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1996réf. ZB393777University of Chicago 1996-2001. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday Oct. 26 weekend SALE item volumes 5-10 1996-2001 an uninterrupted run of complete volumes partly bound library markings textually clean & tight price is for the lot. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. University of Chicago unknown
1888réf. 253042Farmington Ct. 1888. 3pp. Folded 4to sheet. Old fold lines. Near fine. 3pp. Folded 4to sheet. Letter written by Sarah Porter founder of Miss Porter's School for Girls to a friend and possibly former student regretfully declining an invitation to her wedding. Miss Porter studied privately with Yale Professors. and her brother Noah later became President of Yale. She was an opponent of women's suffrage. She notes in this letter that affairs at the school will keep her far too busy to make the journey. Sarah Porter 1813-1900 founded her school in Farmington in 1843 setting it up as an institution at which girls could receive a well-rounded academic education. She writes in part: "My dear Mary I thank you heartily that you have desired me as one of your wedding guests and I should be very happy in being with you at this so happy moment of your life. I could not easily under any circumstances easily leave school for so long a time as a journey to Newton would require - but now Mr. Brandt's wretched health renders him unable to teach and his classes fall daily into my care so that my place is daily here. Your own and your brother's wedding at once will not only doubly crown the day but give promise to multiplied successive anniversaries. unknown
1888réf. 253042Farmington Ct. 1888. 3pp. Folded 4to sheet. Old fold lines. Near fine. 3pp. Folded 4to sheet. Letter written by Sarah Porter founder of Miss Porter's School for Girls to a friend and possibly former student regretfully declining an invitation to her wedding. Miss Porter studied privately with Yale Professors. and her brother Noah later became President of Yale. She was an opponent of women's suffrage. She notes in this letter that affairs at the school will keep her far too busy to make the journey. Sarah Porter 1813-1900 founded her school in Farmington in 1843 setting it up as an institution at which girls could receive a well-rounded academic education. She writes in part: "My dear Mary I thank you heartily that you have desired me as one of your wedding guests and I should be very happy in being with you at this so happy moment of your life. I could not easily under any circumstances easily leave school for so long a time as a journey to Newton would require - but now Mr. Brandt's wretched health renders him unable to teach and his classes fall daily into my care so that my place is daily here. Your own and your brother's wedding at once will not only doubly crown the day but give promise to multiplied successive anniversaries. unknown books
1835réf. 334873Boston: Russell Odiorne and Company 1835. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 52pp. Removed from a nonce volume a little trimmed slightly affecting the inscription some offsetting on the title page else very good. Inscribed: "Josiah Quincy Jr. Esq. with the respects of the author." Name of Charles F. Adams written on the title page in a non-authorial hand possibly Quincy's. Quincy a member of the Whig Party was the second of three Josiah Quincys to serve as Mayor of Boston; Charles Francis Adams Sr. the son of John Quincy Adams was a lawyer and a Whig and then later a member of the Free Soil Party and finally a Republican who studied law with Daniel Webster served in the House of Representatives but resigned to become Lincoln's Ambassador to Great Britain from 1861 to 1868 where he along with his son Henry Adams who acted as his secretary was instrumental in maintaining British neutrality and preventing British diplomatic recognition of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Russell, Odiorne, and Company unknown
1835réf. 334873Boston: Russell Odiorne and Company 1835. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 52pp. Removed from a nonce volume a little trimmed slightly affecting the inscription some offsetting on the title page else very good. Inscribed: "Josiah Quincy Jr. Esq. with the respects of the author." Name of Charles F. Adams written on the title page in a non-authorial hand possibly Quincy's. Quincy a member of the Whig Party was the second of three Josiah Quincys to serve as Mayor of Boston; Charles Francis Adams Sr. the son of John Quincy Adams was a lawyer and a Whig and then later a member of the Free Soil Party and finally a Republican who studied law with Daniel Webster served in the House of Representatives but resigned to become Lincoln's Ambassador to Great Britain from 1861 to 1868 where he along with his son Henry Adams who acted as his secretary was instrumental in maintaining British neutrality and preventing British diplomatic recognition of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Russell, Odiorne, and Company unknown books
1952réf. 33220Washington D.C.: Press of Byron S. Adams 1952. Original printed wrappers with wrapper title as issued and original staples. ii 13 1 pp. Near Fine. The Supreme Court heard argument in December 1952 but held the cases over for reargument in the following term. This is the Amicus Curiae brief submitted by the American Veterans Committee for the first argument. Supporting the District of Columbia children seeking to integrate the Washington public schools the Committee contends that the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to be free from racial discrimination that equality of education is impossible under a regime of racially segregated schools that equality can be achieved only by abolition of compulsory segregation by race and that "The people of Washington are ready for and will accept integration of their public schools." The brief is signed in type by the Committee's National Counsel Phineas Indritz who was a distinguished civil rights and constitutional lawyer. Press of Byron S. Adams unknown
1952réf. 33220Washington D.C.: Press of Byron S. Adams 1952. Original printed wrappers with wrapper title as issued and original staples. ii 13 1 pp. Near Fine. The Supreme Court heard argument in December 1952 but held the cases over for reargument in the following term. This is the Amicus Curiae brief submitted by the American Veterans Committee for the first argument. Supporting the District of Columbia children seeking to integrate the Washington public schools the Committee contends that the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to be free from racial discrimination that equality of education is impossible under a regime of racially segregated schools that equality can be achieved only by abolition of compulsory segregation by race and that "The people of Washington are ready for and will accept integration of their public schools." The brief is signed in type by the Committee's National Counsel Phineas Indritz who was a distinguished civil rights and constitutional lawyer. Press of Byron S. Adams unknown books
1973réf. A797346Routledge. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 9.3 X 6.5 X 1.8 inches; 552 pp; Previous owners name a very nice book in dust jacket with scuffing and edge wear at the spine ends a nice tight clean attractive book . Routledge hardcover
réf. 105Very good. Pen and black ink with gray wash on cream laid paper 9 1/4 x 5 inches 238 x132 mm. 1/4 inch repaired loss top center to the left of the figure's head. Scattered light skinning at sheet edges paper tape repair at top right corner verso. Three small spots of foxing at top-right corner recto. Scattered light surface soiling recto and verso. All condition issues are consistent with age. unknown
1850réf. 15251850. Good. Black chalk with white heightening on brownish-gray fibrous handmade buff wove paper 10 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches 262 x 172 mm the full sheet. In good condition with lots of light and shadow. With some paper remnants from a former mount on the verso does not effect the recto. unknown
1700réf. 13721700. Fair. Red crayon on lightweight laid paper with a partial Pro Patria watermark with Hollandia and a rampant lion 5 5/8 x 7 1/2 inches 142 x 190 mm the full sheet. Scattered surface soiling staining and light handling wear. There is a cluster of ink dots in the lower margin of the period an edge tear at the lower left corner and a corner loss at the upper right corner. unknown
1850réf. 9851850. Good. Graphite with white heightening on light card stock 12 3/4 x 6 7/16 inches 322 x 162 mm the full sheet. Overall toning and some residue from a former mount at the left corners and right sheet edge on the verso. unknown
1670réf. 28451670. Very good. Red chalk on cream laid paper with a large heraldic many-scrolled watermark 7 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches 190 x 299 mm the full sheet. In good condition with minor areas of adhesive residue at the top corners on the verso as well as sketches in both red chalk and graphite on the verso. unknown
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1750réf. 8801750. Good. Ink wash in gray and black with heightening in brown pen and ink on cream laid paper laid down to an archival matrix 9 3/4 x 7 inches 247 x 178 mm. In good condition with some minor surface soiling and slight attenuation especially visible in the areas with brown ink. Adhesive residue on the verso at the top corners and bottom center margin does not effect the recto. The name "Argentini." appears in ink on the recto in the lower right margin. unknown
réf. 209Very good. Etching on light cream laid paper 8 x 5 1/2 inches 200 x 138 mm 1/8-inch margins. Minor repairs including expertly repaired lower right corner and minor light in-painting at lower center area beneath the lion's head. All consistent with age. unknown
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1972réf. 12227Arcata CA: Humboldt State University. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1972. First Edition; First Printing. Plastic comb binding. Some soil to the covers and a crease down the center of the front. The interior is very good to fine. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 354 pages . Humboldt State University unknown
1954réf. 31165Oberammergau Germany: Intelligence and Military Police School 1954. Very Good. Oberammergau Germany: Intelligence and Military Police School 1954. Quarto; stiff illustrated covers with hundreds of pages of reports bound in. Includes charts and graphs of Soviet governmental and military organization. Additional monographs laid in include Armed Forces Talk's four-part Communism Series and three issues of the U.S. Constabulary School's Department of Geopolitics series covering German History up to the rise of the Nazi Party the United Nations and International Relations. Staining to rear cover; pages toned but largely unmarked; a Very Good copy. Binder prepared by the United States Army for training Cold War-era officers and staff on USSR history ideology and military capabilities. The trove of documents here covers nearly everything an early Cold War American military or intelligence officer would need to know at the time: a history of Marxist ideology and its development in the 19th-century; details on the physical geography of the USSR; an ethnography of Central Asia detailing the Turkomen Kazakhs and Tatars; as well as extended analyses on who the power players in the Communist Party were and what the capabilities of their rifle and artillery division might be. Logistics psychological warfare and the role of Communism in the Middle East are also covered with detailed but succinct chapters on each. An impressive array of information highlighting the early Cold War Western perspective. No copies in retail and three holdings found in OCLC at the US Army War College Georgetown University and the University of Iowa. Intelligence and Military Police School unknown
1954réf. 31165Oberammergau Germany: Intelligence and Military Police School 1954. Very Good. Oberammergau Germany: Intelligence and Military Police School 1954. Quarto; stiff illustrated covers with hundreds of pages of reports bound in. Includes charts and graphs of Soviet governmental and military organization. Additional monographs laid in include Armed Forces Talk's four-part Communism Series and three issues of the U.S. Constabulary School's Department of Geopolitics series covering German History up to the rise of the Nazi Party the United Nations and International Relations. Staining to rear cover; pages toned but largely unmarked; a Very Good copy. Binder prepared by the United States Army for training Cold War-era officers and staff on USSR history ideology and military capabilities. The trove of documents here covers nearly everything an early Cold War American military or intelligence officer would need to know at the time: a history of Marxist ideology and its development in the 19th-century; details on the physical geography of the USSR; an ethnography of Central Asia detailing the Turkomen Kazakhs and Tatars; as well as extended analyses on who the power players in the Communist Party were and what the capabilities of their rifle and artillery division might be. Logistics psychological warfare and the role of Communism in the Middle East are also covered with detailed but succinct chapters on each. An impressive array of information highlighting the early Cold War Western perspective. No copies in retail and three holdings found in OCLC at the US Army War College Georgetown University and the University of Iowa. Intelligence and Military Police School unknown books
1750réf. 3281750. Good. Brownish black ink on dark cream handmade laid paper 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches 208 x 260 mm. Uniform age tone with several scattered unobtrusive spots of brown discoloration consistent with age. Right top corner loss evenly trimmed paper tape remnants at top left corner recto. With an unknown collector's stamp in blue ink "PRB" lower left corner recto. On the verso of this lovely drawing is a neoclassical graphite and brown ink study of a procession. The composition shows a woman being carried in a birthing sedan chair. The woman is seated backwards with putti and horn players leading her up an embankment across a river. In her wake we see a crowned man in mourning being comforted by his handservants. Perhaps an allegory to death during childbirth. unknown
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1860réf. 280201860 Life of Isaac Newton Science Mathematics Principia Philosophy Tract Society "I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people." ― Isaac Newton Few names throughout history are as synonymous with science as Isaac Newton. Known for his studies in physics math and astronomy Newton was one of the most influential scientists during the scientific revolution. His contributions to optics and physics are still foundational in the scientific process. This small 19th-century sketch of the life of Newton was collected and published by the American Sunday School Union. Item number: #28020 Price: $499 American Sunday School Union The Life of Sir Isaac Newton London: The Religious Tract Society ca. 1860. Details: <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Collation: Complete with all pages <!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->4 iv 5-192 <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Provenance: Handwritten – John More Nisbett <!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->John More Nisbett 1826-1904 of Cairnhill. He was married to Lady Agnes Dalrymple daughter of North Hamilton Dalrymple 9th Earl of Stair. <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Language: English <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Binding: Hardcover; secure <!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Brown cloth <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Size: ~5.75in X 3.75in 14.5cm x 9.5cm Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation! Photos available upon request. The Religious Tract Society hardcover
réf. 035692Philip Lee Warner/Medici Society 1918-1921. very nice set; complete . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Philip Lee Warner/Medici Society, 1918-1921 hardcover