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Bruxelles & Paris,: G. Van Oest et Cie,, 1921.. 80, [iv] pp. Folio (27,5 x 36,5 cm.). Contemporary half green grained morocco; spine with 5 raised bands, gilt lettered, in compartments gilt decorated with floral motive; hand made marbled boards and marbled end-papers; top edges gilt; original printed wrapper bound in; preserved in a matching slipcase. With 103 fine plates in helio-engraving, depicting 153 miniatures. Title printed in red and black. ¶ A superb, and finely bound large paper copy, being one of the 25 copies printed on "papier à la cuve des Papeteries d'Arches". A very fine faultless 'de luxe' copy. Durrieu, seigneur de lhistoire de lart médiéval was one of the greatest illuminated manuscripts specialist, who wrote many standard works in that field.
De la carte de la France et de la perpendiculaire à la méridienne de Paris, prolongée vers l’Occident (et) l’Orient. by (Cassini, Jacques) - no date 1730s.: 2 parts in one volume. French manuscript on paper.
by (Cassini, Jacques)
De la carte de la France et de la perpendiculaire à la méridienne de Paris, prolongée vers l’Occident (et) l’Orient.: 2 parts in one volume. French manuscript on paper.
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Cf. Poggendorff I, 390/391 ; Hockey, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers I, 207 ; DSB III, pp. 104-105 ; Gallois, L'Académie des Sciences et les origines de la carte de Cassini. In: Annales de Géographie, 1909 pp. 289-310. Jacques Cassini (1677-1756), a French astronomer and geodesist who was admitted to the Académie des Sciences in 1694 and began to undertake scientific work on projects which his father was carrying out. Cassini, like his father, was interested in making both astronomical observations and was also interested in accurate surveys. After the Italian trip, Cassini visited Flanders and then England in around 1698. While in England he met Newton, Flamsteed, and Halley and was elected to the Royal Society of London. After returning to France he published the astronomical and geodesic data which he had gathered on his travels. In 1700 Cassini's father undertook a project to measure the meridian from Paris to Perpignan, which is 13 km west of the Mediterranean coast. Cassini assisted his father on this project and they obtained results which wrongly suggested that the Earth was elongated at the poles. In 1713 he proposed a new method for determining longitude by means of the eclipses of the stars and planets by the moon. Applying this method, and using data from the 1700 Paris to Perpignan survey, he claimed to have proved that the degrees of the terrestrial meridian grow smaller from the equator towards the pole. It was unfortunate that Cassini resolutely stuck to this position throughout his life, refusing to acknowledge the flattening despite the scientific evidence which was put forward. Whether this was due to a false sense of patriotism, believing that he was supporting the French view against the English view which was a consequence of Newton's gravitational theory (which Cassini never accepted), or whether it was through a false sense of family loyalty supporting his father's views, we shall never know. Perhaps indeed both may have contributed without Cassini being fully aware that they were affecting his scientific judgement, or perhaps he was so convinced that the results of the 1700 survey were correct that he could never accept the contrary. The real problem with the data from the survey was, as pointed out in 1733 by Giovanni Poleni, that both the elongation proposed by Cassini or the flattening proposed by others, fell within the experimental error of the instruments used. His scientific role was one of major importance, playing a major role in the Académie des Sciences and taking over as head of the Paris Observatory from his father in 1709. Cassini continued both his astronomical and surveying work. In 1718 he undertook the measurement of the Paris meridian north to Dunkerque and in 1722 he published the results, which again supported his incorrect theory of elongation at the poles, in "De la grandeur et de la figure de la terre". This important treatise surveyed the results which had been obtained on measuring the earth over the preceding fifty years. However, those like Maupertuis who believed that the earth was flattened at the poles argued ever more strongly against Cassini's theory and, in an attempt to gain further evidence to support his case, Cassini organised another project in 1733, this time to measure the perpendicular to the meridian from Saint-Malo to Strasbourg. As he had accompanied his father when he was a young man, on this measuring project Cassini had the assistance of his own son César-François Cassini de Thury. The data they collected during the years 1733-34 seemed to support the elongation theory but this only encouraged those members of the Académie such as Maupertuis who supported the Newtonian view, to organise further scientific expeditions in an attempt to settle the argument in their favour. By 1738 the geodesic measurements carried out in Peru by Bouguer and La Condamine in 1735 and in Lapland by Maupertuis in 1736 to measure the length of a meridian degree had produced very strong evidence for the flattening at the poles. Although Cassini never deviated from his belief, he began to scale back his scientific work from 1740. - "Let us end by stressing that Cassini made an extremely important contribution to the major scientific debates of his time. Although he supported an incorrect hypothesis regarding the shape of the Earth, nevertheless his contribution is extremely important. It is in the nature of scientific progress that hypotheses get put forward and tested. We should in no way consider Cassini's contribution any the less important because he was on the wrong side in the debate" (J. J. O'Conor and E. F. Robertson: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive (www.history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.html).
- Germain-Louis Chauvelin (1685-1762), marquis de Grosbois, was a French politician, serving as 'garde des sceaux' (seal keeper) and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under Louis XV. In 1727 Chauvelin was put in charge of the department related to publishing, printing business and censorship and given the presidency of the seal. The seal right also gave him access to major revenue streams. Barbier called him "prodigiously rich". His impressive library was sold in Paris in 1762 (Blogie, Répertoire des Catalogues II, 1762 VII, 1-28). Our manuscript is listed in the catalogue under no. 2365. The manuscript is teeming with details and anecdotes: We follow Cassini and his men (the astronomer Jean-Dominique Maraldi (1709-1788), the cartographer l'abbé Jean Delagrive (1689-1757), the clock and instrument maker Julien Le Roy (1686-1759) and two of his sons step by step through the villages and towns of France, sometimes faced with major problems to carry out their surveys. Comprising 86 pages, written on thick laid paper in a neat and legible calligraphic hand and adorned with two large manuscript maps accompanying the two parts of the manuscript. The printed version of both texts lectured and published in 1734 at the Académie de Sciences with slight variants and only one of the two maps the one joining Paris to the sea, the other map unpublished (?). One map with short tear in one fold. One of presumedly four existing manuscript copies, of which three in French public institutional holdings dedicated to the king and other important representatives of the French government. A fine and excellently preserved scientific manuscript in a very decorative contemporary French red morocco armorial binding.
Cf. Poggendorff I, 390/391 ; Hockey, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers I, 207 ; DSB III, pp. 104-105 ; Gallois, L'Académie des Sciences et les origines de la carte de Cassini. In: Annales de Géographie, 1909 pp. 289-310. Jacques Cassini (1677-1756), a French astronomer and geodesist who was admitted to the Académie des Sciences in 1694 and began to undertake scientific work on projects which his father was carrying out. Cassini, like his father, was interested in making both astronomical observations and was also interested in accurate surveys. After the Italian trip, Cassini visited Flanders and then England in around 1698. While in England he met Newton, Flamsteed, and Halley and was elected to the Royal Society of London. After returning to France he published the astronomical and geodesic data which he had gathered on his travels. In 1700 Cassini's father undertook a project to measure the meridian from Paris to Perpignan, which is 13 km west of the Mediterranean coast. Cassini assisted his father on this project and they obtained results which wrongly suggested that the Earth was elongated at the poles. In 1713 he proposed a new method for determining longitude by means of the eclipses of the stars and planets by the moon. Applying this method, and using data from the 1700 Paris to Perpignan survey, he claimed to have proved that the degrees of the terrestrial meridian grow smaller from the equator towards the pole. It was unfortunate that Cassini resolutely stuck to this position throughout his life, refusing to acknowledge the flattening despite the scientific evidence which was put forward. Whether this was due to a false sense of patriotism, believing that he was supporting the French view against the English view which was a consequence of Newton's gravitational theory (which Cassini never accepted), or whether it was through a false sense of family loyalty supporting his father's views, we shall never know. Perhaps indeed both may have contributed without Cassini being fully aware that they were affecting his scientific judgement, or perhaps he was so convinced that the results of the 1700 survey were correct that he could never accept the contrary. The real problem with the data from the survey was, as pointed out in 1733 by Giovanni Poleni, that both the elongation proposed by Cassini or the flattening proposed by others, fell within the experimental error of the instruments used. His scientific role was one of major importance, playing a major role in the Académie des Sciences and taking over as head of the Paris Observatory from his father in 1709. Cassini continued both his astronomical and surveying work. In 1718 he undertook the measurement of the Paris meridian north to Dunkerque and in 1722 he published the results, which again supported his incorrect theory of elongation at the poles, in "De la grandeur et de la figure de la terre". This important treatise surveyed the results which had been obtained on measuring the earth over the preceding fifty years. However, those like Maupertuis who believed that the earth was flattened at the poles argued ever more strongly against Cassini's theory and, in an attempt to gain further evidence to support his case, Cassini organised another project in 1733, this time to measure the perpendicular to the meridian from Saint-Malo to Strasbourg. As he had accompanied his father when he was a young man, on this measuring project Cassini had the assistance of his own son César-François Cassini de Thury. The data they collected during the years 1733-34 seemed to support the elongation theory but this only encouraged those members of the Académie such as Maupertuis who supported the Newtonian view, to organise further scientific expeditions in an attempt to settle the argument in their favour. By 1738 the geodesic measurements carried out in Peru by Bouguer and La Condamine in 1735 and in Lapland by Maupertuis in 1736 to measure the length of a meridian degree had produced very strong evidence for the flattening at the poles. Although Cassini never deviated from his belief, he began to scale back his scientific work from 1740. - "Let us end by stressing that Cassini made an extremely important contribution to the major scientific debates of his time. Although he supported an incorrect hypothesis regarding the shape of the Earth, nevertheless his contribution is extremely important. It is in the nature of scientific progress that hypotheses get put forward and tested. We should in no way consider Cassini's contribution any the less important because he was on the wrong side in the debate" (J. J. O'Conor and E. F. Robertson: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive (www.history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.html).
- Germain-Louis Chauvelin (1685-1762), marquis de Grosbois, was a French politician, serving as 'garde des sceaux' (seal keeper) and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under Louis XV. In 1727 Chauvelin was put in charge of the department related to publishing, printing business and censorship and given the presidency of the seal. The seal right also gave him access to major revenue streams. Barbier called him "prodigiously rich". His impressive library was sold in Paris in 1762 (Blogie, Répertoire des Catalogues II, 1762 VII, 1-28). Our manuscript is listed in the catalogue under no. 2365. The manuscript is teeming with details and anecdotes: We follow Cassini and his men (the astronomer Jean-Dominique Maraldi (1709-1788), the cartographer l'abbé Jean Delagrive (1689-1757), the clock and instrument maker Julien Le Roy (1686-1759) and two of his sons step by step through the villages and towns of France, sometimes faced with major problems to carry out their surveys. Comprising 86 pages, written on thick laid paper in a neat and legible calligraphic hand and adorned with two large manuscript maps accompanying the two parts of the manuscript. The printed version of both texts lectured and published in 1734 at the Académie de Sciences with slight variants and only one of the two maps the one joining Paris to the sea, the other map unpublished (?). One map with short tear in one fold. One of presumedly four existing manuscript copies, of which three in French public institutional holdings dedicated to the king and other important representatives of the French government. A fine and excellently preserved scientific manuscript in a very decorative contemporary French red morocco armorial binding.
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A 1st ed. good hardcover (cloth-bound), soiling of cloth & signs of age as in image, with stamp fr. end p. (image_2) "Alfred Rosenberg* spende fur die Deutsche Wehrmacht 1939/1942 Gau Westmark". "Die Stempel mit dem Schriftzug: "Alfred-Rosenberg-Spende für die Deutsche Wehrmacht …". Eine kurze Untersuchung nach anderen Belegen und Formen über diesen Stempel ergab, dass solche Stempel auch mit anderen Gaubezeichnungen bekannt sind. Es handelte sich bei diesen Aktionen um deutschlandweite Buchsammlungen, die das Ziel verfolgten, den Soldaten an der Front Bücher zukommen zu lassen. Durchgeführt wurde die Aktion "Buchspende für die Deutsche Wehrmacht" vom Kriegs-Winterhilfswerk, dem ein Aufruf Rosenbergs voranging. Bis zum Jahr 1940 konnten so 8 ½ Millionen Bücher gesammelt werden. Bis zum Frühjahr 1941 konnten in zwei Sammelaktionen 15 ½ Millionen Bücher an die kämpfende Front verschickt werden . Im Oktober 1941 erfolgte nach den Erfolgen der letzten zwei Sammlungen ein…
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Surveillance; Hearings before the subcommittee on courts, civil liberties, and the administration of justice. on the matter of wiretapping, electronic eavesdropping, and other surveillance. February 6 [through] September 8, 1975. Part 1 [hearings],: 94th congress, first session. Serial no. 26.
by United States. House of Representatives
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Buff House wrap, good clean volume.
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Agreement of Sale between the American Baptist Publication Society and John Wanamaker
by Wanamaker, John
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1905. Good +. Signed 3-page typescript of a agreement of sale between the American Baptist Publication Society and John Wanamaker. The American Baptist Publication Society sold to John Wanamaker the Crozier Building at 1420 and 1422 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, for $900,000. The Crozier Building was designed by Frank Miles Day & Brother and was added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places in 1980. American merchant John Wanamaker (1838-1922) had made $1.5 million in profits and interest from his stores in Philadelphia and New York in 1904, suggesting that his acquisition of the Crozier Building was an investment. The Crozier Building has continued to function as a successful office building to this day. In Good+ Condition: chipping at edges; loss of lower corner of first page, with minor loss of text; separating along some of the 2 horizontal creases in each page; signatures are clean and intact.
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Invariance of Light Speed: Reality or Fiction?
by Levy, Joseph
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This book was sent to Dr. David Bartlett of the Univ. of Colorado by Dr. Levy of France. Personal letter from Dr. Levy to Dr. Bartlett included. Text is very good——clean & tight & unmarked. Moderate shelf wear with 2 creases on front cover that intersect the spine. Dr. Bartlett's name written on front.
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Vellum indenture of lease and release between Christopher Gullett of Exeter, gentleman, and the Rev. Saint Andrew Saint John, John Burton, and Ambrose Hall
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1776. Near Fine. 56 x 75 cm. Attractive calligraphy on vellum. Christopher Gullett of Exeter, gentleman, grants to the Rev. Saint Andrew Saint John of Somerly in Southampton Co., John Burton of Jacobstow in Devon Co., esq., and Ambrose Hall of London, administrators and assigns, the property known as Hayton in Sampford Spiney, Devon Co. With an ebossed grey-and-gilt one shilling stamp affixed to one side and an engraved stamp on the reverse; and the signature of Christopher Gullett at the lower edge with a red seal. Sealed and delivered in the presence of Wm. Kirkby and H. Hall. In Near Fine Condition: exterior when folded slightly soiled; otherwise, clean and bright.
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5 letters, 1873-1879, to William Ward (1837-1895) [Philadelphia and Chester County Railroad]
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1873. Near Fine. 5 handwritten letters to William Ward, 1873-1879, regarding the Philadelphia and Chester County Railroad, which existed from 1872 to 1885; it was succeeded by the Philadelphia Midland Railroad. William Ward was one of the organizers of the Philadelphia and Chester County Railroad and in 1874 was the president and treasurer pro tem. Letters #1 and #2 (Sept. 5 and Dec. 5, 1873) are from Jos. H. McKeehan, an attorney in Philadelphia, who is writing about deliquent subscribers to the railroad. Letter #3 (Dec. 18, 1873) is from the Village Record, a newspaper in West Chester, Pa., with a copy of the advertisement that ran in the paper listing the dates that instalments from railroad subscribers were due in 1872. Letter #4 (Nov. 26, 1875) is from John Smith of Ridley Park, about a plan to petition to vacate a street and public ground adjoining Mr. Bartol's purchase. Letter #5 (Sept. 8, 1879) from the superintendant of the Government Paper Mill in Dalton, Mass., complaining about…
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Handwritten Vellum Indenture for Sale of Woodland in Providence Township, Montgomery Co., by Margaret Cauffman to Isaac Overholtzer
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1814. Near Fine. On 25 March 1814 Margaret Cauffman of Philadelphia, gentlewoman, sold to Isaac Overholtzer of Norriton Township, Montgomery County, for $650 a lot of woodland of almost 5 acres in Providence Township, Montgomery Co., on the road leading from the Germantown and Perkiomen turnpike and on the Norristown Road. Signed by Margaret Cauffman; witnesses Sarah A. Cauffman, Catharine Wiseman, and Alexander J. Uhlyn; and Delaware County Judge Mark Willcox. Mark Willcox (1743-1827) was the son of Thomas Willcox (1689-1779), the founder of Ivy Mills, which produced the paper used for early currency of the United States. He continued to run the paper mill after his father's death in 1779; he also served as an associate judge for Delaware County from 1791 to 1823. His second wife was Anna Mary Cauffman, a sister of Margaret Cauffman. In Near Fine Condition; 1 x 10 cm. section lacking at lower left-hand corner, with minor loss of writing; otherwise, clean and bright.
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2 mortgage documents involving John K. Cuming, Alphonse A. Brunner, and a brick house at 1736 Grove St., Philadelphia
by Cuming, John K
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Philadelphia: John C. Clark & Sons, 1884. Fine. 2 documents printed by John C. Clark & Sons, Philadelphia, both printed in red and black, and folded. On 2 May 1884, John K. Cuming of Philadelphia, merchant, mortgaged a three-story brick house at 1736 Grove St., Philadelphia, for $900 to be paid within three years. Signed by John K. Cuming, witnesses Harry B. Yerger and Frank A. Brunner, notary public Harry B. Yerger (with his stamp), and Philadelphia County Recorders of Deeds John O'Connell and John Virdin. The note of satisfaction on 16 Oct. 1901 was signed by Kate E. Scott. John K. Cuming (1830-1915) was a prominent Philadelphian who served on the Select Council, the Citizens' Municipal Association, and the Board of City Trusts and was president of the Tenth National Bank for many years. In Fine Condition: clean and crisp.
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