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417 pages. Index. Appendices. Footnotes. List of sixty black and white illustrations. A rare surviving copy of this important reference, made all the more engaging by today's environment of competing fiat currency devaluations. "Hitherto Numismatists when stydying the Origines of Coinage had confined themselves to the materials presented to them in the earliest money of Lydia, Greece and Italy, and on the other hand the Metrologists had almost completely limited their range of observation to the systems of Babylon, Egypt, Greece and Rome. As the Comparative Method has yielded such excellent results in the study of other human institutions, I have endeavoured by its aid to get some new principles which may throw some fresh light on the first beginnings of monetary and weight systems." - from Preface. Attractive gilt decoration upon green front board. Legible gilt lettering upon backstrip. Average external soiling and wear. Several chips from and lengthy openings along backstrip which has become brittle with age. Narrow opening along most of front hinge. Back hinge open. Bookplate discretely removed inside front board. Unmarked. A tender but worthy copy. Book
P., Firmin Didot, 1818. Deux volumes in-4 reliés demi basane (reliure d'époque), dos longs ornés, plats de papier vert, coins vélin, gardes blanches, tranches mouchetées, frontispice (armoiries des Etats de Languedoc)-XIX-584 pages-5 cartes et plans dépliants ; frontispice (armoiries de Carcassonne, Narbonne, Castelnaudary et Limoux)-VIII-carte en couleur dépliante du département de l'Aude-679 pages-5 plans et cartes. Carte du Canal des Deux Mers sous les murs de Carcassonne, plan et élévation du pont de Marengo, plan et élévation du pont aqueduc de Fresquel,carte du canal et de la Robine de Narbonne, tableau synoptique du Canal du Midi ; Vue de Carcassonne, plan de l'ancienne cité de Carcassonne, vue de Castelnaudary, vue de Narbonne romaine, vue de Narbonne. Quelques frottements sur les plats, un début de fente à un mors inférieur au tome 1. Bel et agréable exemplaire dans sa reliure d'époque. L'ascension de C-J. Trouvé est tout d'abord liée à l'Empire, dont il sera baron en 1809, puis sa carrière se poursuit sous la Restauration avec Charles X. Il a été préfet de l'Aude de 1803 à 1816. En 1807 il organise un important recensement de la population et de l'agriculture puis des enquêtes sur l'industrie et l'enseignement . Son ouvrage donne un large panorama du département tant du point de vue de la population que des activités, de l'enseignement, des contributions.
Cádiz, en la Real de Marina, y Real Audiencia de Contratación de D. Manuel Espinosa de los Monteros, 1762, 20,5 x 14,5 cm., piel de época, lomo cuajado, 158 págs., incluso varias figuras intercaladas y dos grabados xilográficos de una nave al comienzo de cada parte. (Ejemplar con taladro de insecto marginal en 19 hojas, sin afectar al texto. El nombre del autor de esta obra figura al fin de la última hoja).
Very Good Turkish Original working fisches, notes, their envelopes and trimmed advertisements collection (most of ads. are photocopy). Some of them are unpublished, some is used for his articles and his book 'From Pera to Beyoglu' as sources. Apprx. 350 papers in 3 modern files. Selected contents: (All notes contains 1840-1950 years). Restaurants of Istanbul in the 19th and early 20th centuries, food types, their menus, prices, discount days, special programs, their chefs and managers; hotels, accommodation prices; music shops and their owners and founders; buildings, architects; patisseries; cinemas, their history, matinees of the movies, ticket prices; every non-Muslim shops and tradesmen of Pera; their old and new addresses; booksellers, antique shops; and everything on social life of Pera - Galata area which are shedding light on the social history of Istanbul in its period like that first coming of circus, fires... The notes mostly have sources with their abbreviations and sources are some journals, periodicals in its period and selections from literature.
42 volumes, orig. uniform cloth. "The aim of this series is to provide access to contemporary sources for the history of English publishing and bookselling, including controversy over copyright legislation and freedom of the press, from the Restoration through the early nineteenth century. To this end, we have gathered from libraries in Great Britain and the United States a comprehensive working collection of pamphlets, broadsides and memoirs, amounting to 156 individual titles, reprinted in forty-two volumes".?Introduction.
The board (300 x 320 mm) features four examples of spines (230 x 45 mm), the whole backed with marbled paper to represent the endpapers (corners rubbed), at the head of the board is a large black morocco label with a gilt boarder entitled "Specimens of Bookbindings", plus three additional separate models of spines. This has the appearance of being dated to the 1890's with the titles on the dummy samples being of Dickens novels and periodicals (i.e. Strand Magazine, Sunday at Home, etc.). However, the sample "Stand Magazine" is lettered Jan.-June 1921.
In-4°; pp. (4), 144, bianca F12; al frontespizio incisione su legno con il leone veneziano; con frontespizio proprio con il medesimo legno seguono da p. 117: “Terminazione degl’illustrissimi ed eccell. deputati ed aggionti alla regolazione del commercio e cinqe savi della mercanzia in proposito delle bollette d’uscida”, p. 131: “Obblighi ed incombenze del ragionato appuntadore nella dogana da mar volgarmente detta nuovo stallaggio; approvati dall’eccell. Senato 1761” dove l’ultimo decreto è datato 1780. Bell’esemplare in cartonato rustico coevo. Ex libris papadopoli. Interessante per la grande quantità di merci elencate tra cui anche “libri a a stampa e vecchi usati”, quadri di pittura antica e nuova”, e le mercanzie provenienti dal Levante, ma anche da Bosnia, Erzegovina, Albania.
Barcelona, Fototipia y Encuadernación Henrich y Cía y Tipografía La Academia, 1902-1906, 3 tomos, 33 x 26 cm., piel editorial repujada y con escudo de España y título dorado, lomos con adornos, bellas hojas de guarda, dos tomos con los cortes dorados y el 3º con los cortes pintados en rojo, 91 + 80 + 61 págs. en papel recio satinado, casi todas las páginas con anuncios en colores a toda o media página y con fotografías y descripciones de ciudades españolas y algunas de América, África y Europa. (Obra rara de encontrar completa con sus tres tomos. El Catálogo Colectivo solo recoge un ejemplar existente del Tomo III en la Biblioteca del Centro Cultural de los Ejércitos, Madrid. Leves desgarros en la esquina inferior derecha del plano superior y leves desgarros en el plano posterior, todo ello en el Tomo I).
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Great cover photo of Duncan operating room; Several photos of new interior plant equipment at Duncan; Sensational 9-page feature on Duncan and district with great photos of the area including Duncan Station, Maple Bay, Genoa Bay, and an aerial view; Fire deprives downtown Vancouver of service - photos and text; Grand Forks office and staff; Table showing "Exchanges in order of Per Cent Good Calls Out"; Statement of Development as of 1 January 1924 showing number of phones per community; Cover photo of steamer Jacques Cartier; Nice full-page showing two views of Vancouver Harbour with many ships in port; 7 page feature on the Port of Vancouver with several great photos; Possibilities of both radio and wire telephony; Exchanges in order of percent good out calls; Excellent full-page photo of Ballantyne pier, Burrard Inlet; Take advantage of company's new savings plan; Fine addition to shipping facilities on Burrard Inlet - Ballantyne Pier - 5 great photos with text; Greater Vancouver will benefit by reduced telephone rate; Repair shop has greatly expanded in recent years - 6 pages with nice photos; nice full-page photo of the Empress of Australia in port; Greater Vancouver Inter-Exchange Telephone Service; Fold-out map of Vancouver area exchanges, complet with great statistics; Telephone extenstion to Campbell River; 8 page feature on the flow of commerce through Canada's western port with many absolutely smashing photos; Cover photo of Glenburn office; 6-page feature on the B.C. Herring fishery with excellent photos (re: sea lions, contains the following quote "The government is undertaking to greatly lessen the numbers of this prey animal"); archival photo of laying the first underground cable in Vancouver; Statement of Development - # of phones operating in each community; Cover photo of Milner office; photo mosaic of 5 lower valley exchange offices; Wonderful 8 page feature on the great supply district (i.e. the lower Fraser Valley) of BC coastal cities - excellent photos including a shot of the only remaining original Hudson's Bay Company building at Langley; New Gordon Head Exchange cut over; New Point Grey office under way; new observation office aids efficiency; Electrical Communication Development; Full-page photo of sailors from the battleship H.M.S. Repulse marching through Vancouver; Multiple photos of British warships docked at Victoria; Article and photos of the visit of the Royal Navy to Vancouver; The Traffic Department and the Public it serves; Tennis Tournaments; Printing a phone directory; Great feature on Ship Salvors (Salvagers) with many photos; A motoring trip through the U.S., with photos; Biggest cable will cross False Creek; Oxygen Farms; Cornelius Vanderbilt writes of his long distance call from Alberni to Los Angeles; P.B.X. serves interesting purposes - 5 pages with photos; Early motor tourists to B.C., with photos; Full-page photo of the Empress of Canada; 5 page illustrated article on the reclamation of the Sumas; The switchboard as a newspaper; Health secrets of the telephone pole - 3 illustrated pages; new Victoria equipment; Bayview library proves popular; cover photo of a long-distance operator timing a call with a calculagraph; Billing toll and inter-exchange calls keeps eight clerks busy - 3 pages with photos; 7 page a Book
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Greatest growth of company was during past year; Sound - a non-technical talk on a technical subject; Accidents which a careless workman may cause; Graph of the number of phones in service from 1903 through 1920; Table listing the exchanges in order of percent good toll calls; Statement of development - a table listing the number of phones in service per exchange across the province; Photo montage of three of the Agents of lower mainland offices; Proposed central office extensions indicate a busy year; Snow and wind storms seriously damage toll leads on Vancouver Island; Repairing submarine cable near Friday Harbor was trying experience; Preparing to lay a third cable between the mainland and Vancouver Island; Magnets - non-technical talk on a technical subject; Statistical Review of the province's industries; Nice photo montage of 5 lady Vancouver Island company representatives; Planned additions; Start of Export Trade in Bulk Wheat - nice photos; Naming a telephone office; Fourty Years of the Telephone; Photo montage of 4 lady company representatives on southern Vancouver Island; The Gathering of Material for Use of Telephone Men - 5-page illustrated article; Application for increased rates before Railway Board; Shipping railway ties to Egypt; Plant activities; Excellent 10-page article describes the laying of the second submarine cable to Vancouver Island (Point Grey to Nanaimo) - many great photos; Photo montage of four lovely ladies who serve as supervising officials in the traffic department; Railway board accedes to request for rate increase; Repair job on North Vancouver Submarine Cable - photos and map; First Convention of Canadian telephone companies very successful - 10 page article with photos; Convention Delegates tour Capilano Timber Company operations - photo montage; Photo montage of chief operators of mainland two-number offices; new Kerrisdale exchange opens; New P.B.X at Spencers (Department Store); Current phone directory is an improvement; 2 pages of samples of past phone directories; Construction of switchboard cords; laying conduit along Georgia St., Vancouver (2 photos); Emergency reveals bravery of B.C. telephone operators; photos of Port Coquitlam flood; amazing photo of washed out bridge over Capilano River; Pioneer line construction - telegraph line between Toronto and Buffalo, NY in 1846; Good Qualities of Loud Speakers; photo of timber cutting to clear a right-of-way to give service to the Broadview district; photo of underground conduit being laid in downtown Nanaimo, with horses and wagon in picture; What constitutes Central's activities at the Capital City Exchange - 4 pages with photos; Rubber covered wires and cables - 3 page article with photos; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear. Backstrip loose along front edge. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge else unmarked. Binding intact. Aside from backstrip, a sound copy. Book
504 pages. Index. "The discovery of a number of minute-books and official documents has made it possible in a considerable number of cases to reach conclusions as precise as those obtainable about a modern company in the Official Intelligence or the Stock Exchange Year-Book." - from Preface. Frontis is comprised of a two-page black and white reproduction of a 1622 map illustrating the Somers Islands and the land-holdings of its shareholders. Average soiling and wear. Binding intact. Sound copy. Please note: this book is Volume II (only) of a three-volume set. Book
Complete in 4 volumes (i.e. 7 physical volumes): I: xxvii,1047pp., II (in 2 parts): xxxi,1409pp., III (in 2 parts): xxxi,1455pp., IV (in 2 parts): xxxi,1236pp., hardcover (editor's green cloth bindings with gilt lettering, few corners slightly bumped), good condition, [This reference work for art dealing in Great-Britain covers the period 1801-1820, with indexes of paintings, owners and previous owners], rare, total weight: 14kg., S84393
48 pages. This glamorous publication brought New York women important information including: news of the choicest fashion, entertainment, current happenings, where to go, what to see, and how much to pay. Features: Three-page photo-illustrated feature article on Gypsy Rose Lee "She Undressed Her Way to Fame!"; Full-page ad for the new Lastex Vassarette Girdle, featuring photo of designer Helen Wills; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Du Barry beauty preparations by Richard Hudnut; Letters; Fantastic one-page illustrated Macy's ad shows chef throwing knives at Thanksgiving turkey; Soundings - opinions of the New York Woman; Nice one-page illustrated fashion ad for Stern Brothers; Nice one-page illustrated fashion ad for Franklin Simon & Co. features upper half fashions; Seven fantastic photos of "Curb Commerce" in New York - radios, wart cures, picture postcards, socks, neckties, shoe shines, and photos; These Girls From Out of Town - fiction about 'those panting, galloping creatures - the lady buyers and how they wear down man; Romance Around Town - five photos of New York romance; Unfair to Organized Women - a man's complaint against the women of the world; Nice one-page color fashion photo of model in a glamorous Betty Wales ball gown; How to Collect Butlers; A Fashion Editor's Diary; What not to do to yourself - unfortunate accidents in the choice of clothes, cosmetics and behavior; Photos of the 'Best Dressed Women" from cities around the world; Attractive evening fashion centerfold features large black and white photo with color illustrations; So Much To Buy - and So Much to Spend!; Head to Toe - photos of fashionable hats and shoes; Cosmetics page; Two Quick and Easy Dinners Men Will Like; Photos of dinner table place settings; A Look at Our Medicine Chest; New About Food - a new thought on birthday cakes; "The Plough and the Stars" - Eight photos from the making of this movie which starred Barbara Stanwyck and Erin O'Brien Moore; "Valiant is the Word for Carrie" - photo-illustrated article about this movie; John Gielgud as Hamlet; Helen Hayes takes time to talk about backstage life as Queen Victoria; One page of color humorous illustrations by Dr. Suess illustrating how to attain social publicity!; One-page Schaefer beer ad - in cans!; Half-page photo ad for Best & Co. features pastel wool house coat; Manhattan Date Book; Glossy color cover photos feature woman attempting to install drapes which pipe-smoking husband reads paper; and more. Unmarked with modest wear. A quality copy of this great vintage depression-era item. Magazine
Undated. Total of 630 pages. Index in volume III. "The book is at once comprehensive and detailed, dealing progressively with every branch of brickwork and tile laying. It will be found that problems are discussed about which it is extremely difficult to obtain information elsewhere. A series of chapters on the business side of the trade will be found very useful. The book has been planned so as to enable the bricklayer to become a master of his subject from beginning to end." - from Preface. Each volume features colour frontis, numerous full-page black and white photographic plates and a profusion of line drawings. All bindings and hinges intact. Prior owner's name and address, dated 1932, upon each free front endpaper. Spines partially sunned. Average wear to red boards which feature decorative embossing and gilt lettering upon each front board. Half-inch opening at base of spine of volume III. Light to moderate yellowing to contents. Foxing to all edges and some pages. Nice copy of this superb reference. Circa 1932? Book
ix, (3), 263 pp. Index. Complete with eight black and white photographic plates. "No one who wants to understand England as it is today can afford not to read this book. It is the story of what happened to one-half of the British people - the half that now, generally speaking, votes Labour - in the long, dark tunnel between the rather confused half-light into which it is emerging today and the green land far away inhabited by our eighteenth- and seventeenth-century ancestors." - Arthur Bryant (in 1947). Heavily-worn with usual library markings. Reading copy only. Book
Signed, dated and generically inscribed by author/subject upon half-title page. 245 pages. Map endpapers. Black and white photographic plates, including frontispiece photo of author/subject in travel attire. Anderson "recounts his nearly half a century in the Canadian north. By snowshoe and dog team, by canoe, sailboat and steamer, he travelled throughout the woodlands and the Arctic regions of Canada - with numerous side trips to the west coast of Greenland. Includes many a fabulous anecdote - tales of courage and privation, humour in the bivouac and excitement on the trail. Discusses the fur trade and its history, interspersing his narrative with reflections which provide sharp insight to this theme." - from dust jacket. Gift greetings atop half-title page. Light wear to book. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Book
First and only edition, [2], 30pp., stitched as issued in blue paper wrappers, a very good copy. The author argues against putting an additional duty on sugar "which... would be a great hardship on the sugar-planter in the West Indies, and very little benefit to the revenue...". He sets out all the costs involved in producing sugar, such as the price of slaves and the cost of keeping them, the higher freight costs, insurance, cost of animals and contributions to the defence force. Finally, he states the advantages of the sugar trade for Britain and shows how an additional duty would be to the detriment of the trade. Goldsmiths'-Kress, 8163; Hanson, 5917; Sabin, 40397; ESTC gives the British Library as the only UK hold.
In -folio, 40 pp., legatura in carta marmorizzata. Manca a Kress.
Complet en 6 tomes (le tout paru), Tirage limité à 300 exemplaires, 28cm., reliures d'éditeur uniformes en toile rouge avec titre doré, très bel état, [contenu: I: Catalogues belges appartenant à la Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier, II: Catalogues français appartenant à la bibliothèque royale Albert Ier , III: Catalogues britanniques appartenant à la Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier (+/- 10.000 catalogues), IV: Catalogues néerlandais (+/- 5400 catalogues), V: Catalogues allemands (+/- 21.000 catalogues), VI: Catalogues provenant de divers pays (+/- 13.000 catalogues édités dans une soixantaine de pays entre le XVIIIe siècle et 1990)], T87731
First Edition, folding table, stab-holes on inner blank margins, [16], 128 pp., disbound. Brewster was the author of "Essays in Trade and Navigation, in Five Parts" (1695). Only the first part, which included evidence of his opposition to the new Bank of England, was published. In 1702 he issued "New Essays on Trade", and the anonymous book "A Discourse Concerning Ireland and the Different Interests Thereof" (1698), relating to the woollen issue, has also been ascribed to him. He died at some point between March 1704 and February 1705. Kress, 2335; Goldsmith, 3857; Hanson, 130.
Madrid, Imprenta Real, 1804, 30,5 x 21 cm., 9 hojas, incluso portada con escudo grabado + 1 hoja blanca. (Carece de encuadernación. Contiene la renovación del Privilegio concedido a los CINCO GREMIOS MAYORES DE MADRID para el comercio con Marruecos, con algunas limitaciones, y la extensión, al amparo de Comercio de Estado, a Túnez. Es obra rarísima de la que no hemos localizado ejemplares en el Catálogo Colectivo, en el WorldCat, ni en los fondos de la Biblioteca Nacional. Tampoco referencia alguna en Internet).
Folio, [2], [6]-303pp., including several inserted advert leaves, chromolithographed title, 8 chromolithographed plates and numerous woodcut illustrations, several blank margins repaired, tears to 4 leaves repaired with archival paper, recent maroon cloth. A richly illustrated 19th-century equestrian trade catalogue by a leading New York manufacturer and importer, with salerooms in London, Paris, Berlin and Moscow. Romaine described the 1879 first edition of this catalogue as "the most outstanding record [of horse goods] ever issued". Romaine, p. 208.
In-4°; pp. (8), al frontespizio stemma inciso su legno. legatura in cartonato moderno.
In -4°. Frontespizio, (ritratto dell’autore), VIII-67 e 44 tavv. (di cui 16 sono mappe), compreso il ritratto di Durand. Durand fu nominato, nel 1785, direttore della terza “Compagnie du Sénégal”, incarico che mantenne solo per un anno, durante il quale effettuò il suo viaggio in Africa. Il volume include una copia dei “Traités de commerce faits par M. Durand ... Avec les princes maures de la rive droite du Sénégal. Testo arabo a fronte del francese: molto curioso e interessante. Ottime condizioni generali.
2 volumes in-12 (167 x 97 mm), plein veau marbré de l'époque, dos lisses ornés de compartiments fleuronnés et cloisonnés, pièces de titre et de tomaison de veau, lviij, 431 p. et (4), 418 p. Première édition française des douze "Political Discourses" publiés en anglais par Hume en 1752, dans la traduction de l'abbé Jean-Bernard Le Blanc auquel Hume adressa plusieurs lettres de remerciements et de félicitations. L’ouvrage contient également "Réflexions politiques sur l’état présent de l’Angleterre, principalement à l’égard de ses taxes & de ses dettes", traduction de "Some Reflections On The Present State of the Nation" de Bolingbroke (I, p. 331-429), ainsi qu’une bibliographie de livres d’économie politique. Table en fin de chaque volume. L’adresse d’Amsterdam est fictive, l’ouvrage a été publié à Paris par Michel Lambert, d’après la permission tacite qui lui a été accordée. Il reçut un accueil enthousiaste en France. Une autre édition française parut cette même année 1754, dans une traduction fautive de Mauvillon. (Higgs, 692, Goldsmiths, 8888. Jessop, p. 24-25. J. Fieser, 'A Bibliography of Hume’s Writings and Early Responses', p. 23). Petit défaut au coiffes et en tête de deux mors. Quelques épidermures. Bon exemplaire, frais, relié à l’époque.
