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1989260931989. Papi Lorenzo. MARINO MARINI Paintings. 324 pp. with 523 plates many in color; bilingual text in English and Italian. Cloth folio in slipcase. Johannesburg Editions Sacks 1989. hardcover books
18646236Boston: Little Brown and Company 1864. First edition. Very Good. 2 volumes. 22 cm; 608 600 pages. In original red leather over marbled boards marble endleaves. Top edge gilt. Leather a bit weak with wear and some loss at joints. Gilt stamped decoration on spine faded. Shelf wear. Shelf mark on paper label on spines and in pencil on title pages. Residue of old bookplates present. No institutional marks. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1851RSNOONL00TWW. Bowden 1851. Very Good. Snow Lorenzo. The Only Way to Be Saved. An Explanation of the First Principles of the Doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. London: W. Bowden 1851. 2nd edition 1st state. 8pp. 8vo. Printed wraps. Book condition: Very good with subtle yellowing and a few faint creases. Flake 8213 Crowley 639. W. Bowden paperback books
1802825341802. KNAPP Samuel Lorenzo/SILLIMAN Benjamin LETTERS OF SHAHCOOLEN A HINDU PHILOSOPHER RESIDING IN PHILADELPHIA; TO HIS FRIEND EL HASSAN AN INHABITANT OF DELHI. Boston: Russell and Cutler 1802. First edition of Knapp's first book. 152 pp. 12mo. original calf with gilt red morocco spine label. Boards worn spine rubbed. Ex-library with samll label at top of spine small bookplate to front pastedown. Front flyleaf detached. Foxing throughout. Reflections on Mary Wollstonecraft Hindu poetry the Song of Solomon eastern Philosophy. unknown books
1866List806Washington: For the Author 1866. 8vo blue wraps 42 pp. Apparently a gift copy from Curtis. Near fine overall with minimal wear. Near Fine. A scarce survival from Lorenzo Snow's trial in the U.S. Supreme Court for polygamy under the Edmunds Act where two of his three convictions were eventually overturned as the court determined that the offense was continuous and therefore only warranted a single conviction. George Ticknor Curtis defended Snow and published this edition of his speech himself. Curtis argued that Snow had lived continuously with one woman and defended his right to have multiple "wives" as a matter of religious freedom. This copy with "From the Author" on the top margin of the title wrap apparently presented as a gift from Curtis. For the Author unknown books
1852RSNOLAT00EFF.D. Richards 1852. Fair. Snow Erastus. Latter Day Saints' Millenial Star Volume XIV with Edinburgh Conference and History of Joseph Smith supplements. January 1852-December 1852. Jaques John; Snow Lorenzo; Pratt Parley P.; Richards S. W. Liverpool: F.D. Richards 1852. 704 88 8pp. 8vo. 3/4 Brown leather with raised bands. Book condition: Fair former college library copy with partially detached backstrip and cracked hinges. Short tears in spine ends general rubbing and abrasions on boards. First gathering of 32 pages detached. Front free endsheet and title page missing. Bookplate on front pastedown with extensive notes in various hands on both pastedowns. Gift inscription at top of preface page. Pages lightly stained with infrequent neat marginalia. Additional content on 'As To Tithing' is mounted on rear pastedown. Edinburgh Conference 8pp supplement found after p 448. Crawley 728. History of Joseph Smith 88pp supplement found after p 384. F.D. Richards hardcover books
1928215017Tucson: Acme Printing Co 1928. First edition. Illustrated. 293 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Orange brown cloth. Very good some wear. First edition. Illustrated. 293 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "Although this book has become scarce and is a collector's item it is full of errors." Adams Burrs under the Saddle. Howes W-73; Six Guns 2300; Adams Burrs under the Saddle 398 Acme Printing Co unknown books
1836SEM18276Rome: Published by Litografia Siotto 1836. Hardcover. Very Good. Slim quarto. Contemporary marbled paper over boards; vellum spine. 3128 pp 5. 19th century facsimile edition. <br/><br/> Published by Litografia Siotto hardcover books
183026365New York: E. Bliss 1830 1830. First edition. Sabin 38084; American Imprints 2139. Head and foot of the spine slightly chipped; hinges just starting but firm; some foxing; very good copy. 12mo original brown quarter calf marbled boards gilt lettering untrimmed. ¶ An assortment of entertaining epistolary essays on American characters political and literary with observations about the city of Washington the Capitol building Library of Congress the literature of Washington New York poets American painters etc. by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp 1783-1838 one of the more colorful literary figures of his era. See the DAB. <br/><br/> New York: E. Bliss, 1830 unknown books
191622981San Jose: Notta Bros 1916. 1st edition. 1 of 300 copies Cf. Kurutz 611 Howes S941 Adams Herd 2160 Adams Six-Guns 2136 Cowan pp. 613. Original stiff brown wrappers with gold stamped front cover. VG light edgewear/faint abrasion at rear cover. 68 pp. 6 plates of halftone portraits and scenes. 24cm x 16cm. <br/><br/>This is a scarce western overland account by a restless New Jersey Jayhawker who traveled through Death Valley with William Manly. "Stephens joined an Illinois company that left for California on March 28 1849. The company traveled to Fort Laramie South Pass Fort Bridger and Salt Lake City before veering off to the Southern Route and Death Valley. Surviving this ordal he followed the coast from Los Angeles to San Jose and then to the diggings on the Merced River. Stephens spent time in the diggings along the Merced River and at the mining towns of Chinese Camp and Fine Gold Gulch. With the beginning of the rainy season in the fall of 1850 Stephens took up farming and freighting. A restless type he joined the mining rushed of British Columbia in 1862 and the Klondike in 1898" - Kurutz. [Notta Bros] unknown books
188324041Fort Monroe Virginia: United States Artillery School 1883. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. vii 144 pages VII plates. BOUND WITH iv 40 pages. 8vo. Red cloth spine and corners over pebbled cloth. Cloth. Both titles produced by the Department of Applied Sciences of the U.S. Artillery School and both apparently in this single edition. Both are scarce with only a few copies shown in OCLC for the first title and a half dozen for the second. Chemical Manipulations is intended as a manual for use in the laboratory and covers much ground containing a brief summary of the Principles of Chemistry and Chemical Analysis and part II contains the Special Analyses prescribed in the Programme of Instruction. Instruction in photography reviews various processes both theoretical and practical and contains useful "short examples" where there is a stated problem with printing for instance and possible reasons and solutions are presented. As with many military manuals these are focused on practical considerations for the military rather than theory accessible only to the elite. United States Artillery School unknown books
1888RBUDMIL00EFChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 1888. Very Good. Budge William. The Millennial Star volume 50 1888 bound with seven pamphlets. 54 issues. Snow Lorenzo; Roberts B. H.; Teasdale editor George. Liverpool: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 1888. 840pp. 8vo. Book condition: Very good with slightly cracked hinges. Rubbed and lightly bumped edges light stains and a couple of small spots of translucent wax on boards. Rulon Allred's address label and a binder's label on front pastedown. Endsheets are lightly yellowed at edges. A few pages have light spots and all are faintly yellowed but clean. Ex-libris Rulon Allred founder and leader of what is now the Apostolic United Brethren a breakaway sect of polygamous Mormon fundamentalists. Scarce. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints hardcover books
1926WRCAM29565New York: Edward Eberstadt 1926. 125pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original half Japanese vellum and boards gilt-stamped cover and spine. Bookplate on front pastedown. Fine unopened. In a worn cardboard box. One of thirty-five large paper copies from an edition limited to 385 copies total. The first appearance in book form having only previously appeared in an obscure newspaper. An excellent overland narrative. ".One of the most readable of all the overland narratives of the gold rush days" - Wagner- Camp. The author later served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of California and judge on the Federal Bench. HOWES S133. GRAFF 3687. MINTZ 403. COWAN p.570. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 175. KURUTZ 556. WAGNER-CAMP 191 note. EBERSTADT 107:349 ref. Edward Eberstadt hardcover books
1916WRCAM23211San Jose 1916. 68pp. plus six plates. Original stiff printed wrappers rebacked with brown paper tape. Edges a bit chipped. Overall a good plus copy. A scarce western overland account by a restless New Jersey Jayhawker who traveled through Death Valley with Manly. "Stephens joined an Illinois company that left for California on March 28 1849. The company traveled to Fort Laramie South Pass Fort Bridger and Salt Lake City before veering off to the Southern Route and Death Valley. Surviving this ordeal he followed the coast from Los Angeles to San Jose and then to the diggings on the Merced River.With the beginning of the rainy season in the fall of 1850 Stephens took up farming and freighting. A restless type he joined the mining rushes in British Columbia in 1862 and the Klondike in 1898" - Kurutz. HOWES S941. GRAFF 3972. ADAMS HERD 2160. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 2136. KURUTZ 601. COWAN p.613. MATTES 639. MINTZ 444. ROCQ 2340. unknown books
1782291161Modena.: Bartolomeo Solani. 1782. 2nd Edition. Old patterned paper boards paper spine label manuscript title. . Good plus light wear and soiling to covers 20th century owner’s stamp to ffep contents very good. 4to. 20.5x15 cm. . Italian text. Early edition of the popular book on chess by the Modenese master. weight: 0.6 lb. Bartolomeo Solani. hardcover books
182927884New York: Published by Elam Bliss 1829 1829. First edition. American Imprints 39223; Sabin 38075. Edges a little rubbed; some light foxing and faint stains; very good copy. 8vo 19th century black half morocco marbled paper boards gilt lettering. A landmark work on the history of American literature by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp 1783-1838 author local Massachusetts politician and lawyer. In 15 "lectures" Knapp writes about the origins of an American literature and the influences on it of the American Revolution. From the library of a great American literary critic Edmund Clarence Stedman 1833-1908 with his bookplate on the front paste-down. <br/><br/> (New York:) Published by Elam Bliss, 1829 unknown books
1969307585Los Angeles: Lorimar Productions for Avco 1969. Duplicated typescript printed rectos only 125 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Brad bound. Signed by Thomas McGuane on title leaf. Duplicated typescript printed rectos only 125 pp. 1 vols. 4to. First draft screenplay adaptation of The Sporting Club 1969 first novel by Thomas McGuane "the greatest writer of American loneliness". <br/>The novel is set in Saginaw county northern Michigan on the grounds of the "Centennial Club". The film was produced in 1971 directed by Larry Peerce from Semple's script with Robert Fields as <br/>"Vernor Stanton" and Nicolas Coster as "James Quinn". Lorimar Productions for Avco unknown books
18174903Newburyport: Published by William B. Allen & Co 1817. First Edition. 1 - 143. 1 vols. 12mo. Original bright orange printed boards uncut; some rubbing; else a very fine copy. First Edition. 1 - 143. 1 vols. 12mo. Knapp was a lawyer who practised in Boston and New York; whose chief literary output consisted mostly of historical and biographical works. As a biographer "he was laudatory and patriotic but not trustworthy." Kunitz & Haycraft. Wright I 1592; S & S 41208 2 locs.: DLC; MWA; Not in Howes Published by William B. Allen & Co unknown books
185318346Washington: Robert Armstrong 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Senate issue 32d Congress 2d Session Executive No. 59. Complete as issued with 198 pp 79 lithographed plates 23 views 6 mammals 5 birds 21 reptiles 3 fish 21 botanical plates and large folding map. Original brown cloth with chipping and tears to spine cloth. Spine cracked at pp 174/175; intermittent foxing primarily affecting the title page occasional text margins and about 20 plates mainly mammals birds reptiles and botanicals as opposed to the views which are generally clean. Map has a few splits at the intersections and one closed tear that has been repaired on the verso. This was the final expedition made by the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers in connection with the Mexican War. In addition to Sitgreaves the expedition party included J.G. Parke Richard H. Kern as draughtsman S.W. Woodhouse as physician and naturalist and Antoine Leroux as guide. Its purpose was to determine whether the Zuni River actually emptied into the Colorado and to examine the territory en route. The party followed the Zuni from Zuni Pueblo in western New Mexico to the Little Colorado then continued west reaching the Colorado near the Mojave villages and then proceeding south to Camp Yuma and San Diego. Wheat 3: 22-24 notes that the map is very detailed and calls it "a monumental achievement.generally correct and exceedingly well done." Howes S-528 Wheat 763 Wagner Camp 230:1 Graff 3809 Field 1414. Robert Armstrong hardcover books
15767393Genoa: Appresso Marc' Antonio Bellone 1576. First edition. Vellum. Very Good. 4to. 819224pp. Index of names. Armorial woodcut device on title. Publisher's woodcut device on colophon. Cont. limp vellum a bit soiled ties lacking some gnawing at lower fore-edge of front cover remains of an old hand-lettered paper label on spine. A few gatherings a bit browned M-S and V-X. A valuable and entertaining book which Borromeo placed in his collection of "Novellieri" but which contains in reality narrative stories of people and events occurring between the mid-15th century and 1566; their names are listed in the index at the end. The events factual and anecdotal take place in Liguria Lombardy Campania and Aragon and several of them mention Turkey and the Turks. At the beginning in his preface the author narrates the history of Novi Ligure where he was born circa 1510. Not in adams; BL Italian STC p. 145. Appresso Marc' Antonio Bellone hardcover books
1875RSMICOR00LAWDeseret News 1875. Fair. Smith George A. Correspondence of Palestine Tourists; Comprising a Series of Letters by George A. Smith Lorenzo Snow Paul A. Schettler and Eliza R. Snow of Utah. Snow Lorenzo; Schettler Paul A.; Snow Eliza R. Salt Lake City UT: Deseret News 1875. 1st edition. 386pp. 8vo. Book condition: Fair with backstrip missing short crack in hinge at head of spine and edges rubbed & gently bumped. Subtle smudging on backs of free endsheets flyleafs and last and first few pages. ""Mostly written while traveling in Europe Asia and Africa"". Deseret News unknown books
183819435Philadelphia: For Sale Wholesale and Retail by Fowler and Brevoort Practical Phrenologists at the Phrenological Athenaeum 1838. Evident first edition. Small marginal tear to the outer edge of the inner wrappers and some wear to the corners of the wrappers; some light general soiling and light staining; in very good condition. 4 leaves of manuscript stitched together with the Synopsis into contemporary blue-green wrappers 7.63 x 5 inches this stitched into contemporary stiff gray wrappers titled in autograph ink "M. S. Lincoln April 4th 1839" 7 1 24 pages blanks completed in autograph ink. Illus. A relatively early and extensive phrenological reading from the hand of one of the great Fowler brothers himself; besides the descriptive analysis in manuscript the numerical measurements of the various traits are given in autograph ink in the margin of the printed pamphlet. Despite the Philadelphia Phrenological Athenaeum imprint to the printed chart the reading may likely have been delivered at the Fowler New York studio where Lorenzo had first established his business. For Sale, Wholesale and Retail, by Fowler and Brevoort, Practical Phrenologists, at the Phrenological Athenaeum, unknown books
180456036Windham CT: J. Byrne 1804. First edition 16mo pp. 164; contemporary calf covers; rubbed; scabbard boards; edges speckled blue faded; textblock toned throughout; lacks front endpaper; otherwise very good. Ink ownership inscription on rear endpaper: "The property Molly Tripp book Meriden bought March 7th ad 1819" "The author a native of Connecticut was an itinerant preacher who in the exercise of his vocation travelled through most of the United States." Sabin 20757; American Imprints 6190. <br/><br/> J. Byrne hardcover books
180049386Madrid: en la imprenta de la administracion del Real Arbitrio de Beneficencia se hallará en la librerÃÂa de Ranz calle de la Cruz 1800. First edition 2 volumes of 6 in 1; small 4to pp. xvi 396; 480; 4 folding tables 2 in each volume; later three-quarter brown moroco over marbled boards gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments gilt-lettered direct in 3 t.e.g.; a nice copy. This an Ayer Linguistics duplicate with a Newberry release stamp on the verso of the second flyleaf. These first two volumes were all that was needed in the Ayer collection covering as they do the Lenguas y naciones americanas; and the Lenguas y naciones de las islas de los mares Pacifico é Indiano austral y oriental y del continente del Asia. Volumes 3-6 covered the European languages only. Palau 114453; La Vinaza Bibliografia Espanola de Lenguas Indigenas de America 1892 397. <br/><br/> en la imprenta de la administracion del Real Arbitrio de Beneficencia se hallará en la librerÃÂa de Ranz calle de la Cruz hardcover books
1804218551Windham: J. Byrne 1804. First. hardcover. good. 164pp. 24mo contemporary calf spine ends lightly worn covers rubbed corners lightly bumped some light browning and some scattered foxing small light dampstain to margin of four pages. Windham CT: J. Byrne 1804. First Edition.<br/><br/> Author was the noted itinerant evangelical preacher who was loosely associated with the Methodists. Dow frequently preached in the Southern United States and also he preached for extended periods in Ireland and England. Shaw & Shoemaker 6190.<br/><br/> J. Byrne unknown books
