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1821022003London: for Baldwin Cradock and Joy 1821. First Edition. Octavo. 167pp. 1pp. errata 6 folding plates at the rear. This book was designed for students. Section I consist of the method of prime and ultimate ratios demonstrated. Section II: A general introduction to the three sections. III: Explanatory notes of Newton's text and Section IV: A collection of Miscellaneous problems with their solutions. Bound in a modern maroon cloth lettered in gilt new endpapers all edge marbled internally clean and bright with just a bit of foxing to title page. for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy unknown books
193030267Boston: The Stratford Company 1930. First edition. Cloth faded internally very good. Inscribed by the author to Ira Gershwin "writer of swell words for swell music". The book is mostly unopened except the chapter on "the new immorality" <br/><br/> The Stratford Company hardcover books
1925026140New York: Simon & Schuster 1925. First Edition. Octavo. xiv 388 pages frontispiece plates portraits facsimiles. This work examined him not only as a great cultural critic and brilliant journalist but also as a major lexicographer. It remains the best biography by a man who knew his entire corpus of work and was both a critic and admired of the most remarkable American journalist of the 20th Century. Bound in dark blue cloth lettered in gilt. A fine bright copy in chipped and edge worn dust jacket. Simon & Schuster unknown books
18635881Sm. Cincinnati: Applegate & Co. 1863. Sm. 8vo original embossed pebbled brown cloth backstrip gilt-lettered. 212 pp. Amazing pictorial woodcut title-page twelve woodcut plates and text cuts one three-color diagram and one large folding lithographic plate. Lettering faded backstrip tips chipped but otherwise a very good copy. § First Edition. A very good specimen of agricultural promotion that celebrates the imminent boom in the sorghum trade. The author foresees the United States gaining a new level of economic and nutritional independence by producing its own sugar and other products from the fast-growing plant. The illustrations are closely keyed to the numerous advertisements for processing machinery at the rear of the text. The marvelous lithographic plate measures six by eighteen inches and depicts happy farmers processing sorghum into sugar syrup molasses etc. while in the distance their shipa river steamer literally comes in. Sabin 31222. Applegate & Co hardcover books
17994936Boston 1799. Small quarto 23pp half title stitched Near Fine. <br/><br/> Hurd says man's consciousness of his own existence is the basis for "pursuing our own pleasure." But he also discusses the "principle" that leads humans "to love and cherish others" and the manifestations of "that spirit which pervades an American bosom" in the multitude of voluntary associations that proliferate. <br/>Evans 35648. Austin 1007. unknown books
18401884Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Co. Printers 1840. 8vo. 60 pp. <br><br>Jackson wrote this biography of Harrison to support his candidacy for the presidency in 1840. This edition should not be confused with the common duodecimo done in Philadelphia in the same year. Good. Removed from a nonce volume; without wrappers. Scattered foxing waterstaining in the outer margins and a little shallow chipping. [C. Sherman & Co., Printers] unknown books
184758914New Orleans LA: J. Jaehne for the State of Louisiana 1847. Broadside document 16 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches. In part: "P.S. Hoes . to take acknowledgement and proof of deeds depositions conveyances mortgages sales transfers and assignments of any property etc. . and to authenticate and attest the signature & official capacity and acts of the public officers holding a commission or acting under the authority of the State of New York for and on behalf of the State of Louisiana." Folded but very good. Official form illustrated at the head with the seals of Louisiana and the United States. #5538. <br/><br/> J. Jaehne [for the State of Louisiana] unknown books
184958915New Orleans LA: J. Jaehne Stationer for the State of Louisiana 1849. Document. Broadside document 9 7/8 x 8 inches. In part: "George Y Bright . is and was at the time of his signing the same 2d Justice of the Peace in and for the Parish of Orleans State of Louisiana that all his official acts as that are entitled to full faith and credit." Folded but very good. Official form on blue paper illustrated at the head with the state seal. #5528. <br/><br/> J. Jaehne, Stationer [for the State of Louisiana] unknown books
18755568San Francisco 1875 Printed and manuscript. One leaf 2pp. with original promissory note attached. Dated October 1 1875. Includes the original envelope. Creased where folded right edge of sheet a little rough a few very short edge tears. Overall very good. Isaac Smith Kalloch 1831-87 was a flamboyant Baptist pastor of Boston and was tried but not convicted of adultery. He then moved to Kansas were he indulged in land speculation shady railroad ventures and political maneuvers before moving to San Francisco 1875 because "there are more wicked people of both sexes in that city and I feel called by God to convert them." Kallock became pastor of Metropolitan Temple the city's largest church and the candidate of the Workingmen's party for Mayor. His campaign attacked not only Chinese labor and the Big Four but also Charles de Young whose Chronicle opposed him. In cold blood de Young shot Kalloch at his church. Kalloch survived to become Mayor of San Francisco 1879-81. His son Isaac Milton Kalloch in turn shot and killed de Young 1880. The father weathered impeachment attempts and the son was acquitted of murder. Both father and son then moved to Washington Territory to become lawyers there. Earlier while in Kansas Kalloch borrowed $104.00 from one J. B. Wheeler at the Simpsons Bank of Lawrence Kansas to be paid back at 10% interest. The original promissory note signed by Kalloch is attached to the Protest for Payment. The loan was finally turned over to the Anglo California Bank of San Francisco who hired one James L. King a Notary Public to collect the money from Kalloch. Thus this official Protest for Non Payment signed by King was presented to Kalloch. In keeping with his personal history Kalloch refused to pay. Hart A Companion to California: p.254. unknown books
179734241Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin 1797. 31 1 blank pp with the half title. Disbound and mildly foxed Very Good. <br/><br/> "The primary object of civil institutions is to prevent those evils.to which men would unavoidably be exposed in a state of nature" by reason of the depravity of "fallen man." Such evils are illustrated in the revolution in France: "Law was no longer a restraint right no longer regarded property was invaded virtue insulted chastity polluted." <br/>FIRST EDITION. Evans 32377. Trumbull 996. Hudson & Goodwin unknown books
1992RNEWPRI00fpEaston Press 1992. Fine. Newton Sir Isaac. Principia: Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World. ; . Norwalk CT: Easton Press 1992. xxiii 680pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Near fine. Easton Press unknown books
198113738Garden City: Doubleday 1981. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy with sunning to spine in a near fine slipcase with large cover label. Raphael Soyer. One of 500 special copies signed by the author with a numbered color print signed by Soyer. This is copy #434. Singer a Nobel Prize-winning author reminisces about his leaving his friends in Poland in the 1930's his coming to America to join his brother in New York and his experiences in this strange new land. With the publisher's red cardboard slipcase with cover label. <br/><br/> Doubleday hardcover books
196718331New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1967. First edition first printing. Hardcover. Fine. Pictures by Margot Zemach. Oblong 4to. Publisher's deep rose colored cloth with the upper board embossed in a design by the illustrator in darker rose and the spine with titles in gilt. Illustrated in color throughout. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is first state unclipped and shows traces of wear and light soil and has a few short closed marginal tears else is in very good condition. Inscribed by the author on the half-title: "To Sarah: Happy Chanukkah. I B Singer." Farrar, Straus & Giroux hardcover books
198271132NY: Farrar Straus Giroux 1982. First edition limited issue of 450 numbered copies signed by Singer on the limitation page. Copy #387. Blue cloth grey paper-covered slipcase. Slipcase with few small stains on edges. Fine condition in a Very Good slipcase. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Farrar Straus Giroux Hardcover books
1950004756New York: Alfred Knopf 1950. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition of the Nobel Prize winner's first book a family saga. A near fine copy with small stains to two interior pages else clean and tight. Bright unfaded dustwrapper is price clipped else a sharp near fine example. <br/><br/> Alfred Knopf hardcover books
1975WRCLIT73527Los Angeles & Tel-Aviv: Golan-Globus Production 1975. Quarto. Photomechanically reproduced typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in William Morris Agency wrappers. Wrappers essentially detached from brads title hand- lettered on upper wrapper; very good. An unspecified but very much a pre-production draft of this adaptation from Singer's 1960 novel. Golan directed the 1979 release which starred Alan Arkin Louise Fletcher Valerie Perrine and Shelley Winters. Golan-Globus Production unknown books
1984Embry 177545The Limited Editions Club 1984. One of 1500 copies signed by both author and illustrator. Fine in fine publisher's slipcase. Illus by Larry Rivers. Blue Nigerian goat over natural linen. The Limited Editions Club, 1984. One of 1500 copies, signed by both author and illustrator. unknown books
195521314New York: Noonday Press 1955. First English Language Edition. Octavo 21.5cm.; original cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket by Ellen Raskin; xi1239pp. Minor edge wear to jacket extremities some toning to rear panel and spine interior fine. Very Good. Novel set in seventeenth-century Poland in the aftermath of the Chmielnicki massacre. The author's first book originally published in Yiddish in 1931. Noonday Press unknown books
1827451291827. TAYLOR Isaac. HISTORY OF THE TRANSMISSION OF ANCIENT BOOKS TO MODERN TIMES; OR A CONCISE ACCOUNT OF THE MEANS BY WHICH THE GENUINENESS AND AUTHENTICITY OF ANCIENT HISTORICAL WORKS ARE ASCERTAINED: WITH AN ESTIMATE OF THE COMPARATIVE VALUE OF THE EVIDENCE USUALLY ADDUCED IN SUPPORT OF THE CLAIMS OF THE JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES. London: B.J. Holdsworth 1827. 8vo. recent brown quarter-calf leather & marbled boards. First Edition. Near fine small stain leather spine. $175.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
188330656New York: American Bible Society 1883. First separate edition 8vo pp. 24; original printed wrappers; slight flaking along the spine old vertical crease else very good. Reprinted from the 67th Report of the American Bible Society May 10 1883. Not in Smith American Travellers Abroad; 5 in OCLC 4 in New England and 1 in Turkey. <br/><br/> American Bible Society unknown books
175453447Londini London: J. & R. Tonson & S. Draper 1754. 4to. pp. 40; late twentieth-century quarter-bound leather over decorative-paper boards with a binder's ticket in the rear stating "Restored by B R Lhotka 1992". This variant has the price on the title page. A near fine book with the rear hinge starting and an archival tape repair to the front hinge. Hawkins Brown is cited as a friend of Samuel L. Johnson and was a poet MP and Barrister during his lifetime 1706-1760 Trinity College Chapel Memorials. His poem reads as a pseudo-philosophical exploration of the immortality of the human soul drawing on humanist beliefs about the universe as well as theology. <br/><br/> J. & R. Tonson & S. Draper hardcover books
183330108Boston: Lilly Wait Colman and Holden; New York: William Jackson 1833. First complete American edition of the first series 8vo 3 vols. pp. 386 363 and 375; wood-engraved frontispiece illustration in each vol. folded facsimile of "Mr. Pope's Manuscript Homer" in vol. III; original purple moiré-patterned cloth covered boards stamped and lettered in gilt on spine; moderate wear to extremities the spines faded to tan with ends fraying and chipped joints on each volume cracked with a few inadequate and amateurish tape repairs and light to moderate foxing throughout. The Curiosities was the most popular and most reprinted work by Benjamin Disraeli's father. <br/><br/> William Jackson hardcover books
184654157Bath and London: published by the author 1846. Second edition 8vo pp. 79 1; 30 pages of engraved shorthand exercises; original printed paper wrappers; spine perished covers toned and starting binding weak but holding some pencil in the margins fair. <br/><br/> published by the author unknown books
1994290993Norwalk. : The Easton Press. 1994. Limited edition #923 of 1500 copies. . Full black leather raised bands gilt and silver decorations all edges gilt silk endpapers ribbon marker. . Fine blank Easton bookplate to pastedown. . 23.5x15.5 cm. . Signed by Ellison on the signature page. weight: 1.2 lb. Illustrated by Mark Zug. The Easton Press. hardcover books
188928097Middletown CT: Self-published 1889. First Edition. Very Good. First Edition. One sheet of 10 x 15 inch bristol board. Black ink on white paper. Some damage to the extremities mostly upper left margins. Inked notes in black and red. Drawing witnesses were D. H. Haywood and C. E. Sundgren. Brown & Griswold were his attorneys. On the verso are penciled notes about the inventor and a note "Amendment Drawing". The assigned patent application serial number was 290167 and it was received by the US Patent Office USPTO on November 6 1888. The patent was issued on May 21 1889 and given design patent number 19110 with a term of 14 years. We have included a printout of the patent text for reference.<br/><br/>NOTE: This is one of a collection of original patent art recently received. If you are interested in knowing about additional items please let us know. Hand-drawn patent drawings while critical to the patent process don't often appear for sale. With only the inventor attorney and USPTO the likely recipients few were made and after expiring many were discarded.<br/><br/>This example is a patent for a hammock with a fine weave and nice tassels down the ends. I. E. Palmer was a Middleton CT manufacturer/dealer in hammocks - at least one firm catalog exists from 1907. <br/><br/>DESIGN PATENTS: what they are how long they last and records management<br/><br/>Design patents "protect the way an article looks." Historically important they verify new design innovations document changing cultural tastes and establish valuable competitive business advantages. New patents preserve for the stated term the inventor's sole ownership and use of the design.<br/><br/>The US Patent Office USPTO calls "the drawing disclosure . the most important element of the application.As the drawing or photograph constitutes the entire visual disclosure of the claim it is of utmost importance that the drawing or photograph be clear and complete that nothing regarding the design sought to be patented is left to conjecture" <br/><br/>To obtain a Design patent inventors submit an original black pen and ink drawing and a description of the innovation to the USPTO typically with the assistance of a patent lawyer familiar with the process. The USPTO assigns the new application a "serial number" and "application date." USPTO patent examiners then vet the application to ensure it is unique and not already protected often with additional communication between the USPTO the inventor and their legal representation. This process can take months if not years. Only if determined to be a new invention will the USPTO issue the inventor a Design Patent number and patent date.<br/><br/>During the active term of the design patent the USPTO retains the inventor's application and drawings for use in patent dispute cases and other inquiries. After the term of the patent the USPTO may discard or return the materials if no longer relevant to their core mission. Today most issued patents are digitized for preservation. Older paper records and patent models have been periodically discarded most often with little fanfare and to address space or fiscal management issues. Self-published unknown books
