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186025622Mainz Germany: Joseph Halenza 1860. A view book with 22 blue tissue-guarded black and white engravings executed on heavy paper stock by F. Foltz; or after Von Pauer and Rohmer. Including views of: Heidelberg; Frankfurt am Main; Coblenz detached spotty; Mainz 2 views - one detached & spotty; Biebrich; Wiesbaden; Bingen; Mausethurn & Ehrenfels; Rheinstein; Bacharach; Caub und die Pfalz; Lurleyfelsen; St. Goar; Bad Ems; Stolzenfels; Andernach; Apolinaris-Kirche; Drachenfels Nonnenwerth und Rolandseck; Godesberg; Bonn; Coln. Approx. 9 1/2" x 13" size; oblong format; elaborately decorative embossed & gilt hardcover textured lavender cloth covers. Some of the plates with mostly marginal spotting & foxing and as described above. Binding with some fading to the cloth and contents loosening at the gutter a bit; generally in good condition. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Joseph Halenza books
193024829Pittsburg Pennsylvania: Hachmeister-Lind Chemical Company 1930. 15 pages; illustrated in colors and black and white with the flooring applications of the Halicomp product. Frontispiece of the Canadian factory and general offices in Sarnia Ontario. The product is pictured being used in schools offices hospitals and more with detailed centerfold application specifications. Not dated circa 1930. Approx. 8" x 10 3/4" size color illustrated and printed stapled paper covers. Light wear; in very good condition interesting construction and building product history & advertising & typography layout item. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Hachmeister-Lind Chemical Company paperback books
198924001Westhampton New York: Pride Guides Inc. 1989. 118 pages; illustrated throughout in black and white; table of contents alphabetically organized with antique shops bicycle shops & rentals beaches bowling charter boats community histories for Amagansett Bridgehampton Early East Hampton Wainscott Sag Harbor and the other South Fork locales inns farm stands food places galleries golf courses horseback riding motels museums parks & recreation community organizations petting zoos party boats more; with advertisements for the local purveyors of these services and products; John H. Scheetz publisher; approx. 6" x 9" size; color illustrated softcovers; light wear to the binding; in very good condition and a good reference to the South Fork East End communities from over 25 years ago. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Pride Guides, Inc. Paperback 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
195424777Pittsburg Pennsylvania: Gulf Oil Corporation 1954. 153 pages Gulf advertisements at back. With two useful indexes by geographical sequence and alphabetical by cities. Black and white illustrations throughout of Long Island Sound boating & historical interest with each location having its own small harbor map as well. Contents also include information on U.S. Coast Guard regulations for motor boats stations marine motor fuel taxes the government services for the boat owner tide calendar code flags and storm signals buoyage lights intracoastal waterways telephone stations ship-to-shore distance tables northern ports. Folding color lithograph map in pocket at back approx. 17" x 31 1/2" size; reverse shows various harbors & Brooklyn. Some edge tips wear to spiral-bound illustrated paper covers; contents clean and in very good condition as is the map. First Edition. Spiral Bound. Very Good. Gulf Oil Corporation Paperback books
200534172Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0822942658 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . University of Pittsburgh Press hardcover 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
15465968Venice: Cornelio Adelkind for Daniel Bomberg 1546. First edition. Very Good/First printed edition editio princeps of the 11th century commentary on portions of the pentateuch by the Bulgarian poet and Talmudist Tobiah ben Eliezer. Published by the house of the seminal printer of Hebrew books Daniel Bomberg under the supervision of his scholar-in-residence extraordinaire Cornelio Adelkind. Venetian law at this time limited Hebrew publishing to Gentile printers. Bomberg a protestant from Antwerp entered this lucrative market and with Adelkind's help became its prime exponent until his death in 1549. . Folio 32 cm; 93 leaves. Text in Hebrew. Title within architectural border reproduced in Amram "Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy" p. 215 also in the Jewish Museum's 1989 exhibition catalogue "Gardens and Ghettos: the Art of Jewish Life in Italy" page 50. Some section headings within ornamental borders. Bound in c19 or c20 dark red crushed morocco ruled in gilt and decorated with arabesques on both boards; spine with raised bands and compartments tooled and titled in gilt; green polished leather doublures with red crushed morocco dentelles bordered in pointillé accented with arabesques; green moiré free endleaves. Edges gilt. Binding not signed. Joints and crown adroitly reinforced with Japanese paper; corners somewhat worn down. Occasional contemporary notes in manuscript in text; brief stain on leaf mem-tet and lightly along the bottom edge of leaves nun-bet and nun-gimmel. Text otherwise pristine. Title page light possibly washed. Old library ink stamps from an institution in Warsaw on title page. Red morocco ex-libris of mining magnate and philanthropist Adolph Lewisohn 1849-1938. References: Adams T-766; BM Italian 674; Steinschneider 7304 #1; Amram 215 illustration and 222. Cornelio Adelkind for Daniel Bomberg hardcover books
198825164East Hampton Long Island NY: Guild Hall Museum 1988. 9 pages; catalog for this exhibition; illustrated in black and white. With text by William Zimmer. With titles of works sizes; also with useful exhibition information selected bibliography fellowships exhibitions organized by the artist. Approx. 8" x 10" size oblong format; illustrated stapled softcover; light wear; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Guild Hall Museum paperback books
175727045Venetiis: Laurentium Basilium 1757. 22 536; 591-621 pagination mis-numbered content consecutive 1 pages Catalogus Laurentium Basilium. Frontispiece portrait illustration of the author; woodcut title chapter & tailpiece ornaments. Latin text with occasional Greek. The works of Hermann Boerhaave 1668 - 1738 Dutch physician associated with the Univ. of Leiden; appointed ".the chair of practical medicine and in this capacity he had the merit of introducing the modern system of clinical instruction. Four years later he was appointed also to the chair of chemistry." see Encyc. Brit. 11th ed. Including: Institutiones medicae; Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis; Libellus de materie medica; De lue aphrodisiaca sive venerea; Atrocis nec descripti prius morbi historia; Atrocis rarissimique morbi historia altera; De fabrica glandularum in corpore humano; De mercurio experimenta; Orationes octo; De utilitate explorandorum in aegris excrementorum ut signorum; Introductio in praxin clinicam; Praelectiones de calculo; De distinctione mentis a corpore; Horti Ludguno-Batavi descriptio. Title page with the owner name-stamp of collector George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy; in service as a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894 and with his small number-ticket on front endpaper. Approx. 7 1/4" x 9 1/2" size bound in later 19th century marbled-paper covered boards dark brown leather corners & spine gilt fleuron decorations & titles marbled endpapers. A little edge tips wear and rubbing to the binding; frontispiece illustration laid-down; first few leaves with a few tiny wormholes no loss to text; front endpapers with surface paper scrapes at bottom edges; an ink name below the portrait; block strongly bound; in very good condition. . First Edtion Thus. Leather. Very Good. Laurentium Basilium books
181633472France 1816. 15 watercolors each with an accompanying manuscript text leaf plus watercolor and gold title leaf on sheets approximately 14 1/2 x 11 inches. Contemporary green morocco spine gilt lettered all edges gilt. Boards a bit scuffed edges somewhat worn spine faded. Occasional faint foxing.<br/> <br/>A lovely album of botanical watercolours.<br/> <br/>An exceptional album of fifteen botanical watercolors which are accompanied by an expertly accomplished manuscript description within blue and gilt borders. Each image depicts a different class of plant life while the text describes families of plants within that class. The images range from agarics mushrooms to ornate roses and camellias and include watercolors of honeysuckle blueberries azalias oaks and marvels-of-peru. Every text leaf contains a detailed analysis of the different families of the depicted plant in a neat and legible French hand. A beautiful example of an amateur artist's book of botanical scholarship. unknown books
188225318Sergiyev Posad Russia: I. Efimova 1882. 186 4 pages. Including a double-page color tinted lithograph view of the monastery grounds and architecture; at back is a double-page map-plan giving the geographical position of the monastery and the layout of the grounds within the wider community; a number key with description is on the following pages. Text entirely in Cyrillic describing in a chronology the history of the monastery established by one of the most important Russian Orthodox patron saints of Russia the monk Sergius of Radonezh Saint Vartholomei Kirilovich. With the occasional marginal pencil comment and mark. Approx. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2" size; bound in the original finely pebble-textured dark teal cloth. Edge-wear tips wear-through; spine cloth fraying and loosening at bottom. Remains of old label old sticker with number on front board; no blank free endpapers; a couple of pencil numbers and a pen number and with the stamp of a church library with a central illustration of the same & another rectangular stamp that is partially incomplete throughout. Text generally clean and very good; lithographed plate & the map also in very good condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. I. Efimova hardcover books
197624013Riverhead L.I. New York: No Publisher Noted 1976. 8 pages; black and white printed; history of the founding of the town boundaries early business & resident locations names: Griffin Albertson Osborn more; banking mills river dredging & use Wading River Jamesport LIRR sections on law religions education health; this is the reprint of the article written for the 1876 event not dated and probably re-issued for the US bicentennial circa 1976; approx.5 1/2" x 8 1/2" size; original self-wraps; light wear; in very good condition. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. No Publisher Noted Paperback books
191226627New York N.Y.: John Lane Co. 1912. 12 pages; color illustrated covers and several additional illustrations within including a double-page centerfold for Pujol by William J. Locke. Contents with sections on history and biography; miscellaneous books which includes sub-section titles in travel drama and verse; also new novels; art and architecture; each title with a paragraph of description along with bibliographical data about illustrations size of book pricing and also shipping costs. Approx. 7 1/2" x 11" size; stapled illustrated paper covers. A little edge tips wear; old fold line at center; in very good condition and with useful bibliographic publishing & printing information regarding these John Day Co. publications. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. John Lane Co. paperback books
1885WRCLIT66997New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1885. Quarto. Publisher's mauve cloth heavily decorated in gilt and blind untrimmed. Plates and illustrations. Minor speckling to the cloth sizing at the extreme foretips some foxing early and late and occasionally to a few margins of plates institutional bookplate on pastedown otherwise about fine and bright in faintly hand-smudged printed dust jacket with some offsetting to the lower panel from the rather battered publisher's box. The "Zuyder-Zee Edition" limited to 600 numbered copies of which this is one of 250 copies on untrimmed Linen paper. However this copy is at variance with the colophon in that it is accompanied by the extra suite of ten mounted etchings specially printed on satin that was to accompany the first 25 copies rather than the two sets of ordinary impressions associated with this middle issue. The corners of the mats are a bit bumped and worn and one of the etchings is a bit foxed otherwise the suite is in very good order in the chipped remnants of the original printed paper wrapper also bearing a bookplate. This deluxe edition features original etchings some in Japon proof state by and photogravures after the likes of Pennell Gifford Vanderhoof Colman et al. The jacket is not among those selected examples of 19th century jackets cited by Tanselle. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
19201595Morton Illinois: Getz Power Washer Co. c.1920. Paper. Folded color illustrated pamphlet. Very good. Color illustrated advertisement for washer/ringer. Before the enclosed electric washing machines homemakers battled the dangerous washing tub/wringer device. This particular porcelain model claims to be "Silent as a kitten's purr" with "quick action.churning up millions of soap bubbles that are forced through every mesh of the fabric." 1 cm. rubbed spot on front cover. <br/><br/> Getz Power Washer Co. unknown books
1744D4448France 1744. Hardcover. Very Good. Manuscript book on paper in French. c.1744. 8vo 166 x 106mm. 8 355pp. written in brown ink in a clear humanist script with some calligraphic aspects between framed pages in a single column of approximately 28 lines headings in Roman majuscules. With 89 full-page diagrams and technical illustrations of sundial construction and usage and other supporting images three are on plates and two of which are folding at rear. Contemporary mottled calf spine gilt in compartments labeled Gnomonique on gilt red morocco lettering piece marbled endpapers & edges; edges uniformly toned occasional stains; expertly rebacked preserving the original spine somewhat worn. Full contents listed on first 6 pages for this expertly executed and comprehensive compendium on the sundial. The objective of this manual is to enable the 18th century audience to understand the operating principle of sundials by describing the construction and manipulation of different forms of sundials including the planet-sundial moon-clock celestial houses-clock polar-clock ancient Babylonian and Jewish clocks as well as the construction of quadrants and astronomical tables. The suns position in the sky has always been an obvious means to keep track of time. The use of shadows of sticks cast by the sun were a natural means of indicating the time of day by the direction of the shadow and the time of year by its length. Although town squares began constructing clocks beginning somewhere in the 14th century sundials remained in the picture well into the 18th century. Mechanical clocks were expensive and could be found only in the most noble of homes. They were also more of a curiosity at first; most people still used their sundials or just estimated the time of day by the height of the sun in the sky. In 1777 when the French General Lafayette wanted to express his admiration for his ally and friend General George Washington during the American Revolution he chose a silver Explorer sundial as his gift. But by the close of the 18th century clocks and watches began to supersede sundials. They had one huge advantage- they worked all day long and were not dependent on weather. However they were also notoriously unreliable- telling time only approximately within an hour and needing to be reset frequently of course with the help of a sundial. Although the work of this study is anonymous an ownership entry at the foot of the title helps to date the work: Hic est Thorridon Rectoris Laurentii Moussault 1744. This wide-ranging study of the sundial appears at a time when the mechanical clock was on its way into popular fashion. A unique scholarly work that may well be one of the last close studies of such an ancient and important time-telling tool. <br/><br/> hardcover books
198925183East Hampton Long Island NY: Guild Hall Museum 1989. Folding 4 panel brochure; illustrated in black and white with a portrait of Ms. Grace Glueck art news editor the New York Times who was the moderator of this discussion at Guild Hall which also included Elaine Dannheisser Larry Gagosian Anthony Grant Thomas M. Messer and Larry Rivers. Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" size illustrated & folded softcover; light wear; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Guild Hall Museum paperback books
201223880New York NY: Jonathan Foster Studio 2012. 42 pages; a monograph via photography of the Noyac House designed by Jonathan S. Foster; with a short introductory text regarding its development design purpose and progress; approx. 6 3/4" square size; glossy photo-illustrated softcover paper wrap covers; light wear; in very good condition. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Jonathan Foster Studio Paperback books
19422225New York: The Twentieth Century Fund 1942. xxviii 986p. tables first printing very good condition in a worn and chipped dj. The Twentieth Century Fund unknown 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
198024677Cuba: Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba UNEAC 1980. Poster in colors text in Spanish. Approx. 17 3/4" x 26 3/4" size; in very good condition. Poster. Not Bound. Very Good. Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba UNEAC Paperback books
188926938Osaka Japan: Aoki Szandow 1889. C. 120 pages; most of which have an illustration and sometimes two. Text in Japanese; titles given in English. Colin Franklin in 'Exploring Japanese Books and Scrolls' calls these publications an "appealing series of guides As travel within Japan had been restricted for three centuries and travel abroad forbidden these represented the new freedom. They combine charm with taste and a fine vagueness about that obsession of modern publishers "the market." As book-production they jump into more popular format with color-printed pictures over boards to bind themwith English captions erratic and fearless the many hundred illustrations which adorn the Japanese text.were they for the tour-guide to show his visitor - or in the world for Japanese travelers to show their guides Neither of these perhaps just a venture over the border into Western habit. They are excellent little books to leaf throughTechnically too they joined West with East. A new method was used for illustration: relief metal-cut like white-line wood engraving - Bewick's technique - difficult and delicate to manage practical in Japan for just a few years in the last quarter of the century. Paper suitable for such fine-line reproduction smooth machine-made was folded at the fore-edges in the traditional Japanese way. End-leaves and all edges were marbled an innovation for which as has been mentioned these books are now admired by collectors in JapanThey providetempting glimpses of all manner of scene and aspect of life on the eve of change" This is one volume of the 7-volume series. Approx. 4" x 6" size; bound in illustrated paper covered boards; cloth spine marbled endpapers all edges marbled. Some edge tips wear to the binding; contents in very good condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Aoki Szandow hardcover books
196824939Knightsbridge Hamilton Ohio: Champion Papers Inc. 1968. Illustrated in color and black and white this issue's theme is the city people & history of San Francisco California in illustration literature and lore. Presented using a variety of Champion Papers for printing colored illustrations maps views photographs of San Francisco locales personages sports examples of old invoices restaurants theatre promotions the graphic signage of San Francisco; all California-themed idea graphics. Concept and creative direction by Needham Harper & Steers Inc. With various printing techniques plates & more. All papers and processes used carefully identified and listed for each item. Approx. 10 1/8" x 11 3/4" size heavy paper stock illustrated spiral-bound covers; a little edge-wear & darkening to the covers; contents clean and in very good condition. . First Edition. Spiral Bound. Very Good. Champion Papers Inc. paperback books
196525605Knightsbridge Hamilton Ohio: Champion Papers Inc. 1965. Illustrated in color and black and white this issue's theme is centered around "Fire". Presented using a variety of Kromekote gloss Champion Papers for printing colored illustrations with an example of a giant printed matchbook cover a die-cut menu and items relating to the celebration of a NY fire department's centennial. Also with examples of printed fire prevention items embossed packaging ideas a model of a FDNY super pumper truck and more. The concept and creative direction was by Needham Louis and Brorby Inc. With examples of printing embossing and die-cut techniques folding plates & more. All papers and processes used are carefully identified and listed for each item. Approx. 10 1/8" x 11 3/4" size heavy paper stock illustrated spiral-bound covers; a little edge-wear & soiling; contents clean and in very good condition. . First Edition. Spiral Bound. Very Good. Champion Papers Inc. paperback books
