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JEVONS, William Stanley
        A Serious Fall in the Value of Gold ascertained, and its Social Effects set forth. With two Diagrams
      London: Edward Stanford,, 1863. [Bound after:] TOOKE, Thomas. On the Bank Charter Act of 1844, its principles and operation; with suggestions for an improved administration of the Bank of England. London, Longman et al, 1856. [And:] ARBUTHNOT, G. Sir Robert Peel's Act of 1844, regulating the issue of bank notes, vindicated. London, Longman et al, 1857. Octavo (205 ×127 mm), pp. [2, blank], [4, title and contents leaf], 73, [1]; pp. 21-22 a double-page folding table. Later brown cloth, by Wilson & Son, binders at Cambridge, spine direct lettered gilt, marbled edges. With frontispiece and a folding chart at page 34. Circular library stamp of the British Library of Political Science to each title page. In excellent condition. First edition, presentation copy, of Jevons's first book publication, one of the greatest contributions to the theory of index numbers ever published, the early work which helped establish among his peers the 27-year-old Jevons's reputation as an economist. "Jevons had virtually to invent the concept of a price index for himself, as he also did a means of comparing changes in its value over time, a task which he accomplished with astonishing competence and originality" (Laidler, p. 334). Schumpeter calls it, with reservations, a "splendid work of seminal importance" (p. 1093n), and Fisher regarded the work as proof that Jevons "may perhaps be considered the father of index numbers." In 1860, Jevons had begun to compile a "statistical atlas" (only two diagrams were ever published), during which his attention was drawn to the price rises in the period following the Californian and Australian gold discoveries of 1849. A few years later, on 18 January 1863, Jevons wrote the following to his brother, Herbert: "… I have been led to observe the great rise in prices of nearly all things since 1851, which is obviously due to a fall in the value of gold. This I am now trying to ascertain and prove in a conclusive manner, which will, of course, be a very important and startling fact" (Papers and Correspondence III, 4). The outcome of Jevons's investigations was A Serious Fall in the Value of Gold (1863) ?- a work which established new standards of sophistication for applied economic research and has earned the admiration of every commentator both at the time and since. Jevons covered virtually every aspect and implication of a long-term change in the price level with lucidity and accuracy, his final estimate of a fall in the value of gold between 9 and 15 per cent agreeing closely with the results arrived at by Cairnes by more traditional a priori methods. The work was published on 16 April; by July, only 74 copies had been sold. However, after these initial difficulties, it "quickly gained approval and acceptance which the British Association papers of 1862 had failed to achieve. In this single tract Jevons had, by devising his own means of measuring price changes and sorting out the cyclical factors affecting them, solved one of the great questions of the day. His proof that there had been an important fall in the value of gold 'met with general acceptance', wrote Foxwell in his Introduction to Investigations in Currency and Finance and '… by its singular success placed its author at once in the first rank of living economists'" (Papers and Correspondence I, 39). Keynes writes: "For unceasing fertility and originality of mind applied, with a sure touch and unfailing control of the material, to a mass of statistics, involving immense labours for an unaided individual ploughing his way through with no precedents and labour-saving devices to relieve his task, this pamphlet stands unrivalled in the history of our subject" (Essays in Biography, 2nd edition, p. 271). This copy inscribed "Prof. Waley From the Author", on the initial blank leaf. Jacob Waley (1818-1873) was Professor of Political Economy at University College, London from 1854-66 and Emeritus Professor from then on. He wrote one of the testimonials in support of Jevons's application at Owens College in 1866 and examined him for his (successful) application for a scholarship at UCL.

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ALCOCK, SIR RUTHERFORD
        The Capital of the Tycoon. A Narrative of a Three Years' Residence in Japan
      London.: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green.. First edition.. 1863.. 2 volumes. Volume I: 7 full page chromolithographs, many black and white engravings, coloured folding map of Japan, xxxi + 469pp. Small closed tear margin of one plate not affecting the image. Volume II: 9 full page chromo-lithographs, many black and white engravings, including some full page. Colour folding map of Osaca, x + 539pp + 40 page publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. Map a little time toned, a little careless folding causing creasing along the margin not affecting the map itself. Armorial bookplate front paste downs of both volumes, signature on front free endpapers. Some occasional light browning first and last leaves. Bound in the original dark green pictorial boards, rebacked, original pictorial backstrips laid down (a small section of the backstrip Volume I is missing at the head of volume I), cloth on the upper cover of volume II shows a little insect damage in three small areas but overall the binding is very good and the gilt bright. An attractive copy of an important and most interesting work by Queen Victoria's first envoy to Japan. Although of course the content relates mainly to Japan, the first chapter also includes impressions of Hong Kong, Macao and Shanghai. .

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Hayyim, Yaakov Ben (Ed.)
        Mikraot Gedolot, 8th part of the Chronicles, Story of the Ancient Days, The Big Anthology of Readings
      Warsaw: Mikael Cedadet, 1863. Book. Good. Hardcover. Rare find, Hebrew text, important rabbinical bible, the Great Scriptures, only part of a lengthy series of volumes, front inner pastedown has plate as provenance showing this book is a gift from the books that were saved from the holocaust in, rescued in 1948, from the Warsaw Jewish library and sent to the Main Religious Library for Israel in Jerusalem, Hebrew text, rare item that remained of the enormous Jewish religious culture of the Warsaw ghetto lost and wantonly destroyed in the war. Much of price has sentimental value as how many books survived the war in Warsaw? Spine repaired but much wear (especially the covers which show serious loss of cloth) as can be expected of a book that has withstood so much travel and wear, approximately 316 pages. Lovely woodcut title page, double columns, internally very clean with minimum foxing. Occasional hebrew writing on eps. Important work from 19th c East Europe which showed more interest in these chronicles than in Germany at the time..

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(YALE) [Warren, George Kendall, photographer]
        Yale class of 1863 photographic yearbook
      [New Haven, Ct, 1863. 12 large format (approx. 6 x 8 in.) albumen print campus views (8 by George Kendall Warren, with his signature in the negative), including group portrait, captioned in ink identifying 24 students, 89 photographic portraits individually mounted to album leaves, mostly albumen print cartes-de-visite, most signed in ink beneath image, 30 engraved portraits with facsimile signatures. With a manuscript register of student deaths, including 6 from Civil War battles. 1 vols. 4to. Bound in full brown contemporary morocco-grained sheep, "Hamilton Wallis" stamped in gilt on upper cover, "Yale College, Class of 1863" stamped in gilt on spine, a.e.g. Binding rubbed, lacking clasps, sporadic foxing to plates. With 8 Campus Views by George Kendall Warren Photographic yearbook for the Yale class of 1863, wtih 12 large (approx. 7-1/2 x 9-1/2 in.) campus views and photographic and engraved portraits of faculty and students. Noted faculty include Benjamin Silliman (father and son) and future President of the University Timothy Dwight V. Eight of the campus views are by George Kendall Warren, including views of South College & Atheneum, Delta Kappa Epsilon (Deke), the Yale College Library, and the Trumball Gallery. George Kendall Warren (1824-1884) was a distinguished northeastern landscape photographer and the most highly-regarded collegiate yearbook photographer to elite northeastern institutions, including Dartmouth, Williams, Brown, Weslyan, Yale, Princeton, Rutgers, West Point and Harvard.

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Wheeler, Joseph:
        HEAD QUARTERS, WHEELER'S CAVALRY CORPS, JUNE 3rd, 1863 GENERAL ORDERS NO 7 [caption title]
      [N.p., likely Tennessee. June 1863].. Broadside, 3 1/2 x 11 inches. Two tiny archival tape remnants at top edge, dampstains, foxing, else very good. A Confederate broadside detailing seven orders from Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, then commander of the Cavalry Corps of the Army of Tennessee. Here, Wheeler instructs his cavalry troops to file accurate reports, questions prisoners closely, check and double- check the accuracy of their intelligence, avoid rumor and speculation, report enemy advances at twenty-minute intervals to ensure "the Commanding general may be frequently re-assured that the dispositions he is making are correct," and for scouts and cavalry in the rear of the enemy to report all information promptly, even information that "may appear to them of little importance." Wheeler reminds his officers that what might seem trivial to them "is frequently of great value to the Commanding General, as the most trifling circumstances, when connected with other knowledge in his possession, very often develops the chief purpose of the enemy." Wheeler concludes by reminding his troops that they are the "eyes and ears of the General" and without their regular and accurate information, the commander's "dispositions must be faulty, and his success by no means certain." The orders are signed in print by Wheeler and his adjutant general D.G. Reed. "Fightin' Joe" Wheeler was probably the most famous Confederate cavalry commander after J.E.B. Stuart and Nathan Bedford Forrest. Wheeler was that rare breed who served in both the Confederate Army and later in the U.S. Army; he fought in the Civil War and the Spanish- American War. His service in the latter conflict began when he was 61 years old. Parris & Willingham record this order as part of a single publication of sixteen orders, and do not list it separately. Rare, with only three copies in OCLC, at Alabama, Duke, and the Boston Athenaeum. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 993. OCLC 22458071.

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Andrew, John A.; Charles Sumner
        Document
      1863 - Single page, on Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Department letterhead. Original letter from Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew to Senator Charles Sumner, dated 3 December 1863, regarding the unequal pay of African-American soldiers serving in the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry (made memorable in the award-winning film Glory). This letter was owned by the Reverend Samuel Harrison, regiment chaplain; professionally matted and framed. The letter reads: Hon. Charles Sumner, Sir, I have the honor to transmit to you herewith, Resolves of the General Court of this Commonwealth, passed at its recent special session, `Concerning the increase of pay of the soldiers in the service of the United States, and `Concerning persons enlisted in the Naval service of the United States and concerning the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth regiments, Massachusetts Volunteers, with the respectful request that the objects they present may receive your cordial support, and that the measures they propose may be early accomplished. ---- The Fifty-fourth was the first regular army unit of African Americans raised in the North during the Civil War. Massachusetts abolitionist Governor Andrew organized the regiment January and May 1863. Unfortunately, those black soldiers were often cheated out of bounties, issued inferior weapons and insufficient rations, regulated to relentless fatigue duty, and paid unfairly. Because black volunteers were paid as laborers and not as soldiers, Andrew petitioned the Bureau of Colored Troops unsuccessfully. Not satisfied, Andrew went to Washington in September for talks with Lincoln which fell flat. As a stopgap measure, he then asked for and got action from the Massachusetts legislature  Andrews historic December 3, 1863, letter to Sumner confirmed the fact that state money had been appropriated to make up the difference in pay for the men of the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth. But both regiments were adamant and declined Andrews compromise solution. Refusing to accept any pay until it should be made equal by national legislation to that received by the white troops with whom they served, the black regiments fought and died for some eighteen months without pay. A significant document [Attributes: Signed Copy]

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Berthier, P. [M.]
        [Mont Frumento]
      Paris, Paul Berthier, ca. 1863-1865. Broadsheet (60 x 45 cm), with original mounted albumen silver print (36.5 x 25.8 cm).l Paul Marcellin Berthier (1822-1912) is regarded as one of the foremost French photographers of the 19th century, as well as an accomplished impressionist painter. He is principally known as a landscape and a portrait photographer (of, e.g., the French poet Lamartine), and as a landscape painter. His landscape photos are rare and sought-after, and are, for instance, included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This photograph is of geological importance, showing Monte Frumento on Sicily, which is situated on the flanks of Mount Etna, whose snow-covered top is seen in the background. This photo can be dated as from 1863-1865, as Berthier is known to have photographed the Etna volcano during and after its 1861-1865 eruptions. He did not visit the area after 1865. The 1866 volume of "Le tour du Monde", contains a series of papers by Élisée Reclus on the 1865 Etna eruption, illustrated with engravings after original photos by Berthier. Berthier's blindstamp below the photo, as caption. Some spotting, mainly in the margins.

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England, William. (englischer Photograph 1830 bei Trowbridge/Wiltshire - 1896 London).
        Ansicht eines Schweizer Alpentals bei Chamonix. mit einem Dorf und Bergen im Hintergrund, im Vordergrund rastende Wanderer. Orig.-Photo.
      Um 1863.. Albuminabzug. 15,7 x 21,2 cm. Auf Karton mit Tonplatte montiert. Im Unterrand Eindruck: "W. England photg. Views of Switzerland and Savoy. Dedicated by permission to the Alpine Club", sowie Verlegeradresse "F. Mack...Vevey". Im Hintergrund die Bergpartie etwas bleich. Dies aber wohl Nebel oder Dunst und keine Ausbleichung des Abzugs - der Rest der Aufnahme bis zur Mitte mit der Talebene setzt sich gestochen scharf vom beginnenden Hintergrund der ansteigenden Berge ab. Sehr guter Abzug.. Wohl aus einer in der Schweiz erschienenen Serie (oder Mappe). Siehe Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature, Nr. 272 - dieser verzeichnet dort aber nur eine Mappe mit Aufnahmen Englands in kleinerem Format "Panoramic Views of Switzerland, Savoy, and Italy" von 1865, die aber in London erschien. England begann bereits in sehr jungen Jahren vor 1842 seine Photographenlaufbahn als Assistent eines Daguerreotypisten in London und bald darauf wurde er zu einem der Pioniere der Landschaftsphotographie. 1854 trat er der London Stereoscopic Co. bei und war bald bis 1862 deren Chefphotograph. Später verließ er die Stereoscopic Company und gründete sein eigenes Atelier für Photographien und Drucke. Er reiste und photographierte in Frankreich, Irland, der Schweiz und den USA. Als Spezialist für Alpenansichten bekannt, stand er unter dem Patronat des "British Alpine Club", der einige seiner Ansichten, wie auch vorliegende, publizierte. Ab 1886 war er Präsident der London Photographic Society. Großformatige Einzelaufnahmen Englands sind bedeutend seltener als seine relativ häufigen Stereokarten. Zur Biographie siehe auch Matthew Butson, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, Vol I, S. 488/89.

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Abraham Lincoln
        Extraordinary Autograph Album including signatures of President Lincoln and his son Robert Todd Lincoln on the same page and ? each in full ? by his Secretaries of State and War, William H Seward and Edwin M Stanton
      Bound Autograph Album Signed ?A. Lincoln? as President. Also signed by Lincoln's 20-year-old son Robert Todd Lincoln, his Secretaries of State William H. Seward and War Edwin M. Stanton and 14 others, 12 pages, 5.5? x 8.5?. [Washington, D.C,], circa 1863-1864. Modern brown leather half-binding over marbled boards and title ?SIGNATURES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND HIS CABINET? stamped in gilt on the spine, two raised bands. Fine condition. Signed ?A. Lincoln? as President, eldest son ?R.T. Lincoln,? and ?Jno G. Nicolay / Priv. Sec.? on first sheet, Secretary of State ?William H. Seward / Auburn? and Secretary of War ?Edwin M. Stanton / Washington? on verso of first sheet, Secretary of the Treasury ?S.P. Chase / Ohio,? assistant to Treasury Secretary Chase ?M.B. Field / New York,? Treasurer of the United States ?F.E. Spinner,? Deputy Comptroller of the Currency ?S.T. Howard,? Register of the Treasury ?L.E. Chittenden,? and Comptroller of the Currency and later Lincoln?s last Secretary of the Treasury ?Hugh McCulloch? on second sheet, Secretary of the Navy ?Gideon Welles / 30 Jany 1864? on third sheet, Secretary of the Interior ?J.P. Usher / Secy of Interior? and Postmaster General ?M. Blair / PMG? on fourth sheet, Vice President ?H. Hamlin / Dec 22 1863.? and Secretary of the Senate ?J.W. Forney? on verso of fifth sheet, and Speaker of the House and later Grant?s V.P. ?Schuyler Colfax / Speaker H.R.U.S.,? and Clerk of the House ?E. McPherson / Gettysburg / Pa. / Clerk H.R.? on verso of sixth sheet. Three blank sheets before and after the signed pages.

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Steinkopf, Julius (1815 oder 1816 - Stuttgart - 1892)
        Landschaft mit Burg Hohenzollern.
      . Aquarell, über Bleistift, auf chamoisfarbenem Velin, rechts unten datiert "18. Juli 1863", am Oberrand links bezeichnet "Hohenzollern". 15,3:20,3 cm. In den Rändern minimal fleckig; verso am oberen Rand Reste alter Verklebung. Aus einem Skizzenbuch.. Julius Steinkopf erhielt seine erste Ausbildung bei seinem Vater Gottlob Friedrich Steinkopf (1778-1860). Von Ende 1841 bis Juni 1844 hielt er sich in Rom auf. Später war er Zeichenlehrer in Calw. In Stuttgarter Privatbesitz befinden sich Gouachen mit Ansichten von Esslingen und Bad Boll (1834/1835). Die Graphische Sammlung in Stuttgart besitzt Skizzenbücher des Künstlers von 1842, 1843 und 1844 mit Landschaften aus dem Bergland um Olevano, von Orvieto und Assisi sowie Skizzenbuchblätter aus Mittelitalien und Süditalien (vgl. Best. Katalog: Die Zeichnungen und Aquarelle des 19. Jahrhunderts in der Graphischen Sammlung der Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1976, Inv. GVL 34, 372 und 373).

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[Barlow, William, bishop of Chichester
        A proper dyalogue betwene a gentillman and a husband man eche complaynynge to other their miserable calamite through the ambicion of clergye. With a compendious olde treatyse shewynge howe that we ought to have the Scripture in Englysshe. Hans Luft. 1530. Edited, with an introduction, by Francis Fry
      London ? Bristol: Willis and Sotheran ... Lasbury, 1863. PRINTED ON VELLUM, one of a few copies. Frontispiece of Cotham Tower. 64 pp (16 pages of text, 31 ff. of facsimile). 1 vols. 8vo (18.8 x 12.cm). Contemporary pebbled brown morocco gilt (slightly rubbed), all edges gilt, by Tuckett, Binder to the Queen. Fine. PRINTED ON VELLUM, one of a few copies. Frontispiece of Cotham Tower. 64 pp (16 pages of text, 31 ff. of facsimile). 1 vols. 8vo (18.8 x 12.cm). A facsimile on vellum of an extremely rare book (one copy known), from the earliest days of the English reformation. A dramatic dialogue in verse complaining of the oppression of the laity by the Catholic clergy, A proper dyalogue is now attributed (by STC) to the reformist clergyman William Barlow, bishop of Chichester (d. 1568); and although the colophon of the original bears the imprint: "Emprented at Marborow in the land of Hessen by me Hans Luft" the original 1530 edition (cf. STC 1462.5) was printed by Hoochstraten in Antwerp.The facsimile itself was made "by taking a tracing on transfer paper, placing this on lithographic stones, and then printing it in the usual way ... I believe that not a single incorrect letter will be found therein. A few copies are printed on vellum, and some on old paper. " - Fry, Introduction.

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Berthier, P. [M.]
        [Mont Frumento]
      . Paris, Paul Berthier, ca. 1863-1865. Broadsheet (60 x 45 cm), with original mounted albumen silver print (36.5 x 25.8 cm).l Paul Marcellin Berthier (1822-1912) is regarded as one of the foremost French photographers of the 19th century, as well as an accomplished impressionist painter. He is principally known as a landscape and a portrait photographer (of, e.g., the French poet Lamartine), and as a landscape painter. His landscape photos are rare and sought-after, and are, for instance, included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This photograph is of geological importance, showing Monte Frumento on Sicily, which is situated on the flanks of Mount Etna, whose snow-covered top is seen in the background. This photo can be dated as from 1863-1865, as Berthier is known to have photographed the Etna volcano during and after its 1861-1865 eruptions. He did not visit the area after 1865. The 1866 volume of "Le tour du Monde", contains a series of papers by Elisee Reclus on the 1865 Etna eruption, illustrated with engravings after original photos by Berthier. Berthier's blindstamp below the photo, as caption. Some spotting, mainly in the margins..

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PIETTE, Louis
        Traite de la Coloration des Pates a Papier
      1863. PIETTE, Louis. Traité de la Coloration des Pates a Papier précédé d'un Aperçu sur l'État actuel de la Fabrication du Papier et contenant un Assortiment d'Échantillons de Papier colorés. xvii, xxxiv, 189 pp. Illustrated with 229 mounted samples of coloured papers. 8vo., 220 x 135 mm, bound in publisher's purple pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Paris: au Bureau du Journal des Fabricants de Papier, 1863. |~||~||~||~| Second, Revised Edition of the seminal treatise on colouring paper pulp by Belgian author Maria Ludwig (Louis) Valentin Piette (1803-1862), this copy with a contemporary family provenance, presented by H. Piette (Magdalena Helena, 1815-64) to the Author's brother, Prosper Piette (1846-1928). Louis Piette began experimenting with papermaking in 1827, after taking over his father's paper factory in Dillingen, Prussia. Until the nineteenth century, paper was mostly made by breaking down rags into pulp; but as fabric supplies dwindled and technology advanced, papermakers tried new methods and materials, like straw - the main subject of Piette's treatise on paper, Die Fabrikation des Papieres aus Stroh und vielen andern Substanzen (1838) - to improve manufacture. A prolific, expert author on paper studies, Piette also published the Traite de la fabrication du papier (1831) at a time when Delalande's L'art de faire le papier was the only available text on the subject; and edited and published the Journal des Fabricants de Papier, a technical journal issued with many paper specimens, from France starting in 1854. For his publications and his advancement in the art of papermaking, Piette received numerous international awards. This book, printed in a limited edition of 250 copies, is also profusely illustrated with 229 paper samples illustrating as many tints, ranging in color from plain to blues, oranges, greens, pinks, reds, and black, each sample with its formula recorded below for easy reference by paper manufacturers. Of these, nos. 154 and 227 are torn in half (227 with the torn part tucked behind), and no. 108 with early ink writing. Spine faded and lightly rubbed, but a remarkable copy complete with all the samples. PROVENANCE: Prosper Piette, with his ink ownership inscription on front pastedown and his label in upper corner of title-page; and a family presentation inscription to him on the half title-page, from H[elena] Piette, with her signature dated 1 January 1864, as above.

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GEBHARDT Y COLL ( Víctor)
        HISTORIA GENERAL DE ESPAÑA Y DE SUS INDIAS
      - Historia general de España y de sus Indias, desde los tiempos más remotos hasta nuestros días, tomada de las principales anales, crónicas y historias, que acerca de los sucesos ocurridos en nuestra patria se han escrito.- Madrid Librería Española- Barcelona, Librería Plus Ultra- La Habana, Librería de la Enciclopedia, Imprenta Luis Tasso, 1863-64; 6 tomos en 7 volúmenes en 4º menor holandesa, cortes pintados. 1º, frontis grabado, VIII-426 pp. 19 láminas. 2º, 587 pp. 15 láminas. 3º, 2hh. 658 pp. 10 láminas. 4º, 2 hh. 765 pp. 11 láminas. 5º 782 pp. 19 láminas. 6º en dos volúmenes 1º, 684 pp. 11 láminas 2º, 2 hh. página 685 a 1399 pp. 4 láminas. En total la obra tiene 90 láminas grabadas, algunas de ellas mapas a doble página. Palau: 101019

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Sechenov, Ivan Michailovich (Setschenov, J.)
        Physiologische Studien über die Hemmungsmechanismen für die Reflexthätigkeit des Rückenmarks im Gehirne des Frosches.
      . Berlin, August Hirschwald, 1863, 8°, IV, 81 pp., Halbleinenband d.Zt.; St.a.Tit.. First edition of this extraordinarily rare treatise on the reflexes of the brain, a pioneer work on cerebral reflex activity. According to Sechenov, higher brain function, including any so-called voluntary act, was basically reflex in nature for it was a response to sensory stimulation which led to a motor act. "Thus the nervous system as a whole functioned exclusively by means of reflex activity: lower or spinal reflexes, and cerebral or "psychic" reflexes which included emotions and thoughts" (Clarke & O'Malley, p. 362). "Sechenov considered cerebral reflex activity the source of voluntary actions. Stimulations, according to him, arise in the peripheral sense organs and are mediated to the psychic realm, which determines the nature of muscular response. Absence of all senses would thus make psychic life impossible. However, the reflex activity itself is regulated by other cerebral centers (especially that in the mid-brain), which serve in an inhibitory capacity" (Haymaker & Schiller). - Sechenov (1829-1905), the father of Russian physiology, laid the foundation for the study of reflexes, animal and human behaviour, and neuroscience. He showed that brain activity is linked to electric currents and was the first to introduce electrophysiology. Among his discoveries was the cerebral inhibition of spinal reflexes, and described how the physiochemical factors in the environment of the cell are of equal if not greater importance. - - Garrison & Morton No. 1362; Rothschuh Nr. 1507

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HOOD, T.H. Cockburn
        Notes of a Cruise in H.M.S."Fawn" in the Western Pacific in the Year 1862
      Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas,, 1863. Octavo (219 × 141 mm). Contemporary black half calf by Harrison, Pall Mall, marbled boards, red morocco label, low, narrow bands milled in gilt, lozenges gilt to the compartments, marbled edges and endpapers. Tinted lithographic frontispiece and 8 other similar plates, 4 engraved plates and one plan, 5 engraved illustrations to the text, and a folding engraved track chart. Just a little rubbed at the extremities, light browning and some foxing to the plates, but remains a very good copy, and well-presented.. First edition, this copy inscribed on the title page by the author to his son; "John Shapland Elliot from his very affectionate father THCH", and with later ownership inscription of "A.M. Daubeny (granddaughter) 1942". Loosely inserted photographic carte-de-visite of Captain Cator, captain of the ship, on whose photographs the plates are based, annotated to this effect verso. "The Fawn steamed out of Sydney harbour in May of 1862, headed for Auckland, New Zealand, which is described in the first chapter. Other sections describe visits to Norfolk, New Caledonia, Isle of Pines, Fiji, Samoa Niue, Pago Pago, and with a lengthy segment on the Pitcairn Islands. Hood provides much detail on native customs, and includes his thoughts on polygamy, cannibalism, agriculture, religion, child rearing and relations with whites. There is also an interesting account of the descendants of the Bounty mutineers of Norfolk Island. An excellent descriptive narrative touching on most of the major islands of the Western Pacific" (Hill).

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Marx, Karl, philosopher and economist (1818-1883).
        Autograph manuscript leaf of notes on the Polish question, taken from the notebook labelled "Exzerpte. Heft No 2".
      [London, 1863].. 4to (202 × 166 mm). 2 pp. (numbered 51 and 155) on a sheet of blue paper removed from a notebook, watermarked Chartham Mills Fine. 32 and 28 lines. Preserved in a custom-made chemise.. Marx's research notes towards a planned joint publication with Engels following the uprising in the Russian part of Poland in January 1863. "When in 1863 the January uprising broke out in the Russian part of Poland and a Prussian intervention on the side of the Tsar with the Russo-Prussian Alvensleben Convention (February 8th) appeared probable, Karl Marx saw a new era of European revolutions opened and a statement necessary. He and Friedrich Engels planned to write a manifesto on behalf of the London based German emigre Bildungsgesellschaft für Arbeiter as well as a more comprehensive and elaborate pamphlet to be titled 'Deutschland & Polen. Polit[isch]. milit[ärische]. Betrachtungen bei Gelegenheit des polnischen Aufstands von 1863'" (Götz Langkau, IISG). Though ultimately abandoned due to poor health and, implicitly, the waning revolutionary prospects of the insurrection, Marx spent the early months of 1863 filling a notebook with extracts from the daily press, and two exercise books with extracts and notes from a variety of diplomatic sources, historical surveys and political pamphlets covering Polish-Prussian-Russian relations from the early 18th century, and various drafts of the intended historical survey, more or less elaborated and covering mainly events of the 18th century up to the Congress of Vienna. The present leaf, removed from the second exercise book headed "Exzerpte, Heft No 2 (Politischer, nicht zum Heft gehöriger Dreck)", approximately 750 words in length, contains notes about Russia's German policy between Austerlitz and the Vienna congress. - Final line of page 51 very slightly smudged, the inner edge of the leaf unevenly trimmed, in very good condition. We are indebted to Götz Langkau of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam for his report on this leaf, available upon request. - Published, from a photocopy held by the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, in: Beiträge zur Geschichte der polnischen Frage (Manuskripte aus den Jahren 1863-1864), Warsaw, 1986, pp. 870-875, in parallel German and Polish text.

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Reichert, Carl:
        Einst und Jetzt. Album, Steiermarks sämmtliche interessante Schlösser, Burgruinen, Städte, Märkte, Kirchen und Klöster enthaltend. Ein vaterländisches Bilderwerk. Nach der Natur aufgenommen, auf Stein gezeichnet und herausgegeben. I. bis III. Band sowie eingebundenem Ergänzungsband.
      Graz, Selbstverlag, 1863 - 1865.. 3 Bde. Gr.-Quer-8°. 4 n.n. + 57 + Tafeln [73], 58 S. + Tafeln [90], 60 S. + Tafeln [100] + 4 n.n. + 12 + 6 S. + Tafeln [30]. Priv. Hld. der Zeit.. N/W III, 536: es fehlen die Tafel 82 des 1. Bd. (Graz 1647) und Tafel 69 des 2. Bd. (6 Ansichten Greiseneck etc.). Zusätzlich eingebunden in Band 2 eine Tafel mit 8 Ansichten (Gradisch bis Zschakaturn) und eine Tafel mit vier Ansichten (Sauritsch, Külbel, Schmierenberg und Schwamberg). Im dritten Band ist die Tafel 84, in eine Tafel mit drei Ansichten (Stättenberg, Forchtenstein, Drakenberg) und eine mit vier Ansichten eingebunden. Einige Tafeln sind verbunden innerhalb der Bände. Mit den drei Titelblättern und den beiden Porträts, wie häufiger fehlt der Titel zum Ergänzungsband. - Ebd. fleckig, stockfleckig, Gbrsp. Teilweise mit Prägestempel. Gute Expl. - Tonlithographien.

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Grant, Henry
        Mariquita
      London: Emily Faithfull, Victoria Press, 1863. First edition. Publisher's original full beige morocco with elaborate gilt-stamped design on both covers by John Leighton. Mounted frontispiece photograveure in tint, A.E.G. An important book, being one of the first books ever produced by a woman publisher. Emily Faithfull and the Victoria Press employed up to 19 teenage girls and began printing a law magazine and various volumes of poetry in prose and later the Vicotria Magazine. In 1862 the firm was appointed Printer and Publisher in Ordinary to Queen Victoria (present copy bears this imprint). The "List of Names" (list of subscribers) gives the publication number of this morocco edition to be only 117 copies! A superb copy with minimal edgewear, spine slightly darkened.

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Michael Scott
        Tom Cringle's Log
      1863 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A scarce edition of Tom Cringle's nautical adventures in the West Indies. Numerous illustrated plates throughout depicting life at sea and island living in the 1820's. Michael Scott was a British author and autobiographer who wrote under the pseudonym of Tome Cringle. The adventures are based on Scott's own travels and the incidents he experienced during his time in Jamaica. Condition: In a calf binding. Externally, sound with some marks to boards and rubbing to head and tail of spine. Front joint starting but firm. Ink inscription to front free end paper. Leather spine plate is lifting. Internally, firmly bound with scattered spotting to end papers, otherwise bright and clean. Overall GOOD..

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Forchhammer, Johann Georg, dänischer Mineraloge u. Geologe (1794-1865).
        Eigenh. Brief m. Unterschrift.
      Kopenhagen, 17. XII. 1863.. 3 S., 8°.. [An den österr. Chemiker u. Mineralogen Anton Schrötter von Kristelli (1802-1875)]. - "Von 1815 bis 1818 studierte er in Kiel und Kopenhagen. Er begleitete Hans Christian Oersted und Lauritz Esmarch (1765-1842) bei der mineralogischen Untersuchung von Bornholm. 1820 promovierte er in Kiel zum Dr. phil. mit einer Arbeit Über Mangan'. 1822 wurde er an der Universität Kopenhagen Dozent und 1823 Lektor der Chemie und Mineralogie. Seit 1825 war er Mitglied der Königlich Dänischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 1829 wurde er Professor für Chemie und Mineralogie an der neu gegründeten polytechnischen Schule und Professor für Mineralogie an der Seeakademie in Kopenhagen [...]. 1851, nach dem Tod Oersteds, übernahm er dessen Posten als Direktor der polytechnischen Schule und Sekretär der Akademie. Im Jahr 1860 wurde er zum Mitglied der Leopoldina gewählt. 1865 publizierte ein Werk über die Zusammensetzung des Seewassers, das als ein Meilenstein der chemischen Ozeanographie gilt. Er führte den Begriff Salinität ein und identifizierte im Seewasser bereits 27 Elemente. Er behauptete, dass die Salinität in den einzelnen Meeren zwar variiere, die relativen Mengenverhältnisse der einzelnen Bestandteile aber konstant blieben" (Wikipedia). --- Der in Olmütz geborene Anton Schrötter, Sohn eines Apothekers, studierte ab 1822 zunächst auf Wunsch seines Vaters in Wien Medizin, wechselte dann aber unter dem Einfluss von Friedrich Mohs zu den naturwissenschaftlichen Fächern, speziell der Mineralogie. 1827 erhielt er eine Assistentenstelle für Physik und Mathematik an der Universität Wien. 1830 wurde er Professor für Physik und Chemie am Technischen Institut Joanneum in Graz. Während eines halbjährigen Urlaubs im Jahre 1838 besuchte er chemische Institute in Göttingen, Heidelberg, Frankfurt und Paris. In Gießen machte er sich bei Justus von Liebig mit der organischen Elementaranalyse vertraut. Ab 1843 arbeitete er als Professor für technische Chemie am Polytechnischen Institut der Universität Wien und übernahm dort 1845 die Professur für allgemeine Chemie. Schrötter war neben Baumgartner, Ettingshausen und Haidinger einer der Begründer der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien und wurde 1850 ihr Generalsekretär. Die Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina wählte Schrötter 1856 zu ihrem Mitglied. Ab 1868 leitete er das österreichische Hauptmünzamt und wurde gleichzeitig zum Ministerialrat ernannt. Er wurde 1874 in den Ruhestand versetzt und eröffnete in seiner Wohnung ein Privatlaboratorium, in dem er Studien über Edelmetalle betrieb. 1875 starb er in Wien. Schrötter hat in seinem Leben ca. 60 wissenschaftliche Publikationen verfasst. Ab 1845 beschäftigte Schrötter sich intensiv mit Phosphor. 1848 gelang ihm der Nachweis der schon von Berzelius geäußerten Vermutung, dass roter Phosphor eine allotrope Modifikation des weißen Phosphors, nicht aber eine Phosphorverbindung ist. Schrötter wandelte weißen Phosphor durch Erhitzen in roten um, den man zeitweise Schrötterschen Phosphor nannte. Sein Verfahren zur Darstellung desselben revolutionierte die Streichholzindustrie, wo roter Phosphor schon bald als Bestandteil der Reibflächen genutzt wurde. Er war ein Organisator in Industrie und Wissenschaft sowie Berater bei den Vorbereitungen zur Novara-Expedition und zur Österreich-Ungarischen Nordpolexpedition. - Knickspur. -

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B., F
        Lose BlÃ¤tter enthaltend Fingerzeige fÃ¼r Schifffahrtstreibende
      Vegesack: No publisher/printer Small 8vo (21 cm; 8.25"). viii, 295, [1] pp., 2 folding plates.. 1863 Loose sheets containing pointers to Skippers" is the translation of the title of this compendium of information for ships' captains. The information is for ports in Europe, Asia, the Americas, the Pacific Islands, and elsewhere. The hints include advice on customs forms, winds, hazards, signals, etc. => One of the two folding plates is partially in color, very large, and shows signals and light houses; the other shows coastlines. Searches of NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, and KVK locate => only one copy worldwide (in Hesse, Germany). . Late-19th-century half leather with mottled paper sides, rubbing overall and joints (outside) starting to crack but volume still strong. Some foxing and brown staining, but not serious; "signals" plate with a stain that may be oil into frame touching text but not images. A good++ copy of a most uncommon book.

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Boynton, Edward C.
        History of West Point, and its Military Importance during the American Revolution: and the Origin and Progress of the United States Military Academy
      New York: D. Van Nostrand; London: Sampson Low, Son 1863 - 8vo., publisher's half calf binding lettered in gilt; marbled boards, endpapers, and edges; raised bands; intricate gilt spine decorations; tender hinges; enclosed in a custom built folding box. First edition, with 36 illustrations, including fold-out frontispiece (9 x 30 inches) of West Point by lithographer Julius Bien and 2 fold-maps, along with charts and diagrams; pages xvii, (1), 9-408. (Sabin 7150; Howes B678.) From the library of Ulysses S. Grant, with the West Point alumnuss annotations on the front endpaper and pages i, 16, 17, 89, 186, 187, 189, 190, 193, 200, and 201. ---- Published in late 1863, Boyntons History of West Point received laudatory reviews and generated respectable sales, prompting the New York publisher David Van Nostrand to reprint the work in 1864, 1866, and 1871. The North American Review, for one, commended Boynton for championing the academy as the great mother of our future educational development in arms. The timing of his publication proved critical, for the Senate had recently debated abolishing West Point, largely because continued Union defeats had produced an outcry to remove incompetent top brass, the majority being academy graduates. What Boynton accomplished in print by furnishing irrefutable historical rationales to validate the schools existence, West Pointers like Generals George G. Meade and Grant achieved that year through judicious generalship. Boyntons work and Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg would subdue the most bitter of academy critics. ----- At some point, Grant acquired this copy of History of West Point for his personal library. The 1843 academy graduate extensively annotated the volume, providing ample evidence of his abiding interest in the school. For example, Grant made endpaper notations and marked sections pertaining to British-Indian relations during the American Revolution, the creation of a naval department at West Point, and severe reductions of army personnel after the War of 1812, owing to the diminished aggressions of hostile Native Americans and foreign powers. In another instance, Grant underscored a passage from Washingtons final State of the Union Address concerning the future security of the country. (When war becomes unavoidable, said the first president, a nations inadequate stock of military knowledge would impair the energy of its character and hazard its safety  a stark warning upon which Grant would amplify in his memoirs when arguing that to maintain peace in the future it is necessary to be prepared for war.) Grant also identified pronouncements by Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson that regarded constitutional issues impacting the establishment of West Point, not to mention an introductory quotation by General Winfield Scott emphasizing the integral role academy graduates had played during the Mexican War, both as conquerors and as peacemakers. Provenance: From the estate of Ulysses S. Grant, included in Sotheby's January 18, 19, 2001, sale, lot 126. The late Grant scholar and Sothebys consultant John Y. Simon described this remarkable association copy as the smoking gun of honest conviction. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Frankland, Sir Edward, engl. Chemiker (1825-1899).
        Eigenh. Brief m. Unterschrift.
      London, 24. IX. 1863.. 2 S., 4°.. An den österr. Chemiker u. Mineralogen Anton Schrötter von Kristelli (1802-1875). - Frankland synthetisierte metallorganische Verbindungen und führte den Begriff der Sättigungskapazität in die organische Chemie ein. Die Sättigungskapazität war der gedankliche Vorläufer der Valenz. Frankland gehörte auch zu den Entdeckern des Heliums. --- Der in Olmütz geborene Anton Schrötter, Sohn eines Apothekers, studierte ab 1822 zunächst auf Wunsch seines Vaters in Wien Medizin, wechselte dann aber unter dem Einfluss von Friedrich Mohs zu den naturwissenschaftlichen Fächern, speziell der Mineralogie. 1827 erhielt er eine Assistentenstelle für Physik und Mathematik an der Universität Wien. 1830 wurde er Professor für Physik und Chemie am Technischen Institut Joanneum in Graz. Während eines halbjährigen Urlaubs im Jahre 1838 besuchte er chemische Institute in Göttingen, Heidelberg, Frankfurt und Paris. In Gießen machte er sich bei Justus von Liebig mit der organischen Elementaranalyse vertraut. Ab 1843 arbeitete er als Professor für technische Chemie am Polytechnischen Institut der Universität Wien und übernahm dort 1845 die Professur für allgemeine Chemie. Schrötter war neben Baumgartner, Ettingshausen und Haidinger einer der Begründer der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien und wurde 1850 ihr Generalsekretär. Die Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina wählte Schrötter 1856 zu ihrem Mitglied. Ab 1868 leitete er das österreichische Hauptmünzamt und wurde gleichzeitig zum Ministerialrat ernannt. Er wurde 1874 in den Ruhestand versetzt und eröffnete in seiner Wohnung ein Privatlaboratorium, in dem er Studien über Edelmetalle betrieb. 1875 starb er in Wien. Schrötter hat in seinem Leben ca. 60 wissenschaftliche Publikationen verfasst. Ab 1845 beschäftigte Schrötter sich intensiv mit Phosphor. 1848 gelang ihm der Nachweis der schon von Berzelius geäußerten Vermutung, dass roter Phosphor eine allotrope Modifikation des weißen Phosphors, nicht aber eine Phosphorverbindung ist. Schrötter wandelte weißen Phosphor durch Erhitzen in roten um, den man zeitweise Schrötterschen Phosphor nannte. Sein Verfahren zur Darstellung desselben revolutionierte die Streichholzindustrie, wo roter Phosphor schon bald als Bestandteil der Reibflächen genutzt wurde. Er war ein Organisator in Industrie und Wissenschaft sowie Berater bei den Vorbereitungen zur Novara-Expedition und zur Österreich-Ungarischen Nordpolexpedition. - Einige Knickspuren u. Randeinrisse. - Frankiert mit einer Dreierreihe "Two Pence Blue". -

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