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Star Wars Rebels: Jason Isaacs Could Voice The Inquisitor
By Brent McKnight | 7 years ago
There's been so much talk about Star Wars: Episode VII since it started production—especially now that Harrison Ford's leg got ripped off on set, or whatever—that we haven't spent much time discussing the first post-George Lucas addition to the canon, the animated series Star Wars Rebels. When that show premieres this fall, the main villain the heroes will face off against will be The Inquisitor, a nasty piece of Jedi-killing work. We didn't know much about the character, but now it is rumored that British actor Jason Isaacs may lend his voice to the role.
Isaacs has a long resume, but is best known to general audiences as Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter. The Inquisitor was the first character we met from Rebels, which takes place between the events of Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. Darth Vader tasks him with tracking down and killing the Jedi Knights that remain after Order 66 broke up the band. With all of the recent rumors about potential villains in Episode VII, it seems like he, or at least his methodology, could potentially play a role there. We have heard that Rebels will have a major connection to the continuing saga, though we'll have to wait to see what that is.
TheForce.net were the first ones to report the rumor, though Lucasfilm and Disney XD have nothing to say on the matter, as you probably expected. For what it's worth, IMDb does list Isaacs as voicing the Inquisitor on both his individual entry and the series page. While that doesn't always mean anything, it does nothing to rebut this report. Isaacs does certainly have the stern disposition to play a menacing agent of the Dark Side.
Set five years before Episode IV, Rebels follows a small group comprised of Sabine, Kanan, Hera, Ezra, Zeb, and Chopper. As the Empire tightens its grip on the galaxy, the seeds of what will ultimately become the Rebel Alliance begin to sprout in the outer regions as crews like this begin to defy their oppressive rulers and hope to stop the darkness from spreading.
Executive produced by Dave Filoni, Simon Kinberg, and Greg Weisman, Star Wars Rebels hits the airwaves this fall with a two-part premiere on the Disney Channel before it moves to its regular home on Disney XD. Freddie Prinze Jr., Tiya Sircar, Steve Blum, Taylor Grey, and Vanessa Marshall all lend their voices to the series. You can also expect Billy Dee Williams to reprise his Lando Calrissian role, and Obi-Wan Kenobi will stop by for a visit now and again, voiced by James Arnold Taylor.
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Activists in a group supporting marijuana legalization said on Wednesday that White House officials had invited them to a meeting next week to talk about issues surrounding the substance.
"I hope to establish an ongoing dialogue with the White House and cannabis reformers," said Adam Eidinger, co-founder of the DCMJ activist group.
"This meeting is hopefully the beginning of many meetings where the White House will make reforms before this administration's time ends," said Eidinger, who has led efforts to legalize pot in the nation's capital.
The White House had no immediate comment. President Barack Obama's final term ends in January.
DCMJ had written to Obama, his senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, and other White House officials asking for a meeting. A source at the group said the meeting on Monday would be held with officials from the White House's Office of Public Engagement, but he did not know exactly what marijuana issues they wanted to discuss.
The group wants the federal government to remove marijuana from the so-called list of Schedule One drugs that includes substances like heroin and cocaine. Activists say many Americans, especially blacks and Latinos, are needlessly jailed and medical research into cannabis is delayed because of the 1970 Controlled Substances Act that initiated the listing. It was signed into law by former President Richard Nixon.
Obama has long said he supports decriminalizing marijuana but not legalizing it. He has called for reform of the criminal justice system for disproportionately incarcerating African-Americans for non-violent drug offenses like possession.
Last year, Obama, who has been open about smoking pot in high school, said young people should care more about issues like climate change than legalizing the substance.


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Title: Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; Thence across the Continent, down the River Zembesi, to the Eastern Ocean
Author: David Livingstone - David Livingstone was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa. His meeting with H. M. Stanley on 10 November 1871 gave rise to the popular quotation "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Livingstone was one of the most popular national heroes of the late 19th century in Victorian Britain, and he had a mythical status which operated on a number of interconnected levels: Protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags to riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of commercial empire. His fame as an explorer helped drive forward the obsession with discovering the sources of the River Nile that formed the culmination of the classic period of European geographical discovery and colonial penetration of the African continent. (Information courtesy of Wikipedia)
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, Publishers
Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: xxiv/732 plus 4 pages of publisher's catalogue
Width: 6.5" Height: 9.5"
Condition / Notes: This handsome antique volume is bound in half leather, with raised bands and bright stamped gilt lettering to the spine. The book shows light shelfwear. The binding is firm. This volume has marbled endpapers. The pages are clean and without markings. This work is illustrated with a tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author, a title-page vignette, plates and textual illustrations. Two well-preserved maps, documenting Livingstone's routes across Africa, appear at the rear of the volume.
Details: This lot consists of the artwork shown in the corresponding image(s).
The dimensions of this artist-signed poster are approximately 24" x 11". The image shows three tired Wild Things leaning against trees while the crowned Max sits inside a small tent facing outward. The background shows a reddish sunset glow.
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Condition / Notes: The actual image in this artist-signed poster measures approximately 20" x 6 1/2". The white border measures 2" on the top, 2 3/4" on the bottom, and 1 1/2" on the sides. The signature of the artist appears below the right-hand side of the image. The condition of this piece is pristine.
Title: Sketches of Printers and Printing in Colonial New York
Author: Charles R. Hildeburn
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company
Printing Information: Limited Edition
Pagination: xiv/189 pages
Width: 5.25" Height: 8"
Condition / Notes: This is a scarce limited edition of this work, being number 4 of 375 numbered copies. This antique volume is bound quarter-leather with plain paper-covered boards. There is moisture marking to the exterior, particularly at the bottom of the front cover and along the edges of the spine. The binding is sound.
The text block is solid and is adorned with deckled edges. The bookplate of Robert Hoe is affixed to the front pastedown. The pages show scattered moisture marking to the margins. This work is copiously illustrated with three portrait plates and twenty-eight full-page illustrations of title pages.
Title: Early Indiana Trials and Sketches.
Author: O. H. Smith
Publisher: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., Printers.
City: Cincinnati
Pagination: 640 pages
Width: 6.5" Height: 10"
Book Details: Smith, of Quaker descent, was a successful prosecuting attorney and proponent of Indians rights, elected to Congress in 1826 as a Jackson Democrat. After failing to be reelected to the Senate where he had served as a Whig he retired to private life and writing. He wrote a series of sketches and reminiscences of frontier life in Indiana for the Indianapolis Daily Journal in 1857 which was published the following year as the present work. The volume offers a vivid portrait of various phases of early Indiana history.
Condition / Notes: This antique volume is bound in cloth covers with blindstamped ornamentation and stamped gilt lettering on the spine. This book shows light external wear, with rubbing and fraying to the edges of the covers and spine and fading and light rubbing to the surfaces. The spine cover is chipped at the top of the front joint. The binding is sound.
The bookplate of a previous owner is affixed to the front pastedown. A contemporary ink inscription is on the front flyleaf. This work offers a frontispiece portrait of the author. A facsimile of his script and signature appear prior to the first page of text. The pages are clean with light age toning.
Title: Foundation and Empire
Author: Isaac Asimov - Isaac Asimov (born Isaak Yudovich Ozimov) was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. His books have been published in nine out of ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification.
Asimov is widely considered a master of hard science fiction and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, he was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series; his other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series. The Galactic Empire novels are explicitly set in earlier history of the same fictional universe as the Foundation Series. Later, beginning with Foundation's Edge, he linked this distant future to the Robot and Spacer stories, creating a unified "future history" for his stories much like those pioneered by Robert A. Heinlein and previously produced by Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson. He wrote hundreds of short stories, including the social science fiction "Nightfall", which in 1964 was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best short science fiction story of all time. Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French.
The prolific Asimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as much nonfiction. Most of his popular science books explain scientific concepts in a historical way, going as far back as possible to a time when the science in question was at its simplest stage. He often provides nationalities, birth dates, and death dates for the scientists he mentions, as well as etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Examples include Guide to Science, the three volume set Understanding Physics, Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery, as well as works on astronomy, mathematics, the Bible, William Shakespeare's writing and chemistry.
Asimov was a long-time member and vice president of Mensa International, albeit reluctantly; he described some members of that organization as "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs". He took more joy in being president of the American Humanist Association. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, a crater on the planet Mars, a Brooklyn, New York elementary school, and a literary award are named in his honor.
Publisher: Gnome Press, Publishers
Printing Information: First State
Width: 5.75" Height: 8.5"
Book Details: "Foundation and Empire" is a novel written by Isaac Asimov that was published by Gnome Press in 1952. It is the second book published in the Foundation Series, and the fourth in the in-universe chronology. It takes place in two halves, originally published as separate novellas. The second part, "The Mule," won a Hugo Award.
"Foundation and Empire" saw multiple publications—it also appeared in 1955 as "Ace Double" (but not actually paired with another book) D-125 under the title "The Man Who Upset the Universe". The stories comprising this volume were originally published in Astounding Magazine (with different titles) in 1945. "Foundation and Empire" was the second book in the Foundation trilogy. Decades later, Asimov wrote two further sequel novels and two prequels. Later writers have added authorized tales to the series. The Foundation Series is often regarded as one of Isaac Asimov's best works, along with his Robot series. (Information courtesy of Wikipedia)
Condition / Notes: This is a scarce first state of the first edition of this landmark Asimov title.
The volume is bound in red cloth, with black lettering to the spine and a pictorial design in black depicting a nebula on the front cover. The book shows light shelfwear. The binding is firm. The interior is clean and without markings. The intact illustrated dust jacket, with the price of $2.75 on the front flap, displays light shelfwear, with a minor closed tear at the tip of the upper right corner of the front panel and very minor loss at the lower right corner of the rear panel. This is a first state jacket with 26 titles listed in the rear panel advertisement. The jacket design is by American pulp magazine illustrator Edd Cartier.
Title: Letters and Notes of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians. Written during Eight Years' Travel, amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America
Author: George Catlin - George Catlin was an American painter, author and traveler who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West.
Publisher: Willis P. Hazard
Number of Volumes: 2 Full Set: Yes
Width: 6.25" Height: 9.25"
Condition / Notes: This antique set is bound in half leather and marbled paper-covered boards. The spines have raised bands and gilt-lettered red leather labels. The books show external wear, with rubbing and scuffing to the covers. The spines display chipping, with loss visible at the bottom of the spine. These volumes have marbled edges and endpapers. The pages are clean and without markings. This work is illustrated with 150 steel- and wood-engraved plates, including tissue-guarded frontispieces.
Title: The Field of Mars: Being an Alphabetical Digestion of the Principal Naval and Military Engagements in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Particularly of Great Britain and Her Allies, from the Ninth Century to the Present Period. Attacks, Attempts, Actions, Battles, Blockades, Bombardments, Descents, Defeats, Engagements, Expeditions, Invasions, Reductions, Sea Fights, Storms, Sieges, Surprises, Repulses and Skirmishes. Selected from the Best Historians and Journalists, and Adjusted from the Greatest Authority. Interspersed with Concise Descriptions of Towns and Places, the Subject of Each Article. To Which Is Prefixed an Essay on the Art of War, and a Comprehensive System of Military and Naval Discipline
Author: uncredited author
Publisher: Printed for J. Macgowan
Printing Information: First Edition
Pagination: Unpaginated
Width: 9" Height: 11"
Book Details: A work of its time which offers a combined survey of historical and contemporary military and naval events in an effort to direct the "dauntless spirit inherent in the breasts of the Sons of Albion and Hibernia" against France, Spain, Holland and the newly-independent United States of America.
Condition / Notes: This is a scarce first edition. Sabin mentions an edition of 1780 (without engravings) but this is probably an error: Lowndes mentions only the present edition and there are no OCLC records or auction records for a 1780 edition. There does not seem to have been any single required number of engravings for this edition: copies are listed as having sold with 52, 57, 70, and 58 engravings: the present example contains a total of 61 with no sign of anything having been removed.
Cf. Lowndes I, p.796 (1801 edition); cf. Sabin 24297 (incorrectly dated 1780?, with no mention of plates, and mentioning the edition of 1801)
This rebacked set is bound in contemporary leather, with stamped gilt lettering and ruling to the spines. The front boards are detached. The covers display rubbing, with chipping to the spines. Minor loss of material can be seen at the top/bottom of the spines and at the corners of the boards. This volume has later endpapers. The pages exhibit scattered light foxing. A small amount of light worming is present in top and bottom the margins of the first volume. This work is illustrated with 2 emblematic frontispieces (one after Thomas Stothard), 61 engraved plates, plans and maps (3 folding). The text appears in double columns. A list of subscribers at the end of the text in the second volume.
Title: The Gremlins: From the Walt Disney Production. A Royal Air Force Story
Author: Roald Dahl - Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter.
Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, Dahl served in the Royal Air Force during World War II, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence officer, rising to the rank of Acting wing commander. He rose to prominence in the 1940s with works for both children and adults and became one of the world's best-selling authors. He has been referred to as "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century." In 2008 The Times placed Dahl 16th on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". His short stories are known for their unexpected endings and his children's books for their unsentimental, often very dark humour.
Dahl's works include "James and the Giant Peach," "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," "Matilda," "The Witches," "Fantastic Mr Fox," "The Twits," "George's Marvellous Medicine" and "The BFG." (Biographical information courtesy of Wikipedia)
Publisher: Collins
Pagination: 52 unnumbered pages
Width: 9.25" Height: 11.25"
Book Details: A story about mischievous little creatures that were part of Royal Air Force folklore. The RAF pilots blamed the gremlins for all the problems with the aircraft. While at the British Embassy in Washington, Dahl sent a copy to the First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt who read it to her grandchildren, and the book was commissioned by Walt Disney for a film that was never made.
Condition / Notes: This is a first edition of the author's first children's book.
This volume is bound in red (upper) and gray (lower) paper boards and a brown cloth backstrip. The front cover has a color illustration depicting title characters on a fighter plane in flight. The book shows shelfwear, with very light soiling to the front cover. The binding is firm. The yellow endpapers have title characters drawn in red. A December 1944 gift inscription can be seen on the verso of the front flyleaf. The title page has faint smudging at the edges. The pages exhibit sporadic light foxing. This work contains bright full-page color illustrations and numerous b&w textual illustrations.
Title: The American Commonwealth
Author: James Bryce - James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce OM GCVO PC FRS FBA (10 May 1838 – 22 January 1922) was a British academic, jurist, historian and Liberal politician. [Information courtesy Wikipedia.]
Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
City: London / New York
Book Details: As an author, Bryce quickly became well known in America for his 1888 work, The American Commonwealth. The book thoroughly examined the institutions of the United States from the point of view of a historian and constitutional lawyer and at once became a classic. In developing material for his book, Bryce painstakingly reproduced the travels of Alexis de Tocqueville, who wrote Democracy in America (1835–40). Although Tocqueville emphasized the egalitarian nature of early-19th-century America, Bryce was dismayed to find vast inequality: "Sixty years ago, there were no great fortunes in America, few large fortunes, no poverty. Now there is some poverty... and a greater number of gigantic fortunes than in any other country of the world" and "As respects education... the profusion of…elementary schools tends to raise the mass to a higher point than in Europe... [but] there is an increasing class that has studied at the best universities. It appears that equality has diminished [in this regard] and will diminish further."[13] The work was heavily used in academia as a result of Bryce's close friendships with men such as President James B. Angell of the University of Michigan and successively Charles W. Eliot and Abbott Lawrence Lowell at Harvard. Against the backdrop of the New Immigration of the late nineteenth century, the work also became a key medium for populariaing the view of American history as distinctly Anglo-Saxon, comparable with similarly exceptionalist "Whig" histories written in late Victorian Britain. [Information courtesy Wikipeda.[
Condition / Notes: This is the scarce first edition of this work. This handsome antique set is bound in red three-quarter leather with marbled paper covers. The spines feature raised bands and stamped gilt lettering and ornamentation in the compartments. These volumes show light shelf wear, with minor rubbing and chipping at the spine edges. Volume two shows some chipping to the lower two bands. The bindings are solid.
The text blocks are sound and are adorned with gilt top edges, deckled bottom edges and foreedges, and marbled endpapers. There are faint traces of the removal of a previous author's bookplates on the front pastedowns. Light institutional markings in pencil appear on the blank preliminaries. The pages are clean with mild age toning.
This set includes chapter 88, "The Tweed Ring in New York City," which was absent from later printings and is a marker of a first edition.
Title: Leslie's History of the Greater New York
Author: Daniel Van Pelt
Publisher: Arkell Publishing Company
Width: 7.5" Height: 10.75"
Condition / Notes: This antique set is bound in brown half-leather with marbled paper covers, raised bands, and stamped gilt lettering on the spines. These handsome volumes show mild external wear, with rubbing and scuffing concentrated at the corners and spine edges. Some markings are evident to the edges of the text block. The bindings are sound.
The text blocks are adorned with marbled endpapers. The pages are clean and bright. This set features numerous illustrations, including many plates featuring portraits of important figures in New York history such as Horace Greeley and John Jacob Astor. This set includes an index.
Title: Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph - T. E. Lawrence
Author: T. E. Lawrence - Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO, known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign and the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916–18. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title which was used for the 1962 film based on his World War I activities.
Lawrence was born illegitimate in Tremadog, Wales, in August 1888 to Sir Thomas Chapman and Sarah Junner, a governess who was herself illegitimate. Chapman had left his wife and first family in Ireland to live with Sarah Junner, and they called themselves Mr and Mrs Lawrence. In the summer of 1896 the Lawrences moved to Oxford, where in 1907–10 young Lawrence studied history at Jesus College, graduating with First Class Honours. He became a practising archaeologist in the Middle East, working at various excavations with David George Hogarth and Leonard Woolley. In 1908 he joined the Oxford University Officer Training Corps, undergoing a two-year training course. In January 1914, before the outbreak of World War I, Lawrence was co-opted by the British Army to undertake a military survey of the Negev Desert while doing archaeological research.
Lawrence's public image resulted in part from the sensationalised reportage of the revolt by an American journalist, Lowell Thomas, as well as from Lawrence's autobiographical account, "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" (1922). In 1935, he was fatally injured in a motorbike crash in Dorset. (Biographical information courtesy of Wikipedia)
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Printing Information: Other - see description
Width: 8.25" Height: 10.5"
Book Details: "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" is the autobiographical account of the experiences of British soldier T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), while serving as a liaison officer with rebel forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks of 1916 to 1918. [Information courtesy Wikipedia.]
Condition / Notes: This represents the 1935 first printing of the general circulation edition of this work, having been printed privately in 1926. This book is bound in brown cloth covers with stamped gilt lettering and ornamentation on the spine and front cover. The exterior shows light shelf wear. The binding is solid.
The text block is adorned with deckled edges. The pages are clean. This work contains plates. An index is present at the end of the text.
This work is preserved in its scarce original dust jacket, with tape repairs along the edges and at the corners.
Title: The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments: Together with the Apocrypha: Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised; with Canne's Marginal Notes and References. To Which are Added, an Index; an Alphabetical Table of All the Names in the Old and New Testaments, with their Significations; Tables of Scripture Weights, Measures, and Coins; John Brown's Concordance, &c.
Publisher: Printed and Sold by Collins and Co.
Printing Information: Second Edition
Pagination: 927 pages plus 24 index page
Condition / Notes: This Collins's Stereotype Edition of the Holy Bible is the second edition of the first quarto Bible stereotyped in America. It is bound in leather with raised bands and stamped gilt lettering on the spine. This volume shows moderate exterior wear, with rubbing, chipping, and scuffing visible, especially at the edges. The rear hinge is cracked.
The text block is sound. The pages show moderate age toning and scattered spotting and smudging.Numerous plates are included.This work contains an index.
Title: Commentarium literale in omnes ac singulos tum Veteris cum Novi Testamenti libros, e gallico in latinum sermonem translatum
Author: Agustin Calmet
Publisher: Sumptibus Philippi, ac Martini Veith, et Joannis Fratis Haredum
City: Augsburg
Width: 9" Height: 14.75"
Condition / Notes: This antique set is bound in quarter vellum and brown paper-covered boards with vellum-tipped corners. These folios show external wear, with tears and minor loss to the spines and rubbing to the covers. The bindings are firm. The text block has speckled edges. These ex-library books have the remnants of library markings at the foot of the spines. Markings and a library stamp can be seen on the front pastedowns. A library stamp also appears on the title pages. The pages exhibit scattered (light) foxing. The texts appear in double columns. This work is illustrated with title-page vignettes, head- and tailpieces, ornamental letters, and fold-out plates, including maps.
Title: Der Westliche "Vaterlandsfreund" und Cantoner Calender, aus das Jahr unseres Heilands Jesu Christi, 1835
Author: Carl F. Egelmann
Publisher: Peter Kaufmann
City: Canton, Ohio
Year: c 1834
Binding Style: Softcover
Pagination: 15 leaves
Condition / Notes: This antique German-language almanac, complete in fifteen leaves, features its publisher's wrappers with sewn binding. Soiling, edge loss/wear, and creasing are present throughout. The binding is sound. This work contains two woodcut illustrations as well as a full-page woodcut additional title.
This poster (Hanrahan C15b) measures approximately 17" x 24". The top of the image is occupied by the text in large print "The Horn Book" with "Magazine" appended in smaller type. The lower portion consists of a Wild Thing painting the scenery while leaning over an artist cuddling a young girl with one hand and sketching with the other. In the background, a cat in a red robe plays a bass viol. Across the lower part of the image, there is the text "About books for children and young adults." The lower right border contains copyright information in small type. The mood of the image is simultaneously bucolic and odd.
Condition / Notes: The actual image in this poster measures approximately 14" x 23". An approximately 1/4" white border surrounds the image. The piece is in excellent condition.
Book Details: This lot includes the lithograph album shown in the corresponding image(s). This album contains 14 hand-coloured lithographs titled in French, German and English. Subjects include children and rural pursuits.
Condition / Notes: This volume, measuring approximately 11.75" x 14.25", has chromolithographed paper boards. The covers display light soiling. Some minor chipping is visible on the spine. The front hinge is cracked. Gift inscriptions, dated 1892 and 1893, appear on the front flyleaf. The vividly colored plates display light foxing at the margins.
Book Details: This lot consists of the vintage Western volumes shown in the corresponding image(s).
These are first and early printings of Larry McMurtry's works. Titles include "Lonesome Dove," a first printing of "Anything For Billy," a first printing of "Texasville," a first printing of "The Wandering Hill," and a Book of the Month Club edition of "Some Can Whistle."
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Condition / Notes: The volumes in this lot may display signs of age/wear, including chipping, fading, and light soiling at the extremities. All volumes are in original dust jackets. "The Wandering Hill" displays undulating pages.
Details: This lot consists of the vintage advertising ephemera shown in the corresponding images.
Items include new old stock vintage screened retail signage on heavy black card stock. Other items advertise products relating to tear gas, automobiles, motorcycles, beer, food, drama, lighting, radios, gardening, and household products.
Condition / Notes: These items exhibit some age/wear indications/
Title: L'Europe et l'Amerique, depuis le Congres d'Aix-la-Chapelle
Author: Dominique Dufour de Pradt
Publisher: Chez Bechet aine
Pagination: 255 / 257 pages
Width: 5.5" Height: 8"
Condition / Notes: These two antique volumes are bound as one in pebbled leather with stamped gilt lettering and ornamentation on the covers and spine. Chipping is evident along the top and bottom spine edges, and rubbing appears at the corners and edges of the covers and spine. The binding is solid.
The text block is sound, and is adorned with marbled edges and marbled endpapers. Institutional markings in pencil appear on the blank preliminaries. The pages show moderate age toning and marginal darkening, as well as plate impressions.
Title: The Kentucky Rifle Hunting Pouch: Its Contents and Accoutrements as Used by the Frontiersman, Hunter and Indian
Author: Madison Grant
Publisher: The Maple Press Company
City: York, Pennsylvania
Printing Information: Signed Edition
Condition / Notes: This vintage volume is signed and inscribed by the author on the verso of the frontispiece. This vintage volume is bound in cloth covers with stamped gilt lettering on the spine and front cover. There is light rubbing to the surface of the covers. The binding is sound. There is a small puncture (approximately one inch long) in the endpapers covering the spine on the front interior.
The text block is adorned with orange endpapers. The bookplate of a previous owner is affixed to the rear pastedown. The pages are clean and bright. This text includes many photographic illustrations of the titular hunting rifle pouch and accessories. This volume has a portrait frontispiece.
Title: Dictamen que en el Cabilido Estraordinario de 23 de Febrero de 1861 Celebrado en la Ciudad de Puerto-Principe Presento y Leyo
Author: Miguel Rodriguez Ferrer
Publisher: Imprenta del Fanal
City: Puerto-Principe
Binding Style: Other - see description
Book Details: An early Cuban railroad item. Ferrer, a noted civic official and prominent landowner, lobbies strongly for the construction of a railway between Puerto Principe and Santa Cruz, taking care to list all the economic benefits. Notable both for its early Cuban imprint and railroad content. Extremely rare. Not on OCLC.
Condition / Notes: This antique pamphlet consists entirely of loose leaves. There are small losses to the edges of the exterior half-title page. Institutional markings in pencil appear in the corners of the half-title and title pages. The pages show light age toning.
Book Details: This lot consists of the theology volumes shown in the corresponding images.
Titles include "Calvin's Institutes," "The Psalms in Israel's Worship," and "Speculum Mentis."
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Condition / Notes: The volumes in this lot may display signs of age/wear, including chipping, fading, and light soiling, concentrated at the extremities.
Details: This lot consists of the approximate 125 vintage and antique postcards shown in the corresponding images.
Transportation images include horse-drawn vehicles, ocean liners, antique cars, and railroads. Other images are of iconic buildings and parks in cities across the United States including New York City and Chicago. Holiday cards are also included. One item of note is a postcard from Utah with a small bag of salt from Great Salt Lake. Chromolithograph and real-photo postcards are also included.
Condition / Notes: These items may exhibit some age/wear indications concentrated at the extremities.
Title: United States Catholic Miscellany, From January to July, 1824 [Volume II]
Publisher: Gray & Ellis
City: Charleston
Pagination: [4] 64, 81-412 pages.
Width: 5.5" Height: 8.75"
Book Details: The scarce second volume of the first major Roman Catholic newspaper in the United States, printed with a separate title page and table of contents. The present example contains twenty-five of the twenty-six weekly issues published between January 7 and June 30, 1824 (number five, for the week of February 4, is lacking). Before the "Catholic Miscellany" first appeared in 1822, two other newspapers had been published under a Catholic aegis: the first, "The Michigan Essay, or Impartial Observer," was founded in Detroit in 1809 by Father Gabriel Richard as a weekly journal on miscellaneous topics (only one issue, however, was printed); the second, Thomas O'Connor's "Shamrock, or Hibernian Chronicle," was published weekly in New York from 1810 to 1817 and revived in 1819 as the monthly, "The Globe," which lasted a year. While Richard's and O'Connor's papers were "Catholic in tone and teaching," they were not "distinctively religious journals" (The Catholic Encyclopedia), as the "Catholic Miscellany" would be upon its creation in 1822, making it the first strictly religious Catholic newspaper in the country. Founded by Irish-born and educated Bishop John England and his sister Johanna in Charleston, South Carolina, the newspaper defended the causes of Roman Catholicism, Ireland, and the Irish diaspora until the outbreak of the Civil War. A rich and fascinating source for early 19th-century Catholic history, doctrine, and social issues in the U.S.
"Periodical Literature (The United States)," THE CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA (online), http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11692a.htm.
Condition / Notes: This antique newspaper compilation has been rebound in three-quarter leather with marbled paper covers and stamped gilt ornamentation on the spine. External rubbing and wear is concentrated at the edges of the spine and covers, with some rubbing to the leather on the covers. There are remnants of the Georgetown University Library's paper spine label at the bottom of the spine cover. The binding is sound.
Institutional ink stamps appear on the title page and terminal leaf. An early bibliographical ink inscription is on the title page. Several issues also show a contemporary ink ownership signature in the upper margins of the first pages, largely trimmed away. Light age toning and scattered foxing appear. The text includes twenty-five of twenty-six issues are included, lacking number five.
Book Details: This lot consists of the antique decorative literature volumes shown in the following image(s).
Titles include "Lorna Doone" and "Joan of Arc."
Condition / Notes: The volumes in this collection may display signs of age/wear such as chipping, fading, and light soiling, concentrated at the extremities.
Book Details: This lot consists of the collectible vintage and antique estate books shown in the corresponding images.
Titles include "Fox-Taylor Record," "Venus and Adonis," and "No One Waved Goodbye."
Condition / Notes: Items in this lot may display signs of age/wear including chipping, fading, and light soiling, concentrated at the corners.
Title: Glimpses of the World's Fair: A Selection of Gems of the White City Seen through a Camera
Publisher: Laird & Lee, Publishers
Book Details: This is an illustrated record of the World's Columbian Exposition (the official shortened name for the World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, also known as The Chicago World's Fair and Chicago Columbian Exposition).
Condition / Notes: This antique oblong volume is bound in publisher's blue cloth, with stamped gilt lettering and ornamentation to the front cover. The book shows external wear, with light soiling and small stains to the covers. The binding is separating following the copyright page. This work has b&w photographic illustrations throughout offering views of major buildings and depicting scenes of the exposition.
Details: This lot consists of the vintage and antique estate ephemera shown in the corresponding images.
Included are New York City related items, Black Americana, Advertising, antique lithographs, correspondence, and issues of "Comfort" magazine. Other items of note are two copies of "a ticket to the Circus" by Charles Philip Fox, and "Producing Lighted Cigarettes."
Details: This lot consists of the original watercolor drawings shown in the corresponding image(s).
This piece is in two small lozenge-shaped panels, the left of which depicts a large vine-draped letter "A." Seated on the crosspiece, a figure in a cloak, Robin Hood hat and pointed shoes sits with crossed arms. In the background strolls a romantic couple. The right panel shows a large letter "B," the top half of which shows a woman peering out from behind a window shutter. The bottom half of the B appears to be a prison window. Seated to the right of the letter underneath the large overhanging serif is a dejected youth in a purple costume. In the right foreground is a damaged copper-colored jug.
Condition / Notes: The dimensions of this piece are approximately 10 1/4" x 7 5/8". Each panel measures 2 1/2" x 3 1/8". The artwork is surrounded by professionally-cut triple matting, with the corners of the usual rectangle cut off to create a lozenge shape. The inmost matte is light tan; the second matte has been recessed from its boundaries to crate a thin border, and the edges of the second and third are continuous. The top matte is a somewhat darker tan, and its outer edges show a greenish tint with an undefined border. The paper of the images shows some light foxing, but apart from that, this piece is in excellent condition.
Details: This lot consists of the antique aviation ephemera and photographs shown in the corresponding images.
Photographs of aviators include Douglas Corrigan, "Duke" Jernigan and Frank Hawks. Hawks and Jernigan photographs are signed. Other Hawks' related ephemera are a newspaper article on his death on August 23, 1938 in a plane crash near Buffalo, New York, and a 1930 envelope advertising the "First Transcontinental Glider Flight Sponsored By The Texas Company". The flight was from San Diego to New York, with Frank Hawks as the Pilot.
Condition / Notes: These items exhibit some age/wear indications concentrated at the extremities.
Title: Great Flower Books, 1700-1900: A Bibliographical Record of Two Centuries of Finely-Illustrated Flower Books by Sacheverell Sitwell & Wilfrid Blunt
Author: Sacheverell Sitwell - Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet CH (15 November 1897 – 1 October 1988) was an English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic (his books on Mozart, Liszt, and Domenico Scarlatti are still consulted), and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque. Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell were his older siblings. [Information courtesy Wikipedia.], Wilfrid Blunt - Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt was an art teacher, author, artist and curator of the Watts Gallery at Compton, Surrey (1959–83). He was educated at Marlborough College (scholar), Worcester College, Oxford, and the Royal College of Art. He taught art at Haileybury College (1923–37) and Eton College (1937–59) and helped to start a revolution in the hand-writing of British school-children, using the 15th-century Italian Cancellaresca ("Chancery") script as a basis.
His brother was Anthony Blunt, Poussin expert and spy. (Information courtesy of Wikipedia)
Editor: Patrick M. Synge
Pagination: x/94 pages
Width: 14" Height: 19.75"
Condition / Notes: This is a scarce first edition, with a bibliography edited by Patrick M. Synge.
This vintage folio is bound in half green cloth and marbled paper-covered boards, with stamped gilt lettering to the spine. This former library book shows moderate external wear, with a library marking visible at the foot of the spine. The binding is firm. The bookplates of The Cleveland Garden Center and The Warren H. Corning Collection / Horticultural Classics can be seen on the front pastedown. The interior is clean and without markings. This work is illustrated with 36 bright chromolithographic plates. A sheet with illustrations numbered plate 11 and 12 is detached.
Title: Men against the Stars
Editor: Martin Greenberg - Martin Greenberg was an American book publisher and editor of science fiction anthologies.
Greenberg married in 1941. He was in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1945 where he attained the rank of corporal and won five battle stars.
After leaving the Army, Greenberg was associated with the small press publisher New Collector's Group founded by Paul Dennis O'Connor and Hannes Bok. Greenberg and O'Conner clashed about the direction of the press, causing Greenberg to leave, taking the rights to The Carnelian Cube by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt as his buyout fee.
In 1948, Greenberg founded Gnome Press with David Kyle, a fellow member of The Hydra Club, a New York-based science fiction club. The Carnelian Cube was the first book published by the new press. Greenberg edited a number of themed anthologies for Gnome Press.
He was involved in disputes with authors concerning payment, and Isaac Asimov called him a "crook". Greenberg, with Gnome Press, was the first publisher of Asimov's epic "Foundation Trilogy," but those rights were long ago transferred to Doubleday. Ultimately, Gnome Press was not successful and it went out of business in 1962. Greenberg went on to work as a mainstream editor for Abelard–Schuman.
Later on, he ran an art supply store on Long Island before retiring.(Information courtesy of Wikipedia)
Book Details: "Here is a different type of anthology. This book taken in its entirety tells a story: the conquest of space. Moving from man's first attempt to reach the moon to the exploration of the ends of the universe, these stories are among the finest ever published.
Interplanetary travel, nowadays considered possible within out lifetime, becomes an exciting series of adventures of the future as described by these outstanding authors of science fiction. And Willy Ley, in his excellent introduction, prepares the reader for his flight of imagination. The scientific evolution of the spaceship, briefly discussed, is fascinating factual background." (Text from the front flap of the dust jacket)
Trends, by I. Asimov.--Men against the stars, by M.W. Wellman.--The red death of Mars, by R.M. Williams.--Locked out, by H.B. Fyfe.--The iron standard, by L. Padgett.--Schedule, by H. Walton.--Far Centaurus, by A.E. Van Vogt.--Cold front, by H. Clement.--The plants, by M. Leinster.--Competition, by E.M. Hull.--Bridle and saddle, by I. Asimov.--When shadows fall, by L.R. Hubbard.
Condition / Notes: This is a title in the Adventures in Science Fiction Series.
This volume is bound in quarter purple cloth and gray cloth-covered boards, with stamped silver lettering to the spine.The book shows very light shelfwear. The binding is firm. The interior is clean and bright. The intact dust jacket, with price of $2.95 on the front flap, displays light shelfwear. The jacket illustration is by Edd Cartier.
Title: Relation d'un voyage a Manitoba. Accompagnee d'une analyse de l'acte concernant les terres de la puissance, et d'un extrait du pamphlet publie par le gouvernement at (sic) de Manitoba
Author: Jacob Y. Schantz
Publisher: Publie par le Departement de l'Agriculture; Imprime par Robertson, Roger & Cie.
Book Details: Menonite Jacob Shantz visited Manitoba in 1872 with an eye toward the establishment of a Russian Mennonite settlement there: what he saw impressed him and he describes the suitability of the lands in this pamphlet. The result of the present work was the establishment of the first Mennonite settlement in the West.
Cf. Peel 376 (English edition); Sabin 79770; cf. Samuel J. Steiner. Vicarious Pioneer: The Life of Jacob Y. Shantz (Winnipeg, 1988).
Condition / Notes: This is a scarce first edition in French.
This stitched pamphlet has later cloth re-inforcing to its backstrip and wrapping onto inner margins of title and last page. The title and following leaves are chipped at the edges. There are ink stamps to the title page, blindstamps to the title and pages 29/30. The front wrapper has darkened edges.
Title: The Gardens of Italy. With Historical and Descriptive Notes
Author: E. March Phillipps
Editor: Arthur T. Bolton
Publisher: Published at the Offices of "Country Life" and by George Newnes
Pagination: viii/396 pages
Width: 11.5" Height: 16"
Condition / Notes: This antique folio is bound in publisher's two-tone maroon cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to the spine and a pictorial design in gold to the lower right corner of the front cover. The book shows moderate shelfwear, with the faint trace of a library marking to the foot of the spine. The binding is firm. The text block has gilt edges. The bookplate of The Cleveland Garden Center appears on the front pastedown. A small white library sticker can be seen at the bottom edge of the rear pastedown. The interior is clean and bright. This work is lavishly illustrated, with a tissue-guarded mounted colored frontispiece, numerous full-page b&w photographs, and textual illustrations, including plans.
Details: This lot consists of 2 volumes and approximately 50 loose pieces of antique sheet music shown in the corresponding images.
Black Americana includes "Glory! Glory! Or The Little Octoroon." Civil War tunes include "Four Popular Marches and Quicksteps". Decorative and engraved pieces are also included,
Condition / Notes: These items exhibit age/wear indications. Some show evidence of repair or more significant condition issues..
Details: This lot consists of the artwork shown in the corresponding images.
This poster (Hanrahan C8a, marked "uncommon") depicts the protagonist Rosie in a red dress, brown boa, and yellow hat, triumphantly resting her hand on a disgruntled chef cradling a large spoon. Below the image appear the credits for the 1980 premiere production of "Really Rosie" at the Chelsea Theater Center. The artist's signature appears below Rosie's left foot. The design is among the artist's most famous images and was reproduced in Mr. Sendak's 1986 collection of POSTERS on page 19.
Condition / Notes: This unframed poster measures approximately 14" x 22". The artist's signature appears in the lower right between the image and the production data. The upper right corner is slightly turned down, but otherwise this piece is in pristine condition.
Details: This lot consists of the antique pulp western magazines shown in the corresponding images.
These issues of the "Ace-High Magazine" from 1930-1933 include stories of the lawmen, cowboys, and gunslingers of the American west.
Condition / Notes: These items exhibit some age/wear indications such as tearing to wrapper, edge wear, and soiling.
Title: Holland House
Author: Marie Henriette Norberte Liechtenstein
Book Details: This work offers a history and physical description of the residence of the Holland family in Kensington, London.
Condition / Notes: This antique set is bound in the publisher's blue leather- backed decorative blue cloth, with elaborate ornamental designs stamped in black and gold on the spines and front covers. The first volume has a detached front board. The binding of the second volume has detached from the text block. These former library books show external wear, with the spine cover of the first volume detached at the front edge. The covers display light soiling. Library markings appear in white in the lower left corner of the front cover. The text blocks are intact. The customary library markings and attachments are present. The interiors are otherwise clean and bright. This work is illustrated with rontispieces, illustrations, portraits, and facsimiles.
Book Details: This lot consists of the "Mary Poppins" titles shown in the corresponding images.
These first and early printings in dust jackets from the Mary Poppins books by P. L. Travers. "may Poppins In the Park" is a stated first American edition.
Condition / Notes: These items show well.
Details: This lot consists of the vintage Chinese "ghost" poster shown in the corresponding image(s).
The "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" was an upheaval unique in world history. Instigated by Mao Zedong in 1967 to revive what he perceived as flagging revolutionary ardor, it caused one of the world's oldest cultures to turn violently against its own heritage. Many people exploited the chaotic environment to settle personal scores. High-ranking Communist Party officials and intellectuals in particular were demonized, many being sent to the countryside for "re-education," and many being murdered. The worst excesses were finished by 1972, but the movement continued in reduced form until 1976.
This rare poster is titled in Chinese "PORTRAITS OF DEMONS," also translated as "Pictures of Ghosts (in Chinese, 'gui')." The terminology is not original with NBA, and it may refer either to the degraded status of those depicted, or their impending executions. This horrific relic of Chairman Mao and the Cultural Revolution documents the attack of the Anti-Revolutionary Revisionist Clique of the Physical Sports System of Hebei Province. It was printed by the Tianjin Physical Sports Commune in 1967 and intended to be pasted onto walls and billboards as a display and warning to others on what could happen if they strayed from Party lines.
The text begins with a quotation from Chairman Mao Zedong entitled "Highest Instructions": "The Imperialists and Reactionaries in this Country will not settle with their failures but will keep trying. Even after National Liberation they still continue all varieties of destructive efforts in an attempt to regain power. So it is unquestionable: we must not loosen our vigilance. The enemies will not disappear by themselves no matter how the Chinese react to invading American Imperialists" [an obvious reference to the Vietnam War, which had begun with American forces three years earlier].
The Chinese Communist Party was founded in 1921, but it was this later period in modern Chinese history when the strongest persuasions of propaganda were used to suppress bourgeois and radical elements. Very few of these "ugly" posters survive, because soon after the Cultural Revolution ended, it was ordered to destroy all examples of these relics and cleanse the bloodshed caused by years of imprisonment and torture of intellectuals who survived. Thus, this poster represents a genuine record of the way government workers were punished if they were caught doing improper activities; but it is also possible that some of the accused may have been innocent and their names supplied by envious colleagues who wanted to see them fallen and crushed by Cultural Revolutionary forces. Such an example as this poster is unfindable nowadays in modern China, because it is not very decorative and makes one feel sad at the fate of these fallen comrades. If and when available, it would be sold by a specialist from underneath his counter, and a great price would be put on it.
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Condition / Notes: The dimensions of this poster are approximately 21" x 31". The title and headline are Chinese characters in red, below which is Chinese text in blue. Below this are 19 blue-tinted photographs in symmetrical arrangement, each showing one or more citizens forced to kneel behind a placard with Chinese characters, possibly indicating the captive's name. Some characters are repeated and are thus possibly the name of the offense or a Cultural Revolutionary slogan. Each picture is followed by a caption underneath. At the bottom is a small inscription in red. Except for some minor handling creases and light foxing on some edges, this poster is in excellent condition.
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Towards Paris-compatible Climate Governance Frameworks
An overview of findings from recent research into 2050 climate laws and strategies
Rüdinger, A., Voss-Stemping, J., Sartor, O., Duwe, M., Averchenkova, A. (2018). Towards Paris-compatible climate governance frameworks. An overview of findings from recent research into 2050 climate laws and strategies. Studies N°04/18, IDDRI, Paris, France, 20 p.
Strong national climate governance frameworks are crucial to establish and maintain political support for the low-carbon transition and facilitate the implementation of policies. The truly robust governance frameworks combine key elements such as legally binding targets reached with high level of political support, broad stakeholder participation and review mechanisms that allow for adjustments over time. Creation of dedicated institutions with clearly assigned responsibilities and powers is essential to ensure the robustnes and effectiveness of the framework.
This study draws upon the composite lessons learned at domestic and subnational levels and aims to respond to three fundamental questions facing policymakers and stakeholders at national and subnational levels:
Why do we need strong national climate governance frameworks and how do we get there?
What are the key ingredients for an effective national climate governance framework?
What are the linkages and resulting chal - lenges arising from the links between national and multinational governance frameworks?
The following key messages emerge from the study:
Governments benefit from strong climate governance frameworks in multiple ways
Legally enshrined governance frameworks are crucial to establish and maintain political support for the low-carbon transition and facilitate the implementation of policies. They provide a platform for the political debate, define the tools to establish credible long-term goals and strategies, and set out clear transparency and monitoring mechanisms to enhance transparency and compliance.
National climate governance frameworks: identifying key design features
Firstly, the robustness of the framework defines its ability to steer the low-carbon transformation over time, depending on the degree of high-level political support, stakeholder participation, the legally binding nature of targets and mechanisms to adjust the framework over time. In terms of effectiveness, it appears essential to secure the 'right' level of ambition of targets. In most cases, this might require a gradual approach to ensure the compatibility with the Paris Agreement (i.e. moving towards climate neutrality) and safeguard high levels of political support. Strong coordination between long-term planning and short-term implementation and clear processes to monitor, evaluate and adjust the strategy appear as key conditions to foster effective implementation. Finally, the institution set-up can significantly foster both the robustness and effectiveness of the framework, based on the creation of dedicated institutions with clearly assigned powers, responsibilities and accountability mechanisms and a clear role for independent expertise.
Embedding the national framework in a multi-level governance approach
The current reform of the EU energy and climate governance framework presents an opportunity for the EU and its member states to preserve their reputation as a climate leader and protect Europe's ability to reap the socio-economic dividends of being an early mover on climate action. However, to be fully effective and create additional value for the implementation of climate action at the national level, the EU framework has to ensure that the key elements of the Paris Agreement, including the ambition cycle and long-term vision, are fully reflected in the governance frameworks at the EU and national levels.
The study, co-authored by Ecologic Institute's Matthias Duwe, is part of a research project coordinated by IDDRI, the Ecologic Institute and LSE's Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and Environment. It summarises three existing publications about the best practices and challenges for effective climate governance frameworks, drawing from a range of case studies at the national, regional and city-level (Duwe et. al., 2017), as well as deeper studies on the experiences of the UK (GRI, 2018) and France (IDDRI, 2018).
Event:Workshop
By 1 January 2020, all EU Member States need to submit long-term climate strategies. How will these be implemented afterwards? What are possible positive narratives about the future that they can describe? These were key themes of the fourth meeting of the Policymaker Platform - a dialogue workshop for government officials and experts organized by Ecologic Institute under its Climate Recon 2050 project.
Fourth Meeting of the Policymaker Platform (PMP4)
Publication:Policy Brief
Climate planning for 2050 has become a core strand of debate in the European Union. Focus has shifted to a potential revision of the EU's long-term climate objectives within the context of a new 2050 strategy, which is to be submitted to the United Nations under the Paris Agreement by 2020. In parallel, all EU Member States must develop national strategies of their own, albeit with little central guidance and no overarching structure in place for collaboration.
Planning for 2050 – Shifting the focus towards long-term climate objectives
Publication:Case Study
This case study, prepared by Ecologic Institute and published by World Resources Institute (WRI) describes the status quo and relevant recent developments at the EU and national levels on long-term climate strategies, detailing relevant insights on legal obligations, specific features, existing challenges, and potential future processes. The case study, written by Ecologic Institute's Matthias Duwe and Ewa Iwaszuk, is available for download.
Long-term Climate Strategies in Europe: Experience from National and EU-wide 2050 Climate Planning
Event:Conference
The conference "Planning for 2050", organised by Ecologic Institute, will take place on 23 May 2019 in Brussels. It takes stock of the experience with long-term climate strategies gained in Europe and presents lessons learnt as well as challenges encountered in different Member States – and seeks to connect them to the EU's own overall 2050 vision. It is based on insights, conversations and contacts made through a set of dialogue meetings held under the "Climate Recon 2050" project, which brought together policymakers and technical experts involved in long-term strategies from around the EU. A conference brochure, summarising insights from the Climate Recon 2050 project, is available online.
Planning for 2050 – Conference
The third set of dialogue workshops for government officials and experts from the "Climate Recon 2050" project were held in Copenhagen at the end of February 2019. The project team have been organizing two main fora for that workshop: a Technical Dialogue, for modellers and other experts designing 2050 climate policy scenarios – and a Policy-Maker Platform, to create a space for experience sharing among representatives from different EU countries.
Dialogues on Long-Term Climate Strategies
27 - 28 February 2019
On Wednesday, 12 December 2018, Ecologic Institute, Energiaklub, and Negawatt hosted a side-event at the COP24 on behalf of the project ClimateRecon 2050 to present specific examples of long-term climate strategies in Europe.
Momentum on Long-Term Climate Strategies: Where We Are in Europe? – Side Event from the Climate Recon 2050 Project at COP24
Katowice, Poland
This webinar presented findings from two projects on strategies to reach ambitiously low-emission levels in European industry. It looked at technological solutions, but also at strategies such as the reduction of demand and the increase rates of recycling. A recording of the webinar as well as the presentations are available online.
Scenarios for Deep Decarbonisation of the EU Industry
The Think 2030 conference has launched a new sustainability platform, which aims to inform a science-based agenda for European environmental policy beyond 2020 and propose solutions to Europe's most pressing sustainability issues. Ecologic Institute's Matthias Duwe co-authored a paper on long-term climate planning in the EU together with Lola Vallejo (IDDRI), which was discussed during a dedicated session. A summary of the paper is available.
Think 2030: Science-policy solutions for a more sustainable Europe
R. Andreas Kraemer
In the EU, the aim is to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and to use energy more efficiently. This webinar presented a number of key topics connected to a role that district heating plays in achieving decarbonisation of economies and energy systems. A recording of the webinar as well as the presentations are available online.
District Heating in Decarbonising Economies
Andreas Rüdinger IDDRI
Juidth Voss-Stemping IDDRI
Oliver Sartor IDDRI
Alina Averchenkova Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE
The French National Research Agency (ANR), France
Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), France
Intra-EU Exchange to Raise Awareness and Build Capacity on Long-term Climate Strategies (Climate Recon 2050)
Study: Towards Paris-compatible climate governance frameworks
Publication download: Towards Paris-compatible climate governance frameworks (251.66 KB)
Climate Recon 2050 project
PublicationReport"Paris Compatible" Governance: long-term policy frameworks to drive transformational change
Governments around the world have already adopted long-term climate frameworks, many in legal form. Many others are in the process of developing similar laws or strategies. These overarching long-term frameworks are critical to effectively implementing the Paris... Read more
Duwe et al. (2017) "Paris compatible" governance: long-term policy frameworks to drive transformational change. Ecologic Institute. Berlin.
PublicationReportDeveloping 2050 Decarbonization Strategies in the EU
National long-term (2050) climate strategies have received increased attention in European policy debates in the past two years. The Paris Agreement also invites countries to develop such strategies. This study (a collaborative effort between IDDRI and Ecologic... Read more
Sartor, O., Donat, L., Duwe, M., Umpfenbach, K. (2017). Developing 2050 decarbonization strategies in the EU: Insights on good practice from national experiences, Study n°03/2017, IDDRI, Paris, France, 22 p.
ProjectIntra-EU Exchange to Raise Awareness and Build Capacity on Long-term Climate Strategies (Climate Recon 2050)
Long-term climate strategies are an important instrument to help policy-makers and relevant stakeholders to establish a direction towards a climate-friendly future. The Paris Agreement asks all countries to establish such strategies – and EU Member States will soon be... Read more
Nov 2017 - Oct 2019
Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB), Germany
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Hieronymus Laub (10. januar 1771 – 20. august 1848) var en dansk præst, far til Otto og Vilhelm Frederik Laub.

Han var søn af krigsråd Wilhelm Frederik Laub (1734-1800 og Sophia Elisabeth Kisbye (1749-1799) og sønnesøn af Hieronymus Laub den ældre. Laub, der gennem mange år var sognepræst i Frørup Sogn på Fyn, var en mangesidig udrustet natur. Han havde som ungt menneske levet et rigt åndeligt liv med de bedste i sin tid, som en i den Rahbekske kreds, og havde navnlig med den senere biskop J.P. Mynster sluttet et inderligt venskab, der holdt sig gennem hele deres liv; med alle sine anliggender og foretagender søgte Mynster til ham, og der var ikke nogen, hvis råd han satte større pris på end den stille landsbypræsts på Fyn. Denne forstod også at tage sig af sine børn, og hvad særlig Otto Laub angår, modtog han en grundig og omhyggelig forberedelse af sin fader, indtil han 1821 kom i Roskilde Katedralskole.

Han var gift med Louise Frederikke født Zinck, datter af Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck.

Præster fra Danmark
Danskere i 1800-tallet
Personer i Dansk Biografisk Leksikon
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'I'd rather win championships': Klay Thompson reacts to not making NBA All-Team
by: Kayla Galloway
OAKLAND (KRON) — Golden State Warriors' star Klay Thompson was a bit irritated Thursday when asked about not making the NBA All-Team.
He rolled his eyes and said, "Oh I didn't?" when learning he didn't earn a spot on the team.
Regardless, he didn't seem too disappointed.
"That's cool and all — but when you go to five straight finals. I respect those guys but when you go to five straight, it takes more that just a couple NBA guys."
His message was pretty clear.
"I'd rather win championships than be third team All NBA," he said. 'It's all good.
He seemed to brush off the decision pretty quickly.
"It is what it is, I can't control it. Do I think there are that many guards better than me in the league? No, but that's the reason why we're still playing," Thompson said.
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Roger Federer won more points than Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon final.
Federer was the first of the pair to come within a point of taking the championship Sunday, too. Had two such chances in the fifth set, even.
by Aaron Pero / Jul 15, 2019
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Bob Myers has accepted Kevin Durant's departure for the Brooklyn Nets with an appreciation for all the superstar forward accomplished with the franchise, even if the Golden State general manager would have loved to keep KD around a little longer.
"I have a peace about it," Myers said Monday as he discussed the Warriors' flurry of moves in free agency.
DENVER (AP) — Brandon Crawford went 5 for 6 with two homers and tied a San Francisco team record with eight RBIs, and the Giants scored a season-high in runs in a 19-2 rout of the Colorado Rockies on Monday in the first game of a split doubleheader.
Mike Yastrzemski went 4 for 6 with a homer and Buster Posey also went deep for the Giants, who earned a rare victory at Coors Field in the makeup for a May 8 rainout. Crawford has eight home runs on the season.


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Haryana CM Khattar hits out at opposition, says crop procurement going smoothly – chandigarh
Haryana Chief Minister M L Khattar on Wednesday slammed the opposition parties on farmers' issues, saying they were unnecessarily raising eyebrows when crop procurement was going on smoothly.
Crop procurement was going on smoothly, he asserted at a news briefing in the evening held through video-conferencing.
"They are unnecessarily raising eyebrows," he said when asked about the opposition's claims of mismanagement in wheat and mustard procurement.
The chief minister said e-procurement had been done by linking the entire procurement process with 'Meri Fasal, Mera Byora' portal which has also brought absolute transparency in the process.
He added that payments were being transferred to the farmers' accounts in five-six days.
The chief minister said during the lockdown period, the state government launched a new 'Mera Paani, Mera Virasat' scheme aimed to conserve water.
He said the opposition's criticism to this scheme was not justified as water was a meagre resource and its requirement for judicious use has to be factored for agricultural purpose, drinking water and industrial use.
Notably, the Congress has said that under the scheme, farmers in several blocks will not be allowed to sow (water-guzzling) paddy and the state government cannot thrust upon them its choice to grow alternate crops like maize and cotton.
However, Khattar said that water levels have depleted below 40 metres in many blocks, adding, "We must conserve water for future generations." He said alternative crops, including maize and pulses, would be procured at the Minimum Support Price.
Khattar said under the 'Mukhya Mantri Parivar Samridhi Yojna' (MMPSY), financial assistance is being given to 16 lakh poor families.
On migrant labourers, he said the state government had made arrangements to send them back to their home states.
"We have so far sent nearly 1.25 lakh migrants back to their native places," he said, adding that as the state government has gradually restarted economic activities, many among the migrants who are still in the state have expressed willingness to stay.
The chief minister said the state government was stopping those who were crossing into Haryana on foot or other means and they were being kept at relief camps, where all arrangements were being made to provide food and shelter to them.
Further arrangements for sending these migrant labourers to their home states in a phased manner will be made, he added.
Khattar said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pitched for the use of products manufactured in the country and has also said the novel coronavirus outbreak has taught us the importance of local manufacturing, local market and local supply chain.
"There was a time when there used to be a craze for foreign things, but today we will have to reverse it," he said.
On contributions received in the 'Haryana Corona Relief Fund', Khattar said so far out of total donations of 216.17 crore, Rs 41 crore has been used on medicines, Rs 17.88 crore for labourers working in unorganised sectors, Rs 10 crore has been kept in reserve for giving ex-gratia, while Rs 1.94 crore has been paid towards sending labourers in trains.
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Koraput Admin For Awareness On Competitive Exams
June 22, 2016 Education
KORAPUT: The Koraput district administration has decided to create awareness on competitive examinations being conducted by the state, Centre and service selection boards from July.
The move of the administration is aimed at providing a better choice to students.
"Students earn their degrees. But they are not able to get jobs because they do not know about competitive examinations. They remain confused and spoil their career for failing to choose the right career," said district collector Jaya Kumar V.
The administration is all set to conduct special awareness camps at Jeypore, Koraput, Kotpad and Sunabeda at regular intervals. It is to make college students conscious of career options and its related examinations.
"We plan to conduct one camp a month where experts, scientists and administrative officers will speak on their related fields and make students aware of various career options and how to prepare for it," the collector said.
He said a special cell would be opened at the District Library at Koraput.
The students will be counselled and made aware of various competitive examinations, including civil services, banking and defence. Besides, an adequate number of books and magazines will be kept in the library for the benefit of aspirants.
A database of all students coming to the counselling centre will be prepared and based on their preferences they will be alerted about the date of the competitive examination in which they want to appear, the collector said.
"We plan to equip the library with over 5,000 books related to various competitive examinations. Anyone, including students, can enrol themselves in the library" he added.


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Prague, Czechia
Hrdlička Museum of Anthropology
Bone collection from the man who theorized that "No one is superior and all people are equal."
Part of the collection at the Hrdlička Museum of Anthropology. pieofthemonth (Used with Permission)
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The Hrdlička Museum of Anthropology is a collection of human and non-human primate skulls, hair samples, mummies (and heads of mummies) from Egypt, as well as unintentionally mummified human remains, all meant to instruct and inform about human diversity and evolution.
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The museum was founded by two noted anthropologists. Aleš Hrdlička, who famously developed the theory that humans colonized North America by crossing from Asia via the Bering Strait, a theory he supported with evidence from skeletal remains many of which are included in the museum. (He won the Thomas Henry Huxley Award in the 1920s for this discovery) The other was Jindřich Matiegka, Hrdlička's co-explorer and chair of anthropology at the Charles University who, coincidentally, is also the guy who organized the bones in the nearby Melnik Ossuary.
The collection shows all sorts of aspects of the human condition, evolution, disease, deformities, and similarly veined roads that tell the story of the human body. Artificial and natural mummification are both represented through artifacts, one of the more fascinating bodily experiences in this 100-year-old concept of Aleš Hrdlička's to explore his anthropologic passions.
The pieces in this exhibit come, in part, from Hrdlička's world travels and excavations that took place mostly in the US (primarily Alaska) with the majority of it collected between WWI and WWII. Along with the full Egyptian mummies, the museum houses eight mummified heads and 23 human skulls as well as several long bones.
Inside the Building of the Faculty of Science Viničná 7, 128 00 Praha 2Enter the doors and either ask the person at the reception desk, or go up the first stairs in the entrance hall and turn right down the first hallway. Then ring the bell for the museum door, on the left at the end of the hall. Please note you can access the building but not the collection unless you have booked in advance via web or email.
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LOLA: a novel
I am a country girl where the biggest fight I saw growing up was between the neighbor's dog and a skunk. Therefore, my review of LOLA should be taken with that knowledge in mind. I know as much about city gangs, illegal drug sales, and ghetto living as they do about milking cows. Hard to assess what you know nothing about.
Huntington Park is a ghetto suburb of Los Angeles, home to the Crenshaw Six, a small-time drug-running gang. Within that community, Garcia is known as the gang leader and strong man but in reality he hides behind, Lola, the anonymous Mexican-American "Khaleesi".
Lola is more than happy to be seen as Garcia's girlfriend; it's the perfect set-up for now. Lola is hungry for more power and territory but she must wait for the right time and place to make her move – always trying to stay in the background – using her dismissive and meek womanly demeanor to disarm and misdirect.
Her chance arrives when El Coleccioista, The Collector for the Los Liones cartel, interrupts Garcia's community barbecue. Lola, playing the meek and mild woman, dares to enter the room where Garcia and The Collector are talking to offer refreshments as an excuse to learn what's going on. She gets away with it because, she, a mere woman, is about as important to The Collector as a floor mat.
Several months earlier, the Los Liones cartel's largest drug middleman, Darrell King, had his warehouse targeted for a LAPD drug raid. Darrell, alerted in time, was able to empty the warehouse but he was too hot to continue business. Los Liones had turned to the small-time Crensaw Six to pickup up some of Darrell's territory to keep their drugs flowing to their customers. Now The Collector was back with another "request". Darrell King is back in business. The problem? He found himself another drug supplier. Los Liones spies have learned the time and place where Darrell's courier will be for the first drop with this new supplier. The Crensaw Six must stop it and capture the couriers.
"There will be two million in product, a corresponding two million in cash. We want your organization to make sure Darrell King never gets his product… and that his new supplier never gets his money.
'That it?' Garcia asks?
"We would like you to use whatever means at your disposal to uncover the identity of Mr. King's new supplier. You will be wondering about compensation. Succeed, you will receive ten percent of the product and Mr. King's territory. You fail, We take Lola, we will open up her stomach, and we will pull out her guts until she dies.
The Crensaw Six fails to intercept the money and drugs thanks to Lola's brother's screw up. When Lola metes out gang justice to her brother by viciously cutting off his trigger finger, Huntington Park now knows who is really the gang leader.
El Liones gives Lola a brief extension on her death sentence to make things right. You would think that Lola would buckle under pressure but Lola thrives. She faces a gauntlet of problems that pop up like whack-a-mole.
Her immature brother, continues to defy her leadership seeing her more as his substitute mother growing up. Her inability to administer the painful death gang justice demands for her brother, threatens her role in the Crenshaw Six. Her drug addicted mother is kidnapped. Her boyfriend begins to whimper, uncertain of his place in her new world and loss of his stature in the community. Amid all that, she takes time to battle a drug addictive mother with a pedophile boyfriend for custody of her five year old girl.
What did I learn? Everyone has potty mouth. The life of a drug addict is no picnic. Gang members have a very short life span and have developed horrifying forms of torture. It was a rough book to read. I have great respect for anyone able to find their way out of the line of gang warfare and illegal drug culture.
Tagged as book review, Gangs, Heroin Sales, Illegal Drugs, Lola, Melissa Scrivner Love, Pedophile, sex abuse, Violence, Women's Roles
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I AM NOT YOUR PERFECT MEXICAN DAUGHTER: a novel
I love a book that makes you sit up straight in your chair with a shocking start. What could be better than an opening paragraph with fifteen-year-old Julia Reyes staring into her dead sister's face. Olga Reyes, the "good daughter", distracted by her cell phone, had stepped off a bus into the path of a semi and died at the tender age of twenty-two.
But I am getting ahead of myself. Julia's parents illegally entered the United States in 1993 fleeing a violent life in Mexico with hopes of a better life. They settled in Chicago and maintained the necessary low-profile. Their Latinx culture and extended family contacts tethered by a phone line back to Mexico. With the birth of her daughters, Amà, strives to do her duty to pass along her culture and family traditions to her girls. Olga proved pliant but Julie fights her hoof and nail.
"Perfect daughters" would be obedient, respect elders, and place needs of the family before needs of the self. They would marry a Latino, raise a family and eschew a life away from their parents and ethnic community. Olga was Amá's pride and joy. But beneath Olga's quiet nature lies a deep secret. Julia breaks into her dead sister's sealed bedroom and discovers something strange. In time she learns her sister's secret and she must decide whether to reveal it to her parents. What good would it do to destroy their lives?
"Here [Olga] was, a grown-ass woman, and all she did was go to work, sit at home with our parents, and take one class each semester at the local community college. What kind of life is that? Didn't she want more? Didn't she ever want to go out and grab the world by the balls?
Julia is the polar opposite of Olga. While Olga spent her days cleaning and cooking, Julia escapes (literally) the house to visit art museums and the library. She dreams of college and a career. Her descriptions of her favorite books and pieces of art work will drive you to Google to find out what she sees for yourself. (She identifies with Edna Pontellier in The Awakening by Kate Chopin.)
She feels she is holding her breath until she can become a writer and move to New York – or anywhere that wasn't Chicago. She and her mother had been at loggerheads forever but after Olga's death, Amá was on Julia's back like white on rice. Amá determined to control Julia's future and Julia determined to be free from her suffocating mother.
"When I tell her I need privacy… she tells me I've become too Americanized. 'You kids here think you can do whatever you want.'"
It is hard to like Julia; she's every parent's nightmare. A teenage girl. She is foul-mouthed, abrasive, outspoken, and angry all the time. She lashes out and confronts everyone about everything. Her favorite "power word" is f***. It is evident that the anger is a defense mechanism to mask her severe depression and anxiety disorder. The softer side of Julia reveals a deeply caring person desperate to be loved and feeling unloved. The book's powerful discussion of depression and Julia's suicidal attempt might be a trigger for those teens experiencing the same feelings. Julia's therapy sessions should offer hope to those same troubled kids.
In and among the cornucopia of stressor topics that derail Julia are strong characters that see beneath her bluster and guide her toward adulthood and peace within herself and among her family. She learns she doesn't need to cast off her culture to achieve her dreams.
"I have so many choices they've never had. And I feel like I can do so much with what I've been given. What a waste their journey would be if I just settled for a dull mediocre life."
Recommended reading.
Tagged as Art Appreciation, book review, Books, Depression and Anxiety, Drug Use, Gangs, Latino Culture, LBGT, Mexican-American, Sex, Sexual Abuse, Undocumented, Young Adult 14-18


So you're in the market for a new all-terrain vehicle (ATV) – or at least one that's new to you. When buying any used vehicle, it's easy to get wrapped up in the excitement of what you might think is a bargain. But before you spend your hard-earned cash, check out these tips for navigating your purchase and getting the most out of your pre-owned ATV.
What Kind of ATV Should I Buy?
Price. First, consider setting a maximum amount of money you're able to spend. Stick to your budget and avoid being upsold on a pricy ATV that'll set your bank account back more than it can handle.
Mileage. Set a maximum number of miles that a machine could have for you to be willing to buy it. More mileage means the potential for more wear and tear, so be careful with a high-mileage ATV that isn't priced in accordance with its usage.
Condition. Although you might have visions of hauling away a pristinely-taken-care-of four-wheeler, not all ATV owners wash, shine and service their vehicles regularly. While we'll address the functional aspects of ATV condition later, set a limit for more how much cosmetic wear you're willing to accept on your potential purchase.
Condition and mileage will inform the price of a used ATV, so keep in mind that you probably won't be able to get a low-mileage Yamaha Grizzly 700 for your pocket change. Set realistic limits, do your research, and don't expect to find your dream ATV in one day.
Where Can I Buy a Used ATV?
Thanks to the Internet, you shouldn't have much trouble finding places to buy a used ATV. Buying from a dealership can be much different than buying from a private seller — read on to find your preferred avenue to ATV ownership.
Dealerships. If you're lucky enough to be within driving range of an ATV dealership, check out its website and/or peruse the lot with the company of an ATV-savvy friend. Don't be afraid to wave down a salesperson and let them know your previously established budget and parameters.
Dealerships may also include a warranty with your purchase, providing some relief that you won't be stuck with a lemon if the machine malfunctions in the future.
Online listings. There's almost always a plethora of ATVs for sale on websites like Craigslist and in for-sale groups on Facebook. When looking through online listings, understand that the seller may not be including all aspects of the machine's condition in the listing or the accompanying photos — rarely will you see an ad promoting a muddy, dinged-up ATV for sale. Be wary of deals that may seem too good to be true! If an ATV is posted for a price well below its value without an explanation, don't assume that it's a steal.
Before getting on the road to go take a look at an ATV, ask the seller for photos, vehicle specifications, mileage, and information on the vehicle's condition.
Tires. For starters, you'll want to ask the seller if the tires on the vehicle are the originals, or if they have been replaced since the ATV left its original lot. Take into consideration the age of the tires, as well as their cosmetic condition, as older tires will have more potential for breakdown in the future.
When examining an ATV's tires, make sure they all have the same amount of pressure. If a tire has a different amount of pressure than the others, it could mean that the tire is leaking or has been improperly filled. Riding with mismatched tire pressure can be hard on the vehicle and could lead to other problems. Look for any holes or cracks that might indicate the end of a tire's lifespan and lead to an additional cost for a buyer.
Oil. Remove the ATV's dipstick and check the oil level and quality. A low oil level could indicate a lack of care by the vehicle's current owner or other issues. Clean oil will have a dark brown color, while dirty oil could have a white-like or milky color.
Coolant. Make sure the ATV's coolant level is above the minimum and look for any floating contaminants that might indicate any imperfections within the engine.
Frame. Look for any bent, twisted or broken metal on the ATV's frame, as well as any rust or loose pieces of equipment.
How many owners has this ATV had? If the ATV has had more than one owner, it can be tough to determine how the ATV has been treated over the course of its life.
Does it have a title? Not all states require titles for ATVs, but it's worth asking as a title can ensure that the vehicle you're purchasing was obtained legally. Check your state's ATV title laws to see if a title is necessary.
Has it been in any accidents? For obvious reasons, you'll want to know what kind of damage the ATV took on if it has been in any accidents. If it has, be sure to ask for invoices on repairs to ensure that a reputable servicer corrected or replaced any damaged equipment.
Have there been any recalls? If the vehicle has had a recall, make sure the previous owner had the issue corrected. Ask for invoices to confirm that all recalls have been dealt with appropriately.
Why are you selling it? It's always worth asking why the seller is getting rid of the vehicle. While you might not get a totally honest answer if the ATV is just plain worn down, it won't hurt to attempt to build a bit of a connection with the seller.
If you don't think the seller is being entirely honest, or you'd just like to double-check, you can find the answer to four of the five aforementioned questions by checking the vehicle's VIN (vehicle identification number). VIN locations aren't in one standard location on ATVs, but it's likely located somewhere on the vehicle's frame. If you can't find the VIN, ask the seller for any registration paperwork that may contain the VIN.
After finding the VIN, you can check the vehicle's history report via DMV.org for a fee.
If you don't fancy yourself an ATV expert, having a mechanic take a peek at your potential purchase is a wise move. Make sure the mechanic is experienced in all-terrain vehicles of similar variety to the one you're considering purchasing, and don't hesitate to ask for advice.
After covering your bases with a visual inspection, input from the seller and honest feedback from a mechanic, you ought to give your (potential) new ride a test drive to see how it feels and drives. Take it easy on the quad and skip any rough terrain, mud, or ramp jumps, but test its basic capabilities on a flat surface. Rule of thumb — don't do anything that would anger the seller if you weren't to buy it.
Congratulations! Regardless of what you plan on using your ATV for, purchasing a used quad is an economically savvy alternative to buying a brand new model off the lot. But before you hop on and get to work or play, check out your options for protecting your purchase, yourself and others who might use your utility vehicle. For more specific information on coverage, contact an agent!
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