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Kinder und Haus-Märchen.

Kinder und Haus-Märchen. by GRIMM (Wilhelm and Jakob), the Bros.

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Kinder und Haus-Märchen.
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GRIMM (Wilhelm and Jakob), the Bros.
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GRIMM, Jacob (1785-1863) and GRIMM, Wilhelm (1786-1859). Kinder- und Haus-Märchen. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1825. Seven page illustrations by Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790-1863), comprising scenes from Mary's Child, Hansel & Gretel, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and the Goose Girl.Thick 12mo., iv 316 pp.; early 3/4 red leather, marbled boards. The spine title misspelt "Hans Märchen" instead of "Haus".This is the very rare first "Kleine Ausgabe", i.e. Popular Edition of Grimm's fairy tales intended specifically for children to read themselves. Inspired by the success of Cruikshank's popular English edition, the Grimms released this version comprising a selection of 50 of their most popular tales in pocket-size format, omitting the critical apparatus of earlier editions, and adding illustrations. The earliest version of their Fairy Tales (1812-1815) was chiefly philological and unillustrated; the next edition (1819) was re-edited and written for parents to read these stories aloud to the child.
[AFRICAN-AMERICANA]. [Typed Letter Signed, On being chosen as Time Magazine's "Man of the Year," as President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), dated January 16, 1964]

[AFRICAN-AMERICANA]. [Typed Letter Signed, On being chosen as Time Magazine's "Man of the Year," as President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), dated January 16, 1964] by Martin Luther King, Jr.

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[AFRICAN-AMERICANA]. [Typed Letter Signed, On being chosen as Time Magazine's "Man of the Year," as President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), dated January 16, 1964]
Author
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
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Very good. Magnificent TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, Southern Christian Leadership Conference letterhead, 3-hole punch on left side, folded twice, evidence of rusty paperclip on upper left, boldly signed in blue ink by MLK Jr. TOGETHER WITH: copy of 2-page letter from the recipient, Earl Loganill, farm labor activist of McPherson, Kansas, to Dr. King, dated Jan. 5, 1964. EXTRAORDINARILY POIGNANT AND IMPASSIONED SIGNED LETTER FROM MLK JR. TO ONE OF HIS SUPPORTERS, OCCASIONED ON BEING CHOSEN AS TIME MAGAZINE'S "MAN OF THE YEAR." THE RECIPIENT OF OUR LETTER WAS AN EMPHATIC EQUAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND NAACP MEMBER IN KANSAS, EARL LOGANBILL; THE LETTER HAS AN UNBROKEN PROVENANCE, AND HAS BEEN CHERISHED BY THE FAMILY SINCE IT WAS RECEIVED IN 1964. Crushed by letters of support, King drafted the present text on Southern Christian Leadership Conference letterhead, and signed an unknown number of copies, many of the recipients treasuring the letter and King's signature, as here. The text of the letter reads: "Please accept my deep appreciation for your kind letter in reference to my being chosen by TIME magazine as its Man of the Year. It was very thoughtful of you to take the time to write to me in this connection, and I am deeply grateful for this expression of support. "I was pleased that TIME considered me for this traditional honor and was willing to make liberal use of its pages in an assessment of the Negro's constant struggle for full equality and human dignity. However, I must say that I sincerely feel that this particular recognition is not an honor to be enjoyed by me personally, but rather a tribute to the entire civil rights struggle and the millions of gallant people all over the nation who are working so untiringly to bring the American dream into reality. "The fact that time took such cognizance of the social revolution in which we are engaged is an indication that the conscience of America has been reached and that the old order which has embraced bigotry and discrimination must now yield to what we know to be right and just." [signature of Martin Luther King, Jr.] Being chosen as Time Magazine's 1963 Man of the Year was one of the most recognizable honors in America at this time. The announcement was made in the January 1964 issue of the magazine: King's countenance duly graced the now iconic cover, and the civil rights leader became the first African-American recipient of this honor. King had already been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. The profound message of the present letter is nothing short of inspirational, and reinforces his legacy, which is permanent. PROVENANCE: Earl Loganbill (1921-2004), by descent to -- his son Lorne Loganbill, from whom we acquired the present letter directly. MARKET COMPARABLES: The last copy of this letter that appeared on the market sold EIGHT YEARS ago at RR Auctions ($9,375 including buyer's premium). THE RECIPIENT OF THE PRESENT LETTER: Earl Loganbill was born into a poor Mennonite farming family in Central Missouri. Ever altruistic and idealistic, he spent his life trying to lift others by organizing farmer's co-ops, fighting for civil rights, encouraging non-violence, and generally taking up the various causes of disenfranchised and underprivileged persons of all types and races. In 1972, Loganbill founded a small weekly newspaper in Beloit, Kansas, outraged that another activist was prevented from buying a campaign ad in the local daily because he was a Democrat. LOGANBILL'S LETTER TO KING: He expresses his gratitude that King was chosen as Man of the Year, "an accomplishment of the past year and the increased recognition of your unique contribution to civil rights [which] will spur us on to a greater fulfillment of the good cause for which God himself is earnestly yearning." Longtime farm labor activist, Loganbill presents his idea of introducing the consumer cooperative movement in the civil rights struggle. "It seems to me that economics and the economic alternatives which suppressed peoples have a lot to do with the progress that can be made. I am wondering about the feasibility of using a type of boycott which has been quite successful in the mid-west among farmers. FULL TEXT OF THE LOGANBILL LETTER: Dear Dr. King, Congratulations on your fine accomplishments in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference! I am thankful for the honor bestowed upon you by Time magazine. Undoubtedly the accomplishments of the past year and the increased recognition of your unique contributions to civil rights will serve to spur us on to a greater fulfillment of the good cause for which God himself is earnestly yearning. I speak as one who has been interested in integration for the last 15 years or so. In 1948 I played a minor role in the integration of a swimming pool in Newton, Kansas. I belonged to a Kansas City unit of the NAACP where we lived for a while. I must confess that in recent years I have not been as active direct action programs as I should. I do follow with great interest all of the developments in the civil right movement and especially those that involve the non-violent approach. I would like to discuss an idea that what very likely is not new to you. I am wondering if there is a place for the consumer cooperative movement in the civil rights struggle? It seems to me that economies and the economic alternatives which suppressed peoples have a lot to do with the progress that can be made. I am wondering about the feasibility of using a type of boycott which has been successful in the mid-west among farmers. We have built a system of cooperatives which as yielded independence and freedom as related to economics. I know the problems are different among city dwellers but the principle is the same. Cooperatives afford an opportunity for self help. I don't mean to suggest that the idea should be used to set black against white but rather it is a tool to generate self-reliance and individual responsibility in economic affairs. The cooperative principles as you know do not drew a color line. Membership is open to all. A cooperative would take the profit away from the exploiter and return it to the suppressed by way of the patronage refund. Every cooperative should have a common bond that seals the people together in a common interest. The best common bond is need. It would seem to me that with this in view many negro communities would have the raw material for significant cooperative enterprises. Certainly good leadership is needed to develop such a program. Some capital also is necessary for the establishment of any business. However many of our farm cooperatives have grown strong financially from very modest capital investments by it members. There are two aspects to the effect that a cooperative has on a community. One is what it does to the people who build the co-op. Another is the effect it has on other businesses who practice injustice. As a cooperative organizer for the Consumers Cooperative Association I have seen ruthless and unjust practices change over night at the prospect of the people organizing to serve themselves. In fact one of the greatest benefits of a cooperative is to serve as a balance wheel in the economic life of a community. One must warn however, that the co-op be so well planned and guided that it will not fail to survive. I am wondering if some effort should not be made to survey some select areas where the negro communities would rally together in a cooperative effort to supply basic needs. The most likely place would most probably [be] in areas where non-negro business people are heavily predominant in serving the negro people. It seems to me that it would not take very many successful efforts of this type to begin to change the attitude many bigoted business people all over where there is a large concentration of negroes. Cooperatives are noted for an emphasis on education of its members. It seems to me that the drive for [voter?] registration and the economic cooperation could compliment each other in a very wholesome way. Perhaps the problems are too complicated for these ideas to be of value but I feel happy about sharing them with you. Best wishes to you and your family. I am hopeful that we can move forward on every front in the struggle for justice, freedom and peace. Sincerely yours, Earl Loganbill.
Paravent de six feuilles

Paravent de six feuilles by DECOUPAGE - FURNITURE DECORATION. [WATTEAU, Antoine]

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Paravent de six feuilles
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DECOUPAGE - FURNITURE DECORATION. [WATTEAU, Antoine]
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Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
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Augsburg: Johann Jacob Haid & son, 1740. Six tall narrow folio-sized engravings with etching (platemarks 400 x 207 mm., sheets 435 x 277 mm., deckle edges), unsigned but by Jacop Wangner after Watteau, numbered 1-6 in the plate at lower right, imprint at lower right I. Haid et filius, excudit A. V. [Augustae Vindelicorum]. Upper edges archivally tipped to mats. Fine.*** A perfectly preserved suite of six large rococo engravings reproducing Watteau's paintings for a folding screen, intended to be cut out by ladies for use in furniture decoration.  Watteau's influence on 18th-century decorative arts throughout Europe, by way of the many engravings after his work published by Gersaint, has long been recognized, but the use of the engravings as actual sheets to be cut up and applied to household objects has garnered little attention until recently. The vogue for decoupage probably first appeared in the late seventeenth century, and by the 1720s the hobby of cutting out colored prints for application to various household objects and pieces of furniture was all the rage, in France, Germany, and beyond. The process, which remained a favorite pastime throughout the eighteenth century, was known as la découpure in French, as Ausschneidekunst in German, and as lacca contrafatta or lacca povera in Italian, although "the latter term appears to be a true misnomer, considering the amount of minute work involved" (Kisluk-Grosheide, p. 83). It consisted of neatly cutting out hand-colored engraved or woodcut motifs or figures, applying them to a textile or sometimes cardboard ground, and varnishing them. These creations were applied to furniture, as well as to "screens, folding screens, wall hangings, ceilings, the tops of coaches, and sedan chairs" (loc. cit.), affording a passable imitation of Asian lacquer. The craze, which created a goldmine for certain print publishers, reached the point that bibliophiles and collectors were warned to keep a vigilant eye on their most precious books, prints and paintings, lest eager young ladies attack them with scissors. In 1728, six engravings after Watteau's paintings for a folding screen were commissioned by the art collector Jean de Julienne as part of a vast program of reproductions of Watteau's painted oeuvre. They were engraved by Louis Crépy fils and published by the Paris marchand-mercier, art dealer and print publisher Edmé-François Gersaint. An announcement of their upcoming publication in the November 1727 Mercure de France explicitly described them (and two other Crépy-Watteau engravings) as "marvelously appropriate for decoupages, with which ladies these days make such pretty furniture" ([Crépy] grave actuellement six morceaux en hauteur .... d'après un Paravant peint par Watau, dont les compositions sont très-galantes. De pareils sujets peints sur des fonds blancs, conviennent à merveille aux découpures, dont les Dames font aujourd'hui de si jolis meubles (Mercure de France, 1 Novembre 1727, p. 2492 [digitized on Gallica]).  Indeed, the publisher himself highlighted this usage in his own note in a later issue of the Mercure (cited by Glorieux, p. 212): pointing out that all of the decorative motifs in the Watteau engravings were "most useful for painters, fan-makers, sculptors, goldsmiths, tapestry-weavers, embroiderers, etc.," he added that "all these ornaments can be perfectly used in decoupage" (tous ces ornements réussissent parfaitement en découpure).  These and other rococo engravings were quickly taken up by German publishers, especially in Augsburg (Metken, p. 102). This paravent (folding screen) suite was one of the first of the Watteau engravings to be copied in Germany. The present very close reverse copies of Crépy's six plates appeared in Augsburg only a few months after their publication, in June 1728, in Paris: engraved by Jacob Wangner (or Wagner, ca. 1703-1781), they were published by the heirs of Jeremias Wolff in 1729.  This set is an otherwise unrecorded reissue of the Wangner copperplates. A lavishly decoupage-decorated secretary in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art includes cutouts that were almost certainly from these Augsburg plates, as they are from "reverse copies of the prints by Crépy" (Kisluk-Grosheide, p. 88, noting other examples of Augsburg copies of Watteau prints used on the same secretary). Her assertion that "it has not been shown that these engravings were actually used for this purpose" (p. 84) is only applicable to the French plates. Indeed, other examples of lacca povera objects described in her article point to the German production of copies of French rococo prints as the main source for decoupage at this time, on pieces produced throughout Europe, including in Italy and in France itself.  The general title appears at the foot of the first plate. Each engraving presents a central figure or scene set within a frame of delicate rococo arabesques and ornaments. Three show the Comédie italienne figures of Pierrot, Harlequin, and Colombine (a woman playing the lute) on a rug-bedecked stage, a pair of allegorical figures flanking an awning above, and at bottom the smiling visage of a Commedia dell'Arte character of the opposite sex. The remaining pastoral scenes of courtship or douceur de vie are set within naturalistic elements, two with streams flowing over a dripping shell-shaped basin or ledge under which a ghostly face can be dimly discerned. Watteau's designs were based on earlier designs by Claude III Audran, decorative painter for Louis XIV at Versailles and Fontainebleau, to whom Watteau had apprenticed. "After joining forces with ornamentalist Claude III Audran about 1708, he [Watteau] began inserting figures in Comédie-Italienne costumes into Audran's trademark arabesques" (Judy Sund, "Watteau's Pierrots, Why so Sad?," The Art Bulletin, vol. 98 , no. 3, 2016, p. 325, reproducing the Pierrot panel from the present series).  OCLC locates a single copy of the Wolff issue, at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (reproduced in Gallica). In the present issue, of which I locate no other copies, the engraver's signatures were removed.  On the Wolff issue, cf. W. Augustyn, "Augsburger Buchillustration im 18. Jahrhundert," in Augsburger Buchdruck und Verlagswesen von den Anfangen bis zur Gegegenwart (1997), p. 820 (citing E. Isphording, Gottfried Bernhard Göz, 1708-1774, 1997, pp. 35 ff.); Thieme Becker 35:150. On the Crépy engravings, cf. Guilmard, Maitres ornemanistes, p.145; Dacier & Vauflart, Jean de Julienne et les graveurs de Watteau au XVIII. siècle, 159-163; E. de Goncourt, Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre ... d'Antoine Watteau (1875), p. 224, nos. 309-314; G. Glorieux, À l'enseigne de Gersaint: Edme-François Gersaint, marchand d'art sur le Pont Notre Dame (Paris 2002), pp. 189-192; Mark Millard Collection: French Books, no. 170.35 (5 of the 6 plates). On the use of these engravings for decoupage, see: D. O. Kisluk-Grosheide, "'Cutting up Berchems, Watteaus, and Audrans': A Lacca Povera Secretary at The Metropolitan Museum of Art," Metropolitan Museum Journal 31 (1996), pp. 81-97; and S. Metken, Geschnittenes Papier (Munich, 1978), pp. 101-2 & 113.
De Lipsii latinitate

De Lipsii latinitate by ESTIENNE, Henri II (1531-1598)

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De Lipsii latinitate
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ESTIENNE, Henri II (1531-1598)
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Frankfurt am Main: [s.n.], 1595. 8vo (155 x 93 mm). [30] pp., [1 blank leaf], 560 pp. Woodcut title ornament, woodcut initials. Fresh, clean copy (single wormhole in text). Contemporary vellum tooled in silver-gilt, edges gauffered and gilt'; lacking fore-edge ties, slightly rubbed, small tear to front pastedown at gutter. Provenance: ownership inscription on title (Hermannij H L) of Hermann IV, Landgraf von Hesse (1607-1658, son of the dedicatee); Nordkirchen Castle bookplate. First Edition of Henri Estienne's "strangest work" (Schreiber), in which he exhorted to war against the Turks, in an archaizing Latin style lampooning the Flemish humanist Justus Lipsius (Joest Lips, 1547-1606).  Although later recognized as the "founder of seventeenth-century neo-Stoicism" and one of the most influential Latin prose stylists of his age, during his lifetime and succeeding decades Lipsius, an ally of the Jesuits of Louvain, was harshly criticized, often no doubt for religious motives. Critics mocked not only the elliptical Tacitean Latin style that he affected in his latter years (a departure from the Ciceronian style of his early works), but also his character and supposedly inconstant religious beliefs. Estienne's satire reveals the tendency of his contemporaries to mix questions of rhetoric with religious politics, for in the middle of his literary spoof Estienne interjects a long and apparently incongruous debate on the Turks (with whom the Catholic powers were suspected of harboring an alliance), against whom he urges a war of extermination. Scaliger, as cited by Renouard, reported that this led to Estienne's book itself being ridiculed and mockingly called De Latinitate Lipsiana adversus Turcam.  This copy, with its prettily tooled binding and finely gauffred edges, was inscribed by the learned Hermann (IV), Landgraf of Hesse, son of the dedicatee Moritz "the [even more] Learned" Landgraf of Hesse (1572-1632). The Schloss Nordkirchen bookplate combines the arms of Mária von Plettenberg-Wittem (1809-1861) and her husband Graf Miklós Ferenc Esterházy de Galántha (1804-1885), to whom she brought the castle (constructed in the early 18th century) as part of her dowry. Along with its "superb library," Schloss Nordkirchen passed in 1903 to Herzog Engelbert-Maria von Arenberg (1872-1949), the 9th duke of Arenberg, who also inherited his father's library; his son Engelbert-Karl (1899-1974), the 10th duke, began selling off the ducal library in 1951 (cf. Claudine Lemaire, "La bibliothèque des ducs d'Arenberg, une première approche," Liber amicorum Herman Liebaers (1984], 81-106). Adams S-1764; VD16 E-4017; Renouard 157.2; Schreiber 225.
“I am sure that your Editor will understand how fully occupied I am at the present time…” <br />Two typed, signed letters – one from Winston S. Churchill 10 days before he became wartime Prime Minister and one from Churchill’s Private Secretary less than a month into Churchill’s premiership – both regarding a German-Jewish journalist émigré who escaped Hitler’s Germany only to be deported by the British as an “enemy alien”

“I am sure that your Editor will understand how fully occupied I am at the present time…”
Two typed, signed letters – one from Winston S. Churchill 10 days before he became wartime Prime Minister and one from Churchill’s Private Secretary less than a month into Churchill’s premiership – both regarding a German-Jewish journalist émigré who escaped Hitler’s Germany only to be deported by the British as an “enemy alien” by Winston S. Churchill

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“I am sure that your Editor will understand how fully occupied I am at the present time…”
Two typed, signed letters – one from Winston S. Churchill 10 days before he became wartime Prime Minister and one from Churchill’s Private Secretary less than a month into Churchill’s premiership – both regarding a German-Jewish journalist émigré who escaped Hitler’s Germany only to be deported by the British as an “enemy alien”
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Winston S. Churchill
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Churchill Book Collector (United States)
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Admiralty House, London, 1940. Letter. This compellingly interesting item features two pieces of correspondence from early in the Second World War. The first is a typed, signed letter from then-First Lord of the Admiralty Winston S. Churchill – just 10 days before he became wartime Prime Minister – to German-Jewish journalist and émigré Alfred J. Fischer declining an appointment to meet. The letter is accompanied by the original Admiralty envelope. The second typed letter is signed by Churchill’s Private Secretary, John Peck, dated 8 June 1940, on 10 Downing Street stationery, addressing an apparent request to make inquiries into “the case of Mr. Fischer”. Together, these two pieces of early Second World War correspondence are noteworthy for occurring during Churchill’s ascendance to the premiership, for featuring his signature on his Admiralty stationery in his final days as First Lord, and limning the fraught, perilous fate of German Jews, even those who made it to supposed haven on Allied shores. Churchill’s letter is typed on a single sheet of Admiralty stationery, headed with a printed, blue Admiralty device and dated “30 April 1940” at the upper right. The salutation “My Dear Sir,” the valediction “Yours vy ty” [sic], and the signature “Winston S. Churchill” are all in Churchill’s hand. The letter politely rejects a request from journalist Alfred Fischer for a meeting, Churchill offering “I am sure that your Editor will understand how fully occupied I am at the present time…” The letter is accompanied by its original franked envelope, the flap featuring the raised, printed “ADMIRALTY WHITEHALL” device and still sealed with red wax imprinted with an Admiralty signet. An additional “8th June, 1940” letter to Fischer is from John Howard Peck, the only one of Churchill’s wartime Private Secretaries to serve for the entirety of Churchill’s wartime premiership. This typed, hand-emended, and signed letter is on “10, Downing Street, Whitehall” stationery, printed thus at the upper right, with a “PRIME MINISTER” device at the upper left. The letter, written less than a month after Churchill became wartime Prime Minister, is addressed to a woman who made an appeal on Fischer’s behalf after Fischer was detained as a “Category ‘B’ alien. Peck writes: “…Mr. Churchill has had enquiries made into the case of Mr. Fischer but he regrets that nothing can be done in the matter at the moment…” Each letter, as well as the envelope, is housed in its own clear, removable, archival mylar sleeve. The sleeves are housed in a rigid, crimson cloth folder. Alfred Joachim Fischer We know little about “Mrs. Hochner” other than her apparent concern and advocacy for Alfred Fisher. But Mr. Fisher’s story is known, at least in part, and is intriguingly interwoven with the general tragedy of allied internment of “enemy aliens” and the compound brutalities visited on German Jews fleeing Hitler’s Reich. Alfred Joachim Fischer (1909-1992) was a German Jew working as a journalist for a liberal newspaper in Berlin at the end of the republic. In 1933, the year Hitler became German chancellor and the first concentration camps were established, Fischer began an emigration odyssey via Czechoslovakia, Scandinavia, the Balkans, Palestine, and Turkey. In 1939 he “fled at the last minute from Prague” to Great Britain. But his flight from one persecutor only delivered him to another. Fischer was detained as a potential Category ‘B’ enemy alien. Eventually he was among those deported to Australia on the HMT Dunera. The 57-day voyage was not only under threat by German U-boats; detainees faced regular beatings and robbery at the hands of British soldiers and officers on board. As Fischer later recalled, “I was only allowed to take a few items with me, including a personal letter from Winston Churchill.” Ostensibly that was this same letter. (Translated from Fischer, In der Nahe der Ereignisse, p.177) PLEASE NOTE THAT A CONSIDERABLY MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THIS ITEM IS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.
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Le Voyage d'Urien by DENIS, MAURICE; GIDE, Andre; MAURICE DENIS

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Le Voyage d'Urien
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DENIS, MAURICE; GIDE, Andre; MAURICE DENIS
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1893. DENIS, Maurice. Le Voyage d'Urien. By André Gide. 110 pp., illustrated with 29 lithographs in 2 colors by Maurice Denis. 4to, 200 x 192 mm., original wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Librairie de l'Art Indépendant, 1893. A fine copy of one of the few Nabis illustrated books, preserved in the original wrappers as issued, and not rebound, as is almost always the case. It is also free from the foxing that plagues many copies. It is interesting that Denis illustrated this book at the express invitation of Gide who had seen his drawings for Sagesse. One of 300 copies. The Artist and the Book, No.76. Freches-Thory. The Nabis, pp. 216 - 217. Cailler, Maurice Denis: Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Gravé et Lithographié, Nos. 37 - 67.
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My Life by CLINTON Bill

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My Life
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CLINTON Bill
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2004. First Edition. Signed. CLINTON, Bill. My Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Octavo, original blue paper boards, original dust jacket. $1500.First edition, first state, signed on the title page by President Clinton.The autobiography of President Bill Clinton, illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs. First state, with ""failure"" instead of ""failures"" in the last sentence of the Acknowledgements. A fine copy.
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Our Revolution by SANDERS Bernie

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Our Revolution
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SANDERS Bernie
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2016. First Edition. Signed. SANDERS, Bernie. Our Revolution. A Future To Believe In. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's, 2016. Octavo, original blue paper boards, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. $950.First edition of Bernie Sanders' account of his life and influences, featuring a detailed account of his campaign praised as ""well worth reading… his ideas basically just as fresh to him today as when he left his native Brooklyn,"" signed in black felt pen by him on publisher's tipped-in leaf.Published soon after Sanders lost the 2016 Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton, Our Revolution ""recaps the successes of his underdog run and emphasizes that he's still fighting for populist causes. 'The support that we won showed that our ideas were not outside of the mainstream,' he writes. 'We showed that millions of Americans want a bold, progressive agenda that takes on the billionaire class and creates a government that works for all of us and not just for big campaign donors.' He repeats his basic policy positions (a higher minimum wage, stricter banking regulations, a carbon tax, etc.) and offers a Brooklyn take on the usual humanizing biography"" (New York Times). On publication, Washington Times reviewer called Sanders' account of the campaign, ""well worth reading… for starters, it tells us who this man who energized so many young people really is—an enthusiastic young socialist trapped in an old curmudgeon's body, his ideas basically just as fresh to him today as when he left his native Brooklyn."" ""Autographed Copy"" label on front dust jacket panel.A fine copy.
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Utah Wilderness Association archive by Carter, Dick

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Utah Wilderness Association archive
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Carter, Dick
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Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
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Salt Lake City, 1985. 65 pieces. Collections includes newsletters, mailings, flyers for fundraisers, short reports, pamphlets, and related ephemera. Nice collection from this early Utah environmentalist group that shows the first half decade of its existence. The Utah Wilderness Association was organized in 1979 as a voice for Utah's wilderness. Dick Carter, Hyrum resident and former Utah representative for the Wilderness Society, founded the Utah Wilderness Association in the midst of the Bureau of Land Management's 1980 inventory of Utah lands and the Forest Service's second RARE (Roadless Area Review Evaluation) study, both of which pushed the UWA into action to further protect Utah wilderness. The organization grew from about a dozen members at its first meeting in May 1979 to more than one thousand committed members in the early 1990s, mostly from northern Utah. Other issues that concerned the members of the Utah Wilderness Association were grazing, timber harvesting, and especially oil drilling in Utah wildernesses. On numerous occasions, the UWA appealed drilling and oil exploration in the High Uintas. The mission statement of the Utah Wilderness Association declares that the organization "is dedicated to the preservation of Utah's wilderness, public lands, and the flora and fauna dependent upon them." Though a greater percentage of the organization's efforts were centered on wilderness and land usage, some of the more prominent wildlife issues that UWA advocated were bans on bear baiting, as well as sandhill crane and cougar hunting. The Utah Wilderness Association was active until 1996, when several board members left the association, including founder Dick Carter, and the organization lacked sufficient funds to continue.
The Child's Book-Plate

The Child's Book-Plate by Gardner C. Teall

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The Child's Book-Plate
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Gardner C. Teall
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Carpe Diem Fine Books (United States)
Description
New York: Charterhouse Press, 1904. First and only edition. 12 mo. [11] pp. Nine original charming children's book-plates (3 in color) in an “Arts and Crafts” style ". Title page in color. Publisher's brick-red buckram, title in gilt, marbled endpapers. Minor wear & rubbing else a near fine copy of a scarce work. A doll's-house of book-plates! 'All the book-plates here illustrated were designed by Mr. Gardner C. Teall for certain of his little friends, and their appreciation of them leads him to take pleasure in this propagation of the idea of The Child's Book-Plate.' (from text). At the end of the essay, Teall notes that he has personally designed and printed all nine of the samples included in the book. Gardner C. Teall (1878 - 1905) was a writer and artist, formerly editor of Good Housekeeping magazine and director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Public Library.
L'art océanien: sa présence.

L'art océanien: sa présence. by Apollinaire, Guillaume;  Tristan Tzara; Madeleine Rousseau; Cheikh Anta Diop.

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L'art océanien: sa présence.
Author
Apollinaire, Guillaume;  Tristan Tzara; Madeleine Rousseau; Cheikh Anta Diop.
Seller
Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Paris: APAM, 1951. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. 27 cm; 138 pages, illustrated with maps and half-tone illustrations. Lithographed wrapper by Roger Falck. Corners and extremities slightly worn. Spine reinforced with strong Japanese paper. Preserved in custom-built clamshell case. Owner's inscription of the late Australian artist Helen Lempriere, who endowed the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award. Collection Le Musée vivant, #38. Seminal study of Oceanic art, with texts taken from surrealist poets Tristan Tzara and Guillaume Apollinaire, as well as highly analytic essays on Oceanic symbolism by Cheikh Anta Diop, Kunz Dittmer, Henri Lehmann, and others, edited by Madeleine Rousseau, with an introduction by Paul Rivet.
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The Tyler-Clay controversy over the National Bank Bill. Autograph letter, signed. by Giddings, Joshua Reed (1775-1864).

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The Tyler-Clay controversy over the National Bank Bill. Autograph letter, signed.
Author
Giddings, Joshua Reed (1775-1864).
Seller
Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
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Very Good
Description
Washington: September 6, 1841. Very Good. 20 x 25 cm; 1 page, addressed to "Addison. This letter was written in the House of Representatives by Giddings (Whig, Ohio) while voting on the Clay-Benton Bank Bill, which was twice vetoed by President Tyler. A few days after this letter was written, Tyler's entire cabinet resigned (except for Daniel Webster) over the vetoes. The text of the letter is immediate: "It is now a quarter past two o"clock and we are voting on the enactment of the Bank Bill...." And in the addendum, "The Bank Bill has passed by a vote of 128 to 97...
grOnk Series 3: The Big Mid-July grOnk Mailout

grOnk Series 3: The Big Mid-July grOnk Mailout

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grOnk Series 3: The Big Mid-July grOnk Mailout
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Bernett Rare Books Inc (United States)
Description
Incomplete collection of the third series of the Canadian concrete poetry publication edited by bpNichol, David UU, and Bill Bissett, comprised of three-page typed and stapled introduction on yellow, blue, and pink paper stock listing contents, news items, letters, and announcements of other publications and productions, a small pamphlet "Gerry Carrier - Instructions" by Gerry Gilbert, a portrait of Nelson Ball by Barbara Caruso, a stapled booklet "Nights on Prose Mountain" by bpNichol, and a series of typewriter poems by Hart Broudy. Various sizes, overall 4to. Contents loose as issued. Some creasing of paper, slight browning, minor tears to Broudy envelope, overall good. Toronto (Ganglia Press) 1969. bpNichol established Ganglia Magazine in 1965, published by Ganglia Press, which in turn published grOnk with David Aylward and Rob Hindley-Smith. In the Ganglia Press Index of 1972, Nichol writes, "...somewhere in 66 i met dave UU for the first time. he & i & rob (nee rah) smith decided it'd be nice to publish a monthly mag of concrete & related poetries & distribute it free so we invited dave aylward along for the ride launching the first issue of grOnk in january of 67." The same Ganglia Press Index lists 8 items which were to have been a part of the series 3 mailing, although the typewritten sheet which accompanied this particular issue only lists 5, corresponding to items 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 from the index, along with some "additional goodies". We here have one of two items from #3, one of two items from #4, and #6. Numbers 5 and 7 are not included in this group, although also present are Hart Broudy's "C Poems", 4 unsigned visual typewriter poems on heavyweight paper stock composed entirely of the letter "c", with original envelope, which correspond to grOnk Series 4, Number 2 and are listed under the "additional goodies" heading. As of November 2021, OCLC does not show any listings for Gronk Series 3, but some of the contents are listed separately. Overall a scarce collection from an ephemeral concrete poetry publication.
[Manuscript Book of Recipes and Household Remedies]

[Manuscript Book of Recipes and Household Remedies]

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[Manuscript Book of Recipes and Household Remedies]
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Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
[New England], 1863. Good. 7½” x 6”. Paper over boards. Pp. 70 with 113 handwritten entries, 28 clippings pasted down + 3 laid in. Good: boards and most leaves detached; moderately soiled. This is a plentiful collection of recipes and remedies seemingly compiled by a New Englander in the mid-19th century. With 113 handwritten entries plus a total of 52 sets of instructions from Philadelphia, Albany and Boston newspapers, the book provides rich insight into home life in the mid-1800s. Provided in no apparent order are recipes for “tomato figs,” “cucumber catsup,” “Mrs. G's Famous Bunns” and a “Black cake, much esteemed,” as well as cures for croup, whooping cough, scarlet fever and dysentery. Our compiler collected a column titled “To the butter makers in New England,” tips on the “pickling of meat,” dyes for wool and cotton and how to “destroy rats.” “Beef's gall to the wound” was cited as a cure for lockjaw, and we find guidance on “bottling gooseberries,” planting corn and “how to get rid of caterpillars.” There were several handwritten records of purchases, as well as entries for “Chicken Cholera” (to heal, not to eat), “To restore hair to its natural color,” “Pull Evil In Horses,” make a “hair oil” and a “Transparent pudding.” A fantastic collection of culinary and household tips.
The Labours of Hercules

The Labours of Hercules by Christie, Agatha

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The Labours of Hercules
Author
Christie, Agatha
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Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
Condition
near fine
Description
London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1947. first. hardcover. near fine/very good. First UK edition. Book near fine, minor wear to edges and spine ends. Dust jacket very good, wear and tear and chipping, some tape to inside of dj. Flap price 8s. 6d. net.
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Dolly's Album

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Dolly's Album
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Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
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very good
Description
Cassell and Co, 1884. hardcover. very good. Victorian small children's book, 3 3/4" x 4 1/2". Rhymes about Dolly. Book very good. Handwritten name on front free end paper, some pencilling in book but very little.
An Apollo 12 Crew Signed Cover Celebrating The Moon Landing

An Apollo 12 Crew Signed Cover Celebrating The Moon Landing by (APOLLO 12)

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An Apollo 12 Crew Signed Cover Celebrating The Moon Landing
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(APOLLO 12)
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Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description
(APOLLO 12). A cover signed Alan Bean, Dick Gordon and Charles Conrad Jr., the crew of Apollo 12. This cover has a cachet on the left side celebrating the second moon landing and the cover was cancelled on November 19, 1969 from Cape Canaveral. There is also a First Man on the Moon stamp in the upper corner. It is in fine condition.
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Holliston Binding Fabrics, Book Cloths Sample Book

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Holliston Binding Fabrics, Book Cloths Sample Book
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James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Norwood, MA: Holliston Binding Fabrics, 1952. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt and maroon, with two binding screws and unlockable binding bar. Contains roughly three hundred book cloths in varying colors, finishes, and textures, separated by tabs. 8 x 5 inches.
LIfe's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
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LIfe's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe by Morris, Simon Conway

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LIfe's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
Author
Morris, Simon Conway
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James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
ISBN
9780521827041
Condition
Fine
Description
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University, 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illustrated in black and white. 6 x 9 inches. 464 pages.
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High-speed computing devices by the staff of Engineering Research Associates by Engineering Research Asso

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High-speed computing devices by the staff of Engineering Research Associates
Author
Engineering Research Asso
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950. 1st edition. 8vo. 451pp. original cloth, good condition.
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Peripheral nerve regneration. A follow-up study of 3656 World War II injuries by Woodhall & Beebe

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Peripheral nerve regneration. A follow-up study of 3656 World War II injuries
Author
Woodhall & Beebe
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
Washington: GPO, 1957.
The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years

The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years by ZIOLKOWSKI, Jan M. and Michael C.J. Putnam, edited by

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The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years
Author
ZIOLKOWSKI, Jan M. and Michael C.J. Putnam, edited by
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. 1082pp. Foxing on page edges and rear endpapers, very good in an about near fine dust jacket with light foxing on both sides.
Mothers and Sons

Mothers and Sons by TOIBIN, Colm

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Mothers and Sons
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TOIBIN, Colm
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780330441827
Condition
Fine
Description
(London): Picador, 2006. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn.
The Stonecutter's Horses

The Stonecutter's Horses by BRINGHURST, Robert

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The Stonecutter's Horses
Author
BRINGHURST, Robert
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Vancouver: Standard Editions / (William Hoffer & The Pulp Press), 1979. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 11, [1], Sewn blue printed wrappers. Decorative initials, and one leaf of typographic lettering. A bit of faint soiling on front cover at bottom edge, small soil mark on one leaf of text in upper margin, else a near fine copy. He is the author of *The Elements of Typographic Style,* in addition to numerous poetry collections. Limited to 350 numbered copies. Inscribed Bringhurst to poet August Kleinzahler in the year of publication: "for August Kleinzahler, with admiration, Robert Bringhurst. Christmas, 1979" (on the verso of the title page). The author has also made a single ink correction to one leaf of text. Bringhurst is a Canadian poet, typographer, and professor.
A collection of five (5) Betrothals finely printed on porcelain or coated card stock c.1850s

A collection of five (5) Betrothals finely printed on porcelain or coated card stock c.1850s

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A collection of five (5) Betrothals finely printed on porcelain or coated card stock c.1850s
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Eclectibles (United States)
Condition
Very good. Light dust soiling.
Description
Ghent, Belgium: Lithographers de Vande Steene, L. Defferrex, T. & D. Hemelsoet, and G. Jacqmain, 1850. Very good. Light dust soiling.. Five (5) finely printed betrothal announcements all around 1850. Printed on porcelain or coated stock. One is hand-colored and depicts Cupid at the center of a vignette surrounded by a floral wreath; a second is printed in four (4) colors with clasped hands at the top, joined floral rings and love birds with pierced flaming hearts at base. The other three (3) finely embellished and decorative devices and paired love birds, trumpets and a Cupid. Largest measures 6" by 4
Heart Shaped Tuck - From Heart to Heart Brundage Kids at Blackboard

Heart Shaped Tuck - From Heart to Heart Brundage Kids at Blackboard

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Heart Shaped Tuck - From Heart to Heart Brundage Kids at Blackboard
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Eclectibles (United States)
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An embossed, die cut, 6 3/4 " x 7 1/2" heart shaped valentine. The cover is adorned with a double row of pink forget-me-not hearts bordering each of two joined hearts with printed ribbon tying them together is captioned "From Heart to Heart". The heart is pierced with an arrow. On the bottomof the card is two cherubs, one cherubis playing the pan flute. Opens at center. Once inside there are two Frances Brundage children writing on a chalkboard. The sentiment reads ' 1+1=1. You Are My Valentine.' The condition is very good. Reverse marked Raphael Tuck Sons.
Memoire sur une nouvelle espece de gymnote de la Riviere de la Madeleine BOUND TOGETHER WITH Observations sur l'anguille electrique (Gymnotus electricus, Lin.) du Nouveau Continent, EXTRACT FROM Voyage aux Regions Equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent, fait en 1799-1804, etc

Memoire sur une nouvelle espece de gymnote de la Riviere de la Madeleine BOUND TOGETHER WITH Observations sur l'anguille electrique (Gymnotus electricus, Lin.) du Nouveau Continent, EXTRACT FROM Voyage aux Regions Equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent, fait en 1799-1804, etc by Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von

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Memoire sur une nouvelle espece de gymnote de la Riviere de la Madeleine BOUND TOGETHER WITH Observations sur l'anguille electrique (Gymnotus electricus, Lin.) du Nouveau Continent, EXTRACT FROM Voyage aux Regions Equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent, fait en 1799-1804, etc
Author
Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von
Seller
Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description
[Paris], 1806. First edition. FIRST EDITION--HUMBOLDT'S FAMOUS DESCRIPTION OF "HORSE FISHING" ELECTRIC EELS AT RASTRO DE ABAXO, BOUND WITH ENGRAVING DEMONSTRATING THE ELECTRIC ORGAN. 25x33 cm folio extract in gray paper wraps, ink inscribed title and small handstamp "Library or R. Harry, Jr." to cover. Memoire sur une Nouvelle Espece de Gymnote de la Riviere de la Madeleine by M. de Humboldt pp. (46-) 48, BOUND WITH Observations sur L'Anguille Electrique (Gymnotus electricus, Lin.) du Nouveau Continent, pp. (49-) 92 by M. de Humboldt, hand-colored engraved plate. Wrappers soiled; a corner creased; 2 marginal tears to wrappers; a tear to upper blank margin of first page repaired with paper on verso; some wrinkling to lower corners; corners curled, scattered foxing, very good minus. The two papers appeared in "Le Voyage aux Regions Equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent, fait en 1799-1804," by Alexandre de Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland (Paris, 1806, etc.), consisting of thirty folio and quarto volumes (French language). FRIEDRICH HEINRICH ALEXANDER von HUMBOLDT (1769 - 1859) was a Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer. Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography. Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt travelled extensively in Latin America, exploring and describing it for the first time from a modern scientific point of view. His description of the journey was written up and published in an enormous set of volumes over 21 years. He was one of the first to propose that the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean were once joined (South America and Africa in particular). Later, his five-volume work, Kosmos (1845), attempted to unify the various branches of scientific knowledge. Humboldt supported and worked with other scientists, including Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, Justus von Liebig, Louis Agassiz, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Georg von Neumayer, and most notably, Aimé Bonpland, with whom he conducted much of his scientific exploration. On the postponement of Captain Nicolas Baudin's proposed voyage of circumnavigation, which he had been officially invited to accompany, Humboldt left Paris for Marseille with Aimé Bonpland, the designated botanist of the frustrated expedition, hoping to join Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt. Means of transport, however, were not forthcoming, and the two travellers eventually found their way to Madrid, where the unexpected patronage of the minister Don Mariano Luis de Urquijo convinced them to make Spanish America the scene of their explorations. Armed with powerful recommendations from the King of Spain, they sailed in the Pizarro from A Coruña, on June 5, 1799, stopped six days on the island of Tenerife to climb the volcano Teide, and landed at Cumaná, Venezuela, on July 16. On March 19, 1800, during a four-month excursion to explore the course of the Orinoco River, Humboldt and Bonpland recruited natives in the South American village of Rastro de Abaxo to help them capture live specimens of electric eels, which fascinated Humboldt. The creatures were difficult to catch because they burrow into the muck of shallow waters. The natives suggested "horse fishing" — corralling several wild horses and forcing them into the shallow water. According to Humboldt's account, the alarmed animals stamped and snorted, riling up the eels and compelling them to attack by pressing their long bodies to the horses' bellies, releasing a series of electric shocks. Surprisingly, this worked, although some of the horses drowned in the process. The eels quickly exhausted themselves and were much easier to catch with small harpoons on ropes. Many scientists thought this was just a tall tale — one naturalist memorably called it "tommyrot" — because nobody had observed such behavior since. But in 2016, Kenneth Catania, a neuroscientist at Vanderbilt University published a paper reporting on a series of laboratory experiments with electric eels.* His findings lent credence to Humboldt's account of eels aggressively leaping up and stunning the horses with a series of high-voltage discharges. Catania argued that, under certain conditions, this mode of attack might be more effective than simply discharging electric shocks in the surrounding water. In 1838, Michael Faraday conducted his own experiments with electric eels and experienced only mild shocks, presumably because water in nature, with its copious dissolved salts, is a good conductor of electricity. Catania's work suggests that Humboldt's account would be especially plausible during the onset of the dry season, when eels are more likely to become stranded in shallow bodies of water. The paper on Gymnotus electricus offered here includes the original description of Humboldt's observation of capturing the eels by "horse fishing." PROVENANCE: R. HARRY, JR. (aka Robert Rees Harry, later Robert R. Rofen, Robert R. Harry-Rofen), Stanford University ichthyologist (born 1925). *Catania, K. 2016. Leaping eels electrify threats, supporting Humboldt's account of a battle with horses. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 113, 6979, REVIEWED IN, Ed Yong. The Stunning Case of Leaping Electric Eels. The Atlantic, June 6, 2016.
Six Addresses to Graduating Classes of the Albany Academy 1905-1910

Six Addresses to Graduating Classes of the Albany Academy 1905-1910 by Hun, Henry

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Six Addresses to Graduating Classes of the Albany Academy 1905-1910
Author
Hun, Henry
Seller
Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
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1910. REMARKS OF A MEDICAL EDUCATOR TO GRADUATING BOYS AT A FAMOUS PREP SCHOOL OVER 100 YEARS AGO. 11 x 16 cm booklet, purple velvet flexible covers, gilt title to cover, purple endpapers, [2], 1-11, 1-11, 1-10, 1-8, 1-12, 1-7. Near fine in protective polyethylene cover. ALBANY ACADEMY is an independent college preparatory day school in Albany, New York. It enrolls students from Prekindergaten (age 4) to Grade 12. It was established in 1813 by a charter signed by Mayor Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer and the city council of Albany. The Albany Academy is the oldest day school for boys in New York state's Capital Region. Classes began within months after the charter was granted, offering a college preparatory track including intensive study of Ancient Greek, and Latin and an arithmetic-based track to prepare young men for Albany's role as a center of commerce. in 1815, a purpose-built building was completed in present-day Academy Park, adjacent to the New York State Capitol. The Federal-style building, now known as the Old Albany Academy Building and headquarters of the City School District of Albany, was designed by renowned Albany architect Philip Hooker. The building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. HENRY HUN (1854 – 1924) an American physician, was professor of Nervous Diseases at the Albany Medical College in New York for 30 years. He published several unique teaching volumes for his students as well as numerous journal articles on neurological disorders. He studied medicine at Harvard Medical School and earned his M.D. in 1879. He then spent two and a half years studying at numerous medical facilities in Germany, Vienna, Paris, and London.
No Fighting, No Biting! An I CAN READ Book

No Fighting, No Biting! An I CAN READ Book by MINARIK, Else Holmelund

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Title
No Fighting, No Biting! An I CAN READ Book
Author
MINARIK, Else Holmelund
Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Description
New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1958. Maurice SENDAK. [SIGNED] [JUVENILE] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. Maurice SENDAK, illustrator. SIGNED by the illustrator. Later printing, c. 1968; date based on publishing date of books on rear ad. 8vo; 62 [1]pp; glazed color pictorial paper over board with a vignette of two children standing in front of a woman who is seated on a sofa; Maurice Sendak's signature on the ffep; color pictorial title page; large print and color illustrations throughout; rear board and rear panel of dj lists four new "I CAN READ Books" all published in 1968; clipped color pictorial dj with a price of $2.50 on the front upper flap; fine in fine dj. A humorous book for children that teaches manners and social interations to children through the story of two alligators named Light-Foot and Quick-Foot.
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The Ladies National Cook Book. Presented by The Ladies Aid Society, East Raynham, Mass by [First Baptist Church (Raynham, Mass.); Ladies Aid Society]

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The Ladies National Cook Book. Presented by The Ladies Aid Society, East Raynham, Mass
Author
[First Baptist Church (Raynham, Mass.); Ladies Aid Society]
Seller
Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description
[Raynham, Mass.]: [The Church], 1900. Stapled booklet, (18.75 x 13.5 cm.), 48 pages. Advertisements throughout. Title from cover. Identification of church surmised from photo-reproduction on cover. Date of publication proposed from internal evidence. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Tentatively identified community recipe collection of modest proportions, with some two hundred brief entries solicited from acquaintances in both Bristol County and around the nation. Recipes include: Maryland Beat Biscuits (from Baltimore), Baked Brown Bread (from Ogden), Stuffed Potatoes (from Po'keepsie), Pineapple Pudding (from Seattle), Graham Pudding (from Philadelphia), Peach Cake (from Milwaukee), Nut Cake (from Missoula), and Nevada Cake (from Reno). The eastern end of Taunton, Bristol County, was settled and incorporated as Rayhham in 1731. The photograph on the cover of The Ladies National Cook Book corresponds, as far as its outlines are clear, to modern images of the First Baptist Church, though no confirmation whatsoever is provided by the text. The phrase East Raynham is anomalous. The date of publication is proposed from advertisements for horseless carriages and Quaker Ranges, but chiefly from citations to recently published cookbooks, such as François Tanty's La cuisine française (Chicago 1893) and Mrs. T. J. Kirkpatrick's The Modern Cook Book (Springfield 1890. Several recipes cite, in addition, Mrs. Rorer, Mrs. Lincoln, and Marion Harland, though without specificity with regard to titles. Some dampstaining to interior in the gutter, otherwise clean. Stapled booklet in slightly soiled cream-colored card-stock wrappers with black lettering, and an image of what appears to be the First Baptist Church of Raynham; three holes where a ribbon might be tied. Unrecorded. [OCLC reports no copies; in neither Cook, Brown, nor Cagle].
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All the President's Men by Woodward, Bob and Carl Bernstein

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All the President's Men
Author
Woodward, Bob and Carl Bernstein
Seller
Hoffman Books (United States)
Condition
Fine+
Description
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press. Fine+. 1999. Hardcover. Signed EASTON PRESS Woodward & Bernstein "President's Men" Watergate 1999 w/ COA - Fine unread condition from a single owner Easton collection, signed and with certificate of authenticity as issued. ; Signed by Author .
The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World: The Ways of Truth; When Then is True? (2 volumes)

The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World: The Ways of Truth; When Then is True? (2 volumes) by McGilchrist, Iain

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The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World: The Ways of Truth; When Then is True? (2 volumes)
Author
McGilchrist, Iain
Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good +
Description
London: Perspectiva Press, 2022. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. 1578pp. Small quarto [25 cm] Black paper over boards. Gentle bumping to the lower extremities of the spine and boards. In the dust jackets, with very subtle surface and edge-wear. Both volumes are internally bright and fresh. From the dust jacket- "This book offers a vitally necessary and radically new vision, one that is rigorously based in the science of the brain, deeply grounded in philosophy and sustained by the most up-to-date findings of physics: a vision that inverts common assumptions about what matters; sees the whole, not just the parts; and helps us break out of the hall of mirrors.
Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Author
Ray Bradbury
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Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9781501167713
Condition
New
Description
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2017. First edition. Paperback. New/NA. 337pp. Octavo [21cm]. Illustrated Wraps. "Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. Two boys will discover the secret of its smoke, mazes, and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too well the heavy cost of wishes...and the stuff of nightmares." From the publisher.
The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity

The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity by Anthony, Rey

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The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity
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Anthony, Rey
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Tucson: Seymour Press, 1961. Second Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Fourth Printing. 103 pages bound in a blue folder. Pages lightly toned, former owner's name and information written on the title page. A pseudonymous account of one small town Texas woman's sexual development, a text that "makes a distinctly valuable contribution to sexual knowledge" according to Dr. Albert Ellis's Introduction. A notorious challenged book in the United States.
THE WRIGHT BROTHERS AS ENGINEERS, AN APPRAISAL & FLYING WITH THE WRIGHT BROTHERS, ONE MAN'S EXPERIENCE

THE WRIGHT BROTHERS AS ENGINEERS, AN APPRAISAL & FLYING WITH THE WRIGHT BROTHERS, ONE MAN'S EXPERIENCE by WALD, Quentin R.

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THE WRIGHT BROTHERS AS ENGINEERS, AN APPRAISAL & FLYING WITH THE WRIGHT BROTHERS, ONE MAN'S EXPERIENCE
Author
WALD, Quentin R.
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Antic Hay Books (United States)
Description
[Port Townsend, Washington]: Published By The Author, 1999. First Edition. Signed presentation from Wald on a front blank page: "To Peggy, Oshkosh, July 1999. Quentin Wald." Uncommon to find a signed copy. 8vo., pictorial brown wraps; 81 pages. Illustrated.. Very Good (some rubbing lower corner of front cover; contents clean & tight).
The South.

The South. by TOÍBÍN, Colm.

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The South.
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TOÍBÍN, Colm.
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Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description
London: Serpent’s Tail, (1990).. First edition.. 236 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. His first work of fiction, not issued in hardcover. Briefly INSCRIBED by Toíbín on the title page. Review slip laid in.
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SUPER POWERS GROUPING OF 8 COMIC BOOKLETS BEING SUPERMAN, BATMAN, FLASH, AQUAMAN, (2) ROBIN, GREEN LANTERN & HAWKMAN by Henner / DC Publications

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SUPER POWERS GROUPING OF 8 COMIC BOOKLETS BEING SUPERMAN, BATMAN, FLASH, AQUAMAN, (2) ROBIN, GREEN LANTERN & HAWKMAN
Author
Henner / DC Publications
Seller
THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description
SUPER POWERS GROUPING, Kenner / DC Publications, 1983, first edition, very fine in full color pictorial wraps and full color interiors. This miniature comic grouping consists of SUPERMAN, BATMAN, FLASH, AQUAMAN, (2) ROBIN, GREEN LANTERN & HAWKMAN
Twentieth Century Black Artists in America. Special List 15

Twentieth Century Black Artists in America. Special List 15

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Twentieth Century Black Artists in America. Special List 15
Seller
McBlain Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: J.N. Herlin Inc, 1982. Paperback. Very Good. (11)p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Minor cover curl and some browning. Booksellers catalog. 101 items listed with prices ranging from $1.50 to $75 (for "The Negro Artist Comes of Age" published in 1945). Tom Wirth credited as Editorial Assistant.
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BOOK OF SPECIMEN TYPE FACES

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BOOK OF SPECIMEN TYPE FACES
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Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description
CLEVELAND, BRITTON PRINTING, 1924, 1924. BEIGE CLOTH OVER MATCHING BOARDS VERY GOOD. Hardcover.
Halloween Postcard Book: 30 Oversized Postcards

Halloween Postcard Book: 30 Oversized Postcards

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Halloween Postcard Book: 30 Oversized Postcards
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ReadInk (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Seattle: Darling & Company. Near Fine. 2007. Second Edition Second Printing. Softcover. [tiny stain on bottom edge, affecting image side (but not the image itself) just one one card; otherwise as new, with no discernible wear]. Trade PB (color postcard reproductions) Beautiful color reproductions of thirty vintage Halloween postcards. Perforated for easy detachment if you wanted to actually send one in the mail. .
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Notes to Literature. Volume Two by Adorno, Theodor W.; Rolf Tiedemann (Editor); Shierry Weber Nicholsen (Translator)

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Notes to Literature. Volume Two
Author
Adorno, Theodor W.; Rolf Tiedemann (Editor); Shierry Weber Nicholsen (Translator)
Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition
vg
Description
New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. XX, 350pp. Original pictorial wrappers over blue cloth, with silver lettering on spine. Fascinating work containing volumes three and four of "Noten zur Literatur, including numerous essays on works by Mann, Bloch, Hölderlin, Karl Kraus, Siegfried Kracauer, Goethe, Benjamin, and Stefan George. Also included are Adorno's reflections on a variety of literary topics: the physical qualities of books, political commitment in literature, books' titles, the lighthearted and the serious in art, and the use of foreign words in writing, to name a few. Wrappers in overall very good, binding and interior in fine condition.
New York: The Second Breakthrough 1959-1964 (First Edition)

New York: The Second Breakthrough 1959-1964 (First Edition) by [Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Jim Dine, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist]

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New York: The Second Breakthrough 1959-1964 (First Edition)
Author
[Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Jim Dine, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist]
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Royal Books (United States)
Description
Irvine: University of California, 1969. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Catalog for an exhibition held at the University of California, Irvine, from March 18 through April 27, 1969. Very Good plus in saddle-stapled wrappers, moderately rubbed.
Gentleman&#39;s Relish: A Saucy Look at the Fairer Sex

Gentleman's Relish: A Saucy Look at the Fairer Sex by Barker, Ronnie

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Gentleman's Relish: A Saucy Look at the Fairer Sex
Author
Barker, Ronnie
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Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN
9781850510772
Condition
Near Fine
Description
London: Treasure Press, 1985. Reissue. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 12x9x0. Reissue. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1985 Large Hardcover. 125 pp. A collection of advertisements, photographs, and illustrations from the 1890s to the 1920s, together with a selection of saucy limericks, rhymes, and songs.
The Janissary Tree
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The Janissary Tree by Goodwin, Jason

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The Janissary Tree
Author
Goodwin, Jason
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Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780312426132
Condition
Very Good
Description
Picador, 2006. Very Good. Goodwin, Jason. The Janissary Tree. New York: Picador, 2006. 320pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed.
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Massage for Common Ailments by Thomas, Sara

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Massage for Common Ailments
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Thomas, Sara
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Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Fireside, 1988. Very Good. Thomas, Sara. Massage for Common Ailments. NY: Fireside, 1988. 95pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gentle bumping.
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DULCES CRIOLLOS: RECETAS TRADICIONALES

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DULCES CRIOLLOS: RECETAS TRADICIONALES
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Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
ISBN
9789802301553
Description
Caracas: PANAPO, 1988. b/w illus., recipes, ind., color pict. wrps.

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