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1827réf. 57374Randers Elmenhoff 1827-29. Indbundet i 12 ensartede lidt senere hldrbd. Rig rygforgyldning forgyldte skindtitler. Første hefte i første bind er på skrivepapir og lidt afvigende i størrelse hvorfor nederste margin er formeret med ca. 1 cm. og her er også et blad repareret for en mindre rift med tab af enkelte bogstaver i de sidste 8 linier. Her og der med lidt spredte brunpletter men et ganske velbevaret eksemplar. De fleste bind har Einar Christiansens exlibris. Originaltrykket af "Nordlyset" i komplet stand og af største sjældenhed. Det meste af tidsskriftets indhold blev leveret af Blicher selv og det er heri at nogle af Blichers store og vigtigste noveller er udkommet så som "Jøderne paa Hald" "Præsten i Vejlbye" "Hosekræmmeren" "Hvor forandret" "Røverstuen" "Sildig Opvaagnen" "Kjeltringeliv" oversættelsen af Goldsmiths "Præsten i Wakefield" samt en lang række andre fortællinger og artikler. Det er her i Nordlysperioden at Blicher for alvor finder sin fortælleform og stil.Bertelsen 12. - Bibliografi over indholdet i "Nordlyset" se S. Sørensen: "Nordlys-Perioden i Blichers Digtning pp. 161-68. unknown
1944réf. 43207No Place Amsterdam No Publisher Der Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer Nordwest Nederlands 1944. ; No Date 1944. Presume 1st edition. Original pink printed paper ca 22 x 17 inches. Dual German & Dutch text. Original Nazi anti-resistance poster from occupied Amsterdam announcing that “a number of people have been shot by firing squad or on the spot in recent days for attempting to commit sabotage against the German occupying forces” and warning that “The population of the city of Amsterdam is seriously warned to refrain from anything that endangers public peace and security. Violations of this will be severely punished.” A final sentence notes in all capital letters that “TEARING DOWN OR DAMAGING THIS POSTER IS PUNISHABLE.” The handwritten date “16-9-44” is legible in the lower right corner; we presume this to be the date that the poster was originally either put up or taken down. Anne Frank's life in Amsterdam was defined by the Nazi occupation and her family's subsequent hiding to evade persecution. The Nazi invasion in 1940 led to the implementation of anti-Jewish laws forcing the Frank family to go into hiding in 1942 to avoid deportation to concentration camps. During this time Anne documented her experiences and thoughts in her diary which later became the world’s defining first-hand account of Jewish life during the Holocaust. Over 80% of Amsterdam’s 79000 Jews were murdered by the Nazis. We have been able to locate no other surviving copies of this rare original Nazi poster from occupied Amsterdam. Paper very slightly age toned as expected but colors and text remain bright and clear. A vertical and horizontal fold probably dating to the date of production remain but with no tears. An amazingly well-preserved original Nazi poster from the occupation of Amsterdam. Very Good Condition. Very Displayable B Holo2-163-5. No Place [Amsterdam?] No Publisher [Der Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer Nordwest Nederlands] unknown
xviii, 222 pages. Black and white photographic plates. "When the Germans invaded Hungary in 1944, they immediately shipped virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. Separated from his family, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli [1901-1956] was chosen to direct the medical pathology work carried on among the prisoners by the Nazis for the purpose of 'scientific research' in that most infamous of all concentration camps. Through the doctor's eyes, we relive not only the day-to-day horrors of life in the KZ but also witness the slow disintegration of an empire built to last a thousand years. What Dr. Nyiszli lived through few will want to believe or even read about." - dust jacket. "Tells of events which, though gruesome, need to be told and retold until their meaning for our times is accepted." - Foreword. Tight and square with moderate external wear. Foxing to top edge. Prior owner's details written and stamped upon front endpaper. Name stamped on top edge. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this important account. Laska 1317, Enser p.114. Book
1930réf. 8931New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1930. First Edition. First Printing second state with the publisher's "A" on copyright page and "1929 1930" dates directly above. Octavo 19.25cm; black cloth with titles stamped in yellow on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xiv328 10pp ads and one folding map. The Florence & Edward Kaye copy with their gilt-stamped morocco bookplate mounted to front pastedown. Inscribed on the front endpaper to American mystery author Carolyn Wells 1862-1942: "To Carolyn Wells Houghton / In appreciation and with sincerest regards / S.S. Van Dine." Rubbing to heel lower corners and a handful of letters at spine with some dust-soil to upper edge of textblock and a few dog-eared corners smoothed out; contents clean; Very Good or better. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.00 spine-sunned edgeworn with small losses to spine ends and a series of smaller nicks tears and attendant creases along the upper edge; Very Good. A remnant of the original pictorial wraparound band is laid in. Housed in a custom slipcase and chemise. Van Dine's fifth novel featuring amateur detective Philo Vance. "Benjamin H. Kyle a philanthropist and art patron is found murdered in a famous private museum in Gramercy Park. He has been struck over the head with a statue of Sekhmet the Egyptian goddess of vengeance and is lying in a pool of blood his arms outstretched toward a life-size statue of Anubis the god of the dead. The principal clew to the murder is a small lapis-lazuli scarab of Intef V a Pharaoh of the Seventeenth Dynasty" from front flap. Others are brought in to head up the investigation but naturally it's Philo Vance who solves the murder. A distinguished copy inscribed to Carolyn Wells one of the grand dames of the Golden Age of detective fiction and creator of the long-running Fleming Stone series. A proper association connecting two of the most prominent genre authors of their time. Penzler p.20; Hubin p.405. 8931. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
1933réf. 143325New York: Random House 1933. marbled paper-covered boards over black gilt-stamped morocco slipcase. Jeffers Robinson. small 4to. marbled paper-covered boards over black gilt-stamped morocco slipcase. 262 pages. First edition limited to 487 numbered copies of which this is the large paper presentation issue one of only five such designated copies #15 signed by both Jeffers at the end of his introductory essay "Remembered Verses" on page xvi and Alberts on the front free endpaper See Broomfield Bi1c2. Marginally rubbed at the head and toe of the spine else a fine copy in a near fine slipcase. Alberts bibliography was long considered the standard work on Jeffers until Broomfields His Place for Story: Robinson Jeffers: A Descriptive Bibliography was published by Oak Knoll Press in 2015. This copy carries holograph ink and pencil notes and emendations to the various entries. Broomfields bibliography would ultimately correct many of the errors made by Alberts in this earlier work. Random House unknown
1910réf. 32462AB1910. Norway c. 1910. 14 cm wide x 8.8 cm high. 56 Vintage Photographs. Modern Softcover Sleeve with all photographs inside. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. paperback
1928réf. MYSCTSCRIBNERS 1928. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. A beautiful first edition in fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by S.S. Van Dine. You can't get a better copy!. SCRIBNERS Hardcover
1942réf. 61-1133Braunschweig:: Georg Westermann C. 1942 1942. 192p. b/w photos. Some color. Grey cloth spine. Oversize. Rear board damaged at lower corner. Good copy. 1st. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Georg Westermann, C. 1942 Hardcover
1870réf. WRCAM56703Denver: S.S. Wallihan & Co. 1870. 442pp. plus 7pp. of ads at the front 59pp. of ads at the rear and 144pp. of ads interspersed in the text. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt. Minor edge wear and light soiling to boards. Internally clean. Very good plus. This directory here in its first year of publication is an extremely detailed compendium of information and statistics on virtually every aspect of Colorado territory covering its history geography and geology natural resources etc. "This Directory gives useful information on the early territorial history of Colorado including the various conventions and forms of government in the early days railroads colonization and early mining" - Streeter. The volume also includes an accurate directory for Denver Golden City Black Hawk Central City Nevada Idaho Georgetown Greeley Colorado City Pueblo Trinidad etc. An appendix for the Denver directory includes the noted western artist A.E. Mathews who had recently published GEMS OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCENERY and the Chinese tea dealer Tang Fee. This text is further supplemented by more than 200 pages of advertisements for local businesses. A more useful and comprehensive guide to pre- statehood Colorado would be difficult to find. Though published in Denver by Samuel Wallihan who also edited the work this book was printed in Chicago and is therefore also an example of a Chicago ante-fire imprint. However it is not listed in the American Imprints Inventory list of Ante-Fire imprints nor is it in Eberstadt Graff or Decker. Howell paid $110 for the Streeter copy in 1969. HOWES C611. WYNAR 1905 3794. SABIN 72459. STREETER SALE 4280. S.S. Wallihan & Co. hardcover books
1906réf. 59301Roanoke AL: Mrs. S.S. Smith Birmingham AL: Press of Roberts & Son 1906. First edition of one in a series probably issued annually. Oblong 4to. Unpaginated 15 pp. Illustrated from black & white photographs. Leaves facing wrappers lightly foxed; light offset from illustrations. A very good copy of a very scarce catalogue. Original gray wrappers printed in brown on the front cover and stapled; moderately soiled and lightly edgeworn. A priced catalogue illustrated with pictures of the dolls grouped and numbered of the creator and producer Mrs. Smith of her staff of twelve women doll-makers of their work room with dolls in process and of a child probably her daughter with her collection of the dolls including "the colored 'Mammy' nurse." Customers could choose from seven sizes and 47 styles with further options e.g. they could be "painted to represent any race of people"; her black dolls are thought to be the first manufactured in the South. Prices ranged from $1 for the most basic to $10 for an elaborately dressed model. The Alabama Indestructible Rag Doll also Ella Smith Doll and Alabama Baby had a considerable success in the region. This catalogue gives meticulous detail and instructions firmly warns against patent infringement refers to hygienic concerns and shows a small manufacturing company founded and run by a woman employing women to produce products for women and their daughters. None listed in the NUC or OCLC. #660. Mrs. S.S. Smith (Birmingham, AL: Press of Roberts & Son) unknown books
1827réf. 34973Randers Elmenhoff 1827. Indb. i fire næsten samt. ensartede brune hldrbd. m. røde forgyldte skindtitler på rygge og forgyldte tomefelter. M. titelblade og indholdsfortegnelser til alle fire bind. Titelbl. i bd. 1 m. hul der går ud over bogstaverne "lme" i Elmenhoff beskåret og repareret i margin. Indholdsfortegnelsen beskåret repareret opklæbet og m. mindre tab; første hæfte af bd. 1 ellers blot lidt tæt beskåret og brunplettet. De første tre blade af bd. 2 m. revne f.n. uden tab af tekst. Bd. 2 lettere brunplettet. De to hæfter af bind 3 i noget nydeligere stand indb. m. begge orig. for- August September og begge orig. bagosml. m. indholdsfortegnelse til pågældende hæfte omsl. dog noget nussede. Bd. 4 også i noget nydeligere stand indb. m. de orig. foromsl. til alle tre hæfter October November December og de orig. bagomsl. til de to første hæfter m. indholdsfortegnelse til det pågældende hæfte. Verso af sidste side m. "Rettelser til Nordlysetes 6 sidste Hæfter for 1827". De sjældne originaludgaver af 9 af de 12 hæfter der kom i første årgang af Blichers berømmede tidsskrift "Nordlyset". Af den første årgang er kommet 4 bind med 3 hæfter i hvert. I alt udkom 12 bind med 3 hæfter i hvert fra 1827 til 1829. Langt størstedelen af bidragene er af Blicher selv bl.a. findes hér nogle af hans mest berømte og skattede værker såsom "Røverstuen" 2. bind 3. hæfte de første 4 samt 6. og sidste del af "Præsten af Wakefield" 2. bind 1.2. og 3. hæfte 3. bind 2. og 3. hæfte samt det sjældne indlednings- og programdigt "Nordlyset" naturligvis 1. bind 1. hæfte.Bertelsen 12.Det er klart at "Nordlyset" var mere end blot et tidsskrift der skulle foreligge som det sekundære valg til Elmquists "Læsefrugter" som Blicher nyligt havde valgt ikke at bidrage til længere da han ikke fik forhøjet betaling. "Nordlyset" skulle være et konkurrencedygtigt tidsskrift og det skulle tiltrække læsere. Det er således morsomt at se hvilken type læsere Blicher henvender sig til i den første årgang af tidsskiftet Indhold af den første hæfte: Nordlyset - Fruentimmerhaderen - Aline - Femten Fangers Flugt af Revolutionsfængslerne i Lyon - Scener af Bastillen - Den pavelige Soldat - Pierre la Grand den første Flibustier - En Aftenunderholdning paa Dagbjerg Dos - Robin Hood - Baggesen; "Her var dog noget for enhver Smag men især var der noget for Fruentimmernes Smag - for at tale i den Tids Sprog. "Fruentimmerhaderen" var i Virkeligheden en genial Titel set fra et Reklamesynspunkt thi det turde have været ligesaa uomtvistelig Kendgerning i 1827 som 90 Aar senere at Kvinderne interesserer sig mindst ligesaa meget for de Mandfolk der ikke kan lide dem som for dem der elsker dem." Sørensen Nordlys-Perioden i Blichers Digtning p. 97.Tidsskriftet får da også ganske god medvind og det er heri vi finder nogle af Blichers vigtigste noveller. Det er nok også gennem dette tiddskrift at man ser Blicher modnes til den ypperlige forfatter vi kender ham som i dag. Gennem dette tidsskrift følger vi Blichers eksperimenteren med forskellige genrer og stilarter. unknown
1887réf. 417304Fitchburg Mass. 1887. Unbound. Very Good. Approximately 9" x 14.5". Old folds with neat professional reinforcement on the verso small chips and tears in the margins mostly at the corners a sound and very good example. Interesting political broadside from a little-known and relatively short-lived progressive party that was interested in printing money in order to buy land for poor people between the towns of Fitchburg and Leominster in order to make it a single city. The dating of the broadside is a little confusing: dated in 1885 but then mentions meetings in 1886 and 1887 the one in 1887 seemingly anticipates a meeting in October of 1887. One statement notes: "Our party point and plan is to improve strengthen and build up the government and remove the burden of taxes from the people and ever stand ready to receive any good move come before them and have women a chance to vote." OCLC locates no copies. unknown
1934réf. 83668New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1934. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. A very good copy with some smudging and light staining in a supplied but sympathetic very good price-clipped dust jacket with slight internal stains. Inscribed by the author: "To Dr. Hugh Stott Taylor With great appreciation for his gracious assistance and with warm personal regards. S.S. Van Dine." The English-born Taylor was a chemist who spent much of his life at Princeton and who in World War II played a prominent role in the American scientific effort directing a number of research projects and contributing to the development of the atomic bomb with his discovery of the most effective catalyst for producing heavy water. He was knighted by both the Queen and the Pope in the same month. A Chair in chemistry is named for him at Princeton. The inscription would seem to indicate that Taylor provided advice to Van Dine about the novel or at least to Willard Huntington Wright as Van Dine was a pseudonym. A Philo Vance novel filmed in 1935 with Paul Lukas as Vance starring opposite Rosalind Russell in one of her earliest roles. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1933réf. 140948928New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1933. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing. Signed by S.S. Van Dine on the title page inscribed to the former owner. xii ii 311 1 6; ads pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in crimson with map endpapers. Near Fine. Quite sharp with light edge wear and a bit of faint soiling to cloth In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with minor creasing at spine ends light chipping at corners and perforated letters spelling out "UNCo. at front flap; possible review copy. A Philo Vance whodunit with a plot revolving around mythological dragons. The basis for the 1934 film starring Warren William and Margaret Lindsay; uncommon signed. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
1930réf. 180811003New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Julian Johnson head story editor for 20th Century Fox studios in the 1930s: "To Hildegarde and Julian Affectionately from signed S.S. Van Dine alias Willard." xii 328 5 versos only ads pp. Black cloth lettered in yellow. Very Good with slight crease to prelims edge rubbing in Good unclipped dust jacket with some chips tiny edge tears and dulling to spine panel. A whodunit that inspired a now-lost 1936 British film starring Wilfrid Hyde-White rather than the popular William Powell as Philo Vance. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1930réf. 180811003New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Julian Johnson head story editor for 20th Century Fox studios in the 1930s: "To Hildegarde and Julian Affectionately from signed S.S. Van Dine alias Willard." xii 328 5 versos only ads pp. Black cloth lettered in yellow. Very Good with slight crease to prelims edge rubbing in Good unclipped dust jacket with some chips tiny edge tears and dulling to spine panel. A whodunit that inspired a now-lost 1936 British film starring Wilfrid Hyde-White rather than the popular William Powell as Philo Vance. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1928réf. 1095801928. Signed. WRIGHT Willard Huntington VAN DINE S.S. The Benson Murder Case. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1928. Octavo contemporary three-quarter green crushed morocco elaborately gilt-decorated spine raised bands decorative endpapers top edge gilt. $1400.Third edition of the first Philo Vance novel by legendary critic and editor Willard Wright under the pseudonym of S.S.Van Dine a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone mystery a splendid presentation copy inscribed by him to his close friend ""To Norbert L. Lederer. In memory of Hopatcong and the Uberbrettl movementthe place and the subject which resulted in our friendship. S.S. Van Dine New York.""Lederer the recipient of this distinctive copy was a close friend of Wright who published his Philo Vance series under the pseudonym of S.S. Van Dine. When Wright was ordered to take a break from overwork Lederer stepped in and told his friend to instead ""devote his life to writing crime novels"" Sanchez Jose Raul Capablanca 276. Lederer offered Wright access to his ""vast collection of detective fiction. Wright then read all of the authors of crime fiction old and new and decided he could do better"" Backer Mystery Movie Series 5-6. As Wright began working on Benson Murder Case the first Philo Vance novel he asked Lederer a member of the prestigious Manhattan Chess Club to arrange a meeting with Alexander Alekhine who became the Fourth World Champion of Chess in 1927. Wright used that meeting to gain background for Philo Vance's talent for solving chess-related murders. In 1933 New Yorker magazine reported that Lederer ""gave S. S.Van Dine the chess and mathematical dope for The Bishop Murder Case.""When Wright began ""crafting his influential theory of detective fiction he drafted several story outlines and submitted three to Maxwell Perkins at Scribner's promptly receiving a contract."" Benson Murder Case launched ""what Haycraft has called the ""Golden Age Van Dine's place in the history of the American detective story is secure and important"" Reilly 1415. ""Philo Vance was an American cousin to Lord Peter Wimsey and forefather of many later detectives"" Hardy BFI Companion to Crime 137. At his death Wright was ""the best known American writer of the detective story since Poe His name will endure among the immortals of the literature"" Haycraft 168. Preceded by the 1926 first and 1927 second editions. With page of publisher's advertisement at rear. Reilly 1414. Hubin 414. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. See Barzun & Taylor 3268. From the library of Norbert L. Lederer with his bookplate. The ""überbrettl movement"" of Wright's inscription highlights a type of literary cabaret popular in Berlin at the turn of the century; ""hopatcong"" likely refers to an area not far from New York City. The two men shared a keen interest in chess and Lake Hopatcong was the center for major chess tournaments in the 1920s including one in 1926 won by the chess champion defeated by Alekhine in 1927. A suspect in The 'Canary' Murder Case the second Philo Vance novel complains of getting ticketed for speeding while ""driving down to Hopatcong.""Text fine lightest edge-wear faint toning to spine. An about-fine presentation copy. hardcover
réf. 50076Elkin Mathews & Marrot. London. 1930 First edition thus. Roy8vo 36pp. Hardcover in original cream pigskin with an abstract design of blue and black onlays and is lightly soiled with a darker mark on the lower spine being slightly splayed as well for reasons best known to specialist collectors internally this unusual book is comprised of Kelmscott hand-made paper that is clean and unfoxed with the requisite uneven fore-edges. Number 272 of only 300 copies ever produced with a lengthy introduction by D.H Lawrence this "is a story within a story contained within Dostoevsky's 1880 novel The Brothers Karamazov. It is recited by Ivan Karamazov during a conversation with his brother Alexei a novice monk about the possibility of a personal and benevolent God". This important original translation was made by Samuel S. Koteliansky a famous Ukrainian translator of Russian literature into English. Chekov was another who benefitted from his support as well as Dostoevsky and Rozanov amongst others being the manager of the prominent literary journal The Adelphi that published works of Lawrence Katherine Mansfield and even Dylan Thomas in the rarified world of mid-20th century English letters together with Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Hence the prominence of his name on the front board under the title and geometric pattern. Obviously extremely scarce anywhere in the world. Elkin, Mathews & Marrot. London. 1930 (First edition thus) hardcover
1910réf. 86840Tome premier : couverture souple. Non coupé. Tomes 2 et 3 : Reliure demi-velin. Dos lisse à pièce. Ouvrages ornés de nombreuses planches (dont de nombreuses dépliantes), photographies, illustrations (certaines couleurs), cartes. Un portefeuille complet des 7 cartes (sur 8 originellement prévues, mais la 8e ne parut jamais). Frottements d'usage aux reliures. Tome premier fendu en deux parts égales (sans manque), à faire reprendre ou relier.
In Firenze, nella Stamperia de Landini, 1636, in-4, legatura novecentesca che riutilizza la pelle dei piatti della legatura seicentesca, inquadrati da una serie di filetti a secco con immagine della Vergine con bambino, impressa in oro entro ovale raggiato al centro dei campi, dorso a 4 nervi (il dorso è moderno), [8], 254, [14]. Con frontepizio calcografico (fuori fascicolazione) e 40 incisioni in rame a piena pagina di Jacques Callot su disegni di Matteo Rosselli, Antonio Tempesta, Arsenio Mascagni, Fabrizio Boschi, Giovanni Bilivert, Antonio Circignano (le incisioni sono comprese nella fascicolazione e numerate con soli numeri dispari da 1 a 79, ma ci sono due errori nella sequenza delle illustrazioni) Seconda edizione di questo libro famoso. Moreni II, 513: "I rami che adornano quest'opera, sono tutti incisi a bulino dal celebre Jacques Callot". Brunet, III, 1181. Lieure vol. I pag. 32. Qualche brunitura, qualche macchia sparsa un paio di strappetti restaurati. Due ex-libris di prestigiosi bibliofili sulla controguardia anteriore: Paolo Rousseau e Loriano Bertini.
2005réf. Adhya-9780306485060SPRINGER 2005. HB. New. SPRINGER hardcover
Very Good English, Middle (1100-1500) Original imitation vellum. An OCLC register says "decorated with small shells and seaweed pasted on". Chipped on extremities and spine, slight pouring on paper; several tapes used at the link of the pages to binding. Otherwise a good copy. Small 4to. (27 x 18 cm). In Middle English (15th century). The first leaf attached to front cover. At end, 6 blank leaves. [46] p. with [7] blank pages, many illustrations, 1 letter with its broken seal. Separately, a facsimile of a letter from Isabella (Dona Isabel por Gracia de Dios Reina de Castilla y Leon etc. etc. A Don Cristobal Colon de Genova) to Columbus, dated 'Granada a? trece de Abril de MCCCCXCII,' with a broken seal attached. Script on vellum as well. Two registers in OCLC (1029665801 and 60764823 -This one is New York Edition-). 'Düsseldorf Edition' says "A spurious work purporting to be the logbook of Christopher Columbus, which, according to legend, he threw into the sea during a storm, and which was found on the coast of Pembrokeshire 400 years later. Written in antiquated English, with paper and binding made to imitate in color and appearance a volume damaged by exposure to seawater. "S.A.S.X. MY XPO FERENS" from cover, variously interpreted, eg. Supples servus altissimi Salvatoris Xristi Mariae Josephi Xpoferens. Forgery attributed to Karl Maria Seyppel. Printed by lithographic process on imitation parchment paper. Text and illustrations printed to appear handwritten, with many decorated initials. Accompanied by: reproduction of a letter purported to be by the finder of the logbook dated "September forth 1890"; "Don~a Isabel por gracia de Dios Reina do Castilla y Leon, etc., etc. a? Don Cristo?bal Colon de Ge?nova," supposed letter on imitation parchment, authorizing his voyage, dated "Granada, a? trece de abril de mccccxcij," with an attached seal, laid in.". This is a fine hoax on Colombus' first travel into America. It includes a map containing Cuba, San Salvador, and unknown areas with a hand drawing of Columbus as well as other illustrations and decorative borders, etc. This Edition may be printed in memory of the 400th year of '1492'. "Columbus's log of the first voyage has not survived, although we do have an abstract of it, written in the 1530s by Bartolome de las Casas. However, that actually used the "Barcelona Copy" of Columbus's original log. The chart above shows the sources that exist today in green, and sources that have disappeared in red. The chart also shows where secondary souses got their original information. When he returned to Spain in 1493, Columbus gave his original log to the Sovereigns at the royal court in Barcelona. Queen Isabela ordered the log to be copied, resulting in the so-called Barcelona Copy. The original has not been seen since, however, the Barcelona Copy was returned to Columbus just before his second voyage later that year, and remained in his possession until his death in 1506. It then passed into the hands of son Fernando, who used it when he wrote a biography of Columbus in 1538. The Barcelona Copy too was lost sometime after 1554. Sometime around 1530, the Barcelona Copy was abstracted by Las Casas into the Diario. This abstract as part of his research that led to his massive work, the Historia de las Indias. So The Diario remains our best historical record of the first voyage of Columbus. On the westward passage, Columbus kept two sets of distance figures in the log. According to Las Casas, this was done to allay the fears of the crew that they had sailed too far from Spain. The abstract is mostly written in the third person, but there are a number of large direct quotes from the log written in Columbus's own first-person.". (Source: Christopher-Columbus Europe website).
1935réf. 17479New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1935. First Edition First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good. The first edition first printing of The Garden Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story signed by S.S. Van Dine. Octavo 2 332pp 10pp ads. Publisher's black cloth title stamped in gilt. The first printing with the "Scribner's A" on the copyright page. Faint wear to black cloth light scuff mark on front cover along fore-edge. Solid text block internally clean. In the publisher's first state dust jacket $2.00 on the front flap two closed tears with archival tissue reinforcement to verso notable wear along bottom edge of front panel wear at tips a very good example. This copy is signed on the front free endpaper by S.S. Dine. The Garden Murder Case was first published in 1935 by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York. The novel was serialized in American Magazine beginning in February 1935 just before its book release. A British edition was issued the same year by Cassell and Company in London. The book was the ninth in the Philo Vance series and was one of the later entries before the character's popularity declined. A film adaptation by MGM starring Edmund Lowe as Vance was released in 1936. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
1864réf. 42241Boston 1864. Three printed broadside certifications completed in manuscript each about 8" x 13" and signed by Prize Commissioner John Lovell each attesting to his examination of three witnesses in the case of the CSS Georgia "a vessel taken as prize and brought into the port of Boston." Each witness is examined "upon the Standing Interrogatories established by this Court." Attached to each certification is a "true copy" of each witness's answers to those interrogatories signed and attested. Each document attached with a green ribbon at top margin. Very Good. The depositions include those of Frith B. Atkinson a crew member aboard the USS Niagara 6 pp.; E. McElmell who claims a share in the prize 3 pp.; and William Richardson from Liverpool who was aboard the prize "Georgia" when it was taken 10 pp. with folio manuscript document folded to 4pp each page 8-1/2" x 13-1/4" comprising testimony of a Liverpool Broker for the sale of ships. He discusses his examination of the Georgia "then lying in the Birkenhead docks." The CSS Georgia was originally built as a fast merchantman named 'Japan'. The Confederate States purchased it in 1863 at Dumbarton Scotland. The ship was outfitted with guns and commissioned as the CSS Georgia under the command of William Lewis Maury. She captured nine prizes but was sold in June 1864 to a Liverpool merchant in spite of protests from the United States Minister to Great Britain. The ship returned to sea in August 1864 and was captured by the US Navy frigate Niagara off Portugal. She was then sent to Boston and sold as a lawful prize. unknown
2005réf. CBS-9780306485060Sp Springer 2005. New. Sp Springer unknown
