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GERMANS IN PEKING DURING THE BOXER REBELLIONBiblio.com

ERINNERUNGEN AN UNSERE EXPEDITION NACH CHINA. PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM OF THE GERMANS

ref. 24054401China ca.1900-1901. 3/4 Gilt-stamped leather over buff cloth very good 25 x 29 cm. 30p. 26p. with photos 2 per side = total of 104 photographs16 x 11 cm. all very clean albumen type bit of fading but clear strong images. RARE! . . . ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE BOXER REBELLION 1900 . . THE GERMAN RECORD OF THEIR ACTION IN PEKING . . This is a wonderful quite rare original period photo album. . It shows the German contingent sent to China to join in the defense of foreign embassies in Peking during the 1900 uprising of the siege of the Boxers. . The work begins with the group aboard the S.S. Strassburg from Bremen and their landing in the German colony of Tsingtao Tsingtau. From there it was a long trek down to Peking in the snowy winter. . Classic photos posed for the camera & history 4 in all. Arrival in China with more classic poses of the German troops before Chinese sights and in a temple where they were stationed. . One shows large wooden cases of their supplies stacked up in the temple garden with the commanders posing for a lovely memorial photos. Well taken photographs by the group's photographic officer nicely composed and carefully taken these are NOT tourist snap shots ! These average two photos per page. . A group of German military men pose before a wide variety of Chinese pagodas and sights some in long capes spiked helmets with Chinese officials ! Their arrival in Peking during a heavy snowfall in 1900 is documented by a series of superb & rare photographs from the Summer Palace where the lake is frozen ! Magnificent but frozen Peking sights architectural views palaces Germans on the move with horse and carts through the snow as they deployment on orders to defend the foreign legations. . Inside a legation taking lunch tiffin; outside two or three Chinese Boxers were executed hands bound they lay face down in the snow. More photos of travel along the way wonderful Chinese scenery & buildings architecture snowed in barracks their visit to the Great Wall in the dead of winter with snow sprinkled all over. . A passage through Chinese villages and towns with long columns of German troops. One comic and lovely image of a German dressed in Chinese clothes another in a Chinese garden. . A German celebration Chinese and German open-air trial where the accused Chinese are on their knees before a magistrate Germans playing badminton leisure time in a garden soldiers packing medical supplies on horses and German headquarters &c. . PEKING: A lovely series of photos showing the great sites of Peking and the Imperial Palace large battalion of German soldiers on parade another shows them marching to a great hall destruction of Chinese buildings superb views of fine Chinese architecture lakes bridges & bas-reliefs. . The Great Buddha with soldiers taking a memorial snap shot. A fascinating photo of "Coal Hill" and stunning panoramic bird's eye view of the Forbidden City. Interiors of the Forbidden city Temple of Heaven Emperor's throne & the great walled city. Germans guarding Chinese buildings Japanese Embassy Chinese gates and walls showing Chinese children saluting a German officer. . Magnificent temples with Fu-dogs Germans playing tourists taking commemorative photos before many great sights. . Fascinating photographs of ordinary Chinese who pose for the German camera with a German officer standing in the background and pagodas. Chinese officials and photos of the German cemetery with tribute paid to fallen comrades. Huge temple guardians stone bride & others. . A final pair of photos grace the last page the upper shows a large contingent of Germans on parade as they are reviewed by their officers on horse-back the lower shows them aboard a train in preparations for departure back to Germany thus ending the album. The remaining five pages are blank. . This album is an excellent example of the German contingent in China during the historic Boxer Rebellion 1900-1901. It is also a primary record of what they did where they went acting as tourists during free moments. Recording photos of the great and small wonders in China the people and their exotic culture. . This excellent album is in remarkable condition with tissue guards over each page intact all are photos neatly laid down and centered their condition is flawless. While the images have some degree of fading they are nevertheless still clear and sharp photographs taken by an officer with an excellent Leila German camera. . This bright officer had the great foresight to record this great adventure showing himself and his comrades-in-arms on their sojourn through China to Peking. We thank him for leaving this superb album for posterity. . Color photos are posted to our website. . . unknown

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GERMANS IN PEKING DURING THE BOXER REBELLIONABAA

ERINNERUNGEN AN UNSERE EXPEDITION NACH CHINA. PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM OF THE GERMANS

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(Franklin Imprint) Pennsylvania Hospital, Trustee of theBiblio.com

This is to certify that Benjamin Chew of the City of Philadelphia hath contributed the Sum of Twenty five Pounds to the Pennsylvania Hospital and is thereby become one of the Corporation of Contributors and vested with all the Rights Powers and Privileges of a Contributor to the said Hospital according to an Act of Assembly made to encourage the Establishment of the same.

1756ref. 378310Philadelphia: Benjamin Franklin and David Hall 1756. Partly-printed certificate on vellum the blanks accomplished in manuscript in brackets above signed by Treasurer Charles Norris paper covered wax seal intact. Matted. Provenance: Dr. John Hansell. Partly-printed certificate on vellum the blanks accomplished in manuscript in brackets above signed by Treasurer Charles Norris paper covered wax seal intact. Founded in 1751 Pennsylvania Hospital is among the oldest public hospitals in the United States. Established by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Bond and financed through private donations and a matching grant from the Pennsylvania Assembly the cornerstone of the hospital's permanent structure at 8th and Pine was laid in 1755 and it officially opened for patient care in December 1756. The Pennsylvania Hospital chartered for the care of those in need free of charge was one of Franklin's most effective ideas for civic improvement. "Franklin was a prime force in founding the institution its first secretary and later chairman of its trustees; in his Autobiography . he wrote that he could remember no maneuver the success of which gave him at the time more pleasure than that of persuading the citizens and assembly to contribute matching funds to start the hospital initially" Miller. By the terms of its 1751 charter anyone who donated at least £10 to the hospital became a voting member of its corporation vested with the power to elect a Board of Managers and a treasurer to oversee the hospital's operations. By the mid 1750s there were approximately 120 members of the Corporation of Contributors each of whom would have received a certificate like the present signed by the Hospital Treasurer and indicating the amount and date of their gift. Each would have been affixed with the paper covered wax seal of the hospital originally engraved by James Turner the fragile nature of such seals makes its survival here of note. Printing of the certificates is ascribed by Miller and others to Franklin and Hall based on type and the printer's ornamental factotum not to mention Franklin's intimate involvement with its founding. The printing date is dated as early as 1751 when the hospital was incorporated though examples survive dated in manuscript between 1754 and 1761. Interestingly it is among the earliest examples of American printing on vellum. The present certificate was issued to Benjamin Chew 1722-1810 noted early American lawyer who represented the descendants of William Penn and the interests of the Proprietors of the colony. He would serve as Attorney General of Pennsylvania and as the Recorder of Philadelphia and later serve as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. A wealthy landowner and enslaver during the Revolution he would befriend George Washington and John Adams though his Quaker pacifism and long service to the Crown made him a suspected Loyalist. After the war he is credited with providing legal counsel and advice to the framers of the Constitution. Miller notes five extant examples of this certificate: Yale Pennsylvania Historical Society Pennsylvania Hospital Archives and two examples at the University of Pennsylvania. We also locate an example in the Harmar Papers at the Clements Library. We find only the Stuart E. Karu example in the auction records issued to Robert Greenway selling at Sotheby's New York June 16 1992 lot 63 $2750. Miller 597 [Benjamin Franklin and David Hall] unknown

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(Franklin Imprint) Pennsylvania Hospital, Trustee of theABAA

This is to certify that Benjamin Chew of the City of Philadelphia hath contributed the Sum of Twenty five Pounds to the Pennsylvania Hospital and is thereby become one of the Corporation of Contributors and vested with all the Rights Powers and Privileges of a Contributor to the said Hospital according to an Act of Assembly made to encourage the Establishment of the same.

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[Heriot, George (1766-1844); in the style of, or possibly attributed to]Biblio.com

Original watercolor of a First Nations fishing encampment along a river

1800ref. 52601Canada 1800. Graphite pen-and-ink and grey wash on wove paper watermarked "W. Elgar 1796". 13 5/8 x 20 inches. Corners clipped outside the image verso toned. Graphite pen-and-ink and grey wash on wove paper watermarked "W. Elgar 1796". 13 5/8 x 20 inches. Along the falls of a tree-lined river two First Nations men are pulling a canoe into the water directed by another in an elaborate feather headdress; a wigwam with mother and child is on the same shore to their left; across the river a longhouse and structure for smoking fish with another group of native people can be seen; at the far left a First Nations man is standing in his canoe fishing with a pole in the water just below the rapids. Although the 1796 watermark on the paper is consistent with drawings by Heriot the unfinished quality of this work make attribution difficult. However it is somewhat reminiscent of a smaller grisaille watercolor signed by Heriot titled FALLS OF THE POQUISQUE ON THE RIVER ST JOHN on verso sold at Waddington's March 15 2018 lot 137. Furthermore this scene is reminiscent of one described by Heriot in his Travels in the Canadas 1807 in which he describes Native American fishing on the cacasdes of St. Mary nine miles below the entrance to Lake Superior: "It is at the bottom of the rapids and even among their billows which foam with ceaseless impetuosity that innumerable quantities of excellent fish may be taken from the spring until the winter; the species which is found in the greatest abundance is denominated by the savages atticameg or white fish; the Michilimakinac trout and pickerell are likewise caught here. These aflford a principal means of subsistence to a number of native tribes. No small degree of address as well as strength is employed by the savages in catching these fish; they stand in an erect attitude in a birch canoe and even amid the billows they push with force to the bottom of the waters a long pole at the end of which is fixed a hoop with a net in the form of a bag into which the fish is constrained to enter. They watch it with the eye when it glides among the rocks quickly ensnare it and drag it into the canoe. In conducting this mode of fishing much practice is required as an inexperienced person may by the efforts which he is obliged to make overset the canoe and inevitably perish." Trained by Paul Sandby at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich London Heriot worked as a clerk for Board of Ordnance. "In 1792 Heriot was posted to Quebec and promoted clerk of the cheque in the Ordnance department. Heriot was to remain in Lower Canada until 1816 except apparently for two periods of absence in 1796-97 and in 1806. His first years at Quebec are not well documented. Sketches record visits in and about Quebec and Montreal perhaps on Ordnance business. In November 1792 he published a sketch of Jersey in the Quebec Magazine and the following year he prepared a view of Quebec perhaps also intended for publication. When he returned to Britain in 1796 he resided in London travelled to the south coast and made at least one sketching foray into Wales . A watercolour prepared from his sketches of Wales and two Canadian views were accepted by the Royal Academy of Arts for exhibition in the spring. Heriot probably sailed for Lower Canada soon afterwards taking notes and making sketches on the voyage. The impact of his visit to Britain was considerable. While there he had been stimulated by the art he had seen and by his success as an artist. He returned with a fresh enthusiasm for the Canadas; he began to read about their past and to make elaborate notes and numerous sketches of the places he visited and the peoples he encountered. His sojourn abroad had affected his artistic vision of the Canadas; his drawings and water-colours assumed a new confidence and his landscape forms developed a new strength and grandeur. In London he had probably studied the simply handled and remarkably strong water-colours of younger British artists such as Thomas Girtin Joseph Mallord William Turner and John Varley. Either in Britain or in Lower Canada he had also become familiar with Lieutenant George Bulteel Fisher's Six views of North America . London 1796. He was influenced by this work especially by Fisher's use of the Picturesque in depicting Canadian landscape" Dictionary of Canadian Biography. unknown

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[Heriot, George (1766-1844); in the style of, or possibly attributed to]ABAA

Original watercolor of a First Nations fishing encampment along a river

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Goro Kumada, editor Ken Domon, Masao Horino, Ihei Kimura, Wanatabe Yoshio and other members of the Nihon KoboBiblio.com

Nippon

1937ref. 004544Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai The Society for International Cultural Relations 1937. First edition. Leporello. Hardcover boards paper pastedown. Very Good. The Japanese photobook equivalent of a Leni Riefenstahl movie! Deemed "arguably the high point of both the Japanese propaganda and the modernist photo book" by Parr and Badger in "The Photobook: A History". Oblong folio 27 by 30 cm. 64 pp. or 32 double-page back-to-back photomontages configured as an accordion fold-out and a deliberate attempt to adapt the traditional Japanese pillow book to a more modern usage. Text captions in English French and German. The photographers involved were also staff photographers of the Japanese photo magazine "Nippon". The black and white photos have an extraordinary dynamism and three dimensionality achieved by the artful juxtapositions and there is a cumulative power to the whole enterprise. Just as the photos themselves are able to convey movement the message of the whole is that Japan itself was on the march forward into a new dawn! And virtually every aspect of Japanese life is presented -- economic religious cultural architectural artisanal rural urban etc. Only two of the montages relate to the military -- one the army one the navy -- and this is in sharp contrast to similar publications emanating from Germany and Italy at the time. Japan had by then actually embarked on its program of foreign aggression and conquest whereas for the other Fascist regimes that still lay in the future. The scarce book was probably never for sale but rather was given as a gift to foreign dignitaries. Scarce with the only known institutional copies at the British Museum the Library of Congress. Two folds professionally and discreetly repaired with very minor loss a very thin sliver along those joints. A quarter sized infill to where there was a corner chip to the silver Japanese paper pastedown on the front cover. The front blue blank or endpaper does not have a title label pastedown which has been seen in other copies but it is obvious that there never was such a label pasted into this copy. Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai (The Society for International Cultural Relations) hardcover

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Goro Kumada, editor Ken Domon, Masao Horino, Ihei Kimura, Wanatabe Yoshio and other members of the Nihon KoboABAA

Nippon

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LONGUS LAWRENCE TE T EBiblio.com

Daphnis and Chloe

1893ref. 1276951893. LAWRENCE T.E. LONGUS. Daphnis and Chloe: A Most Sweet and Pleasant Pastoral Romance for Young Ladies. London: Vale Press 1893. Quarto contemporary full black crushed morocco elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers raised bands top edge gilt uncut. $15000.An exceptional association copy: the finely printed and beautifully illustrated Vale Press Daphnis and ChloeÑone of only 210 copies 200 of which were for sale with 36 charming woodcuts in the Italian style by Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon with ""T.E.L.""Ñlikely in T.E. Lawrence's handÑfaintly penciled in the upper right corner of the front free endpaper and a note from recipient Charles Francis Bell describing the circumstances in which Lawrence presented this copy to him. Beautifully bound in full morocco-gilt by C. & C. McLeish.""There are works which will never cease to be reprinted and which artists will ever love to illustrate according to their own individual fancies"" Jules Claretie Preface. This classical Greek work whose author Longus has not been fully identified has been dated to the 2nd or early 3rd century CE. Described by one scholar as ""an unknown best seller"" Giles Barber Daphnis and Chloe is considered ""the original or earliest survivor"" of the idyllic/pastoral romance Hardin Love in a Green Shade 1. This large-format illustrated edition is one of the Vale Press' most impressive books. It uses the quaint 17th-century translation of Thornley designed to convert the lascivious tale into reading matter for young ladies. One homosexual passage is left in the original Greek. In the Art Nouveau style the illustrations by Ricketts and Shannon effectively capture Longus' combination of decadence and sweet innocence.Born in 1859 binder Charles McLeish was apprenticed to Andrew Grieve in Edinburgh then came to London in 1890 to work for Riviere. When Cobden-Sanderson founded the Doves Bindery in 1893 he hired McLeish as the firm's finisher. McLeish held that estimable position until 1909 when he left to go into partnership with his son Charles who had apprenticed under Roger de Coverly. Although the senior McLeish was no longer in the employ of Cobden-Sanderson all of the bindings that were signed ""Doves Bindery"" between 1909 and 1921 were actually done in the McLeish workshop. The work produced by the McLeishes was beautifully designed and impeccably executed as evidenced in the present volume. With publisher's scarce four-page prospectus bound in at rear. Bookplate of recipient art historian Charles Francis Bell with his handwritten note regarding the circumstances of Lawrence presenting this copy to him tipped to the front free endpaper: ""This book was bound by McLeish for Colonel T.E. Lawrence whose initials in pencil in his own writing are in the top corner of the opposite endpaper. It was given by him to me at All Souls College Oxford on November 16 1920. C.F. Bell."" Bell 1871-1966 was curator of the Department of Fine Art in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford where he met Lawrence when the latter had brought fragments of pottery into the Ashmolean for identification. The two became friends and frequently discussed their shared enthusiasm for Medieval art and architecture. Although the brevity and faintness of the initials on the front free endpaper make it difficult to verify it as being in Lawrence's hand it is consistent with Lawrence's known practice of initialing his own books.Mild offsetting from woodcuts; offsetting from morocco turn-ins partially obscuring penciled initials in upper corner of front free endpaper binding beautiful and fine. An excellent association copy with distinguished provenance. hardcover

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LONGUS LAWRENCE TE T EABAA

Daphnis and Chloe

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Mayer, Luigi Engraved by and under the direction of Thomas MiltonBiblio.com

Views in Egypt Palestine and Other Parts of the Ottoman Empire

1804ref. 007897London: Printed by Thomas Bensley for R. Bowyer 1804. First Edition. Full Calf. Very Good. One of the greatest of early 19th century hand-colored plate books and a monumental work of publishing just at the juncture that interest in Egypt and other areas of the Middle East was intensifying and these areas were also becoming more accessible to Europeans. Folio 47 by 33.5 cm. 96 hand-colored plates. Egypt volume 1801: 6 -- title for entire set title for the volume 102 2 pp. 48 color plates. Ottoman Empire volume 1803: 40 pp. 24 color plates. Palestine volume 1804: 47 1 pp. 24 color plates. Beautiful full speckled calf bound set. Boards with gilt floral patterned border. Red leather title on spine. Five raised spine bands ruled gilt decoration. Bindings are more modern but sympathetic to period -- in a style compatible with an early nineteenth binding. Condition: The bindings are generally fine but the second volume in particular does have some light spotting distinct from the original speckling. The leaves generally have light age toning around their perimeters and also finger smudging and at times a light film of soiling much of which can be mitigated with a simple eraser if one wishes to make the effort. The scattered fox marks and the few dampstains generally small and relatively inconspicuous can't be so eliminated though. Moderate offsetting but if anything on the lighter side. The plates even with the occasional fox mark are invariably bright and we think most would deem them rather clean. A few minor closed tears 2-3mm and not ones likely to increase in length with circumspect handling. Overall this is a beautiful set that in some respects is Near Fine and others merely Very Good in our view. Printed by Thomas Bensley for R. Bowyer unknown

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Mayer, Luigi Engraved by and under the direction of Thomas MiltonABAA

Views in Egypt Palestine and Other Parts of the Ottoman Empire

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JDSalinger; Catcher in the Rye Related J D SBiblio.com

J.D. Salinger Exceptional Typed Letter Signed on His Personal Beliefs of Truth Friendship and Discussing the Boarding School That Inspired Catcher in the Rye" "I went to an awful fourth-class boarding school. it couldn't have been worse but it was full of misfits kids that didn't fit in

ref. 229181972. Literature Salinger J.D. American author of Catcher in the Rye. Typed letter signed from Salinger to his friend Eileen Paddison. January 25 1972. One page typed on Salinger's characteristic goldenrod paper signed boldly in ink at the foot: "Love to you Eileen - Jerry." A letter chronicling friendship between Salinger and Paddison in which Salinger relates to their "sameness" and provides personal insight on subjectivity and "truth". Salinger would characterize the relationship between himself and Eileen in 1975 as one between "a brother or sister or some kind of close blood relative anyway" one born of warmth and mentorship which mirrored the sibling bond of Holden and Phoebe Caulfield and Franny and Zooey Glass. A deeply personal letter from J.D. Salinger to Eileen Paddison written just weeks after their correspondence began in late 1971. At this point Paddison was a young college student and aspiring writer who had approached Salinger about Zen Taoism and the spiritual questions embedded in Franny and Zooey themes that had become central to his private life. This January 1972 letter is one of the earliest to survive from their remarkable epistolary friendship. Exceptionally Salinger closes this letter with "Love to you" a warmth he very rarely expressed in writing and almost never in letters to non-family. Its presence here so soon after their acquaintance testifies to the immediate and unusual closeness he felt toward Paddison. The letter features Salinger's characteristic blend of humor candor private philosophy and autobiographical detail. Reflecting on the "sameness" between himself and Eileen a theme that would only deepen over their years of correspondence he writes: "Oh God life is full of some pretty funny stuff off and on. And there are moments I have a notion when there are echoes of sameness between us maybe having to do with our matching awkward 'background'. Who do little kids who are self-described "best friends" do.a form of narcissism in a real sense but more complicated than that." He discusses Taoist and Zen inflections in his thinking through an anthropological lens mentioning beauty standards in other nations he questions "Is there any possibility of "truth" in this world when vantage points and reasoning powers depend so heavily on conditioning heredity culture language geography etc. Almost none." The sense of epistemological skepticism of truth mediated through perception echoes the teachings of Taoist thinkers such as Chuang-tzu whose relativistic parables informed Salinger's later spiritual worldview. Salinger's reflections on academia in this January 1972 letter reveal how quickly he perceived in Eileen Paddison a biographical and emotional mirror grounded in their shared experience of feeling like outliers within educational institutions rather than beneficiaries of them and this recognition is inseparable from the imaginative terrain of The Catcher in the Rye. His recollection-"I went to an awful fourth-class boarding school. it couldn't have been worse but it was full of misfits kids that didn't fit in anywhere"-closely parallels Holden Caulfield's scathing assessments of Pencey Prep where hypocrisy cruelty and emotional vacancy define the school environment and leave Holden drifting between expulsion and psychic collapse. Salinger's own progression from a series of unhappy boarding schools to the Valley Forge Military Academy with its emphasis on regimentation surveillance and obedience provided the experiential core for Holden's alienation: the sense that schools function less as places of moral development than as systems designed to enforce conformity and punish sensitivity. In the letter Salinger's observation that "If one's going to be away at school or in prison or in the Army it's only fair that a few congenial types be around" echoes Holden's repeated longing for authentic human connection amid institutional emptiness-whether in his attachment to Phoebe his idealization of Jane Gallagher or his fleeting fragile encounters with classmates who momentarily seem "all right." By aligning schooling with prison and military service Salinger articulates the same critique that animates Catcher: that adolescence is uniquely vulnerable to institutional damage and that survival depends on the presence of a single trustworthy companion who can affirm one's interior life. In recognizing this shared outsiderhood in Paddison Salinger was not merely reminiscing but reinhabiting the emotional logic that produced Holden Caulfield revisiting his own boarding-school dislocation as a source of empathy rather than bitterness and using it to justify the sudden intensity of a bond formed late in life during a period of increasing reclusion when personal connection-like Holden's imagined role as a "catcher in the rye"-had come to feel morally urgent and protective. This letter shows him revisiting the terrain of his own boarding-school dislocation as a point of affinity a shared outsiderhood that resonated deeply during a period of his life when he was increasingly reclusive and invested in nurturing private carefully chosen connections. Salinger lastly touches on his family life offering early glimpses of a subject he seldom addressed. He briefly mentions his daughter Peggy in passing whose relationship with him would become increasingly strained and ultimately estranged and his son Matthew of whom he was close with and signs off with his fond memories of visiting a hotel in Lake Placid with him every autumn. These early glimpses of his private domestic world alluded to so soon after meeting Paddison are unusually revealing for a writer who had withdrawn almost entirely from public life by the 1970s. A rich early and unusually intimate letter in the Salinger-Paddison correspondence written precisely at the moment their relationship was forming. Its mix of humor Taoist reflection autobiographical revelation and the extremely rare closing "Love to you" make it one of the more emotionally expressive Salinger letters to appear on the market documenting the emergence of one of the most meaningful friendships of his later life. Scarce and in very good condition. unknown

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J.D. Salinger Exceptional Typed Letter Signed on His Personal Beliefs of Truth Friendship and Discussing the Boarding School That Inspired Catcher in the Rye" "I went to an awful fourth-class boarding school. it couldn't have been worse but it was full of misfits kids that didn't fit in

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A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM THE BEAUVAIS MISSALBiblio.com

TEXT FROM THE VIGIL OF STS. PETER AND PAUL 28 JUNE AND THE FEAST OF STS. PETER AND PAUL 29 JUNE

ref. ST20214Northern France perhaps Beauvais or Amiens late 13th or early 14th century. 286 x 199 mm. 11 1/4 x 7 3/4". Double column containing a mixture of staves and text approximately 21 lines in an excellent formal gothic book hand. Attractively matted. Rubrics in red chant text containing black penwork initials with red and yellow geometric elaboration BEAUTIFULLY ILLUMINATED with five two-line initials painted blue or pink with white tracery on a ground in the contrasting color two of the initials filled with grotesques and swirling vines and two with the filler design traced out but never completed each initial with blue and pink extensions terminating in orange leaves or spiky shapes; the verso featuring AN IMPRESSIVE SIX-LINE "N" 58 x 50 mm. in the same style filled with an intricate knotwork design and orange leaves with long extensions including a horizontal extension across the upper margin. Margins with light offsetting of the designs from the facing leaf; remnants of mounting tape on recto corners and bottom edge; verso apparently with a barely visible Medieval "14" in lower margin. An area measuring 5 mm. at edges just faintly yellowed from mat burn but IN FINE CONDITION the vellum otherwise quite bright the paint rich and the gold brightly glittering. This sumptuously decorated leaf--which is beautifully preserved and contains a particularly large and handsome initial--comes from the last volume of a three-volume Missal presented to Beauvais Cathedral by Canon Robert de Hangest d. 1356. The Missal remained at the cathedral at least through the 17th century when it is noted in an inventory but was removed from the church at some point likely in the aftermath of the French Revolution. The parent volume eventually entered the collection of Henri-Auguste Brölemann 1775-1854 of Lyon who passed it to his grand-daughter Etienne Mallet who then sold it at Sotheby's in 1926. It was then acquired for the collection of William Hearst where it remained for the next 25 years. In 1941 it was again sold at auction and subsequently dismembered. Though long thought to have been the work of famed biblioclast Otto Ege recent scholarship suggests that it was actually Phillip Duschnes who was responsible for breaking up the book keeping some leaves for himself and selling others on to his colleague Ege for inclusion in his portfolios of "Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts." The Beauvais Missal has been a subject of interest for many notable scholars chief among them being Christopher de Hamel--see: "Otto Ege and the Beauvais Missal" in "Gilding the Lilly: A Hundred Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts in the Lilly Library" and it is currently the focus of a major effort to "reconstruct" the manuscript digitally--a project spearheaded by Lisa Fagin Davis. Other leaves from the parent volume are in the collections of the Morgan Library the Metropolitan Museum of Art the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Houghton Library at Harvard among many others. Although there is some dispute among art historians the illumination has been tentatively attributed to the artist of the Hours of Yolande of Soissons produced in Amiens ca. 1280 and now held by the Morgan Library MS M.729. It is worth noting that the town of Hangest home to the original owner is only 10 miles from Amiens and is a likely place of origin for the Missal. The present leaf contains a text for a major feast day and thus contains a large and extravagantly decorated initial for its opening "'Nunc scio vere." It is not too much to say that the decoration here is masterful but curiously--and of special interest to us from a modern perspective--the illuminators seem to have forgotten to put the finishing touches on the two smaller initials above which still contain sketches of the preliminary design. unknown

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A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM THE BEAUVAIS MISSALABAA

TEXT FROM THE VIGIL OF STS. PETER AND PAUL 28 JUNE AND THE FEAST OF STS. PETER AND PAUL 29 JUNE

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EYUP SABRI PASHA (THE OTTOMAN ADMIRAL AYYUB SABRY) D 1308 AH, 1890 ADBiblio.com

MIR'AT AL HARAMAIN VIEW OF THE TOW HOLY SANCTUARIES FINE COMPLETE SET IN FIVE VOLUMES

1883ref. 000521Istanbul: Matbaa-i Bahriye the Navy press 1883 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE ENCYCLOPAEDIA IN THE OTTOMAN TURKISH ABOUT THE ARABIAN PENINSULA AND THE TOW HOLY SANCTUARIES IN HEDJAZ BY THE WELL-KNOWN AUTHOR WHO WAS EMPLOYED IN THE OTTOMAN ARMY IN HEJAZ IN C. 1865 AND THEN BECAME AN ADMIRAL IN THE OTTOMAN NAVY. EYUP SABRI PASHA WAS BORN IN TASALYA THESSALIA IN THE 19th C. AND DIED IN ISTANBUL IN 1890. HE IS BETTER KNOWN WITH HIS DESCRIPTIVE BOOKS ABOUT MECCA MEDINA THE ARABIAN PENINSULA AND THE WAHHABY ACTIVITIES BESIDE HIS RELIGIOUS BOOKS. HE WAS AWARE OF THE OFFICIAL ISSUES OF THE HEJAZ BECAUSE OF HIS BEING ACQUAINTED ON THE OFFICIAL CORREPONDENCE BETWEEN THE VILAYET OF HEJAZ AND THE CENTRAL AUTHORITY IN ISTANBUL Five parts in five volumes. Part 1 Mir'at Mecca in tow volumes. Vol. 1 44 Index pages 1 to 640 with lithographic plates of which tow are in colours on double pages and one gilted. Vol. 2 p. 45 to 58 index pages 641 to 1175 with lithographic plates of which one is in green and silver one unusual to be existing big folding plate in colours gilt and sprinkled in gold of the curtain of the gate of Ka'baa. One folding plan of the holy mosque in Mecca. The tow volumes of Mecca are in contemporary fine bindings with the arm of the Ottoman state and richly gilted spines. Part 2 Mir'at al Medina in tow volumes printed in 1886. Vol. 1 pages 1 to 698 with some diagrams and lithographic plates including one folding in green and silver. Vol. 2 8 index pages 699 to 1343 with a plan of the holy mosque in Medina. The tow volumes of Medina are in contemporary or possibly later fine Ottoman bindings with richly gilted spines. Part 3 Mir'at Jazirat al 'Arab View of the Arabian Peninsula one vol. printed in 1888. index 416 p. with 2 lithographic plates. Contemporary fine Ottoman binding with richly gilted spine. FINE SET WITH EXTRA PLATE WHICH IS VERY DIFFICULT TO EXIST. For other copies of this book see inventory no. 000276 000519 and 000520. Matbaa-i Bahriye (the Navy press) hardcover

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Frederick the GreatBiblio.com

Future Frederick the Great Here 9 Years Old Writes His King Father William I King of Prussia Hoping to Come Visit

1721ref. 3633109/1721. Theirs was a famously combative relationship; Frederick would attempt to flee to Britain 9 years later In his early youth Frederick lived with his mother and sister Wilhelmine although they regularly visited their father's hunting lodge at Königs Wusterhausen. Frederick and his older sister formed a close relationship which lasted until her death in 1758. Frederick was educated to speak both French and German and many of his tutors were French Calvinists. The relationship between Frederick the Great and his father Frederick William I was deeply strained and often hostile. Frederick William I was a rigid militaristic ruler who valued discipline obedience and a strong army above all else while his son was drawn to music literature and French Enlightenment culture. The King saw these interests as weak and unmanly and he frequently criticized and even physically punished Frederick in an attempt to force him into a more soldierly mold. Their conflict reached a peak in 1730 when Frederick attempted to flee Prussia to escape his father’s control. The plan failed and Frederick William I reacted harshly—he had Frederick arrested and forced him to watch the execution of his close friend Hans Hermann von Katte who had helped in the escape attempt. Although Frederick later became a brilliant military ruler the emotional distance between father and son never fully disappeared. In fact Frederick’s later embrace of culture and philosophy can be seen partly as a reaction against his father’s severity. Wusterhausen was an important royal residence in early 18th-century Prussia and played a key role in the upbringing of Frederick the Great. In the early 1720s when Frederick was still a child he spent time there with his father Frederick William I who used the palace as a retreat from Berlin. The site was known for the King’s informal “Tobacco Parliament” where political and military matters were discussed. For the young Frederick Wusterhausen symbolized the strict militaristic environment imposed by his father which sharply contrasted with his own developing interests in culture music and Enlightenment thought—tensions that would later shape his character and reign. Autograph letter signed in old Germanic script from then Prince Frederick to the King ""My dear Papa"" ""in September 1721."" The General mentioned is likely Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg. ""I hope that my dear Papa is still doing well and I am longing very much to go to Wusterhausen. I am constantly hoping that my dear Papa will order for me to come. I am awaiting with the greatest impatience to see my dear Papa. I am humbly requesting my dear Papa that he may let me come to Wusterhausen. I remain my dear Papa’s Most obedient servant and son Frederich."" ""The general Schulenburg has told me that my dear Papa is still doing well about which I am very glad and he also asked me to be godfather."" <img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt=""historical memorabilia dealer"" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /> unknown

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Frederick the GreatABAA

Future Frederick the Great Here 9 Years Old Writes His King Father William I King of Prussia Hoping to Come Visit

The Raab Collection · Estados Unidos14.500,00 US$≈ 12.954,53 €

[West Highland Line] / [Scottish Railway Line Glasgow to Mallaig] / [Rathad Iarainn nan Eilean "Iron Road to the Isles"]Biblio.com

Massive Photographic Documentation of The Western Highland Line Glasgow to Mallaig in 900 ninehundred vintage Photographs taken over a period of 30 Years by a Railway and Nature-Explorer and placed in four massive XXL Folders with extensive beautiful and detaild annotations and explanations. The photographs range from smaller formats 10 cm wide x 15.2 cm high to a huge amount of Extra-Large Vintage Photographs 39.2 cm wide x 29.4 cm high and many even measure 40 cm x33 cm filling entire leaves. Many of the photographs are impeccably applied inside these High-End-Archival-Folders with often numerous captions in the handwriting of the Photographer / Highland Explorer. An inexplicably stunning and absolutely unique documentation of the scottish landscape along the West Highland Line between the years 1974 - 2002. The images document Scottish rivers Lochs and Roads Mountains and Hills alongside the Railway-Lines but landscapes are also often shown without the Railway present. Besides the nature we al

ref. 32483AB1974. Scotland 1974-2002. Oblong-Folio 44 cm wide x 36 cm high. Hardcover / Original Full-Leather Folders with stong black cardboards and original tissue-guards. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. With hundreds of manuscript annotations on the photography the photography-technique film used and with extensive elaborations on each photograph in these albums. More images on request ! Album 1: Covers the years 1974 1977 and 1978. The West Highland Line is walked from Arrochar a 1977 driving and camping holiday and a 1978 seventeen day touring holiday with many nights sleeping in a car fill the leaves with c. 200 b/w original photographs. Album 2: Covers the years 1991 and 1992. It is noted that 1990 is the fourth year that returning locomotives from the Mallaig line will work south over the West Highland main line. Images of Corrour Summit Glasgow to Fort William trains and many many more bridges viaducts tunnels stations and signalling equipment fill the leaves. c.182 b/w original photographs. Album 3: Covers 1993. More colour photographs now fill the leaves and annotations cease to second half of album. c 270 b/w colour and tinted original photographs. Album 4: Covers 1999 and 2002. Many images from The Highlands Rail Festival in Sept 1999. c.250 b/w and colour original photographs. An extraordinary photographic record and passion project presented in 4 huge well-bound albums containing over 900 fine photographs taken curated and annotated by an unidentified railway enthusiast and talented photographer. The albums span 4 decades recording trips to some of the most scenic and famous rail locations in the UK. The West Highland Line is returned to again and again over the decades and our photographer captures Scotlands most dramatic landscapes and railways as the route passes on its way from Glasgow to Mallaig through sections including Corrour and Rannoch Moor. Albums and contents in fine condition. A tissue guard between every leaf protects the photographs within. A single photograph of a middle aged man among every other photograph which records a detail of the railway is the only clue to the albums previous ownership and perhaps authorship. Partial description by our colleague Dr.Christian White from Christian White Rare Books in Ilkley UK. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The West Highland Line Scottish Gaelic: Rathad Iarainn nan Eilean "Iron Road to the Isles" is a railway line linking the ports of Mallaig and Oban in the Scottish Highlands to Glasgow in Central Scotland. The line was voted the top rail journey in the world by readers of independent travel magazine Wanderlust in 2009 ahead of the notable Trans-Siberian line in Russia and the Cuzco to Machu Picchu line in Peru. The ScotRail website has since reported that the line has been voted the most scenic railway line in the world for the second year running. The West Highland Line is one of two railway lines that access the remote and mountainous west coast of Scotland the other being the Kyle of Lochalsh Line which connects Inverness with Kyle of Lochalsh. The line is the westernmost railway line in Great Britain. At least in part the West Highland Line is the same railway line as that referred to as the West Highland Railway. History: The route was built in several sections: Glasgow Queen Street to Cowlairs Junction - Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Cowlairs Junction to Bowling - Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway later absorbed into the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bowling to Dumbarton Central - Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway operated by the Caledonian Railway Dumbarton Central to Dalreoch - Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway Dalreoch to Craigendoran - Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway Craigendoran to Fort William opened 11 August 1894 - West Highland Railway sponsored by the North British Railway Crianlarich to Oban - Callander and Oban Railway operated by the Caledonian Railway. There is an additional section from Fort William or a junction near Fort William to Mallaig built as the Mallaig Extension Railway. The West Highland Railway approved the construction of the line at their annual meeting in January 1895. The line faced potential closure as part of the Beeching cuts in 1963 and again in 1995 due to reduced revenues. Route description: Shortly after leaving Glasgow Queen Street station and beyond Queen Street Tunnel the line diverges from the main trunk route to Edinburgh Waverley and Perth at Cowlairs and follows a northwesterly course through the suburbs of Maryhill and Kelvindale. Between Westerton and Dumbarton the route is shared with the North Clyde Line to Helensburgh Central before branching northward at Craigendoran Junction towards Garelochhead the section where the West Highland Line itself is generally accepted to begin. It gives high-level views of the Gare Loch and Loch Long before emerging alongside the northwesterly shores of Loch Lomond then climbs Glen Falloch to Crianlarich. The branch to Oban diverges at Crianlarich an important Highland junction of both road and rail and runs through Glen Lochy to Dalmally and through the Pass of Brander to reach salt water at Taynuilt and Connel Ferry before a final climb over a hill to Oban. About three miles five kilometres from Crianlarich the Mallaig and Oban routes both pass through the village of Tyndrum but they are served by separate stations making it an unusually small settlement to be served by more than one railway station. After Bridge of Orchy the line to Mallaig climbs onto Rannoch Moor past the former crossing point at Gorton Crossing to Rannoch station. In winter the moor is often covered with snow and deer may be seen running from the approaching train. The station at Corrour on the moor is one of the most remote stations in Britain and is not accessible by any public road. This is the summit of the line at 1347 ft 410 m above sea level. Carrying on northwards the line descends above the shores of Loch Treig and through the narrow Monessie Gorge. The final stop before Fort William is Spean Bridge. The section between Fort William and Mallaig passes over the Glenfinnan Viaduct through Arisaig with its views of the Small Isles of Rùm Eigg Muck and Canna and the white sands of Morar before coming to Mallaig itself. With the exception of the route between Glasgow Queen Street and Helensburgh Upper and the short section between Fort William Junction and Fort William station the railway is signalled using the Radio Electronic Token Block controlled from the signal box at Banavie station. Notable railway-related features Glenfinnan Viaduct The Horse Shoe Curve between Upper Tyndrum and Bridge of Orchy The Cruach Rock snowshed between Rannoch and Corrour Glenfinnan Viaduct between Locheilside and Glenfinnan The Pass of Brander stone signals between Dalmally and Taynuilt Arisaig is the most westerly railway station in Great Britain West Highland Line in film: Train crossing bridge at Banavie The summit of the line just north of Corrour Glenfinnan Viaduct on the line between Fort William and Mallaig is a filming location for the Hogwarts Express in the Harry Potter series of films. Eddie McConnell's poetic documentary A Line for All Seasons 1970 showcases the line and its history set against the scenery of the western highlands as it changes through the seasons. Corrour features in Trainspotting 1996 directed by Danny Boyle. Source: Wikipedia hardcover

Inanna Rare Books Ltd. · Irlanda12.800,00 €

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