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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
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
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
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
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
1823018730London Dublin Edinburgh & New York: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips 1823. Six volumes small octavo pp 588; 600 15; 584 10 uncut a few pages unopened a little age-toning and marking one gathering 347-350 in Volume IV detached and gatherings towards the rear of the volume becoming a bit weak and loose Volume VI has extra bis pages 343 - 354; very well illustrated with 197 engraved or wood engraved plates of which 31 are folding and 50 coloured plates of which 2 are folding and 1 folding table; bound in the original pink boards a bit worn chipped and marked original printed paper labels on the spines the upper cover of Volume V detached otherwise firm and tight a neat signature on each front endpaper. Apparently lacking one plate in Volume 1 Relative Sizes of the Planets though there is no sign of this ever having been bound in. There are several extra plates to those listed and our copy would seem to agree with the set at auction at Christie's in 2006 which contained 246 of 248 plates. A work of considerable charm and interest and despite some faults as mentioned a remarkable set in original unsophisticated state. Simeon Ackroyd Shaw 1785 - 1859 was a 19th-century English scientific writer industrial historian and teacher. He spent his working life in the Staffordshire Potteries now the city of Stoke-on-Trent England. Shaw originated in Lancashire and as a young man he arrived in the Potteries to work on the Potteries Gazette and Newcastle-under-Lyme Advertiser newspaper. After some 20 years of newspaper and printing work living in Wolstanton he then went into teaching. He ran several teaching academies in the district. His first book was this 6-volume work which was based on his obviously very comprehensive series of popular short lectures on everything from natural species to meteorites. First Edition. Boards. Good. Printed for Sir Richard Phillips Hardcover
1833064075Albany NY: W. C. Little & O. Steele 1833. 1st Edition . Full-Leather. Fair. Fair to good tight condition. Repaired binding for structural integrity. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. Orders will be mailed either on the day ordered or the next business day and carefully packaged with tracking. Question of authorship discussed in J.H. Brandow's Story of old Saratoga 1900 p. 180-187. Edited by S. DeWitt Bloodgood. Listed in Sabin Dictionary of Books Relating to America Vol. 2 p. 236; and in Roorbach Bibliotheca Americana Vol. 1 p. 59. "The scarce original edition of which but few copies were printed."-- Bookseller's note. First published in the Albany Daily Advertiser. "Veritable production of a Farmer of Saratoga County . " --Advertisement. <br/> <br/> W. C. Little & O. Steele hardcover
180559752Waitsfield Vermont 1805. Narrow tall folio approx. 15½" x 6¾" 112 pp. in ink five separately sewn signatures; a few pages loose some pages darkened or chipped at edges; some entries faint. This account book is the record of the practice of either Stephen Pierce or Simeon Stoddard practicing in Waitsfield Vermont between 1795 and 1806. These were the second and third physicians to have settled and practiced in Waitsfield. Most likely it is the record of Pierce who is supposed to have settled in Waitsfield in 1795. The first physician in Waitsfield Moses Heaton remained there only between 1793 and 1796. Depending on the source Pierce was the third physician to practice in Waitsfield and/or the first to practice in Moretown a settlement to the northeast of Waitsfield. He farmed as well as doctored and his farm lay mostly in Moretown his office in Waitsfield. He was a respected and successful physician who served the community in other capacities: as selectman representative delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1814 and Assistant Judge of the County Court. One source claims that he succeeded Judge Kinne December 1 1814 and served one year and that he was a justice of the peace in Waitsfield. He died either in 1854 after living in Waterbury and Berlin Vermont or he died in Barnard in 1864. See: History of the Town of Waitsfield Vermont 1782-1908 by Matt Bushnell Jones Boston 1909 p. 182. Simeon Stoddard on the other hand was born December 12 1761 either in Saybrook Connecticut or in Waitsfield. On August 19 1784 he married Abiah Thompson who had been born in 1763 in Waitsfield. Some sources state that he moved to Waitsfield from Saybrook in 1794. He served the southwestern area of Waitsfield and died in 1841. This account book records each date of visit the householder's name the relationship of patient to householder the medicine prescribed and its price and the cost of the doctor's visit. The doctor whether it be Stoddard or Pierce treated thirty to forty patients each month and as many as fifty-six in December of 1801. He charged as little as 4 pence and as much as 42 shillings 10 pence for his services. As a comparison the tax on an acre of land in Waitsfield was 2 pence an acre. The poll tax list of 1795 showed fifty voters so the doctor seems to have treated the members of nearly every family. The diseases treated are not stated in the entries made but he seems to have prescribed antimonium tartaricum in many instances and also digitalis. Waitsfield was founded by Col. Benjamin Wait or Waite and others who were granted a charter on February 25 1782. Wait had served under Gen. Jeffery Amherst in the French and Indian Wars and had fought in the Revolutionary War. Both Waitsfield and Moretown are now somewhat renowned as the areas around Mad River a popular ski resort. Mad River has been remarkable from the settling of the area as the source of numerous sudden destructive and deadly floods. The Green Mountains the northern extent of the Appalachians rise just to the west of the town. The doctor records having treated members of the Wait family including Benjamin's wife Martha d. April 3 1804 Ezra Thomas and Gilbert. The family names of the community are listed making this a good source for early settlement history and genealogical research. Among the householders who required the doctor's services are Smolly Skinner Taylor Spalding Hitchcock Parkhurst Carpenter the family had a tannery and potash works Heaton Burdick Johnson Rider Fuller Symonds McNight Chamberlain Atherton Lyon Butterfield Barnave Osgood Foster Hobson Robinson Brun Latimer and Sherman. Many of the names appear often. unknown
1852WRCAM36523Arequipa: Imprenta de Francisco Ibañez y Herm 1852. 48pp. Dbd. Slight age-toning occasional minor foxing. A very good copy. A rare pamphlet reproducing the address delivered at the installation of the author a Doctor of Political Economy and a lawyer in the Academia Lauretana de ciencias y artes de Arequipa. The titlepage indicates that the work was published by the author for his friends. Tejeda a lawyer who also held a doctorate in political economy discusses various social political regulatory and economic aspects of industry. Included is a chapter on intellectual production noting that lawyers doctors and other professionals can be also considered as industrial entities subject to the laws of free commerce. A rare vanity publication concerned with philosophical aspects of industry printed in Arequipa in the early 1850s. OCLC records a single copy at Princeton. OCLC 40594747. Imprenta de Francisco Ibañez y Herm unknown books
186944510Paris: Mainsonneuve et cie 1869. First edition. Quarter navy calf over marbled boards 4 raised bands gilt titles all edges speckled. A very good copy extremities rubbed tiny inked numeral at corner of title light soiling and foxing occasional pencil markings light toning to a few plates. xviii 19-240 pp. plates; 2 81- 142 pp. Illus. 146 plates 15 folding 4 color and numerous in text figures. Plates numbered 1-103 1 unnumbered109-132 & 141-156 2 unnumbered. 8vo. This the first 1869 edition of "Archives paléographiques de l'Orient et de l'Amérique." Sabin notes an edition in 1870 with a slightly different title. The Mexican hierographic "Codex Telleriano-Remensis" is provided in facsimile on a large number of plates with an explanation by Brasseur de Bourbourg pp. 190-232. Also includes works on Middle Eastern Asian Sanskrit Oceanic and Cuneiform language systems. Plus a bibliographical list of works on American Paleography. Bound with Siméon Rémi. Société Américaine de France Session de 1884. Paris: Société américaine de France E. Dangu. 2 81- 142 pp. Includes: "Les Systémes Religieux dans L'antiquité Péruvienne" by A. Castaing; "Nouvelle Recherches pour L'interprétation des Caractéres Hiératiques de L'amérique Centrale" by Léon de Rosny; and "Actes de la Société Américaine de France 1884" by Remi Siméon. Both items are scarce. Sabin 73299; Pilling 3374. Field 1319. Phillips: Central America p. 19. Mainsonneuve et cie hardcover books
186944510Paris: Mainsonneuve et cie 1869. First edition. Quarter navy calf over marbled boards 4 raised bands gilt titles all edges speckled. A very good copy extremities rubbed tiny inked numeral at corner of title light soiling and foxing occasional pencil markings light toning to a few plates. xviii 19-240 pp. plates; 2 81- 142 pp. Illus. 146 plates 15 folding 4 color and numerous in text figures. Plates numbered 1-103 1 unnumbered109-132 & 141-156 2 unnumbered. 8vo. This the first 1869 edition of "Archives paléographiques de l'Orient et de l'Amérique." Sabin notes an edition in 1870 with a slightly different title. The Mexican hierographic “Codex Telleriano-Remensis†is provided in facsimile on a large number of plates with an explanation by Brasseur de Bourbourg pp. 190-232. Also includes works on Middle Eastern Asian Sanskrit Oceanic and Cuneiform language systems. Plus a bibliographical list of works on American Paleography.<br /> <br /> Bound with<br /> Siméon Rémi. Société Américaine de France Session de 1884. Paris: Société américaine de France E. Dangu. 2 81- 142 pp. Includes: "Les Systémes Religieux dans L'antiquité Péruvienne" by A. Castaing; "Nouvelle Recherches pour L'interprétation des Caractéres Hiératiques de L'amérique Centrale" by Léon de Rosny; and "Actes de la Société Américaine de France 1884" by Remi Siméon.<br /> <br /> Both items are scarce. Sabin 73299; Pilling 3374. Field 1319. Phillips: Central America p. 19. Mainsonneuve et cie hardcover
1873007709Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles 1873. Cette édition a été tirée à 500 exemplaires sur papier de Hollande. one of 500 copies printed on Halland paper. In a Fine signed 19th century Auguste Petit binding of gold-toned full crushed morocco back in five raised bands with gilt rules lettering and tail date covers and edges bordered in 3 gilt rules ornate gilt dentelles marbled end papers top edges gilt A Fine and lovely set with just the slightest of soiling. . First Edition. Morocco. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Librairie des Bibliophiles Hardcover books
183939951Paris Bachelier 1839. 4to. Contemporary hcalf gilt spine with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamps on titlepage. VIII2261 pp. Broadmargined on good paper. Light scattered brownspots. <br/><br/><em>First edition. Poisson made importent contribution to many categories in mathematics and mathematical physics "Poisson'sTheorem" the mathematical treatment of attractive forces etc. "The Recherches sur le Mouvement.projectiles the item offered is the first workto deal with the subject by taking into account the rotation of the earth and the complementary acceleration resulting from the motion of the system of reference. A decade after its publication it inspired Focault's famous experiment demonstrating the earth's rotation"Pierre Costabel in DSB. - In this researchhe extended Lapalce's analysis to allow also for the rotation of the projectile in motion and it helped Léon Foucault to conceive of his pendulum to demonstrate the rotation of the earth. - The work is a collection of memoirs. "Ce recherches se composent de plusieurs Mémoires lus par l'Auteur à l'Academie des Sciences et insérés dans les XXVIe et XXVIIe cahiers du Journal de l'Ecole Polytechnique." From verso of halftitle - Bibliotheca Mechanica p. 261. </em> unknown
1873007709Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles 1873. Book. Fine. Morocco. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cette édition a été tirée à 500 exemplaires sur papier de Hollande. one of 500 copies printed on Halland paper. In a Fine signed 19th century Auguste Petit binding of gold-toned full crushed morocco back in five raised bands with gilt rules lettering and tail date covers and edges bordered in 3 gilt rules ornate gilt dentelles marbled end papers top edges gilt A Fine and lovely set with just the slightest of soiling. Librairie des Bibliophiles Hardcover
1837g9054London: W. Lewis & Son. G : in good condition. Rebacked. Some dampstaining and age toning. Tape reinforcement at half title. Bookplate to front pastedown. 1837. First Edition limited to 250 copies. Quarter calf over black cloth cover. 240mm x 150mm 9" x 6". xliv addenda 685pp. Contains a list of subscribers. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . W. Lewis & Son hardcover
1825137394c. 1825. Rare hand-colored engraved map of Asia by American cartographers Nathaniel and Simeon Smith Jocelyn. One page hand-colored. In very good condition. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 13 inches by 11.5 inches. At the turn of the 19th century brothers Nathaniel and Simeon Smith founded the N. and S.S. Jocelyn Publishing Company focusing mainly on engravings. In 1823 they published along with family friend Jedediah Morse an Atlas of the United States unknown
1892042823-06Pittsburgh: J. R. Weldin & Co 1892. Hardcover. Very Good. #24 of 100 large paper copies. 4to in publisher's cloth with paper spine label. 312 pp. VG. Light wear to boards. Moderate wear to spine label. Binding is strong. Name on front flyleaf. Text is clean. Ships wrapped in bubble-wrap in a box packed with care. Pittsburgh: J. R. Weldin & Co hardcover
188328449New Haven CT 1883. Ephemera. Single page on folded letterhead of the Law Department of Yale College. Dated April 25 1883. Baldwin was a jurist law professor at Yale co-founder and president of the American Bar Association and Governor of Connecticut. The letter reads: "Dear Mr. DeLancey I think you will see the Hartford & Harlem road begun within a year. It is being fought by the old Parallel scheme promoted by the New York New Haven & Harlem road; but we have nevertheless obtained most of the legislation needed. I take pleasure in sending you a copy of my historical paper recently printed. Yours sincerely Simeon E. Baldwin." Signature and date presumably from a different hand short annotation in pencil and small stain on the verso. Very good.; Letters. unknown
