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ref. 36507In-8, broché, couverture papier bleu moderne, (1) f. de titre, xvi, 582 p., (1) f. d'errata, portrait de Louis XVI en frontispice. Paris, Bélin, 1792.
In-8, broché, couverture papier bleu moderne, (1) f. de titre, xvi, 582 p., (1) f. d'errata, portrait de Louis XVI en frontispice. Edition originale de cet historique méthodique des premières années de la révolution, l’une des premières tentatives d’histoire générale de la Révolution française. Tourneux (n°24) indique que cet ouvrage pourrait être attribué à Jacques Dulaure, sans valider cette attribution. L'auteur qui eut l'ambition de donner une suite à cet ouvrage ne publia que cette partie seule. (Catalogue de l'histoire de France, X, 306. Tourneux, I, n°24). Un assignat de 25 sols, authentifié par deux cachets estampés à froid, est inséré en fin de volume. Petite réparation en marge du feuillet d'errata, avec perte de quelques caractères. Bon exemplaire.
ref. 37662In-8, broché, 7 p. S.l. [Grenoble?], 1788.
In-8, broché, 7 p. Edition originale et unique. La découverture d'une médaille ancienne (vers 1580) dans un jardin près de Grenoble et l'ensemble des symboles qu'elle comportait, renvoyaient prophétiquement, en cette année d'Assemblée des Notables (1788), à la nécessité d'une étroite union entre Clergé, Noblesse et Tiers état. Sur la médaille, les trois ordres (Clergé - Noblesse - Plèbe / Concorde) sont représentés autour d'une colonne qui, s'ils venaient à se séparer serait renversée. Sur la colonne repose un Dauphin couronné, sous la devise "Hominum Amator": l'Ami des Hommes. Les deux faces de la médaille sont reproduites page 7. Parue sans nom d'auteur, la brochure est sans doute due à Letourneau qui avait consacré à cette médaille un article dans les "Affiches du Dauphiné" du 21 nov. 1788, p. 2. (Conlon, 'Siècle des Lumières', 88:3455 qui identifie l'auteur. 'Répertoire des sources de la numismatique française', 1889, II, n°4025. Maignien, 'Bibliographie du Dauphiné pendant la Rév. Française', n°281). Très rare. Manque à la BnF qui ne possède qu'un fac-similé. Bon exemplaire, non rogné.
1780ref. 0056171780 Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Vedeilhié, 1780. In-quarto (259 X 200 mm) basane fauve marbrée, dos à nerfs orné, pièce de titre maroquin rouge, tranches marbrées (Reliure de l'époque) ; VIII-251 pages, (1) page d'errata. Mouillure claire en marge latérale des pages 1 à 4, rousseurs éparses, petits manques de cuir en queue des mors et à la coiffe inférieure, légères épidermures au second plat. Ex-libris manuscrit "Verninac de Saint Maur" sur la page de titre.
1789ref. LCI-4741789 1789 Paris Audran , Le Bon Citoyen 1789 1 in 12 Reliure Demi-Basane dos lisse orné, pièce de titre Document original historique des Etats Généraux de 1789 du point de vue de la Bretagne
1789ref. PHO-1892Paris, Imprimerie de Monsieur, chez Desenne, 1789, in-8, XI-180pp., relié plein veau époque, dos à nerfs avec pièce de titre rouge, tranches rouges, manque au dos, coins usés, épidermures, légère mouillure sur quelques feuillets.
1790ref. 56911790 cartonné (hard-back) in-octavo, dos (spine) long brun avec une étiquette collée (label) - titre manuscrit (handwritten title), plats muets, coins écornés (corners dog-eared), tranches jaspées rouges (reds marbled edges), sans illustration (no illusttration) - ni tampons, sur le fascicule 450 : petit défaut d'imprimerie en marge (small marginal defect of printing) de queue de la page 3 et des annotations manuscrites sur la page 5 (olds annotations in ink), 8 pages par fascicule (by fascicle), 1790 à Paris de l'Imprimerie du rédacteur,
ref. 32532In-8, broché, (2) f., 124 p. Sens, chez l'imprimeur de l'Archevêque, 1788.
In-8, broché, (2) f., 124 p. Edition originale de ce recueil de pamphlets politiques publié à l'occasion de l'Assemblée des Notables: "Les Quand, les Si, les Mais, les Car" – "Jeu de quilles" – "Mémoire des marchandes du Palais, à M. le Garde des sceaux" – "Lettre à Monsieur le Baron de P**, officier aux Gardes-françoises, sur les devoirs du militaire français" – "Les réflexions et la résolution d'un bon roi" – "Apologie de la Cour plénière, par M. l'Abbé Vélin" – "Requête de l'exécuteur des hautes-oeuvres, aux juges-consuls en entérinement de son contract d'union avec ses créanciers" – "Lettre à Monseigneur de Lamoignon, Garde des sceaux" – "Observations d'un homme impartial" – "Lettre d'un membre d'un grand-bailliage de ** à son cousin" – "Lettre du Prince de Guimenée, au roi" – "Arrest du Conseil d'Etat du peuple françois". Bon exemplaire, à toutes marges, tel que paru.
1942ref. 053306Ankara: TBMM Hususi" Letterhead Dated 11. IV. 1942 Ankara 1942. Soft cover. Very Good. Original manuscript autograph letter signed ALS by Ali Çetinkaya sent to Turkish doctor Ethem Akif Battalgil who was the father of Fahire Battalgil Battalgazi who was the first Turkish zoologist. For Battalgil's brother's death Çetinkaya is conveying his condolences. The letter was written and signed by Ali Çetinkaya but he added his wife and daughter. Dated 11. IV. 1942 Ankara. Ali Çetinkaya also known as "Kel" Ali Bey was an Ottoman-born Turkish army officer and politician who served eight terms in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey including a period in 1939-40 as his country's first Minister of Transport. He was born in Kara Hisâr-i Sâhib present-day Afyonkarahisar in Hüdavendigâr Vilayet as the son of Ahmed Efendi. He studied in the Bursa Military High School Bursa Askerî Idadisi . After graduating from military high school he entered the Ottoman Military Academy Mekteb-i Füsûn-u Harbiyye-i Sâhâne In 1898 he graduated the academy and joined the Ottoman military as a Second Lieutenant Mülâzim-i Sani . During World War I he served for the army in the Caucasus and Galicia fronts. When the Greek forces were landing at Smyrna on May 15 1919 he was a lieutenant colonel and the commander of 172nd Infantry Regiment stationed in the Aegean coastal town of Ayvalik. His regiment was under the command of the 56th Division of Hürrem Bey. Ali played a key role in the first stage of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 starting with the opening battle. He was briefly able to hold back the advance into the city of Greek occupation forces. His action is considered to mark the first shots fired by regular forces in the 1919-22 Greco-Turkish War although there were earlier confrontations in which irregular militias participated including the battle involving Hasan Tahsin in Izmir as well as actions in Urla and Ödemis. The hill in Ayvalik from where the first shots were fired is now called Ilk Kursun Tepesi First Bullet Hill. Today there is a military rehabilitation center on that hill. After the war Ali Çetinkaya was elected to the Turkish Grand National Assembly for eight successive terms and served until 1942 holding ministerial posts in six different governments including with the formation of a Ministry of Transport becoming Turkey's first Minister of Transport. Ali Çetinkaya is considered a hero in Turkey. Cunda Island of Ayvalik was renamed Alibey Adasi Ali Bey Island after him although the old name remains in common use. TBMM Hususi" Letterhead, Dated 11. IV. 1942, Ankara paperback
ref. 31012folio 3 pages plus stampless address leaf some weakness at folds and hole from seal opening with loss of a few words of text. 1828 Ohio Jacksonian Democratic Legislators fear "conspiracies and plots" by "Blue Light" ex-Federalist supporters of "King John the Second" John Quincy Adams. An important Ohio political letter from the tumultuous months before the presidential election when a new Democratic Party was still forming around the candidacy of Andrew Jackson and supporters of his opponent John Quincy Adams mostly remnants of the defunct Federalist Party simply called themselves "Anti-Jacksonians". The party lines were still so blurred that as this letter from two Jacksonian state legislators makes clear there was a great deal of mutual suspicion approaching paranoia about conspiracies and plots that grew out of confused loyalties. The text is particularly interesting because of the writers' use of two forgotten political slurs – "Blue Lights" referred to former Anglophile Federalists who had been accused for over a decade since the War of 1812 which they had adamantly opposed of having made friendly signals to British ships in order to warn the enemy of American blockade runners putting to sea from Connecticut. The other innuendo as the reference to John Quincy Adams as "King John the Second" reflecting the Jacksonian claim that he and his "Blue Light Federalists" sought to reunite America with England the new nation's former colonial master. Both Hamm the co-author and Cox the recipient were notable Jacksonians. Hamm was a doctor who had served as a Surgeon in the War of 1812 before being elected to the legislature; he became so powerful in the politics of his county as to win a diplomatic appointment through political patronage. After Jackson's election Hamm was appointed the third American envoy to Chile after its independence from Spain. Cox also an uncompromising Jacksonian Democrat was the son of a Revolutionary War General and pioneer publisher of the first newspaper in eastern Ohio which became the most influential Jacksonian paper in the state. His better-known son Samuel "Sunshine" Cox was a US Congressman during the Civil War and was later appointed US Ambassador to Ottoman Turkey by Democratic Grover Cleveland. The text: "Among many of our very best friends among whom we always class you we have neglected to write to you supposing that you would in the common course receive everything going on here worth knowing. You are aware of our great difficulties of getting along here among a pack of as thorough going and rude trained blue-lights as ever were permitted to run at large! However so it is we are yet alive and as much in the bargain! We had expected that among our friends who came on here that you would have been among the number. To those who came here they proved a great consolation; for believe us that you can form and we can describe no conceptions of the conspiracies and plots which are hourly carried on here to put down every body who will not sing hosannas to King John the 2d. As you know we have endeavoured with all our might to pursue a neutral attitude amidst these conflicting elements. How far we have succeeded time must tell. There are very many trials with which we are beset which it is impossible now to give you any thing like a correct understanding. We have written to but very few of our friends. This is no place for pleasure or amusement to representatives who are disposed to do their duty to those who sent them here. Among our difficulties you will know that we have with us one person that there is no harm in keeping a watchful eye over. A word is enough – but how it will yet end is very uncertain. We have made and are daily making sacrifices on your account and that of all our friends. Nothing that human impunity or industry can effect will be withheld on our part until the close but we are not at liberty to promise much on that particular subject for this and the reasons heretofore advanced. For while we keep a sharp look out we in our turns are well watched and perhaps more constantly watched than any two members in both branches of the General Assembly. The friends of John 2 are a majority in both branches and they exercise this authority in accordance with the mandates of Grimble King and Company. As to our local interests – school Lands – Sale of Section 16 – Taylors dam etc. I hope will prove somewhat satisfactory to the public. Write to Mr. J.C.Stockton Representative but not on the subject because he will tell. But write to him that the Blue Lights in Zanesville are boasting that they have got him – and any thing else which you may think will flatter him. We also think that a number of you had better write to him soon and continue it until the very close of the session! You know what we wish it done for and you must not neglect it. Your brother Saml. J. Cox also ought to write to him. Our success here upon that one point greatly depends on what we advise. Pay the postage on all your letters to here!!! Tell your brother Saml. To write immediately also to Mr.Stilwell on the same subject – by this means we may possiblymake such arrangements to insure success. In other words unless something is done this creature will come out for ________ By our division we shall be defeated. You have no idea of the duplicity of this man! Our enemies at home are writing to him and inflaming him against us and all our friends at home. We know that Mr. Stilwell can with what is necessary here – that is to unite with us in words missing.a candidate whom we many rely upon when words missing The mischief he does is through the Blue Lights; and at the same time by palming himself upon the credulous of our side. All we want is union among the Muskingum delegation here and then we may stand a better chance of success in the election of an Associate Judge…" books
ref. 13601Antigua West Indies. 20 April 1807. 2pp. 4to. Bifolium. In good condition on aged paper with 2 cm closed tear. Addressed to 'Mrs Crofton Vandeleur' and dated 'Antigua April 20th 1807.' Headed 'Duplicate' and in a neat secretarial hand but with the genuine signatures of 'Edward Byam President of the Council' and 'Jno. Taylor Speaker of the Assembly'. The document begins: 'In Compliance with the Resolutions of the Council and Assembly of this Island We have the Honour to transmit to You the inclosed Extract from the Journals of the two Houses on the 26th of last Month expressive of the Respect and Gratitude which they entertain of the Zeal and Attention of the late Brigadier General Vandeleur to the Defence of this Colony in Times of imminent Danger .'. Antigua [West Indies]. 20 April 1807. unknown
ref. 109742 September 1849; Paris. 12mo 3 pp. Thirty-six lines. Text clear and complete. Good on lightly-aged paper. Addressed by Bonaparte with stamp red wax seal and postmarks on reverse of second leaf to 'Monsieur le Lieutenant-Colonel Lherbette Adt. au comm. de l'artillerie dans la 1re. division militaire Vincennes'. Were he not leaving for the country he would have presented in person 'Mr. Colt citoyen des Etats-Unis inventeur d'un ingénieux système d'armes à feu à plusieurs coups'. He and his 'cousin Murat Joachim-Napoléon Murat 1767-1815' will be obliged if Colt can be admitted 'aux expériences du sic tir des carabines à tige des chapeurs à pied quand elles auront lieu'. His colleague 'le capitaine Tamissier instructeur du tir à Vincennes' can brief him if necessary. It is his 'désir de faire admirer à un honorable et cordial étranger nos perfectionnemens en matière d'armes portatives'. According to one authority Howze Cooper and Kornhauser 2006 Colt was selling his pistols to the nations of Europe around this time gaining large orders by playing them off against one another at a time of high demand due to strained international relations. 2 September 1849; Paris. unknown
ref. 48382Supplement to the Queensland Government Gazette of Saturday 18th August 1877 - No. 38. At head of title: New Zealand South Australia and Tasmania agree to a Bill copied from the Queensland Act. Brisbane : Government Printer 1877. Two folio sheets disbound from a larger volume printed on three sides paginated 15-17; a good clean copy of this important Act. 'In early 1877 there were no immigration restrictions in any of the Australian colonies. Queensland's Chinese Immigrants Regulation Act of 1877 was the first of many laws that restricted Chinese immigration in a movement that ultimately led to the White Australia legislation of 1901-2. ' - Abstract of article by Phil Griffiths 'The strategic fears of the ruling class: the construction of Queensland's Chinese Immigrants Regulation Act of 1877' https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q1402/the-strategic-fears-of-the-ruling-class-the-construction-of-queensland-s-chinese-immigrants-regulation-act-of-1877 unknown
1805ref. 37077Lancaster PA: Printed By the Reporter. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1805. First Edition. Hardcover. 1805 by William Hamilton. Printed by the reporter Lancaster PA 1805 Edward Shippen 1729-1806; Jasper Yeates 1745-1817; Thomas Smith 1745-1809 defendants. Sabin 30039; Shaw & Shoemaker 9353. Edward Shippen IV 1729-1806 was lawyer judge government official and prominent figure in colonial and post-revolutionary Philadelphia. In 1791 he was appointed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court serving with Jasper Yeates and Edward Burd both kinsmen and former students. Shippen became chief justice in 1799 but in 1804 was impeached on flimsey political grounds. The next year the Pennsylvania Senate acquitted him and his associates. 8vo 491 86 pp. The text is followed by a 96-page appendix which cites numerous legal points in previous cases as they relate to this one. Pages 288-292 omitted in numbering; text continuous. Bound in full period calf leather . OCLC Number: 926749391. Apr 5" x 8.5. . Printed By the Reporter hardcover
1902ref. 175041902. State Assembly of New York. January 7 1902. 10" x 7" inches. Two-sided. At the time that this description is being written no copies are recorded in American institutions. OCLC search results are at best an estimate and can vary over time. This bulletin reads "Introduced by Mr. Burke - read once and referred to the committee on labor and industries. When wages are to be paid. -- Every corporation or joint stock association or person carrying on the business thereof by lease or otherwise shall pay weekly to each employee the wages earned by him to a day not more than six days prior to the date of such payment." This law took effect immediately and was intended to ensure prompt and regular payment of workers in the State of New York. In very good condition. unknown
1902ref. 175041902. State Assembly of New York. January 7 1902. 10" x 7" inches. Two-sided. At the time that this description is being written no copies are recorded in American institutions. OCLC search results are at best an estimate and can vary over time. This bulletin reads "Introduced by Mr. Burke - read once and referred to the committee on labor and industries. When wages are to be paid. -- Every corporation or joint stock association or person carrying on the business thereof by lease or otherwise shall pay weekly to each employee the wages earned by him to a day not more than six days prior to the date of such payment." This law took effect immediately and was intended to ensure prompt and regular payment of workers in the State of New York. In very good condition. unknown books
1889ref. BL-001205New York: The Case Lockwood & Brainard Company 1889. 1071 pp. First Edition quarter calf with burgundy cloth boards gilt letters on spine with raised bands minor rubbing to spine top and botton some wear on bottom edges where heavy volume was pulled off shelf interior slightly tanned but no marks numbered black ink stamp "150" on bottom edge of pages. Overall very good condition. A very rare volume still colorful and beautiful.The New England state of Connecticut played a relatively small but important role in the American Civil War providing arms equipment money supplies and manpower for the Union Army as well as the Union Navy. Several Connecticut politicians played significant roles in the Federal government and helped shape its policies during the war and the subsequent Reconstruction. This book is a must-have for a Civil War researcher in regards to the service personnel of Connecticut The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company hardcover
1805ref. 727211805. Compilation of Pennsylvania Acts Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Passed at a Session Which Was Begun and Held at the Borough of Lancaster On Tuesday the Fourth Day of December In the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Four And of the Independence of the United States of America the Twenty-Ninth. Marked Vol. VII at foot of p. 3 issued as part of the Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 1804-1806. Published by Authority. Octoraro PA: Published by Francis Bailey 1805. 291 x pp. Octavo 8" x 5". Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards gilt fillets and lettering piece to spine edges rouged endpapers renewed. Light rubbing to boards moderate rubbing to extremities a few scratches to calf with light wear to foot of spine recent bookseller's note in ink to front pastedown. Light to moderate toning to interior heavier to some signatures occasional light foxing light soiling in a few places illegible ink annotation to foot of title page small tear to top-edge of leaf 2A4 pp. 201-202. $250. Only edition. Topics covered include real property gambling and an act to raise "a sum not exceeding eight thousand dollars for the use and benefit of the minister wardens and vestry of the African Episcopal church of St. Thomas in the city of Philadelphia." St. Thomas still stands in Philadelphia today. Shaw & Shoemaker American Bibliography 9115. unknown
1805ref. 727211805. Compilation of Pennsylvania Acts Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Passed at a Session Which Was Begun and Held at the Borough of Lancaster On Tuesday the Fourth Day of December In the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Four And of the Independence of the United States of America the Twenty-Ninth. Marked Vol. VII at foot of p. 3 issued as part of the Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 1804-1806. Published by Authority. Octoraro PA: Published by Francis Bailey 1805. 291 x pp. Octavo 8" x 5". Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards gilt fillets and lettering piece to spine edges rouged endpapers renewed. Light rubbing to boards moderate rubbing to extremities a few scratches to calf with light wear to foot of spine recent bookseller's note in ink to front pastedown. Light to moderate toning to interior heavier to some signatures occasional light foxing light soiling in a few places illegible ink annotation to foot of title page small tear to top-edge of leaf 2A4 pp. 201-202. $250. Only edition. Topics covered include real property gambling and an act to raise "a sum not exceeding eight thousand dollars for the use and benefit of the minister wardens and vestry of the African Episcopal church of St. Thomas in the city of Philadelphia." St. Thomas still stands in Philadelphia today. Shaw & Shoemaker American Bibliography 9115. unknown books
1933ref. 34962Montevideo: Imprenta Nacional 1933. Paperback. Good. 6 vols. vp wrps large 4to wrps may be chipped or detached with interiors fine. Griffin 6280. Entry listed as a sample for this lengthy series of deliberations of both houses. Imprenta Nacional paperback
1869ref. 9958William Blackwood and Sons 1869. First edition. Hardcover. Good. GC.William Blackwood and Sons1869.First edition.Small format brown hardbackgilt lettering to the spine small tearsdentsmarks and creases on the cover and spine in GC.Clean pages with small ink marks on the outer edgessome foxing marks and ink marks inside the pages some creases on the edges of the pages previous owner's name and date 1870 written inside the edges of the front endpaper. The book is in GC for its age with some shelf wear. 220pp including index of first lines.A collectable book. William Blackwood and Sons hardcover
ref. 052927Paris Chez F. Buisson, Imprimeur-Libraire 1791 in 8 (20,5x13) 4 volumes reliures demi basane foncée, dos muets épidermés, usures et coiffes absentes, IV et 412 pages, 527 pages, 479 pages, 454 pages, rousseurs éparses. Mirabeau, Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti, comte de, 1749-1791. Jacques-Antoine-Marie de Cazalès, député de la noblesse de Rivière-Verdun aux États Généraux (1758-1805). Première édition collective posthume. Bon exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
1790ref. 7344Bourg, C.C.G. Philipon, 1790. SUIVI DE : Mémoire sur les principaux objets de l’Administration dans le département de l’Ain, lu à l’Assemblée administrative, par M. Riboud, Procureur général Syndic, le 7 juin 1790, et imprimé par ordre de l’Assemblée. Bourg, C.C.G. Philipon. Deux fascicules reliés en un volume in-4 ; bradel demi-papier vert, faux nerfs dorés, pièce de titre grenat, plats de papier marbré (reliure très légèrement postérieure) ; 42 pp. ; (1) f. blanc, 38 pp., (1) f. blanc.