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004715Tours: L. Pericat 1897. First American. Poor/No Dust Jacket as Issued. Original Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 110 pp. Includes celebratory poem by Sully Prudhomme. Very rough. Rare. Tours: L. Pericat, 1897 unknown books
20031327464Philadelphia: Running Press 2003. Hardcover. Quarto; VG-/VG-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine black with white print; DJ has slight edgewear small smudge on rear else clean and bright; Boards in black cloth with gold print light wear to corners and spine caps slight blemish on rear else clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; 257 pages illustrated color. <br /> <br /> NOTE: Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. 1327464. FP New Rockville Stock. Running Press hardcover books
2007140955New York: Rizzoli 2007. Hardcover. VG- No dust jacket; otherwise perfect. Blue paper boards illus. flyleaves 208 pp. many color illus. "Showcases the best cozy dwellings in popular seasonal destinations-from the mountains in Virginia and North Carolina to Florida's Panhandle shores and the coast and islands of South Carolina Georgia Virginia and Louisiana." publisher. Rizzoli hardcover 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
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
195034134Philadelphia: Original published by William Smith 1950. Hand-coloured engraving engraved by Murray Draper Fairman & Co. Beautifully printed in the mid 20th-century from the original 19th-century copper plate with wide margins on hand-made paper. The Battle of Lake Erie was the first naval engagement of the War of 1812. The British had gained control of the lake in August 1812 when General Hull surrendered at Detroit. Among those captured was a master ship-builder from Erie Pa. named David Dobbins. After his release from custody Dobbins went to Washington and persuaded the U.S. Government to literally build a naval fleet on Lake Erie in order to challenge the British for its control. Dobbins then went immediately to Erie and rapidly constructed six ships. Meanwhile five more ships were sailed to Erie making a fleet of eleven. In September 1813 Oliver Hazard Perry took command of nine of these ships and set off to engage the British fleet which was captured after three hours of fierce battle; whereupon Perry sent his historic message: "We have met the enemy and they are ours." In May 1814 Commander Perry wrote approvingly to the publishers about the accuracy of this print: "I have no hesitation in pronouncing them a correct representation of the engagement at those particular moments."<br/> <br/>Stauffer American Engravers Upon Copper and Steel 2288; Grolier The United States Navy 1776-1815 121; Olds Bits and Pieces of American History 241. Original published by William Smith unknown books
20102309809New York: William Morrow 2010. Movie Tie-In Edition. Movie Tie-In Edition. Near Fine. Movie tie-in edition. Bottom corner of front wrapper creased. 2010 Trade Paperback. xii 340 pp. The Untold Story Behind the Miracle on the Hudson. "Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood starring Tom Hanks William Morrow unknown books
19901341481Gordon: Primrose Sully 1990. Hardcover. Quarto; VG-/VG-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine white with black print; DJ has slight edgewear but is clean and bright; Boards in blue cloth with white print slight wear to spine caps else clean and strong; Text block has embossed owner stamp on front flyleaf else clean and tight; 141 pages illustrated b&w color. <br /> <br /> Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. 1341481. FP New Rockville Stock. Primrose Sully hardcover books
20191330734New York: Rizzoli 2019. Hardcover. Octavo; VG/VG; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine white with pink print; DJ is clean and bright; Boards in pink paper clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; 207 pages frontispiece illustrated color. 1330734. FP New Rockville Stock. Rizzoli hardcover books
2001300408New York: Rizzoli 2001. hardcover. fine/fine. Many color photographic illustrations by Steven Brooke. Square 4to black cloth d.w. New York: Rizzoli 2001. First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Rizzoli unknown books
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
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
1974Embry 183732American West 1974. First edition first printing. Fine in very good lightly worn dust jacket in mylar cover. American West, 1974. First edition, first printing. unknown books
19741970Palo Alto: American West Publishing Co. 1974 First edition. Foreword by Ray Allen Billington. 255pp. Numerous text illustrations from the author's paintings portraits and drawings; maps facsimiles. Notes bibliography and index. Brown cloth gilt. A very fine copy with printed dust jacket. This work draws primarily from Alfred Sully's letters and is richly illustrated from his paintings and drawings. A West Point graduate he served in California after the Mexican War in the Minnesota and Nebraska Territories in the East during the Civil War and back to the Plains for his final campaign against the Sioux and Cheyenne in 1863-65. This work offers a unique view of the West and particularly of early California. Western art collectors avidly seek this work because of its reproductions of Sully's paintings and drawings. American West Publishing Co. hardcover books
197419953Palo Alto: American West Publishing Co 1974. 1st edition. Brown linen cloth binding. Dust jacket. VG poi to ffep/bpt to front paste-down/VG some minor wear & age toning. 255 pp including index. Illustrated with plates & maps. 8vo. <br/><br/> American West Publishing Co hardcover books
197436518Palo Alto: American West Publishing Company 1974. 1st edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. NF/VG some soiling/sticker shadow to front panel/pc. 255 1 pp including Index. Illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/> American West Publishing Company hardcover books
1778WRCAM47211Londres but actually Paris 1778. Eight volumes with frontispiece portrait in first volume. 12mo. Contemporary calf spines gilt. Spines very chipped and worn hinges cracked. Boards crudely repaired at some corners and edges. Bookplate of James Monroe in front of each volume. Some foxing and dampstaining but generally clean internally. A good solid set with an impeccable provenance. In two black half morocco boxes. James Monroe's copy of Sully's MÉMOIRES which is in fact a very free adaptation by "M.L.D.L.D.L." i.e. Pierre Mathurin de L'Ecluse des Loges. Jefferson and Madison both considered this book required reading for American statesmen. It was included in the list of books that Madison prepared for Congress in 1783 and was "usually included in Jefferson's lists of recommended reading" Sowerby. Jefferson owned a copy of this same edition one of several 18th-century reprints of a work first published in 1638 recounting the nation-building of a great French statesman. Jefferson's copy acquired in 1788 was present when his library was acquired by the Library of Congress in 1815. <br> <br> James Monroe and Thomas Jefferson who was fifteen years Monroe's senior enjoyed a lifelong friendship from the time Monroe began his law studies with Jefferson in 1780. Both were Francophiles and in that regard Monroe may well have surpassed his mentor. A United States minister to France from 1794 to 1796 Monroe championed the French in defiance of his mandate to promote neutrality. No doubt he embraced French history and culture with a similar though less dangerous zeal. This set of books was quite likely one of many works that Monroe acquired during his years in France 1794-97 and 1803. In fact Monroe began acquiring French books as early as 1784 when Jefferson sold him twenty-five duplicate French titles; the list preserved in the Jefferson Papers does not however include a copy of Sully. According to the catalogue of Monroe's library reconstructed in 1967 by Gordon W. Jones French books comprised nearly one- third of Monroe's library which according to Monroe's own estimate approached nearly 3000 volumes. Based on Monroe's own manuscript catalogue the library sold at auction in 1849 and a small group of books retained by his descendants Jones was able to identify a total of some 450 titles many in multiple volumes - enough to suggest that Monroe's estimate was not exaggerated. <br> <br> Only a tiny portion of Monroe's extensive library has been preserved intact and copies from the library rarely turn up on the market. As of 1967 the Monroe Memorial Library in Fredericksburg housed some twenty- eight titles in fifty volumes. These are known to have belonged to Monroe because they descended through the family; most according to Jones do not have Monroe's bookplate. Only two other books belonging to Monroe are located by Jones both in the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia. Doubtless other works are scattered throughout various other public and private collections but the general lack of a bookplate makes these nearly impossible to identify. <br> <br> All of which makes this 18th-century edition of a classic French historical text complete with Monroe's bookplate in all eight volumes a welcome artifact that exemplifies Monroe's library and evokes Thomas Jefferson's early influence on James Monroe as a book collector and recalls the future president's experience as a young diplomat in the service of an infant republic. <br> <br> Several books from Monroe's library have appeared recently at auction. His copy of Necker's DE L'ADMINISTRATION DES FINANCES DE LA FRANCE 1784 complete in three volumes with his bookplate sold for $18750 at Christie Dec. 3 2007 while a single volume of a seven-volume set of Linnaeus also with his bookplate sold for $12500 at Christie's on June 12 2008. In the December 2007 sale Jefferson's set of this same edition of Sully sold for $43000. Gordon W. Jones THE LIBRARY OF JAMES MONROE Charlottesville 1967 p.59 listing this copy of Sully as item 168 in Monroe's manuscript catalogue. SOWERBY JEFFERSON'S LIBRARY 199. ESTC T143312. hardcover books
1638182049Amstelredam.: Alethinosgraphe de Clearetimelee & Graphexechon de Pistariste. No date but C 1638. Contemporary full mottled calf raised bands gilt spine decorations marbled edges. Good corners bumped spine ends worn title pages and a few other sheets browned light dampstains affecting mostly the margins very little foxing a good copy in a nice contemporary binding. . folio. French text. 2 engraved and hand colored title page devices showing three virtues and a crown of amaranth. Alethinosgraphe de Clearetimelee & Graphexechon de Pistariste. hardcover 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
177851492London: Printed for J. Rivington and Sons et al 1778. A New Edition." Five octavo volumes. Modern half-calf over marbled boards with printed linen spine labels; two portraits; folding map; pp. xxxiii414 viii399 vii416 ix473 vi226270 = Index. Complete Very Good or better set in a presentable if somewhat plain 20th-century binding. Occasional marginal foxing to text but generally a clean well-preserved set. Blind-embossed ex-libris of the Metropolitan Club Washington DC to each title page.<br/><br/>The dedication is signed by the translator Charlotte Lennox but is said to have been in fact written by Samuel Johnson Cf. Hazen Samuel Johnson's Prefaces & Dedications New Haven 1937. The map inserted before text in v.II is A New and Accurate Map of France for Sully's Memoirs by Thomas Kitchin. The engraved portrait of Bethune is after P.P. Rubens. Printed for J. Rivington and Sons (et al) unknown books
176323297London: printed for A. Millar et al. 1763. 6 volumes 12mo 2 engraved portraits and a folding map in vol. I; full contemporary calf gilt-decorated spines maroon morocco labels; spines a bit soiled front hinge on vol. 1 cracked small chip from the bottom of the spine on vol. 6 but generally good and sound or better. Translated by Charlotte Lennox and first published in quarto 1756. <br/><br/> printed for A. Millar [et al.] unknown books
175255941a Geneve: Chez Barrillot & Fils 1752. Nouvelle Edition revûe & corrigée. 8 vols. 12mo. Contemporary calf gilt spines tan and green title labels. Bookplate. Nouvelle Edition revûe & corrigée. 8 vols. 12mo. " Sully 1560-1641 was an agrarian in the fullest sense of the term. He believed that cattle breeding and agriculture constituted the only true wealth of France. He therefore encouraged land clearing undertook irrigation projects and constructed roads and canals. His principal work was concerned with financial administration. He reconstructed an administration which had been dislocated by 30 yrs of civil war. He established a rigorous control. The economy realized in the reduction of the public debt and in the correction of abuses served to provide for the protection of the national frontiers and to furnish the army with an effective artillery" Encyclopdia of Social Sciences Volumes 13/14 p. 460. Chez Barrillot & Fils unknown books
17884152Liege: Chez F. J. Desoer 1788. 10 vols. bound in 5. Engraved frontis. portrait in Vols. I & X. Woodcut vignettes on titles. 19th cent. vellum over marbled boards maroon calf labels. Ex-library set with college library rubber stamp on blank preliminaries. Traces of removed bookplates; paper spine numbering labels removed leaving some discoloration. Chez F. J. Desoer 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
1775263037Amsterdam: Chez tous les Libraires de Paris & du Royaume 1775. hardcover. very good. Small vignette with NB initials on titles and several other engraved headpieces throughout. XLVIII 180 188; 4 181-304 189-442 pages. 2 volumes 8vo bound in full contemporary brown calf; simple gilt-ruled spines with black leather labels worn at ends and with small ex-library tickets affixed; marbled endpapers. Amsterdam: Chez tous les Libraires de Paris & du Royaume 1775. Nouvelle edition par M. l'Abbe Baudeau. A very good copy clean and tight. Scarce - OCLC lists only 7 copies.<br/><br/> Each volume is in two separately paged sections numbered continuously between volumes: Memoires 304 pages; Observations 442 pages.<br/><br/> Chez tous les Libraires de Paris & du Royaume unknown books