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006581London: The Portfolio SIGNED by Alfred Brunet-Debaines in the plate. No Date circa 1874. Overall size 10" x 14" plate size 7 3/4" x 8 1/2" image size 6" x 6". Very Good toning to paper at top and bottom edges small corner creases. Unmatted and unframed verso blank. SIGNED BY ARTIST. Print. Very Good. 10" x 14". The Portfolio Paperback books
19471342300New York: The Vanguard Press 1947. Hardcover. Octavo; G; Hardcover; Spine blue with silver print; Boards in blue cloth with silver print mild wear to spine caps and corners crease to spine else clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; 424 pages frontispiece illustrated maps b&w plates. 1342300. FP New Rockville Stock. The Vanguard Press hardcover books
1939240561939. Softcover. VG- cover soiled. Cream wraps. 36 pp. Numerous bw plates. Lists 112 works and includes prices realized for all of them. American artists include Inness Wiggins Norton Crane Remington Reid Gifford Miller Post Eakins among others. paperback books
191242727Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company 1912. White paper wrappers printed in black & red. Evidence of damping to upper portion of text-block. Paper yellowing. Withal a Very Good copy. 64 pp. Illustrated. 6-7/8" x 4-5/8" <br/><br/> M. A. Donohue & Company unknown books
1898M13765Paris:: Masson et Cie 1898. 1898. Large 8vo. 608 VI pp. 70 figures bibliog. index; last 8 leaves show minor waterstains along edge. Beautiful French red half gilt-tooled morocco raised bands edges sprinkled; kozo reinforced joints. Inscribed by the author's son 1978. Very rare on market. First Edition. This work is a monumental and innovative thesis of Oscar Amoedo y Valdes MARKING THE BIRTH OF THE FORENSIC DENTISTRY. It was the first treatise on forensic odontology and according to Vale History of Bitemark Evidence it was not until 1966 that the second major text on the subject Gustafson's treatise Forensic odontology appeared after this masterpiece. This text provoked a great sensation and had a great influence on the development of this discipline throughout the world. / Oscar Amoedo y Valdes 1863-1945 a native of Matanzas Cuba graduated as a dental surgeon in Havana then took a degree from the New York Dental College. He moved to Paris in 1889 and decided to study medicine. The burning of the bazaar of Charity on May 4 1897 during which dentists were solicited to identify victims gave Amoedo the opportunity to take an interest in this new discipline legal odontology. Amoedo considered the creator of forensic odontology became professor at the Ecole Odontologique and president of the Odontological Society of France. During World War II the Germans imprisoned and transferred him in a concentration camp. Oscar Amoedo y Valdes died in Toulouse on September 27th 1945. He was 82 years old. "This is not a thesis but a treatise on odontology. It has filled in great gaps that existed as regards forensic identification." -- Brouardel July 7 1898. 12th International Congress in Moscow Amoedo recounted the mission of the dentists in identifying the corpses of the Bazar de la Charite disaster. / There are 52 detailed observations; The first of them concern victims of the fire of the Bazaar of Charity including that of the Duchess of Alencon transmitted by Davenport. A remarkable section within the volume deals with the teeth of those out-cast by society: criminals "idiots" prostitutes and dwarves. SEE: Tedeschi CG et al. Forensic Medicine Vol. II p. 1117: "The first treatise on forensic odontology as a subject in its own right was written in 1898 by Dr. Oscar Amoedo who is universally recognized as the father of forensic odontology. ; Taylor J & Kieser J. Forensic Odontology pp. 2-3: "a considerable text on many aspects of the use of teeth for legal purposes"; Hill I.R. et al. Forensic odontology: its scope and history pp. 14-16; Senn D.R. & Stimson P.G. Forensic Dentistry second edition pp. 17-18; Riaud X & Brousseau Ph "Medico-legal odontology and serial killers: The tooth that knew too much" pp. 15 23-26. Masson et Cie, 1898. hardcover books
1912WY716-037Winnipeg Manitoba: Stovel Company 1912. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 12mo. 7 1/2 x 5 inches. 191 9 pp. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece of Arthur O. Wheeler foreword by the author "one word more" by co-author Elizabeth Parker 59 illustrations including 2 folded plates and 6 folded maps glossary of mountaineering terms extracts from game laws park regulations bibliography and index; text clean unmarked. Soft cover brown wrapper with engraved cover illustration; light water damage binding lightly worn small tears. Previous owner's list of food consumed in the field in pencil on final leaf. WY716-037. Good. The authors hoped that this early guide to the Selkirk Mountains "will be of use to the mountaineer and may enable the general public to enjoy more readily the unique alpine beauties of these white-shrouded peaks." Arthur O. Wheeler was a Canadian surveyor and one of the leaders of Canadian Mountaineering and the first co-president of the Alpine Club of Canada. Wheeler is best known for his photo-topographical surveys of the Selkirk Mountains and the British Colombia-Alberta boundary. The text itself is written by Elizabeth Mrs. H. J. Parker a Canadian journalist who co-founded the Alpine Club with Wheeler. Botanical notes and accompanying illustrations are by noted author Mrs. J. W. Henshaw author of "Mountain Wild Flowers of Canada." Notes on animals birds and fish by Professor John Macoun the early Canadian botanist who was the first to survey document and categorize Canadian flora in a systematic manner. Stovel Company paperback books
19261258baRParis France: Plon-Nourrit 1926. Book. Very good- condition. Paperback. Signed by Authors. First French edition. Octavo 8vo. vi 397 pages of text including table. Paperback binding; original blue printed paper wrappers with numerous small creases and tears and extremities and a few tiny chips at top of spine; protected in custom stiff archival mylar and further protected by a custom made gray and navy linen clam-shell box with printed spine label. Measues 20 cm in height. Illustrated with a historic photograph of Ashford as a girl and a facsimile of the first page of the original manuscript. Pages 133-221 contain the French translation of "The young visitors" which Ashford wrote at age 9; it was first published in 1919. This edition with an introduction by Cocteau and translated by Maurice Sachs who was Cocteau's secretary at the time. Sachs has inscribed and signed the book on the half-title page in the year of publication. Sachs was a black marketeer anti-semitic collaborateur went to Germany 1943 to work with Gestapo arrested and shot 1945. Contains the following works: "La messagere de la politique divine" by Humbert Clerissac; "Renoncer a toute richesse" "Jeunesse lacustre" and "Angoisses et autres" by Max Jacob; "Et le sentiment de la mort" by Charles Maurras; "Et sa pensee" by Paul Valery; "Et le soldat" by Anatole France; "Si Peguy etait la." by Henri Massis; "Le destin de la culture" by Nicholas Berdiaeff; "Scenes dans le paradis" by Justin Klotz; "Les freres caches" by Jean Aurenche; "Daisy en France" by Jean Cocteau; "Les jeunes visiteurs ou le plan de Mr. Salteeana" by Daisy Ashford; "Veillee" by Alfredo Gangotena; "Erasme et Thomas Morus contre Machiavel ou la politique et la morale" by Emile Dermenghem; "La traversee inutile" by Julien Green; "I. Mariage" and "II. Les bisons Porteciel" by Paul Sabon; "La Chine et les missions" by Leopold Levaux; "Les traces de Dieu dans la vie de Jacques Riviere" by Jules Lebreton; "Lettre a Frederic Lefevre" by Georges Bernanos. Plon-Nourrit Paperback books
1922S13215London:: Edward Arnold 1922. 1922. 8vo. viii 152 pp. 4 plates 21 figs. or tables index. Original navy blue blind- and gilt-stamped cloth. Very good. Printing and the Mind of Man 412. First edition. "Aston's invention of the mass spectrograph an instrument giving a concentrated and extremely detailed breakdown of the constituents of analyzed material enabled him to discover that elements are composed of atoms of varying mass and that the atomic weight of an element is an average of the atoms comprising it. Aston used the word "isotopes" to describe atoms of differing weights within the same element a term first coined by Frederick Soddy to describe separate elements that are nevertheless homogeneous in chemical behavior." :: Norman. Aston won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1922. NOBEL-PRIZE: "At the end of 1909 he accepted the invitation of Sir J.J. Thomson to work as his assistant at the Cavendish Laboratory Cambridge on studies of positive rays. It was during this period that he obtained definite evidence for the existence of two isotopes of the inert gas neon." "This research was interrupted by the War of 1914-1918 during which time Aston worked at the Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough where he studied the effect of atmospheric conditions on aeroplane fabrics and dopes i.e. synthetic coatings." "Returning to the Cavendish Laboratory in 1919 he again attacked the problem of the separation of the isotopes of neon. He quickly achieved success in this by his invention of the mass spectrograph an apparatus in which the ingenious use of electromagnetic focusing enabled him to utilize the very slight differences in mass of the two isotopes to effect their separation. Extending this principle to other chemical elements he discovered in a series of measurements no less than 212 of the naturally occurring isotopes. From the results of this work he was able to formulate the so-called Whole Number Rule which states that the mass of the oxygen isotope being defined all the other isotopes have masses that are very nearly whole numbers." "Aston continued to make measurements using an improved instrument with ever-increasing refinement and precision. He observed and was able to measure those deviations from the Whole Number Rule which were to become so important in the field of atomic energy." "The results of his work were published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society and in the Philosophical Magazine. He was also the author of the books Isotopes 1922; revised edition 1941 and of Structural Units of the Material Universe 1923." :: NobelPrize. DSB I pp. 320-22; Haskell Norman 77; Printing and the Mind of Man 412. Edward Arnold, 1922. hardcover books
1890006956Heidelberg Germany: Carl Winter's Universitatsbuchhandlung 1890. 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. First Edition. Half Calf Over Marbled Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Carl Winter's Universitatsbuchhandlung Hardcover books
191936345East Greenwich R. I.: The Gallaudet Aircraft Corporation 1919. 1st printing. Not in Brockett's Bibliography of Aeronautics though 5 other Gallaudet entries are present; no copies located on OCLC. Brown stiff-stock paper wrappers printed in dark olive green string tie. Minor wear with hint of damp adhesion to 'thumb' area of text fore-edge. Still a VG copy. Unpaginated though 16 pages. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 4-1/8" <br/><br/>A rare trade catalogue from this firm first organized in 1908 by Edson Gallaudet forming the first aircraft engineering office. In 1910 he established Gallaudet Engineering Company to build planes under contract. In 1917 he reorganized as Gallaudet Aircraft Corporation which as its first product in 1918 mass produced Curtis floatplanes. In 1923 the firm was sold to Major Rueben Fleet and became part of Consolidated Aircraft. This promotional booklet describes the Gallaudet Chummy Flyabout Sport Model a two-seater powered by two 18 h.p. pusher-type motors. at the bargain price of $3500. We find no evidence this plane was ever actually produced. The Gallaudet Aircraft Corporation unknown books
19321326438Warszawa: Z Subwencji Funduszu Kultury Narodowej 1932. Softcover. Octavo; G-; Ex-library; Paperback; Spine tan with black print; Cover is blue with black print tanning to spine peripheral tanning oversized cover edges are creased and chipping tear to top of front hinge label torn off front; Text block has bookplate to inside of front cover with surplus note in ink name in ink on title page along with embossed library stamp penciled call number on title page verso library stamp surplus notation and stain from torn away library pocket on inside of rear cover cover becoming unglued at bottom corner of front hinge mild age-toning to paper; Text in French; vii 254 pages. 1326438. FP New Rockville Stock. Z Subwencji Funduszu Kultury Narodowej unknown books
2011SP92510-002Simi Valley CA: Pie in the Sky Press 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. Rebecca Chamlee. Signed. 8vo. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. 16 pp. Linoleum cut water designs provide a background and theme to the poems and the end-papers wood type numbers for the separate poems and titles typographic ornaments throughout; text clean unmarked. Dark blue cloth spine paste-paper over boards title printed on front cover; binding square and tight. SIGNED on the colophon by Barbara Maloutas and Rebecca Chamlee. SP92510-002. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 30 copies this is number 6 signed by Barbara Maloutas and Rebecca Chamlee on the colophon. Designed printed and hand-bound by Rebecca Chamlee at the Pie in the Sky Press. Printed on a Vandercook 4 flat-bed cylinder press from Frank Hein's Tribute type assorted wood type and linoleum cuts on Rives Heavyweight paper. The binding is a drumleaf sewn board-style binding with a cloth spine and boards covered in paste papers made by the binder. Barbara Maloutas is Associate Chair Communication Arts at Otis College of Art and Design where she makes and exhibits artist books. She won the 2008 Sawtooth Poetry Prize for The Whole Marie. Her work appears in many journals and anthologies. Pie in the Sky Press hardcover books
1883405494London: Longman Hurst Rees et al. 1883. Discreet library stamps on endpapers a fine copy. 8vo. Barlow's paper appears on page 159-219. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. "Classic description of infantile scurvy 'Barlow's disease' which includes the pathology of the condition" Garrison-Morton-Norman 3720. <br/><br/> Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al. hardcover books
2006PW1053Honolulu:: University of Hawaii Press 2006. 2006. 8vo. xiii 1 512 pp. Figs. index. Green gilt-stamped boards dust jacket. Fine. ISBN: 9780824829438 "Native Hawaiians arrived in the Pacific Northwest as early as 1787. Some went out of curiosity; many others were recruited as seamen or as workers in the fur trade. By the end of the nineteenth century more than a thousand men and women had journeyed across the Pacific but the stories of these extraordinary individuals have gone largely unrecorded in Hawaiian or Western sources. Through painstaking archival work in British Columbia Oregon California and Hawaii Jean Barman and Bruce Watson pieced together what is known about these sailors laborers and settlers from 1787 to 1898 the year the Hawaiian Islands were annexed to the United States. In addition the authors include descriptive biographical entries on some eight hundred Native Hawaiians a remarkable and invaluable complement to their narrative history. / "Kanakas" as indigenous Hawaiians were called formed the backbone of the fur trade along with French Canadians and Scots. As the trade waned and most of their countrymen returned home several hundred men with indigenous wives raised families and formed settlements throughout the Pacific Northwest. Today their descendants remain proud of their distinctive heritage. The resourcefulness of these pioneers in the face of harsh physical conditions and racism challenges the early Western perception that Native Hawaiians were indolent and easily exploited. / Scholars and others interested in a number of fields—Hawaiian history Pacific Islander studies Western U.S. and Western Canadian history diaspora studies—will find Leaving Paradise an indispensable work." – Publisher. University of Hawaii Press, 2006. hardcover books
1986PW1055London:: Routledge 1986. 1986. 8vo. xii 2 338 pp. Figures index. Pictorial wrappers. Very good. ISBN: 0710208154 Routledge, 1986. unknown books
198034681Budapest: Editio Musica 1980. Hardcover. Fine. Small oblong octavo. Original publisher's full light red cloth with titling gilt to upper. 1f. title 6ff. facsimile of the composer's autograph musical manuscript of the Andante for Violin and Piano 3ff. commentary by László Somfai in Hungarian German and English. Editio Musica hardcover books
195335693Budapest: Zenemukiadó Vállalat Z. 1001 1953. Paperback. Good. Small octavo. Wrappers. xx 48 pp.<br/>Preface by Pál Járdányi in Hungarian Russian German English and French.<br/><br/>Lightly worn and browned. Zenemukiadó Vállalat [Z. 1001] paperback books
196335691Wien: Philharmonia W.Ph.V. 167; Universal Edition U.E. 10736 1963. Paperback. Very Good. Small octavo. Wrappers. 92 pp.<br/>Analysis in German English and French by György Ligeti.<br/><br/>From the collection of noted musicologist Stanley Boorman his signature to upper and annotations in pencil.<br/><br/>Light wear to spine. Reprint. Philharmonia [W.Ph.V. 167]; Universal Edition [U.E. 10736] paperback books
196335376London: Boosey & Hawkes PN B. & H. 9003 1963. Paperback. Very Good. Small octavo. Wrappers. 1f. title instrumentation 137 pp. Hawkes Pocket Scores 81.<br/><br/>With "6-63 L & B" printed at end of music.<br/><br/>From the collection of noted musicologist Stanley Boorman with his signature to upper right corner and occasional annotations in pencil.<br/><br/>Wrappers somewhat worn at spine; slightly browned at edges. Boosey & Hawkes [PN B. & H. 9003] paperback books
196535375London: Boosey & Hawkes PN B. & H. 8437 1965. Paperback. Very Good. Small octavo. Wrappers. 1f. title 46 pp. Hawkes Pocket Scores 25.<br/><br/>With "10-65 L & B" printed at end of music.<br/><br/>From the collection of noted musicologist Stanley Boorman with his signature to upper right corner.<br/><br/>Slightly worn. Boosey & Hawkes [PN B. & H. 8437] paperback books
195535694Budapest: Zenemukiadó Vállalat Z. 1023 1955. Paperback. Good. Small octavo. Wrappers. ix 101 pp.<br/>Preface by Antal Molnár in Hungarian Russian German English and French.<br/><br/>Lightly worn and browned; small chips to spine. Zenemukiadó Vállalat [Z. 1023] paperback books
195635371London: Boosey & Hawkes 1956. Paperback. Very Good. Small octavo. Wrappers. 2ff. title notes 188 pp. Hawkes Pocket Scores 794. Reproduction of the score published by Editio Musica Budapest PN Z. 1022<br/><br/>Slightly worn; minor browning to edges. Boosey & Hawkes paperback books
196935378London: Boosey & Hawkes 1969. Paperback. Very Good. Small octavo. Wrappers. 39 pp. Hawkes Pocket Scores 824. Reproduction of the score published by Editio Musica Budapest PN Z. 1585<br/><br/>From the collection of noted musicologist Stanley Boorman with his signature to upper right corner and occasional annotations in pencil.<br/><br/>Slightly worn. Boosey & Hawkes paperback books
192133883Wien-New York: Universal Edition PN U.E. 7026 1921. Quarto. Original publisher's dark ivory wrappers printed in dark green. 71 pp. Copyright date 1922 on title 1921 on verso. Lower wrapper dated "XI 1921"<br/><br/>Signature of the Jewish music critic and conductor Arthur Holde 1885-1962 in ink to upper wrapper.<br/><br/>Wrappers browned brittle and chipped with some loss to spine; lower detached. Minor internal browning heavier to title and final leaf. First Edition first issue. Somfai BB 62 p. 306. Szabolcsi Sz 48 p. 332.<br/><br/>A kékszakállú herceg vára Duke Bluebeard's Castle an opera in one act to a libretto by Béla Balázs was first performed in Budapest at the National Opera on 24 May 1918. Universal Edition [PN U.E. 7026] unknown books
193933893Wien-Leipzig: Universal Edition A.G. PN U.E. 5904 1939. Quarto. Original publisher's light yellow wrappers printed in black. 7 pp. Verso of lower wrapper dated I January 1939.<br/><br/>Ex libris the composer and pianist Ray Green 1908-1997 with his handstamp to outer corner of upper wrapper and handstamp of musicseller Grobe Music in San Francisco to lower portion.<br/><br/>Slightly worn. Revised edition 1936 later issue. Somfai BB 64 p. 306. Szabolcsi Sz 49 pp. 332. Universal Edition A.G. [PN U.E. 5904] unknown books
