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Catalog #32 (E-Only) LORNE BAIR RARE BOOKS CATALOG 32 [E-ONLY] TERMS Items may be ordered or reserved by phone at (540) 665-0855 or email at [email protected]. Unless prior arrangements have been made, our standard hold period is one week (seven days) from date of request. Postal correspondence may be addressed to: Lorne Bair Rare Books 661 Millwood Avenue, Suite 206 Winchester, Virginia USA 22601 ALL ITEMS are offered subject to prior sale. Unless prior arrangements have been made, payment is expected with order and may be made by check, money order, credit card (Visa, Master- Card, Discover, American Express), or direct transfer of funds (wire transfer or Paypal). Institutions may be billed. Returns will be accepted for any reason within ten days of receipt. Billing for items ordered “on approval” will be deferred until confirmation of purchase from the receiving institution, with the window for confirmation not to exceed two weeks (14 days) unless other arrangements have been made. 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This list we may in future decide to spare the contains 99 rare or unusual items in forests and reduce the number of cat- our usual subject areas, comprising alogs we print each year to two instead the history, art and literature of Rad- of four. But the frustrated author in ical Social Reform Movements the us will never allow us entirely to give world over (with a strong emphasis on up the paper format. And enough of the Twentieth Century and on North you have expressed appreciation for America). If you’ve been receiving our printed catalogs that, all exigen- our catalogs for awhile, the layout of cies aside, you may continue to count this catalog will be familiar to you. 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But a confluence Amir and Ashley. of events – the season, other ongoing projects, and the changing tastes of our customers – have led us to this LORNE BAIR RARE BOOKS :: CATALOG THIRTY-TWO PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HORATIO BRIDGE to a U.S. SENATOR 1. [AFRICA] BRIDGE, Horatio (author); HAW- THORNE, Nathaniel (editor) Journal of an African Cruiser: Compris- ing Sketches of the Canaries, the Cape de Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Le- one, and Other Places of Interest on the West Coast of Africa New York: George P. Putnam & Co., 1853. Presumed Third Printing, First Issue (see note below). Octavo (19.25cm); brown vertically-ribbed cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, tri- ple-ruled border and decorative centerpieces stamped in blind to covers; pale yellow endpapers;179,[3]pp. Inscribed in pencil on the front flyleaf: “Hon. J. Collamer / With respects of The Author” (likely Jacob Collamer, judge and U.S. Senator from Ver- mont). Tiny chip to upper left corner of rear endpaper, handful of dog-eared pages smoothed out, else very Near Fine. Handsome copy of this volume Hawthorne edited for his friend and patron Horatio Bridge (1806-1893), a United States Navy of- ficer. First printed in wrappers in 1845, Journal is the narrative of Bridge’s trip on the USS Saratoga, “the flagship of Commodore Matthew Perry, with the mission to stop and search all American ships on the west coast of Africa that might be carrying slaves. That mission was fruitless (they saw none), but Bridge’s comments on the efforts of the American Colonization Society in Liberia and on Africa in general were vivid” (Moore, Margaret B. the Salem World of Nathaniel Hawthorne, p.135). An interesting printing, not noted by BAL - “What appear to be first-issue sheets with the Putnam title page intact, gathered in the same form as the Putnam publication, are also found in a typical Ticknor format A binding...When Ticknor and Fields bought the Putnam plates for Mosses and Cruiser at the Bangs Bros. Trade Sale in New York, March 1854, they may have acquired some Putnam sheets that were later bound up in Ticknor style and distributed in an effort to recover some of the purchase costs” (Note: CLARK A14.1.c1). Presentation copies uncommon, with only two noted in Rare Book Hub (PBA, 2019; Goodspeed, 1910). cf.BAL 7597. $850. ORIGINAL PRINT by a CELEBRATED CHRONICLER OF AFRICAN VOODOO would probably have disrupted things...After some hesitation, the 2. [AFRICA] VON HOFFMAN, Carl man came forward and, in Zulu, with a few English words thrown Original Photograph: “The Voodoo Be- in, said that he was about to drown some spirits. There were three pots near by, with fires beneath, and some of the women were lief Among African Natives” pouring water into them. The Voodoo doctor, dressed in a black N.p.: Pacific & Atlantic Photos, n.d. but mid-1920’s. Original sil- robe, stood there holding a Bible in Zulu script, and mumbling in- ver gelatin print, measuring 24cm x 16.5cm (9.5” x 6.5”). With cantations. The patients now came forward, stripped to the waist, P&A Photos rubber-stamp on verso, along with a lengthy holo- to be anointed by the Voodoo doctor with lion fat, and among graph caption in blue pencil: “HOF 221287 / © by Carl von them was the girl who had been bewitched...muttering to herself Hoffman from P&A / The Voodoo belief among African natives but no longer raving. Each of the patients was then told to kneel / The bewitched natives drink water with voodoo gods blessing. and drink from the can of water placed before him, while the doc- / They then vomit it and the bad spirits leave them. / This is tor kept up his incantations. The hot water was served in gallon forbidden by the white man in Africa and is a prison offense. / cans, which formed part of the Voodoo equipment, and the pa- The photographer came upon this group in a bush by the riv- tient was not allowed to stop drinking until the can was emptied, er by chance.” Mild rippling, rubber-stamp faded on verso; Very as otherwise the magic would lose its force. As soon as one can Good+. was emptied by a patient he would be given another, urged on by being told that the more magic he consumed the more certain was Fine image by Carl von Hoffman (1889-1982), documenting a the cure...When all drinking ceased, the doctor showed them how voodoo ritual in Zululand during a three-year trip from Cape- to insert their fingers in their mouths as far back as possible, with town to Cairo. Von Hoffman was a soldier, adventurer, author, the result that much vomiting started. To those struggling, the and photographer, best known for his photographs of Theodore doctor shouted that the evil spirit was fighting within them, that Roosevelt, Pancho Villa, and the Mexican Revolution, as well as it was trying to stay in their stomachs, and must be driven out by his role as cinematographer for D.W. Griffith; he was a member throwing it up. After ridding themselves of the water, the patients of the Explorers Club, and a lifetime member of the Adventur- got up and walked away with smiling faces, for now they were ers’ Club of New York.
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