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1936116597London: Jonathan Cape 1936. First edition of this edition of this seminal work. Quarto 2 volumes. Near fine in near fine dust jackets frontispiece in first volume both profusely illustrated with maps plans and collotype plates some folding and including large folding maps at the inside of the rear covers of both volumes. With an introduction by T.E. Lawrence. Near fine in very good dust jackets. "No one has looked so narrowly at the Arab and the life of Arabia as Doughty and no one has painted them in literature with a touch so sensitive and sure. And not only Bedawin life of whose hardships he suffered to the last wandering as one poorer than the poorest but also the life of the oasis towns of the Nejd. One can do Doughty's pages no justice by quotation. His book belongs to that rare and supreme class in which the author speaks not for himself but for all who might find themselves in like case" Hogarth. Jonathan Cape unknown books
1998108377New York: Riverhead Books 1998. Early printing of this beloved classic. Octavo original half cloth. Signed by His Holiness The Dalai Lama on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lisa Amoroso. Nearly every time you see him he's laughing or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He's the Dalai Lama the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet a Nobel Prize winner and a hugely sought-after speaker and statesman. Why is he so popular Even after spending only a few minutes in his presence you can't help feeling happier. If you ask him if he's happy even though he's suffered the loss of his country the Dalai Lama will give you an unconditional yes. What's more he'll tell you that happiness is the purpose of life and that the very motion of our life is toward happiness. How to get there has always been the question. He's tried to answer it before but he's never had the help of a psychiatrist to get the message across in a context we can easily understand. The Art of Happiness is the book that started the genre of happiness books and it remains the cornerstone of the field of positive psychology. Through conversations stories and meditations the Dalai Lama shows us how to defeat day-to-day anxiety insecurity anger and discouragement. Together with Dr. Howard Cutler he explores many facets of everyday life including relationships loss and the pursuit of wealth to illustrate how to ride through life's obstacles on a deep and abiding source of inner peace. Based on 2500 years of Buddhist meditations mixed with a healthy dose of common sense The Art of Happiness is a book that crosses the boundaries of traditions to help readers with difficulties common to all human beings. After being in print for ten years this book has touched countless lives and uplifted spirits around the world. Riverhead Books hardcover books
142668HOUGHTON The Rev. W. British Fresh-Water Fishes. Two volumes. Illustrated with 41 chromoxylographed plates of fish engraved by Benjamin Fawcett after drawings by A.F. Lydon and numerous steel-engraved plates of angling locales. Folio bound in decorative publisher's brick textured cloth over beveled boards with black- gilt- and blind-stamped piscatorial vignettes and motifs on boards and spines a.e.g. London: William Mackenzie 1879. First Edition. "Houghton a Shropshire clergyman aimed his book at the fisherman rather than the naturalist and the text of which there is unusually plenty gives information about recognition feeding and breeding habits habitat bait and so on" Buchanan Nature into Art 168. Alexander Francis Lydon's plates which were printed by Benjamin Fawcett show each fish in what is meant to be its natural habitat. For this work Houghton studied the specimens in the collection of the British Museum. British Fresh-Water Fishes is notable for its incorporation of the naturalistic backgrounds of the fish habitats. The fact that this work has been reprinted in subsequent editions from the 19th century through the 1980s attests to the quality and interest of the descriptions and illustrations even though taxonomists have since revised some of the classifications. Wonderful copy in original condition. Westwood & Satchell 247. Nissen ZBI 2009. hardcover books
1928P64651928. Leningrad: Izdanie Gosudarstvennogo Russkogo Muzeia 1928. Octavo 17.5 Ã 13.2 cm. Original decorative wrappers with a constructivist design by M. S. Brodsky; 72 pp. and 14 illustrations in the text some full-page. Very light soil to wrappers; overall a very good copy. First and only edition of this work about the hotly debated topic of "workers' art" and workers' IZO clubs comprised of amateur artists IZO being an abbreviation for Izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo or "Visual Art". The authors set out the history and basic principles of the "workers' art" movement and its connections to avant-garde art. The formation of such amateur groups was part of the push to democratize the Soviet visual arts in the service of mass propaganda and education throughout the 1920s. Under the direction of the artist Moisei Brodsky the disparate IZO clubs were unified under a more coherent program and proceeded to develop new forms for decorative and applied arts agitprop posters and design of new communist interiors "bringing art into life" and "making artists out of workers" two central conceits of the avant-garde. In an introductory essay the art historian Nikolai Punin argues for the regenerative quality of art made by workers with amateur training rather than by trained artists. The artist Vsevolod Voinov follows with a review of the 1925 exhibit of the IZO clubs at the Russian Museum where the works of the amateur artists were exhibited alongside those of the masters. Sergei Isakov traces the history of the movement to 1923 when the creation of such clubs was first proposed. In a longer essay Moisei Brodsky 1896-1944 the leader of the movement and the designer of the constructivist cover -- apparently inspired by Malevich's "Black square" -- discusses the search for "new realism" inherent in workers' art.<br/>Â <br/>The text is supplemented with photographs of the artworks exhibited at the "Iskusstvo rabochkh" Worker's art show at the Russian Museum in 1925 for which 67 IZO clubs listed by name at the end of the text provided over 1000 works. The various posters and design elements for communal cafeterias and worker's clubs are unattributed and the originals of most seem to have been lost making these photographs a rare surviving record of the contents of the show. These designs in their fragmentation of objects collaged quality and use of shadow to create volume show an unmistakable influence of Purism a movement in French painting championed by Le Corbusier among others which advocated for simplicity and precision of forms and a union of the avant-garde art with industry and technology. IZORAM an abbreviation for Izobrazitelnoe iskusstvo rabochei molodezhi or the "Visual Art of the working youth" a more focused group of worker artists was formed by Brodsky in 1928 with another exhibit of workers' art held at the Russian Museum Leningrad and later Tretiakov Gallery Moscow in 1928. The IZORAM exhibit at the Tretiakov Gallery was held at the same time and sold as part of the same ticket as a Malevich exhibit putting the abstract and "functional" avant-garde into conversation. In 1931 IZORAM was dissolved and incorporated into the newly-founded Russian Association of Proletarian Artists RAPKh. See "Avangard na sluzhbe dialektiki: Gennadi Gor Avangard i Purizm" Stanislav Savitsky 2013. One of 3000 copies. KVK OCLC show copies at the British Library Columbia Israel National Library Getty Harvard the MET NYPL Stanford and Tate. unknown books
178920339Barby: Den Brudergemeinen 1789. First Edition. 8vo pp. 16 784. Bound in contemporary boards most of the paper covering worn away A clean tight copy of the first issue with only 6 lines of errata. Howes L474. Howes: "Official account of work among the Indians on the New York Pennsylvania and other frontiers 1735-87. The English edition omits naming some former antagonists who had later become friendly. Den Brudergemeinen unknown books
189424860London: James Elliott & Co 1894. First edition 2 volumes 4to pp. xvi 394; viii 396 4 ads; original maroon cloth stamped in gilt on upper covers and spine; hinges starting in volume 2 and partially cracked in volume 1; pages toned; all else very good. Volume 1: Hermetic chemistry; volume 2: Hermetic medicine and Hermetic philosophy. Paracelsus was born in 1493 the son of a physician who possessed a great library and who to him was a profound influence. A physician himself he upheld caballistic and pharmaceutical doctrines and promoted always often in the face of severe criticism the forward progress of medicine. <br/><br/> James Elliott & Co hardcover books
18141263626Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and co 1814. First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Jonathan Swift 1667-1745 was an Anglo-Irish satirist essayist political pamphleteer poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral Dublin. Swift is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels A Modest Proposal A Journal to Stella Drapier's Letters The Battle of the Books An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity and A Tale of a Tub. Regarded as the foremost prose satirist in the English language he is also known for his poetry. A master of two styles of satire the Horatian and Juvenalian his deadpan ironic writing style has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian". Complete in 19 volumes.<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> CONDITION NOTES:8vos. 19 volumes; VG; paneled brown spine with gilt tooling two maroon labels with gilt lettering; bound in polished green leather gilt paneling on boards gillt tooling on board edges; bumping and wear to corners head and tail of spine; mild scratching to leather; mild rubbing so some panels of spines; foxing throughout all volumes; ex libris bookplate inside front board in all volumes bled onto ffep; frontispiece of Swift in volume one bled onto title page; heavy please contact for shipping; shelved above law. 1263626. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Archibald Constable and co unknown books
5671610 x 16 inches framed some of the printing and MSS has faded but the Presidential signature is dark and bold. Bruen may have been the noted New Jersey born minister or possibly his father some times called the richest man in America. unknown books
178518010401London: Printed for the Company of Stationers and Sold by John Wilkie at their Hall in Ludgate-Street 1785. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Eight volumes bound in one sixteenmo size 384 pp. A collection of almanacs from the year 1785 with a lovely scenic fore-edge painting which shows a road leading to a lake containing two boats some buildings reminscent of castles or villas in the background and two trees on each side whose branches reach towards each other in the middle. Contents are varied and unusual and include poetry proverbs answers to philisophical and critical questions answers to enigmas monthly observations descriptions of the planets and zodiac chronologies of remarkable occurrences eclipses astrological prognostications chapters from "The Surprising Story of the Witch of the Woodlands" and the usual tables and charts relating to the moon stars sun planets tides birthdays of the royal family terms and returns weight of coins and calendars among many other interesting trifles.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Contemporary polished red calf with decorative gilt-panel borders to both boards four raised bands and backstrip stamped in gilt all edges gilt fore-edge painting marbled endpapers title-pages printed in red and black red price-stamp to each title-page numerous engravings tables charts and mathematic equations in text; sixteenmo size 6.5" by 4" each almanac is paginated separately each is 48 pp. first editions as per usual.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Near fine overall the leather boards bright in colour and supple text block is tight/square with solid hinges internally lightly toned with some scattered foxing the fore-edge painting details clear; two leaves with short tears at the gutter margin title pages of "The Gentleman's Diary" and "Old Poor Robin" some of the paint from the fore-edge painting has stained the outer margins of some leaves none obscure text spine somewhat sunned and professional restoration has been applied to the joints. Overall a lovely example of 18th century almanacs combined with a bucolic fore-edge painting.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Printed for the Company of Stationers and Sold by John Wilkie, at their Hall in Ludgate-Street hardcover books
45494Folio unbound. 71 issues: Vol. IV no. 46 to Vol. XIII #8: IV 46; VI 3741; Vol VII 14-6 8-9 14-16 25-33; Vol VIII 3 13 25-28 30 3237-39 414347-49 51-52; Vol IX 3-6 9-1315; Vol XI. 28 30-33 41-43; Vol. XII 2-3 7-8 11-13 202226; Vol. XIII 5-8. Born in Brattleboro VT. Noyes 1811-1886 graduated from Dartmouth in 1830 and studied law at Andover and Yale. Reacting against Calvinism he combined prefectionist and adventist beliefs in a personal theology. He developed a society known as the Bible Communists of Putney VT. Amongst other doctrines he professed free love and powers of healing. Arrested on a charge of adultury he broke jail and fled to western NY where he and his followers founded Oneida in 1848. He lived in Oneida for 30 years before fleeing to Canada ahead of the law. Mott: "The Oneida Circular was the chief organ of the perfectionist communties founded by J. H. Noyes. In it Noyes expounded his doctrines of spiritualism communism and free love: though uneven in its editing it was often well written and interestng"Vol II p. 207. The Circular was succeeded by the American Socialist 1876-79 also published by the Oneida group. unknown books
2014153662014. Spray paint and silkscreen on cigarette pack foil mounted to cardboard. Measuring approximately 15.0" square. SIGNED and dated to verso. From an unnumbered series based on the artist's well-known sticker of similar design. <br/><br/> unknown books
1802008944Walpole New Hampshire: Printed for Thomas & Thomas by D. Newhall 1802. "The First Walpole Edition from a Copy of the latest Edition printed in London." No copies in current commerce no auction records at RBH. Bound in contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards 155 pages. Good boards and spine rubbed pages uniformly browned throughout prior owner name small chips at edges of front end page. A complete and solid copy of a RARE Walpole First Edition. Shaw & Shoemaker; Early American Imprints. Second Series ; no. 1728. First Walpole Edition . Quarter Calf. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Printed for Thomas & Thomas, by D. Newhall, Hardcover books
1948S13088Lancaster PA:: American Physical Society 1948. 1948. In: The Physical Review Second Series Volume 74 July 1 – December 15 1948. pp. 230-231; 231-232; 232-233. 4to. 10.5 x 8 inches; 263 x 200mm. whole volume. 1932 pp. Illus. index. Full green gilt-stamped buckram. Library bookplate. Very good. FIRST PRINTING ANNOUNCING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRANSISTOR A DISCOVERY THAT INITIATED THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AGE. / "In 1947 John Bardeen and Walter Brattain working at Bell Telephone Laboratories were trying to understand the nature of the electrons at the interface between a metal and a semiconductor. They realized that by making two point contacts very close to one another they could make a three terminal device - the first "point contact" transistor. They quickly made a few of these transistors and connected them with some other components to make an audio amplifier. This audio amplifier was shown to chief executives at Bell Telephone Company who were very impressed that it didn't need time to "warm up" like the heaters in vacuum tube circuits. They immediately realized the power of this new technology. This invention was the spark that ignited a huge research effort in solid state electronics. Bardeen and Brattain received the Nobel Prize in Physics 1956 together with William Shockley "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect." – Nobel Prize Committee. / In "The Transistor" 1948 is the schematic diagram showing the construction of the germanium triode or transistor a semi-conducting device which could act as an oscillator or an amplifier thereby replacing larger bulky less efficient vacuum tubes. The longer 1949 paper includes this same diagram but also contains a cutaway microphotograph of the transistor. Research by Bardeen and Brattain led them to the discovery that electron flows on the surface of a semi-conducting surface initially silicon and germanium may be modulated and controlled by "doping" the crystal with specific quantities and depositions of conducting elements. Hence was born the technology of microelectronics by employing layers of "dirty sand" to build the complex electronic circuitry that we use every day today. "The transistor revolutionized the electronics industry allowing the Information Age to occur and made possible the development of almost every modern electronic device from telephones to computers to missiles. Bardeen's developments in superconductivity which won him his second Nobel are used in medical advances such as CAT scans and MRI." – Wikip. Bardeen is the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in physics twice. The first time was for the invention of the transistor awarded in 1956. The second time was in 1972 with Leon N. Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the "BCS theory." / With: Richard P. Feynman "Relativistic Cut-Off for Classical Electrodynamics." – pp. 1430-1438. Vol. 74 no. 10. Nov 15 1948. Feynman's first paper on quantum electrodynamics. / Norman Origins of cyberspace 450. American Physical Society, 1948. hardcover books
1914CA0023xxiv843 pages with plates and index. Quarto 10 3/4" x 7 3/4" rebound in half red leather with gilt lettering to spine with original wrappers bound in. From the library of Zelia Nuttal and George M Foster. Limited to 500 copies. First edition. <br /><br />Cervantes de Salazar was one of the principal chroniclers who gathered data on the history and ethnography of Mexico. His most important book <i>Cronica de la Nueva Espana</i> <i>Chronicle of New Spain</i> written at the command of City Council. The manuscript of this work was sent by the author to Spain in 1567 with a request for the post of royal chronicler. This manuscript was uncovered in the early 1900s uncatalogued in the National Library of Madrid as an anonymous manuscript. the first volume was published in 1914 and the second and third in 1936. The <i>Chronicle</i> is fragmentary since the first part which was to include the period up to the conquest of Yucatan either was never written or was lost; and the second part which was to be a history of the conquest breaks off with Columbus sending Villafuerte and Sandoval to the Pacific Ocean. Cervantes de Salazar's sources were the <i>Letters</i> of Cortes; the memoirs of Alonso de Ojeda and Andres de Tapia captains in Cortes' army; the <i>Memoranda</i> of Motilinia; the work of Lopez de Gomara; and the information gathered from others who had taken part in the conquest who were sill living in Mexico City twenty-five years later from whom he received useful information. The <i>Chronicle</i> is valued for its understanding and evaluation of the events it describes.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />"With compliments of the Hispanic Society" slip tipped in and slip from the Congresso de los Diputados tipped in to copyright page with Nuttall's name as receiving copy number three which is such labeled of 500 copies. Foster's date of acquiry 10/4/44 on title. Original wrappers bound in and soiled some wear to edges of title inner hinge cracked else about very good. Hispanic Society hardcover books
1683264178London: printed by the assigns of John Bill deceas'd; and by Henry Hills and Thomas Newcomb printers to the Kings most excellen t Majesty 1683. Printed broadside. Woodcut royal arms at head large decorative initial capital. 1 vols. 14-1/2 x 11-1/4 inches. Backed with tissue some old dampstaining some loss at margins but printed area complete except for a very small area of the royal arms. Old folds rust marks along with marginal wear suggest that this may at one time have been "affixt to some conspicuous place" as the text instructs. Printed broadside. Woodcut royal arms at head large decorative initial capital. 1 vols. 14-1/2 x 11-1/4 inches. King's Evil and the Royal Touch. From the Middle Ages in England and France it was believed that scrofula or "the King's Evil" could be cured by the touch of royalty; ceremonies were held in which the King would touch and "heal" hundreds of afflicted subjects. <br/>By the late 1400s it was believed that one could also be cured by touching a type of coin called an angel which had been touched by the monarch. After angels ceased to be minted in the 1620s the same effect was said to be achieved by touching a gold medallion embossed much like the old coin.<br/>Some monarchs touched many people. King Henry IV of France touched up to 1500 at one time. The last English monarch to carry out this practice was Queen Anne who died in 1714 but it continued in France. Louis XV touched more than 2000 scrofula sufferers and the last French monarch to do this was Charles X in 1825 Science Museum London. Cf. F Barlow "The King's Evil"Â The English Historical Review 95/374 January 1980 pp 3-27; M BlochThe Royal Touch: Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1973.<br/>The present broadside setting the dates for such ceremonies is rare on the market: no copies are listed for sale and none have appeared at auction. It also is signed in type by Lord Chief Justice George Jeffryes sic "The Hanging Judge" amongst others.<br/>An interesting manuscript note in a contemporary hand at the lower margin with significant loss calls the attention of "All Parsons Vicars and Curates" to the regulations set forth in the broadside. ESTC R34884 11 copies in UK 6 in US; OCLC 15328355 2 copies; Wing E-831 printed by the assigns of John Bill deceas'd; and by Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, printers to the Kings most excellen t Maje unknown books
1926007604London: Faber and Gwyer 1926. RARE in dust wrapper and this one quite nice Near Fine a hint of toning to end pages prior owner name front end page in a Near Fine dust wrapper tiny chips at head of spine small old tape mends internally at fold edges. Written between the years 1918 and 1926 and including "Cock and Harlequin" "Professional Secrets" and other critical essays. With a frontispiece titled "A portrait of the artist by himself". . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Faber and Gwyer Hardcover books
197820364ELos Angeles: Jerome Hellman Productions A Hal Ashby Film / United Artists N.d. 1978. Original 132 page shooting script for the award-winning film Coming Home screenplay by Waldo Salt and Robert Jones. Bradbound in stiff red paper covers with the title gilt-stamped to the front. With a hint of use else fine. The film was directed by Hal Ashby and stars Jane Fonda Jon Voigt Bruce Dern and Penelope Milford. The film won 3 Oscars: Best Actor in a Leading Role Voigt Best Actress in a Leading Role Fonda and Best Writing Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. And it was nominated for Best Picture Best Director Best Actor in a Supporting Role Dern Best Actress in a Supporting Role Milford and Best Film Editing. It also won 2 Golden Globes: Best Actor - Drama Voigt and Best Actress - Drama Fonda. With 4 nominations: Best Motion Picture - Drama Best Director - Motion Picture Best Actor in a Supporting Role Dern and Best Screenplay. The film tells the love story between a woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam Fonda who falls in love with another man Voigt who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there. Jerome Hellman Productions (A Hal Ashby Film) / United Artists unknown books
D17853Hardcover. Fair. Leipzig: Martin Landsberg c.1492-1494 AND Leipzig: Verlag von S. Hirzel 1859. 2 works bound in one volume 8vo 193 x 123 mm. 41 of 42 leaves lacking blank final leaf. Bound in 19th century cloth over marbled boards sunned hand-written paper label on spine. First work with dampstaining at head and repairs with losses to text in final 8 leaves. Second work with light browning throughout. HC 13316. SOLD AS IS. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1946140941066Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1946. First Edition. Good. First edition. iv 82 pp. Gray stapled wraps. Good with closed tear to top of front wrap and first page very slightly to following page; wraps toned and lightly worn; former owner's name written on front cover. A rare history of the War Relocation Authority which managed the forced confinement of people of Japanese ancestry in America during World War II as well as their return to civilian life with the commencement of the war. U.S. Government Printing Office unknown books
1988Embry 129418Addison-Wesley 1988. First edition first printing one of 222 copies with a numbered piece of stationary from The Association of Space Explorers signed by 35 astronauts. Fine in near fine lightly rubbed dust jacket my mylar cover. Association of Space Explorers signed sheet. Some of the signatures represented: Walt Cunningham; Taylor Wang; Scott Carpenter; Wubbo Ockels; Sigmund Jahn; Svetlana Savitskaya; Rodolpho Neri; Bob Overmyer; John Bartoe; Don Peterson. Addison-Wesley, 1988. First edition, first printing, one of 222 copies with a numbered piece of stationary from The Associatio unknown books
39524TRADE CATALOGUE-CARPETS KOCK & TE KOCH. NEUMUSTERUNG. Oelsnitz: 1906. 8vo. Original burgundy cloth lettered in gilt. 91 designs in color of which 85 are original gouche some with "Spritztechnik" spray technology and 6 colored printed patterns all mounted on pre-printed sheets numbered 897 to 1007 including 18 sides where the patterns have been removed and "frei" penciled in. The last nine are empty and have never had mounted designs. Rare carpet pattern book not recorded on OCLC. The illustrations each show a carpeted area sufficient in size to give an idea of the ornamentation and overall design. The motifs range from classic oriental patterns to historic European patterns from the eighteenth century to the then-modern Jugendstil. The factory was founded in 1880 by Karl Wilhelm Kock and Fritz te Kock and wa dedicated to the manufacture of Axminster-type rugs. The company was nationalized in 1953 but was later returned to private hands and is now calle "Crescent Teppichwerke." The previous owner carried the stamp of the company a crescent with five-star and monogram KK - already in use in the nineteenth century. The covers show some wear at extremities; there is some offset from one design to the one facing in a few instances; and there are an occasional smudges or other marks but overall in very good condition for an item such a this. unknown books
1841006314Boston New York and London resp.: Tappan and Dennet; William A. Coleman; Edward Moxon 1841. First Edition Thus . Full Morocco. Very Good . First Grandville-illustrated edition in English. Extra-illustrated! 8vo. 240 by 14.5 cm. xlvii 1 244 4 339 pp. With 60 Grandville plates from the Fournier first edition of 1839 fifteen of which have been hand-colored especially for this copy and with Grandville's head and tailpieces and numerous text vignettes. With the extra-illustration there are an additional 36 hand-colored plates plus 17 B/W engravings by Massard Collyer Schroeder etc. See Gordon Ray Art of the French Illustrated Book no. 191. Also Grand Carteret II 357-358. Bound in full red crushed Levant morocco. Double gilt fillets. Five gilt ruled raised bands. Six double gilt bordered compartments. Gilt tooled edge corners. Scattered foxing -- most leaves unaffected but occasionally somewhat heavy. Light wear to the binding. Still a highly attractive and unique copy. <br/><br/> Tappan and Dennet; William A. Coleman; Edward Moxon unknown books
18090000720London: Richard Phillips 1809. First English Language Edition. Cardboard covers. Large paper uncut copy. 2 Volumes 8vo 21.5 x 12.1 cm Original gray paper boards and cream paper spine. Bindings with only minor rubbing on covers; corners slightly bumperd. Collation: Vo. I- 4 viii 379 pp.; VolII- 4 iii 1 375 1 4-Ads pp. Text only very clean with wide margins of uncut pages. This original issue has been bound in paper boards. <br/><br/>This is only copy offered which has the half title pages and additional preliminaries in both volumes and adds at end of volume II. In 1796 Laplace published Eposition du système du monde a semipopular treatmen of his work in celestial mechanics and a model of Frnch prose. The book includes his “nebular hypothesis” attributing the origin of the solar system to cooling and contraction of a gaseous nebula. Encycl. Brit. Richard Phillips unknown books
1770983801<b><i>Upon Granny in her supposed Grandure. </i></b>etching on paper. London: Printed for Carington Bowles Map & Printseller in St'Pauls Church yrd_London ca. 1770. Original edition later state. <br /><br />Engraved by T.S. after M. Laroon. Etching on laid paper with fleur de lys watermark. Size 7 ½" x 11 1/8" 284 x 189mm with thread margin. Bottom margin trimmed. Slight soiling. <br /><br /><i>A raggedly dressed cross-eyed old woman stands in front of St. James's Palace. Eight lines of verse above the image describe her "supposed grandure";</i> another eights lines below describe her "native poverty." The verses suggests she was once a fine lady; now she is a deformed street beggar.<br /><br />James Caufield in Portraits Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons 1818 discusses this print. "This miserable wretched drunken object who was blind of one eye used to annoy the passengers in the streets of London while sober with licking her blind eye with her tongue which was of a most enormous length and thickness; indeed it was of such a prodigious size that her mouth could not contain it and she could never close her lips or to use a common expression keep her tongue within her teeth. <br /><br />This wonderful feat of washing her eye with her tongue was exhibited with a view of obtaining money from such as crowded around her and no sooner had she obtained sufficient means but she hastened to the first convenient liquor-shop to indulge her propensity in copious libations and when properly inspired would rush into the streets with all the gestures of a frantic maniac and roll and dance about until she became a little sobered which was sometimes accelerated by the salutary application of a pail of water gratuitously bestowed upon her by persons whose door-way she had taken possession of as shelter from the persecuting tormenting's of boys and girls who generally followed her. It should seem from the verses within the print this woman had been used in early days to scenes of gaiety and splendor." Pp 108-110 <br /><br />While attempts have been made to identify the actual subject represented in this etching these attempts have always failed. The most likely intention of this etchings is depict a naturalistic view of life that finds beauty to be brief and time to be brutal. From 250 years later we witness that in the 18th century the deformed poor were treated with ridicule instead of with mercy <br /><br />Ref: Caufield James. Portraits Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons: From the Revolution in 1688 to the End of the Reign of George II. Collected from the Most Authentic Accounts Extant London: H.R. Young . and T.H. Whitely 1819. Volumes 1-2. Caulfield mentions three prints of Lady Granny: "There are three prints of old Granny one in 4to. mezzotinto and two whole length engravings the best of which is that with the first eight lines of verses engraved in the background of the print." <br /><br />This print exists in an earlier state also recorded in the British Museum 1851-308.308 without the verses and with the caption "Granny" with the signature Laroon Pinx and an engraver's monogram TS Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of prints and drawings in the British museum v. 2 p. 369 Laroon Marcellus 1653-1702 artist A note on the website suggest that the subject represents Abigail Masham d 1734 once Queen Anne's favorite. See BM 1887 1216.3. While Lady Masham certainly had scars to show from her rise from obscurity to Court the actual subject if there was one will never be known<br /> Bowles books
2004308298Fordingbridge Hampshire: Castle Hill Press 2004. Copy no. 35 of 40 copies. Illustrated. 206 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full oxblood morocco spine titled in gilt upper cover stamped in blind a.e.g. Cloth slipcase. Copy no. 35 of 40 copies. Illustrated. 206 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Castle Hill Press unknown books
