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Rufus King Tries to Save the Finances of America's Post-Revolution Government by RUFUS KING

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Title: Rufus King Tries to Save the Finances of America's Post-Revolution Government
Author: RUFUS KING
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Description: "The impost alone then can afford us relief?if established it will authorize such pecuniary negotiations as will greatly relief the national embarrassments, and in a short time fix the Faith and honor of our Country upon a solid foundation." Rufus King likely composed these notes in 1786, as crushing war debt, increasing sectional prejudices, and foreign intrigue?worsened by the Confederation Congress' persistent inability to perform the most basic functions of governance?led many to fear that the experiment in liberty was about to fail. The Confederation Congress sent him and James Monroe to attempt to convince the legislature of Pennsylvania to alter its demand that all other states support both an impost and a supplementary fund tax in return for its support. While in Philadelphia in September 1786, King, an accomplished orator, made what was perhaps his best speech. Late in the nineteenth century, his biographer believed that no trace of the speech's "nature, scope, or topics" had survived. These notes may be a long-lost outline for that speech. RUFUS KING. Autograph Document, n.d. (ca. 1786), n.p. Titled in another, likely later, hand, "Funding a Debt Notes of Speech" and "Funding Revolutionary Debt." Written in four columns per side; on J. Coles Britannia water-marked paper. 2 pp., 12 x 16 in. Complete TranscriptThe object of this application is the separation of the Imp. & S.F. ? 1 The System of Ap. 18.1783 consists of two parts the F. & the S.F. The first is a departure from the rule of confed: for the defraying fed. Expences-the Proposal waranted by that power wh. Authorizes Cong: to agree & propose alterations. The 2d part. is in near conformity with the powers of Cong: and varies only from a pd: Reg: for monies in the proposal that the collection shd be federal & not state 2 A statement of the compliances of the States with the system, as well with the first as the second part?and the Reason why one has been acceeded to more generally than the other?viz external and internal Taxes. The one remote and optional with the purchaser the other immediate and inevitable. the Collectors of one confined to ye merchts and of the other applying to every Citizen. 3 Admitting the wisdom of the S.F. what is the probability of its adoption? The same objections lie agt it as formerly-if past reasonings have not been able to induce its adoption, little success will attend what may be farther urged. If only 2 states have acceeded in the course of more than 3 yrs, a period including the strongest motives in favor of its adoption, how many more years must elapse before its unanimous approbation. Indeed measuring by this scale, the conclusion is inevitable, that reason must reject farther expectation. (It may be wise then to examine the merits of this part of the system a little farther) Admitting a presumption that by a farther reliance on this part of the system it may eventually be agreed to, yet this Policy must be opposed by the Dangers to wh a violation of public engagemts will expose the Union. 4 But if the sup. F. must be obtained, why delay putting the Imp. In operation until that Event? Will the operation of the impost defeat the Grant of the S.F.? certainly not. Cong: will urge the grant of the S.F. The public creditors will be as numerous, as widely scattered as they now are. What one motive will be weakened? They will all remain in full force, farther they will be increased. 5 But it may be said as the States are bound to pay requisitions, no inconvenience will follow from suspendg the Imp. until the S.F. are agreed to, especially as the state imposts go to Congress at this time in discharge of the Reqs. The small product of the Reqs, when compared with the agregate amt of the present state Impts demonstrate the Error of this suggestion. for the last two years the whole Rects in specie under Reqs have been less than the probable amt of the state Impt of Pensylvania. The truth is the Imp. at present is appropriated in some states solely to creditors on the proper state Debt, in most to the general object of state & federal Demands. in the first case no aid is thereby yielded to the US. In the last federal demands are postponed to state objects. this single remark shows why Reqs are so very unproductive. The taxes for state and fed. purposes are united. The state always has the preference & the deficiencies of the taxes fall upon the US. 6 that the deficiency and uncertainty of Reqs is not ideal [recur?] to the act of Cong. of the 15. of Feb. 86. That the public Engagements are definite and inevitable. recur to the Schedule of ye Foreign Debt. In this Dilemma of the public Honor, Justice, & Integrity, what is the Relief. For the purposes of the F Debt only before the expiration of the year 87 it is necessary to provide (see the Req. of this year) The interest on the dom. Debt must likewise by discharged. Will you expect to acquire this sum by Reqs? No, observe the Objects important and equally indispensable which depend on Reqs. The Civil Govmt. The support of your Troops, the Redemption of your fellow Citizens in Captivity. the Impost alone then can afford us relief. although its immediate product would be insufficit to all the public Demands in actual money, yet if established it will authorize such pecuniary negotiations as will greatly relief the national Embarrassments, and in a short Time fix the Faith and honor of our Country upon a solid foundation 7 the Impost is proposed to operate for 25 yrs or until the N Debt is paid Admit its product to be annually 900,000 Dollars. the For. Debt is estimated at abt 9 Mils of Dollars at an int. say of 4� prCent. if the product of this Imp. is appd wholly to the for. Debt it will wholly extinguish it in less than 14 years not to suppose better loans The whole product of it will be afterwards vigorous[ly] applied to the D. Debt ? 8 But there may be objections of a less general nature and applying particularly to Pen. agt the separation proposed. the condition of the federal Debt in that state is peculiar and they differ in this particular from any other state. Here I presume truly is the difficulty. to illustrate this subject examine the situation of Pen. relative to the Creditors of the Union wh. are her Citizens, relative also to her own proper Creditors, and the Funds of this state as originally [formed?] & since altered. On the 16 Mar. 85 the Fund. Bill pas this provided for the payment of the full Quota of the intt on the wh. Fed Debt in the mode [therein?] established to the Citz of Pen. Crs of the US. ? The Funds were the Taxes levied for the 2d moiety of the 8 Mils. And the Req. for 2 mil. Of Dols 2 The various Impost passed at divers Times (say three Times) &3 an annual Tax of 76,945.17. 6 equal to the Quot. of Pen. of the SF.the appropriation was 123,932t annually for Fed. purposes.the payment of the int. of the proper state Debt except Depreciation Notes & more funded on the exciseand the arrears of 130 t [Wy?]to the Heirs of the Penn Family. On 1 Mar. 86 the act for the Relief of Pub. Crs or commutation act passedOn 8 Mar 86 the act complying wit the Requsit. of 27 Sep. 1785On the 8. Ap 86, the act being a supplement to the act granting the Impost- & restrains the Operat. of the Im. & S.F. by providing that the US pay one yrs interest on all the Debt of the US in ye Hands of the Comptroler of Pen. These were the Objects of the Fund. Bill. Estimating the Debt as stated in Ap. 1783 it is thusFor. Debt 7,885,085Dom. Debt 34,115,290 42,000,375 Int on F. Debt at 4 or 5 pC. 369,038.6Int on D Debt at 6 pC. 2,046,917.2 2,415,956 Deduct SF 1,500,000 Balance for ye Impt 915,956 Pen. Quota of ye aggregate �123,932.0.0 Quot. Sup. Funds 76,945.17.6 Quot. of Impt 46,986. 2.6 The Fund. Bill proposes an anual tax of a sum equal tot the Quotas of the S.F. viz ? �76,945.17.6 By a report of the committee of ways & means in Decr 1784 preceding the Fundg Bill the product in common years, or one year with another, of the 20 Yr state Impost is stated at ? � 83,232.__ Deduct so much thereof as is stated as the Quota of Pensyl on the 5 pCt Imp - 46,986.26 and it leaves a balance 36245.17.6 of 36,245.17.6 wh. Pen gains by making a State Cr instead of a General Cr on her Impost. Historical BackgroundIn the 1780s, the newly independent states ignored the Articles of Confederation's yearly voluntary requisitions, leaving the national government insolvent. Their conflicting policies and the lack of a circulating currency through much of the nation made a descent into competing sectional confederacies, or even a return to British-style rule, seem possible, if not likely. The Confederation Congress attempted to remedy this situation in 1781 by passing a tax on imports, but it failed after one state, Rhode Island, refused to cast the necessary vote to pass the bill unanimously. By mid-1786, a new impost bill, with an added Supplementary Fund tax, was headed for a similar fate. It called for a 5 percent tax on all imports and an additional $1.5 million in supplemental funds apportioned based on population to be earmarked for wartime debts. For three years, this bill remained mired in debates. While serving in the General Court of Massachusetts only two years earlier, Rufus King led the opposition against the impost and any increase in federal power, but his short time in the national Congress exposed him to its inability to act. Recognized as an expert in financial and commercial matters, King chaired a committee tasked with assessing the government's finances and lobbying to pass a new tax bill. In mid-February 1786, King's committee submitted resolutions, urging the state legislatures to approve both the impost and the supplementary fund and warning that if the states failed to pass the impost again, Congress would not be "responsible for those fatal Evils which will inevitably flow from a breach of Public faith, pledged by solemn contract, and a violation of those principles of Justice, which are the only solid Basis of the honor and prosperity of Nations."[1] Six months later, almost all of the states?with the notable exception of New York?had heeded this warning and agreed to the impost, but only five states had agreed to the supplementary fund, because it was deeply unpopular. In April, King wrote in frustration to his friend Elbridge Gerry and predecessor as representative of Massachusetts in the Confederation Congress, "Resolves have been passed upon Resolves--and letter after letter has been sent to the deficient States, and all without the desired effect. We are without money or the prospect of it in the Federal Treasury; and the States, many of them, care so little about the Union, that they take no measures to keep a representation in Congress.... Where, my dear friend, will the evils consequent to this inattention in the States terminate? The people of the States do not know their dangerous situation; this torpor and inactivity should alarm the Guardians of the People; but indeed the Legislatures seem the least attentive."[2] The Pennsylvania legislature tied their approval of the impost to the stipulation that all other states approve both taxes, a highly unlikely outcome. Facing the imminent collapse of the government, the Confederation Congress determined to separate the supplementary tax from the impost, in hopes that the impost alone might pass. In mid-August, Congress appointed King and James Monroe as a committee to travel to Philadelphia to convince the Pennsylvania legislature to alter its stance. An inscription in another hand at the top of the first page indicates that King drafted these notes in preparation for a speech. King, an impressive orator, was slated to give a speech to the Pennsylvania legislature during his visit with Monroe. He typically studied carefully, consulted authorities on the subject, and took copious notes. He then reduced them to a short brief or list of points he wanted to make and spoke from those brief statements. Because of the gravity of the situation, King prepared "with great care and diligence" and, for the first time in his life, wrote out his entire speech and memorized it. It did not go well. He soon struggled to remember what he had memorized and in frustration turned to Monroe to continue the argument. After Monroe made a "calm, sensible, logical address," King discarded his attempt to recite his memorized speech and delivered a speech "which he himself has often said was possibly the best and most effective he ever made." According to his grandson and biographer, "no trace remains of the nature, scope, or topics of the speech."[3] This manuscript may be that missing trace. At the top of the first page, King notes that this memo's "object?is the separation of the imp(ost). & S(upplementary). F(und)." Then, in eight numbered sections, he spells out arguments regarding the two taxes, and their effects on the national revenue and debt. For this task, he calculates foreign and domestic debt, interest, and their repayment under the proposed tax plans, noting that the impost's adoption will relieve the "national embarrassments, and in a short time fix the Faith and honor of our Country upon a solid foundation." The larger part of the second page is devoted "particularly to Pen(nsylvania)" and provides calculations based on their debts, funding bills, and quotas. King and Monroe ultimately failed to convince the legislature to alter their stance; the Pennsylvania legislators resolved to postpone action until their next session. Their lack of success in Philadelphia became moot when New York also refused to approve the taxes. In King's home state of Massachusetts, one of the two largest states to agree to the supplementary tax, that tax and a direct tax passed by the state in March 1786 contributed to the outbreak of Shays' Rebellion in the summer of 1786. The prospect of national collapse led to the Annapolis convention, and then the Constitutional Convention. In 1787, at age 32, King was one of the youngest of the delegates in Philadelphia, and one of the Constitutional Convention's most capable orators. He came unconvinced that major changes should be made in the Articles of Confederation but underwent a startling change during the debates. With Madison, he became a leading figure in the nationalist caucus. Rufus King (1755-1827) was born in Massachusetts (now Maine) as the son of a prosperous merchant and graduated from Harvard College in 1777. He began reading law but volunteered for militia duty in 1778. He served as an aide to General John Sullivan with the rank of major. He returned to his legal study, gained admission to the bar in 1780, and began a practice in Newburyport, Massachusetts. From 1783 to 1785, he served in the Massachusetts General Court, and Massachusetts sent him to the Confederation Congress from 1784 to 1787. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and served on the Committee of Style and Arrangement with Alexander Hamilton in preparing a draft of the United States Constitution, which King signed. At Hamilton's suggestion, King moved to New York City and won election to the New York State Assembly in 1789. He was soon elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served from 1789 to 1796 and later from 1813 to 1825. In 1796, President George Washington appointed King as U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom, a position he held from 1796 to 1803 and again from 1825 to 1826. Though he had been a slaveholder as a young man, King became a prominent opponent of slavery. Condition: Creasing from old folds; scattered ink smudging; uneven offsetting on first page. [1]Worthington Chauncey Ford, John C. Fitzpatrick, et al., eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789, 34 vols.(Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904-1937),30:67-68. [2]Rufus King to Elbridge Gerry, April 30, 1786, in Charles R. King, The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King, 6 vols. (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1894-1900), 1:133-134. [3]King, Life and Correspondence of Rufus King, 1:125-127.

Lucky Jim by Amis, Kingsley

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Title: Lucky Jim
Author: Amis, Kingsley
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1953. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Kingsley Amis on the half title page with an additional autographed letter signed laid-in. 256 pp. Bound in publishers green paper covered boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight lean to binding, light fading to spine and edges, former owner name to front free endpaper and pages lightly tanned. In Near Fine unclipped dust jacket lacking the small "XI" code on the rear panel. First printing jackets have been seen both with and without the code; we are unaware of any known priority between the two variants, though the code was present on the publisher's file copy. Light edge wear, toning and light soiling. With a scarce 1955 Somerset Maugham Award belly band, which has a small closed tear. A bright copy of the author's first novel that facetiously narrates the trials and tribulations of a second-rate red brick university professor, James Dixon. Accompanied by a letter dated August 26h, 1956 penned to a "Miss Shaw" declining an invitation to address the Arts Society that refers to his next unpublished novel I Like It Here, "I've vowed to take on nothing fresh until my next novel is finished. And that won't be six months at least." Scarce signed.

Democracy: An American Novel by Adams, Henry

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Title: Democracy: An American Novel
Author: Adams, Henry
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Description: New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1880. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Mixed state as per BAL with front pastedown dated March 31, 1880 like BAL's A (earliest), 112 on the title page, but lacks signature mark F on p. 65. White linen stamped in black. Very Good with lean to binding, soiling and wear to cloth, spine toned and worn at ends. Former owner inscription to front blank. An early state of the classic American political novel, originally published anonymously.

Les Emblemes by Alciati, Andrea (1492-1550); Jollat, Jean Mercure (1490-1550), translator

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Title: Les Emblemes
Author: Alciati, Andrea (1492-1550); Jollat, Jean Mercure (1490-1550), translator
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Description: Paris: Chrestien Wechel, 1540. FOURTH EDITION IN FRENCH (1st and 2nd eds 1536; 3rd 1539). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 19th c. citron Morocco, gilt. A nice copy, lightly washed, with 16th c. annotations (faded and in some cases irretrievable due to the washing). The washing of the annotations has resulted in some light staining, with occasional shine-through to the image on the verso of the sheet. Very small hole in one leaf. Provenance: Isidoro Fernandez (1878-1963), bookplate. Text in French and Latin, woodcut device on title, another version on final leaf. Illustrated with 113 woodcuts. 33 text leaves have annotations, almost all in the blank margin of the lvs., with bleed-through on about five leaves onto the image on the verso of the sheet. The woodcuts, attributed to Jean "Mercure" Jollat (1490-1550), were first used in Wechel's first Paris edition of 1534. The French translation is the work of Jean Le Fevre (1493-1563), first published by Wechel in 1536. An attractive bilingual French-Latin edition of Alciati's "Emblems", a work that inaugurated a new literary genre and inspired writers and artists -both imitators and innovators- for more than two centuries. Although Alciati first conceived of an "emblem" ("emblema") as an unillustrated epigram that could serve as inspiration for an image (such as a printer's device) but was not dependent on one, in its published incarnation the emblem assumed the now familiar tripartite form: a combination of a symbolic image (eikon, pictura, imago), an epigram (epigramma), and a "motto" (sententia), each element of which contributed to the meaning of the whole. The first edition of Alciati's work appeared in 1531 at Augsburg, with 104 emblems, believed to be by Hans Schäufelein after the Augsburg painter Jörg Breu. In 1534, Chrestien Wechel, at Alciati's request, printed the first of the Paris editions, with new engravings and nine extra emblems. Wechel's editions "set the standard for the popular field of emblematic literature" (Mortimer). The Development of the Emblem Book: On 9 December 1522, Alciati wrote to the publisher Francesco Calvo: "In compliance with the wishes of the illustrious Ambrogio Visconti, I have, at this Saturnalia, composed a book of epigrams, to which I have given the title 'Emblemata'; for I give in each separate epigram a description of something, such that it signifies something pleasant taken from history or from nature, after which painters, goldsmiths, and founders can fashion objects which we call badges (imprese) and which we fasten on our hats, or else bear as trade-marks, such as the anchor of Aldus, the dove of Froben, and the elephant of Calvo, which carries its young for so long without giving birth."(translation by Miedema) The word "emblema" had long been used to signify an objet d'art or decorative inlay; Alciati now gave it a literary meaning. The emblem was the poem, independent of an image, complete in and of itself, in Miedema's words, "an epigram in which something is described so that it signifies something else", or put another way, "epigrams containing descriptions of representations" which could be executed by craftsmen. It was the first printer of Alciati's poems who added images to the "emblems". In 1531, the Augsburg printer Heinrich Steiner printed a collection of Alciati's epigrams that the author had dedicated to Conrad Peutinger. Steiner illustrated the collection with images by Hans Schäufelein, explaining to his readers his intention: to make the meaning of the poems clear to the non-scholar "[W]e thought it the best course if, in passing, we made the meaning of the most worthy author plainer by the means of somewhat crude signs, since in any case the learned will find it for themselves." While Alciati objected to Steiner's unauthorized edition, in 1534 he had the Parisian printer Christian Wechel produce a new edition of his poems, corrected and enlarged, to which the printer added new images by Jean Jollat, with the intention of improving the illustrations just as Alciati had improved the text. The majority of subsequent editions of Alciati's books of emblems (Alciati produced more than one collection of epigrams) would contain illustrations. "We can say then, that in the 1540s the form of the emblem was determined by tradition; that people were aware that the emblem was really an epigram, but that the trio of caption-figure-epigram was the conventional form in which the emblem was presented."(Miedema, The Term Emblema in Alciati, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes , 1968, Vol. 31 (1968), pp. 234- 250) "In 1534 the 'Emblemata' appeared from the press of Chrestien Wechel in Paris, this time authorized. Alciati made no reference at all to the illustrations in his letter to Pietro Bembo, to whom he sent a copy: 'I had written it when I was still very young and after it had become lost by some chance or other, it was published at Augsburg in very mutilated form; which caused me to refuse to acknowledge that child. However, now it has recently been published more faithfully in Paris by a more diligent craftsman, I have taken it back into my favour and presented copies to my best friends; and since you rank highly among them, I felt I could not omit sending you one. Make a poor jurist or rather laugh, in the words of playing to himself on the lyre.' "The publisher, in his dedication to Philibert Baboo, Bishop of Angoulême, drew a sharp distinction between the corrections made in the text by Alciati himself, and the illustrations which had been added by the publisher: 'The book of emblems by Andrea Alciati, which was published in Germany in recent years, and without the author's consent at that, and so carelessly, to put it mildly, that a large number of people explained it as the work of people unfavorably disposed towards him, in an attempt to harm his reputation. Because of this, I considered it my duty with a new edition both to render a service to the reading public and, as far as lies in my power, to wipe out the blame which has been directed at Master Alciati through the slovenliness of the previous edition. Although Alciati was reluctant to put his first attempts at poetry into the hands of the public, I had no difficulty in persuading him, since it was scarcely possible any longer to withhold them, now that they had in any case been published, thanks to others' indiscretion, to retouch them and to lick this unripe, shapeless product into shape like a bear. Accordingly, he removed imperfections, which were everywhere very numerous, he remolded and improved a great deal, and he also added a considerable number [of emblems] so that it seems that only now has the book appeared on the author's own responsibility. For my part, I have striven to the utmost, in making the illustrations, of which there are really as large a number as one can reasonably expect in such a modestly-sized book, that no one could justly accuse me of having shirked the least pains or expense.'(Ibid.) Green, Alciati and his Books of Emblems, 17; Landwehr, Romanic Emblem Books, 21.

Collaborations: Jean-Michel Basquiat & Andy Warhol by BASQUIAT, Jean-Michel and Andy Warhol

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Description: Tokyo: Akira Ikeda Gallery, 1986. Fine in printed cream wraps.. First Edition. Oblong Quarto. Catalogue published to accompany an exhibition of five collaborative works between Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat (Sep. 8 - 30, 1986). Contents: 16 pages. One of 1000 copies.

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Title: Vietnam Photo Album
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Description: [N.p.: n.p., n.d.]. Several images missing, with the mounts present; tissue guards creased and ripped; images generally well-preserved (printed on Agfa paper). Very good overall in illustrated cloth backed spiral-bound boards.. Unique photo album, 10 X 14 1/2 inches, including approximately 120 black-and-white mounted snapshots from a serviceman's tour during the Vietnam War, with tissue guards separating the pages. Features images of American military and Vietnamese civilian life, with photographs of cities, the countryside, a relocation center, medical personnel, soldiers, women, and children. Although the photographer is unknown, it appears he belonged to a medical team that traveled throughout Vietnam during the conflict, providing medical aid to civilians and soldiers throughout the country. A remarkable photographic record that provides ground-level insight into a little-known aspect of the war.

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Title: Four papers in the Lancet by Horsely, Reid, Fenwick & Bennett
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Description: London: John James Croft, 1884. [no.1] Horsley, Sir Victor Alexander Haden (1857-1916). A recent specimen of artificial myxoedema in a monkey, in Lancet, 2, 827, 1884. [no.2] Reid, Robert William (1851-1939). Observations on the relation of the principal fissures and convolutions of the cerebrum to the outer surface of the scalp, in Lancet, 2, 539-40., London, 1884. [no.3] Fenwick, Samuel (1821-1902). Clinical lectures on cases of difficult diagnosis; perforation of the appendic vermiformis, in Lancet, 2, 987-90, 1039-42, 1884. [no.4] Bennett, Alexander Hughes (1848-1901) and Godlee, Sir Rickman John (1849-1925). [Preliminary Report of an] Excision of a Tumour from the Brain, in Lancet, 1884, 2, 1090-91. Whole volume, 1184pp. 190 x 270mm. Library bookplate and stamp inside on the front end paper. Stamp of Dr. Jotham O. Johnson on ffep. Quarter crushed morocco. Gilt lettering on spine. Minor toning. Spine is a bit rubbed, otherwise a very good copy. [no.1] By experimental removal of the thyroid Horsley produced artificial myxoedema, confirming previous work by Reverdin and others. At the time his results were regarded as proof that total thyroidectomy produces operative myxedema, but some of the symptoms he described are now known to have been due to removal of the parathyroids. Garrison-Morton.com No. 3834. [no.2] Reid's base line - the anthropometric base line on the skull. [no.3] In 1884 Fenwich advocated tying off and removal of the perforated appendix. Garrison-Morton.com No. 3566. [no.4] First instance of diagnosis, accurate clinical localization, and operative removal of a tumor in the brain, 25 November, 1884. The patient survived for one month. (See Garrison-Morton.com No. 4858, Case of cerebral tumour. Med.-chir. Trans., 68, 243-75, 1885.).

XLII Esposizione internazionale d'arte la biennale di Venezia. Arte e scienza

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Title: XLII Esposizione internazionale d'arte la biennale di Venezia. Arte e scienza
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So Red the Rose (Original photograph from the set of the 1935 film) by Walter Connolly, Randolph Scott, Margaret Sullavan (starring); King Vidor (director); Maxwell Anderson, Edwin Justus Mayer, Laurence Stallings (screenwriters); Stark Young (novel)

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Title: So Red the Rose (Original photograph from the set of the 1935 film)
Author: Walter Connolly, Randolph Scott, Margaret Sullavan (starring); King Vidor (director); Maxwell Anderson, Edwin Justus Mayer, Laurence Stallings (screenwriters); Stark Young (novel)
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Description: N.p.: N.p., 1935. Vintage reference photograph from the 1935 film, showing King Vidor and a script supervisor talking with Walter Connolly and Randolph Scott on the set. Provenance stamp and annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1934 novel by Stark Young, about a southern aristocrat whose love for her cousin, a Confederate officer, sustains her through the war. 10 x 8 inches. Light creasing to three corners, else Near Fine.

[AMERICANA] [PHOTO] BOSTON. STATE HOUSE AND PARK STREET STOP. BLIZZARD FEBRUARY 1898

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Title: [AMERICANA] [PHOTO] BOSTON. STATE HOUSE AND PARK STREET STOP. BLIZZARD FEBRUARY 1898
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: An albumen photograph of a major snowstorm in February 1898, showing a most wintry view of the State House and Boston Common, and a very early image of the Park Street Subway stop. The Park Street Station was one of three, along with the Public Garden and Boylston. The subway opened in the Fall of 1897, and this image from February 1898 must be one of the earliest. ~~15 1/2 cm. x 20 1/2 cm. mounted on chipped gray cardstock.

Tramp Art, "Return from the Honeymoon Tour" by Anonymous

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Seller: ZH BOOKS

Title: Tramp Art, "Return from the Honeymoon Tour"
Author: Anonymous
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: S. l. (Chicago [?]): s. n. , 1881. Very good. Albumen print on a card mount, behind glass in a tramp art frame, n. d. (print ca 1881, frame ca 1900); image approx. 4 1/4 x 6, frame 6 3/4 x 8; print with a crease to upper left corner, light age-toning, and a few small spots (not examined outside of the frame); frame recto gilded, with minor flaking of paint and light dust-dulling; overall in very good condition.Originally created for Harper's Weekly by Sol Eytinge in 1878, the scene was one in a racist series of African-American caricatures, which revolved around the courtship and marriage of two women - "The Twins." Shown strolling down the street, hand in hand with their new husbands, the features and gestures of the four were greatly exaggerated, mocking their attempts at copying white society's refined manners. Around them were children, friends, and family - staring and pointing - and an older woman, leaning on a tree, almost doubled over in laughter at the spectacle.

The Revenant Road by Boatman, Michael

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Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books

Title: The Revenant Road
Author: Boatman, Michael
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN: 9780979808128
Condition: Very Fine
Description: Cleveland, OH: Drollerie Press, 2009. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Fine. Trade Paperback 8vo., 301pp. Beautiful Unread True First Edition published over four years prior to the DarkFuse release. (ISFDB) Square tight and clean throughout with no discernible wear. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. Inscribed, signed and dated by the author to a fan on the title page, A gorgeous collectable copy of a very scarce title.

Xionia [Signed Limited Edition] by Charles Wright

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Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA

Title: Xionia [Signed Limited Edition]
Author: Charles Wright
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Iowa: Windhover Press, 1990. Near Fine. Iowa: Windhover Press / The University of Iowa, 1990. First Edition, Limited Issue of 250 copies printed on handmade paper and signed by Wright at colophon. Quarto; red cloth-backed boards with paper label to spine; 37pp. No dust jacket as issued. Light shelfwear; binding sound; spotting to top edge of text block; Near Fine.

Text and Image in Medieval Persian Art. (Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art.) by Blair, Sheila S.

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Seller: Ars Libri Ltd

Title: Text and Image in Medieval Persian Art. (Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art.)
Author: Blair, Sheila S.
Seller: Ars Libri Ltd (United States)
Description: Edinburgh (Edinburgh University Press), 2014.. xv, (1), 336pp. Prof. illus. 4to. Cloth. D.j.

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Wholphin, Issue 2

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Seller: Books Tell You Why, Inc.

Title: Wholphin, Issue 2
Seller: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
ISBN: 9781932416657
Condition: Near Fine
Description: McSweeney's. Near Fine. 2006. First Edition; First Printing. 193241665X . This first printing of the first edition is in near fine condition in original shrink wrap. There is a barcode sticker on the back cover of shrink wrap; This is an early copy which includes the bonus disc. Due to rights issues, McSweeney's stopped including the bonus disc; however, packaging referring to the bonus disc was not changed. .

Touring Club Italiano: Volume Quinto: Parte I / Volume Sesto: Parte II (2 vol. set)

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Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB

Title: Touring Club Italiano: Volume Quinto: Parte I / Volume Sesto: Parte II (2 vol. set)
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG- (Slight discoloration to covers; One page torn in vol. II, but whole page is present; Overall very clean and tight)
Description: Milan: Touring Club Italiano, 1935. Hardcover. VG- (Slight discoloration to covers; One page torn in vol. II, but whole page is present; Overall very clean and tight). Beige and green paper covered boards; Green cloth at spine and corners; 253 pp. (vol. I), 253 pp. (vol. II); 475 bw figures, 4 color plates (vol. I), 598 bw figures, 4 color plates (vol. II). 2-volume set; Text in Italian; Features art and architecture of the Tuscany region of Italy; Most of the art is religious in nature.

Zui xin zhen jiu xue wei gua tu. Zhen jiu xue wei gua tu. by [Acupuncture].

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Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books

Title: Zui xin zhen jiu xue wei gua tu. Zhen jiu xue wei gua tu.
Author: [Acupuncture].
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description: Xianggang:: Yi yao wei sheng chu ban she, 1972., 1972. Folio. 87 x 40 cm folded to 40 x 29 cm. 3 color plates. Blue printed wrappers. Very good. RARE. "Latest acupuncture points." Issued with an 80-page booklet, not available here. SOLD AS A COLLECTION OF PLATES.

Germinal by ZOLA, Emile

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA

Title: Germinal
Author: ZOLA, Emile
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Dent & Sons Ltd, 1940. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Very good Fading all along spine. Slight bumping at the corners of the book.

Just 100 Miles from Home: Exploring the Tri-State with Joe Aaron. by Aaron, Joe.

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Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA

Title: Just 100 Miles from Home: Exploring the Tri-State with Joe Aaron.
Author: Aaron, Joe.
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Published by the Author, (1983). First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the Author. Octavo, blue illustrated cloth (hardcover), 259 pp. Very Good, with former-owner inscription. From Introduction: ...I have traveled many thousands of miles along the Tri-State’s back roads and byways since that summer day in 1971 when it all began, pulling a camper trailer behind a pickup truck. I have camped, with a growing nervousness, along the usually placid Wabash when it was not simply a river but a creeping sea of springtime water lapping ever closer to the camper wheels. I have camped at Pennyrile in Old Kaintuck, in fair weather and foul, and have heard the tireless whippoorwill in frivolous song at midnight. I have visited places called Shakerag and Siberia and Dogwalk and Harco, places called Monkey’s Eyebrown and Wamble Mountain and Hell’s Half Acre and Paradise. I have eaten rattlesnake meat deep-fried over a campfire and evaporated salt for my breakfast eggs from the stinking waters near Equality, and on a vine-twisted hillside in Indiana have admired the sandstone sculptures of an artist who lived and died in virtual anonymity. And everywhere I have talked to the people I met along the way -- the endlessly fascinating people, ranging from the Duncan brothers of Golconda to the gentle man they call Mr. Red to Mrs. Robert Barrett of Winslow, whom I will not soon forget. I like to believe that I have taken the pulse of this fair place we call home, that I have defined its character and that I have -- well, that I have sung a love song to it, because I know of no other place I’d rather live. And I hope that I have selected the 91 pieces in this book with enough care that they will catch the flavor of the 800 others that, with tears and anguish, I had to cull out. But what I really hope is that, if you read this book at all, you will enjoy it., That will be about the same as having a best seller.

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