My Dinner with Andre (Two original photographs taken on the set of the 1981 film)
Louis Malle (director); Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory (screenwriters, starring) Two vintage borderless reference photographs taken on the set of the 1981 film, one showing actor Wallace Shawn talking with director Louis Malle, the other showing Malle laughing with Shawn and Andre Gregory between takes. A comedy starring screenwriters Shawn and Gregory, playing fictionalized versions of themselves, sharing a long conversation about experimental theatre, humanism, and the nature of life at Café des Artistes in Manhattan. Set and shot on location in Manhattan. 9.5 x 7 inches. About Fine.- $450
- $450
McElroy’s Philadelphia City Directory for 1865. Occupants, businesses, many ads.
McElroy's Philadelphia City Directory for 1865. 28th edition of the Philadelphia City Directory, 8vo (9.25 x 6 inches), double columns. pp. 2-16 adv, (2) folding adv, (i), ii-xxxi, (1), 3-853, (1) adv, 17-35 adv. Original leather backed advertising printed boards (pp.1 and 36). Good solid condition with strong joints but back and boards are rubbed and worn, corners rounded. Sheets are clean, unmarked, complete. H10802 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping.- $300
- $300
The Locomotive Engine, and Philadelphia’s Share in Its Early Development. (bound with) An Essay on the Steam Boiler First printing revised editions 1872-73 original gilt pictorial cloth.
Joseph Harrison. First printing of revised editions with appendix, 8vo (9.25 x 5.75 inches), pp. xi, (1), 1-86, (1-5), 6-86, (2), many engraved plates including folding "Freight Engine.Baldwin Locomotive Works 1872". Original gilt pictorial burgundy cloth, beveled sides. Near fine clean bright copy. Sheets and plates clean, unmarked, complete. No owner names or inscriptions. H10804 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping.- $350
- $350
Montgomery County Pennsylvania a History. 3 volumes first edition 1923 original cloth.
Clifton S. Hunsicker. First edition, 4to (11 x 7.75 inches), pp. 415; 340; 717, numerous photo and portrait plates throughout. Near fine clean bright set. Sheets and plates clean, unmarked complete. Two internal dents into the first dozen sheets of vol 3, some once dogeared corners of some sheets in vol 3 without tears or loss. Some offset to opposite page of the plates. H10801 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping.- $350
- $350
Wild Houses
BARRETT, COLIN As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author to the title page. Highly acclaimed first novel by this important Irish writer. Number row to the copyright page with "1" being the lowest numeral. Praised by The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Guardian - to name only a few. Fine / Fine.- $125
- $125
Thank You, Mr. Conquest
GRAY, BERKELEY Original cranberry cloth, lettered in silver to the spine. 8vo - 252 pp, 3 ads. A solid copy with clean pages and text block. Some fading to the spine and spine ends pushed. Previous owner signature on the front free endpaper. A sharp copy in a fine facsimile jacket. This one is peculiar because there is no "facsimile" statement to the flap which, in my experience, is usually the case. Very Good / Fine.- $120
- $120
The Unsuspected
ARMSTRONG, CHARLOTTE Original dark blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt to the spine. 8vo - 217 pp. A clean, bright and solid copy. In a complete and not price-clipped dust jacket. The jacket shows only minor edge-wear and shallow closed tears. This story first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in 1945. Winner of the Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone award for 1946. Very cool half-tone illustrated endpapers. Made into a film in 1947 starring Claude Raines. Fine / Near Fine.- $750
- $750
![TO COL. WILLIAM GURNEY COMADANT [sic] OF THE POST OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA. THE PETITION OF B.D. ROPER WHO HAS TAKEN THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE](https://rarebookinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/31839096210-600x934.jpg)
TO COL. WILLIAM GURNEY COMADANT [sic] OF THE POST OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA. THE PETITION OF B.D. ROPER WHO HAS TAKEN THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE, A RESIDENT OF THE CITY OF CHARLESTON, & A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, RESPECTFULLY SHEWETH THAT YOUR PETITIONER IS OWNER OF A SO. CAROLINA BOND ISSUED BEFORE THE WAR AMOUNTING TO $325. THAT YOUR PETITIONER IS IN WANT OF FOOD & CLOTHING. THAT GEORGE W. WILLIAMS IS WILLING TO PURCHASE THE SAID BOND TO RELIEVE THE NECESSATIVES OF YOUR PETITIONER, IF HE IS PERMITTED TO DO SO, & YOUR PETITIONER PRAYS PERMISSION TO SELL THE SAID BOND TO G.W. WILLIAMS, & YOUR PETITIONER WILL EVER PRAY &C. B.D. ROPER
Roper, Benjamin D. Single sheet of pale blue, lined paper, 8" x 12-1/2." Very Good. Entirely in ink manuscript. Dated at the bottom of the recto, "Charleston SC May 4, 1865." The document was written a few weeks after Appomattox. Gurney, commanding the Post of Charleston, organized the 127 New York Regiment in 1862. Despite a distinguished war record, Gurney is primarily remembered for a conflict with Stephen Swalls, "the first African American soldier promoted to commissioned rank. . . During the siege of Charleston, "Swails' application to muster as a 2nd Lieutenant with the regiment was refused by the War Department. The reason given was 'Lieutenant Swails' African descent.' Colonel William Gurney, the post commander, ordered Swails to remove his officer's uniform and reassume duties as an enlisted man" [Wikipedia article on Swalls] The order was eventually reversed. After Roper signs his loyalty oath, the endorsement of John Phillips is written: "I certify that I have long known intimately [sic] Benjamin D. Roper Esq the Petitioner. Mr. Roper was always a Union man and opposed to Secession. He never in any manner whatsoever aided the Rebellion." Docketed on the verso: "The Petition of B.D. Roper praying perm to sell a bond." With the approval note of Gurney: "Head Quarters City of Charleston | Charleston SC | May 5 1865 | Respectfully returned | Approved | Wm Gurney | Col. 127 NY | Commdg Post."- $600
- $600
DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF CONFEDERATE NOTES AND BONDS, FOR SALE BY JOHN W. HASELTINE. NO. 1225 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. PRICE, FIFTY CENTS. 1876
Haseltine, John W. Original printed wrappers [chipped at extremities and along spine]. Stitched. 36pp. Printed on rectos only, with versos available for written notations. Occasional contemporary pencil notations. Except as noted, Very Good. Haseltine lists 136 treasury notes and 55 Confederate bonds. A Philadelphia coin dealer, Haseltine has "in stock only a few of the rare notes that have prices attached, but quite a large stock of the common ones." He plans on a later catalogue and advises how to purchase and inquire. OCLC records eleven locations under two accession numbers as of April 2024.- $375
- $375
Über das Modell der Wasserstoffmolekülions. Inscribed to H. A. Kramers
Pauli, Wolfgang 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.- $3,750
- $3,750
Faust by Goethe
Clarke, Harry (Illustrator) 254 pages. 27 x 21 cm. Translated from the German by John Anster. With twenty-one full-page plates, one a double-page, eight of which are in color. Spine lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers. Limited edition for the USA, copy 909 of 1000 signed by Harry Clarke. Only fault some rubbing to bottom front cover at the center. Vellum backed gray boards backsrip lettered in gilt. Teg. Near fine- $995
- $995
Ancient Spanish Ballads; Historical and Romantic
Lockhart, J.G. Unpaginated, approx. 200 pages in text. Four full-page chromolithograph illustrations with borders, colored titles, and ornamental vignettes [all are color lithographs] designed by Owen Jones. Numerous text illustrations from drawings by William Allan, David Roberts, William Simson, Henry Warren, C.E. Aubrey, and William Harvey. A new edition, revised: first published 1823. One of the earliest and most attractive of Victorian color plate gift books. A work of true scholarship with the author best known for his biography of his father-in-law Sir Walter Scott. Slight rubbing to corners. Orig. brown cloth front cover lavishly illustrated in gilt borders and arabesques. Teg. Near fine- $450
- $450
The Castles And Abbeys Of England, From the National Records, Early Chronicles, And Other Standard Authors
Beattie, William 351, 362 pages. 11.5 x 7 inches. First Series with more than 200 engravings and Second Series illustrated with 27 engravings on steel by W.H. Bartlett, and numerous woodcuts. All full page plates with tissue guards. Title page printed in red and black. Initially published in 1842 by Tilt and Bogue, with date on title pages, numerous later editions by Virtue. Interior contents clean and fresh. Appendix. Orig. brown cloth, front covers decorated in gilt seals, backstrips also in gilt motifs. Very good. 2 Vols- $395
- $395
California and Oregon Trail Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life.
PARKMAN, Francis Full Description: PARKMAN, Francis. The California and Oregon Trail: Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life. New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. First edition, first issue, terminal catalogue B, binding A. Binding A is noted on first printing sheets only according to BAL Parkmans's name on spine without serif. Octavo (7 3/8 x 5 inches; 186 x 127 mm). [2, ads], [3]-448, [8, ads] pp., With sepia-tinted lithographed frontispiece and title-page, both by F. O. C. Darley. Publisher's blue-green blind-stamped cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. Corners slightly bumped. Boards and spine with sunning. Mild foxing to fore-edge of text block. Some occasional finger soiling to leaves, but otherwise text is very clean. Old bookseller blindstamp to front free endpaper. Overall an about fine copy of the superlatively scarce first issue in unrestored cloth. Housed in a blue custom cloth clamshell, by the Lakeside Press with red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Parkman's reasons for traveling the Oregon Trail in 1846 were to restore his health, as well as to learn more about Indian life and gather information that would be useful in writing the history he planned of the conflict between the French and the British in North America. The result of his travels ended up to be a very different story, one part history and two parts travel narrative and adventure story. He, along with his traveling companion Quincy Adams Shaw started their journey in New York, then across Kansas and Nebraska, and then to Fort Laramie, where Parkman went to join a band of Sioux. He lived and traveled with them in the 'Black Hills' (i.e. the Laramie Mountains). "This is the portion of the narrative which is not only the most vivid but also of greatest historical value.Parkman has given us a unique picture of life in a Sioux village before it was changed and eventually destroyed by contact with the white man." (Printing and The Mind of Man, p. 199). Due to ill health when Parkman arrived home, he dictated his account of their journey to Shaw. The first publication was serialized, beginning in February 1847 in irregular monthly episodes in the Knickerbocker Magazine under the title 'The Oregon Trail, or A Summer's Journey Out of Bounds. The title was changed by the publisher in hopes that he could capitalize on the publics interest in the California gold rush. The first edition of one thousand copies appeared in March and sold out in a month. This is one of the great literary and historical narratives of the American experience and "the classic account of the emigrant journey to the Rockies" (Grolier). This controversial text has remained a classic of the American West despite criticism directed at it. In part enthusiastic and in part pessimistic, the work offers a microcosm of the changes then taking place at the far western reaches of U.S. expansion. Particularly debated since its publication has been Parkman's view of Native Americans. Although he apparently successfully lived with a tribe of Sioux, he pronounced Native Americans a doomed people. In any case, this is the opening chapter of a highly successful literary career. BAL 15446. Grolier, 100 American, 58. Howes P97. Printing and the Mind of Man 327. Sabin 58801. Wagner-Camp 170:1b. HBS 69095. $6,000.- $6,000
- $6,000
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America’s Lecacy [sic] Being the Address of G. Washington, on his Declining a Re-election to the Presidency, to the People of the United States
WASHINGTON, George Full Description: WASHINGTON, George. America's Lecacy [sic]: Being the Address of G. Washington, on his Declining a Re-election to the Presidency, to the People of the United States. Hudson: A. Stoddard, 1797. [Together with] Circular Letter from His Excellency George Washington, commander in chief of the armies of the United States of America, to the Governors of the several States. Hudson: A. Stoddard, 1797. [Which contains] Farewel Orders of General Washington, to the armies of the United States. Rocky Hill, Near Princeton, November 2, 1787 [and] The Answer To His Excellency George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America [West-Point, November 15, 1783]. The rare first edition of Stoddard's printing in book form of Washington's Farewell Address announcing that he would not seek a third term as president. Originally published in David C. Claypoole's Daily Advertiser on September 19, 1796. The speech is dated "17th Sept. 1796." Also the first printing of these two Washington addresses together. Four speeches in one twelvemo volume (5 x 3 1/8 inches; 127 x 80 mm). [1]-200, [2, blank] pp. Four works, but continuous pagination. With a half-title for America's Lecacy and separate title-pages for America's Lecacy and A Circular Letter. The Circular is Washington's famous official address resigning his command of the US army. The last separate copy of the "Circular Letter" at auction was in 1994. A copy of the 200 page edition was sold in 1937 and was called "very rare." Contemporary full sheep. Spine with original red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Top edge dyed brown. Spine with some chipping and flaking. Some repairs along outer hinges and spine. Internally very clean. Overall a very nice copy. Housed in a full red morocco clamshell. "In September 1796, worn out by burdens of the presidency and attacks of political foes, George Washington announced his decision not to seek a third term. With the assistance of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, Washington composed in a "Farewell Address" his political testament to the nation. Designed to inspire and guide future generations, the address also set forth Washington's defense of his administration's record and embodied a classic statement of Federalist doctrine. Washington did not publicly deliver his Farewell Address. It first appeared on September 19, 1796, in the Philadelphia Daily American Advertiser and then in papers around the country." (United States Senate Historical Office). "Following the speech's initial publication in the American Daily Advertiser on September 19, 1796, regional printers rushed copies into print. Ashbel Stoddard (1763-1840) was one of these. In 1797, he published two issues of Washington's farewell address. [it] was assembled in such haste that Stoddard did not have the opportunity to correct the egregious misspelling on the title page ("Lecacy" for "Legacy")." (Bonhams). Howes W128. Sabin 101591. HBS 69096. $10,000.- $10,000
- $10,000
Himalayan Journals Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc.
HOOKER, Joseph Dalton Full Description: HOOKER, Joseph Dalton. Himalayan Journals. Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc. Londom: John Murray, 1854. First edition. Two octavo volumes (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 222 x 140 mm). xxvii, [1], 408, [32 ie 30 publisher's ads]; xii, 487, [1, colophon] pp. With two colored folding maps, thirteen color plates, one of which is folding, and including two frontispieces. Numerous illustrations in the text, six of which are full page but included in the pagination. Half-titles and errata slips in each volume. With publisher's 32-page catalogue dated January 1854 at end of Volume 1, but catalog is lacking one leaf (pg 13-14) and the bottom third of page 21-22. With dedication to Charles Darwin. Publisher's original full brick cloth. Boards tooled in blind with a gilt central device on front boards. Stamped in blind on back boards. Spines stamped in blind and lettered in gilt Top edges dyed brown, others uncut. Brick red coated endpapers with printed publisher's ads. Volume one with back inner hinge cracked and some splitting to cloth on back outer hinge. Front inner hinge of volume II cracking. Spines a bit sunned, corners bumped. Some chipping and fraying to heads and tails of spines. A few plates with light dampstaining to margin, not affecting illustration. Still overall a very good copy. J.D. Hooker was an "eminent botanist, explorer and mountaineer who had earlier been with Ross in the Antarctic, and was a close confidant of Charles Darwin, to whom this work is dedicated. He was the first naturalist to travel into the Sikkim Himalaya, through mostly unknown territory which had not been reached by an Englishman since Turner's mission to Tibet in 1789. He made the first near complete circuit of Kangchenjunga in 1848-50, and the first to describe it. The maps were made from his own surveys and the illustrations and views are from his own drawings." (Hindman) Abbey Travel 502; DSB VI, 489; Neate H108 ("a classic of Himalayan travel and exploration"); Yakushi (1994) H399a. HBS 69091. $1,750.- $1,750
- $1,750
Chronographia
Chaves, Jerome de Sevilla, Fernando Diaz. 1581 (Palau 67456; John Carter Brown 581/12. Map see Burden, nr 15.In quarto, contemporary limp vellum8 nn leaves; 263 lvs; 1 nn leaf with colophon.2 full page woodcuts (Geocentric universe 112, recto and the medical Zodiac man 126 verso).19 half page woodcuts of Zodiac signs.2 terrestrial hemispheres, West and East, the West ( 92, recto) being an early map of the Americas (Burden 15).43 woodcuts representing various stages of the moon.Many numerical tables Slight overall browning, heavier at places. New end papers, else fine. Geronimo Chaves was named cosmographer of the Casa de la Contratacion in Sevilla en 1552. The Chaves, first edition 1548, was reprinted many times but is nevertheless a very rare book, probably because it was used intensively in astronomy and cosmography- $8,818
- $8,818
Ormus
Langenes, Barend Copperplate engraving.Amsterdam, Barend Langenes, 1598.pp 85 and 86 from the atlas, Caert Tresoor.Copperplate engraving, 9x12 cm. Clear print. Unrestored in its original state.Description of Ormus (see below) is in verso of the map in Dutch. First map ever printed of the Persian Gulf as a stand alone. Extremely rare as only 13 copes of the original atlas are known to survive. In Sultan al Qasimis book the Langenes map is shown in an c 1610 example by Petrus Bertius. Only in its first edition of 1598 the map is presented without the framework of longitude and latitude, as is our map.Text in verso of the map: description of Ormus.On the limits of the Persian (Gulf) there is a mighty Kingdom called Ormus. It comprises a part of Persia that is watered by the rivers Tabo; Tuissindo and Druro and some islands at the inlet (of the Persian Gulf) and also a part of the Happy Arabia bordering the same Gulf. The capital is the island Ormus at the entrance of the Gulf, 12 miles out of the coast where the city of that name lies. .That is a beautiful mercantile city, better than any other (city) bordering the sea in the beauty of the place and the number of shops and exceptionally beautiful pearls.However, there is great scarcity of wheat and sweet water because the island is not fertile and gives no wheat. Thus, everything is transported to them. Trade flourishes there exceptionally and (merchants) come from Arabia; India and Persia. They bring silk; pearls and precious stones.There is a small mountain on this island that on one side has Sulphur mines, on the other side Salt mines.The inhabitants are rather beautiful, half Arab, half Persian who eat mainly rice and are lovers of music and the other arts. Their King is a Sarazin (?) and gives every year 15000 Seraphinen (= stones) to the Portuguese. The Portuguese have a strong and well equipped castle there. Bibliography: Al Qasimi. Sultan Bin Muhammad. The Gulf in Historic Maps 1493-1931. Thinkprint, Leicester, UK 1996- $6,614
- $6,614
Compilatio de Astrorum Scientia
Leopoldus de Austria Augsburg, Ratdolt 1489 Hain-Copinger10042; Houseau 4702; Zinner 364; Stilwell 71 In small cuarto, 109 lvs as follows A;B;C;D;E;F;G;H;I;K;L;M;N in 8; O in six missing last blank A1: Letter title A2: Full page woodcut: Armillary sphere A2: verso: dedication by the printer Rathold A3: incipit Text in 6 chapters, richly illustrated with old colored woodcuts O5: Colophon, Compilatio Leopoldi Ducatis Filii .Januarii 1489 currente 35 half page woodcut of constellations; 54 half page illustrations of zodiac images. Two astronomical diagrams, printed in red and black (B1 recto and B8 verso) and colored initials throughout. Cut and rebound in old vellum. First and last leaf completed with contemporary paper, not affecting the text. Tiny marginal wormholes of first 8 leaves with old restoration, again not affecting the text. First printing of mediaeval astronomical, astrological and metrological text, richly illustrated and coloured. Here and there with contemporary, manuscript notes. The source of most of the text and images is Hyginus, librarian of Emperor Augustus. An other source is Ptolemys Almagest with 48 constellations.The printing of this book by Ratdolt is no surprise as he worked as a woodcutter for Regiomontanus, the man who established the first scientific printing press.- $35,273
- $35,273
The Decades
Eden, Richard Sabin 1561; JCB 1919: I.186; Church 102; Kraus: the first three English books on America, 1971.In small quarto, Contemporary calf binding with English blindstamp on both covers: a pelican plucking blood from her breast to feed her young. Spine renewed.24 nn lvs; 361 lvs plus one extra; 13 nn lvs (index and colophon).Condition: contemporary English full calf binding, restored. Leaf C2 of preliminaries and leaf 345 Afrikke and the 3 last leaves of the index in facsimile, printed on contemporary paper. Signs of use all through, some browning to the first 15 leaves. A few small wormholes filled usually without loss of text. Book block rebound. Provenance: The blind stamp on the covers show a familiar religious image: the pelican feeding her children with her own blood. An expert on early English bindings dr. David Pearson of the Rare Book School at Cambridge University (UK) tells us it is a late XVI century English binding. The image does not necessarily indicate the owner, printer or binder. The text around it needs further study but we read .keepeth the law .good to the common wealth. The first is a quote from the bible, the Proverbs (29-18) the latter a quote from the Magna Carta. A later (1685) manuscript note gives the name of the owner as Richard Dyer not further identified.This is the first Sammelband of the most important sources of the voyages of discovery by Spain to the Americas in the English language. Its main corpus is the translation of Peter Martyrs first three Decades, as published in Spain in 1516. It also embraces Vespuccis discussion of the South Pole stars; Magellans voyage around the world; Lopez de Gomara and Oviedo early histories on the Americas. It also includes the Popes bull of 1493, dividing the world to be discovered between Spain and Portugal and the discussions at Badajoz (1524) and Zaragoza (1529) that lead to the lease of the Moluccas to Portugal in 1529. Finally and on voyages to Moscovie.Martyrs first three decadas translated in English. The first decade is dedicated completely to Columbus first three voyages to the West and the so called minor voyages by Alonso Nino and the Pinzón brothers. The second decade follows Ojeda and Juan de la Cosa in northern Paria (=South America) and Vasco Nunez de Vaca and Enciso in Central America; Valdivia in the Darien and Pedro Arias in Central America. The third decade tells us about Vasco Nunez de Balboa in Central America and his discovery of the Pacific. His meetings with the caciques Thumaco and Chiapes, name givers of their respective regions. The fourth chapter of book three is dedicated to the fourth and last voyage of Columbus following the east coast of Central America upwards (Veragua). It reports on Sebastian Cabots exploits in the North for the British; on the first voyage south under Juan de Solis in 1512 and the discovery of Florida by Juan Ponce de Leon in 1513. There is a long description of Isla la Espanola and other Caribbean islands. The chapter ends with the second voyage by Solis south 30 degrees (la Plata river) in 1516.- $82,672
- $82,672
Libro prima della Historia de l’Indie Occidentali
Martyr, Peter Libro prima della Historia de lIndie Occidentali (Martir);Libro secondo delle Indie Occidentali (Oviedo);Libro ultimo del Summario delle Indie Occidentali (lettere delle Peru).Venice, 1534.Harrisse 190; Church 69.In small quarto, 20x15 cm; Rebound in XIX th red Morocco; raised bands; title labels in gilt.Martyr: 1 nn leaf, title; 2-79 lvs ; 1 original blank, folded map Oviedo: 1 nn leaf, title; 2 lvs, prologue; lvs 4-64, the text; 2 lvs, register & text: explanation of the 1534 Ramusio map.Anonymous:: 1 nn leaf, title page; 15 nn lvs: text, early letter describing conquest of Peru.The first book of this Sammelband , whos Sammler was probably Ramusio is a summary of Peter Martyrs Decades that appeared for the first time complete in its 8 decades in 1530.Between the first and the second book you will find the woodcut printed map of Hispanola, Isola Spagnuola, in facsimile. The map is missing in most copies. The original is one of the first printed maps of the Americas (Not in Burden).The second book is a faithful copy of the 1626 first edition of Oviedos Historia natural de las Indias Occidentales, Toledo 1526 That first edition is practically unobtainable. The simple drawings printed as woodcuts in te original edition have here been copied, enlarged and supplied with details of plants and persons. These are all very early images out of the New World.You will find the woodcuts at: Folio 21 v. Hamaca; Folio 48 v. Arbol gigante; Folio 49 r. Prender fuego; Folio 52 v. Hoja del platano. The last leaf of the Oviedo text is a curious colophon, giving the date of printing (December 1534 in Venice), claiming a 20 year copy right and explains the origin of the map of all the West Indies, that is supposed to be added to the book. However, of this famous map, tutto questo mondo nuovo (Burden 10), only two copies are known to survive, one in the New York Public Library and another, contemporary colored one in the John Carter Brown Library. The third and last book of this Sammelband of Americana is one of the earliest printed reports on the conquest of Peru by Francisco Pizarro. The author of this report came to Spain with or WAS Hernando Pizarro, Franciscos brother. His ship arrived in Sevilla in January 1534 with loads of presents in gold for the Emperor. It would appear that the oldest surviving printed version of this letter is the German New Zeitung aus Hispanien and Italien of February 1534; the second an imprint in Spanish by Bartolome Perez in Sevilla in April of that same year; a third added to the second edition of Bordones Isolario in June 1534, and ours be the fourth in October 1434. In between the same Bartolome Perez printed Pizarros secretarys Francisco de Xeres report under the title of the Verdadera relacion de a Conquista del Peru en Julio 1534.- $24,250
- $24,250
Zehenter Theil
De Bry Th. Zehenter Theil der Orientalischen Indien Frankfurt, Beckers. 1613.Church 242; Muller 1878; Howego I, p. 873/74.Two parts in one.In folio, modern quarter calf and boards.Engraved title to the spine.The 3 maps in printed facsimile on contemporary paper. Mild browning slightly different per gathering. Maps and prints in excellent condition.Part one, text: A;B;C;D; and E in four that is 20 leaves of which the first leaf is the engraved title page and the last leaf an authentic blank. Three folding maps interleaved.Part two: a in four including a letter title page with two woodcut vignettes, thereafter 3 leaves with one plate each.The maps and plates are:(1) Tabula nautica ad Hudsono, anno 161(2) Vera delineatio tractus ex Hollandia (3) Tabula Septentrionalis Russiae Isaac Massa descripta est (1) Wardhusm, bird eye view map of the islan(2) Kilduyn , two bird eye views on one page.(3) Der Samojeden Götter ., plate with printed text.The text is: Henry Hudson, der neuen Schiffahrt uber die Amerische Inseln in Chinam und Japponiam, the new route to sail to China and Japan north of the American islands. Pp 10 & 11. Hudsons fourth voyage North. In june 1611 he is put on a longboat by his crew in the Bay, named after him and is left there to die. Jan Huygen van Linschoten: short description of the islands to the North pp 12 & 13. Witness to his participation in the two (of three) voyages to find the NE passage by the Dutch in 1594 and 1595.Fernandez de Quiroz, Discurs an Ihn Konigliche Majestat in Spanien wegen des funfsten Theils der Welt, Terra Australis incognita Memorandum to the King of Spain on the firth part of the world, terra Australis. pp 14-21. One of Quirozs over 70- different memoranda, written between 1607 and 1614 (Howego) on his discoveries in the South Sea and referring to Terra Australis, the one translated here, was first published in Sevilla in 1610.Isaac Massa: Description of Siberia pp 21-37.This book is the German shortened version of Beschrijvinghe vander Samoyeden Landt .a collection of Dutch arctic voyages NE and NW as published by Hessel Gerrits in Amsterdam in 1612. Both the text and the maps are rare and of great importance.The maps are:The Tabula nautica, is considered the original map as made by Hudson on his last (1610-11) voyage NW that apparently fell into the hands of Hessel Gerrits, the East India Company map maker based in Amsterdam. His map of 1612 is bigger (c 25x54 cm) than ours of 1613 (15x33 cm) but further identical. The second map the Vera delineation ex Hollandiae ad fluvium Obys belongs to the short description by Jan Huygen van Linschoten.The same is true for the second map, the Tabula Septentrionalis Russiae, one of the first maps of the Russian north coast, made by Russian cartographers and copied by Isaac Massa, and published by Hessel Gerrits in the same booklet. Again the sizes are different, 17,5x46 cm versus 14x33 cm but the details identical.- $13,227
- $13,227
Libro de Relojes Solares
Roiz, Pedro Valencia, Perdo de Huiete. 1575 (Salva 3811; Palau 275689) Full calf of the XVIII century In quarto: 4 nn lvs; 120 pp; 2 nn lvs Woodcut on title page; woodcut illustrations throughout the text. One of the earliest books on Gnomonia in Spanish. Rare. Rare book hub: only two copies offered for sale since 1920. Not in Picatoste.- $6,614
- $6,614
Margarita Philosophica Nova & Appendix
Reisch, G. Smith, Rara arithmetica p 82 and Maggs, Science Catalogue, 1929, both the 1504 Strasbourg edition) In quarto. In contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards.Titel in manuscript on spine.Text rubricated in red all through.2 engraved title pages.7 full page engraved chapter title pages (trivium and quadrivium).1 folding, woodcut map of the world, watermark bulls head.1 folding table (music)Abundant woodcut text engravings.Most initials and all woodcuts in straight, contemporary colour.The hundreds of woodcuts that illustrate the text are all in contemporary color. We have found only one other copy of this book in original colour. Our book is an extremely rare example of an early overview of all sciences at the turn of the XVI century, the age of Discovery.The Margarita Philosophica is an overview of the liberal arts (science) at the break of the Renaissance, here about 1490. It was the first modern encyclopaedia to appear in print (Smith). The original text was finished in 1496. It stands in line with earlier encyclopaedias like the Ethymologia by Isodorus Hispalensis (VII century, includes an OT worldmap, first printed in 1472) Jacobus Magnus Sophologium (early XV century, first printed around 1470, and Bartolomeus Anglicus De proprietatibus rerum (1470).Gregor Reisch (1467-1525) was professor at Heidelberg University, where he also taught Waldseemüller. He is part of a circle of scientists/publishers, that include Walter Ludd; Ringmann, professor of cosmology in Basel, Johann Grüninger in Strassburg (printer) , Schott and Amerbach. Between them information flowed freely. Partly under the meacenate of Rene II, Duke of Lorraine, the Cosmographia Introductio was published (1507); wall map of the world naming America (1507); gores of a globe showing & naming America (1507) and later the Carta Marina (1516).Most fields of sciences are preceded by a full page, metaphorical woodcut, showing and representing the field of science to be discussed. In this 1512 edition after the 12 chapters comes a detailed index and an important Appendix on Greek and Hebraic languages, on the Astrolabe and geographical composition; perspective and other issues.The folding map is almost always wanting (Maggs, 1929). It is so rare Harrisse had never seen it. It is a Ptolemaic worldmap where the Southland encloses the Indian Ocean. Here are written the words: hic non terra sed mare est in quo mirae magnitudes insulae sed Ptlomeo fuerunt incognitae (this is not land but sea wherein a multitude of islands that were unkown to Ptolemy)The book is also important as an early text on music (Leclerc), on mathematics (Smith).Finally in medicine the book is considered a graphic incunable with most famously the oldest, printed depiction of the human eye (G 3) (Flamm, 2013) and the open skull showing centres of brain activity (H2) one of the earliest representations of this kind (Maggs, 1929)- $46,296
- $46,296
Verhael van de eerste Schipvaert. by t Noorden om
De Veer, Gerrit Joost HartgensAmsterdam, Adriaan Roest, 1650Tiele, Memoire nr 102 65 pp (last blank)Pp 1&2: Title page with woodcut plate6 original text engravings on copper plateSmall in quartoXIX century cut and rebound in half brown moroccoTitle in gilt on the spineHole in title page in old restoration, probably when rebound. Cut short just affecting a few of the headings.Pp 3-46: The story of the three voyages by the Dutch to find the north-east passage to Cathay (China) in 1594; 1505 and 1596 under Willem Barentszoon and Jacob van Heemskerk. This well-known text, published in 1598 is followed by a summary of Pp 46&47:the fourth voyage North for the Dutch, the third by Henry Hudson in 1609. This includes the exploration of North Americas East coast about 40 degrees North motivated by letters and maps sent to him by Captain Smith and his exploration of what later became the Hudson river. Pp 48-52: Isaac Massas description of Siberia, Samojeda en TingoessaPp 52-60: Isaac Massas description of the roads and rivers going east from MoscoviaPp 60-64: Johannes Pontanus: Plea to discover a NE or NW passage based on the history up till 1586Second Hartgens imprint (first 1648). All Hartgens editions of the early Dutch voyages to the East are rare.Bibliography:Muller, Samuel. Detectio Freti Hudsoni, Amsterdam, Muller 1878S.P l Honore Naber. Hessel Gerritsz Beschrijvinghe the Hague, Nijhoff 1924S.P l Honore Naber. Reizen van Willem Barents Noorden, the Hague, Nijhoff 1917. 2 VolsAsher, G.M. Henry Hudson de Navigator, London, Haykluyt Soc. , 1860Beke, Charles T, True description of the three voyages by the NE towards Cathay and China London, Hakluyt 1853- $5,291
- $5,291
Terrae Sanctae Scondiae doctissima descriptio
Ziegler, Jacob Argentorati (Strasbourg) , Rihelium (Rihel). 1536Terra Sancta: Laor mapas 866-700 A; Scondia (Scandia, Scandinavia) : Ginsberg, 2006, map 8; Ehrensvard, 2006, pp 49-51; Burden 1996, Map 9Small in folio (29x19 cm)Contemporary embossed pigskin over wooden boardsTwo original clasps. Raised bands, Title in contemporary manuscript on the spineContemporary paper library label : Terre Sancte descriotio quam palestinam nominant auctore Jacobo Zieglero C 83148 leaves; 14 non numbered leaves; 8 double page woodcut maps;2 nn leaves.Waterstain upper quarter of the book throughout, mostly light. Title page upper blank 2 cm added. Overall a fine atlas in its original, nearly 500 year old constitution and binding.Middle East; Terra Sancta; Arabia lvs 1-74First printed atlas of Terra Sancta, Palestine (1532). Fine maps of the Middle East (A II) ; Palestina (A IIII); Samarium; Judea; Palestina (BIIII); Aegypta ; Crossing of the Red Sea and (C II) mapsSchondia. Plinius: Scandia, Scandinavia lvs 85-103The oldest surviving map of Scandinavia seems to be the manuscript copy of 1427 of the map by the Danish mathematician Claudius Clavus. The earliest printed maps derive from the manuscript map of the region as designed Donnus Germanus around 1470. A new and better design was drawn and printed in 1532 by Jacob Ziegler. Ziegler, a German scientist, worked in Rome between 1521 and 1525, living in that famous St Brigitta hospital, a base for Nordic pilgrims (Ehrensvard) where he received new information from Scandinavian priests. He also worked there with Johannes Magnus and Peder Manson. His map embraces the Northern Atlantic, Greenland and New Foundland, and shows Scandinavia in a very appropriate way.Bibliography: Ginsburg, W: Printed maps of Scandinavia and the Arctic. Septentrionalium Press. 2006Laor, E. Maps of the Holy Land, New York, Liss 1986Sigurdson, Haraldur, Landmarks in Icelandic Cartography in Arctic, Vol 37, December 1985- $17,637
- $17,637
No title but: Mappa Mundi
Sanuto, Marino Mappa Mundi in Bogars, J.Gesta Dei per FrancosIn second part: Liber Secretorum Fidelium CrucisHannover, Wechsel, 1611Shirley 276; Norderskiold Fig 28Copperplate engraving, diameter 34x35 cm.Oriented to the topMappa mundi, possibly by Pietro Vesconte, circa 1320 and reproduced in print by Johannn Bongars in 1611. His book was a manual for true crusadersMedieval circular worldmap, the land mass surrounded by oceans, Jerusalem at the centre. Notable are the rhumb lines, crossing the earth from 16 points at the horizon.- $4,630
- $4,630
Relaciones universales del mundo
Botero Benes Primera y segunda parteValladolid, Diego Fernandez de Cordoba. 1603Palau 33704; Vindel, 1955 pp 56-59; JCB, Europ Americana: 603/17; JCB 1922: III pp 20 ; Sabin 6809; Medina: BHA 468; Mapas: Shirley 242; Burden, 129; En folio, 28,5 x 20 cm. Pleno cuero del XVIIILomo con título y adornos grabados en oroDos libros (partes con enumeración propia) en un solo tomoPrimer libro: 4 hojas; 24 folios; 207 folios; 5 mapas plegadosSegundo libro: 1 blanco; 110 foliosLibro reencuadernado en el XVIII en cuero. Lomo compartimentado con adorno en oro. Titulo impreso sobre el lomo. Danos menores e los dos partes extremos del lomo. Texto en impecable condición. Mapas impresos en papel grueso.Segunda edición de la traducción en castellano de la obra famosa de Giovanni Botero, 1544-1617. La edición en castellano es más buscado por su juego de mapas españoles, el mapamundi y los continentes de 1598. Palau menciona una primera edicion de 1600 que difiere únicamente en la fecha en la portada. Otros bibliografos no han visto esta edición. El colofón del libro dice 1599 y la portada 1603.El primer libro trata en cinco partes la geografía de los continentes y sus países. La sexta parte, a partir de la hoja 158, se dedica a las islas del mundo en la tradición de los "isolarios". El segundo libro compara las características los Reynos de Europa con los imperios del pasado como los Romanos y con los Imperios no Europeas como el Turco; el de Persia; El de los Mogoles; la China y el Japón.Los mapas son cinco, grabados nuevos hechos por Hernán de Solis y Ribadeneira en base a los mapas de Ortelius. El de las Americas esta fechada en la plancha, Valladolid 1598.El mapamundi (Shirley 242) copia el deseno geográfico del mapamundi de Ortelius de los años setenta con bastante precisión, cambiando toponimias en Castellano donde estuvieron en Latín, especialmente en España y en las Américas. El borden decorativo del mapa contiene un dibujo de los cuatro continentes.El mapa de las Américas (Burden 129) también cambia los topónimos en castellano. En el Pacifico al Oeste de Nueva Guinea el mapa muestra las Islas de Salomon, como parecen en el mapa Ortelius a partir de 1587. En Tierra Australis dice " esta Costa Austral fue descubierta por un piloto Castellano, región comúnmente llamada de Magellanes, que asta agora no está bien conocida. El borden decorativo tiene el título del mapa y los retratos de Colon y de Vespucio. Mapas españoles del siglo XVI son escasos y raros. Los unicos que preceden a este son el famoso mapa de Pedro Martir (1511) , los mapas de Pedro Medina en su arte de navigar; el pequeno de Chavez (1554) y el otro de Cieza de León (1554).Sobreviven pocos ejemplares del libro completos con sus 5 mapas. Según el Patrimonio Bibliografico Espanol por ejemplo sobreviven en España 39 ejemplares del libro. Sin embargo de los 7 que figuran en el inventario de la Biblioteca Nacional solo uno tiene los 5 mapas. Otros ejemplares por ejemplo de la biblioteca del Palacio; de la Real Academia y de la Complutense todos son faltos de sus mapas. Entre 2000 y 2020 no fueron ofrecidos ejemplares completos en el mercado mundial.Note in EnglishGiovanni Botero aspired to become a Jesuit which to his frustration never occurred. Still he spent his life as a full time intellectual in the circles of power, the first part as a counter-reformation person. Opposing himself to Machiavelli he maintains in his various books that political power can only be successful if it rests on Christian ethics and behavior. This attitude is shown in essays like On the causes of Greatness and Magnificence of Cities (1598) and The reasons of State (1597). The Relaciones universales del Mundo is no longer only descriptive and far less dependent on the classics. Botero drew on the existing travel literature, accounts of merchants and missionaries and especially the reports Venetian Ambassadors were required to submit upon returning form their embassies. His Cosmography is not Eurocentered (like for e- $38,580
- $38,580
Historia general y natural de las Indias, Islas y Tierra Firme del Mar Oceano
Oviedo y Valdes, Gonzalo Cotejado con el codice original por Jose Amador de los RiosMadrid, Imprenta Audiencia de la Historia 1851-1855Palau 89532; Sabin 579904 Vols in large, thick quartoModern, red, grained morocco; spine, raised bands and gilt titles Vol I: Frontis with Coat of Arms; 56 lvs Life and works of Oviedo; 632 pp; 5 plates. 1 Leaf: errataVol II: 4 lvs; 512 pp; 1 plate and two (one folding) mapsVol III: 4 lvs; 652 pp; 1 plate; one mapVol IV: 4 lvs; 620 pp; 4 plates, one folding and colored mapComplete set. Browning of the lithographed plates as usual. Maps and text are fine.Oviedo spent 20 years in the New World, mostly in Colombia and Hispañola. He arrived in 1505. He was the first to write a natural history of the Indies, Oviedo de la natural hystoria published in 1526. He was also the author of an early history of the Americas, la La historia general de las Indias. The first 19 parts of his historia were published in 1535 by Cromberger in Sevilla, part 20 appeared for the first time in Ramusio in 1551. The following 30 parts are published for the first time here, in 1851-55.Magnifica edicion en todos conceptos, tanto por el merito historico y literario, como por la presentacion nitida (Palau)- $2,645
- $2,645
Oost en West Indische Voyagie and l Hermite, Jacques Voyagie om den gantschen Aerdtcloot
Spilbergen, J van Amsterdam, Joost Hartgens. 1648(Tiele Memoire nr. 71 and nr 77)In small quarto. Modern half calfTwo books in one volumeSpilbergen: pp 3-62, six woodcut plates in the textL Hermite: pp 3-60, ten woodcuts and seven copper plate engravings in the text.Lacking the two title pages.Spilbergens was the fifth circumnavigation ever after Magellan; Drake; Cavendish and van Noort. The voyage took place between 1614 and 1618. Spilbergen was an accomplished admiral who had sailed for the VOC to the Indies (Ceylon) before. He was sent again by the VOC to discover new territories, chart the Magellans Straits and damage Spanish interests in South America and the Philippines where possible. He landed in Brazil, mapped Magellans Strait, fought Spanish settlements in Chile, Peru and Mexico and sailed to the Philippines. Once in Batavia he picked up le Maire and the rest of his crew who had been arrested in Batavia for breaching VOC laws by sailing to the Indies without VOC consent. Le Maire denied this as he did not sail through Magellans Straits (as specified in the VOC laws) but around Cape Horn!! The Schouten version of his voyage with le Maire is no part of our volumes. Instead the voyage around the world by l Hermite is added, apparently to unite Dutch circumnavigations.Jacques l Hermite was sent out to attack the Spanish possessions and frustrate the Spanish dominance in the Pacific, considered by Spain a Spanish lake. Spain and the Netherlands had just finished a 12 years truce (1609-1621) in a war of independence that took 80 years (1568-1648). LHermite sailed in May 1623 and returned in January 1626.In 1625 two letters were published in Holland, translated from Spanish, that recount the information of the first parts of l Hermites voyage given by a Dutch sailor, taken prisoner of war in Lima. The first full publication was by Gerritszoon and Wachter in Amsterdam in 1626. That book had 9 plates. A second edition of that book forms part one of another publication by Wachter in 1643. In 1646 a third edition is included in the Commelin series of Dutch voyages. In this 1646 edition a description of Peru is added plus a letter by de Quiros. Ours, the fourth edition is complete in itself, missing the 1646 description of Peru (pp 61-70) and Keyes description of Guyana.So the book we offer here contains the full text and all the plates of the fifth circumnavigation of the world (Spilbergen) and the sixth circumnavigation of the world (l Hermite) missing only the two title pages.- $3,086
- $3,086
1761 – A deed transferring ownership of a “tenement” in the heart of Boston located between entrances to Faneuil Hall and the Great Town Dock
This three-page transfer of property on a bifold paper sheet measures 18" x 15" unfolded. The document is dated 30 July 1761. Payment was completed and the deed recorded at the Suffolk County Records of Deeds on 1 September 1761. In nice shape. Some storage fold splits have been neatly repaired with archival tape or tissue; one split along part of the centerfold of the first leaf has not been mended. As noted in the document, this sale transferred ownership of a "tenement" between the entrance to Fanuel Hall (Boston's central market) and the Great Town Dock of Boston. It reads in part: "Elisha Byles of Boston within the County of Suffolk . . . Sends Greeting. Know ye that said Elisha Byles for & in Consideration of ye Sum of Eight Hundred Pounds Lawfull Money . . . well & truly paid by Caleb Blanchard of Boston aforesd Shopkeeper . . . Have & by these presents Do full & absolutely Grant Bargain Sell . . . Convey & Confirm . . . All That Certain Tenement or Dwelling house and land under & to the same belonging situate lying . . . at the Corner between Ann Street & Union Street near the head of the Great Dock being butted and bounded Southerly [by] Conduit Street now called Ann Street, westerly by the Street leading from the Town Dock to the Water Mill Called Union Street. . . . Northerly by ye land formerly in the Occupation of Henry Tomson & now in the possession of Joseph Scott . . . & Easterly by land formerly in the Possession of Edward Jackson, and now in the Possession of Samuel Wells. . . Signed and Delivered Elisha Byles / Mildred Byles . . . Before me Belcher Noyes Justice Pease. . ." This area is mentioned in the National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form for Fanuel Hall: "In 1770 the town decided 'that the Passage Way [Conduit] leading from the North part of Faneuil Hall Market into Ann Street and Union Street, is so narrow as often times to obstruct the passing of Carts, Trucks, and other Carriages thereby endangering the Limbs and Lives of the Inhabitants and is a public Nuisance. . ." . 18th century "tenements" were not the squalid crowded apartments we think of today. Rather, they were usually single-family dwellings that included gardens and yards. Count de Rochambeau described these American houses as "built of brick, and wood . . . regularly and well provided with windows and doors. The . . . frame is light, covered on the outside with thin boards, well plained, and lapped over each . . . generally painted with a pale white colour, which renders the prospect much more pleasing. . . The roofs are set off with balconies. [They are a] point of neatness and salubrity." Elisha Byles, the seller, was known as a "a good farmer, and most acceptable citizen, and deacon in the Congregational church." He was also approved to sell "spirituous liquor." The buyer, Caleb Blanchard, purchased the property to be used for a wholesale and retail business. He has been described as "a savvy marketer who aimed for maximum exposure by advertising in multiple newspapers." City records show that from his shop on Union Street, adjacent to Faneuil Hall (which had been gutted by fire shortly before he purchased this property), Blanchard sold "a Large and Compleat Assortment of Goods, both English & India" including chinaware, paper, cocoa, sugar, tobacco, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloth, clothing, shoes, hats, and much more. One of Blanchard's mercantile neighbors was John Hancock who also operated a nearby store on the east side of Faneuil Hall that also sold a variety of products: "English and India goods, also choice Newcastle Coals and Irish Butter." Hancock's famous Counting House, today the Chart House restaurant, was just as close, a short walk down the Long Pier. Belcher Noyes, who witnessed and certified this sale, graduated from Harvard College in 1727 as a physician. He practiced in Boston and served as a justice of the peace for Suffolk County in the 1770s. (For more information, see "Colonial Houses" at the Chronicles of America website, Shurtleff's Historical Description of Boston, The Huntington Family in America, and "Caleb Blanchard" at The Adverts 250 Project website, and Bacon's Boston: A Guide Book, all available online.) A nice testament to the ongoing transition of the heart of Boston from a residential to a commercial neighborhood. Scarce. At the time of listing, nothing similar is for sale in the trade. The Rare Book Hub shows only three contemporary records of sale have appeared at auction: two to John Hancock and one for a bakery located about a mile inland to the northeast. OCLC shows only two more inland deeds are held by an institution, one in North Square and one in Dorchester, .- $750
- $750
1852 – U.S. Navy Department letter informing a ‘ships carpenter’ that he cannot avoid duty with the East Indies Squadron, an assignment that led to his accompanying Commodore Perry to Japan
H. Parker to Daniel Jones This one-page stampless folded letter measures approximately 15½" by 9½". It was written by H. Parker at the Navy Department to Daniel Jones, a ship's carpenter, at Kittery, Maine. It is datelined, "Washington / 15th March 1832". It bears and indistinct "free frank" along with a circular Washington D.C. 5-cent postmark. In nice shape. A transcript will be provided. In this letter, Parker humorously informs his friend that he was unable to get him out of an assignment to the Navy's East Indies Squadron. "I called this morning (Monday) on the Chief Clerk of the Navy Dept. He infornmed me you are noted for the Steamer Princeton & will be detailed to her unless the Secretary other wise orders. She is going to the East Indies . The fabled report here is none but Christians are to be sent to that heathen land. "So make ready & have your lamps trimed - ready for the burning. . . "Tell Br. Steward last evening I went to a lecture at the Smithsonian Institute [and that the gals here are mighty pretty & make a fellow's heart effervese like Julip water." . In actuality, Jones, a career ship's carpenter in the Navy did go to the East Indies Squadron, but onboard the Macedonian and not the Princeton. At the time, ship's carpenters (not to be confused with later Carpenter's Mates) were highly skilled specialists in the Navy, akin to warrant officers of today. Jones had received his appointment in 1847 and was assigned to the Sloop-o-War Decatur, which was assigned to the African Squadron hunting slave ships. Until this letter surfaced, it was unclear where he was next assigned, but as it was addressed to Kittery, Maine, it is most likely he served at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. During his follow-on assignment aboard the Macedonian, Daniel's sailed with Commodore Perry on his return voyage to Japan and was present at the famous signing of Convention of Kanagawa, in which the Tokugawa Shogunate opened the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade. He later served aboard the Sloop-of-War Brooklyn on an expedition to determine the best route for a canal across Panama and as part of the Union blockade during the Civil War. He transferred to the Sloop-of-War St. Louis in 1862 which hunted Confederate commerce raiders from ports in Spain and Portugal. Following the war, Daniels returned to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard where he served until retiring in 1869. (For more information, see the "Daniel Jones Letters, 1860-1863: Finding Aid" at the U. S. Naval Academy and "Ship's Carpenters" at the Philp K. Allen website. .- $200
- $200
1902 – Two advertising items for the Detroit White Lead Works, a leader in paint manufacturing
One of the items in this lot is a one-cent advertising postal card (Scott #UX14) for the Detroit White Lead Works that bears a Detroit machine postmark dated March 10, 1902. The other is a personal letter written on colorful F. R. Kedzie stationery advertising Detroit White Lead Paint datelined "Pittsford, Mich. April 25 1902". Both items are in nice shape. The postcard is a salesmen arrival notice card that was sent to "Chambers Bros" in St. Ignace, Michigan. It announces that a Detroit Lead Works agent would call on March 13 or 14, 1902. It bears the company's red seal logo and a list of its products that were sold in the Detroit-Chicago-Buffalo-Memphis" regions: Liquid Paints, Colored Leads, Carriage Black and Colors, Varnishes and Paint Specialties. The letterhead features the company red seal logo along with a color illustration of a house painted with Detroit White Lead products. The letter offers birthday greetings to an aunt. . The Detroit White Lead Works, one of the leaders in paint production, produced its product by mixing white lead (carbonate of lead), with oils and colors. It was founded sometime between 1863 and 1865 by Ford DeCamp Hinchman, a Detroit druggist, who served as the company president until 1880. At that time, it was sold to Ford R. Rogers who incorporated the business, which was located on Jones Street until that factory was destroyed by fire in 1896 and a new factory was built in the city's "Milwaukee Junction." Until that time, the company had only produced white paint, but afterward began to offer color paint in response to Detroit's burgeoning automobile industry. It eventually also produced insecticides and soap. In 1910 it was acquired by Sherwin Williams but continued to operate under its own name. It reorganized as Permalac in 1933, and finally closed 1938. The hazards of lead have been known since 200 B.C., yet they were mostly ignored because of the metal's easy availability, malleability, anti-corrosive properties, and even taste. (For years it was added to wine as a sweetener.) It was added to paint because it expedited drying, improved durability, and permitted cleaning with soap and water. In the early 20th century, Detroit, driven largely by auto industry demand, became the center of lead paint production in America. It also became the center of lead-based health concerns. Detroiters came into direct contact with lead in their factories; they lived in lead-painted homes, and the air they breathed was laden with lead dust. By the time, lead-based products were legally controlled in 1978, over 6% of Detroit's children suffered some type of medical issue from lead exposure. (For more information, see "F. D. Hinchman is Dead at 81" in the 27 March 1929 edition of the Detroit Free Press, "Detroit White Lead Works" at Wikimapia, "Detroit's Milwaukee Junction Survey" by the National Park Service, and "Lead paint takes over Michigan" at the History Engine website." .- $150
- $150
1896 – Advertising envelope and dunning letter from the largest tobacco plug manufacturing company in the world
This lot consists of a colorful advertising cover and dunning letter sent to a customer, Horace King of Crawfordsville, Indiana, by the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company of St. Louis, Missouri. The letter is datelined "St. Louis, Dec. 21, 1896." The "all-over" multi-color Ligget & Myers Tobacco Company advertising envelope is franked with a 2-cent Washington stamp (Scott #267) tied by a St. Louis duplex postmark, also dated Dec. 21, 1896. The cover features a colorful block of five gigantic plugs of Star chewing tobacco, the "Leading Brand of the World." The company's return address is printed below. In nice shape with some minor postal and opening wear. The enclosed typed letter features a b/w illustration of the company's St. Louis headquarters and part of the factory. It addresses several overdue payments and unacceptable checks. Also included is an example of the tin advertising pins that were affixed to each plug of Liggett & Myers tobacco. In 1849 J. E. Liggett and Brother was established in St. Louis by John Edmund Liggett. In 1873, George S. Myers became his partner and in 1878, the business was renamed Liggett and Myers Company. By 1885, it had grown to become the world's largest manufacturer of plug chewing tobacco at a time when chewing was by far the most popular way to use tobacco. Plugs were made by pressing tobacco leaves mixed with a sweet bonding agent, like molasses, between large metal plates and the cutting resulting sheets in blocks about 2.75" x 4.5" x 1" that sold for a nickel or dime depending on their quality. Star plug tobacco was Ligget & Myers bestselling brand, and by the mid-1890s, the company had outgrown its original location at 13th and St. Charles Street in downtown St. Louis. In 1896, it began constructing a massive thirteen-building factory on the outskirts of the city in what is now South St. Louis, just north of the vast tract of land owned by Henry Shaw, an English immigrant who had made millions selling hardware goods to regional settlers and pioneers heading west. Liggett & Myers was one of the very few companies that bested the Duke Brothers as they formed their American Tobacco Trust. The Dukes were unable to undercut Liggett & Myers during a long price war and eventually agreed to purchase the firm at an incredibly inflated price in 1898 at the time this envelope was mailed. A reorganized Liggett & Myers continued operations on the same site after the Supreme Court broke-up the tobacco trust in 1911 until the plant was closed in the 1970s. .- $100
- $100
1863-1864 – An archive of documents and letters regarding Florida’s importance during the Civil War as the food “Supplier of the Confederacy” and the activation of the famous 1st Florida Special “Cow Cavalry” Battalion by a Tampa cattle broker
Major Pleasant W. White, Captain James McKay, and others This group of eight documents and letters is associated with Major Pleasant W. White, the Confederacy's Chief Commissary for Florida, and Captain James McKay, of the Fifth Confederate Commissary District. A good case could be made that they were the two most important officers in the Confederacy as it was their effort providing the food, especially beef, that kept the Confederate Army in the field. The archive contains: 3 August 1863 - Special Order from the Secretary of War's Office in Richmond directing Captain Bryant to "report to Major P. W. White Chief Commissary State of Florida for assignment to duty." 27 October 1863 - Letter from the Assistant Quartermaster General's Office in Richmond to White , a native of Quincy, authorizing him, as well his officers and agents, to receive a "'tax in kind' in east and south Florida." The letter is docketed and endorsed by "P. W. White." 30 October 1863 - Special Orders No. 258 from the Adjutant and Inspector General's Office in Richmond detaching McKay, a pre-war Tampa cattle broker who exported cattle to Cuba, from the 4th Florida Volunteer Infantry Regiment for "special service" under White. 3 December 1863 - Letter to White from the Office of Engineer and Superintendent Florida Railroad regarding the seizure of hogs. 21 January 1864 - Letter to White from the Confederate Subsistence Department in Richmond regarding the appointment of a fisheries agent. The letter is endorsed by White. 15 April 1864 - Letter to White from the Confederate Bureau of Conscription in Richmond announcing the personnel "detailed for Bureau Service in accordance with special instructions from the War Department should not be disturbed by the Officers of Conscription." 26 May 1864 - Letter to White from the Confederate Subsistence Department in Richmond regarding the use of conscripts and "the organization of companies of cattle drivers" (the famous 1st Florida Special "Cow Cavalry" Battalion). 26 June 1864 - Special Orders No. 1021 from Head-Quarters, Military District of Florida, suspending "S.O. No. 92." . Initially, the Confederacy was able to provide considerable quantities of Texas beef to feed its forces in the field, however in the fall of 1863, the Union's Mississippi River campaign had severely crimped that supply, and after the fall of Vicksburg, the flow completely stopped. Thereafter, the Confederate Army, especially the Army of the Tennessee, and city garrisons became almost entirely dependent upon Florida beef, pork, and fish to continue operations. To that end, Major Pleasant W. White was appointed to serve as the Chief Commissary of Florida and directed to keep the state's foodstuffs moving northward. He acquired Captain James McKay, formerly a Tampa-based beef exporter, to manage his most important district which included Hernando, Hillsborough, Manatee, Polk, Brevard, Dade, and Monroe counties. Although White and McKay never reached Richmond's goal of supplying 3,000 head per week, they were usually able to provide at least 1,000. Recognizing the importance of the Florida food supply, its operation was under constant threat by the Union naval raids and cavalry forays. In an attempt to cut the supply line once and for all, Union forces attacked at the Battle of Olustee and were soundly defeated. Subsequently, the 1st Florida Special Cavalry Battalion, commonly referred to as the "Cow Cavalry," was formed to protect the herds as well as drive the cattle northward for consumption by the army. During the two years of the operation's existence, more than 75,000 head of cattle were official delivered, and it's likely considerable more went north on an unofficial basis. Eventually, General Sherman's March to the Sea, cut the supply lines, and no more cattle reached the Confederate field units. (For more information, see Taylor's "Rebel Beef: Florida Cattle and the Confederate Army, 1862-1864," Greenwalt's "Florida's 'Cow Cavalry,'" Taylor's "Cow Cavalry: Munnerlyn's Battalion in Florida, 1864-1865," and "Florida's Role in the Civil War: Supplier of the Confederacy," all available online.) A scarce collection of documents and letters regarding a little known, but incredibly important, facet of the Civil War. Nothing similar is for sale in the trade. Rare Book Hub shows only one related item that has ever been sold at auction, a Union report about the Battle of Olustee that sold for $2,250 in 2013. The Florida Historical Society holds the personal papers of Pleasant Woodson White; OCLC shows no other similar material in institutional collections. .- $2,000
- $2,000
1856 – A letter from one of the most radical abolitionists, Abby Kelley, and her equally radical husband, Stephen Symonds Foster, delineating her meetings with a host of the country’s most important abolitionists during a fund-raising trip on behalf of the American Anti-Slavery Society
Abby Kelley to Stephen Symonds Foster Abby Kelley was a major figure in the national anti-slavery and women's suffrage movements despite a split with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton over the 15th Amendment. As a principal leader of the ultra-radical abolitionists, perhaps second only to William Lloyd Garrison, she traveled throughout the country for over twenty years, often with her equally radical husband, Stephen Symonds Foster, demanding not only immediate emancipation for all slaves, but full civil equality for blacks. After the Panic of 1837, Kelley became the corresponding secretary of the Lynn Anti-Slavery Society, and served as a national delegate to the first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women. To the disgust of more moderate abolitionists, she began giving speeches to "mixed-gender" audiences, something that simply wasn't done by women of her time, and in 1843, Kelley addressed the attendees at the Liberty Party [an anti-slavery party whose support was concentrated along the northern U.S. border along the Great Lakes states from Maine through Illinois] convention in Buffalo, New York, becoming the first woman in America to speak at a national political convention. In part due to her successful fund-raising at Lynn, Kelley was elected to the national business committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) and became its principal fundraiser. In this letter to her husband Stephen Symonds Foster (which appears to be two-day's worth of diary entries), which reads like a âwho's who' of the Mid-Atlantic radical abolitionist movement, Kelley describes one of her AASS fundraising trips to New Jersey and New York. "Spent the . . . day in T. D. Weld's school. There are some thirty or forty pupils, and a happier or better regulated school cannot, I presume, be found in the country or the world. . . I found the . . . daughter of David [and Martha] Wright of Auburn there. There is great attention paid to the reading and acting of Shakespear's plays. Weld looks on it as a powerful instrument for developing all the higher powers of the mind. . . "Dined with J. G. Binney. . . says he heard [us] in our first lecture in Detroit as he was passing through that city. . . "I have had a long and earnest conversation with Marcas and Rebecca Spring in relation to their duty to the slave and urging a Thousand Dollar devotion to the A. A. S. Society. They respond to most of my propositions but still are satisfied with remaining in the Republican Party till there shall be an opportunity to vote on a higher platform with a good hope of success. Finally after very severe criticisms in our harsh agents they decided that Rebecca shall subscribe $150 and I prefer her name, as I want M to reserve his name for the Thousand. "Mrs. [Caroline] Kirkland and her two daughters spend the evening at Mrs. Spring's. She is a straight forward practical appearing woman and with all her literary tastes and Colors is now engaged in building a house at Eagleswood. She is quite fleshy but looks finely, and is beautifully dressed in white muslin. She is agreeable in conversation. . . "Rise early and call on the Welds for an Anti-Slavery donation. They put down $10 without any hesitation. Sarah Grimké has other objects to look after and excuses herself. J. G. Binney subscribes $3. These two names on my list look backward to the long past. . . They have not been seen in our papers for the last seventeen years with the aspect of cooperation. . . "Go to Brooklyn by invitation of the Bramhalls last spring to take up my quarters with them while I remain in the City. Find them gone to visit their friends in Mass. But the housekeeper is lonesome and I conclude to remain. . . Then go to the anti-slavery office in N.Y. where I [finish] this and having prepared for commencing my work tomorrow I close this and go back to Brooklyn. . .". Everyone mentioned in this letter played an important role in radical abolitionist movement, an some in the women's suffrage movement as well. Theodore D. Weld was a founder of the American abolitionist movement in the 1830s and later directed a famous multi-racial boarding school at the utopian Raritan Bay Union community at Eagleswood in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Martha Wright, the sister of Lucretia Mott, was one of the five women who organized the Seneca Falls Convention. She and her husband, David harbored fugitive slaves at her Auburn estate. The Fosters' Detroit lectures were probably given during 1853 when they reorganized the Michigan Anti-Slavery Society at Adrian, and Caroline Kirkland was a resident of the Raritan Bay Union whose sarcastically disparaging book about frontier life in and the settlers of early Michigan caused a public outrage that drove her and her abolitionist husband from the state. J. G. Binney was a member of the Raritan Bay Union and twice the presidential nominee of the Liberty Party. For many years he served as an agent for the American Colonialization Society. Eagleswood was a huge estate at the Raritan Bay Union and major hub on the Underground Railroad . It is also where Abby Kelley Foster began writing this letter. Marcus Spring was a wealthy New York philanthropist who supported abolition. Later, his wife, Rebecca, famously (or infamously depending upon point of view) later traveled to Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and consoled John Brown while he awaited execution. Sarah Grimké was a radical abolitionist reformer who is widely considered to be the "mother" of the American suffrage movement. Her sister, Angelina, was the wife of T. D. Weld. Corneilus and Ann Rebecca Bramhall were members of Boston's Vigilance Committee which provided escaped slaves with shelter, clothing, money, passage, and other aid. (For more information, see Sterling's Ahead of Her Time: Abbey Kelly and The Politics of Antislavery, "The 1850 Boston Vigilance Committee" at the National Park Service website, "Caroline Kirkland" at the History of American Women website, Lasser's Conscience and Contradiction: The Mora- $4,500
- $4,500
1834 – A man in Lowell, Massachusetts, pleads directly to President Andrew Jackon to have his friend reinstated as the postmaster of Lowell, Massachusetts
This four-page letter is datelined, "Lowell. April 22. 1834. It was sent directly to President Andrew Jackson by Fink(?) Booth. It bears no postal markings and has no accompanying envelope. In nice shape. Aa transcript will be provided. In the letter, Booth related how his friend, Mr. Myman, had performed well and done no wrong but was dismissed from his job as postmaster perhaps in jealousy over his success in buying and selling property. He asked Jackson personally to reinstate Myman to his position as he was an "honest and warm hearted friend of the present Executive." The letter reads in part: "There is probably no one in Town that has so much business with the Post office as myself, & can truly assert that during all the time Mr Myman was P.M. I never knew or heard of the slightest irregularity or neglect. Few day pass in which I am not at the office, & I am confident the present incumbent does not spend more time there than his predecessor. The attempt to prove that the business of the department was ill conducted under Mr. Myman entirely failed. Mr Pates who was sent to examine & who did make a thorough examination reported favorable on the spot & declared that he could discover nothing irregular & no want of care & attention. . . Our Post office was much better managed than is usual in Towns in the interior. This arrangement is due to Mr Myman under whose care & direction the office was fitted up. I do not wish in this communication to cast imputations up anyone, but [but he is] considered the victim of a base & cruel intrigue. . . His restoration to office . . . is an object of great importance to him. I can very safely say that his reinstatement in the Post office wd be very satisfactory to a large majority of all classes & would generally be considered an act of simple justice to an honest & warm hearted friend of the present Executive." . President George Washington based most of his federal appointments on merit, but many of his successors did not. Andrew Jackson was especially noted for rewarding his political friends and supporters with government jobs through his use of the "spoils system," meaning "to the victor go the spoils." In Jackson's time there were around 20,000 federal employees; by the 1880s, there were over 130,00. After President Garfield was assassinated in 1883 by a disgruntled job seeker, Congress passed the Pendleton Act establishing the Civil Service Commission to ensure almost all federal positions be filled competitively based on merit. It also made it illegal to fire or demote covered employees based on political reason, and it forbade requiring competitively hired workers to contribute to or provide volunteer work for political organizations. It's unknown whether President Jackson intervened to reinstate Myman as the postmaster. .- $150
- $150
1913 – Small visual archive documenting the damage caused by the Easter Sunday tornado that destroyed much of Berlin, Nebraska
Miller Talmadge This grouping contains five real photograph postcards (RPPCs) by Miller Talmadge documenting the tornado that destroyed much of Berlin (now renamed Otoe) on Easter Sunday, 23 March 1913. The tornado was the longest continuous of a swarm of six storms that raged through Iowa and Nebraska that day. This category 4 tornado on the Fujita scale began northwest of Syracuse, Nebraska and ended in Mills County, Iowa. It killed 18 people, 12 in Berlin alone, and did over $250,000 in damage to the town (over $3.5 million in today's dollars). All in nice shape; none sent through the mail. Over 140 people were killed during this swarm of six tornados. . (For more information, see "Top ten killer tornadoes in Nebraska history" at the National Weather Service website and "Tornado outbreak sequence of March 1913" at Wikipedia.) .- $150
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1942-1955 – An archive of material related to the most famous and popular song created by American soldiers for American soldiers, the Dog Face Soldier
Bert Gold and Ken Hart This archive consists of four items. All are in nice shape. 1) A post V-J Day letter from one of the song's authors, Sgt. Bert Gold, to Lt. Audie Murphy, the most decorated American soldier in history. It is datelined "Hqs Co, 22nd Rep. Dep./ APO 714 - San Fran / Manila, P.I. 22 Sept" and sent to Lt. Audie Murphy at Farmersville, Texas. The envelope is franked with a six-cent airmail stamp (Scott #C25) that was canceled with a machine U.S. Army Postal Service postmark dated "Sep 22 / 1945". When Gold penned this letter, he, along with all Americans, knew of Murphy's battlefield heroics although they had never met. At the time Murphy had been recently discharged. The letter reads in part: "You may have heard the enclosed song once or twice (!) which is a great honor I share with Ken Hart, formerly of the 1st Div. (I was with the 76th). [The "enclosed song" is not included in this lot.] "Because of what it means to some of you Rocks of the Marne, its still commercially virgin, to be assigned to the 3rd Div. Assn. as they see fit." ["Rock of the Marine" is the official sobriquet awarded to the 3rd Division for its heroic defense of the Marne River that turned the tide of World War I.] 2) This first printing of The Dog-face Soldier sheet music was published at least ten years before the song became a hit. Although all printings of the sheet music bear a 1942 copyright date, on this printing, there is no mention of Audie Murphy or his blockbuster autobiographical movie, To Hell and Back. There is, however, a small 3rd Division insignia indicating that it was published after Major General Lucien Truscott adopted the tune as his unit's official song and march. As well, the main cover illustration shows the legendary, but unnamed, guitar-playing soldier and three comrades singing in the rubble of a destroyed building, which is exactly how the tune gained popularity. The title eventually sold over 300,000 copies. In the music's liner notes, the Shawnee Press notes, "We are proud to honor, by publishing for the first time, this simple natural singing tune." Includes both instrumental and four-part vocal music. The copyright info for the instrumental music has been excised; it is present on the vocal music. 3) A lobby card from the 1955 hit film To Hell and Back that features 3rd Division soldiers singing Dog Face Soldier along with a North African cabaret entertainer. 4) A "sample copy" of Russ Morgan's 45 rpm recording of Dog Face Soldier that rode the film's coattails onto Billboard charts during October and November of 1955. Gold and Hart wrote The Dog-face Soldier in 1942 for the enjoyment of their soldier buddies shortly after they joined the Army as two privates from Long Island, New York. When they parted ways, one to become an officer in the Army Air Corps and the other to serve in the Pacific, they didn't realize a guitar-playing comrade that had been assigned to the 3rd Division carried the tune to his new unit. After the 3rd Division landed in North Africa, the song became popular among the unit's soldiers, who sang it incessantly whether resting, working, or even while fighting. In time, the division's regimental bands (there was no division band until much later in the war) began playing the tune as a march. As the division fought its way across Sicily, its commander, General Truscott, took note of the tune's popularity and declared Dogface Soldier to be the 3rd Division's official song and march. Following the invasion of Europe, its popularity spread beyond the division, and by the time 3rd Division soldiers had smashed through Rhine River defenses, captured Augsburg and Nuremberg, and occupied Salzburg, American soldiers throughout Europe were singing the Dogface Soldier. Although Hart and Gold's original lyrics were organizationally generic, at the time the song was raging within the 3rd Division, the soldiers sang: "I wouldn't give a bean to be a fancy pants marine; I'd rather be a Dogface Soldier like I am. "I wouldn't trade my old O.D.'s for all the navy's dungarees for I'm the walking pride of Uncle Sam. "On all the posters that I read it says the army builds men, so, they're tearing me down to build me over again. "I'm just a Dogface Soldier with a rifle on my shoulder, and I eat a kraut for breakfast every day. "So feed me ammunition; keep me in the 3rd Division. Your Dogface Soldier Boy's okay." The original 3rd Division lyrics have been continuously altered. During the Cold War, references to eating Krauts for breakfast were changed to eating ammunition; when used by other army organizations references to the 3rd Division were dropped, and although women had served in the division since the 1970s and sung about the army building men, that was changed around fifteen years ago. The song is still sung within today's 3rd Infantry Division daily at formations and at ceremonies and social gatherings. . When Gold penned his letter to Audie Murphy, he could never have imagined how popular and successful the "commercially virgin" song would become. When Murphy, the diminutive and handsome 20-year-old war hero who had lied about his age to enlist at 17, returned to Texas in the summer of 1945, he was featured in uniform on the cover of Life as America's most decorated soldier. (He had been awarded the Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster and Valor Device, Purple Heart with two Oak Leaf Clusters, French Legion of Honour, French Croix de Guerre with silver star, three French Croix de Guerre with palm, and a Belgian Croix de Guerre with palm.) After reading the magazine, James Cagney invited the photogenic Murphy to Hollywood to try his hand at acting. Despite a slow start, Audie practiced his craft and became a star, eventually appearing in 44 credited feature films and B-movies including John Huston's masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, that was mutilated by MGM editing. While in Hollywoo- $750
- $750
1900-1901 – An exceptionally detailed archive of U.S. Naval operations in support of allied ground operations during the Boxer Rebellion from the personal files of Admiral Louis Kempf, the commander of the U.S. flotilla in Chinese waters
All related to Admiral Louis Kempff This archive from Admiral Kempff's personal files consists of five densely packed, typed "Bulletins" and letters detailing the U.S. Navy's participation in the conflict including its ground fighting at Ta-Ku which he personally directed. Over twelve pages of typed text. The documents contain some details not included in the official history of the action, The Boxer Rebellion: Bluejackets and Marines in China: 1900-1901, published by the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command. In the spring of 1900, Admiral Kemph commanded the U.S. naval squadron that was ordered to China waters to support allied land forces in their attempt to relieve the international legations at Peking (today Beijing). During that time, he directed American ground actions in and around Ta-Ku at the mouth of the Pai (today Pei-ho) River. In response to a request from British Admiral Sir Edward Seymour that relayed a request from the foreign legations at Peking, Kempff ordered Bowman H. McCalla, the Captain of his flagship, USS Newark, to spearhead a combined landing force of bluejackets and marines ashore in an attempt to open an inland corridor. Allied troops from Japan, Great Britain, German, and other European nations joined his forces. On the road to Peking, they survived rebel ambushes and fought them in several skirmishes. Ultimately, they were attacked by a huge assembly of Boxers and forced to turn back against overwhelming odds. Later, when allied ships began to bombard Chinese Imperial forts, Kempff refused to participate as he understood the intent of his orders from Washington was not to engage Imperial Chinese forces. Although condemned publicly by President William McKinley for his inaction, he submitted a lengthy rebuttal (the last document in the archive) declaring that the "Chinese government [had] not committed, so far as I'm aware, any act of open hostilities towards the foreign armed forces." Kempff was exonerated and later personally commended for his decision by Naval Secretary John D. Long who reported that "satisfaction with his conduct . . . was felt by the Administration [regarding] his discreet conduct in not joining in the fire of the forts." Upon relinquishing his command, Kempff was again officially commended for his leadership in the Far East and specifically for his actions at Ta-Ku. In this important archive Kempff extensively details his and his squadron's actions at Ta-Ku. A few excerpts include: Bulletin #6 (Shore Series). Taku, China, June 8, 1900. To Admiral Kempff from Victor Blue, Flag Lieutenant. "In the eyes of the people [already] here the Americans are still gaining their reputation for pluck and energy. . . Reports from the scene of fighting near Tientsin, (30 miles above) gave the loss of the Boxers as 20 and the loss of the Chinese troops as 11 killed. . . Yesterday morning 78 Austrians and 80 Russians were sent up to Tienstin by train. . . It is true that the natives of Tengku and Taku have been called out by the Boxers. The 'signs' have been marked on the doors. . . Chinese Natives in both places are getting more and more insolent to foreigners every day. . . Stones were thrown at our steam launch while passing through Taku. . . The English have been asked to send a guard to Taungshaun on the Pei-Tai-He road. . . Chinese troops at the fort abreast . . . are constantly drilling at their guns. . . "Memorando from Captain McCalla [states] I have a hundred men in two places in the city. [All are] well excepting to cases of diarrhea. . . The railroad is intact to Yangatsun, 18 miles from here. There is an iron bridge the ties of which were burned by the Boxers. . . A secret edict has been issued by the Empress dowager that the Chinese troops must treat the Boxers leniently. Today a decree was issued suspending all traffic between Peking and Tientsin. It would not be difficult to take possession of the [rail] road and operate it. . . 2000 [Chinese] troops were brought to PeiTang. . . [Received a] Telephone message from Tientsin that 32 wounded Chinese troops have arrived from the scene of the fighting. . ." Bulletin #9 (Shore Series). Taku, China, June 9, 1900. To Admiral Kempff from Victor Blue, Flag Lieutenant. "The Boxers are advancing on Tientsin [and] the railroad station is threatened. . . Captain Jellicoe [a British officer] will take measures to defend. . . [He] asks for another company and machine gun. . . Captain McCalla [recommends] one British, one Russian or French, and one American or German steams not more than forty feet long [should patrol the river.] European staff will leave Taungshaun tomorrow if they do not receive assurance of protection. Very urgent. . . The English have secured the tug Fa Wan. . . Will do well as a river gun boat. . . I have little doubt that within a few days there will be no communication with Tientsin except by river, and only then by armed tugs that can force their way through. . . [I think we will] secure the Heron, mount two 1-pounders on her and give her a fighting crew of twelve or fifteen men. . . The British will make use of the hotel here as a hospital. . . There is no doubt in my mind that within a very short time severe fighting will take place in Tientsin. The Chinese in Taku and Tengku are also disaffected, especially the coolies. . . Everything points to a general uprising in this section of China. . . The English may send a company of bluejackets . . . this afternoon. . ." Bulletin #14 (Shore Series). Taku China, Jun 14, 1900. To Admiral Kempff from Victor Blue, Flag Lieutenant. "Captain Stewart [possibly a British naval officer] thinks some concerted action should be taken by foreign gun boats . . . in case hostilities begin . . . such as the relief expedition being fired on by Imperial troops. . . All stations along the line above Tientsin are being guarded. The English and Americans alone attacked about 2000 or 3000 Boxers Monday afternoon and 68 Boxers were killed. Captain McCalla had a narrow escape. A Boxer came- $7,500
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MISSISSIPPI OUTLAWS AND THE DETECTIVES.
PINKERTON, ALLAN. First edition. 8vo. Presentation inscription by the author dated "Nov. 1st, 1879, Robert A. Pinkerton." Green cloth decorated in blind and with the Pinkerton "eye" and titles stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine, tan front and rear endpapers, frontispiece, preface, illustrated, viii, 9 - 377 pp. + 7 pp. of advertising. Small closed tear to fore-edge margin of frontispiece else a very good, tight copy issued without dust jacket.- $375
- $375
CUSTER’S CONQUEROR.
BORDEAUX, WILLIAM J. First edition. 8vo. Presentation inscription on the front fly leaf, signed by the author. Decorated maroon cloth, 94 pp., preface, numerous illustrations, map A biography of Crazy Horse, the author draws on information related to him by persons who knew Crazy Horse. A very scarce account. "Mainly a biography of Crazy Horse, but includes a chapter on the Little Big Horn battle that relates the account of the Brule Sioux Foolish Elk. The author, a Brule Sioux himself, was not a participant in the battle, but wrote from the Indian perspective."--O'Keefe 186. A fine, bright copy of this crudely-produced work, with original Prospectus laid-in. Together with "CONQUERING THE MIGHTY SIOUX" written and edited by W. J. Bordeaux. Sioux Falls: 1929. Decorated blue cloth, 211 pp., foreword, introduction, illustrated from drawings and photographs. Information on Custer, the Little Big Horn, the Wagon Box Fight, Wounded Knee, and other fights. A fine, bright copy. These two very scarce works are presented together in a custom slipcase with Titles and Author stamped in gilt on a leather spine label. An attractive and unique combination.- $675
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STERLING SILVER AND CORAL BELT BUCKLE. CORAL AND SILVER BELT BUCKLE OF THE NAVAJO NATION. THOMAS JIM’S MASTER WORK
JIM, THOMAS [ARTISAN] This spectacular 2" x 3 1/2" belt buckle with coral was created by Diné of the Navajo Nation silversmith Thomas Jim. The artist took a beautiful piece of red coral and surrounded it in an elaborate frame of sterling silver. The silverwork accentuates the unique red color of the coral. Jim set the coral in an elegant straight-edged bezel. Radiating from the center are rays of silver encompassed by bands of silver and twisted wire. The outer part of the buckle has added drops of silver and sections of sleek silver elements.- $2,250
- $2,250
(The Law & Lady.) La Piste du Crime. Traduit de L’Anglais avec L’Autorisation de L’Auteur par Camille de Cendrey. 2 vols.
COLLINS, William Wilkie. Half titles. Contemp. half black calf. A good-plus copy. See Parrish & Miller for The First English edition in 3 vols, 1875, following serialisation in The Graphic. This is the first French edition. Scottish-based detective story with a female 'sleuth' and courtroom elements influenced by the recent Madeleine Smith trial.- $212
- $212
Le Voyage de la Perouse.
[DA ROS]: 3 volumes in-4° pleine basane blonde, plats frappés à froid, têtes dorées, étuis, reliure de léditeur (dos légèrement et uniformément insolés. 50 miniatures en couleurs dont une planche double et 14 hors-texte, bandeaux et culs-de-lampe de DA ROS.Un des 1400 sur vélin.- $276
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DARK REFLECTIONS AND SOULDIERS [with:] DISCOVERY, REVOLUTION & UNDERSTANDING [and:] SECOND THE EMOTION
Fulani, Richard [3] volumes. 35; [4],31; 41,[1] pp. plus author's portrait and biography on recto of rear wrapper of third volume. Original stiff printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers lightly worn and rubbed, else fine. The first three books of poetry by Richard Fulani, with covers printed, respectively, the pan-African colors of green, yellow, and red. The trilogy begins with Fulani's early poems, composed between 1968 and 1971, with the first part, DARK REFLECTIONS, considering on the breakthrough of new consciousness in the wake of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the second part, SOULDIERS, being a tribute to contemporary African American leaders, "a few of the millions who have made it possible for us to be able to say such things as 'Black is Beautiful' and 'I'm Black and I'm Proud.'" DISCOVERY, REVOLUTION & UNDERSTANDING contains poems "dedicated to the 'endarkenment' needed to see through the blinding, white light," and SECOND THE EMOTION "is a book of feeling," dedicated to "[l]ove, in its broadest sense."- $120
- $120
We Were Soldiers Once.and Young. Ia Drang–The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam.
[Vietnam War Literature] Moore, Lt. Gen. Harold G. (Ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright clipped dust jacket. On Nov. 14, 1965, the 1st Battalion of the 7th Cavalry, commanded by Lt. Col. Moore and accompanied by UPI reporter Galloway, helicoptered into Vietnam's remote Ia Drang Valley and found itself surrounded by a numerically superior force of North Vietnamese regulars. Moore and Galloway here offer a detailed account, based on interviews with participants and on their own recollections, of what happened during the four-day battle. Much more than a conventional battle study, the book is a frank record of the emotional reactions of the GIs to the terror and horror of this violent and bloody encounter. Both sides claimed victory, the U.S. calling it a validation of the newly developed doctrine of airmobile warfare. Supplemented with maps, the memoir is a vivid re-creation of the first major ground battle of the Vietnam War. Photos.- $150
- $150
The Portable Jack Kerouac. Edited by Ann Charters.
[Beat Literature] Kerouac, Jack. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright clipped dust jacket. This anthology of Kerouac's writing includes excerpts from the numerous volumes that tell the Legend of Duluoz, a selection of his poetry, his writings on Spontaneous Prose, Bop jazz and the Beats, his views on Buddhism, and several letters to important members of the Beat movement. 624 pages.- $125
- $125
The Northwest Coast; or, Three Years’ Residence in Washington Territory.
[Northwest History] Swan, James G. A Very Good copy in brown cloth binding. The backstrip has been repaired and the FFEP replaced. Facsimile map tipped in. In 1852 Swan, originally from New England, settled for the first time in Washington, on the shore of Willapa Bay, then known as Shoalwater Bay. Swan's friend Charles J. W. Russell had settled there in 1851 to harvest oysters from the Bay's rich tidelands for shipment to San Francisco, and in 1852 he invited Swan to join him. Swan lived on Shoalwater Bay until 1855. In 1857 he described the Bay and his experiences there in The Northwest Coast, Or, Three Years' Residence in Washington Territory, one of the earliest books about life in Washington.- $200
- $200
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Burton, Virginia Lee First printing with a matching date of 1939 on the title page. There is some overall light soiling to the cloth. The last few leaves have some waviness along the lower edge. A 1 1/8" tear to the lower edge of one leaf. A few spots of minor soiling to the text. To the front pastedown is "Number 32" written to the upper corner, near the fore edge. This is hidden by the jacket flap. The dust jacket is well chipped along all edges, spine ends and corners. There are also several rough tears. The longest of these is to the lower, front, near the fore edge. There is clear tape repairing this tear as well as another piece, repairing a tear to the lower, center of the front panel. Price clipped. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall- $1,500
- $1,500
Seven Articles in Cahiers du Sud.
WEIL, Simone. Seven issues, each in the original wrappers. A Superb Collection of Seven Essays by Simone Weil Published in Les Cahiers du Sud between 1941 and 1947This collection of Weil's contributions to Les Cahiers du Sud stands as an enduring testament to her revolutionary genius and vision-a vision that soared well beyond the confines of her short but very active life. Les Cahiers du Sud was an avantgarde, ultraliberal review that published poetry, essays, literary criticism, and cultural commentary from Marseille between 1925 and 1966. Jean Ballard, its founder and editor-in-chief, never turned away the works of writers who, for political reasons, could not find publishers elsewhere, among them Weil, Georges Bataille, Paul Valéry, Walter Benjamin and Antonin Artaud. Weil published eight articles in the magazine between 1940 and 1943, many of them under the pseudonym "Emile Novis," which was a loose anagram of her name (and likely a disguise of her Jewish surname). Following her death in August of 1943 at the age of thirty-four, the magazine continued to publish her works. This collection includes her essays "A propos des Jocistes" ("About the Workers"), "La Philosophie" ("The Philosophy"), "L'Avenir de la Science" ("The Future of Science"), and "Reflexions à propos de law Théorie des Quanta" ("Reflections on Quantum Theory"), and "L'Iliade ou le Poème de la Force" (The Iliad or the Poem of Force), among others published both before and after her death. During her days spent among the writers and editors of the magazine in Marseilles, Weil filled detailed notebooks with material for future articles and essays. Although her works were little known during her lifetime, they were posthumously assembled, published, and celebrated throughout the world in the years after her death - leading many to identify her as a modern saint.Despite this informal canonization, these works show her more secular side, highlighting her intellectual sensitivity to the turbulence of the world around her: included are her detailed reports on the status of local workers coalitions, criticisms of philosophical trends, and numerous complex attempts to grapple with the nearly incomprehensible tragedy of World War II - all of which demonstrate her immense skill as a writer and sophistication as a thinker. PLEASE SEE OUR CATALOG 23 "20th Century Women Philosophers" for a complete description of all seven of these rare publications. There is a small "Specimen" stamp to the covers of the April and May 1941 issues; minor toning throughout; more pronounced toning to the wrappers of the 1943 issue, with pages uncut, and glassine wrap over wrappers. This collection assembles many, but not all, of the articles and essays known to have been published by Simone Weil, some under her pseudonym, "Emile Novis," in the pages of the French literary magazine Les Cahiers du Sud. An amazingly well-preserved set of these delicate war and post-war publications. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.- $3,000
- $3,000
The Retford Centenary Exhibition
(Wm. C. Retford), Malcolm Sadler, foreword Book and slipcase virtually as new but for light spotting in one corner of slipcase. 8vo, 63 pp, many b&w photo reproductions of bows. Full burgundy leather, gilt edges, decorated spine and front board. #146 of a deluxe, limited edition of 200. In publisher's cloth slipcase.- $100
- $100
Unveiling and Dedication of Monument to Hood’s Texas Brigade on the Capitol Grounds at Austin, Texas Thursday, October Twenty-seven Nineteen Hundred and Ten
Chilton, F.B. Clean, tight book but for some offsetting to prelims where clippings were laid in. Lacking one plate. Cloth 4to. 372pp, illustrated. Laid in are several clippings having to do with the brigade and the monument dedicated to it. Also, a signed letter from Hood Brigade scholar Harold Simpson. Rebound in plain green buckram. Scarce. Minutes from the reunion coinciding with the dedication and a list of attendees.- $250
- $250
Ancient Architecture of England; A New And Improved Edition, With Notes And Copious Indexes, By John Britton
Carter, John 74 pages & Alphabetical Index & Chronological Index, Folio, 50 x 33 cm. Etched frontispiece by and after Carter, and 106 etched plates. Originally issued in 27 parts, 'this is Carter's most important book. It was probably the first [work] to analyze the morphological development of English Gothic (or, as Carter insisted, ''the Pointed Arch style'') on a systematic comparative basis - something acknowledged by Britton in a tribute to Carter as ''the first to point out to the public the right way of delineating the component and detached parts of the old buildings of England'' Two volumes in one. AVERY p.172. RIBA I 569.A. Three quarter dark green cloth and brown morocco rebacked. Near fine- $950
- $950
How To Build, Furnish And Decorate; Consisting Of Elevations and Plans For Houses, Barns, And Every Description Of Outbuilding, Accompanied With Clear And Concise instructions: Also, A Complete Treatise On House Furnishings And Decoration
Shoppell, R.W. 3 pages in text. Folio, 35 x 28 cm. 700 illustrations, each plan is priced and accompanied with letterpress details. Our copy is No. 9640, attesting that the purchaser can request a loan from the publisher by presenting the aforementioned number. An extremely valuable and well illustrated treatise. Chapters on furniture and decoration; hall and staircase; dining room; drawing room; bedrooms; library; kitchen; hints to purchasers of furniture; wall and ceiling papers; glass for home decoration; how to hang pictures; needlework in decoration; the piano; stenciling and gilding; about the use of colors; carpets; screens; over mantels and over doors; the decoration of doors; rustic work; warming the house and practical miscellany. The illustrations include numerous fully furnished room interiors. HITCHCOCK 1171. Wear to backstrip foot, and lower corners, nick to front cover joint. Orig. decorated taupe cloth lettered in red, beveled edges. Very good- $450
- $450
Old Colonial Architecture And Furniture
Wallis, Frank E. Unpaginated. Folio, 13.5 x 11 inches. 60 plates printed recto only. Series of measured drawings and sketches of American colonial styles and designs. HITCHCOCK 1417. Interior clean, wear to corners and rubbing to backstrip extremities. Quarter brown cloth and lettered blue boards. Very good- $195
- $195
Some English Gardens
Jekyll, Gertrude & George S. Elgood 131 pages. 34 x 24 cm, fifty full-page colored plates. Scarce and very collectable work by the doyen of English landscape architecture. Gertrude Jekyll concentrated her design work on applying plants in a variety of settings, woodland gardens, water gardens and herbaceous borders always striving to achieve the most natural effect. Slight rubbing to backstrip extremities. Orig. navy cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good- $350
- $350