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1934239269New York: New Masses Inc 1934. 30p. paper browned wraps worn and foxed else good condition. Contributers include Paul Novick and William F. Dunne. New Masses, Inc unknown books
1920009370Elkhorn Oregon now a dead post office 1920. Unbound. Very good. This lot of consists multiple items: <p style="margin-left:3%; margin-right:3%;">One canceled check from the Silver King Mining Company <p style="margin-left:3%; margin-right:3%;">One application and contract to purchase Silber King Mining Company stock <p style="margin-left:3%; margin-right:3%;">Two Silver King Mining Company employment agreements accepting shares of capital stock in lieu of wages <p style="margin-left:3%; margin-right:3%;">Two letters on Silver King Mining Company letterhead regarding "grub" needed at the mine <p style="margin-left:3%; margin-right:3%;">One note on plain paper enclosed in a Silver King Mining Company envelope and <p style="margin-left:3%; margin-right:3%;">One file copy of a letter regarding the transfer of a stock certificate. The items are in nice shape. <p>Two of the covers are postmarked with Doane Type 2 No. 1 "railroad track" cancels. Doane Cancels were the Post Office Department's first attempt to improve postmark legibility by issuing rubber handstamps. The name honors Edith R. Doane a Postal Historian who became interested in these early 20th Century Handstamps in the 1950's. They were used at smaller 4th class post offices where receipts did not exceed $500 in a year. Type 2 Doane Cancels have 2 sets of railroad track type bars with a number in them. They were issued from Sep. 29 1903 until Jun. 30 1905. The "1" inside the bars meant the Elkhorn Postmaster annual compensation less than $100. <br /><br />The contents of two letters suggest that one supervisor and four miners worked the mine and are rather eye-opening with regard to life at site: <p style="margin-left:3%; margin-right:3%;">"Have recd some of the grub. Wish you would send me $5 or $10 . . . as my old 30-30 is Broke and I want to get it fixed . . . as there is a cooger hanging around. . . have got to get some nails to do some fixing up things and have borrowed money to by Postage Stamps and tobacco. I hear there has been $150000 put up to sink on the Silver king how is it. There was a party here from Portland who tells me that . . . there was some machinery bought for the Silver King. What is it. . . I have rcd. 100 lbs of flower and the bacon coffee one case - tomatoes - and one case milk beans and if you have sent anything more I have not recd it old man shire said that was ll that was there - I am out of lard and sugar." <p>The mine was located in the Lester Mining District on the western slope of the Cascades about 24 miles from the summit of Mt. Jefferson and ten miles from Gates and 17 miles from a railway station at Lyons. The complex consisted of 12 contiguous claims with a total of 240 acres. The "Queen Vein" reached by tunnel contained the best developed and richest ore. Although only traces of gold lead and zinc were present assays showed in places it contained up to almost 41 ounces of silver per ton. Although no official production numbers were recorded the mine is remembered for providing a large amount of silver for the relative short time it was operated. It is still accessible and safe to explore as the Bureau of Land Management has left it open and ungated. <br /><br /> A nice grouping of documents from a short-lived but productive Oregon silver mine made more interesting by the use of relatively scarce postal handstamps on the companies outgoing mail. <br /><br /> books
1855007164Sacramento California 1855. Two manuscript letters in ink both on ruled paper with folding creases the 1855 letter 8" x 12 1/2" with single spaced writing both sides approx. 500 words. The 1856 letter 15" x 10" folded in half to make 4 pp. approx. 300 words with small blindstamp top left corner depicting an eagle. The earlier letter is headed "September 18th 1855 Naperville Dupage County Illinois" and ends "Michael direct your letters Nevada County Nevada post office California". George writes to his brother Michael in Naperville that he has "seen a good dele sins i rote you they last letter" including a hundred "inshins" and some "Buffellow". He adds that "we had good luck all they way of may we left Council Bluff" and that he is not home sick yet. He then talks of the gold mines river mining what they are paying and the cost of things such as board "from five to ten dollars a week" "Beaf" "wors 15 to 20 cents" and "potato" "4 cent per pound". He adds that he intends to have some gold before he comes home and that "girls are not so plenty here as they are in state". He closes by asking his brother to write him and to remain at home in Illinois to care for their parents. The 1856 letter headed Sacramento august 3th 1856 informs his brother that he is well and "down to Sacramento now" working on a farm feeding a "schrasing" thrashing machine and that "they times is verry hard in California now". He adds that he had some money "stole" while he was in the mountains but since coming down into the valley he was making money and will send some home soon. The letter ends with George wishing to see them all soon and that he is not home sick. The third page of the letter bears a drawing of a wing or leaf eleven smaller versions of the same image interspersed on page 2. A fascinating testimonial on California during the gold rush written in a strong hand and in a wonderful vernacular style by a good observer. . HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. Manuscript. Very Good. books
188228712California 1882. 62 2 blank pp. Original printed wrappers lightly dustsoiled stitched. Rubberstamp at head of front wrap: "McKee J. Filed Feb. 25 1882." Text clean. Very Good. <br/> offered with NO. 8072. . POINTS AND AUTHORITIES FOR APPELLANT. MASTICK BELCHER & MASTICK ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLANT. 41 1 blank pp. Original printed wrappers lightly dustsoiled stitched. Ink correction on front wrapper changing "Appellant" to "Respondent." A few question marks in ink written in margins. Very Good. <br/> offered with NO. 8072. . RESPONDENT'S REPLY TO APPELLANT'S BRIEF. ESTEE & BOALT AND RAMON E. WILSON ATTORNEYS FOR RESPONDENT. 23 1 blank pp. Original printed wrappers lightly dustsoiled stitched. Light creasing of a few later leaves. Very Good. <br/> offered with NO. 8072. . RESPONDENT'S POINTS AND AUTHORITIES. ESTEE & BOALT AND RAMON E. WILSON ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF AND RESPONDENT. 42pp. Original printed wrappers lightly dustsoiled stitched. Text clean. Very Good. <br/><br/> The complaint charged that the plaintiff and defendant were owners of adjoining gold quartz mines near Plymouth California in Amador County the birthplace of the California Gold Rush; and that Defendant Empire had unlawfully entered Plaintiff Pacific Gold Mining Company's mine and taken ores of the value of $250000. Plaintiff brought suit in the Superior Court of Amador County for compensation. unknown books
141916009JUnion Hill / Grass Valley California 1914-1915. Original hardcover ledger 11.5†x 8†bound in half leather with gilt stamping over light brown corduroy metal spine with locking mechanism no key marbled paper pastedowns and gilt embossed leather alphabet tabs on front page edges. 168 pages of handwritten text showing detailed internal records from the historic Union Hill Mining Company that had offices in both Grass Valley and San Francisco. Union Hill is adjacent to Grass Valley. Detailed information for 1914-1915 including operating expenses profit and loss income expenses production vendors payroll cash bullion production tungsten production names vouchers insurance and marketing. Entries include operating expenses for the South Idaho Mine and names of the local companies they did business with such as Grass Valley Hardware Empire Mining Company Nevada County Narrow Gauge R. R. Company and Thomas Diggs Company an entry for Augustus D. Cox who was the Mine supervisor to very specific mining operating expenses for example: “Shaft Above 600’ Level†“Shaft Below 600’ Level†“Storage Dam 600’ Level†with expenses for mining tools hoisting compressing fire protection etc. A rare and unique Gold Country artifact this original handwritten Ledger offers compelling insight into an historic Mother Lode gold mine. The corduroy covers have some staining the rear leather corner has a corner chip the rear spine fold has a two inch half oval chip revealing the board beneath the front hinge is split and the metal spine has some rust internally the ink stamp of the Union Hill Mining Company on the front endpaper. Gold was discovered at Union Hill in 1854 the first recorded claim was in 1866 as Union Hill Gold Quartz Mine and Mining Stock Certificates for Union Hill Mining Company exist from the 1860’s. Although very profitable it appears Union Hill Mine opened & closed changed ownership &/or operators several times from the 1870’s until purchased by Idaho-Maryland Mines Company around 1920. In 2016 this historic mine was purchased by a gold mining company with plans to restart operations in the unexplored areas below the Idaho-Maryland Mine Property. hardcover books
1849WRCAM52151Kreuznach: R. Voigtlander 1849. 32pp. Printed blue wrappers rear wrapper original front wrapper in facsimile. Small corner repairs to rear wrapper. Some foxing two ink stamps on titlepage. Else very good. In a half morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. The first edition of an exceedingly rare Gold Rush pamphlet printed in the hallowed year of that epochal event. "Like many guidebooks for Europeans this pamphlet gives general information on California's physical features history and 'Notes for Emigrants' on the gold discovery. The portion on California's gold riches consists primarily of an article reprinted from the KOELNER ZEITUNG of January 14 1849 which in turn summarizes R.B. Mason and others. The guide mentions the many German settlers in the Sacramento Valley and speaks proudly of Captain Sutter" - Kurutz. <br> <br> Only four institutions worldwide report a copy of this book: the California State Library the University of California at Berkeley Yale and the State Library in Berlin. It is even more difficult to encounter at auction this copy being the only one on record to pass through the rooms. COWAN II p.102. HOWES C43 "aa." KURUTZ 112. SABIN 9984. R. Voigtlander hardcover books
1853WRCAM46036Columbia Ca.: Gazette Print 1853. Broadside 10 3/4 x 8 inches. Printed in three columns. A bit of light foxing mostly in margins. Near fine. In a folding cloth clamshell case spine gilt. A rare broadside printing of the laws of the Columbia Mining District in California in 1853 created and enforced by the miners for their own self-government. The seventeen articles all deal with regulations for mining and claims. The first nine set out rules for making and operating claims. The next three address foreign ownership of claims. Article 10: "None but Americans and Europeans who have or shall declare their intentions of becoming citizens shall hold claims in this district." Article 11: "Neither Asiatics nor South Sea Islanders shall be allowed to mine in this district either for themselves or for others." Article 12 sets out a punishment for any miner who sells a claim to an Asian or a Polynesian. The final five articles set out rules for enforcing the laws including the creation of a Miners Committee and a system of binding arbitration. According to the text the laws were adopted "at a meeting of the Miners of the Columbia Mining District held Oct. 1st 1853." and the laws are signed in print by "C.H. Chamberlain Pres." and "R.A. Robinson Sec'y." <br> <br> "The item is of basic importance.as an example of how the California miners - or men beyond the reach of government anywhere else in our States and Territories for that matter - banded together and enacted and enforced codes of law for their own protection" - Eberstadt. The COLUMBIA GAZETTE which printed this broadside was according to Kemble the second newspaper to operate in Columbia starting operations in the fall of 1852. The first newspaper in the area the COLUMBIA STAR apparently printed only two or three issues in October-November of 1851 before the printing press was destroyed by vandals. <br> <br> Greenwood locates only three copies at the California Historical Society and the Bancroft Library and the Streeter copy which was sold at the Clifford sale in 1994. Rocq lists a copy at the Huntington Library. OCLC adds copies at Yale Library of Congress University of California at San Diego Stanford and DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University. A rare and interesting example of the search for order in the tumult of the gold rush. <br> <br> The Streeter copy sold to Howell for $550 in 1968. It later reappeared in the sale of California collector Henry Clifford in 1994. GREENWOOD 381. ROCQ 15427. EBERSTADT 131:105. STREETER SALE 2735. CLIFFORD SALE 26. OCLC 29876358. Gazette Print hardcover books
42777New York: E. Fabreguettes Fils & Morra n. d. Circa 1850. Wooden case with a hinged lid and hook clasps seller's label to inside of lid. Interior has carved compartments for the brass scale and weights including a small compartment for grain weights with a hinged lid. Light general wear to case and weights brass balances a bit tarnished. Only contains the three grain weights so perhaps others missing VG overall. Suspension gold scale made of brass with troy and grain weights. Troy weights nested ranging from 1/16 to 4 oz; grain weights include 2 6 and 10. Case: 1-11/16" x 6-11/16" x 3-1/8". Scale when hanging: ~8-1/4" x 7-1/8" brass balances 2-1/2" in diameter. <br/><br/>In 1850 the New York firm of E. Fabreguettes Fils & Morra importers of French fancy goods attempted to capitalize on the California Gold Rush by adding gold scales to their wares. Notices in several of the city's papers in late October and early November of that year including the Monday November 4th edition of The Evening Post advertised the following: "GOLD SCALES. The subscribers offer for sale the best and most approved pattern of French Standard Gold Scales adjusted exactly to the United States Mint Standard of every size and weight. These scales are so made that they take but very little compass when packed and are much more neatly and conveniently finished than either the English German or American article. As we have all that are made of this pattern parties having orders for shipment to California are solicited to examine them before purchasing elsewhere. Also for sale a variety of French fancy goods accordeons sic &c. E. Fabreguettes Fils & Morra 73 William Street up stairs." E. Fabreguettes Fils & Morra was located at 61 Maiden Lane until at least 1847 moving to their William Street address in 1848 or 1849. No later advertisements for these scales appear to have been issued in New York newspapers leading us to conjecture that the firm's venture into the gold mining market was perhaps not particularly successful. It is of course impossible to say with any certainty if this particular scale was originally used during the Gold Rush though this one here offered was purchased in California giving rise to possibility it may very well have been. In either case a nice artifact from the California Gold Rush era. E. Fabreguettes Fils & Morra unknown books
196415581Georgetown: The Talisman Press 1964. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/good. Quarto in dustwrapper. 258 pp. Illustrated. One of 750 copies. A very good copy in thick oatmeal cloth binding. Former ownership stamp to copyright page else a clean desirable copy. Original dustwrapper in good condition with toning and wear to edges. Some small chips to spine ends. <br/><br/> The Talisman Press hardcover books
185148953Logtown Eldorado County California 1851. SIGNED by McKemson at conclusion. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Bit of age toning. Fold-lines. Later pencil annotation at top noting location of Logtown. Very Good. Single sheet 25 lines of mss ~ 7 words per line ~ 175 words. 2 sums penned to right of sheet. Docket summary to verso. All writing clear & sharp entirely legible. 9-5/8" x 7-1/2" <br/><br/>An interesting & information-laden letter detailing the contractual & financial agreements between two individuals engaged in mining along with sums paid for divers aspects of same to wit: "to John and Peter for pork" .75 "balance on beef to the butcher down Town" 4.15 and "balance on account with King" 9.86. We note athat the value of labor is recognized e.g. "it was agreed by J. S. Bigalow and I that as George was sick most of the time that the cooking that he did should pay his part of the living for which our bebts were principally contracted." <br /> <br />A nice primary source ADs documenting divers aspects of mine life amongs those so practiciing. unknown books
1851320912San Francisco: Joseph W. Gregory 1851. 20 blank leaves. 24mo. Original dark purple wrappers printed in gilt. Minor ink stains on inner wrappers otherwise a near fine copy with the original unused plain paper envelope. 20 blank leaves. 24mo. A lovely example of an unused Gold Rush letter book intended to advertise Joseph Gregory's California and New York Express Line by means of a convenient way for gold seekers in California to communicate with friends and family back home. According to the wrapper "this book is made of the finest letter paper and of the size of a folded letter which with an envelope will not exceed the weight of a single letter and is more convenient than paper in sheets." Gregory also published a pamphlet GREGORY'S GUIDE FOR CALIFORNIA TRAVELLERS; VIA THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA 1850. This is a scarce California Gold Rush ephemeron. Joseph W. Gregory unknown books
185246494Vassalboro Maine 1852. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Fold lines. Age-toning along some exterior folds. Red sealing wax remnants. Penciled "Grandma Keith" above address. Very Good. Biofolium of blue paper with 2-1/3 pages of manuscript writing containing 2 letters 53 8 lines ~660 100 words respectively. One panel hand addressed to South Braintree Mass with stamped No. Vassalboro ME postmark Mar 15 & "Paid 3" circular stamp. Unfolded: 9-3/4" x 7-5/8". Folded: 3" x 4-3/8" <br/><br/>Ms Keith begins as most mothers do. relating her regrets for not writing sooner followed by health news of divers relations. Page 2 starts with the news that "There is a great many men in this region gone to California it is thought Maine must suffer a good deal in consequence of so many of her Citizens going to that Country the loss of the men is not all the State is injured by having so much money carried out of it. Since the sufferings of those gone there have been made known & likewise how small the chance of making money enough to fetch them back even many who were calculating to go have given it up at least for the present." The second letter by Keith to affirm to Miss Marcy that she wishes good relations between the two of them expressing appreciation of the "complimentary manner in which you mentioned my son." An intimate look at the allure of California's the 1850s myth tempered with the reality relayed back by some of those who succumbed. unknown books
1851476391851. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning especially along fold-line. Penmanship clear & easily read. Bifolium i.e. 4 pages of lined paper 23 lines per page ~ 10 words per line ~ 900 words. 9-3/4" x 7-5/8" <br/><br/>While no year is written on the ALs itself we posit 1851 as the Maritime Heritage website shows the only visit to San Francisco by the Washington was July 21 1851 arriving from Baltimore per a newspaper entry in the Daily Alta. That said per a online perpetual calender March 14th came on a Tuesday in 1852 not 1851. We lean towards 1851 as the actual year this letter was written. And this historic letter is replete with interesting content written by a man bound for the promised land of California. Chamberlin is from Boston writing a newsy letter his sister posted from the Harbor of Pernambuco Brazil March 14 where the ship in taking on supplies including coal. He describes the voyage thus far the expense of the company that sent him and the trip ahead around the Horn expecting to arrive in California in about 30 days. He describes conditions aboard the ship the places he has visited the people he has met in Brazil his own experiences with the heat and fever and more. Letters from this era are apprearing ever more infrequently on the market. unknown books
185525719.2Baltimore: Published for the Author 1855. 1st edition Bradford 2222; Cowan II p. 274; Graff 1848; Howes H-401; Kurutz 327; Rocq 15852; Sabin 31272. Brown cloth binding with eleborate blindstamped decorations. Gilt stamped lettering to spine with gilt illustration of a miner and pickax. Spine sunned as are board edges. Remnants of number label at base of spine. Prior owner signature to ffep. Withal a VG copy. xii 300 6 blank pp. 12mo signed in 6s. 7-3/4" x 5" <br/><br/>Per Kurutz "one of the most famous oft-quoted and entertaining books of the Gold Rush." Published for the Author hardcover books
1849WRCAM49949New York 1849. 1p. of a bifolium docketed on verso of second bifolium leaf. Mailing folds slight edge discoloration else fine. An intriguing note regarding life insurance for a forty-niner traveling to California in 1849 with Henry Webb and John Woodhouse Audubon. The note reads: "Langdon H. Havens wants a life insurance permit for California to go over the Overland Route in company with persons bearing dispatches from our Government in a Company of 100 or more. He wants to leave for Washington immediately." Perhaps the twenty-six-year- old Haven sometimes spelled Havens originally intended to join a safe government- sponsored expedition from Washington but he was in fact among the 100 Forty-Niners who embarked on a famously ill-fated overland expedition led by Army Colonel Henry Webb with John Woodhouse Audubon son of the famous ornithologist as his second in command which left New York on February 8. <br> <br> The company proceeded by ship train stagecoach and riverboat to New Orleans and from there by steamer across the Gulf of Mexico to the mouth of the Rio Grande where they arrived on March 13 - an odd overland route dictated by Webb a veteran of the Mexican-American War. There disaster struck. A dozen men died of cholera the company's money was stolen and leadership conflict led Webb to leave the company with a dozen followers. Some of the remaining stalwarts including Haven followed Audubon onward trekking for seven months through Mexico and Arizona the survivors finally reaching San Diego in November. Some then took a boat to San Francisco; others continued overland to the gold fields. As meticulously recorded by Audubon a naturalist and painter in his own right the entire venture has gone down in history as "one of the most poorly-planned" Forty-Niner expeditions "on record." Haven though nearly dying en route was one of the fortunate few who "made it to California." An appealing note dated in the famous year of the California Gold Rush that eerily anticipates the dangers inherent in overland travel in America in the 19th century. unknown books
1991143392Portland ME: Portland Museum of Art 1991. First edition. Softcover. 128 pages. Exhibition catalog for a group show that ran July 30 through October 13 1991. Edited by Megan Thorn. Foreword by Barbara Shissler Nosnow. Essay by Carole Gold Calo. Includes information and color and black and white illustrations about these artists: Pierre Bonnard Gustave Caillebotte Paul Cezanne Edgar Degas Maurice Denis Henri Fantin-Latour Paul Gauguin Aristide Maillol Claude Monet Berthe Morisot. Camille Pissarro Odilon Redon Pierre Auguste Renoir Auguste Rodin Henri Rousseau Alfred Sisley Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Mary Cassatt and numerous others. A tight close to near fine copy in wrappers with some minor wear. Portland Museum of Art unknown books
188484965London: Bernard Quaritch 1884. 1st ed. of these three two volume sets of Camoes-related Burton translations which were uniformly bound and also numbered I-VI on the backstrips. The "Os Lusiadas" volumes are the 2nd issue of the 1st ed. which is actually uniform in size and binding with the 1st eds. of the other 2 sets. Hardcover. Near Fine. 6 volumes xix 250 251-471 vii 366 369-738 265 269-540p. Original green cloth with lightly worn gilt corners on front cover and gilt lettering on front covers and backstrips. 18 cm. Minor soiling and wear. Leaves lightly browned. Each volume has the bookplate of Burke Casari a Burton collector and enthusiast. Camoes was a great 16th century Portuguese poet. Burton projected at least four more Camoes-related volumes but they were apparently never published. See Penzer's "Annotated Bibliography" at pages 103-106. Isabel Burton was identified as editor of these rather scarce volumes. <br/><br/> Bernard Quaritch hardcover books
15546266Venice: Ad Signum Spei 1554. First edition. Very Good. Sm. 8vo. 1696pp. Title page with a large allegorical woodcut vignette. BOUND WITH: Campeggi Tommaso. OPUS. DE AUCTORITATE & POTESTATE ROMANI PONTIFICIS & Alia Opuscula Quae Indicantur in Sequenti Pagina. Venice: Apud Paulum Manutium Aldi F. 1555. Sm. 8vo. ff.12223. Lg. woodcut anchor & dolphin printer's device on title. Both works nicely bound together in 19th century brown morocco gilt decorated spine over marbled boards. Bookplate of James Stevens Cox on front pastedown. First editions of two of Campegii's main works. The first is his tract on celibacy the second is his treatise on the power of the Pope ff.1-116 followed by 19 other theological treatises. I. BM STC Italian p. 142. Not in Adams. II. BM STC Italian p. 142. Adams C477. Renouard ALDUS p. 164. Ad Signum Spei hardcover books
15737394Bologna: Ex Typographia Joannis Rosii 1573. First edition. Vellum. Very Good . 4to. 864pp. Woodcut device on title. Modern vellum lightly soiled hand lettered spine. A work on oratory inspired by orations of Demosthenes. All that is known of Carlo is that he was Professor of Greek at Bologna University between 1571 and 1582. Not in Adams or BL Italian STC. OCLC records 1 copy in the U. S. Ex Typographia Joannis Rosii hardcover books
19362221679<p>First edition. Octavo. 25 b/w halftone photographs. Dust jacket unclipped; small circular paper label on spine. Very good. 241 pages.</p><p>Signed and inscribed by author on front free endpaper to: "Mr. Dexter California State Superintendent of Schools Sacramento California July 31st 1940 Compliments of Herbert Carolan."</p><p>Also includes trips to Arizona New Mexico Las Vegas Washington Colorado.</p> G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
177969261Dublin: Printed for S. Price et al 1779. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Having served in a Massachusetts regiment during the French and Indian Wars Carver was sent in 1766 by Robert Rogers then governor of Mackinac to map the main rivers of Wisconsin and Minnesota in preparation for an expedition to search for an overland Northwest Passage. He traveled the Fox-Wisconsin route then up the Mississipii and Minnesota rivers to a point west of the Falls of St. Anthony where he wintered with the Sioux Indians. In 1767 he joined the party sent by Rogers to find a route to the Pacific. They traveled as far as Grand Portage on Lake Superior when they were forced to turn back for lack of supplies. This account based on his journal includes vivid descriptions of the Wisconsin and Minnesota territories Indian life and customs and a short treatise on tobacco. It was tremendously popular in both America and Europe and is thought to be the first work to mention a large mountain range to the west presumably the Rocky Mountains. Two copper plates. Octavo. The period calf binding has been expertly rebacked with a new brown leather spine and modern endpapers. The contents are a trifle toned with some occasional mild soiling and smudging. Period previous owner's ink signature to the title page and two concluding blank leaves. Lacking the folding frontispiece map and the preceding leaves. Howes C215; Sabin 11184. Printed for S. Price, [et al] hardcover books
1957WRCLIT80628New York: New Directions 1957. vii248pp. Pictorial wrappers. Foreword by James Laughlin. First edition a paperback original. Textblock uniformly tanned a few dust flecks to edges and rear wrapper otherwise a good copy. HARRISON NEWTH & CANDIDO p. 42. New Directions paperback books
15876166Cologne: Joannem Gymnicum 1587. 8vo. 16430pp. With the final blank. Small woodcut device on title. Cont. vellum. Minor worming to blank margin of a few final leaves. An uncommon edition. Not in Adams or BL German STC. VD16 #C1481. Joannem Gymnicum hardcover books
17184938Paris: Chez Emery Fils 1718. First edition. First edition. 4to. 128xl4755pp. Woodcut device on title & 2 woodcut headpieces. Nicely bound in period style full calf with red morocco spine label. Title-page lightly soiled. A vindication of early Church fathers by Remi or Remy Ceillier 1688-1761. Chez Emery, Fils unknown books
3396Large engraved vignette on title. Title in red & black. 8 p.l. 626 69 pp. Folio cont. blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards arms on covers effaced. Lyon: J. & P. Prost 1636. First edition Schuh's issue B no stated priority with the dedication to Charles de Neufville. "Very scarce. Compendium of all the author ever discovered or read about the subject of mineralogy. It was published posthumously from notes he left by his Order at Lyon six years after his death. Printed in a double column format in a relatively small type-size the work is a vast storehouse of all things mineralogical including new ideas restatements of earlier authors observations and superstitious belief. The uncritical selection of material led Webster in his Metallographia London 1671 p. 29 to criticize the author as too digressive and as mixing tares with the wheat. Partington thinks the use of the term 'Mineralogia' in the title is the first modern usage of the word. "The work opens by listing the evils and benefits of mineralogy. Mining is considered dangerous because of the lurking underground spirits.the author notes that the study of mineralogy helps one to understand the bible. It provides medicines and money ornaments for religious purposes tools used in agriculture industry painting music and alchemy. Cesi then answers the question he posed earlier and declares mineralogy to be a true philosophy worthy of careful study. "The numerous citations to earlier authors provide evidence of Cesi's wide reading. Commonly many authors are referenced on single points. For example in describing the generation of minerals he closely follows Aristotle but also cites Theophrastus Avicenna Albertus Magnus Agricola Gregorius Reisch Pliny Boodt Francis Rueus Marbode the Bible and numerous church fathers. The author is uncritical of the views he presents and accepts the authority of the ancient and medieval authors as his own. He believes that the Sun Moon and stars influence the subterranean world of minerals and metals and that gems have miraculous curative powers. He includes a chapter on the magnet. "Cesi divides his work into five sections: the first treats mineralogy proper the second the economic and commercial aspects for example colors and pigments the third lapidifying juices of the earth that congeal into minerals the fourth gems and the fifth metals. At the conclusion is a long and thankfully comprehensive index. Much insight about ancient philosophy and its affect in the 17th century can be gained from studying Cesi's Mineralogia."-Schuh Mineralogy & Crystallography: A Biobibliography 1469 to 1920 pp. 358-59. Cesi 1581-1630 was a Jesuit professor at Modena and Parma. A nice copy of a book which is now scarce on the market. ❧ Hoover 214. Partington II p. 94. Schuh 1113. Sinkankas 1221-who inaccurately calls this issue a reprint. Sinkankas knew mineralogy very well but nothing about bibliography. Thorndike VII pp. 254-57. hardcover books
