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186442016Boston: Press of Geo. C. Rand & Avery 3 Cornhill 1864. 31 1 blank pp. Stitched in original dark wrappers with gilt lettering and decorative border. Fine.<br /> <br /> The Company property consists of about fifty acres in the Waverley Gold District "about twelve miles from Halifax N. S." A quarter mile away is excellent inexpensive housing for miners in the town of Waverley. "This mine will yield a large per cent. upon a capital of one million dollars."<br /> Accompanying reports fully justify this optimism.<br /> Not in TPL or Sabin. Not located on OCLC. Press of Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 3 Cornhill unknown
18870006159Washington DC : GPO 1887. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 large folding maps 4 chromolithographs of fish the salmon berry and McKay's Snow Flake bird. Quarto 102pp. original black cloth recased with new spine of leather top cover title intact new endpapers. <br/><br/>Report of the first expedition to record the Kowak River in Alaska its flora and fauna and the Bogoslov Volcano. Also the Noatak River. Ricks ALASKA p.118; Bennett PRACTICAL GUIDE TO AMERICAN NINETEENTH CENTURY COLOR PLATE BOOKS p. 52 -q.v. see note. 2 large folding maps 4 chromolithographs of fish the salmon berry and McKay's Snow Flake bird. GPO hardcover
1823EEApoGRE10London: 1823. 1823. folio. pp. 223. disbound. [London: 1823]. unknown
18984148Victoria BC: Blackie 1898. Mounted Photograph. Very Good. This photo was taken on the front stairs of the newly constructed British Columbia Parliament Buildings officially opened February 10th 1898. It contains a number of recognizable MPs officials and Page Boys. Two of gentleman standing in the front row are John Herbert Turner who served as the 11th premier of BC from March 1895 to August 1898 and Charles Augustus Semlin who served as the 12th premier of BC from August 1898 until February 1900. A large format gelatin silver photograph measuring 9.5 x 11.5 inches wide mounted onto the photographer's printed card measuring 13 x 15.75 inches wide captioned "Blackie / Victoria West B.C. / Parliament of British Columbia 1898." Photo w. some scratches and tiny stains card w. rubs and wear stains and a pin hole at one corner verso w. some notations in pencil. " After a year-long competition a 25 year old architect Francis Mawson Rattenbury was chosen in March 1892 to design B.C.'s new Parliament Buildings. Construction began in 1893 partly to try to boost a stagnant economy. Every effort was made to use local materials and resources - granite foundations from Nelson Island site facades from Haddington Island stone and local brick limestone and Douglas fir for the construction work. The total cost was not to exceed $600000. When the Buildings were completed four years later amid much controversy and argument the total cost came to $923882.30." leg dot bc dot ca. Blackie unknown
184107744FIRST ISSUES PUNCH OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI The Punch Office 1841 first edition covers a bit bowed and wavy wear to 3 of the 4 fore edge corner tips the spine extremities and upper edge of the boards along 2 inches from the spine moisture stain evident on about 1/3 of the leaves soiling to the covers else a good copy bound in the publishers original decorative blind stamped blue cloth with gold-gilt pictorial stamping to the front cover. The first issuance of this historic magazine being Volume The First July to December 1841. Profusely illustrated. The Punch Office hardcover
189842363Philadelphia The Society No date 1898. paperback. 18981st separate edition single fold pamphlet 4 pages 12mo. Not in Singerman though Robert Singerman himself suggested to us that the text "seems to be a match for the text in the first volume of the American Jewish Year Book 1899/1900 at pp.294-97. <br> Our item does not include any pagination and we would consider it to be a first separate edition. The item not listed in any database we were able to consult. <br> Advertising pamphlet listing imprints of the newly formed Jewish Publication Society including their first "Outlines of Jewish History" by Lady Magnus 1890 through Zangwill’s Dreamers of the Ghetto 1898 which is indicated as “Sold to Members only†probably indicating that it had just come out or perhaps related to copyright issues with Zangwill. Notably absent is any mention of the American Jewish Yearbook which began publication in 1899. All items include a short positive review from the American press. <br> The Jewish Publication Society of America was founded for "’the publication and dissemination of literary scientific and religious works giving instruction in the principles of the Jewish religion’; the third of its kind in the United States see Jew. Encyc. i. 519. Its headquarters are at Philadelphia. It was founded June 3 1888 at a convention held in Philadelphia. <br> At the end of the first fiscal year the membership was 1071; by 1903 it had reached 4700. Every member of the society receives a copy of each publication; since the society has been in existence over two hundred thousand volumes have been distributed and sold. The society is supported by the income derived from a permanent fund and from membership dues. <br> As a rule four sometimes five publications a year are issued; the first 'Outlines of Jewish History' by Lady Magnus appeared in 1890. The society issues two series a 'Special Series' seven numbers appearing occasionally and including short works of a miscellaneous character and 'The American Jewish Year Book' published since 1899-1900 5660.the society has brought out…translations from German French and Hebrew. They include histories literary religious and ethical essays poems biographies proceedings of societies republications of older classics and fiction†Cyrus Adler & Henrietta Szold in the JE 1905.<br> A copy may exist at the Dobkin Collection of Feminism; otherwise we could not locate a copy in OCLC-Worldcat nor using a google serach. Apparently exceedingly rare as such. Lightly rubbed Very Good Condition B AMR-67-28. Philadelphia, The Society, No date unknown
1840J37G5H5ISWE1Istanbul 1840. Mounted on a larger sheet of paper in a passe-partout. Watercolour drawing on wove paper 29.5 x 45 cm with highlights in shellac and a thin black border. A lively scene on the Tophane Quay in Istanbul with the background dominated by the dome and minaret of the 1580 Kilic Ali Pasha Mosque. The tip of a second minaret perhaps from a different mosque is visible in the distance. On the quay an opulently dressed black-bearded Ottoman a high official in the Emperor's court or a wealthy merchant stands in the centre of the scene with his entourage. He wears red robes trimmed with gold and with black decorations a white turban around a red fez and a gold waistband with the hilts of two guns sticking out and carries a walking stick in his left hand. His entourage includes a white-bearded Islamic holy man with a green turban around a red fez a Greek or Armenian man in a black hat a dark-skinned woman in green robes holding a bundle and several other men women and children. They appear to be preparing to depart in the boats that stand ready. Two more dark-skinned women in white robes with red and blue stripes follow the party deferentially. Several people appear in the boats in addition to their crews. Four more white-bearded Islamic holy men each again with a green turban around red fez sit in one with some women while two Ottoman infantrymen with bayonets stand in another one just stepping out. Other parts of the quay show various men busy with their trades or smoking long pipes. From the collection of Hooton Pagnell Hall in Yorkshire England. With a 1.5 cm tear in the water at the foot of the scene not approaching the boats and otherwise in very good condition. A lively and fascinating scene on a quay in Istanbul with the dome and minaret of Kilic Ali Pasha Mosque prominently shown.l For the King family: Debretts Peerage 1840 p. 423 & 1861 p. 338; Debretts Baronetage LXXV 1893 p. 127. unknown
18555250London: May 19 1855. About very good. 2pp. on a bifolium. Previously folded. Light wear along top edge; short closed tear at right margin. Scattered faint foxing. With original mailing envelope. This two-page printed circular dated May 19th 1855 from the Anglo-California Gold Mining Company in London offers to convert "unissued shares" of company stock into "preference shares." The first page of the circular reads in part:<br /> <br /> "You will observe from the enclosed report not present of the adjourned General Meeting that circumstances have arisen in California rendering it imperative that the Director should immediately have at his command a further sum of £6600. You will also observe that the Board have power to convert the unissued shares into preference shares at par to be offered in the first instance to the present holders of shares. The advantage offered to persons taking those Shares is that they are guaranteed a dividend of 25 per cent per annum before any dividend is paid on the other Shares."<br /> <br /> The second leaf of the bifolium prints a blank form for recipients to purchase said preferred shares. During the first years of the California gold rush approximately 120 companies formed in Great Britain to offer mining shares in the booming goldfields to the public. Many saw these companies as an opportunity to invest in the boom without facing the expense or the danger of traveling to California. Most however ended in failure and investors collectively lost almost £2 million at the time.<br /> <br /> The Anglo-California Gold Mining Company formed by Luke Williams in March 1849 was one of the first and largest of these British ventures and it sold thousands of ten shilling shares to the public. Williams sent a former Royal Navy Captain Henry Vere Huntley to the Calaveras River in early 1850 to start the operation. When he failed Williams arranged a deal with Fremont's Quartz Rock Mariposa Gold Company to crush and refine their ore and the ore of smaller ventures. To that end the company sent two steam-powered crushing mills to California and when those proved useless to the task the company failed. May 19 unknown
189433580np 1894. Framed photograph 10-1/2" x 13-1/2" matted behind glass within ornate gilt frame 21" x 23-1/2". Light wear to surface of photograph. Matting has some spotting. Some wear to frame and small chip to frame edge. Else Very Good. <br /> <br /> The squad is dressed in various football uniforms including laced smock vests over long sleeved shirts caped sweaters and knee length pants. Each of the two young men wearing military style uniforms has a small billed cap. unknown
1837202347<p>Venice: In Insula S. Lazari 1837. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed. Full leather binding with gilt lettering & decoration to spine gilt ruled borders on both boards all edges gilt marbled endpapers engraved frontispiece and title page 6-1/4" x 4†434 pp. Aucher’s name appears in three different versions on the first leaf: Armenian transliterated Armenian and Latin dated 1847. George Gordon Lord Byron traveled to the Island of St. Lazar where Father Pascal Aucher 1774-1854 taught him Armenian. Together they published Grammar of the English and Armenian Languages in 1819 and contributed to Aucher’s 1821 English Armenian Dictionary. Byron was devoted to the Armenian language writing: “I learned the language of the Armenians in order to understand how and what language the Gods spoke for the Armenian language is the language of the Gods and Armenia is the homeland of the Gods and the Gods come from the Ararat valley.â€A translation of twenty-four prayers one for each hour of the day of St. Nerses the Graceful translated into twenty-four languages. This is the culmination of an effort that first had 6 10 14 and then 16 translations. This effort was likely from many of the Mekhitarist monks at San Lazzaro degli Armeni. The monastery was founded in 1715 by twelve monks; when Byron visited there were 70; today there are 12 monks and five novices. Despite the small population St. Lazzaro has been a major center of Armenian studies for centuries and still maintains the third-largest library of Armenian materials in the world. This polyglot prayer book is notable not just for its place in Armenian history and the spread of Orthodoxy but it is also a typographic success in acquiring the various fonts.</p> In Insula S. Lazari hardcover
1851297779London : Winsor and Newton 1851. Third Edition. Softcover. Library copy. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 61 1 p. ; 17 cm. Printer's name from colophon. Subjects: Watercolor painting - Technique. Portrait painting - Technique. London : Winsor and Newton paperback
18271354952Boston: Richardson and Lord 1827. Hardcover. Octavo viii 9-334 pp. Good; bound in contemporary tan cloth with some areas of discoloration and surface marks and wear to corners; binding tight; text block clean but somewhat rough; foxing throughout; ex-library copy with usual markings including institutional stamps to several pages and call number written in pencil; ex-library copy with usual markings including a bookplate to front pastedown institutional stamps to several pages and call number written in pencil. MF consignment. 1354952. Special Collections - Downstairs. Richardson and Lord hardcover
182766716Boston: Richardson and Lord 1827. 1827. Translated from the French. Old Ex-Library from Maryland. Fair condition. Foxing and general wear. 2nd edition translated into English. Old library bylaws included warning the reader that late fees may be as much as six and a half cents.<br /> <br /> Marie François Xavier Bichat was a French anatomist and pathologist known as the father of modern histology. Although he worked without a microscope Bichat distinguished 21 types of elementary tissues from which the organs of the human body are composed. Richardson and Lord unknown
1862CM18918Kjobenhavn: Theiles Bogtrykkeri 1862. Med kortgfattede Biographier af J. P. F. Konigsfeldt; Full dark leather elaborate metal corner & spine guards & clasp blind borders all edges gilt thin moire endpapers / pastedown & 20 full page photo illustrations of portraits tipped on with protective sheet; A very good copy; Unpaginated. . 5.5"x7.25". Theiles Bogtrykkeri hardcover
181313538Philadelphia: Jane Aitken / "For the Author 1813. First Edition. Hardcover. Good-. Octavo 2 volumes bound together. A DEFECTIVE copy lacking the title page and possibly other blank prelims in volume I with the first text page being the first leaf of the Preface. Collation: iii-v 7-90 blank 1-142 blank. Bound in contemporary full sheep with a black morocco spine label bearing the lone word "Thought." Though defective an otherwise good copy moderately foxed at extremities with mild wear to corners and spine ends; sound. Inked ownership signature of P. Keyes Esq to the first leaf of the Preface. Law was a British-born lawyer who settled in the young United States where he married into George Washington's family and became a significant real estate developer in the early years of the capital city. The two texts are sometimes attributed to Law's partner George Watterston but they are attributed by American Imprints and the LOC to Law. The printer of volume I and possibly volume II was Jane Aitken one of the few women in the printing trade in early 19th century America. She is best known for publishing Charles Thomson's massive English translation of the Septuagint the first published in the western hemisphere. Scarce in commerce. American Imprints 20531; 28918. Jane Aitken / "For the Author hardcover
185016916London: J. & D. A. Darling 1850. First edition. 8 handcolored plates by Alfred Ashley. 196 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original rose cloth covers framed in blind with gilt lozenge of officer on horseback on upper cover spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Some spotting and discoloration of cloth without the two inserted leaves of publisher's advertisements mentioned by Wolff else a very good copy with the bookplate of James George Robarts. First edition. 8 handcolored plates by Alfred Ashley. 196 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Sadleir 1223; Wolff 3294 J. & D. A. Darling unknown
185012599London: J. & D. A. Darling 1850. First Edition. Embellished with 8 colored etchings on steel. 1 vols. 8vo. Bookplate of Herbert Ridington Pyne. Brown-red morocco cloth. Some wear to extremities front inner joint cracked. First Edition. Embellished with 8 colored etchings on steel. 1 vols. 8vo. "The plates by Alfred Ashley are splendid" Wolff. Sadleir 1223; Wolff 3294. Sadleir 1223; Wolff 3294 <br/><br/> J. & D. A. Darling hardcover
1866H6866Philadelphia: Lippincott 1866. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo original blue cloth gilt spine very good light wear to spine ends minor smoky odor. RARE on the market. Attributed to Frederick William Beasley the introduction is signed by a Caspar Almore; a mix of stories and poems. Beasley 1808-1878 was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1832 and served as rector of the All Saints' Church in Lower Dublin PA for most of his life was a published poet. Some of the stories such as "The Indian Dream-Cell" and poems such as "The Ghost at Ford's Inn" -- have a fantastic element to them. Lippincott hardcover
183645698Paris: Imprimerie Royale. 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Collection de Documents Inedits sur L'Histoire de France.; 4to; 2 ff. CCIII p. 1 f. 677 p. 1 f pages; Quarto. The first leaf is a half title for the series in which this is a particularly distinguished individual publication: "Collection de Documents Inedits sur L'Histoire de France." Contemporary brown half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards five shallow raised bands on the spine which has three labels lettered in gilt -- two series titles and the specific title of Abelards previously unpublished work. Marbled endpapers and edges of the text block cut polished and marbled -- all matching the boards. The binding shows only trifling wear. There are very light marks of damp to the blank upper and lower margins of some of the leaves scattered throughout. The binding shows no evidence of this; this may have affected the paper before binding. Following his long introduction in French 203 pp. = CCIII enumerated in Roman Numerals Victor Cousin has divided the contents of this important introduction to some of the works of Abelard into print into sections: logically the first is Abelard's major philosophical work: 'Sic et non.' This is followed by Dialectica; Fragmentum Germanense da generibus et speciebus; Glossae in Porphyrium; Glossae in Categorias; Glossiae in librum de Interpretatione; and Glossae in Topica Boethii." In the popular mind Abelard is best known for his passionate and ultimately tragic love affair with Heloise d'Argenteuil who had been his brilliant student and who eventually became his wife. Those who would find this book appealing hardly need be told that Peter Abelard was a leading medieval French scholastic philosopher. In fairness considering his wide range of thought and teachingAbelard must also be assessed as a logician theologian teacher musician composer and poet. Some view him as the "Descartes of the twelfth century." Abelard coined the very term "theology" -- it seems impossible to study that field deeply without assessing his thought and achievement. In our own times Pope Benedict XVI who found himself in opposition to Abelard's conception of the trinity untimately found that St. Bernard's "theology of the heart" and Abelard's "theology of reason" represent the importance of healthy theological discussion and humble obedience to the authority of the Church. The editor of this significant contribution to the history of Philosophy Victor Cousin was himself a highly distinguished philosopher lecturer and administrator of public instruction. He earned a high reputation as a classical scholar in addition to his achievements as a philosopher Sandys in his 'History of Classical Scholarship' makes a point of mentioning Cousin's important work on the lesser works of Abelard -- "professor at the Sorbonne in 1815-22 and 1828-30 and Minister of Education in 1840. He is connected with Greek scholarship by his editio princeps of Proclus 1820-7 and by his French rendering of the whole of Plato 1821-40. He threw new light on the lesser-known works of Abelard and contributed to the elucidation of the history of the scholastic philosophy." vol. III p. 251. Cousin is especially noted for his mastery of German; during his lengthy travels and residences in parts of German Cousin came to know Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling. Cousin can be considered the the founder of "eclecticism" which combined elements of German idealism and Scottish "Common Sense" Realism. For political reasons Cousin was forbidden to teach and lecture publically in France for nearly a decade. When he was allowed to resume his lectures at the Sorbonne the crowds gathering to hear him are said to have rivelled those who lined up in Paris to see Peter Abelard at the high point of his influce seven hundred years before. There is a much-quoted assessment of Cousin's own merits and achievements as a philosopher from a significant English philosopher Sir William Hamilton -- whose own thinking it must be noted was resolutely opposed to Cousin's. Hamilton wrote: "Cousin was a profound and original thinker a lucid and eloquent writer a scholar equally at home in ancient and in modern learning a philosopher superior to all prejudices of age or country party or profession and whose lofty eclecticism seeking truth under every form of opinion traces its unity even through the most hostile systems." . Imprimerie Royale hardcover
1895BOOKS009456INew York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good/No Dj. 1895. 1st Edition. Hardback. 8vo Rubs to cover/spotting. Text is clean and complete . Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
18898588Baltimore: Self-published 1889. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. Wonderful --and uncommon-- 1889 treatise on the "breaking and taming of wild and vicious horses" with over 200 illustrations complementing the text. Written by Oscar Gleason the inventor of "The Gleason Bridle" and "The Gleason New Break Harness". Solid and well-preserved and VG in its brown pictorial wrappers with one small spot at the front panel. Octavo 300 pgs. Self-published unknown
185070164New York:: S. W. Benedict 1850. First edition. original printed front wrapper; rear wrapper lacking. Some brown spotting covers about 20% of the front wrapper decreasing in extent and color over the next few leaves not affecting legibility. . 8vo. Arguments and reasons submitted to the Honorable the Members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the 31st Congress of the United States. Howes C-771. Sabin 16719. S. W. Benedict, unknown
1810018858Paris: Chez Magimel Libraire Pour L'Art Militaire. Text volume only. Lacks the plate volume. Full leather with spine label and four compartments with gilt decoration. xxiv 523 pp. plus 4 folding plates containing 28 numbers of military music. Small hole and chip at foot of spine minor edge wear on the covers front and rear blanks missing otherwise nice. Good. Previous owner's name in ink on the pastedown inside the front cover: "Thomas Pasaret or Pazaret capitaine au 19.e Dragons 1812." A major military guide on the maneuvers of cavalry during the Napoleonic Wars. Describes tactical formations. . Good. Full Leather. Seconde Edition Second Edition. 1810. Chez Magimel, Libraire Pour L'Art Militaire hardcover
1806OB528<p>Milano: Societá Tipografica de' Classici Italiani 1806. Hard Cover. viii 230 1 pages; 21 cm. "The long series of Italian humorous poets reaches its apex in the Florentine Francesco Berni. The active years of his life were spent chiefly in Rome in busy secretarial service. in an environment of corruption that is reflected in more ways than one in his own work" --Wilkins p. 201. The notes largely by Anton Maria Salvini 1653-1729 are taken from the collection entitled Opere Burlesche di M. Francesco Berni di M. Gio. della Casa del Varchi etc. Londra G. Pickard 1721-24 2 vols. Bound in full contemporary leather; very good. Stock#OB528.</p> Societá Tipografica de' Classici Italiani hardcover
1854u1709London: T. Simpson 1854. Combined edition of three pamphlets on metallurgy: Dud Dudley's Mettallum Martis: or IRON made with Pit-coale Sea-coale &c. And with the same Fuell to Melt and Fine Imperfect Mettals and Refine perfect Mettals 1665; John Rovinson A Treatise of Metallica: But not that which was published by Mr. Simon Stvrtevant. 1613; Sturteuant Simon Metallica or The Treatise of Metallica: Briefly comprehending the Doctrine of diuerse new Metallical Inuentions but especially how to neale melt and worke all kinde of mettle oares Irons and Steeles with Sea-coale Pit-coale Earth-coale and Brush Fewell 1612. Evidently Sturtevant was outlawed and lost his Patent which was taken by Rovinson. Hardcover full beige cloth red cover titling. Worn yellowed and stained foxing and spots in text waterstain on lower corner affecting several pages. Pagination: xx 40 iii 30 ii 119 including a four page listing of subscibers and publisher's note explaining the reprinting and giving a few biographical details on Dudley by one John Bagnall. There is also a folding genealogical chart for the Dudleys and a sort of a map. Not a lot of practical information but interesting historically. Third Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 6¾" by 8½". T. Simpson Hardcover
