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No Binding. Fine. 1 TLS, 1 page, signed "John" to William F. McConnor, United States Senate, Washington, 13 July 1953. The letter reads in part: I want to thank you very much indeed for talking with Jack Kearns for me. I have written directly to him and have told him that if he would take the initial step, insofar as municipal or city jobs are concerned and he is successful in uncovering a vacancy, I shall be happy to write in his interest. There isnt too much one can do when there is so much involved as in this particular case. Pencil and ink annotations across the bottom, light folding marks, o/w Fine
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JOHN F KENNEDY LETTER
by John F Kennedy
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Japanese Costume before the Restoration. Photographed by K. Ogawa under Direction of Ko-yu-kai.
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Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated. Folio. Original photographic card covers with silk ribbon ties. Published by K. Ogawa, Tokyo (C.B. Woodward, St. Louis 1893). First Edition. Illustrated with 16 high-quality half-tone black-and-white images on glossy paper, each with explanatory text. Each photo (approximately 6 by 8 inches) is chemigraph registered, patented March 21, 1893. Ogawa Kazumasa was an important early native photographer who took on the task of recording a visual history of Japan. This volume illustrates the history of the advancement of art in Japan with regard to the costumes of her people. Photos include Female Dancers of the Kamakura Period, Nobleman of the Fujiwara Period, A Priest of the Zen Sect Preaching, The No, etc. Together with: Military Costumes in Old Japan. Photographed by K. Ogawa under the Direction of Chitora Kawasaki of Ko-yu-kai. Illustrated. Folio. Original photographic card covers with silk ribbon ties. Published by K. Ogawa, Tokyo (C.B. Woodward, St. Louis 1893). First…
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The Jesuit's Memorial, For the Intended Reformation of England, Under their First Popish Prince. Published From the Copy that was Presented to the Late King James II.
by PARSONS, ROBERT, EDWARD GEE.
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Hardcover. Very Good. With An Introduction, and some Animadversions. 8vo. 19th century blue morocco, gilt, with contrasting red-morocco shelf-mark piece. London. Printed for Richard Chiswel . . . 1690. (Wing P569). The first printing of an explosive late-Elizabethan tract planning for the reintroduction of Catholicism into England by Jesuit Robert Parsons (or Persons). Originally circulating in manuscript (a copy was held in Mendhams library), it was published in post-Revolution Britain as yet further warning against the reintroduction of a Catholic monarchy. From the Mendham collection. Without half-title or advertisement leaf. Rubbed, with cracking to upper joint; small tear at foot of spine; chipping to spine; internally clean and crisp; with penciled shelf marks to front endpaper and a few short penciled notes to blank opposite title.
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Journal of a Route Across India Through Egypt to England.: In the latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818.
by Lieutenant Colonel GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK FITZCLARENCE
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WITH HAND-COLORED ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONSIllustrated with full colored aquatint frontispiece and 11 plates (8 full-page hand colored); 1 large folding engraved map of the seat of war in India with touches of hand coloring; 6 maps and plans, including a map of Egypt with the route through the desert and down the Nile taken by the author to reach Alexandria. 4to. Contemporary ¾-calf leather, marbled boards, professionally & sympathetically re-backed using fine matching brown polished calf leather, gilt ruled spine with red & black gilt lettered morocco labels. London: John Murray 1819. First and only edition of this fascinating account of an overland journey from India to England, written by the eldest son of King William IV and Mrs. Jordan. (Abbey Travel 519; Tooley 222.)Fitzclarence served in Spain and France during the Napoleonic Wars before being sent to India, where he was appointed aide-de-camp to the Marquis of Hastings, in which capacity he made the campaigns of 1816-17 against the Mahrattas.…
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The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa in the Year 1805.
by Mungo Park
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The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa in the Year 1805. Together with other documents, official and private, relating to the same mission. To which is prefixed an account of the life of Mr. Park. Illustrated with folding engraved map with routes hand colored in red and blue by the geographer Major Rennell. 4to. Contemporary ¾-leather-backed marbled boards; spine rebacked, with original spine laid down; 2 spine labels with gilt letters. London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1815. Second Edition, Revised and Corrected, with Additions. 2 volumes bound in one.
Mungo Park was the first westerner to travel to the central portion of the Niger River. Until the publication of his book about his first African journey in 1799, hardly anything was known of the interior of the continent. His narrative, complete with scientific observations on the botany and meteorology of the region, and the social and domestic life of the natives, has become a classic of travel literature. Park made the first great practical… Read More
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The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm
by Maurice Sendak (Signed)
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First Edition, first issue. Signed by Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak.Limited to 500 numbered copies, This copy #372. With an extra suite of illustrations printed exclusively for this edition on Beckett paper under the supervision of the artist, enclosed in publisher's blue box. 2 volumes and extra suite enclosed in publisher's blue slipcase.Selected by Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak. Translated by Lore Segal. With Four Tales Translated by Randall Jarrell. 2 volumes. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.Frontispieces. Small 8vo. Original gold-stamped decorated cloth; teg; in dust wrappers. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York (1973). Fine.
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