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1220Twelve folding engraved plates. 4 p.l. 382 pp. one leaf of ads. 8vo cont. calf small portions of ends of spine & one corner carefully repaired spine gilt red morocco lettering piece on spine. London: W. Innys 1730.<br/> <br/> Fourth edition and the final edition to be revised by Newton of this great classic. It contains the complete set of 31 Queries which reveal some of Newton’s most influential and speculative writing. Fine crisp copy. Contemporary armorial bookplate of Edward Powell. <br/> <br/> ⧠Babson 136. unknown
17225823London: Benji & Sam. Tooke 1722. Second edition. <p>Second edition but the first authorised and edited by Newton probably with the assistance of John Machin of his treatise on algebra or 'universal arithmetic' his "most often read and republished mathematical work" Whiteside. "Included are 'Newton's identities' providing expressions for the sums of the ith powers of the roots of any polynomial equation for any integer i plus a rule providing an upper bound for the positive roots of a polynomial and a generalization to imaginary roots of René Descartes' Rule of Signs" Parkinson.</p>. NEWTON'S ALGEBRA - THE FIRST EDITION AUTHORISED AND EDITED BY NEWTON. <p>Second edition but the first authorised and edited by Newton probably with the assistance of John Machin - see below of his treatise on algebra or 'universal arithmetic' his "most often read and republished mathematical work" Whiteside Papers V p. xiv. "Included are 'Newton's identities' providing expressions for the sums of the ith powers of the roots of any polynomial equation for any integer i pp. 251-2 plus a rule providing an upper bound for the positive roots of a polynomial and a generalization to imaginary roots of René Descartes' Rule of Signs pp. 242-5" Parkinson p. 138. About this last rule for determining the number of imaginary roots of a polynomial which Newton offered without proof Gjertsen p. 35 notes: "Some idea of its originality . can be gathered from the fact that it was not until 1865 that the rule was derived in a rigorous manner by James Sylvester." The work is a printed version of lectures Newton prepared in the period 1672-83. Although the editor of the first edition William Whiston later claimed that he had Newton's permission to print the lectures Newton was far from satisfied with the result complaining that the titles and headings were not his and that it contained numerous mistakes. His real concern was that "an unfinished text composed so long before should now be presented to the world as though it represented his latest researches into the structure and applications of algebra" Papers V p. 11 and that Whiston had "too faithfully and impercipiently followed the parent manuscript incorporating in his princeps edition its several inconsistencies and lapses into error without in the main even bringing them to the reader's notice . In his private library copy of the edition Newton corrected many minor misprints inserted more appropriate running heads 'Multiplicatio' 'Divisio' 'Extractio Radicum' 'De Forma Aequationis' 'Reductio Aequationum' 'Resolutio Quaestionum Arithmeticarum Geometricarum' and the like and on the Arithmetica page 279 deleted an unwarranted half-title 'Aequationum Constructio linearis'; more radically he mapped out a large-scale reordering of the sixty-one geometrical problems comprising its central portion seeking to grade them into a more logical sequence and in increasing levels of difficulty while in the concluding section on the 'curvilinear ' construction of equations he pared away all not directly needed flesh reducing it to two skeletal conchoidal neuses now denuded of their proof. That last savage act of butchery apart all these improvements were incorporated in the Latin revise - future parent and rightfully so of all subsequent editions - which he himself brought to publication in 1722" ibid. pp. 13-14. Babson notes that "This edition was the last issued during Newton's lifetime and is almost as rare as the first." In commerce this edition is in fact much rarer than the first: ABPC/RBH list only two other copies of this edition since 1975 but ten of the first.</p> <br /> <p>"In fulfilment of his obligations as Lucasian Professor Newton first lectured on algebra in 1672 and seems to have continued until 1683. Although the manuscript of the lectures in Cambridge University Library carries marginal dates from October 1673 to 1683 it should not be assumed that the lectures were ever delivered. There are no contemporary accounts of them and apart from Cotes who made a transcript of them in 1702 they seem to have been totally ignored. Whiteside Papers V p. 5 believes that they were composed 'over a period of but a few months' during the winter of 1683-4" Gjertsen pp. 33-4.</p> <br /> <p>The Arithmetica "derives partly in its discussion of the elemental algebraic operations and of the reduction and exact solution of equations from Newton's earlier unpublished 'Observations' on the introduction to Cartesian algebra presented by Gerard Kinckhuysen in his 1661 Stelkonst partly in its techniques for delimiting the number and nature real or complex of the roots of equations and for reducing these by factorization from his own independent researches as a young postgraduate student into the theory of equations and partly in its approximate geometrical construction of cubics from his previously elaborated 'Problems for construing aequations'. Apart from novelties in detail and the fabrication of new illustrative 'questions' what is most notable is Newton's developing awareness - still far from completely expressed - of the fundamental structural equivalence which exists between the elements constants and free variables and their functional relationships of algebra and those given lines and undetermined line-lengths and their coordinate interconnections of geometry and his deepening grasp of the still more general isomorphism which permits a two-way 'translation' between mathematical 'speech' and the 'language' of exact science in all its manifestations. His guiding doctrine that algebra is 'universal arithmetick' embroiders a theme stated briefly in an opening phrase of his 1671 treatise on infinite series and fluxions and expounded in a geometrical context earlier still in preface to James Gregory's study of universal mathematical principles. Now also however he reaches tentatively forward to Barrow's notion that algebra is in its essence the abstract logic of relationships between quantities in divorce from their particular setting and hence to be developed as an independent metamathematical system" Papers V pp. 3-4.</p> <br /> <p>"We may reasonably conjecture that pressure was in some manner put upon Newton in late 1683 to fulfil however tardily his statutory obligation annually to deposit a fair copy of ten of his lecture scripts and be all but sure that the arrival in Cambridge the next spring of his young amanuensis Humphrey Newton able to take over from Isaac the dreary time-consuming chore of rewriting his much cancelled and corrected worksheets in legible and coherent form gave him new heart to codify and expand his previous mathematical investigations. But these surmises remain as unproved and essentially undemonstrable as the plausible suggestion that it was Edmond Halley's famous first visit to Cambridge in the late summer of 1684 to talk about the unsolved problem of elliptical planetary motion which provoked him abruptly to relinquish his restructuring of the Arithmetica. We may guess still more tenuously that the appearance in mid-1685 of John Wallis' voluminous Treatise of Algebra Both Historical and Practical would have long deterred Newton from making any efforts to have his own rival studies made publicly available. In later years certainly he grew increasingly soured with the often cumbersome computations and techniques of Cartesian algebra - at one point indeed if we may believe David Gregory he qualified it as 'the Analysis of the Bunglers in Mathematicks - and we may be certain that his reluctance during 1705-6 to have Whiston edit the deposited text of his algebraic lectures was not merely the manifestation of a growing personal antagonism to his successor in the Lucasian chair" ibid. pp. xi-xii.</p> <br /> <p>"When Newton resigned his Lucasian professorship to his deputy William Whiston in December 1701 it was natural that the latter should wish to familiarize himself with the deposited lectures of his predecessor. Whiston did not hesitate to introduce portions of Newton's earlier optical lectures concerning the mathematical theory of the rainbow into his own Lucasian Praelectiones physico-mathematica in the spring of 1706 and about that time also he turned his attention to the succeeding ones on algebra and began to consider their publication. In the meantime rumours began to spread in both Oxford and London that 'Newton's friends solicit him to publish a Treatise of Algebra which he wrote long since. If such ill-founded whispers penetrated to Cambridge Whiston ignored them and went quietly ahead arranging with the London stationer to underwrite the expense of printing the deposited manuscript and then subsequently between September 1705 and the following June correcting both specimen and proof sheets as they emerged from the compositor's bench at the University Press. In February 1706 David Gregory accurately noted in his memoranda that 'Its talked that there is now printing at Cambridge Elements or Principles of Algebra written long since by Sir Isaac Newton but withdrew his added remark that it was 'lately revised by him' when he saw Newton in London in July and was given a first-hand account of the history of the 'Algebra that is printing and near printed at Cambridge'. Though as Whiston was later to announce publicly Newton had given his reluctant approval for the edition . Despite its minor inconsistencies and confusions Gregory's report vividly conveys Newton's concern that an unfinished text composed so long before should now be presented to the world as though it represented his latest researches into the structure and applications of algebra" pp. 8-11.</p> <br /> <p>For a book that was to become Newton's most often republished mathematical work the Arithmetica initially made little impact in Britain and was not even graced by a review in the Philosophical Transactions. On the Continent the reception accorded the lectures was more positive. "Leibniz unhesitatingly divining their author beneath the cloak of anonymity gave them a long review in the Acta Eruditorum of Leipzig in 1708. Written thirty years before he noted and now deservingly printed by William Whiston he assured the reader that 'you will find in this little book certain particularities that you will seek in vain in great tomes on analysis.' His close associate Johann Bernoulli despite some adverse remarks paid Newton the compliment in 1728 of basing his own course on the elements of algebra upon Newton's text. Perhaps partly in consequence of Newton's recent death in Britain too the book began about this time to arouse greater interest than when it was first issued in 1707" Hall p. 174.</p> <br /> <p>Despite the impressive contributions of the work to the theory of equations mentioned earlier it is difficult to pigeonhole the work as being either algebraic or geometric. From one point of view the Arithmetica can be seen as a fulfillment of the programme outlined by Descartes in the Géométrie because it teaches how geometrical problems and also arithmetical and mechanical ones can be translated into the language of algebra. Paradoxically however Newton criticized Descartes maintaining that at least in some cases Apollonian geometry is to be preferred to Cartesian algebra in the analysis of indeterminate problems. Modern analysts he complained had confused algebra and geometry: "The Ancients so assiduously distinguished them one from the other that they never introduced arithmetical terms into geometry. recent people by confusing both have lost the simplicity in which all elegance in geometry consists" Papers V p. 429. The last section of the work 'The linear construction of equations' pp. 279-326 is particularly anti-Cartesian the term 'linear' in this context does not refer to straight lines but derives from Pappus. Newton here deals with the problem of constructing cubics third-degree equations that Descartes solved via the intersection of a circle and a parabola. Newton proposed instead to use a curve of degree higher than the conics as a means of construction namely the conchoid a fourth-degree curve. Newton regarded the conchoid as preferable because it has a mechanical construction and leads to a more elegant solution of the problem.</p> <br /> <p>The present 1722 revision is "the standard text of the Arithmetica published much as before 'Impensis Benj. & Sam. Tooke'. It appeared to Newton's first editor that 'that acute Mathematician Mr. John Machin Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College . and one of the Secretaries of the Royal Society published this Work again by the Author's later Desire or Permission; I lay no claim to it' Whiston Memoirs; John Conduitt's memorandum King's College Cambridge. Keynes MS 130.5 again adds the clarification that 'Machin overlooked the press for which Sir I intended to have given him 100 Guineas but he made him wait 3 years for a preface & then did not write one'. Elsewhere Keynes MS 130.6 2 Conduitt noted that 'Sir I. told me that Machin understood his Principia better than anybody that Halley was the best Astronomer but Machin the best Geometer'. Newton's active stage-managing of the 1722 revise can be documented in several ways: most notably a stray autograph sentence on an otherwise clean folio page now ULC. Add. 3960.7: 95 differs by only a single trivial adverb from an inserted footnote clarifying the reference to the unimplemented 'Regulae post docendae' on page 52 of the deposited copy. The ubiquitous presence of its author's editorial hand was not missed by W. J. 's Gravesande when he came to reissue the Arithmetica ten years later: 'Secunda vice liber in lucem prodiit Londini 1722; sed in statu perfectiore ut quis facile percipiat non omnino foetum abdicasse virum Celeberrimum; ordo propositionum non tantum mutatus est sed in ipsis solutionibus & demonstrationibus correctiones multae reperiuntur non nisi ipsi Auctori tribuendae'" ibid. p. 14 n 60.</p> <br /> <p>"Benjamin Tooke the London publisher and printer he was Queen's printer had eight books published at the Cambridge Press all of them by Whiston between 1702 and 1712. There are two London printer's ornaments used in this volume pp. 283 & 289 and nowhere else but we know that the woodcuts for the illustrations in the 1707 edition were delivered to Cambridge possibly from London 6d. was paid for the parcel. So far as one can tell the woodcuts are identical and we must assume they had been reclaimed by Tooke. Unfortunately we have no letters from Newton about the printing history of this volume" Macclesfield sale catalogue.</p> <br /> <p>Babson 200; Macclesfield 1520; Wallis 278. Gjertsen Newton Handbook 1986. Hall Isaac Newton 1992. Westfall Never at Rest 1983.</p> <br/> <br/> 8vo pp. iv 332 including half-title with list of books on verso woodcut diagrams throughout ink name of Newton on half-title ink inscription identifying Newton as author and another Whiston as editor on title slightly browned. Contemporary panelled calf ink signature of former owner Robert Andrews on front free endpaper corners and edges rubbed joints splitting spine rubbed. Benji & Sam. Tooke unknown
196247808New York: Farrar Straus amd Cudahy 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 311p octavo Translated from the Yiddish by the author and Cecile Hemley. A little fading and a bump on the boards very good in a very good dust jacket with a corresponding scrape on the rear panel and a tiny nick on the front panel. Inscribed by the author" To my friend and colleague Bernard Malamud with my best wishes for a healthy and creative life Isaac B Singer" <br/><br/> Farrar , Straus amd Cudahy hardcover
186847609Cincinnati: Bloch & Co 1868. First edition. Hardcover. vg- to vg. Duodecimo. 263pp. Period burgundy cloth boards with blind-stamped tooling and ruling on the covers gilt lettering and tooling on the spine. Edges of book block gilt. Published as the final piece of his magnum opus project for American-Jewish liturgy titled "Minhag America" this work offers the compilation of litergical hymns psalms and other prayers with text in English and German as collected and edited by the pionneering German-born American Refrom Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise 1819-1900.<br /> <br /> The original two volumes of the Minhag America siddur prayer book had both been published in 1857 one with Hebrew-English text Prayer Book for Public and Private Worship and the other with Hebrew-German text Gebet-Buch fur den offentlichen Gottesdienst und die Privat-Andacht. As stated by Wise in his introduction this volume rather then simply being a mutl-lingual direct translation of that text is a specifically designed and compiled collection of hymns psalms and other prayers translated with care and consideration especially for this publication in only the vernacular languages of English and German with additional new writings by Wise himself and others. Text in English with the corresponding German text on the facing page. Also includes detailed service instructions religious notes a table of torah readings and a table of contents. The influential Minhag America would become the standard liturgy of American Refom congragations from its original publication until the introduction of the Union Prayer Book in the 1890s.<br /> <br /> Text throughout in English and German.<br /> <br /> Binding with light rubbing to corners some rubbing tand light chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Covers lightly smudged. Starting at the gutter of the interior front cover. Some pages throughout with light creasing. Text still clean bright and ledgible throughout. Book block tight overall. Binding in very good- interior in very good condition overall. Hebrew title: שירו ליהוה שיר חדש<br /> <br /> Singerman #2109. Bloch & Co hardcover
1730035995London: William Innys 1730. 4th Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. New Calf Spine And Tips Over Marbled Paper Covered Boards New Endpapers. Two Preliminary Blanks Title Advertisements To First Second And Fourth Editions382 Pp 12 Folding Plates And Two Pages Of Publisher's Ads At Rear. Page Block 19.5 Cm Text Block 6.5" X 3 1/2" From Top To Bottom Of Printed Area Including Page Running Headings Tall. Top Edge Of Page Block Is Dark Grey Or Black Fore Edge And Bottom Edge Red All Polished. Leaves 7 5/8" Tall; Binding 7 3/4" X 5 3/16". The Last And Best Edition Prepared By Newton Corrected From The Third Edition By Newton; In This Fourth Edition Of 1730 There Are 31 Queries And It Is The Famous "31St Query" That Over The Next Two Hundred Years Stimulated A Great Deal Of Speculation And Development On Theories Of Chemical Affinity. The Publishers Have Added To This Edition Several Citations From The Lectiones Opticae 1669-1671 To Show Where Demonstrations Omitted From The Opticks May Be Found. Unusually Well Preserved Binding Fine Contents Clean Some Tiny Foxing Spots Mainly In Margins And Mainly Towards Beginning Of Book; Very Slight Wear To Edges Of Page Block. . <br/> <br/> William Innys hardcover
1771180611Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey 1771. The beginner of the modern age of economics First edition of "one of the great documents in the history of political economy" Encyclopaedia Judaica p. 533 arguing that an expanding system of national debt would lead to economic prosperity. Written in refutation of the physiocrats the treatise contended that public debt when managed responsibly could support commercial growth by increasing liquidity credit and monetary circulation. Britain Pinto argued showed the model for a high debt as a bedrock of economic success. Beyond this he defended credit and circulation as the basic form of economic endeavour against what he termed the physiocrats' "frenzy of the soil". Implicitly he was defending the Jews who had long been denigrated for their role in the financial sphere. One of the most prominent Jewish economic writers of the 18th century Pinto's importance has long been recognized. "Marx called him 'the Pindar of the Amsterdam stock exchange' for his advocacy of speculation. Werner Sombart regarded him as the beginner of the modern age of economics and the first to understand the growth of credit. Sée claimed he was the first to say that speculation was useful" Encyclopaedia Judaica. Provenance: Arnold Heertje 1934-2020 Dutch economist with his bookplate; "W. Fredsberg" with their ownership signature on the front free endpaper and initial blank versos dated 1821 and 1818 respectively and again to title all struck through in an early hand. Octavo 198 x 120 mm pp. xvi 128 8129-368 2; bound with the additional 8-page note on the state of English finances in 1770 interim half-sheet H and the terminal errata; without the 16-page "Addition" sometimes found. Contemporary marbled calf twin red and green morocco labels gilt in compartments marbled endpapers red edges. Binding firm and fresh with only a hint of rubbing; scattered very light foxing and browning to contents else clean: an excellent copy. Einaudi 4447; Goldsmiths' 10791; Higgs 5282; INED 3603; Kress 6811; Mattioli 2851; McCulloch p. 347; Quérard VII 183. Encyclopaedia Judaica Volume 13 1972. unknown
19501309059Gnome Press 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine first edition in a fine price-clipped dust jacket housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. A cornerstone classic rarely found in this condition. Gnome Press hardcover books
17066324London: Samuel Smith & Benjamin Walford 1706. First Latin edition. Very Good/The Latin edition of Newton's 1704 Opticks was intended for the broader pan-European "Republic of Letters" and it was the first printing to carry Newton's name on the title. This is the edition that inspired Emelie du Chatelet and Voltaire and through them the whole of Europe. It is a compendium of Newton's main discoveries concerning light and color including the spectrum of sunlight the color circle the reflecting telescope and interference effects that is the so-called 'Newton's rings'. In expansion of the 1704 English text the Latin edition presents seven added "Quaestiones" which are partly devoted to Newton's support for the "corpuscular" or particle theory of light. The collation of this copy corresponds to the copy in the Babson Collection catalogue with "Pp" consisting of a single leaf and with pages 21-24 repeated in the Tractatus. . Quarto 26 cm; 14 348 2 24 2 24 21-43 1 pages 19 folded leaves of engraved plates with errata corrigenda and addenda. Ss1 a cancel. In original calf with blind-ruled border rebacked with corners built up. Spine with gilding and leather title label. Speckled edges. Old library stamps on title page along with early ownership inscriptions. References: Bowes and Bowes #179; Babson Collection 137; Norman 1589. Samuel Smith & Benjamin Walford, hardcover books
195015527I ROBOT Gnome Press 1950 first edition fine in vg/vg dust-wrapper with some light rubbing to the front dust-wrapper panel and fading to about half the dust-wrapper spine. Laid in is a 42 word typed postcard SIGNED Iby Isaac to his long time friend Sam Moskowitz dated 1/29/67 thanking Moskowitz for a royalty check for his contribution to MODERN MASTERPIECES OF SCIENCE FICTION a book he Moskowitz edited. 7068.13 postpaid / insured Gnome Press unknown
182012116London: R. Ackermann 1820. 330x275mm. 13x10¾". London R. Ackermann 1820. Folio 330 x 275mm. xvi-178 pp. 1 mapa plegado y 24 láminas coloreadas a mano al aguatinta. Encuadernación en holandesa marroquén con puntas lomera cuajada de adornos dorados. Primera edición inglesa temprana emisión con las finas láminas fechadas en 1817-1818 sin numerar y con buena impresión y color. Se trata de una de las mejores publicaciones de Ackermann y aparentemente es el primero de la serie "Picturesque Tours" que se continuaría luego con las exploraciones del Sena Ganges Tamesis etc. Se imprimieron sólo 750 ejemplares en formato similar a otras publicaciones del propio Ackermann como la dedicada a los Colegios Ingleses a la Abadía de Westminster y el Microcosmos de Londres. El libro describe un viaje por el Rhin que transcurre por la rivera considerada generalmente como más elegante y romántica. La relación contiene no sólo descripciones topográficas sino que incluye también información histórica de los lugares que recorre así como detalles de sus tradiciones populares. Contiene en total 1 mapa plegado y 24 finas láminas coloreadas a mano en la época al aguatinta. Muy buen ejemplar. R. Ackermann hardcover
04831London: Published by R. Ackermann.Printed by L. Harrison 1820. One of the Great Nineteenth-Century Color-Plate Books<br/>with Twenty-Four Hand-Colored Aquatints<br/><br/>GERNING J.J. Johann Isaac von. A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine from Mentz to Cologne: With Illustrations of the Scenes of Remarkable Events and of Popular Traditions. Embellished with Twenty-Four Highly Finished and Coloured Engravings from the Drawings of M. Schuetz; and Accompanied by a Map. Translated from the German by John Black. London: Published by R. Ackermann. Printed by L. Harrison 1820.<br/><br/>First English edition early issue. The original German edition was published in Wiesbaden in 1819 as Die Rheingegenden von Mainz bis Cölln. <br/><br/>Large quarto 13 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches; 336 x 273 mm. xiv xv xvi 178 pp. Complete with the list of subscribers pp. v-viii. Large folding engraved map with color highlights and twenty-four fine hand-colored aquatint plates by D. Havell and T. Sutherland after C.G. Schutz with tissue guards. Text watermarked 1817 and 1818 plates watermarked 1818 and 1819. In this copy the plates are unnumbered and the Mentz plate is dated "Octor. 1 1819" and the Biebrich plate is dated "Septr. 1 1819." Minimal offsetting from plates to text. <br/><br/>Contemporary plum diced morocco covers richly bordered in gilt and blind. Spine with five shallow raised bands ruled in gilt and elaborated gilt and title in compartments. Decorative gilt board edges and turn-ins pale gray endpapers all edges gilt. With the armorial bookplate of Sarah Marie Turnor on front pastedown. Spine slightly faded. A fine copy.<br/><br/><br/>"The original unillustrated German edition was published in Wies-baden in 1819 as Die Rheingegenden von Mainz bis Cölln and it is clear from the.‘Vorerinnerung' which is dated 14 June 1819 that Ackermann's edition was already planned; it seems possible in the circumstances in fact that the text was commissioned by Ackermann as were the views for the plates.Another German edition this time containing twenty-four views was published in Frankfurt in 1822" Abbey. <br/><br/>"Containing a complete History and Picturesque Description of a portion of Country so full of curious and interesting circumstances as well as so resplendent for its landscape grandeur and beauty. The Work will be embellished with Twenty-four highly finished and coloured Engravings from Drawings expressly made by an eminent Artist resident near the Banks of the Rhine and habitually familiar with every part of it.The romantic beautiful and ever-varying Scenery of this River forms a distinguished feature of every modern foreign Tour; and no one can consider himself as an accomplished traveller who is not more or less acquainted with it.Baron von Gerning whose literary character is so well established in Germany has undertaken to write the Historical Part; and Mr. Schutz so well known as an artist will furnish the Drawings" Ackermann's prospectus for the completed work printed on the rear wrapper of Part I and others.<br/><br/>"There are definitely later issues of the book.and these can be recognized by having plate numbers at the top right-hand corner. The impressions in these issues are poor and the colouring less good" Abbey.<br/><br/>Abbey Travel 217. Martin Hardie pp. 107-108 and 312. Prideaux pp. 337 and 375. Tooley 234. London: Published by R. Ackermann....Printed by L. Harrison, 1820 unknown books
04820London: Published by R. Ackermann.Printed by L. Harrison 1820. Cologne! Cologne! Thy Walls are Won"<br/>One of the Great Nineteenth-Century Color-Plate Books<br/>with Twenty-Four Hand-Colored Aquatints<br/><br/>GERNING J.J. Johann Isaac von. A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine from Mentz to Cologne: With Illustrations of the Scenes of Remarkable Events and of Popular Traditions. Embellished with Twenty-Four Highly Finished and Coloured Engravings from the Drawings of M. Schuetz; and Accompanied by a Map. Translated from the German by John Black. London: Published by R. Ackermann. Printed by L. Harrison 1820.<br/><br/>First English edition early issue. The original German edition was published in Wiesbaden in 1819 as Die Rheingegenden von Mainz bis Cölln. <br/><br/>Large quarto 13 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches; 336 x 273 mm. xiv xv xvi 178 pp. Complete with the list of subscribers pp. v-viii. Large folding engraved map with color highlights and twenty-four fine hand-colored aquatint plates by D. Havell and T. Sutherland after C.G. Schutz with tissue guards. Text watermarked 1817 and 1818 plates watermarked 1816 1818 and 1819. In this copy the plates are unnumbered and the Mentz plate is dated "Octor. 1 1819" and the Biebrich plate is dated "Septr. 1 1819."<br/><br/>Slightly later ca. 1840 quarter brown calf over publisher's original pictorial boards. Spine with five shallow bands decoratively ruled and decorated in gilt in compartments blue morocco label lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers and marbled edges. Inner hinges neatly strengthened. Some very minor foxing and minimal offsetting. The original tissue-guards are soiled at edges. A fine tall copy in a contemporary binding albeit rebacked some twenty years later.<br/><br/>Two blank leaves at the beginning contain three pages of early ink manuscript from J.R. Planché Lays and Legends of the Rhine. Frankfurt: 1830. The poems included are The Lake of Constance; The Rhine Wine Song and L'Envoy. Cologne<br/><br/>"The original unillustrated German edition was published in Wies-baden in 1819 as Die Rheingegenden von Mainz bis Cölln and it is clear from the.‘Vorerinnerung' which is dated 14 June 1819 that Ackermann's edition was already planned; it seems possible in the circumstances in fact that the text was commissioned by Ackermann as were the views for the plates.Another German edition this time containing twenty-four views was published in Frankfurt in 1822" Abbey. <br/><br/>"Containing a complete History and Picturesque Description of a portion of Country so full of curious and interesting circumstances as well as so resplendent for its landscape grandeur and beauty. The Work will be embellished with Twenty-four highly finished and coloured Engravings from Drawings expressly made by an eminent Artist resident near the Banks of the Rhine and habitually familiar with every part of it.The romantic beautiful and ever-varying Scenery of this River forms a distinguished feature of every modern foreign Tour; and no one can consider himself as an accomplished traveller who is not more or less acquainted with it.Baron von Gerning whose literary character is so well established in Germany has undertaken to write the Historical Part; and Mr. Schutz so well known as an artist will furnish the Drawings" Ackermann's prospectus for the completed work printed on the rear wrapper of Part I and others.<br/><br/>"There are definitely later issues of the book.and these can be recognized by having plate numbers at the top right-hand corner. The impressions in these issues are poor and the colouring less good" Abbey.<br/><br/>Abbey Travel 217. Martin Hardie pp. 107-108 and 312. Prideaux pp. 337 and 375. Tooley 234. London: Published by R. Ackermann....Printed by L. Harrison, 1820 unknown books
04831London: Published by R. Ackermann.Printed by L. Harrison 1820. One of the Great Nineteenth-Century Color-Plate Books<br /> with Twenty-Four Hand-Colored Aquatints<br /> <br /> GERNING J.J. Johann Isaac von. A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine from Mentz to Cologne: With Illustrations of the Scenes of Remarkable Events and of Popular Traditions. Embellished with Twenty-Four Highly Finished and Coloured Engravings from the Drawings of M. Schuetz; and Accompanied by a Map. Translated from the German by John Black. London: Published by R. Ackermann. Printed by L. Harrison 1820.<br /> <br /> First English edition early issue. The original German edition was published in Wiesbaden in 1819 as Die Rheingegenden von Mainz bis Cölln. <br /> <br /> Large quarto 13 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches; 336 x 273 mm. xiv xv xvi 178 pp. Complete with the list of subscribers pp. v-viii. Large folding engraved map with color highlights and twenty-four fine hand-colored aquatint plates by D. Havell and T. Sutherland after C.G. Schutz with tissue guards. Text watermarked 1817 and 1818 plates watermarked 1818 and 1819. In this copy the plates are unnumbered and the Mentz plate is dated "Octor. 1 1819" and the Biebrich plate is dated "Septr. 1 1819." Minimal offsetting from plates to text. <br /> <br /> Contemporary plum diced morocco covers richly bordered in gilt and blind. Spine with five shallow raised bands ruled in gilt and elaborated gilt and title in compartments. Decorative gilt board edges and turn-ins pale gray endpapers all edges gilt. With the armorial bookplate of Sarah Marie Turnor on front pastedown. Spine slightly faded. A fine copy.<br /> <br /> <br /> "The original unillustrated German edition was published in Wies-baden in 1819 as Die Rheingegenden von Mainz bis Cölln and it is clear from the.'Vorerinnerung' which is dated 14 June 1819 that Ackermann's edition was already planned; it seems possible in the circumstances in fact that the text was commissioned by Ackermann as were the views for the plates.Another German edition this time containing twenty-four views was published in Frankfurt in 1822" Abbey. <br /> <br /> "Containing a complete History and Picturesque Description of a portion of Country so full of curious and interesting circumstances as well as so resplendent for its landscape grandeur and beauty. The Work will be embellished with Twenty-four highly finished and coloured Engravings from Drawings expressly made by an eminent Artist resident near the Banks of the Rhine and habitually familiar with every part of it.The romantic beautiful and ever-varying Scenery of this River forms a distinguished feature of every modern foreign Tour; and no one can consider himself as an accomplished traveller who is not more or less acquainted with it.Baron von Gerning whose literary character is so well established in Germany has undertaken to write the Historical Part; and Mr. Schutz so well known as an artist will furnish the Drawings" Ackermann's prospectus for the completed work printed on the rear wrapper of Part I and others.<br /> <br /> "There are definitely later issues of the book.and these can be recognized by having plate numbers at the top right-hand corner. The impressions in these issues are poor and the colouring less good" Abbey.<br /> <br /> Abbey Travel 217. Martin Hardie pp. 107-108 and 312. Prideaux pp. 337 and 375. Tooley 234. London: Published by R. Ackermann....Printed by L. Harrison, 1820 unknown
04820London: Published by R. Ackermann.Printed by L. Harrison 1820. Cologne! Cologne! Thy Walls are Won"<br /> One of the Great Nineteenth-Century Color-Plate Books<br /> with Twenty-Four Hand-Colored Aquatints<br /> <br /> GERNING J.J. Johann Isaac von. A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine from Mentz to Cologne: With Illustrations of the Scenes of Remarkable Events and of Popular Traditions. Embellished with Twenty-Four Highly Finished and Coloured Engravings from the Drawings of M. Schuetz; and Accompanied by a Map. Translated from the German by John Black. London: Published by R. Ackermann. Printed by L. Harrison 1820.<br /> <br /> First English edition early issue. The original German edition was published in Wiesbaden in 1819 as Die Rheingegenden von Mainz bis Cölln. <br /> <br /> Large quarto 13 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches; 336 x 273 mm. xiv xv xvi 178 pp. Complete with the list of subscribers pp. v-viii. Large folding engraved map with color highlights and twenty-four fine hand-colored aquatint plates by D. Havell and T. Sutherland after C.G. Schutz with tissue guards. Text watermarked 1817 and 1818 plates watermarked 1816 1818 and 1819. In this copy the plates are unnumbered and the Mentz plate is dated "Octor. 1 1819" and the Biebrich plate is dated "Septr. 1 1819."<br /> <br /> Slightly later ca. 1840 quarter brown calf over publisher's original pictorial boards. Spine with five shallow bands decoratively ruled and decorated in gilt in compartments blue morocco label lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers and marbled edges. Inner hinges neatly strengthened. Some very minor foxing and minimal offsetting. The original tissue-guards are soiled at edges. A fine tall copy in a contemporary binding albeit rebacked some twenty years later.<br /> <br /> Two blank leaves at the beginning contain three pages of early ink manuscript from J.R. Planché Lays and Legends of the Rhine. Frankfurt: 1830. The poems included are The Lake of Constance; The Rhine Wine Song and L'Envoy. Cologne<br /> <br /> "The original unillustrated German edition was published in Wies-baden in 1819 as Die Rheingegenden von Mainz bis Cölln and it is clear from the.'Vorerinnerung' which is dated 14 June 1819 that Ackermann's edition was already planned; it seems possible in the circumstances in fact that the text was commissioned by Ackermann as were the views for the plates.Another German edition this time containing twenty-four views was published in Frankfurt in 1822" Abbey. <br /> <br /> "Containing a complete History and Picturesque Description of a portion of Country so full of curious and interesting circumstances as well as so resplendent for its landscape grandeur and beauty. The Work will be embellished with Twenty-four highly finished and coloured Engravings from Drawings expressly made by an eminent Artist resident near the Banks of the Rhine and habitually familiar with every part of it.The romantic beautiful and ever-varying Scenery of this River forms a distinguished feature of every modern foreign Tour; and no one can consider himself as an accomplished traveller who is not more or less acquainted with it.Baron von Gerning whose literary character is so well established in Germany has undertaken to write the Historical Part; and Mr. Schutz so well known as an artist will furnish the Drawings" Ackermann's prospectus for the completed work printed on the rear wrapper of Part I and others.<br /> <br /> "There are definitely later issues of the book.and these can be recognized by having plate numbers at the top right-hand corner. The impressions in these issues are poor and the colouring less good" Abbey.<br /> <br /> Abbey Travel 217. Martin Hardie pp. 107-108 and 312. Prideaux pp. 337 and 375. Tooley 234. London: Published by R. Ackermann....Printed by L. Harrison, 1820 unknown
179514355<p>Charing Cross Road Large-scale engraved map on six sheets original hand-colour in outline. </p><p>Isaac Taylor was born in Worcester in 1730 and earned an early reputation as a surveyor of both county maps and city plans. His style was easily recognisable and gave particular emphasis to the hills on his county maps; Herefordshire 1754 Hampshire 1759 Dorset 1765 Worcestershire 1772 and Gloucestershire 1777. It is surprising that Taylor like Rocque and Jefferys was not successful in gaining the approval of the Society of Arts who appeared to favour the amateur surveyors rather than the professional mapmakers Nearly all the awards went to applicants who produced just one or two maps rather than men like Taylor and Jefferys who between them published fifteen fine large-scale map accurately surveyed and well engraved and in some instances more competent than most of those that were recognised by the Society.</p><p>On the first edition of 1765 the title and dedication cartouches took up most of the bottom left-hand sheet with the bottom right-hand corner containing an extensive key. Both have been removed by William Faden for this second edition with a more sober title and a rationalisation of the key together with the removal of the majority of the ships to the sea. Although the numerous engraved notes remain which refer to the stranding of many vessels and a long engraved note just off Weymouth refers to the "Chesil Bank where The Stones at Portland are about the size of an Egg opposite Fleet and Langston they are much smaller; at Beckingston they are scarcely bigger than Pease and between Swyre and Barton-cliffe where the Bank ends it is entirely a fine clear Sand" The legend goes on to remark about composition of the soil – a firm clay – beneath the pebbles. A large part of the top three sheets is occupied by six topographical views within the county – Corfe Castle Maiden Castle The Amphitheatre at Dorchester Lulworth Castle the Observatory at Horton and Sherborne Castle.</p><p>Taylor's map was acknowledged as an outstanding piece of work at the time and was the first map to be put forward for the prestigious Society of Arts Award just ahead of Donn's Devon. Despite tremendous efforts however to win the coveted prize it was unsuccessful due to the slight inaccuracy of its place names which proved unacceptable to some of the local gentry. Even so it is a paricularly rare map with the present copy in fantastic condition with full original colour.</p><p>Many of the errors which cost Taylor his prize such as place names were amended by William Faden on the present map who had acquired much of Taylor's stock following his death in 1788. The most notable addition is the maps highlighting of the numerous trunk roads together with the distance in miles marked between market towns.</p> hardcover
85052502Paris 1820 Nepveu. Full new leather very good 301p. with 6 large fold-out copper etched plates a folding chronology table ca.12 x 20.5 cm. exceptionally bright clean paper. Cordier 449. FIRST FRENCH EDITION VERY RARE SUBTITLE: Avec la Description des Fetes et Ceremonies Obser- vees aux Differentes Epoques de l'Annee a la Cour de ces Princes et un Appendice Contenant des Details sur la Poesie des Japonais Leur Maniere de Diviser l'anee &c. Ouvrage orne de planches gravees et coloriees tire des originaux Japonais par M. Titsingh. A superb and early primary resour- ce on Japan. Magnificently engraved plates showing illustr- ations of early 19th century Japan which at that time was still closed to foreigners.Titsingh was chief agent for the Dutch East India Company stationed in Nagasaki. He described feasts & ceremonies of the Japanese court marriages funer- als law poetry chronology furniture earthquakes &c. He also gave valuable and new first-hand information on Japan based on his personal observations which otherwise were not available elsewhere. One of the most important books of time period because Japan was essentially closed to the world. A treasure and superb addition to any collection & library. By and large the most important and most valuable primary resource on Japan of that time. A marvelous resource and historic work ! Titsingh was the chief for the Dutch East India Company and was stationed in at Deshima a tiny isl- land reserved for the Dutch in the Nagasaki harbour. Deshima was closed off of to the rest of Japan. See H. Cordier: JAP- ONICA Japonica 449; Abbey Travel 557; Tooley 489 for more details. ALWAYS RARE. Color scans can be sent by email. unknown
1700000819Boston Massachusetts MA 1700. On offer is a superb and important piece of Americana specifically a handwritten deed concerning the very important geographic area of Fort Warren which defends the harbor in Boston Massachusetts and has done so from 1861 through the end of World War II. To buffs of the Civil War it was also the location where the famous Union marching anthem 'John Brown' was written using a tune from an old Methodist camp song 'Glory Glory Hallelujah!' and signed by Isaac Addington who served on the Salem Witch Trial Grand Jury and Adam Winthrop the son of John Winthrop First Governor of Massachusetts. John Winthrop 1588-1649 is perhaps best remembered for the famous sermon in which he likened the Massachusetts Bay Colony to a 'city upon a hill' a model to the world of social and religious order." Ref: Wikipedia. This manuscript document is dated Boston 27 Dec 1700. Folded into thirds Calligraphic initials. SIGNED BY ADAM WINTHROP son of John Winthrop First Governor of Massachusetts and ISAAC ADDINGTON clerk of the Grand Jury during the Salem Witch Trials. This is the original deed referenced by Holmes Abiel 1763-1837. Cambridge : Hilliard and Brown 1829. from the Coll. Mass. HiM. Soc. iii. 299. which states: "In 1700 Adam conveyed the island to his son-in-law and daughter to be transmitted to their descendants. The Indenture handsomely written on parchment is now before me. It covenants and grants the island to "John Wainwright and to Ann his wife during the term of their natural lives and afterward to the use and behoof of the heires of their two body. begotten or to be begotten forever." The island was next owned by their son John Winthrop Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy In Harvard College; and next by his sons Hines and William of Cambridge lately deceased. James purchased of William his share and a few years since sold to the United States about five acres in two parcels at the east and west end of the island with a passage way rota the one to the other for the purpose of fortifications. On the west end has been erected Fort Warren which defends the entrance of the harbour." CONDITION: signatures are strong and legible majority of the deed legible though with age-wear sometimes serious rubbing and fading discoloration some holes; certainly not in the presumed fine condition when Abiel Holmes held the document in 1829 but certainly very presentable with the red wax seal still intact. This document is a wonderful tapestry comprised of the strands of early Colonial history. Inherited by his son Adam it links the famous Winthrop name from his namesake Grandfather Adam Winthrop 1548-1623 an English lawyer and famous Puritan reformer in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods through his great grandson Professor John Winthrop who was intimately connected to Harvard University's early history. The document is also witnessed and signed by Isaac Addington the first Secretary of the Mass. Bay Colony from 1692 to 1714 who additionally served on the grand jury in the Salem witch trials. The trials famously resulted in the executions of 20 people 14 women 6 men. PROVENANCE: Most recently from a private collector the present condition suggests this deed has long been in private hands and not an institutional archive. While in the 1820s the deed was possibly present in the archives of the Mass Historical Society it did not remain in the archives long thereafter and entered less protected private circulation. That stated Mr. Jeremy B. Dibbell of the Massachusetts Historical Society has kindly confirmed that this document like others that have entered private hands is not the property of the Massachusetts Historical Society. . Good. Atlas Folio - over 23" - 25" tall. Manuscript. unknown
H872Leipzig Grosse & Gleditsch 1697. Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCXCVII. 4to. 594 . mit 4 von 8 Tafeln vorhanden Tafeln 1468. Text komplett S.135/136 in der Paginierung ¸bersprungen - so komplett!. Die wichtigestn Schriften und Beitr‰ge von Leibniz Bernoulli und Newton sind vorhanden: Leibniz G.W.: Communicatio suae pariter duarumque alienarum ad edendum sibi a Dn. Jo. Bernoulli . Solutio problematum a Jo. Bernoullio geometris publice propositorum. S. 201-205 mit 1 gefalt. Tafel;. Leibniz G.W.: Epistola ad Actorum horum Collectores. S.254-256. Bernoulli Johann: Problemapure gemometricum Eruditis propositum. S.95-96. Bernoulli Johann: De Conoidibus et Sphaeroidibus Quedam et c. S.113-118. Bernoulli Johann: Principia Calculi exponentialium seu percurrentium. S. 125-132. Bernoulli Johann: Curvatura radii in Diaphanis non uniformibus solutioque Problematis a se in Actis 1696 . S. 206-211. Bernoulli Jacob: Solutio Problematum fraternorum pecultiari Programmate Cal.Jan. 1697 . S. 211-214. Bernoulli Jacob: Solutio Difficultatis cujusdam circa naturam Flexus contrarii . S.410-412. Bernoulli Jacob: Addenda ad constructionem Problematis Beauniani. S.412-413. Newton Isaack: Excerpta eTransactionibus Philos.Anglig. Jan.1697: Epistola missa ad praenobilem virum d. Carolum Montague Armigerum . Solutio duorum problematum Mathematicorum a Jo. Bernoullio prpositorum. S. 223-224. Weitere Beitr‰ge von Marchio Hospitalius. S.217-218. Erstes Erscheinen der ber¸hmten Ausgabe von Acta Eruditorum in der die vier Lˆsungen der vier damals bedeutendsten Mathematiker zusammen gedruckt wurden. Es gab insgesamt f¸nf Lˆsungen f¸r das gestellte Problem und Newtons Lˆsung wurde erstmals in den Philosophical Transactions Januar 1697 abgedruckt und hier nachgedruckt. Die von L'Hopital vorgeschlagene hier nicht abgedruckte Lˆsung wurde erst 1988 verˆffentlicht. Das Brachistochrone-Problem wurde von Johann Bernoulli in Acta Eruditorum im Juni 1696 gestellt. Er f¸hrte das Problem wie folgt ein: "Ich Johann Bernoulli spreche den brillantesten an." Nichts ist f¸r intelligente Menschen attraktiver als ein ehrliches herausforderndes Problem dessen mˆgliche Lˆsung Ruhm verleihen und als bleibendes Denkmal bleiben wird. Ich hoffe die Dankbarkeit zu gewinnen der gesamten wissenschaftlichen Gemeinschaft indem ich den besten Mathematikern unserer Zeit ein Problem vorlege das ihre Methoden und die St‰rke ihres Intellekts auf die Probe stellt. Wenn mir jemand die Lˆsung des vorgeschlagenen Problems mitteilt werde ich ihn ˆffentlich f¸r lobenswert erkl‰ren. Johann Bernoulli und Leibniz haben Newton mit diesem Problem bewusst in Versuchung gef¸hrt. Angesichts des Streits um die Infinitesimalrechnung ist es nicht verwunderlich dass Johann Bernoulli diese Worte in seine Herausforderung aufgenommen hat: "Es gibt weniger die unsere hervorragenden Probleme lˆsen kˆnnen ja weniger selbst unter den Mathematikern die sich r¸hmen dass Sie haben ihre Grenzen wunderbar erweitert und zwar mithilfe der goldenen Theoreme die ihrer Meinung nach niemandem bekannt waren die aber tats‰chlich schon lange zuvor von anderen verˆffentlicht worden waren. "Laut Newtons Biograph Conduitt lˆste er das Problem auf einem Abend nach der Heimkehr von der Royal Mint. Newton: . "Inmitten der Hektik der groflen Neupr‰gung kam er erst um vier Uhr nachmittags sehr m¸de vom Turm nach Hause schlief aber nicht bis er das Problem gelˆswas um vier Uhr morgens geschah." Newton. Seine Lˆsung schickte er an seinen Freund Charles Montague und Montague verˆffentlichte ihn anonym in den Transaktionen. Auch Newtons Lˆsung die hier in der Acta vorgestellt wird ist anonym. Die Episode gefiel Newton nicht wie er sp‰ter schrieb: "Ich mag es nicht von Ausl‰ndern ¸ber mathematische Dinge bel‰stigt und geh‰nselt zu werden." Nach dem Wettbewerb sagte Johann Bernoulli: "Mein ‰lterer Bruder stellte den vierten von ihnen zusammen nach Leibniz ihm selbst und Newton dass die drei groflen Nationen Deutschland England und Frankreich jede f¸r sich sich mit mir in einer solchen vereinigen." schˆne Suche alle finden die gleiche Wahrheit."Struik Hrsg. "A Source Book in Mathematics 1200-1800 S. 391 ff. unknown
169555262Amsterdam: Be-veit ha-meshutafim Asher Anshil ben Eliezer ve-Yisakhar Ber ben Avraham Eliezer/ Moses Wiesel 1695. First edition. Hardcover. fair. Small folio 29 by 18.5 cm. Collation: aleph-vav4 zayin2 = 26 numbered leaves. Additional engraved title page engraved folding map at rear; main title with woodcut vignette; 14 half-page engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary quarter calf over dark brown pastepaper boards skilfully rebacked. Images of Moses and Aaron at engraved title excised the seven small engraved vignettes along with letterpress text of engraved title and imprint mounted on old paper. Old marginal repairs at main title resulting in slight loss of initial letters along right margin and several leaves; slight strictly marginal worming and occasional tears. Stained throughout sometimes heavily though not impairing legibility. Map mounted to reinforce tears with virtually no loss of text or engraved imagery apart from printed border at right side. A fair copy at best; despite all defects the half-page engraved illustrations have survived intact with minimal staining. Housed in new maroon buckram slipcase.<br /> <br /> First edition of this gorgeously illustrated work now referred to simply as the Amsterdam Haggadah. The first such work to be illustrated with copperplate engravings it ranks among the most imitated of the Jewish manuals for the Passover seder. The popularity of these illustrations can be attested by the huge number of reprint editions over the centuries. Fourteen finely printed half-page engravings appear throughout the text. Some of these images illustrate the traditional content of the Passover seder or the Exodus story while others reference other biblical tales. Images include: the Rabbis of Bene Brak discussing the Passover story the four sons Abraham smashing the idols of his father Abraham welcoming the three angels Moses slaying the Egyptian overseer the rescuing Moses from the river Moses and Aaron coming to Pharaoh w/ staves turning to snakes the ten plagues the Egyptian army drowning in the Red Sea the Exodus the receiving of the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai the eating of the Pascal Lamb King David composing his psalms and finally an exterior view of the Jewish Temple with the cityscape of Jerusalem in the background. All images are captioned with relevant passages in Hebrew. The engravings were all created by Abraham ben Jacob a German convert to Judaism who had moved to Amsterdam although some sources over the years misattributed them to financier Moses Wiesel 6 of which were adaptations and/or modifications of previous images by Swiss artist Matthäus Merian 1593-1650 from his original work "Icones Biblicae" 1625-30.<br /> <br /> In addition to the in text engravings there is famously fold-out engraved biblical map of the Holy Land in a notable format. Measuring a total of 19.5 by 11.5" the map shows the land of Israel the Wilderness of Sinai and Egypt in landscape orientation looking eastward towards the top of the map. It traces the journey of the Israelites starting with the Exodus from Egypt through the Sinai and into the Land of Israel. The map is detailed showing the areas of the twelve tribes important locations and cities as well as geographic features including the Red Sea Mount Sinai the Dead Sea the Sea of Galilee and many others. Additional illustrations appear near the bottom along with a legend. This beautiful work also by Abraham ben Jacob is considered among the earliest if not the first map of its kind to be printed within a Hebrew publication. It is now known to have been heavily based on the previously printed 1620 map in Hebrew by Jacob ben Abraham Zaddiq and Abraham Goos 1590 - ca. 1643 which itself was based on the map of 1590 by Christian Kruik van Adrichom Adrichem printed in Latin.<br /> <br /> Text throughout is printed in Hebrew with smaller text in Rashi script underneath containing famous commentary on the Passover Haggadah by acclaimed Portuguese Rabbi and scholar Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel 1437-1508. The verso of the title page contains the order of the Passover seder with brief instructions in both Ladino Judeo-Spanish and Yiddish Judeo-German a nod to the subtitle which references both the Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions.<br /> <br /> Provenance and annotations: Full page of text appx. 1500 words in neat Hebrew cursive at front endleaf which discusses aspects of the Haggadah text; inscription in German at front endleaf by Isidor Adler who mentions his friend Hermann Mechlenburg dated March 1906; old annotations throughout in at least two hands. In one notable instance the Hebrew phrase l'shana ha-ba'ah be-hamburg next year in Hamburg! has been added in fine block characters above the traditional phrase l'shana ha-ba'ah bi-yerushalayim next year in Jerusalem. Hebrew title: סדר הגדה של פסח ×›×ž× ×”×’ ××©×›× ×– וספרד <br /> Alternate transliterations: Seder Hagadah shel Pesah Seder Hagadah sel Pesah<br /> <br /> References: Friedberg 278 Fuks HTN II 521; Yudlov Haggadah 93; Vinograd Amsterdam 627; Ya'ari no. 59; Laor 876 Map; Nebenzahl pp.138-1389 Map; Yerushalmi plate 59-62; Rosenau "Vision of the Temple" p.135 146-7. Be-veit ha-meshutafim [Asher Anshil ben Eliezer ve-Yisakhar Ber ben Avraham Eliezer]/ Moses Wiesel hardcover
1860601691Salem Massachusetts 1860. Unbound. Very Good. A collection of autobiographical writings retained by two prominent seamen father and son from Salem Massachusetts. The archive was compiled by the son Isaac Bullock 1800-70: a self-taught scholar and artist who first went to sea aboard fishing vessels and later as chief mate aboard ships owned by the famous Salem merchant Joseph Peabody. As he recounts in a manuscript note on his father's 1799 Seaman's Protection Certificate: his father "died of yellow fever July 1800 in his 25th year on a voyage to Havana - when I was about 3 months old." The Certificate issued to protect American sailors from the British practice of impressment is signed by Benjamin Lincoln: a famous Major General during the Revolutionary War as George Washington's second in command he formally accepted the British surrender at Yorktown and the first United States Secretary of War.<br /> <br /> Also included is the elder Isaac Bullock's shipboard account of a meteor shower written in manuscript on a quarto sheet titled: "Some particular remarks of the appearance of the sky on the 12 November 1799 at sea - in Latt. of 49:20 North & Longt. of 22:00 West." This was the first recorded meteor shower in North America by American astronomer Andrew Ellicot who had witnessed it from a ship off the Florida Keys. Bullock witnessed it "on the Brig Helen Andrew Haraden Master - from Boston bound to London": "At 4 am being my watch on deck . I saw with astonishment the stars shooting or otherwise falling repeatedly from the sky down to the horizon as if they were compelled to leave their native abodes and dwell in the lore lower world. Some leaving after them a stream of fire which continued in the sky for the space of a minute . These continued shooting or otherwise falling till day light . we could see their blaze shooting in every direction till almost sun rise. What it is foreboding we cannot tell . ." Tipped onto the 1799 quarto manuscript sheet are several smaller sheets of appended manuscript notes and comments by Bullock's son dating from the early 1850s including a pencil sketch portrait of the great German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt who had observed the meteor shower from Central America.<br /> <br /> The rest of the archive consists of five gatherings of miscellaneous autobiographical writings and musings compiled by the son Isaac Bullock in which he relates various notable voyages including being pursued by an armed pirate ship "off the double headed shot Keys Cay Sal Bank" and barely surviving a shipwreck in the English Channel. <br /> <br /> Also included are accounts of two trips to California he twice spent time prospecting and mining on the South Fork of the American River first in 1850 at Salmon Falls and then in 1852 at Mormon Island: ". in 1849 the gold Crusade to California enticed me to try if Fortune would smile on me as a Miner. I shipped as 2d mate of ship Nestor of Salem for San Francisco and started from Boston in the autumn of '49 with a large number of passengers bound to See the Elephant! - I saw him! and have survived the sight! . A year of privation and excessive labour broke me down in a long fever and in partial recovery I started for home - Returned through the Nicaraguan route and escaping its perils and privations I once more reached home .". Soon thereafter he decides to try his luck in the mines again: "hoping for better success . I landed in Aspinwall traveled on foot through the dense tropic forest to Panama losing all my baggage by robbers . At last I reached San Francisco again . ."<br /> <br /> Most if not all of Bullock's reminiscences and musings were written and compiled upon his return from California: one manuscript is dated 1853 and another 1862. He was well read in classical literature and ancient history and comments on Alexander von Humboldt and Hester Thrale in the manuscripts. When not abroad he lived in Salem where some his other papers are held at the Peabody Essex Museum.<br /> <br /> An entertaining and historically important collection of writings documenting the lives of two prominent seamen who sailed out of Salem when it was among the most significant seaports in America. A detailed list of the manuscripts with selected excerpts is available. unknown
181919883London: Sherwood Neely & Jones 1819. First Edition. Scroll with wooden exterior base crown sides. Housed in a modern clamshell box quarter morocco cloth boards felt cushioning. Isaac Cruikshank. Most unusual and uncommon sporting/processional scroll with its narrow width of only 60 mm and its length of slightly over 3800 mm which depicts four different scenes in its 42 numbered and conjoined separate pieces. The first which accounts for over half of its length is the parade to an outdoor boxing match. This is actually a few distinct scenes with clear breaks between them but since they are all depicting a parade one can virtually see them as a single unbroken parade as we have chosen to do for purposes of this description and also to treat them as we believe most people would take them in. Then there is the match held on an expansive river-side meadow. In this second scene is shown the final stage of the procession to the grounds when the spectators and their vehicles had to cross the Thames all in long rowboats. The third scene is of a man being thrown from a bull. This we believe was a sideshow to the main event. The last scene is of the more respectable element probably the end of the day. In the first stretch of the scroll we see coaches and other horse-drawn vehicles some of which are rather eccentric and perhaps improvisational men atop the coaches men on horseback and on foot a man pedalling an early bicycle. All kinds of street life and local color enliven the proceeding and distinguish this one from so many that are simply a stilted parade. Accidents and mishaps punctuate the event. Horses are spooked and kick up the dirt as they suddenly race. There are the high jinx of children. As fitting the march to a boxing match there is a brawling incident. And there are spectators and bystanders that pull in a broad spectrum of London street life and do so without making an express statement about it as would a formal costume book of the day. The second panorama of the scroll the boxing match scene is teeming with people and activity the boxing match here is at the center but almost overshadowed by the fights erupting in the audience and other shenanigans. The bull fight is also teeming with movement and life. Only the fourth scene is somewhat staid an intentional anti-climax perhaps and certainly a deliberate contrast to the two middle scenes. The scroll is housed in a wooden drum with a boxing scene and the title on a paper pastedown attached to its side wall. The drum itself is a lovely piece of treen in and of itself with its crown turning pin a fine piece of wood turned work. The drum is about 10 cm tall and with the turning pin about 12 cm tall and it is about 5 cm in diameter. The paper pastedown illustration on the drum wall is very darkened obscuring in particular the print at its base but one can still with effort make out the words and the same with the illustration of the boxing match. The wooden pull pin that was at the end of the scroll is now detached along with a tiny amount of the paper part of the scroll -- this part is cloth backed the cloth surely added later. The scroll itself is heavily darkened at the outer end gradually lightening until the third conjoined panel at which the issue has gone away. Similarly at the pull's end there are a number of closed tears vertical cracks along the edge some paper repairs of these visible on the pictorial side and also some staining especially along the upper edge. This issue or these issues recedes but doesn't entirely disappear by the third panel. The paper is such that it was susceptible to what we are describing as cracking by way of explanation. Notwithstanding all the detailing of issues we are comfortable describing the original object as Very Good with the clear understanding that this is also in relation to other copies one might encounter. The modern clamshell box was very well constructed and it remains in Fine condition. Sherwood, Neely & Jones unknown
1850WRCAM39961United States 1850. Four individual sheets three matted and one mounted on card. Some scattered foxing affecting two of the watercolors. Generally very good. Isaac Sprague 1811-95 was one of the most prolific and well-known illustrators of flora and fauna in 19th-century America. Stafleu & Cowan lists seven composite works ranging from 1848 to 1891 that included Sprague's illustrations in addition to his WILD FLOWERS OF AMERICA and FLOWERS OF THE FIELD AND FOREST both published in 1882. He is particularly remembered for accompanying John James Audubon on his expedition up the Missouri River in 1843 aiding the master painter with ornithological sketches and drawings. The two first met on August 19 1840 when Audubon admired the young artist's bird drawings. Audubon recorded the meeting in a journal entry: <br> <br> "Saw some very remarkable drawings of birds far better than any ever made by the immortal Alexr- Wilson by a young man named Sprague. Truly wonderful drawings my dearest friends. But this person was out shooting and I did not see him. I however wrote a few lines on several of them the purports of which I trust will not displease him." <br> <br> The diary Sprague kept on this trip in which he gives useful accounts of the settlements and topography of the Missouri River valley is now held by the Boston Athenaeum. <br> <br> Sprague also illustrated several works by important naturalist Asa Gray including Gray's BOTANICAL TEXT-BOOK and MANUAL OF BOTANY OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATES. Gray's wife the editor of his letters wrote the following description cited in McKelvey's BOTANICAL EXPLORATION: <br> <br> "President then Professor Felton.knowing Dr. Gray was looking for someone for his scientific drawings recommended Mr. Sprague and he began with the illustrations for the Lowell lectures and the new edition of the BOTANICAL TEXT-BOOK. Dr. Gray was delighted with his gift for beauty his accuracy his quick appreciation of structure and his skill in making dissections. Mr. Sprague was from that time his chief and almost only illustrator for his books both educational and purely scientific." <br> <br> The drawings are as follows: <br> <br> 1 "Blue Jay." Original watercolor 12 x 9 3/4 inches. Matted. In very good condition. Depicts a blue jay beak open perched on a branch with a focus on the detailing of the head and feathers. Light foxing but colors remain quite strong. A fine precise work. <br> <br> 2 "Robin and Holly." Original watercolor 12 x 9 3/4 inches. Matted. Marginal chipping and tape stains not visible under mat. Tanned. Good condition and quite visually appealing. Depicts an American Robin perched on a holly branch with holly leaves and berries in the background. <br> <br> 3 "Pine Grosbeak." Pencil drawing 15 x 11 inches. Matted. In fine condition. A fine sketch of this western bird labeled in pencil at lower left corner. <br> <br> 4 "Savannah Sparrow." Original watercolor 5 x 4 1/4 inches. Mounted on card. Some soiling and foxing. Good. A beautifully detailed small drawing with particular attention paid to the mottled coloration of the feathers. <br> <br> Although none of the works is signed each has a provenance connecting it either to a Sprague descendant or to an early owner in Sprague's native Hingham Massachusetts. The pieces were eventually sold through Goodspeed's Book Shop in the 1960s. <br> <br> On the whole a remarkable group of original works by an important ornithological and botanical illustrator acclaimed by no lesser contemporary naturalists than Audubon and Gray. McKelvey BOTANICAL EXPLORATION pp.834-36. STAFLEU & COWAN 12.635 12.636 ref. BM NATURAL HISTORY V:1993 ref. unknown books
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