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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
59282 p.l. 280 pp. 8vo cont. green sheep-backed marbled boards spine lettered in gilt. Paris: A. Labitte 1873. The first and most important private collection ever formed exclusively devoted to festivities; this sale catalogue has remained an indispensable work of reference to the present day. The 1200 lots are arranged under the sixteen different countries in which these festivities took place except for two amazing special sections: the first catalogues thirty-eight books published between 1515 and 1559 describing festivities and solemnities in honor of Emperor Charles V. The second describes almost 400 pieces concerning festivities held during the French Revolution offered in one lot but catalogued separately on pp. 259-277. Ruggieri d. 1885 was the last of a long line of Royal and Government "artificers" i.e. pyrotechnists which had been founded in 1730 when five Ruggieri brothers transferred themselves from Bologna to Paris. Fine and attractive copy. Original printed upper wrapper bound-in. ❧ Blogie col. 126. hardcover books
696929 pp. 8vo 206 x 132 mm. disbound stitched as issued. Paris: Henry & Olivier 1815. The scarce catalogue of an auction directed by Bon-Thomas Henry 1766-1836 first a painter then a respected dealer and tasteful collector. The supposed consigner "La Baronne de Vez" was very probably fictitious. This sale consisting mostly of Northern pictures offered 76 lots of paintings and 11 lots of engraved stones. Henry has contributed informative descriptions for most of the pictures. Attributed here to P. de Hooch lot 36 now at the Frick is today credited to Hendrik van der Burgh. Nice copy a little foxed. Stamp of the Bibliothèque Heim on upper wrapper. ❧ Lugt 8764. Oxford Art online Henry-"He studied under Charles Landon and Jean-Baptiste Regnault. In 1793 he began to deal in pictures and until 1812 spent part of his time travelling abroad mainly in Italy to increase his knowledge of art. In October 1816 he was appointed Commissaire-expert des Musées Royaux a post he held until his death. Between 1810 and 1830 he assembled an eclectic collection purchasing either privately or at sales among them the posthumous sales 1826 and 1827 of Vivant Denon. His tastes in Italian art ranged from the work of Fra Angelico to that of the 17th-century Bolognese masters.In 1834 Henry offered a large part of his collection to the town of Cherbourg and on 29 July 1835 a museum to house his works was opened on the second floor of the Hôtel de Ville; it was later named the Musée Thomas-Henry.". unknown 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
9527n.p. n.d. 1909. 8-1/4 in x 5-1/4 in. Dark brown pebbled calf marbled endsheets text block edges marbled. A log of statistics for South African gold mines in 1908. Edges rubbed interior fine. <br/><br/> unknown books
1919182429Gold Hill NV: Gold Hill Miners' Union 1919. 5.25x5.5 inch card not filled out vignette of miner with pickaxe at top creased small tear on bottom edge. Gold Hill Miners' Union unknown books
193630317New York: International Publishers. 1936. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Owner's short and neat inscription at head of front free endpaperalong with a small price obliteration done with pen thus very good in nice very good to near fine dust jacket with small chip at head of rear spine fold and slight sunning to spine. A collection of short pieces from Gold's daily column in the Daily Worker. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pp . International Publishers hardcover books
19368558New York: International Publishers 1936. First Edition. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 272pp. Private ownership stamp of A.C. Perlman to front endpaper. Tight straight copy in quite decent jacket chipped along upper extremities slightly soiled on rear panel; Very Good. Selections of Gold's newspaper commentaries most originally published in The Daily Worker and New Masses. International Publishers unknown books
193669089New York: International Publishers 1936. 272p. spine faded. Seidman G185. International Publishers unknown books
183747870London: J. Templeman 248 Regent Street . J. Miller 404 Oxford Street 1837. Second Edition a reissue of the 1st edition sheets with Horne's new introduction. Cf. NCBEL III 1232. Original publisher's green cloth binding with printed paper title label to spine professionally rebacked. General wear & soiling. Period prior owner signatures to front eps. A solid VG copy. 152 pp. 12mo. 6-7/8" x 4-1/4" <br/><br/> J. Templeman, 248 Regent Street ... J. Miller, 404 Oxford Street hardcover books
1972WRCLIT41226Toronto: Copp Clark 1972. Boards. First edition. Bookplate a few tiny spots to top edge else near fine in rubbed dust jacket. Copp Clark hardcover books
001866Tokyo: T. Hasegawa. N.d circa 1903. Probably first edition. Unpaginated twelve folded-over leaves including cover. Larger format 7.5 by 5.25 inches or 19 by 13.5 cm. Probably the best tale ever built around toothpicks! A fairy tale of the supernatural retribution meted out to lazy women with a second shorter variant of the same story included as well. This copy has particularly crisp and bright color! Light soiling to covers and some minor waviness where fabric dinged by bottom edge. <br /><br /> T. Hasegawa books
1797006602Keuth an der Crassen 1797. Full Blindstamped Calf. Good. A fine Folk Art manuscript prayer book from the late eighteenth century. 8vo. 17.5 by 10.5 cm. 516 13 1 pp. With eight full page paintings plus vignette decoration throughout much pretty floral ornamentation but also a serpent a basilisk etc. Most writing is a neat now archaic cursive but headings and the like rendered in an easily readable ornamental Fraktur Gothic. The paintings are the highlight most will find. Their subject matter is quintessential and perhaps not unusual or original -- Momento Mori St. George slaying the dragon etc. -- but the execution is done with uncommon polish. The authorship is stated but also a tad confusing. Our interpretation is that a Konrad Mueller created the book for Margaretha Pfaden-Hauerin. Condition: moderate wear to contemporary full calf binding. Unusual is a 13 page "Register" or Table of Contents in the rear. By unusual we mean for such a manuscript prayer book. Also a page of handwritten genealogical notes written on a prior blank leaf and written much later in the mid to late 19th Century. Moderate sometimes heavy soiling to margins of leaves. Corner cut out of front endpaper. Some loose gatherings. <br/><br/> unknown books
185772639New York: D. & J. Sadlier & Co 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Traces the history of Christianity in China from its earliest documented appearance with St. Thomas and the missionary rush sparked by the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope in 1488 to the Manchu-Tartar Dynasty in the sixteenth century. Abbe Huc a French Catholic priest Lazarite missionary and traveler became famous for his accounts of Qing-era China Mongolia and Tibet which was largely unknown at the time. He and his companion Joseph Gabet were the first Europeans to reach Lhasa since Thomas Manning in 1812. 358 p. and 348 p. with publisher's ads. Octavo two volumes. Ex-19th century library Nevada City Free Public Library with a bookplate to each rear pastedown two small ink date stamps and a small label to each front endpaper and a gilt-stamped accession number and label shadow to each spine. It appears a pocket was neatly removed from each pastedown. Both bindings are quite sound. The spines are sun faded with some minor bumping to the corners and tips. Scarce. D. & J. Sadlier & Co hardcover books
2002Embry 177038Stewart Tabori 2002. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Stewart, Tabori, 2002. First edition, first printing. unknown books
P6721Petrograd: Partiia Sotsialistov-Revolutsionerov 1921. Octavo 19 Ã 13.6 cm. Original staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 18 1 pp. Tear to lower front corner else very good. Rare apparently unrecorded and illicitly published pamphlet most likely issued by the Central Bureau of the Party of Socialist Revolutionaries. The SR Party also issued a similar journal in Petrograd in 1920 or 1921. A report by<br/>the Soviet Secret Police notes that a large number of SR pamphlets were confiscated in July 1922. The publisher was likely the SR activist Leonid V. Rossel' 1896-1943 who fled to Finland after 1917; it is possible that the pamphlet itself was actually printed in Finland. The text is a furious indictment of the Bolsheviks' "war" on the Russian peasants and its perpetuation of famine warfare censorship destruction and terror and violence against its own people by the state police. A highly interesting document either produced clandestinely in Petrograd or smuggled there by activists. Not held by the Russian State or National Library. KVK OCLC only record microform copies at the University of Alberta and USC. unknown books
19746430Quebec: Delta Canada 1974. First edition. 51 pp. Very good plus in wrappers; a trade paperback original. Introduction by George Bowering. Briefly INSCRIBED by Gold. Quebec: Delta Canada paperback books
19129016606Wisconsin Historical Commission 1912. Wisconsin History Commission: Reprints No. 2. One or 2500 copies. <br/><br/> Wisconsin Historical Commission unknown 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
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
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
38846N.p. New York ca 2003. Handbill 11" x 8-1/2" printed in colors on both sides of a single sheet. Mild edgewear; Near Fine. Recto is a graphic depicting Latin American workers floating face-down in a glass of "Killer Cola." Text on verso attacks Arnold Schwarzenegger and Peter Ueberroth both candidates in the 2003 California gubernatorial campaign for their affiliations with the Coca Cola Corporation. Accuses Coca Cola of using murder and intimidation to suppress labor organizing activities in Latin America and of poisoning Indian water supplies with insecticides; also states that ".Coke's aggressive marketing of nutritionally worthless and damaging products to children through tie-ins with schools and Harry Potter movies hasencouraged the obesity and diabetes epidemics. unknown books
1853WRCAM46036Columbia Ca.: Gazette Print 1853. Broadside 10 3/4 x 8 inches. Printed in three columns. A bit of light foxing mostly in margins. Near fine. In a folding cloth clamshell case spine gilt. A rare broadside printing of the laws of the Columbia Mining District in California in 1853 created and enforced by the miners for their own self-government. The seventeen articles all deal with regulations for mining and claims. The first nine set out rules for making and operating claims. The next three address foreign ownership of claims. Article 10: "None but Americans and Europeans who have or shall declare their intentions of becoming citizens shall hold claims in this district." Article 11: "Neither Asiatics nor South Sea Islanders shall be allowed to mine in this district either for themselves or for others." Article 12 sets out a punishment for any miner who sells a claim to an Asian or a Polynesian. The final five articles set out rules for enforcing the laws including the creation of a Miners Committee and a system of binding arbitration. According to the text the laws were adopted "at a meeting of the Miners of the Columbia Mining District held Oct. 1st 1853." and the laws are signed in print by "C.H. Chamberlain Pres." and "R.A. Robinson Sec'y." <br> <br> "The item is of basic importance.as an example of how the California miners - or men beyond the reach of government anywhere else in our States and Territories for that matter - banded together and enacted and enforced codes of law for their own protection" - Eberstadt. The COLUMBIA GAZETTE which printed this broadside was according to Kemble the second newspaper to operate in Columbia starting operations in the fall of 1852. The first newspaper in the area the COLUMBIA STAR apparently printed only two or three issues in October-November of 1851 before the printing press was destroyed by vandals. <br> <br> Greenwood locates only three copies at the California Historical Society and the Bancroft Library and the Streeter copy which was sold at the Clifford sale in 1994. Rocq lists a copy at the Huntington Library. OCLC adds copies at Yale Library of Congress University of California at San Diego Stanford and DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University. A rare and interesting example of the search for order in the tumult of the gold rush. <br> <br> The Streeter copy sold to Howell for $550 in 1968. It later reappeared in the sale of California collector Henry Clifford in 1994. GREENWOOD 381. ROCQ 15427. EBERSTADT 131:105. STREETER SALE 2735. CLIFFORD SALE 26. OCLC 29876358. Gazette Print hardcover books
