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Holiday Hundred
Pryor-Johnson Rare Books [1082 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY 10028] Catalogue III Te 2016 Holiday Hundred pryorjohnsonrarebooks.com [email protected] 1 (212) 452-1990 1 (646) 546-4883 Contents Prolegomena 3 Antiquarian 4 (nos. 1-21) Modern Firsts Signed 33 (nos. 22-67) Unsigned 37 (nos. 68-73) Poetry 38 (nos. 74-79) Fine Press 39 (nos. 80-85) Illustrated 41 (nos. 86-90) Art and Photography 42 (nos. 91-100) Holiday Hundred 2016 Pryor-Johnson Rare Books Dear Reader, As we contemplate our last weeks here at 1082 Madison, we look to books for solace and for delight. How can one be glum when thumbing La Fontaine’s Fables, or Frank’s Lines of My Hand (well, perhaps)? Books endure, and so shall we. Te life-cycle of a book, especially an old one, is to pass in and out of love. Love impels the purchase, perhaps from the publisher himself or at a book fair or shop. Te book is treasured and perhaps shown off afer dinner or to a visiting friend. Te book is inherited, and it reminds the daughter of the father, happy memories flooding back unaided by tea-soaked cakes. Te book is inherited once again, and it is, luckily for us, ignored. Tis or the subsequent generations sell, and we the bibliopoles look for a new lover. Tat, hopefully, is you, dear reader. Or maybe it’s your own lover or a friend or a parent or a lover’s parent. Peruse and enjoy for yourself and for others. Tis set of one hundred books is a mixture of our perennial favorites and of favorites for the season. -
Les Architectes Des Régions Bretagne-Pays De Loire Dans La Première Moitié Du Xxe Siècle Françoise Chaillou, Jean-Pierre Péneau, Chantal Nicolas
Les architectes des régions Bretagne-Pays de Loire dans la première moitié du XXe siècle Françoise Chaillou, Jean-Pierre Péneau, Chantal Nicolas To cite this version: Françoise Chaillou, Jean-Pierre Péneau, Chantal Nicolas. Les architectes des régions Bretagne-Pays de Loire dans la première moitié du XXe siècle. [Rapport de recherche] 254/84, Ministère de l’urbanisme et du logement / Secrétariat de la recherche architecturale (SRA); Ministère de la recherche et de l’industrie; Centre de recherches méthodologiques d’architecture (CERMA). 1984. hal-01888782 HAL Id: hal-01888782 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01888782 Submitted on 5 Oct 2018 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. c r COTES-DU-NORD LJ Délégué* : Jean FATJNY, Boulevard Tliiers, tSaint-Brieuc. — Jean LE CORRE, Rue LU I 'N llN Y RîcUJ 142 HEDOU Je 1. HERAUDIÈRE Ckri„i.„ 12 L] 0 9 1 Y'wt-Kiou, Goingimp. 6 .5 .4 2 3 4 . Boulevard Gambetta. Saint-Brieoc. 5 .3 .4 2 CT> LU LO |sîEX George* 70 HELARY Yve. 8 L1 I I de 1 Espérance. Din»n. 1 6 .1 2 .4 2 1 1 , Bonlevard Gambetta, Saint-Brieoc. -
Thomas Tew and Pirate Settlements of the Indo - Atlantic Trade World, 1645 -1730 1 Kevin Mcdonald Department of History University of California, Santa Cruz
‘A Man of Courage and Activity’: Thomas Tew and Pirate Settlements of the Indo - Atlantic Trade World, 1645 -1730 1 Kevin McDonald Department of History University of California, Santa Cruz “The sea is everything it is said to be: it provides unity, transport , the means of exchange and intercourse, if man is prepared to make an effort and pay a price.” – Fernand Braudel In the summer of 1694, Thomas Tew, an infamous Anglo -American pirate, was observed riding comfortably in the open coach of New York’s only six -horse carriage with Benjamin Fletcher, the colonel -governor of the colony. 2 Throughout the far -flung English empire, especially during the seventeenth century, associations between colonial administrators and pirates were de rig ueur, and in this regard , New York was similar to many of her sister colonies. In the developing Atlantic world, pirates were often commissioned as privateers and functioned both as a first line of defense against seaborne attack from imperial foes and as essential economic contributors in the oft -depressed colonies. In the latter half of the seventeenth century, moreover, colonial pirates and privateers became important transcultural brokers in the Indian Ocean region, spanning the globe to form an Indo-Atlantic trade network be tween North America and Madagascar. More than mere “pirates,” as they have traditionally been designated, these were early modern transcultural frontiersmen: in the process of shifting their theater of operations from the Caribbean to the rich trading grounds of the Indian Ocean world, 1 An earlier version of this paper was presented at the “Counter -Currents and Mainstreams in World History” conference at UCLA on December 6-7, 2003, organized by Richard von Glahn for the World History Workshop, a University of California Multi -Campus Research Unit. -
Let Privateers Marque Terrorism: a Proposal for a Reawakening
Indiana Law Journal Volume 82 Issue 1 Article 5 Winter 2007 Let Privateers Marque Terrorism: A Proposal for a Reawakening Robert P. DeWitte Indiana University School of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ilj Part of the International Law Commons, and the International Relations Commons Recommended Citation DeWitte, Robert P. (2007) "Let Privateers Marque Terrorism: A Proposal for a Reawakening," Indiana Law Journal: Vol. 82 : Iss. 1 , Article 5. Available at: https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ilj/vol82/iss1/5 This Note is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School Journals at Digital Repository @ Maurer Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Indiana Law Journal by an authorized editor of Digital Repository @ Maurer Law. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Let Privateers Marque Terrorism: A Proposal for a Reawakening ROBERT P. DEWrrE* INTRODUCTION In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, the United States has repeatedly emphasized the asymmetry between traditional war and the War on TerrorlI-an unorthodox conflict centered on a term which has been continuously reworked and reinvented into its current conception as the "new terrorism." In this rendition of terrorism, fantasy-based ideological agendas are severed from state sponsorship and supplemented with violence calculated to maximize casualties.' The administration of President George W. Bush reinforced and legitimized this characterization with sweeping demonstrations of policy revolution, comprehensive analysis of intelligence community failures,3 and the enactment of broad legislation tailored both to rectify intelligence failures and provide the national security and law enforcement apparatus with the tools necessary to effectively prosecute the "new" war.4 The United States also radically altered its traditional reactive stance on armed conflict by taking preemptive action against Iraq-an enemy it considered a gathering threat 5 due to both state support of terrorism and malignant belligerency. -
Family History Mauritius Twocol
Our Ancestors from Mauritius Paul Francis, 2010 This is the story of our ancestors who came from Mauritius. 1 Early Days Mauritius had been uninhabited prior to The story of our Mauritian ancestors the arrival of the first European settlers. th starts on the 9 of April 1729. After a Its dense forests had been roamed by five month journey from St Malo in dodos, their close relation the solitaire, France, the wooden sailing ship “Royal and by tortoises so large that eight Philip” was at last about to arrive in people could stand on the back of one. Mauritius (then known as the Ile de All these had, however, been wiped out France). On board were the first 30 by the Dutch, who had established a volunteer French settlers, on their way number of abortive colonies on the to new lives in the new colony. And island during the seventeenth century, amongst them was Jean Toussaint Jocet before abandoning the island in 1710. de la Porte, his wife Jeanne Thérèse They had left behind feral monkeys and Thomas, and their two young children, rats. Without natural predators, the rats aged three and five. had overrun the island and grown to the size of rabbits. The colony on Ile de France was only Native Forests of Mauritius. eight years old. It was a private sector colony – established by the French East In 1729, when Jean and Jeanne arrived, India Company to act as a base for their the colony had about 100 French settlers trading ships in the Indian Ocean. -
IN DEEP WATER for Filing
IN DEEP WATER: THE OCEANIC IN THE BRITISH IMAGINARY, 1666-1805 A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Cornell University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Colin Dewey May 2011 © 2011 Colin Dewey IN DEEP WATER: THE OCEANIC IN THE BRITISH IMAGINARY, 1666-1805 Colin Dewey, Ph. D. Cornell University 2011 This study argues that the ocean has determined the constitution of British identity – both the collective identity of an imperial nation and the private identity of individual imagination. Romantic-era literary works, maritime and seascape paintings, engravings and popular texts reveal a problematic national and individual engagement with the sea. Historians have long understood the importance of the sea to the development of the British empire, yet literary critics have been slow to take up the study of oceanic discourse, especially in relation to the Romantic period. Scholars have historicized “Nature” in literature and visual art as the product of an aesthetic ideology of landscape and terrestrial phenomena; my intervention is to consider ocean-space and the sea voyage as topoi that actively disrupt a corresponding aesthetic of the sea, rendering instead an ideologically unstable oceanic imaginary. More than the “other” or opposite of land, in this reading the sea becomes an antagonist of Nature. When Romantic poets looked to the ocean, the tracks of countless voyages had already inscribed an historic national space of commerce, power and violence. However necessary, the threat presented by a population of seafarers whose loyalty was historically ambiguous mapped onto both the material and moral landscape of Britain. -
Politics of Affect in Coleridge's the Rime of the Ancient Mariner
EJ-SOCIAL, European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences ISSN: 2736-5522 Politics of Affect in Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Dipak Raj Joshi continually acted upon”, and that “the events having no Abstract — This paper analyzes The Rime of the Ancient necessary connection” [1, p. 67]. Coleridge himself Mariner in terms of Coleridge’s imaginative plea for a commented The Rime having “the moral sentiment too modification of consciousness about racial slavery prevalent in apparent ... in a work of such pure imagination” [2, p. 105]. the then British society. What lends muscle to the plea is the use of gothic supernaturalism, which helps bring about a Southey called the poem “a Dutch attempt at German transformation in the Mariner. The gothic-actuated sublimity”, but Charles Lamb praised its magical power to transformation, this paper claims, derives from Coleridge’s own hold the reader’s attention, “we are dragged ... along like Tom ambiguous attitude to English imperialism—an ambivalence Piper’s magic whistle” [2, p. 107]. The poem is sensational in which results into systematic portrayal of the violator as the gothic mode. rightful beneficiary of the reader’s sympathy. The paper The Rime has also been reviewed from the perspective of concludes that the poem’s turn to the affect of moral sentimentalism intends to make the reader of Coleridge’s time slavery and abolitionism. White reads the poem as acquiesce in accepting colonial guilt as the spiritual politics of Coleridge’s sense of collective horror created by slavery. quietism, thereby averting the possibility of a violent reaction White finds the Mariner’s guilt reflected in the poem due to both from the hapless victims and some conscientious the new sensibility in the process of development and victimizers. -
The Full Story of United States V. Smith, America╎s Most Important
Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs Volume 1 Issue 2 November 2012 The Full Story of United States v. Smith, America’s Most Important Piracy Case Joel H. Samuels Follow this and additional works at: https://elibrary.law.psu.edu/jlia Part of the Diplomatic History Commons, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons, International and Area Studies Commons, International Law Commons, International Trade Law Commons, Law and Politics Commons, Political Science Commons, Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration Commons, Rule of Law Commons, Social History Commons, and the Transnational Law Commons ISSN: 2168-7951 Recommended Citation Joel H. Samuels, The Full Story of United States v. Smith, America’s Most Important Piracy Case, 1 PENN. ST. J.L. & INT'L AFF. 320 (2012). Available at: https://elibrary.law.psu.edu/jlia/vol1/iss2/7 The Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs is a joint publication of Penn State’s School of Law and School of International Affairs. Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs 2012 VOLUME 1 NO. 2 THE FULL STORY OF UNITED STATES V. SMITH, AMERICA’S MOST IMPORTANT PIRACY CASE Joel H. Samuels* INTRODUCTION Many readers would be surprised to learn that a little- explored nineteenth-century piracy case continues to spawn core arguments in modern-day civil cases for damages ranging from environmental degradation in Latin America to apartheid-era investment in South Africa, as well as criminal trials of foreign terrorists.1 That case, United States v. Smith,2 decided by the United * Associate Professor, Deputy Director, Rule of Law Collaborative, University of South Carolina School of Law. -
A Hero from Saint-Malo: Nicolas Beaugeard
Count of Bellevue A Hero from Saint-Malo: Nicolas Beaugeard An Episode of the French Revolution By The Comte de Bellevue Rennes, France 1904 Translated by Gena R. Chattin (GRC – her footnotes marked with these initials) Edited by Llewellyn M. Toulmin, Ph.D., FRGS, FRSA of Silver Spring, Maryland (LMT) fifth great-grand nephew of Nicolas Beaugeard) FR. SIMON, RENNES 1 2 [PORTRAIT: In existence at the Chateau of Lemo] AN LITTLE-KNOWN HERO FROM SAINT-MALO NICOLAS-JOSEPH BEAUGEARD Secretary of the Orders to Queen Marie-Antoinette and to Madame the Duchess of Angouême, Captain of the Royal Army of Brittany 1755 to 1817 [birth and death dates] 3 Count of Bellvue A Hero from Saint-Malo It was the morning of January 21, 1793. Louis XVI had been condemned to death. Already they were leading toward the guillotine the descendant of nearly forty kings who, for fourteen centuries were succeeded on the French throne and had made that nation so powerful, so glorious, and so prosperous. Would the French indifferently witness that assassination and allow the best of men and the most paternal of kings to be bled white? Several loyal royalists resolved an attempt to prevent this crime and to tear the innocent victim away from his executioners. It was a gentleman, originating from Gascogne and then aged 33 years, the famous baron of Batz, who installed himself at the head of the movement. Along with his secretary, Jean-Louis Michel Devaux, the marquis of La Guiche, called “Sévignon”, Hyde de Neuville, the count of Allonville, and MM. -
En Patagonie
Bruce Chatwin / En Patagonie Tout voyageur est, d’abord, un rêveur. À partir d’un nom, d’une image, d’une lecture, il imagine une ville, un pays et n’a plus de cesse qu’il n’ait été vérifier, sur place, si la réalité cor- respond à son rêve. Bien sûr, la déception se trouve souvent au rendez-vous ; mais, parfois, non. Et, alors, tout peut arriver ; par exemple : un grand livre. Deux phénomènes de cet ordre sont à l’origine du départ de Bruce Chatwin pour la Patagonie, qui n’est pas précisément la destination la plus fréquemment choisie par les touristes. D’abord, « un fragment de peau… pas bien grand mais d’un cuir épais et couvert de touffes de poils roux (qu’)une punaise rouillée fixait à une carte postale. — Qu’est-ce que c’est, maman ? — Un morceau de brontosaure. » Non, il s’agissait d’une relique de mylodon, un paresseux géant. Encore fallait-il entreprendre l’équipée en question pour l’apprendre. Seconde incitation au voyage, vingt-cinq ans plus tard : une visite à Eileen Gray, le fameux « designer » comme on dit en français. Âgée de quatre-vingt-treize ans, elle ne voyait au- cune raison de ne pas travailler quatorze heures par jour. Cela ne lui laissait guère le loisir de voyager. « Elle habitait rue Bonaparte (à Paris). Dans son salon était accrochée une carte de la Patagonie, qu’elle avait coloriée à la gouache. — J’ai toujours rêvé d’y aller, dis-je. — Moi aussi, répondit-elle. Allez-y pour moi ! J’y allai… la carte d’Eileen Gray décore mon apparte- ment. -
Corsaires, Flibustiers Et Autres Forbans
Gérard Piouffre CORSAIRES, FLIBUSTIERS ET AUTRES FORBANS Éditions OUEST-FRANCE Les pirates « vikings » Les Vikings hommes s’arc-boutèrent sur leurs lourds avi- Page de gauche La brume qui enveloppait le drakkar se rons et le drakkar parut s’envoler. Quelques La tête de dragon de ce navire viking déchira soudainement, laissant apparaître instants plus tard, il plantait sa quille sur est tournée vers le sable blanc de la plage. Olaf, le chef des le rivage. l’intérieur, ce qui montre que son pirates vikings, porta aussitôt à ses lèvres Quatre autres bateaux vikings l’avaient équipage s’apprête la petite corne qu’il portait en sautoir. Le imité. Vivement, les hommes disposèrent à débarquer dans son aigrelet qui s’en échappa n’était guère des rondins de bois sous les navires pour un pays ami. Illustration du harmonieux mais il était audible même par les tirer au sec. Ils se saisirent alors de leurs e XX siècle. © Look and grand vent. Ce n’était pas le cas aujourd’hui ; armes, haches, épées et boucliers, puis ils se Learn. Bridgeman Images. la mer était d’huile et Olaf utilisait sa corne formèrent en colonnes pour marcher vers uniquement pour marquer la cadence. Les l’intérieur de l’île. Des pirates vikings retournent à leurs bateaux avec leurs prisonniers et leur butin. Le Reliquaire par Henri-Georges Charrier, 1910. © Musée de Normandie, Caen. LES PIRATES « VIKINGS » - 5 Rencontre entre le chef viking Rollon et le père supérieur de Rouen. Rollon et l’Évêque de Rouen, carte postale de 1911. © Bibliothèque municipale de Rouen. -
Visiting the Rime: a Case Study of Adaptation As Process and Product with the Rime of the Ancient Mariner Sally Ferguson University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville ScholarWorks@UARK Theses and Dissertations 5-2016 [Re]Visiting the Rime: A Case Study of Adaptation as Process and Product with The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Sally Ferguson University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd Part of the Comparative Literature Commons, Literature in English, British Isles Commons, and the Other Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Commons Recommended Citation Ferguson, Sally, "[Re]Visiting the Rime: A Case Study of Adaptation as Process and Product with The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (2016). Theses and Dissertations. 1593. http://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1593 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UARK. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UARK. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. [Re]Visiting the Rime: A Case Study of Adaptation as Process and Product with The Rime of the Ancient Mariner A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English by Sally Ferguson Ouachita Baptist University Bachelor of Arts in English, 2014 May 2016 University of Arkansas This thesis is approved for recommendation to the Graduate Council. X Dr. Lissette Szwydky Thesis Director X X Dr. Sean Dempsey Dr. William Quinn Committee Member Committee Member Abstract This thesis combines adaptation theory with ecology to examine Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) and its adaptations; it argues further combinations of adaptation with evolutionary theory and ecological ideas could allow for a better interpretation of many texts.