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186327125Oxford and London: John Henry and James Parker 1863. vi 144 3 pages of corrections and additions 1 author publications list 16 pages of publishers' announcements at back. Illustrated with a tinted folding plate of the Caribbean specifically of the Hurricane of the Middle of August 1837 and its probable course and charts. The first edition of his findings regarding climate & its influence on botanical growth by Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny 1795 - 1867 British chemist and botanist. Associated closely with Magdalen College for over 50 years ".he insisted that Oxford acknowledge the utility and intellectual rigour of chemistry and its potential to link the sciences. He lectured constantly so as to influence convocation and enabled his students to make practical experiments.Daubeny's experimental plot the basis for his rural economy lectures was purchased and entirely supported by his own funds. He made the botanic garden as he had renamed the Physic Garden the leading centre for the study of botanical and vegetable physiology. Following the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species Daubeny gave him strong support.Although not now remembered for his original experimental scientific work Daubeny published some eighty-one scientific papers. characterized principally by his lifelong zeal for reforming the Oxford University curriculum.argued relentlessly that elementary science was indispensable to a liberal education.spent his life eroding active opposition passive indifference and incredulous obstinacy in Oxford. His legacies were his role in founding the museum the school of natural science and his influence upon science at Magdalen." Nicholas Goddard in the ODNB Title page with the faint small name-stamp of collector George R. Brush; M.D. in the U.S. Navy; a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894. Volume approx. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4" size; bound in the original light reddish-plum decoratively blind-stamped textured cloth gilt spine title. Some edge tips & spine ends wear to the covers spine cloth dulled sunned some; a section of the fore-edge text-block bumped a little; final blank endpaper bottom edge chipped lacy; in very good condition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. John Henry and James Parker hardcover books
1858158677<p>8 1/2" x 5 1/2". Later  blue wrappers.  No dust jacket. Very good.</p> LEMUEL TOWERS, N.D. paperback books
19302280Chicago 1930. Loose_leaf. Red white and blue envelope. Very good. Envelope - 9.5 x 16.5 cm. Autograph card affixed onto airmail envelope dated May 13th 1930 dated shortly after Laura Ingalls broke an aviation record - addressed in print to Mr. York Briddell of St. Petersburg Florida - Director of the American Air Mail Society. Accompanied by a clipped article from the May 4th 1930 Chicago Evening Post Pertaining to Ingalls' breaking the women's record for consecutive loops in an airplane. <br /> <br />Laura Ingalls 1893-1967 was a highly successful female pilot of the 1930's with numerous records as a stunt pilot and achieved multiple firsts as an aviatrix - among them the longest solo flight by a woman 17000 miles first solo flight by a woman from North to South America first solo flight around South America by man or woman and first American woman to fly the Andes solo. But as war with Germany overshadowed the late 1930's Ingalls charming demeanor gave way to more destructive behavior by flying over Washington D.C. on Sept. 26 1939 to drop one-page antiwar pamphlets which brought sanctions and some bad press. Ten days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941 and America declared war against Japan Germany and Italy U.S. officials charged Ingalls with being an unregistered agent for the German Reich. It seems Ingalls used her award-winning celebrity and talent to take money from Baron Ulrich von Gienanth the second secretary of the German Embassy. Ingalls was charged and convicted of failing to register with the government as a paid Nazi agent and was sentenced to prison on February 20 1942 and released on October 5 1943 after serving 20 months. After her release she wrote about the Normandy landings: "This whole invasion is a power lust blood drunk orgy in a war which is unholy and for which the U.S. will be called to terrible accounting.They the Nazis fight the common enemy. They fight for independence of Europe - independence from the Jews. Bravo!" Envelope faintly soiled autograph clean. Minor soiling to newspaper clipping. <br/><br/> unknown books
19232221948<p>First edition. Octavo. Original brown stapled wrappers stamped in black. Good few nicks; chips. 64 pages.</p><p>Signed and inscribed by author on front cover in black ink: "With compliments Howard Jones."</p><p>An essay on the plight of the American Indian and government policy concerning their treatment.</p> Jones, Howard, M.D. paperback books
1850766New York: Fowlers and Wells Publishers 1850. First American Edition. Hardcover. Half calf with green and black marbled boards gilt title on spine. Good. 23 x 15 cm. 318 pages. A fascinating look into the world of nutrition in the mid 1800's including diet in American Prisons. Edited by Charles A. Lee. Owners inscription on title page: "Mrs. Francis J. Humphry - bought by her at S. Louis Mo. of an Apothecary. price 50 cents 1857." 1 cm. chips to pages 1-3 not affecting text. Boards and spine rubbed. <br/><br/> Fowlers and Wells, Publishers hardcover books
19102450Chicago: Rex Bromide Co. c. 1910. Staplebound. Color illustrated wraps. Very good. 63 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Featuring handy home goods to solve the everyday problems of the homemaker - this catalogue includes hundreds of gadgets. Each page includes 2-3 small write ups for each item and all items are shown with a detailed black and white illustration. Personal favorites include the “Sure Death Fly Killer” and the “Star Asbestos Burner” used for quick cooking and odorless toasting. Light creasing with 2 small closed tears to front cover. No copies found 2/15/21. <br/><br/> Rex Bromide Co. paperback books
192883773London: Argonaut Press 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine. maps index lxxxv 121p. Original vellum-backed cloth. 26cm. Minor cover soiling. Corners slightly bumped. No jacket. Copy No. 543 of an edition limited to 975 numbered copies on Japon Vellum. <br/><br/> Argonaut Press hardcover books
191934015Milano: G. Ricordi & C. 1919. Octavo. original publisher's purplie wrappers titled in ivory. 1f. recto title verso copyright 1f. cast list verso blank 5-19 pp.<br/><br/>Publisher's blindstamp dated February 2 1919. <br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn and creased; "18" in red pencil to upper. Uniformly browned. First Edition. <br/><br/>"As a composer Pick-Mangiagalli excelled in light ballet music: already in Il salice d'oro there is a pleasing if facile tunefulness combined with Viennese dance rhythms and spiced with harmonies and orchestration reminiscent of Strauss and Ravel. In Il carillon magico Pick-Mangiagalli's most successful stage work this promise reached fulfilment: though slight the style is recognizably personal with frequent unrelated triads chromatic slithers unusually placed augmented triads and diminished 7th chords and so on. Musical means are perfectly matched to dramatic context." John C.G. Waterhouse in Grove Music Online. G. Ricordi & C. unknown books
193826142Long Island New York: Nassau Division of the Long Island Association 1938. 88 pages; illustrated in black and white throughout. Neighborhoods and locales in Nassau County pictured: Garden City Oyster Bay Williston Park Manhasset Westbury Jones Beach New Hyde Park Mineola others; extolling the importance of Roosevelt Field and Long Island's aeronautic industry and more. In addition to promoting the beauty and valuable investment opportunities Long Island real estate offers the parklands sporting activities transportation political and government figures and advertisements for businesses are portrayed throughout. Approx. 11" x 14" size orange and black illustrated paper covers metal spiral binding. Some edge tips wear and corner chipping to covers contents clean and in good condition. Our research indicates this was the only issue published of this pictorial periodical. First Edition. Spiral Bound. Good. Nassau Division of the Long Island Association paperback books
196526143New York New York: Hagstrom Company 1965. 86 pages; illustrated with color maps and in black and white throughout. With demographic information on population road systems bus routes parkways building department and water co. areas; a Nassau County government guide map; street and road index and many advertisements for Long Island businesses. Approx. 10" x 13 1/4" size glossy illustrated covers metal spiral binding. Some edge tips wear and corner chipping to covers contents clean and in good condition. Fourth Edition. Spiral Bound. Very Good. Hagstrom Company paperback books
1869WRCLIT41533London: James Blackwood 1869. viii2764pp. Canary yellow cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Spine and edges rather faded cloth a trifle hand soiled head and toe of spine frayed early ink inscription on endsheet bookplate and later library release stamp occasional light marginal discolorations but a sound copy. First edition of this anonymously compiled biographical dictionary including important contemporary sketches of Rossetti Holman Hunt Millais Brown et al. An important and possibly uncommon book. James Blackwood hardcover books
1844WRCLIT73337New York: Stanford & Swords 1844. vii3319pp. Octavo. Full publisher's plum pebbled morocco gift binding gilt extra a.e.g. Text rather foxed with offset from long ago laid in floral specimen and a few ink spatters in the terminal catalogue; the binding apart from some minimal rubbing at the edges and a bit sunning to the spine is very good or better. Denoted the 12th edition. The binding is unsigned but is highly characteristic of New York gift bindings of the period. Stanford & Swords unknown books
1894305505<p>Oblong octavo 9 5/8" x 6 1/4". 16 pages of plates from photographs accordion style panorama with captions in English German French and Spanish. Original elaborately gilt stamped red cloth later red cloth spine; corners and edges worn. Good. No signatures or bookplates. Numerous views of San Francisco Sausalito etc.</p> [San Francisco? Hergert & Frey?] hardcover books
24428Small quarto. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers printed in light purple stapled. 16 pp. <br/><br/>With synopses of the 9 ballets in the repertory Les Présages Le Beau Danube La Concurrence Scuola di Ballo Le Lac des Cygnes Beach Prince Igor Petrouchka and Nocturne notes the works to be performed each day between August 14th and August 26th principals and soloists and orchestral players listed by instruments. <br/><br/>A printed revised list of works to be performed on a smaller sheet laid in; one work has been crossed out in manuscript with another added in its place. unknown books
184029874Wien: Bureau der Theaterzeitung No. 93 1840. 265 x 210 mm. margins. An elegantly dressed couple in dynamic dance pose.<br/><br/>Somewhat worn foxed stained and creased; very minor loss to extreme upper corners; "2438" in manuscript to blank upper right corner; 190 x 28 mm. paper tape repair to tear to verso; minor annotations in ink to lower right corner of verso. Bureau der Theaterzeitung [No. 93] unknown books
199769342Frankfurt am Main: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science 1997. Hardcover. Fine. 2 vols. 237 xxxv 183 97p. Original red bindings. 24cm. Minor scar on backstrip of Arabic text volume. No Jacket. Islamic Medicine series Volumes 80-81. First volume Arabic text; second volume French translation etc. by Pierre Paul Emile Guignes. Added title-page in Arabic at end. Translation of Part V of the Najm al-Din's "Kitab al-Haouy fy 'ilm it-tadaouy." Reprint limited to 80 copies of the Beyrouth edition of 1902.Reprint limited to 80 copies of the Beyrouth edition of 1902. <br/><br/> Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science hardcover books
18932222201<p>First edition. Octavo. B/W illustrations and maps. Original stiff pictorial wrappers. No dust jacket. Good. 224 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Various advertisements includes Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.</p> Rand, McNally & Company paperback books
1893864301893. 19th Century. photograph - portrait and letter: Phillips Brooks silver gelatin print measures 4" x 5.5". Reverse side of card dates the photograph "Copyrighted 1893 by H G Smith Boston MA." and includes studio's logo. photograph is clean and includes second card with a letter by Brooke a notable Boston preacher dated December 11 1899. Brooke is perhaps best remembered for composing the lyrics to "O Little Town of Bethlehem." and his service as rector of Boston's Trinity Church. unknown books
1869864291869. 19th CENTURY. PHOTOGRAPH OF ADMIRAL D. G. FARRAGUT. 1869. measures 3.5" by 5". photograph originally frontispiece for OUR ADMIRAL'S FLAG ABROAD THE CRUISE OF ADMIRAL D.G. FARRAGUT COMMANDING THE EUROPEAN SQUADRON IN 1867-1868. photograph is clean and sheet shows only minor aging. An interesting specimen. unknown books
191526214USA: Not Published 1915. About 200 pages with scraps pasted in; nearly all are color printed from various sources; the majority of these are of large size many with only one or two items pasted-in to a page side. Including fashionably-attired women advertisements for food and other products - Yeast Foam Sunkist oranges Wilson's ham Sherwood Spring Coaster wagons Jonteel Talc Cream of Wheat Postum Cereal and other businesses; Kewpie dolls; pictures of foods being presented for consumption deliciously tempting pies cakes servings of roast meats and other dishes; also babies & older children at play; portrayals of domestic scenes idealized family life of white middle-class America of the time sometimes depicting black or white servants and with a few postcards tipped in from American locales. Bookseller label at front endpaper of A-M Paris Libro Mayor. Approx. 8" x 11 3/4" size; green & red marbled paper over boards green suede leather spine cover. Some edge tips wear rubbing to the binding; the tops of all pages trimmed as shown in the images; a few leaves with content cut out & removed; some wear and soiling to contents; an interesting varied and colorful curation of scraps of the time in good condition. Scrapbook. Hardcover. Good. Not Published books
190491632NY:: Century Co. Good. 1904. Hardcover. Contains parts of Jack London's THE SEA-WOLF and the concluding parts of Edith Wharton's ITALIAN VILLAS AND THEIR GARDENS which includes five color plates by Maxfield Parrish among many other illustrations. First edition thus. Large thick octavo half bound in burgundy leather raised bands and gilt lettering on the spine marbled boards and endpapers. Shelf worn repaired at the hinges else good. ; 980 pages . Century Co., hardcover books
1845401903New York: Harper & Brothers 1845. Third edition revised. Binding rubbed; foxed/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner M.D. 8vo. 644 pp. Contemporary sheep red morocco lettering-piece. "In 1839 Stewart translated Billard's The Diseases of Children from the French with an appendix of one hundred pages of Stewart's pediatric comments. His own Diseases of Children was first published in 1841. In it pathological anatomy and Laennec's innovation of auscultation were mentioned for the first time in an American pediatric text. About the year 1850 Stewart . originated a plan for the establishment of a hospital for children in New York City. When the institution was opened on March 1 1854 under the name of the New York Nursery and Child's Hospital it was the only hospital on this continent devoted to children. The New York Nursery and Child's Hospital was established for the children of wet nurses who had to neglect their own children in order to nurse the children of their employers" Cone History of American Pediatrics p. 81. Not in Cordasco. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers unknown books
195727822London 1957. Quarto. Wrappers. 72 pp. <br/><br/>With short historical articles synopses of ballets and their productions and repertory list. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white and occasional colour photographs of performers several of which are autographed by their subjects including Margot Fonteyn Svetlana Beriosova Nadia Nerina Maryon Lane and Kenneth Alwyn conductor. unknown books
183917431839. Loose_leaf. Cream paper ink penned. Good. 27 X 22 cm. Register of costs for the ship Flora commanded by Captain Daniel Fitch sailing out of New London Connecticut while docked at a whale-fishery in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Disbursements are recorded by ship agents to inform the ship owners of all the charges the voyage accrues while in port. Expenses include portage pilotage boarding officer's fee and goods purchased for crew - sugar coffee bread black beans and vegetables. Maxwell Wright & Co. was the owner/shipping company that oversaw the operation in Rio while N. & W. W. Billings is listed as the Managing owner or agent in Connecticut according to the Report of Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. Text inked and elegantly penned. Folded with small tears and chips along edges affecting some text. <br/><br/> unknown books
1669EPL40Venice: Niccolò Pezzana 1669. Paperback. Near Fine. Edited by Popes Sextus V and Clemens VIII. Excerpts of chapters usually at beginning of the Prophets Micah Prophecy of Micah Obadiah Obadiah carrying loaves to cave Jonah Jonah preaching and in the Whale Daniel Bathsheba bathing Habakkuk carried by angel Samuel David told of Sauls death Judith Kings losing fingers & slaying of Holofernes Exodus Tribes of Israel & Aaron Acts of the Apostles Christs Ascension & Pentecost Epistle of Peter Peter with keys Apocalypse of John Apocalypse Woman clothed with the sun and Evangelist John writing with Eagle Kings prophetic scene Temple of Jerusalem plans Gospel of Matthew Christ in mandorla beside Aaron and Moses Christ preaching Parable of Sowers and Weeds Esdras building Temple of Zerubbabel Genesis Day 1 of Creation Dinahs defilement Jacobs children Numbers Census Gospel of John Christs resurrection. In total 29 woodcut vignettes historiated initials throughout. Size: 260 x 180mm. <br/><br/> Niccolò Pezzana paperback books
