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        "Bagdchi-Sarai, Vue prise vis a-vis du Palais du Khan". Gesamtansicht. Blick von oben auf den Palast des Tataren-Khans und die ehemalige Hauptstadt der Krim, vorne Staffage.

      . Lithographie mit Tonplatte nach F. Gross bei A. Braun, Odessa, um 1850, 23 x 35 cm.. Die Inschrift in Russisch und Deutsch. - Alt aufgezogen.

      [Bookseller: Peter Bierl Buch- & Kunstantiquariat]
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        HANNOVER. "Hannover mit Umgebungen". Gesamtansicht vom Lindner Berg (20,5 x 28,5 cm), umgeben von 20 kleineren (je ca. 4,5 x 7 cm) Teilansichten.

      - Altkol. Lithographie von Gustav Frank bei Rocca, um 1850, 32,5 x 46 cm. Die hübschen Randansichten zeigen u.a. Aegidienkirche, Königl. Palais, Schloss, Montbrillant, Bad Limmer, verschiedene Kirchen, Landschaftshaus, Schützenhaus, Schloss Herrenhausen. - Im Ganzen leicht gebräunt, kleinere restaurierte Randeinrisse. Sehr dekoratives Altkolorit. Gerahmt.

      [Bookseller: Peter Bierl Buch- & Kunstantiquariat]
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        HAMBURG. "Hamburg". Ansicht des Hafens (26 x 48 cm) mit zahlreichen Schiffen, umgeben von 20 Teilansichten.

      - Altkol. Stahlstich bei M. Stettenheim, um 1850, 38 x 63 cm. Prächtiges Souvenirblatt mit interessanten Teilansichten: Altona, Eppendorf, Uhlenhorst, Ansicht von der Außenalster, Bahnhof in Altona, Jacobikirche, Dammtor, Reesendamm Brücke, Alster Pavillon, Jungfernstieg, Schleusenbrücke, Millerntor, Michaeliskirche u.a. - Randeinriss unten und seitlich sorgfältig geschlossen. Feines Altkolorit. In ältere Mahagonileiste gerahmt.

      [Bookseller: Peter Bierl Buch- & Kunstantiquariat]
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        BAD TÖLZ. "Tölz". Gesamtansicht vom Kalvarienberg aus mit weitem Blick ins Isartal und auf die Berge, im Vordergrund ein Kuhhirte.

      - Altkol. Lithographie von C.L. Schmitt bei F.M. Kyrein, Tölz, um 1850, 18,5 x 28 cm. Nicht bei Lentner. - Dekorative Ansicht in schönem Altkolorit und guter Erhaltung.

      [Bookseller: Peter Bierl Buch- & Kunstantiquariat]
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        Cruchley's New Plan of London Shewing all the New and Intended Improvements to the Present Time. A New Edition Improved to Jan.y 1st 1850.

      1850 - London, 1850. Original colour. Dissected and laid on linen as issued, total 435 x 630mm. A detailed map of London, extending to Hyde Park in the west, clockwise to Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, Regent's Park, Islington, Bethnal Green, Rotherhithe, Kennington, Chelsea and Brompton. A grid and an extensive key around three sides of the plan give a key to the streets. Waterloo Station is marked, having opened two years before; so is the Bricklayers' Arms branch of the South Eastern Railway, with the Bricklayers' Arms Station, a goods depot, built 1842-3. HOWGEGO: 307, this state not listed.

      [Bookseller: Altea Antique Maps]
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        Œuvres de Lamartine

      Paris: Pagnerre|, Furne, Jouvet et Cie|& L. Hachette et Cie, 1850. Fine. Pagnerre , Furne, Jouvet et Cie & L. Hachette et Cie, Paris 1866-1879, 20 vol. in-8 (15x23,3cm), relié. - Edition of the complete works of Lamartine, partly original. Rebound in half green tree shagreen, back on 5 bands highlighted with gold threads and cold, sprinkled edges. boards volume Jocelyn rubbed a hole in the marginal Volume 6 Correspondence without interference with text, engraving loose in the first volume of the History of the Girondins, a few scattered spots. The set is of confidences and new confidences (1 vol.), Jocelyn (1 vol.), Histoire des Girondins (4 vol.), Unpublished Memoirs 1790-1815 (1 vol.) Unpublished Poems (1 vol. ) Correspondence (6 vols.), first and new poetic meditations (1 vol.), Journey to the East (2 vols.) Manuscript of my mother (1 vol.), poetic and religious harmonies, poetic meditations, various poems (1 vol.), The Fall of an Angel (1 flight). Unpublished memoirs, unpublished Poems and Matches are posthumous editions. The set contains 60 prints out text. Very nice copy of the Complete Works of Lamartine in contemporary binding. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information! - [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Edition des oeuvres complètes de Lamartine, en partie originale.  Reliure demi chagrin vert sapin, dos à 5 nerfs soulignés de filets dorés et à froid, tranches mouchetées. Les plats du volume de Jocelyn sont frottés, un trou marginal dans le tome 6 des Correspondances sans atteinte au texte, un gravure détachée dans le premier tome de l'Histoire des Girondins, quelques rousseurs éparses.  L'ensemble se constitue des Confidences et les nouvelles confidences (1 vol.), Jocelyn (1 vol.), Histoire des Girondins (4 vol.), Mémoires inédits 1790-1815 (1 vol.), Poésies inédites (1 vol.), Correspondance (6 vol.), Premières et nouvelles Méditations poétiques (1 vol.), Voyage en Orient (2 vol.),  Le Manuscrit de ma mère (1 vol.), Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, recueillements poétiques, poésies diverses (1 vol.),  La Chute d'un ange (1 vol). Les Mémoires inédits, les Poésies inédites et les Correspondances sont des éditions originales posthumes. L'ensemble contient 60 gravures hors texte. Tres bel exemplaire des Oeuvres complètes de Lamartine en reliure d'époque. 

      [Bookseller: Librairie Le Feu Follet]
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        GA aus der Vogelschau, "Hamburg. Aus der Vogel Perspective".

      - kol. Stahlstich v. Gray n. Gottheil b. Berendsohn, um 1850, 41 x 67 Selten! Wohl eine der dekorativsten Vogelschauansichten von Hamburg. Blick von Norden auf Hamburg. Im Hintergrund die Elbe, im Vordergrund die Außenalster.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Nikolaus Struck]
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        HISTORIA DEL TOREO Y DE LAS PRINCIPALES GANADERIAS DE ESPAÑA.

      ANSELMO STA. COLOMA Y COMPAÑIA, MADRID 1850 - 380 pp, 26,5x18,5, encuadernación en pasta española en piel, pequeña falta en la contraportada, el lomo con tejuelo con título, en muy buen estado el exterior, y el interior la litografía de la página 92 pegada pequeña parte a la hoja posterior y el resto muy bien, cantos rozados, primera edición, error de origen en la paginación de la página 241 a la 256. Obra profusamente ilustrada con 24 preciosas litografías coloreadas a mano, fuera del texto en buen papel (11 de Suertes y 13 de Toreros). Con numerosos grabados en capitulares, cabeceras y viñetas, por Miranda, Urrabieta y Vierge. Toros. Tauromaquia. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: EL ACCIPIES]
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        CARTA TOPOGRAFICA DELLA PROVINCIA DI PAVIA A Sua Eccellenza il Conte di Hartig, Governatore della Lombardia...

      1850 ca.. Rara e bellissima carta topografica, telata in b.n. e coi confini colorati a mano (cm. 64,6 x 77,6), relativa alla provincia di Pavia; nell?'angolo inferiore sinistro è riportata la ?"pianta della R. Città di Pavia nel rapporto di 1 a 10.000 m.?" E?' contenuta in un astuccio coevo (cm. 22 x 16,3). Molto ben conservata.

      [Bookseller: Libreria Malavasi sas]
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        L.A.S., Ste Pélagie 2 octobre 1851, à un «cher et ancien collègue».

      - 3 pages et demie in-8 à en-tête du journal Le Peuple de 1850. Proudhon a été transféré de la Conciergerie à Sainte-Pélagie, près de sa famille; c&#146;est «comme si j&#146;étais aux arrêts dans ma chambre»; il peut voir sa femme de sa fenêtre et lui parler. Mais on ne lui permet plus les trois jours de sortie par mois. «J&#146;ai répondu que je me considérais comme prisonnier de guerre, non comme coupable mis en pénitence; que je sortais sur parole, c&#146;est-à-dire sous la condition de rentrer à l&#146;heure dite, et de ne me mêler en rien à la politique [.] et que je n&#146;entendais subir aucune prescription qui pût changer le caractère de la détention politique, telle que je la conçois et la comprends». Mais, au ministère, «on veut absolument que je sois un criminel, et que je me tienne pour tel. Si on use de modération envers ma personne, [.] c&#146;est qu&#146;on espère obtenir ma conversion. Prisonnier de guerre ! Cela sonne mal aux oreilles du Gouvernement, qui, comme l&#146;Église, se croit infaillible, et hors de lui, ne voit qu&#146;erreur et délit». - Proudhon est «double père de famille [.] avec la plénitude de l&#146;existence, il me semble que j&#146;ai acquis une plénitude de volonté, de force, et d&#146;idée, que nul célibataire n&#146;obtiendra jamais. [.] ce qui a fait la force incomparable du Peuple Romain, pendant 6 siècles, c&#146;est que ces gens-là, soldats, consuls, sénateurs, etc., étaient tous pères de famille; [.] nous n&#146;avons plus ce caractère. On se marie par intérêt, ou par amour; on se marie pour être riche, ou pour nager dans la volupté. Double erreur, double insulte au mariage». II faut des femmes «simples, matrones, laborieuses, sévères, retirées, modestes, et soumises [.] Il n&#146;y a plus de pères de famille en France: et je vois approcher le jour où la France ne sera plus une nation.» Proudhon souhaiterait voir son ami, malgré leur différence complète de convictions. Le système qu&#146;élabore Proudhon sur la nature et la société ne lui est «pas encore apparu dans son intégralité», mais c&#146;est pour lui une certitude. «si mainte fois le spectacle d&#146;un chrétien honnête homme et père de famille m&#146;a rendu respectable une foi qui n&#146;est pas la mienne, j&#146;ai l&#146;ambition à mon tour de rendre respectable, par ma vie privée, les opinions que je professe» [Attributes: Soft Cover]

      [Bookseller: Kotte Autographs GmbH]
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        George Pickett pays for his sword and first officers uniform purchased at the outbreak of the Mexican War

      [Boston], November 14, 1850. 7.25" x 10". "Autograph Endorsement Signed, ""Receipt in full from Earl Jr & Co pr Attorney GE Pickett,"" accomplished on the docket of a manuscript Document Signed, ""Charles D. Solding[?] Agent for Earle & Co.,"" 1 page, 7.25"" x 10"", Washington, November 14, 1850, being an account documenting clothing purchases by Pickett from clothiers John Earle Jr. & Co. of Boston between May 1844 and August 1846. Light soiling along mailing creases on verso, else fine condition.A historic document, chronicling Pickett's clothing purchases, mostly made at the time of his graduation from West Point in June 1846. His purchases included (on May 30, 1846): ""1 Bl[ac]k dress coat 25 - 1 Unif[orm] frock 25... 1 tweed sock 8 - 1 p[ai]r bl[ac]k p[an]ts 9.50 ... 1 pr fancy doe[?] pts 8.50 - 1 fancy vest 5... 1 Blk satin vest 5 - 6 shirts 15... 3 prs white dl. pts. 13.50 6 Byron Collars 2 ... 6 camb[rick] h[an]d k[erchi]fs - 1 Sock[?] 8-"" On June 4, Pickett ordered ""1 pr silk gloves 1 1 pr suspenders 1.25..."" After his graduation, Pickett travelled to Richmond, Virginia on furlough awaiting orders which did not arrive until late July 1846 when he was assigned to the 8th Infantry, then in Matamoras, Mexico. On August 21, 1846, Pickett ordered the final touches to his first uniform as a commissioned officer in the United States Army: ""1 und. frock 25- Sword 18, Sash 18""Pickett reported to his regiment on November 9, 1846, two months later than scheduled, and much to the annoyance of his commanding officer, Colonel J.D. Clark. Although in his explanation, Pickett blamed a series of travel mishaps, low water levels, and other obstacles, part of the explanation may have been that he was still awaiting the delivery of his sword which he had only ordered in late August. (Gordon, General George e. Pickett in Life and Legend, 2002, 18-19; Pickett to J. D. Clark, November 9, 1846, Letters Received, Adjutant General's Office, RG 94, National Archives) It appears by the account that the sword did not arrive right away as he was credited on the account for several articles including ""1 sword - not sent."" In addition to his graduation purchases, Pickett had obtained clothing from the same Boston clothiers in May of 1844, which included ""1 Uniform frock."" As to his payment, it was less punctual than his ability to report to duty on time. At the start of the Mexican War, Pickett's balance with the Boston clothier was over $200, an amount he did not entirely satisfy until November 14, 1850. (His tardiness in accounts cost him an additional $40 in interest.)The United States had declared war on Mexico just before Pickett's graduation, and the army was in great need of fresh officers to fill out the ranks. Despite his tardiness in reporting for duty, Pickett gained early fame by carrying the colors over the parapet during the Battle of Chapultepec?"a flag handed to him by his comrade, Lt. James Longstreet, who had been wounded at the base of the wall. "

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        Magic Lantern Slide of a missionary preaching to a gathering of indigenous people

      1850. A hand-painted magic lantern slide depicting a missionary proselytizing to a group of indigenous people, most likely Maori, gathered around a camp fire. The slide is similar to hand-painted glass slides depicting New Zealand Maori made by W.E. & F. Newton in London in the 1850s. The finely rendered scene shows the Maori, some wearing cloaks and fiber rain capes, their faces illuminated by the glow of the fire, as they listen to the missionary read from a book. The missionary is in the Western dress of the early 1800s and stands before a canvas tent. In the background, the moon shines over a lush landscape of hills and a lake or river. Paint flaking in two small areas, otherwise fine in original wooden frame. (Image measures 2 7/8 inches in diameter [74mm]; wooden frame measures 4 by 6 1/2 inches [100x165mm]).

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        Schalksnarr u. Magd d. 16. Jahrh. Dame aus Genua 16. J. Dame aus Pisa" originale Bleistiftzeichnung auf Zeichenpapier ca. 21x33cm; unterhalb der Darstellung handschriftlich betitelt; oben in Bleistift "Signora da Genova Signora da Pisa" um 1850

      - Das interessante Blatt etwas quetsch- und knitterfaltig.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Niederbayern]
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        Jewish Oath]

      Berdichev 1850 - Jewish Oath. Prsyaznie List. Juryman's Oath. Dukhovnoye Uveshchaniye. Religious Admonition. Administered at the court of Berdichev, October 9, 1850. Folio, printed, folded to form 4 sides, second side without printing but with Cyrillic and Hebrew manuscript. Written in two columns, left in Russian and right in Yiddih in Cyrillic characters, with appended manuscript additions; some slight stains, repairs to border ot affecting text. Since the Middle Ages, Jews in Christian countries, when appearing in civil courts, were required to pronounce oaths on testimony under the most humiliating conditions and were required to appear in court with a rabbi, who addressed the defendant or witness with specially required formal admonitions. The practice continued in many countries until the Emancipation. The oath was administered by Rabbi Liberzon, of Berdichev, in the presence of Public Authority. The rabbi's signature appears here, in Hebrew, as do those of Melech Plicherk, Yechiel Tartakovsky, Leib Grinberg, Yitzko Falchikis, Gerhko Ziskind, Moshko Kagan etc.

      [Bookseller: Meir Turner]
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        The Royal Dictionary-Cyclopedia for Universal Reference Being a complete Literary, Classical, Historical, Biographical, Geographical, Scientific, and Technological Expositor of the English Language And embodying, , the Signification of all Terms in Ordinary Use, with the Derivation of each Word, and its Pronunciation

      The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, n.d. (c.1850)., 1850. 5 volumes; 4to. A superb set in contemporary dark blue half calf with red title label, gilt titles and extra gilt to spines, blue cloth boards, marbled end papers and edges. Illustrated with Portraits, Maps, and descriptive Engravings.

      [Bookseller: Adrian Harrington Rare Books]
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        KOPENHAGEN. Blick vom Hof des Studentenwohnheims Regensen auf den sog. "Runden Turm" (=Rundetaarn), mit Observatorium auf dem Dach und dem Bilderrätsel mit "1642" als Aufschrift, vorne eine alte Linde und Studenten als Staffage. In einer ornmentalen Umrahmung mit fünf Porträtmedaillons, dazu sieben Vignetten mit Interieurs vom Runden Turm bzw. dem Regensen (Studierzimmer, Clubräume etc.).

      - Lithographie, um 1850, 30,5 x 38,5 cm (Ansicht) bzw. 42 x 49 cm (Einfassungslinie). Wahrzeichen Kopenhagens. Der Runde Turm, 1637 bis 1642 von König Christian IV. für die Universität erbaut, ist das älteste erhaltene Observatorium Europas. Von der dahinter liegenden Trinitatis- bzw. Universitätskirche, deren Dachboden die Universitätsbibliothek beherbergte, sieht man links das Türmchen. Das Regensen (Collegium Domus Regia), die ehemalige Universitätskirche, ist seit dem hier zu sehenden Neubau von 1730 bis heute das wohl berühmteste Studentenwohnheim Dänemarks. Die alte Linde rechts, gepflanzt vom Rektor am 12. Mai 1785, wird bis heute von den Studenten jährlich mit einem Fest geehrt. Dann stürmen sie den Rundetaarn über den spiralenförmigen Aufgang als Zeichen ihrer Inbesitznahme. Das bekrönte Porträt oben mittig stellt König Christian IV. dar, die anderen Porträts zeigen vermutlich die Astronomen Thomas Brugge (1777-1815), Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780-1850) u.a. - Geglättete Querfalte, ein paar hinterlegte Randeinrisse, ein geschlossenes Wurmlöchlein im Baum. Sehr selten!

      [Bookseller: Peter Bierl Buch- & Kunstantiquariat]
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        The British Colonies Their History, Extent, Condition, and Resources

      The London Printing and Publishing Company, London and New York 1850 - Volumes, 1 to 4, of 6. Books measure 11 x 7 3/4 inches. Collation, xxiv,744pp, [2],384,[2],188pp, 18 full page portraits, 29 double page maps. Volume 1. British North America. Volume 2. Australia. Volume 3. New Zealand, Tasmania. Volume 4. Africa, West Indies. Map 1. World Western. 2. British America. 3. North America. 4. Canada. 5. Canada, New Brunswick. 6. Nova Scotia. 7. Australia. 8. Eastern Hemisphere. 9. New South Wales. 10. Victoria, Port Philip. 11. South Australia. 12 Western Australia. 13 Polynesia. 14. Van Dieman's Island. 15. New Zealand. 16. The World. 17. Falkland Island's. 18. West India Island's. 19. Jamacia. 20. Africa. 21. Jamacia. 22. Cape Colony. 23. Natal, Kaffraria. 24. Western Africa. 25. South America. 26. Central America. 27. British Guayana. 28. Isthmus of Panama. 29. Island's in the Atlantic. Bound in original publishers half calf, calf corners, cloth baords, raised bands, gilt tooling, full marble edges, marble endpapers. Calf rubbed, scuffed on edges and corners. Bindings in good clean firm condition. Internally, some occasional staining to portraits, maps in very good clean condition. A very nice work, maps in very good clean condition. Size: Large 8vo [Attributes: First Edition]

      [Bookseller: George Jeffery Books]
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        The Scarlet Letter

      Ticknor and Fields 1850 - Second Edition. Metcalf & Company imprint at bottom of copyright page, two page author preface, "The Custom-House - Introductory" present, but lacking the first page of adverts, therefore rendered undated but still identifiable as a second edition. In Very Good condition, with wear commensurate with age. Cloth shows a few spots to the front board, light mottling with age. Chipping to cloth at spine ends. Gilt stamping to spine is pleasantly bright. Front hinge appears repaired. Previous owner name on front end paper. Prelims show light staining. Pages show light occasional foxing, but are surprisingly bright. A lovely, unrestored copy. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Burnside Rare Books]
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        Meyer's Volksbibliothek für Länder-, Völker- und Naturkunde.

      Hildburghausen, Druck des Bibliographischen Instituts (um 1850).. Bände 1 - 102 ohne Bände 83/84 (in 50 Büchern) 12°. Rd. 22.000 S. mit zahlr. Textabb., 85 Tafeln, 15 Portr., 25 meist gefalt. und handkolor. Karten, 3 Stadtpläne. Original-Halbleder mit goldgepr. Rückentitel. (Einbände unterschiedlich aber gut im Zustand, unterschiedlich stockfl., insgesamt schöne Exemplare). Auflage:0. Eine wunderbare Sammlung über alles Wissenswerte unserer Erde, Reise, Geographie, Astronomie, Geologie, Topographie, Völkerkunde und vieles mehr.

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        Hoaching Canton Pith painting album with 16 dramatic paintings

      Canton:. Ca. 1850.. Vivid and detailed collection of pith paper paintings produced for the export market some time between 1840 and 1860, and sold by Hoaching, a premier silversmith business in Canton, that also produced masterful ivory carving, and apparently also marketed albums such as this. The first four paintings are of birds, each a grouping of two or four different species, meticulously painted with vibrant colors, along with flower shrubs, flowers and surroundings. The following 12 pictures represent life along the Canton River with buildings, boats and people depicted in each. The depiction of many, low elevation islands and the pagoda suggest that some images are of Whampoa; a couple of the images depict steep hillsides with habitations at the foot, suggestive of Hong Kong. Numerous images have people performing what appears to be tai chi; worshipping at a shrine, etc. Hoaching was a premier silversmith concern in Canton that also produced exquisitely carved ivory. He was a prolific craftsman, and his shop was considered on of the most expensive in Canton. (Gray, John Henry. Walks in the Streets of Canton. Victoria, Hong Kong, 1875, p. 292). An album such as this must have been one of the lesser priced momentos in their shop, albeit a very accomplished one. Pith comes from a spongy tree native to the south west of China and its use in paintings started around Canton in the 1820's and had its heyday in the 1830's through 1840's. Photography caused the ultimate demise of the industry. Album size is 15 x 10 inches with an image size 14 x 9 inches. As is usual with these images, none have been signed but the last page bears the ink stamp of "Hoaching Canton" printed in red ink. Unlike many of the other albums that we have handled, these images are full page with beautiful background detail. [It is more common in lesser albums for a single central figure to be performing a task without any background detail.] The paintings are tipped onto the paper page with a woven brocade silk band. Most pictures have small cracks at the margin, usually at the corners, with a few longer cracks, usually in margins. Some of the silk bands are loose, and there is a light watermark in the top of many images. The overall effect of the images is one of bright, vibrant colors with minor faults. One page is loose in the album. The card covers are covered with an aqua silk; the front cover is hand-painted with a garland of flowers, mushrooms and butterflies, with birds and flowers in the center. The front cover is detached, the silk is loose and water marked but the cover image remains attractive. The binding is quite battered.

      [Bookseller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints]
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        Gesamtans., "Saarbrücken von der Nord Seite".

      - Lithographie v. Müller n. Richard b. Simon in Straßburg, um 1850, 28 x 41,5 Seltenes Blatt.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Nikolaus Struck]
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        Souvenirblatt, mit einem Mittelbild und 10 Randansichten, "Erinnerung an Bamberg zum Vortheil der Stadtarmen".

      - Lithographie v. Zinck, E. in Offenbach n. Carl Baron Buseck, dat. 1850, 32 x 43,5 Seltenes Blatt! Das Mittelbild zeigt Bamberg von Nord Ost. Die Randansichten zeigen Rathausbrücke, Markt, Maximiliansplatz, Kranich, Dom, Kettenbrücke, Buch, Altenburg, Theresienhain und die Frauenkirche.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariat Nikolaus Struck]
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        Catálogo de los Cuadros del Real Museo de Pintura y Escultura de Su Magestad, redactado con arreglo a las indicaciones del Director actual de éste Real Establecimiento Don Pedro Madrazo

      Madrid, Imprenta de Don José María Alonso, Salón del Prado, número 8, 1850. 4to.menor; 2 hs., X pp., 442 pp., 1 h. Encuadernación en media piel, de la época, con lomera gofrada.

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        Ausführlicher Bericht über die Verhandlungen der Assisen der Provinz Starkenburg zu Darmstadt in Anklagesachen gegen Johannes Stauff wegen Ermordung der Gräfin von Görlitz, Raubs, Brandstiftung, Diebstahls und Versuchs der Vergiftung des Grafen v. Görlitz, sowie gegen Heinrich und Jakob Stauff wegen Begünstigung der vorgenannten vier ersten Verbrechen. Nebst dem Anklageact, den Actenstücken über den objectiven Thatbestand, dem Gutachten der Experten und den gerichtlichen Erkenntnissen. Nach stenographischen Aufzeichnungen verfaßt u. zusammengestellt von mehreren Juristen, welche den Verhandlungen beigewohnt haben.

      Darmstadt Carl Wilhelm Leske 1850 - Ungebundenes Exemplar mit losem Broschur-Umschlag, Umschlag lichtrandig und mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren, Seiten etwas stockfleckig. 648 Seiten in 41 Lagen; 124 Seiten in 8 Lagen, (3 S.); Beiliegend 2 mehrfach gefaltete Lithographien. Die erste Lithographie zeigt die Angeklagten Johann Stauff, Heinrich Stauff und Jacob Stauff sowie die Gerichtsanordnung. Die zweite Lithographie, unterteilt in 4 Tafeln, zeigt die Lage und Innenansichten des Wohnhauses der Gräfin von Görlitz in der Neckarstraße zu Darmstadt, 8°. "Am 13. Juni 1847, Nachts gegen halb elf Uhr, ist die Gräfin von Görlitz in ihrer Wohnung zu Darmstadt, nachdem man sie längere Zeit vermißt und vergebens Versuche gemacht hatte, in ihre verschlossenen Zimmer zu gelangen, und nachdem sich auch Anzeichen eines Brandes in denselben ergeben hatten, in Folge dessen die Thüren mit Gewalt eingesprengt worden waren, vor ihrem brennenden Schreibsecretäre todt an der Erde liegend und an den oberen Theilen ihres Körpers vom Kopfe abwärts bis unter die Herzgrube gräßlich verbrannt gefunden worden" (Aus der Einleitung). Der Bericht erhält seine Besonderheit durch die nach damaligen wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen akribisch durchgeführten kriminalistischen Untersuchungen des Falles durch Medizinaldirektor Dr. Graff, Hofgerichtsrat Hoffmann, Stabsarzt Dr. Siebold, Prod. Dr. Bischoff, Dr. Büchner, Dr. Hohenschild, Dr. Justus von Liebig, Dr. Leydhecker, Merck und Dr. Rieger. 0 gr. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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        Nuevas Cartas de William Cobbett a los Ministros de la Iglesia de Inglaterra e Irlanda, ó sea, Continuación de la Historia de la Reforma. Traducción de Nicolás de Castro Palomino

      Barcelona, Imprenta de los Herederos de la Viuda Plá, 1850. 12vo.; 432 pp. Encuadernación en piel marbreada, de la época. Tras la obra de Cobbett y ocupando la mitad del volúmen se halla la traducción de la Disertación leída en Roma en 1830 por el Cardenal Wiseman que recoge interesantes datos sobre las Misiones en la India e Islas del Pacífico. Dicha traducción fue abruptamente titulada por los hispánicos editores como «Esterilidad de las Misiones Protestantes para la conversión de Infieles».

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        Autograph letter signed to Mr. Lloyd(?)

      1850 - Lyell, Charles (1797-1875). Autograph letter signed to Mr. Lloyd [i.e., F. Lloyds(?)]. 2pp. on one sheet. N.p., n.d. [1850 or after]. 180 x 111 mm. Margins of letter trimmed with small piece cut from upper corner (not affecting text), light soiling, but very good. In the 1850s Lyell, who had become famous for his groundbreaking Principles of Geology (1830-32), gave several lectures on geology at the Royal Institution. In the letter we are offering, Lyell writes about his need for a scene-painter to illustrate one of his lectures: "Mr. Gordon of the Princesses Theatre was recommended to me by Mr. Kean when I wanted a drawing done on a large scale in scene-painting style for a lecture which I gave at the Royal Institution. He executed the task very well & expeditiously. "I called at the Princesses Theatre this morning & found that Mr. Gordon is gone to Birmingham for a month&#151;whereas I require some one&#146;s assistance without delay. It is not a laborious undertaking & I write to know whether you have any time at your disposal & whether if so you could do me the favour of calling here tomorrow or Monday . . ." Lyell here refers to the Shakespearean actor Charles Kean (1811-68), who had taken over the management of the Princess&#146;s Theatre in 1850. W. Gordon and F. Lloyds are both listed as scene-painters in Kean&#146;s 1857 edition of The Tempest; it is likely that Lyell was writing to the latter, but erroneously remembered his name as "Lloyd." Lyell, Life, Letters and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., vol. 2 (1881), p. 152. [Attributes: Signed Copy]

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        Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: From the Restoration of King Charles The II to the Treaty of Peace at Utrecht, in the Reign of Queen Anne (2 Vols.)

      William S. Orr and Co., London 1850 - "A New Edition, with Historical and Biographical Notes, and Embellished with Fifty-One Portraits". 1850, complete in 2 volumes. Beautifully-bound in a contemporary-to-the-period full light-brown calf. Gilt double-ruled panels, lavishly gilt-decorated compartments, raised bands. Both volumes bright and clean and VG+. Minor offsetting to the top of the back panel of Vol. 1, otherwise very well-preserved. Both Vols. solid and tightly-bound and, internally, very clean, with no foxing to speak of. Thick quartos, 949 pgs. all told, all edges bright gilt. Small, neat former owner signature to front pastedown of Vol. 1. 51 handsome, full-page engravings thruout. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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        Promotional broadside for the "Royal Chinese Junk" on display at Temple Bar Pier, London

      London, 1850. The sheet is creased and a little rubbed, yet very good condition indeed for an ephemeral item of this nature.. Broadside measuring 220 x 140mm., printed upon both faces, woodblock illustration. Intriguing ephemeral promotion for the first junk to be sailed from China to England: the Keying sailed from Hong Kong during December 1846 and arrived in England in March 1848, following an arduous voyage of 477 days. Eighty-five feet in length and manned by a Chinese crew under the command of one Captain Kellet, the junk caused a sensation upon her arrival. By nature a seafaring people, the British were fascinated by this exotic vessel that had proven her worth during the long open ocean voyage. Indeed, some years after the public sensation had abated, the Keying was dismantled in an English shipyard for research purposes.This broadside spruiks the junk as 'The Greatest Novelty in Europe' and features a detailed woodblock illustration of the Keying (the public were welcomed aboard at the price of one shilling per head). Superlative praise from The Times is quoted on the broadside as follows: "There is not a more interesting Exhibition in the vicinity of London, one step across the entrance and you are in the Chinese world - you have quitted the Thames for the vicinity of Canton".The broadside is not dated yet a contemporary manuscript notation reads 'June 1850'.

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        Jesu-Cristoc bere elizari utzi ciozcan, zaspi sacramentuen gañean eracusaldiac - Jaungoicoaren legueco amar aguinteen gañean Eracusaldiac - Jesu-Cristo, eta virgiña chit santaren misterioen, eta feste cembait gaucen gañean eracusaldiac Don . Asteasuco erretore, eta guipuzcoaco arciprestazco nagusian Diputadu Generalac, Cristau aciai meza nagusietan eguiñac.

      1850. . 1850 - Andrés de Gorozabel. Tolosa. . 3 Vol. . Vol.I (630 pp.) Vol.II (524 pp.) Vol.III (658 + 9H). Cuarto Menor. Plena Piel de época. Idiomas (Euskera), Religión / Teología / Ética / Monasterios /Ordenes Religiosas (General), Siglo XIX , Vasco-Navarro (Autores vascos) . Juan Bautista Aguirre fue un vascófilo distinguido, orador elocuente y fervoroso, catequista de los más populares que ha habido en tierra euskara, hombre de consejo á quien acudían en busca de luz y guía los que se encontraban en los casos arduos de la vida. Nació el 2 de Noviembre de 1742. Dejó escritas en vascuence varias obras, que son muy estimadas y por las que ha merecido de algunos escritores el sobre nombre de "Crisóstomo vasco ó el sagrado Demóstenes" a principios del siglo XX. La presente obra, en tres tomos, fueron impresos por suscripción en 1850 y precedidos de una «Carta á un amigo», fechada en agosto de 1808, que se supone sea el P. Moguel, con quien le unía una gran amistad. Buen ejemplar con sus márgenes originales y encuadernación en plena piel de época. .

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        Zwölf Ansichten vom Starnberger See.

      . 12 kolorierte Stahlstiche auf einem Blatt aus dem Verlag von Max Ravizza, München, um 1850, je ca. 4 x 7 cm, gesamt ca. 21 x 24 cm.. Die Ansichten zeigen Starnberg, Berg, Leoni, Allmannshausen, Ammerland, Ambach, Seeshaupt, Bernried, Tutzing, Garatshausen, Possenhofen und die Roseninsel. - Für ein Leporello-Album bestimmter unzerschnittener Bogen in hübschen Kolorit und tadelloser Erhaltung. In einem Passepartout mit 12 kleinen Ausschnitten. Gerahmt

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        Soest., Lithographie.

      Soest: Verlag der Nasseschen Buchhandlung, um 1850. - Westfalia Picta IV, 366 - Sammelbild mit querformatigem Mittelbild und vier Eckmedaillons, dazu oben zwei kleine Einzelbilder, unten ein weiteres Einzelbild. Das Hauptbild zeigt die Ansicht von Südosten, der Wall ist mit Pappeln bestanden. Im Vordergrund Wiesen und Heuernte. Die Einzelansichten zeigen: St. Pauli-Kirche, Osthofen Thor, Schule am Seminar, St. Patrocli-Kirche, Rathhaus, St. Petri-Kirche, das Ganze mit dekorativer neugotischer Ranken-Umrahmung. - Das empfindliche Blatt vergilbt, mit einigen kl. Wasserrändern, einigen Knicken u. einem größeren Riß im unteren Drittel (fachgerecht restauriert). Neu gerahmt im ursprünglichen alten Rahmen aus schwarzem Holz mit silberner Zierleiste. Rahmen recht lädiert mit einigen schadhaften Stellen, unten links eine 10 x 0,5 cm große Fehlstelle. Dennoch attraktives Blatt, selten. H/W - Please ask for detailed information in English / Demandez des détails en francais s.v.p. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 3000 Blattgröße ca. 38 x 55 cm; ca. 32 x 51 cm, gerahmt.

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        Aussee

      . Aussee in Steyermark. Tonlithographie v. Schrödl aus Paterno "Große Serie der Ansichten und Landschaften aus Österreich" Wien um 1850, 32 x 43,5 cm - wir garantieren für die Echtheit. Vgl. Nebehay-W. 476 / 9.- Sehr selten.

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        2 eigenh. Briefe mit U.

      Berlin, 7. XI. und 25. XII. 1850. - Zusammen (2+1½ =) 2½ SS. auf 4 (= 2 Doppel)Blatt. Jeweils mit eh. Adresse. Familienbriefe von Friedrich Engels' jüngerem Bruder Emil (Friedrich war das älteste von 9 Kindern) an die Mutter Elise Engels geb. van Haar in Barmen. - Emil Engels, der wie sein acht Jahre älterer Bruder für den Eintritt in das väterliche Textilgeschäft vorgesehen war, durchlief eine ähnliche kaufmännische Ausbildung und diente, wie Friedrich Engels 1841/42, als Einjährig-Freiwilliger in Berlin. I) "[.] Ihr werdet wol gehört haben daß die ganze preuß. Armee mobil gemacht wird; uns trifft das natürlich mit [.] Ich bin auf Alles gefaßt u. guten Muthes dabei [.] Der junge Borsig ist auch in meiner Compagnie, mit ihm war ich auch oft zusammen [.] Ich hoffe wir werden bald avanciren, u. es dann etwas besser haben. Sei aber nur nicht ängstlich um mich, wenn ich merke, daß mir die Sache zu sauer wird, melde ich mich gleich krank, u. lasse es die andern allein besorgen; ich bin durchaus nicht geneigt u. habe noch viel weniger Lust, mir für eine Sache wie die jetzige, nur das geringste Leid zufügen zu lassen [.]" (7. XI.). - II) "Gestern Abend feierten wir bei Snethlages [d. i. Karl Wilhelm Moritz S., Oberhofprediger in Berlin, ein Onkel Engels'] sehr heiter u. vergnügt Weihnachten, wobei für mich auch ein Tischchen aufgebaut war [.] Der Ring, den mir Onkel Snethlage ausgesucht, ist sehr hübsch [.] Ich habe mein Daguerotyp beigepackt [.] Ich mußte 1½ Stunden bei dem Manne warten, u. ich sehe deshalb so brummig aus [.] Heute Nachmittag sind wir alle bei der guten Großmutter die Euch aufs Beste grüßen läßt; morgen Mittag bin ich bei Jacobs. Gestern waren bei Onkel 4 Engländer die hier studieren, mit denen wir uns höchlichst amüsiert haben, u. bei denen ich Gelegenheit habe mein Englisch zu vervollkommnen [.]" (25. XII.). - Friedrich Engels war nach seiner Flucht aus Deutschland im November 1850 notgedrungen in die väterliche Fabrik in Manchester eingetreten und hatte zu dieser Zeit kein gutes Verhältnis zu seinem Vater. Emil Engels heiratete 1853 Charlotte Bredt, wurde erfolgreicher Fabrikbesitzer und Kgl. Preuß. Kommerzienrat. - Die Adreßblätter etwas eingerissen, sonst gut erhalten.

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        The "Crystal Palace" for the Industrial Exhibition of 1851

      Toronto Daily Patriot, Toronto 1850 - The "Crystal Palace" for the Industrial Exhibition of 1851. Presented to subscribers of the Toronto Daily Patriot. [1850]. Broadside. 45 x 62 cm. with an engraving across the top of the broadside by J. Welch done for the Montreal Herald. 6 columns of text with an account of the architecture and construction of the Crystal Palace and the nature and extent of the exhibition. With folds, one slight tear at the left side, minor foxing on the text, otherwise very good. Erected in Hyde Park, London, the Crystal Palace was a massive, cast-iron, plate-glass, pre-fabricated building of 990,000 square feet whose original purpose was to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. More than 14,000 exhibitors gathered in the Palace to display examples of the latest technology developed in the Industrial Revolution. The grand concept of the Palace and the Exhibition was dreamt up by Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert. He is quoted in the last paragraph of this broadside in a speech that he gave at York, England on 25 October 1850. The Toronto Patriot began in 1829 as a weekly newspaper publication. It appeared semi-weekly between 2 March 1840 and 1852. A partial run of the Toronto Patriot is located at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. It would appear that this broadside is unique, nonetheless.

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        An Inquiry into the Principles of the Distribution of Wealth most conducive to Human Happiness. A New Edition by William Pare

      London: Wm. S. Orr and Co.. The corners stronger bumped but this extremely rare Volume in overall very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The second edition of special interest because of the editors lengthy preface in which he talks about Thompson's philosophy, biography and his early decision to turn vegetarian and abstinent ! The editor, William Pare is of great interest to us.. London, Wm. S. Orr and Co., 1850. Octavo. XXXII, 463 pages. Hardcover (contemporary, blindstamped cloth covered boards with new, matching spine). The corners stronger bumped but this extremely rare Volume in overall very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The second edition of special interest because of the editors lengthy preface in which he talks about Thompson's philosophy, biography and his early decision to turn vegetarian and abstinent ! The editor, William Pare is of great interest to us. William Thompson (1775 ?- 28 March 1833) was an Irish political and philosophical writer and social reformer, developing from utilitarianism into an early critic of capitalist exploitation whose ideas influenced the Cooperative, Trade Union and Chartist movements as well as Karl Marx. Born into the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy of wealthy landowners and merchants of Cork society, his attempt to will his estate to the cooperative movement after his death sparked a long court case as his family fought successfully to have the will annulled. According to E. T. Craig, this decision to will his estate to the cooperative movement was taken after a visit to the pioneering Ralahine Commune. Born in Cork, William was the son and heir of one of the most prosperous merchants of that city, Alderman John Thompson, who held, amongst other offices, that of Mayor in 1794. William inherited the small trading fleet and landed estate near Glandore, West Cork after his father's death in 1814. Rejecting the role of absentee landlord commonly led by those of a similar situation, William based his living quarters on the estate and despite many travels, invested much time with the tenants on the estate introducing agricultural innovations, services and education for children aimed at improving the welfare and prosperity of the families present. Victim of weak health from an early age, Thompson became a non-smoker, teetotaller and vegetarian for the last 13 years of his life. These abstemious habits, he explained helped him in concentrating on his reading and writing. Nonetheless, by the 1830s he was suffering from a chest affliction that finally killed him on 28 March 1833. He had never married and left no direct heir. An enthusiastic student of the writers and ideas of the Enlightenment, particularly Condorcet, Thompson became a convinced egalitarian and democrat. His support for the French Revolution earned him the label of "Red Republican" from Cork society and his support for advocates of Catholic emancipation in elections further alienated him from the rest of his wealthy Protestant kith and kin. Thompson was greatly impressed by the utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham with whom he corresponded and established a friendship, later staying at the English philosopher's house for several months in 1821?-22 while visiting London. As well as Bentham, Thompson read and corresponded with other utilitarian contemporaries such as James Mill and was influenced, both positively and negatively, by William Godwin and Thomas Malthus. His desire to overcome the limitations of Godwin's "intellectual speculations" and Malthus's "mechanical speculations" led him to propose a new synthesis: social science ?- Thompson was the first to introduce this term ?- would combine political economy's concern with scientific materialism with utilitarianism's concern with rational morality. It was the contrasting ideas of Godwin and Malthus that spurred Thompson into the project of research into the role of distribution in political economy that led him to London and, in 1824, the publication of "An Inquiry into the Principles of the Distribution of Wealth most conducive to Human Happiness" . Thompson had also become acquainted with the work of the French utopian socialists including Charles Fourier, Henri Saint-Simon and the economist Sismondi. In the Inquiry, Thompson follows the line of the labour theory of value put forward by Adam Smith. However he characterises the appropriation of the lion's share of surplus value by the capitalist owner of the tools of production as exploitation. He rejects the Malthus/Mill proposition that any increase in the wage of the workers can only result in their further immiseration, noting the self-serving nature of this theory for capitalists pressing for legislation to outlaw workers efforts to raise their wages. By applying the utilitarian principle of "the greatest good for the greatest number" to the existing and possible alternative schemes of distribution, Thompson comes down on the side of an egalitarian distribution of the product. One of Thompson's colleagues in the Cooperative movement, John Minter Morgan, made the observation that he was the first to coin the term competitive to describe the existing economic system. The case for the originality of this work is further made by Max Nettlau who states: "[Thompson's] book, however, discloses his own evolution; having started with a demand for the full product of labour as well as the regulation of distribution, he ended up with his own conversion to communism, that is, unlimited distribution." In 1827 fellow "Ricardian socialist" Thomas Hodgskin published Labour Defended which also characterised the appropriation of the lion's share of the fruits of production by landlord and capitalist as exploitation defrauding the worker of the full product of their labour. However, Hodgskin proposed that the road to economic justice for the labourer was through a reformed competitive system. Thompson replied with Labor Rewarded defending cooperative communism against Hodgskin's unequal wages. Although he rejected the political and economic implications of Malthus' essay on population, Thompson recognised that, particularly in Ireland, unrestrained population growth did pose the threat of rising poverty. As such he was like Bentham and Francis Place an advocate of the benefits of contraception. Thompson's development of a critique of the contemporary status of women was most strongly influenced by his long-term close friendship with Anna Wheeler. He had met Wheeler while staying with Bentham and they moved in those utilitarian circles that included James Mill. It was the publication of the latter's "On Government" which called for the vote for men only, that aroused the fervent opposition of both Wheeler and Thompson and to the rebuttal in Appeal of One Half the Human Race... Thompson and others of the Cooperative movement have tended to be somewhat unfairly subsumed under the political label of Owenism. In fact, although his writings and social experiments at New Lanark had helped to bring the cooperative movement together, many, Thompson included, were critical of Owen's authoritarian and anti-democratic tendencies. Thompson further distrusted Owen's courtship of rich and powerful patrons, believing that the rich as a class could be never be expected to be in favour of any project of emancipation for the labouring poor as this would threaten their privilege. He also believed in the necessity of the workers in any co-operative community having eventual security of ownership of the community's land and capital property. He gained a considerable following within the cooperative movement for these positions and it was to distinguish themselves from Owen's positions that this wing of the movement began to adopt the label of "socialist or communionist" (Letter to "The Cooperative Magazine", London, November 1827, cited by OED as first documented use of socialist) rather than "Owenist". These differences led to open confrontation between Thompson and Owen at the Third Cooperative Congress held in 1832 in London. Owen, perhaps discouraged by the failure of his attempted community at New Harmony, maintained that it was necessary to wait for Government and Stock Exchange support and investment into large scale communities. Thompson and his supporters contended that they must move towards establishing independent small scale communities based on the movement's own resources. The argument was not resolved at that congress and by the following one Thompson was unable to attend probably as a result of the illness that was to lead to his death in another five months. Karl Marx had come across Thompson's work on a visit to Manchester in 1845 and cites it in passing in The Poverty of Philosophy (1847) and also in Capital itself. However the same can be said of other of the proto-socialist political economists such as Thomas Hodgskin, John Gray, John Francis Bray. It seems surprising then, that the likes of Beatrice and Sidney Webb would characterise Marx as "the illustrious disciple" of Thompson and Hodgskin. Sentiments also echoed by the likes of Harold Laski and other British historians of socialism. In this they were accepting the earlier thesis in Anton Menger's Right to the Whole Produce of Labour (1899), amalgamating all the aforementioned into a homogeneous category of Ricardian socialists which obscured the important differences between Thompson's communist critique of Hodgskin's "market libertarian" position. (Wikipedia) ______________________ PARE, WILLIAM (1805-1873), co-operator, son of John Pare, cabinet-maker and upholsterer, of Birmingham, was born there in 1805. He was apprenticed to his father, but became a reporter. He subsequently engaged in business as a tobacco and cigar retailer in New Street, Birmingham. Early in life he helped to found a mechanics' institution in that town, and joined the small group of men who were trying to obtain a reform in the parliamentary representation. He also took part in the agitation for the repeal of the test and corporation acts, and for Roman catholic emancipation. On the formation of the 'Political Union in 1830' he became a member of the council, when he advocated extension of the suffrage, shorter parliaments, and vote by ballot. On 7 Aug. 1832 he drafted and moved in the parish church three resolutions against the payment of church rates. The petition, then adopted and sent by him to Hume, was the last presented to the unreformed House of Commons. When the 'Reformers' Registration Society' was established in 1835, Pare became secretary. He was the first registrar of Birmingham under the act legalising civil marriages (6 and 7 Will. iv. c. 85). As a member of the charter committee appointed in 1837, he actively promoted the incorporation of the town, and was a member of the first town council. Meanwhile Pare had become widely known as an able disciple of Robert Owen [q. v.] Converted to his teaching by William Thompson of Cork, Pare was one of the founders in 1828 of the first Birmingham co-operative society, at the anniversary of which he presided on 28 Dec. 1829. In the following year he attracted notice by the lectures he gave in support of co-operation at Liverpool, Manchester, Bolton, Chester, and other places. From May 1830, when the first co-operative congress was held at Manchester, until 1838, he constantly attended the congresses as one of the secretaries. From 1832 he advocated the establishment of labour exchanges, and mainly through his efforts the one at Birmingham had some success. He was one of the trustees of the property bequeathed for co-operative purposes by William Thompson of Cork in 1833; and when the heirs-at-law instituted an action in the Irish court of chancery, he went to Ireland to watch over the interests of the trustees, lecturing at various co-operative centres on the way. He was vice-president of Owen's society, 'The Association of all Classes of all Nations,' of which the central board was established at Birmingham. He continued an active member of the board until its removal to London in 1840. Forced to resign his registrarship in consequence of his socialistic opinions, he left Birmingham in November 1842, when he was presented with a public testimonial. From 1842 to 1844 he was acting-governor of Owen's community at Queenwood, Hampshire. He removed to London in 1844, and as a railway statist he was frequently employed to prepare reports for presentation to parliament for some of the principal lines projected in England, on the continent, in India, Algeria, and in many other countries. From 1846 to 1865 he lived near Dublin, engaged in the management of ironworks at Clontarf, Liverpool, and Chepstow. On Owen's death in 1858 he became his literary executor. He was honorary secretary to the committee by which the co-operative congress was called in 1869, and afterwards to the central board. He presided at the Owen centenary in 1871, and gave an address on the life of Owen. He died, after a long illness, on 18 June 1873, at the house of his son, Ruby Lodge, Park Hill, Croydon, and he was buried on 23 June in Shirley Churchyard, near Croydon. By his will he left all books, papers, and pictures in his possession relating to social subjects, together with 50/., to any institute or trust founded on the model of an Owen institute suggested by him. Pare published: 1. ?'The Claims of Capital and Labour, with a Sketch of practical Measures for their Conciliation,?' London, 1854, 8vo. 2. ?'A Plan for the Suppression of the Predatory Classes,?' a paper read before the third department of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science; reprinted from the ?'Transactions,?' 1862, London, 1862, 8vo. 3. ?'Co-operative Agriculture: a Solution of the Land Question, as exemplified in the History of the Relahine Co-operative Association, County Clare, Ireland,?' London, 1850, 8vo. He also edited William Thompson's ?'Inquiry into the Principles of the Distribution of Wealth most conducive to Human Happiness;?' 2nd ed. London, 1850, 8vo. He was a frequent contributor to co-operative newspapers. At the time of his death he was engaged in writing the life of Robert Owen from the correspondence and other materials in his possession. Pare married Ann Oakes of Market Drayton, Shropshire, by whom he had issue John Clement, Caroline, and Emma Amelia; the last-named married Thomas Dixon Galpin. Mrs. Pare died in 1886. (Wikisource)

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        Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa. With notices of the native tribes, and anecdotes of the chase of the lion, elephant, hippopotamus, giraffe, rhinoceros, &c

      John Murray, Albemarle Street, London 1850 - Second edition. With frontispieces, engraved vignette title pages depicting the author in his kilt, 13 plates, one map. xv, 388, x, 381pp. 2 vols. 8vo. "Gordon Cumming appears to have hunted every species of South African fauna, and to have enjoyed an amount of sport almost unique even amongst the mighty hunters of Africa. The narrative is valuable for the account of the state of the country at this period, as well as for the excellent description afforded of the natives of the interior, and of the up-country Boers, while the interesting zoological and botanical notes give added value to the work." -- Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn vol. I, pp.398-399 Contemporary three quarter brown calf and marble paper over boards, stamped in blind along joints and at tips, spine gilt. Faint shelf wear along foot of boards and tips, slight foxing to endpapers, owner signature dated 1850. Fine With frontispieces, engraved vignette title pages depicting the author in his kilt, 13 plates, one map. xv, 388, x, 381pp. 2 vols. 8vo

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        Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower California in 1848-9; with the Author's Experiences At the Mines. Illustrated by Twenty-Three Drawings, Taken on the Spot. Vol. I and II

      London: William Shoberl. Very Good. 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Marbled boards with three-quarter leather and gilt imprint, five bands on spine. Light shelf wear with one rear edge rubbed. Leather pattern on edges of endpapers. Gilt top edge. Light soil on just a few pages. Text block free of markings. Vol I 347pp. Vol II 413pp. Frontispieces of San Francisco and the Stanislaus Mine. Good descriptions from an Englishman who describes how he joined an 1847 expedition to the West and ended up in the American military at the start of the California Gold Rush, eventually trying his hand at mining. Howes R-558. Sabin 74532.; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

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        Le Selam EDITION ORIGINALE

      Paris: Imp. de J. Claye & Cie, 1850. Fine. Imp. de J. Claye & Cie, Paris 1850, 14x22,5cm, broché. - First edition of this poem by Théophile Gautier set to music by Ernest Reyer. First flat shaded, small spots on boards, light interior shots. Rare and nice copy. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information! - [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Edition originale de ce poème de Théophile Gautier mis en musique par Ernest Reyer. Premier plat ombré, petites piqûres sur les plats, légères piqûres intérieures. Rare et agréable exemplaire.

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        Poems

      London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. First edition. Presentation Copy: "To Mrs. Ferguson from W. Alllingham," on front free endpaper. Mrs. Ferguson was the wife of Samuel Ferguson, noted Irish poet and most important Ulster poet of the 19th Century. Letters from Allingham to Samuel Ferguson are well documented. Bound in calf binding with cross-hatching blindstamped designs. AEG. Contains half-title. Allingham's scarce first book, which contains the first form of many of the author's revised poems including "The Fairies," his most popular poem. Backstrip repaired, some chipping, wear but a very nice copy indeed of an important early Pre-Raphaelite associate's first book.

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        Don Quichotte De La Manche Vol. I & II

      GARNIER FRERES, LIBRAIRES, PARIS 1850 - additional postage may be required, 2 volumes, gilt on spine, black and white illustrations, foxing, previous owners bookplate on inside of front covers, writing and stamp on title pages, pages yellowing, written in french, corners bumped, covers worn, edges rubbed, marbled endpages DATE PUBLISHED: 1850 EDITION: [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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        Storia della medicina

      1850 - Livorno, [poi] Prato, presso Massimiliano Wagner Editore, [poi] Giachetti, 1850-1866. 3 parti in 4 volumi in-8 (215x140 mm.), pp. 757, (1); pp. 394, (2); 818, 383. Belle legature coeve in mezza pelle testa di moro con titoli, filetti, e numerazione di in oro ai dorsi, fregi a secco agli scomparti. Tagli a spruzzo.Usuali lievi fioriture, ma ottimo esemplare. Stimata prima edizione di quest'opera dell'urbinate Puccinotti, patologo e medico legale in Macerata, amico di Monaldo e Giacomo Leopardi. L'opera ripercorre lo stato dell'arte medica a partire dall'antichità fino all'età moderna. Bibliografia: Garrison-Morton, 6385. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: AU SOLEIL D'OR Studio Bibliografico]
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        AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM MARTIN TUFTS TO A FRIEND IN GEORGIA, RELATING PRICES AND FINANCIAL CONDITIONS IN GOLD RUSH SAN FRANCISCO, AS WELL AS PROSPECTS FOR GAIN IN THE GOLD MINES].

      San Francisco. March 28, 1850. - [3]pp. autograph letter, on a folded folio sheet. Letter soiled and stained. Strengthened with tissue at center fold, tissue repairs to a few small holes, other small holes not repaired. Overall, still quite readable and in good condition overall. In a half morocco and cloth folding case, spine gilt. A nice Gold Rush letter written to a friend back home, seeking to disabuse him of notions of quick riches or plentiful jobs in California. Martin Tufts appears to have been a Georgia native who served during the Mexican- American War. His letter, written relatively early in the Gold Rush period, is full of caution about prospects in California. He begins by describing the situation for non-mining work in San Francisco and in the gold regions: "You can tell your friends that it is very difficult to obtain a situation here of any kind on account of the innumerable quantity of clerks and young men capable of all kinds of business who have made their way into this country. You can form no estimate of the number of young men who are here out of employment & how they get along is a mystery to me. They do not know what hard work is and consequently get disgusted with the mines and venture here to find employment. They pay very good salaries here as an instance some of the river boats pay $500 per month for a clerk, but every one cannot obtain these situations as there is but few of them. I am after one but I am fearful will not get it." Tufts goes on to write that prices for goods such as flour and timber can be high on occasion, but that recent shipments of both from South America have caused a severe price deflation. Tufts hopes to hear about his application for a clerkship soon, but if not "off for the mountains to cheat some Indians of a little gold dust." He continues: "As for the mines I know that there are quantities of gold but there is a very small average, one seldom makes more than ordinary wages. Sometimes a man is fortunate and makes a pretty fortune in a short while but I can assure you it is not general notwithstanding the tremendous stories which are published. I believe if a man will make up his mind to save his money he can go into the mines and work faithfully and in a few years will gather a very pretty sum, but it is a dog's live [sic] and very hard work; if I go into the mines again I will hire Indians and trade, money has been made by working Indians, but they are a lazy lot."

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        The British Colonies Their History, Extent, Condition, and Resources

      London and New York: The London Printing and Publishing Company , 1850. Volumes, 1 to 4, of 6. Books measure 11 x 7 3/4 inches. Collation, xxiv,744pp, [2],384,[2],188pp, 18 full page portraits, 29 double page maps. Volume 1. British North America. Volume 2. Australia. Volume 3. New Zealand, Tasmania. Volume 4. Africa, West Indies. Map 1. World Western. 2. British America. 3. North America. 4. Canada. 5. Canada, New Brunswick. 6. Nova Scotia. 7. Australia. 8. Eastern Hemisphere. 9. New South Wales. 10. Victoria, Port Philip. 11. South Australia. 12 Western Australia. 13 Polynesia. 14. Van Dieman's Island. 15. New Zealand. 16. The World. 17. Falkland Island's. 18. West India Island's. 19. Jamacia. 20. Africa. 21. Jamacia. 22. Cape Colony. 23. Natal, Kaffraria. 24. Western Africa. 25. South America. 26. Central America. 27. British Guayana. 28. Isthmus of Panama. 29. Island's in the Atlantic. Bound in original publishers half calf, calf corners, cloth baords, raised bands, gilt tooling, full marble edges, marble endpapers. Calf rubbed, scuffed on edges and corners. Bindings in good clean firm condition. Internally, some occasional staining to portraits, maps in very good clean condition. A very nice work, maps in very good clean condition. . First Edition. Period Half Calf. Very Good. Large 8vo.

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        Arithmetika eleje kezdõnek.

      [Marosvásárhely, Reform Kollégyom, 1850] - 8vo (187 x 115 mm), pp 40; a fine copy in contemporary cloth-backed blue paper boards, old blindstamp of a previous owner on first leaf. £7500First edition, exceptionally rare. This is one of Bolyai's mathematical teaching texts for students at the Marosvásárhely Reform College. It consists of 55 numbered algebraic operations along with applications. Farkas Bolyai (1775-1856) is considered the father of Hungarian mathematics, putting mathematical education on a solid theoretical footing and with teaching given in Hungarian. Bolyai was a fellow student with Gauss in Göttingen, and the two remained friends and correspondents throughout their lives. Farkas famously taught his son, Janos, mathematics, and the later became one of the two most important creators of non-Euclidean geometry, the other being Lobachevskii.the only other copy I can locate is in the Hungarian National Library

      [Bookseller: WP Watson Antiquarian Books]
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