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The Century of Invention. Anno Domini 2000. Or the March of Aerostation, Steam and Perpetual Motion.�

The Century of Invention. Anno Domini 2000. Or the March of Aerostation, Steam and Perpetual Motion.� by [after GRANT, Charles Jameson (British, active 1829-1866)]

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Title
The Century of Invention. Anno Domini 2000. Or the March of Aerostation, Steam and Perpetual Motion.�
Author
[after GRANT, Charles Jameson (British, active 1829-1866)]
Seller
Martayan Lan, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Extremely rare, separately-issued caricature printed on linen satirizing the early nineteenth-century British love affair with t
Description
London?: ca., 1834. Extremely rare, separately-issued caricature printed on linen satirizing the early nineteenth-century British love affair with transportation. The print imagines the consequences of technological progress in the year 2000. It depicts a wild fantasy overrun with improbable vehicles from the impracticable and obsolete to the quixotic: steam-powered carriages, giant hydrogen balloons, and men sprouting wings. The handkerchief was also offered in sepia (McCormick Collection of Aeronautica, Item 284, no. 60, Princeton University). Fortunately, perhaps, the survival-rate of handkerchiefs is low, and the McCormick impression is the only other copy located. Locomotives and experimental steam engine carriages were both in use by the 1830s. The cartoonist, unaware that the internal combustion engine and the automobile would be invented later that century, lampoons the steam carriage rather than the increasingly reliable train. Only buildings on wheels traverse his "Grand Northern Railway" bridge. One of these, the "Steamo Equestrian Travelling Company," involves no actual horses. Neither does the stag hunt by steam-carriage above the bridge. A crier below advertises a "rare Exhibition" of outmoded transportation: "A Live Horse!!! Supposed to be the very last of the RACE." Even religion has been ameliorated by technology. As the "Zion Chappel" rolls by, a man advertises tomorrow's sermon: "A CAST IRON PARSON WILL PREACH BY STEAM AT FUDGE CHAPEL." The hubris of these futuristic inventors is clearest in the sky. Balloon travel was no longer considered viable when this print appeared, yet its Londoners float over to Dublin and back before breakfast. A balloon race is also taking place (between the "Out o'Sight Club" and the "United Moonites"). Like the mythical Icarus, who flew too close to the sun, the flying men hunting a flock of birds will probably bring about their own ruin by inadvertently shooting the balloons. This lithograph was sold as a printed handkerchief, a relatively common form of ephemera during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but one which rarely survives. As no publishing information appears on the print, it may well have been a pirated edition. The image is an enlarged, reversed copy of a lithograph by caricaturist C.J. Grant from the Every Body's Album & Caricature Magazine no. 3, February 1, 1834. He contributed regularly to the magazine, which appeared in thirty-nine sheets every two weeks from 1834-35. Grant also produced numerous separately-issued lithographs in paper formats, but not of the present image. The artist's considerable body of work has been unjustly overlooked until recently; e.g. his Thieme Becker entry notes only that he cut a single wood engraving for the popular London periodical "Punch." The satirist's biting wit still shines through today as he gains a proper reception: "Everybody's album contains some of Grant's finest lithographic work, as well as displaying his imagination at its most fertile". (R.J. Pound, ed., C.J. Grant's political drama: a radical satirist rediscovered, 1998, p 10.). Lithograph printed in red on linen as a handkerchief. (image 15 x 19 1/2 in., (38.0 x 49.5 cm.); sheet 15 1/8 x 21 1/2 (38.4 x 54.8 cm). Some minor spotting. Margins show evidence of thumbtacks used for display.
Abraham Lincoln in Peoria, Illinois

Abraham Lincoln in Peoria, Illinois by [Abraham Lincoln] Bryner, R. C.

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Abraham Lincoln in Peoria, Illinois
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[Abraham Lincoln] Bryner, R. C.
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Americana Books ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fair
Description
Peoria, Illinois: Edward J. Jacob, Printer Peoria, Illinois, 1924. First Edition. Privately Printed. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. [2], 127 pages., [4]. Illustrated with frontispiece photograph of Lincoln, illustrations, and folding facsimiles. Half leather binding with tan cloth covered boards. Tooled leather spine with raised bands and gilt lettered title. Marbled end papers. Leather spine rubbed. Front hinge is broken exposing the spine. Board is secure to the binding. Rear hinge cracked. Inscribed and signed by the printer on the limitations page. Limited to 100 copies printed. Fair.
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Desert Images: An American Landscape. by ABBEY, Edward.

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Desert Images: An American Landscape.
Author
ABBEY, Edward.
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Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780831721893
Condition
Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description
NY:: Gallery Books (W. H. Smith),. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0831721898 . 163 color photographs by David Muench. Third printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. .
The Commentaries of Gaius and Rules of Ulpian

The Commentaries of Gaius and Rules of Ulpian by Abdy, J.T. and Bryan Walker (translated & notes)

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The Commentaries of Gaius and Rules of Ulpian
Author
Abdy, J.T. and Bryan Walker (translated & notes)
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The Lawbook Exchange Ltd (United States)
ISBN
9781584775485
Description
2014. ISBN-13: 9781584775485; ISBN-10: 1584775483. Gaius and Ulpian with Parallel Translations Abdy, J.T. and Bryan Walker. The Commentaries of Gaius and Rules of Ulpian. Translated with Notes by J.T. Abdy and Bryan Walker. Originally published: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1885. xxvi, 501 pp. with two foldouts. Reprinted 2006, 2014 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584775485; ISBN-10: 1584775483. Hardcover. New. $49.95 * In Latin with a parallel English translation. The Gaii Institutionum Juris Civilis Commentarii Quatuor, or Institutes of Gaius, was compiled around 161 CE. It is a deeply influential elementary textbook on Roman private law. Well-arranged and clearly written, it was the standard textbook for the next 300 years. One of the five authorities accepted by Justinian, it is the primary source of the Institutes. It was also the basis of the Breviarium Alaricianum, or Lex Romana Visigothorum. Gaius [c.115-180] was a teacher and writer who probably lived in Rome. The Tituli ex Corpore Ulpiani, also known as the Epitome Ulpiani, Regulae Ulpiani or Rules of Ulpian is a collection of legal rules attributed to Ulpian [c.160-228 CE], who is considered to be the last great classical Roman jurist. Many of the rules in this collection are similar to those in Gaius, and it is fruitful to have both works in the same volume for the purposes of comparison and clarification.
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Souvenir of Agra & Sikander, India

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Souvenir of Agra & Sikander, India
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Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
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Jubbulpore, India: Hands & Son, n.d.. Wrappers, tied. Faded, light edge wear. Album of 16 mechanically reproduced photographs.
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The Glorious Adventure by HALLIBURTON, Richard

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The Glorious Adventure
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HALLIBURTON, Richard
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Garden City Pub, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good Book rubbed along spine and cover.
Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs by Al Solh, Mounira; Barlow, Anne (Executive Director)

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Dinosaurs
Author
Al Solh, Mounira; Barlow, Anne (Executive Director)
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Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9781934890356
Condition
Very good
Description
New York: Art in General, 2012. Staplebound. Very good. Staplebound. 10 X 8". 32pp. Mild rubbing and creasing to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this catalog produced in conjunction with Art in General's New Commisions Program exhibition that ran from January 28 to March 17, 2012.
150TH ANNIVERSARY CEREMONIES, 1802-1952

150TH ANNIVERSARY CEREMONIES, 1802-1952

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150TH ANNIVERSARY CEREMONIES, 1802-1952
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Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
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Eleutherian Mills: E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co, 1952. stiff paper wrappers. Du Pont. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 29 pages. With addresses by Henry B. du Pont,, Crawford H. Greenewalt, and Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. and benediction by Rev. Dr. Wm. C. Munds. Illustrated with photographs. .

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