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18531403999Derby and Miller 1853. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Derby And Miller Auburn 1853. Hardcover. The scarce true first edition.No mention of thousand on top of title page later printings have Fifth Thousand Eighth Thousand Tenth thousand or Seventeenth thousand indicating later printings Also 1853 on both title and copyright pages and no mention of London on either title or copyright pages.4 page catalog inserted between inside cover and F.E.P. The seven illustrations are all there.The book shows much wear on the edges and the back of the spine is going. Furthermore there is foxing throughout the book. Also there is a name stamped in front cover. Housed in a custom-made slipcase. Basis for the award-winning movie of the same title. Derby and Miller hardcover books
18531321937Auburn: Derby and Miller 1853. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 336 pages; G; bound in 3/4 red leather pebbled dark green cloth boards paneled spine with gilt and no titling; hinges cracked some rubbing to binding; reinforcement to both front and rear gutters; gift inscription to second free endpaper; page 336 with significant damage appears to have at one point been glued to something; Significantly foxed as usual with finger smudges and wear to pages some fraying to scattered fore edges; <br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> With all seven wood engravings including frontispiece portrait; true first printing of this scarce title with no mention of "Thousand" at top of title page; lacking four-page catalogue;<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> LB consignment; shelved case 1. Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. <br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Northup a black man who was born free in New York state details his being tricked to go to Washington D.C. where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South. He was in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before he was able to secretly get information to friends and family in New York who in turn secured his release with the aid of the state. Northup's account provides extensive details on the slave markets in Washington D.C. and New Orleans and describes at length cotton and sugar cultivation and slave treatment on major plantations in Louisiana. wikipedia;. 1321937. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Derby and Miller hardcover books
185320236Auburn: Derby and Miller et al. 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. xvi17-336pp. 4pp. publisher's ads inserted between the front endpapers. Original brown cloth spine lettered in gilt boards embossed in blind. Yellow coated endpapers. Illustrated with seven full page illustrations including the frontispiece of the author. Significantly foxed as usual. Binding faded and worn at edges and corners spine gilt worn but still a presentable copy. Housed in a new leather backed custom clamshell case. A farmer and a professional violinist Northup had been a landowner in New York. In 1841 he went to Washington D.C.; there he was drugged kidnapped and sold as a slave. He was held as a slave for 12 years in the Red River region of Louisiana. Made into a movie in 2013 which received the Best Picture Award. Rare in first printing. Derby and Miller, et al. hardcover books
401719Augsburg: Monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra circa 1474. From the Collection of Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow. Royal folio 402 x 268 mm. 287 leaves of 288 lacking first blank. 55 lines double-column. Roman type. 12-line woodcut white-vine capitals; spaces for 2-line initials and for one 13-line initial. Printed paragraph marks. Leaves 2/5 and 2/6 disjunct as usual one or the other a cancel the stubs preserved. 17th-century German half pigskin mottled paper boards. Early repair in lower margin of first leaf and old slip mounted over early ownership inscription in upper margin pale stain in the first 20 leaves and on 28/6 small stains on fore-margin from fol. 139 to end small mostly marginal wormholes in last thirty leaves touching a few letters generally very crisp and fresh. Provenance: monastic armorial bookplate of an abbot with initials B.A.Z.W; Geh. Justiz-Rath Gottlieb August Friedrich Barnheim of Insterburg East Prussia name in ink on first text leaf; George and David Wolfe Bruce bookplate; donated to the Grolier Club in 1894 and sold 15 November 1968; purchased from Goodspeed's Book Shop 1969. FIRST AND ONLY 15TH-CENTURY EDITION utilizing for the first time an unusual set of Romanesque woodcut capitals thought to have been based on the St. Gall manuscript used as the copy-text for this edition see BMC II p.338. The blocks were later acquired by Ludwig Hohenwang and thereafter by Johann Bämler. This short-lived press stood at the Benedictine monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg an important center of manuscript production in the early 15th century. Its abbot Melchior von Stainhaim in 1472 established a monastic press intended for the use of the monks; it ceased operation shortly after his death in January 1474. Anton Sorg worked at the press prior to establishing his own in 1475. Based principally on the Liber glossarum and the Abavus maior this compendium of Latin glossaries in two sequential alphabets was widely copied from the 12th century onwards in southern German-speaking regions. The text was already misattributed in the 12th century to the 9th-century Bishop of Constance and Abbot of St. Gall. The earliest manuscript cites Salomon as the initiator of the work not its author Verfasserlexikon 2 10:542-3. HC 14134; BMC II 340 IC. 5767-8; CIBN S-52; GW M39747; Harvard/Walsh 554; Curt Bühler "Remarks on the Printing of the Augsburg edition c. 1474 of Bishop Salomon's Glossae" in Homage to a Bookman: Essays on Manuscripts Books and Printing written for H. P. Kraus Berlin 1967 133-35; Goff S-21. <br/><br/> hardcover books
