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Verlag: London: Printed by Jno. Nichols and Sold for the Society by Rivingtons, Dilly, Johnson & Hookham, 1795, 1795
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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From the library of President George Washington, with his bold signature on the half-title. The volume was presented to Washington, accompanied by a letter dated 15 July 1795, by the English physician Dr John Coakley Lettsom (1744 1815), and remained in his library until his death. Lettsom's letter, no longer present, mentions his American sympathies and shows that he is aware of Washington's lifelong devotion to the improvement of American agriculture: "Having been born an American, and early imbibed principles of liberty as established on that continent, I have probably received a stronger disposition, to promote, its prosperity, and particularly its agriculture, and the knowledge of its natural history and mineralogy." Along with the book, Lettsom enclosed some rhubarb seeds for Washington's use. Although they never met, the President and Lettsom had a mutual friend in William Thornton (1759 1828), best known in American history as the architect of the Capitol building. Thornton had moved to the new federal capital the year before this presentation, when President Washington appointed him one of the fledgling city's commissioners. Lettsom and Thornton were born in what is now the British Virgin Islands. Both were Quakers appalled by slavery, and both studied medicine. Thornton revered Lettsom as his mentor, but while Lettsom set up a medical practice in London and built a distinguished career there, Thornton became an American citizen. When Thornton prepared to go to America in 1784, it was Lettsom who wrote an introductory letter to Benjamin Franklin. Among Lettsom's many philanthropic achievements in London was assisting William Hawes in the foundation of the Royal Humane Society, of which Thornton was also a member. The Society's aim was to resuscitate anyone in a state of "suspended animation", such as the near-drowned or attempted suicides. The Society promoted novel resuscitative techniques, such as CPR and electric stimulation. They offered rewards to those who successfully resuscitated persons, organized rapid response teams to render first aid, and published reports on successful cases. The present volume documents hundreds of such cases and includes essays and letters from RHS members. The work of the RHS was addressing a widespread, potent fear of premature burial, a fear shared by George Washington. Shortly before he died in December 1799, he requested his secretary, Tobias Lear, to "have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the Vault in less than three days after I am dead". As he lay dying, a family member invited Thornton to Mount Vernon to see if he could use his medical training to help. Thornton was grief stricken to find that he had arrived too late, finding his hero's body frozen stiff. Remembering the experimental techniques of the RHS, Thornton proposed to reanimate Washington, first by thawing him in cool water, then gradually warming him, giving him a tracheotomy and a transfusion of lamb's blood. To Thornton's consternation, Washington's family refused to sanction the attempt. George Washington's Mount Vernon library comprised only about 900 books, with pamphlets and other publications taking it to a total of more than 1,200 titles. Books from Mount Vernon command notably high prices in commerce. On 22 June 2012 at Christie's New York, Washington's annotated copy of the Constitution and Bill of Rights set a then world auction record for an American book or historical document of $9,826,500. His copy of The Federalist presented by two of the authors and with his signature and bookplate in each volume was sold at auction at Sotheby's New York in 1990 for $1,430,000. Even odd volumes bring substantial prices: for example, the first volume only of Lesage's Gil Blas, $126,000 in 2021, or a mixed lot of volumes from Mount Vernon, $1,205,000 in 2013, both at Sotheby's New York. The heir to George Washington's library was one of his nephews, Bushrod Washington (1762 1829). After Bushrod Washington's death, what remained of the original Mount Vernon library and papers passed to Bushrod's two nephews, George Corbin Washington and John Augustine Washington II. George Corbin Washington sold his portion in two tranches, which eventually found their way to the Library of Congress and the Boston Athenaeum. This book was in the other half, inherited by John Augustine Washington II, which was sold at auction on 28 November 1876 by Thomas Birch's Sons in Philadelphia. It was purchased by John R. Baker, one of the sale's largest buyers. Baker's collection was resold 11 12 February 1891, again at Birch's Sons, where it was purchased by the American philanthropist Phoebe Apperson Hearst, wife of Senator George Hearst, and mother of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. The book was then either sold by Phoebe before her death in 1919 or bequeathed to her son William, although it does not appear in the catalogue for the sale of his library at Sotheby's in 1963. It turns up again in 1972 at Charles Hamilton Galleries in New York and has remained in private hands until this year. Listed in the official inventory of Washington's personal property at Mount Vernon taken by appraisers upon his death (see p. 426 in The Estate of George Washington, Deceased, Eugene Ernst Prussing, 1927); Griffin, Catalogue of the Washington Collection, 554. Octavo (200 x 127 mm). Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, presumably for presentation, spine lettered in gilt, gilt rules, gilt rope-roll to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a red quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Engraved portrait of George III and 2 engraved plates. Binding rubbed, spine with small scuffs, internally clean, very good condition.
Verlag: PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED AND COLOURED BY JOHN L. NARSTIN, 1819., 1819
Anbieter: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, USA
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No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Engraved map on twelve sheets joined as six and mounted on linen (each ca. 35 x 22 1/2 in.; 889 x 569 mm, and totaling ca. 70 x 67 1/2 in.), engraved by H. Anderson, contemporary outline handcoloring and light varnishing, large engraved allegorical vignette by Anderson above title depicting Robinson bowing before two female figures holding shields bearing the federal eagles of Mexico and the United States, respectively, while a winged female hovers in the background; lengthy engraved dedication below the title ("To Maj. Gen. Thomas Hinds, Brigr. Gen. John Wood, Col. Coles Mead, Edward Turner Esqr. Jonathon Thompson Esqr. Vela Metcalfe Esqr. & James Metcalfe M.D. This Map is Respectfully inscribed as a testimony of their Patronage, in Promoting the Publication by the Author"); eight statistical and other informational tables engraved lower left, including latitude and longitude, populations of various provinces, size and locations of Indian peoples, and mountain heights. The six sheets uniformly handsomely framed and glazed with UVIII Plexiglass. A very little bit of minor chipping at margins and sheet edges, occasional browning or minor soiling, some scattered craqulure from varnish. PROVENANCE: The Library of Congress (small stamp below the imprint, "Map Division Library of Congress"; likely a copyright deposit copy) - Thomas W. Streeter (penciled note in margin above vignette, "By exchange with the Library of Congress for the surveys by George Washington Dec. 1939"; see also Streeter's article "The Rollins Collection of Western Americana," in Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. IX (June 1948): 203, where he describes his attempts to secure Rollins's copy of the Robinson map before "a search of about a dozen years was rewarded by my finding a procurable duplicate of the map in a great institutional library") - Yale University FIRST ISSUE OF A SEMINAL MAP OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST: THE FIRST MAP TO DELINEATE THE BORDER OF TEXAS AND LOUISIANA AS ESTABLISHED BY THE CRUCIAL ADAMS-ONÍS TREATY OF 1819. ONE OF ONLY ABOUT TEN COPIES TO SURVIVE, THIS IS EVIDENTLY ONE OF THREE COPIES DEPOSITED BY ROBINSON IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS IN ORDER TO SECURE COPYRIGHT. John Hamilton Robinson was the naturalist and medical officer (and possibly a spy) on Zebulon Pike's expedition to the southwest, later venturing several times to Mexico and serving in her army. On the map itself Robinson explains his cartographic sources: "The Information on which the Author feels himself justified in the publication of this Map, is from his own knowledge of the Country in his several voyages thither and also the several Manuscript Maps which are now in his possession, drawn by order of the Captain General of the Internal Provinces and Viceroy of Mexico." In a legend along the Pacific Coast he gives a specific credit: "This portion of the coast was laid down from the map made by Don Juan Pedro Walker by order of the Captain General of the Internal Provinces in 1810." Robinson also likely relied on William Clark's map of the Lewis and Clark expedition as well. In the parlance of the day, Robinson was a "filibuster"-a combination of adventurer and mercenary-fully committed to the sometimes competing goals of Mexican independence from Spain and the expansion westward of the United States. He conceived of his map in helping both of those endeavors by highlighting the vast territory claimed-or at least coveted- by both the United States and Spain. Robinson published a prospectus for the map claiming that it would "contain the latest and best information from the discoveries and possessions of the American, Spanish, Russian, British and French travellers and navigators, and representing the claims of their respective governments in the North western coast of America." Robinson's map shows the routes of Pike, Lewis and Clark, Dominique, and Font; cities and towns, villages and missions, Indian nations; silver mines; and forts among other features. He has als. Map.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1795
Anbieter: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, USA
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No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Gouache and Watercolor on paper in gold leaf frame (15 ¾ x 20 ½ inches visible; 24 x 29 inches framed). THE FIRST VIEW OF DC AND GEORGETOWN DRAWN BY GEORGE WASHINGTON'S FAVORITE ARTIST This excellent view is taken from above Georgetown on the District side, and shows Analostan Island (the former designation for Theodore Roosevelt Island) in the Potomac River with Georgetown in the background on the left. This watercolor gouache is clearly a companion in style and subject of The Potomac River Breaking through the Blue Ridge and Great Falls of the Potomac, both circa 1796-1797), combining as it does topographical detail with a Romantic atmosphere. Both of these works were purchased in January 1797 from Beck s agent, Samuel Salter. They were hung in the New Room at Mount Vernon, where they may still be viewed today. George Beck is one of the earliest professional English trained landscape painters in America. Among his pioneering depictions of the American wilderness , Georgetown and the city of Washington is an important and evocative portrait of the Nation s capitol at its peak. Beck and his wife emigrated to America in 1795, drawn to the same newly settled wilderness, which Beck so successfully portrayed in his. The couple settled in Baltimore, Maryland, where Beck first painted his views of the Potomac River and achieved a tremendous amount of success. His fandom was ignited by the backing of George Washington, and following those commissions he won the patron-ship of William Hamilton, a well-known patron of English and American artists. From there Beck s popularity skyrocketed, accumulating commission after commission. In 1798, Beck moved to Philadelphia and opened a drawing school for men and women to subsidize his income; while his wife opened a ladies seminary. Despite leaving there legacy on the bustling city, their stay in Philadelphia was short lived and they soon made their way towards the beautiful American Western Frontier (Pittsburgh, Niagara Falls, Ohio, Kentucky). "The newly settled wilderness held a great appeal for beck providing the opportunity of exploring relatively unspoiled nature while living in a social milieu where he and his wife could attract patrons and students. In Kentucky he developed a freer style, and his works increasingly celebrated the unspoiled richness of the frontier. They reveal his fascination with the subjective power and mystery of nature". (Olsen) For more information on this map, or a warm welcome to see other maps and books of our collection at 72nd Street NYC, please contact Natalie Zadrozna.LAB.
Verlag: Berlin: 1785-1797., 1797
Anbieter: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, USA
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12 parts in 6 volumes. Folio (18 x 10 6/8 inches). Half-titles. 12 title-pages with engraved vignettes, 432 EXCEPTIONALLY FINE engraved plates with original hand-colour, some HEIGHTENED IN GOLD, SILVER AND BRONZE to reflect the metallic sheen of fish scales. Contemporary tree calf with the arms of the Duchesse de Berry (the arms of France and Spain) stamped in gilt on each cover, all edges gilt (foot of spine of volume III chipped with minor loss, other extremities with minor scuffing). Provenance: with the supra libros of Maria Carolina Ferdinanda Luisa, the Duchesse de Berry (1798-1870) on each cover; Belgian Royal Library. "the finest illustrated work on fishes ever produced" (Nissen) THE DUCHESSE DE BERRY'S COPY of the first edition in French, published contemporaneously with the German edition. A FINE AND ATTRACTIVE, COMPLETE COPY OF BLOCH'S MONUMENTAL WORK. Bloch was a German medical doctor and naturalist. He is generally considered one of the most important ichthyologists of the 18th century and is best known for his encyclopedic work in ichthyology. The drawings were taken from Bloch's collection of some 1500 fish, the largest collection of its time, which he put together from purchases made at home and from returning travellers and missionaries from all over the world including Sir William Hamilton in Naples. ". the finest illustrated work on fishes ever produced. The plates, by a variety of artists and engravers, are outstandingly coloured, and are heightened with gold, silver, and bronze to produce the metallic sheen of fish scales" (Nissen). From the distinguished library of the Duchesse de Berry, daughter of the future King Francis I of the Two Sicilies and his first wife Maria Clementina of Austria. In 1816 she married Charles Ferdinand d'Artois, Duc de Berry, the heir to the French throne. Only the year before his uncle Louis XVII had been restored to the French throne, and on this death in 1824, the Duc's father became the last Bourbon monarch, as Charles X. tragically the Duc did not inherit the crown, but was assassinated at the Paris Opera in 1820. The Duc and Duchesse's only son, the Comte de Chambord, "the miracle baby" was born seven months after his father's murder and became the Legitimist Bourbon heir. During this period the Duchesse became patron to the world's greatest botanical artist Pierre-Joseph Redoute. Not only did she support him with the purchase of his celebrated 170 watercolours of 'Roses' on vellum, but she also obtained for him the post of 'maitre de Dessin' at the Museum of Natural History in 1824, even becoming one of his students. (Nissen) Nissen ZBI 416; Wood p. 244. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.
Anbieter: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, USA
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No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. c 1795 - 1798. Gouache and Watercolor on paper in gold leaf frame (15 x 19 ½ inches sight; 24 x 29 inches framed). THE BIRTH OF WASHINGTON, D.C. An exceptionally fine original gouache on paper of the city of Washington taken from the Eastern branch of the Potomac River, looking north. This watercolor gouache is clearly a companion in style and subject of The Potomac River Breaking through the Blue Ridge and Great Falls of the Potomac, both circa 1796-1797), combining as it does topographical detail with a Romantic atmosphere. Both of these works were purchased in January 1797 from Beck's agent, Samuel Salter. They were hung in the New Room at Mount Vernon, where they may still be viewed today. Lauded as one of the greatest predecessors of the Hudson River School and a favorite artist of President Washington, George Jacob Beck's artwork continues to be highly sought after today. Though listed in the 1806 Lexington directory as a "Portrait Painter," Beck is most famous for his landscape work, which unquestionably contributed to the popularity of American views during the late eighteenth and nineteenth century. He was the most experienced, if not the first of the early landscape painters to work in the United States. He is considered one of the earliest professional English trained landscape painters in America. Among his 'pioneering depictions of the American wilderness', this view of the city of Washington is an important and evocative portrait of the Nation's capitol at its peak. Beck and his wife emigrated to America in 1795, drawn to the same newly settled wilderness, which Beck so successfully portrayed in his. The couple settled in Baltimore, Maryland, where Beck first painted his views of the Potomac River and achieved a tremendous amount of success. His fandom was ignited by the backing of George Washington, and following those commissions he won the patronship of William Hamilton, a well-known patron of English and American artists. From there Beck's popularity skyrocketed, accumulating commission after commission. In 1798, Beck moved to Philadelphia and opened a drawing school for men and women to subsidize his income; while his wife opened a ladies' seminary. Despite leaving there legacy on the bustling city, their stay in Philadelphia was short lived and they soon made their way towards the beautiful American Western Frontier (Pittsburgh, Niagara Falls, Ohio, Kentucky). "The newly settled wilderness held a great appeal for beck providing the opportunity of exploring relatively unspoiled nature while living in a social milieu where he and his wife could attract patrons and students. In Kentucky he developed a freer style, and his works increasingly celebrated the unspoiled richness of the frontier. They reveal his fascination with the subjective power and mystery of nature." (Olsen).
Verlag: New York: Printed and sold by John and Andrew M'Lean 1788., 1788
Anbieter: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Two vols, 12mo, pp.I: vi, 227, [1 (blank)], II: vi, 384; title-page of vol.I very neatly restored at head with old paper (possibly the original conjugate blank, which has been replaced) above the line 'Federalist', with loss of the word 'The', a few gatherings in vol.I slightly browned, paper flaw to vol.I G5 with loss to outer margin (just shaving text); vol.II quire X bound in duplicate in error (no loss), printing flaw to vol.II p.290 where the paper was folded in the press (no loss), two marginal tears (no loss) to the last leaf; apart from the restoration to the title-page, an excellent copy, uncut, in the original boards, vol.II on slightly largely paper as usual, vol.I unopened after p.117, vol.II entirely unopened, spine of vol.II stamped '2' in ink; spine of vol.I wanting, some light damp-stains to boards; partially obscured pencil inscription to upper pastedown vol.I 'W. Brown / Dr R / long let' (see below).First edition in book form of The Federalist Papers, the single most important work of American political philosophy, a normal paper copy, very rare in the original boards, uncut and largely unopened. Volume II is in a mixed state, with the error 'Letter LXXX' rather than 'LXX' uncorrected on p.240, but the spine lettered '2' not 'II'. A 'commentary on the Constitution by men included among its principal architects' (Printing and the Mind of Man), The Federalist 'will merit the notice of posterity; because in it are candidly and ably discussed the principles of freedom and the topics of government, which will be always interesting to mankind so long as they shall be connected in Civil Society' (George Washington). Provenance: Inscribed in pencil 'W. Brown / Dr R/ long let'. Could this plausibly by Dr William Brown and Dr Benjamin Rush? Brown (1748 1792), educated in Edinburgh, returned to set up practice in Alexandria, Virginia, where he was known to Washington (whose diary records a number of visits by Brown and his wife in the early 1770s); he joined the second Virginia Regiment as a surgeon in 1775 and was appointed Surgeon General for the Middle District by Congress in May 1777, spending that winter with Washington at Valley Forge. In February 1778 he was promoted to Physician General, replacing Dr Benjamin Rush (1745 1813). After the war (Congress had accepted his resignation in 1780), Brown rented George Washington's house in Alexandria from 1783 to '86 (the same later occupied by Bushrod Washington), and helped found the Alexandria Academy in 1785, of which Washington was a trustee. Rush, who had like Brown studied medicine in Edinburgh, and returned to set up practice at the same period, was representative of Pennsylvania and signatory of the Declaration of Independence, but had resigned from Army service in 1778 after the discovery of a letter critical of Washington. In 1787 he returned to politics as a member of the Pennsylvania ratifying convention for the new Constitution, leading the movement for its adoption. PMM 234. Language: English.
Verlag: Circa 1795 1798., 1798
Anbieter: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, USA
Gouache and Watercolor on paper in gold leaf frame (16 ½ x 22 ½ inches visible; 21 x 27 inches framed). THE FIRST VIEW OF THE POTOMAC RIVER BY GEORGE WASHINGTON S FAVORITE ARTIST This watercolor gouache is clearly a companion in style and subject of The Potomac River Breaking through the Blue Ridge and Great Falls of the Potomac, both circa 1796-1797), combining as it does topographical detail with a Romantic atmosphere. Both of these works were purchased in January 1797 from Beck s agent, Samuel Salter. They were hung in the New Room at Mount Vernon, where they may still be viewed today. Lauded as one of the greatest predecessors of the Hudson River School and a favorite artist of President Washington, George Jacob Beck s artwork continues to be highly sought after today. Though listed in the 1806 Lexington directory as a "Portrait Painter," Beck is most famous for his landscape work, which unquestionably contributed to the popularity of American views during the late eighteenth and nineteenth century. He was the most experienced, if not the first of the early landscape painters to work in the United States. He is considered one of the earliest professional English trained landscape painters in America. Beck and his wife emigrated to America in 1795, drawn to the same newly settled wilderness, which Beck so successfully portrayed in his. The couple settled in Baltimore, Maryland, where Beck first painted his views of the Potomac River and achieved a tremendous amount of success. His fandom was ignited by the backing of George Washington, and following those commissions he won the patron-ship of William Hamilton, a well-known patron of English and American artists. From there Beck s popularity skyrocketed, accumulating commission after commission. In 1798, Beck moved to Philadelphia and opened a drawing school for men and women to subsidize his income; while his wife opened a ladies seminary. Despite leaving there legacy on the bustling city, their stay in Philadelphia was short lived and they soon made their way towards the beautiful American Western Frontier (Pittsburgh, Niagara Falls, Ohio, Kentucky). "The newly settled wilderness held a great appeal for beck providing the opportunity of exploring relatively unspoiled nature while living in a social milieu where he and his wife could attract patrons and students. In Kentucky he developed a freer style, and his works increasingly celebrated the unspoiled richness of the frontier. They reveal his fascination with the subjective power and mystery of nature". (Olsen) For more information on this map, or a warm welcome to see other maps and books of our collection at 72nd Street NYC, please contact Natalie Zadrozna.
Verlag: François Morelli, Naples, 1776
Anbieter: Donald A. Heald Rare Books (ABAA), New York, NY, USA
4 volumes, folio. (18 3/4 x 14 1/2 inches). Text in English and French. Hand-coloured, engraved titles in English and French, 5 engraved dedication plates, 436 engraved plates (183 hand-coloured, 73 double-page, 4 folding), plus engraved headpieces, tailpieces and initials (printed in colours in vol. 4). Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked and restored at edges, marbled endpapers Provenance: British Museum (initials M. B. in gilt on the upper covers, inked accession stamp on verso of English titles, and with duplicate release stamps dated 1804); Benjamin Gott (armorial bookplates) The most important 18th century work on antiquities and among the most beautiful books with hand-coloured plates: the book which launched a style. Sir William Hamilton was the British ambassador to Naples during the city's golden age, from 1764 to 1800. An avid antiquarian, Hamilton assembled one of the world's finest collections of Greek and Roman antiquities. The core of his collection was bought en bloc from the Porcinari family, after an introduction by art dealer Hugues d'Hancarville. Hamilton added several more choice items before selling the entire collection to the British Museum in 1772 for £8400, where it became one of main collections in the department of Greek and Roman antiquities. However, before the collection was shipped to England, Hamilton arranged for Hugues d'Hancarville to oversee the cataloguing and drawing of 312 vases in the collection. The published work is a triumphant example of graphic art and book production of the highest order. Published by subscription, Hamilton largely financed the publication himself. "While the frontispiece of the first volume bears the date 1766 and those of the third and fourth volumes the date 1767, the actual appearance of the work was long delayed. Under d'Hancarville's direction, draughtsmen, etchers, and printers at first worked on the execution of the large-format plates, along with the unusually elaborate initials and vignettes often based on Piranesi originals. The artists included the draughtsmen Edmondo Beaulieu, Giovanni Battista Tierce and Giuseppe Bracci, and the engravers Filippo de Grado, Carlo Nolli, Tommaso Piroli, Antoine Alexandre Joseph Cardon, Antonio Lamberti and Carmine Pignatari. A leading role was played by Giuseppe Bracci who evidently developed a new printing process specifically for the plates" (Schütze). The first volume would be published at the end of 1767, with the second volume following in 1769. D'Hancarville's financial problems led him to forfeit the finished plates for the final volumes to Florentine creditors in 1773; Hamilton's intervention and additional funding led to the final two volumes to be published in 1776. An elaborate and expensive production, volumes one and two were limited to 500 copies, and only 100 copies of volumes three and four were published. Never before had ancient vases been represented with such meticulous detail and beauty, and the result would become a neoclassical masterpiece. Indeed, the work's publication is largely credited with launching neo-classicism in England, most notably seen in the designs of Josiah Wedgwood. "The sale to a public institution, together with the publication of the Antiquities, were aimed above all at disseminating a new style throughout Europe . the magnificent plates of Hamilton's vases were quickly given an enthusiastic reception all over Europe. This was the first time ancient vases had been documented so precisely and so comprehensively . they created a style, and in this sense, doubtless exceeded even Hamilton's own expectations" (Schütze). This set with esteemed provenance to the British Museum, who purchased the collection from Hamilton, and noted Industrial Revolution textile manufacturer Benjamin Gott (1762-1840). An absolutely beautiful set, and extremely rare found complete, as here. Brunet I, 321; Blackmer 845; Blackmer sale 657; Berlin Katalog 890; Cohen-de Ricci 474; Vinet 1528; Sebastian Schütze, "Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the Hon. W. Hamilton" in The Complete Collection of Antiquities from the Cabinet of Sir William Hamilton (Taschen, Bibliotheca Universale: 2015).
Verlag: G. Hamilton & J. Balfour, Edinburgh, 1754
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First edition. EVANS (49) - THE DISCOVERY OF CARBON DIOXIDE. First edition of one of the greatest rarities in the history of science, the discovery of carbon dioxide and the foundation work of quantitative chemical analysis. "There is perhaps no other instance of a graduation thesis so weighted with significant novelty as Black's 'De humore acido a cibis orto, et magnesia alba' presented to the Faculty, 11 June, 1754" (William Osler in DNB). It "was soon recognised for what it is: a brilliant model, perhaps the first successful model, of quantitative chemical investigation, as well as a classic exemplar of experimental science worthy of comparison with Newton's Opticks . The Dissertatio in its original form is virtually unprocurable" (Guerlac, p. 124). Black's biographer Sir William Ramsay, who was awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize in chemistry "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air," wrote of "Black's celebrated thesis, which gained for him not merely the degree of Doctor of Medicine, but also brought his name before every 'philosopher' in Europe and America as that of a man who had made a discovery of more fundamental influence on the progress of Chemistry than any which had previously been described" (Ramsay, p. 20). "In the late spring of 1754, the famous Scottish chemist and physician Joseph Black (1728-99) put the finishing touches on his thesis for the doctorate of medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Entitled Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de humore acido a cibis orto, et magnesia alba, . it has received unstinted praise as one of the great classics in the history of science . [Black] studied and carefully distinguished the chemical behaviour of the common alkalis (carbonates) and of the two alkaline earths, lime and magnesia. He showed that the changes produced in these substances by roasting and calcining the mother substances (limestone, chalk and magnesia alba) were associated with the loss of an elastic, aeriform constituent, a 'fixed air' [carbon dioxide], and need not be explained by assuming that some hypothetical 'principle' was added during intense heating. Most important of all, Black proved by careful gravimetrical experiments that this elastic fluid was a precise quantitative constituent of these chemical compounds. As is well known, Black's results led directly to the classic studies on gases carried out by Henry Cavendish, Joseph Priestley, and Black's own pupil, Daniel Rutherford" (Guerlac, p. 125). An expanded English translation was published by the Edinburgh Philosophical Society in 1756, and the original thesis was reprinted in 1785 in William Smellie'sThesaurus medicus (Tom. II, pp. 271-304). ESTC lists 11 copies of the Dissertatio worldwide (7 in the UK, 3 in North America, and one in the Netherlands). We have been unable to trace any other copy having appeared in commerce. Joseph Black was born in Bordeaux where his father, who was born in Belfast but was ultimately of Scottish descent, had a wine business. Joseph was sent to school in Belfast in 1740, and around 1745 entered Glasgow University, where he studied languages and natural philosophy, and later, about 1748, anatomy and medicine under William Cullen. After working for three years in Cullen's laboratory, in 1752 Black left Glasgow for the more prestigious University of Edinburgh, where he attended the lectures of the physiologist Robert Whytt, and of Charles Alston, a botanist and chemist who lectured on materia medica. "In 1754 Black received the M.D. with his now historic dissertation De humore acido a cibis orto et magnesia alba" (DSB). Black succeeded Cullen as professor of anatomy and lecturer in chemistry in Glasgow in 1756, but exchanged the chair of anatomy with the professor of medicine. He succeeded Cullen as professor of chemistry in Edinburgh on 1 November 1766, and occupied that position, at the same time practising medicine, until his death in 1799. "Black's investigation of alkaline substances had a medical origin. The presumed efficacy of limewater in dissolving urinary calculi ('the stone') was supported by the researches of two Edinburgh professors, Robert Whytt and Charles Alston. It interested Cullen as well, and Black came to Edinburgh as a medical student with the intention of exploring the subject for his doctoral dissertation. "But at this moment Whytt and Alston were at loggerheads: they disagreed as to the best source, whether cockleshells or limestone, for preparing the quicklime. And they differed as to what occurs when mild limestone is burned to produce quicklime. Whytt accepted the common view that lime becomes caustic by absorbing a fiery matter during calcination, and thought he had proved it by showing that quicklime newly taken from the fire was the most powerful dissolvent of the stone. Alston, in an important experiment on the solubility of quicklime, showed that this was not the case, and that the causticity must be the property of the lime itself. Both men were aware that on exposure to the air quicklime gradually becomes mild, and that a crust appears on the surface of limewater. For Whytt, this resulted from the escape of fiery matter; but Alston, noting that the crust was heavier than the lime in solution, hinted that foreign matter, perhaps the air or something contained in it, produced the crust. Yet he was more disposed to believe that the insoluble precipitate formed when the quicklime combined with impurities in the water. Black, although he had criticized Alston as a chemist, was soon to profit from his findings. "Preoccupied at first with his medical studies, Black did not come to grips with his chosen problem until late in 1753. When he did so, he found it expedient to avoid any conflict between two of his professors; instead of investigating limewater, he would examine other absorbent earths to discover, if possible, a more powerful lithotriptic agent. He chose a white powder, magnesia alba, recently in vogue as a mi.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1798
Anbieter: Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books, Franklin, TN, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. This volume with 120 sensational engravings is William Hamilton's Campi Phlegraei, ou Observations sur les Volcans des Deux Siciles. [Phlegraean Fields, or Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies]. This is the second or De Luxe edition of the work published between 1798 and 1802 in Paris by Chez Lamy, Libraire, Quai des Augustins. The work detailed erupting volcanoes as well as volcanic rocks and landscapes. It was also the first time the view was taken that volcanoes are forces of creation not just destruction as observed by Hamilton.This is considered an "à dition de luxe" of the work has 60 etched aquatint plates with original hand-coloring and an additional 60 of the same plates without color. The text is in French with many having the accompanying English translation. There is letterpress half-title, two engraved titles in color and without. The work is bound in near-contemporary purple half morocco over marbled paper boards by P. F. Heyne of Antwerp, is binder's ticket is on the front pastedown. Flat spine is gilt with Arabesque foliate motifs surrounded by pointillà and gilt fillet borders, titled in gilt. There is a watermark in the front free endpaper reading CH.I.DE LIAGRE & CO.The majority (59) of the plates are after Pietro Fabris. The doublepage plate is by Le Vacher after Alex Danna. The uncolored etchings are on woven paper and hand-colored on laid paper. Hamilton described the images as "executed with such delicacy and perfection, as scarcely to be distinguished from the original drawings themselves" (Part I, p. 6, Philosophical Transcations 1767).Campi Phlegraei is known as the "flaming fields". It is the area around Mount Vesuvius and Naples which had seen frequent violent eruptions. More people began visiting this area as the excavation of Pompeii and Herculaneum were performed at the funding of King Ferdinand I. The King frequented Hamilton's home due to this fascination and that it was filled with Hamilton's noted collection of art and antiquities. This peaked interest in volcanoes led to many travelers visiting his home, and it was noted that Hamilton himself climbed Vesuvius 58 times despite all the dangers it presented. In some of the images of this work, Hamilton is seen in his red coat, and the artist Fabris is in the blue one, both getting perilously close to the volcanic action.Sir William Hamilton was the British ambassador to Naples from 1764 to 1800, during the city's golden age. An avid antiquarian, Hamilton assembled one of the world's finest collections of Greek and Roman antiquities. In addition to his duties as ambassador, Hamilton was also renowned as a knowledgeable guide and congenial host to the visiting English 'Grand Tourists'. With infectious enthusiasm he would extol the wonders of Naples and the beauties of arts of the ancient world, inspiring in many of his aristocratic visitors a genuine love of the antique. This new-found enthusiasm found its expression in the new style of neo-classicism and in the collections of antiquites which found their way to many of the stately homes of England.Hamilton developed an interest in volcanoes while living in Naples. He became a member of the Royal Society in 1766 and submitted to them many detailed and technical observations of volcanic activity in Naples and Sicily. Some of these illustrations were used to create this present work. The work included not only views of the Volcanoes erupting, but rocks and landscapes. In particular details of the area as it was in 1760s and 1770s as witnessed by Hamilton."Running two villas, a country house at the foot of Vesuvius and his main home in Naples, the money Hamilton received as envoy was insufficient to maintain ambassadorial hospitality and to feed his vast collecting appetite. Briefly returning to London in 1772, he was compelled to sell much of his art collection to the British Museum with a grant given to preserve it in the nation's interest. On the same visit, Hamilton was elected a fe.
Verlag: William Birch, Springland, 1808
Anbieter: Arader Books, New York, NY, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First. First edition of the first part (all published). Springland, near Bristol, Pennsylv.a: W. Birch, Enamel Painter; 1808. Oblong quarto (8 3/4" x 11 1/8", 224mm x 282mm): engraved general title with hand color, letterpress preface (printed recto only), engraved part-title with hand color, 18 engraved plates with hand color, 3 leaves letterpress descriptions (printed recto only). Bound in contemporary half red straight-grained morocco over marbled paper boards. Title gilt to a red morocco label within a gilt roll border on the front board. On the spine, four panels divided with double gilt fillets, and a gilt rosette to each panel. Presented in a red morocco clam-shell case. Splits to the hinges, with general wear to the extremities. Some rubbing, wear and a little soiling to the boards. Mild damp-staining to the end-papers, with tanning to the letterpress leaves. Scattered soiling to the margins mostly (some within the plate-mark). Altogether a solid copy in its original condition. With a description on the stationery of Charles Sessler laid in. William Russell Birch (1755-1834) was born and trained in England by no less than Thomas Jefferys, the jeweler and map-seller, and Sir Joshua Reynolds, founding President of the Royal Academy. He brought this expertise to the New World, settling in Philadelphia in 1794. Over the course of the XVIIIc -- beginning with Britannia illustrata (1707-1709) and culminating in Angus's 1787 Seats of the Nobility and Gentry -- pictorial surveys of residences in the UK came to glorify both the owners and the architects of these domestic wonders. Birch sought to bring the trend to the New World; this is the first such book printed in America. Birch sought to repeat the success of his City of Philadelphia, a collaboration with his son Thomas (the Country Seats brought in Birch's other son George), which had begun in 1800; its subscribers included Thomas Jefferson as vice president (it is written that he displayed the volume at the entrance to his office once president), Gilbert Stuart and William Hamilton. Perhaps it was the anti-aristocratic sentiment of the young Republic, but the Country Seats -- ending with the view from Birch's own home at Springland (Cot) -- never found the same success. As such, it is very rare indeed (especially intact and original, as the present item is); it is a Howes "c" ("obtainable only with great difficulty"). The volume was owned by William Reese, one of the great Americana dealers and author of Stamped with a National Character, an account of American color-plate books of the XIXc (this being no. 2). The sale of Reese's personal collection (Christie's May-September 2022; the present volume being lot 85) has proven to be a landmark of Americana and color-plate material. Howes B 460; Sabin 5531; Stamped with a National Character 2.
Verlag: New York, N.Y., 1794
Anbieter: Seth Kaller Inc., White Plains, NY, USA
No binding. Zustand: Very Good. Manuscript Document Signed, Deed to African Free School Trustees Matthew Clarkson, William Dunlap, Elihu Smith, and William Johnson, July 22, 1794. Endorsed by Master in Chancery John Ray and witnessed by John Keese and John Tyson. 1 p. on vellum, 27 x 24 1/4 in. "Whereas many respectable and benevolent Persons in the City of New York have associated under the denomination of 'the Society for promoting the Manumission of Slaves and protecting such of them as have been or may be Liberated,' and have Instituted a School in said City, called the African free School for the humane and charitable purpose of Educating negro Children to the end that they may become good and useful Citizens of the State."The New-York Manumission Society was founded in January 1785. The 19 initial founders included Future federal judge Robert Troup, prominent Anti-Federalist Melancton Smith, and John Jay, who was elected as the Society's first president. Alexander Hamilton joined at the second meeting ten days later.On November 2, 1787, the Society voted to establish the African Free School. In 1794, by this deed, Frederick Jay - John Jay's brother - donated lower Manhattan lot 635 on Hester Street to support the school, one of the first nondenominational charity schools in the United States. Historical BackgroundNew York's Assembly voted for some form of gradual emancipation in 1785 but could not agree on civil rights for former slaves. The Society's lobbying was instrumental in passing a law that prohibited the importation of slaves into the state and made it easier to manumit slaves.The Society organized boycotts against merchants and newspapers involved in the slave trade. In 1799, Governor John Jay signed an Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, which would free all children born to slaves after July 4, 1799, after a period of apprenticeship. The last slaves in New York were freed in 1827.The Society also provided financial and legal assistance to both free and enslaved members of the community. During the on May 19, 1794, Frederick Jay, brother of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Jay, offered "a lott of Ground on Great George Street 25 feet by 100 for the purpose of a School." The Society agreed, with thanks.[1] Two months later, Frederick Jay conveyed through this deed a different lot, on Hester Streety.[2] The deed allowed the Society to sell the lot to support the school, which is apparently what happened.In February 1796, the Society purchased a building on Cliff Street to use as a schoolhouse.[3] 19 members, including Alexander Hamilton, Matthew Clarkson, and lexicographer Noah Webster formed a committee to raise money to complete the payments .[4]Excerpt"Whereas many respectable and benevolent Persons in the City of New York have associated under the denomination of 'the Society for promoting the Manumission of Slaves and protecting such of them as have been or may be Liberated,' and have Instituted a School in said City, called the African free School for the humane and charitable purpose of Educating negro Children to the end that they may become good and useful Citizens of the State. And Whereas the said Frederick Jay one of the Members of the said Society formed for the purpose aforesaid, being desirous of aiding and promoting the said Charitable Institution by granting a Lot of Land in the said City for the use and benefit of said Institution to Trustees appointed for that purpose. Now this Indenture Witnesseth That the said Frederick Jay for and in Consideration of the Sum of ten Shillings lawful Money of New York to him in hand paid by the said Matthew Clarkson, William Dunlap, Elihu Smith, and William Johnson at or before the Sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge and himself therewith fully satisfied and paid, Hath granted, bargained, sold, aliened, released and confirmed, and by these presents Doth grant, bargain, sell, alien, release and. (See website for full description). Manuscript Document Signed.
Verlag: W. Birch, Springland Cot, 1800
Anbieter: Arader Books, New York, NY, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First. THE BIRCH FAMILY COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF BIRCH'S VIEWS OF PHILADELPHIA -- EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, WITH THE PROSPECTUS AND SUSBSCRIBERS' LIST. Published by W. Birch, Springland Cot, near Neshaminy Bridge on the Bristol Road, Pennsylvania. Dec.r 31.st 1800[-1805]. Oblong folio (14 5/8" x 17 7/8", 370mm x 454mm): engraved title-page and 30 (of 29) engraved plates (a plan and 28 views, plus an additional view). With a letterpress introduction, broad-sheet prospectus and subscribers' list. Bound in contemporary mottled calf with a gilt roll border. On the spine, six panels, with the title gilt to red morocco in the second. Presented in a drop-front red morocco clam-shell box with two XXc letters concerning the volume. Some pitting to the mottling and some rubbing generally. Joints strengthened with cloth. Some marginal damp-staining. Tanning, offsetting and foxing throughout. Repaired marginal tears to five plates. Some plates supplied from other copies. William Russell Birch (1755-1834) was born and trained in England by no less than Thomas Jefferys, the jeweler and map-seller, and Sir Joshua Reynolds, founding President of the Royal Academy. He brought this expertise to the New World, settling in Philadelphia in 1794. Whereas engraved city views were long-established in Europe, no collection of them had ever been printed and published in America. His target audience was wide; the title points to a European market, aiming to encourage emigration to the new-born nation whose Athens -- its capital (until just before the publication of the work) and intellectual heart -- was Philadelphia. The views -- notionally painted by Birch's son Thomas, who would go on to be one of the great American landscape painters -- were exceptionally popular, resulting in several states and three later editions within Birch's lifetime. Subscribers included Thomas Jefferson as vice president (it is written that he displayed the volume at the entrance to his office once president), Gilbert Stuart and William Hamilton. Coloring was available at an additional cost; thus the work is slightly misleadingly termed a "color-plate book." In the present item, 21 of the plates are in the first state, 8 are in the second and 1 in neither state described by Snyder; the additional plate (Schuylkill Bridge High Street) corresponding to Snyder (1949) 43a, dated 1805, and not from any edition of the collection. This mix of states and the additional plate -- as well as the prospectus (which is found in few copies) and the list of subscribers (found in most copies) -- becomes clearer in view of the provenance of the volume: by descent through the author's family. To a work of the greatest rarity -- Howes gives it his highest rating of "dd:" "superlatively rare books, almost unobtainable" -- this unique provenance and make-up add a nonpareil scarcity and value. The provenance of the volume is established by two letters, dated 9 and 20 February 1962. The former (3 typed pages) is on the letterhead of The Old Print Shop, run by the Newman family then as now. Mr. Newman writes to Mr. Robert L. McNeil, Jr. of Philadelphia with a description of provenance and a thorough collation. The second letter (four manuscript pages signed) is written and signed by Helene Somers Millar (Newman's Mrs. William Millar). Mrs. Millar describes her discovery of the portfolio in a secretary that she inherited by way of William Birch's daughter Albina, her great great grand-mother. Robert Lincoln McNeil Jr. (1916-2010) was a pharmaceutical executive best known for developing and selling Tylenol. He was raised in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, and became a life-long philanthropist in the region, a collector as well as a patron of the arts -- a legacy that persists in the Barra Foundation, of which he was founder. The present item was purchased at his sale (Sotheby's New York, 5 December 2013, lot 3). Deák 228; Howes B 459 (dd); Sabin 5530; Stauffer 159-188.
Verlag: New York City, 1776
Anbieter: Seth Kaller Inc., White Plains, NY, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Manuscript Orderly Book. Headquarters [New York City], [July 8, 1776 - August 21, 1776]. Containing two overlapping sequences in different hands: one 145-page sequence runs from July [9], 1776 to August 21, 1776, and another 13-page segment (written from the other end of the book) runs from July 8-13, 1776. 158 pp. 7 1/2 x 6 in. Both versions vary slightly from the published text of Washington's General Orders of July 9. This volume, with Brigade and Regimental orders, was either kept by battalion adjutant Aaron Comstock or an orderly sergeant in one of Gold S. Silliman's eight companies enlisted in Connecticut shortly before. This is likely the battalion's first orderly book after arriving in New York with approximately 415 men. "the Honble Continental Congress . haveing been plead to Desolve Connection Between this country & great Britain & to declare the united Colonys of North America free & Independent States the Several Brigades are to be Drawn us [up] this Evening on their Respective Parades at 6 oclock when the Deleration of Congress Shewing the grounds & Reasons of the Measures to be Read with Laudable [audible] Voice the genl [George Washington] Hopes that this important Point will serve as a fresh incentive to Every officer and soldier to act with fidelity & courage as knowing that now the Peace and Safety of this country Depends under god solely on the success of our arms." (July 9, 1776).the gel being informed to his great surprize that a Report prevails & Industrously spread far and wide that Lord how [British General Lord William Howe] has made Propositions of Peace Calculated by disguiseing Persons most Probably To Lull us into a fatal Security his Duty obliges him to Declare that No such offer has been made by Lord how but on the Contrarary from the Best inteligence he can Procure the army may Expect atack as soon as the wind and tide proves favorable He hopes theirfore every mans mind & arms may be Prepared for action and when caled to it shew our enemies & the whole world that free men Contendin for their own Land are Superior to any Mercenaries on Earth. (August 20, 1776)Remarkable manuscript book containing two separate versions of Washington's General Orders of July 9, 1776, announcing to the Continental Army in New York that Congress had formally declared the 13 colonies to be independent of Great Britain. Of course, Washington's name is notably absent on the Declaration of Independence, as he was in New York preparing to face the music of the inevitable British invasion. Historical BackgroundDuring the evening following the public reading of the Declaration of Independence, the impassioned celebrations in Manhattan culminated in the toppling and destruction of the grand, gilded equestrian statue of King George III at the foot of Broadway at Bowling Green. The balance of the book contains a detailed record of the New York garrison and its affairs while it and its commander awaited the long-expected British assault. The present orderly book ends ominously on August 21, the day General Sir William Howe led the British to Gravesend, Brooklyn, out of which he launched a successful campaign to conquer Long Island and Manhattan.Orderly books were the primary documents for organizing day-to-day life within the army. The process of updating orderly books was a logistical nightmare. The officer serving in the rotating position of major general of the day communicated orders to the adjutant general. Early each morning, meeting at Washington's headquarters, the adjutant general read aloud, while division adjutants copied the orders into their own orderly books. The division adjutants then met with their brigade majors and repeated the process of dictation, adding any division orders. Brigade majors then met with regimental adjutants, again reading the orders aloud for regimental adjutants to copy down. Finally, the regimental adjutants met with all of the first . (See website for full description). Manuscript Orderly Book.
Verlag: London, L. Harrison for S. and J. Fuller, 1829., 1829
Anbieter: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Österreich
Large folio (60 x 42 cm). Letterpress title with engraved vignette, list of subscribers, winners of the St. Leger 1776-1814, 14 hand-coloured aquatint plates by T. Sutherland and R. G. Reeve after Herring, each with letterpress description of riders and winners of other races and the St Leger stakes for each year. Bound in recent half burgundy morocco with contemporary drab boards with large printed label on upper cover. "Extremely rare" (Tooley). Second edition of Herring's finest work, the outcome of his fascination with horse racing and the St. Leger in particular. "In the writer's estimation, the first series of the St. Leger winners contains the very best of Herring prints [.] they were engraved by Sutherland, a more competent aquatinter and colourist than his successors who handled these race-horses" (Siltzer). Herring spent the first 18 years of his life in London, where his father, an American, was a fringe-maker in Newgate Street. Having married against his father's wishes, he went to Doncaster, where he arrived during the races in September 1814, and saw the Duke of Hamilton's horse, William, win the St. Leger. The sight inspired him to attempt the art of animal-painting, in which he subsequently excelled. He painted Filho da Puta, the winner of the St. Leger in 1815, and for the following thirty-two years painted each winner in succession. "Herring's series of Portraits [.] were painted annually and quickly reproduced in large showy aquatints, the horses made literally glossy by the application of varnish to the paper" (Diana Donald, Picturing Animals in Britain 1750-1850, New Haven, CT [2007], p. 215). This is the second edition of this series of wonderful racehorse portraits. It was first published as a suite of 10 plates in 1824 by Sheardown and Son of Doncaster; S. and J. Fuller of London purchased these in 1827 and continued to publish, periodically, the St. Leger winner series up to 1845. The earlier plates were all re-captioned with Fuller's imprint. Plates watermarked 1825-28; the first plate in the present work, "Filho da Puta", is on paper watermarked 1827. - Very slight offsetting to text. Extremities rubbed; otherwise a superb example of this rare work. - Siltzer 139-146. Mellon Horsemanship, 128.
Verlag: 1908, 1908
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Published within Rackham's edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1908. The watercolour depicts Puck leading Lysander away from Demetrius in Act 3, scene 2. The piece appears opposite page 86 and is one of the 40 colour plates. The board has the title added in the artist's hand, together with identification of the book and the artist's signature. This powerful illustration shows Rackham's thorough knowledge of the text of the play. Although simply entitled "Up and down, up and down", Rackham adds the "damned spirits all" to his composition and therefore depicts a passage from Puck's previous speech. In his biography of the artist, James Hamilton notes that Rackham's "interpretations of A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Wind in the Willows. have become definitive, and continue to challenge later illustrators to find new approaches". Writing about "Rackham's Best Book Illustrations", Fred Gettings states that in the artist's illustrations for A Midsummer Night's Dream "he created. among his finest colour images and almost all the plates echo perfectly the mysterious interweaving of lightness and depth in this great work. Many of the formal plates are exquisite." Exhibited: Leicester Galleries, London, October - November 1908, item 19; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 5 January - 17 February 1974, item 23. Original drawing (265 x 183 mm) on card, laid down on board, fine ink and watercolour, signed and dated ("Arthur Rackham 08") lower right, inscribed with title and additionally signed below mount, mounted, framed, and glazed (framed size: 480 x 372 mm). Fine and unfaded.
Verlag: Various Publishers/ Various Places
Anbieter: Yves G. Rittener - YGRbookS, Zürich, Schweiz
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Hardcover. Zustand: Wie neu. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Wie neu. 1. Auflage. On offer is a comprehensive collection based on the writings of Raymond Chandler brought together over the last thirty-five years. The collection includes mostly fine original publications of nineteen of the twenty-four stories the author published in different magazines like Black Mask or Dime Detective (including his very first novelette "Blackmailers Don't Shoot"); two complete UK editions of Black Mask (1935 & 1936), over thirty first editions of Chandler's books, many in fine condition in fine (dust) wrappers, original publications in various magazines; a superb 1957 autograph postcard to his publisher Hamish Hamilton, discussing Marlowe's marriage to the "8 million dollar girl" (see picture), various editions of his letters, notes and papers; three books from Chandler's own library; a fascinating selection of books and writers mentioned in the Marlowe novels; works on Chandler; some movies, comics and memorabilia. While we intend to sell the collection as a whole, we are willing to part with some items that may catch your interest. You can view a fully illustrated catalogue (and e.g. enjoy photographs of all the original covers of all the stories) at ygrbooks. Signatur des Verfassers.
This famous letter, the first by any American president on the subject of fossils or paleontology, was hand delivered by Daniel Boone?Jefferson, stepping down as Virginia governor, says he will use his time on scientific pursuits like paleontology: "The retirement into which I am withdrawing has increased my eagerness in pursuit of objects of this kind."?Formerly at the American Museum of Natural History in New York; never before offered for sale publiclyThomas Jefferson is one of America's first great naturalists. He commissioned the first official paleontological dig in the United States. He sent Lewis and Clark west not only to look for a passage west but also to find specimens of animals living and dead. Those specimens, which include extinct species, are now at the Academy of Sciences.But before Jefferson's interests in this subject formed the basis of our American passion decades earlier.A boneyard from the late Pleistocene, which was a warm salt spring, gathering-place, death trap and eons-long tomb for mammals of many descriptions, was situated at the southern margin of the last great ice cap. It had been known to Shawnees and Lenape Delawares for millennia. Euro-American civilization had known of it only since 1739, when French soldiers stationed nearby sent skeletal curios back to Paris.An Englishman George Croghan had taken a western trip in 1765 to the boneyard location at Bone Lick, where he picked up two six-foot tusks and several other fossil bones, but when he and his party were attacked by Indians a few days later and the survivors were taken captive, Croghan understandably lost his paleontological trophies. He returned to the region in June 1766, however, accompanied by Captain Harry Gordon of the British Army and George Morgan of the Philadelphia firm of Baynton, Wharton, and Morgan. The party revisited Big Bone Lick and Croghan and Morgan each collected a number of bones, which they succeeded in taking back with them to the East Coast.When Croghan reached New York by sea via New Orleans and Pensacola early in January 1767, he decided to send his collection of fossils to England as gifts, partly to Lord Shelburne, secretary of state, and partly to his old friend Benjamin Franklin. In February, while the fossils were still in New York, not yet packed for shipment, an unidentified ?G.W.? saw them and, as he later reported, ?several Gentlemen, who had [had] the Opportunity of seeing Ivory Tusks in Africa, and elsewhere, pronounced these, Elephant?s Teeth.?[caption id="attachment_24385" align="alignnone" width="1600"] "Mammoth bones"[/caption]Franklin wrote to Croghan on August 5, 1767, thanking him for the gift and commenting on it. He, like others, was puzzled at the discovery of what certainly seemed to resemble the tusks of African and Asiatic elephants in a region where the climate was much too cold for those animals to live. The finding of similar tusks in Siberia, added to this Bone Lick discovery near the Ohio River, led Franklin to suggest that at some earlier time the earth had ?been in another position, and the climates differently placed from what they are at present."In 1781, Thomas Jefferson, the Revolutionary War still going, stepped down from his position as Governor of Virginia. He set about his natural inquiries, which included writing "Notes on the State of Virginia." Jefferson had heard of these bizarre bones discovered in Kentucky. His mind was on the West, as well as on science, where it would land with the Lewis and Clark expedition, and he believed that these animals were alive still and roamed the unexplored regions of the vast country.Meanwhile, Daniel Boone, in 1775, had blazed through Cumberland Gap and into Kentucky. There he founded Boonesborough, one of the first English-speaking settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains. Boone served as a militia officer during the War, which, in Kentucky, was fought primarily between American settlers and British-allied American Indians. Boone was taken in by Shawnees in 1778 and adopted into the tribe, but he resigned and continued to help protect the Kentucky settlements. He was elected to the first of his three terms in the Virginia General Assembly during the war, and in 1781 set out to Richmond to join the Assembly of Virginia there.George Rogers Clark is remembered as the heroic Revolutionary War commander who led a small force of frontiersmen through the freezing waters of the Illinois country to capture British-held Fort Sackville at Vincennes during February 1779. Making this victory especially sweet was that he had vanquished British Lieut. Governor Henry Hamilton, who was known as the ?hair buyer? because of his policy of paying Britain?s American Indian allies for American scalps. Clark captured Hamilton and he was taken in chains to Williamsburg, Virginia, to the glee of the Americans. Clark continued his exertions on behalf of the American cause in the West during the entire war. These efforts included building forts on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, repelling a British-led Indian attack in the Illinois country, and leading two major expeditions that destroyed the British-allied Shawnee towns in the Ohio country. In the same way that William Henry Harrison was largely responsible for saving the West in the War of 1812, Clark has that accolade in the Revolution.In 1781, Jefferson had promoted George Rogers Clark to brigadier general and given him command of all the militia in the Kentucky and Illinois counties.Autograph letter signed, December 19, 1781, to Clark, hand delivered by Daniel Boone. "Having an opportunity by Colo. Boon I take the liberty of calling to your mind your kindness in undertaking to procure for me some teeth of the great animal whose remains are found on the Ohio. Were it possible to get a tooth of each kind, that is to say a foretooth, grinder &c. it would particularly oblige me. Perhaps you know some careful person at Fort Pitt with whom they might be safely lodged.
Verlag: Chez David, Paris, 1781
Anbieter: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, USA
Six volumes consisting of I, II, IIII, V, VI, and VII (without volumes III and VIII). With hundreds of illustrations. Contemporary mottled French calf, neatly rebacked in matching style, spines gilt extra, leather labels stamped in gilt. A bit of light scattered foxing, but generally quite clean internally. A handsome set. An absolutely phenomenal association copy of this influential study of the antiquities of the Italian city of Herculaneum, destroyed during an explosion of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. This set of LES ANTIQUITÉS D'HERCULANUM. was given by Thomas Jefferson to his young protégé, painter John Trumbull. Jefferson has inscribed it on the front fly leaf of the first volume" "Th. J. begs Mr. Trumbull will do him the favor to accept this copy of the Herculaneum." Jefferson was instrumental in furthering Trumbull's career at an early stage and in encouraging him to create his painting of the presentation of the Declaration of Independence. That painting is one of Trumbull's most important and iconic works, and in placing Jefferson at the center of that scene Trumbull helped to cement the Jefferson image in the American mind. Jefferson and Trumbull first met in London in early 1786, when Trumbull was thirty and Jefferson thirteen years his elder. At the time Trumbull was studying painting under Benjamin West, but was planning to visit Paris to study the artworks available there. Jefferson invited Trumbull to stay with him at his Paris residence, the Hotel de Langeac, and the two quickly became close. In fact, Trumbull joined William S. Smith and Jefferson's secretary, William Short, in the small group of people that Jefferson asked to perform tasks or "commissions" for him. Trumbull lived with Jefferson for five or six weeks at the Hotel de Langeac, and Jefferson encouraged Trumbull in his early historical paintings. Trumbull had brought with him to Paris two of his recent historical paintings, "Death of General Warren at Bunker's Hill" and "Death of General Montgomery at Quebec," which he wanted to have engraved. It was almost certainly at Jefferson's suggestion and encouragement that Trumbull added the Declaration of Independence to his series of American historical paintings. With Jefferson's assistance and recollection of the event, Trumbull began his painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It was Trumbull's placing of Jefferson at the center of his painting, flanked by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, that helped cement the centrality of Jefferson's role as author of the Declaration in the public consciousness. Merrill Peterson asserts: "In the panegyrics of the Fourth of July.the popularity of Trumbull's masterpiece of historical portraiture, 'The Signing of the Declaration' - Jefferson's authorship of the American birthright was his certain title to immortality." Jefferson espoused Trumbull's talents and introduced him to important people in Paris, and Trumbull repaid the favor in consequential ways. Jefferson's biographer, Dumas Malone, writes: "Jefferson was on the most intimate terms with Trumbull until the very end of his stay in France, and he always associated him in memory with what he called 'our charming coterie in Paris.'" That coterie included Maria Cosway, the beautiful and vivacious young wife of English portraitist Richard Cosway. Trumbull had already met the Cosways and introduced them to Jefferson in Paris in August 1786 at the Halle aux Bleds marketplace. The widowed Jefferson became enraptured with Maria Cosway and spent a great deal of time with her between August and October, 1786. Trumbull was often with the pair, touring art galleries, attending concerts, walking around Paris and journeying into the countryside. On Oct. 12, 1786, on the occasion of the Cosways return to England, Jefferson wrote Maria Cosway an anguished letter in which he related a debate between "my head and my heart." It was to Trumbull that Jefferson entrusted the delivery of this confidential and revealing letter. Trumbull was also an intermediary for Jefferson's friendship with Angelica Schuyler Church, Alexander Hamilton's sister-in-law. Mrs. Church and Maria Cosway were good friends, referring to each other as "sisters." Jefferson, in fact, helped Mrs. Church secure a volume of the HERCULANUM in September 1788 (see Jefferson letter of Sept. 21, 1788 in PAPERS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON, Vol. 13, pp.623-24). It is possible the gift of this set to Trumbull took place at the same time. The friendship between Jefferson and Trumbull continued after Trumbull left Paris for London and the United States. In 1788, Jefferson commissioned from Trumbull a canvas containing life-size busts of Francis Bacon, John Locke, and Isaac Newton, whom Jefferson considered as "the three greatest men that have ever lived." Also in 1788, Trumbull painted a portrait of Jefferson, and would later make copies of that portrait for Maria Cosway, Angelica Church, and Jefferson's eldest daughter, Martha. In 1789, anticipating that William Short was about to move on to other endeavors, Jefferson offered John Trumbull the position of his personal secretary, an offer that Trumbull declined. Sometime after that Jefferson recommended Trumbull for the position of American Minister to the Barbary states, a post that Trumbull also declined. In 1793, Jefferson and Trumbull (a Federalist and a New England Congregationalist) had a falling out over questions of politics and religious faith, issues that came to a head at a dinner Jefferson hosted that also included the Virginia politician, William Branch Giles. Trumbull and Giles already had bad blood between them, and when Jefferson seemingly took Giles' side, Trumbull recalled that "from this time my acquaintance with Mr. Jefferson became cold and distant." Jefferson's gift to Trumbull of this set of Maréchal's LES ANTIQUITÉS D'HERCULANUM is significant on several levels. Excavations at Herculaneum, destroyed by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., had b.
Anbieter: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, USA
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Rare late 19th century folio album containing an extensive collection of Presidential autographs, letters, carte-de-visites, and portraits in addition to those of each Cabinet. Folio, bound in three quarter morocco with five raised bands and gilt titles to the spine. The album contains: a clipped signature of President George Washington with a four-page letter of provenance dated July 13 1948, several portraits of him including two rare carte-de-visites as well as a carte-de-visite of Martha Washington; and autograph letter signed by John Adams as President to Benjamin Lincoln, Quincy, July 23, 1799; a clipped document signed by Thomas Jefferson as President and James Madison as Secretary of State with numerous portraits of each; a trimmed ship's passport signed by James Monroe; clipped signatures of Andrew Jackson and Martin van Buren; autograph letter signed by William Henry Harrison, North Bend, March 4, 1840; clipped signature of James Tyler; clipped document signed by James H. Polk as President and countersigned by James Buchanan as Secretary of State with the Presidential Seal intact; a card signed by Zachary Taylor and members of his cabinet; slipped signature of Millard Fillmore; autograph letter signed by James Buchanan; clipped signature of Franklin Pierce; clipped signatures of Abraham Lincoln, William Seward, and Andrew Johnson; clipped signature of Ulysses S. Gran with numerous portraits of him including a rare carte-de-visite; clipped signature and autograph not signed by Rutherford B. Hayes, March 21, 1892; autograph note signed by James Garfield, Menton, Ohio June 22, 1880; signature card of Chester A. Arthur dated November 15, 1881; an autograph letter signed by Grover Cleveland on White House stationery, dated September 1, 1887; a card signed by Benjamin Harrison; a signature card signed by Grover Cleveland; and a letter signed by William McKinley, 27 February 1892. The Presidential autographs and portraits are followed by extensive section of cabinet officials including: a clipped signature of Alexander Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury; an autograph letter signed by Albert Gallatin; clipped signatures of Aaron Burr, John Armstrong, John Calhoun, and Henry Clay; autograph note signed by Daniel Webster; card signed by James Polk, James Buchanan and other members of his cabinet; autograph letter signed by Edward Everett; autograph note signed by Jefferson Davis and other members of the Confederacy including Howell Cobb and James Thompson; autograph note signed by William H. Seward, dated 1855; and a note signed by Gideon Welles on Navy Department stationery in addition to dozens of other notable American public figures including cabinet officials and Vice-Presidents. In very good condition. An exceptional rarity.
Verlag: Ballymartle / Ballintobber (near Kinsale), c.1750 - 1800., 1800
Anbieter: Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, Irland
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50 Titles in c. 100 Volumes. Octavo. Original Hardcover Volumes or original wrappers. The overall condition of these books is very good or even better, mainly restored and professionally repaired, with some Volumes still at the bookbindery and in process of repair and restoration. The Library will be delivered per International Courier UPS. The Ballymartle family can be traced from Robert Meade, 3rd son of Lt. Col. William Meade. In 1682 Robert married Francis Courthorpe, the daughter of Sir Peter Courthorpe of Courtstown and Little Island, co. Cork. Their son William Meade was born in 1685. William was Rector of Ballymartle, Dunderrow and Ringroane, and was made Dean of Cork in 1736. The Ballymartle family were an off-shoot of the Meade family who later became Earls of Clanwilliam. Rev. William Meade's son, Rev. John Meade, (Rector of Ballymartle from 1752 onwards) bought the Ballymartle and Ballintober estates in 1787 from his cousin John, 1st Earl of Clanwilliam. William Richard Meade of Ballymartle was born in 1804, worked as a barrister and died unmarried on the 20th January 1894. In a survey of property owners in County Cork made in 1870, William R. Meade of Ballymartle House, Ballinhassig was recorded as owning 1,188 acres. In the 1901 Census, the owner of Ballymartle House was recorded as Richard J Meade, age 35, a magistrate & farmer. The other occupants at the time of the survey were his widowed mother Louise age 65, his brother Robert, sister Louise and two servants - Catherine Fitzgerald age 20, and Ellen Donovan age 19. In Ballymartle church the following graves can be found: Here lyeth ye body of WILLIAM MEADE Esq. Eldest son of SIR JOHN MEADE of Ballintober & of his Wife ELIZABETH, LADY MEADE, daughter of PIERCE, LORD VISCOUNT IKERRYN He was borne the 18th of June 1689 & Dyed the 5th of June 1702. Here lyeth also ye body of SIR JOHN MEADE, KNT & BARN(t) Father of ye above named WILLIAM MEADE Esq. who departed this life in ye 63rd year of his age, A.D. 1709 / (Source: Mark Thomas (Researcher / "Abondoned Ireland") The Collection includes for example: 1. [Bathurst, Henry (3rd Earl Bathurst)] Whately, Richard / Murray, Daniel / Vignoles, Charles / More O'Ferrall, Richard / Carlile, James / Hort, Fenton / Corrie, John / Naper, James / Battie-Wrightson, William. Selection of Parochial Examinations Relative to the Destitute Classes in Ireland. From the Evidence Received by his Majesty's Commissioners for Enquiring into the Condition of the Poorer Classes in Ireland. Original First Edition. Dublin, Milliken and Son [and B.Fellowes, London], 1835. 2. [Burnet, Gilbert] / Higgons, B. Historical And Critical Remarks on Bishop Burnet s History Of His Own Time. The Second Ediiton, with Additional Remarks. To which is added a Postscript, in answer to the London Journal of the 30th of January and 6th of February, 1724/1725. London, Printed for P.Meighan, 1727. 4. [Chiari, Giovanni] Vascellini, Gaetano. Statue di Firenze [incluso: "Catalogo delle Statue del R. Giardino di Boboli colla Notizia dei Loro Autori", "Catalogo delle Statue nel R. Palazzo de Pitti", Catalogo delle Statue colla Notizia dei Loro Autori ec." ec.] Tres Parti (complete) [Tutto dichiarato come prima parte]. Firenze, Presso Giuseppe Volpini Cartolaro, no year [c. 1765]. 5. [Clarendon, Henry Hyde Earl of] Powney, Richard. The State Letters of Henry, Earl of Clarendon Lord Lieutenant of Ireland During the Reign of K. James the Second: and His Lordship s Diary for the Years 1687,1688, 1689 and 1690. From the Originals in the Possession of Richard Powney, Esq. with an Appendix from Archbishop Sancroft s Manuscript in the Bodleian Library. Oxford / Dublin, The Clarendon Press / Elizabeth Watts in Skinner-Row, 1765. 6. [Cork Print 18th century] Robertson, William. The History of America. Volume I (of II) of the First Cork Edition [which had two Volumes in total]. Cork, Printed by Thomas White, opposite the Exchange, 1778. Octavo. XIX, [1], [6], 492 pages including 6 unnumbered pages of a List of Subscribers including the previous owner of the book: "Rev. John Meade". Original Hardcover / Original full 18th-century-calf with gilt ornament and original spine-label. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. Name of John Meade on titlepage. Only Volume One of this very rare Cork print ! 7. [Croker, John Wilson]. An Intercepted Letter from J- T-, Esq. Writer at Canton, to his friend in Dublin, Ireland. Fourth Edition. Dublin, Printed for M.N.Mahon, 109, Grafton Street, 1804. 8. [Croker, John Wilson]. Familiar Epistles to Frederick Jones, Esq. On the Present State of the Irish Stage. Fourth Edition, with considerable Additions. Dublin, Printed by Graisberry & Campbell and sold by all booksellers, 1805. 9. [Cumberland, Richard] Anonymous. Henry. By the Author of "Arundel". In Two Volumes. First Irish Edition. Dublin, Printed for P.Wogan, P. Byrne, W.Jones etc., 1795. 10. [Mathews, Charles] Anonymous. Constance : A Novel. The First Literary Attempt of a Young Lady. In Four Volumes. Volume IV (of four) only. London, Printed at the Logographic Press, 1785. 11. [Moore, John] / [Anonymous: "By the Author of Zeluco"]. Edward. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken From Life and Manners, Chiefly in England. First Irish Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed for P.Wogan, P.Byrne, J.Moore, J.Rice, W.Watson and Son, G. Folingsby etc. etc., 1797. 12. [Moore, John] / [Anonymous: "By the Author of Zeluco and Edward"]. Mordaunt. Sketches of Life, Characters, and Manners, in Various Countries; Including the Memoirs of A French Lady of Quality. By the Author of Zeluco and Edward. First Irish Edition. Three Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed for W. Watson and Son, G. Burnet, G. Folingsby etc. etc., 1800. 13. [Swift, Jonathan] / Earl of Orrery, John [Boyle] / [Boyle, Hamilton]. Remarks on the life and writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick s, Dublin, In a series.
Verlag: William Birch, Springland, Pennsylvania, 1809
Anbieter: Donald A. Heald Rare Books (ABAA), New York, NY, USA
Oblong folio. (8 3/4 x 10 7/8 inches). 20 hand-colored engravings, including title and section title, and 18 views. The general title and Mendenhall plate are second issue, the title with a letterpress copyright note on verso and Mendenhall with its spelling corrected. Publisher's wrappers with letterpress paper title-label on the upper wrapper with plain rear wrapper. Housed within a cloth chemise and quarter morocco slipcase Provenance: Bookplate of Jay Snider. Martin P. Snyder, bibliographer. The Snyder-Snider copy in original wrappers of one of the earliest and rarest American color-plate books, and the first on American scenery. "Birch's skill as a miniaturist is demonstrated in his charming book." - Reese Country Seats, Birch's second book published in America, principally depicts views near Philadelphia (13), but also shows estates in Virginia, including Mount Vernon; New York; New Jersey; Maryland; and Louisiana. Birch and his sons, Thomas and George, collaborated on the work, combining line and stipple engraving with delicate coloring to rich effect. Country Seats was conceived to be primarily decorative, a handsome series of views aimed at an audience who might possess country estates themselves. This kind of luxury viewbook, a genre of immense popularity in England and Europe, never really took hold in the United States. Americans preferred to buy individual views and prints which were produced in huge numbers, but not expensive books. [Reese] Snyder similarly argues that while Birch's Philadelphia Views was inspired by a burst of civic pride and enthusiasm, Country Seats was much more a work born of Birch's individual background and ambitions. It was the product of a desire to raise the prevailing levels of taste in homes and to identify himself with the wealthy life externally portrayed in his pictures. [Snyder] First issued in four parts for a limited number of subscribers, the work met with little commercial success. Birch nonetheless proceeded to put his work into book form. After the issue to subscribers was complete, he reissued the plates as one volume in 1809 in a trade edition. Very few copies survive. List of Plates: 1. The Capital at Washington. 2. The View from Springland. 3. Devon, in Pennsylvania, the Seat of Mr. Dallas. 4. Mount Sidney, Seat of General Barker, Pennsylvania. 5. Seat of Mr. Duplantier, near New Orleans. 6. Montibello, the Seat of General S. Smith, Maryland. 7. Woodlands, the Seat of Mr. W. Hamilton, Pennsylvania. 8. Sedgley, the Seat of Mr. William Crammond, Pennsylvania. 9. Hoboken in New Jersey, the Seat of Mr. John Stevens. 10. Hampton, the Seat of General Ridgley, Maryland. 11. Lansdown, the Seat of the Late Wm. Bingham, Pennsylvania. 12. Echo, Pennsylvania, Belonging to Mr. Bavarage. 13. Mt. Vernon the Seat of General Washington. 14. Fountain Green, the Seat of Mr. S. Meeker, Pennsylvania. 15. Solitude, in Pennsylvania, Belonging to Mr. Penn. 16. Belmont, the Seat of Judge Peters, Pennsylvania. 17. York-Island, with a View of the Seats of Mr. A. Gracie, Mr. Church, etc. 18. Mendenhall Ferry, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania. 19. China Retreat, Pennsylvania, Seat of Mr. Manigault. 20. Elysian Bower, Springland, Pa. Howes B460c. Reese, Stamped with a National Character 2. Sabin 5531. Snyder, "William Birch: His Country Seats of the United States," in Pennsylvania Magazine, Vol.81, No.3.
He orders the American Superintendent of British prisoners who surrendered at Saratoga to implement the arrangement?This shows a kindly side of Washington, concerned with the welfare of the two Hessian generals being released?Rare, this being our first Washington letter on prisoner exchanges made all the better by his mentioning Clintonhttps://vimeo.com/916157365?share=copy?The decisive American victory at the Battle of Saratoga October 18, 1777 led to the surrender of General John Burgoyne's army of British and German soldiers. Burgoyne's surrender played a decisive role in bringing France formally into the war as an American ally.The surrender of Burgoyne to General Horatio Gates at Saratoga placed nearly 6,000 British and Hessian prisoners of war in the hands of the Continental Congress. According to the terms of their surrender, written in a document agreed upon by both sides, entitled the ?Convention of Saratoga,? the prisoners were to be marched to Boston and then shipped back to Great Britain. When they arrived at Boston, a dispute arose between the Americans and Burgoyne, and on the 8th of January 1778, Congress resolved to suspend the terms of the Convention and keep the prisoners in custody. Now there was a large army of prisoners in the hands of the Americans, labeled as the Convention Army.Colonel James Wood was commander of the 12th Virginia Regiment. He led the regiment in the Philadelphia and Monmouth campaigns. His regiment was redesignated the 8th Virginia in September 1778, and he was appointed Superintendent of the Convention Army. He continued in that capacity until it was dissolved in January 1783, when he was promoted to brigadier general in the Virginia militia.Late in 1778 the decision was made to relocate the convention prisoners to Charlottesville, Virginia, where they could be more closely watched and better supplied. Many of the British and Hessian officers had their wives and children with them, and wagons were provided for their transportation. British General William Philips and the Hessian General Frederich von Riedesel led the march southward. They were accompanied by Hessian generals Johann Friedrich Specht of Brunswick and Wilhelm Rudolph von Gall, who had commanded brigades in Burgoyne's Army and surrendered at Saratoga. They reached Charlottesville, 700 miles from Boston, in January 1779, exhausted by a long journey during an inclement season and arriving to find their barracks unfinished and their supplies insufficient. Soldiers in this force would remain prisoners until the war ended in 1783.Following Saratoga, the indignation in Britain against Burgoyne was great. He was allowed to return England to defend his conduct and demanded but never obtained a trial. Left behind was the Convention Army, and soon calls were heard for release or exchange of the high ranking prisoners in captivity. But in 1778 negotiations for exchange failed.In October 1780, British Major General William Phillips proposed the exchange of Specht and Von Gall for any two of the three American brigadier generals William Thompson. David Waterbury, and James Irvine. The exchange soon came to involve American Brigadier General Louis Duportail and British Brigadier General James Hamilton of the Convention Army as well. Thompson of Pennsylvania was captured during an attack on the enemy in Quebec in June 1776, and he was paroled but not exchanged until early 1781. Waterbury was second in command to General Benedict Arnold at the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain in October 1776. He commanded the galley Washington but was forced to surrender after the galley took severe damage. Irvine of Pennsylvania was wounded and captured at Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, in December 1777. Duportail was an engineer taken prisoner when the British captured Charleston.On the same day that he wrote this letter, General Washington wrote to the Board of War that the German officers "are both old and infirm and it is therefore to be wished that they may accomplish their long Journey before the severity of the season sets in." After their exchange, they returned to Europe in January 1781. Also on this date, Washington wrote to Major General William Phillips, explaining that he had ordered Specht and Von Gall to be brought from Virginia to Elizabethtown, New Jersey, for exchange.Letter Signed, to James Wood, October 31, 1780, Head Quarters near Passaic Falls, New Jersey, ordering the prisoner exchange. ?Major General Phillips has informed me that Sir Henry Clinton has consented to the exchange of Brigadiers General Spetch and de Gall with the officers of their suite and their attendants. I have acceded to this proposal. You will therefore immediately permit those General Officers with their families to repair to Elizabeth Town by the route of Lancaster, Reading and Easton, avoiding any cantonments of the Army on their way thro' Jersey. I am with great Esteem, Dear Sir, Your most obt Servt., Go: Washington.?Here we see Washington conclude and order implementation of a prisoner exchange, show empathy for the foe, give orders for their transportation, and mention Henry Clinton.This is a rarity, being our first ever Washington letter on prisoner exchanges made all the better by his mentioning Clinton.
Verlag: Popular Fiction Publishing Company / Weird Tales / William C. Merrett, Indianapolis / New York / London, 1973
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Zustand: Near Fine. A remarkable collection of 83 beautiful issues of *Weird Tales*, containing many of H.P. Lovecraft's best known stories including "The Horror at Red Hook," "The Dunwich Horror," "The Rats in the Walls," "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," "The Shadow over Innsmouth," "Herbert West: Reanimator," "The Outsider," "The Strange High House in the Mist," "The Whisperer in Darkness," "The Dreams in Witch poems, including those from his House," "The Haunter of the Darkness," "The Thing on the Doorstep," and many others. These issues also contain numerous Lovecraft *Fungi of Yuggoth* sequence, as well as his important essay, "Supernatural Horror in Literature." In addition, there are several contributions which were co-written or heavily edited by Lovecraft, but which do not appear under his name. And finally, these issues contain works by many other important genre writers, notably Robert E. Howard, whose contributions include the novel *Almuric* and numerous stories such as "The Lost Race" and "Pigeons from Hell." Other writers represented include Clark Ashton Smith, Edmond Hamilton, David H. Keller, Seabury Quinn, and a young Robert Bloch. Further details available upon request.
Verlag: [Naples: Francois Morelli, '1766-67']., 1766
Anbieter: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, USA
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4 volumes. Folio (18 5/8 x 14 7/8 inches). Folio (18 x 14 2/8 inches). Parallel text in English and French in volumes I and II (bound without 8 hand colored engraved title pages, 5 dedications. Text begins with: p V in Vol I; 'avertissment' in Vol II; p V in Vol III; 'avant propos' in Vol IV). 434 etched and engraved plates, (volume II browned and with marginal stains throughout, rodent damage to fore edge. Remaining volumes overall bright and attractive). Contemporary half vellum marbles paper boards (Weak hinge on Vol III; heavily chipped end to spine Vol II; chipped and worn cover boards on all four volumes; several loose pages towards end of vol III). First edition, limited issue one of 500 copies (Blackmer) of volumes one and II, and one hundred copies of volumes III and IV (Jenkins). This 'ouvrage precieux, execute avec beaucoup de luxe' (Brunet) describes the collection of ancient vases assembled by Hamilton after his appointment to the court of Naples in 1764. William Hamilton, a Scottish dipolmat, chiefly served as the British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples from 1764 to 1800. Shortly after his arrival to Naples, Hamilton began collecting Greek vases and other antiquities. While many of his acquisitions were obtained from reputable dealers and other collectors, Hamilton's curisotiy and passion even led him to open Greek tombs himself. His collection grew, and with time, Pierre Francois Hugues, an authority on ancient art, had introduced Hamilton to the Porcinari family. Hamilton went on to buy their vast collection of ancient classical vases, and later sold to the British Museum in 1772. Before their shipment of England, all the objects were listed, drawn and described under the supervision of the brilliant but unscrupulous 'baron'. The work was finely illustrated with hand-colored engraved plates whose 'influence on neo-classical design and taste was to be profound' (Dictionary of Art). One of the explicit aims of the work was to discover the proportions of ancient vases in order to aid in their true reproduction, and indeed its influence on Josiah Wedgewood was significant - especially for his jasperware. With the first two volumes issued, publication was suddenly interrupted by Hugues's expulsion from Naples (apparently for debt) and Hamilton had to overcome the difficulty of finding his copper-plates in the hands of creditors. The last two volumes did not appear before 1776. Although Blackmer states that the edition was of 500 copies, it appears that only 100 copies of the two later volumes were issued (cf. I. Jenkins and K. Sloan Vases and Volcanoes, 1996, p.49), and this, together with the long gap in publication, accounts for the relatively high number of incomplete sets. The Blackmer copy contained 435 plates, the Northwick Park copy 436 plates and at least two other copies are known to contain 437 plates. Blackmer Catalogue 845; Berlin Katalog 890; Brunet I, 321; Cohen-de Ricci 474; Vinet 1528. For more information, please contact Natalie Zadrozna at Arader Galleries NYC.
Album with 25 original pochoirs on thick paper, mounted on cardboard leaves, each separated with thin blank sheets. In contemporary dark blue maroquin with gilt frames and title on the panels and spine. Presentation copy, with an autograph inscription card mounted onto the second front fly leaf "à Monsieur Tiphaine en signe de reconnaissance et d'affection respectueuse. L'auteur artiste Beauvalet de St Victor. ff [1 (title)] 12 [each twice, altogether 24]. A deluxe album of twenty-four exquisitely colored pochoir plates of Greek and Etruscan style vases and vessels by the French artist Beauvalet de Saint-Victor. Inspired by his travel to Sicily, Rome, Naples, Pompeii, and Herculaneum from 1833 to 1836, Beauvalet produced a series of pochoirs, colored stencil illustrations, of Greek vases and Etruscan bronze vessels, party-based upon his drawings of ancient pottery and bronzes, partly copied after D'Hancarville's lavish, hand-colored engravings of vases in the collection of Sir William Hamilton (XX), and partly re-imagined the classical subjects. Beauvalet's fine plates demonstrate his innovative use of stencils and pigments custom formulated to imitate the sheen of metal and glossy ceramics (Lyons, 2013). Very little is known about the artist who was born in Paris in 1780 and died around 1858. Beauvalet de Saint-Victor described himself as "Peintre Minerologiste breveté" (a patented mineralogist painter) alluding to his inventions of pigments with a uniquely lustrous effect and glossy surface. After a three-year sojourn in Italy, Beauvalet returned to France in 1836 and begun to publish books on artistic techniques and portfolios of various subjects such as calligraphy or Japanese pottery. At the same time he produced a collection of plates of Greek and Etruscan style vases and vessels under the title "Vases grecs et étrusques", which is considered as Beauvalet's most original contribution to, and most inventive application of the pochoir process for printmaking (Lyons, 2013). Beauvalet claimed that his technique is rather original drawing than mechanical reproduction, using an intricate and unique sequence of stencils, colored with the saturated tones and metallic pigments invented by himself. The plates of Vases grecs et étrusques were issued in fascicles of forty-eight pairs of which one was a terracotta vase and the other is a bronze vessel. Depending on the subscriber and their wallet the number of plates in the albums varied. A copy with ninety-six plates is held at the Getty Research Institute, which (just as other the British Library copy) differs from the present, bearing a variant title page with the date of 1845 indicated, and the plates are numbered in Roman instead of Arabic numerals. Extremely scarce, we could trace only four copies in institutional holdings with diverse contents, two in the US (Getty Research Institute; Avery Library at Columbia), and two in Europe (BL, UK; BCU Lausanne, Switzerland). Binding with traces of light rubbing. Inside clean. Overall in fine condition. Album with 25 original pochoirs on thick paper, mounted on cardboard leaves, each separated with thin blank sheets. In contemporary dark blue maroquin with gilt frames and title on the panels and spine. Presentation copy, with an autograph inscription card mounted onto the second front fly leaf "à Monsieur Tiphaine en signe de reconnaissance et d'affection respectueuse. L'auteur artiste Beauvalet de St Victor.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1775
Anbieter: Seth Kaller Inc., White Plains, NY, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Bound Volume. Pennsylvania Magazine; or American Monthly Museum. Volume 1. January-December 1775. Philadelphia, Pa., R. Aitken, 1775. 5 x 8 1/4 in. Twelve issues and one supplement, a complete run of the first year. 625, [5] pp., including title signature and the supplement, plus fifteen plates. without a leaf numbered 285-286, but the text uninterrupted and evidently complete (apparently a mis-pagination at the time of printing).Historical BackgroundThe Pennsylvania Magazine was the only magazine issued in the American colonies for most of the crucial years of 1775 and 1776 (the only other one being The Royal American Magazine, which ceased publication in March 1775). It was conceived and founded by Robert Aitken, best known for his work as a printer for the Continental Congress. Aitken hired Thomas Paine to edit the magazine, at the paltry sum of £50 a year, just a few months after the radical writer's arrival in America (in December 1774). Paine would edit the publication from February of 1775 to May of 1776. He was also a major contributor, writing Revolutionary essays, political analyses, poems and descriptions of new inventions. Paine wrote under the initials "A.B." and various other pseudonyms, and sometimes with no byline.Paine scholar William M. Van der Weyde observes that, under Paine's editorship, the magazine "was sprightly and interesting, and had, moreover, real literary merit. [I]n his early literary work.we may clearly trace the keen mind and forceful pen which were soon to give the world some of its most distinguished writing." Author John Tebbel notes that "Paine (and Aitken) did not permit The Pennsylvania Magazine to be simply a propaganda organ. It contained a wide variety of other pieces, and enough original material to make it outstanding among magazines of the century."InventoryA run of the first twelve issues and the 1775 supplement of The Pennsylvania Magazine, the only magazine issued in the American colonies for most of the crucial year of 1775. This is among the most important American Revolutionary-era publications for two reasons. First, it was edited by the famous radical, Thomas Paine, from February 1775 until May 1776 (all but the first and the last two numbers) as his regular occupation while he wrote Common Sense. Second, it contains some of the most significant maps produced in America during the Revolution, including battle plans that became prototypes for often-reproduced illustrations. Only a handful of similar maps were produced in America during the Revolution. Ristow describes three of the maps and plans (numbers 8, 9, and 10, below) as "the earliest revolutionary war maps printed in America." The present collection contains the first twelve of the total nineteen issues of The Pennsylvania Magazine, a complete run for the year 1775.Contains the important "A Correct View of the Late Battle at Charleston, June 17th, 1775," depicting the Battle of Bunker Hill. Though only a partial plate here, this view, virtually never found with the magazine and of extraordinary rarity, is arguably the most important American-produced visual image of the Revolutionary conflict aside from Paul Revere's famous Boston Massacre plate. The Bunker Hill image is based on a drawing by Bernard Romans, an engineer and mapmaker best known for his book on Florida. Romans supposedly observed the conflict firsthand, but there is no evidence he was actually there. The plate, crudely but effectively engraved by Robert Aitken, shows the American and British lines joined in conflict in the upper right part of the plate, while in the right foreground Americans load a cannon near a blockhouse. Boston Harbor is in the right foreground, while the city, in the upper right, is bombarded by British naval vessels. Since the plate accompanied the September issue of the magazine, it must have been made by early September 1775. Romans also issued the view on a larger scale, with a slightl. (See website for full description). Bound Volume. Pennsylvania.
Verlag: Paris chez l?auteur, (de l?imprimerie de Cailleau), 1785 [- 1788]., 1785
Anbieter: Librairie Camille Sourget, Paris, Frankreich
Verbandsmitglied: ILAB
Couverture rigide. Zustand: Très bon. Normal 0 21 false false false FR X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tableau Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;} First 8vo edition and second edition (after the original from Naples, 1766) illustrated with 366 plates out of pagination: 5 titles-frontispieces and 361 numbered subjects on 60 plates, almost all enhanced with sepia watercolors representing vases, sculptures, paintings, statues , reproduces from the collections of William Hamilton, British Ambassador to Italy. The subjects 28-29 of the first volume are printed on the same leaf, plate 1 of the volume 3 is enhanced with 4 colors, the tables indicate a total of 357 subjects from which we have to add 4, not mentioned). The arms of the dedicatee, Count of Néale, were also enhanced with colors. Those two first editions magnified the Greek and Roman antiquities, and exercised the greatest influence in the development of the neo-classic movement in France and England. Cohen de Ricci 474, Blackmer 345, Berlin Katalog 890. Ambassador of England in Naples from 1764, Sir William Hamilton took an active part in the research carried out in the ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii. He was keen to bring together artistic riches from Antiquity and acquired an extraordinary collection of antique vases from the Porcinari house, which he then offered to the British Museum. Most of his works of art were lost in 1800 in a shipwreck on his return to England. During his stay in Naples, Sir Hamilton asked Pierre-François-Hugues known as Hancarville, which he appreciated the erudition and the artistic talent, to make a magnificent publication to allow the scholar and art lover public to admire the beauty of the collections combined. Prestigious provenance: Tsar Paul I of Russia (born in 1754, tsar in 1796, assassinated in 1801), son of Catherine the Great (supra libros, except volume 5 which has no arms: central coat of arms of the Romanow, on the left the coat of arms of his second wife Sophie Feodorowna von Wurtemberg, 1759 1828, on the right the coat of arms of his father Count Karl Friedrich von Holstein-Gottorp, 1700 1739).
Folio (320x195 mm). Collation: a8, A-Z8, Aa-Ll8, 2Aa-Ff8, 2Gg10, 3Aa-Bb8, 3Cc6, 3Dd2, 3Ee-Ff8, 3Gg6, 3Hh4, 3Ll10. [16], 510, [2], 602-838 [i.e. 834], [2] pages. Roman, italic, and Greek type. Woodcut printer's device on the verso of the last leaf. Title-page with woodcut portrait of Cardanus within a cartouche. Woodcut animated and decorated initials. Numerous woodcut diagrams in the text. Fine contemporary French olive morocco over pasteboards, executed for Charles Cardinal de Bourbon. Covers within triple gilt fillet border. Smooth spine with the cardinal's arms and his device with the motto 'SVPERAT CANDORE ET ODORE'; title lettered in gilt at the head. Board edges with single fillet, gilt edges. A few old abrasions to the covers, repair to the upper ones, joints a little rubbed, corners lightly bumped. In a modern green cloth solander box. A very fine copy, minor loss to the lower outer corner of the title-page, not affecting text; tears to fol. Aa6, without any loss. On the verso of the rear flyleaf a cutting taken from an unidentified sale catalogue, describing this copy as lot 99, 'folio, olive morocco, gilt leaves, with Arms and Device of Charles de Bourbon (Charles X. of the League) on back'.Provenance: Cardinal Charles de Bourbon, Archbishop of Rouen (1520-1590; armorial binding); from the library of William Beckford (1760-1844; the pencilled shelfmark '353-31'; see the sale at Sotheby, Wilkinson e Hodge, The Hamilton Palace Libraries. Catalogue of The First Portion of the Beckford Library, removed from Hamilton Palace, London, June 1882, lot 1579, "olive morocco, gilt edges, with arms and device of Charles de Bourbon (Charles X of the League) stamped in gold on back"; lot description is pasted into the front pastedown of this copy); purchased by Dodgson for £55; Henry J. B. Clements (1869-1940; ex-libris on the front pastedown); Edwards (signature on the verso of the front flyleaf 'Edwards June 1895.'); the Paris bookseller Georges Heilbrun (Catalogue 37, 1972, no. 37); Michel Wittock (ex-libris on the front pastedown; see The Michel Wittock Collection. Part I: Important Renaissance Bookbindings, Christie's London 2004, lot 31). A magnificent copy – bound for the French cardinal Charles de Bourbon – of the third edition of this compilation of astrological works by the renowned physician, natural philosopher, mathematician, and astrologer from Milan Girolamo Cardano. The first part consists of his translation into Latin of Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos, along with his commentary. The first edition of Cardano's collection issued from Heinrich Petri's press appeared in 1554; the 1557 publication is the first to be supplemented with commentary by the mathematician Conradus Dasypodius (1532-1600), who suppressed, from the section Genitura exempla devoted to individual horoscopes of great men, the famous horoscope of Jesus Christ and inserted instead a short description of the clock in the cathedral of Strasbourg, which Dasypodius had constructed in collaboration with the Habrecht brothers from Schaffhausen. The edition is presented here in a splendid copy once owned by Charles de Bourbon, Archbishop of Rouen, who was proclaimed Charles X of France by the Catholic League in 1589 following the assassination of Henry III. For his exquisite library, Charles de Bourbon commissioned bindings of the greatest elegance, executed by renowned binders in the soberer style in vogue in the last decades of the sixteenth century: the covers of this volume are simply tooled with three gilt fillets, and the spine bears his coat of arms, along with the his device with the motto 'SVPERAT CANDORE ET ODORE'. Most of de Bourbon's library eventually went to the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, with a few books remaining in private hands. In the nineteenth century, this copy was in possession of the great bibliophile and art collector William Beckford, whose impressive library was sold in 1882. "Mr. Beckford's exquisite taste and judge. Book.
Verlag: Glasgow, Scotland, 1821
Anbieter: Seth Kaller Inc., White Plains, NY, USA
No binding. Zustand: Fine. Printed Cotton Handkerchief, ca. 1821. 31 x 33 in. The intricate design of this handkerchief features images of Washington, Adams, and Jefferson, beneath an eagle and flags. In the center appears the text of the Declaration of Independence, together with facsimiles of the signatures. An oak wreath with acorns surrounds the text and features images of the seals of the thirteen original states. An image at lower left depicts the Boston Tea Party with the caption, "The Patriotic Bostonians discharging the British Ships in Boston harbour." An image at lower right depicts "General Burgoyne's Surrender to General Gates at Saratoga." Around the edge runs a stars and rope border with anchors at each corner and at the center of each side. The design was printed with red ink using a copper plate.The design draws much from prints of the Declaration of Independence by William Woodruff, published in February 1819, and John Binns, published in October 1819. Richard Gillespie (b. 1772) and Colin Gillespie (b. 1774) of Glasgow, Scotland, produced these handkerchiefs for the American market in the 1820s. A variety of American newspapers reprinted a notice of their availability from the New-York National Advocate:We have received (says a New-York paper) from Collin Gillespie, Esq. of Glasgow, formerly of this city, two Handkerchiefs, the finest specimens of printing on cambric ever produced. The design is a facsimile of Binns' superb print of the declaration of Independence, and contains the signatures of the illustrious signers with great exactness. In one corner is a representation of the "patriotic Bostonians discharging the British ships in Boston harbor," of their cargoes of tea; and in the other the surrender of Burgoyne to Gates at Saratoga. In a branch of laurel, on each side, is inscribed the name of Hamilton and Putnam, and the likenesses of Washington, Adams, and Jefferson. The only deviation from the print, is the omission of the portrait of John Hancock.[1]Some newspapers also reprinted a second, more prescriptive paragraph:Our manufacturers should make it a practice to print their handkerchiefs with such representations of national events as will tend to perpetuate them, by exciting patriotic feelings and keeping alive the remembrance of such events.Historical BackgroundDuring and after the War of 1812, a surge in American nationalism spurred interest in the Founding Era. In June 1816, John Binns began taking subscriptions for a print of the Declaration of Independence with facsimile signatures, which was to be surrounded by images of John Hancock, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and the seals of all thirteen states. He did not produce the work until the autumn of 1819. In the meantime, rival printer Benjamin Owen Tyler produced an unornamented engraving of the Declaration in April 1818 with facsimile signatures that he dedicated to Thomas Jefferson.While Binns was carefully developing his design, William Woodruff, who formerly worked for George Murray, pirated the facsimile signatures Binns had created. Murray was responsible for the Arms of the United States and the 13 state seals on the Binns version. Woodruff produced a very similar printing with minor changes, including calligraphic rather than facsimile signatures and the replacement of John Hancock's portrait with one of John Adams. Woodruff published his print around February 1819, also beating Binns to press.Colin Gillespie was a textile manufacturer and merchant who emigrated to the United States from Scotland in 1793 and became an American citizen in 1798. He between the two countries as the head of Collin Gillespie & Company. His brother Richard Gillespie took control of the cotton spinning and textile printing factories in 1808 or 1809. Colin Gillespie likely took copies of both the Binns and Woodruff prints to his brother to reproduce on cloth for an American market.This print adapted much of Woodruff's design and added the . (See website for full description). Printed Cotton Handkerchief.