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186027136Paris France.: J. B. Bailliere et Fils Libraires De L'Academie Imperiale De Medecine 1860. 255 1 Table des Matieres pages; text in French throughout. Baron Ernst von Feuchtersleben 1806 - 1849 Austrian physician poet and philosopher. Not dated and circa 1860. Title page with the small previous owner name-stamp of collector George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy; in service as a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894. Volume approx. 4 5/8" x 7 1/8" size; bound in marbled paper covered boards brown morocco leather spine; spine with gilt titles small ornaments in the compartments; marbled endpapers. Some edge tips wear and rubbing to the binding bottom of spine scraped; in very good condition. Deuxieme Edition. Leather. Very Good. J. B. Bailliere et Fils, Libraires De L'Academie Imperiale De Medecine books
1580046178Geneva: Johannes Laon 1580. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Half red morocco by Lhuinte light wear at edges and hinges first few and scattered other pages including title faded likely from being washed Some minor foxing and soiling. Several paper repairs to margins occasional small edge tears and few closed tears in text few holograph annotations hole in the eye of the Savonarola portrait on B3 with minor affect to text on verso small hole in text on C4 repaired paper loss with affect to border of Paulus Fagius portrait on G2. Still quite clean and attractive overall. 37 portraits and 54 frames with names for future portraits and 44 emblems at the rear. 318pp A mixture of Protestant biography and emblem book - one of the first uses of the emblem book for Reformation purposes the first was Montenay's Emblemmes ou devises Chrestiennes 1571. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046178. <br/><br/> Johannes Laon hardcover books
199265827Pocatello:: Idaho Museum of Natural History. Near Fine. 1992. Paperback. B000JC8768 . Black and white photographs. First edition thus paperback. Near fine in oversize illustrated stapled wraps.; 63 pages . Idaho Museum of Natural History, paperback 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
198029424San Francisco: Sierra Club Books 1980. First edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. 8vo in dustwrapper. First edition of the author's marvelous second book. 183 pp. Illustrations by Jennifer Dewey. A fine clothbound copy in dustwrapper. Sierra Club Books unknown books
1562045392Venice: Domenico Guerra & Gio Battista 1562. Early Edition. Hardcover rebound in leather. Good Condition. Rebound in modern sheep front endpapers replaced minor worming and modest staining throughout but still an attractive copy of this early Italian edition. With historiated initials - separate section titles but continuously paginated. 16 375pp with a printers mark on the verso of page 375. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045392. <br/><br/> Domenico Guerra & Gio Battista hardcover books
1923004911Illinois: Dept of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey 1923. Original topographical map of Jonesboro IL-MO edition of 1923 surveyed 1918 and 1921 scale 1/62500 countour interval 20 feet. Map measures 16" wide x 20" high linen-backed paper 2 folds. Map is Very Good light soiling some pencil notation in red pencil back side. Printed on back side is article headed "The Topographic Maps of the United States". SCARCE. . First Printing. Map. Very Good. Dept of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey Paperback books
1930167371930. A typed letter signed in ink by big band leader of the 1920s 1930s Johnny Johnson recommending Mr. Toor to a record store for a band release; "An M.C.A. Attraction Victor Records" at top of letterhead with band title headline; back of letter with circular 'microphone' image with pictures of band members; soiling split along old fold lines; good minus condition and good American big band historical ephemera. Very Good. unknown books
1838005286London: John Chidley 1838. Second Edition with Additions Revised and Corrected. Handsomely bound in later blue cloth gilt titles marbled edges. All 3 volumes are Very Good or better frontispiece portrait Vol. 1 has been repaired cloth a bit sunned at spines light foxing to end pages. "Containing among a variety of interesting pieces a great part of the correspondence of Elizabeth and her Ministers with George Sixth Earl of Shrewsbury during the fifteen years in which Mary Queen of Scots remained in his custody." . Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John Chidley Hardcover books
1915006305Stuttgart Germany: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft 1915. Beautifully bound in red cloth with illustrated front cover and spine black end pages with gold German eagle emblem. "562 Abbildungen im Tekst 22 zum Teil doppelseitige mehrfarbige Kunstbeilagen 3 grose zeifarbige Kartenbeilagen sowie 34 karten und Plänen im Text" 562 illustrations in the Text 22 partly double-sided multi-colored art supplements 3 large-color map inserts as well as 34 maps and plans in the text. Text entirely in German. Laid in is publisher's catalog for their publication of "BISMARK Der Mann und das Werk" 8 pp. Fine. Book is Fine. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft Hardcover books
2001202566Duquesne University Press 2001. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. A nice clean copy with no marks of any kind. The dustjacket is price-clipped. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket. Duquesne University Press unknown books
200737566Columbia:: University of Missouri Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2007. Hardcover. 0826217230 . Black and white photographs throughout. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . University of Missouri Press, hardcover books
20007474Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0801434386 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Cornell University Press hardcover books
1972005614New York: Communist Party USA 1972. 3 1/2" x 6" bumper sticker black lettering on red field although for some reason my scanner is registering this as pink instead of red and 3 1/2" x 7 1/2" contribution card. Both are Fine both are SCARCE. . First Printing. Cardstock. Fine. Communist Party USA Paperback books
1959006029No Place: Journal of Central European Affairs 1959. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front cover - "With best regards John Snell". Although not stated from the collection of Oscar Winther who was the long-time editor of the Mississippi Valley Historical Review and the Journal of American History. Reprinted from the Journal of Central European Affairs Vol. XVIII January 1959 No. 4. Paginated 382-395. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Reprint. Pamphlet. Fine in Wraps as Issued/No Jacket As Issued. Journal of Central European Affairs Paperback books
192726290New York NY: New York Theatre Program Corporation 1927. 24 pages; color cover & endpaper illustrations; black and white illustrated within. Approx. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4" size; stapled paper wraps detached; some darkening wear to covers tips chipped a little; contents clean and in good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. New York Theatre Program Corporation paperback books
1998110999Boston: Beacon Press 1998. Hardcover. xi 212p. 8.25x10 inches foreword afterword photos very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. Beacon Press hardcover books
1890008471New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1890. Two steel-engraved portrait frontispieces one hundred fifty illustrations three folding maps in pockets. Small postage stamp of Protective Association Publishers & Booksellers rear end page. In publisher's deluxe half pebbled brown morocco over marbled boards the backs intricately tooled in gilt marbled end papers tops gilt. Near Fine scant rubbing at the tips corners rubbedi interiors clean and bright. The maps are Near Fine a few small tears at fold creases and some toning verso of map Vol. I. With laid in 4" x 6 1/2" trade card with portrait of Stanley published by Wolfson Spice Co. Toledo Ohio. Verso of card with Stanley bio and offer to receive portrait litho. Card dated 1890 is Very Good small edge tears. . First American Edition. Half Pebbled Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover books
1937300082<p>First edition. 4to. Illustrated with 48 b/w gravure photographs by Will Connell. Text by Nunnally Johnson Patterson McNutt Gene Fowler and Grover Jones. Original spiral bound stiff printed wrappers edge wear; rubbing. Good. 105 pages. No bookplates.</p> T.J. Maloney, Inc. paperback books
19892196Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0226775380 . First edition. Slight crease in the front board else fine in a very near fine dust jacket. . University of Chicago Press hardcover books
192744064New York: Boni and Liveright 1927. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's cloth in tan photo-illustrated dust jacket red topstain; 316pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Cloth gilt a bit dulled topstain a shade darkened contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper tiny closed tear at top edge of rear jacket panel not approaching text else Near Fine in a superlative copy of the jacket. Autobiography of Aimee Semple McPherson 1890-1944 the evangelical speaker and founder of the Foursquare Church best known for pioneering the use of mass media specifically radio to broadcast her sermons. The present memoir includes McPherson's supposed kidnapping in Mexico an event heavily called into question by contemporary media who conjectured that McPherson and her lover had cooked up the story to cover up their liaison. Boni and Liveright unknown books
193143951London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited 1931. First Edition. Red cloth stamped in black to spine. White dust jacket printed in black. Minor wear to extremities; minor soil to page block; glued-under chip to center of rear hinge as a result of a binder's error. Interior clean and bright binding secure. Dust jacket edgeworn with several short tears and small chips; light pencil doodle to front panel. VG/ Good. xxiii 1 303 1 pp. 12 b/w plates. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/> John Lane The Bodley Head Limited hardcover books
15265Extensive correspondence collection 1920-1940s. 66 letters by various authors mostly women native to the Indian sub-continent all very unusual in the fact that they are highly educated and in the midst of further studies or early in their careers decades prior to Indian Independence. The letters are addressed to a young teacher Probha who was former classmate to most of the writers as well as a few to her sister Rani or to both and follows them as they finish school enter teacher training college and ultimately fan out over India as bearers of a new generation of independent Indian women. In 1931 Indian female literacy hovered at just under 3% making the experiences of these forerunners and their correspondence incredibly rare.<br/> <br/>Prior to Indian Independence from Britain Gandhi called for uplifting the status of women through education and recognition of their inherent worth as human beings. Determined to inculcate the equality of the sexes into Indian culture Gandhi publicly did household tasks that were traditionally women's work and declared that "the future is with women." Indeed other activists also equated India's independence with new freedoms for women. However by 1931 Indian female literacy hovered under 3% and was often lower in the rural provinces where schools were few child marriage was prevalent and patriarchal norms dominated society. On the cusp of vast cultural change educated women and female schoolteachers and professionals were the rare exception. <br/> <br/>These letters record the interactions between a rare group of highly educated women their thirst for personal and financial independence as well as their conflicting feelings regarding the traditions that defined their lives and restricted them. Their nexus was the Queen Victoria Girls' High School in Agra a small city in the rural northern province of Uttar Pradesh most notable for being the home of the world famous Taj Mahal a symbol of reverence to a much-loved wife of antiquity and of honor to the traditional woman. In its tall shadow young sisters Probha and Rani Thomas attended high school at "QVHS" in the late 1920s-early 1930s where lifelong friendships developed with female students Libawati Ivy Monica Lila Mercy Winnie among others. Most of them became teachers where the extraordinary nature of their achievement stood in stark relief to the lot of most other women "This year only one out of five girls has passed from our village schools." As their lives continued and they spread across the country education became the uniting factor that drove the young women forward and brought them back to each other. "Probha what are you going to do now I am going back to old Q.V. to become a teacher and I am feeling very sad as my dear old class girls won't be there. All these past years seem like a dream. So soon the parting took place.No more Tenthies no more H.M. Club. All have faded like a passing cloud.I shall never find such a jolly set again Probha. This future seems very hard." They were witness to an extraordinary moment in history when the world was changing particularly for women and with their education they are in a unique position to describe the change "It is funny that when it is time for us to be silent we have to look after our visitors and perform useless ceremonies-someday we'll change but not yet." One recalls a train ride in which she sat near "a bold Gandhi's follower.In his eloquent poetical language he was telling people that he had been to jail and was saying that for the love of country he can endure anything." Probha and Rani's father a judge had lessons for them about the danger of Revolutionary activities when one of their friends gets involved "Arel De is intelligent and emotional but he has no self control.You may write to him but make it plain that you will drop correspondence if he writes politics again. He is either already on Police books or will soon be." Though they shied away from direct involvement in politics they encapsulated Indian women's liberation in the early century: striving after independent employment deferring marriage yet with respect for their elders. In one letter Monica sadly reports to Probha "I am not coming back to school. Although I am feeling very bad but yes father has done what is good for me. I asked many times to let me go but he forced me to stay here." And in another poignant letter "Lovey" writes "Rani sis do you remember once we were talking about this problem of getting married Now very soon I shall be facing it. John wants to settle down after my working for one year only & I wish to work for at least two years. I think I shall have to do my parents will decide. Please pray that I may get a chance of working for at least two years."<br/> <br/>In tone the women are warm and sisterly to an extent not found in letters of Western cultural origin and also profoundly honest in reporting to one another their successes and failures; a good or bad test score the struggle to study while encountering difficulties such as lack of clean drinking water and large snakes and even having the security of their families placed on their young shoulders "May God help me. May I pass in the 3rd division only for it is difficult time for us two sisters. Our father's money is nearly spent and if I pass I go for training. Please remember us in your prayers that we may soon become independent." As one of the young women finds out who goes back to QVHS as a student teacher life becomes more complicated as time goes on "My examination result is so bad.my poor mother is working so hard at home. It was too much to disappoint her.I know you would ask me but why have you done so badly The only answer I can give you is that I got 7 periods a week to teach & being a slow writer the notes of lessons & the preparation took all my study time." What they share is a clarify on the value of their education to all their future lives: "All the Normal Students High School and the middle candidates.tell each one of them that I wish them a very brilliant success. Tell them that I remember each one of them in my prayers that they all may pass in the 1st Division with scholarships."<br/> <br/>Cultural references show the writers and recipients of these letters were generally native of India although they often went by Western cognoms. A few of the letters from British servicemen or coworkers offer an interesting perspective on intercultural understanding and friendship in the days when Indian Independence loomed so closely on the horizon. A serviceman befriended by Probha writes "In those days we were very ignorant. We knew nothing at all of the country or the people and their ways and customs. I think we were most surprised to find that you spoke English.We were astounded to see such bad conditions existed for some people and very upset to find such a feeling of bitterness between our two peoples." Reflecting the dichotomy inherent to the lives of these girls several letters are from their mother who simultaneously pushes them on to achieve independence and reminds them of their cultural anchor. anxious for them and resolute that they will have every opportunity possible. An intelligent woman in her own right Probha's mother offers advice on her exams "Your last quarterly should have had better marks. I wrote a few little hints in my last letter. Please keep them in mind.I'll send your saris in a day or two.I couldn't get even a bit of voil in the bazaar. There was no chance of getting it from any out station. I've used the bits I had at home.I pray God to be with my baby & help her to be a true hearted & brave soldier." <br/> <br/>The letters are in English except for a few brief passages in Hindi as English was the primary language of education and commerce prior to Independence. A few are from an object of romance; a male teacher who courts Probha with poetry but does not succeed in convincing her to give up her freedom as a single woman. A rare archive of letters from an extremely uncommon cross-section of pre-Independence society: the forerunner of the modern educated and independent woman of India. unknown books
1977222597Minerva Associates Publications 1977. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. DJ protected with mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Minerva Associates (Publications) unknown books
185412748Cincinnati: J.A. Brainerd 1854. Hardcover. Fair. Twenty-second thousand. 304 pp illustrated with many engravings. Original blind-stamped cloth boards. Spine slanted horizontal tear in spine cloth corners worn through cloth chipped at head of spine. Rear hinge cracked. First and last few pages foxed text otherwise clean and unmarked. Text based on a serious of lectures on the "manners and customs" of India the author gave after a period of travel in the country. Illustrations show female costume wildlife landscape religious ceremony festivals etc. J.A. Brainerd hardcover books
