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ref. 283359unbound. fine. American Astronaut. Early signed official NASA color lithograph photograph 8" X 10" depicting Carpenter attired in a business suit with a flag background. Full signature "Scott Carpenter." Fine condition. unknown books
1848ref. 61797London: David Bogue 1848. First edition. 12mo. viii 153 pp. Illustrated from wood engravings cut of fish vignettes etc. frontispiece plate of hand-colored flies. Heckscher 357. With an old Liverpool subscriber's library label on the front pastedown; still a very good copy. Original gilt-stamped decorated green cloth spine ends somewhat worn with gilt-stamped illustrated spine dull. 8708. David Bogue unknown books
1862ref. 1784London: Ray Society 1862. First edition. 1862 FOLIO VOLUME WITH PLATES OF MICROSCOPIC MARINE ANIMALS NOW PREDICTING THE DISTURBING FUTURE OF CLIMATE CHANGE. 13.5 inches tall hardcover folio volume green buckram binding i-xxii 47 wood engravings in text 319 pp 22 full page lithographic plates by George West with facing descriptive text. Light browning to pages unmarked very good WILLIAM BENJAMIN CARPENTER 1813 - 1885 was an English physician invertebrate zoologist and physiologist. He was instrumental in the early stages of the unified University of London. He attended medical classes at University College London 1834-35 and then went to the University of Edinburgh 1835-39 where he received his MD in 1839. His work in comparative neurology was recognized in 1844 by his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society. His appointment as Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution in 1845 enabled him to exhibit his powers as a teacher and lecturer. He worked hard as investigator author editor demonstrator and lecturer throughout his life; but it was his researches in marine zoology notably in the "lower" organisms as Foraminifera and Crinoids that were most valuable a beautiful example offered here. These researches gave an impetus to deep-sea exploration an outcome of which was in 1868 the oceanographic survey with HMS Lightning and later the more famous Challenger Expedition. He was an adept in the use of the microscope and his popular treatise on it stimulated many to explore this new aid. He was awarded the Royal Medal in 1861. In 1856 Carpenter became Registrar of the University of London and held the office for twenty-three years. Carpenter gave qualified support to Darwin but he had reservations as to the application of evolution to man's intellectual and spiritual nature. FORAMINIFERA are single-celled organisms with an external shell of diverse forms and materials. Most foraminifera are marine the majority of which live on or within the seafloor sediment. Over 50000 species are recognized both living ~10000 and fossil 40000. The most striking aspect of most foraminifera are their hard shells or tests. These may consist of one of multiple chambers and may be composed of protein sediment particles calcite aragonite or in one case silica. Test-bearing foraminifera have an excellent fossil record throughout the Phanerozoic eon. Dying planktonic Foraminifera continuously rain down on the sea floor in vast numbers their mineralized tests preserved as fossils in the accumulating sediment. Because certain types of foraminifera are found only in certain environments their fossils can be used to figure out the kind of environment under which ancient marine sediments were deposited; conditions such as salinity depth oxygenic conditions and light conditions can be determined from the different habitat preferences of various species of foraminifera. This allows workers to track changing climates and environmental conditions over time by aggregating information about the foraminifera present. Recent application of these data have led to disturbing predictions regarding current acceleration of climate change resulting from human-generated CO2 E. J. Judd et al. A 485-million-year history of Earth's surface temperature. Science Vol 385 Issue 6715 2024. DOI: 10.1126/science.adk3705. Ray Society hardcover books
1875ref. 31440London: 56 Regents Park Road 1875. 2 pages. 1 vols. 8vo. On a stub attached to a larger colored sheet some discoloration of larger sheet folds else very good. 2 pages. 1 vols. 8vo. Writing to Youmans that he is sending the last corrected revise of his lecture as asking for the earliest insertion into the magazine continuing that he will be giving his lecture on Human Automatism at Belfast on the 27th "which wil be rather supplemental to thatn an repetition of my Glasgow lecture. If it is well reported as I expect it will be in one of the Belfast papers would a revised Report be of any value to you" Carpenter was noted for his research in botany microscopy zoology and physiology and was a co-leader of the research team in 1868-70 on the deep sea scientific expedition aboard the "Lightning" and "Challenger." Youmans was the founder of "Popular Science Monthly' and planned the "International Scientific Series" he was a noted lecturer on science and author of several works. Provenance: From the autograph collection of W. P. Webster 56 Regents Park Road unknown books
1968ref. 14692Chicago: Childrens Press 1968. Deluxe Leather Edition. Full leather. Near fine. The deluxe leather edition of Illinois: Land of Lincoln by Allan Carpenter this being number 1 from a limited edition of 500 copies. Octavo 208pp. Full blue morocco title in gilt on spine raised bands state seal of Illinois in gilt on cover. All edges gilt silk endpapers. Housed in publisher's blue cloth slipcase lined in felt. Previous ownership inscription on second free endpaper. This is copy #1 of 500 and the only known copy bound in full morocco. Childrens Press unknown books
1876ref. 1402965Milwaukee 1876. One-page ALS discussing travels plans and sharing his thoughts on a recent fall: "Your telegram was duly rec'd. But I had before then knocked my brains out falling against a curb stone--doing however no perceptible damage to the curb stone." In Very Good condition with mild age toning wear to corners and edges and minor staining to verso. RW Consignment. Shelved at Rockville Room A General Ephemera Part 2. Matthew Hale Carpenter 1824-1881 was a lawyer and a politician known as the "Greatest Lawyer of the Northwest" and also serving as a U.S. Senator. Hon. Jeremiah S. Black 1810-1883 was a prominent Pennsylvania lawyer judges and statesman. Served as U.S. Attorney General and briefly as U.S. Secretary of State. 1402965. Special Collections - Upstairs. unknown books
ref. B170968-1Paris Éditions dArt du Croquis 1913. 40pp. Prof. illus. including 3 hors-texte plates as well as 24 têtes de pages or culs-de-lampe and lettrines printed in brown. 4to. Printed wraps. New fitted cloth clamshell case. Édition de tête: one of 30 numbered copies on Japon Impérial with a double suite of the plates the second suite printed in blue signed by the author in the justification from the limited edition of 180 in all. Large margins. Paris (Éditions dArt du Croquis), 1913. hardcover books
1956ref. 152181Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1956. Draft script for the 48th episode of season six of the 1950-1957 television series originally aired on September 6 1956 on NBC. Copy belonging to actor Johnny Crawford with his name in manuscript pencil to the title page and his manuscript annotations throughout. A woman must make a difficult decision when the exposure of her husband's criminal activities threatens to drive the family out of town and into hiding. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present dated August 15 1956 with credits for screenwriter Thomas Patrick Cullinan. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered III - 40. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with yellow revision pages throughout dated 8/28/56. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown books
1875ref. 163391875. Carpenter Mary. Red Lodge Girls' Reformatory School Bristol 1875 records Carpenter's methods for the education and rehabilitation of girls committed to the Bristol reformatory she established as part of her wider campaign for juvenile penal reform. Carpenter argued that reform depended upon securing each girl's active participation rather than relying on punishment alone: "The will of each individual girl must be enlisted in her own reformation and she should be led to feel that without this the efforts of teachers will be useless. Such confidence must be awakened in the minds of the children toward their teachers." The volume documents an approach that combined discipline with education personal responsibility and sustained relationships between teachers and pupils principles central to Carpenter's work with poor and juvenile offending children. Carpenter Mary. Red Lodge Girls' Reformatory School Bristol. 1875. First edition. Signed "with Miss Carpenter's Complements." Original brown boards with gilt title. Illustrated with an engraving of the school. This slim history describes Carpenter's work at Red Lodge and the institution's mission placing the school within her broader efforts to replace exclusively punitive treatment of young offenders with education and reform. Carpenter also established ragged schools for poor children advocated prison reform and expanded educational opportunities for women and carried her interest in educational and penal reform to Britain India Europe and the United States. Carpenter's writing on Red Lodge provides direct evidence of the educational principles applied to girls within the nineteenth-century reformatory movement particularly her insistence that institutional discipline required the cooperation and confidence of the child herself. The free front endpaper and engraving of the school are separated. A tear to the spine exposes the pages beneath; textblock clean. Overall Good Condition. unknown books
1962ref. 40401962. Carpenter Scott. Inscribed portrait photograph documents the public image of an original Mercury Seven astronaut who became the second American to orbit Earth during the May 24 1962 Mercury Atlas 7 mission. Piloting the spacecraft Aurora 7 Carpenter completed three Earth orbits and conducted photographic and scientific experiments during the fourth crewed flight of Project Mercury. The photograph supports research into the visual presentation of early astronauts Project Mercury Cold War patriotism and the circulation of personalized astronaut portraits during the formative years of American human spaceflight. NASA identifies Carpenter as one of the seven astronauts selected for its first astronaut class in 1959. Black-and-white portrait photograph undated. 8 x 10 inches. Carpenter appears in a suit and tie beside an American flag presenting a formal civilian likeness that joins astronaut celebrity with conventional symbols of national service. Inscribed and signed in black marker at the upper right "To Daniel Marcus Very Best Wishes Scott Carpenter." The personalized dedication identifies the photograph's original recipient and distinguishes it from an unsigned publicity portrait. The juxtaposition of Carpenter's business attire and the flag emphasizes the civic and representative role assigned to the Mercury astronauts as visible embodiments of the United States space program. Carpenter had served as John Glenn's backup for the first American orbital mission before flying Aurora 7 becoming the fourth American in space and the second to orbit Earth. His mission lasted approximately four hours and fifty-four minutes and concluded with a landing substantially beyond the planned recovery area followed by his retrieval and transfer to the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid. No specific defects are identified in the supplied description; image inscription and signature remain dark and clear near fine. Personalized patriotic portrait connecting a founding Mercury astronaut with the public culture of the early American space program. unknown books
ref. 23427Colour photo-mechanical portrait printed in tones of sepia red black and tan with short textual addition below portrait. Published in the satiric journal L'Assiette au Beurre in 1902. Sheet size 313 x 241 mm. With portrait of the French composer Theodore Dubois 1837-1924 to verso. Fine impression on tan wove paper. Slightly worn browned and brittle; very minor chipping to edges. unknown books
1941ref. WALTER-FILM006936Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. No binding. Fine. Los Angeles: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1941. Set of two vintage original 10 x 13" 25 x 32 cm. black-and-white double weight glossy silver gelatin photos. Both ink stamped by photographer Eric Carpenter with typed blurb on verso and ink stamp numbers 242 and 243. Fine. Lana Turner is viewed from two angles wearing her couture dress suit matching bag hat and handkerchief designed by Adrian to publicize her noteworthy appearance in the musical extravaganza Ziegfeld Girl. Though set in 1920 the day wear made for the film's stars was definitely 1940s. So popular was Adrian for designing day wear such as this that he soon after stopped designing for movies and opened a couture shop where anyone could have a suit designed and made by Adrian. Stars like Turner flocked to his studio to have their everyday wardrobe made. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer books
1859ref. 009785London: H. G. Bohn 1859. Book. Very Good Plus. Full Calf. New Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Handsomely bound in full polished calf intricate gilt back marbled end papers and edges stamp-signed "Huches & Kemp Binders Oxford" bottom edge verso front end page. Very Good Plus front board top 1" slight fading boards lightly rubbed and soiled moderate foxining at first few end pages front and rear but clean of foxing internally. Presentation inscription front end page dated 1865 gifting the book to a fellow Etonian on leaving the school. New Edition Thoroughly Revised and Partially Re-Written. . Uncommon in commerce in contemporary fine binding. H. G. Bohn Hardcover books
1830ref. 24113London: Printed and Published by William Carpenter 1830. First editions. Decorated head pieces. 1 vols. 4to. Eleven pamphlets plus the Supplement bound in contemporary green sheep-backed marbled boards. Spine defective edges rubbed some light spotting or browning of leaves else very good copies of these. First editions. Decorated head pieces. 1 vols. 4to. RARE. From 1830 to 1831 Carpenter published an unstamped series called "The Political Letters" challenging the stamp duty law as to whether any publication containing news was subject to duty. Carpenter did not feel that these should be subject to the duty. He was prosecuted and imprisoned from where he edited the "Political Magazine." The pamphlets contained are "An Expostulatory Letter to the Commissioners of Stamps." 16 pp 21 October 1830; "A Letter to the Aristocracy of England" 24 pp 6 Nov. 1830; "A Letter to Lord Althorpe" 16 pp. 4 Dec. 1830; "A Second Letter to Lord Althorpe" 16 pp. 7 Dec. 1830; "A Political Miscllany on National Debt" 16 pp. 9 Dec. 1830; "A Political Compendium on Reform" 16 pp. with an 8 page supplement printed at the Published of the Office of the Political Letters 18 Dec. 1830; "A Political Digest" 16 pp. 23 Dec. 1830; "A Letter to the Right Hon. Wilmot Horton" 16 pp. 31 Dec. 1830; "A Political Mirror" 16 pp. 7 Jan. 1831; "A Political Chronicle" 16 pp. 13 Jan 1831; "A Political Herald" 21 Jan 1831. NCBEL 3:1818 Printed and Published by William Carpenter unknown books
1865ref. 49648New York: Trent Filmer & Co 1865. Good. New York: Trent Filmer & Co. 1865. First Edition. Octavo; printed wraps with reversed "a" to title per Monaghan; 12ll. printed rectos only. Worn with chipping to wraps; binding sound; staining throughout; Good only. Includes the Springfield Farewell Speech Emancipation Proclamation the Gettyburg Address and the Second Inaugural Speech. Uncommon in retail and auction records. Monaghan 599. Trent, Filmer & Co unknown books
1959ref. 56768New York: Schulte Publishing Company 1959. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in about fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks. Laid in are prospectus and information about the publication of the book. The final anthology of this much-praised and long-running series edited by an African-American poet issued after a thirty year hiatus in conjunction with Braithwaite's 80th birthday. An important compendium representing most active American poets of the period. This copy Signed by the following poets at each of their contributions: John Hall Wheelock twice Mark Van Doren twice and Marianne Moore. Scarce in dustwrapper. Schulte Publishing Company hardcover books
1936ref. 372333New York: The American Historical Society 1936. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto. Bound in blue morocco with red doublures gilt spine silk moiré free endpapers all edges gilt. Title-page and dedication decorated in colors illustrated with engraved portrait plates and color armorial plates accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress. Ex-library with spine letters small bookplate and pocket. Rubbing to the edges front board is detached else a handsome very good bright copy. A beautifully printed history of the Rehoboth Carpenter family of Massachusetts. The American Historical Society hardcover books
1872ref. 39605Washington: Smithsonian Institution 1872. 8vo. 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches. xii 325 108pp. Includes index. Red cloth title stamped in gilt on spine. Original wrappers bound in. Smithsonian Institution unknown books
1938ref. 48996No place: The Author 1938. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Preface by Captain Robert A. Bartlett. One of 800 copies. Fine. Issued without dustwrapper. The Author hardcover books
1852ref. 255002London: George Routledge & Co 1852. Second Edition. Hand-colored frontispiece black and whilte illustrations in text. 1 vols. 16mo. Half contemporary green morocco and marbled boards title-page with small repair signed by Oliver Rogers. Second Edition. Hand-colored frontispiece black and whilte illustrations in text. 1 vols. 16mo. A reissue of Bogue's edition of 1848 with new title page and colored frontispiece of flies. Westwood & Satchell p. 50 George Routledge & Co unknown books
1951ref. 3208741951. unbound. Exceptional signed card "Gustave Charpentier - 3 - 1951" 4.5" x 3.75" card that also encompasses a small circular portrait and two bars of music from 'Louise'. Attractively set into grey matte with gold border to 9.5" x 7.5". Fine condition. French composer who studied under Jules Massenet and is best remembered for his opera 'Louise'. unknown books
1918ref. 522428New York: G. Schirmer 1918. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition thus. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert making six pages. Some very light edgewear else near fine. For voice and piano. Plate number 28453. Paul Laurence Dunbar is an important African American literary figure remembered in part for writing the lyrics for the landmark musical In Dahomey which according to historian Gerald Bordman was "the first full-length musical written and played by blacks to be performed at a major Broadway house. G. Schirmer unknown books
1904ref. 163381904. Two pamphlets concerning the educational and reformatory work associated with Mary Carpenter document the institutional methods developed for juvenile reform in nineteenth-century Britain and their continuation after Carpenter's death. Carpenter established a ragged school at Lewin's Mead Bristol in 1846 and opened the Red Lodge Reformatory for Girls with the support of Lady Byron in 1854 advocating education and rehabilitation in place of purely punitive treatment for juvenile offenders. The earlier pamphlet records a lecture on moral teaching delivered by Carpenter's associate E. A. Manning while the second commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Red Lodge with its program officers Carpenter's portrait and a photograph showing girls receiving instruction in sewing. Two pamphlets 1875 and 1904 relating to educational reform and Red Lodge Reformatory for Girls in Bristol. The 1875 pamphlet comprises 16 pages and prints E. A. Manning's lecture before the Social Science Congress on moral teaching in schools. The 1904 Red Lodge publication commemorates fifty years of the girls' reformatory and includes a portrait of Carpenter a program of anniversary events lists of trustees and officers and a photograph of girls learning to sew. The photograph records the industrial training incorporated into the institution's educational program where needlework formed part of the preparation of girls for employment after leaving the reformatory. 1 Manning E. A. Moral Teaching in Our Schools. 1875. 16 pages. Lecture delivered before the Social Science Congress by an associate of Mary Carpenter. Manning addresses moral instruction within schools during the period in which Carpenter and other reformers were pressing for educational methods intended to alter the treatment of poor neglected and juvenile offending children. The pamphlet records the intellectual arguments accompanying the development of reform schools as educational institutions rather than places organized solely around punishment. 2 Red Lodge Reformatory for Girls Bristol. Bristol December 9 1904. Fiftieth-anniversary pamphlet commemorating the institution Carpenter and Lady Byron established in 1854. Includes a portrait of Mary Carpenter a program of events lists of trustees and officers and a photograph showing girls learning to sew at Red Lodge. Produced nearly three decades after Carpenter's death the pamphlet documents the personnel commemorative culture and vocational instruction of an institution that continued the educational and penal reforms she had advocated. Very Good Condition. The two publications span nearly thirty years of discussion and practice surrounding moral education and girls' reformatory schooling connecting Carpenter's nineteenth-century reform program with the institutional life of Red Lodge at its fiftieth anniversary. unknown books
1940ref. 1019978vo blue linen lettered in gilt Illustrated with black and white photographs 43 pp. Spine a bit yellowed edges a little rubbed slight aging; otherwise very good. This is a limited edition number 351 of 400 and is signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Carpenter 1877-1949 was born in Wiles-Barr Pennsylvania and would become prominent industrialist. As an executive for DuPont helped turn the company into a modern scientific company and diversify from gunpowder and explosives. He was also an avid hunter and big game hunter and a member of the Boone and Crockett Club. As a director of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences he went on many trips to Africa to collect big game animals for the museum's dioramas. This work is essentially a sequel to Game Trails from Alaska to Africa which was published a couple of years earlier. In this volume Carpenter gives details about hunting trips in 1939 and 1940 to Alaska and Idaho. This title contains some great black and white photographs including one of Carpenter with a Grizzly bear he shot. Article by Theodore J. Holsten Boone & Crockett Club. Privately Printed, books
1860ref. 50276London 1860. London 30 June 1860. Bifolium. 4pp. 180 x 111 mm. A few pin-holes but fine otherwise. From English physiologist and naturalist William B. Carpenter who "helped shape the modern life sciences in Britain Oxford DNB through both his writings and his work as a teacher and administrator at what is now the University of London. Carpenter performed valuable researches in marine zoology and was directly influential in persuading the British Admiralty to sponsor the Challenger expedition the first major scientific study of the deep oceans. Carpenter is also recognized as one of the founders of the modern theory of the adaptive unconscious-he observed that the human perceptual system and the mechanism of human thought operates almost completely outside of conscious awareness. Carpenter's correspondent was the police magistrate and author John Paget. "I cannot let Mrs. Carpenter be the only one to express our hearty appreciation of the kind feeling on the part of Mrs. Paget and yourself by which the beautiful gift which we had the pleasure of receiving from you yesterday has been prompted as well as our admiration of the combined elegance and utility of the gift itself. Since its arrival Mrs. Carpenter has for the first time informed me that she had been taken into your counsels in the matter; and I am very glad that without any intention of her own your gift should have taken a form that so appropriately made her a participator in it. For her interest in Guy and her constant solicitude for his welfare have been as I need scarcely tell you in no degree inferior to my own. It gives us both great pleasure to have so substantial an expression of the satisfaction felt by Mrs. Paget and yourself in what we have endeavoured to do for him; and we trust with her that the influences and associations of early years may be pleasantly and usefully kept up on both sides by the continued friendship of our boys as they advance in life. With kindest wishes for the welfare and happiness of Mrs. Paget yourself and your family believe me Dear Mr. Paget always yours most sincerely William B. Carpenter." . unknown books
