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1860réf. 52737London: Chatto and Windus 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 2 208 209-490 1pp. 354 plates. Bound in Order of the Garter three-quarter brown leather over marbled boards gilt emblems and ruling on covers gilt lettering including date 1860 and tooling on spines; raised bands. The emblem gilt impressed with "Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense shamed be whoever thinks ill of it" the motto of the Order of the Garter. Topedges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Frontispieces. Vignette on title page. Headpiece illustrations. Red ribbon markers. Unique copy extra-illustrated with three hundred and six additional bound in engravings some of them hand-colored. OCLC lists seven editions published between 1870 and 1900 and one 2009 reprint by Athena Press Tokyo. When indicated the pages are listed at 490 without reference to a two volume edition and the number of illustrations on plates in these publications is listed with forty-eight or less. Our edition a publication with in-text illustrations plus a total of 354 plates 306 more than in any listed edition is a unique edition with added engravings and aquatints showing portraits of the British ruling class palaces and prominent buildings as well as scenic renderings of the Hyde Park and general landscapes. The plates some of them cuttings from publications compliment and illustrate the text of the facing pages. Sixteen of the plates are in color including a two-fold symbolic battle scene by Rolandson. Of the 338 b/w illustrations two are folding plates. One of the Orchestra Organ in Westminster by W. & J. Walker and one of the Temple of Concord by J. Pass. The volumes contain engravings some printed to tissue paper lithographs drawings and woodcuts several of them fit into cutout framing or pasted to art paper. Many of the portraits with facsimile signatures several in actual handwriting. Several of the artist listed in the comprised list of artworks below are represented with several works and a seizable number with scarce or without any identifiers but the reference in the descriptive text on facing pages. Some of the artwork with damp-staining or foxing and occasional offseting to facing pages. Several oversize plates folded to fit. Minor wear to binding. Vol. I: Albertus Dürer following page 10 Francois-Seraphin Delpech facing 11 Arthur Lord Capel 17 with cutout William Richardson British artist Holl Thomas Lord Fairfax/ with biographical printed cutout 26. van Dyk 29 Ozias Humphrey 47 John Thompson 56 P. Lely Dutch painter who bacame a dominant portrait painter to the court several Anthony van Dyck also court painter in England/ Princess of Orange 69 Thomas Simpson Kensignton Palace 70 UNIDENTIFIED ENGRAVING OF Pasquale Paoli signed by the Corsican statesman presumably during his exile in Britain 1769 134 James Roberts landscape engraving 156 lithograph drawing of Mary Robinson as Perdita in The Winter's Tale 1799 attributed to William Ridley 170 steel engraving of Lady Jersey by Leopold Beyer 183 Engraving of Prime Minister William Wyndham Grenville by T. A. Dean Grenville facsimile signature 185 Hyde Park Corner 1822 in color by George Cruikshank 208 Vol. II: Engraving of the Chinese Bridge by William Wallis frontispiece a lithograph of Charles Ferdinand D'Artois Duc de Berry by Francoise-Séraphin Delpech with signature 212 the Persian Ambassador in color unidentified 233 Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld by Holl 251 The Grotto at Oatlands engraving by Angus 256 The Fair Circassian by James Thompson with additonal color rendering 258 an color rendering of the Basin in the Green Park St. James 287 The Sommerset House drawn and engraved for Dougdale's "England & Wales" 302 an unidentified print of a drawing of Lady Morgan the author of "O'Donnel" 314 a color reproduction of The Royal Palace of St. James Next The Park a so-called "vue d'Optique" or "perspective view" popular at the time published by Bowles & Carver 320 engraving of Miss Price by Sir Peter Lely 351 two-fold engraving of Westminster Abbey by W. & J. Walker 467 stipple engraving by J. Thomson 468 hand-colored collection of headdresses Eastgate 469. Chatto and Windus hardcover books
1726réf. 22666Franckfurth und Leipzig: Christoph Gottlieb Nicolai / Carl Christoph Immig 1726. Hardcover. fair. 8vo. Three-quarter vellum over paper boards. 2 vols. in 1 each with frontispiece and title page in red and black. 12 296 pp. 22; 6 164 pp. 8. Fascinating 18th century hand manual on the use of natural magic in medicine and healing for humans and animals by Johann Nikolaus Martius. Ornamental head- and tail pieces. Few decorative initials throughout. Handwritten notes on front and rear endpaper. Newspaper clippings two attached one loose at rear of volume. Back board cracked but not broken. Handwritten title author and year on spine. Front and back hinges starting holding tight. First leaf in second volume frontispiece and title page loose - suggesting that it was inserted after binding. Some browning and staining of some pages not affecting text. Index. Text in German Gothic script. Binding in poor interior in overall very good condition. Full title-page of second work: "Hundert acht und dreissig neu-endeckte und vollkommen bewährte Geheimnisse oder allerhand magische / spagyrische/ sympathetische und antipathetische Kunst-Stücke derer eines allein den Besitzer viel Geld gekostet hat. Bey dieser neuen Auflage wiederum mit sehr vielen anderen Geheimnissen und einem vollständigen Register vermehret auch durchgehends verbessert. Christoph Gottlieb Nicolai / Carl Christoph Immig hardcover books
1937réf. 6916Malden Mass: Jacob W. Powell 1937. Very good. 9¼” x 6¼”. Blue pebbled cloth title gilt. Pp. xvi 136 60 of 60 photographically illustrated plates interspersed. Very good: light wear a hint of toning to leaves. This is a detailed and heavily illustrated travelogue written by an AME Zion Elder and religious educator Jacob W. Powell. The first three pages of the book include a detailed chronology of Powell's life along with his numerous certifications related to religious teaching. From it we learn that Powell was born a Methodist Episcopalian in 1866 and converted to the AME Zion Church in Boston in 1881. He worked as a stenographer for a number of religious and civil clients before becoming ordained a Deacon and later Elder. Powell served as Pastor of a few AME Zion and Baptist churches and according to this book's dedication taught over 4000 students during his 54-year career. The book is simultaneously a travel log travel guide and collection of Powell's short essays on various religious subjects. It relays Powell's account of his six-week tour and is broken up into 25 chapters each with numerous subdivisions. Powell described his observations of myriad sights and experiences throughout Rome Naples Genoa Marseilles Alexandria and Cairo and Palestine. He related an incident involving a “Mohammedan lad” who took a liking to him and his group while they were visiting mosques surmising that “perhaps my similar complexion helped to draw him toward me” and of whom he snapped a photograph angering a crowd of adults who had gathered nearby. His writing while often rambling is also often action-packed such as this near accident returning to Marseilles: “ANOTHER THRILLING INCIDENT—as it looked to me our ship came perilously near 'going on to rocks' just before we reached the narrow outlet from Marseilles Harbor . . . . jagged rocks loomed ominously on either side of this narrow outlet as the 'Excalibur' pushed her prow forward. Hardly any saw the danger until the Captain in the pilot house looked out of his window and shouted to his deck officers 'Throw out your sheet anchor!' Immediately the command was obeyed good discipline aboard this ship and the staunch vessel stood fast within fifty yards or so from the perilous rocks!” Powell's descriptions are complemented by detailed historical and geographical data as well as 60 plates of maps illustrations and photographic images. He clearly intended this to be a guide book as well as he provided histories of seemingly countless tourist destinations as well as information on languages locals cities he did not get to visit and more. He also waxed on many religious topics including the history of Christianity provided brief statements of the beliefs of Muslims and Jews and devoted four pages to his outline on the symbolism of the book of Revelation. Also of note is a rare piece of ephemera laid in to the book: Powell's promotional order form for this book as well as others he'd written along with a number of blurbs. A meticulous and well-illustrated travelogue and collection of religious essays by an African American educator and religious leader. OCLC locates five copies. [Jacob W. Powell] unknown books
1707réf. 53206Utrecht: P. van Lankom 1707. Hardcover. Very good. Eight parts octavo: asterisk8 A-2M8 2N4 K5 signed K3 292 leaves pp. 16 416 413-564 i.e. 568. Title in red and black; separate half-titles for each part. Woodcut lettrines; printed side notes. Numerous citations in Hebrew and Greek. Contemporary vellum soiled slight separation at upper joint. Mild embrowning at the edges. Text fine and crisp throughout. Overall a very good copy. First edition of this compendium one of two issues the other published by Johann Coster in which nine celebrated early modern Christian hebraists advance their views on the original pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton YHWH. The celebrated hebraist and Old Testament scholar Adriaan Reland 1676-1718 judged by Bayle to be one of the most learned writers of the eighteenth century is best remembered for his works on Jewish antiquities. He edited various other collections of essays and dissertations including Analecta Rabbinica 1702; Dissertationes miscellaneae 1706-1708; Dissertationes de nummis veterum Hebraeorum 1709. His opinion on the proper pronunciation of YHWY agrees with the first five hebraists in the present collection as well as the current scholarly consensus. I.- Johannes Drusius the elder 1550-1615 Tetragrammaton sive de nomine Dei proprio. II. - Sixtinus Amama 1593-1629 De nomine tetragrammato. with a response to Fuller. III. - Louis Cappel 1585-1658 Oratio de SS. Dei nomine tetragammato YHWH ac genuina ejus pronunciatione -- see Burnett Buxtorf 229: "Shortly after his appointment ot Saumur in 1613 he began his studies in biblical philology and textual criticism. His lecture on the Tetragrammaton delivered on June 22 1614 attests to a preoccupation with methodology which would distinguish his later work." This was later printed in the Arcanum punctationis 1624 and here in our volume. IV. - Johann Buxtorf the elder 1565-1629 Dissertatio de nomine YHWH -- see Burnett Buxtorf 124: "For the Tetragrammaton alone Buxtorf devoted ten pages of discussion in his 1615 Lexicon Hebraicum et Chaldaicum." V. - Jacob Alting 1618-1679 Exercitatio grammatica De punctis ac pronunciatione tetragrammati YHWH. VI. - Nicolus Fuller 1557-1626 Dissertatio de nomine YHWH -- see Orme and his note on Drusius' charge of plagiarism against. VII. - Thomas Gataker 1574-1654 De nomine tetragrammato dissertatio. London 1645 - Gataker later defended himself against Cappel in Thomae Gatakeri . Dissertationis de Tetragrammato suæ a D. Ludovici Cappelli in diatribæ de eodem suæ defensione nuperâ adversus eandem objectis Vindicatio London 1652. VIII-X. - Johannes Leusden 1624-1699 Dissertationes tres de vera lectione nominis Jehova. P. van Lankom hardcover books
1622réf. 2666Middelburg: Jan van der Hellen for Jan Pieterss. van de Venne 1622. 4to 233 x 176 mm. 16 60 19 1 blank pp. Large emblematic publisher’s mark on title-page four half-page engraved illustrations by Pieter de Jode 2 Pieter Serwouters and Willem van der Passe after Adriaen van der Venne. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Short marginal tear to title light dampstaining to first and last leaves. Later parchment over pasteboards ms. spine title. Provenance: Samuel Ashton Thompson Yates 1842-1903 bookplate dated 1894. First Edition of Cats’ retelling of the Biblical tale of Queen Vasthi the first wife of the Persian king Ahasuerus who refused her husband’s summons to appear before his guests wearing the royal crown to display her beauty in the Jewish tradition of the Midrash she was ordered to wear nothing else which would better explain her refusal. For this she was punished with exile and the King went on to marry another strong-willed woman Esther. The tale was especially familiar to 17th-century Dutch audiences for whom Esther had come to symbolize Netherlandish resistance to Spain. The first part of Cats’ word-playing verse adaptation whose title may be translated as The Theater of Manly Respectability is a long speech in the Queen’s defense and in defense of all women followed by a speech against her and in favor of “Manly Respectability.” The work concludes with the Judgment which is that Vasthi should obey her husband because women’s subservience to men is a law of nature. A final poem titled “Aller Princessen Spiegel aller Vrovwen Spoor” is illustrated with an engraving showing the humbled queen wearing a yoke around her neck. The parallels and differences between the Biblical Ahasuerus and Herodotus’ tale of King Candaules supplied in Latin and Dutch translations in an appendix whose wife’s rebellion was more successful are fully exploited by Cats and by the illustrator Cats’ usual partner the painter and engraver Adriaen van de Venne whose brother Jan published the edition. Van de Venne’s engravings notably the scene of Candaules’ naked wife being surprised by Gyges served as models for a number of Dutch painters. The Van de Venne brothers played a central role in the dissemination of Cats’ poetry and it is their joint production that makes the works come alive: “The complete works of Cats together with Van de Venne’s illustrations formed a sort of housebook of the Dutch people which remained popular for two centuries.” Bol p. 117. Following the privilege on the title verso is a letter from the publisher to all bailiffs officials and readers ”Noodige Waersschouwinge.” complaining of the many counterfeit editions of an earlier Cats work the 1620 Self-stryt and explaining how to tell them apart. A second edition without the Noodige Waersschouwinge appeared later in 1622 and several further editions followed. De Jonge van Ellemeet Museum Catsianum 97; Bol Adriaen Pietersz. Van de Venne 1989 p. 118. Jan van der Hellen for Jan Pieterss. van de Venne unknown books
réf. 10878vo. 200 x 180 mm. 8 x 6 ¾ inches. 302 pp. Manuscript text in neat hand. Bound in half-leather and marbled boards gilt rules on spine. Some rubbing to spine ends a later ownership name stamp on front pastedown. Manuscript lecture notes from Prof. Leonard Woods' class in theology taught at the Seminary in Andover. The student introduces the lectures in the first two pages: "West Chester Society Colchester Conn. -- In view of an examination preparatory to my ordination I presented to the Council the following confession of faith." He follows this information with a nine page table of contents for the lectures which begins with "On the inspiration of the Scriptures." In clear prose he recounts what he was taught by Prof. Woods while he was a student at Andover for those several years. Although unsigned these lecture notes most likely belong to Jacob Scales 1788-1873. Scales was born in Freeport Maine graduated from Dartmouth in 1817 and went on to Andover Theological Seminary finishing his degree there in 1820. In December of that year he was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church at Colchester Connecticut. In 1827 Scales became a pastor in Henniker NH; then Cornwall Vermont in 1839. Here he ran afoul of the local anti-slavery society according to Lyman Matthews' "History of the Town of Cornwall Vermont" Cornwall VT: 1862 pp. 182-6. A remonstrance by ten members of the church felt strongly he should not be installed. An ecclesiastical council was convened: "The remonstrants acknowledge that upon the subject of slavery Mr. Scales in sentiment is correct; but they allege that as a practical abolitionist he does not come up to the standard of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Of this however no proof was adduced. This Council can recognize no other standard than the Word of God." and therefore the church proceeded to install him. His tenure was not always smooth and he was dismissed in 1842. He became an acting pastor at Plainfield from 1842-1861. see his brief biography in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register v. 66 p. 50 Scales published several sermons and other works in his lifetime and Dartmouth College has a collection of his papers. Leonard Woods 1774-1854 was a professor of theology at Andover from 1808 until his retirement in 1846. He was a member of the Congregational Church and an orthodox Calvinist. He continued to write and prepare his works for publication. A five volume set of his lectures sermons letters and essays was published in Andover between 1849-1851. see: McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia Harper & Bros.: 1880 for more information on Woods. . Item #67599 JT/DSC 1087 . unknown books
1774réf. 183732Berlin.: Christian Friedrich Himburg. 1774. 1st edition. 8vo. Contemporary half mottled calf over decorative paper boards gilt spine title. Very good light shelfwear some toning to pages and map. 19.8x12x1.6 cm. German text. Important early mineral survey of Bohemia by the noted Swedish mineralogist. weight: 0.5 lb. One color folding map one folding plate. Christian Friedrich Himburg. hardcover books
1720réf. 748771720. With Interesting Content on Land Valuation Land Law. Great Britain. Jacob Giles 1686-1744 Attributed. The Land-Purchaser's Companion: And the Laws Relating to Tenants and Tenures. Containing I. The Years Purchase All Sorts of Lands Tenements Rents Reversions &c. Are Worth Valuation of Wood Timber Tithes Annuities &c. With Contracts for Sales. II. A Summary of All the Laws and Statutes Concerning Purchases of Lands tenements Rents &c. And the Common Deeds for Conveying and Assigning of the Same Mortgages &c. III. An Abridgement of the Laws Relating to All Kinds of Tenures and Occupiers of Estates: Of Leases demand and Tender of Rent Distresses or Replevin Waste &c. With Precedents of Grants Leases &c. Interspersed. To Which are Added The Laws and Statutes Relating to Tithes So Far as They Concern Tenants: The Law of Ejectments; Rentals of Estates Accounts of Rents &c. London: Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling 1720. xi1 283 17 pp. Final leaf is a 2 pp. publisher catalogue 12mo. 6-1/2" x 3-3/4". Contemporary calf blind rules to boards gilt tooling to board edges. Blind fillets along joints raised bands to spine. A few light stains and minor nicks and scuffs to boards moderate rubbing to extremities front joint starting at head corners bumped rear hinge cracked crack in text block between front endleaf and title page "Glass Cuphoard" and struck through signature both in early hands to front pastedown. Moderate toning to interior light foxing in a few places. $1350. Only edition. Directed at potential purchasers this unusual guide discusses land valuation and its associated legal problems. Some sources attribute this work to Giles Jacob a claim rejected by the ESTC. This is a scarce title. OCLC locates 3 copies in North American law libraries Library of Congress University of Washington Yale. The ESTC adds 1 more Harvard. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC T82732. unknown books
1842réf. 54602Philadelphia: published at the Assay Office of the Mint 1842. First edition 4to pp. 4 iv 1 6-220; inserted half-title printed in silver on glazed paper and 16 composite plates printed on glazed paper; original brown cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover; small snag at the top of the spine and the cloth binding a little dull; the plates are all bound at the back of the volume in 4 sequential gatherings and the bulk of the plates has caused these gatherings to become extended; otherwise a complete copy with a clean text block and an interesting provenance: on the front free endpaper is the first owner's inscription "Rud. F. Kelker / April 21 1843 / bot. of Eckfeldt & Dubois / United States Mint" and on the top of the title page "Rud. F. Kelker / April 21 1843 / bot. of Eckfeldt & Dubois / United States Mint / paid $5.00." Bookplate of Rudolph F. Kelker Harrisburg Pa. A landmark work in American numismatics. The authors were assayers of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. For nearly two decades it was the only practical guide available to American coin collectors. It was also the first work to illustrate the 1804 dollar and was one of the earliest works to combine photography electrotyping and the metal rolling machine for illustrative purposes. Sabin 21787. published at the Assay Office of the Mint unknown books
1736réf. 64429London: in the Savoy: printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling assigns of Edw. Sayer Esq; for J. J. and P. Knapton D. Midwinter A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch et al. 1736. Folio pp. 774; collating pi2 a2 B-9H2 9I1; lexicon in double column 4; full contemporary calf red morocco label on spine; upper joint cracked top of spine chipped level with text block label with single scratch affecting the letter 'A' in "Law" otherwise a very good copy. Includes "the history and antiquity of the law and our manners customs and original government collected and abstracted from all dictionaries abridgments institutes reports yearbooks charters registers chronicles and histories published to this time." Alston XVIII 198; Vancil p. 119; not in Zischka. in the Savoy: printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edw. Sayer, Esq;) for J. J. and P. Knapton, D. Midwinter, A unknown books
1934réf. 219112London 1934. Variant of the portrait from the same session published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten 1978 edited by Saul Mauriber. Bust portrait of the sculptor in profile. 1 vols. 35 x 27.7 cm. approximately 14 x 11 inches. Docketed in pencil on verso giving the name of the sitter the date of the session and a reference to negative and print "XXIII - F - 30". Variant of the portrait from the same session published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten 1978 edited by Saul Mauriber. Bust portrait of the sculptor in profile. 1 vols. 35 x 27.7 cm. approximately 14 x 11 inches. unknown books
1934réf. 219114London 1934. Variant of the portrait from the same session published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten 1978 edited by Saul Mauriber. Bust portrait of the sculptor. 1 vols. 23.2 x 31.5 cm. approximately 12-1/2 x9 inches. Docketed in pencil on verso giving the name of the sitter "Jason Epstein - Hyde Park Gate London" the date of the session and a reference to negative and print "XXIII - F - 28". Variant of the portrait from the same session published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten 1978 edited by Saul Mauriber. Bust portrait of the sculptor. 1 vols. 23.2 x 31.5 cm. approximately 12-1/2 x9 inches. unknown books
1934réf. 219342London 1934. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten 1978 edited by Saul Mauriber. Bust portrait of the sculptor facing camera. 1 vols. 35 x 27.7 cm. approximately 14 x 11 inches. Docketed in red ink on verso giving the date of the session and a reference to negative and print "XXIII - F - 21" with pencilled name of the sitter "Sir Jacob Epstein". Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten 1978 edited by Saul Mauriber. Bust portrait of the sculptor facing camera. 1 vols. 35 x 27.7 cm. approximately 14 x 11 inches. unknown books
1968réf. 82867Roosevelt NJ: New Jersey Volunteers for McCarthy 1968. First Limited Edition. No. 201 of 250 copies issued. Black cloth portfolio 45cm x 34cm containing a broadside poem and 14 pencil-signed lithographic plates by New Jersey artists. Printed by Pearl Seligman on Rives Heavyweight. Minor soil with pronounced toning to the cover sheet which prints the Lowell poem from contact with the portfolio flaps; a few faint spots of foxing to the final plate George Segal; remaining contents complete and fine. Features a broadside of Lowell's poem "Fall 1961" and 14 pencil-signed lithographs by the following New Jersey artists: Richard Anuskiewicz Carmen Cicero Leo Dee Joseph Demarais John Goodyear James Kearns Jacob Landau Stefan Martin George Ortiman Pat Pickering Gregorio Prestopino Jean Schonwalter George Segal and Herbert Steinberg. According to the colophon the portfolio was issued in response to "the challenge presented to the American political system by Senator Eugene McCarthy during the presidential campaign of 1968." Though not indicated this copy from the studio of contributing artist Gregorio Prestopino; a fair number of the artists represented here including Landau Segal and the printer Pearl Seligstein were neighbors of Prestopino in the progressive planned community of Roosevelt New Jersey. A scarce item; OCLC finds only two locations Harvard & Princeton; none others found in commerce. New Jersey Volunteers for McCarthy unknown books
1836réf. List3741New York City 1836. Twelve documents totaling fourteen pages. See description for full inventory. Generally very good to excellent. Cary Ludlow 1736-1814 was a lawyer and merchant from the prominent New York City Ludlow family. In 1768 Ludlow had bought a property at 9 State Street on the Battery with plans to build a mansion there-lower Manhattan was becoming fashionable after the building of the Kennedy Mansion at 1 Broadway by Archibald Kennedy 11th Earl of Cassilis.1 However Ludlow was an ardently pro-Stamp Act Tory and because of this had to flee with his family to England around the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Upon his return in 1784 he began work on the 9 State Street mansion which was completed around the mid-1790s shortly after the marriage of his daughter Catherine 1767-1849 to Jacob Morton 1761-1836. Later New York City Comptroller and Major General of the New York Militia during the War of 1812 Morton-who also appears in these documents-had been the marshal at George Washington's first inauguration.2 After the Revolutionary War many of New York's high society were moving to lower Manhattan especially on Front Street State Street and Broadway around Bowling Green and the Battery.1 The collection of legal filings offered here document this process of gentrification: they show Ludlow purchasing multiple lots surrounding his property on State Street from members of the lower classes. In particular Ludlow buys lots occupied by John Roorbach a grocer and Richard Anders an oysterman. Roorbach and Anders may have been renters or partial owners as the deals go through Samuel Craig whose occupation is listed as "gentleman" Robert Tuite Kemble formerly an officer of the British Army3 Cornelius Rosevelt likely of the Roosevelt family; also listed as "gentleman" and others. Following Cary Ludlow's death in 1814 the 9 State Street estate passed to Catherine and Jacob Morton and became a social center for the well-to-do epitomized by the 1824 ball the couple threw for the Marquis de Lafayette. However after Jacob Morton's death in 1836 the house became a boarding house; by the 1870s the 26-room mansion was home to "twenty-six Irish families" and Battery Park had become a spot where "roughs played base-ball" and vendors sold "horrible sweetmeats wormy apples and villanous lemonade". 1 The documents offered here illustrate several features of life for the elite during the Early Republic era: first they are primary documents of the gentrification of a neighborhood showing the displacement of its lower-class residents and the consolidation of property in the hands of a small number of wealthy owners; second the names appearing in them-Ludlow Morton Kemble-indicate that other than a small blip during the Revolutionary War financial ties outpaced political ones. State Street property documents: September 20 1794. Purchase and sale agreement between Roorbach and Ludlow for a house and lot on State Street "the street formerly called Copsey Street". Of the £1000 £600 goes to Kemble £200 to Samuel Craig and wife and £200 to Roorbach. 7 ¾ x 12 ½ inches 2pp folded Near Fine. February 7 1795. Release and quitclaim by Roorbach for two lots "in consideration of the sum of Five shillings . paid by Cary Ludlow" which were "mentioned and described in two certain Indentures" one between Cornelius and Catherine Rosevelt and Robert Tuite Kemble and the other between Kemble and Gerard Steddeford. 7 ¾ x 12 ½ inches 1pp folded excellent. February 7 1795. Agreement between Ludlow and Kemble with £500 owed to Kemble for a lot on the Battery bought by Kemble from Steddeford in 1791. 8 x 13 inches 1pp folded and separated at bottom fold with large tear at middle fold very good. February 7 1795. A stipulation that any payments by Ludlow to Roorbach would count towards his debt to Kemble. 8 x 12 ½ inches 1pp folded with several large tears at folds very good. May 4 1795. Indenture between Ludlow and Richard Anderson selling a "small lot" on State Street to Ludlow. The lot is specified as being bordered by the homes of Joseph Correy Stephen Smith and Ludlow likely No. 9. 9 ½ x 14 ¼ inches 2pp folded with some water stains but legible very good plus. June 19 1795. Release and quitclaim by Samuel Craig and his wife Rachel to Ludlow of a lot occupied by Roorbach. 8 x 12 ½ inches 1pp folded excellent to Near Fine. July 17 1795. Agreement between Ludlow and Anders to trade a house owned by Ludlow on Petticoat Lane Marketfield Street for one owned by Anders on State Street. 8 x 12 ¾ inches 1pp folded excellent. Other family documents: April 1775. Legal document signed by Ludlow as plaintiff's attorney in a debt case between Nicholas Ray and Benjamin Davis. 7 ½ x 5 inches 1pp very good plus. January 17 1818. Power of Attorney granted by Ludlow's widow Hester to John and George Morton brothers of Jacob Morton. 8 x 12 ½ inches 1pp excellent. February 28 1825. Grant of commission by Hester Ludlow to John and George Morton on proceeds to Ludlow's estate. 6 ½ x 8 inches 1pp excellent to Near Fine. January 21 1831. Receipt for sale of six shares in Butchers' and Drovers' Bank to Jacob Morton. 3 ½ x 7 ½ inches good. December 1 1836. Title to Vault 136 in the New York City Marble Cemetery for Jacob Martin. 7 x 9 ½ inches excellent. Of interest to historians of development and demographic change in New York City during the Early Republic era. 1 Rodolphe E. Garczynski "Some Old Houses illustrated" Appleton's Journal 8 no. 195 Dec 21 1872 696-699. 2 "Jacob Morton 1761-1836" American Aristocracy https://americanaristocracy.com/people/jacob-morton accessed April 23 2026. 3 "Robert Kemble 1755-1820" American Aristocracy https://americanaristocracy.com/people/robert-kemble accessed April 23 2026. books
1813réf. 47139Harrisonburg: Printed for the Author: By Davidson & Bourne 1813. 1st edition American Imprints 28029; Field 199; Harris Collection p. 42; Sabin 8787; Wegelin 889. Period full brown sheep binding with red leather gilt stamped title label to spine with 7 horizontal rules to same speckled edges. General wear to binding. Usual age-toning & foxing to paper; ffep lacking lower quarter. Prior owner signatures one dated 1858 of Jacob and Emeline Ritner. A solid VG copy. 252 12 pp. "List of Subscribers" last 12 pages which lists names in 3 columns per page ~ 60 names / column from 11 states: Virginia 7 pp Kentucky 3 pp Tennessee 1 page Ohio 2/3 page & Pennsylvania Maryland New York South Carolina Connecticut North Carolina & Louisiana comprising the last 1 columns. Of particular interest today is the large number of women so listed throughout this early 19th C. subscriber list providing strong evidence of their literary interests & financial wherewithal easily an academic project to research these women and gather additional demographics for this group. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 4" From Harris we learn the author was born in Virginia served as a State Senator and subsequently as Postmaster at Georgetown. Captain Jacob Ritner a self-styled "MOUNTAIN MUSE" in his hand under his signature to the front paste-down played a role in "most of the major military events of the Western Theater: Wilson's Creek Vicksburg Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain the Atlanta Campaign including the Battle of Atlanta Sherman's March to the Sea the Occupation of Savannah and the Carolina's Campaign." Perhaps he viewed himself as a mid-19th Century Daniel Boone A nice copy of this heroic poem centered on one of America's frontier icons. Printed for the Author: By Davidson & Bourne hardcover books
1775réf. 332737London: T. Payne 1775. Mixed. hardcover. very good. 3 volumes. Illustrated with 29 full and partial-page engraved plates in Volumes I & II; 3 engraved maps two folding. in Volume III. xx 516; 2 vi 535; viii 601 pages. Thick 4tos full contemporary calf gilt ruled with raised bands and red & green leather spine labels. Binding joints cracked but firm; extremities lightly worn; ink signature in each volume; some very light foxing and offsetting but overall a very good clean copy. London: Printed for T. Payne. et al. 1775-1776. Second edition of Volumes 1 and 2; first edition of Volume 3. Bryant 1715-1804 was a classical scholar educated at King's College Cambridge. He was appointed secretary to the Duke of Marlborough in 1756 and continued to serve the Marlborough family after the Duke's death in 1758 living for several years at Blenheim. He published a description of the Marlborough collection of antique gems in 1783. Bryant's name is chiefly associated with the present work the first two volumes of which first appeared in 1774. Though Bryant has been criticized for his lack of grounding in Eastern languages and for his misleading system of etymology it is generally agreed that the research that went into it was remarkable. DNB. "This work established the author's reputation as a profound scholar." Lowndes. -- Rothschild 511. T. Payne unknown books
1949réf. 140947178New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1949. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's quarter navy cloth over canary yellow paper boards. Gilt lettering to spine blindstamping to front cover. 136 pp. Near Fine with light edgewear to boards and light toning throughout in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light soiling toning and edgewear tape reinforcement to jacket verso at head of spine and front fold end. One-Way Ticket is a chronicle of the Great Migration combining poems by Langston Hughes with brush and ink drawings by the social realist artist Jacob Lawrence. Elegantly designed by Marshall Lee and printed by H. Wolff. Uncommon with a dust jacket in this condition. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1890réf. 21441New York: Charles Scribners Sons 1890. Pictorial boards. Very Good. A solid very presentable copy of the 1890 true 1st edition of this seminal study of poverty on New York's Lower East Side with its pictorial boards over navy-blue cloth and with the matching "1890" dates at the title and copyright pages. Tight and VG with light spotting and offseting along the top-edges and a touch of light wear to the spine ends and the fore-edges. Thick 12mo bright gilt-titling at the spine. 43 illustrations -- many of them pictorials-- complementing Jacob Riis's timeless text. Charles Scribners Sons unknown books
2000réf. 33945Seattle and London: University of Washington Press 2000. Fine/Fine. Seattle & London: University of Washington Press 2000. Limited Edition of 250 signed copies this being number 203. Two quarto volumes 30cm; illustrated dust jackets over red and blue cloth boards with black lettering; 285pp 343pp; color illus. throughout; housed in publisher's slipcase. Jackets are crisp and bright with a couple very faint smudges to surface and light bumping to tail of Catalogue Raisonne. Boards are sturdy and square. Slipcase is sturdy and solid with a few stray scuffs and smudges but no splits or bumps. Publisher's description / UPC slip formerly attached to outer shrinkwrap laid in though cleanly torn in half. Signed by Lawrence without inscription on dedication page. The culmination of six years of research by the Jacob Lawrence Catalogue Raisonne Project the set documents over 900 paintings drawings and murals with essays by eight art historians on Lawrence's work. Lawrence was the first African-American artist to be represented by a New York agency and to have work held in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art. University of Washington Press unknown books
1901réf. 16764New York: The Macmillan Company 1901. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine. A handsome copy of the 1901 1st edition of essentially Jacob Riis's autobiography. Tight and VG to Near Fine in its navy-blue cloth with bright gilt-insignia and titling along the front panel and lightly-faded titling and insignia at the spine. Light foxing as well at the frontispiece and its tissue-guard light offsetting to the dedication page. Armorial bookplate Anne C. Ewing at the front pastedown OF THE WOMAN TO WHOSE HUSBAND RIIS TWICE INSCRIBED THIS COPY AND WROTE HIS 1 PG. ALS. This copy furthermore includes 2 tiny corrections in Riis's hand one at pg. 283 one at pg. 436. Thick octavo 443 pgs. plus publisher's ads. The Macmillan Company unknown books
1718réf. 862781718. London: Eliz. Nutt & R. Gosling 1718. London: Eliz. Nutt & R. Gosling 1718. Giles Jacob's Pioneering 1718 Masterwork on Hunting Angling and the Forest Laws Jacob Giles 1686-1744. The Compleat Sportsman. In Three Parts. Part I. Containing the nature and various kinds of game under their several Denominations with the best Methods of taking the same by Shooting Hunting Dogs Nets and otherwise; and the Laws and Statutes made for Preservation of the Game with Warrants to impower Game-Keepers &c. Part II. Of the best Situations and Methods of erecting and Management of Parks Warrens &c. Of Hunting the Buck Doe &c. And a concise Abridgment of the Forest-Laws and of all the Laws and Statutes relating to Deer: Methodically interspersed with Precedents of Warrants for Deer &c. Part III. Of fish and fishing; the most successful Methods of Angling; the only proper Baits Tackle and agreeable Seasons for taking all Sorts of Fish; and the Rivers wherein they are to be found; with the Statutes relating to Fishing &c. London: Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling Assigns of Edward Sayer Esq; for J. Tonson at Shakespear's-Head in the Strand and W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-noster-Row 1718. 12mo. 12 152 4 pp. 6-1/4" x 4"; 15.8 cm x 10.2 cm. Recent three-quarter calf over original paper-covered boards executed in a period style. Spine featuring gilt rules forming six compartments with a green morocco gilt lettering piece. Armorial bookplate of John Gunning to the front pastedown. A very good crisp copy internally featuring a neat closed tear repair to the fore-margin of leaf B4 not affecting the text. $1500. The first and only edition published under this title of this pioneering guide. Giles Jacob a prolific and idealistic 18th-century English legal writer passionately believed that translating complex statutes into plain English would democratize the law and create a more egalitarian society. This work represents the first time an English manual explicitly unified the recreational mechanics of field sports with the complex restrictive web of English Forest and Game Laws. Divided into three comprehensive parts the text systematically details the taking of game by shooting hunting and netting Part I; the management of parks warrens and an abridgment of the Forest Laws Part II; and the practical methods baits and seasons of angling alongside fishing statut. unknown books
1921réf. 987781921. JACOB Max. Dos d'Arlequin. Illustrated with colored woodcuts after drawings by Max Jacob. 8vo. original wrappers in a cloth folding box. Paris: Aux Editions du Sagittaire 1921. A scarce little book showing just how talented Max Jacob was as an artist; the poet was a close friend of Picasso. The total edition was 250 copies but this is one of the hors commerce issue on Vélin. hardcover books
1879réf. 2558331879. With watercolours photos etc. 4to. Quarter contemporary morocco gilt spine and marbled boards a.e.g. Minor rubbing some pages have been excised. With watercolours photos etc. 4to. Front free endpaper has charming small watercolour of house tipped in with legend in pencil "I believe this is the first dwelling after marriage Rainham Kent. G.T.N. ordained 1806 preached at Romsey. 2. Lumley Lodge Richmond pen and ink drawing. Laid in. 3. Watercolour : "House & chapel built by him of Dr César Malam Prè du Champs- Geneva 4. Pencil drawing "Birthplace of Phillip George de Grand Jacob: Roath Court was left for Somerton in 1808." Signed in picture "Roath Court Frant. July9-39." 5. 2. Lumley Lodge Richmond pencil drawing 6. Crawley Rectory 1832 by A.S.J. Pencil drawing 7. Crawley Rectory and grounds by ASJ 8. Wash drawing of "Abbey Close Winchester" identified lower left From hence mostly photographs. unknown books
2000réf. 1415165Seattle and London: University of Washington Press / Jacob Lawrence Catalogue Raisonné Project 2000. Signed Limited Edition #191/250. Hardcover. Quartos 2 Volumes. In Good condition with Very Good dust jackets. Housed in publisher's sun faded and scuffed black cloth slip case. Spines red and blue respectively with white and yellow lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar coverings. Foxing to edges of textblocks. Pages sticky with an odor. Signed by Lawrence and enumerated on tipped-in page in Volume I. Ticket to the exhibit at The Phillips Collection laid in to Volume I. Shelved above Ancient Civilization. Volume I - THE ART AND LIFE OF JACOB LAWRENCE Volume II - PAINTINGS DRAWINGS AND MURALS 1935-1999 A CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ. 1415165. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. University of Washington Press / Jacob Lawrence Catalogue Raisonné Project hardcover books
