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16661299Nurnberg 1666. Houzeau & Lancaster 3039; Zimmer 5089 1628 Strasbourg ed.; Poggendorff 1984. Warner The Sky Explored pp. 104-5. Extremely rare German edition a Latin edition was published the same year of Sturms enlargement of Habrechts famous treatise on the making of celestial and terrestrial globes published in 1628. The Habrecht family of clock and instrument makers were famous throughout Europe from the last quarter of the sixteenth century to the end of the seventeenth century. The authors father also called Isaac was responsible for making the monumental second Strasbourg clock which was one of the mechanical wonders of its time on the Continent. Isaac Habrecht 1589-1633 was a Strasbourg physician mathematician and maker of globes. He was much influenced by Blaeu and Hondius and his globes were highly regarded. J. C. Sturm was Habrechts student and a scientist of vision. He organized the first scientific academy in Germany the Collegium Curiosum sive Experimentale at Altdorf in 1672 and introduced the first course in experimental physics in a German university. In 1666 he undertook the task of augmenting Habrechts original text and adding a number of folding plates. The plates include two handsome polar projections of the world two polar stereographic celestial charts of the northern and southern constellations and ten folded engravings showing the various parts of his planiglobiums.The fourteen folded engravings superbly executed by Jacob von der Heyden were probably intended to be mounted and assembled to form several instruments each with a revolving plate measuring 27 cm in diameter and a movable pointer. Each was to be supported on an approximately 12-cm base. The work is one of the most beautiful instrument books published in the seventeenth century and certainly one of the rarest particularly with the full complement of plates. Despite being an obvious Americanum see pp. 205 228 231 and America pictured on one of the maps it is not in Sabin JCB Palmer and other standard bibliographies. Houzeau & Lancaster lists a 1650 edition that is clearly an error as Sturm would have been 15 years old at the time.OCLC lists Yale for the German and Chicago for the Latin editions. unknown
1848140949208New York: Daniel Adee 1848. First American Edition. Very Good. First American edition first printing with date 1848 on title page and publisher's address listed as 107 Fulton-Street. 4 v-viii 9-581 pp. illustrated with engraved frontispiece protected by tissue guard. Recently bound in maroon buckram title label to spine. Very Good with light wear to covers and slight bumping to lower corners; title label beginning to lift at one corner. Band of paper residue to front free endpaper. Light toning and moderate foxing to textblock edges and contents dampstain to outer textblock edge and outer margin throughout. Cohen pp. 347-352.<br /> <br /> <p>The first American edition of the foundational physics text first published in Latin in 1687. Andrew Motte's 1729 translation was reprinted in 1803 and 1819 in Britain but subsequent 19th century editions were printed only in the United States and Germany. The New York-based publisher Daniel Adee deposited a copyright for the Principia in 1846 then printed five issues between 1848 and 1850. A contemporary notice in the Scientific American declared:<br /> <br /> <p>"For a long time the 'Principia' was kept far out of the reach of the mere English Scholar as if Newton had written it exclusively for the classical student and philosopher. It was a scarce book when printed in the Latin language; it is now thanks to the spirit of an American publisher printed in our mother tongue and should find a place in every family library. Daniel Adee unknown
84308102London 1822 Ackermann. Red original cloth very goodsmall folio gold stamped 325p. 25 aquatint illustrations on 13 hand colored copper etched plates many color foldouts 25 x 32.3 cm. THE FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Q U I T E R A R E . . . ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HAND-COLORED BOOKS . . . ON JAPAN OF THE 19 CENTURY. . SUBTITLE: continued: "And of the Ceremonies Customary Marriages and Funerals: to Which are Subjoined Observations of the Legal Suicide of the Japanese Remarks on their Poetry an Explanation of their Mode of Reckoning time Particulars Respecting the Dosia Powder the Preface of a Work by Confoutzee Confucius on Filial Piety &c. &c. Translated from the French by Frederic Shoberl." . THE SUPERB COLOR COPPER-ETCHED ENGRAVINGS: Magnificently copper-engraved color plates showing illustrations of early 19th century Japan which at that time was still closed to Foreigners. Titsingh was chief agent for the Dutch East India Company stationed in Nagasaki. He described feasts & ceremonies of the Japanese court a color foldout plate 98 cm. long ! marriages funerals law poetry chronology furniture earthquakes &c. . TITSINGH'S PRIMARY OBSERVATIONS: He also gave valuable and new first-hand information on Japan based on his personal observations which otherwise were not available elsewhere. The most important book of the time period because Japan was essentially closed to the rest of the world. With lavish hand-colored plates. A treasure & superb addition to any collection and library. . By and large the most important and most valuable small folio color plate book published on Japan in English of the time. . DESHIMA ISLAND: A marvelous primary resource and historic work ! Titsingh was the chief for the Dutch East India Company and was stationed in at Deshima a tiny island reserved for the Dutch in the Nagasaki harbour. Deshima was closed off of to the rest of Japan. . REFERENCES: H. Cordier: Japonica 450 Abbey Travel 557 Tooley 489 . hardcover books
84308102London 1822 Ackermann. Red original cloth very goodsmall folio gold stamped 325p. 25 aquatint illustrations on 13 hand colored copper etched plates many color foldouts 25 x 32.3 cm. THE FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Q U I T E R A R E . . . . ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HAND-COLORED BOOKS . . . ON JAPAN OF THE 19 CENTURY. . SUBTITLE: continued: ".And of the Ceremonies Customary Marriages and Funerals: to Which are Subjoined Observations of the Legal Suicide of the Japanese Remarks on their Poetry an Explanation of their Mode of Reckoning time Particulars Respecting the Dosia Powder the Preface of a Work by Confoutzee Confucius on Filial Piety &c. &c. Translated from the French by Frederic Shoberl." . THE SUPERB COLOR COPPER-ETCHED ENGRAVINGS: . The book contains hand-tinted engravings along with color printed illustrations. . Magnificently copper-engraved color plates showing illustrations of early 19th century Japan which at that time was still closed to Foreigners. Titsingh was chief agent for the Dutch East India Company stationed in Nagasaki. He described feasts & ceremonies of the Japanese court a hand-tinted color foldout plate 98 cm. long ! marriages funerals law poetry chronology furniture earthquakes &c. . TITSINGH'S PRIMARY OBSERVATIONS: He also gave valuable and new first-hand information on Japan based on his personal observations which otherwise were not available elsewhere. The most important book of the time period because Japan was essentially closed to the rest of the world. With lavish hand-colored plates. . A treasure & superb addition to any collection and library. . By and large the most important and most valuable small folio color plate book published on Japan in English of the epoch. . DESHIMA ISLAND: A marvelous primary resource and historic work ! Titsingh was the chief for the Dutch East India Company and was stationed in at Deshima a tiny island reserved for the Dutch in the Nagasaki harbour. Deshima was closed off of to the rest of Japan. . Color photos are posted to our website. . SPECIFIC COPY DETAILS: . COPY 1: The Binding: Bound in full recent red moroccan leather gold-stamped rule lines 5 raised bands marbled endpapers firmly bound and solid. A fine example of excellent workmanship and binding about as good as it can get. . Contents: This copy has a perforated library name on the back side of the color frontispiece and on the right side of the title page barely touching the last 3 letters of "Nagasaki." This is on several other pages and all of the color plates. . There is also a red oval library stamp with "withdrawn" stamped in black on this page. . The title page has the same perforated library name in the right margin partially over the last 3 letters of "Nagasaki.". . There is an identical oval red stamp over the word: "Printed" For R. Ackerman." . The title page has somef eint foxing please see photos posted to our website for details see spine.jpg and images: illus09.jpg through illus14.jpg for this copy details. . Several other pages have occasional feint foxing through out. . Otherwise the contents are bright clean no marks or stains. . The book looks stunningly beautiful in is superb binding. . COPY 2: IN THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S RED CLOTH BINDING: The Binding: . This book is bound in the original 1822 red blind-stamped cloth with gild spine titles and front & back cover embossed & gilt-stamped oval design reading: "THE SOCIETY OF WRITERS TO THE SIGNET." . Below that is the blind-stamped impression of a Chinese man and woman in elaborate robes looks like the publisher didn't know the difference between Japanese & Chinese. . The original cloth spine has been laid over a pebbled red-matching cloth spine. There is some minor loss to the original spine near the head & tail. The top and bottom edges are a bit rubbed and the corners are bent rubbed. There are 2 small lines of what looks like period black writing ink about 1 cm. & 1.5 cm. long by 1-2 mm. wide on the front lower cover. . The Contents: . The title page and hand-colored frontispiece as well as all of the plates and text are bright superbly clean and in fresh condition no transfer or issues. There is a touch of the usual minor bit of 'toning' to the leading edges of the signatures as usual. . See photos on our website illus08.jpg & illus09.jpg. . COPY 3: Binding: Bound in full dark purple morocco leather with elaborate gold-stamped decorations lines blind-stamping five raised bands and marbled endpapers. There is some of the usual cover scuffing scratches and small imperfections. . The inside front cover hinge was reinforced with stiff period marbled paper & a small patch inside the front cover in the left corner. The inside back hinge and marbled papers are completely intact. All edges gilt the book is firmly bound and solid. . The contents: Contents are very bright clean & solid the illustrations are fine with no transfer or issues. There is a tiny bit of the usual minor & feint signature edge 'toning' but not greatly noticible. . This copy has the armoral book plate and Coat-of-Arms of James Garland Albert Jr.1870-1906 an American socialite. . See 3 photos of this binding on our website: illus06.jpg illus07.jpg & illus15.jpg. . REFERENCES: . google: JAMESALBERTGARLANDJR. H. Cordier: JAPONICA Japonica 449 Abbey Travel 557 Tooley 489 . . unknown
003111London: printed by Joseph Moxon: and sold at his shop in Corn-hill at the signe of Atlas 1659. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio. vi 34pp. Engraved architectural title. First English edition a translation of the Nouvelle invention de lever l'eau London 1644 illustrated with the same plates. Nineteenth-century calf repaired. With twenty-six numbered engraved plates and numerous woodcuts in text. Woodcut initials type ornament headpieces. Johnson 64 for engraved architectural title; Norman 417; Cf. Thorndike VII pp. 592-593; Wellcome II p.315; Wing C1527; ESTC R17548. <br/> <br/> London: printed by Joseph Moxon: and sold at his shop in Corn-hill at the signe of Atlas, 1659. hardcover
174595840London: Printed by James Bettenham for the Society for the Encouragement of Learning 1745. First edition in English of the mathematical appendixes to <span class="match">Newton</span>'s fundamental 1704 Opticks one of the greatest works of science ever published. Translated from the Latin by James Bettenham Professor of Mathematics at the University of Aberdeen. Quarto bound in contemporary calf gilt titles to the spine burgundy morocco spine label rebacked woodcut diagrams throughout the text engraved tailpiece. In very good condition with some light wear and browning to the text with wide margined text. Exceptionally rare and desirable first editions are scarce with only four appearing at auction in the last 90 years. 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. Considered one of the greatest works of science ever published Newton's second major book Opticks analyzes the fundamental nature of light by means of the refraction of light with prisms and lenses the diffraction of light by closely spaced sheets of glass and the behavior of color mixtures with spectral lights or pigment powders. Printed by James Bettenham for the Society for the Encouragement of Learning unknown books
184542820862<p>FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of the Pentateuch translated by a Jew and the first American translation of the Torah. Isaac Leeser was the single most influential Jewish figure in 19th-century America. His many accomplishments include establishing the vernacular sermon as a permanent feature in the American synagogue publishing the first successful American Jewish newspaper and founding the first American rabbinical school.</p><p>"When Leeser commences his public career the scattered Jewish individuals and the members of the congregation in the United States did not number more than from 12000 to 15000. His purpose to mold these into a community was to be achieved in part by the pulpit and in part by the press. … Leeser participated in all Jewish movements. He was the earliest promoter of all the national enterprises—the first congregational union the first Hebrew day-schools the first Hebrew college the first Jewish publication society—and of numberless local undertakings. The 'Occident' acquired a national and even an international reputation; the Maimonides' College of which he was president paved the way for future Jewish colleges in the United States; and his translation of the Bible became an authorized version for the Jews of America" Jewish Encyclopedia.</p><p>"Practically every form of Jewish activity which supports American Jewish life today as either established or envisaged by this one man" and "almost every kind of publication which is essential to Jewish survival was written translated or fostered by him" B. W. Korn.</p><p>Leeser's greatest contribution was his translation of the Bible and these volumes contain the first printing of the first and most important portion of this monumental work Leeser's English translation of the Torah. This translation was not superseded until well into the 20th century.</p><p>Emphasizing that this is an American work Leeser notes in the introduction that "I have to state that I have not looked at a single work issued by English Jews and that hence I have not borrowed a single idea or suggestion from any one of them living or dead."</p><p>Five volumes. Hebrew and English text on facing pages. Finely bound in mottled calf spines gilt a.e.g. Title neatly restored several restored perforated and ink stamps. A very handsome set in a splendid binding.</p> C. Sherman, 5605-6 hardcover
1718184239London: printed for W. and J. Innys 1718. His most important work on light with significant revisions Second edition second issue as usual of this seminal study which "did for light what Newton's Principia had done for gravitation namely place it on a scientific basis" Babson. Newton arrived at most of his innovative ideas on colour by about 1668 and Opticks was largely complete by 1692. However when he first expressed his theories in public they provoked hostile criticism. As a result Newton delayed publication until his most vocal critics - especially Robert Hooke - were dead. By the mid-1710s Opticks was established in Britain as the model for blending theoretical speculation and quantitative experimentation. Newton's aim was not to "explain the properties of light by hypotheses but to propose and prove them by reason and experiments" p. 1. The work'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. The textual revisions for this edition demonstrate the development of Newton's experimentation process. The first edition was published in 1704 followed by the Latin translation of 1706. This edition was the first in octavo format. It had a print run of 750 copies and within that two issues. The scarce first issue is dated 1717 on the title page and includes William Bowyer's name in the imprint; copies are recorded both with and without the cancel A2. The second issue as here has a cancel title dated 1718 and only the names of W. and J. Innys Printers to the Royal Society in the imprint; A2 the first two pages of the "Advertisement" is set as the cancel. Octavo 194 x 123 mm pp. viii 382 2 publisher's advertisement. With 12 folding engraved plates woodcut diagram on p. 330 tables in text woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Contemporary panelled calf spine with raised bands and early paper label edges sprinkled red. Ownership label of chemist Karol J. Mysels 1914-1998 laid in; occasional tiny marginal notations in contemporary ink to title page and p. 371 and in later pencil to pp. 323 and 328. Extremities restored spine label chipped and browned boards a little splayed contents toned and generally clean: a very good copy in an attractive period binding. Babson 134; ESTC T18663; Gray 176. hardcover
1874188323Beijing: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions 1874. No man of that day equaled him in idiomatic command of the spoken Mandarin First edition of a sinological milestone: the first translation of the Old Testament into northern colloquial "Mandarin" Chinese the language spoken by most potential Chinese converts. Schereschewsky was also the first sinologist to translate directly from the Hebrew masoretic text and his efforts formed the basis of the 1919 Union Bible the most widely used Bible among Chinese Protestants in the 20th century. Born to Jewish parents in Russian Lithuania Schereschewsky 1831-1906 converted to Christianity the early 1850s. After studying for a time in New York in 1857 he volunteered for missionary work in China arriving in 1860. In 1862 he accepted a position as an interpreter to Anson Burlingame and devoted himself to textual translation spending the next 14 years working on this translation his greatest accomplishment. While earlier missionaries had produced versions of the Bible in classical Chinese and minor southern dialects Schereschewsky's was the first to make the Old Testament accessible to the country's biggest language group. After completing the mammoth project Schereschewsky returned to New York with his family where he was elected Bishop of China. Back in China in the late 1870s he founded St John's College in Shanghai and his skills as a translator excited comment for decades to come. Evaluating Schereschewsky's contributions to the missionary cause in the 1890s his contemporary Henry Blodget observed that "the translation into the Mandarin was made by a master hand seemingly raised up by God for this purpose." According to W. A. P. Martin himself a skilled translator Schereschewsky's Old Testament "stands by itself and is not likely to be superseded. For that task his qualifications were exceptional. By birth a Hebrew of the Hebrews and running over with rabbinic lore he had made himself a Chinese by adoption and by successful study. No man of that day equaled him in idiomatic command of the spoken Mandarin" both quoted in Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity. Of this rare translation WorldCat records only ten copies New York Public Library Columbia Harvard Stanford Kansas Peabody Essex Emory National Library of Australia SOAS and Leiden. This is the only complete copy traced in recent commerce. In 2025 Peter Harrington also sold a presentation copy from the library of General Theological Seminary but that copy lacked the table of contents. Octavo 274 x 170 mm pp. iv title page and table of contents 4 preface 1042 = 1045 page register duplicating p. 124 and pp. 730-1 3 blank. Text in Chinese. Contemporary brown half sheep rebacked with original spine laid down spine with printed title label repurposed from original wrappers green pebble-grain cloth sides. Smattering of old blue ink marks and annotations internally. Binding refurbished and lightly soiled second and third leaves repaired at fore edge without loss to text occasional stains to contents: very good. Darlow & Moule 2683. hardcover
1822ST20877London: Printed for R. Ackermann 1822. First English Edition. 300 x 235 mm. 11 3/4 x 9 1/2". xvi 325 1 pp.Translated by Frederic Shoberl. <br/> Imposing contemporary crimson straight-grain morocco gilt covers with filigree frame with densely massed scrolling fleurons raised bands spine gilt in compartments with radiating viny scrolls surrounded by leaves and annular dots marbled endleaves all edges gilt. WITH 13 HAND-COLORED PLATES in etching and aquatint many after Japanese artworks one folding. Bookplate removed from front flyleaf. Bookseller's ticket of J. L. Thompson & Co Kobe Japan on front pastedown. Abbey Travel 557; Tooley 489; Martin Hardie "English Coloured Books" pp. 113-14. See also E. F. Strange "Japanese Illustration" pp. xxiii-xxiv. Spine and fore-edge of upper board slightly darkened a few minute flakes to lowest spine compartment but the binding extremely well preserved with very lustrous boards. Final 10 leaves slightly creased one repaired marginal tear but still A FINE COPY INTERNALLY exceptionally bright smooth and entirely fresh and clean.<br/> <br/> This generously proportioned production illustrated with 13 vibrant colored plates is a rare European account of Japan during the period in which the country was "closed" to the west offered here in its first English edition. Originally published in French in 1820 "Illustrations of Japan" is comprised of a history and description of the Tokugawa shogunate which Titsingh had translated from the Japanese plus Titsingh's own observations on the language customs and ceremonies of the Japanese people. The present English edition is accompanied by plates in etching and aquatint enhanced with hand coloring. Our author Dutch diplomat Isaac Titsingh 1745-1812 spent 14 years in Nagasaki for the Dutch East India company and between 1779-84 he served as trade director-cum-ambassador travelling to Edo now Tokyo for audiences with the shogun and other high officials in the shogunate. Unlike most of his Western contemporaries Titsingh was open-minded and curious about the people he encountered engaging with their art and culture; in fact art historian and Victoria & Albert Museum keeper Edward F. Strange tells us that Titsingh is the earliest known European collector of Japanese prints of which a number appear in the present volume. Our publisher Rudolph Ackermann 1764-1834 made his living issuing sumptuously illustrated books such as the present volume and was an early adopter of color aquatint and lithography technologies; Hardie writes that he was "the great presiding genius before whose magic wand so many pictorial books sprang into existence." In very attractive period morocco this is a particularly appealing copy of the work free of the foxing and offsetting that often plague copies of this and other large-format color illustrated books. Printed for R. Ackermann unknown
84308103London 1822 Ackerman. Dark purple tooled leather raised bands 25 hand colored aquatint copper etchings in 13 plates many fold-outs very clean 325p. small folio 24 x 31.5 cm all edge gilt gold stamped. VERY NICE COPY. QUITE RARE ! . . . ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HAND-COLORED BOOKS . . . ON JAPAN OF THE 19 CENTURY. . SUBTITLE: continued: "And of the Ceremonies Customary Marriages and Funerals: to Which are Subjoined Observations of the Legal Suicide of the Japanese Remarks on their Poetry an Explanation of their Mode of Reckoning time Particulars Respecting the Dosia Powder the Preface of a Work by Confoutzee Confucius on Filial Piety &c. &c. Translated from the French by Frederic Shoberl." . THE SUPERB COLOR COPPER-ETCHED ENGRAVINGS: Magnificently copper-engraved color plates showing illustrations of early 19th century Japan which at that time was still closed to Foreigners. Titsingh was chief agent for the Dutch East India Company stationed in Nagasaki. He described feasts & ceremonies of the Japanese court a color foldout plate 98 cm. long ! marriages funerals law poetry chronology furniture earthquakes &c. . TITSINGH'S PRIMARY OBSERVATIONS: He also gave valuable and new first-hand information on Japan based on his personal observations which otherwise were not available elsewhere. The most important book of the time period because Japan was essentially closed to the rest of the world. With lavish hand-colored plates. A treasure & superb addition to any collection and library. . By and large the most important and most valuable small folio color plate book published on Japan in English of the time. . DESHIMA ISLAND: A marvelous primary resource and historic work ! Titsingh was the chief for the Dutch East India Company and was stationed in at Deshima a tiny island reserved for the Dutch in the Nagasaki harbour. Deshima was closed off of to the rest of Japan. . REFERENCES: H. Cordier: Japonica 450 Abbey Travel 557 Tooley 489 . hardcover books
84308103London 1822 Ackerman. Dark purple tooled leather raised bands 25 hand colored aquatint copper etchings in 13 plates many fold-outs very clean 325p. small folio 24 x 31.5 cm all edge gilt gold stamped. VERY NICE COPY. QUITE RARE ! . . . . ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HAND-COLORED BOOKS . . . ON JAPAN OF THE 19 CENTURY. . SUBTITLE: continued: ".And of the Ceremonies Customary Marriages and Funerals: to Which are Subjoined Observations of the Legal Suicide of the Japanese Remarks on their Poetry an Explanation of their Mode of Reckoning time Particulars Respecting the Dosia Powder the Preface of a Work by Confoutzee Confucius on Filial Piety &c. &c. Translated from the French by Frederic Shoberl." . THE SUPERB COLOR COPPER-ETCHED ENGRAVINGS: . The book contains hand-tinted engravings along with color printed illustrations. . Magnificently copper-engraved color plates showing illustrations of early 19th century Japan which at that time was still closed to Foreigners. Titsingh was chief agent for the Dutch East India Company stationed in Nagasaki. He described feasts & ceremonies of the Japanese court a hand-tinted color foldout plate 98 cm. long ! marriages funerals law poetry chronology furniture earthquakes &c. . TITSINGH'S PRIMARY OBSERVATIONS: He also gave valuable and new first-hand information on Japan based on his personal observations which otherwise were not available elsewhere. The most important book of the time period because Japan was essentially closed to the rest of the world. With lavish hand-colored plates. . A treasure & superb addition to any collection and library. . By and large the most important and most valuable small folio color plate book published on Japan in English of the epoch. . DESHIMA ISLAND: A marvelous primary resource and historic work ! Titsingh was the chief for the Dutch East India Company and was stationed in at Deshima a tiny island reserved for the Dutch in the Nagasaki harbour. Deshima was closed off of to the rest of Japan. . Color photos are posted to our website. . SPECIFIC COPY DETAILS: . COPY 1: The Binding: Bound in full recent red moroccan leather gold-stamped rule lines 5 raised bands marbled endpapers firmly bound and solid. A fine example of excellent workmanship and binding about as good as it can get. . Contents: This copy has a perforated library name on the back side of the color frontispiece and on the right side of the title page barely touching the last 3 letters of "Nagasaki." This is on several other pages and all of the color plates. . There is also a red oval library stamp with "withdrawn" stamped in black on this page. . The title page has the same perforated library name in the right margin partially over the last 3 letters of "Nagasaki.". . There is an identical oval red stamp over the word: "Printed" For R. Ackerman." . The title page has somef eint foxing please see photos posted to our website for details see spine.jpg and images: illus09.jpg through illus14.jpg for this copy details. . Several other pages have occasional feint foxing through out. . Otherwise the contents are bright clean no marks or stains. . The book looks stunningly beautiful in is superb binding. . COPY 2: IN THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S RED CLOTH BINDING: The Binding: . This book is bound in the original 1822 red blind-stamped cloth with gild spine titles and front & back cover embossed & gilt-stamped oval design reading: "THE SOCIETY OF WRITERS TO THE SIGNET." . Below that is the blind-stamped impression of a Chinese man and woman in elaborate robes looks like the publisher didn't know the difference between Japanese & Chinese. . The original cloth spine has been laid over a pebbled red-matching cloth spine. There is some minor loss to the original spine near the head & tail. The top and bottom edges are a bit rubbed and the corners are bent rubbed. There are 2 small lines of what looks like period black writing ink about 1 cm. & 1.5 cm. long by 1-2 mm. wide on the front lower cover. . The Contents: . The title page and hand-colored frontispiece as well as all of the plates and text are bright superbly clean and in fresh condition no transfer or issues. There is a touch of the usual minor bit of 'toning' to the leading edges of the signatures as usual. . See photos on our website illus08.jpg & illus09.jpg. . COPY 3: Binding: Bound in full dark purple morocco leather with elaborate gold-stamped decorations lines blind-stamping five raised bands and marbled endpapers. There is some of the usual cover scuffing scratches and small imperfections. . The inside front cover hinge was reinforced with stiff period marbled paper & a small patch inside the front cover in the left corner. The inside back hinge and marbled papers are completely intact. All edges gilt the book is firmly bound and solid. . The contents: Contents are very bright clean & solid the illustrations are fine with no transfer or issues. There is a tiny bit of the usual minor & feint signature edge 'toning' but not greatly noticible. . This copy has the armoral book plate and Coat-of-Arms of James Garland Albert Jr.1870-1906 an American socialite. . See 3 photos of this binding on our website: illus06.jpg illus07.jpg & illus15.jpg. . REFERENCES: . google: JAMESALBERTGARLANDJR. H. Cordier: JAPONICA Japonica 449 Abbey Travel 557 Tooley 489 . . unknown
17422085Edinburgh: T.W. and T. Ruddimans 1742. First edition. Contemporary calf gilt. Fine. FIRST EDITION of MacLaurin's most important work including a strong defense of Isaac Newton and the first full presentation and development of Newton's calculus. The William Jones- Macclesfield copy. "Colin MacLaurin was a younger contemporary and to some extent a protégé of Isaac Newton and he wrote the first thorough systematic axiomatic development of the method of fluxions the Newtonian version of the calculus. MacLaurin's magnum opus the Treatise of Fluxions published in 1742 was begun as a response to Berkeley's Analyst. MacLaurin founded the method of fluxions on a limit concept drawn from the method of exhaustions in classical geometry avoiding the use of infinitesimals infinite processes and actually infinite quantities and avoiding any shifting of the hypothesis. In addition he went on in this treatise of over 760 pages to demonstrate that the method so founded would support the entire received structure of fluxions and the calculus and could deal effectively with all of the challenge problems then being exchanged between British and continental mathematicians" Oxford National Biography. Provenance: Williams Jones the great mathematician and champion and publisher of Newton with his signed manuscript note on p. 621: "His collection of some 15000 books was considered to be the most valuable mathematical library in England and was bequeathed to George Parker the second earl of Macclesfield." The Macclesfield copy with Macclesfield bookplates and embossed stamps in each volume. Edinburgh: T.W. and T. Ruddimans 1742. Quarto 234x175mm contemporary full calf with elaborately gilt-decorated spines. With half-title in volume 1. A little worming in lower margins of first few leaves of volume 2. An outstanding set with a distinguished provenance. T.W. and T. Ruddimans unknown books
183842121Philadelphia: Printed by Haswell Barrington and Haswell 1838. Hardback. 1st Edition. Gorgeous Period-style gilt-tooled leather. 8vo. <br> Vol. 1: "Part one - Prayers for the Whole Year" siddur. VII 216 216 pages. <br> Vol. 2: "Part 2 - Prayers for Rosh Hashana". 120 121 page 121 page. <br> Vol. 3: "Part 3 - Prayers for Yom Kippur". 4 245 246 1 3 pages. <br> Vol. 4: "Part 4 - Prayers for the Festival of Succot". 175 176 1 pages. <br> Vol. 5: "Part 5 - Prayers for Pesach and for Shavuot". 182 182 pages. <br> Vol. 6 - Prayers for Fast Days". 4 184 186 4 12 pages. <br> Hebrew and English on facing pages parallel pagination. Goldman 36; Singerman 630. <br> The First Complete Machzor Jewish Prayer Book Set for the full year printed in America a stunning complete set. <br> Isaac Leeser 1806-1868 was a central leader of American Jewry in the mid-19th Century the stalwart defender of Orthodoxy against the rise of the Reform movement. He was the head of the Jewish community of Philadelphia and acted as a cantor philosopher publisher and author of many sermons and essays. He was key in the founding Jewish institutions and publications central to the building of Judaism in America including the original Jewish Publication Society the Jewish Sunday School movement and many key translations of Hebrew texts into English. <br> As such he was the first Jew to translate the Hebrew Bible into English publishing The Five Books of Moses in 1845 followed by the full Twenty-Four Books of the Old Testament in 1853. His other major translation is that offered here the first Machzor Prayer Book set for the full year published in America in 1837-1838.Publication in this case was a complex project. Leeser based his new translation on an earlier London edition improving upon both the English translation and the original Hebrew which are presented in facing pages. Once the translation was ready for publication he ordered new Hebrew types from Europe but could not find printers who were familiar with Hebrew–so he taught two Christian printers Hebrew in order to prepare them for the printing. <br> In spite of the difficulties involved all six volumes of the machzor set were published in a total of only 13 months. Leeser marketed his prayer book to audiences in both America and the British Empire and therefore included prayers on behalf of a monarch British and a republican government America. The work also includes a fascinating two-page list of subscribers spanning the Eastern US as well as Jamaica at the end of Vol. VI. The same volume here includes interesting margin notes in pen from a period Rabbi or service leader. <br> With an original run of only 500 sets complete sets of the first edition such as this are very rare. A set sold at Christies in 2006 for $60000.<br> SUBJECTS: Seder -- Liturgy -- Texts. Passover -- Judaism -- Sephardic rite -- Fasts and feasts -- Judaism -- Liturgy -- Texts. Paque -- Liturgie -- Textes. Judai¨sme -- Rite sefardi -- Liturgie -- Textes. Fetes religieuses -- Seder -- Passover -- OCLC: 18532819.<br> All pages professionally washed before rebinding the quality paper very clean and bright with beautiful marbled endpapers. Stunning matching blue leather binding with raised bands and gilt tooling in custom slipcase. Very Good Condition. Rarely found as a complete set. Gorgeous and important. KH-1-1. Philadelphia: Printed by Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell unknown
1950140940769New York: Gnome Press 1950. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing of this science fiction classic. Signed by Isaac Asimov on the front free endpaper. Quite the superlative copy bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in black. About Fine with bumping to bottom corners of boards and tape ghosts to front and rear endsheets affecting Asimov's signature and previous owner name to ffep as well. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with faint fading to the spine small spot of discoloration near top of spine panel faint rubbing and faint edge wear; light offsetting from red boards to blank verso of the dust jacket. A total knock-out. Gnome Press unknown books
1954140945130Garden City New York: Doubleday and Company 1954. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition stated first printing. Signed by Isaac Asimov on title page and inscribed to a former owner. 224 pp. Bound in publisher's original dark blue leatherette with spine lettered in red red topstain. Near Fine with light rubbing to spine ends pages tanned in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with sunning to spine and edges light edge wear and light toning. The first book in Asimov's Robot series very uncommon signed. Doubleday and Company unknown
17531512210020London: Royal Society Great Britain; The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge: 1753 - 1880; 1960 1753. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. A massive collection of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 109 volume set in 102 volumes. Buckram red cloth. Original volumes begin with 1753 volumes: 48 50 part 1 53-56 59-61 63 67 69 71-74 76-84 86-87 89 93-95 97 135 137 140 160 166 167 169-171 end in 1880 vols. 181 186 191-192 197-198 216 1916; Also includes the Royal Society's facsimile reprint of volumes: 1-47 1665 - 1752 49 51-52 57-58 62 64 66 68 70 Index. University library stamps on front paste down title and some edges. Good binding and covers. Over 1053 plates and maps many are folding. <br> The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society was first published in 1665 to promote the discussion and diffusion of scientific knowledge. It was the world's first scientific journal and has lasting and significant influence. In the Philosophical Transactions peer review the scientific method and evidence based research were standardized. The discoveries described in this publication are of fundamental importance to the development of our modern world. Robert Boyle John Wilkins and Robert Hooke were some of the original 17th century English polymaths who established and contributed to the publication. Isaac Newton notably led the society which printed his first paper New Theory about Light and Colours in 1672. Notable articles in the original format contained in this set: Thomas Bayle's: An essay towards solving a problem in the Doctrine of Chances. Vol. 53 1763; Barrington's account of Mozart. Volume 60. 1770; Alessandro Volta. Del modo di render sensibilissima la piu debole Elettricita fia Naturale fia Artificiale. vol. 72. 1782; William Roy. The distance between Greenwich and Paris Observatories. Vol. 1783; Flinders. Concerning the Differences in the Magnetic Needle vol. 95. 1805; Benjamin Franklin. Physical and Meteorological Observations vol. 55. 1765; William Herschel. On the Proper Motion of the Sun and Solar System vol. 73. 1783. Printing and the Mind of Man 227; William Herschel. On Nebulous Stars. Volume 81. 1791; William Herschel. Account of a Comet. Volume 71. 1781. Other notable entries: Henry Cavendish's experiments William Hamilton's observations of an earthquake in Italy John Hunter David Rittenhouse's observation of the transit of Venus William Bartram's naturalist observations in America etc. <br> Please contact us if you would like a full list of contents. Note: Domestic shipping is included. International buyers please contact us before purchase. London: Royal Society (Great Britain); The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge: 1753 - 1880; 1960 hardcover
51-4179Geneva: Eustathius Vignon 1587. Folio. 34 x 21 cm. Original contemporary stiff vellum with 6 raised bands. 2 viii 602 10 224pp. Two columns printed in Latin and Greek in the first part and Latin only in the second part. Waterstain in the lower right corner throughout. The map is bound in front of page 1 and is in fine and fresh condition.This unique map was first printed as part of Isaac Casaubon’s edition of Strabo’s Geographia in 1587. In this the first printing there are columns of text underneath rhe map with the heading “Lectori S. P.†In later editions the map was included in the well known Mercator atlas which Rumold compiled. In 1603 the plate developed cracks in the top edge of the plate; two distinct cracks can be seen in the title.The preeminent example of Rumold Mercator’s map of the world first printed in this edition in Geneva in 1587. It is based on Gerard Mercator’s celebrated 1569 world map and was made while Gerard was still alive 1512- 1594. This is the only collectible world map with direct input from Gerard Mercator the greatest geographer of his era. Both his 1538 and 1569 world maps are unobtainable rarities.The present work is a reduced version of the 1569 wall map of the world on which the revolutionary Mercator Projection was introduced. This edition makes the map into a double-hemisphere format rather than the projection style.To the left is the western hemisphere. The prominent bulge in South America a characteristic introduced by Gerard Mercator and evident on his 1569 world map has been retained here. Tierra del Fuego forms part of a gigantic southern continent that continues in the eastern hemisphere. At the north pole two of the four islands that Gerard Mercator thought surrounded the pole are evident. There is also a suggestion of a Northwest Passage via the Straits of Anian.Isaac Casaubon 1559 Geneva —died July 1 1614 London. French classical scholar and theologian who was one of the leading scholars of the era.He was born in Geneva on 18th February 1559 a son of Huguenot parents Arnaud and Jeanne. He was educated at the university in his home town and taught Greek there. His first wife was Marie Prolyst but she and their daughter died. In 1586 in Geneva he married Florence daughter of Henry Estienne and they had seventeen children of whom about half did not survive infancy. His first major published work was on the Greek geographer Strabo and many other works followed. The invitation to come to England seems to have come from Richard Bancroft Archbishop of Canterbury. Isaac was later made a prebendary of Canterbury but died in London on 1st July 1614.References: This first edition not in OCLC. Shirley The Mapping of the World - Early Printed World Maps 1472 - 1700 Nr. 157; van der Krogt Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici Vol. I 0001:1A; Adams S-1908; Graesse VI:505. Map Koeman Me12; Moreland & Bannister p. 243; Shirley 157; Wagner Northwest Coast 146 . In-folio reliure de l’époque vélin dos à 6 nerfs titre à l’encre dans le caisson de tête. Qq. taches petites déchirures nerfs et coiffe inférieure coins usés. 8-602-2 bl.-8-223 pp. et planisphère à double page rempliée. Trace de mouillure dans la partie inférieure droite sur tout l’ouvrage marquée sur le premier quart puis s’amenuisant et s’estompant jusqu’à la fin du volume. Planisphère en belle condition mouillure à peine visible pas de déchirure impression contrastée. Exemplaire complet des deux pages de titre gravées sur bois à décor identique de cariatides soutenant une couronne et de la planisphère Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio gravée par Rumold Mercator d’après la carte de son père Gérard Mercator et légendée en latin.Expertise by Christine CHATON Expertise en livres anciens et modernes C.N.E.S. 17100 SAINTES. Geneva: Eustathius Vignon, 1587. hardcover
182325085Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea 1823. Folio. 17 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches. Mounted on guards throughout letterpress title copyright notice on verso 1p. Advertisement verso blank 1p. Contents verso blank 46 double-page hand-coloured engraved maps of the United States all but one with borders of letterpress descriptive text 1 uncoloured double-page engraved view showing the comparative heights of mountains throughout the world 1 hand-coloured double-page engraved table showing the comparative lengths of the principal rivers worldwide 5 letterpress tables 4 double-page 3 of these hand-coloured 18pp. of letterpress text. Expertly bound to style in half calf over contemporary marbled paper covered boards flat spine in six compartments divided by gilt roll tools red morocco label in the second compartment the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.<br/> <br/>One of the most important early atlases printed in the United States: a handsome atlas of the Americas with individual colour maps of each state in the Union including a seminal map of the West by Stephen H. Long.<br/> <br/>At the time of publication this was the best and most detailed atlas to be produced in the United States. Fielding Lucas the major Baltimore printer was the principal engraver and substantial historical background text accompanies each map. Among the most noted maps in the atlas is Major Stephen H. Long's "Map of Arkansa and other Territories of the United States." That map which depicts the Missouri basin between Nashville in the east the Mandan villages in the north and the Rocky Mountains in the west was based on the surveys conducted by Long on his expeditions of 1819 and 1820. The map published in Carey & Lea's atlas preceded the official account of that expedition by expedition botanist Edwin James which included a smaller map with similar detail titled "Country drained by the Mississippi Western Section". Carey and Lea's 1823 publication of James Account perhaps explains the prior inclusion of this map with Long expedition information in their atlas. On this famous map is the printed legend which would perpetuate a myth for many years to come identifying the high plains as the "Great American Desert." Carey and Lea's atlas was first issued in 1822; this is the 1823 second issue substantially the same as the first but with a new title and revised states of several maps and text leaves generally minor revisions including additional shading to maps and improved resetting of several text leaves though this copy with first state settings of the Maryland and Virginia text leaves.<br/> <br/>Howes C133 "aa"; Phillips 1373a; Sabin 15055; Wheat Transmississippi West 348 and 352. H.C. Carey & I. Lea unknown books
84308101London 1822 Ackerman. Red tooled morocco leather 325p. 25 hand-colored aquatint copper etchings in 13 plates several fold-outs very clean x-library copy perforations on title & illustrations else clean small folio 22.7 x 29.5 cm.RARE . . . ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HAND-COLORED BOOKS . . . ON JAPAN OF THE 19 CENTURY. . SUBTITLE: continued: "And of the Ceremonies Customary Marriages and Funerals: to Which are Subjoined Observations of the Legal Suicide of the Japanese Remarks on their Poetry an Explanation of their Mode of Reckoning time Particulars Respecting the Dosia Powder the Preface of a Work by Confoutzee Confucius on Filial Piety &c. &c. Translated from the French by Frederic Shoberl." . THE SUPERB COLOR COPPER-ETCHED ENGRAVINGS: Magnificently copper-engraved color plates showing illustrations of early 19th century Japan which at that time was still closed to Foreigners. Titsingh was chief agent for the Dutch East India Company stationed in Nagasaki. He described feasts & ceremonies of the Japanese court a color foldout plate 98 cm. long ! marriages funerals law poetry chronology furniture earthquakes &c. . TITSINGH'S PRIMARY OBSERVATIONS: He also gave valuable and new first-hand information on Japan based on his personal observations which otherwise were not available elsewhere. The most important book of the time period because Japan was essentially closed to the rest of the world. With lavish hand-colored plates. A treasure & superb addition to any collection and library. . By and large the most important and most valuable small folio color plate book published on Japan in English of the time. . DESHIMA ISLAND: A marvelous primary resource and historic work ! Titsingh was the chief for the Dutch East India Company and was stationed in at Deshima a tiny island reserved for the Dutch in the Nagasaki harbour. Deshima was closed off of to the rest of Japan. . REFERENCES: H. Cordier: Japonica 450 Abbey Travel 557 Tooley 489 . hardcover books
84308101London 1822 Ackerman. Red tooled morocco leather 325p. 25 hand-colored aquatint copper etchings in 13 plates several fold-outs very clean x-library copy perforations on title & illustrations else clean small folio 22.7 x 29.5 cm.RARE . . . . ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HAND-COLORED BOOKS . . . ON JAPAN OF THE 19 CENTURY. . SUBTITLE: continued: ".And of the Ceremonies Customary Marriages and Funerals: to Which are Subjoined Observations of the Legal Suicide of the Japanese Remarks on their Poetry an Explanation of their Mode of Reckoning time Particulars Respecting the Dosia Powder the Preface of a Work by Confoutzee Confucius on Filial Piety &c. &c. Translated from the French by Frederic Shoberl." . THE SUPERB COLOR COPPER-ETCHED ENGRAVINGS: . The book contains hand-tinted engravings along with color printed illustrations. . Magnificently copper-engraved color plates showing illustrations of early 19th century Japan which at that time was still closed to Foreigners. Titsingh was chief agent for the Dutch East India Company stationed in Nagasaki. He described feasts & ceremonies of the Japanese court a hand-tinted color foldout plate 98 cm. long ! marriages funerals law poetry chronology furniture earthquakes &c. . TITSINGH'S PRIMARY OBSERVATIONS: He also gave valuable and new first-hand information on Japan based on his personal observations which otherwise were not available elsewhere. The most important book of the time period because Japan was essentially closed to the rest of the world. With lavish hand-colored plates. . A treasure & superb addition to any collection and library. . By and large the most important and most valuable small folio color plate book published on Japan in English of the epoch. . DESHIMA ISLAND: A marvelous primary resource and historic work ! Titsingh was the chief for the Dutch East India Company and was stationed in at Deshima a tiny island reserved for the Dutch in the Nagasaki harbour. Deshima was closed off of to the rest of Japan. . Color photos are posted to our website. . SPECIFIC COPY DETAILS: . COPY 1: The Binding: Bound in full recent red moroccan leather gold-stamped rule lines 5 raised bands marbled endpapers firmly bound and solid. A fine example of excellent workmanship and binding about as good as it can get. . Contents: This copy has a perforated library name on the back side of the color frontispiece and on the right side of the title page barely touching the last 3 letters of "Nagasaki." This is on several other pages and all of the color plates. . There is also a red oval library stamp with "withdrawn" stamped in black on this page. . The title page has the same perforated library name in the right margin partially over the last 3 letters of "Nagasaki.". . There is an identical oval red stamp over the word: "Printed" For R. Ackerman." . The title page has somef eint foxing please see photos posted to our website for details see spine.jpg and images: illus09.jpg through illus14.jpg for this copy details. . Several other pages have occasional feint foxing through out. . Otherwise the contents are bright clean no marks or stains. . The book looks stunningly beautiful in is superb binding. . COPY 2: IN THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S RED CLOTH BINDING: The Binding: . This book is bound in the original 1822 red blind-stamped cloth with gild spine titles and front & back cover embossed & gilt-stamped oval design reading: "THE SOCIETY OF WRITERS TO THE SIGNET." . Below that is the blind-stamped impression of a Chinese man and woman in elaborate robes looks like the publisher didn't know the difference between Japanese & Chinese. . The original cloth spine has been laid over a pebbled red-matching cloth spine. There is some minor loss to the original spine near the head & tail. The top and bottom edges are a bit rubbed and the corners are bent rubbed. There are 2 small lines of what looks like period black writing ink about 1 cm. & 1.5 cm. long by 1-2 mm. wide on the front lower cover. . The Contents: . The title page and hand-colored frontispiece as well as all of the plates and text are bright superbly clean and in fresh condition no transfer or issues. There is a touch of the usual minor bit of 'toning' to the leading edges of the signatures as usual. . See photos on our website illus08.jpg & illus09.jpg. . COPY 3: Binding: Bound in full dark purple morocco leather with elaborate gold-stamped decorations lines blind-stamping five raised bands and marbled endpapers. There is some of the usual cover scuffing scratches and small imperfections. . The inside front cover hinge was reinforced with stiff period marbled paper & a small patch inside the front cover in the left corner. The inside back hinge and marbled papers are completely intact. All edges gilt the book is firmly bound and solid. . The contents: Contents are very bright clean & solid the illustrations are fine with no transfer or issues. There is a tiny bit of the usual minor & feint signature edge 'toning' but not greatly noticible. . This copy has the armoral book plate and Coat-of-Arms of James Garland Albert Jr.1870-1906 an American socialite. . See 3 photos of this binding on our website: illus06.jpg illus07.jpg & illus15.jpg. . REFERENCES: . google: JAMESALBERTGARLANDJR. H. Cordier: JAPONICA Japonica 449 Abbey Travel 557 Tooley 489 . . unknown
170751058Cantabrigiæ Cambridge: Typis academicis; Londini London impensis Benj. Tooke 1707. First edition. 8vo. viii 343 1 pp. 19th century full diced calf spine with raised bands gilt lettered black label blind tooled borders to the boards ownership inscription of a William Fitton dated June 1800 to the half title another contemporary owner's inscription - that of a Philip Crampton the date cropped "180" mathemetical annotations to the front and rear leaves and in the margins at intervals within. Joints skilfully repaired some mild soiling to the front and rear leaves an attractive copy. A mathemetical text composed entirely in Latin by Newton and edited by William Whiston who had succeeded him as the Lucasian professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University in 1702. The two had become acquainted during the previous decade and Newton was impressed enough with his acolyte that he invited him to lecture at the university when he was occupied with his other work. It was Whiston who persuaded Newton to publish some of his lectures on algebra but Newton was dissatisfied with Whiston's editing and additions to the text - to the extent that he considered buying the entire stock of the book to prevent its appearance in public. That clearly didn't happen although Newton succeeded in having the book published anonymously and its relative scarcity in commerce suggests a truncated print run. The first ownership inscription is that of the Irish geologist William Fitton 1780-1861. The son of a Dublin lawyer his paternal grandfather had been a mathematical instrument maker. Fitton began his studies at Trinity College Dublin in 1794 and earned his B.A. in 1799 but continued studying there until 1803. He went on to study medicine at Edinburgh University becoming a doctor in 1810 and continued his medical studies in London and Cambridge during the following six years. Fitton's interest in geology and mineralogy were his true passions and after marrying into a wealthy family he was able to devote his studies exclusively to these subjects. He subsequently served as secretary and later as president of the Geological Society published numerous reviews and papers plus a small number of books including 'A Geological Sketch of the Vicinity of Hastings' in 1833. Fitton was awarded the Wollaston Medal the society's highest prize in 1852. The other inscription is almost certainly that of Sir Philip Crampton 1777-1858 an Irish surgeon who awarded many honours and held various senior positions in a long and illustrious career: "elected FRS in 1812. In 1813 he was appointed surgeon-general to the forces in Ireland and he was surgeon to the queen in Ireland a member of the senate of the Queen's University of Ireland and four times president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1811 1820 1844 and 1855. In 1839 he was created baronet" ODNB. Cantabrigiæ [Cambridge]: Typis academicis; Londini [London], impensis Benj. Tooke unknown
101737Philadelphia 1853. . 4to 28 x 23 cm; contemporary calf over boards some wear and edges rubbed tear to lower cover spine skilfully restored in six compartments decorated with elaborate gilt floral detail label to second compartment tape mark to front flyleaf; some browning throughout marbled endpapers. iii 1011 pp.<br /><br /> First edition of the first English translation of the entire Hebrew Bible by a Jew.<br /><br />Built upon Leeser's 1845 translation of the five books of the Torah previous editions published by Jewish translators in England such as Levi and Alexander had simply utilised the King James translation. Leeser's Preface explains that this massive undertaking sprung from 'a desire entertained for more than a quarter of a century since the day he quitted school in his native land to come to this country to present to his fellow-Israelites an English version made by one of themselves of the Holy Word of God'. Readers would now 'have an opportunity to study a version of the Bible which has not been made by the authority of churches in which they have no confidence'.<br /><br />Rabbi Isaac Leeser 1806-1868 was born in Germany and emigrated to America in 1824. The head rabbi of the Synagogue Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia he became America's most influential Jewish writer editor and teacher. He promulgated Jewish culture and religious activity in the United States by providing American Jews with the numerous basic religious texts and conceptual tools they needed.<br /> Philadelphia, 1853. hardcover
195115444THE FOUNDATION TRILOGY FOUNDATION FOUNDATION & EMPIRE & SECOND FOUNDATION Gnome Press 1951 1952 & 1953 respectively first editions first state bindings and full color pictorial dust-wrappers 3 volumes all fine once open the covers snap back in like full color pictorial dust-wrappers with the slightest of wear. FOUNDATION & EMPIRE and SECOND FOUNDATION have bumps at the upper rear fore edge corner tips. This work awarded the HUGO for the best all time series. Editorial note: We would love to say that our dust-wrapper for FOUNDATION is the rare issue with the main character throughout the series name misspelled on the front dust-wrapper flap but ironically this major typo Hari Sheldon for Hari Seldon exists on all first printing dust-wrappers and was not caught until the second printing of this volume. To make matters even a bit more bizarre the misspelled name also exists on the rear flap of FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE. Signed postcard by Asimov laid in. Gnome Press unknown
193269310Sous étui bordé. Reliure plein maroquin grenat. Plats ornés d'un décor de filets droits et courbes dorés et à froid, de fers dorés et de deux pièces mosaïquées de même peau noire l'une, ovoïde, sertie d'un filet d'or et chargée d'un poisson stylisé or reprenant l'un des ornements typographiques du texte et l'autre, triangulaire, sertie d'un feston or, ornée de motifs géométriques dorés et sommant une petite croix latine frappée à l'or. Dos lisse avec rappel du décor. Tranches dorées sur témoins. Doublure de soie moirée décorée de dessins à l'encre et lavis de Jules Chadel et sertie d'une large bordure ornée de filets dorés et à froid et fer doré, gardes de soie grenat moirée. Couverture et dos conservés. Reliure signée Georges CRETTÉ, sur une maquette de Jules Chadel.Texte traduit par Le Maistre de Sacy avec un prélude de Henri Bremond.Édition illustrée 84 bois en noir, gravés par Germaine de Coster et Savinienne Tourrette d'après les dessins de Jules CHADEL, tirés à la main par Yoshijito Urushibara.