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Although the author is unknown, he was an officer of the squadron commanded by Comte d'Estaing which was sent by France in 1778 to aid the American patriots. He gives a detailed account of the encounter with the British fleet under Lord Howe near Newport. He also gives a valuable firsthand report of the violent storm that separated the two fleets, making it necessary for d'Estaing to retire to Boston for repairs instead of remaining to support the American land forces. This compelled General Sullivan to evacuate Rhode Island and leave Newport to the British.Charles-Hector, Comte d'Estaing was a vice-admiral in the French navy and the senior naval officer in American waters during the Revolutionary War. He transported the first contingent of French land forces to Rhode Island in 1778 and participated in 1779 in the siege of Savannah. He supported the Revolution in France after 1789 and died on the gallows during the Reign of Terror.12mo. Disbound. A Bruxelles, 1782. Written in response to: Extrait du…
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Campagne de M. le Comte d’Estaing en Amérique, ou Mémoire pour servir de réfutation au Libelle contre ce Vice-Amiral.
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Notes on the Merrymount Press and Its Works.
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Hardcover. Fine. With a Bibliographical List of Books Printed at the Press, 1893-1933 by Julian Pearce Smith. With Views of the Press at Various Periods, Specimen of Types Alluded to. Illustrated. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards, spine label. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934. First edition. Limited to 25 copies printed on Glaslan hand-made paper at the Merrymount Press, and signed by Daniel Berkeley Updike. Fine. Scarce.
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Concerts at Castle Hill
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UPDIKE, JOHN.Concerts at Castle Hill. H.H. John Updike's Middle Initial Reviews Local Music in Ipswich, Massachusetts, from 1961 to 1965. 8vo. Original leather-backed decorated boards, in publisher's slipcase. Northridge, Lord John Press 1993. First Edition. Limited to 50 deluxe numbered copies specially bound, signed by Updike. This is copy #37. Fine.
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Talk from the Fifties
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First Edition. Signed by UpdikeLimited to 75 numbered deluxe copies, specially bound. This copy is #72.8vo. Original cloth-backed marbled boards. Lord John Press, Northbridge 1979. Fine.
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Getting the Words Out.
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UPDIKE, JOHN. Getting the Words Out.8vo. Original leather-backed marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine. Lord John Press, Northbridge 1984. First Edition. Limited to 50 numbered deluxe copies, specially bound, signed by Updike. This copy is #50. Fine.
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Csoda Album. (Wonder Album).
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Pesti Napló Kiadasa, Budapest, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated with 12 full-page color plates by Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban, from the Andersen-Kalender of 1911; pictorial endpapers; decorated initials, title page and chapter headings in color; other tinted illustrations by Czech artists. Folio. Original gilt-stamped pictorial green cloth. Pesti Napló Kiadasa, Budapest 1911. First Edition. Heinrich Lefler worked primarily in Vienna as a member of the Künstlerhaus (1891) and by late 1890s he became one of Austrias first artists to design posters, then an emerging and highly popular medium. Together with Joseph Urban, he designed costumes, interiors, furniture and accessories. In 1900 they co-founded the Hagenbund, an artists cooperative that exhibited works by a number of important figures including Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele. Cover slightly soiled, heal of spine chipped and slightly warped; front hinge cracked; some foxing and soiling to interior; o/w a Very Nice copy of this…
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