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1837rif. 42610London Richard and John E. Taylor 1837. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1837 - Part II. Pp. 347-363. Clean and fine. First printing of Dalton's last paper submitted to the "Transactions". This paper one of his last deals with the constitution of the atmosphere just as his first love was meteorology."In an essay of mine on the constitution of the atmosphere which was printed in the Transactions for 1826 I signified my intention of following it with a sequel of experiments to ascertain if possible which of the two views therein developed was most counntenanced by facts. I now proceed to give an account of such investigations relating to this subject as havee engaged my attention during a long period of years."John Dalton. - Smith: John Dalton. A Bibliography. No. 78. unknown
1804rif. 42887London W. Bulmer and Co. 1804. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1804 - Part II. Pp. 313-345. Clean and fine. First appearance of an importent paper in which Hatchett communicates his discovery that iron must be combined with a large portion of either carbon phosphorus or sulphur in order to acquire the property of receiving permanent magnetic virtue there being however a limit beyond which an excess of either of the above-named substances renders the compound wholly incapable of exhibiting the magnetic energy.Together with another paper by Patrick Russell: "Remarks on the voluntary Expansion of the Skin of the Neck in the Cobra de Capello or booded Snake of the East Indiea. With a Description of the Structure ofthe Parts which perform that Office. By Everard Home." Pp. 346-352 a. 2 large engraved plates showing the snake. unknown
2017rif. Gyan-9789389545791Facsimile Publisher 2017. Hardcover. New. 25.13 x 18.78 x 9.34 cm. English Facsimile Publisher hardcover
2017rif. Gyan-9789389545791Facsimile Publisher 2017. Hardcover. New. 25.13 x 18.78 x 9.34 cm. English Facsimile Publisher hardcover
1849rif. 029756Kjøbenhavn Denmark: Faaes hos P.G. Philipsen Trykt Hos Louis Klein 1849. 31 pages; the 1849 Constitution text in Danish; previous owner name on title page top right. Approx. 3 1/2" x 4 3/4" size; sewn softcovers lacks outer wrappers. Some edge tips wear & age-soiling; in good condition. . Ephemera. Soft Cover. Good. Faaes hos P.G. Philipsen Trykt Hos Louis Klein paperback
1795rif. 1507Toulouse: 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. 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. 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. 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
1858rif. 505860Harper and Brothers 1858. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Vol. 1 1860 xxxvi 518; Vol. 2 1858 xvi 653 pp. 8vo original black cloth with gilt spine lettering and ornament to front covers a variation on the Great Seal of the United States. Tips show a bit of rubbing with some trivial loss typical light offsetting both volumes very clean and sharp internally with sound square bindings. From the personal library of lawyer F. K. Arnold with his Portland Oregon bookplate to FPEP and pencil signature d. 1876 to FFEP of volume 1. Harper and Brothers hardcover
1788rif. 30007.048Philadelphia PA 1788. Softcover. Fine. The Columbian Magazine. Magazine. The Columbian Magazine Philadelphia Pa. December 1788. 52 pp. 5 x 8 in. Lacking plates. This title has the honor of being the first successful American magazine having begun in September 1786 and lasting until December 1792. Although many titles existed earlier none enjoyed the success of lasting beyond a few issues or a couple of years.Opens with five pages on ""An Account of the Ancient Colleges at Cambridge in New England."" that being Harvard University. pp. 669-673.A recipe for making artificial Asses milk p. 698.With ""The American Plutarch - Memoirs of Captain John Smith"" pp. 699-703 continued for a previous issue and concluded in the next.A section on ""American Intelligence"" pp. 715-718 with the latest news reports including an item from Edenton North Carolina:""a new convention be recommended for the purpose of reconsidering the new constitution held out by the federal convention as a government for the United States."" p. 716.With a ""List of Senators of the United States Already Chosen"" by state pp. 717-718.Also mention of the officers for the Masonic Lodge at Philadelphia p. 716. paperback
1905rif. 43542Zhenev Geneva: Imprimerie Israelite Rue de Carouge 1905. First Yiddish Edition. Original paper wrappers small 8vo 27 pages. In Yiddish. The title translates as "What is a Constitution Forms of Govenment." Printed on thin paper as was often used for Bundist publications from Geneva which were intended for legal and illegal distribution in Bundist strongholds across Europe and the Americas. Bundist pamphlet on constitutions by Gustav Jaeckh the well known historian and critical theorist who wrote one of the first historical chronicles of the First International. Published by the Bund in during the 1905 Russian Revolution during which it was a dominant revolutionary force and "the largest socialist group in the Russian Empire" Mendes Philip. The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Labor Bund jewishcurrents.org November 30 2013. OCLC: 122856344. OCLC locates only 3 copies worldwide HUC YIVO Institute for Social History only 2 in the US. Creasing/crinkling to thin paper a few stains no tears Very Good Condition thus. PSB-1-24-XX. Zhenev [Geneva]: Imprimerie Israelite Rue de Carouge unknown
rif. 14065Without date or place. Published in Blackwood's Magazine Edinburgh and London April 1826. 3pp. 8vo. Bifolium. Very good on lightly-aged paper. Unsigned but certainly in Croly's hand. The first page is headed: '- for tho' the Old Law was established in the promises of temporal prosperity yet the gospel is founded in temporal adversity'. The three extracts fiercely critical of the French emperor follow over a total of 61 lines with a few minor emendations. The differences from the published text are minor 'suitably and piously' for 'piously & suitably'; 'by even' for 'even by'The first extract of 24 lines present on p.456 in the published version begins: 'On the 24th. of October 1812 the French rear-guard left Moscow a day since piously & suitably commemorated by the Emperor's laying the first ston of a magnificent church dedicated to the "Redeemer'. The second extract of 23 lines preceding the first on p.456 of the published version begins: 'On the 14th. of September the advanced guard entered Moscow but Napoleon had scarcely reached the Kremlin when he saw the city in a blaze.' The last extract of 14 lines on pp.449-450 of the published version begins: 'In 1804 Napoleon was crowned Emperor of France. His first act was to dip his sceptre in blood.' Without date or place. [Published in Blackwood's Magazine (Edinburgh and London, April 1826).] unknown
rif. 78868Very Good. Essays and addresses on constitution law and Pakistan legal system Publication unknown
1805rif. 57952Richmond. 1805. Second edition of the Virginia convention to ratify the federal constitution. An important document in the passing and implementation of the U.S. Constitution. Scarce. viii477pp. 20th-century tan buckram gilt leather labels. Institutional ink stamp and contemporary ink inscription on titlepage ink signature on first page of main text some toning and foxing. Good. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 9665 3 copies. hardcover
1733rif. 11867London: J. Peele. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1733. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Stapled inside heavy card covers. No lib marks on the pamplet itself. ; Ex-Library; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 61 pages . J. Peele paperback
1881rif. 664891881. Concord NH 1881. Unrecorded. Concord NH 1881. Unrecorded. Are New Hampshire's U.S. Senators Serving Shorter Terms Than Their Fellow Senators Broadside. New Hampshire. U.S. Constitution. Opinion of the Supreme Court. To the Senate of New Hampshire Running Title. Concord NH June 10 1881. 18" x 9-1/2" broadside. Text in parallel columns. Light browning vertical and horizontal fold lines some with clean tears at edges. $350. This broadside records an opinion submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court. It states that New Hampshire's election schedule for state offices results in terms for New Hampshire's U.S. Senators that are three months shorter than those of other senators. It questions how to adjust the election cycle to guarantee 6-year terms to New Hampshire's senators which were then elected by the state senate. Signed in type by C. Doe Wm. L. Foster C.W. Stanley W.H.H. Allen Isaac W. Smith Leis W. Clark I.N. Blodgett. This appears to be an unrecorded broadside. OCLC locates 1 copy Library of Congress. unknown
1791rif. 12452London: Printed for J. Debrett 1791. Two English editions of the French constitution of 1791 one in English translation described on the half title as being the third edition and the other in the original French both printed by J. Debrett of London here bound together in a single attractive volume in contemporary binding. The constitution of the French Republic horrified most Englishmen excepting Charles James Fox. Contemporary paper backed marbled boards printed paper spine label. Somewhat rubbed later endpapers. Very good untrimmed. ESTC T164253 T165382. hardcover
1841rif. 37252Providence 1841. Elephant folio sheet folded to 15-1/4" x 21-1/2." 4 pp. Old folds light foxing. Good. The "Proposed Constitution" adopted at "the Convention of the People" on 18 November 1841 is printed. It would grant the suffrage to "Every white male" adult. Articles favoring its adoption are printed along with Rhode Island's 1790 Declaration of Rights. Articles on national and local political affairs plus numerous advertisements are also printed. In 1843 Thomas Dorr was arrested at the offices of the Republican Herald for high treason. unknown
1806rif. 184040Philadelphia PA: Wm. Duane 1806. Hardcover. Good- front board nearly split yet firmly held; rattled. boards edge-worn & rubbed; moisture spotted. portion of spine top missing & chipped; tail rubbed torn at edge & flapped. pastedowns & endpapers tanned & foxed w/ pencil notations & names; front pastedown has paper remnants & dampstaining; back pastedown & endpaper has dampstaining to upper edges. pgs 264 to closing have tanned dampstaining to upper edge. leather boards w/ gilt ruled spine & maroon leather gilt printed title plate. 307 pgs. Narrow previous owner's name label to spine. Some instances of dampstaining to lower page edges. Page 166 has black ink spattering to lower text and page edge A few pages darkly tanned with higher concentrations of foxing. Instances of light to moderate foxing throughout; text dark. An uncommon 1806 edition. Wm. Duane hardcover
2006rif. 76532Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2006. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. iv 1580 pages. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Serial No. 109-70. Format is approximately 5.75 inches by 9.25 inches. Cover has some wear and soiling. This is the first of a series of hearings that the Subcommittee planned to hold examining the Voting Rights Act also known as the VRA. It had been 25 years since Congress last extended the number of the temporary provisions of the VRA. Six provisions were scheduled to expire in 2007 including sections 4 5 6 7 8 and 203. These hearings will examine the impact of the Voting Rights Act over the last several decades and its continued role in protecting minority voting rights. The ability of our citizens to cast a ballot for their preferred candidate ensures that every voice is heard most importantly the right to vote safeguards our freedoms and all other rights enshrined in the Constitution. The sacredness of the right to vote is reflected in the protection afforded by the 15th amendment which States ''the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race color or previous condition of servitude.'' For too many of our fellow citizens in our history this has not always been the case. Our country has had a troubled history of invidious and disparate treatment in the most fundamental process of a democracy namely voting. The VRA pushed back against this history and challenged racial discrimination from a number of different angles. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
2006rif. 76534Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2006. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. Serial No. 109-79. Volume I ONLY. Volume I v 1 1684 6 pages. During this hearing Representative John Lewis of Georgia stated "The Voting Rights Act helped expand our democracy and open up our democracy to elect hundreds of thousands and millions of our citizens who had been kept out let them in. The Voting Rights Act was needed then and it is needed now. The purpose of section 5 is very unique and very important. It prevents discriminatory plans from being enacted in the first place. It put the burden on the judiciary to show that the plan does not discriminate against minority voters. Congress Lewis continued "Prior to section 5 the burden was on the minority voters to challenge the voting practice; and every section was good at coming up with different procedures that had the same result discrimination. Anita Earls' testimony talks in some detail about the recent example how this is still happening. The difference is that we have section 5 to prevent these practices from harming minority voters. Many people like the court said that we have come a long ways; and again today I would say that we've come a distance. We've come a long way and that is true. We're not the same Nation that we were 40 years ago but it's clear today that we have not come far enough. Section 5 is still needed. Today section 5 prevents discrimination and redistricting and changes that move voting locations out of minority neighborhoods into less accessible areas. These are issues that are different from the fight to register to vote but they are no less fundamental." U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
2006rif. 76535Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2006. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. Serial No. 109-83. Part I ONLY. Volume I iv 1446 22 pages. This Committee will focus on section 203 the provision authorizing bilingual language assistance to American citizens who are members of covered language minority groups and who have limited English proficiency. Section 203 has not been revisited by Congress since 1992 and like the sections that we have discussed in previous hearings is set to expire in 2007 unless reauthorized. The Voting Rights Act was enacted in 1965 in response to a history of racial discrimination against some of our Nation's citizens. In 1975 Congress expanded the Voting Rights Act to include section 203 and its companion section 4f. Section 203 requires certain jurisdictions to provide bilingual election assistance-including notices instructions information and ballots-to citizens who are members of a designated language minority group and who have limited English proficiency. As cited in the 1975 House Report section 203 was added in response to ''an extensive evidentiary record demonstrating the prevalence of voting discrimination and high illiteracy rates among language minorities.'' This record revealed that similar discrimination patterns and practices that had been used to prevent African-Americans from voting were being administered against Asian-Americans American Indians Native Alaskans and citizens of Hispanic origin. These citizens are more than likely to live in environments in which the dominant language is other than English. Section 203 breaks down these barriers by providing citizens in a language minority group with the assistance necessary to participate in the political process. Section 203 has enabled an increased number of minority citizens to register and cast ballots as revealed in the last Census and latest election records. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
2006rif. 76538Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2006. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. Serial No. 109-103. Volume IV ONLY. Volume IV v 1 4297-5711 3 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. This volume contains the Appendix to Hearings: Table of Contents and Appendix Materials Continued from the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act. The Subcommittee will be holding its tenth hearing examining the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the temporary provisions that are to expire. They're set to expire in 2007 unless we reauthorize by Congress which I think most of us anticipate will occur. The Subcommittee examined each of the expiring provisions in great detail. This afternoon we examine the evidence of continued discrimination against racial and language minority citizens since 1982 that have been compiled by a number of non-governmental organizations who will be testifying. I'd thank these organizations for completing these reports and in making sure that this Committee has before it a complete and accurate record of discrimination over the last 25 years. In continuing to reauthorize the temporary provisions Congress on four separate occasions examined the extent to which discrimination continued to exist by analyzing information such as enforcement statistics minority voter registration rates minority voter turnout and litigation pursued to protect minority voting rights. Federal agencies such as the United States Commission on Civil Rights were instrumental in investigating analyzing and reporting back to Congress on the state of minority voting during each consideration. Each time Congress concluded based upon the evidence presented that the exceptional conditions which existed in 1966 continued to exist in 1970 1975 1982 and in 1992 when it was last reauthorized. This afternoon the Committee continues to examine whether the exceptional conditions warranting the extension of the temporary provisions continue to exist in 2006. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
1925rif. 48025Berlin Julius Springer 1925. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In: "Zeitschrift für Physik. Hrsg. von Karl Scheel" 32. Band. VI951 pp. textillustr. Entire volume offered. Heisenberg's paper: pp. 841-860. A small erased stamp on titlepage leaving two small holes no loss of text. Internally clean. First appearance of Heisenberg's importent paper on the complex spectra of many-electron atoms - the third paper Heisenberg submitted from Copenhagen on the Quantum Theory."The paper on multiplet structure and anomalous Zeeman effects. contained a complete discussion of the problem at that time. This paper had the blessing of Niels Bohr; also Pauli who wasin Copenhagen when the paper was completed agreed with its overall content. The central goal of the paper was to formulate what Bohr called 'the stress constraint which is not analogous to the action of external forces' and to derive quantitative conclusions from it." Mehra and rechenberg "The Historical development of Quantum Theory" vol. 2 p. 201.The volume contains another importent paper in the history of Quantum Physics: W. BOTHE und H. GEIGER "Über das Wesen des Comptoneffekts ein experimenteller Beitrag zur Theorie der Strahlung" pp. 639-663. hardcover
1925rif. 49362Berlin Julius Springer 1925. Contemp. hcloth. In: "Zeitschrift für Physik. Hrsg. von Karl Scheel" 32. Band. VI951 pp. textillustr. Entire volume offered. Heisenberg's paper: pp. 841-860. A stamp to title-page and front free endpaper. Interally clean. First printing of Heisenberg's importent paper on the complex spectra of many-electron atoms - the third paper Heisenberg submitted from Copenhagen on the Quantum Theory."The paper on multiplet structure and anomalous Zeeman effects. contained a complete discussion of the problem at that time. This paper had the blessing of Niels Bohr; also Pauli who was in Copenhagen when the paper was completed agreed with its overall content. The central goal of the paper was to formulate what Bohr called 'the stress constraint which is not analogous to the action of external forces' and to derive quantitative conclusions from it." Mehra and Rechenberg "The Historical development of Quantum Theory" vol. 2 p. 201.The volume contains another importent paper in the history of Quantum Physics: W. BOTHE und H. GEIGER "Über das Wesen des Comptoneffekts ein experimenteller Beitrag zur Theorie der Strahlung" pp. 639-663. hardcover
1826rif. 6783Buenos Aires: Imprenta del Estado 1826. First Edition Primera edición. Softcover Tapa blanda. 190x135mm. 7½x5¼". Buenos Aires Imprenta del Estado 24 de Diciembre de 1826. En 4º 190 x 135mm. 2 55 pp. Guardas de papel. Primera edición. Comienza con un Manifiesto del Congreso General Constituyente a los pueblos de la República Argentina. La Constitución de la República Argentina de 1826 estableció una forma de gobierno "representativa republicana consolidada en unidad de régimen adoptando oficialmente la religión Católica Apostólica Romana". Para la sanción de aquella constitución fueron consultadas las Provincias acerca de la forma de Estado: Salta y La Rioja se pronunciaron por el régimen unitario al igual que Tucumán pero curiosamente aclaró que quería conservar sus instituciones. Mendoza San Juan Santiago del Estero Tarija Entre Ríos Santa Fe y Córdoba se manifestaron por el sistema federal. San Luis Catamarca Corrientes y la Banda Oriental por lo que resolviese el Congreso en tanto que Buenos Aires y Misiones no opinaron. Primeras hojas ligeramente amarronadas. Imprenta del Estado paperback
1814rif. 728671814. Piacenza: Dai Tipi d'Ignazio Orcesi 1814. Piacenza: Dai Tipi d'Ignazio Orcesi 1814. Rare Printing of the Short-Lived but Influential Constitution of 1812 Spain. Constitution. Costituzione Politica della Monarchia Spagnuola Promulgata in Cadice il 19 Marzo 1812. Piacenza: Dai Tipi d'Ignazio Orcesi 1814. 72 pp. Octavo 6" x 4". Stab-stitched pamphlet bound into recent paper-covered boards lettering piece to spine. Moderate toning negligible faint dampstaining to head of text block and upper outside corners in a few places. $650. Very rare Piacenza printing based on the translation that had appeared in Milan in the same year of the short-lived but influential Spanish constitution of 1812 one of the first attempts to construct a codified constitutional monarchy which applied not only to Spain but to the Spanish holdings in South America and the Philippines and gave Spanish citizenship to the natives of any territory that belonged to the Spanish monarchy but not necessarily those of African descent who could acquire citizenship through naturalization. This constitution was driven by the need to give legitimacy to the newly installed Joseph Bonaparte as king. Although it was repealed shortly after the restoration in 1814 of Ferdinand VII its influence was widespread. It was the model for the constitutions of Norway in 1814 and Mexico in 1824. A number of Italian printings appeared in several varying translations between 1812 and 1814. Our Piacenza printing is one of the rarest. OCLC locates 1 copy University of Turin Italy. unknown
