North America
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# 45554
[BLACK AMERICANA] Four nineteenth-century Christmas and New Year’s greeting cards with racist caricatures of African American men and women.
[New York, NY] : Raphael Tuck & Sons, [1880s]. Four chromolithographed cards, in uniform 102 x 63 mm format; rectos featuring a head-and-shoulders caricature and a greeting below, with ‘Raphael Tuck & Sons, Copyright’ in fine print across lower margin; versos with the RT&S monogram trademark and ‘Artistic Series 1256’; a couple of small marks, …
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# 45110
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. LONDON YEARLY MEETING.
Tracts relative to the Aborigines / published by direction of the Meeting for Sufferings from 1838 to 1842
London : Edward Marsh, 84 Houndsditch, 1843. Series: Tracts relative to the Aborigines, nos. 1-8. Octavo (210 x 135 mm), original blind-blocked green cloth with gilt-lettered spine (upper board with stain at fore-edge penetrating to pastedown and front endpaper), front free-endpaper with two early North American Society of Friends Meeting inscriptions; pp. i-xii; 1-60 (Information …
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# 45536
THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
Declaration of Human Rights. Submitted by The American Jewish Committee, 386 Fourth Avenue, New York City.
[New York, NY : The American Jewish Committee, 1944]. Broadsheet, 280 x 215 mm, printed recto only; used as a form for individuals to register their name and address as willing signatories to the Declaration; in very good condition. ‘With the inevitable end of Hitler, the struggle begins, not of tank and plane, but of …
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# 38393
LOPEZ DE GOMARA, Francisco
Primera y secunda parte de la historia general de las Indias
cõ todo el descubrimiento, y cosas notables que han acaescido donde que se ganaron hasta el año de 1551. Con la conquista de Mexico, y dela nueva España. Medina del Campo : Guillermo de Millis, 1553. Second edition.Two parts in one, folio (275 x 200 mm), contemporary vellum over boards, original ties partially intact, spine with early title …
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# 38366
[MANUSCRIPT] A Journal or Narrative of the Proceedings betweene the Commissioners appointed by His Majestie, and the Commissioners Deputed by the States Generall, pursuant to the Treaty of Peace made at Westminster 9/19 Ffebruary 1673/4 Concerning a Treaty Marine to be observed throughout all the World. And also an Article particularly relateing to the English and Dutch East India Companyes Concluded in the yeare 1674.
[London, 1674-75]. Folio (300 x 200 mm), old mottled calf gilt, spine with raised bands, gilt ornament, and contrasting title labels lettered in gilt; all edges gilt; manuscript written in English, Latin, Dutch and French in several contemporary secretarial hands; ff 269; clean and fresh throughout. An important contemporary manuscript record of the Mixed Commission established to draw up …
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# 44855
GOOS, Pieter
Pascaerte vande Zuyd-Zee tussche California, en Ilhas de Ladrones
Amsterdam : Pieter Goos, op’t Waater inde Vergulde Zeespiegel, 1666. 430 x 538 mm (image), 465 x 555 mm (sheet), had coloured, decorative cartouche, a fine example. A fine example of Pieter Goos’ sea chart of the Pacific Ocean. Extending from Van Diemen’s Land to Japan, and from New Zealand to California, it significantly notes discoveries …
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# 44856
OTTENS, Reinier (1698 - 1750); de WIT, Frederik (1629 - 1706)
Magnum Mare del Zur cum Insula California. De Groote Zuyd-Zee en ‘t Eylandt California
Amsterdam : [R. & I. Ottens, 1745]. Copperplate engraving, 490 x 560 mm (image); 565 x 665 mm (sheet), hand coloured, small repair to tear in cartouche and a couple of pinholes, else fine. A striking example of Reiner and Joshua Ottens’ chart of the Pacific Ocean, an updated state of Frederick De Wit’s chart …
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# 44895
PINNOCK, William
Panorama of the old world and the new.
Comprising a view of the present state of the nations of the world, their manners, customs, and peculiarities, and their political, moral, social, and industrial condition. Interspersed with historical sketches and anecdotes by William Pinnock. Enlarged, revised, and embellished with several hundred engravings, from designs of Croome, Devereux, and other distinguished artists. Boston : L. …
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# 43389
ANSON, Rufus
Daguerreotype of a young boy standing near a plinth. New York, 1852-55.
Sixth plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 80 x 70 mm (sight), in an oval brass mat stamped ‘ANSON 589 / BROADWAY’; ormolu preserver; housed in a half leather case with floral motif; the daguerreotype is in fine condition.
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# 43391
ANSON, Rufus
Daguerreotype of a young woman in mourning dress. New York, circa 1855.
Sixth plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 80 x 70 mm (sight), in a nonpareil brass mat stamped ‘Anson / Broadway’, ormolu preserver; housed in a leather case with geometric and scrolling vine motif, the front with partially remnant early paper label with the name ‘[A]dams’ in manuscript; the case has a working clasp, and the …
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# 43388
ANSON, Rufus
Daguerreotype of a young woman in a tartan dress, with hands clasped. New York, 1852-55.
Sixth plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 80 x 70 mm (sight); in an oval brass mat stamped ‘ANSON 589 / BROADWAY’; ormolu preserver; housed in a leather case with geometric design (separated along the spine); a striking daguerreotype in fine condition. The sitter appears to be the same young woman from the Adams family who …
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# 43415
PORTER, William Southgate
Daguerreotype of a man with wavy hair. Cincinnati, early 1850s.
Quarter plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 110 x 80 mm (sight); in an oval brass mat stamped ‘W. S. PORTER / 4th & VINE, CINCINATTI’; ormolu preserver; housed in a thermoplastic case lined with crimson velvet (Berg 1-45 Lyre in Wide Portal 2 (S), engraved by R. Payne); the daguerreotype has some tiny mould spiders …
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# 44849
ROSTENBERG, Leona and STERN, Madeleine B.
Bookends
New York : Free Press, 2001. Octavo, cloth in dustjacket, pp. x; 246, illustrated. Biblio-memoir by the pair of American women booksellers.
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# 44542
GENTHE, Arnold (1869-1942)
Margaret Anglin as Antigone. Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, 30 June 1910.
Platinum print photograph, 225 x 157 mm; verso with a fully contemporary inscription in pencil ‘Margaret Anglin as Antigone. Greek Theatre, Berkeley, 30 June’, and with a later pencilled annotation ‘Arnold Genthe 1910’; unmounted; very slight bend at bottom left corner, otherwise superb condition. A magnificent study by Arnold Genthe of the great Canadian actress …
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# 44496
Anon.
I am opposed to woman’s suffrage
Pledge card, U.S.A. circa 1910, 77 x 126 mm, with the name and street name of an anti-suffragette, fine condition. Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted women the right to vote in the United States. Both pro- and anti-suffrage movements were …
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# 44829
DEAN, Douglas (pseudonym for Dean Goodman)
Douglas Dean’s San Francisco Gaylife ’73 – ’74
Bars – baths – restaurants – clubs – churches. Make out – a provocative short story by Douglas Dean. Plus photos of the hunkiest guys this side of heaven. San Francisco : Barbary Coast Productions, 1973. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 48, illustrations (including male nudes), light foxing. Dean Goodman (Douglas Dean Goodman) was a San …