By Julie Carleton
Introduction
I had decided that my “collection” was going to be of narratives written by women that had traveled west of the Mississippi between 1820 and 1920. I was looking for books and/or manuscripts by pioneers, travelers, tourists and homesteaders. My initial aim was for a solid list of 50 to 100 books to start out with.
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By Bruce McKinney
I grew up in New Paltz, New York in the 1950’s and 1960’s. New Paltz was a small town that had a deep vein of history running continuously from its founding in the late 17th c...
By Michael Stillman
It is a classic and extremely important picture of the Old West I set out to find. Francis Parkman’s The California and Oregon Trail recounts his trip into Indian territory i...
By Abby Tallmer
When we at AE got the idea to pursue The Collaborative Project (hereafter, TCP) requiring us to pick a subject to research and “collect” using the AE Database (or AED), I had li...
By Abby Tallmer
The Rosenbach Museum Library is the former home of Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach and his brother Philip, international dealers in books, manuscripts, and works of art during the first ...
By Bruce McKinney
Thousands of people collect books. The various book fairs around the country attract essentially local collectors and among the more than fifty serious book fairs each year ...
SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES
By J. K. Paulding
Published in New York in 1836
INTRODUCTION.
The subject of slavery, at all times one of extreme delicacy in the United States ha...
It has been asserted, of late years, by writers so zealous in the cause of emancipation, that they sometimes conflict with all previous authorities, that the custom of buying captives on the coast ...
SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES
By J. K. Paulding
Published in New York in 1836
CHAPTER III.
Of Emancipation and its Consequences, admitting its practicability
2,674 words
THE emancipation of th...
SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES
By J. K. Paulding
Published in New York in 1836
CHAPTER IV.
Of Amalgamation, and a Community of Social and Political Rights.
3,557 WordsTHE advocates of immediate ...
SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES
By J. K. Paulding
Published in New York in 1836
CHAPTER V.
Of the Social and Political Relations that would subsist between
the Whites and the Blacks, in case of ...
SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES
By J. K. Paulding
Published in New York in 1836
CHAPTER VI.
Of the Right of Property in Slaves.
2,958 words
"Man cannot hold property in man," is another self-cre...
SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES
By J. K. Paulding
Published in New York in 1836
CHAPTER VII.
Of the alleged Disgrace reflected on the People of the United States by the Existence and Continuance o...
SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES
By J. K. Paulding
Published in New York in 1836
CHAPTER VIII.
Of the Laws for the Government of Slaves.
7,676 words
ALL those who have written on the subject o...
SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES
By J. K. Paulding
Published in New York in 1836
CHAPTER IX.
Of the Domestic and Social relations between the Master and Slave in the United States, and of the rel...
SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES
By J. K. Paulding
Published in New York in 1836
CHAPTER X.
Of the Fanaticism of the Abolitionists, and its hostility to Religion, Morals, Liberty, Patriotism, a...
Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
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Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
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Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
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Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
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