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1970ref. 831261970. Boston: Beacon Press 1970. Boston: Beacon Press 1970. Vesey Denmark 1767-1822 Defendant. Kennedy Lionel Henry 1787-1847 Editor. Parker Thomas 1793-1844 Editor. Killens John Oliver 1916-1987 Introduction. The Trial Record of Denmark Vesey. Boston: Beacon Press 1970. xxi 175 pp. Orange quarter cloth over boards. Light shelfwear with slight rubbing to spine and corners. Internally clean. A very good copy. $150. A reprint of the official 1822 report on the trials related to the Denmark Vesey slave revolt conspiracy. The original report titled An Official Report of the Trials of Sundry Negroes Charged with an Attempt to Raise an Insurrection in the State of South-Carolina. was edited by Lionel Henry Kennedy and Thomas Parker who served as presiding magistrates at the trials. This edition includes an introduction by author and activist John Oliver Killens. The volume documents the events surrounding the thwarted 1822 slave revolt in Charleston South Carolina planned by a free Black carpenter named Denmark Vesey. Inspired by the successful Haitian Revolution Vesey allegedly organized thousands of enslaved and free Black people to seize Charleston kill slaveholders and escape to Haiti. The central part of the book contains the official proceedings and witness testimony from the trials that followed the betrayal of the plot. This court-sanctioned account is the primary source of information on the alleged plot and the people involved. Historical Impact: The original 1822 report was a product of the white planter class's attempt to control the narrative and suppress potential dissent. The re-publication of this document in 1970 with Killens' introduction reframes the material for a modern audience and places it within the larger history of Black resistance. The conspiracy and subsequent trials significantly heightened racial fears in the antebellum South and led to stricter laws controlling enslaved and free Black people. The addition of John Oliver Killens' introduction provides contemporary commentary on the historical document interpreting it from a Black liberation perspective and highlighting Vesey as a significant figure in the history of Black nationalism and emancipation. unknown books
1927ref. 601768Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1927. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. 198pp. Owner name on front pastedown light foxing on preliminary pages sunned spine very good in a good only dust jacket with the front flap and front panel detached but present several chips and tears and splitting at the folds. A first- hand account of life in the French Foreign Legion by the Danish prince. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
1909ref. 317704London: Methuen 1909. First edition. Illus. 8vo. Bound in modern mottled three quarters polished calf and marbled boards. Fine. First edition. Illus. 8vo. Methuen unknown books
1789ref. 56256Hamburg 1789. With four folding charts in vol. I. Pp.2 xxx 14 contents 578; xii 2 contents 556. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary quarter calf and boards. Rubbed. About very good. With four folding charts in vol. I. Pp.2 xxx 14 contents 578; xii 2 contents 556. 2 vols. 8vo. First and only edition of this important documentary source publishing letters and papers of Frederick IV of Denmark Queen Anna Sophia of Dänemark correspondence with the King of Prussia as well as texts concerning Copenhagen the judiciary police and city council changes in the Danish language etc. A further continuation volume appeared in 1790. unknown books
1650ref. 51209Frederick de Wit 1650. Contemporary Coloring. With Wonderful Cartouche Upper Right. 1 vols. 23 x 20 inches. About Fine. Framed and glazed. Contemporary Coloring. With Wonderful Cartouche Upper Right. 1 vols. 23 x 20 inches. Frederick de Wit unknown books
2002ref. 629106Williamsburg: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture 2002. Softcover. Very Good. First collected edition. Two parts bound in one. Octavo. 914-976; 136-202pp. Wrappers a bit creased and soiled very good or better. Inscribed to noted scholar of African-American history Graham Hodges by contributor Douglas R. Egerton on the first page. Both parts were first published separately in The William and Mary Quarterly. Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture unknown books
1940ref. 73651Athenai: Typois 'Graphikai Technai' 1940. First edition 8vo 8¾" x 5¾" pp. 116; text in modern Greek throughout; portrait frontispiece; original ivory wrappers printed in blue and red; light soiling but generally very good sound and clean. Presentation copy inscribed by Prince Peter on the title page and dated 1941. This is his first book and OCLC lists no others. Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark 1908-1980 "was a Greek prince soldier and anthropologist specializing in Tibetan culture and polyandry. With his wife Irina Aleksandrovna Ovtchinnikova Prince Peter embarked on a voyage to Asia in September 1937. The party passed through Syria and Persia before reaching British India in search of a tribe that Peter could study. They arrived in what is now Pakistan in early 1938 and Peter conducted research in the regions of Lahore Kulu Leh and Srinagar . Wishing to avoid the Himalayan winter they moved to South India and spent time with the Toda people. They visited the Nilgiris district Madras Kalimpong and finally Ceylon. Throughout the entire journey Peter focused his attention on the study of polyandry" Wikipedia. Princeton only in OCLC. Typois 'Graphikai Technai' unknown books
1954ref. 69185Kalimpong: printed by Gergan Tharchin at the Tibet "Mirror" Press 1954. First edition issue with 41 not 43 pages of text; 7¼" x 5" pp. 41 1; 2 photographic illustrations on recto and verso of 1 plate; fine in original printed gray wrappers. With the ownership stamp of "C. A. Muses" inside the upper wrapper. Charles Arthur Muses 1919-2000 was a mathematician cyberneticist and esoteric philosopher who wrote articles and books under various pseudonyms. He founded the Lion Path a shamanistic movement. He held unusual and controversial views relating to mathematics physics philosophy and many other fields. See Wikipedia. "From the work of the 3rd Danish expedition to Central Asia." Yakushi P-175 noting only the 43-page issue. printed by G[ergan] Tharchin at the Tibet "Mirror" Press unknown books
1776ref. 008154London: Printed for J. Bew / Printed for the Author and Sold by B. Crosby 1776. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. "Memoirs of an Unfortunate Queen" published 1776 "Authentic Memoirs.Catherine II" published 1797. Each book RARE in its own right "Unfortunate Queen"last seen in Maggs Catalogue 1955 "Catherine II" last seen at auction in 1920 Rare Book Hub. 3 260 pp. vi 6 291 7 pp. Frontispiece engraved portrait of Caroline Matilda. Catherine II with half-title and title page. Very Good in early 19th c. quarter calf over marbled boards the back gilt with two stag decorations edges mottled boards rubbed interiors of both books exceptionally clean and bright. A unique and quite attractive book. Printed for J. Bew / Printed for the Author and Sold by B. Crosby Hardcover books
ref. 4094Making arrangements for a visit. Accompanied by a typed transcription and a lithograph on tissue mounted on thin stock. unknown books
ref. 5211KING FREDERICK IX 1899-1972. Frederick was King of Denmark from 1947 to 1972.PS. 8 x 10. May 1964. N.p. Denmark. A black-and-white portrait photograph signed Frederick R in green ink as King of Denmark. T he photograph was given to American diplomat William McCormick Blair Jr. who was U.S. Ambassador to Denmark from 1961 to 1964. Frederick signed the bottom margin of the image and dated it. It is in very fine condition. unknown books
1941ref. 41969Washington D.C.: U.S. Treasury Department 1941. First edition. Self wrappers. Torn a good copy. 2 pp. Sm. 4to. . 6% External Gold Bonds due January 1 1942 will not be paid in dollars if held by Denmark or persons within Denmark. . Public Circular No. 9 under Executive Order No. 8389 April 10 1940 as amended . U.S. Treasury Department unknown books
1977ref. 195472London: Folio Society 1977. Slipcased. Very Good. Cream colored boards red slipcase. 3 volumes : illustrations maps. Folio Society unknown books
1980ref. 156301980. VG. Yellow wraps. 16 pp. 7 bw plates. In Danish. Includes an 11-page interview with Johns by Christian Geelhaar and the 1-page "Tingenes Forvandling" by Jan Würtz Frandsen. paperback books
1974ref. 109391974. Softcover. VG- some markings on cover slightly bent edges. Grey wraps. 109 pp. 4 color 69 bw plates. Eleven-page introduction by Jan Garff biography annotated listing of 68 works. Text in Danish. paperback books
1948ref. 32762Copenhagen: Ejnar Minkagaard 1948. hardcover. very good. 723pp. Thick large 8vo blue buckram; ex-lib. Copenhagen: Ejnar Minkagaard 1948. Very good. Description of works published in many fields during a time when Denmark "was almost completely cut off from scientific intercourse with other countries." Ejnar Minkagaard unknown books
1975ref. 337233New York: Psychological Dimensions Inc 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Second printing. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a faded spine light edgewear. Psychological Dimensions, Inc hardcover books
ref. 3221New York 1993. Wooden guest book in the shape of a door wooden metal hinges 50 leaves sewn with pink cord with seventy-five holograph signatures nearly forty of which we have been able to identify. The Old Denmark was a casual restaurant at 135 East 57th Street and later 113 East 65th Street on New York’s Upper East Side. A 1964 review gave the restaurant one star and described it as “first and foremost a purveyor of Scandinavian delicacies for the retail trade but it also boasts one table where customers may dine on Danish salads. There is a seating capacity for eight guests at a time and the table is shared by other customers. The food served consists primarily of salads such as cucumber mushroom crab beet and herring but there is also liver paté and smoked salmon…” Identified amongst the signators are: Ingrid Bergman Louise Allbritton Virginia Field Mario Lanza Groucho Marx Marlene Dietrich Carl Brick Helen Traubel Miriam Hopkins Elsie D. Alexander Ruth Bryan Rohde Eleanor Roosevelt Robert St John Edward Arnold Princess Revé de Bourbon Lillian Gish Joel Grey Lillian Hellman Faye Dunaway Bill Murray Sergio Franchi Ron Howard Shirley Hazzard Gary Maddox Garrison Keillor and Camilla Roos. Some light soiling to pages scuffing to the wooden doors lacking the original "doorknob". Generally near very good. unknown books
1709ref. D18683Copenhagen: F. Rostgaard 1709. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio 19½ x 13 in.: 495 x 340 mm. Engraved frontispiece and eighteen engraved leaves nineteen leaves in all. Allegorical border on title-page signed by Andreas Reinhard after Claus von Moinichen and Michael August Rog fine equestrian portrait in a command-of-hand calligraphic style each page within an elaborate border consisting of floral sprays flowers peacocks parrots elephants and other animals or of Renaissance ornament incorporating fish seals narwhals bears stags horses and other Danish motifs. Contemporary Danish calf two gilt floral borders; slightly rubbed top and bottom of spine worn but an excellent copy. FIRST EDITION of the "King's Law" establishing absolute monarchy in Denmark. Edited by F. Rostgaard. Also included here is the proclamation of 4 September 1709 announcing the publication of the law. On 14 November 1665 Frederik III consolidated his power over a weakened Danish nobility by promulgating the Kongelov or "King's Law" which carried absolutism to its extreme. This magnificent edition was published by Frederick Ill more than forty years after the promulgation. The engravings are by Andreas Reinhardt 1676-1742 a German artist who worked in Copenhagen after the designs of the Danish artist Moinchen. The calligraphic text is by M.A. Roeg 1679-1737 a calligrapher of Norwegian origin who later became medal engraver to Louis XV. He is probably the artist responsible for the fine calligraphic portrait of Frederick III. The text of Lex Regia was edited by Schumacher Frederick's private secretary. The Lex Regia was printed in an edition of only five hundred copies. PROVENANCE: Robert S Pirie. F. Rostgaard hardcover books
1957ref. 179740Kobenhavn: Dansk Fysiurgisk Selskab 1957. Very Good. First edition. Very good. Spine is faded. Slightly rubbed on the edges of the spine and the corners. Dansk Fysiurgisk Selskab unknown books
1974ref. 88274Beverly Hills CA: Sage Publications 1974. Paperback. 143p. wraps minor shelf wear else very good condition. Sage contemporary social science issues 15. Sage Publications paperback books
ref. B53287-7London Curzon Press 1989. xiii 1 496pp. Numerous text figs. Lrg. 4to. Boards. London (Curzon Press), 1989. hardcover books
ref. B53287-5London Curzon Press 1989. xiii 1 496pp. Numerous text figs. Lrg. 4to. Boards. London (Curzon Press), 1989. hardcover books
19868vo., First Edition, with 3 maps in the text; cloth, a very good, clean copy. The standard general reference on SOE in Denmark and Norway. Very scarce
19428vo., First Edition, with 13 plates on 7 and a map; original printed wrappers, a good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter a little browned and frayed at edges. Early account by former London edition of 'BT' and 'Scannews Agency' of Copenhagen. Published in the series 'Europe under the Nazis'. Scarce.
