Alpert, Richard, Sidney Cohen, and Lawrence Schiller (Foreword and Photography)
Quarto (11 in. x 8 in.). Shelfwear, a small nick to spine of this apparently much-consulted pioneering and deep look into the nature, power, and effects of the LSD experience. More than 16 questions addressed and five photographic essays -- numerous black and white photographs. Verso of both card covers has a lexicon of related terms. A few superficial cracks along spine 128 pp. A still very informative book -- more than a half-century after its actual publication. Certainly over these decades scientists have learned more about the effects of this drug, even going so far as to sanction its medical and psychiatric use within controlled settings. In the midst of a raging national controversy two authorities speak out on the dangers, merits, legal regulations and control of the revolutionary psychedelic drug. Richard Alpert, who was also known as Ram Dass, was an American contemporary spiritual teache, known for his spiritual guidance to so many, great personal generosity, and professional associations with Timothy Leary in the early 1960's. "My lawyers have advised me to say that my comments are in no way to be construed as advocating the violation of any state or federal laws." (Richard Alpert).
Chance, Lulu Maude
Small octavo, 7.5 in. x 5.5 in., pp. 112. Illustrated with color frontispiece, six additional color plates, and many in-text drawings. Ochre cloth boards with light blue title and blue and brown design of a camel and it's rider stamped to front. Blue title to spine. Very light rubbing to edges. Spine title worn, but legible. Cute bookplate from previous owner to front pastedown. Light age-toning to pages. Six tales highlighting what life is like for gorls and boys in India, Alaska, Holland, Africa, Arabia, the Philippines, and Japan. Nicely illustrated.
Heylyn, Peter
Quarto, 11.7 in. x 7.7 in, pp. (iv), 547. Full contemporary calf, red title label, 5 raised bands with gilt decorated spine. Rubbing to extremities. Cracking at gutters, but threads holding. COrners showing. Title page in red and black. Marginalia. Tape repairs to front and rear hinges. Small sticker to front pastedown. Crisp, supple paper. An important primary account of Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 under Charles I, arrested in 1640, executed in 1645. Those who live by the executioner's axe, die by the executioner's axe, archbishop or not. Or at least those who live autocratically. Laud is commemorated om Janm. 10 in the Anglican Communion. The historian Patrick Collinson in 1980 condemned Laud as the greatest calamity ever visited upon the English Church. Heylyn became chaplain to Charles I. In 1639. He wrote this work to defend Laud.
Polk, James
THIS IS THE (PRESIDENT'S) OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN CALIFORNIA. Octavo, 9 in. x 5.75 in., pp.1275. Acid-washed full sheep with thin decorative gilt frame to front and back. Gilt title with bandlines on burgundy and black panels to spine. Five raised bands to spine.Illustrated with eight fold-out maps and plans, seven folding tables,and seventeen folding illustrations, fold-out charts and diagrams. Includes the GORGEOUS large hand-colored map of the U.S. (17 in. x 38 in.), reflecting the various portions added following the Mexican War. For previous owner's close study, the eight folding lithographed maps were carefully removed and safely stored in archival sleeves. [Large color map will be sent under separate cover in a mailing-tube.] The tables and illustrations remain bound. Large color map in Very Good Plus Condition with one crease. Smaller maps and the 23 bound fold-outs are in Good Plus condition with some spotting / browning, several creases, and occasional closed tears and chips. Howes P446. Light rubbing to extremities. Light foxing to endpapers and spots of foxing throughout. Includes the President's official announcement of the California Gold Discovery. In James Polk's words: "It was known that mines of the precious metals existed to a considerable extent in California at the time of its acquisition. Recent discoveries render it probable that these mines are more extensive and valuable than was anticipated. The accounts of the abundance of gold in that territory are of such an extraordinary character as would scarcely command belief were they not corroborated by the authentic reports of officers in the public service who have visited the mineral district and derived the facts which they detail from personal observation." Howes P446. ALSO: Numerous descriptions of the "Removal" of a number of Indian tribes from their traditional territories, and justifications, etc.
Hayley, William
Two matching volumes: Quarto, 10.5 in.x 8.2 in., pp. 413, 422. Gorgeous full tree calf. Gilt title on red & black title panels to spine. Surface chipping on spines. Clean pages. Volume I: pp. 413. Illustrated with frontis. Front cover nearly detached. 1.5 inch chip at head of spine; tail of spine missing headband. Front free endpaper detached but present. Previous owner's signature, dated 1830, and previous owner's inscription with a four-line handwritten quote of Camus to front pastedown. Volume II: pp. 422. Missing headcap to spine. Previous owner's signature, dated 1830, previous owner's ink stamp, and bookseller's sticker to front pastedown. Hayley, a close collaborator, was the principle biographer of the poet Cowper, who suffered intermittant attacks of madness and meloncholia. Valuable for the preserved correspondence. William Cowper (pronounced Cooper) was the foremost poet of the generation betweenAlexander PopeandWilliam Wordsworth. For several decades, he had probably the largest readership of any English poet. From 1782, when his first major volume appeared, to 1837, the year in which Robert Southey completed the monumentalLife and Works of Cowper, more than 100 editions of his poems were published in Britain and almost 50 in America. (Poetry Foundation).
Octavo, 7.7 in. x 5 in., pp. 185. Illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispiece. Burgindy cloth beveled boards with triple frame stamped in blind to front and back. Gilt title to spine. Light rubbing to edges and sunning to spine. Previous owners' bookplate to front pastedown, and signature, dated 1888, to front flyleaf. Front hinge cracked but holding. Stephen Girard came to America by way of Philadelphia in 1776 through circumstance rather than by purpose. He had been to New York on earlier voyages, but it was not until his arrival in Philadelphia that Girard made America his permanent home. He went on to be the wealthiest citizen and, in several ways, he contributed much to the early growth of the new nation he adopted. His influence was evident in shipping, construction, banking, and even in politics, later into coal mining and railroads. In a more benign display of control, Girard gained great civic regard with his attention to the human tragedies that took a toll in the early years of the Republic. His generosity was exhibited in many charitable works, the most notable of which thrives today. Many decades after his death in 1831, Girard College, a school opened in his name, continues to function as he decreed it, giving opportunity to those who would otherwise not have it. (from Mike DiMeo, Girard graduate and author of book about Girard's history).
Small quarto, 10 in. x 8 in. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 39 full-page full-page color political cartoon caricutures, nine of which are in full color. Tan cloth boards with dark brown title to front. LIght tanning to endpapers. Rubbing and minor soiling to dustjacket. Chips to top and bottom of dustjacket, with wear to dustjacxket spine. Price clipped. Protected in mylar. Bitingly satiric comic caricutures of Fascists, including Franco, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Goering and more. Published just before the U.S. declared war. "Thomas Craven calls Mr. Szyk one of the most original of political cartoonists, adding 'His designs are as compact as a bomb, extraordinarily lucid in statement, firm and incisive of line, and deadly in their characterizations.'" (from the Introduction).
Octavo, 8.6 in. x 5.23 in., pp. viii, 535. Handsomely rebound in red three-quarter calf over marbled paper. Gilt title on black panel and bandlines to spine. Hand-colored fold-out frontispiece map. Newer endpapers. Clean interior with supple pages. Marie-Louise Victoire de Donnissan, Marquise de la Rochejaquelein (1772-1857) was brought up at Versailles, a god-daughter to Louis XVI. At the outbreak of the French Revolution, she married her cousin, the Marquis de Lescure. After the execution of the king, she accompanied Lescure to La Vendée where a Royalist insurrection was waged from 1793 to 1796. Widowed in 1793, she later married Lescure's cousin, Louis, Marquis de La Rochejacquelein, brother of one of the Royalist leaders. Her memoir, first published in 1815 and translated and reprinted many times, remains one of the most authentic records of this period. Although understandably partisan, she reports atrocities carried out by both sides with great immediacy. (from Cambridge University).
Quarto. Green card covers. 422 pp. Includes map of the area covered by this book, map of the baronies of County Down (OSI Barony map, 1938); Map of Iveagh in AD 1603 from Richard Bartlett's map "A generalle description of Vlster";and Townland maps for Aghaderg, Annaclone, Donaghcloney, Dromore, Drumballyroney, Garvaghy, Magheralin, Magherally, Moira, Seapatrick, Tullylish. A wee bit shelfwear to rear card cover.
Quarto, 9.2 in. x 7.5 in., pp. [10], 173. Full contemporary calf with gilt titlte on red panel and bandlines to spine. Gilt to edges of boards. Rubbing to edges with corners lightly nudged. Cracking to outer joint of front, but boards holding. Rear board partially detached. Headcap of spine missing; chip to top of spine. Folding engraved frontis portrait of Herbert (1583-1648) reclining under a tree. Previous owner's name, dated 1801, to front pastedown. Bright, supple pages, including frontis. Originally published in 1764. Includes a dedication and 6-page Advertisement by Horace Walpole, politician, man of letters, bachelor to the end, who edited, assembled and published the first edition. The manuscript passed from one decendant to another, until lost. But a duplicate was found with an equally circuitious history. Its interest is the life of a 17th Century nobleman-soldier-courtier written in first person, with a good description of contemporary education and social life. He pictures himself as a gay Lothario (and, indeed, he was very handsome) and a skilled duellist (child-like vanity according to the DNB). But this view contrasts sharply with his position as a leading philsopher of his time, studied by Locke and Descartes, and as a poet. As diplomatic ambassador to France, in an effort to prevent a war, he challenged Louis' favorite to a duel.
Quarto. Green card covers. 301 pp. Includes map of the area covered by this book, map of the baronies of County Down (OSI Barony map, 1938); and Townland maps for Ardkeen, Ardquin, Ballyphilip, Ballytrustan, Ballywalter, Castleboy, Inishargy, St. Andrews alias Ballyhalbert, Slanes, Witter, Bangor, Donaghadee, Grey Abbey, Newtownards.
Octavo, 7.8 in. x 4.8 in., ppp. xl, 258, 34. Illustrated with a frontis of CHarles Boyle, Earl of Orrery. Contemporary full dark calf with gilt frame to front and back. Gilt title on red panel, and five raised bands, to spine. Rubbing to extremities, with cracking to front joint. Corners nudged. One inch chip to leather on spine. Title page in red and black. Clean copy internally. Eustace Budgell (1686 -1737=) was an English writer who,was a principal contributor to The Spectator. IIn 1710, his cousin, then secretary to the lord lieutenant of Ireland, offered Budgell a clerkship; and until 1718 Budgell filled many posts with considerable ability. Meanwhile, after perhaps helping with The Tatler, he wrote his Spectator papers and a few for The Guardian. In 1718, when the Duke of Bolton became lord lieutenant, Budgell quarreled with him and was dismissed. His difficulties were aggravated by the loss of £20,000 in the South Sea Bubble, an incident involving the South Sea (trading) Company and the wild speculation of a number of investors. Budgell wrote libels against Sir Robert Walpole in the antigovernmental Craftsman and founded his own weekly, the Bee (1733-35), which ran to 100 numbers, many filled with vainglorious self-justification. Disliked by many, Budgell was criticized by Alexander Pope in the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot and in The Dunciad. His last years were spent in litigation concerning a will that he may have forged, making him beneficiary. Finally, Budgell weighted his pockets with stones and drowned himself. (from Brittanica) Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery (1674 - 1731) was an English nobleman, statesman and patron of the sciences. Boyle became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1706. In 1713, under the patronage of Boyle, clockmaker George Graham created the first mechanical Solar System model that could demonstrate proportional motion of the planets around the Sun. The device was named the "orrery" in the Earl's honour.