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[Chinese Pith Paintings] In the school of Sunqua
A 36-leaf album of Chinese export pith paintings of Birds Shells and Chinese life
Canton: SunQua Studio 1830. Silk covered boards. The 12 bird images are full page finely done with grass rocks and flowers with shrubs or trees. Unusually the half page images are mounted on the verso of the sheets of bird images. The half page images include collections of shells 4; women playing musical instruments 8; men sitting a scribe man smoking butcher melon fish and vegetable sellers and a few of the punishment images. <br /> <br /> Oblong 4to 8 1/4 x 13 1/4". Leaves mounted with to paper leaves with an unusual paper border with a purple circle pattern on pale background paper. Chinese style binding opening from the back of the album. Bound in a green gold blue and red silk woven in a daisy pattern which sometimes appears with a Sunqua stamp. Without background painting. The first image with some cracking but not affecting the characters some slight browning. Most in very good condition. SunQua Studio unknown
Référence libraire : 27903
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[Chinese Tea]
The Story of Tea with Hand Paintings
No Place: No publisher 1920. Very Good. No Place No publisher circa 1920s. Small octavo a 27-panel leporello comprising the title page and 12 watercolours on silk each approximately 130 × 90 mm each facing a page of descriptive letterpress in both English and Chinese. Wooden boards with the Chinese character 'fú' engraved on the front cover; top and bottom edges gilt; one fold splitting at the foot; pastedowns a little cockled; minimal foxing; in excellent condition. One of several editions of this pictorial promotional publication outlining the various stages of tea production picking sorting roasting and packing with text in Chinese and English. The book does not contain any bibliographical information but comparison with other examples suggests a date around the early or middle parts of the Republican Era. No publisher unknown
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[CHURCH AND STATE BY THE OWNER OF THE GREAT MAP OF CHINA] SELDEN, JOHN
The Historie of Tithes. That is the practice of payment of them. The positive laws made for them. The opinions touching the right of them. A review of it is also annext which both confirmes it and directs in the use of it.
London.: No pubisher. 1618. 6 xxii 12 491 5 pages title page printed in red and black dedication preface contents references errata 18.4 x 14.8 cms endpapers renewed with the original front endpapers laid down aged-toned and chipped title-page toned and a little faded upper corner chipped with the inked owners' inscription of Thos. Bryan Richards 1798 and Wm. Cooke early inked marginalia and underlining; contemporary hollow-backed vellum manuscript author and title on the spine tidemark to the lower corner of the text leaves affecting the margin only a good sound copy. First edition of an antiquarian classic by John Selden 1584-1654 eminent jurist polymath prolific scholar and in recent times celebrated for his ownership of the earliest surviving Chinese merchant map of East Asia re-discovered with justifiable fanfare as a treasure of the Bodleian Library by Robert Batchelor in 2008. <br> <br>At the time of its release Selden's "The History of Tithes": "gave great offense to the clergy and was vigorously refuted in a number of volumes to which Selden was forbidden the right to print replies" Pforzheimer. It has been noted that the absence of the printer's name and the place of publication showed that Selden anticipated an unfavourable reaction to his denial of divine right of tithes. He was not disappointed. The work was suppressed and Selden was forced to apologize for having given offense-- and the book was withdrawn from circulation. His work was much studied: this copy with early marginalia: "by this Historie the Right of tithing belong not to ye profession of ye Canonist Civilian or Divine but with Lawyers." the last three words hastily crossed out. <br> <br>Early owners include London Antiquary Thomas Bryan Richards whose extensive Library was sold by King & Lochée in 1812. . [No pubisher, hardcover
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[Church of the Subgenius]
Help Me Somebody! It's The Janor Device Original flyer for the 1989 nightclub performance
San Francisco: Klub Komotion 1989. Vintage flyer for a performance by Janor Hypercleets and The Band That Dare Not Speak Its Name at Klub Komotion in San Francisco on Wednesday May 17 1989.<br /> <br /> Performance artist Hypercleets also known as Hypercleats and The Band That Dare Not Speak Its Name were proponents of The Church of the Subgenius a parody religion founded in the 1970s which satirized American popular culture and was frequently embraced by artists and the counterculture.<br /> <br /> Klub Komotion was a popular punk and alternative San Francisco nightclub located at 2779 Sixteenth Street during the 1980s and 1990s.<br /> <br /> 8.5 x 11 inches. Four small pinholes to the lower half else Near Fine. Klub Komotion unknown
Référence libraire : 159579
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[Cinema / Rock n Roll / The Beatles] CONNOLLY, Ray
That'll Be The Day. Press Book Exhibitors Campaign Book and Synopsis
No place UK 1973. Movie Memorabilia Press book for the MGM film That'll Be The Day written by Ray Connolly. Sole printing. 36 x 23cm. A four-page brochure providing advertising and details of accessories / tie-ins. Together with four-page colour film synopsis 26 x 19cm giving cast and credits and film story. Some soiling to fold Press Book synopsis is fine. A British coming of age musical drama set in the late '50s starring musicians David Essex and Ringo Starr with guest appearances by Billy Fury and Keith Moon. The Beatles road manager Neil Aspinall helped assembled the holiday camp band appearing in the film. An accompanying soundtrack featuring vintage hits by Bobby Vee Jerry Lee Lewis Little Richard Dion The Everly Brothers Del Shannon and Ritchie Valens topped the UK album charts. The film's success led to a sequel Stardust 1974 with David Essex and Keith Moon reprising their roles joined by Adam Faith Marty Wilde Dave Edmunds and a young Ray Winston in his first film appearance. No place (UK), 1973 unknown
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[CIRCLE OF THE GRAHAME FAMILY]
"New Zealand ferns collected for Miss Grahame by her friends at Hazelbank Auckland 1860"".
Auckland New Zealand : s.n. 1860. Handmade album. Octavo 190 x 120 mm the covers taken from a copy of The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott Edinburgh : A. & C. Black 1857 of limp tan cloth with decoration in blind and gilt device to front and rear; the book's original pastedowns and endpapers intentionally preserved the front free-endpaper with a mounted presentation label inscribed in ink in a neat hand: 'New Zealand ferns collected for Miss Grahame by her friends at Hazelbank Auckland 1860' followed by 28 loose sheets with pressed native fern specimens mounted recto only each accompanied by a handwritten caption identifying the specimen by its correct botanical name; the skilfully mounted and knowledgeably labelled specimens with very occasional minor loss the paper mounts with a minimal amount of foxing but overall the contents remarkable well preserved. This charming ""do-it-yourself"" Auckland album represents by far the earliest collection of New Zealand ferns we have handled. Although pteridomania - or fern fever - was undeniably already a phenomenon in the colony in the 1860s the album pre-dates by at least a decade for example the appearance of the first commercial souvenir albums by such specialist preparators as Eric Craig and Thomas Cranwell. The specimens in this album were clearly selected for their aesthetic appeal the majority being particularly delicate and skeletal-like. We believe that the young woman to whom the album was presented by her friends identified only as Miss Grahame is likely to have been a daughter of Auckland merchant Walter Grahame. Walter's brother the wealthy and influential William Smellie Grahame had already returned to England with his own family by 1858. ""Hazelbank"" was the name of a property in Wynyard Street Auckland which was later owned by MÄori businesswoman and philanthropist Mary Geddes. It is now the home of the Elam School of Fine Arts University of Auckland. hardcover
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[CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE GLOBE by the CORVETTE AURORA]. [BOSQUET, Victor].
Die Reise S.M. Corvette "Aurora" nach Brasilienen und den La Plata-Staaten in den Jahren 1884-1885.
Vienna: Carl Gerold's Sohn 1885. Contemporary half brown cloth with the original publisher's printed wrappers mounted on the boards. Large 8vo. With 3 lithographed folding maps one coloured showing the route of His Majesty's Ship Aurora along the east coast of South America. First edition of an account of the 8-month expedition to circumnavigate the globe in 1884-1885 by His Majesty's Ship Aurora a vessel launched by the Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Navy to Brazil and the Río de la Plata basin. This voyage commanded by Victor Bosquet was primarily intended as practical training for naval cadets but also helped to facilitate the trade between South America and the Austro-Hungarian Empire as well as political and economic interests.On 27 August 1884 the corvette Aurora sailed from Pola to Gibraltar and further via St. Cruz on Tenerife to Bahia. After a short stay of about ten days the Aurora sailed to Rio de Janeiro also passing some other places to Buenos Aires and from there via Montevideo back to Pernambuco. Thereafter the Aurora sailed back to Pola via São Miguel Ponta Delgada and Gibraltar reaching Pola's central port on 25 April 1885.The present account drawing on the reports of the commanders of the Aurora paints a detailed picture of its voyage including some hydrographic navigational and meteorological observations. These are also included in the more descriptive navigational part of the voyage. Moreover it includes some information on the places where they anchored including Bahia Pernambuco Rio de Janeiro and many more. Die Reis S.M. Corvette "Aurora" was published separately and as an appendix to volume 10 of the hydrographical journal of the Austrian-Hungarian Navy Mittheilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens. Altogether a highly interesting official record of the Austro-Hungarian circumnavigation of the globe via Brazil and the Río de la Plata basin and a great source of information for the Austro-Hungarian navys trading expeditions to this region.With the library stamp of the Royal Danish maritime library "Marinens Bibliothek" on the front wrapper a stamped subject indication on the front paste-down "Sørejser. b. 1884-1886" "Sea voyages ." and an inscription in ink "Reise" on the front wrapper. Wrappers on the boards a little browned spine a little discoloured with some tears on the folds of the first lithographed map not affecting the image but otherwise in very good condition.l Borba de Moraes p. 707; WorldCat 743212274 & 780852276 3 copies. Carl Gerold's Sohn, hardcover
Référence libraire : ABC_47212
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[CIVIL RIGHTS] SEAY, The Reverend Solomon Snowden
I Was There By The Grace of God
Montgomery Alabama: The S.S. Seay Sr. Educational Foundation 1990. Stated First Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's white rexine titled in gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket. xii; 297pp 1pp Biographical information to rear. Bumping to corners and spine ends some soiling of the white boards here and there in a scuffed and rubbed dustjacket with some creasing to edges and some areas of loss most notably the upper right corner of the front panel and a small triangle of loss to the rear panel. The printing process used for the dustjacket seems to have resulted in a very easily scuffed and rubbed end result with the majority of copies of this title showing signs of this. Internally clean with a lengthy gift inscription to the pastedown from Nathaniel and Karen Jackson of Montgomery Alabama along with a list of contact numbers for members of the Jackson family. A very good copy in a dustjacket that shows wear without surrendering durability. <br /> <br /> The Reverend Seay was a prolific activist for civil rights in Alabama beginning with his attempts in 1949 to support a young African-American woman in her case against two Alabama police officers whom she accused of rape. A few years later Seay was indicted along with 88 other activist protestors for his involvement in the Alabama Bus Boycott and in 1960 he was once again indicted for his support of the Committee to Defend Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Freedom in The South and their part in the March 1960 New York Times full page advertisement entitled "Heed Their Rising Voices. The S.S. Seay, Sr. Educational Foundation unknown
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[Civil War] [United States Congress] Welles, Giddeon (Secretary of the Navy)
Armored Vessels in the Attack on Charleston. Letter From the Secretary of the Navy In Answer to Resolutions of the House and Senate in relation to the operations of armored vessels employes in the service of the United States
Washington DC: House of Representatives. Wraps. Fair. Disbound wraps. xvi 607 pages. Illustrated with three folding plans a few maps and illustrations. Missing spine. Pages 593-607 are detached. Interior contents are clean. This is a detailed report on the Union use of Armored vessels around Charleston Mississippi River and Vicksburg from 1861 to early 1864. House of Representatives unknown
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[Civil War] [Norfolk, VA] [Gideon Wells, Secretary of the Navy]
Destruction of the United States Vessels and Other Property at Norfolk Virginia. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy Transmitting In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of July 16 1861 the correspondence relative to the destruction of the United States vessels and other property at the navy yard at Norfolk Virginia. July 23 1861
Washington DC: House of Representatives 1861. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Stitched wraps. 18 pages. Title on page 1. Light soiling to the title page. Interior contents very clean. This contents of this report range in date from April 10 to April 25 1861. The first letter dated April 10th Welles gives an order to get the steamer "Merrimack" ready for voyaging from Norfolk to Philadelphia Navy Yard for safety. House of Representatives unknown
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[Civil War – Massachusetts – Death and Burial] Trustees of the North Sudbury Burying Ground
Notice to Stone Layers / Proposals will be received on FRIDAY the 17th instant at the / North Sudbury Burying Ground / for laying about 25 rods of wall around the addition to said ground
Concord Massachusetts: Benjamin Tolman 1863. Printed broadside 11 ¼ x 10 inches. Some tearing at folds very good. A straightforward but telling piece documenting the expansion of a Massachusetts burying ground during the American Civil War signed in type by three trustees of the North Sudbury Burying Ground. As casualties mounted and remains were returned to hometowns existing cemeteries were frequently enlarged with new land enclosed and improved by contract. The specification of “25 rods†over 400 feet of wall indicates a substantial addition typical of mid-war efforts to increase capacity in established town burial grounds rather than create entirely new sites. Sudbury contributed roughly 150–170 men to Union service of whom approximately eleven died a scale of loss consistent with small Massachusetts towns and sufficient to register locally in burial and memorial practices. We find no other records of ephemera or broadsides relating to Civil War-era cemetery expansion. This notice is not at AAS. Benjamin Tolman unknown
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[Clarke, Harry] The Committee of the Irish National War Memorial
Ireland's Memorial Records 1914-1918 Being the Names of Irishman Who Fell in the Great European War 1914-1918 compiled by The Committee of the Irish National War Memorial with decorative Borders by Harry Clarke.
2003. Reprint of the original edition from 1923. 8 Volumes complete set. Uckfield The Naval & Military Press 2003. Folio. 3200 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The price for this heavy set includes worldwide free shipping per Courier ! In the early 1920s £5000 of the National War Memorial funds were spent collecting the records of all the fallen and publishing them in Irelands Memorial Records. One hundred copies of the eight-volume set were printed for distribution through the principal libraries of the country.The printing decoration and binding of the volumes was carried out by Irish artists and workers of the highest reputation and efficiency. The most remarkable feature of the volumes are the beautiful symboic borders designed by the artist Harry Clarke best-known for his work in stained glass. Contained in the eight volumes are the details of over 49000 fatal casualties. The men and women commemorated either served in Irish Regiments or were born or were resident in Ireland at the time of their death and were serving with units from Britain and its empire. The principle information given for each person whereas being similar to Soldiers Died in the Great War quite often contains additional facts such as age and elaboration on how killed etc. For example the entry died of wounds received in Sinn Fein Rebellion has been noticed. Details of pre-war medal entitlement and other odd facts occasionally occur. This is the only publication to bring so many of the Great War dead from Ireland together in order that they may be individually and collectively honoured and remembered. Here is a unique opportunity to own one of the rarest sets of memorial books ever published which have never been available for sale to private individuals. Source: Naval & Military Press Release paperback
Référence libraire : 110310AB ISBN : 184342584X 9781843425847
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[Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold - Film Poster]
Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
Warner Bros. 1975. Single sided printed poster approximately 690mm x 1040mm in size. Slightly creased from old folds with some light abrasion to image along those folds and a couple of Japanese tissue repairs to reverse but generally quite bright and clean. Directed by Chuck Bail and starring Tamara Dobson wearing some fantastic outfits. First Edition. Unbound. Good. US One Sheet. Poster. Warner Bros. Paperback
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[Cluver, M J; Tho Klumpf] (Eds); Johann Frick the younger (Prolegomena by)
Pantes prophētai: kata tous hebdomēkonta Prophetae omnes Ex Versione Septuaginta Interpretum Cum Libris Apocryphis . Hē palaia diathēkē kata tous Hebdomēkonta Vetus Testamentum Graecum Ex Versione Septuaginta Interpretum Cum Libris Apocryphis juxta exemplar Vaticanum Romae editum & Anglicanum Londini excusum. Accesit Novum Testamentum juxta Oxoniensem editionem recusum Cum parallelis Scripturae locis & variantibus lectionibus quae e plurimus manuscriptis & impressis codicibus studiose collectae sunt. Omnia accuratissime ad fidem optimorum codicum emendatius quam unquam antea expressa
Lipsiae Leipzig: Sumptibus Joh. Christophori Königii 1697. First edition. Hardcover. f to vg. Octavo 8 x 5 1/2". 20 9-56 2 1099 the following pages are misnumbered 2000-2099 3000-3018 i.e 1218 186 8 447 1pp. Original full vellum with handwritten title to spine. Title pages in red and black lettering. Publisher's device on title pages. Added title facing main title page: PantAes Prophhtai kata tous hevdomēkonta Prophetae omnes ex versione Septuaginta interpretum cum libris Apocryphis .; New Testament last 447 pp. has separate title: Tēs Kainēs Diathēkēs Apanta. Novi Testamenti libri omnes. Accesserunt parallela Scripturae loca nec non variantes lectiones ex plus 100. MSS. codicibus . The sequence of 186pp. between the Old and New Testaments has the following caption title: In Sacra Biblia Graeca ex versione LXX. interpretum Scholia; simul et interpretum Caeterorum : lectiones variantes. Decorative headpiece tailpieces and initials. <br /> <br /> "Though inferior to the London and Amsterdam editions in beauty of execution this work is very far superior to them in point of correctness. The prolegomena of John Frickis prefixed to it contain a critical notice of preceeding editions of the Septuagint Version which is said to be very accurate" see Thomas Hartwell Horne's "A Manual of Biblical Bibliography" Page 44 Nr. 9.<br /> <br /> "The LXX. was printed from a copy of the London edition of 1653 which follwed the Sixtine text. This was collated with the Aldine edition and the variants found in that and in the Frankfort edition of 1597 which closely followed the Aldine are noted in an appendix. <br /> <br /> The New Testament text is printed from Fell's edition of 1675 No. 4711 in Darlow and Moule but the variant readings are relegated to an appendix. In the N. T. the references are printed immediately below the verse to which they belong.<br /> <br /> The Prayer of Manasses and a prologue to Ecclus which are not found in the Sixtine edition are apparently taken from an edition by J. A. Fabricius 1691 and appended to the Apocrypha.<br /> <br /> An engraved headpiece depicting Fridenstein appears before Genesis; a similar engraved headpiece depicting Altenburgum before Matthew and a coat-of-arm with the motto "Amore et prudentia" before Isaiah." See: Darlow and Moule Vol. II No. 4718.<br /> <br /> Binding darkened and partly age-toned. Spine with closed vertical cracks but firm. The engraved frontispiece portrait of Frederick Duke of Saxony is missing. Minor and sporadic foxing throughout. Introductory material Dedication to Frederick Duke of Saxony and Prolegomena in Latin Bible in ancient Greek. Binding in overall good- interior in good to very good condition. Sumptibus Joh. Christophori Königii hardcover
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[COKAYNE, George Edward] C, G E GIBBS, The Hon, Vicary; Doubleday, H A; Warrand, Duncan, De Walden, Lord Howard and others (ed
The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom Extant of Dormant. Vols VI-XIII are subtitled A History of the House of Lords and all its Members from the Earliest Times.
London:: The St. Catherine Press Ltd. 1910-.1940. New Edition Revised and Much Enlarged. publisher's gilt-lettered and gilt-ruled green cloth t.e.g.; some volumes in tatteredglassine wrappers. . A few spines slightly sunned; gilt tops dulled/ dusty; all volumes clean unworn tight and sound. Small folio. Additional postage will be required to ship this large heavy set of volumes. Vol. XII is bound in two volumes. The work eventually comprised two additional volumes. The St. Catherine Press Ltd., hardcover
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[COLD WAR -- RIAS (RADIO IN the AMERICAN SECTOR) PHOTO ALBUM].
RIAS Rundfunk Im amerikanischen Sektor Berlin souvenir photo album depicting the individuals such as President Kennedy SDP leader Willy Brandt Hans Carste Gunther Arndt as well as historical events witnessed by this iconic and unique radio station which would broadcast from behind the Iron Curtain for the duration of the Cold War.
Berlin West Germany: Broadcasting Service in the American Sector ca. 1966. Folio. 12.25 x 16.5 in. 58 pp unpaginated. on thick paper stock creased hinges at gutter margin. With 73 silver gelatin photographs tipped-in sized from 5 x 9.25 to 7.5 x 9.25 in. all tipped-in some w/ stylish colour mylar borders below or above in geometric shapes many w/ ink annotations of people depicted in the album couple images w/ old tape residues at fore-edges two brochures -- 1 for 10 important Western Germany writers the other for the RIAS Symphony Youth orchestra laid-in and bound-in. Original quarter-blue calf over white linen post-binder brass screw posts at gutter margin RIAS radio station logo stamped in silver on front cover chipping head & foot of spine wear & creasing minor soiling some occasional edgewear & minor lifting to a few of the images still a VG- exemplar w/ 2 pp. Typed radio release on U.S. Naval Radio Station Carolina P.R. letterhead entitled Holes in the Iron Curtain w/ several corrections in ink. This unique souvenir photo album portrays the importance and vitality of the American effort to stem the cultural and military influence of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. This broadcast station broadcasting from West Berlin played a key role in the ideological war with the Soviets during the Cold War and quickly became the most popular station in East Germany. This album includes photographs of Robert Lochner 1918-2003 who was head of the RIAS radio station during Kennedy’s famed visit to West Berlin and famously acted as Kennedy’s interpreter for his key speech “Ich bin ein Berliner;†Mahoney 1920-2014 a Washington Herald journalist who had directed the de-Nazification of the Bavarian press following World War II and became deputy director in 1962; Hans Carste 1909-1971 German composer and conductor who after being released by the Soviets in 1948 became the musical director and conductor for RIAS in Berlin; and Gunther Arndt 1907-1976 chroal director and radio producer from 1955-1972 conducting the famed Chamber Choir. Also included are photos of President John F. Kennedy Vice-President Johnson in 1961 Willy Brandt 1913-1992 Heinrich Alberts 1915-1993 the Freedom Bell which was tolled every day at noon and a Freiheit kennt keine Mauer Freedom knows no Wall protest on the West Berlin Side RIAS anniversary celebrations in 1965 and 1966 as well as symphony and choral productions by RIAS. In 1994 following unification the institution which had influenced so many lives and broadcast for nearly half a century went silent after being absorbed into Deutsche Welle who had inherited the RIAS-TV broadcast facilities in 1992.See: J. David Mecham The Birth of Radio in the American Sector RIAS and its Role During the Berlin Blockade 2012; Stephen Kinszer A Cold-War Voice Fades from the Berlin Airwaves New York Times 1994; 60 Jahre RIAS Deutschlandradio Kultur. Broadcasting Service in the American Sector, unknown
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[COLERIDGE, Sara] THE LOYAL SERVANT [MAILLES, Jacques de]
The right joyous and pleasant history of the feats gests and prowesses of the chevalier bayard the good knight without fear and without reproach
London: John Murray 1825. In two volumes. xv 1 294; 4 286pp. Original publisher’s drab paper boards printed paper lettering-pieces. Rubbed. Booksellers ticket of C. C. Wetton to FEP of Vol. I armorial bookplates of John Lees to both FEPs internally clean and crisp. Pierre Terrail seigneur de Bayard c. 1476-1524 renowned French Knight commonly known as Chevalier de Bayard. The epitome of chivalric virtue Bayard was one of the most renowned military commanders of the sixteenth century Europe. He served with distinction under Charles VIII securing numerous victories during the First Italian War. Under Louis XII he was the hero of many combats; on one occasion he is said to have single-handedly defended a bridge over the Garigliano against 200 Spanish troops an exploit that brought him such renown that Pope Julius II sought unsuccessfully to entice him into the papal service. In 1508 he fought at the siege of Genoa and later at Padua. Despite being severely wounded at Brescia he nevertheless enthusiastically joined the Battle of Ravenna 1512. In 1515 on the accession of Francis I he was made lieutenant general of Dauphiné notably holding Mézières with 1000 men against the opposing forces of Holy Roman emperor Charles V totalling 35000 troops. He was totally wounded whilst campaigning in Italy in 1524 dying in the midst of the enemy. For his unwavering gaiety and kindness his contemporaries dubbed him 'le bon chevalier'; as the centuries have passed the epithet e chevalier sans peur et sans reproche the knight without fear and beyond reproach has been more commonly adopted. This first edition in English of French author Jacque de Mailles' biography of the Chevalier was translated by Sara Coleridge 1802-1852 the only daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This was her second published work following her translation of Dobrizhoffer's book on Paraguay Historia de Abiponibus 1784 issued by John Murray in 1822. . First edition in English. 8vo. John Murray hardcover
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[COLLECTIF] Michel Chevalier. Marquis d'Arcicolar, Eric Baker, J.-A. Barral, M. Bignon, Pèdre Champoiseau, Emile Chédieu, Gustave Claudon, B. Dureau, M. Foubert, Gustave Heuzé, M. Husson, M. Jacquin, Docteur Martin de Moussy, Émiel Ménier, Anselme Payen, M. Pépin, M. Poggiale, M. Teissonnière, M. Thomas, Ohannès Tuyssuzian, L. Wittmack.
Exposition universelle de 1867 à Paris. Rapports du Jury international. Aliments (frais ou conservés) à divers degrés de préparation. Tome XI (groupe VII. Classes 67 à 73).
Paris, Imprimerie administrative de Paul Dupont, 1868. Un volume in-8°, demi-reliure d'époque.
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[COLLECTIF] Service des Réserves Nationales des Etats-Unis – COMMISSION DES ÉTATS-UNIS D'AMÉRIQUE / C. Bascom Slemp, Commissaire général, et Charles H. Burke, Commissaire-adjoint.
THE NATIONAL PARKS OF THE UNITED STATES Exposition Internationale et Coloniale d'Outre-Mer à Paris, France, 1931 – Les Réserves nationales des États-Unis
TEXTE ANGLAIS & TRADUCTION FRANÇAISE. Document bilingue. Booklet en 1 cahier broché de 25,4 x 17,4 cm de 64 pp + 4 pp de couverture souple plus épaisse. Couverture bleue monochrome imprimée au noir. Au milieu du document : la carte des Parcs et Monuments nationaux des Etats-Unis. Avec 25 illustrations pleine page, dont 21 en couleurs et 4 en noir & blanc. Trois d'entre elles représentent les divers services dont peuvent bénéficier les touristes, hôtels, transports, restaurants, etc. Page 63 : «Liste des Lignes de Chemins de Fer et des Compagnies de Navigation Servant les Réserves Nationales de l'Ouest, Directement ou par des Voies de Laison, et Qui Ont Contribué à la Publication de cette Brochure sur les Réserves Nationales».
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[Colloque - The international law Association]
REPORTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION: SIXTY-THIRD CONFERENCE, Warsaw Poland 1988; SIXTY-FOURTH CONFERENCE, Queensland Australia 1990; SIXTY-FIFTH CONFERENCE, Cairo Egypt 1992; SEVENTIETH CONFERENCE, New Delhi India 2002; SEVENTY-SECOND, Toronto Canada 2006
, London, International law assoc. 1988/1990, 5 vol. in-8, rel. éd, ou br., bon état, intérieur frais.
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[Colloque], The International Law Association
REPORTS of the International Law Association: REPORT OF THE SIXTY-THIRD CONFERENCE, Warsaw, Pologne, 1988; REPORT OF THE SIXTY-FOURTH CONFERENCE, Broadbeach, Queensland, Australie, 1990; REPORT OF THE SIXTY-SIXTH CONFERENCE, Buenos Aires, Argentine, 1994; REPORT OF THE SIXTY-SEVENTH CONFERENCE, Helsinki, Finlande, 1996; REPORT OF THE SIXTY-EIGHTH CONFERENCE, Taipei, Taiwan, République de Chine, 1998; REPORT OF THE SIXTY-NINTH CONFERENCE, London, Royaume-Uni, 2000; REPORT OF THE SEVENTIETH CONFERENCE, New Delhi, Inde, 2002; REPORT OF THE SEVENTY-FIRST CONFERENCE, Berlin, Allemagne, 2004; REPORT OF THE SEVENTY-FOURTH CONFERENCE, The Hague, Pays-Bas, 2010
, London [Londres], International law assoc. 1988/ 1990/ 1994/ 1996/ 1998/ 2000/ 2002/ 2004/ 2010, 9 vol. in-8, rel. éd. en pleine toile marron (1988) ou br., une fois à rabats (1994), présence d’un portrait hors texte sur papier glacé, impression en anglais, (qq. couv. très lég. passées), bon état.
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[Colonial imprint] Barnard, Edward (Pastor of the First Church in Haverhill)
A Sermon Preached at the Ordination of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Cary To the Pastoral Care of the First Church in Newbury-Port May 11 1768
Boston: Printed by Edes and Gill In Queen Street for Bulkeley Emerson of Newbury-Port 1768. Wraps. Fair. Disbound stitched trimmed wraps. Approx. 8" x 5". 47 pages. Wraps are partially split loose. Religious pamphlet with references to Corinthians. Colonial imprint.<br /> <br /> Evans 10825. Printed by Edes and Gill, In Queen Street, for Bulkeley Emerson of Newbury-Port unknown
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[COLONIALISM] LAWRENCE, TE T E
Oriental Assembly
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1940. First American Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's russet cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 291pp. Light wear to spine and corners some small abrasions to the bottom edge of the cloth a strong and handsome copy in a lightly soiled tan dustjacket with toning to the spine panel some fraying and shallow loss to the spine ends and a pinhole piece of damage a third of the way down the spine interfering with the "T" in the author's name. A good solid copy in dustjacket. <br /> Internally clean with some spotting and foxing to the prelims and page edges. Lavishly illustrated with photographs by the author. Edited by A.W. Lawrence the author's brother with the suppressed introductory chapter to The Seven Pillars of Wisdom included alongside "The Changing East" a Lawrence essay that was later expanded into chapter 33 of Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Lawrence only in his early 20's spent the summer of 1911 in Syria and surroundings studying Crusader ruins and seeking out interesting bits and pieces for the British Museum the photographs he took and the observations he made form the basis for this book. E.P. Dutton & Co unknown
Référence libraire : 81632
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[Colophon, The]
The annual of bookmaking
New York: The Colophon 1928. 4to pp. 10 plus 25 unpaginated sections of varying length produced by 25 different printers; decorative title page designed by Rockwell Kent and a profusion of facsimiles and illustrations throughout; a very good bright copy in original half light blue cloth stamped in black and silver designed by W.A. Dwiggins. Among the bibliophilic enterprises represented are AIGA Alfred A. Knopf Riverside Press Ward Ritchie Press Press of the Woolly Whale Mergenthaler Linotype Co. and University of Oklahoma Press. The Colophon unknown
Référence libraire : 11741
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[COLORADO SPRINGS & CRIPPLE CREEK RAILWAY - THE SHORT LINE]
THE GRANDEST ONE DAY TRIP IN THE WORLD TO THE GREATEST GOLD CAMP ON EARTH
Denver: Smith-Brooks n.d. ca 1901. ca 1901. 7 1/2" x 7" folded vertically at center. 24pp containing one page with an overview of the trip and history of the railway and also one pictorial cover page. The remaining 21 pages offer full-page sepia-toned photographs. Pictures include Point Sublime Silver Cascade Falls St. Peter's Dome Devil's Slide Cathedral Park Victor the Granite Mine Cripple Creek Underground at the Portland Mine Altman Battle Mountain Bull Hill etc. At center is a double-page photograph showing the Sangre De Cristo Range. Light soiling and with light scraping to fold and minimal wear to extremities. Very good. Rare. Smith-Brooks, n.d. (ca 1901). unknown
Référence libraire : 53054
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[Colorado] [The Pikes Peak News]
The Pike's Peak News. Pikes Peak and Manitou Colorado Season of 1897
Manitou Springs: n/a 1897. Newspaper. Very good. Newspaper. Approx. 16" x 11.5". 4 pages. Folds and light creases to the paper. Tourist and Travel periodical with articles on Pike's Peak and the Railroad; articles on South Cheyenne Cannon and Manitou Springs. Several advertisements include Native Americans posing for an advertisement for Kodak Company; The Alamo Hotel in Colorado Springs; Rio Grande Railroad; Broadmoor Hotel and Casino; The Windsor Hotel in Denver and many more. n/a unknown
Référence libraire : 36780
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[COLOURFUL SUGOROKU GAME - MAJOR SITES AROUND THE WORLD].
世界一周早回りゲーム. Sekai isshu hayamawari gemu. Quick Around the World Sugoroku Game.
No publication details. Circa1960. Colourful folding sugoroku game sheet 55 x 79cm a fukuwarai game on reverse does not include face pieces. This is brightly coloured post-war sugoroku is a "round the world" game and this together with the fukuwarai game printed on the reverse would have been enjoyed by Japanese families during the new year celebrations. The game which is colourfully illustrated covers East Asia Southeast Asia New Guinea Africa Europe and North and South Americas with the final goal being returning to Japan and visiting the Royal Palace in Tokyo. The game was probably printed in the 1960s when overseas travel by jet plane was regarded as a possible dream for many Japanese people. On the reverse is a fukuwarai happy-laughter game where a blind-folded player places eyes nose mouth and other pieces on the faces outlined. . No publication details. unknown
Référence libraire : 171593
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[Colton's Condensed Octavo Atlas of the Union]
TRAVEL MAPS MAP OF MARYLAND DELAWARE & VIRGINIA
New York: J. H. Colton 1865. Second Edition. Colored engraved map with a bit of creasing at the fold. 11 3/4 x 9 1/2â€. From the second edition of Colton’s Condensed Octavo Atlas of the Union. J. H. Colton unknown
Référence libraire : 291807
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[Colton's Condensed Octavo Atlas of the Union]
TRAVEL MAPS MAP OF NEVADA UTAH AND ARIZONA
New York: J. H. Colton 1865. Second Edition. Colored engraved map with a bit of creasing at the fold. 11 3/4 x 9 1/2â€. From the second edition of Colton’s Condensed Octavo Atlas of the Union. J. H. Colton unknown
Référence libraire : 291848
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[COLUMBIA RIVER AND PUGET SOUND NAVIGATION COMPANY] aka THE WHITE COLLAR LINE a k a
The Columbia River from Portland to the Dalles.
Portland Oregon:: The Company; Press of C. H. Crocker . Fifty-nine halftones on 32 pp. Oblong 8vo dark gray/green pictorial wrappers. The Columbia River and Puget Sound Navigation Company was organized in 1891 by Captain U. B. Scott and John Leary. On p. 1 the company’s real name is revealed by "Compliments of Columbia River and Puget Sound Navigation Co. Portland Oregon" which was nicknamed the White Collar Line. [Portland, Oregon:: The Company; Press of C. H. Crocker, ,. unknown
Référence libraire : 3975
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[COMIC ARTISTS OF THE WORLD TODAY]
All the Funny Folks The Wonder Tale of How the Comic-Strip Characters Live and Love "Behind the Scenes
New York: The World Today Inc 1926. Boards. Very good. 4to; 112pp; green cloth over board with color illustrated paper onlay; illustrated endpapers; color comic illustrations; title printed on spine; scuffing to cover light soiling to cover and pages a few closed tears very good minus. The World Today, Inc unknown
Référence libraire : 403
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[COMICS]. THE SPIRIT April, 1974 - June, 1976 (Numbers 1-14) Will Eisner, editor
THE SPIRIT
New York: Warren Publishing Co. 1974-1976. A fine set. 21917. Octavo 14 issues pictorial wrappers. Comic magazine. The first fourteen issues of the Warren publication. Reprints of The Spirit. Warren Publishing Co. unknown
Référence libraire : 21917
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[Committee on the Essential Features of Modern Cars]
A. E. R. A. American Electric Railway Association PROGRESS IN CARS. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF MODERN CARS
New York: American Electric Railway Association 1926. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. The Executive Committee of the American Electric Railway Association following their 1925 convention authorized the formation of the Committee on Essential Features of Modern Cars to develop new car designs. The goal was to repalce older types of cars with “attractive comfortable light-weight modern cars†p. 3. This 88 page book is their report illustrated with black and white photographs of street railway cars and several folding measured drawings of electric railway cars. An uncommon item; we locate no copies on OCLC. Very Good binding. American Electric Railway Association unknown
Référence libraire : 273967
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[COMMITTEE FOR MANAGING THE PROTESTANT OATH BILL, FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE ANCIENT CHURCH OF SCOTLAND]
An authentic statement of the proceedings of the members of the ancient church of scotland residing in london. Respecting the mode of administering oaths
London: Printed for T. Becket 1784. 23pp 1. Disbound. Spotted and a trifle stained. Later manuscript date to foot of p.23. The first edition of a pamphlet issued by members of the Church of Scotland calling for the removal of legislation that required them when swearing upon a Bible in a court of law to kiss the book rather than merely raise a hand. ESTC T162178. First edition. 8vo. Printed for T. Becket unknown
Référence libraire : AQ21445
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[Committee for the Relief of the Labouring Classes]; [Forbes, JH] J H
Report of the Committee to Whom it Was Remitted to Suggest a Plan for Affording Relief to the Labouring Classes in the City and Suburbs
Edinburgh: Alex. Smellie 1816. 3 4-16pp. Modern quarter cloth and marbled paper over boards title label to upper cover. Externally very good internally moderate foxing throughout. J.H. Forbes was the Convener of the Committee. Goldsmiths 21593. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet. Alex. Smellie Hardcover
Référence libraire : 004093
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[Compiled by the St Andrews Hospital (Midland, Ontario) Auxiliary]
Midland Cook Book
Midland Ontario Canada: St. Andrews Hospital Midland Ontario Auxiliary Midland Free Press Print 1922. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 3-5 6-246 247. 8vo. measuring 20 x 13.5 cm. Light-brown cloth over boards stamped black lettering and borders to the front board. Many advertisements by sponsoring local business and merchants interspersed throughout. Comprises of a rich selection of recipes all accompanied with the names of their respective contributors. Sections include: Soups Fish Meats Vegetables Salads Salad Dressings and Sauces Made Dishes Bread and Biscuits Puddings and Sweet Sauces Cold Desserts Cakes Pickles & Sauces Conserve and Marmalade Canning and Preserving Miscellaneous Time Table for Cooking Meats et al. Excepting a touch light edgewear occasional rare spotting to the extremities there are no other detectable flaws. Single stamp to the front pastedown stating: "Compliments of the Great Lakes Transportation Co. Ltd." otherwise text-block remains thoroughly bright clean and unmarked with tight sound binding. Overall remarkably well-preserved; very good. Exceedingly rare in commerce and equally so amongst institutional holdings See OCLC #15059856 with only two Canadian holdings recorded at time of cataloguing. Rare indeed. <br/><br/>See Driver's Citation in 'Culinary Landmarks' O265.2 p. 489. Preceded by an identically titled edition and printed in 1911 in a similar fundraising effort though for a different entity "to prepare and complete a cook book.was deemed a wise and popular means whereby a sum of money could be raised to aid the building of a new Catholic church" by the Women's Auxiliary of St. Margaret's Church Source: Driver Elizabeth: Culinary Landmarks; Citation No. O265.1 p. 488. And indeed the preface to this present title confirms as such: "The Midland Cook Book which the Auxiliary of St. Andrews Hospital now offers to the public for sale is practically a revised edition of the one published in 1911 by the Women's Auxiliary of St. Margaret's Church with the addition of many new recipes. The idea came to us as the 1911 books are now out of print and are constantly in demand. Therefore we decided on this means for raising money for our Hospital.". Driver further notes: "The first section of the text titled 'General Suggestions' and 'Small Leakages of a Household suggestions for economy and cleaning is signed Mrs. Playfair ie. Charlotte Playfair the wife of James Playfair a leading member in the industrial and municipal affairs of Midland. Both Mrs. Playfair and her husband were involved with the development of St. Andrews Hospital at the time of the book's publication. James had purchased the building for the town's new hospital and renamed the institution after his birthplace in Scotland. In 1922 Charlotte herself purchased the house next door for a nurses' residence and paid for its interior furnishings. Charlotte was the daughter of Senator Alexander A.W. Ogilvie who along with his two brothers had built the flour milling business which later as Ogilvie Flour Mills Co. published many editions of Q55.1 Ogilvies Book for a Cook." St. Andrews Hospital (Midland, Ontario) Auxiliary | Midland Free Press Print hardcover
Référence libraire : 3069
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[Compiled by The Ladies of Business Women's Group, Winnipeg]; Mrs HD Beattie (Convenor); Mrs I Smith (Secretary) H D
Recipes: Old and New Tried and True King Memorial United Church as Compiled by The Ladies of the Business Women's Group.
Winnipeg Manitoba: The Ladies of Business Women's Group King Memorial United Church Printed by the Reynold's Printing Co. Limited 1931. First Edition First Printing. Card Covers. Fine. pp. 64. Small 8vo. measuring 9.25" x 6". Illustrated stapled card covers with navy blue lettering with red borders to the front cover. Title page features a black and white photograph of the King Memorial United Church. Many black and white advertisements by sponsors including local business merchants including Purity Flour Co. Domestic Shortening etc. Sections include Sandwich Fillings Soups Vegetables Supper Dishes Meat & Vegetable Sauces Deep Fat Frying Pies Pudding Sauces Jams & Jellies and many others. No detectable flaws contents bright clean and unmarked with tight sound binding; fine. Exceedingly scarce early Canadian cookery title. Elizabeth Driver in Culinary Landmarks p. 963-64 M71.1 noted the presence of only one copy held in a private collection. Corresponds to OCLC #1007281386 which indicates the presence of only one copy amongst institutional holdings LAC/BAC. At time of cataloguing Not in Peel University of Guelph Archives & Special Collections Cookbook Collection or McGill University. <br/><br/> The Ladies of Business Women's Group, King Memorial United Church | Printed by the Reynold's Printing Co., Limited unknown
Référence libraire : 1409
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[Compiled by..] EAGLESFIELD, Barry [With the assistance of..] HAMPTON, CWP C W P
The Bugatti Book.
Motor Racing Publications Ltd. London. 1954. Motor Racing Publications Ltd. 1954. First edition. Hardcover without DW. Bliue cloth yellow lettering. Iluustrated. Spine slightly faded board extremities a little worn. Ownership inscription to front endpaper o/w contents clean and sound. hardcover
Référence libraire : 104791
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[Compiled by Members of the Discovery Women's Institute]
The Story of Discovery Northwest Territories
Beamsville Ontario: Discovery Women's Institute Printed by Rannie Publications 1965. First edition. Stapled Wraps. Unpaginated. pp. 64. 4to. Illustrated card covers. Profusely illustrated with maps black and white photographs portraits and illustrations. Lightest rubbing to the extremities contents clean and unmarked with tight sound binding; very good. Rare. A comprehensive local history of Discovery N.W.T. formerly a mining town with details on the Indigenous peoples of the region religious affiliations of the community and the institutions serving them schools libraries newspapers fraternal organizations etc. <br/><br/> [Discovery Women's Institute], Printed by Rannie Publications paperback
Référence libraire : 332
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[Compiled by Members of the Wimodausis Club of Toronto]
The Wimodausis Club Cook Book
Toronto Ontario Canada: Grand & Toy Limited 1934. Third Edition. Hardcover. pp. 16 7528 52944. 8vo. measuring 23.5 x 15.0 cm. Beige cloth over board dark brown rules and lettering. Comprises an extensive selection of recipes all accompanied with the names of their respective contributors. Sections include: Cocktails Hors D'Oeuvres Canapes; Soups; Fish; Entrees and Supper Dishes; Game and Fowl; Meat; Children's Hour; Invalid! Cookery; Special Occasion Menus; Sour Milk Eggs and Savouries; Menu Maker and Quantities for Entertaining; Household Hints etc. Also includes an index of all sponsors with sixteen pages of charming period adertisements including by the following firms: Canada Packers Limited Canadian Canners Limited Christie Brown and Company Ltd. Moffats Ltd. St. Lawrence Starch Company Ltd. Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Ltd. et al. Light fraying to the spine ends tips a few small spots to the foredge else very good. Contents remain overwhelmingly bright clean and unmarked. See Elizabeth Drivers' citation No. O294.3 p. 508 Culinary Landmarks: A Bibliography of Canadian Cookbooks 18251949. Overall very good. Scarce in commerce in this edition and state. <br/><br/>"The name Wimodausis is taken from the first syllables of the words wives mothers daughters and sisters and was adopted in 1906 two years after the first modest sale of work. From that year many phases of social service work have been engaged in and the club enlarged to the present group of thirty-five who stress the value of personal service and responsibility as did the original five members. Since 1915 the main interest of the club has centred around the Earlscourt Children's Home where under ideal surroundings little children are taken during the period of disruption in their own homes. Where possible the parent or guardian pays toward the upkeep of the child but inability to do so does not disqualify the child from admission. This publication of this third edition of our Cook Book is in response to the continued demand for a former cook book published some years ago and now out of print. Our warmest thanks are extended to those who have contributed to the success of this book." Grand & Toy Limited hardcover
Référence libraire : 4522
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[COMPLIMENTS OF THE SETON INFIRMARY, AUSTIN, TEXAS]
AUSTIN TEXAS HAS THE LARGEST STATE CAPITOL IN THE WORLD. HAS THE LARGEST UNIVERSITY IN THE SOUTH. HAS THE BEST WATER SUPPLY IN TEXAS. IS THE IDEAL HOME CITY OF THE UNION
Houston: Southwestern Folder Co. 1910. 1910. 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" folder printed with black and green and housing a 3" x 17" sheet folded to 10 panels. Three panels offering information about Austin; 6 panels offering photographs of various school buildings; and one panel is unused and pasted to inside of rear wrapper. Inside front wrapper is information about the Seton Infirmary. The collection of photographs of the University of Texas at Austin include photos of the main building the law building Brackenridge Hall the library the woman's building and the engineering building. Also a photo of the Texas School for Defectives and Sanitarium for Mental and Nervous Diseases the Scarbrough Building and also a photo of the main building at St. Edward's College. The Seton Infirmary began in 1902 after Austin citizens requested the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul to build a hospital to care for the sick and poor. Light soiling to covers and with minimal wear to the extremities. Very good. Southwestern Folder Co., 1910. unknown
Référence libraire : 53645
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[Concert Posters – R&B – England] The Mojo Club
Poster for “Little†Stevie Wonder at the Mojo Club in Sheffield 1967
Sheffield United Kingdom 1967. 20 x 30 inch poster on heavy cardstock. Some staining and scuffing pinholes and some tears at edges fine contrast; overall excellent. A poster advertising Stevie Wonder at Sheffield’s Mojo Club in October 1967. Wonder would have been just seventeen at the time though he had already dropped “Little†from his stage name. The Mojo Club in working-class Sheffield was the project of brothers Peter and Geoff Stringfellow; the pair had previously worked as promoters and were preternaturally talented having booked the Beatles for April of 1962 shortly before the release of “Love Me Doâ€.1 Stevie Wonder would be the last live act at the Mojo as it was shut down by the city three days later on October 10.<br /> <br /> 1 Steve Walker “The King Mojo Club†2020 https://www.kingmojostory.com. unknown
Référence libraire : List2885
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[Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de, 1715-1780]
Traité des sistêmes où l'on en démêle les inconveniens et les avantages. Par l'Auteur de l'Essai sur l'origine des Connaissances Humaines.
La Haye, Neaulme, 1749 ; 2 tomes reliés en un volume in-12 ; plein veau fauve marbré, dos à faux-nerfs dorés, décoré et doré, pièce de titre grenat, roulette dorée sur les coupes, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque) ; (8), 228, (4), pp. [229]-449, (1) pp. faute à corriger.
Référence libraire : 11118
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[CONFEDERATE MEMORIALNBATTLE ABBEY]. Headquarters Department East of the Mississippi
General Orders No. 4.
Columbus Miss.: Headquaters 1895. . Handbill 11 x 5 1/2 inches Two copies only located one at Virginia Historical and one at the University of South Caroline which came from a scrapbook put together by Col. Benjamin Franklin Eshleman 1830-1909 a West Point graduate born in Pennsylvania but moved to Louisiana as a child and fought on the Confederate side during the Civil War. The scrap book was a gift of Jack and Mindy Castles; Mr. Castle's grandfather having married a daughter of Eshleman. This copy has been digitized. The handbill contains a plea to Confederate Veterans to contribute to a fund for a memorial in Richmond: Battle "As well said by Comrade Rouss: "The mementos of the struggle of the South.are scattered broadcast over the country. Should they not be collected and provision be made for their preservation.Then as our ranks are being rapidly thinnned by the Scythe of Time let the comparatively few of us that remain at once take the matter in hand and labor for the realization of the prophetic vision and joyous hope of the patriot orator Senator Daniel of Virginia--in the consummation of a completed Battle Abbey.which would beÊÊAn undying memorial of the people who fought their own battles in their own way for their own liberty as they conceived it for their own independence as they desired it and who need give to the world no other reason why." Signed in print by two ex-Confederate generals Stephen D. Lee and Edward Turner Sykes. Columbus, Miss.: Headquaters, 1895. unknown
Référence libraire : 3395
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[Connecticut State Society of Children of the American Revolution] Virginia L Stowell
Three Original Pieces of Art for the Unpublished Work "Civilians at War
Waterbury Connecticut 1943. Very Good. Waterbury CT 1943. Three original drawings 45x30.5cm using pencil and red blue and black ink on stiff paper stock; all signed and dated by Virginia L. Stowell 1943. Stock a bit unevenly toned and lightly soiled small loss to bottom left-hand corner of two images not approaching text or image; overall Very Good. <br /> <br /> Three original illustrations including what appears to have been the proposed pictorial title page of an unpublished pamphlet titled "Civilians at War" a guide to the ongoing warfare and production now that the United States had entered World War II. Apart from the title page the illustrations depict examples of demolition and general purpose bombs by size from 100 to 4000 pounds accompanied by a nattily-clad gent for size. A dissected view of the 300 lb. general bomb is also provided. The third illustration shows the twelve Civilian Defense Emblems from auxiliary police and firemen to rescue and decontamination squads. <br /> <br /> The work almost certainly composed by fifteen-year-old Virginia Lee Stowell 1928-1994 of Waterbury Connecticut a major metal manufacturing hub during the War its Scoville Manufacturing Co. employing as many as 10000 workers at peak production. At the age of seventeen Stowell joined the Cadet Nursing Corps in March 1945 though by the time she received her certificate of membership on September 4th the war had been over for two days. Whether Stowell would have made a better nurse than draughtswoman is questionable though it is entirely possible that her impressively inked bombs were traced. unknown
Référence libraire : 21394
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[CONSERVATION] [SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE] Grant, JD J D
Redwood Radio A Reverie
Berkeley CA: Save the Redwoods League. Undated but 1920s. 10 pp in pictorial stapled wrappers illustrated with photographs and line drawings. Small scribble mark on front cover minor creasing to back cover; very good. The Save the Redwoods League was founded in 1918 by conservationists John C. Merriam Madison Grant and Fairfield Osborn who were concerned about the accelerating destruction of old-growth redwood forest lands. Although best known for its role in preserving the coastal forests of Redwood National Park the organization also helped to protect the sequoias of Yosemite's Mariposa Grove. This rather quirky booklet advocates for protection of the big trees via a fanciful tale in which the redwoods "speak" by means of radio waves and tell of all the ancient things they have seen and known over the centuries beginning at the time of the birth of Christ and ending with "the voice of John Muir rising in appeal for his beloved redwoods. "'Through all the eventful centuries since Christ's birth' came the message 'God has cared for these trees saved them from drought disease avalanche and a thousand storms. It is left to the American people to save them from the sawmills. Help to save the Redwoods!'" Four copies located in OCLC. Save the Redwoods League unknown
Référence libraire : 24227
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[CONSTITUTION OF THE FRENCH FIRST REPUBLIC / CONSTITUTION DE L'AN III]:
CONSTITUTION DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE.
Toulouse: Douladoure. An. IV. 1795. Octavo. Stitched without wrappers likely as issued. Page edges untrimmed. Woodcut device emblematic of the French Republic to the title page. 62pp. A good copy with nibbling/loss to the top left-hand corner not affecting the text and a few minor marks to the title page and rear blank verso. The contents remain clean and in very good order. A scarce provincial printing of the Constitution of the Year III Constitution de l'an III the constitution of the French First Republic which established the Directory regime following the fall of Robespierre.</p><p>Adopted by the convention on 5 Fructidor Year III 22nd August 1795 and approved by plebiscite on 6th September its preamble formed the Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man and of the Citizen of 1789. Largely the work of political theorist Pierre Daunou it established a bicameral legislature made all taxpaying French males over 25 eligible to vote in primary elections enfranchising around one million more citizens than the 1791 Constitution and contained an explicit ban on slavery.</p><p>It remained in effect until the coup of 18 Brumaire 9th November 1799 which effectively ended the Revolutionary period and began the rise to power of Napoleon Bonaparte. </p><p>A pleasing unsophisticated copy remaining in the same form as it would have been when it reached the hands of ordinary Frenchmen in year that it was issued. Toulouse: Douladoure. unknown
Référence libraire : 1507
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[Constitutional Convention, Kentucky]; Sutton, R [Reporter to the Convention]
REPORT OF THE DEBATES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION FOR THE REVISION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY. 1849
Frankfort: WM. Tanner & J. W. Finnell 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto 1129 pages; G; Re-bound in full brown vinyl with blue spine label and gilt lettering on spine; Very light bumping to corners otherwise binding tight and in good condition; Moderate staining to bottom of text block slight age toning to text block slight age toning to pages moderate uneven foxing to pages throughout slight warping to pages throughout and previous owners inscription in ink on sfep; Previous seller contents description on ffep; Sabin 37500. RWO.<br /> <br /> NOTE: Shelved Upstairs outside of Allan's Office. 1364770. Special Collections. WM. Tanner & J. W. Finnell hardcover
Référence libraire : 1364770
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[Cooper, James Fenimore]; By the Authro of the Pilot, Red Rover, &c &c &c
The Water-Witch or the Skimmer of the Seas A Tale; In Two Volumes. Vol I Only
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea 1831. Ink spots on the fore edge and variously in the front pages. Ink spot inside back cover and back back endpaper. 1/2 x 1/8 tear out of two front endpapers. . Spots on covers and rolling from wet papers through pages. X-library but only marks is ink entry on front endpaper "Williamstown Library Price 1.25 No. 598". Published previously in Dresden and London in the fall. First American Edition. Leather. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Carey & Lea Hardcover
Référence libraire : 15237
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[Corporation For The 1967 World Exhibition]
EXPO67 OFFICIAL GUIDE EXPO 67; April 28 - October 27 1967. Montreal Canada
Montreal: MacLean-Hunter Publishing. 1967. Softcover. Very Good. Boards with light rubbing to extremities and with one closed tear to back board. A handsome and tight copy. ; A wealth of information about the Expo 67 on Notre Dame Island in Montreal. The fair's topic was "Man and his World Building Habitat 67". Bilingual edition French/English. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 352 pages . MacLean-Hunter Publishing paperback
Référence libraire : 21234
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