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2004014707Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 2004. FOUR VOLUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND. All edges gilt sewn-in silk bookmarks Covers and spine lettered and designed in gilt. Covers all show the same robot. See photos. Color frontispieces in each volume by Stephen Youll. "I Robot" in green leather "The Robot of Dawn" in brown leather; "The Naked Sun" in rust leather and "The Caves of Steel" in blue leather. One small dark mark near top of front cover of "The Robots of Dawn" otherwise a pristine set. 253 419 187 224pp. Collected Edition. Full Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Stephen Youll. Large Octavo. The Easton Press hardcover books
17540000722Upsaliae Uppsala : Exc. Laur. Magnus Hojer 1754 . First Edition. Quarter calf. Very good . 4to Recent quarter sprinkled-tan calf marble boards; green morocco label. Collation: 8 29 3pp. Inked number 26 to title <br/><br/>This is one of the most significant of all Linnaen theses being the first arrangement of English plants in the Linnaen method and also “the first of thos compendious Florae in which the newly-invented trial names had been exemplified and which have since been much used.” Pulteney A General View of the Writings of Linnaeus. London 1781 p. 270. Composed by Isaaac Olof Grufberg 1736-1764 one of the many students of Carl Linnaeus at Uppsala Univesity 1743-76 who presented and defended theses in order to expound the theories of their masters as well as advance their academic careers. These theses were printed locally with an eye to economy for distribution a week before the pupil’s defence in this case 3 April 1754. After discussing the climate and situation of England and its plant-life excelling in marine plants Grufberg compares the English flora with that of Sweden in which alpine upland and wood plants thrive. This thesis contains a listing of nearly 1000 phaneogram and cryptogram plants that are ordered according to the 24 Classes of the Linnaean System noting abpit 300 plants which were not found in Sweden. He concludes with a list of more than 100 plants that he was unable to investigate. This list is not indicated as a separate Addendum. Soulsby 1299 1805 Exc. Laur. Magnus Hojer unknown books
185451500Philadelphia: James D. Scott E. Herrleins Lith. Est. 1854. Lithographed wall map 58 x 48 inches a hand-colored township map with 12 lithographed views of prominent county buildings and scenes from nature at the corners and along the lower edge and 42 separate maps of towns and villages all enclosed by an ornamental border. Not in Phillips. OCLC "Relief shown by hachures" locates one copy Middlebury College. Backed by linen as issued and shellacked; some staining and creasing and cracking but a very good unsophisticated example with the original rollers. <br/><br/> James D. Scott (E. Herrleins Lith. Est.) unknown books
168118283Cantabrigiæ: Ex Officina Joann. Hayes Sumptibus Henrici Dickinson 1681 1681. Second English edition; the first was published in 1672 also by Hayes. ESTC R9979; Wing V107; Honeyman Sale Catalogue 3029. Edges and hinges repaired; prelims a little foxed; a very good copy. 8vo contemporary panelled calf rebacked raised bands. Five folding plates. Title-page printed in red and black. ¶ The celebrated treatise on scientific and comparative geography by the German geographer Bernhardus Varenius 1622-1650 first published in Amsterdam in 1650. It became the standard textbook on the subject for a century. Isaac Newton edited and revised this edition for his students at Cambridge; it was Newton's first published work. <br/><br/> Cantabrigiæ: Ex Officina Joann. Hayes, Sumptibus Henrici Dickinson, 1681 unknown books
187261239Washington DC: GPO 1872. First edition. 8vo. 318 pp. The report deals with immigration to western public lands expansion of railroads Native American issues the Geological survey etc. Judge Isaac Parker's copy with his signature on the title page; Parker 1838-1896 remembered as the "hanging judge" oversaw 13940 cases on his docket as the presiding U.S. District Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas in Fort Smith Arkansas between 1875 and 1895 overseeing much of the Indian Territory in addition to portions of Arkansas. Of this number 9454 persons about 70 per cent of those tried by him were either convicted by a jury or entered pleas of guilty. 344 were tried to capital offenses and 151 convicted; of those 76 were executed one was killed while attempting to escape four died in jail two were pardoned and the remaining 68 all given sentenced to death by Parker had their sentences commuted by the President to long terms in prison. "Cruel they have said I am but they forget the utterly hardened character of the men I dealt with. They forget that in my court jurisdiction alone sixty-five deputy marshals were murdered in the discharge of their duty. Wilson who was connected with the Starr gang was one of the men whom I sentenced to death. It did not appear to me to be an act of cruelty to sentence that fellow to hand by the neck until he was dead . the trouble is with the bench and behind it the maudlin sentimentality that forgets and condones a crime upon which the blood stains have dried. The bench is indifferent and careless. The avarice which is the curse of this age has so poisoned the people that civil law for the protection of property concerns it more than the criminal law which protects life. 'Which is of greater value your house or your life!" asks the bench and the people by their attitude in specific instances answers: 'My house.' Small wonder that the bench comes to take the same view and adjudges accordingly" from an 1896 interview with Ada Patterson at the Fort Smith National Historic Site webpage. Marbled paper on the upper board eroded but a very good copy with a nice association. Contemporary brown three-quarter leather joints rubbed and marbled boards endpapers and edges. #8369. <br/><br/> GPO hardcover books
1758641161758. An Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary. An Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary. Indirect Influences on the Development of Copyright Law Ralph James d. 1762. The Case of Authors by Profession or Trade Stated. With Regard to Booksellers The Stage And the Public. No Matter by Whom. London: Printed for R. Griffiths 1758. iv 68 i.e.76 pp. Bound with D'Israeli Isaac 1766-1848. An Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary Character. London: Printed for T. Cadell 1795. xxiii 1 226 pp. Octavo 7-3/4" x 4-3/4". Contemporary calf gilt rules to boards rebacked and recornered gilt titles to spine marbled edges. Moderate rubbing to extremities minor gatoring to boards hinges starting later owner bookplate of George P. Philes to front pastedown pocket with nine leaves of bibliographical and critical notes by Philes to rear pastedown. A few cracks to text block moderate toning to text light foxing in places annotations and check marks in Philes's hand to some leaves other owner signatures J. Mitford and Chas. Wright dated November 1853 to front endleaf "By the ingenious Mr. Ralph" in early hand to title page of The Case. Ex-library. Shelf label to spine small inkstamp to verso of title page of The Case. Two scarce titles with an interesting association. $1500. First editions. Born in New Jersey Ralph was a versatile writer of literary works histories and political criticism. He began his career in Philadelphia where he associated with Benjamin Franklin. He traveled with Franklin to London in 1725 and remained there for the rest of his life. An author of some stature he worked closely with Henry Fielding and was one of the writers satirized in Pope's Dunciad. The Case of Authors is one of his most important and enduring works. It argues that the decline of aristocratic patronage has placed the writer at the mercy of the marketplace with negative financial artistic and intellectual consequences. Although it sold poorly it went on to influence literary criticism and the development of copyright law. It was reissued in 1762. Cited in works by Oliver Goldsmith and Thomas Babington Macaulay it also influenced the Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary Character. It was a popular book that reached its fourth edition in 1828. Its author the father of the Prime Minister was a notable literary scholar and essayi. unknown books
19743245New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Third Printing. Original cloth in dust jacket. Inscribed by Singer to Henry Miller: "To My Good Friend Henry Miller with admiration and love Isaac B. Singer. May 26 1975." Beneath this inscription Singer has written: "Here is the story you quoted in your letter. I wish you long and creative years. I.B.S." Miller often wrote about how much he loved Singer's work. A wonderful literary association. Offered with: A copy of the first edition in DJ worn of Singer's 1961 book The Spinoza of Market Street also from Miller's library though unmarked as such. <br/><br/> Farrar, Straus, & Giroux hardcover books
1820321194Np 1820. Manuscript throughout in black red and yellow ink. 54pp. with hand colored geometric illustrations. Signed by Isaac Doughten at the head of the first page and within. Stitched. Manuscript throughout in black red and yellow ink. 54pp. with hand colored geometric illustrations. Signed by Isaac Doughten at the head of the first page and within. unknown books
983804<b>Brun Franz Isaac. printmaker; goldsmith/metalworker; German; Male; c.1535 - c.1610/20. Euterpe Engraving on laid paper last half of 16th century. Strasbourg.</b><br /><br /> Brun Franz Isaac. printmaker; goldsmith/metalworker; German; Male; c.1535 - c.1610/20.<b> Euterpe</b> Engraving on laid paper last half of 16th century. Strasbourg. W<i>hole-length winged female figure in profile to left wearing antique costume and playing a harp.</i> Trimmed to platemark uneven along right margin. Height: 72 millimetres; Width: 50 millimetres. Fine impression. Signed in the plate with monogram 'FB' and inscribed 'EUTERPE' along the upper edge. Image of the muse of music and lyric poetry. From a series of 9 engravings of the muses. Franz Brun b. Pressburg Possibly trained in Nuremburg. active 1559 - 1596 He was a draughtsman goldsmith and engraver from Strasbourg. He engraved several series in the manner of the Nuremberg "Kleinmeister". <br /><br />Bibliography See Bartsch IX 443-472 as Maître FB; Hollstein 26. Provenance: Friedrich August of Saxony lugt 971;two other: Hugo Ahne and a Dr K. O. neither in Lugt.<br /> books
47928Oblong 4to. 1 page seal intact; docketed on verso. Burke and Huger each had prominent associations with the South Carolina branch of the Society of Cincinnati Huger serving as first vice-president and Burke publishing a widely circulated pamphlet warning that the organization would widen the division between "the patricians and the rabble." Folded; some browning but very good. <br/><br/> unknown books
1834806311834. TITSINGH Isaac. NIPON O DAI ITSI RAN OU ANNALES DES EMPEREURS DU JAPON TRADUITES PAR M. ISSAC TITSINGH avec l'aide de plusieurs interpretes attaches au Comptoir hollandais de Nagasaki; Ouvrage revu complete et corrige sur l'Original japonais-chinois accompagne de notes et precede d'un Apercu de l'Histoire mythologique du Japon par M. J. Klaproth. Paris: Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland; Sold by Parbury Allen and Co. London 1834. Quarto. 6viiixxxvi460 pp. 27.4 cm. In a modern brick cloth binding with a dulled gilt-stamped title to spine; it is lightly scuffed on lower board and a little faded on spine. Text is quite clean and crisp. Very good plus. Cordier 450. unknown books
1842307613London: Henry Washbourne 1842. Extra-illustrated with numerous plates including 23 portraits 8 hand-colored 13 views 2 hand-colored and 12 natural history plates 4 finely hand colored illustrations of raptors and a peahen 9 aquatint plates by Daniell and 2 leaves of music; with woodcut illustrations in text. lxxii 396 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full crushed russet morocco gilt turn-ins spine and boards tooled with angling motifs in gilt a.e.g. by Bayntun. Fine. Extra-illustrated with numerous plates including 23 portraits 8 hand-colored 13 views 2 hand-colored and 12 natural history plates 4 finely hand colored illustrations of raptors and a peahen 9 aquatint plates by Daniell and 2 leaves of music; with woodcut illustrations in text. lxxii 396 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A handsomely bound and richly extra-illustrated copy of the uncommon Washbourne edition of the classic Compleat Angler of Walton and Cotton. Coigney 51 Henry Washbourne unknown books
1988014719Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 1988. SIGNED by the author. All edged gilt. Covers and spine designed and lettered in gilt. Silk bookmark sewn-in. Copy of Collector's Noted laid-in. Introduction by James Gunn Full-page color illustrations by Michael Whelan. "The first thing to understand about "The Foundation Trilogy" is that it is not a trilogy. There isn't a novel in the book. It is a series of nine stories: five of the novelettes and four of them novellas. The World Science Fiction Convention of 1966 voted them 'the greatest all-time science-fiction series". From the introduction by James Gunn. First published as a series of short stories from 1942-1950; subsequently as three collections in 1951-1953. In 1966 it received a special Hugo Award as "Best All-time Series". No other series has ever received that honor. 510pp. Signed by Author. Collector's Edition. Full Gray Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Royal Octavo. The Easton Press hardcover books
1953129321London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1953. Octavo boards. First British edition. The first volume of the Foundation series awarded a special Hugo in 1966 for best all-time series. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-46. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II pp. 819-31. Fine light foxing to cut edges in a very good plus dust jacket very light rubbing to corners and edges some soiling and spotting to rear panel some spotting to spine panel front panel nice and bright. A very attractive copy of an uncommon edition of this title. #129321. Weidenfeld & Nicolson unknown books
1952140904004New York: Gnome Press 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition First Printing. In first state binding with red binding and black nebula insignia on the front cover. Very Good in a Good first state dust jacket with price of $2.75 intact. Pages lightly age toned. Cloth shows edge wear and wear at spine ends. Light shelf lean. The dust jacket shows rubbing chipping and edge wear with loss at spine ends and splitting and loss to flap folds some of which has been repaired and strengthened with archival mending tissue from the verso. A nice copy presents well. Gnome Press hardcover books
1952155202Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1952. Octavo boards. First edition. ". an effective standalone blend of mystery and adventure on a world where unspecified disaster has been foretold by a highly specialist expert now lost to amnesia." - John Clute / Malcolm J. Edwards SFE online. "Minor early Asimov set against the interstellar background of the Trantorian Empire about to become the galactic empire of the 'Foundation' series. A complex adventure with an anti-racist theme." - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction second edition 1995 p. 83. Endpapers mildly tanned touch of fade to edges of boards a nearly fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with mild rubbing at edges. An attractive copy. #155202 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1955142674Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1955. Octavo cloth. First edition. Eternals police human history against disasters making history safe for mankind. "Time guardians rove through the centuries keeping all eras in harmony. The hero rebels preferring the uncertainties of infinity to the carefully controlled boredom of Eternity." - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction second edition 1995 p. 120. ". a complex thoughtful story of time travel time paradoxes and time police considered by some critics to be his best work." - John Clute / Malcolm J. Edwards SFE online. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with wear and shallow chipping along top and bottom edges a sticker stain to spine panel and a bit of age tanning but no show though on the outer surface. #142674 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1955142683Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1955. Octavo boards. First edition. Asimov's first collection of short fiction. Collects "The Martian Way" "Youth" a first contact story "The Deep" an amusing Earth invaded by aliens satire and "Sucker Bait" all written between 1952 and 1954. "Good traditional SF of the period." - Anatomy of Wonder 1987 3-21. Most of the best of his short stories . were initially assembled in a series of impressive volumes including THE MARTIAN WAY AND OTHER STORIES 1955 EARTH IS ROOM ENOUGH: SCIENCE FICTION TALES OF OUR OWN PLANET 1957 and NINE TOMORROWS: TALES OF THE NEAR FUTURE 1959. Just a hint of tanning to endpapers a fine copy in very good dust jacket with light wear at spine ends and corners a bit of soiling to rear panel and faint sticker stain on front flap. A nice copy of a scarce book. #142683 Doubleday & Company unknown books
195100007892Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 12 13-218 2 pp. Navy cloth with light pink lettering on the spine. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. Currey 19. A very attractive copy of this early Asimov science fiction novel and uncommon thus. Just about Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with a few traces of edge wear and moderate sunning to spine panel. Doubleday & Company hardcover books
1951142712Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1951. Octavo cloth. First edition. Asimov's third sf book and second sf novel. Asimov's first three published novels are set earlier in the galactic empire future history of the Foundation stories but have no direct connection with them. THE STARS LIKE DUST is a space opera in which rebels fight the powerful war lords of Tyrann whose goal is the domination of the Galaxy. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 239. A fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with light wear to spine ends short closed tear at lower front flap fold with faint associated wrinkle on front panel and fading to the pinkish-orange ink on the spine panel. Presents well overall. #142712 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1951138685Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1951. Octavo cloth. First edition. Asimov's third sf book and second sf novel. Asimov's first three published novels are set earlier in the galactic empire future history of the Foundation stories but have no direct connection with them. THE STARS LIKE DUST is a space opera in which rebels fight the powerful war lords of Tyrann whose goal is the domination of the Galaxy. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 239. A fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with light wear to corners 15 mm closed tear along bottom edge of rear flap fold and spine ends and some internal age-darkening with some show through on rear panel. #138685 Doubleday & Company unknown books
168338984Londini: Milonis Flesher pr. for the author sold by Pitt & Aylmer 1683. 4to 23 cm 9.1". 16 450 2 blank pp. Pp. 223/24 Ff3 lacking. <br><br>First edition: erudite translations of eight treatises. Born Jewish the French scholar Louis de Compiègne de Veil studied theology at the Sorbonne after converting to Christianity and set out to translate the whole of Maimonides' Yad ha-Chazakah from Hebrew into Latin. The present work encompasses the Sefer ha-Korbanot the section on sacrifices along with the portion on consecration of new moons and intercalations and Isaac Abravanel's preface to his commentary on Leviticus; the latter gives the => Hebrew and Latin texts on facing pages. Each section has a divisional title-page with continuous pagination. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC R25499; Wing rev. ed. M2854. Contemporary mottled calf framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons; refurbished and nicely rebacked with speckled calf spine with blind-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped leather title-label original leather pitted and worn. All page edges speckled red. Front fly-leaf title-page and one other institutionally rubber-stamped; Ff3 either a sectional title or a blank leaf lacking. Pages gently age-toned and cockled with a few corners bumped; small ink smudge in upper outer portions of two facing pages. "Exordium" with intermittent pencilled underlining and two marginal annotations pencilled in English. => Interesting 17th-century Judaica in a strong and decent copy. Milonis Flesher (pr. for the author, sold by Pitt & Aylmer) hardcover books
184865054New York: Published by Daniel Adee 176 Fulton Street Turney & Lockwood's Stereo 1848. First American edition later printing. The first edition was published in 1687. Frontispiece portrait taken from the bust in the Royal Observatory of Greenwich diagrams in text. 8vo. Original green cloth. Head of spine carefully restored some rubbing some light browning mostly at front and back a very good copy of this important work. In a leather-tipped green cloth open-end box. Bookplate of O. Stuck on endpapers. First American edition later printing. The first edition was published in 1687. Frontispiece portrait taken from the bust in the Royal Observatory of Greenwich diagrams in text. 8vo. The first English edition of Newton's "Principia" was translated by Andrew Motte a mathematician who with his brother Benjamin the publisher had edited the abridged "Philosophical transactions." This first English edition was published in 1729 from the third and definitive Latin edition of 1726. Newton's "A Treatise of the System of the World" was first published in English in 1728. The American edition bears a dedication and an introduction directed to teachers "If to educate means not so much to store the memory with symbols and facts as to bring forth the faculties of the soul and to develope them to the full by healthy nurture and a hardy discipline then what so effective to the accomplishment of that end as the study of Geometrical Synthesis . Let the Principia then be gladly welcomed into every Hall where a True Teacher presides." Copyright 1846 but first published 1848; the present copy is printed from stereotype plates wear to terminal page number. "The greatest work in the history of science . the "Principia" provided the great systhesis of the cosmos proving finally its physical unity . for the first time a single mathematical law could explain the motion of objects on earth as well as the phenomena of the heavens" PMM. Babson 23; Gray 26; Karpinski p. 491; Horblit 78; PMM 161 Published by Daniel Adee, 176 Fulton Street [Turney & Lockwood's Stereo unknown books
192221083London: William Heinemann 1922. First edition. One of 500 copies printed. The first collected edition of Rosenberg's work preceded by several rare pamphlets published prior to his death at the front in World War I. Rosenberg was one of the great literary losses of the Great War along with Wilfred Owen and Edward Thomas although had he survived he might have proved to be an even greater painter. His poems "Break of Day in the Trenches" "Louse Hunting" and "Dead Man's Dump" which are collected here are classics of the literature of war. A fine copy in dust jacket which is very slightly rubbed. 8vo frontispiece portrait original black cloth with printed label on the spine dust jacket. A fine copy in dust jacket which is very slightly rubbed. William Heinemann unknown books
184744617Philadelphia: for the AMA by T. K. and P. G. Collins 1847. <p>Hays Isaac 1796-1879. American Medical Association. Proceedings of the national medical conventions held in New York May 1846 and in Philadelphia May 1847. 5-175pp. all present. Philadelphia: Printed for the American Medical Association T. K. & P. G. Collins printers 1847. 240 x 154 mm. Quarter morocco marbled boards in antique style. Light browning edges a bit frayed but very good. Embossed library stamp on title.</p> <p> First Edition of the founding document of the American Medical Association the world's first national professional medical association. The Proceedings contains the first printing of the AMA's famous "Code of Medical Ethics" the first national codification of ethics for any profession. The Code's two co-authors John Bell and Isaac Hays drew from the precepts set forth by Thomas Percival in his Medical Ethics 1803 but used them to create "a radically innovative document that transformed and transcended Percival's ideas providing the foundation for what is best described as ‘the American medical ethics revolution'" Baker 1999 p. 19. The Code which was largely the work of Hays appears on pages 91-106 of the Proceedings. It is prefaced by Bell's "Introduction" explaining the Code's methodology pages 83-90 which was omitted from the AMA's numerous later reprints of the Code. Baker "The American medical ethics revolution" in The American Medical Ethics Revolution 1999 pp. 17-69. Baker "Introduction" in The Codification of Medical Morality 2007 pp. 1-21. Garrison-Morton.com 10063. 44617</p> . for the AMA by T. K. and P. G. Collins unknown books
