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A History of British Birds. Volume I: History And Description Of Land Birds & Vol. II: History And Description of Water Birds by Bewick, Thomas

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Title: A History of British Birds. Volume I: History And Description Of Land Birds & Vol. II: History And Description of Water Birds
Author: Bewick, Thomas
Seller: Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Rebacked, full brown diced morocco covers. Very good. 2 vols
Description: Newcastle: Sol, Hodgson, For Beilby & Bewick, 1804. First editions. leather_bound. Rebacked, full brown diced morocco covers. Very good. 2 vols. Bewick, Thomas. 335, 400 pages. 24 x 14.5 cm. Voluminously illustrated with wood-engravings. The first volume of this work was published in 1797 for which Beilby furnished the written descriptions with Bewick providing the text of the second volume. Gordon N. Ray [ILLUSTRATOR AND THE BOOK IN ENGLAND, ETC.] "Bewick's use of end-grained blocks was widely imitated both in England and the Continent. Among his apprentices were some of the most distinguished engravers of the first half of the 19th century. When later artists like Gordon Craig and William Nicholson revived the tradition of creative work on wood, they turned to Bewick's example in freeing themselves from the trammels of reproductive engraving." BRUNET, Vol.I, p.839. Interior contents fresh and clean. Raised bands, spine panels in arabesque motifs and lettered in gilt.

Rubiaiyat of Omar Khayyam The Astronmer-Poet of Persia; Rendered Into English Verse By Edward Fitzgerald by Vedder, Elihu (Illustrator)

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Title: Rubiaiyat of Omar Khayyam The Astronmer-Poet of Persia; Rendered Into English Verse By Edward Fitzgerald
Author: Vedder, Elihu (Illustrator)
Seller: Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Orig. brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, beveled edges. Teg. Near fine in worn dust wrapper
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1894. First Octavo Edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, beveled edges. Teg. Near fine in worn dust wrapper. 61 text pages. Upon receiving the commission to illustrate Houghton Mifflin's deluxe edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Elihu Vedder moved to Rome and spent eleven months creating illustrations strongly influenced by Greco-Roman art and Persian mythology. French folded pages. Ornamental title page, 56 full-page illustrations by Vedder, reproduced by the Lewis phototype process, printed at the Riverside Press, Mass (moderate spotting in the margins throughout). Grapevine endpapers designed by Vedder. The deluxe edition numbered 100 copies and sold out within six days. It was reprinted in octavo for the first time in 1894. Today Vedder's illustrations are considered to be among the finest ever created for the quatrains of Omar Khayyam. Slight loss foot of dust wrapper spine.

DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION by Illinois Democratic State Council Committee

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Title: DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION
Author: Illinois Democratic State Council Committee
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: Springfield, 1848. [4]pp, folded. Single printed page, interiors blank, folded and addressed for mailing in ink manuscript. Old folds for mailing. Springfield postal cancel [Feb. 23] and addressed in ink to a physician in Mt. Carmel, Wabash County, Illinois. Light wear, Very Good. The broadside is dated and signed at the end in type on February 18, 1848, by the members of the State Central Committee: J.R. Diller of Sangamon; John Moore of McLean; Peter Sweat of Peoria; M. McConnel of Morgan; B.C. Webster of Sangamon; and Edward Jones of Sangamon. The Committee members recommend scheduling the State Convention on April 24, 1848, for nominating an electoral ticket, delegates to the National Convention, and candidates for State offices. The Sangamon County members were well known to Lincoln. "Outgoing congressman Lincoln recommended to the Taylor administration 'that Abner Y. Ellis be appointed Post-Master at this place, whenever there shall be a vacancy. J. R. Diller, the present incumbent, I can not say has failed in the proper discharge of any of the duties of the office. He, however, has been an active partizan in opposition to us. Located at the Seat of Government of the State, he has been, for part, if not the whole of the time he has held the office, a member of the Democratic State Central Committee'..." [online 'Mr. Lincoln and Friends,' article on Abner Ellis]. Lincoln mentions B.C. Webster in a Letter [18 May 1843] to his law partner Joshua Speed, regarding collection of a debt from Webster. Lincoln and Edward Jones encountered one another during Lincoln's busy legal career. Not located on OCLC, AAS, Byrd, Sabin as of May 2024.

CATALOGUE OF INSURANCE MAPS PUBLISHED BY SANBORN MAP COMPANY. 1926 by Sanborn Map Company

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Title: CATALOGUE OF INSURANCE MAPS PUBLISHED BY SANBORN MAP COMPANY. 1926
Author: Sanborn Map Company
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: Pelham, N. Y., 1926. Original green publisher's cloth [front cover slightly bowed], title stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. "Sixtieth Anniversary" stamped on front cover. [8], 296 pp. "This catalog contains a complete list of our latest publications," listing hundreds of titles. With Index, photo illustrations of the Sanborn offices, and a detailed listing of Sanborn atlases within each State and Mexico. Very Good. Ownership signature, "H. R. Deal | Sept. 14, 1926." All Sanborn works are rare, having been published in small numbers for the exclusive use of property insurance companies and underwriters. Painstakingly prepared from public records and the Sanborn Company's own surveying and research, a Sanborn work presents the most detailed pictorial history obtainable of an urban area. "We make a specialty of publishing diagrams and other insurance maps. Our invaluable basic data and original surveys or practically every city and town in the United States, together with our experienced organization, enable us to quote lower prices than obtainable elsewhere." According to OCLC this is the first Sanborn publication OCLC 7459064 [2- IL State Lib., Free Lib. of Phila.] as of January 2026.

Wederlegginge der Sociniaensche Dwalingen, Uyt-gegeven, Na voosgaende Visitatie en Approbatie des E. Classis [Three Volumes in One] by Witte, Petrus (Petrum) de

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Title: Wederlegginge der Sociniaensche Dwalingen, Uyt-gegeven, Na voosgaende Visitatie en Approbatie des E. Classis [Three Volumes in One]
Author: Witte, Petrus (Petrum) de
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: A good copy, split at top half of front joint, boards soiled, engraved title with small repair affecting image and one letter on
Description: Amsteldam: Baltes Boeckholt, en Arent van den Heuvel, boeckverkoopers, in compagnie, 1662. Nieuwlijcks door den autheur vermeerdert en verbetert (Third edition). Contemporary vellum, embossed in blind, partial ribbon ties. A good copy, split at top half of front joint, boards soiled, engraved title with small repair affecting image and one letter on verso, first few leaves a bit ragged at edges with small chips to corners, light dampstain mainly to fore edge or corner of leaves.. [16], 200, [4], [8], 287, [3], [2], [10], 263, [5] pp. [pp. 5-12 skipped in pagination in v. 3]. 8vo. Anti Socinian work by the Calvinist theologian Petrus de Witte (1622-1669), pastor of the Reformed Church, first, at Hoorn in Weot Friesland; secondly, at Delft; and finally at Leyden, and author of the popular much reprinted "Catechizing upon the Heidelberg Catechism." First published with a slighlty different title in Delf in 1655, the work went through two more editons, a second in 1858-1861, and this, the third, a year later. OCLC shows nine copies, all but one in the Netherlands. Bibliographia Sociniana 4409.

RICHARD FOREMAN [ca. 1975-2000] Photo archive by Various

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Title: RICHARD FOREMAN [ca. 1975-2000] Photo archive
Author: Various
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: Various. No binding. Near Fine. New York: Various, [ca. 1975-2000]. Set of 9 vintage original black-and-white photos, mostly 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm). Eight have photographer credits on verso as either a printed label or in holograph. One has diagonal creasing, overall near fine. Richard Foreman was a major American avant-garde experimental playwright, director and the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Though highly original and singular, his work was influenced by Bertolt Brecht, Gertrude Stein, the Living Theatre, Surrealism and Dada. In the writing of his scripts the Dada cut-up technique was used. Foreman often played the central godhead puppet master during his plays as he sat in the center of the audience in the director/engineer's seat from which he controlled the sound effects and other stage craft. He often spoke parts of the script in an omniscient voice through pre-recordings. (Wikipedia) One photo (with Foreman standing with bent knees) is of him at a curtain call. One shows him in front of posters for his 1981 play Café Amerique, Two relate to his 2000 play Bad Boy Nietzsche.

George Herbert Walker Bush: A Photographic Profile by Bush, George H.W. [Valdez, David]

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Title: George Herbert Walker Bush: A Photographic Profile
Author: Bush, George H.W. [Valdez, David]
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
ISBN: 9780890967799
Condition: Fine
Description: College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/fine. First edition of George Herbert Walk Bush: A Photographic Profile by White House photographer, David Valdez. Signed by President George H.W. Bush.. Quarto, xv, [1], 147pp. Blue cloth, gilt title stamped on spine. Stated "First edition" with a full number line on the copyright page. Appears unread. Includes over 200 color photographs. In the publisher's fine dust jacket. Signed on the half title: "Best Wishes, George Bush." A scarce signed trade edition.

Donnie Brasco (Original photograph of Johnny Depp and Al Pacino on the set of the 1997 film) by Al Pacino, Johnny Depp (starring); Mike Newell (director); Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley (book); Paul Attanasio (screenwriter); Marcel Thomas (photographer)

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Title: Donnie Brasco (Original photograph of Johnny Depp and Al Pacino on the set of the 1997 film)
Author: Al Pacino, Johnny Depp (starring); Mike Newell (director); Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley (book); Paul Attanasio (screenwriter); Marcel Thomas (photographer)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: Paris: Sipa Press, 1996. Vintage borderless color photograph from the 1997 film, showing actors Johnny Depp and Al Pacino talking between takes, on the set. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1988 nonfiction book "Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia" by Joseph D. Pistone and Richard Woodley. An undercover FBI agent is unwittingly pulled into the Bonanno crime family, and begins to rise in the family's ranks, angering the older hitman who brought him in. Set and shot on location in New York. 7 x 10.25 inches. About Fine. Spicer US Neo-Noir.

[Two Handbills of Articles on Feminism and Equal Rights for Women] by Lutz, Alma

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Title: [Two Handbills of Articles on Feminism and Equal Rights for Women]
Author: Lutz, Alma
Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Washington, D.C.: [National Woman's Party], 1943. Very good. 14” x 4¼”; 11” x 4¼”. Handbills. Very good: a bit of light creasing and corner wear; faint scuff to one top edge. This is a set of two handbills written by a noted feminist and leader in the fight for women's rights, Alma Lutz. Alma Lutz was born in 1890 and graduated from Vassar College in 1912. She was a writer and editor for the National Woman's Party (NWP) from the 1920s to the 1940s and was for many years a member of the party's national council. Lutz published numerous books and articles on women's rights and women's history, not limited to Created Equal: A Biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton , published in 1940, Susan B. Anthony: Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian (1959) and Crusade for Freedom: Women of the Anti-Slavery Movement (1968). She was part of historian Mary Beard's circle of women activists and scholars and served on the advisory board of the Schlesinger Library. Lutz died in 1973. The text on these handbills originated in a column entitled “A Feminist Thinks It Over By Alma Lutz,” printed in Equal Rights , the official magazine of the NWP. Founded in 1923, the publication was directed towards women, but also strove to educate men about the benefits of women's suffrage and women's rights. NWP, an outgrowth of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, was formed in 1913 by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. The group is best known for its efforts in writing, revising, publicizing and advocating for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment; they fought for this bill for decades, including a pivotal rewrite in 1943, and it was finally passed in 1972. One of the present editorials urged, “Women, Your Country Needs You!” It noted that women held “fewer public offices in the United States than in countries which we regard as far less progressive,” likely due to having been taught “for so many generations that government is man's sphere, and subconsciously this fallacy still controls their thinking.” Lutz pled that the nation needed its women, “not only to keep up morale, not only to bind up its wounds” but also to “share in government.” The other handbill bemoaned “The Blindness Of The Exceptional Woman”: “Why is it that women are still afraid of the words freedom and equality when applied to them? Why are they still so eager to hide from the term equal rights? Why do they think that other freedoms and other rights are more important than their own?” While Lutz may not have had the answers, she did argue that the ongoing struggle for “an amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing to women justice and equal rights with men under our laws” was as “noble a goal” as the Declaration of Independence. Rare handbills showcasing the work of an important feminist writer and leader. Not located in OCLC nor in the finding aids for any collections of Lutz' papers.

No. 17 Masbate y Ticao. Islas Filipinas Observatorio de Manila by ALGUE, P. Jose and U.S. COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY

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Title: No. 17 Masbate y Ticao. Islas Filipinas Observatorio de Manila
Author: ALGUE, P. Jose and U.S. COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Description: Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900. Map. Color lithograph. Image measures 13 1/2" x 11 1/2" This map depicting the islands of Masbate and Ticao was originally prepared as part of a series made by the Manila Observatory of the Jesuits in 1899. Led by director P. Jose Algue, the Observatory employed only native Philippine draftsmen to complete the technical work required for the project. Upon learning of the Jesuits' undertaking, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey entered into cooperation with the Observatory to produce a comprehensive atlas of the Philippine archipelago. The 30 maps were then brought to the U.S., redrawn slightly with regards to scale and projection, and published by the Survey in 1900 as the "Atlas of the Philippine Islands," the third edition in a series of special publications. This unique combination of American command and a wholly Spaniard or Filipino staff made the Observatory a rare example of cooperation during the period of the Philippine-American War, which continued from 1898 to 1902. Furthermore, the project is significant in its own right given the historic difficulty of mapping the islands, owing in particular to constant disputes between the warring imperial powers of Spain and Portugal. As the superintendent of the Survey describes in the atlas's introduction, the Jesuits spared no pains in securing all available data, and verified them by consultation with members of other religious orders, as well as with old residents, travels, and explorers. The map depicts the islands of Masbate and Ticao, as well as surrounding islands and sand bars. Topography is artistically rendered, and rivers, cities, towns, and lighthouses are labeled. An inset in the upper left shows the Port of Palanog, with depths by soundings. The map is in excellent condition with vibrant color. Small binding holes to upper margin, not affecting the image. The U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was first established in 1807. After the Civil War, the bureau took responsibility for mapping and conducting geodetic surveys of the the interior of the expanding country. The beautiful quality of this map of the Philippines, particularly with regard to geodetic detail, attests to the fascinating history and hard work that lay behind it.

The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee

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Title: The Lives of Others
Author: Neel Mukherjee
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ISBN: 9780701186296
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Description: First UK Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with no visible flaws. SIGNED by the author to the title page. An outstanding copy of this novel, short listed for the Booker Prize. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.

The Roots of Ancient India by Walter A. Fairservis

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Title: The Roots of Ancient India
Author: Walter A. Fairservis
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Description: First Edition/Stated First Printing; A Near Fine book in a Near Fine price clipped dust jacket, with only light rubbing to the edges, a faint age-toning to the jacket, and a few small soiled spots to the exterior text block, A handsome copy of this archaeological study of Ancient Indian civilization. Not remaindered, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box. Photos upon request.

Unspoken Poems. by ARDINGER, Charles.

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Title: Unspoken Poems.
Author: ARDINGER, Charles.
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Description: Orange: Temporary Vandalism Recordings, (1994).. Advance review copy.. 26 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Promotional flyer laid in, presenting this title for review.

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