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1864AB1031Paris:: Gauthier-Villars 1864. 1864. 8vo. XXXI 1 483 1 pp. Half-title 16 engraved plates … Contemporary quarter black morocco railed bands gilt-stamped spine marbled boards with the foot of the spine showing the owner’s initials R.M.T.; fore-edges of boards showing. Ownership blind-stamp of Rafael Ma. Torres. Very good copy. An authoritative work on the science of mechanics: kinematics geometry mathematics theory of dynamics. / Haton de la Goupilliere born in Bourges was a member of the Institute appointed Inspector General of Mines in 1885 and in 1887 Director of the Paris School of Mines. He was professor of mechanics at the Faculte des Sciences de Paris. He was president of the Society of Incentive for National Industry 1888-1892 and of the Mathematical Society of France 1890 and vice-president of the General Council of Mines 1900-1903. He was dean of the Academy of Sciences. He was one of the first mathematicians of his time for the works of pure and applied mechanics. Gauthier-Villars, 1864. hardcover books
1949140941401Meriden CT: The Ralston University Press 1949. Reprint. Very Good. Early reprint. Sixteen lessons complete in eight volumes bound in publisher's red cloth decorated in blind and stamped in gilt. Very Good. Spines sunned and lightly frayed at ends cup ring to cover of Volume III. Pages toned. A nice set. The Ralston University Press unknown books
1939140941399Meriden CT: The Ralston Society 1939. Near Fine. Early reprint. Sixteen lessons complete in eight volumes bound in publisher's dark brown/maroon cloth decorated in blind and stamped in gilt. Near Fine with light rubbing and shelf wear to covers with several small patches of heavier rubbing and scuffing. Pages toned. A nice set. The Ralston Society unknown books
1928140938609Meriden CT: The Ralston University Press 1928. First Edition. Very Good. First Edition complete eight volume set bound in dark blue variant cloth with volumes ranging from Very Good to Near Fine. Rubbing to gilt stamping and to cloth at tips. Foxing to edges heaviest at top edge; pages toned. Several volumes show faintly soiled cloth. A beautiful set. The Ralston University Press unknown books
1928140940868Meriden CT: The Ralston University Press 1928. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Complete eight volume set bound in light blue variant cloth stamped in dark blue. First edition. Very Good with sunning to spines light mottling to cloth heads and tails a little worn and frayed. Scratch to spine of Vol. 1 binding error with front free endpaper pasted onto paste down penciled gift inscription on page facing copyright page another to Vol. VIII front hinge a little over-opened. A classic of the self-improvement genre. The Ralston University Press unknown books
1945116778Los Angeles: The Willing Publishing Company 1945. First edition of Napoleon Hill's classic work. Octavo original cloth. Boldly signed by Napoleon Hill on the front free endpaper. In near fine condition with light rubbing. Based on the Andrew Carnegie formula for money-making The Master Key To Riches describes in step-by-step detail today's greatest practical philosophy of success. This philosophy culled from the success experiences of hundreds of the world's most powerful and wealthy men will show you how to succeed in any walk of life. The Willing Publishing Company hardcover books
194589292Los Angeles: The Willing Publishing Company 1945. First edition of Napoleon Hill's classic work. Octavo original cloth. Boldly signed by Napoleon Hill on the front free endpaper. Contemporary inscription to the front free endpaper near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some chips to the extremities. Based on the Andrew Carnegie formula for money-making The Master Key To Riches describes in step-by-step detail today's greatest practical philosophy of success. This philosophy culled from the success experiences of hundreds of the world's most powerful and wealthy men will show you how to succeed in any walk of life. The Willing Publishing Company hardcover books
2009UHILMAS00fpJeremy P. Tarcher 2009. Very Good. Hill Napoleon. The Master-Key to Riches: The Inner Secrets to the Napoleon Hill Program. New York NY: Jeremy P. Tarcher 2009. x 301pp. Indexed. 12mo. Paperback with flaps. Book condition: Very good. Edges rubbed and one creased page. Jeremy P. Tarcher paperback books
1937140941529Meriden CT: The Ralston Society 1937. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's maroon cloth stamped in gilt lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Cloth a bit frayed at extremities and lightly stained. Light stain to top textblock edge. Pages toned a paperclip impression to several leaves and several are edge-worn. A scarce first printing of a book Hill claimed was inspired by a suggestion from Andrew Carnegie. The Ralston Society unknown books
1937140940541Meriden CT: The Ralston Society 1937. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. Signed by Napoleon Hill on the front free endpaper and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's maroon cloth stamped in gilt lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Damage to cloth at the top spine end toward the rear; otherwise cloth lightly rubbed at spine joints and lightly frayed at corners and spine ends with a long light scuff to the spine panel. Gilt darkened. Pages toned with several instances of light underlining. Inner rear hinge exposed. A scarce first printing of a book Hill claimed was inspired by a suggestion from Andrew Carnegie. While first editions of this title with signed bookplates a Frankenstein of a collector's item which can be conjured up as late as today are more common first editions signed directly by Napoleon Hill are not. The Ralston Society unknown books
193789533CT: Ralston Society 1937. First edition of this classic bestseller which has sold over 100 million copies. Octavo original cloth. Boldly signed by Napoleon Hill on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. This is the first example of a first printing we have seen signed. Rare and desirable. Think and Grow Rich was written in 1937 by Napoleon Hill promoted as a personal development and self-improvement book. Hill writes that he was inspired by a suggestion from business magnate and later philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. While the book's title and much of the text concerns increased income the author insists that the philosophy taught in the book can help people succeed in any line of work to do and be anything they can imagine. First published during the Great Depression at the time of Hill's death in 1970 Think and Grow Rich had sold more than 20 million copies and by 2015 over 100 million copies had been sold worldwide. It remains the biggest seller of Napoleon Hill's books. BusinessWeek magazine's Best-Seller List ranked it the sixth best-selling paperback business book 70 years after it was published. Ralston Society hardcover books
240996New York. : Hawthorn Books. No date. 4th printing. . Yellow cloth red spine title. . Very good light yellow highlighting limited to two pages of the introduction otherwise near fine in a near fine dust jacket. 8vo. weight: 1.2 lb. Hawthorn Books. hardcover books
1945292046Los Angeles.: Willing Publishing. 1945. 1st Edition. Red cloth gilt titles. Very good light scuffing to back cover tight and unmarked no dust jacket. 22x14.5 cm. weight: 1.2 lb. Willing Publishing. hardcover books
1879122443London: George Routledge and Sons 1879. Finely bound example of Horne's biography of Napoleon Bonaparte with a fore-edge painting of him. Octavo bound in full morocco with red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and read panel marbled endpapers all edges gilt with a fore-edge painting. With additions by S.R. Townshend Mayer. Illustrated with several hundred designs by Raffet and Horace Vernet tissue-guarded frontispiece portraits of Napoleon. With the original cloth cover adhered to the front pastedown. In near fine condition. The first known example of a disappearing fore-edge painting where the painting is not visible when the book is closed dates back to 1649. Around 1750 the subject matter of fore-edge paintings changed from simply decorative or heraldic designs to landscapes portraits and religious scenes usually painted in full color. The technique was popularized in the 18th century by John Brindley 1732-1756 publisher and bookbinder to the Prince of Wales and Edwards of Halifax a distinguished family of bookbinders and booksellers. The majority of extant examples of fore-edge paintings date to the late 19th and early 20th century on reproductions of books originally published in the early 19th century including the present volume. George Routledge and Sons hardcover books
188543296Buffalo: The Courier Lith. Co. 1885. First edition. A very good copy restored at top edge text banner affixed to bottom Condition B. 33 x 23 1/4 inches 83.75 x 59 cm. Three portraits of the young Belle Époque actress Kathryn Kidder flanked by four full length photographs of her in costume taken by Napoleon Sarony the greatest photographer of the American theater. Frank Mayo and John G. Wilson's play based on "Vineta the Phantom City" a translation of a novel by E. Werner opened in 1884 in Chicago with Laura Don as Wanda but when Don left for California Kidder was given the role as the play moved to New York and Mayo went all out to promote her. Kathryn Kidder 1867-1839 was born In Newark or Evanston Ill various reports and was privately educated until she attended the North Western Female College where Emma Willard received her degree. Her early rise was described in 1885 at the time of this poster: "Frank Mayo meantime had heard of this promising pupil and at once hunted her up with a view to offering her the character of the Countess Wanda in his play of 'Nordeck.' After a careful study of the character and its possibilities she accepted Mr. Mayo's offer and spoke of the character to a friend in these words: 'It is a part I would have chosen if I had been consulted and given my choice; and whatever the future may bring much shall be ascribed to the very fortunate opportunity afforded me in the character of the lovely Countess Wanda.' This character in 'Nordeck' is indeed lovely as Miss Kidder says. The author has suggested a character that is quite ideal and the young actress has clothed it with life and naturalness while portraying the romantic possibilities of the creation with all the enthusiasm of a young girl in the first flower of fulfillment. And it is not too much to say that the character of Wanda is due largely to Miss Kidder's efforts whether unaided or otherwise; for her lines allow rather than demand the character that she portrays. Miss Kidder is tall with a bright rather than simply beautiful face a figure that is willowy and lithe and motions that are at one and the same time impetuous and graceful. She realizes and feels as well as looks the young and impulsive character." Folio Boston vol. xxvii June 1885 pp. 222-3. "Afterwards she followed this with several Shakespeare seasons playing Ophelia Desdemona Hermione and Perdita Lady Macbeth then Madame Sans-Gene; further Shakespeare revivals and old English comedy; School for Scandal The Rivals The Country Girl then Salambo of Flaubert and following this several modern plays including The Embarrassment of Riches Wallack's; The Woman of Impulse Herald Square; and The Glass House." She had her own production company wrote 'The Heart of her Husband a domestic drama in three acts and two scenes' helped fund-raise for Women's Suffrage and was married to Louis Kaufman Anspacher an American playwright and director. Rare. OCLC and other databases show no copies of this nor any other posters for Nordeck nor for Kidder. The Library of Congress has an archive of her scrapbooks of news clippings relating to her stage career 1883-1909 and the NYPL has a promptbook of her play. The Courier Lith. Co. hardcover books
1815312059Newcastle upon Tyne: E. Humble Mosley Street 1815. 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches. Fine. 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches. Lottery. Napoleon is transported in the good ship the Northumberland to St. Helena while in the county of Northumberland. E. Humble Mosley Street unknown books
19752311041New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1975. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/Good. First edition. Boards and last few pages have been badly chewed ink gift note on front free endpaper. 1975 Hard Cover. xiii 382 pp. "This is the classic training manual valuable for all instructors behaviorists rescue personnel and owners. Intense instructions for the serious trainer who wants to succeed. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich hardcover books
1849407841849. Very Good. <p>Moigno François Napoléon Marie 1804-84. A.L.s. to John Brett 1805-63 addressed to "Monsieur Brett Esq. inventeur du télégraph imprémant" Mr. Brett Esq. inventor of the printing telegraph with Brett's autograph reply on the recto of the address leaf. N.p. "22 dimanche" 1849. Brett's reply dated Paris April 30 1849. 2pp. 210 x 135 mm. Small hole where seal was broken light soiling along folds. Provenance: Latimer Clark.</p> <p>The Abbé Moigno an eminent mathematician physicist and science writer authored several works on telegraphy. His correspondent John Brett laid the first submarine telegraph cable between England and France in 1850 and was one of the founders of the Atlantic Telegraph Company. Moigno's letter to Brett written the year before Brett laid his first submarine cable asks Brett for news of his current researches "N'avez-vous rien de nouveau à m'apprendre Quand ferez-vous une nouvelle expérience" and asks Brett to supply him with an electric battery for a M. Soleil "M. Soleil n'ose pas me dire qu'il a absolument besoin de la pile mais je m'en aperçois chaque jour. Pourriez vous fixer à peu près l'époque à laquelle vous pourrez la rendre". Brett's response written on the blank recto of the address leaf says that he will be in Lille shortly and will meet with Moigno in person. Origins of Cyberspace 177.</p> . unknown books
1869S11185Paris:: Chez Gauthier-Villars 1869. 1869. Bureau du Journal Les Mondes 8vo. 4 xii 236 pp. Foxing throughout many pages unopened. Original green printed wrappers; spine replaced with kozo paper. Rubber stamps on upper cover half-title and title-page. RARE. Very good. With contributions by Hooker Tyndall Frankland Godwin-Austin Berkeley Huxley Odling etc. Moigno known as Abbe Moigno 1804-1884 was a French Jesuit physicist and author who considered himself a student of Cauchy. Chez Gauthier-Villars, 1869. unknown books
1881S11186Paris:: Bleriot Freres 1881. 1881. Three volumes of five. Second edition. 8vo. 4 xiii 3 207 1 182; 4 209-936 100 5; 4 937-1636 80 7 pp. Light foxing to endleaves and pastedowns. Early quarter black morocco over marbled paper-backed boards 5 raised bands to gilt-stamped spines green place-keeping ribbons. Near Fine. Moigno born at Guemene-sur-Scorff Morbihan in Brittany a Catholic and physicist and a prolific writer studied at the Jesuit college of Sainte-Anne d'Auray. He made his theological studies at Montrouge devoting his leisure to mathematics and physics in which he achieved much success. At the 1830 Revolution he left for Switzerland studied Hebrew and Arabic then in 1836 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the College of Sainte-Geneviève Rue des Postes in Paris. / Two additional volumes were written in 1882 not present here although this is a beautifully bound set of volumes one through three. The missing volumes are sub-titled: Tome IV: La Foi et la Raison. Tome V: Le miracle du tribunal de la science. "Abbe Moigno'' Les Splendeurs de la Foi Accord Parfait de la Revelation et de la Science de la Foi et de la Raison of 1882 included a collection of information from scientists to support Moigno's thesis that science and Catholicism were compatible" Larson lxvi Other writers according to Larson championed this accord. Larson Barbara Jean. The Dark Side of Nature: Science Society and the Fantastic in the Work of Odilon Redon. State College PA: Pennsylvania State University Press 2005. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL APPLY. Bleriot Freres, 1881. hardcover books
1813247608Naples 1813. Engraved royal arms of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. One page. Folio. Slightly faded and soiled. Matted and framed. Engraved royal arms of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. One page. Folio. Handsome document signed by the gallant and flamboyant brother-in-law of Napoleon. Murat was one of Napoleon's boldest marshals who played a prominent role in each of the major campaigns; nonetheless at the time this document was signed Murat was negotiating with the Allies and eventually agreed to provide troops to fight against France in exchange for a guarantee of his throne and possessions. Ultimately however after Waterloo he was captured by the Allies executed and shot. It is said that as he faced the firing squad he shouted:<br/><br/><br/><br/> "Soldiers do your duty! Straight to the heart - but spare the face. Fire!"<br/><br/><br/><br/>"Murat was one of the most colorful figures of his time. His military talents on the battlefield at the head of the cavalry were considerable but his rash initiatives robbed him of any chance of earning repute as a strategist. A vain and rather brainless man given to devising splendid uniforms he had many enemies among the marshalate but was greatly admired by the rank and file for his dash and undoubted charisma ." Chandler DICTIONARY OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS pp. 294-296. unknown books
1815302741Wigan: J. Brown 1815. First edition. Woodcut frontispiece. 24 pp. 8vo. Later marbled boards with red morocco label to upper board original wrappers bound in. First edition. Woodcut frontispiece. 24 pp. 8vo. EXCEEDINGLY RARE DESCRIPTION OF NAPOLEON'S HOME IN THE ATLANTIC. With the defeat of the French at Waterloo England once again prepared to confine Napoleon. Looking for somewhere more than remote than Elba this time he was bound for St. Helena a tiny windswept island in the South Atlantic that was first discovered by the Portuguese and previously in control of the East India Company. <br/><br/>In the wake of this decision there was much interest in the island and printers scrambled to meet demand. This little pamphlet commences with a history of the island followed by an account of its inhabitants food live stock climate and the all-important garrison. The woodcut includes a key to landmarks on the island. Of additional interest are the "Remarks on Ascension Island" being another British possession in the Atlantic.<br/><br/>Not in OCLC not in COPAC. This copy only on ABPC. J. Brown unknown books
182542527London; Amsterdam: Printed for John Stockdale; Gedruckt bij C.A. Spin 1825. Frontispiece portrait of Napoleon to the first work; engraved folding plate 11 x 20 inches to the second work. 15; 8; 8 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter red morocco. Slightly rubbed. Presentation inscription "From the Author" who remains anonymous on title page of first work. Spotting on last leaf of third work. Frontispiece portrait of Napoleon to the first work; engraved folding plate 11 x 20 inches to the second work. 15; 8; 8 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "A Few Facts ." is an examination of just causes for war and a call for freedom of the press: Let liberty be the signal for battle; proclaim the liberty of the press to tyrants and that a free people dare to tell them they are such."<br/>The second title is a description and illustrated key to the massive painting of the battle of Waterloo by J. W. Pieneman now housed in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. An English equivalent was published in London later in the year 1825 when the picture was exhibited in Hyde Park near Grosvenor Gate. One copy of first title in OCLC LC; second title KB1294 B 6 not in OCLC Printed for John Stockdale; Gedruckt bij C.A. Spin unknown books
1813247548Pirna 1813. On a one-page Document Signed "duc de Feltre" by Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke Minister of War requesting the discharge. 1 vols. Folo. Some very slight soiling otherwise very good. Handsomely mounted and framed. On a one-page Document Signed "duc de Feltre" by Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke Minister of War requesting the discharge. 1 vols. Folo. At a critical moment even as Napoleon is battling Allied forces in Germany he grants a full discharge to a conscript whom the Minister of War the Duc de Feltre describes as a "young man the eldest of 9 orphaned children for whom he is the sole means of support". unknown books
1810247547St. Cloud 1810. On a one-page document "Rapport présenté à sa Majesté l'Empereur et Roi" signed by the "Ministre-Directeur" Paris 27 juin 1810. 1 vols. Folo. Some very slight soiling otherwise very good. Handsomely mounted and framed. On a one-page document "Rapport présenté à sa Majesté l'Empereur et Roi" signed by the "Ministre-Directeur" Paris 27 juin 1810. 1 vols. Folo. Napoleon Cuts Surgical Instruments. On this document requesting among other surgical supplies for the army in Spain "3 caisses d'instruments à - amputation" Napoleon has penned this brief order:<br/><br/> "Envoyez seulement deux 2 caisses.<br/><br/> "St. Cloud le 30 juin 1810". unknown books
