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Recueil de Sujets Moraux by BOILLY, Louis-Léopold

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Title: Recueil de Sujets Moraux
Author: BOILLY, Louis-Léopold
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: Paris: Delpech, 1827. Street Life in Paris in the Early Nineteenth Century Louis-Leopold Boilly's 'Collection of Moral Subjects' Six Superb Hand-Colored Lithograph Plates A Remarkable Survival in The Publisher's Printed Wrappers BOILLY, L[ouis-Leopold]. Recueil de Sujets Moraux Dessinés sur Pierre par L. Boilly. Paris: Delpech, [1827]. Oblong Folio (11 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches; 299 x 425 mm.) Six superb hand colored lithograph plates each measuring (11 1/8 x 14 7/8 inches; 282 x 378 mm.). Loose in the publishers printed lithograph wrappers as issued. Top fold of wrappers expertly and invisibly restored, still a remarkable survival, the hand-coloring bright and fresh. The plates, all dated "1827" were lithographed by Delpech and have the publisher's monogram "CD" on verso. Housed in a fleece lined quarter black morocco clamshell case, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. 'A Collection of Moral Subjects Drawn on Stone' An exceptionally rare set of six superb hand-colored lithographs depicting scenes from the street life of Paris in the early nineteenth century. Exceptionally Rare. In over fifty-five years of dealing in color plate books we have never seen nor heard of this title before. Louis-Leopold Boilly ( 1761-1845). The son of a wood-carver, Boilly lived in Douai until he was seventeen years of age, when he went to Arras to receive instruction in trompe-l'oeil painting at Domenica Doncre before moving to Paris in 1785. Between 1789 and 1791 he executed eight small scenes on moralizing and amorous subjects for the Avignon collector Esprit-Claude-François Calvet (1728-1810), including The Visit (1789; Saint-Omer, Musée Hôtel Sandelin). He regularly exhibited at the Paris Salon between 1791 and 1824 and received a gold medal at the Salon in 1804. These paintings thoroughly observed and reflected all aspects of urban life, its costumes and its habits, between the revolutionary period and the Restoration. In 1823, Boilly produced a series of humorous lithographies entitled Grimaces. "In his choice of subjects, he had an immediate French predecessor in Philibert-Louis Debucourt (1755-1832) with whose colored prints Promenade de la Galerie du Palais Royal (1787) and La Promenade publique (1792) he was certainly familiar. Debucourt's scenes of fashionable outdoor sociability in turn derived from Thomas Rowlandson's (1757-1827) Vauxhall, a print of 1784. In adapting these prototypes Boilly gave them a plainer middle-class aspect and treated them with a profusion of mundane detail that contemporaries criticized as "Dutch" and compared to the styles of Gerard Terborch II (1617-I68I), David Teniers II (1610-1690), and Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667). The factuality of his social and physical observation was, however, tempered by his invariable classicist embellishment of his young female figures, the hard distinctness of his colors, and the glassy smoothness of his brushwork." (National Gallery of Art). OCLC & KVK locate just one copy in libraries and institutions worldwide: Kunstbiblio Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany). Beatrice Farwell. The Charged Image has a description of plate 5 on page 44 and a black & white image on page 46. Breton & Zuber. Vol II, p. 872, 2004E - 2009E (uncolored); Farwell pp. 44 & 46; Hiler, p.99; Lipperheide II, p. 726, no. 1157m; Not in Colas or Bobins. The Plates: 1. Monsieur? C'est-y ça que vous cherchez. Sir? Is that what you are looking for. 2. Merci Belle Dame. Thank you Beautiful Lady. 3. Prenez brave homme il vous doit la vie. Take good man he owes you his life. 4. Pauvre homme couvrez vous. Poor man take cover. 5. Je te donne ma Malediction. I give you my Curse. 6. Il y a plus malheureux que moi. There are more unfortunate than me.

THE EYE OF THE STORY by Welty, Eudora

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Title: THE EYE OF THE STORY
Author: Welty, Eudora
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Fine.
Description: New York: Random House, 1977. Fine.. Signed limited first edition of Welty's reviews and critical essays on Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, and others, together with a selection of personal and occasional nonfiction pieces. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter burgundy cloth with gilt-stamped speckled beige boards. In original beige slipcase. 355, [3] pages. Edition of 300 specially printed and bound copies. Signed by Welty at colophon. Only light traces of soil to slipcase.

VALLEY OF THE SHADOW by WARREN, Charles Marquis

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Title: VALLEY OF THE SHADOW
Author: WARREN, Charles Marquis
Seller: Antic Hay Books (United States)
Description: Doubleday & Company: Garden City, NY, 1948. First Edition. Signed presentation from Warren on the title page: “For Nick Beck, with much respect and many regards, Charles Marquis Warren.” Beck [1932-2017] was a university professor, sports writer and a book and Hollywood memorabilia collector. He is also Budd Schulberg’s bibliographer. Warren was a Western-themed writer and was responsible for bringing to television series like “Gunsmoke,” “Rawhide,” and The Virginian.” He was responsible for much of the casting for these tv series, coming up with unknown actor Clint Eastwood for the starring role in “Rawhide.” Beck and Warren were close friends. He was also a good friend of F. Scott Fitzgerald, who wrote a letter of recommendation for Warren, which resulted him going to Hollywood and getting to work on a screen treatment of Fitzgerald’s “Tender Is The Night.” Warren sold more than 250 articles to magazines and was a regular contributor to the Saturday Evening Post. “Valley Of The Shadow” was one of his best-selling novels, with his novel “Only The Valiant” made into a 1950 movie, starring Gregory Peck. A nice association copy- books signed by Warren are uncommon. With a printed program for Warren's funeral laid in, along with directions to his house. 8vo., red cloth in dust jacket; 255 pages. Very Good (covers nice, contents clean & tight, ink name & address on front endpaper); some wear & rubbing (number of interior repairs to shorts tears; $2.75 price is present on the front flap) d/j.

Laid Poulet (les poulets) by Topor, Roland

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Title: Laid Poulet (les poulets)
Author: Topor, Roland
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Paris: Chez Yves Rivière, 1978. Limited First Edition. Wraps. Fine. 12mo. 145 by 93 mm. Unpaginated, 32 leaves, including title and colophon, all with color illustrations by Topor, printing only on rectos. A book of oblique rebuses, many incorporating letters in the illustration and/or solution. The drawings have a whimsicality, and could be categorized as surrealistic without accompanying angst. Colorful and fun. A touch of soiling on the blue wraps. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy.

Spencer Fullerton Baird, a biography. Including selections from his correspondence with Audubon, Agassiz, Dana, and others. by [BAIRD, Spencer Fullerton (1823-1887)]. William Healey DALL (1845-1927).

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Title: Spencer Fullerton Baird, a biography. Including selections from his correspondence with Audubon, Agassiz, Dana, and others.
Author: [BAIRD, Spencer Fullerton (1823-1887)]. William Healey DALL (1845-1927).
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description: Philadelphia & London:: J.B. Lippincott, 1915., 1915. 8vo. xvi, 462 pp. Title printed in red & black. Plates, index. Original full dark blue black-ruled, gilt-stamped cloth, t.e.g. Embossed stamp of the Carnegie Institution, Mount Wilson Observatory. INSCRIBED BY GEORGE ELLERY HALE, June 1915. Very good. Scarce. Spencer Fullerton Baird was an American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and museum curator. Baird was the first curator to be named at the Smithsonian Institution. He eventually served as assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian from 1850 to 1878, and as Secretary from 1878 until 1887. Baird's bibliography included more than a thousand titles, about ninety of which were formal scientific contributions. When he arrived at the Smithsonian in the fall of 1850, Baird brought with him two railroad box cars full of his personal collections. The new curator immediately focused on developing a world-class museum and soon set forth a museum program to Secretary Henry. Acknowledging Henry's stated policy of gathering only materials not previously collected by others, Baird proposed concentrating on collections illustrating the natural history of North America. He created a system of exchange using duplicate specimens and proposed to furnish travelers with the means of "determining the character of objects collected in various part of North America," thus creating an expansive network of collectors. – Smithsonian. / Baird was also founder of the Woods Hole Laboratory and Fisheries Science, and, while confined to a wheelchair due to his progressive poor health, he died there at the age of 65. / William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska. He described many mollusks of the Pacific Northwest of North America, and was for many years America's preeminent authority on living and fossil mollusks.

Sails and Steam in the Mountains. by Bellico, Russell P.

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Title: Sails and Steam in the Mountains.
Author: Bellico, Russell P.
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Condition: 'A maritime and military history of Lake George and Lake Champlain'. The battle for control over the two waterways which were t
Description: Fleischmanns NY.: Purple Mountain Press, Ltd. , (1992).. 'A maritime and military history of Lake George and Lake Champlain'. The battle for control over the two waterways which were the logical entrance from Canada into the center of the English colonies and hence were the scene of a continuous strategic struggle for two centuries. 'An exciting story, told with verve and with authority' - Peter Stanford. In fine condition. . 25 cm. 393 pp. b/w engraved double page seascape on title page. b/w drawn map as frontispiece. b/w photographs, engravings, battle plans, maps, portraits, landscapes, drawings, reproductions ships' plans and ground plans full page and within text. Soft covers.

Latin America and the Caribbean in the International System by Atkins, G. Pope

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Title: Latin America and the Caribbean in the International System
Author: Atkins, G. Pope
Seller: Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN: 9780813333830
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1999. Fourth Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x1x9. Fourth edition. Minor wear to top corner. 1999 Trade Paperback. xxi, 449 pp. The fourth edition of this widely praised text has been thoroughly revised to reflect the evolving characteristics of the current international system that have had a dramatic effect on every aspect of international relations of Latin America and the Caribbean. The original purpose of this book is unchanged: It continues to provide a topically current and analytically integrated survey of the region's role in the world. Still organized around the idea of Latin America and the Caribbean as a separate subsystem within the global international system, the discussion gives special emphasis to complex interstate and transnational structures and processes. Within this framework, Atkins analyzes the foreign policies of the Latin American states themselves and those of the United States and other countries toward Latin America and the Caribbean. He also looks closely at the nature and role of transnational actors in the region, such as the multinational corporations, the Holy See, Protestant Churches, transnational political parties, international labor, nongovernmental organizations, and others. He gives special attention to Latin American participation in international institutions at all levels.

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