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GRANT, Ulysses S
        Autograph letter signed
      1865. Signed. GRANT, Ulysses S.Autograph letter signed.City Point, Virginia, March 1, 1865.Most exceptional three-page autograph letter written by General Ulysses S. Grant discussing the logistics for the release of Civil War POWs and giving specific details about the release of Union soldiers in Confederate prisons, signed by Grant.Written on lined "Headquarters Armies of the United States" stationery, the three-page letter reads, in full: "City Point, Va. March 1st 1865, Dear ------, Immediately in the receipt of your letter on the 27th ---. I instructed the Apt. Agt. of Ex. to make an effort to get young Whiting released at once. If he is where Richmond authorities can reach him I have no doubt about his immediate release. Under any circumstance all prisoners in the South will be released as rapidly as possible. To facilitate this matter I have agreed to receive our prisoners at Wilmington, Mobile, on the Mis. River and at Eastport, Mis. The Rebel Agt. of Exchange was glad to avail himself of this opportunity and immediately sent out orders to all prisoners in the South to deliver their charges at the most convenient of the above places. I think you need not entertain any fears about the early release of your nephew. Yours Truly. U.S. Grant. Lt. Gen." This letter is of particular interest due to its subject: the release of Civil War prisoners. During the Civil War, great controversy arose with respect to Grant and prisoner exchanges. Many believed him to be an obstructionist and accused him of keeping Union soldiers imprisoned in places such as the horrific Andersonville prison due to his alleged refusal to negotiate with the Confederacy. Strategically, Grant recognized that a captured Southern soldier took a fighting man off the battlefield and effectively rendered him a "dead soldier." Any exchange for his release simply resulted in more real dead Northern soldiers. While the policy of disallowing exchanges was unpopular, Grant realized that continually letting Southern prisoners go stood to strengthen Southern forces and prolong the war. Yet, this was not the entirety of Grant's justification. There was an active prisoner exchange system codified by the Dix Hill Cartel that began in July of 1862. Initially, black soldiers and their officers—while subject to the Emancipation Proclamation—were not included in the exchanges and could see their fellow soldiers paroled without them. Lincoln was displeased and issued General Orders 252 calling for equal treatment in exchanges and suspending Dix Hill. Large scale prisoner exchanges ceased, while small exchanges continued. Grant, in the West, had little involvement. In 1864, Grant finally did have power and it was then that he took a definitive stand on prisoner exchanges. In clear and concise words, he backed what Lincoln had already set in law. In a bold letter, Grant cut off prisoner exchanges in April of 1864 when the Confederacy refused to grant equal 1:1 exchanges in two particular cases: prisoners captured and paroled at Vicksburg and Port Hudson and black prisoners. In August, he once again held the line, realizing that Confederate prisoners vastly outnumbered Union soldiers and that most Union soldiers had completed their terms of enlistment. The date of this letter, thus, is particularly meaningful. It was written precisely as the Union was feeling relatively certain that the war had been won. Grant clearly felt he had more to gain from a prisoner exchange than he had to lose, even with the South bolstered by returning troops. With the South a mere month from surrender, he was obviously correct.Fine condition.

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Lane, Edward William (trans )
        The Thousand and One Nights; or, the Arabian Nights' Entertainments A New Translation from the Arabic with Copious Notes by Edward William Lane
      London: Routledge, Warne and Routledge. New York 129, Grand Street, 1865. A New Edition from a copy annotated by the translator. Edited by his nephew Edward Stanley Poole. Illustrated by many hundred illustrations on wood from original Designs by William Harvey. 3 vols. 8vo. Bound in full modern black morocco, a.e.g. for Aspreys. Fine. A New Edition from a copy annotated by the translator. Edited by his nephew Edward Stanley Poole. Illustrated by many hundred illustrations on wood from original Designs by William Harvey. 3 vols. 8vo. Edward Lane was the first to translate directly from the Arabic (previous English versions were essentially adaptations of Galland's French translation). "I assert that Galland has excessively perverted the work. His acquaintance with Arab manners and customs was insufficient to preserve him always from errors of the grossest description" (Lane, cited in Irwin, The Arabian Nights: A Companion, p. 24).Edward William Lane (1801-1876) moved to Egypt in 1825 and lived there for three years. Upon his return to London, he composed a substantial manuscript Description of Egypt, unpublished during his lifetime but from which he extracted An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836), a landmark work. He also prepared this translation of a selection of the Arabian Nights with his extensive ethnographic and cultural notes. "It reigned as the leading English translation of the Nights for decades, and its copious notes are stimulating micro-essays of enduring value" (ODNB). Its fame was somewhat eclipsed by the notoriety of Burton's edition (1883-6) which is not surprising given Burton's emphasis on sexual customs and practices.The Lane edition is also noteworthy as the first in which the illustrations were based upon serious research into the scenes and costumes of the middle east, and well as the translator's own direct experience. Lane had a very specific intention of introducing the British reader to the realistic Arab world and, "being himself a trained illustrator, closely supervised William Harvey's work" (Irwin).William Harvey (1796-1866) was a favoured pupil of Bewick. "He did more than 500 illustrations for Lane's translation ... exceptional in its close integration of the unframed images with the text - as it were, visual footnotes to the text ... Harvey's illustrations to the Nights were the summit of his artistic achievement, and throughout the nineteenth century his illustrations were the most frequently reproduced" (Irwin, Visions of the Jinn).Attractively bound edition of Lane's Arabian Nights.

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Lubbock, John
        Pre-historic times, as illustrated by ancient remains, and the manners and customs of modern savages.
      Williams and Norgate, London 1865 - Lubbock, John (18341913). Pre-historic times, as illustrated by ancient remains, and the manners and customs of modern savages. xxiii, 512pp. Lithographed frontispiece and 3 plates (1 colored), wood-engraved text illustrations. London: Williams and Norgate, 1865. 215 x 138 mm. Half calf gilt, marbled boards ca. 1865, marbled edges, light shelfwear. Fine copy. Armorial bookplate of British politician Thomas Sebastian Bazley (1829-1919). First Edition of Lubbocks best-known work, which introduced the terms "Paleolithic" and "Neolithic" to distinguish between the earlier and later Stone Age periods. A banker by profession (he enacted the British Bank Holidays Act of 1871), Lubbock made his name in scientific circles as an anthropologist and archeologist. He became interested in human prehistory after visiting Boucher de Perthes in April 1860, and in the spring of 1861 he visited Denmark with his friend George Busk, where he learned of the division of early cultures into the ages of stone, bronze, and iron. After delivering a series of lectures at the Royal Institution on "The Antiquity of Man" in the summer of 1864, Lubbock organized his material into a book that addressed not only the topic of human antiquity but also the larger issues of the lives and cultures of people in the Stone Age. In contrast to some of the other early researchers in these fields who focused on the geology of the prehistoric sites or on the tools found in them, Lubbock studied the artifacts of Stone Age cultures in order to shed light on their function, as part of an overall attempt to reconstruct what life might have been like in the Stone Age. In order to gain further insight into life in prehistoric times he also studied a wide variety of non-western peoples, some of whose lives and cultures appeared to him to provide strong analogues to life during the Stone Age. Pre-Historic Times remained a standard work for over 50 years, with the seventh and final edition appearing just after Lubbocks death in 1913. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Johnson, Andrew:
        (OCTOBER 12, 1865 - ENDING MARTIAL LAW IN KENTUCKY ) BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION
      Washington, D.C. Oct. 12, 1865.. [1]pp. Folio bifolium. Light edge wear. Near fine. An important official printing of the presidential proclamation ending martial law in Kentucky in October 1865. Kentucky had not joined the Confederacy, so the proclamation of martial law there was a step Lincoln had avoided until it seemed absolutely necessary. Martial law had been declared by President Lincoln on July 5, 1864, when the Civil War was still raging and "combinations were in progress in Kentucky for the purpose of inciting insurgent raids into that State." Johnson also comments on why martial law can now be ended because "the danger from insurgent raids into Kentucky has substantially passed away." An extraordinarily rare government publication, with only one copy in OCLC, at the Filson Historical Society. OCLC 49243807.

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Thoreau, Henry D
        Letters to Various Persons
      Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine Condition.. 12mo. 229 pages. First edition which consisted of only 2,130 copies. Original green HC cloth (dotted), spine reading "Author of Excursions" etc. as noted in Borst. BAL, binding A, presumed earliest. Protected in mylar. Binding is in great shape with no fading to the dark green spine. Tips barely wearing through, top and bottom of spine has very minor wear, no chips or tears. Binding appears to retain some of its original sheen. Interior has an attractive book plate on the front paste down and is very clean and tight. A very attractive copy. BAL 20116.

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Joseph E Johnston
        The Last Hurrah! Just days after Lee?s surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia and Lincoln?s assassination, Army of Tennessee holdouts Joseph E. Johnston and Wade Hampton ?in expectation of the conclusion of peace? see to Joseph Wheeler?s promotion to Lieutenant General while he was attempting to cover Jefferson Davis?s escape
      Greensboro, North Carolina, April 22, 1865. 4.25" x 7". "Autograph Letter Signed ?J.E.. Johnston?, 2p, 4.25? x 7?, separate sheets. On laid paper. Greensboro, April 22, 1865. To Gen. John C. Breckinridge, Confederate Secretary of War. Lengthy Autograph Endorsement Signed ?Wade Hampton / Lt Genl? on verso of second sheet. Fine condition.Four days before surrendering his Army of Tennessee to Union Gen. William T. Sherman on April 26, 1865, Confederate Gen. Johnston writes, in full, ?In expectation of the conclusion of Peace very soon, Major General Wheeler desires to be prepared for foreign service. He has, as you probably know, long commanded a corps of cavalry. He thinks that the evidence of that fact might be of advantage to him in obtaining Military rank hereafter - & that the simplest evidence would be the corresponding rank ?" or rather the appointment of Lieut. General. I believe that it is needless to remind you of the fidelity zeal courage & success with which general Wheeler commanded his corps.? Lieut. Gen. Hampton adds on verso of second sheet, in full, ?Hd. Qts. Apr 22nd 1865. I must Respy & earnestly recommend this appointment. Not only will it assist Genl. Wheeler in his proposed object, but it will be a fitting mark by our Government of its appreciation of his long & gallant service. Wade Hampton Lt Genl?On February 6,1865, Gen. John C. Breckinridge became the Confederacy?s last Secretary of War. Joseph Wheeler fought under General Joseph E. Johnston in the Carolinas until the end of the war. Wheeler was replaced as cavalry chief by Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton and fought under him at the Battle of Bentonville on March 19?"20, 1865. A telegram from Breckinridge at Greensboro to Jefferson Davis dated April 19, 1865, informing him of Lincoln?s assassination, suggests that the Secretary of War was personally presented with Johnston and Hampton?s recommendation.Certainly the finest wartime letter of Johnston in private hands. The only comparable item ever offered is Johnston?s General Order #18, surrender of April 26, 1865, of which several fair copy examples exist and which typically sell for around $20,000."

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Lorm, Hieronymus, d. i. Heinrich Landesmann, Schriftsteller (1821-1902).
        Eigenh. Brief mit U.
      Baden bei Wien, 18. IV. 1865.. 1 S. 8vo. auf gefalt. Doppelblatt.. An den Schauspieler Carl Ritter von La Roche (1794-1884): "Wenn es Sie wundern sollte, von einem Manne brieflich angesprochen zu werden, der nicht das Glück hat, mit Ihnen in näherer Verbindung zu stehen, so mögen Sie die Schuld dem wahrhaft künstlerischen Eindruck Ihrer Persönlichkeit auf mich beimessen. Dass sich derselbe im Laufe der Jahre nicht verwischte, werden Sie natürlich finden, wenn Sie sich erinnern wollen, dass schon meine Dankbarkeit für Ihre meisterhafte Verlebendigung einer meiner Ideen ihn consecrieren müsste [ ] Ich habe ein bürgerliches Schauspiel in vier Akten vollendet und wünschte lebhaft Ihr Urtheil darüber namentlich in Bezug auf praktische Bühnenbrauchbarkeit zu erfahren - Darf ich es Ihnen in gut lesbarer Abschrift zusenden und Ihre briefliche Rückäußerung in Anspruch nehmen? Das ist die Bitte, an die sich im Gewährungsfalle das weitere Ersuchen knüpft, die Existenz des Stückes streng geheim zu halten [ ]". - Mit Stempel der Handschriftensammlung von Graf Viktor Wimpffen "Sammlung La Roche". - Durch regimekritische Essays 1847 zur Flucht aus Wien genötigt, kehrte Lorm nach Ende der Revolution zurück, wurde Redakteur der "Wiener Zeitung" und durch mehrere Feuilletonromane auch bald schon einem größeren Publikum bekannt. Sein lyrisches Werk ist wesentlich vom Einfluß Schopenhauers geprägt. Seit 1856 in Baden bei Wien, später in Dresden und Brünn lebend, erfand der bereits von Jugend an sehschwache, 1880 jedoch völlig erblindete Schriftsteller die noch heute gültige Handtastensprache (Lormsches Fingeralphabet).

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Vignes, Louis.
        Extrait des notes d'un voyage d'exploration a la mer morte, dans le Wady Arabah, sur la rive gauche du Jourdain. Publié sous les auspices de M. le duc de Luynes.
      Paris, Henri Plon, 1865. - Folio (36 x 27 cm). 79, (1) pp. Original printed wrappers. Without the map, as common. First edition of Vignes's "Extrait des notes", republished the same year within the "Nouv. ann. des voyages 1864", "Bulletin de l'oeuvre 1864" etc. An account of the Duc de Luynes's 1864 scientific expedition to the Dead Sea. The map was not completed when the "Extrait" was issued: the present copy retains the cover label announcing that the two map sheets would be supplied to the purchaser when ready (Tobler 246). - Binding professionally repaired. A clean, very wide-margined copy. Röhricht p. 517, no. 2841. Tobler 203. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

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Various Authors
        Selection ofNovels by Various Authors
      911 - London - Various Publishers 1865 - An attractive set of twenty one novels by various authors, generally dating from the Nineteenth Century. Many of these works are very rare, and hard to find. We have put them together as they are bound as a set. Including the novels Tie and Trick by Hawley Smart (undated) , The Life and Adventures of Mervyn Clitheroe by William Harrison Ainsworth (undated), Life of a Racehorse by John Mills (c1865), 'Twas in Trafalgar's Bay (c1880) and The Seamy Side (c1880) by Walter Besant and James Rice, Through One Administration by Frances Hodgson Burnett (c1881), One Thing Needful (undated), The Golden Calf (undated), One Life, One Love (1891), Like and Unlike(c1888)and Phantom Fortune (1884) by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, The Bread-Winners by John Hay (1884), Court Royal by Sabine Baring-Gould (1887), Landing a Prize by Mrs. Edward Kennard (1891), A Village Commune (1882) and Guilderoy (1891) by Ouida, Mrs. Arthur by Mrs. Oliphant (1891), Mark Twain's Sketches by Mark Twain (1892), Prince Schamyl's Wooing by Richard Henry Savage(1892), A Slender Clue by Lawrence L. Lynch (1892) and To Leeward by F. Marion Crawford (c1911). Although in terms of content or theme there is nothing linking this selection, the works here are the product of some of the leading literary minds of the Nineteenth Century, from quintessentially American writers such as Mark Twain and Richard Henry Savage, as well as writers whose work is of a uniquely British bent, such as Ouida and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Each volume is bound in decorative red quarter-morocco bindings and represents an interestingly broad range of themes and subjects, something that is in turn reflected in the vast and diverse range of novelists and writing that would become prominent in the Victorian Era. Many volumes contain the ownership label of one John Foster, many also include the bookbinders'stamps of E. Langley of Reading. Includes ink inscription to the endpages of Life and Adventures of Mervyn Clitheroe, from one J. K. Foster and one J. Cole of Eton College dated 1881. The Life of a Racehorse features illustrative plates throughout by E. Evans. Condition: In decorative quarter-morocco binding with gilt detailing and paper covered boards. Externally sound, there is wear to the extremities, boards and backstrips. The joints are very worn on Tie an Trick and the hinges on Mrs. Arthur are very tender. Internally, the pages are firmly bound and are generally bright and clean, aside from the odd instance of foxing to endpages and the odd spot. Overall: GOOD. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Pratt, W. H., designer of print. Lithography by A. Hageboeck
        Framed Print of Abraham Lincoln
      Davenport, IO: A. Hageboeck, 1865. NA. Near Fine. The bust of Lincoln is cleverly made out by a darkening and lightening of the calligraphic script used in the presentation of the Proclamation of Emancipation in its entirety. Lincoln is not so much as drawn as emerging from the writing like a spectre, yet remarkably, the likeness is unmistakable. Thus the Great Lincoln is shown as the embodiment of his lofty words. The oval print measures at its largest dimensions 32 by 26 cm. It is matted and and very handsomely framed. The frame, with metalwork ornamentation atop oak, is 47 by 41 cm. The print was created shortly after the watershed Proclamation was issued -- within two years -- and it speaks to the jubilation that the pronouncement was greeted in some quarters of the Union. As is well-known, the Proclamation's effect was more indirect and oblique than its lofty words might suggest -- Lincoln was not liberating all the slaves, but only those slaves in the Confederacy, whose territory he had no sway. But what the Proclamation did accomplish was to end any thought in Britain of backing the South, and it also is rightly seen as a major step forward in the final abolition of slavery throughout the United States, culminating in the Thirteenth Amendment ratified in 1865. The paper is toned, with a craggy thin vein that is oddly and inexplicably lighter. Few, though, will find this defect more than minor or disconcerting. The frame is attractive and appropriate.

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TENNYSON, Alfred
        Selection from the Works
      1865. TENNYSON, Alfred.A Selection from the Works.London: Edward Moxon, 1865.Limited edition of Alfred Tennyson?'s selected poetry in an exquisite Cosway signed binding, with a beautiful miniature painting of Alfred Tennyson executed on ivory by Miss Currie, number 811 of the Cosway Bindings invented by J.H. Stonehouse, signed on the limitation page by both Currie and Stonehouse, splendidly bound in full morocco-gilt by Riviere & Son.Tennyson ?"was one of the finest lyrists of the English tongue… There are besides in all his non-lyric poems passages of profound meditative music. Half at least of what he wrote the world would not willingly let die?" (Kunitz & Haycraft, 612-13). The selections made here for Moxon?'s Miniature Poets series attempt to represent Tennyson?'s finest work. Cosway bindings (named for renowned 19th-century English miniaturist Richard Cosway) were commissioned in the early 1900s by J.H. Stonehouse, managing director of London booksellers Sotheran & Company, from the famous Rivière bindery, who employed Miss C.B. Currie to faithfully imitate Cosway?'s detailed water-color style of portraiture. These delicate miniature paintings, often on ivory, were set in the covers or doublures of richly-tooled bindings and protected by thin panes of glass. This superb specimen of the fascinating art of Cosway binding was executed by Miss Currie herself. Painted on ivory, it shows Alfred Tennyson and is inset into the front cover. The binding is the 811th invented by Stonehouse for Riviere. This copy is signed on a limitation page by both Currie and Stonehouse.An exceptionally beautiful copy in fine condition.

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[Beach, Alfred]
        Uncle Nat; or, The Good Time Which George and Frank Had, Trapping, Fishing, Camping Out, etc. By Alfred Oldfellow
      New York: D. Appleton and Company 443 & 445 Broadway, 1865. First edition. Frontispiece and 5 engraved plates. 224 pp., + [4] pp. ads. 8vo. Brown pebbled, blind-stamped cloth, gilt fishing scene on upper board and spine, cloth frayed at spine ends, light foxing throughout. First edition. Frontispiece and 5 engraved plates. 224 pp., + [4] pp. ads. 8vo. Early Baseball Reference. Chapter five (pp. 48-55) contains the earliest fictional reference to the game of baseball, including choicing up sides by grabbing the bat. Precedes Everett's CHANGING BASE, 1868, which Grobani labels the first novel to incorporate baseball into its plot. INSCRIBED, "Presented to Mrs. J.M. Casey By the Rector for their little and much loved daughter May M. Casey. Through thye auspices of his son. Alfred B. Beach.".

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Spielkarten, 1 von nur 100 Exemplaren - Weigel, Th. O.:
        Die Spielkarten der Weigel'schen Sammlung.
      Leipzig, Weigel, 1865.. Folio, circa 41 x 30,3 cm. 45 SS., 1Bl., mit 8 (3 kolorierten) Tafeln in Holzschnitt und Kupferstich Original-Halbleinen mit Deckeltitel. Hargrave 374. Legendärer Sammlungskatalog, in nur 100 Exemplaren gedruckt. Aus dem Vorwort: "In der nachstehend beschriebenen Sammlung welche 19 Nummern mit 219 Blättern fast sämmtlich unbekannter Spielkarten umfasst, bieten wir einen wichtigen Beitrag sowohl zur Geschichte des Kartenspiels, als auch zur Geschichte der Druckkunst." - Theodor Oswald Weigel (1812-1881) übernahm das bedeutende Antiquariat seines Vaters Johann August Gottlob im Jahr 1838, ab 1865 wurde es von Arnold Kuczynski geleitet. Der legendäre "Katalog frühester Erzeugnisse der Druckerkunst" von 1872 enthält dann ebenfalls Spielkarten - der vorliegende in nur 100 Exemplaren ist weitaus seltener. - Etwas berieben, aussen angestaubt, innen mit nur wenigen matten Fleckchen, meist jedoch sauber, unbeschnitten.

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        Rose von Rohitsch.
      Hamburg, Adler, (um 1865).. 8 zusammenhängende, gestanzte Tafeln mit 28 Ansichten aus Rohitsch in Stahlstich, welche zusammengeklappt von 2 farblithographierten Rosen bedeckt werden. Ca. 23 cm x 23 cm (ausgeklappt). In OKuvert mit Illustration in Stahlstich (etw. gebräunt).. Nicht bei Nebehay-W. - Die sogenannten Souvenir-Rosen erschienen in den 1860er Jahren beim Verlag Adler in Hamburg. Sie erfreuten sich von Anfang an größter Beliebtheit. Es wurden aus fast allen Gebieten der Welt Souvenir-Rosen angefertigt, oft in Zusammenarbeit mit lokalen Verlagen. Diese sorgten einerseits für den Vertrieb der Rosen, andererseits waren diese in der Lage Brauchbare Vorlagen für die Ansichten zu liefern. Allen Entfaltet sind die Rosen überlicherweise in einem Format von 23 cm x 23 cm, gefaltet dann in einem Format von ca. 13 cm x 6,8 cm. Zu allen Rosen erschienen hübsche kleine Kuverts, die ebenfalls mit Motiven aus der dargestellten Örtlichkeit versehen sind. - Schönes Exemplar, leicht gebräunt.

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        Hamburg. - Souvenirblatt. - "Erinnerung an Hamburg".
      - Historische Ortsansicht. Lithografie, um 1865. Von Julius Friedrich J. Tempeltey, nach Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander Nay. 36,5 x 52,8 cm (Darstellung) / 47,5 x 63,5 cm (Blatt). Innerhalb der Darstellung Benennung aller Ansichten. Unterhalb der Darstellung links "Gez. v. Nay, lith. v. Tempeltei", mittig "Verlag u. Eigenthum v. W. Zawitz Kunsthandlg in Berlin, Königs u. Poststrassen Ecke", rechts "Druck b. H. Delius (v. Hölzer)". Darunter mittig betitelt. Außerdem zwei blindgerpägte Verlagsstempel von W. Zawitz. - Das Souvenirblatt zeigt in der Mitte eine Gesamtansicht der Stadt Hamburg vom St. Georgen Kirchturm gesehen über die Dächer der Hansestadt mit den zahleichen Kirchtürmen und der Binnenalster. Um diese Gesamtansicht gruppieren sich zwanzig Einzelansichten mit folgenden Darstellungen: Jakobikirche, Alsterarkaden und Jungfernstieg, Bahnhof, Vorstadt St. Pauli und Altona, St. Michaeliskirche, Markthalle, St. Petrikirche, Blankenese u. Süllberg, Lombardsbrücke, Neues Postgebäude, Rathaus, Baumhaus, Neue Hafentor, Blockhaus, Schauspielhaus, Börse, Millerntor, Rainville's Garten, Nikolaikirche, Alsterhalle. - Blatt leicht stockfleckig. Am linken unteren Blattrand 2 cm langer, hinterlegter Einriss. Insgesamt gut erhaltenes, sehr schönes Exemplar. Julius Friedrich J. Tempeltey (1802 Berlin - 1870 Berlin). Deutscher Landschaftsmaler und Lithograf. Schüler der Berliner Akademie. Seit 1844 außerordentliches Mitglied derselben. Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander Nay (1822 Magdeburg - 1883 Stockholm). Deutscher Zeichner und Lithograf. Schuf zahlreiche Ortsansichten Norddeutschlands, Dänemarks und Schwedens. U.a. erschien in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Lithographischen Institut des dänischen Verleger Emilius Ditlev Bærentzen im Jahre 1859 das Album "Holsteen & Lauenborg (Holstein & Lauenburg)", bestehend aus 64 Lithografien mit Begleittexten in dänischer und deutscher Sprache.

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Scharwenka, Franz Xaver, Pianist und Komponist (1850-1924).
        Eigenh. musikalisches Albumblatt mit U.
      Berlin. 1 S. 4to.. Vier Takte für Klavier aus einem unbezeichneten Werk. - Franz Xaver Scharwenka besuchte seit 1865 die Kullaksche Neue Akademie in Berlin, wirkte dort von 1868 bis 1874 als Lehrer und wurde als Pianist bekannt. "Seit 1874 unternahm er Konzerttourneen durch Europa und gründete 1881 in Berlin das nach ihm benannte Scharwenka-Konservatorium, das 1893 mit dem von Karl Klindworth vereinigt wurde. Seit 1885 Professor, hielt er sich 1891-98 in den USA auf, gab hier zahlreiche Konzerte und leitete in New York ebenfalls ein unter seinem Namen gegründetes Konservatorium. 1898 kehrte Scharwenka nach Berlin zurück und übernahm erneut die Direktion des Konservatoriums. Sein kompositorisches Werk umfaßt vor allem Klaviermusik. 1907 erschien seine Methodik des Klavierspiels. Scharwenka wurde vor allem als Chopin-Interpret bekannt" (DBE).

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Menzies, William, Deputy Surveyor of Windsor Forest and Parks
        A Treatise on the Sanitary Management and Utilization of Sewage: Comprising Details of a System Applicable to Cottages, Dwelling-Houses, Public Buildings and Towns; Suggestions Relating to Arterial Drainage of the Country and the Water Supply of Rivers
      London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1865. Hardback, 4to. 200mm x 268mm tall, (8" x 10.5" approx.). Pp xiii, 84 + 9 hand-coloured plans (3 folding). Rubs to corners and prelims & margins toned, otherwise very good with some leaves remaining unopened, neatly recased with new endpapers, in the original, blind-ruled, brown cloth-covered boards/gilt title. With the Author's hand-written inscription to the half-title leaf "With the Authors (sic) Compliments" Uncommon. With the Author's Compliments. First ( & only ] Edition. Cloth-Covered Boards. Very Good. 4to.

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Gordon, Charles
        Autograph Letter Signed to Colonel Nugent
      London, 1865. Manuscript in ink on Junior United Service Club stationery. Bifolium. 8vo. Some minor soiling on the final page, otherwise fine. Manuscript in ink on Junior United Service Club stationery. Bifolium. 8vo. Charles Gordon was one of the most important figures in the British Army in the second half of the nineteenth century. Known variously as "Chinese Gordon", "Gordon Pasha" and "Gordon of Khartoum", in 1860 he took part in the capture of Peking and destruction of the Summer Palace. In 1863 he led a Chinese force at Songjiang which was subsequently named the "Ever Victorious Army," and was involved in the suppression of the Taiping Rebellion (1863-64). He was appointed Governor General of Sudan in 1877-80 and returned there in 1883 to assist against the Mahdist uprising. In January 1885, he was killed in the fall of Khartoum.His letter to Col. Nugent was written in London between his service in China and Africa. It reads in part "...When I saw you last, I tried a feeler to see if you would not look Eastward, but you did not take (excuse the slang expressions). When I heard of your going away from Weymouth I thought of writing & opening the subject, but did not like to do so. I have just seen Sealey & he has told me that you have been talking to him about the East. Sir R[utherford] Alcock has great ideas of lending officers to the Japanese Tycoon [Taikun = Emperor] in order to train his men even to encounter the Rebellious Damios [daimyo = feudal lords] It must come to pass however sooner or later unless we take the country. When there are two factions, as in China & Japan our policy is to support one against the other. Mr Parker is going to Japan, he is a fiery man & I have but little doubt that he will cause a commotion there before a year's time. With respect to China, I cannot say for the present what is likely to turn out, as the Peking Govt. have not yet applied for officers as the Tycoon has. As for the climate of Japan, it is splendid... The work is interesting, & useful. One can have great influence..." Gordon adds an interesting postscript: "You will not be annoyed if I say I think that your field would be either India or China or Japan. Our caliber are not fitted for Gr Britain."Sir Rutherland Alcock (1809-97) was a diplomat, being the first British representative to live in Japan.

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Thomas Boston Corbett
        Superb Signature of Sergeant Boston Corbett, who shot and killed John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln
      n.p., n.d.. 3.5" x 2". "Signature, ""Boston Corbett,"" on a 3.5"" x 2"" card matted with a book stock print of a 3.5"" x 4.5"" portrait of Corbett (captioned ""Boston Corbett / Who shot Booth in Garrett's barn, April 26, 1865"") above the signature, flanked by a 4.5"" x 5.75"" reproduction of the first John Wilkes Booth reward poster (original in the Library of Congress) and a 5"" x 7.5"" book stock print captioned ""The Capture of John Wilkes Booth, The Assassin of President Lincoln / Booth was tracked from Washington to a farm near Bowling Green, Virginia, where on the night of April 25th, eleven days after the assassination, he was found in a barn. He refused to surrender, and the barn was set on fire. While it was burning Booth was shot by one of the pursuing party. He died three hours later."" Matted to 22"" x 14.75."" The Library of Congress identifies Corbett as ""Sergt. Boston Corbett, 16th N.Y. Cavalry, who shot J. W. Booth."""

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Geissler, Robert
        Album von Barmen - Erinnerungsblätter gezeichnet und lithographiert von Robert Geissler
      Glaser, Barmen 1865 - 12 Blatt, Titel. OLwd-Flügelmappe mit Gold- und Blindprägung. (II : Rücken der Mappe leicht gedunkelt und mit winzigem Einriß am oberen Kapital, Titel und Tafeln am Blattrand leicht stockfleckig, gutes Exemplar) - Immanuels Kirche / Johannis Kirche / Wichlinghausen / Rathaus / Hoehere Toechterschule / Unterbarmer Kirche / Missionshaus / Restauration und Denkmal in den Anlagen / Uferstrasse / Bahnhofstrasse, Vereinshaus, Gymnasium & Realschule / Theater / Hoehere u. Niedere Gewerbeschule - ZUSTAND : Betrifft nur die Bücher mit der Nummer 300000 bis 330000 (II) gut erhaltenes Exemplar, auffällige kleine Mängel, die den peniblen Sammler stören könnten, sind angegeben. 1005 Gramm. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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[Fort Sumter]:
        PROGRAMME OF THE ORDER OF EXERCISES AT THE RE-RAISING OF THE UNITED STATES FLAG, ON FORT SUMTER, CHARLESTON, S.C. APRIL 14th, 1865, UPON THE FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FALL OF THE FORT
      Port Royal, S.C. 1865.. 4pp. Single folded sheet. Minimal foxing, else fine. [with:] Two Original Albumen Photographs of the Fort Sumter Flag- Raising Ceremony. 1865. Each approximately 3 x 3 inches. The program begins with a prayer by Rev. Matthias Harris, then includes several readings from scripture, a singing of the "Star Spangled Banner," an address by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, the doxology, and a closing prayer and benediction. The photographs are captioned in pencil on the verso. The first reads, "Interior of Ft. Sumter Apl 14 1865. H.W. Beecher delivering the oration on the occasion of raising the old flag." The second photo reads, "Interior of Ft. Sumter Apl 14, 1865 pending the ceremony of raising the old flag." A scarce printing of the program for a very meaningful ceremony marking a fresh start for South Carolina after the Civil War, with possibly unique photographs taken from the actual flag- raising ceremony. A wonderful trio of South Carolina Reconstruction items. SABIN 25167. MIDLAND NOTES 91:96.

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RINGHIERI Innocenzio & LOUVEAU Jean
        Le dialogue de la vie et de la mort ENVOI AUTOGRAPHE
      S.n., 1865. Fine. 1865, 90pp., relié. - Original manuscript of this translation of the work of Ringhieri (Tuscan) by Jean Louveau, published in Lyon in 1562 at Antoine Vollant. Transcription by Father Delaporte. Elegant script on blue laid paper, with black pen. The epistle to the pastor of Vaugirard in Nantes, is dated 1865. Fine writing very readable. Half red morocco time. Back tooled raised florets 5. Gilt. Light rubbing. Good copy. Transcriber had a copy of the edition of 1562, first appeared in 1557. September dialogues put face to face life and death in an exchange that owes more to the Christian stoicism, a rather philosophical and humanistic meditation that theology rather absent from these dialogues. --- 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] Manuscrit original de cette traduction de l'oeuvre de Ringhieri (en toscan) par Jean Louveau, parue à Lyon, chez Antoine Vollant en 1562. Transcription par l'abbé Delaporte. Elégant manuscrit sur papier vergé bleu, à la plume noire. L'epitre au pasteur de Vaugirard à Nantes, est datée 1865. Fine écriture très lisible. Reliure en demi maroquin rouge d'époque. Dos à nerfs orné de 5 fleurons. Titre doré. Légers frottements. Bon exemplaire. Le transcripteur possédait un exemplaire de l'édition de 1562, la première avait paru en 1557. Sept dialogues mettent face à face La vie et La mort dans un échange qui doit davantage au stoïcisme chrétien, à une méditation plutôt philosophique et humaniste, qu'à la théologie, plutôt absente de ces dialogues.

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HUGO (Victor)
        Le Christ au Vatican
      Chez Les Principaux Libraires 1865 In - 8 (229 x 152 mm), 14 pages, demi - veau violet, coins, dos à cinq nerfs orné, tête dorée, non rogné, couverture et dos conservés (reliure signée Saulnier). Edition originale de ce texte attribué à Victor Hugo. (dos passé, coiffes, nerfs et coins frottés, petite restauration habile sur le coin inférieur de la première couverture, très rares piqûres). / / Octavo (229 x 152 mm), 14 pages, purple three - quarter calf, spine tooled raised on five bands, top edge gilt, uncut, soft cover and spine preserved (binding signed Saulnier). First edition of this text attributed to Victor Hugo. (spine faded, rubbings on top and bottom of spine, on raised - bands and corners, skillfull little restoration on low corner of first soft cover, very rare spots).

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HUGO Victor
        Les chansons des rues et des bois EDITION ORIGINALE
      Paris|& Bruxelles|& Leipzig|& Livourne: Librairie internationale & A. Lacroix & Verboeckhoven & Cie, 1865. Fine. Librairie internationale & A. Lacroix & Verboeckhoven & Cie, Paris & Bruxelles & Leipzig & Livourne 1865, 15x23cm, relié. - first edition. Binding half navy blue shagreen, spine slightly thinned with five nerves set with black nets decorated with golden florets, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, small rips on the cuts, marbled head, then binding . Nice copy almost free of freckles. - [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Edition originale. Reliure en demi chagrin bleu marine, dos légèrement éclairci à cinq nerfs sertis de filets noirs orné de fleurons dorés, plats de papier marbré, gardes et contreplats de papier à la cuve, petits accrocs sur les coupes, tête marbrée, reliure de l'époque. Agréable exemplaire quasi exempt de rousseur.

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GILL, S.T
        The Australian Sketchbook by S.T.G. Printed in colours and published by Hamel and Ferguson
      Melbourne: circa, 1865. In good condition, in a modern binding.. Oblong folio, with 25 fine chromolithograph plates including the title page; full calf, gilt-ruled and spine titled in gilt, edges gilt, preserved in a slipcase. A warm and ironic tribute to colonial bush life, The Australian Sketchbook by Samuel Thomas Gill remains a classic of illustrated Australiana. This is Gill's sought-after and most famous publication, an attractive album of 25 rural scenes including bushranging, kangaroo stalking, the bush mailman, cattle droving. Throughout there are poignant comparisons between Aboriginal life and that of the settlers. 'Bush Funeral', for example, which shows a weeping funeral procession behind a coffin pulled by two bullocks, is followed by 'Native Sepulchre', an Aboriginal corpse on a platform with howling dingoes below.The colour printing of the lithographs is of notably high quality for this early date. The album was printed in 1865, later in the same year that chromolithography was first put to serious use in Nicholas Chevalier's Album. The colouring here (occasionally highlighted with a little hand-applied colour) is a delicate and successful use of the medium.'The title-page shows a likeness of the artist carrying his boots and equipment and crossing a shallow stream barefoot. His head is turned suspiciously towards two Aborigines shown half concealed by rocks, while unseen by him a snake menaces an unprotected foot. The sketch indicates something of Gill's attitude towards himself at this time. He evidently viewed his own situation with wry humour, adopted a generally fatalistic attitude, and held his own achievements and future in scant regard' (McCulloch, Artists of the Australian Gold Rush). Ferguson, 9924f; Australian Rare Books, 251.

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DICKENS CHARLES ; Stone Marcus Illustrates
        OUR MUTUAL FRIEND
      Chapman & Hall. London. 1865. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.8 inches). Forty fine full page illustrations on steel by Stone. Both half titles present. A very good clean copy with some minimal spotting to a few plates and heavier foxing to the tissue paper guards opposite the frontispieces in each volume. Finely bound in early half tan calf bindings. Raised bands with gilt decorations on spines. Black title labels, gilt. Compartments double ruled and decorated in blind. Marbled paper on boards. Light brown plain endpapers. All edges marbled. Previous owners inscription to the front blank endpaper of volume one. Some rubbing and bumping to the extremities but overall a very good copy in attractive contemporary bindings. Bound by Sharpe & Kelley, Bookbinders, of Liverpool, and with their small paper labels to the front paste down endpapers.

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DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870) [illustr Marcus STONE]
        Our Mutual Friend With Illustrations by Marcus Stone
      London: Chapman and Hall, 1865., 1865. First Edition. 2 volumes, octavo, pp.[i]-xii, 320, [36, publisher's ads]; [viii], 309, [1, publisher's imprint], [1, blank], [4, publisher's ads]. With forty engraved plates. Original purple-brown sand-grain cloth, blind-stamped covers, gilt to spine, coated yellow endpapers. Bindings rubbed in places, some soiling, spine ends worn, volume one neatly recased. A presentable set, housed in a leather-spined clamshell box. 'Our Mutual Friend,' written in the years 1864?-65, is the last completed novel written by Charles Dickens, and concerns money, and what money can make of life. Preceding Dickens' final crime-based work 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood', this novel also features elements of intrigue and suspense; John Harmon, a wealthy young heir, is supposed drowned and in a case of mistaken identity his fortune is passed to Boffin, a former servant of his father. John must infiltrate the Boffin household and gain their trust and friendship in order to regain his fortune. Collins; Dickens and Crime (1962).

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DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870) [illustr. Marcus STONE].
        Our Mutual Friend. With Illustrations by Marcus Stone.
      London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. - First Edition. 2 volumes, octavo, pp.[i]-xii, 320, [36, publisher's ads]; [viii], 309, [1, publisher's imprint], [1, blank], [4, publisher's ads]. With forty engraved plates. Original purple-brown sand-grain cloth, blind-stamped covers, gilt to spine, coated yellow endpapers. Bindings rubbed in places, some soiling, spine ends worn, volume one neatly recased. A presentable set, housed in a leather-spined clamshell box. 'Our Mutual Friend,' written in the years 186465, is the last completed novel written by Charles Dickens, and concerns money, and what money can make of life. Preceding Dickens' final crime-based work 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood', this novel also features elements of intrigue and suspense; John Harmon, a wealthy young heir, is supposed drowned and in a case of mistaken identity his fortune is passed to Boffin, a former servant of his father. John must infiltrate the Boffin household and gain their trust and friendship in order to regain his fortune. Collins; Dickens and Crime (1962). [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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DICKENS, Charles.
        Our Mutual Friend.
      Chapman and Hall, London. 1865 - First edition in book form. Octavo. Two volumes bound into one, retaining both half-title pages, probably in about 1880. pp xii, 320; viii, 309. First issue misspelling of ''pricipal'' on page 115 of second volume. The author's last completed novel and the only one to be illustrated by Marcus Stone. The plates are engraved by the Dalziel Brothers and W.T. Green. Half red morocco over marbled boards, raised bands. Marbled edges and endpapers.Armorial bookplate Steuart Augustus Sillem on front pastedown and his ownership inscription on verso of front free endpaper. Occasional faint foxing to the plates. Covers a bit rubbed at the edges. Very good. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Guatemala. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores
        Broadside, begins: "El Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores, encargado del gobierno, a los habitantes de la RepÃºblica. Guatemaltecos! Un acontecimiento grave y doloroso me obliga a dirijiros la palabra
      [Guatemala: No publisher/printer Folio (34 cm; 13.25"). [1] p.. 1865] Pedro de Aycinena announces the death of long-time leader and sometimes president Rafael Carrera, dated in the text 14 April 1865. => Carrera was an epitome of the 19th-century caudillo. Minister Aycinena announces that he will assume the presidential powers until a new leader can be appointed. Searches of NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, CICLA, and Metabase locate only one library copy worldwide Â— in the U.S. As issued; one small piece of blank paper torn from lower outer corner. Overall age-toning.

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AA.VV. (MAZZINI Giuseppe)
        Il dovere. Giornale politico settimanale per la democrazia
      Stabilimento degli artisti tipografi 1865-67, Genova - 3 voll. in 4, pp. 408; 416; 284 +Â416 + 160. Legatura in mz. tl. coeva. Tre annate consecutive della rivista genovese fondata da Giuseppe Mazzini. Anno I: dal no 1 del 7 marzo 1863 al no 51 del 27 febbraio 1864 (annata completa); Anno II: dal no 1 del 5 marzo 1864 al no 52 del 25 febbraio 1865 (annata completa): Anno III: dal no 1 del 4 marzo 1865 al no 35 del 28 ottobre (annata completa dal momento che la rivista interruppe le sue pubblicazioni da ottobre sino al gennaio successivo); anno IV: dal no 1 del 6 gennaio 1866 al no 52 del 29 dicembre (annata completa); anno V: dal no 1 del 5 gennaio 1867 al no 20 del 18 maggio 1867 (completa). La rivista, dopo questo ultimo numero del 18 maggio, cambio' infatti il suo nome in 'Il Dovere. Giornale politico quotidiano' divenendo appunto un quotidiano.ÂRarissima raccolta completa di questa rivista settimanale mazzinianaÂfondata nel 1863 e diretta all'inizio da Federico Campanella, amico di Mazzini, e da Ernesto Pozzi. ITA

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Unidentified Author
        First New York Times Account of President Abraham Lincoln's Assassination. Vol. XIV, No. 4230
      New York: New York Times, 1865. First Edition. Newspaper. Very Good. Nicely framed original New York Times newspaper announcing the assassination of President Lincoln. Paper is in nice shape with some minor toning and pressed-out folds. The headline reads, "AWFUL EVENT / President Lincoln Shot by an Assassin. The Deed Done at Ford's Theatre Last Night. THE ACT OF A DESPERATE REBEL". Includes the first ("Midnight") report of the event, "The President is reported dead. Cavalry and infantry are scouring the city in every direction for the murderous assassins, and the city is overwhelmed by excitement. Who the assassins were no one knows, though every body supposes them to have been rebels." (The report of Lincoln's death was premature, as the President hung on to life until around 7 am the following morning.).

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(Dean's New Moveable Books)
        THE JOLLY OLD MAN WHO SINGS DOWN DERRY DOWN. [A Dean's Transformation Book]
      London :: Dean & Son (65, Ludgate Hill),, 1865. Very Good. Very Good hardback. Hand colored pictorial engraving on front board is the Jolly Old Man standing front and center with an oval hole through which protrudes a three dimensional wooden head, mounted on a rear blank page, as issued. Including the cover, there are eight hand colored engravings each with an illustration of the Jolly Old Man in a different situation [transformation] and an oval hole through which the wooden head protrudes. Beneath each colored image there is a rhyming verse. For example, on the page showing the Jolly Old Man on his horse in a stream the rhyme begins:Now, "Hey Derry Down", he has christened his horse,Which bore him without any trouble across,... The rear board has notices of other Dean publications. Paper loss lower rear board. Cloth spine nicely repaired in the past. Fore-edge trimmed, no loss to text or images. Mild soil few pps. This Dean Novelty Transformation Book is Rare particularly with the images and head intact. OCLC lists only one copy (U. of Indiana). Sm. 4to. 8 leaves, Versos blank.

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Stieler, Adolf; Hermann Berghaus, ed
        Nautischer Atlas fur den Gebrauch der Bremer Steuermannsschule German nautical atlas for the use of Bremen "helmsman's" school with Stieler Hand Atlas maps
      Gotha:: Justus Perthes,. Ca. 1865.. Hardcover. Very good overall. Early nautical school atlas for use in the Bremen, Germany maritime school, for sale at J. G. Heyse's Buchhandlung (Bookstore) in Bremen. A commentary inside the front panel, titled "Bemerkungen zu der allgemeinen weltkarte in mercator's projection", which concludes with the date "Gotha, 26. Nov. 1859". Publisher advertisement below, "Verlag von Justus Perthes in Gotha. This is a compilation of maps by Adolf Stieler and Hermann Berghaus, which includes: north and southern hemisphere star maps: Der Sudliche Gestirnte Himmel (Bar) & Der Nordliche Gestirnte Himmel (Stieler). Also, 4 Welt-Karte by Berghaus. The Stieler maps include the East Indies "Die Ostindischen Inseln (1865); Australien und Polynesien (1863); Australien (1865); West-Indien und Central-Amerika (1868); Europa (1868); West-Australien and Neu Seeland (1864); and Die Meerenge von Gibraltar (1868). The Atlas contains 20 maps in all, including a Pre- Federation map of Australia, with inset 'Sydney und Port Jackson', showing the upper part of South Australia marked "provisorisch unter verwaltung von sud australien" (provisionally managed by South Australia). This map of Australia with Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1865 printed in bottom margin. A second map of Australia includes Western Australia, an inset of Tasmania, New Zealand, and an inset "Der Isthmus von Auckland"; in the bottom margin, ""Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1864". Maps from Stieler's Hand Atlas, edited by Hermann Berghaus..Someone has used the Welt-Kartes to track 3 voyages from Europe to the east coast of America and down the coast to South America (Berghaus Welt-Karte No. 1, in which 8 routes are neatly marked in different colors crossing the Atlantic between western Europe and North and Central America; with pencil notations below, and the date Febry 16th '76). Folio, not paginated. Quarter black cloth with green marbled boards, title on paper label at front board, no title at spine. This book has been to sea; the spine is quite rubbed with loss. Boards and spine quite rubbed, the title label worn and marked. Internally, inner hinge starting, but holding. An occasional faint watermark in margins.

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New York Canal Commissioners
        ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CANAL COMMISSIONERS STATE OF NEW YORK IN ASSEMBLY1864-1877 (14 ANNUAL REPORTS IN 5 VOLUMES)
      State of New York 1865-78, Albany, N. Y. - 14 Annual Reports beautifully bound into 5 blue cloth volumes with gilt lettering on the spines. Text interior is clean & tight with a few small tears where fold-out attaches to text and a few tape repairs to fold-outs. Some edge wear to a few maps. Reports published in1865-1877 for the years 1863-1876. Illustrated with canal plans, tables, charts, maps & descriptions. 1864 (No. 10) : 139pp w /index & 1 fold-out, 1865 (No. 9) : 189 pp w/ index & 3 fold-outs (1 map) , 1866 (No. 7) : 181pp w /index & 7 fold-outs (3maps) , 1867 (No. 9) : 176pp w /index & 6 fold-outs (3maps) , 1868 (No. 4) : 144pp w /index & 2 fold-out maps , 1869 (No. 4) : 174pp w /index & 4 fold-outs (2 maps) , 1870 (No. 6) : 278pp w /index, 1871 (No. 29) : 232pp w /index & 2 fold-outs (1 map) , 1872 (No. 6) : 222pp w /index, 1873 (No 6) : 255pp w /index & 3 fold-outs (1 map) , 1874 (No 6) : 347pp w /index & 11 fold-outs (10 Maps) housed in a built-in custom case, 1875 (No. 6) 263 p w /index & 2 fold-out maps, 1876 (No. 45) : 228pp w /index & 1 fold-out map, 1877 (No.12) : 199pp w/ index & 1 fold-out map. Originally from the Harry Rinker research library relating to the American canal era. New York Canals: Erie, Champlain, Black River, Genesee, Chenango, Oswego, Cayuga & Seneca, Chemung, Crooked Lake, Oneida, Baldwinsville; Charts, maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 3027 pages [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Jump, Edward, b. 1831
        California House of Assembly, 1865-6
      [San Francisco, 1865?]. Lithograph, 70.5 x 53 cm. Jump, born in France, was active in San Francisco 1860-1868, then moved east to Washington, D.C. There is an entry for him in Young's Dictionary of American Artists, but not in Thieme-Becker, 'Who Was Who in American Art', Mantle-Fielding, the 'New York Times' obituary, nor the NUC. There are about 106 people in this portrait of the California legislature in the immediate Civil War period, from speaker J. Yule to 'Drum, reporter.' Yule is depicted at his rostrum; the legislators, identified in a numbered key along the sides of the print, are seated at their desks facing away from the speaker and toward the viewer. At the base of the print are 16 standing figures. Mounted on cardboard & lacquered over. Bottom 2.5 cm. has adhesive from early attachment. stock#NSflat106.

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STUART, John McDouall
        The Journals of John McDouall Stuart during the years 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, & 1862, when he fixed the centre of the continent and successfully crossed it from sea to sea. Edited from mr Stuart's manuscript by William Hardman... Second edition
      London: Saunders, Otley & Co, 1865. Octavo, original photographic portrait of the author as frontispiece, 12 plates and two maps, one of them folding and hand-coloured in endpocket (renewed) some browning; original blind-stamped blue cloth, the Edge Partington copy with his bookplate. John McDouall Stuart began his inland exploration career as a draughtsman on Charles Sturt's expedition to central Australia. He went on to make six expeditions between 1858 and 1862, culminating in his successful crossing of the continent from Adelaide to the Indian Ocean.Second edition, edited by William Hardman who declares that Stuart's explorations may be considered amongst the most important in the history of Australian Discovery. John McDouall Stuart began his inland exploration career as a draughtsman on Charles Sturt's expedition to central Australia. He went on to make six expeditions between 1858 and 1862, culminating in his successful crossing of the continent from Adelaide to the Indian Ocean.

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HUMBOLDT Alexander von
        Correspondance scientifique et littéraire recueillie publiée et précédée d EDITION ORIGINALE
      Paris: Ducrocq, 1865. Fine. Ducrocq, Paris 1865, 14x22cm, relié. - First Edition. Publisher's binding in full green buckram bottle back with four ornate coffered nerves cold upper cover rubbed, frames and interlacing threads Cold boards, coats of arms of Napoleon III gilt in the center of the first flat, medallion representing a golden crown and palms framing the inscriptions Paris and Academy Award-around the center of the second board, liners and guards moire paper eagle, gilt edges, contemporary binding. Book ornamented head, two engraved portraits of Humboldt and fac simile of one of his letters, figures interspersed throughout the text. End of the volume, we find a biography correspondents Humboldt, notes and table. Rare. --- 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. Reliure de l'éditeur en pleine percaline vert bouteille, dos à quatre nerfs orné de caissons à froid, coiffe supérieure frottée, encadrements de filets et d'entrelacs à froid sur les plats, armoiries de Napoléon III dorées au centre du premier plat, médaillon doré représentant un aigle couronné et palmes encadrant les inscriptions Académie de Paris et Prix du concours général au centre du deuxième plat, doublures et gardes de papier moiré, tranches dorées, reliure de l'époque. Ouvrage orné , en tête, de deux portraits gravés de A. de Humboldt et du fac simile d'une de ses lettres, figures intercalées dans le texte. En fin de volume, nous trouvons une biographie des correspondants de Humboldt, des notes et une table. Rare.

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New York Canal Commissioners
        ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CANAL COMMISSIONERS STATE OF NEW YORK IN ASSEMBLY1864-1877 (14 ANNUAL REPORTS IN 5 VOLUMES)
      Albany, N. Y.: State of New York. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1865-78. First Edition. Hardcover. 14 Annual Reports beautifully bound into 5 blue cloth volumes with gilt lettering on the spines. Text interior is clean & tight with a few small tears where fold-out attaches to text and a few tape repairs to fold-outs. Some edge wear to a few maps. Reports published in1865-1877 for the years 1863-1876. Illustrated with canal plans, tables, charts, maps & descriptions. 1864 (No. 10) : 139pp w /index & 1 fold-out, 1865 (No. 9) : 189 pp w/ index & 3 fold-outs (1 map) , 1866 (No. 7) : 181pp w /index & 7 fold-outs (3maps) , 1867 (No. 9) : 176pp w /index & 6 fold-outs (3maps) , 1868 (No. 4) : 144pp w /index & 2 fold-out maps , 1869 (No. 4) : 174pp w /index & 4 fold-outs (2 maps) , 1870 (No. 6) : 278pp w /index, 1871 (No. 29) : 232pp w /index & 2 fold-outs (1 map) , 1872 (No. 6) : 222pp w /index, 1873 (No 6) : 255pp w /index & 3 fold-outs (1 map) , 1874 (No 6) : 347pp w /index & 11 fold-outs (10 Maps) housed in a built-in custom case, 1875 (No. 6) 263 p w /index & 2 fold-out maps, 1876 (No. 45) : 228pp w /index & 1 fold-out map, 1877 (No.12) : 199pp w/ index & 1 fold-out map. Originally from the Harry Rinker research library relating to the American canal era. New York Canals: Erie, Champlain, Black River, Genesee, Chenango, Oswego, Cayuga & Seneca, Chemung, Crooked Lake, Oneida, Baldwinsville; Charts, maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 3027 pages .

      [Bookseller: Nick Bikoff, Bookseller]

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CIVIL WAR) BORCKE, Heros Von
        Memoirs of the Confederate War For Independence. [With] Two Original Photographs.
      Leonard Scott & Co. 1865-1866, New York - First printing in English (published in book form one year later). Contained in ten full issues of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (Leonard Scott & Co. were the American publisher's of Blackwood's). Nos. DXCIX to DCVIII; Sept. 1865-June, 1866. Complete. Octavo. Original printed beige wrappers. All in excellent condition. We can find no copies at auction via Americana Exchange and only four sets in OCLC.[with] Original albumen photograph of Heros von Borcke. 3 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Matted, framed and gazed. The publishers of the German edition used this same image as the frontispiece.[with] Original cabinet card photograph of von Borcke's birthplace, Ehrenbreitstein. On original photographer's yellow mount with text in German."Johann August Henrich Heros von Borcke was one of those larger than life figures who was involved with some of the most romantic figures of the war period. Heros von Borcke came from an "old Prussian military family of titled nobility", and was serving in the 2nd Brandenburg Regiment of Dragoons when the War between the States began. He took a leave of absence from his Regiment and traveled across the Atlantic to fight in the War for Southern Independence. He arrived through the Federal blockade, narrowly escaping capture while entering Charleston harbour, in May 1862. He was introduced to General J.E.B. Stuart by Secretary of War George Randolph and served as a volunteer aide . He quickly earned a commission in Stuart's cavalry eventually as his chief of staff with the rank of major and from then on the Prussian was rarely far from Stuart's side. General Stuart was greatly impressed by Heros von Borcke, reporting:"Capt. Heros von Borcke, a Prussian cavalry officer, who lately ran the blockade, assigned me by the honorable Secretary of War, joined in the charge of the First Squadron in gallant style, and subsequently, by his energy, skill, and activity, won the praise and admiration of all". Heros von Borcke's 8 August 1862 appointment as Major was confirmed by the Confederate Congress on September 19th. Later in the month, Stuart again cited him in an after-action report:"[near Brandy Station, Va, 20 Aug 1862] Maj. Heros von Borcke, my adjutant-general, was conspicuous in the charge, and led an important flank attack at the critical moment of the engagement.". Major Heros von Borke continued on Stuart's staff until almost fatally wounded in June 1863 in an action at Middleburg, Virginia . When General Stuart was mortally wounded at the battle of Yellow Tavern, in May 1864, Heros von Borcke was present at Stuart's deathbed . He was appointed Lieutenant Colonel, as of 20 December 1864. After the War he returned to Prussia, serving in the war with Austria but due to the yankee bullet he carried in his lung, for health reasons he retired.Heros von Borcke memoirs written in 1866 offer a stirring account of his service in the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia. After the War he returned to Prussia, serving in the war with Austria but due to the yankee bullet he carried in his lung, for health reasons he retired. Heros von Borcke memoirs written in 1866 offer a stirring account of his service in the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia.Heros von Borcke married and lived in Neumarkt, East Prussia, he inherited castle at Geisenbrugge. It was reportedly "his delight to fly the Confederate flag from its battlements". He died in 1895 , still reminiscing about his days serving the Confederate cause" (Lee's Lieutenants).

      [Bookseller: Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA]

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HOWITT, William
        The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, from the earliest date to the present day
      London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1865. Two volumes, octavo, three folding maps; an excellent set in publishers blind stamped green cloth with gilt lettering, chalk endpapers, advertisements bound at rear. An uncommonly fresh copy: first edition of one of the earliest and best histories of exploration and discovery in Australasia by a noted writer and the father of A.W. Howitt, the explorer who discovered the remains of Burke and Wills. Ferguson mentions two maps Australia and New Zealand, not the third of Van Dieman's Land. From the collection of Robert Edwards. Ferguson, 10622.

      [Bookseller: Hordern House Rare Books]

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