[Niagara Falls]

View of Niagara Falls

[n.p.], Mid 19th c. Hand-colored lithograph. 22 x 16 inches. A dramatic colored print of the falls. Artist unknown. Some toning, a few closed tears, chip to lower corner touching border, shallow curved chip at right edge about 1/4 inch at maximum into image of trees, easily covered by mat.

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Book number: 44143

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Prints & Graphics, , Americana, Prints & Graphics, Canadiana Niagara Falls, Print

Farrell, James T.

The Face of Time

New York, Vanguard Press, 1953. First edition. Paper wrappers. 361 pp. 8vo. An advance or preview copy in plain paper wrappers. Scarce. A very good copy in a plain soiled wrapper, contents clean.

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Book number: 38036

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: , Literature, American Literature, Book

[Mexican-American War] [Mexico State] Perez Fernandez, Diego J.

[Broadside] El Teniente Gobernador En Ejercicio Del Poder Ejecutivo Del Estado Libre Y Soberano de México, á la Nacion. Puesto Al Frente de Los Habitantes Del Estado Por la Ausencia Del Exmo. Sr. Gobernador, Me He Creído Obligado á Vindicarlos de la Injusta Y Atroz Imputación Que Se Les Hace. .

[Toluca], 1847. First edition. 1 sheet. 45 x 33 cm. Dated and signed in print, August 6, 1847. Lamenting the "unjust and atrocious accusations" that the state of Mexico has not contributed to the war effort, the Lt. Governor provides a defense backed up with statistics, charts, and commentary regarding the war expenditures of the State of Mexico, the numbers of National Guard Forces by district, of Guerrilla fighters, and a tabulation of deserters and replacements. He notes that because of the State's vast size, its population is scattered, and therefore the State has encountered ongoing difficulties amassing men and resources, and in addition that National Government has already appropriated much of its resources, "El gobierno general impulsado por los peligros que lo c rcan, dispone de los ciudadanos y rentas del Estado, con grave perjuicio suyo, y en descrédito de la buena administración." However, the "State of Mexico, poor and oppressed, has managed to overcome and make very useful sacrifices.. [contributing] numerous pickets and guerrillas..[who are].. going to the capital, or are in it and its surroundings, or are in front of the enemy." A good example of the finger pointing that would continue after the war years. OCLC locates one copy at Univ. of Arizona (225643922), though lacking the top portion of the title. Old stab holes to left margin, chipped and torn along edges and folds, worm holes, a few words obscured, minor soiling, still good.

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Book number: 44740

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: , Latin America, Americana, Mexico, Mexico, Mexican-American War, Broadside Latin America

[Central America. Fillmore, Millard]

Message from the President of the United States, Communicating, in Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate, Certain Correspondence in Relation to Central America

[Washington D.C], [Hamilton, Printer], 1853. First edition. Later paper wrappers. 106 pp. Sm. 4to. Senate executive document / 32nd Congress, 2nd session. Senate; no. 27. A good copy, edge worn, moderate soiling, scattered foxing, oneleaf with a closed tear.

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Book number: 46118

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: , Americana, Latin America, Central America, Pamphlet Latin America

[Canada] [Department of Finance]

Report of the Minister of Finance on the Reciprocity Treaty with the United States: Also, the Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of St. Paul, Minnesota, and Report of Congress, U.S. , Thereon. Printed by Order of His Excellency the Governor General

Quebec, Printed by S. Derbishire and G. Desbarats, 1862. First edition. Paper wrappers. 66 pp. [1] pp. 8vo. All about trade. Sabin 69884. TPL: 4119. Wrappers heavily chipped along edges, lacking spine, numeral stamped to front wrapper, institutional stamp to title, with a few notations, minor browning to contents, but overall quite good.

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Book number: 46121

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: , Americana, Commerce, Minnesota , Canadiana, Pamphlet

Fisher, Samuel W.

The Purpose of God, in the Early Death of the Christian, Illustrated: A Sermon, Occasioned by the Death of Miss Mary S. Dwight, a Teacher in the Albany Female Academy, Delivered in the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Albany, on Sabbath, March 2, 1845

Albany, Erastus H. Pease, 1845. Paper wrappers. 32 pp. Sm. 4to. Samuel Ware Fisher ( 1814-1874) "graduated at Yale in 1835, and he entered Princeton theological seminary, but after two years went to the Union theological seminary, New York City, where ha was graduated in 1839. Before leaving the seminary he was called to the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church in West Bloomfield, now Montclair, New Jersey he was pastor there for three and a half years, and then for four years in Albany, where he achieved a high reputation as a pulpit orator. From Albany he was called in 1847 to Cincinnati. as a successor to Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher. This pastorate he always considered the most effective work of his ministry, but resigned in 1858 to accept the presidency of Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y. Here his scholarship, his eloquence, and his executive ability effected a more liberal endowment and increased efficiency" (Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography). Mary Sherrill Dwight (1822-1845) was the orphaned daughtersof Rev. Edwin Welles Dwight. Very good minus, wrappers edge worn, lightly soiled, light dampstaining, foxing to contents.

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Book number: 46130

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Women, , Americana, Women, New York , Sermons education female Albany, Pamphlet

Foerster, F.W. [Friedrich Wilhelm ]

[Als] Brief Note from a German Philosopher & Antifascist Who Fled Germany Before the Rise of the Nazis

[Biarritz], 1926. [1 pp.]. 8 x 5 inches. German academic & philosopher, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster (1869-1966) spent his early career as a lecturer at a variety of institutions, including the University of Zurich, the University of Vienna, and the University of Munich. However at the onset of World War I, Foerster's open opposition to Germany's ruling class and German militariam had resulted in threats on his life and he resigned his teaching post in Germany in 1922 and fled Germany, settling in France. His books were burned in Germn in 1933 and he fled France around 1940, when the Nazis and Gestapo pursued him during their occupation there. He spent the following two decades in New York City, before returning to Switzerland in 1963. Written in English, and dated 28th July, 1926 from Biarritz, Foerster, while "on journey" through France, writes to a friend in Zurich. In full: "I have a very pleasant memory of our talk at the Zurichberg and I am indeed very sorry I cannot see you this time as I am travelling in France. But I am hoping to meet you another time. There are plenty of questions to discuss between us. Near fine, folded.

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Book number: 45975

Catalogue: Religion & Philosophy

Keywords: Autographs & Manuscripts, , Religion & Philosophy, Autographs & Manuscripts, German autographs antifascists philosophers, Manuscript

[Wisconsin] La Follette, Philip F.

[Autograph Quote Signed] Wisconsin Politician Philip F. La Follette's Fond Tribute to His Father, Robert M. La Follette

1930. [1] pp. 8 x 10 inches. Dated May 31, 1930, and signed Philip F. La Follett, who was governor of Wisconsin (1931-33), brother of Robert M. La Follette, Jr. with whom he created the Wisconsin Progressive Party, and the son of Robert M. La Follette, leading Wisconsin statesman for many years, who ran for president on the Progressive Party ticket in 1924. This quote, signed by La Follett, was extracted from a speech he delivered at the "Unveiling of the Statue of Hon. Robert M. La Follette" in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capital on April 25, 1929 (See Congressional Record, 71st Cong. 1st Session, p. 3). "It would be unnecessary to point out to you that he had no narrow sense that he represented any single state or that his duty was confined to the people of Wisconsin. But throughout his long public life the greatest source of support to him was the sense of personal friendship and intimate association with the people of his state. He would want us to remember that whatever service he was able to render his country was made possible by the unmatched loyalty and affection, existing without interruption, for the quarter of a century he was in the Senate, between the people of Wisconsin and himself..Enemies swarmed upon him, leaders betrayed, friends forsook him, but in some mysterious way the silent masses reached out through it all and spoke to him.." A fitting tribute by one of an historically important political family in Wisconsin. Very good, folded, minor edge wear, tiny chip at top edge.

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Book number: 44100

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Autographs & Manuscripts, , Americana, Political Literature, Autographs & Manuscripts, Wisconsin , Progressives, Manuscript

Fuller, Catharine

[Als] Correpondence of a Young Massachusetts Woman to Her Friend Speaks of Lonliness and Health

Gardiner, 1811. [2] pp. Bifolium with integral address. 6 x 7.5 inches. August 19, 1811, Gardiner Massachusetts, Catherine Fuller to Mary Woodberry of Ipswich. Good example of a letter between young women friends. "Worthy creature, it is a long time since I had an opportunity of writing to you, but I am now amusing myself a few minutes, but I don't know whether you will ever peruse this. I haventhe happiness to receive a letter from you, Mrs Dennis brought it. You can't think how much pleasure it gave me, although it was but a few lines. If it had been but a few words, it would have been excepted by one who is still your friend and wished ever to be considered as such. you informed me you with your friends were in good health and that each of us ought to consider as the greatest blessing we can enjoy while in this world, but how apt many of us are to forget how uncertain it is. I will tell you, that I am very lonesome and have been ever since Hannah went away and if she remains how I long to see her. I think she would come home as son as she could. I have not enjoyed my health very well this summer , but I am much better now than I have been since Hannah left home I have had some thoughts of coming to Ipswich this fall, but I conclude now that I shall not, for Hannah is not home now, and I don't expect she will come home time enough . I think it would do me good to cross the salt water , but marm says she won't give her consent for me to come without there is some person that I am appointed with to come with me, for she says it is not prudent, but believe it is time for to think about leaving off or it is so dark that can scarcely see the family are enjoying a tolerable share of health. The children have the [w]hooping cough, but not very bad. Remember me to your parents and grandmom and other inquiring friends. D go and see grandmamn and tell her that her children are well and remember their love to her. Do write every opportunity I conclude you a real friend. Very good, edgewear, small tears along the folds and one tear along inner margin, not affecting text, scattered soiling and ink bleed through.

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Book number: 44234

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Women, , Americana, Women, Massachusetts , Manuscript

[Buenos Aires]. [Funes, Gregorio]

Gazeta Extraordinaria de Buenos-Ayres, Lunes 15 de Abril de 1811

(Buenos Aires), (Real Imprenta de Niños Expósitos), 1811. First edition. Disbound in three original quires. [127 - 145] pp. 8vo. The Gazeta, in its current form, started in 1810 with the May Revolution, was written by Mariano Moreno, and was intended to support the Junta, as well as describe events in Argentina and other neighboring countries and from Europe and the Americas. The issues with 'Extraordinaria' in the title were outside the normal publication, and issued without numbers. So important was the publication that the government ordered it read aloud at chapels after mass. The government was fluid, and Moreno was shoved aside by Cornelio Saavedra and the clergyman Gregorio Funes, who organized a second revolution that took place on April 5th and 6th. Whereas the May Revolution had been a revolution of the urban bourgeoisie, of the "decent people"- the merchant and intellectual elite, the April event mobilized urban workers and laborers for the first time on the banks of the Plaza de la Victoria in order to remove Morenistas. See Daniel Morán, "La historiografía de la revolución. La participación plebeya durante las guerras de independencia en el Perú y el Río de la Plata", Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos [Online], Debates, Online since 30 May 2011]. Funes would author the communiqué in defense of the Junta, in this Gazeta Extraordinaria issue of Lunes 15 de Abril 1811: "Manifesto sobre antecedentes, y origen del suceso de la noche del 5 y 6 del corriente." Furlong notes: "Oficio de los alcaldes, a la Junta, dirigiéndole las diez y ocho peticiones del pueblo; y pidiendo su cumplimiento. Peticiones del pueblo: explicaciones. Circular que, en sustancia y con la sola diferencia de la expresión, se ha pasado a sus respectivos cabildos, por los diputados, para precaver toda siniestra prevención, Ínterin se publicaba todo lo ocurrido, para inteligencia y general satisfacción de las provincias." Issues of the Gazeta are uncommon in the trade, Gazeta Extraordinaria and early issues even more so. The only issues before 1813 that we could find were at the Sotheby's sale of May 8, 1961 (lot 64A) purchased by Maggs. Furlong IV: 2565. Palau 96378 (Reimpression). Zinny: p.48. A very good copy, old stitch holes, very faint numeral 7 inked to top margin of title page.

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Book number: 43697

Catalogue: Latin America

Keywords: Argentina, , Latin America, South America, Argentina, Argentine Revolution Amérique latine, America Latina, Rio de la plata, Historia, 19th c. , Guerra de la Independencia, War of independence, Newspaper

Gandavo, Pero de. Magalhães

The Histories of Brazil: Now Translated Into English for the First Time and Annotated by John B. Stetson, Jr. , with a Facsimile of the Portuguese Original, 1576 [Two Volumes]

New York, Cortes Society, 1922. First English Language edition. Quarter brown cloth over paper covered boards. 60 pp. 48 leaves; 266 pp. Illus. with b/w reproductions and facsimiles. 8vo. Documents and Narratives concerning the Discovery and Conquest of Latin America: Number Five. Vol. I and Vol. II out-of-sequence of 250 copies. "This edition is the best one extant," (Borba de Moraes). Cox II: 1922. Conrad: 438. Borba de Moraes I, 295. Boards lightly soiled, else very good bright copies.

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Book number: 46230

Catalogue: Latin America

Keywords: Brazil, , Latin America, South America, Brazil, Brazil, Brazil, Latin Americana, Brazilian History,

Garrett, Charles

The la Guardia Years: Machine and Reform Politics in New York City

New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1961. First edition. Black cloth. ix, [2], 423 pp. 23 illus. 8vo. A very good+ copy in a very good edgeworn and price clipped dust jacket with a few minor tears.

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Book number: 46344

Keywords: New York, , New York, New York City Politics Tammany Mayors, Book

[New Hampshire] Gilman, John Taylor

[Election Broadside Signed] State of New-Hampshire. To the Selectmen of [Surry] Greeting: Pursuant to an Act of This State, Passed June 21st, 1792, Directing the Mode of Choosing Representatives to the Congress of the United States. .

Printed at Exeter [N.H.], H. Ranlet, 1796. 1 sheet, integral address on verso. 8.5 x 13.5 inches. The title continues: "You are hereby required to notify and warn a meeting of the inhabitants .. to assemble .. on the first Monday of November next, for the purpose of voting, by ballot, for one of the following persons, viz. Jonathan Freeman, Esquire, or Peleg Sprague, Esquire .. Given at the Council-chamber in Exeter, this 24th day of September .. one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six." Completed in manuscript, signed in print by Governor Jonathan Taylor Gilman, and in ink by Joseph Pearson, Secretary, and addressed on verso. Not at American Antiquarian Society. OCLC locates no copies. ESTC locates one physical copy at the Univ. of New Hampshire (the second listing is incorrect. NYPL only has a photocopy), Library of Congress has a 1794 Act, but not signed in ink. Bristol B9624. Shipton & Mooney 47846. ESTCW6091. Very good, one marginal tear at seal and a few along the mail folds, light soiling and ink bleed through on verso.

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Book number: 44413

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: , Americana, Colonial & Early America, New Hampshire , Elections, Broadside

Goddard, William G.

An Address, in Commemoration of the Death of William Henry Harrison, President of the United States. Delivered Before the City Council and Citizens of Providence, on the National Fast, May 14, 1841

Providence, Knowles & Vose, 1841. First edition. Paper wrappers. 30 pp. 4to. Sabin 27649. A good copy, wrappers chipped, edge worn, dampstained and soiled throughout.

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Book number: 46133

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: U. S. Presidents, , Americana, U. S. Presidents, Pamphlet

Golomshtok, Eugene A. [Eugenii Alexandrovich]

Archive of Russian émigré Anthropologist, Photographer, Teacher. Over 600 Images & 1000 Card Entries & 45 Artifacts

Eugene Golomshtok (born Eugenii Alexandrovich Golomshtok, Russia, 1897-1950) was a Russian émigré anthropologist, photographer, and authority on permafrost. He studied archaeology with Bruno Adler in Russia before he received his MA from University of California at Berkeley in 1923, where he was also the photographer of Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, studied under Speck at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in the late 1920 where is he received his Ph.D. in 1935. In 1933 he was one of a few young anthropologists who were allowed to travel and study in Leningrad, and was part of a joint team of the University of Pennsylvania and the State Academy for the History of Material Culture, Leningrad excavating Esske-Kermen, one of the 'cave cities' in the Crimea which had been identified with Douros, the old capital of the Goths. He taught courses in the Anthropology and Archaeology of Siberia at Columbia University. Golomshtok's photographs can be found in a number of Museums. In 1938, he published his 1935 dissertation, a highly praised survey 'The Old Stone Age in European Russia' which he hoped would be of interest to the who did not read Russian. At the time of his early death he was engaged in a study of permafrost and at work on the compilation of an Arctic Encyclopedia for naval use (The Encyclopedia Arctica was a proposed 20-volume reference work on the northern arctic and subarctic regions, funded from 1947-1951). The archive relates to the many facets of his career: photographer, teacher, and researcher in anthropology, ethnography, folklore, the Russian and Arctic regions. Contents: I. Glass Slides: 319 glass slides, some original, though most are likely taken from Russian books and publications, concerning Russian anthropology. The collection includes general views of a variety of locations, such as Altai and Afanasievo, as well as a series of regional maps. Additionally, there are many slides depicting regional pottery and other artifacts, burial sites, and Neolithic fishing tools. Slides are divided into groups: one numbered 1-233 (*with 16 missing*); 25 named slides, 31 unlabeled, 33 split into Roman Numeral derived categories, 15 with silvercasing, and 8 duplicates. Three sets of notes on index cards are included. The first provides notes for slides numbered 84-103, and the second references the maps, people, pottery, homes, trees, and roads. The third set is an unlabeled reference. II. Photographs: Seven small black and white images (2 copies of each), primarily of artifacts. III. Film Negatives Over 300 35mm black and white negatives divided between ten packs. The collection contains several original images of landmarks and people, but most of the content is derived from books or exhibits; a number of which are in the slide series. IV. Card Catalogs:: 5 Boxes, 4 containing bibliographies, and the other a Yakut glossary. (1) "Arctic Institute Bibliography Permafrost": Contains over 200 entries, typed & alphabetized, on the topic of permafrost, and its impact on infrastructure, economics, seismology, and surveying. (2) "Arctic Institute Suggestions": Contains more than 300 typed & handwritten entries. Includes notes on paper with additional titles, as well as printed call slips from the New York Public Library, and one from the Library of Congress. (3) Unlabeled: Alphabetized bibliography containing over 200 entries for titles pertaining to regional ethnography and folklore. Includes a Slavic translation card, and unsorted slips. (4) "Arctic Institute Completed Entries" Contains over 100 duplicate entries from the box labeled "Arctic Institute Bibliography Permafrost." (5) "Yakut Glossary": Hundreds of terms and idioms, handwritten, including ceremonial language and geographical details. V. Lecture Notes: Approximately 70 loose large index cards, covering the topics of "Good Spirits of the Earth," Shamanism, the Yakut, and Abasy (Evil Spirits). VI. Manuscript Typed [Incomplete]: Contains pp. 24-39 with Appendix to III (pp. 17-33). "Story of the Shamanistic Call" (as told by Spiridon Gerassimov, a shaman of Mastax Ulus). The appendix includes five separate Shamanstic tales, with the last one being told by V.N. Alexander of the Sunar Ulus. VII. Artifacts: (1) 14 [porcelain or glass?] beads mounted on a cloth-covered board. (2) 6 pieces of fasteners and clasps, mounted to cloth-covered board. (3) 25 loose pieces consisting of rivets (4 are matching), buttons, and other incomplete components, many ornamental. Includes one rounded piece that feels like granite, and one heavier piece with a sculpted ram head. VIII. Publications 1. Golomshtok, Eugenii, Alexandrovich. "The Old Stone Age in European Russia." A Dissertation in Anthropology presented to the faculty of the Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. [University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1938]. Loss to spine, moderate soiling to wrappers, dampstained (DS) & browned contents. 2. Griaznov, M.P. & Golomshtok, Eugene A. "The Pazirik Burial of Altai" [Reprinted from the "American Journal of Archaeology" (Volume XXXVII, 1933, No. 1)]. 7 copies, light to moderate soiling, most DS, one front wrapper removed. IX. Miscellaneous Ephemera 1. Course Schedule. Columbia University in the City of New York. University Extension Department of Anthropology. "Afternoon and Evening Courses in Anthropology For Graduate and Undergraduate Credit, 1938-1939." Minor soiling along folds. Lists courses taught by Golomshtok. 2. Admission Tickets to lectures at the University Museum, Philadelphia Pa. Including Vilhajalmur Stefansson, Kirsopp Lake. X. Books, Periodicals, Offprints Approximately 75 items, most in good condition. many fair to poor with dampstaining at edges, browned, a few completely disbound. (1) English: 26 titles of which 5 are books concerning the Western U.S. including: James Owen Dorsey. "The Cegiha Language" The remainder are offprints. (2) French: 8 periodicals and offprints. (3) Russian: 1 book and 40 periodicals and offprints including: Sbornik state v chest grafini Praskov i Sergeevny Uvarovo (Collection of Articles in honor of Countess P.S. Uvarova ) Moscow, 1916 and two issues of "Taiga i Tundra" (Forests and Swamp Lands [of North Siberia]). (4) Polish: 1 periodical. Adventures in Photography, p. 13. Biographical Directory of Anthropologists before 1920: 1290. University of Pennsylvania: Penn Museum Archives Item #1059. Most items very good but see details for thorough description of condition.

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Book number: 45542

Catalogue: Asia

Keywords: , Science & Medicine, Asia, Central Asia, Anthropology Columbia University Russian Siberia Yakuts Permafrost Arctic, Archive Science & Medicine