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19376594New York: International Publishers 1937. Hardcover. viii 252p. very good first edition in blue cloth boards and unclipped edgeworn and toned dj. Selections from Fox's historical critiques a memorial volume for the prominent British writer killed while serving with the International Brigades. International Publishers hardcover books
1979Embry 135222Clarkson N. Potter 1979. First edition. Edges lightly sunned and several pages with barely noticeable tiny corner bends now straightened in fine dust jacket with tiny nick and crease to rear panel in mylar cover. B&W photos and drawings. Clarkson N. Potter, 1979. First edition. unknown books
1905WRCAM52627New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1905. Seven volumes bound in fourteen parts plus atlas volume. Plates many in color facsimiles. Quarto. Original gilt green cloth. Octavo atlas maps laid in a red cloth drop-front box. Cloth somewhat worn particularly at spine ends. Library bookplates with withdrawal stamps on front pastedowns shelf labels on spines reference stamps across top edges. Some occasional offsetting from plates but generally clean internally. A solid set. Text volumes untrimmed. One of 200 large paper sets on Van Gelder paper with the atlas supplied from the reprint edition done by Argosy-Antiquarian Press. "The most elaborate work on this expedition" - Howes. A cornerstone of modern historical research printing for the first time many major primary documents which did not appear in the Biddle edition including the Floyd and Whitehouse journals and material from the Clark-Voorihis papers along with facsimile manuscripts maps portraits and other illustrative matter. Also valuable is Victor Paltsits' bibliography of the Lewis and Clark expedition in the first volume. "This edition is notable for its thorough Introduction covering the history of the expedition and earlier exploration and a detailed account of the original journals and their various editions.In its maps and numerous illustrations the Thwaites edition is an outstanding source of visual materials relating to the expedition" - LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION. HOWES L320 "c." LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION 5d.1. WAGNER-CAMP 13:7 note. TWENEY WASHINGTON 76. REESE BEST OF THE WEST 233 note. Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover books
1969021837New York: Arno Press 1969. Octavo. In eight volumes volume eight contains the maps. Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites with an introduction by Bernard De Voto. In the introduction."Toward the end of 1802 President Thomas Jefferson asked the Spanish minister a carefully unofficial question. Would the Spanish court "take it badly" if the United States should send a small expedition to explore the course of the Missouri River" which lay wholly in the still Spanish territory of Louisiana This history had become a national and international favorite reprinted translated and pirated. This expedition became the most important event of the American West. A very handsome near fine set bound in green cloth facsimile manuscript letter paste-down spines lettered and decorated in gilt. Previous owner's embossed stamp to front free endpapers. Very nice set. Arno Press unknown books
1905247478New York: Dodd Mead and Co 1905. First edition one of 200 large paper sets on Van Gelder paper. Seven volumes bound in fourteen parts plus atlas volume atlas with 56 maps & plates on 62 sheets. 15 vols. Large 8vo. Original gilt green cloth. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Spines lightly worn several lightly faded. Internally fine much of the text unopened. A very good set. First edition one of 200 large paper sets on Van Gelder paper. Seven volumes bound in fourteen parts plus atlas volume atlas with 56 maps & plates on 62 sheets. 15 vols. Large 8vo. One of 200 Sets on Large Paper. "The most elaborate work on this expedition" - Howes. <br/><br/>A cornerstone of modern historical research printing for the first time many major primary documents which did not appear in the Biddle edition including the Floyd and Whitehouse journals and material from the Clark-Voorihis papers along with facsimile manuscripts maps portraits and other illustrative matter. Also valuable is Victor Paltsits' bibliography of the Lewis and Clark expedition in the first volume. "This edition is notable for its thorough Introduction covering the history of the expedition and earlier exploration and a detailed account of the original journals and their various editions.In its maps and numerous illustrations the Thwaites edition is an outstanding source of visual materials relating to the expedition" - LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION. Graff 2485; Howes L320 "b"; Wagner-Camp 13:7 note to 1842 Harpers ed.; Tweney Washington 76; Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 5d.1 Dodd, Mead and Co unknown books
1964196610Burlingame: Chrysalis West Foundation 1964. Paperback. pp.99-207 5.5x8.5 inches illustrations; a worn good-only first edition trade paperback journal in pictorial wraps ink marks and handling soil to cover. Short poem and drawing by Beatle John Lennon on page 150 excerpted from "A Spaniard in the Works Chrysalis West Foundation paperback books
1958238231Jean-Jacques Pauvert 1958. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. Illustrated; No pencil or ink markings in text. Black cloth binding. Chip at bottom front dustjacket cover at middle and top of spine. Closed tears at top and bottom dustjacket spine. Small closed tears at top of front and rear dustjacket covers. DJ protected with Mylar Cover. Very Good binding / Good dust jacket. Jean-Jacques Pauvert unknown books
199127846Nashville: Battery Press 1991. Hardcover. Very good. vii 202pp index; maps. Very good hardback in a jacket that is just a bit sunned on the spine. Previous owner's blindstamp on front free endpaper else internally fine. <br/><br/> Battery Press hardcover books
191263285London: Philip Lee Warner Publisher to the Medici Society 1912. half-cloth over boards. Riccardi Press. 8vo. half-cloth over boards. 30 6 pages. Limited to 530 numbered copies. The first book printed in Riccardi 11-point face. Tompkinson p.150. The Riccardi Press Booklets No.1.Spine age darkened. and rubbed along edges. Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society unknown books
189673529Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. The first American edition of this important scientific memoir describing the manner in which the authors succeeded in extracting the previously unknown element argon in pure form and in analyzing its properties. For this discovery Lord Rayleigh 1842-1919 was awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge Volume XXIX Number 1033. Quarto: 2ff 43 1 p. Original green cloth binding with gilt titles. Near fine. Smithsonian Institution hardcover books
1681001379Amsterdam: Apud Janssonio Waesbergios 1681. Full Calf. Very Good. 330 6 pp. 12mo with copper engraved title page by Giovanni Van Den Avele. Pharsalia is considered a masterpiece and possibly the masterpiece of the Silver Age of Ancient Roman poetry. The epic poem concerns the Roman Civil War at the time of Caesar and most particularly the extended struggle between Caesar and Pompey the Great. Lucanus writing a century later during the reign of Nero far from glamorizing the warfare took a jaundiced view of the fraticidal battle and his portrait of both Caesar and Pompey was far from flattering. His "epic poem" therefore is epic in terms of length scope and ambition not in its portrayal of the principals. Because of the subject matter the popularity of "Pharsalia" has crested at times when a society still steeped in the Classical canon of literature descended into civil strife when the themes and point-of-view of Lucanus really resonated. Never was this more the case than in the seventeenth century when this copy was printed. First there was the final emergence of the Netherlands from under the yoke of Habsburg rule and then there was the English Civil War just to mention two instances both highly germane to the edition at hand. Thus the notes by Grotius and Modern calf with a black spine label and marbled endpapers. The work is incomplete and breaks off during the tenth book which Lucanus was still working on when he was forced to commit suicide. The binding is tight. Some leaves with more toning than others but overall quite clean. There are leaves in which the margins are parlously tight or the header is even close to being partially cut-off -- this is the upshot of the compact size of the copy and was the way the copy was issued over three centuries ago. This particular edition is not mentioned in Brunet. <br/><br/> Apud Janssonio Waesbergios unknown books
15984716Cologne: In Officina Birckmannica 1598. 12mo. 725895pp. 17th cent. vellum soiled. Two paper labels on spine. Popular handbook edition of this often reprinted work of religious instruction containing meditations for the seven days of the week. It first appeared in 1554 in Salamanca under the title LIBRO DE LA ORACION Y MEDITACION. The first Latin edition appeared in Cologne in 1586. Not in Adams or BL German STC. VD16 #L3244. Palau 107537. In Officina Birckmannica hardcover books
5274Luitpold Josef. DIE RUCKKEHR DES PROMETHEUS. Berlin Buchmeister 1927. Pictorial cloth 126 3 pp. illustrated with 33 woodcuts by O.R. Schatz. Text is clean and woodcuts are sharp and bright hinges are shaken cloth is lightly soiled and worn through at the head heel and extremities. Very good condition. <br/><br/> hardcover books
03734Paris: Aegidius Gorbinus 1578. A Remarkable Survival of Three Books by Ramón Lull - 'Doctor Illuminatus'<br/>One of Athanasius Kircher's Greatest Influences<br/><br/>LULL Ramón. Opusculum Raymundinum de auditu Kabbalistico sive ad omnes Scientias introductorium. Incipit libellus de Kabbalistico auditu in via Raymundi Lullii. Paris: Apud Aegidium Gorbinum. 1578. <br/><br/>Twelvemo 4 3/8 x 3 1/8 inches; 111 x 80 mm. 82 i.e. 80 leaves A8-K8. Woodcut printer's device on title Renouard no. 376. Folding table and two woodcuts in the text and five plates with woodcut diagrams including one with a volvelle with two moving parts. Title-page with the German Jesuit library stamps of "Domus Bonnensis" and "Bibl.script".<br/><br/>A fine copy of a rare and important work which includes among its five plates a volvelle mounted with its two movable parts still present.<br/><br/>Third Edition the previous two appeared in 1518 and 1538 in Venice all of which are very rare. "How successful was the thesis of 'De auditu kabbalistico' in the 16th and 17th centuries could be shown by the impressive reception of this treatise which ranges from about Giordano Bruno Claude Duret Johann Heinrich Alsted and Athanasius Kircher up to Leibniz" G. Kurz ed Meditation und Erinnerung in der Frühen Neuzeit p 115; trans. <br/><br/>This text has found an important place in the body of Kabbalistic texts with its attribution to Ramón Lull 1232-1316. However there is evidence that this is the work of a Renaissance physician and Kabbalist scholar when one goes back to the original 1518 edition. Pietro Mainardi born about 1456 obtained his doctorate at the University of Ferrara in 1490 and went on to teach medicine there until 1527. He was definitely a great scholar of Lull and while composing this work he drew heavily from Lull's Ars Brevis and inserted kabbalistic references and added very effectively some of his own. However he did not sign the work. He apparently wished to remain anonymous as the author so his name appears only in the colophon of the 1518 edition as the editor and publisher. Thus in later editions with different publishers and colophons the work became Opusculum Raymundinum. The work definitely has very scholarly content and a form so similar as to be considered a work of Lull and would from then on be ascribed to him. Its great success is attested by several documents and printed texts in which quotations from the present work De auditu would mingle with the Kabbalistic text collections of Lull.<br/><br/>In addition this is the first book that deepens and broadens the ars combinatorial method invented by Lull through which by using diagrams figures or words you can connect in a sort of mechanical logic information in each field to get closer to universal knowledge as well as to be able to memorize it. Many later scientists and philosophers Bruno Agrippa Kircher Alsted Leibniz and his followers or writers Roussel Raymond Queneau Perec Calvino Eco were interested in the theories expressed here.<br/><br/>Palau 143.864; Duveen 370; Caillet 6846; E. Rogent & E. Durà n Bibl. de les impressions lul-lianes Barcelona 1927 no 120; C. Ottaviano Lull's L'ars compendiosa 1930 p. 97 no. 17 under "E Écrits apocryphes.". <br/><br/>together with<br/><br/>LULL Ramón. Ars Brevis Illuminati Doctoris Magistri Raymundi Lull. Quae est ad omnes scientias pauco & brevi tempore assequendas introductorium & brevis via una cum figuris illi materiae deservientibus necnon & illius scientiae approbatione. In cuius castigatione attendat lector quam castigatissimè Magister Bernardus de lavinhera artis illius fidissimus interpres insudatit. Paris: Apud Aegydium Gorbinum. 1578. <br/><br/>Twelvemo 4 3/8 x 3 1/8 inches; 111 x 80 mm. 48 leaves A8-F8. Woodcut printer's device on title Renouard no. 376. woodcut diagrams on A5 recto B1 recto folding woodcut diagram between A6 and A7 B2 verso with a volvelle with two moving parts folding table between B7 and B8.<br/><br/>A fine copy of a rare and important work with the plate with the volvelle mounted with its two movable parts still present.<br/><br/>Rare compendium edition of the Ars Magna - and therefore defined Brevis - of the Catalan philosopher and theologian Ramón Lull who lived in the thirteenth century and was the author of numerous works of scientific argument mystical-philosophical and even literary. The work of Lull ranks for many critics of the foundations of modern science and was studied and deepened by thinkers such as Nicola Cusano Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Giordano Bruno Kircher Cartesio Descartes and Leibniz. <br/><br/>"This work written at Pisa in 1308 was the most widely read and widely distributed version of the Art. It corresponded to a desire peculiar to the second of the Art's phases to simplify the principles of the Art. The Ars Brevis starts by stating that it was written so as to facilitate access to the ‘Great Art' specifically the Ars generalis ultima 1305-1308".<br/><br/>"The Ars brevis operates in accordance with a remodelled version of logic that Llull dealt with in the Logica nova 1303: the ‘compartments' containing two or three concepts correspond therefore to propositions and syllogisms. The Art shows one how to ‘find' all possible propositions and syllogisms from the terms given in the Alphabet and how to verify their truth or falsity. The Tree of Science 1295-1296 on the other hand reveals how the structure of principles and relations in the Ars brevis is linked with the whole of the intelligible world.<br/><br/>The Ars brevis contains thirteen highly dense parts. The first part presents the Alphabet; the second the Figures; the third the definitions of the Principles; the fourth the Rules; the fifth the Table; the sixth the Evacuation of the Third Figure; the seventh the Multiplication of the Fourth Figure; the eighth the ‘mixing' ‘mixtio' or combining of the Principles and the Rules; the ninth the nine Subjects; the tenth the application of the Art; the eleventh the questions; the twelfth familiarisation with the Art; the thirteenth ‘the way to teach this Art'". See Anthony Bonner. Selected Works of Ramón Llull volume 1 pp. 569-646.<br/><br/>".The next twist in the path came from perhaps the strangest character in the history of Lullism the German Jesuit Athanasius Kircher 1602-1680 scientist mathematician cryptographer and student of Egyptian hieroglyphics. With the idea of perfecting Llull's Art he published in Amsterdam in 1669 his vast Ars magna sciendi. This work begins in reforming the alphabet of the Art inventing little symbols a heart for Concordantia a donkey for Animalia etc and continues with what Martin Gardner calls a fascinating mixture of Science and nonsense." Anthony Bonner. Doctor Illuminatus. A Ramon Llull Reader p. 68.<br/><br/>Palau 14370-14384; Duveen p. 370.<br/><br/>together with<br/><br/>LULL Ramón. Articuli Fidei Sacrosanctae ac Salutiferae legis Christianae cum corundem perpulchra introductione. Quos caeteras leges omnes improbando Illuminatus doctor Raymundus Lullius rationibus necessariis demonstrativè probat. Paris: Apud Aegydium Gorbinum. 1578. <br/><br/>Twelvemo 4 3/8 x 3 1/8 inches; 111 x 80 mm. 66 i.e. 64 leaves A8-H8 I2. Woodcut printer's device on title Renouard no. 376. <br/><br/>Articles of Christian faith Holy law and healing affairs with a fine introduction. <br/><br/>"Deus in Virtue tua sperantes & de tua gratia confidentes intendimus probare articules fidei per necessarias rationes." <br/><br/>The three books bound together as a sammelband.<br/><br/>Twelvemo. Contemporary full yapp-edged vellum manuscript title on spine unidentified armorial bookplate on front paste-down. A remarkable survival in almost pristine condition. Housed in a fleece-lined full brown scored calf clamshell case.<br/><br/>"The German Jesuit Athanasius Kircher 1601-1680 scientist mathematician cryptographer and student of Egyptian hieroglyphics was also a confirmed Lullist. He published in Amsterdam in 1669 a huge tome of nearly 500 pages titled Ars magna sciendi sive combinatoria. It abounds with Lullian figures and circles bearing ingenious pictographic symbols" Gardner Martin. Logic Machines and Diagrams.<br/><br/>Ramón Lull Poet Philosopher Alchemist Catalan Mystic - also known as Doctor Illuminatus. "The definitive Ars Magna Lull's greatest contribution to science - his attempt to unify all knowledge into a single system. Lull invented an ‘art of finding truth' which inspired Leibniz's dream of a universal algebra four centuries later. The most distinctive characteristic of his Art is clearly its combinatory nature which led to both the use of complex semimechanical techniques that sometimes required figures with separately revolving concentric wheels - ‘volvelles' in bibliographical parlance - and to the symbolic notation of its alphabet. These features justify its classification among the forerunners of both modern symbolic logic and computer science with its systematically exhaustive consideration of all possible combinations of the material under examination reduced to a symbolic coding. The Art's function as a means of unifying all knowledge into a single system remained viable throughout the Renaissance and well into the seventeenth century" DSB. Paris: Aegidius Gorbinus, 1578 unknown books
1905WRCAM32109Godthaab Greenland 1905. Lithograph 10 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches. Worn along left edge small closed tears along top and bottom edges of center fold. Two old soft secondary fold lines. Very good. An attractive image showing a family of Greenlanders sledding and skiing down a hill likely produced by Lars Møller Greenland's premier printer or by Møller's youngest son Steffen. The illustration shows a family of seven Greenland natives sledding down a hill while two other youngsters ski alongside with one of the skiers in the process of falling. Other winter sports enthusiasts cavort in the distance and the stark Greenland landscape is ably depicted. Lars Møller an accomplished printer and illustrator was the dominant figure in Greenlandic printing in the last quarter of the 19th century producing much of the printed output in the country. His son Steffen succeeded his father and produced impressive works in his own right including a native language speller from which this illustration may be an example. Knud Oldendow THE SPREAD OF PRINTING. WESTERN HEMISPHERE. GREENLAND Amsterdam: Vangendt & Co. 1969 pp.68-69 and passim. unknown books
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
192061861On a lake in northern New England 1920. Photographs. Small snapshots 3 x 4 1/2 inches nice images. The vintage outboard motor being used is especially interesting. Very good. 8871. <br/><br/> unknown books
1910D6835Germany c.1910. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original black cloth; 246 x 200 mm; approx. pp. 300 handwritten in black ink throughout and demonstrating a variety of lettering styles with very fine drawings in pencil and ink most touched with color either in pencil ink or watercolor. Even when illustrating technical details our author captures the grain in the wood and gleaming metal hardware -- this is an intricately detailed and exceptionally beautiful treatise on all aspects of the construction of high-rise buildings and homes. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1964140939355China: General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army 1964. First Edition. Very Good. 250 pp. First edition. Printed wraps; text in Chinese with 30 chapters. The endorsement leaf by Lin Baio has been excised as is common in many copies. In promoting the Little Red Book Biao rose to prominence in Mao's inner circle with Biao becoming seen as Mao's successor. However when unsubstantiated rumors surfaced that Biao was plotting to assassinate Mao Biao was killed and subsequently the endorsement leaf was excised from remaining copies. Very Good or better with wear at foot of spine toning and light foxing occasional corner crease to pages. Following the Bible this is the most-printed text world-wide. [General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army] unknown books
1964140938964China: General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army 1964. First Edition. Red vinyl over wraps. Near Fine. 250 pp. First edition. Red vinyl covers over wraps; text in Chinese with 30 chapters. The endorsement leaf by Lin Baio has been excised as is common in many copies. In promoting the Little Red Book Biao rose to prominence in Mao's inner circle with Biao becoming seen as Mao's successor. However when unsubstantiated rumors surfaced that Biao was plotting to assassinate Mao Biao was killed and subsequently the endorsement leaf was excised from remaining copies. Near fine with light foxing to textblock edge light toning to pages. Following the Bible this is the most-printed text world-wide. [General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army] unknown books
1964100159Beijing: Central Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army 1964. First edition of Quotations from Chairman Mao. Duodecimo in the original iconic red vinyl title to front cover in blind frontispiece portrait of Chairman Mao. With the textual error on pp. 82/83 corrected and Lin Biao's calligraphic endorsement leaf after the frontispiece tipped in from a later printing. In 1972 an edict was issued that Lin's name was to be obliterated from history following disclosures that he had plotted a coup and planned to assassinate Mao; consequently "many surviving copies in the Chinese language have that page legitimately torn away mutilated or censored" Schiller p. 36. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom red slipcase. Printed for the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army the first edition of Mao's Quotations was issued in two states and bindings: the uncorrected first state text in red vinyl plastic and the corrected second state in paper wrappers. The corrected copies issued in wrappers and intended for high-ranking officers were released first; the uncorrected copies issued in red vinyl and for use by brigade teams were released shortly afterwards as the sturdier binding took longer to manufacture. By the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966 the red vinyl design had become symbolic of Mao's slogan "The East is Red" and the paper wrappers were discontinued. The year 1966 also "signaled the start of a major translation and publication project when the Little Red Book was issued in over 50 different languages of countries where Socialism might triumph" Schiller p. 55. The book was printed in large quantities until Mao's death in 1976; by the late 1970s however a change of government meant further circulation of the book was discouraged with millions of copies were collected and destroyed. His Little Red Book however sometimes referred to as the "Chinese Bible" "forms a brilliant compilation that is still readable and admired today for its political theories and strategies" ibid. p. 57. Central Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army unknown books
1960480981960. Marshall O.R. Editor. The Jubilee Lectures of the Faculty of Law University of Sheffield. London: Stevens & Sons Limited 1960. xv 144 pp. Ex-library with stamps bookplate on front pastedown page card pocket on rear pastedown page and location label on cover. Cloth worn and soiled. Internally clean. $10. unknown books
192020620Washington: Government Printing Office 1920. 16pp. stapled. Very lightly tanned else Very Good. Government Printing Office unknown books
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
6413viii 120 pp. 4to cont. pale blue paper wrappers spine defective. Vienna: La Société Typographique 1790. The uncommon sale catalogue of the collections formed by the founder of the famous Viennese music publisher. Originally from Lucca Mechetti c. 1745-1811 encountered financial troubles and was forced to sell his collection of thousands of items primarily Italian prints and paintings. In the introduction Mechetti highlights certain pieces in his collection which was apparently not for sale by auction but rather private contract. Pages 113-20 describe a large library rich in books on the arts and history. Nice copy. This copy was inscribed on the inside front wrappers to the amateur geologist Baron de Beroldingen see Zittel. From the library of His Serene Highness Prince Fürstenberg at Donaueschingen with his stamp on title. ❧ Cicognara 4548. unknown books
