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198887497Berkeley:: University of California Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0520056701 . First printing. Good in a good light damp staining and rippling fading along the spine dust jacket. . University of California Press, hardcover books
199259034Berkeley:: University of California Press. Near Fine. 1992. Paperback. 0520075358 . First paperback printing. Near fine in pictorial wraps. . University of California Press, paperback books
1992WRCLIT78412New York: Hyperion 1992. Cloth and boards. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. 'Imagined' being the key word. Hyperion hardcover books
1992UGOLCLA00DPEHyperion 1992. Fine. Gold Alison Leslie. Clairvoyant : The Imagined Life of Lucia Joyce. NY: Hyperion 1992. 1st ed. 158pp. 8vo. 1/4 Cloth. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. Hyperion hardcover books
199219007NY: Hyperion. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 1562829866 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Hyperion hardcover books
1966272480New York: French & European Publications 1966. hardcover. very good/very good-. Preface by Jacques Helft. 473 photographic illustrations including 48 in color. 336pp. tall 4to white pictorial cloth d.w. frayed. New York: French & European Publications 1966. First Edition in English. Ownership signature else a very good copy in a very good- dust wrapper.<br/><br/> "A survey . lavishly illustrated with pieces from European and American collections. Includes many illustrations of comparative works." -- Arntzen/Rainwater P487. The Connaissance des arts collection "Grand artisans d'autrefois".<br/><br/> French & European Publications unknown books
18681375640th Cong. 2d Sess.: HED265. 1868. 166pp Disbound persistent light dampstain. Good. HED265. unknown books
M13K-00948DC Comics. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. DC Comics unknown books
15616593Basil: Henricum Petri et Petrium Pernam 1561. First collected edition. Vellum. Very Good. 8vo. 2 parts in 1 each with its own title page see below. 16240;18010pp. With the final leaf of errata and colophon. Orig. limp vellum inner hinges reinforced with linen cloth strips. Later endpapers. The first part is a description of England Scotland Ireland the Hebrides and the Orkney Islands with a long English historical chronicle. The second part separately collated is the author's "Moschovia in qua Situs Regionis Antiquis Incognitus." a description of Moscow but it also includes his description of Lake Como the place of the author's birth and a text on Italian fish. VD 16 G2058; BL German STC p. 360; not in Adams. Henricum Petri et Petrium Pernam hardcover books
5035Woodcut printer's device on titles. 4 p.l. xxvii 1 368 pp.; 547 pp. Large 4to cont. Italian red morocco covers of Vol. II a little rubbed sides richly gilt with the arms of Pope Clement XIV in gilt in center of each cover spines richly gilt each tooled slightly differently a.e.g. Faenza: G.A. Archi 1769. First edition and a very handsome set with the arms of Pope Clement XIV on covers of the first bio-bibliographical guide to the writers of Ravenna; about 2500 works by more than 600 authors are included. Ginanni 1698-1774 the learned Italian bibliographer and historian was a professor in Florence and then in Ravenna where he developed a great knowledge of Italian history and writers. He formed an important collection of books and medals and was a member of many academic societies. Very fine set. Stamp on titles of the Biblioteca Piervissana on titles. From the library of A.R.A. Hobson with bookplate. ❧ Besterman 5346. N.B.G. Vol. 20 cols. 570-71. unknown books
2009192828Simon & Schuster 2009-02-10. Paperback. Very Good. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Light edgewear. TP HS Simon & Schuster paperback books
55064 p.l. 162 leaves. Small 4to cont. blindstamped panelled pigskin remains of two deerskin ties. Zurich: C. Froschauer 1542. First edition of a very rare book on the market; this is a lovely fresh copy in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin. This Gesner's second botanical work is "an alphabetically arranged catalog of plant names in four languages the first of its kind and an indication of the growing interest in botany beyond purely philological investigations into the writings of the classics. The Greek names are based on the works of Dioscorides. This early work is already characteristic of Gessner's life-long endeavour to arrange scientific topics in alphabetical or systematic order; it also show his proficiency in languages and his interest in their comparative treatment."-Wellisch 8.1. A fine copy. Signature at foot of title of "Lucas Schröck M.D." Schröck 1646-1730 was a professor of medicine at Jena and president of the Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher see Hirsch V pp. 139-40. Early inscription on front free endpaper stating this is a duplicate from the Royal Library of Munich. Engraved armorial bookplate dated 1744 of Franziskus Topsl 1711-96 prior of the Polling Abbey in Upper Bavaria. Modern booklabel of D. Henry. Some minor worming to upper inner corner of first seven leaves touching a few letters of the first two leaves. ❧ Pritzel 3298. unknown books
5564Finely engraved title woodcut head- & tailpieces & 2776 woodcuts in the text. 20 p.l. incl. initial blank & engraved title 1630 48 pp. one blank leaf. Thick folio 350 x 210 mm. cont. calf well-rebacked by Trevor Lloyd with the original spine laid-down a few gouges carefully filled-in corners bruised panelled in gilt & blind large gilt device in center of each cover with initials "W H" on either side. London: A. Islip for J. Norton & R. Whitakers 1633. First edition of Thomas Johnson's expanded and corrected version of Gerarde's Herball 1st ed.: 1597 the most famous of all English herbals. "Many errors made by Gerard in his text and in the identification of the illustrations were corrected by the apothecary and botanist Thomas Johnson d. 1644 of London who prepared an expanded edition of The Herball that first appeared in 1633.Johnson's painstaking revision of Gerard's herbal constituted in itself a valuable contribution to botany and to the art of the printed book. He added the descriptions of many new plants with illustrations some of them borrowed from the botanical texts published by Christophe Plantin in Antwerp in this way bringing the total number of engravings to 2776. Any new passages were carefully marked with special symbols so that the reader could distinguish them from the original text. "The title-page of The Herball is particularly attractive. It was executed by John Payne 1607-1647 one of the most talented engravers of the period.In the upper part of Payne's work we see a luxuriant garden with the goddesses Ceres and Pomona on either side. Below them are the fathers of botany Theophrastus and Dioscorides while in the lower section two imposing vases filled with flowers surround a portrait of Gerard who is shown facing in the opposite direction to that of the portrait by Rogers. The vase on the left is crowned with a bunch of bananas as a tribute to Johnson. "One of the most significant additions made by Johnson was his chapter on the 'Maracot' or 'Grandilla' as it was called at the time actually the passion-flower. He includes a full page illustration p. 1592 and refers the reader to Monardes for more information on this exotic species.In the long preface Johnson traces the history of the botanical sciences analyzing the contributions of celebrated figures from the mythical King Solomon to William Turner.He closes with some critical remarks on John Gerard and the origins of his herbal."-Tomasi & Willis An Oak Spring Herbaria p. 84. An uncommonly nice and crisp copy. Bookplates of John Charles Bigham Viscount Mersey Bignor Park and Oliver Howard. ❧ Garrison-Morton 1820-1st ed. of 1597-"The most important edition of his book is the second published by T. Johnson in 1633." Henrey I pp. 48-54-"Johnson produced an edition that was noteworthy for its many corrections improvements and additions" & no. 155. Hunt 223. unknown books
181210794Vienna: Maria Geisler 1812. Contemporary light green glazed paper boards with a ropework roll for an outer frame ochre endleaves gilt-ruled flat spine hinges rubbed gilt-lettered red paper label all edges gilt. The Austro-Hungarian capital in your pocket - her only view book. The prints include theaters opera houses the Imperial Riding School gardens parade grounds a swim club an obelisk coffee houses porcelain and weapons factories hospitals painting galleries the bustling Danube christoph de bac's famous hexadecagon circus building etc. The publisher's address 1200 Graben dates the suite. I have not located a set outside Austria. Individual prints were and are offered for sale. In good condition; two double-page views were likely issued later and are not present here. Two plates have been neatly mounted at the time of issue on the paper stock of the edition nos. 89 and 99. All but two views are in their first or only state.¶Nebehay & Wagner Bibliographie altösterreichischer Ansichtenwerke 193. Maria Geisler unknown books
7008Twelve full-page woodcuts & numerous woodcuts in the text. 36 folding leaves. Two parts in one vol. 8vo orig. blue wrappers wrappers rubbed & somewhat wormed orig. block-printed title label on upper cover no longer present modern stitching. "Ichijo-dori" a street in Kyoto: Tomikura Tahei 1690. First edition of this early and rare book providing prescriptions for treatments in the different stages of tuberculosis. The author describes ten drugs made from vegetables that give miraculous results in treating the disease. The second part entitled "Mujo Gengen santen shinden gyokudo shoshi chiden shirochu soho" describes the parasitic worms said to grow in the stomach and intestinal system of patients suffering from tuberculosis. The text illustrations depict many of these parasites. The text is Chinese with Japanese reading marks presumably compiled in the 14th century by Ge 1305-53 a Yuan dynasty physician and writer. He came from a family of hereditary physicians and wrote a number of books. The Japanese reading marks have been provided by Shuhaku Asai 1643-1705 who was a fellow student with Ippo Okamoto of the prominent doctor Sanpaku Ajioka. There are substantial sections on acupuncture and moxibustion several of the full-page woodcuts depict pressure points. Very good copy. Minor marginal worming towards end. unknown books
19591201249London: The British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; ix 133 pp. Hardcover with cloth spine. VG. Some foxing to front board. Boards slightly bowed. Interior clean and tight no markings. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Shelved front table. 1201249. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara hardcover books
191573485New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The first American edition translated from the Russian by Captain Rowland Smith of the British Embassy Petrograd. A collection of 17 short stories by the Russian writer whose work is characterized by a spirit of compassion and pity that some have compared to Dostoevsky's. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding with gilt titles. Minor crease to the top corner of a single leaf. The spine is lightly faded; otherwise very good. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
15517506Venice: Per Giovanmaria Bonello 1551. First edition thus. Vellum. Very Good. Sm. 8vo. ff.8239. Lacking the final blank leaf. Title page with a large woodcut printer's device with initials Z.M./B.V. at bottom. Cont. vellum a bit soiled a few minor chips ties lacking. Some old soiling including some discoloration to blank fore-edge of a few final leaves. A collection of aphorisms and apothegms selected chiefly from Cicero's correspondence. Per Giovanmaria Bonello hardcover books
19921328177Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Christianos 1992. Hardcover. Octavo; G/VG-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine brown with white print; DJ has slight edgewear but is clean and bright; Boards in grey cloth with gold print on black banner clean and strong; Text block has lightly penciled marginal notation throughout else clean and tight; Text in Spanish; xl 498 pages. 1328177. FP New Rockville Stock. Biblioteca de Autores Christianos hardcover books
1974RW1085New York:: John Wiley 1974. 1974. Printed in Israel. 8vo. xxvii 1 458 pp. Frontis. portrait figs. index. Black gilt-stamped cloth. Very good. ISBN: 0706513363 Arranged in six parts: I: Largest to medium-scale irreversibilities: the new astrophysical school of unified thermodynamics; II: Smallest-scale irreversibility: T-violations and microscopic irreversibility in elementary particles; III: Continuum and conanical thermodynamics; IV: Classical and relativistic Thermodynamics; V: Micro-instability and statistical mechanics; VI: Philosophical problems in thermodynamics and the theory of time. John Wiley, 1974. hardcover books
185572334Boston: John P. Jewett & Company 1855. Hardcover. Very good. Third Thousand. Widely regarded as the founding text of the women's rights movement in the United States as well as an important influence on many of the movement's leaders including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Introduction by Horace Greeley. Frontispiece portrait. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding with gilt titles and decorative blind stamping. Some foxing to the frontispiece and the opposing leaves. Period previous owner's ink signature to the front flyleaf. A bit of wear to the corners and tips; otherwise very good. John P. Jewett & Company hardcover books
6761Finely engraved added title & numerous woodcut diagrams & printed tables in the text. Printed title in red & black. 9 p.l. incl. engraved title 323 184 pp. Two parts in one vol. Large 4to cont. vellum over boards covers nicely decorated with coats-of-arms in gilt & silver now oxidized on each cover a.e.g. ties gone. Hamburg: Frobenius 1634. First edition of this handsome and rare work on trigonometry by a student of Tycho Brahe. Frobenius 1566-1645 after studying in Tübingen and Wittenberg went in 1591 to the island of Hven where he intended to live and study with Tycho Brahe. Upon leaving he wrote a recently discovered memorandum see John Robert Christianson's On Tycho's Island. Tycho Brahe and His Assistants 1570-1601 which is full of "critical insight" on Tycho and his relationships with his students and assistants. Later Frobenius moved to Hamburg where he married well and became a leading printer publisher and bookseller of that city specializing in learned and scientific works. He wrote and self-published a number of works - like this one - a number of works on trigonometry astronomy and philology. The first part of the present book is devoted to spherical trigonometry as applied to astronomy and the text contains many references to Brahe and Longomontanus. The second part includes the famous trigonometric tables of Rheticus which first appeared in 1596. A very fine and large copy with the Nordkirchen bookplate. The attractive engraved title-page present here is usually missing ❧ Poggendorff I 809. Tomash & Williams F101. hardcover books
1778JC14437Liege: F. J. Desoer 1778. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. 303pp. Contemporary French mottled calf. Traité d'éducation morale qui a remporté le prix de la Société des sciences de Harlem sur cette question : Comment on doit gouverner le coeur & l'esprit d'un enfant pour le rendre heureux & utile. Par M. Formey. auquel on a ajouté quelques pensées relatives à ce sujet. <br/><br/>Formey was professor of philosophy at Berlin who authored several books on the writings of Rousseau. This work on education is quite scarce. F. J. Desoer hardcover books
6566Title within architectural woodcut border incorporating the date "1534." Largely printed in black letter. 67 leaves 8 pp. Small 8vo antique calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe spine gilt red leather lettering pieces on spine. London: Printed by H. Wykes 1567. An early edition of the first text on surveying printed in English. The first edition was printed by Richard Pynson in 1523; all early editions are rare as copies were used to death. Our copy is most unusual as it is fine and large with a number of lower edges uncut. Fitzherbert's book is concerned primarily with giving instruction to land stewards and overseers of the manor. The authorship of this work has long been disputed: was it Anthony Fitzherbert ca. 1470-1538 judge and legal writer or his older brother John d. 1531 The current scholarship supports John Fitzherbert as the more likely author. The book is "addressed to the landed interest and is an explanation of the laws relating to manors. Fitzherbert sets forth the relation between the landlord and the tenant with observations on their respective moral rights and mutual obligations to each other. The author is also concerned with the best means of developing and improving an estate to the advantage of both the lord and the tenant. "As defined by Fitzherbert the duties and functions of the surveyor were many and varied. In the preface he states that the surveyor should prepare his findings in a small book or put them on a large piece of parchment. This parchment or book should show the 'buttes' and 'bounds' of all the holdings as well as the leases grants and tenures. Along with this information he should state the number of buildings and their location and give a description of the lands specifying whether they are meadow grainland or woodland and by whom held. He should also record the value of all properties along with their rents and fines. The author then goes into considerable detail in giving the form for the preparation of this information. "The author states that the word 'surveyor' is from the French signifying an overseer and that the surveyor must appraise and make recommendations to the lord of the manor."-Richeson English Land Measuring to 1800: Instruments and Practices pp. 33-34. Fine copy. ❧ Fussell I p. 6-"contains a great deal of matter of service to farmers in particular as well as to the agricultural community in general." ODNB. hardcover books
178323057Paris: Du Fonds des Freres Estienne. Chez Nyon l'Aine . 1783. 12mo pp. 1-3 4 5 6-7 8-9 10-442 443-456 contemporary brown calf spine panel tooled in gold brown leather title label affixed to spine panel marbled endpapers all edges marbled. New edition. One of the classics of eighteenth-century French literature. These dialogues by heroes and statesmen of antiquity and modern times first published 1712 were prepared for the edification of Fenelon's pupil the duc de Bourgogne grandson of Louis XIV who upon the death of his father became the direct heir to the French throne. Binding a trifle rubbed at extremities else an excellent copy. #23057 Du Fonds des Freres Estienne. Chez Nyon l'Aine ... unknown books
