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19482323443Rochester New York: Rochester Historical Society 1948. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Gilt on spine rubbed rear board lightly soiled. 1948 Hard Cover. xxiv 297 pp. 8vo. Green cloth gilt titles and rules. Illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates. A biography of the naturalist and geologist University of Rochester professor and founder of Ward's Natural Science a business which collected artifacts to be sold to museums. "Henry Augustus Ward 1834-1906 was an American naturalist and geologist born in Rochester New York. After attending Williams College and the Lawrence Scientific School Harvard where he was an assistant of Louis Agassiz he traveled in Egypt Arabia and Palestine and studied at the Jardin des Plantes the Sorbonne and the School of Mines in Paris and at the universities of Munich and Freiberg. Subsequently he traveled in West Africa and the West Indies making natural history collections. In 1860 he returned to Rochester where he was professor at the University of Rochester until 1865. In Rochester he founded Ward's Natural Science a pioneer enterprise of its kind which collected specimens from all parts of the world and then mounted and sold them to colleges and museums. In 1897 he married a widow Lydia Avery Coonley 1845-1924 president of the Chicago Woman's Club in 1895-96 who wrote Under the Pines and other Verses 1895; Singing Verses for Children 1897; Love Songs 1898. He died on July 4 1906 after being struck by an automobile in Buffalo New York becoming Buffalo's first automobile related fatality. His ashes were interred in Mount Hope Cemetery amongst a large boulder he found in Georgian Bay Ontario Canada until they were stolen. Ward's brain was contributed to the Wilder Brain Collection at Cornell University. Rochester Historical Society hardcover
19442341429Rochester New York: Rochester Historical Society 1944. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. Endpapers a bit toned otherwise an exceptional copy. 1944 Hard Cover. 266 pp. 8vo. Photographic frontispiece and seven photographic plates. Includes: Preface - Dexter Perkins; Editor's Introduction; A History of Rochester's Part in the Civil War - Ruth Marsh; Civil War Letters of Samuel S. Partridge of the "Rochester Regiment"; George Breck's Civil War Letters from the "Reynolds Battery"; Civil War Letters of Francis Edwin Pierce of the 108th New York Volunteer Infantry; August Seiser's Civil War Diary or Short Sketches of Campaigns with the Potomac Army; Porter Farley's Reminiscences of the 140th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry; List of Rochester Historical Society Members; Index. Rochester Historical Society hardcover
19442341465Rochester New York: Rochester Historical Society 1944. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. Ink name and date on front endpaper endpapers toned. 1944 Hard Cover. 266 pp. 8vo. Photographic frontispiece and seven photographic plates. Includes: Preface - Dexter Perkins; Editor's Introduction; A History of Rochester's Part in the Civil War - Ruth Marsh; Civil War Letters of Samuel S. Partridge of the "Rochester Regiment"; George Breck's Civil War Letters from the "Reynolds Battery"; Civil War Letters of Francis Edwin Pierce of the 108th New York Volunteer Infantry; August Seiser's Civil War Diary or Short Sketches of Campaigns with the Potomac Army; Porter Farley's Reminiscences of the 140th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry; List of Rochester Historical Society Members; Index. Rochester Historical Society hardcover
19442350011Rochester New York: Rochester Historical Society 1944. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Boards a bit scuffed endpapers toned. 1944 Hard Cover. 266 pp. 8vo. Green cloth gilt titles. Photographic frontispiece and seven photographic plates. Includes: Preface - Dexter Perkins; Editor's Introduction; A History of Rochester's Part in the Civil War - Ruth Marsh; Civil War Letters of Samuel S. Partridge of the "Rochester Regiment"; George Breck's Civil War Letters from the "Reynolds Battery"; Civil War Letters of Francis Edwin Pierce of the 108th New York Volunteer Infantry; August Seiser's Civil War Diary or Short Sketches of Campaigns with the Potomac Army; Porter Farley's Reminiscences of the 140th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry; List of Rochester Historical Society Members; Index. Rochester Historical Society hardcover
19706442London: Trianon Press 1970. First thus. Fine. Limited edition number 9 of 600 numbered copies out of a total edition of 662 copies. A Fine copy. Quarto 11 3/4 x 9 in; 298 x 230 mm. 28 pp. Ten color plates. Original quarter green morocco over marbled boards. In the original marbled board slipcase. <br /> <br /> "Through aphoristic declarations and accompanying emblem-like designs Blake argues for the essential unity of all religions as expressions of the "Poetic Genius" within all human beings." The William Blake Archive. Blake first etched the work in c. 1788 returned to it in 1795 and again in 1818. In this edition the plates were reproduced by the Trianon Press France using the collotype process with some water-color washes added by hand. The editorial matter was printed by the Imprimerie Darantiere Dijon and binding was by Engel Malakoff and the hand-made slip-case by Adine Paris. With a description and bibliographical history by Blake scholar Geoffrey Keynes. Fine. Trianon Press unknown
19776443London: Trianon Press 1977. First thus. Fine. Limited edition number 135 of 600 numbered copies out of a total edition of 662 copies. A Fine copy. Quarto 11 3/8 x 8 1/4 in; 290 x 210 mm. 154 p. Ten color plates. Original quarter brown morocco over cloth boards. In the original cloth slipcase.<br /> <br /> A singular collection of all portraits and related sketches of Blake his wife and places they lived by a range of artists to get at the character of the artist. "This compilation of portraits was a departure for the Trianon Press which had previously focused on facsimiles of Blake's illuminated books and designs. But with a text by Blake scholar Geoffrey Keynes who contributed commentary to the other facsimiles it continued Trianon's incomparable record of bringing all aspects of Blake's work and life to light" Union College. Fine. Trianon Press unknown
19758856Los Angeles: Trans-European Publications 1975. First edition paperback original Liverpool Book Rear Window Series RWS 85. Paperback in illustrated wrappers. Soiling and smudging to wraps spine uncreased. Very good. <br /> <br /> Very scarce smut paperback from the Liverpool Rear Window Series. Trans-European Publications paperback
1983241933New York: Abradale Press 1983. Later printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. Slightly pressed spine head still near fine in near fine lightly toned and scratched dust jacket in mylar cover. Abradale Press hardcover
19358425Los Angeles: Printed by Janet and Ward Ritchie 1935. First edition thus unstated limitation of 200 copies. 13x10cm 2 11 1pp. Vignette illustration in red on title and at colophon. Saddle stitched in blue paper wraps with printed label "Poems by William Blake" on front cover. A fine copy. <br /> <br /> Quite a scarce Ward Ritchie item being a booklet of Blake songs printed as a remembrance of the birth of his son Jonathan Baird Ritchie on July 17th 1935. Ritchie's bibliography notes the limitation as 200 though it is seemingly quite scarce in the trade. OCLC cites 16 holdings for this lovely booklet. <br /> <br /> The Ward Ritchie Press & Anderson Ritchie & Simon pg 73. Printed by Janet and Ward Ritchie unknown
196868202Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 428; 370pp. Thick quarto 27.5 cm Gray cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Silk ribbon page marker. Bibliography and index. 194 illustrations 11 in color. The books are near fine with just a touch of discoloration to the publisher's spray on the top edge of the text block of volume 1. In the dust jackets in very good condition with light edgewear and some staining to the spine of volume 2. In the slipcase in very good condition with a prominent darkened area to the front panel a small circular marking approximately 1/2" in diameter on the rear panel and scuffing to the bottom edge. The slipcase has done a very good job protecting these books. May require extra postage due to weight. Bollingen Series XXXV.11. The A. W. Mellon Lectures in Fine Arts 1962 The National Gallery of Art Washington D. C.<br /> <br /> A monumental work by English poet critic and William Blake scholar Kathleen Raine. Here Raine takes as her starting-point the traditional language of symbolic discourse whose European mainstream- with tributary enrichments from Jewish mysticism alchemy and the mythologies of other races- may be traced in unbroken continuity from the Orphic theology through Neoplatonic Gnostic and Hermetic writings and the iconography of Christian art. Princeton University Press hardcover
1972155320London: Eyre Methuen 1972. 1st edition. Nice copy. quarto. hardback with dust jacket 72 30pp. colour & b/w plates With 16 eight-colour plates & a further 107 black & white illustrations at rear Eyre Methuen hardcover
1927156814Madras: Indian Thought Publications 1927. 1st edition. Nice copy. quarto. hardback in original cloth 96pp. text ills. With 22 Blake engravings. Some light flecking to black boards o/w a nice copy Indian Thought Publications hardcover
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ria9780333737446_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: 'Mother Country' PART I: MAPPING SOME TERRITORY Colouring the English; S.Thomas A Literature of Belonging: Rewriting the Domestic Novel; A.Blake Learning Me Your Language: England in the Post hardcover
ria9781349408986_inpPaperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Much attention has focused on the imperial gaze at colonised peoples cultures and lands. But during and after the British Empire what have writers from those cultures made of England the English and issues of race gender class paperback
197271972 University of Arizona Press paperback as pictured; text pages are unmarked and are somewhat age-tanned; binding is tight/square; former owner's stamp on inside of front cover; pencil notation in upper right corner of first blank page; cover shows moderate scuff and edge wear; hard-to-find OOP book University of Arizona Press paperback
424880New Covenant Media. Paperback. Very Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Used paperback book - very goodThe Newness of the New Covenant The author tackles a matter often ignored. How does the whole Bible fit together How should we understand the various covenants in the Scriptures How does the OT law given at Mount Sinai relate to believers today New Covenant Media paperback
1912mon0000071831William Heinemann 1912-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Four volume set with scarce rather tatty dust covers all first editions except volume IV 1913 - collectable William Heinemann hardcover
1996Q-1570622132Shambhala 1996-10-22. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Shambhala paperback
025981623X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0483474983.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
MC00C-00437George Routledge and Sons. Collectible - Acceptable. London: George Routledge and Sons 1898. 1st edition. 12mo hardcover. ix115pp. Plates. Fair book. Reading copy. Spine mostly erose. Cover slightly dampstained. Spine and hinges cracked. Cameras Photography Inquire if you need further information. George Routledge and Sons hardcover
0267501404.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1331937396.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1920SKU1176607E. P. Dutton & Company 1920. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1920; blue cloth covered boards; illustrated paper jacket; wear and discoloration around edges; corners are scuffed; 12mo - over 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 159 pages. Photos available upon request. E. P. Dutton & Company hardcover
