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1893DEMO009910ILondon: Fine Art Printers 1893. First Limited. Hardcover. Good. Sir John GILBERT. Folio 32 pages edgeworn orig. cloth repaired w. black leather panel centered on the top cover. <br/><br/>Text & biography of Gilbert by Temple this copy lacks 2 leaves of descriptions. No.28 of only 75 copies on Hand-made paper. Not to be confused with the quarto edition of 1893. Fine Art Printers hardcover
1890006956Heidelberg Germany: Carl Winter's Universitatsbuchhandlung 1890. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. RARE in the First Edition and beautifully bound in half calf over marbled boards 5 raised bands gilt lettering and decorations at spine matching marbled end pages. Near Fine end pages a bit toned slight scuffing to leather at spine ends and corners. Son of the renowned astronomer Arthur Auwers while director of the Chemistry Department at Marburg Auwers taught two future Nobel Prize winners in chemistry : Karl Ziegler 1963 and Georg Wittig 1979. Carl Winter's Universitatsbuchhandlung Hardcover
1895012428Rochester New York: E.R. Andrews Printer and Bookbinder 1895. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original brown paper covers with title on front cover and an illustration on the rear cover of Powers' commercial fire-proof buildings. Tears and loss of paper to the spine and front cover but the binding is firm. Chipping to both covers. Contents unpaginated include an alphabetic list of artists represented in the gallery Introduction Painting as a Fine Art: Brief History of the Art and the Various Schools of Painting and Catalogue of 996 entries for paintings and 17 entries for statuary. Scarce original catalog. E.R. Andrews, Printer and Bookbinder Paperback
18992832081899. unbound. very good. Excellent content A.L.S. 8vo. 1 page Pall Mall 1899. Forwarding research papers from his days as a serious scholar of Anthropology in full: "I send you a copy of the reprint of the paper on "The Secret Tribal Societies of West Africa" that I read on May 5th before Lodge Quantico Committee - at an unscheduled meeting. I have obliterated certain passages bearing on rather Masonic matters." Marriott a 32nd Degree Mason made his presentation before a Masonic Lodge as opposed to the Royal Society for the sole purpose of securing grant money for his further research studies. Boldly signed and in very good condition.<br/> <br/> British anthropologist and early science fiction writer who created The Iron Detective a comedy of the near future 1908 describing the invention of a robot detective capable of telepathy.<br/> <br/> unknown
1900220675Milano: 1900. Fogli sciolti loose pages. Molto buono Very Good. Biglietto autografo di cm 9x115 scritto su entrambi i lati indirizzato a Luigi Lodi datato Pesaro 27 - 4 - '900 e firmato Mascagni- <em>Pietro Mascagni nominato direttore del Liceo Musicale "Rossini" di Pesaro non era stato ben accolto da notabili locali per cui si era creata una dura polemica con un riscontro su giornali. Luigi Lodi era intervenuto per difendere l'amico con due articoli a distanza di pochi giorni sul quotidiano "Il Giorno". Nella lettera Mascagni ringrazia il Lodo per il suo sostegno: "Carissimo Gigi siamo agli sgoccioli. Fra pochi giorni tenterò"; il colpo finale . Farò" traslocare il Prefetto e dimettere il Consiglio Comunale. Tu sei stato la mia fortuna . continua ad aiutarmi fino alla fine"</em>. Cm 9x115. . Molto buono Very Good. Bruniture leggere. . , unknown
1898355490723082London: Bodley Head 1898. First Edition. Hard Cover. London: John Lane: The Bodley Head 1898. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gold to the spine and front board. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4". 4ff. 156pp. 12pp. publisher's list at the rear "A List of Books in Belles Lettres" dated "1897" from John Lane: The Bodley Head New York. First Edition. A bookstore ticket to the front paste-down and a former owner's neat name in fountain pen to the front free end-paper. Spine very slightly faded hardly worth mentioning and spine tips pushed and softened. Overall a solid VG or better copy. George Egerton was a writer of short stories novels plays and translations noted for her psychological probing innovative narrative techniques and outspokenness about women's need for freedom including sexual freedom. Egerton is widely considered to be one of the most important writers in the late nineteenth century New Woman Movement and a key exponent of early modernism in English-language literature. Egerton has been credited with the first mention of Friedrich Nietzsche in English literature she refers to Nietzsche in her first book "Keynotes" in 1893 three years before the first of Nietzsche's works was translated into English. Photographs/scans available upon request. Bodley Head hardcover