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Introduction and Early Progress of the Cotton Manufacture in the United States. Original manuscript draft of the whole work, corrected likely by the author, and author's copy, with a few corrections, of the first printed edition

Introduction and Early Progress of the Cotton Manufacture in the United States. Original manuscript draft of the whole work, corrected likely by the author, and author's copy, with a few corrections, of the first printed edition by Batchelder, Samuel

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Title
Introduction and Early Progress of the Cotton Manufacture in the United States. Original manuscript draft of the whole work, corrected likely by the author, and author's copy, with a few corrections, of the first printed edition
Author
Batchelder, Samuel
Seller
Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
Boston, 1863. Batchelder, Samuel (1784-1879). (1) The introduction and early progress of the cotton manufacture in the United States. Manuscript (probably autograph) on lined paper. 114 [i.e. 118], [20]ff., plus several added slips. N.p., n.d. [1863]. 251 x 201 mm. Unbound; tied with linen tape through holes in the left margin. First and last leaves a bit soiled and worn, but very good. A few manuscript additions in another hand throughout. With: (2) The introduction and early progress of the cotton manufacture in the United States. iv, 108pp.Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1863. 192 x 125 mm. Original cloth, spine faded, upper and lower extremities chipped, small splits in outer hinges. Very good. Together two items, preserved in a single drop-back box. The original manuscript draft of pioneering industrialist Samuel Batchelder's important work on the history of the cotton industry in America, along with a copy of the first edition with a few annotations in Batchelder's hand. The manuscript contains a number of cross-outs, corrections, and emendations by Batchelder and others, providing insight into the composition of this significant Civil War-era study on the American cotton industry. Samuel Batchelder, a pioneering American industrialist, was an inventor and manufacturer and one of the leading figures in the industrialization of the cotton industry in the Northeast. His innovative mills were some of the first factories in the United States, and he was responsible for a number of inventions for improving production, including a dynamometer used to determine the power required to move any of the machines used in cotton factories. Batchelder's work serves as a valuable case study of early industrial capitalism in America. It includes details of the different components of the machines, along with their inventors and patent dates, and notes how patents frequently overlapped as inventors laid claims to different features; and how new inventions, not immediately appreciated, are later incorporated into existing designs. Batchelder also detailed how the international cotton trade (especially with Great Britain) had changed over the years as American production capacity increased. Writing in 1863, Batchelder noted that the combination of the progress of cotton manufacturing in the North and the massive disruption in cotton production in the South due to the Civil War made it almost impossible to speculate on the future of cotton, though he was confident that slavery would not continue to feature prominently in the industry. Nevertheless, at the time of writing, he noted that prices had increased fivefold in the past two years, an unsustainable rate. Either because of, or in spite of, his prominence in the cotton industry, Batchelder was a longtime abolitionist. He was a regular contributor on the topic in regional newspapers, and well before the war published The Responsibility of the North in Relation to Slavery (1856), in which he explained how Northern states had been complicit in slavery from the earliest days of the country. This manuscript and book were previously part of the estate of Charles Foster Batchelder III of upstate New York, formerly of Natick, Massachusetts. .
Dr. Selle-Eysler A.G. Berlin. 25th Anniversary Issue

Dr. Selle-Eysler A.G. Berlin. 25th Anniversary Issue by Blecher, Carl (Text); Otto Arpke (Drawings & Design); Alexander Kogan (Ed.)

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Title
Dr. Selle-Eysler A.G. Berlin. 25th Anniversary Issue
Author
Blecher, Carl (Text); Otto Arpke (Drawings & Design); Alexander Kogan (Ed.)
Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition
Very good- to fine condition
Description
Berlin: Dr. Selle-Eysler A.G., 1930. First printing. Softcover. Very good- to fine condition. Folio (15 1/4 x 11 3/4"). Unpaginated (45 leaves). Original stiff ivory paper boards with embossed circular company logo in silver and red on cover, with tissue guard, in original stiff ivory parchment dustjacket with gilt lettering and red and black ruling on cover. Frontispiece silkscreen. Double page silkscreen with white lettering on gilt background announcing the 25th company anniversary. The dedication page with a silkscreen with gilt lettering and the founder's portrait (Dr. med. Gustav Selle) in gilt and black, both silkscreens. Second frontispiece with gilt company buildings in gilt, title page with bold gilt lettering and red and black ruling. Decorative initials. Lavish company history of the Selle-Eysler A.G., one of the first industrial graphic design companies, specializing in photographic, photomechanical and electromechanical procedures to prepare artwork, photographs and graphic design for the printing process. Following the title page four pages with high quality offset reproductions of photographs of the company founder Erich Zander, the cofounder Siegmund Labisch, both full page, and five members of the corporate board on one page. The photographs are rendered in photogravure and many of the designs with gilt overprinting. Striking work celebrating the 25th anniversary featuring the highest quality of graphic design and printing, stating an example for the company intrinsically linked to the history of these techniques. This book is profusely illustrated with numerous b/w and color photographs of prepress procedures, printing facilities, company employees and contains an extensive section with color reproductions of various magazines, including :Elegante Welt," "Das Magazin," "Wahre Geschichten,"Deutsche Illustrierte," "Lustige Blätter" and others printed by the company. Includes various diagrams. Typesetting, clichés and printing by the Dr. Selle-Eysler AG. Printed to heavy flat as well as glossy paper. Scarce in original dustjacket. Text in German. Dustjacket with light wear along edges, minor chips and creasing, closed tears reinforced with clear tape along inside bottom of front flap, cover and spine, and lightly rubbed. Binding with small strip of sunning along top of front cover, interior in fine condition.
Refranes o Proverbios en Romance. [Part 2:] MAL LARA, Juan de (1524-1571). La Filosofia Vulgar

Refranes o Proverbios en Romance. [Part 2:] MAL LARA, Juan de (1524-1571). La Filosofia Vulgar by NUÑEZ DE GUZMAN, Hernán (1474?-1553)

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Title
Refranes o Proverbios en Romance. [Part 2:] MAL LARA, Juan de (1524-1571). La Filosofia Vulgar
Author
NUÑEZ DE GUZMAN, Hernán (1474?-1553)
Seller
Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
ISBN
9780000373144
Description
Madrid: por Juan de la Cuesta, a costa de Miguel Martinez, 1619. 4to (212 x 147 mm). [4], 399 leaves. 2 parts, separately titled but continuously signed and foliated. Printer’s woodcut device on titles. Double column, woodcut head-piece, tail-piece, and initials. Underlining in pink and blue pencil in second part; scattered foxing, occasional marginal staining or soiling, a couple of short marginal tears due to paper flaws (M3, V1). Contemporary parchment, title ink-lettered on spine, evidence of two fore-edge ties; a few deckle edges (later endpapers). Provenance: Kenneth Rapoport, bookplate, inserted purchase notes.*** The “most complete and most useful edition” (Gratet-Duplessis) of Nuñez’s vast proverb collection, first published in 1555, comprising over 8500 short sayings, including some Portuguese, French, Italian and Galician proverbs. The longer second part contains Juan de Mal Lara’s Filosofia vulgar (fol. 121 ff.), a more discursive selection of proverbs, first published in 1568. Mal Lara’s extensive and erudite commentary could be considered too long in places (noted Gratet-Duplessis), but it is redeemed by his wit and above all his citation of a large number of little-known Spanish poems (ibid., p. 294). The edition concludes with Garay’s Cartas en refranes. Iberian Books B4409; CCPB CCPB000037314-1; Palau 253490 & 197518; Salvá 2112; Heredia 2763; Gratet-Duplessis, Bibliographie parémiologique 486 (Garay p. 292).
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Die Krankheiten der Binde- und Hornhaut - BOUND WITH - Die Krankheiten der Sclera, Iris ...., 2 vols. bd. as one by Arlt, F

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Die Krankheiten der Binde- und Hornhaut - BOUND WITH - Die Krankheiten der Sclera, Iris ...., 2 vols. bd. as one
Author
Arlt, F
Seller
Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
A good copy; some chafing to the joints; head of spine chipped.
Description
Prague: F A Credner & Kleinbub., 1851-`53. First Edition.. contemp. half leather.. A good copy; some chafing to the joints; head of spine chipped.. 8vo. There is one litho. plate. The first two volumes (of three) of the epochal work on the diseases of the eye. Arlt undertook the publication of this book over a number of years. Reprints of the first two volumes were appearing before the final part had appeared. G M # 5865; Becker # 20.
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THE PEOPLE OF MOSCOW by Cartier-Bresson, Henri

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Title
THE PEOPLE OF MOSCOW
Author
Cartier-Bresson, Henri
Seller
J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Dust jacket torn slightly on spine. All illus.

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