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164019564Lugduni Batavorum: Ioannis Maire 1640. 12mo 12.7 cm 5". 8 3327 7 372 pp. <br><br>Editio nova additis annotationibus in quibus testimonia": Early edition of Grotius's defense of Christianity. The first Protestant textbook of apologetics this work was first published in Dutch verse in 1622 and then in a revised Latin prose rendition in 1627. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â This ed. not in Brunet. Contemporary vellum spine with early inked title; vellum showing minor spots of discoloration and spine with call number. Front pastedown and bottom page edges with institutional rubber-stamp; back pastedown with stamp of a 19th-century Dutch bookseller; front fly-leaf with early inked annotation. First dedication leaf with inked numeral in lower margin; some instances of early inked underlining and marginalia confined to early part of volume. First few leaves with light waterstaining to outer portions. First part skips pp. 1/2 between preface and first text page with this collation matching that reported online. Ioannis Maire hardcover books
164041560Lugduni Batavorum: Ex officina Ioannis Maire 1640. 12mo 12.5 cm 4.92". 8 3327 i.e. 329: pagination 95/96 repeated 7 372 pp. <br><br>Editio nova additis annotationibus in quibus testimonia": Early edition of this classic defense of Christianity by Grotius 15831645 the great Dutch philosopher and jurist. The first Protestant textbook of apologetics this work was first published in Dutch verse in 1622 and then in a revised Latin prose rendition in 1627. The added annotations here have a separate title-page and pagination; the first part's pagination skips pp. 1/2 between preface and first text page with this collation matching that reported online.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: 17th-century vellum covers framed in a delicate and complicated gilt rolls with gilt-tooled corner fleurons surrounding a large gilt-tooled lozenge-shaped medallion; spine with gilt rolls creating four compartments devices in three of these and information identifying the volume now faded in the fourth. Stations for attachment of ties clearly defined; gilt supra-libros and date as below.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Front cover gilt-stamped "M.B.V.K. 1641." Front pastedown with small bookplate of 20th-century collector Harry C. Goebel his vine design. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Brunet II 1765. Bound as above some rubbing and thinning of vellum; spine title mostly effaced and closures now lacking. Bookplate as above front pastedown also with early inked inscription; front free endpaper with remnant of paper slip once adhered back pastedown with affixed printed slip regarding content. Front endpapers and fly-leaf only with small instances of worming; rear endpapers with faint corner waterstainings not reaching text; general age-toning and scattered mild foxing. => A solid aesthetically pleasing copy with intriguing provenance. Ex officina Ioannis Maire hardcover books
186248774London: Houlston and Wright 1862. Early edition. Cf. Gabler G18050 for the 1855 edition. Pebbled terra-cotta cloth covering stiff-stock boards. Bright yellow eps. Well worn with expected signs of extensive use. At some point in its past the binding exposed to moisture though not extensively so. Numberous gutter breaks. Bookplate. A Good copy of this uncommon book. 108 pp. "Management of Wine" pp 15 - 31; "Brewing Beer" pp. 32 - 63. Frontispiece of dinner party table setting; 3 "Bills of Fare" pp. 92 - 94. 6-3/8" x 4" <br/><br/>A popular work from this publisher that was published in numerous editions during the second half of the 19th C. Research suggests the work first appeared in 1855 with OCLC recording just a single holding of this 1862 edition. At the time of cataloguing we see no other copies on the market. Provenance: ex-libris Hugo William Koehler July 19 1886 – June 17 1941 "United States Navy Commander secret agent and socialite. Following the First World War he served as an Office of Naval Intelligence and State Department operative in Russia during its civil war and later as naval attaché to Poland. He was rumored to be the illegitimate son of the Crown Prince of Austria and to have assisted the Romanovs in fleeing Russia following the revolution of 1917. He was awarded the Navy Cross for his service during World War I." Wiki Houlston and Wright hardcover books
1950105071950. First Printings. Original Wraps. Very Good to Near Fine. Minor shelf/edge wear title/volume codes on the bottom of the textblocks else tight bright and unmarred. Blue cardstock wrappers string bound bound in blank sheets for tipping in photographs by publisher and/or final owner. Small 8vo. 205 208; 214; 216; 202; 220; 210; 210; 203pp. <br/><br/>Ten books in a series of unknown number Vol. 1 and 2 bound together. There is no indication that this was every properly 'published' as there is no record of it in any holding. Many/most erotica books from this mimeo era were stand-alone books even if written as part of an overarching series. Finding sets is uncommon.and finding a run as large as this is very very scarce. <br />Paul Hugo Little 1915–1987 was an American writer of pulp fiction and historical novels. Over his career he authored more than 700 historical fiction erotica and romance novels mostly under various pseudonyms. Little averaged a novel every week and a half since 1963 until nearly his death. <br />Early mimeo sexually explicit series. It is difficult to find these early mimeo examples of sexually explicit prose and for all the usual reasons it is harder still to find complete multi-volume sets. Poorly printed poorly bound and of subject matter that was often disposed of rather than tended to they seldom pass the test of time. This is especially true of these early 13 line per page copies with a relatively small number of examples in various collections. As printed illustration was beyond the technology used these are illustrated with four b/w photographs in each volume. paperback books
1712664211712. Amsterdam 1712. Amsterdam 1712. Handsome Copy of Gronov's Important Edition of Grotius Grotius Hugo 1583-1645. Gronov Gronow Johannes Editor. De Jure Belli ac Pacis Libri Tres: In Quibus Jus Naturae & Gentium Item Juris Publici Praecipua Explicantur: Cum Annotatis Auctoris Ex Postrema Ejus Ante Obitum Cura: Accesserunt Ejusdem Dissertatio de Mari Libero & Libellus Singularis de Aequitate Indulgentia & Facilitate: Nec non Joann. Frid. Gronovii v.c. Notae in Totum Opus De Jure Belli ac Pacis. Amsterdam: Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios 1712. xiv xxxiv 946 94 pp. Copperplate allegorical frontispiece copperplate portrait of Grotius. Octavo 7-1/2" x 4-1/2". Contemporary calf rebacked in period style blind rules to boards blind fillets along joints raised bands and lettering piece to spine gilt tooling to board edges hinges mended. Light rubbing to boards corners bumped and lightly worn hinges mended. Light toning to text somewhat heavier in places light foxing to a few leaves corner lacking from corner of leaf Bb2 pp. 387-188 with no loss to text. An attractive copy. $750. Later Gronov edition. With side-notes and index. Of all his numerous works De Jure Belli ac Pacis will always be considered Grotius' magnum opus the work upon which his reputation most solidly rests. "The distinction between religion and law or morality is not clearly made but Grotius' principle of an immutable law which God can no more alter than a mathematical axiom was the first expression of the droit naturel the natural law which exercised the great political theorists of the eighteenth century and is the foundation of modern international law" Carter and Muir. The first Gronov edition one of the most important editions of Grotius was published in 1663. This copy includes Mare Liberum or Freedom of the Seas 1609 Grotius's influential treatise on maritime law and the right of free navigation. Carter and Muir Printing and the Mind of Man 125. Ter Muelen and Diermanse Bibliographie des Ecrits Imprimes de Hugo Grotius 596. unknown books
192051832Berlin: S. Fischer 1920. First Edition. First printing limited issue. No. 100 of 160 numbered copies printed on handmade paper and signed by Hofmannsthal on colophon. Square octavo 21.5cm. Full tan morocco titled in gilt on spine; top edge gilt; engraved title page by Hans Meid. Ex-libris Harvard College Library with bookplate to front pastedown and accession label inside rear cover both stamped "released". Spine a shade sun-darkened; leather on front board discolored at fore-edge and with a small drip-stain near bound edge yet a solid very fresh copy internally. <br/><br/>The libretto to Richard Strauss' opera of the same title which premiered in Berlin to unenthusiastic audiences in 1919. A lovely edition printed and bound by K.E. Mende. Text entirely in German. S. Fischer unknown books
1902251048Rigewood: Alwil Shop 1902. Limited. hardcover. fine/near fine. Frontispiece illustration of John Brown on the gallows after a sketch by Hugo & facsimile of Hugo's letter to M. Chenay. Text in French & in English. Small 89vo brown boards. Ridgewood N.J.: Alwil Shop 1902. Limited First Edition.<br/><br/> One of 150 copies on Van Gelder hand made paper. Fine in chipped glassine dust wrapper & broken box.<br/><br/> Alwil Shop unknown books
WALTER-FILM004049Softcover/Paperback. Very Good. Manuscript With most pages revisions on blue paper dated 6/12/67 Brad bound mimeo 138 pp. with a final page not present almost certainly because Aldrich had something else in mind -- see below. There is some minor wear to front and back pages a few of which also have marginal stains overall VERY GOOD. THE LEGEND OF LYLAH CLARE was originally a 1962 television drama written by Edward DeBlasio and Robert Thom WILD IN THE STREETS BLOODY MAMA that starred Tuesday Weld in the ""dual"" role of Elsa Brinkmann/Lylah Clare. Elsa Brinkmann is a novice actress who at times believes she is possessed -- or may actually be possessed -- by the spirit of legendary European star Lylah Clare. In the 1968 movie she is played by Kim Novak. The story's other principal character is the film director Lewis Zarkan played in the movie by Peter Finch who discovered and made a star out of Lylah Clare in the 1930s much as Josef von Sternberg discovered and made a star out of Marlene Dietrich and who wants to do the same thing for Elsa a virtual double of his former lover Lylah in the present. LYLAH CLARE is an odd occasionally awkward amalgamation of genres. On the one hand it's a horror mystery thriller about possible reincarnation and possession. On the other hand it's a savage satire of Hollywood and media in general. For director Robert Aldrich who had previously attacked Hollywood in THE BIG KNIFE and WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE the Hollywood satire angle was raw meat. He would skewer show business and the media once again in a subsequent film THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE. Engaged as Aldrich was by the satire and sex-and-violence aspects of the story the mystical reincarnation angle appeared to interest him somewhat less. The movie makes more than one veiled reference to actual Hollywood personae -- not just Dietrich and von Sternberg but the crass producer Barney Sheehan Ernest Borgnine appears to be modeled on Columbia studio executive Harry Cohn note the similarity of the names while the vicious gossip columnist Molly Luther Coral Browne combines aspects of Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons. The movie even appears to reference the career of its star Kim Novak not only the way Novak's career and image were shaped by ultra-controlling studio head Harry Cohn but also the dual role she previously played in Alfred Hitchcock's VERTIGO. This screenplay adaptation was written by Hugo Butler and Jean Rouverol former blacklistees who were married to each other. Butler is best remembered for the screenplays he wrote or co-wrote for director Joseph Losey another blacklistee THE PROWLER THE BIG NIGHT and EVA. He also wrote the screenplays for Luis Buñuel's two English-language films ROBINSON CRUSOE and THE YOUNG ONE and worked on three prior films for director Aldrich WORLD FOR RANSOM AUTUMN LEAVES and SODOM AND GOMORRAH. Jean Rouverol a former actress IT'S A GIFT STAGE DOOR collaborated with her husband on the screenplay of Aldrich's Joan Crawford vehicle AUTUMN LEAVES and may be best known for her screenplay of THE MIRACLE starring Carroll Baker. While THE LEGEND OF LYLAH CLARE was derided by many at the time of its release as trashy or ""camp"" an impassioned minority of auteurists now consider it to be one of Aldrich's masterpieces. There were a number of significant changes and edits between this screenplay draft and the completed film notably the sequencing of scenes at the beginning and the way the film ends. The screenplay begins with: A scene of Elsa sleeping alone in her room surrounded by images of Lylah Clare in the form of books magazines and photographs she is having a nightmare. A sequence of Elsa strolling down Hollywood Boulevard looking at the stars on the sidewalks and paying particular attention to the handprints and footprints of Lylah Clare outside the Grauman's Chinese Theater. A scene in director Zarkan's study with Zarkan and agent Bart Langner Milton Selzer who reveals that he has cancer that before he dies he wants to produce a film about Lylah Clare with Zarkan directing and that he has discovered the perfect girl to play her. We also meet Zarkan's exotic and sexually ambiguous right-hand woman Rosella Rosella Falk. A scene with agent Langner and his wife at their home projecting for his discovery Elsa a slide show pertaining to the life of Lylah Clare.The film on the other hand begins with the slide show which functions like the newsreel in CITIZEN KANE telling the audience everything it needs to know about Lylah before the story proper begins. The sequence of Elsa strolling down Hollywood Boulevard which in the film is also the credit sequence. The scene in Zarkan's study with the agent. The scene of Elsa having a nightmare at home surrounded by images of Lylah only in the film unlike the screenplay this scene is underscored with the disembodied voice of Lylah on the soundtrack ranting in her native German. The script's ending is missing what would have been its last page almost certainly indicating that as of this draft the filmmakers hadn't decided exactly how they wanted the film to conclude or wanted to keep it a secret. The script draft ends with Zarkan and others filing out of Grauman's Chinese Theater after the premiere of Zarkan's film-within-the-film and being asked by a television M.C. how they feel about the tragic death of Elsa the film's star. The M.C.'s interviews are intercut with shots of Rosella holding a gun in her hand that she clearly intends to use on Zarkan once he arrives home as vengeance for Elsa's death. The film ends with one of the most radical endings ever attached to a Hollywood narrative film. The interviews with the M.C. are still there but they have been substantially rewritten. The shots of Rosella waiting at home with the gun are still there although we never see her use it. But suddenly the M.C. announces ""And now a word from our sponsor"" and we cut to a commercial for ""Barkwell Dog Food."" The commercial begins innocently enough with a woman opening a can of dog food and shots of dogs running into the kitchen eager to be fed. But more and more dogs arrive hungrier and more frenzied and we see close-ups of their snarling faces. The film's haunting final shot is a tight freeze-frame close-up of one of the dogs fangs savagely bared expressing literally Aldrich's view of Hollywood as a world of dog-eat-dog. LYLAH CLARE has more LGBTQ characters than any film Aldrich had made to date. Kim Novak's Elsa when in her Lylah Clare persona and Zarkan's right-hand woman Rosella are both bisexual the latter in love with the former. The person who we see in flashbacks killed by Lylah on the staircase turns out to be a woman in drag. Gossip columnist Molly Luther is never seen in public without her two gay male attendants. Finally one should note the movie's autobiographical aspect. Elsa dies in the film after completing a difficult trapeze stunt and director Zarkan asks her to do it ""one more time for protection."" In a previous Aldrich film THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX 1965 a stunt pilot Paul Mantz died after completing a difficult flying stunt and Aldrich asked him to do it ""one more time for protection."" This part of LYLAH CLARE not in the screenplay draft was plainly Aldrich's mea culpa and adds additional layers of bitterness and melancholy to the completed project. paperback books
19684689Dresden: Verlag Muller & Kiepenheuer Hanau/M 1968. Cloth. Collectible; Fine. A handsome example of the 1968 facsimile reproduction based on the 1911 original edition. Complete in 9 volumes plus the supplement. All volumes very clean and well-preserved. All solidly Near Fine in their green cloth with bright gilt-lettering and bordering to the spines. Thick octavos over 5000 pgs. all told. An exhaustive seminal reference on the history of German erotica. <br/><br/> Verlag Muller & Kiepenheuer, Hanau/M hardcover books
1872M12886Leipzig:: Wilhelm Engelmann 1872. 1872. 357 x 286 mm. Folio. iv 14 chromolithographic plates from drawings by Magnus and lithographed by J.G. Bach plates 407 bound after pl. 14. Original paste-paper over boards rebacked with brown cloth cloth tips; slightly bowed boards extremities rubbed. Ex-library rubber stamps of the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Bibliothek Dresden; former owner's bookplate. Very good. Scarce. A MASTERPIECE OF MEDICAL CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY. FIRST EDITION of Magnus's especially fine ophthalmoscopic folio atlas one of several superb atlases that took advantage of color lithography and the development of the ophthalmoscope. The plates were designed by the author who was at the time an assistant at the ophthalmological clinic of Carl Friedrich Richard Forster 1825-1902 at Breslau to whom the atlas is dedicated. "Ein hervorragender Kenner seines Faches und begabter Schriftsteller machte er sich insbesondere um die Geschichte der Augenheilkunde und um die medizinische Kulturgeschichte verdient." Fisscher Biographisches Lexikon II pp. 972-3. See: Grosse judische National-Biographie: mit mehr als 8000 Lebensbeschreibungen namhafter judischer Manner und Frauen aller Zeiten und Lander Volume 7. Hirsch IV 1886 p. 98. Hugo Magnus received his medical degree in 1867 from the University of Breslau. He was a lecturer from 1873 and professor 1883 of ophthalmology also at the University of Breslau. Magnus made noteworthy contributions in the fields of color vision and the history of ophthalmology. Albert et al Source book of ophthalmology 1445; Hirschberg XI 1a p. 133; Rucker & Keys Atlases of ophthalmoscopy; Waller 648. Not in Becker. See: Roy Osborne Books on Colour Since 1500: A History and Bibliography of Colour Literature 2013 p. 159 sites two works by Magnus on color and color-sense being his publications Die geschichtliche Entwicklungen des Farbensinnes 1877 and Farben und Schopfung 1878. Wilhelm Engelmann, 1872. hardcover books
184640061London: Taylor 1846. <p>Mohl Hugo von 1805-72. On the structure of the vegetable cell. In Scientific Memoirs Selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science and Learned Societies 4 1846: 91-114. 2 hand-colored plates. Whole volume 8vo. vii 684pp. 8 plates. 214 x 136 mm. 19th cent. half morocco marbled boards hinges tender. Light toning otherwise fine. From the library of American astronomer mathematician and meteorologist Elias Loomis 1811-89 with bookplate dated August 15 1889 noting Loomis's gift to the Yale College Observatory. Yale withdrawal stamp. </p> Taylor unknown books
200710111Octon France: Verdigris Press 2007. One of 40 copies from a total edition of 45 all on Rives BFK for the text and Hahnemuhle for the double page fold-out mezzotint each signed and numbered by the artist Judith Rothchild. Page size: 7-7/8 x 4-5/8 inches; 14pp. Bound by the printer Mark Lintott leporello style with brown marbled paper over boards and black clot showing at spine and edges title and author in black on spine and front panel interior guards with tan marbled paper over boards opening with the French text on the left and the English translation on the right the double page mezzotint unfolds across the middle housed in publisher's slipcase. This is Victor Hugo's impassioned plea to the American public to rescind the condemnation to death by hanging of John Brown on December 16 1859. It is addressed to the Editor of the "London News" but is clearly directed to the American people. He refers to the American Republic as the sister of the French Republic and urges her to follow universal moral law and save John Brown. The mezzotint is of a man's feet obviously from a hanging body in chains. Verdigris Press unknown books
190124157Leipzig: von Veit 1901. First edition. Two volumes original half leather with marbled boards; extremities rubbed but a very good set. <br/><br/> von Veit hardcover books
1930008761Chicago: Everyday Mechanics Publications Inc. 1930. SCARCE> Three issues from Vol. 2 Nos. 5 6. and 8 including the November issue featuring a space ship on the front cover and article on space flight by Hugo Gernsback the "Father of the Pulp". Near Fine. some light soiling to covers. Everyday Mechanics was published by Gernsback starting in 1929 and changed to Everyday Science and Mechanics as of the October 1931 issue. . First Edition. Magazine. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Everyday Mechanics Publications, Inc. Paperback books
1907003260Leipzig: Friederich Richter 1907 1907. Fine. Leipzig: Friedrich Richter 1907. Folio cream parchment spine lettered in gilt and cream boards with pattern in soft rose and green. Fine copy of a delicately bound book. One of 800 printed in ochre and black at Insel Verlag with four striking woodcuts by Craig of set designs for the theatrical production of Hofmannsthal's work; the largest he had executed until that time and the first book that Count Harry Kessler commissioned him to illustrate. Craig later illustrated the Cranach Press Hamlet for Kessler. Fletcher & Rood 614b after an issue of only 50 copies on Japanese vellum. From Manet to Hockney 22. Illustrated by Edward Gordon Craig. Binding is Parchment and Decorated Boards. Parchment Spine and Boards. Fine. Illus. by Edward Gordon Craig. Folio. Friederich Richter, 1907 Hardcover books
1892284936New York: George H. Richmond 1892. hardcover. near fine. Various. 2 volumes in 4 Volume I parts I and II Volume II parts I and II. Translated from the French by Mary W. Artois. Illustrated in black and white with tissue guards. 16mos 3/4 blue Morocco leather over marbled boards gilt stamped spines top edges gilt other edges deckle rubricated title pages. New York: George H. Richmond 1892. A near fine set.<br/><br/> George H. Richmond unknown books
193017032424Paris: The Limited Editions Club Printed by R. Coulouma 1930. Limited Edition. Wraps. Near fine. Masereel Frans. No. 714 of 1500 copies quarto size 724 pp. signed by Franz Masereel two volumes complete with original chemise and slipcase. Victor Marie Hugo 1802-1885 remains a household name today; he was a prolific author who published many popular works including this one also known as "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "Les Miserables". "Notre-Dame de Paris" was "the first work of fiction to encompass the whole of life from the King of France to Paris sewer rats" n.b. quote from Wiki and was translated into English two years after publication; both the story and the characters have stamped themselves upon our cultural consciousness and have often been turned into films plays and even the opera and ballet. <br/><br/>Frans Masereel 1889-1972 is considered one of the most famous Flemish woodcut artists of his time and can be counted as one of the fathers of the modern graphic novel. The 1920s saw a revival of the medieval woodcut tradition with Masereel cited as "the undisputed king" of this revival. He is perhaps best remembered today for his "wordless novels" particularly Mon Livre d'Heures Passionate Journey.<br/><br/>With an introduction by Andrew Lang 1844-1912 a prodigious author in his own right and literary critic; his "fairy tale" series remains highly sought after today. <br/><br/>This set with the attractive Ex-Libris plates on the front free endpaper of both volumes of Charles Vetter the plate designed by M.D. Carr and dated 1945. Mr. Vetter was apparently a pilot for American Airlines with a stylized version of their early logo placed upon a stack of books on the lower right; he apparently also loved sports with a set of ski poles and a tennis racquet with balls also incorporated into the design.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Bound in pink Ingres paper wrappers small illustration on the front wraps of the Cathedral of Notre Dame prior owner bookplates in both volumes as set forth above frontispiece in Volume One a Masereel woodcut of Quasimodo additional illustrations both full-page and in-text throughout the text; set in monotype Bodoni Arches paper quarto size 10.25" by 7.75" pagination: Volume One i-iv being the preliminary leaves i-xxx 1-309; Volume Two i-iv 1-376 377 colophon; limited edition of 1500 copies this no. 714 signed by Frans Masereel. The paper wraps still in their original glassine wrappers housed in a chemise and slipcase both of grey and tan mottled paper the chemise with the original cream laid paper spine label with black lettering.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: The volumes could almost be deemed fine; if read it was gently as the corners are straight the text blocks strong the hinges solid the wraps and interiors both clean and bright and other than the Ex-Libris plate of Charles Vetter free of prior owner markings; both text blocks slightly cocked and a hint of rubbing to the head and tails of the spines else fine. The glassine wraps also near fine with only the same hint of rubbing to the head and tails of the spine. The chemise strong and clean with sunning to the spine and the original paper spine label the paper covering the joints beginning to crack; the slipcase very good plus strong and sturdy some of the paper covering has flaked off revealing the cloth lining beneath the seams at the openings just beginning to separate one seam to about two inches the other three only about a quarter-inch. Overall a near fine set with all of the original pieces with powerful images by one of the greatest 20th-century illustrators by one of the 19th-century's great authors.<br/><br/>___CITATION: LEC Bibliography no. 13.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Please note that the set is unusally heavy and additional postage may apply please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Limited Editions Club, Printed by R. Coulouma unknown books
189226774Paris: P. Dupont 1892. First edition. 8vo. 88 pp. illustrated adverts. The original decorative wrappers are chipped with cello-tape stains; the front wrapper formerly detached has been laid down on archival paper; text shows light toning. A good copy. Housed in a cloth clamshell box with label on upper cover. Divided into the following sections: History Scientific Amateur Artistic Professional Artistic Industrial Matériel and related fields. Among the exhibitors are: Davanne Duchesne Marey Ducom Demachy Lecuyer Ponti Alinari Nadar et al.<br/><br/>Laid-in is a large 17 1/4 x 21 3/4 inches folded broadside entitled RAPPORT DE LA COMMISSION. At the top in holograph is written "M. le Général Sebert" who was the vice-president of the administrative committee of the Société Française de Photographie. <br/><br/>OCLC locates three copies all held by the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. <br/><br/> P. Dupont hardcover books
1925149188Boston: The Stratford Company 1925. Octavo pp. 1-2 1-8 9-293 294: blank eleven inserted plates with illustrations by Frank R. Paul original blue cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. Widely acclaimed upon its initial appearance in 1911 as a serial in Gernsback's magazine MODERN ELECTRICS this interplanetary novel by "the father of modern science fiction" is virtually unreadable today. However historically its impact and the prominence of its author in the SF field elevates it to cornerstone status in the SF genre. "The literary treatment is on a very low level but RALPH 124C 41 is renowned for its many highly imaginative technological projections. These include clear descriptions of radar book and newspaper microfilms and microfiches television plant hormones wireless transmission of power . etc." Bleiler p. 282. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-80; 1981 1-77; 1987 1-37; 1995 1-37; and 2004 II-431. Bleiler Science Fiction: The Early Years 863. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 335. Lewis Utopian Literature p. 70. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 90. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV pp. 1751-54. In 333. Bleiler 1978 p. 81. Reginald 05900. Light rubbing to cloth at spine ends and lower corner tips text block just a bit tanned a clean solid very good copy with bright cover stamping. #149188 The Stratford Company unknown books
161725847Lugduni Batavorum: Excudit Ioannes Patius 1617. 4to 22.5 cm; 8.875" . 4 ff. 183 1 blank pp. <br><br>In this work Grotius deals with the nature of sin and its redemption; in doing so he critiques the Socinian stand on the matter and avoids totally the arguments "de gratia et praedestinatione." Specifically addressed here is Faustus Socinus's De Jesu Christi servatore. This is the second edition printed the same year as the first and by the same printer.<br>Â Â Â Â Both the first and this second edition are little held in the U.S.: We trace three copies of the first and three of the second one of which has been deaccessioned.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Three 18th-century ownership inscriptions on title-page: Jehoua Portis Lib. Richbach and Johannis Buys. 19th-century pressure-stamps of a Pennsylvania theological library deaccessioned. Full modern calf old style: Spine with raised bands accented with gilt beading and blind rules rules extending onto boards to Vs and ending with trefoils; blind double fillets beyond. Gilt center device in each spine compartment and a green title label lettered in gilt. Waterstaining in inner margins extending into text on pp. 13661; otherwise expectable age-toning only. All edges red. Excudit Ioannes Patius hardcover books
196632142Portland Ore: Reed College 1966. First edition. Red leather gilt by The Oregon Bookbinding Co. with their ticket. Fine condition. One of a few specially bound copies for contributors. This was Richard Hugo's copy; it contains his poem "Tiberio's Cliff" along with works by William Stafford Carolyn Kizer John Logan et al. <br/><br/> Reed College hardcover books
1962129300New York New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc 1962. 197/250; signed. Hardcover. VG- Some discoloration at edges of boards and pages. Color pictorial paper over boards; Clear glassine dj. with off-white lettering; yellow folded paper 4 pp. with text; 178 pp. profusely illustrated in bw and color with color plates tipped in. Original color lithograph laid in back. No. 197 in an edition of 250; Signed by the artist and author and also includes a color lithograph signed by the artist laid in and secured with a red band; "To the Reader" booklet laid in. Harry N. Abrams, Inc hardcover books
2007CNJL969Octon France: Verdigris Press 2007. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Rothchild Judith. No. 18 of 45 copies octavo size 12 pp. signed by Judith Rothchild with a gravure en maniere noire. Based on an open letter written by Victor Hugo on December 2 1859 that was published by the press on both sides of the Atlantic with a plea to the citizens of the American republic not to put to death the abolitionist John Brown. <br/><br/>Judith Rothchild has taken the text of the letter bound it leporello concertina style with two short accordion folds on each board with the French language on the left and English on the right; in the middle is a masterful maniere noire a form of aquatint depicting the shackled feet of a hanged man.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Brown marbled paper boards with the title blind-embossed on the front black cloth spine and fore-edges paper spine label contents designed leporello style as described above text on Rives BFK paper the gravure on Hahnemuhle; small octavo size just under 8" tall with six leaves on each side of the book the double-page gravure in the middle; limited edition of 45 copies this no. 18 signed by Judith Rothchild on the colophon page with a gravure en maniere noire by the artist. Enclosed in a slipcase covered in lighter brown marbled paper lined with black paper.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine in a fine slipcase.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please contact us for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Verdigris Press hardcover books
1979WRCLIT27434New York: AAA 1979. Folio. Loose signatures laid into cloth folding case. Fine. First edition. Ten original engravings by Hugo each signed and numbered in pencil in the margin. This is one of twenty sets in this format from a total printing of the engravings of sixty-one sets after which the plates were cancelled. Although Hugo originally made the etchings in the 1940s this is their first printing other than in proof state. AAA hardcover books
184542684Tubingen: Ludwig Friedrich Fues 1845. viii 442 pp; 13 plates. 4to. Modern patterned boards paper spine label. Uncut and unopened copy edges a bit frayed last 2 plates with small marginal tears some soiling to outer leaves. A collection of thirty-one essays published between 1830 and 1845 with some revisions by von Mohl. "Von Mohl . . . gave the name protoplasm to the mucilaginous material within the plant cell adjacent to the membrane a term that has grown to connote living substance" Dibner Heralds of Science 32. "After a century Mohl remains famous for his works on the microscopic anatomy of plants and for his contributions to knowledge of the plant cell" Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Ludwig Friedrich Fues unknown books
