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Metallotheca: opus posthumum, auctoritate & munificentia Clementis undecimi pontificis maximi e tenebris in lucem eductum : opera autem & studio Joannis Mariæ Lancisii archiatri pontificii illustratum by MUSEUMS. MINERALS. FOSSILS. Mercati, Michele (1541-1593)

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Title: Metallotheca: opus posthumum, auctoritate & munificentia Clementis undecimi pontificis maximi e tenebris in lucem eductum : opera autem & studio Joannis Mariæ Lancisii archiatri pontificii illustratum
Author: MUSEUMS. MINERALS. FOSSILS. Mercati, Michele (1541-1593)
Seller: Liber Antiquus (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Rome: Ex officina Jo. Mariæ Salvioni, 1717-, 1719. SOLE EDITION. Second issue, with the 1719 cancel title page to the first part (to coordinate with the date of the 1719 supplement with which this copy is bound.). Hardcover. Fine. With added engraved plates: Part I: Portrait of Mercati, folding view of the museum, Cabinet I, folding view of the mines of Pozzuoli, a coral (at p. 101). Part II: portrait of Lancisi. (The engraved frontis. with portrait of Pope Clement XI, the engraved t.p., and the other armaria are printed on leaves integral to the collation). An excellent copy, with a little light toning to scattered leaves and sporadic faint soiling in the upper margin. Bound in contemporary blond calf, boards gilt ruled, spine gilt, deft repairs to the leather of the boards. First edition of Michele Mercati's illustrated catalogue of the Vatican mineralogical collection, "a pioneering endeavor in the organized display of scientific specimens" (Nancy Siraisi, Rome Reborn, p. 194). Mercati's book, although only half-finished at the author's death in 1593, offers a valuable example of the emerging genre of wunderkammern and museum catalogues. It is also valuable for comparison with the first published illustrated catalogue of a private collection of natural history specimens, Ferrante Imperato's "Historia Naturale" (Naples, 1599). Although the book remained in manuscript until the eighteenth-century, the "Metallotheca" is of great importance in the history of the establishment of collections of scientific specimens and the development of museums. This is a large copy, bound in contemporary stiff vellum over boards (binding lightly soiled, corners bumped, split to foot of the front hinge), with the title and author's name tooled in gold in the second compartment of the spine. There is light foxing, mostly marginal, to a number of leaves, and some instances of heavier foxing or light browning (e.g. gatherings R-T, X-Y, Hh-Ii, Zz and the index); Leaf C1 is stained, the plate of Pozzuoli is lightly tanned. The text is illustrated with 150 fine engravings of rocks, minerals, fossils, and corals, all rendered in marvelous detail (the 20 in the supplement are repeated or re-engraved.) As this was the Vatican mineralogical collection, Mercati has included a number of marble statues from the Vatican collections, including the Belvedere torso and the Laocoön. The illustrations of glossopetrae (fossilized sharks' teeth) and the head of a shark (Lamia) are of particular importance as the original plates for the engravings, unpublished but available to artists and scientists, were used by Nicolaus Steno in his "Canis carcariae dissectum caput" (1667). "Michele Mercati was born to a wealthy family in San Miniato, between Pisa and Florence, Italy. His father was a prominent physician and his grandfather was a noted humanist and philosopher who moved in the highest scholarly circles. Mercati studied first in San Miniato, then enrolled in the University of Pisa for his degree in Philosophy and Medicine. There he studied under Andrea Cesalpino (1519-1603), a celebrated physician and botanist, and later to be the author of De Metallicis ('On Minerals') (1596). The two became lifelong friends. Mercati earned his degree in 1561 and opened a medical practice in Rome, where he so distinguished himself during an epidemic there that Pope Pius V called him to the Vatican and offered him the post of Prefect of the Vatican Botanical Gardens. In 1577 Mercati was officially received among the "familiars" of Pope Gregory XIII who, having learned of Mercati's passion for mineralogy, suggested that he create a natural history museum inside the Vatican, focusing on minerals. Mercati was delighted by this idea and worked for many years building the collection while serving as Chief Physician under a succession of Popes. He had 19 large, expensive, custom-made cabinets constructed to house the collection in a room in the Pio-Clementine Museum. The collection eventually ranked among the largest and best in all of Europe. "Mercati spent years writing a scholarly description of the collection and having 127 high-quality copper-plate engravings of specimens prepared, but by the time of his death he had managed to cover only the first nine cabinets containing the non-metallic minerals. His manuscript and engravings were claimed by his relatives and placed in storage, and his magnificent collection of minerals was eventually reduced to nothing by pilferage. The manuscript and its illustrations were rediscovered and published as Metallotheca Vaticana in 1717."(Mineralogical Record) Collation: Part I: π4 (π1 blank, π 2 half-title, π3 engraved frontis., π4 letterpress t.p.), b-f4 (f4 engraved t.p.), g-h4, A-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Ccc4, π2 (errata and register). Part II: π1, A-G4 (complete with blank leaf G4).

JOHN HENRY by Bradford, Roark. Lankes, J.J. (woodcuts). (Creel, George E.) (Roosevelt, Franklin D.)

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Title: JOHN HENRY
Author: Bradford, Roark. Lankes, J.J. (woodcuts). (Creel, George E.) (Roosevelt, Franklin D.)
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
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Description: NY: The Literary Guild, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good +. Harpers' edition of The Literary Guild and first thus (stated on copyright page: there was also a trade edition.) 8vo, duotone blue, ArtDeco-patterned cloth boards, gold label title pastedown spine, in decorated dustjacket typical of The Literary Guild editions, decorated endpapers, illustrated throughout, title label nicked, dust jacket soiled and faded, internals of book near fine. Roark Bradford (1896 - 1948) was an American short-story writer and novelist. His novelistic version of John Henry popularized the folklore legend of the African-American railroad worker beyond railroad and mining and Black communities. According to the publisher's bio of Bradford in the rear of this edition, Bradford is "amply qualified to write about the Negro. He was born on a plantation near the Mississippi River, fifteen miles from the railroad. He had a Negro for a nurse. He has seen them at work in the fields." Today, subject to contemporary criticism, Bradford's treatment of John Henry is seen as racial trope, no matter how high his intentions. Tipped-in to the front pastedown is a five paragraph TLS , dated July 18, 1932, Santa Fe, New Mexico from author Bradford to George E. Creel (1876 -1953). Creel, an investigative journalist, writer, politician and government official, served as head of the United States Committee on Public Information (CPI), the propaganda organization created by President Woodrow Wilson during World War I. The letter is in apparent response to Creel's solicitation of support for Franklin Roosevelt's candidacy for President. Creel's solicitation of Bradford was logical: Bradford had literary credibility and celebrity (a stage adaptation of an earlier novel had won a Pulitzer Prize), plus he had served in the Army during the Armistice (Creel' being head of the CPI would presumably carry weight with Bradford). Bradford's response in the summer of 1932 as the Great Depression was peaking is enthusiastically affirmative. He writes of a "triple incentive" to support FDR: the Bradford family are faithful Democrats, he personally admires Roosevelt and he loathes Herbert Hoover who would be "an ideal secretary for a Chamber of Commerce in, say, Evanston, Illinois." He pledges his support, noting that FDR as President should be such an obvious propositon that "an organized movement would be unnecessary" but, then again, "just eight years ago the great American people turned down a man like John W. Davis and selected Calvin Coolidge". (Davis was the Democratic Presidential candidate in 1924.) Besides some obvious parallels to the 2020 election (depending on one's political view), the letter is an exemplar of the pre-social media, old fashioned politicking that transacted on personal appeal by correspondence among the country's literati and public opinion leaders. After FDR's win, Creel, who lived in San Francisco, chaired the Regional Labor Board for California, Utah and Nevada, but eventually became disenchanted with some aspects of The New Deal. He ran in the 1934 California Democratic gubernatorial primary and was defeated to the left by novelistUpton Sinclair, who lost in the general election. Creel retired from Collier's magazine where he was an editor in the late 1940s. Bradford's first book, Ol' Man Adam and his Chillun (1928) was adapted for the stage by Marc Connelly as The Green Pastures, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1930. Bradford adapted John Henry for the New York stage in 1940 as a musical, with Paul Robeson in the title role.

The Farmer's and Mariner's Astronomical and Nautical Diary; or Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1813. by LEONARD, Ezra

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Title: The Farmer's and Mariner's Astronomical and Nautical Diary; or Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1813.
Author: LEONARD, Ezra
Seller: Savoy Books (United States)
Description: Boston: Printed by Edward Oliver for the author Book. [1812.] 12mo, original illustrated wrappers, stitched. 14 leaves, including wrappers,untrimmed. Edges worn, a very good copy. The first and only number of a scarce almanac, with handsome woodcuts of clipper ship and eagle on front wrappers. Drake 3747..

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Southern Labor in Transition, 1940-1995 by Ziegler, Robert H., Ed

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Title: Southern Labor in Transition, 1940-1995
Author: Ziegler, Robert H., Ed
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ISBN: 9780870499906
Description: Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. 1st Edition. x, 346p., dj.

Worthy Dr Fuller by Addison, William

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Title: Worthy Dr Fuller
Author: Addison, William
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Description: London: Dent. Very Good. 1951. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. .

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