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![Double-sided broadsheet: "Smart Set Presenting Ma Raniey [sic], The Great "Blues" Singer and Twenty Other All Star Acts with The Greatest Colored Show on Earth".](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/4/143268.jpg)
RAINEY, Gertrude "Ma". Double-sided broadsheet: "Smart Set Presenting Ma Raniey [sic], The Great "Blues" Singer and Twenty Other All Star Acts with The Greatest Colored Show on Earth".Erie, PA : 1917
A remarkable survival, a striking, and almost impossibly fragile piece documenting the birth of the blues and the inception of the solo career of the genre's first headline performer, the "Mother of the Blues", Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, the original black diva, and a gay icon who took the blues from minstrelsy to authenticity, from tent show to the Library... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 143268
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LOOMIS, Elias. Circular. The Great Auroral Exhibition of August 28th to September 4th 1859.New Haven : 1859
Seemingly unrecorded appeal from Elias Loomis (1811-1889), the eminent American mathematician - at the time Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of the City of New York - requesting information regarding the spectacular appearance of the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights during the summer of 1859.
As Loomis notes in the preamble to this... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 140209
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HALEY, Alex. Roots.New York : 1976
First edition, first printing, an excellent presentation copy from the author, inscribed in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "November 12, 1976. Irving and Jean Stone, my friends, my colleagues - the family of Kunta Kinte wishes the very warm best to you and your family - Sincerely, Alex Haley P.O. Bo 3338 Beverly Hills CA 90212".... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 144111
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SCHOOLCRAFT, Henry R. Information Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States:Philadelphia : 1853-1857
Second edition of this impressive, ground-breaking and expansive work, unchallenged as the most comprehensive study of Native American culture, enhanced by "Captain Seth Eastman's exceptional lithographs" (American National Biography); four of the five volumes here (I-II and IV-VI) are contemporary presentation copies, inscribed by a trio of Commissioners... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 137694
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TARLETON, Priscilla Susan Bertie. Manuscript volume of poetry with numerous pen, ink, and pencil vignettes.London : 1796-1821
A superbly presented and deeply personal manuscript volume of largely unpublished poetry and drawings by Priscilla Susan Bertie Tarleton (1778-1864), wife of the notorious army officer and rakehell Sir Banastre Tarleton. The manuscript was produced between the years 1796, when the author was only 18 years old, and 1821, when she was 43. It contains... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 94720
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BELFORD, Kevin. Devil at the Confluence.St Louis : 2009
First edition, first printing. Signed by Paul Garon to foot of the foreword. Garon is an author of a number of books on the Blues and was one of the founding editors of Living Blues magazine in 1970. The accompanying CD, "The St Louis Blues Legends Delmark Collection" is an exclusive collection of music from St. Louis musicians drawn from from the... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 116361
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DE CLEYRE, Voltairine. Anarchism and American Traditions.Chicago : 1932
First edition thus, a posthumous printing of Voltairine de Cleyre's most often cited essay, with an additional hagiographic introduction. De Cleyre's influential essay was first published in fellow activist Emma Goldman's anarchist journal Mother Earth in 1909; de Cleyre was a regular contributor to the journal from its foundation in 1905. This reissue... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 135133
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![[Account sheet, with manuscript docket title:] Account of contingent expences incurred by the Superintendent of His Majesty's affairs in Honduras,](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/3/135127.jpg)
DESPARD, Edward. [Account sheet, with manuscript docket title:] Account of contingent expences incurred by the Superintendent of His Majesty's affairs in Honduras,(1789)
Account sheet for six months' expenses in Honduras by Edward Marcus Despard (1751-1803), Superintendent of Honduras, later executed for treason, despite the appeals of Nelson, with whom he had worked closely during the San Juan Expedition. On Honduras Despard sought to give the same rights to freed slaves as to white settlers, claiming that British... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 135127
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FORBES, Edwin. Life Studies of the Great Army.New York : 1876
Scarce first edition of one of the finest graphic representations of the American Civil War; this copy with the bookplate of Union army veteran William Bush Blackwell (1837-1922), first lieutenant and quarter master with the 26th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry (the "2nd Oneida Regiment"), later a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 114470
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BEATSON, Robert. Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain,London : 1804
Second edition, the first, published in 1790, was in three volumes, this continues the account down to the conclusion of the War of Independence, "Particularly useful for the army's campaigns in America" (Bruce). Beatson saw early service at Rochefort in 1758, and at Martinique and Guadeloupe. On his father's death he came into an inheritance and concentrated... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 70850
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AMERICAN JUDAICA. Douglass & Aikman's Almanack and Register for the Island of Jamaica:Kingston : 1781
Extremely uncommon. Printed and published by David Douglass and William Aikman, Loyalist refugees from the Revolution in America - Douglass from Charleston, Aikman from Annapolis - this almanac includes, at the conclusion of the calendar proper, on the verso of the leaf bearing a Jamaican historical chronology - a "Kalendar of Months, Sabbaths, and... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 82190
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EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Crusade in Europe.Garden City, NY : 1948
One of just a few copies for personal presentation bound up for Eisenhower from the limited edition sheets, with the signed leaf of the D-Day message to the troops, but without the limitation leaf. This copy warmly inscribed on the half-title to Dr. Hal Johnson, Ike's primary physician when he retired to Gettysburg in 1961, and who, with his wife Edie,... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 140866
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WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION. Europa Libera:London : 1703
First edition (preceding the second edition of that year with an added postscript). Published in the third year of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), the anonymous author proposes that in return for the support of Britain and the Netherlands for the claim of the Emperor of Austria to the Spanish crown, Spain's territories in America should... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 139168
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FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Œuvres.Paris : 1773
First collected edition in French of the author's collected works. The first part is entirely devoted to electricity and includes previously unpublished pieces. Translated by Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg (1709-1779) from the fourth edition in the original English. A close friend of Franklin and his translator and publisher in France, Barbeu-Dubourg was also... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 98387
