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[SMALL ARCHIVE DOCUMENTING THE IMPRISONMENT OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVIST /...
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[SMALL ARCHIVE DOCUMENTING THE IMPRISONMENT OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVIST / CONVICTED MURDERER, FORMERLY ON DEATH ROW AND NOW SERVING LIFE IN PRISON]

by Abu-Jamal, Mumia

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Ann Arbor and Detroit, MI: Free Mumia Coalition; Emergency Committee Against the Racist Execution, 1998. Very good. Together 12 items (see below). Small collection documenting the nascent "Free Mumia" movement of the mid-1990s, which expressed outrage against the "racist" fraudulent conviction, and demanded a new trial for Abu-Jamal who was at that time on Death Row, bringing widespread public attention to the case. Abu-Jamal's supporters included a variety of intellectuals, civil rights leaders, social and political activists in the U.S. and abroad. Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook in 1954) is an American journalist and political activist. In 1982 he was tried and convicted for the murder Daniel Faulkner, a police officer, in Philadelphia. Abu-Jamal received the death sentence, but in 2011 it was effectively reduced to life in prison without parol after Pennsylvania prosecutors announced that they would abandon their efforts to have Abu-Jamal put to death. CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION: Five… Read More
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Manuscript Tax Records for the Town of Quincy, Massachusetts for the year 1813
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Manuscript Tax Records for the Town of Quincy, Massachusetts for the year 1813

by [ADAMS, JOHN, et al.]. Assessors of the Town of Quincy

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Quincy, MA, 1813. Very Good. Manuscript. 20 pp. 165 x 200 mm. Stitched as issued. At some point folded to pocket size and thus retains large fold down middle of pages, small chips and tears along edges, some age-toning, a few pages very browned. An ownership inscription on the front leaf in pencil reads "Elijah Baxter Nichols." Highly interesting Tax Roll for the town of Quincy, whose residents at that time included retired President John Adams; his son (and future president) John Quincy Adams; and other members of their family. These individuals are named herein, and their property taxes enumerated. As is well known, the majority of the Adams Family Papers are preserved in the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston. It would seem to us that the present manuscript would make a useful addition to this august institution. Names of the property owners are usefully arranged alphabetically; not surprisingly John Adams' name appears first. The property owner's name is followed by six columns: poll tax,… Read More
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[SAN FRANCISCO CHILDREN'S BATHS, ca. 1890s]. Sutro Baths, School Children's Day!
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[SAN FRANCISCO CHILDREN'S BATHS, ca. 1890s]. Sutro Baths, School Children's Day!

by [Advertisement]. [Sutro Baths]

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San Francisco: Louis Roesch Co, 1890. Very Good. Single leaf, red-brown color, some tears and small chips along the edges. Advertisement for a school children's "Play Day" at the Sutro Baths in San Francisco, which included bell ringing, acrobatic feats, dancing, and a special performance from the London Patomime and Comedy Company. The Sutro Baths (1896-1966) was a public saltwater swimming pool in San Francisco, built and owned by entrepreneur and former mayor of San Francisco Adolph Sutro, and heralded at its opening as the world's largest indoor swimming pool. Sutro's idea was to provide an inexpensive recreational swimming facility, mainly for the working class of San Francisco. In true progressive spirit, Sutro also included natural history exhibits at the entrance to the baths as an educational opportunity. However, due to their high maintenance and operating cost, the baths were eventually converted to an ice skating rink, and then sold in 1964 to property developers. A fire in 1966… Read More
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[CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT]: The Harper and Other Fables. By Aesop
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[CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT]: The Harper and Other Fables. By Aesop

by Aesop (author). Zimmerman, Lawrence (calligrapher)

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New York: Transcribed and Illustrated at Cooper Union, 1952. Very good. Small folio (261 x 167 mm). Calligraphic manuscript on paper. [2], 8 pp. Loosely inserted ink and watercolor drawing. Original hand-sewn blue wrappers; stitched to upper wrapper is a paper label lettered in manuscript: "The Harper and Other Fables." Old scribbles on verso of loose illustration; slightest soiling on front wrapper. Manuscript written by Lawrence Zimmerman as a Cooper Union student, being an assignment in calligraphy and design. While the calligraphy is very good, the illustration is merely a sketch of sorts; Zimmerman apparently thought little of it, having written in pencil several names, addresses, and dates on the back. Zimmerman went on to pursue a career in architectural design, and was himself a great collector of World's Fair memorabilia.
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[ANTIQUARIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY / LIBRARY SALE CATALOGUE]. Catalogue des livres imprimes et manuscrits,...
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[ANTIQUARIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY / LIBRARY SALE CATALOGUE]. Catalogue des livres imprimes et manuscrits, de la Bibliotheque de feu Monsieur d'Aguesseau [...] Dispose par ordre des Matieres; avec une Table des Auteurs

by Aguesseau, Jean-Baptiste-Paulin (1701-1784)

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Paris: Chez Gogue & Nee de La Rochelle, 1785. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. (195 x 130 mm). xxxvi, 366, 80 pp. (Index). Contemporary French green glazed boards, smooth spine gilt, brown lettering piece in second compartment, headcap chipped with loss, extremities worn all round, portion of outer blank margin of title-page torn away (with loss of one letter on the verso), probably to remove a former library stamp, and aiii (touching two letters) both leaves repaired, some age toning throughout (not objectionably). A few margins cropped close, affecting some of the MS prices, outer corner of Vv1 with paper flaw around which the MS annotations were written; a good copy, with faults as described, priced accordingly. Our copy is PRICED throughout (the Grolier Club copy is not) and furthermore it CONTAINS the valuable 80-page Index (which the Grolier Club copy does not). ¶ Catalogue of the posthumous sale of the very important library, "universal in scope" according to the Preface, belonging… Read More
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[COLOR: TRADE CATALOGUE]. Colorants Soudan: Colorants en Poudre Solubles dans les huiles et...
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[COLOR: TRADE CATALOGUE]. "Colorants Soudan": Colorants en Poudre Solubles dans les huiles et matieres grasses [Cover title: Sudan / Colorants Soudan]

by I.G. Farben [I.G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft]

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Frankfurt: I.G. Farbenindustrie AG, 1926. First Edition in French. Very good. Slim 8vo. Original publisher's yellow pictorial card wrappers. [8] pp. + 4 sample cards displaying 24 color samples, original acetate tissue guards present. Light shelf wear, wrappers very slightly soiled and toned. Easily the most attractive I.G. Farben catalogue that we have encountered. Normally they are BORING or in later productions pro-Nazi. Our catalogue, which is not listed in OCLC, features a cover adorned with highly stylized "modernist" illustrations of a lady's newly-polished crimson shoe; a box of bright yellow candles; and a shiny floor with a wax jar. The contents of the trade catalogue are "Sudan-colored" dyes produced by the German chemical company I.G. Farben. The dyes from this collection, first introduced in the 1920s, were employed in such household products as shoe and floor polish, candles (all of which are depicted on the cover), and cleaning materials. By the 1930s I.G. Farben was the largest of… Read More
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The Reader Revealed
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The Reader Revealed

by Alcorn Brown, Sabrina, et al.

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Washington DC: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 2001. Softcover. Very Good. Quarto, 158 pages, illustrated in black and white. ¶ Through the underlinings, emendations, and other marginalia common to early modern readers, this title shows the variety of ways in which readers have related to books over the centuries. The use of books as repositories of birth records, and marginalia (scholarly, esoteric, and profane) is also examined.
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Italian Renaissance Illuminations
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Italian Renaissance Illuminations

by Alexander, J.J.G.

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New York: George Braziller, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Quarto, 118 number pages. Illustrated in both black and white and color. ¶ 40 vibrant color plates, predominantly full page, from the most important religious and secular works of the Italian Renaissance. Images are accompanied by text exploring the figurative and symbolic nature of the illustrations and placing them in textual context.
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[1823 SWISS ALMANAC WITH WOODCUTS]. Nutzlicher Haus-Kalender oder der Richtige Bot, aus das Jahr...
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[1823 SWISS ALMANAC WITH WOODCUTS]. Nutzlicher Haus-Kalender oder der Richtige Bot, aus das Jahr Christi 1824

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Argau, Switzerland: Jakob Diebold, 1823. Very Good. 4to. 48 pp. Pictorial wrappers, stitched as issued. Tables printed in black & red, lower page corners folded, some moderate edge wear, foxing and (mild) waterstaining. Well worn but generally very good, with a few small tears along edges. An extremely scarce 1824 provincial Swiss Almanac, well illustrated with curious woodcuts including an elaborate title-page border in the neo-classical style, back cover depiction of the slaughter of the Greek patriarch, a double-page fold-out plate of a castle in Baden (small dirt stain at top), and twelve emblematic woodcuts depicting astrological attributes of each month. Owing to the fact that only one other copy seems to have survived, it is not surprising that we have been unable to locate reproductions of any of these woodcuts published elsewhere. The title-page woodcut appears to have been signed in the border the artist / engraved "Z. Morman." Several of the woodcut zodiac symbols are signed "Z." Jakob… Read More
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[CARTOGRAPHIC RACISM]. [AMOS 'N ANDY]. Eagle's-Eye View of Weber City (Inc.)
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[CARTOGRAPHIC RACISM]. [AMOS 'N ANDY]. Eagle's-Eye View of Weber City (Inc.)

by Amos Jones and Andy Brown, "mapmakers" (Amos 'n Andy, i.e. Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden)

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Chicago: Gwindell Printing Co. for Pepsodent, 1935. Good. Together 3 items: large folding map (38.5 x 50 cm) folded three times as issued (EXCELLENT condition); accompanied by original printed letter (designed to look "handwritten") in Ebonics (a little smudged, otherwise GOOD); with the original mailing envelop with the faces of Amos and Andy on the front (FAIR condition only: soiled and stained, back flap torn, last name and address of the addressee cancelled in ink). Offensive fictional map of the town where Amos and Andy reputedly resided, with streets, buildings, and houses from the show identified. The text is written in Ebonics and is filled with misspellings and backwards letters. "Amos 'n Andy" was a wildly popular American radio sitcom about two black characters, written and voiced by two white actors. The show was overtly rascist, playing into stereotypes of simple-minded, clownish, and lazy African-Americans. The show was sponsored by Pepsodent until 1938. The importance of Pepsodent's… Read More
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[WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR, 1802]. Anacreontis Odaria ad textus Barnesiani fidem emendata
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[WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR, 1802]. Anacreontis Odaria ad textus Barnesiani fidem emendata

by Anacreon. Forster, Edward (editor). Forster, Lavinia Banks (illustrator)

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London: B.R. Howlette / John Murray, 1813. Second edition. Good. 8vo. [2], 130 pp. Printed in Greek throughout on fine paper. Contemporary English red diced russia calf (rubbed and worn), tooled in blind, outer frame of gilt palmette rolls, all edges gilt, drab endpapers. Front endpaper waterstained; second blank leaf with paper flaw; outer margins of final pages darkened from turn-ins. With faults, and priced accordingly. THE ONLY KNOWN ILLUSTRATIONS BY MRS. LAVINIA FORSTER. Our copy bears learned MS annotations in Greek and Latin. Beautifully printed in a Greek font created especially for William Bulmer by William Martin. Dibdin described the 1802 first edition as an "elegant work [that] confers great credit on the printer." Our copy belongs to the second edition, which was printed in the same Greek font, and retains the 20 fine engraved head- and tailpiece vignettes designed by Lavinia Banks Forster (1774-1858), wife of the present editor Edward Foster. Two of the vignettes are signed (in… Read More
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[SORDID 1870 TRIAL - WOMAN DEFENDANT]. Official Report of the Trial of Laura D. Fair, for the...
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San Francisco: Printed by the San Francisco Co-Operative Printing for Sumner Whitney & Co, 1871. Small 4to. 4, [2], 325, [1], xvii pp. The two portraits are in facsimile, otherwise complete. Some page numbers at top margin shaved; front blank with repaired tear; final page torn and backed. Inherent spotting or browning on account of the paper stock. Contemporary marbled boards, new calf spine and corners, new leather title label, lower leather label preserved, new pastedowns and endleaves, one pair of early endleaves preserved. Provenance: on every 50th page the initials A.W.M. are written in MS; the versos of the three leaves following the title-page are stamped [illegible] "Att'y at Law, San Francisco" with the name "Henry H. Reid" written in MS over the name of an early owner (presumably that of "A.W.M." who remains unidentified). For Henry H. Reid, see below. A GREAT RARITY OF CALIFORNIANA. THE SORDID 1870 TRIAL OF LAURA FAIR IS EASILY THE MOST FAMOUS OF THE EARLY MURDER TRIALS OF SAN FRANCISCO.… Read More
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[RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE]. [UNPUBLISHED WATERCOLORS OF THE FRESCOS OF THE CASINO FELICE, ROME,...
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[RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE]. [UNPUBLISHED WATERCOLORS OF THE FRESCOS OF THE CASINO FELICE, ROME, NOW DESTROYED]. Pianta del Palazzo Peretti alla Terme Diocleziane, restaurato, nelle pitture, per ordini di Sua Eccellenza il Sig. Principe Don Camillo Massimo. Dall'Artisto Cav. Prof. Annibale Angelini; 1871 e 1872

by Angelini, Annibale

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1871. Hardcover. Very good. Oblong folio (350 x 450 mm). With 32 watercolors of high quality by Annibale Angelini delineated from the original frescos. Original red pebbled cloth (shaken), upper cover with the crowned monograph of Prince Camillo IX (Vittorio Emanuele) Massimo. In excellent unrestored state. Preserved in a protective case. An important discovery. This album of watercolors is the only surviving record of the once spectacular frescos and interiors of the elegant garden Casino Felice of the Villa Peretti Montalto alle Terme (later known as the Villa Massimo), built for Sixtus V by famed Roman architect Domenico Fontana. After centuries of neglect, the Villa, its two palaces, and its lush gardens were destroyed in the 1880s in order to make way for the central railroad station in Rome, the Roma Termini. The long-lost frescos of the Casino Felice are of the greatest interest to scholars of Renaissance Italian art: among the artists were C. Nebbia, F. Rosselli, D. Cresti (called il… Read More
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[MEDIEVAL CRIMINAL LAW]. De Maleficiis (full title of Part 1: Angelus de maleficiis / repertorium...
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Lyons: Benoist Bonyn for Jacques and Francois Giunta, 1544. Very good. 8vo. 2 volumes in one. Collation: [pi]8 aa-cc8 dd12 a-z8 [et]8 [con]8 [rum]8 A-CC8 DD12 (O8 blank); AA-BB8 aa-nn8 oo12. Pagination: [36], ccccxxviii, [16], cxv, [1] ff. Upper corners of four leaves (fols. clxxxiii-clxxxvi) have been inexplicably *mutilated* with significant losses of text, and fols. clxxxvii and clxxxviii are torn in half, with loss of one entire column (SEE IMAGES). Sig. F (Part 1) and sig. aa (Part 2) slightly browned on account of the paper stock. Fol. aa1 (Part 2) with marginal worm-holes (but no other text leaf in the book is affected!). Light persistant staining to textblock at beginning and end (SEE IMAGES). Contemporary (no doubt original) limp vellum with a nice old patina, three sewing supports of broad leather strips, vellum extending over the fore-edges of both covers, evidence of two pair of ties laced into covers at fore-edges, four spine linings of Medieval MS waste (see below). Four original… Read More
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[MANUSCRIPT - UNPUBLISHED GERMAN PLAY]. Der Katzenkomodie, erster Theil, oder Lottchus Todt....
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[MANUSCRIPT - UNPUBLISHED GERMAN PLAY]. Der Katzenkomodie, erster Theil, oder Lottchus Todt. Historisches Trauerspiel mit Gesangen in vier Aufzugen. WITH: Der Katzenkomodie, zweiter Theil, oder Das Gluck de Ehe

by [Anonymous]

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1835. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Small 4to. Manuscript on paper. [2], 53 pp. Complete. Stitched (plain paper wrappers torn and frayed along spine, with loss), edges untrimmed. Minor blemishes to the text but unsophisticated. Preserved in a protective cloth case. Highly curious and apparently unpublished German Romantic play concerning the "Death of Lottchus" (in Part 1) and his ghost (in Part 2), "The Happiness of Marriage." The action takes place in Rubeland (Saxony-Anhalt). Other performers include Flanko, Wolf, Fritzus and his wife Perdestalla, Liebling, and Maloss. Despite extensive searching, we have been unable to find any reference to a play such as this.
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[FRENCH GOTHIC COFFRET CA. 1560 WITH CONTEMPORARY WOODCUT IN SITU]
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[FRENCH GOTHIC COFFRET CA. 1560 WITH CONTEMPORARY WOODCUT IN SITU]

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(Lyon or Paris), 1570. The coffret measures (in mm) ca. 280 (long) x 190 (wide) x 115 (high): around sides are four looped metal fittings for leather straps, all five original hinges on back, on front the original iron hasp facade with forged "pine leaf" decoration, keyhole & lock mechanism; on slightly dome top nine iron reinforcements, the whole fixed with original nails; original linen lined interior. This artifact has many serious condition problems: the left side of the lid is present but detached; many areas of the wood are chipped, wormed, and/or defective, but there are no signs of restoration whatsoever. Affixed to the inside of the lid is a large woodcut (ca. 250 x 170 mm) of two lovers (see below). The woodcut is torn, chipped and damaged, with evidence of old insect activity; there is loss of considerable portions of text and image, including the left portion of the man, the banderole above him, and the dog at his feet. With many significant faults, and priced accordingly. Preserved in a… Read More
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[BINDING - PHILADELPHIA CA. 1865]. The Photograph Album
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[BINDING - PHILADELPHIA CA. 1865]. The Photograph Album

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Philadelphia: W.W. Harding, 1865. Album 5 x 6 x 2.5 in. Title-page (a little foxed, verso blank), Index to portraits (2 pp.), followed by 25 thick cards creating 50 slots; all are filled, with 47 cartes-de-visite, 2 views, and one chromolithograph (a little foxed). Bound in original blue-green roan over deeply embossed carved boards, covers and spine gilt, edges dazzlingly gilt and gauffered, each board with four porcelain beads, two working catches and clasps with luxuriously wrought mounts and two porcelain beads, moire pastedowns and endpapers. Minor scuffing to binding extremities. SUPERB CIVIL WAR ERA PHILADELPHIA BINDING, THE GILT AND GAUFFERED EDGES GLEAM AMAZINGLY. The assemblage of the present album may be localized to Minnesota or neighboring Wisconsin owing to the surprising inclusion of two small views by Benjamin Franklin Upton (1818-1910) of the St. Croix River, which demarks the two states. One of the images is entitled "Views of the Dells on the St. Croix River" (a stereoscopic… Read More
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[WOMEN AUTHORS]. [MANUSCRIPT BEREAVEMENT COMMONPLACE BOOK, 1856 AND 1874]
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[WOMEN AUTHORS]. [MANUSCRIPT BEREAVEMENT COMMONPLACE BOOK, 1856 AND 1874]

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England, 1874. Fair. 8vo. Bound notebook, with writing on 98 pp., the remaining leaves blank (first leaf torn out). Original blue roan (worn and shaken, boards almost detached, spine defective, depredation to bottom edge of front cover), marbled endpapers and edges, double gilt lines to boards and spine. Text block clean with only slight stains to a few pages. Preserved in a 4-flap lig-free chemise housed in a protective cloth case. "I too, have laid my lily down..." SORROWFUL REFLECTIONS WRITTEN BY A GOVERNESS ON THE DEATH A CHILD IN HER CHARGE: ASTONISHINGLY POIGNANT AND ELOQUENT MANUSCRIPT COMMONPLACE BOOK. The manuscript contains writings by three three different women. The first (and most extensive) is by the Governess of a dead child: "In Memory of dear little Harry who was taken to Heaven 5th of 4th mo'th 1856." Her spidery Victorian handwriting is even and accomplished. The format of the above date, and her use of "thee" and "thou" throughout may suggest that she was a Quaker. For 30 pages… Read More
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[INDIAN PAINTINGS ON MANUSCRIPT LEAVES: TWO NOBLEMEN BEARING SWORDS]. A pair of paintings in gold...
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[INDIAN PAINTINGS ON MANUSCRIPT LEAVES: TWO NOBLEMEN BEARING SWORDS]. A pair of paintings in gold and color, overpainted on a manuscript of Ibn Sina's "Book of Healing

by Anonymous Indian Artist

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India, 19th or 20th century. Good. Two paintings on manuscript leaves (ca. 260 x 170 mm), both hinged on plexiglas so that the verso is visible, both matted (matte size: 400 x 270 mm). Manuscript leaves significantly worm-damaged and repaired, nonetheless these are both ttractive paintings, beautifully rendered. Two delicate Indian paintings that were likely made for the tourist trade, painted on manuscript leaves that have nothing to do with the images. The Arabic text above the painting of the right-facing nobleman is from Ibn Sina (Avicenna)'s "Shifa" (The Book of Healing), Part 3, Chapter 9 ("On Natural Sciences"). The manuscript on which it was painted is Ibn Sina's "Shifa" as well (the manuscript is difficult to date: it may be as early as the 16th century but is more likely to belong to the 19th). On the other leaf (the nobleman facing left), the text above the painting is from a different section of the "Shifa," Part 2, Chapter 6. We admire the delicate colors of the painting, particularly… Read More
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[INDIAN PAINTINGS ON MANUSCRIPT LEAVES: A BULL AND A CAMEL]. A pair of paintings in gold and...
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[INDIAN PAINTINGS ON MANUSCRIPT LEAVES: A BULL AND A CAMEL]. A pair of paintings in gold and color, overpainted on a manuscript of a Persian / Urdu dictionary

by Anonymous Indian Artist

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India, 19th or 20th century. Good. Two paintings on manuscript leaves (ca. 300 x 220 mm), both hinged on plexiglas so that the verso is visible, both matted (matte size: 400 x 315 mm). Edges of manuscript leaves significantly worm-damaged, without loss to painting of the bull, but intruding in several places into that of the camel. Colors vibrant and gold quite bright. Very attractive paintings. Two delicate Indian paintings that were likely made for the tourist trade, painted on manuscript leaves that have nothing to do with the images. The Arabic text of the manuscript is a Persian / Urdu dictionary. We admire the delicacy of the painting, particularly the modelling of the faces which are expressive. The hair on both animals is rendered in almost impossibly thin brush strokes. Suitable for exhibition and study. We are grateful to Kelley Tuttle for her characteristically excellent cataloguing assistance.
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