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1676ref. 1416879Oxford: Sheldonian Theater 1676. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto 21 pages. In Fair condition. Unbound signatures. A few remnants of threads connect some of the leaves along the edge. Text block has heavy soiling to first and last page a spot of worming in upper fore corner of pages 11 onward tide marks to fore margins and foxing and age-toning throughout all text still legible. Text in Latin. Shelved in Room A octavo overflow. Cooper's Hill was a popular 17th century English poem that combined topographical imagery with political and philosophical reflections. 1416879. Special Collections - Upstairs. Sheldonian Theater hardcover books
ref. 13888New York: McGraw-Hill 1970. First Edition First Printing. Full leather. Fine/very good. Signed first edition of Public Works: A Dangerous Trade by Robert Moses. Octavo xxxvi 952pp. Full navy blue morocco title in gilt on red label affixed to spine. Top edge gilt four gilt illustrations on the front cover. Marbled endpapers. No additional printings listed. Solid text block a fine example. In the publisher's glassine dust jacket. Signed by the author "To Annette and George / Robert Moses" on the dedication page. Robert Moses 1888-1981 was an urban planner in New York City and served as the 49th Secretary of State of New York from 1927-1929. Throughout his forty-year career Moses oversaw construction and function of Jones Beach State Park and the New York State Parkway System and was acting head of the Triborough Bridge Authority. Despite his accomplishments in public affairs Moses's reputation was diminished with the publication of Robert Caro's biography The Power Broker which described Moses as a racist official who cut corners on budgeting and restricted access to city parks for lower-class families. McGraw-Hill unknown books
1509ref. 3366415/09/1866. Acquired from the direct descendants of the commander of the vessel that received the medal in Russia it was not known to have survived and has never before been offered for sale Emperor Alexander II issued the Emancipation Manifesto on March 3 1861 which granted freedom to over 23 million serfs. This reform is known as the Emancipation Edict. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1 1863. It declared that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious Confederate states ""are and henceforward shall be free."" The Union victory in the Civil War finalized in 1865 ensured this would become the law of the land. Lincoln and Alexander had something else in common. Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865 by John Wilkes Booth in an act of political violence. The attempted assassination of Alexander II in 1866 was a failed act of political violence by Dmitry Karakozov a young revolutionary. Karakozov's aim was to kill the Tsar and spark a revolution believing the Emperor had betrayed the people's expectations after his emancipation of serfs in 1861. Another attempt around 20 years later would be successful. In 1866 President Andrew Johnson sent Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gustavus Vasa Fox who had played a leading role in the expedition to relieve Fort Sumter in April 1861 on a mission to Russia primarily to deliver a resolution from Congress congratulating Emperor Alexander II on his survival of the assassination attempt. The mission also aimed to gather information on European naval capabilities and explore potential trade opportunities including the sale of the ironclad monitor USS Miantonomoh. The mission was a major event marking a high point in Russian-American friendship and was met with grand receptions in St. Petersburg and Moscow. In the process Johnson sent the ironclad Miantonomoh itself on a world tour with the destination of Russia - first across the Atlantic and through the North Sea the Baltic and then through the Mediterranean in 1866 and 1867. The commander of this vessel was Moses Stuyvesant graduate of the Naval Academy and hero of the Civil War. He had been on two sunk vessels including one taken down by a Confederate Ironclad. But the mission had two messages: to congratulate Russia on the freeing of the serfs and the Tsar on surviving the assassination attempt. The resolution read: “JOINT RESOLUTION relative to the attempted assassination of the Emperor of Russia. “Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled That the Congress of the United States of America has learned with deep regret of the attempt made upon the life of the Emperor of Russia by an enemy of emancipation. The Congress sends greeting to his Imperial Majesty and to the Russian nation and congratulates the twenty millions of serfs upon the providential escape from danger of the sovereign to whose head and heart they owe the blessings of their freedom. “Sec. 2. And be it further resolved That the President of the United States be requested to forward a copy of this resolution to the Emperor of Russia. “Approved May 16 1866.” In mid Summer the Miantonomoh arrived in the harbor of Cronstadt on the 17th of August and the Tsar sent an address acknowledging the visit of Mr Fox. On Saturday September 15 the fleet went to push off from Russia. Mr. Fox left Petersburg after a farewell breakfast given on Russian yacht Rurik at which the Russian Lieutenant Greig presented the Americans with a symbol of their newly instituted freedoms from slavery in both countries: a medal struck in memory of the enfranchisement of the serfs in Russia. Grieg said ""The friendship of the two nations. among the causes to which is due this mutual spirit is the great event emancipation which has been accomplished almost simultaneously in the two countries - there by a sanguinary struggle here by the path of peace."" He then presents the ""medal struck in memory of the enfranchisement of the peasants.He will see on it the likeness of our sovereign and the effigy of a nobleman and of peasant."" This is that very medal given by the Russians to the Americans to commemorate the freedom of their former slaves presented to the Americans depicting the scene of Alexander II on one side as Grieg says in a case on the inside of which Stuyvesant as commander of the expedition has signed his name and dated it September 15 1866 the day of the presentation of the medal and Grieg's speech and written ""From the Emperor of Russia Alex III"" instead of II. The bronze medal reads: ""FEBRUARY 19 1861 Cut to N. Kozin from the model of count F. Tolstoy. Engraver: Nikolai Kozin"" It is not known how many were made. A small number have reached the market but none akin to this: with the important symbolism of a state gift congratulating a nation on emancipation. This was a gift of one slave-freeing nation to another in the immediate aftermath of those actions. This medal was not known to have survived and comes from the direct descendants of Stuyvesant who received it September 5 1866. <img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /> unknown books
1940ref. 23112ca1940. Removed from frame. Very good; small bit of tape residue in two places verso. Pencil sketch on a sheet of ordinary blank paper measuring appx. 24 x 18 inches. Executed during his stay in NYC in the 1940s. The artist is primarily known for his paintings from the '20s in Paris. The sketch is signed in the lower right hand corner. unknown books
1894ref. 013411Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1894. Later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A later printing 1894 of "A New Edition with Illustrations and a Bibliography of the Work by George Bullen" 1878. 8vo publishers plain green cloth black-endpapers with evidence of past reinforcement of hinges front and rear. Hartford bookstore ticket rear pastedown. Inscribed: "Harriet Beecher Stowe/ written for/ Miss Cleaveland/ June 30 1895" PROVENANCE: Heirs of the Cleaveland family whose genealogy goes back to colonial Connecticut. Penciled in the inscription before "Miss Cleaveland" are the letters "EW" which identifies the inscribee as Elizabeth Whittlesey Cleaveland one of Elisha Whittlesey Cleaveland's daughters and great great granddaughter of Moses Cleaveland 1754 - 1806 Connecticut lawyer politician soldier and surveyor who founded the city of Cleveland Ohio while surveying the Connecticut Western Reserve in 1796. During the American Revolution he served as the brigadier general of the Connecticut militia. Both Stowe and the inscribee were born in Connecticut where they both died Stowe's inscription here is in a shaky hand and dated a year and a day before her death on July 1 1896 at the age of 85. Houghton, Mifflin hardcover books
1796ref. 2330942Berlin: Bey Haude und Spener 1796. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Second edition. Sticker on front corner edges rubbed ink name and stamp on endpapers. Scarce - only 12 in OCLC. 1796 Hard Cover. 124 pp. German text. Paper over boards handwritten titles on spine. Mendelssohn's ideas brought about the Haskalah Jewish Enlightenment. This work applies mathematical proofs to metaphysics. It won the author first prize in a Berlin Academy essay contest over Immanuel Kant and Thomas Abbt. Bey Haude und Spener hardcover books
1819ref. 2329134Ofen: Paul Burian'schen Buchandlung 1819. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. German text. Boards rubbed with some loss from corners especially top of front panel internal split to leather of spine causing minor loss from label a few pages faintly stained. 1819 Hard Cover. viii 201 pp. Leather spine with leather spine label marbled boards Volume 4 of Mendelssohn's collected works comprising a brief philosophical history with a sketch of his life and character by D. Jenisch. Mendelssohn was an influential German-Jewish philosopher and theologian who helped launch the Haskalah Jewish Enlightenment of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Paul Burian'schen Buchandlung hardcover books
2025ref. 627663Boston: Beacon Press 2025. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. 261pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Beacon Press hardcover books
ref. 233790The Easton Press. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Full gray leather with gilt board design and page edges. Four raised bands to the spine. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Includes the Easton Press Notes From History sheet. The Easton Press hardcover books
1791ref. 37491791. 8vo. Hardcover. Very good. Rebound in faux vellum. New marbled endpapers. Original German text. This was the main philosophical work of Mendelssohn who was the first Jewish Philosopher of the modern period. It is modeled on Plato's dialogue of the same name. This edition first published after Mendelssohn's death. There is some age discoloration & some of the pages are untrimmed. This edition is over 200 years old. unknown books
1988ref. 2353915Norwalk Connecticut: The Heritage Press 1988. Reissue. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 9x6x1. Tassos A. Includes publisher's slipcase and Sandglass insert. Slipcase lightly rubbed spine slightly faded. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1988 Large Hardcover. xvii 307 pp. Translated into English by Edward P. Coleridge. Preface by Moses Hadas. Illustrated by A. Tassos. Dual text: Greek and English. A new translation of Apollonius' epic poem with the original Greek on the left page and the English translation on the right. The Heritage Press hardcover books
1885ref. 2353215Boston: D. Lothrop & Co 1885. Seventh Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Conant J.S.; et al. 1885 seventh edition revised and enlarged. A couple minor scuffs to boards map just beginning to split along internal seams where two folds meet otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. x 302 xi-xxii pp. 8vo. Large fold-out map follows text. A history of Boston Harbor which was the site of numerous significant events in United States history including the arrival of John Winthrop's fleet pictured on the frontispiece the Boston Tea Party. Illustrated with two hundred engravings by Charles Copeland and various other artists more than two dozen of which are full-page including a map and two panoramic views of Boston Harbor. D. Lothrop & Co hardcover books
1977ref. 2348788Lincoln Nebraska: Bison Book / University of Nebraska Press 1977. Second Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x8. First paperback printing of second edition. Ink owner stamp crossed out inside front cover otherwise an excellent copy. 1977 Trade Paperback. lviii 251 pp. Originally published as The Tall Candle: The Personal Chronicle of a Yaqui Indian. This edition includes an introduction by Jane Holden Kelly map fold-out genealogical table and black-and-white photographs. "The reminiscences of a Yaqui Indian born in 1896 in northwestern Mexico whose story begins during the Yaqui revolutionary period continues through the last uprising in 1926 and ends with his recollections of his life on a Texas farm from 1952 to 1969. The introduction by Professor Kelley adds scholarly analysis to the poignant autobiographical narrative." - Booklist Bison Book / University of Nebraska Press paperback books
1982ref. 70275Chicago: Regnery Gateway. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1982. Cloth. 0895266571 . Edition in Near Fine condition in Near Fine dust-jacket with soiling and edgewear. Author signature on the front flyleaf ; The History of the Jewish People: The Early Middle Ages is a comprehensive and detailed history of the Jewish people from their origins in the Middle East to the end of the biblical period. This book covers a wide range of topics from the origins of the Jewish people and the biblical period to the destruction of the Second Temple and the rise of Rabbinic Judaism. The author provides an in-depth analysis of the historical and cultural context of each period as well as an extensive bibliography and index.; Vol. 2; 8vo; 247 pages; Signed by Author . Regnery Gateway hardcover books
1982ref. 70276Chicago: Regnery Gateway. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1982. Cloth. 0895265974 . Edition in Fine condition in like dust-jacket; The History of the Jewish People: The Late Middle Ages is an exhaustive history of the Jewish people from the late Middle Ages to the modern era. The book covers a vast array of topics from the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and Portugal in 1492 to the Holocaust. Shulvass provides a detailed analysis of key events and figures as well as their impact on the Jewish people. This comprehensive work is essential reading for anyone interested in Jewish history and culture.; Vol. 3; 8vo; 325 pages . Regnery Gateway hardcover books
1982ref. 70274Chicago: Regnery Gateway. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1982. Cloth. 0895266601 . Edition in Near Fine condition in Near Fine dust-jacket with soiling and edgewear ; This book provides an overview of the history of the Jewish people from its origins to the present. It covers the major events and topics related to the Jewish people including the biblical era the Babylonian exile the return to Israel the Roman period the Middle Ages the Renaissance the Enlightenment the era of the British Mandate and the modern period. The book is written by Moses A. Shulvassand is published by Yale University Press.; Vol. 1; 8vo; 264 pages . Regnery Gateway hardcover books
1827ref. 96155Boston: True and Greene State Printers 1827. Paperback. Very Good. 42p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24 cm. Moses identified on title-page as Associate Professor of Sacred Literature in the Theological Seminarty at Andover. True and Greene, State Printers paperback books
2001ref. 626375Boston: Beacon Press 2001. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 233pp. Quarter red cloth and black paper-covered boards. Lower shoulder with a tiny bit of loss to the cloth and some rubbing and a bit of frass on the obttom edge very good in near fine dust jacket with evidence of a very faint stain on the inside only of the jacket. Signed by Moses; and additionally Inscribed by Cobb Jr.: "To Michelle - Among the best and most beautiful to come from Africa. In these pages perhaps you will see some connection between the Mississippi and the Zambezi. Anyway I toss this book to you from my side of the river. Charlie Cobb." Laid in is an Autograph Note Signed by Cobb to the recipient sending the book along. Robert P. Moses educator and civil rights activist was a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; since 1982 he has worked on the Algebra Project. "The author tells the story of his participation in the voter registration movement in Mississippi in the 1960s and explains how he used what he learned through his Civil Rights work to establish the Algebra Project a program dedicated to resolving the crisis in math literacy in poor communities" - publisher's summary. Beacon Press hardcover books
1766ref. 92148Boston: Printed by Richard and Samuel Draper in Newbury-Street 1766. Paperback. Fair. 30p. Disbound removed from a bound volume. 19 cm. Substantial foxing. Last few leaves almost entirely detached. No separate wrapper present. Coloniral printing. Dana served as minister in Ipswich fror 62 years. Printed by Richard and Samuel Draper, in Newbury-Street paperback books
1823ref. 93056Andover: Codman Press 1823. New Edition Revised and enlarged. Hardcover. Poor. 406 20p. plus 2 page addenda and corrigenda. Original boards. 25 cm. Covers detached. Binding broken apart at both hinges and several places on backstrip. Some foxing. Text clean. Codman Press hardcover books
1832ref. 91006Andover: Flagg & Gould 1832. Hardcover. Very Good. 276p. Original cloth backed boards. 25 cm. Foxing probably heaviest on covers endpapers and first several leaves at beginning and end of book. Former owner's name S. F. Otis. Backstrip concave. Flagg & Gould hardcover books
1940ref. 49139n.p. 1940. Hardcover. Good. photos mostly portraits 400p. Original clothloth. 23cm. Covers heavily spotted. Some browning and scattered foxing on text-pages. No Jacket. hardcover books
1899ref. 337975Boston: Moses King 1899. First. hardcover. near fine. 2337 portraits. 616 pages. 8vo decorated green cloth. New York: Moses King 1899. First Edition. Front hinge neatly repaired else a near fine copy. A Companion Volume to King's Handbook of New York City. Moses King unknown books
1867ref. 31821Stettin Szczecin/ Lviv: A. Druker 1867. Third edition. Hardcover. fair to good. Large octavo. Unpaginated. 146 double-sided leaves. Period brown marbled paper boards protected in modern glassine. Contains four title pages one for the work in total at the front followed by three individual title pages for each of the three parts of the work. Each title page with decorative woodblock borders. Two of the title pages state Stettin as the location of publication while the other two state Lvov Lviv. The title pages state this as the "third edition". Text throughout printed on blue paper following the first title page. This historically important work is a treatise and reference work on the natural sciences which is famous for its numerous woodcut illustrations and figures. It was the first Hebrew book of its kind to be published. It's author was the early Enlightenment Polish-Jewish physician Tobias Cohen aka Toviyyah ben Moshe ha-Kohen or Toviyah Kats 1652-1729. The work was first published in Venice in 1707 and is divided into three parts covering covers numerous topics including medicine physiology anatomy hygiene botany zoology cosmology and astronomy. Includes at total of 26 black woodblock illustrated figures and diagrams throughout outlining creation depicting the geocentric and heliocentric models of the solar system the four elements plants insects physical phenomena and ships sailing on the the spherical globe of the world among others. The third part is the most notable for its famous illustrated figure known as "The House of the Body" which shows the detailed interior anatomy of the human body and a multi-story house side by side relating and comparing the organs of the body to the divisions of the house. The work is also includes theology and cosmology from a Jewish context and discusses Sabbatianism. Text in Hebrew. Binding with rubbing to the extremities as well as abrasions and scratches to the paper boards. Front board starting to crack at the top of the front hinge. Starting following the second title page and at the interior rear cover. Contains copious period ink notes in Hebrew and English on the interior covers and endpapers. Printed ex-libris of a previous owner pasted on the front free endpaper. Library stamp from another previous owner Jacob Franklin on the bottom of the third page. Rippling to endpapers. Some sporadic minor to light stains and smudges. Title page of part 2 with a small tear resulting in minor loss of text and some light chipping to the very edge of the final leaf of part 2. Binding in fair to good- interior in good condition overall. Quite scarce. Hebrew title: מעשה טוביה Author: טוביה קץ/ טוביה כהן/ טוביה הכהן/ טוביה ×”×¨×•×¤× Publication: לבוב/שטעטין ×. דר×קיר תרכ״ז Alternate transliterations: Mase Towija 2nd title page Ma'aseh Tobiyah Ma'aseh Tuvyah Ma'aseh Toviyyah Ma'aseh Tovia. A. Druker hardcover books
1824ref. 55402London: Henry Moses 1824. First edition. Hardcover. Very good to fine condition. Oblong Octavo. 20 etchings plus original illustrated wrappers. Bound in Royal blue leather retaining original wraps; gilt lettering and ruling on leather label mounted to spine. Cream endpapers. Tan wrappers with etching and brown lettering on front back cover plain. Our collection of "Sketches of Shipping" on the River Thames appears to be the earliest state published by Henry Moses with front wrappers dated Dec. 1 1824 and all twenty etchings dated in plates Oct. 1 1824. An 1826 advertisement in the Quarterly Review indicated that six parts of the Sketches with five engravings each had been published up to that time and announces the publication of two additional issues. The front wrapper stating publication date as Dec. 1 1824 as in our copy appears to have been used in various editions including some containing eleven plates dated March 1 1825 in plates or lettered in ink "Nos. 5 & 6" corresponding to the 1826 Quarterly Review advertisement. The irregularities and/or contradictions in tracing the publication of these Moses etchings suggest that due to the constrictions of the medium these popular etchings were published in limited numbers in variant editions as identified by the dates in these plates to satisfy the public demand of the time. In our copy all 20 etchings are dated in plates Oct. 1 1824 with two of the plates containing additional dates etched into the plates as indicated below: 1. Sailing Match Aug. 16 1824 2. An Indianian in Barnard's Yard Deptford 3. Trafalgar 120 G 125 4. Midway 5. Midway Aug. 9 1824 6. Blackwall. Dutches of M. 7. Blackwall Basin 8. Trafalgar P - 120 Guns 9. Sheerness Yard from a Window of the Fountain Inn 10. Sheerness 11. Sheerness Yard from a window of the Fountain Inn variant motif 12. Trafalgar 120 Guns 13. Trafalgar in the Basin Sheerness 14. Hulks at Sheerness 15. Blackwall 16. Untitled 17. City Canal 18. Basin at Blackwall 19. Blackwall - Wellington Indiaman 20. Surat Castle All etchings but plate 12 with H. Moses printed to plate. Plate twelve with Henry Moses. Printed by Chatfield and Coleman. Inked name and date on front free endpaper. "12/." inked to upper foredge corner of cover; this with a few small damp stains on front and back covers. OCLC lists an 1837 copy with 57 plates incl. 2 engraved title pages published in London by Ackermann a 1824 copy with nineteen plates 1825 and 1837 copies with thirty plates the latter published by Ackermann an 1837 copy titled "The Marine Sketch Book" with twenty-eight plates an 1826 copy with nine plates titled Sketches of Shipping: View in Portsmouth Harbour" and an 1827 copy with thirty plates titled "Shipping at Portsmouth and Spithead" publisher W. B. Cooke. Henry Moses hardcover books
