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        On the Nature of the Motion we call Heat"

      London And Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine And Journal Of Science, volume 14, fourth series 1857 - 1857, printed by Richard and John Taylor, and edited by David Brewster, Richard Taylor, Richard Phillips, Robert Kane. 21x13cm, vii, 560pp. Pp 108-127. **The is the first appearance in English of Clausius' major paper in kinetic theory, &#147;Ueber die Art der Bewegung, welche wir Warmenennen,&#148; Annalen der Physik, 100 (1857), 497&#150;507, which was foundational in the areas of kinetic theory and statistical mechanics.**Bound in half calf and marbled boards; front board detached, half of spine covering missing, some foxing to plates; the text is fresh and crisp, and the binding tight. Good copy. $950 Other papers in this volume include Plateau "Experimental and Theoretical Research on the Figures of Equilibrium of a Liquid." parts II and III of a three-part paper; the great W.S. Jevons "On the Cirrous Form of Cloud" and "On a Sun Gauge"; Draper "On the Measurement of the Chemical Action of Light"; Joule "On Heat and the Constitution of Elastic Fluids"; Huxley "On teh Structure of Glacial Ice"; Waterston "On the Deviation from the Primary Laws of Elastic Fluids.", and numerous others. The Dictionary of Scientific Biography discusses the 1857 paper beginning with the appraisal of JC Maxwell (in reference to his Theory of Heat): Maxwell.hailed Clausius as the founder of a new science. Clausius&#146; first venture into the kinetic theory was &#147;Ueber die Art der Bewegung, welche wir Warmenennen and his image of molecular motion went far beyond the &#147;billiard ball&#148; model of such previous writers as Kronig. He ascribed rotatory and vibratory, as well as translational, motion to the molecules, a complexity that led to an important conclusion. The conservation of translational kinetic energy in collision could no longer be assumed, because collisions might cause transformations of one form of motion into another. Quite obviously, Clausiusargued, the idea of a constant equal velocity for all molecules must be untenable. By supposing that translational velocities would vary among the molecules, Clausius offered an explanation for the evaporation of a liquid. Since only molecules with higher than average velocities possess sufficient kinetic energy to escape the attractive forces of the liquid temperature.In his discussion of the complexity of molecular motions, Clausius did not merely suggest that motions other than translational were a possibility; he demonstrated that such motions must exist by showing that translational motion alone could not account for all of the heat present in a gas." "This 1857 paper also marked another important beginning in physical theory, for it presented the first physical argument in support of Avogadro&#146;s hypothesis that equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules. Clausius argued that if it were assumed that all types of molecules possess the same translational energy at equal temperatures, then, since all gases have the same relationship between pressure, volume, and temperature and pressure, volume and temperature, they would necessarily contain equal numbers of molecules in equal volumes at the same temperature and pressure. Avogadro&#146;s hypothesis, therefore, found support in the mechanical theory of heat, independently of the usual chemical arguments."--DSB, volume 3, pp306-7 [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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        DES ARTS GRAPHIQUES DESTINÉS A MULTIPLIER PAR L'IMPRESSION; CONSIDÉRÉS SOUS LE DOUBLE POINT DE VUE HISTORIQUE ET PRATIQUE

      Joël Cherbuliez; Paris: Même Maison, Geneva 1857 - 12mo., xii, 489 pp. Light scattered foxing, else very good, t.e.g. Newly bound in quarter morocco and marbled paper; gilt-title within raised bands on spine. Considered one of the best and most comprehensive descriptions of all forms of graphic arts printing to date. It includes descriptions of the heliographic process of Nicéphore Niepce, the Daguerreotype process, through the photolithographic process of Alphonse Poitevin. Not listed in Roosens and Salu. Scarce. [Attributes: First Edition]

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        ALMANACH-MANUEL DU PHOTOGRAPHE POR 1857

      Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1857. Second edition. 16mo., 72 pp., 3 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half cloth and marbled paper over boards. Early owner's initials on the title page; light wear to the foredge of the last plate with only a few tiny tears and no loss; stamped in ink on the blank reverse of the terminal plate, "BibliothÃ©que SociÃ©tÃ© Francaise de Photographie - Double." Very good. From p. 4 - 27, listed chronologically, are the saint's days, sunrise, sunset, moonrise and setting, positions of the planets, etc. The next 20 pages are definitions of photographic terms and chemicals, with the remainder being a procedural manual for making daguerreotypes, and various other processes, including making of wet collodion plates and albumen papers. The 3 folding plates illustrate the required equipment. The final leaf is misnumbered 7 rather than 72; this is the only textural difference between the first and second editions. OCLC locates ony 9 copies of both editions. Roosen and Salu fail to list this work by Latreille but do list an 1855 manual on paper processes, and 2 works from 1858 which are general treatises on the various process of the day.

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        "Le Concert" - Annotated Trial Proof

      Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Original etching engraved by Henri Guerard, with autograph edits for the publication of the print in brown ink by Corot, including the addition of his name "C. Corot " with a cancelation mark, and title beneath the image "Le Concert / appartient ÃƒÂ  M. Jules DuprÃƒÂ©", and approved by him upper right corner "Bon ÃƒÂ  tirer " with his autograph paraph. 28 x 20 cm. <br><br><br />Le Concert ChampÃƒÂªtre, on which this engraving is based, was painted by Corot in 1857 and is currently housed in the MusÃƒÂ©e CondÃƒÂ© of Chantilly, France. A reworking of a composition exhibited by Corot in the Salon of 1844, the painting was shown in the Salon of 1857 and depicts three women, one with a cello, in the foreground of a forest landscape. The work "is interesting for the new directions it signals in Corot's work. The subject, neither mythic nor biblical, is essentially an eighteenth-century motif reinterpreted by a modern sensibility. The painting brought to life a serene Arcadia with no specific historical or literary referent, removed equally for antiquity and from the nineteenth century." (Gary Tinterow, "Corot: Exhibition Metropolitan Museuem of Art, NY 1996," p. 147)

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        The Professor, A Tale

      Smith, Elder & Co. 1857 - Format: Octavo (7 5/8" x 4 7/8", 195mm x 124mm). Vol. I: 2 binder&#146;s blanks, A4 B-T8 U4, 2 binder&#146;s blanks [$1]. 152 leaves, pp. i-v vi-viii, 1 2-294, 21 22. Collated perfect with Bodleian copy (OC) 249 v.142 (v. 1)) but with a different set of advertisements at end. Vol. II: 2 binder&#146;s blanks, A2 B-R8 S6, 2 binder&#146;s blanks [$1]. 136 leaves, pp. [4], 1 2-258, [2], 21 22-8. Collated perfect with Bodleian copy ((OC) 249 v.142 (v. 2)) except for publisher&#146;s advertisements at end (dated June, 1857). Two volumes. Bound in contemporary half red crushed morocco over red buckram with gilt double-fillets at edges of buckram. On the spine, five raised bands with gilt fillets. Panels with gilt double-fillet borders. Title in second panel gilt with gilt single-fillet border. Number in third panel same. Date at tail same. Marbled end-papers. Top-edge of text-block gilt. Very faintest cracking to hinges of vol. I. Tight, square, strong binding. Text fresh. Excellent copies. The Professor was Charlotte Brontë&#146;s first novel, though it was not published until after her death in 1855. She had submitted the manuscript to Smith, Elder before Jane Eyre but it was rejected, and they showed interest in something longer (which was Jane Eyre). Brontë&#146;s widower, Arthur Bell Nicholls, subscribes to Brontë&#146;s preface that he consented to its publication despite some material overlap with Villette; this is dated September 22nd, 1856. The novel was published on 6 June 1857, and the present item is the first printing, as can be discerned by the following points: (1) the final letters of the first two lines of body text on p. 21 of vol. I are transposed (foggn introductioy); in the present item, these have been corrected by an early hand. (2) The first letter of the third line of body text on p. 99 of vol. II is missing ( lace for place); in the present item, this is supplied in pencil. (3) The headline of p. 221 of vol. II is missing a period (THE PROFESSOR for THE PROFESSOR.); some call for a missing period similarly on p. 58; in the present item I can make out a trace of a period. "First, after leaving Eton, I had an interview with my maternal uncles, Lord Tynedale and the Hon. John Seacombe. They asked me if I would enter the Church, and my uncle the nobleman offered me the living of Seacombe, which is in his gift, if I would; then my other uncle, Mr. Seacombe, hinted that when I became rector of Seacombe-cum-Scaife, I might perhaps be allowed to take, as mistress of my house and head of my parish, one of my six cousins, his daughters, all of whom I greatly dislike. "I declined both the Church and the matrimony. A good clergyman is a good thing, but I should have made a very bad one. As to the wife&#151;oh how like a night-mare is the thought of being bound for life to one of my cousins! No doubt they are accomplished and pretty; but not an accomplishment, not a charm of theirs, touches a chord in my bosom. To think of passing the winder evenings by the parlor fire-side with one of them&#151;for instance, the large and well-modelled statue, Sarah&#151;no; I should be a bad husband, under such circumstances, as well as a bad clergyman." Vol. I, pp. 4-5. Sadleir 347, Smith 7 (esp. n. 3), Symington 116, Wolff 827. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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        Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah. 2nd ed

      Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, London 1857 - 2 vols. bound in 1. folding map, 3 plans (2 folding), 14 plates (5 colored), index, xv, 418, v, 422p. Original blind stamped red cloth, rebacked in red leather with most of original backstrip mounted. Small oasis scene in gilt at center of front cover and on lower portion of mounted backstrip. 19cm. Bookplate. All edges gilt. New endpapers. Minor soiling and wear. Some chapters or notes were expanded, moved or added for this second edition; a new five-page appendix on "The Tribes of El Hejaz" was added. Most copies of the second edition were published in 2 volumes (and not as 2 vols bound in 1). The three folding maps and plans are located at the end of the volume in this copy rather than as located on the plate lists. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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        Friedrich der Große in der Schlacht bei Leuthen den 5. Dezember 1757. Gedenkblatt mit 16 Teilansichten der Schlachten des Preußenkönigs 1741 - 1762. Stahlstich von Carl Deucker ( Frankfurt) nach C. F. Schulz (Berlin) 42 x 47 cm.

      Darmstadt G G Lange um 1857 - - tadellos! 1.100 gr.

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        Arena des H. Weitzmann auf dem Paradeplatz. Vierte grosse Vorstellung. Erste Abtheilung. Akrobatische LufttÃ¤nze. Zweite Abtheilung. La boule Indianne ... Herkulische Kraftproduktionen. Zum SchluÃŸ: Darstellung optischer Nebelbilder und Chromatropen.

      Frankfurt, J. G. MÃ¼ller, 29. August 1857.. Plakat mit typograph. Text und Holzschnitt. Blattgr.: 35 x 25,5 cm. Mit einer Auflistung der 12 gezeigten Nebelbilder.

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        Arena des H. Weitzmann auf dem Paradeplatz. Vierte grosse Vorstellung. Erste Abtheilung. Akrobatische Lufttänze. Zweite Abtheilung. La boule Indianne ... Herkulische Kraftproduktionen. Zum Schluß: Darstellung optischer Nebelbilder und Chromatropen.

      Frankfurt, J. G. Müller, 29. August 1857. Plakat mit typograph. Text und Holzschnitt. Blattgr.: 35 x 25,5 cm. Mit einer Auflistung der 12 gezeigten Nebelbilder. Versand D: 5,00 EUR

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        Arena des H. Weitzmann auf dem Paradeplatz. Vierte grosse Vorstellung. Erste Abtheilung. Akrobatische Lufttänze. Zweite Abtheilung. La boule Indianne . Herkulische Kraftproduktionen. Zum Schluß: Darstellung optischer Nebelbilder und Chromatropen.

      Frankfurt, J. G. Müller, 29. August 1857. - Plakat mit typograph. Text und Holzschnitt. Blattgr.: 35 x 25,5 cm. Mit einer Auflistung der 12 gezeigten Nebelbilder.

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        Eleven Volumes Descended Through the Aldrich Family; works by Thomas Bailey Aldrich and books from his library

      - Consisting of the following: Aldrich, Thomas Bailey: Daisy's Necklace: And What Became of It. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1857. First Edition. Publisher's red cloth; very good. The author's mother's copy, signed twice and initialed once by her. The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth. New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1858. First Edition; first state. Publisher's red cloth; fine. Inscribed on the front endpaper (but not signed) by the author, "For Mother." The Ballad of Babie Bell. New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1859. First Edition. Publisher's brown cloth; very good or better. With the author's bookplate. Pampinea and Other Poems. New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1861. First Edition. Publisher's brown cloth; fine. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by the author "For Mother" and signed by him on the first blank. The Little Violinist. Cambridge: Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 1880. First Separate Edition; issued three years earlier in another volume; publisher's wrappers; a little soiled; very good or better. XXXVI Lyrics and XII Sonnets. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1881. First Edition (BAL State 2 - no priority is mentioned); publisher's wrappers; very good. At the top of the front wrapper, Aldrich has written "First Edition." From Ponkapoag to Pesth. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1883. First Edition; first printing. Apparently the author's own copy; Aldrich has written "First Edition" on the title page and corrected in ink the mistake on page 265 that distinguishes the first two printings. The business card of the guide and interpreter from Tangier mentioned in the book is mounted on the front free-endpaper. XXXVI Lyrics and XII Sonnets. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1892. Later edition. Publisher's wrappers; some soiling; very good; gift inscription; signed and dated by the author in 1892. Judith and Holoferness. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1896. First Edition; large-paper issue; some pages unopened; very good. The Sonnets of John Milton. London: Kegan, Paul Trench, 1883. Very good. With Aldrich's signature and a two line note in his hand in the text. De Quincey, Thomas: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1856. Publisher's cloth; some splitting and chipping; good to very good. With Aldrich's ownership signature, dated 1851 (presumably 1857). [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

      [Bookseller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc., A.B.A.A.]
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        Atlas de G&#142;ographie Commercial et Industriel

      Artist: Vuillemin Alexandre; Issued in: Paris; date: c 1857 - Artist: Vuillemin, Alexandre; Issued in: Paris; date: c. 1857; - Condition: Binding some damages because of age; Atlas with 7 splendid maps showing the world, Europe, America north, America south, Asia, Africa and Oceania. All maps with side pannels describing the floran and fauna of the continents.

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        BUFFON, Oeuvres complètes [.] avec la nomenclature linnéenne et la classification de Cuvier revues sur l'édition in-4° de l'Imprimerie royale et annotées par M. Flourens [.]. Nouvelle édition.

      PARIS, GARNIER FRÈRES, [ 1855-1857]. - 12 vol. gr. in-8°; 142 pl. (rousseurs aux ff. liminaires, qqs ff. déreliés, qqs traces de crayon et déchirures dans les gardes du t. III). Relié , demi-chagrin brune, dos lisses fleuronnés dorés, plats de percaline fleuragée (dos, mors et coupes frottés). . Portrait, front., 2 cartes et 138 planches coloriées et gommées d'après des dessins d'Édouard Traviès et Henri Gobin. deel 1: huistoire de la terre / hjistoire des animaux deel 2: l?homme / le quadrupèdes deel 3: les quadrupèdes deel 4: les quadrupèdes deel 5: les oiseaux deel 6/ les oiseaux deel 7: les oiseaux deel 8: les oiseaux deel 9: minéraux / époque de la nature deel 10: les minéraux deel 11: les minéraux deel 12: vegetaux / arithmétique morale & table analytique 0 g. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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        Kyoka hyakunin isshu [alternative title: Kyoka Momochidori] [trans.: Crazy Verses or Light Verses. A Chorus of Birds].

      108 finely color-printed woodcut illus. (mostly two-thirds of a page). 55 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. speckled wrappers (a bit worn & somewhat rubbed, eleven folding leaves with some worming in gutter, extending into images, neatly repaired), orig. title label on upper cover, modern stitching. N.p.: 1857 or 1858. First edition of this finely illustrated work by Hiroshige. Each page is divided into three sections: the top contains two poems, the central panel has a poem and a poet's portrait, and the bottom panel is blank. "Among artists of the popular school who were uncultured, although not actually illiterate, Hiroshige was an exception because of his literary knowledge and tastes. He was a man of facile pen, for in the diaries are apt descriptions and occasional snaps of cynicism, all of them delightful because they are casual and informal. Had he pursued literature with the assiduity that he espoused art, he would undoubtedly have become a writer or poet. Although, as, with any phraseology or puns which are ephemeral, and therefore difficult to translate into English, the following poems from 'Kyoka Momo-chidori' will indicate his usual vein: Putting aside the moon and snow, How delightful it is to live roundly With a head more round Than a dumpling round and round!The verse alludes to the common saying, Hana yori dango, meaning literally 'A dumpling is better than a flower.' Of course it treats with both satisfaction and mockery the author's own shaven head. Utashige was Hiroshige's name as a humorous poet. He sometimes signed this name to Harimaze-ye (mixed prints of small size) or Sensha-fuda (visiting cards to shrines or temples) or illustrated books of lyrical drama. Also, some of the famous view-prints produced after 1839 bear the name of Utashige."-Prof. Yone Noguchi, "Life of Hiroshige," on-line http://www.hiroshige.org.uk/hiroshige/noguchi/01_life_of_hiroshige.htm. Very good copy. Some light dampstaining in lower portion of gutter. The worming does not touch any of the colored portraits. &#10087; Brown, Block Printing & Book Illustration in Japan, p. 195. See Hillier, The Art of the Japanese Book, p. 847. .

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        Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa;

      London: John Murray,, 1857. including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; thence across the Continent, down the River Zambezi, to the Eastern Ocean. Octavo. Near-contemporary red morocco, title and decoration to spine gilt, marbled sides and endpapers, all edges gilt. Folding frontispiece, 22 plates, illustrations to the text, 1 folding diagram, 2 folding maps to rear. Armorial bookplates to front endpaper of Edgar March Crookshank (1858-1928), English physician and microbiologist, and Caesar Litton Falkiner (1863-1908), historian, Irish Unionist Party politician, and barrister. Covers a little scuffed, minor wear to board edges, a little light foxing to contents. An excellent copy. First edition. The book covers the first of Livingstone's three major expeditions "in which he followed the Zambezi, discovering Victoria Falls in the process, as well as the Shire and Ruyuma rivers, ranging from Angola in the west to Mozambique in the east ... During these years he explored vast regions of central Africa, many of which had never been seen by white men before" (PMM). This copy conforms to Bradlow's Variant No. 2: the frontispiece and plates 8 and 16 are tinted lithographs by T. Picken.

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        Madame Bovary

      Edition containing all the first issue of characteristics as fault "Senart" dedication to slip. Michel Lévy frères àParis 1857 11,5x18,5cm 2 volumes reliés

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        Madame Bovary. Moeurs de province

      Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1857. - 2 vols, 12mo, pp. [4], 232, 36 [publisher's catalogue dated April 1857]; [4], [233]-490, [2, blank]; with a half-title in each volume; a fine copy, untrimmed, in early half dark green morocco by Canape, preserving the original green printed wrappers.First edition in book form of Flaubert's first and most famous novel and one of the most iconic works of the nineteenth century. This is the first issue, with the dedication leaf reading 'Senart' rather than 'Senard'.The serialization of Madame Bovary in La Revue de Paris in October-December 1856, resulted in Flaubert's prosecution for obscenity in January 1857. And his subsequent acquittal in February assured the book's lasting fame.'Flaubert was prosecuted for his supposedly obscene and blasphemous handling of a tale of provincial adultery ending in suicide. He was acquitted thanks to a defence lawyer who demonstrated that Emma Bovary was a moral warning rather than an object of admiration. In retrospect it seems that the nihilistic quality of the writing, more perhaps than the plot as such, lay behind the prosecution's focus on such phrases as "les souillures du mariage et la désillusion de l'adultère". The novel is a devastatingly negative account of both marriage and adultery' (New Oxford companion to literature in French).This is the regular issue; a small number of copies appeared on papier vélin fort with continuous signatures, omitting the second title-page. Talvart & Place,1a; Carteret, I, 263; En Français dans le texte, 277. Language: French

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        Les trois mousquetaires

      Dufour et Mulat 1857 - - Dufour et Mulat, Paris 1857, Grd. in-8 (17x26,6cm), 2 volumes reliés. - Nouvelle édition, réimpression de la première illustrée parue en 1846. 33 hors-texte par Beaucé et Phillipoteaux sur bois. Nombreuses et belles lettrines et culs-de-lampe. Reliure en demi basane havane d'époque. Dos lisse orné de filets. Titre doré. Ensemble frotté. Coins émoussés. Brunissures pâles éparses sur un papier relativement teinté dans l'ensemble. [AUTOMATIC ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] New edition, reprint published the first illustrated in 1846 by 33 inset Beaucé Phillipoteaux and wood. Many beautiful initials and tail-lamp. Binding half Havana contemporary sheepskin. Back smooth decorated with nets. gilt. Rubbed together. Corners bumped. Brunissures pale scattered over a relatively brown paper overall. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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        Archive - Documents & Photographs of Respected Scottish Maritime Pilot at Karachi Harbour

      India, 1857. Karachi, India [now Pakistan], 1857-1889. Archive of 21 original photographs, approximately 17 manuscript letters, 3 official Merchant Marine documents, and a scant few personal papers of Robert Henry Mason, a respected Scotland born mariner and pilotage expert, and one of the first Port Officers at Karachi Harbour after its development. Documents and letters range in size, most being octavo or folio. Photographs of India also range in size, the smallest measuring 26 x 18 cm, the largest measuring 28 x 21 cm. Photographs are mostly placed within an album measuring approximately 20 x 33 cm, inscribed by a Keith Arkell, whose scant few papers are also found herein. (The connection remains to be ascertained.) Documents and photographs creased and chipped, album showing wear, otherwise good condition, a fascinating nautical archive, both visual and informative, warranting further research. Robert Henry Mason was born in Dundee, Scotland, 1833. He received his Mariner's Register Ticket for Merchant Seamen at the Port of Calcuta on 30 May 1857, his first assignment evidently being onboard a ship called 'Avalanche' associated with the port of Fraserburgh in South Africa. Only two years after the Indian Mutiny of 1857, Mason began his service at Karachi, under the port's first Master, George Parker. His wife Emily gave birth to their daughter Lucy Isabella, in Karachi, in 1864, and a photograph suggests that they also previously had a son. Pertaining to Mason's marine service at the Port of Karachi, which had then just been developed by the British for commerce and shipping before his arrival, the archive summarizes his 30-some years of dedication and highlights some momentous rescues made by him. Included in the papers, are his original Mariner's Register Ticket from 1857, the printed and signed instruction leaf for his first post as a maritime pilot, a further manuscript instructional notice from the Commander-in Chief in 1858, a medical report describing a bout of dysentery in 1871 and naming Mason Senior Pilot of Karachi and Manora Island. Approximately eight letters confirming completion of various posts and commend Mason for his most excellent years of service. Two of the letters are by engineer George Parker who was responsible for the construction projects which converted the harbour into a notable commercial port. Parker also signs an event card for the opening of Erskine Wharf in 1887. One brief letter from Parker is written to Mason himself. A letter from the Commissioner of Sind to George Parker, Master Attendant (afterwards called Port Officer), states that Mason had rescued four horses from drowning in the harbour as a vessel capsized... The photographs are particularly striking views captured during the British Raj, showing cities with dirt streets, horse-drawn carts for transportation, and finely dressed citizens. Scenes include a funeral procession for a man of the Indian Army, a fire being extinguished with a steam-powered cart, women filling large clay water jars, a hospital building, and assortments of ships large and small at growing port towns. Most photographs are placed within a large album; seven are mounted to the leafs. (Three additional photographs appear to be taken on the Suez Canal and in Egypt.) Excerpts from the manuscript letters: Sydney, 2 February 1859. "This is to certify that the bearer Mr. R. H. Mason has sailed with me on board the Brigantine Comet of the Port of Sydney for the period of nine /9/ months as Chief Officer... Alex. Barnack, Master." Bombay, 17 February 1875. "... Mr. R. H. Mason served under my orders at Kurrachee [Karachi] from June 21st 1859 until May 8th 1873 when I quitted the Station. Mr. Mason first joined the station as Senior Pilot... during the last few years performed the dutoes of Master of the Tug Vessel Manord in addition to those of his own office... acted in my absence as Master Attendant of the Port of Kurrachee... a steady Seaman and trustworthy and zealous Officer... [Signed] L. Gibb. " 1 September 1875. "Mr. Mason, I was very glad to see the mail steamer brought in so well last night... Yours truly, [signed] Geog. Parker." Karachi, 7 October 1882. "Mr. Mason, holds excellent testimonials granted by officers of the Indian Army under whom he has served during a long and faithful career extending over some 26 years." End excerpts. The area of Karachi in Sindh, Pakistan, has a natural harbor and has been used as fishing port by local fisherman belonging to Sindhi tribes since prehistory. In 1838, the British launched their campaigns against the Russian Empire in Central Asia and Afghanistan from Karachi. The British occupied Karachi during the First Anglo-Afghan War in 1839, and after annexation in February, the city developed rapidly. The town was later annexed to the British Indian Empire when Sindh was conquered by Charles James Napier in Battle of Miani on February 17, 1843. Karachi was made the capital of Sindh in the 1840s. On Napier's departure it was added along with the rest of Sindh to the Bombay Presidency, a move that caused considerable resentment among the native Sindhis. The British recognized the importance of the city as a military cantonment and as a port for exporting the produce of the Indus River basin, and rapidly developed its harbour for shipping. The foundations of a city municipal government were laid down and infrastructure development was undertaken. From circa 1850, Karachi was the first port of call for some. In 1856 the British government saw it fit to improve the port, hiring James Walker to propose hydraulic and engineering plans, based on already existing surveys made by the British East India Company. Upon receiving a favourable report, the Government of Bombay appointed Captain George Parker as Master Attendant to implement Walker's engineering recommendations, effectively creating the foundation for Karachi's future prosperity. In 1857, the Indian Mutiny broke out in South Asia and the 21st Native Infantry stationed in Karachi declared allegiance to rebels, joining their cause on 10 September 1857. Nevertheless, the British were able to quickly reassert control over Karachi and defeat the uprising. In 1864, the first telegraphic message was sent from India to England when a direct telegraph connection was laid between Karachi and London. In 1878, the city was connected to the rest of British India by rail. Public building projects such as Frere Hall (1865) and the Empress Market (1890) were undertaken. In 1876, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, was born in the city, which by now had become a bustling city with Temples, mosques, churches, courthouses, markets, paved streets and a magnificent harbour. By 1899 Karachi would become the largest wheat exporting port in the east. [A "Maritime Pilot" or "Pilot of the Port" is a mariner who guides ships through dangerous or congested waters, such as harbours or river mouths. Pilotage is one of the oldest professions, as old as sea travel itself, and it is one of the most important in maritime safety. The oldest recorded history dates back to about the 7th century BC. In English Law, Section 742 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 defines a pilot as "any person not belonging to a ship who has the conduct thereof".] . Very Good.

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        A New General Biographical Dictionary

      London: Fellowes, Rivington et al. 1857 - 12 volume set, 8.75 inches tall. A classic Victorian full calf binding with gilt raised bands, twin labels and most attractive floral gilt tooling to the panels. An exceptionally handsome set of this great work. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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        Arena des H. Weitzmann auf dem Paradeplatz. Vierte grosse Vorstellung. Erste Abtheilung. Akrobatische Lufttänze. Zweite Abtheilung. La boule Indianne ... Herkulische Kraftproduktionen. Zum Schluß: Darstellung optischer Nebelbilder und Chromatropen.

      Frankfurt, J. G. Müller, 29. August 1857.Plakat mit typograph. Text und Holzschnitt. Blattgr.: 35 x 25,5 cm. Mit einer Auflistung der 12 gezeigten Nebelbilder. Bücher de

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        THE PROFESSOR

      1857. [two volumes, original cloth] A Tale. By Currer Bell. In Two Volumes. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1857. 2 pp undated Vol I ads; 8 pp undated ads plus 16 pp ads dated June 1857 Vol II ads. Original blind-stamped greyish-purple cloth. First Edition of Charlotte Brontë&#39;s first novel written -- but last to be published. Although the publication of the three Brontë sisters&#39; POEMS, in 1846, had failed miserably (selling just two copies in its first month), they were each encouraged enough to try writing a novel. Anne ("Acton Bell") wrote AGNES GREY and Emily ("Ellis Bell") wrote WUTHERING HEIGHTS, while Charlotte wrote THE PROFESSOR -- an intensely autobiographical tale, recalling her own experience of teaching at a school in Brussels, where she unhappily fell in love with her employer "the professor." Although it was Charlotte who made the rounds of the publishers, pushing the three novels, only her two sisters&#39; novels were accepted for publication (together in three volumes, in 1847). Encouraged by Smith Elder&#39;s rejection letter of THE PROFESSOR, Charlotte quickly worked up another tale, which came to be published as JANE EYRE, also in 1847. Several years later, Charlotte re-worked THE PROFESSOR into a somewhat similar tale titled VILLETTE (the city of "Villette" being a fictional Brussels) -- which, with her pseudonymous fame from Jane Eyre, was readily published by Smith Elder in 1853, the year before her death. Three years after her death, Smith Elder (with the blessing of her husband, who wrote a brief Preface here) published the original THE PROFESSOR, which they had rejected ten years earlier.~This copy is in the primary binding of blind-stamped greyish-purple cloth (there was a secondary binding, two-volumes-in-one in green cloth, within which the remaining sheets were bound beginning in 1858 or 1859).~These two volumes were at some point (unnecessarily) re-cased and perhaps re-backed, preserving the intact cloth casings and the original pale-yellow endpapers. There is very little external wear -- just a peek of wear at the Vol I spine ends and a faint crease across a corner of the Vol I front board; the endpapers of course are cracked at the gutter, but the volume is tight. It is not easy to find a better-looking set. Smith 7 (pp 162-166); Sadleir 347; Wolff 827; Parrish p. 96.

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        The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles the Fifth . . . With an Account of the Emperor's Life after his Abdication

      Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1857, 1857. First American Edition. BAL 16362 (Prescott). Edges a little rubbed; very nice set.. 3 vols, 8vo, contemporary brown quarter calf, marbled paper boards and matching endpapers, gilt decorations and lettering. Frontis portrait. William Robertson's History of Charles the Fifth, with an afterward by William Hickling Prescott. From the library of Edith Wharton, with her Pavillon Colombe bookplate, designed by D. B. Updike, on the front paste-downs. Edith Wharton left her library to be divided between Wiliam Tyler and Kenneth Clark, in trust for his son Colin. The Colin Clark portion is now at The Mount, Edith Wharton's home in Lenox, Mass; the Tyler portion was destroyed in the bombing of London in 1940.

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        Madame Bovary

      Paris: Michel Levy Freres, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first trade issue with "Senart" for "Senard" on the dedication page. Two volumes, in contemporary half leather binding with a bit of restoration, bound without publisher's catalog at rear. Owner names at front of each volume, sporadic age spotting to pages. A charming copy of the author's debut novel, a breakthrough in the craft of literary narration that helped create the modern novel.

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        Hunter's Panoramic Guide from Niagara Falls to Quebec.

      - Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1857. 8vo, 66, (4, ads)pp. Huge folding panorma at the front that extends out almost 12 feet, and several illustrations from woodcuts in the text, some full-page. Original red cloth, pictorial gilt upper cover. Neatly restored, a very good copy rare with the folding panorama undamaged. First edition, scarce thus, (also found in green cloth). An important Canadian book illustrated by Waud, an English artist who did a lot of work for American periodicals. As a Canadian imprint, one should not be surprised to see "Cleaveland" spelled thus on the engraved title. Sabin 33938. Hamilton 1260. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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        Schafstall auf Silk am Flusse der Bille (Reinbek). Bleistiftzeichnung.

      1857 - Monogrammiert "C M" und datiert. Rücks. auf einem Klebeetikett von alter Hand bezeichnet "Schaafstall auf Silk am Flusse der Bille". Blattfüllende, bildhaft ausgeführte und detailliert gezeichnete Landschaft. Die kleine Fachwerkscheune ist im Mittelgrund von hohen Bäumen umgeben, im Vordergrund grasen Schafe. Weiter hinten sind Menschen bei der Arbeit auf dem Feld zu sehen. - Die oberen Ecken sind gerundet. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 2100

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        Pleasures Of The Water Cure: By A Patient Who Has Been Well Drench'd And Wrench'd And Restored To Health. Portraits Of Celebrated Water Doctors

      Rock & Co. N.d. [1857], London - Unpaginated [12 pp.]. Original oblong cream-coloured paper wrappers with engraved illustration and title. Six leaves, each with two humourous engravings with captions beneath. Caricatures of the popular Victorian revival of hydrotherapy. Wrappers slightly marked, but remarkably fresh and complete. Foxing throughout, affecting images. Only two copies found, at Wellcome and Oxford. Scarce item

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        THE PROFESSOR

      1857. [two volumes, original cloth] A Tale. By Currer Bell. In Two Volumes. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1857. 2 pp undated Vol I ads; 8 pp undated ads plus 16 pp ads dated June 1857 Vol II ads. Original blind-stamped greyish-purple cloth. First Edition of Charlotte BrontÃ«'s first novel written -- but last to be published. Although the publication of the three BrontÃ« sisters' POEMS, in 1846, had failed miserably (selling just two copies in its first month), they were each encouraged enough to try writing a novel. Anne ("Acton Bell") wrote AGNES GREY and Emily ("Ellis Bell") wrote WUTHERING HEIGHTS, while Charlotte wrote THE PROFESSOR -- an intensely autobiographical tale, recalling her own experience of teaching at a school in Brussels, where she unhappily fell in love with her employer "the professor." Although it was Charlotte who made the rounds of the publishers, pushing the three novels, only her two sisters' novels were accepted for publication (together in three volumes, in 1847). Encouraged by Smith Elder's rejection letter of THE PROFESSOR, Charlotte quickly worked up another tale, which came to be published as JANE EYRE, also in 1847. Several years later, Charlotte re-worked THE PROFESSOR into a somewhat similar tale titled VILLETTE (the city of "Villette" being a fictional Brussels) -- which, with her pseudonymous fame from Jane Eyre, was readily published by Smith Elder in 1853, the year before her death. Three years after her death, Smith Elder (with the blessing of her husband, who wrote a brief Preface here) published the original THE PROFESSOR, which they had rejected ten years earlier.~This copy is in the primary binding of blind-stamped greyish-purple cloth (there was a secondary binding, two-volumes-in-one in green cloth, within which the remaining sheets were bound beginning in 1858 or 1859).~These two volumes were at some point (unnecessarily) re-cased and perhaps re-backed, preserving the intact cloth casings and the original pale-yellow endpapers. There is very little external wear -- just a peek of wear at the Vol I spine ends and a faint crease across a corner of the Vol I front board; the endpapers of course are cracked at the gutter, but the volume is tight. It is not easy to find a better-looking set. Smith 7 (pp 162-166); Sadleir 347; Wolff 827; Parrish p. 96.

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        Letters from High Latitudes; being Some Account of a Voyage in the Schooner Yacht ''Foam,'' 85 O.M. to Iceland, Jan Mayen, & Spitzbergen, in 1856.

      John Murray, London. 1857 - First edition. Octavo. pp xx, 424. Illustrations and three folding maps. Period binding of full green calf with raised bands, gilt rules, marbled edges and endpapers. A groundbreaking comic travelogue which quickly went into several editions, this, the first, being quite scarce. Tim Moore in his recent book, Frost on my Moustache, retraces Dufferin's travels and subjects them to his own brand of humour.Rebacked with original spine relaid and new spine label. On the verso of the front free endpaper is a contemporary gift inscription (to Richard Hugh Cholmondeley). On the front pastedown is the travel-themed pictorial bookplate of Beekman Pool. A bit of foxing here and there. Very good. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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        Little Dorrit.

      8vo, sometime bound by Gilbert Brothers in full dark blue calf gilt, boards with elaborate floral borders within triple-ruled gilt fillets enclosing blind roll-tooled floral borders within triple-ruled blind fillets, spine gilt in compartments, one with contrasting morocco lettering piece, others richly decorated in gilt, gilt roll-tooled board edges, gilt roll-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title-page and engraved plates by H.K. Browne; a handsome copy. First edition. No half-title, but not called for by Smith (Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth).

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        The Waverley Novels.

      Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black,, 1857-9. 48 volumes, small octavo (164 x 99 mm). Contemporary tan half calf, green and dark red morocco labels, elaborate decoration to spines gilt separated by raised bands, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Engraved frontispieces and vignettes. Pages a little browned and some mild scattered foxing, spines and boards just a little rubbed, an excellent set. A handsomely bound set.

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        1857 1ed Railroad Explorations Pacific Northwest California MAP Los Angeles

      Published: Washington : Beverly Tucker, printer, 1857. - 1857 1ed Railroad Explorations Pacific Northwest California MAP Los Angeles Report of explorations for railroad routes from San Francisco Bay to Los Angeles, California, west of the coast range, and from the Pimas Villages on the Gila to the Rio Grande, near the 32d parallel of north latitude. We find this title for sale elsewhere for $750! ($50) Main author: John G Parke; A H Campbell; United States. War Department.; Title: Reports of explorations and surveys : to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Published: Washington : Beverly Tucker, printer, 1857. Language: English Notes & content: &#149; 1st edition &#149; Volume VII &#149; This book was commissioned by Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War in 1854 to determine the practicability of a Pacific railroad. The reporet embraces the operations of the party in the field, the results obtained and is accompanied by maps and profiles of the route surveyed, exhibiting the topography of the districts and a continuous profile of the route. It includes a geological report as well as a botanical report, the people encountered along the way, soil, climate and zoology. &#149; Color lithographic plates of various views including: o Paleontology o Geology o Botany o Folding colored maps FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE Wear: wear as seen in photos Binding: tight and secure leather binding Pages: complete with all 204 + 28 + 116 + 37 pages; plus indexes, prefaces, and such Publisher: Washington : Beverly Tucker, printer, 1857. Size: ~11in X 9in (28cm x 22.5cm) FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE Shipping: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Satisfaction Guarantee: Customer satisfaction is our first priority. Notify us within 7 days of receiving your item and we will offer a full refund guarantee without reservation. Photos available upon Request [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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        Meyers Konversations-Lexikon 1.Auflage, 15 Bände (A-Z), 1857-1860 (II)

      Bibliographisches Institut 1857-1860, Hildburghausen und New York - Meyers Neues Conversations-Lexikon für alle Stände (ab Band 2: Neues Konversations-Lexikon). 15 Bände (A-Z). Hildburghausen und New York, Druck und Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, 1857-1860. Komplettes Exemplar der selten erhältlichen ersten Auflage. Für die Zeit sehr dekorativ eingebundene Original-Halbledereinbände, Rücken mit Blind- & Goldprägungen.Format ca. 24 x 17cm. Wie auch den 10 Originalbildern in der Galerie zu entnehmen, zeigen die Bücher eine wunderschöne Rückenansicht. Selbst die Goldverzierungen sind noch hervorragend. Die Rückenkanten weisen außer einer kleinen Fehlstelle keine Einrisse oder dgl. auf. Der beeindruckende Buchschnitt ist ebenfalls in erstklassiger Erhaltung. Außen etwas berieben, die Außengelenke stärker, zwei mit einem Einriss (1 cm & 8 cm); Ecken bestoßen. Die Buchdeckel bei vier Bänden mit Kratzern, bei zweien mit einer beriebenen Stelle. Innen alles fest eingebunden. Alle Seiten vorhanden, kein unangenehmer Geruch, keine Anstreichungen o.ä. Seiten teils gebräunt; gelegentlich fleckig, vorn & hinten mehr. An drei Stellen ist mittig der Vorsatz eingerissen & die Fadenheftung zu sehen. Insgesamt zweifellos ein hervorragend erhaltenes Exemplar, in besserem Zustand ist diese Auflage heute kaum noch erhältlich. 30000 Gramm. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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        The Virginians

      Bradbury and Evans, London - 1857-59. Octavo, in the original 24 monthly parts, bound in the original yellow pictorial wrappers; viii, 382; viii, 376 pages. Illustrated by the author, with 2 engraved titles, 46 plates and many drawings in the text. The present copy has the first issue point "actresses" on page 207, no. 7, volume I, line 15 from bottom. All parts are complete, save for the "Grace Aguilar's Works" ad in part 24 (usually absent) and the "Virginian Advertiser" in part 2. Part I has an extra page of "book ads" at rear; part 11 has "Dr. De Jongh's" ad inserted upside down; part 18 has extra "Dr. De Jongh's ad (4 pages). In part 20, the slip, "In consequence of an accident, the plates for the present month will appear along with those of the ensuing number in July" is inserted after page 4 of text. As handsome and as complete a set as one would expect to find on today's market. Small loss at a few spine ends; slight browning to edges of a few plates and light foxing, more pronounced on the plates of parts 19, 22 and 23, extending to the first 2 pages of text. Housed in a 20th century cloth slipcase, with chemise. Overall, a very good to fine unsophisticated copy. Van Duzer 232. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

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        Madame Bovary. Moeurs de province. 2 Bände in einem Buch gebunden.

      Paris Michel Levy Freres 1857 2. Auflage Kl.8°, ca. 17,6 x 10,5 cm, 2 Bl., 232 S., 2 Bl., 490 S. durchpaginiert, privater Halbleinenband (Collection Michel Levy). Paris, Typ. de Madame V. Dondey-Dupre, Rue Saint-Louis, 46. KLL V. R.:\"Für Maupassant, Zola, Proust, Heinrich Mann u.a. wurde `Madame Bovary` zum absoluten Maßstab des eigenen Schaffens, für alle Späteren - auch für Kritiker wie Sartre - zu einem Bezugspunkt, an dem die Entwicklung des modernen Romans gemessen wurde.\" Schnitt und Seiten gebräunt, überwiegend im Randbereich, 1 Blatt mit Eckabriss, 4 Blätter mit Einriss Versand D: 3,00 EUR

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        Autograph poem unsigned.

      no place, 16.10.1857 - 4to. 1 page. Fra Vesterhavets Lande. [From the countries of the North Sea]. Handwritten poem of 3 verses on 4to sheet. Miss Dunlop den 16 October 1857. -"Fra Vesterhavets Lande/ Hen over Dÿbe Vande/ Du kom til Danmarks Strande/ Hvor Guld paa Marken groer; - Her Du i Bøgesalen/ Tidt hørte Nattergalen, og her ved Taget Svalen, Symbol paa Troskab, boer. - Paa Svalens Rÿg smukt sidder, Gud Amor, klædt som Ridder, Forstaar Du Fugle-Qvidder, En Hilsen -! hvad? og hvor!".Birthday-poem written on Basnæs to Agnes Dunlop (1830-1908) for her 27th years birthday. She was a daughter of the plantation-owner John Baltazar Dunlop and was until her marriage to Michael Rosing Lady&#146;s Companion at Mrs. Scavenius på Basnæs. This poem was first printed after H.C. Andersen passed away.

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        SECTIONAL MAP OF THE SURVEYED PORTIONS OF MINNESOTA AND THE NORTH WESTERN PART OF WISCONSIN

      Boston, 1857. Color map, 32 x 23 1/2 inches, backed on linen. Folding into original 12mo. maroon cloth binder, gilt- lettered cover. Cloth sunned, hinge worn. Map trimmed close, split on some folds. Good. The inner front cover advertises Colton maps; this seems to be different from Graff, though the map is the same. It was prepared by J.S. Sewall. PHILLIPS MAPS, p.433. GRAFF 3735.

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        Exposition universelle de 1855. Rapport sur l'Exposition universelle de 1855 présenté à l'Empereur par S.A.I. le prince Napoléon, président de la Commission.

      Imprimerie impériale, Paris 1857 - Grand in-8 de (4)- 511 pp., demi-chagrin vert, dos orné à nerfs, tranches dorées (reliure de l'époque). Première exposition universelle française des produits industriels et des arts, suivant de quatre ans celle du Cristal Palace. Avec l'expositon de Londres, elle devait être le départ d'une politique mondiale douanière et industrielle favorisant la libre concurrence et le libre échange au détriment du monopole. « Les expositions universelles font partie de ce vaste progrès économique auquel appartiennent les voies ferrées, les télégraphes électriques, la navigation à vapeur, les percements d'isthmes, tous les grands travaux publics, et qui doit amener un accroissement de bien-être moral, c'est-à-dire plus de liberté, en même temps qu'une augmentation de bien-être matériel, c'est-à-dire plus d'aisance au profit du plus grand nombre ». Exemplaire de présent portant sur le premier plat : « Don de S.A.I. le Prince Napoléon Président de Commission impériale ». Deux plans repliés. Bel exemplaire.

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        REPORT OF THE DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE OPINIONS OF THE JUDGES THEREOF IN THE CASE OF DRED SCOTT VERSUS JOHN F.A. SANDFORD DECEMBER TERM 1856 (First Separate Edition)

      Cornelius Wendell, 1857. GOOD PLUS IN FINE CUSTOM CLAMSHELL CASE. From the Nineteenth Volume of Howard's Reports. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, published simultaneously with its inclusion in the Supreme Court reports. The decision was handed down on March 6th, 1857. NOTE: The Supreme Court misspelled John Sanford's name in the decision and it has frequently been handed down incorrectly spelled as Sandford. One of the landmark cases in American jurisprudence. Dred Scott, a slave, sued to obtain his freedom on the grounds that he resided in the free Wisconsin territory. The Supreme Court ruled that he was not a citizen and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. The gist of that decision ruled "that people of African descent brought into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants) whether or not they were slaves) were not protected by the United States Constitution and could never be citizens." (Wkpd). "It is safe to say that no case that ever came before an Anglo-Saxon tribunal was fraught with more momentous consequences and that no judge has ever been more bitterly assailed than was (Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Brooke) Taney for his opinion in this case..." William Draper Lewis IV, 149-150. Sabin 3324. Some wear and inked markings, fraying and tidelines to paper wraps and first few leaves. Inscription on rear panel dated May 20th (145th), which is no doubt 1857 -- just ten weeks after the actual decision was made. Custom chocolate-brown plush-lined hard clamshell case. Handsome red leather label to spine (THE DRED SCOTT CASE), with gilt lettering, highlights and 1857 date. 239 pp. All pages present, but lacks the green paper covers originally issued with this first, separate edition.

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        THE INSTRUCTIVE PICTURE BOOK or Progressive Lessons from the Natural History of Animals and Plants

      Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas, 1857.. FIRST EDITION 1857, Volume I of 2, containing: "Fourfooted animals, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, with 10 elementary plates of miscellaneous objects". Folio, 320 x 205 mm, 12Â½ x 8 inches, modern half tan leather over original marbled boards, gilt titled spine, original endpapers retained, title page leaf plus 16 pages of description of the plates, 30 beautiful double page hand coloured plates. The first 10 plates are of "furniture, utensils, vessels, tools, instruments, costumes &c." The next 8 plates show a mixture of reptiles, insects, fish and wild and domestic animals, the next 9 show superb illustrations of wild, exotic and domestic birds, the last 3 show snakes, fish and butterflies. A touch of rubbing to head and tail of spine, old marbled boards rubbed, inner paper hinges cracked, binding sound, endpapers browned and foxed, very little pale foxing to 2 facing plates, 50 mm (2") closed vertical tear to final plate at centrefold, not affecting image, occasional small pale mark to margins, plates clean and bright. A very good plus complete copy. Osborne I, page 216. Volume II is by Charlotte Young and covers the Vegetable World. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

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        British butterflies and their transformations [WITH] British moths and their transformations.

      London Thomas Sanderson 1857 - New edition, revised and corrected by the author, 3 volumes, 4to. 166 lithograph plates by H. N. Humphreys, printed in colours and finished by hand, contemporary green half morocco gilt, all edges gilt, spines faded, an excellent set, the paltes clean and fresh. "A high, and arguably unequalled standard in Victorian butterfly book illustration" (Dunbar). Westwood, a distinguished entomologist and member of the Linnean Society, collaborated in writing the text to accompany the charming beautiful painings by Humphreys. Each print depicts several species artiitcally composed among the flowering caterpillar food plants, and in many instances the caterpillar and chrysalis are shown. Some of the grander European species are also shown. Dunbar pp53-55. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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        Little Dorrit (Two Books in One volume)

      Bradbury and Evans, London 1857 - Octavo. First state with all usual issue points by Smith. A spectacular copy without the usual "heavy" foxing especially to the plates. The present copy has just a hint of foxing. Seven of the eight dark plates, p. 146 does not appear to be in a dark state. Beautifully bound by Bickers in full tan polished calf, boards triple ruled in gilt, raised bands with compartments fully gilt decorated, light and dark brown morocco spine labels gilt, gilt decorated turn-ins, all edges gilt, minor spots of rubbing along the joints. A beautiful copy. [Attributes: First Edition]

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        Neues Conservations-Lexikon für alle Stände

      Hildburghausen 1857 - Neues Conservations-Lexikon für alle Stände. In Verbindung mit Staatsmännern, Gelehrten, Künstlern und Technikern und unter der Redaktion der Herren L. Köhler und Krause hrsg. von H. J. Meyer. Diesem Wörterbuch . sind beigegeben: 120 Bildnisse ., 60 Ansichten der merkwürdigsten Orte, die Pläne der größten Städte, 123 Karten . Bd. 1 - 15. - Hildburghausen ; New York : Bibliograph. Inst., 1857 - 1860. 24 x 17 cm. Halblederbände mit reicher RVergoldung. /Rücken tlw. stärker lädiert, Leder verblichen/ [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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