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186740706London: T. Cautley Newy 1867. 324 pp. Sepia toned lithos. <br /><br />Narrative of a Journal of a Yachting Expedition from Auckland to the South Sea Islands and a pedestrian tour in a new district of New Zealand bush. Scarce yachting narrative. Not in Toy. "A slight account of Norfolk Island and the Pitcairners is found at pp. 73-95." - Hocken p. 250. Fergusson 12963. Bagnall 3578. Worldcat shows only six libraries holding copies - none in the US. Bound in publisher's blindstamped cloth. T. Cautley Newy hardcover books
1923240826Hollywood CA: Paramount PIctures 1923. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. The Covered Wagon" is considered the first great Western epic in movie history establishing a number of cliches that became staples. Very nice copy of the booklet that "has been prepared to present to the public some interesting facts in connections with the production of this Paramount picture" price 25 cents. Interesing item for the Teddy Roosevelt completist as the Paramount dedicated the movie to his memory; it so states on the verso of the front panel. Very Good binding. Paramount PIctures unknown books
1964WRCLIT18032New York: Knopf 1964. Narrow quarto. Spiral bound plain wrappers printed labels. Uncorrected original trimmed galley proofs of the first edition. Two old tape marks on wrappers else fine. HORN 905. Knopf unknown books
16113462Latin manuscript on vellum with large 6 in diameter suspended black wax seal of James I of England and autograph of Anne of Denmark dated July 23 1610 granting title to Corrodownan Manor in County Cavan Ulster to one John Browne Gent. of Gorgiemill near Edinburgh and his descendants during the Plantation i.e. colonization of Ulster under James I beginning in 1609. The colonists were settled on land confiscated from the Irish inhabitants following the conquest of Ulster 1594-1603 under James's predecessor Elizabeth I. The Plantation was intended to consolidate royal control of Ulster and repress rebellion by importing a substantial Protestant population. Like John Browne and indeed James himself many of the new colonists were Scottish. Some of these families went on to form the backbone of the Protestant Ascendancy in the province. John Browne and his heirs however were not among them. Sir George Carew sent by the king in 1611 to report on the progress of the Plantation noted that "he Browne . sent an agent who took possession set the lands to the Irish returned to Scotland and . performed nothing." The land was sold in 1613 to another Scottish colonist Archibald Acheson. Acheson's descendants were raised to the peerage of Ireland in 1806 as Earls of Gosford and still owned the property in the late nineteenth century. The first nineteen lines of the document grant the Scottish Browne the rights and privileges of James's English and Irish citizens. Especially notable are the requirement that the grantee maintain an adequate supply of arms for defense against the king's enemies lines 77-80 the attempt to encourage the growth of towns 74-76 and the ban on sale of the property to "mere Irish" or to anyone who failed to acknowledge the sovereign as head of the church thus excluding all Catholics by swearing the Oath of Supremacy 114-121. See Rev. George Hill The Conquest of Ireland. An Historical Account of the Plantation of Ulster at the Commencement of the Seventeenth Century 1608-1620 Belfast 1877 308; idem Plantation Papers. Containing a Summary Sketch of the Great Ulster Plantation in the Year 1610 Belfast 1889 188-190; F.J. McCaughey Arvagh. Sources for a Local History Arvagh 1998 16.; Moiré chemise lined with exact recess for seal housed in handsome ruled red morocco clamshell case with gilt title to front cover and raised bands gilt particulars and decoration to spine; gilt rolled edges. Two leaves 65 x 81 cm; the first illuminated with a portrait of the king. Stain to upper left see image.; 65 x 81 cm; 1 pages; Signed by Notable Personage Related; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. . hardcover books
146575Hollywood: Firewater Productions Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a number of small holograph ink annotations throughout mostly noting grammatical revisions and diacritical marks.<br/><br/>In the final days of World War II Allied forces race to take down Hitler and the Nazi elite while German and Italian prisoners of war plot to escape from an American camp in Texas.<br/><br/>Set in Germany France America and North Africa.<br/><br/>Black non-standard titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter James Gray-Gold. 157 leaves with last page of text numbered 150. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus in a three ring binder. Firewater Productions unknown books
1986139735Santa Monica: Home Box Office HBO 1986. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1986 television movie. <br/><br/>This television movie follows the infamous newsman Edward R. Murrow whose frank condemnation of McCarthy helped put an end to the senator's "witch-hunts." <br/><br/>Shot on location in New York and London. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a red holograph notation to the recto and to the verso. Home Box Office [HBO] unknown books
19781342185Boulder: Westview Press 1978. Hardcover. Octavo; 2 volumes; G; Hardcover; Spine blue with silver print; Boards in blue cloth with silver print light wear to spine caps and corners v. 2 has mild blemishes on front spine and rear else clean and strong; Text blocks are clean and tight; 2 vols. xxix 1399 pages frontispiece. <br /> <br /> <p> Oversized order. Additional shipping and handling may be necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy international shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. Contact seller if you have any questions.<br /> <br /> <p>NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office in wraparound bookcase next to 15's. 1342185. FP New Rockville Stock. Westview Press hardcover books
1866WRCAM50657AWashington 1866. 6pp. Folio gathered signatures. Mild soiling and toning. Very good. After the Civil War the government moved quickly to control the western Indian tribes and this treaty is one of the first actions taken. The treaty was concluded Oct. 19 1865 at Fort Sully Dakota Territory amended and proclaimed March 17 1866. The treaty calls for the Sioux's subjugation to the U.S. government the ceasing of Sioux attacks on whites and their withdrawal from overland routes made through their country. The government agrees to pay them $7000 annually for twenty years for allowing free travel on these routes. The treaty is signed in print by Brig. Gen. Sibley among others. EBERSTADT 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
1855WRCAM50640Washington 1855. 7pp. Printed on blue paper. Folio stitched as issued. Gatherings loose. Edges toned internally clean. Very good. Concluded September 10 1853 proclaimed February 5 1855. Concluded by Joel Palmer at Table Rock in Oregon Territory. The Rogue River tribe agrees to sell their lands between Rogue River and Siskiyou Mountains in return for $60000. EBERSTADT 109. unknown books
1866WRCAM26697BWashington 1866. 6pp. Folio. Gathered signatures. Mild toning. 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
1866WRCAM26697AWashington 1866. 6pp. Folio. Gathered signatures. Mild toning. 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
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
1866WRCAM50657Washington 1866. 6pp. Folio gathered signatures. Mild soiling and toning. Very good. After the Civil War the government moved quickly to control the western Indian tribes and this treaty is one of the first actions taken. The treaty was concluded Oct. 19 1865 at Fort Sully Dakota Territory amended and proclaimed March 17 1866. The treaty calls for the Sioux's subjugation to the U.S. government the ceasing of Sioux attacks on whites and their withdrawal from overland routes made through their country. The government agrees to pay them $7000 annually for twenty years for allowing free travel on these routes. The treaty is signed in print by Brig. Gen. Sibley among others. EBERSTADT 130. 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
185315279London: Saunders & Stanford; Manchester: Simms & Diham 1853. Small 8vo. 40 pp. <br><br>In the society's series: "India reform" this being number 9. Library of Congress attributes authorship to John Sullivan. Condemnation of British assumptions that regarded native rule as evil and wrong. Uncommon. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â NSTC 2I1607 & 2I1608 for the series. Removed from a nonce volume. Good condition. Saunders & Stanford; Manchester: Simms & Diham unknown books
199329249Oxford: Ashmolean Museum 1993. Paperback. Very Good. 45 page exhibition catalog. <br/><br/>exc j Ashmolean Museum paperback books
6530Numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. 31 folding leaves. 8vo orig. wrappers wrappers a little rubbed orig. block printed title label on upper cover label a little defective new stitching. Kyoto & Tokyo: 1864. First edition and rare. Imamura 1814-90 a leading doctor and historian of Japanese medicine was physician to the future Emperor Taisho when he was a youth. Imamura professor of medicine at Tokyo University found that many of the contemporary Japanese works on acupuncture had strayed from the classic teachings of the Chinese physicians. In this work Imamura makes a series of highly detailed and organized corrections to refine the fourteen meridians. The numerous striking woodcuts depict various parts of the body and pressure points. Very nice copy. Some light dampstaining. ❧ Mestler Old Japanese Medical Books I p. 297. unknown books
7485Numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Title-page 31 folding leaves one leaf of colophon. 8vo orig. patterned blue semi-stiff wrappers orig. block-printed title label on upper cover label rubbed new stitching. Tokyo Kyoto & Osaka: 1864.<br /> First edition and rare. Imamura 1814-90 was a leading physician and historian of Japanese medicine of his period. Professor of medicine at Tokyo University he was physician to the future Emperor Taisho when he was a youth.<br /> Imamura found that many of the contemporary Japanese works on acupuncture had strayed from the classic teachings of the Chinese physicians. In this work he makes a series of corrections to refine the fourteen meridians.<br /> The numerous woodcuts depict various parts of the body and pressure points.<br /> Very nice copy. Light stain to first few leaves.<br /> ⧠Mestler Old Japanese Medical Books I p. 297. unknown books
192383398London: Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co 1923. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. xiv 57p. Original cloth-backed boards. 19cm. Sound copy with some cover rubbing and other wear. No Jacket. INSCRIBED on endpaper by Chalmers-Hunt the translator and an Egyptian-born mystic poet. <br/><br/> Simpkin, Marshall Hamilton, Kent & Co hardcover books
181719934New York: W.B. Gilley 1817. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. 13 cm 180 pp. Contemporary marbled boards; spine recovered in black cloth tape. Some peeling to marbled paper one crack at center of binding where signature is partly sprung otherwise sound and clean. On oft-reprinted moral tale for children the "ornaments" are good manners and a well-regulated mind first published in London in 1815 by William Darnton Jr. This edition is scarce. Shaw & Shoemaker; 41095. W.B. Gilley hardcover books
737576; 99 folding leaves of which two in Vol. II are in manuscript replacing missing printed leaves. Six parts in two vols. 8vo modern wrappers text leaves lightly browned new stitching. China: Prefaces dated 1754 & 1756.<br /> First edition and very rare not in WorldCat of this collection of the poetry and prose of Ren Huang 1683-1768 one of "the foremost lyrical poets" Ko p. 92 see below of the Guangdong region and a member of the artistic circle whose center was Gu Erniang a famous woman inkstone carver whose shop was located in Zhuanszhu Lane in the imperial city of Suzhou. This collectors and scholars of this circle were both patrons and clients of Gu Erniang and in fact Ren's main asset late in life was his collection of precious carved inkstones.<br /> Ren 1683-1768 whose literary name was Xintian or Shentian Ren was a native of Yongful county in Fujian. Born into a well-educated family of generations of government officials he learned poetry and painting as a child. He received the juren degree in 1702 and served as a county magistrate in Sihui in Guangdong province.<br /> Most of the poetry in this work is from manuscripts and appears here for the first time whereas the essays and other prose writings were previously published. The second preface dated 1754 is signed by Tingheng Xu and the third preface of 1756 is signed by Tiaoyuan Sang 1695-1771 scholar.<br /> A nice set but with two leaves of text replaced in early manuscript. Several natural paper flaws not touching text and mended. With the seal of Yosaburo Takekoshi 1865-1950 Japanese historian and politician. Preserved in a chitsu.<br /> ❧ Dorothy Ko The Social Life of Inkstones. Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China 2017. unknown books
198373072Princeton: Princeton University Press 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Hsi K'ang A.D. 223-262 was an important poet musician philosopher and debater in the age of ch'ing-t'an 'pure talk.' Here is a translation of his nine essays plus the four essays of his opponents in various debates. Only one of the thirteen works has been translated into English before." Octavo: 214 p. Original natural linen over green cloth spine with gilt titles. A crisp unread copy. Light fading along the extremities of the dust jacket; else near fine. Princeton University Press hardcover books
191047219Portland 1910. 1st Printing. White card stock wrappers embossed upper wrappers with gilt textured white leaves with categorical tabs printed in red and black held together by a red cord tie and stapled now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Soiling wrappers upper wrapper with possible water damage tie a bit frayed and sunned some red and black ink markings - adjusting and adding menu items light soiling to some leaves as well as some faint age toning to edges. Overall a nice bright copy. 20 pp. unnumbered. 10-2/8" x 7" <br/><br/>"Railroad magnate Henry Villard financed the Portland Hotel and construction began in 1882 but his finances collapsed—in part because of the Panic of 1884—and the construction stopped for five years. With only the foundation completed the site became known as "Villard's Ruins" and the bodies of two murder victims were found there before construction resumed. George B. Markle Jr. began a campaign to raise local money to complete the hotel. He generated enough interest and subscribers to his plan among them Henry W. Corbett Henry Failing Simeon Reed and William S. Ladd to get construction started again. Later investors included labor leader Ed Boyce. The Queen Anne Châteauesque hotel finally opened in 1890 and had eight floors and 326 bedrooms.It had cost well over a million dollars and eight years to complete." wiki The hotel closed in 1951 and all the furniture was sold at auction. unknown 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
