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1982158924Providence RI: Department of Art Brown University 1982. First edition. Oblong softcover. 125 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran February 26 through March 28 1982 at the Brown University Art Gallery and then traveled to 14 other locations for additional dates. Essays by Holly Richardson John Sawyer Maureen Meister Richard Schindler and Leslie Humm Cormier. Includes over 50 black and white illustrations. A very near fine copy in wrappers. Department of Art, Brown University unknown books
18891329037Boston and London: Ginn & Company 1889. Hardcover. 10mo; G-; pp 279; brownish green spine with gilt text; no jacket; cloth shows moderate wear to exterior; slightly sunned spine; some rubbing wear to corners; text block edges have age toning; previous ownerss names to ffep; slight foxing to first and last few pages; some pencil inside; text in English and Greek. 1329037. FP New Rockville Stock. Ginn & Company hardcover books
17593055601759. Docketed on back by Anne Richardson giving date of the address as 1759 and dated by her Augst. 1793. 12mo 7-3/4 x 6 inches. Hinge residue on inner margin. Very good. Old folds. Docketed on back by Anne Richardson giving date of the address as 1759 and dated by her Augst. 1793. 12mo 7-3/4 x 6 inches. unknown books
1929158574NY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1929 1929. ORIGINAL TAN CLOTH; NO DUST JACKET VERY GOOD. Hardcover. NY, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1929 hardcover books
20072303961Lynchburg / Saline: Schroeder Publications / McNaughton & Gunn Inc 2007. First Edition. First Edition. Fine/Fine. First edition. 2007 Hard Cover. xxxii 544 pp. William Wells has the distinction of being one of the few men to rise from the rank of private to brevet major general. Through Wells letters the reader will become familiar with the inner workings of one of the most successful cavalry regiments in the Civil War capturing 39 cannon three flags and 1000 prisoners in the course of 73 engagements. This new primary source material is appealing to those with various interests in the Civil War outside Wells and the 1st Vermont Cavalry. Wells was captured by Confederate Colonel John Mosby on March 17 1863 near Herndon Virginia. Wells was a prisoner of war for seven weeks spending most of that time at Libby Prison. At Gettysburg Wells and General Elon Farnsworth rode side by side into the ill-fated July 3 1863 dash into the Confederate right flank for which Wells earned the Medal of Honor in that gallant and futile charge. Wells and the regiment also served valiantly in Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign and at Cedar Creek in the Shenandoah Valley on October 19 1864. By the last year of the war he was a brigade commander and Major General George Armstrong Custer's right hand man. This book not only gives new insight to Custer through Wells eyes but other Civil War figures such as Farnsworth Wilson Mosby and Kilpatrick. At first the letters are written to Wells parents and friends until mid-1863 when he commenced writing to Friend Anna Richardson. At the time Wells was 25 years old. Anna responded positively. The reader can see the relationship develop to the point of marriage in these letters. In one of Wells first letters he relates how he was almost captured for a second time but was able to escape only after the loss of his horse and wallet that contained $125. Anna writes of her memories of the short time they had together. The letters compel the reader to see what is written next in this budding relationship and their longing to be together. On a furlough home in January 1865 Wells and Anna became engaged during a sleigh ride the only time they were together since the commencement of their correspondence. In 1865 Wells commanded a brigade that consisted of the 8th New York 15th New York 3rd Indiana and 1st Vermont. In the engagement at Waynesboro Virginia on March 2 the brigade captured 15 battle flags while eliminating Confederate General Jubal Early's command. Two days later Anna received a ring and on March 8 she scrawled her vows in a letter to Wells. At the Battle of Five Forks Wells wrote Anna that his clothes had six holes made by bullets and that he was hit by a spent piece of shell. On April 3 Wells brigade routes the Confederate Brigade of General Rufus Barringer at Namozine Church. At Appomattox Station on April 8 Wells men were in the thick of the fight capturing a large number of Confederate soldiers and cannon. Then at Appomattox Court House on April 9th his men were engaged in some of the last fighting that fateful day when the truce flags are sent out by Lee s army. Following the Appomattox Campaign Wells was commissioned a full brigadier general and took command of the division and he mustered out of service on January 15 1866 and married Anna three days later. Hoffman leaves Wells letters the way they were originally written. Furthermore nothing has been omitted from the letters to make them politically correct for today's world. War and romance combine to make an intriguing and unique primary source account. Schroeder Publications / McNaughton & Gunn, Inc unknown books
1846178057Philadelphia: Gihon & Smith 1846. Hardcover. Poor binding copy only. Stain on boards board and spine piece detached some foxing at extremities some corners folded text still clean and readable. Brown half-cloth binding. 2 preliminary leaves vii-xiv pages 1 leaf 17-252 pages. A guide for working with porcelain specifically making tobacco pipes and working with glass covering the steps for blowing different types of glass various techniques and how to color glass. Gihon & Smith hardcover books
183231188Philadelphia: Carey & Lea - Chestnut Street 1832. 1st US edition American Imprints 13317 & 14322a. Original publisher's rose-colored linen cloth spine over drab paper boards. Printed paper title label to spine. Spine sunned. Bit of light foxing. A VG copy. xiv 15 - 252. 26 page publisher catalogue at rear. Text block untrimmed & partially unopened. Illustrated with intratextual cuts. 12mo. <br/><br/> Carey & Lea - Chestnut Street hardcover books
1964Embry 109118Bernice P. Bishop Museum 1964. Faint wear still fine. B&W photos Wrappers. Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1964. unknown books
193220336New York: Horace Liveright Inc. Very Good in Very Good dj. c.1932. First American Edition. Hardcover. spine just a bit turned small dent in top edge of front cover minor fraying at spine ends; jacket bright and attractive in spite of a bit of irregular fading along the spine and a touch of creasing at top of spine. The first novel by this English journalist and short-story writer a rather self-consciously "madcap" satire: the jacket blurb promises "amazing swoops of cuckoo fun and general insanities and at the same time grand satire and a healthy if absurd romance." The wackiness centers around the Cadwallows who in addition to being "one of the noblest and nuttiest families in England" also happen to be teetering on the brink of impoverishment. Potential salvation from their financial plight arrives in the person of Miss Wilhelmina Harkaway known as "Bill" a nine-foot-tall giantess who has been brought from Australia by the family's youngest son. She is readily adopted by the Cadwallow clan and with the patronage of a wealthy and even more eccentric friend a scheme is hatched to launch her on a prizefighting career and thereby reap a fortune. This isn't due to any discernible skill on her part in that regard or even to any inherent combativeness in her nature -- she's really quite a nice young lady of nineteen -- but simply because well it's that kind of book. Not surprisingly her enormous size and commensurate strength permits her to defeat all challengers and in no time at all she becomes a somewhat freakish celebrity even at one point going on an American tour. The human-freak-boxing angle is of interest as the author did a little amateur boxing himself as a young man and later garnered praise for a series of short fantasy stories about a "dwarf surrealist boxer" named Engelbrecht. This item is featured in ReadInk's E-Catalog 3.1 which can be perused in full at our website. Not everything in that catalog is listed on whatever site you're seeing this. . Horace Liveright, Inc. hardcover books
193220495New York: Horace Liveright Inc. Fair. c.1932. First American Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . no dust jacket solid reading copy but no more internally clean and firmly bound but with much external wear: soiling to covers some deterioration/fraying to cloth along hinges slight exposure of boards at top and bottom corners. The first novel by this English journalist and short-story writer a rather self-consciously "madcap" satire centered around the Cadwallows who in addition to being "one of the noblest and nuttiest families in England" are also teetering on the brink of impoverishment. Potential salvation from their financial plight arrives in the person of Miss Wilhelmina Harkaway known as "Bill" a nine-foot-tall giantess who has been brought from Australia by the family's youngest son. She is readily adopted by the Cadwallow clan and with the patronage of a wealthy and even more eccentric friend a scheme is hatched to launch her on a prizefighting career and thereby reap a fortune. This isn't due to any discernible skill on her part in that regard or even to any inherent combativeness in her nature -- she's really quite a nice young lady of nineteen -- but simply because well it's that kind of book. Not surprisingly her enormous size and commensurate strength permits her to defeat all challengers and in no time at all she becomes a somewhat freakish celebrity even at one point going on an American tour. The original jacket blurb promised "amazing swoops of cuckoo fun and general insanities and at the same time grand satire and a healthy if absurd romance." The human-freak-boxing angle is of interest as the author did a little amateur boxing himself as a young man and later garnered praise for a series of short fantasy stories about a "dwarf surrealist boxer" named Engelbrecht. . Horace Liveright, Inc. hardcover books
183228565Charlestown MA: Published by Wm. H. Wheldon 1832. Original plain wrappers stitched 38pp. A pleasing untrimmed copy in its unsophisticated state. Toned with scattered foxing else Very Good.<br/><br/> The pamphlet is a tale of religious persecution in Massachusetts against a lady of sterling character who failed to accept the divinity of Christ but who regarded him as the Messiah and human Son of God. It exposes the ill treatment of those with Unitarian sympathies and the dangers of insistence upon religious orthodoxy. Two editions were evidently published in 1832. <br/> Mrs. Richardson sought admission to the Second Congregational Church in Charlestown where she had recently moved. Its minister sought information about her from her previous church in Reading. The First Congregational Church in Reading had expelled her for turning toward Unitarianism. Its minister explained that his Church had "withdrawn all Christian watch and fellowship" from her for "violation of her own covenant vows" and her "departure" from orthodoxy. This pamphlet describes the First Church's disgraceful treatment of Mrs. Richardson: its minister and elders had frequently quizzed her closely about her theological beliefs accused her of denying Christ's divinity scolded her for poor church attendance and for propagating "pernicious statements" to Church members and called her to account at Church meetings. <br/>OCLC records seven locations under several accession numbers as of July 2015. Published by Wm. H. Wheldon unknown books
1774ME1081London:: Printed and Sold at No. 76 Fleet-Street 1774. 1774. 4to. iv xv 1 68 pp. Original full calf gilt spine; neatly rebacked to style preserving original endsheets. Inscribed by an early owner "This Book belonging to Monsieur Pierre Monneron." Extremely rare. This is the first edition in English of the ghazals of Hafez translated by one of the leading Persian orientalists of his day John Richardson FAS of Wadham College Oxford and famous for his seminal work written in conjunction with Sir William Jones the work being A Dictionary Persian Arabic and English 1777. / Hafez was previously unknown to the western world until Count Karl Emerich Reviczky von Revisnye 1737-1793 the Hungarian Orientalist and bibliophile 'discovered' him and brought his poetic classic to Europe with this Vienna printing. The work features an extensive text on Hafez and a translation of selected ghazals . Reviczky von Revisnye also issued in 1784 1794 a catalogue of his Greek and Latin library using the pseudonym of "Periergus Deltophilus". In the prefatory essay for that volume he shows an interest in the printing of Nicolas Jenson Aldus Manutius and the Estiennes. / Hafez was born in Shiraz Persia and lived approximately from 1325/26–1389/1390. He is considered a mystic and poet. His life and poems are the subject of much analysis commentary and interpretation influencing post-fourteenth century Persian writing more than any other author. FULL TITLE: A Specimen of Persian Poetry; or Odes of Hafez With an English Translation and Paraphrase. Chiefly from the Specimen Poeseos Persicae of Baron Revizky Envoy from the Emperor of Germany to the Court of Poland. With Historical and Grammatical Illustrations and a complete Analysis for the assistance of those who wish to study the Persian language. Printed and Sold at No. 76, Fleet-Street, 1774. unknown books
11620pamphlet. 1 page pp. 265 IN: Science vol. 115 March 7. Slim 4to modern wrappers. N.p. 1952. First Edition. March 7 issue offered entire. Very good.<br/><br/> GM 6235.<br/><br/> unknown books
18609823Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston 1860. 1st . Hardcover. Very good. First edition. Includes 110 illustrations of period tools and technologies. Bound in original full leather with a black leather spine label stamped in gilt. Extremeties worn occassional foxing on end papers not effecting text otherwise very good. <br/><br/> Lindsay & Blakiston hardcover books
18081259637Boston: Munroe Francis & Parker 1808. First edition. 12mo in brown leather with burgundy frame on spine; VG; moderate soiling and fraying on boards; strong binding; ex-libris plate inside front board; open gutter in front; end pages stained; pages wobbling with offsetting and occasional foxing not detrimental to text; text clean and in tight print; pp. 187; shelved in front door case. 1259637. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Munroe, Francis & Parker unknown books
180840252Boston: Printed by Munroe Francis & Parker Shakespeare Bookstore no. 4 Cornhill 1808. Second American Edition. 187 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf morocco spine label. Upper joint starting some darkening to sheets else very good. Second American Edition. 187 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The second American edition of the first known American publication on Shakespeare Philadelphia 1788.<br/>Richardson 1743-1814 was a professor of humanity in the University of Glasgow. First published in Edinburgh in 1774 this work contains essays on Hamlet Macbeth on the melancholy Jaques Imogen King Richard the Third King Lear Timon of Athens and "On the Faults of Shakespeare." In this last essay Richardson faults the admirers of Shakespeare with excessive indulgence of his faults: "I am inclined to believe and shall now endeavour to demonstrate that the greatest blemishes in Shakespeare have proceeded from his want of consummate taste .". Jaggard p. 263 Printed by Munroe, Francis & Parker, Shakespeare Bookstore, no. 4, Cornhill unknown books
188660624Hartford Conn.: American Publishing Company. Very Good. 1886. Hardcover. Illustrated by thirty-two engravings and six maps. 630 pages covers are gray with decorative black and gilt stamping. Black tape repair at hinges and spine covers are scuffed with some mottling previous owner signed. Contents are bright and clean about Very Good. . American Publishing Company hardcover books
48174Philadelphia: E.H. Butler 1848. First Edition. Two quarto volumes. Contemporary full sheep with morocco spine labels; pp.1-1184;1185-2223. Bindings rather scuffed joints rubbed but firm moderate foxing to text heaviest on prelims. Good sound and complete copy. The first American edition of this massive etymological dictionary which though criticized for its technical shortcomings by Webster and others represented a significant advancement for its extensive reservoir of quotations by authors in which respect ". the dictionary was far more copious than Johnson or any previous work of its class in English. Its citations go back to the fourteenth century and point the way to the Oxford English Dictionary" DNB. E.H. Butler unknown books
183644559London: William Pickering 1836. First edition 2 volumes 4to pp. 4 1183 1; 4 1185-2222 1; contemporary and probably original full calf double gilt-ruled borders gilt-decorated spine in 5 compartments black gilt-lettered morocco spine labels partially perished; rebacked original spines laid down; boards a bit scratched hinges reinforced else very good and sound. Contemporary armorial bookplate of Nathaniel Ellison on front pastedowns. The most substantial lexicographical undertaking in England between Johnson and the O.E.D. "Richardson was an ardent philologist of the school of Horne Tooke . His principle was to arrive at the original and proper meaning which was inherent in a word from its etymology" see DNB. <br/><br/> William Pickering hardcover books
184434089London: William Pickering 1844. 2 volumes 4to pp. 36 1183 1; 4 1185-2226 2; slightly later full polished tan gilt-paneled spines in 6 compartments citron and brown morocco labels; all edges marbled some rubbing but generally very good. The most substantial lexicographical undertaking in England between that of Samuel Johnson and the O.E.D. "First published as part of the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana 1818-37 it consisted of a great many illustrative quotations drawn from literature but with relatively few and brief definitions . Richardson's approach was based on the notion that quotations alone if sufficient in number could serve to elucidate 'true etymological meaning.' He went far beyond Johnson in collecting quotations beginning at the fourteenth century Johnson went back only to the end of the 16th century . Richardson sought by his vast collection of quotations to justify the preposterous theory of John Horne Tooke that each word had a single immutable meaning. In his own work each word and its derivatives were given one etymology and one meaning. His etymologies were as preposterous as his theories but his dictionary was of great interest to lexicographers because it foreshadowed the historical collections of quotations that were later to form the basis of the Oxford English Dictionary" Landau Dictionaries p. 66. Based on the "historical principle" of lexicography this work formed an important link between Johnson and the O.E.D. Kennedy 6437. <br/><br/> William Pickering unknown books
183830869London: William Pickering 1838. Second edition 2 volumes thick 4to pp. 4 71 1 1183 1; 4 1185-2222 1; text in triple column; publisher's 1/4 brown morocco scuffed prelims and terminals spotted; a good sound set. First published in the same format in 1836-37. Based on the "historical principle" of lexicography this work formed the most substantial link between Samuel Johnson and the OED. Kennedy 6429; Vancil p. 204. <br/><br/> William Pickering unknown books
183631189London: William Pickering 1836. First edition 2 volumes 4to pp. 4 1183 1; 4 1185-2222 1; contemporary and probably original full calf double gilt-ruled borders gilt-decorated spine in 5 compartments gilt-lettered in 2; rebacked original spines laid down; spines a little rubbed else very good and sound. The most substantial lexicographical undertaking in England between Johnson and the O.E.D. "Richardson was an ardent philologist of the school of Horne Tooke . His principle was to arrive at the original and proper meaning which was inherent in a word from its etymology" see DNB. Based on the "historical principle" of lexicography this work formed the most substantial link between and the O.E.D. <br/><br/> William Pickering unknown books
184620069Philadelphia: E.H. Butler & Co 1846. First edition printed in America from William Pickering's stereotype plates; 2 volumes 4to pp. 4 71 1 1183 1; 2 1185-2222 1; contemporary full calf red morocco labels on spines some rubbing and wear but generally good and sound. The most substantial lexicographical undertaking in England between that of Samuel Johnson and the O.E.D. "First published as part of the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana 1818-37 it consisted of a great many illustrative quotations drawn from literature but with relatively few and brief definitions . Richardson's approach was based on the notion that quotations alone if sufficient in number could serve to elucidate 'true etymological meaning.' He went far beyond Johnson in collecting quotations beginning at the fourteenth century Johnson went back only to the end of the 16th century . Richardson sought by his vast collection of quotations to justify the preposterous theory of John Horne Tooke that each word had a single immutable meaning. In his own work each word and its derivatives were given one etymology and one meaning. His etymologies were as preposterous as his theories but his dictionary was of great interest to lexicographers because it foreshadowed the historical collections of quotations that were later to form the basis of the Oxford English Dictionary" Landau Dictionaries p. 66. Based on the "historical principle" of lexicography this work formed an important link between Johnson and the O.E.D. Kennedy 6449. <br/><br/> E.H. Butler & Co unknown books
183628120London: William Pickering 1836. First edition 2 volumes 4to pp. 4 1183 1; 4 1185-2222 1; recent red cloth gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine; very good and sound. The most substantial lexicographical undertaking in England between Johnson and the O.E.D. "Richardson was an ardent philologist of the school of Horne Tooke . His principle was to arrive at the original and proper meaning which was inherent in a word from its etymology" see DNB. Based on the "historical principle" of lexicography this work formed the most substantial link between Samuel Johnson and the O.E.D. <br/><br/> William Pickering hardcover books
1915185650Berkeley: University of California Press 1915. Hardcover. VG- Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine inside front and rear covers ffep and block. Gray cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine; pages 247-360. Issued also as thesis University of California 1914. Bibliographies on pages 355-360. University of California Press hardcover books
