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The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports: Volume I. by Doughty, John and Thomas

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Title: The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports: Volume I.
Author: Doughty, John and Thomas
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Philadelphia: J. & T. Doughty, 1830. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. First edition. Volume I. 4to. vii,[1],298,[2];pp., plus 24 hand-colored lithographic plates, and uncolored engraved portrait of Charles Willson Peale. Engraved title page. Contemporary calf boards, rebacked to style in matching leather, and with the original spine laid-in. Text is brown and spotted, the plates less so with very good coloring. Several pages have been expertly remargined at the fore edge (no loss) else this is a very good copy. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper dated 1832. Very rare and among the first American books to be illustrated with lithographic plates. The Cabinet of Natural History was started by brothers Thomas and John Doughty in Philadelphia. It was issued in monthly parts and ran from the end of 1830 until the spring of 1834 However, despite its relatively short life, it left behind an important legacy: Bennett calls it the "first major sport print color plate book produced in America," the text includes firsthand accounts of hunting expeditions of all kinds and are among the earliest of their kind. The plates include the "first colored sporting prints made in America" (Henderson), and most importantly the work includes a significant number of original lithographs by one of the great names in 19th-century American art. The first volume (made up of twelve parts ) was certainly the work of both Doughty brothers, with virtually all the plates being the work of Thomas. "Artistically, Vol. 1 is much the most important, for it contains the original plates by Thos. Doughty, famous painter and founding father of the Hudson River School" - Bennett. Indeed the plates in the later volumes are from a multitude of hands and sources. "The coloured plates are important - being the first coloured sporting prints made in America. There is only one earlier American book with coloured plates that I know of, and that is a treatise on Medical Botany - published in Philadelphia in 1817. Many of these coloured plates of animals and birds are charming, the colouring is soft, correct as to details, and all are well drawn" - Gee.

French in Colonial Algeria, Morocco, and Madagascar: 137 Photos of a French Army Man and His Family Spanning Three Generations, 1935 to 1958 by French Occupied Algiers

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Title: French in Colonial Algeria, Morocco, and Madagascar: 137 Photos of a French Army Man and His Family Spanning Three Generations, 1935 to 1958
Author: French Occupied Algiers
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1935. French Colonized Algeria and North African Presence documented through a multi-generational family photo archive centered on Pierre Bove's service as a tank commander and later presence within French military or transport facilities in North Africa, recording the movement of one family across metropolitan France, World War II service, and the late colonial world of Morocco, Algeria, and possibly Madagascar. The strongest military evidence begins with the verso inscription "Camp de Châlons / L'équipage de Terpsichore / Chef de char Bove," identifying Bove as commander of a named tank crew at the long established French army camp near Châlons. The North African material carries the archive into the last years of the French protectorate in Morocco, created by the Treaty of Fez in 1912 and ended by Moroccan independence in 1956. Camp Maréchal Lyautey, Rabat, Casablanca, vehicle hangars, greasing pits, offices, garages, a mess, family portraiture, vacations and trips, and domestic life is all recorded in this large photo archive. Photo archive of 137 silver gelatin photographs, 2 color photographs, 4 sets of negatives, and 4 photographic envelopes, various sizes ranging from 2.5 x 2 inches to 7 x 5 inches, France, Morocco, Algeria, and possibly Madagascar, circa 1935 to 1958. The military material centers on Pierre Bove's service and later North African postings: a verso inscription identifies "Camp de Châlons / L'équipage de Terpsichore / Chef de char Bove / 1° mécanicien Brech / aides mécaniciens Mougenot, Exbrayat," placing Bove in command of a named tank crew with its mechanic and assistant mechanics. Four large ceremonial prints record a military burial or memorial service for French troops in a North African landscape, with French officers and enlisted men gathered before wreaths, microphones, seated officials, civilians, parked vehicles, and open terrain bordered by low hills and colonial buildings. North African military site captions identify "Camp Mal Lyautey," "mes bureaux," "hangar à véhicules," "magasin + 3 fosses de graissage et visite," "atelier entretien," "derrière ces palmiers le mess," "vue d'un mirador vers l'autoroute de Rabat," "Casa," "la piste d'essai de conduite," and "le monument aux morts," tying the archive to French colonial military transport, maintenance, and commemoration in Morocco near Rabat and Casablanca. Processing envelopes and boxes from Bône and Philippeville place part of the archive within French Algeria's photographic trade, while the apparent "1958 ... à Madagascar" notation suggests the family's later movement into another French colonial or postcolonial setting. Léon, Suzanne, Pierre, Marie-Thérèse, Michel, Françoise, Félicité Prévost, Ernest Prévost, Germaine Leroy, Yvonne Martin, and Claudette Martin recur in handwritten captions across family portraits, beach scenes, Paris travel, and domestic gatherings. Dated captions include "La Roche Bernard, Juillet 1935," "La Baule 1938," "Félicité Prévost / Suzanne Bove / Françoise Bove / 1939," "Pierre Bove / 1940," and "29 Décembre 1957 / Trocadéro / Pierre, Marie-Thérèse, Michel Bove / Félicité Prévost." The archive also includes uniformed portraits, family scenes outside half-timbered houses, North African landscapes, beach and resort views, and commercial photographic material from Gevaert, Kodak, Bône, Philippeville, and Paris. The archive follows a French family through the decades in which military service, colonial administration, and private life overlapped across France's overseas territories. Morocco was still under French protectorate when much of the North African military environment visible here was created, while the later dated material falls near the 1956 end of that protectorate and the accelerating breakup of French rule in North Africa. The Bône and Philippeville processing material places the photographic circulation network in French Algeria, while the apparent 1958 Madagascar notation extends the family's movement beyond North Africa into another French colonial or postcolonial setting. Prints show expected curling, edge wear, scattered creasing, toning, light silvering, and handling wear; negatives and paper sleeves show wear from storage and use. Overall in good condition. The archive preserves a named French military family within the everyday machinery of tanks, garages, transport yards, colonial camps, and family movement across the French imperial world.

SESAME AND LILIES by Ruskin, John

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Title: SESAME AND LILIES
Author: Ruskin, John
Seller: Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
Description: London: George Allen, 1903. Octavo. Bound in half vellum over slate blue cloth with gilt floral ornaments on the spine, 228 pages, including index. This is an elegant presentation of John Ruskin's series of three influential lectures. Top edge gilt. The author's thirty-two page preface for the edition of 1871, reprinted in its entirety in this edition, ended thus: "..I am content to leave both life and work to be remembered or forgotton, as their uses may deserve." This volume is an appropriate rememberance..understated and in fine condition.

Studies of the Yaqui Indians of Sonora, Mexico by W.C. Holden, C.C. Seltzer, R.A. Studhalter, C.J. Wagner and W.G. McMillan

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Title: Studies of the Yaqui Indians of Sonora, Mexico
Author: W.C. Holden, C.C. Seltzer, R.A. Studhalter, C.J. Wagner and W.G. McMillan
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Collectible; Very Good
Description: Lubbock, TX: Texas Technological College, 1936. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. SIGNED BY ALL 5 AUTHORS on the title page. Clean and VG in its red stapled wrappers, with one even crease and former owner name to the front panel. Octavo, 142 pgs. Also includes the original mailing envelope from the Texas Technological College Bulletin. A nice Texas rarity. Signed by Author(s).

AIDS, Civil Rights and the Public Health: America's Leaders Speak Out [Cover title]

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Title: AIDS, Civil Rights and the Public Health: America's Leaders Speak Out [Cover title]
Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: San Francisco and West Hollywood, California: National Gay Rights Advocates, 1988. Very good. First edition stated. 8 ½” x 5 ½”. Stapled card wrappers. pp. [2], 32, [2]. Very good: wrappers dust soiled and heavily rubbed, internally fine. The National Gay Rights Advocates (“NGRA”) was founded in 1978 and was the first public interest law firm for lesbians and gay men in the United States. By the time of this publication, it was active in every state in the country advocating in the areas of AIDS, employment discrimination, freedom of speech and domestic partnerships. This book is a product of the group's AIDS Civil Rights project, which started in 1985, and provided educational outreach in addition to its activism through the court system. This book contained a number of statements decrying discrimination based on AIDS from leaders across a broad spectrum. NGRA “hope[d] that the statements will convince employers, government officials and others to abandon policies which are discriminatory or repressive. And we hope that you, the reader, will take these statements to your union hall, your board room, your church or synagogue, and your elected officials. We urge you to demand that they take a leadership role in the fight against AIDS.” OCLC locates one copy, in the Netherlands. This is a separate publication from the NGRA's “AIDS Practice Manual: A Legal and Educational Guide” which was issued the same year and held by over 100 institutions.

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