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Raffel, In The Year Of Long Division.

Raffel, In The Year Of Long Division.

[Kant, The Cambridge Companion to Kant.

[Kant, The Cambridge Companion to Kant.

Thompson, Melville’s Quarrel with God.

Thompson, Melville’s Quarrel with God.

[Nietzsche] Verrecchia, Zarathustras Ende. Die Katastrophe Nietzsches in Turin.

[Nietzsche, Zarathustras Ende. Die Katastrophe Nietzsches in Turin.

Sinclair, The Jungle.

Sinclair, The Jungle.

Cooney, The Crozier & 7The Dail – Church and state in Ireland, 1922-1986.

Cooney, The Crozier & The Dáil – Church and state in Ireland, 1922-1986.

Ignatow. David. Selected Poems.

Ignatow. David. Selected Poems.

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[Adams, The Quotable Abigail Adams. [Adams, Abigail] Kaminski, John P. [Ed]. The Quotable Abigail Adams. Uncorrected Page Proofs Copy. Harvard, Belknap Press / Harvard University Press, 2009. 15.5 x 21.5cm. (36), 384 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition.

John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail that her letters “give me more entertainment than all the speeches I hear. There is more good Thoughts, fine strokes and Mother Wit in them than I hear in the whole Week. An Ounce of Mother Wit is worth a Pound of Clergy.” The Quotable Abigail Adams invites you to enjoy Abigail Adams’s wit and wisdom on a wide range of subjects, drawn from writings throughout her lifetime. Abigail shared her penetrating and often humorous observations with correspondents ranging from friends and neighbors to family members to heads of state, offering lively opinions on human nature, politics, culture, and family life. Selected and arranged by topic, these quotations provide an entertaining introduction to the thought and character of America’s founding mother. They are accompanied by a biographical introduction, source notes, chronology, and a comprehensive index, making this book the primary resource for those meeting this remarkable woman for the first time as well as for her longtime admirers. [From jacket notes]

Keywords: American Culture, American History, American Literature, American People, American Politics, American Presidential History, Letters, Social History, United States

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Beisner, Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War. Beisner, Robert L. Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War. New York, Oxford University Press, 2006. 16 cm x 24 cm. XIV, 800 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Dean Acheson was one of the most influential Secretaries of State in U.S. history, presiding over American foreign policy during a pivotal era – the decade after World War II when the American Century slipped into high gear. During his vastly influential career, Acheson spearheaded the greatest foreign policy achievements in modern times, ranging from the Marshall Plan to the establishment of NATO. Now, in this monumental biography, Robert L. Beisner paints an indelible portrait of one of the key figures of the last half-century. In a book filled with insight based on research in government archives, memoirs, letters, and diaries, Beisner illuminates Acheson’s policy-making, describing how he led the state department and managed his relationship with Truman. (Publisher).

Keywords: 20th century, American History, Cold war

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Bemis, Precedents of American Neutrality, in Reply to the Speech of Sir Roundell Bemis, George. Precedents of American Neutrality, in Reply to the Speech of Sir Roundell Palmer, Attorney General of England in the british Commons, May 13,1864. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1864. 8°. VIII, 83 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Unopened. Upper corner dogeared. Elswise very good plus.

The pamphlet includes: Expulsion and seizure of Genet’s privateers in 1793; The case of the Cassius; The case of the Santissima Trinidad and Judge Story on neutral duties; Judge Story’s Dictum in “The Amistad de Rues Case”; Retrospect of “The Alabama Case” – Her escape the result of British Treachery and official connivance or Negligence; American Treatment of French and British Alabamas in Washington’s Administration – Appendix: Extract from the speech of Mr.Thomas and the speech of the Attorney-General in full.

George Bemis, Esquire, (October 13, 1816 – January 5, 1878) was the preeminent Boston lawyer during the mid-1800’s. He was involved with many unique cases and was an advocate of international law and the reform of the treatment of criminals.
George was born at Watertown, Massachusetts, on October 13, 1816 the youngest son of Seth and Sarah (Wheeler) Bemis. He was an extremely conscientious and diligent student and when he was 13 years old he passed the entrance exam to Harvard College in 1829. Instead of enrolling at such a young age he continued with his studies for three more years. He finally matriculated into the sophomore class in 1832 and Graduated in 1835. He continued his studies by enrolling in Harvard Law School. He completed his formal education in 1839 and was admitted into the Massachusetts Bar in July of 1839.
Bemis was one of the most esteemed lawyers in Boston during the 1850’s and developed a profitable law practice while being involved in many famous legal proceedings. Bemis was a crusader for reform of the Penal code in Massachusetts, especially laws that allowed prisoner’s previous convictions to add to their current sentences.
In 1843 he was involved with the case of Abner Rodgers, who was an inmate at the Massachusetts State Penitentiary accused of killing the warden of that prison. During his defense of Mr. Rodgers, Bemis utilized an insanity defense. The results of Bemis defense led to Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw issuing an opinion that became the American authority on insanity plea during criminal prosecution.
The second major case that Bemis was involved in was the Parkman-Webster murder case. During this case Bemis acted as co-counsel to Massachusetts Attorney General John H. Clifford in prosecuting Harvard Professor John White Webster for the death of John Parkman. Bemis was selected, and paid $1,500, by the Parkman family to represent their interests in the case against Webster. This case was one of the first to use forensic and circumstantial evidence to prove a defendants guilt.
Bemis not only acted as a lawyer during these landmark cases, he also acted as a court reporter during each trial and eventually published his notes on each trial as the official transcription of the cases. At least in the the Webster case, the published transcripts from the trial was heavily edited and “slanted” so that the hanging of Dr. Webster was justified.
In 1858 he was struck by an hemorrhage in his lungs while arguing a case regarding railroads. Subsequently he moved to Europe for the remainder of his life. During this time in Europe he focused on the study of public law and published many pamphlets about neutrality in response to British positions on these topics. He died in Nice, France in January 18, 1878.
George Bemis, in his will, endowed the position of International Law Professor at Harvard Law School. “In his retirement he came to appreciate the need for an endowed chair which would support the advancement of knowledge and goodwill between governments. The Bemis Chair is given to a professor who is a “practical cooperator,” has had a connection with public life, and is capable of seeing the United States as one nation among many.” The chair is currently held by Noah Feldman.

Keywords: 19.Jahrhundert, 19th Century, American Civil War, American Civil War Pamphlets, American History, Pamphlets

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Christie's. South Kensington Fine Photographs. Christie’s. South Kensington Fine Photographs Friday 5 May 2000 at 10.30 am and 2.00 pm. London, Christie’s, 2000. 21 cm x 27 cm. 190 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

Catalogue for auction at Christie’s, London on Friday, May 5, 2000 includes illustrations and descriptions of photographs in the following genres: Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes and Union Cases / Stereoscopic Photographs / Carte-de-Viste and Cabinet Photographs / 19th Century British Photographs / 19th Century French and Other European Photographs / Photographs by Eugene Atget / Topographical Photographs / 20th Century British photographs / 20th Century European Photographs / 20th Century North and South American Photographs

Keywords: American History, British History, European history, French History, History, Photographs, Photography, Topography

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Collison, Shadrach Minkins. Collison, Gary. Shadrach Minkins. From Fugitive Slave to Citizen. First edition. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1997. 17 x 24 cm. 294 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good, near fine, condition.

Keywords: American History, Historical Analysis, Native Americans

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Cooke, How our National Debt can be paid. Cooke, Jay. How our National Debt can be paid. The Wealth, Resources and Power of the People of the United States. Prepared by Dr.William Elder, of the Treasury Department. Philadelphia, Sherman & Co., 1865. 8°. 15 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Dogeared. Foxed. Extremely rare original pamphlet reflecting the costs, revenue possibilities etc. of the times previous, in and after the American Civil War.

Jay Cooke (August 10, 1821-February 8, 1905), American financier, was born at Sandusky, Ohio, the son of Eleutheros Cooke (1787-1864), a pioneer Ohio lawyer and Whig member of Congress from that state in 1831-1833 and member of the Ohio General Assembly.
Jay Cooke received a preliminary training in a trading house in St. Louis, Missouri, and in the booking office of a transportation company in Philadelphia. At the age of eighteen, he entered the Philadelphia house of E.W. Clark & Company, one of the largest private banks in the country. Three years later, he was admitted to membership in the firm and, before the age of 30, was also a partner in the New York City and St. Louis branches of the Clarks.

In 1858, he retired from the firm, and, for the next three years, he devoted himself to reorganizing abandoned Pennsylvania railways and canals and placing them again in operation. On January 1, 1861, he opened the private banking house of Jay Cooke & Company in Philadelphia and quickly floated a war loan of $3,000,000 for the state of Pennsylvania.
In the early months of the American Civil War, Cooke collaborated with the secretary of the treasury Salmon P. Chase in securing loans from the leading bankers in the Northern cities; his own firm was so successful in distributing treasury notes that Chase engaged him as special agent for the sale of the $500,000,000 of so-called “five-twenty” bonds—which were callable in 5 years and matured in 20 years—authorized by Congress on February 25, 1862. The treasury department had previously failed in selling these bonds.
Cooke secured the influence of the American press, appointed 2,500 sub-agents, and quickly sold $11,000,000 more in bonds than had been authorized. Congress immediately sanctioned the excess. At the same time, Cooke influenced the establishment of national banks, and organized a national bank at Washington and another at Philadelphia almost as quickly as Congress could authorize the institutions.
In the early months of 1865, with the government facing pressing financial needs in the wake of disappointing sales of the new “seven-thirty” notes by the national banks, Cooke’s services were again secured. He sent agents into remote villages and hamlets, and even into isolated mining camps in the west, and persuaded rural newspapers to praise the loan. Between February and July 1865 he disposed of three series of the notes, reaching a total of $830,000,000. This allowed the Union soldiers to be supplied and paid during the final months of the war.
It was in this effort that he pioneered the use of price stabilization. This practice, whereby bankers stabilize the price of a new issue, is still in use by investment bankers in IPOs and other security issuances. (Source: Wall Street by Charles Geisst) REALLY ??
In the Republican nominating process of 1868, which eventually saw Ulysses S. Grant as the Republican party standard-bearer, Cooke backed Radical Republican Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase for President. (Wikipedia)

Keywords: 19.Jahrhundert, 19th Century, American Civil War, American Civil War Pamphlets, American History, Pamphlets

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Denton, The Money and the Power - The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on Americ Denton, Sally/ Morris, Roger. The Money and the Power – The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America, 1947-2000. First Edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. 16,3 x 23,8 cm. 479 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear on the dustjacket.

Contains among others: First City of the Twenty-First Century; “Beyond This Place There Be Dragons”; “Temple Town of the American Dream” a.o.

Keywords: American History

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Douglas, Autobiografia. Douglas, Kirk. Autobiografia. 1a edicion. Barcelona, Cayfosa, 1988. 8°. 381 pages. Softcover. Edicion espanol. Incluye fotografías. / Spanish Ediiton. Very good condition.

Keywords: American History

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Edwards, Basic Writings. Edwards, Jonathan. Basic Writings. Selected, Edited and with a Foreword by Ola Elizabeth Winslow. New York, New American Library, 1966. 10.5 x 18cm. 255 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear and some age darkening. Pencilled price marking on front jacket. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. [A Signet Classic, No. CT 297].

Jonathan Edwards was an American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist Protestant theologian. Like most of the Puritans, he held to the Reformed theology. Edwards is widely regarded as one of America’s most important and original philosophical theologians. Recent studies have emphasized how thoroughly Edwards grounded his life’s work on conceptions of beauty, harmony, and ethical fittingness, and how central The Enlightenment was to his mindset. Edwards played a critical role in shaping the First Great Awakening, and oversaw some of the first revivals in 1733–35 at his church in Northampton, Massachusetts

Keywords: 18th Century, American Culture, American History, American People, American Religion, Chuck Kruger Cape Clear Collection, Religion, Theology

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Everett, Address of the Hon. Edward Everett Everett, Edward. Address of the Hon. Edward Everett, delivered before The Boston Union Club, Thursday, April 9, 1863. Liverpool, Printed at the “Daily Post” Steam Printing Works, 1863. 8°. 32 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Some rubbing fo front cover. As one of the most notable rhetorics of his time, Everett later that year gave his famous Gettysburg Oration. In his speech to the Boston Union Club, he addresses the struggle of the country due to the Civil War.

Edward Everett (April 11, 1794 – January 15, 1865) was a Whig Party politician from Massachusetts. Everett was elected to the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate, and also served as President of Harvard University, United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Britain, and Governor of Massachusetts before being appointed United States Secretary of State by President Millard Fillmore to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Daniel Webster. Mentioned in the book “The Perfect Tribute,” Everett was an unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States in the 1860 election on the Constitutional Union ticket. In 1863 he delivered a two-hour Gettysburg Oration that has been eclipsed in history by President Lincoln’s two-minute Gettysburg Address, which Everett praised as superior to his own. He was the father of congressman William Everett and the great uncle of Edward Everett Hale.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, to the Rev. Oliver Everett and Lucy (Hill) Everett, he attended Boston Latin School and graduated as the valedictorian from Harvard University in 1811, studied theology under the urging of the Rev. Joseph Stevens Buckminster, and was ordained pastor of the Brattle Street Unitarian Church, Boston, in 1814. He was the first American to receive a Ph.D.. His brother Alexander Hill Everett was a noted diplomatist and man of letters.
Everett was a professor of Greek literature at Harvard University, an overseer of the University, and its president from 1846 to 1849. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1825 to March 3, 1835. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1834.

Everett also had a love for mathematics as can be seen from his probably most famous quote: ‘In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which will continue to exist there when the last of their radiant host shall have fallen from heaven.’
Everett served as Governor of Massachusetts from 1836–1840. He was then appointed United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain from 1841 to 1845 and declined a commission to China in 1843. He served as president of Harvard University from 1846–1849.
In 1852 he was appointed United States Secretary of State by President Millard Fillmore to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Daniel Webster, and served until the end of the Fillmore Administration, March 3, 1853. He was elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1853, until his resignation, effective June 1, 1854. On Thursday, April 6, 1854, he presented a petition from the people of Dedham against the Missouri Compromise and one from the people of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in favor of securing religious freedom for Americans abroad.
Everett was an unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States in the 1860 election on the Constitutional Union ticket.
Everett went to Germany to take courses and returned to this country as the first American to receive a Ph.D. degree. Eventually, 10,000 of America’s wealthiest families would send their sons to obtain the Ph.D. in Prussian universities.
Implementation of the Prussian education system was to become the goal of Edward Everett, America’s first Ph.D. As Governor of Massachusetts, Everett had to deal with the problem of the influx of poor Irish Catholics into his state (as a result of the Irish Potato Famine). In 1852, with the support of Horace Mann, another strong advocate of the Prussian model, Everett made the decision to adopt the Prussian system of education in Massachusetts.
Shortly after Everett and Mann began to adopt the Prussian system, the Governor of New York set up the same method in 12 different New York schools on a trial basis.
Evertt died in Boston and is interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Wikipedia)

Keywords: 19.Jahrhundert, 19th Century, American Civil War, American Civil War Pamphlets, American History, Education, Pamphlets

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