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Grand Instructions to the Commissioners Appointed to Frame a New Code of Laws by CATHERINE THE GREAT TATISCHEFF Michael

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Title: Grand Instructions to the Commissioners Appointed to Frame a New Code of Laws
Author: CATHERINE THE GREAT TATISCHEFF Michael
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1768. First Edition. CATHERINE THE GREAT. The Grand Instructions to the Commissioners Appointed to Frame a New Code of Laws for the Russian Empire: Composed by Her Imperial Majesty Catherine II. Empress of All the Russias. To which is prefixed, A Description of the Manner of opening the Commission, with the Order and Rules for Electing the Commissioners. London: T. Jefferys, 1768. Quarto, contemporary marbled boards rebacked in period-style calf-gilt, red morocco spine label, raised bands; pp. (i-v), vi-xxiii, (1), 3-258. $5000.First edition in English of the celebrated Nakaz of Catherine the Great, drawing extensively on Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws, heralded by Voltaire and Diderot, initially issued in Russia in 1767 ""the single piece of Russian legislative material best known abroad""aligned with the later American constitution for its ""shared characteristics and techniques,"" highly elusive in contemporary boards.""Born into a family of obscure German aristocrats, delivered to St. Petersburg at the age of 14, and married in great pomp to the feckless heir to the Russian throne, Catherine found herself"" in a loveless marriage and without political support (Smithsonian). In 1765, after Peter's death and several years into her reign, Catherine began crafting the Nakaz, working on its almost daily for nearly two years. ""Fundamentally, the Nakaz, which Voltaire is said to have called the finest monument of the century, is a legal and a political document. It represents Catherine's ambition, early in her reign, to remodel Russia's laws in accordance with new principles expounded in Western Europe. The Nakaz consists of three parts containing 655 articles in all. The major part, 526 articles, was made public in Moscow on July 30, 1767. It treats the historical development of Russia and monarchial absolutism; the nature and forms of laws; crime and punishment; social structure and religious freedom. On February 28, and April 8, 1768, two supplements of 40 and 89 articles respectively, dealing with police, expenditures, revenues and taxation were added to the Nakaz"" (Dmytryshyn, Economic Content, 1-2). ""While she worked alongside a secretary, it was Catherine herself who selected and organized the material, and wrote out the finished version."" In creating the Nakaz, she chose her texts carefully. Nearly 300 ""owe something to Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws (1748),"" with about 100 clauses traced to Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments (1764), and many from Voltaire's Encyclopédie."" While the Nakaz is ""not a written constitution, it nonetheless shared characteristics and techniques with later texts that were constitutions"" (Colley, Gun, Ship and Pen, 61-73, emphasis in original).Catherine was ""not out to create a constitutional monarchy,"" yet her Nakaz ""was innovative and influential the Legislative Commission that met in Moscow in August 1767 to discuss the Nakaz differed from later, seminal constitution-making assemblies but it also anticipated and even exceeded them. Like the convention that met in Philadelphia in 1787,"" this Russian Commission assembled delegates from across the empire. Further, these ""Moscow deputies were also markedly more diverse in terms of social, economic, religious and ethnic background than the men of Philadelphia women, too, received some recognition in this Moscow commission, something that did not happen in revolutionary America Moreover, in sharp contrast with the men of Philadelphia in 1787, not all of the Moscow deputies were white, and not all of them where Christian"" (Colley, 73-77). ""It was doubtless because of its 'radical' content that its publication was banned in France The significance of the Nakaz centers not only in its West European content,"" but also on distinctive aspects of Russian culture that ""make the Nakaz an outstanding document in Russian political, economic and historical literature"" (Dmytryshyn, 9). The Nakaz was never enacted, yet it is ""the single piece of Russian legislative material best known abroad. It secured for Catherine the encomium 'the Great'"" (Yale Law School). First edition in English. Catherine's manuscript was written in French, from which she produced a Russian translation, First editions were published in Moscow on August 10, 1767 in Russian and German: a first German edition appeared in 1769. Little is known of translator Mikhail Tatischeff other than that he was attached to the Russian Embassy in London. Engraved ornamental initials and headpieces. Mispaginated as issued without loss of text. ESTC N6651. With trace of bookplate removal; later blank free endpapers. Bookseller ticket.Text fresh and fine, light edge-wear, rubbing to contemporary marbled boards. A handsome wide-margined, near-fine copy.

La Fortification Demonstree by Bar-Le-Duc, Errard

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Title: La Fortification Demonstree
Author: Bar-Le-Duc, Errard
Seller: Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Paris, 1604. Hardcover. Good. Considered the first independent French work on fortification, this is the second edition. Engraved title and 47 engravings in text (most three-quarter page) of diagrams for fortification, harbor defense and lines of fire, floral and historiated woodcut and metal-cut initials and factotums, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Folio, contemporary vellum, soiled, title laid down, I2 torn (repaired), minor repairs and light staining in the margins of a few leaves, the engraving on Cc2v cropped. Errard was the principal military engineer under Henri IV, to whom the work is dedicated. Rare.

Colored Americans Who Have Served in the United States Congress [caption title] by [African Americana]: [United States Congress]

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Title: Colored Americans Who Have Served in the United States Congress [caption title]
Author: [African Americana]: [United States Congress]
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Description: Indianapolis: Indianapolis Recorder, 1901. Illustrated broadside, 15.75 x 20 inches. Backed on cardboard long ago. Noticeably stained and chipped, but with very little loss to content. Some surface wear and a few closed tears. A prime candidate for conservation, in fair condition, and priced accordingly. A very rare African-American uplift poster issued at the turn of the 20th century by The Indianapolis Recorder, a notable African-American newspaper. The poster is a celebration of African American representation in the United States Congress, with illustrated portraits of twenty Black men who served in the House of Representatives. Joseph Rainey was the first such elected, directly following the ratification of the 15th Amendment in 1870. The roster continues through to George Henry White whose term was up in 1901, helping to date the broadside. Among the other notable men are Joseph Hayne Rainey of South Carolina (the first African American to serve in the House); Robert Smalls of South Carolina (who famously stole a Confederate steamer and sailed it out of Charleston harbor early during the Civil War); Hiram Revels of Mississippi (the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate); and numerous other men from Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, Virginia, and Florida. According to a notice printed at lower left, the broadside was issued "Compliments of The Indianapolis Recorder, Indiana's Best Negro Newspaper." The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis provides deeper background on the newspaper: "The Indianapolis Recorder is a weekly newspaper that has been published since 1895. It is the nation’s fourth-oldest surviving African American newspaper, and the longest continuously operated Black publication in Indiana.... The Recorder was launched as a two-page church directory by print shop owner George P. Stewart and attorney William Porter. Coverage included church news, local announcements, and other topics of interest to Black churches, fraternities, sororities, and social clubs. In 1897, the publication expanded to four pages and adopted the Recorder name. Rapid growth of the Black community in Indianapolis and other Indiana cities led to greater demand for news. The Recorder met this demand by providing more coverage of general news, politics, religious news, and social matters. By 1899, circulation numbered more than 20,000." The only other copy of the present broadside that we know of sold at Bonhams a decade ago.

Three Sermons to Little Children by SPRING, Samuel

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Title: Three Sermons to Little Children
Author: SPRING, Samuel
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description: New York: Printed by William Durell, 1790. Full Description: SPRING, Samuel. Three Sermons to Little Children. On The Nature and Beauty of the Dutiful Temper to which is added, several Forms of Prayer, for Little Children. With Extracts from Various Authors. New York: Printed by William Durell, 1790. The expanded edition with "Picture of a happy family"and "Confession of faith." included for the first time. First edition was in 1783. Twelvemo (5 3/8 x 3 inches; 135 x 78 mm). 95, [1, blank] pp. With engraved frontispiece and one other engraved plate, both included in the pagination. Also includes "Picture of a happy family"and "Confession of faith." We could find no copy of either edition at auction since 1970. Quarter calf over original drab boards. Spine is chipped and rubbed. Boards with some soiling and chipping. Inner hinges with repairs. Previous owner's old ink signature dated 1795 on top margin of title-page. Leaves are lightly toned but generally very clean for a children's book. Overall very good. "The author's love waits on the little children of his charge, in the following discourses, which contain enlargements of the Thoughts lately delivered to them from the pulpit; and hopes they will be acceptable and useful to his young readers." (From the Author). Rev. Samuel Spring was an early American Revolutionary War chaplain and Congregationalist minister. HBS 69193. $1,250.

[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Susquehanna River Flood of 1936] by [Pennsylvania Photographica]. [Floods]

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Title: [Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Susquehanna River Flood of 1936]
Author: [Pennsylvania Photographica]. [Floods]
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: Wilkes-Barre, Pa, 1936. Very good.. Twenty-seven leaves, illustrated with twenty-six photographs, each 4.75 x 6.75 inches, each with a manuscript caption in white ink beneath the image. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black cloth photograph album, string tied, string partially perished. An exceptional album of vernacular photographs capturing scenes in and around Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in the aftermath of the devastating Susquehanna River flood in March 1936. The manuscript title leaf reads, "Flood Photographs Wilkes-Barre, Pa March 1936." While vernacular, the photographs were composed by an obviously-skilled shutterfly. The subjects or locations of the photographs include Ross Street, River Street, Main Street, Hazel Street, St. Mary's Road, various elevated views from buildings or hills, two views of river water flowing into a mine cave on the Lackawanna River, and more. An uncommonly sophisticated album with captions printed in a clearly-executed italic hand beneath well-composed photographs capturing the devastation of this historically flood-prone Pennsylvania city.

Rutherford B. Hayes Signs A Cabinet Card Of His Wife, Lucy Webb Hayes by RUTHERFORD B. HAYES

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Title: Rutherford B. Hayes Signs A Cabinet Card Of His Wife, Lucy Webb Hayes
Author: RUTHERFORD B. HAYES
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: RUTHERFORD B. HAYES (1822-1893). Hayes was the Nineteenth President.PS. 4 x 6 . N.d. N.p. A cabinet card signed R. B. Hayes. The cabinet card depicts Hayess wife, Lucy Webb Hayes. Hayes signed the bottom left corner of this slightly faded image taken by Sarony. It is in fine condition.

The Class of '47 by Creeley, Robert; Brainard, Joe

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Title: The Class of '47
Author: Creeley, Robert; Brainard, Joe
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Bouwerie Editions, 1973. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Limited to 200 copies. Illustrations by Joe Brainard. Signed by Creeley on the limitation page. Fine. Bright white wraps with a two staple binding. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collaboration between the Black Mountain poet and the New York School artist.

Kosmology; Luciferian Philosophy by Christner, Jeremy

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Title: Kosmology; Luciferian Philosophy
Author: Christner, Jeremy
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780875427768
Condition: Very Good
Description: [n.p.]: Ixaxaar Occult Literature, 2005. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Near Fine. Wraps lightly scuffed. Square and firmly bound with two staples, clean internally. Christner's monography meant to spread the Luciferian philosophy to disrupt the paradigm spreading subservience to the Demiurge and primitive thought.

They Seek a City [SIGNED] by Bontemps, Arna, and Jack Conroy

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Title: They Seek a City [*SIGNED*]
Author: Bontemps, Arna, and Jack Conroy
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
Description: Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. [minor wear to extremities, light age-toning to edges of text block; the jacket has some very shallow chipping at the top of the spine (with small internal brown-tape reinforcement), modest soiling to the rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by co-author Conroy on the front endpaper: "Here's to Cliff and Maxine / McCarty, who came / seeking a city -- sunny / exotic Moberly -- and / found it, by George. / Siempre / Jack Conroy / Moberly / June 10, 1978." Classic study of "the Negro pioneers who left the South in search of freedom and tolerance." Republished (and substantially rewritten) in 1966 under the title "Anyplace But Here." The inscribee, Cliff McCarty, was a longtime Los Angeles-based bookseller. Signed by One Author .

Kagan's Neueste Schachnachrichten Schachzeitung Volume 1 by Bernhard Kagan (1866-1932) editor

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Title: Kagan's Neueste Schachnachrichten Schachzeitung Volume 1
Author: Bernhard Kagan (1866-1932) editor
Seller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: 382 pages with diagrams, tables and plates. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5") in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Volume 1 with out index, with supplement Das Problem-Heft Schach in Deutschland (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:6073) First edition. Bernhard Kagan, Polish born German amateur who lived in Berlin and published Kagan's Neueste Schachnachrichten in the years 1917-32. This chess magazine first appeared as a quarterly and then monthly in the years 1921-32. It was published in Berlin and used as a vehicle for giving many master games and articles by such writers as Grunfeld, Tartakower, Tarrasch, Nimzowitsch, Reti and Spielman. Many of the great tournaments of the period appeared in supplements to the magazine. It died when Kagan himself died in 1932. (Golombek: 157) Condition: Corners bumped, some rubbing to hinges, pages age toned, bound without original wrappers, else a very good copy.

DIARIES & DREAMS: Arbeiten auf Papier by Weiermair, Peter

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Title: DIARIES & DREAMS: Arbeiten auf Papier
Author: Weiermair, Peter
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Near fine.
Description: Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim: Ursula Blickle Stiftung, 2004. Near fine.. First edition of this companion book to a German contemporary art exhibition highlighting the artistic medium of drawing, including works by Louise Bourgeois, Conrad Botes, Marlene Dumas, Marcel Dzama, and more. 11.75'' x 9.5''. Original beige typographic paper boards. No jacket, as issued. Blue endpapers. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white and in color. Text in German. 256 pages. Small sticker to rear board. Faint toning to spine and a bit to boards; a couple tiny spots. Interior clean and sound.

Off By Train ABC by ABC

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Title: Off By Train ABC
Author: ABC
Seller: E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1938 Circa 1938 per Whitton page 6. Color printed stiff card covers, a bend at base of spine, top corner bumped. Each letter of the alphabet represented by something having to do with train travel, and a full color illustration for each letter. . Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Uncredited. Oblong 4to.

Voyageurs Russes en Egypte by Volkoff, Oleg V.

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Title: Voyageurs Russes en Egypte
Author: Volkoff, Oleg V.
Seller: McBlain Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: [Le Caire]: Publications de l'Institut Francais d'Archeologie du Caire, 1972. Paperback. Very Good. vii, 384p. Softcover in original wrapper. 25cm. French text.

LAKE EFFECT COUNTRY by Ammons, A.R.

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Title: LAKE EFFECT COUNTRY
Author: Ammons, A.R.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: Norton, 1983. First edition. An uncorrected proof in orange wraps with prices written in on cover (a price correction made on the first page), in what looks like the same hand (i.e. the publisher) the word "poetry" is written on the cover; pub date written in with pencil and stamped. A perfect copy except for a small bump to the bottom edge that affects about a third of the pages. Still very near fine.

Essays in Honor of Claude M. Wise

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Title: Essays in Honor of Claude M. Wise
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
Description: Hannibal: Standard Printing Company, 1970. Edited by Arthur J. Bronstein, et al. [ix] 235p., b/w figures, maps, dj. Contains 18 essays by various scholars, plus a list of the honoree's publications.

Garbo by ZIEROLD, Norman

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Title: Garbo
Author: ZIEROLD, Norman
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Stein and Day, 1969. Very Good. First edition. Very good. Owner's name on front endpaper.

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