Batty, Robert, 1788 or 1789-1848Biblio.com
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1822029216London: Rodwell & Martin 1822. First Edition. Quarto. engraving accompanied by a tissue guard and descriptive text in English and French. Captain Batty was an officer who served with the 1st Grenadier guards and he fought with the 3rd battalion at Quatre Bras. His battalion played an important role at Waterloo and served in the occupation of France. He made sketches and etched the plates in this work. His work was exhibited at the Royal Academy and his drawing of buildings showed a remarkable understanding of architectural principles. Handsomely bound in maroon straight grained morocco both boards with corners decoratively stamped in gilt within gilt frame raised bands and lettering gilt all other compartments fully gilt decorated all edges gilt light scattered marginal foxing joints strengthened. A very good copy. Rodwell & Martin unknown
19690006632Chicago: Reilly & Lee 1969. New edition. Hardcover. Very Good . John R. Neill. Quarto 239 pages blue cloth with small holes as if made by a stapler some inside but most are on the covers; with some crayoning scriibbles before p. 16 and on the endpapers <br/><br/>Baum wrote this in response to certain of his fans who "implored me to 'write something about the mermaids'." The first in the Borderland of Oz series. Illustrated by John R. Neill: here in black-and-white only. Reilly & Lee hardcover
2023LA52312050021Assouline 2023-01-03. hardcover. New/None as issued. 9x0x12. Brand new sealed in original publisher's shrink wrap. Excellent gift-worthy collector's copy. Oversize hardcover. Books that sell for $9 or more ship in a box; under $9 in a bubble mailer. Expedited and international orders may ship in a flat rate envelope rather than a box due to cost constraints. All US-addressed items ship with complimentary delivery confirmation. Assouline hardcover
2010Q-1594516685Routledge 2010-10-20. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Routledge paperback
20102-1594516685Paradigm Pub 2010. Paperback. New. 256 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.60 inches. Paradigm Pub paperback
0720W752691Fair. Original Putnam 1856 Thick small 8vo uniform light brown polished calf and marbled boards raised bands gilt design and pair of black leather spine labels in spine compartments. Title compartment 1/3rd chipped away; front cover detached. Front blank page removed. Scattered foxing mild aging. Putnam & Co. New York 1856 10th edition 522pps. frontis and Good folded map. All edges marbled. Binding tight. hardcover
15834240like new. unknown
B9781432778002Hardback. New. hardcover
1850401327London : T. Bosworth 1850. 1st edition. Hardcover. Provenance: Bookplate of Alfred Byard Sheppard. Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Lacks spine. Spine bands worn; panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Hinges starting. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 264 17 1 pp. 2 plates 21 cm. Subjects; Poor London England. Public baths. Wash-houses. Tenement houses. Laundries. London England Social conditions 19th century. London : T. Bosworth hardcover
19582080602108200483Nihon shoin 1958. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Nihon shoin paperback
1914797Marshall Brothers 1914. Hardcover. Very Good. The Story Of A Hindu Girl. 302pp <br/><br/> Marshall Brothers hardcover
20884Warley Mount Brentwood 30 October 1901. 19pp foolscap 8vo. On five bifoliums. Neatly and closely written. In good condition lightly aged and worn. Tower's letter begins: 'My dear Dick I enclose a chart not present which will show you at a glance my yachting cruises during the past season'. The rest of letter consists of extracts from Tower's diary 4 April to 12 September 1901 describing with the care one would expect from an engineer 'one of the best long vacation cruises on record' and ending with a table of 'Distances sailed by me in Gwnfa' from Brightlingsea to Harwich Antwerp 'Abortive attempt from Flushing' Flushing Dover Portsmouth Dieppe Maestrand Copenhagen Kiel Brunsbutell Hamburg Cuxhaven Lowestoft' totalling 2135 miles. Tower adds this to the total steamed in another ship 'Ingani' 'making a grand total for the seaon of 1901 of 3508 miles'. In businesslike fashion Tower notes times position weather and significant incidents. A representative entry reads: 'Tues 13th. Very fine weather Lat 54.40 N Long 6.22 E by obs. At noon Wind dropped at 4.pm. We were amongst a fleet of German steam trawlers. Sent a boat to one of them and got a bucket full of fine Plaice becalmed all night'. See Tower's obituary in Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers vol.162 1905 pt 4 which describes his connection with the sea his 'principal work' being 'the gyroscopic “steady platform†for guns and searchlights … The device was submitted to the Admiralty and after being thoroughly tested was fitted to two gunboats on which it answered very well; but ultimately the Admiralty rejected the apparatus on account of the extra weight involved … Mr. Tower nevertheless proceeded to adapt the platform for passenger-seats on cross-channel steamers'. The recipient Sir Richard Harington 12th Baronet 1861-1931 would not succeed to the baronetcy until the death of his father in 1911. Himself a keen yachtsman he was a Puisne Judge in the High Court of Justice at Fort William in Bengal between 1899 and 1913. From the Harington family papers. Warley Mount, Brentwood, 30 October 1901. unknown
68-1993London UK: Punch 1885. Image 18 x 24 cm. Very Good. In mylar protective sleeve. Page mounted on light backing board.Stamped "Property Of The New York Public Library Picture Collection." [London, UK: Punch, 1885]. unknown
197524542Cincinnati OH: B. B. & Co 1975. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. 10.3x7.3x0.7in. Inscribed by Authors. not issued with a dust jacket inscribed by author. <br>168pp 1.36lb 10.3x7.3x0.7in B. B. & Co hardcover
0671773143.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2001Q-043929116xSimon Spotlight 2001-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Simon Spotlight paperback
0717264416.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
184047213Paris Bachelier 1840. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences" Tome XI No.18. Pp. 667- 716. Entire issue offered. Becquerel's paper:pp. 702-703. Some marginal brownspots margins slightly soiled light browning an creasing. <br/><br/><em>First printing of an importent paper in the history of photochemistry as he here discovered some effects of coloured rays of the solar spectrum."Edmund Becquerel seems to be the first person to observe in 1840 in the paper offered that the latent daguerreotype image which had been underexposed could be intensified if re-exposed to the yellow and red rays of the spectrum and then developed with mercury. Explaining this phenomenon Becquerel called the yellow-red continuing rays "rayon continuateurs" in contrast to the primary rays which exicited or produced the light image and which he called exiciting rays "rayons excitateurs". They are dependent on the wave lenght of the light."Eder "History of Photography" pp. 265 ff."Becquerel was an early experimenter in photography. In 1840 he discovered that the silver halides natively insensitive to red and yellow light became sensitive to that part of the spectrum in proportion to their exposure to blue violet and ultraviolet light allowing Daguerreotypes and other photographic materials to be developed by bathing in strong red or yellow light rather than by chemical treatment. In practice this technique was rarely used." Wikipedia. </em> unknown
6759Numerous fine woodcut initials diagrams tables & maps in the text. Woodcut printer’s device at end. 14 p.l. 18 leaves 6 leaves 30 xxxi-cxxvi leaves 4 leaves. Folio cont. Flemish blindstamped calf binding over wooden boards rather well rebacked a few unimportant stains rolls of medallion heads & foliage forming a double panel orig. clasps and catches metal corner guards. Cologne: J. Prael for P. Quentel 1537.<br /> <br/> <br/> bound after:<br /> <br/> <br/> ANSELM ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. In Omnes Pauli Apostili Epistolas enarrationes. Title within fine woodcut border by Anton Woensam of Worms. Some fine large woodcut initials. 8 p.l. 531 pp. Folio. Cologne: E. Cervicornus for G. Hittorp 1533.<br/> <br/> A most attractive sammelband of two well-illustrated books in an attractive contemporary blind-stamped binding probably made at the Stavelot monastery in Belgium.<br/> <br/> I. First collected and illustrated edition of the scientific writings of the Venerable Bede including De Natura Rerum dealing with cosmology and natural history and De Temporum Ratione a work on chronology that still exercises a considerable influence over our daily life today. This edition was edited and commented upon by Joannes Noviomagus i.e. Jan van Bronchorst of Nijmegen 1494-1570 philosopher and mathematician then a professor of philosophy at the Collegium Montanum in Cologne. It would appear that he used the manuscript at the Dombibliothek no. 103 of Cologne to prepare this edition.<br/> <br/> The De Temporum Ratione is a significant book in several ways. Most notably “this book helped to establish the custom of counting years from the birth of Christ. When we say that Queen Elizabeth II was born in 1926 not ‘in the 16th year of the reign of George V’ or ‘in the year 2678 after the foundation of Rome’ or in the ‘2nd year of the 481st Olympiad’ we are indebted to the Venerable Bede.â€â€“Printing & the Mind of Man 16n.<br/> <br/> “Bede’s greatest practical effect was on the Western calendar. His decisions beginning the year calculation of Easter names of days and months calculations of eras and so forth in most instances finally determined usage that was only refined not changed by Gregorian reform.â€â€“D.S.B. I p. 565.<br/> <br/> “The De Ratione Temporum first published in 1505 is particularly important. It contains a remarkable theory of tides based upon Pliny but also upon personal observation; first mention of the establishment of a port i.e. the mean interval between the moon’s meridian passage and high water following; this interval is different in different ports.â€â€“Sarton I p. 511. Pierre Duhem described Bede’s establishment of a port as the only original formulation of nature to be made in the West for some eight centuries. <br/> <br/> Also contained here is the De Natura Rerum 1st printing: 1529 which contains such physical science as was then known. It collects the wisdom of the ancient world on these subjects and has the special merit of referring phenomena to natural causes. It contains a particularly important section — the “De Comptu vel Loquela digitorum†— which is “our main almost our only source for the study of mediaeval finger reckoning or symbolism.â€â€“Sarton I pp. 510-11. See also Smith History of Mathematics II p. 200.<br/> <br/> The rest of the book contains further treatises by Bede on arithmetic astronomy and the calendar and chronology.<br/> <br/> II. Very rare.<br/> <br/> PROVENANCE: Early inscription of “Antonius abbatis a Sancto Remaclo†on front flyleaf; Benedictine monastery of Stavelot Belgium inscription “Liber Monasterii Stabulensis†on title-page of Anselm; auction sale of the monastery library Catalogue d’une belle Collection de Livres et Manuscrits précieux sur vélin du VIIIe et du IXe siècle Ghent 26 April 1847 lot 42; Michel Chasles 1793-1880 the mathematician with bookplate his sale Paris 27 June-18 July 1881 lot 28; Robert B. Honeyman 1897-1987 his sale Sotheby’s 30 October 1978 lot 265.<br/> <br/> BINDING: Stavelot had its own bindery at this time and it is quite likely that this binding was executed there see Goldschmidt Gothic & Renaissance Bookbindings no. 90.<br/> <br/> Fine large copies preserved in a box.<br/> <br/> ⧠I. Adams B448–calling for two additional preliminary leaves but no other collation calls for them. Smith Rara Arithmetica p. 159n. Zinner 1657. II. Adams A1174. unknown
1907058896Oxford: George Bell and Sons 1907. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. 8vo. Fold-out map frontispiece. FIRST EDITION THUS. LONDON : 1907. Translation of; Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. . Hardback. Fold-out map frontispiece. Original dark-brown sand-grained cloth; gilt lettered spine. Neat owner name to front and rear free end-paper. No internal markings. Bright tight and clean. Minor wear only. VERY GOOD INDEED. xliv 516 pages. Index. 32pp catalogue to the rear. Includes bibliographical notes. Index. 8vo. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. George Bell and Sons. SCARCE. <br/> <br/> George Bell and Sons hardcover
009877Berkeley CA: Howell-North Books 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Third printing. Centennial Edition. Cloth with red lettering. 631 pages. Photos by Richard Steinheimer. Index. Jacket has a couple of creases and tiny tears. Contents clean and tight. <br/> <br/> Howell-North Books (1966). hardcover
GTC265Harry N. Abrams Inc. Inscribed by Beebe 1st ed.; fine condition DJ fine condition. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. unknown
1850542023Boston: Phillips Samson & Co 1850. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Small octavo. Brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Small nicks on the cloth at the spine ends small finger pressure mark on front gutter tiny ink spot on foredge and some scattered foxing but a nice and fresh near fine copy. An attempt by the important educator reformer and sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe to promote the cause of her pupil author Delia Bacon in the aftermath of a matrimonial breach of promise suit and her prosecution in the court of public opinion by the authorities at Yale whom Beecher felt had thwarted her case. Bacon would seek solace in her research popularizing the notion that Shakespeare's works were actually written by a group of writers including Francis Bacon and Walter Scott. A very nice copy seldom found thus. Phillips, Samson & Co hardcover
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
346024Santa Fe NM: Tewa Silk Screen Prints. 6 x 5-14 inches Image Frame 11 x 12 inches. Framed and glazed. With label from Tewa Silk Screen Prints on back. 6 x 5-14 inches Image Frame 11 x 12 inches. Begay was born on the Navajo Reservation near White Cone Trading Post in Az. and was the last living former student of Dorothy Dunn and Geronima C. Montoya at the Santa Fe Indian School when he died in 2012. He studied there from 1934 to 1940. Tewa Silk Screen Prints unknown
