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194323987New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1943. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's cloth in yellow-green pictorial dust jacket; 6216pp. General wear to jacket extremities including closed tears and chipping some light dust-soil spine a bit cocked else Near Very Good and sound. The last of the Dr. Kildare books comprised of two novellas. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown books
189958076San Fransisco: The Hicks-Judd Company 1899. 8vo pp. iv vii 1 314; bound with as issued: Official History of the Operations of the First South Dakota Infantry U.S.V. in the Campaign in the Philippine Islands written by Captain Frank W. Medbery who was given access to such official records as military regulations would permit and otherwise greatly assisted by Colonel Alfred S. Frost and the late lamented Adjutant Jonas H. Lien pp. 4 100; both titles extensively illustrated throughout mostly from photographs; original pictorial black morocco stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine a.e.g.; scuff marks at the extremities otherwise very good and sound. <br/><br/> The Hicks-Judd Company unknown books
194224011New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1942. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; vi2206pp. General wear to jacket extremities including tiny chips crease to upper panel red spine portion quite faded tape repair to jacket extremities verso not showing through to exterior else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Publisher's office copy with their rubberstamp to rear jacket panel. The sixth Dr. Kildare novel adapted into the 1940 film directed by Harold S. Bucquet and starring Lew Ayres Lionel Barrymore and Laraine Day. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown books
1926127468New York London: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1926. Octavo pp. 1-8 1 2 3-334 335-336: blank note: first two and last leaves are blanks original purple cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. The adventures of White Wolf a bull-terrier raised by a wolf in the San Jacinto Mountains. One of 16 novels published that year by the famously prolific Faust. "The animals talk to each other but the story is clearly aimed at adults not children thus placing this in a sub-genre that took shape around the turn-of-the-century and flourished up into the 1920s and beyond with the work of C. G. D. Roberts Jack London Samuel Scoville Jr. and others who brought a naturalistic style as it were to the subject of nature. The animals created by these authors and in the present case Max Brand are neither sentimental nor fabular but are individual "characters" portrayed realistically after careful observation. If the animals are given emotional and reasoning faculties that resemble those of humans this is nothing more than the complement to the main thrust of naturalism which showed the resemblance of humans to animals. The first quarter of the twentieth century finally brought animals into their own as characters in fiction just as the mid- and late-nineteenth century had finally given children the same kind of attention and independence." - Robert Eldridge. Richardson p. 144. Light offset to endpapers a near fine copy in very good or somewhat better dust jacket with mild shelf wear and rubbing. #127468 G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
197631441976. FERNANDEZ Julio Fausto. HOMENAJE A MARITAIN. San Salvador El Salvador: Tipografia Comercial 1976. 8vo. pictorial white wraps; 170 pages. First Edition. A tribute to Jacques Maritain- a French Catholic philosopher 1882-1973 who helped revive St. Thomas Aquinas for modern times and a prominent drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He was also a long-time friend and mentor to Pope Paul VI. Signed presentation from Fernandez on the front endpaper to El Salvadoran writer Alvaro Aldredo Betancourt Blanco: "Para el maestro insigne culto escritor academics ilustre y noble amigo profesor Aldredo Betancourt. Julio F. Fernandez S.S. 20-IX-76." Betancourt has also penned his name in ink at the top of the Prologo page. Very Good little soil covers contents clean & tight. $250.00. <br/><br/> paperback books
1926WRCLIT28775New York: Putnam 1926. Gathered trimmed signatures perfect bound in pictorial wrappers approximating the published dust jacket. Abbreviated title rubber-stamped on upper endsheet date inked in later hand on second endsheet a bit of sunning to the spine and light wear to corners but a very good copy in an unusual format. Advance state of the first edition distributed for review and promotion. Putnam unknown books
193121402Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1931. First Edition. Limited to 500 copies. 12mo 19.5cm.; original linen-backed boards printed paper spine label; 689pp. Small dampstain to spine label uniformly toned and vertically creased; extremities a bit rubbed else a Very Good unopened copy. Signed author inscription addressed to a John Fitch on front free endpaper. Poem inspired by classical mythology by Frederick Faust best known for his literary Westerns published under the pseudonym Max Brand. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press. Basil Blackwell unknown books
194021932New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1940. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; chickpea-colored cloth with titles stamped in red on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; 223pp 1. Mild wear to base of spine some darkening to endpapers and scattered foxing to title page; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.00 moderately edgeworn with scattered foxing to flaps and some nearly invisible archival reinforcement along joints and flap folds on verso; Very Good. The second Dr. Kildare book and basis for the 1939 film of the same name directed by Harold S. Bucquet and starring Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown books
1798JC12528New York: Printed by R. Wilson for Samuel Campbell. 1798. Hardcover. Good. Contemporary half calf spine ruled and lettered in gilt; 12mo 167x100mm; pp. xii iv 146. Front board and FFEP detached; library and previous owner bookplates on front paste-down and recto and verso of FFEP; ownership signatures on front flyleaf and top margin of title-page. Text block a bit tanned as usual. An uncommon early edition. <br/><br/> Printed by R. Wilson, for Samuel Campbell... hardcover books
177929573Rome: Stamperia del Puccinelli al Governo Vecchio 1779. First edition. Large engraved folding map by P. Bombelli. xx 220 pp. Pages ix-xii are signed 5 and 6 but printed with terminal signature O and bound out of order between pp. 214 & 215. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. Fine copy. First edition. Large engraved folding map by P. Bombelli. xx 220 pp. Pages ix-xii are signed 5 and 6 but printed with terminal signature O and bound out of order between pp. 214 & 215. 1 vols. 8vo. Libri di L. V. Fossati Bellani 1681 calls for a subsequently issued Appendix not present here; Italian OPAC listings include copies both with and without the Appendix Stamperia del Puccinelli al Governo Vecchio unknown books
1936125498New York: The Macaulay Company 1936. Octavo cloth. First edition. Faust's second and last mystery under this pseudonym. Previous owner's inscription on front free end paper. Some darkening to edges of text block dustiness to top edge a near fine copy in a near fine price clipped dust jacket some light shelf wear/rubbing to edges light rubbing to spine ends with very light chipping to head of spine panel small closed tear to lower front panel. #125498 The Macaulay Company unknown books
189245920San Francisco: Published by H. W. Faust 1892. 12th Edition. Map mounted at some past juncture and then housed in a simple black wooden frame. Original printed buff wrappers attached to rear of framed map. Usual bit of age-toning. Modest wear & soiling. Very Good. Relief shown by hachures. Depicts drainage rancho and tract names block numbers radial distances from Ferry Building railroads and street railways selected public buildings etc. Adverts in margins. Printed in sepia. Map:. <br/><br/>OCLC records 5 holding instituions. Published by H. W. Faust unknown books
1509045603Paris: de Marnef 1509. First Edition. Hardcover rebound in leather. Near Fine Condition. Rebound in full red morocco with a black morocco label to the front board new endpapers. No printer listed but the printer's mark of de Marnef on the title page. A few minor stains bright and clean overall. 35 leaves. A lovely Parisian edition of Francesco Ottavio's 1447-1490 neo-latin poetry edited by the great editor and printer Josse Badius and the poet critic and friend of Erasmus Andrelini. Just one copy in OCLC. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045603. <br/><br/> de Marnef hardcover books
15546336Venice: Plinio Pietrasanta 1554. First edition. Very Good/This essay extolling marriage is an early artifact of modern ethnography in that it poses as a survey of marriage customs through history and around the world. In true humanist fashion Fausto mines the ancient historians for most of his material. So we find out that in Lacedaemonia or Atlantis men who refused to marry were forced to run naked through the forum in the dead of winter and that in Assyria husbands were bound by law to obey their wives. The text concludes with a long series of Q&A "quesiti" concerning marriage ceremonies in which we find out why the Boetians crowned brides with asparagus why Persian couples wait until spring to "consummate" any marriage and why it is customary to grease the newlyweds' doorway with pig fat or wolf fat. The book is also notable for its lovely large woodcut initials including a letter T showing a satyr and a man at table together a P with a bare-breasted woman driving a triumphal chariot and an N with a lion-headed man astride a swimming horse. . Quarto 22 cm; 45 3 pages last leaf blank. Title within woodcut architectural border. Historiated woodcut initials throughout. In half vellum over 17th- or 18th-century woodblock printed paste paper titled in manuscript on spine. Lower board ruptured near corner subsequently rebuilt. Some leaves toned brown. Early ownership inscriptions and later bibliographical notes on front free endpaper and on rear pastedown. References: Adams F-182; Olschki Choix de livres anciens VI 5817 Plinio Pietrasanta hardcover books
151938015Paris: Vaenundatur a M. Nicolao De Barra 1519. 4to 19.7 cm 7.75". 30 pp. final blank lacking. <br><br>Posthumous but still early edition of Andrelini's collection of epigrams addressing a variety of groups and topics including readers sleep and faith; here in => the first edition edited by Jean Vatel and with his commentary. Andrelini ca. 14621518 was an Italian humanist friend of Erasmus until a dramatic break in 1511 and poet royal to both Charles VIII and Queen Anne of Brittany. Vatel was a similarly intriguing Renaissance man the "data" page of the website of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France designates him "Clerc humaniste professeur de grec traducteur et commentateur éditeur dessinateur de caractères typographiques et imprimeur-libraire." Andrew Pettegree and Malcolm Walsby's bibliography of pre-1601 French books shows that Vatel was greatly interested in Andrelini and edited at least a dozen of his works; his commentary for this text was subsequently reprinted numerous times in the 16th and 17th centuries.<br>Â Â Â Â The text is neatly printed in two different sizes of roman font with one decorative and one historiated initial a Virgin and Child; a sizable printer's device appears on the title-page. Searches of the NUC WorldCat and COPAC reveal only one U.S. institution Yale reporting owning this edition.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Moreau Éditions parisiennes du XVI siècle II 1972; Brunet I 2712; Graesse Trésor de livres rares I 121; not in Adams. On Andrelini see: Contemporaries of Erasmus I; Pettegree & Walsby French Vernacular Books: Books Published in France before 1601 53120. Modern red foliate patterned papercovered boards with gilt orange leather spine label final blank lacking. Short interior tear without loss to title-page perhaps a paper flaw; light waterstaining and/or offsetting from old binding to upper outer corners and a little dust-soiling or creasing the latter perhaps in the press. Light pencilling on one endpaper and one pencilled word on final page. => In fact withal a very pleasing little book. V[a]enundatur a M. Nicolao De Barra hardcover books
1926135501926. 1 vols. Album approx. 9-1/4 x 8-1/4 inches with images of various sizes ranging from approx. 5-1/2 x 5 to 6-1/2 x 8 inches. Drawings mounted on leaves of stiff board numbered in two groups: 1 to 11 and 2 to 29. Scattered foxing. Three-quarters black morocco gilt a.e.g. Light rubbing to extremities. Very good. Norman Thomas. 1 vols. Album approx. 9-1/4 x 8-1/4 inches with images of various sizes ranging from approx. 5-1/2 x 5 to 6-1/2 x 8 inches. unknown books
17936143Seggiano Italy 1793. Manuscript codex 32 x 22.5 cm. in several hands; various paginations in 24 gatherings of unequal lengths including additionally several miscellaneous receipts all indicating a retrospective assemblage headed by a summary report as reflected by the title on the first gathering; bound in vellum and tied with cords. ~ A reference account book for the crop year October 1793-September 1794 two instances of the date 1792 may be errors made for an agricultural estate in the Tuscan municipality Seggiano near Siena south of Florence. It was prepared in advance of a detailed examination or inspection presumably commissioned by the lord of the estate Fausto Ugurgeri originally Ugurgieri della Berardenga of a Siennese family well known in the area from the 9th to the 19th century. The compiler declares himself on the cover as Antonio Ciotti likely the agricultural manager of the estate though he may also have held some public administrative office. Italian fattore cognate with fattoria farmstead appears originally in medieval times to have embraced "accountant" among its meanings but here may approach "director" or "manager" thus encompassing accountant but broader. His title Magnifico does not necessarily indicate membership in the nobility but would seem to confer recognition of public administrative office of some sort. ~ The Ugurgeri/Ugurgieri family traced its lineage to the feudal lords Winigis who founded the first nunnery in the region Fontebona in 867 as well as other religious foundations near Siena thus installing themselves with some degree of permanence as worldly proprietors and heirs according to the traditions of the Italian city states. The name derives more specifically as a contraction of Ugo di Ruggieri a twelfth-century descendant and Sienese consul whose long line held political sway in the centuries thereafter. Their history entwined with that of another line descended from the Winigis the Berarda family who consolidated even greater regional power by the thirteenth century. Hence the formal name Ugurgieri della Berardenga by which Fausto's more immediate ancestors had been known it is not known when the form used here was first adopted. Today there is still a fortress complex called the Palazzo degli Ugurgieri in Siena as well as an entire comune or township - famous for its Chianti wines and vin santos - called Castelnuovo Berardenga. The estate holdings passed from the last of the Ugurgeri Isabella to one Giovanni Battista Vivarelli in the early nineteenth century and subsequently changed hands several times until it was purchased by the Piccolomini family of Siena after World War II. ~ Some sample headings for the accounts: First gathering 6 recto: Canto a Vacche Account for Cows; Cano a Pecore Account for Sheep; recto 9 not counting receipts in folder bound in: Residovi Restati in Mano di me Ant. Ciotti di Tenuta di Seggiano Spettante al Nobile Signore Ugurgieri di 30 Settembre 1794. Residuals Remaining to Hand with me Antonio Ciotti of the Seggiano Estate due the Noble Lord Ugurgeri on 30 September 1794. Second gathering headed: Giornale al Mese d'Ottobre 1793. Journal for the Month October 1793; heading on page 98 13th gathering: Note dell'Olive che si macinevanno dai Particolari all' Oliviera di Casa Pagando di Molenda Cinque Quartucci ogni Pilata a Peso e misure tenese di 356 il Boccale. Notes on Olives that have been Milled Specifically for the Home Oil at a Cost of Five Quartucci a liquid measure by weight and measured at 356 per tankard. A chief purpose of the accounts was to record payments for services in cash goods or land use; such payments were not only noted but also indexed as for example in the 23rd gathering where names that are written on the first recto in a neat scribal hand appear grouped according to place number in the subsequent leaves but recorded there as occasion arose and in some cases in evident haste one Domenico Ferri for instance in group 13 was given cash contanti and a garden plot una partita di suolo. ~ The accounts kept include those for maintenance of livestock pigs goats sheep for maintenance of seed crops per mantenimento di coltivazioni semente and for costs related to transport of animals and goods. Ciotti's personal summary of accounts payable and received - a sizeable business was conducted with both Siena and the village of Baccinello - supplies a good idea of the extent of the Estate's production enumerating quantities of wheat rye farina barley vegetables cheese olive oil walnuts wool and linen. It seems that Ciotti had authority to operate finances with some latitude as even alms for the poor and religious mendicants were noted per elemosina a più poveri e religiosi mendicanti when the local Capuchin Friars Minor came to call though the commitment appears to have been trivial by comparison to the generosity exhibited by Ugurgieri forbears of an earlier millennium. There are many details that await interpretation and analysis but for modern eyes an endearing attribute might be noted namely that in livestock lists the affectionate names of cows are recorded Damigella Little Lady Pastorella Shepherdess Bellarosa Lovely Rose Pomposella Little Miss Grand. 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