- Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial blue wraps with a cover illustration in black-and-white by cartoonist Jack Lambert. 20 pages. Near fine. The three documents reprinted here are supplemented by two Chicago Sun editorials. A note from the paper reads: The Chicago Sun, profoundly aware of the need for full public study and discussion of proposals for a world peace organization, presents herewith three of the most important documents bearing on that subject. The policies set forth [in the documents] form the foundation on which the United Nations conference at San Francisco April 25 will bui... View More...
- Octavo, brown cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The covers are lightly rubbed. The top corner of the front cover is bumped & the cloth along its lower front edge is chipped. xxxvii & 154 deckle-edged pages. Textual illustrations in black & white. The endpapers are darkened & there is occasional foxing throughout. Good.
First edition of the text volume only. First Edition. View More...
Paris, November, 1929.. 1929.. Fair. - A 7-1/2 inch high by 4-7/8 inch wide color portrait of Georges Clemenceau mounted into an 11 inch high by 7-1/8 inch wide mat. The portrait depicts the French Prime Minister from the shoulders up, a period hat above his heavy white eyebrows and mustache. Signed "Clemenceau" in ink on the mat below the image. The portrait, mounted with glue from the verso, is scratched, heavily creased, and subsequently waxed to protect it. The crude mat's backing is stained and the keyhole mat itself is cracked at the bottom and top edges. An autograph letter accompanying... View More...
Hanover Lodge, May 2, 1842., 1842.. Very good. - Approximately 100 words penned on both sides of a 7-1/2 inch high by 4-1/2 inch wide sheet of creamy white paper. In his letter penned from his home, Hanover Lodge in London, Lord Cochrane writes Dr. John Elliotson to thank him for permitting his "attendance at your mansion, during a series of most interesting experiments, on the susceptibility of the human frame to certain influences produced on the mind....". Lord Cochrane is likely referring to experiments in mesmerism which Dr. Elliotson conducted at his home. He goes on to mention that "a... View More...
19th Century. . Good. - The Lord Chief Justice's signed close of a letter penned on 3-1/8 inch high by 6-1/4 inch wide cream paper with an image of the British shield mounted at the top left. Your very obedt Servant A. E. Cockburn. Addressed to the Rt. Hon. H S Bruce along the bottom left. Once folded with clipped corners, the note is mounted with glue from the verso onto heavier stock clipped from an album. Good. The Scottish jurist and politician Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, 12th Baronet of Langton, Berwickshire (1802-1880) served as the Lord Chief Justice for 21 years. View More...
- A few words penned on his 4-5/8 inch high by 5 inch wide stationary with his pictorial seal embossed in blue at the top. The seal bears Coleridge's motto Time Deum Cole Regem embossed within a belt framing ears of wheat in front of a cross, an otter statant (i.e. standing with all four paws on the ground) in the foreground. Coleridge has penned but a few words I am Madam faithfully yours John Duke Coleridge. Once folded, the note is mounted with glue from the verso onto heavier stock clipped from an album. Very good. The English lawyer, judge and Liberal politician John Duke Coleridge, 1st B... View More...
- Octavo, softcover bound in folding pictorial blue & white wrappers. The binding is lightly rubbed & soiled with the edges of the covers lightly creased & chipped. The film surface of the spine is creased. 396 & [1] pages plus colophon. Black-and-white illustrations. Good. First edition, limited to 2000 copies.From the library of historian Mario Rosenthal, with a presentation card tipped onto page 8. Rosenthal was the author of "Guatemala: The Story of an Emergent Latin-American Democracy" [Twayne Publishers, 1962].General Jose Miguel Ramon Ydigoras Fuentes [1895-1982 was the conserva... View More...
- Octavo, 8-1/2 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Five volumes uniformly bound in black cloth titled in gilt on the spines. The covers are lightly rubbed and soiled with some minor staining. The heads of the spines are slightly chipped. 516 pages; 675 pages; 598 pages; 530 pages; and 542 pages. There is minor dampstaining to the bottom front corner of the first few pages of the second, third, and fifth volumes, and the bottom corner of the first few pages of the second volume are creased. There is a long tear along the front edge of page 53 of the first volume, without loss. Very good. From th... View More...
- Approximately 70 words typed on his 8-1/8 inch high by 5-3/4 inch wide creamy white official stationery with "De Burgemeester van Amsterdam" printed in blue at top left under the embossed seal of the City of Amsterdam. In his letter, addressed to the President of the Saint Nicholas Society in New York William M. Clearwater, d'Ailly extends his "hearty greetings" to the members of the Saint Nicholas Society on the occasion of the society's anniversary. He apologizes for not being able to attend the dinner "but I hope to meet you on another visit to the United States of America." Signed "AJD" ... View More...
- Over 75 words typed on his personal 8-1/8 inch high by 5-3/4 inch wide creamy white stationery with his name "Mr. Arn. J. d'Ailly" printed at top left. In his letter, addressed to the President of the Saint Nicholas Society in New York William M. Clearwater, d'Ailly informs him that his "eldest son, aged 18, will leave to-morrow for the United States, where he got a scholarship for Groton-School for the year 1950-1951." He goes on to say that he gave his son Clearwater's contact information and that of the "Saint Nicholas Society, in case he might need any advice from friends." Signed "AJD" ... View More...
- Four pages, each 8-1/4 inches high by 6-1/2 inches wide. Well over 1,060 words densely penned in a neat hand, with wide left margins, on 4 sides of a folded sheet of creamy white paper. Signed "St. d'Escayrac de Lauture". There is some minor darkening along the edges. The letter is folded several times, both horizontally and vertically, for mailing. There are two minuscule holes from a straight pin along the lower portion of the left margin. Very good. A very important letter written from Cairo by Stanislas d'Escayrac de Lauture to Ferdinand de Lesseps. De Lesseps had previously, on January ... View More...
(London): Longmans, Green and Co., 1923.. 1923.. Very good. - Small quarto [7 inches high by 5-7/8 inches wide], softcover bound in printed greenish gray wraps with vignettes in black on the front wrap. The front edge of the front wrap is lightly chipped. The corners & front edges of the wraps have been reinforced with pieces of white tape internally. 94 & [1] pages plus 1-page publisher's catalog. Illustrated with a black-and- white frontispiece & black-and-white facsimiles. There is a small stain to the front endpaper & another to the catalog page. The book contains only the Supplemental Not... View More...
- Octavo, softcover, unbound. Removed in the past from a collection of pamphlets. The title page & last text page are chipped around the edges & bumped and there is a piece out of the bottom inner corner of the last page. 44 pages. 11 black-and-white engraved portraits with tissue guards. The page corners are lightly bumped and the edges of a few front & rear pages are chipped. Good. The English Revolution [also known as The Glorious Revolution or the Revolution of 1688] was the deposing of the Catholic King James II and VII of England, Scotland and Ireland by his daughter Mary and the subseq... View More...
- Octavo, marbled boards backed with red calf & titled in gilt between raised bands & decorations in gilt on the spine. Marbled endpapers & a green silk bookmark. The edges & corners of the covers are rubbed with small pieces out of the marbled paper at the corners. There is a small score mark to the rear cover. Half-title, 1-page publisher's catalog & 344 pages. There is scattered foxing. Good.
From the library of Alice Maud Livingston, signed by her in Paris in the year of publication on the flyleaf. View More...
- Octavo, marbled boards backed with red calf & titled in gilt between raised bands & decorations in gilt on the spine. Marbled endpapers & green silk bookmark. The boards are rubbed with tiny pieces out of the marbled paper at the corners. The spine is slightly darkened, Half-title, title & 328 pages. There is scattered foxing & the endpapers are darkened. Good.
From the library of Alice Maud Livingston, signed by her in Paris in 1888 on the flyleaf. View More...
- Small octavo, 6-5/8 inches high by 3-7/8 inches wide. Disbound, lacking the covers and spine. [ii] & 196 pages. The first page, being the half-title, is creased, stained and chipped with scattered foxing. The edges of the title page are also creased and chipped with a small piece out from the front edge of that leaf. There is a small chip to the front and a small piece out from the top inner corner of the last page of the index which here is the last page of this book. There is scattered foxing throughout. Complete in itself, this appears to be a volume from Desessarts substantial 50 volume ... View More...
- Octavo, 8 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide. Unbound self-wraps with the remnants of brown paper along the spine. 7 & [1] deckle-edged pages. The overlapping edges are slightly darkened and creased with a small chip torn from the bottom edge of the last leaf, not affecting the text. Good. An impassioned speech by Dorfeuille addressed to the soldiers of the French republic in the early days of the French Revolution inspiring them to confront the foreign enemies who have aligned themselves with the aristocracy and to seek to inspire the soldiers of other countries to join with them and recogniz... View More...
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887.. 1887.. Good. - Octavo, brown cloth. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped. ix & 420 pages plus 2-page publisher's catalog. The fore-edge, bottom edge & prelims are lightly foxed with occasional foxing to the text pages. There is an owner's pencil signature on the title page. Good. First American edition.While downplaying his own claims to fame, literary or otherwise, Doyle remarks that he has lived through important periods of history and has enjoyed the friendship of "several eminent persons" [William Gladstone and others]. First Edition.... View More...
Paris: Imprimerie de Journaux Officiels, 1923.. 1923.. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed light grayish green wrappers. The wraps are bumped & darkened around the edges. There are paper-clip marks to the top & front edges of the front wrap & to the top edge of the rear wrap. 19 pages, printed in 2 columns. The page edges are darkened & there is a light paper-clip mark to the front edge of each page with slight staining to the mark on the first page. The page corners are lightly bumped. Good. Dubois reports on the failure of Germany to live up to the agreements of the Treaty of Versaill... View More...
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