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1669001031Amsterdam: Giovanni Buaeu 1669. Full Vellum. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 16 471 57; 415 41 139 23 pp. 3 parts in two volumes. Including etched additional title and 2 blanks. Popular political and literary satires in the form of news reports from Parnassus. Brunet 1019 singles this edition out as the prettiest. Also Graesse 456. Eighteenth century Italian vellum with morocco lettering pieces. Armorial bookplates of Wilmopt Earl of Lisburne. Some scattered foxing. Binding is tight vellum is attractive and healthy. Very good or better! <br /><br /> Giovanni Buaeu hardcover books
19682221985<p>First edition. Miniature book. 2 1/2" x 1 7/8". Illustrated by Bohne. Original black leather over marbled boards. No dust jacket. Fine. 48 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>#172 of 500 copies.</p><p>Spine reads: American Whaling.</p> Bookhaven Press hardcover books
1941008495New York: The Press of The Reader's Club 1941. First Reader's Club Edition 1941. With Foreword by Alexander Woollcott and Author's Introduction. First published 1929 by Simon and Schuster. Near Fine light toning to end pages and spine in a Near Fine dust jacket Reader's Club promotional and ordering card tipped to front flap as issued and very light edge wear. SCARCE in either edition in dust jacket particularly so in one so lovely. The twelve subjects are Alexander the Great. -- Casanova. -- Christopher Columbus. -- Mahomet. -- Lola Montez. -- Cagliostro and Seraphina. -- Charles XII of Sweden. -- Napoleon I. -- Lucius Sergius Catiline. -- Napoleon III. -- Isadora Duncan. -- Woodrow Wilson. William Bolitho Ryall 18911930 died a year after the publication of this book at the age of 39."We are born adventurers and the love of adventures never leaves us till we are very old; old timid men in whose interest it is that adventure should quite die out. This is why all the poets are on one side and all the laws on the other; for laws are made by and usually for old men." Introduction to Twelve Against the Gods p. 14. First Reader's Club Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Press of The Reader's Club Hardcover books
193943653Paris: Desclée de Brouwer & cie 1939. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy tears to spine ends lightly soiled wrappers. XV 522 pp. The coat of arms of Venezuela in colors on verso of half-title. Folio. Facsimile reproduction of the periodical Correo del Orinoco in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the National Academy of History including all 128 issues and which actually ran until March 23 1822. The Correo del Orinoco was an influential periodical not only in Venezuela but in all the Americas and Spain serving as a propaganda source for the revolutionary forces. Desclée, de Brouwer & cie unknown books
1892007657New Y: D. Appleton and Co. 1892. From the library of Joseph C. Sibley 1850-1926 elected five times to the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania his signature front paste down and the more recent ownership signature of noted historian John K. Alexander underneath. Very Good in original brown cloth with gilt titles and embossed designs an occasional pencil check mark in margins rear hinge broken yet holding nicely end pages browning. . Third Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. D. Appleton and Co. Hardcover books
19362222257<p>First edition Large octavo. 54 b/w illustrations facsimiles 8 maps some folding. Original gilt stamped dark green cloth. No dust jacket. Very good. 644 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Printed by Norwood Press Linotype Inc.</p><p>Howes B587.</p> The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1853007721London: Ingram Cooke & Co. 1853. Finely bound in signed J. Wright Binder full dark brown crushed morocco covers bordered in two gilt fillets with gilt winged corner decorations and central tooled gilt depiction of the deity Baal back with five raised bands and five gilt tooled depictions of intertwined asps gilt lettering ornate gilt inner dentelles all edges gilt. Profusely illustrated with 279 illustrations including maps. xx map 429 pp. Very Good joint front cover starting to open at top edge corners rubbed light toning to end pages. . Second Edition Revised. Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ingram, Cooke & Co. Hardcover books
1706CA013416555 pages. Octavo 8" x 6" bound in full leather with raised bands with red labels and gilt lettering to spine. Palau 32887 First edition.<br /><br />Antonio Maria Bonucci was a Jusuit priest and Antonio Vieira's secretary for the last ten years of his life. Since Bonucci was Vieira's secretary until his Vieira's death in 1697 and was well aware of the content of Vieira's work it is surprising that he wrote and managed to get a book published in 1706 in which eh seemingly follows some of Vieira's ideas regarding the succession of time. When one reads the first "book" of this work they have the impression that the content and structure are very much similar to some passages of Vieira's Clavis Prophetarum. A study of this book will provide further light on Vieira's interpretation of the succession of empires particularly when analyzing his chapter on "how the time of the Antichrist should be understood in the Fifth empire while Christ's empire would thus be counted as the sixth. Antonio Vieira was a Portuguese Jesuit philosopher and writer the "prince" of Catholic pulpit-orators of his time. He accompanied his parents to the colony of Brazil where his father had been posted as a registrar. He received his education at the Jesuit college at Bahia. In 1635 he entered the priesthood. He distinguished himself as an orator. He was one of the reformers during the inquisition and his enemies had him exiled to Coimbra. this work is a kind of universal history one of its interest is that the dedication was written in Bahia.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Recased with renewed spine and labels and end papers corners rubbed leather boards scuffed and rubbed early signature to title minor dampstaining else a very good copy. Na Officina de Antonio Pedrozo Galram hardcover books
199049374New York: The Grolier Club 1990. 1st Edition. Maroon wrappers printed in white. A Fine copy. Unpaginated. Useful "Index to Binders" at rear with short bio for each individual. Profusely illustrated with much in color. Square 8vo 8" x 8" <br/><br/> The Grolier Club unknown books
19831278149San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1983. Limited Edition 518 copies. small 4to. 58pp.; VG; spine off-white; dust jacket off-white protected with a mylar covering; very mild shelfwear; interior clean; with an original leaf from the first edition 1818 of The Fables of Aesop and a new impression from one of Bewick's original wood engravings both present this copy has page 51/52 The Fox and the Vizor Mask; JS consignment; shelved case 7. 1278149. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Book Club of California unknown books
1865895221865. BOSTON History of. THE BOSTON ALMANAC FOR THE YEAR 1865. No. 30. Boston: George Coolidge 1861 1864. 16mo. brown cloth; 22 adv. pp. 266 pp. 18 adv.pp. With folding map frontis. Hinges weak and very worn. A few spots at boards else a map has partial tear at one fold. unknown books
182520637Boston: True and Greene 1825. First Edition. 22 pp complete with original wrappers but with the stitching perished so gatherings are loose. Pink staining to front wrapper edgewear otherwise very good. Scarce pamphlet criticizing monopolies in general and more specifically the factions who opposed a new toll-free bridge in Boston because it would be detrimental to the interests of those holding a charter and collecting tolls for the existing Charles River bridge. Moser's Daniel Webster bibliography attributes this eloquently written pamphlet to Massachusetts State Senator David Henshaw 1791-1852. We have not been able to confirm this but it seems reasonable given that he was one of the leaders of the Democratic Party in Boston belonged to a group of real estate investors who would benefit from population growth spurred by the proposed new bridge and "represented the growing group of Bostonians who were shut out from the traditionally privileged class" Haines and Sherwood Supreme Court in American Government and Politics p. 32. Daniel Webster was one of the attorney representing the interests of the Charles River Bridge Company which was incorporated in 1785. Ultimately in a landmark decision in favor of free enterprise Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge 1837 the Unites States Supreme Court ruled that the charter of the Charles River Bridge Company did not exclude the state of Massachusetts from chartering another bridge nearby. Sabin 6597. True and Greene unknown books
49579Boston: Leander Baker. Ca 1874 - 75. Now housed in a clear mylar sleeve. Modest wear & soiling to card VG - VG. Verso with pencil annotation: "City Hospital". Images clear & sharp with good tonality VG. Yellow mount flat rounded corners. Imprint to each side. Verso blank. Separate square b/w albumen images. 4" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/>"The Boston City Hospital 1864–1996 in Boston Massachusetts was a public hospital located in the South End. It was 'intended for the use and comfort of poor patients to whom medical care will be provided at the expense of the city and . to provide accommodations and medical treatment to others who do not wish to be regarded as dependent on public charity.' . 'the hospital was suggested . by Elisha Goodnow who by his will dated July 12 1849 gave property to the city valued at $25000 for establishment of a free city hospital in Wards Eleven or Twelve.' Architect Gridley James Fox Bryant designed the first hospital built 1861–1864 on Harrison Avenue in the South End." Wiki <br /> <br />Baker was a photographer in Providence Rhode Island from the 1870s until his death there in 1925. Baker is known to have worked in the Boston area 1874 - 1875. <br /> <br />We find few Baker images recorded on OCLC and just 2 from this Boston series both at the Boston Athenaeum. Leander Baker unknown books
1963105024<p>Program 4to illustrated 48 pp. Very slight edgewear less than normal aging covers bright and clean; overall near fine. The 1963 yearbook follows a disappointing season in 1962 with the Sox coming in 8th. However they hired a new manager in 1963 Johnny Pesky and the team was in a rebuilding phase. Boston did a little better in 1963 and had some decent talent including Carl Yastrzemski Rico Petrocelli Frank Malzone and Don Conley.</p> books
1960105026<p>Program 4to illustrated. Tiny corner fold much less than normal aging covers and contents bright and clean; near fine. This is the Red Sox 1960 annual which covers the 1959 season and gives a schedule for 1960; Ted Williams is still playing but hit below .300for the first time in his major league career because of a back injury. Boston finished 5th that year. </p> books
1962105027<p>Program 4to illustrated 48 pp. Slight edge darkening much less than normal aging covers and contents bright and clean; near fine. This is the Red Sox 1962 yearbook that covers the 1961 season and presents schedule for 1962 home games. The 1961 season wasn't a great one for Boston finishing 33 games behind the dominant New York Yankees. Still there were some bright spots including a new outfielder named Carl Yastrzemski. This yearbook includes some spring training and family pictures and is in wonderful condition.</p> books
1968105025<p> Program 4to illustrated 48 pp. some slight staining to lower right part of front cover still covers bright and clean overall less than normal aging absent the slight staining; near fine. The 1968 yearbook follows one of the best seasons ever in Boston history. In 1967 they won the AL title and finished the season with 92 wins and 70 loses. They came within one game of beating St. Louis in the World Series. They had some strong pitching and Carl Yastrzemski's hitting really mad the difference. baseball-almanac website. </p> books
199535108NY: Grosset / Putnam. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 0399140484 . First printing. Previous owner's name stamped on front paste-down else fine in a fine dust jacket. . Grosset / Putnam hardcover books
1746A0068xxxvi167viii96 pages. Octavo 8 1/4" x 6 1/4" bound in full leather with decorative gilt and lettering to spine. From the library of George M Foster. First edition.<br /><br />Lorenzo Boturini Benaducci born in Italy of noble parentage studied in Milan and lived in Trieste and Vienna. He was a knight of the Holy Roman Empire. Forced to flee Austria because of the war with Spain Boturini arrived in Spain via England and Portugal. In Madrid he met the Condesa de Santibáñez oldest daughter of the Condesa de Moctezuma. The mother authorized him to collect a pension due her as a descendant of the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II from the royal treasury in New Spain. Boturini went to New Spain in 1736 where he remained eight years. During those years he assembled a vast collection of paintings maps manuscripts and native codices. He copied more than 500 pre-Columbian inscriptions and made his own drawings of monuments and sculptures and he investigated the history of the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe on the hill of Tepeyac. He traveled widely and on his travels brought together the largest collection of Mexican antiquities assembled to that time by a European. Not only did he intend to write the history of the Virgin of Guadalupe but he also had plans to crown her image with a gold crown. For that purpose he sought donations from the bishops and from the public. This brought him to the attention of the colonial government which was suspicious of the motives of a foreigner making this proposal. On June 2 1743 after an investigation the recently arrived viceroy Pedro Cebrián y AgustÃn had him imprisoned and impounded his collection. He was accused of entering New Spain without license from the Council of the Indies and of introducing papal documents without a royal permit. After eight months in prison Boturini was sent to Spain. He fell into the hands of pirates who eventually released him at Gibraltar. From there he traveled to Madrid in miserable conditions. In Madrid he met Mariano Fernández de EcheverrÃa y Veytia another passionate collector of Indian antiquities. Fernández de EcheverrÃa y Veytia offered Boturini a place to live and financial support and got the Council of the Indies to reconsider his case. Boturini was absolved. The king named him royal chronicler of the Indies ordered that his collection be returned to him and extended an invitation for him to return to New Spain. Boturini however declined to return to New Spain and his collection was never restored. It appears that he was granted recompense and a stipend to work on his projected history of the colony. In Madrid he wrote a history of ancient Mexico unpublished at the time of his death in 1753. The library at the BasÃlica de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe is named for him. The Boturini Collection was formed between 1735 and 1743 to serve as the basis of a projected Historia de América Septentrional. It consisted of many valuable documents the majority of them of Indian provenance. Among these were hieroglyphic paintings that had belonged to Juan de Alva Ixtlilxochitl a descendant of the rulers of Texcoco. Ixtlilxotchitl bequeathed these documents to Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. The collection was confiscated by Viceroy Pedro Cebrián y AgustÃn at the time of Boturini's arrest in 1743. It was deposited in the office of the secretary of the viceroyalty. The documents were neglected there for years and suffered considerable pilferage. The subsequent viceroy Juan Francisco de Güemes 1st Count of Revillagigedo granted the historian and antiquary Fernández de EcheverrÃa y Veytia Boturini's friend from Madrid the paintings and documents he solicited for his own studies. On Fernández de EcheverrÃa y Veytia's death they passed to Antonio de León y Gama. He died in 1802 and the collection passed to his heirs. Shortly thereafter 16 paintings were obtained by Alexander von Humboldt during his visit to Mexico in 1802-03. He published them in Vues des cordillères et monuments des peuples indigènes d'Amérique. The originals of these are now in the Berlin State Library. Part of the remainder of the collection may have passed to Father José Pichardo an amateur antiquarian. Joseph Alexis Aubin beginning in 1827 or shortly thereafter obtained important parts of the collection from a variety of sources. He sold his collection to Eugène Goupil who was of French and Mexican descent. This part of the collection passed by donation or purchase to the National Library in Paris where it remains under the name Aubin-Goupil Collection.<br /><br />George McClelland Foster Jr born in Sioux Falls South Dakota on October 9 1913 died on May 18 2006 at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California Berkeley where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979 when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics including acculturation long-term fieldwork peasant economies pottery making public health social structure symbolic systems technological change theories of illness and wellness humoral medicine in Latin America and worldview. The quantity quality and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Lacks frontispiece portrait. Lacks Foster's stamp or date of purchase. some damp stains to end papers neat old marginalia in Spanish to back end paper worm hole ant head and heal of spine going through spine extremities bumped and rubbed old owner's label to front paste down 1" chip at back head hinge and name to front end paper scuffed else a good copy of a rare item. En la Imprenta de Juan de Zuniga hardcover books
190920648London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons 1909. Hardcover. Very good. First edition in English. 217 pp. with index 3 maps and more than 70 photographic illustrations. Foxing to the first ca. 20 pp otherwise a very nice copy. "Major Émile Antoine Henry de Bouillane de Lacoste 1867-1937 was a military officer who after serving with the French army in Indochina undertook a number of extended voyages to different parts of Asia on behalf of the French authorities. He wrote several books based on his travels. Around Afghanistan is an English translation of a work originally published in Paris in 1908 under the title Autour de l'Afghanistan aux frontières interdites Around Afghanistan by forbidden borders. As the French title makes clearer than the English Bouillane de Lacoste was denied permission by the Afghan authorities to travel in Afghanistan. He thereupon he devised a scheme to travel around the borders of the country. Starting from Tehran in late April 1906 Bouillane de Lacoste traveled first to Meshed in northeastern Persia Iran and from there into Russian Central Asia through Ashkabad present-day Ashgabat and Merv both in present-day Turkmenistan Bukhara and Samarkand. After reaching the end of the Russian railway line at Andijan present-day Andijon Uzbekistan he proceeded into the Altai Mountains in present-day Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan which he then crossed into China and British India. The next stage of journey was from Srinagar Kashmir to Lahore and from there across Baluchistan in present-day Pakistan and back into Persia where he eventually reached Tehran in late January of 1907. The journey was made by rail and horse caravan. Bouillane de Lacoste was accompanied by Lieutenant Hippolyte Marie Joseph Antoine Enselme born 1872 who had served with Bouillane de Lacoste in Indochina and accompanied him on an earlier voyage to Manchuria. Bouillane de Lacoste's account is written as a diary and contains descriptions of the landscape and the people he encountered" World Digital Library. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons hardcover books
199238547NY:: Cambridge University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0521413249 . First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Cambridge University Press, hardcover books
19713074Berkeley CA: University of California Press 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. xii 199 pp with maps bibliography index. Minimal wear to edges; else fine. Dust jacket shows very light shelf wear and light toning to edges. "A history of a major piece of federal legislations and of the man most responsible for its passage through Congress . Of particular interest in the present account is the new perspective offered by Ms. Moeller on Herbert Hoover's role regarding the project" dust jacket. University of California Press hardcover books
199928244Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0674511735 . First edition. Fine in an about fine small corner crease to rear flap dust jacket. . Harvard University Press hardcover books
197831646Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. 0801820421 . First edition. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper else near fine in a near fine light shelf wear dust jacket. . Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover books
20692Small broadside and cabinet card photo of El-Joseph Robert Raycroft. Undated but ca. 1905. Broadside measures 5.75 x 12 inches and has some old creases and short tears. Cabinet card is in fine condition and credited to photographer Geo. F. Reil of Chicago. Both of El-Joseph's parents were preachers and his three younger siblings gave public Bible recitations but he was clearly the star of this Chicago-based family of traveling evangelists from Chicago. This broadside promotes him as "the greatest wonder of the religious world today" and claims he has "conducted over 300 meetings" unaided and "talked with more people about their personal salvation thatn any child his age ever known." He began preaching at age 3 1/2 and was still at it in his early twenties. Contemporary newspapers record him preaching in Methodist and Baptist churches leading multidenominational revivals visiting prisons and even converting a pair of Chicago thugs who planned to rob and possibly murder his father. unknown books
