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THE GORHAM GOLF BOOK by (GOLF - EARLY MANUALS). (MINIATURE BOOKS)

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Title: THE GORHAM GOLF BOOK
Author: (GOLF - EARLY MANUALS). (MINIATURE BOOKS)
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: New York: The Gorham Manufacturing Co, 1903. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 500 COPIES. 102 x 64 mm. (4 x 2 1/2"). 4 p.l., [9]-148 pp. CHARMING PUBLISHER'S LIMP SUEDE, illustrated covers with a rotund golfer on front and a long-suffering caddy at rear, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. In a later(?) glassine wrapper. Housed in a very sturdy custom-made buckram folding box with inlaid marbled spine label. Color floral and foliate headpieces, tailpieces, and title page, and 16 DELIGHTFUL MOUNTED COLOR PLATES BY JOHN HASSALL. Front endpaper with the ownership inscription, "W. P. Rockwell, November 1905." Murdoch 888; Donovan & Murdoch 19030. Trivial smudges to the suede, but A NEARLY PRISTINE COPY of this delightful little book, an item that is simply never found this well preserved. This is a diminutive golf manual with immense charm, and offered in the most immaculate condition possible. In a small-pocket format, the book provides the golfer with the game's rules, etiquette, technical terms, names of golf clubs and their various uses, a list of American champions since the organization of the United States Golf Association, and a roster of the "leading players in the United States." Accompanying the text are a group of quite charming colored plates, done by John Hassall (1868-1948), an active and celebrated watercolorist, poster designer, and illustrator from 1895 onwards. Houfe calls him "an original and versatile designer." As can be seen in the present volume, Hassall seems to have been influenced by "the flat colors and two-dimensional decorative quality of Japanese prints, which he adapts to his own work with thick outline and careful patterning." Whatever the influence, one can't help but smile when looking at his work. Hassall depicts golf costume through the ages here, including golfers in kilts, trousers, cloaks, knickers, and other attire; he also shows us a pair of disarmingly shabby young caddies, two women, and a boy incongruously dressed in Napoleonic greatcoat and tricorn hat. The most memorable thing about this item is its condition: as a book intended to be put in one's pocket, and as a volume that was never sturdy to begin with, there is absolutely no explanation for how our copy has survived to the present day in its remarkable state of preservation. When this copy (without its box) was sold in 2004 at PBA Galleries, the most prominent auction purveyor of golf books and equipment, the catalogue called it "the finest copy we have ever offered of this exceedingly scarce and fragile book.".

Prohibition & Temperance Archive Documenting Religion and Politics Shaping Alcohol Regulation in the United States, 1886-1945 by Woman's Christian Temperance Union

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Title: Prohibition & Temperance Archive Documenting Religion and Politics Shaping Alcohol Regulation in the United States, 1886-1945
Author: Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1886. Archive of Prohibition, temperance movement and alcohol regulation ephemera chronicling the political organizing, religious campaigns, and moral debates over alcohol consumption in the United States from the 1890s through the 1940s. Produced by temperance organizations, political advocates, physicians, government bodies, and reformers, the materials trace the public discourse surrounding alcohol from moral reform activism in the 1880s and 1890s to the political mobilization that culminated in the Eighteenth Amendment and Volstead Act, and finally to the regulatory systems established after repeal. These items document the stances of religious institutions, civic reform societies, political parties, and state authorities on public policy and social practices related to drinking. United States temperance and prohibition ephemera archive, 1886-1945. Collection contains twenty-four items including seven printed temperance handbills or pamphlets, six pledge cards for political or social organizations, three illustrated postcards, two physician-issued medicinal alcohol prescriptions, two legal reference volumes, one convention ribbon, one political ballot, one event invitation, and one directory booklet. Several items originate from prominent temperance organizations including the National Temperance Society and the Connecticut Temperance Union, while others are produced by the Prohibition Party and organized opposition to national prohibition through the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. Geographic references across the archive include New York, Connecticut, Vermont, Oregon, California, and Washington, D.C., illustrating the nationwide reach of the movement and the varied institutional actors involved. Among the most notable items is an 1886 issue of Prohibition Bombs, a weekly tract distributed by the Prohibition Lecture Bureau and edited by prominent reformer W. Jennings Demorest, which frames the liquor industry as a powerful political force opposed to social reform. A late nineteenth-century statistical broadside titled "The Great Drink Waste" visually compares national expenditures on alcohol with spending on food, schools, and religious institutions, demonstrating the temperance movement's reliance on economic arguments alongside moral appeals. Religious reform literature is represented by several Connecticut Temperance Union pamphlets, including works by theologian Theodore L. Cuyler and University of Chicago president Lemuel Moss, both of which articulate the position that Christian institutions should actively oppose intoxicating drink. Political activism during the national prohibition era appears in a Prohibition Party campaign questionnaire postcard soliciting volunteers and funds for electoral organizing, while a 1921 voter enrollment card from Cattaraugus County, New York illustrates the party's attempt to compete alongside major political parties in local elections. A particularly revealing enforcement artifact is a 1918 physician-issued medicinal alcohol prescription, demonstrating one of the principal legal exceptions under prohibition law that allowed physicians and pharmacists to dispense alcohol as medicine. The archive concludes with statutory material from New York's Alcoholic Beverage Control Law, including the 1935 annotated legal text and a 1945 pocket-part update, documenting the regulatory system created after repeal to replace national prohibition with state-controlled alcohol licensing and oversight. Light to moderate edge wear, scattered toning, and occasional creasing across the archive consistent with age and handling; several items show small tears or minor staining, while pamphlets remain complete and legible. Overall condition good. A wide ranging archive illustrating the full arc of American temperance activism and alcohol regulation, from late nineteenth-century religious reform literature through prohibition politics and into the post-repeal legal framework in the United States.

Dr. of Physick. Engraved Portrait by Cole, Abdiah

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Title: Dr. of Physick. Engraved Portrait
Author: Cole, Abdiah
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Margin: 123x85 mm. Portion of lower left corner missing, chip in lower right corner, faint foxing, faint soiling.

Ueber den Ursprung des funften und siebenten Nervenpaares. In Archiv fur Anatomie, Physiologie und wissenschaftliche Medicin (1836), no. 5: 362-364. No. 6 also included by Retzius, Anders

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Title: Ueber den Ursprung des funften und siebenten Nervenpaares. In Archiv fur Anatomie, Physiologie und wissenschaftliche Medicin (1836), no. 5: 362-364. No. 6 also included
Author: Retzius, Anders
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Berlin, 1836. First edition. Whole numbers, 8vo. lxv-clx, 305-385; clxi-ccxxxvi, 385-389pp. 2 plates. Fine copies. From the library of medical historian Walter Pagel.

The History of the Heavens, Considered acccording to the Notions of the Poets and Philosophers, Compared with the Doctrines of Moses. Being an Inquiry into the Origine Of Idolatry. And the Mistakes of Philosophers, Upon the Formation and Influences of the Celestial Bodies. by Pluche, [Noel-Antoine]

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Title: The History of the Heavens, Considered acccording to the Notions of the Poets and Philosophers, Compared with the Doctrines of Moses. Being an Inquiry into the Origine Of Idolatry. And the Mistakes of Philosophers, Upon the Formation and Influences of the Celestial Bodies.
Author: Pluche, [Noel-Antoine]
Seller: Dawson's Book Shop (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: J. Wren, London, 1752. Very good. Third Edition 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches, full calf, Two volumes with 24 engraved plates and one engraved frontispiece in volume one. 18th century engraved bookplate of James Lord Forbes in both volumes. A rather late publication disclaiming the major achievements of science and philosophy including the work of Decartes and Newton in favor of the teachings of Moses and other bibical figures.

Hans Christian Andersen's Alphabet by ABC. Andersen, Hans Christian

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Title: Hans Christian Andersen's Alphabet
Author: ABC. Andersen, Hans Christian
Seller: E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Copenhagen: Thaning & Appel, 1955 Pictorial boards with wear to spine ends, sunned spine. Published in commemoration of HCA's birth in 1805. The verses were recreated by Dutch artist Dagmar Starcke as cloth appliques, which were reproduced for this book. Opposite each illustration is an English translation of the verse. This copy was a gift from the artist's sister to her son's pediatrician and it is inscribed by her and includes a brief note.. First Edition Thus. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Dagmar Starcke. 12mo.

THE INNER CIRCLE by Boyle, T. C.

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Title: THE INNER CIRCLE
Author: Boyle, T. C.
Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780670033447
Condition: Fine
Description: NY: Viking, 2004. First edition, first prnt. One of an unspecified number of copies with a tipped-in leaf signed by Boyle as issued for promotional purposes. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Ansel Adams: An Autobiography by ADAMS, Ansel with Mary Street Alinder

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Title: Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
Author: ADAMS, Ansel with Mary Street Alinder
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780821217870
Description: Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1990. First paperback printing. Softcover. An autobiography of the important and influential photographer with 277 illustrations. A tight, very near fine copy in wrappers.

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