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Original color pencil fashion sketch by LAGERFELD Karl

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Title: Original color pencil fashion sketch
Author: LAGERFELD Karl
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1980. LAGERFELD, Karl. Original color pencil fashion sketch. [Paris]: no date. Original pencil and color pencil fashion sketch, on card, measuring 8 by 18-1/2 inches; silk matted and floated, framed; entire piece measures 12-1/2 by 22-1/2 inches. $3500.Striking original color fashion sketch on card, with penciled annotations and fabric swatch stapled to the card matching the colors in the sketch, by renowned fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld of Chanel.Lagerfeld was known as the creative director of the French fashion house Chanel, a position held from 1983 until his death in 2019, and was also creative director of the Italian fashion house Fendi, and created his own eponymous fashion label. ""Lagerfeld created so much up to 17 collections a year for 54 years, for multiple brands, including Chanel, a sleepy legacy house he took over in 1983 and turned into a luxury behemoth. But Lagerfeld's greatest invention may have been himself"" (New York Times Magazine). ""Lagerfeld was 49 when he became head designer at Chanel. It seemed perfect, and many of the designers who came afterTom Ford, Riccardo Tiscihad much to learn from him about how to revivify an old brand. His empire grew until it began to look, as it does today, an unmistakable part of the world, and his secret, according to him, was to keep working harder than anybody else and to scent newness while renovating tradition. 'Fashion is also an attempt to make certain invisible aspects of the reality of the moment visible,' he wrote in the catalog that accompanied Chanel's landmark 2005 show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art"" (New York Times). Lagerfeld was also a voracious bibliophile. Two names are written in red pencil at the lower margin of the card, ""Dora"" and ""Greta,"" possibly the names of appropriate models or seamstresses for this outfit. Fine condition.

Series of Answers to Certain Popular Questions by FRANKLIN Benjamin TUCKER Josiah

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Title: Series of Answers to Certain Popular Questions
Author: FRANKLIN Benjamin TUCKER Josiah
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1776. First Edition. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) TUCKER, Josiah. A Series of Answers to Certain Popular Questions, Against Separating From the Rebellious Colonies, and Discarding Them Entirely: Being the Concluding Tract of the Dean of Glocester, on the Subject of American Affairs. Glocester: R. Raikes, 1776. Octavo, period-style full crimson morocco gilt, black morocco spine label, pp. (i-iii), iv-xv, (xvi), (ix), x-xv, (xvi), (ix), x-xiv, (15), 16-108, (1-12). $3400.First edition of Tucker's incendiary 1776 work in which he responds to both British and American positions on American independence, issued as news of the Revolution's opening battles reached Britain, expressing his long-held, ""unique"" and fiercely contentious views as Britain's ""Cassandra,"" defending taxation of Americans even as he demanded ""America be set free now,"" with Franklin known to make extensive comments in the margins of a copy now located in the Library of Congress, which he could have purchased in late December 1776.Tucker, the controversial 18th-century English theologian and economist, ""thought and wrote about the relations of commerce to war and imperialism with the vision of a 20th-century prophet"" (Connor, Josiah Tucker, 79-82). ""Modern scholars credit Tucker with anticipating by 20 years the arguments of Adam Smith espousing free trade and denying the mercantilist contention that colonies were essential to the economic prosperity of Great Britain. Tucker also anticipated by 20 years the arguments set forth in Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France that the 'natural rights' theorists in America and England threatened the historic foundations of English constitutional government"" (Condon, Americanization of Benjamin Franklin). Tucker's long-held position on the policy of American independence was ""unique""particularly his contention ""that Parliament possessed the undoubted right to tax the colonists,"" which lost him ""support among the friends of America [and] sounded like deliberate suicide to the Administration."" Especially distinctive was his proposal ""that America be set free now In his efforts to prevent the British from waging war he made a final attempt in a Series of Answers"" (Rashid, ""He Startled,"" 449-51, emphasis in original). Tucker, who was ""convinced that the Americans employed Lockean ideas of liberty solely in order to subvert British authority,"" ridiculed as ""a contrived hallucination"" any view that ""ideas of liberty and equality formed the dominant unifying theme of the American Revolution."" Instead ""he believed the Colonies would assert their independence whenever they became strong enough to do so that is why Tucker was so angry at the Americans. Instead of proclaiming loudly and clearly that they had reached maturity and were now ready for independence, they continually and, he believed, falsely protested undeviating loyalty to the British Empire"" (Rashid, 459). As early as 1763 Tucker had written: ""'my fate was like Cassandra's: none would believe me till it was too late'""( Ford, Josiah Tucker, 330-31). In this timely work, written against the outbreak of the American Revolution, Tucker disputes British objections to American independence: addressing trade and economic issues, and fears that the West Indies and Ireland would follow America's path. In Series of Answers, Tucker's preface cited Franklin, Burke and Richard Price, and he then ""took up one by one the most popular objections that were made to separation and answered them."" For example, against Tucker's answer to Objection IV""Will not the animosity of the war prevent future Anglo-American trade?""he argues ""the sooner the separation the better; our victory would only produce another revolt and another war, as has been pointed out by the authors of Common Sense, 'supposed to be Dr. Franklin and Mr. Adams.'"" Franklin, in his marginalia to a copy of this work that is in the Library of Congress, objected to Tucker's reference to Franklin, Paine and John Adams, as well as Tucker's assertion of a ""universal rule with merchants and traders of all countries, religions and languages, that self Interest needs no Reconciliation. 'For trade is not carried on for the Sake of Friendship, but of Interest.'"" Franklin could have purchased his copy and made his marginalia in it ""on or after December 22, 2776""Tucker was his bête noire"" (Founders Online). In Tucker's printed postscript to this very scarce first edition, he writes of fresh news from the colonies, received as parts of the book had already been ""sent to the Press."" While many in Britain might have seen the ""the Success of his Majesty's Forces against the American Rebels"" as incentive to demonstrate British might and expand the war, Tucker instead writes: ""the only proper Inference to be drawn from our present Success is to CONCLUDE the War"" (emphasis in original). First edition, first printing: six rear pages of publisher's advertisements. Elaborate woodcut-engraved initials, head- and tailpieces. Sabin 97360. Adams, American Controversy 76-156. ESTC 47475. Kress 7269. Goldsmith 11448. ""Advocates granting the colonies independence and then forming a union between them and England"" (Howes T391). Small flourish of marginalia to one leaf not affecting text.Text very fresh with expert restoration to title page, affecting just a few letters of print; light edge-wear to a few early leaves not affecting text.

On the Absorption and Radiation of Heat by Gases and Vapours by TYNDALL John

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Title: On the Absorption and Radiation of Heat by Gases and Vapours
Author: TYNDALL John
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1861. First Edition. TYNDALL, John. The Bakerian Lecture: On the Absorption and Radiation of Heat by Gases and Vapours, and on the Physical Connexion of Radiation, Absorption, and Conduction. London: Taylor and Francis, 1861-62. Quarto, modern marbled paper wrappers. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $2000.First appearance of both parts of Tyndall's important paper on heat absorption and radiationdescribing and experimentally demonstrating what we would now call ""the Greenhouse Effect""extracted from the journal Philosophical Transactions where they originally appeared, with the volume title pages from that journal and the two engraved plates that accompanied this paper.""Tyndall's most important contribution to physics, begun in 1859, concerned radiant heat in its relation to gases and vapors. He was led from the consideration of the origin and continued existence of glaciers to investigate the part played by water vapor and other constituents of the atmosphere in producing the low temperatures which prevail in mountainous regions. Prior to 1859 no means had been found of determining by experiment, as Macedonio Melloni had done for solids and liquids, the absorption, radiation, and transmission of infra-red radiation by gases and vapors. Realizing that the effects were probably small Tyndall devised an arrangement of galvanometers and thermopiles that measured absorption differentially, using an empty test-tube as a null balance point. Unexpectedly he found that while elementary gases offered practically no obstacle to the passage of infra-red, some of the compound gases absorbed more than 80 per cent of the incident radiation. Allotropic elements came under the same rule, ozone for example being a much better absorbent of heat than oxygen. The temperature of the source of heat was found to be of importance: heat of a higher temperature was much more penetrative than heat of a lower temperature Tyndall also clearly recognized that water vapor intercepted terrestrial radiation, and that changes in its quantity would produce (and had probably caused) climatic changes Much of this work was reported in two Bakerian lectures (1861 [the present paper], 1864) and led to the award of the Rumford medal in 1869"" (ODNB). ""Glaciers fostered a passion for mountaineering and a fascination for what was to become his major workthe effects of solar and, later, heat radiation on atmospheric gases (1860-70). He then considered the scattering of light particles in the atmosphere (the 'Tyndall effect') and explained the blue color of the sky ('Rayleigh scattering')"" (DSB). ""The intense heat of the sun's direct rays on high mountains is not, I believe, due to his beams having to penetrate only a small depth of air, but to the comparative absence of aqueous vapor at those great elevations. But this aqueous vapor, which exercises such a destructive action on the obscure rays, is comparatively transparent to the rays of light. Hence the differential action, as regards the heat coming from the sun to the earth, and that radiated from the earth into space, is vastly augmented by the aqueous vapor of the atmosphere"" (Vol. 151, p. 28). ""As a dam built across a river causes a local deepening of the stream, so our atmosphere, thrown as a dam across the terrestrial rays, produces a local heightening of the temperature at the earth's surface. This, of course, does not imply indefinite accumulation any more than the river dam does"" (Vol. 152, p. 95). ""I satisfied myself that ozone had a power of absorption very much greater than common oxygen"" (Vol. 152, p. 61). With title pages of the two volumes of Philosophical Transactions from which these papers were extracted, along with the two engraved plates that accompanied them (actually a duplicate image, but a year separated the publication of the two parts of this paper). Fine condition.

Fireplace by Snyder, A - PATENT MODEL - ARCHITECTURE

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Title: Fireplace
Author: Snyder, A - PATENT MODEL - ARCHITECTURE
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Overall in very good condition with some solder jts. splitting.
Description: Richmond, 1869. Unique.. As made.. Overall in very good condition with some solder jts. splitting.. The model is appx. 9" sq. soldered tinplate. The original patent model offered with a xerox description of the patent registration. Snyder was granted patent # 95529 on Oct. 5, 1869. He invented an improvement for the home fireplace that consisted of a perforated radiator and basket grate. This permitted complete burning of the fuel (coal), the extraction of ashes, and improved the heating efficiency. The model is a large reproduction fo Snyder's fireplace in tinplate. It retains the original patent office model tag and identification.

HISTORY OF THE ELEVENTH REGIMENT, RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS, IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION by R. W. Rock [John C. Thompson]

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Title: HISTORY OF THE ELEVENTH REGIMENT, RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS, IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION
Author: R. W. Rock [John C. Thompson]
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good binding
Description: Providence: Providence Press Company, Printers, 1881. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A relatively attractive copy of this regimental history. Bud Robertson in the Military Aspects--Soldier’s Life section of Nevin’s bibliography, considers is “short on military matters but long on personal incidents” and “one of the better sources fro 1862-1863 campaigning around Washington and Norfolk, Va.” [Nevins I, 168]. With some foxing to the preliminary (only) pages. And old fashioned homemade private library pocket to the rear endpapers. .This copy is pretty bright and tight. It is from the library of Civil War historian James I. “Bud” Robertson, and has his bookplate on the front pastedown on top of an earlier bookplate (presumably from the private library). (Nevins I, 168). Very Good binding.

LA MODE FEMININE 1490-1795 by (Hand Colored Fashion Plates)

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Title: LA MODE FEMININE 1490-1795
Author: (Hand Colored Fashion Plates)
Seller: Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
Description: A small portfolio of women's fashion designs broken into four folders of loose plates, 20 plates per folder for a total of 80 plates. This copy missing plate 20 from the third series (1720-1775). Beautifully hand colored pochoir plates illustrating the fashions of the time, each card measuring 7 1/2 inches by 5 1/2 inches, the year shown at the bottom of each card. Each wrapper also illustrated with a color illustration. Charming original folding case with patterned papers and silk ties. Case is worn but intact with short silk ties remaining. Former owners name in ink on several plates in the first series, some of the signatures across the bottom of the images.

VICTORIAN ENGLAND, 1837-1901 by ALTHOLZ, Josef L.

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Title: VICTORIAN ENGLAND, 1837-1901
Author: ALTHOLZ, Josef L.
Seller: The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description: ALTHOLZ, Josef L. VICTORIAN ENGLAND, 1837-1901. Cambridge: University Press, 1970. 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Third volume in the series Bibliographical Handbooks. Very good.

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY by ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA

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Title: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Author: ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA
Seller: The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description: ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY. Concord: The Rumford Press, 1918. 8vo. Cloth. xii, 467 pages. First edition. Very good in library binding.

TRAILERPARK by Banks, Russell

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Title: TRAILERPARK
Author: Banks, Russell
Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780395315477
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. First edition, first prnt. Boards have beginning toning at edges; the dustjacket has minimal wear. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Banks' third story collection. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.The image is of the book described and not a stock photo.

JUMP-ROPE RHYMES by ADAMS, Edwin H

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Title: JUMP-ROPE RHYMES
Author: ADAMS, Edwin H
Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description: SEATTLE, SILVER QUOIN PRESS, 1947, 1947. LIGHT GRAY PATTERNED BOARDS; GLASSINE DUST JACKET; ONE/190 COPIES FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD-FINE. F. Hardcover.

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