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18338242bamAlbany NY 1833. Book. Very good condition. No Binding. Maps; matted; 8 1/4" x 9 1/2"; drawn by S. D. Drown from actual survey by Simeon De Witt; extracted from Josiah Priest American antiquities Albany 1833. unknown books
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
1895282089New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1895. Second Edition. Three Quarters Leather. Near Fine binding. First published as Napoleon Intime in 1893 the English edition was issued in London the following year. This "Second Edition" in English is handsomely bound in three-quarter crimson morocco over marbled boards with matching endpapers; top edges gilt; raised bands with Napoleonic devices and lettering stamped in gilt. Each volume with engraved portrait frontispiece. The book was panned in The Spectator in 1894 as a "whitewash" cf. The Spectator Archive 28 April 1894 p. 36. Near Fine binding. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
18836955San Francisco: W. M. Hinton & Co 1883. First edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. 464pp. Orig. printed wrappers spine & corners a bit chipped. W. M. Hinton & Co paperback books
1883WRCAM13884San Francisco 1883. 263pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers detached and chipped blindstamp on front wrap ownership sticker on titlepage else good. Outlines the "fatal defects" of the electoral system in the United States and suggests changes. unknown books
1915172451915. 27pp caption-title as issued stapled. Browning and chipping of blank top edge of all pages. Light tanning. Good. On Dr. Frederick A. Cook's claim to have discovered the North Pole prior to Admiral Robert E. Peary. unknown books
1939130304New York: Doubleday 1939. hardcover. very good/very good-. viii 454pp. 8vo cloth d.w.; dust wrapper edgeworn. New York: Doubleday Doran & Company 1939. A very good copy in a very good - dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Doubleday unknown books
20041307993Norwalk CT: Easton Press/Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2004. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto 736 pages; VG; bound in fine black genuine leather with bright gilt spine title; front cover has gilt borders and lettering; gilt text block; silk ribbon; silk endpapers; shelved easton press. 1307993. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Easton Press/Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers hardcover books
1907003898Dansville New York: World's Events Publishing Co. 1907. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpage "Compliments of your friend Simeon Fess Dec. 28th 1929". Mr. Fess served for the state of Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1913-1923 the U.S. Senate from 1923-1935 and was President of Antioch College in Ohio at the time of authoring this book. Very Good in blue cloth boards lightly rubbed at the tips rear hinge just starting to separate and prior owner inscription front endpage. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. World's Events Publishing Co. Hardcover books
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
188963031889. Conscience is the Chamber of Justice" Coy Simeon. The Great Conspiracy: A Complete History of the Famous Tally-Sheet Cases. Indianapolis: 1889. Frontispiece portrait. 261 pp. Original brown cloth. Head and foot of spine and extremities rubbed Institutional bookplate with withdrawal stamp. $25. First edition. A convicted politico's attempt at self-justification. "There is an old proverb which says 'Conscience is the chamber of justice.' It does not matter what was done in some other 'chamber of justice' there never was a verdict rendered against me in the chamber of justice where conscience presided and this fact has as I shall hope to show kept me while submitting to the mandate of the law from nursing enmities towards those who in the heat of partisan passion sought my ruin." Preface p. 6. unknown books
1886216293New Haven: Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor Press 1886. Disbound. Fair binding. Rear cover missing. Scant markings. ; NOT Ex-Library. Fair binding. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press unknown books
192247171Cambridge MA: League of Red Cross Societies at the Harvard University Press 1922. First edition 4to pp. x 222; text illustrations 34 plates of biopsies in back; dark green cloth; light rubbing and wear particularly to corners glue residue from bookplate on upper pastedown text clean and bright. "The carefully controlled experiments of Wolbach J. L. Todd and F. W. Palfrey eliminated all doubt that R. Prowazeki was the causal agent in typhus." Garrison & Morton 5393. <br/><br/> League of Red Cross Societies at the Harvard University Press hardcover books
192245478Cambridge: Harvard U.P. 1922. <p>Wolbach Simeon Burt 1880-1954; John L. Todd 1876-1949; Francis W. Palfrey 1876-1953. The etiology and pathology of typhus. Being the main report of the Typhus Research Commission of the League of Red Cross Societies to Poland. x 222pp. 13 plates in the text plus 34 plates including 2 in color at the end; text diagrams. Cambridge MA: The League of Red Cross Societies at the Harvard University Press 1922. 267 x 192 mm. Original cloth some wear at spine and corners but sound. Very good. Presentation Copy inscribed by Wolbach on the front free endpaper: "Miss Clara A. Ricketts with the compliments of S. B. Wolbach." Bound in is a typed presentation letter signed from Wolbach to Miss Ricketts dated 23 October 1922 with the postmarked cover laid in loosely.</p> <p> First Edition of Wolbach's classic work identifying Rickettsia prowazekii as the pathogen causing epidemic typhus; Presented by the Author to the Sister of Pathologist Howard Taylor Ricketts 1871-1910 whose pioneering researches led to the identification of the Rickettsia genus of typhus- and Rocky Mountain spotted fever-causing bacteria. </p> <p> Wolbach is best known for elucidating the infection vectors—lice and ticks respectively—of typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. In the present work Wolbach and his co-authors definitively identified the human body louse as the vector for epidemic typhus. Working on behalf of the League of Red Cross Societies' Typhus Research Commission to Poland Wolbach and parasitologist John Todd carried uninfected lice to Poland to demonstrate that these insects transmit the typhus-causing bacteria Rickettsia prowazekii to human subjects. "The carefully controlled experiments of Wolbach Todd and Palfrey eliminated all doubt that R. prowazekii was the causal agent in typhus" Garrison-Morton.com 5393.</p> <p> Wolbach's presentation letter to Clara Ricketts reads as follows:</p> <p> "My dear Miss Ricketts: I take great pleasure in sending you a copy of the Typhus Report of the League of Red Cross Societies Commission to Poland as I have learned through J. Christian Bay that you are anxious to obtain one. Sincerely yours S. B. Wolbach."</p> <p> Clara Ricketts a senior assistant at the John Crerar Library in Chicago would naturally have been interested in Wolbach's work which built upon and extended her late brother's investigations. Jens Christian Bay 1871-1962 mentioned in Wolbach's letter served as Chief Librarian at the Crerar Library from 1928 to 1947. </p> . Harvard U.P. unknown books
1922M12532Cambridge MA:: Published by the League of Red Cross Societies at the Harvard University Press 1922. 1922. 4to. x 222 pp. 13 figs. 6 charts 16 tables bibliog. 34 plates some color. Blind-stamped dark green cloth gilt spine; rubbed. Ownership signature of W. M. Wheeler Sedalia MO on title. Very good. FIRST EDITION. "A landmark in the history of the subject." Bloomfield Bibliography of internal medicine and communicable diseases p. 293. "The carefully controlled experiments of Wolbach J. L. Todd and F. W. Palfrey eliminated all doubt that R. Prowazeki was the causal agent in typhus." Garrison and Morton 5393. Published by the League of Red Cross Societies at the Harvard University Press, 1922. 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
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
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
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
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
32794Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. English version by G W B Huntingford. Malaga 1965. 87 pages original wrappers very good condition. . Other hardcover books
1992294401992. Baldwin Simeon E. 1840-1927 The American Judiciary. New York: The Century Co. 1905. Reprint. Littleton Colo.: F.B. Rothman 1992. xiii 403 pp. Cloth. As new. $50. Reprint of the first edition. A work recommended by Pound in his Introduction to American Law for the study of the organization and jurisdiction of courts. unknown books
190511264New York: The Century Co. Very Good. 1905. Hardcover. Red cloth ribbed little soiling corners bumped top and bottom of back strip fraying ex lib. ; contents very clean.; 1st Edition . The Century Co. hardcover books
1920WRCLIT70069Paris: Schmied Grav. - Imp. 1920. Original woodcut in black on pale blue laid paper 14.5 x 8.5 cm plus margins. Matted. One of fifty numbered copies signed by the artist in pencil in the lower margin. From the portfolio series CENT FRONTISPIECES published ca. 1920. Siméon illustrated an edition of Poe's HISTOIRES . in 1924. Schmied, Grav. - Imp. unknown books
196836721Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society Library 1968. First edition. Paper wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled else very good. 164 pp. Sm. 4to. American Philosophical Society Library unknown books
