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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
160927318Frankfurt Hanover & Hanover: Apud Andrea Wecheli heredes Claudium Marnium & Joann Aubrium; Parts 2 & 3 Typis Wechelianis apud Claudium Marnium & Heredes Joan. Aubrii 1609. First published 1591-94. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. Three parts in one volume. Vellum. Some soiling and browning of vellum and text ties lacking else a very good copy with bookplate of Alfred Jerome Brown. First published 1591-94. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. This work was ultimately completed in seven parts. <br/> 'The Polish-German physician was the personal physician to both Emperor Ferdinand and Maximilian II in Austria. He wrote several medical works and was a follower of the Galenic school of medicine. He was one of the first to study the contagiousness of certain diseases. "Sixteenth Century Books in the National Library of Medicine" 1077 for the 1591-94 edition; Osler 2387 & 2388 earlier editions Apud Andrea Wecheli heredes, Claudium Marnium & Joann Aubrium; [Parts 2 & 3] Typis Wechelianis, apud Claudium Marnium & Heredes unknown books
1932887121932. GOLD CHESTER. THE ADVENTURES OF DICK TRACY THE DETECTIVE. Racine Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co. 1932. 4" x 4 3/8"x 1 5/8". First Big Little Book to be published. Dick Tracy debuted as a daily strip in the Detroit Mirror on October 4 1931. This book is a reprint for the second month of the daily strip. November 19 through December 28 1931 and April 12 through May 24 1932. According to the entry for this book in: Big Little Book Club #GW2 707. this book only had one press run. The measurements vary slightly from that descibed in the BLBC reference their's being 3 3/8" by 4 3/8" x 1 1/2". This is an exceptionally fresh clean copy with just a little rubbing at the corners and a tiny crack at the top edge of the spine. unknown books
1866WRCAM26697Washington 1866. 6pp. Folio. Disbound leaves. Minor chipping staining. Very good. One of the Fort Sully treaties. "These famous treaties were concluded at Fort Sully Dakota Territory by Newton Edmunds E.B. Taylor and Generals S.R. Curtis and H.H. Sibley. They stipulate a cessation of hostilities and depredations by the various bands and their withdrawal from the overland routes established or to be established through their country etc. Among the witnesses is Hezeiah L. Hosmer Chief Justice of Montana Territory" - Eberstadt. EBERSTADT INDIAN TREATIES 130. unknown books
1866WRCAM26696Washington 1866. 7pp. Folio. Dbd. Minor chips tears. Very good. One of the famous Sioux treaties of Fort Sully. "These famous treaties were concluded at Fort Sully Dakota Territory by Newton Edmunds E.B. Taylor and Generals S.R. Curtis and H.H. Sibley. They stipulate a cessation of hostilities and depredations by the various bands and their withdrawal from the overland routes established or to be established through their country etc. Among the witnesses is Hezekiah L. Hosmer Chief Justice of Montana Territory" - Eberstadt. EBERSTADT INDIAN TREATIES 130. unknown books
1828D2439Paris: Firmin Didot pour Lami Denozan 1828. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 210 x 132mm. viii cxlvi 48pp. notes and glossary. Illustrated with hand-colored engraved title with marginal vignettes of female personifications and muses by Richard Parkes Bonington. Illustrated throughout with 10 half-page lithographs printed on chine-collé carefully hand-colored heightened in gilt and mounted; six are by Richard Parkes Bonington and four are by Henry Monnier and 15 decorative initials highlighted with colors inspired by ornaments found on the Books of Hours printed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. 19th-century full red morocco decoratively tooled in gilt five raised bands gilt doublures marbled endpapers all edges gilt; lightly foxed throughout miniatures remain bright and fresh; spine slightly scuffed. Armorial bookplate of J. Austin Stevens Junior to front pastedown. First Edition of this rare and unusual book OCLC locates only four copies all in German libraries. Férdinand Langlé littérateur dramatist and occasional necromancer focused his literary interests on the nostalgic and the romantic. In 1828 he edited Les Contes du Gay-Sçavoir a witty collection of medieval ballads and fables. The text is printed in Gothic characters and illustrated to imitate the style of medieval manuscript illumination; it is followed by endnotes and a glossary printed in Roman type. The major illustrator of the work Richard Parkes Bonington was an English Romantic landscape painter who also worked in lithography. He was a close and admired friend of painters Eugene Delacroix and Antoine-Jean Gros. Gordon Ray speaking of Bonington says his importance in the development of lithography can hardly be overstated.His designs for Vues pittoresques de lEcosse and Contes des Gay-Sçavoir are by no means negligible. Boningtons career as a lithographer was short but splendid. - Art of the French illus. book pp. 173 & 176. Fine fresh and bright rare colored copy of this nostalgic work on the medieval period. Brunet III 819; Carteret III p. 172 livre tres rare; Curtis 54-60; Ray 114 <br/><br/> Firmin Didot pour Lami Denozan hardcover books
1976122182Milano: Rizzoli Editore 1976. Hardbound. VG/VG in VG slipcase. A large weighty book. Red maroon cloth with color pictorial glossy dustjacket all contained in a custom slipcase. Appx. 217 pp. 138 mostly color plates tipped-in to the text portion and 50 full sheet 13.5" x 16" color plates. A most impressive book both by it's content and it volumetric displacement. Vital in the study of Caravaggio. Another version of this appears to have been printed in 1971 and this edition has a few extra illustrations at least and likely some additional or revised text. Text is in Italian. Transit mass would be 272 ounces. A stunning production. Rizzoli Editore hardcover books
16024955Venice: Giovanni Battista Ciotti 1602. First edition. Leather. Very Good/The first methodical Italian dictionary based on literary examples il Memoriale della lingua appeared ten years before the Accademia della Crusca issued its famous dictionary. Gamba points out that Pergamino who was a friend of Tasso utilized examples that the Crusca missed such as Tasso's dialogues Guido Cavalcanti Ludovico Dolce and Gian Giorgio Trissino. The first edition is quite scarce absent from recent auction records with copies scattered in a few important libraries. Gamba himself saw only the second edition of 1617. A third edition appeared in 1656. Folio 31 cm; 12 524 395 i.e. 375 lacks two unnumbered leaves errata at end. Title page in red and black. Printer's device on title page and colophon. Text printed in two columns. Woodcut head pieces; initials. Rebacked in period style retaining eighteenth-century boards in flecked calf gilt with double fillets. Title page and colophon a little worn but contents generally clean and bright. Few marginal worm trails. Discrete 19th-century library blindstamp on title page colophon and few other leaves. Reference: Bruni & Evans 4042; Michel VI 97; Fontanini I80 "il primo Vocabolario pieno e metodico"; Gamba 2757 1617 ed.; Vinciana 3839 1656 ed. "uno dei migliori vocabolari italiani pubblicati prima della Crusca." Giovanni Battista Ciotti hardcover books
180229918Canterbury: Printed by W. Bristow for J. Badcock 1802. 1st edition Canterbury issue. Period brown half-sheep binding with marbled paper boards. Some rubs & general wear to binding. Period pos to ffep. A VG copy. vi 7 - 20 232 pp. Illustrated with 15 copperplate engravings 4 color and the 6th Fig 1 serving as frontis. 12mo signed in 6s. 6-3/4' x 3-7/8" <br/><br/> Printed by W. Bristow, for J. Badcock hardcover books
17091897London: Printed for E. Sanger at the Post-House at the Middle Temple-Gate E. Curll at the Peacock without Temple-Bar and J. Pemberton at the Golden-Buck against St. Dunstan's-Church Fleet-Street 1709. 1st edition. Period full panelled calf binding. Red speckled edges. Wear to base of binding's boards. Joint leather starting. Bookplate to front paste-down and period inscription to ffep. Unobtrusive worming to gutter of last 8 gatherings. An About VG - VG copy. 6 vii 1 blank 101 101 - 112 112 105 - 162 161 - 164 167 - 212 213 - 226 213 - 310 32 pp. Initial imprimatur leaf. Text continuous despite paginatiron irregularities. 31 page Index at rear with Publisher advert last page. Head- tailpieces. Decorative initial captial letters. Folio. 13-3/4" x 8-3/8" <br/><br/> Printed for E. Sanger at the Post-House at the Middle Temple-Gate, E. Curll at the Peacock without Temple-Bar, and J. Pemberton hardcover 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
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
17116369London: A. Baldwin 1711. 8vo 20.8 cm 8.25". vi 42 pp. <br><br>Generally attributed to Francis Hare Bishop of Chichester but also attributed to Jonathan Swift this anonymously published political analysis expresses concern not only that putting the Duke of Anjou on the Spanish throne would tilt the balance of power in Europe too far towards France but also that such action would greatly damage the livelihoods of English textile workers among others dependent on international commerce; also questioned are Swift's views on the ramifications of trade with Portuguese America. This is the second expanded edition. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC T58140; Alden & Landis European Americana 711/126; Teerink-Scouten 1034. Blue-green paper wrappers old style. Title-page with small numeric stamp faint traces of other annotations. Small area of worming in inner margins touching a very few letters. A few scattered spots otherwise clean; edges untrimmed. A. Baldwin 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
166527468London: Printed for the Authour and are to be sold by Robert Butler 1665. 1st edition Wing M-334A. Recent dark-brown full speckled calf binding executed in a period style with gilt spine lettering. Binding - Fine. Text block - VG usual browning to paper/top edge occasionally closely trimmed infrequently affecting running title/faint prior owner blindstamp to preliminary blank. 10 132 pp. T.p. printed in red & black. Headpiece. Decorative initial capital letter to p. 1. 8vo: A - I8. 6-5/8" x 4-1/4" <br/><br/>Fairly scarce work by this divine author attribution from Wing- OCLC lists only microform copies & none at auction these last 30 years. . Printed for the Authour, and are to be sold by Robert Butler unknown books
188145183Flumine Januario / Rio de Janeiro: Typ. Economica 1881. First complete edition. Half black morocco over marbled boards gilt spine title. A very good copy boards rubbed repaired tear and closed tear on Volume V half title and title page. xii vii 467 1 pp. 4to. Published in and taking up the entire volume of Archivos do Museu Nacional do Rio De Janeiro. Volume V. 1880 1881. Added title page: Petro nomine ac imperio primo Brasiliensis imperii perpetuo defensore . jubente Flora fluminensis a' fr. Josepho Mariano a Conceptione Vellozo Ordinis monorum collecta descripta et elaborata anno M.D. CC. XC. Ex M.S. cod. Imperialis bibliothecæ eruta nunc primo etitur. Flumine Januario A.D.M. DCCC. XXV imperii IV. José Xavier Veloso 1742-1811 born in what is now Minas Gerais Brazil was ordained in 1766 in the convent of St. Anthony in Rio de Janeiro where he studied philosophy and theology later geometry in San Paulo and finally natural history. He collected plants animals and minerals in the Rio de Janeiro area from 1783 to 1790 at which time he moved to Lisbon where he worked at the Royal Academy of Sciences while preparing Florae Fluminensis his greatest work for publication. Using the Linnaeus' system of sexual classification of plants he prepared very highly detailed texts and 1700 prints many of them of new species. But the publication of the work was beset by problems. First sent to Venice the plates were never completed. Later the French invasion of the Iberian peninsular sent the Portuguese government then Veloso and his manuscripts into exile in Brazil where he died in 1811. In 1825 an abbreviated version of the text was published followed by the eleven volumes of the Icones in 1827 of which few copies survive. The complete text was not published until this edition in 1881. Bound with and proceeded by Archivos do Museu Nacional do Rio De Janeiro. Volume IV. 1879. Rio 1881. viii 151 1 pp vii plates. Folded color plate split at fold. Volume subtitle: Insectologia. Includes Müller Fritz: A metamorphose de um insecto diptero among other works. Rodrigues 2473. Sabin 98833n. For the shorter version of 1825 see: Barba de Moraes II p. 343. Pritzel 468. Jackson 377. Innocencio V.5 4258; V.13 p.122. Also see Nissen BBI 2046. Typ. Economica hardcover 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
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
1782263934London: J. Stockale; R. Faulder 1782. First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Ritson's first book in which he attacks Thomas Warton's History of English Poetry in such vitriolic tones -- Warton is a preternder a cheater and a liar -- as to cause quite a contretemps in late 18th century English literary circles. One assumes this actually pleased Ritson as he went on the next year to attack Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. Eventually Ritson went complete mad barricading himself in his rooms at Gray's Inn and setting fire to a pile of manuscripts. In an attractive later binding in red half-goat over marbled board with raised bands. We assume the binder was charged with binding a group of different books to a uniform size -- the title page is trimmed and mounted and all the other leaves are folded neatly to fit the bottom edge and then the leading edge over it. Rather astonishing actually. Very Good binding. J. Stockale; R. Faulder unknown books
1991119333New York: HarperCollins Publishers 1991. First edition of Brian Wilson's candid autobiography. Octavo original half cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by Brian Wilson on the half-title page "To Glen Brian Wilson" signed by Todd Gold on the title page and inscribed by Dr. Eugene Landy on the dedication page "To Glenn Eugene E. Landy." The recipient Glenn Goldman founded Book Soup in 1975 an independently owned bookstore on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood specializing in art music film photography design and fiction. American psychotherapist Dr. Eugene E. Landy was best known for his unconventional psychological treatments especially for his treatment of Wilson in the 1970s and 80s in which he essentially took control of his life monitoring him 24 hours a day with a team of assistants to keep him sober. The treatment was later deemed unethical by Californian courts and was later dramatized in the 2014 biographical film Love & Mercy in which Landy is portrayed by Paul Giamatti. Wilson dedicated the present volume to Landy. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Suzanne Noli. Jacket photograph by Mark Hanauer. A unique example. Wilson's first memoir Wouldn't It Be Nice not only documents the Beach Boys' rise to fame but their founder's twenty year struggle with drug addiction alcoholism obesity and mental illness. Filled with shocking revelations the book reveals the inspiring story of one of the greatest musical geniuses of the 20th century. HarperCollins Publishers hardcover books
1928404840New York: Syrian-American Press 1928. A very good copy internally clean the front wrapper with large chip at fore-edge. 8vo. Frontispiece by Kahlil Gibran. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY inscribed on the front flyleaf in Arabic: "Ila Akhiy Jawaad 'Arid To my brother Jawaad 'Arid Rashid Ayyub." This is the second of the three volumes of verse published by the Lebanese-born poet Rashid Ayyub 1872-1941 nicknamed the "complaining" or "dervish" poet. It's frontispiece is a characteristic image by Kahlil Gibran Jubran Kahlil Jibran. As a merchant he visited Paris and Manchester and later emigrated to New York where he joined the romantic movement of the Mahjar "exiled" poets founding with other writers al-R bi a al-Qalamiyya the first Arab-American literary society. A scarce title especially inscribed. <br/><br/> Syrian-American Press unknown books
1969List911Chicago 1969. 21 1/4 x 29 1/4 inches. Some light toning and edgewear near fine condition overall. The first example of this poster we have encountered which shows Judge Julius Hoffman Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and President Richard Nixon. We find no other records and can only assume it was produced in the same era as the previous offering as it bears the same address of 28 E. Jackson. unknown books
1828321057London: J. Taylor 1828. Engraved title and 55 plates on thick wove paper. Uncut. 8vo. Early calf rebacked. Minor dampstaining. Engraved title and 55 plates on thick wove paper. Uncut. 8vo. Includes designs for gates garden seats alcoves temples baths entrance gates lodges facades prospect towers cattle sheds ruins bridges greenhouses a hot house & hot wall with plans and scales. First issued circa 1800 this later issue from the same plates. Variously ascribed to Elison or Middleton. A charming pattern book. Berlin Kat. 3433; Archer 68.1; ESTC N71679 J. Taylor unknown books
192486856Petropolis Berlin 1924. Ltd ed. in French. Hardcover. Near Fine. 61 2p. plus 28 leaves of plates which are printed on one side and seem to alternate with text leaves. Contemporary blue buckram on which almost all of the lighter blue front and back panels of the original wrapper have been mounted. 35cm. Endpapers browned. Glassine tissue guards have some browning and a couple have corner creasing but all are present. French text. This French-language edition was limited to 175 copies 125 of which were to be numbered 1-125 and the other 50 numbered I-L on the colophon page -- this copy is not numbered. Translator not identified. Grigoriev was a Russian painter and graphic artist. <br/><br/> hardcover books
18374940London: Longman Rees Orme Brown Green & Longman 1837. First edition. References: Ibrahim-Hilmy i 310; Kalfatovic 0338. Fine/Living in Luxor in 1836 Hoskins traveled with Robert Hay and Frederick Catherwood to the oases of Libya where he ran into Joseph Bonomi. "A good account" Kalfatovic illustrated with maps and engravings from Hoskins's own drawings. 22 cm; xvi 338 i.e. 341 pages map and 20 engraved plates 3 of them folding. Bound in recent half leather over marbled boards in period style. Marbled edges. Ownership inscription of W. Cushman of Watertown. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, unknown books