SEVEN 19th Century (c.1869) CHINESE "Coolie" Indentures.

The Chinese were brought into Cuba to replace slaves that were starting to be freed (Slavery was officially abolished in Cuba on October 7, 1886, by a Spanish royal decree. This decree also outlawed "patronato," a system of slave-like indentured servitude. While the official abolition date was 1886, the process of emancipation was gradual and took place over many years.)

Seven Original Indentures, printed and manuscript, approximately 8.5x12 inches. Four are printed on one side only, two on both sides, and one folds open. All have MANUSCRIPT WRITING and SIGNATURES, and most have OFFICIAL INK STAMPS.

Condition: Various degrees of toning, all have horizontal center folds, one is starting to tear at its center fold, some edgewear, most are bright and clear, the one with substantial toning is less so.

OUR POLICE: A HISTORY OF THE PAWTUCKET POLICE FORCE, UNDER THE TOWN AND CITY.

Together with:

OUR POLICE: A HISTORY OF THE PROVIDENCE POLICE FORCE FROM THE FIRST WATCHMAN TO THE LATEST APPOINTEE.

This single volume book was printed in two parts: (1) The Pawtucket Police Force... (2) The Providence Police Force... Each part has its own title page, bound together in this volume of OUR POLICE. Both parts were edited by HENRY MANN, and published by J.M. Beers, Pawtucket and Providence, 1889. First edition.

Hardcovers, green cloth covered boards with black embossed titles and designs to the front and rear covers, 6x9 inches, 93, 519 pages.

Part I: A History of the Pawtucket Police Force..., 93 pages including an Index, plus 13 pages of ads for Pawtucket businesses at the end. ILLUSTRATED with a Frontispiece Engraved Plate plus 9 Photographic Portraiture Plates.

Part II: A History of the Providence Police Force..., 519 pages, including an Index. ILLUSTRATED with 62 PLATES, Etchings and (mainly) Portraits.

VERY GOOD condition: Covers professionally restored and inner hinges professionally reinforced making this a complete, solid, lovely copy. The embossed titles and designs on the front and rear boards are clear and attractive; the spine embossed designs are dark and almost impossible to see, but they are present and tangible. Internally, the pages have some dark finger smudges here and there, otherwise they are tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. The plates are strikingly clear. There is a tissue guard to the frontispiece, but otherwise no tissue guards in front of the plates, if there ever were any. A solid, complete, and attractive copy, the nicest I have seen.

Scarce 1899 First Edition.

NOTIONS OF THE AMERICANS by JAMES FENIMORE COOPER. Two Volume Set. LONDON: Henry Colburn, 1828. First English Edition (following the first American edition published the same year).

A SIGNED MANUSCRIPT LETTER by his DAUGHTER, SUSAN FENIMORE COOPER, is tipped-in. A single page handwritten letter, written from "Riverside Cottage", addressed to "Mrs. Foot" and ending with"good wishes" for "Miss Stone". The letter is tipped on to a blank prelim of Volume I

Two Volumes, 3/4 leather and paper covered boards, marbled page edges (page edges of the closed book), 5.5x8 inches. Pagination: Volume I: xxiv, 459 pp. Volume II: xii,477 pp.

GOOD CONDITION: Spines professionally rebacked and inner hinges professionally reinforced making these complete, solid, very presentable copies. The original front and rear paper covered boards are scraped, shelf rubbed, and worn along the edges. Internally, there is foxing mostly on the first and last few pages of each volume then only a bit here and there. There is a lovely armorial bookplate of GEORGE MERRYWEATHER on the front pastedown of each volume.

RARE and UNIQUE with the handwritten letter by SUSAN FENIMORE COOPER, and the interesting provenance.

About SUSAN FENIMORE COOPER (from Wikipedia and other Internet sources):

******Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper, b.1813 d.1894, was an American writer and amateur naturalist. She was the daughter of writer James Fenimore Cooper. Much of her life was devoted to her father and his writing. She often travelled with him and assisted in documenting and organizing his notes. Later in his life she served as his secretary and amanuensis. In addition she was a noted writer, naturist and suffragist.

Cooper published on diverse subjects, but she is best remembered as a nature writer. Her second book, Rural Hours (1850), published anonymously "By a Lady" offered a sharp eyed account of rural life in New York.

In 1855 Susan Fenimore Cooper and her sister, both unmarried and childless, built a home mainly with bricks and materials from the burnt ruins of Otsego Hall in Cooperstown, which her paternal grandfather had built and where her father and mother had lived. They named it "RIVERSIDE COTTAGE" and the sisters became known as "The Cottage Sisters." Riverside Cottage was later renamed Byberry Cottage.

Many of the houses on River Street were haunted with "uncanny things seen and heard". But, perhaps the most striking occurrence took place in 1894: Susan's ghost - complete in her ghostly wheelchair - was said to have taken itself out of the cottage and rattled across the street to the church where the whole town witnessed her going down the aisle in the middle of the Good Friday Service and then straight through the altar before vanishing altogether.******

About GEORGE MERRYWEATHER (from Wikipedia):

******George Merryweather was a British doctor and inventor.

His best known invention was the Tempest Prognosticator, a weather predicting device also called The Leech Barometer. It consists of twelve glass bottles containing leeches, which, when disturbed by the atmospheric conditions preceding a storm, climb upwards, triggering a small whalebone hammer which rings a bell. Merryweather said the more leeches that climbed, and the more the bell was rung, the greater the likelihood of a storm. He explained that the twelve bottles were placed in a circle in order that his "little comrades" might see one another and "not endure the affliction of solitary confinement".

The invention had great success and caused a sensation when it was put on show at the Great Exhibition of 1851. At this time he was an honorary curator of Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society. His device remains on permanent exhibition there.******

THE STANFORD QUAD, 1894 Volume I

Stanford's very first published annual (yearbook). From the Editorial Preface - "It combines in one volume a complete record of University affairs, literary, social, and athletic, connected by the best artistic sense of the University. This publication has been christened The Stanford Quad (the plan on which the University is built) . In publishing the first volume of The Stanford Quad, the editors have labored under many disadvantages . but present a happy remembrance of the peculiar and unique incidents of the first years at Stanford."

Published by Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, Printed by H.S. Crocker Company, San Francisco, Edited by the Junior Class of the Leland Stanford Jr. University, A. Lewis Jr., Editor in Chief, 1894. First edition, first printing. Hardbound in half Cardinal red cloth over cream color paper boards, embossed gilt printing on the front cover and spine, with red printed logo design on the front cover, beveled edges, 9.5"x 7.25", 249 numbered pages plus 45 pages of advertisements. Provenance of 1898 Stanford graduate, Ralph B. Hubbard, engineering, member of the Zeta Psi Fraternity, with his name penned to the ffep. GOOD CONDITION: complete as issued, the covers have edgewear, some soiling and toning, the red cloth is splitting 3" at the front spine fold but overall the covers remain solid and the gilt is bright. Internally, the front hinge is cracked but holding, the pages have light foxing, small staining and light signs of use and wear, a few signatures are pulling but remain bound in, overall this original 1894 Stanford annual remains tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce.

Contents include: a romantic portrait of the late Leland Stanford, Jr. (the school's namesake), biography and portrait of President David Starr Jordan, Board of Trustees, Faculty, Assistants, Lecturers, Officers, Committees, Graduates, Student Body Officers, Class Officers, Pioneer Class photo, Fraternity members, tribute poem to Senator Stanford, photographs of the football team, baseball team, and track team, track records, biography of Jane Lathrop Stanford, Literary Societies, "Sequoia" and "Daily Palo Alto" staff, miniature reprint of "Daily Palo Alto" Vol. 1-No. 1 cover, photographs of the Quad staff, Glee club, and Mandolin club, Founders Day program, University calendar, statistics of student origins, extension lecture titles, short stories, music, songs, poems, drawings, photographs, and wonderfully illustrated contemporary ads from local and San Francisco businesses including clothiers, typewriters, stables, hatters, stationary shops, guns, cigarettes, railways, hotels, optometrists, booksellers, and many more.

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.******

THE AMERICAN PRACTICAL BREWER AND TANNER: In Which is Exhibited the WHOLE PROCESS of BREWING WITHOUT BOILING... By JOSEPH COPPINGER, Practical Brewer.

NEW YORK: Printed by Van Winkle and Wiley, No. 3 Wall-Street, 1815. FIRST EDITION. This book is one of the earliest (possibly the first) American books on beer making.

Hardcovers, original paper covered boards, 6x9 inches (15x23 cm), untrimmed page edges. Pagination: [front free-endpaper], [2] (blank prelim leaf), vii (title-page, copyright page, "Advertisement", Preface), [1] (Illustration - floor plan of a brewery), [1] (first page of text), 12-246 (numbered text pages), [2] (Table of Contents), [rear free endpaper]. ERRATA SLIP tipped in at title-page. Illustrated with three plates including an illustrative floor plan of a brewery). The majority of the book is devoted to the production of beer, including recipes for different varieties. There is a small section on tanning at the rear.

GOOD CONDITION: Spine professionally rebacked and inner hinges professionally reinforced making this a solid, nice, 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, heaviest on the first and last few pages and a few other pages here and there; the pages are toned with age; there is shorelining to the bottom margin of the first few pages and to the upper area of the last few pages; one page has a closed tear across its face and another a 3 inch vertical tear starting at the bottom edge (neat tears, all text fully legible), and there are some tears, edge chips, edge wear, etc. here and there; otherwise the pages are clean and clear.

JOSEPH COPPINGER initiated a correspondence with THOMAS JEFFERSON in 1802. In 1815 Coppinger sent Thomas Jefferson a letter and included a prospectus for the American Practical Brewer. Subsequently Thomas Jefferson wrote a number of letters to Coppinger inquiring about the book. The following is an extract from one of the 1815 Thomas Jefferson letters to Joseph Coppinger (published online by The National Archives):

"Monticello Apr. 25. 1815 // I am lately become a brewer for family use, having had the benefit of instruction to one of my people by an English brewer of the first order. I had noted the advertisement of your book in which the process of malting corn was promised & had engaged a bookseller to send it to me as soon as it should come out. We tried it here last fall with perfect success, and I shall use it principally hereafter. During the revolutionary war, the brewers on James river used Indian corn almost exclusively of all other. In my family brewing I have used wheat as we do not raise barley."

(The National Archives published four letters online from the correspondence between Joseph Coppinger and President Thomas Jefferson and two letters from the correspondence between Joseph Coppinger and President James Madison.)

About JOSEPH COPPINGER (extracted from The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 38, published by Princeton, 2012; and the National Archives online):

*****Joseph Coppinger, emigrated from Harbour View, Ireland, to New York in 1802. He soon became a partner in the Point Brewery, Pittsburgh. In 1802 he initiated a correspondence with THOMAS JEFFERSON. In an "Address to the People of America" published in 1809, Coppinger praised Jefferson, calling him the "polar star," for his service to the country. In 1815, he wrote Thomas Jefferson soliciting support for the establishment of a national brewing company in Washington, D.C. and sent him a prospectus for a book he was writing entitled The American Practical Brewer and Tanner. Thomas Jefferson was very interested in the book and wrote to Coppinger repeatedly to inquire about the status of its publication.*****

HOURS OF LIFE AND OTHER POEMS, by SARAH HELEN WHITMAN.

PROVIDENCE: George H. Whitney, 1853. First edition.

SIGNED by SARAH HELEN WHITMAN, b.1803 d.1878, and by her sister SUSAN ANNA POWER [S. A. Power], b.1813 d.1877, both at the top of the title page. Susan Anna Power was mentally ill and at the time was under the complete care of her widowed sister, Sarah. The book also has some small pencil hand corrections, additions, and margin marks, apparently in the hand of Sarah Helen Whitman.

The corrections and additions are: (1) page 34 - "Hell" is lined out and "Hades" is written in both the right and left margin; (2) page 37 - "norland" has its "n" underlined and the word "Norland" [capital N] is written in the right margin; (3) page 95 - page 95 is misnumbered "59", there is a line beside the number marking the mistake for correction; (4) page 175 - the first line of the second stanza has "his rich" lined out and "the Pilgrim's" written above the lined out words - the sentence read "Listen to his rich words, intoned' and is being changed to "Listen to the Pilgrim's words, intoned"; (5) page 176 - the "y" at the end of "dusky" is lined out and there is a mark next to the line pointing out the change. The margin marks are lines or other pencil marks next to a line or stanza, likely noting that something Whitman was considering altering. They are found on pages 69, 95 (misnumbered page 59), 136, 148, 175, and 190.

Hardcovers, blue cloth covered boards, gilt designs on the covers and spine, and blind embossed framing designs on the covers, gilt page edges, 4.5x6.5 inches, vii, 227 pages.

VERY GOOD condition, Spine professionally restored and inner hinges professionally reinforced making this a solid, tight, lovely copy; the covers are clean, bright and attractive, the gilt page edges have some scratches but still glimmer; internally, there is foxing on a few pages here and there, shorelining to the bottom corner area of the latter pages (text fully legible), and light toning to the very edge of the pages; overall tight, bright, clean and clear. One of the nicest copies I have seen.

About SARAH HELEN WHITMAN (from Wikipedia and the Poetry Foundation website):

******Sarah Helen Power Whitman, b.1803 d.1878, was an American poet, transcendentalist, spiritualist and the great romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe. Whitman had a penchant for wearing black and a coffin-shaped charm around her neck, and held séances in her home.

Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe first crossed paths in Providence in July 1845. However nothing came of that rose garden meeting until three years later, in 1848, when they began exchanging letters and poetry. Poe asked for and Helen agreed to an "immediate marriage". Poe vowed to remain sober during their engagement - a vow he violated frequently - and Sarah finally called the wedding off.

Edgar Allan Poe attempted to commit suicide with an overdose of laudanum in Providence, Rhode Island, in November 1848, shortly after Sarah Helen Whitman refused the wedding.

Whitman's poetry collection HOURS OF LIFE, AND OTHER POEMS was published in 1853. Some of the poems in this collection were reportedly helped along by her sister Susan, who had some poetic skills of her own.******

You can read much more about Sarah Helen Whitman on the POETRY FOUNDATION and EDGAR ALLAN POE RI websites.

You can also read all about her mentally ill and madly eccentric sister, SUSAN ANNA POWER, on the Edgar Allan Poe RI website. The sisters lived alone together for many years after their mother died. Susan Anna Power almost never left the house.

STRICTURES ON NATIONAL PRIDE, by Johann Georg Zimmerman.

PHILADELPHIA: Printed and Sold by R. Bell, 1778. First American Edition.

Contemporary calf covers, five raised spine bands, 8vo. 5x7.5 inches, 274, [6] pages.

Strictures on National Pride is a 1778 work by Johann Georg Zimmermann, a German physician and writer, which was translated into English the same year. The original German title was: Beiträge zur Charakteristik des menschlichen Gemüths (Contributions to the Characterization of the Human Mind), but the English translation focused on the section about national pride, and thus the new title. The work examines the phenomenon of national pride, its origins, and its potential consequences. An interesting Revolutionary War era work on National Pride.

IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY: Provenance of WELCOME ARNOLD, with his bookplate on the front pastedown.

GOOD PLUS condition: Spine professionally restored and inner hinges professionally reinforced making this a solid, tight, lovely copy. The covers have some scrapes, are worn through at the corner tips, overall are nice and solid; internally, the endpapers have offsetting to their margins from the leather covers, the inner pages have some light toning and a crease or two, otherwise tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

A complete, solid, very presentable copy of this work with the important, early New England association to Welcome Arnold.

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.******

About JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMAN (from Wikipedia):

******Johann Georg Zimmermann, b.1728 d.1795, was a Swiss philosophical writer, naturalist, and physician. He was the private physician of George III and later Frederick the Great.******

Group of FOUR VOLUMES pertaining to the PARKMAN-WEBSTER MURDER TRIAL - with SIGNATURES, INSCRIPTIONS and ASSOCIATIONS. The volumes are:

(1) REPORT OF THE CASE OF JOHN W. WEBSTER, Doctor of Medicine of Harvard University...INDICTED for the MURDER OF GEORGE PARKMAN, M.A. Harvard University, Doctor of Medicine... by GEORGE BEMIS, Counsel in the Case. Published by Charles C. Little, 1850. First edition. This book has the following signatures and associations:

* PARKMAN SIGNATURE: Laid in is a printed announcement SIGNED BY DR. GEORGE PARKMAN, the murder victim. The announcement was for an annual meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement. PARKMAN SIGNED the announcement as Secretary for the Society.

* SIGNATURE of JUSTICE SHAW (the Judge in the Case): Clipped note SIGNED BY JUSTICE LEMUEL SHAW tipped in. Clipped from a manuscript letter. The clipped section is 2.5x6 inches.

* PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION of the ATTORNEY GENERAL / PROSECUTOR (John H. Clifford): INSCRIBED by the ATTORNEY GENERAL on a blank front endpaper to THOMAS GILL (court reporter for the Boston Post): "Thomas Gill / with respects of the / Attorney General". The Attorney General of Massachusetts was JOHN H. CLIFFORD, who PROSECUTED the WEBSTER-PARKMAN case.

* Ownership SIGNATURE of JOSEPH W. P. FROST, b.1923 d.2008, in pencil at the top of the recent front free endpaper. Joseph W. P. Frost, b.1923 d.2008, was a cousin of Robert Frost. Robert Frost and his cousin Joseph William Pepperrell Frost were close friends and maintained a strong bond throughout their lives.

CONDITION: Professionally rebound in hardcovers. Internally, there is white tape reinforcement to the inner hinges, offsetting and foxing to the original blank endpapers, some foxing and toning here and there throughout. Overall a solid, clean copy. The signatures and the laid-in and tipped-in documents are bright and clear.

(2) REPORT OF THE CASE OF JOHN W. WEBSTER, Doctor of Medicine of Harvard University...INDICTED for the MURDER OF GEORGE PARKMAN, M.A. Harvard University, Doctor of Medicine... by GEORGE BEMIS, Counsel in the Case. Published by Charles C. Little, 1850. First edition. This book has the following attribute / association / signature:

* INSCRIBED by the AUTHOR to PROF. JEFFRIES WYMAN: "Prof. Jeffries Wyman / with the respects of the / Reporter." Professor Jeffries Wyman was an expert forensic science witness in the case. The "Reporter" is the Author, GEORGE BEMIS, who acted as co-counsel to the prosecution, and also acted as a Court Reporter during the trial. This book encompasses his notes on the case. There are some pencil margin marks and a bit of marginalia, possibly in the hand of Wyman.

* ASSOCIATION to the FORENSIC SCIENCE EXPERT JEFFRIES WYMAN. From Wikipedia: "Jeffries Wyman, b.1814 d.1874, was an American anatomist, curator, and professor. He taught anatomy at Harvard Medical School. In 1850, Wyman was called to testify for the prosecution in the Parkman-Webster murder case. His testimony contributed to the belief that the bones belonged to Parkman."

CONDITION: Original cloth covered boards, blind embossed designs on the front and rear boards, hinges are cracking but holding, foxing heavy on endpapers then just a bit throughout; there are pencil margin marks noting places where Prof. Wyman is mentioned.

(3) ILLEGALITY OF THE TRIAL OF JOHN W. WEBSTER, by Lysander Spooner. Published by Bela Marsh, Boston, 1850. Booklet, wrappers, 16 pages. Covers are toned and starting to split at the spine, folds are tender but holding, inner pages are nice, bright and clean.

(4) THE TRIAL OF PROF. JOHN W. WEBSTER Indicted for the MURDER of DR. GEORGE PARKMAN... Published by Redding & Company, Boston, 1850. Booklet, 56 pages, double columns of very small print. The covers are worn and the spine is splitting. Internally, the pages are creased at the corners, have some spotting and soiling, but are overall bright, clean, clear and legible.

AVIATION SCRAPBOOK COLLECTION showing MANY AIRCRAFT from MANY MANUFACTURERS from the 1900s-1940s. ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY first by MANUFACTURER then by DATE (though now a lot of the loose sheets are not in their proper alphabetical and/or chronological order - that will be your first order of business!).

Thousands of pictures of planes, their designers, pilots, etc., most clipped from magazines and journals of the day. I have never seen such a comprehensive collection of aircraft ephemera representing such a wide range of manufacturers. Many of the pictures were published in ephemeral publications and likely would be almost impossible to find today. This aviation scrapbook collection must have taken years to complete.

The aircraft manufacturers include Bell, Bleriot, Brown-Young, Buhl, Burnelli, Butler, Boeing, Brown, Cain, Curtis, Curtis-Reid, Cycloplane, Crusader, Cunningham, Davis, Douglas, Dare, Day, Flying Flea, Fokker, Ford, Franklin, General Western, Grumman, Kellett, Kinner, Lockheed, Martin, Pitcairn Auto-Giro, Porterfield, Ryan, Seversy, and, you get the idea, MANY MANY MORE.

The clippings are attached to approximately 600 large scrapbook sheets, 12x18 inches. Many of the sheets have clippings attached to both sides, many have lots of photos, some only a few (especially if the manufacturer had only a few planes that it produced). Some sheets have notes by the collector. The sheets were apparently bound in large three ring scrapbook binders, now about one-third of the scrapbook sheets are loose, the others are bound in three groups, each group held together with large metal rings, all lacking covers.

Condition: The scrapbook sheets are browned, brittle with age, and chipped and flaking at the edges (and continuing to chip and flake easily at the edges); the clippings themselves are in very good condition, bright and clear. An amazing reference collection that needs careful handling. If the scrapbook pages were put into sheet protectors and then into a set of binders they would make an incredible aviation history reference. Did I mention the edges of the shees chip and flake easily?

A unique collection gathered and organized by a completist.

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NEW SIGNATURES 1948 / NEW SIGNATURES 1 : A SELECTION OF COLLEGE WRITING, edited by ALAN SWALLOW.

Published by Alan Swallow, printed at The Press of James Decker, Prairie City, Illinois, copyright 1947 but published in 1948. First Edition, with no indication of later printings.

The book contains stories by various college students across the country, including the story THE BARBER by FLANNERY O'CONNOR, a student at the University of Iowa.

Hardcover Book, no dustjacket, 5.5x8 inches, 178 pages. The Flannery O'Connor story is on pages 113 through 124.

This is Flannery O'Connor's first appearance in book form. This story, along with six others, were previously printed as part of her Master's Thesis at the University of Iowa in 1946, titled "The Geranium: A Collection of Short Stories". The story The Geranium was then published in the literary journal Accent: A Quarterly of New Literature, in 1946.

GOOD Condition: The covers' bottom corner tips are bumped, the spine has a light crease, the gilt titling on the front cover and spine is faded but legible, otherwise the covers are solid, clean and doing their job well. Internally, there is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown (see below), the pages are lightly toned as normal and there is a mild crease to their bottom corner; otherwise tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A solid, nice, presentable copy.

Bookplate of ELDRED and LOIS RENK is on the front pastedown. In 1940 while a student at Boise State College Eldred Renk wrote the school "fight" song "Orange and Blue" which is still sung at Boise State sporting events, though it has been revised over the years. Lois Renk had a movie worthy life which you can read about by searching "Lois Renk Wythe Western Friend". Interesting previous owners!

WHAT I BELIEVE / TRANSPIRATION TRANSPIRING / MINNESOTA, by ROBERT GRENIER. Introduction by Leslie Scalapino.

Boxed collection of 66 8.5x11 inch loose photocopied sheets, photocopied on one side only. The 66 sheets include 1 sheet that was intentionally left blank and 4 blank green sheets that separate the sections. The introduction by Leslie Scalapino is printed on sheets that are pasted onto the inside of the box's front and rear covers. The loose sheets are held in the publisher's black paper covered cardboard box that is titled in white on the top and spine.

Published by O BOOKS, Oakland, California, 1991.

[There are sheets in this collection of poems with copyright dates of 1988 and 1989, but it is known that this collection of photocopied poems was published by O Books in 1991.]

The work is in three parts: WHAT I BELIEVE (originally published by Potes & Poets Press, 1988); TRANSPIRATION TRANSPIRING (not previously published but originally copyrighted 1989); and MINNESOTA.

Grenier is a "Language School" poet. His poems in this collection consist mainly of scrawls that were photocopied from his notebooks and handwritten sheets.

Condition: The 66 sheets are in NEAR FINE condition, bright, clean, clear and unmarked; The box is in GOOD MINUS condition, there are scrapes and rubs along its edges, and a couple smudge marks to its top, but it is solid and functioning well.

An interestingly designed publication from the late 20th century "Language Poetry" avant-garde movement.

About ROBERT GRENIER (from Wikipedia):

******Robert Grenier, b.1941, is an American poet associated with the Language School. He was founding co-editor of the influential magazine THIS (1971-1974). THIS provided one of the first gatherings in print of writers, artists, and poets now identified (or loosely referred to) as belonging to the Language School.

Grenier's "Language" poetry is as much visual as verbal, involving "drawn" and "scawled" poems in various formats.

In an essay from the first issue of THIS, Grenier declared: "I HATE SPEECH". Ron Silliman, commenting on Robert Grenier's three words, wrote: "These words...announced a breach and a new moment in American writing."******

About LANGUAGE POETRY (extracts from Wikipedia):

******Language poetry is an avant-garde literary movement that emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s, focusing on the nature of language itself, rather than traditional narrative or emotional content, and emphasizing the materiality of words and challenging conventional syntax and semantics to provoke new meanings and experiences for the reader. It's considered to have emerged in response to what some poets saw as a return to traditional poetic forms in mainstream American poetry.

Language poets prioritizes the experimental use of language, formal and informal language, jargon, and various forms and types of language, often employing experimental techniques to subvert established norms and question how language shapes our perception of reality.******

A SUITE OF 180 DRAWINGS BY PICASSO : November 28, 1953 - February 3, 1954. Preface by Tériade. PICASSO AND THE HUMAN COMEDY, by Michel Leiris. With an appreciation by Rebecca West.

NEW YORK: Harcourt, 1954. First American edition (the American edition of Verve 29/30).

ILLUSTRATED with 16 LITHOGRAPHS by PICASSO and printed by MOURLOT FRÈRES, and numerous b&w heliogravures printed by Draeger Frères. Twelve of the lithographs have tissue guards; the frontispiece, the color title page, and the two lithographs that are bound in among the introductory do not have tissue guards, as issued.

Picasso also designed the book's covers. They feature a profile of Geneviève Laporte with a ponytail. Geneviève Laporte was one of Picasso's last lovers, during the period in which he created these works.

Hardcover book, illustrated covers, no dustjacket, 10.5x14 inches (26.5x35.5 cm), containing 180 illustrations, 16 of which (the lithographs) are printed on the own leaf (e.g. blank backsides), the remainder of which (the b&w heliographs) are printed on their own page, one on each side of the leaves.

GOOD condition: The covers are worn at the corner tips and have some edge and spine fold scrapes; the spine folds have been professionally reinforced and much of the paper spine strip that overlaid the cloth covered spine has been professionally replaced; overall the covers are sturdy, attractive, and doing their job well. Internally, the front and rear hinges and endpapers have been professionally repaired and reinforced; there is a previous owner's 1968 inscription on the front pastedown, the front dj flap has been pasted onto the front free-endpaper, and the bottom corner of the text title page has a blindstamp of "John Arthur / Newton Highlands, MA"; otherwise the pages are just light toned, especially the page margins, and there is the normal light offset toning to the lithograph plates from the brown tissue guards. The plates are all present, clean and clear, with brilliant colors, beautiful. What Picasso can do with just a few lines is utterly amazing.

A complete, sturdy, clean, presentable copy of this book with all its lithographs and illustrations.

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PROOFS OF A CONSPIRACY AGAINST ALL THE RELIGIONS AND GOVERNMENTS OF EUROPE...FREE MASONS, ILLUMINATI, AND READING SOCIETIES...by John ROBISON.

PHILADELPHIA: Printed for T. DOBSON, 1798. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION (from the THIRD U.K. edition).

The book lacks its covers, the original title page is loose and chipped (now in a protective sleeve and laid-in), the first two leaves are lacking (facsimiles of these two leaves are in protective sleeves and laid-in), textually complete, 6x9 inches (15x23 cm), 391 pages. In a professionally made custom clamshell case.

Condition: The book lacks its covers; the title-page is loose, toned and chipped, and laid-in; the first two leaves are lacking but facsimiles are laid-in; the last page (page 391) has its upper corner torn off affecting some text; there is foxing, some light shoreline, spotting, and some margin marks, underling and notes here and there throughout, but the text remains clear and legible. In a lovely, custom cloth covered clamshell case that is in fine condition.

Though a flawed copy, this true first American edition of the Anti-Masonic conspiracy theory is quite rare and amazing.

About the conspiracist JOHN ROBISON (from Wikipedia):

******John Robison FRSE, b.1739 d.1805, was a British physicist and mathematician. He was a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.

Towards the end of his life he published Proofs of a Conspiracy, alleging clandestine intrigue by the Illuminati and Freemasons. The monk Alexander Horn provided much of the material for Robison's allegations. French priest Abbé Barruel independently developed similar views that the Illuminati had infiltrated Continental Freemasonry, leading to the excesses of the French Revolution.

Modern conspiracy theorists, such as Nesta Webster and William Guy Carr, believe the methods of the Illuminati as described in Proofs of a Conspiracy were copied by radical groups throughout the 19th and 20th centuries in their subversion of benign organizations. Spiritual Counterfeits Project editor Tal Brooke has compared the views of Proofs of a Conspiracy with those found in Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope (Macmillan, 1966). Brooke suggests that the New World Order, which Robison believed Adam Weishaupt (founder of the Illuminati) had in part accomplished through the infiltration of Freemasonry, will now be completed by those holding sway over the international banking system (e.g., by means of the Rothschilds' banks, the U.S. Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank).******

1849 KENTUCKY CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION SIGNATURE BOOK with SIGNATURES of 95 COUNTY REPRESENTATIVES, plus Sergeant at Arms, Reporters, etc.

The Constitutional Convention signatory Sign In notebook was owned by THOMAS N. LINDSEY, member of the notable LINDSEY FAMILY of FRANKFORT KENTUCKY. Thomas N. Lindsey was the Representative of Franklin County, Kentucky. His signature is on the backside of the first page.

The Signature Book is 3x5 inches and filled with blank paper. Lacking the front cover, however the spine covering and rear cover are present, as are all the inner pages.

It appears likely that Thomas N. Lindsey was responsible for getting the signatures of the attending Representatives and others at the Kentucky Constitutional Convention of 1849 (that led to the adoption of the Constitution of 1850). He signed his name clearly on the verso of the first page, and I believe also on the back cover though that signature is very difficult to see. Though the notebook pages were blank, Lindsey wrote 3 numbers on a page up to number 100, leaving space by each number where Representatives signed in and identified themselves by county. 94 Representatives signed in and most wrote the county they represented below their signature, some also wrote the city they were from. The spaces beside numbers 95-100 are blank. However, Thomas N. Lindsey, the representative from Franklin County, signed at the front as noted above, meaning that this notebook contains a total of 95 signatures of the Constitutional Convention Representatives. Many of the signatures are accompanied with handwritten salutations: "Your friend" "Yours respectfully" etc.

In addition to the 95 Representatives, there are signatures of the Sergeant at Arms, Clerk, Door Keeper, Deputy, 5 Reporters, and the Minister of the Gospel.

I have been able to fully identify all but 5 of the 95 Representatives through a combination of their signatures and the counties they identified themselves with. There is not, unfortunately, enough room here to list them all, but I have all the identified Representatives names along with counties represented, so if you are interested just email me.

In addition to the signatures of 95 Representatives, this Sign-in / Signatory Book contains the signature of the Clerk (Secretary of the Convention), Sergeant at Arms, Door Keeper, five reporters, and that of the Minister of the Gospel.

The second to last page, following a number of blank pages, has the names and addresses of several Lindsey family members, perhaps put there by Thomas N. Lindsey so that this book could be passed down from one family member to another as an important historic keepsake?

GOOD CONDITION. Front cover missing, as noted above, some creasing and edge chipping to the first page, the rear inner hinge is split but holding well, otherwise the pages are solid, well bound, and all the signatures and writing is bright and clear.

The 1850 Kentucky Constitution was extremely PRO SLAVERY.

You can read about the 1850 Kentucky Constitution and the 1849 Kentucky Constitutional Convention on many sites on the Internet.

***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.

AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY - LETTER by WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH printed in the CHRISTIAN MIRROR detailing the PLANS OF THE COLONIZATION SOCIETY. Fitzhugh's letter is printed on the left two columns of the front page.

Christian Mirror, Portland, Maine. Volume V, Number 15, November 24, 1826. Folio, single fold broadside (4 pages), each page approximately 15x21 inches.

Only FAIR Condition: Center and horizontal folds as issued, fraying at margins, creases, toning and foxing, some stains, a piece missing from the front edge affecting some text; nonetheless still holding together with text that is clear and legible. The name of "Mrs. M. J. Lewis" is written at the top of the front cover.

The American Colonization Society (ACS), initially the Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, was an American organization founded in 1816 by Robert Finley to encourage and support the repatriation of freeborn people of color and emancipated slaves to the continent of Africa.

Opposed by Abolitionists, one saying: "We recognize in the scheme of African Colonization the most intense hatred of the colored race, clad in the garb of pretended philanthropy; and we regard the revival of colonization societies as manifestations of a passion fit only for demons to indulge in."

William Henry Fitzhugh (1792-1830) was a Virginia planter, politician, and a Vice President of the American Colonization Society (ACS). Fitzhugh believed free Black people could never be integrated into American society. Fitzhugh was one of Fairfax County's largest landowners and slave owners. In 1810 he owned 242 slaves in the county. In 1818 he became very active in the ACS and sold 2000 acres of his Ravensworth plantation, a large brick building in Alexandria, and about 80 slaves, to raise funds for its cause. In 1820 he owned 158 slaves, vowing to eventually repatriate them.

In 1822, the ACS established a colony on the west coast of Africa. In 1847, the colony became the independent nation of Liberia.

RARE HISTORIC DOCUMENT RELATING TO PLANS FOR THE DEPORTATION AND COLONIZATION OF BLACK AMERICANS.

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- VNESHPOSYLTORG - RUSSIAN GOODS CATALOGUE by PODAROGIFTS and AMTORG "All-Union Mail Order Trade Organization".

Published by VNESHPOSYLTORG, Moscow, USSR. Undated but circa 1960s.

Through this illustrated catalog individuals outside of the Soviet Union could order all sorts of Russian made goods and have them sent to relatives or others living in the Soviet Union. Products included VOLGA CARS, Russian made bicycles, radios, dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, watches, etc.

Softcovers, plastic spiral bound, 6x8.5 inches, 82 pages. Illustrated throughout with b&w photographs. Text in Russian and English.

GOOD condition, the covers have some creases and toning, the inner pages have some light toning to the edges, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. The illustrations of products are all bright and clear.

VNESHPOSYLTORG [AMTORG] had its offices in New York City. In 1971 its offices were bombed by the JDL.

PODAROGIFTS, representing products of VNESHPOSYLTORG [AMTORG], had a storefront in New York City. In 1971 the storefront was bombed by the J.A.R. "Jewish Armed Resistance".

About the 1971 PODAROGIFTS BOMBING (from the New York Times Dec. 6, 1971):

******A crude bomb exploded yes terday in the doorway of a Fifth Avenue gift shop specializing in Russian products. No injuries were reported.

About five minutes after the explosion at 5:45 P.M., The Associated Press reported it had received a telephone call from an unidentified man who said: "A Russian gift shop at Fifth Avenue and 27th Street has just been bombed by the Jewish Armed Resistance J.A.R. All those that trade with Russia beware. Let my people go. Good night"

Detectives of the bomb section said that apparently three or four aerosol cans taped together and set off by a lighted can of Sterno had caused the explosion.******

About the 1971 VNESHPOSYLTORG / AMTORG BOMBING (from the New York Times Apr. 23, 1971):

******A bomb In an attaché case exploded yesterday at the offices of the Amtorg Trading Corporation, the Soviet trade agency, on Lexington Avenue. No one was injured. The bomb went off about 20 minutes after the agency and The Associated Press and United Press International received telephone calls from a male caller who said:

"There have been several time bombs placed in the offices of Amtorg, at the Soviet freight office, at 355 Lexington Avenue. They will go off in less than 15 minutes. Free all Soviet Jewish prisoners. Let my people go. Never again."

Frank Hassett, engineer of the building at 40th Street, said he received a call just moments before the bomb exploded in the 19th floor stairwell at 5:37 P.M. He said: "They identified themselves as the Jewish Defense League. They told me to evacuate the building because the 19th floor was going to be bombed."

Amtorg takes up the entire 19th floor of the 22-story building. All floors between the 22d and 16th were evacuated. The explosion collapsed part of the ceiling on the 19th floor, blew out doors and windows, tore a hole in the concrete stairwell, destroyed chairs in the Amtorg office and touched off fires.******

About VNESHPOSYLTORG / AMTORG / PODAROGIFTS (from Wikipedia and elsewhere on the Internet):

******The All-Union Association Vneshposyltorg (All-Union Foreign Mail Order Trade Association) was an organization in the Soviet Union which handled trade in goods for hard currency. Vneshposyltorg sold consumer goods to foreigners with delivery within Soviet territory. This gave foreigners the opportunity to send gifts to their friends and relatives in the Soviet Union

Russian made goods could be ordered by catalog or through its Podarogifts Inc. storefront in New York City.******

SANCTI IOANNIS CHRYSOSTOMI DE VIRGINITATE LIBER, A IVLIO POGIANO CONVERSVS. JOHANNES CHRYSOSTOMUS.

ROMAE: Apub Paulum Manutium, Aldi F., M. D. LXII [1562]. First Edition.

Modern hard covers, 7x7.5 inches (17x19 cm). Pagination: [ai] title page, aii-biii, [lacking blank leaf following biii], Ai - Qiiii - 64 numbered leaves. Aldine anchor and dolphin printer's device on title page. Collated page by page with a copy held at the National Central Library of Rome.

GOOD condition: Professionally rebound in hardcovers (leather spine and corners with decorative paper covered boards), with new blank endpapers (archival watermarked laid paper). The title page is lacking its bottom 1.5 inches and its last line of text, it has been professionally restored with archival laid paper at its corners and bottom (a copy of the title page from the copy at the National Library of Rome is laid in for comparison purposes, note that it has library stamps, paper repairs, and some hand marks and X's, the X marks notably at the ring at the top of the anchor). The corners of the first few pages have also been professionally restored, not affecting text. Else, the title page is toned; there is waterstaining to the upper gutter area and front margin of the pages, most noticeably on the first 10 pages, then becoming very light; there is some foxing here and there. Overall the pages of this 1562 book are amazingly complete, bright and clear.

RARE 1562 edition printed in Rome by Paulus Manutius at the Aldine Press.

About PAULUS MANUTIUS (from Wikipedia):

******Paulus Manutius (aka Paolo Manuzio), b.1512 d.1574, was a Venetian printer with a humanist education, the third son of the famous printer Aldus Manutius.

The printer's mark of the Aldine Press, used by both Aldus Manutius, the father, and Paulum Manutium, his son, is known as "the anchor and the dolphin".******

THE ANTI-CONSPIRATOR, or, INFIDELITY UNMASKED; Being a Development of the Principles of FREE MASONRY; to which is Added, STRICTURES ON SLAVERY... Edited and Published by Dyer Burgess.

Contains the first twenty-four issues of this strongly anti-Masonic publication, which strives to show that Masonry and Slavery go hand in hand. The issues are bound together, numbered consecutively and have an index at the front. The issues are: Vol. I No. 1 - Vol. I No. 24 (June 1831 to April 1832).

CINCINNATI: Dyer Burgess, 1831-1832. First Edition

Twenty-four issues, 16 pages each, 384 total pages (numbered consecutively). Bound together in card covers with leather spine, 6x9 inches, 384 pages plus title page and 2 page index.

Copy of Kenneth D. Arn, M.D., b.1921 d.1976, with his bookplate on the inside front cover. Kenneth D. Arn was a noted Dayton, Ohio physician, and a 33rd Degree Mason.

Only FAIR (but complete) condition, the covers are well worn, with scrapes, rubs, tearing to the corners, peeling to the leather spine, some biopredation, etc, but holding on with its sewn binding; internally, the front and rear inner hinges are split, the blank prelims and endpapers are lacking, the front pastedown has light waterstaining, there are relevant pencil notes on the front pastedown, the blank verso of the title page, and the rear pastedown; the first and last twenty or so pages have corner creases; the inner pages are all toned and foxed but the text is legible throughout. A worn but complete copy of this rare and important abolitionist and anti-masonic journal / book.

RARE. Here is how Louisiana State University described its copy:

"Perhaps the rarest journal in the library's collection is The Anti-Conspirator, or Infidelity Unmasked (1831-32), published in Cincinnati by Dyer Burgess, a Presbyterian minister and abolitionist who connected slavery with what he saw as a Masonic conspiracy to destroy democracy."

About Reverend Dyer Burgess (from History of Adams County, published in 1900, and elsewhere on the Internet)

******The Rev. Burgess was very much opposed to secret societies. On June 5, 1831, he began the publication of a semi-monthly periodical at Cincinnati, Ohio, entitled: Infidelity Unmasked. There were twenty-four numbers of it; the last number appeared April 22, 1832. Mr. Burgess was the editor. The periodical was made up of extracts from other periodicals of like character, articles written by like minded individuals, and transcriptions of lectures and addresses against Masonry and slavery. The burden of the periodical is against Masonry, calling it anti-democratic and linking it to slavery, with some articles specifically against slavery.******