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2017ref. Atlantic-9780128046777Elsevier 2017. 1. Hardcover. New. Elsevier hardcover
2017ref. Atlantic-9780128046777Elsevier 2017. 1. Hardcover. New. Elsevier hardcover
1720ref. 14403Amsterdam: Leon Schenk Abraham Rademaker c1720. 560 by 960mm. 22 by 37.75 inches. Engraving with etching on two sheets joined. A view of the Overtoom in the eighteenth century. By the eighteenth century numerous country villas had been built along the Overtoom one of the main canal's linking Amsterdam with river Schinkel as well as pleasure gardens and numerous ale houses and shops. The Overtoom gained its name from the machine for moving a boat from one body of water to another where the level varied. Rather than with the aid of a lock in other canal systems the boat would be physically pulled across the land. The machine is depicted to the right of the print consisting of two large wheels it can be seen pulling a small boat onto the canal. Leonard Schenk fl.1720-1746 engraver mapmaker and publisher in Amsterdam. Abraham Rademaker 1677 21 January 1735 was an 18th-century painter and printmaker from the Northern Netherlands. Rademaker was born in Lisse. According to the RKD he was a versatile artist who painted Italianate landscapes but is known mostly for his many cityscapes and drawings of buildings that were made into print. R.W.P. de Vries auction 1925: 288. Leon Schenk, Abraham Rademaker, unknown
1900ref. 1680New York: Tiffany & Co. program/menu The Knickerbocker Press Festschrift 1900. First editions. RARE PROGRAM/MENU FOR DINNER IN HONOR OF ABRAHAM JACOBI'S 70TH BIRTHDAY--SIGNED BY JACOBI AND 17 NOTABLE ATTENDEES TOGETHER WITH BOUND PUBLISHED PROCEEDINGS AND FESTSCHRIFT VOLUME PRESENTED TO HONOREE. 1 Program of "Dinner in Honor of Doctor Abraham Jacobi on the Seventieth Anniversary of His Birthday Saturday May the Fifth Nineteen Hundred at Delmonico's." Three leaves 15.8x22.3 cm printed on fine card stock by Tiffany & Co. each with 2 small holes at top for binding by ribbon. Menu program cover with engraved portrait of Jacobi with his pencil signature below and program with pencil signature of 17 attendies. Framed in 41.5x66.5 cm dark wooden frame with ribbon tie in pouch attached to back of frame. Browning to page edges otherwise very good. SIGNERS OF THE PROGRAM: John Shaw Billings 1838 - 1913 was an American librarian building designer and surgeon who modernized the Library of the Surgeon General's Office in the United States Army. His work with Andrew Carnegie led to the development and his service as the first director of the New York Public Library. Billings oversaw the building of the Surgeon General's Library which was the nation's first comprehensive library for medicine. Joseph Decatur Bryant 1845 - 1914 was a surgeon New York City Health Commissioner Surgeon-General of the National Guard Surgeons and physician to Grover Cleveland and John D. Rockefeller. He also held a series of academic positions at Bellevue Hospital Medical College culminating with the title of professor of the principles and practice of surgery and professor of operative and clinical surgery at New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. Arpad Geyza Charles Gerster 1848-1923 A surgeon who practiced at Mt. Sinai in New York City in the late 1890s and early 1900s. Hungarian by birth he was also a sportsman linguist and an artist. Gerster's vivid often humorous observations of nature and people his delight in the outdoors and his drawings and etchings offer a larger portrait of the Adirondack region in the age of William West Durant Great Camps railroads and the beginning of the conservation movement. Abraham Jacobi 1830 - 1919 was a German physician and pioneer of pediatrics. He was a key figure in the movement to improve child healthcare and welfare in the United States and opened the first children's clinic in the country. To date he is the only foreign-born president of the American Medical Association. He is regarded as the Father of American Pediatrics. Edward Gamaliel Janeway 1841 - 1911 was an American physician who served as Health Commissioner of New York and as president of the New York Medical Journal Association in the late nineteenth century. He was considered "one of America's premier internists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries". John W. Keller 1856 -1919 was a New York newspaper man member of Tammany Hall and in 1900 was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention and his name was presented by the New York delegation for the Vice Presidency. From 1898 to 1902 he was Commissioner of Public Charities in New York city. John Stewart Kennedy 1830 - 1909 was a Scottish-born American businessman financier and philanthropist. He was a member of the Jekyll Island Club also known as The Millionaires' Club on Jekyll Island Georgia along with J.P. Morgan and William Rockefeller among others. Daniel Scott Lamont 1851 - 1905 was the United States Secretary of War during Grover Cleveland's second term. After his service as Secretary of War Lamont was vice president of the Northern Pacific Railway Company from 1898 to 1904. In August 1904 he was supported by the New York Times as a candidate for Governor of New York. Joseph Larocque 1831 - 1908 was a New York City lawyer and president of the New York City Bar Association. Larocque was a director of several companies including the American Cotton Oil Company the Commonwealth Insurance Company of New York Niagara Falls Power Company and Plaza Bank. He also served on the boards of a number of New York City institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art the Century Club and Columbia University. Seth Low 1850 - 1916 was an American educator and political figure who served as the mayor of Brooklyn from 1881 to 1885 the president of Columbia University from 1890 to 1901 a diplomatic representative of the United States and the mayor of New York City from 1902 to 1903. William Osler 1849 - 1919 was a Canadian physician and one of the founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. In 1889 he became the first Physician-in-Chief of the new Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore Maryland. In 1893 Osler was instrumental in creating the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and became one of the school's first professors of medicine. Thomas Morgan Rotch 1849 - 1914 graduated from Harvard College in 1870 and from Harvard Medical School in 1874. He was the president of the American Pediatric Society for 1890”"91 and America's first full professor of pediatrics. Carl Schurz 1829 - 1906 was a German-American revolutionary and an American statesman journalist and reformer. He migrated to the United States after the German revolutions of 1848”"1849 and became a prominent member of the new Republican Party. In 1868 he was elected to the United States Senate from Missouri becoming the first German American in that body. He supported William Jennings Bryan's anti-imperialist campaign in the 1900 presidential election. Schurz lived in a summer cottage in Northwest Bay on Lake George New York which was built by his good friend Abraham Jacobi. Isaac Townsend Smith 1813 - 1906 was one of the incorporators of the Metropolitan Savings Bank of New York and was for many years its president. He was also Commissioner of Immigration for the state of New York and a presidential elector in 1864 when Abraham Lincoln was reelected. For the following 50 years Smith was in intimate touch with the Siamese government as its financial agent Consul and Consul General. William Hanna Thomson 1833 - 1918 was assistant physician at Quarantine Hospital in New York and physician to the Charity Hospital consulting physician to Roosevelt Hospital and Bellevue Hospital Professor of Medicine at New York University Medical College a member of the New York Neurological Society and President of the New York Academy of Medicine during 1899”"1900. Robert Fulton Weir 1837 - 1927 professor of surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons from 1873 to 1903 and President of The New York Academy of Medicine from 1900 to 1903. His wide experience was gained chiefly in the Civil War in which he served as surgeon in charge of the hospital of Frederick Maryland one of the largest Government hospitals from 1862 to 1865. William Henry Welch 1850 - 934 was an American physician pathologist bacteriologist and medical school administrator. He was one of the founding professors at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the first dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He was also the founder of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health the first school of public health in the country. Horace White 1865 - 943 was a member of the New York State Senate from 1896 to 1908 and Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1909 to 1910. White who was the nephew of Cornell's first President Andrew Dickson White left three-quarters of his estate to the university and that fund had grown to $1.5 million by 1973. 2 Proceedings and Addresses at the Complimentary Dinner Tendered to Dr. A. Jacobi on the Occasion of the Seventieth Anniversary of His Birthday May 5 Nineteen Hundred. 18.5x25.5 cm hardcover black cloth binding gilt title to cover covers with beveled edges top edge gilt floral endpapers engraved frontispiece including portrait of Jacobi reproducing first leaf of dinner program 74 pp including the following: i Introductory Note by the committee of physicians and laymen convened to celebrate Jacobi's 70th birthday "a fit occasion for a hearty manifestation of the esteem in which Dr. Jacobi is held and for a recognition of the services he has rendered in various relations--during the course of almost fifty years”"as a physician educator and civic worker. It was felt also that such an occasion would afford an appropriate setting for the unusual honor to be paid Dr. Jacobi in the presentation of a 'Festschrift' comprising original contributions to medical literature dedicated to him by fifty physicians and scientists including many of the most prominent in all parts of the world." ii Address of Dr. Joseph D. Bryant Chairman; iii Poem of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell: 'Abraham Jacobi Medicus Magister Amicus'; iv Address of Dr. William H. Thomson: 'Jacobi the Physician'; v Address of Dr. William Osler: 'The Scientist'; vi Address of the Honorable Seth Low: 'In Relation to Medical Education'; vii Address of the Honorable Carl Schurz: 'The Citizen'; viii Address of Dr. Arpad G. Gerster: Presentation of the 'Jacobi Festschrift "Mr. Chairman I hold in my hand a volume containing the scientific contributions of fifty-three medical men of note men representing two continents and eleven nations"; ix Remarks of Dr. Francis Foerster presenting the address of the German Hospital; x Remarks of Dr. Emil Gruening presenting the resolutions for Mount Sinai Hospital; 10 Address of Dr. Jacobi: The Guest of the Evening; xi Letters and Telegrams Received; xii Subscribers to the Dinner. Very good in custom archival mylar cover. 3 "Festschrift" in honor of Abraham Jacobi. To Commemorate the seventieth Anniversary of his Birth May Sixth 1900. 16.5x16 cm hardcover green cloth binding with printed gray paper covers paper title label to spine top edge gilt institutional library bookplate to front paste-down engraved frontispiece portrait of Jacobi with tissue guard i-xiii 496 pp 12 plates 2 folding charts. 55 contributions by 57 authors including George Adami Theodor Escherich Eduard Henoch Luther Emmett Holt Henry Koplik William Osler Thomas Morgan Rotch and William Henry Welch. Topics include infectious diease cancer neurology seizures metabolic disease congenital heart disease urology/nephrology and toxicology. Most papers in English several in German or French language. Covers worn library numbers bottom of spine front hinge split offsetting of frontispiece to title page browning to page edges. Binding tight pages unmarked good in custom archival mylar cover. Tiffany & Co. (program/menu), The Knickerbocker Press (Festschrift)
1900ref. 1680New York: Tiffany & Co. program/menu The Knickerbocker Press Festschrift 1900. First editions. RARE PROGRAM/MENU FOR DINNER IN HONOR OF ABRAHAM JACOBI'S 70TH BIRTHDAY--SIGNED BY JACOBI AND 17 NOTABLE ATTENDEES TOGETHER WITH BOUND PUBLISHED PROCEEDINGS AND FESTSCHRIFT VOLUME PRESENTED TO HONOREE. 1 Program of "Dinner in Honor of Doctor Abraham Jacobi on the Seventieth Anniversary of His Birthday Saturday May the Fifth Nineteen Hundred at Delmonico's." Three leaves 15.8x22.3 cm printed on fine card stock by Tiffany & Co. each with 2 small holes at top for binding by ribbon. Menu program cover with engraved portrait of Jacobi with his pencil signature below and program with pencil signature of 17 attendies. Framed in 41.5x66.5 cm dark wooden frame with ribbon tie in pouch attached to back of frame. Browning to page edges otherwise very good. SIGNERS OF THE PROGRAM: John Shaw Billings 1838 - 1913 was an American librarian building designer and surgeon who modernized the Library of the Surgeon General's Office in the United States Army. His work with Andrew Carnegie led to the development and his service as the first director of the New York Public Library. Billings oversaw the building of the Surgeon General's Library which was the nation's first comprehensive library for medicine. Joseph Decatur Bryant 1845 - 1914 was a surgeon New York City Health Commissioner Surgeon-General of the National Guard Surgeons and physician to Grover Cleveland and John D. Rockefeller. He also held a series of academic positions at Bellevue Hospital Medical College culminating with the title of professor of the principles and practice of surgery and professor of operative and clinical surgery at New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. Arpad Geyza Charles Gerster 1848-1923 A surgeon who practiced at Mt. Sinai in New York City in the late 1890s and early 1900s. Hungarian by birth he was also a sportsman linguist and an artist. Gerster's vivid often humorous observations of nature and people his delight in the outdoors and his drawings and etchings offer a larger portrait of the Adirondack region in the age of William West Durant Great Camps railroads and the beginning of the conservation movement. Abraham Jacobi 1830 - 1919 was a German physician and pioneer of pediatrics. He was a key figure in the movement to improve child healthcare and welfare in the United States and opened the first children's clinic in the country. To date he is the only foreign-born president of the American Medical Association. He is regarded as the Father of American Pediatrics. Edward Gamaliel Janeway 1841 - 1911 was an American physician who served as Health Commissioner of New York and as president of the New York Medical Journal Association in the late nineteenth century. He was considered "one of America's premier internists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries". John W. Keller 1856 -1919 was a New York newspaper man member of Tammany Hall and in 1900 was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention and his name was presented by the New York delegation for the Vice Presidency. From 1898 to 1902 he was Commissioner of Public Charities in New York city. John Stewart Kennedy 1830 - 1909 was a Scottish-born American businessman financier and philanthropist. He was a member of the Jekyll Island Club also known as The Millionaires' Club on Jekyll Island Georgia along with J.P. Morgan and William Rockefeller among others. Daniel Scott Lamont 1851 - 1905 was the United States Secretary of War during Grover Cleveland's second term. After his service as Secretary of War Lamont was vice president of the Northern Pacific Railway Company from 1898 to 1904. In August 1904 he was supported by the New York Times as a candidate for Governor of New York. Joseph Larocque 1831 - 1908 was a New York City lawyer and president of the New York City Bar Association. Larocque was a director of several companies including the American Cotton Oil Company the Commonwealth Insurance Company of New York Niagara Falls Power Company and Plaza Bank. He also served on the boards of a number of New York City institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art the Century Club and Columbia University. Seth Low 1850 - 1916 was an American educator and political figure who served as the mayor of Brooklyn from 1881 to 1885 the president of Columbia University from 1890 to 1901 a diplomatic representative of the United States and the mayor of New York City from 1902 to 1903. William Osler 1849 - 1919 was a Canadian physician and one of the founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. In 1889 he became the first Physician-in-Chief of the new Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore Maryland. In 1893 Osler was instrumental in creating the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and became one of the school's first professors of medicine. Thomas Morgan Rotch 1849 - 1914 graduated from Harvard College in 1870 and from Harvard Medical School in 1874. He was the president of the American Pediatric Society for 1890”"91 and America's first full professor of pediatrics. Carl Schurz 1829 - 1906 was a German-American revolutionary and an American statesman journalist and reformer. He migrated to the United States after the German revolutions of 1848”"1849 and became a prominent member of the new Republican Party. In 1868 he was elected to the United States Senate from Missouri becoming the first German American in that body. He supported William Jennings Bryan's anti-imperialist campaign in the 1900 presidential election. Schurz lived in a summer cottage in Northwest Bay on Lake George New York which was built by his good friend Abraham Jacobi. Isaac Townsend Smith 1813 - 1906 was one of the incorporators of the Metropolitan Savings Bank of New York and was for many years its president. He was also Commissioner of Immigration for the state of New York and a presidential elector in 1864 when Abraham Lincoln was reelected. For the following 50 years Smith was in intimate touch with the Siamese government as its financial agent Consul and Consul General. William Hanna Thomson 1833 - 1918 was assistant physician at Quarantine Hospital in New York and physician to the Charity Hospital consulting physician to Roosevelt Hospital and Bellevue Hospital Professor of Medicine at New York University Medical College a member of the New York Neurological Society and President of the New York Academy of Medicine during 1899”"1900. Robert Fulton Weir 1837 - 1927 professor of surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons from 1873 to 1903 and President of The New York Academy of Medicine from 1900 to 1903. His wide experience was gained chiefly in the Civil War in which he served as surgeon in charge of the hospital of Frederick Maryland one of the largest Government hospitals from 1862 to 1865. William Henry Welch 1850 - 934 was an American physician pathologist bacteriologist and medical school administrator. He was one of the founding professors at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the first dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He was also the founder of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health the first school of public health in the country. Horace White 1865 - 943 was a member of the New York State Senate from 1896 to 1908 and Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1909 to 1910. White who was the nephew of Cornell's first President Andrew Dickson White left three-quarters of his estate to the university and that fund had grown to $1.5 million by 1973. 2 Proceedings and Addresses at the Complimentary Dinner Tendered to Dr. A. Jacobi on the Occasion of the Seventieth Anniversary of His Birthday May 5 Nineteen Hundred. 18.5x25.5 cm hardcover black cloth binding gilt title to cover covers with beveled edges top edge gilt floral endpapers engraved frontispiece including portrait of Jacobi reproducing first leaf of dinner program 74 pp including the following: i Introductory Note by the committee of physicians and laymen convened to celebrate Jacobi's 70th birthday "a fit occasion for a hearty manifestation of the esteem in which Dr. Jacobi is held and for a recognition of the services he has rendered in various relations--during the course of almost fifty years”"as a physician educator and civic worker. It was felt also that such an occasion would afford an appropriate setting for the unusual honor to be paid Dr. Jacobi in the presentation of a 'Festschrift' comprising original contributions to medical literature dedicated to him by fifty physicians and scientists including many of the most prominent in all parts of the world." ii Address of Dr. Joseph D. Bryant Chairman; iii Poem of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell: 'Abraham Jacobi Medicus Magister Amicus'; iv Address of Dr. William H. Thomson: 'Jacobi the Physician'; v Address of Dr. William Osler: 'The Scientist'; vi Address of the Honorable Seth Low: 'In Relation to Medical Education'; vii Address of the Honorable Carl Schurz: 'The Citizen'; viii Address of Dr. Arpad G. Gerster: Presentation of the 'Jacobi Festschrift "Mr. Chairman I hold in my hand a volume containing the scientific contributions of fifty-three medical men of note men representing two continents and eleven nations"; ix Remarks of Dr. Francis Foerster presenting the address of the German Hospital; x Remarks of Dr. Emil Gruening presenting the resolutions for Mount Sinai Hospital; 10 Address of Dr. Jacobi: The Guest of the Evening; xi Letters and Telegrams Received; xii Subscribers to the Dinner. Very good in custom archival mylar cover. 3 "Festschrift" in honor of Abraham Jacobi. To Commemorate the seventieth Anniversary of his Birth May Sixth 1900. 16.5x16 cm hardcover green cloth binding with printed gray paper covers paper title label to spine top edge gilt institutional library bookplate to front paste-down engraved frontispiece portrait of Jacobi with tissue guard i-xiii 496 pp 12 plates 2 folding charts. 55 contributions by 57 authors including George Adami Theodor Escherich Eduard Henoch Luther Emmett Holt Henry Koplik William Osler Thomas Morgan Rotch and William Henry Welch. Topics include infectious diease cancer neurology seizures metabolic disease congenital heart disease urology/nephrology and toxicology. Most papers in English several in German or French language. Covers worn library numbers bottom of spine front hinge split offsetting of frontispiece to title page browning to page edges. Binding tight pages unmarked good in custom archival mylar cover. Tiffany & Co. (program/menu), The Knickerbocker Press (Festschrift) books
1858ref. 376861Springfield IL 1858. 8pp. printed in double columns. 8vo. Unbound. Minor toning. Housed in a cloth box. 8pp. printed in double columns. 8vo. The only separate printing of this address given by Lincoln at Springfield Illinois. Lincoln's speech which preceded his debates with Douglas puts forth the great themes that marked his political philosophy during the last ten years of his life. More importantly it firmly placed Lincoln as against the expansion of slavery and Douglas on the opposite side of the issue. By targeting Douglas a strategy that resurrected Lincoln's political career he made his fellow Illinoisan out to be the embodiment of the wicked forces safeguarding slavery's expansion . This speech is Lincoln's opening salvo against Douglas for the 1858 senate campaign: 'Free men of Illinois - free men of everywhere - judge ye between him and me'" Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print p. 67 Urging that slavery be placed on course for "ultimate extinction" he repeats his "House Divided" warning first given at the State Republican Convention a month earlier. He insists that the Kansas-Nebraska bill was "the beginning of a conspiracy" to nationalize slavery. Attacking Douglas and defending himself against the charge that he would "invite a war of sections" he stands on "the principles of our Declaration of Independence." Though African Americans are not the equal of whites "in all respects" the Declaration "does mean to declare that all men are equal in some respects; they are equal in the right to 'life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.'" Most significantly "In the right to put into his mouth the bread that his own hands have earned he is the equal of every other man white or black." A scarce Lincoln speech. Monaghan 12; Byrd 2960 unknown
1860ref. 376855New York: Office of the New York Tribune 1860. First edition Monaghan's first issue. 1 2-15 1pp. With New York Tribune ads and subscription terms on verso of the terminal leaf. 8vo. Stitched self-wrappers toning. First edition Monaghan's first issue. 1 2-15 1pp. With New York Tribune ads and subscription terms on verso of the terminal leaf. 8vo. This address made at the Cooper Institute in New York on February 27 1860 catapulted Lincoln into the public eye and made him a viable presidential candidate. Indeed many historians have considered it the key to his success in the 1860 election and it is probably the most important speech Lincoln made after the Gettysburg Address and his inaugural addresses. The Cooper Union address was months in preparation; Lincoln was fully aware of its importance in moving himself from a regional favorite son to a viable national candidate. In the event some 1500 people including many prominent political figures attended on a snowy new York evening. The speech divides into three major parts. In the first Lincoln addressed the spread of slavery arguing that the framers of the constitution had been opposed to it and that the Federal government could regulate the question. In the second he argued that the Republicans were not a sectional Northern party and attacked the threats of southern Democrats to secede if the Republicans should win the election. Finally he addressed his fellow Republicans calling on them to act carefully and do "nothing through passion and ill temper.Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it." The Cooper Union speech was a resounding success. Horace Greeley described it as "one of the happiest and most convincing political arguments ever made in this City. No man ever made such an impression on his first appeal to a New York audience." Greeley quickly issued the speech in the form of this "Tribune Tract." It includes a final page of advertisements for other Tribune publications. The speech was later widely reprinted and made Lincoln nationally famous. This printing differs from other editions by its inclusion of a speech by James Doolittle Senator from Wisconsin and the message of Samuel Medary Democratic governor of the Kansas Territory vetoing the Kansas abolition bill. "The Cooper Union address tested whether Lincoln's appeal could extend from the podium to the page and from the rollicking campaigns of the rural West to the urban East. Cooper Union held the promise of transforming Lincoln from a regional phenomenon to a national figure. Lincoln knew it and rose to the occasion" Harold Holzer Lincoln at the Copper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President. Monaghan 50 Office of the New York Tribune unknown
1858ref. 376861Springfield IL 1858. 8pp. printed in double columns. 8vo. Unbound. Minor toning. Housed in a cloth box. 8pp. printed in double columns. 8vo. The only separate printing of this address given by Lincoln at Springfield Illinois. Lincoln's speech which preceded his debates with Douglas puts forth the great themes that marked his political philosophy during the last ten years of his life. More importantly it firmly placed Lincoln as against the expansion of slavery and Douglas on the opposite side of the issue. By targeting Douglas a strategy that resurrected Lincoln's political career he made his fellow Illinoisan out to be the embodiment of the wicked forces safeguarding slavery's expansion . This speech is Lincoln's opening salvo against Douglas for the 1858 senate campaign: 'Free men of Illinois - free men of everywhere - judge ye between him and me'" Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print p. 67 Urging that slavery be placed on course for "ultimate extinction" he repeats his "House Divided" warning first given at the State Republican Convention a month earlier. He insists that the Kansas-Nebraska bill was "the beginning of a conspiracy" to nationalize slavery. Attacking Douglas and defending himself against the charge that he would "invite a war of sections" he stands on "the principles of our Declaration of Independence." Though African Americans are not the equal of whites "in all respects" the Declaration "does mean to declare that all men are equal in some respects; they are equal in the right to 'life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.'" Most significantly "In the right to put into his mouth the bread that his own hands have earned he is the equal of every other man white or black." A scarce Lincoln speech. Monaghan 12; Byrd 2960 unknown books
1860ref. 376855New York: Office of the New York Tribune 1860. First edition Monaghan's first issue. 1 2-15 1pp. With New York Tribune ads and subscription terms on verso of the terminal leaf. 8vo. Stitched self-wrappers toning. First edition Monaghan's first issue. 1 2-15 1pp. With New York Tribune ads and subscription terms on verso of the terminal leaf. 8vo. This address made at the Cooper Institute in New York on February 27 1860 catapulted Lincoln into the public eye and made him a viable presidential candidate. Indeed many historians have considered it the key to his success in the 1860 election and it is probably the most important speech Lincoln made after the Gettysburg Address and his inaugural addresses. The Cooper Union address was months in preparation; Lincoln was fully aware of its importance in moving himself from a regional favorite son to a viable national candidate. In the event some 1500 people including many prominent political figures attended on a snowy new York evening. The speech divides into three major parts. In the first Lincoln addressed the spread of slavery arguing that the framers of the constitution had been opposed to it and that the Federal government could regulate the question. In the second he argued that the Republicans were not a sectional Northern party and attacked the threats of southern Democrats to secede if the Republicans should win the election. Finally he addressed his fellow Republicans calling on them to act carefully and do "nothing through passion and ill temper.Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it." The Cooper Union speech was a resounding success. Horace Greeley described it as "one of the happiest and most convincing political arguments ever made in this City. No man ever made such an impression on his first appeal to a New York audience." Greeley quickly issued the speech in the form of this "Tribune Tract." It includes a final page of advertisements for other Tribune publications. The speech was later widely reprinted and made Lincoln nationally famous. This printing differs from other editions by its inclusion of a speech by James Doolittle Senator from Wisconsin and the message of Samuel Medary Democratic governor of the Kansas Territory vetoing the Kansas abolition bill. "The Cooper Union address tested whether Lincoln's appeal could extend from the podium to the page and from the rollicking campaigns of the rural West to the urban East. Cooper Union held the promise of transforming Lincoln from a regional phenomenon to a national figure. Lincoln knew it and rose to the occasion" Harold Holzer Lincoln at the Copper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President. Monaghan 50 Office of the New York Tribune unknown books
1584ref. 61175hand-coloured copper engraving. verso: Spanish text. EXTREMELY RARE. The first European map of China appeared in Abraham Ortelius's atlas " Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" showing the area of Canton Mindanao no Luzon some islands to the North but only CuboCebu is marked and part of Japan – Spanish edition. An extremely important map for the Philippines here in the first state: there is no indication yet of' 'Las Philippinas' as will be shown later in the second state on the long elongated island just north of Borneo in the position and orientation of Palawan but apparently not based on Spanish knowledge. Ortelius was a notable Dutch cartographer and the publication of this atlas in 1570 marked an epoch in the history of cartography. It was the first uniformly sized systematic collection of maps of the countries of the world based only on contemporary knowledge since the days of Ptolemy & in that sense may be called the first modern atlas; although that term itself was not used until 20 years later by Mercator. The Theatrum was re-issued in 42 editions with 5 supplements with text in Latin Dutch German French Spanish Italian & English between the years 1570-1612. The protrusion of a Southern landmass initially called 'Beach' by Marco Polo is shown South of "Java Major" alluding to Australia. Reference: Tooley Mapmakers S.38; Koeman III Ort 29 B; Walter Japan Nr. 11F; Karrow Mapmakers Nr. 1/152; Landmarks of Mapmaking pict. p. 21; Phillips Atlases 396; OAG Japan a cartographic vision pl. 11F; Suárez: Early Mapping… p. 170-1; Karrow Mapmakers p. 479; Lietz Insulae Indiae Orientalis 36th IMCoS Symposium Manila 2018 Gallery of Prints & Ayala Museum p.12. Condition: Very good. published in Antwerp.
ref. 25123Charles II on his way back to the throne: a lavishly illustrated contemporary account of his triumphant 1660 journey through Holland and departure from Scheveningen for England marking the dramatic beginning of the Restoration.An important and lavishly illustrated contemporary account of Charles IIs celebrated visit to the Dutch Republic in May 1660 immediately before his restoration to the English throne. After years of exile on the Continent Charles travelled from Breda through the Dutch Republic to Scheveningen from where he embarked for England. His departure marked the dramatic conclusion of the English Interregnum and the beginning of the Restoration monarchy.The work records the elaborate receptions banquets processions and ceremonies organised in Charless honour. Particularly important are the six large engravings documenting events at Delft The Hague and Scheveningen. They provide a vivid visual record of the political theatre surrounding the Restoration and of the crucial Dutch role in Charles IIs return to power. The contemporary vellum binding and the presence of the separately published celebratory poem Anglia triumphans make this an especially attractive historical ensemble.Folio. 4 108 pp. Contemporary full vellum. Illustrated with an engraved portrait and six large engraved plates showing the festivities and ceremonies at Delft The Hague and Scheveningen engraved by Philippe and Mathem after Jacob Toorenvliet. Bound with: Robert Keuchenius Anglia triumphans sive in inaugurationem Caroli II poemation. The Hague Adriaen Vlacq 1660. 36 pp.NL Folio 4 108 pag. Gebonden in eigentijdse geheel perkamenten band. Geillustreerd met portret en 6 grote gravures Delft Den Haag en Scheveningen door Philippe en Mathem naar Toorenvliet. Gebonden met: Rob. Keuchenius 'Anglia triumphans sive in inaugurationem . Caroli II . poemation. Den Haag Vlacq 1660 36 pag. hardcover
1905ref. 5000696Sydney 1905. In exemplary original condition. 9 carat gold matchbox 15 gr; 45 x 30 mm; monogrammed on the back with interwoven letters "M.A.C." A remarkable memento of the pioneer Jewish educator Maurice Moses Abraham Cohen 1851-1923. Objects from the Australian Jewish community at the start of the 20th century prior to the great waves of Jewish immigration are very scarce. The monogrammed initials on this attractive presentation piece identify it as a gift from the Sydney Jewish Sabbath School to M.A. Cohen the School's first principal. Born in Ukraine to a Sephardic family Cohen was a talented linguist. Educated in England after spells in India and Afghanistan he travelled to Australia in 1887 where he took up a role as the first headmaster of the Jewish Sunday School just then established in Sydney within the Great Synagogue Australia's finest synagogue. He went on to become head of the NSW Jewish Board of Education. At one time he was editor of Sydney's first Jewish weekly newspaper the Australian Jewish Weekly as well as a lecturer on Hebrew at a number of theological colleges in Australia. Cohen was one of the first European Australians to call attention to the plight of the Australian Aboriginal peoples and to argue for compensation and land rights even risking his position as editor of the Australian Hebrew Newspaper with his fiery opinion pieces on the subject. He also argued for increased non-discriminatory immigration drawing from all cultures and vehemently opposed the White Australia Policy. The Australian Jewish Historical Society "The First Jewish Educator for Sydney": online resource. So-called "Vesta" cases named for the Roman goddess of fire and the hearth are small portable boxes made to contain matches and keep them dry. More commonly made of tin or sometimes enamel or silver with later examples sometimes carrying advertising or being highly decorated gold examples from this period represent a high standard and were very suitable for presentation pieces; this fine example was perhaps made to join a pocket watch on its gold chain. . unknown
1720ref. 14409Amsterdam: Leonard Schenk c1720. 558 by 950mm 22 by 37.5 inches. Engraving with etching on two sheets joined. The most prominent feature of the of this view is The Ronde Lutherse Kerk or Koepelkerk is a former Lutheran church. The church was built in neo-classical style and has a characteristic copper dome. It was built in 1671 by Dutch Golden Age architect Adriaan Dortsman who also built Museum Van Loon a magnificent private residence at the Keizersgracht. When the Lutherans left the building in 1935 it became a concert hall. In 1993 the interior and characteristic green-colored copper dome were destroyed by fire. After a renovation period of 16 months the church was fully restored. Further down the canal the imposing Roonports tower can be seen. Leonard Schenk fl.1720-1746 an Jan Schenk 1698-1752 were brothers working as engravers and publisher's in Amsterdam. Abraham Rademaker 1677 21 January 1735 was an 18th-century painter and printmaker from the Northern Netherlands. Rademaker was born in Lisse. According to the RKD he was a versatile artist who painted Italianate landscapes but is known mostly for his many cityscapes and drawings of buildings that were made into print. R.W.P. de Vries auction 1925: 284 Leonard Schenk, unknown
1757ref. 47855London.: Printed for and sold by the author near the George in Portland Street Cavendish Square; by Mr. Brotherton over against the Royal-Exchange; Mr Buckland at the Buck in Pater-Noster Row; H. Piers and Partner at the Bible and Crown in High Holborn. 1757 - 1758. Later calf-backed marbled boards spine with compartments and black morocco label bearing titles in gilt board edges tooled in gilt. 3 vols. in 1. Folio 400 x 260 mm. Two vols with Title page Preface and a Description of the Plates each followed by 60 full page copper plate engravings all plates numbered signed and with imprints dated '1757'; final vol with Title page Introduction iii - viii Description of the plates beginning 'Of the Orders in General' pp. 1 - 16 followed by 65 numbered plates. PROVENANCE: Label of Doddington Library to front pastedown. Abraham Swan's extensive two volume study of domestic architectural designs 'A Collection of Designs' bound here with his seminal work on staircases 'The British Architect . ' .The two volume 'Collection of Designs' - the second of three pattern books published by Swan a carpenter and joiner - was his attempt to provide an inexpensive pattern book of inexpensive designs. Swan made his intentions of quantity over quality clear in his Preface: 'I hope that whatever defects may be observed in any of them will be candidly excused considering what a number of designs are contained in these two volumes and that they are all of my own contriving and drawing.' 'The first volume contains 4 engravings of the staircase at Blair Castle Perthshire which Swan designed for the Duke of Atholl 1757. Two Chinese Bridges for the grounds at Blair appear in the second volume. Swan's designs belong to the 'rococo' taste popular in the mid-18th century'. Weinreb.Swan's comprehensive work 'The British Architect' - first published 1745 here in the 3rd edition - was destined to be the first architectural book published in America. The title page of the earlier edition described the author as 'Abraham Swan Carpenter' later changed to 'Abraham Swan Architect.' The work includes the following: 'I. An easier more intelligible and expeditious Method of drawing the Five Orders than has been hitherto been published by a Scale of Twelve equal Parts free from those troublesome Divisions call'd Aliquot Parts. Shewing also how to glue up their Columns and Capitals.II. Likewise Stair-Cases those most useful ornamental and necessary Parts of a Building though never before sufficiently described in any Book Ancient or Modern; shewing their most convenient Situation and the Form of their Ascending in the most grand Manner: With a great Variety of curious Ornaments whereby any Gentleman may fix on what will suit him best there being Examples of all Kinds; and necessary Directions for such Persons as are unacquainted with the Branch.III. Designs of Arches Doors and Windows.IV. A great Variety of New and Curious Chimney-Pieces in the most elegant and modern Taste.V. Corbels Shields and other beautiful Decorations.VI. Several useful and necessary Rules of Carpentry; with the Manner of Truss'd Roofs and the Nature of a splay'd circular Soffit both in a streight and circular Wall never published before. Together with Raking Cornices Groins and Angle Brackets described.' From the title-page.Across all three volumes the title page imprint has been altered Meadows and Hitch and Hawes erased and replaced in ink manuscript with 'Mr Brotherton' and 'Buckland at the Buck'.'This is one of the books that had great influence on the builders and architects of eighteenth-century America.' Fowler.Park 80 / 79 first edition 1745 but citing other eds. including the present; RIBA Early Printed Books 3220; Fowler 341 second American edition 1794; Weinreb 1:166; Millard Architectural Collection Vol. 2 82; Berlin 2285. Printed for and sold by the author, near the George in Portland Street, Cavendish Square; by Mr. Brotherton, over against the Ro hardcover
ref. 15778Folio half perkament 20 100 14 30 6 20 p. ill. Titelpagina van het derde werk mist verder goed exemplaar. Lit: Tiele 51 als Hollandsche Arkadia Drie van de topografische plaatwerken van Rademaker met resp. 100 30 en 20 gravures. Alle drie in eerste druk met mooie frisse drukken. Alle drie werken hebben uitvoerige gedichten door G. Tysens met beschrijvingen van de afgebeelde gebouwen. Er bestaan herdrukken uit de 18de eeuw en in 1807 verscheen nog een verzameluitgave van dertien werken van Rademaker Stoopendaal De Leth Brouërius van Niedek e.a. onder de titel ‘Hollandsche Arkadia in 600 en meer afbeeldingen van land- en watergezichten. Dit betrof: 1. Overtoom; 2. De Amstel; 3. De Vechtstroom; 4. Het Watergraafs- of Diemermeer; 5. De trekvaart van Amsterdam tot Polanen; 6. Alkmaar; 7. Het zegepralent Kennemerlant; 8. Rhijnland; 9. Oudewater; 10. Den Haag; 11. Vlaardingen; 12. Delft; 13. Dordrecht. unknown
ref. #[54630]4° 2202 pag. contemporain perkament geillustreerd met 8 geetste platen over twee pagina's de laatste twee met elk 2 afbeeldingen door Romeyn de Hooghe. Enkele wormgaatjes in bovenmarge. C2020 l Landwehr 30; Hollstein 90-96; Willems 1874 De Hooghe's schitterende prenten in het 'Advis fidelle' behoren niet alleen tot de hoogtepunten van zijn werk maar ook tot de artistieke hoogtepunten van dit tijdperk. Ze tonen de wreedheden waaraan Franse solda unknown
ref. 3389Boston: James R. Osgood & Co. 1872. Broadside 24.5” x 19” plus margins; portrait and text in five columns. CONDITION: Torn through upper right the tear affecting the portrait restored backed with Japanese tissue. The first separate printing and first separate facsimile of Lincoln’s famed autobiographical sketch originally composed in response to a request from his friend Jesse Fell printed with a brief account by Fell of the circumstances under which it was written and extracts from a few of Lincoln’s speeches. Lincoln and Fell became acquainted during a session of the Illinois State Legislature in the winter of 1834–35. Lincoln was serving as a representative and Fell as a lobbyist for MacLean County Illinois. The two became political friends and saw much of each other in subsequent years. In 1858 when Lincoln came to prominence as a result of his debates with Stephen Douglas Fell who had recently returned from a trip east where the public was hungry for information about Lincoln approached his friend as he came out of the Bloomington Illinois courthouse one afternoon and asked him for a biographical sketch. Lincoln initially resisted but the following year gave in composing a brief autobiography as well as a letter of explanation both of which he mailed to Fell on December 20th 1859. Delighted that Lincoln had finally complied and eager to promote his cause Fell forwarded Lincoln’s autobiography to his friend Joseph J. Lewis in Pennsylvania who used it for an article that was published in the Chester County Times PA on February 11th 1860. Lewis’s article was reprinted in many newspapers and “became the first widely read biographical sketch of Lincoln and served as a basis for the first three Lincoln campaign biographies in book form” Sage. In 1872 while preparing his biography of Lincoln for publication Ward H. Lamon wrote to Fell asking him to forward Lincoln’s sketch and its accompanying letter to his publisher James R. Osgood & Co. for consultation and facsimile publication. Placing no particular value on the original manuscripts when he first received them Fell had not requested their return but now retrieved them in response to Lamon’s request. He then forwarded the biographical sketch but not Lincoln’s letter of explanation substituting instead his own cover letter. Since Lincoln’s sketch was neither addressed to Fell nor signed Fell included with his letter clippings in Lincoln’s hand reading “Hon. J. W. Fell” and “Yours very truly/A. Lincoln” which were then pasted onto Lincoln’s sketch. Also added was an emblem and statement testifying to the authenticity of the manuscript signed by David Davis Lyman Trumbull and Charles Sumner dated at Washington D.C. March 20th 1872. The facsimile was included in Lamon’s biography and published separately in the form of the broadside offered here. Rare. OCLC records only four copies. REFERENCES: Not in Monaghan; Stern Collection 4792; Sage Harold K. Jesse W. Fell and the Lincoln Autobiography in The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association Vol. 3 Issue 1 1981 pp. 48–58. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1872 unknown
1864ref. 376854Np 1864. Broadside 9-3/4x8-3/4 inches. Remnants of prior mounting on verso small separation at horizontal fold repaired with tape. Broadside 9-3/4x8-3/4 inches. Rare broadside or handbill printing of the famous telegram sent by Abraham Lincoln to General George B. McClellan early in the Civil War expressing his frustration at McClellan's unwillingness to engage the enemy during the Peninsular Campaign and urging him in no uncertain terms to attack the Confederates. Lincoln uses a combination of reason force assessment and strategic reasoning in an attempt to draw McClellan into the fight famously concluding "you must act." This small broadside was published either in an effort to galvanize the public into pressuring the always reluctant McClellan to engage Confederate forces under General Joseph E. Johnston or perhaps as a campaign piece for the Election of 1864 to remind voters of McClellan's failures as a leader. Six months following its stinging defeat at the Battle of Bull Run the Union Army was reorganized trained and reformed into the Army of the Potomac by Major General George B. McClellan. After four months of training and reorganization however McClellan had done little more with his troops than run drills and reviews. In December 1861 President Lincoln took matters into his own hands and proposed the Peninsular Campaign March 1862 - July 1862 against Johnston's Confederate forces in which the Army of the Potomac would use a flanking attack in the nearby Occoquan Valley to capture Johnston and his army. McClellan rejected Lincoln's plan in favor of his own which consisted of a flanking movement much further south without leaving enough troops behind to protect Washington. Although Lincoln eventually acceded to McClellan's plan he held back the First Corps of the Army of the Potomac under the command of General McDowell for the protection of Washington. McClellan's plans were thwarted by Johnston who had in the interim moved the Confederate forces further south causing McClellan to march his men all the way to Yorktown deep in the Virginia peninsula. Instead of mounting a direct attack against the 17000 Confederates near Yorktown with his massive contingent of 70000 Union soldiers McClellan always overestimating Confederate forces and always fearful of failure took the safer route and laid siege to Yorktown which allowed Johnston to move his whole army down to Yorktown in opposition. In an April 7th telegram to Lincoln McClellan firm in his belief that he was always outnumbered by the Confederate forces complained that Lincoln held back too many troops for the protection of Washington which hamstrung his efforts for a successful campaign. In the present telegram to McClellan composed on April 9 Lincoln patiently responds: "Your dispatches complaining that you are not properly sustained while they do not offend me pain me very much." Lincoln continues "After you left to begin the Peninsular Campaign I ascertained that less than 20000 unorganized men without a field battery were all you designed should be left for the defense of Washington.This presented or would present.a great temptation for the enemy to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington.My explicit directions that Washington sustained by the judgment of all the commanders of corps should be left secure had been entirely neglected. It was precisely this that drove me to detain McDowell." Lincoln refutes McClellan's belief that he did not have enough troops by using McClellan's own troop estimates obtained from the Secretary of War to argue McClellan into action stating that when "the whole force which has gone forward to you is with you.I think it is the precise time for you to strike a blow." Lincoln patiently tries to convince McClellan of the consequences of his inaction: "the enemy will readily gain on you; that is he will gain faster by fortifications and re-enforecments than you can by re-enforcements alone" and forcefully concludes "And once more let me tell you it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow." Lincoln then shows his brilliance as a judge of character addressing McClellan's fear of failure by holding up the public consequences of his inaction: "The country will not fail to note - is now noting - that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched sic enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated." Then knowing by experience of McClellan's personal defensiveness Lincoln concludes in the words of Lincoln biographers John G. Nicolay and John M. Hay "with as much consideration and kindness as a father would use towards a querulous and petulant child." He ends his telegram writing "I beg to assure you that I have never written you or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than now nor with a fuller purpose to sustain you so far as in my most anxious judgment I consistently can. But you must act." Ultimately the Peninsular Campaign failed and the Army of the Potomac withdrew from the Virginia Peninsula in July 1862. By November of 1862 Lincoln frustrated with McClellan's lack of initiative on the field finally removed him from command and replaced him with General Ambrose Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac. Lincoln would later encounter McClellan as his Democratic adversary in the Presidential election of 1864 easily defeating him. OCLC lists just six copies located at New York Historical Society University of Delaware Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Boston Athenaeum Library Company of Philadelphia and the Huntington Library. A rare and important printing of one of Lincoln's most famous messages of the Civil War. Nicolay John G. and John Hay. Abraham Lincoln: A History New York: The Century Company 1890 Volume 5 p.362 unknown
1864ref. 376854Np 1864. Broadside 9-3/4x8-3/4 inches. Remnants of prior mounting on verso small separation at horizontal fold repaired with tape. Broadside 9-3/4x8-3/4 inches. Rare broadside or handbill printing of the famous telegram sent by Abraham Lincoln to General George B. McClellan early in the Civil War expressing his frustration at McClellan's unwillingness to engage the enemy during the Peninsular Campaign and urging him in no uncertain terms to attack the Confederates. Lincoln uses a combination of reason force assessment and strategic reasoning in an attempt to draw McClellan into the fight famously concluding "you must act." This small broadside was published either in an effort to galvanize the public into pressuring the always reluctant McClellan to engage Confederate forces under General Joseph E. Johnston or perhaps as a campaign piece for the Election of 1864 to remind voters of McClellan's failures as a leader. Six months following its stinging defeat at the Battle of Bull Run the Union Army was reorganized trained and reformed into the Army of the Potomac by Major General George B. McClellan. After four months of training and reorganization however McClellan had done little more with his troops than run drills and reviews. In December 1861 President Lincoln took matters into his own hands and proposed the Peninsular Campaign March 1862 - July 1862 against Johnston's Confederate forces in which the Army of the Potomac would use a flanking attack in the nearby Occoquan Valley to capture Johnston and his army. McClellan rejected Lincoln's plan in favor of his own which consisted of a flanking movement much further south without leaving enough troops behind to protect Washington. Although Lincoln eventually acceded to McClellan's plan he held back the First Corps of the Army of the Potomac under the command of General McDowell for the protection of Washington. McClellan's plans were thwarted by Johnston who had in the interim moved the Confederate forces further south causing McClellan to march his men all the way to Yorktown deep in the Virginia peninsula. Instead of mounting a direct attack against the 17000 Confederates near Yorktown with his massive contingent of 70000 Union soldiers McClellan always overestimating Confederate forces and always fearful of failure took the safer route and laid siege to Yorktown which allowed Johnston to move his whole army down to Yorktown in opposition. In an April 7th telegram to Lincoln McClellan firm in his belief that he was always outnumbered by the Confederate forces complained that Lincoln held back too many troops for the protection of Washington which hamstrung his efforts for a successful campaign. In the present telegram to McClellan composed on April 9 Lincoln patiently responds: "Your dispatches complaining that you are not properly sustained while they do not offend me pain me very much." Lincoln continues "After you left to begin the Peninsular Campaign I ascertained that less than 20000 unorganized men without a field battery were all you designed should be left for the defense of Washington.This presented or would present.a great temptation for the enemy to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington.My explicit directions that Washington sustained by the judgment of all the commanders of corps should be left secure had been entirely neglected. It was precisely this that drove me to detain McDowell." Lincoln refutes McClellan's belief that he did not have enough troops by using McClellan's own troop estimates obtained from the Secretary of War to argue McClellan into action stating that when "the whole force which has gone forward to you is with you.I think it is the precise time for you to strike a blow." Lincoln patiently tries to convince McClellan of the consequences of his inaction: "the enemy will readily gain on you; that is he will gain faster by fortifications and re-enforecments than you can by re-enforcements alone" and forcefully concludes "And once more let me tell you it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow." Lincoln then shows his brilliance as a judge of character addressing McClellan's fear of failure by holding up the public consequences of his inaction: "The country will not fail to note - is now noting - that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched sic enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated." Then knowing by experience of McClellan's personal defensiveness Lincoln concludes in the words of Lincoln biographers John G. Nicolay and John M. Hay "with as much consideration and kindness as a father would use towards a querulous and petulant child." He ends his telegram writing "I beg to assure you that I have never written you or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than now nor with a fuller purpose to sustain you so far as in my most anxious judgment I consistently can. But you must act." Ultimately the Peninsular Campaign failed and the Army of the Potomac withdrew from the Virginia Peninsula in July 1862. By November of 1862 Lincoln frustrated with McClellan's lack of initiative on the field finally removed him from command and replaced him with General Ambrose Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac. Lincoln would later encounter McClellan as his Democratic adversary in the Presidential election of 1864 easily defeating him. OCLC lists just six copies located at New York Historical Society University of Delaware Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Boston Athenaeum Library Company of Philadelphia and the Huntington Library. A rare and important printing of one of Lincoln's most famous messages of the Civil War. Nicolay John G. and John Hay. Abraham Lincoln: A History New York: The Century Company 1890 Volume 5 p.362 unknown books
ref. 3389Boston: James R. Osgood & Co. 1872. Broadside 24.5” x 19” plus margins; portrait and text in five columns. CONDITION: Torn through upper right the tear affecting the portrait restored backed with Japanese tissue. The first separate printing and first separate facsimile of Lincoln’s famed autobiographical sketch originally composed in response to a request from his friend Jesse Fell printed with a brief account by Fell of the circumstances under which it was written and extracts from a few of Lincoln’s speeches. Lincoln and Fell became acquainted during a session of the Illinois State Legislature in the winter of 1834–35. Lincoln was serving as a representative and Fell as a lobbyist for MacLean County Illinois. The two became political friends and saw much of each other in subsequent years. In 1858 when Lincoln came to prominence as a result of his debates with Stephen Douglas Fell who had recently returned from a trip east where the public was hungry for information about Lincoln approached his friend as he came out of the Bloomington Illinois courthouse one afternoon and asked him for a biographical sketch. Lincoln initially resisted but the following year gave in composing a brief autobiography as well as a letter of explanation both of which he mailed to Fell on December 20th 1859. Delighted that Lincoln had finally complied and eager to promote his cause Fell forwarded Lincoln’s autobiography to his friend Joseph J. Lewis in Pennsylvania who used it for an article that was published in the Chester County Times PA on February 11th 1860. Lewis’s article was reprinted in many newspapers and “became the first widely read biographical sketch of Lincoln and served as a basis for the first three Lincoln campaign biographies in book form” Sage. In 1872 while preparing his biography of Lincoln for publication Ward H. Lamon wrote to Fell asking him to forward Lincoln’s sketch and its accompanying letter to his publisher James R. Osgood & Co. for consultation and facsimile publication. Placing no particular value on the original manuscripts when he first received them Fell had not requested their return but now retrieved them in response to Lamon’s request. He then forwarded the biographical sketch but not Lincoln’s letter of explanation substituting instead his own cover letter. Since Lincoln’s sketch was neither addressed to Fell nor signed Fell included with his letter clippings in Lincoln’s hand reading “Hon. J. W. Fell” and “Yours very truly/A. Lincoln” which were then pasted onto Lincoln’s sketch. Also added was an emblem and statement testifying to the authenticity of the manuscript signed by David Davis Lyman Trumbull and Charles Sumner dated at Washington D.C. March 20th 1872. The facsimile was included in Lamon’s biography and published separately in the form of the broadside offered here. Rare. OCLC records only four copies. REFERENCES: Not in Monaghan; Stern Collection 4792; Sage Harold K. Jesse W. Fell and the Lincoln Autobiography in The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association Vol. 3 Issue 1 1981 pp. 48–58. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1872 unknown books
1658ref. B6453Frankfurt a. M: J. Bayern J. W. W. Serlin 1658. Covers and spine worn and reinforced; otherwise generally very good. . Binding: Contemporary blind full calf; spine with four 4 bands and embossed title on two. Notes: Text in German. Gothic Script; with Latin inserts in Roman script. Final and most extended edition with 67 plans. This is the most expanded edition and therefore most desirable edition of this work by Saur; the first was published in 1581 the ones that followed under varying titles and the present revised work in 1658. Size: small quarto 201x115mm. Illustration: Illustrated title copper printed title with printer's device rubricated initials at openings; head and tailpieces; sixty-seven 67 city plans at 2 54 88 109 166 173 188 201 207 241 265 291 309 400 463 494 500 523 538 545 557 583 587 597 703 762 779 837 880 885 935. 4 23 37 69 76 84 93 113 117. 2 25 46 102 107. 60. 29. 10 17 74. 15 28 50 56 73. 51 84 119. 36 47 64 89 148 173 188 195. 16. Two of the plans are full-page Jerusalem/Hierosolyma and Rom/Roma; all remaining are half-page in size and comprise Aach/Aquisgranum Aix La Chapelle. Antorff/Antwerpen Augusta/Augspurg Basel Braunschweig/ Brunopolis Breszlau Bruessel Burgos Bremen Calaris Cassel Coelln/Colonia Constantinopel Dreszden Erdfurt/Erffurt Franckenberg Franckfurt am Mayn Franckfurt an der Oder Freyburg in Briszgaw Friedberg in der Wetterau Fulda Geneva/Genff Gandavum/Gent Genua Groeningen Hamburg Hanaw Heydelberg/Budoris Jena Koenigsperg Landeshut in Baeyern Leipzig Leon/Lugdun/Lion Lisabona/Ulixibona Londen/London Loeven/Lovanium Luebeck Lueneburg Luettich/Leodium/Liege Magdeburg/Meydenburg Marpurg/ Martisburgum Meintz/ Moguntiae Muenchen/Abadiaum Muenster/Monasterium Nuernberg/Norinberga Osnabruck Palma Parisz/Lutetia Parisiorum Prag/Praga Regenspurg/Ratisbona Riga Roan/Rouen/Rohmagus Rostock/Rhodopolis/ Laciburgum Schweinfurt Speyer/Nemetum Straszburg/ Argentoratum Trier/Treveris Tuebingen Venedig/Venetia Ulm/Rhetia Wien/Fabiana/Fabana/Faviana Wittenburg/Wittenberg Wormbs/ Wormatia Wuertzburg/Erebipolis/Herbipolis Zuerch/ Tigurum/Turegum. References: Graesse VI 276; Bachmann Pages: Ll: bl. 2 939 bl.; collated as: Bl.2; i-iv with illustrated title printed title dedication and to the reader; A1 -Zzzzz4 Aaaaaa1 - Eeeeee4 Ffffff1-2 A1-R4 S; A1-O4 At1-It4; Aï“1- Dï“4 Eï“1-3; aA1- mM4 nN1-2; Aa1-Ll4; An1-Rn4; ∞a1-∞z4 ∞aa1-4 bb1-3; A1-C4 bl. Category: Book Atlas & Cartography; Book Europe Germany; J. Bayern, J. W., W. Serlin unknown
1723ref. 90242Eugène Henry Fricx Thomam Johnson Mathieu Roguet | Bruxelles La Haye 1723-1725 | 18.5 x 24.5 cm | 3 volumes reliés en 1
2010ref. 129734Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess AG / University of Chicago Press Distributor . New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- TWO 2 VOLUMES including ISBN: 9783858813138. Vol. 1 The History of Abraham Ltd. : 208 pages; over 200 illus. ; in German ; Vol. 2 Stoffreaktionen der Firma Abraham/ The Fabric Designs of Abraham Ltd. : 216 pages; 396 illus. ; English and German. From the publisher: "One of the major players in Switzerland's silk trade has been Abraham AG Abraham Ltd. The company's history dates back to 1878 when Jakob Abraham became a partner in a Zurich-based business. Under the direction of Gustav Zumsteg who had joined as a partner in 1943 the business became a firm part of post-war Paris Haute Couture as supplier of silk fabrics to the leading fashion houses. The 1960s-80s were the heyday of Abraham AG with the close and personal collaboration between Zumsteg and Yves Saint Laurent from 1961 onwards. This equally successful and glamorous period was followed by a slow but steady decline eventually leading to the company's bankruptcy and liquidation in 2002. 'Soie Pirate: The History and Fabric Designs of Abraham Ltd.' . Is a comprehensive history of this fascinating enterprise. Volume one tells the company's story and investigates its importance in the international business of high fashion and in the context of time. Volume two presents a wealth of designs patterns and samples of the beautiful fabrics designed by Abraham AG but also of the elegant dresses and spectacular gowns the great couturiers like Cristobal Balenciaga Coco Chanel Christian Dior Hubert de Givenchy Yves Saint Laurent or Emanuel Ungaro have created using Abraham's products. Together both volumes bring to life a chapter in the history of high fashion worldwide" - with a bonus offer-- . 2010. 3858813133 . Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess AG / University of Chicago Press (Distributor) hardcover
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1881ref. 39061New Haven Conn. J.D. & E.S. Dana 1881. 8vo. Extracted from "The American Journal of Science" Third series vol. XXII Numb. CXXVIII pp. 87- 166. With title-page to the entire volume. Title-page with a faint rubberstamp. The Michelson-paper: pp. 120-129. Two leaves with small tear to the margin. The seminal first edition of the first description of the first version of a series of experiments with the Interferometer which was built by Michelson and with which he planned to measure the relative speeds of light-waves moving at right angles to each other - an experiment that would ultimately lead to the special theory of relativity. The series of experiments ended with the so-called "Michelson-Morley experiment" the results of which were published 6 years after Michelson's first experiment the item offered here. The 1887 paper written together with Morley constituted an improved attempt of the 1881- version of the experiment. The experiments were designed to calculate the effect of the earth's motion on the passage of light rays through the "luminous ether" which was believed to surround the earth. The experiments were negative and as such led to the introduction of relativity."Michelson tried to determinate the relation of ether drift and the velocity of light effect of extremely minute values.no drift could be found and the "negative result held revolutionary implications which led directly through Lorentz and Einstein to the acceptance of new standards of reference of time and space from geometry an cosmometry."Dibner.In 1919 Einstein met Michelson in California. At a dinner given in honor of them both Einstein said in a speech "You Michelson uncovered an insidious defect in the ether theory of light as it existed and stimulated the ideas of H.A. Lorentz and Fitzgerald out of which the Special Theory of Relativity developed. Without your work this theory would today be scarcely more than an interesting speculation." In an interview in 1842 Einstein said: "It is no doubt that Michelson's experiment was of considerably influence upon my work insofar as it strengthened my conviction concerning the validity of the Principle of relativity.On the other side I was pretty much convinced of the validity of the principle before I did know this experiment and its result. In any case Michelson's experiment removed practically any doubt about the validity of the principle in optics and showed that a profound change of the basic concepts of physics was inevitable."Michelson was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize "for his optical precision instrument the inteferometer and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations he has carried on."Dibner: Heralds of Science: 161 the 1887-experiment - Vide PMM: 378410408. unknown
