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A Sketch of Modern France in a Series of Letters to a Lady of Fashion, Written in the Years 1796 and 1797.. by [Beaumont, Louise Elisa] A Lady

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Title: A Sketch of Modern France in a Series of Letters to a Lady of Fashion, Written in the Years 1796 and 1797..
Author: [Beaumont, Louise Elisa] A Lady
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798. First edition. Near Fine. Bound to style in modern half calf over modern boards, with morocco and gilt label to spine. Renewed endpapers. Measuring 210 x 125mm. Collating viii, 518, [2]: complete, including final leaf of adverts. Small paper flaw to margin of 509-510 not affecting text and faint dampstain to upper margin of preliminaries, else a pleasing and clean copy internally. ESCT reports 15 libraries with copies (8 of those in the U.S.), and it does not appear in the modern auction record. Currently this is the only copy on the market. Notable for being an eyewitness account of Revolutionary France from the perspective of a woman, at a time when "British travellers to Paris were steeped in the highly emotional culture of sensibility...in pursuit of the picturesque" (Thompson). While Louise Elisa Beaumont had an interest in the beauty of French urban culture, the principle focus of her work was how the French people, their cultural institutions, and their city landscapes were being reshaped by "an earthquake on society." An educated Englishwoman married to a Swiss author and illustrator, Beaumont kept a keen eye on how shifts in political thought affected art and antique markets -- and what these shifts implied about the violence and changing lifestyles that the French would be confronting longterm. "On the quays," she writes at one point, "I found that many valuable articles were now to be purchased for a mere trifle...articles that once decorated the apartments of their murdered or emigrated nobles." As she and her husband traveled the Continent to relocate to his native country, Beaumont reported what she saw to a female friend in a series of 31 letters that became the basis for this book. Because the British upperclasses had been frequent travelers to France prior to the Revolution, an account like Beuamont's could strike a deep chord, presenting to them a very different picture of the places that had for much of their lives been familiar. "My sensations on entering this capital of the French Republic I can but feebly describe...It is a new Paris...I could not but reflect that, which French delicacy and sentiment objected to the representation of murder in their tragical dramas, in the real tragedy of the revolution they have not manifested the least reluctance at seeing torrents of blood flow..." She reports on the blood stained Tuillieres Palace, and the rapid changes happening at the Luxembourg. And she recounts how Austrian prisoners of war are being held in Dijon. Yet she also draws attention to how these social shifts, how wartime violence, affects women's lives. In Paris, while some women surge the streets hawking political pamphlets and war trophies, the nuns of St. Vincent, "young and handsome had totally given themselves to the care of attending the sick and the indigent." The sisters, though "the revolution had annihilated them as an order and deprived them of their possessions" turn their energies to assisting those so often affected by but forgotten in conflict. And outside the city, "the females of Breteuil, who, like the generality of their sex, when once irritated are not soon appeased" decide to respond to the occupation of their church by soldiers. To this end, they "sallied forth one fine morning, completely armed with female weapons such as spits brooks, sticks, and brickbats [to assail] the principal church door...In they rushed, and without further ceremony turned out those who were in it." A valuable and scarce example of a woman observing how revolution affects men and women, local and international communities. ESTC T117774. Near Fine.

Select Cases In B.R. 22, 23, & 24. CAR. I. Regis, Reported by ALEYN, John

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Title: Select Cases In B.R. 22, 23, & 24. CAR. I. Regis, Reported
Author: ALEYN, John
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: very good
Description: London: Robert Pawlet, 1681. First. paperback. very good. With Tables of the Names of the Cafes and of the Matters Therein Contained: Also Of the Names of the Learned Councel who Argued the Same. 95 pages +11 page table, text block printed in black letter. Occasional early ink notes mainly in the margins, folio, modern wrappers. London: Robert Pawlet, 1681. First Edition. Very Good.

Manuscript book of Copied Medical Papers by Anonymous

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Title: Manuscript book of Copied Medical Papers
Author: Anonymous
Seller: Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description: ca 1756. UNIQUE 18TH CENTURY LEATHER BOUND VOLUME WITH OVER 500 PAGES OF HAND SCRIPT CONTAINING COPIES OF CONTEMPORARY PUBLISHED MEDICAL PAPERS IN FRENCH AND LATIN. 6 1/2 inches tall hardcover, contemporary full leather binding, spine with raised bands, gilt compartments, faded gilt red leather labels, edges stained red. Light wear to edges of covers and spine, small wormholes margins of covers and top of pages, not affecting text. Pages are consecutively numbered in ink from 1 to 524. Each page is filled with about 25 lines of neat ink script, most in French, some in Latin. The contents represent hand copies of 18th century European medical papers, apparently entered by different scribes. The first paper is recorded as, " Recherches sur la force de l'imagination de femmes enceinte sur le fœtus a l'occasion d'un chien extraordinaire " par M. Eller, acad. de Berlin tom XII, 1756. [Research on the strength of pregnant women's imagination on the fetus on the exposure to an extraordinary dog]. The title of the original published paper reads " monstruous " rather than " extraordinary ". JOHANN THEODOR ELLER (1689-1760) was a major physician of the 18th century: chemist , Prussian military doctor and from 1735 personal physician under Frederick William I and Frederick II. This is followed by papers by Meckel, Fothergill, Roderer and Monro. JOHANN FRIEDRICH MECKEL (1781–1833) was a German anatomist born in Halle. He worked as a professor of anatomy, pathology and zoology at the University of Halle, Germany. JOHN FOTHERGILL (1712–1780) was an English physician, plant collector, philanthropist and Quaker. JOHANN GEORG ROEDERER (1726–1763) was a German physician and obstetrician who was a native of Strasbourg. He studied medicine at Leiden, Paris and London, and became the first professor of obstetrics at the University of Göttingen. ALEXANDER MONRO (1697–1767) was the founder of Edinburgh Medical School. To distinguish him as the first of three generations of physicians of the same name, he is known as primus.

POLARIS: THE STORY OF AN ESKIMO DOG by BAYNES, Ernest Harold

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Title: POLARIS: THE STORY OF AN ESKIMO DOG
Author: BAYNES, Ernest Harold
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Description: NY: The Macmillan Company, 1923. First Edition, first printing. Signed by Baynes of the front endpaper. From the Preface: “Every incident described in this life of Polaris actually took place, and almost everyone is recounted exactly as it occurred. [Dogs] do not possess such [human] intelligence, they possess canine intelligence and this often serves them better, probably, than would our own." The forebears of Polaris were on Adm. Robert Edwin Peary Sr.’s mushing team to the North Pole. Peary was an American explorer and United States Navy officer who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for claiming to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909. "Introduction" by Capt. Robert A. Bartlett, who sailed the "Roosevelt" for Peary, and the "Karluk" for Vilhjjalmur Stefansson. Bartlett called Polaris "the finest Eskimo dog in the world." Ernest Harold Baynes [1868–1925] was an American naturalist. He was "the closest thing New England, and the world for that matter, will ever get to a real-life Doctor Doolittle; all sorts of New England birds and animals: foxes, wolves, chickadees, bears and bison were known to roam around and in and out of his house"- New England Historical Society. He treated animals like friends, but unlike Doolittle, never claimed to talk to them. He was instrumental in bringing to public attention the near demise of songbirds and of the bison. Small 8vo., pictorial green cloth, stamped in white; 137 pages. I have never seen a dust jacket for this book and one dealer's listing said it was issued without one, which I find hard to believe, especially from a major publishing house like Macmillan. Plus, the discoloration to the endpapers appears to be caused by the flaps of a dust jacket. Illustrations From Photographs By Louise Birt Baynes, John R. Baynes, and the Author.. Very Good (little wear covers, contents clean & tight with some browning endpapers and tiny bump to corners of text for a few beginning pages).

Funny Songster

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Title: Funny Songster
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Description: New York: John Burke Book. n.d. (ca. 1860s). Broadside, 15 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches, untrimmed. Eagle woodcut at top. Blank corner torn away, folded. Eight songs, including Johnny Sands, The Postman's Knock, The White Squall, Pauper's Drive and Foster's Gentle Annie..

Jacob Lawrence American Painter by Wheat, Ellen Harkins

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Title: Jacob Lawrence American Painter
Author: Wheat, Ellen Harkins
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Description: Seattle: University of Washington Press, [1986] First edition. Cloth. Quarto.l. Some small paint stains on bottom edges of covers. Otherwise fine in fine d.j.

Men of Two Worlds (Three photographs from the 1946 film) by Thorold Dickinson (director, screenwriter); Wilfrid Newton (photographer); Herbert W. Victor (screenwriter); Robert Adams, Eric Portman, Orlando Martins, Phyllis Calvert (starring)

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Title: Men of Two Worlds (Three photographs from the 1946 film)
Author: Thorold Dickinson (director, screenwriter); Wilfrid Newton (photographer); Herbert W. Victor (screenwriter); Robert Adams, Eric Portman, Orlando Martins, Phyllis Calvert (starring)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: London: Two Cities Films / General Film Distributors, 1946. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1946 UK film. Mimeo layovers affixed to the versos, and one still with sequence number noted on the recto. A musician decides to return to his native African home after years performing in London. 8 x 10 inches. Some toning, and tiny closed tears to the layovers, else Near Fine.

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Reflections Of Early China; Decor, Pictographs, And Pictorial Inscriptions by Yang, Xiaoneng

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Title: Reflections Of Early China; Decor, Pictographs, And Pictorial Inscriptions
Author: Yang, Xiaoneng
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
ISBN: 9780942614305
Condition: Fine
Description: Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 360 pages with 389 black & white photographs. First edition. Fine condition in fine dust jacket. Includees bibliographical references and index.

Africa and Afro-America: Brown Symposium Program February 17-19, 1998 by [Alex Haley, Paula Giddings, Dr. Donald Johanson, Ivan Van Sertima, and Dr. John Biggers]

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Title: Africa and Afro-America: Brown Symposium Program February 17-19, 1998
Author: [Alex Haley, Paula Giddings, Dr. Donald Johanson, Ivan Van Sertima, and Dr. John Biggers]
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Georgetown: Southwestern University, 1988. Very good. Single leaf folded in fours printed on both sides. Slightly tanned, else very good. Participants included Alex Haley, Paula Giddings, Dr. Donald Johanson, Ivan Van Sertima, and Dr. John Biggers.

How to Live to Be 100 or More; The Ultimate Diet, Sex and Exercise Book by Burns, George

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Title: How to Live to Be 100 or More; The Ultimate Diet, Sex and Exercise Book
Author: Burns, George
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780399129391
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Burns on the front endpaper. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($11.95), a short tear at the top and bottom edges of the front panel. Quarter black paper with grey paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

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