8 résultats
1810WRCAM5934Boston 1810. 12pp. Stitched as issued. Two large stenciled numbers on titlepage minor soiling. Very good. Attacks the Administration's foreign policy. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 21441. unknown books
188548109Chicago: A. N. Marquis & Company 1885. 1st Edition in English. Original publisher's maroon cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine & front board. Square & tight. Spine sunned. Top edge a bit soiled. Withal a solid VG copy. xxiii 1 blank 292 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/>Contents include: The faculties of the infant before birth -- The first impressions of the new-born child -- Motor activity at the beginning of life -- Motor activity at six months -- Motor activity at fifteen months -- Instructive and emotional sensations -- General and special instincts -- Special instincts -- The sentiments -- Intellectual tendencies -- Veracity -- Imitation -- Credulity -- The will -- The faculties of intellectual acquisition and retention: Attention; Memory -- The association of physical states: Association; Imagination; Special imagination -- On the elaboration of ideas: Judgment; Abstraction ; Comparison ; Generalization ; Reasoning; The errors and illusions of children ; Errors owing to moral causes -- On expression and language -- The aesthetic sense in little children" The musical sense ; The sense of material beauty ; The constructive instinct ; The dramatic instinct -- Personality-reflection-moral sense -- The moral sense. A. N. Marquis & Company hardcover books
188324980Paris: Germer Baillère 1883. First edition in French 8vo pp. 8 264 32 ads; spine a little faded else a good sound copy in orig. purple cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. The anonymous translation of Illusions: A Psychological Study was done by Henri Bergson 1859-1941 one of the most famous and influential French philosophers of the late 19th century and early 20th century and who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927; this constitutes his first work published in book form. Issued as no. 42 in the publisher's Bibliothèque scientifique internationale series. <br/><br/> Germer Baillère hardcover books
1848WRCAM45243Philadelphia 1848. 1p. plus integral blank leaf. Quarto on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Minor soiling. Very good. Letter written by American artist Thomas Sully to one John Zellay asking that he receive two cases on Sully's behalf until such time as he could claim them hopefully by the end of the month. Thomas Sully 1783- 1872 emigrated from England at the age of nine and grew up in Charleston. He learned painting from his brother Lawrence whose widow he subsequently married and from his brother-in-law Jean Belzons. He later studied with Benjamin West in London. He moved to various locations settling in Philadelphia in 1808 where he quickly became its leading portrait painter a position he held until his death. unknown books
1810297949London: William Miller 1810. hardcover. very good. 5 volumes. Frontispiece copperplate portraits in each volume some browning offset from the frontispieces. 8vo 1/2 brown morocco marbled boards all volumes are worn and crackled on the spines hinges on volume 3 are reinforced and spine is faded. London: William Miller 1810. Very good.<br/><br/> William Miller unknown books
184643653Charleston 1846. One page. 1 vols. 4to. Old folds else fine. One page. 1 vols. 4to. To Caroline Howard Gilman on Reading "Southern Matron" Interesting association between the American painter and one of the most popular of America's women authors of the 19th century Caroline Gilman 1794-1888 author of the immensely popular Southern novel Recollections of a Southern Matron 1838.<br/><br/>" . I have been delighted and profited by reading your 'Southern Matron.' The interesting story and episodes are the means of giving a full display of Southern manners and customs . / Sincerely your friend / and obedient servant / Thos Sully. unknown books
1870001641no place: Not published 1870. Book. Very good condition. Unbound. Signed by Authors. No edition stated. Octavo 8vo. A note written and signed by Thomas Sully. Addressed to Henry S. Randall Esq. it reads "Dear Sir. It will give me great pleasure to recieve sic the "History of New York" published by the Legislature of the State which you have kindly proffered me. Please send by Adams' Express to my address -- No. 11 South 5th St. or to W. Pennington Book seller No. 10 South 5th. Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servany signed Tho Sully." The folded into approximate sixths note measures 5 and 3/8 inches tall by 8 inches wide. Three small old archival mount remnants on the reverse of the document. In very good plus condition without any stains or smudging. Thomas Sully lived 1783 to 1872. He was born in England and moved to the United States as a boy. Studied with his brother Lawrence died 1803 opened a studio in New York 1806 and Philadelphia 1808. Known to have painted more than 2600 works. Among his best known are "Washington Crossing the Delaware" "Marquis de Lafayette" and "Jefferson Madison Jackson.". No date listed; circa 1870. Not published Paperback books
1819291640Edinburgh: Stirling 1819. hardcover. very good. 5 volumes. Frontispiece copperplate portraits in each volume. 8vo full contemporary brown crushed morocco ornately gilt spines marbled page edges. Hinges on volume 1 and 5 reinforced. Edinburgh: Printed For Stirling and Slade And Archibald Constable. 1819. A New Edition Carefully Revised. First published in English in 1756 this is the first edition with the appendix. A handsome set.<br/><br/> Stirling unknown books