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President William H. Taft Appoints George L. Meyer Secretary of the Navy by William Taft

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Seller: The Raab Collection

Title: President William H. Taft Appoints George L. Meyer Secretary of the Navy
Author: William Taft
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 5/3/09. An uncommon Cabinet appointment, the first of Taft that we have hadOn March 4, 1909, William H. Taft was inaugurated the 27th President of the United States. Due to a blizzard the night before that covered Washington with 10 inches of snow, the inauguration was moved indoors into the Senate Chamber. After he took the oath of office, Taft participated in the inaugural parade. For the first time in inauguration history, the incoming First Lady (Helen Taft) joined her husband in leading the parade, which went from the Capitol to the White House. Then the Tafts attended the inaugural ball.The following day, March 5, Taft went to work at the Oval Office and appointed his Cabinet.George L. Meyer was a member of the Republican National Committeeman. Republican Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt appointed Meyer to ambassadorships in Italy (1900–1905) and Russia (1905–1907). His patrician roots facilitated his interactions with the nobility of Europe, and Roosevelt often used him to deliver messages to Kaiser Wilhelm II. As ambassador to Russia, he presented Roosevelt's proposals for mediating the Russo-Japanese War directly to the Czar. Meyer served as Roosevelt's Postmaster General from 1907–1909, where he directed the introduction of the first stamp vending machines and first coil stamps. Taft appointed Meyer to the position of Secretary of the Navy, a post which Meyer held throughout Taft's term. During this period, the Navy made its first experiments with aviation.Document signed, large folio, Washington, March 5, 1909, Taft’s first day at work as President, appointing Meyer Secretary of the Navy. The Navy secretaryship was a Cabinet position until 1949.Appointments to presidential cabinets are quite uncommon, this being the first of Taft that we have had.

La Creazione, e Le quattro stagioni Poste in musica dal Celebre J. Haydn. Manuscript libretto by [SWIETEN, Gottfried Bernhard van] - HAYDN, Franz Joseph

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Title: La Creazione, e Le quattro stagioni Poste in musica dal Celebre J. Haydn. Manuscript libretto
Author: [SWIETEN, Gottfried Bernhard van] - HAYDN, Franz Joseph
Seller: Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: [Turin?, 1835. Manuscript on paper. 4to (binding size 264 x 197 mm). [26] pp. Contents: Fol. 1r title, verso blank, f. 2r-5v text, La Creazione, incipit: "Raffaele / Creò dapprima Iddio il ciel, la terra; / Ma giaceva la terra informe e vuota," f. 6r half-title for Le quattro Stagioni, 6v-13v text, Le quattro Stagioni, incipit: "Coro di Contadini, e Contadine. / Vieni deh Flora, vieni / Prezioso don del Ciel." Written in brown ink in an elegant Italian cursive on fine wove paper, no visible watermarks. Three blank leaves at front and back, the outermost being a wrapper of thicker paper (second flyleaf at back adhered to the third), the text block stitched into a Piedmontese case binding of gold-embroidered ivory silk over thin pasteboards, both covers with outer border of a leafy scrolling vine with floral sprigs composed of gilt or silver-gilt appliqués of leaves, blossoms and roundels on stems of couched silver-gilt thread, a larger flowering branch at each corner, at center of upper cover a large gilt monogram CF within a cartouche of repeated leaf appliqués with at top a closed crown, at center of lower cover a large flowering plant of gilt appliqués, couched thread, sequins, etc. (turn-ins of upper cover unsewn, dampstain within upper left quadrant of upper cover). A manuscript of excerpts from the librettos for Haydn's late oratorios, the Creation (Die Schöpfung, first performed 1798) and the Seasons (Die Jahreszeiten, 1801), translated into Italian from the German of his librettist and patron Gottfried van Swieten (1733-1803). Bound in brightly gilt embroidered silk binding, the manuscript was probably produced for a court or private musical event. Both librettos had an English origin. The Creation text, based on Genesis and Milton's Paradise Lost, was taken from a manuscript libretto by an unknown author, originally intended for Handel, given to Haydn by the English impresario Johann Peter Salomon, and brought back by him from England in 1795. The Seasons was loosely based on extracts from James Thomson's poem of the same title (1730), but van Swieten had greater leeway in rearranging the text. It was still considered a given in the early nineteenth century that vocal compositions in languages other than Latin and Italian would be translated into the language of the audience. The Creation was first performed in Italian in Milan in 1810, using Giuseppe Carpani's verse translation of van Swieten's libretto (first published in Vienna in 1801). The manuscript contains an abridged version of Carpani's text (with some variants). The Quattro stagione is also abridged, and seems to be based on portions of an anonymous translation first published in Dresden in 1802, and used for the oratorio's first performances in Italian, in 1811 in Milan and Bologna (cf. editions of Milan: Mussi, [1811], and Bologna: Ramponi, [1811]). The manuscript was exhibited in Turin in 1998: cf. Francesco Malaguzzi, Legature romantiche piemontese: legature del periodo romantico in raccolte private, no. 67 and p. 30. Malaguzzi stated that the manuscript contains "watermarks of the Biella papermakers the brothers Avondo, datable to the third decade of the 19th century," but this cataloguer failed to see any watermarks.

OUR BABY BOOK by Cory, Fanny

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Title: OUR BABY BOOK
Author: Cory, Fanny
Seller: Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
Description: Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1907). First edition Bound in blue cloth with beautiful color pictorial pastedown on the front cover. Small quarto, unpaginated. Twelve glorious full page illustrations and ornamental borders in the Art Nouveau style. This book, along with Fanny Cory's Mother Goose, represent a particularly poignant time in the author's family life and both are considered amongst her best work. After losing her first baby in childbirth and suffering other deep personal losses Fanny entered a period of profound grief. She struggled to regain her natural sense of joy, eventually giving birth to three children and creating illustrations that captured her hard won happiness in domestic life. This book is not only an exceptional work of art but a mirror into the artist's home and heart, written and illustrated from her own intimate personal experiences as a mother . It has become a very elusive and sought after title for collectors of finely illustrated books from the turn of the last century. Aside from some very light flecking on the front cover, not affecting the pictorial pastedown, this is a very good copy.

A Primer of Book Collecting by Winterich, John T

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Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB

Title: A Primer of Book Collecting
Author: Winterich, John T
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: New York: Greenberg, [1926] First edition. Blue cloth with paper spine label. Top edges stained yellow. Lacking the dust jacket. . Octavo. Ernest Dawson has hand-numbered pages 207 and 208; page 208 is an ad for Dawson's Bookshop, which has also been inscribed by Dawson across the upper left hand corner: Please consider this / a personal invitation / Ernest Dawson." Corners and binding extremities rubbed. Spine label lightly worn with minor soiling. Yellow edges have a few discoloring stains. Occasional small stains. Front fly leaf inscribed by Ernest Dawson: "To Mrs. Francis M. Fultz / with kind regards and / best wishes of / Ernest Dawson." Ernest Dawson was the founder of Dawson's Bookshop, which has been in business since 1905 and is considered to be the oldest continuously running bookstore in Los Angeles

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