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18891993No place listed: No publisher listed 1889. EPHEMERA POETRY VICTORIAN GIFT BOOK LOVE TOKEN. ANONYMOUS. 7 ¼" x 8 7/8"; 5 leaves; stiff board with a calendar style easel backing easel back has pencil inscription "From Samuel Danforth 1889"; 3" x 3 ¾" booklet bound with a pink silk ribbon affixed to a 4 ¼" x 6" color printed card that is encircled by a twisted decorative cord; booklet has 5 leaves printed verso only; light soiling small chip to pictorial booklet onlay; very good plus. A lovely and unusual commercially produced Valentine or love token card with an easel backing for standing it up. Layers of decorative paper the outer one with deckle edging and folded corners is hand-lettered in gold ink with the words "Affectionate Regards." Blue and white twisted silk cording surrounds a layer printed with gilt branching. The small onlaid booklet contains a broken-hearted love poem. The last verse reads<br /> <br /> "Had we ne'er met sae kingly<br /> Had we never loved sae blindly<br /> Never met or never parted<br /> We had ne'er been broken-hearted.". No publisher listed unknown
19403870s.l. Pittsburgh 1940. Good. 7 glossy black and white prints on paper 3 3/16 x 4 1/2 inches on versos the paper numbered M001 M220 and M349. Some general wear creasing from handling soiling on versos one small tear. ODD CLAUSTROPHOBIC INNER-CITY VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE 1940s. Depicted here are unnamed African-American neighbors and probably relatives assembled on brick streets against brick-walled houses. At least three of the photos were taken on the same street corner. A well-dressed man stands in front of a grocery store; one very young woman smokes; behind a wide-eyed girl wearing glasses and too-large sandals hangs laundry; another woman sits in a shadowy alley; three girls pose against a brick wall which exhibits faint graffiti behind them a contraption of some kind appears in the darkness for no reason; a stone step worn and sunken supports the feet of two boys in a doorway: on the sidewalk in front of them falls the shadow of the amateur photographer his fedora visible in the flawed negative. The photographer's subjects are often strangely positioned to one side; he has decapitated 1.5 heads; he has made the children squint and scowl uncomfortably; one woman smiles at the camera a bag of trash on the ground at her feet while her companion stares into a window. The several ghostly flaws to the negatives remove the viewer even further away from these lost moments. But not every photograph is claustrophobic: there is one of a forgotten family-outing at a hard-scrabble beach with radio towers and industry looming vaguely in the background. But we all know that the outing will be brief that they must soon return to the inner-city where perhaps there will live out the end of their days. The photographs were discovered in Pittsburgh and it is very possible that they were all taken there. At present we have only the emulsion and paper and thoughts of Temps Perdus. unknown
70861London: Henry Serventi Ltd. no date circa 1927. Hairstyles FIRST EDITION. Quarto 31 x 23cm 34 unnumbered leaves of captioned plates each with a tissue guard no text leaves. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to upper. Also with a loose pamphlet: 'L'Oreal Guide for Harmless Hair Tinting' London: Debacq & Harrop in publisher's brown paper wrappers stapled twice. Light spotting and a few minor marks throughout with one tissue guard chipped and re-inserted and another creased and torn to one corner. Moderate general wear to cloth including some marks and stains. Good. A very scare publication showing French high-society hairstyles from the period of Henri III to the time of publication including the famous 'Marcelle Wave' from the late nineteenth-century. Only one copy listed on Library Hub at the University of the Arts London. London: Henry Serventi, Ltd., no date [circa 1927] unknown
190161480N.p. Kilbourn Wisconsin ca 1901. Oblong octavo 6-1/2" x 9". Bound album of 17 mounted silver-gelatin photographs most 5" x 7" two smaller on heavy pasteboard mounts. Captioned but one; unsigned; apparently the work of a talented amateur or possibly a professional photographer see note below. Binding worn with losses at spine ends and corners; internally quite good though one photograph has fallen victim to the work of an infant graffiti artist fortunately working in pencil; the image is not entirely defaced; another image the first in the album is slightly faded and aged. Overall Very Good and apparently complete as assembled.<br /> <br /> Of the seventeen views eight are of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo New York. The remainder but for one a view of Niagara Falls are scenes in Wisconsin which would appear to be the photographer's home. Though unsigned the work is of a constistently high quality printed from large-format negatives suggesting a talented and well-heeled amateur working with a view camera. The only place-name referenced other than the Exposition is Kilbourn Wisconsin a mill town on the Wisconsin River that changed its name to Wisconsin Dells in 1931. Kilbourn was the home of the celebrated photographer and publisher of stereoviews H.H. Bennett and the Wisconsin views herein bear a very strong resemblance - both compositionally and in terms of overall quality - to Bennett's work. But while it is tempting to attribute these photographs to Bennett the one biographical detail we have found in the album - an image captioned "Our Boys Playground" - positively eliminates Bennett from consideration; he had two young children at the time of these photos but they were both girls.<br /> <br /> Amateur 20th-century Exposition albums filled with small-format tourist snapshots are abundant as are published views by professional photographers. But we have seen very few examples like this one: a hand-assembled album of exceptional well-printed views intended only for private consumption.<br /> <br /> The photographs are all but one hand-captioned in ink as follows: <br /> <br /> 1. "Court of Fountains" Pan American Expo<br /> 2. "The Narrows of the Wisconsin River"<br /> 3. "The Old Mill at Kilbourn Wis."<br /> 4. "Streets of Venice Pan Amer. Exp." <br /> 5. "Down the Lagoon" Pan American Expo<br /> 6. "Triumphal Bridge from Illinois Building" Pan American Expo<br /> 7. "Niagara above the Falls"<br /> 8. "Ohio and Illinois Buildings Pan Amer Exp." <br /> 9. "On the Wisconsin River"<br /> 10. "Our Wisconsin Farm Buildings"<br /> 11. "On the Pan Amer. Exposition Grounds"<br /> 12. "Temple of Music where President McKinley was Shot"<br /> 13. "The Midway Pan Amer. Exp."<br /> 14. "On Littler's Creek"<br /> 15. "The Jaws of the Dells of the Wisconsin" with view of The Dell Queen a tourist steamboat<br /> 16. Uncaptioned <br /> 17. "Our Boys Playground unknown
195118181Algiers: Literary Guild. 1951. Softcover. Good. Glassine wraps bit torn. Boards with brown spots. Hinges weakening ; A forerunner of a coffetable book in its original glassine wraps. Full page photogravures with multi language legends for the pictures ; 8vo . Literary Guild paperback
74972Oxford : Printed at the Clarendon Press by J. Cooke and S. Collingwood printers to the University; and sold by E. Gardner 1820. Church of England Liturgy FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Quarto 32 x 25cm pp.4 192 4. Bound in straight-grained brown full morocco with raised bands gilt titles and elaborate decoration in gilt and blind to spine and boards. 'Brunswick Chapel St. Mary-Le-Bone 1824' stamped in gilt to upper. All edges gilt with brown-coated endpapers. Central gathering on Communion proud and heavily browned worn and stained presumably from long-continuous use. Sections referring to 'George our King' have been crossed through in black ink and replaced with 'William' and later 'Victoria'. Gently toned throughout with an incense scent. Wear to joints and scrapes to boards have been carefully re-coloured and toned-in. Moderate general wear to binding. Good. Oxford : Printed at the Clarendon Press by J. Cooke and S. Collingwood, printers to the University; and sold by E. Gardner, 1820 unknown
40620n.p.: n.p. 1990. Very good plus. Stunning and extensive collection of original artwork album covers and two lengthy reference books - all describing a vast imaginary world of 20th century rock-and-roll that never existed. Introducing the auto-fanfictive outsider art of The Indoor Kid - a Henry Darger of Greil Marcuses Syd Barrett of Daisy Ashfords Robert Christgau of Richard Dadds - who fell through the pages of ten thousand music magazines into a wonderland of his own making. The anonymous creator hereafter The Artist fashioned an entirely fictitious musical universe. From dozens of albums drawn and collaged over actual LPs as well as what might perhaps best be described as concept art for those albums to extensive accompanying commentaries whose tone owes a great deal both to zines of old and the once-popular Encyclopedias of Rock the impression is one of carpeted suburban bedrooms and children longing to escape both backwards into lost decades and forwards into the autonomy and sexuality of imagined adulthood. The Artist's mock-authoritative assertions of judgment and offhand omniscience speak of a child raised by a stacks of ROLLING STONE and CREAM in lieu of the foundling's traditional pack of wolves. His major fascinations - psychedelia the particular flavor of British whimsy that preceded it and hippie-tinged heavy metal of the Zeppelin-Black Sabbath era- are all in line with this lineage and with the character of the solitary late-'80s adolescent.<br /> <br /> THE DREAM OF FAME BEATS FAME ITSELF:<br /> <br /> The Artist's record collection most immediately calls to mind the work of Mingering Mike the D.C.-based self-made recording artist who constructed scores of fake albums by "unheard artists such as Joseph War the Big 'D' and Rambling Ralph on labels such as Fake Records Inc. Decision Sex and Mother Goose" Hadar. Discovered at a flea market in the early 2000s Mike's work found instant cult and early online fame. The present collection however can be dated with a great deal of confidence to the mid-late 1980s through perhaps the very early 1990s from the issue dates of the original repurposed albums as well as triangulating particular contemporary references coupled with certain early laser-print fonts. Thus while it is almost certainly impossible that the one could have influenced the other the similarities of technique imagination and single-minded dedication in their respective oeuvres are striking. <br /> <br /> Their art styles however are highly individuated. Though both may be placed under the broad umbrella of outsider art our Artist abhors a vacuum; he does not have Mike's appreciation of negative space. Lacking any formal skills or apparent training and with a representational style much younger than his assumed years he works in blasts of color in layers of collage and pen and children's marker in puns and allusions and call-backs both verbal and visual. And whereas Mingering Mike's invented record labels and bands lent verisimilitude to his own fantasied career in which he was the star The Artist is self-effacing to a fault. His dream is pure and strange. Not so much the protagonist of this created world but its chronicler publicist. In short that most reviled and necessary of creatures: the rock journalist. <br /> <br /> "OPIUM: ONE OF THE MOST POTENT DRUGS. NOW THE NAME OF A NEW ROCK AND ROLL BAND."<br /> <br /> Clearly a deep reader if only of music journalism the artist scatters little gems in the corners. Little clusters of mini-trends pop up in band names: the exquisitely named Sand Witch Witch-ita Falls Witching Hour and Witches Comettee sic; Mezzanine Anecdote and The Syntax Man; Tar-O and the O-CULT Band. Elsewhere there's a knowing nod to the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band clearly a source of inspiration; a song called "Austin Osmanspare" described as a "creepy tale of a black magic practitioner"; a reference to vocals vocals! like H.P. Lovecraft. Well-versed in the style of Bangsian word-omelettes "a sound full of ponderous organ pounding plodding rhythms screaming operatic vocals fast blitzkrieg-Bach-inspired guitar runs" some of the song titles are undoubtedly jokes on purpose: "Who When And Where Is Our Love Machine" "Soldier Sentry Squabbie Cockleshell Army" "666 All in the Name of Satan" Death Banquet's "Let Me Bludgeon You" followed by "No No No Don't Break The China" and the magisterial "Surrender Your Arms Sexual Metaphor." <br /> <br /> Meanwhile the real world does exist but is kept resolutely peripheral: nods to Timothy Leary praise from George Harrison glowing comparisons to Ozzy Osbourne and sneering ones to Michael Bolton creep in. Occasionally a deep-cut cover appears like "Magic Handkerchief" Bown/Bannister always scrupulously attributed. In a stroke of crossover genius one of the two encyclopedic notebooks explains that the imaginary band Iron Maiden had to change its name when the other real Iron Maiden got too famous. Poets too feature not only in certain liner notes "The group are heavily into Shelly sic Byron Keats William Blake and Sigfried Sasoon sic" but also most intriguingly in one unique piece of album art: "Strange Games" by "WILLIAM BLAKE." Unlike all the others however this album incorporates actual photographs of a teenage boy sulking theatrically for the camera in a red-collared black cape heavy bangs and incipient wispy mustache. We suspect the subject of being the artist and if we are correct his choice of pseudonym is impeccable.<br /> <br /> ENTRANCE TO THE SOLAR MINE<br /> <br /> What became of the creator is unknown and likely unknowable. Perhaps like Mingering Mike he decided that "the dream of fame beats fame itself" Washington City Paper. Perhaps he put away childish things and went on to be a sober and square maker of spreadsheets and never reminisced about a single song no one else had ever heard. Or perhaps he struggled when abruptly deposited in an adult world more real but less beloved than his own - a sadly more likely scenario as this collection was rescued from a storage locker auction.<br /> <br /> What is known for certain however is that the most compelling of pasts is the dream-past just before one's own birth well-remembered by parents and better-known to cool older siblings but eternally opaque to oneself. It is tragically the strangest history of all farthest away yet tantalizingly close. One cannot remember it so one invents. Wasn't Satanic Brittanica's "Moanin' Alone If You Leave Me Girl" a banger And that the song "Bastard" by Dallas sure rocks. Tune the FM dial of the aimless drives of youth. You remember. Collection includes the following 101 items: 52 original hand-colored and collaged record album sleeves. Two handwritten clamp-bound journals. Six color xerox reproductions and 41 original color marker-and-collage artworks for a subtotal of 47 different images; the color xeroxes do not reproduce any of the original works present and though some band names and iconographic motifs recur no images repeat from the album covers. Collaged materials include one piece with several original photographs of a young man tentatively identified as the anonymous artist. All materials show minor wear with occasional glue separation of artwork from original album cover; on the whole spectacularly well preserved. A complete inventory is available as well as a document with further sample quotes. n.p. unknown
174019585Amsterdam 1740-60. Other. In very good condition. 290 by 443mm 11½ by 17½ inches. 290 by 443mm 11½ by 17½ inches. Copper engraving uncolored as published. Historical scene showing an extensive land battle in the background an impressive fortified antique town. unknown
1755309551755-1780. Other. In excellent condition. Cut close to the engraved border lines. 152 by 190mm 6 by 7½ inches. Original copper engraving hand colored in outline and wash when published. An unusual small map of North America not listed in various collections. According to the style of the engraving the map could be published either in Germany or England in the 2nd half of the 18th century. Many engraved names of cities and towns rivers. A little cartouche is in the lower left side with three different small mileage scales. unknown
1820239491820. Very good condition. A magnificent unsigned folk art watercolor of a multicolored bird with long tail feathers which are painted in patriotic red white and blue. The striking image is done in an expert and mature hand using 10 or so different colors and with each feather highlighted at the edges with fine pen strokes of color. <br /> <br /> The bird somewhat resembling a peacock in overall shape perches on a willow tree with slender green vines climbing the trunk. Painted on heavy paper 10 x 13" unknown
54523London: John Player and Sons no date 1936. Cigarette Cards COMPLETE ALBUM. Octavo 19 x 13cm eight leaves with 50 cards pasted-in. Publisher's soft card covers. Very lightly spotted and browned. Near fine. London: John Player and Sons, no date [1936] unknown
54525London: John Player and Sons no date 1935. Cigarette Cards COMPLETE ALBUM. Octavo 19 x 13cm eight leaves with 50 cards pasted-in. Publisher's soft card covers. Very lightly spotted and browned. A 2cm tear to front cover repaired with tape to verso. Very good. London: John Player and Sons, no date [1935] unknown
3102A Dutch oil painting of a landscape scene - a water mill by a canal with trees and sky. Probably an amateur artist it is signed P.M. '85. Assumed 1985. Oil on canvas and mounted in a wooden and gilt frame. Sold with the frame. Frame size 500 mm width x 420 mm height. Image size 285 mm x 230 mm. The painting is in very good condition with just a touch of crackle to the glaze. The frame is mainly in good condition but with a little rubbing to the lower edge. unknown
14266London Printed: Sold by J. Bell 1772. 1772. . iii-vi ii 87 1pp. 8vo. Engraved title vignette. Disbound. "The Second Edition." The first edition appeared the same year and this one was followed by at least two more. The work is largely an account of George Alexander Stevens’s enormously popular Lecture on Heads with a substantial preface concerning other performers including Garrick and Foote. Lowe English Theatrical Literature 3760. London Printed: Sold by J. Bell, 1772. 1772. unknown
18552366London c1855. 510 by 590mm 20 by 23.25 inches. Engraved plan printed in red and black on cloth key to plan below. Rare map of London printed on cloth. The plan is printed in red and black. All bridges railways public buildings squares parks and borough names are printed in red. To the left and right of the title is a note: "Below is a List of the chief Sights & Amusements of London and it's Environs worthy of notice. The Star denotes free admittance. The Figures on the left refer to the map on the right the distance in miles from London." Although the plan is not dated we can assign a date of around 1855: it depicts both Holloway Prison 'Model Prison' opened in 1852 and the Metropolitan Cattle Market 'New Cattle Market' opened in 1855. Strangely the plan fails to show King's Cross Station which was opened in 1852. Not in Hyde. hardcover
188135615Manhattan: The Nationalist 1881. 1881. First edition. 7 3/4" x 6" blue printed wrappers with decorative type border 142 pp. including covers illustrated plates appendix table of contents advertisements. Much information on farm products and livestock. Discusses the character of the people of Kansas. Includes the Bismarck Fair Report on Riley County. Information on the soil crops rainfall horses mules the barge system manufacturing and its advantages religion and morality education etc. A 2-page business directory followed by 92 pages dealing primarily with Manhattan of biographical information on important men and businesses in Manhattan to include Hon John A. Anderson E.B. Purcell and the Manhattan Mill and Elevator Building the Rocky Ford Mills Hon. Geo. W. Higinbotham the general merchants Stingley & Huntress hardware dealer P.W. Zeigler dealer in farm implements W.H. Love H.A. Young & Co. as well as many other proprietors of various businesses. Also has information on people and businesses in Ashland Township Jackson Township Swede Creek Township Mayday Township Grant Township Zeandale Township etc. Advertising for the sale of Red Belle property of C.M. Gifford on rear wrapper. Inside rear wrapper is an illustration and advertisement for the Kimble Pump. Spine cover missing but all text still intact. Light stamp of the Anderson Memorial Library at bottom corner as well as the small letters "AZE" lightly printed at top along with a small area of sticker residue of front wrappers. Light chipping to edges of front and rear wrappers. A very interesting item. The Nationalist, 1881. unknown
112937London Wertheim Macintosh and Hunt 1859. 12mo. 48 pp. Publ. embosssed cloth with front board gilt red edges. English history in 171 verses from year BC 54 to AD 1837 and Queen Victoria. â€This neat and unpretending little volume is well suited for children. In pleasent and easy verse it gives a sketch of English history which may be readily commited to memory†was the short notice given by the London Quarterly Review in 1859. hardcover
11961London: John Harris 1837. . viii 207 1pp. 16mo. Wood-engraved frontispiece and eight plates with the half-title; one plate reinserted and consequently a little dusty at the outer edge. Still a nice copy in the original gilt-titled purple cloth; slightly faded. First edition featuring various early English kings and also Alexander and Peter the Great. Moon John Harris 20. London: John Harris, 1837. hardcover
1771601311771. ANONYMOUS. Anecdotes of a Convent. By the Author of Memoirs of Mrs. Williams. 18th-century full calf gilt-lettered red and black morocco spine labels. Dublin: Printed for J. Potts and T. Walker 1771. 2 Vols. First Irish edition published in the same year as the London edition. Rare Worldcat lists only two copies of this edition and seven of the London edition. This epistolary novel has been attributed to Helen Maria Williams but this is most unlikely as she would have been ten-years-old at the date of publication. The chapter describing events at the convent has been included in Terry Castle's anthology The Literature of Lesbianism Columbia University Press 2003 though it deals with a young woman falling in love with another woman who turns out to be a man raised at the convent and unaware that he is male. Some light toning and foxing light wear to conrers front free endpaper of Vol. 2 lacking else a very good copy. unknown
18821577212024368<p><strong>Author:</strong> Anonymous – Traditional Catholic compilation.<br /><strong>Title:</strong> <em>Ange Conducteur ou Recueil de Pieux Exercices. Nouvelle Édition augmentée du Chemin de la Croix et de l'Office de l'Immaculée Conception.<br /></em><strong>Publisher:</strong> Anvers D. Spitaels Imprimeur-Libraire Chaussée de Borgerhout 66. Circa 1882.<br /><strong>Language:</strong> Text in French.<br /><strong>Size:</strong> 4.5 x 3.5 inches.<br /><strong>Pages:</strong> 319 pages.<br /><strong>Binding:</strong> Attractive and very good original full burgundy leather binding with richly blind-stamped ecclesiastical motifs and ornate gilt borders. Embellished with all four heavy brass corner-pieces and a working central clasp complete and functional. Gilt title "Ange Conducteur" on the spine. All edges richly gilt and beautifully engraved with a <em>fleur-de-lys</em> motif creating a radiant decorative effect when the book is closed. hinges fine overall slightly scuffed - as shown under a protective removable mylar cover. A beautiful and devotional object in itself!<br /><strong>Content:</strong> Very good content bright tight and clean rare light foxing or staining - as shown.<br /><strong>Illustrations:</strong> Illustrated with one finely printed devotional frontispiece Jesus calming the storm as well as elegant ornamental borders on the title page.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>The book:</strong> A superb example of a 19th-century Belgian devotional manual this <em>Ange Conducteur</em> is both a spiritual companion and a work of craftsmanship. Intended for daily use these pocket-sized prayer books were often gifted to young Catholics or used for First Communion. This edition stands out not only for its completeness and spiritual content but especially for its extraordinary presentation: a working clasp striking corner hardware and decorative gilt edges with a rare fleur-de-lys engraving—symbolic of Marian devotion and French Catholic heritage.</p> Anvers, D. Spitaels, Imprimeur-Libraire, Chaussée de Borgerhout, 66. [Circa 1882]. hardcover
23092Without date or place. 3pp. 12mo. Bifolium on ruled laid paper. Fair: aged with a 12.5 x 5 cm section cut away from the top of the first leaf before the writing out of the poem. 63 lines divided into six nine-line stanzas. The stanzas are numbered and the poem is complete. The stanzas are numbered and the poem is complete. Written from the slave's point of view with the first stanza reading: 'I'm weary yet I cannot sleep Dark thoughts of morning make me weep For at the rising Sun I'm told I'll be converted into gold There's no escape I must be sold Because my master wants the gold And I'm his Slave yes I'm his Slave Because my master wants the gold And I'm his slave'. Last stanza describing the slave's flight to Canada: 'At last my dreadful journeys o'er I'm safe upon the farther shore St Georges cross floats over me I've found the land of Liberty. My youths renewed no more I'm old That fear is gone of being sold For now I'm Free Yes now I'm Free The fear is gone of being sold For now I'm Free.' No indication has been found that the poem was ever published. Without date or place. unknown
TM 466ELEGANT MANUSCRIPT CONTAINING TWO WORKS OF SPIRITUAL AND MORAL EDIFICATION IN FRENCH TRANSLATION. Illuminated manuscript on parchment in French France after 1482 c. 1490. Dimensions 274 x 175 mm. 70 folios written in a Gothic <i>bâtarde</i> bookhand 18 large initials parti-colored in red and/or blue inserted leaf in first quire with FULL-PAGE HERALDIC COMPOSITION IN GOLD SILVER RED BLUE AND BLACK. BINDING: Bound in modern nineteenth-century blue velvet over wooden boards pink paper pastedowns and endleaves edges gilt. TEXT: Manuscript contains two works that reflect the spirituality of fifteenth-century Carthusians and their quest for the contemplative life. The first text <i>Sept fruits de la tribulation</i> is known in only five extant manuscript and is still unedited. A free French version probably dating from the fifteenth century of either the longer <i>Latin Tractatus de tribulacione</i> or an abridged adaptation of the French <i>Livre de tribulacion</i>. The second text<i> Miroir d'or de l'ame pecheresse</i> is a work of spiritual edification which consists of seven sections: on human misery sin especially lechery penance rejection of the world the vanity of human wishes death and hell and heaven. There is neither a modern critical edition of the second text nor a complete census of the existing manuscripts; the copy here was apparently made from an incunable edition of c. 1490. This manuscript begins with a remarkable added full-page illuminated frontispiece with the coat of arms and motto of Louis de Grolée fl. late fifteenth-early sixteenth century the abbot of Bonnevaux and Saint-Pierre de Vienne. PROVENANCE: Copied in France perhaps northeastern based on script and linguistic characteristics as well as internal evidence. It belonged to Louis de Grolée fl. late fifteenth-early sixteenth century. It then belonged Charles Chardin bibliophile. It was later a part of the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps 1792-1872 who has been described as the greatest private manuscript collector of all time. CONDITION: Gold slightly rubbed some off-setting from heraldic painted composition to opening text page slight staining in upper margin and into three lines of text ff. 68-69. Overall good condition. Full description and pictures available. TM 466
16873835Lugduni imprint false: likely printed in Germany 1687. First Edition. Very good. 8vo 180 x 100 mm. 8 295 pp. Later German quarter calf over decorated blue paper boards actually two different sheets were utilized printed waste utilized as spine lining the text is in Latin and French vellum corner tips black spine label gilt binding a bit worn all edges stained red. Paper defect on fol. H3 pp. 101/2 affecting five lines of text with loss paper stock foxed and somewhat browned as is common with Germany medical books at this date but a good unsophisticated copy with a few leaves unopened. UNKNOWN PHYSICIAN ARGUES AGAINST HEAVY SMOKING IN 1687. <br /> <br /> This curious medical book discusses in 65 chapters an uncharacteristically broad array of afflictions: vertigo vomiting stomach complaints "hypochondria" "melancholia hypochondriaca" ailments of the liver and spleen arthritis fever coughing grief scurvy bloody urine epilepsy asthma and much more. <br /> <br /> To these discussions are added a series of bewildering letters to various unknown recipients including an argument addressed to a young student AGAINST SMOKING TOBACCO "Ad juvenem quendam studiosum cui Nicotianae fumum dissuaseram" pp. 231-236. Here the anonymous author argues against the "noxious" smoke of tobacco "Nicotiana" which is an "enemy to human nature." But the author conceeds that "No one of a sound mind will deny that this plant has been endowed with amazing strength by God the greatest Creator." Also: "All other plants were created in vain and the earth was crushed by the useless weight of millions of plants in vain because the faculties of all other plants were in this one plant . that can by itself remove and quench both cold and hot disease." However the conclusion is that even "Moderate smoking is harmful but much more harmful to those who sin in excess." We learn that the tobacco plant "not only has the power of subverting the stomach but also has a certain narcotic capacity and if we are to believe the writers of Indian affairs it often produces wonderful visions." Such however should very rarely be put to use. Furthermore tobacco is harmful to the skin and flesh; if smoked frequently the brain is weakened by the narcotic power; nor does it help the eyes. Finally the author implores his young recipient to "abstain from daily smoking."<br /> <br /> No copy in the U.S. The BL copy lacks the title-page. <br /> <br /> BnF Catalogue des sciences médicales II p. 258. unknown
69874Italy ca. 1700. Wooden box 16.5 x 17.0 x 9.2 cm. With mother-of-pearl and brass thread inlays. Brass hook and handle. = An elegant neat little box covered with delicate mother-of-pearl and brass floral patterns. It was probably used for preserving and carrying a missal breviary book of prayer or perhaps even jewelry. Showing some signs of age and wear but generally in very good condition. A few tiny worm holes in the rear panel the metal threads partly incomplete one side panel lacking one inlay otherwise hardly showing the wear of time. A very fine item. unknown
18691577212024511<p><strong>Author:</strong> Anonymous contributions published by D. Appleton & Co.<br /><strong>Title:</strong> <em>Appleton's Juvenile Annual. A Christmas and New-Year's Gift for Young People.</em><br /><strong>Publisher:</strong> New York D. Appleton and Company 90 92 & 94 Grand Street 1869.<br /><strong>Language:</strong> Text in English.<br /><strong>Size:</strong> 7.5 x 5 inches. <br /><strong>Pages:</strong> 382 pages publisher's catalog.<br /><strong>Binding:</strong> Attractive and very good near fine original publisher's decorative green cloth binding with richly gilt-stamped titles and ornamental designs to the front board and spine. Blind-stamped decorations to the rear board hinges fine overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown under a protective removable mylar cover. All edges gilt.<br /><strong>Content:</strong> Very good content bright tight and clean rare light foxing or age-toning to pages - as shown. <br /><strong>Illustrations:</strong> Complete with numerous in-text and full-page illustrations including a striking frontispiece of "Capture of a Shark" and other scenes such as "The Miracle of the Sword" and "Fishing for Electrical Eels with Horses."</p><p><strong> <br /><br />The book: </strong>A rare and handsome 1869 first edition of <em>Appleton's Juvenile Annual</em> a richly illustrated Christmas and New Year's gift book for children. This volume gathers together engaging tales instructive essays and imaginative narratives ranging from Arthurian legend "Prince Arthur and the Sword" to natural history "The Electrical Eel" and moral parables "A Child's Faith". With its lavish gilt-stamped decorative cloth it is a prime example of the Victorian gift-book tradition that blended visual appeal with edifying reading for young audiences.</p> New York, D. Appleton and Company, 90, 92 & 94 Grand Street, 1869. hardcover
