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188145183Flumine Januario / Rio de Janeiro: Typ. Economica 1881. First complete edition. Half black morocco over marbled boards gilt spine title. A very good copy boards rubbed repaired tear and closed tear on Volume V half title and title page. xii vii 467 1 pp. 4to. Published in and taking up the entire volume of Archivos do Museu Nacional do Rio De Janeiro. Volume V. 1880 1881. Added title page: Petro nomine ac imperio primo Brasiliensis imperii perpetuo defensore . jubente Flora fluminensis a' fr. Josepho Mariano a Conceptione Vellozo Ordinis monorum collecta descripta et elaborata anno M.D. CC. XC. Ex M.S. cod. Imperialis bibliothecæ eruta nunc primo etitur. Flumine Januario A.D.M. DCCC. XXV imperii IV. José Xavier Veloso 1742-1811 born in what is now Minas Gerais Brazil was ordained in 1766 in the convent of St. Anthony in Rio de Janeiro where he studied philosophy and theology later geometry in San Paulo and finally natural history. He collected plants animals and minerals in the Rio de Janeiro area from 1783 to 1790 at which time he moved to Lisbon where he worked at the Royal Academy of Sciences while preparing Florae Fluminensis his greatest work for publication. Using the Linnaeus' system of sexual classification of plants he prepared very highly detailed texts and 1700 prints many of them of new species. But the publication of the work was beset by problems. First sent to Venice the plates were never completed. Later the French invasion of the Iberian peninsular sent the Portuguese government then Veloso and his manuscripts into exile in Brazil where he died in 1811. In 1825 an abbreviated version of the text was published followed by the eleven volumes of the Icones in 1827 of which few copies survive. The complete text was not published until this edition in 1881. Bound with and proceeded by Archivos do Museu Nacional do Rio De Janeiro. Volume IV. 1879. Rio 1881. viii 151 1 pp vii plates. Folded color plate split at fold. Volume subtitle: Insectologia. Includes Müller Fritz: A metamorphose de um insecto diptero among other works. Rodrigues 2473. Sabin 98833n. For the shorter version of 1825 see: Barba de Moraes II p. 343. Pritzel 468. Jackson 377. Innocencio V.5 4258; V.13 p.122. Also see Nissen BBI 2046. Typ. Economica hardcover books
87705Paperback. Good. Condition varies but all are sound. Rust stains from staples or proximity to staples on adjacent items. <br/><br/> paperback books
192061861On a lake in northern New England 1920. Photographs. Small snapshots 3 x 4 1/2 inches nice images. The vintage outboard motor being used is especially interesting. Very good. 8871. <br/><br/> unknown books
1963C1354Program for the First Piatigorsky Cup: International Grandmaster Chess Tournament July 2 to 27 1963 48 pages with photographs including photographs of the contestants table and diagrams. Octavo 8 1/2" x 4 1/2" bound in original publisher's spiral binding in blue felt wrappers with black and silver Piatigorsky Cup stamped to cover. Included nine first day tickets for the cup. Signed or inscribed by all the contestants to Mrs Piatigorsky. <br /><br />The Piatigorsky Cup was a triennial series of double round-robin grandsmaster chess tournaments held in the United States in the 1960's. Sponsored by the Piatigorsky foundation only two events were held in 1963 and 1966. the Piatigorsky Cups were the strongest U S Chess tournaments since New York 1927. Jacqueline Piatigorsky was married to cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. One of the strongest woman chess players in the U S and a regular competitor in the U S Women's Chess Championship she designed the cup and was the primary organizer of the tournaments. The prize funds were among the largest of any chess tournament up to that time. Every player was guaranteed a prize and all traveling and living expenses were paid. The First Piatigorsky Cup was held in the Ambassador Hotel Los Angeles in July 1963. The tournament field of eight included players from five countries. the soviet representatives Paul Keres and World Champion Tigran Petrosian finished equal first to share the cup with a score of 8 1/2/14 receiving more than half of the $10000 prize fund $3000 for first. Keres won most of the games in the tournament six but lost twice to Samuel Reshevsky. The Cup was Petrosian's first tournament since winning the 1963 World Championship match with Mikhail Botvinnik and was one of two first prizes he shared in his six-year reign as champion. He was the first reigning champion to play in an American tournament since Alexander Alekhine at Pasadena 1932. After losing the second round to Svetozar Gligoric Petrosian was never in danger the rest of the tournament. The remainder of the tournament field included to Americans Reshevsky and Pal Benko two Argentinians Oscar Panno and Miguel Najdorf and two Europeans Gligoric Yugoslavia and Frank Olafsson Iceland. U S Champion Bobby Fischer decline an invitation after his demand for $2000 appearance fee was refused by the tournament organizers. Gligoric led halfway through the tournament with 4 1/2/7 but scored only three draws in the last seven games and finished fifth behind Najdorf and Olafsson. Petrosian finished the strongest with 5/7 in the second half. Before the last round Petrosian led with 8 points followed by Keres with 7½ and Najdorf and Ólafsson with 7. Both Petrosian and Keres had Black in the final round. Petrosian drew his game against Reshevsky but Keres beat Gligorić to result in a tie for first place with 8½ points each.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b> Edges sunned inscriptions to front end paper and title else spiral spine cracked else very good. Piatigorsky Cup Committee paperback books
196391455NY:: Dial Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. B000O6G2UW . Contributions by James Baldwin Saul Bellow Arthur Miller William Styron and Gore Vidal among others. First edition. Very good in a good edge worn with a few chips long closed edge tear on front panel dust jacket. . Dial Press, hardcover books
1968179223Ocean Beach: Fire Island News 1968. Newspaper. 20p. folded tabloid newspaper photographs articles reviews and advertisements toning and creasing from fold otherwise good. Fire Island News unknown books
310997-3/4" x 5-3/8" 200 x 137 mm. <br/><br/>Worn and somewhat silvered; some cracking to upper and outer margins; laid down to card stock. Gudenian was "one of the most original. virtuosos of the violin of the first half of the 20th century. His works include a rich variety of popular songs dances religious melodies and poetic pieces. for violin with accompaniment of piano or Oriental instruments." Viquipèdia. unknown books
1957WRCLIT80628New York: New Directions 1957. vii248pp. Pictorial wrappers. Foreword by James Laughlin. First edition a paperback original. Textblock uniformly tanned a few dust flecks to edges and rear wrapper otherwise a good copy. HARRISON NEWTH & CANDIDO p. 42. New Directions paperback books
1959WRCLIT32083Garden City: Doubleday 1959. Cloth. First edition. Top edge a bit dusty else very good in a lightly rubbed dust jacket. Baldwin Bellow Cheever Connell Malamud O'Connor Powers Swados et al. A significant selection. Doubleday hardcover books
19569257Pasadena California: Pasadena Art Museum 1956. Softcover. VG slight soiling. Grey wraps. 32 pp. 24 bw plates. Includes an introduction about the collection and how the title "The Blue Four" was chosen the large plates artist biographies and the catalogue of the collection. Pasadena Art Museum paperback books
196618177New York: Random House 1966. First edition 8vo. spine soiled; near fine. <br/><br/> Random House unknown books
19662355NY: Random House 1966. First Edition. Fine in dj. Lepper p. 216. Random House unknown books
419871New York: Arbor House 1966. Softcover. Near Fine. First Arbor printing. Trade paperback. Spine lightly sunned near fine. Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife Elena by the author on the title page. "Arbor House Library of Contemporary Americana." "His famous novel of an immigrant Jewish American. Arbor House unknown books
1969List911Chicago 1969. 21 1/4 x 29 1/4 inches. Some light toning and edgewear near fine condition overall. The first example of this poster we have encountered which shows Judge Julius Hoffman Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and President Richard Nixon. We find no other records and can only assume it was produced in the same era as the previous offering as it bears the same address of 28 E. Jackson. unknown books
19711319634New York: Basic Books Inc. Publishers 1971. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 297; VG/G; dark blue spine with light green text; dust jacket has slight wear to exterior; modest wear to edges; cloth has mild sunning to exterior; strong boards; text block shows slight shelf wear to exterior edges; interior clean; illustrated;. 1319634. FP New Rockville Stock. Basic Books, Inc., Publishers hardcover books
15984716Cologne: In Officina Birckmannica 1598. 12mo. 725895pp. 17th cent. vellum soiled. Two paper labels on spine. Popular handbook edition of this often reprinted work of religious instruction containing meditations for the seven days of the week. It first appeared in 1554 in Salamanca under the title LIBRO DE LA ORACION Y MEDITACION. The first Latin edition appeared in Cologne in 1586. Not in Adams or BL German STC. VD16 #L3244. Palau 107537. In Officina Birckmannica hardcover books
197511626Vancouver: Talonbooks 1975. First edition. 69 pp. Very good plus in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Vancouver: Talonbooks paperback books
19756431Vancouver: Talonbooks 1975. First edition. 69 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Briefly INSCRIBED by Gold. Vancouver: Talonbooks paperback 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
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
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
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
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
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
