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0224012495New. Brand new and still unused unknown
199850621BASTEI-LÜBBE 05/1998. 1. softcover. Lucky Starr: Weltraum-Ranger 211382114121143211452114721149 BASTEI-LÜBBE paperback
198547836SCHERZ 1985. 1. hardcover. SCHERZ hardcover
1793List2998Charlestown Ohio County Virginia now Brooke County West Virginia 1793. Single two-page letter measuring 7 ½ x 12 ½ inches. Folded with small tears at folds some holes intersecting with text; overall excellent. A letter from Isaac Prince Robbins 1770–1846 in what is now West Virginia to his parents Rev. Chandler Robbins 1738–1799 and Jane Prince 1740–1800 in Plymouth Massachusetts. Isaac Robbins was likely teaching in the area as he mentions the “price of my school†and that the oncoming spring had “call’d the larger scholars away†to farm. He also notes that smallpox had been running through the area and inquires about the family’s health as they had contracted the disease the previous October.<br /> <br /> Robbins also informs his family that there is “No prospect of peace while the Indians commit depredations as frequent as they do. Kill’d and took seven families at a station 30 miles this side Lymestone Kentucky Landingâ€. It is not clear whether he is referring to “Hartshorne’s defeat†part of the Northwest Indian War where the Northwestern Confederacy attacked Euro-American settlers near Limestone now Maysville—this attack occurred in 1790 though it is possible that Robbins had not contacted his family since prior to this event.<br /> <br /> He closes by ruminating on his own sin telling his parents “I have erred and gone astray point out to me the way that I shall ask forgiveness whereby I can be saved.†This letter probably predates Isaac Robbins’ following in his father’s footsteps and becoming a minister.<br /> <br /> Of interest to historians of the settlement of West Virginia and related conflicts with Indigenous tribes. unknown
182365777London:: Septimus Prowett 1823. First edition. full green gilt morocco green silk doublures; a.e.g. by Bayntun; preserved in a matching 3/4 morocco slipcase and chemise. Half-title a little tanned; otherwise a very fine copy in a handsome binding. The leather spine of the slipcase is very slightly tanned. . 16mo. Two portraits and 18 finely engraved plates. Septimus Prowett, hardcover
177810698Philadelphia: Printed by R. Bell 1778. 8vo disbound pamphlet 2 36 pp Lacking four leaves at the end including pages 37 to 42 of the appendix. A rare pamphlet calling for Quakers to support the Continental Congress and pay war taxes. Evans 15843 which notes that "This edition was bought up and suppressed by the Quakers and only a few copies escaped destruction." Toning to pages foxing to first and last leaf some tearing along spine bit of chipping to lower margin of title page inscriptions to upper margin of title page. Printed by R. Bell unknown
175537868Salzburg: Meshulam Zalman b. Aaron 1755. Revised. Hardcover. g. Folio. 15 leaves. Contemporary brown leather with gold tooling on the spine. Red edges and decorated floral endpapers. Illustrated title page with Moses and Aaron on the sides with depictions of the scenes from Genesis of Jacob stealing the blessing the binding of Isaac and Jacob's ladder on the bottom. Revised edition of the 1695 Amsterdam Haggadah illustrated by the convert to Judaism Abraham b. Jacob. These woodcut illustrations are largely based on the work of the early 17th century Swiss Christian biblical artist Matthaeus Merian. Of particular note are the illustrations of Abraham smashing his father's idols the four sons and the drowning of the Egyptians. Includes the "Zevach Pesach" commentary of Isaac Abarbanel as well as a mystical commentary. The songs Adir Hu Ahad mi Yodaya and Had Gadya are translated into Judeo-German. Revised edition offers a larger and clearer print. This edition should not be confused with the Furth Haggadah printed in the same year also with the Abarbanel commentary. Text in Hebrew and Judeo-German. Inscription on front free endpaper. Name of previous owner on title page. Boards bowed chipped and scratched. Hole in center of title page. Staining chipping and creasing to leaves. Numerous leaves are strengthened. Overall in good condition. Yaari 138; Yudlov 216. Meshulam Zalman b. Aaron hardcover
19522205031New York: Gnome 1952. First. hardcover. Very good/good. The true first edition in the first issue dust jacket with the original price of $2.75 still present. Book cover is first issue red cloth with black lettering. First Edition stated on the copyright page. Very good in good dust jacket with some chips and wear and tear as shown in the photos. Prior owner's last name written in corner of front free endpaper. The second book in the classic trilogy. Front flap of dust jacket separating at hinge but easily repairable. Gnome unknown
168358073London:: Printed by M. Fletcher for Brabazon Aylmer 1683-1687. Volume II states second edition on the title page. old full calf. Old ink signature at head of title page in Vol. I; bindings scuffed and worn at extremities with a few short splits at joints; contents very nice with all volumes tight and sound. Additional postage charge applicable. Folio. Engraved frontispiece portrait in each volume. Published by the Reverend Dr. Tillotson. Printed by M. Fletcher, for Brabazon Aylmer, unknown
392341Unbound. Near Fine. A contemporary probably retained copy of a three-page holographic letter dated October 1721 written by Isaac Bobin private secretary to the Honorable George Clarke who was the Secretary for the Province of New York from 1718 to 1730. The two 8.25" x 12.75" leaves were formerly horizontally folded in quarters and are fragile at the folds with some general toning minor splitting at a few of the folds and a bit of chipping to the extremities not affecting the content of the letter.<br /> <br /> The letter roughly delineates the boundary between Orange and Ulster Counties in the province of New York by an Act of the Assembly of the Province. In the top right corner of the document is written “duplicate†and on the bottom of the page is written “Justice of Ulster County†presumably making this copy of the letter the one delivered to the officials in Ulster.<br /> <br /> In the letter Bobin reports that the division line between the two counties will run from the mouth of Murderers Creek westward and into the woods as far as the Delaware River. Owing to the continuing ambiguity of the division and the increasing number of settlers to the region Bobin reports that Secretary Clarke asks that five or more leaders from Ulster meet on November 20 at the Court House of the County of Ulster to decide who will meet with their counterpart from Orange County and other interested parties at the city of New York on the last Tuesday in March to finalize the boundaries of the two counties. This letter is not included in Letters of Isaac Bobin Esq. published by J. Munsell Albany New York 1872. unknown
1867376703Salem OR: W.A. McPherson & Co 1867. First edition. 381 pp. 1 full-page illustration. 8vo. Contemporary three quarter roan over cloth gilt title to spine. Some rubbing and wear to extremities rear joint cracked front board detaching interior unevenly toned but clean. Housed in tan slipcase with leather spine labels. Provenance: C.C. Went 1897 signature. First edition. 381 pp. 1 full-page illustration. 8vo. The state legislator's second book The American Safeguard was principally intended as a manual for politicians particularly the sections on parliamentary practice which were probably targeted at Cox's more indecorous colleagues but also designed to be used in classrooms and as a layman's guide. <br /> <br /> As was sometimes the case for Cox himself given his Democratic political leanings news of the work's publication received a frosty reception in the local press including the Oregon Sentinel: "Give us the constitution and tell us what the big words mean; but.spare us the marginal notes especially if they are Confederate Currency." The text of the U.S. Constitution featuring the newly ratified Thirteenth Amendment is indeed accompanied by an "analytical index" and a series of "political definitions." But Cox surprised audiences with the work's "Treatise upon the Government and History of the United States" and "Manual of Political Economy" both of which contradicted Democratic orthodoxies on slavery and protective tariffs. "We must congratulate Mr. Cox on the breadth of his views and the justness of his sentiments" writes a contemporary reviewer in the Portland Oregonian. "He has completely vindicated the course of his political opponents and exposed the errors of his own party." <br /> <br /> The work was reissued in California in 1893; both editions are scarce. Maloney Alice Bay. "The Distressingly Virtuous Isaac: Biographical Notes on Isaac Cox Author of 'The Annals of Trinity County.'" California Historical Society Quarterly vol. 21 no. 2 1942 pp. 127-40 W.A. McPherson & Co unknown
18201263481820. First Edition. CRUIKSHANK Isaac Robert CRAWFORD John William Roy. Lessons of Thrift Published for General Benefit by a Member of the Save-All Club. London: Thomas Boys 1820. Octavo early 20th-century full red morocco rebacked with elaborately gilt-decorated spine laid down raised bands top edge gilt uncut. $1500.First edition of this satirical guide to thrift illustrated with hand-colored vignette title page and 12 beautiful hand-colored plates by acclaimed English artist Isaac Robert Cruikshank handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt by Riviere and Son.This satirical work examines the habits of the thrifty. Despite Crawford's embrace of parody e.g. a chapter entitled ""The Economy of a Wooden Leg"" he nevertheless offers a number of truths that resonate even today about happiness money materialism and more. The book is beautifully illustrated with a hand-colored vignette title page and 12 hand-colored plates by Isaac Robert Cruikshank George Cruikshank's brother/collaborator and an acclaimed cartoonist in his own right. Plates and text generally fine attractive contemporary morocco-gilt binding with expert restoration. hardcover
19532399First UK Edition; A Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. A handsome copy of this rare first UK publication of the classic SciFi novel the first in the Foundation series by one of the 20th century SciFi masters. Although not the true first as the first US is the true first this edition is much more scarce in the marketplace particularly in collectible condition. This copy is in very good or better condition with a square tight binding clean black boards with bright silver lettering and clean white pages throughout; the book does show some light rubbing to the spine ends a previous bookstore's bookplate to the front pastedown small and unobtrusive and some light staining to the top exterior text block that does bleed to the top of some of the pages at the most about a 1/4". Housed in a crisp and bright very good or better dust jacket that shows minor rubbing and chipping to the spine ends and edges one small closed tear to the spine foot fold and some light sunning to the spine. Overall a sharp and collectible copy; an important addition to any Asimov or 20th Century Science Fiction collection. Not remaindered not price clipped not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box. Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardcover
189862462Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Company 1898. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. Boards. Predates Bannerman Sambo. Rare. Very good copy beautifully repaired and restored. Williams & Wilkins Company hardcover
1819Flo574<p>Very good set of four titles of the popular educational books</p><p>Written and illustrated by the prolific Isaac Taylor</p><p>Illustrated with 336 finely handcoloured wood engravings on 112 plates and three of four handcoloured folding maps</p><p><em>Scenes in Europe</em> 2nd edition 1819 title page with engraved vignette 84 handcoloured engravings on 28 plates lacks folding map</p><p><em>Scenes in Asia</em> 1st edition 1819 handcoloured folding map title page with engraved vignette 84 handcoloured engravings on 28 plates</p><p><em>Scenes in Africa</em> 1st edition 1820 handcoloured folding map title page with engraved vignette 84 handcoloured engravings on 28 plates</p><p><em>Scenes in America</em> 1st edition 1821 handcoloured folding map title page with engraved vignette 84 handcoloured engravings on 28 plates</p><p>Isaac Taylor 1759-1829 was an engraver and writer for the young. As an apprentice he worked on plates for Abraham Rees's <em>Cyclopedia</em> but later became a nonconformist pastor in Ongar Essex where he brought up and educated his large family. After the success of several works on morality published by his wife Ann Taylor 1757-1830 and his daughters Ann and Jane Isaac started publishing his own instructional manuals on subjects such as character scripture Bunyan British and European biographies etc. Many were illustrated with his own engravings.</p><p>"Isaac Taylor also issued with engravings from designs mostly by himself a few were by his son Isaac a series of topographies 'for little tarry-at-home travellers.'" DNB</p><p>Rebound by John Robinson in blue leather gilt title on spine green marbled boards book block solid new endpapers. Interior mostly very clean and bright text pages and plates in very good condition rich handcolour to the woodcuts. The folding map of Africa with a large brown splotch perhaps a coffee stain and slight water damage to the last few pages of Europe.</p><p>A lovely set of these often well-worn children's books in surprisingly good condition</p> Harris & Sons hardcover
176569380Cambridge: J. Bentham 1765. Full Description:<br> <br> NEWTON Sir Isaac. Excerpta Quaedam. e Newtoni Principiis Philosophiae Naturalis Cum Notis Variorum. Cambridge: J. Bentham 1765.<br> <br> First edition of a selection of excerpts from Newton's "Principia." Subscriber's copy. Quarto 9 3/4 x 8 inches; 248 x 200 mm. ix list of subscribers 1 corrigenda 180 pp. With twelve engraved folding plates and commentary on Newton's text by three Cambridge scholars.<br> <br> Modern full red morocco. Newer marbled endpapers. Binding with some mild rubbing. Some dampstaining along outer lower and fore-edge margins. Title-page and leaf a4 Subscribers have been remargined at inner margin. Leaf Y4 and Plate XI remargined at fore-edge not affecting text. Overall a very good copy.<br> <br> Excerpts for subscribers from "the greatest work in the history of science" PMM.<br> <br> PMM 161. Babson 15.<br> <br> HBS 69380.<br> <br> $1500. J. Bentham unknown
181321938Philadelphia: Isaac Peirce 1813. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. iv 3 8-99 1 pp. Printed paper boards. Boards worn and soiled spine partially perished textblock untrimmed but still a good copy of an elusive title in the original binding.<br /> <p><br /> Contains much of medical interest including suggestions on the care of the sick in almshouses on the care of infants and the aged on dispensaries on therapy in mental diseases and on medical education. Concerned especially with Philadelphia institutions.<br /> <p><br /> Shaw & Shoemaker 29505; Austin Early American Medical Imprints 1540.<br /> <p>. Isaac Peirce hardcover
16-4860Circa late 17th- early 18th Century. Mezzotint. 25.5 x 19.6 cm. Lettered in black ink lower left: NVHaeften pinxit lower center.; lower right: J. Sarrabat fecit et excudit. Rare. Circa late 17th- early 18th Century. unknown
3245New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Third Printing. Original cloth in dust jacket. Inscribed by Singer to Henry Miller: "To My Good Friend Henry Miller with admiration and love Isaac B. Singer. May 26 1975." Beneath this inscription Singer has written: "Here is the story you quoted in your letter. I wish you long and creative years. I.B.S." Miller often wrote about how much he loved Singer's work. A wonderful literary association. Offered with: A copy of the first edition in DJ worn of Singer's 1961 book The Spinoza of Market Street also from Miller's library though unmarked as such. <br/><br/> Farrar, Straus, & Giroux hardcover
44601980. No Binding. Very Good. Heavily emendated typed manuscript of the short story "The Extinguished Lights." Ten numbered pages typewritten recto only 8.5" x 11." Signed by Singer with "Greetings" at the top. Very good condition with light staining to margin of first two pages and rust from an old paperclip along the top edge. Originally published in his 1980 collection The Power of Light which Singer notes in his inscription The Extinguished Lights is a Hannukah story with supernatural elements set in Poland. The draft gives wonderful insight into Singer's process of shaping a story through the many textual changes in his hand. The last lines of the draft version written out entirely by hand align closely with the final published version and give a poetic end to the haunting story: ".the secrets of the Torah are deeper than the ocean higher than the sky and more delightful than all the pleasures the body could ever enjoy. unknown
1760009993C. Fourdrinier 1760. Hardcover. Near Fine. Oversized folio 15 1/4" x 20 1/2" now bound in blue paper covered boards with brown leather gilt decorated spine and matching corner tips. 10 page text with 31 of 35 plates missing 12 15and 16 . One plate has both margins cut 2 plates have very small spot in outer margin; the remaining plates have intact wide margins and are fine. <br/> <br/> C. Fourdrinier hardcover
1800100585<p>2 vols. 8vo modern half morocco & marbled boards spine ruled in gilt raised bands morocco lettering pieces new endpapers. Illustrated with 16 folding views plans and maps; xix 1 427; viii 376 pp. Minor aging and some darkening to a few pages and some foxing to one plate. Near fine condition. Weld an Irishman came to America in 1795 when he was nineteen. This work narrates his travels through the former colonies along the eastern seaboard and the Canadian provinces. Very popular at the time it was published Weld comments on the population and social habits and customs of the people he saw. According to Howes Weld seemed to prefer Canada to the States. Compared to the similar works of this period Weld seems to be fairly objective on most things. However whether or not his observation that Americans lose their teeth prematurely is accurate would be hard to substantiate. Contains several interesting views of Niagara Falls Mt. Vernon Bethlehem PA and a large map of the northern portion of the United States with inset of the southern States.</p> John Stockdale hardcover
155548871Köln Cologne: Maternus Cholinus and Jakob Soter 1555. First Latin diglot edition. Hardcover. Good. Small octavo. A-L16 = 88 leaves signed on each side e.g. A8 verso is signed A16; H9 missigned G9. 16 157 2 epigram 1 blankpp. Pagination and register run from right to left. Modern quarter sheep over marbled boards gauffered edges endleaves renewed. Library stamps and old owner entries at title; early marginal annotation and underlinings in the “Epistolaâ€; text toned with dampstain affecting bottom quarter of text throughout not impairing legibility; marginal tear at C7. A good complete copy with ample margins.<br /> <br /> Third edition per Steinschneider and the first Latin diglot version of this anonymous introductory work. First published at Venice in 1544 it is notable that a Latin translation appears so soon after a sixteenth-century editio princeps of a Hebrew work. It comprises a commentary on and explanation of difficult terms in Maimonides' Moreh Nevukhim Guide for the Perplexed with an elucidation of terminology in the translations of Arabic to Hebrew as well as the jargon of medieval philosophical literature in general. As the editor of the present edition notes at the title "Ru'ah Hen has been attributed to the renowned translator R. Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon c. 1120-c. 1190 and to R. Jacob ben Abba Mari ben Samson Anatoli 13th century also a translator of note. Ibn Tibbon known as the 'father of translators' was born in Granada Spain but relocated to Lunel in Provence France to escape the persecution of the Jews in the former location. He supported himself as a physician coming into contact with many sages one of whom R. Meshullam ben Jacob requested that ibn tibbon translate R. Bahya ibn Paquda's Hovot ha-Levavot into Hebrew. In addition to translating that work from Arabic ibn Tibbon also translated several other books into Hebrew among them R. Judah Halevi's Kuzari R. Saadiah Gaon's Emunot ve-De'ot and R. Solomon ibn Gabirol's Middot ha-Nefesh and Mivhar Peninim" Heller. While this is the fourth known printing of the work it is the first to include vowel points and the translation of the formerly Jewish convert to Christianity Johann Isaac Levita 1515-1577 a descendant of Elias Levita the most famous in his time of those Jews who sought scholarly contact with Christians and taught Christians Hebrew. As an added bonus the present edition includes Maimonides' De astrologia epistola elegans. The celebrated English jurist and Hebrew scholar John Selden is known to have had a copy of Ruah ha-Hen in his library Oxford Library note.<br /> <br /> Adams J-403. Cf. Heller The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book 815 noting the present ed. Steinschneider 1 col. 639; no. 4038. VD 16 I1. Hebrew title: רוח החן. Maternus Cholinus and Jakob Soter hardcover
1959206031New York: Abelard-Schuman 1959. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good clipped dust jacket. Front flap clipped price remains.; Personalized by author on title page.; Signed by Author. Abelard-Schuman hardcover
198339846HEYNE WILHELM 1983. 12.ND. softcover. Roboter-Foundation Glata Kovrajo! HEYNE, WILHELM paperback
