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1792002320Halle: Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses 1792. Hardcover. Very Good -. Die 33ste Auflage. 2 volumes in 1: 14 365 17 p.; 12 366 6 p.; 9 x 12 cm. Signatures: a8-a8 A-Z8 2A2-2A2 2B8; a4 b2 A-Z8 2A2. Contemporary full mottled calf with four spine compartments between raised bands. Blind-tooled leather label in second compartments with title; blind-stooled decoration in other compartments. Blind-ruled borders on boards. All page edges marbled. With original box covered in brown speckled paper. Includes indexes. Second part has separate title page dated 1793; subtitle varies from first part. This popular work by Pietist writer Carl Heinrich von Bogatzky was owned by most Lutheran and Mennonite families in the 18th and 19th centuries. In Very Good- Condition: 1.5x3-cm. section of leather lacking at tail of spine; smaller section lacking from spine at upper back joint; slight loss at head of spine; leather overall is lightly rubbed; occasional light foxing; otherwise clean and tight. Box is rubbed but solid. Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses hardcover
1752003364Liegnitz Legnica: David Siegert 1752. Hardcover. Very Good -. 3 titles bound together: 14 296 p.; 14 221 5 p.; 29 3 p.: 2 frontispieces both signed Boetius; 17 cm. Signatures: 8 -8 A-S8 T4; -8 A-O8 P4; A-B8 8vo. Contemporary half calf with five spine compartments between raised bands. Dark brown speckled paper over boards. Simple decorations on page edges. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Small inscription on front free endpaper dated 1754. Contents: 1 Kortholt Christian. Gründlicher Beweis der Wahrheit der Christlichen Religion und der Wichtigsten Lehren Welche in Selbiger zum Voraus gesetzet werden; mit einer Vorrede Herrn M. Jonathan Krausens Liegnitz: David Siegert 1752 Zweyte und viel verbesserte Auflage. 2 Sherlock Thomas. Gerichtliches Verhör der Zeugen der Auferstehung Jesu Worinnen nicht nur des berüchtigten Woolstons Einwürffe die er in seinem so genanten sechsten Discours angeführet; Sondern auch diejenigen welche so wohl er als andere in Schrifften hervor gebracht gantz unpartheyisch erwogen werden; Aus dem Englischen übersetzet; Nebst einer Vorrede von des Verfassers Leben und historischer Nachricht von Thomas Woolstons Schicksal Schriften und Streitigkeiten versehen von M. Johann Adam Schier Leipzig: J.G. Lowe 1748 Dritte und vermehrte Auflage. Former owner's name on p. 1: Wilhelm Waller. 3 Sherlock Thomas. Des Bischofs zu Londen D. Thomas Sherlocks merckwürdiges und vortreffliches Pastoral-Schreiben darinnen Er den jeziger Zeit verderbten geistlichen Zustand der Einwohner der Stadt Londen umständlich beschreibet und selbige zu einer wahren Besserung und Busse eifrig und getreulich ermahnet; Aus dem Englischen übersetzt Leipzig und Onoltzbach: Jacob Christoph Posch 1750. In Very Good- Condition: binding is rubbed; loss at ends of spine; spine and joints are cracking; stain along fore-edge of Gerichtliches Verhör title page; otherwise clean and tight. The first work Kortholt's Gründlicher Beweis der Wahrheit der Christlichen Religion is very scarce. The second and third works are very scarce translations into German of Sherlock's Tryall of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus and his Letter to the Clergy and People of London and Westminster on Occasion of the Late Earthquakes. David Siegert hardcover
1792000587Paris: Didot l'Ainé 1792. Hardcover. Good . 2 volumes of 3: vol. 1: xvi 236 p.; vol. 3: 240 p.; 13 cm. Half polished black calf with marbled paper over boards. Red leather gilt-tooled spine labels; gilt-tooled spine ornamentation. All page edges speckled red. Terra cotta endpapers. Front fixed endpapers bear engraved armorial book plate of George Paget with the Paget family motto "Per il suo Contrario." This was presumably Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget 1818-1880 who served in the Crimean War as a senior officer of the Light Cavalry brigade under Lord Cardigan and was present at the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade; he was later made Inspector General of Cavalry. In Good Condition: edges and boards are somewhat rubbed; leather corners are scraped with most of leather lacking from upper corners of vol. 1; part of leather spine label lacking from vol. 3; pages are clean and tight. An attractive if incomplete set of this romantic retelling of Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba 1453-1515 and the conquest of Granada by French writer Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian 1755-1794. Didot l'Ainé hardcover
176528919Leipzig: Johann Christian Langenheim. Good with no dust jacket. 1765. Hardcover. GESCHICHTE UNSERS HERRN UND HEILANDS JESU CHRISTI AUF ERDEN DIE BIER EVANGELISTEN. HISTORY our Lord and Savior JESUS CHRIST ON EARTH THE EVANGELIST German language. Lacking spine strip somewhat foxed- esp first couple leaves couple owner's names on first blank. German Language text. One of Crusius's scarcer works. Contemporary marbled boards binding solid. Crusius was born in 1715. He studied theology philosophy and other subjects at Leipzig. Graphic of book exterior also available. . Johann Christian Langenheim hardcover
178916070Barby Germany: Paul Gotthelf Kummer. Very Good. 1789. First Edition. Hardcover. "First issue with only six lines on verso of last leaf. " A valuable account of Moravian Missionary activity from 1735 - 1787 among the American Indians. Original calf binding with raised bands and spine label. Text's interior is tight clean & intact without foxing. Page edges dyed red. German text. Religion; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 783 pages . Paul Gotthelf Kummer hardcover
1776036255Dillengen: Johann Leonhard Bronner Brunner 1776. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 16 Multifold Plates. Xi 422 Pp. 16 Multi-Fold Engraved Plates At End. Original Full Calf Intricately Embossed With Original Designs In Black And In Blind With Lighter Coloring And Shiny Coloring To Large 8-Pointed Stars In Center Of Both Covers Back Cover With Traces Of White In Same Area So May Be Perished White Color; There Is A Similar Star In Gilt On The Spine Of Another Book From This Library; Original Marbled Endpapers; All Edges Of Page Block Gilt. Ribbon Bookmark Bound In. First Edition. Well Preserved Some Wear Binding Design Intact Small Crack To Top Of Front Joint Fraying At Tips And Along Parts Of Fore Edges Of Boards. About 1780 Mozart Acquired A Textbook For Math One That Presented Arithmetic And Algebraic Principles Tables And Practice Exercises All Within A Single Comprehensive Volume: Fundamentals Of Arithmetic And Algebra Anfangsgründe Der Rechenkunst Und Algebra By Joseph Spengler 1736-1776. Spengler Was A Jesuit Priest And His Volume Was Published In Augsburg The Home Town Of Jesuit-Educated Leopold Mozart. The Book First Appeared In 1772 And Then Went Through Six Reprinting Before Being Revised And Expanded In 1800. Mozart Owned A Copy Of The Third Edition 1779 Possibly Acquiring It When He Passed Through Augsburg The Home Of His Cousin Basle In January 1779 Or More Likely Later When Living In Salzburg Or Vienna. Mozart Held On To The Volume Until He Died. It Was One Of Forty Books In The Probate List Of His Estate 1791 And One Of The Few Treating A Scientific Subject.See The Long Essay Musings On Mozart And Math By Craig Wright On The Internet. <br/> <br/> Johann Leonhard Bronner (Brunner) hardcover
18006073Berlin: Berlin: No publisher stated 1800-1804. Hardcover. Very Good. Each volume 4 1/4 X 7 inches high. Series published between 1800 and 1804. Vol. I 1800 viii 256 pages Vol. II 1800 239 pages Vol. III 1801 252 pages Vol. IV 1801 222 pages Vol. V 1804 240 pages. Half brown calf with marbled boards red leather labels on spines. Condition of books is VERY GOOD; The present bindings appear to be bound over an earlier bindingmoderate wear to covers & spine ends text is very clean with no foxing or toning bindings are tight. Bookplate of Victor Lange on front pastedowns. Text in German. STK. Berlin: No publisher stated hardcover
177554748Rothomagi Rouen: Lud. le Boucher & Laurent Dumesnil 1775. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Each volume 5 in. X 8 in. high. Vol. I xxi 461 pages Vol. II 577 pages. Full leather binding gilt lettering & decoration on spine. Condition of the books is VERY GOOD; Corners rubbed on Vol. II light foxing on last 45 pages of Vol. I & last 5 pages of Vol. II otherwise text is clean binding is tight. Text in French & Latin on facing pages. RGR Lud. le Boucher & Laurent Dumesnil hardcover
17939418Paris: P. Didot. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1793. Hardcover. Full speckled tan calf edges lightly rubbed black title label gilt titles small piece of calf chipped away from head bookplate Folkestone black and green marbled endpapers. This is an attractive and quite scarce early edition of Florians work. ; 16mo; 208. pages . P. Didot hardcover
1781045107Halle Germany: Buchhandlung des Waysenhauses 1781. Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Marbled 1/2 leather gray paper covered boards 5 raised bands with gilt-stamped compartments lacking title label marbled endpapers perhaps not original to issue. Surface rubbing to boards several scratches to back cover leather mostly intact though with rubbed corners. Edges rubbed with exposure modest leather loss to top front and bottom rear corners. Firm binding. Former owner's signature on blank opposite main title dated 1782 another signature dated 1825 on main title. xvi3661 pp. illus. w/ figures in text. Interior nicely intact with minimal toning or foxing all leaves firmly anchored. Very scarce. Buchhandlung des Waysenhauses Hardcover
1788001515Paris: Rue et Hôtel Serpente 1788. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xii 344 4 p.; 20 cm. Signatures: pi2 a4 A-X8 Y6 8vo. Contemporary full tree calf with five spine compartments between gilt-tooled decoration. Red morocco label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Essais sur le Phlogist. Gilt-tooled decorative border on each board. Blind-tooled decoration on board edges. Marbled endpapers with a horizontal combed pattern. Woodcut title vignette and head and tail pieces. Includes errata. Blank leaf following front free endpaper bears inscription dated 30 Fructidor an treize 16 Sept. 1805 indicating that this was a prize book awarded to Louis Cornelissen a student at Ecole de Medecine a' Gand Departement de l'Escaut by Professor of Chemistry P. Beyts. A translation into French by Madame Lavoisier of Richard Kirwan's Essay on Phlogiston and the Constitution of Acids. Kirwan defended the theory of phlogiston a now disproved scientific theory that had posited the existence of an element called "phlogiston" which was released during combustion. References: Duveen & Klickstein no. 243; Cole 721; Ferguson p. 472. In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed in particular front joint; front board scraped; slight loss of leather at ends of spine; light foxing on first and last leaves; otherwise clean and bright. Rue et Hôtel Serpente hardcover
177254350Paris: J.P. Costard 1772. First Edition. Card_book. Very good. Each volume 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. Vol. 1 1772; Abduction - Assertion 661 pages Errata page and fold-out chart ' Belle Lettres' Vol. 2. 1771: Assimilation - Cycle 718 pages Errata page and 4 page Approbation and Privilege du Roi. Vol. 3 1772: Dactyle - futur 664 pages. bound in original gray/green cardboard. Condition is Very Good: spines lightly faded covers lightly soiled previous owner's name on title pages otherwise unmarked binding is tight. Case RGR J.P. Costard unknown
1766002742Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert 1766. Hardcover. Very Good. Sixieme Edition Réimprimée sur la quatrième pour servir d'abrégé de la cinquième." xxxvi 412 p.: 19 folded plates; 17 cm. Contemporary full mottled calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Morocco label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title. Gilt-tooled in other spine compartments. Gilt rules on board edges. All page edges red. Marbled endpapers. Woodcut headpieces and tailpieces. Former owner inscribed on title page: Cailletiere. P. 412 contains publisher's advertisement for other works by the author. In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed with slight loss at ends of spine; lower corners are bumped; fore-edge of plate 15 creased and chipped without impacting image; light foxing on a few pages; otherwise clean and crisp. Charles-Antoine Jombert hardcover
177720879Paris: P. Fr. Gueffier 1777. Hardcover. Good. 632 p. 4 fold out illustrations at rear. 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. Brown quarter leather binding with mottled tan boards gold printing on spine. Condition of the book is GOOD: wear and soiling to covers and spine corners worn spine edges worn though still securely attached edges of text block darkened pages clean fold-out illustrations at rear clean though improperly folded at some point one page dog eared binding fine a few stamps from a religious institution Residentia Rothomagensis inside front cover and on title page. RGRR P. Fr. Gueffier hardcover
17676057Braunschweig: Braunschweig: Schroders Erben 1767. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 x 8 inches high. 383 pages. Full calf decorated with green & brown stains to make an unusual sort of 'camoflage' effect 5 raised bands and red leather label on spine edges of text block red. Condition of book is VERY GOOD; Light wear to exterior one of 2 labels missing on spine binding is tight pages are lightly but uniformly toned otherwise text is very clean with no foxing etc. Volume I only. Text in German STK. Braunschweig: Schroders Erben hardcover
1791001293Munich: Joseph Lentner 1791. Hardcover. Very Good -. Sur la seconde Edition." 8 243 1 p.: copper-engraved frontispiece; 16 cm. Signatures: 4 A-P8 Q2. Full red morocco; black morocco spine label with gilt-tooled title. Blind-tooled Greek key pattern on spine; both boards have blind-tooled border. Binder is unidentified but appears to be a late 18th- or early 19th-century binding. All page edges gilt. Green endpapers. Frontispiece engraved by Wassenhahn. Copper-engraved title vignette and tailpiece. Every page is printed within a decorative typographical border. Translation of: Gott ist die Reinste Liebe. Blind-tooled on front board: Le Cte. de la Laurentie. Light armorial stamp at head of table of contents reading: Couvent des Religieuses Dominicaines. In Very Good- Condition: leather is rubbed primarily along edges; very small scrape at head of front board; leather along lower fore-edge of front board is darkened; occasional light soiling of pages. A solid and nicely bound copy. Joseph Lentner hardcover
1794002490Germantown Pa: Peter Leibert 1794. Hardcover. Good. Title continued: "Daraus ordentlich zu ersehen wie eine Monarchie und Königreich auf die andere gefolget wie diese angefangen jene aber vergangen und auch der ausführliche Verlauff der Zerstöhrung Jerusalem. Durch Johann Philip Schabalie in Niederländischer Sprach beschrieben; anjetzo aber in die Hochteutsche Sprach übersetzet von B.B.B. Die Dritte Auflage." 8 463 25 p.; 17 cm. Signatures: A-2G8 2H-2I4. Contemporary full calf with five spine compartments between raised bands; hardware from two clasps. Woodcut headpieces. Label on front fixed endpaper indicating that a former owner purchased this at an auction in 1993 in Friedensburg Pa. from the estate of Stella Faust. Translation of Lust des Gemoedis. The translator is identified as Bernhart B. Brechbill in an English language edition printed at Harrisburg in 1834. "Register." -- p. 464-485. First Cent. of Ger. Language Printing in the U.S.A. 929; Evans 27674. Lacking about 1/3 of leaf R6 pp. 259-60; otherwise in Good Condition: lacking 1.5 cm. leather at head of spine; leather is somewhat rubbed but solid; lacking clasps; lacking both free endpapers; a few pencilled marginalia. Peter Leibert hardcover
1800302832Haas et Fils Libraires Cologne 1800. Hardcover Leder sixieme edition Zustand: Keine Beschädigungen mit einer Namenseintragung. Rücken Ecken Kanten sehr gut. Haas et Fils, Libraires, Cologne, hardcover
1796235516Caspar Fritsch Leipzig 1796. Hardcover Leder Zustand: Das Vorsatzblatt fehlt das Buch beginnt mit dem Schmutztitel mit Klosterstempel. Rücken Ecken Kanten bestoßen aber ohne Schäden. Fleckenfrei. Caspar Fritsch, Leipzig, hardcover
17776046Carlsruhe: Carlsruhe: Christian Gottlieb Schmieder 1777. Hardcover. Very Good. Vol. I xvii 250 pages Vol. II 234 pages Kleine Chronik X 386 pages. Half brown calf with tan boards 5 raised bands and tan leather label on spine edges of text block are dyed red. Condition of book is VERY GOOD; Light wear to front & rear boards binding is very tight occasional light toning & light foxing all text is very legible. Bookplate of Victor Lange on front pastedown also previous owner's name in ink dated 1784. Text in German. STK. Carlsruhe: Christian Gottlieb Schmieder hardcover
1795002473Baltimore: Samuel Saur 1795. Hardcover. Very Good -. 8 304 p.; 17 cm. Signatures: pi4 A-2B6 2C2 12mo. Contemporary half calf; red morocco spine label with gilt-tooled decoration and title: Heiliger Krieg. Marbled paper over boards. Woodcut head-pieces and tail-pieces. Evans 28371; Bötte & Tannhof First Century of German Language Printing in the U.S.A. 964. Translation of: The Holy War. "Nunmehro aber allen die lieber unter Christo ein seliges als unter dem Satan ein unseliges Leben führen wollen im Hoch-deutschen nachgeführt." Pages 198-201 are substituted for pp. 150-153 which are lacking this mistake in binding is found in some copies but not all. Errors in pagination found in all copies: pp. 97-240 are misnumbered 98-241. Errors in signing found in all copies: B3 missigned B5 L3 missigned J3 N3 missigned R5 T2 missigned T3 T3 is missigned T5 U2 is not signed and U3 is missigned U2. Small label on front free endpaper verso with initials in pencil: Mgh. Lacking frontispiece found in some copies. Otherwise in Very Good- Condition: edges are rubbed; corners bumped particularly upper front corner; leather separated for 2 cm. from tail along front joint and 1 cm. across spine; light foxing and occasional soiling throughout. A solid copy of this scarce German translation of John Bunyan's The Holy War. Samuel Saur hardcover
178613523Leibzig: M. G. Weidmanns. Very Good. 1786. First Edition. Hardcover. Originally published in five volumes 1786-1808. Volumes 1-2 and 3 only. Erstes Buch: Von dem Anbau des Landes; 1786; XL 614pp. Zweitess anderes Buch: Von dem Aufbluhen der ewign Bunde; 1786; 740pp. Drittes Buch: Die beyden ersten Kapitel Dritten Theils ereste Abtheilung; 1788; XXVI; 727pp. Three volumes in clean full leather binding. Spine intricately stamped in gilt. Narrow gilt border on covers. Text blocks tight clean & intact. Marbled endpapers. German text. Title gilt slightly faded. Spine heads very lightly rubbed. Armorial book plate Crown over Royal Cape bearing the initials "P. Y. C." inside front covers. Switzerland ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 2081 pages . M. G. Weidmanns hardcover
17630005877Glasgow: Aedibus Academicis / Robert & Andrew Foulis 1763. New edition. Hardcover. Fair. 16mo 237pp. contemporary full calf raised bands red morocco label front joint splitting; X-library with bookplate rubber-stamped on contents page & p. 25; also ex libris Hon. T. Fose Jr. and "the celebrated Dr. Archibald Cameron". Archibald Cameron of Lochiel 17077 June 1753 was a doctor and a prominent leader in the Jacobite rising of 1745. On 7 June 1753 at Tyburn he was the last Jacobite to be executed for high treason. <br/><br/>Attributed to Dionysius Halicarnassus and Cassius Longinus altho probably by neither man. It is a classical treatise on aesthetics and the effects of good writing written as a series of epistles. A bi-lingual edition with Greek and Latin. Also contains his FRAGMENTA with a two-page publisher's catalog at the end. Lowndes 1394 . Aedibus Academicis / Robert & Andrew Foulis hardcover
174050862Petropoli St. Petersburg Typis Academiae 1740. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Classes Tertia continens Historica. Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae" Tomus VII ad Annos 1734 & 1735. The whole section of "Historica"offered. Title-page to Tome VII with engraved vignette halftitle to the section a. pp. 345-426 6 engraved plates. Bayer's paper: pp. 362-426 and 5 engraved plates with numerous chinese characters. Clean and broad-margined. <br/><br/><em>First printing in part of the first Western translation of any part of Confusius' influential Chun Cieu being the fourth volume of his works. "The title Chun Cieu Chunqiu signifies the Spring and Autumn. He discourses like an historian of the expditions of diversr princes of their Virtues and Vices of the fatigues they underwent. The title is an emblematic title because that states flourish when their Princes are endowed wit Virtue and Wisdom which is represented by the Spring and that on the contrary they fall like the leaves and are utterly destroyed when their Princes are dispirated or are wicked which is represented by the Autumn."James Legge.The section also comprises Bayer. Elementa Calmucia. 1 pp. and 1 engraved plate numerous characters and Bayer. De Venedis et Eridano Fluvvio. Pp. 346-361. </em> unknown
1799002859Germantown Pa: Michael Billmeyer 1799. Hardcover. Very Good. Title continued: "als auch für den öffentlichen Gottesdienst enthalten sind. Nebst einem Anhang des Heydelbergischen Catechismus wie auch erbaulicher Gebäter. Nach einem Synodal Schluss zusammen getragen und eingerichtet vor die Evangelisch-Reformirten Gemeinen in den Vereinigten Staaten von America." Zweyte Auflage. 6 148 8 585 9 26 p.: frontispiece music; 17 cm. Signatures: pi4 A-3B8 3C4 8vo. Contemporary full calf with two clasps and six spine compartments between raised bands. Blind-ruled borders on boards. All page edges sprinkled red. Printed in two columns. Wood engraved head- and tail-pieces. "Sammlung alter und neuer geistreicher Lieder . . . der Evangelisch-Reformirten Gemeinen" has separate title page dated 1799. Final 26 pages contain the Heidelberger catechism and some prayers. Pages 231 and 275 misnumbered 131 and 175. Early American Imprints 36193; First Century of German Language Printing 1162. In Very Good Condition: rubbed with minor loss at tail of spine; clasps are intact; faint dampstain in gutter at head and at lower edge of first few leaves; 5-cm. tear from fore-edge of pp. 19-20 of Gesangbuch without loss; pages are clean and tight; clasps are intact. Michael Billmeyer hardcover