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1879ref. 163401879. Carpenter J. Estlin The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter 1879 preserves the career of Mary Carpenter as a central figure in Victorian educational and penal reform with an inserted autograph letter signed by Carpenter adding manuscript evidence to a biography concerned with women's public authority juvenile justice prison reform abolition and female education. Carpenter founded ragged schools and reformatories for poor children and young offenders in Bristol advocated for women's education engaged anti-slavery work and traveled to India where she examined schools prisons and female education. Carpenter J. Estlin. The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter. London: Macmillan and Co. 1879. First edition. 1 volume. 495 pages. Portrait of Mary Carpenter facing title page. Bound in green leather with marbled boards with autograph letter signed by Mary Carpenter pasted in. The biography traces Carpenter's reform work across education juvenile reformatory practice prison conditions women's public speech and international reform networks placing her among the few nineteenth-century women whose authority extended into penal policy and public institutional criticism. Carpenter's reform career intersected with major mid-nineteenth-century debates over poverty juvenile delinquency women's education abolition and imperial reform. Her work on reformatory schools contributed to broader legislative and philanthropic discussions about whether young offenders should be punished or educated and her later visits to India expanded her reform agenda into female education and prison conditions under British colonial rule. Light foxing to free endpapers and title page with minimal shelfwear; good. A biography materially strengthened by Carpenter's own signed letter joining printed memorialization with direct manuscript presence from a major woman reformer. unknown books
1877ref. 163421877. Carpenter Mary autograph letter signed dated January 10 1877 documents Carpenter's support for women's participation in school governance during the final months of her life providing direct evidence of her work across women's education juvenile reform prison reform and public advocacy. Carpenter founded ragged schools and reformatories for poor children and young offenders in Bristol advocated for women's education engaged anti-slavery work and traveled to India where she examined schools prisons and female education. Carpenter Mary. Autograph Letter Signed to Alderman Mansfield. Bristol: Mary Carpenter 1877. January 10 1877. 1 page. Original mailing envelope and two obituaries of Carpenter are pasted into the volume. The letter congratulates Mansfield on the election of his wife to the School Board stating "Thanks for sending us the paper containing the very gratifying announcement of the election of Mrs. Mansfield.It is a grand triumph!" A note at the bottom signed M. P. Mansfield explains "This letter was written on the receipt of a paper containing the account of the election of my wife to the School Board." Written months before Carpenter's death in June 1877 the letter links her educational reform career to the expanding civic role of women in nineteenth-century Britain. A biography materially strengthened by Carpenter's own signed letter joining printed memorialization with direct manuscript presence from a major woman reformer. Condition not stated in the supplied description. Strong association copy documenting Carpenter's support for women's public educational authority. unknown books
1975ref. 49081Chicago: Henry Regnery Company 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Very good to near fine condition. Signed "Ali" on title page at a Book Soup event with his photographer Howard L. Bingham in 1993 Hollywood. Due to the effects Parkinsons Disease had taken on Ali's health he signed the book with just "Ali." Quarto. 192pp. Original marine blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine in original color photo-illustrated dustjacket black lettering on spine. Light blue endpapers. Double page photo-illustrated title page. With a foreword by Muhammad Ali. Carpenter in his history of boxing stating the first account of a fight to be given by Homer around 1100 BC in the 23rd book of the Iliad. However "the English invented boxing as we know it: a fair fight hands only no aid to the fist other than a protection of horsehair in leather. The glove is there to guard the hand from damage not to add to its power." with brief accounts of Roman and British fights prior to his decade by decade account starting in 1890 through the 1970s with a special chapter on boxing at the Olympic Games from 1896-1972. The book covers all categories from Heavy to Light-Heavy Middle. Welter Light Feather Bantam and Fly followed by special sections with results of World Championships and Olympic Champions. The book is profusely illustrated with drawings b/w and starting with the chapter on the 1970s color photographs throughout. Contains index and photo credits at rear. Brodart-protected dustjacket with light wear along edges and price-clipped. Dustjacket in overall very good binding and interior in near fine condition. Henry Regnery Company hardcover books
1937ref. 56454East Aurora NY: Roycrofters 1937. First edition. 12mo. 34 pp. Illustrated from photographs ten plates map. Carpenter's 1936 Kenyan safari led by white hunters Donald Ker and Sidney Downey hunting buffalo rhinoceros lion and other game. Czech African Hunting p. 32: "This privately printed work was undoubtedly published in a very small quantity." Original gilt-stamped patterned brown boards ribbon marker. Front joint a little rubbed but a very good untrimmed copy mostly unopened. 2817. Roycrofters unknown books
1676ref. 020566Paris: Claude Barbin and Simon Benard 1676 & 1677. First Edition. Hardcover. Library stamp on title and first page of dedication no other markings; binding a bit worn spine chipped with partial loss of spine label. Good example of a scarce book. Small octavo 3-3/4" x 6-1/4" in calf; xxxviii 341 17; xvi 71pages. In the 1670s there was a heated debate among Paris intellectuals concerning whether inscriptions for a proposed triumphal arch in honor of Louis XIV should be in Latin or French. In the first work the author one of the first members of the Academy of Inscriptions argues in favor of the use of French for the inscription. Lucas in his work argues for Latin to be used. In the end the arguments were for naught. While there are four triumphal arches still standing in Paris this particular arch was never constructed. Claude Barbin and Simon Benard hardcover books
1962ref. 3683New York: Simon and Schuster 1962. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Fine. SIGNED BY ASTRONAUT SCOTT CARPENTER on the half-title. A handsome copy to boot of the 1962 stated 1st printing. Clean tightly-bound and VG in a bright price-intact Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo 352 pgs. Tasteful former owner bookplate to front blank endpaper. Signed by Author. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1928ref. 375447Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran and Company 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Preface by C.K. Woodbridge. Touch of sunning along the spine else fine in about near fine dustwrapper with toning along the spine and bit of wear at a few corners. Inscribed by the author. A refutation of the sometimes disreputable practices conducted by advertisers and businesses. Very scarce in dust jacket. Doubleday, Doran and Company hardcover books
1939ref. 65519New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1939. First edition. 8vo. xxii 2 533 pp. Illustrated from photographs plates line drawings maps. Record book for the largest species of various North American big game animals. Contributors to the text include John C. Phillips Henry Shoemaker Grancel Fitz James L. Clark Jack O'Connor Carl Rungius Belmore Brown and Kermit Roosevelt among others. Inscribed in the year of publication by Bob Bartlett who contributes the 6-page essay "Hunting the Polar Bear" and the 3-page essay "Hunting the Walrus"; Bartlett 1875-1946 was an award-winning artic explorer who commanded the SS Roosevelt on Robert Peary's attempts to reach the North Pole cf. Wikipedia for a short biography. Very good copy with an excellent association. Original gilt-stamped decorated rust cloth illustrated dust jacket. 11266. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1944ref. 731601944. Paris 1944. Paris 1944. Hemard's Illustrated French Tax Code Hemard Joseph 1880-1961 Illustrator. Code General des Impots Directs et Taxes Assimilees. Texte Integral des Lois Decrets Decrets-Lois Decret de Codification Suivi d'un Formulaire Administratif. Paris: Editions Litteraires et Artistiques/Librairie "Le Triptyque" 1944. x 330 1 pp. 183 illustrations 62 of them in color. 8 pp. addendum of changes to the code titled Rectificatif laid in Quarto 9-1/4" x 6-1/2". Illustrated stiff color publisher wrappers in tissue-paper dust wrappers. Light edgewear to dust wrappers contemporary presentation inscription to front free endpaper light toning to interior images vivid. A well-preserved copy. $600. Hemard presents the official text of the French Tax Code with witty often racy illustrations colored au pochoir by E. Charpentier. It is a sequel to his Code Civil: Livre Premier Des Personnes 1925 and Code Penal: Commentaires Images c.1940. Hemard a prolific artist illustrator designer and author is best-known for his humorously illustrated editions of serious non-fiction books. The Code General was issued in several forms. The present copy is from a trade edition of 1000 copies. It was also issued in a limited edition of 800 numbered copies the first 145 with an original sheet of text illustrations and a sheet of their original sketches. There is also a signed and numbered edition of 160 printed on Arches paper papier velin an edition of 40 non-commercial copies intended for friends and associates hors commerce and 60 portfolios of the images alone. unknown books
2003ref. 140946981San Francisco CA: Pomegranate 2003. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. Signed by Betye Saar on the title page inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's brown cloth binding with spine lettered in light brown. Fine in a Near Fine price clipped dust jacket with light shelf wear. The assemblage artist's striking monograph featuring her highly political and feminist works. Saar received the the J. Paul Getty for the Visual Arts fellowship in 1990. Pomegranate unknown books
1891ref. NF3555GLIMPSES AT THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A. V. H. CARPENTER Lanward Publishing Co.1891 first edition some light soil to the rear cover and a small closed tear at the center of the spine at the front hinge short closed tear to one leaf at the upper margin else a vg or better copy with unbroken inner hinges fine contents and many illustrations by Will Bradley. Carpenter was among other things a railroad man and herein writes of his considerable travels. Lanward Publishing Co. unknown books
1872ref. 16780Washington D.C.: January 1872. First edition. Modern blue paper wrappers with added modern endpapers. . 5 in. by 9in. . Some chipping to edges of leaves. Document tape at fore-edge of one leaf. A very good copy of a scarce women's suffrage item. The present report written by Republican Senator Matthew Hale Carpenter 1824 – 1881 responds to the memorial presented by numerous prominent suffragists including Susan B. Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton Isabella Beecher Hooker Elizabeth S. Bladen Olympia Brown and Josephine J. Griffing. The suffragists' memorial argued that the 1870 ratification of the 15th Amendment which granted voting rights to citizens of the United States regardless of "race color or previous condition of servitude" should also grant women the right to vote. Carpenter and the Senate denied that the 15th Amendment applies to women's suffrage and rejected the memorial. books
1938ref. 1019968vo blue linen lettered in gilt Illustrated with black and white photographs 180 pp. Spine a bit yellowed light edge wear slight aging; otherwise very good.This copy is inscribed and 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. Game Trails from Alaska to Africa covers Carpenter's hunting trips from 1933 to 1938. He discussion includes hunting Pronghorn in Wyoming Mountain Lion in Arizona and Jaguar in Mexico. He also provides considerable detail about the places he hunted. Article by Theodore J. Holsten Boone & Crockett Club. Privately Printed, books
2003ref. 49666San Francisco CA: Pomegranate 2003. Near Fine/Very Good. San Francisco CA: Pomegranate 2003. First Edition with full number line. Quarto 28.5cm; publisher's cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; x116pp.; halftone and full color illus. throughout. Light wear to jacket margins else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Inscribed and signed on title page "To Betty w/ heart Betye Saar / 2007." Additionally signed by David C. Driskell. Wonderful art monograph of the late "premier assemblage artist" Betye Saar 1926-2026. "Visiting the racial stereotypes of white artists and illustrators of the past and recasting and changing these racially derisive images into an invasive metaphor for black power is one of the acts of empowerment that Saar has successfully accomplished within the boundaries of cultural subversion" from Driskell's foreword p. vi. Pomegranate unknown books
1897ref. 313895Manchester: The Labour Press 1897. First edition. 192 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth stamped in gilt and black. Hinges cracked some minor wear to board extremities scattered light foxing contemporary ownership signature to f.f.e.p. First edition. 192 pp. 8vo. An anthology of writings on "the changes going on in the social and industrial situation . the Land Question the questions of Trade-Unionism Co-operation Parliamentary Action Education Art Literature and the Status of Women together with the general positionsof Socialism and Anarchism have all been dealt with in some degree" preface. Contributors includ Alfred Russell Wallace Tom Mann H. Russell Smart William Morris H.S. Salt Enid Stacy Grant Allen Margaret McMillan Bernard Shaw and Edward Carpenter. The Labour Press unknown books
2002ref. 9026967Minneapolis: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2002. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Presentation signed by Jim Dine to the curator of prints at the Minneapolis Iinsitute of Arts on the half title page. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with the front cover stamped in blind and the spine stamped in gilt. Dust jacket. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts hardcover books
1840ref. 4022181840. Softcover. Very Good. Oblong octavo. Measuring 8.5" x 6.75". Green red and yellow marbled stiff paper wrappers with paper label. Illustrated. Text separated from spine foxing and staining on the internal top margins of the pages but very good. An album used as a rustic sketch book extensively illustrated by a boy identified as "James Carpenter" with no listed dates but possibly from the Middle Atlantic area in the 1840-50s. Insides of the wrappers have various small drawings of household objects birds and people. The pages in the front of the album feature detailed pencil drawings of houses and buildings with stone walls simplistic fences and trees. One picture depicts a lighthouse on the shore with a small boat out in the distance. Later the drawings focus more on animals with birds and dogs being the primary focus. A very lean and large dog is depicted sitting in front of a small structure looking off to the side possible a greyhound. The drawings are juvenile but otherwise quite good with attention paid to proportion in not only the animals but also in the structure of the architecture. Carpenter's signature is the only written text in the album as many of the illustrations fill up the entirety of the pages. A nicely illustrated rustic album presumably filled with the everyday objects that may have surround Carpenter in his daily life. unknown books
1900ref. 88287Paris: Au Ménestrel - Heugel & Cie 1900. First French Edition. Quarto. 28.5cm. Twentieth century red half morocco over marbled boards titled and decorated in gilt to spine. 408pp. Light bumping and scuffing to corners otherwise strong tight and clean; internally clean and fresh edges speckled black inscription to verso of last blank preceding musical score very light spotting mainly confined to prelims. A very good clean and handsome copy in a later leather binding. Inscribed rather floridly by Charpentier on the occasion of the premiere of "Louise" in Vienna on 24th March 1903 to Princess Martha Stirbey of Romania: "A Madame la Princesse Stirbey en admiration respecteuse Gustave Charpentier 24 Mars 1903 1ere de Louise en Vienne" There is an additional musical quotation and accompanying text "You were for me in Vienna the fleeting vision O Massenet Master Friend forgive me! of the spirit and charm of Paris" Never a shy and retiring gentleman Charpentier has somewhat outdone himself with this inscription. Au Ménestrel - Heugel & Cie unknown books
1944ref. 701961944. Paris 1944. Paris 1944. Hemard's Illustrated French Tax Code Hemard Joseph 1880-1961 Illustrator. Code General des Impots Directs et Taxes Assimilees. Texte Inegral des Lois Decrets Decrets-Lois Decret de Codification Suivi d'un Formulaire Administratif. Paris: Editions Litteraires et Artistiques/Librairie "Le Triptyque" 1944. x 330 1 pp. 183 illustrations 62 of them in color. 8 pp. addendum of changes to the code titled Rectificatif laid in Quarto 9-1/4" x 6-1/2". Illustrated stiff color publisher wrappers. Negligible light soiling light rubbing to spine ends two faint creases through spine light toning to interior images vivid. A well-preserved copy. $750. Hemard presents the official text of the French Tax Code with witty often racy illustrations colored au pochoir by E. Charpentier. It is a sequel to his Code Civil: Livre Premier Des Personnes 1925 and Code Penal: Commentaires Images c. 1940. Hemard a prolific artist illustrator designer and author is best-known for his humorously illustrated editions of serious non-fiction books. The Code General was issued in several forms. The present copy is from a trade edition of 1000 copies. It was also issued in a limited edition of 800 numbered copies the first 145 with an original sheet of text illustrations and a sheet of their original sketches. There is also a signed and numbered edition of 160 printed on Arches paper papier velin an edition of 40 non-commercial copies intended for friends and associates hors commerce and 60 portfolios of the images alone. unknown books
1937ref. 318991East Aurora: Roycrofters 1937. Limited. hardcover. near fine. 10 photographic illustrations text printed on rice paper. Thin 16mo 5.2 x 7 inches flexible faux leather. East Aurora: Roycrofters 1937. Limited Edition. Presentation copy. Very scarce as only a few copies were privately printed for the author to give as gifts. Roycrofters unknown books
1896ref. 248London The Studio Magazine 1896. Embossed lithograph in colors. Contained within the bound edition of THE STUDIO AN ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE OF FINE AND APPLIED ART. 1894189618971898 and 1899 with their blind stamp lower right. 5 ¼ x 8 7/8 188mm x 226mm. The book is bound in green cloth with gilt letters on the cover and spine. In good condition. The Studio Magazine was an illustrated fine arts and decorative arts magazine founded in Britain in 1893 which exerted a major influence on the development of the Art Nouveau movement. The earlier editions usually had original lithographs and etchings bound into the publication as it is here. Charles Holme Editor. In the later 20th century the annuals gave increasing prominence to architecture and interior design and in the mid-1960s it was retitled Decorative Art in Modern Interiors. The annual ceased publication in 1980. THE STUDIO, AN ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE OF FINE AND APPLIED ART books
1625ref. D14119Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and William Turner. for Henry Cripps 1625. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Full contemporary calf gilt-stamped lettering in second spine compartment 4 raised bands; two parts bound in one volume 8vo 185x142mm; pp. 14 274; 14 286; with separate title-page to second book 3 folding tables and numerous woodcut illustrations in text including mariner's compasses diagrams showing moon eclipses terrestrial spheres the solar system and more. Table at p. 229 in facsimile. Spine chipped and tips perished; some scuffing to boards. Spotty dampstaining and soiling to second book. A scarce book on the market in any condition. First edition of "the most important early geography written by an Englishman" Carpenter was the first to write on theoretical geography as distinuished from mathematical treatises on navigation or the repetition of narratives of travel. "The great merit of the treatise is Carpenter's blending of the solid part of the work of Aristotle and Ptolemy with that of the explorers and investigators of his own generation. He mentions the magnetical observation of Gilbert Wright Ridley and Norman and the cartographical improvements of Mercator and Wright" Rosenbach 19:110. California is mentioned as an island -- a fifth continent. "California heretofore supposed to be a parte of the Westerne Continent is since by a Spanish chart taken by the Hollanders found to be a great Iland" II:130. Printed by John Lichfield and William Turner... for Henry Cripps hardcover books
1830ref. 304041London: Printed and Published by William Carpenter 1830. First editions. Decorated head pieces. 1 vols. 4to. Disbound. 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: 1. " A Report on the Trail of William Carpeter 12 pp. 2.An Expostulatory Letter to the Commissioners of Stamps." 16 pp 21 October 1830; 3. A Monitory Letter to ther People of England. 16pp. with an ad for Queen Mab.October 29 1830 4. "A Letter to the Aristocracy of England. " 24 pp 6 Nov. 1830; 5 A Second Letter to the Duke of Wellington.16pp 6. Facts and Observations connected to the Present Times. 16pp. November 18 1830 7. A Letter to Earl Gray.November 25 1830 8."A Letter to Lord Althorpe" 16 pp. 4 Dec. 1830 9. "A Second Letter to Lord Althorpe" 16 pp. 7 Dec. 1830 10. "A Political Miscellany on National Debt" 16 pp. 9 Dec. 1830 11 "A Political Compendium on Reform" 16 pp. 18 Dec. 1830 12 "A Political Digest" 16 pp. 23 Dec. 1830 13. A Supplement to Carpenter's Political Compendium. 8 pp. 14. "A Letter to the Right Hon. Wilmot Horton" 16 pp. 31 Dec. 1830 15. "A Political Mirror" 16 pp. 7 Jan. 1831 16.; "A Political Chronicle" 16 pp. 13 Jan 1831 17. ; "A Political Herald" 21 Jan 1831 18. A Political Register January 28 1831. 16 pp. 19. A Political Letter. Feburary 4 1831. 16 pp. 20. Another Political Letter Feburary 12 1831. 16 pp. 21. A Letter to the Rightr Hon. The Chancellotr of the Exchequer. 16 pp. 22. A Political Monitor Friday May 6 1831. 16 pp. 23. A Political Censor. Saturday May 14 1831. 16 pp. At an early age he began working for a bookseller in Finsbury first as an errand boy and then as an apprentice. In 1830 he issued a series of Political Letters with which he attempted to defy the stamp duty on newspapers but in May 1831 he was tried and convicted of evading the law and was imprisoned. While in prison he edited a political magazine which was republished as Carpenter's Monthly Political Magazine in 1832. NCBEL 3:1818 Printed and Published by William Carpenter unknown books
1805ref. 4040Charleston South Carolina: Printed at the Office of the Charleston Courier 1805. First Edition. Fair. 8vo. 3-127 INCOMPLETE: lacking half-title title-page here in facsimile and pp. 93-127 paperstock browned throughout p. 5 stained and a little soiled. Recent sympathetic wrappers title written in ink on upper cover. Described in 1893 as "One of the rarest of American trials" Catalogue of the Extraordinary Collection of Law Trials made by the late Edmund B. Wynn no. 1275. Whereas our copy is significantly incomplete we invite all haters to find another but please be patient because no copy complete or otherwise has appeared at auction since 1963. McDade explains that this is "an unusual case at Goosecreek South Carolina in which the wife's lover murdered her husband outside the house and put the body in bed with the wife who attempted to conceal the crime. He was convicted and hanged. She with Southern consideration for womankind was acquitted" but nonetheless she was scorned shamed and humiliated for violating her marriage vow. But the trial was of national significance because "the Nettles-Cannon Trial gives a preliminary glimpse of the scope of state efforts to transform the criminal justice system in the first decades after the ramification of the Constitution and suggests some of the reasons those efforts remained incomplete" Dale p. 23. "The trial of Joshua Nettles and Elizabeth Cannon 1805 who presumably conspired to kill Cannon's husband serves as an example to show how key actors in the process from the detection of a crime to the actual trial were ordinary members of the community how legal arguments had little impact on the outcome of the trial how jurors judged the law rather than the facts or how Nettles did not appeal his eventual conviction. The state and the people in this period cooperated in order to achieve justice." Birte Christ 2012 review of Elizabeth Dale's "Criminal Justice in the United States 1789-1939" online at H-Soz-Kult. Dale discusses the significance of the trial on pp. 23-30. Finally: "The S.C. Carpenter reports on these two cases may be the earliest surviving records of full trial proceedings in South Carolina." W. Lewis Burke "A History of the Opening Statement From Barristers to Corporate Lawyers: A Case Study of South Carolina" in: American Journal of Legal History 1993 vol. XXXVII p. 38. This trial was featured in the 2014-2015 exhibition of "Murder and Women in 19th-Century America Trial Accounts in the Yale Law Library." COMMENT: This copy contains the complete transcripts of the witness testimonies and cross-examinations and all the arguments of the DEFENSE pleaded by the lawyers of Joshua Nettles and Elizabeth Cannon. It does not contain "The Defense Being Gone Through The Attorney-General Rose in reply and said: May it please your Honor" etc. The Attorney-General's text continues through pp. 93-114; following it is "The Judge's Charge" pp. 115-124 and an unrelated account of the execution of Richard Dennis Jun. which was appended to this edition because "it came too late to be published with the trial of Dennis and is therefore according to promise published with that of Nettles" pp. 125-127. CENSUS OF COPIES ON THE MARKET SINCE 1885: 1. Goodspeed's 1963 Catalogue 511 apparently it had appeared in Goodspeed's 1940 and 1943 catalogues. Prior to that we located the following copies at auction all of which took place 106 years ago or more: 2. John C. Brady Esq. copy sold at Henkels 19 Oct. 1917 lot 380; 3. Maj. Edward Willis copy sold at Henkels 29 Oct. 1914 lot 527; 4. Hon. Samuel C. Cobb copy sold at Anderson Galleries 30 March 1906 lot 560; 5. John H.V. Arnold Esq. copy sold at Bangs 23 April 1900 lot 1362; 6. Edmund B. Wynn copy sold at Bangs 7 Feb. 1893 lot 1275; 7. W. Elliot Woodward's 74th Sale: Trials and Criminal Biography sold at Bangs 19 April 1885 lot 1130. Sabin 11005. McDade Annals of Murder no. 715. Printed at the Office of the Charleston Courier unknown books
1879ref. 41099London 1879. Carpenter William B. 1813-85. Autograph letter signed to Mr. John Paget 1811-98. London 56 Regents Part Rd. N.W. June 2 1879. 4pp. 178 x 114 mm. A few tiny 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 letter which discusses a false confession to murder made by a mentally unbalanced young man reads in part as follows: Dear Mr. Paget In turning out my papers at the University today I have come upon a document which I forward to you containing the Father's statement of his Son's relation to the "Brompton Murder" case with full particulars of the latter's confession and its inconsistency with the facts. I believe that I did not send in this to the Home Secy.; but that what I specially urged upon him was the evidence with which Knowles had supplied me of the "cracky" nature of the youth's mind and of the obviously hereditary tendency to brood as shown in the father and aunt-the latter an old servant of Knowles. And I remember also that there was evidence of the youth having had money in the Savings Bank and of his having drawn out a pound just before the Crystal Palace Police Fête. This altogether made so strong an impression on Mr. Bruce that he at once commuted the sentence; and the family were so sensible that the lad was not fit to take care of himself that they expressed no disappointment at his not having received a free pardon. . . . Carpenter's correspondent was the police magistrate and author John Paget whose Paradoxes and Puzzles published in 1874 included accounts of a number of sensational crimes. We have not been able to identify the murder case to which Carpenter refers in his letter. . unknown books
