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William H. Crawford’s Original Appointment as Secretary of War, Signed by James Madison as President and James Monroe as Secretary of State by James Monroe|James Madison

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Title: William H. Crawford’s Original Appointment as Secretary of War, Signed by James Madison as President and James Monroe as Secretary of State
Author: James Monroe|James Madison
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 01/08/1815. William H. Crawford was U.S. ambassador to France during the negotiations to end the War of 1812. During those negotiations, he was responsible for superintending the American consuls in Europe and keeping them informed of developments. He was also an important negotiator from a distance. He was called home and appointed Secretary of War by President James Madison on August 1, 1815, succeeding James Monroe. Crawford served in the post about a year, and was then named Secretary of the Treasury. When Monroe entered the White House, he continued Crawford in office, and Crawford remained at Treasury until the end of Monroe’s administration. Crawford's term as Secretary of War was short but consequential. He presided over the military standing down after years of bitter conflict and also put reform at West Point, a crucial training element in the US arsenal, at the top of his agenda.To date, just 608 people have been named to a presidential cabinet post in the entire history of the United States. Of these, 91 have been Secretaries of War or Defense (the same post, but with a name change in 1947). But presidents have signed untold hundreds of thousands of appointments for military officers, State and Treasury Department posts, and all manner of positions, so any document actually appointing a Cabinet member is extremely uncommon. We have had just three, and seen barely a handful of others, in our three decades in this field.But the problem of rarity becomes more than acute when looking at the first four administrations. When President James Madison appointed William H. Crawford Secretary of War on August 1, 1815, he became just the 36th man ever named to a presidential cabinet and the 9th Secretary of War. Diligent research going back 40 years fails to disclose even one presidential cabinet appointment document for one of the 35 men to serve in cabinets before Crawford having reached the market; nor in fact could we determine the location of any possible survivors.This is, therefore, the earliest cabinet appointment document to reach the market.Document signed, by President Madison and Secretary of State Monroe, Washington, August 1, 1815, appointing Crawford Secretary of War, and stating: “That reposing special trust and confidence in the patriotism, integrity and abilities of William H. Crawford of Georgia, I have nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint him Secretary for the Department of War…” Treasured by the Crawford descendants, the Great Seal of the United States is still intact.Many of Crawford’s most significant papers were passed down in his family from generation to generation, their papers largely unexamined. They contain his original appointment documents, manuscripts and documents relating to the War of 1812 (including reports from the U.S. negotiators), and letters of Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Lafayette and many others. The document offered here is from the Crawford archive, was acquired by the Raab Collection directly from the Crawford family, and has never before been offered for sale.

Evelina by SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders; BURNEY, Frances; THOMSON, Hugh, illustrator

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Title: Evelina
Author: SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders; BURNEY, Frances; THOMSON, Hugh, illustrator
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: London : MacMillan & Co Limited, 1903. One of the Finest S & S Pictorial Inlaid Bindings that we have ever seen SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders. BURNEY, Frances. THOMSON, Hugh, illustrator. Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney. With an introduction by Austin Dobson and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. London: MacMillan & Co., Limited, [1903]. Octavo (7 x 4 5/8 inches ;178 x 118 mm.). [i-vi], vii-xxxv, [xxxvi, blank], 1-477, [478, imprint], [2, advertisements] pp. Frontispiece, vignette title, and seventy-four full-page illustrations in the text by Hugh Thomson. Exquisitely bound in 1942 by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, stamp-signed in gilt on a red morocco label "Designed & Bound by / Sangorski & Sutcliffe / London, England, 1942" on a rear blank. Full crushed levant purple morocco extra. The covers with elaborate gilt borders of rose branches decorated with pale pink and green morocco inlays each enclosing multi-colored pictorial morocco scenes illustrating characters from the novel. Spine with four raised bands, two compartments lettered in gilt, the others continuing the rose-branch inlay pattern, the central compartment with an additional inlay of white and blue morocco depicting two quills bordered by love-hearts. Gilt ruled board edges, gilt dotted-line turn-ins. Doublures and flyleaves of pink morocco with gilt borders of inlaid white rose branches, corner-pieces of blue and white love-hearts on the doublures and purple love-hearts on the endleaves; each of the four morocco panels featuring a multi-colored pictorial inlaid morocco depiction of a character from the novel; pink silk endleaves; pink morocco doublures and endleaves, all edges gilt, gauffered and decorated in pink. Original purple velvet lined, full green morocco jewel case with brass lock, signed in gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. A wonderful 'Kelliegram-style' binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with no less than six pictorial morocco inlays: a scene of Evelina and her two suitors (illustration on p. 110 "Again I stood suspended") on the upper cover and scenes of one figure each on the lower cover, both doublures, and both flyleaves. Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World is a novel written by English author Fanny Burney and first published in 1778. In this epistolary novel, the title character Evelina is the unacknowledged but legitimate daughter of a dissipated English aristocrat, thus raised in rural seclusion until her seventeenth year. Through a series of humorous events that take place in London and the resort town of Hotwells, near Bristol, Evelina learns to navigate the complex layers of eighteenth century society and earn the love of a distinguished nobleman. This sentimental novel, which has notions of sensibility and early romanticism, satirizes the society in which it is set and is a significant precursor to the work of Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth, whose novels explore many of the same issues. Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) was born in Kingsgate Street, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, the eldest child of John and Catherine Thomson. Thomson was educated in the model school in .,Coleraine. At age fourteen he started working at the local linen industry but three years later he entered the employment of Marcus Ward & Co., colour printers and publishers in Belfast where his talent for drawing was encouraged by John Vinycomb, head of the art department. He married Jessie Naismith Miller in 1884 and moved to London, where he took up employment with Macmillan & Co. on the English Illustrated Magazine, joining some of the most distinguished writers and illustrators of the day. Thomson provided scenes of Covent Garden and Regency Bath and the illustrations for the Addison and Steele Spectator papers Days with Sir Roger de Coverley (1886-7). Thompson's style reflected the nostalgia of the time, his fine line drawing of rural characters and gentle countrified society appealing to the imagination of the public. Frances Burney (1752-1840), also known as Fanny Burney and after her marriage as Madame d'Arblay, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. She was born in Lynn Regis, now King's Lynn, England, on 13 June 1752, to the musician and music historian Dr. Charles Burney (1726-1814) and his first wife, Esther Sleepe Burney (1725-1762). The third of her mother's six children, she was self-educated and began writing what she called her "scribblings" at the age of ten. In 1793, aged 41, she married a French exile, General Alexandre D'Arblay. Their only son, Alexander, was born in 1794. After a lengthy writing career, and travels during which she was stranded in France by warfare for more than ten years, she settled in Bath, England, where she died on 6 January 1840.

The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by Thackeray, William Makepeace

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Title: The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray
Author: Thackeray, William Makepeace
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. The Kensington Edition. Near Fine. Thirty-two octavo volumes (8 9/16 x 5 5/8 inches; 217 x 143 mm.) occupying approximately 51 inches (129 1/2 cm.) of shelf space. A Near Fine set, handsomely bound in contemporary three-quarter red morocco, ruled in gilt, over pink mottled paper boards. Frontispieces, plates, and text illustrations, after the originals. Spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, others uncut. Two volumes with small nicks or rubbing to the crowns, otherwise the leather is intact and without any cracking at the joints. "In beginning with the four great novels the edition follows the logical tradition of the first complete and revised edition published after Thackeray's death; an attempt at a strict chronological succession, which would give precedence to minor works, would confuse the reader and has only pedantic arguments in its favor. In general, the order followed is that of the edition referred to (that of 1869); but some slight variations have been made, sometimes for the sake of bringing closer together work of the same general kind, sometimes-where no important associations were violated-frankly in the interest of uniformity in the size of volumes. It is believed that the inclusion for the first time in this edition of the well-known Brookfield Letters will be especially welcome. The frontispiece to the initial volume is from the drawing by Samuel Laurence, perhaps the most satisfactory portrait of Thackeray in his prime; and in later volumes other portraits will be given, including several unfamiliar photographs" (Note to the Kensington Edition). "The novelist William Makepeace Thackeray lived at 16 Young Street in Kensington from 1846 until 1854, and during this time published his most famous work, Vanity Fair." Near Fine.

Man Hunt (Original Script for the 1941 Film) by Nichols, Dudley (screenwriter); Fritz Lang (director); Geoffrey Household (based on the novel Rogue Male, 1939); Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders (starring)

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Title: Man Hunt (Original Script for the 1941 Film)
Author: Nichols, Dudley (screenwriter); Fritz Lang (director); Geoffrey Household (based on the novel Rogue Male, 1939); Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders (starring)
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Description: Los Angeles: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, 1940. Letter (295 x 230mm), pp. [Title], [1], 2-186 (mimeographed duplication, rectos only). First draft continuity script for the 1941 film. Orange titled continuous card wrapper, rubber stamped, internal three brass brad binding. Noted as FIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY on the front wrapper, production number 559, copy number 29, dated October 7, 1940. Title page present, also dated October 7, 1940 and noted as 1st Draft Continuity. Pages very good but for a bit of toning and worming to the upper left corner of the final 15 pages, cover soiled, worn and with some splits to the extremities, good. Ex-Howard Barnes; Richard Manney; Gene Hackman. Custom cloth box. Inscribed on the title page by screenwriter Dudley Nichols to film critic Howard Barnes; "Critic par excellence in memory of our old days on The World when neither of us dreamed of working in this fascinating medium of the film Affectionately Dudley Nichols July 15, 1941". Referencing the time they both spent as journalists for the New York World. There is a postscript that reads: "This was my first draft, done in three weeks. Many things happened to it afterwards, as your keen eye will note. D.N". A British big-game hunter is captured after stalking Hitler as a sporting challenge, then escapes to England only to be relentlessly pursued by Nazi agents whose campaign of terror claims the life of the young woman who sheltered him. After a harrowing confrontation with his nemesis, he acknowledges his true intent and parachutes back into Germany, now committed to carrying out the assassination he once denied contemplating. Set in 1939 Bavaria and London, shot on set at 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles.

Trial and Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman in the United States District Court, in the City of New York, July, 1917 (Anarchism on Trial) by Berkman, Alexander; Emma Goldman

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Title: Trial and Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman in the United States District Court, in the City of New York, July, 1917 (Anarchism on Trial)
Author: Berkman, Alexander; Emma Goldman
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Mother Earth Publishing Assocation, 1917. First edition. Near Fine. First edition. 87, [9; ads] pp., with 2 portraits of Berkman and Goldman. Bound in publisher's light brown printed wraps. Near Fine with shallow chipping to spine eds, light foxing to wraps, faint creasing to top corner of cover and contents and oxidation to staples with associated rust staining. An uncommonly nice copy of a pamphlet following the arrest and prosecution of anarchist leaders Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. Published by Goldman's anarchist publication Mother Earth, the work outlines the rabble-rousing duo's trial following their 1917 arrest for violating the Espionage Act. Both were vehemently outspoken against conscription and the United States' entry into WWI, and eventually they were imprisoned, fined $10,000, and deported to Russia. The trials were a flashpoint for the First Amendment and set an unwavering precedent for deporting individuals based on their social views and opinions, a key part of the broader government efforts during the First Red Scare to target political dissidents.

Die Kinetische Theorie der Gase... by MEYER, Oskar

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Title: Die Kinetische Theorie der Gase...
Author: MEYER, Oskar
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Breslau: Maruschke & Berendt, 1877. FIRST EDITION. Calf-backed marbled boards. First edition of the author's classic treatise on the kinetic theory of gases. Meyer's historical introduction traces the evolution of the theory, providing critical expositions from the works of Boyle, Bernoulli, Clausius, Maxwell, and Joule.

Two Carte-de-Visite Views of the Second Ladies’ Hall at Oberlin College, c. 1868 by [Women's Education - 19th Century - Oberlin College] Platt, J.C.; Platt and Hawley

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Title: Two Carte-de-Visite Views of the Second Ladies’ Hall at Oberlin College, c. 1868
Author: [Women's Education - 19th Century - Oberlin College] Platt, J.C.; Platt and Hawley
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Oberlin, 1868. Albumen photographs, 2 ½ x 3 ½ inches on larger mounts. Some fading to one of the photographs, other image with excellent contrast, near fine condition overall. Near Fine. An uncommon early pair of views of the Second Ladies’ Boarding House at Oberlin College in the 1860s, taken at a time when Oberlin was one of few coeducational colleges, having first admitted women in 1837. Oberlin’s Second Ladies Hall was built in 1861-1863 and featured Itlianate architecture and a rooftop balcony. The building was opened for student accommodations in 1865. The first floor held an assembly room, a reading room, a dining room, parlors and stewards’ quarters. The second and third floors housed 100 women. The building was destroyed by a fire in 1889.

Tips on Tables. Being a Guide to Dining and Wining in New York at 365 Restaurants Suitable to Every Mood and Every Purse by ROSS, George

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Title: Tips on Tables. Being a Guide to Dining and Wining in New York at 365 Restaurants Suitable to Every Mood and Every Purse
Author: ROSS, George
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition: A fine copy
Description: New York: Covici Friede, 1934. A fine copy. 8vo. 301 pages, with indices. Original red cloth. Early owner's name on half-title. FIRST EDITION. Providing readers with a different restaurant choice for every day in the year (unless it's a leap year...). Ross notes in his introduction that there were estimated to be 19,716 eating places in Manhattan at the time: and so his select group of inclusions are those he considered the best, with the finest cuisine, most colorful atmosphere, and the best reliability. "This volume was compiled during the last days of Prohibition and during the first few weeks of Repeal when it was possible to discover which restaurants would obtain wine and liquor licenses and which would not. Ross grouped restaurants thematically, including "For Two Young Things Very Much in Love," "Saturday Night After the Bath is Over," "A Guide to Gluttony," and "Where the Famous Foregather." Yes, he had fun with it.

O smysle zhizni (The Meaning of Life) by Ivanov - Razumnik

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Title: O smysle zhizni (The Meaning of Life)
Author: Ivanov - Razumnik
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Description: Berlin: Izdatelstvo Skify, 1920. Softcover. First emigre edition; 7 3/4 x 5 1/2; pp. [3], 6-28; brown wraps printed and illustrated in black; small nicks to corners and tips of spine; bookshop label to front wrap verso; a few spots - mostly to first and last few leaves; several passages underlined; overall in very good condition.Razumnik Vasil'evich Ivanov [Ivanov-Razumnik] (1878-1946) was a Russian author, philosopher, and literary critic. He was a member of the so called Scythian Movement. The publisher, Skify, founded by philosopher and author Evgenii Lundberg (1883-1965) in 1920, would play a pivotal role in preserving and promoting Russian emigre works in the early 20th century.

Marjorie and Her Papa, How they wrote a Story and made pictures for it by FLETCHER, Robert Howe

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Title: Marjorie and Her Papa, How they wrote a Story and made pictures for it
Author: FLETCHER, Robert Howe
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: New York: The Century Co, 1891. Boards. Very good. R.B. BIRCH. Tall 8vo; 66, [1]pp; glazed ivory colored boards with a pictorial scene in blue and black incorporating the title and publisher's name to front, title in black to spine; b&w illustrations; soling and shelf wear to boards and spine, some light creasing to pages; very good. R.B. BIRCH, illustrator, from designs by the author.

HUGO BREHME POSTCARD: 1926 TAXCO

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Title: HUGO BREHME POSTCARD: 1926 TAXCO
Seller: Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
Description: (México), 1920. one b/w photograph postcard, with stamp in verso. Beautiful and artistic b/w photograph taken by Hugo Brehme of Taxco. The postcard has Hugo Brehme stamp in back and is in very good condition.

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE RIGHT REV. BISHOP DOANE OF NEW JERSEY, AND THE REV. H. A. BOARDMAN OF PHILADELPHIA, ON THE ALLEGED POPISH CHARACTER OF THE “OXFORD DIVINITY” by Bishop [George Washington] Doane and H. A. Boardman

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Title: CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE RIGHT REV. BISHOP DOANE OF NEW JERSEY, AND THE REV. H. A. BOARDMAN OF PHILADELPHIA, ON THE ALLEGED POPISH CHARACTER OF THE “OXFORD DIVINITY”
Author: Bishop [George Washington] Doane and H. A. Boardman
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good binding
Description: Philadelphia: Hooker & Agnew, 1841. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. In which Bishop Doane takes issue with Rev. Boardman’s stance that the Oxford tractarians had returned “to some of the worst errrors of Popery”. Bound in publisher’s horizontal ribbed cloth; offsetting to the endpaper, primarily to the rear; light and scattered foxing else contents clean and tight; a lovely copy of the original printing. Uncommon in the trade. Very Good binding.

The Poet and the Messenger by Ray, Milton S.

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Title: The Poet and the Messenger
Author: Ray, Milton S.
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description: 1945. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1945. 4to. With initials by Mallette Dean in red and numerals in blue. Original quarter vellum and patterned paper boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, bookplate on front pastedown. A near fine copy with a hint of wear to the boards. § One of 250 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. The first printing of a collection of poems by Milton Ray "an arresting comment upon the United Nations Conference, addressed as much to the profit-mad man on the street as to the power-mad leaders of people". "Milton Smith Ray, born 1881 in San Francisco, is best remembered for his role as an engineer and local industrialist whose family company, the Ray Oil Burner Company, played a major role in the evolution of steamship engines through their oil burner/piston pump. The company had enormous success and Ray lived comfortably until his death in a mansion built by Henry Clay Smith at 2901 Broadway in San Francisco. The house sits on a hill overlooking the San Francisco Bay on a lot Ray purchased in 1925 from future president, and at the time his fellow student, Herbert Hoover. His affluent life as an industrialist enabled Ray to pursue his other passions as well: history, poetry, oology, and ornithology." (Milton S. Ray papers. UC Berkeley, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology).

Let's Fish A Guide to Fresh and Salt Water by ZARCHY, Harry

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Title: Let's Fish A Guide to Fresh and Salt Water
Author: ZARCHY, Harry
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Hardcover. Book has light shelf rub of spine ends and cover edges, stamp mark on front endpaper. Clean text. Dustwrapper has minor wear and tear of panel spine ends and panel edges, browning spine and panels.

Lawyer Lincon by Woldman, Albert A

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Title: Lawyer Lincon
Author: Woldman, Albert A
Seller: Ed's Editions Bookstore (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936. Hardcover. Good. Clean, has good binding, no marks or notations, moderate wear to the dust jacket including title torn off the spice, front flap price clipped and creasing. LF

Speculum: Vol. 64, No. 1. January 1989. A Journal of Medieval Studies

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Title: Speculum: Vol. 64, No. 1. January 1989. A Journal of Medieval Studies
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Medieval Academy of America. Very Good. Speculum: Vol. 64, No. 1. January 1989. A Journal of Medieval Studies. Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America, ND. 1-265pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good.

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