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1950131030New York: Gnome Press 1950. First Edition. First Edition. Presumed "Armed Forces" edition or the publisher's short-lived attempt to produce paperbacks bound in wrappers identical to the jacket art of the hardcover edition. More scarce than the hardcover a stopper for Asimov collectors. <br/><br/>Asimov's classic work a collection of short stories that had immediate and lasting impact on both science fiction and popular culture introducing the author's now legendary "Three Laws of Robotics." <br/><br/>Very Good plus in illustrated wrappers. A small chip to the front wrapper a larger corner chip to the rear wrapper silverfish damage to some preliminary pages and light shelfwear and toning overall. Gnome Press unknown books
184832879from the added title-page in English: Philadelphia: Printed by G. Sherman for the editor 1848. 8vo. viii 242 2243 1 pp. <br><br>This Siddur in Hebrew and English was => the first Ashkenazic prayer book edited and printed in America. Its editor Isaac Leeser 180668 was a towering figure in American Jewry in the 19th century: writer educator and hazan of the Mikveh Israel congregation in Philadelphia.<br>Â Â Â Â The English-language title-page reads "The book of daily prayers for every day in the year. According to the custom of the German and Polish Jews." The text is presented with the original Hebrew and English translation on opposite pages.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: 19th-century ownership stamp of "Mme. Bernheim 603 Magazine St. New-Orleans. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Rosenbach Jewish 636; Singerman Judaica Americana 1024; Goldman 37. Contemporary full plain treed calf with a black leather spine label; expectable wear to spine from use. Scattered light foxing. A good copy with a provenance worthy of research. Printed by G. Sherman, for the editor hardcover books
1886D7497Pennsylvania 1886. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary quarter sheep marbled paper over boards; 112 x 176 mm; with 123 numbered and lined leaves mostly filled. Rather early American railroad treatise by Isaac Dox chief engineer in the building of a rail line from Delano to Hazelton Pennsylvania 1886-1887. Covers all aspects of railroad construction and the working of railroads accomplished in a small precise hand with frequent illustrations and diagrams done in pen and ink. Spine chipped and scuffed; edges of boards scuffed. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1740012680Lausanne & Geneve.: Marci-Michaelis Bousquet & Sociorum 1740. All edges stained red. Spine labelled near top. Half-title page present. Portrait frontispiece. Title-page with vignette printed in red and black. Errata page at end of text. Engraved head and tail pieces. Illuminated first letters of sections. Front free endpaper has missing piece at top corner. Endpaper are browned. Very faint suggestion of erasure at top of title-page. Wide margins and clean text throughout. Old water-staining to bottom of first 30 pages See photo. Twelve fold-out plates all intact and clean. This treatise on optics was first published in English in 1704 the first Latin edition published in 1706. Sir Isaac Newton 1643-1727 was an English physicist mathematician astronomer alchemist philosopher and theologian. He is most well-known for his "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" published in 1687 laying the ground work for most classical mechanics. He built the first practical reflecting telescope and he developed a theory of color based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into many colors that form the visible light spectrum. He expanded on these theories in "Opticks". We find 20 libraries worldwide holding the book. ABPC shows a total of 7 copies sold at auction in the past 32 years. ii half-title blank frontispiece and title-page xxxii 1-363 errata 12 folding plates ii. Collated complete 10 May 2011. See "Printing And The Mind Of Man" 172. New Edition. Full Vellum. Moderate General Soiling. Quarto. Marci-Michaelis Bousquet & Sociorum Hardcover books
1732D427Amsterdam: R. en J. Wetstein en W. Smith 1732. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes Elephant folio 445 x 296mm. 16 524pp. 4. Title-page in black and red with engraved vignettes. Text in Dutch and Latin parallel. Contemporary vellum with central medallion stamped in blind. Slight bowing to vellum as typical overall a superb two volume set of the Metamorphoses illustrated with in-text copper-engravings by Bernard Picart Charles le Brun and several other artists. Internally there are scattered stains but an excellent copy overall. The translator of this edition Isaac Verburg was born in Leiden around the year 1684. He was Rector of the Latin schools in Amsterdam and author and translator of several books; he died in 1745 in Amsterdam. Rare copy of the popular Dutch translation of Ovids masterpiece in prose Metamorphoses with clean bright and large illustrations. <br/><br/> R. en J. Wetstein, en W. Smith hardcover
54639Folio. One page approximately 125 words; docketed on verso. Parker a native of Ohio opened a law office in St. Joseph Missouri on the eve of the Civil War served as city attorney there during the war and as a judge for the first time there 1868-1870. After a brief career in congress 1871-1875 President Grant appointed him judge of the western district of Arkansas where he served until his death bringing law and order to the Indian territory while passing 162 death sentences for various crimes earning his reputation as "The Hanging Judge" see DAB. Parker autographs are scarce in trade. Very good. 747. <br/><br/> unknown books
1946561j0929London: Heath Cranton Limited. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed "With the Author's Compliments Alan Peters" atop front free endpaper. "Here are all the ingredients of strong drama and it was as a play the story was first written as early as 1933. Twice it was accepted for London production and twice it was banned by successive Lord Chamberlains in the days of pre-WWII German appeasement. At that time it was a warning and a prophecy which has unhappily been more than fulfilled." - dust jacket. A fascinating Leeds Libraries Heritage Blog article suggests Alan Peters was almost certainly the pseudonym of Leeds physician Dr. Isaac Hipshon and that this was his most famous work describing it as "a searing examination of the 'Nazi Revolution' of 1933 and its impact upon an inter-related group of characters including a middle-class German family and a Jewish scientist." 6-184 pp. Clean tight and unmarked with light wear to original bright blue cloth lettered in gilt upon spine. Average wear to complete dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A well-preserved signed copy of this important and prophetic work.; Sm 8vo; Signed by Author . Heath Cranton Limited hardcover
178248885Berlin and Dessau: Hevrat Hinukh Ne‘arim Berlin Freischule/n.p. 1782. First editions 2 of 4. Hardcover. Nearly Fine. Sammelband of four opuscules published between 1782 and 1819 octavo. Contemporary half calf top inch perished over pastepaper boards; spine lettered and tooled in gilt. Edges speckled blue. Covers lightly worn else fine clean copies the fourth work lightly foxed throughout. The first three works issued from the Hevrat Hinukh Ne'arim Berlin Freischule under the supervision of Isaac Satanow 1732-1804 the most prolific Hebrew writer of the Berlin Haskalah. As director of the publishing house Satanow was assigned the task of reissuing old Hebrew classics by the Marpeh ha-Nefesh a philanthropic group headed by the banker Daniel Itzig his son-in-law David Friedländer and the famous physican and philosopher Marcus Herz. A number of these editions however were in fact original works by Satanow which he presented as the work of earlier writers. The first item in the sammelband is an outstanding example of this latter type.<br /> <br /> I. Kuntres mi-Sefer ha-Zohar Hibura Tinyana Berlin: Hevrat Hinukh Ne‘arim 1783. aleph-gimel8 dalet1; 25ff. Vinograd Berlin 313. First edition of this polemic styled in imitation of the Zohar as a response to the Mitpahat Sefarim 1768 of Jacob Emden 1697-1776 in which the latter calls into question the antiquity and textual integrity of that chief work of the Jewish mystical tradition. Emden's critique may be understood as an attempt to undermine the doctrinal foundation of the Frankists who based their beliefs on the Zohar. "Emden had suspected the authenticity of the Zohar for a long time and he hoped some time 'to reveal the strange things found in the book.' But these intentions were secretly nursed within him for many years until the time was propitious for his exposé" Cohen. Perhaps surprisingly for a maskil Satanow held a very different view: "While advocating secular knowledge and the study of science Satanow also expressed great admiration for Kabbalah. In contrast to Emden he claims that the whole Zohar was written by Bar Yohai and Moses De Leon had nothing to do with its writing. He also rejects Emden's claim that in the Zohar there are words against the Talmud and promises to 'consult the Zohar and prove that all its words are right and truthful none of them is crooked Kuntres mi-Sefer ha-Zohar pp. 25 26" N. Rezler-Bersohn. Born in the Polish now Ukrainian town of Satanov Isaac Satanow settled in Berlin around 1771. "Among the most prolific of the early Haskalah writers. Satanow demonstrated a wealth of knowledge of the Hebrew language ranking as a model stylest throughout the Haskalah period" EJ 14: 905-906. As a leading representive of the eighteenth-century Jewish Enlightement Satanow boldly displayed a "conglomeration of contrasts" Jewish Enc. XI: 71: “Though Orthodox in his beliefs he nevertheless favored Reform in practice. He was one of the greatest authorities on Jewish tradition and lore yet he was one of the most free-thinking of philosophers.†For a more detailed discussion of this and other works by Satanow see N. Rezler-Bersohn "Isaac Satanow - An Epitome of an Era" in: Year Book XXV Leo Baeck Institute 1980. For Emden in the present context see M. L. Cohen Jacob Emden A Man of Controversy Philadelphia: The Dropsie College 1937 pp. 254ff.<br /> <br /> II. Sefer Igeret ha-Kodesh Berlin 553 1793. 7ff. Vinograd Berlin 415. Later edition of this well-known work. The celebrated talmudist and exegete Nachmanides the Ramban Moses ben Nachman ca. 1195-ca. 1270 acted as a conciliator between the parties in the early 13th-century controversies surrounding the philosophical and secular direction of Maimonides' growing influence. "After having given the earlier part of his life to his Talmudical works Moses Nachmanides devoted himself to writing of a homiletic-exegetic and devotional character. To these belong the "Iggeret ha-Kodesh" and the "Torat ha-Adam." In the former which deals with the holiness and significance of marriage Moses criticizes Maimonides for stigmatizing as a disgrace to man certain of the desires implanted in the human body. In Moses' opinion the body with all its functions being the work of God none of its impulses can be regarded as intrinsically objectionable" Jewish Enc. IX:88. The rare editio princeps appeared at Rome in 1546; the editor of the present edition Isaac Satanow notes at the title that the letter was “printed in Basel in the year 5340†referring to the 1580 edition of Ambrosius Froben Prijs 127.<br /> <br /> III. Nevu’at ha-Yeled Berlin: Hevrat Hinukh Ne‘arim 549 1789. asterisk8 2asterisk2. 10 unnumbered leaves. Vinograd Berlin 384. Later edition of a medieval Hebrew short story with commentary first printed at the end of Jacob Zemah's Sefer Nagid u-Metzaveh Constantinople 1726. "The body of the tale is followed by a number of occult prophecies in Aramaic. it was known already as early as the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th when some kabbalists among them R. Abraham b. Eliezer ha-Levi wrote commentaries on the prophecies. The story tells of a wonder child Nahman born in the fifth century to a kabbalist; the child died very young but immediately upon birth began to tell his mother secrets of the heavenly worlds. His father cautioned him not to reveal mysteries forbidden to man and from then the child spoke only obscurely and enigmatically. Modern scholars have attempted to date the story and the prophecies therein by tracing known historical events hinted at and relating them to the text. The obscurity of the text makes this very difficult but it seems probable that historical events in the 15th century especially in the East are referred to in the prophecies. However the purpose of the story and its prophecies was to anticipate the coming of the Messiah and to describe the major political and historical events and catastrophes bringing about his final revelation. The kabbalists interpreted the prophecies as hinting at the coming of the Messiah in the early 16th century" JE XII:1020. Here the commentary on the Aramaic "prophecies" is likely attributable to Satanow.<br /> <br /> IV. Herev Nokemet Nekam Berit Dessau 5579 1819. 16pp. Vinograd Dessau 77. First edition of this famous polemical letter. A leader of the Reform movement Meyer Israel Bresselau d. 1839 together with I. S. Fraenkel edited and adapted in 1818 a prayer book for the Hamburg Reform Temple under the title Seder ha-Avodah. He anonymously published the present work in response to Eleh Divrei ha-Berit Altona 1819 "a pamphlet which collated the views of the greatest Orthodox rabbis of Western Europe against Reform Judaism and its innovations." A rhymed work written in a satirical biblical style Herev Nokemet is "remarkable in its witty take-off on the Orthodox rabbis who opposed the reforms in the Hamburg Reform synagogue. It ranks among the best Hebrew polemic literature written at the time of the Haskalah" EJ 4:1358 In response Meir Leib Reinitz published his Lahat ha-Herev ha-Mithappekhet in 1820. Bresselau's polemic was reprinted as an appendix to Bernfelds's Toledot ha-Reformazyon ha-Datit be-Yisrael in 1900. ×§×•× ×˜×¨×¡ מספר הזהר ×—×™×‘×•×¨× ×ª× ×™×™× ×<br /> ספר ×גרת הקדש<br /> × ×‘×•×ת הילד<br /> חרב × ×§×ž×ª × ×§× ×‘×¨×™×ª. Hevrat Hinukh Ne‘arim (Berlin Freischule)/[n.p.] hardcover
51-5693London: circa 1842. A suite of 10 handcolored lithographs mounted on card as issued. Average sheet size 50 x 37 or 38cm. Matted. One of the lithographs is missing most of the lower blank margin and one is missing the left side of the sky.The lithographs are not numbered or titled except for Abbey 5091 the title page.According to Abbey Travel II no. 509 there were 14 prints and they were tinted and not handcolored .After forcing the Bolan Pass and capturing Kandahar without a fight Sir John Keane's Army of the Indus advanced on the formidable Ghazni fortress. Protected by thick 60-feet high walls it presented a major problem for the British who lacked heavy artillery. They were only able to capture it because Mohan Lal a Kashmiri interpreter spy and assistant to the political officer Captain Sir Alexander Burnes managed to discover that one of the gates was poorly defended.Wingate was in India from March 1835 to January 1842. His sketch of the fortress of Ghuznee which as company commander in the 2nd Queen’s Royal Regiment of Foot he had stormed in July 1839 was published as a lithograph in London that same year one of fourteen large coloured lithographs by Weld Taylor after Wingate in an album entitled The Storming of Ghuznee and Kelat published 1842: copy British Library Oriental and India Office Collections. London: circa 1842 unknown
elala3022London: Isaac Ware 1731. First Edition. Ware's renderings engraved by P.Fourdrinier of designs by Jones and by William Kent depict chimney pieces ceilings mouldings staircases garden seats and structures and other ornaments. Kent is represented by more designs than Jones; and there is also one design by Lord Burlington of the piers at the entrance to Chiswick House and another unattributed design for an alcove. Some of these designs were in Burlington's collection and had not been previously published. This small-format edition supplied a wider audience of craftsmen and others with patterns indicative of Burlington's taste than the expensive folio of Designs of Inigo Jones published by Kent in 1727. Archer 340.1. Berlin Kat. 2274. Fowler 437. Harris 909. small 4to. engraved title pp. 5 engraved contents & 48 engraved plates numbered 1-53 6 folding - 5 assigned double numbers. contemporary calf artlessly rebacked corners lower edges & spine ends damaged title gutter margin strengthened & outer margin with small chip some marginal soiling [London]: I[saac] Ware, [1731] unknown
159020050Lugduni (pour Genève), Apud Iacobum Bubonium [et] Apud Guillelmun Leamarium, 1590. Deux tomes en un volume in-folio de [20]-751 (chiffrées 1-430; 435-755) -[1] et [4]-595-[65] pages, plein vélin sur ai de bois, dos muet à 5 nerfs, plats bordés de plusieurs roulettes dont une large aux entrelacs végétaux, et deux autres aux portraits de figures historiques, motif central du plat supérieur aux armes du Saint Empire romain germanique et au plat inférieur celles du grand électeur de Saxe, fermoirs en laiton.
19812571BASTEI-LÜBBE 1981-82. 1. softcover. Lucky Starr: Weltraum-Ranger 211382114121143211452114721149 BASTEI-LÜBBE paperback
19742205PANTHER BOOKS 1974. 4. softcover. Nightfall 34663537 Maloftege! PANTHER BOOKS paperback
57375Signet / New American Library. As New. 1965. Paperback. 0451612906 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 357 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . Signet / New American Library paperback
32189Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - 357 pages; ND; c 1963. -- with a bonus offer-- . Houghton Mifflin hardcover
200151845New York: W. W. Norton. New. 2001. Hardcover. 0393048462 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - 1076 pages. Book Description: "A literary event of extraordinary dimensionsthe first single-volume edition of all of Isaac Babel's work. Considered one of the greatest writers of the twentieth centuryand the greatest short story writer since ChekhovIsaac Babel 1894-1941 also wrote numerous plays diaries and screenplays. Despite his stature the whole of Babel's work has never been assembled in one place. This magnificent edition of Babel's collected work edited and authorized by Babel's daughter Nathalie and newly translated by Peter Constantine includes such standard works as the "Red Cavalry" cycle and his diaries as well as several previously untranslated stories and screenplays. Often revolving around the tortured dilemmas faced by Jews within the ruthless Soviet state Babel's terse violent fiction has left its mark on generations of readers and writers. This book will stand as Babel's final most enduring legacy. Slipcased edition. 2 b/w photographs 3 maps. " W. W. Norton hardcover
1665D18691London: J. G. for Rich. Marriott 1665. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Original calf. Wing W670; ESTC T10749. Provenance: Robert S Pirie bookplate. An exceptionally handsome copy in its original binding. "Thick paper " asks Pirie in pencil at the front. Rare. <br/><br/> J. G. for Rich. Marriott hardcover
17941252491794. First Edition. EATON Daniel Isaac. The Trial of Daniel Isaac Eaton for Publishing a Supposed Libel Comparing the King of England to a Game Cock In a Pamphlet Intitled Politics for the People; or Hog Wash at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey February Twenty-Fourth 1794. New York: L. Wayland 1794. Octavo modern half calf marbled boards pp. 48. $2400.First American edition of this account of the prosecution of radical printer Daniel Isaac Eaton for sedition with a wood engraving on the title page of the King of England next to a gamecock.In 1793 ""having acquired his own press Eaton launched Hog's Wash or A Salmagundy for Swine a weekly designed to spread political enlightenment among the masses. Partly original items partly excerpts enlivened by satire irony humour and verse it was immediately successful. Renamed Politics for the People it ran for sixty numbers September 1793 to March 1795. Through its pagesas through his pamphletsEaton consistently advocated universal manhood suffrage annual parliaments peace among nations education of the poor and unfettered discussion of politics and religion. When in the eighth number 16 November 1793 he published two items attacking monarchy one comparing the king to a cruel tyrannical gamecock Eaton was prosecuted for seditious libel but acquitted on both counts. He triumphantly adopted the imprint: 'Printed by D. I. Eaton at the Cock and Swine No. 74 Newgate Street.' The London Corresponding Society caused silver medals to be struck commemorating his acquittal. His shop became a gathering place for reformers and radicals"" DNB. Eaton is perhaps best remembered today for being arrested and convicted for publishing Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason serving 18 months in prison. Published earlier that same year in London. Scattered foxing extremely good condition. hardcover
1756191111London: Printed for T. Osborne and J. Shipton in the Gray's Inn J. Hodges near London Bridge L. Davis in Fleetstreet J. Ward in Cornhill and R. Baldwin in Pater-Noster-Row 1756. Hardcover. Fair missing coversmissing frontispiece and title page missing pages prior to page 9 expected age toning throughout spine is split plate 1 is loose appears all plates are here but many are wrongly numbered or double numbered pages 13-22 are torn appx 4 inches down from the top. Oversized missing front and rear covers brown leather spine with 6 raised bands 9-748 pp 20 pp 122 pages of engraved plates with several being fold-out. Includes a table of the plates errata and a table of contents. Isaac Ware's important comprehensive overview of Georgian architectural theory and practice. This work covers nearly every imaginable element of architectural design. 16x10x3" Printed for T. Osborne and J. Shipton, in the Gray's Inn, J. Hodges, near London Bridge, L. Davis, in Fleetstreet, J. Ward, in C hardcover
1688002823Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1688
In 8, pp. (12) + 123 + (1b) con diagrammi n.t. Legatura in cart. di fine XVIII sec. Rarissima ediz. orig. di questo importante trattato sul moto dei mari e dei venti dell'erudito ugonotto olandese Isaac Voss (Leida, 1618-Londra, 1689). A seguito della crescente importanza dei commerci marittimi e delle esplorazioni via mare, cominciarono ad essere studiate le cause delle maree. Voss respinge l'influenza della luna e delle stelle, sostenendo che e' il calore del sole a generare venti, maree e correnti oceaniche. Attribuisce infatti al riscaldamento solare l'aumento del livello del mare nella regione equatoriale con la conseguente formazione di maree e correnti. In maniera corretta sostiene che la circolazione del Nord Atlantico sia in senso orario. Il testo include riferimenti a vari luoghi del Nord e Sud America, fra i quali California, Florida, Virginia. Vossel, nel 1649, si trasferi' a Stoccolma, dove divenne bibliotecario ed insegnante di greco di Cristina di Svezia. Poi ando' in Inghilterra dove rimase fino alla morte. Qui fu canonico dei Windsor. Appassionato collezionista di libri ed egli stesso autore di opere di svariato genere (letteratura classica, geografia, cronologia biblica), lascio' alla morte una fra le piu' grandi biblioteche private del mondo. Sotheram, 5133.
1908122897London: Privately Printed at the Chiswick Press 1908. A proud Jewish father publishes for his children First and only edition. A truly sumptuous piece of private publishing produced as a gift for the author's children and grandchildren handsomely printed at the Chiswick Press and finely bound by an unnamed binder of real quality. Among the varied pieces is "A Dream by One who Dreamt It" a prose fantasy conceived at the time of the Dreyfus case of a Jewish state "a beautiful land of very vast extent" where Jews driven out from the civilized countries of Europe by "hatred and envy of the race" live in paradisal self-government. The volume carries the bookplate of Bernard Alexander Isaac 1871-1938. If he is one of the children for whom the book was printed then "Pater" was Frederick Simeon Isaac c.1829-1915. With his siblings Benjamin and Alexander Frederick was a partner in Isaac & Samuel a City of London firm with worldwide interests. He was also a director of several South American utility and finance companies. In the 1871 Census he was described as a "South American merchant" and in the 1901 Census as a "financial merchant". He left £630000 including a range of legacies to Jewish charities. The book is likely to have been printed in small numbers and is unsurprisingly rare. There are no copies listed on Library Hub and Library Hub lists only the Toronto Public Library copy. We were unable to trace any other copy in libraries or auction records. Tall octavo 247 x 184 mm. Photographic portrait of the author as frontispiece with tissue guard title printed in red and black decorative opening initials headpieces and culs-de-lampe. Finely bound in contemporary dark blue crushed morocco titles in gilt direct to spine gilt-ruled raised bands compartments and turn-ins ruled and richly decorated with foliate and circlet motifs in gilt boards panelled in single gilt rules with floral and repeat foliate motifs to corners green silk endpapers edges gilt unsigned but evidently quality work. Pictorial bookplate of Bernard A. Isaac to front pastedown. A few minor marks to covers else a fine copy printed on thick paper and handsomely bound. Toronto Public Library call number 828 P1283. hardcover
1813117185London: H.M.S.O. 1813. First edition thus of Newton's reports to the Privy Council or the Treasury during his position of Master of His Majesty's Mint the report signed and dated in print 21 September 1717. Newton was first appointed warden of the Mint in May 1696 rising to the position of Master following the death of Thomas Neale in December 1699. "Macaulay avers in his history that Newton - independently I suppose of his public action in reference to the Re-Coinage - has left no exposition of his opinions touching the currency. The eloquent historian thus leaves out of view the well-known report of 1717 upon which was based the reduction of the Guinea from 21 shillings and 6 pence to 21 shillings. It would seem then that the doctrinal importance of this Report had escaped recognition from the English historian though as I have had occasion to ascertain it was the subject of appreciative comment in France and Prussia more than a century ago. Indeed I read it first in a German translation printed at Berlin in 1762." Horton quoted in Gray. Foolscap folio 332 x 202 mm pp. 3. Docket title printed on final blank for folding. Disbound two sewing holes as issued. Two small sewing holes to centre fold; in excellent condition. Gray 350; Wallis 350.6. World Cat and Library Hub Discover record a 4-page version with the title "Return to an order of the House of Commons dated 1 March 1813; - for copies of all reports or memorials; made by Sir Isaac Newton when Master of his Majesty's Mint to the Privy Council or to the Treasury on the state of the coin of these realms: so far as relates to the Treasury." taken from the series of British Parliamentary papers; Accounts and papers Great Britain Parliament. Session 1812-13. House of Commons; 77. We can find no record of the present version. unknown
1915184818London: I. Narodiczky 1915. Robert Graves remembers a fallen poet First edition Robert Graves's copy with a gift inscription to him on the title page: "Robert Graves from J. Isaacs Feb 23 1920". Graves and his friend Jacob "Jack" Isaacs were both early supporters of Rosenberg. Isaacs met Rosenberg in 1917 while both were on leave from the front and he associated with Graves after the war in Oxford. Professor Isaacs 1896-1973 was a poet and critic who nurtured further friendships with Edmund Blunden and T. S. Eliot. In the newspaper article "Eliot's Friends" here loosely inserted Isaacs recalled that Eliot praised Rosenberg "and spread his fame long before the bandwagon rumbled. He once said to me that no English anthology that did not include Rosenberg was worth anything". Published in a run of roughly 100 copies just prior to his enlisting in the army Youth was the second of only three poetry pamphlets published during Rosenberg's lifetime. Rosenberg attended the Slade and became one of the most celebrated of the British war poets following his death on the Western Front in 1918. A posthumous collection of his works appeared in 1922. Octavo 202 x 123 mm pp. 18. Later grey cloth with original wrappers bound in. Bound-in front wrapper with long closed split to inner margin and a couple of repaired tears minor crease to contents very good. hardcover
1886D7497Pennsylvania 1886. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary quarter sheep marbled paper over boards; 112 x 176 mm; with 123 numbered and lined leaves mostly filled. Rather early and rare American railroad treatise made by one Isaac Dox chief engineer in the building of a rail line from Delano to Hazelton Pennsylvania 1886-1887. Covers all aspects of railroad construction and the working of railroads exceptionally well accomplished in a small precise hand with frequent illustrations and diagrams done in pen and ink. Spine chipped and scuffed; edges of boards scuffed. <br/><br/> hardcover
