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Zustand: As New. Like New condition. 20th anniversary edition. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Good condition with wear and markings.

Zustand: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. No Jacket. Myrtle Peppers (illustrator). 1st Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR across the title page as follows: ¿Sincere good wishes / to you ¿ whose friendship / I cherish - / Mizpah[?] / Elizabeth Myers / To I¿m[?] / Just Beth!¿ [Her pen ran out of ink in the writing of Elizabeth, but the rest can be read from the indentations.] Illustrated with eight black and white full-page drawings by Myrtle Pepper. Laid in is a Christmas card signed ¿Beth Myers¿ which contains a handwritten Christmas poem presumably by her. Blue cloth with gilt letters on the front cover. Very minor wear to extremities with nothing rubbed through, very slightly faded around the edges and along the spine, gilt still bright, all illustrations fine, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. Elizabeth Myers was a member of the Poetry Division of the Schubert Club in Los Angeles and had several poems in their three-volume TOWERS IN THE SUN. Myrtle Peppers was also a member of the club and contributed both poems and illustrations to TOWERS IN THE SUN. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1184 pages. 6.69x2.31x9.61 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Zustand: near fine. First edition. Octavo. x, 158pp. Indices and bibliography. Forest green cloth stamped in gilt, publisher's device on front cover. An ex-library copy with minimal rubber stamping on title & at bottom of text block, and a library pocket on rear pastedown. Contents: Preliminary Material /; Francis T. Fallon --; Introduction /; Francis T. Fallon --; The Relationship of the Two Accounts : A Common Tradition /; Francis T. Fallon --; The Sabaoth Account in NatArch /; Francis T. Fallon --; The Sabaoth Account in OnOrgWld /; Francis T. Fallon --; Conclusion /; Francis T. Fallon --; Select Bibliography /; Francis T. Fallon --; Indices /; Francis T. Fallon. Volume 10 of the Brill series, "Nag Hammadi Studies." (N.H.S.).

1st edition. Original blue printed paper wrappers, 12mo, 68 pages. 19 cm. Contents: I. Hebrew poetry of to-day; II. Ezekiel (priest and prophet).Discusses the poetry of Saul Tchernichowsky, Yaakov Cahan, & Salkind Chneour, as well as the Biblical book of Ezekiel. Wassilevsky is also the author of "Modern Hebrew Literature: A Paper Read Before the Annual Conference, in London, of the International Society of Philology, Science and Fine Arts" (1915); "Jewish nation, its life and literature" (1915); and "Chassidism: A Resumé of Modern Hebrew Mysticism" (1916 & 1918). SUBJECT(S): Hebrew literature -- History and criticism. OCLC: 55009639. OCLC locates only 3 copies in North America (Columbia, HUC, Redwood). Light rust stains at spine, otherwise Near Fine Condition.(BK5) (Brit-2-6-ZZ).

First edition. Original cloth covered boards. 8vo, 448 pages, 21 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to "Amazons, or The Battle between the Priests of Vesta and Amar: A Novel of High Society in America and England." Novel. OCLC: 122713425. OCLC locates only 5 copies worldwide (NYPL, Stanford, Yale, UMich, HUC) Wear to spine but otherwise nice. Good condition. (YID-48-64).

paperback. [1898?]1st separate edition, single fold pamphlet (4 pages), 12mo. Not in Singerman, though Robert Singerman himself suggested to us that the text "seems to be a match for the text in the first volume of the American Jewish Year Book (1899/1900) at pp.294-97. Our item does not include any pagination and we would consider it to be a first separate edition. The item not listed in any database we were able to consult. Advertising pamphlet listing imprints of the newly formed Jewish Publication Society, including their first, "Outlines of Jewish History," by Lady Magnus (1890) through Zangwill's Dreamers of the Ghetto (1898) which is indicated as "Sold to Members only," probably indicating that it had just come out (or perhaps related to copyright issues with Zangwill). Notably absent is any mention of the American Jewish Yearbook, which began publication in 1899. All items include a short positive review from the American press. The Jewish Publication Society of America was founded for "'the publication and dissemination of literary, scientific, and religious works giving instruction in the principles of the Jewish religion'; the third of its kind in the United States (see Jew. Encyc. i. 519). Its headquarters are at Philadelphia. It was founded June 3, 1888, at a convention held in Philadelphia. At the end of the first fiscal year the membership was 1,071; by 1903 it had reached 4,700. Every member of the society receives a copy of each publication; since the society has been in existence over two hundred thousand volumes have been distributed and sold. The society is supported by the income derived from a permanent fund and from membership dues. As a rule, four, sometimes five, publications a year are issued; the first, 'Outlines of Jewish History,' by Lady Magnus, appeared in 1890. The society issues two series, a 'Special Series' (seven numbers), appearing occasionally, and including short works of a miscellaneous character, and 'The American Jewish Year Book,' published since 1899-1900 (5660).the society has brought outtranslations from German, French, and Hebrew. They include histories, literary, religious, and ethical essays, poems, biographies, proceedings of societies, republications of older classics, and fiction" (Cyrus Adler & Henrietta Szold in the JE, 1905). A copy may exist at the Dobkin Collection of Feminism; otherwise we could not locate a copy in OCLC-Worldcat, nor using a google serach. Apparently exceedingly rare as such. Lightly rubbed, Very Good Condition (B) (AMR-67-28).

Paper Wrappers. 1st edition. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers (English side only), 8vo, 61 pages ; 20 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, "Love: A Philosophical Reflection on the Real Feeling of Love and Nature's Reciprocity." Singerman Supplement 0765. Vol I, No. 11 (December 1899) of "The Classical Library: A Monthly Magazine of Select Literature." Not to be confused with the more common Hebrew Publishing Company edition from a year later. The author, David Moses Hermalin (1865-1921) was a Romanian-born Jewish American Yiddish writer, journalist, newspaper editor, and playwright.He worked as a journalist for Romanian newspapers in Bucharest, but was compelled to leave for protesting against Jewish persecution. He immigrated to America in 1885 and began writing for the Nyu Yorker Yudishe Folkstsaytung when it was founded in 1886. He spent a year working as a Hebrew teacher in Montreal, Canada, after which he returned to New York City and worked as a journalist full-time. He became an important contributor and co-editor of various Yiddish newspapers like Folks Advokat, Idishe Herald, Varhayt, and Der Tog.One source described him as the most important family page editor in Yiddish for many years. Hermalin wrote novels and treatises on popular philosophy. He made a number of loose Yiddish translations of European literature, including the works of Leo Tolstoy, Émile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, Boccaccio, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Jonathan Swift. In 1895, he rewrote the Shakespearean plays Julius Caesar and Macbeth into Yiddish, which were then staged as Yiddish plays" (Wikipedia). For more on the publisher, Meyer Chinksy [Moyshe Chenchinski] see Lederhandler, "Stories My Grandfather Never Told Me: The Memoirs of Moishe Chinsky (Chenchinski)," in The American Jewish Archives Journal LXIX, no. 1 (2017). SUBJECT(S): Love. OCLC: 667629903. OCLC and Singerman together list only 2 copies worldwide (Yale & NLI). Lacks Front cover (probably identical to Yiddish title page, which is present), paper browning as expected but solid, Good Condition thus. Rare. (AMR-67-23-'dex).

Naples, 1852. 2 volumes. OCLC 1 copy North America (illustrator). Naples, 1852. 2 volumes. OCLC 1 copy North America. 1852 Italian Anthology of Translated Writings by German Criminologists [Mori, Francesco A., Editor and Translator]. Scritti Germanici di Dritto Criminale. Opera Che Puo Formar Seguito e Complimento Alla Teorica del Dritto Penale di A. Chauveau. Prima Versione Italiana con Note Riguardanti la Legislazione in Vigore nel Regno Delle Due Sicilie. Naples: Giovanni Pedone Lauriel, 1852. Two volumes bound as one, each with title page and index. 240; 252 pp. Main text in parallel columns. Octavo (9" x 6"). Contemporary quarter calf with gilt fillets and titles over marbled boards, speckled edges. Rubbing with some wear to extremities. Light foxing to most of text, which is otherwise clean and bright. A very nice copy. $150. * Reissue of a book first published in Livorno in four volumes from 1847 to 1847. This book is an anthology of writings by contemporary German criminologists, who were considered the leading practitioners in Europe. They are: Mittermeier, Rosshirt, Hofacker, Walter, Bauer, Waechter, Scheurlen, Zachariae, Kleinscrod, Friedrich, Hepp, Sander, Jagemann, Schenck, Geib and Hesse. Mori was a pioneering Italian criminologist. He was influenced by the important French criminologist Adolphe Chauveau [1802-1869]. OCLC locates 5 copies, 1 in North America (Columbia Law School). Not in the British Museum Catalogue.

1st separate edition. Single sheet (Broadside/Flyer). 8.5 x 11 inches, 28 cm. Holocaust era reprint from the New York Sun, a satirical wartime poem with drawings ridiculing notions of racial purity and celebrating American ethnic mixing--including with Jews--as a source of strength. Includes illustrations by Nat Falk. One cartoon shows four servicemen labled "Casey, Cohen, Serati, Schmalz" walking into a gateway--and out the other side marches a proud "G.I.". One verse goes, When Fritz (his pedigree so straight) went forth to spread his wrath He was amazed to find a super-slugger in his path: This son of Olga Yacowicz and Jacob Peter Lutz, (Whose grandma was a Sullivan, whose uncle was a Glutz), Could take it like a Finnerty and give it like a Grant, And do it for a pin-up girl named Mercedes Levant; Before such blood streams Fritzie quickly took it on the lam Oh, dynamite runs freely in the veins of Uncle Sam! OCLC lists no copies worldwide; we were only able to locate a single copy anywhere, at Uppsala University, using a google search. Some chipping at edges, but all text is clear. Good condition. Rare, an excellent period piece! (Holo2-41-25-'LCCG-'+).

No Date, ca 1900? Later binding, 8vo, 41 pages. 15 cm. In Hebrew and Judeo-German, and Yiddish. Yaari, 2573. Originally published in 1822. Title translates as: "Haggadah Seder; Narrative of the Exodus of Israel from Egypt. " An edition of the famous Heidenheim German-Hebrew Haggadah, published in the Land of Israel around 1900 by the Association for the Austro-Hungarian, Bohemian-Moravian Community of Jerusalem (Palestine). Heidenheim's German-Hebrew hagadah became the standard hagadah in householdsacross Germany for much of the 19th and early 20th Century. Wolf Heidenheim (17571832) is among the most recognizable Jewish publishers and exegetes of the 19th century. In 1798 he received a license to establish a German and Hebrew press in partnership with Baruch Baschwitz. In 1800 Heidenheim began the publication of his most famous work, the nine-volume edition of the mahzor, Sefer Kerovot (Roedelheim, 180002), which went through numerous printings. The work included the first pure German translation (in Hebrew characters) of the liturgical poems for the festivals, a Hebrew commentary and a literary historical introduction. Heidenheim devoted great care to typographical setup as well as to the restoration of the correct text of the prayers. SUBJECT(S): Haggadot -- Texts. Judaism -- Liturgy -- Texts. Passover -- Prayers and devotions. Judaism -- Liturgy. OCLC: 83892178. OCLC locates only 1 copy of this edition (or any edition of Heidenheim's hagadah published in Jerusalem), at Harvard. Some wear to edges and spine. Tape on internal spine. Some wine stains throughout. Good- Condition. Rare. (HAG-27-4).

New Haven: J.H. Benham, 1845. OCLC 1 cpy law lib. (illustrator). New Haven: J.H. Benham, 1845. OCLC 1 cpy law lib. Theft, Lewdness and Murder Thompson, Joseph Parrish [1819-1879]. Lewdness and Murder. A Discourse Suggested by the Late Murder; Delivered in the Chapel Street Congregational Church, On Sabbath Evening, March 9th, 1845; And Repeated in the Center Churches of New Haven and Hartford. New Haven: Printed and Published by J.H. Benham, 1845. 24 pp. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/4"; 22.2 x 13.3 cm). Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers. Light soiling, a few minor stains and some minor wear to corners, spine worn away, wrappers partially detached but secure, faint vertical crease through center, moderate toning and light foxing to text. $300. * First edition. Thompson was a prominent Congregationalist minister. During his time at the Chapel Street Church in New Haven, he was a contributing editor of The New Englander, later The Yale Review. He moved to New York later in 1845, where he spent years as a staunch abolitionist and founded The Independent, a religious anti-slavery weekly newspaper, in 1848. This sermon discusses the recent murder of Lucius P. Osborn by Andrew P. Potter, a "lewd" individual. Potter borrowed a watch from Osborn. Wanting to keep it, he murdered Potter by bashing his skull with a pike pole. Thompson focuses on the thesis that a man corrupted by lewdness is likely to become a criminal who will commit brutal acts. OCLC locates 1 copy in a law library (Yale). Not in McDade. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 12929.

no copies OCLC or COPAC (illustrator). no copies OCLC or COPAC. The Fates of 118 Prisoners in Bridgwater, Somerset on June 29, 1835 [Criminals]. [Great Britain]. A Calendar of the Prisoners for the Midsummer Sessions, To be Holden at the Town of Bridgwater, On Monday, The 29th Day of June, 1835. [drop head title]. Yeoville: Porter, Printer, [1835]. [16] pp. Quarto (12-3/4" x 10"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in self wrappers. Moderate soiling and edgewear, some splitting at spine ends, faint dampstaining, faint vertical crease through center, moderate toning and light foxing to interior, early owner signature to head of p. [1]. $500. * A list of 118 prisoners. Along with the charge, each entry includes the prisoner's age, trade, date of warrant, jurisdiction and the person "by whom committed." Not listed on OCLC or COPAC.

London, 1815. OCLC locates no copies this imprint. (illustrator). London, 1815. OCLC locates no copies this imprint. Fraud In The Yorkshire Coal Fields [Trial]. Stocks, Michael, Defendant. An Authentic Report Of The Trial Of Michael Stocks, Esq. For Wilful And Corrupt Perjury, At The Yorkshire Lent Assizes, 1815. Before The Honourable Sir Alexander Thompson, Knt. Chief Baron Of His Majesty's Exchequer, And A Special Jury. Huddersfield: Sold by the Principal Booksellers in London; And the Booksellers of York, Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Halifax, Sheffield, Wakefield, Rochdale, Manchester, &c., 1815. 116 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5-1/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet bound into nineteenth-century unlettered pebbled cloth. Light rubbing to extremities with light wear to spine ends, corners bumped, minor spotting to boards. Light toning to text, finger smudges and light foxing to a few leaves. A very good copy. $500. * First edition, second issue (with the errata all corrected). Stocks was accused of stealing and selling 10,000 tons of coal from mines in Northowram, in the West-Riding of Yorkshire, he owned in partnership with two other men. Stocks was not convicted. The trial details the contractual history of the partnership, such contentious matters as the exact legal boundaries of neighboring mines and coal-pits and the nature of written and verbal agreements. OCLC locates no copies of this imprint. 1 copy located at the Library of Congress.

London, 1807. OCLC 5 copies; 3 in N.A. (illustrator). London, 1807. OCLC 5 copies; 3 in N.A. He Seduced Her to Win a Bet [Trial]. Piers, Sir John [1772-1845], Defendant. The Trial of Sir John Piers, Bart. For Criminal Conversation with Eliza, the Wife of Valentine Viscount Cloncurry Before Lord Chief-Justice Downes, In the Court of King's Bench, Dublin; On February 19, 20, 1807. With the Letters Between the Parties. London: Printed for and Sold by R. Butters, [1807]. 44 pp. Lacking portrait frontispiece. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5-1/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet bound into period-style quarter morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and ornaments to spine, endpapers renewed. Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Moderate toning to text, light foxing to a few leaves, edgewear and a few minor holes to title page, "2" in early hand to upper margin. $600. * Only edition. Piers, 6th Baronet of Tristernagh Abbey, was an Anglo-Irish baronet and a notable rake. His notoriety dates from his 1807 adultery trial involving Elizabeth Georgiana, Lady Cloncurry, the wife of an old school friend (and creditor), Lord Cloncurry. The trial established that Piers had seduced Lady Cloncurry as part of a bet. Lord Cloncurry was awarded the enormous sum of ?20,000 in damages, the largest award granted in a criminal conversation case. The scandal attracted a great deal of attention and secured Piers a footnote in history. This case was the subject of John Betjemin's poem Sir John Piers and a 1978 BBC documentary The Bold Bad Baronet. COPAC locates 1 copy (National Library of Scotland). OCLC locates 5 copies, 3 in North America (Temple University, University of Missouri-Columbia, Yale Law School). Not in the British Museum Catalogue.

No Date [1913]. 1st edition. Original wallet-style limp leather binding, with 'popper' closer on flap and upper cover, marbled endpapers, and gilt edges. 16mo (pocket-sized), 166 + [16] pages, plus 3 unnumbered leaves of plates with illustrations. 4 1/8 x 2 7/8 inches. Includes index and "baby record" forms at rear for recording vital birth and growth information for the parent's first four children. Early mother's pocket guidebook by Belle Israels Mosowitz (née Lindner, 1877-1933), whom the New York Times, at the time of her death, dubbed the most powerful woman in U.S. politics. Date is inferred from text reference to the author's book "The child", which first appeared in 1913. Features maternity products by Lane Bryant, Inc. "Belle Moskowitz's career is unique in American politics. After two decades as a settlement worker, social and civic reformer, and labor mediator, in the early 1920s she became one of New York governor Alfred E. Smith's closest advisers. She organized his campaigns and served as a strategist in his "kitchen cabinet." When he ran for president in 1928, she was by far the most powerful woman in the national Democratic Partythe only Jewish woman and the only woman unconnected to a prominent family to achieve such standing" (Jewish Women's Archive). "A Modern Mother's Experience" is full of practical information, gathered first-hand by Belle, then a mother of three, and presented in two sections--health and care of the expectant mother, and health and care of the newborn child. Publisher Al Malsin notes in his introduction that the book "gives not only all necessary advice and guidance, answering many intimate, perplexing questions (e.g., what kind of corset to wear), but gives hundreds of 'mother-know-hows' which will prove invaluable aids to every young wife or mother." Wearing the right corset was apparently important enough that the author included two photos as illustration. Moskowitz "was a Jewish-American progressive reformer and political advisor in the early 20th century.[B]ornin HarlemShe was raised in an Ashkenazi Jewish family; her parents were Isidor Lindner and Esther Freyer religious immigrants from East Prussia. Isidor was a cantor at Temple Israel, the first synagogue in Harlem. As a young girl, Belle Lindner would have been exposed to the charitable activities of the temple's female Sisterhood, a group which collected money, organized sewing for the poor, and worked with United Hebrew Charities. The Sisterhood also organized a 'Working Girl's Vacation Fund' and a 'Working Girl's Club' to improve the qualities of life for women living in the city. These activities have much in common with Lindner's later advocacy for young working-class women and recreational opportunities. In 1900, at the age of 23, Belle Lindner became a social worker at the Educational Alliance, an organization whose primary focus was cultural assimilation for Jewish immigrants. She held various appointments there, eventually becoming director of entertainments and exhibits. After leaving the Alliance, Lindner (now Belle Israels) wrote for the United Hebrew Charities and Charities, a social work journal, for which she later became an editorial assistant. She also joined the New York section of the Council of Jewish Women, another organization that helped Jewish immigrants. With her role as chair of the philanthropy committee, her focus was welfare work. She oversaw sick and poor children at a hospital on Randall's Island and visited troubled girls in reformatories. In 1907, Belle Israels joined the first board of directors for the New York branch of the Travelers' Aid Society, an organization formed with the aim of protecting solo female travelers from trafficking and other situations that threatened their safety. Her first effort at social reform was to clean up and license the city's commercial dance halls, which she saw as places that got young working girls into trouble. Working through the Council of Jewish Women-New York Section, by 1910 she had won laws that regulated dance hall conditions, including fire and safety and the selling of alcoholic drinks. The New York Times stated, 'These laws did more to improve the moral surroundings of young girls' than any other single social reform of the period.her first major project [was]: The Lakeview Home for Girls, which opened for permanent use 1911. The Lakeview was located on Staten Island and gave young women temporary shelter, as well as aid in finding work. In the 1912 presidential election, [Belle] Israels publicly aligned with the platform of Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party, which emphasized labor protections and occupational safety. In a letter to fellow reformer Lillian Wald, she stated that 'social reform has the services of America's first publicity man [Roosevelt] and our ideas will become common currency'. In 1913, after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire [and the year of this work's publication] .[She and her] second husband, Henry Moskowitz.work[ed] closely together in the investigations following the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.[In addition,] Israels began working to promote the grievances of workers. She mediated disputes between the Garment District unions and employers as a grievance clerk for the Dress and Waist Manufacturing Association. She was fired from this role for ruling in favor of labor unions in a majority of cases. In addition to her work as a labor mediator in the Garment District, Israels also worked privately as an industrial mediator, writer, and advisor. In a flyer for her business, she offered counseling for factory planning and employment management that would benefit both employees and employers. She wrote, 'Discontented or poorly trained workers, unsuited to their jobs, threaten the peace of the shop. Whatever threatens peace threatens profit.' She was said in the New York Times to have resolved over 10,000 grievance cases. Following America's entry into World War I i.

Lucca, 1717. 2nd ed. OCLC 3 copies North America (illustrator). Lucca, 1717. 2nd ed. OCLC 3 copies North America. A Rare Eighteenth-Century Treatise on Criminal Law in the Papal States Seta, Joannes Baptista Ascanius. De Officio Locumtenentis in Guberniis Sac. Consultae Tractatus: In quo Habentur Observationes & Regulae non Minus Utiles Quam Necessarie pro Iisdem Guberniis Recte Administrandis in Re Criminali & Politica; & Pro Rite Interpretandis, Extendendis, & Successive Exequendis Cunctis Rescriptis a Sac. Consulta Fieri Solitis in Causarum Criminalium Expeditionibus, Atque Provisionibus, Cum Permultis Decretis, Tam Eiusdem Sac. Conf., Quam Aliarum Sac. Cong. Suis in Locis Ordine Dispositis Et Obiter de Jurisdictione Episcoporum Contra Inquisitores, & Eorum Familiares, & E Contra; Necnon Epitome Criminalis Judicii. Et Tandem, In hac Secunda Editione Praedictis Adnectuntur Quamplura Vota Criminalia ad Sacram Consultam Transmissa, Eiusdemque Bannimenta Generalia. Lucca: Typis Marescandoli, 1717. [viii], 307 pp. Main text in parallel columns. Folio (12" x 8"; 30.48 x 20.32 cm). Contemporary vellum, raised bands and early hand-lettered title to spine. Light soiling, staining and shelfwear, boards somewhat bowed, partial crack in text block between front free endpaper and title page. Woodcut head and tail-pieces. Some toning, light browning in a few places, internally clean. $950. * Second and final edition. Text in Latin and Italian. First published in 1700, this rare treatise provides a comprehensive overview of criminal law, procedure and courts in the Papal States on the cusp of the Enlightenment. It describes the system that Beccaria hoped to reform. OCLC locates 5 copies worldwide, 3 in North America, all of the 1717 edition (at Princeton University and Harvard and UC-Berkeley Law Schools).

Good. Exhibits wear and slight loss along original fold lines and at some fold intersections. Closed margin tears professionally repaired on verso. Verso repairs to fold separations. Blank on verso. Size 27.25 x 36.25 Inches. This is a 1966 Civic Education Service pictorial map of China, more specifically 'Communist China'. Created just before U.S.-China relations began thawing in the 1970s, the entirety of China is shaded red, the color most associated with Communism. Pictorial vignettes highlight Chinese industry, with particular interest paid to mining and manufacturing. Chinese progress in the realm of nuclear weapons is also prominently noted. An illustration of an atom marks industrial plants suspected of making the plutonium necessary in the development of these weapons, and a mushroom cloud, the most infamous image associated with nuclear weapons, marks the nuclear test site near Lop Nor. Icons of soldiers, situated throughout China and all of the surrounding countries, reinforce the tense military situation in the region. Short texts also explain that Soviet and Chinese forces had clashed along the border separating the two countries, as have Chinese and Indian troops along their mutual border. 'U.S. and other anti-Communist forces', essential to the American policy of 'containment' are stationed in Thailand, South Vietnam, Taiwan, the Philippines, South Korea, and Japan. A text box entitled 'Nation Wrapped in Conflict' provides details for the viewer about the population and geography of China, as well as the economic, military, and diplomatic situation in China. Publication History and Census This map was created and published by the Civic Education Service in 1966. The OCLC records examples of this map as being part of the institutional collection at Cornell University. An example is also part of the David Rumsey Map Collection. References: Rumsey 9521.000.

Broadside. 11" x 5-1/4". OCLC 2 copies worldwide. (illustrator). Broadside. 11" x 5-1/4". OCLC 2 copies worldwide. "Such Devils as Frank Almy Can Never Him Defy" [Broadside]. Beard, Alexander B. [Almy, Frank C.]. The Horrible Murder at Hanover, N.H.: Took Place July 21, 1891. Composed and Written While the Officers Were Seeking Almy. West Manchester, NH: [Published by the Author], 1891. 11" x 5-1/4" broadside, nine verses enclosed by typographical border below headline and small woodcut portrait of the author. Light soiling and edgewear, three fold lines, pin-holes at head and foot. A well-preserved copy of a rare item. $650. * Only edition. A verse account of woman's murder committed in Hanover, New Hampshire by a rejected suitor, Frank Almy. After the murder, he hid for a month in a barn. When he was eventually captured, the captors discovered that he was George Abbott, a fugitive who had escaped the New Hampshire State Prison while serving a term for burglary. OCLC locates 2 copies (University of Michigan, Yale).

Very good. Original linen backing. A few minor spots. Size 41 x 63 Inches. A spectacular 1952 Jean Boys pictorial wall map of the United States celebrating American literature. A Closer Look The map covers the United States from Coast to Coast, with insets of 'Bret Harte Country' California, New Orleans, and Lower Manhattan. Vignettes highlight important authors and locations from literature, generally accompanied by the author's name and the book in question. The most interesting, to us, include Brer Rabbit on the Savannah River, Booker T. Washington in Tuskegee, and Wizard of Oz characters in South Dakota, among many others. Green banners add additional content regarding areas that are off the map or just too dense to feature more general illustrations: Alaska, Harlem, Mexico, etc. Several important trans-continental routes, well referenced in literature, are noted and keyed to a legend in the lower left. The whole is surrounded by a mid-century style border, with unnamed portraits of literary heroes in each corner. Publication History and Census This map was compiled by Henry J Firley and illustrated by Jean Boys. It was published in Chicago by the educational publishing firm Denoyer-Geppert. OCLC records editions in 1952 (as here) and 1961, suggesting this is the first edition. We note 12 holdings of various editions in OCLC, and no history on the private market. References: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,