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63053Circe. 1999 316pp. Paperback. With dedication and signed in tibetan by the author. Also signed by Gilles van Grasdorff. In good condition. Text in Spanish. Circe paperback
1767373395Johann Zempel Rome 1767. Unframed Print. Very Good Condition. DEDICATION LEAF ONLY. Ornately designed with allegorical putti and a heraldic escutcheon the dedication blends ecclesiastical gravitas with Enlightenment elegance. Its florid Latin extols Cardinal de Luynes Christian virtue classical erudition and patronage of antiquarian art. Printed in Rome it honours both the Cardinal and the Etruscan studies he helped bring to light. Engraving 25 x 38 cms sheet 30 x 45 cms. Later hand colouring. Text is in Latin. Category: PRINTS : Antiquarian Interest; PRINTS : Historic Interest; Printed before 1800; Latin Language; Special Features. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Johann Zempel unknown
1765MP009<p><strong>Paris Chez Durand Neveu 1765.</strong> Third edition originally published in 1758. In-12vo $10.5 times 16$ cm. xii 285 pp. 3 pp. Table & Approbation.</p><p>Bound in a handsome contemporary full mottled calf binding. The spine is exceptionally well-preserved featuring five compartments intricately decorated with gilt floral motifs and a gilt-lettered burgundy morocco title label reading <em>"AMELIO DES TERRES"</em>. Covers show light rubbing and mild surface wear consistent with age but remain sturdy and highly attractive on the shelf. Marbled endpapers intact.</p><p>The title page features a beautiful decorative woodcut vignette reading: <em>"Essai sur l'Amélioration des Terres. A Paris Chez Durand Neveu. M. DCC LXV. Avec Approbation & Privilège du Roi."</em></p><p>Pages are preceded by a famous dedication address to <strong>Madame de Pompadour</strong> <em>"A Madame de Pompadour. Madame Parmi les Arts qui ont ressenti les effets de votre pro."</em>. While signed by Pattullo this introductory piece on physiocracy and the economic importance of agricultural reform was famously drafted by the Enlightenment writer Jean-François Marmontel at the request of François Quesnay.</p><p><strong>Condition Notes:</strong> Text block is secure and generally clean with light uniform age-toning and very minor spotting. Binding is worn but structurally intact and retains a very authentic period feel. <em>Note: This copy is sold as-is lacking the 3 folding plates often missing from later printings.</em> An essential mid-18th-century agronomy and political economy tract.</p> Chez Durand, Neveu, Libraire (Paris) hardcover
1936503667New York: Tudor Publishing Company 1936. Book. Illus. by Detmold E. J. Near Fine Book Condition. Hardcover. 4th Printing. Written dedication in 1937 by Nathan B. Cohen father of Leonard Cohen. Form the library of Harold Lande of Montreal. Retold from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques". Book in very good condition. Green covers with beautiful gilt designs and lettering. A bit of wear to corners of covers and spine. Very clean pages and drawings and binding tight. Our rating system: 1.Fine; 2. Near fine; 3. Very good; 4. Good; 5. Fair. Tudor Publishing Company Hardcover
19238045MaCMILLAN 1923. HB NODJ ISSUED November 1923 stated 1st Limited Numbered Edition #796/1000 Black Cloth with Grey Spine & Paper Label Hand Lettered Spine slightly Darkened VG/VG AS-IS NODJ Minor Cover Wear & Tiny Chip To one Extremity. First Edition. Hard Cover. MaCMILLAN hardcover
19806603Privately Printed Tabula Rasa Press Pasadena California Only Those awarded a Scholarship will Receive a Copy 1980. HB NODJ Issued August 1980 1st editionBeige Cloth Brown spine Lettered in Gold Gilt small stain residue endpaper VG/VG AS-IS NODJ. First Edition. Hard Cover. Privately Printed, Tabula Rasa Press, Pasadena, California Only Those awarded a Scholarship will Receive a Copy hardcover
1996049714Lancaster CA: Flight Test Historical Foundation 1996. 261pp glossary bw ills. Pictorial card. 2 very small scuffs to rear and rear spine edge otherwise excellent. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Flight Test Historical Foundation Paperback
1940N3484Ben Shemen Pre-State Israel 1940. Typoscript. Original Wrappers. Very Good. 4to. 17pp printed on one side only. Inscribed on title by Ludwig Strauss 3 lines Cover with small loss on upper left corner some marginal stains and light creases. Otherwise a very good copy. Very rare. <br/> <br/> unknown
188214470AB1882. 2nd revised edition. 2 volumes Vienna Lechner 1882. 24 : 17 cm. VI 609 pages; VIII 664 pages with many mostly coloured plates many folded maps and plans. Contemporary half calf spine gilt. With dedication by the author to Dr. Carl Glossy director of the city-collections with the authorisation of the mayor signed and dated 30/12 Weiß. - Still useful history of the city of Vienna richly illustrated. - Bindings a bit rubbed. unknown
200027549Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Jockey Club 2000. 1st. Hardcover. As New/As New. 12.9x12.0x1.1in. Dust jacket in clear protector. <br>Commemorative presentation album illustrated with 51 mounted color photographs of the 2000 December 15th and 17th events on silver foil pages with cellophane protectors. A lavish production. <br>28pp 4.05lb 12.9x12.0x1.1in The Hong Kong Jockey Club hardcover
193417318AB1934. Paris Les Éditions Denoél et Steele 1934. 195 : 14 cm. 191 pages. Original wrappers. Edition original. - With a fine five-line dedication on the pre-title signed by Antonin Artaud "à Therese Drogoul avec ma grande amitié parcequ'elle connait le monde da la Magie des Reflets". Therese Drogoul was a writer poet and translator under the pseudonym of Thérése Aubray born Thérése Gros - Marseille 188 - 1974 Boulogne-Billancourt and was married to the musician Fernand Drogoul. She belonged to the first circle of the journal 'Lés Cahiers du Sud' managed by her friend Jean Ballard from 1931 on she was correspondent in Paris for the journal. Together with her husband she had a literary Salon where many poets and artists like Antonin Artaud Jean and Ida Cassou Leon-Paul Fargue Benjamin Fondane André Masson Henri de Régnier and others met. - Avant-garde artist Antonin Artaud 1896-1948 is celebrated for his raw surreal and transgressive work including Héliogabale his portrayal of Elagabalus the Roman emperor from 218 to 222 as a dark hero born into depravity and condemned by society. The book delves into the clash between Greco-Latin culture and Barbarism capturing the extremes of human experience. Through Héliogabale Artaud explores themes of societal collapse collision of civilizations and the descent into madness. Renowned French writer J.M.G. Le Clézio has described Héliogabale as the most violent book in contemporary literature exuding a beautiful and regenerating violence transl. - Paper as always a bit browned. unknown
1974036014Jerusalem: I.P.S.T. / Israel Universities Press / John Wiley & Sons / Halsted Press 1974. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good /No Jacket. Xv 190 Pp. Red Cloth Printed In Black And Pink. First Printing. Inscribed By The Author To The Dedicatee Prof. Abraham Kaplan. Light Wear Rubbing And Bumping At Corners No Fraying Some Fading To Cloth On Spine Panel But Lettering Still Strong. Mendel Sachs 1927 -2012 Was An American Theoretical Physicist. His Scientific Work Includes The Proposal Of A Unified Field Theory That Brings Together The Weak Force Strong Force Electromagnetism And Gravity. Sachs Earned His Bachelors At The University Of California Los Angeles He Then Moved To Columbia University New York For Postgraduate Study. While At Columbia Sachs Was Taught By Willis Lamb And Hideki Yukawa.5 Yukawa Had Agreed To Be Sach's Thesis Advisor But Sachs Decided To Complete His Doctorate Back At Ucla. Following The Award Of His Phd In 1954 Sachs First Post-Doctoral Position Was At The New University Of California Radiation Laboratory At Both Berkeley And Livermore Which Was Run By Edward Teller And Ernest Lawrence And Was Also Home To Bryce Dewitt Who Sachs Would Later Co-Author Articles With In Physics Today. In 1956 Sachs Became A Senior Scientist At Lockheed Missiles And Space Laboratory While At Lockheed Sachs Began Developing With Solomon Schwebel A Field Theory Of Quantum Electrodynamics That Included Broken Symmetries That Did Not Require Recourse To Renormalization Or Perturbation Techniques - The "Schwebel-Sachs" Model. In 1961 He Became A Research Professor At Mcgill University; This Was Followed By A Post As Associate Professor Of Physics At Boston University 1962-1966. In 1964 While At Boston University Sachs Received An Invitation From Paul Dirac To Visit Cambridge University. Sachs Stayed In England For Three Months Where His Wife Yetty Had Family. Sachs Worked With Paul Dirac At The Department Of Applied Mathematics And Theoretical Physics Cambridge University. While Working With Dirac Sachs Also Had The Opportunity To Discuss Ideas With John G. Taylor John Polkinghorne And Graduate Students At Damtp. In 1965 Sachs Had Had A Breakthrough While At The Aspen Physics Institute Colorado. Sachs Was Able To Derive A Result For A Unified Field Theory If Quantum Mechanics Was Considered To Be A Linear Approximation For A Field Theory Of Inertia Expressed In General Relativity. Sachs Argued That The Work Of Albert Einstein And Erwin Schrödinger In General Relativity Did Not Yet Take Account Of The Inertia Of Matter Which Required Consideration Of The Mach Principle. In The Summer Of 1966 Abdus Salam Invited Sachs To Spend A Few Months At The International Centre For Theoretical Physics In Trieste Italy. During This Time Sachs Published The Details Of His Formal Structure Of Quantum Mechanics From A Generally Covariant Field Theory Of Inertia In The Italian Journal Il Nuovo Cimento. In The Autumn Of 1966 He Was Appointed Professor Of Physics At State University Of New York At Buffalo. <br/> <br/> I.P.S.T. / Israel Universities Press / John Wiley & Sons / Halsted Press hardcover
63061Sperling Kupfer Milano. 2000 XVIII282pp. Hardcover with dustjacket. With dedication and signed in tibetan by the author. Also signed by Gilles van Grasdorff. Browned. In good condition. Text in Italian. Sperling Kupfer, Milano hardcover
1331527244.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1942029115UK: Chatto and Windus 1942. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Good /Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1942. The Authors Own Retained Book with a Presentation Dedication Inscription to His Wife Who the Book is Dedicated to. With the authors Bookplate to the endpaper. A collection of short stories. A few hand corrections by the author within the text. Dorothy Pritchett became the ideal partner to VSP as he was known and as she always called him. She made a career out of looking after her husband typing all his manuscripts hammering away at tremendous speed on an Imperial typewriter. She worked through the second third and fourth drafts and was the only person who could decipher VSP's notoriously spidery handwriting. Book is good and quite bright. Cloth with surface rubbing and marking. Contents good. The wrapper very good and quite bright.Spine tips with surface loss. Edges rubbed and nicked in places. Small closed tear to top front edge. Light age toning/marking. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18670/18664 <br/> <br/> Chatto and Windus hardcover
1945029371UK: Chatto and Windus 1945. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good /Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1945. The Authors Own Retained Book with a Presentation Dedication Inscription to His Wife Who the Book is Dedicated to. With the authors Bookplate to the endpaper. The wrapper is a 2nd Imp in the same format and style. A collection of short stories. Dorothy Pritchett became the ideal partner to VSP as he was known and as she always called him. She made a career out of looking after her husband typing all his manuscripts hammering away at tremendous speed on an Imperial typewriter. She worked through the second third and fourth drafts and was the only person who could decipher VSP's notoriously spidery handwriting. Book is very good and bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good and quite bright. Spine tips with small loss. Edges rubbed and nicked in places. Age toning. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18670 <br/> <br/> Chatto and Windus hardcover
19782092902137704434Chusekisha 1978. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Chusekisha paperback
19366413<p>John Lane The Bodley Head.London.1936. FIRST EDITION. 1st impression. 8vo. THE DEDICATION COPY. Inscribed by Crankshaw to his wife Clare on the half title. ---- For Clare. The first copy of the first of all our books. April 17th 1936. Teddy. ----- Pages affected by small damp stain to the fore edge at the bottom 1.5 inches but not spreading onto the page surface. Some foxing mostly to the first and last few pages. Overall a near to very good copy in a poor dustwrapper with loss to both the top and bottom of spine and with several chips to the panel edges. ---- Bought by me direct from the estate of Crankshaw's widow Clare.:</p> John Lane The Bodley Head. London.,1936 hardcover
2080202102500401Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
20172083002116205598Koyasan Shingon sect Sohonzan Kongobu-ji Temple started with a dedication note 2017. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Koyasan Shingon sect Sohonzan Kongobu-ji Temple started (with a dedication note) paperback
195013039Berkeley California: Kroeber Anthropological Society 1950. The RARE PREMIERE ISSUE of this important monograph created by the students of famed anthropologists A.L. Kroeber and R.H. Lowie. Large format blue stiff card covers with black cloth spine strip. Created to cover the general field of anthropology descriptive studies putting factual information on record bibliographies linguistic texts and vocabulariesand historical documents of ethnological interest. Number 1 is dedicated to the recently retired Lowie and has his photograph frontispiece. Contents include PRE-COLUMBIAN TRADE BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA; OBSERVATIONS ON EARLY MAN IN CALIFORNIA; THE IDABAEZ: UNKNOWN INDIANS OF THE CHOCO COAST; A RECONSTRUCTION OF ABORIGINAL DELAWARE CULTURE FROM CONTEMPORARY SOURCES; BLACK MARKET IN PREROGATIVES AMONG THE NORTHERN KWAKIUTL; NEPENTHE IN ABORIGINAL AMERICA. Very good. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Kroeber Anthropological Society Paperback
1968mon0000106985Petit Palais de Genève 1968-01-15. Hardcover. Very Good. 3.2995 in x 24.8731 in x 21.3198 in. 2 X Volumes 1&2 FIRST EDITIONS with shelf worn and rubbed dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order Petit Palais de Genève hardcover
190351567Milano Ulrico Hoepli 1903. Royal8vo. Orig. full cloth gilt. A small paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. A stamp on htitle. Frontispiece and portrait heliogravure. XII592 pp. maps textillustr. and plates in heliogravure. Fine and clean. With dedication from the author on halftitle but the name of receiver cut out. <br/><br/><em>First edition. </em> hardcover
192159051Lausanne Édition de la Licorne 1921. Bound in exquisite full morocco composed of 3 different colours of morocco green light brown and red. Inner joints in morocco. In matching slip-case. With a long dedication 8 lines from the author "á Mademoiselle Agnete With" signed and dated by the author "René Morax/ Morges. 1921". The book is bound by the recipient the respected Danish bookbinder Agnete With 1899-1972 and signed in blind on inside backcover. 1682 pp. <br/><br/><em>First edition. Arthur Honegger composed the music to Morax's play and the music became his break-through as a composer."Arthur Honegger was commissioned to write incidental music to accompany René Morax’s play Le Roi David in 1921. Honegger was given the nearly impossible deadline of 2 months to complete the work and was rewarded with much acclaim at the premiere. In 1923 he combined Morax’s narrative with his music and created a "symphonic psalm" the form that is familiar today and titled his work Le Roi David."Wikipedia </em> unknown
19922082702114610716Kobun do 1992. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Kobun do paperback
