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6277Paris: Allardum Julianum 1573. Good . 8vo. 2 parts in 1. 815436;1012014. Indices. With the final blank. Each part with its own title page each with a large woodcut device. BOUND WITH; Sigonio Carlo. ORATIONES. Paris: Allardum Julianum. 1573. ff.591. With the final blank. Title with woodcut device. Both works bound in cont. brown paneled calf with gilt tooling including a small central ornament on both covers. Bottom of spine with an old neat repair top of spine with a small chip. A few minor worm pinholes. An attractive copy overall. I. A study of Roman law and the history of Italian law which first appeared in 1560. Adams S1098. II. 7 scholarly "orations" on history linguistics etc. The first edition is 1560. Not in Adams. Allardum Julianum unknown books
200778415Seattle:: University of Washington Press. Fine. 2007. Paperback. 0295986824 . First paperback printing. Fine in illustrated wraps. ; 220 pages . University of Washington Press, paperback books
1924300696<p>Tall octavo. Over 500 b/w illustrations. 172 pages original stiff color pictorial wrappers small chip lower right corner; small nibble to bottom edge of several pages. Good. Includes: flatware scent bottles watches jewelry fountain pens leather goods stationery silver belt buckles cuff links bookends.</p> Daniel Low & Company, Inc. paperback books
1902WRCAM49612New York: D. Appleton & Company 1902. 257pp. plus advertisements. Green publisher's cloth stamped in red spine gilt. Light wear to cloth. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Internally very clean. Very good plus. A biography of American explorer and pioneer Daniel Boone. Boone's ancestors and childhood are examined followed by an intimate look at the periods he spent living alone in the woods. Includes chapters on the settlement of Kentucky and interactions with Indians. D. Appleton & Company hardcover books
1902157386New York: Appleton 1902. First Edition. hardcover. illus. xv 257pp. ads. 12mo cloth; light dampstain to margins of first few pages back cover lightly spotted otherwise very good. N.Y.: Appleton 1902.<br/><br/> Appleton unknown books
6775Eight columns per page 17 characters per column. Three sizes of type. 42; 41; 38; 40 folding leaves. Four vols. Large 8vo 280 x 195 mm. orig. dark wrappers dyed with persimmon juice shibubiki new stitching. Enryakuji Temple Mount Hiei: mid-Kan'ei ca. 1626-30. An unrecorded moveable type edition of the commentary and subcommentary of Zongmi 780-841 on the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment. This is a rare example of an Eizan-ban a book printed with moveable type at the temples on Mount Hiei outside of Kyoto where Enryakuji Temple one of the most important monasteries of Japan and the headquarters of the Tendai sect of Japanese Buddhism is located. Printing began there in the 13th century. "There were few of these printed books in the medieval period perhaps due to the dominance of Kyoto itself as a printing centre.Eizan printing came into its own on a large scale only from the end of the sixteenth century with the introduction of movable-type printing. Typographic printing flourished at various temples on Hieizan from the Keicho to Kan'ei periods 1596-1644 and with the publication of Chinese works as well as Tendai scriptures publication and distribution at Hieizan began to develop into the beginnings of a commercial enterprise."-K.B. Gardner "Centres of Printing in Medieval Japan: Late Heian to Early Edo Period" reprinted in Brokaw & Kornicki eds. The History of the Book in East Asia 2013 p. 450. The writings of Dushun 557-640 Zhiyan 602-68 Fazang 643-712 and Zongmi are considered by many as the "crowning glory of Chinese thought. marking the maturation of a process by which the Chinese made Buddhism their own."-Bowring The Religious Traditions of Japan 500-1600 p. 104. Zongmi was a Tang dynasty Buddhist scholar monk; he was the fifth patriarch of the Huayan school as well as a patriarch of the Heze lineage of Southern Chan. The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment was the scripture that led Zongmi to enlightenment in 808; he resolved to prepare a commentary and subcommentary on the text which he accomplished fifteen years later. As stated above this moveable type edition is unrecorded. Kawase in his bibliography of Japanese moveable type editions records another printing of this text dated 1626 but with ten columns per page and 20 characters per column Vol. I p. 304. Sorimachi in his amazing 40th anniversary catalogue of moveable type books issued in 1972 describes what appears to be yet another moveable type printing of this text with the same number of columns and characters as the Kawase example but using three different sizes of type they might be the same printing. It is described as four parts in two volumes in their original bindings printed in mid-Kan'ei ca. 1630 and with a slightly different title. The NIJL records no moveable type editions and only the woodblock-printed Seihan edition of 1644. On the printed title-labels of the second and fourth volume covers the title is given as Engaku ryakusho chu. The labels on Vols. I and III are no longer present. As mentioned above the wrappers have been dyed with persimmon juice which serves a dual purpose: to strengthen the paper and act as an insect repellent. Nevertheless the wrappers are somewhat wormed. Each volume has some worming but this set is in rather fresh and appealing condition. unknown books
670514; 13 folding leaves. Two parts in one vol. Large 8vo cont. or later dark wrappers dyed with persimmon juice shibubiki new stitching. Japan probably Kyoto: printed with moveable types ca. 1615-40. A very rare edition printed with moveable types apparently unrecorded in the standard bibliographies of the story - or legend - of the creation of the first statue of Siddhartha Gautama or Gautama Buddha the founder of Buddhism. The statue executed while Buddha was still alive was commissioned by King Udayana of Kaushambi a contemporary of Buddha. It was the very first image of Buddha and is especially important as it was carved from life. Copies of this statue made their way to China with the spread of Buddhism and later as we shall see to Japan. The text provides a history of the creation of the first statue of Buddha which is perhaps the most famous of all Buddha images. King Udayana commissioned the statue "so that he could gaze upon the sacred form of the Buddha while the latter was off preaching to his mother in the heaven of Indra. Buddha's disciple Maudgalyayana transported thirty-two craftsmen up to the heavenly realm so that they could observe the special marks of the Buddha firsthand thereby insuring the representational accuracy of the image they created. When the Buddha eventually returned to the earth King Udayana's statue rose into the air to greet him of its own accord and the Buddha proclaimed that it would one day help to transmit his teachings."-Brown ed. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts p. 371. We learn that the statue was carved out of sandalwood and that later copies were made of gold silver bronze lead tin or iron as well as of wood. This text was translated by the Khotanese monk Tiyunbanruo d. 691 or 692 whose original Sanskrit name was Devendraprajna. Khotan was an ancient Iranian Saka Buddhist kingdom on the branch of the Silk Road that ran along the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert near modern-day Xinjiang. Tiyunbanruo came to Luoyang the "Eastern Capital" of the Tang dynasty of China in about 688 with a considerable reputation as a Buddhist missionary and set up a bureau to translate Buddhist texts into Chinese. An earlier edition of this text was published in Beijing in 1593 and only one copy is known at the BnF. This book was probably printed and issued as a way to reinforce the legitimacy of the famous Buddha statue of the temple of Seiryoji in the Saga fields of Kyoto. It is one of the chief objects of religious veneration in Kyoto. A copy of the original statue also commissioned by King Udayana was brought from the castle at Kaushambi in north-central India to China by Hsuan-tsang in 645. The statue moved many times and ultimately arrived at Kaifeng the Sung capital. The Japanese monk Chonen 938-1016 who spent the years 983-86 in China studying and collecting texts had worshiped the statue in Kaifeng and commissioned men in 984 to carve a copy to bring back to Japan. The copy was ultimately installed at Seiryoji and according to Japanese tradition the Chinese "original" and Chonen's copy had miraculously changed places - the Seiryoji Buddha was actually the authentic example commissioned by Udayana. The Seiryoji Buddha is "probably the most important best-documented and best-preserved sculpture now existing which represents the school and tradition of Buddhist sculpture connected with the sacred Udayana image of the living Buddha of which Hsuan-tsang brought a copy to the court at Ch'ang-an."-Henderson & Hurvitz "The Buddha of Seiryoji: New Finds and New Theory" Artibus Asiae Vol. 19 No. 1 1956 p. 43-and see the whole fascinating article. As mentioned above this rare work is printed with moveable types. It was at one time owned by the great Japanese dealer Shigeo Sorimachi. The chitsu has the characteristic handwriting on the label of Sorimachi's assistant Mr. Mori who has written: "Zozo kudoku kyo. Genna kan'ei chu kan. Kokatsu ban" "Creation of the Statue a Pious Act. From Genna to mid-Kan'ei edition ca. 1615-40. Moveable type". It is not cited by Kazuma Kawase Kokatsuji-ban no kenkyu Study of the Early Typographic Editions of Japan 1967 the definitive bibliography of Japanese moveable type books. There is no copy in WorldCat nor the Union Catalogue of Early Japanese Books. In very good condition. The first ten folding leaves which are a little stained have some repaired worming and strengthening. The following leaves have some worming some carefully repaired and others as the worming lessens not repaired. Several characters affected by the worming. As mentioned above the wrappers have been dyed with persimmon juice which serves a dual purpose: to strengthen the paper and act as an insect repellent. ❧ Wang Zhenping "Chonen's Pilgrimage to China 983-986" Asia Major Third Series Vol. 7 No. 2 1994 pp. 63-97. Martha L. Carter The Mystery of the Udayana Buddha Naples: 1990. unknown books
15439601Paris: Joannis Boulle 1543. Full calf. Very good. 8vo. ff.82394. 20th century tan calf with red morocco spine label over modern boards. The first 4 leaves have an old round embossed stamp of a seminary in Granby Mass. Title page also with an inked Catholic stamp of some order otherwise a nice clean copy. This work has been falsely attributed to Saint Thomas Aquinas. Apparently the author/editor is Nicolaus de Gorra or spelled Nicolas de Corran. Adams B1852. Joannis Boulle unknown books
15966042Frankfurt: Andreae Wecheli Heredes Claudium Marnium & Joann. Aubrum 1596. 4to. 2 volumes in 1. 16464;5502pp. Indices. Woodcut device of Wechel on both titles and verso of final leaf otherwise blank. In this copy all of the devices have been hand colored old coloring. Old plain vellum somewhat worn. Title and text with some old moderate water stains. Free endpapers lacking. Not a particularly attractive copy but quite useable. Later 16th century edition of Horace edited by the great scholar Dionysius Lambinus. Dibdin in his GREEK AND LATIN CLASSIC 4th ed. Vol II p.45 makes reference to two editions printed by Wechel a 1577 folio and our 1596 4to. Andreae Wecheli Heredes, Claudium Marnium & Joann. Aubrum hardcover books
190953246Madison: published by the Wiscon Historical Society 1909. Slim 8vo pp. 5 234-259 1 i.e. 32 pages; portrait frontispiece and 2 illustrations on 1 plate; McCormick centennial slip tipped in at title page; light spotting of covers otherwise near fine in oruiginal cloth-backed paper-covered boards. Originally published in the Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin for 1908. Separately issued by the society on the centenary of McCormick's birth. <br/><br/> published by the [Wiscon Historical] Society hardcover books
2012605012012. with 2011-2012 Pocket Part Supplements. with 2011-2012 Pocket Part Supplements. Criminal Jury Instructions 4th Vols. 5-5A Connecticut Practice Series. David M Borden Leonard Orland David P Gold. Thomson West. Current through 2011-2012 Pocket Part Supplements Issued December 2011. Ex-private law library with stamps on iside front covers and top pages edges else veery good. Publisher's Price USD 346. Special $65. Provides extensive practice manual providing detailed advice on effective communication with jurors in criminal trials including actual instructions from a judge in simple language which serve as models to adapt. Offers author commentaries and up-to-date annotations. Section titles discuss: The Trial Including Pretrial and Midtrial Instructions; Function of Court and Jury; Evidence and Witmesses; The Deliberative Process; Instructions on Criminal Culpability: Conspiracy Attempt Accessories; Defenses; Mens Rea; Instructions for Specific Criminal Offenses: Homicide Assault Sex Offenses Kidnapping; Burglary and Related Offenses; Theft Offenses; Administration of Justice Offenses; and Miscellaneous Offenses. unknown books
1996MM13370New York:: Oxford University Press 1996. 1996. 8vo. xxiii 1 425 1 pp. Tables index. Tan printed cloth dust jacket; jacket rubbed. Ownership signature of Michael Kennedy M.D. Very good. ISBN: 0195108248 MK Oxford University Press, 1996. hardcover books
87270Godl Coast: Government Press Accra n.d. Reprint of the 1920 edition. Paperback. Very Good. 61p. Softcover in light green wrapper which is backed in dark green binder's tape. 32cm. Appears to be an undated later photocopy of the original 1920 edition. <br/><br/> Government Press, Accra paperback books
1863List1004New Hampshire: Printer Unknown 1863. First Edition. Printed broadside 16 ½ x 11 ½ inches archivally mounted and matted. A very good copy with some light toning small closed tear at upper margin light foxing at upper margin very tiny spot of loss to illustration at fold. Franklin Pierce remained politically active upon his return to New Hampshire following his presidency advocating for the Democratic cause and generally opposing the Civil War and Lincoln's policies. This scarce pro-Union anti-slavery broadside printed for the 1863 New Hampshire elections which happened March 12 takes aim at Pierce and his fellow Democrats repeating the unfounded claim first made in 1862 by William Seward that Pierce belonged to the secret Knights of the Golden Circle the secret society formed with the goal of forming a new territory out of the CSA Mexico Central America and the Caribbean. There was never evidence that Pierce had any involvement in the KGC though the society had members in southern parts of some Union states such as Indiana Ohio Illinois and Missouri.<br /> <br /> The broadside printed for the March 12 elections quotes heavily from Pierce as well as the other Democrat candidates and party officials who were either running for office in New Hampshire or involved in politics a group which included Ira Eastman John Goerge Josiah Minot Thomas Treadwell Daniel Marcy William Burns and George Stevens. The broadside includes an engraving of coiled snakes each with these politicians named and the caption "et id omne genus." Eastman the Democratic candidate for governor won the popular vote but lacked the constitutional majority necessary for election. Marcy was successful in his bid for the First District. "Men of New Hampshire!" the broadside asks: "Will you Vote the Ticket Made up by Such Men" with the final line imploring to "Please paste up in a Conspicuous Place." <br /> <br /> Overall an uncommon survival from the 1863 elections. A very good copy with some light toning small closed tear at upper magin light foxing at upper margin very tiny spot of loss to illustration at fold. Quite scarce with OCLC locating two copies only at the Huntington Library and the New York Historical Society. Printer Unknown unknown books
160927318Frankfurt Hanover & Hanover: Apud Andrea Wecheli heredes Claudium Marnium & Joann Aubrium; Parts 2 & 3 Typis Wechelianis apud Claudium Marnium & Heredes Joan. Aubrii 1609. First published 1591-94. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. Three parts in one volume. Vellum. Some soiling and browning of vellum and text ties lacking else a very good copy with bookplate of Alfred Jerome Brown. First published 1591-94. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. This work was ultimately completed in seven parts. <br/> 'The Polish-German physician was the personal physician to both Emperor Ferdinand and Maximilian II in Austria. He wrote several medical works and was a follower of the Galenic school of medicine. He was one of the first to study the contagiousness of certain diseases. "Sixteenth Century Books in the National Library of Medicine" 1077 for the 1591-94 edition; Osler 2387 & 2388 earlier editions Apud Andrea Wecheli heredes, Claudium Marnium & Joann Aubrium; [Parts 2 & 3] Typis Wechelianis, apud Claudium Marnium & Heredes unknown books
2011605132011. with 2011-2012 Supplementary Pamphlet. with 2011-2012 Supplementary Pamphlet. Connecticut Criminal Law Second Edition Vol. 10 Connecticut Practice Series. David M Borden Leonard Orland David P. Gold. Thomson West. 1 Volume. Hardcover. with 2011-2012 Supplement pamphlet Issued December 2011. Ex-private law library with stamps on page edges else like new. Publisher's Price USD 175. Special $75. Covering sentences and sentencing procedure in Connecticut Criminal Law provides the full text of relevant statutory provisions for each criminal offense or other topic. It contains an instructive section on definition and classification comments by the 1971 commission that drafted the Penal Code authors' commentary and reference notes. Topics include: Inchoate offenses; Homicide; Assault; Sex offenses; Kidnapping and related offenses; Criminal trespass; Arson; Criminal mischief and related offenses; Larceny; Burglary and robbery; Forgery; Bribery and offenses against the administration of justice; Riot breach of the peace creating public disturbances disorderly conduct obstructing free passage and harassment; Public indecency; Tampering with private communications and eavesdropping; Bigamy and incest; Coercion; Obscenity and Computer-related offenses. unknown books
15517506Venice: Per Giovanmaria Bonello 1551. First edition thus. Vellum. Very Good. Sm. 8vo. ff.8239. Lacking the final blank leaf. Title page with a large woodcut printer's device with initials Z.M./B.V. at bottom. Cont. vellum a bit soiled a few minor chips ties lacking. Some old soiling including some discoloration to blank fore-edge of a few final leaves. A collection of aphorisms and apothegms selected chiefly from Cicero's correspondence. Per Giovanmaria Bonello hardcover books
1853WRCAM46036Columbia Ca.: Gazette Print 1853. Broadside 10 3/4 x 8 inches. Printed in three columns. A bit of light foxing mostly in margins. Near fine. In a folding cloth clamshell case spine gilt. A rare broadside printing of the laws of the Columbia Mining District in California in 1853 created and enforced by the miners for their own self-government. The seventeen articles all deal with regulations for mining and claims. The first nine set out rules for making and operating claims. The next three address foreign ownership of claims. Article 10: "None but Americans and Europeans who have or shall declare their intentions of becoming citizens shall hold claims in this district." Article 11: "Neither Asiatics nor South Sea Islanders shall be allowed to mine in this district either for themselves or for others." Article 12 sets out a punishment for any miner who sells a claim to an Asian or a Polynesian. The final five articles set out rules for enforcing the laws including the creation of a Miners Committee and a system of binding arbitration. According to the text the laws were adopted "at a meeting of the Miners of the Columbia Mining District held Oct. 1st 1853." and the laws are signed in print by "C.H. Chamberlain Pres." and "R.A. Robinson Sec'y." <br> <br> "The item is of basic importance.as an example of how the California miners - or men beyond the reach of government anywhere else in our States and Territories for that matter - banded together and enacted and enforced codes of law for their own protection" - Eberstadt. The COLUMBIA GAZETTE which printed this broadside was according to Kemble the second newspaper to operate in Columbia starting operations in the fall of 1852. The first newspaper in the area the COLUMBIA STAR apparently printed only two or three issues in October-November of 1851 before the printing press was destroyed by vandals. <br> <br> Greenwood locates only three copies at the California Historical Society and the Bancroft Library and the Streeter copy which was sold at the Clifford sale in 1994. Rocq lists a copy at the Huntington Library. OCLC adds copies at Yale Library of Congress University of California at San Diego Stanford and DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University. A rare and interesting example of the search for order in the tumult of the gold rush. <br> <br> The Streeter copy sold to Howell for $550 in 1968. It later reappeared in the sale of California collector Henry Clifford in 1994. GREENWOOD 381. ROCQ 15427. EBERSTADT 131:105. STREETER SALE 2735. CLIFFORD SALE 26. OCLC 29876358. Gazette Print hardcover books
38846N.p. New York ca 2003. Handbill 11" x 8-1/2" printed in colors on both sides of a single sheet. Mild edgewear; Near Fine. Recto is a graphic depicting Latin American workers floating face-down in a glass of "Killer Cola." Text on verso attacks Arnold Schwarzenegger and Peter Ueberroth both candidates in the 2003 California gubernatorial campaign for their affiliations with the Coca Cola Corporation. Accuses Coca Cola of using murder and intimidation to suppress labor organizing activities in Latin America and of poisoning Indian water supplies with insecticides; also states that ".Coke's aggressive marketing of nutritionally worthless and damaging products to children through tie-ins with schools and Harry Potter movies hasencouraged the obesity and diabetes epidemics. unknown books
181210794Vienna: Maria Geisler 1812. Contemporary light green glazed paper boards with a ropework roll for an outer frame ochre endleaves gilt-ruled flat spine hinges rubbed gilt-lettered red paper label all edges gilt. The Austro-Hungarian capital in your pocket - her only view book. The prints include theaters opera houses the Imperial Riding School gardens parade grounds a swim club an obelisk coffee houses porcelain and weapons factories hospitals painting galleries the bustling Danube christoph de bac's famous hexadecagon circus building etc. The publisher's address 1200 Graben dates the suite. I have not located a set outside Austria. Individual prints were and are offered for sale. In good condition; two double-page views were likely issued later and are not present here. Two plates have been neatly mounted at the time of issue on the paper stock of the edition nos. 89 and 99. All but two views are in their first or only state.¶Nebehay & Wagner Bibliographie altösterreichischer Ansichtenwerke 193. Maria Geisler unknown books
6761Finely engraved added title & numerous woodcut diagrams & printed tables in the text. Printed title in red & black. 9 p.l. incl. engraved title 323 184 pp. Two parts in one vol. Large 4to cont. vellum over boards covers nicely decorated with coats-of-arms in gilt & silver now oxidized on each cover a.e.g. ties gone. Hamburg: Frobenius 1634. First edition of this handsome and rare work on trigonometry by a student of Tycho Brahe. Frobenius 1566-1645 after studying in Tübingen and Wittenberg went in 1591 to the island of Hven where he intended to live and study with Tycho Brahe. Upon leaving he wrote a recently discovered memorandum see John Robert Christianson's On Tycho's Island. Tycho Brahe and His Assistants 1570-1601 which is full of "critical insight" on Tycho and his relationships with his students and assistants. Later Frobenius moved to Hamburg where he married well and became a leading printer publisher and bookseller of that city specializing in learned and scientific works. He wrote and self-published a number of works - like this one - a number of works on trigonometry astronomy and philology. The first part of the present book is devoted to spherical trigonometry as applied to astronomy and the text contains many references to Brahe and Longomontanus. The second part includes the famous trigonometric tables of Rheticus which first appeared in 1596. A very fine and large copy with the Nordkirchen bookplate. The attractive engraved title-page present here is usually missing ❧ Poggendorff I 809. Tomash & Williams F101. hardcover books
199219007NY: Hyperion. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 1562829866 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Hyperion hardcover books
1992UGOLCLA00DPEHyperion 1992. Fine. Gold Alison Leslie. Clairvoyant : The Imagined Life of Lucia Joyce. NY: Hyperion 1992. 1st ed. 158pp. 8vo. 1/4 Cloth. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. Hyperion hardcover books
1992WRCLIT78412New York: Hyperion 1992. Cloth and boards. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. 'Imagined' being the key word. Hyperion hardcover books
19129016606Wisconsin Historical Commission 1912. Wisconsin History Commission: Reprints No. 2. One or 2500 copies. <br/><br/> Wisconsin Historical Commission unknown books
