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‎(Anonyme) Duchesne, Henri-Gabriel, Macquer, Pierre-Joseph‎

‎Manuel du naturaliste ou dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle contenant l'abrégé de l'histoire des animaux des végétaux des minéraux & des principaux météores & phénomènes de la nature.‎

‎Londres Bruxelles chez Lemaire 1794 2 vol In/8 reliure à la bradel d'époque 428 et 425 pages texte sur deux colonnes ouvrage faisant suite au dictionnaire de Valmont-Bomare. "Ouvrage utile aux voyageurs et à ceux qui fréquenteent les cabinets d'histoire naturelle et de curiosités. Macquer Pierre-Joseph 1718-1784 - Duchesne Henri-Gabriel 1739-1822 unknown‎

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‎(Anonyme) (Misericordiae societas)‎

‎Offices et prières pour les Confrères pénitens de la miséricorde. Beati misericordes quoniam ipsi misericordiam consequentur. S. Matth. chap.5.‎

‎A Lyon par Antoine Jullieron 1685. Petit in/4 reliure plein veau sombre dos à nerfs armes à froid sur les plats tranches rougescoiffe usée vignette en page de titre : Tête de St Jean Baptiste idem sur les plats bandeaux et jolies lettrines historiées 5 ff. de page de titre et dédicace 260 pages 2 ff. de directoir pour l’office divin. 2 ff. intercalés entre p. 248 et 249. Préface pour “Alphonse Louys de Richelieu cardinal archevêque et comte de Lyon primat des Gaules.” In Lione Antoine Jullieron 1685. Small 4 To full dark calf ribbed spine blind stamped on the two boards St Jean the Baptiste’s head red edges woodcut on title page St Jean the Baptiste’s head headbands & pretty initial letters 5 p. of title page & dedication 260 p. 2 p. Flaws : 3 wormholes on joints. hardcover‎

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‎(anonyme).‎

‎Pensées et Boutades, par un Bourgeois résolument Conservateur... Des Principes de la Révolution.‎

‎Paris, Librairie André Sagnier, 1875. Un volume broché de format in 12 de 60 pp., 1f. Bl.; couverture jaune imprimée. Comme neuf. Suite d'aphorismes pro-révolutionnaire, l'humour n'est pas absent. Peu courant.‎

‎(Anonymous)‎

‎A Second Letter to the Common Council of the City of London with Remarks on Lord Chief Justice Pratt's Answer to Sir Thomas‎

‎London. newly rebound in paper over boards with spine label. 1764. 12mo 2411pp title page & blank verso of final leaf soiled else very good copy. title continued Harrison the Chamberlain. end title Printed for W. Nicoll at the Paper-Mill in St. Paul's Church-yard. An attack upon the Common Council for supporting & presenting the Freedom of the City award to Charles Pratt later the Earl of Camden Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for his decision in the 1763 John Wilkes libel case. Wilkes had been arrested & imprisoned in the Tower for libelling George III; Pratt ruled that general warrants were illegal & directed Wilkes's release because he was a member of Parliament. . hardcover‎

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‎(Anonymous) "By Temporary Inhabitant" [ Johann Jacob GrAA¼mbke ]‎

‎A Tour through the Island of Rugen in the Baltic During the Year 1805 in a Series of Letters. Translated from the German‎

‎Printed for Richard Phillips by J. G. Barnard 1807. Hard cover. Very Good. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Bound in green ribbed cloth lightly dampstained with red leather labels on spine. 64 pages. Light foxing and staining as noted above. Dampstain across one third of the pages no sticking. Page 55-56 torn and taped but complete. 2 plates one is fold out. No maps. Spine reads 1805 publication date is 1807. Terribly scarce. John Jacob Grümbke September 6 1771 in Bergen March 23 1849 ibid was a German historian and geographer. He extensively researched the history and culture of Rugen and was founder of rügenschen own research German Wikipedia. This is his first published work. See also: megalithic sites of Rugen painted by Caspar David Friedrich and others. Some think Rügen island might have been the home of the Greek temple of Apollo in 500 B.C. Apollo was the god of light and the sun-god who loved amber and amber was thus considered sacred. The largest deposits of amber in the world and those exploited the longest were on the shores of the Baltic Sea in northern Europe. Baltic amber has a rich history of ancient trade supported by guilds of amber craftsmen and stunning works of art. Apollo's love of music poetry and all the fine arts made him the perfect god for the craftsmen on the island. Annotation by Margaret Odrowaz-Sypniewska Printed for Richard Phillips by J. G. Barnard hardcover‎

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‎(Anonymous).‎

‎AN ORIGINAL COLORFUL JAPANESE FABRIC DESIGN WOODBLOCK PRINT.‎

‎Circa 1910. 1910. Very good. - sc A 9-3/4 inch high by 7 inch wide Japanese color woodblock print for fabric designs. The print consists of 2 woodblock illustrations one depicts yellow berries on colorful fans floating on swirling black & white water with white leaves the other is of colorful geometrical shapes & leaves. Annotations in Japanese calligraphy are printed at the right of the top illustration and above the bottom image. Stab marks along the right edge of the print not affecting the images would indicate that this print was once bound. There is some slight soiling and creasing to the bottom edge of the print which does not affect the image. A beautiful and delicate color woodblock print mounted with archival corner mounts into a 14 inch high by 10 inch wide mat. Circa, [1910]. unknown‎

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‎(Anonymous)‎

‎BEOWULF.‎

‎NY: Random House 1932. Limited edition of 950 numbered copies with Kent�s thumb print this copy numbered �Review.�. Pages 145 pp.Folio. Gray cloth binding stamped in white. Limited edition of 950 numbered copies with Kent�s thumb print this copy numbered �Review.� Illustrated with eight lithographs by Rockwell Kent. Laid in is a printed illustrated prospectus for purchasing prints from this edition. Bookplate on front free end paper some minor wear to head and tail of spine else in very good condition. No dust jacket. NY: Random House 1932. hardcover‎

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‎(Anonymous)‎

‎Bible Readings for the Home Circle: A Topical Study of the Bible Systematically Arranged for Home and Private Study‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Référence libraire : 1466381167.G ISBN : 1466381167 9781466381162

‎(Anonymous)‎

‎Collection of 5 Original 1930's Artist's Fashion Sketches Ladies Wedding & Fashion Artwork‎

‎n.p. 1932. Good. A nice collection of five original artist's fashion mockup sketches probably created for catalog use. All are executed in a combination of pencil ink and guache onto thick blind stamped "Strathmore Drawing Board" with three boards measuring 23 wide x 29 inches tall one 17 wide x 29 inches tall and one 14.5 wide x 11.5 inches tall. All are works in progress having both artist and production notes date and time stamps soil especially verso and multiple finger prints from much handling and use with the occasional pin hole and one sketch having some paint splatters and an 1-1/2 inch closed tear to the foot - not affecting image. With the rubber stamp of "Robert Simpson Company" to one sketch and others with date stamps of 1932 and 1933. A study of the creation process of a 20th century fashion artist as seen through their sketches portraying some of the hottest emerging fashions in the early 1930's. Designed for the Robert Simpson Company a successful department store chain founded by Robert Simpson in 1858. unknown‎

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‎(Anonymous).‎

‎EGYPTIAN IRRIGATION - OLD METHODS & RECENT IMPROVEMENTS: A unique original 24 PAGE TYPED MANUSCRIPT on Egyptian Irrigation with PROFUSE CORRECTIONS & ADDITIONS in INK.‎

‎<p>Good. - An original 24 page manuscript typed on twenty-three 10-7/8 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide and one 9-5/8 inch high by 8 inch wide sheets of off-white paper. Titled in ink at the top of the first page: "Egyptian Irrigation - Old Methods & Recent Improvements" the author first acknowledges Sir William Willcocks who "dedicated his book on Egyptian Irrigation to the memory of Nubar Pasha." He goes on to remark that "Sir William modestly gives the whole credit to Nubar Pasha of these great industrial and social reforms and ignores the part he himself played in the good work." "But the name which should stand out first on the list is that of the French engineer Mougel Bey. It was he who planned and commenced the construction of the famous Barrages at the bifurcation of the river into the Dametta and Rosetta branches." He goes on to detail the state of irrigation and current improvements "The task which the Irrigations Department since the English occupation has set itself is to provide against Egypt ever suffering from scarcity of water by impounding a sufficiency of the surplus that runs to waste during floods even in poor years for use during the dry winter and spring months. This it has succeeded in doing by building the great dam above Assouan across the river at the First Cataract." "Even the plan proposed by Mr. Whitehouse an American to form a great reservoir at Wady Rayan like the ancient Lake Moeris after mature deliberation was considered insufficient. What brilliant enthusiasts and great engineers like Willcocks and Grastin are dreaming of as possibilities is the control of the waters as they flow from the great Equitorial Lakes." Obviously there is much on the effects of irrigation on Egyptian agriculture including ancient historical efforts. He concludes over the last two pages by suggesting how the efforts in Egypt may be applied to the U.S. "When we read of the immense advantages of the reclamation of 500000 acres to Egypt we begin to appreciate what irrigation may do in our own West where millions of acres lie waste for want of water. But only such sluggish rivers as the Missouri and the Mississippi approach the Nile in character or periodicity of rise and fall and of the larger rivers of the Rocky Mountain region only the Rio Grande and the Colorado carry during floods such fertilizing mud as has given the Nile the double property of irrigating and enriching the soil." He goes on to detail the disadvantages if applied to some of the other rivers and streams "The experience of India Spain Lombardy as well as of Egypt and of every old land whose existence depends on irrigation confirm the need of painstaking observation and the danger of hasty and ill-considered action."</p><p>There are profuse corrections penned in ink throughout with paragraphs and sentences crossed out and new sentences penned in as well as new text typed on a slip of paper mounted with glue to cover several lines which the author chose to rewrite. Folded horizontally the manuscript is slightly soiled with minor corner creases. There is a very short tear to the edge of the fold of the last page.</p><p>Although the author is not identified this constitutes unique source material.</p>‎

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‎(Anonymous)‎

‎Espagne et Portugal Division.‎

‎Paris 1805. Other. In excellent condition. 242 by 317mm 9½ by 12½ inches. 242 by 317mm 9½ by 12½ inches. Copper engraving hand colored in outline. Decorative map of Spain and Portugal showing its political divisions in decorative outline color. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 17053

‎(Anonymous)‎

‎GUIDE THROUGH EUROPE‎

‎Berlin: J. Hermann Herz. 1910. Hardcover. Very Good-. Pages browned. Some pages detached but present; Numerous B&W photos. Color fold-out map in middle of book. Numerous contemporary business advertisements; Hamburg Amerika Linie; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 865 pages . J. Hermann Herz hardcover‎

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‎(ANONYMOUS)‎

‎Les Proces de messieurs le mareschal de Marillac le duc de Montmorency de Sainct-Preuil ; de Cincq-Mars et de Thou.‎

‎Paris 1650. 12mo. In contemporary limp vellum. Paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Small tear to spine otherwise a nice and clean copy. 2 333 3 96 pp. <br/><br/><em>The uncommon first edition of the account of the trial of Louis de Marillac who was decapitated on 10 May 1632 at the Place de Grève in Paris. The present work function as part two of “Memoires du cardinal de Richelieu†but is a separate work in itself. </em> hardcover‎

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‎(Anonymous)‎

‎Loolee Palava" A French - Indian Romance of Fort Duquesne -- 58 pp handwritten manuscript of a novelette set in Pittsburgh during the Seven Years War. Ca. 1896‎

‎Paperback. Good. Probably written by a Pittsburgher 'Loolee Palava' tells that story of Louis Bouriel 'only child of a very wealthy proud and austere nobleman of France' and his journey to America where he engaged in skirmishes and battles in the Pittsburgh area with a number of love intrigues etc. A bit of a potboiler. 58 pp handwritten with many corrections appears to be lacking at least the last sheet as it ends in the middle of a sentence. Some of the pages are 14 inches tall others are 12 inches bound with an old string at the top. Light wear. The name Loolee Palava may have been inspired by an article that appeared in the Pittsburgh Press in 1896: ' LOOLEE PALAVA: A Legend Suggests a Name for Four-Mile Run. George M. Brisbln of Osceola Mills formerly of the Gazette of this city has written a letter to Superintendent Falconer of Schenley Park giving him a brief but Interesting history of Four-Mile Run currently the valley in Greenfield where Carpatho-Rusyns including the Warholas settled when It was a favorite place for hunters trappers and Indians. Mr. Brisbln is 70 years old and was born In this city. He says an old Indian hunter often accompanied him on hunting excursions and related numerous legends concerning the locality. In 1751 the son of an Indian woman went on the warpath and never returned. The woman pined for her son for many years and finally became insane. Everyday she visited Four-Mile run and called "Loolee Palava" and the echo returned "Loolee Palava" which the woman believed was the voice of her son. Her devotion to her son's memory became known to the Indians who named the run Loolee Palava or Whooping Boy the name of the young warrior. The suggestion to name the run Loolee Palava may be adopted.' This novella was apparently never published but we think the name of it was the result of reading this article in the local paper. paperback‎

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‎(Anonymous)‎

‎Manuscript Account of Travel from England to Russia and Poland in 1872‎

‎<p>12mo 68 manuscript pages plus blanks and 8 pages of notes bound in contemporary embossed leather backed flexible stiff wraps entries written in English in pencil in a clear and legible hand.</p><p> The journal is an excellent highly literate well written account of the author's impressions of Russian society and his keen observations on all aspects of life in Russia which the author refers to as "<i>the Empire of Fear</i>." The diarist who describes himself as a Russian prince is anonymous although he identifies his companions. He takes a business trip to the part of Russia which is now in present day Poland. The purpose of his trip was to draw up a statement of account for the manufactory of Messrs Palin & Dunlop in Nowogrodek. Afterwards he visits the different silk and cotton manufactories in the town and also the place where Russe serge cloth is manufactured. The book only mentions business in passing. Mostly the author is concerned with describing the people and the regime of the country. </p><p> <b>Sample Quotations:</b></p><p> "Wednesday April 24 1872 </p><p> Left Windermere at 8.15 a.m. for Preston meeting at the latter place Thomas Hatch Margaret Hatch; James Ainscough; and Robert Sale proceeded from thence to Hull via Leeds arriving at 4.40 p.m. Went to Foreign Consulate for colltn of Passports; thence Granville Temperance Hotel. Left the Humber Dock Wall by steamship <u>Cyclone</u> at 10.50 same evening for Hamburg…"</p><p> After a rough passage our author and his party arrived in Hamburg after passing through customs they left Hamburg by rail at 11:30 a.m. for Perleburg making several stops along the way they arrived in Berlin shortly before 9 p.m. and stayed overnight at the Café Imperial. They departed Berlin by rail the next morning and arrived at the border of Poland that afternoon:</p><p> "… on the boundary line of Poland where we first encountered the numerous annoyances travelers of all descriptions are subjected to and to which even Russian Princes like myself were obliged to submit during our transit through the Custom House but on arriving at <u>Warsaw</u> I had the mortification of seeing them released in three minutes whilst I had to struggle with every species of trickery for the space of three hours. At four o'clock we succeeded in penetrating that land which is blessed with all the amenities attached to Russian Government which was announced by the Russian Eagle floating over the miserable apology for a building yclept the <u>Groche</u> Custom House Groche being <u>a</u> town of some dozen or so of dilapidated wooden erections which serve not only as shelters but also as dwellings and of which the Customs House is chief Winding by the banks of the river Vistula … the line threaded by the river bank to Nieszawa which seemed to be a busy place for the shipment of sundry descriptions of goods and merchandize; some loading for others unloading from the Baltic; we next came to Bobrownik another port of the same river & from whence two canals diverge; after this we reached Biskepia; where we stayed upwards of 20 minutes and then proceeded to Wyrzogrod at which place we left the Vistula on the right & proceeded by way of Biaski & Takrodzin and reaching Warsaw at 9.20 p.m. at which place a multitude of little superfluous precautions engender a population of deputies and sub-officials each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision which seems to say though everything is done with much silence "Make way I am one of the members of the grand machine of state."</p><p> Such members acting under an influence which is not in themselves in a manner resembling the wheel-work of a clock are called men in Russia! I say Russia though I am in reality speaking of Poland which is virtually and tyrannically a part and portion of the Great Empire. The sight of these voluntary automata inspires me with a kind of fear: there is something supernatural in an individual reduced to the state of a mere machine. If in lands where the mechanical arts flourish wood and metal seem endowed with human powers under despotisms human beings seem to become as instruments of wood. We ask ourselves what can become of their superfluity of thought And we feel ill at ease at the idea of the influence that must have been exerted on intelligent creatures before they could have been reduced to mere <u>things</u>. In Russia I pity the human beings as in England I feared the machines: in our own country England the creations of man lack nothing but the gift of speech; in Russian Poland the gift of speech is a thing superfluous to the creatures of the state.</p><p> These machines clogged with the inconvenience of a soul are however marvelously polite it is easy to see they have been trained to civility as to the management of arms from their cradle. But of what value are the forms of urbanity when their origin savours of compulsion The free will of man is the consecration that can alone impart a worth or a meaning to human actions; the power of choosing a master can alone give a value to fidelity; and since despite the reported abolition of serfdom by the Emperor Alexander in Russia an inferior chooses nothing all that he says and does is worthless & unmeaning – The numerous questions I had to meet and the precautionary forms that it was necessary to pass through warned me that I was entering the empire of Fear and depressed my spirits. – I was obliged to appear before an Areopagus of deputies who had assembled to interrogate the passengers. The members of this formidable rather than the imposing tribunal were seated before a large table; some of them were turning over the leaves of the register with an attention which had a sinister appearance for their ostensible employ was not sufficient to account for so much gravity. </p><p> Some with pen in hand listened to the replies of the passengers or rather the accused for every stranger is treated as culpable on arriving on the frontier and remains so at the very least until discharged by these officious notables; during the scrutiny six or a dozen ragged men half covered with sheepskins the wool turned within and the filthy skin appearing without will appear from time to time at the entrance to satisfy their curiosity by a prolonged and vulgar stare at the luckless beings undergoing the ordeal of officious examination. These arrivals and departures though they did not accelerate our matters at least gave me leisure to reflect on the species of filthiness peculiar to the people of the north who for the most part are shut up within doors and have a greasy dirtiness which appears to me far more offensive than the neglect of a people destined to live beneath the open heaven & born to bask in the sun.</p><p> The tedium to which these Russian formalities condemned us gave me also an opportunity of remarking that the great lords of the country were little inclined to bear patiently the inconveniences of public regulations when those regulations proved inconvenient to themselves.</p><p> "Russia is the land of useless formalities" they murmured to each other – but in French that they might not be overheard by the subaltern <u>employ</u><u>ès</u>. I have retained the remark with the justice of which my own experience has only too deeply impressed me. As far as I have been hitherto able to observe a work that should be entitled <u>The Russians judged by Themselves</u> would be severe. The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.</p><p> It was a perfect relief to the tortured mind to find the sic such things as gags were not in use as it allowed me to expound a number of invectives which might have brought me into no end of trouble had my hearers been even possessed of an inadequate knowledge of the English language. </p><p> The cause of all our delay was at length revealed. The chief of chiefs the director of the directors of the custom-house again presented himself: it was this visit we had been waiting so long without knowing it. At first it appeared as if the only business of the great functionary was to play the part of the man of fashion among the few ladies who had been subjected to the same indignities as those of the sterner sex. He reminded one of their rencontre in a house where the lady had never been; he spoke to her of balls she had never seen: but while continuing to dispense these courtly airs our drawing room officer of the customs would now and then gracefully confiscate a parasol stop a portmanteau or recommence with an impartable <u>sang froid</u> the researches already conscientiously made by his subordinates. </p><p> In Russian administration minuteness does not exclude disorder. Much trouble is taken to obtain unimportant ends and those employed believe they can never do enough to show their zeal. The result of this emulation among clerks and commissioners is that the having passed through one formality does not secure the stranger from another. It is like a pillage in which the unfortunate might after escaping from the first troop may yet fall into the hands of a second & a third.</p><p> The chief turnkey of the empire having at length concluded his scrutiny graciously permitted us to depart at about half past twelve and time being an object I thought it desireable not to chance the accommodation offered for the night in a city where I had already been subjected to a sufficiency of inconveniences & in opposition to the desires of those under my charge I determined to proceed at the earliest chance which occurred and accordingly on the morning of the 28th Sunday we moved from the neighbourhood of the city of Warsaw at a little past four o'clock and at half past seven reached a large and apparently prosperous town called Praga…"</p><p> Our writer and his party stopped in Praga for about 40 minutes where excellent coffee but detestable food were procured. They resumed their journey and passed Misorent and Kamienezyk a small town on the river Narew. They then reached "a long straggling town" with the"somewhat short name of Nur" on the River Bang. Then the large village of Wysokie and afterwards the town of Surasz an extensive manufacturing place twelves miles further they reached Boralystok and at length arrived at Gradnau where the party stopped for the night at the Hotel de Coulon:</p><p> "… and found it to be under the management of a degenerate French innkeeper. The house was nearly full at that time owing to the marriage of a Duchess which was about to take place; indeed the landlord appeared almost annoyed at being obliged to receive other guests … gave himself little trouble to accommodate us… Having seen their immediate wants attended to I joined the company at the <u>Table d'hote</u> which consisted of a mixture of Russians Poles French Spaniards and a couple of Englishmen and curiously enough not a single lady was present – Amongst those natives of High blood were a Prince & two young Counts. The first named is of an illustrious family and may be taken as a fair specimen of the general swelldom of the country. He is as I was informed the only son of a very rich individual and a character worthy of observation. The tavern is his empire: it is there that he reigns eighteen hours out of the twenty-four; on that ignoble theatre he displays naturally & involuntarily noble & elegant manners; his countenance is intellectual and extremely fascinating; his disposition is at once amiable and mischievous; many traits of rare liberality & even touching sensibility are recounted of him. He is remarkably well informed; his mind is quick and endowed with great capacity; his wit is unequalled but his language and conduct are such as would not be tolerated elsewhere except in the most depraved society. Profligacy has impressed upon his contours the traces of a premature decay; still these ravages of folly not of time have been unable to change the almost infantile expression of his noble and regular features … In no other land could a man be found like the young Prince Leuchtenberg but there are more than one such here.</p><p> He is surrounded by a group of young men his disciples and competitors who without equaling him in disposition or in mind all share with him a kind of family resemblance it may be seen at the first glance that they are and only can be Russians. It is for this reason that I am about to give some details connected with their manner of life … But I know not or rather fear how to begin; for it will be necessary to reveal the connection of these libertines not with women of the town but with the youthful sisters of religious orders – with nuns whose cloisters as it will be seen are not very securely guarded. It may be asked why lift a corner of the veil that shrouds scenes of disorder which ought to remain carefully covered Perhaps my passion for the truth obscures my judgment but it seems to me that evil triumphs so long as it remains secret whilst to publish it is to aid in destroying it and since these incidents may at some future time be submitted to the scrutiny of the public this one particularly is noted here as a memorandum; besides I have resolved to draw a picture of this country as I see it – not a composition but an exact and complete copy from nature. … As for the man whom I select for a specimen of the most unbridled among libertines he carries his contempt of opinion to the extent of desiring me to describe him as I see him. A story of the death of a young man killed in the convent of - by the nuns themselves he told at the full table d'hôte before several grave and elderly personages employès and placemen who listened with an extraordinary patience to this and several other tales of a similar kind all very contrary to good manners. The story in question … relates to a young man who after having passed an entire month concealed within the convent of - began at last to weary of his course of happiness to a degree that wearied the holy sisters also… whereupon the nuns wishing to be rid of him but fearing the scandal that might ensue should the sic send him to die in the world concluded that it would be better to make an end of him themselves. No sooner said than done – The mangled remains of the wretched being were found a few days after at the bottom of a well. The affair was hushed up. …As I have imposed upon myself the duty of communicating the ideas that I have hurriedly formed of this land I feel called upon to add to the picture already sketched a few minor specimens of the conversation of the parties already referred to.</p><p> One boasted of himself & his brothers being the sons of the footmen and the coachmen of their reputed father; & he drank and made the rest drink to the health of all his unknown parents. Another claimed the honour of being brother on the father's side of all the waiting maids of his mother.</p><p> Many of these evil boasts are no doubt made for the sake of talking: but to invent such infamies in order to glory in them shows a corruption of mind that proves wickedness to the very core – wickedness worse even than that exhibited in the mad actions of these libertines. According to them the wives of the middle classes are no better than the women of rank.</p><p> During the months that their husbands go to the fair of Nijni the officers of the neighboring garrisons take care not to leave the vicinity of the deserted wives. This is the season of easy assignations. The ladies are generally accompanied to the place of rendezvous by some <u>respectable</u> relation to whose care their absent husbands have confided them. The goodwill and silence of these family duennas have also to be paid for. Gallantry of this kind cannot be excused as a love affair there is no love without bashful modesty – such is the sentence pronounced from all eternity against women – who cheat themselves of happiness and who degrade instead of purifying themselves by tenderness. The defenders of the Russians pretend that the women have no lovers; I agree with them other term must be employed to designate the <u>friends</u> whose intimacy they seek in the absence of their husbands. … </p><p> Scarcely was I installed in my abode for the night than overcome by fatigue I lay down wrapped in a rug on an immense leather sofa & slept profoundly during – 3 minutes. At the end of that time I awoke in a fever and in casting my eyes upon the rug what a sight assailed them! – a brown but living mass: things must be called by their proper names – I was covered I was devoured with bugs in a place too where I was obliged to remain imprisoned with the enemy and the war was consequently more sanguine. … A Russian waiter appeared. I made him understand that I wished to see his master. The master kept me waiting a long time and when he at length did come & was informed of the nature of my trouble he began to laugh & soon left the room telling me that I should soon become accustomed to it for that it was the same everywhere in Russia. … The town generally is not of a prepossessing appearance; a few yards only to the rear of the inn I came to a guard house full of Cossacks whose stiff bearing and severe gloomy air would impart to foreigners the idea of a country where no one dares to laugh even innocently. In the neighbourhood of the canal wharves all was busy with life whilst a few drowskas were already slowly traversing the streets the drivers dressed in the costume of the country The singular appearance of these men their horses and carriages struck me more than anything else on this my first view of a Russian town or city. The ordinary costume and general appearance of the lower classes by which I mean the workmen coachmen small trades people is as follows – On the head is worn either a cap formed somewhat in the shape of a melon or a narrow brimmed hat low crowned & wider at the top than the bottom. This headdress slightly resembled a woman's turban. It becomes the younger men. Both young & old wear beards. Those of the beaux are silken and carefully combed; those of the old and careless appear dirty and matted. Their eyes have a peculiar expression strongly resembling the deceitful glance of the Asiatic. … The movements of the men whom I met were stiff and constrained; every gesture seemed to express a will which was not their own. The morning is the time for commissions and errands and not one individual appeared to be walking on his own account. I observed very few good-looking women and heard no girlish voices; everything was dull and regular as a barrack. There are scarcely any buildings worthy of note in this busy mart except the Kremlin a building which is indigenous to every Russian town of importance. … Shortly after 9 0'clock we took our departure from <u>Gradnow</u> through a dead flat & muddy district stopping only at 3 insignificant towns or large villages viz: <u>Goja</u> <u>Perschevelka</u> & <u>Onlekha</u>; and about a couple of miles from the last named we reached <u>Novogrodek</u> a large manufacturing town and here terminated our journeying by rail though we were still 21 miles distant from our destination <u>Novogrodka</u> and in order to accomplish this distance I succeeded after some difficulty in securing a team of horses & a rude description of dray minus springs with driver for the sum of half Impl or about 16/1 English in this rude machine we were conveyed at the risk of our necks owing to the badness & unevenness of the road in a trifle under two hours; and shortly after 4 o'clock I presented myself Mssrs Palin and Dunlop's manufactory along with T. Hatch…Mr. Hebden the manager was greatly surprised to see us as he had not been apprised of our coming: though a letter had been forwarded from Manchester a fortnight previously to inform him of our coming but owing to the irregularity of the Russian postal arrangements it had not been delivered although it arrived safely on the following morning."</p><p> "Tuesday April 30th 17th Russian I arose early finding Novorogodka in every way an exact repetition of my first nights experiences in the great Muscovite nation. I have often in my travels had reason to remember the sagacious observations of Pestalozzi the great practical philosopher the preceptor of the classes before Fourier & the St. Simonians. According to his observations on the life of the lower orders of two men who have the same habits of life one will be dirty the other clean. … Among the Russians there reigns a high degree of sordid negligence it seems to me they must have trained their vermin to survive the bath. Notwithstanding my ill humour I went carefully over the interior of the patriotic convent of the Trinity… This is one of the principal convents in the empire and at this season of the year is much sought by pilgrims even from the most remote parts of the country. All the names of note in Russian history have taken pleasure in enriching the convent which overflows with gold pearls and diamonds. … Czars Empresses nobles libertines and true saints have vied with one another in enriching the treasury of Novogrodka. Amid so many riches the simple dress and the wooden cup of St. Sergius shine by their very rusticity. … The convent would have furnished a rich booty to an enemy; it has not been taken since the fourteenth century. It contains nine churches. The shrine is of silver gilt; it is protected by silver pillars and canopy the gift of the Empress Anne. The image of St. Sergius is esteemed miraculous. Peter the Great carried it with him in his wars against Charles XII. </p><p> Not far from the shrine under shelter of the virtues of the hermit lies the body of the usurping assassin Boris Godounoff surrounded by many of his family. The convent contains various other famous but shapeless tombs… The number of monks is now only one hundred… Notwithstanding my persevering request they would not show me the library. "It is forbidden" was always the answer. This modesty of the monks who conceal the treasures of science while they parade those of vanity strikes me as singular. I argue from it that there is more dust on their books than on their jewels. …"</p><p> "… The town of Novogrodka is an important entrepot for the interior commerce of Russia. By it Petersburg communicates with Persia the Caspian & all Asia. The Volga that great national & moving road flows by the town which is the central point of the interior navigation of the country – a navigation wisely directed much boasted of by the subjects of the Czar and one of the principal sources of their prosperity. It is with the Volga that the immense ramifications of canals are connected that create the wealth of Russia.</p><p> The town of Novogrodka is like all other provincial towns in the empire vast in extent and appears empty. The streets are immensely broad the squares very spacious and the houses in general stand far apart. The same style of architecture reigns throughout. The painted and gilded towers which are numerous shine at a distance and gives the idea of a place resplendent with wealth and the town altogether presents a picturesque appearance…. Notwithstanding it's commercial importance the town is empty dull and silent. From the height of the terrace is to be seen the yet more empty dull & silent surrounding country with the immense river its hue a somber iron-grey its banks falling straight upon the water and forming at their top a level with the leaden-tinted plain here and there dotted with forests of birch & pine. The soil is however as well cultivated as it is capable of becoming; it is boasted of by the Russians as being with the exception of the Crimea the richest & most smiling tract in this empire. The primitive droshky is to be seen in this town. It consists of a little board on four wheels entirely concealed under the occupant and looks as though the horse were fastened to his person… The females generally go barefoot. The men most frequently wear a species of sandal made of rushes rudely platted which resembles those of antiquity. The leg is clothed in a wide pantaloons the folds of which drawn together at the ankle by a little fillet are covered with the shoe. This attire is precisely similar to the Scythian statues of the Roman sculptors. </p><p> Upon a long float of timber I observed several men descending the course of their native Volga they managed to guide the raft skillfully the while singing a Russian melody in the vague plaintive strain peculiar to the country. On reaching near to where I stood they wished to land which they eventually did and passed close before me without taking any notice of my foreign appearance; without even speaking to each other. The Russian peasants are taciturn and devoid of curiosity; I can understand why: what they know disgusts them with all of which they are ignorant.</p><p> To a certain point the want of a charitable disposition in the Russians towards strangers appears to me excusable. Before knowing us they lavish their attentions upon us with apparent eagerness because they are hospitable but they are also easily wearied. In welcoming us with a forwardness which has more ostentation than cordiality they scrutinize our slightest words they submit our most insignificant actions to a critical examination; and as such work necessarily furnishes them with much subject for blame they triumph internally saying "These then are the people who think themselves superior to us!" …"</p><p> "… One of the peculiar laws relating to strangers in this country is that on entering the empire in addition to answering the multitudinous and frivolous questions put as to your object &c it is also necessary to mention if the visit or stay on Russian soil is to extend over five days for if so it will be found necessary for the foreigner to advertise not less than twice at intervals of three days his intention of departure in the local newspapers stating the precise time of leaving &c. Also to make an affidavit to the Governor of the province that all debts are duly discharged a note to that effect is given by the Governor for the moderate sum of half a rouble 1/6 ¾ in exchange for his autograph this is then countersigned by the sub-governor who also expects a <u>tip</u>for his condescension. No one can leave Russia under any pretence until he has forwarded all his creditors of his intention in the manner above quoted. This is strictly enforced unless at least you pay the police to shorten the prescribed time and even then the insertion <u>must</u> be made once if not twice. No one can obtain post horses or a railway ticket without a document from the authorities certifying he owes nothing. … The Russian police so alert to torment people is slow to help or enlighten them when they have recourse to its aid in doubtful situations…" </p><p> "… It will by this be seen how the subaltern agents of the Russian police perform their duties. These faithless servants gained a double advantage by selling the body of the murdered woman; they obtained a few rubles & they also concealed the murder which would have brought upon them sever blame if the noise of the event had got abroad. …"</p><p> "… I safely reached <u>Warsaw</u> shortly before 9 at night and entered a Russian or I might perhaps more properly call it a Polish coffee house adjacent to the Railway. … Here I determined to take up my quarters for the night. The waiters were dressed in white shirts girded round the middle and falling like a tunic over loose white pantaloons. The teas served was excellent so is the coffee & liqueurs at this establishment but it is served with a silent solemnity very different from the gaiety which suffuses houses of entertainment in our own country. … About ten o'clock I sallied forth into the city without guide or companion strolling at hazard from street to street. I first traversed several long and wide streets laid out with great regularity. It was only at this time that the sun sank and the moon rose. The turrets of the convents the spires of the chapels the towers the battlements and all the irregular and frowning masses of buildings were swathed with wreaths of light … my eyes were filled with the dust of the streets kept in continual motion by the number of vehicles moving about at a gallop in all directions. It was not until 12 o'clock that I repaired to my lodgings where I slept soundly happily without the aid of the multitudinous bugs which I had experienced previously in Russia." </p>‎

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‎MEMORANDA OF CURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE 1822 - c1832‎

‎anonymously hand-printed and illustrated 1822. Hardcover. Near Fine. Replicas of the first 58 volumes of Curtis Botanical Magazine rendered in hand-colored floral illustrations and holographic text edited from and amended to the original text by an anonymous English artistic hobbyist and rebound likely early 20thC in 24 volumes. William Curtis' first volume was published in 1787; Curtis's volume 59 the last in this hobbyist's project is dated 1832 which coincides when the hobbyist concluded his or her work. The magazine continues still under the auspices of Kew Gardens. The hobbyist here started this ambitious undertaking in 1822 which is known from the notation "Commenced 1822" he or she leaves on the title page of the first volume. The ten-year project concluded sometime in 1832 which the last entry is dated. The monumental work results in replications of illustrations and text for 3024 species. The drawing and hand-coloring aspires to the original works of James Sowerby the first of Curtis's artists. The hobbyist here sometimes copies sometimes adapts Sowerby's style; the result though technically primitive in execution is consistently charming. The amateur's colors are not as vibrant as Sowerby's; supplies of high-quality natural pigments would have been limited to the amateurist. Bound-in after Curtis' Volume 42 is the actual published Part 1 of "General Indexes to the Plants contained in the First Forty-Two Volumed of the Botanical Magazine" printed by Stephen Couchman and published by Sherwood Neely & Jones 1816 40 pp and Part II 1817 pp 41 - 111. Most impressive is the hobbyist's holographed index to all Curtis's 53 volumes which runs approximately 200 double-sided pages. These 58 volumes were collected into 24 bound volumes presumably organized by the hobbyist thusly and were professionally rebound in polished black half leather - with five raised bandstitles and devices in gilt to the spine over green/salmon/ black marbleized boards with marbleized edges - by appearances sometime in the first quarter of the 20thC by an anonymous binder. The bindings are of highest quality. Laid-in to Volume 1 is the original bill of sale for the work from Henry A. Martin print dealer and publisher of Washington DC dated 11/24/1916. The original bindings were likely calf which with age would have called for some kind of rebinding here handsomely executed. anonymously hand-printed and illustrated hardcover‎

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‎(ANONYMOUS).‎

‎Militärische Biographien berümter Helden neuerer Zeit. Vorzüglich für junge Officiere und für die Söhne des Adels die zum Militär=Dienste bestimmt wird. 1.-3. Bd. von 5.‎

‎Berlin Himburgischen Buchh. 1803-05. 3 cont. hcalf. Richly gilt backs. Titlelabels in leather a little torn. With 7 engraved portraits and 11 folded maps. Stamp on titles. Internally clean an on good paper. <br/><br/><em>Having engraved portraits of Peter I Luxemburg Carl XII Gustav Adolf Prinz Eugen Condé and Turenne. </em> hardcover‎

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‎(Anonymous).‎

‎ORIGINAL NINETEENTH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEW OF BOSTON.‎

‎Boston MA: circa 1885. 1885. Very good. - Original oval sepia-toned photograph 5-1/4 inches high by 7-1/4 inches wide mounted on a sheet of cream card stock 7-1/4 inches high by 10-5/8 inches wide with the title "View of Boston" penned below the image. The edges of the mount are slightly darkened & there is a strip of cloth tape along the top edge of the verso of the mount. There is a small piece chipped from a corner of the mount. Very good. <p>An oval sepia-toned panoramic cityscape of Boston as viewed from across the Bay. Domes and towers can be seen on the distant hills with residences and other buildings in the forefront across the harbor. A portion of a quay or bridge extends out into the water at left. [Boston, MA]: circa [1885]. hardcover‎

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‎(ANONYMOUS).‎

‎Quelques Réflextions Sur La distribution des Livres a 2 et a 5 Sols.‎

‎1826. Articles extraits de la Gazette Universelle de Lyon. Paris Imprimerie de Béthune n.d. c. 1826 20pp. last page heavily browned. Modern marbled boards. Attack on chapbooks. hardcover‎

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‎(ANONYMOUS).‎

‎SOMETHING BETTER.‎

‎Boston: Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers 1878. 1878. First edition. 12mo. Original red cloth advertisements on endpapers 232 pp. plus 8 pages of advertisements. Book title four of six books published as the "Sparkling Series" of the publisher's many book publications. Presents Detective Gabriel Gooch in a book published in the same year as THE LEAVENWORTH CASE written by Anna Katharine Green. Although Detective Gooch appears in only three chapters he is somewhat unusual "If Marcus Graves committed an error in placing his case unreservedly in the hands of Detective Gooch that worthy made a great mistake when he adopted the profession of detective. He was singularly unqualified for that calling." Gabriel Gooch sounds like a parody of "Ebenezer Gryce" in THE LEAVENWORTH CASE. Lyle H. Wright's third volume of his bibliography on Fiction Wright 111-5071 cites two copies of the book one copy in the Huntington Library and the other copy at the Library of Congress. OCLC cites four copies Huntington Library Library of Congress Ohio State and Yale University. Not listed in any of the standard reference books such as Hubin Barzun & Taylor etc. Some minor spotting to the cloth else a very good tight copy. Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1878. hardcover‎

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‎(Anonymous).‎

‎TALES OF ADVENTURE. A Book For Boys.‎

‎Thomas B. Noonan & Co. Boston: 1884. 1884 299p. Decorated chapter heading and tail designs. Sunday School Prize Book from the Sacred Heart Sunday School June 14 1887 given to Nellie Denny from Rev. Jas. J. Fitzmaurice. Small 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding embossed with designs in gold and black only very slightly worn. Nice example. First Edition AFRICA/2. PRICE JUST REDUCED! Language: eng. F. Full Cloth. Hardcover. Very Good. Thomas B. Noonan & Co., Boston: 1884. hardcover‎

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‎(ANONYMOUS (Barber, Donn)‎

‎The Home of the Travelers‎

‎Hartford: Travelers Insurance Co. 1921. A monograph with a brief company history on the company's headquarters building designed by Donn Barber and occupied in stages of completion from 1909 to 1919. With drawings of interiors including employees in offices and exteriors by Vernon Howe Bailey. First edition 35 cm; 37 pp.; illustrated from drawings. Scattered light foxing; else a very good copy in vellum-backed gilt-stamped boards. Hartford: Travelers Insurance Co., 1921. hardcover‎

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‎(Anonymous) By A Citizen of the United States‎

‎THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE; LATE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH FROM HIS BIRTH UNTIL HIS DEPARTURE TO THE ISLAND OF ST. HELENA‎

‎Philadelphia: W. Dobson 1816. Old binding very worn with front cover and spine detached but present. Browning and moderate to heavy foxing throughout. A reading or reference copy only. Quite scarce. Half-Leather. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. W. Dobson Hardcover‎

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‎THE MISANTHROPE. A Worm�s-Eye View. Restricted Confidential Secret Top Secret.‎

‎n.p.: Published by Old Man Anonymous n.d. circa 194. Privately printed limited edition. Pages 109 pp.8vo. Burgundy colored cloth binding. Privately printed limited edition. No copies located by WorldCat. A collection of short stories or �fables� of Navy life and life in general during World War II set in New Zealand and the South Pacific May 1943-April 1944 England and the United Kingdom May 1944-July 1944 and France August 1944-May 1945. Inscribed and signed on the front free end paper possibly by the author. (n.p.): Published by Old Man Anonymous (n.d. circa 194?.) hardcover‎

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‎(Anonymous)‎

‎Traité des trois Imposteurs A Treatise on the Three Imposters‎

‎Suisse: De L'imprimerie Philosophique 1793. Hardcover. Near fine. A Lovely 1793 Printing of the Notorious Les Trois Imposteurs <br /> <br />“The most ubiquitous and influential of the clandestine philosophical manuscripts” <br /> <br />ANON Traité des trois Imposteurs A Treatise on the Three Imposters De L'imprimerie Philosophique En Suisse 1793. 1 blank leaf TP TP 3 – 168 i – iii = Table des Matieres 1 blank leaf. 12mo. Later edition. <br /> <br />NOTE: This edition contains the six notorious chapters along with three Appendices: "Sentimens sur le Traité des trois imposteurs" by B. de La Monnoye pp. 113 - 144; "Réponse à la dessertation de Mr. de La Monnoye sur le Traine des trois Imposteurs" signed J.L.R.L. and attributed to P.F. Arpe and to J. Rousset de Missy pp. 145 - 163 dated Janvier 1716; "Copie de l'article IX du tome ler seconde partie des Mémoires de littérature imprimes a la Haye ches Henry du Sauzet 1716” pp. 164 - 168. <br /> <br />The publication history of this book has become something of a cottage industry for Enlightenment bibliographers. The authorship has been variously attributed to Lucas Faint-Glain Boulainvilliers Levier Vroesen Aymon and even to Baron d’Holbach. Because of its heretical and blasphemous content Israel in Radical Enlightenment says on p. 695 that it “surpasses infinitely in atheistical profanity even those works of Spinoza which are regarded as the most pernicious” this text was long an underground affair never officially published showing up in slightly different hand-written versions and frequently seen incorporated with other texts. Its history is still confused by the fact that everyone involved with this work was so secretive – an understandable position to take given the harsh penalties including death that could result from being associated with this text in any way. <br /> <br />The first printed appearance the text seemed to have been just a part of a larger work La Vie et l’Esprit de Spinosa which had a “tiny”press run in 1719 by a Dutch printer see Israel Radical Enlightenment 684 & 700. The text of Traite des trois Imposteurs was then excerpted and avidly copied by hand and circulated among the most radical free thinkers of Europe – who frequently paid exorbitant prices just for the privilege of owning a copy. <br /> <br />Beginning in 1768 printers became brave enough or government supervision lax enough that they actually began to print and surreptitiously sell various editions of the text. Offered here is a 1793 edition of this revolutionary and heretical work. <br /> <br />The short treatise presents a direct assault on the three great monotheistic religions and challenges the integrity of their founding figures Moses Jesus and Muhammad claiming that these religions lack any substance whatsoever and owe their success in the world to the fear that underlies all of their basic assumptions and pronouncements. In contradistinction to these three frauds the text claims that Nature as the only god that is acting within the world. <br /> <br />For more details and a scholarly discussion of this important work see Jonathan Israel’s Radical Enlightenment Oxford University Press Oxford 2001 – especially pages 684-703. <br /> <br />CONDITION: Very good to near fine in contemporary full leather gilt decorated spine with title in gilt to black panel. Mior cracking to hinges. Decorative endpapers. Former owner’s bookplate to verso of front endpaper. Small elegantly scripted annotations to the first page of the “Reponse’ and “Copie” pages. A wonderful copy of this extraordinarily important text of the Radical Enlightenment. <br/><br/> De L'imprimerie Philosophique hardcover‎

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