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1868réf. 019219Chicago: Western Bank Note & Engraving Co. 1868. First Edition. Document. Recently backed with thin paper with several professional repairs of chips and tears. Very Good . Large folio 16-1/4" x 21-3/4" finely engraved and printed on good quality paper with elaborate decorative borders with a "US" monogram to upper corners a bold calligraphic heading with "ABOLISHING SLAVERY" in prominent decorated letters; at top center is a small vignette of the pyramid and all-seeing eye above an oval vignette of a slave family with child mourning over a cameo portrait of Lincoln. This is followed by the engraved signatures of President Lincoln Vice President Hamlin Schuyler Colfax and J. W. Forney Speaker and Secretary of the Senate and 164 Senators and Congressmen. An exceedingly rare and beautiful printing of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude . Shall exist within the United States." This elaborately engraved Reconstruction-era broadside is based on the special "souvenir" copies on parchment signed by Lincoln and the others of which only a handful are known to have been made. The Thirteenth Amendment represents the first substantive change to how America interpreted those liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights since its ratification in 1791. The Emancipation Proclamation only freed the slaves in the openly rebellious states. The Amendment effectively put an end to slavery once and for all upon its passage on 1 February 1865. Western Bank Note & Engraving Co. unknown books
2013réf. 589492013. ISBN-13: 9781616192495; ISBN-10: 1616192496. Fraunce Abraham. The Lawiers Logike Exemplifying the Praecepts of Logike by the Practice of the Common Lawe. Originally published: London: William How 1588. xxxvii iii-xxvii new introduction xiv 151 leaves total 364 pp. Reprinted by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. 2013. With a new introduction by Steve Sheppard Professor of Law St. Mary's University School of Law. ISBN-13: 9781616192495. Hardcover. New. $49.95 "From this work Shakespeare is supposed to have acquired some of his legal knowledge" Sweet & Maxwell I: 166. In his introduction Sheppard addresses longstanding academic speculation as to whether Shakespeare learned law from Fraunce. Written in 1588 The Lawiers Logike is the first legal treatise to apply the tools of logic to legal argument. This was a controversial and new concept at the time because its thesis contrasts with common law and its unmethodical and disorganized approach to law. Its influence is still felt. It is a unique work in which Fraunce castigates "lazy lawyers" and mixes illustrations from poetry and prose with often quite technical illustrations from law treatises and case reports. In his introduction Steve Sheppard points out that this "work informs three fields of American law - the study of legal analysis and argument the intersection of law with other disciplines and the moral justification of law itself." Introduction iii. "Abraham Fraunce's The Lawiers Logike 1588 was the first attempt to theorise English law within a structure provided by humanist dialectic and rhetoric." -- Mark D. Walters Cambridge Law Journal 67 2008 360 Abraham Fraunce 1559-1592 attended St. John's College Cambridge enrolled in Gray's Inn in 1583 and was called to the bar in 1588 before Christopher Yelverton and Francis Bacon. In addition to his law practice he was a noted poet having been a classmate and protege of Philip Sidney Edmund Spenser's patron. unknown books
1817réf. 619331817. Appeals of murder were abolished after this case. Appeals of murder were abolished after this case. "Diabolically Ravished Murdered And Thrown Into a Pit" Trial. Thornton Abraham c.1793-1860 Defendant. Horrible Rape and Murder!! The Affecting Case of Mary Ashford A Beautiful Young Virgin Who was Diabolically Ravished Murdered And Thrown Into a Pit As She Was Returning From a Dance; Including the Trial of Abraham Thornton For the Wilful Murder of the Said Mary Ashford; With the Whole of the Evidence Charge to the Jury &c. Tried at Warwick Assizes Before Mr. Justice Holroyd On the 8th of August 1817. Taken in Short Hand. To Which is Added Copious Elucidations of this Extraordinary Case; And a Correct Plan of the Spot Where the Rape and Murder were Committed &c. &c. London: Published by John Fairburn 1817. ii 60 columns 34 pp 64 1 pp. Several newspaper clippings concerning this case pasted to final leaf rear wrapper and verso of title page. Woodcut folding map of crime scene. Octavo 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers untrimmed edges. Some soiling and edgewear spine and fold-lines of table reinforced fore-edge mended some toning to text. Early owner inscriptions to front wrapper "Bright" and "St John Crookes" and verso of map "St John Crookes/ Sunderland/ 1856". $950. "Third Edition." Abraham Thornton a bricklayer was accused of the rape and murder of Mary Ashford when she was found dead the morning after a dance where the two had been seen together. Thornton admitted that the two had been consensually intimate but denied the charges of rape and murder. Eyewitness accounts backed up his story and in the absence of other evidence he was acquitted of both charges. Public outcry around his acquittal led to Mary's brother William invoking an "appeal of murder." This uncommon legal practice allowed a retrial of a defendant acquitted for murder but crucially gave the defendant the right to trial by battle. Thornton invoked that right and was released after William Ashford declined the challenge. The case resulted in the abolition of appeals by murder and thus the end of trial by battle. Despite his protestations of innocence the public was thoroughly convinced of his guilt. Unable to lead a normal life Thornton moved to the United States and settled in Baltimore Maryland. One of the former owners of our copy may have been John Bright 1811-1889 a r. unknown books
1942réf. 016635Menasha WI: Limited Editions Club 1942. hardcover. Mild soiling to the covers and light scratches to the leather spine label. Still Near Fine in a Very Good intact slipcase with some wear. John Steuart Curry. Quarto 7-1/2" x 10-3/4" bound in full butternut muslin with a gold-stamped reddish brown leather spine label 320 pages. Introduction and notes by Carl Van Doren; designed by Will Ransom. Illustrated with reproductions of watercolors by John Steuart Curry. Of a total edition of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page this is one of only 15 Presentation Copies with the publisher's blindstamp attesting to such on the colophon page where instead of a number the initials "G.M." are handwritten. Acquired directly from the publisher's files and most likely the publisher George Macy's very own copy. An especially interesting copy in that it or at least its title page appears to have been used as a mock-up for the Heritage Press edition with a strip of camera-ready art with that publisher's name loosely present having once been glued over the Limited Editions Club imprint on the title page with a small stain at the place of contact. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1979réf. 206760New York: Viking 1979. First. hardcover. fine/very good. Soyer Raphael. Translated by Rebecca S. Beagle and Rebecca Soyer Introduction by Peter S. Beagle. Illustrated by Raphael Soyer. 17 black & white illustrations. viii 70pp. 8vo cloth d.w.; lightly worn along top edge and corners. New York: Viking Press 1979. First edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Signed by the illustrator on the half-title. Viking unknown books
1729réf. 547681729. Collected Works of Notable Roman-Dutch Jurist Wesel Abraham van 1633-1680. Opera Omnia Antea Diversis Temporibus Seorsim Edita Nunc in Unum Corpus Redacta Nempe I. Commentarius ad Novellas Constitutiones Ultrajectinas Multarum Litium Diremendarum Causa XIV. Aprilis M. DC. LIX. Promulgatas. II. De Connubiali Bonorum Societate & Pactis Dotalibus. III. De Remissione Mercedis Propter Bellum Inundationem Aquarum & Sterilitatem. Editio Nova a Mendis Quibus Priores Scatebant Purgata. Ghent: Apud Cornelium Meyer 1729-30. Three parts each with title page and individual pagination. Main text in parallel columns. Quarto 7-1/2" x 6-1/2". Contemporary mottled calf gilt frames to boards gilt spine with raised bands and lettering piece edges rouged speckled endpapers. Some rubbing to extremities chipping to head of spine corners bumped and somewhat worn residue from bookplate to front pastedown. First title page printed in red and black attractive woodcut head-pieces tail-pieces and decorated initials. Some toning to text. Brief later annotation to front pastedown interior otherwise fresh. $650. Third and final edition with corrections. Educated at the University of Utrecht Wesel was Counsellor to the Court of Vianen where he was a colleague of Paul Voet and fiscal lawyer to the Court of Utrecht. A solid Romanist he was also says Wessels "a great authority not only on the law of Utrecht but also on the law of Holland." Opera Omnia was first published in 1692 and it collects his principal works. The first part is a detailed article-by-article commentary on the Novellae Constitutiones of the Province of Utrecht in Dutch and Latin. The other parts address the Roman and Roman-Dutch law of husband and wife dowry community property and compensation. OCLC locates 1 copy in North America at UC-Berkeley Law School; another copy located at Harvard Law School. Wessels History of Roman-Dutch Law 316. Dekkers Bibliotheca Belgica Juridica 188 4. unknown books
1570réf. 3381021570. unbound. Map. Engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 14 3/4" x 19 3/4" Archival frame measures 22 1/2" x 28" This stunning first state first Latin edition map by Abraham Ortelius depicts an early understanding of North and South America. At the time it was issued the coastal areas of the New World had been fairly well explored and Europeans were just beginning settlement and colonization. It is notable for depicting Spanish and Portuguese colonies in high detail for these powers were notoriously protective of their geographical surveys. As the first depiction of the Americas in an atlas this map is of fundamental importance. Abraham Ortelius 1527--1598 a Flemish cartographer and geographer is widely regarded as one of the important and influential cartographers in history. He is known for his "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" which was the first modern atlas. van den Broecke 91 unknown books
1979réf. 151152Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing eight black and white photographs housed in a brown paper envelope and ten gatherings of promotional reading material. A defecting Russian general collaborates with an American secret agent to expose KGB spies throughout Europe by luring them onto a train headed west. Director Mark Robson and actor Robert Shaw died of unrelated heart attacks within months of the film's release making the film a final effort for both. Set and shot on location in Germany England Ireland Italy and the US. Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1984réf. 170406N.p.: N.p. 1984. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1984 film showing director Milo Forman talking with actor F. Murray Abraham on the set. Based on Peter Shaffer's 1979 play. A dramatization of the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as well as that of his jealous troubled rival Antonio Salieri. Nominated for eleven Academy Awards winning eight including Best Picture and Best Director. Set in Vienna shot on location in Prague Kromeriz and Vienna. 7 x 5 inches. Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert II. N.p. unknown books
1947réf. 172445Beverly Hills CA: United Artists / Enterprise Sudios 1947. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1947 film noir. One photograph with an Anglo Amalgamated Film Distributed Ltd. stamp on the recto bottom left corner. An amateur prize fighter's desire for fortune and fame leads him to join a corrupt boxing syndicate led by an unethical promoter. Shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Grant US. Olive Films 452. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. United Artists / Enterprise Sudios unknown books
1979réf. 168017Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1979. Vintage printed caricature for the 1979 film showing Lee Marvin Linda Evans and Robert Shaw drawn by noted caricaturist Al Hirschfeld and issued by Twentieth Century-Fox to publicize the film. A defecting Russian general collaborates with an American secret agent to expose KGB spies throughout Europe by luring them onto a train headed west. Director Mark Robson and actor Robert Shaw died of unrelated heart attacks within months of the film's release making the film a final effort for both. Set and shot on location in Germany England Ireland Italy and the US. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1863réf. 69520Washington D.C.: War Department 1863. CIVIL WAR. War Department General Orders 1863. Washington D.C.: War Department 1863. Full Description: LINCOLN Abraham. CIVIL WAR. Emancipation Proclamation War Department General Orders 1863. Washington D.C.: War Department 1863. The first War Department printing General Orders #1 Jan 2 1863 and fifth overall printing of the final Emancipation Proclamation. The 4 page pamphlet bound together with a nearly complete run of War Department general orders for the year 1863. Two octavo volumes 6 7/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 174 x 119 mm. Volume I comprising General Orders of the War Department Adjutant General's Office Numbers 1-221 2 January 1863 to 16 July 1863 and Volume II comprising Numbers 222-400 16 July 1863 to 28 December 1863. Nearly complete only lacking numbers 55 63 116-119 148 in volume I and 274 352 and 381 in volume II. With 5 copies of number 149 and and 3 copies of number 240. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine lettered in gilt. All edges speckled brown. Hinges repaired. Some rubbing to board edges. Previous owner's contemporary ink signature Bvt. Col. E.J. Wells on front paste down of each volume. Numerous annotations in the same old ink throughout generally noting when the order was received and dated 1863. Some glue marks to the General Order #1 not affecting text. A small tear to last leaf of text in volume I with no loss. Overall a very good copy. In addition to the very important first War department printing of the Emancipation Proclamation these volumes contain several other very important and interesting General Orders from the War Department as well as President Abraham Lincoln in relation to the military during this year in the Civil War. Notably: No. 100 April 24 "Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field." "commonly known as the 'Lieber Code' after its main author Francis Franz Lieber. The Lieber Code set out rules of conduct during hostilities for Union soldiers throughout the U.S. Civil War. Even today it remains the basis of most regulations of the laws of war for the United States. The Lieber Code consists of 157 provisions that deal with a wide range of legal issues that must be considered in armed conflict. It contains general principles but also very detailed rules. Among the issues addressed are whether armed force is justified by military necessity the principle of humanity the distinction between combatants and civilians POW status retaliation and permissible methods and means of warfare." LOC" No. 143 May 22 the establishment of the United States Colored Troops. This authorized the establishment of a bureau regulating the recruitment training and organization of the U.S. Army's first regiments composed entirely of African-American soldiers. Numerous court cases are documented including #17- The sentenced hanging death of a "colored man" for "attempted rape". #346- The trial of George Woolfolk for "Being secretly within lines of the US forces as the same time belonging to the so-called Confederate Army." He was sentenced to be shot to death. And #396- The trial brought by Colonel John Gault against Dr. Aaron James for "Being the captain of a band of guerillas or marauders and shooting at US soldiers." He was sentenced to death but the President disapproved the sentence and directed him to be released. A number of orders of Military discharges both honorable and dishonorable as well as military promotions. #337 announces "Major General U.S. Grant U.S. Army is placed in command of the Military Division of the Mississippi Headquarters in the field." #349 announces "Major General William T. Sherman is appointed to the command of the Department and Army of the Tennessee Headquarters in the field." #194 is the appointment of Major General George Meade as commander of the Army of the Potomac who would defeat General Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg only days later. And #398 honors Ulysses S. Grant for his Mississippi River campaign and presents him a gold medal. Numerous obituaries including #71 which announces the death of Major General E.V. Sumner who fell ill and died on his way to take command of the Department of the Missouri and directs the ways that Department should give him military honors. Important presidential proclamations including #58- Calling to all soldiers who were "absent without leave" urging them to return to their regiments and would not face punishment beside loss of wages for time missed. #252- Orders regarding the treatment of prisoners of war stating that 'if the enemy shall sell or enslave anyone because of his color the offence shall be punished by retaliation upon the enemy's prisoners in our possession'. "President Abraham Lincoln issued an 'eye-for-eye' order warning the Confederacy that Union soldiers would shoot a rebel prisoner for every Black prisoner shot. It also would condemn a rebel prisoner to a life of hard labor for every Black prisoner sold into slavery. AA Registry. #315- Lincoln's suspension of the "writ of habeas corpus." "The doctrine of habeas corpus is the right of any person under arrest to appear in person before the court to ensure that they have not been falsely accused. Lincoln's suspension of the "writ of habeas corpus" was one of the most controversial acts of his administrations. Lincoln defended himself against charges that his administration had subverted the Constitution however arguing that acts that might be illegal in peacetime might be necessary "in cases of rebellion" when the nation's survival was at stake." The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. #340- Proclamation by the President calling for three hundred thousand volunteers. "Whereas the term of service of a part of the volunteer forces of the United States will expire during the coming year; and Whereas in addition to the men raised by the present draft it is deemed expedient to call out 300000 volunteers to serve for three years or the war not however. exceeding three years." And numerous other General Orders pertaining to soldiers and the war effort including #35- A list of items that could be sold to soliders by sutlers. #40- The establishment of a Volunteer force for Kentucky. #163- "A resolution to encourage the enlistments in the Regular Army and Volunteer forces." #323- which authorized each enlisted cook "two under-cooks of African descent who shall receive for their full compensation ten dollars per month and one ration per day." #351- This discusses the governance of "The Employment of women nurses in the U.S. General Hospitals." and #364 which discusses the cos of clothing and camp for the U.S. Army and includes a folding chart. Eberstadt 12. Grolier 100 American 71. Streeter 1751. HBS 69520. $7500. War Department unknown books
1977réf. 167653Los Angeles: Samuel L. Bronkowitz 1977. Two vintage lobby cards from the French release of the 1977 film advertising it under both its US title "Kentucky Fried Movie" and its French title "Hamburger Film Sandwich". Written by and starring the Zucker brothers the duo who would eventually pen similarly irreverent comedy hits like "Airplane!" 1980 "Top Secret!" 1984 and "The Naked Gun" series. John Landis' second film as director and the film which would lead him to direct "National Lampoon's Animal House" 1978 at the suggestion of several cast members. Shot on location throughout California. Black-and-white printed on red stock. 8.25 x 11 inches. Fine. Samuel L. Bronkowitz unknown books
1863réf. 69186Boston: Boston Daily Courier 1863. Full Description: LINCOLN Abraham. Emancipation Proclamation."President's Proclamation. Emancipation of Slaves in Rebellious States." Boston. Published in: Boston Daily Courier Volume LXXVIII no. 2. Friday Morning January 2 1863. The publication of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in the Boston Daily Courier and one of if not the first official public announcements of the Final Emancipation Proclamation once it was signed and in effect as of January 1 1863. The Proclamation is featured at the top of the center column of page 3. We could find no other copies of this or any other January 2nd edition at auction and it is not mentioned in Eberstadt. Eberstadt's entry for the second edition of the "Final Proclamation" Eberstadt 9 states "Second edition. Apparently the only separate newspaper edition of the final proclamation and the earliest non-official edition. Printed on Friday evening January 2 1863 this Extra in point of chronological sequence was preceded only by the first official edition." Our present copy although not a separate newspaper edition was rushed to press and published in the Friday Morning edition of the Courier placing it's publication prior to Eberstadt 9. According to Eberstadt "A number of newspapers did not issue on January 2nd because of the previous day's holiday but most of those that did carried the final proclamation. Many of the others printed it on January 3rd." pg. 17. Broadsheet folio one large leaf folded along side to make four pages two leaves printed on recto and verso. Seven-column format. 26 x 19 inches; 655 x 490 mm. Light creases down the middle in both directions. A few minor closed tears. A large old ink signature along top margin of front page causing some bleed-through and foxing but not affecting text. Still a very good copy of this important declaration. Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22 1862 stating that if the rebelling states did not cease fighting and rejoin the Union by January 1 1863 the slaves in those states would be set free. Once January 1st 1863 arrived President Lincoln signs and issues the final Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves in the Confederate states. The Boston Courier issued this early printing of Lincoln's Proclamation the very next morning January 2 1863. " HBS 69186. $8500. Boston Daily Courier unknown books
1987réf. 153170N.p.: N.p. 1987. First Draft script for an unproduced film. The white heir to a substantial fortune wakes up one day to discover that his skin has rapidly darkened leading his family to mistake him for an African American and subsequently disown him. Red titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Abraham Eban. Title page present dated August 1987 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Abraham Eban. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine black tape binding. N.p. unknown books
1862réf. 68870New York: The New York Herald 1862. Full Description: LINCOLN Abraham. Emancipation Proclamation."A Proclamation by the President of the United States. Operations of the Confiscation Act. All Slaves in States in Rebellion January 1 1863 to Be Free." New York. Published in: The New York Herald Tuesday September 23 1862. Whole No. 9506. The publication of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in James Gordon Bennett's pro-Democratic New York Herald and one of if not the first official public announcements of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Broadsheet folio one large leaf folded along top to make four pages two leaves printed on recto and verso. Six-column format. 22 x 15 1/2 inches; 560 x 395 mm. Light creases down the middle in both directions. Some nearly invisible repaird along top margin and edges. Some of the repairs just touching a few letters in the headline. Still a very good copy of this important declaration. We could only find 3 copies of this at auction and it is not mentioned in Eberstadt. Eberstadt mentions that his Third edition of the Emancipation has a publication date somewhere between September 24th and 26th therefore putting the current copy before this. Eberstadt's first and second edition are the official state department editions printed the day of the declaration September 22nd just the day before this New York Herald was printed. Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22 1862 stating that if the rebelling states did not cease fighting and rejoin the Union by January 1 1863 the slaves in those states would be set free. The New York Herald issued this front-page top left corner early printing of Lincoln's Proclamation the very next day appearing under the headline: "All Slaves in States of Rebellion January 1 1863 to Be Free." "Lincoln read the first draft of what came to be known as the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet on 22 July 1862. Given the criticism directed at Lincoln for moving too slowly on the issue of emancipation it is worth noting that this first reading took place just sixteen months after he had pledged not to 'interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists.' He continued to revise the document throughout the summer and following the Union victory at Antietam he issued the preliminary proclamation-which managed to balance daring with prudence-on 22 September. This first proclamation essentially gave the Rebel States one hundred days to return to the Union after which period any slaves within their borders would be "then thenceforward and forever free." Any rebellious states that returned to the Union in the interim would be able to adopt immediate or gradual-and compensated-abolition of slavery within their borders." Sotheby's. The front page of this newspaper also contains two maps and reports of the campaigns in Kentucky. HBS 68870. $3500. The New York Herald unknown books
1947réf. 157481N.p.: N.p. 1947. Vintage reference photograph from the 1947 film noir. An amateur prizefighter's desire for fortune and fame leads him to join a corrupt boxing syndicate led by an unethical promoter. Widely considered one of the finest boxing films ever made with a strong screenplay by noted screenwriter Abraham Polonsky who would later face blacklisting in Hollywood as a result of the HUAC trials. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Olive Films 452. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. N.p. unknown books
1947réf. 156219N.p.: N.p. 1947. Vintage reference photograph from the 1947 film showing actress Marlene Dietrich playing the zither. Stamp of photographer Whitey Schafer on the verso. Based on the 1946 novel by Jolán Földes about a British soldier who escapes from the Gestapo during World War II by posing as a gypsy. Shot on location in Bend and Corbett Oregon. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1877réf. 726891877. A Distinguished California Jurist's Manuscript Register of Legal Proceedings During the Constitutional Reform Era 1877-1880 Manuscript. California. Freeman Abraham Clark 1843-1911. Register of Actions and Proceedings. Sacramento County California 1877-1880. Folio 13" x 7-3/4"; 33 x 19.7 cm. 244 pp. Manuscript in a single highly legible cursive hand. Contemporary three-quarter sheep over marbled boards gilt fillets to spine marbled edges. Contemporary manuscript title "Register of Actions and Proceedings" to front pastedown. Light rubbing and minor scuffs to boards dampstain to rear board heavier rubbing to extremities with minor wear to spine ends and corners chip to foot of spine. Joints starting slightly at head hinges tender but holding. Slight offsetting to corners of first two leaves. Light toning to interior occasional light foxing and minor spots and stains. Several related contemporary documents tipped or laid in. Good to very good. $3500. An extensive manuscript register documenting the private legal practice of Abraham Clark Freeman one of California's most distinguished nineteenth-century lawyers legal authors and constitutional reformers during the years surrounding the state's Constitutional Convention of 1878-1879. Freeman arrived in California from Illinois in 1861 and was admitted to the bar in 1864. He achieved national prominence with his Treatise on the Law of Judgments 1873 described in an early history of Sacramento County as the first legal treatise of national scope written or published in California. Its exceptional reception helped establish California's reputation as a center of American legal scholarship. Freeman subsequently became an influential editor of American case-law reports assuming the editorship of American Decisions in 1879. The present register covers a particularly significant period in Freeman's career and California's constitutional development. Freeman served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1878-1879 which drafted the state's second constitution amid intense controversies over railroad monopolies corporate power taxation labor relations and political representation. Ratified in 1879 the new constitution substantially reorganized the state's legal and political institutions. Freeman also served on a commission charged. unknown books
1974réf. 147951N.p.: N.p. 1974. Draft script for the 1974 play which premiered at the Booth Theatre on May 5 1974 for 177 performances closing on October 5 1974. Annotations in manuscript pencil on title page and on cast page for "Ravenswood" the first of the two one act plays in "Bad Habits" listing names adjacent to the characters. Two one act comedies the first is "Ravenswood" set in a sanitarium catering to rich "unglued" patients in which Dr. Pepper treats his patients by encouraging them to indulge in bad habits. The second is "Dunelawn" also a sanitarium where Dr. Toynbee treats his patients with a magical drug which inhibits any "urges." Blue Studio Duplicating Service vinyl titled wrappers with credits for playwright Terrence McNally. Title page present with credits for playwright Terrence McNally. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 62. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold screw brads. N.p. unknown books
1947réf. 145154Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1947. Vintage linen backed keybook photograph of cinematographer James Wong Howe actress Lilli Palmer and members of the crew on the set of the 1947 film noir. Manuscript annotations on the verso. Considered by many to be amongst the best boxing films of all time as well as one of the great 1940s noirs. "Body and Soul" tells the story of a man who became a successful boxer to support himself and his mother after his father is killed but who realizes that he has slowly lost his integrity somewhere along the way. Winner of an Academy Award and nominated for two others. Shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Selby Canon US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. United Artists unknown books
1784réf. 151651784. BROWNING ABRAHAM SEN. 1769-1836. Two lovely ciphering books 1784 and 1789 each with attractive calligraphic page headings and the usual calculations and exercises. Each folio about 120-150 pages fully accomplished and bound in marbled pastepaper-covered wrappers each with a neat calligraphic label on front wrapper and Browning's name prominantly written inside. Both in fine clean condition and housed in a custom cloth clamshell box with leather label. On the final page of the later book Browning has boldly written: "Abraham Browning His Cyphering Book Hand an sic pen Left School March 1791." Browning would become a prominent resident of Colestown in present-day Camden County and the father of the New Jersey attorney general of the same name. From the estate of the collector S. Robert Teitelman. unknown books
1985réf. 135071Washington DC: The Film Company / Public Broadcasting Service PBS 1985. Original Press Kit for the 1985 documentary. With a transcript of the program and a 32-page companion guide featuring facts about Herman Melville's life and work articles on Melville and a selected bibliography. This documentary tracks the personal and intellectual adventures of Herman Melville. Narrated by John Huston the film includes readings and commentary by F. Murray Abraham Robert Penn Warren Alfred Kazan and other notable writers and critics. Arthur Unger with The Christian Science Monitor reviewed the film in 1985: "Directed written produced and photographed mostly by Robert Squier a unique and dedicated artist himself. Mr. Squier has accomplished an inspired film about a writer and his writing which manages to combine the song of poetry and the zing of adventure with the shock of psychological recognition. not merely a labor of love; it is a probing and incisive study of how a man and his work interact with the environment physical and emotional. Utilizing real locations top literary scholars and a delicate sense of time and place with a minimal amount of reenactment Mr. Squier's film records the paradoxes in Melville's life his sense of hopelessness his disgust with brutality his agonizing search for religion his intellectual resolve his determination to survive personal disasters."not afraid of deep questions.'' Companion guide 32 pages transcript 36 pages and promotional letter from the publishers advertising a videocassette of the film rental $75 purchase $350 house in a dark green folder with silver titles and blind-stamped design. Near Fine overall. The Film Company / Public Broadcasting Service [PBS] unknown books
1954réf. 132689Burbank CA: Warner-Pathe / Warner Brothers 1954. Eight vintage British front-of-house cards and 2 black-and-white double weight still photographs from the 1954 UK release of the 1954 US film. Distributor rubber-stamps on the versos of 2 stills black-and-white. A Yankee sea captain Lancaster finds himself stranded after a mutiny on an island where the financial potential of cocoanut excites him and the mysterious wealth of the island beguiles him. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the top edge color stills 2 color stills roughly trimmed at the top edge staple holes to 2 black-and-white stills and light creasing to the extremities. Warner-Pathe / Warner Brothers unknown books
1800réf. 24611800. BISHOP ABRAHAM. An Oration on the Extent and Power of Political Delusion. Delivered in New-Haven . September 1800. . The Second Edition. Newark: Pennington and Gould 1800. 71 p. Removed. Heavily foxed title stained. Paper defect on E1 with loss of a few letters. A popular anti-Federalist diatribe originally published as Connecticut Republicanism and reprinted several times through 1801. Evans 36980; Felcone New Jersey Books 2nd edn. 186. unknown books
