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Corbiere, l'Abbe [Prosper Honore].
        L'economie sociale au point de vue chretien, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES].
      Paris, A. Jouby, 1863.. Two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. iv, 507; 508. Plus a suite of blank leaves at the end of each volume, apparently for notations. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary half calf and matching foliage paper over boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered and decorated direct, corners abraded, rubbed at extremities, handsome marbled endpapers, red ribbon markers, a small dampmark at foot margin of first few leaves of one volume. A nice set in handsome binding, overall in a very good condition. ~ First edition. A German translation, "Die Volkswirthschaftslehre vom Standpunkte des Christenthums" appeared in 1867. Only little is known about the Abbot Corbiere. He was born in 1803 in Saint Lieux Lafenasse and at the age of 25 joined the "Societas Presbyterorum a S. Sulpitio", a move which had a great influence on his life thereafter. In 1945 he published "Le Guide de la conscience. Ouvrage contenant les divers traites de la morale chretienne et des sacraments, a l'usage des simples fideles." He died in 1865. For more on Corbiere's life, and comments on his contribution to economic thought, see "Corbiere und die soziale Theorie in der katholischen Kirche des 19. Jahrhunderts" by Gerhard Merk (Die Neue Ordnung" Vol. 20, 1966). Rare. OCLC 36957989 locates only 6 copies worldwide. KVK locates just one copy, that in the British Library..

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Herford, Oliver
        Collection of Twelve Books
      - Offered here is a scarce collection of twelve books illustrated (and written) by the renown American writer and illustrator Oliver Herford (1863-1935) whose wit and witticisms in both word and illustratiion have made him a favorite for collectors. This collection was put together by one such enthusiast and contains some inscribed books, a sketch presentation, an autograph letter laid-in, scarce wrappers and some uncommon titles. The condition, unless noted, is very good or better and very fine copies are also noted in the following descriptions in alphabetical order by title: Altogether New Cynics calendar of Revised Wisdom for 1907. San Francisco, Paul Elder and Co., The Tomoye Press, 1906. 12mo. ScarceBashful Earthquake. New York, Charles Scribners, 1898. Superb and famous pictorial cover. Early Herford title. Cupids Almanac and Guid to Hearticulture. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1908. Third impression. With two page autograph letter laid-in, to Mrs. Ethelbert Nevin, wife of the composer and pianist.Cupids Cyclopedia. New York, Charles Scribners. 1910. 12mo. Original pictorial wrapper. Book and wrapper are very fine.Debs Dictionary. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1931. Fine copy in scarce very good pictorial wrapper. An uncommon and popular title.Excuse It Please. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co. 1929. Presented by Herford to the owner, H.L. Brown with lavish inscription on front free fly with colored sketch by Herford. With two page autograph letter from Herford to Brown in original envelope. In original and scarce color pictorial wrapper. A scarce title.Fairy Godmother-in-law. New York, Charles Scribners, 1905. Pictorial cover. Spine poor, remainder of book without flaws.Giddy Globe. New York, George H. Doran, 1919. In original color pictorial wrapper.Laughing Willow, Verse and Pictures. New York, George H. Doran, 1918. Pictorial paper covered boards. In original color dust wrapper. Book fine, wrapper very good. Overheard in a Garden, et cetera. New York, Charles Scribners, 1900. Superb color pictorial paper covered boards. Quite scarce and gorgeous cover design.Scrambled Eggs. Cincinnati, Stewart & Kidd, 1920. Pictorial covers. Fine.Sea Legs. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co. 1931. Presentation Inscription by Herford on half-title. One of Herfords most enduring works, with famous cover design. Superb copy.

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Andrews, Richard Snowden:
        ANDREWS' MOUNTED ARTILLERY DRILL; COMPILED ACCORDING TO THE LATEST REGULATIONS FROM STANDARD MILITARY AUTHORITY
      Charleston: Evans and Cogswell, 1863.. 164pp. plus sixty-one plates on thirty-one leaves bound after the text. Modern three-quarter calf and paper boards, gilt. Minor shelf wear. Two 20th century bookplates on front pastedown. Text somewhat tanned, else very good. First, and only, edition of this Confederate imprint, a compilation of artillery tactics. Richard Snowden Andrews was a native of Baltimore, an architect, and a battalion artillery commander under Charles Winder, and subsequently under Stonewall Jackson after Winder was killed in action at the Battle of Cedar Run. Andrews was also severely injured at the battle, almost disemboweled after a Union shell exploded close to him, resulting in an eight month convalescence to recover from his injuries, after which Andrews was fitted with a silver plate over his wound. Andrews organized the present work during his recovery period, and dedicated the book to Stonewall Jackson, who had complimented him on his "gallant and meritorious conduct in the Battle of Cedar Run." This copy has an especially interesting provenance, having been given by Col. Howard Haywood, a Confederate colonel and surgeon, to Col. Carle A. Woodruff, a career soldier in the United States Army who rose to the rank of brigadier general. Woodruff received the Medal of Honor while serving as an artillery officer in the Union Army during the Civil War. On a slip bound at front, Haywood inscribes the book for "Col. Carle A. Woodruff U.S. Army from Howard Haywood of Raleigh, N.C." There is also an interesting notation by Woodruff on the verso of the dedication page, reading "At the date of this preface there were 8 Batteries of Horse Artillery in the Army of the Potomac, 7 being Regular batteries and 1 Volunteer. After the battle of Gettysburg 4 more regular batteries were made Horse Artillery. Carle A. Woodruff Bvt. Lieut Col. U.S.A." The sixty-one plates at the back illustrate the maneuvering, sponging, loading, ramming, and pointing of cannon, plus eight pages of bugle signals. Andrews writes in the Preface regarding the printing of the plates: "It would have been better to have had wood-cut rather than lithographic illustrations, as the cuts would then have been on the same page with the explanations of the various maneuvers. The blockade renders this at this time impossible." A rare work, with only two copies listed in OCLC, both in the British Library. The bookplates on the front pastedown indicate that the book once resided in two important collections, first in the collection of renowned firearms collector Ray Riling and then in "The Military Library of Richard Allan Johnson." It is also a unique copy, with a fascinating association, at one time gifted from a Confederate colonel to a Union artillery officer. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 4721. CRANDALL 2392. BAXTER & DEARBORN, p.80. MIDLAND NOTES 17:58. GOODSPEED 590:38.

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        Le héraut d'armes Revue illustrée de la noblesse Collection complète EDITION ORIGINALE
      Paris: Victor Bouton, 1863. Fine. Victor Bouton, Paris 1863-1877, 18,5x28cm, 2 volumes reliés. - First Edition. Binders black half shagreen, back with five golden jewels adorned nerves, minute traces of friction on the upper shrouds, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, bookplate glued to the backs of nobility first boards binding . Illustrated books of reproductions of faces in-text. Few minor foxing. Rare complete collection of this review dealing with heraldry. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information! - [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Edition originale. Reliures en demi chagrin noir, dos à cinq nerfs orné de fleurons dorés, infimes traces de frottements sur les coiffes supérieures, plats de papier marbré, gardes et contreplats de papier à la cuve, ex-libris nobiliaires encollés aux versos des premiers plats de reliure. Ouvrages illustrés de reproductions de blasons in-texte. Quelques petites rousseurs sans gravité. Rare collection complète de cette revue traitant d'héraldique.

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Ulysses S. Grant
        Ulysses S. Grant
      Memphis, Tennessee, October 14, 1863. 7.75" x 9.75". "Wounded at the Battle of Shiloh while leading his regiment, Irish-born Col. Peter J. Sullivan is commissioned by General Ulysses S. Grant - Grant later recommended Sullivan to be Brigadier General.Civil War-date Autograph Letter Signed ""U.S. Grant / Maj. Gen.,"" 1p, 7.75"" x 9.75"", tipped at left edge to lightweight cardstock. Head Quarters, Department of the Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, October 14, 1863. Fine condition.In full, ""Head Quarters, Dept of the Tn. Memphis Ten. Oct. 14th 1863, Col. P.J. Sullivan, late of the 48th Ohio Vols. is hereby authorized to remain within this Department and to practice his profession or engage in any business consistent with existing orders. This is to recommend Col. Sullivan to the Dist. & Port commanders for such facilities as are allowed to loyal men. U.S. Grant, Maj. Gen.""Born in Cork, Ireland, Peter John Sullivan (1821-1883) immigrated to Philadelphia with his parents. After attending the University of Pennsylvania, he moved to Cincinnati and became a lawyer. At outbreak of the Civil War, Peter J. Sullivan raised four regiments and was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 48th Ohio Volunteers. Within two months, in January 1862, he was Colonel of the regiment. He led his regiment in the Battle of Shiloh (April 6-7, 1862), during which he had his left arm shattered by a musket-ball. Wounded three times in battle, he had four horses shot out from under him. Because of these wounds, he was never able to take active command again, nor did he ever completely recover his health. He served for a time as post commander at Memphis, Tennessee, while it was occupied by Union troops and then served as a Judge on a Military Court of Claims. On August 7, 1863, Sullivan resigned from the Army to practice law.On November 20, 1866, Sullivan wrote from Cincinnati to Major General John A. Rawlins, Grant's Chief of Staff and confidant, ""I respectfully ask to be promoted to the rank and pay of Brigadier General of U.S. Volunteers for meritorious conduct, on both days of the battle of Shiloh: to date from April the 6th 1862..."" Sullivan detailed his services. Three days later, on November 23, 1866, Gen. Grant endorsed Sullivan's letter: ""Respectfully forwarded to the Secretary of War. Col. Sullivan was a gallant officer, and I recommend that he be brevetted Brigadier General of Volunteers."" On December 11, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Sullivan for appointment as of March 13, 1865, and it was confirmed by the Senate on February 6, 1867.A month later, on March 19, 1867, President Johnson appointed Sullivan as U.S. Minister Resident in Colombia. Sullivan presented his credentials in Bogota on July 25, 1867 and served until June 26, 1869, when he resigned because of ill health."

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN. GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
        The Gettysburg Address, with Full Centerfold Illustrations of the Battlefield and Lincoln's Dedication Ceremony
      New York 1863 - Newspaper, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, New York, December 5, 1863. 16 pp., complete. "and that Government of the people, for the people, and for all people, shall not perish from earth."As printing technology advanced through the middle decades of the nineteenth century, illustrated newspapers grew in popularity even though their engravings added a few weeks to press time. Leslie's printing-from December 5-includes an article containing the full text of Lincoln's timeless speech (page 11). Illustrations include a centerfold spread with the formal dedication ceremony prominently placed, and smaller views of Union and rebel graves, defensive works, Meade's headquarters, and a view of the town (centerfold). A large illustration of "The War in Tennessee-Lookout Mountain and Its Vicinity" appears on the front page.There is no definitive text that captures exactly how Lincoln spoke that day, though the AP reporter's text is most familiar. Leslie's printing, following the Philadelphia Enquirer version, contains variations, most notably in the final two sentences regarding the nation's unfinished work and closing phrase of "Government of the people, for the people, and for all people" rather than "of the people, by the people, and for the people." Excerpt"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this Continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing the question whether this nation, or any nation, so conceived, so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on the great battle-field of that war. We are met to dedicate it, on a portion of the field set apart as the final restingplace of those who gave their lives for the nation's life; but the nation must live, and it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. In a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground in reality. The number of men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor attempts to add to its consecration. The world will little know and nothing remember of what we see here, but we cannot forget what these brave men did here. We own this offering to our dead. We imbibe increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion; we here might resolve that they shall not have died in vain; that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that Government of the people, for the people, and for all people, shall not perish from earth."Historical BackgroundThough November 20th imprints are the most valuable newspaper publications of the Gettysburg Address, none are as lavish as this issue of Leslie's, and none show the cemetery or provide images of the ceremony. It is also interesting to note that the leading illustrated newspaper, Harper's Weekly, did not publish the Address or illustrate the ceremony. This Leslie's issue, published in far smaller quantities than Harper's, is quite scarce.Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper was founded in 1852 and published until 1922. Originally established by Illustrated London News owner Frank Leslie (1821-1880), the weekly continued under the guidance of his widow, suffragette Miriam Florence Leslie, from 1880 until 1902, when she sold the highly recognizable brand. Specializing in patriotic topics and heavily reporting war efforts from the Civil War to World War I, the newspaper also covered Arctic exploration, the Klondike Gold Rush, strikes, and sporting events. Civil War reporting and illustration was among the paper's most successful ventures.Historical BackgroundLincoln's speech, delivered at Gettysburg National Cemetery on November 19, 1863, has endured as a supreme distillation of American values. Over the past 150 years, it has become a compelling testament to the sacrifices required to achieve freedom for all Americans. Lincoln m. (See website for full description)

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        Galerie complète des tableaux des peintres les plus célèbres : Raphaël - O EDITION ORIGINALE
      Paris: Firmin Didot frères, fils & Cie, 1863. Fine. Firmin Didot frères, fils & Cie, Paris 1863, 24,5x32,5cm, 3 volumes brochés. - First Edition. Illustrated book of 355 engraved plates reproducing the works of Raphael. spine imaged with gaps, tears and marginal gaps on the boards, some small interior foxing. Rare together. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information! - [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Edition originale. Ouvrage illustré de 355 planches gravées reproduisant les oeuvres de Raphaël. Dos insolés comportant des manques, déchirures et manques marginaux sur les plats, quelques petites rousseurs intérieures. Rare ensemble.

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DAUMAS, Eugène
        The Horses of the Sahara, and the Manners of the Desert
      London: Wm. H. Allen & Co.,, 1863. With commentaries by the Emir Abd-El-Kader. Translated from the French by James Hutton. Octavo. Original green pebble-grain cloth, gilt lettered spine, large pictorial gilt block on front cover, brown endpapers. Internal hinges neatly strengthened, spine a little rolled. A very good copy. First edition in English of this scarce classic work on Arab equitation, first published Paris, 1851; it is particularly uncommon in the original cloth. Eugène Daumas (1803-1871) served for some 15 years in Algeria, he was made head of the North Africa, Bureaux Arabes; became a personal friend of Abd-el-Kader, the emir of Mascara, and was widely recognised as the French Army's leading expert on Arab culture. When he returned to France in 1850 he was made director of Algerian affairs in the Ministry of War.

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[Slave Document].
        Manuscript Texas Slave Document.
      Marion County, Texas: 1863. I folio sheet (12 1/4" x 8"), docketed on reverse with names of the parties involved. Creases from original folds, small hole, not affecting text, slight aging and edgewear; otherwise near fine. Unusual slave document from Texas that has a young African American woman petitioning to become a slave. The documents indicates that Mary Ellen Frazier," who is a free person of African decent", and is fourteen years old, requests to become the owned by one Jefferson S. Nash, "a person of good respect." The document is signed her x, and is also signed by A.S. Rodgers clerk on the reverse. Why this young woman would choose to become a slave is unknown, but information from another separate document indicates that a Charlotte Frazier chooses the same Jefferson S. Nash to be the master and owner of her and her six children who are below the age of fourteen. This person is probably the mother of Mary Ellen. This document is only that of the Mary Ellen Frazier petition.

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Montgomery, 1st Lt Robert B. and 2nd Lt John S. Brush
        Official Civil War Manuscript Histories of Two Companies within the 1st New York Infantry - 1861 to 1863
      Camp at Potomac Creek near Falmouth, Virginia, 1863. Loose Leaf Reports. Very Good. Ten legal-size legible pages record the history of two companies from the 1st New York Infantry during the Civil War. Some minor soiling and edge wear. These official histories were written in April, 1863 as the regiment prepared to be mustered out of Federal service in late May. Both are detailed chronologies of the regiment's service told from the perspective of company grade officers. The accounts begin with the regiment's establishment in New York City, its movement to Fortress Monroe, and its participation in the Peninsula Campaign and follow-on actions in Virginia during which the regiment fought at Big Bethel, the Seven Days (the Peach Orchard and Glendale), Malvern Hill, 2nd Bull Run (2nd Manassas), Chantilly, and Fredericksburg. The accounts, however, are not quite complete because the regiment was ordered into battle one last time at Chancellorsville in early May after these reports were prepared. In addition to detailed chronologies, the records contain officer rosters, listings of dead and wounded, 'final' strength reports, and recognition of soldiers who had performed valiantly including a recounting of Sergeant Field's recovery of the Regimental Colors at the Battle of Fredericksburg after all of the standard bearers had been killed or wounded. Fields charged into a hail of bullets, rescuing the colors and capturing two Confederate soldiers. Both company reports also contain entries regarding their shelling at Newport News by the Confederate ironclad, Merrimac on 8 March 1862. Obviously unique. As of 2015, no similar original, manuscript unit histories are in the trade, nor are any similar auction records listed at Rare Book Hub or ABPC.

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Barnim, Adalbert v. und Robert Hartmann:
        Reise in Nordost Africa. Skizzen nach der Natur gemalt. - Tafelband
      Berlin, Reimer 1863.. Mit farblithographiertem Titel nach Kretschmer und 24 (1 doppelblattgr.) Tafeln, davon 15 Tafeln mit Tonplatte und 9 Tafeln in Farblithographie nach Adalbert von Barnim. 1 Bl. Tafelverzeichnis. HLdr. d. Zt. mit Rückentitel. Qu.-Folio. 33 x 49,5 cm. Vgl. Henze I, 169 (kennt den Tafelband nicht); Kainbacher 28; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 290; Paulitschke I, 99; Dinse 529. - Mit malerischen Ansichten aus Ägypten, Nubien und dem östlichen Sudan, darunter Ansichten von Alexandria (doppelblattgr. Panorama) und Kairo, der Tempel von Saquarah, Philae und Abu Simbel, ägyptische, aber auch tropische Landschaften mit Tieren, Trachtendarstellungen, Genredarstellungen etc. - Decken bschabt. Rücken berieben, Rückenenden mit Fehlstellen. Die beiden fliegenden vorderen Vorsätze knittrig. Die Ansicht von Alexandria in den weißen Rändern und rückseitig braunfleckig, die restlichen Tafeln nur wenig fleckig in den Rändern.

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Wachsmuth, Wilhelm, Dr. / Weber, Karl, v. Dr.
        Archiv für die Sächsische Geschichte. 12. Bände ( komplett )
      Bernhard Tauchnitz. 1863 bis 1874., Leipzig. - 8° 461/485/468/442/441/442/442/442/442/444/442/442 SS. Ohldr., Bd.1: vorderes und hinteres Gelenk im oberen Teil geplatzt, Bd. 3: hinteres Gelenk unten geplatzt, Bd.5: Rücken stärker beschabt und die Kapitale mit kleinen Fehlstellen, Bd.6 am oberen Kapital ebenfalls eine kleine Fehlstelle, Ecken bestoßen, Kanten beschabt, Vorsätze aller Bücher mit Exlibris, alle Titelseiten und fliegende Vorsatzblätter mit Stempeln des Vorbesitzers ( Sorbisches Institut Leipzig ), Titelseiten stockfleckig, insgesamt guter Zustand der der schönen alten Bände. 15 / Sch Sprache: de [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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FLAUBERT Gustave
        Salammbô EDITION ORIGINALE ENVOI AUTOGRAPHE
      Paris: Michel Lévy, 1863. Fine. Michel Lévy, Paris 1863, 15x23cm, relié. - Original edition on the current paper. Binding half fir sorrow, back with five nerves, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, bookplate pasted on a guard, contemporary binding. Some light spots without gravity. Rare autograph signed by the author (Louis) de Carné, journalist and historian whose Flaubert had several books referenced in the inventory of his library. The interest was Flaubert's work Carné was not always benevolent. Critical notes of One finds in his articles in the records of Bouvard and Pecuchet. Moreover, Salammbo the publication coincides with the controversial election of Louis de Carné at the French Academy, described as clerical state coup by a section of public opinion. It was indeed the result of the revolt organized by Bishop Dupanloup against the other candidate, Emile Littre, author of a materialistic definition of the man who unleashed the fury of religious parties and Orleanists. Flaubert evokes the scandal of this election in a letter to the Goncourt May 6, 1863: "Do you have enough vituperated Sainte-Beuve and yelled at the Academy about the Carné nomination? » Although it probably slightly above this election, this shipment from Flaubert to Carne is a curious tribute to a writer once accused of "offending public morals and religion" in a future representative of the religious power within the prestigious Academy. Precious copy with autograph sending and pleasantly established contemporary binding. - [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Édition originale sur papier courant. Reliure en demi chagrin sapin, dos à cinq nerfs, plats de papier marbré, gardes et contreplats de papier à la cuve, ex-libris encollé sur une garde, reliure de l'époque. Quelques légères rousseurs sans gravité. Rare envoi autographe signé de Gustave Flaubert à (Louis) de Carné, journaliste et historien dont Flaubert possédait plusieurs ouvrages référencés dans l'inventaire de sa bibliothèque. L'intérêt que portait Flaubert à l'œuvre de Carné n'était toutefois pas toujours bienveillant. On retrouve en effet des notes critiques sur ses articles dans les dossiers de Bouvard et Pécuchet. D'autre part, la parution de Salammbô coïncide avec l'élection controversée de Louis de Carné à l'Académie Française, qualifiée de coup d'état clérical par une partie de l'opinion publique. Elle était en effet le résultat de la fronde organisée par Mgr Dupanloup contre l'autre candidat, Emile Littré, auteur d'une définition matérialiste de l'homme qui déchaîna la fureur des partis religieux et Orléanistes. Flaubert évoque le scandale de cette élection dans une lettre aux Goncourt du 6 mai 1863 : « Avez-vous suffisamment vitupéré Sainte-Beuve et engueulé l'Académie à propos de la nomination Carné ? » Bien qu'il précède sans doute légèrement cette élection, cet envoi de Flaubert à Carné est un curieux hommage d'un écrivain accusé naguère « d'offense à la morale publique et à la religion » à un futur représentant du pouvoir religieux au sein même de la prestigieuse Académie. Précieux exemplaire comportant un envoi autographe et agréablement établi en reliure de l'époque.

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        The Northern Territory of South Australia. Accompanied with a Map
      Adelaide, W.C. Cox, Government Printer, 1863 - Octavo, 54 pages plus a large folding map and an errata slip (tipped onto the contents page); the map (890 x 650 mm) is of the Northern Territory itself and shows the 'exploration tracks' of Stuart, Sturt, A.C. Gregory, McKinlay and Leichardt [sic]. Contemporary full morocco with decorative gilt borders front and rear, and the title in gilt on the front cover (a most attractive colonial binding); extremities slightly rubbed; leather slightly dusty; the map has tiny holes nibbled by silverfish along the fold of two (blank) panels, and short splits to four fold junctions (insignificant blemishes); a fine copy. 'On 16 July, 1863, the Crown annexed to South Australia "until We think fit to make other disposition thereof the Territory now known as the Northern Territory"'. Responsibility was transferred to the Commonwealth on 1 January 1911. The book reprints the Letters Patent and the relevant Acts and Regulations (20 pages), together with lengthy extracts from Earl's 'Handbook for Colonists in Tropical Australia', printed earlier the same year at the 'Pinang [sic] Gazette' Press in the Straits Settlement (22 pages). The last section, 'Interior of the Country' (12 pages) is largely extracted from the journal of Stuart and the report of Waterhouse, naturalist to his expedition. Ferguson 13458 (the wrappers here are not stiffened, and the title page is also printed within a border). This copy contains the armorial bookplate of The Honorable Henry Ayers CMG, at the time South Australian Chief Secretary, under whose command the 'Northern Territory Land Regulations' and 'Appointment of Officers' printed in the book were proclaimed. Ayers has underlined in ink six lines in the Northern Territory Act relating to land orders. Use [Ask Bookseller a Question] option below to confirm availability.

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Virchow, Rudolf
        Die krankhaften Geschwülste. Dreissig Vorlesungen gehalten während des Wintersemesters 1862-1863 an der Universität zu Berlin. Bd. 1, 2 und 3,1 in 3 Bdn. (Alles).
      - Berlin, Verlag von August Hirschwald, 1863-(67), 8°, XII, 543; 756,(2); 496 pp., 2 Taf.; 243 Holzstiche, 3 Halblederbände der Zeit; St.a.Tit. Erste Ausgabe dieses Meisterwerkes - "Virchow's ehrgeizigstes Unternehmen war sein dreibändiges Buch über Tumoren". - "Wie die Zellular-Pathologie gründete es sich auf eine Reihe von Vorlesungen, die dieses Mal inmitten der heißesten politischen Schlachten von Virchows ganzen Leben im Winter 1862/63 gehalten worden waren. Die Vorlesungen waren so sorgfältig überarbeitet worden, daß nach des Autors eigenen Worten der stenographische Bricht nur noch der "rote Faden" war, um das sich die Materien gruppierten. Leider blieb dieses Buch, wie das Tumorbuch von Virchows Lehrer Johannes Müller, ein Torso. Die zweite Hälfte des dritten Bandes, die die letzten fünf von den dreißig Vorlesungen enthalten sollte, unter ihnen eine über Krebs, erschien in den weiteren fünfundreißig Jahren des Leben des Autors nicht mehr." - "Selbst in seiner unvollendeten Form ist das Werk eindrucksvoll und zu Unrecht vergessen worden. Seine achtzehnhundert Seiten mit 243 Abbildungen sind eine Schatzkammer an Informationen. Kein anderer Gegenstand war für seine Diskussion in den Begriffen der Zellular-Pathologie so geeignet. Tatsächlich hatte die Zellular-Pathologie mit Johannes Müller und Gluges Arbeit über Tumoren in den dreißiger Jahren angefangen. Virchows Theorie der Zellular-Pathologie erreichte ihre größte Triumphe auf dem Gebiet der Tumoren, veränderte dieses Gebiet weitgehend und beherrschte es länger als irgendeine andere Theorie. Im Laufe der Jahre hatte Virchow eine große Anzahl von veröffentlichten und nicht veröffentlichten Beobachtungen über Tumoren bei Menschen und Tieren gesammelt; sein ausgedehntes Lesen, besonders sein kritisches Auswählen für seine "Jahrbücher", hatte ihm eine sehr umfassende Kenntnis der alten und der neuen Literatur verschafft. Wir wissen aus dem Vorangehenden, wie oft Virchow Tumoren analysiert und neue Begriffe und Ausdrücke auf diesem Gebiet entwickelt hatte. Dies alles vereinigte Virchow in einem imponierenden Bau." - "Das Buch spiegelt deutlich den Wandel wider, den Virchow erfahren hatte, von der physiologischen Pathologie zur pathologischen Anatomie oder Morphologie, nicht nur mikroskopisch, sondern auch makroskopisch." - "Der Einfluß den Virchow auf die Onkologie ausübte, wird dadurch illustriert, daß viele seiner Kapitelüberschriften und ein großer Teil des Inhaltes seines Buch modernen Texten auf diesem Gebiet genau entsprechen." Ackerknecht, Rudolf Virchow, Arzt, Politiker, Anthropologe, pp.82-89 - - "This work was not completed, Virchow stopping when he reached the subject of carcinoma. It is one of the most important source books on cancer but it also records one of Virchow's mistakes - his theory of the connective-tissue of carcinoma." - Garrison & Morton No.2617; Waller 10001; Osler 1631; Heirs of Hippocrates 1014; Cushing, V 157; Haagensen, 56; Long, History of Pathology, 114ff.; Walker No.2245 [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Langley, Henry G. compiler
        THE SAN FRANCISCO DIRECTORY for the Year Commencing December, 1863: Embracing a General Directory of Residents and Business Directory Together with the Consolidation Act and its Amendments; the Municipal Government; Societies and Organizations, and a great Variety of Useful and Statstical Information, Exhibiting at a Glance the Progress and Present Condition of the City Sixth Year of Publication
      San Francisco: Excelsior Steam Presses: Towne & Bacon, Book and Job Printers, 1863. First edition thus. Rebacked with new cloth spine under original leather spine (about 75% remains), edges of boards rubbed, scuffing to surface of boards, lacking map, some contemporary previous owner markings to first 2 pages of ads, else near very good.. Original printed boards rebacked with about 75% of original leather spine laid down, 8vo, lxxx, 591 pp. Roman numeral section at front and everything after page 528 contain printecd advertisements. Printed endpapers are included in the pagination. Lacking map.

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Fleming, George.
        Travels on Horseback in Mantchu Tartary: Being a Summer's Ride Beyond the Great Wall of China.
      London, Hurst and Blackett, Successors to Henry Colburn, 1863.. Crown quarto. Pp. xvi, 579. Chromolithograph frontispiece. Fold-out map with additional colour added in lithography (small tears at fold). With 54 wood-engraved illustrations. Hardcover, bound in contemporary half polished calf and forest-green ribbed cloth, sides and corners ornamentally roll-tooled in blind, spine gilt; bit worn and chafed in places, inner-hinges split; foxed. Overall a handsome copy in good condition, and with the contemporary armorial bookplate, "Auspicium Melioris Aevi" (an omen of a better age, motto of the Order of St. Michael and St. George). ~ First edition. Cordier BS, 2747..

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Dwinelle, John W.:
        THE COLONIAL HISTORY OF THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO: BEING A SYNTHETIC ARGUMENT IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR FOUR SQUARE LEAGUES OF LAND CLAIMED BY THAT CITY
      San Francisco: Towne & Bacon, 1863.. [4],102,[2],115pp. plus frontispiece map (present in two copies). Original printed wrappers. Spine perished, with some repair along the inner portion of the front wrapper. 19th- century library association bookplate on front free endpaper. Neat repairs along the foredge of the maps. In a half morocco box. The scarce first edition of Dwinelle's essential California work, especially desirable in the original printed wrappers, as here. The wrappers betray the origins of Dwinelle's work as a legal brief for the case of "The City of San Francisco vs. The United States," with John W. Dwinelle being the counsel for the claimant. This extensive brief is also a historical account of the city of San Francisco, and confirmed the city's claim to four leagues of "Pueblo Lands," as defined by the Land Commission Act. Dwinelle's history is a great storehouse of information on the beginnings of San Francisco, with printings of a large number of documents which are now either inaccessible or destroyed. The map of "The Peninsula of San Francisco" is present here in two copies. The Streeter copy of the first edition, also in original printed wrappers and with a presentation inscription from Dwinelle to John Hittell, brought $300. This copy bears an inscription on the front wrapper: "Joseph Bell Esq. Albany, N.Y. with the compliments of G.W. Bell, Supt. 8 Dist. San Francisco." G.W. Bell was a well-regarded assayer and Wells Fargo agent in San Francisco, and the first president of San Francisco's Olympic Club. HOWES D614, "b." ZAMORANO 80, 32. COWAN, p.189. HOWELL 50:782. SABIN 21573 (listing only the third and fourth editions). STREETER SALE 2879. HOLLIDAY SALE 331. NORRIS CATALOGUE 1023.

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Nast, Thomas
        Woodcut illustration captioned "Santa Claus in Camp"
      New York: Harper's Weekly, 1863. On single leaf extracted from HARPER'S WEEKLY. Folio (15-3/8 x 10 in.; 390 x 254 mm). On single leaf extracted from HARPER'S WEEKLY. Folio (15-3/8 x 10 in.; 390 x 254 mm). Santa Claus in Camp - 1863. "Nast was one of the Union's staunchest supporters, as reflected here. Santa, facing Union troops, is seated beneath the Stars and Stripes and wearing a star-spangled shirt and striped pants. He bears no relationship whatever to the Santa we know today. This is because he is a combination of Dr. Moore's St. Nicholas and Germany's gnome-like Pelz-Nicol, as Nast remembered him from ... childhood" (Grolier/Elliott). Grolier/Elliott 58; Elliott, Inventing Christmas pp. 40-41

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Civil War
        The last printed Confederate edition of the Vicksburg Daily Citizen, printed July 2, 1863 on ornate wallpaper
      Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 2, 1863. 10" x 18". "The Daily Citizen (Vicksburg, Mississippi: J. M. Swords, July 2, 1863), 10"" x 18,"" printed on wallpaper with a large brocade pattern in white and brown on a cream background. First state of the final issue of this Confederate paper before the town fell to Union forces on July 4, 1863. Moderate toning, especially at extreme margins, small loss at top right corner does not affect text, relatively clean 2 inch tear affecting lower portion of left-hand column, moderate soiling, but overall very good condition. The Union blockade of the Confederacy and Grant's long siege of the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg had made paper unobtainable in Vicksburg. As early as June 16th, the enterprising Swords, publisher of Vicksburg's Daily Citizen, had resorted to printing on the blank sides of sheets of wallpaper. (He is also likely to have curtailed the print run, to conserve paper.) By July 2nd, after prolonged bombardment, the siege was manifestly nearing its inevitable end. But there is no palpable hint of this in the paper printed by Swords that day, which remains jaunty, spirited and defiantly rebel in its sympathies. An extremely rare survival, the first of two known editions of The Daily Citizen of Vicksburg printed on July 2, 1863. It was this paper (save for a few revised articles in the fourth column) that Union forces discovered on the press of J. M. Swords when they entered the final Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi on July 4, 1863. At the bottom of the second column lay printed the now famous sarcastic tidbit: ""ON DIT. -- That the great Ulysses--the Yankee Generalissimo, surnamed Grant--has expressed his intention of dining in Vicksburg on Saturday next, and celebrating the 4th of July by a grand dinner and so forth. When asked if he would invite Gen. Jo. Johnston to join he said, 'No! for fear there will be a row at the table.' Ulysses must get into the city before he dines in it. The way to cook a rabbit is 'first catch the rabbit,' etc."" When Grant's men seized the press, they added their own response in the well-known issue printed on July 4th: "" ""Two days bring about great changes. The banner of the Union floats over Vicksburg. Gen. Grant has 'caught the rabbit,' and he did bring his dinner with him..."" While the July 4th reprint has appeared not infrequently at auction, issues printed before the fall, which were printed in very limited numbers, are exceedingly rare. The two Confederate issues, perhaps printed only hours apart, may be distinguished as follows: Probable first issue (the present): column four continues assorted ""Yankee News"" with a long notice of ""An Immense Train of Negros"" (reported from New Orleans, June 30th), news of a devastating fire at ""The Bowman House"" (a prominent Jackson, Mississippi hotel) and a brief notice: ""A gentleman who recently passed the Federal lines says the Democratic ladies of New York have gotten up a magnificent sword, at a cost of twelve hundred dollars, intended as a present to Gen. Lee. It will be sent to Richmond by some underground railroad."" Probable second issue: column four has dropped notice of the ""Immense Train""; new text comprises a squib about the marriage of two African-American denizens of Vicksburg ""mid the din and clash of arms,"" a humorous piece on a ""venerable feline"" killed and cooked in a stew, notice of the replacement of General McClernand, sickness among the Yankee troops, and the demise of the National Intelligencer of Washington. It is this setting which remained on the press when the Union forces took over Vicksburg on July 4th."

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Chevreul, M.E
        Le Teinturier Universel Echo Des Applications Des Matieres Colorantes Aux Arts Et A L'Industrie; De la teinture et de l'appret des etoffes, de la production et de la preparation des matieres tincloriales, de l'impression et de la fabrication des papiers peints -- Tannage et coloration des cuirs
      Paris: Au Bureau du Journal, 1863. First editions. Original Wraps. Original printed wrappers -- yellow, gray and green. Very good. 3 vols. 192, 192, 192 pages in text. Small folio, 30.5 x 22.5 cm. First to third years -- 72 issues in 3 volumes [April 1, 1860 - March 15, 1863]. More than 100 tipped-in or mounted color specimens of various dyes on paper, cotton, silk, metallic paper, felt, plant fibers, and more. One sample titled "Echantillod de Coton vert col de canard san indigo" (Vol. 3 #23, page 177 and described as "experience machevee" not present as in other copies and appears to have never been tipped-in (no trace of adhesive). Each issue in this set includes the first printed appearance of his lecture notes from "Cours de teinture des Gobelins." His color studies made him one of the most influential scientists in France during the early 19th century. He taught chemistry and ran the dying labs at the Manufactures Royales des Gobelins. In 1839, he published the results of his research under the title "De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs;" It was translated it into English and published in 1854 under the title The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colors. His name is one of 72 inscribed on the Eiffel Tower. Some light spotting, mild edge wear, mostly unopened.

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BURTON, Sir Richard Francis
        Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po, By a F.R.G.S
      London: Tinsley Brothers, 1863. 8vo, 2 volumes, bound in the original publisher's pebble cloth, small repair to verso of map otherwise a beautiful copy of this rare book with the original yellow endpapers. With "R. F. Burton" on the spine. On the voyage to take up his position as West African consul at Fernando Po from 1861-1863, Sir Richard Francis Burton took the opportunity to explore Madeira and Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Bathurst, Sierra Leone , Monrovia, Cape Palmas, Accra, Lagos, Bonny and Fernando Po at the Bight of Biafra. He filled his notebooks with comments on the flora, fauna, tribes, customs, agriculture, languages, topography, his tory. The author also discussed gold and gold mining, the treatment of dysentery, the tsetse fly, sharks, narcotics, slavery, cannibalism, punishments, colonial salaries, negro education and last but not least geographical exploration. The frontispiece shows "The Juju, or Sacrifice House, Grand Bonny River". Penzer 71, Henze I, 430. First Edition. Very Good.

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Waring, J B
        Masterpieces of Industrial Art and Sculpture at the International Exhibition, 1862 [Volume II]
      London: Day & Son, 1863. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Volume II of III. 12" x 17" in heavy brown leather boards with gilt rules to both boards, five raised bands and elaborate gilt decoration and titles to spine. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated with 100 full page colour chromolithographs. "Chromo-Lithographed by and under the direction of W. R. Tymms, A. Warren, and G. Macculloch, from photographs supplied by the London Photographic and Stereoscopic Company, taken exclusively for this work by Stephen Thompson." Wear to boards, front hinge partially detached, one spine label detached but present, another spine label damaged. Several damp stains to pages, affecting margins and just touching the edge of several images. Each chromolithograph accompanied by protective blank page and page of descriptive text. This book weighs 18 pounds and will require extra postage charges. Volume I also available.

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Lambert, Louis
        When Johnny Comes Marching Home [Music introduced in the "Soldier's Return March" By Gilmore's Band. Words and Music by Louis Lambert]
      Henry Tolman & Co., 1863, No Binding, Book Condition: Very Good, First editionA Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing (stitching to the spine mostly loose and barely holding, center sheet loosely inserted, tiny and small tears to the margins, general light soiling) bearing a Dedication "To the Army and Navy of the Union." and with a small stamp of a New Haven music store to the front cover's lower right corner and measuring approximately 14 inches X 10 3/4 inches. A SCARCE example of this popular American Civil War song expressing people's longing for the return of their relatives and friends from the War. While the cover attributes the words and music to Louis Lambert, the lyrics were authored by noted Boston Band Leader Patrick Gilmore during the War. [Gilmore enlisted, served as Bandmaster for the 22nd New York Regiment, and was known as the "Father of Military Bands."] Gilmore used a tune he did not fully author and which he described as "a musical waif which I happened to hear somebody humming in the early days of the rebellion, and taking a fancy to it, wrote it down, dressed it up, gave it a name, and rhymed it into usefulness for a special purpose suited to the times." (Several months prior to publication of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" the tune was published to a drinking song lyric known as "Johnny Fill Up the Bowl".)Gilmore is said to have written "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" for his sister whose fiancÃ© was away at the War. The song was immensely popular, as sung in both the North and South (of America) and was popular even in England. The song was popular again during the Spanish-American War and remains widely-known even today. We have located copies at various institutional libraries but have not been able to locate any copies -- other than this one -- available for sale. A Very Good copy of the first edition, A NOTABLE PART OF AMERICAN HISTORY and, in our experience, QUITE SCARCE INDEED.

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Fisher, Lt.-Colonel. [Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur A'Court Fisher, C.B., Royal Engineers]; [George Battye Fisher]
        Personal Narrative of Three Years' Service in China
      London, Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 1863.. Octavo. Pp. vi, (ii), 420. Plus wood-engraved frontispiece with facing tissue-guard; 2 full page wood-engraved plates; one full-page plan, and 6 wood-engraved vignette illustrations. Plus 3 folding engraved maps, bound at end. Hardcover, beautifully bound in recent three-quarter smooth black calf extra, attractive marbled paper over boards, sides decorated with blind rolls, spine in compartments between gilt-ruled raised bands, large gilt fleuron in five of six compartments, red morocco lettering-piece gilt in remainder, all edges polished smooth and dyed red. In exceptionally fine condition. An immaculate copy. ~ First edition. Authorship attributed by some to Arthur A'Court Fisher; by others to George Battye Fisher. For that matter, see British Union Catalog and OCLC 9004104.

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Gilchrist, Alexander.
        Life of William Blake, ÒPictor Ignotus.Ó With Selections from his Poems and Other Writings. Illustrated from BlakeÕs own Works, in facsimile by W.J. Linton, and in photolithography; with a few of BlakeÕs Original Plates.
      - London: Macmillan, 1863. 2 vols, 8vo, [i-v], vi-xv, [1]-389; [i-v], vi-vii, [1-3] 4-268 pp. In addition to the portrait frontispiece in vol. 1, the folding frontispiece of the Canterbury Pilgrims in vol. 2, and numerous illustrations from Job and Songs, this is an extra-illustrated copy with 34 bound, tipped-in or loosely inserted engravings from The Grave, Triumphs of Temper, Aphorisms on Man, Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper, Botanical Gardens and GayÕs Fables. 19th-century full tan-colored calf rebacked (surely to accommodate the extra-illustrations), triple gilt fillet borders on covers, fleurons at corners; gilt backstrip with red-colored morocco labels; gilt turn-ins; all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers -- the front flyleaf in vol. I with a chip at the upper-right corner. Occasional spotting or foxing. See below for complete list of extra material. Very good. First edition. This copy is unusual and desirable for the extra material from many of BlakeÕs most famous commercial engravings, as follows: Volume I: Originally bound in opposite pp. 1 but now detached, ÔGuillermo BlakeÕ T Phillips Pinx t, L Schiavonetti V.A. Sculpt. Frontispiece from the very rare Meditaciones Poeticas, 1826, folded three times, 8-1/2 x 13-1/2 inches; and 11 additional engravings from the same edition are bound in after the text, all folded in order of original appearance and fairly tightly cropped; and a single engraving from The Triumphs of Temper: Flaxman/ Blake, Canto I Verse 29, 1803, Cadell and Davies.Volume II: After pp. 268 we find the cropped title page from the quarto issue of The Grave, 8-6/8 x 13 inches. After the text in vol. 2, resumption of grangerized material from the1803 Triumphs of Temper continues, as follows: Canto II Verse 471; Canto III Verse 201; Canto VI Verse 294; Canto V Verse 43; and Canto IV Verse 328. The frontispiece from LavaterÕs Aphorisms on Man showing William Cowper looking up measuring 8 x 9-1/2 inches. Four engravings from Life and Posthumous Writings Cowper: A View of St Edmunds Chapel; William Cowper Author of The Task; William Cowper Carmine Nobilem; and Mrs Cowper. From the 1799 J. Johnson 8vo edition of DarwinÕs Botanic Gardens: The Fertilization of Egypt, London Dec 1st 1791, St Pauls Church Yard. 9 engravings from GayÕs Fables, Vol I, 1793: The Goat without a Beard; The Shepherd and the Philosopher; The Pin and the Needle; The Tame Stage; The Miser and Plutus; The Persian the Sun and the Cloud; The Butterfly and the Snail; The Setting Dog and the Patridge; and The Owl and the Farmer.Also of interest are the original prints (found in all copies) - three from the Virgil woodblocks and 17 from electrotypes made from the original copperplates of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Bentley, Blake Books, 1680A. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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