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1894WRCAM28514Albany 1894. Thirty volumes described below. Original cloth gilt-stamped in the earlier volumes in the series several volumes rebacked with original backstrips laid down. Several volumes with minor nicks or tears in cloth but overall a very good set of a work seldom found in decent condition. A complete set of one of the great monuments of American science and natural history illustration of the 19th century. It is virtually impossible to assemble all of the volumes in this set as they were issued across more than half a century and are generally found in poor condition because the bindings were not adequate for the weight of the heavy text blocks. Many of the volumes were issued in two states with the plates either colored or uncolored. In this set all possible plates some 539 are colored. <br> <br> The New York Natural History and Geological Survey was established by the state legislature in 1836 under the direction of James Ellsworth DeKay. By far the most ambitious scientific project undertaken in the United States up to that time it was designed to be issued in six sections: Zoology Botany Mineralogy Geology Agriculture and Paleontology. After six years of preparation volumes began to appear in 1842. The first four parts a total of twelve volumes were issued in 1842-44 and the five volumes of the Agriculture section between 1846 and 1854. The final section Paleontology began publication in 1846 but under its editor James Hall it took on a life of its own. Hall managed to turn it into a long career in his position as state paleontologist ultimately issuing thirteen volumes where only one had been planned originally. Without Hall's genius as a lobbyist for additional state funds the entire project would have been wrapped up in the 1850s. Instead he was still in office at age eighty-three when the final volumes were published. <br> <br> NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK is notable for its vast array of color plates and in later volumes its use of other innovative forms of natural history illustration. In all it contains several thousand plates colored and uncolored making it a project on the same scale as the Pacific Railroad Survey. The present set contains 539 handcolored lithographs. The set is much less well known because far fewer volumes were produced than the U.S. government publications but it clearly was the model on which the great U.S. surveys of the 1850s were based. Some sections of the set are particularly desirable and more difficult to obtain while others were produced in very small editions. An essential work for any collection of early American science or American illustration especially color plates. A synopsis of the set with notes on illustration and rarity is given below. A detailed collation of the set is given in Meisel. <br> <br> Part I. ZOOLOGY OF NEW YORK: OR THE NEW YORK FAUNA; COMPRISING DETAILED NOTICES OF ALL THE ANIMALS HITHERTO OBSERVED WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW YORK. This series was edited by James Ellsworth DeKay. <br> <br> Vol. I. Mammalia. Albany. 1842. Thirty-three plates. These plates are usually found uncolored as here. A colored issue does exist but is extremely rare. <br> <br> Vol. II. Birds. Albany. 1842. 141 handcolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. III. Reptiles and Amphibians. Albany. 1842. 102 plates. These plates are usually found uncolored as here. The extremely rare colored issue of this volume is probably the hardest segment or issue to find of the NATURAL HISTORY. <br> <br> Vol. IV. Reptiles and Amphibians. Albany. 1842. The text volume for the preceding. <br> <br> Vol. V. Mollusca and Crustacea. Albany. 1844. Fifty-three handcolored plates. <br> <br> Part II. A FLORA OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COMPRISING FULL DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL THE INDIGENOUS AND NATURALIZED PLANTS HITHERTO DISCOVERED IN THE STATE. Albany. 1843. Two volumes. 161 handcolored plates. This section was edited by the noted botanist John Torrey. Not surprisingly the beautiful colored lithographs of flowers have made this one of the most sought after sections of the NATURAL HISTORY. <br> <br> Part III. MINERALOGY OF NEW YORK; COMPRISING DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF THE MINERALS HITHERTO FOUND IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND NOTICES OF THEIR USES IN THE ARTS AND AGRICULTURE. Albany. 1842. Eight uncolored plates. This section was edited by Lewis C. Beck. <br> <br> Part IV. GEOLOGY OF NEW YORK. Prepared by various authors. <br> <br> Vol. I. Mather William W.: Part I.first geological district. Albany. 1842. Forty-two handcolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. II. Emmons Ebenezer: Part II.second geological district. Albany. 1842. Fifteen uncolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. III. Vanuxem Lardner: Part III.third geological district. Albany. 1842. No plates only illustrations in text. <br> <br> Vol. IV. Hall James: Part IV.fourth geological district. Albany. 1843. Nineteen uncolored plates. <br> <br> Part V. AGRICULTURE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; COMPRISING AN ACCOUNT OF THE CLASSIFICATION COMPOSITION AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE SOILS AND ROCKS AND THE NATURAL WATERS OF THE DIFFERENT GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS. This section was edited by Ebenezer Emmons. <br> <br> Vol. I. Part I. Albany. 1846. Twenty-one uncolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. II. Analysis of Soils Plants and Cereals. Albany. 1849. Forty-two uncolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. III. Fruits. Albany. 1851. Text only. <br> <br> Vol. IV called "Atlas" to Volume III. Fruits. Albany. 1851. Ninety-five handcolored plates. This volume is also highly sought after for its plates of fruits from upper New York State prefiguring the many fruit illustrations which began to be produced in Rochester in the mid1850s. <br> <br> Vol. V. Injurious Species of Insects. Albany. 1854. Forty-seven handcolored plates. <br> <br> Part VI. PALAEONTOLOGY OF NEW YORK. This section was edited throughout by James Hall. <br> <br> Vol. I. Organic Remains lower division. Albany. 1846. 100 uncolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. II. Organic Remains middle division. Albany. 1852. 104 uncolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. III. Part I. Organic Remains.lower Helderberg group. Albany. 1859. No plates. <br> <br> Vol. III. Part II. Atlas for above. Albany. 1861. 143 uncolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. IV. Fossil Brachiopoda. Albany. 1867. Sixty-three uncolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. V Part 1 Vol. 1. Lamellibranchiata. Albany. 1884. No plates. <br> <br> Vol. V Part 1 Vol. 2. Lamellibranchiata. Albany. 1885. Ninety-six plates. <br> <br> Vol. V Part 2 Vol. 1. Gasteropoda. Albany. 1879. No plates. <br> <br> Vol. V Part 2 Vol. 2. Gasteropoda. Albany. 1879. 120 uncolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. VI. Corals and Bryoza. Albany. 1887. Sixty-seven uncolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. VII. Trilobites. Albany. 1888. Sixty- four uncolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. VIII Part 1. Paleozoic Branchiopoda. Albany. 1892. Forty-four uncolored plates. <br> <br> Vol. VIII Part 2. Paleozoic Branchiopoda. Albany. 1894. Eighty-four plates. The final eight volumes of this series are much harder to find than the first four having been issued much later and in smaller editions. The final two volumes comprising Volume VIII are extremely rare. MEISEL II pp.613-18. ANB 6:356 De Kay 9:861 Hall. REESE STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 73. BLUM PICTURING NATURE 199-209. hardcover books
189544165New York December 8th 1895. Autograph letter signed on recto and verso of single cream laid sheet 22x14.5cm.; approx. 85 words; dated 26 West 61st N.Y. Dec 8th and simply addressed to "Parker" presumably Stanton's friend and fellow-suffragist Parker Pillsbury 1809-1898 who with Stanton had co-edited the women's rights newsletter "The Revolution" twenty years earlier. Faint mail folds small unobtrusive archival paper remnants to two corners from having been previously mounted else Near Fine and still quite fresh. Brief contemporary 1897 pencil note at bottom edge "Mrs. Stanton - born Nov. 12 1815 Now past 82 - C.E.R." though based on contents we would place this letter as having been written around 1895. Brief but significant missive addressed to Parker Pillsbury the American minister and women's suffrage advocate regarding a copy of Stanton's "Woman's Bible" she had just sent him. "I wonder if I could interest them a "Mrs. White" and one other sufficiently in the Woman's Bible to sell ten or twenty copies in there sic respective woman's clubs It is published at my expense hence I am trying to push its circulation." The controversial "Woman's Bible" a series of commentaries pertaining to the portions of the Bible relating to women was published in two parts in 1895 and 1898 and composed almost entirely by Stanton alone her committee of Bible revisors finding the project too controversial and harmful to the cause of women's suffrage. Clearly at the time of writing this letter the book was still meeting with resistance thus our placing the date at around 1895 Stanton turning to Pillsbury as a potential source of influential and wealthy patrons she inquires "Is Mrs. White still living & working Is that rich woman that Mr. illegible used to visit in Maine living". But by 1897 the book had become a best seller though many of the members of the women's suffrage movement would continue to distance themselves from it. This letter quite significant as a testimony to the aging Stanton organizer of the historical 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and her continuing indefatigable efforts and initial lack of support in getting this work circulated. See Tracy A. Thomas "Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundation of Family Law" 2016 pp. 15 & 223. unknown books
189944243New York: MatbaÕat Jaridat al-Ayyam 1899 . Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. New York: MatbaÕat Jaridat al-Ayyam 1899 . A number of b/w plates mostly portraits of world leaders and rulers. 308 pp. Text in Arabic. Hardcover. 4to. Dark blue cloth. The text of this book is in Arabic only the dedication to President William McKinley is in English. The overall theme of the work is the Lebanese Diaspora but a large part of the book consists of short biographical pieces on world leaders and rulers including Queen Victoria and other rulers of Europe Sultan Abdul Hamid of Turkey Abbas Pasha of Egypt Muzaffar ad-Din of Persia and Melelik of Ethiopia. Other biographical sketches include the reform politicians of the Ottoman Empire Lebanese and Syrian politicians and intellectuals and the patriarchs of the Eastern Christian churches. Also included is a short preview of the Paris Exhibition of 1900. Because of the cheap paper used both free endpapers are separated at the hinge otherwise the book is tight and clean. Nonetheless the textblock paper is extremely brittle and therefore fragile. Very good/No jacket issued. Insurance required to ship this item. MatbaÕat Jaridat al-Ayyam hardcover books
1808006969Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson 1808. FIRST EDITION of the First American work on naval medicine. Edward Cutbush 1772-1843 received his official naval commission as officer in the United States Navy on June 24 1799 and was the first surgeon listed in the Naval Registry and the only one listed as hired during the eighteenth century. Very Good in original contemporary calf 16 336 14 2 pp. lacking the 2 copper plates 3 folding tables present and a bit foxed with small chips to 1st table calf rubbed at the tips 20th c. prior owner bookplate front pastedown and name in ink front end page he was also U.S.N bookseller's notations in pencil front end page light to moderate toning internally. Errata slip pasted to verso of contents leaf includes a 14 pp. appendix by Benjamin Rush originally published 1777 entitled "Directions for preserving the health of soldiers addressed to the officers of the army of the United States." Plus 2 page publisher's ads at end. Gilt title at spine over red dye quite legible. Overall a handsome and sound copy of this RARE landmark book on American naval medicine. . First Edition. Contemporary Calf. Very Good. Illus. by Fry & Kammerer Printers . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Thomas Dobson Hardcover books
1810008080London: Printed for R. Scholey . Vernor Hood and Sharpe . B. Crosby & Co. . London ; and J. Ballantyne & Co. Edinburgh 1810. 1810-1811. Printer named in colophon ; v. 1-2 5-6 printed by Ballantyne v. 3-4 by Thomas Davison London. V. 3-4 have different titlepage including the information "from Thurston's designs."Worldcat. Scholey's large-type edition large paper Russia extra with engravings on copper and wood. A RARE edition finely bound in contemporary diced calf the backs with two ornate gilt cross decorations and two polished calf labels gilt the covers with double gilt rules bordering blindtooled arabesques that bordering intricate gilt stamped floral decorations and four blindtooled floral decorations in corners marbled end papers and edges. Overall Near Fine small rubs at corners and spine tips some toning associated mainly with plates and at end pages the interiors lovely and clean. A quite readable set delightfully bound. A heavy set please be advised added shipping charges will be requested for international orders. . First Edition Thus. Diced Calf. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Printed for R. Scholey ... Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ... B. Crosby & Co. ... London ; and J. Ballantyne & Co. Edinburgh Hardcover books
1846008034London: John Murray 1846. Published 1846-1856. First Edition of Grote's celebrated history of Greece illustrated with frontispiece portrait in Volume XII and with numerous engraved maps and plans 14 folding bound at rear; Vol. I 1 Vol.II 2 Vol. V. 1 Vol. VIII 2 Vol. VIIII 2 Vol X 5 Vol. XII 1 with several hand-colored in outline. Twelve volumes in contemporary W. Nutt fine binding of full polished calf the backs with intricate floral designs in gilt red and black morocco labels marbled end papers and edges gilt inner dentelles. A lovely set Near Fine light soiling to calf minor rubbing at edges. A SCARCE set in lovely binding and condition. A heavy set please be advised added shipping charges will be requested for international orders. . First Edition. Polished Calf. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John Murray Hardcover books
1893007940London: George Bell and Sons 1893. "The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S. Clerk of the Acts and Secretary to the Admiralty; transcribed by the Rev. Mynors Bright from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian Library at Magdalene College Cambridge with Lord Braybrooke's notes; edited with extensive additions by Henry B. Wheatley F.S.A." Complete in ten volumes in fine signed Zaehnsdorf binding of black morocco five raised bands with gilt lettering top edges gilt woven paper end pages. Fine tiny rub at head of spine of the Index with all fold-out maps and charts Fine. Eight volumes of Pepys' diary covering the years 1659-1669 with Index and Pepysiana volumes published 1893-1899. An excellent set. 10 heavy volumes will require additional charges for international shipping. . First Complete Edition . Morocco. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. George Bell and Sons Hardcover books
1856E05603 volumes: xvii1537 pages with 90 lithographs plates including the usual expunged bathing plate many in color including 3 "facsimiles" of Japanese woodblock prints 2 folding; 6 maps and charts 2 folding; 79 woodcuts in the text; 2414414-1xi pages with 4 color lithographs of Chinese scenes; 2 uncolored natural history engraved plates; 6 hand-colored lithographs of birds; 10 hand-colored steel-engravings of fish; 5 lithographs of shells 2 hand-colored; 16 diagram plates of winds and currents; 14-page facsimile of Japanese language version of the U.S.-Japan treaty; 17 folding charts on 16 sheets; numerous woodcuts in the text; xliii17051 pages woodcut star charts throughout. Volume III titled "United States Japan Expedition. Observations on the zodiacal light from April 2 1853 to April 22 1855 . by Rev. George Jones A.M. chaplain United States Navy". Quarto 11½ x8 ¾" bound in the original blind stamped cloth. Volume 1 rebacked with the original cloth spine laid down. Hill 1332; Sabin 30968 First edition of the House Issue.<br /><br />Detailed and profusely illustrated account of Perry's expedition to open Japan to the West; Upon his return to the U.S. his chief duty for the following year was to compile his reports of the expedition aided by Francis Hawks. The first volume has the account of the voyage and lithographs of the travel; the second volume has the natural history reports by D.S. Green and others and includes hand-colored plates of Japanese fishes and shells. In addition to the artist W. Heine from whose drawings a great number of the lithographs were made the daguerreotypist E. Brown Jr. went on the expedition taking what were undoubtedly the earliest photographic images of Japan many of them reproduced lithographically in this work. This copy with the nude bathing plate which was not included on the list of plates and not issued in all copies. <br /><br />In advance of his voyage to the Far East Commodore Perry read widely amongst available books about Tokugawa Japan. His research even included consultation with the increasingly well-known Japanologist Philipp Franz von Siebold who had lived on the Dutch island of Dejima for eight years before retiring to Leiden in the Netherlands. In 1852 Perry embarked from Norfolk Virginia for Japan in command of a squadron in search of a Japanese trade treaty. Aboard a black-hulled steam frigate he ported Mississippi Plymouth Saratoga and Susquehanna at Uraga Harbor near Edo modern Tokyo on July 8 1853. His actions at this crucial juncture were informed by a careful study of Japan's previous contacts with Western ships and what could be known about the Japanese hierarchical culture. He was met by representatives of the Tokugawa Shogunate who told him to proceed to Nagasaki where there was limited trade with the Netherlands and which was the only Japanese port open to foreigners at that time. Perry refused to leave and demanded permission to present a letter from President Millard Fillmore threatening force if he was denied. Perry ordered his ships to attack several buildings around the harbor to demonstrate US naval power. The Commodore was fully prepared for more hostilities if his negotiations with the Japanese failed and threatened to use unrestrained fire if the Japanese refused to negotiate. He sent two white flags to them telling them to hoist the flags when they wished a bombardment from his fleet to cease and to surrender. Perry's ships were equipped with new Paixhans shell guns capable of wreaking great destruction with every shell. The Japanese military forces could not resist Perry's modern weaponry; the term "Black Ships" in Japan would later come to symbolize a threat imposed by Western technology. Perry returned in February 1854 with twice as many ships finding that the delegates had prepared a treaty embodying virtually all the demands in Fillmore's letter. Perry signed the Convention of Kanagawa on March 31 1854 and departed mistakenly believing the agreement had been made with imperial representatives. The agreement was made with the Shogun the de facto ruler of Japan. On his way to Japan Perry anchored off Keelung in Formosa modern day Taiwan for ten days. Perry and crew members landed on Formosa and investigated the potential of mining the coal deposits in that area. He emphasized in his reports that Formosa provided a convenient mid-way trade location. Formosa was also very defensible. It could serve as a base for exploration as Cuba had done for the Spanish in the Americas. Occupying Formosa could help the US to counter European monopolization of the major trade routes. President Franklin Pierce declined the suggestion remarking such a remote possession would be an unnecessary drain of resources and that he would be unlikely to receive the consent of Congress. When Perry returned to the United States in 1855 Congress voted to grant him a reward of $20000 in appreciation of his work in Japan. Perry used part of this money to prepare and publish a report on the expedition in three volumes titled Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan. He was also advanced to the grade of rear-admiral on the retired list when his health began to fail as a reward for his services in the Far East.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Wear and fading to cloth first volume rebacked; large map detached several others with stub tears and splitting to folds; light foxing else good to very good. A O P Nicholson hardcover books
185737152Stockholm: Norstedt & Soner 1857. 1st printing cf. Forbes #2193 incorrectly noting an 1856 publication date. Lacks wrappers with last leaf detached. Age-toning. The odd stain. A VG copy. 27 1 pp. Text in two columns Swedish & English. 4to. 7-3/4" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/>This treaty between Hawaii & Sweden apparently one of the first if not the first international treaties ratified by Kamehameah IV reigned 1855 - 1863. NB. Forbes #2193 notes a date of 1856 listing the copy at Hawaii State Archives. We have checked that copy which also has the 1857 date on p. 28. Both copies recorded by OCLC note an 1857 imprint date as here. Norstedt & Soner unknown books
1845007726New York: Henry G. Langley 1845. Fourth Edition revised and corrected from the Eighth Paris Edition. Title page date Vol. I 1845; Vol. II 1843 and Vol.II further states Fifth Edition in addition to the Fourth Edition etc. statement. Both volumes Near Fine a few scatterred small spots of toning to end pages only. In a quite handsome unsigned fine binding of half dark brown crushed morocco over marbled covers five raised bands with 4 gilt devices and gilt lettering marbled end papers top edges gilt. An early American edition of one of the towering works of the Nineteenth Century in excellent condition and beautiful binding. . Fourth American Edition . Half Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Henry G. Langley Hardcover books
1822007775Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd 1822. The Third Edition 1822 complete with five fold-out plates 338 pp. In handsome unsigned contemporary fine binding of black Levant gilt crown of King George IV center of both covers and with blind-tooled border inside double gilt rules then fine intricate floral decorations in gilt bordered by double gilt rules back with larger gilt floral decorations and gilt lettering and tail date all edges gilt edges of covers with double gilt rules gilt inner dentelles marbled end papers. The binding Near Fine small rub at head of spine. Internally Near Fine with moderate toning mostly to plates and adjacent pages. A superior copy fit for a King's library. . Third Edition. Levant Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Oliver & Boyd Hardcover books
1848007782London: John Murray 1848. RARE in the 1848 First Edition. Near Fine in contempoary half calf over buckram edges of spines in gilt top edges gilt marbled end pages.End pages uniformly browned light rubbing at edges small bookseller's label front paste down bottom edge. c 530 pp errata publisher's ad xiv 555 pp. errata. Each volume with 5 maps 2 fold-outs in Vol. I one in Vol. II all maps are Fine. Color frontispiece Vol. II. Both volumes profusely illustrated with wood engravings. With 2 pages of errata and a page of advertisements. RARE Worldcat shows 12 institutional holdings all in Europe. Rare Book Hub shows no First Editions have been auctioned. . First Edition. Half Calf Over Buckram Boards . Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John Murray Hardcover books
1892007900London: Macmillan and Co. 1892. Inscribed at front end page to "John V. MacMillan from his tutor C. L Eton Election 1895". Sumptuously bound in full vellum backs with red and brown morocco labels gilt lettering ornate floral gilt tooled decorations double gilt rules to covers marbled end papers all edges stained red a glorious set befitting the occasion and the recipient a scion of this set's publisher. John V. MacMillan 1877-1950 was the son of Alexander MacMillan the co-founder in 1843 of MacMillan Publishing. John did not enter the publishing business instead deciding on an ecclesiastical career and eventually becoming the Bishop of Dover the fifth in the modern era. Profusely decorated throughout with vignettes and full page illustrations many in color. Four volumes Near Fine slight toning to end pages a few pages small top corner creases boards light soiling fold-out of London Bridge Vol. III Near Fine with a few small creases top edges a bit dulled a few small corner bumps. A heavy set please inquire before ordering for additional shipping charges particularly outside the US. . Illustrated Edition. Vellum. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Macmillan and Co. Hardcover books
1878008370London: Bickers & Son 1878. Five volumes the complete set and uncommon thus in contemporary signed Stikeman & Co. bindings of half red morocco over marbled boards matching marbled end papers the backs with gilt tooled floral decorations all edges gilt. From the collection of noted art collector M.C.D. Borden his bookplate front paste downs. Known as "the Calico King" for his fabric printing empire Borden's art collection included works by Frans Hals Van Dyck Rembrandt Constable Gainsborough J.M.W.Turner Corot Delacroix &c. "The Eighteenth Century" published by Scribner Welford and Armstrong New York 1876. The other four volumes published by Bickers & Son London "Science and Literature" dated 1878 "The Arts" and "Manners Customs." state "Fourth Thousand" with no date and "Military and Religious Life" has no date. Each volume with chromolithograph plates and hundreds of engravings on wood. The set Near Fine rear joint on "The Arts" repaired scant edge wear. a quite lovely and beautifully bound five volume set. A heavy set will require additional postage charges for priority and international mail shipping. Please inquire before ordering. Free media mail shipping. . Fourth Thousand . Half Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Tall 8vo. Bickers & Son Hardcover books
186621446European Origin: Not Published 1866. Album of materials gathered by John Henry Cornell 1828-1894 American musical author organist and composer ".a solidly trained composer of church-music part-songs and songs.an erudite and methodical student of theory and an able author and translator." Grove; educated in New York England and Germany in 1866 he traveled once again to Europe visiting historic sites and his musical peers collecting photographs autographic materials and ephemera along the way that are preserved here; Approximately 100 pages with items usually tipped-on to one side only; including photographs of composers usually standard carte-de-visite size of fellow musicians & others including: 3 Photos on the same page of musicians Carl Reinecke 1824 - 1910 Danish composer; Ferdinand David 1810-1873 German virtuoso violinist and composer; Alexander Dreyschock 1818-1869 Czech pianist and composer; trombone virtuoso Moritz Nabich 2 one with his instrument and others of Madame and Fraulein Nabich; King John of Saxony; Fraulein Suvanny Soubrette at the Leipzig Theatre; German actress Hedwig Raabe 1844-1905 with a clipped signature - and on the same page a photo of Franz Buchner Orchestral Director with a small inscribed card; German painter Peter von Cornelius 1784-1867; a cdv-size photo of A.J. Boekelman musical director from Utrecht with inscribed card; photo of Hungarian composer pianist conductor and arranger Károly Carl Thern 1817- 1886 with clipped signature; U.S. Consul Dickinson of Indiana see below in printed ephemera for a bit more on this man; photo of Father Skelly O.S.B. Kilkenny Ireland - and almost 20 additional portrait photographs of presumed musical peers and their families some of these with signed inscriptions that have so far eluded identification; Also including and laid-into the album loosely or on pages trimmed from the album: Moritz Hauptmann 1792-1868 a small photo and two small clipped notes signed a few inches square one tipped-on below the image another note on a tipped-on card 2" x 3" loose; below the image of Hauptmann is a photo of Isaac Ignaz Moscheles 1794-1870; on another sheet Franz Wilhelm Abt 1819-1885 autograph 7-line note signed with cdv-size photo with a clipped greeting on card tipped in below the image - another unidentified musician's image above also with a signed photo & card and on the back of the sheet with the letter another two images one with signed card; Johannes Gijsbertus Bastiaans 1812-1875 and a photo of his wife both inscribed; on a loose sheet the obituary of Cornell noting his musical career marriage education and travels and that he at one time had taken Roman Catholic religious orders in Baltimore and had died within the Episcopal Church with selections of his compositions played at the funeral service held at Trinity Chapel in New York City - here are a signed card of William Reed Huntington of Grace Church 1838-1900 and an autograph of Morgan Dix 1827-1908 both men prominent leaders of the Episcopal Church of the U.S. in the 19th century - Dix was one of the officiants at Cornell's funeral - on the back of this loose sheet is a cabinet card photograph of an image of W.A. Mozart; Printed ephemera including: A 3" x 5" card printed black on pink with humorous musical-themed imagery announcing "Klapperkasten Moscheles-Abend Leipzig d. 12 May 1866 im Schutzenhaus" with a small circular albumen photo image of the composer at the side a younger cdv-size image of Moscheles and above another printed note accomplished in hand to John Cornell regarding Klapperkasten; a card printed black on blue stock "Soiree musicale von Nabich Posaunen-Virtuos" 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" - old fold line good cond. loose and a "Groot Concert te geven door den heer Moritz Nabich.B. Van der Eijken.J. Hrimaly." with the program below in which 2 pieces are by Cornell - approx. 8" x 4" Joh. Enschede en Zonen Haarlem imprint below - on the back of this loose sheet are two photographs of architecture one identified as the "House of W. Vorschuur" and three cdv-size photos: one of Dutch painter Wouterus Verschuur 1812 -1874 and his son W. Verschuur Jr. also a painter - both signed directly below their portraits on the photos and one of the performers on the concert program Czech violinist Jan Hrimaly 1844-1915; a broadside announcement for a "Musikalische Soiree" Im Saale des Hotel de Prusse with the program printed by Julius Krampe with 2 Cornell pieces played 8 1/2" x 5" one edge with some creasing wrinkling still very good; a Soiree Musicale with Moritz Nabich and Mejufvrouw Boekelman and list of works printed by Van Munster & Zoon 8" x 5" and with 2 Cornell works played too with a couple closed edge-tears and creases good; another loose piece of ephemera 4 1/2" x 3 1/4" a menu-card dinner-choice text handwritten and the rest printed by Friedrich Daehne and noted below by Cornell as "Bill of fare of our 4th of July Dinner." - on back is noted ".with U.S. Consul T. Y. Dickinson Jas. Wilson of Newport R. I. and others Leipzig"; an announcement of a concert 10" x 7 1/2" "Jena. Montag den 19. Februar 1866 im Rosensaale Concert des Academ. Gesangvereins." with the program of music tipped-on is most of a map published by C.H. Wogan "The Strangers Guide to Dublin" approx. 6" x 8" one side trimmed close with loss to two of the corner vignettes; also a folding 12" x 15" map of Berlin by Baldwin & Cradock trimmed close to the neat line all around; a curious advert for a moisturizing rejuvenating apparatus not illustrated clipped from a periodical for "Regenerators" of Leo Bohlius a hairdresser in Germany; with some additional newspaper clippings of the time and a few later also tipped-in or loose; with approximately 150 additional architectural scenery & art photos from the time averaging 3" x 3" size with a few larger images; the photos are of locales in Kilkenny Quenstown Ireland; various places in Wales & England; Altenburg Leipzig Dresden Hanover Germany; Brussels Belgium and other places; including a small photo of the Kristallnacht-destroyed synagogue of Leipzig; and another noted as the "Old Opera-House in Dresden as I saw it. Burnt down."; among these are about 10 ethnic European costume photos in cdv size also; the album approx. 13" x 11" size; the sheets only no covers; still loosely bound; many pages edge-chipped and the paper quality good; the first page with old discoloration and the "Ireland" scenery photos on that page chipped torn and worn; as noted above there are many loose and cut-out pieces - the evidence is within the album of where some of these may originally have been located - all this seems to be done by a very unskilled hand perhaps a childish effort; some leaves obviously and crudely excised at some time; by and large the photographs & ephemeral items in good condition; good also to have included here the final materials recording his obituary & death; a very interesting compendium of visual and textual information especially regarding the Romantic composers of Europe and their association with their American counterpart; we note that one of the loose albume pages contains a group of material regarding the wife of Martin Luther; including a photographic reproduction of an engraving depicting the ruins of the Kloster Nimbschen by Selbstverlag V. Peters Leipz. approx. 3" x 4" in black and white identified below as "Ruins of Nimbshcen Convent of which Katharine Bora was a member."; with an unknown gentleman's carte-de-visite-sized photo-portrait circa 1860s; with an albumen photograph also carte size approx. 2 1/4" x 3" of a portrait identified below of Katharina von Bora Luther 1499-1552 wife of Martin Luther the German leader of the Protestant Reformation; and tipped-on is a 1" x 1 3/4" thin beige leather fragment having evidence of tiny stitching and some threading around 3 edges of a "Piece of Katharine Bora's slipper" identified in the same handwriting as the above items; ".According to Dr. Stefan Rhein Director of Luther monuments in the state of Sachsen-Anhalt.Katharine von Bora was Luther's companion and equal partner the picture of a self-assured self-confident liberated woman at the side of her husband. But this most important woman of the Reformation period of the 16th century is relatively unknown for she lived in the shadow of her powerful husband." Erwin Weber Lutheran Journal 1999; for the future of the Protestant Christian faith Luther's marriage established the validity of marriage within the clergy as well as focusing attention on the importance of inspirational strong women in early Protestantism; the items with some ageing darkening; the old backer paper with some tears cutouts from paper probably from a larger sheet; list of items on the page written in a later hand in top left corner; the items in very good condition and an interesting fragment of the life of this important Lutheran woman. Manuscript. No Covers. Good. Not Published Paperback books
1802E01512 volumes with Atlas. 4xxiv385 pages with xxii-xxiv lists books of voyages available from the publisher; 4418 pages with appendix containing vocabularies of the languages of Yukagir Yakut Tungoose Kamchatka the Aleutian Islands and Kadiak and inex. Atlas with title list of plates 14 engraved plates & large folding engraved map. Text volumes are small octavo 7¾" x 4½" 19th century quarter calf & boards spines tooled in gilt morocco lettering pieces; atlas is quarto 11" x 7½" in period tree calf spine tooled in gilt. Translated by J Castéra. Howes S-117 First French Edition.<br /><br />Martin Sauer was an English civil servant who knew Russian French and German. He became acquainted with Joseph Billings in St Petersburg in the 1780s. He agreed to join Billings expedition as his secretary and interpreter. It was agreed that he would write the official account but there is some controversy about his actives when he returned to St Petersburg in 1794. It has been suggested that he left hurriedly for England with much of the important archival material from the voyage including diaries and secret reports so that he could publish a record of the expedition before Russian authorities and scholars in the Academy of Sciences could review its details. Sauer's <i>An account of the Geographical and Astronomical Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia</i> was published in London in 1802. It contains an abundance of detail about eastern Siberia and the Aleutian Islands and records the expeditions visits to Kodiak Island Prince William Sound and the coast south as far as Yakutat Bay. <br /><br />The chart was made by Aaron Arrowsmith from Sauer's notes and Billings observations and the whole complements well the other contemporary accounts of the expedition by the cartographer Gavriil Sarychev and the naturalist Carl Heinrich Merck. Aaron Arrowsmith 1750–1823 was an English cartographer engraver and publisher and founding member of the Arrowsmith family of geographers. He moved to Soho Square London from Winston County Durham when about twenty years of age and was employed by John Cary the engraver and William Faden. He became Hydrographer to the Prince of Wales ca. 1810 and subsequently to the King in 1820. In January 1790 he made himself famous by his large chart of the world on Mercator projection. Four years later he published another large map of the world on the globular projection with a companion volume of explanation.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Some rubbing and wear to coves of both atlas and text volumes some chipping to spine ends small gouge at back of atlas and stamp to front end paper else in very good condition. Chez F Buisson hardcover books
1831E01322 volumes. xxi472 pages with three maps two folding and one double page figures and 13 plates; iv452 pages with 10 plates some folding tables and appendices. Octavo 9 1/2" x 5 1/2" Bound in contemporary half leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine. Ferguson 1418; Hill I p. 19; Howes B309; Lada-Mocarski 95; Sabin 4347. Second edition published after quarto edition of the same year.<br /><br />Frederick William Beechey 17 February 1796 – 29 November 1856 was an English naval officer and geographer. He was the son of Sir William Beechey RA and was born in London. 1806 he entered the Royal Navy and saw active service during the wars with France and America. In 1818 he served under Lieutenant afterwards Sir John Franklin in David Buchan's Arctic expedition of which at a later period he published a narrative. In the following year he accompanied Lieutenant W. E. Parry in HMS Hecla. In 1821 he took part in the survey of the Mediterranean coast of Africa under the direction of Captain afterwards Admiral William Henry Smyth. He and his brother Henry William Beechey made an overland survey of this coast and published a full account of their work in 1828 under the title of Proceedings of the Expedition to Explore the Northern Coast of Africa from Tripoly Eastward in 1821-1822. In 1825 Beechey was appointed to command the HMS Blossom. His task was to explore the Bering Strait in concert with Franklin and Parry operating from the east. In the summer of 1826 he passed the strait and a barge from his ship reached 71°23'31" N. and 156°21'30" W. near Point Barrow which he named a point only 146 miles west of that reached by Franklin's expedition from the Mackenzie river. The whole voyage lasted more than three years and in the course of it Beechey discovered several islands in the Pacific and an excellent harbor near Cape Prince of Wales. In July 1826 he named the three islands in the Bering Strait. Two were the Diomede Islands that Vitus Bering had named in 1728: "Ratmanoff Island" Big Diomede and "Krusenstern Island" Little Diomede. Beechey called the uninhabited third islet "Fairway Rock" which is still its contemporary name. One of his crew Petty Officer John Bechervaise gave a detailed account of the voyage in his Thirty Six Years if a Seafaring Life by an Old Quartermaster published privately in 1839. In 1831 there appeared his Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to Co-operate with the Polar Expeditions 1825-1828. In 1835 and the following year Captain Beechey was employed on the coast survey of South America and from 1837 to 1847 carried on the same work along the Irish coasts. He was appointed in 1850 to preside over the Marine Department of the Board of Trade. In 1854 he was made rear-admiral and in the following year was elected president of the Royal Geographical Society. Beechey Island where Sir John Franklin wintered is named after him.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Name neatly excised from head corner of titles small inconspicuous stamp to last pages. Inner hinges beginning marble to boards rubbed some stains to map. some toning to some plates some plates not bound in order to the printer but are all accounted for corners gently bumped else about a very good set. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley hardcover books
1855E0558xx383 pages with hand colored frontispiece 3 maps in pockets plates many colored; vii41923 ad pages with color frontispiece and plates some colored. Small quarto 10 1/2" x 6 3/4" bound in original publisher's pictorial brown cloth with blind-stamped cover with gilt pictorial in gilt. Notes on the Natural History by John Richardson. Abbey Travel 645; Arctic Bibliography 1241; Books on Ice 5.8a; Hill 106; Sabin 4389; TPL 3409 First edition.<br /><br />Belcher's five-ship 1852-54 expedition in search of Franklin would be the last official British attempt. On the HMS Assistance Belcher successfully navigated through the Wellington Channel but beset by ice was unable to return to Lancaster Sound and was forced to abandon the ship. This account of the expedition also includes several essays on the natural history of the region by Richardson Owen Bell Salter and Reeve.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Minor wear re-backed with parts of original back-strips laid down; minor foxing short separations at folds to the largest map; inked stamps on title pages Edinger bookplates else a good set internally very good. Lovell Reeve hardcover books
1811008245London: Printed for John Stockdale; F.C. & J. Rivington; J. Walker; et al. 1811. SCARCE this 8 volume edition with maps and especially so in such lovely condition. Eight volumes in contemporary full polished calf gilt backs with calf labels the covers with double gilt rules bordering blind tooled arabesque decorations marbled end papers and edges. Complete with four fold-out maps and Plan of Jerusalem all Fine- Italy. Vol. 1; Asia Vol. 2; Ancient World Vol. 5; Plan of Jerusalem Vol. 6; Germany Vol. 7. Very Good Plus light soiling and rubbing to covers gilt at spines dulled end pages uniformly toned but interiors quite clean and bright. Additional shipping charges will be requested for international and priority mail due to weight and volume of this set. Please inquire. . New Edition. Polished Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. Tall 8vo. Printed for John Stockdale; F.C. & J. Rivington; J. Walker; et al. Hardcover books
1891007675London: George Routledge & Sons 1891. RARE First Edition in English finely bound by Bayntun of Bath in half crimson morocco over marbled boards spine with five harp decorations with gilt borders marbled end pages all edges gilt. xii 499 pp. with fifty-seven wood engraved illustrations including frontispiece and 23 plates. Near Fine spine sunned light rubbing to marbled boards internally clean and bright. Gautier's classic work on chivalry in which he set out the "Ten Commandments of Chivalry" of course hundreds of years after the time of medieval chivalry. "Thou shalt be everywhere and always the champion of the Right and the Good against Injustice and Evil". . First Edition. Half Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. George Routledge & Sons Hardcover books
1855008687London: Henry G. Bohn 1855. RARE the last complete set seen at auction 1956. Six volumes published 1855-1857. Bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards backs gilt with black morocco labels end papers and edges marbled. Very Good remnants of bookplate removal front paste downs hinges Vol. I starting from top edge yet still holding wear showing at hinges other volumes spines calf darkened light rubbing at edges of boards interiors clean and lovely. Additional postage required for international and priority mail shipping. Please inquire. . First Edition. Half Calf. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Henry G. Bohn Hardcover books
1882008164London: George Bell and Sons 1882. RARE. Published 1882 - 1883. Three of the Schiller volumes and two of The Goethe with frontispiece portrait engraving. Seventeen volumes handsomely bound in contemporary polished black calf over marbled boards the backs gilt marbled end papers and edges. Near Fine prior owner name one volume front joint starting to open from bottom end yet holding nicely one volume of Schiller light rubbing at corners.some spotting associated with the engravings marbled covers light rubbing. SCARCE in the complete 17 volume set and in lovely contemporary bindings. Bohn's Standard Library. Translated from the German. A heavy set please be advised added shipping charges will be requested for international orders. . Later Edition. Half Polished Calf. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. George Bell and Sons Hardcover books
189444281New York: D. Appleton and Company 1894. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 17.5cm; flexible dark brown cloth boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; ii45-666pp ads. Light wear to extremities hint of softening to corners with a faint diagonal tear to rear pastedown; contemporary owners ink signature to front endpaper Gertrude H. Souther / March 1895 with holograph pencil notes relative to the weight of two babies on rear endpaper; Very Good. Influential manual for mothers and nurses by Holt 1855-1924 an American author physician and pioneer in the field of pediatrics who helped shape the New York Babies Hospital into the leading pediatric facility of its time. The book was expanded from Holt's Catechism for Nurses 1893 a pamphlet prepared for nursery-maids during their four months training at the Babies Hospital. "The nurses studied the catechism and when they graduated took it with them. There followed requests for copies from their employers and the supply was soon exhausted. It was apparent there was a popular demand for something of the kind. The catechism was expanded and in 1894 The Care and Feeding of Children made its appearance.Probably no one would have been more surprised than Dr. Holt or his publishers had they been told that they were launching a volume that was to go through seventy-five printings and which was to be translated into Spanish Russian and Chinese.The book became the mainstay of many a worried mother and exerted no inconsiderable influence on the profession as well for the practitioners had to keep abreast of the pediatric knowledge which the mothers possessed" DUFFUS R.L. L. Emmett Holt. NY 1940 pp.116-117. <br/><br/>Prior to the publication of The Care and Feeding of Children there was no standard text for pediatric care in print for laymen or medical professionals. A revolutionary volume written in clear simple language providing an orderly presentation of pediatric knowledge which empowered women to care for their children. A cornerstone work responsible for "lifting child sickness and care out of the neglect of the past" Dunn Peter M. "Dr. Emmett Holt 1855-1924 and the foundation of North American paediatrics." Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition 2000. Rare in the first edition; we find no copies for sale in trade May 2019 with the last copy at auction sold at the Streeter Sale. ATWATER 1743 citing the 1895 edition; STREETER 4159; Grolier American 100 97. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
180415505London: T.Cadell and W. Davies 1804. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto. pp. ix 3 632 with 8 plates including frontispiece five of which are hand-colored. Recent full calf with new endpapers original red spine label preserved three armorial ink stamps on the top edge of the text block. Tissue repair to first page of table of contents ocasional foxing and minor soiling in the margins; overall quite clean and sound. "Barrow accompanied Lord Macartney's mission to the court of China in 1792 as his private secretary and the present account.is one of the best illustrated English travels on China. The eight plates are from drawings by William Alexander who also accompanied the embassy and later published his own work. The strict exclusion of Europeans by the Chinese emperors had left China very much terra incognita to the western world well into the nineteenth century. Barrow was an excellent observer and the text contains a number of descriptions and illustrations of Chinese artifacts and novelties. Among these are a plate depicting musical instruments extensive renditions of Chinese melodies in western western notation and a long description with illustration of an abacus" Hill 62. Historian Michael Adas notes that Barrow "interspersed descriptions of his travels and personal experiences with lengthy discussions of varying aspects of Chinese culture.His judgments on the quality of Chinese life and material culture tended to be favorable at the beginning of his residence in China but grew more and more disparaging as time passed." Unlike Jesuit writers who praised the sophistication of Chinese science and culture Barrow argued that a once-great civilization had been on the decline since the fifteenth century providing "an implicit contrast between static past-minded backward China and the continually improving foreward-looking industrializing states of Europe Adas Machines as the Measure of Man pp 179-180. Cox I:346; Cordier 2388. T.Cadell and W. Davies hardcover books
1883E0564Title leaf & 13 leaves of maps being mounted albumen photograph reductions of the original map. Photographs are approximately 7¼" x 8¾" on card stock leaves. Oblong royal octavo 9 "x 12½" bound in original red cloth rebacked with modern leather with original gilt-lettered leather spine laid on. References: P-LG 5121. El Territorio Mexicana Vol II p 457 reproduces 5th map of 1st edition. International Geographical Exposition and Congress of London. Geographical and Exploring Commission of the Mexican Republic. Catalogue of the Exhibits presented by the Commission with a short sketch of its organization and labors by the Directing Engineer Julio Alvarado C. E. Mexico 1895. p 32 First and only edition.<br /><br />Rare atlas of photographs of the map of the region around Puebla southwest of Mexico City. Warren Heckrotte describes the atlas and the enterprise that produced it: "The Comision Geografica-Explordora was established by a decree of December 13 1877. It was directed to prepare a map of the Republic with all the scientific accuracy desirable. The region around the town of Puebla southwest of Mexico City was the first effort of the Commission. The surveying was done by astronomical determinations and triangulation. Between 1879 and 1882 the planned nine sheets lithographed in Mexico City were issued at a scale of 1:20000. Elevations are shown by contour lines. For this atlas the sheets were issued as photographs the maps reduced in scale to 1:50000. A photographic edition at the scale of 1:100000 was also issued. Other areas of the country were mapped. The ultimate goal was to produce a map of the country at a scale of 1:100000 in 1100 sheets. At the time the Commission closed shop in 1914 a little over 200 sheets had been completed. This mode of production suggests that a small number of these atlases were produced." Indeed OCLC/WorldCat locates only two copies at the University of California Berkeley and Dartmouth College.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Some soiling to covers; expertly rebacked by Sandra Good; new endpapers; internally fine or nearly so a bit of darkening to margins of mounts. Comisión Geográfico-Exploradora hardcover books
