Jessup Judge William Committee Chair. Lincoln Abraham 1809 1865 Selected Candidate
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN PLATFORM Adopted by the National Republican Convention Held in Chicago May 17 1860
Chicago: Press & Tribune Office 1860. Reproduction ca 1955. Mounted on stiff card stock. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning. 1 cm discoloration spots in margin corners glue. Small paper snag to top edge of upper margin. A Very Good copy. Broadside. Patriotically themed wood engraving in masthead. 13-15/16" x 8-15/16" 35.5 cm x 22.8 cm. <br/><br/>The 1860 Republican National Convention met in Chicago Illinois from May 16 to May 18. The convention selected former Congressman Abraham Lincoln of Illinois for president and Senator Hannibal Hamlin of Maine for vice president. The platform of 17 declaration of principles was drafted by the Platform Committee chaired by Judge William Jessup of Pennsylvania the entirety of which was adopted by the convention members verbatim save for the insertion in the Second clause of famous language from the Declaration of Independence that "All men are created equal; and they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights." Regarding the platform 10 clauses dealt directly with the issues of free soil principles slavery the Fugitive Slave Act and the preservation of the Union while the remaining 7 dealing with other issues. Clauses 12 through 16 of the platform called for a protective tariff enactment of the Homestead Act freedom of immigration into the United States and full rights to all immigrant citizens internal improvements and the construction of a Pacific railroad. In addition to the preservation of the Union all five of these additional promises were enacted by the Thirty-seventh Congress and implemented by Abraham Lincoln or the presidents who immediately succeeded him. Wiki. In a presumed later printing of the platform we find added after the 17th declaration a Supplementary Resolution not present on our copy but present on one held by the Clements wherein the Committee expresses its sympathies "with those men who have been driven . and are now exiled from their homes on account of their opinions; and we hold the Democratic Party responsible for this gross violation of that clause of the Constitution which declares that the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States." The original is quite rare known in but a few copies. The one here offered was apparently reproduced in the mid-20th C as it is accompanied by a 1955 letter from the LoC to a Mr Chester Arthur of Oakland acknowledging receipt of a "copy of the recently published reprint of the original broadside containing the Republican Platform of 1860 which is in your possession.” Even in this mid-20th C. reproduction this platform a rare & important document. in which it guides and outlines the philosophy "all men are created equal" policies "True to the Union" & direction "Slavery . is a dangerous political heresy" for the United States as well as its future president Abraham Lincoln at the beginning of one of the nation's most turbulent times. Press & Tribune Office unknown books
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Franzblau Abraham N
EROTIC ART OF CHINA
New York. Crown Publishers. 1977. A unique collection of Chinese Prints and Poems devoted to the Art of Love. unknown books
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BOSSE ABRAHAM 1602 1676
La Virilité. From the Four Ages of Man
Le Blond 1636. Etching. A good impression on paper without a watermark. Trimmed just showing the platemark all around. 259mm x 324mm. G.D. 1080 Blum 154 only state Paris/Tours 2004 No. 128. unknown books
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Abraham F. Murray Donald Kuspit and Stanley I. Grand
Don Perlis: New York Now
New York: Denise Bibro Fine Art 2016. Paperback. VG. Glossy color-illustrated wraps with white lettering. Unpaginated. Color illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition from February 11 to March 26 2016. Denise Bibro Fine Art paperback books
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
President Lincoln Vouches for a Maryland Unionist Congressman
<p>"<i>I esteem Gov. Francis Thomas as an able and very true man. I do not know that he agrees with me in everything—perhaps he does not; but he has given me evidence of sincere friendship & as I think of patriotism.</i>"</p> <b>ABRAHAM LINCOLN.</b>Autograph Letter Signed to Robert C. Schenck May 31 1863 Washington D.C. 1 p.<p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Complete Transcript</b></p><p><i>Private</i></p><p><i>Executive Mansion</i></p><p> <i>Washington May 31 1863.</i></p><p><i>Major Gen. Schenck</i></p><p><i>Baltimore Md.</i></p><p> <i>I have been requested to say what I very truly can that I esteem Gov. Francis Thomas as an able and very true man. I do not know that he agrees with me in everything—perhaps he does not; but he has given me evidence of sincere friendship & as I think of patriotism.</i></p><p><i>Yours truly</i></p><p><i>A. Lincoln.</i></p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>Lincoln had served in Congress together with fellow Whig Robert C. Schenck in the 1840s and made Schenck a Major General at the beginning of the war. Severely wounded at the Second Battle of Bull Run in August 1862 Schenck was given command of the Middle Department. He firmly supported the Unconditional Unionists from his headquarters in Baltimore and despite the necessity of tact in the politically sensitive border state of Maryland had little tolerance for middle ground.</p><p>In July 1861 Secretary of War Simon Cameron with the president's encouragement had authorized Thomas to raise four regiments of loyal citizens from western Maryland for the protection of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. A month later Thomas recommended and Lincoln endorsed three officers for the 1st Maryland Regiment Potomac Home Guard.</p><p>In early September 1862 Thomas sent Lincoln a lengthy private letter: "Our acquaintance is very limited…and it may be presumptuous in me to write this letter." Nevertheless he continued "In my humble judgment <u>all</u> the evils now threatening seriously the utter ruin of the country are to be traced to the error consumatted in the organization of your Cabinet. There is not so far as my knowledge extends at the head of any one of the Departments a single individual who has come into your Administration under the right influences…" "Now I have watched with the deepest anxiety" Thomas informed Lincoln "all or nearly all of your difficulties have their origin in the fact that you have Presidential aspirants in your cabinet and Presidential aspirants in your own party outside of your cabinet all of whom have their partisans in the Senate and House of Representatives." The "vast interests at stake" demanded that Lincoln reorganize his cabinet and announce his own candidacy for reelection.</p><p>Two months later Lincoln's cabinet crisis reached a boiling point when Radical Republican senators demanded Secretary of State William H. Seward's resignation. Lincoln called the senators to a meeting with every member of the cabinet except Seward who had offered his resignation. Lincoln asked if the cabinet had freely debated issues and offered input before important decisions were made. The cabinet agreed that they had. Chase who had painted a picture to the senators of Seward and Lincoln running roughshod over the cabinet was cleverly chastened and offered his resignation. Lincoln refused the resignations of Seward and Chase thus maintaining intact his now famous "team of rivals" and keeping the senate at bay.</p><p>Despite his criticism Thomas was also supportive. On April 23 1863 he was one of the speakers at a mass meeting of Unconditional Union men of Allegany County Maryland. Thomas "accorded to President Lincoln the purest motives and a patriotic determination to crush the rebellion and restore peace and prosperity to the country. He said that power and responsibility must rest somewhere and that he was willing to confide in the President and sustain him to the fullest extent in carrying out the measures adopted by Congress for prosecuting the war. He spoke of the emancipation proclamation of the President as a retaliatory measure for the confiscation acts of the southern conspirators and said it was a war measure calculated to subdue the rebels who had raised the standard of rebellion without any justifiable cause."</p><p>Despite the unsolicited advice and criticism Lincoln offered this honest testimonial. It isn't clear if this answered a request of Thomas or a mutual contact or if Lincoln wrote it to send Thomas with his own purpose in mind. In mid-April Schenck who had a reputation for ham-handed harshness ordered at least eight persons charged with "using treasonable language" or "disloyal practices" in Baltimore to be exiled to the South. Less than a week later he had two newspaper editors from smaller towns in Maryland sent South for "having published treasonable articles." On May 28 three days before Lincoln penned this letter Schenck and Maryland Governor Augustus W. Bradford visited Pennsylvania Governor Andrew G. Curtin in Harrisburg to discuss "the more effectual protection of the southern borders of Pennsylvania and Maryland against any further incursions of rebel cavalry." Schenck and the two governors then left for Washington. Within a month the entire Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was in Pennsylvania heading for a conflict at Gettysburg.</p><p>In mid-July 1863 a few weeks after writing this private letter Lincoln told his secretary John Hay that General Henry W. Halleck "thinks Schenck never had a military idea & never will learn one. however you may doubt or disagree with Halleck he is very apt to be right in the end."</p><p>Schenck resigned from the army in December 1863 after again winning election to Congress. On the other hand Lincoln maintained his trust of Thomas.</p><p>On July 5 1864 Confederate General Jubal Early crossed the Potomac River at Harper's Ferry with a corps of the Army of Northern Virginia aiming at Washington. General Lew Wallace's determined resistance near Frederick Maryland delayed the advance by a day providing defenders in Washington critical time to prepare. After the Confederate army withdrew into Virginia on July 14 Major General David Hunter ordered the provost marshal in Frederick to arrest "all male secessionists with their families" and force those who had given "undue sympathy" to the Confederates to sell their furniture for the benefit of Union families who had lost possessions during the incursion and to seize the sympathizers' houses for government use. By August 1 Major John I. Yellott had placed twenty-three southern sympathizers and their families under house arrest.</p><p>On August 3 Lincoln ordered the Secretary of War to suspend Hunter's order and have Hunter send a report of the charges against each individual. Hunter requested to be relieved of command a wish that was soon granted.On August 13 Thomas protested to fellow Marylander and Postmaster General Montgomery Blair writing that the arrests of "quiet inoffensive citizens who have not publicly given by words or acts encouragement to the enemy cannot but be mischievous." The President asked Thomas to investigate.</p><p>In September Thomas reported back. With the exception of two already discharged and two others charged with "a grave offence" who "ought to have an opportunity to establish their innocence" Thomas recommended that the President order the release of all the others on the list. Thomas followed up later that year reporting that specific charges had been made against only John W. Baughman an editor of the <i>Republican Citizen</i>newspaper in Frederick who had been sent South and against John Ruck and Isaack Ruck who were like the others on the list still under arrest at their homes in Frederick. On January 21 1865 Lincoln ordered all but Baughman discharged.</p><p>Lincoln's unmatched ability to take advice from all sides and to work with capable men whose own ambitions sometimes conflicted with Lincoln's views is reflected in our letter.</p><p><b>Robert C. Schenck</b> 1809-1890 was born in Ohio and graduated from Miami University in 1827. He received a master's degree in 1830 studied law under Thomas Corwin and gained admission to the bar in 1831. He moved to Dayton Ohio and opened a successful law practice. After serving in the state legislature he represented his district in Congress from 1841 to 1851 when President Millard Fillmore appointed him as U.S. Minister to Brazil. Schenck served there until 1853. In 1859 he gave perhaps the first public endorsement of Lincoln for the Presidency in a speech in Dayton. At the beginning of the Civil War Lincoln commissioned Schenck as a brigadier general and he served in both Battles of Bull Run and in the 1862 Valley Campaign. He was wounded at the Second Battle of Bull Run and held an administrative post in Maryland while recovering. He resigned his commission in December 1863 after election to Congress where he served again until 1871. President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him as U.S. Minister to Great Britain a position he held until 1876 though his involvement in an American mining scandal left him thoroughly discredited.</p><p><b>Francis Thomas</b> 1799-1876 was born in Frederick County Maryland attended college in Annapolis and was admitted to the bar in 1820. He began a practice in Frankville in western Maryland and served in the state legislature in 1822 1827 and 1829. From 1831 to 1833 he served in the U.S. House of Representatives. Thomas served as governor of Maryland from 1842 to 1845 but his term and political future was marred by his public and contentious divorce from his much younger wife Sally Campbell Preston McDowell the daughter of the governor of Virginia.Thomas was a strong opponent of slavery which was unusual in a border state like Maryland. Defeated for reelection in 1844 he served in the state constitutional convention of 1850. He was again elected to Congress in 1860 serving until 1869 as a Unionist an Unconditional Unionist and then a Republican. From 1870 to 1872 he was collector of internal revenue for Maryland and then U.S. Minister to Peru from 1872 to 1875. He was killed when struck by a locomotive near his estate in Frankville.</p> books
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Steel Plate Engraving. Lincoln Abraham 1809 1865. Schell Frederick A. b. 1838. Artist. Walter Adam. B. 1820 1875 E
LINCOLN FAMILY
Philadelphia: Published by John Dainty 1865. Age-toning to engraving with some discoloration sections to margins especially to left. Minor wear to frame. Very Good. Oval image sepia toned 8" x 6-1/8". Period black oval wood frame 13-7/8" x 11-5/8" <br/><br/>Full-length group portrait of Abraham Lincoln and his family. Mary Todd Lincoln and the president are seated left to right with Robert Todd standing behind them and Thomas to Lincoln's right. A portrait of William Wallace Lincoln hangs on the wall. Published by John Dainty unknown books
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Lincoln Abraham 1809 1865; Garfield James Abram. 1831 1881.; McKinley William 1843 1901 Subjects. Bancroft George 1
MEMORIAL ADDRESSES DELIVERED BEFORE The TWO HOUSES Of CONGRESS On The LIFE And CHARACTER Of ABRAHAM LINCOLN JAMES A. GARFIELD WILLIAM McKINLEY
Washington: Government Printing Office 1903. 1st collected edition Monaghan 1402. Original publisher's pebbled brown cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to front board. TEG. Cloth somewhat dull. Some extremity wear. A VG copy. 246 pp. Each section prefaced with an engraved image of the slain president. Tissue guards. Small folio: 12-5/8" x 9-5/8" <br/><br/> Government Printing Office hardcover books
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Cookery Book. 'By Smith & Swinney Chemists Etc.' Smith L. M. Lincoln Abraham 1809 1865; Johnson Andrew Subjects
The HOUSE - KEEPER'S GUIDE And EVERYONE'S HAND - BOOK: Containing Over Five Hundred New and Valuable Recipes. bound with PORTRAITS & BIOGRAPHIES Of The LEADING MILITARY And NAVAL OFFICERS Of The UNITED STATES Including Those of Presidents Lincoln and Johnson
Cincinnati Ohio: Wrightson & Company Printers 1868. 4th Edition Thirty-Fifth Thousand Wheaton & Kelly 2996. Not found in Axford. Cf. Monaghan 734 for the 1865 1st printing of Biographies. Original publisher's green cloth spine over printed buff paper-wrapped boards. Average wear to binding. Prior owner signature to ffep. A VG copy. 96; 2 46 pp. 2nd title illustrated with 19 bust portrait wood engravings. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 4-7/8" <br/><br/>Uncommon recipe book first published in 1865 with this 4th edition adding "a large number of new ones never before made public .". Wrightson & Company, Printers hardcover books
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Colonial Currency. Field John; Usher Abraham; Meredith Charles Signers
FIFTY SHILLINGS NOTE. According to an Act of General Assembly of Pennsylvania passed in the 13th Year of the Reign of his Majesty Geo. the Third. Dated the First Day of October 1773. Fifty Shill. To Counterfeit is Death. No. 7668
Pennsylvania: Hall and Sellers 1773. 1st printing. Buff printed paper. Expected wear to paper age-toned and faint horizontal crease. Some black ink worn to red three owner's signatures to front side. Very Good. Single sheet of paper printed both sides. Engravings to both sides of the note. 3-5/8" x 2-7/8" <br/><br/> Hall and Sellers unknown books
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Lincoln Abraham. 1809 1865 Subject. Sutphen Rev. Morris Crater. 1837 1875
DISCOURSE On The DEATH Of PRESIDENT LINCOLN Late President of the United States Preached in the Spring Garden Presbyterian Church Philadelphia . April 16th 1865
Philadelphia: Jas. B. Rodgers Printer 52 & 54 North Sixth Street 1865. 1st printing Monaghan 757. Limited to 750 cc. INSCRIBED by the author at the top of the front wrapper. Printed grey paper wrappers. Age-toning to wrappers. A VG copy. 19 1 blank. 9-1/16" x 5-7/8" <br/><br/> Jas. B. Rodgers, Printer, 52 & 54 North Sixth Street unknown books
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Lincoln Abraham 1809 1865. Gernon Blaine Brooks
LINCOLN In The POLITICAL CIRCUS. Being a Study in Summary and Outline of Abraham Lincoln's Political Relationships with his Constituency Including the Background of Slavery Men Factions & Parties Together with Hitherto Unpublished State Election Tables and a Classified Bibliography
Chicago: The Black Cat Press 1936. 1st edition Monaghan 3515. Limited to 1000 cc. Grey cloth binding. Yellow dust jacket. VG/VG spine a bit darkened/slight chipping at spine ends/pc. 258 2 pp including Index. Frontis of Lincoln after a portrait by John Doctoroff. 8vo. <br/><br/> The Black Cat Press hardcover books
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Lincoln Abraham. 1809 1865. Lind Michael
WHAT LINCOLN BELIEVED. The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest President
New York: Doubleday 2005. 1st edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. A Fine copy in a similar dust jacket. 10 358 pp including Index. 8vo. <br/><br/> Doubleday hardcover books
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Lincoln Abraham. 1809 1865. Beveridge Albert J.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 1809 - 1858. Standard Library Edition. In Four Volumes
Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1928. 1st edition Howes B408; Monaghan 2999. Original publisher's vertically-ribbed blue cloth bindings. Gilt-lettered black leather title labels to spine. TEG. A VG set slight lean/some modest wear/pos. 4 volumes. Illustrated with plates. Royal 8vo. <br/><br/>"Most thorough." - Howes. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
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Lincoln Abraham. 1809 1865. Gerry Margarita Spalding
The TOY SHOP. A Romantic Story of Lincoln the Man
New York: Harper & Brothers 1908. 1st edition Monhaghan 1582. Grey cloth with pictoral paste-on to front board. VG avg wear/some rubs to paste-on/bpt & owner sig to ffep. 51 pp frontis 12mo. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover books
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Cowley Abraham 1618 1667
The WORKS Of MR. ABRAHAM COWLEY. Consisting of Those Which Were Formerly Printed: and Those Which He Design'd for the Press. Now Published Out of the Authors Original Copies
London: Printed by J. M. for Henry Herringman 1674. The Fourth Edition NCBEL I 1219; Wing C-6652. Period full leather binding. Lacks title label to spine. Binding - Gd worn with rounded corners/old repair to front joint. Text - VG. 42 41 1 80 = 78 skipping pp 59/60 text continuous 4 70 154 23 1 148 pp. Divisional dated titlepages. Frontispiece of Cowley by Faithorne. Headpieces. Folio: 1 a - c4 B - 3C4 3D2 2A - S4 T2. 11-7/8" x 7-1/2" <br/><br/> Printed by J. M. for Henry Herringman hardcover books
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Trumper Max and Abraham Cantarow
BIOCHEMISTRY In INTERNAL MEDICINE
Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders 1932. 1st edition. Green cloth binding. Overall VG section of spotting/dampstain to lower edge of rear board. 454 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> W. B. Saunders hardcover books
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Lincoln Abraham. 1809 1865. Shaw Albert
ABRAHAM LINCOLN In CONTEMPORARY CARICATURE
n. p.: The American Monthly Review of Reviews n. d. Ca 1909. Cf. Monaghan 1361n. Buff card stock wrappers stapled. Front wrapper onlay of early Lincoln photographic image Meserve 8 reprint of Fish 852 as cited in Worldcat entry. VG discrete repair to lower edge of front wrapper. Unpaginated though 12 pp. 38 period cartoons reproduced in half-tone. Laid-in facsimile. Textual commentary accompanies as well as the original cartoon caption. Folio. 11-1/2" x 8-3/4" <br/><br/>The work shows Lincoln primarily during the 1860s as he was perceived by the populace at least as expressed through these political cartoons. The 'Review' drew upon the files of Harper's Weekly Frank Leslie's as well as the London Punch and Currier & Ives poster cartoons of the era. Uncommon. The American Monthly Review of Reviews unknown books
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Lincoln Abraham. 1809 1865. Randall J. G.
MID-STREAM. Lincoln the President
New York: Dodd Mead 1952. 1st edition. Blue cloth binding. Dust jacket. VG/VG spine panel sunned/minor wear/old tape reinforcement on dj verso. 467 pp including index. Illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/> Dodd Mead hardcover books
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Lincoln Abraham. 1809 1865. Morrow Honore W.
The LAST FULL MEASURE
New York: William Morrow 1930. 1st edition. Black cloth binding with gold lettering. Yellow dust jacket. VG slt lean/Abt VG some edgewear & soiling/cup rings on front panel. 340 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/>A novel centered on the last days of Lincoln's life. William Morrow hardcover books
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Rodriguez Jr. Abraham
SPIDERTOWN. A Novel
NY: Hyperion 1993. 1st edition. Black cloth spine with black paper-wrapped boards. Dust jacket. F crease to rfep/F. 323 pp 8vo. <br/><br/>Author's first novel. Hyperion hardcover books
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Soyer Abraham
The ADVENTURES Of YEMINA.; Introduction by Peter Beagle
NY: Viking 1979. 1st edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. F/NF. 70 pp. Illustrated by Ralph Soyer. 8vo. <br/><br/> Viking hardcover books
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Abraham Pearl
The ROMANCE READER. A Novel
NY: Riverhead Books 1995. 1st edition. Signed. Green cloth spine with green paper-wrapped boards. Dust jacket. NF/NF. 296 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Riverhead Books hardcover books
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Lincoln Abraham and William Seward.
The Present Condition of Mexico. Message from the President of the United States in answer to resolution of the House of the 3d of March last transmitting report from the Department of State regarding the present condition of Mexico.
Washington. : Government Printing Office. 1862 . Publisher’s brown blindstamped cloth gilt spine title. . Good plus damp spotting to front cover spine title faded ink name to pastedown light toning to some pages. 23x15 cm. . A collection of correspondence regarding Mexican foreign relations. Mexico was of concern to the United States due to the French intervention and installation Maximilian and the prospect of a Confederate alliance with Mexico. weight: 1.5 lb. (Government Printing Office). hardcover books
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ABRAHAM RICHARD D. AND SANNOSUKE YAMAMOTO
JAPANESE FOR MILITARY AND CIVILIAN USE
Philadelphia: David McKay 1944. Color pictorial dust jacket showing American planes attacking a ship presumably Japanese. Crisp and clean throughout. Contents include a map of Japan basic principles of spoken Japanese basic conversation a large appendix Japanese-English and English-Japanese dictionaries. 159pp. First Edition. Green Cloth. Light Edge Wear./Chipped Dust Jacket. Small Octavo. David McKay Hardcover books
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Verghese Abraham MD. M. D.
Cutting for Stone
Westminister Maryland U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a fine dust jacket. First Edition stated on the copyright page. Original price of $26.95 printed on the front flap. Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc hardcover books
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Lincoln Abraham
Speeches and Writings 1832-1858
New York New York U.S.A.: The Library of America 1989. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Published in New York by The Library of America in 1989. First Thus third printing. A collection of Melville's masterpieces. Book fine. No DJ as issued. Book comes in publisher's very good slipcase. The Library of America hardcover books
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Verghese A.;Verghese Abraham
The Tennis Partner: A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss
Scranton Pennsylvania U.S.A.: Harpercollins 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a fine dust jacket. First edition stated on the copyright page with a full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Original price of $25.00 printed on front flap of dust jacket. Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Harpercollins hardcover books
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Verghese Abraham
Cutting for Stone: A novel
U.S.A.: Knopf 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition as stated by copyright page. Original price of 26.95 on dust jacket. Fine book and Fine DJ. U.S.A.: Knopf hardcover books
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN. GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
The Gettysburg Address – November 20 1863 Rare First Day Printing by “Lincoln’s Dog†John Forney in the Philadelphia Press
<p>"<i>The brave men living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract…</i>"</p><p>Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is on page 2 along with Edward Everett's entire speech and a report on the ceremonies. Printed in an important newspaper owned by John Forney this version is in some ways more accurate than the more widely spread Associated Press report.</p> <b>ABRAHAM LINCOLN. GETTYSBURG ADDRESS.</b>Newspaper <i>Philadelphia Press</i> Philadelphia November 20 1863. Complete 4 pp. approx. 20¼ x 28 in.<p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>John Wien Forney</b> 1817-1881 had been a Democrat whose support for President James Buchanan brought appointment as clerk of the House of Representatives and lucrative printing contracts. However after Forney lost his election bid for the U.S. Senate he started the anti-Buchanan Philadelphia <i>Press</i> and switched to the Republican Party in 1860 becoming a key Lincoln supporter. Forney again served as House clerk and then secretary of the Senate until 1868. In that position he was one of only four men to sign the official 13th Amendment Resolution: President Lincoln Vice President Hamlin Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax and Forney writing "I certify that this Resolution originated in the Senate." At the same time he maintained his editorial "Letter from Occasional" column in the <i>Press</i> and established the Washington <i>Chronicle</i> aimed at the public and to soldiers in the Army of the Potomac. He interviewed the President on issues such as freedom of the press and the probable effects of the Emancipation Proclamation and was invited to consult about cabinet appointments. His White House access caused opponents to call him "Lincoln's dog."</p><p>The night before the Gettysburg Cemetery Forney got "roaring drunk and gave a violently pro-Lincoln speech" Boritt. Given that history he probably should not have been chosen to chaperone newly-elected vice president Andrew Johnson at the March 4 1865 inauguration; Johnson was widely criticized for his drunken performance there. After Lincoln's assassination and Johnson's veto of the Freedman's Bureau Act in 1868 Forney changed positions and campaigned for impeachment. Selling the <i>Chronicle</i> and returning to Philadelphia the chameleon-like editor switched back to the Democrats and started a weekly magazine <i>The Progress</i>. In addition he served as a director of the Texas & Pacific Railway.</p><p><b>Partial Transcript:</b></p><p>"<i>Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Applause Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a general battle-field of that war; we are met to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this but in a larger sense we cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. Applause The world will note nor long remember what we say here but it can never forget what they did here. Applause. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. Applause. It is rather for us here to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion. That we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain. Applause That the nation shall under God have a new birth of freedom and that the Government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth. Long applause. Three cheers given for the President of the United States and the Governors of the States…</i>"</p><p><b>Textual Differences</b></p><p>The speed with which printings were produced given 19th century communication issues and the lack of any official manuscript or text produced questions about Lincoln's exact words. This version includes the word "poor" in the line "<i>far above our <b>poor</b> power to add or detract.</i>" This was heard by some reporters and is present in both of Lincoln's drafts though is lost in most other contemporary printings. This version correctly quotes Lincoln's "<i>unfinished work</i>" which the AP incorrectly transcribed as "refinished work." The applause notations also differentiates the <i>Philadelphia Press</i> version from the AP report especially with the three cheers at the speech's conclusion.</p><p>Additional differences:</p><p>- The "<i>general battle-field of that war</i>" is the "great battle-field of that war" in the AP text.</p><p>- "<i>We are met to dedicate</i>" is "We have come to dedicate" in Lincoln's written copies.</p><p>- "<i>carried on</i>" is found here and in Lincoln's second draft but Lincoln used "advanced" in subsequent versions: "<i>have thus so far</i> so <i>nobly</i> carried on advanced"</p><p><b>Other Contents of the Paper</b></p><p>Page 1 starts with a column of advertising ie "<i>Cotton is not king yet.-I am selling linen sheetings at prices that are cheaper than cotton.</i>" The news begins with a report from Chattanooga: "<i>We lost 100 a fourth of whom were killed. The enemy had completely invested the place but Gen. Burnside will defend it to the last man … Our troops are in the best spirits. Every import point is fortified and confidence prevails that we shall whip the enemy out.</i>" Also reports from Charleston Atlanta Cumberland MD Harpers' Ferry VA Texas etc. A report via Baltimore on November 19th carries "most gloomy" news from Union prisoners at Richmond ending "these men must not be permitted to starve." A New York bank was rumored to have been robbed of $20000.</p><p>From Europe there's notice of a speech of Emperor Napolean III the differing interpretations as to whether it called for peace or war. There are reports of war like preparations in Russia.</p><p>An interesting notice: "<i>A slander on Mr. Lincoln refuted.-The remark said to have been ascribed to President Lincoln by Wendall Phillips to the affect that 'the greatest folly of his life was the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation' out of which such Copperhead journals as The World and The National Intelligencer are attempting to make political capital is emphatically pronounced in high quarters to be all together untrue.</i>"</p><p>Column 4 starts the extensive reporting on the National Cemetery at Gettysburg dedication including a "documentary history on the battles of July" and General Meade's letter sending his official report on the battle.</p><p>Column 5 discusses the grounds of the cemetery and starts Edward Everett's two hour oration which on page 2. Transcriptions include the prayer the dirge after the dedication the consecration speech by Charles Henry Brock and more.</p><p>Page 2 column 5 has more foreign news re Japan Britain Napoleon III's war with Mexico etc. Column 8 includes lengthy reports on battles in Tennessee and Virginia "half of Lee's army reported to be falling back to Richmond." At the bottom a <i>Boston Journal</i> description of some of Confederate firebrand Robert Toombs' slaves is republished.</p><p>Page 3 includes advertisements list of arrivals at hotels the offering of about 200 million dollars in treasury notes and the "five-twenty" six percent loan with Jay Cooke as subscription agent.</p><p>Page 4 includes a report from New York on the raising of colored troops and a notice about Professor McCulloh "who recently left a professorship in Columbia College … suddenly turned up in the south as Confederate brigadier general. He's said to be a native of Baltimore and a graduate of Princeton College. The <i>Pittsburgh Commercial</i> says that several years ago he was a professor of mathematics and natural sciences in Jefferson College Pennsylvania and was subsequently connected with the Coast Survey and the Philadelphia Mint."</p><p>More political news includes from a Western newspaper a platform "said to have been adopted by Ohio and others elsewhere since the elections: "<b>Resolved That we air in favur uv subjoogashen emansipashen confiscashen taxashen conscripshen exterminashen nigger enlistments and f there is anything else the peeple desire let em write post-pade and weel pass the necessary resolushen.</b>"</p><p>Reports from Philadelphia including police account of an attempted murder by a deserter who was passing counterfeit money a case of concealed deadly weapons and an arraignment of a women for running a "disorderly house". Plus Philadelphia financial reports "gold was much excited today and rose to 153 ½" p 4 col 3.</p><p>This is a scarce large format paper.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Some archival tape repairs on front page which we will have removed by a conservator.</p> books
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Lincoln Reads the Emancipation Proclamation to His Cabinet
<p>An engraving by Alexander Hay Ritchie commemorates the moment Lincoln first presented the Emancipation Proclamation to his Cabinet.</p> <b>ABRAHAM LINCOLN.</b>Print. <i>The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet</i>. Engraved by Alexander Hay Ritchie after 1864 painting of Francis Bicknell Carpenter. New York: Alexander H. Ritchie 1866. 36 x 24 in.<p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Francis Bicknell Carpenter</b> 1830-1900 a New York artist was so impressed with Lincoln's bold act that he recruited Illinois Congressman and abolitionist Owen Lovejoy to arrange a White House sitting. Carpenter met Lincoln on February 6 1864 and was allowed to set up a studio in the State Dining Room. Carpenter set his painting in Lincoln's office which also served as the Cabinet Room. Lincoln reportedly told Carpenter where each person was seated on the day he read them the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. The artist was delighted that their placement was "entirely consistent with my purpose." To the left of Lincoln were Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton and Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase the most radical members of his cabinet. A portrait of former Secretary of War Simon Cameron is also on the left of the painting. To the right of Lincoln around the table are Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles Secretary of the Interior Caleb Smith Secretary of State William H. Seward Postmaster General Montgomery Blair and Attorney General Edward Bates the more conservative members of Lincoln's advisers. Lincoln sat at the head of the table between the two groups "but the uniting point of both" according to Carpenter.</p><p>After a temporary exhibit in the White House and Capitol in 1864 the fifteen-foot wide painting toured the country. Carpenter offered the painting to Congress which refused to make an appropriation for it. In 1877 Elizabeth Thompson of New York purchased the painting for $25000 and offered it to the nation. Congress formally accepted the gift on the sixty-ninth anniversary of Lincoln's birth. It hangs in the U.S. Senate. In 1866 book Carpenter also published a book <i>Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln</i>.</p><p>This lithographic print by Scottish-born <b>Alexander H. Ritchie</b>1822-1895 captured and popularized Carpenter's painting before Carpenter made a series of alterations to the original most significantly in revising Lincoln's head and moving the quill pen from near Seward to in Lincoln's hand.</p><p>The National Portrait Gallery has a ledger page signed by Lincoln Stanton Chase Seward Wells and other members of Lincoln's administration ordering proof copies of Ritchie's print.</p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>On July 22 Lincoln read a draft of his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation to his entire cabinet. In contrast to the Confiscation Acts of 1861 and 1862 the Emancipation Proclamation addressed only property in slaves and liberated all slaves in areas in rebellion not only those of rebellious masters. At Seward's urging Lincoln agreed to withhold announcing it until the Union forces had achieved a victory so that it did not appear especially to European observers to be the desperate act of a losing war effort.</p><p>Two months later when Union troops stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's invasion of Maryland at Antietam Creek Lincoln finally had his opportunity. On September 22 1862 Lincoln issued his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation giving the South 100 days to end the rebellion or face losing their slaves. On both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line Lincoln's order was condemned as a usurpation of property rights and an effort to start racial warfare.</p><p>When the South failed to acquiesce Lincoln as promised issued the final Emancipation Proclamation on January 1 1863. With this Executive Order he took a decisive stand on the most contentious issue in American history redefined the Union's goals and strategy and sounded the death knell for slavery. The full text of his proclamation reveals the major issues of the Civil War: slave labor as a Confederate resource; slavery as a central war issue; the status of African Americans who escaped to Union lines; courting border states; Constitutional and popular constraints on emancipation; hopes of reunion; questions of Northern acceptance of black soldiers; and America's place in a world moving toward abolition. The President took the action "sincerely believed to be an act of justice" knowing that it might cost Republicans in the fall 1862 elections.</p><p>The final Proclamation showed Lincoln's own progression on the issue of slavery and eliminated earlier references to colonizing freed blacks and compensating slave owners for voluntary emancipation. It also added provisions for black military enlistment. Pausing before he signed the final Proclamation Lincoln reportedly said: "I never in my life felt more certain that I was doing right than I do in signing this paper."</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Toned and slightly cropped.</p> books
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Lincoln Abraham; Wills Garry; McCurdy Michael Illus.
THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
Boston MA.: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good. 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. This book is hard-bound in tan paper covered boards with gilt stamping to the upper cover with a gilt stamped blue cloth spine in a dust jacket with light soiling and a few small stain spots to the upper panel. The covers show light rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with illustrations. This book is signed/inscribed by the illustrator Michael McCurdy on the title-page. From the collection of Cuthbert Christian Thambimuttu 1945-2019 of Columbus Ohio - known to many of his bookseller author and illustrator friends as "Tubby." He was persistent in the pursuit of autographed books by the writers and artists he admired including Gorey Sendak Heaney Byatt Morrison Updike and many more. Joseph Heller once wrote to Tubby in response to one more "please sign and return" request: "This is turning out to be a hell of a lot of work!" All signed books unconditionally guaranteed to be authentic. Many of the books are inscribed to both Cuthbert and his great friend of more than two decades Antonia Gale Moss. ; Signed by Illustrator . Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
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Abraham a S. Clara.
Judas der Ertz-Schelm für ehrliche Leuth ; oder Eigentliche Entwurff und Lebens-Beschreibung dess Ischariotischen Bösswicht.
Zug. : Muosischen Druckerey. 1687. Contemporary vellum. . Good covers soiled front hinge split old repair to preliminaries at gutter moderate foxing throughout old library marking to preliminaries a little light mostly marginal dampstaining. . 4to. 20.5x15.5 cm. . German text. Uncommon Zug edition of a popular work. Woodcut frontis with arcane illustration of demons dancing around a hanging Judas. Muosischen Druckerey. hardcover books
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Abraham Bryin and Liza Hirst
Karl Otto Gotz
Frankfurt am Main: Die Galerie 2014. Hardcover. VG. Color-illustrated boards with white lettering. 119 pp. Mainly color illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition from September 11 - November 8 2014. Text in German and English. Die Galerie hardcover books
Referência livreiro : 170527 ISBN : 3925782834 9783925782831
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Bredius Abraham
Jan Steen. Met honder platen in photogravure
Amsterdam: Scheltema & Holkema's Boekhandel 1927. VG repair to entire spine where the leather cleanly split from front cover at outer hinge tips worn through but edges clean and mostly unscathed. Full burgundy leather heavy embossed and gilt fill to covers and spine. Top edge gilt. 110 pp. profusely illustrated with 100 large photogravure style plates. A stunning example of Dutch bookbinding from the 1920s. Text is in Dutch. A very fine bookbinding designed by C.A. Lion Cachet 1864-1945. Rare. Shipping weight is 24 pounds. Scheltema & Holkema's Boekhandel hardcover books
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Messler Abraham DD
The Importance of Cherishing Domestic Feeling in Our Church : a sermon preached before the classis of New Brunswick at their semi-annual session at Grigstown April 2d 1845 and published by their order
New York: Daniel Fanshaw Printers 1845. Original Edition not a reprint. Paperback. Fair. Complete but with covers detaching soiling to covers and foxing to pages. Pages corners curled. No extraneous marks. Green wraps with black lettering. 40 pp.; no illustrations. Cover title reads "Dr. Messer's Discourse on Domestic Feeling." Important to New Brunswick NJ and the Reformed Church in America. Daniel Fanshaw (Printers) paperback books
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Adler Abraham M. and Norman Hirschl et al.
The Hirschl and Adler Galleries Collection of Morgan State College
Baltimore: Murphy Fine Arts Center Gallery 1964. Paperback. VG-. Some shelf wear; some pencil writing on cover and first page. Otherwise contents are clean and tight. Small gray stapled wraps with white lettering. 12 pp. 4 BW illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition held from November 1-25 1964. Murphy Fine Arts Center Gallery paperback books
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Lincoln Abraham and Roy P. Basler Editor
Abraham Lincoln : His Speeches and Writings
Franklin Center Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1979. Leather bound. Fine. Clean crisp tight unread copy. Grey leather/boards; gilt decoration all around. Three raised bands to spine with gilt lettering on crimson title block. AEG. Silk moire end papers with matching satin place-holder ribbon. xxxiv 636 pp. with bw frontis by George H. Jones. From the series The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature a limited edition collection published under the auspices of The American Revolution Bicentennial Administration by The Franklin Library. With a preface by Carl Sandburg. The Franklin Library hardcover books
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Walkowitz Abraham
A Demonstration of Objective Abstract and Non-Objective Art With Introductions by Oscar Bluemner Jerome Mellquist Charles Caffin Sidney Janis James Johnson Sweeney and Henry McBride
Girard KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications 1945. Hardcover. VG exceptional copy but covers are off. Brown boards. 42 pp. 30 bw plates. This volume consists mostly of reproductions of the artist's work with several introductions as mentioned in the title a brief biography and a foreword by the artist. Haldeman-Julius Publications hardcover books
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Milgrome Abraham David
The Art of William Merrit Merritt Chase
University of Pittsburgh 1969. Softcover. VG- Ex-gallery with spine label and few interior marks; photocopy does not include the 150 illus. in the original document. Dissertation. Photocopied from micofilm by UMI. Black paper wraps 229 leaves no illus. Dissertation. Analyzes chronologically the life and work of American artist William Merritt Chase 1849-1916. Addresses the artist's importance at the time of his death. Includes the text of two unpublished speeches by Chase. Unfortunately the accompanying illustrations were not included in the copying process. University of Pittsburgh paperback books
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Kamberg Abraham
Modern German Prints Lent by the Kamberg Collection
Springfield MA: George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum 1952. Softcover. Fine interior; covers solid and clean but with sunning and foxing. Cream stapled wraps with bw illustration and black lettering. 8 pp. with no illus. Catalogue from the exhibition of October 5-29 1952. Introductory text about modern German art the Blue Rider group etc. by the collection's owner Abraham Kamberg and comments by M. Louise Lochridge the museum's director. A catalogue of more than 100 prints by 52 artists listed in alphabetical order. George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum paperback books
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Kamberg Abraham
Modern German Prints Lent by the Kamberg Collection
Worcester MA: Worcester Art Museum 1954. Softcover. Fine interior; covers solid and clean but with sunning and foxing. Cream stapled wraps with bw illustration and black lettering. 8 pp. with no illus. Catalogue from the exhibition of May 16 - October 13 1954. Introductory text about modern German art the Blue Rider group etc. by the collection's owner Abraham Kamberg and comments by George L. Stout the museum's director. A catalogue of more than 100 prints by 59 artists listed in alphabetical order. Worcester Art Museum paperback books
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Davidson Abraham A.
Ralph Albert Blakelock
University Park PA: Pennsylvania State University Press 1996. Hardbound. VG/VG. Rust cloth with black color-illustrated dustjacket. xviii 246 pp. 27 color and 142 bw plates. An authoritative and original presentation of research and historical perspective on Blakelock and his art. Well-illustrated. Pennsylvania State University Press hardcover books
Referência livreiro : 122789 ISBN : 0271015047 9780271015040
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Abraham Swan; Arthur Stratton Ed
Interior Decoration of the Eighteenth Century Woodwork Wall-Treatments Staircases Chimneypieces and other details
London: John Tiranti & Co 1928. Revised edition. Hardcover. Good only ex-library with expected marks. additionally all plates are marked with a library ink stamp. wear and soiling to cloth including fraying at corners and spine ends. feps slightly chipped at edges. slight dampstain to very outer edge of pages. hinges loosening . Grey cloth. Foreword and table of contents followed by 64 bw plates. Oversize. Selection of reprint plates drawing from Swan's works 1 The British Architect of the Builders Treasury of Staircases 2 A Collection of Designs in Architecture 3 Designs in Carpentry or the Carpenters Complete Instructor and 4 Designs for Chimnies. John Tiranti & Co hardcover books
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Hammacher Abraham Marie
Marino Marini: Sculpture Paintings and Drawings
New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc 1970. Hardcover. VG- Pages have aged but consistently; plates are still vivid; front cover is slightly bowed; dj is near perfect. Crimson cloth boards with white stamped lettering maroon DJ with color illus. 328 pp. 315 illustrations 63 tipped-in in full color. In English. From the DJ: The more than 300 superb reproductions demonstrate Marini's mastery in bronze wood plaster stone cement and terra cotta as well as in oil tempera watercolor gouache ink and pastel. The illustrations also include some important documentary photographs of the artist at work and with family friends and colleagues. Harry N. Abrams, Inc hardcover books
Referência livreiro : 128965 ISBN : 0810902745 9780810902749
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Wallenstein Abraham
Jews and Germanism
New York: George H. Doran Company 1917. Softcover. VG clean and tight. Ivory stapled wraps with black lettering and 14 pp. Wallenstein ponders the plight of the Jews newly under German rule particularly those in Poland the Ukraine and the Baltic States formerly part of the Russian Empire. George H. Doran Company paperback books
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Hughes Donald Anselm and Gerald Abraham eds.
Ars Nova and the Renaissance 1300-1540
London: Oxford University Press 1977. Hardbound. Good with a few ex-lib. marks and fading to cover edges but otherwise text is very clean and tight. Blue cloth with gold lettering; 565 pp. with 7 bw plates and 207 musical figures. Volume 2 in The New Oxford History of Music series; a completely in-depth study of the Ars Nova Contintental music English polyphony and instrumental music. Oxford University Press hardcover books
Referência livreiro : 112010 ISBN : 0193163039 9780193163034
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Abraham Gerald ed.
The Age of Humanism 1540-1630
London: Oxford University Press 1979. Hardbound. Good with a few ex-lib. marks and fading to cover edges but otherwise text is very clean and tight. Blue cloth with gold lettering; 978 pp. with 9 bw plates and 402 musical figures. Volume 4 in The New Oxford History of Music series; a completely in-depth study of the French Chanson 16th-century madrigals German secular song solo song and cantata continental Latin church music Protestant music instrumental music music and drama and early Italian opera. Oxford University Press hardcover books
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Remshard Abraham
Schraubthaler Depicting the Expulsion of the Entire Protestant Community from Salzburg in 1731
Amsterdam 1732 or 1733. The panorama or concertina was made we believe in 1732 or 1733 or close to that date. The silver "shraubthaler" or outer casing we assume was made separately at a later date but not long afterward. <br /><br /> books
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BOSSE Abraham
Die Kunst in Kupfer zu stechen sowohl vermittelst des Aetzwassers als mit dem Grabstichel: ingleichen die sogenannte schwarze Kunst und wie die Kupferdrucker-Presse nach ietziger Art zu bauen und die Kupfer abzudrucken sind ehemals durch Abraham Bosse gewesenen königl. Kupferstecher in Paris etwas davon heraus gegeben; jetzo aber aufs neue durchgesehen verbessert und um die Hälfte vermehret auch mit neunzehn Kupfertafeln versehen; aus dem Französischen ins Deutsche übersetzt.
Engraved frontis.; eight engraved vignettes and head- & tailpieces 19 finely engraved plates most folding & some engravings in the text. 18 p.l. 254 36 pp. of index & errata. Thick 8vo 160 x 105 mm. late 18th-cent. marbled boards extremities a little rubbed & worn. Dresden: C. G. Nitzsche 1765. An important German edition of Bosse's Traité des manières de graver en Taille douce 1st ed. in French: 1645 considerably augmented for the German audience. This work was translated and published by Carl Gottlieb Nitzsche from the 1745 Cochin edition. The Cochin edition was the first to promote etching with hard etching-ground vernis dur instead of the soft etching-ground vernis mol to imitate line engraving. It also featured long sections on Le Blon's color printing and the refining of mezzotint illustration. In the present book we find four illustrations of the rolling press which Cochin had updated to account for several design upgrades. There are also several diagrams and cross-sections of printing presses. This book is richly illustrated with plates and vignettes executed by Carl Gottfried Nestler 1730-80 that depict various techniques equipment and the interiors of print shops. Nestler reworked the engraved title-page from the 1645 first edition for this book's frontispiece. A very good copy internally fresh. Unidentified engraved bookplates with the initials "G. F." on front and rear paste-downs. ❧ Benezit Dictionary of Artists Vol. 10 p. 258 Nestler. hardcover books
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Cowley A. Abraham
ODE UPON THE BLESSED RESTORATION AND RETURNE OF HIS SACRED MAJESTIE CHARLS CHARLES THE SECOND
London: Printed for Henry Herringman 1660. Hardcover. Very good/No dust jacket. London: Printed for Henry Herringman 1660. title page 19 pp. Hardcover. 4to. Bound in red cloth covered boards. "Ode Cowley" stamped in gilt on the front board. All edges dyed red. Signatures: A-B4 C-C3 A A3 A4 B2 B4 C3 unsigned. Light wear to boards with small patch of rubbing on spine. Corners slightly bumped. Pages have been trimmed leading to loss of text on title page top half of "Ode" page 9 most of the final line of text and the second set of page numbers near the top margin of each page. A small section at the lower margin of the final three leaves has chipped away not affecting text. Previous owner and bookseller notations on added ffep. Inked note on title page. With faults as noted quite good. Very good/No dust jacket. Cowley 1618-1667 a poet and sometime diplomat/secretary to Queen Henrietta Maria wife of Charles I may have worked as a spy for the royalists during the late Cromwell era. His collections "The Mistress" 1647 and "Poems" 1656 were immensely popular during the poet's lifetime. MacLean writes of this piece "Cowley's Ode is highly figurative blending biblical and classical allusions with motifs from astrology and medicine. Highly dynastic in argument the poem is structured as a royal entry in which the king other members of the royal family Monk and members of the two houses of parliament mingle with allegorical personifications of Liberty Plenty Riches Honour and Safety. Along the way Cowley notices the slightly embarrassing absence of Henrietta Maria who had stayed behind in France having become estranged from Charles as a result of her Catholicism." Samuel Johnson who made Cowley his first subject in "The Lives of the Poets" wrote that he had been "at one time too much praised and too much neglected at another." A lovely example of Restoration-era political verse. ESTCR202041; Wing 1994 C6677; Pforzheimer 229. Insurance required to ship this item. Printed for Henry Herringman hardcover books
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