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06062London: Allen & West 1796. A Study the Inhabitants of the Roundhouse and the Regular Attendants at the Police-Court"<br /> A Journey in Caricature through Early Nineteenth Century England.<br /> <br /> WOODWARD. George Moutard. CRUIKSHANK Isaac illustrators. Eccentric Excursions or Literary & Pictorial Sketches of Countenance Character & Country in different parts of England & South Wales. Interspersed with Curious Anecdotes Embellished with upwards of One Hundred Characteristic & Illustrative Prints. London: Allen & West 1796.<br /> <br /> First edition. Quarto 10 1/4 x 8 inches; 261 x 203 mm. ii i ii-iv i-iv 5-217 1 list of plates pp. Engraved title-page included in pagination Hand colored frontispiece and 100 hand-colored etched plates on ninety-nine leaves by Isaac Cruikshank after Woodward including three folding plates Plates 1 2 and 3. First folding plate with small portion 92/8 x 2 inches missing from fore-edge; second folding plate with neatly repaired marginal tear; third folding plate expertly repaired at folds and backed with linen. Plate 9 with small tape repair to verso of blank fore-edge; small inkstain on top blank margin of pp. 37/38 and following two plates. Some occasional light staining to text leaves only.<br /> <br /> Bound ca. 1820 in three quarter brown calf over marbled boards ruled in gilt. Spine with five decoratively tooled in gilt raised bands lettered in gilt in top panel. Early ink signature of Mary Austen on top blank corner of title-page. With the armorial bookplate of the noted collector Jacobus Cowan de Rosshall on front pastedown. Tip of spine chipped. Overall an excellent copy of this journey in caricature through early nineteenth century England. <br /> <br /> Aside from the aforementioned this is a very good example with the hand coloring rich and bright and far superior to the later editions.<br /> <br /> This satire amongst Moutard's earliest work enthusiastically depicts all types: high- and low-born rural and urban lawyers and peddlers coaching scenes misadventures on ice-skates Oxford dons gypsies etc.<br /> <br /> "The first and most celebrated of Woodward's books. The text describes an idiosyncratic ramble around the counties of England and Wales." Gordon p. 15.<br /> <br /> George Moutard Woodward 1760-1809 was "prolific and popular designer of social caricature much in the style of Banbury etched chiefly by Thomas Rowlandson and Isaac Cruikshank.his caricatures display a wealth of imagination and insight into character.extremely entertaining" DNB.<br /> <br /> "Another popular caricaturist of the day was George Moutard Woodward commonly called 'Mustard George.' Woodward according to his friend Henry Angelo was the son of a land agent and spent his youth in a country town where nothing was less known than everything pertaining to the arts. 'A caricaturist in a country town' said Mustard George 'like a bull in a china shop cannot live without noise; so having made a little noise in my native place I persuaded my father to let me seek my fortune in town.' Thanks to a small allowance from his father supplemented by his own earnings George was able to enjoy life in his own Bohemian fashion and ultimately took up his quarters at the 'Brown Bear' Bow Street where he was able to study the inhabitants of the roundhouse and the regular attendants at the police-court. At the 'Brown Bear' he died suddenly departing in character with a glass of brandy in his hand and was long mourned by his tavern associates. In his Eccentric Excursions which appeared in volume form in 1796 the designs engraved by Isaac Cruikshank there are several domestic subjects such as The Polite Congregation Showing Family Pictures and The Formal Introduction. Among other popular designs by Woodward are Raffling for a Coffin The Club of Quidnuncs Babes in the Wood A Goldfinch and his Mistress.and a series called Six Ways of Carrying a Stick. The majority are marred by extravagant hideousness but Angelo was of opinion that 'had this low humourist studied drawing and been temperate in his habits such was the fecundity of his imagination and perception of character that he might rivalled even Hogarth" Paston Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century pp. 137-138.<br /> <br /> Gordon BC-26; Widener 207; Not in Abbey or Tooley. London: Allen & West, 1796 unknown
185128907AB1851. London and other places of print Harper Collins / William Mackenzie / John Van Voorst and others 1851-1999. Octavo. More than 3000 pages with many illustrations for the Beginner as well as the Advanced Angler. Original Hardcover and Softcover publications often with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector's Mylar. Many of the publications with some signs of wear but overall and especially the collector's items in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The historical publications are true gems for the collector and this collection would be the perfect foundation for a meaningful Fly-Fishing-Library. This collection is the perfect gift for the Fly-Fisher. Please ask for a full list with details and photographs of the books included in this collection. The price includes an upgrade to worldwide free shipping of the collection per UPS Express. paperback
165189641Pierre DAVID | Paris 1651 | 10.6 x 16.8 cm | 4 volumes reliés en 1
15463314Basel: ex officina Ioannis Oporini / Johann Oporinus 1546. First separate edition of Alexandra Cassandra and first edition of Chiliades. Title and text in Greek and Latin. In contemporary limp vellum. Contemporary possessor’s inscriptions on title page crossed out illegible. Contemporary marginal notes in ink on p. 11 otherwise clean. Binding worn. First leaves worn. Damp stains throughout darker-toned at the lower margin. Lower edge with damages not affecting the text. Wormholes occasionally with no effect on text. In good condition. First separate edition of Alexandra Cassandra and first edition of Chiliades. Title and text in Greek and Latin. In contemporary limp vellum. 16 180 8 268 4 last 3 blank p. <p><br /> The first separate edition of Lycophron’s poem Alexandra Cassandra’s prophecies about Troy with commentaries by Isaac and John Tzetzes; and the first edition of John Tzetzes’ Chiliades.<br /> <p><p><br /> Although the authorship of Alexandra is questioned it is traditionally attributed to Lycophron of Chalcis the 3rd century BC Greek poet and scholar. The commentaries elucidating the otherwise rather obscure text were written by Isaac and John Tzetzes Byzantine scholars who lived in Constantinople in the 12th century. Alexandra was first published in 1513 by Aldus Manutius with texts by Pindar Callimachus Dionysius Periegetes the present one is the first separate edition of the text the second edition overall and also the first with the commentaries by the Tzetzes-brothers. <br /> <p><p><br /> The second part of the book is a lengthy political decapentasyllabic verse John Tzetzes’ most important work the Variarum historiarum liber Book of Histories or the so-called Chiliades edited Nikolaus Gerbel. Chiliades is a collection of literary historical theological and antiquarian miscellanies whose chief value consists in the fact that it to some extent makes up for the loss of works that were then accessible to Tzetzes. <br /> <p>. [ex officina Ioannis Oporini / Johann Oporinus] unknown
60348Philadelphia: publisher not identified published at 1227 Walnut Street stereotyped by L. Johnson & Co. printed by C. Sherman and Son 5619. Second edition 4to pp. vi 4 3-1011 1 plus 2 pro-forma lithograph leaves of "family records" and a tipped-in printed slip extending the family record see below; original brown morocco tooled in black and gilt in a Grolieresque style two brass clasps all edges gilt; brown coated endpapers turn-ins tooled in gilt; bookplate and purple stamps of the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction including stamp to title page. Skillfully and sympathetically rebacked with original spine laid down lightly rubbed but generally clean and fresh: Very good and sound. Handsome edition of the first translation of the Hebrew Bible by an American Jew now known as the Leeser Bible. A prolific and ambitious religious leader Isaac Leeser had a "monumental" impact on the American Jewish community ANB. He elevated the status of Jewish religious leaders advocated for Jewish day schools and helped to established Maimonides College the first rabbinical school in the United States. He also taught and published extensively in vernacular English and organized the first American Jewish Publication Society in 1845 making Jewish scriptures and religious education texts broadly accessible to Anglophone Jews. The Leeser Bible was first published in 1853-54 at a time when many Anglophone Jews had to read the Hebrew Bible in the King James Version of the Hebrew Bible; Leeser provided a translation free of the influence of American Christianity. His translation "remained the standard Jewish translation of the Bible in North America for over 60 years" Fischel & Pinsker Jewish-American History and Culture p.349. This copy from the 1858-9 second edition with an extended nineteenth- and twentieth-century provenance. The family record at the rear lists births deaths and marriages of the Alexander-Steiger-Freeman-Gombrich family from the 1850s through the 1880s in both English and Hebrew. Also with the bookplate and stamps of the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction a short-lived organization founded by Salo Baron and assisted by Hannah Arendt that collected and redistributed heirless Jewish property from Germany in the wake of WWII. This edition is moderately scarce with only 11 copies recorded in OCLC and only one in the auction record. Hills 1540; Singerman 1271 2nd ed. [publisher not identified], published at 1227 Walnut Street, [stereotyped by L. Johnson & Co., printed by C. Sherman and Son] unknown
1730187897London: Printed for William Innys 1730. The definitive edition of Newton's second great work Fourth edition the final edition to be revised and approved by Newton himself. The Opticks is Newton's definitive study of light the basis for the corpuscular theory of light rays that remained dominant into the 19th century. The Opticks's greatest achievement is showing that colour is a mathematically definable property. Newton demonstrates that white light is a mixture of infinitely varied coloured rays and that each ray is definable by the angle through which it is refracted. Other topics include colour circles theories of the rainbow and the phenomenon now known as Newton's rings. In his later years Newton made a sustained effort to tidy up his scientific legacy. This edition of the Opticks was published three years after his death by his long-time publisher drawing on corrections "by the Author's own Hand" preface. In those three years Newtonian devotees had published the Optical Lectures 1728 that he had delivered at Cambridge in the 1660s making public a work that he had only circulated in manuscript among close friends. The Lectures employed a more mathematical analysis of colour theory than did the Opticks and Innys' fourth edition harmonizes the two works by cross-referencing philosophical propositions in the latter with geometrical demonstrations in the former. Octavo 195 x 123 mm pp. viii 382 2. Complete with terminal advertisement leaf and 12 folding plates. Wood-engraved initials head- and tailpieces. Twentieth-century calf spine ruled and decorated in blind and with red morocco label marbled endpapers edges sprinkled red. Minimal foxing to contents paper flaw to lower outer corner of K1 text unaffected plates crisp: a very good copy indeed. Babson 136; ESTC T69138; Gray 178; Wallis 178. unknown
1838117632Paris: l'Imprimerie royale 1838. The classic treatment of the early history and doctrine of the Druze of Lebanon First edition of "one of de Sacy's principal works the classical treatment of the early history and doctrine of the Druze" which took more than 40 years to complete Daftary The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Ismailis p. 132. "The Druze religion. was initially an Isma'ili schismatic movement organized during the final years of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim's reign 996-1021. But in time the Druzes came to represent a separate religious community beyond the confines of Isma'ilism or perhaps even Shi'i Islam. De Sacy's study of the Druzes dated back to the early 1790s. As in other areas of his scholarly endeavours de Sacy began his study of the Druzes on the basis of their own literature a sacred scripture consisting mainly of the writings and letters of the founders of the Druze religion notably Hamza and al-Muqtana" ibid. De Sacy 1758-1838 is remembered as "a monumental figure in the development of oriental studies in France" Atabey. Uncommon: six copies only listed at auction in the last 50 years including two at the Aboussouan sale in 1993 and the Atabey copy in 2002. 2 vols octavo 215 x 132 mm. Later 19th-century red-brown half morocco raised bands gilt tiles and brown rules to spines marbled sides and endpapers top edges gilt others untrimmed. From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles 1838-1914 with printed bookplates noting his widow's bequest of the collection to Bath Public Library in 1920 and associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. With half-titles and the errata leaf; original printed wrappers bound in to rear of each volume. Spines sunned pale spotting a very good copy. Atabey 1134; not in Blackmer. hardcover
1799162628London: John Stockdale 1799. An enthusiastic admirer of the beauties of nature First edition with the index incorrectly identifying the fourth plate. This work handsomely illustrated from the author's sketches "was regarded as the great authority of the period on American subjects. There can be no question that the colonization of Canada was mainly promoted and influenced by this book" Bibliotheca Americana. Isaac Weld 1774-1856 left Dublin for Philadelphia in 1795 and "accompanied by a faithful servant sometimes on horseback sometimes on foot or in a canoe he made his way often under the guidance of Native Americans through the vast forests and along the great rivers. He narrowly escaped shipwreck on Lake Erie and experienced all the adventure incident to passing through an unsettled country while in the towns he mixed in the best society and had the privilege of meeting George Washington" ODNB. Aside from the attractive folding map the work includes plans of Washington DC and Quebec; maps of Canada and the Niagara Falls; three views of the Falls; and an illustration of an "American stage waggon" leaving a staging post. The work proved popular going through four editions by 1807 and being translated into French German and Dutch. The plate showing the Hudson River is labelled as "View of the Patowmac River from Mount Vernon". The index of the second edition is corrected. Quarto 270 x 207 mm pp. xxiv 464 8. Engraved frontispiece and 14 plates views and plates one folding map hand-coloured in outline; 8 pp. publisher's advertisements at end. Contemporary speckled calf smooth spine with gilt bands red morocco spine label covers ruled in blind. Brent Gration-Maxfield 1916-1983 book collector and scholar with his ownership signature dated 1969 on front pastedown and extensive neatly pencilled bibliographic notes on the front free endpaper; contemporary gift note loosely inserted. Binding refurbished with gilt retouched superficial abrasions to covers folding map with short tear at stub small paper tears to b3 and G1. A very good copy. Bibliotheca Americana 3282; Howes W235; Lowndes 2868; Sabin 102541. unknown
184141441Charleston S. C. : Levin & Tavel 1841. 1st American Edition Original Publisher's Cloth Small 8vo 2 236 pages followed by several unnumbered pages of publisher's advertisements. Singerman 0761 Rosenbach 483. <br> <br> Jacob Rader Marcus the dean of historians of American Jewish history suggests in his work UNITED STATES JEWRY 1776-1985 Detroit 1989 that "The motive that prompted Nathaniel Levin and a Charleston associate to reprint an English translation of the sermons of Gotthold Salomon was apologetic.The book was Twelve Sermons Delivered in the New Temple of the Israelites at Hamburgh. The Hamburg temple in Germany was a liberal Jewish synagog one of the first in Europe. <br> An English translation had been made of the sermons at London in 1839 by Anna Maria Goldsmid the daughter of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid the Anglo-Jewish emancipator and religious liberal. The American reprint appeared two years later. <br> Both editions were intended not only to edify Jews but also to interest and attract non-Jews. It was Levin's hope that these sermons would remove unjust prejudices against the Jew and would present 'the lofty character of the Israelite in its true colors.' A book of this sort would help the Jews put their best foot forward." <br> Interestingly this 1st American edition of Twelve Sermons contains a new preface extolling the religious liberty of America and highlighting the refuge it afforded to the Jews. The new preface is merely signed "L" certainly referring authorship by Isaac Leeser and further supported by the fact that volume is preceded by two pages of advertisements for works by Leeser even though his works had no connection to the Charleston Publisher of this work.<br> That Leeser who would become American Orthodoxy's greatest warrior against the Reform would offer a preface to and advertise his works in a collection of sermons from the breakaway Liberal Hamburg Temple in Germany suggests that he did not yet see the coming threat from the Reform movement. <br> At the time of printing in Charleston Gustavus Poznanski 5 years into his term as rabbi and still somewhat traditional was just starting to make what felt like radical reforms as he "excised the Resurrection of the Dead and abolished the Second day of festivals five years before the same was done at the Breslau conference." <br> <br> America's first Reform import from Germany and it's first synagogue established as Reformed Har Sinai Congregation in Baltimore was still a year away from birth. Indeed the official term "Reform" did even come into use to describe Liberal Judaism except as a general adjective until 1845 even in Germany. <br> Leeser's involvement in this publication merits further study as it is not mentioned in the bibliographies nor in Sussman's comprehensive "Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism." <br> Indeed in the 1840s at the time of this printing "there was a major split in Congregation Beth Elohim which many historians of American Jewish history see as the beginning of the American Reform movement. The conflict began after the introduction of an organ into the synagogue when it was rebuilt following a fire in 1840. <br> The series of conflicts between Reform and Traditionalist elements in Beth Elohim resulted in a complicated dispute between the President who favored Reform and the Board of Trustees which was controlled by the Traditionalists. The President refused to call the Board of Trustees to meet as was required by the synagogue's constitution because he knew they would admit new traditionalist members and obtain control of the congregation. The Board ignored him and met on their own a move which the Reformers challenged in court. The resulting case State v. Ancker has become known as an early example of U. S. Courts refusing to intervene in complex religious questions" Wikipedia. <br> <br> Salomon 1784-1862 was the preacher of the new Reform Hamburg Temple. His "sermons modeled like those of other preachers on Protestant examples were praised by his contemporaries notably H. Heine." Goldsmid 1805-1889 a daughter of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid was a London author poetess translator educator and communal worker JE. Includes bibliographical references. <br> SUBJECTS: Jewish sermons. OCLC: 5001081. OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide. Ownership stamp of "Rev. E.L. Hess" on title page signiture of "S. Uhlfelder" on blank endpaper. Lacks backstrip wear and foxing occational period notes binding starting to loosen but Good Condition in acid-free book box. A scarce and important publication associated with the early beginnings of the Reform movement in Charleston and with Leeser's first years of scholarly output. B KH-9-29-BDZ-elx. Charleston, S. C. : Levin & Tavel unknown
195139058Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company 1951. First edition of Asimov's second science fiction novel. Octavo original cloth. Boldly signed by Isaac Asimov on the title page. Light offsetting to the endpapers near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing to the spine. Uncommon signed. The Stars Like Dust is the first book in Asimov's Galactic Empire series. "Science fiction on the larger scale is Isaac Asimov's specialty. The scene of his new book a rousing adventure story of the remote future is the Galaxy which with its hundreds of inhabited planets has been taken over by a dictatorial race called appropriately enough the Tyranni. A small group of rebels wage a determined battle against the dictators giving Mr. Asimov plenty of opportunities to plot those involved and subtle twists for which he is known. Its clear writing and excellent suspense make this book a welcome addition to the science fiction lists" The New York Times. Doubleday & Company hardcover books
1910394188Bridgeport Connecticut 1910. Very Good. A small collection of four glass lantern slides 21 black and white photographs and additional ephemera from the library of Connecticut phycologist Isaac Holden founding editor and contributor to the Phycotheca Boreali-Americana: A Collection of Dried Specimens of the Algae of North America. The collection consists of miscellaneous materials documenting two of Bridgeport’s leading manufacturers Isaac Holden and William Skilling Mills and includes evidence of their ties to circus impresario P.T. Barnum. Two of the glass slides are partially damaged else very good overall.<br /> <br /> Born in 1832 Holden graduated from Dartmouth College and began his career as a teacher specializing in the preparation of young men for college and scientific schools. He gave up teaching in 1872 to join the Wheeler & Wilson Company in Bridgeport manufacturers of sewing machines becoming Vice President and in charge of the business until his death in 1903. His interest in botany was lifelong and he spent the last fifteen years of his life researching and collecting marine algae at Sea Island Park on the Connecticut coast and Long Island Sound as well as the inland fresh water streams and lakes.<br /> <br /> Among the photographs are several family portraits including the patriarch of the Mills family Dwight Phelps Mills and images of various family members and friends out and about in Bridgeport and Naugatuck. Also included are photographs of rugged landscapes and rocky coastline including Australia and Maine. The four glass lantern slides consist of a view of P.T. Barnum's elephants being paraded across Bridgeport’s new iron draw bridge 1888 and three unidentified portraits: a young woman in ballet slippers resembling one of P.T. Barnum's Circassian beauties; a very old woman with a remarkable furrowed face; and a very young boy.<br /> <br /> The ephemera consists mostly of printed and engraved cards etc.: Rewards of Merit religious and calling cards some of which are inscribed and woven keepsakes. Of special interest are several calling cards and identified family photographs that link the Holden family to the Stanley Brothers of Maine the earliest manufacturers of dry plate glass negatives and slides in the 1880s.<br /> <br /> A compelling small archive from this leading Bridgeport man member of the New England Botanical Club and president of the Bridgeport Scientific Society documenting the life of the city when Barnum was mayor and Olmstead had created Sea Island Park. A detailed list is available. unknown
191546310Petrograd: M. M.Stasiulevicha 1915. <p>Newton Isaac 1643-1727. Matematicheskiye nachala natural'noy filosofii. Translated from Latin with notes and explanations by Aleksei N. Krylov. 2 vols. vi 276; 4 277-620pp. 36 plates. Petrograd: M. M. Stasyulevich 1915-16. Original printed wrappers spines restored edges of wrappers repaired front wrapper of Vol. 1 a bit creased a few tiny chips. Library stamps on titles and last pages of both volumes some ink lines in the margins. Very good.</p> <p> First Edition in Russian of Newton's Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica 1687 made by Russian naval engineer and applied mathematician Aleksei Nikolaevich Krylov 1863-1945 who became internationally famous for his works on magnetic compasses ship floodability hydrodynamics and computational mathematics. He built the first machine in Russia for integrating ordinary differential equations and in 1931 published a paper on what is now called "Krylov subspace" dealing with computation of the characteristic polynomial coefficients of a given matrix.</p> <p> The first volume of Krylov's translation of the Principia unlike many Russian books of the period was printed on good-quality paper; the second volume however was printed on paper of lesser quality. The edition does not include information on the number of copies printed but it was likely a small edition. OCLC cites four copies in Western libraries-Stanford Huntington University of Oklahoma and Paris-BIUSJ-Mathematiques. Not in A Descriptive Catalogue of the Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton.</p> . M. M.Stasiulevicha unknown
195013865New York: Gnome Press Inc. 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. 253pp Publishers red cloth. Original mylar protected dust jacket with chipping on edges some creases and small loss on heel of spine. Old ca. 1/2' stain on top edge penetrating only 3/16' inch. This epically classic volume is considered one of the cornerstones of the Science Fiction genre. Gnome Press, Inc. hardcover
178225494<p><strong>1782 Isaac NEWTON Works OPTICS Ancient Kingdoms Gravity Mundi Systemate Horsley</strong></p><p><em>"Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world" </em></p><p>― Isaac Newton<em> Opticks</em></p><p>Few names in the course of the history of science have been as influential as Isaac Newton. His works such as '<em>Opticks'</em> summarized great discoveries and theories concerning light and color reflections color wheel invention of the telescope early theories of the rainbow and Newtonian rings – <strong><u>one of the greatest works on optics</u></strong>. '<em>Opticks'</em> in addition to his other famous treatises were published together in the 1782 collected works of Newton by Samuel Horsley. </p><p>This set of three volumes from the Horsley collected edition includes not only '<em>Opticks'</em> but works such as "<em>Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms</em>" correspondence with Boyle on gravity and "<em>De mundi systemate</em>" or "<em>Systems of the World".</em></p><p>Item number: #25493</p><p>Price: $4950</p><p>NEWTON Isaac</p><p><strong><em>Opera Quae Exstant Omnia</em></strong></p><p>Londini: Excudebat Joannes Nichols 1782-1785.</p><p><u>Details</u>: </p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Collation: 3 volumes</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Vol. III – 10 174 5 180-242 3 246-437 8 4-48</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->§ <!--endif-->plates no.2-11</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Vol. IV – 9 6-264 5 270-617p</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->§ <!--endif-->12 plates</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Vol. V – 11 550p</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->§ <!--endif-->3 folding plates</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Language: English</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Binding: Modern Leather; tight and secure</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Size: ~12in X 9.75in 30.5cm x 24.5cm</p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p>163</p> Joannes Nichols hardcover
1744109523Lausanne and Geneva: Aoud Marcum-Michaelem Bousquet & Socios 1744. First edition of the first collected edition of <span class="match">Newton</span>'s writings which has been hailed as "a fine piece of bookmaking" Babson. Quarto bound in contemporary velum contains 64 folding engraved plates; 2 folding letterpress tables. In very good condition. Small stamps to the spine and title pages. Rare in contemporary binding. English mathematician astronomer theologian author and physicist Sir Isaac Newton is widely considered one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution. In one of his most important works Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Newton formulated the the laws of motion and universal gravitation that formed the dominant scientific viewpoint until being superseded by the theory of relativity. Aoud Marcum-Michaelem Bousquet & Socios unknown books
17991299131799. First Edition. WELD Isaac. Travels through the States of North America and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada During the Years 1795 1796 and 1797. London: John Stockdale 1799. Quarto contemporary full diced tan calf rebacked with original elaborately gilt-decorated spine laid down raised bands all edges marbled. $4800.First edition of this fascinating account of ""all the adventures incident to passing through an unsettled country"" with two maps one folding and hand-colored in outline plans of the cities of Washington and Quebec and 12 full-page copper-engraved plates of scenic views including ""The Horse-Shoe Fall of Niagara.""Weld arrived in America in 1795 at the age of 19 and ""accompanied by a faithful servant sometimes on horseback sometimes on foot or in a canoe he made his way often under the guidance of Indians through the vast forests and along the great rivers. He narrowly escaped shipwreck on Lake Erie and experienced all the adventures incident to passing through an unsettled country. While in the towns he mixed in the best society and had the privilege of meeting George Washington"" Cox. The journey took him through Virginia Pennsylvania and New York and then ""from Montreal to Quebec thence up to St. Lawrence and the lakes to Kingston Niagara and Detroit with comment on the country its settlement and administration. Weld an Irishman came to explore the possibilities of Canada and the United States as fields for Irish emigration"" Staton & Tremaine. Weld's travels are told through a series of 38 letters chronicling the two years he spent in North America and was one of the most popular narratives of the day. Translated into many languages Weld's account ""was regarded as the great authority of the period on American subjects"" Allibone III 2636. Includes examinations of taverns slave conditions tobacco cultivation and Indian tribes. ""In the first edition the view of the Hudson River is incorrectly designated on the plate itself and in the list of plates as 'View on or of the Patowmac River from Mount Vernon.' A number of copies have an erratum slip noting the error pasted at the foot of the list of plates or facing it"" Sabin 102541. This copy has no erratum slip suggesting it may be among the earliest copies preceding the discovery of the error. Without publisher's advertisements. A second edition in two volumes was also published in 1799. Sabin 102541. Howes W235. Cox II 176. Staton & Tremaine 708. Stevens 2808. Stiles 1921. Lowndes 2868. Rich 1799. In a royal armorial binding possibly from Carlton House the residence of George IV during the regency with a royal armorial bookplate.Mild dampstaining to top edge of frontispiece and title page text fairly clean with modest foxing to maps and plates one leaf with minor expert paper repair; handsome contemporary binding with light wear. hardcover
170247776Oxoniae (Oxford), E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1702. Folio. Contemporary full calf, raised bands, rectangular blindtooled frames and central panel ""mirror"" on covers, Cambridge-style binding. leather at joints cracked, but cords intact so that covers not loose. Corners a bit bumped. Light wear to spine ends. Spine a bit rubbed. Pastedowns and flyleaves with browning. Title-page with large engraved vignette (Sheldon Theater). (12),494,(2) pp. With numerous textdiagrams. Very light browning to titlepage and a few marginal brownspots to last leaf, a fine clean copy, printed on good paper with wide margins.On the verso of the title-page is pasted the book plate of Sir William Baird of Newbaith. He habitually pasted his armorial bookplate on the verso of the title-pages of the books in his large and fine library.
170247776Oxoniae Oxford E Theatro Sheldoniano 1702. Folio. Contemporary full calf raised bands rectangular blindtooled frames and central panel "mirror" on covers Cambridge-style binding. leather at joints cracked but cords intact so that covers not loose. Corners a bit bumped. Light wear to spine ends. Spine a bit rubbed. Pastedowns and flyleaves with browning. Title-page with large engraved vignette Sheldon Theater. 124942 pp. With numerous textdiagrams. Very light browning to titlepage and a few marginal brownspots to last leaf a fine clean copy printed on good paper with wide margins.On the verso of the title-page is pasted the book plate of Sir William Baird of Newbaith. He habitually pasted his armorial bookplate on the verso of the title-pages of the books in his large and fine library. <br/><br/><em>First edition of the first text book of astronomy based on Newtonian principles. Apart from its importance in the remodeling of astronomy in conformity with physical theory the work is of the utmost importance as a source book - it contains the FIRST PRINTING OF NEWTON'S PAPER ON LUNAR THEORY "Lunae Theoria Newtoniana" pp. 332-336 as well as the FIRST EXPOSITION OF NEWTON'S CLASSICAL SCHOLIA which Newton himself considered an important part of his philosophy.Gregory a Scottish mathematician who taught at Edinburgh and Oxford was one of Newton's closest friends and associates. Newton thought highly of his work and communicated for insertion it in his Lunar Theory. He also permitted Gregory to use the material of that which is known as his "Classical Scholia" which are incorporated into Gregory's preface. "Newtonian scholars have long been aware of a set of draft Scholia to Propositions IV to IX of Book III of the "Principia". These were composed in the 1690's as part of an unimplemented plan for a second edition of the work. Since they describe supposed anticipation of Newton's doctrines in the thought of Greco-Roman antiquity they have been known as the 'classical' Scholia. Newton's thoughts on these matters were not however kept completely concealed. HE PERMITTED DAVID GREGORY TO USE THE MATERIAL EXTENSIVELY in a long historical preface to his "Astronomiae Physicae & Geometricae Elementa" 1702 IF WITHOUT ATTRIBUTION. It was also available to Maclaurin for his much later work." McGuire & Rattansi in "Newton and the Pipes of Pan" 1966."It was the first textbook composed on gravitational principles and remodeling astronomy in conformity with physical theory. Newton thought highly of it and communicated for insertion in it p. 332 his 'lunar theory' long the guide of practical astronomers in determining the Moon's motions. The discussion in the preface in which the doctrine of gravitation was brought into credit on the score of its antiquity likewise emanated from Newton." DNB."His thick folio text on foundations of astronomy Astronomiae.elementa 1702 is a well-documented but unimaginative attempt to graft the gravitational synthesis propounded in the first book and especially the third book of Newton's Principia onto the findings of traditional astronomy. While respected as a source book it is now chiefly remembered for the remarks by Newton on the prisca sapientia of the ancients and their "knowledge" of the inverse-square law of universal gravitation and for the Latin version of Newton's short paper on lunar theory which it reproduces." DSB.Babson No. 71. - Houzeau & Lancaster 9240. </em> hardcover
1755000341Various: Various 1755. Bound volume containing six sermons dated from 1755 to 1788: I. Lyman Joseph. A Sermon Preached Before His Excellency James Bowdoin Esq. Governour; His Honour Thomas Cushing Esq. Lieutenant-Governour.of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts May 30 1787 Being the Day of General Election. Boston: Adams and Nourse 1787 61 pages front cover used as pastedown for the volume with some old insect damage to pastedown and margins of first two leaves. II. Cumings Henry. A Sermon Preached in Billerica on the 23rd of November 1775 Being the Day appointed by Civil Authority for a Public Thanksgiving Throughout the Province of Massachusetts-Bay. Worcester Massachusetts-Bay: I. Thomas 1775. 29 pages. Final two leaves dampstained but very readable next-to-last leaf has margin chip. III. Morrill Isaac. The Soldier exhorted to Courage in the Service of his King and Country from a Sense of God and Religion: in a Sermon Preach'd at Wilmington April 3 1755 to Capt. Philehas Osgood and his Company of Soldiers Before their going out into Publick Service. Boston New-England: J. Draper 1755. 23 pages. Large margin chip at bottom of one leaf not affecting text. IV. Bridge Ebenezer. A Sermon Preached before his Excellency Francis Bernard Esq. Governor.of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England May 27th 1767. Being the Anniversary for the Election of His Majesty's Council for the Province. Boston: Green and Russell 1767. 60 pages last three leaves have internal tears with the last two having some paper loss and affecting a small part of the text. V. Cumings Henry. A Thanksgiving Sermon Preached at Billerica November 27 1766. Boston N.E.: Kneeland and Adams for Thomas Leverett 1766. 32 pages. VI. Parsons David. A Sermon Preached Before His Excellency John Hancock Esq.of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts May 28 1788 being the day of General Election. Boston: Adams and Nourse 1788.46 pages. The group is bound into a full blind-tooled calf binding measuring 21.75 cm x 13 cm. Other than the noted issues with the individual sermons cited above the pages are mainly clean and free from significant chips or tears with age-tanning and intermittent foxing throughout. The binding is lightly shelfworn with some minor separation at the spine ends joints good with covers firmly attached. A good collection of mainly scarce sermons. Full Leather. Good/None. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Various Hardcover
39272In-8° (197 x 116 mm), veau marbré de l'époque, dos lisse orné de compartiments fleuronnés et cloisonnés, palettes en tête et pied, pièce de titre de maroquin havane, double filet d'encadrement sur les plats, tranches rouges, xvi, 1-128, (8), 129-368 pages, (1) feuillet de "fautes à corriger". Amsterdam, marc-Michel Rey, 1771.
195513550Great Association Copy THE END OF ETERNITY Doubleday 1955 first edition some off-setting to the end-papers and paste-downs no doubt do to the dust-wrapper flaps else vg in like pictorial dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear to the dust-wrapper spine extremities. At one time Floyd C. Gold's copy with his humorous notation on the f.p.d. Writing under the pen name Floyd C. Gale he was the primary book reviewer for his brother Horace Gold's Galaxy Magazine from 1955-1963 and more than likely read this very copy for his review of this title. Inscribed by the author to one of his publishers on the title page. Great Association thus. A time travel novel. Doubleday unknown
195114778ASSOCIATION COPY THE STARS LIKE DUST Doubleday 1951 first edition near fine in like dust-wrapper. Inscribed by the author to fellow SF writer Hal Clement along with with Clements bookplate on the f.p.d. Great association copy from one Grandmaster to another. Can't get much better than that! Doubleday unknown
1813840F11DLondon: J. Nichols and Son et al. 1813 . Leather. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6". Not Stated. An exceptionally bright example of the scarce 1813 twenty-one volume set of the plays of Shakespeare supplemented with a wealth of comments and critical notices. The very scarce complete 1813 twenty-one volume edition of the plays of Shakespeare. Referred to as the Reed Edition of 1813 this is also known as Johnson-Steevens-Reed 6 the "sixth edition" by Johnson-Steevens or the "second variorum edition".With notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens this edition was revised and augmented by Isaac Reed.Consisting of:Volume I - Prefatory material and critical analysis by Reed Richardson and Malone. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and four plates.Volume II - Essays by Farmer Colman lists of Editions lists of Criticism Commendatory verses Malones "Attempt to Ascertain the Order of Shakespeare's Plays" Malone's essay on Ford's pamphlet Steevens's remarks on the same.Volume III - Malone's Historical Account of the English Stage and the Further Historical Account by Chalmers. With four folding plates.Volume IV - The Tempest; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Midsummer Night's Dream. Volume V - Merry Wives of Windsor; Twelfth Night.Volume VI - Much Ado About Nothing; Measure for Measure.Volume VII - Love's Labour's Lost; Merchant of Venice.Volume VIII - As You Like It; All's Well That Ends Well.Volume IX - Taming of the Shrew; Winter's Tale.Volume X - Macbeth; King John.Volume XI - King Richard II; King Henry IV Part 1. With a folding plate.Volume XII - King Henry IV Part 2; King Henry V.Volume XIII - King Henry VI Part 1; King Henry IV Part 2.Volume XIV - King Henry VI Part 3; Dissertation &c.; King Richard III.Volume XV - King Henry VIII; Troilus and Cressida.Volume XVI - Coriolanus; Julius Caesar.Volume XVII - Antony and Cleopatra; King Lear.Volume XVIII - Hamlet; Cymbeline.Volume XIX - Timon of Athens; Othello.Volume XX - Romeo and Juliet; Comedy of Errors. Volume XXI - Titus Andronicus; Pericles and Dissertations; Addenda and Glossarial Index.Illustrated with five plates four folding letterpresses and one further folding plate. Collated complete.With a half title to each volume and the inscription of Arnold Blake 1886 to the half title of volume I.An exceptional example of this impressive work. Rebacked in full calf bindings retaining the original boards. Endpapers renewed. A touch of fading and light marks to back strips otherwise externally excellent. Internally firmly bound. Inscription to volume I half title with leaf detaching to tail. Offsetting and light spotting to pages facing plates with pages otherwise generally clean and bright. Very Good Indeed J. Nichols and Son et al. hardcover
199746687HEYNE WILHELM 1997. 1. hardcover. Roboter-Foundation Elias Lije Baley & R. Daneel Olivaw Limitierte Sonderausgabe! FOUNDATION EDITION HEYNE, WILHELM hardcover
182012893London: R. Ackermann 101 Strand 1820. First edition early issue with the plates unnumbered. 24 hand-colored aquatint plates after M. Schuetz 1 map. xiv 2 1-178 pp. 1 vols. Folio 13 1/4 x 11 in. Contemporary polished calf spine gilt all edges gilt rebacked corners somewhat rubbed offsetting from plates and text very good attractive copy. First edition early issue with the plates unnumbered. 24 hand-colored aquatint plates after M. Schuetz 1 map. xiv 2 1-178 pp. 1 vols. Folio 13 1/4 x 11 in. One of Ackermann's most breathtaking color plate books - these exquisite views of the Rhine are justly prized for their matchless beauty. Abbey Travel 217; Martin Hardie pp. 107-8 312; Prideaux p. 337; Tooley 1954 # 234 R. Ackermann, 101, Strand unknown
