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1852w2083Preston England: George Cartwright 1852. Rare original daguerreotype stereoview picturing a parian sculpture that was exhibited at the 1851 Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace. Daguerreotype stereoviews are quite scarce both because most subjects did not remain motionless long enough to be photographed and because the daguerrean era did not last very long. Both the sculptor and the photographer for this daguerreotype stereoview are as yet unidentified. On the verso of our stereoview is Cartwright's label and on the recto a handwritten identification of the subject. The daguerreotype is in very good condition. The cloth backing is original and undisturbed though there is some minor evidence of the usual separation of the glass from the black painted border surrounding the daguerreotype. First Edition. Glass. Very Good. 3 3/4" by 6 3/4". Photo. George Cartwright
1836006130New York: Harper & Brother. Patterned blue cloth and paper spine label of the first edition. Board corners and spine ends are cloth chipped and bumped. Spine is sunned and labels chipped. Pages foxed throughout. Vol. 1: 246pp. First Volume missing the title page. Vol. 2: 254pp. Previous owner's name on the title page. MC . Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1836. Harper & Brother hardcover
1942423853Zurich 1942. Softcover. Near Fine. Seven leaves folded to make 14pp. 13 illustrations. Stitched with cord. Some spotting on the handwritten wrappers and final leaf slight splitting at the spine ends else very good or better. Handwritten and illustrated on rectos only with cryptic dedication on first leaf. From an unidentified hand a tender work of reassurance dedicated to Frau Anzia Weilenmann the wife of a Swiss psychoanalyst and member of the literary circle that formed around Adrien Turel in 1940s Zurich. Apparently composed to alleviate Mrs. Weilenmann's anxiety over the crisis in Swiss culture precisely at the time of its dark flirtation with Nazism the illustrated poem mobilizes wordplay jocular images and botanical metaphors to playfully insist upon the inevitable resistance of the Swiss people. unknown
A1-07-25-23-MOHardcover. Good. Eleventh printing June 1947. Original circus dust jacket with moderate wear. Slight age tanning to edges. Fold crease on the second to last fly page.Taped tears on the inside of the dust jacket. hardcover
JK-3UQJ-KEQHHardcover. Good. 17 hardback volumes as pictured. 11 volumes with some underlining 6 no marks all bindings tight. Shipping daily. Benajah Harvey Carroll known as B. H. Carroll December 27 1843 November 11 1914 was a Baptist pastor theologian teacher and author. hardcover
AL19.5-10-3-24-Hardcover. Good. Nice first printing. Incribed to Bill by E on flyleaf. missing small bits of dust cover edges. One page fold. Minor hinge wear. No marks or highlights. hardcover
w6-4-2-22-Hardcover. Good. Good 12th printing 1948 rare book dust cover in protective cello is worn and missing small parts Dust cover has some stains that can't been seen in photos has normal page tanning Some edge wear free of marks or highlights The binding is intact but has binding separation from cloth. Nice collectible copy. Packaged with care. hardcover
mon0003896789Zondervan. leather_bound. Good. 1.7000 8.5000 5.9000. Zondervan hardcover
168629253<p>Augustus Anglicus a compendious view of the life and reign of that immortal and glorious monarch Charles II was printed for Samuel Holford in London in 1686. Issued a year after Charles's death it represents a royalist effort to sustain the king's reputation and affirm Anglican loyalty. The work is anonymous a common practice for political texts of the era. Format is duodecimo measuring 5.75 by 3.5 inches 14.6 x 8.9 cm. Collation: 22 192 pages. No illustrations are included. Condition is Very Good with leather binding reinforced at corners and edges text block tight and secure and pages showing expected age toning. References: Wing A 4215. Item Number SKU: #29253. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.</p> printed for Samuel Holford hardcover
176463017Kiøbenhavn Heiden 1764. 8vo. In contemporary marbled paper covered boards with gilt "F" to front board and "Z" to back board. Wear to spine lower part of spine with old paper label. All edges coloured in blue. Internally nice and clean. 8 80 pp. engraved half title. <br/><br/><em>Exceedingly rare Danish translation of a German account of the short-lived Order of the Abelites Abelsorden a moral-philosophical brotherhood based on contemporary Freemasonry. The society founded in Greifswald in the mid-18th century took its name from the biblical Abel and aimed to promote virtue charity and fraternal conduct among its members. â€A secret Order which existed about the middle of the eighteenth century in Germany called also the Order of Abel The organization was in possession of peculiar signs words and ceremonies of initiation but according to Gadicke Freimaurer Lexicon it had no connection with Freemasonry. According to Clavel the order was founded at Griefswald in 1745.†Encyclopedia Masonica. OCLC only list two copies both in Copenhagen Denmark </em> hardcover
1743L006.777GB: J. Watts 1743. Text 163 x 100 mm. Consists of a blank frontispiece brown stain about 10mm square in top margin. Rubricated title page. 8 dedication letter & contents 1-370 14 index & list blank. Text has a few minor marks and spots etc but is generally quite clean and tight. The whole fitted with new endpapers and sumptuously rebound in full leather with decorated panelled covers and spine with raised bands and gold on green title label. Overall size 170 x 105 mm. Now a most presentable book. . 2nd Edition. Hardback. VG-/No DW. J. Watts Hardcover
183069157s. l.: S. n. 1830. Fine. S. n. s. l. s. d. circa 1830 10.50 x 17 cm relié Edition conforming to the first edition published in 1731 in Lille by G.E. Vroye. Half red calf binding with corners spine with four raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with gilt fillets gilt fillet frame on embossed red paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns bookplate pasted on one pastedown contemporary binding. Rare. Handsomely bound copy. S. n. hardcover
1780001457S. l.Pennsylvania: s. n. 1780. Softcover. Broadside n. d. ca 1780 ; date obtained from a himmelsbrief at Yale closely resembling identical dimensions similar border similar typography; 7 3/4 x 12; single sheet recto only; several crease lines with small punctures at intersections; age-toning to margins; a few small nicks to edges; illustrated with a geometrical border; double columns; good to very good. Himmelsbrief in Pennsylvania Dutch or Himmelsbriefe in German was a religious document which according to the text had been invented by a gypsy in Prussia in 1714 and had been first printed in Koeningsberg in 1715. It gave a prayer which was supposed to protect the family owning the broadside from fire pestilence and lightning. It also assured pregnant women that carrying it on their body would repel witchcraft and sorcery. Though extremely popular with the Pennsylvania Dutch and wildly published in German in the late 18th and all through the 19th centuries the "heavenly letters" were also printed in English and various Scandinavian languages. Most of them were sold at fairs and markets and even peddled throughout rural communities. S. l.[Pennsylvania]: s. n. paperback
186023113London: John Henry and James Parker 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Historical Tales No. 20. Part of a series recounting the history of the Church in Great Britain and other countries. iv 112pp 4pp of advertisements. Recent maroon cloth stamped in gold on the spine. Frontispiece. Two small stains to fore edge affecting the first and last two leaves. A very good copy. ; Octavo. John Henry and James Parker hardcover
1807876F22Manchester: C. Wheeler and Son 1807 . Paperback. Very Good. 6.5" by 4.5". None. A vanishingly scarce pamphlet offering criticism of pro-Catholic poem published in Manchester in the early nineteenth century. A very scarce work offering a rebuttal to the 'stale and absurd' arguments presented in a poem published in Manchester that presented a 'Praise of Popery'.Illustrated with an engraved plate captioned 'Joan Pope of Rome . A Woman Pope'.The pamphlet criticises the aforementioned poem and is arranged in a series of rebuttals targeting various verses of the poem.Retaining the terminal blank.Offering insight into anti-Catholic sentiments in the early nineteenth century. In paper wraps. Externally very smart with folds to wrap perimeters. Wraps bright. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good C. Wheeler and Son paperback
1682859F4London: Daniel Brown; Thomas Benskin 1682 . First edition. Vellum. Good. 9" by 6.5". None. A vanishingly scarce late seventeenth century first edition discussing the history of the London Charter from the reign of Henry III to the year 1682. The exceptionally scarce first edition of this discussion of the various points in English history in which England's monarchs and governments suspended parts of the Charter of London from the year 1265 to 1682.ESTC Citation No. R18801. Wing F1557With the register A2-A4 B-E4. Collated lacking initial blank.With the inscription of G.H. Mark to the head of the front pastedown and of the University of Leicester to the tail.With a faint contemporary inscription to the head of the title page.A fantastically informative account of the various points in history in which the London Charter was suspended and restored. Loosely held in folded vellum wraps. Light discolouration to wrap perimeters. Ink inscriptions to front pastedown. Unbound with each leaf laid down with minor losses to perimeters and gutters. Faint contemporary ink inscription to head of title page. Pages significantly age toned. Good Daniel Brown; Thomas Benskin hardcover
1760304661760. A Hambourg chez ChrÂŽtien HÂŽrold 1760 - S.l. s.ÂŽ. 1761. 8 parties reliÂŽes en 7 vol. au format in-12 168 x 102 mm de 2 ff. n.fol. 308 pp. et 1 f. n.fol. ; 2 ff. n.fol. 426 pp. et 1 f. n.fol. ; 422 pp. et 1 f. n.fol. ; 2 ff. n.fol. et 336 pp. ; 2 ff. n.fol. vi - 281 pp. 2 ff. n.fol. et 1 f. bl. ; 2 ff. n.fol. et 205 pp. ; 2 ff. n.fol. 192 pp. et 2 ff. n.fol. ; 2 ff. n.fol. et 104 pp. ; viii - 422 pp. Reliures uniformes de l'ÂŽpoque de pleine basane glacÂŽe et marbrÂŽe blonde filet gras vertical ˆ froid portÂŽ sur chacun des plats dos ˆ nerfs ornÂŽs de filets gras ˆ froid caissons d'encadrement dorÂŽs important dÂŽcor fleuronnÂŽ dorÂŽ piÂces de titre de maroquin vieux-rouge titre dorÂŽ tomaison dorÂŽe palette dorÂŽe en tÂte et queue jeu de petits filets obliques dorÂŽs sur les coupes tranches saumon. Ensemble complet de ses 8 parties ; ici reliÂŽes en 7 volumes. A la fin du dernier a ÂŽtÂŽ reliÂŽ - sans page de titre - La ThÂŽorie de l'imp™t de Mirabeau. Ouvrage en outre complet de ses 6 tableaux dÂŽpliants. Primitivement paru en un volume ˆ Avignon en 1759 les derniÂres cinq autres parties qui composent cet ensemble parurent de 1758 ˆ 1760. En effet lorsque Mirabeau publia le prÂŽsent ouvrage il ne connaissait pas encore Quesnay. Ce dernier fut vivement impressionnÂŽ par L'Ami des hommes et trÂs rapidement de leur rencontre naquit l'ÂŽcole Physiocratique et les trois autres parties de l'Ami des Hommes seront le rÂŽsultat de la collaboration des deux hommes. Principal propagateur des doctrines ÂŽconomiques en France Riquetti propose ici un traitÂŽ fondamental pour la physiocratie alors naissante en partie inspirÂŽ de FranÂois Quesnay. On y trouve ici ÂŽnoncÂŽs des principes comme le primat de lÕagriculture et la condamnation de la finance du luxe et de la Ç cupiditÂŽ È dans un monde sous la conduite de propriÂŽtaires et dÕun ÇÊroi pasteurÊÈ. Aussi d'aprÂs l'auteur ''la vraie richesse ne consiste que dans la population. Or la population dÂŽpend de sa subsistance et la subsistance ne se tire que de l'agriculture. Ainsi pour ce physiocrate convaincu tout dÂŽpend de l'agriculture : elle reste le premier des arts. Mirabeau se rangera derriÂre l'idÂŽe que Ç Plus vous faites rapporter ˆ la terre et plus vous la peuplez È''. Riquetti comprit avec quelques autres la vÂŽritable nature du paysan franÂais sa dÂŽvotion ˆ la terre et sa persÂŽvÂŽrance ˆ endurer un travail dur et ÂŽreintant pour en obtenir une parcelle.Ê Le paysan nՎtait pas pauvre par paresse mais parce que le dÂŽcouragement de ne jamais rien obtenir le conduisait ˆ baisser les bras au milieu de beaucoup de contraintes. Il travaillerait toujours dur pour son propre intÂŽrÂt. Il fallait donc lui faciliter lÕaccÂs ˆ la propriÂŽtÂŽ rurale en supprimant les causes de son dÂŽcouragement.Ê En outre Mirabeau souligna le besoin dÕun traitement rural de lÕassistance publique convaincu quÕil ÂŽtait de la supÂŽrioritÂŽ de lÕagriculture sur toutes les autres formes de richesse. Les villes lui paraissaient comme des excroissances ÂŽconomiques sources de luxe qui rÂŽpandait son pouvoir de corruption sur les campagnes environnantes. Barbier I Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes 133 - Brunet III Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres 1739 - Cioranescu II Bibliographie de la littÂŽrature franÂaise du XVIIIÂme siÂcle 45626 - TchÂŽmerzine VIII Bibliographie d'ÂŽditions d'auteurs franÂais 283 - QuÂŽrard VI La France littÂŽraire p. 154. Angles ÂŽlimÂŽs. Quelques abrasions ou petits manques superficiels affectant les plats. Quelques coiffes arasÂŽes. Dos prÂŽsentant un ÂŽclat lÂŽgÂrement altÂŽrÂŽ. Quelques rousseurs et feuillets parfois oxydÂŽs. Petite dÂŽchirure en marge d'une page de titre. Du reste bonne condition. b42961 unknown
178655911Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1786. 4to. Contemp. full mottled calf. Raised bands. Gilt spine. Covers with triple gilt lineborders. With the crowned monogram in gold of King Louis XVI on both covers. 243 pp. Wide-margined. On good paper. A few scattered brownspots. Given to the Danish astronomer Thomas Bugge probably on his stay in Paris. <br/><br/><em>On front free endpaper "Offert à monsieur Bugge Directeur de L'Observatoire de Dannemark à Copenhague/ de la part du Ministre de la Marine de france.". </em> hardcover
DADAX094855200XHal Leonard 0000-00-00. First Edition. paperback. New. 0.00x0.00x0.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Hal Leonard paperback
G3-9-12-24-BMGHardcover. Fair. Rare First Edition 12th printing. Dustcover is included has a protective sleeve. Has some inscriptions on the front flypage otherwise pages are free of any writing or highlighting. Moderate use and shelf wear. Has moderate page tanning. Overall okay and readable rare book. hardcover
81481Paris: 1927. Original silver-gelatin photographic print 7" x 6". Mounted on thin board 13" x 9-3/4" signed "A. Feny" on mount below image see note. Dated in the subject's hand "17/8/27 - Paris" and inscribed: "To the Beloved couple Grover & Nettie hoping you will continue having success and making friends" signed in full. Some abrasion to the mount especially at corners; small flaw to image at upper left corner still Very Good or better. <br /> <br /> A lovely jazz-age portrait of Henry Georges Walter playing his trumpet probably in a Paris nightclub around 1927. Walter b.1902 was born in Alabama and studied music in the renowned Harlem studio of Isabel Talafierro-Spiller but seems to have spent most of his performing career in Europe. A brief notice in the Baltimore Afro-American for Oct. 19 1929 advises that Walter "will return to America in October. after being eleven years in Europe;" he was at this time performing with Opal Cooper's "International Five" a popular Paris quintet which also included Samuel Richardson Harvey White and Charlie Lewis. Little else is known of Walter; the 1930 U.S. Census finds him living as a lodger on 151st Street in Harlem with the occupation of "musician" but we find no further record of him after this. <br /> <br /> The photograph is titled "A Fény" with an address in Hungarian at left: "Váczi U Vaci Utca 11/B." The title which translates to "The Light" is possibly a reference to the influential Hungarian photographic journal of the same name published in Budapest from 1906-1912. We have been unable to satisfactorily identify the photographer. unknown
19434211New York: Alcoholic Foundation Inc 1943. Very good. 281pp. Original printed wrappers stapled. Moderate toning spotting and edge wear soft central vertical fold throughout. One sentence underlined otherwise clean internally. An early pamphlet issued by Alcoholics Anonymous containing important doctrine from the organization's early years. The first sentence provides the motivation behind the present pamphlet: "The purpose of this booklet is to show how thousands of us who were once hopeless alcoholics have recovered from our malady. We have found a way of life which no longer compels us to drink. Alcoholics Anonymous is the great reality which has expelled our obsession." Later in the introduction the organization dispels any notion of complicated requirements for membership: "The only requirement for A.A. membership is an honest desire to stop drinking." The pamphlet also prints passages entitled "Am I an Alcoholic" "The Doctor's Nightmare" "The European Drinker" "Women Suffer Too" "Bill's Story" "Medicine Religion and Alcoholics Anonymous" "The Twelve Steps" "Our Friends Say" and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick's review of the famous "Big Book" Alcoholics Anonymous which had been published just four years earlier. Scarce with just ten copies in OCLC. Alcoholic Foundation, Inc unknown
187716169London: Privately Printed 1877. Full leather boards with leather lettering piece to spine and four raised bands; some wear to front joint and general rubbing to boards and spine ends. Typical fading to albumen prints and minor foxing to handful of pages. Overall a pleasant copy of this privately printed travelogue; with only two OCLC records located BL and Wales. First Edition. Octavo. A delightful account of a party's tour of North Wales organized into four cantos; a party of four girls and a 70 year old gentleman—depicted in the frontispiece photograph—with the latter presumably being the anonymous writer of the poetic verse. Illustrated with 65 mounted albumen photographs most measuring 4 x 6.25 inches representing landscapes bridges railways waterfalls lakes castles and villages. With comical woodcuts to the end of each canto. This copy INSCRIBED to front endpaper to Ellen Pitman; dated Oct. 12 1877. London: Privately Printed unknown
19240289701924. Manuscript. Good. octavo 51 pages written on letterhead of the Department of the Interior United States Geological Survey rectos only neatly inscribed in pencil and ink very good. This account appears to have been a draft and may have been intended for publication there are numerous corrections changes and emendations throughout the work. The unidentified author traveled by rail from Yellowstone to Seattle and from there to Alaska by steamer. The author visited Ketchikan Seward Anchorage Fairbanks where time was spent with the Mayor Valdez Juneau Prince William Sound Cordova Columbia Glacier etc. The author comments upon the events of the trip and gives interesting information on accommodations for tourists describes the scenery and topography a twelve page description of Columbia Glacier and also describes the towns and cities visited. "Valdez represents the tragedy of mining towns. It is really a dead mining town & it is a real tragedy to walk through and see the great number of vacant houses. Really it is hard to understand the lure of such a place." "Anchorage was created as an operating base for the construction of the railroad and has large permanent railroad yards & shops. It is the youngest and most up to date town in Alaska. For the tourist however it has little of interest." "Fairbanks a town almost exclusively of log cabins. the city is isolated because of its great distance from anywhere and people of the States do not care to spend so much time in traveling to reach the place." <br />
1920140949212California c. late 19th-early 20th century. Very Good. A lovely sea moss souvenir album with six pressed and mounted specimens from the coast of California. 6 pp. Bound in a commercially produced gilt lettered die-cut booklet with poetical onlay and yellow silk picot ribbon tie. <p>Very Good. Lacking a ribbon fastener extant ribbon is slightly stained and creased covers soiled and lightly worn with tarnishing to gilt lettering. First specimen is crumbling but mostly intact. The other specimens are remarkably bright and sound unusual given the delicate nature of these objects. <p>Souvenir albums of pressed sea mosses or "sea flowers" were sought after keepsakes vended along beach towns and coasts the globe over in the late 19th-century. Though commercially produced this would have likely been made in small quantities and sold to a fashionable Victorian lady. A delightful token from a bygone era in decent condition. unknown
