VISTA DE NAKASENDO DESDE LA ESTACION DE UENO
Materia: Xilografía japonesa de la segunda parte del siglo XIX. Grabado japonés. Ferrocarril - Utagawa Shigekiyo Publicación: Tokyo, Era Meiji, 1883. Dimensiones: Tríptico. Cada plancha: 35 x 23,5 cm. Las tres planchas: 35 x 70,5 cm. Técnica: Xilografía japonesa (El dibujo se crea con planchas de madera). Conservación: Muy buen estado. Utagawa Shigekiyo (activo entre 1860 y 1890) fue un artista ukiyo-e de la escuela Utagawa. Referencias: On Railway color prints, núm. 230. LBS1
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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
Churchill Winston 4 volumes. First edition of each volume. With numerous maps throughout. 8vo, publisher's original crimson cloth lettered in gilt on the spines, in bright, original pictorial dustjackets. xxi, 395; xi, 325; xi, 312; xi, 304. Index in each volume. A very clean and very bright set, the books handsome and fine, the jackets bright and fresh, an excellent set. AN IMPORTANT SET OF FIRST EDITIONS. By the beginning of World War II, Churchill had already penned half a million words of this manuscript. Lying dormant through almost six years of war followed by an even longer period in which Churchill wrote his war memoirs, this work finally was brought to fruition in 1956. The first two volumes of this set were published in April and November 1956 respectively, the third in October 1957, and the last in March 1958. Whereas the first two volumes sold briskly, the final two were less successful and were not reprinted for years. Sir Winston Churchill ranks among the greatest men of history. He was born in 1874, a descendent of the great Duke of Marlborough. After an education at Harrow and Sandhurst he entered the army in 1895 and embarked on one of the most varied and distinguished careers of the century. He acted as a correspondent for the Morning Post during the Boer War and his dramatic escape from prison in Pretoria brought him to public attention. He embarked on his political career in 1900 by entering Parliament. While there he held many major offices of state: Home Secretary, Secretary of State for War, First Lord of the Admiralty in which he oversaw naval operations for the First World War, Colonial Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer and eventually in 1940, Prime Minister. The latter office he would hold throughout World War Two and again from 1951 to 1955. He was a prolific writer, always submerged in simultaneous multi-facted projects. He finished both A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES and his other great multi-volume work THE SECOND WORLD WAR during the same period as he was perfecting his style of painting and writing PAINTING AS A PASTIME. His death in 1965 sent the whole world into mourning and his funeral was on of the most moving public events of the century. Lyndon B. Johnson Signing Pen for Voting Rights Act of 1965
"One of the pens used by the President, August 6, 1965, in signing S. 1564, An Act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes," per original printed slip in original box. Clear barrel pen, "The President-The Whitehouse" printed in white, with "Esterbrook" on the nib, 6 3/8 in. long. With additional artifacts. This artifact came from Arnold "Pappy" Noel (1922-2009), a longtime news photographer who at that time was in the Public Affairs Office of the Secretary of Defense. Noel earned his nickname in World War II as a B-29 tail gunner. After the war and his retirement, he joined United Press International as a newsreel and still photographer, filming presidential and White House events, marches on Washington and Selma, fires and riots in Washington and Detroit, and early NASA events. At the 1968 Democratic Convention, he became part of the story when he was injured and arrested for refusing to hand over his film of "excessive abuse of law enforcement agents towards demonstrators." He was president of the White House Press Photographers Association for two years, leaving the press corps to work as a public affairs assistant to President Ford. Historical BackgroundThe Civil Rights Act of 1964 barred discrimination and segregation in education, public facilities, jobs, and housing. President Kennedy sent the Act to Congress in 1963, but the Judiciary Committee held it back. Gaining support after the September 1963 March on Washington, it still did not pass until July of 1964, after Kennedy's assassination. Even then, the job was still not done. On March 15, 1965, a week after Bloody Sunday, President Lyndon B. Johnson addressed the nation, declaring that "all Americans must have the privileges of citizenship regardless of race." He announced that he was sending a new bill to Congress with more power to prevent states and election officials from denying southern blacks the vote.The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed poll taxes, literacy tests, and other practices that had prevented southern blacks from voting. Where local authorities continued to disfranchise African Americans, it authorized the attorney general to send federal officials to register black voters and authorized the federal government to supervise elections. There was an immediate effect. By the middle of 1966, over half a million Southern blacks had registered to vote, and by 1968, almost four hundred black people had been elected to office. Über das Modell der Wasserstoffmolekülions. Inscribed to H. A. Kramers
Pauli, Wolfgang (1900-1958). Über das Modell des Wasserstoffmolekülions. Offprint from Annalen der Physik, 4th series, 68 (1922). 177-240pp. 227 x 145 mm. Without wrappers as issued, small splits in spine. Minor wear and toning but very good. Presented by Pauli to Dutch physicist H. A. Kramers (1894-1952), with Pauli's pencil inscription "Herrn Dr. Kramers" on the first leaf. First Edition, Rare Offprint Issue of Pauli's doctoral thesis. At the urging of his teacher, Arnold Sommerfeld, Pauli chose as his topic the quantum theory of ionized molecular hydrogen (H2+), which contains two protons and one electron. As Heisenberg (also a student of Sommerfeld's) later recalled, Pauli "wanted to examine if, in a complicated system for which one was just barely capable of doing the calculations, Bohr's theory and the Bohr-Sommerfeld quantum conditions led to the experimentally correct result. For, in our Munich discussions doubts had come to us whether the hitherto obtained successes of the theory were not limited to simple systems and whether a failure might not occur already in the more complicated system" (quoted in Enz, No Time to be Brief: A Scientific Biography of Wolfgang Pauli, p. 63). Pauli's efforts, although they obtained him his doctorate, did not yield a successful quantum theory of H2+; according to Born, who reviewed Pauli's work on H2+ in his Lectures on Quantum Mechanics, the resulting energy values "cannot be made to agree with the measurements of the ionization and excitation voltages" (quoted in Enz, p. 69). The problem of the hydrogen molecular ion was not solved until 1927, when Øyvind Burrau published the first successful quantum-mechanical treatment of H2+. Pauli presented this paper to H. A. Kramers, one of the key architects, together with Schrödinger, Pauli and Werner Heisenberg, of quantum mechanics. Among his many contributions to physics are the Kramers-Heisenberg formula; Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximation; Kramers-Kronig relations; Kramers-Wanner duality; Kramers model for polymer chains; Kramers-Anderson superexchange; Kramers' degeneracy theorem; Kramers-Moval expansion; and the Kramers opacity law. 45900. THE HAUNTED MAN and THE GHOST’S BARGAIN
A Fancy for Christmas-Time. New York: Harper & Brothers, n.d. [1849]. 2 pp undated ads. Original brown printed wrappers. First American Edition of Dickens's fifth and last Christmas book; there had been no late-1847 Christmas book, as Dickens had then been busy with DOMBEY AND SON. Though undated, this Harper edition in wrappers came out on January 6, 1849; this is earlier in January than was the case for their four previous Christmas books, and for good reason: in December Harper had paid Dickens five pounds for advance sheets -- the first amount an American publisher paid Dickens for a Christmas book. With the earlier four books, several American publishers leapt at the chance to be first; however, for this one, since Harper had a head-start, no other American publisher bothered to make the effort. In this copy, the (inside and outside) wrapper ads are the primary ones cited by Smith; the terminal ad leaf (pp [35-36]) has "Valuable Geographic Works" (Smith's state "c") on the recto, and "Harper's Family Library" (Smith's state "f") on the verso. Smith notes that "it is not possible to prioritize the states [of the ad leaf] accurately." This copy is in near-fine condition, with the front wrapper unusually clean and the delicate spine quite intact. There are a few marks on the rear wrapper, the usual foxing on the leaves within, plus some wear at the fore- and lower edge of the wrapper -- a common problem for this booklet, as the wrapper extends past the textual leaves. There is also a little marginal damage to some leaves, due to improper opening. We do not see this book in much better condition. Smith pp 104-107; Podeschi (Yale) A120; Carr (UTexas) B426(1). A Month in the Himalayas, From 12th May 1933 to 11th June 1933, Part I and Part II [cover title].
First and only edition. Square 8vo. pp. [i, part title], 22, [i, part title], 39; text block cracked after flyleaf, else good in the original cloth, which is generally discoloured. The author - identified by name in the text as "Nicol" - was a soldier with the Black Watch, the 1st Batallion of which was based at Ranikhet in Kumaon and elsewhere in India in the early 1930s. Nicol travelled from Ranikhet to Tekam on army business, and continued on to Milam. He describes the countryside through which he travels, including marches across glaciers, as well as sightings of Nanda Kot and Nanda Devi; he also writes of the various opportunities for sport that his travels afforded him, including a humorous passage in which he describes "the arrangements for a days stalk in the big Himalayas" (II, p. 7). The book is rare, with only the National Library of Scotland copy found on WorldCat. Selected Letters of T. E. Lawrence.
Maps, 384pp, index, some light foxing endpapers,cream linen covered boards lettered on the spine. (slightly sunned) 19.5 x 13.5cm A fascinating collection of letters that outline his career, his intellectual development, and the details of his life recorded in his own words. THE VAIVAISUKKO’S BRIDE
Octavo, pp. [1] 2-63 [64: ads], pictorial wrappers, stapled. The author's second collection of horror fiction, preceded by NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH (1948). Collects ten stories, mostly weird. Includes "Not Forty Months Ago" (a tale of Victorian black magic) and a weird chess story, among others. Several tales quite effective, others sadistic, crude material horror. Author's strong suit was ideas, not execution. Cover has a large coverline, "The Horror Club," though it's not clear what this refers to. Reginald 12841. Tuck (1978), p. 382. Hubin (1994), p. 727. Text paper age darkened, mild edge wear and moderated darkening to the rear panel, a very good to nearly fine copy. Uncommon. (31537) The Bee and the Wasp. A Fable in Verse. With Designs and Etchings by George Cruikshank
12mo, original printed yellow wrappers. Four plates. Advertisement on the rear wrapper. Without the eight pages of terminal advertisements as called for by Cohen. A fable about a humble bee who wanders too far from home, literally and figuratively, and is taken advantage of by a devious wasp, who encourages him to drink too much. Little is recorded about the author Richard Frankum, who apparently was a physician. In a second edition published by Pickering in 1861, he acknowledges the fine work of Cruikshank in illustrating his fable. Fine copy, enclosed in a cloth chemise, with the bookplate on the front paste-down of the exclusive New York club, The Brook. Sesame and Lilies.
Half morocco, 6 1/2 inches tall. A good looking Edwardian binding with gilt raised bands, neat gilt panels and gilt top edge. From the Library of the Late Christopher Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey. A pristine example of a finely printed work on hand-made paper by Humphreys. 'Sesame and Lilies', first published in 1865, stands as a classic nineteenth-century statement on the natures and duties of men and women. James Morgan Pryse (1859 1942) was an author, publisher & member of the esoteric religious movement the Theosophical Society. Irish author, poet, painter and mystic George William Russell's collection of transcendent essays on Celtic mysticism. Known by his pen name AE (which is short for Aeon), Russell was friends with many other figures of the Celtic renaissance of the early 20th century, including W.B. Yeats, and James Stephens.
Vauquelin relate son voyage effectué en Normandie avec son maître le chimiste Antoine-François Fourcroy
1 lettre autographe signée 1 p. 1/4 In-4 6 floréal an 9 [26 avril 1801] Adresse au dos. Bon Vauquelin relateles honneurs faitsà son maîtrelechimiste Antoine-François Fourcroy et à lui-même, lors d'un voyage en Normandie. "Madame Fourcroy vous aura sans doute dit comment son mari a été reçu par les lieux où il a passé, et dans celui de sa mission; il n'est guère possible de faire plus d'honneur à un délégué du gouvernement. Le préfet d'Evreux, homme aimable, d'une fort bonne tenue et paraissant fort instruit, avait envoyé au devant de nous, à deux lieues de distance, un détachement de gendarmerie, commandé par un capitaine, lequel a escorté la voiture jusqu'à l'hôtel de la préfecture où nous descendîmes et où nous dînâmes. Le Cn Debrotonnes enchanté de nous voir, nous fit mille amitiés ; il avait prévenu toutes les autorités civiles et militaires, ainsi que les établissements scientifiques, de l'arrivée du Cn Fourcroy, et tous les membres qui les composent vinrent lui rendre visite, et chacun dans la partie qu'il professe lui présenta des observations. Après dîner nous allâmes nous promener à Navare, lieu véritablement enchanteur par la position de son site, par l'abondance et la beauté des eaux qui y circulent de toutes parts [.]" Fourcroy avaitquasiment élevéVauquelin : il en fut le précepteur puis le maître et enfin le directeur de thèse. Son élève de toujours devint ensuite son collaborateur et son ami. Chimiste, découvreur du chrome. Livre de termes d’animaux et leurs antipaties. Fort utile pour toutes sortes de personnes se meslants dussein.
In-12 de 1 titre gravé et 51 planches suivies de 51 pp. de texte, vélin souple de l'époque. Nouvelle édition de l'ouvrage de Joseph Boillot « Nouveaux pourtraitz et figures de termes pour user et l'architecture » (Langres, 1592) réduit en petit format.Elle comporte 51 des 55 planches originales de Boillot, regravées sur cuivre et inversées. Les textes, intégralement gravés, reprennent assez fidèlement la version originale. « Publié en 1592 à Langres, cet ouvrage est composé de termes zoomorphes. L'auteur le destine aux architectes et leur propose de substituer à la figure humaine, jusqu'ici usitée pour de tels supports, une figure animale qu'il juge plus prompte à accomplir ce lourd travail de soutien de l'architecture. La proposition n'est pas aussi anodine qu'il y paraît puisque Boillot transgresse une tradition décorative établie depuis l'Antiquité quand piliers, pilastres et colonnes prirent formes de cariatides et d'atlantes » (Élodie Desserle).Joseph Boillot (1546-1605) issu d'une famille de maçons ; on possède peu de renseignements sur sa vie, mais à s'en rapporter aux deux ouvrages qu'il publia, on apprend qu'il exerça à Langres l'emploi de contrôleur pour le roi au magasin et grenier à sel et plus tard celui de garde du magasin des poudres et salpêtres.Provenance : Morell, Intendant-général des sels à Berne (ex-libris imprimé) ; Abraham Küntz (signature).Très bon exemplaire complet. Petit manque marginal de papier au bas d'une planche.Élodie Desserle, L'énigmatique bestiaire de Joseph Boillot ; Paulette Choné, L'ornement zoomorphe comme signe politique : le Recueil de Boillot (1592) et son temps. Hugo PRATT : Corto Maltèse en Egypte, SERIGRAPHIE Originale signée, 500ex, 50×40 cm
Art, Affiches et Gravure Hugo PRATT (1927-1995). - Corto Maltèse en Egypte, 2020. - Sérigraphie originale. - Signée dans la planche + timbre sec + tampon officiel "Hugo Pratt" au dos. - 2 passages couleur. - Sur papier d'art Innova, 50 x 40 cm. - Numérotée sur 500 exemplaires (numéro du certificat donné à titre d'exemple). - Certificat d'authenticité Informations : édité en 2020 par les éditions Christian Collin En excellent état Né à Rimini en Italie en 1927 et mort à Pully (Suisse) en 1995, Hugo Eugenio Pratt est un auteur de bande dessinée italien. Son uvre la plus connue est Corto Maltese (1967-1991), qui a largement dépassé le champ de la bande dessinée. [Drop-head title:] The petition of Henry Holt Henley Esq; complaining of an Undue Election and Return for the Borough of Lyme-Regis
Single sheet. Docket title to verso. Lightly browned and spotted. A rare survival of a petition submitted to parliament by politician Henry Holt Henley (d. 1748) contesting the election results for Lyme Regis in 1727. Between 1710 and 1727, the representation of Lyme Regis was shared by two local Whig families, the Henleys and the Burridges. John Burridge (d. 1753), was a London-based merchant and shipowner, trading to Guinea and the West Indies. In 1727 he returned himself at the general election as Member of Parliament for Lyme Regis. However, as at that time he held the position of town mayor, his return contravened the resolution of the House of Commons on 2nd June, 1685 forbidding parliamentary candidates to stand during a mayoral term. Henley's petition saw to it that Burridge was swiftly unseated. OCLC and COPAC together record copies at eight locations (BL, Cambridge, Cardiff, Huntington, Liverpool, Oxford, Simon Fraser, and Trinity College Dublin). Size: Dimensions 200 x 320 mm The Works of Joseph Conrad.
The Sun-Dial edition of the works of Joseph Conrad. Octavo, 24 volumes bound in three quarters morocco by Frost & Co., with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, frontispiece portrait of Conrad to vol. I. One of seven hundred and thirty-five numbered copies with the first volume signed by the author, this is number 478. In very good condition. Polish-British writer Joseph Conrad is widely considered one of the greatest novelists of the English language. Writing near the peak of the British Empire, Conrad drew, among other things, on his native Poland's national experiences and on his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated worldâ"including imperialism and colonialismâ"and that profoundly explore the human psyche. Conrad's best known novels and short stories include Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), and The Arrow of Gold (1919). 