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Property from the Estate of Angela Gross Folk

Property from the Estate of Angela Gross Folk Charles Frederic Ramsey 1875 - 1951 XXXVI-3 (Machine Abstraction) signed CF Ramsey and dated '36 (lower right) oil on board 25¾ by 20 in. 65.4 by 50.8 cm. Executed in 1936.

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xxxvi-3 (machine abstraction)

Property from the Estate of Angela Gross Folk Charles Frederic Ramsey 1875 - 1951 Phoenix Bird on the River signed with the initials CFR and dated 1920 (lower right) oil on board 25¾ by 19¾ in. 65.4 by 50.2 cm. Executed in 1920.

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phoenix bird on the river

American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture

pinpoint abstraction

Feather, Leonard. The New Edition of the Encyclopaedia of Jazz. 1961--Condon, Eddie. We Called it Music. A Generation of Jazz. 1948--Stearns, Marshall. The Story of Jazz. 1957--Newton, Francis. The Jazz Scene. 1959--Holiday, Billie (with William Duffy). Lady Sings the Blues. 1973, new edition--Russell, Ross. Bird Lives! 1983--Ramsey, Frederic, Jr. and Charles Edward Smith. Jazzmen. 1957--Bethell, Tom. George Lewis. A Jazzman from New Orleans. University of California Press, 1977--Balliett, Whitney. Night Culture. A Journal of Jazz, 1975--1980. New York, 1981--Schuller, Gunther. Early Jazz. Its Roots and Musical Development. New York, 1968--McCarthy, Albert, et al. Jazz on Record. A Critical Guide to the First 50 Years. 1968; and five others, similar, chiefly original cloth bindings in dust-jackets, some first editions, most with his ownership initials "P.A.L" or signature "Philip Larkin"some wear to jackets--Larkin, Philip. All What Jazz. A Record Diary 1961--1971. 1985, revised edition, presentation copy inscribed by larkin ("...in affection and esteem--Philip 7.v.85"), dust-jacket; together with eleven volumes of Jazz Records 1942--1962 (1942--1965) (1942--1967) (1942--1969, etc), these in paper covers, one with Larkin's polling card for the General Election of 31 March 1966 loosely inserted, heavily used, one disbound

collection of 28 jazz and blues books from larkin's personal library, many with his ownerhsip initials "p.a.l."  or signature "philip larkin", several with autograph notes or underlinings, works including:

The Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing

i. Jillson, Arnold (born c.1814). A treatise on instrumental arithmetic: or, utility of the slide rule. Hartford: Case, Lockwood and Co., 1866, [T&W J22]ii. Hoare, Charles. The slide rule and how to use it… with a slide-rule in tuck of cover. London: Lockwood & Co., 1875, slide rule inserted in upper cover, modern folding cloth box, (bought from Michael Phelps, 1987), [T&W H140]iii. Idem. The slide rule… twenty-second impression. London: Technical Press, 1953, [T&W H141]iv. Lanchester, Frederick William (1868-1946). The radial cursor: a new addition to the slide-rule [offprint from The Philosophical Magazine for January 1896, pp.52-59]. London, 1896, (bought from Michael Phelps, 1982), [T&W L22]v. Blaine, Robert Gordon. Quick and easy methods of calculating… the theory and use of the slide rule. London: Spon, 1898, [T&W B175]vi. Idem. Some quick and easy methods of calculating... London: Spon, 1912, [T&W B176]vii. Nasmith, John W. The slide rule. Manchester: Nasmith, [presentation inscription dated 1905], (bought from F.E. Whitehart, 1984), [T&W N18]viii. Halsey, Frederick Arthur (1856-1935). The use of the slide rule. New York: Van Nostrand, 1907, [T&W H9]ix. Clark, John Jesse (1866-1938). The slide rule. Scranton, PA: Technical Supply Co., [1909, or later], [T&W C89]x. Idem. The slide rule. Chicago: Drake & Co., n.d. [inscription dated 1943], [T&W C90]xi. Idem. The slide rule. Chicago: Drake & Co., 1943, [T&W C91]xii. Idem. The slide rule... third edition. Wilmette: Drake & Co., [1954, or later], [T&W C92]xiii. Hinckley, Frank C. and Ramsey, W.W. The slide rule. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1910, [not in T&W]xiv. Dunlop, Henry Cleland (b.1855) and Jackson, C.S. Slide-rule notes. London: Longmans, [&c.], 1913, [T&W D71]xv. Richardson, George Washington (c.1866-1940), and Clark, J.J. The slide rule simplified. Scranton, PA: Technical Supply Co., [1918, or later], [T&W R87]xvi. Pickworth, Charles Newton (1861-1955). The slide rule... seventeenth edition. London: Emmot, [c.1920], [T&W P77]xvii. Idem. The slide rule... twenty-first edition. London: Emmot, [c.1938], [T&W P78]xviii. Idem. The slide rule... twenty-fourth edition. London: Emmot, 1955, [T&W P79]xix. International Correspondence Schools [ICS]. The slide rule by I.C.S. staff. Scranton, PA: International Textbook Co., 1925, [T&W I11]xx. Thompson, James Edgar. A manual of the slide rule… second printing. London: Chapman & Hall, 1931, [T&W T30]xxi. Idem. A manual of the slide rule… fifth printing. New York: Van Nostrand, 1942, [T&W T32]xxii. Idem. The standard manual of the slide rule… second edition, fifth printing. New York: Van Nostrand, [1952], [T&W T29]xxiii. Le Patourel, Charles Frederick. The slide rule manual for the use of seamen. London: Heath & Co., 1937, [T&W L43]xxiv. Strohm, Rufus Tracy (b.1877). The slide rule. Scranton, PA: International Textbook Co., [1939, or later], [T&W S205]xxv. Sommers, Hobart H., H. Drell, and Wallschlaeger, T.W. The slide rule and how to use it. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1942, with slide rule inserted in upper cover, [T&W S164]xxvi. Blandi, Thomas Hartwell. The slide rule simplified. Los Angeles: Slide Rule Training Institute, [?1943], [not in T&W]xxvii. Harris, Charles Overton (1909-1990). Slide rule simplified. Chicago: American Technical Soc., 1944, [T&W H17]xxviii. Idem. Slide rule simplified. Chicago: American Technical Soc., 1946, [T&W H18]xxix. Idem. Slide rule simplified. Chicago: American Technical Soc., 1947, [T&W H19]xxx. Hills, Elijah Justin (1899-1985). A course in the slide rule and logarithms. New York: Ginn & Co., [1944, or later], [T&W H138]xxxi. Bishop, Calvin Collier (1882-1971). Practical use of the slide rule. New York: Current Publishing Co., [?1944], [T&W B170]xxxii. Idem. Slide rule. A practical guide... third edition. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1967, [not in T&W]xxxiii. Middlemiss, Ross Raymond (1903-2001). Instructions for using log log slide rules. [No place]: W. J. Boos, 1946, [T&W M103]xxxiv. Camm, Frederick James (1909-2002). Newnes' slide rule manual. London: George Newnes, 1946, [T&W C18]xxxv. [Anonymous]. The "technical" series of British made slide rules. London: Sentinel Printing Co., [?1940s], [T&W S123]xxxvi. Machinova, Paul E. (d.1963). Slide rule manual for engineering students. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University, [?1947], [T&W M6]xxxvii. Mitchell, Donald V. Streamlined methods of computing with slide rule and mathematical tables. Seattle: Craftsman Press, [1947, or later], [T&W M110]xxxviii. Pennisi, Luigi Legendre (1918-2010), and Levy, Martin J. How to use the slide rule. Chicago: University of lllinois, 1950, signed by Pennisi on title, [T&W P36]xxxix. Arnold, Joseph Norman. The slide rule. Principles and applications. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1954, [T&W A100]xl. Johnson, Lee H. (1909-2002). The slide rule... eighth printing. Princeton: Van Nostrand, 1961, [not in T&W] together 40 volumes, various sizes, original cloth or original wrappers, a few slightly worn, 4 with dust-jackets

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