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188427017Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1884. 226 pages. The material in the reports and papers includes updates from: Ship Island the country's first quarantine station; the Sapelo refuge station; a report on the origin of the yellow fever epidemic in Pensacola Florida in 1882 which is illustrated with a folding architectural plan of medical care facilities along with a Map of Pensacola that shows locations disease spread in red among the neighborhoods with ship names personnel names and various local populace; another folding chart shows ship locations in the harbor and docking facilities at the time. Also reports on New Orleans & Memphis operations; immigrant-inspection services in several large U.S. cities; laws relating the National Board of Health; consular and miscellaneous reports including on cholera in Japan distoma ringeri and parasitical haemoptysis in Hong Kong China; Filaria disease; probabilities of cholera in Europe in Shanghai; the epidemic of typhoid in Liege; treatment of leprosy at Maracaibo; Beri-beri in Ceylon; chemical treatment of sewage in Berlin; and other reports. A folding map offers the General Track of Epidemics in Eastern Asia; another folding map printed in tints shows the course of the epidemics of 1877 & 1879 in Japan and ".the Severity of the Epidemic." compiled by D.B. Simmons M.D.; folding charts printed in red and black track meteorological data during the epidemic and other charts depict filaria data and parasite illustrations. Title page with the small very faint owner name-stamp of collector George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy; in service as a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894. Approx. 6" x 9 1/4"size; bound in the original sober governmental dark brown cloth; bronze-gilt spine titles. Some edge tips wear and dustiness to the boards; contents clean and in very good condition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Government Printing Office hardcover books
13293A "slipper" lamp from the Byzantine period in coarse pink-tan ware with heavy earthen patinas. Plus uncertain Near East likely Late Antique Period 3 Century B.C. to 3 Century AD in reddish terra cotta an amusing figural handle. Handle of a stylized boar with beady eyes straddling the topmost portion of the incise-decorated lid. Lengths: 3" - 3-3/4 unknown books
10582Ancient Lamp from Judea circa 2nd century AD and later. 3" x 2". Lamp has a molded design in discus a sheep among other objects with dark red to brown slip. The lamp is inside a plastic display box with a wooden base. Oil lamps were made of common pottery in the ancient world people did not have much light at nights most homes would contain several oil lamps because olive oil was in abundance and therefore not expensive. There was also an oven that provided a little bit of light but the oil lamps were the main source of light in every home. In excellent condition.<br/><br/>Lamps appear in the Torah and other Jewish sources as a symbol of "lighting" the way for the righteous the wise and for love and other positive values. While fire was often described as being destructive light was given a positive spiritual meaning. The oil lamp and its light were important household items and this may explain their symbolism. Oil lamps were used for many spiritual rituals. unknown books
199422738Nairobi: United Nations Development Programme 1994. 6 19 pages; the resource persons include: Justo Z. Mabenge - Zimbabwe Janet Mutiso - Kenya Sharmala Naidoo - S. Africa Portia Segomelo - Botswana Vusumuzi F. Simelane - Swaziland Krispin Wafula - Kenya Pathias Muhwanga - Zambia; ".attempts to provide broad guidelines to help African countries integrate environmental concerns in their National Development Strategies NDS through appropriate political social and economic structures."; with attempts to ".capture those elements peculiar to Africa."; printed stapled paper wrap covers; little cover wear staple residue; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. United Nations Development Programme Paperback books
198725172East Hampton Long Island NY: Guild Hall Museum 1987. Folding 6 panel brochure for this exhibition; illustrated in color. With text by Judith B. Sneddon & Helen A. Harrison; with a list of their works in this exhibition and titles sizes media and occasional provenance details; the works were from the Phillips Collection and the East Hampton Collections & Guild Hall Museum Collection. Approx. 8 1/2" x 10 7/8" size printed & folded softcover; light wear; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Guild Hall Museum paperback books
200725231Southampton NY: The Parrish Art Museum 2007. 134 2 pages; color black and white illustrations of this exhibition. Foreword by Trudy C. Kramer Alicia G. Longwell; essays by Merrill Falkenberg Erick Fischl John Haskell. Catalog includes details and descriptions of the works sizes titles and media. Approx. 8" x 10" size; printed stiff paper over-wrap over illustrated softcover bound with a cloth spine. Light wear; cover with small spot; in very good condition. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. The Parrish Art Museum paperback books
199725166East Hampton Long Island NY: Guild Hall Museum 1997. 28 pages; catalog for this exhibition; illustrated in color & black and white the installation artworks of Alice Aycock the centerpiece being a large motorized celestially-inspired sculpture. With text by curator Donna Stein; foreword by Henry Korn. With artist biography background to the complex piece. Approx. 8" x 10" size illustrated printed stapled softcover; light wear; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Guild Hall Museum paperback books
1810WRCLIT67042Japan 1810. Folio 33 x 27.5 cm. Late 19th or early 20th century marbled calf raised bands spine gilt extra gilt label a.e.g. with watercolor river scenes on paper onlaid as doublures. Binding extremities rubbed images offset a bit to interleaves occasional patches of darkening to backgrounds of a few images one corner of an interleaf creased and a bit torn but otherwise very good to near fine. A lovely collection of watercolor images on silk of birds moths and butterflies the artist unknown but the paintings executed with great skill. The twenty-two individual panels vary somewhat in size but approximate 24 x 20 cm to 20 x 16cm and each includes several specimens: in the case of the birds 2-4 in the case of the Lepidoptera 5-10. The individual panels are mounted to heavy stock via blue silk bordering. The birds are identified via manuscript captions next to each bird; the Lepidoptera are not captioned. A pencil note on the free endsheet in an early hand dates the paintings somewhat earlier 1700-1750 Shijo School than do those later in its most recent provenance: tipped in unidentified mid-20th century auction description dating the paintings to early 19th century - private collection. hardcover books
190926971Paris France: Compagnie Des Eaux Minerales Economiques 1909. A photograph album composed of 29 heavy cardstock leaves each titled with a French hospital with a mounted photograph of the interns of 1908-09. On the mounts printed below the images are the surname-identification of the new doctors along with a quote from a famous medical personage. Photographic studio not identified aside from the printed notice in the surround of "Cliche Femina." Our research indicates that these albums were produced by the Compagnie des Eaux Minerales. as promotional devices; the cover titles are further personalized and include the name of one of the graduates A Monsieur Corylles actually Coryllos from the Hopital Cochin Paris. Dr. Coryllos 1880-1938 was an eminent thoracic surgeon and pioneer in the use of the mobile field hospital saving lives during military conflicts Every photograph black and white silver gelatin process; approx. 4 ¾" x 6" size is characterized by extraordinary clarity and very professionally taken; several of them presenting the graduating physician's candid expressions of humor - one posing with a monkey on his back another lugging a huge travel-box by a rope over his shoulders many with pet dogs & cats one with what appears to be a monstrous lizard; in another three men sit astride sheep and a goat; other portraits promoting expressions of extreme gravitas. The Hopital Des Enfants Malades with two women identified Mlle. Bouteil and Mme. Debre; the Hopital de la Pitie with Mme. Long; Mlle. Dechaux at Hopital Claude-Bernard Aubervilliers; two of the images from the Hopital Bichat & Hopital Beaujon with unidentified women posed with the groups. The images appear to have been taken on the grounds and building forecourts of these medical establishments including: Hopital Andral & Bastion 27 et 29; Beaujon; Berck Sur-Mer; Hospice de Bicetre; Bichat; Boucicaut; Bretonneau; Broca; Broussais; de la Charite; Claude-Bernard Aubervilliers; Cochin; Cochin Annexe; Maison Dubois; des Infantes Assistes; des Infantes Malades; Herold; Hotel-Dieu; Hospice D'Ivry; Laennec; Lariboisiere; La Maternite; Necker; de la Pitie; Saint-Antoine; Saint-Louis; Hospice de la Salpetriere; Tenon; and Hopital Trousseau. Heavy oblong format covers about 8 pounds shipping weight. Approx. 11" x 14" size; gilt titled green pebbled cloth & leather corners; binding damaged worn spine covering gone; all photographs in very good condition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Compagnie Des Eaux Minerales Economiques hardcover books
2314Orange Smile Syrup Company. Color illustrated cards. Near fine. 22 x 9 cm. Two- sided die-cut color illustrated cardboard. Kinda creepy but cute anthropomorphic Orange man/baby image used by the St. Louis based Orange Smile Syrup Company. Punch hole at top. <br/><br/> Orange Smile Syrup Company unknown books
25301969: Standard Brands Inc. Staplebound. Color illustrated wraps with elastic cord. Very good. Unpaginated. 12 pages 10 x 8 cm. Fully illustrated pamphlet utilizing American soprano Kate Smith known for her rendition of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" - to peddle Chase & Sanborn Instant coffee designed by the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson. A pictorial reprint from an 1898 booklet featuring flags from America's past: The Bunker Hill Flag The Pine tree Flag of The Navy The First National Flag The Bunker Hill Flag The First Union Flag The Colonial Flag The Rattlesnake Flag. Pages lightly toned. <br/><br/> Standard Brands, Inc. paperback books
1711216118London: Printed for Eben Tracy at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge 1711. 1 vols. 12mo. Advertisement leaf laid down as backing of terminal leaf p. 191 with some old paper reinforcements obscuring part of the headline and a few letters. Book is bound in half calf worn with numerous contemporary signatures William Bliss Mary Rotten etc. and pen starts on verso of title and frontispiece. 1 vols. 12mo. Bookseller's Nostrum 'from Chili in America'. Advertisement<br/>There is lately brought from Chili in America a most excellent natural Balsam far exceeding that of Peru and Tokay in curing most Diseases in human Bodies. Tis a Remedy no Man under the Sun can compose as being a most Odoriferous and Natrual Balsam. It cures all Pains proceeding from Cold corroborates the Stomach creates an Appetite and strengthens the whole Body : It is a wonderful Remedy for all internal Sores Bruises Ulcers &c. and mightily helps all Asthmatical Distempers: 'Tis also a great Cephalick helping most Diseases of the Head and strengthening the Brain and Nerves : It kills the Worm provokes Urine and is good against the Stone; helps all Fluxes of the Belly is excellent in all Diseases of the Ears especially Deafness : It also cures all manner of green Wounds.<br/>Not It is only to be had of Eben Tracy at the Three Bibles on London-bridge at 1 S 6 d. the Ounce; the Bottles are Seal'd with the Balsam-tree. Printed for Eben Tracy at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge unknown books
189226913New York New York: Cassell Publishing Company 1892. xiii 417 pages. Black and white illustrated frontispiece & throughout; with color folding "Map Showing M. Bonvalot's Route" in pocket at front approx. 16 1/4" x 20" size. The Translator's Preface notes that ".Starting from the frontiers of Siberia and coming out at the other end of Asia on the coast of the new French colony of Tonquin M. Bonvalot and his companions traversed not only that portion of Thibet which several English travelers such as Dalgleish and Carey and the great Russian Prjevalsky had explored but going beyond the limits which their predecessors had reached forced their way over the table-lands and came out on the other side this journey being one which no European had ever accomplished." Title page with the small somewhat faint previous owner name stamp of collector George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy; he served as a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894. Approx. 7" x 10" size; bound in the original light lavender-purple color illustrated and decoratively gilt-stamped & titled cloth gilt spine titles top edge gilt. A little edge tips wear and rubbing to the binding contents and map clean and in very good condition. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Cassell Publishing Company hardcover books
3892Watercolour and gouache on vellum signed 'Gablle Fontaine'. An exceptionally large scale work by this talented but apparently unrecorded artist probably executed in the 1830s or early 1840s. The composition includes roses bi-colour pinks/carnations morning glory dahlias auriculas flowering quince or prunus hollyhock plums and peaches. In addition a clouded yellow and two red admiral butterflies are shown. unknown books
1774ME1081London:: Printed and Sold at No. 76 Fleet-Street 1774. 1774. 4to. iv xv 1 68 pp. Original full calf gilt spine; neatly rebacked to style preserving original endsheets. Inscribed by an early owner "This Book belonging to Monsieur Pierre Monneron." Extremely rare. This is the first edition in English of the ghazals of Hafez translated by one of the leading Persian orientalists of his day John Richardson FAS of Wadham College Oxford and famous for his seminal work written in conjunction with Sir William Jones the work being A Dictionary Persian Arabic and English 1777. / Hafez was previously unknown to the western world until Count Karl Emerich Reviczky von Revisnye 1737-1793 the Hungarian Orientalist and bibliophile 'discovered' him and brought his poetic classic to Europe with this Vienna printing. The work features an extensive text on Hafez and a translation of selected ghazals . Reviczky von Revisnye also issued in 1784 1794 a catalogue of his Greek and Latin library using the pseudonym of "Periergus Deltophilus". In the prefatory essay for that volume he shows an interest in the printing of Nicolas Jenson Aldus Manutius and the Estiennes. / Hafez was born in Shiraz Persia and lived approximately from 1325/26–1389/1390. He is considered a mystic and poet. His life and poems are the subject of much analysis commentary and interpretation influencing post-fourteenth century Persian writing more than any other author. FULL TITLE: A Specimen of Persian Poetry; or Odes of Hafez With an English Translation and Paraphrase. Chiefly from the Specimen Poeseos Persicae of Baron Revizky Envoy from the Emperor of Germany to the Court of Poland. With Historical and Grammatical Illustrations and a complete Analysis for the assistance of those who wish to study the Persian language. Printed and Sold at No. 76, Fleet-Street, 1774. 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
18301277Providence RI: H.H. Brown 1830. Wraps. Cream wraps. Very good. 27 pages. 22 x 13.5 cm. Historical narration of the Second Baptist Church by Reverend John O. Choules in Newport at the Second Baptist Church beginning with the secession from Dr. Clark's church in Providence 1656 to 1829. In December 1829 the church Deacons voted to thank Reverend Choules and request a copy for press of the sermon preached on Thanksgiving day. Discernible fold at center covers stained interior foxed. Closed tear to head and tail of spine holding well with string binding intact. 4 to 5 corners folded 1 to 2 cm. not affecting text. <br/><br/> H.H. Brown paperback books
188627038Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1886. 4 ad pages xxxii 337 16 blank memoranda pages 8 pages of additional advertisements at back; with a useful index and an appendix with additional travel hints per country. Includes all folding maps per the list provided at the contents: Great Britain - Ireland in front pocket; London in back pocket; Continental Europe Switzerland and Paris all found within the text at their respective chapters. Title page with the small owner name-stamp of collector George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy; in service as a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894. Approx. 4" x 6"size; bound in the original gilt-stamped red full thin leather; spine chipped at edge of title; some edge tips wear and rubbing; loose maps with some browning darkening at folds; contents generally clean and in good condition. Edition for 1886. Leather. Good. Houghton, Mifflin and Company books
188427089New York N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company 1884. xv 832 4 pages of publisher's announcements; a useful index at back. With illustrations in the text as well as plates in pockets at front and back; all collated complete; also included in the pocket contents and not on the printed list is a color-coded "Table of the Geological Formations found in Virginia and West Virginia.with Explanation of Colors as used on the Virginia Sections" - there are 14 different colors used in printing the maps and sections and this 'Table' acts as a color key to all. The text posthumously gathers the reports of William Barton Rogers 1804 - 1882 American geologist and educator whose ".research findings to farming attracted the interests of the Virginia legislature prompting Rogers to lobby for the establishment in 1835 of a Virginian Geological Survey. For this he secured resources and funding by promising economic returns from properly mapping the terrain for future railroad construction locating more fertilizer sources and revealing the existence of valuable mineral deposits. The same year he left Baltimore to become the state geologist and director of the Virginian Geological Survey; he was also appointed professor of natural philosophy and geology at the University of Virginia. His efforts with the Geological Survey from 1835 until 1842 provided the data for his most important geological publicationsDespite his exhaustive efforts after 1837 the Virginia legislature responded to a drop in public revenues by cutting funding and more closely scrutinizing the survey finally terminating support for the project altogether in 1841. Rogers was unable to persuade them to continue funding beyond 1842. As a result few copies of Rogers's six annual reports were printed and a final report was never published. The reports were not even combined into a single publication until Jed Hotchkiss compiled and published them with a map in 1884. .an illustrious career during which he received many honors and awards." including founding and becoming the first president of M.I.T. Trent A. Mitchell in the ANB The map of Virginia and other plates credited to cartographer & engineer Jedidiah Hotchkiss 1828 - 1899 "Mapmaker of the Confederacy." Volume approx. 5 1/2" x 8" size; bound in the original brown cloth gilt spine titles; patterned-paper endpapers. Some edge tips wear to the cover; couple of small foxing-spots on the title; the text plates within the volume darkened stained; plates in the pockets & the map with a little darkening; few clean splits along folds and in very good condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. D. Appleton and Company 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
39899TRADE SAMPLES EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH TEXTILES. A pair of manuscript broadsides or pattern cards of Londrine Seconds swatches. Languedoc France: mid to late 18th century. 24 mounted textile samples on t cards. Important documentation for the historian of textiles all in excellent condition. These two broadsides come from a French manufacturer of Londrine fulled woolen cloth manufactured specially in Languedoc in imitation of West England broadcloths and used in the Levant trade.the Moors always entertai a favorable opinion of English manufactures and the French to humor them g their cloth the name of Londras wishing to make the Moors believe it was manufactured in London." Montgomery Textiles in America 1984. The first is 19 x 13 3/4 inches and titled "Londrine Seconde" and on which ar mounted 12 large colorful swatches 2 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches each with a stock number written in ink. The second is titled "Fabrique Royale de la Bastide Rouge Peyre Londrine Second" same measurements as above with 12 different swatches and stock numbers. Government regulations for premieres Londres and secondes Londres are given i both Savary des Brusions and Diderot. Finer Spanish wool and a greater numbe of threads per inch in the warp accounted for the superior quality of the premiers. Montgomery states that there are letters in the Metropolitan Museu of Art with swatches of Londrina Seconde in bright colors from Carcassone and pattern card with eleven swatches of Londrine Secondes dating from the mid-eighteenth century at Colonial Williamsburg. Montgomery concludes by quoting Arthur Young traveling in France in the late 1780s observed that th "Londrins of which at all these towns I took patterns are a very bright beautiful well-dyed bright cloth that have had deservedly from quality and price the greatest success in the Levant; I saw the wool they are made of a should not have known it from a good specimen from the South Downs of Sussex. The present examples are particularly appealing as the colors are bright and they both have handsome calligraphic titles. Very rare. unknown books
1795312011Philadelphia: by and for Colerick & Hunter 1795. First American Edition. a2 B-Z6 Aa-Kk6 Ll4. 399pp. 12mo 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches. original sheep both boards detached ex libris George Vaux with his signature on pastedown and first leaf of preface. First American Edition. a2 B-Z6 Aa-Kk6 Ll4. 399pp. 12mo 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches. by and for Colerick & Hunter unknown books
18901780London: The Hansard Publishing Union 1890. Wraps. Orig. blue wraps. Good. 20 numbered pages. 18 x 12 cm. Travel Guide - plus 24 pages profusely illustrated advertisements for health pill sanitariums temperance hotels etc. Fold out map attached. Paper wrappers printed in black and blue. Wrappers fragile and worn 1 x 3 cm piece missing a head of cover. Small closed tear to map. <br/><br/> The Hansard Publishing Union paperback books
193478282London: Printed by Order of the Trustees 1934. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. 466p. Original cloth. 25cm. Joints scuffed. Backstrip faded. Contents sound and clean. No Jacket. Persian text introductory material in English. At head of title: British Museum. Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts. <br/><br/> Printed by Order of the Trustees 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
