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1993Embry 167545Simon & Schuster 1993. First edition first printing. Fine in fine faintly worn dust jacket in mylar cover. Simon & Schuster, 1993. First edition, first printing. unknown books
2008UGOLBON00JKNAldus Books 2008. Fine. Gold R. D. Bondage of the Mind. Menlo Park California: Aldus Books 2008. 268pp. Indexed. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Slight shelf wear. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. Slight shelf wear. Aldus Books hardcover books
2008UGOLBON00LRAldus Books 2008. Fine. Gold R. D. Bondage of the Mind. Menlo Park California: Aldus Books 2008. 268pp. Indexed. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. Aldus Books hardcover books
186034567New York: H. De Marsan Publisher. 38 & 60 Chatam Street 1860. Ca 1860. Not in Wolf nor recorded on OCLC. VG light wear & age toning. Single sheet printed recto only. 3 verses each of 8 lines. No music. Hand-colored wood-engraved "The Fountain" decorative border. Just inside lower right border signed "Sparks". 10" x 6-1/8" <br/><br/> H. De Marsan, Publisher. 38 & 60 Chatam Street unknown books
192486856Petropolis Berlin 1924. Ltd ed. in French. Hardcover. Near Fine. 61 2p. plus 28 leaves of plates which are printed on one side and seem to alternate with text leaves. Contemporary blue buckram on which almost all of the lighter blue front and back panels of the original wrapper have been mounted. 35cm. Endpapers browned. Glassine tissue guards have some browning and a couple have corner creasing but all are present. French text. This French-language edition was limited to 175 copies 125 of which were to be numbered 1-125 and the other 50 numbered I-L on the colophon page -- this copy is not numbered. Translator not identified. Grigoriev was a Russian painter and graphic artist. <br/><br/> hardcover books
19241340376Berlin: Razum Verlag 1924. Limited edition. Hardcover. Quarto; Limited edition 500 copies this copy unnumbered; Fair; Hardcover; Spine grey with gold print; Boards quarter bound with grey cloth to spine and blue paper to boards tears to cloth hinges wear to spine caps edges and corners toning to boards; Text block has intermittent spine breaks clean text tissue before each plate; Text in German; 61 pages frontispiece illustrated b&w plates. Shelf: Russian Slavic Eastern European Art <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 bookcases next to Ephemera section. 1340376. FP New Rockville Stock. Razum Verlag hardcover books
197983006Moskva: Nauka 1979. Hardcover. Near Fine. 133p. Original black cloth. 26cm. Minor wear. Facsimile reproduction of the unique scroll of a draft copy of the Arabic text of a waqf document dated 1299 from Bokhara and supplemented by an old Persian translation made before 1661. Brief 3 1/2 page English summary at end. Both documents were in the Central State Archive in Tashkent. <br/><br/> Nauka hardcover books
7036Printed in Chinese with Japanese reading marks. 11 columns per page 21 characters per column. 79; 59; 51; 49; 67 folding leaves. Ten parts in five vols. 8vo 240 x 149 mm. orig. brown wrappers new stitching. Japan: mid-Muromachi ca. 1440-50. An extremely rare and important "mid-Muromachi" Gozan-ban edition of The Blue Cliff Record in Chinese: Pi yen lu a collection of Chan Buddhist koan. These were verbal tests used to practice or test a student's progress in Zen compiled in the Song Dynasty and expanded by the great Northern Song Chan master Yuanwu Keqin 1063-1135 abbot of Tianning Wanshou Chan Monastery in Beijing. The text was first printed in China in 1125 or 1128 and has long been celebrated for both its startling beauty and profound complexity. Around 1140 one of Yuan Wu's successors Ta Hui destroyed the printing blocks and copies of the Pi yen lu because the work's rapid and widespread popularity made him fear that its beauty of expression would distract its readers from seeking enlightenment directly within themselves. The text was brought back from China by Dogen 1200-53 the Japanese Buddhist priest who was a founder of the Soto school of Zen in Japan. He had studied in China for four or five years and returned to stay at the Kenninji temple where he introduced many texts. This text was first printed in Japan about 1336-50 early-Nanbokucho by Gyokuho Shorin at the Kenninji; there is a copy at the National Diet Library. Our edition is a reprint of that first Japanese edition using the same woodblocks with minor changes. A later edition appeared in the Donald and Mary Hyde sale lot 65. "For some time Chan monks had been in the habit of extracting snippets from the 'records' yulu of past masters isolated them as 'ancient precedents' and commenting on them sometimes in verse sometimes in prose. By the mid-eleventh century the core situation was known as a 'case to be investigated' or a gong'an. The process was incremental and difficult to stop. Yuanwu's Emerald Cliff Record for example took a previous eleventh-century collection entitled Master Xuetou's verses on a hundred old cases and added an introduction and extensive commentary to each 'case' sometimes also dropping in comments on the appositeness or more usually inappositeness of the relevant verse so becoming in his turn 'magistrate.' A gong'an collection therefore reveals many layers all of them dedicated to undercutting the stability of language while at the same time playing a complex game of competing authorities. Herein lies their fascination."-Richard Bowring The Religious Traditions of Japan Cambridge U.P. p. 301. "Gozan-ban is a general term embracing all those books published by monks of the Zen sect chiefly at the five Zen monasteries at Kamakura and the five at Kyoto over a period of more than 200 years between mid-Kamakura and late Muromachi. The appearance of the printed page in most Gozan editions follows a distinctly Chinese style. The effect is somewhat dense and crowded caused by packing the Chinese characters tightly together with more regard for economy of space than for aesthetic effect. In this the Gozan editions differ markedly from all other early Japanese printed books which are more generously spaced. The reasons for this are twofold: the books tend to be chiefly reprints of Chinese song and Yuan editions and during the fourteenth century many Chinese blockcutters came over from the continent and practised their craft of a semi-commercial basis and on a fairly large scale."-K.B. Gardner "Centres of Printing in Medieval Japan: late Heian to early Edo period" in British Library Occasional Papers 11. Japanese Studies ed. by Yu-Ying Brown London: 1990 p. 164. PROVENANCE: This copy has the seals of Hirokata Yashiro 1758-1841 "Shinobazu Bunko"; Awa no Kuni Bunko; and Goroza Uchino b. 1873 "Kyotei Bunko". It later belonged to the great collector and bibliographer of early Japanese books Kazuma Kawase 1906-99 and has his seal. The chitsu has Kawase's manuscript title label stating in trans.: "Gozan-ban. Hekiganroku. Mid-Muromachi edition. Shinobazu Bunko provenance. Kazuma put the title on this label" also with his seal. There are four Prefaces: the first is undated the second dated 1300 the third dated 1305 and the fourth is dated 1304. Two leaves of manuscript probably written by Yashiro have been inserted at the beginning of Vol. I. They provide a commentary and a sort of title-page the work was issued without a title. Following Part I there are another two leaves of manuscript relating to this text. Following the tenth part are five Afterwards dated 1125 undated 1302 1317 and 1317. In fine condition all contained in a modern wooden box. The top of the box has been covered in a most attractive silk brocade. A few natural paper flaws and minor staining. Berkeley has an edition of this text but because of the very vague WorldCat cataloguing it is impossible to tell which exact edition it is. ❧ Kornicki Language Scripts and Chinese Texts in East Asia p. 245. unknown books
47599n.p.:: n.p. Very Good. N.D. Paperback. No publication date noted but from the 1930s. Text is in German. Tipped-in color cigarette card illustrations throughout. First edition paperback. Light shelf wear else very good in oblong illustrated wraps. . n.p., paperback books
169568499Lipsiae Leipzig: Thomas Fritsch 1695. Hardcover. Very good. Silius c.28-c.103 was consul in 68 and governor of the province of Asia in 69; he sought no further office but lived thereafter on his estates as a literary man and collector. He revered the work of Cicero whose Tusculan villa he owned and that of Virgil whose tomb at Naples he likewise owned and near which he lived. His epic Punica in 17 books on the second War with Carthage 218-202 BC draws heavily on Livy's account. Conceived as a contrast between two great nations and their supporting gods championed by the two great heroes Scipio and Hannibal his poem is written in pure Latin and smooth verse filled throughout with echoes of Virgil above all and other poets. Includes supplementary material by the German classicist Christoph Cellarius. 22 586 52. Frontispiece engraving with a title page decoration and six folding maps. 12mo. In a contemporary full vellum binding. Typical mild browning to the contents with a negligible spot to the top edge. Minor soiling to the vellum; otherwise very good. Thomas Fritsch hardcover books
1719LV2044Lugduni Batavorum Leiden Netherlands:: Apud Samuelem Luchtmans 1719. 1719. 8vo. xl 748 118 pp. Engraved half title plate by F. Bleyswyk Bleyswyck red and black title with printer’s device woodcut decorative initials and tailpieces index; occasional light foxing. Original gilt and blind-stamped full calf five raised bands with gilt-stamped maroon spine piece; worn joints cracked but reinforced with painted Kozo paper. Ownership blind emboss stamps on first and last few leaves including title. Binding worn internally very good. This Compendium of Roman History by Velleius is an early edition of Dutch classical scholar Pieter Burman the elder. His history written in a rhetorical style covered the period from the end of the Trojan War to the death of Livia in 29 A.D. and most useful for the period from the death of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C. to the death of Augustus in 14 A.D. Bryan Michael. Bryan’s Dictionary of Painters and Engravers Volume 1. G. Bell 1903. p. 145. "Velleius Paterculus’ short work is the earliest surviving attempt on the part of a post-Augustan historian to survey the history of the res publica from its origins to his own times. In a period from which no other contemporary historical narrative survives in more than meagre fragments Velleius’ work is uniquely important. It is a critical counter to the later accounts of Tacitus Suetonius and Cassius Dio not simply because it offers a different view of Tiberius but because Velleius saw continuity where later authors saw only radical change which destroyed the Republic and put monarchy in its place. For other reasons too Velleius occupies a unique position in Roman historiography." – See: Eleanor Cowan ed. Velleius Paterculus: Making History Classical Press of Wales 2011. Apud Samuelem Luchtmans, 1719. hardcover books
1849WRCAM52151Kreuznach: R. Voigtlander 1849. 32pp. Printed blue wrappers rear wrapper original front wrapper in facsimile. Small corner repairs to rear wrapper. Some foxing two ink stamps on titlepage. Else very good. In a half morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. The first edition of an exceedingly rare Gold Rush pamphlet printed in the hallowed year of that epochal event. "Like many guidebooks for Europeans this pamphlet gives general information on California's physical features history and 'Notes for Emigrants' on the gold discovery. The portion on California's gold riches consists primarily of an article reprinted from the KOELNER ZEITUNG of January 14 1849 which in turn summarizes R.B. Mason and others. The guide mentions the many German settlers in the Sacramento Valley and speaks proudly of Captain Sutter" - Kurutz. <br> <br> Only four institutions worldwide report a copy of this book: the California State Library the University of California at Berkeley Yale and the State Library in Berlin. It is even more difficult to encounter at auction this copy being the only one on record to pass through the rooms. COWAN II p.102. HOWES C43 "aa." KURUTZ 112. SABIN 9984. R. Voigtlander 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
2001138966New York: Hyperion 2001. First edition. Softcover. Advanced Reading Copy. Very well received debut novel. A fine unread copy in French style wrappers. Hyperion unknown books
2001200696London: Sceptre 2001. hardcover. fine/fine. 563 pages thick 8vo gray cloth with a gilt-stamped spine dust wrapper. London: Sceptre 2001. Fine.<br/><br/> Signed in full by the author on title page.<br/><br/> Sceptre unknown books
2001WN48322London: Hodder & Stoughton 2001. Gray paper covered boards with silver spine lettering. Book and dust jacket are pristine. Author signature on title page. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Hodder & Stoughton Hardcover books
20019057NY: Hyperion 2001. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Gold on the title page. Tiny shallow wrinkle on spine bottom edge with corresponding wrinkle on the dustjacket; otherwise an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Gold's first novel. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hyperion Hardcover books
2001147885New York: Hyperion 2001. First edition. Softcover. Advanced Reading Copy. Gold's very well received debut novel a thriller about magician Charles Joseph Carter. A tight very good copy in French style wrappers with some slight creasing to the foredge of the first few pages and a small stain to the bottom of the page edges. Signed by Gold on the title page. Additionally this copy has been signed by Gold's wife the dedicatee author Alice Sebold on the dedication page. Uncommon thus. Hyperion unknown books
2001110088New York: Hyperion 2001. First edition. Softcover. First paperback edition of his very well received first book. A tight near fine copy in wrappers. Signed by Gold on the title page. Hyperion unknown books
2001Embry 187020Hyperion 2001. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Signed by the author. Hyperion, 2001. First edition, first printing. unknown books
720220 pp. 8vo 198 x 125 mm. modern aubergine cloth head of spine a little worn title on upper cover. Paris: Félix & Regnault-Delalande 1822. An extremely rare auction catalogue inventorying the collection of an obscure painter active at the turn of the century. A contemporary annotator has written in the surname for this anonymous sale on the title-page corroborating Lugt's attribution. An 1817 almanac of Paris records a painter with the same surname working at rue de Rohan 6. Viglianis also exhibited a landscape at the 1814 Salon - no. 948 in the exhibition livret. 184 lots consisting primarily of prints lots 1-132 by artists such as Bartolozzi Bervic Bloemaert Cochin Le Bas Desnoyers Earlom Green Ingouf Massard Morghen Strange Wille Woollett etc. We then find original engraved plates by a number of contemporary artists. The final section of drawings includes the work of Bruandet S. Gessner H. Robert and "Joseph Pascal Viglianis" presumably the seller. With the list of vacations on the final page. A very rare catalogue in fine condition. In the characteristic binding of the Bibliothèque Heim. ❧ Lugt 10220. hardcover books
61592 p.l. 72 pp. Small 8vo cont. red sheep-backed marbled boards extremities slightly rubbed spine gilt green morocco lettering piece on spine. Amsterdam: P. Yver 1774. bound with: -. Catalogue d'un precieux Cabinet de Desseins Coloriés & Non-Coloriés des plus célebres Maîtres Hollandois & Flamands &c. De même que d'une tres belle Collection d'Estampes de Choix. Parmi lesquelles il y a quelques Petits Oeuvres & des Ouvrages d'Estampes Reliées & non-Reliées presque Toutes Premieres Epreuves & des mieux conservées.La Vente s'en fera le Lundi 16 de Janvier 1775 & les Jours suivants.Par les Courtiers. 2 p.l. 235 1 78 pp. 8vo. Amsterdam: P. Yver 1775. The rare sale catalogues largely priced in a contemporary hand of this comprehensive collection of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish pictures prints and drawings. These are the French editions bound together there were editions in Dutch published simultaneously. The first catalogue 124 lots with most buyers' names and fully priced consists exclusively of Dutch paintings mostly 17th-century by artists such as Berchem Eeckhout van Goyen Lairesse Maas Metsu Potter Steen Teniers van de Velde Elder & Younger Wouwerman Wynands etc. The contents of each painting are described along with comments and measurements. According to the contemporary annotator Yver Amstel and Fouquet bought many of the lots. Devoted to drawings and prints the second catalogue 1545 lots fully priced in a contemporary hand as well as the annotator's comments on several lots describes 1006 drawings 537 prints and two armoires. The majority of the contents are gathered in 17 recueils A-Q but the pieces were sold separately. The remaining lots were either grouped into 24 livres or offered individually. Despite the exceptional volume of artworks the catalogue frequently offers descriptions of the contents quality and condition of the lots. Fine copies copiously annotated. Engraved bookplate of the Parisian art dealer Georges Pannier 1853-1944. ❧ I. Lugt 2323. II. Lugt 2349. hardcover books
6449viii 268 pp. 8vo early 19th-cent. marbled boards spine defective. Amsterdam: P. Yver 1785. The extremely rare French edition there was an edition in Dutch the same year of this catalogue of an impressive sale. A contemporary annotator has supplemented it with prices buyers' names and commentary on the artworks almost all dismissive in the margins. Van Slingelandt 1701-82 a great patron of the arts who lived in Dordrecht amassed one of the most notable Dutch painting collections of the 18th century. This heavily annotated volume is the first and most important part of the sale describing 701! paintings along with eight drawings. The second part of drawings and sculptures followed shortly thereafter. Van Slingelandt's collection consisted of Old Masters and contemporary Dutch artists some of whom the collector himself patronized. The present catalogue details the works of Asselijn Bakhuizen Berghem J. Brueghel père et fils Cuyp 38 lots Dou van Dyck Jordaens Metsu Netscher Adrian and Isaac van Ostade Potter Rembrandt Rubens Ruysdael Steen Teniers ter Borch Wouwerman etc. etc. All lots are priced with buyers' names. It is clear the annotator viewed and attended the sale. For almost every item he has provided the name of the buyer. The annotator likely a connoisseur has written generally disparaging comments on the works for sale deriding them as copies or incorrectly attributed: "mauvais" "bizarre" "lourd" "médiocre" "not by Rembrandt." There are additional remarks on condition and provenance which are very interesting. The rare positive observation praises the work of a young artist or salutes a master's finest painting. This sale presided over by Pierre Yver 1712-87 and Abraham Delfos 1731-1820 the preeminent Dutch art dealers of the period was attended by many of their competitors including Pierre Fouquet who frequently purchased on behalf of the famous French expert Jean Baptiste Pierre Lebrun 1748-1813 as corroborated by several annotations in this copy. Lebrun solidified his position as the leading dealer in Netherlandish pictures by purchasing directly from the source and was buying heavily at sales such as these. Other notes indicate there were dealers from Brussels Lyon Antwerp Amsterdam Germany the Hague and Rotterdam. An extremely interesting annotated copy. A few of the annotations are cropped. ❧ Lugt 3936. Oxford Art online Delfos & Yver. hardcover books
613836 pp. Small 8vo attractive antique calf-backed paste paper boards spine gilt red morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: Musier 1774. The uncommon sale catalogue of a distinguished collection belonging to Antoine Antonin duc de Gramont 1722-1801 who inherited the title in 1745. 106 lots thoroughly described including works by Albani Guerchin Wouwermans Jordaens Watteau etc. Nice copy despite inoffensive marginal worming to first five leaves. ❧ Lugt 2348. hardcover books
6413viii 120 pp. 4to cont. pale blue paper wrappers spine defective. Vienna: La Société Typographique 1790. The uncommon sale catalogue of the collections formed by the founder of the famous Viennese music publisher. Originally from Lucca Mechetti c. 1745-1811 encountered financial troubles and was forced to sell his collection of thousands of items primarily Italian prints and paintings. In the introduction Mechetti highlights certain pieces in his collection which was apparently not for sale by auction but rather private contract. Pages 113-20 describe a large library rich in books on the arts and history. Nice copy. This copy was inscribed on the inside front wrappers to the amateur geologist Baron de Beroldingen see Zittel. From the library of His Serene Highness Prince Fürstenberg at Donaueschingen with his stamp on title. ❧ Cicognara 4548. unknown books
