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1892ref. 296808New York: COLTON G. W. and COLTON C. B. 1892. unbound. very good. Large folding map mounted on linen 29 1/2 x 37 1/2 inches in very good condition bound with 28 pp of text 10 blank pages. Manuscript notes in pencil. 8vo 3/4 polished calf. New York: G.W. Colton & C.B. Colton 1892. Scarce. Very good . "Real estate speculators shippers and business interests could not agree on the best way to utilize the Harlem river debating whether public works should facilitate traffic across the river or shipping along the river. Coastal trade interests advocated for a Harlem River Canal but their opponents argued that transportation across the river was more important. This map of the river between the Hudson River top and the East River bottom accompanied an unsuccessful proposal to have the state legislature turn the Harlem into a subterranean river and connect Manhattan with the mainland between Third and Eighth Avenues section shaded red." Gotham Center for New York history. Small abrasions along folds. Includes notes for the proposed site for Columbia University. COLTON, G. W. and COLTON, C. B. unknown books
1688ref. 368775Montreal 1688. In French. 2pp. recto and verso on a single leaf. Signed by Perrot Bleinz and notary Benigne Basset. With an English transcription. Quarto. Old folds. Near fine. Provenance: Archibald de Léry MacDonald; Lawrence Lande. Exhibition: An Exhibition of Early Documents and Printed Material Relating to the Beginnings of Trade in North America from the Private Collection of Dr. Lawrence M. Lande McGill University May 30-July 15 1985 with an 8-page exhibition catalogue. In French. 2pp. recto and verso on a single leaf. Signed by Perrot Bleinz and notary Benigne Basset. With an English transcription. Quarto. Scarce seventeenth century voyageur fur trade contract for an expedition to the wilderness to trade with the Ottawa signed by one of the most important early traders and explorers of Canada and the upper midwest. "Partnership agreements such as this one of Nicholas Perrot are of great rarity" Lande. Perrot 1644-1717 was an explorer interpreter trader commandant diplomat and seigneur. He was one of the best-known figures in the early fur trade of New France particularly during the latter part of the 17th century and took possession of large tracts of land in the Great Lakes region in the name of King Louis XIV. His travels commonly took him deep into unexplored territory and he was the first Frenchman to explore the Upper Mississippi in what is now Wisconsin and Minnesota. Perrot arrived in New France about 1660 as a young donné or contracted assistant in the company of Jesuit Missionaries and travelled to the western Great Lakes region where he gained the friendship of the local First Nations people by trading guns for furs believing that they were entitled to defend themselves from their enemies. He also took the opportunity to learn several Native languages which served him well during his career. Perrot soon entered the fur trade full time and began forming business partnerships. He enlisted himself as a translator with government authorities and participated in peacekeeping missions to bring warriors of several First Nations together to sign peace treaties. By 1685 he was appointed Commandant-in-Chief at Bais des Puants present day Green Bay Wisconsin and surrounding regions and travelled to the upper reaches of the Mississippi River in the territory of the Sioux tribes where he built Fort St. Antoine in present-day Minnesota. During the spring of 1687 in preparation for taking part in raids on Indian villages in the Seneca country Perrot left his store of furs with the Jesuits at St. Francois-Xavier mission in present-day Wisconsin. While out with the raid party a fire at the mission destroyed his entire fur inventory valued at more than 40000 livres. Financially ruined Perrot returned to Montreal to deal with creditors and renew partnership agreements like the present. In the summer of 1688 Perrot partnered with Simon Bleinz to undertake an expedition to trade with the Ottawa Indians and other Nations. Perrot had always been a staunch ally of Governor Frontenac and had obtained a fur trade license from the governor for this venture to ensure that his activities were in keeping with the rules and regulations of the trade. The agreement states that Perrot would supply Bleinz with goods food provisions a canoe and other necessary supplies for the voyage and that Bleinz would convey the goods to the trading area and do all that he was able for the success of the partnership. Bleinz had the option of taking at his own expense six shirts two capots or hooded coats of blanket cloth moosehide or other material and one rifle to trade for his own personal profit. The pelts resulting from the venture were to be distributed evenly amongst Bleinz another unnamed associate of the partnership and Perrot. An "apichimon" or bonus of six beaver pelts was to be paid to Bleinz by the partnership upon the successful conclusion of the expedition. "Perrot who was often unappreciated even during his lifetime was France's best representative among the Indians of the west. His knowledge of the languages of the country his natural eloquence the happy blend of daring and coolness that were the essence of his character had made it possible for him to win the esteem confidence and even affection of the Indians. The Potawatomis the Menominees the Foxes the Miamis the Mascoutens and the Sioux granted him with the honours of the pipe of peace the rights and prerogatives enjoyed by their own chiefs. His credit was not less among the Ottawas and the Hurons. During the last four decades of the 17th century at a time when alliance with the nations of the west was indispensable in order to ward off the Iroquois peril and allow access to new territories Perrot thanks to the influence that he had acquired rendered valuable assistance to the colony" Dictionary of Canadian Biography. The present document is from the famed collection of Lawrence M. Lande 1906-1998 detailed as item 107 in his second bibliography of his collection The Founder of our Monetary System John Law Compagnie des Indes & the Early Economy of North America Montreal: 1984. Lande began collecting manuscript material relating John Law the Compagnie des Indes and the fur trade - North America's first economy - as early as the 1960s principally working with dealers Izzy Ehrlich and Alfred Van Peteghem purchasing material from the collections of Thomas Phillips Philip Sang and historian Archibald Lery MacDonald the assemblage of which Van Peteghem termed an "unparalleled feat." All of the printed material and many of the documents were donated by Lande in his lifetime; however a grouping of the manuscript items including the present document were sold by his heirs after his death. Lande Founder of our Monetary System 107 unknown books
ref. 9325Portland OR: Parasol Press 2014. Limited Edition. Loose Sheets. Fine in Fine Archival Boxes. Limited Edition. Loose Sheets. A collection of 10 aquatints on Rives Paper. Leon Battista Alberti renaissance scholar artist and architect coined the term Concinnitas to connote the beauty found in the confluence of perfect uses of number position and outline. In 2012 Parasol commissioned ten mathematicians physicists and computer scientists including two Nobel Laureates and five Fields Medalists to create etchings of the mathematical expression most meaningful to them. These formulae were then printed by the fine-art print shop Harlan and Weaver as aquatints evoking the look of equations quickly and elegantly sketched in white chalk on a blackboard. Accompanied by an expository essay of each and description card signed by each. Sir Michael Atiyah. Edinburgh University. Fields Medal Enrico Bombieri. Institute of Advanced Study Princeton. Fields Medal Simon Donaldson. Stony Brook University / Imperial College London. Fields Medal Freeman Dyson. Institute of Advanced Study Princeton. Templeton Prize Murray Gell-Mann. Santa Fe Institute. Nobel Prize Richard Karp. UC Berkeley. Turing Medal Peter Lax. Courant Institute NYU. Abel Wolf and Norbert Wiener Prize David Mumford. Brown University. Fields Medal Stephen Smale. City University of Hong Kong. Fields Meda Steven Weinberg. University of Texas. Nobel Prize. Bright and unmarred. Black coated cloth archival boxes prints descriptions cards. 8 are 26 1/8 x 31 5/8 inches. 2 are 31 5/8 x 26 1/8 inches. Illus. b/w plates. Limited edition of 100. Signed by the mathematicians/physicists. Parasol Press unknown books
1828ref. 44272Bogotá. August 27 1828. Bolívar Announces He Is Appointing Himself Dictator for Life An extremely rare broadside printing of Bolívar's declaration of dictatorial powers addressed to the people of Gran Colombia together with the Decreto Orgánico issued by him outlining the organization of his new government. The two documents - bearing the same watermark folds and publication date - appear to have been issued together to the Treasury; a contemporary hand has written "Tesoreria" on the first leaf and the wear patterns suggest that they have been kept together for some time. Simón Bolívar was already president and founding hero of Gran Colombia present-day Panama Colombia Ecuador Venezuela and parts of Peru. In February 1827 with the nation floundering and on the point of fragmentation Bolívar had proposed resigning his position as president claiming he had no desire for dictatorial control. The Congress rejected his resignation. After a failed constitutional convention in the summer of 1828 Bolívar declared himself by this decree dictator for life in what was intended as a temporary measure to maintain unification. In the first document Bolívar addresses the "Colombianos" explaining his reasoning for the extraordinary measures granting him absolute power over the government. He also assures his countrymen that he will not remain a dictator any longer than necessary but in the meantime pledges to "commit myself to obey strictly your legitimate desires" in translation. The second document the Decreto Orgánico is the actual document in which Bolivar makes himself dictator laying out six articles granting him absolute power. Both are signed in type by Bolívar. Although the text of these important proclamations was anthologized at an early date and has frequently been republished copies are exceedingly scarce on the market. We were able to locate only one institutional copy of each at the John Carter Brown Library. Folio. Old creases. Minor soiling. Very good plus. In a half morocco and cloth box leather labels. PALAU 32190. POSADA BOGOTANA 1042. hardcover books
1797ref. 006817London: Printed by W. Bulmer & Co. Shakespeare Printing-Office for John & Josiah Boydell and George Nicol. From the Types of W. Martin 1797. First Edition. Full Gilt and Blindstamped Morocco. Near Fine. Folio 32 by 26 cm. cxxxiii 3 213 286 300 pp. 32 hand-colored mezzotint plates within the 3 volumes one plate folding. Among them are three reproductions of Milton portraits including Milton as an infant as a boy and the famous Romney painting of the blind Milton dictating to his daughters this plate being the folding one. To our knowledge this copy of the Boydell Milton is an uniquely hand-colored copy. All the plates other than the Milton portraits are the artwork of Westall. These have an unmistakable affinity to the heroic style of Blake his contemporary. The men and even the women can have exaggerated bulging muscles as found most famously in Michelangelo. As invited by Milton's epic light contends with dark and the illustrations serve up a phantasmagoria of imagery with swirling shadows and specters. The hand-coloring is of a very high caliber and we think greatly enriches the mezzotints. The three volumes contain all the major poetry of Milton -- "Paradise Lost" "Paradise Regained" "Samson Agonistes" "Comus" etc. etc. Note all half-titles are present. Binding of a rich russet/crimson straight-grained morocco with bands of blindstamping and gilt-stamping decoration on the boards and gilt decoration within and on the raised bands. Decoration consists of ruling Greek palmettos and more floral rinceaux bands. Conditiion: morocco binding with minor abrasions and wear. One leaf with repaired tear Vol. II pp. 103/4. Pages generally clean plates bright. All volumes tight. Printed by W. Bulmer & Co., Shakespeare Printing-Office, for John & Josiah Boydell, and George Nicol. From the Types of W. Marti unknown books
ref. 156588London: 4AD 1989. Three early never-issued alternate artwork proof designs for the classic 1989 album. Developed by British graphic designer Vaughan Oliver with photography by Simon Larbalestier. Unique. In 1980 Oliver and photographer Nigel Grierson formed the graphic design partnership 23 Envelope. In 1982 the duo were invited to create sleeve art for the 4AD record label by co-founder Ivo Watts-Russell. Under 23 Envelope and v23 Oliver would give 4AD one of the most acclaimed and distinguished visual identities of any record label of the 1980s and 1990s designing album art for the Cocteau Twins This Mortal Coil Dead Can Dance Colourbox and the Pixies among many others. Oliver managed the graphic design for the Pixies' entire discography during his lifetime with "Doolittle" being the most celebrated. Photographer Simon Larbalestier is best known for his collaborative work with Oliver under 23 Envelope and v23 and provided photography for all the Pixies albums helping to give the band their distinctive and opulent visual style. "Doolittle" was the first Pixies album for which Oliver and Larbalestier had access to the lyrics which "made a fundamental difference" according to Larbalestier and helped determined the photography layout and graphic style. While each of the experimental proofs presented here retain the general overall layout of the released cover each contains both stark and subtle differences. The first proof the most dramatically divergent is printed in a sharp copper with the photograph a pale yellow and the rear cover text a deep blue. The other two proofs experimenting with metallic copper and gold are both notably lighter in tone than the final art but the photograph printed in a gray green is close to Oliver's final design with the rear cover text also in gray-green as opposed to the white of the final design. The layout of the typography is also notably different in all three proofs with the band name much smaller and its accompanying grid nearly indiscernible as is the title placed discreetly above the band's name. Three extraordinary experimental proofs documenting Oliver's process in creating the exceptional art of one of the most celebrated and influential rock albums of all time. 25.25 x 13.75 inches on heavy card stock. Near Fine overall. 4AD unknown books
1827ref. 44267Caracas. February 6 1827. Bolívar Resigns as President of Gran Columbia - But Not Really In this remarkable and rare broadsheet Simón Bolívar tenders his resignation as president of Gran Colombia to the Congress in Caracas Venezuela. By 1827 internal conflicts and political pressures were threatening the stability of the Republic Bolívar had created Gran Colombia present-day Panama Colombia Ecuador Venezuela and parts of Peru. In an attempt to pacify dissenters and preserve the fragile federation Bolívar addressed the Congress offering to step aside and assuring the people that he had no plans to declare himself absolute ruler. In this address Bolívar points to the fact that Gran Colombia is in an advantageous position recognized by the United States and with Great Britain threatening war with Spain. Despite a rosy outlook he notes that suspicions that El Libertador will exert himself as a tyrannical dictator continue to plague the political environment. Thus - in the tradition of George Washington - he is resigning from office. He writes in translation: "In vain do I invoke the example of Washington to defend myself." Though he is not innocent of ambition Bolívar wishes to "remove my fellow citizens from the claws of this fury and free them from uneasiness." Declaring his renunciation to be irrevocable he writes: "My sword and my heart will nevertheless be for Colombia; and with my last breath I will ask heaven to grant her happiness." Despite this declaration the Congress refused to accept Bolívar's resignation. Unable to settle on a new constitution and form of government the Constitutional Convention of 1828 fell apart and Bolívar proclaimed himself dictator for life on August 27. Intended to be a temporary measure to stabilize the government this move resulted in an assassination attempt just a month later. Bolívar died two years later of tuberculosis. Not located in any of the usual sources including Palau and OCLC. An important piece of South American history. Folio. Old fold; slight separation at fold. Light creasing. Very good. In a half morocco box. unknown books
1825ref. 2471825. Folding engraved plate in Vol. IV. Five vols. Large 4to handsome antique blue morocco-backed marbled boards flat spines nicely gilt. Paris: J.B.M. Duprat & others An VII 1798-1825. First edition and a complete set with all the supplements. In this monumental and fundamental astronomical work Laplace -- the "Newton of France" -- codified and developed the theories and achievements of Newton Euler d'Alembert and Lagrange. "Laplace maintained that while all planets revolve round the sun their eccentricities and the inclinations of their orbits to each other will always remain small. He also showed that all these irregularities in movements and positions in the heavens were self-correcting so that the whole solar system appeared to be mechanically stable. He showed that the universe was really a great self-regulating machine and the whole solar system could continue on its existing plan for an immense period of time. This was a long step forward from the Newtonian uncertainties in this respect.Laplace also offered a brilliant explanation of the secular inequalities of the mean motion of the moon about the earth -- a problem which Euler and Lagrange had failed to solve.He also investigated the theory of the tides and calculated from them the mass of the moon."Printing & the Mind of Man 252. A very nice set. Our set has the first state of the titles of Vols. I and II and all the supplements. It lacks the title leaf for the first supplement in Vol. IV. Dibner Heralds of Science 14. D.S.B. XV pp. 273-403. En Français dans le Texte 201. Horblit 63. Roberts & Trent Bibliotheca Mechanica pp. 197-98. unknown books
1827ref. 33731827. One folding engraved plate. iv 245 pp. lacking the errata leaf & leaf of ads. 8vo cont. grey paste-paper boards lower joint with short split at head & foot. Berlin: T.H. Riemann 1827. First edition and a splendid association copy of this pioneering work which contains one of the most important discoveries in electrical science — “Ohm’s law” — the basis of the present system of electrical measurement. Ohm discovered the unit of resistance in an electrical current. This copy belonged to the “Prince of Mathematicians” — Carl Friedrich Gauss — and has the “Gauss-Bibliothek” stamp on the title. It is quite exciting to be able to link two of the greatest 19th-century scientists through an important book like this. “In the field of electrical measurement Ohm was the great pioneer…Ohm’s great contribution — ‘The Galvanic Chain Mathematically Calculated’ — was to measure the rate of current flow and the effects of resistance on the current. ‘Ohm’s law’ — that the resistance of a given conductor is a constant independent of the voltage applied or the current flowing — was arrived at theoretically by analogy with Fourier’s heat measurements 1800-14.”–Printing & the Mind of Man 289. It is known that the publisher was forced to pulp most of the copies of this book due to lack of sales. A very fine and fresh copy. Lacking the errata leaf it clearly was never bound-in and as usual the leaf of ads. With the stamp of the Royal Observatory at Göttingen on free front endpaper with release stamp facing on the front paste-down endpaper and title. ⧠Dibner Heralds of Science 63. Horblit 81. Sparrow Milestones of Science 154. Wheeler Gift Cat. 835. unknown books
1827ref. 54811827. Folding engraved plate in Vol. IV. Five vols. Large 4to 281 x 200 mm. cont. polished calf sides panelled in blind & gilt spines decorated in blind & gilt a.e.g. Paris: J.B.M. Duprat & others An VII 1798-1825-1827. First edition a magnificent set on large and fine paper complete set with all the supplements. This is the only large and fine paper set I have ever seen on the market. In this monumental and fundamental astronomical work Laplace — the “Newton of France” — codified and developed the theories and achievements of Newton Euler d’Alembert and Lagrange. “Laplace maintained that while all planets revolve round the sun their eccentricities and the inclinations of their orbits to each other will always remain small. He also showed that all these irregularities in movements and positions in the heavens were self-correcting so that the whole solar system appeared to be mechanically stable. He showed that the universe was really a great self-regulating machine and the whole solar system could continue on its existing plan for an immense period of time. This was a long step forward from the Newtonian uncertainties in this respect…Laplace also offered a brilliant explanation of the secular inequalities of the mean motion of the moon about the earth — a problem which Euler and Lagrange had failed to solve…He also investigated the theory of the tides and calculated from them the mass of the moon.”–Printing & the Mind of Man 252. A magnificent set preserved in two boxes. Our set has the first state of the titles of Vols. I and II and all the supplements the supplement in Vol. V issued in 1827 is on regular paper. ⧠Dibner Heralds of Science 14. D.S.B. XV pp. 273-403. En Français dans le Texte 201. Horblit 63. Roberts & Trent Bibliotheca Mechanica pp. 197-98. Sparrow Milestones of Science 125. unknown books
ref. BOH 217FASCINATING MEDIEVAL BOOK OF HOURS WITH EXTENSIVE ILLUMINATIONS BY THREE DIFFERENT ARTISTS. In Latin and some French illuminated manuscript on parchment Southern Netherlands Mons c. 1460 original portion c. 1480-1490 updated. Dimensions 167 x 116 mm. 199 folios lacking one text leaf written by two different scribes in gothic textualis bookhand in single column on 17 lines; BINDING: seventeenth century brown calf over wooden boards spine with four raised bands gold-tooled gilt title "OFFICIU / BEATEM / VIRGIN" partly worn out gilt edges. ILLUSTRATION: 22 full-page miniatures within full rinceaux borders by the Mildmay Master 13 the Master of Philippe de Croÿ 7 and a third Mons illuminator follower of Simon Marmion 2 and 4 small miniatures by the Mildmay Master additional sixteen full rinceaux borders and 5-line initials in pink or blue on burnished gold grounds. The Mildmay Master was responsible for the core of the original manuscript; the artist paints elongated figures with small heads and slender bodies mostly situated on pale yellow tiled grounds. His outdoor landscapes are cursory. Unusual here are his delicate acanthus and floral borders sprinkled with fanciful grotesques. The artist responsible for updating the manuscript is the Philippe de Croÿ Master. He favors tiled floors in brown or gray and white with a generally somber almost grisaille palette with blue and white grey and a burnt brownish orange. A third painter a follower of Simon Marmion intervened during this second campaign. The most skilled of the three illuminators his delicate figures are well-modeled with tiny hands and individualized faces. PROVENANCE: The manuscript was made in Southern Netherlands probably in two different stages. The core of the Hours and the calendar were written in Mons for an unknown patron c. 1460. Then around 1480 the manuscript was updated also in Mons for a couple represented in prayer in the manuscript: Jean Antoine de Mahieu Lord of Bosqueau and his wife Jacqueline de Sivry Lady of Buath; belonged to Jean-Baptiste-Florentin Gabriel de Meyran marquis de Lagoy 1764-1829; inside front cover: "Jean Fransois de Lescluse demeurant a Frasne." CONDITION: ink stain in the margin of f. 1 water stains in lower margins of first 32 leaves colors slightly faded on marginal decoration f. 120v stain in the marginal decoration f. 77v other minor signs of use otherwise in very good condition. Binding condition: leather very rubbed gold tooling worn front cover almost detached hinges of the back cover fragile. Full description and images available. BOH 217 Southern Netherlands, Mons, c. 1460 (original portion), updated c. 1480-1490 books
