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187160912Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1871. Each directory a second edition. 8vo. 3 volumes: 128 116; 81 pp. Extra illustrated with 16 original mounted photographs six portraits and 10 architectural images of Washington buildings all about 6 x 4 inches including three signed photographs of President Ulysses S. Grant Vice-President Schuyler Colfax and Speaker of the House James G. Blaine in the 1871 directory all three were serving in office at the time other mounted photographs of Presidents Andrew Johnson 1869 directory and Abraham Lincoln 1867 directory; the 1864 Anthony Berger image taken at the Brady Studio in 1864 plate of the U.S. Capitol from a wood engraving folding map of Washington D.C. Photographs of the buildings include the White House Patent Office Post Office Treasury Department War Department Navy Department Agriculture Department the Capitol and the Smithsonian Institution Castle. The sixth portrait photograph is of Addison H. Laflin 1823-1878 U.S. Representative from New York 1865-1871; this is his daughter Grace Laflin's copy gilt-stamped on the upper board "Grace Laflin / From Her Father / March 4 1871." Repaired scrape on rear board small tear in lower edge of one leaf but an impressive extra-illustrated volume in an attractive presentation binding. Contemporary presentation binding: red morocco professional restoration to rear joint gilt gilt rules framing the boards enclosing an intricate ornamental rule pattern gilt title and ornaments between raised bands on spine gilt turn-ins all edges gilt. 9763. Benjamin Perley Poore was a newspaperman and clerk of the committee of the U.S. Senate on printing records where he began editing the Congressional Directory in 1867. He later served as editor of the "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress" and as a well-connected member of the Washington political scene compiled his "Reminiscences of Sixty years in the National Metropolis" Philadelphia 1886. <br/><br/> Government Printing Office hardcover books
18812091202133203423Yomisho Sanbo 1881. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 16 books in total Yomisho Sanbo paperback
18990009160LONDON ENGLAND to KUCHING SARAWAK BORNEO. Good. 1899. On offer is a fascinating diary of an English gentleman by the name of Ben D. Beeley from England who at the very end of the 19th Century travels from London to Borneo to function as a missionary to the local population there. The 1899 New Year begins with a short entry by Beeley: I commenced the New Year in all Saints Church. O Lord help me to serve Thee with true devotion in my life as a missionary in Borneo. In February He sails aboard steamship from London heading to Singapore. The day before he says his goodbyes: The saddest day in my life he remarks. I left home this morning at 9 a.m. How awful to say good-bye to the dear ones at home Dear Father and Darling mother and dear old Gal. M God help them and bless and comfort them.I took my dear little Lottie for a long walk. How happy I was in her company. How sad to leave her but I am happy since I know she loves me truly and faithfully. I have asked her not to wait for me and she promises she will not. Never can I forget the farewell at All Saints Church. All the girls cried. Jeff embraced me. And those dear men how they did cheer!! My god take away pride from me. He leaves on the steamer Kawachi Maru. The beginning of his journey is less than pleasant filled with headaches terrible sea sickness and rough seas. The days get better as they go on and Beeley notes his activities everyday on the boat. For example: Awoke feeling much better. Had a better breakfast. Spent the morning on Deck. Talk to one of the Miss Vincents. Bible Reading on Luke xvii 1 -10 . Very rough in evening and much spray. He writes everyday of the journey to Singapore. From England the steamer travels across the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal. Beeley doesnt like Port Said much: I was 4 or 5 times in the day grossly insulted in the street. The whole tone of the place is awful. There is work there for 100 missionaries and there is only one! The ship reaches Singapore and is therefore only a day before it goes on to Borneo. Beeley is stationed in Kuching Sarawak as a missionary. His first impressions in early April are very positive and shortly after arriving he get to work: I took Perrys boys for scripture from 10 to 10:45. It was a great treat to hear how well they answered. They were all Dyaks and Chinese. My first bit of mission work. He comes off as an intensely curious person and writes often about the customs and religion of the people around him: Chinese ancestor worship is very extraordinary.a procession headed by 2 men carrying 2.coloured baskets next to a scarlet banner followed by a dead goat on a stretcher and a young dead pig both these have fruit in their mouths.; The Malays have curious customs of piling up pillows one on the top of the others; The Chinese and Malay made an awful row. They believe a dragon was swelling the moon. and they tried to scare him. He also starts to notice some of the ethnic strife: This morning 5 Dyaks were executed for the murder of some Chinese. The murder took place about five years ago but the murders have only just been found out. We had some Cricket at the fort. It was good fun. The Dyaks thoroughly enjoyed it. There was a boy in an inch of water on the pitch. I never expected to play cricket in the east in such a quagmire. While in Kuching Beeley spends considerable time with one of the White Rajahs of Sarawak Charles of Sarawak Charles Johnson/Brooke. The Rajahs were a dynastic monarchy of the English Brooke family who founded and ruled the Kingdom of Sarawak from 1841 - 1947. He receives an invitation for dinner from the Rajah at Astana his palace in Kuching. When Beeley sets off to the field to preach he encounters many obstacles including awful weather tribes of headhunters and dangerous animals. At one village he notices human heads hanging from posts outside of their homes. Saribas people are very nice & all want me to stay with them. There were 2 human heads hanging up the house opposite our beds.He has near disastrous river trip & almost drowns on several occasions. He also hunts & in one case shoots a 7 foot crocodile outside of his hut. His journey to the more rural and isolated parts of the country is exceptionally fascinating to read. Despite becoming a Deacon in September Beeley is assigned to a seemingly abandoned missionary station where everything is rundown and has to live in the ruins of a house. He suffers bouts of dysentery and mentions many of his fellow missionaries are depressed and want to leave Sarawak. He writes 'This Diocese is in a bad state. Men are all dissatisfied. Gomes Perry in fact nearly all want to leave. What will be the end I do not know! Shortly afterward he becomes horribly ill and spends almost two months in a delirious state. He writes often of struggles with his faith I hope I shall not be alone in any mission station I am so weak & I am afraid of myself.; O God help me in the great responsibility of guiding this mission station. Give me strength and help. I do feel the responsibility of this mission I hope all will go well. and his own personal salvation. As well as his struggles to actually comprehend the Dyak language and culture and to speak back to them. At the end of the year Beeley writes a fantastic retrospective passage: The end of 1899. A wonderful year to me. The beginning of a new life how many things have happened !! Some for good some almost bringing about my downfall. God thou knowest- all my love thee feeble and weak though it be. Am I better or worse for the past year The past is gone from us forever. It is gathered and it belongs to us no more. No single work can ever be unspoken no single step retraced. In February I had heart rendering farewells to leave home & my dear family & her whom I love. In April i landed in Sarawak & commenced my work. In July I had fierce trials by temptation. In August I was prostrate on a bed with sickness. In September I was ordained Deacon. In December left alone in the heart of Sarawak. Yet O God I was in thy hands & I know thou will keep me safe. The book is in good condition. The cover and spine have some aesthetic wear and discoloration but are still structurally good. The binding is still tight. The pages inside show little foxing or rips and tears. The handwriting is clear and legible throughout in black and blue ink and occasionally pencil. Some of the ink has faded a bit and there are a couple dozen pages where the ink has bled through to the other side. This does slightly affect the ease at which the content can be read for these pages but the bleeding through is minimal and the words can still be made out with slightly more effort. OVERALL: G; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF BEN D. BEELEY LONDON ENGLAND UNITED KINGDOM PORT SAID SUEZ CANAL SINGAPORE KUCHING SARAWAK BORNEO CHRISTIAN OUTREACH PROSELYTIZING MALAYSIA SOUTHEAST ASIA ANGLICAN MISSIONARY MISSIONARY WORK IN ASIA TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY CHRISTIANITY IN ASIA MALAY PEOPLE DYAK PEOPLE CHARLES BROOKE RAJAH OF SARAWAK WHITE RAJAHS KAWACHI MARU AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY DIARIES PERSONAL HISTORY FIRST PERSON ACCOUNT WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES JOURNAL LOG ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
188610165Huron Dakota: Huronite publishing house 1886. Second Edition. Very good. 12mo 88 1 pages. original pictorial wrappers portrait and plates. -- Light wear to tips of the spine corners bumped bottom lightly top corner has a diagonal crease corners of pages themselves top lightly bumped bottom hardly at all. Internally clean and tight. A few pages with small foxed spots to the extremities. --- Overall condition for this fragile & rare book. "Not in Allen's Dakota Imprints. Wilkins had an adventurous time after leaving Fort Snelling. He gives some interesting anecdotes of the Sioux Uprising and the mass hanging of the thirty-eight Sioux at Mankato".-rarebookhub: Rare Book Transaction History one listing found in a dealers catalog @$125.00; source year 1953. Huronite publishing house unknown
1898169702London: Leonard Smithers & Co 1898. Featuring some of Beardsley's last completed illustrations First Beardsley edition deluxe issue number 79 of 100 copies printed on japon paper specially bound in full vellum and featuring an extra suite of five plates with larger versions of Beardsley's vignettes. In November 1897 Beardsley was commissioned to produce 24 illustrations for this edition of Jonson's Volpone including a frontispiece decorative initials and a front cover design. In the event he could only complete the cover design the frontispiece and six vignettes before his death on 16 March 1898. This was however a project that Beardsley was passionate about writing "I am making pictures of Ben Jonson's adorable and astonishing Volpone" and "I carry Volpone about with me from dawn to dawn and dream of nothing else". He considered his illustration for the frontispiece "Volpone Adoring His Treasure" as "one of the strongest things I have ever done" cited in Nelson p. 163. Large quarto. Printed cover design frontispiece and 6 vignettes by Beardsley 5 of the vignettes reproduced in large size in photogravure title printed in red and black. Original vellum over bevelled boards spine lettered and ruled in gilt front cover with overall design by Beardsley incorporating title rear cover with centred publisher's device blocked in gilt top edge gilt others untrimmed. Light soiling to vellum very light bumping and rubbing to extremities slight toning to endpapers: a very good copy. Lasner 129; Ray pp. 196-7. James G. Nelson Publisher to the Decadents 2000. hardcover
1867P2351London: Thomas McLean 1867-68. Some discolorations otherwise Very Good. Notes: Pair of large scale mid 19th century English Horse Racing engravings. Image Size : 504x1090 mm 19.84x42.91 Inches Platemark Size : 607x1175 mm 23.90x46.26 Inches Paper Size : 633x1188 mm 24.92x46.77 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Medium: Aquatint Categories: Sports Thomas McLean unknown
183419636Berlin: I. Lewent 1834. Hardcover. g. Six octavo volumes bound in three quarter leather over paper covered boards. Each volume has ties on fore edge of front and rear boards. Vol. 1: "Seder Zeraim" 196 pp. Vol. 2: "Seder Moed" 232 pp. Vol. 3: "Seder Nashim" 212 pp. Vol. 4: "Seder Nezikin" 268 pp. Vol. 5: "Seder Kodshim" 264 pp. Vol. 6: "Seder Tehorot" 212 pp. Book has the original Hebrew of the Mishnah and the translation into Judeo-German in double columns atop the commentary "Melo Kaf Nahat" which is in Hebrew Rashi Script. The author of the commentary was a renowned talmudic scholar and author who lived in the first half of the eighteenth century. This groundbreaking commentary was considered a “funnel of sorts†for previous rabbinic and Medieval commentaries on the Mishnah for it collected explanations from Rashi Maimonides Bertinoro and Tosafot Yom-Tov. It also drew heavily upon Isaac ibn Gabbai's commentary. This work was originally in Amsterdam in the year of 1732. This is the later reprint from Berlin printed between the years 1832-1834. Age wear and scuffing to leather some Hebrew script handwriting on front endpapers but books are in overall good condition. I. Lewent hardcover
189533697Louisville: Courier-Journal Job Printing Company 1895. First edition. Cloth bound in very good condition; Scaring to upper front corner of cover; Rebacked with original covers and spine laid on; Inner hinges reinforces with cloth tape. Includes The Fooundation and Formation of the Confederacy by Jefferson David Campaigns Battles Sieges Charges Skirmishes Etc by Robert E. Lee and The Confederate States Navy by Franklin Buchanan; Folio 16.25" x 11.5"; 480 pages with numerous illustrations and color frontes. Courier-Journal Job Printing Company unknown
18951398648Louisville: Courier-Journal Job Printing Company 1895. Hardcover. Folio 480 pages including in text illustrations. In Good minus condition. Contained in a custom dark maroon clamshell case with gilt lettering on the front cover. Bound in publisher’s red cloth with faded gilt lettering and black motifs along the spine and front board. Rebacked with buckram cloth original spine cloth has been preserved. Boards have significant fading and stains tears along most extremities and bumping to fore corners resulting in exposed boards. Textblock has tears along the edges primarily along the fore edges of the frontispiece to page 10 and from page 467 to the rear free end page some tears have been archivally repaired but not all; impacting text on page 7 and 478. Textblock splitting from pages 13-49 64-81 130-143 162-206 224-290 and 366-415; pages 31 47 and 273 are detached from the textblock but present. Light to moderate stains and foxing throughout and age toning to edges. Contains the original floral end papers laid in and explanatory notes on glassine interspersed throughout the text. Shelved in Room A. Includes "The Fooundation and Formation of the Confederacy" by Jefferson David "Campaigns Battles Sieges Charges Skirmishes Etc" by Robert E. Lee and "The Confederate States Navy" by Franklin Buchanan. 1398648. Special Collections. Courier-Journal Job Printing Company hardcover
1875955F40London: Bickers and Son Henry Sotheran and Co 1875. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 6.5". Not Stated. A handsome example of this nine volume edition of the collected works of influential playwright and poet Ben Jonson in signed half morocco bindings. This set with a biographical memoir from W. Gifford and introduction and appendices by Lieutenant Colonel F. Cunningham is a first edition thus.Complete in nine volumes.In half morocco signed bindings by Stewart Kidd rebacked with original boards laid down and retaining the original endpapers.Ben Jonson was a playwright and poet in the Jacobean and Caroline eras in England known for popularising the comedy of humours. He was a well educated man in the English Renaissance who had a great influence on the culture of the day.This set includes 'Every Man in His Humour' 'Every Man Out of His Humour' 'Cynthia's Revels' 'Volpone' 'Epicoene' 'Poetaster' 'Sejanus His Fall' 'The Alchemist' 'Catiline' 'Bartholomew Fair' 'The Devil is an Ass' 'The Magnetic Lady' 'The Tale of a Tub' and more.This edition includes critical and explanatory notes and a biographical memoir by W. Gifford an important critic known for being a satirist and controversialist.Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece to volume I. Rebacked in half morocco signed bindings with marbled paper covered boards. Back strip laid downs retaining the original endpapers. Externally excellent with light rubbing to back strip heads and tails and instances of light handling marks to boards. Internally firmly bound. Spotting to volume I title page with instances of light handling marks to first and last few leaves of each volume. Pages otherwise clean and bright. Very Good Indeed Bickers and Son, Henry Sotheran and Co hardcover
18119030713London: John Stockdale 1811. Hardcover. Very good. Contains three engraved portraits lives of the writers and notes of Peter Whalley and George Colman appearing for the first time. Bound in tree calf rebacked in full calf with five raised bands. Spines stamped in gilt. Minor wear to extremities with corners worn through leather. Minor foxing on first and last few pages of each volume otherwise text block is clean and tight. 5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches. <br/><br/> John Stockdale hardcover
1816027034A fine set all in lovely Zaehnsdorf bindings. Each volume contains the following works: Vol. 1. Memoirs of Jonson & c. Every Man in his Humour -- v. 2. Every Man out of his Humour. Cynthia's Revels or The Fountain of Self Love. The Poetaster or His Arraignment -- v. 3. Sejanus. Volpone or The fox. Epicoene or The Silent Woman -- v. 4. The Alchemist. Catiline. Bartholomew Fair -- v. 5. The Devil is an Ass. The Staple of News. The New Inn or The light Heart -- v. 6. The Magnetic Lady or Humours Reconciled. A tale of a Tub. The Sad Shepherd or A Tale of Robin Hood. The Case is Altered. Entertainments &c. -- v. 7. Masques at Court -- v. 8. Masques continued. Epigrams. Underwoods -- v. 9. Underwoods continued. Translations &c. Timber or Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter. English grammar. Jonsonus Virbius or The Memory of Ben Jonson. Glossarial index. Beautifully bound by Zaehnsdorf in full polished calf board edges triple ruled in gilt raised bands gilt red and maroon spine labels gilt other compartments fully gilt decorated all edges gilt marbled endpapers. From the library of E.C. Converse with his armorial bookplate just a bit of off-setting from plates but in extraordinary condition. Printed for G. & W. Nicol books
1816027034London: Printed for G. & W. Nicol 1816. Octavo. A fine set all in lovely Zaehnsdorf bindings. Each volume contains the following works: Vol. 1. Memoirs of Jonson & c. Every Man in his Humour -- v. 2. Every Man out of his Humour. Cynthia's Revels or The Fountain of Self Love. The Poetaster or His Arraignment -- v. 3. Sejanus. Volpone or The Fox. Epicoene or The Silent Woman -- v. 4. The Alchemist. Catiline. Bartholomew Fair -- v. 5. The Devil is an Ass. The Staple of News. The New Inn or The light Heart -- v. 6. The Magnetic Lady or Humours Reconciled. A tale of a Tub. The Sad Shepherd or A Tale of Robin Hood. The Case is Altered. Entertainments &c. -- v. 7. Masques at Court -- v. 8. Masques continued. Epigrams. Underwoods -- v. 9. Underwoods continued. Translations &c. Timber or Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter. English grammar. Jonsonus Virbius or The Memory of Ben Jonson. Glossarial index. Beautifully bound by Zaehnsdorf in full polished calf board edges triple ruled in gilt raised bands gilt red and maroon spine labels gilt other compartments fully gilt decorated all edges gilt marbled endpapers. From the library of E.C. Converse with his armorial bookplate just a bit of off-setting from plates but in extraordinary condition. Printed for G. & W. Nicol unknown
188147212N. P.: Privately photographed n. d. ca 1881. 1881. First edition. 5 1/4" x 8 1/2" 11 1/8" x 14 3/4" framed photograph of an Apache Maiden by Western photographer George Ben Wittick. He traveled with Matilde Coxe Stevenson the first woman to work in the Southwest as an ethnologist on her ethnographic survey of Arizona in 1881. In 1885 she became President of the Women's Anthropological Society of America. George Benjamin Wittick was a photographer born in Pennsylvania later moving to Illinois and then out west in 1878 to pursue frontier photography. He first worked for the Atlantic and Pacific Railroads but later established his first photography studio in Gallup New Mexico. During his career he photographed many subjects to include the railroad; southwestern landscapes such as Canyon de Chelly the Navajo Reservation and Pueblo scenes; and the Native peoples mostly the Apache Navajo Hopi and Zuni. He also painted scenes of the American expansion westward as well. He carried with him a collection of props for his photographs to include rifles pistols blankets pottery and more. Most of his photographs were taken outside using the natural sunlight against backdrops. His best known photographs were of Geronimo and Billy the Kid. In 1900 he established his last studio at Fort Wingate. He later died in 1903 of a rattlesnake bite at Fort Wingate which was foretold by a Hopi priest. Photograph is well-mounted and an attractive rendering of a young Apache girl who is well dressed in her outfit as she displays some Apache baskets and a handsome water jar. Very good condition. Privately photographed, n. d. (ca 1881). unknown
18130012057Elizabethtown Hardin County Kentucky: Circuit Court Elizabethtown Hardin County Kentucky. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1813. Non-Book. On offer is an 1813 ADS being a summons to appear at Hardin Circuit Court by Ben Helm 1779-1858 who was Clerk of Hardin County Court and Circuit Court at the time. It was in relation to a conviction against Christopher Bush 1730-1813 and Ichabod Radley 1774-1847. The two men owed damages to Joseph Stover another Kentucky pioneer. SEE BIO NOTES ON HELM and BUSH FOLLOWING THE LISTING. The summons refers to a March 13 1809 judgment against Bush and Radley handed down by Judge Stephen Ormsby 1759-1844 and assistant judge Samuel Haycraft 1752-1823. The 1809 judgment is described here: Judgment of that Court had recovered against Christopher Bush and Ichabod Radley one penny Damage and twelve dollars and sixteen cents as well for the costs of a certain Ejectment brought by the said Joseph Stoves against the said Christopher Bush and Ichabod Radley as for his Damage in that suit expenses where of the said Christopher Bush and Ichabod Radley are convicted The summons goes on to explain that Execution of the said judgment still remains to be made . Since Christopher Bush passed away in January of 1813 and made his son Christopher and his wife Hannah Executors of his will they are summoned to appear on the first day of the Courts next June term. The back of the document indicates that this summons was executed on Christopher Bush Jr. On April 28 1813 and on Hannah Bush on May 14 1813. It is important to note that Bush Jr. Would become Abraham Lincolns uncle. BEN HELM 1779-1858 was a pioneer soldier and noted for his success as an Indian fighter. Major Ben Helm was the uncle of John Larue Helm governor of Kentucky and grandfather of Confederate General Ben Hardin Helm who married Emilie Todd sister of Mary Todd Lincoln. Ben Helm married Mary Edwards the daughter of Benjamin Edwards and was a sister of Governor Ninian Edwards. It was the governor's son and namesake who married Elizabeth Todd sister of Mary Todd Lincoln. Thus there was a connection with Mary Todd Lincoln on both sides of Ben Helm's family. Ben Helm was a prominent citizen of Elizabethtown who served as a merchant and bank president. He was County Surveyor and was a member of the Town Board Clerk of Hardin County Court and the Circuit Court and a major in the War of 1812. He as County Surveyor and the first to survey Elizabethtown the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln. Helm built the first brick house in Elizabethtown that became an important social and meeting center of town. On May 28 1860 Abraham Lincoln referred to Ben Helm in a letter to Samuel Haycraft. Ben Helm also became the owner of the Christopher Bush farm. It was Bush's daughter Sarah that became Abraham Lincoln's step-mother when Abe's mother Nancy Hanks died of milk disease. BIO CREDIT: Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions CHRISTOPHER BUSH 1730-1813 was said to have been born in Holland and came to America circa 1750 and to Kentucky at the end of the Revolutionary War. Thomas Lincoln Abe's father was probably more involved with Bush and his children than anyone else in Kentucky. Bush was a farmer a constable of Hardin County and Captain of Patrollers. Thomas Lincoln served as a patroller under him. Christopher's son Isaac had a close relationship with Thomas having made a flatboat trip with him to New Orleans 1806. He lent him money and sold Tom the Sinking Spring farm where the future president was born. And of course Christopher's daughter Sarah married Abe's father and raised young Abraham Lincoln. Anything by or about the Bush family from Kentucky should be considered quite rare. An unusual opportunity for the Lincoln collector. Because Christopher had died a few months earlier his wife Hannah appeared with her son Christopher Jr. Appeared. He would become Abe Lincoln's uncle. BIO CREDIT: East Coast Books. This ADS contains two pages of text on either side of a single sheet. It measures approx 7-1/2 x 13-1/4 in. It is in very good condition save for some age toning fold marks and micro-tears at the seams. Overall VG. ; Manuscripts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1 pages; Signed by Author . Circuit Court, Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky unknown
181661036London: Printed for G. and W. Nicol; F.C. and J. Rivington; Cadell and Davies. by W. Bulmer and Co. Clevelanf-row St. James's 1816. Large Paper Edition. Frontispiece. Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. 9 vols. 8vo 26 x 15 cm. Bound in three quarter green contemporary morocco marbled boards. Fine minor foxing. Bookplate. Fine. Large Paper Edition. Frontispiece. Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. 9 vols. 8vo 26 x 15 cm. Printed for G. and W. Nicol; F.C. and J. Rivington; Cadell and Davies... by W. Bulmer and Co. Clevelanf-row, St. James's unknown
183433065Berlin: Herausgabe der Mischna 1834. First edition. Hardcover. g. Complete 6 volume set. 4to. Three-quarter blue cloth over marbled paper boards with raised bands and red title-labels. Marbled edges all around. Marbled endpapers. Mishnah with Judeo-German translation and the classic commentaries of R. Obadiah Bartenura and R. Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller. This project was headed by the pioneering Jewish historian Isaac Marcus Jost. The Mishnah had previously been translated into German by Johann Rabe in the Onolzbach 1760-63 edition and into Judeo-German in the Vienna edition started in 1817. Text in Hebrew and Judeo-German with a German introduction. Several backstrips chipped. Edges rubbed. Volume 1 front free endpaper detached but still present. Some foxing to page margins. Overall in good- condition. Herausgabe der Mischna hardcover
180255778Saloniki Thessaloniki: Mordekhai Nahman and David Yisraeliga 1802. Second edition. Modern cloth. Very good-. Quarto 25 by 16.5 cm. 2 136 leaves. Hebrew text in rabbinic font arranged in two columns. Title within elaborate letterpress borders with textual quotations; woodcut printer's device verso title approbations page; publication date in chronogram. Recent royal blue cloth; text block with speckled edges. Title leaf reinforced with tissue along fore-edge; title with tear along gutter 7 cm and small mostly marginal worm traces; worming vanishes by the sixth leaf with very minimal text loss; slightest marginal worm tracing at final 20 leaves; entry at bottom margins of the title and four other pages excised in black marker not affecting text; several leaves lightly toned else a very good copy with crisp clean text.<br /> <br /> Very scarce second edition of this collection of rabbinic responsa issued by Moses ben Isaac Segal Mintz 15th century. First published at Krakow in 1617 this is the author's only published work. Born in Mainz between 1420 and 1430 Moses Mintz studied with Jacob Weil and Israel Isserlein and while still quite young was appointed rabbi of Würzburg. Mintz led a peripatetic life which allowed him to investigate Jewish customs and communal regulations in many towns. After the 1453 expulsion of the Jews from Würzburg he returned to Mainz until the expulsion of 1462. He subsequently went to Landau and Ulm. In 1469 he was appointed rabbi of Bamberg. Four years later he was in Nürnberg and the following year in Posen. There he made preparations to emigrate to Palestine but for unknown reasons decided to remain in Posen until the end of his life.<br /> <br /> "Mintz's prominence and recognized authority resulted in may other rabbis turning to him with halakhic queries on such issues as issur ve-heter dietary laws and communal customs" Heller. His circle of correspondents included Israel Isserlein Joseph Colon Eliezer Treves and his cousin Judah Mintz. As the present collection notably deals with practical issues of contemporary importance especially civil and matrimonial law -- including customs and the enactments of Rabbenu Gershom -- they provide insight into Jewish life in fifteenth-century Germany. Issues of some notable responsa include taxes placed on Jews by local rulers; obligations of a wealthy man to his wife's poor relatives; a woman who committed adultery repented and swears the child is from her husband; if a person blind in one eye can be a judge in a case of halitzah when a man is released from the general obligation to marry his deceased brother's widow; and if one should mourn for a murderer. "Of special value are three responsa in manuscript entitled 'The Three Branches' which are an important source for the history of the yeshivot rabbinic schools of Germany in the 15th century. They depict the woeful condition of pupil-teacher relations which had broken down as a result of the arrogance of the teachers and their exaggerated concern for their dignity as well as because of the pupils' desire for greater freedom of activity and the acquisition of social status" EJ.<br /> <br /> Approbations of Istanbul rabbis: Ezekiel Refael Chaim Alfandari; Michael Ashkenazi; Moshe Frishko<br /> <br /> Provenance: Ink stamps of the Yeshiva Ha-Metivta ha-Gedolah Jerusalem at approbation page and bottom margin of one text page. References: Enc. Jud. 1st ed. 12: 65-66; M. J. Heller The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book pp. 346-347 first ed. 1617; Vinograd Salonica 515; Cf. Steinschneider 6529.1 ed. Krakow 1617 - but not noting the present edition!<br /> <br /> Title and imprint Hebrew: תשובות ×ž×”×¨×³×³× ×ž×™× ×¥ × ×“×¤×¡ פה ש××œ×•× ×™×§×™ ×™×¢×³×³× ×‘×“×¤×•×¡ מרדכי × ×—×ž×Ÿ וחברו דוד ישר×ליג׳ה<br /> <br /> Date chronogram: 5562 = ×•×™×¨× ×ž×©×”<br /> <br /> Yeshiva stamp: ×”×ž×ª×™×‘×ª× ×”×’×“×•×œ× ×‘×™×ª הר×ש׳׳ל ישיבה תיכון. Mordekhai Nahman and David Yisraeliga unknown
1880024287Washington: Government Printing Office. First Edition. Original brown cloth. Two small chips on front cover wear on rear cover edge faint stain on fore-edge Good Plus. . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1880. Government Printing Office hardcover
1815007976London 34 Rathbone Place: S & J Fuller 1815. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. TALLY-Ho Ben ie ALKEN Henry. The First of Alken's coloured Books combining humour sporting culture and horse-riding satire. Oblong folio in half morocco over grey cloth by Riviere & Sons gilt tooling gilt titles to morocco label. Spine raised bands gilt tooling & titles rubbed along edges. Internally engraved title page followed by seven lively hand coloured plates of hunters and horses and their mishaps plates dated 1815 & watermarked J Whatman 1819 red marbled endpapers t.e.g. book labels to fpd Charles Cooper Townsend & Charles C Auchincloss. A lovely copy. A rejoinder to Sir Robert Frankland's Indispensable accomplishments London 1811. 251350 mm. Tooley 44. Schwerdt 1 p. 20. Bobins 747. Not listed in Abbey Life Plates are: Engraved title page 1. Going along a slapping pace; 2. Topping a flight of Rails 3. Charging an Ox-fence. 4. Got in and getting out. 5. Facing a Brook 6. Swishing at a Rasper 7. Returning Home in Triumph. Title continues:In looking over that very amusing work call'd Indispensable accomplishments sign'd Billesdon Coplow with which I was very much delighted but could not forbear remarking that he consider'd it only necessary that the horse should come well into the next field charge and ox fence go in and out clever face a brook & swish at a rasper he does not mention that to do all that kind of thing it is necessary he should be mounted by a rider of judgment and courage. I have undertaken begingsic his pardon to mount well qualified horses with unqualified riders and to shew the figure those horses are likely to cut during the day. As an early coloured-plate satire of riding culture and horse-sports it offers modern viewers insight into early 19th-century sporting and social attitudes <br/> <br/> S & J Fuller hardcover
18982661Amsterdam: H. Gerlings 1898. First edition. First edition. Oblong 8vo. Original color pictorial illustrated paper covered boards 9front and back with silk string ties inside spine as issued red decorated endpapers. Printed on one-side only with double sheets joined at outer edges. Color illustrated lithograph plates every page by Bernard Willem Wierink. The rare first editiion of this very scarce children's classic. Dutch language classic set in Japan featuring "Pim" who is given a Japanese box containing small animals dragons mice cranes etc. which come to life during the night. Extremely scarce and rarely seen complete in its binding without defects. This copy is fine. <br/><br/> H. Gerlings hardcover books
1828004955Lemberg: Gedruckt in der Matfusischen Buchdruckerey 1828 Folio 39 cm 136 ff. Contemporary marbled boards red leather label with gilt-lettered title binding rubbed small parts of paper missing at extremities some foxing inside. "Peri Megadim" is a twofold commentary on Karo's "Ōrah Hayyim" with one part entitled "Mishbesōth zāhābh" serving as a super commentary on David ben Samuel ha-Levi's "Tūrē zāhāb." The second part is titled "Sifthē dha'āth" functioning as a commentary on Shabbethai Kohen's "Sifthē Kohen." It was published in Berlin in 1771-72 for the first part and in Frankfurt on Oder in 1787 for the second part. Joseph ben Meir Teomim 1727-1793 was a Galician rabbi born in Lemberg L'viv. While still young he succeeded his father in the position of preacher and rabbinical instructor in the yeshivah of Lemberg. Later he went to Berlin where he spent several years in the bet ha-midrash of Daniel Jafe. He then resumed his former position in Lemberg and in 1782 was appointed rabbi at Frankfort-on-the-Oder where he remained until his death. Te'omim one of the foremost rabbis of his time was a thorough student of rabbinical literature and was not unlearned in the secular sciences Jewish Encyclopedia. Gedruckt in der Matfusischen Buchdruckerey hardcover
187532820405<p>9 volumes. Contemporary polished red calf spines gilt morocco labels. Light wear to binding slight separation at top of one joint. A very good set in a handsome red calf Victorian binding.</p><p>Gifford's edition of Jonson's works played an important role in the Jonson revival.</p><br /> Bickers hardcover
181632820406<p>9 volumes. Contemporary mottled calf calf spines gilt morocco labels. Light wear to binding two joints tender. A very good set in a very handsome binding.</p><p>Gifford's edition of Jonson's works played an important role in the Jonson revival.</p><br /> for Nicol et al
1882372611882. POORE Ben Perley. The Life and Public Services of Ambrose E. Burnside Soldier-Citizen-Statesman. Providence 1882. 1st ed. 4to. Illus. 448 6pp. Slight wear at base of spine else a very good copy in orig. full morocco a.e.g. Edition De Luxe. Limited to 300 numbered copies. unknown
