricelli was the first in Rome to make a careful study of Galileo’s Dialogo. The extensive preface reprints the two letters to Michelangelo Ricci in which Torricelli discusses atmospheric pressure and reports on the 1643 research that led to the invention of the barometer. “His experiments provide the first strong refutation of the generally held view of the impossibility of a vacuum” (Parkinson, Breakthroughs. See further for a more detailed account of the barometric experiments). “From the point of view of physics, the lectures on the force and impact and on wind are of particular interest. In the former he said that he was reporting ideas expressed by Galileo in their informal conversations, and there is no lack of original observations…” (DSB XIII.438-39). “Chapter 7 on the movement of winds is a pioneer contribution in the field of meteorology explaining in detail their origin in atmospheric changes and refuting the contemporary theory that they issued from the earth” (Roberts and Trent p. 322). Lessons two through four treat percussion, one of Galileo’s favourite problems. Other lessons are devoted to mathematics, military architecture, etc. Tommasso Bonaventuri (d. 1731) includes a biography of Torricelli in the prefatory material. The attractive portrait of the 40-year-old Torricelli, which was engraved after Anichini’s 1647 portrait, is decorated by a cartouche displaying a clever anagram of Evangelista Torricellius: “En virescit Galilaeus alter.”* Cinti169; Norman 2088; Dibner 149; Roberts and Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, p. 322; Riccardi II.544; Sparrow 190.. Large 4to., 49, (1) pp., (1) f., 96 ff., with 1 engraved author portrait signed Pietro Anichini, with 3 woodcut illustrations in the text. “Imprimatur” leaf misbound following preliminaries. Bound in contemporary cartonnage, laid down. Scattered waterstaining, upper corners of later leaves worn; nonetheless, generally very good, with portrait very fresh.

Opuscules... Traduits du Latin d'Horstius par le R. P. Colomme by THOMAS A KEMPIS

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Title: Opuscules... Traduits du Latin d'Horstius par le R. P. Colomme
Author: THOMAS A KEMPIS
Seller: Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: Paris: Guillot, Libraire de Monsieur, 1785. 12mo (167 x 95 mm). xxiv, 525, [3 blank] pp. Woodcut headpieces and initials. Contemporary French calf gilt, sides with triple gilt border and central gold-blocked arms of Alexandre Angélique de Talleyrand-Perigord (variant of Guigard I:368), cardinal and archbishop of Reims (1736-1821), smooth spine gold-tooled, olive morocco gilt lettering-piece, g.e., turn-ins gilt (slight scuffing to extremities).*** First Edition of this French translation of the most important of the minor works of Thomas a Kempis. The edition includes the Soliliquia, the Vallis lilior, and De tribus tabernaculis (on poverty, humility, and patience), with three shorter mystical tracts. Rather than the original Dutch, the translator, Father Jean-Baptiste-Sébastien Colomme (1712-1788), used the Latin translations of Jacobus Merlo Horstius. OCLC lists copies at Lyon, the BnF, and the Free University of Amsterdam, but none in the US.

A Treatise on Gonorrhoea Virulenta and Lues Venerea by BELL, Benjamin

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Title: A Treatise on Gonorrhoea Virulenta and Lues Venerea
Author: BELL, Benjamin
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Albany: E. and E. Hosford for E.F. Backus, 1814. FIRST ALBANY EDITION. Contemporary brown calf (worn but sound), gilt red morocco title label. Internally somewhat browned. The illustrations show progressed levels of venereal disease in human genitals and medical instruments for treating them. First Albany edition of the “first [text] to differentiate between gonorrhea and syphilis” (Garrison-Morton 5200, 2378). Although first published in Edinburgh in 1793, an advertisement to the present edition indicates that this imprint leaves the original text untouched, but with numerous notes and case studies added in a smaller type “to render that work more valuable, by adding to it the improvements in practice as well as the investigations on the nature of the disease, which have been offered since the period at which the Author wrote.” Written by a surgeon with a special interest in pathology, this treatise covers symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and recurrence of venereal diseases in men and women. Bell pays particular attention to the spread of venereal disease between partners and from mothers to infants, stressing the importance of treatment to all those potentially exposed. The illustrations show progressed levels of venereal disease in human genitals and medical instruments for treating them, and the comprehensive index makes the work user-friendly.

The mammals of South Africa by SCLATER, W.L.

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Title: The mammals of South Africa
Author: SCLATER, W.L.
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: R.H. Porter, 1900. FIRST EDITION. With the title page of the series before the title to Volume I, folding map and 150 text illustrations, bibliography in Volume I. Green cloth, spine labels; an excellent copy from the Library of Dr. James M. Dolan with his stamp on the first title. First edition of the most comprehensive account of the mammals in the geographical area between the Cunene and Zambesi Rivers. The two volumes are part of a six-volume work begun by Stark in 1900 and completed in 1906. Sclater, Director of the South African Museum in Cape Town, describes small and large mammals, providing their physical description, dimensions, distribution and habits. Much of the material is derived from observations of his numerous correspondents. The illustrations were lent by the Committee of Publication of the Zoological Society of London. Sclater (1863-1944), son of the well-known ornithologist Philip Lutley Sclater, was a British zoologist and curator of the South African Museum. During his time spent in South Africa he completed his Flora and Fauna of South Africa and the four volume Birds of South Africa. After he resigned, he moved to Colorado Springs in America before returning to England in 1909 to become curator of the Bird Room at the Natural History Museum.

GEN. Z. TAYLOR, ("ROUGH AND READY.")

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Title: GEN. Z. TAYLOR, ("ROUGH AND READY.")
Seller: De Simone Company, Booksellers (United States)
Description: New York: Lith. & Pub.by Sarony & Major, 1846. Folio. 355 x 255 mm., [14 x 10 inches]. image size 300 x 220 mm., [11 ¾ x 8 ¾ inches]. Lithograph printed in tones of back and highlighted in blue, yellow, red, and green wash. Paper stock show discoloration in margins and on back, remnants of tide marks on the verso of the print; paper generally in good condition and image clear and the colors very strong. Matted. Lithographic portrait, produced by the firm Sarony & Major, that was published soon after the outbreak of the Mexican war in 1846 and Taylors early victories at the Rio Grande River. It was at this time that he was promoted to the rank of full general and became a hero to the American public. The lithograph shows Taylor in a battlefield setting with troops, maps, canon balls, and military equipment in the background. His figure is highlighted with a dominant red sash, gold (yellow) epaulettes, and a helmet decorated with a red and white plumb. His facial features are pronounced, and his gaze is directly at the viewer. Napoleon Sarony, a painter by training, learned the art of lithography under the tutelage of Henry Robinson and Nathaniel Currier. He went on his own in the early 1840's and teamed up with James Major in 1846, a partnership which was to last two decades. His portraits were always painterly in composition and executed with care and detail that were hallmarks of his work. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, V. pp. 51-56. Harry T. Peters, American on Stone, pp. 350-357. (846.

Five Women in Three Novels [Star on Her Shoulder; Detour; Let's Do the Town] by Baldwin, Faith

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Title: Five Women in Three Novels [Star on Her Shoulder; Detour; Let's Do the Town]
Author: Baldwin, Faith
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Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
Description: New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1942). First Edition. Hardcover. " Three short romance novels by this popular author of women's fiction, all written between 1936 and 1941, and respectively covering "the period of peace, of approach to the war, and to the threshold of the war itself." The three are: "Star on Her Shoulder"; "Detour"; and "Let's Do the Town." All three had been previously published in magazines, although for some reason the only whose prior appearance is acknowledged on the title page is "Detour" (which was published in McCall's under the title "Husbands Are Perishable"). The rear jacket panel is completely filled by an extensive pitch for buying War Bonds, written (or at least signed) by Baldwin, entitled "We, Who Fight." .

POLKE/RICHTER RICHTER/POLKE

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Title: POLKE/RICHTER RICHTER/POLKE
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: London: Christie's International Media Division, 2014. Softcover. Quarto, 173 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Paperback binding. Spine red with black lettering. Very Good dust jacket. Exterior has minimal wear. Covers show extremely light wear. Text block has minimal wear to the edges. Partial cracking to the front hinge. Profusely illustrated. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Quarto and Folio Case. Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates. 1380322. FP New Rockville Stock.

Edith Jacobson Begins to Fly and Other Poems. by ZONTELLI, Patricia.

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Title: Edith Jacobson Begins to Fly and Other Poems.
Author: ZONTELLI, Patricia.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description: Minneapolis: New Rivers Press,, 1992.. First edition.. 75 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Her first book of poems. Minnesota Voices Project Number 53.

Lambda Literary Foundation: member update; [two issues: Winter 2004 & Spring 2005]

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Title: Lambda Literary Foundation: member update; [two issues: Winter 2004 & Spring 2005]
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Washington DC: the Foundation, 2005. Two very good condition newsletters, 4p. 8.5x11 inches each. DC LGBTQ+ literary organization.

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