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1824WRCAM35060ALondon: G. Cowie 1824. xvi208pp. plus folding map. 20th-century tan buckram spine gilt with a wax seal presumably covering a library call number. Bookplate removed from front pastedown. Light scattered foxing. A good solid copy. Published anonymously but attributed by the British Museum to John Hankshaw while THE ECONOMIC LITERATURE OF LATIN AMERICA Palau and OCLC assign authorship to Francis Hall. This record of a journey was published according to the anonymous author due to the desire "so universally felt in Great Britain of information as to the actual condition of the Republic of Colombia. The more that rich and beautiful country becomes known the greater will be the interest excited towards it among all Europeans. So extensive a field for the exercise of European industry and intelligence has not for ages presented itself." <br> <br> A travel journal composed in the form of letters the author describes the landscape the inhabitants the climate and soil natural resources commodities government and the possibilities for commerce. The highly detailed map of Greater Colombia is "taken from Humboldt and various other recent authorities." ALBERICH 1336. NAYLOR 85. SABIN 14598. PALAU 112082. G. Cowie hardcover books
1972166879New York: David McKay Company 1972. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A collection of "letters" from Gold to his daugher Tracy on a wide range of subjects. A near fine copy in an about very good dust jacket with a tear to the bottom rear corner another to the bottom of the spine and some other minor wear. Signed and inscribed by Gold on the front free endpaper: "To Lois and Wayne- In enduring friendship. Best Don Gold." A nice association copy as the recipient was Lois Wille who was a two time Pulitzer Prize winning Chicago journalist and Gold was a Chicago writer. David McKay Company unknown books
18941399253D Cong. 2d Sess.: SED27. 1894. 101pp Disbound some pages loosened else Very Good. SED27. unknown books
16691149Paris: Claude Barin 1669. <br/><br/>Corneille Thomas 1625 1709 translator. Ovid 43 B.C. 17 or 18 A.D. Les metamorphoses d'Ovide Traduites en vers Francois par T. Corneille. Paris: Claude Barin 1669. Original edition of the first two books of Ovid translated by Thomas Corneille. The full translation was not published until 1697. <br/><br/>12mo. Contemporary calf gilt spine with raised bands. Rubbed. Leaf with engraving on verso; leaf of title verso blank; 8pp. ded. to La Dauphin signed T. Corneille; 4pp. Av lecteur; 234pp. text with one engraving for book II on I viverso; 12pp. priv. dated 12 Aout 1668/31 Jan 1669. Collation: 1 a6 A-T6 V3 . STC French 1601-1700 O-236. An elegant edition with beautiful typography and ornamentation. <br/><br/>Thomas Corneille 1625-1709: playwright poet. To distinguish himself from his brother Pierre Corneille Thomas was known as “Monsieur Corneille.†He was one of the leading authors who began to produce plays during the Fronde and brought out even more plays than his brother Pierre: thirty-eight plays composed alone or in collaboration. His first tragedy Timocrate 1656 helped to restore the genre to popularity after the troubles of the Fronde. Although he was more attractive in manner and in conversation than Pierre he lacked Pierre's genius. Still "with Quinault he filled the interval in the history of the French drama between the zenith of Pierre Corneille and the advent of Racine" Harvey and Haseltine. <br/><br/>Although not as important a playwright as his brother Thomas wrote with great facility. He is credited with perfecting the French language as can be evidenced by this translation of Ovid begun shortly after he left school his notes to Claude Favre Vaugelas Remarques su la langue Francais 1647 his compilation of a dictionary of arts and sciences for the Academie Francaise 1694 and his editorship of Mercure galant with Donneau de Vise. <br/><br/>The artist of the two engravings fronting the books is the son of Hermann Weyen or Weyher Laurent Weyen 1643-1672 a Flemish engraver who died in Paris. Laurent also engraved illustrations for the works of Moliere. <br/><br/>Provenance: Goodspeed's Bookshop/Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow. Claude Barin hardcover books
17776329The Hague but Paris: Gosse et Pinet; Humblot 1777. First edition. Fine/The collected works of Restif de la Bretonne would probably fill an entire wall case. He wrote tirelessly producing some 250 books--a considerable physical task if not the intellectual achievement of some of his contemporaries in the French siècle des Lumières. Restif was a libertine and he wrote quite a lot about sex. He also bravely ignored standard literary forms forging his own way into autobiography polemic essay pornography and fiction leaving trails that are yet to be explored. The volumes offered here in their completely original unsophisticated state form a part of an ambitious series of books that appeared over two decades under the umbrella title "Idées singulières" Modest Proposals an extensive compendium of rules and regulations for the creation of a utopia. Each title in the series proposes a reform project for a particular aspect of society. In the case of Les gynographes that aspect is the status of women in society. While not entirely a 21st-century feminist disappointingly he is unable to exceed received patriarchal attitudes Restif makes some presciently modern arguments including that gender inequality is a social construct and is not biologically determined and that education is the key to gender equality. Indeed the text betrays a disconcerting mix of statements that can be interpreted as misogynistic alongside truly revolutionary ideas about the condition of women in society. Even the 19th-century bibliographer P.L. Jacob notes that "some very singular and very original ideas" occur juxtaposed against "severe and unjust comments" about women. . 2 volumes octavo 22; viii 238; 239- 567 1 pages. Unbound untrimmed unmarked and completely unsophisticated copy in original publisher's marbled paper wraps. Pages not bright. Some dampstains and occasional spots. References: Courbin "Rétif et son oeuvre" #14595; Rives Childs XVI p. 245; Jacob XVII p. 143. Gosse et Pinet; Humblot paperback books
1828D2439Paris: Firmin Didot pour Lami Denozan 1828. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 210 x 132mm. viii cxlvi 48pp. notes and glossary. Illustrated with hand-colored engraved title with marginal vignettes of female personifications and muses by Richard Parkes Bonington. Illustrated throughout with 10 half-page lithographs printed on chine-collé carefully hand-colored heightened in gilt and mounted; six are by Richard Parkes Bonington and four are by Henry Monnier and 15 decorative initials highlighted with colors inspired by ornaments found on the Books of Hours printed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. 19th-century full red morocco decoratively tooled in gilt five raised bands gilt doublures marbled endpapers all edges gilt; lightly foxed throughout miniatures remain bright and fresh; spine slightly scuffed. Armorial bookplate of J. Austin Stevens Junior to front pastedown. First Edition of this rare and unusual book OCLC locates only four copies all in German libraries. Férdinand Langlé littérateur dramatist and occasional necromancer focused his literary interests on the nostalgic and the romantic. In 1828 he edited Les Contes du Gay-Sçavoir a witty collection of medieval ballads and fables. The text is printed in Gothic characters and illustrated to imitate the style of medieval manuscript illumination; it is followed by endnotes and a glossary printed in Roman type. The major illustrator of the work Richard Parkes Bonington was an English Romantic landscape painter who also worked in lithography. He was a close and admired friend of painters Eugene Delacroix and Antoine-Jean Gros. Gordon Ray speaking of Bonington says his importance in the development of lithography can hardly be overstated.His designs for Vues pittoresques de lEcosse and Contes des Gay-Sçavoir are by no means negligible. Boningtons career as a lithographer was short but splendid. - Art of the French illus. book pp. 173 & 176. Fine fresh and bright rare colored copy of this nostalgic work on the medieval period. Brunet III 819; Carteret III p. 172 livre tres rare; Curtis 54-60; Ray 114 <br/><br/> Firmin Didot pour Lami Denozan hardcover books
198415311Washington DC: International Monetary Fund 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Very good in like jacket. Mild wear. Else clean bright and sound throughout. Uncommon in jacket and in this condition. <br/><br/>Second volume only of the series. 947pp. with index. International Monetary Fund hardcover books
176626741Paris: La Compagnie des Libraires Associés 1766. Octavo. 1f. title 3 preface 4 named cast list 5-34 pp. With decorative woodcut head- and tailpieces to pp. 5 and 33.<br/><br/>Disbound. Very light foxing and mottled browning title and p. 34. Rare. Not in Sonneck. Worldcat 3 copies only at Cornell Southern Methodist University and the National Library of Australia. This edition contains the one-page preface which appeared in the 1765 edition published by Duchesne.<br/><br/>Le petit-maître was first performed at the Comédie-Italienne in Paris on October 7 1865. "The opera which exposed the morals of 18th-century society was performed 12 times in the first month and was praised by the Mercure de France for being in the French taste." Barry S. Brook et. al. in Grove Music Online. La Compagnie des Libraires Associés unknown books
194871744Paris: Les Editions du Mouflon 1948. Wraps. Very good/Very good. Limited Edition one of 15 suites on Verge Diarches paper with two suites of plates by Jacques Touchet one in color and the other in black and white. This is exemplaire 19. The original drawing is not present. Extraordinarily prolific Restif 1734-1806 was a rival of the Marquis de Sade and is perhaps best known for the term named after him: retifism or shoe fetishism. In 1775 he published Le Paysan perverti an erotic novel with a moral purpose which was quite successful causing him to follow it with La Paysanne Pervertie 1784. Tall octavo: 189 p. The gatherings are bound together in the folded dust jacket over paper wrappers. A few short closed tears; otherwise very good. Les Editions du Mouflon unknown books
194042146Newark NJ: L'Adunata dei Refrattari 1940. 28p. staplebound pamphlet very good. Quaderno no. 2. The anarchist poet and journalist author associated with the Futurist movement had arrived in the United States in 1938. L'Adunata dei Refrattari unknown books
194241548Newark NJ: L'Adunata dei Refrattari 1942. 28p. staplebound pamphlet very good. Quaderno no. 3. The anarchist poet and journalist author associated with the Futurist movement had arrived in the United States in 1938. L'Adunata dei Refrattari unknown books
187828959Boston: Frank Wood Printer 1878. 34pp plus portrait frontis and original tissue guard of John Everitt who "sailed for Valparaiso from New York.to be associated with the General Superintendent at the Mines"; and large Bird's-Eye View 32" x 16" and Topographical Plan of the mines. Original printed wrappers stitched. Wrappers chipped at edges and reinforced at the spine with tape. Some chipping to several blank margins. Good.<br/><br/> The Company based in New York issued this Prospectus which includes a detailed report from its Mining Engineer W.A. Holcomb. Flagler its President was a major capitalist during the last half of the 19th century; he formed the National Tube Company and owned one of the predecessors to U.S. Steel. <br/>OCLC 1013744777 1- U IL as of November 2020. Frank Wood, Printer unknown books
1750002388Venezia: Giammaria Lazaroni e Domenico Tabacco 1750. Pebbled Half Cloth Faux Leather over Paper Pastedown on Boards. Good Minus. 8vo. 20 568 pp. With fifteen woodcut plates with frontis one for each canto of the Aenied and one for the Bucolica and Georgica respectively. Some soiling throughout. All leaves of the Bucolica and a few of the Georgica have severe wormholing in the lower corner with only trivial touching of text. A few other leaves have corners overtrimmed or with loss. Still an uncommon edition with only three copies located on OCLC. <br /><br /> Giammaria Lazaroni, e Domenico Tabacco hardcover books
1879S9704Dobeln:: J. B. Thallwig 1879. 1879. Series: Zehunter Bericht uber die Konigliche Realschule I. Ordnung und Landwirthschaftslchule . . . April 1879. Sm. 4to. xv 34 pp. Self-wraps. Rare. See: Verein Bayerischer Philologen Blatter fur das bayerische Gymnasialschulwesen 1880 vol. 16. p. 380. Bibliotheca historico naturalis et physico-chemica: oder . . . Volumes 13-15 1877 p. 106. J. B. Thallwig, 1879. paperback books
199366842Pusan Korea: World Kuk Sool Association 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Founded in 1961 Ku Sool Won attempts "to integrate and explore the entire spectrum of established traditional Korean martial arts body conditioning techniques mental development and weapons training." Signed and dated by the author below his portrait. Quarto. Original black cloth binding with gilt stamping and a ribbon marker. Some minor staining to the fore-edge with a bit of light wear to the corners and tips; otherwise very good. World Kuk Sool Association hardcover books
197383986Moskva: Izd-vo "Nauka" Glavnaia. red. vostochnoi lit-ry 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. 623p. Original black cloth. 22cm. Russian text; English summary at pages 621-623. Translated into Russian by L. A. Khanlarian. <br/><br/> Izd-vo "Nauka," Glavnaia. red. vostochnoi lit-ry hardcover books
191263285London: Philip Lee Warner Publisher to the Medici Society 1912. half-cloth over boards. Riccardi Press. 8vo. half-cloth over boards. 30 6 pages. Limited to 530 numbered copies. The first book printed in Riccardi 11-point face. Tompkinson p.150. The Riccardi Press Booklets No.1.Spine age darkened. and rubbed along edges. Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society unknown books
7009Numerous fine woodcut illus. 18 of which are finely hand-colored. 48 irregularly paginated; 33; 39; 26; 28 folding leaves 5 folding leaves of ads. Five vols. 8vo orig. blue wrappers wrappers a bit worn occasional minor worming touching text orig. block-printed title label on covers new stitching. Tokyo: Mankyudo Hanabusa Heikichi Preface dated 1810. First edition of one of the three most important early Japanese books on the history and technique of Chinese and Japanese acupuncture. This work is very different from all earlier Chinese and Japanese books on the subject. For the first time the illustrations are finely and realistically rendered and are anatomically accurate clearly influenced by European medical works that had circulated in Japan. Another important aspect of this book is the 18 woodcuts each depicting organs of the body that are finely hand-colored. Also the body is described in full from head to foot and not entirely dependent on the fourteen meridians. Kosaka was a court physician of the fiefdom of Kameyama and had studied under the famous physician Motonori Taki 1731-1801 who was a member of a distinguished family of doctors. The publisher of this work was the exclusive publisher for the government-sponsored medical school. Fine set. unknown books
7008Twelve full-page woodcuts & numerous woodcuts in the text. 36 folding leaves. Two parts in one vol. 8vo orig. blue wrappers wrappers rubbed & somewhat wormed orig. block-printed title label on upper cover no longer present modern stitching. "Ichijo-dori" a street in Kyoto: Tomikura Tahei 1690. First edition of this early and rare book providing prescriptions for treatments in the different stages of tuberculosis. The author describes ten drugs made from vegetables that give miraculous results in treating the disease. The second part entitled "Mujo Gengen santen shinden gyokudo shoshi chiden shirochu soho" describes the parasitic worms said to grow in the stomach and intestinal system of patients suffering from tuberculosis. The text illustrations depict many of these parasites. The text is Chinese with Japanese reading marks presumably compiled in the 14th century by Ge 1305-53 a Yuan dynasty physician and writer. He came from a family of hereditary physicians and wrote a number of books. The Japanese reading marks have been provided by Shuhaku Asai 1643-1705 who was a fellow student with Ippo Okamoto of the prominent doctor Sanpaku Ajioka. There are substantial sections on acupuncture and moxibustion several of the full-page woodcuts depict pressure points. Very good copy. Minor marginal worming towards end. unknown books
193319997Madrid: Editorial Fenix 1933. Second Spanish Edition. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers lightly worn at extremities; faint vertical crease to front cover; Very Good. Spanish-language edition of Gold's classic portrayal of Jewish life in Manhattan's Lower East Side. First published in the US in 1929; the first Spanish edition followed in 1930 Madrid: Cenit; the current edition is uncommon with fewer than 5 holdings in North America according to WorldCat. Editorial Fenix unknown books
1906134811Cleveland OH: Arthur H. Clark Company 1906. Hardcover. good ex-library with expected marks plus perforation stamp on half title title page and facsimile title. front hinge loose. wear to exterior including fraying to cloth at spine ends. Burgundy library buckram. 311 pp advertisements. Reprint of Palmer's Journal of Travels 1847 with new preface. Arthur H. Clark Company hardcover books
6006Numerous fine woodcut illus. 18 of which are finely handcolored. 48 irregularly paginated; 33; 39; 26; 28 3 folding leaves. Five vols. 8vo orig. wrappers some worming in upper margin of each vol. orig. block printed title label on each upper cover new stitching. Tokyo: Mankyudo Hanabusa Heikichi Preface dated 1810. First edition of one of the three most important early Japanese books on the history and technique of Chinese and Japanese acupuncture. This work is very different from all earlier Chinese and Japanese books on the subject. For the first time the illustrations are finely and realistically rendered and are anatomically accurate clearly influenced by European medical works which had circulated in Japan. Another important aspect of this book is that eighteen of the woodcuts each depicting organs of the body are finely handcolored. Also the body is described in full from head to foot and is not entirely dependent on the fourteen meridians. Kosaka was a court physician of the fiefdom of Kameyama who had studied under the famous physician Motonori Taki 1731-1801 who was himself a member of a distinguished family of doctors. The publisher of this work was the exclusive publisher for the government sponsored medical school. Very good set. unknown books
1961114804New York: Midwood Books No. F-96 1961. Vintage paperback. First printing of this edition. Very Good plus condition. Spine slightly cocked and faded light rubbing overall date stamp to the top page edges. A very presentable copy of an important book written during the 1920s from the underside of the Jazz Age. Gold whose real name was Irwin Granich also wrote for "The Liberator" a radical magazine. The first edition was published in 1930 and is exceptionally scarce the dust jacket close to impossible. Midwood Books No. F-96 unknown books
1935144630New York: Horace Liveright 1935. Fifteenth printing published in 1935. In the uncommon dust jacket.<br/><br/>An important book originally published in 1930 from the underside of the Jazz Age and anticipating the socialist and labor-oriented fiction of the Depression. Gold whose real name was Irwin Granich also wrote for the radical magazine "The Liberator." <br/><br/>Small contemporary owner name dated 1938 on the half title page else Near Fine in a Good to Very Good and very bright dust jacket with separation along the front flap fold and a few triangular chips to the top edge see images with listing. Horace Liveright unknown books
194241118New York: International Publishers 1942. Reprint. Octavo 19.5cm; orange cloth with titles stamped in black on spine; 123091pp; illus. Previous owners name to front endpaper spine sunned corners tapped with extensive underlining throughout text in graphite and colored pencil; Good. Wartime reprint of Gold's classic proletarian novel set in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the Teens and Twenties. HANNA 1442. RIDEOUT p.295. International Publishers unknown books
