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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
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
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
194413334Oakland CA: Biobooks 1944. First Edition. Near Fine. limited to 500 April reprint of 1880 edition 9.5x6.25in; 12 forward 188 pp. 1 colophon frontispiece illustration color fold-out map of Sonoma County facsimile of 1880 edition title page; Tan cloth backstrip with red paper covers tan paper label with black letters and red star and bear on spine top edge trimmed; Light shelf wear to covers and edges front hinge lose small bump to bottom edge of back cover chip in upper left of label affecting part of star spine and label darken and red faded. William Brown Ide 1796-1852 was a California pioneer that was part of the June 1846 Bear Flag revolt that seized the Sonoma and captured the Mexican Northern California commander Mariano Vallejo. In July 1846 the short lived California Republic supporters joined with Fremont forces to capture California from the Mexican Republic in the U. S. war with Mexico. After the war Ide returned to his home and in 1849 participated in the Gold Rush. This book was written by his brother Simeon to highlight the contributions of Ide to the beginnings of the State of California. Biobooks unknown 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
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
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
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
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
184767736Utica: Roberts Sherman & Colston Printers. Very Good. 1847. Pamphlet. 31 pages blue printed wrappers. The wraps are slightly soiled and toned. The contents show some very light foxing but otherwise- bright and complete. A nice copy. . Roberts, Sherman & Colston, Printers unknown books
19587856Toronto: The Champlain Society 1958 4 volumes 1958; 1961; 1967; 1978. First editions. Volumes XXXVI XXXIX XLIII and L of the Champlain Society. Printed in a limited edition for subscribers. Edited with an Introduction by Dr. D. C. Harvey. Notes by Dr. C. Bruce Fergusson. Pp. lviii 531 xliv 477 lxxii 550 liii 520. 5 illustrations 3 maps. Three spines slightly faded two frontis leaves in the second volume with tape stains at gutter repaired else a fine set. Scarce. Lacking the first part of the diary published in 1948 and covering 1766-1780. Limited to 600 650 775 and 1400 copies respectively. During the period covered by these volumes Perkins as merchant magistrate or member of the Legislative Assembly recorded the daily community life and interests of Liverpool in Nova Scotia Canada. These important volumes cover the maritime war with the Thirteen Colonies the impact of Nova Scotia of the war with Revolutionary France etc. etc. Nova Scotia was the base of operations for British privateers during the American Revolution and War of 1812. Perkins' diary provides an invaluable source of economic social and political history of the area during this critical time in American history. The Champlain Society 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
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
19729008254Toronto: The Champlain Society 1972. 1st. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Volume L of The Publications of the Champlain Society. Edited by Charles Bruce Ferguson. This being one of 1400 copies. Exlibrary with usual markings. <br/><br/> The Champlain Society 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
14270French mathematician and physicist. The Poisson distribution in probability theory is named after him. Two Autograph Documents Signed in French small 8vo n.p. September 1 1837 February 1 1838. These are boldly written receipts for salary. "I received from Mr. Tingot my salary for the past month of August. September 1 1837." He signs "Poisson." The same for the receipt dated 1838. Poisson contributed to the development of the theories of electricity and magnetism and as a pure mathematician his most important works were his series of memoirs on definite integrals and his discussion of Fourier. He also studied Fourier integrals. 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
196944246London: Andre Deutsch 1969. First edition 8vo pp. 192; original boards in chartreuse dust jacket; textblock fore-edge a bit foxed else fine. Forms part of the Language Library edited by Eric Partridge and Potter. <br/><br/> Andre Deutsch hardcover books
195744229London: Andre Deutsch 1957. First edition 8vo pp. 192; original boards in chartreuse dust jacket; jacket spine a bit toned head rubbed; unobtrusive bookseller ticket on front pastedown; very good. Forms part of the Language Library edited by Eric Partridge. <br/><br/> Andre Deutsch hardcover books
1960001984London: Andre Deutsch 1960. 2d impression. 192p. dj The language library. Andre Deutsch unknown books
57294Tall narrow folio 150 pages in ink; the first 6 leaves with overpasted newspaper clippings; some pages loose cut or missing; some pencil doodlings; some toning and occasional offsetting; contemporary and likely original calf-backed marbled boards spine partially perished and joints cracked. Detailed accounts of the work of a largely unknown itinerant Massachusetts housewright and general builder Simeon P. Pullen. Housewrights were somewhat different than simple carpenters in that they could make plans organize other workers and bring a building project to completion. Little is known about Simeon P. Pullen personally although his marriage to Mary L. Bradford appears in the Fall River Mass. records in 1829. His work detailed here was for jobs in Fairhaven Dartmouth New Bedford Mansfield and Providence R.I. and he boarded his family on location. For a job in Dartmouth in April 1 1834: "Simeon P. Pullen moved into David Crosby house the last day of march 1834 hired the hole consern for one year and to pay him forty dollars rent". His crew at the time included David Cardy who began work May 12 1834 for $5 a month Crapo probably Isaac Crapo and Sparrows whose first name is not given. The next job was in Fairhaven with Mr. Pearce "to finish a part of Mr. Abernathy hous for $225. and find more new stuff ". In 1833: "Mr. William and Charles Mason to Pearce & Pullen for work on Andrew Rodman house witch thay agree to pay and on Miss rodman hous". In Dartmouth in 1834 Pullen did a major job building a bridge for Joseph Gifford at $1.17 per worker per day. In Providence in 1836 & 1837 Pullen was in partnership with one Isaac G. Brown. They worked on projects for Mr. Baker Elisha Durfee's wharf and D. Vincent. "Providence August 1837. D. Vincint to Brown & Pullen for one door frame $1.00 to one window fraim .50 for putting the pediment a crost the north end $12 for a pot closet under the garet stairs $2.00 to cobboards in the chimney $6.00 for repairing the well drum .50 to buildin the fence at .33 per foot $13.33." In August of 1838 Pullen built a jeweller's shop in Providence for Benjamin B. Brownell for $450. He and his crew worked on the steamboat John W. Richmond as well as for "Dr. Arminton". The steamboat John W. Richmond plied the waters between New York and Providence and was named for a successful physician who was also known for holding much of the State of Rhode Island's Revolutionary Debt in bonds and stocks. The last jobs in the book are back in the Fairhaven and New Bedford area. <br/><br/> hardcover 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
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
197065050NY:: Praeger Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. A reprint of the 1829 edition. Very good in a very good dust jacket. . Praeger Publishers, 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