‎Abraão‎

‎Horodisch Abraham‎

‎MINIATUR EXLIBRIS‎

‎Amsterdam The Netherlands: Erasmus Buchhandlung 1966. stiff paper wrappers cardboard slipcase. Miniature Books. miniature book 60 x 53 mm. stiff paper wrappers cardboard slipcase. 95 pages. Limited to 200 numbered copies of which this copy is in a lovely full leather and gilt binding with the original wrappers bound in. A charming little production with facsimles illustrations some color and 13 engraved exlibris of Gianni Mantero. Bookplate on front pastedown of the well-known miniature book collector Kalman Levitan. Front hinge showing moderate seperation. Gilt on spine faded else a bright unmarred copy. Erasmus Buchhandlung unknown books‎

Referência livreiro : 80035

‎Sachs Abraham S.‎

‎Di gesichte fun Arbeiá¹­er Ring: 1892-1925 די געשיכטע פון ×רבייטער רינג‎

‎New York: Natzionaler Ekzekutiw Komite fun Arbeiter Ring 1925. Two hardcover volumes minor shelfwear top of spine panels rubbed. On the history of the Workers Circle formerly Workmen's Circle. Natzionaler Ekzekutiw Komite fun Arbeiter Ring unknown books‎

Referência livreiro : 262954

‎Polonsky Abraham‎

‎A Season of Fear SIGNED‎

‎New York: Cameron Associates. Very Good in Good dj. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. solid book with a bit of wear at both ends of spine pages browned as typical with this cheaply-manufactured book; jacket has a few small edge-tears small chip and some associated creasing at bottom of front panel some paper loss to upper spine extremities. SIGNED by the author on the ffep. Polonsky's second novel published like his first during the period of his blacklisting by the Hollywood studios is about a California civil engineer "a typical American who signed a loyalty oath with hardly a second thought" only to discover that this simple act in fact has a profound effect on his life. Signed by Author . Cameron Associates hardcover books‎

Referência livreiro : 24803

‎Abraham Hilliard et al‎

‎Controversy Between the First Parish in Cambridge and the Rev. Dr. Holmes Their Late Pastor‎

‎Cambridge: E.W. Metcalf and Company 1810. Paperback. Good. viii 103pp. String bound signatures with some loss to the edges especially the last page else good. <br/><br/>Sabin 10125. E.W. Metcalf and Company paperback books‎

Referência livreiro : 46955

‎Lincoln Abraham & William E. Baringer.‎

‎The Philosophy of Abraham Lincoln in His Own Words.‎

‎Falcon's Wing Press 1959. Fine in near fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Falcon's Wing Press, 1959. unknown books‎

Referência livreiro : Embry 186136

‎Lincoln Abraham.‎

‎Speeches and Writings 1832-1858.‎

‎Library of America 1989. First edition first printing. Fine in fine faintly rubbed dust jacket in mylar cover. Library of America, 1989. First edition, first printing. unknown books‎

Referência livreiro : Embry 174727

‎Lincoln Abraham.‎

‎Speeches and Writings 1832-1865. Two Volumes.‎

‎Library of America 1989. Fine in fine publisher's slipcases. Blue cloth. Library of America, 1989. hardcover books‎

Referência livreiro : Embry 172929

‎Nasatir Abraham P.‎

‎Borderland in Retreat: From Spanish Louisiana to the Far Southwest.‎

‎U. of New Mexico Press 1976. First edition first printing. Inked name and place else fine in near fine price clipped dust jacket in mylar cover. U. of New Mexico Press, 1976. First edition, first printing. unknown books‎

Referência livreiro : Embry 159990

‎WATTS John after Abraham HONDIUS circa 1625 1691‎

‎A Pair: Morning Evening‎

‎London: Published by J. Watts Dealer in Prints & Drawings opposite the Mews Gate Charing Cross 1778. Mezzotints. Printed on laid watermarked paper. In excellent condition. Morning Image size: 9 1/2 x 13 7/8 inches. Plate mark: 10 x 13 7/8 inches. Sheet size: 10 5/8 x 14 7/8 inches. Evening Image size: 9 3/8 x 13 7/8. Plate mark: 9 7/8 x 13 7/8. Sheet size: 10 3/4 x 15 1/8 inches. This is a stunning pair of mezzotints of two hunting dogs catching their quarry by John Watts after paintings by Abraham Hondius.<br/> <br/>Watts was a successful printmaker and publisher who was active in London during the second half of the eighteenth century. He was famed for his rich mezzotints which he exhibited in London between 1766 and 1778. Watts scraped mezzotints after some of the most renowned artists of his day but he had a special penchant for works by the Dutch masters such as this handsome pair after Abraham Hondius the celebrated Dutch animal painter. These rich mezzotints are a superb example of Watts's luxurious style of engraving translating the energy and fluidity of Hondius's beautiful paintings into a dramatic example of superior mezzotint engraving.<br/> <br/>Benezit Dictionnaire Des Peintres Sculpteurs Dessinateurs et Graveurs. Published by J. Watts, Dealer in Prints & Drawings opposite the Mews Gate Charing Cross unknown books‎

Referência livreiro : 14190

‎Grafstrom Anders Abraham & Christian Didrik Forrsell‎

‎Ett Ar I Sverge.; Taflor af Svenska Almogens kladedragt lefnadssatt och hemseder samt de for landets historia markvardigaste orter‎

‎Stockholm: Johan Horberg 1827. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary half polished russet calf and marbled boards. All edges yellow. Fine. 137 pages. 27 1/2 x 22 cm. Forty-seven hand-colored engraved plates with tissue guards plus hand-colored vignette title and two engraved plates of music. Grafstrom poet and historian wrote the text and Forssell made the engravings. Index. List of Plates and errata. Costumes from Dalarna Helsingland Lappland Sodermanland Westergothland Smaland Blekinge and Skane. Lovely copy plates and text clean fresh and bright; bookplate raised bands spine panels richly guilt in floral motifs marbled endpapers maroon morocco spine label printed in gilt. Johan Horberg unknown books‎

Referência livreiro : 18472

‎Rees Abraham 1743 1825 "Editor of the Last Edition of Mr. Chambers's Dictionary"‎

‎The NEW CYCLOPAEDIA i.e. CYCLOPEDIA; Or UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY Of ARTS And SCIENCES: Formed Upon a More Enlarged Plan of Arrangement than the Dictionary of Mr. Chambers; Comprehending the Various Articles of that Work with Additions and Improvements; Together with the New Subjects of Biography Geography and History; and Adapted to the Present State of Literature and Science. With the Assistance of Eminent Professional Gentlemen. Illustrated with New Plates including Maps Engraved for the Work by Some of the Most Distinguished Artists. Vols I - XXXIX Complete‎

‎London: Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees No. 39 Paternoster-Row 1820. 1st edition thus. 80 volumes in original publishers quarter-bound cloth beige spines over light blue paper-covered boards black lettering printed to front board and paper title labels on spine. 7 volumes period half-bound in black leather spine and edges with gilt & brown lettering and labels to spines over green cloth boards. Boards heavily worn and rubbed edges bumped and spines chipping. Some boards detached. Some volumes with previous owner signature penned to front board B. Fulford. Binding and paper age-toned as one would expect with the ages of the titles with the occasional stain & foxing. Withal a Good original set sold w.a.f. 87 volumes total. 80 of the Cyclopaedia 7 volumes of Plates. 7 volumes of plates b/w engravings. Cyclopaedias: ~ 11-1/4" x 9". Plate Volumes: 11" x 8-3/4" <br/><br/>"I. The Work will be printed in Quarto at the Office of A. Strahan Esq. with New Types cast for the Purpose and on a superfine yellow woven Paper. II. The Work will be comprised in about Twenty Volumes. III. Three sheets stitched in blue paper will be regularly published every Week till the whole be completed price One Shilling. IV. Numerous Plates engraved in a superior stile sic of elegance will be given in the course of the Publication. V. A Part of Half a Volume containing Seventeen Numbers together with the Plates will be regularly published in advance price Eighteen Shillings in boards. VI. A few copies will be printed on a superfine royal woven Paper with proof impressions of the Plates to be sold in Parts of Half Volumes only price One Pound Sixteen Shillings in boards. VII. Number I and Part I was published on Saturday January 2 1802." <br /> <br />"The encyclopaedia was largely Rees' own work and was especially strong in new and well-written biographical articles. The articles on music were written by Dr. Charles Burney and those on botany were mostly written by Sir James Edward Smith the founder of the Linnean Society.Rees's Cyclopaedia is said to have outclassed the Encyclopaedia Britannica of that time and 'remains a monument to the memory of another native of Wales namely dr. Abraham Rees the Encyclopaedist who was a native of Llanbrynmair Montgomeryshire." Cyclopaedia - dot - org. <br /> <br />Dr. Rees' Cyclopaedia is known all over the world and is often hailed as one of the greatest collections of material in the field of Encyclopedias. Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, No. 39 Paternoster-Row hardcover books‎

Referência livreiro : 41461

‎Geiger Abraham‎

‎Judaism and Islam‎

‎New York: Ktav Publishing House 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine. xxxiii 170p. Original red cloth. 23cm. No jacket. Reprint of the 1898 edition with a Prologomenon by Moshe Pearlman added at pages vii-xxvi. <br/><br/> Ktav Publishing House hardcover books‎

Referência livreiro : 82760

‎BLOEMAERT Abraham; Bloemaert‎

‎Oorspronkelyken Vermaard Konstryk.‎

‎1679. BLOEMAERT Abraham and Frederik. Artis Apellae Liber Tekenboek van Abraham Bloemaart / The Drawing Book of Abraham Bloemaert. Complete set of 160 engravings in eight parts including the chiaroscuro woodcut title-page. Folio 326 x 238 mm bound in contemporary Dutch brown calf blind-tooled spine. Amsterdam: Nicholaes Visscher 1679-1702. First Edition of Abraham Bloemaert's Drawing Book Tekenboek illustrated with engravings by Frederik Bloemaert ca. 1610-1669 after his father's designs. Abraham Bloemaert's original life drawings which were executed mainly between 1625-1635 and 1645-1650 include multiple studies of hands feet arms legs male and female profiles nudes putti and costumed figures seen in various poses from varied angles and under various lighting conditions plus a number of domestic animals. Abraham Bloemaert intended his drawings later converted by his son into engravings to serve as a teaching collection of visual models for practicing artists. The publishing history is as follows: a variant edition containing between 100 and 120 engraved plates was issued by Bloemaert's son Frederik between 1650 and 1656 under the title: Artis Apellae Liber. The 1650-56 edition is so rare it is unobtainable today. It is recorded in only three copies: British Museum 120 plates Bibliothèque Nationale de France 100 plates and Los Angeles County Museum of Art 120 plates. The extreme rarity of all early editions of Bloemaert's Tekenboek reflects the fact that a very limited number were originally printed and that the early printings did not survive the heavy use received by artists and the assistants in the artist's studio. The present copy belongs to the true First Edition Roethlisberger 1a 393 Visscher edition complete with 160 engraved plates plus the chiaroscuro woodcut title all in very good impressions. It is significant that Roethlisberger in his massive catalogue raisonné of the work of Abraham Bloemaert and His Sons Doornspijk 1993 reproduces the entire set of engravings from the 1740 edition. Abraham Bloemaert 1564-1651 was successful as a teacher not only of his four sons but also of the leading Dutch Caravaggisti e.g. Terbrugghen and Honthorst and virtually every Utrecht master painter/artist. Besides Hendrik Goltzius Abraham Bloemaert and his son Frederik were among the earliest to combine the chiaroscuro woodblock technique with the engraved and etched line Hind. Unlike most drawing books "Bloemaert's drawing examples are not derived from other authors" Bolten. Very occasional browning or spotting overall a fine clean copy. PROVENANCE: Illegible signature Nuremberg on front flyleaf. Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow with ex-libris their sale Christie's NY #2800 Lot 402. Roethlisberger 1a 393 reproductions of every plate Roethlisberger II T1-T166. Bolten Method and Practice: Dutch and Flemish Drawing Books 1600-1750 pp. 48-67 and passim 24 reproductions. Hollstein Dutch and Flemish F. Bloemaert 36-155. Strauss Chiaroscuro 346. See: Caroline Fowler Between the Heart and the Mind: Ways of Drawing in the Seventeenth Century Internet Resource Princeton University for long discussion of Bloemaert's Tekenboek. unknown books‎

Referência livreiro : 166929

‎Yeager Abraham Hoss‎

‎Jacob Klodsloe One of the Nobodies: How He Came Home from the War How He Grew Up and Into It cover title‎

‎Cleburne TX: A. H. Yeager Publisher T. L. Sanders Printer 1899. First edition. 12mo. 129 pp. Autobiographical account of a Confederate soldier from Washington County Tennessee; Civil War experiences include his capture at Kennesaw Mountain in June 1864 his incarceration as a prisoner of war at Camp Douglas Illinois his journey home and after reflecting on his childhood in east Tennessee how he came to join an infantry company as the war began. Yeager 1842-1940 served with the 29th Tennessee Infantry until his capture; though not included here his post-Civil War years were spent first as a lawyer in Tennessee then as a newspaperman and farmer in Johnson County Texas. Not in Nevins Dornbusch Eicher Nicholson or Broadfoot. OCLC locates 23 copies but only one in Tennessee Knox County Public. Text pages a little toned but a very good copy. Original printed wrappers a little wear to the spine. 10020. <br/><br/> A. H. Yeager, Publisher, T. L. Sanders, Printer unknown books‎

Referência livreiro : 63536

‎BISHOP Abraham‎

‎Connecticut Republicanism: An Oration on the Extent and Power of Political Delusion Delivered in New-Haven on the Evening Preceding the Public Commencement September 1800‎

‎Philadelphia PA: Mathew Carey No. 118 High-street 1800. 8vo. 80 pp. Bound with his: Oration Delivered in Wallingford on the 11th of March 1801 Before the Republicans of the State of Connecticut at Their General Thanksgiving for the Election of Thomas Jefferson to the Presidency and of Aaron Burr to the Vice Presidency of the United States of America. New Haven CT: Printed by William W. Morse 1801. 8vo. 111 1 pp. Contemporary leather-backed drab paper boards some staining rubbed. Very good. Third edition of the first title first edition of the second the first work also printed in New Haven 1800; Carey also printed another issue without his address in the imprint in 1800; the second title prints Jefferson's first inaugural address. Sabin 5590 and 5595. Evans 36978 and American Imprints 199. Sowerby 3235 for the New Haven printing and 3264. <br/><br/> Mathew Carey, No. 118, High-street hardcover books‎

Referência livreiro : 47937

‎BUFORD Abraham 1749 1833 regimental commander of American forces in the Revolution‎

‎Arranging for the payment of a debt‎

‎in an autograph letter signed 26 July 1818 from Scott County Kentucky to Simeon Kirtley in Harrison County Kentucky. 8vo. Two pages approximately 135 words; addressed on the verso of the blank integral leaf. In part: "Having heard that Mr. Sims has returned from selling your drove of horses I am induced to hope it will be quite as convenient for you to pay me the $1000 with interest now . with promise that you would give me a Kentucky Frankfort note gain for it . I hope the sales of your drove of Horses has been very good." After the war Buford emigrated from Virginia to Kentucky where he served for a time as deputy surveyor see DAB for a detailed account of his estimable Revolutionary War service especially against Tarleton. Folded; some browning but very good. <br/><br/> unknown books‎

Referência livreiro : 50208

‎Lincoln Abraham and Temple Scott‎

‎The Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln‎

‎New York: Brentano's 1918. Leather bound. VG- bumping and wear to leather boards a few pages are loose but present pages are otherwise clear. Red leather boards with gilt tooling gilt spine lettering with one raised band; all edge gilt; marble illustrated end papers; xvii 117 pp. A reprint of the 1908 edition. Selected and edited with introduction by Temple Scott. Brentano's unknown books‎

Referência livreiro : 182829

‎Davidson Abraham‎

‎The Eccentrics and Other American Visionary Painters‎

‎NY: E. P. Dutton 1978. Softbound. VG Copy may have slight wear to cover corner and top of spine. Otherwise clean and tight. Illustrated wraps with red lettering. 202 pp. 18 color 73 bw plates. An important study of American art mainly of the 19th century that contained images or scenery that one would not reasonably expect to have encountered in reality during the time it was painted. Painting by Thomas Cole is on the cover. A standard oft-cited reference. E. P. Dutton unknown books‎

Referência livreiro : 165018 ISBN : 0525475001 9780525475002

‎Davidson Abraham A.‎

‎Early American Modernist Painting 1910-1935‎

‎New York: Harper & Row Icon Ed 1981. Softbound. Good has been read. Wraps. viii 324 pp. 8 color 170 bw repros. Harper & Row, Icon Ed unknown books‎

Referência livreiro : 989

‎Frumkin Abraham‎

‎In friling fun Idishn sotsyalizm: zikhroynes fun a zshurnalist ×ין פרילינג פון ×ידישן ס×ָצי××œ×™×–× : זכרונות פון × ×–×©×•×¨× ×ליסט‎

‎New York: A. Frumkin yubiley komitet 1940. 304 pages very good hardcover in a worn slipcase. Text in Yiddish. "In the Spring of Jewish Socialism: Memoirs of a Journalist . A. Frumkin yubiley komitet unknown books‎

Referência livreiro : 261621

‎Lincoln Abraham AMERICAN FLAG BINDING‎

‎THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS‎

‎<p>No publisher no place probably circa 1950. A bifolum of the Gettysburg address on faux aged paper with the text printed in blue and initials in red. Bound nicely in red white and blue crushed morocco with inlaid stars and stripes. The binding is unsigned. Attractive and quite unusual. A copy was located bound in exactly the same manner in the Lincoln Institute in Wayne Indiana. It has a bookplate indicating it was done for the English bookseller John Harkness. Binding done circa 1950. </p> books‎

Referência livreiro : 3360

‎ROSENBACH Abraham Simon Wolf 1876 1952.‎

‎An American Jewish Bibliography Being a List of Books and Pamphlets by Jews or Relating to Them. Printed in the United States from the Establishment of the Press in the Colonies Until 1850.‎

‎Baltimore:: American Jewish Historical Society 1926. 1926. Series: A special edition of Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society Number 30. Thick 8vo. xi 1 486 11 1 pp. Facsimiles index. Brown gilt-stamped cloth. Very good . First edition. American Jewish Historical Society, 1926. hardcover books‎

Referência livreiro : EEG1345

‎Merritt Abraham‎

‎The Face in the Abyss‎

‎New York: Horace Liveright 1931. First edition. Slight lean; black mark to top edge; scratches to front flyleaf; covers soiled; very good in a rubbed dust jacket with fraying to edges and spine ends and a small chip to the base of the spine. 8vo 343pp; yellow cloth stamped in black. A decent copy of this collection of stories by the master fantasist. Horace Liveright unknown books‎

Referência livreiro : 205096

‎Anscher Abraham‎

‎Detailed Narrative of an 1883-1884 Expedition Through Southern Africa Written by Exploring Party Leader Abraham Anscher a Jewish Chicago Immigrant‎

‎Various places in South Africa Botswana 1884. Overall very good. 295pp. plus five additional letters totaling 60pp. altogether more than 38000 words. Composed mostly on small octavo sheets. Some wear to edges of initial and final few leaves slightly affecting text. Light even tanning. Written in a consistent legible script. An extensive and outstanding manuscript account of travel and exploration in southern Africa during late 1883 and early 1884 by Abraham Anscher a Polish Jewish immigrant to Chicago. The manuscript is composed in the form of a letter addressed to Edith Delia Rogalski but really comprises a travelogue or diary with entries written from September 1883 to mid-January 1884. Five additional letters accompany this account addressed to Edith's later husband Israel Jackson Roe; her parents Samuel and Sarah Rogalski; and her brother Benny. <br/><br/>Anscher's descriptions of his experiences in Africa cover a wide variety of topics including big game hunting; interactions with local indigenous peoples and their rulers; encounters with white missionaries traders and other hunters; ethnographic botanical geological and zoological observations and much more. His account is by turns dramatic and amusing interspersed with personal recollections of family and home cultural and religious notes his addressee was also a Polish-speaking Jewish immigrant to Chicago and reminiscences of earlier adventures in Colorado Utah the California gold fields and elsewhere.<br/><br/>Little can be readily discerned of the details of Anscher's biography beyond the pages of this manuscript. He was born in Mariampol then a part of Poland and today in Lithuania but clearly came to the United States at an early age and was well-educated. He was an adventurer at heart and spent several years in the West perhaps in the U.S. Army for part of this time and partly as a solo fortune seeker. At some point during the mid- to late-1870s he decided to take his adventuring talents to South Africa in order to satisfy his own wanderlust and to create a business of organizing guided African exploration and hunting. The stakes of his chosen profession are mentioned several times throughout his narrative such as when a party member dies of an unspecified illness "My lot is a very hard one just now and my position as promoter and chief adventurer is anything but enviable". From the additional letters present it is apparent that the young Ms. Rogalski was a former love interest of Anscher who spurned his affections and became engaged to a mutual friend. Indeed a letter here addressed to the fiancé offers an apology for presumption of writing to Edith in such a lengthy and cordial manner; at one time all of the individuals addressed by Anscher were a part of the same immigrant community in Chicago.<br/><br/>This absorbing account follows a lengthy excursion organized and led by Anscher across the Transvaal through Bechuanaland Matabeleland and beyond to a settlement he calls Tatti probably Francistown on the Tati River traveling through parts of modern-day South Africa and Botswana. They contain many details of great interest and his vignettes are well-written and dramatically delivered. An immense boa constrictor drops out of the treetops strangling a springbok before his eyes. He finds a five-year-old girl with a broken leg the only survivor of a village massacre; he sets her leg nurses her for a month and eventually conveys her to a missionary station. A young zebra joins the traveling party incurring the jealousy of the team's dogs. A large lizard is trained to sleep in a tent but only after his teeth are removed for safety. <br/><br/>His missive begins in medias res with his party already underway in South Africa near the Orange River in what he calls the "Tarka bush" during mid-September 1883. Anscher decides having missed his last opportunity to send mail "Now to put myself on guard against mischance and not be like the traditional foolish virgins who did not keep their lamps properly trimmed.to have a so-called running letter always open and ready" for his recipient. The group first traveled northeast near and along the Orange allowing Anscher to wax discursive concerning the river's wildlife:<br/><br/>"The wanderings of the river sometimes flowed through immense chasms over hung with stupendous precipices and then like a translucent lake with beautiful towering mimosas and willows reflected from its bosom and a rich variety of fine plumage though without a song; wild geese ducks snipes flamingoes in perfect security feeding on the banks beneath the green shade or basking in the sun's rays on the verdant islands far from the fowler's snare. The swallows also mounting aloft or skimming the surface of the mirror of the stream; while the ravens with their hoarse note might be seen seeking their daily food among the watery tribe or cawing on the bending tops of the weeping willows."<br/><br/>The party leaves the river and skirts the southern edge of the Kalahari to reach Lattakoo modern-day Dithakong a traditional departure point for excursions deeper into the interior of Africa during the 19th century. Thence they headed north again stopping often to hunt for food and sport:<br/><br/>"When on the Kama plains I went one night accompanied by Tytler and Winsloe and one native to a pool of water about two miles from camp. We did not wait more than about half an hour when we heard loud lapping at the water. The natives told me 'Ronimala ' be silent 'There is a lion.' Our next visitors were two buffaloes but we did not fire lest we attract the attention of the lions. Next came three giraffes and one we knocked over on the spot and wounded another but who got away. I have seen plenty of game in my time. I saw and hunted antelope and elk on the Laramie plains and in the Meek Mountains in America before the Union Pacific RR was built. I saw quite enough of buffalo in the Smokey Hills and Montana as well as south of the Green Horn Mountains between California and Arizona but such a variety of game big game and in such number as I saw some years ago in the Transvaal & Swaziland and hereabouts now I never saw anywhere."<br/><br/>As the excursion proceeds further into the interior their encounters with native tribes increases and Anscher observes them keenly and reports with a detailed if somewhat jaded 19th-century eye:<br/><br/>"The town of Kalabeg is already in the Matabele country. Of course they have no religion of any kind for there is no such thing as natural religion. Men acquire knowledge good or bad from instruction of men with more fertile brains. This holds good all the world over. The rainmakers here hold the position of prophets and divines of the so-called civilized countries. These rainmakers who are also the doctors and sextons have great influence over the minds of the people and are held in great estimation by them superior to that of their king who is likewise compelled to yield to the dictates of this personage the rainmaker. Nothing can exceed the freaks of fancy and the adroitness with which the rainmaker can awe the public mind and lead thousands captive at his will. Each tribe has one or more of them and they generally come from other countries for a prophet is seldom honored in his own country."<br/><br/>Arriving in Shoshong in what is now central Botswana Anscher meets some missionaries and witnesses a tribal gathering which leads him to remember the religious theories of a familial acquaintance back home:<br/><br/>"Was present at a Pitsoh or native congress this forenoon held by the natives about some tribe affairs. About 12000 natives present and wound up the proceedings with a war dance. As these tribes are considered by some religious enthusiasts to be of the lost tribes of Israel not your own but ours and as your uncle once spoke to me about them while at Chicago I would therefore request you to kindly tell him to disabuse his mind on this point and that the only peg whereon the so-called lost tribe maniacs hang their argument in favor of their hobby is that the natives practice a certain custom which history attributes to our father Abraham. But this ceremony takes place instead of at the age of 7 days old when they are about fourteen years old and even when older. But they have no tradition as to why it is done. If this simple custom entitles them to be call Jews why for my part they are quite welcome to the honor. But this is about all there is to build the theory on." <br/><br/>Despite his occasionally sarcastic and somewhat disparaging demeanor toward the natives he encounters Anchser seems overall to have a decent connection with them at a personal level and to understand a basic sense of shared humanity. In one particularly poignant episode Anscher meets a mother and father who have walked 300 miles to ransom their two teenaged sons enslaved by a local chief: <br/><br/>"Neither the man's looks nor ornaments excited the smallest emotion in the bosom of the chief and when he was solicited by one who felt something of a father's love to pity the old man who had walked so far and brought his all to purchase his own children he at last replied with a sneer that one of the boys died last year and for the other he wants an ox at least. 'But I have not even a goat' pleaded the old man 'the Matabele have taken all I had and destroyed my hut.' A sigh it was a heavy sigh burst from his bosom one dead and the other not permitted to see anymore. The chief walked off while the man sat leaning his head on the palm of his hand and his eye fixed on the ground apparently lost to everything but his grief. On taking up his trinkets to retire I told him to keep up a good heart that I would try to get him his boy. He started at the sound of my voice kneeled before me and laid down his trinket saying 'take all this but get me back my boy.' I got him his boy for a colored blanket and 1 lb. of tobacco."<br/><br/>When sad and homesick Anscher recalls his time in Chicago and in the West but it is often insufficient comfort. After departing Shoshong for Tatti Anscher must leave his group to "pioneer" a trail to the settlement:<br/><br/>"On the evening of my first day's journey I had to off-saddle a term used here on a waterless plain picketed my horse and went to bed minus my supper or dinner. I awoke suddenly by something touching me on my forehead like the cold nose of a dog but I could see nothing in the dark except my horse who was laying down poor fellow. After this occurrence I could sleep no longer. My head was hot my lips parched and had no taste even for a cigarette. I daresay some of you have experienced waiting for a train early in the morning in some out of the way small RR station where moments appear like days. Well waiting there is not a patch to lying in the dark in Africa's solitude waiting for daylight to come. I tried to divert my mind and think of anything but water but I could not do it! I tried to cool myself by thinking of Chicago in the month of Feb. but that only led me to snow and from snow to water. One may as well try Ovid's 'Remedia Amoris' to cure him from hankering after the girl he loves as to try Chicago in my case as a remedy when thirsty." <br/><br/>The difficulties of obtaining food and water establishing safe camp and finding routes through minimally charted territory evident in this final passage are an ever-present theme of the expedition but Anscher eventually guided his group to their destination where they intended to stay for a month or two before heading further north to Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River. The final entries describe life at the settlement and how a Portuguese colonial explorer and administrator Alexandre de Serpo Pinto whom they met in camp would be entrusted with the present manuscript as he traveled to Namaqualand on the west coast of Africa in the hopes that it would eventually find its way aboard a ship bound for America. Pinto was a fascinating figure in his own right -- he explored the interior of Africa for Portugal in the 1860s and 1870s and after this meeting with our author became the Portuguese Consul in Zanzibar.<br/><br/>Anscher's trail goes somewhat cold after January 1884 when he relinquished control of this massive "running letter." An additional fragment of a later letter to Edith Rogalski included here forwarded via a mining acquaintance in Kimberly contains a few tantalizing details of his onward expedition including an attack on their party near Victoria Falls by a group of slavers led by "an American Negro." He was also working on a journal and taking photographs which are mentioned several times throughout this account but the survival of this other material as well as the ultimate conclusion of this expedition are not known. A wonderful unpublished account of African exploration by a seemingly unlikely and apparently otherwise unknown American character. A complete transcription of the manuscript is available upon request. unknown books‎

Referência livreiro : 1562

‎Walkowitz Abraham‎

‎Art from life to life‎

‎Girard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius 1951. Paperback. Articles by Ozenfont Van Vechten Venturi et. al. 40pp of drawings. <br/><br/>Signed on the cover. Haldeman-Julius paperback books‎

Referência livreiro : 1892