YOSEMITE VALLEY, by ANSEL ADAMS, edited by NANCY NEWHALL.

SIGNED by ANSEL ADAMS on the title page.

Published by 5 Associates, Redwood City, California, 1967.

Softcovers, 9x12 inches, 64 pages. Illustrated with 45 photographic plates.

GOOD condition, there is a vertical crease to the front cover, the spine is scraped at the ends and edges, internally nice, all the photos are bright and lovely. A used, but complete and signed copy.

About the book (from the back cover):

******Ansel Adams, internationally known photographer, writer and teacher, who has worked for more than forty years with his camera in Yosemite, presents some of his most exciting pictures of the world famous Valley.

In addition, he has prepared an informative text on PHOTOGRAPHY IN YOSEMITE, which will be of great value to both the amateur and advanced photographer.******

TRANSLATIONS by JESS. Introduction by ROBERT DUNCAN. Catalog for the exhibition that took place at the Odyssia Gallery, New York, in 1971.

NEW YORK: Odyssia Gallery, 1971. Printed by Black Sparrow Press in an edition of 1000 softcover and 200 hardcover copies.

Softcovers, 8x10 inches, xiii, 26, [6] pages. Illustrated in b&w. Laid-in is a fold-open invitation to the opening of the exhibition.

Though uncalled for in the softcover edition, THIS copy is warmly SIGNED, INSCRIBED and DATED by JESS to his friend, the noted Marin County bookseller MICHAEL GOOD: "For Mike Good / In hopes he'll like our picture-book / affectionately, JESS ".

NEAR FINE condition, tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

Copies of this catalog are rarely found INSCRIBED by the artist. A nice bibliophilic association copy.

About JESS (from Wikipedia):

******Jess Collins, b.1923 d.2004, known today simply as Jess, was an American visual artist.

He met Robert Duncan in 1950 and began a relationship with the poet that lasted for 37 years until Duncan's death in 1988. The two men lived and worked for decades from their historic Victorian home in the Mission District, "a wonderland of an old house, filled to the roof with art".

Jess's art received international attention with solo exhibitions at the The Museum of Modern Art in New York (1974), the Galleria Odyssia in Rome (1975), the Wadsworth Atheneum[11] (1975), the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (1977), the Berkeley Art Museum (1980), and The Arts Club of Chicago (1981).

In 2019, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art mounted the show "Mythos, Psyche, Eros: Jess and California", which paired paintings and collages: "that privileged the mystical, whimsical, and absurd" by "one of San Francisco's most enigmatic figures..."

ITALIAN EDITION OF OUR TOWN TRANSLATED by NOTED MID 20th CENTURY FEMALE TRANSLATOR WILDER CALLS HER TRANSLATION "ONE OF THE WORST TRANSLATIONS POSSIBLE"

PICCOLA CITTÀ [OUR TOWN], by THORNTON WILDER. Published by Franco Campitelli, Editore, Roma, 1944. Softcovers, French flaps, 5.5x8.5 inches. ITALIAN edition, translated from the English by Alessandra Scalero.

SIGNED, INSCRIBED by THORNTON WILDER to Fellow Playwright GEORGE KELLEY:

"George Kelley - Cordial greetings / Thornton Wilder / Hamden Conn / January 1950."

Below which Thornton wrote (caps added for emphasis):

"Note page 73 - The Translator has omitted 'the address on the envelope' - one of the many places which render this version one of the WORST TRANSLATIONS POSSIBLE."

FAIR condition: The wrappers are reinforced and held together with clear tape at the spine and front hinge, otherwise the covers are lightly toned, have some corner and edge creases, and a chip to the top edge, but remain bright and clear. Internally in good condition, the pages are toned, especially at the margins. Overall a complete copy with tape reinforcement to the spine and hinges.

The bitter, anti-woman inscription by Thornton Wilder makes this book special.

ALESSANDRA SCALERO was an important FEMALE ITALIAN TRANSLATOR who translated many important works, including Virginia Woolf's Orlando, and was considered a feminist scholar who, amazingly was able to capture the essence of subversive novels, including Orlando, in Italy during the repressive 1930's and 1940's. You can read about her online. Here are a couple Internet tidbits:

"Translating Orlando in 1930s Fascist Italy: Virginia Woolf, translated by Alessandra Scalero // The first full translation of Orlando in Italian was published on 1 October 1933 by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. What made the Italian translation of Orlando such a literary and economic success was not only the brilliance of the novel but also, as I shall show, the lexical expertise and brilliance of its translator, Alessandra Scalero. In her translation Scalero was able to remain true to the spirit and the style of a subversive novel and what is more remarkable, she accomplished this feat in a climate of repressive censorship."

"Alessandra Scalero worked as a literary translator from English, German, and French for the publishing houses Mondadori and Il Corbaccio, from the late 1920s to the early 1940s. She translated novels by many prominent authors including Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, John Dos Passos and Daphne Du Maurier and often translated works for Mondadori's Medusa series. Scalero translated Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop into Italian in 1936, and Cather wrote she was impressed with the quality of the work."

Key Words: Women, Women Authors, Women Translators, Italy, Italian Feminism

LOVER OF ROBER GRAVES ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN 1927 SAID SHE WOULD NEVER WRITE ANOTHER POEM

A POEM : HOW A POEM CAME TO BE. A Lovely BROADSIDE POEM by LAURA RIDING JACKSON.

SIGNED by LAURA RIDING JACKSON at the end of her poem, beneath her printed name.

Published by [Lord John Press, 1980]. Presentation Copy - Presentation Copies are normally printed prior to numbered copies, making them quite hard to find. Subsequently printed in a limited edition of only 150 numbered copies.

Broadside, printed on fine, heavy stock, watermarked paper (Arches, France), deckled top and bottom edges, 15x22 inches.

NEAR FINE condition, a bright and beautiful copy. Would look great mounted and/or framed.

From the Broadside: "Within a very few years of the publication of my Collected Poems (1938)... I renounced further trying the way of poetry... saying: I would write no more poems - and I wrote no more poems... (however) I wrote for (a close friend), in the 1978 Christmastime, a poem, marked as a poem for him only, giving it the title HOW A POEM CAME TO BE. I kept no copy of this privately written and given poem, and forgot the writing and the giving of it... I chanced, recently, to tell my friend of receiving a request for a poem to publish in broadside form from the Lord John Press, indicating my feeling some surprise that Mr. Yellin, the Press's director, should not have been aware that FOR FORTY YEARS there had been NO NEW POEMS of mine. But my friend reminded me that about a year ago there HAD been a new poem - the one I wrote for him; and he urged me to let him release it to me from its private status of being a poem for him only... I give here the poem, given him, to be out in the world..."

LAURA RIDING JACKSON, 1901-1991, was an iconoclastic American Poet. She left New England at the age of 25 to live with ROBERT GRAVES and his wife, Nancy Nicholson. The triangle did not suit her, and Laura Riding tried to commit suicide in 1927. Thereafter Robert Graves divorced his wife and lived together with Laura Riding in Majorca, France, England and Switzerland, and even went with her when she returned to the United States. They bitterly broke up in 1939. In 1941 Laura Riding Jackson renounced poetry, married Schuyler B. Jackson, and lived quietly with him in Wabasso, Florida, until her death in 1991. In the 60s, 70s and 80s she wrote a number of pieces explaining her reasons for renouncing poetry, but no poetry. This is apparently THE ONLY POEM written by Laura Riding Jackson since 1941.

You can read much more about LAURA RIDING on Wikipedia and elsewhere on the Internet.

This Large and Lovely BROADSIDE will be shipped carefully rolled in a sturdy mailing tube.

Original 1981 Color Photograph. SIGNED and DATED in black the ink by the artist KEN BOTTO on the front mat and on the rear frame backing. Ektacolor print, 8" x 12", double matted in an 11" x 16" metal and glass frame, the photograph is loosely set into 4 photo corners. The photograph is in NEAR FINE Condition bright and clean, the inner signed mat has a shoreline stain in the lower left corner, not affecting the photograph (this can also be seen on the rear backing board), and both of Ken Botto's signatures are bold and bright. A scarce early photograph from his famous Barbie Series.

A darkly surreal image that evokes a nuanced sense of unease and satire with a touch of uninhibited dominatrix energy. An iconic image from an iconic series by a very unique photographer.

Photographer Ken Botto (American, 1937-2008) Bolinas based artist who received his BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts and his MFA from Claremont Graduate School. Botto's photographic work has been widely exhibited and is in the permanent collections of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

SCARCE GROUP OF IMPORTANT AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS BOOKS ONE SIGNED

1. Exhibition Catalogue. THE PROPHET AND OTHER PAINTINGS by Alvin Hollingsworth

ALVIN C. HOLLINGSWORTH attracted widespread critical acclaim with his groundbreaking exhibition THE PROPHET SERIES held at the Harbor Gallery in Long Island that travelled to the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1970. Harlem Renaissance Artist and Civil Rights Advocate Romare Bearden lauded the exhibition in the October 1970 issue of the New York Amsterdam News. And in a 1971 Ebony magazine interviewed Hollingsworth who provocatively stated, "I have always felt that Christ was a Black man . a symbol of any of the modern prophets who have been trying to show us the right way. To me, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King are such prophets." Published by the Harbor Gallery, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 1970. First Edition. Softcover, dark yellow textured card covers with black printing and tipped on color plate, 9" x 6", side staple bound, 12 unnumbered pages including covers, illustrated with 7 b&w photographs of Hollingsworth's paintings and a b&w photographic portrait of the artist. NEAR FINE Condition: tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce, only 11 copies in OCLC collections worldwide.

2. SIGNED Conference Program. THE SLAVERY DEBATE: WHAT DOES IT MEAN? April 1975, Queens College, University of New York. John Henrik Clarke, Convener. Illustrated wraps 11" x 8.25", side staple bound, 8 un-numbered pages. SIGNED by HOLLINGSWORTH in blue pen on the front cover. Hollingsworth created the cover art for the program. NEAR FINE Condition: tight, bright, clean, unmarked and Hollingsworth's signature is bold and bright. Scarce.

3. Children's Book. I'D LIKE THE GOO-GEN HEIM. Written and Illustrated by A.C. Hollingsworth. Published by Reilly & Lee Books, a division of Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, IL, 1970. First edition. Hardcover in illustrated dustjacket, light yellow cloth covered boards with embossed metallic blue printing on the spine, 7" x 8", sky blue endpapers, 48 un-numbered pages, colorfully illustrated throughout, the inside rear panel of the dj has a b&w photograph of the artist Book and un-price clipped dustjacket are in NEAR FINE Condition: tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Scare first edition of Hollinworth's only children's book.

ALVIN C. HOLLINGSWORTH (1928-2000) Leading African American Artist, trail blazing Black comic artist, painter, illustrator, abstract expressionist, best known for his paintings relating to civil rights issues, the experience of Blacks within the urban landscape, Black women's rights, jazz, spirituality, and dance. Founding member with Romare Bearden of the Spiral Group of African American artists who linked their creative expression to social justice, other prominent members included Charles Alston, Emma Amos, Earl Miller, Norman Lewis, Hale Woodruff, Richard Mayhew, and Reginald Gammon. As early as 1945 he was illustrating comic books for various publishers including Cat Man Comics, which were issued under his name and pseudonyms, by the early 1950's he successfully created his own nationally syndicated comic.

THE OLD GLORY by Robert Lowell SIGNED & INSCRIBED

" For James Sanders / From / Robert Lowell (signed) / In Castine, In July / 1968 " in blue ink on the title page.

Published by Noonday Press, New York. Fourth Noonday Printing, 1967. Illustrated softcovers, 8.25" x 5.5", 193 pages GOOD CONDITION: tanning to the covers and inner pages, light wear to the covers, fading to the spine, light crease to spine, overall tight, bright, clean and unmarked. With a unique literary association to the New England coastal village of Castine, Maine where Robert Lowell inherited a house and summered for 15 years from 1955 to 1970 with his wife, writer Elizabeth Hardwick.

Robert Lowell (1917-1977) American Poet, twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and celebrated as America's most famous living poet. He taught such luminaries as W. D. Snodgrass, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath. He set his famous poem "Skunk Hour" in Castine. The Old Glory consists of three plays adapted from works by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville and reflect the political turmoil of the 1960s

FIVE WILLIAM T. WILEY ART EXHIBITION CATALOGS, plus a Memorial Tribute pamphlet.

TWO of the ART EXHIBITION CATALOGS are SIGNED & INSCRIBED by WILEY to his good friends MICHAEL and SANDRA GOOD.

(The items come from the estate of MICHAEL and SANDRA GOOD. Sandra Good, a noted bookbinder, was a past President of the Hand Bookbinders of California. Michael Good was an antiquarian bookseller and a one time President of the ABAA.)

The catalogs are in GOOD to VERY GOOD condition, the Robert Hudson / William Wiley catalog is scraped and worn at the spine, otherwise the items just show light signs of handling and age.

The exhibition catalogs are:

STRUCK! SURE? SOUND / UNSOUND. Wm. T. Wiley. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1991. Softcovers, 7x11 inches, 44 pages. Illustrated. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by WILEY on the half-title page: "For Mike and Sandy / Love / Wiley / 91".

ROBERT HUDSON: SCULPTURE / WILLIAM T. WILEY: PAINTING. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1991. Softcovers, 10x11 inches, 50 pages. Illustrated. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by WILEY on the front endpaper: "For the GOODS / With Love / Wiley / 91".

WILLIAM T. WILEY - AFTERBURNER. Rena Branstein Gallery, San Francisco, 1994. Softcovers, 8.5x11 inches. Illustrated. 32 pages.

STEAL THE WITNESS FOR THE TIME BEING. William T. Wiley. Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, 1984. 8.5x11 inches. Illustrated. 31 pages.

WILLIAM T. WILEY - SELECTIONS FROM TWO EXHIBITIONS. John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco; Charles Cowles Gallery, New York. 2007. 10x10 inches. Illustrated. 72 pages.

PLUS:

A Celebration of the Life of William T. Wiley - San Geronimo Valley Community Center, July 17, 2021. Small, single fold pamphlet (4 pages), 5.5x8.5 inches.

POPERY UNMASK'D. THE SUBSTANCE OF DR. MIDDLETON'S LETTER FROM ROME, With an Abstract of the Doctor's Reply... by [Conyers Middleton]. LONDON: Printed for G. Keith, at the Bible and Crown, in Grace-church-street. M.DCC.LIX [1759].

Hardcovers, leather covered boards, small format, 4x6 inches (9.5x15 cm),

GOOD condition: Professionally rebacked and the hinges strengthened, making this a lovely, solid copy. The pages are lightly toned as normal, there is some edge wear and a closed edge tear here and there, overall a solid, presentable copy.

SIGNATURE of WELCOME ARNOLD, b.1745 d.1798, is on the front free endpaper. Rare old iron ink signature

BOOKPLATE of WELCOME ARNOLD is on the front pastedown.

SIGNATURE of ARNOLD GREEN (aka GREENE), b.1838 d.1903, is on the top of the Welcome Arnold bookplate.

BOOKPLATE of THEODORE FRANCIS GREEN, b.1867 d.1966, son of Arnold Green, U.S. Senator for Rhode Island, is on the front pastedown.

Three CHECKS SIGNED BY THEODORE F. GREEN as TRUSTEE for the ESTATE OF ARNOLD GREEN are Laid-In.

About the ARNOLD AND GREEN / GREENE FAMILIES of RHODE ISLAND (extracts from various Internet sources):

The Arnold and Greene families are two prominent families deeply intertwined with the history of Rhode Island. The Arnold family, particularly the lineage of William Arnold and his son Governor Benedict Arnold, were early settlers and influential figures in the colony's development. The Greene family, also among the earliest settlers, played a significant role in shaping Rhode Island's political and social landscape. Their histories are closely connected through intermarriages and shared influence in the colony and state.

The Arnold and Greene families were among the earliest settlers in Rhode Island, contributing significantly to the colony's establishment and development.

Intermarriage between the two families, like the marriage of Patience Greene and Welcome Arnold, further solidified their connections and influence.

Both families produced prominent figures who served in various capacities, including governors, senators, and military leaders, shaping the state's history.

The Arnold and Greene families are remembered for their immense contributions to Rhode Island's political, social, and economic landscape.

About WELCOME ARNOLD (from Wikipedia):

******Welcome Arnold, b.1745 d.1798, was a Colonial American politician and merchant. He was a descendant of William Arnold, one of the founding settlers of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Arnold, a member of the Sons of Liberty, was involved in the planning of the 1772 burning of the HMS Gaspee in Narragansett Bay, which later became known as the Gaspee affair. Occurring three years before the Boston Tea Party, it is considered the first act of civil disobedience against the Crown. A prominent merchant in the New England-Caribbean trade, Arnold was also a leader in the fight to end Rhode Island's involvement in the African slave trade. He served as a trustee of Brown University.

Welcome Arnold was one of twelve children born to Jonathan Arnold and Abigail (née Smith) Arnold. His sister, Elizabeth Arnold, married Samuel Arnold (son of Joseph Arnold), and another sister, Abigail Arnold, married Nathaniel Greene (son of Caleb Greene). In 1773 Arnold married Patience Greene, 1754-1809, a daughter of Patience (née Cooke) Greene and Samuel Greene (grandson of John Greene Jr.). The marriage was said to have consolidated landed and mercantile power in colonial Rhode Island. Together, they had fourteen children, only four of whom lived to maturity.******

About THEODORE FRANCIS GREEN (from Wikipedia):

******Theodore Francis Green, b.1867 d.1966, was an American politician from Rhode Island. A Democrat, Green served as the 57th Governor of Rhode Island, 1933-1937, and in the United States Senate, 1937-1961. He served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1957 to 1959.******

MEDICAL and SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS in the CHRISTIE CASE, by FRANCIS E. CAMPS, M.D. Lecturer in Forensic Medicine at the London Hospital Medical College.

Published by Medical Publications Limited, London and New York, 1953. First edition.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author, Francis Camps, on the front free endpaper.

Copy of JOHN E. MURDOCK, noted Forensic Science Investigator, with his signature at the top of the front pastedown.

Hardcovers, green cloth covered boards, gilt titles to the spine, 6x9 inches, xxiii + 244 pages. ILLUSTRATED "With 47 Diagrams and Photographs and 6 Coloured Plates".

GOOD condition: The covers have some small white spots, there is a bit of wear to the spine ends and corner tips, and the spine gilt is faded but legible, otherwise the covers are solid and well bound. Internally the pages are very nice, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

SCARCE book, especially so with the Signature and Inscription of the author and forensic witness Francis Camps, and the association to criminologist John E. Murdock.

About FRANCIS CAMPS and the CHRISTIE MURDER CASE (from Wikipedia):

******Francis Edward Camps, b.1905 d.1972, was an English pathologist noted for his work on the cases of serial killers John Christie and John Bodkin Adams. He was professor of Forensic Medicine at the London Hospital Medical College, and President of the International Association of Forensic Scientists. He was the author of many papers on forensic medicine.

Camps gave critical evidence during the 1953 trial of John Christie, providing the court with a detailed report on the bodies found at 10 Rillington Place. Camps' report showed a consistent pattern of attack by Christie. His forensic evidence left little doubt that Christie murdered the victims and that Timothy Evans, who had been convicted and hanged for two of the murders, was innocent.

The Christie case was the most prominent of a series of miscarriages of justice which ultimately led to the abolition of capital punishment for murder in England, Wales and Scotland in 1965.******

About JOHN E. MURDOCK (from an online obituary):

******John E. Murdock, b.1938 d.2025, was Chief of the Contra Costa County Forensic Services Division (crime laboratory) for many years. He was an expert firearm and toolmark examiner. Though Murdock worked on many high profile criminal cases, he was most proud of his work on two cases for the Innocence Project, where his expertise helped secure the release of Patrick Pursley (who had spent 25 years in prison) and Bryan Foshay (who had spent 9 years in prison) following their wrongful convictions for murder based on misleading forensic evidence. The Pursley case was the first in the United States to allow post conviction firearms testing.******

About JOHN CHRISTIE - Serial Killer (from Wikipedia):

******John Reginald Halliday Christie, b1899 d.1953, was an English serial killer who murdered at least eight people - including his wife Ethel - by strangling them inside his flat at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. The bodies of three of his victims were found in a wallpaper covered kitchen alcove soon after he had moved out of Rillington Place during March 1953. The remains of two more victims were discovered in the garden, and his wife's body was found beneath the floorboards in the front room. Christie was eventually arrested and convicted of murder, for which he was hanged.

Two of Christie's victims were Beryl Evans and her baby daughter Geraldine. In 1950 Timothy Evans was charged with those murders, found guilty and hanged. Christie was a key prosecution witness in the Evans trial. When his own crimes were discovered three years later, it became evident that Christie's murders included Beryl Evans and her daughter, and that the police mishandling of the original inquiry allowed an innocent man to be hanged and Christie to escape detection, enabling him to commit a further four murders.******

THREE IMPORTANT FRENCH REVOLUTION DOCUMENTS, SIGNED:

(1) EXTRAIT DES REGISTRES DU COMITÉ DE SALUT PUBLIC DE LA CONVENTION NATIONALE...l'an deuxième de la République française une et indivisible... [Extract of the Committee for Public Safety...1793-1794].

Single-fold 4-page document, 8.75x13 inches, printed and manuscript, written on 3 pages (front and inner two pages.

SIGNED by FIVE MEMBERS of the Powerful Committee:

Lazare CARNOT, Jean-Marie COLLOT D'HERBOIS, Jacques-Nicolas BILLAUD-VARENNE, Pierre Louis PRIEUR, and Robert LINDET.

GOOD condition, soiling, toning, edgewear, corner creases and wear, horizontal creases from being folded to a small size; still solid with writing that is bright and legible throughout. Brilliant signatures.

(2) LÉGION D'HONNEUR / Paris, 1814

À MONSIEUR LIEUTENANT GÉNÉRAL COMTE BELLIARD, GRAND CORDON DE LA LÉGION D'HONNEUR.

Official document awarding the Legion of Honor Grand Cross to Lieutenant General COUNT BELLIARD. SIGNED illegibly. Paper document, 7.5x12 inches oblong, printed and manuscript on one side only.

GOOD condition: some creasing, soiling and toning, still solid, bright and clear.

The Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honor, aka the Grand Cross, is the highest award that France can bestow upon a citizen.

(3) REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE / DEPARTEMENT DE LA GUERRE...l'an 10 de la République française une et indivisible [1801-1802].

MANUSCRIPT LETTER on official MINISTER OF THE WAR letterhead, SIGNED by ALEXANDRE BERTHIER, the Minister of War, to his brother GENERAL LEOPOLD BERTHIER.

Single-fold 4-page document, 8.5x12 inches, printed and manuscript, letter written on the front page, addressee information on the back of the last page.

FAIR condition, the single-fold document is completely split at the fold, there is soiling, toning, edgewear, corner creases and wear, and horizontal creases from being folded to a small size; still complete (though split) with writing that is bright and legible throughout.

********************************** About the French Revolution SIGNERS of these documents (from Wikipedia):

JEAN-MARIE COLLOT D'HERBOIS aka "The Butcher of Lyon", b.1749 d.1796, was a French revolutionary. He was a member of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror, and was responsible for the execution of more than 2,000 people in the city of Lyon.

LAZARE CARNOT, b.1753 d.1823, was a French mathematician, physicist, politician and a leading member of the Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution.

JACQUES-NICOLAS BILLAUD-VARENNE, b.1756 d.1819, aka "The Tiger", was a French lawyer and a major figure in the French Revolution. He was one of the most militant members of the Committee of Public Safety, and is considered a key architect of the REIGN OF TERROR.

PIERRE LOUIS PRIEUR, b.1756 d.1827, was a French lawyer. During the French Revolution he served as a member of the Committee of Public Safety. He voted for the death of King Louis XVI.

JEAN-BAPTISTE ROBERT LINDET, b.1746 d.1825, was a French politician of the Revolutionary period. Lindet refused to sign the order for the execution of Danton and members of his party. When asked why, he replied: "I am here to protect citizens, and not to murder them".

AUGUSTIN DANIEL BELLIARD / COMTE BELLIARD, b.1769 d.1832 in Brussels, was a French general who was awarded the Grand Cordon [Grand Cross) of the Legion of Honor (Highest Order of the Legion of Honour) in 1814. Louis XVIII awarded him the title Peer of France.

LOUIS-ALEXANDRE ALEXANDRE BERTHIER, b.1753 d.1815, was a French military commander during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. He was twice Minister of War and served as chief of staff to Napoleon Bonaparte. Berthier died by either suicide or murder shortly before the Battle of Waterloo.

VICTOR LÉOPOLD BERTHIER, b.1770 d.1807, was a French general of the Revolution and Empire. His brother was Louis-Alexandre Alexandre Berthier.

IMÁGENES ARGENTINAS EN QUINCE XILOGRAFIAS. [IMAGES OF ARGENTINE in FIFTEEN LITHOGRAPHS].

Fifteen (15) lithographs of various Argentine scenes. Each lithograph is hand signed by the artist, Pablo Fabisch. The loose lithographs are held in a printed folder; they are accompanied with six folded together leaves (12 pages) of descriptive text in Spanish and some German.

FOLIO SIZE, the lithographs are printed on 14x17.5 inch sheets, and held in a slightly larger folder. LIMITED, NUMBERED EDITION, this being #226 of 400 total copies, so stated on the last page of the descriptive text leaves.

VERY GOOD condition, just light wear.

Published by Edicion Galeria Bodo, [1970].

From the Colophon page (translated): Under the artist's supervision this edition was completed in Buenos Aires on September 17, 1970.

About PABLO FABISCH (from the Arte de la Argentina website):

******Pablo Fabisch, b.1903 Berlin d.1974 Buenos Aires. A painter, engraver, and book illustrator. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts under Emil Orlik. He settled in Argentina in 1937, and became an Argentine citizen in 1951. He has had solo exhibitions in Buenos Aires, Berlin and elsewhere.******

MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT BY RALPH HEATHCOTE "Certificate of Mr. Maxwell's Marriage". SIGNED by Ralph Heathcote in his role as Minister Plenipotentiary, officiating the marriage of Edward Maxwell and Frances Herbert.

Dated "6th day of September, 1791".

One page, folio, 8x12.5 inches, with conjugate blanks. There is an official red wax seal. Backside has "Certificate of Mr. Maxwell's Marriage". Paper is watermarked with a large heraldic image and "Vorster & Zoonen".

The marriage appears to have taken place in Germany, with Bonn, Hesse-Cassel, and Cologne all being mentioned. But the marriage was between two Irish citizens.

The document reads in part: "I Ralph Heathcote, Minister Plenipotentiary of His Brittanic Majesty to the Courts of the Elector of Cologne, and to the Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel do hereby certify that EDWARD MAXWEll, of Finnebrogue, of the County of Down in Ireland, and Frances Herbert, Daughter of the late Rev. Robert Herbert of Dublin..."

Written and Signed by Heathcote. Also signed by six witnesses.

GOOD condition, numerous folds where likely folded to fit into a small envelope, some light foxing, a few corner creases, overall solid and bright.

An interesting genealogical document, handwritten on paper with unusual watermarks.

About RALPH HEATHCOTE (from Wikipedia):

******Ralph Heatchote, b.1721 d.1765. In 1748 Heathcote became curate of St Margaret's Church, Leicester, and vicar of Barkby in 1749. He moved in June 1753 to London, where he associated with John Jortin, Thomas Birch, Matthew Maty, and others, who met once a week to drink coffee and talk learnedly.

In 1746 Heathcote published a Latin dissertation on the history of astronomy, Historia Astronomiæ sive de ortu et progressu astronomiæ. He produced two pamphlets anonymously: Cursory Animadversions on the Controversy in General (1752), and Remarks upon a Charge by Dr. Chapman (1752); and in the following year wrote a reply to Thomas Fothergill's sermon on the uses of commemorating King Charles I's martyrdom. In 1755 he wrote a controversial work: A Sketch of Lord Bolingbroke's Philosophy. In 1761, he became one of the main writers in the Biographical Dictionary of 1761.

In 1767, Heathcote published an anonymous letter to Horace Walpole on the dispute between David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, which was attributed to Walpole himself. In 1771, he published anonymously The Irenarch, or Justice of the Peace's Manual; the third edition bore the author's name. The second and third editions have a long dedication to Lord Mansfield. In 1786, he produced a miscellany of anecdotes and dissertations, Sylva.

In August 1750 Heathcote married Margaret Mompesson, a descendant of William Mompesson of Eyam, and attained financial independence.******

THREE SIGNED POSTERS after Bob Seidemann's original series of aviation photographs the AIRPLANE AS ART.

P-38 Lightening

Fuselage, F-86D

Canadian Snowbirds

Photolithographs, each is 18" x 24". Published by Classic Images, Distributed by Pacific Images, Glendale, California, 1989. Each hand signed in black pen by Bob Seidemann. VERY GOOD CONDITION. Three scarce signed posters, I could not find any in commerce or auction records.

Photographer Bob Seidemann (1941-2017) is famous for his Hippie era rock posters. He was one of the most recognized rock 'n' roll photographers of the 1960s, he photographed Janis Joplin wearing only beads, he photographed album covers for the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Jackson Browne, Neil Young, and the infamous Blind Faith album cover. Raised near LaGuardia Airport he developed an early fascination with aircraft that inspired his acclaimed aviation project which began in the 1980s. In 2007 the original Airplanes As Art photography portfolio sold at auction for $216,000 at Sotheby's.

The three posters will be shipped together, safely rolled in a sturdy mailing tube.

THE INTRODUCTORY LECTURE OF THOMAS COOPER, Esq., Professor of Chemistry at Carlisle College, Pennsylvania. Published at the Request of the Trustees, with Notes and References.

CARLISLE [Pennsylvania]: Printed by Archibald Loudon, 1812. First edition.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by THOMAS COOPER to CASPAR WISTAR on the Title-Page: "Mr. Cooper / To Mr. Wistar".

THOMAS COOPER was described by THOMAS JEFFERSON as "one of the ablest men in America" and by JOHN ADAMS as "a learned ingenious scientific and talented madcap." CASPAR WISTAR was a friend of THOMAS COOPER and THOMAS JEFFERSON.

There are a few HAND CORRECTIONS by COOPER. There is a margin note and text correction on page 23, specifically "have already mentioned" is lined out at the end of page 23 and the beginning of page 24, and "shall assign in the notes" is handwritten in the bottom margin of page 23; also on page 23 "or" is changed to "of" and "are" is changed to "is"; the name "Accum" is lined out on page 88 (likely the French chemist Friedrich Accum); and the word "ruttlandis" is lined out and replaced with the handwritten correct spelling "rutilandis".

Hardcovers, marbled-paper covered boards, leather spine and corners, 5.5x8.5 inches (13x21.5 cm), viii, 236 pages, plus 2 front and 2 rear blank leaves.

GOOD CONDITION: Spine professionally rebacked and inner hinges professionally reinforced making this a solid, very presentable copy. The original front and rear paper covered boards are soiled, have some shorelining, creases, chips and tears to the paper covering, and are worn through along the edges and corners; but have a nice and sturdy Hogwarts' Library feel and look. Internally, there is foxing throughout; the pages are toned with age; and there are some tears, edge chips, edge wear, etc. here and there; otherwise the pages are clean and clear, and the printing is legible throughout. A complete, solid, presentable copy.

A RARE and IMPORTANT piece of AMERICANA.

About Thomas Cooper (from Wikipedia):

******Thomas Cooper, b.1759 d.1839, was an Anglo-American economist, college president and political philosopher. Cooper was described by Thomas Jefferson as "one of the ablest men in America" and by John Adams as "a learned ingenious scientific and talented madcap." Dumas Malone stated that "modern scientific progress would have been impossible without the freedom of the mind which he championed throughout life." His ideas were taken very seriously.

In addition to Thomas Jefferson, he was friends with James Madison and several Governors of South Carolina. As a philosopher he was a follower of David Hartley, Erasmus Darwin, Priestley, and François-Joseph-Victor Broussais; he was a physiological materialist, and a severe critic of Scottish metaphysics.

Later in life, Cooper became an ardent and outspoken defender of slavery, and personally owned several slaves.******

About CASPAR WISTAR (from Wikipedia):

******Caspar Wistar, b.1761 d.1818, was an American physician and anatomist. He was born in Philadelphia, the son of Richard Wistar and Sarah Wyatt. He was the grandson of Caspar Wistar, a German immigrant, Quaker and glassmaker.

Wistar was a friend of Thomas Jefferson, with whom he worked to identify bones of the megalonyx and through whom he tutored Meriwether Lewis, including recommendations for scientific inquiry on the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Wistar was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1803. In 1808 he was given the Chair of Anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, which he retained until his death.

The Wistar Institute at UPenn was named in his honor.******

***1952 INTERNATIONAL FREEMASONRY GRAND MASTERS REUNION***

***BOOK and LAID-IN DOCUMENT SIGNED by GRAND MASTERS of MANY NATIONS and LODGES***

DIE SYMBOLE DES FREIMAURERS (SYMBOLS OF FREEMASONS), by Franz Carl Endres.

STUTTGART: Franz Mittelbach Verlag, 1952. First edition. Hardcover book in dustjacket, 6x8.5 inches, 110 pages. Text in German. Appears to have been published on the occasion of the 1952 REUNION of GRAND MASTERS in BERN, Switzerland.

The book is SIGNED on the front free endpaper by 23 freemason Grand Masters who were attending the reunion. There is also a LAID-IN two page document with the heading REUNION des GRANDS MAITRES à BERNE, les 29 at 30 mars 1952. The document has the names of Grand Masters and other delegates attending the reunion and the country where their Lodge is located. The document is also SIGNED by the attendees next to their printed names.

Condition: GOOD book, some toning, light foxing to the endpapers, otherwise tight, bright and clean; in a FAIR dustjacket that has soiling, rubbing, some corner tip wear, edgewear, and some closed edge tears, but is still doing its job. The laid in document has a horizontal fold, some toning, and light signs of handling. ALL the SIGNATURES in the book and document are bright and clear.

An interesting gathering of POST WWII FREEMASONS primarily from EUROPE.

IL METODO DELLA PEDAGOGIA SCIENTIFICA Applicato ALL'EDUCAZIONE INFANTILE Nelle CASE DEI BAMBINI. Seconda Edizione accresciuta ed ampliata. Con molte tavole e figure.

(THE METHOD OF SCIENTIFIC PEDAGOGY Applied to CHILDHOOD EDUCATION IN CHILDREN'S HOMES. Second edition expanded and enlarged. With many plates and figures.)

ROMA: Ermanno Loescher & Co., 1913. Second Edition.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED TWICE by MARIA MONTESSORI to her TRUSTED LAWYER & FINANCIAL ADVISOR ALFREDO BRUNO - ONCE on the Dedication Page and ONCE on the a blank prelim page:

"Al Dottore Alfredo Bruno mio avvocato / affidandogli con la più affettuosa stima la sfera di questa opera. / Maria Montessori / Roma Gennaio 1912".

(To Doctor Alfredo Bruno my lawyer / entrusting him with the most affectionate esteem the entirety of this work / Maria Montessori / Rome January 1912)

"All'Avv, Alfredo Bruno / La Seconda Edizione / Maria Montessori".

(To Lawyer Alfredo Bruno / The Second Edition / Maria Montessori)

Hardcovers, red cloth covered boards, gilt titles on front cover and spine, 8x11 inches (20x27.5 cm), 283 pages plus 23 b&w photographic plates at the rear.

GOOD Condition, the covers have some darkening to the spine and margins, the spine was professionally restored, overall the covers are solid, with bright gilt, and quite attractive. Internally, the front inner hinge has been professionally reinforced, the text pages are toned/browned as normal, there is foxing to the first and last few pages of the text, the first plate has some foxing at the top (a result of facing the foxed blank verso of the last page of text), otherwise the plates, which were printed on good quality paper, are bright, clean and clear. Overall a solid, complete, very presentable copy.

ALFREDO BRUNO was MARIA MONTESSORI'S lawyer and advisor during the years that PEDAGOGIA SCIENTIFICA first appeared and the "Montessori Method" was taking off internationally. As such he was greatly responsible for the early diffusion of Maria Montessori's work. As Montessori states in her inscription to Bruno she entrusted him with "the entirety of this work".

Below are a few of the references to Maria Montessori and Alfredo Bruno found on the Internet (these from the Lilly Library; "America's Early Montessorians" by Gerald and Patricia Gutek; and an Italian Doctoral Thesis from the Università di Bologna):

******From 1911 on, requests for translations came to Montessori from all over the world. The lawyer ALFREDO BRUNO handled all correspondence, and all issues related to finance - contracts, copyright, royalty payments, etc. In the collection held in the archives of the Association Montessori Internationale in Amsterdam, are collected the letters SENT TO HIM between 1912 and 1914 from every part of the globe. The documents show on the one hand the international interest in the Montessori experiment, on the other the criteria Bruno and Montessori used in deciding to whom to entrust her work.*****

******She refused to sign the Montessori Company contract and her lawyer, ALFREDO BRUNO, told S. S. McClure that the proposed Montessori Company was dead: "Dr. Montessori has examined the contract plan prepared by you...relative to...the Montessori Company of America recently established, but she will not in any way feel obligated in such a broad and open-ended way."******

******On May 24, the lawyer Alfredo Bruno, Maria Montessori's lawyer for all matters related to the publications of the texts and the sale of the material, wrote to Heinemann: Dear sir, Doctor Montessori told me about your proposals which reached her via a letter sent to Mrs. Tasker. May I, as Montessori's advisor, request that all communications be sent to ME or to Dr. Montessori personally?******

THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY Volume I and Volume II. By CARTER G. WOODSON.

Each copy is SIGNED, INSCRIBED and DATED by the author, CARTER G. WOODSON, as follows:

"To Miss M. E. Cromwell / with the best wishes of / C. G. Woodson / Jan 19, 1918".

Mary E. Cromwell was a founder of the The National Association of University Women, an activist for equality for African-American girls, and a mathematician. Her father was John Wesley Cromwell. John Wesley Cromwell is listed in the Index of Volume I.

Two hardcover books, gilt titling to the spines, 5.5x8.5 inches. Pagination: Volume I, iv, 462 pages. Volume II, iv, 464 pages.

Published by The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Lancaster, PA, and Washington DC, 1916 and 1917. First editions.

VERY GOOD condition: The covers had some professional restoration to the cloth boards, they are solid and lovely with just light signs of handling and wear. Internally, the front and rear inner hinges are professionally reinforced; overall the inner pages are tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A nice, solid, very presentable set.

HISTORIC and IMPORTANT African-Americana. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by CARTER G. WOODSON to his 1918 colleague at M Street / Dunbar High School MARY E. CROMWELL, the noted Black activist and mathematician, these two volumes are not only rare but unique..

About CARTER G. WOODSON (from Wikipedia):

******Carter Godwin Woodson, b.1875 d.1950, was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. He was one of the first scholars to study the history of the African diaspora, including African-American history. A founder of The Journal of Negro History in 1916, Woodson has been called the FATHER OF BLACK HISTORY. In February 1926 he launched the celebration of Negro History Week, now known as the Black History Month.

In 1911 he began teaching at M Street (Dunbar) High School - An Elite Black

school. One of his colleagues was the mathematics teacher, Mary E. Cromwell. In 1912 Woodson was the second African American, after W. E. B. Du Bois, to obtain a PhD degree from Harvard University. But he continued for years teaching at M STREET HIGH SCHOOL until, in 1919, he joined the Howard University faculty.

Woodson worked to preserve the history of African Americans. He noted that African-American contributions were overlooked, ignored, and even suppressed by the writers of history.******

Read much more about Carter G. Woodson on his Wikipedia Page, in the article: THE BURGEONING 'CAUSE,' 1920-1930 AN ESSAY ON CARTER G. WOODSON (found when searched under that title), and elsewhere on the Internet.

About MARY E. CROMWELL, to whom the books are inscribed:

******Mary E. Cromwell earned her A.B. degree from the University of Michigan and her M.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania and did additional graduate work at Columbia University. She taught mathematics at M STREET HIGH SCHOOL / DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL, an elite public High School for African-Americans in Washington, D.C. Miss Cromwell was keenly interested in social problems, especially as they concerned African American women. She was a founder of the National Association of University Women, and served as its first Secretary.

The noted African-American JOHN WESLEY CROMWELL b.1846 d.1927,

was her father.

MARY E. CROMWELL and CARTER G. WOODSON both taught at M Street / Dunbar High School in 1918, the year in which these books were inscribed by Woodson to Miss. M. E. Cromwell.******

INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: These two books will require substantial additional shipping charges. Please contact us for costs to your country.

GEORGE GERSHWIN. Edited and Designed by Merle Armitage, with contributions by Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Ira Gershwin, Serge Koussevitzky, George Antheil, Oscar Hammerstein II, Isamu Noguchi, Arnold Schoenberg, et al.

The original penned SIGNATURE of GEORGE GERSHWIN is clipped from one of Gershwi's personal bank checks and is pasted onto the front free endpaper.

Published by Longmans Green & Co., London and New York, 1938. First edition, first printing. Hardcover book, 8 "x 10.5" inches, 252 pages, no dustjacket. Illustrated with b&w plates and photographs. A tribute to the iconic American composer published just one year after his death. GOOD PLUS condition, the covers have light wear to the spine ends and corner tips, some scrapes to the spine folds; internally, the front inner hinge has some clear tape reinforcement, penned gift inscription on the half title, the text block has a few hairline cracks but is holding well with the sewn binding, otherwise the pages are tight, bright, clean and unmarked and GEORGE GERSHWIN'S signature is bold and bright. SCARCE and UNIQUE with the clipped SIGNATURE of GEORGE GERSHWIN.

Merle Armitage (1893-1975) One of the most important graphic designers of the twentieth century, father of Modern California book design.