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188439334No place: No publisher 1884. 8vo 23 cm 9". 14 pp. <br><br>A paper "read before the Medico-Legal Society of New York Nov. 19 1884" that praises the evolving approach to mentally ill patients and offers the idea that insanity is not only caused by an "organic disease of the brain" but can also be caused in "short durations" by "functional disturbances . . . in organs remote from the brain." Clark argues that there is not a clear line between the sane and insane as even the clinically sane can have bouts of acting in an abnormal or irregular way.<br>Â Â Â Â Dr. Simeon Tucker Clark 183691 was a Berkshire Medical College graduate who practiced in Lockport New York. He was also a passionate published poet.<br>Â Â Â Â WorldCat cannot locate any institutional copies. In paper wrappers; minor chipping to edges small hole to front page front page pulling from binding but still attached binding generally a bit fragile waterstaining to two corners. An interesting late 19th century look at the origins of mental illness. No publisher unknown books
18292392Williamstown : Printed by Ridley Bannister 1829. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. 13p. removed. None in trade. <br/><br/> Printed by Ridley Bannister unknown books
195878455Moskva: Izd-vo Vostochnoi literatury 1958. Hardcover. Very Good. 398p. Corners bumped. No Jacket. Russian text. <br/><br/> Izd-vo Vostochnoi literatury hardcover books
18338242bamAlbany NY 1833. Book. Very good condition. No Binding. Maps; matted; 8 1/4" x 9 1/2"; drawn by S. D. Drown from actual survey by Simeon De Witt; extracted from Josiah Priest American antiquities Albany 1833. unknown books
1907003898Dansville New York: World's Events Publishing Co. 1907. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpage "Compliments of your friend Simeon Fess Dec. 28th 1929". Mr. Fess served for the state of Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1913-1923 the U.S. Senate from 1923-1935 and was President of Antioch College in Ohio at the time of authoring this book. Very Good in blue cloth boards lightly rubbed at the tips rear hinge just starting to separate and prior owner inscription front endpage. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. World's Events Publishing Co. Hardcover books
1920WRCLIT70069Paris: Schmied Grav. - Imp. 1920. Original woodcut in black on pale blue laid paper 14.5 x 8.5 cm plus margins. Matted. One of fifty numbered copies signed by the artist in pencil in the lower margin. From the portfolio series CENT FRONTISPIECES published ca. 1920. Siméon illustrated an edition of Poe's HISTOIRES . in 1924. Schmied, Grav. - Imp. unknown books
18989940New York: Press of J. J. Little & Co. 1898. 16mo. 120 pp.; illus. lacks map. <br><br>12th edition. Illustrated guidebook to New York City revised to January 1 1898. With ads for the Grand Union Hotel. Original illustrated front wrapper soiled loose and slightly chipped without loss of printing or illustration back wrapper missing. One instance of a blue crayon line drawn across page without obscuring text several instances of pencilling and one marginal tear. Otherwise pages clean and without chips or tears. Lacks map. Press of J. J. Little & Co. unknown books
1997RMADGUN00JKNBiplane Productions 1997. Very Good. Madaus Howard M. The Guns of Remington: Historic Firearms Spanning Two Centuries. Stoddard Simeon. Cody Wyoming: Biplane Productions 1997. 332pp. Illustrated. Large Oblong 4to. Gray cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Book condition: Very good. Slight shelf wear. Voluminously illustrated with full color photographs. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Slight shelf wear in protective cover. Biplane Productions hardcover books
1891235534New York: J. J. Little 1891. paperback. good. Illus. 136pp. 18mo original wrappers lacks folding map. New York: J. J. Little 1891. Eighth Edition<br/><br/> Guidebook to New York City. Wrappers chipped title page chipped and torn in margin with illustration on back of title page torn with some loss of text. Wrappers and title page crudely repaired with tape. Spine rebacked with tape.<br/><br/> J. J. Little unknown books
196743816Toronto: The Champlain Society 1967. Edition limited to 775 of which this is no. 463 large 8vo pp. lxxii 550 xix; frontispiece; original red cloth gilt-lettered spine; a fine unopened copy. The Publications of the Champlain Society no. 43. <br/><br/> The Champlain Society hardcover books
19446323Oakland: Biobooks 1944 Limited to 500 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Signed by the publisher Joseph A. Sullivan. Foreword by Sullivan. 188pp. Illustrated with plates and a large folding map. Cloth-backed red boards paper spine label. Slight fading to top edge of boards else a very fine copy. Ide was the first to raise the Bear Flag over Sonoma. Reprinted from the rare first edition of 1880. Zamorano Eighty: 45 note. Biobooks hardcover books
1836WRCAM54065Lexington Ky 1836. 23pp. Dbd. Chipping to fore-edge of first leaf toned and somewhat brittle overall. Good. A rare address on George Washington and the American character delivered in Lexington in 1836. OCLC records only three copies at the Huntington Library the Filson Historical Society and the University of Kentucky. OCLC 34706895. unknown books
19207324Paris: Chez Andre COQ 1920. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Half green morocco and cloth gilt lettering on spine t.e.g. marbled endpapers; pp. 18 65 4 with title-page printed in red and black and 35 woodcut illustrations by Simeon. Number 5 from a limited edition of 450 copies signed by the publisher. Near fine just a little light scuffing along spine and edges of boards. <br/><br/> Chez Andre COQ hardcover books
1883WRCAM13884San Francisco 1883. 263pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers detached and chipped blindstamp on front wrap ownership sticker on titlepage else good. Outlines the "fatal defects" of the electoral system in the United States and suggests changes. unknown books
1841011935NY: M. W. Dodd 1841. 1st Edition or early edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Mid-19thC American edition of this religious treatiseby Simeon Ashe first printed in London in 1853. Original binding blind-ruled brown cloth spine decorated in gilt. 8vo 256 pages foxed throughout but solidly bound. A very good unsophisticated copy distinctive as this is an early printing - 1840s - of printer Dodd which thrived and survived through the 20thC as Dodd Mead. M. W. Dodd hardcover books
17966079Providence 1796. Half title contemporary plain wrappers stitched loose. 24pp untrimmed. Very Good. Dedicated to the students of Rhode Island College where Doggett was an instructor. FIRST EDITION. Evans 30361. unknown books
197828267Toronto: Champlain Soc. 1978. First edition. 5352024pp. Original small 4to cloth. One of 1400 copies printed. Champlain Soc Pubs. V.50. Champlain Soc. Pub V. 50. A chronicle of Canadian Affairs political and economics for 9 years ; except for March 5 1806 - Nov. 30 1809 which has been lost. Champlain Soc. hardcover books
19181002959Paris: François-Louis Schmied 1918. Signed and numbered woodcut by Art Deco illustrator Fernand Siméon 1884-1928 printed on grey paper illustrating Leo Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata. Drawn from the vantage point of the murderer Pozdnyshev the image depicts his unnamed wife at the piano talking with her violinist partner the sight that triggers Pozdnyshev's jealous rage. This woodcut was featured in Les Cent Frontispieces a portfolio of prints by modern artists issued in an edition of fifty numbered copies by François-Louis Schmied in 1918. A fine example. Woodcut printed in black on grey paper measuring 7.25 x 4.75 inches. Numbered 30/50 and signed by Siméon in pencil. Faint abrasion to verso evidence of previous mount. François-Louis Schmied unknown books
20041307993Norwalk CT: Easton Press/Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2004. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto 736 pages; VG; bound in fine black genuine leather with bright gilt spine title; front cover has gilt borders and lettering; gilt text block; silk ribbon; silk endpapers; shelved easton press. 1307993. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Easton Press/Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers hardcover books
189556864Bristol:: John Wright & Co. Very Good. 1895. Hardcover. Black and white photographs. First edition. Brief gift inscription on half-title page damp mark to eye chart in the rear moderate shelf wear else very good in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. ; 70 pages . John Wright & Co., hardcover books
1895282089New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1895. Second Edition. Three Quarters Leather. Near Fine binding. First published as Napoleon Intime in 1893 the English edition was issued in London the following year. This "Second Edition" in English is handsomely bound in three-quarter crimson morocco over marbled boards with matching endpapers; top edges gilt; raised bands with Napoleonic devices and lettering stamped in gilt. Each volume with engraved portrait frontispiece. The book was panned in The Spectator in 1894 as a "whitewash" cf. The Spectator Archive 28 April 1894 p. 36. Near Fine binding. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
179935824Newbedford Massachusetts: Printed by John Spooner 1799. 20pp. Disbound uniform light toning else Very Good.<br/><br/> "On this most auspicious day may the hallowed fires which through the United States glowed so ardently on the altars of FREEDOM and INDEPENDENCE during a most distressing but victorious war again rekindle blaze to the heavens spread light and joy over the western hemisphere and flash terror across the Atlantic." <br/> Doggett celebrates American religious liberty "a complete toleration to every citizen freely to form and seriously to promulge his own creed." Civil and Religious Liberty "walk hand in hand." American government is "the best in the world." <br/>Evans 35418. ESTC W21451 6 locations. Printed by John Spooner unknown books
1951047125London: Aiglon Press 1951. 160p. dj. Aiglon Press unknown books
177917891Boston: Gill in Court-Street and Fleet in Cornhill 1779. 35 1 blank pp. Disbound without half title Light age-toning and foxing Good. <br/><br/> Howard warns his parishioners not to be like the man who "loves the praises of men more than the praises of God" He attacks the views of "those long-headed gentlemen the Deists" who "work to pull the christian religion to pieces on account of some particulars in it which they tell us they cannot comprehend or reconcile to their notions." <br/>FIRST EDITION. Evans 16306. Gill, in Court-Street, and Fleet, in Cornhill unknown books
1952221864San Francisco: Delo 1952. Paperback. 338p. very good paperback text in Russian. On the Doukobhors in Canada and in California; 72 small black and white illustrations including photos of life at various settlements. Delo paperback books
