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A THOMAS NAST ORIGINAL CARTOON LAMPOONING OTTO VON BISMARCK'S RESIGNATION AS CHANCELLOR
NAST, Thomas. [BISMARCK, Otto von]. [The "mad March Hare goes in Like a Lion, But How Will He Come Out?]. Original pen-and-ink political cartoon on flexible "Turnbull's Superfine London Board," 13 x 8 3/4", signed "Th: Nast. March-1890.

A large Thomas Nast original cartoon lampooning one of his favorite objects of satire, Otto von Bismarck, on the occasion of the latter's resignation as "Iron Chancellor" of the German Empire, as submitted to Wilhelm II, on March 18, 1890. Published in Slason Thompson's America: A Journal for Americans (Chicago), vol. IV, April 3, 1890, pp. 14-15. America
was a short-lived (1897-1901) periodical espousing anti-immigrant, anti-suffrage and anti-Catholic ideas, mingled with high-minded literary ambitions, for which Nast… Read More

A THOMAS NAST ORIGINAL CARTOON LAMPOONING OTTO VON BISMARCK'S RESIGNATION AS CHANCELLOR
NAST, Thomas. [BISMARCK, Otto von]. ["The Mad March Hare goes in Like a Lion, But How Will He Come Out?]. Original pen-and-ink political cartoon on flexible "Turnbull's Superfine London Board," 13 x 8 3/4", signed "Th: Nast. March-1890.
A large Thomas Nast original cartoon lampooning one of his favorite objects of satire, Otto von Bismarck, on the occasion of the latter's resignation as "Iron Chancellor" of the German Empire, as submitted to Wilhelm II, on March 18, 1890. Published in Slason Thompson's America: A Journal for Americans (Chicago), vol. IV, April 3, 1890, pp. 14-15. America was a short-lived (1897-1901) periodical espousing anti-immigrant, anti-suffrage and anti-Catholic ideas, mingled with high-minded literary ambitions, for which Nast was contracted to contribute caricatured immigrant national types, stressing their supposed weaknesses and foibles. Original art by Nast done for America… Read More

LE CANNE DE COMBAT COLORED BROADSIDE SIGNED BY 14 "PROFESSORS" OF THE SCIENCE OF SELF-DEFENSE[LE CANNE DE COMBAT]. NAUDET, Caroline (1775-1839),engraver. Gloire aux Arts. Amer son Dieu. Honneur aux Maitres, et servir son Pays. Brevet de Canne. Folio hand colored engraved diploma, 16 1/2 x 18 1/4", inside mat (framed), signed "C. Naudet 1833." Paris: chez Jean, 1833. The Canne de Combat is a French style of martial arts using a cane. Alhough stick fighting is as old a humanity, this form is from 19th century France, "when the cane was an indispensable fashion accessory doubling as a fairly powerful self-defense weapon," as one expert wrote. It was a way to practice sword play without the sword, thus fewer injuries. Here we have the inside of a "combat" school a large blue curtain at the back, depicting a teacher in a duel with a student, and 13 professors watching, six on one side, seven on the other, each side flanked by a Roman bust sculpture on a pedestal, underneath one is "C.… Read More

[NEWTON, Isaac]. ADAMS, Edward Dean. A Portrait Bust of Sir Isaac Newton by Josiah Wedgwood the English Potter. 12mo, original blue boards, paper label, frontispiece, half-title, title, pp. [10] + 1 plate, uncut. [New York:] Privately Printed [by Bartlett Orr Press] for the Engineering Foundation, January, 1926.
Only Edition. Presented by Adams, a noted engineer, to great American mechanical engineer Ambrose Swasey (see DAB): "To Ambrose Swasey. This record of a search in hopes that it may be as interesting to him as it was in its conduct to his sincere friend and well wisher. Edward Dean Adams June 10, 1927." Frontispiece of the Newton bust, which had been in the possession of Adams for over sixty years. With large Swasey ex-libris on rear pastedown depicting the "36 inch Lick Telescope" the observatory having been built by him. Not in Babson. OCLC locates four copies. No copies for sale online as of this date (1/28/22). Fine.

NICCHOLES, Alex[ander]. A Discourse of Marriage and Wiving: and of the greatest Mystery therein contained; How to choose a good Wife from a bad. An Argument of the dearest use, but the deepest cunning that man may erre in: which is, to cut by a Third betweene the greatest Good or evill in the world. Pertinent to both Sexes, and Conditions, as well those already gone before, as shortly to enter this honest society. Small 4to, late 19th or early 20th century gilt-ruled full brown morocco, pp. [8], 55 (one leaf,C2, pp. 11-12 in facsimile). London: Printed by N[icholas] O[akes] for Leonard Becket, 1615.
First Edition. Black Letter. An Oliver Cromwell family association copy of a rare marriage manual, partly in verse, by a Jacobean minister about whom little is known, but who describes himself on title as "Batchelour in the Art he never yet put in practise." Ownership signature, "[Eli]zabeth Cromwell, Upwood [1]630" on verso of title,… Read More