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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Photograph, 4 ½ x 7 ½ inches (larger mount, 6 ¾ x 8 5/8 inches), picturing four well-dressed card players at a parlor table, three women and an older man, one of the women playing a card, as the others wait a turn. Mary Stuart Williams Welch (1862-1940), a Connecticut resident was perhaps wintering in Thomasville. Very good.

PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT (illustrator). Illuminated Manuscript Leaf in Arabic. [No place:, no date, ca. early 1800s]. Original full-page water color drawing on manuscript page (ie. manuscript above and below and along fore-edge of painting and on verso of leaf). Single leaf in Arabic on paper (11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches; 290 x 215 mm.). Image area ( 11 x 7 inches; 280 x 180 mm). With three rows of Arabic on recto, above the image and four rows of Arabic below the image. Manuscript along fore-edge of recto and on verso of the leaf as well. Image ruled in black, gilt and blue. A polychromatic image heightened in gilt. Two small pieces of tape along top edge, not affecting painting. Matted, framed and glazed. Over all a very nice, beautiful painting. Painting depicts a few scenes of leisure, with men drinking and dancing. Two men sit near a tent with a horse. HBS 65730. $450.

Calligraphic titlepage in a handpainted watarcolour frame; 5 sheets dedication ''A LA REYNA DEL CIELO MARIA SSA. EN SU SOLEDAD DOLOROSA SA MADRE DEL AMOR HERMOSO, y delicias de la celestial Syon, aunque max grande de penas y amanguras de la gracia, que en el dura, pero o lorioso campe de la soledad .''; 1 blank sheet; 2 sheets ''TABLA DE LAS SANTAS ANACORETAS CONTENIDAS EN ESTE SEGUNDO TOMO DEL DESIERTO DELICIOSO''; 2 sheets 'PROTESTA . . .' etc.; 334* sheets Description of the Saints. - Vellum binding of the period over 4 raised bands with manuscript title at spine and possibly younger frangments of ribbon clasps; 4to.(ca. 24 x 19 x 6 cm; ca. 1,47 kg.). *** [FRÜHLINGSVERKAUF-Endspurt, noch bis Montag den 18.05.2026 / Ultimate SPRING-SALE, only until Monday May 18th 2026: um über 45% REDUZIERTER PREIS / PRICE-REDUCTION of over 45%; ehemaliger Preis / previously EUR 850,-] --- AUTHENTIC EXTENSIVE AND WELL READABLE SPANISH MID-17th CENTURY MANUSCRIPT ON THE LIVES AND WORK OF 90 FEMALE SAINTS FROM THE FIRST CENTURY UNTIL SHORT BEFORE THE PERIOD OF THE MANUSCRIPTS CREATION, MANY CONTAINING DATES FROM THEIR LIVES AND NAMES OF RELATED PERSONS; apparently collected from different sources. - */**) Sheets 192-197 with 'VIDA de Reyna solitaria' and the beginning of 'VIDA de la famosa Ramera Margarita Antioquena despues Sa. PELAGIA Penitente Solitaria' are lose, the end of 'Sa PELAGIA' is missing; sheets 197-203 are missing, sheets 204-207 (begins in the middle of 'VIDA De STA. WITBURGA Virgen solitario') are loose again. --- BINDING SOMEWHAT USED AND SPOTTY, first and last blank sheets only fragmentarily present; A VERY GOOD AND UNIQUE PIECE. - CONTINUATION OF THE SAINT'S LIST: 'VIDA De Sa. YDA Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la gloriosa penitente MARIA Sobrina del Santo Ermitario ABRAHAN'; 'VIDA De Sa. OTILIA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA De la Santa Virgen Solitaria EUFROSINA'; 'VIDAS De las Virgines Solitarias HERUNDO REDENTA ROMULA'; 'VIDA De Sa. MONEGUNDE Inclusa'; 'VIDA De Sa. ITA Inclusa'; 'VIDA de la Venerable CELSA Inclusa Madre de S. Grato Obispo Cabilonense'; 'VIDA De MARIA TARSENSE de Tamera penitente solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. BENEDICTA Virgen y Martyr Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la insigne Vorgen Solitaria MARINA'; 'VIDA De Sa. SYRIA Virgen Soloitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. PAPULA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. UDEGEBA Virgen inclusa Maestra de las Virgenes Otilio Walpurga'; 'VIDA De Sa. LANDRADA Virgens Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. AUREA Virgen inclusa'; 'VIDA De Sa. AUREA Virgen, Solitaria inclusa en el Monasterio de S. Millan de Suso'; 'VIDA De Sa. POTAMIA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA De la Santa Abadessa SARA'; 'VIDA De las Santas Hermanas Solitarias Virgenesy Martyres'; 'VIDA De la gloriosa Pentitente Solitaria Sa. THEODORA ALEXandrina'; 'VIDA De Sa. CESARIA Virgen Anacoreta'; 'VIDA De la insigne pecadora y penitente Solitaria CLARA AGOLANCIA'; 'VIDA De Sa. COLUMBA Virgen y Martyr Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. POMPOSA Virgen y Martyr Solitaria'; 'VIDA De la Venerable Solitaria CATHARINA Romana llamada Hermosa'; 'VIDA De Sa CASLDA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la Venerable PORFIRIA Penitente Solitaria'; 'VIDA de una penitente Solitaria Anonima'; 'VIDA De la Santa Virgen y Martyr Solitaria FLABIA DOMITILA'; 'VIDA De las Venerables Penitentes inclusas COMATE Y NICOSA'; 'VIDA De Sa. EUGENIA Virgen y Martyr Solitaria'; 'VIDA Sa. ULFIA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA Des Sa. AURELIA Virgen inlusa'; 'VIDA de Reyna solitaria'; 'VIDA de la famosa Ramera Margarita Antioquena despues Sa. PELAGIA Penitente Solitaria'*; 'VIDA De STA. WITBURGA Virgen solitario'**'; 'VIDA De Sa. EUFRASIA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. DOROTHEA Alexandrina Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. MELANIA Matrona Romana Solitaria'; 'VIDA de las Santas MARANA CIRA Solitarias'; 'VIDA De Sa. DOMNINA Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la Venerable FABIOLA Romana Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. SYNCLETICA Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la Venerable Virgen COLETA Isigne Solitaria y Reformadora'; 'VIDA de las Venerables Virgines Solitarias AMATA THAOR y otra Anonima'; 'VIDA De Sa. ENGRACIA Anacoreta Virgen y Martyr'; 'VIDA De Sa. ANTHUSA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA de una Virgen Sa. Jezosolimitana Solitaria'; 'VIDA NOTICIA De una Anacoreta incognita'; 'VIDA ADMIRABLE VIDA De MALCO y su Concautiva Solitarios'; 'VIDA De TABITA Virgen del Monasterio Tabenesiota y Anacoreta'; 'VIDA De dos Solitarias incognitas'; 'VIDA De Sa. PAULA Romana Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. MACTHILDE inclusa'; 'VIDA De Sa. SARA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA De SILVIA RUFINA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. ISABEL Madre de S. Juan Bautista Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. HERENA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. GEORGIA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. GUDULA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. ALFREDA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la Venerable ANASTASIA Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la Venerable DAMIANA inclusa'; 'VIDA de la Venerable GALA Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la Venerable IVETA Leodiense Solitaria'; 'VIDA De MARIA Muger de Eucharisto Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la Venerable NEPHALIA GNOSA Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. PETEONA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la Venerable Virgen PIAMUN Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la Venerable REYNOFLA Solitaria'; 'VIDA de ROMANA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. REGULA Virgen y Martyr Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la Venerable SOPHRONIA Jaxentina ilustre Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la Madre de San Herveo Solitaria'; 'VIDA de una insigne Anacoreta incognita'; 'VIDA de las hermanas de Amonio Anacoretas'.

Having moved from Salem to Belfast in 1807, Read quickly realized the need for a school, for the needs of the community and his children, launching his effort to build something from the ground up; instrumental in its establishment, Read served on the schools Board of Trustees until his death. Old fold lines to most, some other light storage wear and soiling, but a very good lot. (1) READ. Retained autograph copies of 1808 letters to Joseph Story (1779-1845; Salem judge and state legislator, U.S, Supreme Court justice, author of important American legal works) and Thomas Whittier, a state legislator for then Belfast region, seeking help on a petition for a charter and grant of land to establish "a contemplated Academy in Belfast," local citizens having already raised "upwards of $4000" for the project. The letter to Story: 4to, 2-pages, approximately 250 words, signed by Read; Story was named to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1812, serving until his death. The letter to Whittier, on an integral leaf: 4to 1-page, approximately 175 words, in Read's hand, but unsigned. (2) READ. Extracts from Secretary's Records [caption title]. 4-page manuscript, printing selections from records relating to the construction of the academy, 1808-1814. (3) READ. An Inventory of the Property belonging to the Trustees of Belfast Academy Jany. 1st 1809 [caption title to a manuscript "Waste-Book" recording the school's inventory and accounting for building the school and other operating expenses, 1808-1810]. Small 4to (25 cm). (17) pp. Plain drab wrappers. (4) (READ) Trustees meeting, fund raising, and accounting reports, land grants, requests to local officials and state legislators, promises to send children to the school, etc., relating to the building and operating of the Belfast Academy, 1808-1832. 22 manuscript documents, 31 pages total, approximately 2500 words. 4to and folio, almost all in the hand of Nathan Read, several signed by him. Accompanied by seven small receipts, 1808, 1810, 1826, and 1828 (4). For the file of 32 documents,

This volume is vellum-bound, the paper watermarked for C. HARRIS 1846, the stationer's label for FREDERICK WALLER, 49 Fleet Street, London, the front free end-paper with Gosse's name written as in plate 4 of FREEMAN & WERTHEIMER Bibliography, the front board with label 'INFUSORIA.4.', the rear board with 'Journal' in script. A pencil note in Richard Freeman's hand, signed by him, reads : 'Given to me on my sixtieth birthday. 1 April 1975.' *The major portion of the Infusoria comprises detailed descriptions of some 75 species of Rotifer, each entry dated, with reference to a figure, the location found [many from Hampstead Heath, Berger's Lily Pond, the fountains of Trafalgar Square, Kensington Palace]. Part 2 is primarily a list of approx. 31 species, most of which are ascribed GOSSE, some with the postscript 'n.sp.' [new species?]. SEE - FREEMAN and WERTHEIMER Bibliography, 1980, #169-172 (1886-1889) - 'The rotifers had early attracted Gosse's attention and he had published seventeen papers on them, the first in 1850. He had also accumulated a large amount of unpublished descriptions and drawings.' F & W also refer to Gosse's original manuscripts : 'One of Gosse's notebooks on rotifers which was used in his articles in the Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society and then in this book, is in the Zoological Library of the British Museum (Natural History); another, entitled 'Drawings of Rotifera; by Philip Henry Gosse, F.R.S. Sept. 1886' is in the University of Toronto (see Nos. 399-401). A large bound folio volume entitled 'The original drawings of the Rotifera (Clifton, 1886)' at the Royal Society (MS 132) contains mostly original drawings by Hudson, some copies by him of Gosse's drawings, and some original ones by Gosse himself.' The rarity of this volume speaks for itself ! The ALS from Fred Dystan - 'Dear Gosse I am glad you are better, which I suppose I may assume from your writing. I think it is great humbug that you won't let me name my own beast. I use the word in a Pickwickian sense but I see no impropriety in your working on a beast I had already named. However I must leave it with you, as I cannot undertake to publish it myself.'. There is, in addition, a second letter from this correspondent, 7 sides, dated Oct.7th.1856, dealing with details of the Rotiferae.

Accompanied by a cabinet portrait photo of Eichberg (6 x 4 inches on a slightly larger card, Baldwin Coolidge, Boston), signed by him verso, a photogravure portrait of Eichberg (9 ¾ x 7 ½ platemark on a much larger sheet; Benjamin Kimball Photo), and an autograph note from Eichberg on his Boston Conservatory of Music letterhead, signed by him July 2, 1888, to an autograph collector forwarding the Doctor of Alcantara piece. Eichberg helped found and was the first director of the Boston Conservatory and was then longtime superintendent of music in the Boston public schools. All very good. For the four pieces,

Folio ledger, containing approx. 190pp., including index, of more than 1500 family names describing the heraldic bearings of each, with numerous inserts tipped and pasted in, several original drawings of bearings and crests; all in a worn but sound ruled ledger bound in canvas with leather edges.

1 page. 6-3/4 x 4-1/2 inches. 1 page. 6-3/4 x 4-1/2 inches. Split at fold, chip on lower right with loss.

Most of the letters are addressed to Olive Berry, the wife of Spicer Berry, a prominent businessman in Corning. Tying the threads together are ten letters to Olive from a niece, sister to one of the soldiers, keeping her abreast of all the family's activities. A poignant view of the effects of war on a northern family. All folded for mailing, but very good. For the archive of 31 items, (1) Barnaby, Nathan. Two autograph letters to Olive Berry, 1862 and 1863, one on patriotic letterhead, describing war experiences in the Virginia theater. 7 pages, approximately 400 words; accompanied by two mailing envelopes. Barnaby was Olive Berry's nephew. (2) Barnaby, Fannie. Ten autograph letters to Olive Berry, 1862 - 1865, all full of family news including mentions of Nathan Barnaby's experiences from enlistment through an account of his mortal wound at the Battle of Franklin in December, 1864, and of other family members active in the war and settling the west. 38 pages, approximately 5000 words; accompanied by seven mailing envelopes. Barnaby was Olive Berry's niece. (3) Berry, Richard W. Two autograph letters to Olive Berry, 1863 and 1864, describing war experiences in the western theater, the second written from Vicksburg. 5 pages, approximately 500 words; accompanied by two mailing envelopes. Berry was Olive Berry's son. (4) (Berry, Richard W.) Shiloh, Apr. 7th & 8th 1862 [caption title]. [In the field?, 1862]. Manuscript poem describing the battle, 17 stanzas of six lines each, written on five sheets of octavo line paper, signed "R.W.B." 'No cheer is heard at battle's close, / But all is still - a deathlike spell / Of silence - broods oer friends and foes." Folded (some beaks at folds); somewhat soiled). (5) Breese, Niles D. Four autograph letters to sister Hattie Breese, February - July, 1864, describing war experiences in the eastern theater, one written from New Bern, North Carolina. 14 pages, approximately 1250 words; accompanied by a mailing envelope and Breese's "will" appointing a friend to accept money on his behalf. The Breese's were Spicer Berry's sister's children. (6) A partly printed document, completed in manuscript 7 July 1865, and signed by Clara Barton (in a secretarial hand) informing Hattie Breese of her brother's death while a prisoner-of-war at Salisbury Prison Camp in North Carolina; with a three page autograph letter to Hattie Breese from an official offering details of Niles Breese's demise. (7) Breese, N.H. Two autograph letters to Niles Breese from his mother, March, 1864, offering concern for his well-being. 8 pages, approximately 1500 words; with photographs of Niles, Hattie, and the Breese family, a genealogical chart recording births, deaths, and marriages in the family, and a piece of Hattie's handiwork, "for her wedding clothes." (8) Letters from Charles Gillett to Lucy Berry, Olive's daughter, January 1865, and from George Meade to Olive Berry, June 1862, each with news of war experiences, either personal of other family members; accompanied by a mailing envelope and a carte-de-visite of Gillett in his uniform as a Union sergeant.