Arthur Earl, Signed (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Paul Galdone (illustrator). First Edition. Full page inscriptions by both Earl Wilson who has signed his name with a little face in the "l" of Earl and inscribed and signed by Arthur Godfrey. Book NEAR FINE light offsetting to endpapers; dust jacket GOOD+ chipping at spine ends and along bottom edges of both panels as deep as 1/2", three closed tears up to 1/2". Signed by Wilson and Arthur Godfrey. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Eighteenth century lease dated 1st of October 1783. On one skin of vellum. Aged and worn, with some loss to text. However mostly legible. Laid out in the customary fashion, with tax stamps in margin and the gutter carrying the Earl's signature, its two words on each side of his seal, in red wax, on green ribbon. Signed by witnesses on reverse, and docketed in a later hand: 'Pigeon Close | May be of use in identifying the bounds of the Pigeon Close at the expiration of the Lease of the Rectory house'. The document relates to lands surrounding Fingall's Berkshire country estate, Shinfield House, with reference to Cobham and Peter and Henrietta Floyer. Arthur James Plunkett, 8th Earl of Fingall KP (1759-1836) was a Roman Catholic Irish peer, styled Lord Killeen until 1793, and a leading supporter of the cause of Catholic Emancipation. He was the eldest son of the 7th Earl and his wife Henrietta Wollascot of Woolhampton, Berkshire. He became Earl of Fingall in 1793 after the death of Arthur James Plunkett, 7th Earl of Fingall and was appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 20 October 1821, on the occasion of the Royal Visit to Ireland of King George IV. His creation as Baron Fingall in 1831 made him a member of the United Kingdom House of Lords. He married in 1785 Frances Donelan of Ballydonellan, County Galway who died in 1835. They had a son, Arthur Plunkett, 9th Earl of Fingall, and a daughter, Harriet (died 1871), who married John Jones of Llanarth, Monmouthshire. For many years he was a champion of the cause of Catholic Emancipation, and for a time worked closely with Daniel O'Connell to secure it. In 1807 he obtained an interview with the 1st Duke of Wellington, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, who explained that Catholic Emancipation was not at that time practical politics, but that the remaining Penal Laws would be enforced with all possible moderation. As one of the leaders of the Catholic Association in its original form, which the Government maintained was illegal, he was briefly arrested, but never prosecuted. His role led to the unofficial title "head of the Irish Catholic laity" Lord Byron violently attacked Fingall in verse for accepting the Order of St. Patrick from George IV - wears Fingall thy trappings? -and for his deferential behaviour during the Royal Visit. However Fingall and his fellow Irish Catholic peers were not and did not pretend to be republicans: they sought equal rights under the Crown, not separation from it. Signed by Author.

Unbound. Condition: Very good+ condition. First Edition. Large black and white photograph (16.75" x 12") of the Warren Court, signed by all nine justices below their portrait. Seated are Tom C. Clark, Hugo L. Black, Earl Warren, William O. Douglas, and John M. Harlan. Standing are Byron P. White, William J. Brennan Jr., Potter Stewart, and Arthur J. Goldberg. From 1962-1965, this highly active court decided: GRISWOLD v. CONNECTICUT preventing states from making the use of contraception by married couples illegal; KATZENBACH v. McCLUNG clarifying the power of Congress in the field of interstate commerce; NEW YORK TIMES CO. v. SULLIVAN ruling that a state cannot award damages to a public official for defamatory falsehood related to their official conduct unless they prove actual malice; HEART OF ATLANTA HOTEL, INC. v. U.S. prohibiting racial discrimination in places of public accommodation affecting commerce is a valid exercise of Congress' power under the Commerce Clause as applied to a place of public accommodation serving interstate travelers; WESBERRY v. SANDERS enacting the constitutional requirement that representatives be chosen "by the people of the several states" means that, as nearly as is practicable, one person's vote in a congressional election must be worth as much as another person's vote; REYNOLDS v. SIMS establishing the Equal Protection Clause which requires substantially equal legislative representation for all citizens in a state, regardless of where they reside. Legislators represent people, rather than areas, and weighting votes differently according to where citizens happen to reside is discriminatory; SHERBERT v. VERNER establishing that substantial infringement of an individual's right to religious freedom must be justified by a compelling state interest; ABINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT v. SCHEMPP ruling that no state law or school board may require that passages from the Bible be read or that the Lord's Prayer be recited in public schools, even if students may be excused from attending or participating upon written request of their parents; GIDEON v. WAINWRIGHT establishing the right of an indigent defendant in a criminal trial to have the assistance of counsel is a fundamental right essential to a fair trial; BAKER v. CARR ruling that prominent on the surface of any case held to involve a political question is found a textually demonstrable constitutional commitment of the issue to a coordinate political department, a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving it, the impossibility of deciding without an initial policy determination of a kind clearly for non-judicial discretion, the impossibility of a court's undertaking independent resolution without expressing lack of the respect due coordinate branches of government, an unusual need for unquestioning adherence to a political decision already made, or the potentiality of embarrassment from multifarious pronouncements by various departments on one question. More specifically, an equal protection challenge to a legislative apportionment is not a non-justiciable political question; ENGEL v. VITALE establishing that state officials may not compose an official state prayer and require that it be recited in public schools, even if the prayer is denominationally neutral, and even if students may remain silent or be excused. Housed in a simple black frame. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. [A massive 73 volume set of incredibly important medical and scientific material.] Tipped in signature of Owsei Temkin. Interesting provenance, previously owned by Arthur Earl Walker, and later by Owen and Caroline Hannaway. Printed 1933-2017. Mixed set with mostly hardcovers. Hardcover. Good bindings and covers. Library stamps and markings. Shelf wear. Bookplate of A.E. Walker inside many volumes. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Contents: Vol. I, 1933; Vol. II, 1934; Vol. III, 1935; Vol. IV, 1936; Vol. V, 1937; Vol. VI, 1938; Vol. VII, 1939; Vol. VIII, 1940; Vol. IX, 1941; Vol. X, 1941; Vol. XI, 1942; Vol. XII, 1942; Vol. XIII, 1943; Vol. XIV, 1943; Vol. XV, 1944; Vol. XVI, 1944; Vol. XVII, 1945; Vol. XVIII, 1945; Vol. XIX, 1946; Vol. XX, 1946; Vol. XXI, 1947;Vol. XXII, 1948; Vol. XXIII, 1949; Vol. XXIV, 1950; Vol. XXV, 1951; Vol. XXVI, 1952; Vol. XXVII, 1953; Vol. XXVIII, 1954; Vol. XXIX, 1955; Vol. XXX, 1956; Vol. XXXI, 1957; Vol. XXXII, 1958; Vol. XXXIII, 1959; Vol. XXXIV, 1960; Vol. XXXV, 1961; Vol. XXXVI, 1962; Vol. XXXVII, 1963; Vol. XXXVIII, 1964; Vol. XXXIX, 1965; Vol. XL, 1966; Vol. XLII, 1968; Vol. XLIII, 1969; Vol. XLIV; 1970; Vol. XLV, 1971; Vol. 46, 1972; Vol. 47, 1973; Vol. 48, 1974; Vol. 49, 1975; Vol. 50, 1976; Vol. 51, 1977; Vol. 52, 1978; Vol. 67, No. 3, Fall 1993; Vol. 69, No. 3, Fall 1995; Vol. 71, No. 4, Winter 1997; Vol. 72, No. 1, Spring 1998; Vol. 76, No. 2, Summer 2002; Vol. 82, No. 1, Spring 2008; Vol. 82, No. 3, Fall 2008; Vol. 84, No. 1, Spring 2010; Vol. 84, No. 3, Fall 2010; Vol. 85, No. 2, Summer 2011; Vol. 86, No. 1, Spring 2012; Vol. 86, No. 3, Fall 2012; Vol. 86, No. 4, Winter 2012; Vol. 87, No. 2, Summer 2013; Vol. 89, No. 1, Spring 2015; Vol. 91, No. 2, Summer 2017; Index to Volumes I-XX 1933-1946; Index to Volumes XXI-XXXVI 1947-1962; Index to Volumes and Supplements 1933-1982; Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Vol. XIII, No. 3, Jul. 1958; Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Vol. XIII, No. 4, Oct. 1958; Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Index I-XXX 1946-1975. Interesting essays in this collection include: Medical Practice Among the Somalis by Leon Brotmacher; Medicine and Graeco-Arabic Alchemy by Owsei Temkin; Stomach and Psyche: Eating, Digestion, and Mental Illness in the Medicine of Philippe Pinel by Elizabeth W. Williams; The Beauty of Anatomy: Visual Displays and Surgical Education in Early Nineteenth Century London by Carin Berkowitz; On Anecdote and Antidotes: Poison Trials in Sixteenth Century Europe by Alisha Rankin; The Scientific Personality of Galileo by Leonardo Olschki; Primitive Medicine and Culture Patterns by Erwin H. Ackerknecht; James Rush, Pioneer in American Psychology, 1786-1869 by Stephen G. Kurtz; Milton's Gout by Edward A. Block; Cultures of Death and Politics of Corpse Supply: Anatomy in Vienna, 1848-1914 by Tatjana Buklijas; Aphasia Studies and Language Theory in the Nineteenth Century by Otto M. Marx; Cortisone and the Politics of Empire: Imperialism and British Medicine 1918-1955 by David Cantor; The Campaign for Medical Microscopy in Antebellum America by Deborah Jean Warner; When Ice Cream Was Poisonous: Adulteration, Ptomaines, and Bacteriology in the United States, 1850-1910 by Edward Geist; A View from the Streets: Women and Medical Work in Elizabethan London by Deborah E. Harkness; Blood and Expertise: The Trials of the Female Medical Expert in the Ancien-Regime Courtroom by Cathy McClive; Amatus Lusitanus and the Obturator in Cleft Palates by Joshua O. Leibowitz; Early History of Pulmonary Surgery by Horace Herbsman; Development and Use of the Rubber Glove in Surgery and Gynecology by Curt Proskauer; The Legend of Jesse Bennet's 1794 Caesarian Section by Arthur G. King; Michel Foucault: The Knowledge of Power and the Power of Knowledge by Jean-Claude Guedon; Veterinary Medicine and Rural Health in Pre-Revolutionary France by Caroline Hannaway; Observations on the Chronology of the Galenic Corpus by Donald W. Peterson; The End of Greek Diet by Erwin H. Ackerknecht; Spinal Irritation and Osteopathy by Frank Schiller; Early Medical Experiences in Hawaii William S. Middleton; The Physician Versus the Negro: Medical and Anthropological Concepts of Race in the Late Nineteenth Century by John S. Haller Jr.; Structure and Function in Gall by Erna Lesky; Galen on Contaminated Cereals as a Cause of Epidemics by Elinor Lieber; History of the Exchange Transfusion; Its Use in Treatment of Erythroblastosis Fetalis by Carl Pochedly; Non-Venereal Treponematosis in Colonial North America by Thomas C. Parramore; The Introduction of Lemon Juice as a Cure for Scurvy by Christopher Lloyd; Sydenham and Locke on the Limits of Anatomy by David E. Wolfe; The Influence of Benjamin Rush on the Practice of Bleeding in South Carolina by Joseph I. Waring; The Cause of Cholera: Aspects of Eitological Thought in Nineteenth Century America by Charles Rosenberg; The Fountain of Life: A Greek Version by Charles Talbot; The Development of the Concept of Cerebral Localization in the Nineteenth Century by Arthur Earl Walker; John Browne, 1642-1702, A Seventeenth Century Surgeon, Anatomist, and Plagiarist by K.F. Russell; When Medicine was in Flower by Lynn Thorndike; Empedocles and Freud, Heraclitus and Jung by Garfield Tourney; The Professional Ethics of the Greek Physician by Ludwig Edelstein; Significance of Osteitis in Ancient Peruvian Trephining by T.D. Stewart; Obstetrical and Genito-Urinary Remedies of Thirteenth Century Spain by J. Horace Nunemaker; English Military Surgery During the Age of Elizabeth by Henry J. Webb; Evidence of Scurvy among Ancient Hebrews by John H. Swanson; The Early History of the Adrenal Glands, with Particular Reference to Theories of Function by Harris B. Shumacker Jr.; The Hebrew-Aramaic Element in Vesalius, A Critical Analysis by Mordecai Etziony; St. Gregory of Nazianzus and E. Signed.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 4to. A lithographed document, in facsimile of an Autograph Letter Signed, on a genuine letterhead with embossed motif of First Lord of the Treasury, with mourning border. On aged paper, with the blank reverse carrying unobtrusive glue stains from previous mounting. Folded three times for postage. Regarding the forthcoming State Opening of Parliament with its debate following the Queens' Speech, the circular (to Members of the House of Commons) reads: 'Dear Sir / I beg to remind you that Parliament will meet on Thursday the 11: Feb.; and as it will be at once invited to proceed to the discussion of important questions I earnestly trust that you will make such arrangements as will enable you to be present on that day. / I beg to remain / Y: faithfully / Arthur James Balfour'. See IMage.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. 543 pages; Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. First printing copy #217. Signed dedication from author Arthur Jones on front free endpaper. Minor rubbing scratches on the back cover. Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings on text pages. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

On one side of a small skin (c.35 x 43 cm). In fair condition: somewhat worn and aged. Laid out in the usual fashion, with embossed tax stamp in margin. Signed on gutter 'Meath' and 'Arth; Thomas', with the signatories two seals in red wax (both cracked and with some loss). In English. Signatures of the two witnesses on reverse: 'Nichs. Thompson' and 'Joh Morrisson'. Scan on application.

Condition: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original magnificently decorated ornate red, blue, black and gilt front cover, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, gilt coat of arms and elaborate gilt border to the rear cover, red and gilt paste downs. Folio 14¾'' x 11½''. A gorgeous example of the colour printing skills of William Griggs with a full colour illuminated dedication page, frontispiece of The Royal Library, Windsor Castle, 21 pages of text with different colour illuminated chromolithographed borders followed by 152 full-page chromolithographic illustrated bindings. Tipped to the top of the front free end paper is a hand written letter on Windsor Castle headed note paper from the author concerning the publication of this volume dated 2nd November 1889, some three years before it went to press, SIGNED by the author 'R. Holmes'. From Lord Balfour's private library with pencil note to this effect inside the rear end paper. Neatly repaired tear across the top quarter of the spine, contents without any foxing in very near Fine condition. Heavy volume 5 kg, extra postage will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. BOOKS (Binding, Collecting, Printing, Paper).

Comprising approximately 390 letters, many handwritten, others typed & signed (henceforth noted as TLS), these arranged in 7 files relating to each correspondent, bound together with treasury tags in largely reverse chronological order. Roughly 115,000 words. With approximately 104 additional letters, telegrams and documents, bound in as they relate to the matters under discussion. The correspondence shows the then Major Scovell (1881-1948), a veteran of the Second Boer War, post-WW1 Liberal politician, and great-nephew of notable British Army Officer and Waterloo veteran, George Scovell (1774-1861), during an 18 month period at Northern Command Headquarters in York, from mid-1915 until the end of 1916, co-ordinating training efforts, acting as the bridge between The War Office and Horse Guards in London, and his regional colleagues, establishing and improving Schools of Military Instruction, with a particular focus on Commanding Officers and NCOs. This during a crucial period of the First World War, a time of dynamic change in military tactics and battlefield threats, when lessons were being learned from the Battles of Verdun and the Somme, casualties were enormous, and new young officers & troops had to be trained at an unprecedented speed and scale to cope with novel forms of warfare. Of particular note is the correspondence with Arthur Smithells, covering his rise in less than a year from civilian Professor in Chemistry at Leeds University with no military background, to Chief Advisor for Anti-Gas Training for the Home Forces, based at Horse Guards in London and with an honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Also, that with Major Burton, which provides considerable detail regarding the establishment and development of Grenade and Anti-Gas Instruction at Farnley Park, Otley. Some correspondence is noted as private, i.e. off the official record, much is casual, critical and surprisingly indiscreet. Below are details of the individual files. Acheson, Archibald Charles Montague Brabazon (1877-1954), then Viscount Acheson, working at the Staff Duties Branch of the War Office in London, with the rank of Captain. Acheson was a veteran of the Second Boer War, seems to have seen some active service at the beginning of WW1, and had an interesting private life, marrying two American heiresses and dying in New York. This file contains 80 letters, 53 from Scovell, of which 48 are TLS, one is handwritten and 4 are typed and unsigned, and 27 from Acheson, 13 handwritten, 12 TLS and 2 typed and unsigned. These date from June 24th 1915 November 29th 1916. Plus 25 related telegrams, notes and documents. These letters are couched in often familiar terms, with much slang, and suggests that they were friends. Unsurprisingly, given Acheson's role, the focus is on men and Officers, their movements, accommodation, quality, discipline, training and general conduct, as well as dealing with supplies. Some quotes below: Feb. 11th 1916: "Why have you insulted me with that beastly "black dog" CVO yourself for your cocktails!" (Acheson) Feb. 1916: "I am hoping to be allowed to send some more young officers to their battalions in France to finish their training with the battalions, though they would not be allowed to go into the trenches." (Acheson) Apr. 4th 1916: "If you can do anything to get a closer co-ordination of effort between the Army Schools in France and those at home you will be doing us a real good turn. An exchange of ideas can do no harm." (Scovell) Apr. 22nd 1916: "Cannot the War Office give increased powers to Commandants of Young Officers Groups to "boot out" incompetent Young Officers" (Scovell) Sept. 27th 1916: "Map-reading and Musketry Knowledge at Gailes [Scottish military training school] are low in standard [] it would save a tremendous amount of worry if all officers coming from Cadet Battalions could fire their Muskets and Revolver Courses before joining their Battalions on first commission" (Scovell) Oct. 3rd 1916: "God knows.

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