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Stroud: Ian Hodgkins & Co., Ltd., 1995. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. Some marginal markings else a very good copy.. Unpaged [44 pp]. Illus. with 15 b/w drawings. 8 1/4 x 11 3/4 in. Sale catalogue of 519 items. Lynch's "The Beardsley Business" drawing on front wrapper.

Stroud: Ian Hodgkins & Co., Ltd., 1992. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. Some marginal markings else a very good copy.. Unpaged [28 pp]. 8 1/4 x 11 3/4 in. Sale catalogue of 340 items. Large photo of Ruskin on front wrapper.

New York / London: Sotheby's (Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co.), 1994. First edition. Paper wrappers. Three quarters are fine copies, a few near fine or very good.. Profusely illustrated with color and b/w plates. Various Sizes. Works of Art. October 1 and October 2, 1974. Porcelain and Pottery Inro and Lacquer Wares and Sculpture. 26 February 1975. Works of Art. 9 May 1983. Art, Prints and Paintings. 27 July 1983. Art Including Lacquer, Ceramics, Metalwork, Enamels and Paintings. March 31, 1984. Netsuke, Ivories, Inro, Decorative Works of Art, Ceramics, Swords and Sword Fittings, Prints, Paintings and Illustrated Books. 18 July and 19 July, 1984. Swords and Sword Fittings, Netsuke, Inro, Lacquer, Works of Art, Ceramics, Enamels, Metalwork and Furniture. 1 November, 1984. Art. 24 July, 1985. Prints, Painting, Screens and Works of Art June 4, 1987. Art. 17 June and 18 June, 1987. Works of Art. 12 November and 13 November, 1987. Art. November 17, 1987. Prints and Works of Art. Paintings. June 1, 1988.… Read More

New York / London, 1992. First edition. Paper wrappers. Most are fine or near fine copies; 3 are very good.. Profusely illustrated with color and b/w plates. Various Sizes. Catalogue sales include: Japanese Ivory Carvings, Netsuke, Inro, Lacquer, Kakemono, Makimono, Bronzes, Armour, Sword-fittings, Swords, and an Important Dotaku from the property of John Huston. December 10, 1975. Japanese Porcelain, Pottery, Lacquer, Screens, Bronzes and other Metalwork...May 24, 1976. Japanese Ceramics, Ivory Carvings, Netsuke, Inro, Lacquer, Bronzes, Cloisonne Enamels, Swords, Sword-fittings, Armours, Prints and Paintings. From the properties of ... Winnafreda, Countess of Portarlington... Elizabeth White. July 19, 1976. Ceramics, Lacquer and Bronzes. Japanese Porcelain, Pottery, Lacquer, Bronzes and other Metalwork. October 5, 1976. Ceramics, Lacquer and Bronzes, and other Metalwork. June 21, 1977. Japanese Ivory Carvings, Netsuke, Lacquer, Ceramics, Bronzes, Swords, Sword-fittings and other Metalwork from the… Read More

New York: Christie's (Christie, Manson & Woods), 1990. First edition. Illustrated paper wrappers. Fine and near fine copies.. 166, 189, 254 pp. Illus. with color & b/w photos. Sm. 4to. (1) The Properties of Ranney School... [and] the Collection of Roman Vishniac. April 20 and 21, 1989. Sale 7486. Lots 210-645. (2) October 17, 1989. Sale 6900. Lots 290-803. Some exceptional screens. (3) March 29 and 30, 1990. Sale 7048. Lots 103-787. Some exceptional screens.

Toronto / Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin & Company Ltd., 1968. First printing. Tan buckram with gilt titles, Illustrated endpapers. A near fine copy in a very good- edge worn dust jacket with a few closed tears.. 248 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings. Obl. 4to. Over a hundred pencil drawings of Canada by the first Canadian artist to be represented in the Tate Gallery.

New York: Amerikanischen Traktat-Gesellschaft, 1848. Limp cloth. Cloth quite soiled and worn, rust marks at staples, otherwise clean.. 64 pp. Illus. with 14 b/w engravings. 32mo. Signed Rosie Danalson Baldwin, Worcester. OCLC shows 5 copies.

Brooklyn Heights, [NY], 1859. Very good, light creasing and soiling, closed tear to bottom edge, remnants on verso.. 1 sheet. 7.5 x 6.25 inches. Holograph report of pioneering meteorologist E. E. Merriam, documenting the "cold term" that struck New York City (12 below zero) and parts of New England in January 1859. Dated and signed January 22nd, 1859. Ebenezer E. Miriam, known as "The Sage of Brooklyn Heights", was a special correspondent and associate editor of the New York City Commercial who "began supplying New York newspapers with predictions in 1856. Many years later, astronomer turned Army Signal Service forecaster Cleveland Abbe concluded that Merriam made his predictions using newspaper weather reports [telegraphic]." Merriam's work eventually led to the formation of a government weather bureau. References: 1. Erik D. Craft: An Economic History of Weather Forecasting (EH.net) 2. Weightman, R. H.: Establishment of a national Weather Service- who was responsible for it (US DEP. Commerce:… Read More

New York: Watson-Giptill, 1981. First edition. Silver lettering on red cloth. Near fine (some pages till unopened) in a very good or better dj with a few closed tears on the spine.. 432 pp. index. 500 b/w and 150 color illus. 4to. Sections include Photography, Communications Graphics, The Book Show, and Political Art. A visually stunning book.

Winchester, VA, 1839. Very good, faint soiling, a few ink smudges, loss of a few letters where seal was removed.. [3] pp. Bifolium. Integral address with seal and postmark. 7.5 x 9 inches. May 31, 1839. R.B. Holliday, a lawyer and cashier at the Farmer's Bank in Winchester writes to Lieutenant Edwin Wright Morgan (1814-1869) shortly after Morgan's return to Pennsylvania from the Seminole War. Although Holliday seems more interested in ladies than in politics, he is undoubtedly invested in national and local politics, and begins his letter: "The long agony is over and I fear the Old Dominion has gone for the little Magician, if so we in the opposition must bear it with philosophy and submit, which is the part of the true Republican. The contest has been throughout the state one of the warmest within my recollection and has been looked upon in every part of the Union with the most intense interest. In our Congressional District the Locofoco candidate received a majority of two out of four thousand… Read More

Baltimore, 1871. Very good, folded, marginal finger soiling, leaves inlaid to reinforce borders.. [2] pp. Bifolium. 8 x 10 inches. A letter of recommendation from Adam E. King, Baltimore customs official, to President Ulysses S. Grant recommending Edward Bradford for the U.S. District Court for Delaware: "Mr. B's labor in the cause of education, and his untiring advocacy of the Constitutional Amendments, as well as his earnest support of your Excellency, are so well known that they need not be mentioned here." Dated and signed December 5, 1871, just a short week before Grant did in fact nominate Bradford. Adam Eckfeldt King (1837-1910) served with five different Union Generals, including Winfield Scott Hancock. He was promoted to Major in 1864 and Lieutenant Colonel in 1865, and was brevetted Brigadier General for "gallantry during the campaign of 1864 and distinguished good conduct throughout the war." Grant appointed him local appraiser for the Port of Baltimore in April 1869. Edward Green… Read More

[Boston], 1854. Very good, torn along edges and centerfold, faint soiling, minor ink bleed through.. [2 pp]. 3.5 x 6 inches. Edward Everett (1794-1865) was a member of the US House of Representatives (1825-1835); the Governor of Massachusetts (1836-1840); the US Minister to the United Kingdom (1841-1845); the US Secretary of State (1852-1853); and a US Senator (1853-1854). Following his formal political career, Everett spent his remaining years as a traveling orator, and contributing to the New York Ledger, regularly donating proceeds from both of these endeavors. This letter, dated November 22nd, 1854, is to D.N. [Daniel Noyes] Haskell, editor of the Boston Transcript. In full: "I observe in the Transcript this afternoon that you propose to find room tomorrow for my letter to the Historical Society of New York. You would oblige me if you would follow the Daily Adv. of this morning - it was given with so many misprints in some of the New York papers as to the scarcely intelligible."

1836. Very good, edges chipped where seal broken, contents clear, but for slight ink bleed through.. [1 pp.] with integral address on verso. 8 x 10 inches. Dated October 25, without a notation of year but most likely 1836. Benjamin Franklin Butler declined to attend a political meeting as there is "reason to doubt, whether it would be proper or expedient, on the very eve of such an election, as you are to have, for a number of the administration to take such a part, as I should probably be obliged to take, if I attended." New York was having an election for governor in less than two weeks. Butler (1795-1858) was at that time the U.S. Attorney General under Andrew Jackson. He was a prominent lawyer from New York and an ally of Martin Van Buren and a founder of New York University. Prosper Montgomery Wetmore (1798-1876) was a writer and politician with some ethical shortcomings, one of the Regents of the University of the State of New York, and one of the founders of the American Art Union.

[Biarritz], 1926. Near fine, folded.. [1 pp.]. 8 x 5 inches. German academic & philosopher, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster (1869-1966) spent his early career as a lecturer at a variety of institutions, including the University of Zurich, the University of Vienna, and the University of Munich. However at the onset of World War I, Foerster's open opposition to Germany's ruling class and German militariam had resulted in threats on his life and he resigned his teaching post in Germany in 1922 and fled Germany, settling in France. His books were burned in Germn in 1933 and he fled France around 1940, when the Nazis and Gestapo pursued him during their occupation there. He spent the following two decades in New York City, before returning to Switzerland in 1963. Written in English, and dated 28th July, 1926 from Biarritz, Foerster, while "on journey" through France, writes to a friend in Zurich. In full: "I have a very pleasant memory of our talk at the Zurichberg and I am indeed very sorry I cannot see you… Read More

Bremen [ME], 1829. Very good, folded, minor punctures and soiling along margins, remnants to verso, contents clean.. 1 sheet. 7.5 x 8.5 inches. Dated and signed August 12th, 1829. by [Commodore] Samuel Tucker who writes to Samuel Thatcher, following a visit from Thatcher's sons, George and Benjamin, who had expressed interest in writing a biography on Tucker's life. Tucker tells Thatcher, "I must say I am heartily sorry, I gave them any encouragement but the moment must be alleged to my imbecility, as I had heretofore declared ever having any such manuscript, go to the press, for such a thing if ever it was to be done, Doctor Moses Shaw has a great claim on me for it..." Tucker had, at some point, submitted a series of papers to Doctor Shaw, of Wiscasset, Maine,; however they had been destroyed in a fire before anything was published. Fortunately, Tucker's grandson, Colonel Samuel Tucker Hinds was in possession of copies of Tucker's logs, journals, and letters, and left them to Harvard Library.… Read More

Washington, D.C., 1865. Very good, faint toning, mostly to margins, one edge tear, not affecting text, contents clear.. [2] pp. Bifolium. 5 x 8 inches. Dated and signed Washington,May 16, 1865, by Congressman John Lynch (1825-1892) who claimed that Governor Cony's suggestion of moving the Pay Department to Augusta was a mistake and indicates that Fessenden's assistance in the matter would "save the Govt. more than One Hundred Thousand Dollars". He further notes that there exists "a very strong feeling in Portland that the interests of our city and the general public interest are always sacrificed when the local interests of Augusta are to be promoted."

Gardiner, 1811. Very good, edgewear, small tears along the folds and one tear along inner margin, not affecting text, scattered soiling and ink bleed through.. [2] pp. Bifolium with integral address. 6 x 7.5 inches. August 19, 1811, Gardiner Massachusetts, Catherine Fuller to Mary Woodberry of Ipswich. Good example of a letter between young women friends. "Worthy creature, it is a long time since I had an opportunity of writing to you, but I am now amusing myself a few minutes, but I don't know whether you will ever peruse this. I haventhe happiness to receive a letter from you, Mrs Dennis brought it. You can't think how much pleasure it gave me, although it was but a few lines. If it had been but a few words, it would have been excepted by one who is still your friend and wished ever to be considered as such. you informed me you with your friends were in good health and that each of us ought to consider as the greatest blessing we can enjoy while in this world, but how apt many of us are to forget… Read More

Boston, 1860. Very good, creased, minor soiling and ink bleed though.. [2] pp. Bifolium. 5 x 7.5 inches. Dated June 21st, 1860 from Edward Everett (1794-1865) to G.P. Putnam (1814-1872), founder of G.P. Putnam's Sons publishing firm pertains to both the Washington Irving Memorial and the Commemoration speech, which Everett had delivered before the Massachusetts Historical Society in December of 1859. In full: "I have received the Prospectus of the Irving Memorial. If my remarks before the Massachusetts Historical Society are included in it, I hope they will be printed from the volume of their proceedings lately published p. 395. I furnished Rev. Dr. Osgood of your city with a corrected copy of my speech on the 3d of April last at the Irving Commemoration. I trust this copy will be followed in your volume. The contemporary news-paper Report was very inaccurate. I should like to have a copy in cloth with gilt edges." Edward Everett (1794 -1865) was statesman, pastor, educator, and orator from… Read More

Windsbach, Germany, 1797. Very good, folded, faint soiling, seal intact with opening repaired.. [1 pp.] bifolium. with integral address. 7.5 x 9 inches. Rare signed letter by German philosopher & influential literary figure Friedrich Jacobi (1743-1819) who was known for his critical views of the more liberal philosophies of the day, including Enlightenment and Transcendental Idealism, as well as of the Sturm and Drang literary movement He "was an outspoken critic, first of the rationalism of German late Enlightenment philosophy, then of Kant's Transcendental Idealism, especially in the form that the early Fichte gave to it, and finally of the Romantic Idealism of the late Schelling. In all cases, his opposition to the philosophers was based on his belief that their passion for explanation unwittingly led them to confuse conditions of conceptualization with conditions of existence, thereby denying all room for individual freedom or for a personal God....But perhaps the most influential of Jacobi's… Read More

Albany, 1849. About very good, margins brittle and browned, torn along edges and folds, affecting only a few words of text, contents faintly soiled, but clearly legible.. [1] pp. Bifolium. 8 x 10.5 inches. June 29, 1849. New York Governor Hamilton Fish writes this recommendation to Hugh Maxwell, Collector of the Port of New York, on behalf of former New York Tribune Washington Correspondent, William E. Robinson. Though Robinson had recently been at the center of some breach of privilege controversy with the Tribune, editor Horace Greeley and others remained loyal to him, and Robinson was appointed to a position in the New York Custom House, and was later Congressman for the South Brooklyn District, serving three terms (See Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 27). "The name of William E. Robinson of New York will be presented to you for a situation in the Customs House. If you are not acquainted with W. Robinson, you lose something. You will recognize him as 'Richelieu' the Washington component of the… Read More