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190728652London: T.C. & E.C. Jack 1907-1910. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo 20.5 cm. Brown paper boards with black titling and color pictorial pastedowns. Deckle edge. Each volume with color frontispieces and 8 color plates. Bookplates of Thomas Jefferson Murray on inside fronts. Soiling to boards foxing to pages and fraying to spine ends. A handful of the volumes with chipping to spines. Volumes include: Velazquez Reynolds Turner Romney Greuze Rossetti Bellini Fra Angelico Rembrandt Leighton Raphael Holman Hunt Titian Millais Carlo Dolci Gainesborough Tintoretto Luini Franz Hals Van Dyck Leonardo da Vinci Rubens Whistler Holbein Burne-Jones Vigée LeBrun Chardin Fragonard Memlinc Constable Raeburn and Sargent. Will require extra postage. T.C. & E.C. Jack hardcover books
184121251Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1841. First American Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First American Edition. x 2 1-539 pages. 8vo. Publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and blindstamped decorations on the front and rear panels. A bright copy with some fraying at the top of the spine panel and light foxing throughout. With the ownership signature of Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch son of the better known mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch on the title page and dated 1842. Cloth. Nathaniel I. Bowditch was Vice President of the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1856-1862. Townshend was a skeptic later a supporter of animal magnetism. The first edition was London 1840 with the title "Facts in Mesmerism With Reasons for a Dispassionate Inquiry Into it" and went through a number of editions. Robert H. Collyer has added an appendix "Report of the Boston Committee on Animal Magnetism as Exhibited by Dr. Robert H. Collyer" to this edition "First American Edition" as stated on the title page There was also a Harper and Brothers edition in 1841 with a page count of 388 pages. Nicely represented in institutional collections but less commonly found in the trade. Charles C. Little and James Brown unknown books
1854316226London: Thomas Bosworth 1854. 216 2pp. 8vo. Original brown cloth front hinge split. 216 2pp. 8vo. INSCRIBED. Inscribed on the title-page; "From the Author." Dickens who was also interested in mesmerism dedicated Great Expectations to Townshend and gave him the maunuscript. Townshend desicated his volume of poetry The Three Gates to Dickens. This is his second book on mesmerism andrare. Thomas Bosworth unknown books
185615849New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1856. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Some rubbing fraying of extremities endpapers browned text browned in margins else a good copy. With booklabels of "From Plummer's Cheap Bookstore Davenport Iowa" and "Baldwin's Original Antiquarian Cheap Book Store 199 East Madison St. Chicago" on endpapers also bookplate of Russel van Arsdale Lee. 1 vols. 8vo. Testimony into the validity of mesmerism with chapters devoted to writing of the "causes that have made mesmerism unpopular" on the Mesmeric consciousness and Mesmeric sensation as well as the Mesmeric Medium. A very interesting look into this subject. Harper & Brothers, Publishers unknown books
18419009259Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1841. 1st. Hardcover. With an appendix containing the report of the Boston Committee on Animal Magnetism. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with spine stamped in gilt. A nice tight and bright copy with only minimal rubbing to extremities. minor foxing to fore edge and easily removable pencil notes throughout. An important book. <br/><br/> Charles C. Little and James Brown hardcover books
1711WRCLIT38111London: Printed for A. Baldwin 1711. . Two volumes. Stitched untrimmed self- wrappers. Modest dust soiling early ink name on each title upper fore-corner of last two leaves of second work torn away touching two letters but very good copies. First editions of the first two of four pamphlets the Bishop of Chichester directed against Swift's THE CONDUCT OF THE ALLIES. ROTHSCHILD 1106 & 7 second editions. TEERINK 1041. ESTC T21265 & T21268. Printed for A. Baldwin unknown books
1712308175London: A. Baldwin 1712. 16 pp. 8vo. Nineteenth-century half calf and marbled boards black morocco spine label. Covers worn staining to final leaf. 16 pp. 8vo. A reply to Delarivier Manley's The D. of M-h's Vindication 1711 itself a reply to Francis Hare's attack on Swift and the Examiner Bouchain: in a Dialogue Between the Late Medley and Examiner 1711. One of two editions published in 1712. ESTC T125470; Goldsmiths' 4955; Teerink 852A. Provenance: T.A. Hollick pencil attribution sold Sotheby's London 19-20 May 1980 part of lot 24 A. Baldwin unknown books
1711308174London: A. Baldwin 1711. First edition. 43 1 pp. 8vo. Modern buff wrappers with manuscript title label. Textblock separated from covers. First edition. 43 1 pp. 8vo. On the siege of Bouchain during the War of Spanish Succession the last major victory of John Churchill 1st Duke of Marlborough. Hare places the Whig Medley in dialogue with the Tory Examiner whose editor for much of 1711 was Jonathan Swift.<br/>Mrs. Manley who worked for Swift at this time when he was the chief political writer for the Earl of Oxford's ministry replies here with a pamphlet satirizing Marlborough and protesting Hare's unfair ventriloquizing for Swift. <br/>Bound with: MANLEY Delarivier. The D. of M-h's Vindication in Answer to a Pamphlet Lately Publish'd Call'd Bouchain . 16 pp. London: John Morphew 1711. First edition. ESTC T32029; Goldsmiths' 4955; Teerink 852. ESTC T29567; Goldsmiths' 4827; Teerink 1034A. Provenance: T.A. Hollick pencil attribution sold Sotheby's London 19-20 May 1980 part of lot 24 A. Baldwin unknown books
198051345Pittsburgh: Museum of Art Carnegie Institute 1980. First edition. Swank Luke. Small 4to. 94 pp. 92 b&w photo-plates. With additional texts by Beaumont Newhall and Robert Doherty. A fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket that is slightly toned lacking a few tiny chips at the spine crown and is scarred on the bottom of the rear panel from the removal of a 1 x 1 inch price label. Swank was born in 1890 in Pennsylvania; after a number of different occupations and serving in the army he turned to photography around 1930. He exhibited in various salons around the U.S. in group exhibitions in major museums exhibed at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932 and was published in several photographic journals. His work is among the best of the American modernist documentarians. Of particular interest are his photos of the circus. <br/><br/> Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute unknown books
1980168467Pittsburgh PA: Museum of Art Carnegie Institute 1980. First edition. Softcover. 94 pages. Text by Clyde Hare and Beaumont Newhall. Includes 92 black and white images. A very good plus copy in wrappers with some very minor wear. Internally a clean copy. Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute unknown books
200048832Aldershot:: Ashgate. Fine. 2000. Hardcover. 0754612821 . First edition. Fine in printed boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Ashgate, hardcover books
1836288901Philadelphia: J. G. Auner 1836. Third Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. A textbook on Chemistry for use by students of the University of Pennsylvania written by a university professor Robert Hare who also provided his name to the Robert Hare Medical and Dental Library 1878-1969. Numerous plates and text illustrations depicting the curious chemical instruments and experiments of the day. Toning to the endpapers; contemporary owner's name on the front flyleaf; foxing throughout. Overly mottled calf with some surface loss to the leather and a black leather label on the spine. Very Good binding. J. G. Auner unknown books
1937WRCLIT47194London: Brendin Publishing Company 1937. Cloth. First edition clothbound issue. Spine tanned boards modestly soiled and bumped at fore-tips and toward crown of spine at lower panel endsheets bit darkened but a sound copy without dust jacket. Brendin Publishing Company hardcover books
1959122340London: Oxford University Press 1959. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Light tonight to page edges; jacket has a short closed tear at the bottom of the front panel mild soil and a hint of rubbing at the spine ends and corners. Oxford University Press unknown books
182511936Philadelphia: Printed Clark & Raser 1825. 24pp stitched untrimmed. Title page soiled and chipped at blank edges Good. "I am dragged from my peaceful pursuits as a farmer by a man whom I have neither had opportunity nor desire to offend. I am coerced to reply." Powel denounces Massachusetts Senator Pickering "the vehemence of his invective and the restlessness of his quill" for accusing him of "garbling" and seeking personal gain from his position as editor of the American Farmer. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 64747. AI 21959 13. Not in Rink Decker Eberstadt. Printed Clark & Raser unknown books
1920455911920. 15pp. Without wrappers. Very good. unknown books
1843S7264Philadelphia:: William S. Young 1843. 1843. Thick 4to. Article 49-51 pp.; article lightly foxed. Whole vol. xi 357 pp. Numerous engraved plates figs. charts; browning foxing throughout. Later gilt stamped green cloth. Very good. FIRST EDITION. Significant work on the Hessian fly by pioneer woman scientist. Morris was an early female American scientist and the first female member of Ac. Nat. Scis. Philad. of Germantown PA. This study of the Hessian fly had particular significance for agriculture as a careful examination of these insects ". . . delineated life history and concluded that eggs were laid in grain rather than stalk." Biographical Dictionary of American Science Elliott p. 185. William S. Young, 1843. hardcover books
186265870BostonMA: Printed by Prentiss & Deland No. 40 Congess Street 1862. First edition. 8vo. 16pp. Plain green paperwraps with inscription on front wrapper "Joseph G. Waters from Dr. F. A. Winsor." American Imprints 48988. <br/><br/> Printed by Prentiss & Deland, No. 40 Congess Street paperback books
1953117526Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins 1953. hardcover. 104 illustrations & 73 tables. 604pp. tall 8vo burgundy cloth. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins 1953. Very good .<br/><br/> Research Publications: Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease Vol. 32.<br/><br/> Williams & Wilkins unknown books
183433774London: Richard Bentley New Burlington Street 1834. 1st edition NCBEL III 1392; Sadleir 1672. Not in Wolff. 19th C. maroon morocco-style half-leather binding by Budden with marbled paper boards. Elaborate gilt-decorated spines. Marbled paper eps. AEG. Joints professionally strengthened. Bookplate. Townshend's signature at base of t.p. in each volume. A VG set. 3 volumes 4 300; 4 311 1 blank; 2 288 pp. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 4-5/8" <br/><br/>Author's first book and apparently only published novel issued anonymously. Maurice named the villian of his novel "Captain Marryatt" which was as Sadleir termed it "an error of judgement which brought Maurice a challenge to a duel." Uncommon on the commercial market. Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street hardcover books
1992150347N.p.: N.p. 1992. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Louis Malle on the set of the 1992 film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1991 novel by Josephine Hart.<br/><br/>British cabinet minister Dr. Stephen Fleming Jeremy Irons falls desperately and obsessively in love with his son's fiancee Anna Juliette Binoche. After beginning a tempestuous affair Stephen tells Anna that he is willing to sacrifice his family and his cabinet position to be with her something which Anna has no intention of allowing.<br/><br/>Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Miranda Richardson. <br/><br/>Shot on location in England and France. <br/><br/>7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
2006109105Paris: Bertille de Baudiniere 2006. Softcover. VG. Color illus. wraps; Unpaginated 30 pp.; Profusely illustrated with color plates. Parallel text French and English; Artist statement also translated into Japanese; Includes artist chronology and list of exhibitions. Bertille de Baudiniere unknown books
1873124992London England: Henry Sotheran Joseph Baer and Co 1873. Hardcover. Blue leather with gilt decoration; Raised bands and gilt decoration at spine; All edges gilt; Color marbled endpapers; Approx. 200 pp.; 30 plates. Wonderful engravings of works by Andrea del Sarto Tissot Hans Holbein Gerome da Vinci Rembrandt Ingres and others; Each work accompanied by annotations; Oversized; Nice plates. Henry, Sotheran, Joseph Baer and Co hardcover books
187020644Paris: Morel 1870. First edition. Contemporary red half morocco and marbled boards marbled endpapers. Very good. 2 vols. 4 pages in text. Folio 44.2 x 33.3 cm. 120 plates comprising 100 chromolithographs and 20 engraved plates. Half-title title page and some text printed in red and black Arranged in chronological order the collection of vibrant printed color plates traces a history of decoration and ornament including textiles ceramics glass wood and metal. This work was an important during the preparation of the Paris Exhibition in 1878 being a highly influential publication in dispersing Japanese and Eastern styles as inspiration for Impressionism and Art Nouveau. The author a cabinet maker and decorator is noted for his Wardrobe "Japanese style" that was sold at 2.036 million pounds sterling at auction at Bonhams London in Dec. 12 2008 beating the world record for a piece of furniture of the 19th century. Some light marginal spotting rubbing and scuffing to leather the marbled boards fresh and bright. Morel unknown books
1860128431Paris: Goupil et Cie 1860. Hardcover. Good ex-library with typical markings including ink stamps on the lower corner of plate images and occasional perforation stamps. Rebound. Damp staining on lower edges of pages no stuck pages however. Black buckram 54 pp. 29 engraved plates WorldCat lists 30 but there is no evidence of a missing plate. In French. Color-printed decorative initials begin each section. Features engraved examples of ornately carved furniture including a 16th century armoire with flamboyantly carved panels from the Louvre and an 18th century console with clock and vases from the collection of M. Leopold Double. Uunder the surface of this elegant console sits a cherub clasping a crown with a wreath of laurels and myrtles above. Also included is a Renaissance bed from the collection of the museum of l'Hotel de Cluny. With many more large and lovely plates of mirrors credenzas panels cabinets clocks chairs tables etc. and with a stunning portrait of Caterina de' Medici. Goupil et Cie hardcover books
