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3396Large engraved vignette on title. Title in red & black. 8 p.l. 626 69 pp. Folio cont. blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards arms on covers effaced. Lyon: J. & P. Prost 1636. First edition Schuh's issue B no stated priority with the dedication to Charles de Neufville. "Very scarce. Compendium of all the author ever discovered or read about the subject of mineralogy. It was published posthumously from notes he left by his Order at Lyon six years after his death. Printed in a double column format in a relatively small type-size the work is a vast storehouse of all things mineralogical including new ideas restatements of earlier authors observations and superstitious belief. The uncritical selection of material led Webster in his Metallographia London 1671 p. 29 to criticize the author as too digressive and as mixing tares with the wheat. Partington thinks the use of the term 'Mineralogia' in the title is the first modern usage of the word. "The work opens by listing the evils and benefits of mineralogy. Mining is considered dangerous because of the lurking underground spirits.the author notes that the study of mineralogy helps one to understand the bible. It provides medicines and money ornaments for religious purposes tools used in agriculture industry painting music and alchemy. Cesi then answers the question he posed earlier and declares mineralogy to be a true philosophy worthy of careful study. "The numerous citations to earlier authors provide evidence of Cesi's wide reading. Commonly many authors are referenced on single points. For example in describing the generation of minerals he closely follows Aristotle but also cites Theophrastus Avicenna Albertus Magnus Agricola Gregorius Reisch Pliny Boodt Francis Rueus Marbode the Bible and numerous church fathers. The author is uncritical of the views he presents and accepts the authority of the ancient and medieval authors as his own. He believes that the Sun Moon and stars influence the subterranean world of minerals and metals and that gems have miraculous curative powers. He includes a chapter on the magnet. "Cesi divides his work into five sections: the first treats mineralogy proper the second the economic and commercial aspects for example colors and pigments the third lapidifying juices of the earth that congeal into minerals the fourth gems and the fifth metals. At the conclusion is a long and thankfully comprehensive index. Much insight about ancient philosophy and its affect in the 17th century can be gained from studying Cesi's Mineralogia."-Schuh Mineralogy & Crystallography: A Biobibliography 1469 to 1920 pp. 358-59. Cesi 1581-1630 was a Jesuit professor at Modena and Parma. A nice copy of a book which is now scarce on the market. ❧ Hoover 214. Partington II p. 94. Schuh 1113. Sinkankas 1221-who inaccurately calls this issue a reprint. Sinkankas knew mineralogy very well but nothing about bibliography. Thorndike VII pp. 254-57. hardcover books
198017160New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1980. 337 pages index; illustrated in color black and white mostly portraiture of Misia executed by various artists and photographers; inscribed & signed by the authors "To Glorious Gloria une femme extraordinaire comme missia with love from Bobby and Arthur" with a small drawn heart & arrow added; Gloria wife of James Jones author of From Here to Eternity was a friend of the dual pianist/author couple; from the dustjacket information: ".one of the most visibly free-spirited of women-her three marriages fascinated and scandalized her world; her taste and influence in art music dance and literature helped set the taste of Paris and therefore the modern world in the period before and after World War I."; some light edge tips wear to the dustjacket; volume in very good condition. . Signed by Author. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover books
197530322San Francisco: The Figures 1975. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Wide stapled wrappers. An slender unpaginated volume of poems by Gold and Young with illustrations by Schiller. A very good example. This is one of 150 copies in hand-made covers. The Figures paperback 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
189872382London: Luzac & Co 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. The first edition in English. Unlike its predecessors which were based on archaic Persian spoken in India Rosen's Grammar drew on the colloquial language of what was then modern Persia. 400 p. with the publisher's 1893 ads at the rear. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding with black stamping. Though the hinges are cracked the binding is still quite sound. The top edge is dust stained. Some general shelfwear to the boards which are darkened along the spine. Luzac & Co hardcover books
1920002014Paris: H. Floury 1920. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hansi and Victor Huen. Oblong measuring 32 by 24 cm 12.5 by 9.5 inches. Nostalgic look at Alsatian village of yore and as much of Hansi's writings about the French-ness of the village and demonizing the German occupiers who were only recently driven out at the time this copy was issued. The illustrations exude the naive charm of Hansi's best work whose legacy was to create an enduring visual image of Alsatian life. The decorated cloth boards have soiling and the fabric is worn by the corners and the spine extremities. Inside the pages have age toning but otherwise are clean. <br /><br /> H. Floury hardcover books
166023678London: Printed by John Redmayne for Philip Chetwin 1660. 1st edition Abbott W. Bib. of O. Cromwell #1060; Halkett and Lang IV 107 attributing the work's publication to Fiennes; Wing W-1988. Period full calf. A Gd copy minor worming to spine/A2 partially detached lower portion/lower corner lacking from leaf E3 does not affect text. Occasional period marginal annotation. 6 112 pp 8vo: A4 -A1 presumed a blank B - 4U4 4X - 4Z2. <br/><br/>Whitelocke's account of the Committee deliberations in which Cromwell ultimately declined to assume the mantle of 'king'. Printed by John Redmayne for Philip Chetwin unknown books
18542657London: Saunders and Otley 1854. First edition. First edition. Octavo. Original blue embossed cloth with gilt design on cover. A very scarce book cited in Quarterly Review: "The book called 'Morbiida'- and which needs no second title- is the production of one who has evidently received his inspiration at second hand. Unable to elaborate it for himself he freely dilutes some of the finest of English poetry." And then in the Eclectic Review "It is sickly and feeble. The author has evidently mistaken his vocation. He might make as times go a creditable man in various professions but Nature in endowing him with a polished mediocrity evidently intended him for anything rather than a poet.". 168 pages. <br/><br/> Saunders and Otley hardcover books
1993230786Nevada City CA: Heidelberg Editions International 1993. Hardcover. l i.e. fifty in Roman numerals 643p. true first edition the "deluxe" hardbound in 11x8.5 inch textured purple cloth boards 2 1/2 inches thick profuse b&w scrapbooking of publicity stills snapshots posters exhibit and journalistic photography. Faux finepress or merely klunky: the fonts are jarring the marbling is real but looks phoney but-- hey a fine clean unmolested copy one of 125 total the copy in hand features a seriograph entitled "Waiting II" signed inconspicuously in pencil. Take it away! Heidelberg Editions International hardcover books
1911004030Washington DC: The Gridiron Press December 9 1911. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. Inscribed by C.K. Berryman the cartoonist to H.W. Berryman. The inscription states "This book is inscribed by the illustrator C.K. Berryman". 8vo. 20 by 16.5 cm. 74 1 pp. Cartoons are of the political luminaries of the day including many names still recognizable such as Elihu Root William Borah Taft TR Robert LaFolette Gifford Pinchot Henry Stimson Woodrow Wilson and on and on. Clever rhymes for the ABC and then clever variants of well-known nursery rhymes. The drawings capture the persons depicted with great fidelity yet impressive economy. Berryman began his career as an artist for the patent office before joining the staff of "The Washington Post" in 1891 as an understudy for its chief cartoonist then becoming its official cartoonist in 1896. In 1907 he left the Post for "The Washington Star" where he drew cartoons until his death. He is probably best known for inspiring the Teddy Bear. The Gridiron Club was founded in 1885 and remains one of the most prestigious press clubs in the nation. The Gridiron Dinner is an annual rite in Washington often attended by the sitting President. This book is uncommon in the original printing. <br/><br/> The Gridiron Press paperback books
19362221679<p>First edition. Octavo. 25 b/w halftone photographs. Dust jacket unclipped; small circular paper label on spine. Very good. 241 pages.</p><p>Signed and inscribed by author on front free endpaper to: "Mr. Dexter California State Superintendent of Schools Sacramento California July 31st 1940 Compliments of Herbert Carolan."</p><p>Also includes trips to Arizona New Mexico Las Vegas Washington Colorado.</p> G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover 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
191222953New York: Dreamers Press 1912. First edition. Light blue paper wrappers decorated in brown. Wrappers split at spine chipped at the corners small tear to front edge faint crease to wrapper end paper and title page leaves clean crisp and unmarked. A good or better copy of this scarce item. 2 28 2 p. 8 p. of plates. Illus. with b/w plates. Sm. 8vo. "The Memorie was written at Paris France in the author's twenty-third year; while studying Art at Julians." A long memoir in verse by Louis Michel Eilshemius or Elshemus 1864-1941 a unique American artist rediscovered by Marcel Duchamp in 1917 only a few years before Eilshemius gave up painting. RLIN and OCLC list only five locations for this title. Dreamers Press unknown books
1972WRCLIT21626New York: Random House 1972. Printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition. Label shadow at lower edge else a very nice copy. Random House unknown books
6010Decorative woodcut initials tables in the text & one large engraved folding table heightened in gold & watercolor. 3 p.l. 139 1 pp. Small 8vo cont. red vellum over boards spine faded to white sides richly decorated in gilt a.e.g. fore-edges painted & gauffered. Amsterdam: "Aux depens de la Compagnie" n.d. 1759. First edition in a most attractive decorated binding of this pioneering survey of the Prussian army. Seyfart 1727-86 a military administrator was the first to systematically compose biographies of units and generals in the Prussian army. The present work provides detailed histories of units in the order of their creation. It describes infantry cavalry dragoon hussar garrison skirmisher and grenadier units. The finely engraved and large table approximately 520 mm long notes the name of every regiment in the Prussian army at the beginning of 1759 as well as the rank of each unit's ranking officer the colors of the unit uniform many heightened in gold and the number of men and horses. At the bottom of the table Seyfart determines that the Prussian army consists of 204546 men and 38562 horses in 121 regiments. Fine copy. 18th-century engraved bookplate of Max Emanuel of Toerring-Jettenbach 1715-73 Bavarian nobleman and president of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. hardcover books
185425890Boston / Cleveland: John P. Jewett / Jewett Proctor and Worthington 1854. Paper wrappers. A clean copy without the blue wrappers. 42 pp. Pamphlet. Attributed to Samuel R. Phillips by Halkett & Laing. Attributed to George W. Bungay in Brown University Dict. Cat. of the Harris Coll. Vol. 2. LCP Afro-Americana 1795. Halkett & Laing v. 9 p. 221. John P. Jewett / Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington unknown books
1934239269New York: New Masses Inc 1934. 30p. paper browned wraps worn and foxed else good condition. Contributers include Paul Novick and William F. Dunne. New Masses, Inc unknown books
1963WRCLIT18141New York: Viking 1963. Cloth and boards. First edition first book inscribed by the author in 1964 to an editor. Fine in lightly edge used dust jacket. Viking hardcover books
196382223NY:: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. Two novellas and three short stories. First edition. Very good in a very good faded along the spine and edges one small chip dust jacket. . Viking, hardcover books
188228712California 1882. 62 2 blank pp. Original printed wrappers lightly dustsoiled stitched. Rubberstamp at head of front wrap: "McKee J. Filed Feb. 25 1882." Text clean. Very Good. <br/> offered with NO. 8072. . POINTS AND AUTHORITIES FOR APPELLANT. MASTICK BELCHER & MASTICK ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLANT. 41 1 blank pp. Original printed wrappers lightly dustsoiled stitched. Ink correction on front wrapper changing "Appellant" to "Respondent." A few question marks in ink written in margins. Very Good. <br/> offered with NO. 8072. . RESPONDENT'S REPLY TO APPELLANT'S BRIEF. ESTEE & BOALT AND RAMON E. WILSON ATTORNEYS FOR RESPONDENT. 23 1 blank pp. Original printed wrappers lightly dustsoiled stitched. Light creasing of a few later leaves. Very Good. <br/> offered with NO. 8072. . RESPONDENT'S POINTS AND AUTHORITIES. ESTEE & BOALT AND RAMON E. WILSON ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF AND RESPONDENT. 42pp. Original printed wrappers lightly dustsoiled stitched. Text clean. Very Good. <br/><br/> The complaint charged that the plaintiff and defendant were owners of adjoining gold quartz mines near Plymouth California in Amador County the birthplace of the California Gold Rush; and that Defendant Empire had unlawfully entered Plaintiff Pacific Gold Mining Company's mine and taken ores of the value of $250000. Plaintiff brought suit in the Superior Court of Amador County for compensation. unknown books
2003183905East Sydney Australia: Studio Magazines 2003. Magazine. 112p. 9.5x13 inches profusely illustrated with both color and b&w physique and homoerotic photography very good first edition oversized trade paperback quarterly magazine in color pictorial wraps. Studio Magazines unknown books
699232 pp. 8vo 195 x 129 mm. late 19th-century marbled boards spine a bit rubbed red morocco lettering-piece on spine. Paris: Bonnefons & Henry 1818. A very scarce sale catalogue mostly priced; we locate no copy in North America. A later 19th-century pencil inscription in the present copy as well as in two other inscribed catalogues suggests that the contents of this auction belonged to the art collector Hippolyte de Livry 1765-1834 - not to be confused with the author of the same name. Our Hippolyte had previously dispersed a portion of his collection through the expert and art critic Charles Landon in 1814 one sale but in two parts Lugt 8473 & 8515. The present catalogue details 134 lots of paintings by Boilly S. Bourdon Le Brun Guido Reni B. van der Helst Lairesse Largillière Oudry Leprince van Spaendonck D. & A. Teniers Tintoretto J. Vernet Veronese Vouet etc. and various curiosities lots 119-134 including sculptures clocks vases and drawings. Each painting is listed with measurements. In very good condition. Engraved bookplate of Georges Pannier 1853-1944 the Parisian art dealer and collector of auction catalogues on the front paste-down and stamp of the Bibliothèque Heim on verso of title. ❧ Lugt 9325. hardcover books
171830530Amsterdam: Steenhouwer 1718. First Edition. hardcover. very good. Titles in red and black with engraved vignettes woodcut head and tailpieces. 2 vols. 12mo original sprinkled calf joints weak; ex lib. Amsterdam 1718. Very good.<br/><br/> "Gui Patin is unique in our annals . Scores of doctors have written letters; none save his remain as a permanent contribution to literature." Osler 5277. Voltaire praised Patin's letters "parce qu'il contient de nouvelles anecdotes que tout le monde aime et des satires que l'on aime davantage." BIOGR. MED VI 375.<br/><br/> Steenhouwer unknown books
1782263934London: J. Stockale; R. Faulder 1782. First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Ritson's first book in which he attacks Thomas Warton's History of English Poetry in such vitriolic tones -- Warton is a preternder a cheater and a liar -- as to cause quite a contretemps in late 18th century English literary circles. One assumes this actually pleased Ritson as he went on the next year to attack Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. Eventually Ritson went complete mad barricading himself in his rooms at Gray's Inn and setting fire to a pile of manuscripts. In an attractive later binding in red half-goat over marbled board with raised bands. We assume the binder was charged with binding a group of different books to a uniform size -- the title page is trimmed and mounted and all the other leaves are folded neatly to fit the bottom edge and then the leading edge over it. Rather astonishing actually. Very Good binding. J. Stockale; R. Faulder unknown books
1609WB17560London: Print. for Math. Lownes 1609. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 parts in one volume folio 286 x 188mm. Pagination: 8 1-7 1-204pp. i. e. 208; 1-218pp. 2 with final blank. Signatures: A4 3 frontis. B-R6 S5 Cc4 B-V6 some signatures missigned. Engraved title of architectonic frame pair of Roman soldiers and at top portrait of Henry Frederick Prince of Wales; through the arch a military camp on either side of a river with shore in the foreground and hills in the background Imprint details are an after addition. Full-page woodcut oval portrait frontispiece of Julius Caesar wearing laurel wreath inscribed Ivlivs Caesar Dictator Perpetvvs Veni Vidi Vici Aestatis Svae 56 present and bound in before the note to the Reader A1. 12 engraved plates of various battles military formations and encampments of Caesars Roman army including Battles with the Helvetii Ilerda and the Gallic wars one labeled Cicero Besieged all but 2 double-page or folding. Woodcut engraved chapter head and tailpieces. Dedicated to the soldier Sir Francis Vere d. 1609. Verses by William Camden Joshua Sylvester Samuel Daniel and Ben Jonson. Contemporary calf gilt scrolling arabesque centerpiece on covers manuscript binders waste remnants in front hinge; extremities somewhat rubbed spine chipped at top and missing bottom compartment lacking ties and front endpapers; light marginal dampstaining some folding plates closely cropped some marginal fraying of title and two preliminaries small crack in inner portion of plate facing p. 86 in the first part later marginal note in ink on p. 190 in second part; overall a solid copy with all plates present. Later signature of Rebecca Ayre on title verso; a person seemingly untraceable it is notable at least this name suggests female ownership over some point in the life of the volume. <br/><br/>First published in 1600 in London by Peter Short dwelling on Bredstreet hill at the signe of the Starre two new editions of the Observations upon Caesars Commentaries appeared in 1604 one issued for Mathew Lownes and one for William Ponsonby and again three more editions appeared in 1609 two are linked to the printers office of Mathew Lownes ESTC S121465 as here and ESTC S91812 and the third ESTC S121472 indicates no publisher. All of the 1609 issues have variations in the titles and imprints as common. Mathew Lownes was a prominent bookseller in London at the Bishops-head in Pauls Church-yard from at least 1595 to 1625; Lowness activity is associated with several important publications on Roman imperial history between 1604 and 1623 which likely put him into the milieu of the author Sir Clement Edmondes d. 1622 who was by 1600 also an influential government official in the House of Commons and City of London. Edmondes wrote his observations on Caesars Commentaries the Gallic and Civil Wars to propagate the ways he believed ancient Roman military tactics might aid contemporary warfare. ODNB and larger scholarship notes that Edmondes carefully molded his remarks and included additional subjective material which was later seen as an attempt to influence the readers experience. This is an important publication thus for exemplifying the intent of some Roman histories written in the early Stuart years. It was popularly received in his time and Edmondes believed his efforts to draw out the true heroism of an ancient republic would help among other ideas the question of how to deal with an invasion of England. ESTC S121465. Print. for Math. Lownes hardcover books
