ZŌ, Han 曾槃 (or SŌ Senshun 曾占春)Biblio.com
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1053143 folding leaves. 8vo 240 x 170 mm. orig. patterned semi-stiff wrappers with orig. title-slip old stitching. Japan: 1791 date of Preface.<br /> <br> <br> <br /> <br /> A rare manuscript of Japanese natural studies or the “learning of roots and herbs†honzÅgaku 本è‰å¸ by ZÅ doctor and botanist 1758-1834. It was one of the major intellectual trends of the Tokugawa period with a large portion of the educated classes taking an interest in the topic. Initially inspired by the Chinese encyclopedic work Bencao gangmu 本è‰ç¶±ç›® Systematic Materia Medica Japanese natural studies came with time to focus on the natural environment of Japan in contradistinction to China. Our manuscript explicitly concerned with the mushrooms of “Our August Japan†is a case in point.<br /> <br> <br> It contains descriptions of 129 mushrooms divided into categories: wood mushrooms ground mushrooms bamboo mushrooms wood-ear mushrooms and poisonous mushrooms. Our author lists alternative names for a mushroom in question notes where it grows and describes its appearance. Literary references are given in many of the entries. Curiously despite the manuscript’s title ZÅ Han quotes from Chinese local gazetteers which often contained lists of local products.<br /> <br> <br> There is an appendix which contains four essays. discusses in turn different names of the mushroom in various parts of Japan; the etymology of the character kinoko 蕈 meaning mushroom; the method of ascertaining the poisonous character of a mushroom; and a prescription for breaking down the poison.<br /> <br> <br> ZÅ was the author of Seikei zusetsu An Illustrated Book of Agricultural Things the great agricultural and botanical work issued in the early years of the 19th century. It is an encyclopedic survey of all the agricultural products and practices of Japan. He served the Satsuma fiefdom under the lord Shimazu Shigehide<br /> <br> <br> Our text was never printed circulating only in manuscript form.<br /> <br> <br> ⧠Ueno MasuzŠ上野益三 Nihon hakubutsugakushi 日本åšç‰©å¦å² Tokyo: Heibonsha 1973 p. 416. unknown
155132892-1119Florence Lorenzo Torrentino 1551. With large historiated woodcut initial at the beginning. 90 pp. 1 blank leaf. Sm.-4to 193 x 138 mm. 17th-century polished calf gilt panelled spine red edges blind library stamps on first and last leaves back rep. From the collection of Charles Spencer 3rd Earl of Sunderland lot 10608 in his sale 1882. Florence Lorenzo Torrentino 1551. First edition. Probably originally published and later reprinted Palau: Se reimprimio en coleccion en la obras. as part of the larger work by the Spanish born Jesuit Torres 1509-1584 "De summi pontificis supra concilia auctoritate libri tres" 1551 against Ambrosius Catharinus Archbishop of Conza 1484-1553. Torres was professor at the Roman College and wrote more than seventy books principally polemical mainly against Protestants. "Can also exist independently": State Library Berlin transl. - Palau 33697 knows only the BN copy; FRBNF31481832; CNCE 48142 no copy in Florence; cf. Adams 1192; not in EDIT 16; not in STC Italian but cf. p. 687. Florence, (Lorenzo Torrentino) unknown
52890London: Atchley & Co. 106 Great Russel Street. Printed by Leighton Brothers c.1860. Oblong folio 42 x 28 cm. Original decorative red cloth titled on both sides spine lettered in black a.e.g. Original 4 pp. prospectus listing and describing the plates loosely tipped in. 32 full page illustrations: Southampton Isle of Wight Bay of Biscay Berlingas Cintra Tagus Trafalgar Tarifa Gibraltar Algiers Panteleria Malta Alexandria Mahmoudie Canal Boulac Cairo Cemetery Dead Camel Central Station Arabs on Horseback Encampment by Night Women Drawing Water Joseph's Well Red Sea Suez Jeddah Mocha Aden Point de Galle & Calcutta engraved on wood by Sears Heaviside Measom et al. With the small circular blind-stamp of the Library of Arts 106 Great Russell Street to title as often. Ex libris Isabel Clayton. Some time rebacked occasional spotting. Authorship has variously been attributed to John Tillotson or Joachim Hayward Stocqueler. This full title is taken from the prospectus for the work which is loosely tipped into this copy which otherwise as normal just has the short title "The Route of the Overland Mail to India" on the upper cover and and repeated on the pictorial title page. 106 Great Russell Street is the premises formerly occupied by Robert Frew 1985-2005 There are other issues with alternative publishers and in slightly different format some of which we have had with 63 pages of text. This copy appears quite complete but the only descriptive text is provided by the prospectus. London: Atchley & Co. 106 Great Russel Street***. Printed by Leighton, Brothers, [c.1860]. hardcover
17943703905Rome: Typis Salomonianis 1794. Three works bound together quarto the first main work with folding map 2 plates and an engraved portrait vignette with two shorter pamphlets 24 & 26 pp.; an attractive copy in contemporary patterned vellum boards spine banded red morocco spine label faded. <p><p>Three works by Paulinus including his important India Orientalis Christiana a study of and introduction to the Carmelite missions in India in the late eighteenth century in a particularly attractive contemporary binding. The work is illustrated with two plates and a fine map of India as well as a smaller vignette portrait of Paulinus himself. Paulinus of St Bartholomew 1748-1806 also known as Johann Philipp Werdin or Wesdin was a missionary and orientalist. A member of the Carmelite Order in 1774 he was sent to India Malabar where he was appointed vicar general of his order. In 1789 he was recalled to Rome in order to report on the mission and given the task of preparing books for the use of missionaries.</p> <p>One of the first Orientalists to note and work on the close relationship between Indian and European languages Paulinus was the author of many learned studies on the east and is best known for having published the first Sanskrit grammar. As an antiquarian who worked from original sources he was fortunate to have the patronage of Cardinal Stefano Borgia 1731-1804; a good Borgia whom he served as private secretary and who financed many of his publications. Both men served long periods on the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide a body preoccupied with exotic languages insofar as they impacted on spreading the christian gospels but also in understanding exotic theologies. In this context the Propaganda Fide was a central recipient of missionary collecting in the field which gave Paulinus exceptional advantages which enabled him to undertake extensive linguistic studies.</p> <p>After Borgia's death his remarkable library and museum were gradually distributed with the important biblical manuscripts mostly being added to the Vatican libraries after the secular materials had chiefly made their way to the national library of Naples.</p> <p>The two rare pamphlets bound in here are both concerned with Borgia's museum: Scitismo Sviluppato. del Museo Borgiano Rome c. 1793 and Lettera. del Museo Borgiano Rome same period both written in Italian not Latin and both discussing the Museo Borgiano. Borgia was particularly expert on Coptic relics but here Paulinus discusses early Brahmanic and other Indian manuscripts in his collection.</p> <p>All of these works are rare although as often the pamphlets are the scarcer. Worldcat lists some 10 copies of the India Orientalis Christiana 2 copies of the Scitismo and only 1 of the Lettera.</p> </p> . Typis Salomonianis unknown
17691430Wien: gedruckt mit Schulzischen Schriften 1769. First edition. In contemporary leather. Spine gilt with red title vignette. Edges tinted. Woodcut headpiece on A1. Pages ruled with woodcut frame. Light brown stains on the plate. Otherwise clean. In fine condition. First edition. In contemporary leather. Spine gilt with red title vignette. Edges tinted. Woodcut headpiece on A1. Pages ruled with woodcut frame. 1 title page verso blank a–b8 c6 i.e. 24 leaves and 1 folded plate. <p><br /> A curious and scarce treatise on glassblowing and the making of scientific glass objects. <br /> <p><br /> <p><br /> The book is illustrated with an engraved plate showing a glassmaker or lampworker at his working table surrounded by examples of his craft various scientific apparatuses a Cartesian devil a glass eye and elaborate glass-figurines and a centerpiece whose technique of making together with the detailed instruction for manufacturing thermometers hydrometers barometers is described in the text. <br /> <p><br /> <p><br /> The author of Die Glasschmelzkunst remained unrevealed hidden behind the initials of “J. d. Bâ€. The second edition was published under different initials of “A. Z. G†Brünn: Tascher 1824. Both editions are often attributed erroneously to Karl Moritz Diesing 1800–1867. Duncan in the Bibliography of Glass attributes it to Disting. <br /> <p><br /> <p><br /> Duncan 3269.<br /> <p>. gedruckt mit Schulzischen Schriften unknown
1836ST14728eLondon 1836-50. Various editions. 224 x 137 mm. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2". 16 volumes. <br/> FINE CONTEMPORARY FULL CALF MOST EITHER TREE OR POLISHED CALF see below raised bands spines intricately gilt in compartments morocco labels marbled endpapers and edges. Some works with frontispiece portraits. Front pastedowns with engraved bookplate of Edward Nicholas Hurt see below. A LOVELY COLLECTION--WITH VIRTUALLY NO SIGNS OF USE.<br/> <br/> Handsomely bound with beautifully gilt spines and just about uniform in size these volumes make an impressive appearance on the shelf. The six titles here include:<br /> <br /> 1 DE SAUMAREZ JAMES. ROSS JOHN. "MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF ADMIRAL LORD DE SAUMAREZ." 1838 Two volumes. Polished calf.<br /> <br /> 2 ELDON JOHN LORD CHANCELLOR. TWISS HORACE. "THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE OF LORD CHANCELLOR ELDON." 1844 Three volumes. Polished calf. <br /> <br /> 3 HORNER FRANCIS. "MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF FRANCIS HORNER M. P." 1843 Two volumes. Tree calf.<br /> <br /> 4 STANHOPE PHILIP DORMER. "THE LETTERS OF PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD." 1845; 1853 Five volumes. Tree calf.<br /> <br /> 5 TAYLOR WILLIAM. "THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE LATE WILLIAM TAYLOR OF NORWICH." 1843 Two volumes. Tree calf. <br /> <br /> 6 WARD ROBERT PLUMER. PHIPPS EDMUND. "MEMOIRS OF THE POLITICAL AND LITERARY LIFE OF ROBERT PLUMER WARD ESQ." 1850 Two volumes. Polished calf. <br /> <br /> The bookplate here is that of notable bibliophile and barrister Edward Nicholas Hurt 1795-1867 of Derbyshire and Marylebone London. He married Caroline Strutt daughter of the immensely wealthy philanthropist and social reformer Joseph Strutt 1765-1844 who was twice Mayor of Derby. As the Strutt arms are incorporated into the escutcheon of Hurt's ornate bookplate the plate can be dated to no earlier than their wedding in 1828. unknown
166216811Graz, Widmannstetter, 1662. 2 Bll., 16 S. Kl.-4°. Mod. Pp. (leicht bestoßen). [7 Warenabbildungen]
5858xxxvi 366 pp. one leaf but lacking as is often the case the 12-page schedule of sale & the 80-page author index. 8vo cont. speckled calf two corners a bit worn joints a little cracked but strong flat spine gilt red morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: Gogué & Née de la Rochelle 1785.<br/> <br/> The rare sale catalogue of the great library of books and early manuscripts many illuminated founded by Henri François d’Aguesseau 1668-1751 Chancellor of France a man of great learning. According to the preface of the catalogue he had acquired the collection of the poet Florent Chrestien 1541-1596 and his son Claude b. 1567. His library passed to his second son Jean Baptiste Paulin d’Aguesseau Marquis de Mannoevre 1701-84 who considerably enlarged it. Between the two generations they created a most remarkable collection. The father and son employed fifteen versions of their coat-of-arms on their bindings. The sale included 5583 lots and was sold over a 57-day period. Payne and the Marquis de Méjanes were major buyers.<br/> <br/> Very good copy with some minor foxing. Short tear due to a paper flaw to title but with no loss of text. Bookplate of the great French bookseller Georges Heilbrun. As mentioned above this copy lacks — as does the Grolier Club copy — the schedule of sale and index but it does have a final leaf in which the auctioneers promise to deliver the index at no charge by the end of May 1785 to anyone who requests a copy.<br/> <br/> ⧠Gustave Brunet Dictionnaire de Bibliologie Catholique col. 405–“cette vaste réunion d’ouvrages importants.†Grolier Club Printed Catalogues of French Books Auctions…1643-1830 318–lacking both the schedule of sale and author index. Guigard II p. 173. Peignot p. 76. unknown
1818369192Calcutta: Printed by Philip Pereira at the Hindoostanee Press 1818. Text in Persian in double columns. Title pages in Persian and English. Preliminaries in English with list of subscribers and Persian. 4 vi 10 4 subscribers; 1090 12 12 2 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary tan calf spine extra gilt boards with quadruple fillet border. Bookplate of Sir Gore Ouseley. Front joint repaired. Nice copy of a key work. Text in Persian in double columns. Title pages in Persian and English. Preliminaries in English with list of subscribers and Persian. 4 vi 10 4 subscribers; 1090 12 12 2 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Thomas Roebuck was a captain in the Madras Native Infantry and teacher of Hindustani Persian Arabic and other languages at the East India Company College of Fort William which subscribed for 40 copies of this dictionary. This copy with the bookplate of Sir Gore Ouseley 1770-1844 British ambassador to Persia who negotiated the Gulistan treaty between Russia and Persia which ceded to the Russians a first foothold in the Caucasus; his brother William 1767-1842 was a noted Orientalist.<br /> <br /> A monumental accomplishment of the early Calcutta press and the standard nineteenth-century dictionary.<br /> <br /> UNCOMMON AND WITH OUTSTANDING PROVENANCE. OCLC: 7538099 5 locations Printed by Philip Pereira, at the Hindoostanee Press unknown
5858xxxvi 366 pp. one leaf but lacking as is often the case the 12-page schedule of sale & the 80-page author index. 8vo cont. speckled calf two corners a bit worn joints a little cracked but strong flat spine gilt red morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: Gogué & Née de la Rochelle 1785. The rare sale catalogue of the great library of books and early manuscripts many illuminated founded by Henri François d'Aguesseau 1668-1751 Chancellor of France a man of great learning. According to the preface of the catalogue he had acquired the collection of the poet Florent Chrestien 1541-1596 and his son Claude b. 1567. His library passed to his second son Jean Baptiste Paulin d'Aguesseau Marquis de Mannoevre 1701-84 who considerably enlarged it. Between the two generations they created a most remarkable collection. The father and son employed fifteen versions of their coat-of-arms on their bindings. The sale included 5583 lots and was sold over a 57-day period. Payne and the Marquis de Méjanes were major buyers. Very good copy with some minor foxing. Short tear due to a paper flaw to title but with no loss of text. Bookplate of the great French bookseller Georges Heilbrun. As mentioned above this copy lacks - as does the Grolier Club copy - the schedule of sale and index but it does have a final leaf in which the auctioneers promise to deliver the index at no charge by the end of May 1785 to anyone who requests a copy. ❧ Gustave Brunet Dictionnaire de Bibliologie Catholique col. 405-"cette vaste réunion d'ouvrages importants." Grolier Club Printed Catalogues of French Books Auctions.1643-1830 318-lacking both the schedule of sale and author index. Guigard II p. 173. Peignot p. 76. unknown books
16-6341Holland: 17th Century . Sanguine drawing on old laid paper. 12.5 x 9.7cm. Tipped on a support sheet. Provenance:Né en 1906 à Lezay Deux-Sèvres Jacques Cathy a exercé d’abord la profession de caricaturiste à l’hebdomadaire « Le Rire ». Il a rejoint vers 1927 l’équipe du Cabaret « La Vache Enragée » conduite par Roger Toziny. Jacques Cathy poursuit sa carrière de chansonnier après le décès de Toziny en 1939 et après la guerre il conduit parallèlement une carrière d’acteur dans le cinéma. Jacques Cathy était le 3ème Maire de La Commune Libre de Montmartre à partir de l’élection en 1949.Final provenance: Les Collections Aristophil - 164 bis avenue Charles-de-Gaulle 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine. Holland: 17th Century unknown
19048792San Francisco: Whitaker & Ray Company 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Whitaker & Ray Company San Francisco 1904. First Edition. Covers reinforced at the outer edges and spine with white tape. First free end-paper missing. Front hinge separated from the text. Moderate foxing to a few pages most pages clean and bright. -- A Juvenile book of jingles characteristic of the west. Contains jingles on such subjects as the Chinaman Cliff House Golden Gate Park etc. Beautifully illustrated by 19 full page seven color litho-prints. -- One edition published in 1904 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide. Size: Quarto. 39 pages not numbered. -- Condition:. Whitaker & Ray Company hardcover
432884New York: Robert Guinn / Galaxy Publishing / Universal Publishing & Distributing 1979. Softcover. Very Good. Magazines. Digests 12mos. Perfectbound in illustrated wrappers. Overall very good with moderate wear some toning and contemporary tape reinforcement to the spine ends of the early issues. A nearly complete 30-year run of Galaxy Science Fiction totaling 246 issues lacking only eight of this important and influential science-fiction anthology. Starting with its first year Galaxy set the standard for science fiction by offering authors top rates and providing a less ridged definition of science fiction that could incorporate sociology psychology and satire. The result was a stable of top writers such as Ray Bradbury Robert A. Heinlein Jack Vance Harlan Ellison Robert Silverberg Alfred Bester Philip K. Dick George R.R. Martin Frank Herbert James Blish Theodore Sturgeon. Larry Niven Ursula K. Le Guin Roger Zelazny and many others. In the first few year alone Galaxy publisher several important stories: Damon Knight's “To Serve Man†which was adapted into the classic Twilight Zone episode; Bradbury’s “The Fireman†which was expanded into the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451; and Heinlein's The Puppet Masters. The magazine’s stature lead to the publication of a number of Hugo and Nebula Award-wining stories and novellas such: Bester’s “The Demolished Man†Fritz Leiber’s “The Big Time†Ellison’s “ ‘Repent Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman†Herbert's "Dune Messiah" Silverberg’s “Nightwings†and Zelazny's “Damnation Alley.†A wonderful nearly complete run of this important and influential science-fiction anthology. Robert Guinn / Galaxy Publishing / Universal Publishing & Distributing unknown
171858200Various places including Camp Sprague Camp Brightwood and Douglas Hospital Washington D.C. July 10 1861 - June 7 1862. Fine original condition; postage clipped from envelopes. 8vo. The first letter is written from Hopeville Connecticut prior to enlistment. Subsequent letters describe the trip to Washington D.C. the camp there R.I. prisoners taken at Bulls Run; the capture of a spy bad news from "Missouria" entrenchment work rumors of the death of Jeff Davis passing within 30 ft. of Lincoln "He looks just like the pictures I have seen of him" and many other interesting details. Green had become a hospital orderly by early 1862 and describes hospital conditions sightseeing in wartime Washington and news from the battlefields. unknown
169619590Lugduni Batavorum: Hackium Boutesteyn Vivie Vander AA & Lucthmans 1696. Two volumes bound in one of this first collected edition of Giraldi's works; 20 772 26 928 30 pages Index Rerum et Verborum 1 page Catalogus Amicorum Lilii Quorum Meminit in epistola Direptionis Urbanae.; paginated in two columns except for the 'Varia' section; collated complete; text printed double-column; engraved illustrated frontispiece 7 full page and 2 double-page plates beautifully accomplished by Avele after Botard superb engravers' work with full and lively compositions realistically posed and drawn with action; title page with publishers' woodcut ornament and printed in red and black; the text with title and endpiece ornamentation and initial ornamentation as well nicely printed and with good wide margins; 11th ed. Britannica cites Giraldi Giglio Gregorio Lilius Gregorius Gyraldus 1470-1552 Italian scholar and poet born at Ferrara ".where he early distinguished himself by his talents and acquirements. he removed to Naples hwere he lived on familiar terms with Jovianus Pontanus and Sannazaro; and subsequently to Lombardy where he enjoyed the favour of the Mirandola family. At Miland in 1507 he studied Greek under Chalcondylas; and shortly afterwards at Modena he became tutor to Ercole afterwards Cardinal Rangone. About the year 1514 he removed to Rome where under Clement VII he held the office of apostolic protonotary; but having in the sack of that city 1527 which almost coincided with the death of his patron Cardinal Rangone lost all his property he returned in poverty once more to Mirandola whence again he was driven by the troubles consequent on the assassination of the reigning prince in 1533. The rest of his life was one long struggle with ill-health poverty and neglect; and he is alluded to with sorrowful regret by Montaigne in one of his Essais i. 34 as having like Sebastian Castalio ended his days in utter destitution. He died at Ferrara.a man of very extensive erudition; and numerous testimonies to his profundity and accuracy have been given both by contemporary and by later scholars. His Historia. marked a distinctly forward step in the systematic study of classical mythology; and by his treatises De Annis et Mensibus and on the Calendarium. he contributed to bring about the reform of the calendar which was ultimately effected by Pope Gregory XIII.Giraldi was also an elegant Latin poet."; approximately 15" tall by 10"; bound in full probably contemporary leather; seven raised spine bands gilt floral roll tool rectangles with fruit & leafy spray devices at corner of inner box surrounding a heavily-impressed and complex gilt central device with heroic figure surrounded by winged angel figures & cherubs figure holding a spear and a book shield below with cross device and the motto Sic Itur Ad Astra onward to the heavens; all edges tinted red; spine leather covering 1/3 gone very charred and worn; both boards still attached and the binding firm; first leaves a bit maladjusted at the inner margin from the heaviness of the binding pulling at them; text block with some spotting and darkening section at back with old bit of creasing at top corners; nevertheless mostly very fresh and clean free from markings or wear; in good condition and worthy of a rebacking or rebinding. First Edition. Leather Binding. Good. Hackium, Boutesteyn, Vivie, Vander AA, & Lucthmans books
6509Title within typographical border shaved at foot. 2 p.l. 14 pp. one blank leaf. Small 4to attractive antique panelled calf some shaving to bottom line or catchwords on several pages spine gilt red morocco lettering piece on spine. London: Printed by J.C. 1651. First edition. "The Reformed Husbandman.is sometimes attributed to Speed although it was probably written by Cressy Dymock.It is a pamphlet of some 16 pages and full of moral reflections a melodious exhortation to industry."-Fussell I p. 45. "The most visible impact of Hartlib's circle lay in the numerous pamphlets that he published.They comprised letters and treatises solicited or received from individuals in his circle upon a particular subject which had then been circulated for additional comments the results edited and then launched upon the public often without the express consent of the original author anticipating utility and inviting comment and amendment.His treatises spread a solvent of new ideas in a variety of contexts but they were particularly successful in husbandry. He publicized the advantages of planting new leguminous crops experimenting with fertilizers and manures and using seed drills and new ploughs and advocated the possibilities of apiculture rabbit farming fruit-tree propagation and silk cultivation in Virginia. His network included a group of innovative farmers willing to experiment. But his pamphlets should also be read as ideas models or patterns as to how the processes of reformation would occur. "-ODNB. Very good copy. Small rust-hole on one leaf. unknown books
6509Title within typographical border shaved at foot. 2 p.l. 14 pp. one blank leaf. Small 4to attractive antique panelled calf some shaving to bottom line or catchwords on several pages spine gilt red morocco lettering piece on spine. London: Printed by J.C. 1651.<br/> <br/> First edition. “The Reformed Husbandman…is sometimes attributed to Speed although it was probably written by Cressy Dymock…It is a pamphlet of some 16 pages and full of moral reflections a melodious exhortation to industry.â€â€“Fussell I p. 45.<br/> <br/> “The most visible impact of Hartlib’s circle lay in the numerous pamphlets that he published…They comprised letters and treatises solicited or received from individuals in his circle upon a particular subject which had then been circulated for additional comments the results edited and then launched upon the public often without the express consent of the original author anticipating utility and inviting comment and amendment…His treatises spread a solvent of new ideas in a variety of contexts but they were particularly successful in husbandry. He publicized the advantages of planting new leguminous crops experimenting with fertilizers and manures and using seed drills and new ploughs and advocated the possibilities of apiculture rabbit farming fruit-tree propagation and silk cultivation in Virginia. His network included a group of innovative farmers willing to experiment. But his pamphlets should also be read as ideas models or patterns as to how the processes of reformation would occur. “–ODNB.<br/> <br/> Very good copy. Small rust-hole on one leaf. unknown
196010179Place of publication unknown: Self Published 1960. Deluxe Limited Edition. Very good . Oblong Folio 20" by 16". Heavy plastic overlay with title "Hilton Paints the Desert" stiff rear board. -- Introduction page with limitation inscription at the bottom in the author's hand: and his signature; "Number 52 of a deluxe edition of 350 for Leo and Irene Moore with best wishes". -- Condition. Twenty Seven Prints some duplicates twenty-five signed two not signed. Some prints signed in silver and some in regular ink. --: Hills of Home 3 - Joshuas in the Moonlight 2 - Oasis Mara 3 - Papago Dawn 3 - Power and Glory 3 - Red Mountain 2 - Smoke Trees and Thunderheads 2 Superstition Spring 1 - Sands of Tim 3 - San Jancinto Sunrise 3 - Wickenburg Yuccas 2. Self Published unknown
7077Many fine brush & black ink illus. in the text. 45 folding leaves. 8vo 245 x 170 mm. orig. wrappers wrappers somewhat soiled old stitching. Japan: at end in trans.: "copied in 1807." We learn from the first leaf of the index at the beginning of this manuscript that this is a later copy of a unpublished manuscript by Hori 1725-62 a native of Kyoto whose father was also a prominent physician. Hori began to lecture in 1758 but died early. In this work Hori provides a guide to finding pressure points for acupuncture based on bone measurement. Using bone length measurement for the measurement of acupoints location is called the "bone length method." Hori was remarkable for his unique and influential expansion of this method by incorporating the "twelve zodiac method" in establishing pressure points on the body and determining whether the meridian is open at a certain moment. The text makes many references to the classics of Chinese and Japanese acupuncture. For each of the 14 meridians Hori has listed their pressure points the organs to which they are associated illnesses etc. The fine illustrations depict the meridians and pressure points. Fine copy. Minor staining in upper margin and a little wormed. unknown books
1600M13168Verona: Societatis Aspirantium cura 1600. 1600. Two parts in 1. Small 4to. xxiv 118 1 pp. Printer's woodcut device 5 snakes over landscape woodcut initials and tailpiece rear errata & colophon; old ink marginalia p.36 underlining pp. 97-99. Original vellum; lacks ties. Ownership inscription on title: Hugo De Salins Belnensis Doct. Med. d.1659 and another signature obscured. Bookplate of Château de Montrevost Cuisery France. EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY WORK ON GOUT & RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: : HUGUES DE SALINS' COPY. First edition of this rare work on the nature cause and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and gout. The status of gout in the late sixteenth century was such that gout was said by Turberville to be found in "horses capons and falcons." p. 64. John Gerard's Herball 1597 stated that Gout-wort or Herba Gerardi was a native herb that could be used with some benefit supported further by Culpeper. According to Copeman Thomas Sydenham 1624-1689 suffered from gout and wrote the classic description of the disease and was the first to be able to differentiate between rheumatoid arthritis and gout. The present work was written decades earlier. Francesco India cites Galen Chap. 1 Ambroise Pare Chap. 12 and Jean Fernel Chapters 5 7 8. India makes two 15-page tables of causes which he uses to organize his data. <br /><br /> PROVENANCE: Hugues de Salins: The British Library catalogue lists a "Hugues de Salins; see: Jean Baptiste de Salins Defense du vin de Bourgogne 1704." This may be a descendent. See: Societe d'Histoire d'Archeologie et de Litterature de l'arrondissement de Beaune Memoires annee 1890 Volumes 15-16 Beaune 1891 pp. 75 177. Mentions the wife of Hugues de Salins as buried in 1626 and Hugues de Salins buried in 1659. <br /><br /> Francisci Indiae an Italian philosopher and physician who is little known wrote the present work and two others: Hygiphylus: sive de febre maligna dialogus 1593. Hygiophilvs Tertivs Vel De Symptomatvm Febri Malignae Svper 1599. See: Frederic Paulhan Catalogue des legs Gide & Teissier-Rolland 1892 p. 212. Showing a copy of Strabo's Strabonis rerum geographicarum libri XVII 1571 with the same provenance inscription is this book. This inscription must date prior to 1892. <br /><br /> Copeman W.S.C. A Short History of the Gout and the Rheumatics Diseases pp. 53 64. Locations: British Library; Edinburgh University; Middle Temple Library; Wellcome Library. Societatis Aspirantium cura, 1600. hardcover books
1963C1436a<p>48 pages with photographs and diagrams. Octavo 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" bound in original publisher's spiral binding in blue felt wrappers with black and silver Piatigorsky Cup stamped to cover. Included 10 first day tickets for the cup. Signed or inscribed by all the contestants. First edition.<br /><br />The Piatigorsky Cup was a triennial series of double round-robin grandmaster chess tournaments held in the United States in the 1960's. Sponsored by the Piatigorsky Foundation only two events were held in 1963 and 1966. The Piatigorsky Cups were the strongest U.S. chess tournaments since New York 1927. Jacqueline Piatigorsky nie Rothschild was married to cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. One of the strongest woman chess players in the U.S. and a regular competitor in the U.S. Women's Chess Championship she designed the cup and was the primary organizer of the tournament. The prize funds were among the largest of any chess tournament up to that time. Every player was guaranteed a prize and all traveling and living expenses were paid.</p><p>The First Piatigorsky Cup was held in The Ambassador Hotel Los Angeles in July 1963. The tournament field of eight included players from five countries. The Soviet representatives Paul Keres and World Champion Tigran Petrosian finished equal first to share the cup with a score of 8½/14 receiving more than half of the $10000 prize fund $3000 for first. Since dollars brought back to the USSR were exchanged by the Soviet government for rubles at an unfavorable rate Keres and Petrosian were reported to have bought automobiles Ramblers with their winnings. Keres won the most games in the tournament six but lost twice to Samuel Reshevsky. The Cup was Petrosian's first tournament since winning the 1963 World Championship match with Mikhail Botvinnik and was one of two first prizes he shared in his six-year reign as champion. He was the first reigning champion to play in an American tournament since Alexander Alekhine at Pasadena 1932. After losing in the second round to Svetozar Gligoric Petrosian was never in danger the rest of the tournament. The remainder of the tournament field included two Americans Reshevsky and Pal Benko two Argentinians Oscar Panno and Miguel Najdorf and two Europeans Gligoric Yugoslavia and Fridrik Olafsson Iceland. U.S. Champion Bobby Fischer declined an invitation after his demand for a $2000 appearance fee was refused by the tournament organizers. Gligoric led halfway through the tournament with 4 1/2/7 but he scored only three draws in the last seven games and finished fifth behind Najdorf and Olafsson. Petrosian finished the strongest with 5/7 in the second half. Before the last round Petrosian led with 8 points followed by Keres with 7 1/2 and Najdorf and Olafsson with 7. Both Petrosian and Keres had Black in the final round. Petrosian drew his game against Reshevsky but Keres beat Gligoric to result in a tie for first place with 8 1/2 points each.<br /><br /><strong>Condition: </strong><br />Spiral spine small split at center else a better than very good copy.</p> Piatigorsky Cup Committee paperback
6126Engraved frontis. viii 47 pp. 8vo later wrappers title a little browned uncut. London: Printed for W. Parker… 1777.<br/> <br/> First edition of “an important milestone in the early literature of gas analysis…Magellan 1722-90 was an Augustinian prior who emigrated to England and Protestantism in 1764. Elected F.R.S. 1774 he published this account of his researches on gases addressed to Joseph Priestley. The glass apparatus for impregnating water with fixed air carbon dioxide is described in detail. Newly improved by ‘Mr. Parker’ the apparatus was superior to that used by Priestley and described by him in 1772. Carbon dioxide was prepared by dissolving marble calcium carbonate in dilute sulphuric acid. Magellan also describes three new types of eudiometer he had designed; these and the apparatus for making carbonated waters are illustrated in the frontispiece.â€â€“Neville II p. 125.<br/> <br/> Very nice copy inscribed by Magellan at the head of the title-page: “Comte de Castelbourgh par L’Auteur.†The attractive frontispiece depicts 24 figures of apparatus.<br/> <br/> ⧠D.S.B. IX pp. 5-6. unknown
6126Engraved frontis. viii 47 pp. 8vo later wrappers title a little browned uncut. London: Printed for W. Parker. 1777. First edition of "an important milestone in the early literature of gas analysis.Magellan 1722-90 was an Augustinian prior who emigrated to England and Protestantism in 1764. Elected F.R.S. 1774 he published this account of his researches on gases addressed to Joseph Priestley. The glass apparatus for impregnating water with fixed air carbon dioxide is described in detail. Newly improved by 'Mr. Parker' the apparatus was superior to that used by Priestley and described by him in 1772. Carbon dioxide was prepared by dissolving marble calcium carbonate in dilute sulphuric acid. Magellan also describes three new types of eudiometer he had designed; these and the apparatus for making carbonated waters are illustrated in the frontispiece."-Neville II p. 125. Very nice copy inscribed by Magellan at the head of the title-page: "Comte de Castelbourgh par L'Auteur." The attractive frontispiece depicts 24 figures of apparatus. ❧ D.S.B. IX pp. 5-6. unknown books
16-51401949. Gouache and papier collé maquette for the dust-jacket of "Les Fauves. Braque Derain Van Dongen Dufy Marquet Matisse.Georges Duthuit. Published by Editions des trois collines. Genève 1949. 46 x 65cm. Fold marks along spine and where a French fold would be. Thick white paper on a brown support sheet.Provenance: Sophie Renard Chateau-Thierry. 02400 Brasles France. 1949 unknown
18800064001880-1917. Full Morocco. Very Good. Oblong 21 by 30 cm. 92 numbered leaves with content with log entries more or less statistical on all the versos and pictures and/or original drawings mostly mounted on 58 rectos with some additional loose material. 129 numbered leaves in all. Several of the log pages have mounted photos obscuring the log as it is clear that this game book was at some point re-purposed to be a more general album with some emphasis on sports including also fishing foxhunting and sailing but also there are two pages of photos from South Africa with photos of native tribesmen ostriches a hut Cecil Rhodes house etc. 13 original works of art -- watercolored pencil pen and ink -- in addition to numerous painted fish hook and fly vignettes these sometimes done directly onto the page. Most charming are the comical illustrations of anthropomorphic foxes. Sepia photos are of the country estates their stately homes and rural settings of the hunts as well as the people involved -- the hosts and guests during these country weekends. Many but by no means all of the photos have captions helpfully identifying the participants or the locations. And the log proper provides the names of those participating in the shooting and often what would now be regarded as obscenely large kills. Among the many aristocrats and wealthy in the photographs and/or logs are Lady Randolph Churchill Jennie Churchill Arthur Balfour Lady Minto Mary the famous 4th Countess Henry Lascelles the 5th Earl of Harewood the 5th Earl of Carnavon of King Tut fame as well as the owner of the castle used in Downton Abbey Baron Rothschild Lord de Grey Lord Ashburton Prince Murat the Duke of Buccleuch Prince Duleep de Singh Lord Rosebery and on and on. Country homes include Longleat Greystoke Castle the Hirsel Highcliffe Castle etc. Alexander McDonnell was a son of the 5th Earl of Antrim and a clerk in the House of Lords. Obviously he was very well connected and surely very popular among the upper echelons of English society back then. And we would note that many of the most illustriously titled have frequent entries here; what we have here is a window into a cohesive social network it is our sense. Condition: morocco binding has moderate to heavy wear along edges some scuffs on the boards and spine. The leaves can have a waviness the result of the interaction of the mounted material upon the leaves. A few photos are loose. There is a little bit of a scrappy quality to the book as befitting a log book that was partially turned into something much more and this quality is part of its charm as well. <br /><br /> books
