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1799rif. 214620Brussels: Emmanuel Plon 1799. First edition. 2 engraved plates 5 text engravings. 1 vols. 8vo. Half morocco and marbled boards. Slight foxing. First edition. 2 engraved plates 5 text engravings. 1 vols. 8vo. Bigmore & Wyman I 418 "One of the monument of typographical bibliography" Emmanuel Plon unknown books
1931rif. 24328n.p.: The Central Press Association 1931. The cartoon titled "High Finance" shows a man in evening clothes arranging the loan of a nickel from a skeptical black man less formally dressed. 1 vols. 10-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches. The cartoon titled "High Finance" shows a man in evening clothes arranging the loan of a nickel from a skeptical black man less formally dressed. 1 vols. 10-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches. A vintage cartoon by the artist who later created the popular comic strip "Skeets". The Central Press Association unknown books
rif. acs1371Yale Historical Publications Manuscripts and Edited Texts XIX Published under the direction of the Department of History 1945. Containing a bookplate for Ethel Cutler Freeman Anthropologist and the first female trustee of the American Institute of Anthropology who worked with the Seminoles. Octavo brown cloth hardcover gilt lettering 252 pp. Near Fine with a badly torn dust jacket laid-in at rear. hardcover books
1903rif. BK0104Jacksonville Illinois: E. L. Young 1903. Original silver gelatin photograph of a Native American dancer in elaborate performance dress mounted on the studio card of E. L. Young. The sitter is shown in an animated pose before what appears to be a temporary canvas or exhibition structure holding dance implements and wearing ankle ornaments. Mount approximately 4 ¼ x 6 inches photograph 3 x 4 inches. Pencil identification of Young's Jacksonville studio to verso. Excellent. A photograph of an Indigenous American dancer likely made during the appearance of a traveling Wild West or related exhibition company in Jacksonville. Although the sitter has not been identified the Jacksonville location and apparent temporary showground setting suggest that the image records a performer from a traveling show rather than a western ethnographic portrait. In fact Pawnee Bill's Wild West appeared in the city in 1903;1 Pawnee Bill's company was among the largest touring Wild West groups of the period and employed Native performers as a major component of its program. We find no other examples and scant record of the photographer E.L. Young though a surviving cabinet card dated 1900 was offered online at the time of writing. 1 "PAWNEE BILL" Jacksonville Journal Courier October 16 1903 7. . E. L. Young unknown books
1921rif. BK0110No place 1921. Original press photograph 8 ¼ x 6 ½ inches. Typed caption affixed to verso with Reference Department stamp and editorial markings. Very good plus. A photograph of federal troops sent into the West Virginia coalfields during the final stages of the Battle of Blair Mountain showing soldiers from Fort Thomas Kentucky setting up tents outside miners' homes at Sharples West Virginia. The Battle of Blair Mountain was the culmination of several years of violent conflict between coal miners mine operators and law enforcement in southern West Virginia. In late August 1921 thousands of armed miners marched toward Logan County where they encountered a force of deputies mine guards state police and volunteers entrenched along Blair Mountain. President Warren G. Harding responded by ordering federal troops into the region; approximately 2100 soldiers were ultimately dispatched from several posts including Fort Thomas. Their arrival on September 2-3 effectively ended the fighting as miners unwilling to engage the United States Army surrendered their weapons and returned home. The caption identifies the scene as "Troops for Fort Thomas setting up" at "Sharples the last mining town to the front" with "The line of battle in on sic Blair Mt. shown in back ground." The soldiers are described as "non-coms" and "hard boiled." The image appears to be one of a documented series published by the Huntington Advertiser on September 11 1921; the West Virginia State Archives records the same scene and caption among contemporary newspaper photographs relating to Blair Mountain.1 1 West Virginia Archives & History "Newspaper Photos Relating to The Battle of Blair Mountain" accessed October 6 2026 https://archive.wvculture.org/history/labor/mwnews.html. . unknown books
1912rif. ST20811Paris: Eugène Figuière et Cie 1912. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY. 240 x 185 mm. 9 1/2 x 7 1/2". 44 pp. 2 leaves. STRIKING 3-D OPTICAL ILLUSION BINDING BY A. CONTRERAS stamp-signed on front turn-in WITH AN ALL-OVER DESIGN OF CUBES rendered in black white and silver morocco smooth spine. In older probably original brown woodgrain drop-back box backed with black buckram. With 26 black & white photographic reproductions of works by Cézanne Picasso Derain Braque Metzinger Laurencin Gleizes Léger Duchamp Picabia and original owner Juan Gris printed on glossy white paper. WITH A HALF TITLE INSCRIPTION in French OF GREAT IMPORTANCE FROM ONE OF THE CO-AUTHORS translated as: "To the painter Juan Gris with all my best wishes J Metzinger." Occasional underlinings in blue pencil. Text leaves with overall light browning and occasional foxing due to paper stock lower corner of half title restored and fore edge with minor chipping otherwise a fine copy the plates clean and bright and the binding unworn. Penned by two Cubist artists this is a highly resonant association copy of the first major treatise on the Cubism movement presented to noted Cubist painter Juan Gris and later put into an illusionistic binding composed of variably colored cubes that seem to jump off the surface. Albert Gleizes 1881-1953 and Jean Metzinger 1883-1956 had painted in both Post-Impressionist and Fauvist styles before their interest in exploring form and structure as well as light and color led them to the style that would become Cubism. Influenced by Cézanne's "brick-by-brick" technique and Poincaré's writings on space and time the new movement sought to examine objects from a mobile perspective and to depict multiple views of a subject in one painting. In "On Cubism" they explain: "An object has not one absolute form; it has many. It has as many as there are planes in the region of perception." The work features black & white illustrations of Cubist paintings by the authors and by fellow pioneers Picasso Braque Derain and Juan Gris to whom this copy was presented by Metzinger. Born in Madrid as José Victoriano González-Pérez 1887-1927 Gris studied engineering before moving to Paris to pursue art. First working as an illustrator for periodicals he was inspired by Metzinger to begin painting seriously. His training in engineering helped him appreciate the importance of mathematics in painting a realization triggered according to art historian John Richardson by Metzinger's painting "Le Goûter Tea Time" exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 1911. Our volume was later in the collection of and probably bound for Chilean architect and collector Carlos Alberto Cruz 1939-2022. We have been unable to find more information on our binder "A. Contreras" but it seems possible that he was also Chilean as the Valparaiso-based Cruz owned a number of bindings signed with that name. Eugène Figuière et Cie unknown books
1866rif. 1235341866. First Edition. BLACK HISTORY WASHBURNE Elihu. B. Memphis Riots and Massacres. 30th Congress 1st Session. House of Representatives. Report No. 101. Washington D. C.: Government Printing Office 1866. Octavo contemporary pebbled brown cloth rebacked with original spine laid down; pp. 1 2-394. $1600.First edition of the July 1866 congressional Report of the House Select Committee containing hundreds of pages of official testimony and eyewitness accounts of the brutal May 1866 Memphis Massacre that killed over 45 Black men women and children and destroyed hundreds of Black homes and churches sending ""the unmistakable message that the North may have won the war but it did not win the hearts and minds of the white ruling class that clung to white supremacy.""The 1866 Memphis massacre was ignited by a quarrel between a white man and a Black man. ""A group of recently discharged Black veterans intervened and a white crowd began to gather"" Foner Black Reconstruction 262. Eyewitnesses reported that as the dispute escalated a white Memphis policeman told some of the Black men ""'Your old father Abe Lincoln is dead and damned.' This phrase reported more than once by those who later testified to the House Select Committee sums up the attitude of many of those who perpetrated the Massacre."" One man who was shot but survived testified that he saw white men drag a Black man out of a house and shoot him ""'right in his mouth.' Another man then 'kicked him over and shot him again.' Said he 'God damn you you will never be free again.' The violence of the first three days of May 1866É sent the unmistakable message that the North may have won the war but it did not win the hearts and minds of the white ruling class that clung to white supremacy and Black inferiority. White southerners refused to abandon their 'property interest' in Black livesÉ If 'war is politics continued by other means'"" then the violence in Memphis ""could be understood as the Civil War continued by other means"" Donald When the Rule of Law Breaks Down 1631-39. Before the violence subsided in Memphis ""one of the bloodiest outbreaks in this violent eraÉ at least 48 persons all but two of them Black lay dead five Black women had been raped and hundreds of Black dwellings churches and schools were pillaged or destroyed"" Foner 262.An investigator reported: ""'women and children were shot in bed.' An African American womanÉ 'was shot and then thrown into the flames of a burning house and consumed'É in some instances houses were set ablaze and armed men guarded them to prevent the escape of those insideÉ In the aftermath no arrests or attempts at prosecution were made. Federal civil-rights enforcement was lacking andÉ Memphis Mayor Park washed his hands of the matter"" Schermerhorn ""Civil-Rights Laws"" Atlantic. That July the House of Representatives Select Committee issued this Report. Herein refusing to call the three days in Memphis a ""riot"" it declares the violence a ""massacreÉ the mob finding itself under the protection and guidance of official authorityÉ was actuated by feelings of the most deadly hatred to the colored race."" Nevertheless there were still ""no arrests no trials and no convictions."" To historian Calvin Schermerhorn the violence of those days in 1866 continues to have ""a powerful legacyÉ the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot sits only a few blocks from the site of the Memphis Massacre of 1866"" Atlantic. First edition: House of Representatives Report No. 101: ""July 25 1866ÑOrdered to be printed."" First text leaf with small marginal notation ""x 16521."" 1874 library bookplate.Interior very fresh with minor expert repairs to rear blanks both pastedowns and front inner hinge. An excellent copy of a very scarce book. hardcover books
1989rif. vot607Taipei: Chen Kuei-miao May 1 1989. Quarto cream textured boards hardcover gilt lettering red endpapers 92 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Contents: Dextrous and Colorful Chinese Embroidery; Cotton Robe; Chan Robe; Dogwood; Flowers with Sprays and Leaves; Embroidered Phoenix with Two Heads; Embroidered Portrait; Plum Bamboo and a Parrot Mother Bird with Baby Birds; Sun Rising over a Turbulent Sea; Plum Bamboo and Birds; Screen Embroidered with Chrysanthemum; Hibiscuses and Green Birds; Hibiscuses and a Crab; Grapes and a Squirrel; Autumn Hibiscus and Butterflies; White Falcon; Embroidered Portrait of Bodhisatlva Avalokitesvara; Four Joys in Early Spring; Royal Mother of the West Riding a Phoenix; Poetic Introduction to the Le-shou Hall by Emperor Ch’ien-lung; West Lake -- Two Peaks Piercing through Clouds; Caissia; Everlasting Verdure of Elysian Parks -- Graceful and Charming; Everlasting Verdure of Elysian Parks -- Splendid Reunion; Screen Embroidered with Characters; Embroidered Character Shou Composed of Flowering Plants; Embroidered Character Hsi Composed of Flowers and Birds; Couplet Embroidered with Characters Composed of Flowering Plants; Embroidered Couplet; Mural Decoration Embroidered with Dieties of Good Fortune Position Longerity and Joy; Offerings Made on New Year’s Day; Screen Embroidered with a Phoenix; Screen Embroidered with Immortals Rejoicing in Longevity; Embroidered Tablecloth; Embroidered Tablecloth; Embroidered Tablecloth; Chair Cover Embroidered with Offerings; Embroidered Portrait of Kuan Yu; Screen Embroidered with Flowers and Birds; Lateral Curtain Embroidered with Flowers and Birds; Lateral Curtain Embroidered with Flowers and Birds; Embroidered Flowers and Birds; Mandarin Ducks in a Lotus Pond;’ Embroidered Screens for Spring Summer Autumn and Winter; Embroidered Screen with a Pine Tree and Cranes; Embroidered Screen Expressive of Wealth and High Position; Lace on the Sleeves of the Robe; Lace on the Sleeves of the Robe; Gold Lace on the Sleeves of the Robe; Imperial Robe Detail; Lace on the Sleeves of the Robe; Chango-o Flying to the Moon. Chen Kuei-miao, May 1, 1989. hardcover books
1975rif. vot153Glendale California: The Arthur H. Clark Company 1975. First Edition. Octavo blue cloth hardcover gilt letters uncut 249 pp. Fine. Contents: Quebec Origins; To Santa Fe; Big Business; Money and Fame; A Look South; Disenchantment in Chihuahua; Trail Blazing; Farewell Missouri; To California; Finding a Railroad; The Last Ride; Trail’s End; Forgotten Glory; Dramatis Personae; Appendices: Chronology Contemporary Appraisals The Aubry Journals; Bibliography; Index. From Foreword:. Aubry was no obscure petty trader on the frontier. From 1846 to 1854 he was the busiest most effective merchant on the Saint Louis - Santa Fe - Chihuahua - California routes. His caravans were usually large and his speed and reliability in getting the goods to the right market ahead of others was well known throughout the country. Along with this mercantile reputation he developed a talent for individual travel that has never been surpassed. His eight-hundred mile trip on horseback from Santa Fe to Independence in five days is a record most likely to stand forever. Unsatisfied with the route found by earlier travelers Aubry spent money and valuable time in finding short-cuts on the Santa Fe and Chihuahua trails. When the United States government planned a series of surveys to find the best railroad route to the Pacific Aubry at great personal expense made two overland trips from San Francisco to Santa Fe. This route along the 35th Parallel was later followed by the Santa Fe Railroad. Although a few historians have mentioned some of these events they have entirely missed the man. Aubry enjoyedin fact cultivated national acclaim. But he wanted his name also to be associated with the highest personal characteristics. Honesty bravery reliability integrity -- these and similar noble attributes were consistently assigned to Abury by all who knew him. There was no major collection of Aubry Papers partly because of his early tragic death but there are useful scattered items in various libraries and archives. The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1975. First Edition. hardcover books
1966rif. vita5827Caldwell Idaho: The Caxton Printers Ltd. 1966. Signed and inscribed by the Author. Octavo red cloth hardcover xix 333 pp. Good with cello tape to endpapers; in a like mylar protected dust jacket. Photographs gladly provided upon request. From dust jacket: The Civl War was in a sense a “musical war.” During the first year alone an estimated two thousand musical compositions were produced and the outpouring continued so that by the end of the conflict more music had been created played and sung perhaps than during all our other wars combined. Abraham Lincoln -- rail-splitter circuit lawyer preserver of the Union and emancipator of the slaves -- was no musician. Yet he was extremely fond of music and as President he probably heard more music than any other occupant of the White House. He heard the old patriotic tunes and the new songs of the Civil War period. He listened to bands choruses and soloists. He came to know the songs and the singers the bands and their leaders. He heard exuberant serenaders outside the White House and quiet singers within; he heard noisy bands in the streets of Washington and he listened to their soft strains at evening in many of the “hundred circling camps.” Here as told by Kenneth A. Bernard is an account of the music of the era and of Lilncoln’s relationship to it. Against a background of specific events Professor Bernard shows how the music of the war was inspired how it inspired and affected the soldiers and the folk back home and finally how it inspired and affected Lincoln himself. Lincoln and the Music of the Civil War presents a fresh approach to an understanding and appreciation of the emotional side of the great conflict. No President before or since has been sung to and played to as much as was Lincoln. No President enjoyed the sound and sentiment of music any more than did Lincoln. The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1966. hardcover books
1941rif. vita5513New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc. 1941. Octavo gray cloth hardcover gilt letters map illus. endpapers xviii 941 pp. Very Good with darkened spine and edges light edgewear. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., (1941). hardcover books
2007rif. 335531qmsCharleston SC: Arcadia Publishing 2007. Octavo softbound slick photo. illus. wrappers 127 pp. Fine. From lower cover: Tiny Amelia Island in the northeast corner of Florida was once among the most important ports in the western hemisphere. Before Florida was granted statehood the island served as an international gateway between Spanish Florida and the English colonies that would later become the United States. Where Spanish monks and pirates once roamed the island eventually developed into a significant seaport that exported the rich resources of Florida’s interior in the late 1800s. This ear was known as the Golden Age of Amelia Island and the town located on its north end Fernandina. The railroad that connected Amelia Island to the Gulf Coast was largely responsible for the Golden Age as it brought a burgeoning economy and many of the South’s most prominent and welathy figures. Today the island is best known as a resort community but retains the influence and charm of its remarkable past. Arcadia Publishing, (2007). paperback books
1940rif. vas773Philadelphia: The Church Historical Society 1940. Octavo blue cloth hardcover gilt letters x 295 pp. Very Good with darkened spine and light edgewear. From Preface: The author while collecting materials in Great Britain for The Anti-Slavery Movement in England A Study in English Humanitarianism covering the years from 1770 to 1833 became convinced that a further analysis of earlier sources of humanitarian opinion was clearly indicated. The development of the eighteenth century humanitarian mood was not in itself sufficient to explain great reservoirs of sentiment favorable to the protection of native peoples. Organized ameliorative activities even if originally at least partially a product of the new mood obviously in turn intensified humanitarian sentiments and made effective action possible. Outstanding among such humanitarian bodies were the older Anglican missionary socieities founded at the opening of the eighteenth century. The richness of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel records for historical purposes British as well as American was first stressed by Professor Charles M. Andrews in the American HIstorical Review in an article entitled “Materials in British Archives for American Colonial History” which appeared in January 1905. And three years later the value of religious records for the study of “the broad story of American culture” and “a full understanding of American character and spriti” was ably stated by the late Dr. J. Franklin Jameson in a presidential address “The American Acta Sanctorium” which was published in the American Historical Review in January 1908. The Church Historical Society, 1940. hardcover books
2005rif. vas837Charleston SC: Arcadia Publishing 2005. Octavo softbound slick photo. illus. stiff wrappers 128 pp. Fine. Arcadia Publishing, 2005. paperback books
rif. 1246261971. Various publishers and places: 1971-1976. 9 groups of material in original format as issued and generally in very good condition. See below for details. § A fascinating collection of magazines and newsletters assembled for the advertisements and announcements which document the birth of Microsoft and the personal computer. The collection includes: 1 Scientific American Sept. 1971 first advertisement for a personal computer on p. 194. 2 QST March 1974 the first ad for the first minicomputer on p. 154. 3 Radio-Electronics July 1974 pp.29-33: Titus Build the Mark 8 Minicomputer. 4 Popular Electronics Jan. 1975 pp. 33-38 Roberts and Yates: Altair 8800 Minicomputer part 1 and 5 the same Feb. 1975 pp. 56-58 Altair 8800 Minicomputer part 2 These two issues feature a two-part article titled "Build a Minicomputer" by Ed Roberts and William Yates. This was the first time an affordable personal computer had ever been described in a magazine. The January edition provided detailed diagrams of the Altair 8800 and the February issue discusses programming possibilities. The news galvanized hobbyists around the country inspiring groups such as the Homebrew Computer club to form. Famously Bill Gates cited these articles as his inspiration for dropping out of Harvard and launching Microsoft. 6 Byte Magazine Sept. 1975--Jan. 1976. The revolution begins. 7 Computer Notes Altair Users Group Nov.- Dec. 1975. P. 19 Bill Gates on the status of BASIC originally on paper tape first revealed in March 1975 one month before Gates and Allen founded Microsoft. 8 Computer Notes Altair Users Group Jan. 1976 announces the first Altair Convention. P. 13 Gates on programming and p. 14 Gates on software. 9 Computer Notes Altair Users Group Feb. 1976. P. 3 Gates: An Open Letter to Hobbyists outlining the Microsoft business model and clarifying the distinction between proprietary and open-source software. Altair licensed Microsoft BASIC. Foundational documents heralding the birth of one of the most important scientific achievements of humankind. In July 1975 the first computer store opened in L.A. In March 1976 Albuquerque hosted the first World Altair Computer Conference see #8." John Doerr a Silicon Valley investor from the earliest days once opined that with Apple and Microsoft opening with months of each other "it was the greatest legal creation of wealth in the history of the planet unknown books
1949rif. 8554bdGettysburg Pennsylvania: The Bookmart 1949. Octavo softbound slick white stapled b & w photo. illus. wrappers 58 pp. Fine; bright white clean. The Bookmart, (1949). paperback books
1909rif. 3160Bangor NY 1909. Manuscript ledger containing seventeen years of financial information for the women's philanthropic group. Comprised of 77 handwritten pages with 2 sheets 4 pages inserted at front. Bound in quarter cloth over marbled card measuring 6 x 7 inches. Cloth spine has largely perished; text block almost fully disbound but held together by remnants. Boards generally rubbed with loss of bottom front corner. Internally legible and detailed in a variety of hands. Founded in New York in 1886 The International Order of the King's Daughters was an interdenominational women's organization whose mission was to "represent faith hope and service to others" IOKD. Initially begun by ten women from Episcopal Methodist and Presbyterian churches the members hoped to cross boundaries in their small communities in order to improve life for all. Their official motto reflected this: "Look up and not down Look forward and not back Look out and not in And lend a hand" IOKD. Member branches were encouraged to choose their own community missions serving where they saw the most need locally. Within a year the organization had spread across the east coast with hundreds of chapters and over 50000 members; it remained a predominantly women's group although some branches granted membership to men beginning in 1891. The present branch was located in Bangor New York near the Canadian border. In a town that had been founded not even a century before in 1806 the women of the Kings Daughters of Bangor had an opportunity to help meet key needs for their municipality. In the almost two decades' worth of notes in this ledger researchers can traces how dues and fundraising helped the entirely-women group contributed books and funds to the creation of a public library; assisted in providing clothes for the needy; and ran two key projects which were the maintenance of the local cemetery and the "old ladies home" a housing space for widowed single and other in-need women as they aged without families. A research-rich ledger with opportunities to study in fields including but not limited to rural women's social history the role of women's organizations in the founding of towns interdenominational religious organizations women's religious groups historical fundraising the formation of local libraries and educational programs women in business and philanthropy genealogy and paleography. unknown books
1971rif. 5793fdWashington DC: Department of the Navy United States of America 1971. Six parts in one volume. Octavo navy blue faux leather gilt letters and decoration to spine pictorial endpapers xxvii 42 118 170 152 134 477 pp. Very Good with light rubing to endpapers slight toning age darkening to interior. Department of the Navy, United States of America, 1971. hardcover books
1898rif. BK0089Santiago Dominican Republic: Julio Pou Primet 1898. Large photographic portrait of Dominican president Ulises Heureaux shown in elaborate military dress with embroidered tunic epaulettes sash and decorations. Photograph measuring 8 1â„2 × 7 inches mounted to a larger photographer's card with Pou's printed monogram and facsimile signature at lower margin. Scattered light foxing and spotting with minor wear to mount; image generally very good. A contemporary portrait of Ulises Heureaux 1845-1899 the Black Dominican military and political leader who dominated the government of the Dominican Republic during the final two decades of the nineteenth century. Known popularly as "Lilís" Heureaux rose to prominence during the struggle against Spanish annexation and became a principal lieutenant of Gregorio Luperón before serving repeatedly as president beginning in 1882 maintaining effective control of the country from 1887 until his assassination in 1899. The photographer Julio Pou Primet 1862-ca. 1930 was among the important early Dominican photographers and painters. After operating a studio in Santo Domingo and serving as Dominican consul in Havana Pou returned to the capital and in 1891 was appointed official photographer to Heureaux1 making this portrait not merely a commercial likeness but an image produced within the visual culture of the presidential regime itself. Centro León preserves another example of this portrait cataloged to 1898 and attributed to Pou.2 The date places the portrait at the very end of Heureaux's rule amid the financial crisis that would help precipitate his downfall. His government had transferred substantial control over Dominican customs revenues to the American-controlled San Domingo Improvement Company while mounting foreign debt and the collapse of his paper currency destabilized the country. Heureaux was assassinated at Moca on July 26 1899; the financial arrangements developed under his administration became an important antecedent to the expanding American involvement in Dominican finances and the U.S. customs receivership established several years later.3 1 "Julio POU PRIMET 1862-1930" el grimh July 29 2023 accessed September 18 2026 https://grimh.org/index.phpItemid=1028&id=1150&lang=es&layout=edit&option=com_content&view=article. 2 "Ulysses Heureaux NS" Centro Leon eMuseum accessed September 18 2026 https://emuseum.centroleon.org.do/objects/3103/ulises-heureaux-lilis. 3 John B. Moore "Message from the President of the United States transmitting a protocol of an agreement between the United States and the Dominican Republic providing for the collection and disbursement by the United States of the customs revenues of the Dominican Republic signed on February 7 1905" accessed from the Office of the Historian September 18 2026 https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1905/d325. . Julio Pou Primet unknown books
1944rif. BK0102New York: The Friendship Press 1944. Pictorial map measuring 21 x 33 ¼ inches. Some creasing from folds; bright colors; very good plus. Louise Jefferson was an artist and author who helped found the Harlem Artist's Guild in the 1930s after moving to New York City to attend Hunter College. She worked for the Friendship Press in New York during the following years for which she drew this map a pictorial representation of the American Indian tribes in the United States. She became the art director of the press perhaps the first African American woman to hold such a post at a major publishing house. She continued to do freelance work and eventually published a major nonfiction work on African art in 1973 entitled The Decorative Arts of Africa. This is a nice example of Jefferson's most well-known map which shows the United States borders mapped out by ancestral tribal lands. She would publish another map entitled "Uprooted People of the U.S.A." a year later in 1945. The Friendship Press unknown books
1885rif. BK0176Albany: Weed Parsons and Company 1885. 54 pp. 8vo. Original printed gray wrappers. Very good with minor soiling and small tears to wrappers and an early notation at the upper corner of the front wrapper. A defense of contract prison labor by John Sherwood Perry a New York manufacturer who operated an enormous stove-making business employing prisoners at Sing Sing. Perry began contracting for labor at the prison in the 1870s and by the early 1880s employed more than 1300 inmates in his manufacturing operations. His use of prison labor brought him into direct conflict with organized labor particularly iron molders who objected to competition from cheaply produced prison goods. The pamphlet was published during a period of growing opposition to the contract labor system which allowed private manufacturers to employ prisoners at a fraction of the cost of free labor. Perry argues that prison industries represented too small a proportion of American manufacturing to constitute a serious threat to ordinary workers supporting his position with extensive statistical tables comparing convict and civilian employment in New York and other states. An interesting contemporary defense of prison labor by one of its principal beneficiaries whose operations at Sing Sing were central to the controversy over the use of incarcerated workers in American manufacturing during the 1880s. . Weed, Parsons and Company unknown books
rif. 699284to. Two pages approximately 300 words in part: "The chief magistrate of this city until about 1836 was called the Intendant . in 1806 John Dawson was elected warden from the thirteenth ward . the same year he was elected Intendant serving until 1809 . In 1811 he became cashier of the State Bank long passage about the oddities of banks in Charleston . Dawson succeeded Felix Manly as cashier and I suspect was himself succeeded by Samuel Wragg. . I may well be wedded to the college. It is now about my only life. I am showing that I am not too old for the place having within a few years succeeded in introducing French and Spanish into my course and I trust it will not be long before I shall introduce the Italian." Old fold lines but very good. unknown books
1924rif. 010342Jerusalem : Supreme Moslem Council 1924. Book. Near Fine. Printed Wrappers. 1st Edition. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. The 1924 First Edition printed by Moslem Orphan Printing Press the 1925 2nd ed. printed by the Franciscan Printing Press as stated on rear wrappers. No other textual differences although the 1924 is approx. 1/4" taller and perhaps 1/8" narrower than the 1925and the wrappers a shade different in color. Both 16 pages with 7 photo illustrations each. Each with top corner rear wrappers torn along perforation and with docket stamp as needed for admission. Each Near Fine small corner creases and shallow edge chips. RARE in the First Edition and in lovely condition. . Supreme Moslem Council Paperback books
1830rif. 21128New York: Ludwig & Tolefree 1830. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8.5 x 5.25 inches 151 pp with engraved frontispiece and four additional illustrations. In original boards with what appears to be later but not recent cloth over the original cloth spine. Boards worn front board only just attached some losses to spine cloth; good. Early ownership signature Joshua Hodsdon Yarmouth on front free endpaper printed label on rear pastedown admonishing the reader to "Never wet your thumb or finger to turn over a leaf in this or any other book." Little is known about John Skillman but he evidently frequented the regular morning court hearings in Lower Manhattan for people who had been arrested the previous day for relatively minor crimes such as drunkenness lewd behavior vagrancy petty theft and prostitution. His reports on these crimes which were probably modeled on those that had recently begun appearing regularly in London newspapers take the form of brief pun-filled comic vignettes or dialogues between the accused and the magistrate. For example "James G----- was sent by his employer with 10 shillings to buy screws---bought 5 shillings worth and expended the rest of the money in his own way. Is put in poetical language under the screws" and "Mary Stevenson entertains the opinion that 'time is money;' and having no instrument or machine whereby she might keep proper 'note of time' thought proper to obtain one at all hazards. She is now in close confinement for a time." Beneath the humor however are characterizations of male and female defendants of different races classes ethnic backgrounds -- some flattering some not. Scholar Brian Baaki has argued that by placing "an overwhelming volley of black malefactors" at the beginning of the text Skillman "tries to manufacture an association between African-Americans and crime." There may be room for a more nuanced reading but without doubt the book is of interest in the broader context of the social and cultural history of early nineteenth century New York. Sabin 81589 American Imprints 3498. Ludwig & Tolefree hardcover books
1972rif. S11345Mexico City:: Sociedad Mexicana de Historia de la Ciencia y de la Tecnologia 1972-79. 1972. 3 volumes nos. 3 4 & 5; Vols. 4-5 stated one of 1000 copies. 8vo. iv 352; iv 348; iv 147 pp. Original printed wrappers; lightly smudged and rubbed rear cover Vol. 4 with small closed hole. Burndy Library bookplates. Very good. Featuring an entire volume dedicated to the memory of Izquierdo a prolific Mexican doctor and historian of science who specialized in physiology. Sociedad Mexicana de Historia de la Ciencia y de la Tecnologia, 1972-79. unknown books
