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Typed letter signed by western artist Frank Tenney Johnson on his personal stationary with his New York address embossed at top. Letter was in answer to a woman who had written the artist about a painting she had purchased, "a night scene of three Indians on horses". He tells her where he saw and painted these Indians and made mention that the painting had been exhibited at the Salmagundi Club of New York City and was sold there but he could not remember who purchased. Framed under glass. Provenance: Joseph Sartor Galleries Dallas, Texas. and Owings and Dewy Fine Art, N.M. A fine letter.
Asbab al-nuzul , early Arabic manuscript on the occasions of Quranic revelation dated 689 H., 1290 AD. ( أسباب النزول للواحدي) by by Ali ibn Ahmad al-Wahidi (d. 1075 AD.)
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Asbab al-nuzul , early Arabic manuscript on the occasions of Quranic revelation dated 689 H., 1290 AD. ( أسباب النزول للواحدي)
by by Ali ibn Ahmad al-Wahidi (d. 1075 AD.)
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Early Arabic manuscript possibly copied in Yemen, dated 689 H., 1290 AD. complete copy in 200 p. of one of the earliest works on this subject. In red morocco ornamented full leather binding, 17th or 18th C. The manuscript is in mint condition.
The earliest and the most important work in this genre is undoubtedly Kitab asbab al-Nuzul ("Book of occasions of revelation") of Ali ibn Ahmad al-Wahidi (d. 1075 CE). al-Wahidi mentions occasions of about 570 verses out of 6236 verses of the Quran. Wahidi's work is not only the first attempt to collect all the material regarding the occasions of revelation in one single volume, but it is also the standard upon which all subsequent works were based. al-Wahidi was born in the city of Nishapur and he died there at an advanced age. He was a poet, philologist, grammarian and Quranic commentator. In fact, He was considered a great commentator of the Quran of his time. His main teacher was the famous Quranic commentator al-Thalabi (d. 1036 CE) and Wahidi seems to have enjoyed the support of the Seljuk vizier Nizam al- Mulk.
No asbāb works from earlier than the 11th century are known, and it is unlikely that this genre of exegetical literature existed before then. Though there is a section titled Nuzūl al-Qur'ān in Ibn al- Nadim's 10th-century bibliographical catalog Kitāb al-Fihrist (including one Nuzūl al-Qur'ān attributed to the semi-legendary Ibn 'Abbas as transmitted through....
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Typed Letter Signed, 1TLS, Dated Feb. 26, 1929
by Johnson, Frank Tenney
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SONATA FOR ORGAN WITH STATE TRUMPETS : IN MEMORIAM WILFRID MEYNELL ZOGBAUM 1915-1965 [manuscript title]
by McLennan, John Stewart
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[London, 1968]. Folio (14 x 11 1/4 inches). [1],1-117 pp. Manuscript sheet music, inscribed and signed on the final page by the composer, "End | London 7 April 1968 | Tyringham-Cleveland-London 1966-1968 | John Stewart McLennan." Occasional manuscript corrections in pencil. In cardboard plastic-comb binder, manuscript paper cover label. Covers moderately worn, nearly all of binding comb perished. Contents toned, especially at edges, else fine. Overall very good. Original holograph musical score for the unpublished SONATA FOR ORGAN, by 20th-century American composer John Stewart McLennan, Jr. (1903-1996). McLennan was the son of the Canadian senator of the same name (1853-1939) and the American writer Grace Seeley Henop Tytus McLennan (1875-1928). He was born in Tyringham, Massachusetts, at Ashintully, his maternal family's estate. He acquired that property in 1937 and lived there for the remainder of his life. After the estate's Georgian-style mansion was destroyed by fire in 1952, McLennan moved into…
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The "Original Source Manuscript 1863" to Wisden's Almanack 1st edition 1864
by Francis Emilius Cary Elwes
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This 250 page part illustrated manuscript is without doubt provably, to the requirements of criminal law ie. beyond reasonable doubt in part at least the "Original Source Manuscript " to the 1st edition of Wisden's Almanack 1864. N.B. The full explanation as to why this is so is not for those of limited attention span
A complete transcription of this fascinating manuscript together with all relevant explanatory notes proofs etc. is currently underway (60% +completed ) and is to be found at Wisdenssecret.com But in BriefThis manuscript is 3 perhaps 4 manuscripts in 1. The first part is in the form of a day to day diary for Jan - Sept 1863. It gives a brief account of the author's daily life and includes many meetings with Wisden at his shop in 1863. From these diary entries it is quite obvious that Wisden and this gentleman aristocrat are on very good terms with each other. Subsequent research indicates that they probably first met at Cambridge when the author was playing cricket for Magdalene… Read More
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Manuscrit autographe de Boris Vian intitulé ""Conseil de révision (des opinions)"" à propos de Paul Anka : « Paul Anka est un garçon de vingt ans qui écrit ses chansons et qui les chante. »
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1958. Fine. s.d. (1958), 20,9x26,9cm, 4 pages sur 4 feuillets. - Manuscrit autographe de Boris Vian intitulé ""Conseil de révision (des opinions)"" à propos de Paul Anka. 4 pages rédigées au stylo à bille bleu sur 4 feuillets perforés réunis par des agrafes. Ratures et corrections. Pliure transversale en marge gauche sans gravité. Le manuscrit était destiné à « l'élite », c'est-à-dire aux lecteurs du Canard enchaîné, il a finalement été publié dans La Belle époque (1980). Bel article faisant la promotion du concert à l'Olympia du jeune Paul Anka, alors âgé de dix-sept ans, plus de dix ans avant le succès planétaire de My Way. Boris Vian vieillit d'ailleurs un peu la « vedette américaine » : « Paul Anka est un garçon de vingt ans qui écrit ses chansons et qui les chante. » Vian, lui aussi compositeur et interprète souligne pourtant : « Comme il n'en écrit pas des douzaines, il chante aussi d'autres que les siennes, par…
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Manuscrit illustré de dessins originaux et composé de deux parties ""La Porcelaine de Chine"" et ""Le Bronze chinois""
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Paris, 1888. Fine. Paris 1888, 18x23cm, relié. - Manuscrit intitulé ""La Porcelaine de Chine"" orné de nombreux dessins originaux in et hors-texte en noir et en couleurs réalisés à même la page, sur de fins morceaux de papier de Chine contrecollés dans le texte ou sur des planches isolées de papier fort. L'exemplaire est également truffé d'une planche provenant du Costume historique de Racinet (1888) ainsi que d'une page imprimée de ce même texte. Il s'agit d'un recueil factice réalisé d'après plusieurs textes : Octave de Sartel, La Porcelaine de Chine (1881), Stanislas Julien, Histoire et fabrication de la porcelaine chinoise (1856), Maurice Paléologue, L'Art chinois (1887) et Louis Figuier, Les Merveilles de l'industrie (1873). Une dernière partie sur les bronzes chinois provient également de L'Art chinois de Paléologue. Tous les dessins sont réalisés d'après les illustrations des ouvrages sus-mentionnés et très…
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Business Ledger
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N.p.: N.p., 1883. Hardcover. Narrow 4to (8" X 13"). Calf spine and pebbled paper over boards. 180pp. Good plus. Quite edgeworn and rubbed, with rounded outer corners, but calf strong and nice; fairly tight and unrestored, fully handleable. This typically cryptic ledger book hails from Ulysses S. Grant's adopted hometown of Galena in Jo Daviess County, an important lead mining center at one time thought to become the great hub of Midwest commerce. Consisting of pages lined in blue and red, the first 170 pages each bear a large "Trial Balance" and date penned boldly in brown ink -- the largest column beneath consisting of a row of names of individuals, businesses and institutions and two columns of numbers to the right of this. All are immaculately penned in the same quite attractive and legible hand. Perusing these pages one finds many a notable citizen of the day -- S.O. Stillman, John Nichols, B.F. Felt, others -- and an array of businesses -- to name a few, one finds regular entries for Merchandise…
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Minutes of the Board of Directors meetings / Πρακτικον Συνεδριασεων Διοικητικου Συμβουλιου: 3 volume. I. (1-156) 31.12.1956 - 5.7.1970, II. (156 - 296) 23,7.1970 - 31.5.1989, III. (297 – 346) 8.1989 - 4.11.1994
by Various
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A Very good hardcover unique copy 3 volume manuscripts of the H. Moscoff Anonymous Tobacco Company in Thessaloniki . The 3 volumes contain all the minutes of the Board of Directors from the 1st to the last dissolving the Company.I. Αρ Πρακτικων 1 - 156. 31.12.1956 – 5.7.1970. / 31.12.1956 - 5.7.1970. Proceedings 1 - 156II. Αρ Πρακτικων 156 – 296. Απο 23 Ιουλιου.1970 - 31 Μαιου 1989 / Proceedings 156 - 296. From 23 July 1970 - 31 May 1989III. Αρ Πρακτικων 297 – 346. Απο Αυγ. 1989 - 4 Νοεμβ. 1994 / Proceedings 297 – 346. From Aug. 1989 - 4 Nov. 1994. GREEK text.
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Reality Jew
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[Cleveland], 1964. Typescript, two pages, 4to (11 x 8.5 inches). With mailing folds. Two inked corrections. Published in 'The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle' and anthologized in 'The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry,' ed. Alan Kaufman, New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1999. This typescript shows two corrections made in levy's hand - adding "in cleveland" at the end of the sub-title and changing the last words of the second stanza - that subsequently appeared in the published editions: See 'The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle,' edited by Mike Golden, NY: Seven stories Press, 1999, p. 199." Original manuscript and typescript material by the famed, and infamous, Cleveland poet is scarce, with only two pieces appearing at auction in the past 50 years.
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Index to library (= gilt title to front cover): American Manuscript Library Catalogue
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198 lithogr. pages with columns for subject, volume-number, number of volumes, author, title, section and row. Pages 1-142 with manuscript entries, pages 143-198 blank. Cont. half leather, gilt spine and gilt title to front cover. Front paste-down a with stationary ticket of Jos. Levy & Bros.Co, New Orleans. Folio. Spine and corners renewed. Covers soiled. Library catalogue of Constantine Lawrence Lavretta (1858-1921), mayor of Mobile, Alabama from 1894 to 1897. A businessman, head of the firm begun by his father, Lavretta also served as a state legislator, a member of the board of public works, and an Alabama delegate to the Democratic national convention of 1900. He is considered the first Italian-American mayor of a major city in the United States. His catalogue is divided into 11 sections (headed 'groups') including history, heraldry, natural history, dictionaries, drama, literature, erotica, etc. containig over 5000 titles. 2 out of 3 leaves with typewritten contents of the various sections…
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Album with 13 original wash-colour drawings with views in Rome.: Manuscript
by Uggeri, Angelo (artist).
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Brown and black pen- and ink-drawings with brown wash each (255 x 180 mm) with black frames surrounded by green wash borders. Each mounted on thin cardboard with manuscript captions andd numbering in lower margins. Rom around 1800. Contemporary green half morocco, marbled sides. Oblong- 4to (318 x 245 mm). Covers rubbed, extremeties worn. Thieme-B. XXXIII, 540. A highly picturesque suite of interesting views of Roman antiquities and architectural structures with following manuscript titles: 1. Forum Romanum. 2. Interieur du Pantheon das le debordement du Tibre. 3. Le Colisée. 4. Le Colisée du côté des Maronites. 5. Arène du Colisée. 6. Restes du Temple de Mars le vengeur. 7. La roche Tarpeienne. 8. Cloaque Maxime. 9. Pont Senatorius-Rotto. 10. Tombeau des afrancis d'Auguste connue sous le nome de Columbarium. 11. Catabombes. Cimetiére de Calyste à St. Sébastian. 12. Pont Nomentano. 13. Roma vecchia. Frascati. A few brown spots, slightly soiled in margins. Front fly-leaf with contemporary…
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Radical Nomad: Essays on C. Wright Mills and His Times
by Hayden, Thomas [C. Wright Mills]
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Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan, Center for Research on Conflict Resolution, 1964. Preprint, first edition. Preprint, 218 mimeographed pages in metal-clipped folder binding. Title page has pulled free from the metal clips; chipping to paper title block on front folder panel. Near-fine.. The preprint of Thomas Hayden's (1939-2016) intellectual biography of C. Wright Mills, Radical Nomad: Essays on C. Wright Mills and His Times, published by Routledge in 2006. Hayden was an American social and political activist, author, and politician, perhaps best-known for his role in the radical social movements of the 1960s. After co-authoring the charter manifesto of new Left radicalism, the "Port Huron Statement," in 1962, Hayden would complete his biography of influential sociologist and elite theorist C. Wright Mills at the University of Michigan in 1964, exploring Mills's scholarship and activism and the ideas and thinkers that influenced him. Mills (1916-1962) was a professor of sociology at…
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Manuscript Recipe Book
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Small Octavo. Bound in maroon limp calf, rubbed, scuffed, and well used but still strong. Internally a little grubby and smudged by handling, much as might be expected of a working kitchen book. 22pp. of handwritten recipes, rather enthusiastically jammed onto each page as if the author was afraid of running out of space, there's a rather youthful exuberance to the putting together of this little pocket recipe book. The recipes are dominated by cakes, puddings and breads, including Raspberry Fool, and various sponge cakes, with some complex preserved meat dishes like Calves' Feet Jelly, and a recipe for Mock Turtle Soup involving a Calf's Head with the skin on. The spelling is a little erratic, the composition pretty makeshift, but that doesn't detract from it being a handy little household reference.
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Tapuscrit de L'Exotisme colonial
by Maurel, Christian (1931-2011, écrivain et journaliste)
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1980. Dactylographié. Très bon. Couverture souple. Signé par l'auteur. Ed. originale. Ensemble comprenant : 1) Le tapuscrit de premier jet avec de nombreuses corrections autographes : environ 16 ff. in-4 assemblés ; 2) Le tapuscrit définitif, y compris tables, crédits photographiques, 4e de couverture... : 29 ff. in-4 souvent reconstitués ; 3) Instructions pour les retouches de photos : 3 pp. tapuscrites in-4 avec corrections autographes, 2 pp. manuscrites in-12. Paru en 1980 chez Robert Laffont, L'Exotisme colonial présente environ 150 cartes postales à sujet exotique et colonial provenant de la collection de Jacques Fivel. Les images ont été choisies et mises en page par Bernard Kagane. La longue préface de Christian Maurel est d'une grande finesse. "Il est à craindre que tous les voyageurs deviennent bientôt le même sempiternel photographe, que le nombre des appareils…
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THE ORDER OF CAROLS SUNG AT NORWICH SCHOOL CHRISTMASTIDE MCMLI.
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NP. 1951. Oblong 4to. (11.5 x 7.9 inches). Beautiful calligraphic manuscript in red and black. Six leaves written on both sides on hand made paper, plus four blank leaves, all sewn in with red cord. In a fine leather binding of full dark brown morocco with bevelled edges to the boards. Multiple blind ruled line borders and gilt ruled panel with floral corner pieces to the front board. A little rubbing and marking to the binding but still a very good attractive volume. ---- The carols included are; God rest you merry, gentlemen, Annunciation Carol, The Shepherd's cradle song, King Jesus hath a garden, Nowell! Nowell!, In the manger he lies, Falan-Tiding, O little town of Bethlehem, The holy well, Midwinter, The infant king, Ding dong merrily on high, A carol of adoration, The first Nowell.
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Producers' names of Eastern Macedonia. Crops 1975 - 1988 / Ονοματα Παραγωγων Ανατολικης Μακεδονιας. Εσοδεια 1975 – 1988: Prices of their tobacco bought by Vassilis Ioannidis / τιμες των καπνων τους που αγορασε ο Βασιλειος Ιωαννιδης
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Manuscripts with thousands of producers and their villages in a paperback Dossier. In images you can see examples of prices (image_3) & villages (image_4). GREEK text.
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Summarized: General Assemblies & Board of Directors meetings / Περιληπτικον: Γενικων Συνελευσεων & Συνεδριασεων Δ. Συμβουλιου
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A near fine hardcover unique manuscript containing summarized decisions from 1956 until 1973 a Non Formal book of the company. GREEK text.
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3 Autograph letters to Francis Bickley on four Pages (September 1925?- April 1926)
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Each letter written to Francis Lawrence Bickley, author of The Adventures of Harlequin which was one of early fine books he illustrated. Each written on his letterhead John Austen. The September letter is not dated by year but from internal evidence points to 1925 when his "Rogues in Porcelain" was issued by Chapman and Hall. Austen writes that he is glad he thinks well of the "Rogues" and I look forward to your criticism of it. [In a case of apparent censorship, he writes:] "A[rthur]. Waugh, publisher of Chapman and Hall, is [desolatest?] because forsooth I have included "The Dove" its evidently the first line he had read it, as he knew well that I was to use it and now he says its indecent and will probably stop sales. I suggest it only increases them. I will certainly tell him to include the Bookman in his list but probably has already done so." He goes on to note: "I enclose the proof of your story which I enjoyed muchly--wish I could decorate a volume of such. Certainly, I will do something with…
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What Education is Of Most Worth? (Original Carbon typescript)
by Durant, Will
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Unpublished (Will Durant, Circa 1935), 1935. Draft . No Binding. Very Good. Sixteen Page Typewritten Carbon, Constituting His Complete Text For "What Education Is Of Most Worth?", Published In The Saturday Evening Post In 1936. With Durant's Typeovers, Handwritten Marginal "This Is P. 1 + 2 Of What Education Is Of Most Worth? This Copy Is Uncorrected" At Top Of Page One, Which Is Numbered Page Two But Contains The Text For Page One Typed Between Lines For Text For Page 2 On This "First" Page.
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Business Ledger
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N.p.: N.p., 1883. Hardcover. Narrow 4to (8" X 13"). Calf spine and pebbled paper over boards. 180pp. Good plus. Quite edgeworn and rubbed, with rounded outer corners, but calf strong and nice; fairly tight and unrestored, fully handleable. This typically cryptic ledger book hails from Ulysses S. Grant's adopted hometown of Galena in Jo Daviess County, an important lead mining center at one time thought to become the great hub of Midwest commerce. Consisting of pages lined in blue and red, the first 170 pages each bear a large "Trial Balance" and date penned boldly in brown ink -- the largest column beneath consisting of a row of names of individuals, businesses and institutions and two columns of numbers to the right of this. All are immaculately penned in the same quite attractive and legible hand. Perusing these pages one finds many a notable citizen of the day -- S.O. Stillman, John Nichols, B.F. Felt, others -- and an array of businesses -- to name a few, one finds regular entries for Merchandise…
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BEN HUR MGM MOVIE SCRIPT
by KEITH CLARKE BASED ON BOOK BY LEW WALLACE
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THIS IS A RARE SIGNED COPY OF MGM MOVIE SCRIPT WITH MORGAN FREEMAN'S ORIGINAL SIGNATURE, HIS COPY OF THE MANUSCRIPT HE USED FOR THE MOVIE BEN HUR
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