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1860ref. 140948358Norfolk UK: No publisher 1860. Very Good. Two large herbaria with hundreds of plant specimens collected in 19th-century Norfolk England pertaining to flowering plants and mosses. Bound in contemporary half leather over marbled boards with morocco spine labels stamped in gilt. British Plants contains approximately 90 specimens with no manuscript identifcations. British Flowers contains 186 specimens with manuscript Latin identifications. 276 specimens all together. Each 15 x 10 x 4.5". Folios. Very Good with rubbing at extremities of each binding toning to marbled boards split at rear joint of Flowers bookplates of Norfolk history enthusiast noted bibliophile and collector of Admiral Lord Nelson materials Ronald C. Fiske d. 2018 on front pastedowns. Plant roster in old hand laid in front of Flowers. All specimens intact with only a few spots of loss heavy rodent gnawing to British Plants at mid-gatherings affecting some plates at edges and manuscript notations. Carefully compiled by an anonymous botanical enthusiast over the course of nearly 25 years each mount is artfully arranged and beautifully preserved. Herbaria of this size from the 19th century are increasingly scarce particularly hailing from one single location. [No publisher] unknown books
ref. 140946234UK: Unknown 1980. Near Fine. Two vintage anarcho-punk/ peace punk armbands from the United Kingdom manufactured circa 1980. Machine sewn white cotton linen with black elastic bands at verso. Screen printed red anarchist designs. Each are 6.5 x 3.5". Near Fine with light fading and minor abrasions at edges. Scarce in-your-face political ephemera from Britain's angry young and poor. Manufactured roughly one year after Margaret Thatcher's 1979 election -- a vote that solidified the anarchist and punk legions in opposition. The "Anarchy in '80" armband shows up around the leg of a guitarist in a photo of an obscure UK punk group The Condemned on the blog Leaders of Men taken in 1979 or 1980. The blogger refers to it as "proto crust" which seems accurate; it likely emanated from the cluster of punks around Crass and Subhumans that would become canonical "crust punk" bands. [Unknown] unknown books
2002ref. 140942987Portland OR: Indymedia 2002. Two 11" x 17" vintage black-and-white flyers protesting then-VP Dick Cheney's 2002 visit to Portland Oregon. Staple holes light wear. Popular Left/antiglobalization site Indymedia's web address written in marker on the bottom margin of one poster; highlighting to text of the other with dates corrected in sharpie Cheney's eyes poked out to give him an even more demonic appearance. Uncommon. A real time capsule of protest in the tense months following 9/11 as dissent went through one of its lowest ebbs in modern memory. The antiglobalization movement had stalled but organizing via the internet through sites like Indymedia was just beginning. The Bush administration was at its historical peak of popularity but even then Dick Cheney was a magnet for derision the Machiavellian grey eminence behind the scenes. To paraphrase a running joke at the time: if Cheney ever died Bush might actually get to be President. Indymedia unknown books
ref. 140943566No Place: No Publisher 1970. 4.25" x 5.5" single-sided handbill flyer. Good horizontally creased missing triangular chips at corners wrinkled toned. No other copies located in commerce or in institutional collections such as University of Washington's Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection. A scarce piece of propaganda from the American anti-Vietnam War movement demanding the freeing of the protestors that would become famous as The Seattle Seven. On February 17 1970 the Seattle Liberation Front organized a protest of about 2000 people against the imprisonment of the Chicago Seven including Black Panther Bobby Seale converging on the Seattle federal courthouse. About 200 protestors chanting "Free Bobby!" attacked the building with rocks and paint and were reputedly tear-gassed by Seattle Police. Eight protestors would later be indicted: Jeff Dowd Michael Abeles Joe Kelly Michael Lerner Susan Stern Roger Lippman Chip Marshall and Michael Justesen. Jutesen skipped town and was never found so the group became known as The Seattle Seven. Most of the charges would eventually be dropped. Jeff Dowd though would become a film producer and later gain cult fame as an inspiration for "The Dude" in The Coen Brothers' 1998 film The Big Lebowski. Hence The Dude's lines "Ever heard of the Seattle Seven That was me. Well me and six other guys." One was actually a lady but otherwise the reference was quite real. [No Publisher] unknown books
1942ref. 140941284Portland OR: Np 1942. Good. Original 10 3/4" x 14" poster printed in orange and black on cardboard with a racist caricature of Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo stabbing a salmon. Text reads in its entirety: "The Japs are killing Alaska's fish industry / vote 311 X no against this infamous proposition / closing Oregon's coastal streams will kill Oregon's salmon industry / our boys in service need every case of salmon Oregon can produce!" Good with five small holes and a creased scrape crease down middle from being mounted on a stick either for picketing or as a yard sign verso toned and soiled. Colors still very bright. A rare political sign opposed to The Oregon Prohibition of Net Fishing on Coastal Waters Bill also known as Measure 6 with striking graphics typically anti-Japanese in the wake of Pearl Harbor and America's entry into WWII; although a cursory contemporary glance at the bill makes any connection to Japan highly dubious. "The measure would have prohibited all net fishing in coastal streams and bays except those exempted" according to Ballotpedia. It was soundly defeated. Np unknown books
1856ref. 140940710London and New York: H. Bailliere 1856. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. iv 208 pp. Bound in publisher's elaborately blind stamped dark cloth with gilt spine lettering yellow endpapers. Very Good with slightly sunned spine slight wave to text a little foxing to contents former owner's bookplate on paste down. Nice shape overall. The complete run in six issues of an anonymously-edited mid-19th century spiritualist publication scarce in book format. Prophecy ghostly manifestations in London California and the European continent clairvoyance mesmerism fairies "Sir Charles Isham on Spiritualism" and "Loss of the Steamship Pacific" are some of the many topics covered herein. A copy of this book apparently wound up in his Harry Houdini's collection; the famous magician was a skeptic and debunker of spiritualism. H. Bailliere unknown books
1989ref. 140940817No Place: No Publisher 1989. Near Fine. Comb-bound printed on sheets of various colors. Unpaginated. Near Fine with light wear. A thick collection of Grateful Dead lyrics plus lyrics to songs the Dead often covered. A memento of rabid Deadhead culture at the close of the '80s transcribed by the anonymous Deadeditor by hand from listening to various tapes; tape-trading being one of the most popular pursuits in the subculture. According to said editor in the intro "This book was not xeroxed out of another lyric book nor was it copied out of Dead songbooks. Anything that was taken from another source was looked over and corrected to the best of my ability." Also notable for the time was that it was written on a Macintosh SE computer writing on a computer was a strange new thing for many people then believe it or not and "the final copy was printed on a NEC Silent Writer laser printer." The title is taken from the band's classic song "Ripple" off the 1970 studio LP American Beauty. Rare with a single institutional copy located in a recent OCLC WorldCat search. [No Publisher] unknown books
1944ref. 140939216No Place: No Publisher 1944. Single thin sheet; 4.8" x 7" leaflet printed in red and black. Verso numbered S W 3. Text in English. Very Good folded in fours tiny tear in top edge at fold. An illustrated WWII psychological warfare pamphlet from the Nazi German government aimed at American soldiers in a slightly warped attempt at vernacular English. The recto features an illustration of city life in America a man and a women merrily strolling through a city past one of the ubiquitous "Uncle Sam Wants You" American propaganda posters of the time with a caption and verso that are meant to appeal to US soldiers' political cynicism and skepticism about American elites' motives. The strolling couple are meant to be some of the "Friendly Folks back home those who stimulated the big war boom eager to collect the prosperous profits." The reader is informed "Your job is easy; You just got to die to fill their pockets." The stilted attempts at slang coupled with the irony of the Nazi government attempting to appeal to Americans' pacifism and anti-elitism make this an entertaining psywar pamphlet that showcases various difficulties of getting inside one's enemies' heads and amplifying their doubts. [No Publisher] unknown books
1890ref. 6719London: Dean and Son 1890. Quarto. Original publisher's color pictorial paper covered boards front and back; blue cloth spine. No.4 in Dean's "Surprise Model" Series Features wonderful chromolithograph illustrations including four pages with intricate mechanical pop-up illustrations operated by cotton thread one of which is a double page spread. Minor finger soiling and scuffs to margins some chipping to edges spine somewhat rubbed. A very good copy of a scarce movable with only three held in Institutions. Dean and Son unknown books
1911ref. 1950Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1911. 269p. cloth boards with titling in gilt no dustjacket first edition. Rideout author. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
ref. 2113Maine. 24mo oblong 5 1/2" x 7"; 16 leaves. Thirty untitled b&w photos of various sizes in a small purchased construction paper-style album titled "Photographs" on the front and a label on the inside rear wrapper reads: "Ward's Souvenir Album. Made in LIght Gray and Dark Gray Leaves. This Book is No. 111." Photos are both mounted and laid in. The photos are of houses and farmland 3 contain farm animals in one a woman holds a baby 3 feature small boats in the water in one a woman is reading under a tree 3 feature horse and carriages including one with two young girls in a decorated cart and 7 show logging operations and log driving down a river. unknown books
1869ref. 1277New York: McLoughlin Bros. Publisher 30 Beekman Street 1869. Wraps. Very good. 12mo; 7pp; yellow pictorial wrapper relief printed in red and navy rear wrapper publisher's ads for Paper Dolls-Book Form and Paper Furniture; publisher's string binding; ownership in pencil on verso front wrapper; color pictorial title page; color illustrations with verse each page; light overall soiling 2" split at foot of wrapper fold; very good. The date of publication is estimated for McLoughlin Brothers' address on Beekman Street in New York. The life and death of the Little Old Woman is told in ironic rhyming verse and while she may have been pitied for her age and infirmity she was wealthy and lacked in no physical comforts. "This Little Old Woman The story so goes Had nothing to wear but Abundance of clothes. And oh! Let me weep At the dismal news She would have been barefooted But for her shoes.". McLoughlin Bros. Publisher, 30 Beekman [Street] unknown books
1930ref. 52Augusta Maine: Maine Development Commission 1930. Staplebound wraps. Very good. 8vo; 47 1pp; dark green wrappers embossed with gilt design cut-out window on front revealing color photographic illustration on title page; two staple binding; black and white photographic illustrations throughout and five in color; chip to bottom edge front wrapper a few light stains on pages sunning to cover at spine; very good. Tourism. Nicely produced tourism booklet with many photographic illustrations. Covers the topography natural wonders sports resources and tourist attractions of the state. A promotional blurb by Booth Tarkington a Maine summer resident at the end of the booklet. Maine Development Commission unknown books
1900ref. 48701London: Walter Scott 1900. Very Good. London: Walter Scott n.d. ca. 1900. Octavo 18cm; full contemporary blue gilt-tooled prize calf by Relfe Brothers of London gilt spine in six compartments with red spine piece all edges marbled marbled endpapers; viii369pp. frontispiece facsimile letter fragment by Gordon tipped in at rear of volume. Leather a bit scuffed at corners and spine ends else a Very Good bright and sound example. A popular account of the life of Charles George Gordon 1833-1885 who participated in the Crimean War and led the Ever Victorious Army of Chinese soldiers who put down the Taiping Rebellion. This copy in a handsome prize binding for the Truro School. Inoffensive mid-20th century ownership ex libris to front pastedown as well. Walter Scott unknown books
1864ref. 2165Boston: Taggard & Thompson 29 Cornhill 1864. JUVENILE ILLUSTRATED. Boston Stereotype Foundry electrotype. Reprint first printed by Taggard & Thompson in 1863. 32mo 4 ¼" x 3"; 48pp; glazed yellow pictorial boards printed in red and green a girl and boy reading a book on the front; rear board publisher's ad for "Popular Juveniles" including "The Martin & Nelly Stories" "The Summer House Series" and "My Uncle Toby's Library"; glazed yellow eps; engraved fp & pictorial title page; publisher's string binding; engraved illustrations throughout; light shelf wear to boards back joint split a few spots; very good minus. A bright and interesting child's book with many subjects but lessons of morality and religious instruction at the heart of all the stories. Taggard & Thompson, 29 Cornhill unknown books
1859ref. 2158New York: Robert Carter & Brothers 530 Broadway 1859. JUVENILE RELIGION. R. CRAIGHEAD Printer Stereotyper and Electrotyper Caxton Building 818385 Centre Street. M.U. Matthew Urlwin SEARS; J. John GILBERT; engravers. 4to 10 ½" x 8 1/8"; 143pp; quarter bound in black cloth with printed brown boards; engraved pictorial of angel with shepherds on the front with lettering; engraved fp with tissue guard 11 additional full-page engravings; pictorial vignette on title page; printer info on verso title page; rubbing to boards with loss corners bumped some staining; very good minus. OCLC locates only 1 copy of the 1859 edition with this printer at UVA. First published in London by James Nisbet in 1855 and in New York the same year by Robert Carter & Brothers. The twelve "Evening" chapters are presented as conversations about the life of Jesus between a mother and her children. Beautiful engravings many signed by Matthew Urlwin Sears 1798-1870 and by Sir John Gilbert 1817-1897. Robert Carter & Brothers, 530 Broadway unknown books
1838ref. 2043Northampton Massachusetts: John Metcalf 1838. JUVENILE RELIGIOUS CHAPBOOK ILLUSTRATED. Front wrapper title: Bible History Northampton: J.H. Butler 24mo 5 ¼" x 2 7/8"; 24pp; blue wrapper vignette of a table with quill pens and two books on the front and printer's ornament border number "3" in upper right corner; engraved vignette of a man child holding a book and dog on the rear wrapper; publisher's string binding; fp and wood-engraved vignette on title page; alphabet and numbers 1-0 on verso title page; head-piece 18 small engraved illustrations; light foxing throughout; very good plus. First printed around 1828 by John Metcalf then located in Wendell Massachusetts this copy was after he moved to Northampton around 1833. Published with Johnathan Hunt Butler. A nice imprint of the alphabet and numbers precedes the introduction to the Bible stories. Eighteen nicely illustrated stories with Biblical chapter references follow: Death of Abel; The Flood; Abraham offers up Isaac; Pharaoh and his host drowned in the Red Sea; Samson slayeth the Lion; Samson carrieth away the gates of the city; Absalom slain; Solomon's Judgement; Elijah fed by Ravens; Elijah taken up to heaven Haman hanged; Shadrach Meshach and Abednego in the fiery Furnace; Simeon's Blessing; Joseph flies to Egypt; Woman of Samaria; Ship in a Storm; Judas betrays Christ; and Crucifixion. The final page is unillustrated and titled Christ's Resurrection. John Metcalf unknown books
1880ref. 2018London: Frederick Warne & Co 1880. VICTORIAN GIFT BOOK POETRY ILLUSTRATED ADVERTISEMENT. 8vo square 8 ¾" x 7 ½"; 12pp; stiff wrapper with a glazed chromolithographed onlay featuring a portrait of two girls on the front; rear wrapper features an advertisement for "Sir John Bennett's Ladies' Gold Watches" and "Bennett's Clocks"; brown cloth shelf back; cream-colored endpapers; gift inscription in neat ink on ffep; 5 chromolithographed plates on stiff glazed paper 7 illustrated poems; chipping to pictorial on front wrapper light hand-soiling on edges a few small spots; very good plus. Not recorded. A lovely Victorian gift book featuring rhyming verse and sentimental scenes of children in lovely dresses. The interesting advertisement on the rear wrapper is for "Bennett's Clocks and Watches" the watchmaker to Queen Victoria. Frederick Warne & Co unknown books
1900ref. 1276No place listed: No publisher listed 1900. No binding ephemera. Near fine. 14 ½" x 14 5/8"; heavy paper stock embossed die-cut glazed chromolithograph; minor creases at edges; colors are bright and paper sturdy light age-toning to verso; near fine. A surprisingly large highly detailed and colorful die-cut pictorial of a moose head framed by an animal hide stretched and lashed onto a rack of branches. Surrounding the rack is a small mammal pelt and Native American crafts of bead work a moccasin tomahawk an arrow blue beads strung with animal teeth and a canoe model. No publisher listed unknown books
1870ref. 422New York: McLoughlin Bros 1870. Very good. 4to; 22pp; color illustrated wrapper with advertising for other books on back title and publisher to front; 6 full page chromolithographs with a verse on the opposite page; 2 tears on a verse page with some paper loss on ''Be Kind to Thy Mother'' and a scratch to verse page on soiling wrapper and pages owner's name in pencil to front cover 1/2'' separation of paper at bottom spine some pulling at staples although they are holding; very good minus. McLoughlin Bros unknown books
1880ref. 137Stuttgart: Verlag v. Gustav Weise 1880. Pictorial boards. Very good. 4to; 16pp; illustrated paper over board with red cloth binding; thick board leaves the left leaf is verse and description the right sided leaf is colorful pictures of everyday objects; rubbing and bumping to board covers age toning to leaves some smudges a light warp to the boards; very good. Scarce not in WorldCat libraries. Colorful illustrations of objects with the German word underneath. Left leaves are verse and story as descriptions. Illustrations are bright and charming. Cloth binding is bright and strong. A wonderful glimpse of European late 19th century. Verlag v. Gustav Weise unknown books
1864ref. 002550Various: By the author 1864. First Edition. Very good. Twenty three specimens mounted on nine loose sheets of cream stock; paper 10 1/2 x 8; specimens with various sizes some quite large ie. approx. 7 1/2 x 9; most subtitled in manuscript in French with place date etc.; a few minor spots; very good or better condition. A beautiful collection of seaweed it was assembled along the coast of Mostaganem province in the northwest of Algeria. Some of the places identified included La Salamandre Karouba ie. Kharouba the City of Mostaganem and others. Seeing the careful penmanship on the paper and the time period the samples were most probably collected by a French lady in Colonial Algeria. It was around this time the mid-19th century when the seaweed-collecting craze was sweeping Europe and becoming a favorite pastime for ladies whose access to scientific explorations was otherwise largely restricted. Furthermore as seaweed was fragile and somewhat difficult to handle it was also a matter of pride for one to be able to carefully and artfully arrange and preserve the specimens. By the author unknown books
1662ref. 1381629London: s.n. 1662. First Edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto 2 pp. 5 - 134 2. In Good condition. Later three-quarter calf and marbled paper boards with significant wear to leather on spine lacking spine label. Boards are detached. Moderate wear to leather on boards light wear to edges and significant wear and chipping to leather along spine. Text block has moderate plus age toning to speckled edges significant age toning to front and back free end pages along edges moderate age toning to pages throughout interiorly and occasional ink marginalia in a seventeenth century hand. The bottom inch of page 131/132 has been torn away impacting the last four lines of text on both pages. An eight-line ink inscription appearing to be in an 18th century hand appear on the errata page "From the Printer to the Reader." listing errors found in the text. Text complete despite pagination. EH Consignment. References: ESTC R21850; Sabin 98500. Henry Vane 1613-1662 emigrated from England to New England in 1635. A member of the most radical wing of the Puritans he was elected governor of Massachusetts in 1636 but returned to join the Long Parliament in 1637. Vane's stay in Massachusetts was tempestuous and he returned to England in 1637 to become a member of the Long Parliament though his interest in New England continued. After the Restoration he was imprisoned for two years convicted of treason and executed. The present text authored by a partisan in favor of Vane includes the speech Vane intended to give from the scaffold but was barred by the court. The speech argues for parliamentary sovereignty and other radical political ideas that proved influential among American colonists. 1381629. Special Collections - Downstairs. [s.n.] hardcover books
1827ref. 013825Oxford: W. Baxter 1827. "Containing John Wildgoose the Poacher The Smuggler and Good-natur or Parish Matters". Three full-page plates by Cruikshank with moderate to heavy foxing. Rebacked with old spine laid-down. Hinges repaired. 139pp. . Second Edition. Half Calf Marbled Boards. Moderate General Wear./No Jacket. Small Octavo. W. Baxter Hardcover books
1899ref. ZZ1175No place Reprinted from:: Commercial Record March 28 1899. 1899. 8vo. 6 pp. Self-wraps; bottom hinge starting front cover slightly stained. Very good. Pioneer Series. Prominent Men of the Past and Present. Their Services to the City and State. Their Honorable Records. "George Davidson 1825–1911 was an English geodesist astronomer geographer and engineer in the United States. Born May 9 1825 in England Davidson came to the U.S. in 1832 with his parents who settled in Pennsylvania. He began his career with the United States Coast Survey in 1845 as clerk to Superintendent Alexander D. Bache. He was the author of Coast Pilot of California Oregon and Washington." Wikip. Commercial Record, March 28, 1899. paperback books
