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1842607341842. Two Notable British Trials for Blasphemy And Their Context Trials. Freedom of the Press. The Oracle of Reason: Or Philosophy Vindicated. Volume 1. London: Thomas Paterson 1842. Numbers 1-52 with Supplements to Numbers 6 and 52. Complete. Text in parallel columns. Bound with Holyoake George Jacob 1817-1906 Defendant. The Trial of George Jacob Holyoake On an Indictment for Blasphemy Before Mr. Justice Erskine And a Common Jury At Gloucester August the 15th 1842. From Notes Specially Taken by Mr. Hunt; The Authorities Cited in the Defence Being Quoted at Full Length. London: Printed for "The Anti-Persecution Union" by Thomas Paterson 1842. 68 pp. And Southwell Charles Defendant. Carpenter William Reporter. The Trial of Charles Southwell Editor of "The Oracle of Reason" For Blasphemy. Before Sir Charles Wetherall Recorder of the City of Bristol January the 14th 1842. Specially Reported. London: Hetherington 1842. iv 104 pp. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Stab-stitched pamphlets bound into contemporary cloth gilt title to spine. Some rubbing to extremities with wear to corners and spine ends faint inkstains and dampstaining to boards. Moderate toning to text occasional foxing internally clean. Unique. $1950. After breaking away from Robert Owen's socialist movement Southwell opened a free-thought bookshop in Bristol with William Chilton and John Field in 1841. Holyoake joined him the following year. Southwell and Holyoake went on to establish the Oracle of Reason a periodical devoted to atheism. After a year the authorities had enough of their publication and the two editors were tried for blasphemy. Both were acquitted and their trials stand as landmarks in the history of free speech. In 1851 Holyoake would be the defendant in the last blasphemy trial in Great Britain. Our volume is notable because it combines a complete run of the first year of the Oracle with the two trials it provoked. Publication of the Oracle ceased at the end of 1843. Both trial accounts are scarce individual issues and a complete runs of Volume 1 are rare. unknown books
39353SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS MANUFACTURES AND COMMERCE. TRANSACTIO OF THE SOCIETY. SUPPLEMENTAL VOLUME. London: The Society 1852. 4to. Contemporary half-calf cloth. xxi 492 pages 52 lithographic plates of which 14 chromolithographic 8 tinted and folding errata slip bound in with folding lithographic facsimile. A rare item with only one known copy at Edinburgh University. The Royal Soci for the Encouragement of Arts Manufactures & Commerce was granted a Royal Charter in 1847 and became instrumental in organizing the great 1851 "Crystal Palace" exhibition. The society published their annual transactions from 178 onwards which ended in 1851 with Volume 57. This supplemental volume is extremely rare. Among the articles are Bennet Woodford's Steam Navigation pages 301-440 wit 16 lithographic plates of which 6 tinted. It is a highly illustrated and w researched history from the earliest days up to 1848 based on many a rare source and personal information now lost. The opening article illustrated w 12 chromolighographic plates of mosaics and tiles is by Digby Wyatt and conta some stunning mid-Victorian design. Campton writes on narrow gauge railways steam locomotives; Henry Cole suggests a National Gallery of British Art; Ful examines the production and possible uses of vulcanized India rubber; the Fre pioneer of photography Antoine Francois Jean Claudet examines the progress this technology; and Joseph Cundall elucidates ornament on bookbinding-ancien and modern-illustrated with 6 tinted plates in the appendix. With library la on inside of front board from Hertford Literary and Scientific Institution. Minimally toned or spotted in places; a little worn else very good. unknown books
18954174Geneva NY: Press of W. F. Humphrey 1895. First Edition. Near Fine. Original gold and white publisher's cloth binding with title and decorative motif stamped in blue to the front board. Gentle rubbing to boards but externally pleasing overall. Front hinge cracked and rear starting but both holding well. Contemporary ownership signature of "Edith E. Dunning. Auburn NY" to front endpaper. Some pages bear slight chipping or toning to the edges not affecting text; a clean about Near Fine copy internally with none of the expected signs of kitchen use. Contemporary advertisements throughout. Includes 8 pages of contemporary handwritten recipes and a calling card inserted loosely at the front; notation in pencil to verso of rear endpaper else unmarked. An excellent and research rich copy of this rare charitable cookery book which is currently the only one known on the market. OCLC reports only 5 examples at institutions worldwide. <br/><br/>First and only edition of this charitable women's cookery which was produced "for the instruction of women in Culinary Science" with the goal "not only to increase the fund already in the Treasury which ultimately is to be appropriated for the equipment of that institution but also to contribute a book which shall be of practical use to all house-keepers." Clearly a group of educated women the Board compiling the cook book viewed house-keeping as an occupation that required knowledge and scientific workability. They reveal in the preface that all advice and recipes were researched and vetted to ensure that they created "a work of real merit" and their title page contains an epigram from Ruskin praising women's roles as sorcerers chemists and "loaf-givers." Including a range of recipes from breads and cheeses to chafing dish meals to meats sauces and salads the book also contains advice on different service for lunch and dinner. The recipes' clear and easy to follow instructions suggest its compilers recognized the busy lives of women running homes and that they opted to assist in making domestic cookery straightforward and efficient. Notably the Geneva Hospital which the Woman's Board supported was connected to Geneva Medical College which only 45 years prior had made history by granting an M.D. to Elizabeth Blackwell the first degreed female doctor in the U.S. This connection signals that the women of the organization also hoped to ensure updated equipment and a solid infrastructure for an institution that had welcomed in students of their own sex. <br/><br/>Charitable Cook Books Collection of Helen Evans Brown 197. Near Fine. Press of W. F. Humphrey unknown books
4859FREDERIC THE GREAT OF PRUSSIA 1712-1786. Frederic ascended to the throne in 1740 and promptly started the War of Austrian Succession which he won. In the Seven Years War he defeated France and Austria after the Russians withdrew from the conflict. Domestically Frederic established many legal reforms and religious tolerance. LS. 1pg. 7 ¾†x 9 ½â€. November 11 1760. Meissen Germany. A letter signed “Frederic†addressed to Margrave Henry: “I am delighted to see from your letter dated the 6th of this month that you are taking part in the great victory over my enemies that Providence kindly granted me on the 3rd of this month. I thank you from the bottom of my heart…â€. The Battle of Torgau took place on November 3 1760. During the Seven Years War it pitted Frederic the Great with 44000 men against an Austrian army of 65000 soldier led by Marshal von Daun. In a costly and bloody battle Frederic’s forces emerged victorious. The letter is inlaid and is in very fine condition with dark ink. unknown books
03989: 1875. A Superb Pair of Drawings<br/>In the Early Style of Kate Greenaway<br/><br/>GREENAWAY Kate In the style of. "Happiness" and "Dismay". Two ink drawings initialed and dated 1875.<br/><br/>A pair of two original pen and ink drawings.<br/><br/>Image sizes: 6 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches: 165 x 162 mm. Beautifully matted framed and glazed separately with a cream mat and gray border. Each frame size: 16 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches; 419 x 343 mm.<br/><br/>This pair of very sweet drawings that are full of emotion are most certainly in the early style of Kate Greenaway. One depicts a young girl and boy in a garden by a water pump and large urn. The boy is holding an apple an the girl is offering him a bite of a pie. The other drawing shows the same girl and boy crying as the large urn has shattered into pieces at their feet. <br/><br/>We have been unable to identify the initials but we believe that they were done by a very accomplished mid-Victorian artist. : , 1875 unknown books
1635JC14671Amsterdam: Broer Jansz 1635. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 218 x 162 mm. Pagination: 38 1-400 pp. Signatures: -4; A-Z4; Aa-Zz4; Aaa-Ddd4. Engraved pictorial title of Heraclitus and Democritus and 2 illustrations and 19 circular emblematic engravings partly by Crispijn van de Passe the Younger. Contemporary stamped vellum with central arabesque ornament; some light browning some margins sliced in final quire but present few corners chipped. Rear pastedown with inscription from the library of Van Isaac le Long and dated 1744. Modern armorial bookplate of Bibliotheque I.G. Schorsch on the front pastedown. Dawsons Bookshop label also affixed on rear pastedown. <br/><br/>First edition and scarce variant copy of this classic Dutch poetry and emblem work by Zierikzee native Adriaan Hoffer which Benesch described as .adorned with etchings which in themselves are perfect little works of art although only slightly connected with the text Benesch Rubens to Daumier p. 39. Hoffers work contains poems comprising the authors self-commentary Biblical quotes and notably mentioned the victory of the Spanish silverfleet by Pieter Heyn in 1628 all in verse. Largely written in the vernacular Hoffer supplemented Latin notes to his poetry through ample marginal references. Hoffer was a wealthy man and book collector with many connections in the Zierikzee community. The Nederduytsche Poëmata was his most important work which sought to restrict the interest of natural inquiry to its edifying potential. This edition is notable for its engravings by Crispijn van de Passe the Younger a talented engraver who inherited his fathers style and repertoire and who remains inextricably linked to seventeenth-century Dutch printmaking. Not much else is known about the influence of Hoffers Nederduytsche Poëmata or Dutch Poems but an earlier work of the same title was written by Daniel Heinsius 1580-1655 and published in Amsterdam by Willem Jansson in 1618. Landwehr Dutch Emblem Books 92; Landwehr Low Countries 217; De Vries 161; Praz p. 370 Broer Jansz hardcover books
195838022New York: John Wiley & Sons 1958. First edition of this classic in management science. Octavo original cloth. From the library of Nobel Prize-winning economist John Harsanyi with his signature on the front free endpaper . 'Outside the Carnegie group we should like to acknowledge especially our many hours of fruitful work and discussion with Robert A. Dahl on the subject of influence measurement and the help and guidance that John C. Harsanyi provided for our treatment of the relation between game theory and other theories of conflict' p. vi. 'Simon was attracted to the exciting intellectual environment emerging at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. After moving to Carnegie in 1949 Simon stayed there for more than five decades. At Carnegie Simon collaborated on work that established the field of organization theory. The founding work was a major study done with James G. March published as Organizations. The book continued the argument that decision makers are not able to act in an objectively rational manner; rather they are constrained by both cognitive and external limitations. So instead of assuming that each decision maker scans all possible alternatives and chooses the one that maximizes expected utility Simon argued that decision makers instead use 'satisficing' as a criterion for making decisions; they choose the first alternative that looks 'good enough.' March and Simon wrote in Organizations 'Most human decision making whether individual or organizational is concerned with the discovery and selection of satisfactory alternatives; only in exceptional cases is it concerned with the discovery and selection of optimal alternatives.' . . . One of Simon's insights was that the observed complexity of human behavior arose from simple and general underlying mechanisms that were applied to a complex task environment. Simon illustrated this with his famous metaphor of 'the ant on the beach.' The ant's goal is to reach some distant food. While the ant's path to the food seems very complex twisting and turning most of the apparent complexity is due to the grains of sand to be traversed. The complexity of the environment rather than the complexity of mechanism within the decision maker gives rise to the observed behavior. 'In solving problems' March and Simon wrote 'human thinking is governed by programs that organize myriads of simple information processes - or symbolic manipulating processes if you like - into orderly complex sequences that are responsive to and adaptive to the task environment and the clues that are extracted from that environment as the sequences unfold' ' Mie Augier & Edward Feigenbaum 'Herbert A. Simon: 15 June 1916 - 9 February 2001' Biographical Memoirs Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Vol. 147 No. 2 June 2003 pp. 196-7. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable with a noted provenance. John Wiley & Sons hardcover books
195516089JHollywood CA: Allied Artists Productions Inc 1955. First Edition. Original 163 page temporary shooting script with many color multicolor rewrite pages dated August 18 1955 for the Oscar nominated William Wyler directed film Friendly Persuasion. Bradbound in printed covers. Some rubbing and wear to to front cover internally fine. The final screenplay was written by Michael Wilson although he did not receive an immediate screenwriting credit because he was on the Hollywood blacklist at the time of the film’s release. His credit was finally restored in 1996. Friendly Persuasion was directed by William Wyler principally starring Gary Cooper Dorothy McGuire and Anthony Perkins. The film tells the story of a Quaker family with Gary Cooper as the family patriarch Jess Birdwell set in southern Indiana during the American Civil War and the way the war tests their pacifist beliefs. William Wyler received the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the film was nominated for 6 Oscars; Best Picture Best Director Best Supporting Actor Perkins Best Adapted Screenplay Best Sound Recording and Best Music - Original Song. Anthony Perkins won a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer - Male and it was nominated for Best Actor - Drama Cooper and Best Supporting Actress Marjorie Main. Allied Artists Productions, Inc unknown books
135325Glasgow: Blackie & Son. hardcover. Hill D.O. 11 volumes. Engraved frontispieces title page vignette and other illustrations by D.O. Hill. Small 8vo 3/4 pebbled calf gilt- dec. spines t.e.g. Glasgow: Blackie & Son n.d. ca. 1880.<br/><br/> Blackie & Son unknown books
1769315321Rockingham County NH 1769. 1 p. pen and ink on paper blank on verso. 4.5 x 7.75 inches. Old folds dog-eared corner else fine. 1 p. pen and ink on paper blank on verso. 4.5 x 7.75 inches. A memo written during Bartlett's tenure as justice of the Peace for Rockingham County recording an agreement for the transfer of a deed from Joseph Chandler to Josiah Judkins upon payment of a note. <br/><br/>American physician statesman and jurist Josiah Bartlett 1729-1795 was born in Amesbury in the Province of Massachusetts Bay and moved to the frontier settlement of Kingston in Rockingham County New Hampshire in 1751 where he opened his practice as the county's sole physician. Bartlett was elected to the New Hampshire colonial assembly in 1765 served as colonel of the Rockingham County militia and was appointed justice of the peace. From 1775-1776 and in 1778 and 1788 Barteltt was New Hampshire's delegate to the Continental Congress where as the representative of the northern most colony he was the first delegate to vote for independence from Great Britain. Bartlett was a signer of the Declaration of Independence served on the committee that drafted the Articles of Confederation and helped ratify the Constitution. He later served as a judge in the Court of Common Pleas and despite not being a lawyer was appointed Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court and in 1792 he became New Hampshire's fourth Governor. <br/><br/>Two-hundred years after his death Josiah Bartlett entered the chronicles of American pop culture when despite a difference in the spelling of his last name he became the fictional direct ancestor of "President Josiah Bartlet" a leading character played by actor Martin Sheen in NBC's drama The West Wing. Bartlett is also a character in both the stage and motion picture adaptation of the musical 1776. Photo unknown books
1888244435Leeds: Goodall and Suddick 1888. Large paper issue of the first edition. Chromolithograph frontispiece and 2 other Chromos 64 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 4to 11-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches; 310 x 255 mm. Original crimson cloth gilt over beveled boards with a quote from Izaak Walton in gilt on the upper cover. Small rubbing at corners almost fine. Large paper issue of the first edition. Chromolithograph frontispiece and 2 other Chromos 64 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 4to 11-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches; 310 x 255 mm. Goodall and Suddick unknown books
2011153672011. Spray paint and silkscreen over paper labels and cigarette pack foil collage mounted to poster board. Measuring approximately 24" x 18". SIGNED by the artist and dated to lower right. Numbered 20 from a series of 30 but each essentially unique. <br/><br/> unknown books
184146846Norwich: M. B. Young Print 1841. 1st printing. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning. Tack holes at the corners. Faint fold lines. Very Good. Broadside 13 lines of introductory text at top over 2 columns of text describing the paintings to be exhibited. A job printing announcement with the city lecture location therein day of week and date all in manuscript at top. Price of the lecture 25 cts in mss in the 7th line from the bottom. In the lower margin has been inked "Tickets sold at the Book Store of Mr Bolles Steam Boat Hotel & at the doors". 18" x 12" <br/><br/>"Petra is a historical and archaeological city in southern Jordan. Petra declined rapidly under Roman rule in large part from the revision of sea-based trade routes. In 363 an earthquake destroyed many buildings and crippled the vital water management system. In the 12th century the Crusaders built fortresses but left after a while. As a result Petra was forgotten for the Western world until the 19th century. The first European to describe them the ruins was Swiss traveller Johann Ludwig Burckhardt during his travels in 1812. The Scottish painter David Roberts visited Petra in 1839 and returned to England with sketches ." Wiki In this advertisement "Mr Swift" announces "a course of 2 lectures in the New London Court House in this place commencing Wednesday evening April 14th upon PETRA or The Excavated City". He exclaims that the lecture will be accompanied by "Seventeen large and beautifully executed paintings representing the present condition of these wonderful and justly celebrated cities." The broadside then goes on to describe in detail the subject of each of the 17 paintings. He concludes by asserting "The views exhibited are real Paintings --- not Magic Lantern illusions." No doubt this Mr Smith was riding the coattails of Roberts' sketches. one wonders where today might be found those paintings. And if no longer extant here we document their onetime existence. As an aside it should be noted that Eli Smith had a bit of a brouhaha with one J. S. Buckingham who also published some text on Petra of which Smith felt there were inaccuracies and so published same. The contretemps resulting in Buckingham publishing an 1840 pamphlet documenting the correspondence between the two: PUBLIC ADDRESS DELIVERED BY MR. BUCKINGHAM In DEFENSE Of His LECTURES On PALESTINE AGAINST The CRITICISMS Of The REV. ELI SMITH PUBLISHED ANONYMOUSLY In The NEW YORK OBSERVER In 1839. No copies of this broadside found on OCLC. Rare. M. B. Young, Print unknown books
1861371231861. Each letter 1-4 pp in legible ink manuscript and usually docketed. The supplicants write from Demopolis Marion Montgomery Haynesville the Exchange Hotel Montgomery. Very Good.<br/><br/> Alabama seceded on January 11 1861. Our first letter is dated January 28 from several Demopolis citizens Nathan B. Whitefield Howard Henderson David Taliaferro and A.J. Byard urging the appointment of Colonel George B. Haydon "for Commander of the 3d Division of Alabama Troops." A February 12 letter from Judge Brooks seeks for Jno. Loomis of Coosa "the Post of Captain in the Regular Army. He was a gallant soldier in the Mexican War." The Judge adds a "P.S. It's delightful to have patronage. You enjoy it I know."<br/> Similar letters seek appointment as officers and physicians attached to particular units. One applicant writes "I have been looking very anxiously for a reply but as I supposed you were other-wise engaged; and as I am quite anxious to know the result of such Application I now trouble you for yours. unknown books
1569D11176Venice: Hieronymus Scotum Scotus 1569. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio 315 x 215mm. 2 150pp. 2. Signatures: A-I 8 K4. Io. Grammatici in cartouche at head of title page. Woodcut profile bust of Aristotle on title with dedication Peripateticae Disciplina Principis Vera Aristotelis Stagiritae Effigies. Final leaf with woodcut printers device of Scotus of griffin in animated cartouche head-pieces and initials throughout. Text printed in double columns. Italic and Roman type. Original limp vellum vertically ruled in brown ink to front cover; edges slightly curled minor marginal dampstaining at beginning and end otherwise clean. Near contemporary ownership inscriptions in Latin on front flyleaf mostly faded but name and order of at least two young men Salvatoris and Bartolomei are given. 19th century stamp of the Seminario Vescovile of Volterra on title. The Tuscan Jesuit Seminary dedicated to Saint Andrew employed student novices throughout its history and one would have likely used this copy. Interestingly the seminary is still active today and maintains lodgings for travelers. This copy is further enhanced by a full-page pencil doodle of a mythological composition muses putti and foliate boughs on the rear flyleaf probably completed in the seventeenth century. <br/><br/>The last 1569 Scotus edition of Philoponuss commentary on the Posterior Analytics of Aristotle; an example-laden investigatory explanation on the classification of scientific knowledge Byzantine-era Philoponuss comments on the Posterior Analytics of Aristotle are interesting especially for their metaphysical analysis of the universal idea his account revealed his beliefs in Platonic forms as inherently part of the Divine Intellect. In his further reading of the Posterior Analytics Philoponus aimed to share his understanding of the concept of subordinate sciences which are sciences that can be classified by genus and species. A notion he supported was the idea that some sciences depended on higher ones for some of their principles Philoponus even goes as far to suggest formulating a taxonomy of the sciences. He maintains that philosophy dialectic and all the sciences employ common axioms regarding philosophy in particular it discovers and demonstrates the very principles of every science. Importantly Philoponus decided to take on this work because he thought that Aristotles concepts were too difficult and needed explanation. It was not the first he was indebted to the earlier work of Theophrastus and Galen but Philoponuss work is the earliest to survive. Philoponuss train of thought is frequently obscure and much of the discussion being carried out chooses investigatory examples over blatant argument. He wished to expound the meaning of the Aristotelian text rather than raising objections. It is clear Philoponus engages vigorously with the earlier commentators on the Posterior Analytics thus like most ancient commentaries this one maintains certain importance for the constitution of the text on which it comments. Scotus a prominent Venetian printer and elegant producer of texts was actively publishing a line of these philosophical treatises which were frequently revised and reprinted. The first Latin translation by Theodosius was published in 1539 and was reprinted frequently until 1569. This work remains important to the evolving tradition of early sixteenth century Italian university logic. Rare in North America OCLC lists holdings for this edition only at University of Oklahoma as part of the History of Science Collection. Hieronymus Scotum (Scotus) hardcover books
5113viii 349 pp.; vi misnumbered viii 264 pp. Two vols. 8vo orig. printed wrappers bound in attractive 20th-cent. cloth green leather lettering pieces on spines uncut. Paris: L. Potier & M. Defer; London: Barthès & Lowell 1852. bound with: -. Catalogue de Livres provenant de la Bibliothèque du Chateau d'Eu. 29 pp. one leaf of "Vacations." 8vo uncut. Paris: L. Potier 1853. The sale catalogues of the royal libraries at the Palais-Royale Neuilly and the Château d'Eu representing nearly a complete record of the illuminated manuscripts early printed books and fine bindings belonging to Louis-Philippe 1773-1850 and his wife Marie-Amélie 1782-1866. Fine copies from the library of A.R.A. Hobson with bookplate. ❧ Gustave Brunet Dictionnaire de Bibliologie Catholique cols. 487-88-"Cette bibliothèque.offrait une importance toute spéciale. On y trouvait un grand nombre de livres provenant du comte de Toulouse et de grandes publications modernes françaises ou étrangères qui se montrent rarement dans les ventes.". hardcover books
1902008679London: Freemantle and Co. 1902. Stamp signed fine bindings "Bound by Zaehnsdorf for A.C. McClurg & Co." of full polished calf backs ornately gilt marbled end papers tops gilt illustrated. A Near Fine set of six volumes small rubs at spine ends a few small browned spots front end pages. SCARCE in commerce especially so in lovely bindings. A comparable set in fine binding last seen at auction in 1978. . First Edition Thus. Full Polished Calf. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Freemantle and Co. Hardcover books
1828007719London: William Pickering 1828. The SCARCE Pickering edition 1828 Fine and finely bound in luxurious full crushed morocco triple gilt fillet on covers spine ribbed and richly decorated in gilt inner gilt dentelles signed by the master French bindery of Chambolle-Duru marbled end papers all edges gilt. Fine a few light spots of toning at end pages bottom edge of frontispiece portrait unevenly trimmed. A brilliant copy of a SCARCE edition. . First Thus. Morocco. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. William Pickering Hardcover books
1895004196Paris: Librairie Marpon & Flammarion 1895. First Edition Thus. Quarter Calf. Japanese paper pastedown. Leather title label. . Near Fine. Limited deluxe edition one of 190 although this copy is not actually numbered. Oblong 24 by 33 cm. 18 numbered leaves in each of the two parts and a total of 28 fables rendered. The leaves are of Tori-noko papier japonais and are folded over in the Japanese-style. While the source of the tales and the publisher are French the book is a fine expression of Japonisme that swept the Western World in the late 19th century and is very much in the style of a Kobunsha or Hasegawa publication of the same period. Light wear to binding. <br /><br /> Librairie Marpon & Flammarion hardcover books
187013616The Brooklyn Common Council 1870. Cloth. Very Good. An uncommon piece of Brooklyn history the original printing of this 1870 "compendium" whose intention it was to offer a "connected record of the dates of the opening and closing of the various streets and avenues of the City of Brooklyn and the alterations made in the lines thereof from time to time and the authority under which the same were done with other information of a kindred character arranged in such a form as to be of ready and convenient reference for those in search of such knowledge". From the Introduction. This copy has held up nicely. Solid and VG in its dark-green cloth with decorative blindstamping at the panels and bright gilt-lettering and design along the front panel. Very light forgivable soiling and spotting at the covers 2 small former owner names one at the front free endpaper the other at the following blank endpaper. Very small losss as well at the spine crown and pencil to four early pages of the text. Octavo charts and lists at the rear from the 1850s and 60s up thru 1870. Certainly one of the earliest attempts to make Brooklyn's municipal information accessible to a wide audience. <br/><br/> The Brooklyn Common Council hardcover books
1783261600Baltimore 1783. 2 pp. pen and ink on bifolium docketed. 8vo. Toning some wear to margins hole from removal of seal not affecting text. 2 pp. pen and ink on bifolium docketed. 8vo. Royalist Maryland politician Daniel Dulany the Younger 1722-1797 writes to Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer 1723-1790 concerning the loss of his son's shares in the Baltimore Company. ". after my son went to England it was thought to be expedient to add to the stock of slaves employ'd by the Baltimore Company . a purchase was made of two Negroes by W. Clem. Brookes Manager for the Company of W. Rov. Carter & the Negroes so purchased became part of the Company's stock . my Son's share in the Company including these Negroes had been taken possession of as property belonging to the State ." The Baltimore Company was an iron works founded in 1732 by Daniel Dulany the Elder and four other partners - a tax list from 1783 lists the Company as having 35 slaves. Dulany a member of one Maryland's most prominent families and a moderate Loyalist during the American Revolution lost much of his property after the war. unknown books
65415Somewhat later half-leather worn boards detached upper portion of spine chipped away; remainder of spine edges and corners rubbed and eroded and marbled boards. 1 The Farmers' Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1821. By Samuel Burr Philom. Cincinnati OH: Phillips and Speer Looker Palmer & Reynolds Printers 1820. 12mo. 36 pp. Includes agricultural articles Ohio road distances etc. American Imprints 1184. Drake 9063. OCLC locates three copies of this issue Ohio State American Antiquarian Society Earlham; another issue was published by Morgan Lodge. Corners of title page and final leaf chipped not affecting text text ag-toned.<br/><br/> 2 The Farmers' Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1822. By Samuel Burr Philom. Cincinnati OH: Printed and published by Morgan Lodge & Co. 1821. 12mo. 36 pp. Includes agricultural articles Ohio road distances etc. Drake 9068. This issue published by Morgan Lodge apparently not located on OCLC; another issue was published by Phillips and Speer American Antiquarian Society only on OCLC. Text age-toned.<br/><br/> 3 The Freeman's Almanack or Complete Farmer's Calendar for the Year of Our Lord 1823. Useful instructive and entertaining matter together with the Maxims and Advice of Solomon Thrifty. Cincinnati OH: Printed and Published by Oliver Farnsworth and Co. 1822. 12mo. 56 pp. 12 woodcut illustrations each 1 x 3 5/8 inches heading a page of Thrifty's advice for each month. Includes agricultural articles Ohio road distances etc. American Imprints 8731. Drake 9072. Scattered light foxing upper and lower margins shaved close for binding affecting several lines of text.<br/><br/> 4 The Freeman's Almanack or Farmer's Calendar for the Year of Our Lord 1825. By Samuel Burr Philom. Cincinnati OH: Published by Oliver Farnsworth and Co. 1824. 12mo. 24 pp. Includes agricultural articles Ohio road distances etc. American Imprints 16186. Drake 9083. OCLC locates two copies American Antiquarian Society Library Co. of Philadelphia. Old light tideline in upper corner text age-toned.<br/><br/> 5 The Friends' Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1826. Astronomical calculations by Samuel Burr Philom. Richmond IN: Edmund S. Buxton Printed by Oliver Farnsworth and Co. Cincinnati 1825 . 12mo. 24 12 pp. Includes information on various yearly meetings medical recipes etc. <br/>Drake 9088 Earlham Indiana Historical Society. Apparently not recorded on OCLC. Text thoroughly browned long tear in one leaf but no text missing.<br/><br/> 6 The Freeman's Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1828. By Samuel Burr Philom. Containing a great variety of Useful instructive and entertaining matter With the Maxims and Advice of Solomon Thrifty. Cincinnati OH: Published and sold by N. & G. Guilford . and by Oliver Farnsworth 1827. 12mo. 48 pp. 12 woodcut illustrations each 1 x 3 5/8 inches heading a page of Thrifty's advice for each month and 24 woodcut vignettes each 1 x 1 ¼ inches heading the calculations page for each month. Includes agricultural articles and other information. American Imprints 28920. Drake 9101. OCLC locates one copy American Antiquarian Society. Foxing text age-toned.<br/><br/> 7 The Freeman's Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1829. By Samuel Burr Philom. Cincinnati OH: Published by N. and G. Guilford and by Oliver Farnsworth W.M. and O. Farnsworth Jun. Printers 1828. 12mo. 24 pp. 24 woodcut vignettes each 1 x 1 ¼ inches heading the calculations page for each month. Includes agricultural articles and recipes. American Imprints 33250. Drake 9107. OCLC locates one copy American Antiquarian Society. Text age-toned.<br/><br/> 8 The Freeman's Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1830. By Samuel Burr Philom. Containing a great variety of Useful instructive and entertaining matter With the Maxims and Advice of Solomon Thrifty. Cincinnati OH: Published and sold by N. & G. Guilford Printed at the Sentinel Office 1829. 12mo. 48 pp. 12 woodcut illustrations each 1 x 3 5/8 inches heading a page of Thrifty's advice for each month and 24 woodcut vignettes each 1 x 1 ¼ inches heading the calculations page for each month. Includes agricultural articles medical and veterinary recipes etc. Drake 9114. Text age-toned. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1819276345Paris: de l'Imprimerie Royale 1819. First. hardcover. very good. Large copper engraved folding plan of Saint Sepulcre. Octavo 12 460pp. Contemporary tree calf some scuffing barely visible. Decoratively gilt spine red leather spine label marbled edges. Rare text volume to accompany Forbin's illustrated atlas folio work on the Levant. Paris: de l'Imprimerie Royale 1819. Near Fine.<br/><br/> Forbin 1770 %u2013 1841 was Director of museums of France in 1816 a position that would allow him a year-long tour throughout the Levant authorized to purchase antiquities for the Louvre Forbin travelled to Greece Constantinople Acre Jaffa Bethlehem Jericho the Dead Sea Jerusalem Rama Gaza Cairo and Egypt.<br/><br/> de l'Imprimerie Royale unknown books
1970152527N.p.: N.p. 1970. Dialogue transcript for the unfinished film copy belonging to Frank Zappa circa 1968 with a single annotation in Zappa's hand in holograph ink of "Wednesday" on top of first page. A transcript of multiple takes of ten scenes shot by Zappa for his long aspired but never finished experimental film. Featuring scenes primarily between Don Preston and Phyllis Smith Altenhaus the transcript also contains dialogue from Zappa himself as well as Carl Zappa Billy Mundi Aynsley Dunbar and Jimmy Carl Black. The annotation of "Wednesday" likely refers to the day the sequences were shot or the day Zappa intended on editing the footage.<br/><br/>Full provenance available including letter stating transcript came from the estate of Zappa's longtime business manager Herb Cohen.<br/><br/>As early as 1967 Zappa had begun work on his infamous unfinished experimental film "Uncle Meat." Originally featuring his then band the Mothers of Invention as both musicians and fictional characters over the next decade the film would morph and change into various proposed incarnations by Zappa's apparently unbridled imagination but the project was always constrained by a lack of financing. Finally in 1987 a direct-to-video "making of" documentary of the uncompleted "Uncle Meat" production was released.<br/><br/>In 1969 the Mothers of Invention released the double album "Uncle Meat." Largely an instrumental soundtrack to the unfinished film the album was an unfocused but brilliant showcase for Zappa's compositional dexterity and a harbinger of his emergence as one of the most creatively fertile minds in rock music.<br/><br/>Transparent front wrapper with orange back wrapper and spine. 59 leaves with last page of text numbered 58. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages with light stain on first leaf else Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. N.p. unknown books
182515110Glasgow: printed for R.Griffin & Company 1825. Set of three uncoloured lithographs drawn on stone by J. Watson from original drawings by L. Guilding one cut to the edge of the image with loss to the artist's name two cut to the edge of the image all on early pink paper mounts within ink ruled borders. A possibly unique series of three very early lithographic proofs of views of the island of St. Vincent in the West Indies.<br/> <br/>These fine views after original drawings by the naturalist Lansdown Guilding are uncoloured proofs of the three views that were published hand-coloured in Guilding's An Account of the Botanic Garden in the Island of St. Vincent published in Glasgow in 1825. The fourth plate a plan of the gardens rather than a view was also included in the published work according to Abbey. Only one of the present images is captioned but according to Abbey the images are as follows: 1. House of the Superintendent of the Botanic Garden 2. View of the Botanic Garden St. Vincent. / Taken from the Superintendent's House 3. Botanic Garden / from the bottom of the Central Walk Abbey quotes from a contemporary prospectus concerning the distribution of the work on the island which notes that `only a few copies have been sent out for sale but Mr. Draper will receive at the Gazette Office the names of those who are disposed to encourage the Bookseller who printed it'<br/> <br/>BM NH II p.750; Cf. Abbey Travel II 691; not in Sabin. printed for R.Griffin & Company unknown books
