‎Or‎

‎[Bonihominis or Buenhombre, Alfonsus / Alfonso]‎

‎Epistle of Rabbi Samuel; Epistola Samuelis; Title from incipit: Hic Incipit Prohemium Unius Libelli Translati De Arabico In Latinum De Inductione Ad Fidem Catholicam Iudeorum A Quodam iudeo Confecto‎

‎Around the first half of the fifteen century. Manuscript in Latin. Large margins. Paper with unidentified watermark. Text in black ink headings initials and rubrications in red. With a note by later hand on title page about Alfonsus: “Parisis per manum fratris Alfonciisâ€. In modern half vellum binding. Insignificant wormholes to margin with no effect to text. Overall in fine condition. Manuscript in Latin. Large margins. Paper with unidentified watermark. Text in black ink headings initials and rubrications in red. With a note by later hand on title page about Alfonsus: “Parisis per manum fratris Alfonciisâ€. In modern half vellum binding. 20 leaves. <p><br /> Manuscript copy in Latin of the Epistle of Rabbi Samuel one of the most influential anti-Jewish treatises of the middle ages. Allegedly translated from Arabic by the Spanish Dominican Hebraist and Arabist Alfonsus Bonihominis d. 1353.<br /> <p><p><br /> Alfonsus writes in his introduction to the manuscript that the Epistle was written after the year 1000 by Rabbi Samuel a Jew of Fez in Morocco to share the reasons with Rabbi Isaac chief of the synagogue at Sujulmeca Subiulmeta which led him to be baptized and convert to Christianity. <br /> <p><p><br /> According to Alfonsus it was originally written in Arabic because only a few Jews and even fewer Christians knew that language thus the text could remain concealed for hundreds of years and the Christians were not able to use it against Jews until he found and translated it while he was the Bishop of Marrakech in 1338 or 1339. <br /> <p><p><br /> The Epistle itself coming after this introduction. Most copies are divided into twenty-four sometimes twenty-five sections. Other version of the work like this copy contains additional chapters.<br /> <p><p><br /> Since the Arabic original of the text from which Alfonsus allegedly translated the Epistle has never been found it is more likely that he imitated other works in the genre and composed a new text himself which ended up being among the most widely copied and printed anti-Jewish tracts of the later middle ages. <br /> <p><p><br /> Bibl.: Limor O.: The Epistle of Rabbi Samuel of Morocco: A Best-Seller in the World of Polemics. In: Contra Iudaeos. Ancient and Medieval Polemics between Christians and Jews. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr 1996. pp. 177–194.<br /> <p>. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 1098

‎[Bowden-Smith, Richard or Hutchinson, Mrs?]‎

‎Fly-Fishing in Salt and Fresh Water with Six Plates Representing Artificial Flies Etc.‎

‎London: John Van Voorst 1851. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 23 x 14.5 cm. Slim octavo. viii 74pp 2 ads. Small stamp on page vii. Complete with 6 lithographs of flies by Paul Jerrard of which 5 are vibrantly hand colored and one that is not in color of other tackle. Bound in original brown cloth. Spine is faded and head and tail of spine are chipped. ~ 8 cm closed tear to front free endpaper. With sections on salmon white trout trout pike grayling sea fly-fishing and lengthy appendix including a section on angling in America. Authorship is unattributed internally but various sources give either Mrs. Hutchinson or Richard Bowden-Smith as the author. Uncommon work. References: Heckscher 1075. Westwood & Satchell p 95. John Van Voorst hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 83020

‎[BREMOND, Sebastien or Gabriel De]‎

‎Le Pelerin Nouvelle Par le Sieur S. BRE‎

‎Amsterdam: np c1670. 1670. 12mo. pp. 15 p.l. 179 lacking 1 presumably blank. sphere device on title. woodcut headpiece & initials. contemporary mottled calf very worn joints split library bookplate & number on lower spine. First Edition. Barbier III 813. Brunet Imprimeurs Imaginaires et Libraires Supposés p. 58. Goldsmith BM STC French 1742. Cioranescu 16388. Baldner p. 97. cfWilliams p. 18. F. [Amsterdam?: np, c1670]. unknown‎

Référence libraire : FREP[BRE75

‎[British Postal History - California and Oregon - Gold Rush Period - Panama Route] Royal Mail‎

‎Instructions No. 10 1850. By Command of the Postmaster General. Notice to the Public and Instructions to all Postmasters Sub-Postmasters and Letter Receivers. California and Oregon Option of Transmitting Correspondence for Through United States‎

‎Great Britain 1850. Broadside measuring 9 â…ž x 15 â…œ inches. Some chipping and wear to edge ink number written in corner two small section of loss due to improper mounting very good overall. Coat of arms of the United Kingdom above printed text. Very Good. A scarce broadside relating to British postal rates across the Panama Route through the Chagres River which supplied mail to California and Oregon beginning in 1848 before eventually being replaced by the Overland route in 1860. The service was characterized by long delay times as steamships on either side of the isthmus were often not coordinated causing major delays in the delivery. Several different steamship companies operated privately some carrying express mail. The letters were transported by canoe or pack animal across the isthmus. Postmaster General Cave Johnson began establishing post offices in California in 1848. Johnson also oversaw the transition to the prepaid delivery system. The broadside here of which we find no other records does state that postage must be prepaid and that the route can be accessed by writing “via New York†on the letters. A scarce postal history item relating to the expansion of mail services to California. We find no other records of this institutionally or in the trade. unknown‎

Référence libraire : List2416

‎[BUNGAY, George W or Samuel R Phillips]‎

‎Nebraska: A Poem Personal and Political‎

‎Boston & Cleveland: John P. Jewett and Jewett Proctor and Worthington 1854. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. 42pp. Printed green glazed wrappers. Early penciled owner's name splitting and slight erosion at the spine a very good copy. John P. Jewett and Jewett, Proctor and Worthington unknown‎

Référence libraire : 331498

‎[CALDERÓN, Rodrigo, 1576-1621].‎

‎Romancero de Don Rodrigo Calderón (1621-1800). Introducción bibliográfica de Antonio Pérez Gómez.‎

‎Valencia, "...la fonte que mana e corre...", 1955. 4to. menor; 156 pp., 2 hs. Edición limitada y numerada de 245 ejemplares no venales, impresos sobre papel de hilo. Cubiertas originales.‎

‎[California - Gold Rush] Britton and Rey, Publishers‎

‎A Prospecting Party Gold Rush Letter Sheet‎

‎Britton and Rey 1850. Single sheet measuring 8 ¼ x 10 ¾ inches on blue wove paper. Small chip to corner not affecting image some older tape repairs verso at margins else fine very good plus overall and quite attractive. Very Good. A series of four illustrations telling the story of a mining party that heads out with a pack mule only to fail to find gold and lose their mule before returning to a new prospect with their clothes in shambles. This is entry 209 in Baird’s California’s Pictorial Letter Sheets in which he sets the publication date as being prior to 1855. The series possibly illustrates scenes from a song. A particularly fine example on the classic blue wove paper of the period. unknown‎

Référence libraire : List1315

‎[California Gold Rush]‎

‎Autograph Letter Signed from George Chamberlain to His Father in Massachusetts Regarding His Mining Activities in California‎

‎Mokilomni Hill Ca: April 3 1852. Very good. 2pp. plus integral address leaf. Quarto on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines minor wear. In a highly legible script. An interesting letter from a disillusioned fortune-seeker in Calaveras County advising his father not to come west as all the easy pickings are gone. He writes "Times are pretty dull here now and as I have been doing nothing for the last two weeks I am getting rather sick of the place. I should leave today but there are some holes going down by some acquaintance of mine & I want to see if they get anything. If they do I shall sink one myself they go from 50 to 60 feet & as they are in a good looking place I have some curiosity to know whether they strike anything or not. If I leave this place I think I shall go south as I hear they have struck some deep diggings in the vicinity of Sonora & think I shall go down that way. I see by the papers that a great many are coming to the country from Boston. I do not know what they all will do here it is not the place here it was two years ago & those who start with the anticipation of finding money easily got here will be badly mistaken. April 3 unknown‎

Référence libraire : 4789

‎[California Gold Rush]‎

‎Autograph Letter Signed from J.C. Martin to A.M. Bell Regarding Mining Claims and Local Events‎

‎Elk Hill Ca: December 17 1853. Very good. 3pp. on a folded folio sheet. Old folds light wear and soiling. With original mailing envelope. An informative letter sent from a miner in Gold Rush-era California to a friend in Tuolumne County primarily concerning a mining claim but also providing many interesting local details. The author writes "I managed to keep a claim for you which is joining to mine in this way it is one that my partner sold to a speculator who laid a land warrant on it." He discusses the process of the land warrants and how he made the man title the claim properly in San Francisco. "This claim was jumped last summer by W.H. Dixon first sheriff of Trinity City who died the day before he intended to occupy the house he built on the claim. He shot himself accidentally and never spoke." The author immediately stepped in and nabbed it for his friend but it was short-lived. "The claim is cheap at $2000 as soon as I made it known that I should not administer it was jumped by 3 in one day before 9 o'clock. So much for your not coming as I told you I could not keep them off any longer and you would not come if I had." He further mentions that he is digging potatoes which he deems the finest in the world discusses issues with the crop and further talks about new arrivals in the area. December 17 unknown‎

Référence libraire : 4788

‎[California Gold Rush]. [France]‎

‎Des Millions Pour un Sou! Mines d'Or de la Californie -- Nouveaux Détails‎

‎Paris: Typ. Schneider Rue d'Erfurth 1 1849. Very good. Broadside approximately 18 x 13 inches. Matted and framed. A pair of short closed tears repaired at lower edge. Even toning and light creasing. Contemporary manuscript annotation under caption title. A wonderful illustrated faux news broadside published in Paris as gold fever coursed through Europe in 1849. The headline promises "nouveaux détails" of the gold mines in California but the text is in fact a humorous description and light-hearted admonishment of the multitudes thoughtlessly giving up their livelihoods for the hardscrabble life of a gold digger in the California wilderness. The first section runs through a litany of types who are abandoning their lives for adventure and advises them not to consider the difficulties of the journey:<br /> <br /> "En route pour les mines d'or de la Californie! Partez! Il n'est pas néccessaire que vous preniez de lourds baggages : une cassette et une bonne pioche vous suffriont. Ne vous laissez pas décourager par la peur d'une navigation de cinq mois. elle sera peut-être périlleuse. mais le résultat est si consolant : de l'or!. toujours de l'or!. Qu'importent la colique et les fièvres doublées d'un mal de mer brutal. de l'or!. toujours de l'or!. Qu'importe d'être noir ou jaune en mourant du moment qu'on se repose dans un linceul d'or pour l'éternité! Partez!"<br /> <br /> The remainder of the text somewhat sardonically describes life in California and warns prospective travelers not long for the comforts of home but rather to concentrate on their sought-after riches:<br /> <br /> "Par example ne vous attendez pas à jouir de toutes les douceurs de la vie. Vous n'y trouverez ni biftecks au beurre d'anchois ni dinde truffées; car les aliments y sont rares. Mais les racines y sont en grande abondance. Vous vivrez un peu à la manière des anachorètes pour un temps. seulement vous déterrerez de l'or. ce qu'ils ne faisaient pas que l'on sache."<br /> <br /> The illustration which occupies approximately the top third of the broadside depicts men and women from all walks of life carrying pickaxes on their shoulders and racing for a ship about to depart. The image carries the printed signature of "B. Netter;" a contemporary manuscript note under the caption identifies the publication date as February 17 1849. The Bibliothèque Nationale de France estimates that as many as 40000 French men and women made their way to California between 1848 and 1856. The present broadside is an excellent document of California gold fever in France and the pervasive interest in gold rush news in Europe during the mid-19th century. Rare we locate just four copies at Berkeley UCSD California Historical Society and the BNF. Typ. Schneider, Rue d'Erfurth, 1 unknown‎

Référence libraire : 5043

‎[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

Référence libraire : List1929

‎[California Gold Rush]. Pine, Moses "Old Mose‎

‎Letter Written by a Miner from the California Gold Fields‎

‎Coyoteville: September 12 1855. Very good. 2pp. plus integral blank. Original mailing folds moderate toning staining and ink spotting but still easily readable. Bottom fourth of integral blank excised. An informative Gold Rush letter about mining in the long-vanished ghost town of Coyoteville which was an extraordinarily rich gold area for a couple of years in the early 1850s. A noted tunneling method nicknamed "coyoteing" was developed in the town and subsequently inspired the name of the town. In the present letter Moses Pine writes to "Catherine" in Branch County Michigan and signs his name simply as "Mose Esq" at the conclusion. The author informs Catherine presumably his wife or sister of his activities some of the economic realities and some of the practical details of prospecting for gold in California. Presuming that "it would be impossible for the whole of Branch County to raise $10 unless they sell a horse" Pine comments that he had ginger bread on the Fourth of July after working all day and yielding a "half Ounce Gold Dust." He then provides a detailed description of his mining: "I am now tunneling in a hill. We are 150 feet under the ground. Day before yesterday we got small respect 25 cents to the pan for the first and the bed rock pitching. I think we will find good pay in the going 100 feet further the expense is heavy as we have to blast and timber the tunnel." Pine also talks of his health and that "I work hard every day do my cooking and baking." He then expresses his hope to get back to Michigan to "rest a few months" but knows nothing of other Michigan folks in California: "Have not seen nor heard anything of them in a year. I guess they have all gone home with a fortune in a horn. Well good luck to the lucky. Old Mose will come home after a while with a pretty hat on." A nicely-detailed letter from an unusual and obscure Gold Rush location. September 12 unknown‎

Référence libraire : 3206

‎[California Gold Rush]. Fitch, OH O H‎

‎Manuscript Letter Discussing the Sale of Life Insurance to an Ohio Group Bound for the California Gold Rush‎

‎Ashtabula Oh: January 29 1849. About very good. 1pp. on a bifolium. Previously folded. Light dampstaining and short closed tears along gutter somewhat affecting first few lines of text but not overall sense. An interesting letter from O.H. Field an aspirational field representative of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company in Ashtabula Ohio to the company secretary George R. Phelps inquiring about a policy for a group of men headed to the Gold Rush in California in January 1849. Connecticut Mutual was founded in Hartford three years prior to the composition of this letter in 1846. Fitch's missive begins with a report on his efforts to drum up interest in life insurance in his area with pamphlets and other materials sent to him by Phelps: <br /> <br /> "Yours of Oct 1 1849 with blanks pamphlets &c was not received by me until the 25th of Dec. following. I have not had any definitive applications for insurance. It was somewhat new here and the minds of the people had not been called to it. I have however distributed pamphlets and in other ways called the attention of our citizens to the subject. I think that something yet might be done.<br /> <br /> The letter goes on to describe a potential policy for a group soon leaving for the Gold Rush and requests a favorable rate in order to stimulate interest in policies from additional parties: <br /> <br /> "A company is now being formed to head out about ten men to work in the gold regions of California. The individuals who furnish the money wish to obtain an insurance for two years on the lives of the several persons who go out to secure the amount advanced. The men who propose to go are generally hardy healthy & of good habits & from 25 to 45 years of age. They expect to go by the overland route either from Independence Missouri or some more southerly route not south of Vera Cruz. Will you have the goodness to inform me by return mail if the company will take such risks -- & if so the rates of insurance as near as may be which you will charge -- whether you will insure more than the amt. actually advanced & if so how much & any other information you may think proper to give. If I receive a favorably sic reply I shall probably send you more proposals soon."<br /> <br /> A neat letter concerning the preparations and considerations necessary for a journey to California in the early days of the Gold Rush and the role and rise of early American insurance companies in the planning of such lengthy and dangerous overland travel. January 29 unknown‎

Référence libraire : 2389

‎[California - Gold Rush Period - Mercantile History] Alsop and Company‎

‎Shipping Manifest for the Barque Equator Documenting Cargo on a Voyage Around Cape Horn 1850-1851‎

‎Callao: Alsop and Company 1850. Folded ship manifest measuring 15 ¼ x 12 ½ inches. Fine condition with slight normal wear. A very scarce Gold Rush period shipping manifest for the Barque Equator captained by William Weir listing the passengers and cargo for a voyage to San Francisco in December of 1850 with notations showing the vessel’s arrival in San Francisco in May of 1851. Alsop & Co. was the work of Joseph Alsop the grandson of Continental Congress delegate John Alsop and his friend Henry Chauncey. Originally from Middletown Connecticut the pair established Alsop & Co. in New York City in 1824 and would eventually play a large role in the gold trade in California and trade extensively in South and Central America. Chauncey Alsop and others were among the partners in the trans-Panamanian railway that helped transform trans-continental trade in 1850. One of Alsop & Co.’s treasure boxes was aboard the S.S. Central America when it sank in 1857 carrying gold to the Eastern United States from Panama. <br /> <br /> The shipping manifest offered here lists the primary cargo as 195 tons of coal and also lists the names of fourteen passengers on the voyage. Imported coal - from Callao in this case - was essential to heat houses and run furnaces at factories including assay offices before the development of a local coal industry in California. We find only two instances of Gold Rush-era ship manifests - which were usually thrown away - surfacing in the trade or auction records this one and one other which sold for $3600 at PBA Galleries in 2014. Alsop and Company unknown‎

Référence libraire : List2418

‎[CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH]. MORGAN, Dale L (Ed)‎

‎The overland diary of James A. Pritchard from Kentucky to California in 1849. With a biography of Captain James A. Pritchard by Hugh Pritchard Williamson. . . .‎

‎Denver CO: Fred A. Rosenstock The Old West Publishing Co. 1959. 4to. 221 1 pp. Title in red & black frontisp. 3 folding maps 1 large chart of travel folded in rear pocket. Brick-red publisher’s cloth illustration vignette printed on front cover gilt lettering on spine partially uncut & unopened w/ d.j. slight scuffing upper right corner minor chipping dustsoiling couple closed tears & creasing NF/G copy. First edition of this exceptional effort by Morgan to present the Overland diary of Pritchard along with two previously unpublished maps of the 1849 gold rush miners by J. Goldsborough Bruff and the exceptional and immense chart tracing the emigration of no less than 162 diarists across the South Pass route to California demarcating 80 important points along the trail. Fred A. Rosenstock, The Old West Publishing Co., hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 62286

‎[CALIFORNIA -- GOLD RUSH]. HALSEY, Francis Whiting & HALSEY, Gaius Leonard‎

‎The pioneers of Unadilla Village 1784-1840. . . ; Reminiscences of village life and of Panama and California from 1840 to 1850 by . . . physician in Unadilla for fifty years. . . .‎

‎Unadilla NY: Sold by the Vestry of St. Matthew’s Church Press of Geroge D. Raitt 1902. 8vo. xv 1 323 pp. plus 3 pp. publisher’s ads for Halsey’s “The Old New York Frontier.†Frontisp. plates 1 folding map. Red publisher’s linen gilt device front cover gilt lettering on spine minor soiling head of spine edgewear rubbing still VG- copy from the library of former California State Librarian Gary Kurutz. First edition one of 650 copies printed and then distributed by St. Matthew’s Church of this uncommon work where the second half of the book consists primarily of Dr. Halsey’s experiences as a member of a 49er Gold Rush “Company†and featuring his diary. Inspired by Horace Greeley’s Tribune trumpeting the California gold discovery Dr. Halsey and several friends after catching a Broadway production of “California and the Gold Diggings†organized pooled their money and set out for Panama. While waiting to sail from Panama City he notes a cargo of 200 gold ingots each weight 150 lbs. enroute from California. After arriving in San Francisco June 4 1849 the group experience the wild gambling dens hyper-inflation and head for Sacramento and the diggings at Big Bar on the Middle Fork of the American River. Even though Halsey tries to break off from the Company and speculate in real estate and set up a medical practice the company refuse to release him and they actually succeed in pulling 20-36 ounces a day from their diggings. After making back their investment and a little more he decides the area is over-saturated with doctors and returns to Unadilla NY. See: Kurutz California Gold Rush 308. Sold by the Vestry of St. Matthew’s Church, [Press of Geroge D. Raitt], unknown‎

Référence libraire : 61749

‎[CENDRARS (Blaise)]‎

‎Mémoires d'une chanteuse‎

‎Hambourg [Paris] A fond de cale 1911 In-12 Demi-reliure‎

‎EDITION ORIGINALE et premier tirage de la traduction complète de MEMOIREN EINER SAENGERIN, attribuée à la célèbre cantatrice Wilhelmine Schroeder-Devrient. Hors texte, deux portraits de la soprano. Nombreux bandeaux et vignettes. Exemplaire relié à l'poue : demi-percaline bordeaux, pièce de titre brune et lettre or au dos (reliure ancienne). >>>> Exemplaire de tout premier tirage, avec les pages 19 à 29 lacunaires. Selon Pia, une erreur d'imposition serait à l'origine de l'absence de ce passage. L'éditeur fit recomposer les pages oubliées et ajouta à la fin du texte une vignette pour le second tirage. Faussement datée pour échapper aux poursuites, cette édition a été établie par Guillaume Apollinaire avec la grande aide de Blaise Cendrars qui en fit la traduction. Bon 0‎

Référence libraire : 009679

‎[CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de].‎

‎Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Homenaje de "Ínsula" en el Cuarto Centenario de su nacimiento, 1547-1947. (Textos de Antonio Rodríguez-Moñino, Américo Castro, Joaquín Casalduero, William J. Entwistle, Francisco Yndurain, Samuel Gili Gaya, Jean Babelon, Matilde Pomés, José Manuel Blecua, Alonso Zamora Vicente, Francisco López Estrada, Stephen Gilman, , y otros).‎

‎Madrid, 1947 ("Cuadernos de Ínsula, 1). 4to.; 229 pp. Cubiertas originales.‎

‎[CHEUNGQUA]. [Studio Or School Of]‎

‎A SUITE OF 7 COLOR CHINESE PITH PAINTINGS SHOWING CHINESE WOMAN PLAYING MUSICAL‎

‎Canton 1860-80's Cheungqua. A group of 7 pith or Tongcao color paintings usual minimal issues mostly clean & solid sold "as is" as a collection with the typical chips & a few fox spots else very good clean examples. A RARE GROUP ! . . . . A SUITE OF 7 FINE CHINESE COLOR PITH PAINTINGS . . . SHOWING BEAUTIFULLY DRESSED CHINESE WOMEN . . . PLAYING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS . . . EXECUTED IN STUNNING & BRILLIANT COLORS . . . AKA: CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS . A group of typical "trade paintings" executed by Chinese native artists for foreign traders visiting Canton or Macao during the early to mid-19th century. . A SUPERB SUITE OF FABULOUS COLOR PITH PAINTINGS: A stunningly beautiful group of hand-painted color pith paintings depicting a woman playing a musical instrument. . "GOLDEN LOTUS" or "LOTUS FEET" BOUND FEET Chanzu: This like most illustrations of the period show the women with bound feet. Chanzu bound feet was an erotic obsession and fetish in ancient China. The erotic ramifications are outlined in the references below. . The paintings illustrate Chinese women in a domestic scene with furniture playing musical instruments. Subjects are: . a. Yue1in Ruan Moon Guitar Moon Zither 4 stringed . b. Yanqin Chinese Dulcimer . c. Sanxian three-stringed Chinese lute . d. Drumming on the back of a Chinese ceramic bowl . e. Dizi Chinese bamboo flute . f. Huqin Chinese violin . g. Tong Luo Chinese Brass Gong . DESCRIPTION OF THE PAINTING ART WORK AND CONDITION: . Each painting is in brilliant vivid and stunning colors. Each is skillfully painted with a fine hand delicate fine-point brush with great detail incredible reality texture and appeal. . As usual the set paintings were tipped to a contemporary backing period Each painting is backed with a contemporary stiff paper or a more current back card. . Items "a" & "b" are matted see cover.jpg & title.jpg photos posted to our website. . Each painting is approximately 21 x 34 cm. most have a blue silk ribbon border partial border or border lacking chipped and the like on has restorations on the verso in the margin only. . Each painting has some chips parts missing on the edges or with small holes here and there 'e' by and large the images are complete but some may have usual and often typical age-related cracks or splits a touch of fox spots on "c." . Suitable for framing & display. Please review photographs posted to our website for details. . "RICE PAPER" PAINTINGS: Several authors refer to this name rather than the proper name "Pith" paper paintings also can be called "Tung Tsao." . THE CANTON ARTIST OR 'SCHOOL' OF CHEUNG QUA: Cheung Qua was an export watercolor painter in Canton. He and followers of his school produced various single and albums of these paintings which were sold from his studio. . Often his in-house artists began painting on their own thus replicating the techniques subjects and essence of their masters. Because these paintings were rarely signed the one and only identification ever found was occasionally on the album cover or spine with the studio name. . Often these paintings were sold in various shops in Macao the main resting and gathering place of foreigners during part of the year. . REFERENCE: . CLUNAS Craig.: CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS. This entire book is devoted to Pith or Rice paper paintings. For musical instruments see color plates on pp.50-53 especially plates on pp.66-67 plates 39 & 40 are particularly similar to our examples that is to say by the same or an artist who was in the same house of Cheungqua or that school. CHU Arthur. et al.: ORIENTAL ANTIQUES AND COLLECTIBLES: A GUIDE pp.62-66. THE CHINESE PITH PAINTING COLLECTION AT THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA: An Annotated Guide. Crossman Carl L. The decorative arts of the China trade : paintings furnishings and exotic curiosities. LEVY Howard S.: CHINESE FOOT BINDING: The History of a Curious Erotic Custom. . --. THE LOTUS LOVERS: The Complete History of the Curious Erotic Custom of Foot binding in China. JACKSON Beverly.: SPLENDID SLIPPERS: A THOUSAND YEARS OF AN EROTIC TRADITION. . . unknown‎

Référence libraire : 98101501

‎[Chicago 8, or Conspiracy 8, later Chicago 7]‎

‎Face of the Enemy. Stop the Trial. Stop the War‎

‎Chicago 1969. 21 1/4 x 29 1/4 inches. Some light toning and edgewear near fine condition overall. The first example of this poster we have encountered which shows Judge Julius Hoffman Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and President Richard Nixon. We find no other records and can only assume it was produced in the same era as the previous offering as it bears the same address of 28 E. Jackson. unknown‎

Référence libraire : List911

‎[Civil War - New Hampshire] [Copperheads, or Peace Democrats]‎

‎Copperheads in Council! Declarations of the Leaders. Read and Ponder What They Say! Anti-Copperhead Broadside Produced for the 1863 Election‎

‎New Hampshire: Printer Unknown 1863. First Edition. Printed broadside 16 ½ x 11 ½ inches archivally mounted and matted. A very good copy with some light toning small closed tear at upper margin light foxing at upper margin very tiny spot of loss to illustration at fold. Franklin Pierce remained politically active upon his return to New Hampshire following his presidency advocating for the Democratic cause and generally opposing the Civil War and Lincoln’s policies. This scarce pro-Union anti-slavery broadside printed for the 1863 New Hampshire elections which happened March 12 takes aim at Pierce and his fellow Democrats repeating the unfounded claim first made in 1862 by William Seward that Pierce belonged to the secret Knights of the Golden Circle the secret society formed with the goal of forming a new territory out of the CSA Mexico Central America and the Caribbean. There was never evidence that Pierce had any involvement in the KGC though the society had members in southern parts of some Union states such as Indiana Ohio Illinois and Missouri.<br /> <br /> The broadside printed for the March 12 elections quotes heavily from Pierce as well as the other Democrat candidates and party officials who were either running for office in New Hampshire or involved in politics a group which included Ira Eastman John Goerge Josiah Minot Thomas Treadwell Daniel Marcy William Burns and George Stevens. The broadside includes an engraving of coiled snakes each with these politicians named and the caption “et id omne genus.†Eastman the Democratic candidate for governor won the popular vote but lacked the constitutional majority necessary for election. Marcy was successful in his bid for the First District. “Men of New Hampshire!†the broadside asks: “Will you Vote the Ticket Made up by Such Men†with the final line imploring to “Please paste up in a Conspicuous Place.†<br /> <br /> Overall an uncommon survival from the 1863 elections. A very good copy with some light toning small closed tear at upper magin light foxing at upper margin very tiny spot of loss to illustration at fold. Quite scarce with OCLC locating two copies only at the Huntington Library and the New York Historical Society. Printer Unknown unknown‎

Référence libraire : List1004

‎[COLLECTIF]‎

‎L'Or des Scythes - Trésors de l'Ermitage, Leningrad.‎

‎Catalogue de l'exposition présentée en 1991 aux Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire de Bruxelles: 166 pièces - objets en or, mais aussi en bois, bronze, terre cuite, cuir, tissu - avec notices, commentaires, dessins et photos couleurs, avec textes en alternance sur les civilisations des différents peuples, de la civilisation de Maïkop (3è millénaire avant J.-C.) à celle des Sarmates (IIè siècle avant J.-C.- IIè siècle après J.-C.); préface, introduction et texte sur l' "Histoire de la civilisation des Scythes de la région du nord de la mer Noire" de Boris PIOTROVSKY, directeur du Musée de l'Ermitage; morceaux choisis d'HERODOTE à propos des Scythes in fine; cartes; bibliographie. Français‎

‎[COLLECTIF] / LEVINE (Daniel) sous la direction de.‎

‎L'Or des dieux, l'or des Andes.‎

‎Catalogue de l'exposition présentée en 1994 à l'Arsenal de Metz par le Conseil général de la Moselle sur le travail, l'utilisation et la mythologie de l'or, symbole divin, des civilisations précolombiennes du Pérou, de l'Equateur et de la Colombie; sous la direction de Daniel LEVINE, du département Amérique du Musée de l'Homme; cartes, nombreuses photos couleurs, croquis techniques en noir; bibliographie. Exemplaire bien complet de sa jaquette. Français‎

‎[COLLECTION LA TOISON D OR ] - DENIS (Roland) -‎

‎Le trésor des monts chaffah.‎

‎Paris, Editions alsatia , 1946 ; in-8, 176 pp., br. Page non coupé.‎

‎Page non coupé.‎

Référence libraire : 201317122

‎[CONTI, Natale or COMES, Natalis]‎

‎Mythologiæ sive Explicationis Fabularum Libri Decem. In Quibus Omnia Propè Naturalis & Moralis Philosophiæ Dogmata Contenta fuisse Demonstratur. Nuper ab ipso Autore Recogniti & Locupletati. Eiusdem Libri IIII de Venatione. Addita Mythologia Musarum a Geofredo Linocerio uno Libello Comprehensa & nunc Recens à F.S. Multis & Fœdis Mendis Expurgata‎

‎Francofurti Frankfurt: Apud Andreæ Wecheli heredes heirs of Andreas Wechelus Claudium Marnium & Ioan. Aubrium 1596. 8vo. 16 1137 54 1138-1193 1 pp. Early full vellum with yapp edges lacking ties spine with gilt ruled bands contemporary hand written title to upper panel a gilt device with the motto "Rinasce piu Gloriosa" to the foot of the spine decorative gilt centrepieces and double gilt ruled borders to the boards 18th century armorial bookplate "Sinclair" - "Fide Sed Pugna" to the front pastedown an earlier inscription to the head of the front free endpaper. Leaf O4 pp. 215-6 with some marginal loss mostly mild dampstaining at intervals some soiling and light wear to the vellum but a decent copy overall. First published in Venice in 1567 the work came to be known as one of the standard Renaissance works on the study of classical mythology. It went through a number of editions in the late 16th and early 17th centuries with additions to the original text being incorporated in the 1580s. Francofurti [Frankfurt]: Apud Andreæ Wecheli heredes [heirs of Andreas Wechelus], Claudium Marnium & Ioan. Aubrium unknown‎

Référence libraire : 50569