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Delle famose donne [De mulieribus claris] by BOCCACCIO, Giovanni / ALBANZANI, Donato degli (trans.) / PICCARDI, Francesco di Pagolo (scribe) / TUCCI, Angolo (cartolaio)

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Title: Delle famose donne [De mulieribus claris]
Author: BOCCACCIO, Giovanni / ALBANZANI, Donato degli (trans.) / PICCARDI, Francesco di Pagolo (scribe) / TUCCI, Angolo (cartolaio)
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Description: BOCCACCIO'S FAMOUS WOMEN, SIGNED AND DATED SEPTEMBER 1456 BY THE SCRIBE COPIOUSLY ANNOTATED WITH EARLY POEMS ON WOMEN, SOME UNPUBLISHED [Florence], F. di Pagolo Piccardi, 1456. 4to manuscript on paper (27.3 x 19.5 cm), [133] ff. (consisting of 13 quinions and 3 singletons), written in a single column of thirty lines, f. 1r. with white-vine initial 'D' and white-vine lower border in gold, blue, green, pink and white (with laurel wreath with blank space for arms; later, unidentified arms added in brown ink), rubricated chapter headings, initials in blue, early foliation in Arabic numerals in upper margin, catchwords on final page of quires, Arabic numeration of quires preserved on first page of several gatherings. Bound in old 17th-century vellum, pattern of pricked holes (for straps?) on lower cover, vellum sewing stays at middle of quires, red sprinkled edges. Minor rubbing and edge wear to spine and covers. Copiously annotated (see below), some rubbing, staining edge wear to f. 1r, minor to moderate occasional spotting and staining (mostly marginal), one to two letters of a few marginal annotations trimmed at fore-edge (not affecting poems), old repairs to inner margin of ff. 8-11, leaves of fourth quire out of order due to scribal error and misbinding, text perfectly legible, neatly and consistently written. Fine, 15th-century Florentine vernacular manuscript – illuminated on its opening page with the 'white-vine' motif made famous by Tuscan illuminators of the Quattrocento – of Giovanni Boccaccio's (1313-75) renowned treatise De mulieribus claris (Famous Women), "the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted exclusively to women" and a work considered to be "the fountainhead of the European tradition of female biography" (V. Brown, pp. xii and xxii). The present manuscript preserves the first volgare translation of Boccaccio's original Latin text, an Italian rendering (Delle famose donne) made by Donato degli Albanzani di Casentino (d. 1411), a Venetian schoolmaster and friend of the author. Donato degli Albanzani began his translation in the 1360s, "almost contemporaneously" (Scarpati, p. 211) with Boccaccio writing the original work, which he first composed in 1361/1362 but revised several times in the following years. The present volume was expertly written out in a mercantesca libraria script, signed and dated (1 September 1456) by the noted scribe Francesco di Pagolo Piccardi (active 1440s-70s), who was working at the behest of the prominent Florentine cartolaio Angolo Tucci (1395-1476) (see below). The volume also contains copious later marginal annotations in several hands, including poems on prominent women by Bernardo Accolti (1458-1535) and Raffaello Gualtieri (fl. 1550s-70s), as well as several pieces which are yet to be identified (see below). While the manuscript tradition of Boccaccio's Latin De mulieribus claris has received sustained scholarly attention over the last century (see especially Branca), much work (and indeed even a proper census) remains to be done on this earliest of vernacular translations, especially considering that during the Trecento and Quattrocento the greater part of female readership of the Famous Women would have experienced the text not in the Latin, but in the volgare. Inspired by Petrarch's (1304-74) De viris illustribus (Lives of Famous Men; a title Donato degli Albanzani also translated into the volgare), Boccaccio in the De mulieribus claris penned 103 chapters on classical goddesses and female mythological figures (e.g., Juno, Minerva, Isis, Medea, Arachne, Medusa), 'historical' women of the ancient world (Helen, Dido, Sappho, Lucretia, Cleopatra, Agrippina), and prominent women who lived in post-classical times (Empress Irene of Constantinople, Queen Joanna of Jerusalem and Sicily, the Sienese widow Camiloa, the infamous 'Pope Joan'). Boccaccio notably excludes the vast pantheon of female Christian saints (who had already been adequately covered in the hagiographical tradition). He sought to record for posterity the stories of women renowned for any sort of deed – including both 'good' and 'bad' women – and although he rarely cites his sources, his stories typically derive from classical authors newly elevated in the wake of Petrarchan humanism, including Livy, Ovid, Pliny the Elder, Statius, Suetonius, Valerius Maximus, and Virgil. Boccaccio composed the De mulieribus claris at Certaldo between the summer of 1361 and the summer of 1362. He dedicated his treatise to Andrea Acciaiuoli, Countess of Altavilla, a Tuscan noblewoman living in southern Italy, who was the sister of Niccolò Acciaiuoli, an old friend of Boccaccio and a major power behind the throne of Joann, Queen of Naples. Donato degli Albanzani, our translator, first met Boccaccio in Ravenna in 1346, while at the court of Ostasio da Polenta, but a friendship between the two scholars took root only later, during Boccaccio's visit to Venice in 1363, where he was a guest of Petrarch at the Palazzo Molin sulla Riva degli Schiavoni. Donato began his translation of the De mulieribus claris in the mid-1360s, and is believed to have presented a preliminary version of his work to Boccaccio in 1368 when he visited the writer at Padua. Donato's translation would not be fully finished, however, until sometime after he moved to Ferrara in 1381 to work as chancellor to Alberto d'Este and as tutor in the d'Este household. He dedicated the completed translation to his pupil Niccolò III d'Este, son of Alberto (see Zaccaria, pp. 132-6). "Among the most popular works in the last age of the manuscript book" (Brown, p. xii), both in its Latin and vernacular versions, the Famous Women immediately exerted a considerable influence on authors across Europe, including Geoffrey Chaucer, who inserted a translation of the entire chapter on Zenobia as one of the stories that makes up The Monk's Tale, and Christine de Pizan, who used Boccaccio's work as a point of departure for her Livre de la cité des dames (1405). "The Famous Women also inspired many imitators in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, among whom are Iacopo Filippo Foresti (De plurimis claris selectisque mulieribus), Giovanni Sabbadino degli Arienti (Gynevera de la clare donne), Alvaro de Luna (De las virtuosas y claras mujeres), Alonso of Cartagena (De las mujeres ilustres), and Thomas Elyot's Defense of Good Women" (Brown, p. xxii). Fascinatingly, the present manuscript includes numerous, later marginal additions attesting to the fact that Boccaccio's treatise was carefully read well into the 17th-century. Ottava rima poems treating Semiramis (f. 2r.), Medea (19r), Helen (39r), Lucretia (53v), and Cleopatra (101r), all written out in the same 16th-century hand, are the work of the renowned poet Bernardo Accolti (1458-1535; called 'L'Unico Aretino'). At ff. 45v-46r is a sonnet on Dido (itself glossed with relevant lines from Book IV of the Aeneid) by the poet Raffaello Gualtieri of Arezzo (fl. 1550s-70s). These poems were published together in the Libro terzo delle rime di diversi nobilissimi et eccellentissimi autori nuovamente raccolte (Venice, 1550), but they appear there in readings that differ from those found in this Boccaccio manuscript, suggesting that the annotator was perhaps working from a manuscript collection of poems (or, indeed, working from memory). In any case, a thoughtful addition of contemporary poems about famous women to a volume of Boccaccio's Delle famose donne that was written out a century earlier certainly warrants further examination given the context of wider Cinquecento debates about women then raging on the Italian peninsula (e.g., in Baldassare Castiglione's Il Cortegiano). Further annotations in the manuscript include a passage from Aesop's "De Gallo et Jaspide" (a popular school text, here added to Boccaccio's chapter on Jocasta; f. 26r) and unidentified poems at entries on Semiramis (2v), Juno (5r), Hypermnestra (15r), Almathea (27r), Pocris (29v-30r), and Flora (75r), as well as various lines of devotional verse (e.g., 52r, 133v), monetary notes, mathematical calculations, and the like. One annotator records (at fol. 80r) the planting of parsley on Monday, 4 August 1567, while another signs fol. 62v "5 November 1663 from Florence." The names 'sammoello dangnolo' and 'antonio dangnolo dale corti' are written in the margins of ff. 120r and 121r, and the opening page on the manuscript is inscribed by Bartolomeo (?) Cipriani: An 'Antonio d'Agnolo di Battista dalle Corti' and a 'Bartolome Cipriani' are attested as living in the Tuscan town of Greve in Chianti during, respectively, the 1570s and 1660s-1670s (C. Baldini, pp. 172 and 183; I Baldini, pp. 51 and 209) and perhaps should be associated with the manuscript. The manuscript's colophon reads: "Questo libro e schritto p(er) me Francesco di Pagolo Piccardi a pitizione Dangiolo Tucci cartolaio ad p(rim)o di sette(m)bre 1456. Iddio lodato." The scribe Francesco di Pagolo Piccardi seems to have specialized in the writing of vernacular manuscripts, recording his name in Italian translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and of Livy, in a copy of Boccaccio's Il Ninfale Fiesolano, and in an ottava rima pilgrim's guide to Santiago de Compostella. His earliest surviving effort, dated 27 August 1444, is, in fact, another copy of Bocaccio's Delle famose donne, which he wrote out while a prisoner at Florence's infamous Carcere delle Stinche (see Cursi, p. 184, no. 20; Pavia, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS Aldini 249). Agnolo Tucci (1395-1476) was cartolaio to the Badia in Florence (from 1451 to 1467), managing shops located opposite Sant'Apollinare and the Camera del Comune. His business was taken over at his death by his son Bartolome d'Agnolo Tucci (1427-1525), who employed several well-known Florentine illuminators of the later Quattrocento (see Commissioni, p. 21). Further manuscripts identified as having been by written by the scribe Pagolo Piccardi are: Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. lat. 3933, dated 1473; Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Capp. 243, dated 1454; Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana 1517 (Q. III. 9), dated 1463; Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Acq. e doni 145, dated 1455; Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, II. IV. 17, Conv. Soppr. B. V. 2582, dated 1470; Florence. Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Palat. 583, dated 1475; Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale, Vitt. Em. 488; Torino, Biblioteca Nazionale, N. I. 14.; Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits Italiens, ms. n. 900-8773 (on manuscripts signed by Pagolo Piccardi see, S. Mattiazzo, p. 207, no. 184). Watermarks are of the letter 'P', and although buried in the gutter (as expected in a quarto book) and thus impossible to examine with precision, they are consistent throughout the volume and are very like Briquet 8971, which is localized to Siena 1454-57 and Florence 1461-62. We have located only 1 example of Donato degli Albanzani's Delle famose donne at a U.S. institution (New Haven, Yale, Beinecke Library, MS 398) and just 6 further global copies (Pavia, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS Aldini 249; London, British Library, MS Add. 16. 435; Oxford, Bodleian, MS Canon. It. 86; Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS Palat. E. 5. 6. 60; Torino, Bib. Univ., Cod. E. IV, 29 (Lat. 1047); and Montecassino, MS 528, s. xv [see, Inguanez, vol. 3, pp. 185-6; Tosti, pp. 7-14]). Indeed, while manuscripts of Boccaccio's Latin De mulieribus claris survive in much greater numbers than do manuscripts of Albanzani's translation (V. Branca traces some 110 Latin copies, although 30 of these are damaged, incomplete, or excerpts), these too are quite rare in the United States, with just 3 examples having been recorded (New Haven, Yale, Beinecke Library, Marston MS 62; Wellesley, Mass., Wellesley College, MS 843; Cambridge, Harvard, MS Richardson 41 [fragment]; see, V. Branca). * G. Manzoni, Delle Donne Famose de Giovanni Boccacci, traduzione di M. Donato degli Albanzani di Casentino, detto L'Apenninigena, (1881); V. Brown, ed. and trans., Giovanni Boccaccio. Famous Women; V. Zaccaria, "I volgarizzamenti del Boccacco latino à Venezia," in V. Branca and G. Padoan, eds., Boccaccio, Venezia e il Veneto, pp. 131-52; L. Tosti, e.d, Volgarizzamento di Maestro Donato da Casentino dell'opera di Messer Boccaccio De claris mulieribus; C. Scarpati, "Note sulla fortuna editorial del Boccaccio: I volgarizzamenti cinquecenteschi delle opere latine," in G. Tournoy, ed., Boccaccio in Europe, pp. 209-20; A. Altamura, "Donato da Casentino: Un volgarizzamento trecentesco del De Claris mulieribus del Boccaccio," Atti e memorie della R. Accademia Petrarca di Lettere Arte e Scienze, vol. 24 (1938), pp. 265-71; L. Toretta, "Il Liber de claris mulieribus, Parte III: I traduttori del Liber de claris mulieribus," Giornale storico della letteratura italiana, vol. 40 (1902), pp. 35-50; F. Novati, "Donato degli Albanzani alla corte estense," Archivio storico italiano, ser. 5, vol. 6 (1890), pp. 365-85; V. Branca, Tradizione delle opere di Giovanni Boccaccio, vol. 1, "Un primo elenco dei codici e tre studi," pp. 92-98, and vol. 2, "Un secondo elenco di manoscritti e studi sul testo del 'Decameron' con due appendici," pp. 57-62; M. Franklin, Boccaccio's Heroines: Power and Virtue in Renaissance Society; I. Baldini, Pievi, parrocchie e castelli de Greve in Chianti; C. Baldini, Statuti della lega di Val di Greve; M. Cursi, "'Con molte sue fatiche': copisti in carcere alle Stinche alla fine del Medioevo (secoli XIV e XV)," in In uno volumine: Studi in onore di Cesare Scalon, ed. L. Pani, pp. 151-92; C. Guerzi, "Un manoscritto ferrarese del tempo di Niccolò III d'Este: il De mulieribus claris della Bodleian Library di Oxford (Canon. it. 86) e il suo miniatore," in Intorno a Boccaccio, ed. S. Zamponi, pp. 157-77; M. P. Mussini Sacchi, "Le ottave epigrammatiche di Bernardo Accolti nel ms. Rossiano 680," Interpres, vol. XV (1995-96), pp. 219-301; S. Mattiazzo, Di mia propria mano. Le sottoscrizioni dei copisti "italiani" del Quattrocento nei codici della Bibloteca Riccardiana di Firenze; R. Daniels, Boccaccio and the Book: Production and Reading in Italy 1340-1520; F. Zambrini, Serie delle edizioni delle opere di Giovanni Boccacci: Latine, volgare, tradotte, pp. 21-7; A. Hortis, Studi sulle Opere Latine del Boccaccio, pp. 930-31.

[AMERICAN ABOLITIONISM ~ 1834]. Picture of Slavery; In The United States of America by Bourne, George

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Title: [AMERICAN ABOLITIONISM ~ 1834]. Picture of Slavery; In The United States of America
Author: Bourne, George
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Description: Middletown, Connecticut: Edwin Hunt, 1834. First Edition. Good. 8vo. (6" x 3.75"): 1 f. (frontispiece), [iv] 5-227, [1] pp. (final unnumbered page = Index), COMPLETE with all eleven full-page woodcut plates of which one is the frontispiece (foxing throughout as is true in all copies on account of the paper stock, though the paper is strong; front endleaf excised). Original publisher's brown cloth binding (visible vertical split in cloth on spine but structure perfectly sound), printed paper spine label affixed upside down (darkened, worn and almost illegible; spine evidently with old glue consolidation "repair" at head and tail, for which SEE IMAGES). DISTURBINGLY ILLUSTRATED, THIS IS THE TRUE FIRST EDITION OF THIS WITHERING INDICTMENT OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES, DENOUNCING SLAVE-HOLDERS AS "STEALERS OF MEN," AND PROCLAIMING SLAVES TO BE "U.S. CITIZENS." OUR AUTHOR IS CONSIDERED TO BE ONE OF AMERICA'S FIRST RADICAL ABOLITIONISTS, WHO NOT ONLY EXCLUDED SLAVE OWNERS FROM HIS CONGREGATION, BUT CHARGED SLAVEHOLDING MINISTERS WITH SACRILEGE. George Bourne's "Picture of Slavery" is a highly charged attack on the practice of slavery, an "appalling and atrocious criminality," illustrated by eleven alarming full-page woodcuts which, despite their amateurish execution, graphically portrayed the horrific mechanisms for the sale of human beings, and many of the lifelong sufferings that ensued, including: "Ladies Whipping Girls" "Selling Females by the Pound" "Flogging American Women" (depicting a female slave tied to a fence by her neck and whipped) "Torturing American Citizens" (depicting a male slave tied to a tree and being whipped) "A Slave Plantation" (depicting a slave-owner whipping a line of slaves) "Exchanging Citizens for Horses" (SIGNED "[G.W.] Flag del.," depicting three slaves being sold, one of whom weeps) "Tanning a Boy" (SIGNED "H.A. Munson," depicting a white boy who was allegedly captured and enslaved, and was given baths in a tanning solution to darken his skin) "Auction at Richmond," etc. Then, as now, these illustrations are upsetting in the extreme. Bourne's argument that slavery is contrary to Biblical teachings was in his day a novel one, claiming (correctly) that slavery is effectively "stealing" and therefore violates the Eighth Commandment (Exodus 20:15). In 1815 his vehement and uncompromising abolitionist views led to his expulsion from the Lexington Presbytery, where he had been a minister. The present text includes Bourne's text from his extremely rare 1816 "The Book and Slavery Irreconcilable," to which he added much new material as well as ALL the harrowing illustrations. Born in England in 1780, Bourne is credited with delivering the first public demands for "immediate, unconditional, and universal emancipation" and demanded that "NO compensation should be given to the planters [i.e. slave-holders]." He died in NYC in 1845. PROVENANCE: Bookplate of John Watson Christie (small cabin on a wooded lakeshore) designed by H.B. (or H.L.B.). This individual is certainly the John W. Christie (1883-1974) of Wilmington, Delaware, and Rev. of Westminster Presbyterian Church (see the crosses within circles flanking the words "Ex Libris"). Christie was the author of GEORGE BOURNE and the Book and Slavery Irreconcilable (Wilmington and Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Delaware and the Presbyterian Historical Society, 1969) and there can be no doubt that THIS COPY would have been an obvious source of information and inspiration. Concerning Christie and his research on Bourne, see H. Clay Reed's review of Christie's book in "Western Pennsylvania History" (April, 1970) pp. 188-190. To our knowledge there are NO other copies of the first edition currently on the market. Afro-Americana 1414. Sabin 6921.

The Life and Adventures of MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT (20 parts in 19) by [Dickens, Charles]

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Title: The Life and Adventures of MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT (20 parts in 19)
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Description: 1843. Browne, Hablot K.. ["With the Publisher's Compliments"] His Relatives, Friends, and Enemies. Comprising all his wills and his ways; with an historical record of what he did, and what he didn't. Edited by Boz. With Illustrations by "Phiz." London: Chapman & Hall, 1843-1844. Original light blue-green pictorial wrappers. First Edition, as originally issued in 20-in-19 monthly serial parts, beginning in January 1843 and ending in July 1844. With MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT, Dickens reverted to the conventional method of serializing his novels, with monthly parts each illustrated with two engraved plates; after NICHOLAS NICKLEBY he had experimented with the idea of a weekly serial (under the umbrella-title "Master Humphrey's Clock") illustrated with woodcuts within the text -- in which format THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP and BARNABY RUDGE had been introduced to the public. This set includes of course all forty H.K. Browne ("Phiz") plates -- two each in the first 18 parts, then four in the final double-number; all are in quite clean condition (though browned in Part XVI, and with darkened margins in Parts V and XIV). The vignette title plate supplied in the final part has the curious reading "100 " (not, as is often claimed, an issue point, but simply a matter of several steels being used to print the etchings simultaneously). As is frequently the case, there are several wrappers that are "supplied" from other copies: the Part XV front wrapper is a carefully-amended Part XVII from another set, and three rear wrappers (IX, X and XIX/XX) were similarly transferred -- discernible only by the content of the inside advertisements. As for ads, CHUZZLEWIT is one of the more difficult "Dickens in parts" to find complete, due to the plethora of inserted advertisements. This set lacks a few leaves from the preliminary "Advertiser"s, and maybe a dozen other individual insets; it also includes maybe ten insets NOT called for -- reflecting how haphazard this process of inserting ads was. Included are all three Christmas Carol slips, and three of the uncommon E. Moses 32-page booklets of verse. (Ask for further detail.) The front wrapper of the final XIX/XX part is inkstamped "With the Publisher's Compliments" -- which we have not seen before. Condition is very good (XIX/XX wrapper darkened, some spines carefully restored, minor edge-wear). Hatton & Cleaver pp 183-212. Housed in two chemises within a (worn) morocco-backed slipcase.

Vintage Original Photograph Signed by ZUKOR, Adolph

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Description: 1950. ("Adolph Zukor") in dark blue fountain pen ink on a 3/4 length portrait of Adolph Zukor wearing a three-piece suit, long silk tie, white shirt, gold chain for his pocket watch, looking into the camera. Photograph is on heavy weight stock; matte finish; 8" x 10". Fine. ca. 1950. Signed and inscribed: "To Satoru Yamano best wishes Adolph Zukor." Provenance: from the collection of Satoru Yamano.. Signed by Author(s). No Binding. Fine/No Jacket.

L'ODYSSEE IMAGINAIRE by Beltrami, Michel

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Title: L'ODYSSEE IMAGINAIRE
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Miami, the sophisticated tropics by Beebe, Morton

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Notes on Aaron's Rod and Other Notes on Lawrence from the Paris Notebooks (Signed & Limited) by MILLER, Henry; Seamus Cooney, ed

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Title: Notes on Aaron's Rod and Other Notes on Lawrence from the Paris Notebooks (Signed & Limited)
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Description: Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. First Edition. Limited issue. Of 276 copies in boards, this is "V" of 26 copies with a leaf signed by Miller in folding rear pocket. Octavo; quarter-bound in red morocco over pictorial paper-covered boards; unprinted acetate dustjacket; slipcase; 59pp. A Fine copy in the original publisher's acetate dustwrapper and unprinted card slipcase, also Fine.

Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient. Reflections on Healing and Regeneration. by Cousins, N. and Dubos, R.

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Title: Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient. Reflections on Healing and Regeneration.
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Description: New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 1979. First edition, 5th printing. SIGNED--BESTSELLING PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF DISEASE BY A PATIENT--FIRST PUBLISHED AS AN ARTICLE IN THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE. 14x21.5 cm hardcover, beige paper covered boards, maroon cloth spine with gilt title, inscribed on free front endpaper, "for Charles Manatt, Sincerely, Norman Cousins", 173 pp, near-fine in very good price-clipped jacket in protective mylar sleeve. NORMAN COUSINS (1915 - 1990) was an American political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate. In the 1950s, Cousins played a prominent role in bringing the Hiroshima Maidens, a group of twenty-five Hibakusha, to the United States for medical treatment. Cousins became an unofficial ambassador in the 1960s, and his facilitating communication between the Holy See, the Kremlin and the White House helped lead to the Soviet-American test ban treaty, for which he was thanked by President John F. Kennedy and Pope John XXIII, His proudest moment by his own reckoning, however, was when Albert Einstein called him to Princeton University to discuss issues of nuclear disarmament and world federalism. Cousins also served as Adjunct Professor of Medical Humanities for the School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he did research on the biochemistry of human emotions, which he long believed were the key to human beings' success in fighting illness. It was a belief he maintained even as he battled heart disease, which he fought both by taking massive doses of Vitamin C and, according to him, by training himself to laugh. Late in life Cousins was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis), although this diagnosis is currently in doubt and it has been suggested that Cousins may actually have had reactive arthritis. His struggle with this illness is detailed in the article he wrote for the New England Journal of Medicine in 1976, expanded into the book offered here, and made into the film, Anatomy of an Illness. Told that he had little chance of surviving, Cousins developed a recovery program incorporating megadoses of Vitamin C, along with a positive attitude, love, faith, hope, and laughter induced by Marx Brothers films. "I made the joyous discovery that ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep," he reported. "When the pain-killing effect of the laughter wore off, we would switch on the motion picture projector again and not infrequently, it would lead to another pain-free interval." Cousins received the Albert Schweitzer Prize in 1990. He died of heart failure on November 30, 1990, in Los Angeles, California, having survived years longer than his doctors predicted. PROVENANCE: CHARLES TAYLOR MANATT (1936 - 2011) was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1981 to 1985. He also served as Ambassador to the Dominican Republic from 1999 to 2001. He was the founder of the law firm Manatt, Phelps, and Phillips LLP, where his practice focused on international, administrative, and corporate law.

James Robert Dunbar: A Memorial by Bar Association of the City of Boston

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Description: 1916. [Fine Printing]. [Boston Legal History]. Bar Association of the City of Boston. James Robert Dunbar: A Memorial. Boston: Privately Printed at the Merrymount Press, 1916. 44 pp. Portrait frontispiece with tissue overlay. Original cloth, gilt titles to spine and front board. Owner inscription to front free endpaper, interior otherwise clean. $45. * An elegant memorial volume celebrating the life and career of James Robert Dunbar (1847-1915), a towering figure of the Massachusetts legal establishment. Dunbar served with distinction as a two-term state senator and as a Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court. The text compiles heartfelt, elite contemporary tributes from his peers at the Boston Bar, offering a deep window into early 20th-century New England jurisprudence. Beautifully printed on premium paper by D.B. Updike at the legendary Merrymount Press, this volume is an excellent specimen of fine American typography. A scarce piece of legal history.

THE THRONE OF SATURN by Wright, S. Fowler

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Title: THE THRONE OF SATURN
Author: Wright, S. Fowler
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Description: THE THRONE OF SATURN, Arkham House, 1949, first edition, vg+ or better in like dust-wrapper. 1/3,000 copies.

Sophie Du Pont, a Young Lady in America; Sketches, Diaries, & Letters, 1823-1833 by Du Pont, Sophie

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Title: Sophie Du Pont, a Young Lady in America; Sketches, Diaries, & Letters, 1823-1833
Author: Du Pont, Sophie
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Description: New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. By Betty-bright Low and Jacqueline Hinsley. 192p., many colored and b/w illus., dj.

Mer-Child

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Title: Mer-Child
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Description: 1991. Fine. . Mer-Child. NP: NP, 1991. 1st edition. 55pp. 8vo. Cloth. Book condition: Near fine. The spine ends are evr so slightly rubbed. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine.

Improvement Era vol XI No.4 Feb. 1908

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Title: Improvement Era vol XI No.4 Feb. 1908
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Description: YMMIA, 1908. Very Good. Improvement Era vol XI No.4 Feb. 1908. Salt Lake City: YMMIA, 1908. 8vo. Wraps. Book condition: Very good.

Arthurian Literature in Middle Ages: A Collaborative History by Loomis, Roger Sherman

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Title: Arthurian Literature in Middle Ages: A Collaborative History
Author: Loomis, Roger Sherman
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ISBN: 9780198115885
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Description: London: Oxford University Press, 2001. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. Special edition. xvi, 563pp+index. Previous owner's ink name on front free endpaper, else a very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

So Excellent a Fishe, A Natural History of Sea Turtles. by Carr, Archie.

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Title: So Excellent a Fishe, A Natural History of Sea Turtles.
Author: Carr, Archie.
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Description: Garden City, NY: The American Museum of Natural History, The Natural History Press, 1967. Octavo, cloth (hardcover), gilt lettering, x, 248 pp. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with sunned spine. From dust jacket: In 1620, the Bermuda Assembly passed a law to inhibit fishermen who “snatch & catch up indifferentlye all kinds of Tortoyses both yonge and old little and great and soe carrye awaye and devoure them to the much decay of so excellent a fishe...” To the seamen of the Spanish Main, the green turtle was as important as the buffalo farther north. There were countless numbers of sea turtles on the Caribbean beaches when the sailors first arrived, but as they were slaughtered for food they soon all but disappeared. Today the marine turtle is still revered by the gourmet. There is, however, another reason for halting its extinction: the sea turtle performs some of the most complex navigational manoeuvres known in the animal world, as it travels from its feeding grounds to its place of birth to nest -- a trip over 1400 miles of ocean with absolutely no “landmarks” to guide it. For over a decade Archie Carr has been living in the Caribbean -- studying the green turtle and its remarkable migration; the result of his research in this volume -- a natural history of this “so excellent a fishe” as only a great naturalist writer can tell it.

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