ABAA Featured Books

THe Blossomy Bough (Signed)

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NY Self-produced 1911, First Edition No Jacket Stiff Boards Signed by Author VG+ Bound in grey boards with labels on front panel and spine (wear to both). The first limited (to 100 copies) edition of the author's first book. In the author's hand . . . "Of this edition on vellum paper, 100 copies have been made of which this is number 57 for Arthur B. Davies" and then it is signed by the author. Laid in is a 3" x 4" signed drawing of the author on glossy stock. The recipient was a noted artist when this book was published.

Novel and Attractive Entertainment. Rich Amusement Blended with Valuable Instruction. Rob't Kidd! The Well Known Elocutionist!! of Cincinnati … [First lines]

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[CincinnatI]: [s.n.], [ca. 1857-1860]. Broadsheet, 19¾ x 5¾ inches, 2 pages. A lengthy announcement of the qualifications and performances given by the professorial Robert Kidd; entertainer, elocutionist, and character impersonator. Not on OCLC. [OFFERED WITH] 1860 2 pp. ALS from Kidd, describing his fees and performance structure to a prospective client. It is highly unusual to find broadsheets of this nature with accompanying manuscript correspondence from the named individual(s) found thereupon. Kidd authored two books on rhetoric and elocution during the 1860's and 1870's, both published in Cincinnati, [OCLC 2193382, 1856577.]

Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp in Rhyme.

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New York: Brentano's. Small 4to, full tan cloth printed in red and blue, 12 gorgeous color plates mounted on black with captioned tissue guards by Thomas MacKenzie plus line drawings and page decorations in black throughout. Light edgewear, spine titling faded, else very good, no previous owner's marks. Hardcover

THE GATES OF THE MOUNTAINS

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New York: Random House, (1963). First edition. About fine, in price-clipped dust jacket that is lightly worn and age-toned. Adventure novel of the Lewis and Clark expedition, "...and the love of a young scout for the Indian girl who guided the party through the Rockies."

"Northward over the ""Great Ice"", 2 Volume Set"

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"covers are edgeworn, vol. 1 hinge is broken front and rear, vol. 2 hinge is broken at front, interiors are clean, b/w illustrations, plates, maps, etc."

FRASCONI AGAINST THE GRAIN. The Woodcuts of Antonio Frasconi.

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New York : Macmillan, 1974. SIGNED AND DATED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY ANTONIO FRASCONI. A NearFine hardback First Edition, First Printing in a Very Good++ Dust Jacket with minimal soil, minimal cover edge wear. 4to. 159 pp. Hardcover

THE ANCIENT REGIME

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New York Henry Holt and Co. 1876, SIGNED "Saml. L. Clemens/Hartford 1876" on the front free endpaper and autograph notes on endpapers state that Twain finished reading it on Jan. 29th and finished re-reading it on Sept. 10th. Twain scholar Sherwood Cummings wrote of this book, " [Twain] not only referred to it during the next decade in his notebooks and correspondence but borrowed liberally from it for material and incidents in both the Prince and the Pauper & A Connecticut Yankee". Book plate signed by Albert Bigelow Paine as from the library of Samuel Langhorne Clemens to front pastedown. Housed in a custom leather backed clamshell.

The HISTORIE Of The COVNCEL Of TRENT. Conteining Eight Bookes. In which(besides the ordinarie Actes of the Councell) are declared many notableoccurrences, which happened in Christendome, during the space of fourtieyeeres and more. And, particularly, the practises of the Court of Rome,to hinder the reformation of their errors, and to maintaine theirgreatnesse. Written in Italian by Pietro Soaue Polano, and faithfullytranslated into English by Nathanael Brent.

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Printed by Robert Barker, and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings Most Excellent Maiestie. London: 1629. Folio: ¦6 A - 3Z6 4A - 4G4 4H6. Lacks ¦1, a blank. 13-1/4' x 8-1/4". 2nd Edition in English (STC 21762; cf. Lowndes IV, 1805 & PMM 118, for the 1st edition of 1619). [10], 881 [= 879], [17] pp. Printed glosses. Errors in pagination; omits pp 879-880. Printer device to t.p. Headpieces, tailpieces. Elaborate decorative initial capital letters. Modern brown full leather binding, with gilt title lettering to spine & boards decorated in blind. "The Council of Trent, the turning-point in the Counter-Reformation, created the modern Roman Catholic church. It represents not merely one of the decisive moments of the sixteenth century, but a moment whose influence is still felt all over Europe." The Council was convened in 1545 by Emperor Charles V in an effort to reconcile religious strife with Protestantism, however, dominated by the papacy, at its conclusion in 1563, the Council placed in the hands of the papacy an instrument which determined the evolution of the Roman Church for the next three centuries, culminating in the 1877 pronouncement of the dogma of papal infallibility. Sarpi, a "devoted and honoured servant of the Venetian Republic"; recognized the full force of the acts of Council, which in turn motivated him to issue this work, his "masterpiece"; it later formed the nucleus of opposition to the papacy of Pius IV. The book is still read today. [PMM]. Binding - Fine. Textblock - overall VG (early pos to t.p. margins/small inconsequential worming to lower text margin beginning 3H1).

PROVINCE OF FOKYEN: A Chart of the Bay of Chin-Chew or Chang-Chew in China from Montanus.

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AN EARLY COPPER ETCHED HAND-COLORED PROVINCAL MAP [London 1755, Baldwin. A single copper etched map, very good bit toned, hand-colored,sheet size:22.5 x 18.5 cm, map size: 20 x 14 cm., with handsome directional compass, drawn by G. Sculpt. S C A R C E A small but very early and interesting map. Covers that part of the coastline from Pu-tay Point, down to the Chin Chew river, with Ko-long-fu, Lakkateyn, Tano-fita, Roo Point, Womends Isle, Petzoa Point and the An-hay river with On-hay or An-hay town and its great bridge shown. Also, the great island of Amoy, Lifsiou, Que Mwi, Toatta and Gou-fou et al to the far South. The directional compass is in the lower central position, radiating out across the whole map. Key top the scale of leagues noted. Delicately hand-colored in pastels, suitable for framing and library display. See T. Suarz: EARLY MAPPING OF SOUTHEAST ASIA & R. Fell: EARLY MAPS OF SOUTH-EAST ASIA for more details. Maps of this region are quite S C A R C E ! A color scan can be sent by email.Images displayed may not be the actual copy in stock for sale at any given time; if you want to see the exact image of the book or edition in stock, please request this by email and an image will be returned to you by attachment. !! WARNING: The above description is COPYRIGHT protected material under United States & International Copyright & Intellectual property laws. Unauthorized copying or use of ANY PART is a felony and will be PROSECUTED TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW !!! The entire text and contents of this description is Copyright protected 2002-2006 Rare Oriental Book Co.

Stuttgarter Bilderpsalter: Bibl. Fol. 23, WurttembergischeLandesbibliothek Stuttgart. Band 2: Untursuchungen

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E. Schreiber Graphische Kunstanstalten Stuttgart 1968 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall H Cloth Volume 2 only; previous owner's name on front endpaper and notes on back pastedown; edges very barely soiled; binding tight; cover and interior intact and very clean except where noted. Good

[POETRY READING ANNOUNCEMENT]

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Large (61 x 45 cm) poster advertising Meltzer's reading, with jazz accompaniment, at The Cellar, April 15, no year (late 1950s?) The Cellar, established in 1956, was of course a major San Francisco venue for the Beats, who read their poetry while jazz was played. This item is a one-of-a kind collage, 2 large b/w hands and a small colored butterfly; the text (of rubber-stamped capital letters) reads "David Meltzer / Poetry / April / Fifteenth / Jazz / The Cellar." On stiff brown paper, with old horizontal crease, small water-stains, small paint blob, and pinholes, but in astonishingly good condition for what it is.

\BIBLIOGRAPHERS OF THE GOLDEN STATE.

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\Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California: School of Librarianship/Graduate School of LibraryService, 1967. First edition. Printed stiff wrappers, tall 8vo., 30 pp., four reproductions; essays on four pioneer California bibliographers and their work. Printed by Lilian and Saul Marks at their Plantin Press. Fine copy.

From Method to Madness

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WALKER 1988, First Soft Cover Signed Fine Signed. A FINE FIRST IN WRAPS. BOLDY INSCRIBED BY THE ACTOR.

Civil War-era Autograph Album Signed by Lincoln

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LINCOLN, Abraham. Civil War-era Autograph Album. Signed by Lincoln. Signatures collected between 1852 and 1861. Embossed floral leather 6" x 7¾" with several full-page allegorical engravings. 234 signatures in all. Cover lightly scuffed. Interior is Fine. SIGNED IN FULL “Abraham Lincoln / Washington, Dec. 18, 1861”. This is a highly unusual example of Lincoln’s full signature, as President, the normal presentation being “A. Lincoln.” A truly wonderful collection of noted politicians who made up the inner circle of Washington politics, from both North and South, before and during the Civil War, including these members of Lincoln’s cabinet: Vice-President Hannibal Hamlin. Secretary of State William H. Seward, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, and Interior Secretary Caleb B. Smith. Other notable signatures include: “Sam Houston / Texas”, signed with a large fl ourish, and Lincoln’s Great Debate opponent, “S.A. Douglas / Chicago, Illinois”. Altogether there are 234 signatures representing over 30 states and comprising the lion’s share of members of the 32nd Congress of 1851-53. Nearly every man in this book can be researched though the Dictionary of American Biography (DAB). This is a stunning compilation of American Civil War history. Among the additional Signers “William R. King / of Alabama / President of the Senate of the U.S.” Later, was briefl y Vice President under Franklin Pierce, serving little more than a month before dying in offi ce in 1853. *Thomas S. Bocock Appamattox C.H., VA. Later Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Confederacy *Edward Everett. Tipped in letter (written to Seward) from the great statesman and orator. It was Everett who delivered the ponderous two-hour dedication speech at Gettysburg which preceded Lincoln’s Address. *Stephen A. Douglas, Chicago IL. Famed political opponent of Lincoln. *Hannibal Hamlin, Maine. As Governor of Maine, later a U.S. Senator and Vice-Pres. under Lincoln. *Wm, H. Seward. (twice signed). Lincoln’s Secretary of State until his wounds, suffered by the same conspirators who assassinated Lincoln forced him to pass the position on to his son, Frederick W. Frederick W. Seward. Assistant Secretary of State, later acting Secretary of State. *Sam Houston, Texas. The great man who was once President of the Republic of Texas. *J. G. Nicolay, Private Sect. Of the President. Lincoln’s secretary and later biographer. *Hamilton Fish. Governor of NY, later U.S. Senator. *Horace Mann, W. Newton, MA. Educator. *John Greenleaf Whittier. Signature tipped in. *James Shields, Illinois. Senator from Illinois. Later Senator from Minn. and Missouri. Once challenged Lincoln to a duel which turned into a close friendship. *Jesse D. Bright, Indiana. U.S. Senator *Wm M. Gwin, California. Senator from California. Involved in the rancorous Senate Race of 1855-56 between he and James Broderick who was later killed in a duel over his anti-slavery stance. *Richard Yates, Jacksonville, IL. Governor of IL *Stephen R. Mallory, Florida. Later Confederate Senator and Secretary of Confederacy Navy *Lewis Cass, Michigan. Senator from Michigan.

HERE LET US FEAST.

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1946 1st New York: Viking Press, 1946. First edition. Signed by Fisher on the front flyleaf. A gastronomical anthology of feasts drawn from historical and literary sources, ranging from Lucius Apuleius to Virginia Woolf, with commentary and analysis by Fisher- "[Food] increased in richness as culture developed." Jacket price-clipped; otherwise an all around very good copy of a title that we seldom encounter signed.

Flyer for Bud Brown's 1963 film, Gung Ho.

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n.p.:n.p., [1963]. Features a photo of a sufer riding a wave. Printed in blue on white stock. Scarce and early. As new (8.5" x 5.5").

Saisons Suisses.

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Neuchatel (Paris): 1929 Limited edition of 200 numbered copies. paperback 8vo. 49 pp. 11 lithographs by Conrad Meili. Printed wrappers; inner hinge cracked, covers a bit stained, spine worn. Bookplate of Vance Gerry. Good. 3

Tradiciones peruanas. 4 volumes, 1893-1896. PLUS Mis ultimas tradiciones peruanas y Cachivacheria. 1906.

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5 volumes. Barcelona: Montaner y Simon, 1893 Barcelona & Buenos Aires, Maucci, 1906 (5th volume). Illustrations in text. 408 pp.; 368 pp.; 400 pp.; 360 pp.; 604 pp. + [1] p. advs. Dark blue pebbled cloth with gold titling on spine. 22.8 x 14.9 cm. Old owner’s signature in ink on half-title or blank of vols. 1-3 and in blue pencil on vol. [5]. Set generally very good; light foxing on a few pages here and there; an underline of the signature in vol. 1 has broken the paper of the half-title, and there are a few wormholes at the corners of the first pages; vol. 2 has a small, triangular tear in the middle of the final page (contents); vol. 4 has a worm hole in extreme lower corner of pp. 1-48 and a tear in the front margin of pp. 355-60 and the following blank; vol [5] has a very light waterstain along the top margin throughout, not affecting the text. Nevertheless, quite a nice set. Weight: 10 lbs. (4.5 kg) + packing.
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HORARUM NATALIUM CENTURIA I. ET II. Sive Narratio Historica, Variorum in Vita Casuum, Mirabilium Naturae... In Qua Scientiae Astrologicae Veritas ac Certitudo, Adversus Astrologomastiches, plane & perspicue ostenditur...

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Francofurti: Sumptibus Egenolphi Emmelli, 1610. Sm 4to, 4, A-Z4, 2A-2I4, 2K2, woodcut title vignette, head- and tail pieces, horoscopes throughout. 19th cent. quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt morocco label, mild wear at spine, manuscript catalog number at title, 1/4-inch chip at fore-margin title, a very good copy. ¶ Second edition, first published in 1607. In the present work Johann Camerarius of Tubingen (1578-1635) presents a collection of 100 horoscopes which identify many of the subjects by name or initials. Gardner 197. Zinner, Astronomischen Lit., 4165. Not in Bibliotheca Esoterica or Caillet. Cf. Houzeau & Lancaster 5047 & La Lande p.147. OCLC notes only 2 copies.

Dorothea Lange

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Museum of Modern Art, New York (1966) Good First Edition 8 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches, unnumbered pages, boards, Dust Jacket (spotting and rubbing).

The Song of Songs

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(Gill, Eric). The Song of Songs; Called by Many the Canticle of Canticles. Waltham St. Lawrence Golden Cockerel Press 1925. Small quarto. 42 pp. One of 750 numbered copies. Illustrated with seventeen wood engravings by Eric Gill. Several initials in red. A fine copy in white cloth, except for endpaper discoloration from dust jacket. Gilt lettered on spine. Includes the scarce dust jacket illustrated with a Gill engraving repeated from the title page. Jacket. Jacket spotted on back panel, some chipping. (Gill 275; Chanticleer 31).

Bookends (Bronzed Metal).

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F Hardcover Pair of Art Deco bookends, depicting two running Greyhounds against a stylized leafy background, set on a four-tiered rounded base [ca. 1925] Bronzed metal. Approximately 7" x 5 1/2".

Tables and Tracts, Relative to Several Arts and Sciences.

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London: A. Millar & T. Cadell, 1767. Octavo. [8], 328 pp. With a large folding plate of an orrery, a folding plate of a "magic square of squares" done by Benjamin Franklin, and a folding plate of a "magic circle of circles" done by Benjamin Franklin. Throughout the text are numerous charts and tables, taken from the work of Abraham de Moivre and Thomas Simpson. Rebound in half calf over marbled paper boards. Gilt spine with raised bands. Title-page and table of contents pages lightly browned, title a little chipped at the edges, never intruding to text. A good, sound copy. First edition. A collection of essays on actuarial and other calculations relating to death probabilities, conjunctions of the sun and moon, surveying, the workings of clocks, and other manifestations of probability, all illustrated and proved by charts and tables taken from de Moivre and Simpson. Ferguson (1710-1776) was the son of a Scottish tenant farmer and received little formal education. While working at a variety of domestic jobs, he mastered the elements of surveying, horology, astronomy and portraiture. Colin Maclaurin discovered Ferguson's mechanical abilities and introduced him to Martin Folkes, who encouraged Ferguson to lecture to the Royal Society about his astronomical contrivances. A skilled designer of clocks and planispheres (as well as a 'solar eclipsareon'), he became an accomplished public speaker and expounder of Newtonian ideas, especially after the publication of his Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles (1756), which went through seventeen editions.

The American Admiralty, Its Jurisdiction and Practice, with Practical Forms and Directions

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NY Banks and Brothers 1870 New edition Large thick 8vo. The New and Enlarged Edition. xxiv,800pp. Modern full navy blue polished calf. Spine in 6 compartments with raised bands; dark red morocco lettering pieces, gilt; marbled endpapers. Old presentation inscription on a preliminary blank from George Denis of the Los Angeles firm of Denis & Loewenthal. Text block very good; binding fine. The foremost American treatise in Admiralty Law by a leader of the admiralty bar and the last edition to appear in Benedict's lifetime. Hardcover Good

A DECADE OF STILL LIFE

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Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin, 1966. Signed by artist. 4to. 298 pp. 77 text illustratons, 222 b/w illustrations, 32 in full color. 6 colored plates laid into rear in portfolio. Very good plus in slightly toned, very good plus dj.

GLASS PAINTS, VARNISHES AND BRUSHES. Their History Manufacture and Use.

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This is the DeLuxe Glass-Paints issue. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company 1923. 4to. Brown cloth with titles printed in gold over a gold background. 178 pp. plus indices. Color plates. Black and white photos. Text illustrations. Very good.

The Night-Born.

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New York: The Century Company, 1913. First edition Inscribed by Becky London, 1982. Prior owner's bookplate inside front cover. Darkening to top edge of cover, rubbing to spine ends, corners, sides. Two spots on front cover have been erased. Spine lettering is a little dull. Front spine is starting at hinge after first endpaper. Interior is bright and clean. See digital photo. Hardcover Very Good

Petroleum and Petroleum Wells... A Complete Guide Book and Description ofthe Oil Regions... .

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Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1865. 12mo, black cloth. 153pp. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Foot of spine just a little chipped otherwise a very good copy. The oil regions discussed are Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio.

Cape Town Dicky; or Colonel Jack's Boy.

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London. Hildesheimer and Faulkner. n.d.(1888). First Edition. Illustrated with full page mezzotintsby Alice Havers and further monotints en texte by Ernest Wilson. 8vo. Bound in elaborate pictorial boards. Usual Shelfwear to edges, foxing to prelims with various mild occasional foxing throughout, (not affecting plates), usual spine cracking but very firm. A Very Good copy of this most scarce and charming title.

EXPLORING SOUTHWESTERN TRAILS 1846 - 1854; SOUTHWEST HISTORICAL SERIES, VII.

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Arthur H. Clark Co. 383 pp. hardcover 8vo. in red cloth, top edge gilt. Illustrated. Folding map atend. hardcover 1st. edition 1st. printing, Very good, spine a little faded, corners bumpped, no dj., signed by one of the editors, Averam B. Bender to Dr. Henry J Gerling. 1938, Glendale, Ca:

Mamounia, Marrakech, Maroc.

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Paris Atelier 74 1987 First Edition 2864860112 Tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows very minimal edge wear, small (1mm), closed, tear. Silver boards, embossed, gilt decorative elements black ink lettering. 4to. 273pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Index. Hardcover Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket The author, Andre Paccard also did Traditional Islamic Craft in Moroccan Architecture (Editions Atelier, France, 2 vols). This rather expensive coffee-table tome was written by the architect much favored by King Hassan. The text is arguably dry but it is wonderfully illustrated and - unusually - includes photographs of Moroccan Royal Palaces currently in use.

The Discovery of Florida. Being a True Relation of the Vicissitudes that Attended the Governor Don Hernando de Soto and some Nobles of Portugal in the Discovery of Florida...

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San Francisco The Book Club of California 1946, Limited to 280 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Translated by Buckingham Smith with a New Introduction by George P. Hammond. Folio. 115pp. 47 initials designed and cut by Mallette Dean. Decorations in chapter headings in red. Handset Franciscan type on handmade French paper. Yellow decorated boards (designed by Mallette Dean), white cloth back, yellow label printed in red and black. A very fine copy. A very nice copy of a book usually found somewhat worn. One of the Fifty Books of the Year. Also included in the Exhibition of Western Books (Rounce & Coffin Club). [Grabhorn: 432].

Freud and Marx, a dialectical study. With an introduction by JohnStrachey.

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Equinox Co-Operative Press New York [1937] 285p., first US edition, previous owner's name on front blank endpaper, dj soiled on spine and with a few closed tears *Egbert p. 360.

"The Roman History, from the Foundation of the City of Rome, to the Destruction of the Western Empire."

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"London: Printed for S. Baker and G. Leigh, T. Davies and L. Davis, 1769." First edition "Tinker 1121; NCBEL II, 1198." "2 vols, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, red morocco labels, gilt rules and lettering." "¶ One of several popular histories by Goldsmith, which went through numerous editions for almost 40 years and earned the praise of his friend Samuel Johnson who said “The charm and simplicity of the style at once caught the public, and though the writer disclaimed research, and professed only to have aimed at a school book, he obtained all the favour attaching to work that conveys instruction without making unreasonable demands on the reader’s attention.”" Edges a little rubbed; some minor worming in the margins of a few signatures of volume 1; prelims lightly foxed; very good copy.

Theft.

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A Play in Four Acts. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910. FIRST EDITION. First issue binding in white and red cloth, top edges gilt. A clean near fine copy with some very minor loss to the white printing on the front cover (but much less than often). A solid, clean copy of one of London's scarcest titles.

La Mode Feminine de 1490 - 1920.

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[n.p., n.d.].. 12 volumes in three. Ex-Detroit News library, in their calf bindings (spines broken)with marks on the endpapers, but all the plates are clean and unmarked. 240 hand colored plates.

An Inquiry into the Legal Mode of Suppressing Riots. With a Constitutional Plan of Future Defence [etc.]. Second Edition

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Printed for C. Dilly, in The Poultry London 1782 Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, a bit embrowned; attractive The expanded edition of Jones' first legal and political polemic, arising out of the Gordon Riots, invoking the spirit of Selden, Locke and Milton in his proposals to avoid martial law and defend the realm civilly via a version of the posse comitatus

The Misses, Drawn and Lithographed by A. Crowquill.

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London: H. Grellier, 1830. Oblong quarto. 29 x 39 cms. Illustrated with 6 handcolored lithographs and captions humorously describing situations that missed being what was intended or hoped for. Bound in the original printed paper wrappers, rear wrapper missing outer half. New rear cover sewn on. Boxed. In fine condition, clean and bright internally.

Die Weihnachtslegende in frhen Holzschnitten

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Schriftgiesserei C. E. Weber Stuttgart, 1958. Hardcover. Fine; spine a bit faded. No dust jacket. Designed by Georg Trump Foreign Languages; Fine Presses.

Two Original Black & White Comic Photographs of John Steinbeck and His Wife, Gwen

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N.p. n.p. n.d. (c. 1930’s) Both approximately 3” x 5”. One photo is of John and Gwen Steinbeck holding hands, striking a campy pose - she, glancing dreamily off into the distance wearing a hat with a single, extremely tall feather sticking straight up and he, staring directly into the camera, seemingly suppressing a grin, wearing a (now, old-fashioned) leather football helmet. The other is equally amusing with Gwen standing on a stone wall, arm held high, pointing dramatically into the sky while John has come up beside her, and is taking liberties with the hem of her dress, lifting it up and staring at her revealed legs. Both are blind stamped ‘JOHN STEINBECK’. Fine.

Oeuvres de P. Corneille. Nouvelle edition, Revue sur les plus Anciennes Impressions et Les Autograph...

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Paris Libraire de L. Hachette et Cie 1862 12 volumes (complete) plus the Corneille Album, 13 volumes in all Large octavo beautifully bound in full red crushed morocco, raised bands, gilt title and volume number on spines, elaborate gilt dentelle edges, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Signed binding by Marius Michel (1846-1925), the premier French bookbinder of his day Fine condition Illustrated Printed on Japanese vellum One of 150 sets A very scarce edition in a very handsome binding. The Corneille Album contains a chromolithograph of Corneille’s coat of arms, seven single page engravings including a portrait of the author, two double page engravings of scenes from his plays, and five pages of Corneille’s letters and poems in facsimile. Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), is regarded as the creator of French tragedy and one of France’s greatest tragic poets

RECREATIONS MATHEMATIQUES ET PHYSIQUES, Qui Contiennent PlusieursProblemes d'Arithmetique, de Geometrie, de Musique, d'Oprique, deGnomonique, de Cosmographie, de Mecanique, de Pyrotechnie, & de Physique.Avec un Traite des Horloges Elementaires. Nouvelle Edition, Revue,Corrigee & Augmentee-.

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Jacques Rollin, fils. Paris 1750-1749 4 vols. Complete with a total of 136 copper engraved plates. Marbled endpapers. Cont. mottled calf, gilt decorated spines, burgundy morocco spine labels, hinges lightly scuffed, bottom corners worn. Small chips at extremities of spine (Vol. III), tiny gouge at foot of spine (Vol. IV). Vol. II bears the imprint date of 1749, the others are 1750. This popular work first appeared in 1694. Our set is the final edition in its original form, often called the "best edition."

Souvenirs de Garnison et des plaisirs attachés à la chose.

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Paris Aubert & Cie ca. 1850 Scarce. Oblong 4to. Original contemporary illustrated paper covered boards with brown lettering to cover. Great collection of 30 numbered and captioned color lithographs that are caricatures of the French military. A printed note on the free front endpaper (dated 1939) reads: "An extremely rare volume of 30 original lithograps by the famous caricaturist Cham - these pictures (...) are hand finished by the artist. Cham was one of the best caricaturist of the Second Empire, time of Napoleon. (...) Paris 1939." Very scarce: OCLC only lists two libraries worldwide that own it. Staining, scuffing, rubbing to boards, spine and edges torn and worn, with spine taped. Front board disintegrating but still attached. In French. Cover in poor, book in very good condition. This copy has an ex-libris stamp (inside of front board) by Robert Florey: Robert Florey (1900-1979) was a French screenwriter, director of short films, and actor who moved to Hollywood in 1921. Florey worked as assistant director to Josef von Sternberg, Frank Borzage, and Victor Fleming before making his feature directing debut in 1926. He turned out more than 50 movies over the next 23 years, from the first Marx Brothers movie "The Cocoanuts" (1929), to horror movies such as "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1932) starring Bela Lugosi, to skillful low-budget crime programmers like "The Crooked Way" (1949).

Es (The German Language Edition of IT).

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Linkenheim: Edition Phantasia 1986, Black Leather in Slipcase. Fine (as new)/Not Issued in Dust Jacket. Private Press, Limited. Oversize. TRUE WORLD FIRST EDITION, numbered state. Limited to ONLY 250 numbered copies bound in full black leather with red and silver stamping, all edges red, with a bound-in bookmark. AS NEW in AS NEW publisher's red velour slipcase. Not issued in dust jacket. This copy is #166 of the only 250 numbered copies published. Unread. Unfaded slipcase. Not a remainder copy.

VANITY OF DULUOZ.

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NY: COWARD. 1968 First Edition. Close to near fine in a Vg.+ to Nf. dj. (Usual oxidation of gold stamping on cloth at spine. Top edge foxed. Virtually indiscernable sticker ghost at head of rear endpaper. 2 half-inch tears in dj. A few shorter nicks & touches of light shelfwear at corners.

Aristide Bruant.

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1893. As published in the suite, Le Cafe-Concert. From the edition of 500 on wove paper. W.24, D.34. Image: 10 x 8¼.

De Perspiratione Insensibili.....

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Typis Seminarii, apud Joannem Manfré Padua 1748 Contemp. vellum First edition in Italian. (12), 323, (1) pp., Three folding copperplate engravings. 4to. Best edition of Gorter's impoptant work on perspiration and metabolism. The first edition, published at Leyden in 1725 had 264 pp., and onl y one folding plate. A portion of the work is devoted to commentaries on the Aphorisms of Sanctorius, who had founded the scientific study of metabolism in 1614. --Blake, P. 180. Wellcome III, 138. Bookpate on front pastedown and stamp on title. A bright fine copy.

Traite de chimie minerale, vegetale et animale; traduit par Jourdan....

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Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1829-33. 8 vols. 8vo. Approximately 4700 pages. With 13 folding engraved plates, 19 tables (1 folding). Contemporary half-green calf and marbled boards, some wear; interior foxing. First French edition. Antoine Jacques Louis Jourdan (1788-1848) translated Volume I and Melchior Esslinger (1808-55) translated the remaining volumes. Berzelius considered this essentially a new work because of the extent of additional material which he contributed.

THE DIARIES AND LETTERS OF HENRY H. SPALDING AND ASA BOWEN SMITH RELATING TO THE NEZ PERCE MISSION, 1838-1842.

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Glendale Arthur H. Clark 1958 First edition Original blue cloth with gilt spine title, octavo (6.5 x 9.75 inches), 379pp. Color frontispiece and 8 monochrome plates Faint rubbing to spine edges, else fine Inscribed by author on title page to Jacob Long and with this holograph inscription on front free endpaper: "Note by the author / I regret the many errors in this book - a few due to mistranscriptions, and others to my carelessness. I have transferred to this volume corrections made in my desk copy. During the twenty years since this book was written, I have become better informed as to the missionary + Nez Perce history. (signed) Clifford M. Drury." The author has made approximately 65 hand corrections and annotations to the text

Historia de la Dominacion de los Arabes en Espana.

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Madrid: Imprenta que fue de Garcia, 1820. First edition. 3 vols., 8vo, pp. xxiv, 635; 1f, 456 pp, 2ff; xx, 268. Vol 1. has 6 engraved plates, one of them folding, part of which seems to be missing. Conde (1765 - 1820) was librarian at the Escorial and the Royal Library in Madrid. His work on the Muslims in Spain was the first major work on the subject, and not superseded for many years. Ex-library but not obtrusively so: library bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. Very good set in contemporary calf binding.

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT... COMMUNICATING A REPORT OF AN EXPEDITION LED BY LIEUTENANT ABERT, ON THE UPPER ARKANSAS AND THROUGH THE COUNTRY OF THE CAMANCHE INDIANS, IN THE FALL OF THE YEAR 1845.

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Washington : 1846. 29th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Doc. 438, Serial 477 8vo. 75pp. 12 lithographplates; large folding map. Stitched wraps (disbound). Wraps Light dampstaining throughout, otherwise fine condition (and scarce thus) in modern cloth case with gilt-lettered morocco label at spine. Under Fremont's orders, Abert travelled from Bent's Fort to Raton Pass, down the Canadian River, to Old Fort Holmes, through the Creek Nation ending at Fort Gibson. "It is said that Abert made the first astronomical observations through this unknown country and his report is therefore of special importance. The map is one of great interest." Wheat Transmissippi. Wheat also suggests that Charles Preuss drew the map for publication. The lithograph plates show striking views of West Texas and Oklahoma; one is the noted plate of Bent's Fort. (Wheat Transmissippi 489; Rittenhouse 1; Graff 6; Wagner-Camp 120; Howes A10; Sabin 59)

MASCARAS PERUANAS.

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Perú, Fundación del Banco Continental para el Fomento de la Educación y la Cultura, 1996, 238p. b/wand color plates, ports., illus., bibl., ind., illus. endpapers, pict. d.w. 30.5cm MAJOR MONOGRAPH on Peruvian Masks by one of the pioneers in the study of indigenous dance, masks, music. BASIC REFERENCE.

Jack London The Author With The Sales.

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London, Mills & Boon, n.d., first British edition, stapled self-wrappers. Softcover. It includes a brief piece by London, Some Early Recollections, plus advertisements for several London books, illustrated with seven photos of London, this is one of eight items sold for "Milo Sheppard" (sic) by Russ Kingman of the Jack London Bookstore in 1978 that, according to Kingman, "were originally owned by Jack London. They were sent to him by the publishers as they were printed". Fine.

Last Chance to See.

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Harmony Books, 1991. First U.S. edition. 1991. First U.S. edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by Douglas Adams.

HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN RUSSIA, POLAND, AND FINLAND; THE CRIMEA, CAUCASUS, SIBERIA, AND CENTRAL ASIA, FIFTH EDITION

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John Murray, London 1893 24mo, 4 1/2' x 7". Bound in flexible red cloth with gilt lettersing, x, [4}, (84), 500, 56pp of advertisements, 7 maps and charts, 1 folding in rear pocket. Ads dated 1897, as is the "Index / Directory" of hotels, etc.. A pink slip next to the title page states that information about hotels, etc., will be found in the directory. Apparently this was updated to 1897. Slightly cracked hinge, maps with usual crease tears but complete, map of Moscow repaired, cover a little rubbed, good, better than average copy. Christmas gift inscription dated 1901.

The Banditti of the Plains or the Cattlemen’s Invasion of Wyoming in 1892. [The Crowning Infamy of the Ages].

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Cheyenne: 1894. 8vo. (8 ¼ x 5 ½ inches), plain black cloth, re-backed, with several pages bearing minor repairs. Annoyed and angry that strangers were settling on land in Wyoming that they thought they owned, larger cattle lords imported help from Texas to help them drive out the “nesters” and thereby almost precipitated a civil war. The author was a journalist who supported the smaller homesteaders and thereby incurred the wrath of the Wyoming establishment. Consequently, he was threatened and copies of his book were destroyed. A rare book that describes a difficult yet important time in Wyoming’s frontier development.

Yeni Turkiye: Milli Cografya

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1927 Mar'asli Kazancioglu 'Abdulkadir Sa'di, Marasli. Yeni Turkiye: Milli Cografya. Istanbul: 1927. 12 maps (11 folding), 392, 2p. Hardcover (later cloth). 23cm. Spine slightly sloped. Numerous short pencil underlinings in red and black. Text moderately browned. Good. Ottoman Turkish text (not romanized). 3

ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, "THE EAST AND THE WEST."

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[Np. nd]. Four pages. Quarto. Original autograph manuscript, in ink, with light corrections. With the small stamp marking the famous deaccession of Symons manuscripts by McNeese State College in the lower margin of the first leaf, otherwise very good, with an early typescript transcription. In edgeworn cloth case with label mark. A meditative essay by Symons on the incursion of western influences and the clash of cultures in Constantinople, Stamboul, and elsewhere. Formerly in the John Quinn collection. In the Quinn catalogue, there is no notation as to the date or publication status of the essay. QUINN SALE 9686.

Trivia: Printed from the Papers of Anthony Woodhouse, Esq.

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London At the Chiswick Press, 1902, Limited Cloth-backed Boards Very Good [9] + 66 + [1] p. (uncut). One of 300 copies printed. Covers moderately soiled; paper label on spine chipped.

EDWARD ATKINSON: THE BIOGRAPHY OF AN AMERICAN LIBERAL, 1827-1905

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Old Corner Book Store, Inc. Boston, MA 1934 304pp B&W frontis HC "...Mr. Atkinson made interesting,and in many cases significant, contributions to the economic and political history of the United States. As treasurer and financial agent for several important cotton textile mills between 1850 and 1878, Mr. Atkinson became generally recognized as an authority upon the various phases of the cotton industry." very good, dark green cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB historical soc.

Musical content Woody Guthrie lengthy ALS discusses the production on American Document Number One with Moe Ashe. The album never came to fruition.

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Wonderful Woody Guthrie ALS reads, "Dear Moe, Marion, Herb, Harris, Pop and Union Square in general, I know how it is to have north wind blow cold and pile snow in under your door. I never had a door that didn't leak snow. The air strip here is on the north from up where the wind is born and it hits my barracks and my bed first of all the other ones down here. Marjorie says she has dropped in on you a few times. I'm glad, she said that she got a look at the cover of American Document # One. She said that she likes it. I thought I would get a two week furlough before I get sent on to my next job for the army. Instead I'm getting out on account of so many wives and kids. Some time around December. (then I can hit you up for work. I'll be a real genuine legal World War Two veteran.) Today I'm in 5 months. Gosh. Don't seem that long ago does it? I've not let my spring run down any since I'm here. I didn't do any professed appearances, but played plenty in the barracks and met a well needed rest. the little vacation has sobered and pepped me up considerable and caused my guitar to play better. I've turned out to date (12) twelve more personal experience ballads taken from the most hottest spots in the war. Two or three I am pretty sure you will like, and several you will back over in the corner to shy away from. I am going down to some studio here in Saint Louis and record some samples to send out to Earl Robinson to use Oct. 30th in his festival for the musicians Congress. (Hollywood). Earl is doing some movie about California History. His wife Helen lost a baby through a miscarriage. A bad thing to happen. What will the number of my ballads be by the time I get back I do not know. The stories are all factual war experiences and I worked from papers and magazines. You may remember the the lady Doctor Betty that had eight brothers and sisters all doctors and a deathbed request from their old father, a coal company doctor, "Don't ever let these coal town people down,"well the tale you'll hear soon enough. no use to go into it here. I'm the official sign painter here for squadron L, yes, after so many hard weeks to get to be a teletype operator, I turn out to be a sign writer. But I like to try to write signs of the times. My brother six years in the Navy, George, is a sign painter and all around painter. So if you got any painting you need done just call us Guthrie boys. I just wrote you this note to see if you're still alive. To wish you the best of luck in your ventures into the grass roots of folks songs and folk lore. Woody Guthrie."

Long Island Natural History

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Long Island Hollis 1928, No Jacket Hard Cover Good 161pp. Has light wear. Hinges Cracked. Covers lightly rubbed and soiled. Owner's name penned on FFE. Internally Clean. Lang:English. Vols:1, Wt: 1lbs.

DOMESTIC FLORICULTURE / WINDOW-GARDENING AND FLORAL DECORATIONS.

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Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1874. First edition Small octavo, xviii,396pp. "Being practical directions for the propagation, culture, and arrangement oof plants and flowers as domestic ornaments", with 200 illustrations -- totally charming and Victorian. Some pencil marks in the text else internally very good, and signed "with the author's compliments" on the half-title. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in black and gilt, with the spine completely lacking and with the boards almost detached. An additional feature is the horticultural bookplate, with the motto "floreat chrysanthemum" of C. Harmon Payne, who co-authored a book, circa 1912, on chrysanthemums. Eminently readable and a very good candidate for recasing. Hardcover

TRACT FOR AMERICANS. FILLMORE'S POLITICAL HISTORY AND POSITION. GEORGE

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1856 Election of 1856: TRACT FOR AMERICANS. FILLMORE'S POLITICAL HISTORY AND POSITION. GEORGE LAW AND CHAUNCY SHAFFER'S REASONS FOR REPUDIATING FILLMORE AND DONELSON, AND THE ACTION OF THE KNOW-NOTHING STATE CONVENTION AT SYRACUSE ON THE RESOLUTIONS CENSURING BROOKS'S ASSAULT ON SENATOR SUMNER, &C. [New York: New York Tribune. 1856]. Caption title [as issued], 16pp. Disbound and light uniform tanning, Very Good. After the Whig Party collapsed under the weight of the sectional crisis, keen competition existed among Democrats, Republicans, and Know-Nothings [Americans] for the support of its erstwhile members. This pamphlet urges anti-slavery Whigs to vote for the new Republican Party, which fielded its first presidential candidate this year. A close examination of Fillmore's record, particularly as Zachary Taylor's vice president, reveals that he was no friend of that Whig President. And, political expediency has caused him to trim his anti-slavery views; he is now a reliable ally of the South. Although the standard bibliographies have failed to include this pamphlet, it appears in OCLC under several accession numbers. FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin, Eberstadt, Decker, Miles.

NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE, 1651-1939.

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Houghton Mifflin Company Boston 1939 4to., cloth, slipcase. xviii, 27 pages followed by 47 plates with facing page of text. ¶Photographs by Bayard Wootten. B1-618. Limited to 765 copies of which 750 are numbered and signed by Higgins and Wootten. History followed by full page photographs of important buildings. Spine slightly faded.

THE SOUTHEAST IN EARLY MAPS; WITH AN ANNOTATED CHECK LIST OF PRINTED ANDMANUSCRIPT REGIONAL AND LOCAL MAPS OF SOUTHEASTERN NORTH AMERICA DURINGTHE COLONIAL PERIOD.

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Princeton, NJ. First edition. TLS from the author concerning this work and other American cartographic publication affixed to the front pastedown. Princeton U. Press, 1958. 4to. ix, 275 pp. Illustrated; plates. Rust cloth, gilt title on spine, printed dust jacket (worn). Very good copy.

FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS, 1956, ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT INCLUDING TECHNICAL REPORTS NOS. 1254 TO 1295.

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Wash., GPO, 1957. 1002 pp., illus. First edition, in very good condition.

Life More Abundant: The Story of a Retirement Community at PenneyFarms, Florida

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Penney Retirement Community Penney Farms, FL 1986 68 pp. wraps; photos; maps; history of the retirement community for missionaries and Christian workers that J.C. Penney founded in northeast Florida VG. soil

Christmas Blossoms, And New Year’s Wreath, for 1847.

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Boston: Published by Phillips & Sampson, 1847. Octavo, blind- and gilt-stamped red cloth, all edges gilt, 168 pp. Plates. Faxon 148. Very Good, light shelf wear.

JIMGRIM AND ALLAH’S PEACE

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New York: D Appleton-Century Company Incorporated, 1936. First thus. 279 pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Illustrative on yellow cloth. Top edge dyed. Cover slightly soiled, corners & head/heel of spine bumped & rubbed; deckle edges slightly toned; end papers toned; else clean & tight. From the library of Sterling E Lanier, SF author, and bearing his bookplate. Very good/No dust jacket. (Oversized - extra shipping charges apply)

Audubon: A Vision. INSCRIBED.

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N. Y. Random House (1969). 1st ed. 1969, 1st Edition Dust Jacket Included Hardcover Signed by Author(s) Fine INSCRIBED by Penn Warren on the front free endpaper with a 16 line poem, "Tell Me a Story" (the final poem in this collection) written out in-full. This is a tight, fine book in a bright, fine price clipped DJ.

Stalin And German Communism. A Study In The Origins Of The State Party

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Cambridge Harvard University Press 1948 1st HB Near fine.

Churchill Natural Bidding Style At Contract Bridge. Bid SuccessfullyWithout Artificial Conventions - INSCRIBED

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no publisher no place 1979 Mimeographed With a full-page, 22-line inscription in ink, by Churchill.Printed "Errata" slip laid in. Very rare; OCLC lists only 4 copies. - Shelf No.: o/c 53. Blue, gilt-lettered cloth,lettering on spine faded, else VG

Inscribed Photograph Signed.

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Clark Gable's last wife, the mother of his only legitimate (and posthumous) son, John Clark Gable, was a thrice-married former fashion model and bit part actress; a year after his death in 1960 she published a memoir, "Clark Gable: A Personal Portrait." Color IPS (magazine), 7" X 9½", n.p., 1961 [August 11]. Very good. Discreet scotch tape stains at two corners. Attractive color magazine portrait depicting Gable's widow in turquoise dress and matching headband seated in an oversize white wicker chair, holding the son born a few month's after her husband's death -- baby Gable holds both hands up as if in shock and has an expression of amazement on his face. She inscribes this in a thick fountain pen almost the same color as her turquoise outfit: "To Donald Burnell / Luck and happiness, / From / John Clark Gable and his Mother / Age 2 weeks 1961." Quite unusual in this form!

THE POETS OFMAINE

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Elwell, Pickard & Co. Portland, Maine 1888 856 Very good; front cover slightly spotted

Irish Art and Architecture: From Prehistory to the Present

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London Thames and Hudson 1978, Very Good Cloth Very Good Very Good in Very Good jacket Quarto. 272 p., illus.; gilt-stamped dark olive cloth...Shipping will be figured at time of purchase. Digital photo upon request.

THE TALE OF THE GOLDEN COCKEREL

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one of 100 copies in the magnificent "cloth of gold" binding Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich. THE TALE OF THE GOLDEN COCKEREL. (London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1936.) Original gold and red patterned cloth, with red leather spine label lettered in gold, all edges gilt.

This is one of 100 numbered copies (this being #31) printed on handmade paper for The Golden Cockerel Press, signed both by the translator Hannah Waller and by the illustrator Robert Gibbings. Included also is a "Note on Pushkin and the Tale" by Raissa Lomonossova. This book (100 numbered copies plus a trade edition) was issued by The Golden Cockerel Press in honor of its namesake fable, in advance of the centenary of Pushkin's death (in 1837, at age 37, mortally wounded in a duel).

This limited edition is a magnificent production. The "cloth of gold" binding is made of golden silk with a red pattern, the page edges are gilt, and the title page is printed in gold as well. This copy is in remarkably fine condition (except that the red leather spine label may be faded); no dust jacket was issued with these specuial copies.

(Sumner & Stillman Code:10064)

Suggestions in Floral Design

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London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1878 Folio H Decorated Boards Very Good. folio, original publisher's binding of taupe boards, the front cover decorated in black and gilt, the motif repeated in blind on the back cover; gilt-lettered spine and cover. Spine neatly repaired, preserving the original spine and replacing a few missing elements with appropriate matching cloth. Plate margins lightly toned; images bright. A handsome book with 52 plates of ornaments and designs based on natural forms in bold color and strong design printed by Depuy & Fils, Paris; similar to Dresser's Studies in Design and from the same publisher.

Calder Autobiographie

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"Paris: Maeght, 1972" Quarto. 211pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. 16 color plates. 3 original double-page lithographs.

THE GARDEN PARTY and Other Stories.

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Alfred A. Knopf, New York: 1922. First U.S. edition of her best work with "Published, May, 1922" oncopyright page. Published same year as the U.K. edition. Name on front endpaper, otherwise very good or better with a little chipping to spine label edges. Lacks the scarce dustwrapper. In Connolly's Modern Movement: One Hundred Key Books.

Psychopathological Researches: Studies in Mental Dissociation

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London 1902? London: William Rider & Son, Limited, 1902? 1st British Edition, printed in the USA. [First published the same year in New York]. xxii+329+[1]pp. + 10 folding plates, each with explanatory leaf. Tall octavo. Panelled bevel-edged ochre buckram with leather spine label. Hinges broken, library stamp to title-page and rear pocket, trace of spine label still visible, a good copy. Uncommon. Title-page a cancel. An important American contribution to the study of dissociation. Contains papers by Sidis on mental dissociation in functional psychosis and in depressive delusional states; W. A. White on dissociation in alcoholic amnesia and in epilepsy; and by George M. Parker on dissociation in functional motor disturbances and in psychomotor epilepsy. Crabtree 1988 #1513. With Lawrence Kubie's bookplate. Acceptable

MIND, BRAIN AND THE ENVIRONMENT.

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USA: Oxford University Press, 1998. 1st edition. octavo. NF/NF. black glossy spine with white titles. colorful photograph illustrates front cover. clean and excellent pages. Psychology.

FRITZ KÖTHE. Monographie und Werkverzeichnis.

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Berlin (Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung), 1976. 243pp. 152 illus. (58 color). Lrg. 4to. Cloth. D.j.

El Bunuelo: Sainete Politico. Year 1, No. 1 (April 1880) through Year 1,No. 40 (December 1880).

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1880 Altogether 40 issues bound in 1, each issue 8 pp., of the first year (of two) of the periodical that heavily satirized late 19th century Spanish politics mostly through essays and poems, the highlight of each issue is a magnificent double page color illustration, almost all attributed to an artist called Democrito, showing caricatures and political cartoons. Minor intermittent foxing in margins, some ghosting of color images, one page torn, one signature partially detached. Small 4to. Cloth, covers rubbed, corners bumped. Madrid 1880.

The Improvisatore

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New York: Hurd & Houghton 1870 Literature hardcover Octavo. Two volumes. Author's Edition. Three-quarter leather with marbled boards. 2"x 3" photographs throughout the text, pasted onto blank leaves. Rubbing to hinges, slight bumping to corners. Very Good. 2

Original Drawings by George Cruikshank for Monsieur Tonson and Others (cover title).

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NP n.d. Small quarto. (11) ff. With six original watercolor over pen and ink or pencil drawings, each signed by Cruikshank. The cover title is incorrect, as Isaac Robert Cruikshank was the illustrator for John Taylor's comic poem. Among the scenes depicted are: "Mrs. Gilpin's Return"; an illustration captioned "You'd better give over the child to me"; also "an antiquarian"; and "a Pancake seller". This volume is from the Eldridge P. Johnson library, and was sold as lot 39 in part four of the now-legendary Parke Bernet sale of 29 October, 1946. Bound in full polished green levant by Root, spine and panels decorated in gilt. Very light wear to spine ends, spine lightly toned, else fine.

RIME DEL PETRARCA BREVEMENTE ESPOSTE PER LODOVICO CASTELVETRO. Edizione Corretta, Illustrata ed Accresciuta.

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(Venezia: Antonio Zatta, 1756) 2 volumes. First Zatta Edition, A VERY RARE LARGE PAPER COPY of this masterwork of printing and illustration. With a finely engraved frontispiece to Vol. I, beautifully engraved and illustrated title pages, with that in Vol. I executed in red and black, engraved and decorated sonetto to Princess Maria Antonia di Baviera by Don Cristoforo Zapata,two full-page engraving of Petrarca and Laura and a vast profusion of very finely engraved and rendered large head and tail pieces throughout the text. Folio ( 33 x 25 cm. ), antique dark green morocco over marbled green paper boards with vellum tips, the spines with four triple raised bands bordered in gilt and black and separating compartments incorporating panels with gilt central devices and borders in black and blind, lettered in gilt in three compartments, marbled endleaves. LXXX, 557; XVI (the first blank), 615. A beautifully preserved and very fine example, the bindings with very little wear indeed, still bright and clean, the text leaves and engravings white and clean throughout. VERY RARE AND PRECIOUS LARGE PAPER COPY OF THIS MAGNIFICENT PRODUCTION OF PETRARCA FROM THE PRESSES OF ANTONIO ZATTA. GENERALLY REGARDED AS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF ALL THE EDITIONS OF THE 1700's. It is illustrated with a very great number of large and finely engraved head and tail pieces from the hands of Leonardis, Crivellari, Brustolon and Magrini. The frontispiece to Vol. I is cut by Brustolon, the dedicatory letter is by Zompini and the cutting of the engraving of Petrarca and Laura in Vol. I is by Crivellari. Commentary and arrangement of the edition is by C. Zapata de Cisneros done during the beginning of the century.

[Reclining Yellow Nude]

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In fine condition. From the estate of the artist. 18 X 28 inches Unsigned

Guestbook Signed by over 300 Russian Artists and Authors.

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(c. 1911) Large octavo lined-paper notebook bearing the signatures of hundreds of Russian authors, artists and academics of the period, including Chekhov, Gorky and Bunin, and painters Vasnetsov, Korovin, Levitan, Surikov, Kuindji, Ivanov, Vinogradov, Maksimov, Kovalevsky, Repin, Archipov and sculptors Beklemishev and Konenkov among many others. The book evidently served as a guest book in the home of an artist. Some wear, but very good. The document contains many exceptionally rare signatures.

NO MAN'S LAND - ST. MIHIEL DRIVE

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Eby, Kerr. NO MAN'S LAND - ST. MIHIEL DRIVE. Giardina 32. Mezzotint and drypoint, 1919. Second, published state. 8 3/8 x 12 7/8 inches; 214 x 328 mm. Edition of 25. Signed "Kerr Eby, imp." in pencil. A superb impression, in very good condition. The first version of this WW I subject (G. 182, an etching, aquatint and sandpaper ground, of the same subject, was done in 1934 in an edition of 100, titled "September 13, 1918, St. Mihiel" or "The Great Black Cloud) and Eby's only mezzotint. Very scarce.

Seven Secrets.

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Vincent FitzGerald & Company New York 2006 One of 10 copies only, on J.B. Green paper, each signed and numbered in pencil on the colophon by the artist, Susan Weil. Page size: irregular but about 7 inches x 9 inches; 7 individual collages each hand water colored, cut out, and assembled by the artist, Susan Weil, and the publisher, Vincent FitzGerald. On the reverse of each individual work of art is a "secret" hand written by the artist. Because they are secrets, the reader / viewer can see words but there is no way to read the secret. Bound: loose in translucent plexi-glass box with sliding cover, printed colophon in black with title in red visible through side of box, new. The images created by Weil are so full of life - one is instantly drawn into the full world of this talented artist who has always included others in her life - children, partners, pets - all lovingly viewed through her aesthetic. The colors are vivid blues, bright yellows, gold and silver and the reader / viewer engages with them - knowing they will be unknowable and all the more intriguing.

Notes and Commentaries on Letters to George F. Kunz. Correspondence fromvarious sources, including Clarence S. Bement, with facsimiles.

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New Canaan; Privately printed: 1986. Edition limited to 150 signed, numbered copies. For students of American gemology the name George Frederick Kunz needs no introduction. For others, suffice it to say he was probably the most important figure in American gemology in the first decades of the 20th century. In 1977 Lawrence Conklin purchased an archive of most of Kunz's correspondence -some 7,000 letters. This volume contains 43 examples, and provides some background on Kunz's correspondents and his work with them. The first 43 copies of this limited edition had an original letter; this is not one of those, but is also much cheaper... Hardcover. 8.5"x11.5", 137 pages, color plate and many b/w illustrations; a near fine copy.

The “America” Schooner, 170 Tons, Winning the Royal Yacht Squadron Cup & Passing the “Victoria & Albert” off the Needles.

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Hand colored lithograph by Augustus Butler. The image measures 13 x 11 inches, and is fresh and clean, with excellent color. This is one of the earliest representations of the yacht America winning the race to which she gave her name, the America’s Cup. The first engraving of the America appeared in England in March of that year. There is one other lithograph that I know of that was done in 1851 celebrating the event. A rare depiction of a great moment in yachting history. VG, matted and framed.

Partially printed, partially manuscript document signed [Subtitle]: byboth composers as directors of the Académie Royale de Musique

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Berton and Trial succeeded Francoeur and Rebel as co-directors of the Opéra in 1767, holding the post until 1769. Berton, a composer of operas and other vocal works, became director of the Opéra in 1765; Trial was a noted violinist and composer who wrote a considerable body of operatic music, often in collaboration with Berton and other composers. Acknowledging payment of 375 livres from Madame Brissare for half a box at the Opéra for the quarter April 1st through June 30th [1767]. Dated April 1st 1767. 1f. (ca. 180 x 235 mm.). Small collector's stamp to blank verso; very slightly creased and with two small paper defects. In very good condition overall. With the decorative device of the Académie Royale at head.

The Walker and Other Stories

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Harcourt Brace NY (1955) First Edition The first American edition of his third book, a collection of short fiction. Light bump to spine crown; else fine in a very good, sunned dust jacket with one nearly invisible short edge tear on the rear panel. A nice copy of an uncommon early book by the author of the Aubrey/Maturin series.

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF TARZAN "POP-UP"

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1935 BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. THE NEW ADVENTURES OF TARZAN "POP-UP." Chicago: Pleasure Books, Inc., (1935). The Illustrated Pop-Up Edition, a Blue Ribbon Press Book. Three bright double-page color pop-ups and many black and white text illustrations. [16] pp. Small quarto, color-illustrated paper boards. Occasional very light soiling in margins. The binding is very lightly soiled all over, slightly rubbed along the spine and at corners, with a bit of loss at heel. Overall, it is a bright and pleasing copy; very good plus. 2

The Horse-Hoing Husbandry: or, An Essay on the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation.

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Wherein is shown a method of introducing a sort of vineyard-culture into the corn-fields, in order to increase their product, and diminish the common expence; by the use of instruments described in cuts. London: for the author, 1733. Bound with, A Supplement to the Essay on Horse-Hoing Husbandry. The second edition. London: for the author, 1740. Folio, early polished calf, neatly rebacked, raised bands, gilt morocco labels. 6 folding engraved plates; 1 plate (supplement). Moderate foxing and soiling; neat repair to tear in title; a very good copy. With ownership signature of Goning Walker, August 12th 1742, and his marginal notes and underlinings. Second (first folio) edition. Perhaps the only book that ever sparked a revolution in agricultural practice, the 'new husbandry' based on Tull's seed drill and his advocacy of tillage over manuring. Perkins 1782 (this ed.); Fussell II, p. 4.

THE WAY TO GET MARRIED: AND THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE MARRIAGE STATE; represented under the similitude of a dream. To which is added [Gregory, John] A Father's Legacy to his daughters-with a few excellent letters.

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Philadelphia: Johnson and Warner, 1810. 12mo, pp. 111. The Father's Legacy ... has a second title-page. Bound in paper covered boards (covers separate, spine paper lacking), some foxing and staining, a good copy. Shaw & Shoemaker 21982 (NNC, PHi, PP) ; OCLC locates just the one copy, at Columbia. A juvenile allegory of a woman's decision between men and life directions. The second title is a much reprinted advice book.

THE DEFENSE OF GRACCHUS BABEUF BEFORE THE HIGH COURT OF VENDOME.

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Edited & Translated with an Essay on Babeuf by John Anthony Scott. With Twenty-One Etched Portraits by Thomas Cornell. Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1964. 8 1/2 x 15 1/2. (3), 83, (1) pages. Loose in full leather chemise and laid into a leather and cloth tray case, with a second suite of 21 etchings in a cloth portfolio; by Arno Werner. Wear to spine of case, else fine. With the 12-page prospectus. One of 50 special numbered copies (copy "29.C") with a second suite of etchings on large white Rives paper -- signed, titled and numbered by Cornell. Plates are numbered 44/50. The etchings with the text are on blue Fabriano; all are signed except the frontis, as issued. First edituion thus and first English translation. Total edition was 300. Baskin 36.

PIONEER DAYS IN CRETE, NEBRASKA.

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[Chadron, Nb., Chadron State Teachers College 1937] First edition 243pp. Illus., 3 maps. Original small 4to cloth. "Sincerely Annadora J. Gregory, Feb. 1, 1942," on front endpaper. Early territorial reminiscences (1854 - 1867), pioneer life in Saline County (1860 - 1870), founding of Crete ( 1870-71), etc. Very scarce. First hand look at the frontier west as it developed over the period 1854 - 1888.

Duties Of Children. A Sermon, Delivered On The Lord's Day, April 12,1807, To The Religious Society In Federal-Street...

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Manning & Loring Boston: June, 1807 First edition. 12mo. 23pp. Marbled wraps. Light to moderate wear at extremities, covers rubbed, else quite good. Good plus condition. Born in Boston in 1780, Channing graduated with distinction from Harvard in 1798, at the age of eighteen, and he assumed the ministry of the Federal Street Church in 1803, remaining in that position until his death. Interested in most of the reform movements of his day, he was one of the first to raise his voice in the anti-slavery movement. Reformer, philosopher, critic, Channing was America's foremost man of letters in the early nineteenth century. Whittier wrote of him: ' As to the matter of self-sacrifice and courage, very few of us have evinced much of both..." This copy inscribed: "For Josiah Stevens, Esq., from his friend, Edward Tuckerman." There was a prominent minister on The Isle of Shoals named Josiah Stevens. One of the first of the missionaries, married, in 1802, Susanna, daughter of Mr. Samuel Haley, Jr. of Smutty Nose [one of the nine islands], and in consequence of this connection and his interest in the people, he was willing to be engaged as a permanent minister. See: The Isles of Shoals: An Historical Sketch., 4th ed., 1888.

Diallage, hoc est, conciliatio locorum scripturæ, qui prima facie inter sepugnare uidentur

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Friedrich Peypus Nuremberg 1528 18th century vellum backed speckled boards Small 8vo. . Second edition of this rare and important work by the German Lutheran preacher, Andreas Althamer (1498-1564), which is a refutation of the famous Anabaptist figure Hans Denck's work: "Wer die Warhait warlich lieb hat" (1525). Peypus first published this work the previous year. The VD-16 notes that this edition has new contributions by Vincentius Opsopaeus (D. 1539), the text has been reset and a substantial new index has been added. Hans Denck (ca. 1495-1527) was a graduate of the University of Ingolstadt (1519). "For a while he worked as a corrector for the Basel printers Cratander and Curio before being appointed rector of St Sebald's school in Nürnberg in the autumn of 1523. He was baptized by Balthasar Hubmaier and through his proselytizing and his writings became an intellectual leader of the Anabaptist movement. In his subsequent years of wandering he returned repeatedly to the region of Strasbourg and Basel." (Contemp. of Erasmus I, 386-7). Althamer, Andreas (ca. 1500-1539) "... was a zealous Lutheran and as such took part in the disputation of 1528 in Bern, Switzerland, and there defended the Lutheran doctrine of the Lord's Supper. While pastor in Eltersdorf near Erlangen he wrote a refutation of Hans Denck's booklet, Wer die Warhait warlich lieb hat, mag sich hierinn brüfen in erkandtnuss seines Glaubens auf das sich nyemandt in im selbs erhebe, sonder wisse, von wem man weisshait bitten und entphahen soll. In this booklet Denck collected forty apparently contradictory passages of Scripture. Althamer's booklet bears the title: Dialloge hoc est, conciliatio locorum scripturae, qui prima facie inter se pugnare videntur (Nürnberg, 1527). According to Kolde, this is one of Althamer's most widely read writings, which later, greatly enlarged, was published in many editions and was at once translated into German at Althamer's request by his good friend, Sebastian Franck of Worth. Althamer was very likely the author of the anonymous booklet with the very similar title: Conciliationes scripturae, qui specie tenus inter se pugnare videntur, Centuriae duae (Nürnberg, 1534), with an original foreword and additions of his own. At that time Franck was still the Lutheran pastor in Gustenfelden (Middle Franconia) and an opponent of the Anabaptists. But by 1531 Franck had become the first historiographer of the Anabaptists in the Chronica, Zeitbuch oder Geschichtbibel and is considered their private friend. In the later edition of 1534 Althamer omitted the polemics against the Anabaptists, as Franck had already done." (Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online). OCLC locates only the present copy (Colgate) and one at the Eastern Mennonite University [12], 100 leaves. Woodcut architectural title border. Some faint dampstains. Outer margin a little short, slightly affecting a few marginal notes. Some contemporary annotations. § VD16 A 2008; Hillerbrand, Bibliography of Anabaptism 1350 (1527 ed. only); not in BM/STC German

THE NAMES. (Broadside.)

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Tuscaloosa: Red Hydra Press, 2002, 1st edition, limited (1/100) numbered and signed, broadside. Overall size: 11.75 inches high x 15 inches wide. Fine condition.

BOLSHEVISM

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BOLSHEVISM, Harpers, 1919, first edition (first printing with code C-T on copyright page), near fine in vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear.

A GENERAL HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS.

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Newcastle Upon Tyne: T. Bewick et al, 1824. Eighth edition. Bound in full leather with the title and decorations stamped in gilt on the spine, all edges marbled and marbled end papers. Minor wear at extremities, library call number in gilt on the front, otherwise fine condition. Profusely illustrated with wood-engravings of the animals from adive to zorilla, including the then unnamed platypus, referred to as "an amphibious animal."

Dangerous Visions.

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Garden City: Doubleday, 1967. First edition 8vo, 520 pp. Signed by Ellison. Illus by Dillon. Dj light head bumps, rub. Book bot. edge, tail/head light bumps. Soiled bot. pg. corners. vg/vg dj

Lexicon pentaglotton, Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Talmudico-Rabbinicum, & Arabicum...

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Joannis Jacobi Hennei Hanover 1612 First edition, folio, [16]pp. and 1992 columns (thus paged) & [250]pp., full contemporary blindstamped pigskin, rubbed, worn at the corners and peeling, fore-edges of the first 8 or 10 leaves a bit ragged, text somewhat browned throughout; binding firm; a good, working copy in a contemporary binding. A famous and important work by the famed German Orientalist and professor of languages at Wittenberg. The work was published posthumously. Graesse VI, p. 305; Vancil, p. 216.

PAINTING AND SCULPTURE IN FRANCE: 1700-1789

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1993 Levey, Michael. PAINTING AND SCULPTURE IN FRANCE: 1700-1789. New Haven: Yale University Press, c1993. New Hardcover, slipcase, index, 318pp., 4vo.,.

GENERAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF KANSAS PASSED AT THE THIRD SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE.

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Lawrence Kansas State Journal 1863. Rebound in quarter leather over marbled boards. Contents foxed.Legislative action during the third year of statehood involving schools, roads, penitentiary and a wealth of other subjects. 1st and only edition.

The Unknown Masterpiece.

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(Over, Cambridge): The Rampant Lions Press, (1997), large 8vo, boards & cloth in slipcase. Of the 300 copies printed, this is one of 250 numbered, with the plates reproduced by duotone offset lithography. Illustrated by Thomas Newbolt. Translated by Peter Raby. With a 2 1/2pp. publisher's note at end by Sebastian Carter explaining the history of the story. Printed on Zerkall Antique mould-made paper. New.

APRES LE FEU D'ARTIFICE

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1936 HUXLEY, Aldous. APRES LE FEU D'ARTIFICE. Translated from the English by Jean Ably. Paris: Librairie Plon, [1936]. 12mo., printed wraps. The first French edition of stories from Brief Candles, including the title story "After The Fireworks" as well as "The Claxtons" and "The Rest Cure"- all translated into French by Ably. Limited Edition, one of only 30 special copies, out of an edition of 130 numbered copies, printed on Lafuma pure-grain paper - another 100 were printed alfalfa paper. Signed presentation from Ably, to Huxley, on a front blank page: [In French] To Mr. Aldous Huxley, In the hope that he will, despite all, recognize under this mask the traits and the voice of his characters. His devoted translator, Jean Ably. September 12, 1936." This copy is obviously #1 (so stated) of the 30 special numbered copies. Hard to imagine a better association copy of this title. Also with Huxley's signed personal bookplate: "This book is from the library of [signature] Aldous Huxley," tipped to the inside front cover. Near fine (little bumping to the corners).

Autograph sentiment

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AQS, one page, oblong 8vo, n.p., 16 November 1879. Four lines of verse written out by Longfellow and signed at the bottom: "Let us then be up and doing, / With a heart for any fate; / Still achieving, still pursuing, / Learn to labor and to wait." Fine.

Though not so indicated on this sheet, these four lines comprise the final stanza of Longfellow's poem "A Psalm of Life. What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist," which first appeared in "The Knickerbocker Magazine" in October of 1838.

CHARLES BRIDGEMAN. Reprint with Addendum. Newcastle upon Tyne 2002

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(BRIDGEMAN) Willis, Peter - CHARLES BRIDGEMAN & THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE GARDEN. Reprinted with Supplementary Plates and a Catalogue of Additional Documents, Drawings and Attributions. Color illustration tipped in as frontispiece plus 247 b&w illustrations taken from drawings, photos, plans and sketches. pp.441,(32-plates in addendum). 4to. (12" x 8.5"). Newcastle upon Tyne 2002. Bridgeman was a key figure in the 18th century movement toward less formality in landscape design and in the establishment of "le jardin anglais" in Europe. Best known for the creation of Stowe in Buckinghamshire, he worked as Royal Gardener to George II as well as for private patrons. Willis' detailed and scholarly work on Bridgeman's life and work was originally published in 1977 and has long been out of print. This is a reprint of that edition, with an addendum containing a 16pp. catalogue of additional new documents, plus 60 new illustrations. We are pleased to be the U.S.distributors of this definitive work on Bridgeman. $225.00

Sandhog

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Penn Publishing Philadelphia 1938 First First edition. Fine in fine, fresh dustwrapper with a single short tear on the front panel. Novel about a clan of sandhogs (tunnel builders working under New York's East River) which includes some elements of the labor novel. Great Brandywine-style jacket art. Chase wrote both fiction and screenplays in a number of genres for several decades. Today he is best remembered for the classic western Red River.

Memoires de la Vie Privee de Benjamin Franklin, ecrits par lui-meme

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1791 FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. Memoires de la Vie Privee de Benjamin Franklin, Ecrits par lui-meme, et Adresses a son Fils .... Paris: Chez Buisson, 1791. [2], vi, 156, 207 p. (pp. 204-207 misnumbered 360-363). Nineteenth-century French morocco-backed boards (rubbed, front hinge beginning to crack). Nineteenth-century private library stamp at foot of title page, else a clean, tight copy. First edition of the most famous eighteenth-century American autobiography, and one of the classic pieces of Americana. Franklin tells the story, often with considerable candor, of his climb from poverty to success and influence, attributing much of his good fortune to habits of thrift and frugality. "The most widely read of all American autobiographies, the gift to adolescents of countless parents, godparents and well-wishers, this book holds the essence of the American way of life."--Grolier, American One Hundred, 21; Streeter Sale 4171; Howes F323 ("b"); Ford 383.

Union Canal Company Annual Report of the President and Managers of the Union Canal Company of Pennsylvania to the Stockholders. November 21, 1826.

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Philadelphia: Printed by Lydia R. Bailey, No. 10, North Alley, 1826. (1-2), 3-12pp. 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches. Original blue wrap with Ò1826Ó in ink in contemporary hand on front. First edition. American Imprints 26261 recording 6 copies; OCLC 30553304 citing Boston Athenaeum, Library Company, and U. of Oregon only. Historical society stamp on front wrap and title-page. Wrap worn at spine and barely holding. The Union Canal was a towpath canal proposed in 1690, but not begun until 1792 during WashingtonÕs administration. Completion was delayed until 1828. It was called the ÒGolden Link,Ó providing coal and lumber to Philadelphia and was not closed until 1880. Remnants remain and the Union Canal Tunnel, a hand-built engineering marvel, is the oldest existing transportation tunnel in the United States listed in the National Register (paraphrased from Wikipedia). Aside from wear to spine and society stamp, rest very good and fresh and printed by Lydia Bailey.

The Law of Fraud, Misrepresentation and Mistake in British India.

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1894 Pollock, Sir Frederick [1845-1937]. The Law of Fraud, Misrepresentation and Mistake in BritishIndia. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co. 1894. xii, 160 pp. Octavo (5-1/2" x 8-1/2"). Original cloth, blind frames to boards, gilt title to spine. Light soiling, faint spotting to boards, corners and spine ends bumped and lightly worn, internally clean. Ex-library. Location label to spine, small inkstamp to title page. * The 1894 Tagore Lectures. "How can a man do better than his best? What can the distinguished author have to say on the law of fraud that has not already been said compendiously and exactly in his admirable works on Torts and Contracts? How can lectures at Calcutta differ from lectures at Oxford? One who, in this skeptical spirit, takes up the Tagore Lectures will meet with an agreeable surprise. Much, very much, in the shape of valuable suggestion and criticism will be found here that is not stated with equal fulness and distinctness in the writer's earlier books. The explanation is not that the law has grown during the last year or two. It is rather that, in preparing these lectures, Sir Frederick Pollock has had the great advantage of contemplating the law from a comparatively new point of view.": J.S., Harvard Law Review 8 (1894-95) 434. OCLC locates 29 copies. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School (1909) II:367.

WORKS OF FRANCIS BACON, LORD CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND (16 VOLUMES)

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1825 With several engraved plates, facsmile and foldout chart. Edited by Basil Montagu. 8vo (8 1/5 x 5 3/8 inches), 16 volumes. Bound in full tan calf (spines darkened) with marbled endpapers & fore-edges, contemporary covers with outer gilt ruled border and inner blind ruled border with small corner devices, spines have been rebacked (not recent) and have raised bands framed with double gilt rules, 2 panels are lettered in gilt and there is a gilt device in the remaining panels. Some dryness and crackling to the spine (refurbished), Some wear to the extremities and some minor chips to some of the spine caps, else a clean tight set in very good condition. London: William Pickering, 1825-1834. New edition. VG

MAXWELL LAND GRANT. A NEW MEXICO ITEM.

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Santa Fe The Rydal Press (1942) 168 pages. Illustrated from photographs. Octavo, 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. Orange pictorial cloth designed by Hazel Dreis; in a chipped dust jacket, spine of jacket darkened.
First edition. Signed and inscribed by Keleher. With the blind stamp of the writer Alice Bullock.

Unexplored Syria Visits To The Libanus, The Tulel El Safa, The Anti-Libanus, The Northern Libanus, And The `Alah

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London Tinsley Brothers 1872 First edition 360 & 400 pages. 23 x 14 cm. Twenty-seven lithographed plates including the frontispieces, eleven are folding, plus large fold-out color map, and twenty-eight text illustrations. Index. Burton noted this work as a "pot-pourri" on "Unexplored Syria," containing articles by Burton Drake, Mrs. Burton and others -- rather than a continuous and smooth narrative -- compiled during sundry desert explorations Burton was Consul in Damascus from 1865-197, and Drake came to Syria under the auspices of the Palestine Exploration Society. PENZER 85-88. Scarce set in original cloth, interior contents clean, a few map folds reinforced with archival tape, light cover soiling, a few corners bumped, two small cloth puckers (approx. one by one inches) cover of Vol.I and back cover Vol.II. Orig. mustard cloth, front cover border fillets in black, frame interior rectangular designs also in black with back covers a design mirror, but in blind. Very good. 2 vols.

American Whalers in the Western Arctic, the Final Epoch of the GreatAmerican Sailing Whaling Fleet.

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Edward J. Lefkowicz, Inc., Fairhaven, MA: 1983. Oblong elephant folio, 48 pp, 12 full page color plates. Watercolors and drawings by William Gilkerson with introduction and text by John R. Bockstoce. This is a limited edition of 400 copies, of which this is number 356, signed by the artist. There is an extra suite of 12 color plates in a separate grey cloth bound portfolio. Pale grey cloth cover with quarter blue morocco. Title in silver on front cover and in silver on blue morocco spine; no title on separate portfolio. Fine

Journal of Cellular Physiology Volumes 87-88 Jan-Jul

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Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology Philadelphia 1976 Buckram ex library stickers and stamps Very Good

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE OR THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE...

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Cleveland: Hamilton Press, 2001 Limited edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by artist Barry Hoffman. Octavo, designed and illustrated by Barry Hoffman, linen-backed pictorial boards. 1969 Nebula and 1970 Hugo nominee. "A masterpiece... A key work of modern SF." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-479. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2101-06. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#102857)

Abstract Expressionist Painting in America.

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1983 SEITZ, William C. Abstract Expressionist Painting in America. Over 300 illustrations, some incolor. 490pp. Short thick 4to, gray cloth, d.w. Cambridge: Harvard University Press for the National Gallery of Art, 1983. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. very good

Vanity Fair. A novel without a hero.

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London: Bradbury & Evans, Brouverie Street 1848 4to. Full red morocco, elaborately decorated in gilt and green, a.e.g. Several illustrations in the text by the author. Hand painted ivory miniature portrait of Thackeray under glass on blue morocco doublures. In slipcase, a fine copy.

Group of six plays bound in one volume, “As…Acted at the Theatres-Royal inDrury-Lane and Covent Garden”

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London: Harrison & Co. [and/or] J. Wenman, 1780; 1778; 1777; 1778; 1779; 1777 The plays are: (1) Timon of Athens, 1780. 19pp. Frontispiece of “Mr. Barry in the Character of Timon.” Jaggard, p. 472; (2) Romeo and Juliet, 1778. 19pp. Frontispiece of “Mrs. Jackson in the Character of Juliet.” Jaggard, p. 445; (3) Othello, 1777. 22pp. Frontispiece of “Mr. Barry in the Character of Othello.” Jaggard, p. 424; (4) King Richard III, 1778 19pp. LACKING frontispiece of “Mr. Garrick the Character of Richard.” Jaggard, p. 371; (5) Hamlet, 1779. 22pp. Frontispiece of “Mr. Henderson in the Character of Hamlet.” Jaggard, p. 306; (6) Cymbeline, 1777. 21pp. Frontispiece of “Mr. Reddish in the Character of Posthumus.” Jaggard, p. 301 8vo. Each [except King Richard the III] with one engraved plate as frontispiece. Bound together in 19th-century half tan calf and cloth, black leather spine labels. Joints slightly rubbed, overall very good

Household Furniture and Interior Decoration Executed from Designs by Thomas Hope.

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London:, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. First edition. Folio. Extra-engraved title page, 53pp, 60 copper engraved plates after Hope's drawings. Modern half deep brown goat over original boards, raised spine bands with gilt spine lettering and stamping, new endpapers laid-down. Foxing throughout is not objectionable. This is the first work documenting the Regency style; a monograph on Hope's Duchess Street mansion in London which was designed and decorated to provide examples of good taste as he found contemporary English furnishing ghastly. The finely engraved plates depict Egyptian and Greek Revival interiors and furnishings of all kinds, including mantlepieces, chandeliers, urns, tables, seating, mirrors, cabinets, as well as the highly detailed decorative motifs borne by each piece. Hope's book was the primary source of 19th century English neo-classicism. Literature: Abbey Life 24; Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture & Interiors p 193; Berlin Katalog 1236; Grand Rapids p63.

Tulipa var.' (A red and yellow tulip and a white and rose-coloured tulip)

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Pencil, bodycolour and brown ink, inscribed '90' (upper right). 12 1/8 x 7¾ inches. An excellent double portrait of a 'bybloemen' and 'roesenblom' variety of tulip The technique and pointed petals of the blooms (particularly of the 'Roesenbloom' variety) suggest that the drawing was executed during the early to mid-17th-century.

Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio Primùm à R.P. Gaspare Schotto...nunc verò ab ipso Auctore Perfectiùs edita, variisque aliis Experimentis aucta. Quibus accesserunt simul certa quaedam De Aeris Pondere circa Terram; de Virtutibus Mundanis, & Systemate Mundi Planetario; sicut & de Stellis Fixis, ac Spatio illo Immenso, quod tàm intra quam extra eas funditur.

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Engraved title, fine engraved port. of the author, two double-page engraved plates, & 20 engravingsin the text (many full-page). 8 p.l. (including the engraved title), 244, [4] pp., 1 leaf of errata. Folio, cont. calf (small careful repair to upper cover), arms in gilt on upper cover, lower cover with arabesque stamp in gilt, spine gilt with "F v S" stamped in gilt in five compartments, contrasting leather lettering piece. Amsterdam: J. Janssonium a Waesberge, 1672. First edition, and a really fine and handsome copy, of one of the great classics of science. This is the nicest copy of this book I have seen for many years. This book is notable for its importance in the fields of electricity and air pressure and for its account of the discovery of the vacuum pump. Guericke describes here his electrical machine by which he generated the first visible and audible electric discharges (illustrated here). "This remarkable work on experimental philosophy ranks next to Gilbert's in the number and importance of the electrical discoveries described. Electric conduction and repulsion, the discharging power of points, the dissipation of charge by flames, the light due to electrification, the crepitating noises of small sparks are all recognized."Wheeler Gift Cat. 170. Also described is his famous air-pump with which he created a vacuum, something (or nothing) which had been sought since antiquity. This air-pump became fundamentally important for the study of the physical properties of gases. Guericke was able to demonstrate here that air had weight and determined its density. The applications in meteorology were enormous. Guericke was also a devoted Copernican and this book contains his important astronomical investigations. Contemporary ownership inscription of Rudolph, Graf von Abensperg und Traun, chamberlain of the imperial court on free front endpaper. An earlier member of Rudolph's family was Otto Ferdinand, Graf von Abensperg und Traun, field marshal under Frederick the Great. Dibner, Heralds of Science, 55 (pp. 30 & 67). Dibner, Founding Fathers of Electrical Science, pp. 13-14. D.S.B., V, pp. 574-76. Evans, Exhibition of First Editions of Epochal Achievements in the History of Science (1934), 30. Horblit 44. Sparrow, Milestones of Science, p. 16.

Coelum sephiroticum Hebraeorum per portas intelligentiae, Moysi revelatas interiores naturalium rerum characteres... manifestans, ex vetustissima Hebraica veritate medicinae, chymiae, astronomiae, astrologiae, botanicae, zoologiae, anthropologiae, aliarumque scientiarum nova principia... explicans ...

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Mainz Chritsoph Kuchler for Ludwig Bourgeat 1679 Folio Old 3/4 vellum & German pasteboards near fine, only portion at hd. of half-title separating at gutter, small oval Jesuit College stamp in outer marg. of t.p., college name not discernable; [6], 140, [16] pages; fine large allegorical engraving on title-page; 20 engraved text illustrations; First edition of a treatise on natural philosophy founded on an occult interpretation of the seven days of Creation; includes references to the New World and Atlantis. The are fine astrological and occult plates, and woodcuts with signs of the horoscope. “Johann Christoph Steeb wrote on the elixir of gold and life and a newly discovered genuine preparation of potable gold treated mathematically, hieroglyphicaly, anagogically and cabalistically. He quoted Greek, Hebrew, and the Arab, Artefius, who lived 1025 years. . .Steeb also published, in 1679, a Sephirotic Heaven purporting to derive new principles of medicine, chemistry, astronomy, astrology, botany, zoology, anthropology and other sciences from the most ancient Hebraic truth through the gates of intelligence revealed to Moses.”—Thorndike. Krivatsky 11404. Thorndike VIII, 388. Scholem, Bibliographica Kabbalistica 1090. Not located in Brunet or Grasse. OCLC records 4 copies: NLM, Duke, NYPL, Boston Public Library; other libraries have only a microfilm copy.

La Iffanta Coronada, por El Rey Don Pedro, Doña Ines de Castro. En octava rima . . . .

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Lisbon, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1606. Title-page with typographical border and woodcut arms, woodcut arms of D. Francisco Mascarenhas, Conde de Santa Cruz (to whom the work is dedicated) on recto of third preliminary leaf, woodcut initial, typographical headpieces. (8), 87 [i.e. 83; foliation skips 61-64, see below], (1 errata) ll. 4º, contemporary vellum (a bit soiled and otherwise worn, text block becoming loose), vertical manuscript title on spine. Missing triangular piece of upper outer corner of title-page (about 7 x 5 x 5 cm.), affecting part of border. Title-page also with some minor soiling, a tear of 5 cm. at inner margin and a few small holes. Light waterstains. Overall a good copy of a very rare book. FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this very rare poem in octaves telling the tragic love story that repeatedly occurs in Portuguese literature. For a description of the content it would be difficult to improve upon the entry in Maggs, @One Hundred Spanish Books."The theme is the tragic romance of Inez de Castro, whose story has inspired more than one dramatist since it was enacted with grim reality in the fourteenth century. The beautiful lady-in-waiting, Inez, had accompanied the Infanta Constança to Portugal on the occasion of the betrothal of the latter to Dom Pedro, the future King. As history has shown, Pedro gave his hand to the Princess and his heart to her lady; until their mutual passion was openly acknowledged between them, and they became two of the world's great lovers. With the death of the Infanta, and the morganatic marriage of Pedro and Inez, began a series of personal and political intrigues at the court of the Prince's father, Dom Affonso IV. The Portuguese favourites, fearing Spain's ascendancy through the influence of Inez, or their own dismissal in favour of Inez' Spanish friends, sought to influence the King against her, even accusing her of attempting to procure the succession of her eldest son to the throne of Portugal, instead of that of the legitimate heir, Pedro's son by the Infanta Constança. The intrigues culminated in Inez' dramatic assassination, for which the King was partly responsible; and in the passionate avowal, on the part of the grief-stricken Pedro, that he would make amends at the earliest opportunity. There followed one of the most curious events in history: immediately after his accession, Pedro not only severely punished all who had taken part in the persecution of Inez, but insisted upon the Church's recognition of his marriage with her. She was his Queen; and, as such, was to be accorded dignified burial with royal pomp. Accordingly, her remains were exhumed and conveyed to the royal vault at Alcobaça. The route, which covered a number of miles, was lined with troops who presented arms as the cortege wended its way between the ranks; and, on arrival, at the burial-place, the most remarkable and gruesome coronation ceremony took place with due solemnity: with his own hands Pedro placed upon Inez de Castro's head, the queenly crown which circumstances had denied her in her life-time."Juan Suárez de Alarcón, or João Soares de Alarcão, was born in 1580 near Lisbon (at Torres Vedras, according to Barbosa Machado, or at Cintra, according to Innocêncio). He studied literature, history and poetry from an early age, and served as seventh @Alcaide-môr of Torres Vedras. Aside from this work, he also published @Archimusa de varias rimas y efectos, Madrid 1611, in which the poems were mostly in Portuguese despite the Castilian title. The biography given in the Maggs catalogue, where the author is said to have been alive at the time of the Restauração, is incorrect: both Barbosa Machado and Innocêncio state that Suárez de Alarcón died in 1618, at the age of 38.The copy described in @NUC has the same folio numbers omitted as this copy. In our copy, the text is complete (moving from the end of stanza 9 to the beginning of stanza 10 in the fifth Canto), as are the quires (quires H and I both of eight leaves, with H8 foliated 60 and I1 foliated 65).Arouca, @Bibliografia das obras impressas em Portugal no século XVII, I, 39, A72. Cruz, ed., @Tipografia portuguesa do Séc. XVII: a colecção da Biblioteca Nacional, I, 49, 60. Barbosa Machado II, 762. Innocêncio IV, 40; X, 356: notes that he had only seen one copy of the work, "assás maltractado." Palau 323800: citing only the Maggs copy. Gallardo 3979. Pinto de Mattos (1970) p. 582. Maggs, @One Hundred Spanish Books 93. Garcia Peres p. 533. HSA p. 522. Palha 844. Azambuja 2451. Monteverde 1029. Azevedo-Samodães 3224. Avila Perez 7335. Biblioteca Nacional, Lisboa, @Inés de Castro, 1355–2005: exposiçao bibliográfica 53. Not in Salvá or Heredia. Not located in Orbis. No copy cited in Catálogo Colectivo del Património Bibliográfico Español. Porbase cites only a single hard copy, formerly belonging to the Visconde de Trindade, in the Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra. There is also a microfilm copy in the BN, Lisboa. NUC: MiU, MH.

La photographie astronomique a L'Observatoire de Paris et la carte du ciel. (Astronomical Photography from the Paris Observatory and a Map of the Heavens)

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8vo (180 x 128mm), 107 pp.Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1887. A rare pioneering work on stellar photography by Admiral Ernest Mouchez, director of the Paris Observatory. With photographs taken by the Henry brothers on their photographic telescope, including three heliogravure plates (one folding), four original photographs with overlay keys, and some wood-engraved illustrations in text. Rebound in red leather over original wrappers. Admiral Mouchez's equatorial photographic telescope was specifically constructed to create his photographic map of the heavens. It was possible to photograph extremely faint stars with the newly developed silver bromide-gelatin plate. The first photograph, which serves as a frontispiece, is of the lunar surface in the region of the crater Eratosthenes. The second is of the Hercules cluster. The third photograph is a time-lapse series of images of Jupiter, showing the rotation of the red spot. The fourth is of Saturn and its rings and of Jupiter and its bands.

A.M.Q.S., 8vo, Monte-carlo, May 1912.

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This original musical quote boasts a strong and graceful hand, in thick lead strokes. Puccini has transcribed one bar from his own 'La Fanciulla del West', based on the play 'The Girl of the Golden West', by Belasco (1907). Along the bottom of the large illustration, he signs grandly, "Giacomo Puccini, Montecarlo, May 1912." Fanciulla, Puccini's first opera commissioned in the U.S., debuted at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, on December 10th, 1910.

Simulacre

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1925 MASSON, André. Simulacre. By Michel Leiris. Illustrated with 7 lithographs by Masson, of which one is the front wrapper. 4to., original wrappers in a cloth folding box. Paris: Editions de la Galerie Simon (Daniel Henry Kahnweiler), 1925. A fine copy of Masson's second book, which is Leiris' first book of poetry. An important example of surrealist book-illustration. One of an edition of 90 copies on Arches, signed by both Leiris and Masson. The Artist and the Book 191. Cramer, Masson Illustrated Books 2.

By Myself

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NY: Henry Holt (1993) Stated 1st edition with 1 present in the number line; small square4to., glossy pictorial boards; illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Nonny Hogrogian; a story about a little girl and her adventures on her way home from school; very good in very good dust jacket.

EXCAVATIONS AT JALAME. Site of a Glass Factory in Late Roman Palestine

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University of Missouri Press Columbia, MO 1988 ....... 4to., xxv, 378pp., Dj has tear along top front edge; else, vg Black & White Illustrations Cloth With extensive figures, plates, plans and drawings VG/G

Heathen Chinee.

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Chicago: The Western News Company, 1870. 8vo. Nine lithographed cards in printed envelope. First edition; first printing. BAL 7248. Cards are fine; envelope is near fine(a little soiled), with flap intact. An excellent example.

The kingdom of the yellow robe: being sketches of the domestic andreligious rites and ceremonies of the Siamese. [Illus. by E.A.Norbury.]

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London, Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd., 1907 Third edition. Hardcover. Author's signature on the title page, and inscription on the front free endpaper. A worn and shabby copy, but intact. Internally clean except for a couple small stains.

The Heating Effect of Radium Emanation and its Products. Contained in Engineering An Illustrated Weekly Journal, Volume 93 & 94 pages 549.

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London, 1912. Contained in volume 94 (Lowood pg. 10, 1912C). A brief article on some experiments that Rutherford was performing to answer two fundamental questions. Was the energy of the radiations a measure of the heating effect and was the heating due to the a particles, or also to the other products. Six months bound as one volume. This is a two volume set, complete year. Numerous monochrome illustrations. Pages: 894, 900. 10 1/2" x 13 1/2". Binding: Half light brown calf, tan and dark brown marbled paper over boards, marbled page edges, raised bands, gilt design and black label with gilt titles at spine. ( Also contains The Origin of B [ Beta ] and y [ Gamma ] Rays from Radioactive Substances by Ernest Rutherford ). ). Slight to moderate rubbing at extremities, corner board exposure just starting. Volume I small pieces of top layer of calf at upper front corner missing. Volume II small pieces of calf missing at spine heel and front corners. Provenance stamps: Stadsingeniorens Kontor and Udgaaet af Danmarks tekniske Bibliotek at front free, printer's blank and title page. Both volumes interior is clean and tight in bindings.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF LEWIS CARROLL

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(CARROLL,LEWIS). WILLIAMS,SIDNEY HERBERT. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF LEWIS CARROLL by SidneyHerbert. London: Bookman's Journal, 1924. xiii, [1], 142, [4] p.. cloth, sl. fading else Fine in dust wrapper. LIMITED TO 700 NUMBERED COPIES. The first major bibliography of Carroll's work, illustrated with facsimiles. Rare, esp. in dw.

Axel. With a Preface by William Butler Yeats.

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"London: Jarrolds Publishing, 1925. First edition. Large octavo. 296 pages. With black and white illustrations and decorations. Number 53 of 500 copies. Nice bookplate on the front pastedown, spine a little dull otherwise a lovely, near fine copy in original white cloth elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt, teg. Signed by the translator, H. P. R. Finberg."

THE "PRINCE ARTHUR" BATTLEDORE.

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Eastwood G.R. Barber (c1820) 8 3/4" x 5 1/2" cardboard, folded to form two leaves with an extra piece folded over, illustrated with vignette on front flap with printed title, plus 4 half-page medallions: a Chinese Junk of War, Fort at Cawnpore, Fort Cwalior, and the Destruction of the Chinese Fleet June 1817. The other 2 leaves contain two alphabet series, irregular alphabets and syllable exercises. Fine copy of this rare provincial battledore. Battledores were modifications of hornbooks and were printed on [varying colored] cardboard. It is suggested that the extra flap was to be used in the game of battledore to strike the shuttlecock, but it seems unlikely since they are made of lightweight cardboard.

PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF JOHN H. BRINTON, MAJOR AND SURGEON U.S.V., 1861-1865.

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Neale Publishing Co., New York: 1914. 361 pp., frontis. First edition. Original cloth, top corners bumped, else near fine copy. EICHER 452: "The author presents significant reflections on a Civil War surgeon's life, describes the Mound City hospital, recalls his first meeting with Grant, describes a malaria infestation, and sketches his appointment as medical director of the Army of the Tennessee. The work describes scenes of ghastly surgery following Belmont and the battle of Shiloh, service in the surgeon general's office, and war experiences in the East." KRICK 54: "The doctor was on friendly, almost intimate, terms with Grant and was also well acquainted with Sheridan, Rosecrans, McPherson and Hallack. He had occasion to see Lincoln while he was in Washington. Brinton's narrative of his experiences is generally very carefully accurate. His record of visits to the battlefields of Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg and Fredericksburg provides a valuable insight into the care of wounded in each case - especially the latter. Dr. Brinton's stint in Washington was spent primarily in the office of the Surgeon General and in the incipient Army Medical Museum. Brinton's journeys covered much of the country during the war years and he faithfully recorded impressions of all that he experienced. Stops on his travels included the Shenandoah Valley, Louisville, St. Louis, Nashville, Cairo, Mound City, Forts Henry and Donelson and the Battle of Belmont. The sum total is one of the best memoirs written by a Federal officer." COULTER 51. DORNBUSCH II, 1867.

JOHNSON'S NEW ILLUSTRATED (STEEL PLATE) FAMILY ATLAS.

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1863 (MAPS) Fisher, Richard Swainson. JOHNSON'S NEW ILLUSTRATED (STEEL PLATE) FAMILY ATLAS, With Physical Geography, and with Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical including ... a Geographical Index, and a Chronological History of the Civil War in America. NY: Johnson and Ward, 1863. 18"x 13 1/2", 105p, 99 maps and double page unnumbered map of the Vicinity of Richmond and Peninsula Campaign in Virginia, original full maroon leather with blind stamping and gilt decoration, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, minor chipping at bottom of front outer hinge, slight browning of paper but no foxing of maps and text, Ohio map neatly repaired, g-vg. Unusual handsome leather binding.

THE DYER'S ART IKAT, BATIK, PLANGI

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Van Nostrand Reinhold New York 1976 Hardcover 272 pages, illustrated with photogrpahs in black and white and color. 14" x 10", navy blue cloth covers with gilt stamping. Very Good in a Very Good dj. VG

THE GRANT STRATHSPEY or FIRST HIGHLAND FENCIBLE REGIMENT 1793-1799.

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Elgin: 1934 1st ed. 128p; plates. Red decorated cloth. A very good copy. A rare history of this Scottish militia unit.

POEMS CHOSEN BY WALTER DE LA MARE.

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Gregynog Press, 1930 235 x 159 mm. (9 1/4 x 6 1/4""). 3 p.l. vii-xliii [1] 107 [1] pp. ONE OF 25 COPIES SPECIALLY BOUND, of a total edition of 300. VERY FINE ANIMATED SCARLET LEVANT MOROCCO BY GREGYNOG (signed in gilt by R. Ashwin Maynard and George Fisher on rear turn-in) gilt tooled covers dominated by two large cruciform foliate ornaments elaborated with diagonal blind and gilt decoration (something like evergreen leaves) the ornaments on a field of gold dots the covers bordered by gilt and blind rules from which emanate a series of similar gilt and blind evergreen decorations spine with raised bands panels outlined in blind gilt titling turn-ins with double gilt rule top edge gilt other edges untrimmed. In the original publisher’s (slightly soiled but sturdy) board slipcase. Initial openings and frontispiece portrait by Maynard after drawings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Printed in red and black throughout. One page with a very trivial stain otherwise A VIRTUALLY PRISTINE COPY. De Zilverdistel 15; Harrop, p. 191; Ransom, p. 155; Franklin, p. 215. Cave says that the 42 books printed by the Gregynog Press beginning in 1923 “more than bear comparison with the work of any other private press” and “in the design and execution of bindings the Gregynog Press was far superior to any the Doves Press included.” The press was founded by Gwen and Daisy Davies two sisters from Wales and to help them actualize their goal of publishing beautiful private press books with a Welsh flavor they hired the young artist Robert Ashwin Maynard. George Fisher (1879-1970) who apprenticed at Rivière began doing bindings for the Gregynog Press in 1924 and he developed into a celebrated finisher. The issuance of a limited number of special bindings such as ours began with his presence at the press. Although there were no more Gregynog books after 1940 Fisher kept working on the special bindings for several more years thereafter retiring to his farm. His bindings which are relatively few in number were some of the most outstanding produced in the early 20th century. The works chosen for the present volume begin with the poet’s earliest verse written to her mother at the age of 12 and include two long poems--“Goblin Market” and “The Prince’s Progress”--which brought the author widespread recognition when they were first published and have interested feminist critics ever since. Christina Rossetti (1830-94) like her brother Dante Gabriel was part of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and she often evokes the Middle Ages which were such a source of inspiration to Pre-Raphaelite writers and painters. In his preface to this volume Walter de la Mare writes of Christina Rossetti that “with Emily Brontë she is supreme among English lyrical writers of her own sex.” Harrop describes our book as “impeccably printed in red and black on Japanese vellum.” For this volume Maynard has executed some very successful woodcuts including the sensitive portrait of the author based on a sketch by her famous brother. The binding influenced by art deco and reminiscent of a glowing Turkish kilim is surely one of the most attractive and unusual produced at the Gregynog Press.

CENTRAL ELECTRIC RAILFANS' ASSOCIATION [CERA]: BULLETINS 1944; #'s 50 - 58

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Chicago Central Electric Railfans Association (C.E.R.A.) 1944, First edition Comb binding/Stiff Card Covers Features articles on East Erie Commercial Railroad, Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railway Modernized Car 120, An Album of Illinois Traction Cars 270 & 271, and others. All 9 bulletins for 1943 within the CERA's tan covers with green stripe and lettering. Illustrated with photographs and diagrams, some as foldouts. A fine copy.

Original pen & ink drawing, with an original watercolor painting on the verso, undated, framed & glazed.

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Denton Welch was born in Shanghai, China, in 1915. In 1922, he attended the Goldsmith School of Art, where he studied with Edward Bawden. In 1935, he was struck from behind by a car while riding his bicycle to visit an aunt and his spine was fractured. Although he was able to walk again, he was an invalid for the rest of his life and eventually died of the cumulative effects of the accident in 1948. Welch is best known as the author of several imaginative semi-autobiographical works, including Maiden Voyage

(1943), In Youth Is Pleasure

(1945), Brave and Cruel

(1948), and the posthumously published A Voice Through A Cloud

(1950) and A Last Sheaf

(1951). One of Welch's admirers was William Burroughs who expressed his admiration for Welch in an interview: "I like everything he wrote. I've read every word I could get my hands on. He started out to be a painter. He was in art school when he had the accident. He had a terrific style with the choice of one word or another or a sentence that no one but Denton Welch could have written. I compare him to Jane Bowles because she had the same faculty for writing a sentence that no one else could conceivably have written. And there, again, her complete work is 500 pages or se. People ask me about influences. I should say that he is the strongest influence on my work - stylistically certainly." During his life, Welch's art works were represented by the Leicester Galleries in London, where his first exhibition was mounted in 1941, as well as by the Leger and Redfern Galleries. His work is often compared to that of contemporary English neo-Romantic painters such as John Minton, John Craxton, Graham Sutherland, John Piper, Michael Ayrton, David Jones, and Keith Vaughan who were active during the years between 1935-1955. A characteristically enigmatic, some might say surrealistic, drawing by the artist Fine.

The Travels & Sufferings of Father Jean De Brebeuf Among the Hurons of Canada

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The Golden Cockerel Press 1938, Limited Cloth Fine Publisher's two toned cloth with leather spine label. #292 of 300 copies. Illustrated with a double-page wood engraved title by Eric Gill. Provenance: George Grady, the American printer, with Maggs Bros. invoice, dated 14 Feb. 1949, tipped-in at front. PERTELOTE, No. 136. GILL, No. 297.

The Wonderful Game of Oz

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Salem Parker Bros. 1921 boxed orig. box with litho cover and game pieces First Edition. Swann / Schiller, # 492. A very good copy. The Parker Bros. game based on Baum's, Wizard of Oz. The set offered here has all the parts issued with the game. The pewter game pieces are the earliest state, and the rules book is printed with a color cover.The game board is in nearly new condition. There are six wooden ' dice ' that spell out W - I - Z - A - R - D and the original wooden dice casting cup. The overall condition is remarkably good. Two corners of the lid have split, there is some fraying and wear around the extremities of box, there is some dustiness and three or four minor scuffs/scrapes to color illustration on the cover but otherwise the game is in an excellent state of preservation.

LARES AND PENATES: Or, Cilicia and Its Governors; Being a Short Historical Account of That Province from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Together With a Description of Some Household Gods of the Ancient Cilicians, Broken up by Them on Their Convers

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Ingram, Cooke, and Co., London: 1853. 1853, Hardcover pp. xiv, 394, (2) [Publisher's catalogue] + Frontis and large folding map of Syria. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts. Frontis and title page reinforced with old tape repair. All edges gold. XLib from John Watts de Peyster library. 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding by William Bone, London. Front board highly decorated in gold with a floral Arabic design. Boards detached. Spine needs to be re-backed. Hardbound. HOLY LAND BOX 1

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) TO HIS DAUGHTER

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New York 8 Dec. 1938 Superb and touching one-page letter in Kent's minuscule hand to his 25-year-old daughter Clara expressing his disappointment that she will not be spending Christmas with him. In full: "It was about 12 years ago when, out of consideration for your mother, I gave up claiming my family for Christmas Day and set New Years Day as our day for Christmas celebration. That this gave you children two Christmases we hoped was doubly nice for you; and that it gave us Christmas--though a week later--with my children was a happiness that we planned for and looked forward to. Only the absencefar from home of Frances [his second wife whom he would divorce in 1939] orme or both of us has made a New Years' pass uncelebrated as the family Christmas. All this you know. And that, knowing it, you pass up your father's Christmas for a New Year at a friend's is something that I will not forget nor easily forgive. That Frances is deeply hurt at your 'previous engagement' when after two years of enforced absence she is at last home again and eager to make a Christmas for us all, is something I have read in her face as she read your letter. That is all I know about it.I will now wish you both a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year." SIGNED "Affectionately Father." The mixture of sadness and restrained anger is quite evident in this scarce and very personal autograph letter by one of the most famous American artists of the twentieth century. The bulk of Kent's papers were donated to the Smithsonian. Normal creases from folding, about Fine.

Le plaisant liure…des faictz & gestes des illustres & cleres dames.

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Paris, [J. Réal for] P. Hermier 1538. 8vo. [iix], 196 leaves. Bâtarde type, several series of initials, half-page woodcut of the author presenting his book, pointing hands throughout, title in red & black with several majuscules stroked in gold ink, unrecorded variant of Alexandre’s device on final verso (see Renouard 1 & 934). Green morocco (c. 1830), panels alike with outer & inner gilt ruled borders, azured corner fleurons, board edge corners gilt, spine & title gilt, wide turn-ins gilt. *LIVES OF LADIES. SECOND EDITION IN FRENCH of The Deeds of Famous Women (first Vérard 1493). Issued 4 March 1538, it is the first book printed by Jean Réal and the first published by Jean Hermier: it is not in NUC, Rothschild, Fairfax Murray, Adams, Gay or Brun. A fine copy (title backed, one leaf foliated in ms.). I.A. 120.271; BM STC 71; Brunet I: 990-1; Bouchéreaux, “Recherches bib. sur G. Corrozet” in Bull. du bibliophile (1954) 262, 9.

Collection of 12 first editions

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ELIOT, George. Collection of 12 First Editions. WITH: Cross, John Walter. George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals. London, 1885. 30 Volumes. Octavo, 20th-century half green morocco gilt, top edges gilt. $12,500. Beautiful set of Eliot first editions (or first editions in book form), comprising all her major works, including the scarce Scenes of Clerical Life (1959), Silas Marner (1861) and Middlemarch (1871-72), along with John Walter Cross's three-volume biography, George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals (1885), a beautiful, 30-volume set, uniformly bound in rich green morocco. Eliot, who pioneered the method of psychological analysis characteristic of modern fiction, has been praised for the qualities that make her "a supreme novelist in an age of great novelists: her penetrating sympathy, her deep knowledge of humanity, her dramatic and descriptive power, her lambent humor, and the reflection of her extraordinary mind" (Kunitz and Haycraft, 212). This collection includes first editions of all of Eliot's major novels. A fine set of first editions, beautifully and uniformly bound, comprising: Scenes from Clerical Life Edinburgh, 1858; Adam Bede. Three volumes. Edinburgh & London, 1859; The Mill on the Floss. Three volumes. London, 1860; Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe. Edinburgh & London, 1861; Romola. First edition in book form. Three volumes. London, 1863; Felix Holt the Radical. Three volumes. Edinburgh & London, 1866; The Spanish Gypsy. Edinburgh & London, 1868; Middlemarch. First edition in book form. Four volumes. Edinburgh & London, 1871-72; The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems. Edinburgh & London, 1874; The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems. Edinburgh & London, 1874; Impressions of Theophrastus Such. Edinburgh & London, 1879; Essays and Leaves from a Note-Book. Edinburgh & London, 1884; WITH: CROSS, J.W. George Eliot's Life as Related in her Letters and Journals. Three volumes. London, 1885. A beautifully bound set.

Euphranor. A Dialogue on Youth.

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[FITZGERALD, Edward]. Euphranor. A Dialogue on Youth. 12mo. Orig. green cloth. London: Pickering, 1851. First edition of the author's first book. Prideaux p. 1. Extremities of spine a trifle rubbed, but a fine, clean copy. Rare.

The American bird fancier; considered with reference to the breeding, rearing, feeding, management, and peculiarities of cage and house birds.

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New York C.M. Saxton (copyright 1850) 12mo (19.2 cm, 7.5"). Frontis., 107, [1], 12 (adv.) pp.; illus. Amateur's guide to the care and keeping of birds such as canaries, goldfinches, linnets, and pigeons; this is most likely the first edition and certainly at least a very early printing. Written by Browne, head of the agricultural division of the U.S. Patent Office from 1853 through 1859, the work is illustrated with a number of in-text engravings in addition to the frontispiece depiction of two canaries and their nest. Provenance: Front pastedown and free endpaper with inked inscriptions belonging to "Caroline and Jane (of) Millport" and (twice) "J. Emory Botsford (of) Millport NY." These bird lore-seeking Botsfords were surely kin to Anna Botsford Comstock (1854-1930)-identified by the online Encyclopedia Britannica as a prominent American "naturalist, illustrator, and educator" and by a Cornell "Sciencenter" publication as "the first female Cornell professor and arguably the mother of nature education." A pleasant thought, if not a matter of true importance! Binding: Publisher's pebbled blue cloth, covers and spine gilt- and blind-stamped,. Front cover with gilt-stamped pictorial vignette of a woman at a casement window, surrounded by birds on boughs and caged. Binding lightly rubbed, gilt bright. Endpapers browned, pages clean. A nice copy.

Ein Blüthenstrauss von Liedern und Gedichten dem Hochw. Herrn HeinrichMühlsiepen zu seinem Silbernen Jubiläum als General-Vicar gewidmet vonMitgliedern des Clerus der Erzdiöcese St. Louis, 27. Juni 1893

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Office Der Amerika St. Louis, MO 1893 H Cloth 100 pp. A good+ copy in blue cloth, no dust jacket.Spine end mashed unaffecting pages. Some soil spots. First 16pp very loose at top half of inner hinge. Pages are fine. Good +

THE LIFE OF GUSTAVUS VAUGHAN BROOKE, TRAGEDIAN

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W. & G. Baird Belfast 1892 1 of 500 copies only, SIGNED by Lawrence. Tall 8vo in original dark green cloth stamped in blind with gilt lettering on spine. Covers only slightly rubbed and corners bumped. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with about 16 items: portraits (one apparently signed) and playbills. (The Irish-born Brooke toured the US and later Australia in the early 1850's--see DNB.)

The "Three Immediate Women Friends" of the Anthony Family. See Biography of Susan B. Anthony, Page 1435, by Mrs. Ida Husted Harper. [Caption title]. 3 pp. large 4to leaflet.

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Montgomery, [Alabama] Brown Printing Co. [1918-20] Beneath the caption title are pictures of CarrieChapman Catt, the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw and "'Mrs. R. Jerome Jeffrey' (Negro)." Quotes Catt: "Suffrage Democracy Knows no Bias of Race, Color, Creed or Sex." We presume this to be an Alabama anti-suffrage document, pointing out to Southerners the fact that the leading suffragists supported equal rights for Negroes. It reprints part of a piece done by James Calloway in the Macon Telegraph in 1918, which cites portions of Harper's biography of Anthony. One paragraph reads: "History makes Fred Douglass the pet of a lot of ill-balanced old maids. Anna Dickinson was stuck on him. They were all anti-South and Douglass pleased them."Some apparent water damage on p. 2 makes about ten

REMINISCENCES OF CHICAGO DURING THE CIVIL WAR.

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Chicago Lakeside Press 1914 194p. Green cloth with gilt logo on upper cover, t.e.g. Minor spots to rear cover, else fien and bright

PETER PARLEY'S UNIVERSAL HISTORY

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[Hawthorne, Nathaniel and Elizabeth] PETER PARLEY'S UNIVERSAL HISTORY ON THE BASIS OF GEOGRAPHY. New York: Hoisington [1840] 2 vols. bound in one. Early edition. Original quarter red roan and black cloth, pictorially gilt in identical style as the regular cloth copies. Some light wear, but a very good copy of a very scarce printing. One of Hawthorne's rarest books. The original edition, co-authored by Hawthorne's sister, was published in two volumes in 1837 (the Martin copies were the last to appear at auction, and fetched $4,000 and $7,000 in 1990). The publisher of the first edition went out of business the following year and the plates passed to a New York publisher (Samuel Colman) who went out of business in the Panic of 1839; the plates then changed hands several times. Hoisington was the first of several publishers to reprint the book from those plates; the later undated reprints are frequently mistaken for the 1837 first edition, or else misrepresented as such. Clark (p. 44) pictures the pictorial binding of the English edition but not this pictorial American binding. Clark A3.1.d-note.

Mormonism Unveiled; Including the Remarkable Life and Confessions of the Late Mormon Bishop, John D. Lee; (Written by himself.) and Complete Life of Brigham Young, Embracing a History of Mormonism from its Inception Down to the Present Time, with an Exposition of the Secret History, Signs, Symbols, and Crimes of the Mormon Church. Also the True History of the Horrible Butchery Known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

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St. Louis, MO Scammell and Company 1882 413 pp. Octavo. Brown cloth with gilt stamped titles. Illustrated. Very good. Light moisture damage to lower half of front board, light rubbing to extremities, corners bumped, rear board spotted at foot and gently rubbed, minor warping at foot of pastedowns. Textblock clean and tight. Written by the only person ever convicted and executed in relation to the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Flake 4858a. Howes L206.

General Orders No. 35, March 19, 1864

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Richmond 1864 Self-wraps Rubber stamp of the Records Division of the U.S. War Department "Rebel Archives;" paper some browing with light foxing; 3 holes punched on left margin with several text letters affected ; Various orders to the Army plus a list of the average cost of arms, parts of arms and accoutrements. A breech loading carbine was $75.00 and a bayonet, $11.00 Parrish 2431 ; 2 pages Good

Report to the Bondholders and Stockholders, December 31, 1872

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31 8vo, buff wrappers, front printed Boston: [The Company]:Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers, 1874. RAILROADS

The Cries of London.

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London: O. Hodgson, 21 Maiden Lane Wood Street, circa 1830. 6 x 4 inches. The book is in a facsimile color illustrated paper cover with new endpapers and preliminaries. The book offers a title page followed by twelve numbered pages of cries, each with a nearly full page hand-colored engraving and some lines of text for the cry. Did you know about Thro' each alley and lane this girl is known well, with basket on arm water-cress to sell? The included cries are: Water Cress Girl; Pie Man; Milk Maid; Baker; Cats Meat; Old Clothes; Cherries; Black Billy; Rabbits; Sweep; Eel Man; and Lavender. Orlando Hodgson did brightly colored and energetic presentations and this is a good example of their work. This book not on oclc ~

PRINTING & GRAPHIC ARTS. Nine volumes.

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1965 Paperback (STINEHOUR PRESS) NASH, Ray, and others (editors). PRINTING & GRAPHIC ARTS. Ten volumes, (all published). Lunenburg, Vermont: The Stinehour Press, 1953-1965. 8vo. 2 volumes in publisher's boards, 4 in later cloth, 4 with issues in original self wrappers 38 issues in all. First editions. Edited by Ray Nash, Rollo G. Silver, and Roderick D. Stinehour, this periodic concentrated on private printing, typography, illustration, color printing, Canadian printing, and similar topics by Jan Tschichold, Lawrence Thompson, Adrian Wilson, Warren Chappell, and others. Illustrated throughout and with fold-out plates. Some issues are lightly browned, but overall a very good se

(Virginia)(Humor) SELECTIONS FROM THE MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS OF DR. GEORGE W. BAGBY

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Richmond, 1884, xxxvii,403/vi,411pp., 2 vol., small 8vo. This set is v.g. in a matched binding in green cl. over beveled bds. Check your set, I'll bet it doesn't match! Bkstrp gilt bright. The heliotype ftspc of Dr. Bagby foxed above the port and on the other side (backispiece?). Famous as a humorist in Virginia from Civil War times til his death, Bagby authored the great "Jud. Brownin's Account of Rubenstein's Playing". You could buy a set from Instant Book (add money & stir) @ one forty per volume!

THE TRIAL OF THE TEMPLARS IN CYPRUS: A Complete English Edition.

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Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1998. FIRST EDITION. Fine premium cloth volume in dust jacket. This major studyincludes a translation of all testimony heard during the Templar trial in Cypress in 1310 or 1311. The trial is of immense importance to the study of the history of the Order because of the large number of Templar witnesses, seventy six, many of high rank. 502 pages, indexed.

Georgia Boy.

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New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943. First Edition First Printing of the First Edition. A NearFine copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with some shallow edge wear and typical sunning to the spine. This cycle of stories of rural Southern life owes its genesis to Sherwood Anderson's ground breaking work, Winesburg, Ohio. Catalog Red

Landscapes of Globalization: Human geographies of economic change in thePhilippines.

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Routledge London and New York 2000 First Edition Hardcover. Octavo. xvi +189pp. Includes appendix, notes, references and index. Illustrated with black & white maps, photographs and figures. Light tan pictorial boards in Fine condition. // "n this critical and sophisticated analysis, Philip F. Kelly challenges the conventional definition of globalization as an irresistible and inevitable force to which societies must succumb." (Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies) Image or additional images available upon request

A Declaration and Exhortation of the General Assembly of the Chruch

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CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. A Declaration and Exhortation of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland To their Brethren of England Bearing the date August, the first 1648. Also A Declaration of the General Assembly concerning the present dangers of Religion, and especially the unlawfull ingagement in this Warre, to be read in the several Kirks of Scotland, bearing date Iuly 31. 1648. Together with severall Papers of the Honourable Committee of Estates, and the Answers and Representations of the General Assembly, to those Papers. London, Printed for Ralph Smith, at the sign of the Bible in Corn-hill near the Royall Exchange. 1648. Quarto.[ Bound in green/brown/tan marbled paper over boards, new endpapers with bookplate of M.S. Carothers on front paste-down endpaper, light foxing, small piece torn from bottom corner or title. The number "9" written at the top of the title in old pen. Collation: A-E4. Many mistakes in pagination: (1) title, (1) blank, 3-16, then page 15, page 18-19, then 18-19, 22-23, 22-25, 24-25, 28-37, (1) blank (i.e. 40pp). This pamphlet expresses the concern of the General Assembly in Edinburgh to the English Parliament that the "security of Religion" can not be obtained as long as the "present engagement in warre" is carried on. The General Assembly argues that the Solemne League and Covenant is a unifying force between England and Scotland in both religion and politics but that the war is destroying this: "The engagement is carried on by such meanes and wayes, as tend to the destroying of Religion, by ensnareing and forcing the consciences of the people of God with unlawful bands and oathes, and oppressing the Persons and Estates of such as have been most active and zealous for Religion and the Covenant, all which is strengthened and authorized by Acts of Parliament, appointing that all that do not obey, or perswade others not to obey the Resolutions of Parliament and Committee anent this engagement, or who shall not subscribe the Act and Declaration of the 10. Iunii, 1648, imposed upon all the subjects, shall be holden as enemies to the cause and to Religion, and have their persons secured, and their Estates intr 17TH-ENG-LOND-SMITH

THIS THING DON'T LEAD TO HEAVEN.

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New York: William Morrow 1970, 1st Edition Fine Hardcover Fine Author's third book. A novel that tells the story of a struggle between life (a woman) and death (another woman) for the small body and large soul of a midget masseur named Jefferson Davis Munroe. Fine copy in purple boards in a nearly fine jacket with only minor wear to the extremities.

THE CRUISE OF THE MARCHESA TO KAMSCHATKA & NEW GUINEA.

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Murray, London, 1889. Second Edition rebound in modern cloth. ; 139 Illus., 14 Color Maps, some fold-out,; 455 p. pages; With Notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and Various Islands of the Malay Archipelago. A British exploring expedition aboard a 420 ton auxiliary screw schooner yacht. NF

Land Bounty. Printed document, accomplished in manuscript and signed.

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Savannah, Georgia, April 21, 1784. 17cm x 11cm. Endorsed on verso. Canceled with "V"-shaped tear. Usual folds; eroded ink spot reinforced on verso with modern paper. John Houston (1744-1796), once a member of the Continental Congress, signed this Land Bounty as Governor of Georgia. The certificate states that Simon Fraser, "as a refugee," is entitled to 250 acres of land. Land bounties were a principal means of encouraging enlistment in the Continental Army.

Winnie-the-Pooh [Together with:] Now We Are Six [And:] The House at Pooh Corner

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First American Signed Limited Editions ofìWinnie-the-Pooh,î ìThe House at Pooh Corner,î and ìNow We Are SixîMILNE, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. [New York]. E.P. Dutton & Company, [1926].First American edition on large paper. Limited to 200 numbered copies (this copy being No. 108), signed by the author and the illustrator. Small quarto (8 13/16 x 7 inches; 224 x 178 mm.). [2, limitation leaf], ix, [1, blank], [4], 158, [1], [3, blank] pp. Original quarter lavender diagonally-ribbed cloth over salmon-colored boards. Front cover pictorially stamped and lettered in black and back cover pictorially stamped in black. Salmon-colored paper spine label printed in black. Top and fore-edge trimmed, bottom edge uncut. Very slight indentation to top edge of rear board. Small booksellerís ticket on front pastedown. Pages 46 and [47] very slightly browned from an inserted booksellerís postcard. A remarkably fine copy. In the original salmon-colored pictorial dust jacket. Housed in the publisherís matching salmon-colored pictorial cardboard box (box lid with edges very slightly browned, tiny split at lower left corner, and small indentation on left side).[Together with:]MILNE, A.A. Now We Are Six. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, [1927].First American edition on large paper. Limited to 200 numbered copies (this copy being No. 133), signed by the author and the illustrator. Small quarto (8 13/16 x 7 inches; 224 x 178 mm.). [ii], [2, frontispiece], [iii]-iv, [2, limitation leaf], v-ix, [1, blank], [2], 103, [3, blank] pp. Printed on Japon vellum. Text illustrations. Original half pink linen over light blue pictorial boards. Light blue printed paper spine label. Blue laid paper endpapers. Top edge trimmed, others uncut. Paper very slightly browned at the edges. Bookplate of Eugene A. Clauss on front pastedown. A spectacular copy. In the original light blue printed jacket. Housed in the publisherís light blue pictorial cardboard box (slight browning to box edges).[And:]MILNE, A.A. The House at Pooh Corner. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., [1928].First American edition on large paper. Limited to 250 numbered copies (this copy being No. 141), signed by the author and the illustrator. Small quarto (8 13/16 x 7 inches; 224 x 178 mm.). xi, [1, blank], 178, [1], [1, blank] pp. With signed limitation leaf between pp. [vi] and [vii]. Text illustrations. Original quarter light green buckram over yellow pictorial boards printed in dark green. Yellow paper spine label printed in dark green. Lime green laid paper endpapers. Top edge trimmed, others uncut. Paper very slightly browned at the edges. Faint ink (?) smudge in the lower blank margin of pp. 137 and 138. Bookplate of Eugene A. Clauss on front pastedown. A fine copy. In the original glassine (not issued in a dust jacket) and publisherís yellow pictorial box printed in dark green. A spectacular set of the three first American signed limited edition ìPoohî books. The first American edition of When We Were Very Young was only issued in a smaller octavo trade formatólimited to 500 copies, 100 of which were signed. After it was published in 1924, the decision was made to issue the signed limited editions of the remaining titles on large paper like the English signed limited editions.Fewer copies of the American signed limited editions were printed than of the English signed limited editions (200, 200, and 250 copies of the American editions, respectively, as opposed to 350, 200, and 350 copies of the English editions) and, as a result, they are rarer than the English signed limited editions. 1926 first edition dust jacket signed

Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch Der Freiherrlichen Häuser, ZugleichAdelsmatrikel Der Deutschen Adelsgenossenschaft

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Justus Perthes Gotha 1885-1938. Total of 21 volumes, b/w front., original cloth, a few former institutional stamps on some titlepages, format varies, a few hinges tender. PRICE IS PER EACH VOLUME. Volumes present: Vol. 35-36(1885- 1886), 40-41(1890-1891), 52-55(1902-1905), 57-64 (1907-1914), 66(1916), 68- 70(1918-1920, of which v. 62 has a stained front endpaper and v. 66 bound in blue buckram), 88(1938, Teil A). EACH VOLUME:

Matrix 25. Winter 2005. A Review for Printers & Bibliophiles.

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Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 2005. Edition of 760 Set in Calson, Poliphilus, Centaur, Cohin, Octavian and Walbaum Types. Printed onSommerville Laid and Hahnemühle Bugra-Butten papers. Colour and tritone plates printed by CTD Printers. Edition of 760: 680 standard bound in stiff wraps and 80 in quarter-Bound Oasis leather with paper marbled by Christopher Rowlatt. This is the deluxe bound with a portolio of additional material. Annual review for fine press officianados and lovers. This issue contains twenty-seven articles and additional book reviews, including: Gaylord Schanilec "Mayflies," Sophie Bowness and Time Nicholson "Nancy Nicolson and her work at the Poulk Press," Barbara Henry "With or Without Words," Carolee Campbell "Ninja Press at Twenty," Gangolf Ulbricht "Tradition and Innovation: Paper-making by Hand in the Twenty-first Century," Ruari McLean "Early Days at Penguin," Jerry Kelly "Anatomy of a Collector" and Rosalind Randle "25 Years of Matrix." Illustrated throughout with tipped in specimens on special paper, engravings, photographs. color plates.

Frank Norris: two poems and "Kim" reviewed. With a bibliography.

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San Francisco, Harvey Taylor, 1930. Quarter linen cloth with green paper boards. Fine in plain slightly darkened dust jacket. First edition. Unpaginated. Frontis-piece portrait by Clairice Collins tipped in. One of 200 copies numbered and signed by the author and the artist. Heavily annotated and corrected in ink in an unknown hand.

Tenerife asi fue el siglo XX, 1900-1945.

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-. Hardcover Editorial Leoncio Rodriguez, 1990. pp. Very good plus condition

Franklin Evans or The Inebriate a Tale of the Times By Walter Whitman with Introduction By Emory Holloway

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New York Random House 1929, Hard Cover Good 248 pages, many unopened; one of 700 copies printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press Boston, with the Random House presentation bookplate on the front endpaper, stating that the book was printed "...On the Occasion of the Get-Together in honor of collected books April Twenty-Sixth MDCCCCXXXII"; original publisher's patterned blue-black polished buckram cloth boards, paper spine label; some tips and spine ends wear, some fading to cloth; endpaper with old small price sticker shadow; solidly bound and in very good condition.

REPORT UPON THE COLORADO RIVER OF THE WEST, EXPLORED IN 1857

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1861 [COLORADO RIVER]. IVES, LIEUTENANT JOSEPH C. REPORT UPON THE COLORADO RIVER OF THE WEST, EXPLORED IN 1857 AND 1858 BY LIEUTENANT JOSEPH C. IVES, CORPS OF TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEERS, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE OFFICE OF EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS, A.A. HUMPHREYS, CAPTAIN TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEERS, IN CHARGE. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1861. First edition. Quarto. 36th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Ex Document. Rebound in leather and marbled paper over boards, gold stamping on spine, raised bands, leather corners, 4 maps, including the two large folding maps of the Rio Colorado of the West, all seven Mollhausen color lithographs of Indians, all engravings [some steel engravings], the profile plate,... all are present, one map has a few tears that have been neatly repaired. Dykes' High Spots of Western Illustrating #14 says, "The leading artist on this exploring expedition was Heinrich Baldwin Mollhausen, a German who made at least two other trips to the West." Bottom corner of title page has been corner clipped, but not affecting any of the printing, else a near fine, tight copy. HOWES I94. WAGNER CAMP 375. LARNED 412. DYKES 14.

A Merry Go-Round

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(Constance Hazlewood) Frederick Warne Vg 8vo Maroon Cloth Backed Boards London & NY 1888 1st Edition 96 pages with color illustrations on every page. previous owners signature on front endpaper

The Great War

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George Newnes, London (1933-34). The Great War is actually an abridged and heavily illustrated version of The World Crisis, which was originally issued as 26 fortnightly parts or magazines. Most copies were later bound in binding cases available from the publishers. This is the extra cost library binding in half dark red morocco. The leather spines are elaborately decorated in gilt with 5 gilt boxes between raised bands, with titling and exploding globe motifs. Printed on quality coated paper, the 1668 pages in total make 3 very heavy volumes, weighing a total of over 12 pounds ( 5.5 kg). The leather spines are dried and show some wear, especially at spine ends. There are a few minor marks on the cover of vol. I. Contenst clean, edges even, no foxing, speckled red. (ICS A31d)

Flower Fables

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NY McLoughlin Bros no date (circa 1917) 10 x 8 1/2 inches. Art deco decorated cloth in 4 colors, gilt title, 176 pages. Cover and every page with hundreds of delightful color illustrations by Frances Bassett Comstock. Corners bumped, rear cover rubbed, ow a Good copy of a scarce book. See BAL for 1st edition (1855) #142. No markings. (Alcott's 2nd work and first book.)

A Season In Hell. With gravures by Robert MAPPLETHORPE.

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NY: Limited Editions Club, 1986, one of 1000 numbered copies with 8 original hand-rubbed photogravures by Robert Mapplethorpe. English translation by Paul Schmidt is printed en face with the French. Signed by Schmidt and Mapplethorpe. Hand-sewn and bound in crimson Nigerian Oasis goatskin stamped in black. 12 x 8 in., 88 pages, as new in slipcase. ”Of the arresting photographs used to illustrate the book, several of the images rank among the Mapplethorpe's most famous” - ”The American Livre de Peintre” 30.

THE LAIRD AND FARMER. A dialogue upon farming, trade, cookery, and their method of living in Scotland, balanc’d with that of England.

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4to. Woodcut title page device and woodcut head and tailpieces. Antique green half-vellum over marbled boards by Aquarius, red morocco lettering piece on spine, slight foxing on title page. London: for the Author, and sold by R. Griffiths,.1740. FIRST EDITION of this humorous dialogue between a traveler, a farmer, and a lord concerning the difference between farming and food in England versus that of Scotland. Topics range from how a manufactory can be established in Scotland to adopting a more affordable diet through foods such as beef and mutton. The final pages include recipes for dishes such as pickled walnuts and lemon cream. With a small armorial bookplate (“Spero” ) on the margin of title page.Cagle 808 (which notes copies at Columbia, Harvard, and John Rylands Library); Fussell, Old English Farming Books, vol. II, p.18; Maclean p. 87. OCLC lists a microfilm copy only. Not in Bitting.

A Reverence for Wood

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First by Wilfred Funk by Wilfred Funk, Inc., New York: 1965. Near fine in decorated tan and purplecloth covered boards with black text on the spine and a black sketch of a barn under construction on the front board. In a near fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap with modest soiling to the panels. One of Eric Sloane's most endearing books describing in both written and visual detail how the early settlers utilized the most abundant resource available to them.111 pages of text and with pen and ink illustrations by the author throughout and one color photographic plate of wood samples. This is a book about trees and the wood they produce but viewed from the standpoint of 18th century America as wood was the most prevalent source of building material. Although the last ten pages of the book are devoted to text and illustrations to help the uninitiated identify "American Trees" the bulk of the book focuses on the tools and buildings which were made from this abundant resource. The hundreds of black and white (pen and ink) drawings done by Sloane provide a remarkable insight into the use of some tools and products which today can only be described as obscure. Sloane's observations provide a fascinating glimpse at the life and times of pioneering days of the 18th and early 19th centuries.

London.

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London: Privately Printed for Alvin Langdon Coburn and Edmund D. Brooks & Their Friends. 1914. First Edition. Octavo. 10 tipped-in photogravures. A fine association copy, INSCRIBED by Coburn a remarkable 47 years after publication to photo historian Peter Bunnell: "To / Peter Bunnell / from / Alvin Langdon Coburn / September 18th / 1961." With Bunnell's ownership stamp. Endpapers and pastedowns offset as usual, bottom edge of boards a little worn, else near fine.

Historic Homes of the South-West Mountains of Virginia.

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Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1899. First Edition Hardback octavo in blue cloth elaborately decorated in gilt. Cover design signed "H", that is, Edward S. Holloway who did similar work for Lippincott at that time. Top edge gilt, others uncut. 275 pages illustrated by 24 photographic plates and a folding map. An interesting look at the 18th century homes, generally in Albemarle County. Includes Monticello, Shadwell, Belvoir, and many others. A lovely copy with very light wear to the extremities; previous owner bookplate, previous owner name, and a gift note, all apparently related: Bessie Carter Randolph (President of Hollins University in the 1930's); A Randolph Anderson (a Savannah Georgia attorney and Lt. Governor of Georgia) and his wife Page Wilder Anderson. There area couple of light margin marks in the introduction in blue pencil. Also a short ownership history in pencil on the front endpaper, dating from the 1950's. Note that the front hinge behind the endpaper has been professionally repaired. Very good+

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION XII.

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Np: New York State Historical Association, 1913. First edition. Octavo, blue cloth, gilt. 423pp. Illustrated. Very good. Ex-library, Bennington Battle Monument Library, with bookplate. Spine faded. Front hinge started. Fourteenth Annual Report. Highlights include; Battles of Bennington and Saratoga, Burgoyne's Campaign, St Leger, and Jane McCrea.

Stranger's Handbook to Chester and Its Environs

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Chester Thomas Catherall 1856, First Edition None Gilt Decorated Boards Very Good 47 illustrations,steel-engravings, front hinge weak

LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS

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London (1884) George Routledge 12mo, green glazed pictorial boardsds, green spine, yellow edges, bright yellow endpapers, 80p., light cover soil and wear to the extremities, else a very good copy of the First Edition (Schuster 107-1i). Beautiful color illustrations throughout by Greenaway, engraved by Edmund Evans.

Rheometry.

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London: Chapman and Hall, 1975. 0412120909 9.5" x 5.75". 278pp. Orange glossy paperback. Ownership signature, else fine condition. Reissue, from 1987. This book on the measurement of the force or intensity of currents includes sections on rheological equations of state, basic concepts, measurement of material functions using a rheogoniometer, measurement using slits capillaries and similar devices, measurement of complex dynamic viscosity, extensional viscosity, novel rheometrical flow experiments, and more. Paperback

LE MINIERE E I MINATORI DELLA SARDEGNA

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1986 Manconi, Francesco. LE MINIERE E I MINATORI DELLA SARDEGNA [Milano]: Consiglio Regionale Della Sardegna, (1986). 236 p. Hardbound with DJ. A little minor wear to both. Profusely illustrated with b&w and color photos/drawings. Oversized. VG+/VG+. Manconi, Francesco. LE MINIERE E I MINATORI DELLA SARDEGNA [Milano]: Consiglio Regionale Della Sardegna, (1986). 236 p. Hardbound with DJ. A little minor wear to both. Profusely illustrated with b&w and color photos/drawings. Oversized. VG+/VG+. $65.00

The Garden and the Wilderness (First Edition)

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New York: Horizon, 1980 Hardcover. First Edition, first printing, Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Large oblong format in green cloth with black quarterbinding and silver titles to the spine, slightly faded to the extremities of the boards, else Fine, in a dust jacket with four short closed tears to the upper and lower edges of the front panel. Contains black and white illustrations after photographs by Pratt. 159 pages. First Edition

Kachinas: The Barry Goldwater Collection at the Heard Museum

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Phoenix: W. A. Krueger Company, 1975 Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" Tall Oblong. 60pp. Inscribed by Barry Goldwater.

Rodondo; or, The State Jugglers. [Cantos 1-3]

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London Printed for W. Nicoll, 1763-1770 1763, second editions of cantos 1 and 2, first edition of canto 3, three volumes in one, octavo, [4], 44; [4], 47, [4], 35 pp., disbound, some light scattered foxing to text, else a very good copy. Complete with all three parts of this verse satire, which contains numerous references to political figures and other contemporaries such as John Wilkes, Charles Churchill, several allusions to Henry Fielding. The work is not often found together with its third part published some seven years after the first two parts.

MURDER OF THE ADMIRAL.

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New York: The Macauley Company, [1936]. First edition. Cloth. The author's third novel, the first to feature Sheridan Doome of Naval Intelligence. Fisher wrote three novels using this pseudonym. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, small chip to lower right front corner, touch of shelfwear to spine ends, small chip to upper spine panel. Very uncommon in superior condition.

Report of The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842 and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-'44

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Washington: Gales and Seaton Printers, 1845. 693pp, 22 plates, 5 maps. There's not much that I canadd to what has already been said about this report. It is arguably the single most important work in the history of western exploration, and it is certainly the cornerstone of any collection of western Americana. The copy we have the privilege of offering is the original cloth covered boards. It has been recased with the original spine laid down with some new material at the top and bottom of the spine, thus a strong, supple binding. There is a bookplate, and less foxing than one usually sees to the interior. The gilt on the spine title is legible. The large folding map is in a separate, modern folder. It has some browning and minor separations, but overalll is better than is usually seen. A splendid copy of this foundation work,. W-C-B 115:1, Howes F370, Streeter Sale 3131, Wheat (map) 497.

L'Ane et Le Cheval

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Librairie Gallimard, 1937 Hard Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. VG+/VG-. Text is entirely in French. Book is crisp and clean but shows slight shelfwear, and there are occasional comments written in pencil alongside the text. Dust jacket has light general soil with a large chip on the bottom the spine, a large open tear on the front cover, and a few other smaller closed tears. Filled with absolutely exquisite color lithographs. In protective mylar wrapper. (RO SH 1)

Television.

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London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1926. FIRST EDITION, WRAPS ISSUE TP + 1 leaf = portrait of John L. Baird + 5-62, Octavo. First Edition, Wraps Issue. The first book on television, printed on heavy coated stock with 12 plates including the portrait of Baird and a view of the first television picture. Once not too difficult to locate, this book has become increasingly rarer as its importance as one of the pioneering works of 20th Century science has become more appreciated. Remarkably clean, original wraps with chipped dust jacket. The top cover with black lettering: "Television / (Seeing by Wire or Wireless). / ornamental design / By / ALFRED DINSDALE, A.M.I.R.E., / MEMBER, R.S.G.B". Original dust jacket with a reproduction of the first television picture and the title: "TELEVISION / Seeing by Wireless". The dust jacket is chipped and worn in several places with a large chip at the top of the front cover (ranging from ½" to 1" deep and 5" wide) that cuts into the television picture graphic a bit - eliminating the black border line for most of the top of the picture. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.

Flora Neotropica.

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-, 1989. Paperback Monograph 50. Plagiotheciaceae by W.R. Buck and R.R. Ireland. 54. Dicranaceae: Campylopodioideae, Paraleucobryoideae by J.P. Frahm. 58. Calymperaceae by W.D. Reese. 59. Leucophanaceae by N.S. Allen. 65. Stereophyllaceae by R.R. Ireland and W.R. Buck. In 4 parts. 276 text- figures. 8vo, pp. 22; 238; 102; 11; 49, stiff wrappers (2 corners bumped; some fading to 2 spines; a stain to a rear wrapper; scattered ink notations to 2), New York, 1989-94. William D. Reese's copies with his signatures.

Mr. Livingston's Strong Arguments against Capital Punishment, Reviewed. Amity, Orange County, N.Y.

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Goshen, N.Y.: Printed by Clare & Montanye, 1850. 8vo, unbound and stitched, as issued, 14 pages. First edition. A fugitive publication in favor of retributive punishment: Timlow, evidently an Amity clergyman, attacks the arguments of the late Edward Livingston (who among his other accomplishments had been one of the first prominent American reformers and to work for the repeal of the death penalty). Though his jurisprudence appears a trifle shaky at times, Timlow displays absolute certainty when he appeals to Biblical precedent: "To expunge this law from the Bible, is to reject the authority of God. To expunge this law from the statute book of the State, is to reject the Bible upon the subject." Upper third of the pamphlet damp-stained, with some scattered foxing and browning; a good, sound copy. OCLC & RLIN each note only one location (NjP).

Signed Card: Autographed Card

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no place Not published 1900, Unique Signed Near fine condition George Graham Vest (1830-1904). Bornin Frankfort, Franklin County KY. Democrat. Member of Missouri state house of representatives in 1860. Presidential Elector for Missouri in 1860. Delegate from Missouri to the Confederate Provisional Congress from 1861-62 Representative from Missouri in the Confederate Congress from 1862-65. Senator from Missouri in the Confederate Congress in 1865. U.S. Senator from Missouri during 1879-1903. 3.5 inch wide and 2.5 inch tall card, signed boldly "very truly G. G. Vest, Mo." An attractive example of this signature.

IN THE SKIN OF A LION.

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New York Alfred A. Knopf 1987 First American edition 8vo, cloth backed boards As new in dust jacketA nice association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to the American writer John Hawkes and his wife: "For John and Sophie after an afternoon of oysters, wine, and a thousand clams! Love, " and signed with his characteristic squiggle.

Don't Point That Thing At Me

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London Weidenfeeld & Nicolson 1972, First U.K. Edition Good Hard Cover Very Good First edition of the author's first book. About a very good copy with spine lean and general light soiling to endpapers. Internally clean and bright. Price intact dustwrapper has a one inch tear to top of front cover at foredge. Spine colors lightly faded. A decent copy of an elusive book.

R. E. Lee a Biography - 4 Volumes

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Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1934 Hardcover Red cloth with gilt lettering, light wear at spine ends, gilt on front cover of vol. II is a bit rubbed, a nice set. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 647, 621, 559, 594 pages Very Good

An Archive of Bret Harte Materials, Including Rare Signed Image and Feisty Letter to His Publisher

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An American author and Western short story writer, he is best remembered for "The Luck Of Roaring Camp" and "The Outcasts Of Poker Flat."

Archive. A collection of Bret Harte material, including two signed books, two handwritten letters and a signed photograph:

a) PS. 4 ¼" x 6 ½". No date [probably pre-1877]. No place. A photograph of a young Harte inscribed "To Miss Maud Howe from her friend Bret Harte" in purple ink. Maud Howe Elliott (1854-1948) was a Pulitzer-Prize winning write who authored a biography of her mother, The Life of Julia Ward Howe. As she married in 1877 and this is inscribed with her maiden name, it was probably signed before 1877. On the back is the notation "Bret Harte Miss John Elliot 150 Rhode Island Ave Newport RI... May 1939". There is some rounding to the corners and parts of the ink inscription can be light. The American Book Prices Current shows only one other Harte photograph selling at major auction in the past thirty years (1988 at Christie's), attesting to their rarity.

b) ALS. 1pg. 4" x 6". July 18, 87. London. An autograph letter signed in the third person "Mr. Bret Harte begs to enclose herewith his cheque for... bill. Please acknowledge same." It is written on light green letterhead with "15 Upper Hamilton Terrace N.W." at the top. There is some light toning but the ink is dark.

c) ALS. 2pg. 4 ½" x 7 ¼". July 22/78. Crefeld [Germay]. An autograph letter signed "B.H." addressed to James R. Osgood; Harte was then the United States Consul there: "My dear Osgood, I've got so much to do for these d---d silk spinners, who have the absurd idea that the Govt. has sent me out to listen to them... I can't get my new Vice Consul up to the point of snubbing them properly, and will have to stay to do so myself. So if I'm not at the Hotel de Norel Opera, nor at the English Church, nor at any of your familiar haunts of Vice on Sunday evening at 8 o'clock not early Wednesday morning, telegraph me here - at my own (ie the Govt.) expense - if you cannot wait a day or two longer for your bereaved friend B.H." Osgood was Harte's publisher. The letter, which has been folded, is laid into Harte's book Drift From Two Shores, which appears to be a first edition.

d) SB. 231pg. 4 ½" x 6". July 1890. London. A Harte book A Waif Of The Plains inscribed on the first endpage "Mrs Myers from Bret Harte London July 1890". Eveleen Myers (1856-1937) was a photographer and the wife of the writer Frederick William Henry Myers. Eveleen's mother was a close friend of many writers, including Flaubert. The book, published in 1890, has a blue cover with some wear, but is in fine condition otherwise.

e) SB. 342pg. 4 ¾" x 7 ¼". 1897. No place. A Harte book Three Partners inscribed on the first page "Miss Chapelle from Bret Harte 1897". This first edition is bound in red with some light wear to the spine, but is in very fine condition otherwise

Statesmen, Financiers and Felons

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Privately Published 1935, First Edition Very Good - Blue Cloth Near Fine- Extremely scarce. Top edge very slightly dusty. Gilt coat of arms stamped into front cover. Interestingly designed dj with book review printed on front panel, small pieces missing spine ends, rubbed/soiled rear panel. Laid in promotional slip with order form and same review as printed on dj. Previous owner name pastedown.

PROTZESS O 3 MILLIONIAKH. CASE OF THE 3 MILLION

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1926 CIR. 28 1/4 x 41 7/8 Very Good.

Marquis of Lossie.

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Lippincott Philadelphia 1878 "Author's Edition." Octavo, green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 245 pages. Very good with a scratch to the rear board, a couple of spots of soiling, and some general edge wear. Very Good

Le Desir Attrape Par La Queue.

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Collection Metamorphoses. Gallimard, 1945. Hard Cover 8vo. 234 of 2,240 copies. White paper covered boards with black decoration to boards and black title to spine. Clean interior with browning to margins. Tight binding. Original glassine with a few chips to spine panel. 62 pages. FRE/091906 Very Good in Very Good dj

WATERSCAPES LANDSCAPES

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(East Hampton) (Glenn Horowitz) 1999, First Edition Hardcover Signed By Author & Artist First edition, limited to 100 unnumbered copies signed by Vonnegut and Gornik on the title page. Twelve color plate illustrations by Gornik. Essay by Vonnegut. Set in Dante type, printed on Arches paper at the Stinehour Press. Designed by Jerry Kelly and Edsel Williams. Issued without distjacket. Slipcase. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine slipcase in the publisher's shrinkwrap which has been opened.

HORTUS FLORIDUS

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Pl. 62/63 Wild Buglosse & Butcher's Broom Utrecht: de Passe, Crispin, 1614. First edition A rare original hand-colored copperplate engraving from the first oblong quarto edition of Hortus Floridus. (10.75 x 7.5 inches, plate mark 8.25 x 5 inches, matted in Ivory Rag to 18.5 x 16 inches). This first edition plate is printed on pressed rag stock with the Latin text on the verso. Crispin de Pass,The Younger (c. 1590-1664) produced 'Hortus Floridus' early in his illustrious career as an engraver of the flowers of the Tulipmania Period of the early 17th Century. Crispin was born into a long line of talented Dutch engravers and learned to master the skill of engraving with a challenging needle-like instrument called the burin. His technical virtuosity was enlivened by his youthful, whimsical spirit as evidenced in his compositions of flowers teeming with insects, birds and small animals as well as allegorical and mythologic themes. This charming work served to inspire a wide array of noted botanical artists, such as Sir John Hill, DeBry, Besler, Sweert and Parkinson well into the following century. (Blunt) A rare original hand-colored copperplate engraving from the first oblong quarto edition of Hortus Floridus. (10.75 x 7.5 inches, plate mark 8.25 x 5 inches, matted in Ivory Rag to 18.5 x 16 inches). This first edition plate is printed on pressed rag stock with the Latin text on the verso. Crispin de Pass,The Younger (c. 1590-1664) produced 'Hortus Floridus' early in his illustrious career as an engraver of the flowers of the Tulipmania Period of the early 17th Century. Crispin was born into a long line of talented Dutch engravers and learned to master the skill of engraving with a challenging needle-like instrument called the burin. His technical virtuosity was enlivened by his youthful, whimsical spirit as evidenced in his compositions of flowers teeming with insects, birds and small animals, as well as allegorical and mythologic themes. This charming work served to inspire a wide array of noted botanical artists, such as Sir John Hill, DeBry, Besler, Sweert and Parkinson well into the following century. (Blunt). Every print is digitally watermarked for web display purposes only. The actual print is unaltered, and sold in original condition. This print is presented in our elegant and traditional matting style; Ivory Rag mat with gold French line, suitable for framing. Historical text documentation accompanies every one of our prints. Fine condition with bright hand-coloring

Volunteer Cavalry. The Lessons of the Decade.

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New York: Printed for the author, 1871. 120 pp. 12mo. Gold moire patterned limp cloth with gilt titles. First edition. 1 of 100 copies. A shorter version appeared earlier in the Army Navy Journal. Soiled wrappers else very good, with the bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the State of Illinois on front pastedown, shelf sticker on front board.

Poesie de Mots Inconnus

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1949. Octavo. Five fascicles, each containing six folded sheets. One of 157 copies signed by Iliazd. Each sheet is quarto-folded, and when opened contains a single poem accompanied by an illustration -- all composed specifically for this volume. The poetry is by Artaud, Jolas, Picasso, Tzara and others; the contributors of the illustrations (generally lithographs, etchings or linocuts) reads like a who's-who of modern European artists: Braque, Chagall, Giacometti, Matisse, Miro, Picasso and others. A fine copy, enclosed in a limp vellum case featuring a design by Georges Ribémont, and housed in a translucent vellum sleeve with the title embossed on the spine.

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