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1561réf. 677551561. 2nd & last edition. 2nd & last edition. Fascinating Sixteenth-Century Digest of Land and Hunting Laws: 1 Copy of This Edition Located in North America Meurer Noe 1525-1583. Spangenberg Cyriacus 1528-1604. Von Forstlicher Oberherrligkeit und Gerechtigkeit Was die Recht Der Gebrauch Und die Billigkeit Desshalben Vermog. Item: Von dem Waren Oder Gerechten Rechten Der Teutschen Gerechtigkeit Aequitate Oder Billigkeit Wie und Wenn die von Einem Jeden Gerechten und Nit zu Strengen Richter Nach Gestalt und Gelegenheit Furfallender Ungleicher Fall und Sachen Zuhalten Und Darnach zu Urteilen Sey. Alles Beschriben durch den Hochgelehrten Noe Meurer. Auch vom Rechtmessigen Jagen und vom Missbrauch Desselbigen Bestendiger Bericht durch M. Cyriacum Spangenberg. Frankfurt am Main: Weigand Han and Georg Raben 1561. c xxxvii 1 lxxx 4 ff. Three parts in one volume. Folio 11" x 7"; 27.94 x 17.78 cm. Recent paper-covered boards retaining earlier paper spine endpapers renewed edges rouged. Light soiling front joint just starting at head recent owner bookplate of Hans Dedi to front pastedown. Title page printed in red and black large woodcut coat of arms to verso. Light browning to text faint dampstaining to fore-edge of text block two small library stamps to foot of title page. A nice copy of a handsomely printed volume. $2500. THIS DESCRIPTION IS TRUNCATED DUE TO CHARACTER LIMITS. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A COMPLETE VERSION Second and final edition. Early game forestry and land laws represent some of the western world's earliest statutory attempts at environmental regulation and resource management. Beyond their legal framework these early codes offer rich insights into early modern social history illuminating sixteenth-century class hierarchies seigneurial privileges property rights and regional foodways. First published in 1560 this compilation by jurist Noe Meurer and theologian Cyriacus Spangenberg provides a comprehensive survey of land-use timber fishing and hunting regulations as enforced across the various territories of the Holy Roman Empire during the mid-sixteenth century. This second edition is significantly expanded compared to the first edition of 1560 which contained only 100 leaves. It includes key treatises on: Forest Sovereignty & Customary Rights Forstliche Oberherrligkeit examining jurisdictiona. unknown
1561réf. 677551561. 2nd & last edition. 2nd & last edition. Fascinating Sixteenth-Century Digest of Land and Hunting Laws: 1 Copy of This Edition Located in North America Meurer Noe 1525-1583. Spangenberg Cyriacus 1528-1604. Von Forstlicher Oberherrligkeit und Gerechtigkeit Was die Recht Der Gebrauch Und die Billigkeit Desshalben Vermog. Item: Von dem Waren Oder Gerechten Rechten Der Teutschen Gerechtigkeit Aequitate Oder Billigkeit Wie und Wenn die von Einem Jeden Gerechten und Nit zu Strengen Richter Nach Gestalt und Gelegenheit Furfallender Ungleicher Fall und Sachen Zuhalten Und Darnach zu Urteilen Sey. Alles Beschriben durch den Hochgelehrten Noe Meurer. Auch vom Rechtmessigen Jagen und vom Missbrauch Desselbigen Bestendiger Bericht durch M. Cyriacum Spangenberg. Frankfurt am Main: Weigand Han and Georg Raben 1561. c xxxvii 1 lxxx 4 ff. Three parts in one volume. Folio 11" x 7"; 27.94 x 17.78 cm. Recent paper-covered boards retaining earlier paper spine endpapers renewed edges rouged. Light soiling front joint just starting at head recent owner bookplate of Hans Dedi to front pastedown. Title page printed in red and black large woodcut coat of arms to verso. Light browning to text faint dampstaining to fore-edge of text block two small library stamps to foot of title page. A nice copy of a handsomely printed volume. $2500. THIS DESCRIPTION IS TRUNCATED DUE TO CHARACTER LIMITS. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A COMPLETE VERSION Second and final edition. Early game forestry and land laws represent some of the western world's earliest statutory attempts at environmental regulation and resource management. Beyond their legal framework these early codes offer rich insights into early modern social history illuminating sixteenth-century class hierarchies seigneurial privileges property rights and regional foodways. First published in 1560 this compilation by jurist Noe Meurer and theologian Cyriacus Spangenberg provides a comprehensive survey of land-use timber fishing and hunting regulations as enforced across the various territories of the Holy Roman Empire during the mid-sixteenth century. This second edition is significantly expanded compared to the first edition of 1560 which contained only 100 leaves. It includes key treatises on: Forest Sovereignty & Customary Rights Forstliche Oberherrligkeit examining jurisdictiona. unknown books
1832réf. 17509New Haven : Durrie & Peck 1832. 1st Ed. hardcover. Fair. 24mo printed paper covered boards with leather spine with gilt lettering cover is very rubbed soiled and worn edges and corners rubbed edges and endpapers soiled frontispiece and other engravings roughly painted with red watercolor paint interior pages foxed 324 pages Durrie & Peck hardcover
1799réf. 162886Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin 1799. First Edition. hardcover. very good. 2 volumes. xii 9-348; iv 352pp. 8vo contemporary mottled calf with red leather spine labels bindings are rubbed and a little wormed; hinges on first volume are repaired but still solid and attractive; dampstains on front endpaper & blank flyleaf in first volume; pages toned as usual with some light foxing; small ink signatures on titles of both volumes; 2 pages in second volume have tears that were crudely taped and are now discolored. Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin 1799. First edition. Webster surveyed known data from epidemics since the time of Christ in order to prove his theory that these diseases were not contagious but were caused by environmental changes. Despite his incorrect conlculsions his work was widely read and quite influential. William Osler called this book "the most important medical work written in this country by a layman." - GM 1675.1; Austin 2023; Heirs of Hippocrates 1160. Hudson & Goodwin unknown
1841réf. 021534New Haven CT: Published by the author 1841. First Octavo Edition. Hardcover. Light scattered foxing; stain at bottom margin of first volume not affecting text. Covers rubbed with some loss of leather and staining to first volume; binding tight and firm. Very Good. Two royal octavo 7" x 10-1/2" volumes in contemporary calf leather with gilt-lettered black morocco spine labels marbled edges and endpapers. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait. Webster's groundbreaking dictionary was originally published in New York in 1828 in a slightly larger format. Laid in is the Preface to the Revised Edition of 1847. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 291: "Webster was an ardent nationalist and he wanted to stress the political separation from Britain by the cultivation of a separate American language. Under the influence of his friend Benjamin Franklin he turned his attention to 'a reformed mode of spelling' and although he rejected the radical phonetic innovations proposed by Franklin he went far enough to give many printed American words a distinctive appearance." Published by the author hardcover
1799réf. 162886Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin 1799. First Edition. hardcover. very good. 2 volumes. xii 9-348; iv 352pp. 8vo contemporary mottled calf with red leather spine labels bindings are rubbed and a little wormed; hinges on first volume are repaired but still solid and attractive; dampstains on front endpaper & blank flyleaf in first volume; pages toned as usual with some light foxing; small ink signatures on titles of both volumes; 2 pages in second volume have tears that were crudely taped and are now discolored. Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin 1799. First edition. Webster surveyed known data from epidemics since the time of Christ in order to prove his theory that these diseases were not contagious but were caused by environmental changes. Despite his incorrect conlculsions his work was widely read and quite influential. William Osler called this book "the most important medical work written in this country by a layman." - GM 1675.1; Austin 2023; Heirs of Hippocrates 1160. Hudson & Goodwin unknown books
2003réf. C87050D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 272 pages; 223 illustrations most in color. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'Œuvre Oeuvre Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details; A picture of a pipe is not really a pipe and a daylight-filled sky can shine over a streetlamp-lit townhouse and a painting of a window inside a painting of a sitting room can be the window in that sitting room and a room-sized rock can gaze out of that room at the sea and of course a man is a suit can have a green apple for a face. At least that is in the world of Magritte. And who wouldn't want to believe in that world or at least take pleasure in the ability to recognize parts of it in our own One of the most charming and beloved of the surrealists René Magritte took a light witty paintbrush and created a world both familiar and not--but always recognizable in our dreams. His plays on semiotics identity the idea of woman the possibilities inherent in objects and the idea that everything was not necessarily what it seemed--or what it was supposed to be--are celebrated here in an intelligent retrospective monograph featuring more than 150 paintings sculptures objects and works on paper. The organization of this catalogue paints Magritte as an innovator and an artist who has had significant influence on contemporary creators. Accompanying essays including an introduction by Alain Robbe-Grillet inventor of the nouveau roman consider Magritte's influence on modern and contemporary art. Magritte's relationships with his surrealist contemporaries Louis Scutenaire and André Breton and the art dealers Edward James and Alexandre Iolas are each revealed through individual art historical texts and a selection of unpublished letters. An illustrated chronology is included as well. This catalogue is published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris. My painting is visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures one asks oneself this simple question "What does that mean" It does not mean anything because mystery means nothing either it is unknowable. --René Magritte Essays by Jean Roudaut Patrick Roegiers Daniel Abadie Jean-Michel Goutier Bernard Noël Sarah Whitefeld and Renilde Hammacher. Introduction Alain Robbe-Grillet. Hardcover 8.5 x 10.5 in. 272 pages 220 color & 30 b/w illustrations . 2003. 1891024663 . D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers hardcover
2015réf. C115007Hatje Cantz. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - Text in English and Chinese. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Œuvre Oeuvre Complete Works Leben Und Werk Werkverzeichnis Oeuvre-Katalog Kritischem Oeuvrekatalog Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . 2015. 377573922X . Hatje Cantz hardcover
1925réf. 58668(Wien, Anton Schroll & Co.; Druck: Christoph Reisser?s Söhne), o. J. (1925). Qu.-Fol. 12 ganzs. farb. Orig.-Lithographien auf 6 festen Kartonblättern, als Leporello gebunden.
1880réf. 751751880. CHAM pseudonym of NO Charles Amde de. A la Guerre comme a la Guerre. BOUND WITH: Le Grand Magasin dÕImages bound first. Paris: Aubert circa 1880. Oblong quarto contemporary half green calf gilt marbled boards and endpapers. $2750.First edition of this suite of 30 full-page hand-colored lithographs of Cham caricatures documenting the French colonization of North Africa bound with an intriguing publication of 790 French magazine illustrations.Cham saw a career that would result in over 40000 drawings many of them caricatures and sketches of French and Algerian life. In 1843 he began to contribute to such newspapers as Le Charivari whose staff he eventually joined and remained for 30 years. These are ChamÕs parodies of war scenes apparently from the French colonies in North Africa 30 hand-colored lithographs similar to those he produced for the Album du SiÂge Charivari 1870Ñ in collaboration with Honor Daumier. ÒCham embued stories in Le Charivari with the comic force of his caricaturesÉ These in the future will remain when the fleeting stories are forgotten: the day after the stew evaporates and salt escapes us. People who have seen ChamÕs images will always remember the huge success of the cartoonistÓ Henri Beraldi. Bound with this is an ingenious publication of 790 small in-text wood-engravings produced by various engravers and appearing at different times in French magazines around which is woven a clever story line about the travels and adventures of the Lacroix family written to match the diverse engravings. Minor spotting to margins of a few plates not affecting imageslight expert restoration to contemporary binding. Extremely good condition. hardcover
1880réf. 751751880. CHAM pseudonym of NO Charles Amde de. A la Guerre comme a la Guerre. BOUND WITH: Le Grand Magasin dÕImages bound first. Paris: Aubert circa 1880. Oblong quarto contemporary half green calf gilt marbled boards and endpapers. $2750.First edition of this suite of 30 full-page hand-colored lithographs of Cham caricatures documenting the French colonization of North Africa bound with an intriguing publication of 790 French magazine illustrations.Cham saw a career that would result in over 40000 drawings many of them caricatures and sketches of French and Algerian life. In 1843 he began to contribute to such newspapers as Le Charivari whose staff he eventually joined and remained for 30 years. These are ChamÕs parodies of war scenes apparently from the French colonies in North Africa 30 hand-colored lithographs similar to those he produced for the Album du SiÂge Charivari 1870Ñ in collaboration with Honor Daumier. ÒCham embued stories in Le Charivari with the comic force of his caricaturesÉ These in the future will remain when the fleeting stories are forgotten: the day after the stew evaporates and salt escapes us. People who have seen ChamÕs images will always remember the huge success of the cartoonistÓ Henri Beraldi. Bound with this is an ingenious publication of 790 small in-text wood-engravings produced by various engravers and appearing at different times in French magazines around which is woven a clever story line about the travels and adventures of the Lacroix family written to match the diverse engravings. Minor spotting to margins of a few plates not affecting imageslight expert restoration to contemporary binding. Extremely good condition. hardcover books
1999réf. 74469AKFA. New. 1999. Hardcover. 295140560X . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French and English. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Complete Works AKFA hardcover
1789réf. 64400Boston: printed for the author by Isaiah Thomas & Co 1789. First edition 8vo pp. 410 full orig. sheep neatly rebacked old spine laid down preserving the original red morocco label; extremities worn else a very good sound copy. A seminal work dedicated to Benjamin Franklin in which Webster puts forth for the first time the spirit of an American as opposed to a British English and particularly its orthography the reform of which grew out of his correspondence with Franklin. Evans 22259; Skeel 651. printed for the author by Isaiah Thomas & Co unknown
1789réf. 64400Boston: printed for the author by Isaiah Thomas & Co 1789. First edition 8vo pp. 410 full orig. sheep neatly rebacked old spine laid down preserving the original red morocco label; extremities worn else a very good sound copy. A seminal work dedicated to Benjamin Franklin in which Webster puts forth for the first time the spirit of an American as opposed to a British English and particularly its orthography the reform of which grew out of his correspondence with Franklin. Evans 22259; Skeel 651. printed for the author by Isaiah Thomas & Co unknown books
réf. 05994Paris: Martinet 1850. The Art of Success in the World! An Ironic Satiric Burlesque by Cham CHAM pseudonym of Amédée de Noé. L'Art de Réussir dans le Monde. Procédé Simple et Facile pour se Faire Jeter a la Porte en Fort peu de Temps. Paris: Martinet n.d. c. 1850. First edition. Large quarto 13 1/8 x 10 in; 337 x 253 mm. Lithographed title with large hand-colored pictorial vignette twenty hand-colored lithographed plates by Fernique after Cham the plates containing three or more images a total of sixty-two each with droll captions. Publisher's illustrated pink boards. Spine expertly and almost invisibly repaired lightly scuffed at board extremities A clean and bright example with the plates in very fine and clean state. A fine copy of a very rare volume with OCLC/KVK locating only two copies in institutions worldwide at the Victoria & Albert Library and Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire Strasbourg. "It is to be regretted that space will not serve to represent the caricaturists and depictors of manners who followed in the wake of Daumier and Gavarni. Among the most attractive of the former is Amédée de Noé known as Cham that is Ham the son of Noah of whom it was said that he had 'an idea a day' for Le charivari. A good proportion of his thousands of lithographs were gathered into albums. His contributions to the Album du siège in which Daumier was his collaborator are typical of his work" Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book pp. 155-156. Bobins IV 1348. Paris: Martinet, 1850 unknown
réf. 05994Paris: Martinet 1850. The Art of Success in the World! An Ironic Satiric Burlesque by Cham CHAM pseudonym of Amédée de Noé. L'Art de Réussir dans le Monde. Procédé Simple et Facile pour se Faire Jeter a la Porte en Fort peu de Temps. Paris: Martinet n.d. c. 1850. First edition. Large quarto 13 1/8 x 10 in; 337 x 253 mm. Lithographed title with large hand-colored pictorial vignette twenty hand-colored lithographed plates by Fernique after Cham the plates containing three or more images a total of sixty-two each with droll captions. Publisher's illustrated pink boards. Spine expertly and almost invisibly repaired lightly scuffed at board extremities A clean and bright example with the plates in very fine and clean state. A fine copy of a very rare volume with OCLC/KVK locating only two copies in institutions worldwide at the Victoria & Albert Library and Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire Strasbourg. "It is to be regretted that space will not serve to represent the caricaturists and depictors of manners who followed in the wake of Daumier and Gavarni. Among the most attractive of the former is Amédée de Noé known as Cham that is Ham the son of Noah of whom it was said that he had 'an idea a day' for Le charivari. A good proportion of his thousands of lithographs were gathered into albums. His contributions to the Album du siège in which Daumier was his collaborator are typical of his work" Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book pp. 155-156. Bobins IV 1348. Paris: Martinet, 1850 unknown books
1823réf. 43475New Haven CT: Howe & Spalding 1823. Hardcover . Used - very good/No Jacket. 8vo. Pale blue paper covered boards spotted and stained with orange painted spine. White paper title on spine. Rebound as evidenced by spine and tasteful new pastedown and endpapers though boards probably original. Deckled edges. Lectures to a young man on right action virtue the importance of the study of words philology and their proper use as well as a history of the Republic. A very clean example albeit rebacked. Howe & Spalding hardcover
1833réf. A799615New Haven: Durrie & Peck. Very Good. 1833. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Rebound with full leather black leather spine title lables new marbled end pages retains original end pages and has the errata slip in the rear. All pages heavily foxed. Book is nice and tight a very attractive copy of the first printing of Webster's translation and one of the earliest American revisions to the King James version. . Durrie & Peck hardcover
2003réf. 87050D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers. New. 2003. Hardcover. 1891024663 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 272 pages; 223 illustrations most in color. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers hardcover
2015réf. 115007Hatje Cantz. New. 2015. Hardcover. 377573922X . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - Text in English and Chinese. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné uvre Oeuvre Complete Works Leben Und Werk Werkverzeichnis Oeuvre-Katalog Kritischem Oeuvrekatalog Raisonnee Hatje Cantz hardcover
1826réf. 664Paris: S.n. 1826. First edition. Published unbound. Untrimmed. In fine condition. First edition. Published unbound. 11 5 p. Comte de Noé’s 1777–1858 speech concerning the “Haiti Indemnity” at the Chamber of Peers on April 19 1826. After the successful slave rebellion of Saint-Domingue which culminated in the elimination of slavery and the founding of the Republic of Haiti it took more than twenty years until the French ruler King Charles X of France recognised the independence of the island in return of 150 million gold franc indemnity in April 1825. The sum was later reduced to 90 million in 1838. The issue of the indemnity appeared again in 2003 when the President of Haiti demanded France to pay back over 21 billion U.S. dollars the equivalent in today’s money of the 90 million gold francs however in 2004 the prime minister rescinded the reparations demand. Not in Sabin. . (S.n.) unknown
1650Acquaforte mm. 203x400. Si tratta di uno dei soggetti preferiti da Castiglione, l'entrata degli animali nell'Arca, la tecnica acquafortista raggiunge qui il massimo della raffinatezza. In questa composizione sviluppa il tema accennato nell'incisione : "Noè che fa entrare gli animali nell'Arca" (1630 ca.). Il tema biblico è accennato nella parte sinistra del rame in primo piano gli animali. Le opere attribuibili al primo periodo di attività genovese (L'entrata degli animali nell'arca, Genova, Accademia Ligustica; Noè fa entrare gli animali nell'arca, Firenze, Gall. degli Uffizi, inv. 1336; per le molte versioni, vedi Meloni) mostrano il C. attento soprattutto alla tradizione di pittura animalistica - rappresentata a Genova da parecchie opere dei Bassano e dall'attivo gruppo fiammingo facente capo ai fratelli de Wael e a Jan Roos - ed estremamente vicino, nell'impianto delle scene e nel taglio compositivo, alla pittura dello Scorza (di quest'ultimo vedere soprattutto Noè che accoglie gli animali nell'arca, firmato e datato 1630, Genova, Gall. di palazzo Spinola). Bell'esemplare con margini sottili e piccolo timbro di collezione visibile in basso a destra.. Bartsch vol. 46 n. 1..
1819réf. 1266971819. First Edition. NOAH Mordecai M. Travels in England France Spain and the Barbary States in the Years 1813-14 and 15. New-York; London: C. Kirk and Mercein; John Miller 1819. Octavo contemporary marbled boards rebacked in period style speckled calf-gilt red morocco spine label uncut. $3400.First edition of this fascinating travelogue by Mordecai Manuel Noah the most prominent Jew in America at the timeÑU.S. Consul to Tunis the first American Jew to receive an overseas diplomatic assignmentÑillustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait and four engraved plates one folding. An excellent uncut copy in contemporary marbled boards.One of the early American republic's most influential Jews Mordecai Noah 1785-1851 was a journalist editor of New York newspaper The National Advocate publisher of the New York Enquirer and a community activist. He held the position of United States Consul to Tunis in 1816 was the sheriff of New York in 1821 the Surveyor of the Port from 1829-33 and a judge of the Court of General Sessions in 1841. He is perhaps most remembered as the originator of the ambitious though never-realized Ararat Project on Grand Island near Niagara Falls in 1825Ña proposed utopian city of refuge for persecuted European Jews. ""In 1813 Noah became U.S. Consul to Tunis. The government hoped that he would be able to forge special ties with influential Jews in North Africa and entrusted him with an additional secret mission: to devise a 'means for the liberation' of 11 captive American seamen in Algiers. Noah's efforts to free American captives were mostly unsuccessful. Only two seamen were released the ransom paid was excessive and the secret agent Noah appointed Richard R. Keene turned out to have an unsavory past. Although Noah carried out his other consular duties successfully and also established ties with local Tunis Jews Secretary of State James Monroe recalled him in 1815É In the wake of the recall Noah published Correspondence and Documents 1816 in his own defense followed by Travels in England France Spain and the Barbary States 1819 his most important book. It describes his experiences abroad and contains valuable information on early 19th-century Tunisian Jewry"" ANB. The appendix includes letters from Thomas Jefferson John Adams James Madison and John Quincy Adams addressed to Noah. Rosenbach American Jewish Bibliography 205. Frontispiece and one plate ""Merchant Slave & Arab"" with expertly repaired margins not affecting image or text. Light foxing to text. A nicely refurbished uncut copy in contemporary marbled boards. hardcover
1819réf. 1266971819. First Edition. NOAH Mordecai M. Travels in England France Spain and the Barbary States in the Years 1813-14 and 15. New-York; London: C. Kirk and Mercein; John Miller 1819. Octavo contemporary marbled boards rebacked in period style speckled calf-gilt red morocco spine label uncut. $3400.First edition of this fascinating travelogue by Mordecai Manuel Noah the most prominent Jew in America at the timeÑU.S. Consul to Tunis the first American Jew to receive an overseas diplomatic assignmentÑillustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait and four engraved plates one folding. An excellent uncut copy in contemporary marbled boards.One of the early American republic's most influential Jews Mordecai Noah 1785-1851 was a journalist editor of New York newspaper The National Advocate publisher of the New York Enquirer and a community activist. He held the position of United States Consul to Tunis in 1816 was the sheriff of New York in 1821 the Surveyor of the Port from 1829-33 and a judge of the Court of General Sessions in 1841. He is perhaps most remembered as the originator of the ambitious though never-realized Ararat Project on Grand Island near Niagara Falls in 1825Ña proposed utopian city of refuge for persecuted European Jews. ""In 1813 Noah became U.S. Consul to Tunis. The government hoped that he would be able to forge special ties with influential Jews in North Africa and entrusted him with an additional secret mission: to devise a 'means for the liberation' of 11 captive American seamen in Algiers. Noah's efforts to free American captives were mostly unsuccessful. Only two seamen were released the ransom paid was excessive and the secret agent Noah appointed Richard R. Keene turned out to have an unsavory past. Although Noah carried out his other consular duties successfully and also established ties with local Tunis Jews Secretary of State James Monroe recalled him in 1815É In the wake of the recall Noah published Correspondence and Documents 1816 in his own defense followed by Travels in England France Spain and the Barbary States 1819 his most important book. It describes his experiences abroad and contains valuable information on early 19th-century Tunisian Jewry"" ANB. The appendix includes letters from Thomas Jefferson John Adams James Madison and John Quincy Adams addressed to Noah. Rosenbach American Jewish Bibliography 205. Frontispiece and one plate ""Merchant Slave & Arab"" with expertly repaired margins not affecting image or text. Light foxing to text. A nicely refurbished uncut copy in contemporary marbled boards. hardcover books
réf. 05552Paris: Maison Martinet / Hautecoeur Frères 1860. Oh What Fun To Travel! Not In Twenty Hand Colored Lithographs CHAM pseudonym of Amédée de Noé. Ah quel plaisir de voyager! Paris: Maison Martinet / Hautecoeur Frères n.d. ca. 1860. First edition. Folio 13 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches; 349 x 261 mm. Hand colored pictorial lithographed title and twenty hand colored lithographed plates with sixty-two humorous scenes with captions limning the downside to travel. Publishers dark brown patterned cloth front cover decoratively lettered in gilt spine slightly faded. Pictorial title a little foxed in blank margins otherwise clean. Extremities of spine and corners expertly restored front free endpaper replaced. An excellent example of a rather scarce Cham title. Only eight copies in institutional holdings worldwide. No copies have come to auction since ABPC began indexing results in 1923. Of Amédée de Noé "known as Cham that is Ham the son of Noah.it was said that he had 'an idea a day' for Le charivari. A good proportion of his thousands of lithographs were gathered into albums. His contributions to the Album du siège 173 in which Daumier was his collaborator are typical of his work" Ray pp. 155-156. CHAM pseudonym of Amédée de Noé 1818-1879. French caricaturist and lithographer published his first book Monsieur Lajeunesse in 1839 and from 1843 began to be regularly published in illustrated magazines such as Le Charivari which in 1835 focused primarily on publishing satires of everyday life thereafter becoming one of the most popular of French caricaturists through entertaining storybooks such as this work which satirized 'jokes in poor taste.' Several artists "followed in the wake of Daumier and Gavarni. Among the most attractive of the former is Amédéé de Noé "known as Cham that is Ham the son of Noah.it was said that he had 'an idea a day' for Le charivari. A good proportion of his thousands of lithographs were gathered into albums. His contributions to the Album du siège 173 in which Daumier was his collaborator are typical of his work" Ray pp. 155-156. Cham had contacts with English artists many of whom had trained on the Continent most in company with English artist and follower of the pioneering German lithographer Alois Senefelder. Paris: Maison Martinet / Hautecoeur Frères, 1860 unknown