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‎[Alexander the Great]; Williams The Rev J‎

‎THE LIFE AND ACTIONS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.‎

‎London: John Murray Albemarle Street 1829. First Edition. Illustrated with a large folding map showing the campaigns of Alexander. Small 8vo handsomely bound in contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled paper covered boards the spine ruled in gilt and with a black morocco lettering label gilt. vi 402 pp. A well preserved copy handsome and in good order the binding tight and strong the text-block clean and fresh the map also in fine state. FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY READABLE HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. Alexander III of Macedon Ancient Greek: Aléxandros most commonly known as Alexander the Great was king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He succeeded his father Philip II to the throne in 336 BC at the age of 20 and spent most of his reign conducting a lengthy military campaign throughout Asia and Egypt. By the age of 30 he had created one of the largest empires in history stretching from Greece to northwestern India. He was undefeated in battle and is widely considered to be one of history's greatest and most successful military commanders.<br> Born in Pella Macedon Alexander was tutored by philosopher and polymath Aristotle until the age of 16. In 335 BC shortly after assuming the throne of Macedon he launched a campaign in the Balkans and reasserted control over Thrace and parts of Illyria before marching on the city of Thebes which was subsequently destroyed. Alexander then assumed leadership of the League of Corinth created by his father.<br> With this authority over all Greeks he launched a pan-Hellenic invasion of the Persian Achaemenid Empire in 334 BC and with it began a series of campaigns which lasted for ten years. Following his conquest of Asia Minor and a series of decisive battles particularly at Issus and Gaugamela the power of the Achaemenid Empire was broken. He subsequently overthrew Darius III and conquered the Achaemenid Empire in its entirety. After the fall of Persia the Macedonian Empire held a vast swath of territory between the Adriatic Sea and the Indus River. Alexander endeavored to reach the "ends of the world and the Great Outer Sea" and invaded India in 326 BC achieving an important victory over Porus an ancient Indian king of present-day Punjab at the Battle of the Hydaspes. Facing mutiny from troops he was eventually forced to turn back at the Beas River and later died in 323 BC in Babylon Mesopotamia the city which he had planned to make the capital of his empire while on his return to Greece. Alexander's death put an end to his planned invasion of Arabia. John Murray, Albemarle Street hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 34651

‎[Astronaut Signature] Mitchell, Edgar with Williams, Dwight‎

‎The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds.‎

‎New York:: Putnam 1996. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Inscribed by astronaut Mitchell on the half-title page. Apollo 14 astronaut Mitchell offers a vision in which technology and intuition are harmonized in pursuit of a more advanced consciousness. When Mitchell was hurtling back to earth after walking on the moon in 1971 he had a profound sense that all things are interconnected and that the universe is an intelligent process with which we need to link up. We hear how Mitchell began a career as a fighter pilot in the years following WW II switched to NASA with the hope of being part of the new space program and came to know the legendary Wernher von Braun whom he believes was a true visionary rather than a Nazi opportunist. Mitchell tells how while returning to earth he carried out a private ESP experiment that seemed to yield positive results. Subsequently he founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences in order to test paranormal phenomena scientifically. He offers us a tour of Western thought from Aristotle to Newton arguing that intuition and science were divorced until the advent of Einstein and quantum physics. We hear a lot about synchronicity left and right brain and the concept that psychic events are quantum exchanges in the brain that link us with the larger world. From "Kirkus". Putnam, unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 25653 ISBN : 0399141618 9780399141614

‎[AUTOMOBILES -- CHEVROLET]. [WILLIAMS, James M & WILLIAMS, Charles Louis (Owners).]‎

‎Souvenir presentation photo album for the Navajo Chevrolet Co. sales and service dealership located along historic Route 66 in Gallup New Mexico with 16 photographs of the gleaming 1958 Chevrolet’s in showrooms service bays and car lots.‎

‎Gallup NM & Detroit MI: Navajo Motors Inc. General Motors Corp. Chevrolet Motor Division ca. 1960. 4to. 16 pp unpaginated. thick card stock and mylar sleeves w/ 16 silver gelatin photographs slipped-in sized 7.5 x 9.5 in. Contemporary 1950’s padded brown album post-binder screw-posts at gutter margin black marker title on spine minor edgewear very minor starting to outer lower hinges still VG bright exemplar w/ pencil MS annotations on ffep. A sleek Mid-20th-Century souvenir presentation album capturing the heyday of a 1958 Chevy dealership at the height of their business. The album opens with crisp clear photos of the signage and exterior of the dealership showroom followed by interior views capturing the Bel-Air Sport Sedan 4-door hardtop two-tone in the fore-ground setting next to the Chevy Delray with the Biscayne and 4-door Chevy Nomad station wagon in the backgrounds featuring signage and sales literature on racks at the back of the showroom. Of particular interest are images of the 1958 Chevrolet showroom album on stand in the sales office seated on the counter. Other photos show the parts department accessories service bays with 1950’s Chevy trucks and autos in the bays and one featuring the reat ends of 1957 Chevy Suburban and 1957 Chevy Bel Air 2-door being serviced. Also featured are shots of the Navajo “OK Cars†used Chevy car lot filled with assorted 1950’s Chevy autos pickups and stave commercial trucks. The company was originally founded in 1927 by James M. Williams 1886-1978 who had moved to McKinley New Mexico on the Zuni Reservation from North Carolina in 1910 to set up a trading post with the Zuni and learned several of the Native American languages as well as contributed significantly to local tribal charities. Later in 1927 first opened a dealership in Gallup NM selling Chevrolet automobiles which continued to grow and thrive through World War II into the post-War era taken over by his son Charles Williams 1915-1996 who was a huge Good Roads Movement proponent sat on the New Mexico Highway Commission and was also breeder of Appaloosa Horses. Navajo Motors Inc., General Motors Corp., Chevrolet Motor Division, unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 62419

‎[AUTOMOBILES -- MARMON ROOSEVELT]. [WILLIAMS, George M].‎

‎The Roosevelt Marmon built: the world’s first straight-eight under $ 1000 Dealer’s showroom brochure.‎

‎Indianapolis IN: Marmon Motor Car Company 1929. 4to. 8 pp unpaginated. leporello accordion-style colour lithographed throughout by the Dayton OH Reynolds & Reynolds Co. self-printed colour-illustrated lithograph softcovers Roosevelt emblem badge on front cover former salesman markings of Jerry Parmeuter on front cover & w/ pricing info inside in ink MS still a VG- copy. First edition of this very rare original dealership brochure for the very popular Marmon automobile The Roosevelt whose line-up included a 5-passenger sedan a Victoria Coupe and a Collapsible Coupe with rumble seat and was not only the most reasonable 8-cylinder automobile marketed at the end of the Roaring 20’s but the first to come stock with a car radio. Although a hit under Williams with sales of nearly 24000 automobiles Marmon collapsed under the impact of the Great Depression and by 1933 had been sold off including their final dream car of the Marmon Sixteen of which fewer than 400 were ever built. No copies in Worldcat. Marmon Motor Car Company, paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64033

‎[Bates Brothers Musical Follies]. Williams, Peggy‎

‎Annotated Vernacular Album Kept by Miss Peggy Williams Who Worked as a Clown in the Bates Brothers Musical Follies‎

‎Various locations 1920. Very good. 51 leaves illustrated with 205 sepia-toned photographs in mounting corners and another handful loose in the album or stored behind other images about a third captioned in white pencil on the album leaves. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black cloth. Moderate soiling and edge wear. Minor occasional wear to photographs. Manuscript inscription on inside front cover reads "Miss Peggy Williams. Bates Bro. Musical Follies." A personal vernacular photograph album kept by Miss Peggy Williams of the Bates Brothers Musical Follies a popular touring circus in the first half of the 20th century. Williams performed as a clown for the Bates Brothers some of which she documents in the present album. Williams likely worked mainly in the 1920s although the range of time represented by the present album runs from roughly 1920 to the late 1960s. The album captures Williams and other members of the Bates Brothers Musical Follies otherwise known as the Bates Brothers Musical Comedy Company while on tour through Nova Scotia and New England with stops in Halifax and Truro as well as Keen New Hampshire; Poughkeepsie New York; Bennington Vermont; Orchard Beach Maine; and other locations. <br /> <br /> The photographs depict the company taking to the road standing beside advertisements dressed in circus attire with white face paint practicing splits and forming human pyramids in their down time. The images capture the troupe largely during recreation times with no images of the performances themselves. Some of the images are studio portraits of the performers. Much of the album captures Williams in slightly later times largely in a domestic capacity. These images include family portraits casual family settings Williams' mother her dog her husband school portraits of unidentified children and other images of babies and friends.<br /> <br /> A pasted advertising sign visible in the background of a few photos touts the Bates company as "A jingling laugh show of mirth melody and dance." These signs indicate the main performers as Kimmie Evans and Dora Davis which should help researchers more accurately date the pictures here. Peggy Williams must have acted in a supporting role as she does not appear to be featured on the company's posters at the time of these photos. Bill Bates is pictured and named as the manager of the eponymous Bates Brothers Musical Follies in which Miss Williams got her start. Two pages refer to the set of the film Arctic City in which Williams played a small role. This set was located in Port Henry New York. A wonderful primary source record of one woman's work as a clown during the Roaring Twenties. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 5819

‎[Bill Wittliff Collection] Jonathan Williams and Nicholas Dean‎

‎Blues & Roots Rue & Bluets‎

‎Boards sunned and bowed; offsetting to endleaves; dust wrapper creased and toned. Very good. <p>Jonathan Williams and Nicholas Dean. Blues & Roots Rue & Bluets: A Garland for the Appalachians. New York: Grossman Publishers 1971. First edition. <br /> With Bill Wittliff ink ownership stamp and signature. <br /> Quarto. Unpaginated. Illustrated with b/w photos by Nicholas Dean. Publisher's hardcover illustrated boards original glassine dust wrapper. <br /> From the collection of Bill Wittliff highly regarded book designer typographer photographer and screenwriter from Austin Texas founder of the Encino Press.<br /> </p> . unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2738

‎[Bill Wittliff Collection] O W Williams‎

‎Pioneer Surveyor - Frontier Lawyer‎

‎Minor toning and wear to boards; light foxing to textblock edges; small stain to title page; jacket lightly creased and toned. Very good. <p>O. W. Williams. S. D. Myres editor. C. L. Sonnischen introduction. José Cisneros Illustrator. Pioneer Surveyor - Frontier Lawyer: The Personal narrative of O. V. Williams 1877 - 1902. El Paso TX: Texas Western College Press 1966. First edition. <br /> Octavo. 350pp. Illustrated with b/w photos; maps and sketches by José Cisneros. Brown quarter over green cloth-covered boards spine lettered in black front cover decorated in brown green top-stain endleaves in brown original unclipped dust jacket.<br /> From the collection of Bill Wittliff highly regarded book designer typographer photographer and screenwriter from Austin Texas founder of the Encino Press. </p> . unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2779

‎[Breadfruit; Williams, Rev John]‎

‎A bread-fruit of the Paea species with its leaf and blossom drawn from a specimen brought to England by the Revd. Jno. Williams missionary from the Sea Sea Islands‎

‎London: Published by John Snow 1830. Good overall. Very rare separately published image of the bread fruit probably one of the few fruits in history to figure in a mutiny. William Bligh's mishandling of his crew who were sent to Tahiti to secure the breadfruit to feed slaves in the West Indies in the 1790s lead to the infamous Mutiny of the Bounty. John Williams traveled for the London Missionary Society in 1816 and brought back a bread fruit when he returned to England in 1834. This image derives from the William's period.<br /> <br /> Large colored lithograph with the leaf and fruit occupying most of the image. Many rubbed spots with number of small tears and one 9" closed tear into sheet. Backed on tissue paper to strengthen cracks. Some lighter discoloration on the right edge. Printed area 39.5 X 50.5 cms. Trove Libraries Australia ID 9131025 at the National Library of Australia. Published by John Snow unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 12572

‎[Broadside] [Theater] [Boston] [Munroe & Williams, Managers]‎

‎Washington Hall Amesbury Mills. Old National Theatre Company From Boston. Mid 19th century broadside‎

‎Boston Amesbury: E. G. Frothingham Printer Haverhill n.d. Broadside. Fair. Broadside approx. 17" x 6". Broadside is pasted down on old peach colored thin cardboard. Some light corner and edge chipping to the board and paper. Light toning to the paper. No date provided. The National Theatre was in existence in Boston from 1836-1863. These plays were held at Amesbury Mills a prosperous industrial location north of Boston. Printed under the top heading of the broadside - "This Company comprises a well selected and talented list from the BOSTON THEATRES and MUSEUM. They have met with most brilliant success and have been pronounced by the public voice the best COMPANY now TRAVELLING." The plays performed on Friday Evening May 19th include:<br /> <br /> Come and Laugh! Glorious Bill. A new Domestic Drama to Night showing life in an ENGLISH FACTORY. A LAUGHABLE IRISH FARCE.<br /> <br /> FAC-TORY GIRL or VIRTUE TRIUMPHANT<br /> <br /> PADDY MILES an Irish Farce. The National Theatre in Boston was founded in Boston and was active from 1836-1863. From wikipedia: The National Theatre 1836-1863 was a theatre in the West End of Boston Massachusetts in the mid-19th century.12 William Pelby established the enterprise in 1836 and presented productions of "original pieces and the efforts of a well selected stock company which with few exceptions have been American. The scenery is of the highest order and the business of the stage well directed. Mr C.A. Eaton made his debut at this theatre and here Mr. F.S. Hill's early labors were eminently successful. Mr. J.S. Jones has written and produced on this stage thirty pieces embracing every department except tragedy."3 William Washburn designed the building erected on the site of the former Warren Theatre. Performers at the National included Edwin Adams Marietta Zanfretta Jean Margaret Davenport4 Julia Dean Jonathan Harrington W.H. Smith5 Mary Ann Vincent and Billy Whitlock. In 1852 the theatre burnt down and was rebuilt.6 In 1863 the building was again destroyed by fire.7 E.B. Williams was listed as a manager for the company but there is no mention of Munroe. <br /> <br /> The Amesbury and Salisbury Mills Village Historic District is a historic district on Market Sq. roughly bounded by Boardman Water Main and Pond Streets in Amesbury Massachusetts. It was the site of significant industrial development between 1800 and 1875 during which time the town developed a significant textile processing industry. Among the buildings in the district is the Salisbury Mill #4 a four-story brick Greek Revival building which features dentil decorations on its eaves and towers.2 The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.1 wikipedia<br /> <br /> The printer Edward Gilman Frothingham 1811-1875 was a writer and owner of the Haverhill Gazette from 1843-1869. From the OCLC site most of the publications listed in World Cat by Frothingham spanned years 1858-60. Some publications were done in 1866. No listing for this broadside has been found. Also used source: Genealogical and Personal Memoirs: Relating to the Families of Boston.By William Richard Cutter. E. G. Frothingham, Printer, Haverhill unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 35626

‎[California - Gold Rush - Surveying - Personal Archives] Williams, Edward‎

‎Gold-Rush-era Archive of Surveyor Edward Williams including Thirteen Letters Written from Monterey in 1850 a Transcribed Copy of a Mexican Land Grant from 1834 and Notes Relating to his Work as a Surveyor‎

‎California 1850. With thirteen letters most multi-page written from Monterey in 1850 a 7 pp facsimile transcription of a 1834 Mexican land grant on cloth measuring 11 x 14 inches and and eleven page document on paper in Spanish relating to a Monterey land grant transcribing an 1841 document. Letters heavily worn with some loss at margins but mostly legible land grant in good to very good condition transcribed document in Spanish in fair condition with water damage to margins. Fair. An interesting archive of 1850s-era material relating to the life and career of the surveyor Edward Williams which recently surfaced in the central mother lode region. The group includes his personal letters from the California Gold Rush as well as well two interesting documents form his work for the Surveyor General J.W. Mandeville in 1858 where he transcribed two Mexican land grants. <br /> <br /> Lt. Edward Williams was a member of Company E New York Volunteers under Capt. Nelson Taylor. He came to California around 1847 and found employment as a deputy surveyor later working for the Office of the Surveyor General of the Unites States for California. In 1858 Surveyor General J.W. Mandeville commissioned a report on Mexican-era California Land Grants. Mandeville had Williams copy the original documents exactly - inclusive of an ink copy on linen that is an "exact tracing" of the original documents starting with 1834 up through about 1840. These "copies" were submitted to the Surveyor General in 1858 for use in the report. Williams continued the title work by copying other documents from about 1841 though this time not as a tracing but hand copied on the usual blue paper of the 1850s.<br /> <br /> The documents illustrate the length officials went to while they investigated Mexican Land Grant titles to California properties in the 1850s. The process was difficult and involved two distinctly separate cultures and legal systems that clearly conflicted. The Mexican Government granted rights for these large land parcels in California to various people but clearly stated they could not sell parts of the property. The wording was used many times in litigation of the period in both defense of the land grants and in opposition to how the land grants were handled. The issues were actually quite simple in that the Mexican legal standards for land grants was far different from those in the United States and the two differing forms of written land ownership and use clashed. <br /> <br /> These documents reflect a parcel of land granted to Francisco Mesa at "Corral de Tierra" a large parcel in Monterrey County California. Mesa had requested land for "his personal use and that of his family." In the Grant the title papers reflect "while the land is under Francisco's possession it cannot be divided mortgaged or a levy placed on it nor handed down." These original documents help illustrate the complex story of Mexican Land Grants in California. <br /> <br /> Also included are thirteen letters from Ed aka "Ned" to various family members primarily his mother and sister Alice and vice versa. About half are from Ed the other half are written to him. The dates of the letters are; 1850: February 10th April 15th April 16th April 28th June 10th July 30th October 11th and November 17th and 1851: September 9th. One undated letter with heavy loss is written from Panama. The letters are generally readable but the condition far from perfect with water stains throughout and chips abundant along edges and significant textual loss. The letters are generally at least two pages sometimes four or more inclusive of writing in the crossed line custom to save paper. Most are datelined at Monterrey where he discusses the people the customs setting and more. <br /> <br /> Despite the condition flaws there is much to be gleaned from his correspondence. In his April 15 1850 letter . he describes his trip to San Juan Bautista from Monterrey in detail while he was on his way to San Francisco. Williams writes of his great pleasure on tasting cooked beef by the Indians that he found was the best he ever tasted as they camped on the way to San Jose with the ultimate goal Mission Dolores in San Francisco: “this the beef they put on the embers of the fire and broiled it - I never tasted anything like it before so tender so juicy…†One of his first notes on San Francisco: "There are regular streets filled with all kinds of sorts of stores… The shipping covers the water as far as you can see. And those nearest the shore are converted into store houses the rigging being taken down and the and holes cut in the sides for doors.The best houses in town are occupied by gamblers . a large saloon filled with tables on which are played all kinds of games of chance - at some of the tables are displayed immense amounts of coin and gold in lumps worth from 1 to 5000 dollars which some poor infatuated fool of a miner has at some time lost to them."<br /> In his letter of April 16th he discusses both his difficulties with women in California and his lack of fitting in back east: “The Spanish Girls are very nice and all that sort of thing but the trouble is to find one that is educated. I can’t bear an uneducated wom an and I think I shall have to come to N.Y. and bring one out here… I know one or two in N.Y. but I don’t believe they would have such an uncouth specimen of an ‘hombre’ as me…†In his next letter he describes Carmel in detail. He states: “I haven’t been to the mines nor have I any inclination to go†though he intends to settle in California permanently. In his next letter he discusses the people he’s met and how he detests the anglophone community there: “How do I like the People Those of Spanish whom I call my friends I love with all my soul - there is not much society except among them… the Eng. and Am. population I detest from the bottom of my heart. This may sound strange but you will know the por que when you arrive.†He then praises the climate and scenery of Monterey. One letter written from Panama which has unfortunately sustained heavy losses at margins offers some details of the trip on the Chagres River. The replies to Williams from his family offer details on life in New York and are similarly compromised in condition but overall there is enough to glean from the group to provide a detailed example of family correspondence from the period. <br /> <br /> Overall a very interesting and unusual archive of a young professional who moved to California during the Gold Rush period and rejected the Anglophone mining community with particular interest to historians of Monterey and of the systems of land grants that shaped Mexican and American land policy in the nineteenth century. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : List1929

‎[CHIMIE] - HAYNES (Williams) -‎

‎L'age de la chimie.‎

‎Paris, Librairie arthème fayard - collection savoir, 1947 ; in-8, 377 pp., br. Comme neuf - broché -.‎

‎Comme neuf - broché -.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 201111646

‎[Civil War – 1st Missouri Cavalry (Union) – Veterans' Affairs] Williams, Thomas W‎

‎Letters Attempting to Clear the Record of a Dishonorably Discharged Civil War Veteran‎

‎Butte Montana 1922. Approximately 113 pieces: fifty-one letters to Thomas Williams; thirteen to various politicians mainly members of Congress; and twenty to Williams’ advocates mostly from Congresspeople; fifteen miscellaneous items including Grand Army of the Republic materials and Williams’ citizenship document; and fourteen empty envelopes. Materials date from between 1911 and 1922. Near fine with normal wear. Thomas W. Williams 1845–1931 was born outside of Swansea Wales and died in a Soldier’s Home in Los Angeles California. According to his obituary he came to the United States in about 1857 as a very young boy briefly left to learn blacksmithing in Toronto Canada and then returned stateside. He enlisted with the Union army at the outbreak of the Civil War shortly before he turned 16 and served in the 1st Missouri Cavalry of Volunteers Company C. After the war he was a resident of Butte Montana to or from which many of these letters are written.<br /> <br /> Offered here is a large lot of materials relating to Williams’ efforts late in life to secure a veteran’s pension for his service – or at least to have his 1864 dishonorable discharge expunged from his record. Williams enlists a number of people to help him with this task including fellow 1st Cavalry veteran Abraham Brokaw several local attorneys and the mayor of Butte. Their letters on Williams’ behalf are mainly addressed to congressmen mostly from Montana whose replies start out with polite deferrals—they would of course love to do anything in their power to help but these matters are difficult and now is simply not the right time—but devolve into accusations and firm denials.<br /> <br /> According to Williams he had served with Company C until his honorable discharge in May of 1864 at which point he immediately reenlisted. He received a thirty-day furlough on reenlistment and decided to visit his uncle in Hamilton Ontario as he had no other family on the continent. On attempting to return to his post:<br /> <br /> “As I was not of age my uncle held me and prevented me from returning to my command. I tried to get away so as to get back ran away twice but was recaptured twice my uncle having a letter from my mother instructing him to hold me as I would only be 19 on Sept 15 1864. I was branded as a deserter when I applied for a copy of my discharge.†December 11 1919<br /> <br /> His record prior to this he claims had been stellar as he lays out in an eleven-page notarized statement as part of his appeal May 3 1922. He describes being sent as a member of General Frémont’s bodyguard into the First Battle of Springfield:<br /> <br /> “we were sent to lexington to drive Price and the Rebels out of Mo. we camp about 20 miles away in a viliage before we reached Springfield and General Freemont called the Body guard out at 2 oclock in the morning for volenteers we came out . we did not know where we were going. after we had gone a few miles we had a fight with the Rebels pickets and whiped and drove them away and we went two or three miles towards Springfield . we made the charge and drove the rebels out there were 2200 of them. we laid out in the prairies all night without Hat Coat or Blanket to keep us warm and Held our Horses by the Bridel all nightâ€.<br /> <br /> The men “formed a camp near Springfield and you can see cut in a large rock the name of Camp Bliss which I cut and the dait of the year.†When Frémont was ordered back to Washington he ordered a dispatch sent from Springfield to Sedalia which Williams carried<br /> <br /> “132 miles from 8 oclock in the morning on our same Horses. and only one drink of water for our selves our Horses from the time we left camp that night untill 11 oclock when we arrived in Seidailia we then returned to Springfield with General Hunters comand escorted General fremont to Rollaâ€.<br /> <br /> The men go on “to Levenworth Kansas and the Bushwackers fought us all the wayâ€. They winter in Leavenworth and are then sent to “Independence Mo to drive Quantrell and his gang out of North Mo†– that is William Quantrill and his Raiders an infamous pro-Confederate guerilla group. Williams writes:<br /> <br /> “We left the Sargent of Co E. in Kansas City to get our mail and a citizen and his son was with him Quantrell gang captured them and striped the both and placed them in a fence corner and killed them Both and placed fence rail over them and Burned them up and left the Boy see them do this he came to our Captain Miles Kehoe who sent us out in squads on all the roads and we captured 9 of the Rebles Captain line them up and told the Boy to pick out the man that killed his father . they coart Marcheled him and Hanged him the next morning at 8 oclock Capt Kehoe let the others go and told them if they were caught in any thing But a fair fight he would Hang them tooâ€.<br /> <br /> Quantrill’s men heed Keogh’s warning and go much easier on six of the company’s men who are captured while searching for more feed for the horses:<br /> <br /> “Quantrals gang caught them after disarming took them to a farm house gave them supper and sent some of his men around and collected all the young ladies they could get and an old Mo fidler they danced all night and then Quantral gave them Brekfast and sent them to there camps this was the last trouble we had with him and his gangâ€.<br /> <br /> At this point Williams does admit to running into some trouble himself: another soldier “started to curse queen Victoria and I hit him . my Welch Blood could not stand to hear himâ€. Williams asks the soldier what he “would do to a man if he damned presedent Lincoln†and the soldier<br /> <br /> “went and swore I damned the president and I was Coart Marceled and sent to Alton then a Military Prison and at the Cort Marshal they did not alow me to say one word to protect myself when I arrived at Alton I explained the whole afair to the officer who had charge of this prison he advised me to write to president Lincolnâ€.<br /> <br /> Williams is shortly released from prison and sent back to his post at Little Rock; in later tellings of the story by Williams’ advocates including in a resolution of the Grand Army of the Republic Lincoln personally ordered Williams released. Willliams’ company fights in the Battle of Prairie D'Ane and then camps with “a comand of Jenensons coulered troopsâ€â€”probably Colonel Charles Jennison—who were “attacked by the rebles†and “shot at them and then went at them with Bainets and drove them for miles it was a Sight to see the dead rebles how they were Killedâ€. Shortly before his initial discharge Williams’ company goes on to Camden where:<br /> <br /> “some of our troops were on picket and those not on guard were asleep around a fire and the rebles made a charge and shot the Boys around the fire after that the Boys took logs and put Hats and overcoats on the logs and the Rebles tryed the same game But was caught in a trapâ€.<br /> <br /> Finally Williams is discharged reenlists and is furloughed and heads to Canada where his troubles begin.<br /> <br /> He first appeals to fellow 1st Missourian Abraham Brokaw since Brokaw could act as a witness to his claims. In their correspondence Brokaw sometimes recalls interesting anecdotes from the war including the “dirty irishman thief and libertine†Kelley “who the boys you will call to mind was going to hang at Little Rock for steeling our postals†April 18 1912 and a “band of gurillas from Ark. that had captured and was holding the little town†of Ozark Missouri who “had got word of our coming and left for parts unknown a few hours before our coming†January 26 1915.<br /> <br /> The letters to Williams and his advocates are frustrating – what he’s told is inconsistent and he makes little progress. First he has to get confirmation of his first honorable discharge which he seems to receive around September of 1916. Then he applies for a pension; however the office of the Bureau of Pensions writes to him the following year that his pension “claim was rejected November 13 1916 on the ground that you were never honorably discharged from the only contract of service you entered into during the Civil War†August 31 1917. A month later the Missouri Adjutant General writes a certificate of his service which “clears your record both here and in Washington†and congratulates him “on receiving at last your just due as a Veteran so richly merited†September 20 1917. By the end of the year though he is still trying to clear the desertion charge and has now resorted to trying to pass a bill in congress to do so. Montana Senator Thomas Walsh writes that “I have tried very hard to secure a favorable report . but have been unable to induce the Military Committee to take action thereon†December 11 1917.<br /> <br /> The congressmen to whom he appeals—including Senators Walsh Tom Stout and Henry Myers and Representatives Frank W Mondell Carl W Riddick and Henry Z Osborne—are less than helpful. They often claim that there is insufficient time remaining in the current congressional session remind him that such bills are difficult to pass even in favorable circumstances and ask him to furnish them with the same information he has already provided. After years of this Senator Myers suddenly tells Charles Juttner one of Williams’ advocates a very different story about Williams’ service:<br /> <br /> “The report of the War Department shows that in March 1863 Mr. Williams was tried by court-martial on a long list of serious charges and that he was found guilty on all of them; that he was sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for the duration of the war or at least until his term of enlistment should expire and that other penalties were assessed against him one of which was that at the expiration of his term of imprisonment he should be dishonorably discharged from the Army. It appears however that after having been imprisoned nearly a year the remainder of his sentence was remitted and that he was allowed to rejoin his company and that he did rejoin it in February 1864. The records of the War Department however show that July 4 1864 at St. Louis while on furlough Mr. Williams deserted and never rejoined the army.†July 18 1921<br /> <br /> A letter from the War Department Adjutant General adds the details that he “was found guilty . of conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline and of disobedience to orders†and that his sentence had included “a ball and chain weighing twelve pounds attached to his leg†and the forfeiture of all present and future pay and allowances January 16 1922.<br /> <br /> It is difficult to say which account is true. Myers however had given some telling further reason that Williams’ bill might have been rejected:<br /> <br /> “There is an intense prejudice in Congress against such bills. . The senators and representatives seem to think that such a bill is merely a prelude to an application for a pension and the expenses of the government are now so enormous and the expenses of providing for the veterans of the World War are so great . that there seems to be a general disposition in Congress not to increase the Civil War pension list any more by a single dollar.â€<br /> <br /> Overall a record of one veteran’s experience dealing with the federal government. Of interest to scholars of the American Civil War and postbellum civilian life both for its firsthand accounts of engagements in the trans-Mississippi theater and for the look it offers at the treatment of veterans. unknown‎

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‎[Clay, Edward Williams]‎

‎THE NATION'S BULWARK. A WELL DISCIPLINED MILITIA‎

‎Philadelphia: Pub. for the Proprietors by R.H. Hobson. Chesnut St. 1829. Hand-colored broadside oblong "Sketches of Character. No. 1." 9-1/4" x 13-1/2." Some light wear and wrinkling. Blank verso with extraction remnants. Good plus. <br /> <br /> "Originally from Philadelphia and later New York City Edward Clay remains an enigmatic figure. He created highly provocative racial social and political satire until late in his life. His 1829 engraving The Nation's Bulwark a Well-Disciplined Militia LC shows a lineup of bored undisciplined soldiers smoking pipes chatting barely awake confronted by a plump officer with a bottle bulging from his pocket. The slogans on the tent banners in the background 'Hurrah for Old Hickory' and 'Jackson Forever' indicate the unit's loyalty to Jacksonian principles of democracy" Recent Acquisition: Fantastical Militias at the Clements Library web site 27 October 2014.<br /> Excellent description from the Fleischer's Auction House April 2026 lot 37: "A satirical depiction of a Philadelphia militia company by the American cartoonist Edward Williams Clay 1799 - 1857. The scene portrays a motley assemblage of militiamen gathered under the command of an officer dressed in a frock coat with epaulettes and a plumed hat. In contrast to their commander's martial bearing most of the men appear in civilian clothing and stand at varying and often comically imperfect degrees of attention. Their mismatched attire and relaxed posture lend the group a distinctly humorous quality suggesting a volunteer militia whose enthusiasm exceeds its discipline. <br /> "This print was intended as the first number in Clay's proposed series Sketches of Character in which he caricatured recognizable types and personalities from contemporary Philadelphia society. Although conceived as a continuing series this appears to have been the only number issued. The figures represented are believed to be caricatures of well-known Philadelphians of the period rendered with Clay's characteristic wit and observational sharpness.<br /> "Clay was among the earliest American artists to produce sustained series of political and social caricatures in lithographic form helping to establish a distinctly American tradition of satirical printmaking in the decades before the Civil War. Prints such as the present example not only lampooned local personalities and civic institutions but also reflected the vibrant political culture of the early republic when militia companies public gatherings and partisan politics formed a visible part of urban life.<br /> "As both a humorous social commentary and an early example of American political caricature the print offers a vivid glimpse into the intersection of militia culture local identity and Jacksonian politics in nineteenth-century Philadelphia."<br /> Weitenkamp 215. Reilly 1829-1. OCLC 299947406 2- LCP DLC as of June 2026. The Clements Library and Brown University also own copies. AAS and Penn do not own it according to their web sites. Pub. for the Proprietors by R.H. Hobson. Chesnut St. unknown‎

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‎[COLLECTIF] RZOSKA Julian. L. Berry, N.M. El Hadidi, B. Entz, M. Fawzi Hussein, S. Ghabbour, M.S. Ghallab, P.H. Greenwood, D. Hammerton, Aboul-Foutuh Latif, D.A. Livingstone, P. Morris, V. Täckholm, J.F. Talling, K. Thompson, Kamal Wassif, Tr. R. Williams, C. Wright.‎

‎THE NILE. Biology of an ancient river.‎

‎The Hague, Dr. W. Jung B.V., 1976. In-8, reliure toilée, photographies, figures et plans, jaquette.‎

‎[6334]‎

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‎[Condy, Jonathan Williams]‎

‎A Description of the River Susquehanna with Observations on the Present State of its Trade and Navigation and their Practicable and Probably Improvements‎

‎Philadelphia: 1 1796. First edition. 4 60 pp. Without the folding map. 8vo. Later half calf and marbled paper boards. First edition. 4 60 pp. Without the folding map. 8vo. "A general promotion tract on Northeastern Pennsylvania and Southwestern New York with an emphasis on the importance of the Susquehanna as a means of reaching the back country and the desirability of improving its navigation. Probably issued in the interests of the Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation Company or one of Robert Morris's other companies" Vail. Scarce with no other example with or without the map at auction since the Streeter sale in 1967. Evans 30338; Sabin 93935; Streeter sale 985; Vail 1059 1 unknown‎

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‎[Cook]; Williams, Glyndwr (Int)‎

‎Captain Cook's Voyages 1768-1779‎

‎The Folio Society. Used - Very Good. Includes Slipcase. The Folio Society unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : FORT502271

‎[CRIMINOLOGY -- BOOKS ON BOOKS]. [WILLIAMS, Gerald O]‎

‎The Sheriff & Police Reporter catalogue and bibliography of police books: embracing a wide variety of works for the administrator the experienced police officers the student or beginner coroners medical advisers investigators technicians and prosecuting attorneys. . . .‎

‎Seattle WA: Sheriff & Police Reporter 1526 Ballard Way January 1961. 4to. 23 1 pp. order form as pp. 21-22 has been partially excised from use. Gold-coloured printed softcovers illustrated ads on back cover minor shelfwear rubbing retaining 1/3 of original order former still VG- copy w/ mailing label of John Esparzo 1923-2021 former Walla Walla Kelso & Cowlitz County deputy sheriff and owner of Consolidated Insurance Service. First edition thus of this surprisingly scarce and well-annotated bibliography & trade catalogue containing hundreds of titles in police science medico-legal subjects criminal psychology juvenile delinquency firearms sexual deviancy and criminal investigation assembled by the local Sheriff & Police Reporter magazine. Available volumes range from Forgery and Fictitious checks by Julius Sternitzky to Hans Gross’s classic Criminal Investigation. Kraft-Ebing Pscyhopathia Sexualis & Clifford Allen’s Sexual Perversion make appearances as well as Karpman’s The Alcoholic Woman. The Sheriff & Police Reporter had previously issued an earlier bibliography in 1955 in a similar format. No copies in Worldcat. Sheriff & Police Reporter, 1526 Ballard Way, paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 58426

‎[DAVID GOODIS]. THRILLING ADVENTURES December 1942 (Volume 43 No 3). J S Williams, editor‎

‎THRILLING ADVENTURES‎

‎New York: Standard Magazines Inc. 1942. Slight edge wear a nearly fine to fine copy. 22213. Octavo single issue pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes the David Goodis story "The Jaguar." Feature story is by H. Bedford-Jones writing as Gordon Keyne "Appointment With Disaster. Standard Magazines, Inc. unknown‎

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‎[DAVIES John] 1567-1644 (of Mallwyd). WILLIAMS Thomas 1550?-1620?‎

‎Antiquae Linguae Britannicae Nunc vulgo dictae Cambro-Britannicae a suis Cymraecae vel Cambricae ab aliis wallicae et Linguae Latinae Dictionarium Duplex‎

‎London: R Young Joan Davies 1632. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. VG 1st ed 1632. In contemporary speckled calf blind edge tooling corners bumped. Re-backed raised bands gilt tooling gilt titles to red calf labels edges worn. Internally 1 2-4 -4 A-P4. Aa-Iii6 device on title royal coat of arms to verso title soiled slightly browned 2V4 to end small worm hole Pp1 corner torn away bound without the inserted leaf of commendatory verses after 24 three columns to the page armorial coat of arms to fpd Gaddesden. Edited and the first part compiled by John Davies; the second part compiled by Thomas Williams edited by Davies. 286186 mm. Rees 1551. Bohn 392. STC 6347. His published work belongs to the years 1620-1 and 1632-3. The 1620 edition of the Welsh Bible is known as Richard Parry's Bible but it is thought today that much of the credit for the uniformity and correctness of the language used should be given to John Davies; he may have had something to do with the 1621 edition of the Welsh Book of Common Prayer as well. In 1621 too John Davies's own Welsh grammar Antiquae Linguae Britannicae . Rudimenta appeared. This was followed in 1632 by the Dictionarium Duplex a dictionary in two parts the Welsh - Latin section being original work begun in 1593 while the Latin - Welsh section is an abridgement of a larger work by Thomas Wiliems of Trefriw which is still in manuscript Pen. MS. 228; John Davies himself spent almost a year in London when the dictionary was in the press. He was also the translator of Llyfr y Resolusion 1632 and the editor of Y Llyfr Plygain a'r Catechisme 1633. The Articulau 1664 and Flores Poetarum Britannicorum 1710 were not published until after his death. NLW DWB <br/> <br/> R Young, Joan Davies hardcover‎

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‎[DAVIES John] 1567-1644 WILLIAMS Thomas 1550?-1620?‎

‎Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ nunc vulgo dictæ Cambro-Britannicæ a suis Cymraecae vel Cambricae ab aliis Wallicæ et linguæ Latinæ dictionarium duplex‎

‎Londini: Impress. in ædibus R. Young impensis Joan. Davies 1632. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. First edition of an important Welsh dictionary In modern to style full boxed calf blind edge tooling. Spine raised bands gilt title to maroon morocco label. Internally not paginated but 199 leaves signatures: 1-4 A-P3 Aa-Iii6 some professional gutter repairs occasional contemporary margin notes contemporary ink name to fpd Evan Jones & ep Edward Williams new 'old' endpapers text block edges reddened bound without the inserted leaf of commendatory verses small binders stamp to epd 3 columns per page. 259176 mm. ESTC S122150. STC 6347. Livri Wallia 1551. <br/> <br/> Impress. in ædibus R. Young, impensis Joan. Davies hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 007749

‎[DENVER, COLORADO -- LAND PROMOTION]. [WILLIAMS, Arthur & CAMPION, John F]‎

‎Denver: a glimpse of the city and state. The unconditional surrender of Denver to the Grand Army in ‘99.‎

‎Denver CO: The Chamber of Commerce Printed by the Carson-Harper Co. 1898. Oblong 4to. 9.75 x 8.25 in. 43 5 pp. Photo frontisp. decorated title photo & text illustrations throughout. Beige printed softcovers gilt lettering on front cover punch sewn at spine w/ red silk braid yapp edges couple minor closed tears very minor sunning still VG copy. First edition of this very scarce and lavishly illustrated land promotion work for Denver sent to the national Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic meeting in Cincinnati OH in Sept. 1898 to pitch the Rocky Mountain capital for the 34th Encampment in 1899. The boosters have included information on the climate and medical advantages to visiting Denver mining and agricultural resources typical Denver homes the Country Club live stock industry and more. Unfortunately Denver was unable to secure the required 1¢ a mile rate required by the Encampment Committee so it was awarded to Philadelphia. Worldcat locates 1 copy Denver Public. The Chamber of Commerce, Printed by the Carson-Harper Co., paperback‎

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‎[DR WILLIAMS' LIBRARY]‎

‎Catalogue of the library in Red Cross Street Cripplegate; founded pursuant to the will of the Reverend Daniel Williams D. D. who died in the year 1716‎

‎London: Printed and Sold by Richard and John E. Taylor 1841. In two volumes. viii 420; 2 438pp. Recent green cloth lettered in gilt. Extremities a trifle marked. Internally clean and crisp but for light marginal damp-staining and browning to first three gatherings of Vol. II. An inventory of the printed material housed within the theological research library founded in 1729 with proceeds originating from the estate of Presbyterian minister Daniel Williams c.1643-1716 a supplement not present here was issued in 1870. The collections which aside from theological holdings include works of philosophy history and literature were greatly enlarged over the years with a plethora of significant donations; Williams's original benefaction of approximately 7600 books now forms only a small part of the modern library. After several moves the trustees acquired University Hall in Gordon Square London where the library opened in 1890 and remains today. The catalogue includes mention of the library's copy of Shakespeare's First Folio sold at Sotheby's in 2006 for £2.8 million. . First edition. 8vo. Printed and Sold by Richard and John E. Taylor hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : AQ14661

‎[FASHION -- WOMEN & EDUCATION]. WILLIAMS, Beryl‎

‎Fashion is our business. . . .‎

‎Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co. 1945. 8vo. 204 2 pp. With 22 photo plates. Black publisher’s cloth silver lettering front cover & spine slight shelfwear minor bumping at foot of spine w/ d.j. cover art of Dragonia fabric by Everfast chipping & tear to upper fore-edge minor chipping foot of spine couple minor closed tears still VG/VG- copy. Second printing of this work drawn from interviews with 12 leading American fashion designers intended as a “splendid career book full of suggestions for the girl who who feels drawn to the great world of clothes and designers.†Those interviewed included Clare Potter - considered inventor of American sportswear; Emily Wilkens - pioneer in fashion clothing for teenagers; Hattie Carnegie with her ever elegant dresses; Edith Head - famed Hollywood costume designer; Louella Ballerino -- famed California designer of sportswear swimwear and distinct ethnographic influenced fashions and others. J.B. Lippincott Co., hardcover‎

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‎[Folkestone Williams, Robert]‎

‎The Youth Of Shakespeare‎

‎Baudry's European Library 1839. 1st edition. Hardback. Cloth VG. 415pp lacks endpaper but with half title foxed throughotu but readable a fair copy cloth rubbed & worn. A fictional account of the formative years of Shakespeare. Volume CCXL in the Collection of Ancient & Modern British Authors. Baudry's European Library hardcover‎

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‎[GERSTACKER, Friedrich, 1816-1872]; WILLIAMS, Sophus (photographer); HADER, E (artist)‎

‎GOLD RUSH Portrait of traveller and writer Friedrich Gerstäcker.‎

‎Albumen print photograph of a painted portrait carte de visite format 107 x 67 mm mount recto of mount with facsimile autograph of the famous writer along with the artist's details: 'E. Hader pinxit' the publisher's copyright statement: '1882. Gesetzlich geschützt' and the imprint of the photographer and publisher: 'Photographie und Verlag v. Sophus Williams Berlin W.'; verso with printed caption 'Friedrich Gerstäcker'; the albumen print and the mount are in fine condition. Both the fictional and non-fictional works of German traveller and writer Friedrich Gerstäcker 1816-1872 which are based on his experiences in New South Wales and South Australia are of great significance to the study of Australian society during the gold rush period. However we can trace no portraits of Gerstäcker in Australian public collections. From ADB: 'Friedrich Gerstaecker 1816-1872 writer and traveller was born on 10 May 1816 in Hamburg son of Friedrich Gerstaecker 1790-1825 opera singer. At an early age he entered an office but later went on the land. In 1837 he migrated to America where he led 'a wild and adventurous life'. On his return to Germany in 1843 he established himself as a writer of travel books. Factual accounts of his own experiences and guides for intending migrants were followed by novels on American life that made him famous in Germany. In 1849 he went from South America to the goldfields of California and thence to Australia by way of the South Sea islands. He arrived in Sydney in March 1851 took a coach to Albury and attempted to paddle down the Murray River in a self-made canoe. When it was wrecked he tramped 700 miles 1127 km to Adelaide 'the wildest and most dangerous march' of his life. He visited the German settlements in South Australia but in August the first news of the gold strike hurried him back to Sydney and the Bathurst diggings. He next went to the Dutch East Indies but in 1852 was back in Germany as an author and journalist living in turn in Leipzig Gotha Coburg Dresden and Braunschweig. In 1860-61 he was in South America observing the German colonists there. Next year he visited Egypt and Abyssinia and a fourth voyage in 1867-68 took him to the United States Mexico Ecuador and the West Indies. In 1870 he was war correspondent for a popular journal. He died on 31 May 1872. Gerstaecker was a prolific writer; the first edition of Gesammelte Schriften Jena 1872-79 in forty-three volumes is incomplete. His novels and stories based on experience and an extensive reading of travel books are unsophisticated narratives of exciting adventures in far-away countries but contain much ethnographical and geographical detail. The characterization is sketchy and the descriptions of exotic nature lack polish. The great success of his books in Germany was largely due to the sharp contrast they presented between the wide world and its freedom and the narrow parochialism of German life. The increasing flow of German migrants to Australia probably first aroused Gerstaecker's interest in the continent. In 1849 he compiled a handbook on Australia Nord- und Süd-Australien. Ein Handbuch für Auswanderer for intending German migrants. His Narrative of a Journey Round the World … Stuttgart 1853-54: English translation London 1853 vividly describes his adventures in Australia. His most popular Australian novels are Die beiden Sträflinge 1856; translated as The Two Convicts 1857 an adventurous story of a noble bushranger which was serialized in the Examiner and Melbourne Weekly News from October 1859 to March 1860 and Im Busch 1864 set in gold diggings near Sydney. Both deal with problems that he found specially interesting in the Australian scene: the complex relation between convicts bushrangers natives and free settlers the fate of German migrants in Australia and the exciting life of the goldfields. Many of his other works such as Blau Wasser1858 Inselwelt 1860 and Unter Palmen und Buchen 1865 have an Australian background; in 1853 he translated Charles Rowcroft's Tales of the Colonies Bilder aus Australien. His books were translated into several languages and in modernized editions some of his novels are still favoured reading of young people in German-speaking countries.' unknown‎

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