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rif. 3731482Tamworth England: Cotton Printer n.d. ca. 1780s; pre-1783. 12½ x 7½ inches. Woodcut two ornamental chain lines. Printed in four columns. Three old manuscript corrections in last column; two lines of text are mostly worn off at the top one partly legible. Archival mat window mylar sheet. An unrecorded 18th century broadside commemorating Sir Lancelot du Lake and Sir Tarquin’s hand-to-hand combat battle. The sheet was sold to tourists at Tamworth Castle in Tamworth Staffordshire where a 16th century mural on the castle’s Great Wall depicted the fight. The mural was whitewashed over in 1783. Friends of Tamworth Castle and Museum The broadside states: “If Travellers who pass that way Tamworth Castle On Serjeant Willcox call He to this Day can shew these Knights Fighting against a Wall.” Prefatory text wraps around a woodcut of Sir Tarquin falling to the ground mortally wounded by Lancelot. Based on Thomas Deloney’s The Noble Acts newly found Of Arthur of the Table Round the verse has has 144 lines consisting of 36 hymnal stanza quatrains. A lesser-known character in Arthurian lore Tarquin had imprisoned 44 knights of King Arthur’s court. When Lancelot confronts him Tarquin at first does not recognize him as the slayer of his brother: "“If thou be of the Table Round Quoth Tarquin furiously Both thee and all thy Fellowship I utterly defy. / Tarquin that’s over bold reply’d Du Lake courageously; Then clapping Spurs unto their Steeds They at each other fly. /. Both wounded were and bled full sore For breath they both did stand. Leaning upon their Swords awhile Quoth Tarquin Hold thy hand /. Why that’s well said quoth Lancelot then Thy motion likes me well; But who’s this Knight thou so do’st hate. His name I pray thee tell / His name quoth Tarquin is Du Lake He slew my Brother dear… / Strait at each other like two Boars They both enraged fly; And two long Hours by Tamworth They fought most furiously. / The Ground besprinkled was with gore Long Time was hard to say Which of these knights the bravest was Or which would win the day; / Till Lancelot with one mighty Stroke His foe did so assail That Tarquin stagger’d and his strength Therewith began to fail; / With loss of blood he then grew faint Which when Sir Lancelot found With all his Force a blow he gave Which brought him to the Ground. / Then forthwith taking off his Helm Smiting his Neck in twain His Body and his Bason threw Into the River Tame. /. God bless our King and may his Knights When put upon the Trial Approve themselves as Lancelot did As Valiant and as Loyal.”" We find no 18th century items with this imprint in OCLC or ESTC. Not in ESTC or OCLC and no entries in either of any items having this imprint. Not to be mistaken for ESTC N8306 i.e. A famous battle fought between Sir Lancelot du Lake and the famous giant Tarquinwhich begins: “Within this ancient British land…” unknown
rif. 3732887London: Sold by A. Becket . and R. Faulder 1779. Half-title 71 1 advert.pp. Bound into green gilt-lettered cloth. A very good or better copy. With contemporary manuscript annotations on two pages. First English edition of this American Revolution era political satire and bibliographical hoax. Anonymously written by Richard Tickell the text purports to publish the letters of Benjamin Franklin the “trading Ambassador” with de Sartine among others and various secret state papers. The sum of it all exposes France’s motives for aiding America and satirizes Benjamin Franklin’s activities in Paris. In the margins of p69 a brief indistinct sentence is scribbled. On p51 at the end of a “Franklin” letter this is written in a contemporary hand: "“What was the Effect strikethrough Consequence of all this silly indistinct word lined out flattery to our Ministers No-Body was concerned by it & our affairs went from bad to worse. Scarce was this Pamphlet out of the Press when Spain took part in the War & we lost indistinct word & Grenada British naval loss at the 1779 Battle of Grenada the combined Keels off Plymouth.”" It seems unlikely that a reader writing marginalia in the spur of the moment would have struck out words and replaced them for their own private benefit. Of the subsequent revised editions that we examined none printed the above commentary. From the collection of Matt B. Jones who likely bought it from Goodspeed’s “1239” penciled beneath his bookplate. Michael Walsh wrote that Jones “chose things with the finest judgment. They always had to be in good condition; they had to be significant. A Matt Jones book in an American institution today is a book to be proud of….” The Green Box went through multiple editions and became popular in both England and on the continent. Ford 973 gives no priority to the so-called French original edition La Casette Verte… or the English edition both undoubtedly printed in London. Sabin 95796. Adams Controversy 79-107g. ESTC T035872. Butterfield L.H. Anticipation by Richard Tickell pp90–91. unknown
rif. 3731940Boston: Pinkham Press 1917–1918. 22 x 14 inches printed on cardstock. Illustrated. Lightly soiled; near fine. “Our Fathers are Fighting in France.” A rare and unrecorded first World War photo-illustrated broadside documenting a little-known display of Franco-American friendship. Across America various patriotic societies often organized by women raised funds and sent baby clothes and necessities to France. These funds went to help babies orphaned by the War or to help French mothers with children whose fathers were fighting with the American solders. As one American soldier described it: “We will say for instance that this is Baby No. 4000. She wears wooden-soled shoes and half-length woolen stockings and a blue calico dress and her mother does the washing for the Sammies who are billeted out in the barn with Toto….” “Right in Touch with the Babies” in Life Magazine 1918. Here at the French Baby Fund Festival Exhibition the Boston community lent a benevolent hand and declared “May Day” to be “Baby Day” as part of a three day festival at Liberty Cottage Boston Common. The raised funds were likely funneled to the Fraternité Franco-Américaine. The broadside is printed with the colors of France and all of its text is printed in a pale lavender. unknown
rif. 3731978Chicago Atlanta Dallas and New York: Scott Foresman and Company ca. 1920s–1930s. 2 39 1 pp. Bound by two large rings along top. One sheet with small crayoned area all cloth reinforcement strips very rubbed; scattered stains and toning; overall very good. Rare. Our Big Book is catalogued by Princeton as a Dick and Jane precursor; a series of wall charts issued ca. 1920. The stories are displayed in strong colors across twenty-one large sheets each 30 x 22 inches. They feature the soon-to-be ubiquitous Dick and Jane Baby Spot and Little Mew later Puff. The Dick and Jane primers had a landmark impact upon the millions of children that were taught to read by using the look-and-say method. In the classroom setting Our Big Book would have educated that very first wave of American children to “See Spot run” and to learn a host of other catchphrases —phrases now engrained burned into the subconscious minds of literate Americans everywhere. Outside of Princeton’s copy we find only one other example in the Osborne Collection. They date the text to the 1930s. Not to be confused with much later common and smaller Dick and Jane charts/posters. unknown
rif. 3732652Blitar East Java Indonesia. Circa 1890s albumen photograph 8¾ x 10¾ inches on its original card mount 12½ x 15¾ inches with pencil caption titling to photograph. Old glue stains along edges of mount. Save for light fading along edges of photograph a clean clear image. Circa 1890s photograph showing the Javanese ceremony “rampok macan” rampokan a ritualized big cat fight typically occurring at the end of Ramadan and the beginning of the Muslim new year. In a gladiator-like setting this public spectacle pitted men against tiger and it likely contributed to the population decline and eventual extinction of the Javanese tiger. We find one example of this image at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam. See Wessing Robert. “A Tiger in the Heart: The Javanese Rampok Macan.” Bijdragen Tot de Taal- Land- En Volkenkunde 148 no. 2 1992: 287–308. unknown
rif. 3733009New York 1859. 16pp. 8vo. First edition and “Printed by Order of the Society.” Original printed wraps are darkened; general creases and soft fold lines from mailing and handling. bjcb 352231 Entirely in verse West Point Life: An Anonymous Communication Read Before a Public Meeting of the Dialectic Society… “details the intense social life at West Point on the eve of the Civil War with amusing accounts of balls and dances and courtships as well as learning soldiering.” Jenkins Authorship has been attributed to Horace C. Porter Class of 1860. The copy at hand gives this penciled inscription on its title-page: “To Miss Constant. With the compliments of Cadet Kilpatrick U.S.M.A.” In a later hand beneath: “Gen. Judson Kilpatrick.” Later nicknamed “Kill-Cavalry” the Irish-American Hugh Judson Kilpatrick 1836–1881 was a fellow member of the Dialectic Society who acted in numerous club performances. Martin p17 Kilpatrick graduated with the Class of 1861 as did Custer and it has been claimed that he was the first regular army officer to be wounded during the Civil War. Kilpatrick’s exploits during the War were numerous if not at times controversial or amusing. Surprised by Confederate forces while taking his bath purportedly sprang naked into his boots and onto his horse and then led a charge against the enemy. He served under Sherman as cavalry chief on the March to the Sea and as a “cavalry commander he was a brilliant leader having originated the saying that ‘cavalry can fight anywhere except at sea.’” DAB In 1874 Kilpatrick co-authored Allatoona: an historical and military drama in five acts and described by Benet’s as being “one of the earliest plays to deal with the Civil War . a tale in which two classmates at West Point fight on opposite sides in the great struggle.” The play was re-interpreted in 1930 by Christopher Morley and published as The Blue and the Gray: Or War is Hell. Kilpatrick’s inscription here as a twenty-three year old West Point cadet is one of the earliest examples one could hope to find for this colorful Union General. Ref. Farley West Point in the Early Sixties. With Incidents of the War. 1902. Martin Kill-Cavalry : The Life of Union General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick… 2000. unknown
rif. 3731804Harrisburg Pa.: Department of Labor and Industry Bureau of Employment Security 1954. Single sheet printed on one side. 11 x 8½ inches. Mailing folds; near fine. Advertising broadside for the Pennsylvania Industrial and Construction Exposition held at the Farm Show Building in the state capital. Attendees of the six-day construction trade show were urged to “Join Pennsylvania on Parade” to view such exhibits as the “World’s Largest Model Railroad Layout” “Stars of Stage Screen TV and Radio” and “25 Bands…Pennsylvania’s Finest”. As an added attraction a six room house was to be given away. unknown
rif. 3731946Pennsylvania. Mid-19th c. 3¾ x 4 inches. Printed textile pinked edges. Small rents forming. With: Small manuscript note 5½ x 3¾ inches. The Lord’s Prayer is printed here within a heart placed within a decorative printed border. An embossed sheet of note paper describes the gifting of the silk heart from a paramour: “To Edith — / May Angels attend thee / May their wings fan every / Shadow from thy brow / For none but bright and holy things / Should wait on one so good as thou. Valentine. Feb 14th.” unknown
rif. 1447437306.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
rif. 1447435583.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
rif. 3730789New York: Century Flashlight Photographers Inc. 105 W. 47th St. 1925. 11 x 14 inches. Captioning within image; rubber stamp on verso. Small loss at lower right corner margin not affecting image; light creasing; Very Good. Photograph of the 40th “Stiftungsfest” or anniversary celebration of a New York branch of Schlaraffia a worldwide German-speaking fraternal group. The Schlaraffen as members were called were noted for their light-hearted fellowship and use of antiquated language here using “Nova Yorkia” instead of New York and pseudo-Medieval costume and regalia. The photograph shows the all-male group seated at tables with wine glasses and swords in a ballroom at the Hotel McAlpin in Herald Square. The members are wearing their club uniforms and regalia while their more splendidly dressed leaders stand at the dais. unknown
rif. 3730175Washington D.C.: United States Department of the Interior. 1962. 142 pages. Illustrated. Comb bound with clear plastic covers and Very Good. An in-depth survey of Alaska Aboriginal culture. Contents include: Saint Lawrence Island Alaska in Asia; Sites near Bearing Strait; Kotzebue Sound; Aleutian Islands; The Pacific Forested Rim; Brooks Range; Kobuk River; Yukon - Kuskokwim Valleys; Southern Interior. unknown
rif. 3730411Pittsburgh. 1835. 12¼ x 7½ inches. One page circular previously folded and bound. A Large notched-out area to inner margin does not affect text short edge-tears else Very Good. Subscription circular announcing a gathering of Pittsburgh’s citizens and trustees appointing Gilbert Morgan the second chancellor of what is today the University of Pittsburgh. Interestingly the Board of Trustees pledged and sought funds from the public to “build up and sustain a School of General Science in Pittsburgh”; “to meet the wants of a city like Pittsburgh and to place a thorough liberal education within the reach of all who might feel disposed to confer its blessings upon their children”; ”to endow professorships and “to purchase a Library and Chemical and Philosophical Apparatus.” “The University’s buildings along with most of its records and files were destroyed in a widespread 1845 fire that wiped out 20 square blocks of the most valuable part of Pittsburgh.” Wikipedia Unrecorded in OCLC. unknown
rif. 3730412Pittsburgh. 1835. 12¼ x 7½ inches. One page circular previously folded and bound. A Large notched-out area to inner margin does not affect text short edge-tears else Very Good. Printed circular and subscription announcing to Pittsburgh’s citizens a meeting of the Board of Trustees to raise money to hire Gilbert Morgan the second chancellor of what is today University of Pittsburgh. Testimonials give on behalf of Morgan were made by Theodore D. Weld Dr. Miller of Princeton Rev. Breckenridge Rev. Uffold and so forth. The trustees announce: “The undersigned approve heartily of that part of Mr. Morgan’s plan which would impart a more popular cast to the Institution by enlarging the range of studies and yielding a prominent place and consideration to such as may be turned to account in active life in whatever sphere. Our citizens have had too much reason perhaps to regard it heretofore as something which stood apart in lofty seclusion from their pursuits and and sympathies. This erroneous notion will be discarded and a deep interest claimed from all in that which is designed for the common benefit of all.” “The University’s buildings along with most of its records and files were destroyed in a widespread 1845 fire that wiped out 20 square blocks of the most valuable part of Pittsburgh.” Wikipedia Unrecorded in OCLC. unknown
rif. 3728502New York 1837. Small octavo. 1 engraved title 2 91 1 1 10pp. Album with manuscript additions and two hand-drawn star charts and 13 pen and ink outline portraits. Quarter green cloth with original pale yellow silk-patterned paper covered boards; dark blue endpapers; all edges gilt. Album with engraved title leaf with vignette illustration. Album re-backed with green cloth; new cloth reinforced hinges; rubbing to edges of boards; scattered foxing; very good. Unusual handwritten American astrological album dated 1837 containing detailed horoscope readings hand-drawn star charts predictive portrait drawings dream interpretations and lottery number advice. The manuscript records two full horoscope readings: an extensive analysis of Robert H. Gould not yet twenty-one and a separate “Lady’s Horoscope” for a woman apparently born in 1810. Each section is accompanied by a hand-drawn astrological chart mapping the celestial signs governing the subject’s birth with the individuals consistently described as “natives.” Gould’s horoscope is notably elaborate forecasting marriage career prospects travel to the southern United States and Mexico “In 7 years you will be in the South you will be Rich in Mexico and in the Southern States” longevity and specific advice on favorable days of action. It also provides recommended lottery numbers and predictions concerning children prosperity and personal relationships. The album includes pen-and-ink portraits depicting Gould at age twenty-one figures said to influence his future and a child identified as one of his sons. The lady’s horoscope offers comparable predictions including marriage faithfulness personal fortune bodily injury and death and is illustrated with drawings of her future husband or sincere friend. Written with confident authority the compiler explicitly distinguishes his interpretations from contemporary printed dream books suggesting familiarity with popular astrological and oneiric literature of the period. An exceptionally rare survival documenting antebellum astrology and popular belief in the United States. Note. 1. Album New York: Published by Solomon King 1830 unrecorded in OCLC. zxc unknown
rif. 3726504Philadelphia: Robert Rae & Co. 1854. 15 1 blankpp. 3 in manuscript 2 blank. Printed front wrapper; lower wrap absent. Light vertical fold from mailing; small gnawing to lower portion of pamphlet’s spine; general wear; all legible and complete. Unlisted in OCLC an apparently unrecorded pamphlet devoted to the property definitions of Christ Church Hospital in Philadelphia. “Christ Church Hospital located at Forty-Ninth Street and Monument Avenue and pictured here in 1864 was established in 1772 as an almshouse to provide for poor women and widows in their old age.”—The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. unknown
rif. 372430Np. c. late 1850s. Ninth-plate Tintype. 2½ x 2 inches. Book-form burgundy morocco case with gilt and blind decoration and silk lining; with wallet-style binding with brass closure. Tintype with brass mat and hand-tinting. Near fine. Diminutive tintype portrait of a man with delicately hand-tinted cheeks and lips mounted in a leather book-form case. The case housing the tintype is decorated using many of the same techniques used to create a luxury bookbinding: blind ruling frames on the exterior “boards” gilt rolled designs on the “turn-ins” and edges and a silk “endpaper” which in this case folds over to protect the glass covered tintype. The tintype is an early example of the process; these were typically not case-mounted after the 1850s. unknown
rif. 3726619Philadelphia: Hughes & Gaskeill Printers 1850. 67 2 1 blankpp. 3¾ x 2½ inches. Unlettered black wraps. Foxing tanning; else very good. Ephemeral and unrecorded mid-19th century mark publication of the By-Laws and Constitution of a benevolent Pennsylvania fraternal organization. A most interesting section within is between pages 54–67 which detail the members’ names their method to obtain their daily bread and I.O.O.F. admit dates. The occupations are of the mechanic-variety: printers laborers chair makers varnishers tobbaconist mariner saddle tree maker; the list of occupations is lengthy and diverse. Printed in small type. The name of Harry Norman is stamped inside the front cover an early stamping; not modern but we do not find his name listed within as a member. Unlisted in OCLC. unknown
rif. 146304Np. Norwich England 1760s. Broadside. 12½ x 8½ inches. Laid paper; printed in two columns. Superscription “Third Part” in manuscript written above title. Old fold lines; staining; some losses to paper at edges not affecting text; good. Unrecorded eighteenth century polemical broadside in the tradition satirist Ned Ward or the mock poem Hudibras. While the present broadside includes only a few lines of poetry like Hudibras it appears to describe a religious controversy between a “Methodist Grub-Street Printer” named Don Dismallo Thickscullo de Halfwitto and another printer Dicko-Don-Quacko.The broadside reports that the printers’ dispute was also carried out in dueling newspapers the eighteenth century equivalent of an internet “flame war.” That the dispute was ongoing seems to be implied in the manuscript addition written at the top of the broadside: “Third Part.” The broadside states: "The Methodists and their Printer having erected their Battery of Lampoonary against the Printer of the Paper call’d Helter Skelter He hereby declares a Paper War against all Dicko Don Quack’s Mendicant Crew…" A mention of a work printed by the “Methodist Grub-Street Printer” concerning Pondicherry may well help to date the broadside to after 1761 when British forces in India defeated the French at Pondicherry. An account of a legal dispute between two printers found in a 1768 English literary annual The British Palladium may well shed light on the controversy outlined in the present broadside and suggests a possible place of publication Norwich England. The account begins: "An eminent Printer in the City of Norwich was once personally aspersed by a single Quack distributing Hand-bills against him in that city who as a Remedy for his Disorder brought out a Pamphlet cried about the Streets intitled The History of Dicko Don Quacko Liliano Brazenfaciano who instead of considering it as a wholesome Remedy for his Evil took Offence at his Prescriber insisting on his being misnamed and misrepresented. In consequence whereof a Trial was appointed to come on before a certain Judge…" The tradition of such fantastically named characters hearkens back to Samuel Butler’s Hudibras 1663 1664 and 1678 and to Four Hudibrastick Canto’s Being Poems on Four the greatest Heroes That liv’d in any Age since Nero’s Don Juan Howlet Hudibras Dicko-ba-nes and Bonniface 1715 sometimes attributed to Ned Ward. Unrecorded eighteenth century satirical broadside concerning the press and the growing influence of print culture in England. Not in ESTC. Ref. The British Palladium; or Annual Miscellany: for the Bissextile Year 1768. London 1768. unknown
rif. 3724701Np. c. 1850s–1860s. Watercolor 8¾ × 7¼ inches on oval board. In modern frame glazed. Small stain at upper right not affecting the portrait; light wear and staining to the mount; overall very good. Mid-19th-century watercolor portrait of a woman seated at a writing table holding a letter likely executed after a studio photograph based on the plain backdrop and formal pose. The sitter wears a dark crinoline dress with lace collar and cuffs her hair styled in ringlets typical of the 1850s–early 1860s. The face and hands are carefully modeled with broader more economical handling in the skirt and background. The writing implements and letter point to literacy and domestic correspondence. unknown
rif. 145237Bas-Rhin Alsace France 1818. Broadside approx. 10½ × 8¼ inches. Ink manuscript on laid paper with red ink and pencil illustrations; watermark visible. Folded with creases light soiling irregular trimming and minor edge wear not affecting text or decoration; very good. Offered with: One-page German manuscript on matching laid paper with identical watermark also dated 1818. Folded with creases and a small perforation not affecting text; very good. Curious and crudely executed folk art this 1818 German-language taufschein baptismal certificate is decorated in ink and pencil. The text records the birth in “Diemringen” and baptism in “Rathsweiler” likely Ratzwiller a village near Diemringen in Bas-Rhin Alsace. Fitting the baptismal theme it features a chicken and egg motif symbolizing creation and new life. The opening lines in German transcription approximate read: “I’ve been baptized and registered The Book of Life includes me now My Father will love me eternally / And be merciful to His child / God surely knows me already for a long time / My name rests in His hand.” Alternating lines circles and triangles frame the text in an abstract border with the chicken and egg motif placed prominently at the top. Square blocks of color in each corner may suggest a picture frame or reference the brass bosses found on elaborately bound 18th- and 19th-century Bibles. Accompanying the taufschein is a one-page untranslated German manuscript written on matching laid paper with an identical watermark also dated 1818. Both items appear to have originated in Bas-Rhin and were acquired together from an estate in Lancaster County Pennsylvania—an area of early German-speaking settlement. The family may have emigrated from Alsace after the post-Napoleonic upheaval of 1815 when widespread political and economic instability spurred migration. The watermark on both sheets is of the “Vryheyt” “Freedom” type used in Holland and later copied in England Sweden and the United States; see Churchill’s Watermarks in Paper nos. 79–108. The full watermark—visible on the illustrated sheet—depicts a lion holding a stave within a crowned circle possibly encircled by the motto “Pro Patria Eiusque Libertate.” unknown
1741rif. 060579London: Company of Stationers print.by W.Bower 1741. Hardcover. Good /Slipcase Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. unpaginated: HB 4 band; dark red w/gilt leather-strip dividers w/gilt trim; rubbed w/edges & corners worn; front cover detached; spine sunned w/1741 on spine; hinge cracked; front endpapers detaching; clean tight pgs. Slipcase dark red w/no title-curved edge dark red ribbon; w/'Royal Binding Geo.II Almanacs 1741 written on spine some rub w/wear on edges & corners. Title continues: "Containing many useful and entertaining Particulars peculiarly adapted to the ingenious Gentlemen engaged in the Study and Practice of the Mathematicks. . The first Almanack ever published of this Kind." Months Woman's Almanack 1741 Almanacks Ephemeris Poor Robin. Company of Stationers (print.by W.Bower) hardcover
rif. 1474541305.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
rif. 1910893188.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1786rif. 3793817London: J Dodsley 1786. Volume 12. Fourth Edition. Small 8vo bound in brown calf covers with a gilt border. The FFP Front & Back boards are detached but present. Spine is mainly missing rest of spine is hubbed with gilt lettering and illumination. Covers are marked rubbed and scuffed. Internally clean there is slight foxing throughout. Pages are brown with age. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item850grams ISBN: London: J Dodsley hardcover
