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42086Philadelphia: Press of Spangler & Davis 1889. First edition 8vo 202 x 140 mm viii 186pp. 128 illustrs. in the text A landmark work being the first text book on Orthodontia. The earliest comprehensive American texts on orthodontics predating Edward H. Angles works. It covers the aetiology diagnosis and mechanical treatment of dental malocclusions and tooth irregularities. At the time orthodontia was still in its formative years as a recognised dental speciality and Guilford's book served as a practical manual for dentists dealing with crooked teeth. Provenance: Neat stamp of Hugh McCormick Surgeon Dentist 25 Clarendon Street Londonderry to dedication leaf floral endpapers original publishers blue cloth spine lettered in gilt some light straining to covers otherwise a very good copy. Weinberger p. 61. Philadelphia: Press of Spangler & Davis, 1889 hardcover
192223830Paris Société de la gravure sur bois originale 1922.1927 4 Paris, Annuaire de 1922. Six sonnets du XVIème, XVIIème siècle, Six pièces du XVIIIème siècle, 4 ouvrages en 1 volume in-4. Plein maroquin noir, havane et box Sienne au décor mosaïqué figurant une harpiste aux lignes Art-déco et filets blancs frappés d'or, dos au titre doré, contreplats de box Sienne, gardes de moire brune, double gardes façon bois, tête dorée, sous chemise demi-maroquin à bandes et étui bordé, (Robert Bonfils Relieur) .
18044307506Sydney: Government House 1804. Folded and a little aged yet very good condition. Vellum sheet measuring 330 x 230 mm. with manuscript notations to both faces including a site-sketch with measurements. <p><p>Early Sydney lease signed by Governor Philip Gidley King for an allotment in the centre of Sydney Town with a sketch of the site executed and signed by colonial surveyor George William Evans. Simeon Lord emancipee and to become a prominent mercantile figure in the Colony was apparently keen to acquire this allotment for he paid the considerable sum of £325 for the remainder of the lease in 1807. The location of the lease in the immediate vicinity of the Dry Store on Spring Row later Castlereagh Street was ideal for a merchant. Earlier he had constructed his private residence in close proximity to the Dry Store allowing officers of merchant vessels docked in the harbour to stay in his house while remaining close to valuable cargo and merchandise held in the Dry Store.</p> <p>King was a pivotal figure in the early history of Australian settlement. His skill as a naval officer attracted the respect of Captain Arthur Phillip who selected him as second lieutenant of the First Fleet convict transport Sirius. Prior to assuming the position of Governor in 1800 King served in Sydney and Norfolk Island and was widely respected for his skilled leadership through the difficult early years of settlement.</p> <p>Governor King awarded the seven year lease to Thomas Randall in May 1804 for a ground rent of 10 shillings per year. The subsequent early history of the site is recorded in two manuscript notes detailing further sale contracts to the reverse of this lease. It was first sold on to Edward Wells who then on-sold the lease to Sydney merchant Simeon Lord the prominent colonial entrepreneur who rose from humble beginnings Lord was transported to New South Wales in 1791. He began his trading career selling rum outside the monopoly controlled by the officers of the New South Wales Corps and later invested in land shipping and manufacturing throughout the colony.</p> <p>This lease is noteworthy for the inclusion of the site sketch by George Evans the colony's surveyor from 1803 but also a notable early colonial artist and inland explorer. The grant is fully signed 'Philip Gidley King' and the sketch is likewise signed 'G.W. Evans acting surveyor'. Examples of Gidley King's signature are uncommon on the market and this grant is not listed in the standard reference Land Grants 1788-1809 edited by R.J. Ryan.</p> </p> . Government House unknown
albe7e041500a2512f5Sokolov S.I. Statutes on excise duties. In 2 parts in a case In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Sokolov S.I. Ustavy ob aktsiznykh sborakh. V 2-kh chastyakh v futlyare Short description: In Russian (ask us if in doubt).In 1893 for the first time the Codification Department of the State Council issued the Excise Duty Statute uniting all previous separate statutes and rules. The unofficial publication presented was compiled according to the then-last edition of the 1901 Statutes and supplemented by later statutes issued after June 1 1901. The publication is divided into two parts. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbe7e041500a2512f5
69440IDE Simeon. A Biographical Sketch of the Life of William B. Ide: With A Minute and Interesting Account of One of the Largest Emigrating Companies. 3000 Miles over land From the East to the Pacific Coast. And What is Claimed as the Most Authentic and Reliable Account of "The Virtual Conquest of California in June 1846 By the Bear Flag Party." Claremont N.H.: Printed for the subscribers 1880. 22391pp. Half title. 12mo. Original blue cloth stamped in black and gilt. Some staining and soiling to boards minor edge wear. Hinges tender bookplate removed from front pastedown. Internally clean. Very good. Presentation copy of the first edition inscribed by Simeon Ide to the Hon. Uriel Crocker on a front flyleaf. Also includes a brief pencil correction on p.93 likely in Ide's hand. William Ide emigrated to California in 1845. In 1846 after rumors that the Mexican Republic was going to expel all non-citizens he led a group of settlers in what became known as the Bear Flag Revolt after the California Bear Flag raised as they took control of the Sonoma pueblo. Ide was named Commander of the California Republic. Most of the party afterwards joined Lt. Col. John C. Fremont in seizing California from Mexico. Uriel Crocker was a founder of leading Boston publishers Crocker & Brewster and later sat on the board of several railroad companies including Atlantic & Pacific Railroad the South Pacific Railroad and the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad. "This SKETCH contains an account of the early years of W.B. Ide recollections by his daughter of the family's trip across the plains to California in 1845 and an account of the Bear Flag revolt of 1846 as told by Ide to his brother in 1849 and in a letter to a Senator Wambough which as Ide died in 1852 must have been written within a few years of the event. An interesting account of the overland journey of 1845 and important source on the beginnings of American rule in California in 1846." - Streeter. The work is also important in that it is one of the few overland journals written from the point of view of a woman Ide's daughter who at eighteen accompanied her father west in 1845 and is unique in its exclusive treatment of the Bear Flag Revolt. Howes speculates that this first edition printed by the author at the age of eighty-six on a handpress "was prob. unknown
1880WRCAM48335DClaremont N.H.: Published for the subscribers 1880. 22391pp. Half title. 12mo. Publisher's three-quarter brown morocco and cloth boards front cover stamped in gilt spine with raised bands. Light soiling to boards some edge wear. Presentation inscription and bookseller's stamp C. Beach San Francisco on front flyleaf. A few annotations in pencil. Closed tear in inner portion of front flyleaf. Very good. A presentation copy inscribed by Simeon Ide to the editor of THE EVENING BULLETIN on a front fly leaf: "This volume is respectfully inscribed in "Vindication" of a beloved Brother." Also includes a brief pencil correction on page 93 likely in Ide's hand. <br> <br> William Ide emigrated to California in 1845. In 1846 after rumors that the Mexican Republic was going to expel all non-citizens he led a group of settlers in what became known as the Bear Flag Revolt after the California Bear Flag raised as they took control of the Sonoma pueblo. Ide was named Commander of the California Republic. Afterwards most of the party joined Lieut. Col. John C. Fremont in seizing California from Mexico. Uriel Crocker was a founder of leading Boston publishers Crocker & Brewster and later sat on the board of several railroad companies including the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad South Pacific Railroad and St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad. <br> <br> "This SKETCH contains an account of the early years of W.B. Ide recollections by his daughter of the family's trip across the plains to California in 1845 and an account of the Bear Flag revolt of 1846 as told by Ide to his brother in 1849 and in a letter to a Senator Wambough which as Ide died in 1852 must have been written within a few years of the event. An interesting account of the overland journey of 1845 and important source on the beginnings of American rule in California in 1846." - Streeter. The work is also important in that it is one of the few overland journals written from the point of view of a woman Ide's daughter who in 1845 at age eighteen accompanied her father west and is unique in its exclusive treatment of the Bear Flag Revolt. Howes speculates that this first edition printed by the author at the age of eighty-six on a handpress "was probably small." A rare and important California book. <br> <br> The Streeter copy sold to Michael Ginsberg then with Western Hemisphere for $175 in 1968. HOWES I4 "b." STREETER SALE 2967. TUTOROW 3466. EBERSTADT 105:136 ref. GRAFF 2059. ZAMORANO 80 45. COWAN 1914 p.118. MINTZ 250. Published for the subscribers hardcover books
1837153292Paris: Bachelier 1837. Applying probability theory to criminology First edition of Poisson's important work on the probability of criminal and civil verdicts "in large part a treatise on probability theory after the manner of Laplace with an emphasis on the behaviour of means of large numbers of measurements" Stigler pp. 182-3. "The legitimacy of the application of the calculus to areas relating to the moral order that is to say within the broad area of what is now called the humanistic sciences was bitterly disputed beginning in 1820 in politically conservative circles as well as by Saint-Simonians and by such philosophers as Auguste Comte. Poisson was bold enough to take pen in hand to defend the universality of the probabilistic thesis and to demonstrate the conformability to the order of nature of the regularities that the calculus of probability without recourse to hidden causes reveals when things are subjected to a great number of observations. It is to Poisson that we owe the term 'law of large numbers'. He improved Laplace's work by relating it explicitly to Jacob Bernoulli's fundamental theorem and by showing that the invariance in the prior probabilities of mutually exclusive events is not a necessary condition for calculating the approximate probabilities. It is also from Poisson that we derive the study of a problem that Laplace had passed over the case of great asymmetry between opposite events such that the prior probability of either event is very small" DSB. The copy of the Danish statistician Anders Hald 1913-2007 with his ownership signature to front free endpaper. Hald served as professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1960 to 1982. Quarto 259 x 191 mm. Contemporary half calf blue label brown cloth sides. 20th century bookplate to front pastedown neat early notation to half-title. Calf a little stripped rubbed some foxing minor pencil marginalia. A very good copy. hardcover
1880WRCAM48335CClaremont N.H.: Published for the subscribers 1880. 22391pp. Half title. 12mo. Original brown cloth gilt. Cloth moderately faded light edge wear. Rear hinge very mildly cracked but still holding firm. Quite clean internally. Very good. William Ide emigrated to California in 1845 and a year later after rumors that the Mexican Republic was going to expel all non- citizens he led a group of settlers in what became known as the Bear Flag Revolt. The rebellious Americans raised the California Bear Flag and took control of the Sonoma pueblo and Ide was named Commander of the California Republic. Afterwards most of the party joined Lieut. Col. John C. Fremont in seizing California from Mexico. <br> <br> "This SKETCH contains an account of the early years of W.B. Ide recollections by his daughter of the family's trip across the plains to California in 1845 and an account of the Bear Flag revolt of 1846 as told by Ide to his brother in 1849 and in a letter to a Senator Wambough which as Ide died in 1852 must have been written within a few years of the event. An interesting account of the overland journey of 1845 and important source on the beginnings of American rule in California in 1846." - Streeter. The work is also important in that it is one of the few overland journals written from the point of view of a woman Ide's daughter who in 1845 at age eighteen accompanied her father west. Howes speculates that this first edition printed by the author at the age of eighty-six on a handpress "was probably small." The Streeter copy sold to Michael Ginsberg then with Western Hemisphere for $175 in 1968. <br> <br> A rare and important California book. ZAMORANO 80 45. COWAN p.301. FLAKE 4183b. MINTZ 250. EBERSTADT MODERN OVERLANDS 241. HOWES I4 "b." ROCQ 14960. TUTOROW 3466. STREETER SALE 2967. GRAFF 2059. Published for the subscribers hardcover books
188067843First Edition and a Rare Variant with Original Wrappers Bound In IDE Simeon. Scraps of Califonia History. Never Before Published. A Biographical Sketch of the Life of William B. Ide: With A Minute and Interesting Account of One of the Largest Emigrating Companies 3000 Miles Over Land From the East to the Pacific Coast. And What is Claimed as the Most Authentic and Reliable Account of "The Virtual Conquest of California in June 1846 by the Bear Flag Party" as Given by its Leader The Late Hon. William Brown Ide. Claremont New Hampshire: Published for the Subscribers 1880. First edition and an interesting variant as noted by Streeter 2992 with the original printed wrappers and ten additional preliminary pages of text. Sixteenmo 6 7/16 x 4 1/4 inches; 164 x 110 mm. 82 2 half-title: Scraps of California History Never Before Published verso blank 1- 239 1 ìThe Inscriptionî pp. Inscribed to the New Hampshire Historical society by the nephew of William B. Ide dated 1904 on the half-title. No other copy of this variant with the wrappers and additional text has sold at auction aside from present copy and the Larson copy of 1995 since 1962. This copy gifted to the New Hampshire historical society the state of publication is bound with the original printed wrappers for "Scraps of California" still intact and bound in along with the text. Additionally it has the preliminary leaves of Ide's follow-up work entitled Who Conquered California Back cover has at top a caption reading: ìMore Testimony in Favor of the Efficiency of the ëBear Flag Partyà in Bringing about the Conquest of Californiaî followed by reference to and quotations from TinkhamÃs History of Stockton 1880. The preliminary 10 pages in this variant has favorable reviews and a criticism of the Upham Life of Fremont and of T. W. HigginsonÃs account of the events in California of 1846. All of this is the exact same as the Streeter 2992 copy. It is believed that this variant was was assembled with the various extra parts in addition to the first edition of the text for presentation. Bound in full speckled polished calf. Boards double-ruled in gilt. Spine stamped in in gilt. Red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Boards edges tooled in gilt. Newer endpapers. Wrappers with some minor discoloration. Some very slight dampstains on bottom edge of first few pages. N.H. Historical Society stamp blindstamped almost invisibly on first leaf. Overall an about fine copy. "William Ide was the leader of the Bear Flag movement at Sonoma and has often been referred to as the "President" of California. He was a man of high ideals and integrity. This little book is source material and the only volume published thus far that deals exclusively with this incident of California history. Ide died in California in 1852. The book was set in type by hand by Simeon Ide William's brother when he was 86 years old. The edition was small and copies are now extremely rare. J. G. L. J. Gregg Layne historian and editor of the Quarterly of the Historical Society of Southern California." Zamorano Eighty 45. This self-published volume was printed on a small press by the 86 year-old Simeon Ide in apparently very limited numbers. Mintz lists that only 80 copies were printed. Graff 2059. Howes I4. Streeter 2967 2992 2993. Zamorano Eighty 45. HBS 67843. $4500 Published for the Subscribers hardcover books
188067843Claremont New Hampshire: Published for the Subscribers 1880. CALIFORNIA. First Edition and a Rare Variant with Original Wrappers Bound In<br> <br> IDE Simeon. Scraps of Califonia History. Never Before Published. A Biographical Sketch of the Life of William B. Ide: With A Minute and Interesting Account of One of the Largest Emigrating Companies 3000 Miles Over Land From the East to the Pacific Coast. And What is Claimed as the Most Authentic and Reliable Account of "The Virtual Conquest of California in June 1846 by the Bear Flag Party" as Given by its Leader The Late Hon. William Brown Ide. Claremont New Hampshire: Published for the Subscribers 1880.<br> <br> First edition and an interesting variant as noted by Streeter 2992 with the original printed wrappers and ten additional preliminary pages of text. Sixteenmo 6 7/16 x 4 1/4 inches; 164 x 110 mm. 82 2 half-title: Scraps of California History Never Before Published verso blank 1- 239 1 "The Inscription" pp. Inscribed to the New Hampshire Historical society by the nephew of William B. Ide dated 1904 on the half-title.<br> <br> No other copy of this variant with the wrappers and additional text has sold at auction aside from present copy and the Larson copy of 1995 since 1962.<br> <br> This copy gifted to the New Hampshire historical society the state of publication is bound with the original printed wrappers for "Scraps of California" still intact and bound in along with the text. Additionally it has the preliminary leaves of Ide's follow-up work entitled Who Conquered California Back cover has at top a caption reading: "More Testimony in Favor of the Efficiency of the 'Bear Flag Party' in Bringing about the Conquest of California" followed by reference to and quotations from Tinkham's History of Stockton 1880. The preliminary 10 pages in this variant has favorable reviews and a criticism of the Upham Life of Fremont and of T. W. Higginson's account of the events in California of 1846. All of this is the exact same as the Streeter 2992 copy. It is believed that this variant was was assembled with the various extra parts in addition to the first edition of the text for presentation.<br> <br> Bound in full speckled polished calf. Boards double-ruled in gilt. Spine stamped in in gilt. Red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Boards edges tooled in gilt. Newer endpapers. Wrappers with some minor discoloration. Some very slight dampstains on bottom edge of first few pages. N.H. Historical Society stamp blindstamped almost invisibly on first leaf. Overall an about fine copy.<br> <br> "William Ide was the leader of the Bear Flag movement at Sonoma and has often been referred to as the "President" of California. He was a man of high ideals and integrity. This little book is source material and the only volume published thus far that deals exclusively with this incident of California history. Ide died in California in 1852. The book was set in type by hand by Simeon Ide William's brother when he was 86 years old. The edition was small and copies are now extremely rare. J. G. L. J. Gregg Layne historian and editor of the Quarterly of the Historical Society of Southern California." Zamorano Eighty 45.<br> <br> This self-published volume was printed on a small press by the 86 year-old Simeon Ide in apparently very limited numbers. Mintz lists that only 80 copies were printed.<br> <br> Graff 2059. Howes I4. Streeter 2967 2992 2993. Zamorano Eighty 45.<br> <br> HBS 67843.<br> <br> $4500. Published for the Subscribers unknown
alb137c6986dfac6ca6Sokolov S. I. Statutes on Excise Duties. 3 Parts In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Sokolov S. I. Ustavy ob aktsiznykh sborakh. 3 chasti Short description: In Russian (ask us if in doubt).St. Petersburg type. V. F. Kirshbaum type. M. M. Stasyulevich 1906 1902 1905. CXXXVI 4 824 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb137c6986dfac6ca6
188028186Claremont N.H.: Printed for the subscribers 1880. 12mo. 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. 2 239 1pp. Half title. Expertly bound to style in period purple straight grain morocco covers bordered in blind upper cover lettered in gilt<br/> <br/>Provenance: E. T. Ide signature on title<br/> <br/>An Ide family association copy of a Bear Flag Rebellion rarity.<br/> <br/>"This Sketch contains an account of the early years of W.B. Ide recollections by his daughter of the family's trip across the plains to California in 1845 and an account of the Bear Flag revolt of 1846 as told by Ide to his brother in 1849 and in a letter to a Senator Wambough which as Ide died in 1852 must have been written within a few years of the event. An interesting account of the overland journey of 1845 and important source on the beginnings of American rule in California in 1846." Streeter. The work is also important in that it is one of the few overland journals written from the point of view of a woman Ide's daughter who at eighteen accompanied her father west in 1845 and is unique in its exclusive treatment of the Bear Flag Revolt. Howes speculates that this first edition printed by the author at the age of eighty-six on a handpress "was probably small." A rare and important California book.<br/> <br/>Howes I4 "B"; Streeter Sale 2967; Tutorow 3466; Graff 2059; Zamorano 80 45; Cowan 1914 p.118. Printed for the subscribers unknown books
1837S13080Paris:: Bachelier 1837. 1837. 4to. 4 ix 3 415 1 pp. Half title; light foxing within. Original quarter dark green gilt-stamped calf marbled boards; extremities worn. Very good. PROVENANCE: SIGNATURE OF KARL PEARSON 1857-1936. KARL PEARSON'S COPY WITH HIS BOLD SIGNATURE. First edition of the work that presented Poisson's 'Law of large numbers.' "He improved Laplace's work by relating it explicitly to Jacob Sernoulli's fundamental theorem and by showing that the invariance in the prior probabilities of mutually exclusive events is not a necessary condition for calculating the approximate probabilities. It is also from Poisson that we derive the study of a problem that Laplace had passed over the case of great asymmetry between opposite events such that the prior probability of either event is very small." :: DSB p. 489. / "Poisson's major work on probability was a book Recherches sur la probabilite. . . published in 1837. The book was in large part a treatise on probability theory after the manner of Laplace with an emphasis on the behavior of means of large numbers of measurements. The latter portion p. 318-415 dealt with the subject matter of the title. Some of this material was taken from memoirs Poisson published in the two preceding years. Only a charitable modern reading could identify a new concept in the work; yet the book contains the germ of the two things now most commonly associated with the Poisson's name. The first of these is the probability distribution now commonly called the Poisson distribution. . . In a section of the book concerned with the form of the binomial distribution for large numbers of trials Poisson does in fact derive this distribution in its cumulative form as a limit to the binomial distribution when the chance of a success is very small. The distribution appears on only one page in all of Poisson's work see p. 206. Although it is given no special emphasis tis brief notice did catch the eye of Cournot who republished it in 1843 with calculations demonstrating the effectiveness of the approximation Cournot 1843 . . . The second most common appearance of Poisson's name in modern literature is in connection with a generalization of the Bernoulli law of large numbers." :: Stigler. / "This work is significant for the author's participation in an important contemporary debate. The legitimacy of the application of the calculus to areas relating to the moral order that is to say within the broad area of what is now called the humanistic sciences was bitterly disputed beginning in 1820 in politically conservative circles. . . Poission was bold enough to take pen in hand to defend the universality of the probabilistic thesis and to demonstrate the conformability to the order of nature of the regularities that the calculus of probability without recourse to hidden causes reveals when things are subjected to a great number of observations." –DSB pp. 489. LAID WITHIN THIS VOLUME ARE FIVE PAGES ON FOUR LEAVES OF MATHEMATICAL NOTATIONS IN FRENCH SUGGESTING AN OWNERSHIP UNKNOWN PRIOR TO PEARSON. Karl Pearson 1857-1936 "was a major player in the early development of statistics as a serious scientific discipline in its own right. He founded the Department of Applied Statistics now the Department of Statistical Science at University College London in 1911; it was the first university statistics department in the world. The present departments of Statistical Science and Computer Science as well as the Genetics and Biometry group in Biology and the physical side of Anthropology are all part of his legacy to UCL." A major proponent of eugenics Pearson was also a protege and biographer of Sir Francis Galton. / REFERENCES: F. Fraunberger within DSB XV Supple. I pp. 480-491; Dodge Yadolah The Concise Encyclopedia of Statistics 2008 p. 427; Stigler The History of Statistics pp. 182-3. See: Pearson E.S. Karl Pearson: an appreciation of some aspects of his life and work. Cambridge University Press 1938. PLEASE CONTACT DIRECT FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. Bachelier, 1837. hardcover books
3715974Short description: In Russian. Popov Simeon Ivanovich. Reference Book in Conversation with Rationalist Sectarians. Pskov: Type. G. A. Rumel 1903. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU3715974 unknown
3715974Short description: In Russian. Popov, Simeon Ivanovich. Reference Book in Conversation with Rationalist Sectarians. Pskov: Type. G. A. Rumel, 1903. You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKU3715974
181225627New York 1812. Engraved map hand-coloured in outline sectioned and linen-backed at a contemporary date. Housed in a black morocco backed box. Unique copy of De Witt's important 1804 map of New York with county divisions updated to 1812.<br/> <br/>In 1778 George Washington appointed Simeon De Witt as the assistant to Robert Erskine the first Geographer and Surveyor General of the United States a position De Witt attained several years later. Following the war De Witt became the first Surveyor General of New York a position he held for an unprecedented fifty years. Among his first acts was to create the definitive first map of the state based on actual surveys. Following the settlement of the state's boundaries and accurate surveys which he directed De Witt published a large wall map in 1802 - the first map of the state and the progenitor of similar mappings in other states. Two years later De Witt issued this "contracted" version of his wall map intending its circulation to meet a wider audience. According to Allen however the map which was sold by subscription "does not seem to have been as widely distributed as its predecessor although it appears to have been designed to reach a wider audience. It may be that De Witt's 1804 map was unable to find a niche in competition with other small-scale maps of the state such as those of Samuel Lewis" Allen. Nevertheless as Streeter commented De Witt's 1804 map is "one of the earliest separate folding maps of New York after it became a state." Interestingly the present copy suggests that De Witt or an enterprising mapseller made an additional attempt to market this map. This copy of the 1804 map is updated to 1812; that is the map is as printed in 1804 but the county boundaries shown via period hand colouring depicts the state in 1812: the far western counties established in 1808 are clearly delineated e.g. Chautauqua Cattaraugus and Niagara counties but Erie County created in 1821 is not shown; Putnam county is shown separate from Dutchess County as per its establishment in 1812; Oneida County is shown with its western boundary on Lake Ontario i.e. before the 1816 establishment of Oswego County; among other additions. In all the state is divided into 47 counties. We find no other example of De Witt's 1804 map altered in this fashion. The exactness and appearance of the colouring however suggests it to be a distinct issue of the map or done for some official purpose as opposed to an early owner's mere manuscript addition.<br/> <br/>Ristow American Maps and Mapmakers pp. 73-83; Rumsey 2489; Streeter Sale 893; David Y. Allen How Simeon De Witt Mapped New York State. unknown books
187657621Librairie Des Bibliophiles. As New. 1876. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - NUMBERED COPY LIMITED EDITION. Mint condition. Text in French. 128 pages. Librairie Des Bibliophiles hardcover
17701066Amsterdam [Montauban] : sans nom, 1770. CURIEUX MÉLANGE DE CONTES LÉGERS, ANTICLÉRICAUX ET GRAVELEUX, VOIRE NAUSÉABONDS
174168496Amsterdam & Leipzig, chez P. Mortier, 1741, in-12, XII-212 pp, 1 pl, Veau marbré de l'époque, dos à nerfs et fleuronné, encadrement d'un filet à froid sur les plats, tranches rouges, Ouvrage très rare, orné d'une grande planche dépliante gravée sur cuivre représentant le télescope de Newton et ses différentes pièces. Nouvelle édition, considérablement augmentée, de ce traité qui fut publié pour la première fois à Paris, en 1738, avec un titre sensiblement différent. Claude Siméon Passemant (1702-1769), qui tenait boutique au Louvre, fut l'un des plus remarquables constructeurs d'instruments d'optique de la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle. Il fut dans ce domaine le digne successeur de Bion, qui fut en quelque sorte son mentor, puisque c'est à la lecture du célèbre traité de ce dernier qu'il se prit de passion pour les instruments. Bel exemplaire, habilement restauré. Petite réparation à la planche. Daumas, pp. 347 et suiv. Couverture rigide
1908122897London: Privately Printed at the Chiswick Press 1908. A proud Jewish father publishes for his children First and only edition. A truly sumptuous piece of private publishing produced as a gift for the author's children and grandchildren handsomely printed at the Chiswick Press and finely bound by an unnamed binder of real quality. Among the varied pieces is "A Dream by One who Dreamt It" a prose fantasy conceived at the time of the Dreyfus case of a Jewish state "a beautiful land of very vast extent" where Jews driven out from the civilized countries of Europe by "hatred and envy of the race" live in paradisal self-government. The volume carries the bookplate of Bernard Alexander Isaac 1871-1938. If he is one of the children for whom the book was printed then "Pater" was Frederick Simeon Isaac c.1829-1915. With his siblings Benjamin and Alexander Frederick was a partner in Isaac & Samuel a City of London firm with worldwide interests. He was also a director of several South American utility and finance companies. In the 1871 Census he was described as a "South American merchant" and in the 1901 Census as a "financial merchant". He left £630000 including a range of legacies to Jewish charities. The book is likely to have been printed in small numbers and is unsurprisingly rare. There are no copies listed on Library Hub and Library Hub lists only the Toronto Public Library copy. We were unable to trace any other copy in libraries or auction records. Tall octavo 247 x 184 mm. Photographic portrait of the author as frontispiece with tissue guard title printed in red and black decorative opening initials headpieces and culs-de-lampe. Finely bound in contemporary dark blue crushed morocco titles in gilt direct to spine gilt-ruled raised bands compartments and turn-ins ruled and richly decorated with foliate and circlet motifs in gilt boards panelled in single gilt rules with floral and repeat foliate motifs to corners green silk endpapers edges gilt unsigned but evidently quality work. Pictorial bookplate of Bernard A. Isaac to front pastedown. A few minor marks to covers else a fine copy printed on thick paper and handsomely bound. Toronto Public Library call number 828 P1283. hardcover
181225627New York 1812. Engraved map hand-coloured in outline sectioned and linen-backed at a contemporary date. Housed in a black morocco backed box. Unique copy of De Witt's important 1804 map of New York with county divisions updated to 1812.<br/> <br/> In 1778 George Washington appointed Simeon De Witt as the assistant to Robert Erskine the first Geographer and Surveyor General of the United States a position De Witt attained several years later. Following the war De Witt became the first Surveyor General of New York a position he held for an unprecedented fifty years. Among his first acts was to create the definitive first map of the state based on actual surveys. Following the settlement of the state's boundaries and accurate surveys which he directed De Witt published a large wall map in 1802 - the first map of the state and the progenitor of similar mappings in other states. Two years later De Witt issued this "contracted" version of his wall map intending its circulation to meet a wider audience. According to Allen however the map which was sold by subscription "does not seem to have been as widely distributed as its predecessor although it appears to have been designed to reach a wider audience. It may be that De Witt's 1804 map was unable to find a niche in competition with other small-scale maps of the state such as those of Samuel Lewis" Allen. Nevertheless as Streeter commented De Witt's 1804 map is "one of the earliest separate folding maps of New York after it became a state." Interestingly the present copy suggests that De Witt or an enterprising mapseller made an additional attempt to market this map. This copy of the 1804 map is updated to 1812; that is the map is as printed in 1804 but the county boundaries shown via period hand colouring depicts the state in 1812: the far western counties established in 1808 are clearly delineated e.g. Chautauqua Cattaraugus and Niagara counties but Erie County created in 1821 is not shown; Putnam county is shown separate from Dutchess County as per its establishment in 1812; Oneida County is shown with its western boundary on Lake Ontario i.e. before the 1816 establishment of Oswego County; among other additions. In all the state is divided into 47 counties. We find no other example of De Witt's 1804 map altered in this fashion. The exactness and appearance of the colouring however suggests it to be a distinct issue of the map or done for some official purpose as opposed to an early owner's mere manuscript addition.<br/> <br/> Ristow American Maps and Mapmakers pp. 73-83; Rumsey 2489; Streeter Sale 893; David Y. Allen How Simeon De Witt Mapped New York State. unknown
1876C57621Librairie Des Bibliophiles. As New. 1876. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - NUMBERED COPY LIMITED EDITION. Mint condition. Text in French. 128 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Librairie Des Bibliophiles hardcover
201095579Ferrara Arte S. P. A. New. 2010. Hardcover. 8889793104 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in Italian. 240 pp. ; 139 illus. 118 in color. -- with a bonus offer-- . Ferrara Arte S. P. A. hardcover
200018202Cumberland Rhode Island U.S.A.: Yale Univ Pr. New. 2000. Hardcover. 0300083483 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Fine -- with a bonus offer-- . Yale Univ Pr hardcover
