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ref. 2735234 seals mounted on two 8.5" x 11" pieces of thick paper using archival wax tape a few loose. Seals include: Sam. S. Carpenter Cincinnati Comm. for Deeds Affidavits and Depositions; W.H. Davenport 3 Hiram D. Peck 4 and John G. Douglass Comm. for Kentucky Cincinnati Ohio; J.N. Larrimore Comm. of Deeds Bloomington McLean Co. IL also one as Notary; Philip A. Hoyne Notary Public City of Chicago; Notary Seal of Hamilton Co. Ohio 4 ; Gold Probate Court Seals 2 Hamilton Co. Ohio; Red Probate Court Seal Hamilton Co. Ohio; John H. Holton Notary Adams Co IL; E.M. Braxton Richmond VA; Taliaferro Preston Shaffner Comm. 3; Kendrick Svr. VA M.D. Ohio; Lynchburg Corporation Seal; Warren County Com. Court IL; and others. Samuel Sangston Carpenter of Ohio an attorney was appointed United States Commissioner of the US Circuit Court in 1849. In 1850 he was involved in an important case involving the Fugitive Slave Law. An escaped slave Lewis had sought freedom in Ohio; Carpenter heard the case and eventually ruled in the slave's favor but not before the slave escaped from the law and fled to Canada. Taliaferro Preston Shaffner 1818-1881 was admitted to the bar but instead became an inventor. He was an associate of Samuel FB Morse and worked with Morse on the introduction of the telegraph building the line from Louisville to New Orleans and St. Louis to Jefferson City. He held office in various telegraph companies and invented several methods of blasting with nitroglycerine and high explosives. unknown books
2016ref. 45422Athens: University of Georgia Press 2016. Hardcover. Very good. xxxvii 388pp. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. University of Georgia Press hardcover books
1978ref. 179793Los Angeles: Peace and Freedom Party 1978. Large 3-inch diameter lime-green pin with photo of Seals text around declaring "For rent control restore public services real tax reform socialism no on propositions 6 and 7." Very good. Marilyn Seals was the first openly lesbian candidate to run for Governor. Her run coincided with the effort to turn down the Briggs Initiative. Peace and Freedom Party unknown books
ref. 44154various various. Ca. 1918 - 1936. Most items loose disbound. PARTIAL COLLECTION with at least one element a 1919 diary known to be elsewhere. Two letters quite toned and brittle; evidence of photo album removal to verso of postcards and occasional other items including 6 RPPCs affixed to full leaf; slight mustiness. Some photographs poorly developed and/or lightly soiled. Overall text is clean legible and images are sharp. About Very Good. Total of 83 manuscript and 2 typescript letters plus 1 V-mail comprising 250 pp; of these 54 are from Arthur to various friends etc. 155 pp and 29 are from Arthur's parents and 3 are from others 97 pp. "Notes" folder: 64 ruled leaves 1 blank manuscript text to recto only. Scrapbook album: 46 tan construction paper leaves several blank and/or noticeably missing items. Numerous loose ephemera. Over 250 b/w photographs ranging in size from ~2-1/4" x 1-1/4" to 8" x 10" including many official Navy photos. Also 8 b/w RPPCs 2 half-tones and various negatives color printed certificates postcards etc. Most text on 10-1/2" x 8" leaves. A collection of material detailing career sailor and struggling writer Arthur Gordon’s attempts to find work in the Merchant Marine during the height of the Great Depression as well as his considerable efforts to set aside time for writing and honing his craft. Gordon served as a lieutenant in the Navy during WWI as Chief Writer on the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Oceanographer during the early 1930s and again as an officer in the U.S. Navy during WWII eventually attaining the rank of commander; his stories of sea life were published in various popular magazines primarily during the 1940s. Gordon is an introspective writer with a good if sometimes uneven sense of how to turn his experiences and thoughts into an often humorous and lightly self-mocking story particularly in "Notes upon leaving the Coast Survey and looking for employment as a Merchant Mate Jan 5 - June 14 1935" a 63 pp autobiography of these experiences written in the third person. "Notes" offers a highly detailed account of Gordon's experiences as an unemployed seaman during the Depression and life aboard an oil tanker when his attempt to gain a position as a 3rd Mate didn't work out: "Las Piedras is an oil tank town with a single narrow dock extending from the shore providing bollards for tying up the ships and supports for the pipe lines. The town is small and I think exists only because of the oil tanks for the location has no charm otherwise. The white oil men live as colonials in an impoverished outpost. They take what stores they need from the steward's supplies aboard ship. Loading is done by gravity since the storage tanks ashore are on the cliff." The letters roughly divided between copies of correspondence sent from Arthur to his friends and letters sent to Arthur from his parents show Gordon to be an enthusiastic and encouraging friend to multiple young men and a few women as well as a dutiful son whose unemployed parents relied heavily on his earnings. Of some note as well are a handful of thoughtful if conflicted references to homosexuality with at least one of Gordon's male friends appearing to have a crush on him and hints that Gordon may have been in gay relationships himself and/or struggled with his sexuality: "…. I quite fully agree with you concerning the chemical make-up of man and the push and pull of attraction or dislike. I have had occasion to study what it is that draws me to which I react most noticeably and I am continually dismayed that usually it is the ‘wrong’ thing. . I’m skeptical of any kind of relation that presupposes permanency. Knowing myself I feel that ‘vows’ would soon be broken. I cannot stand constant association. Routine maddens me. The merest suggestion of ‘chain’ of compulsory anything and I’m off. I don’t think hetero marriages are particularly successful and I don’t think homo are either for almost the same reasons. I don’t mind the companionate idea with women. With men I fight shy. I am getting to the age where in others I condemn homo as degeneracy. I mean that among young people it seems almost natural as a manifestation of excess love as an overflow which can be handled without social consequences. At 45 it’s greasy and quite awful. Consider the advanced homos you know . . . Am I right I am not dictating here; nor dogmatizing. I hope to start a discussion. Homos are interesting to me because I find that along with it is usually an unidentified awareness and an understanding of life unequalled in the stolid conventionites. I do not think they are God’s elected but I don’t think that about any one….” All-in-all in interesting multilayered primary source account of one man's experiences at sea during the Depression and his deep engagement with his correspondents with heavy overtones of a writer's bildungsroman traveling seeking new experiences etc. unknown books
1977ref. 23852Norfolk Island Australia: Island Heritage 1977. 1st edition. Orange cloth binding. Dust jacket. NF light edgewear/pos at ffep/VG. 64 pp. Illustrated. Square 4to. Island Heritage hardcover books
1977ref. 54924San Francisco : W.H. Freeman / Scientific American, 1977. V, 307 S. (28 cm) Großformat, Paperback / kartonierte Ausgabe
1993ref. 1254343Concord Publications Comp.; Hong Kong, 1993. 62 Seiten; sehr zahl. farb. Illustr.; 28 cm; kart.
1983ref. 3126643Malibu: Undena 1983. 63, XII Seiten. Mit einigen Illustrationen auf Tafeln. 4° (25-35 cm). Illustrierte Orig.-Broschur mit leinenverstärktem Rücken. [Softcover / Paperback].
1993ref. 154921Fribourg, Switzerland: Univ. Press - Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1993. XXII, 336 Seiten. Gr. 8° (22,5-25 cm). Orig.-Pappband. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
1986ref. EC10-018Uppsala, x, 1986. original soft cover, large 8vo, 21 pages, staples slightly rusty, good copy
1867ref. 12080Berlin, A. Sacco Nachfolger, 1867. 1. Auflage 4° (30-35 cm). XII, 709 S. OLeinwand mit vergoldetem Rückentitel
1922ref. 95695Braunschweig, Friedr. Vieweg, 1922. VIII, 144 S. (= Die Wissenschaft. Einzeldarst. aus d. Naturwissenschaft und d. Technik, Bd. 66). 22 cm. OHLn., Farbkopfschnitt,
1992ref. 53342West Publishing Co., St. Paul 1992. 571 S. mit zahlreichen Abbildungen, 4°, Original-Pappband (Hardcover), Bibliotheksexemplar (ordnungsgemäß entwidmet), Stempel auf der Rückseite vom Titel, leichte Rückstände vom Rückenschild, insgesamt sehr gutes und innen sauberes Exemplar, (library copy in good condition),
1952ref. 002969Chapman & Hall Ltd., London 1952. First Edition. Fest Gebunden Noch Ordentlich
1904ref. 62694Paris: Hachette. 1904. VIII, 397 S., 1 Bl. Lex.-8°. Mit phot. Abbildungen auf 12 Tafeln (inkls. Frontispiz). EA. - Edition originale. Halblederband der Zeit auf 5 imit. Bünden - Vorderteil der OBroschur eingebunden.
1911ref. 1112014Neudamm, Neumann, 1911. Gr.-8vo. 14, 375, (1) S., 2 Bl. OLwd.
1894ref. 1112035Berlin, Parey, 1894. 4to. 2 Bl., 132 S., 21 S. Hlwdbd d. Zeit (St. auf Titel).
1903ref. 1310492Hannover, Jänecke, 1903. Gr.-8vo. 6, 150 S. m. 81 Abb. u. 15 Übersichten, 3 gefaltete Tafeln. OLwd (Kapitale gering berieben, gering stockfleckig).
1909ref. 1112381London, Murray, 1909. Vortitel, 20, 327, (1) S. m. 23 Textabb., 17 Taf. u. 1 Tabelle (The Progressive Science Series). Blindgepr. roter OLwd.
1974ref. 1025322Zürich, 1974. 101 S. (SA aus: Vierteljahresber. d. Naturforschenden Ges. Zürich 119, 1). RBr.
1852ref. 1113118Mailand, Bernardoni, 1852. 4to. Titel, 48 S., 3 gestochene Taf. (dav. 2 Karten). (Giornale dell'I. R. Istituto Lombardo di scienze, lettere ed arti, Tomo IV della Nuova Seria). Lwdbd d. Zeit (handschriftl. Sign. auf Einbd, St. a. T.).
1910ref. 1192880Leipzig, 1910. 128 S., 1 Bl. Br. (einige Bl. m. min. Knickspur).
1882ref. 1226684Leipzig, Morgenstern, 1882. Gr.-8vo. 4 Bl., 223, (1) S. m. 4 Tabellen, 4 mehrf. gefalt. Taf. m. einigen Karten u. Abb. Lwd. d. Zeit m. Rückenvergoldung (Fuß m. Nummernstempel, Kanten etwas bestoßen, Papier brüchig u. randgebräunt, Vorsätze u. einige Bl. m. kl., teils unterlegten Randein- u. -abrissen).
1926ref. 1112449London, Arnold, 1926. 8, 215, (1) S. m. 43 Textfig. OLwd.
1910ref. 1192713Leipzig, 1910. 2 Bl., 155, (1) S. Br. (randgebräunt).
