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1688WRCLIT56757London: Impensis B. Griffin & Sam keble 1688. 82pp. Small quarto. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Small loss at blank corner of title at gutter else very good and crisp. First London printing of this work by the Bishop of Winchester first printed in Strasburg in 1557. Lowndes alludes to this printing but describes it as a translation into English which of course it is not. WING P2804A. ESTC R10516. Impensis B. Griffin & Sam keble unknown books
197546395Cagayan de Oro: Xavier University 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. frontis photos index xi 806p. plus 12p. plates plus 3p. errata/corrigenda. Blue leatherette. dj some chipping and wear. 22cm. Tear in one plate. SIGNED by editor Francisco R. Demetrio on title-page. <br/><br/> Xavier University 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
1932887121932. GOLD CHESTER. THE ADVENTURES OF DICK TRACY THE DETECTIVE. Racine Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co. 1932. 4" x 4 3/8"x 1 5/8". First Big Little Book to be published. Dick Tracy debuted as a daily strip in the Detroit Mirror on October 4 1931. This book is a reprint for the second month of the daily strip. November 19 through December 28 1931 and April 12 through May 24 1932. According to the entry for this book in: Big Little Book Club #GW2 707. this book only had one press run. The measurements vary slightly from that descibed in the BLBC reference their's being 3 3/8" by 4 3/8" x 1 1/2". This is an exceptionally fresh clean copy with just a little rubbing at the corners and a tiny crack at the top edge of the spine. unknown books
1726CAT000635London: J. Nicholson 1726. Third Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Half red leather over marbled boards marbled endpapers. In text illustrations and 2 plates 1 folding. A wealth of information on livestock from belching in cattle to vvhezing in horses distilling bees home remedies etc. Old Lawes Trust stamp to title scattered foxing. Size: 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Farming & Rural Life; Cooking Wine & Dining. Inventory No: CAT000635. J. Nicholson 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
1957303011957. GOLD Herbert. "Do Nice Artistic Girls." In Playboy magazine August 1957. Very Good. $45.00. <br/><br/> unknown books
19476055131947. 8 3/4" x 11 5/8"; 1 page recto and verso; very good fresh; 1947. Rare and unique! Signed on the front by: Agnes Moorehead; Brian Donlevy; Robert Walker; Tom Drake; Beverly Tyler; Audrey Totter; Hume Cronyn; Hurd Hatfield; Joseph Calleia; Godfrey Tearle; Jonathan Hale; Henry O'Neill; Warner Andersen; Art Baker; Ludwig Stossel; Arno Frey; William Wright; Erville Alderson; Nella Walker; Barry Nelson; Moroni Olsen; Trevor Bardette; Robert Considine - story; Frank Wead - writer; Ray June - Cinematographer; Stanley Goldsmith - assistant director; Joe Edmondson - sound technician; Samuel Marx - producer; Signed on the back by: George Boemler - film editor; H.T. Wensel Harry - technical advisor; Tessa Primock - script; Gertrude Kupwood Ward; Hans Peters - art direction; Dick Campbell - sound; Frank Myers - assitant director; and many others! Although contemporary sources indicate that Leon Ames and Agnes Moorehead were cast they did not appear in the released film. The film marked the motion picture debut of Guy Williams who played the title character in the Walt Disney television series "Zorro" 1957-1959. According to HR news items in June 1946 a controversy erupted when former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt objected to the casting of Lionel Barrymore as Franklin D. Roosevelt alleging that the actor had made desparaging remarks about the late president. Production on the film had already begun when the studio decided to replace Barrymore's scenes with actor Godrey Tearle. "The Beginning or the End" was released February 19 1947 directed by Norman Taurog. Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good. paperback books
1988708070NY: Donald I. Fine. 1988. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Donald I. Fine hardcover books
192020620Washington: Government Printing Office 1920. 16pp. stapled. Very lightly tanned else Very Good. Government Printing Office unknown books
19047900Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Co. 1904 32 octavo volumes and large atlas. First edition. Very scarce. Number 555 of 750 complete sets SIGNED and numbered by the publisher. Edited with Notes Introductions Index etc. by Reuben Gold Thwaites. 32 octavo volumes large atlas. Each volume approx. 300 pages. Illustrated with plates from original sources; atlas with 81 plates by Karl Bodmer. All volumes bound in matching burgundy cloth gilt. 2 bookplates on inner cover of all volumes. Slight but even fading to volumes 14-31. Atlas is an ex-library binding. Last 2 volumes provide the index. With the exceptions noted a fine and complete set most volumes are unopened and unread. The large atlas contains 81 full-page plates by Karl Bodmer to illustrate Prince Maximilians travels volumes XXII XXIII and XXIV of the set. An extremely important collection of significant early travels and expeditions of exploration into the uncharted West reprinted from scarce original editions. Contains the journals of Brackenridge Bradbury Bullock De Smet Farnham Flagg Franchere Gregg James Long Maximilian Michaux Nuttall Pattie Ross Wyeth and others. The Arthur H. Clark Co. hardcover books
1905JR1018-049Cleveland OH: The Arthur H. Clark Company 1905. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good/None. SEPARATE EDITIONS of 336 and 324 copies respectively printed at the Lakeside Press Chicago; title pages state that these volumes are separate publications from the Early Western Travels 1748-1846 Series Vols. XIX and XX. Two Volumes. Large 8vo. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. 349 1 ads; 356 10 ads pp. 16 illustrations on plates including 1 map 1 folding map 1 figure glossary; text clean unmarked. Burgundy cloth gilt spines top edge gilt; binding square and tight inner hinges cracked but holding firm shelf wear rubbed. Very Good. Reprints 3 of the most important and rarest contemporary publications about Western travel. The 3 volumes anthologized in these 2 volumes are: George W. Ogden's Ogden's Letters from the West 1821-1823 first published in New Bedford in 1823; William Bullock's fl. 1808-1828 Sketch of a Journey through the Western States London 1827; and Josiah Gregg's 1806-1850 Commerce of the Prairies New York 1844. REFERENCE: Clark & Brunet Arthur H. Clark Company No. 282. The Arthur H. Clark Company hardcover books
190459820Cleveland Ohio: The Arthur Clark Company 1904. 2 volumes. 8vo. 306 2; 342pp. plus 3pp. of ads. With 16 plates and 2 facsimiles. Maroon cloth gilt spines. Top edge gilt. A fine set. Howes F-63 "Bitterly unfavorable" Howes W-229 Welby's own words "To a rough untutored set of savages another race of little less than savages has succeeded". Two of the more unfavorable travelers review of the United States. The Arthur Clark bibliography lists both volumes as being published in 1905 but the first volume of this set clearly printed 1904 it also states 316 copies of the first volume and 287 copies of the second volume were printed as separates from the set. <br/><br/> The Arthur Clark Company hardcover books
190461283Cleveland OH: Arthur H. Clark Co 1904. First edition thus issued separately from Clark's "Early Western Travels" series. 8vo. 2 volumes: 306 2; 342 3 ads pp. Illustrated with 16 plates and two facsimiles. Howes F-63 for the 1823 original of Faux: "Bitterly unfavorable." Howes W-229 for the 1821 original of Welby who comments "to a rough untutored set of savages another race of little less than savages has succeeded". Clark/Brunet 253: "For the Faux volume 316 separates and for the Welby volume 287 separates." Very good. Original maroon cloth gilt spine titles top edge gilt others untrimmed. #8270. <br/><br/> Arthur H. Clark Co hardcover books
25403Chicago: Herbert S. Stone 1897. First edition. Bound in publisher's original full burgundy cloth with the title and decorations stamped in gilt on the front and spine t.e.g. Minor wear at corners and head and heel front interior hinge weak but holding otherwise very good. <br/><br/> Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1897 hardcover books
3399Title within elaborate calligraphic woodcut border title a little soiled & frayed around edges. 242 leaves the last a blank. Small folio cont. blind-stamped panelled pigskin over wooden boards binding somewhat soiled pigskin at one corner worn away remains of clasps & catches. Hamburg: A. Lichtenstein 1682. First edition extremely rare of this large and comprehensive Hamburg manual of accounting techniques. Only two other copies seem to be extant: one at the British Library and the other Tübingen. The book was a success and a second edition was published in 1714 under the title Der Werth-geschätzte Handels-Mann. Joachim Rademann was a chartered accountant at Hamburg. At the end of this his first published work he describes himself a "young man" and according to Schröder he married in 1683; otherwise nothing seems to be known of his life. Based on Christoph Achatius Hager's treatise Buchhalten uber proper Commission und Compagnia Handlungen first published at Hamburg ca. 1625 Rademann's book takes into consideration the changes and innovations that trading and coinage had seen since then and focuses on practical matters. The general ledger section comprises a Memorial a Journal and a Hauptbuch; the associated accounts include a Cassa-Buch cash journal a Banca-Buch bank account an Unkostenbuch book of charges a Monat-Buch monthly journal and a Factura-Buch and Rechnungs-Copey-Buch books of invoices. Precise examples taken from actual trading accounts at Hamburg are given throughout. "Rademann dispenses with long theoretical preambles and instead when differentiating between debtor and creditor points to the works of Hager and Gebhardt Overheiden. To the associated accounts Rademann adds the Portbuch von Briefe today's petty cash book. In the Memorial Rademann follows his predecessor Hager but adds a wealth of detail. The same applies to the Journal.The impersonal accounts that follow are remarkable not only for their multitude but also for the exceptionally delicate and skillful handling of the accounts. Rademann's work is nothing short of excellent."-Penndorf Geschichte der Buchhaltung in Deutschland p. 219 in trans. Very good copy of this extremely rare book. First fifteen leaves with light dampstaining. ⧠Hausdorfer 198. Historical Accounting Literature 28. Hoock/Jeannin II R.1. 1. Humpert 396. Schröder VI 3077 1. Not in Goldsmiths Kress or Rapp. 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
17437019Madrid: Gabriel Ramirez 1743. Fifth printing. Quarto title page ff 6 pp 245 2. First published in 1695 in Madrid and the same year in Mexico. The subtitle tells the contents: "Obra en que se muestra al confessor nuevo la practica de administrar con fruto el Sacramento de la penitencia." The work is a translation from the Italian of Fr. Segneri by Juan de Espinola Baeza de Echaburu but in actual fact according to Palau 305883/ 305885 this is a pseudonym for Fr. Jose Lopez de Echaburu SJ. Judging from the number of reprints it must have been a popular manual for priests to instruct them in this rite. Nice copy in the period vellum binding title inked on spine; original ties still present. <br/><br/> Gabriel Ramirez hardcover books
15386173Venice: Per Agostino de Bindoni 1538. Sm. 8vo. 344pp. Illustrated with a large woodcut vignette on title page verso of title and colophon with devices and 78 woodcuts of hands keyed to the text. Cont. vellum with manuscript spine lettering. Light browning and soiling including title page but overall a very nice copy in a contemporary binding. An early Italian language edition of one of the most popular works on chiromancy of the 16th century. Tricasso 1491-c.1550 was a disciple of Barthelemy Cocles. At variance with Cocles on a number of points he set out in this work to analyze the significance of 78 configurations of hands as well as to outline the supposed astrological implications. His work is frequently cited by many later writers on the subject. As with other copies cited in OCLC the date at the conclusion of the author's preface is misprinted "1635" it should be "1535" the date of the first Italian edition of this title. Brunet V:945; STC of Italian Books p. 680. Caillet 10830. Per Agostino de Bindoni hardcover books
15384474Venice: Per Agostino de Bindoni 1538. Sm. 8vo. 344pp. Illustrated with a large woodcut vignette on title page verso of title and colophon with devices and 78 woodcuts of hands keyed to the text. Nicely rebound in faux period calf gilt tooled spine in 3 compartments. Small chip and tear into blank upper margin of B1 and small printing flaw at bottom corner of A2 verso. An early Italian language edition of one of the most popular works on chiromancy of the 16th century. Tricasso 1491-c.1550 was a disciple of Barthelemy Cocles. At variance with Cocles on a number of points he set out in this work to analyze the significance of 78 configurations of hands as well as to outline the supposed astrological implications. His work is frequently cited by many later writers on the subject. As with other copies cited in OCLC the date at the conclusion of the author's preface is misprinted "1635" it should be "1535" the date of the first Italian edition of this title. Brunet V:945; STC of Italian Books p. 680. Caillet 10830. Per Agostino de Bindoni unknown books
194872212London: Gerald G. Swan 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. First edition with the publisher's cancel affixed to the rear panel of the dust jacket. Signed by Trevor Dudley-Smith on the title page. Scarce early novel by the prolific British writer who was born Trevor Dudley-Smith but eventually changed his name to Elleston Trevor. He worked in many genres but is principally remembered for his 1964 adventure story The Flight of the Phoenix written as Elleston Trevor and for a series of Cold War thrillers featuring the British secret agent Quiller written under the pseudonym Adam Hall. Small octavo. Original blue cloth binding with gilt and blind-stamped titles. The dust jacket is price-clipped with some general shelfwear; otherwise very good. Gerald G. Swan hardcover books
1872303445London 1872. Albumen print measuring 11-5/8 x 16-1/4 in 295 x 412 mm. Laid down on thick cream card with manuscript caption measuring 17 x 21 in. Image slightly faded card chipped with some minor soiling one tear not affecting image. Albumen print measuring 11-5/8 x 16-1/4 in 295 x 412 mm. A rare survival. This image appears in William Bradford's fabled book of photographs Arctic Regions. It was taken by either Dunmore or Critcherson the two professional photographers from Boston who accompanied Bradford on his 1869 expedition to the Arctic on the steamship Panther. It was probably taken at Upernavik a settlement on an island off Greenland's west coast or Godhavn.<br/><br/>Arctic Regions included 141 albumen prints in addition to Bradford's account of the voyage. The title of the photograph here varies from the printed caption in the book where it reads: "Plate Number: 116 Esquimaux igloe or winter hut made of turf and stones. The entrance is to the left through a door which is about three and a half feet high. The length of the passage is about twelve or fifteen feet and at the farther end is another door through which one almost has to crawl on his hands and knees. After passing through there is then room to stand erect but one is forced to leave very soon owing to the bad air." <br/><br/>This photograph is slightly larger than the one in the book which is 277 x 365mm. Furthermore the image in the book is cropped closer on the right and left margins. <br/><br/>The New York Public Library has a folio of 26 images of near identicle size mounted on card. The portfolio was donated to the library in 1892 as part of the Robert Stuart Collection. According to Horch originally all of these images were captioned in manuscript though were later remounted with typed captions as "the original ink-written captions for the photographs had badly faded by 1940." It's interesting that the caption on their duplicate of this image is the same as ours and the image itself has not been cropped. Horch writes that Bradford probably not only selected these images himself but "closely directed the actual taking of the photographs." <br/><br/>It's entirely likely that Bradford would have had extra prints made to distribute to friends repay favors and most of all to solicit subscribers to what was a very expensive book to publish. Given how it conforms to the examples in the Robert Stuart portfolio this particular image is probably one of them. Horch Frank. "Photographs and Paintings by William Bradford". American Art Journal 5.2 1973: pp 61-70; cf Parr and Badger I p31Prm/photo unknown books
163769657Lugd. Batavorum Leiden: Elzevirios 1637. Hardcover. Very good. Presumed to be the first edition thus: Elzevier produced two editions in 1637; in this example pages 207 and 209 are erroneously numbered 107 and 109 which according to Willems #452 and others indicates the earliest printing. "Barclay's Euphormionis Lusinini Satyricon 1603-7 - a severe satire on the Jesuits the medical profession and contemporary scholarship education and literature - is modeled on the style of the Roman satirist Gaius Petronius Arbiter; it is an urbane and facile mixture of prose and verse. Filled with villians and rogues it contributed to the later development of the picaresque novel" EB. 717 p. with an engraved title page. 12mo. Period full vellum binding with holographic titles on the spine. Some minor soiling to the vellum; else very good. Elzevirios hardcover books
165926670Parisiis Paris: Excudebat Antonius Vitre 1659. First edition thus. Vellum blind stamped with device and rules raised bands. Spine curled and partially detached at the bottom boards soiled and worn front board endpaper first blank and half-title loose a few notations to title page and occasionally in text some light scattered foxing small chips to the lower corners of three leaves not affecting text otherwise quite clean. 4 48 14 665 12 320 7 pp. Engraved device on title page engraved initial letters and head pieces. Folio 33 cm. Title also in Greek: Eysebioy toy Pamfiloy Ekklesiastike istoria. Collation: a'4 e'4 i'4 o'4 u'4 aa4 ee2 4 4 A-Pppp4 Qqqq2 a-rr4 ss2 t1 Rrrr1. Folio. 14 3/8 x 9 inches. Double columns in Greek and Latin. Eusebius bishop of Caesarea b.260-70 and contemporary with Constantine the Great is rightly called the Father of Church History. "The position of Eusebius at the close of the period of persecution and in the opening of the period of the imperial establishment of Christianity and his employment of many ancient documents some of which have since been lost give these works a peculiar value" CE. The work was later added to by others including Socrates Sozomen Theodoret and Evagrius. The best and most important edition is that of Henri de Valois Valesius who published his first edition of the Greek text with a new Latin translation and with copious critical and explanatory notes at Paris in 1659 which also included Eusebius' Vita Constantini the remainder of the collection of the early Greek historians of the Church was published in two subsequent folio volumes ending in 1673. "For the elucidation of Eusebius' History we owe more to Valesius than to any other man. His edition of the text was an immense advance upon that of Stephanus and has formed the basis of all subsequent editions while his notes are a perfect storehouse of information from which all annotators of Eusebius have extensively drawn. Migne's edition Opera II 45-906 is a reprint of Valesius' edition of 1659" Schaff Post-Nicene Fathers 98. ABPC shows only one copy has come up at auction in the last 40 years at Quaritch in 1984. Institutional bookplate on the free front endpaper noting the book was a gift of Michael J. O'Farrell the first Bishop of the Diocese of Trenton with his bookplate on the half title. Brunet 1110. Excudebat Antonius Vitre hardcover books
197511626Vancouver: Talonbooks 1975. First edition. 69 pp. Very good plus in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Vancouver: Talonbooks paperback books