‎History‎

‎Americana Long Island Literary History Walt Whitman‎

‎Walt Whitman Birthplace Bulletin April 1959 Volume II Number 3‎

‎Brentwood Long Island N.Y.: Verne Dyson for the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association 1959. 24 4 pages of text; illustrations in black and white. Newsletter with Walt Whitman-related literary history items including Poet and Whitman by Donald Tanasoca; Letter to Walt Whitman poem by Paul C. Wermuth; The World of Whitman Music by Kenneth P. Neilson; recent Whitman items by Evie Allison Allen; Whitman-related book reviews correspondence books for sale list and more. Back pages with local advertisers who were in support of this publication. Approx. 6" x 9" size printed stapled paper covers. Light wear & soiling to the binding old crease line; tiny nick in cover at bottom edge; in very good condition and interesting Walt Whitman literary history. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Verne Dyson for the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 24985

‎Americana History Long Island Patchogue‎

‎1991 Greater Patchogue Chamber of Commerce Business Directory‎

‎Patchogue Long Island: Patchogue Chamber of Commerce 1991. 48 pages. Black and white illustrations of businesses in Patchogue current and historical; with a centerfold street map of Greater Patchogue NY and a smaller map giving public service locations with finding legend. With a detailed alphabetical by business; a directory with names addresses telephone numbers. Accountants adult homes advertising alarms aluminum architects; to welding wholesale distributors yarn and craft supplies. Several of the larger businesses have taken advertisements as well. Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" size; illustrated & printed stapled paper covers; light wear in very good condition and with interesting Patchogue Long Island business history information. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Patchogue Chamber of Commerce Paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 24609

‎Sauer Martin 1785a1806‎

‎Voyage fait par ordre de L'Impératrice de Russie Catherine II dans le nord de la Russie Asiatique dans la Mer Glaciale dans la mer d'Anadyr et sur les Côtes de L'Amérique depuis 1785 jusq'wn 1794 Par le Commodore Billings‎

‎2 volumes with Atlas. 4xxiv385 pages with xxii-xxiv lists books of voyages available from the publisher; 4418 pages with appendix containing vocabularies of the languages of Yukagir Yakut Tungoose Kamchatka the Aleutian Islands and Kadiak and inex. Atlas with title list of plates 14 engraved plates & large folding engraved map. Text volumes are small octavo 7¾" x 4½" 19th century quarter calf & boards spines tooled in gilt morocco lettering pieces; atlas is quarto 11" x 7½" in period tree calf spine tooled in gilt. Translated by J Castéra. Howes S-117 First French Edition.<br /><br />Martin Sauer was an English civil servant who knew Russian French and German. He became acquainted with Joseph Billings in St Petersburg in the 1780s. He agreed to join Billings expedition as his secretary and interpreter. It was agreed that he would write the official account but there is some controversy about his actives when he returned to St Petersburg in 1794. It has been suggested that he left hurriedly for England with much of the important archival material from the voyage including diaries and secret reports so that he could publish a record of the expedition before Russian authorities and scholars in the Academy of Sciences could review its details. Sauer's <i>An account of the Geographical and Astronomical Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia</i> was published in London in 1802. It contains an abundance of detail about eastern Siberia and the Aleutian Islands and records the expeditions visits to Kodiak Island Prince William Sound and the coast south as far as Yakutat Bay. <br /><br />The chart was made by Aaron Arrowsmith from Sauer's notes and Billings observations and the whole complements well the other contemporary accounts of the expedition by the cartographer Gavriil Sarychev and the naturalist Carl Heinrich Merck. Aaron Arrowsmith 1750–1823 was an English cartographer engraver and publisher and founding member of the Arrowsmith family of geographers. He moved to Soho Square London from Winston County Durham when about twenty years of age and was employed by John Cary the engraver and William Faden. He became Hydrographer to the Prince of Wales ca. 1810 and subsequently to the King in 1820. In January 1790 he made himself famous by his large chart of the world on Mercator projection. Four years later he published another large map of the world on the globular projection with a companion volume of explanation.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Some rubbing and wear to coves of both atlas and text volumes some chipping to spine ends small gouge at back of atlas and stamp to front end paper else in very good condition. Chez F Buisson hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : E0151

‎Titus Livius Patavinus.; Antoine de La Faye trans.‎

‎Histoire Romaine de Tite Live assavoir les trente-cinq livres restans de tout l'oeuure continue des la fondation de Rome iusques au temps d'Auguste‎

‎Geneva: Jacob Stoer 1582. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary rolled calf over wooden boards. Calf dry and degraded missing in spots wood worn at the edges with some loss. Remains of clasps; binding still quite sound. Light age toning to pages scattered creases and minor flaws generally very clean internally. Attractively printed with historiated initials head and tail pieces and a vignette portrait of Livy. 14 623 29 leaves. Adams 1355 Graesse IV 234. The first French edition of the complete Livy and a monumental work of Renaissance scholarship. It was also printed in an octavo edition by Stoer in 3 volumes also 1582 and reprinted in folio by Chouet in 1607. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045463. <br/><br/> Jacob Stoer hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 045463

‎Dr. A. L. Rowse; Ernest Fraser Jacob‎

‎ERNEST FRASER JACOB 1894 - 1971. AN ADDRESS GIVEN ON 30 OCTOBER 1971 IN CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL‎

‎1971. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. Quite a moving a beautifully crafted memorial address given by A. L. Rowse after the death of medieval scholar Ernest Fraser Jacob. Very Good binding. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 263592

‎Nuix y de Perpina Juan de 1740 1783‎

‎Reflexiones imparciales sobre la humanidad de los Españoles en las Indias contra los pretendidos filósofos y políticos. Para ilustrar las historias de MM Raynal y Robertson‎

‎lii315 pages. Octavo 8" x 5 3/4" bound in full leather with gilt lettering to spine. Translated with notes by Pedro Varela y Ulloa. Palau 196692. First Spanish edition.<br /><br />A text that engaged the well-studied debates about the natural history of the Americas and Spain's colonial history. In 1780 in Venice Juan Nuix published Riflessioni imparziali supra l'umanita degli spagnuoli nell' Indie contro i pretersi filosofi e politici. Nuix a Catalan living in Italy since the expulsion of the Jesuits wrote the book to defend Spanish colonialism and historiography against the attacks of Robertson and Raynal. It sailed by the censors in the Council of the Indies and two separate translations appeared in succession one in 1782 edited by a member of the Royal Council Pedro Varela y Ulloa and another in 1783 by Joseph Nuix Juan's brother. The Spanish edition sponsored by the crown opened with an essay by Varela y Ulloa in which he first offered a searing Critique of traditional forms of colonialism not unlike that put forth by Raynal. After describing military campaigns in foreign lands from Alexander the Great to Genghis Kahn as butcheries Varela y Ulloa went on to claim that the Spanish colonialism was unique. The crimes attributed to Spain in the Indies had been committed by private individuals who did not represent the nation as a whole and who had acted as they did while surrounded by hungry cannibals. Moreover compared with the atrocities committed by other European colonial powers the actions of the Spaniards looked like misdemeanors. Varela y Ulloa's effort to portray Spanish colonialism as unique benign captured the essence of Nuix's thesis well. Nuix's defense of the record of Spanish colonialism opened with passages that sought to bolster his credibility by stressing that he was a Catalan and that Catalans had not really participated in the Spanish colonization of the Indies so that he could not be accused of being partisan. He then articulated a five-pronged defense of Castilian colonial behavior in America seeking to demonstrate the unreliability of the sources used by Robertson and Raynal and of their interpretations. Nuix First set out to prove that charges of Spanish cruelty to Amerindians were exaggerations originally put into circulation by writers such as Las Casas whose reports on the destruction of the Indies were at the root of most foreign criticisms of Spain. According to Nuix Las Casas was of Flemish origin which explained why he had sought to undermine Spain. Las Casas also often contradicted himself Nuix argued no impartial jury could trust such "an inept" witness. Foreign historians who had echoed Las Casas's allegations were not credible either not Robertson whose moderation had prompted him to dismiss Las Casas. Robertson had selected and reinterpreted the testimony of Spanish witnesses when recounting various colonial massacres. Instead of quoting them moreover Robertson had manipulated the testimony of witnesses to depict the Amerindians as passive victims of Spanish cruelty. History was not a matter of interpretation however but of faithfully presenting the testimony of witnesses and in that respect Robertson lacked credibility. In order to prove that Spaniards in America had not behaved like greedy barbarians Nuix argued that the alleged depopulation caused by the Conquest was the product of factors outside human control. The infantile susceptibility of the natives to disease for example was why epidemics had wiped them out. The barrenness of the Americas and the idleness of the originally small number of natives had moved the conquerors to create economies based on mining and large estates. Such economies along with the foreign monopoly on colonial trade not Spanish cruelty and greed Nuix contended were responsible for having slowed both markets and population growth.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Provenance: Book plate of Alberto Parreño formerly president of the Cuban Chamber of Commerce in New York to front paste down. Spine head chipped rubbing to edges and corners very crisp internally else about a very good copy. Joachin Ibarra hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : CA0094

‎HARVARD 1904 - Fiftieth Anniversary Reunion Dinner‎

‎1954. Wraps. Cream cards. Very good. 18.5 x 14.5 cm. Folded card. Very good. Full menu with entertainment - "Songs by University Glee Club". Clean crisp copy. <br/><br/> paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 1212

‎British History‎

‎A DUTIFUL ADDRESS To The THRONE Upon The PRESENT STATE Of GT BN‎

‎London: Printed for J. Scott at the Black-Swan in Pater-Noster-Row 1756. 1st printing ESTC T53025. Disbound now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age toning. "18" inked at t.p. top right. Very Good. iv 5 - 28 pp. T.p. printer's ornament. Headpiece p. 5. 8vo. 7-3/8" x 4-7/8" <br/><br/>"The Ears of Princes like those of great Beauties are seldom blessed with the Harmony of Truth." So begins this anonymous author in his her address to George II. Printed for J. Scott, at the Black-Swan, in Pater-Noster-Row unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 48466

‎Calfornia Local History. Scott Hon. A. Lowndes Chair of Committee on Agriculture‎

‎REPORT Of The COLLEGE Of AGRICULTURE And The AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION of the University of California from July 1 1914 to June 30 1915.; University of California Publications‎

‎Berkeley: University of California Press 1915. 1st Printing cf. Gabler G9484 listing a reprint of 1921. Printed self-wrappers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning to pamphlet extremities. Light signs of use. Very Good. 2 75 2 pp. Illustrated primarily with b/w photographic images including frontis of Scott. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6-1/4" <br/><br/> University of California Press unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 45549

‎African American Music History Autographs‎

‎Andre Kostlelanetz and His Orchestra Harold Arlen's Free and Easy Blues Opera Signed By Performing Members of the Show‎

‎Bruxelles Belgium: Philips Minigroove 1959. A blues opera album; recorded "Gala Femmes d'Aujourd'hui le mardi 22 decembre 1959"; written by American composter- writer Harold Arlen 1905 - 1986 originally performed by Kostelanetz at Carnegie Hall in 1957 then taken "on the road" to Europe; with several performer signatures including: Lillian Hayman 1922 - 1994 African-American Tony Award-winning actress and singer; Norma Mae Donaldson 1928 - 1994 African-American actress and singer; Paul Harris 1917 -1985 African-American actor personnel manager and music publisher ".in the late 1950s looking for work he left the United States for Europe. He came to Paris with the cast of Free and Easy." Jet Nov 28 1968; and others signed: James Randolph F. Cowen James Randolph Charles "Smiles" Thompson Patti Boon Jacqueline Walcott; the biography "Hi-de-Hoe" the Life of Cab Calloway Shipton 2013 states that this show was not a success and ended stranding the performers in Europe after a short Paris run - Calloway had declined to be part of the production; cover texts in French; 10" Philips Minigroove record in 'shopping bag' handled illustrated cover-sleeve; no inner liner; some edge tips wear creasing and soiling to sleeve; Walcott signature faint all others very good and clear; disc not played by us to check for fidelity; in good condition. Signed By Performers. Record Album. Record Album . Good. Philips Minigroove paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 24205

‎Peck Samuel Minturn‎

‎Alabama Sketches‎

‎Chicago: A.C. McClurg 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 299 pp in publisher's silvery cloth binding decorated in black. Corners lightly bumped spine slightly sunned internals clean and sound. No dust jacket. Part of the Southern Sketches series. A.C. McClurg hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 451

‎French William Fleming.‎

‎The Right to Win‎

‎<p>INSCRIBED TO ACTRESS BEBE DANIELS</p><p>W. D. Boyce Company. First edition. 8 1/4" x 5 3/4". Full original limp green gilt stamped suede wallet edges. No jacket. Good. 94 pages.</p><p>Signed and inscribed in front free endpaper: "To Bebe Daniels whose sincerity may make her appreciate even a humble effort. Wm French."</p> Privately Printed unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 2221670

‎Americana Finance Investment History Stock Market Oregon Mining Scripophily‎

‎1895 - 1924 Collection of Stock Certificates & Related Ephemera Concerning the Investments of the Ray Brothers Primarily Concerned with Their Activities in the Rogue River Area of Oregon Mining Power and Real Estate Development‎

‎Oregon: Not Published 1895. A small archive collection of 38 stock certificates and 2 related finance-related letters; the evidence of this portfolio of investments provide the history of the financial activities of the Ray brothers - Colonel Frank H. Ray a New York investor vice-president of the American Tobacco Co. and his brother Dr. C.R. Ray who investigated various opportunities for Colonel Ray and partnered with him on several deals in the American far West as evidenced here; including Oregon related certificates: 1 1903 Gold Ray Rod & Gun Club Jackson County Oregon to C.R. Ray Bushong & Co. Portland Or. printers; 9 1909 Condor Water and Power Company Oregon made to F.H. Ray H.C. Stoddard engineer for the brothers & others Goes printer; 1911 4 Gold Ray Granite Company Medford Jackson County Oregon made out to C.R. Ray & a few associates Glass & Prudhomme Co. Portland printers; 1912 2 Lucky Tou Velle Copper Mining Company Oregon one to each Ray brother Medford OR printing company; 1912 2 Southern Oregon Mining Bureau Oregon to the Gold Ray Realty Co. Goes imprint; 1908 2 Crater Lake Company Oregon to Frank H. Ray Anderson & Duniway Portland OR printers; 1908 - 1917 5 Orchard Home Company Medford Jackson County Oregon to F.H. Ray & a few associates Glass & Prudhomme Co. Portland OR printers; Miscellaneous stock certificates including: 1 1895 United States School Furniture Company to Frank H. Ray S.D. Childs Chicago printers; 1920 8 Radio Power Corporation Delaware registry to F.H. Ray American Bank Note printers; 1905 1 The Lakewood Country Club Chautauqua County NY to F.H. Ray Albert B. King & Co. NY printers; 1916 2 Hydrocarbon Products Company Arizona to Chas. W. Turner The Broun-Green Co. NY printers with 2 pieces of related ephemera - 2 typed letters of January 1917 regarding agreement to transfer Hydrocarbon stock to a Mr. Carr via Turner & Ray - one with an interesting paragraph of explanation regarding the ".burning of the plant at Lorillard." - one is signed by Frank H. Ray and with an approval signature of Chas. W. Turner both with edgewear and old fold lines one with corner chipped the other with old clip-mark; 1924 1 Certificate of Shares for the Par Securities Corporation Delaware registry to Frank H. Ray W.N. Perrin Co. NY printers; The Ray brothers were very influential in the development of this area of Oregon: ".Besides the Rogue River Electric Company Gold Ray Dam and power houses and several hundred miles of power lines they own a number of mines and several thousand acres of land as well as choice realty in the various cities of the valley. Their latest undertaking was the formation of the Orchard Home Company the planning subdivision caring for and selling on easy terms of choice orchard tracts for the purpose of enabling men of small means in the East to acquire fruit holdings. The Ray brothers are developers on a large scale." quoted from the Medford Mail Tribune January 2 1910 pg. 10; some light wear old fold lines occasional splitting to the certificates; in very good condition and interesting real estate mining & power development history especially of this area of Oregon via this investment ephemera. . Stock Certificates. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published Paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 23205

‎Burgoa Francisco de 1605 1681‎

‎Geográfica descripción de la parte Septentrional del polo ártico de la América y nueva iglesia de las indias occidentales y sitios astronómicos de esta provincia de predicadores de Antequera Valle de Oaxac‎

‎Description:<br />2 volumes: 427 pages with facsimile title and index; 513 pages with two facsimile pages appendix and index. Royal octavo 9 1/2" x 7" bound in three quarter blue leather with raised spine bands and gilt lettering to spine. From the library of George M Foster. Second edition.<br /><br />The two chronicles by Francisco de Burgoa easily hold first place for inflated style and bombastic phraseology especially the opening remarks to various chapters. Yet for the important area of Oaxaca and the numerous subjects he treats Burgoa's works are indispensable and irreplaceable sources. Burgoa born in Oaxaca was related to numerous local colonial families. He took his final vows in 1625 and by 1649 was provincial of his Order. In that post he made a special effort to visit various parts of Oaxaca especially seeking notices of Zapotecan antiquities with the aim of writing a history of Oaxaca. Before his death in 1681he did not complete it but left two prolix yet valuable published treatises. The two chronicles are the usually abbreviated Palestra historial and Geográfica descripción. Burgoa conceived of them as a single work but they differ in contents. The Palestra historial is a typical chronicle. It begins with the arrival in 1526 of Dominicans in Mexico City and shortly thereafter their appearance in Oaxaca. Burgoa rehearses the lives of many missionaries already biographized by Davila Padilla but Burgoa emphasizes their apostolate in the Oaxaca areas even before formal establishment of the Province of San Hipolito 1592. These lives are uniformly eulogistic but scattered through them are important bits of information on the numerous Indian groups of Oaxaca. The Geográfica descripción has 80 chapters. They detail the histories of the Monasteries and the work of their friars among the Indians with much less attention to biographical detail than in the Palestra historial. The data run to about mid-17th century in both. Handbook of Middle American Indians<br /><br /> George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.<br /><br />Condition:<br />Some occasional pencil marginalia by Foster. Foster's date of acquired on front paste down of volume one. Some rubbing to extremities else a very good set. Archivo General de la Nacion hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : CA0247

‎China Business History Sports‎

‎1995-1996 Group of Business Research and Development Materials Concerning the Development of a Winter Sports Facility Baldy Mountain Resort Weihe Forest Heilongjiang China: China Ski Corporation‎

‎China & Colorado: Not Published 1995. Group of materials includes: "Baldy Mountain Resort" 2 copies development project brochure 54 pgs of very professional-appearing computer-generated color photographs of proposals for development of this skiing resort some folding information on the Asian sports market including Olympic aspirations site overview demand for skiing and golfing facilities in China resort infrastructure the 'villages' of the resort; with a "Private Placement Memorandum" of 12 illustration pages essentially the stock offering for the resort; several typed letters signed from the Colorado-based resort marketer regarding developments in the project travel by the investors to the site more; and a shorter booklet titled "Grand Opening 1995-1996 Ski Season Baldy Mountain Resort Mongolian Yurt Skiing Village" with objectives strategies tactics budget for the set-up of this possible phase of the operation; all these materials clear-covered spiral or side-post bound standard 8 1/2" x 11" size; light wear; in very good condition; interesting glimpse at the proposed development of sporting activities in China by Western venture capitalist investors. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Not Published Paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 21917

‎John Davidson and Alexander Gray‎

‎THE SCOTTISH STAPLE AT VEERE: A STUDY IN THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF SCOTLAND‎

‎London: Longmans Green and Co 1909. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Gray cloth binding titled in gold on the spine; shelfwear to the extremities including some light fraying at the corners and spine ends; bit of fore-edge foxing; neat previous owner name on the front free endpaper else contents clean and binding sound; digital images can be made available upon request. Very Good binding. Longmans, Green, and Co unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 252369

‎Sylvester F. Scovel preface‎

‎CENTENNIAL VOLUME OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF PITTSBURGH PA. - 1784-1884‎

‎Pittsburgh: Wm. G. Johnston & Co 1884. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. 259pp. No markings in text; olive cloth binding with light edge wear to extremities; some spotting on front and rear boards; book shows some wear. near Very Good binding. Wm. G. Johnston & Co unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 247824

‎Kerr Phyllis Forbes‎

‎Letters From China‎

‎Mystic CN: Mystic Seaport Museum 1996. Original red paper over boards gilt on spine. Blind stamped upper cover. Book and pictorial dust jacket condition very good. Former owner name on last postliminary. The Canton-Boston correspondence of Robert Bennet Forbes from 1838 to 1840. First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. Mystic Seaport Museum Hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : WN340291 ISBN : 0913372773 9780913372777

‎TRADE CARD H. Kingham COOK and CONFECTIONER‎

‎c. 1870's. Cards. White cards. Very good. 6 x 9 cm. Caterer's trade card. Rough Ice for Wines & Wedding Cakes Always Ready. Routs Ball suppers & Breakfasts neatly & elegantly furnished on the most reasonable terms. Cooks provided to Dress Dinners & Waiters to attend Turtles Dinners or single Dishes Dress'd and sent out. China Plate Glass & Lent on Hire. Turtle Dinners a symbol for civic dinners featured turtle served five separate ways: the calipee white belly meat clipash dark back meat fricassee soup and fins which were served in a clear madeira-flavoured broth. Ink inscription on verso. <br /> books‎

Bookseller reference : 2497

‎Dingle Edwin John‎

‎The New Atlas and Commercial Gazetteer of China. A Work Devoted to Its Geography & Resources and Economic & Commercial Development‎

‎Shanghai: North-China Daily News & Herald. Hardcover. Very good. Compiled and translated from the latest and most authoritative surveys and records by the staff of the Far Eastern Geographical Establishment." Second edition undated but 1917 or 1918. Large folio 21.25 x 15.25 inches pp 12 xi 1 88 187 xxxiii 18 with index 25 attractive colored maps in English and Chinese and many colored charts and graphs. Original embossed black cloth with beveled edges and gilt titles. Some chipping the the cloth at the spine ends and on raised bands corners rubbed through but a very good copy internally sound and clean. A fascinating and comprehensive reference providing extensive statistics on all aspects of Chinese manufacturing industry agricultural production natural resources and trade imports and exports broken down by province and city as well short write-ups on the history and principal commodities of dozens of cities and on the climate geography and mineral resources of China as a whole. There is a lengthy and most interesting list of "Commodities of the World's Commerce Compilied with Special Reference to China" that provides information on the sources and uses of such items as buffalo horns coprolites dragon's blood Ignatius beans kukui oil mangrove bark sea slugs and silkworm gut. A list of public companies in China detailing their capital profits etc. is included as an appendix and this is followed by 39 pages of ads for manufacturers shipbuilders and shipping lines insurance companies banks and import/export firms. The author was an English journalist and fellow of the Royal Geographical Society who lived in Asia for nearly two decades traveling in China India Tibet and Burma. In 1920 this book was advertised as "the only work of the kind every produced for and about China." Other works of this nature have undoubtedly been produced in the ensuing century but it is hard to imagine any could be as impressive a production as this one. North-China Daily News & Herald hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 21412

‎Cincinnati History‎

‎Garland for a City; Poems by B.Y. Williams and Annette Patton Cornell. Illustrations by Caroline Williams‎

‎Cincinnati: A Talaria Book 1946. Third Edition. Cloth. Fine/near fine. Garland for a City poems by B.Y. Williams and Annette Patton Cornell. Illustrations by Caroline Williams. Octavo 78pp. Beige cloth title in gilt on spine decorative gilt illustration on cover. Stated "Third Printing" on copyright page published in 1947. In publisher's scarce dust jacket near fine condition $3.00 retail price on front flap bright illustrations. Complete with 20 illustrations of Cincinnati landmarks with associated poems. A Talaria Book unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 2603

‎LINCOLN ABRAHAM‎

‎General Orders No. 35. By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation.‎

‎Washington: War Department Adjutant General's Office 1865. Very good. Single leaf 5 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches possibly originally issued with two leaves the second being blank. 1.5 pages of text signed in print by Lincoln William Seward and E.D. Townsend. Faint folding creases; near fine. Issued March 11 1865 this was the second of two general amnesties issued by the President during the Civil War. These proclamations were intended to bring deserters and draft evaders back into the fold and encourage loyalty to the Union. The first issued on March 10 1863 gave all deserters a full pardon with no consequences if they returned to their units by April 1. Those who did not would have their citizenship revoked and were subject to court-martial with penalties as severe as death. This second proclamation offered the same basic terms but allowed deserters 60 days to return to duty. War Department, Adjutant General's Office unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 21167

‎Juarez Benito 1806 1872‎

‎Signed Letter to Edgar Conkling of Cincinnati Dated February 26 1861 Mexico City‎

‎Mexico City 1861. Manuscript. 10.50" x 8.25. Very Good. Single page letter by Mexican revolutionary and her first constitutionally elected President. Written on laid paper with horizontal fold lines. Loss of lower left corner of sheet not affecting any content. Lightly pencilled translation attempts by a prior owner above several words. The Juarez government had recaptured Mexico City on January 1 1861 and he was elected President in the month following this letter. His declaration of a 2-year suspension of interest payments on international debts related to the Mexican Revolution led to an invasion by the French in 1862. The Juarez government's initial defeat of this force at the Battle of Puebla on May 5 1862 is commemorated annually as Cinco de Mayo. The content of this letter has not been fully translated but discusses emigration into Mexico. The paper is embossed in upper left corner "Secretaria Particular del Presidente de la Republica" Private Secretary of the President of the Republic. An early signature of Juarez acting in the role of President. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 11609

‎Osborn Chase S.‎

‎The Iron Hunter SIGNED‎

‎New York: The Macmillan Company 1922. Hardcover. Very good. Reprint first published 1919. 316 pp with frontis portrait of the author's mother. Publisher's pictorial cloth rubbed at extremities. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "To W.S. Morton with the regard and friendship of Chase S. Osborn" and with Osborne's own bookplate designed by Ralph M. Pearson on the front pastedown. Autobiography of explorer and twenty-seventh Governor of Michigan Chase Salmon Osborn 1860-1949. After running an impressive 1910 campaign that made novel use of the automobile while Governor Osborn "eliminated Michigan's deficit ended corruption and produced the state's first workmen's compensation law and a reform of the electoral process. His autobiography reflects the energy and enthusiasm of a reformer inspired by the Progressive Movement but it also reveals the poetic spirit of an adventurer who fell in love with Michigan's Upper Peninsula after traveling the world" Wayne State University Press. The Macmillan Company hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 20468

‎Perry Matthew Calbraith 1794 1858‎

‎Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan Performed in the Years 1852 1853 and 1854 under the Command of Commodore M.C. Perry United States Navy by Order of the Government of the United States‎

‎3 volumes: xvii1537 pages with 90 lithographs plates including the usual expunged bathing plate many in color including 3 "facsimiles" of Japanese woodblock prints 2 folding; 6 maps and charts 2 folding; 79 woodcuts in the text; 2414414-1xi pages with 4 color lithographs of Chinese scenes; 2 uncolored natural history engraved plates; 6 hand-colored lithographs of birds; 10 hand-colored steel-engravings of fish; 5 lithographs of shells 2 hand-colored; 16 diagram plates of winds and currents; 14-page facsimile of Japanese language version of the U.S.-Japan treaty; 17 folding charts on 16 sheets; numerous woodcuts in the text; xliii17051 pages woodcut star charts throughout. Volume III titled "United States Japan Expedition. Observations on the zodiacal light from April 2 1853 to April 22 1855 . by Rev. George Jones A.M. chaplain United States Navy". Quarto 11½ x8 ¾" bound in the original blind stamped cloth. Volume 1 rebacked with the original cloth spine laid down. Hill 1332; Sabin 30968 First edition of the House Issue.<br /><br />Detailed and profusely illustrated account of Perry's expedition to open Japan to the West; Upon his return to the U.S. his chief duty for the following year was to compile his reports of the expedition aided by Francis Hawks. The first volume has the account of the voyage and lithographs of the travel; the second volume has the natural history reports by D.S. Green and others and includes hand-colored plates of Japanese fishes and shells. In addition to the artist W. Heine from whose drawings a great number of the lithographs were made the daguerreotypist E. Brown Jr. went on the expedition taking what were undoubtedly the earliest photographic images of Japan many of them reproduced lithographically in this work. This copy with the nude bathing plate which was not included on the list of plates and not issued in all copies. <br /><br />In advance of his voyage to the Far East Commodore Perry read widely amongst available books about Tokugawa Japan. His research even included consultation with the increasingly well-known Japanologist Philipp Franz von Siebold who had lived on the Dutch island of Dejima for eight years before retiring to Leiden in the Netherlands. In 1852 Perry embarked from Norfolk Virginia for Japan in command of a squadron in search of a Japanese trade treaty. Aboard a black-hulled steam frigate he ported Mississippi Plymouth Saratoga and Susquehanna at Uraga Harbor near Edo modern Tokyo on July 8 1853. His actions at this crucial juncture were informed by a careful study of Japan's previous contacts with Western ships and what could be known about the Japanese hierarchical culture. He was met by representatives of the Tokugawa Shogunate who told him to proceed to Nagasaki where there was limited trade with the Netherlands and which was the only Japanese port open to foreigners at that time. Perry refused to leave and demanded permission to present a letter from President Millard Fillmore threatening force if he was denied. Perry ordered his ships to attack several buildings around the harbor to demonstrate US naval power. The Commodore was fully prepared for more hostilities if his negotiations with the Japanese failed and threatened to use unrestrained fire if the Japanese refused to negotiate. He sent two white flags to them telling them to hoist the flags when they wished a bombardment from his fleet to cease and to surrender. Perry's ships were equipped with new Paixhans shell guns capable of wreaking great destruction with every shell. The Japanese military forces could not resist Perry's modern weaponry; the term "Black Ships" in Japan would later come to symbolize a threat imposed by Western technology. Perry returned in February 1854 with twice as many ships finding that the delegates had prepared a treaty embodying virtually all the demands in Fillmore's letter. Perry signed the Convention of Kanagawa on March 31 1854 and departed mistakenly believing the agreement had been made with imperial representatives. The agreement was made with the Shogun the de facto ruler of Japan. On his way to Japan Perry anchored off Keelung in Formosa modern day Taiwan for ten days. Perry and crew members landed on Formosa and investigated the potential of mining the coal deposits in that area. He emphasized in his reports that Formosa provided a convenient mid-way trade location. Formosa was also very defensible. It could serve as a base for exploration as Cuba had done for the Spanish in the Americas. Occupying Formosa could help the US to counter European monopolization of the major trade routes. President Franklin Pierce declined the suggestion remarking such a remote possession would be an unnecessary drain of resources and that he would be unlikely to receive the consent of Congress. When Perry returned to the United States in 1855 Congress voted to grant him a reward of $20000 in appreciation of his work in Japan. Perry used part of this money to prepare and publish a report on the expedition in three volumes titled Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan. He was also advanced to the grade of rear-admiral on the retired list when his health began to fail as a reward for his services in the Far East.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Wear and fading to cloth first volume rebacked; large map detached several others with stub tears and splitting to folds; light foxing else good to very good. A O P Nicholson hardcover books‎

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