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17540000722Upsaliae Uppsala : Exc. Laur. Magnus Hojer 1754 . First Edition. Quarter calf. Very good . 4to Recent quarter sprinkled-tan calf marble boards; green morocco label. Collation: 8 29 3pp. Inked number 26 to title <br/><br/>This is one of the most significant of all Linnaen theses being the first arrangement of English plants in the Linnaen method and also “the first of thos compendious Florae in which the newly-invented trial names had been exemplified and which have since been much used.” Pulteney A General View of the Writings of Linnaeus. London 1781 p. 270. Composed by Isaaac Olof Grufberg 1736-1764 one of the many students of Carl Linnaeus at Uppsala Univesity 1743-76 who presented and defended theses in order to expound the theories of their masters as well as advance their academic careers. These theses were printed locally with an eye to economy for distribution a week before the pupil’s defence in this case 3 April 1754. After discussing the climate and situation of England and its plant-life excelling in marine plants Grufberg compares the English flora with that of Sweden in which alpine upland and wood plants thrive. This thesis contains a listing of nearly 1000 phaneogram and cryptogram plants that are ordered according to the 24 Classes of the Linnaean System noting abpit 300 plants which were not found in Sweden. He concludes with a list of more than 100 plants that he was unable to investigate. This list is not indicated as a separate Addendum. Soulsby 1299 1805 Exc. Laur. Magnus Hojer unknown books
185451500Philadelphia: James D. Scott E. Herrleins Lith. Est. 1854. Lithographed wall map 58 x 48 inches a hand-colored township map with 12 lithographed views of prominent county buildings and scenes from nature at the corners and along the lower edge and 42 separate maps of towns and villages all enclosed by an ornamental border. Not in Phillips. OCLC "Relief shown by hachures" locates one copy Middlebury College. Backed by linen as issued and shellacked; some staining and creasing and cracking but a very good unsophisticated example with the original rollers. <br/><br/> James D. Scott (E. Herrleins Lith. Est.) unknown books
168118283Cantabrigiæ: Ex Officina Joann. Hayes Sumptibus Henrici Dickinson 1681 1681. Second English edition; the first was published in 1672 also by Hayes. ESTC R9979; Wing V107; Honeyman Sale Catalogue 3029. Edges and hinges repaired; prelims a little foxed; a very good copy. 8vo contemporary panelled calf rebacked raised bands. Five folding plates. Title-page printed in red and black. ¶ The celebrated treatise on scientific and comparative geography by the German geographer Bernhardus Varenius 1622-1650 first published in Amsterdam in 1650. It became the standard textbook on the subject for a century. Isaac Newton edited and revised this edition for his students at Cambridge; it was Newton's first published work. <br/><br/> Cantabrigiæ: Ex Officina Joann. Hayes, Sumptibus Henrici Dickinson, 1681 unknown books
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
187261239Washington DC: GPO 1872. First edition. 8vo. 318 pp. The report deals with immigration to western public lands expansion of railroads Native American issues the Geological survey etc. Judge Isaac Parker's copy with his signature on the title page; Parker 1838-1896 remembered as the "hanging judge" oversaw 13940 cases on his docket as the presiding U.S. District Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas in Fort Smith Arkansas between 1875 and 1895 overseeing much of the Indian Territory in addition to portions of Arkansas. Of this number 9454 persons about 70 per cent of those tried by him were either convicted by a jury or entered pleas of guilty. 344 were tried to capital offenses and 151 convicted; of those 76 were executed one was killed while attempting to escape four died in jail two were pardoned and the remaining 68 all given sentenced to death by Parker had their sentences commuted by the President to long terms in prison. "Cruel they have said I am but they forget the utterly hardened character of the men I dealt with. They forget that in my court jurisdiction alone sixty-five deputy marshals were murdered in the discharge of their duty. Wilson who was connected with the Starr gang was one of the men whom I sentenced to death. It did not appear to me to be an act of cruelty to sentence that fellow to hand by the neck until he was dead . the trouble is with the bench and behind it the maudlin sentimentality that forgets and condones a crime upon which the blood stains have dried. The bench is indifferent and careless. The avarice which is the curse of this age has so poisoned the people that civil law for the protection of property concerns it more than the criminal law which protects life. 'Which is of greater value your house or your life!" asks the bench and the people by their attitude in specific instances answers: 'My house.' Small wonder that the bench comes to take the same view and adjudges accordingly" from an 1896 interview with Ada Patterson at the Fort Smith National Historic Site webpage. Marbled paper on the upper board eroded but a very good copy with a nice association. Contemporary brown three-quarter leather joints rubbed and marbled boards endpapers and edges. #8369. <br/><br/> GPO hardcover books
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
1758641161758. An Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary. An Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary. Indirect Influences on the Development of Copyright Law Ralph James d. 1762. The Case of Authors by Profession or Trade Stated. With Regard to Booksellers The Stage And the Public. No Matter by Whom. London: Printed for R. Griffiths 1758. iv 68 i.e.76 pp. Bound with D'Israeli Isaac 1766-1848. An Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary Character. London: Printed for T. Cadell 1795. xxiii 1 226 pp. Octavo 7-3/4" x 4-3/4". Contemporary calf gilt rules to boards rebacked and recornered gilt titles to spine marbled edges. Moderate rubbing to extremities minor gatoring to boards hinges starting later owner bookplate of George P. Philes to front pastedown pocket with nine leaves of bibliographical and critical notes by Philes to rear pastedown. A few cracks to text block moderate toning to text light foxing in places annotations and check marks in Philes's hand to some leaves other owner signatures J. Mitford and Chas. Wright dated November 1853 to front endleaf "By the ingenious Mr. Ralph" in early hand to title page of The Case. Ex-library. Shelf label to spine small inkstamp to verso of title page of The Case. Two scarce titles with an interesting association. $1500. First editions. Born in New Jersey Ralph was a versatile writer of literary works histories and political criticism. He began his career in Philadelphia where he associated with Benjamin Franklin. He traveled with Franklin to London in 1725 and remained there for the rest of his life. An author of some stature he worked closely with Henry Fielding and was one of the writers satirized in Pope's Dunciad. The Case of Authors is one of his most important and enduring works. It argues that the decline of aristocratic patronage has placed the writer at the mercy of the marketplace with negative financial artistic and intellectual consequences. Although it sold poorly it went on to influence literary criticism and the development of copyright law. It was reissued in 1762. Cited in works by Oliver Goldsmith and Thomas Babington Macaulay it also influenced the Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary Character. It was a popular book that reached its fourth edition in 1828. Its author the father of the Prime Minister was a notable literary scholar and essayi. unknown books
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
19743245New 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 books
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
215691Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Leather Bound. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines.; Signed by author on 2nd FEP.; Signed by Author. Easton Press hardcover
1950000365New York: Gnome Press 1950. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cartier Edd jacket. New York: Gnome Press 1950. First Edition. Introduction by Willy Ley. Edited by Martin Greenberg this copy signed inscribed and presented by him to Arthur C. Clarke. Octavo 351 pp. Purple cloth-backed gray cloth boards with silver spine titling and blindstamped launching-spaceship and star motif on purple margin. Pictorial dustjacket by sci-fi illustration luminary Edd Cartier. A near fine book with only minor page edge soiling and a trace of partial spine fade in a Very Good jacket showing light perimeter wear. Singular copy inscribed and presented to Arthur C. Clarke by Greenberg with provenance of unimpeachable order accompanying the book. An increasingly classic collection of short stories by some of the now-timeless sci-fi names. Willy Ley: "Here is a different type of anthology. This book taken in its entirety tells a story: the conquest of space. Moving from man's first attempt to reach the moon to the exploration of the ends of the universe these stories are among the finest ever published." - Willy Ley. Hailed by critics at the time of its publication as a quantum leap forward in both quality and concept for science fiction anthologies Martin Greenberg's thematically edited Men Against the Stars is a collection of twelve lengthy stories whose authors read like a Who's Who of Golden Age sci-fi including Isaac Asimov Murray Leinster A.E. Van Vogt L. Ron Hubbard Hubbard's "When Shadows Fall" is here and E.M. Hull. Not a slap-dash aggregation to get to the printer quickly Greenberg's collection was a thoroughly contemplated and planned project a selection of the very finest available stories on theme ranging back as far as 1939. Nicely complimented by a Cartier's funky pure genre period stylization jacket. A sci-fi presentation copy of the highest sort that of a veteran and astute editor to a future superstar. Arthur C. Clarke's reputation at the time was already becoming established and Greenberg shows the admiration in his skilled critical eye for Clarke's sci-fi talents in his presentation remark. As always please feel free to ask questions or request additional scans. L53n <br/> <br/> Gnome Press hardcover
2008x-0521739535Cambridge University Press 2008. 7 Paperback books. New. 1st edition. 3834 pages. 11.00x8.25x8.00 inches. Cambridge University Press paperback
198215953FOUNDATIONS EDGE Whispers Press 1982 first limited edition as new in cloth and leather spine with all edges gold-gilt and without dust-wrapper as issued housed in the publishers priginal leather slipcase. Of 1/1026 copies this is 1/26 lettered copies SIGNED by both the author and the publisher. Additionally this copy is warmly INSCRIBED to another science fiction and fantasy small press publisher by the creator of Whispers Press. FOUNDATION #4. HUGO and NEBULA winning novel. Whispers Press hardcover
46289=The return of Morgan Bach from Australia unrecognisable to his mother Gwen o'r Gyrnos. Drop title. s.l. : s.n. between 1850 and 1860. Chapbook ballad. Disbound duodecimo bifolium 155 x 90 mm printed on all four sides with woodcut vignette of a paddle-steamer at the head of the first side; at the foot of the text is printed the author's name and hometown 'ISAAC THOMAS Aberdar'; text in Welsh; bent corners a little darkened from handling otherwise a very good complete example. This mid-nineteenth-century chapbook street ballad about Welsh emigration to Australia is one of two penned by Isaac Thomas of Aberdare a poor coal-mining town in the south of Wales. It tells the second part of the story of a fictional character named Morgan Bach who returns home having made his fortune in Australia. Both ballads are reproduced in facsimile in Evans Geraint Morgan Bach in Australia: reproductions of two Welsh migration ballads from the 1850s. With translations and introduction by Geraint Evans Melbourne : The Ancora Press 2010. Rare. Trove locates no copies of this edition of Isaac Thomas' Dychweliad Morgan Bach o Australia; examples of another version printed in Llanrwst by John Jones are held in the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales. unknown
84308002London 1834 Parbury. Full calf raised bands gilt stamped spine decorations text in French 460p. index chronology a bright copy Japanese text characters ca. 22 x 28 cm. FIRST & ONLY EDITION R A R E Translation of the "Nippon O-dai Ichiran" Chronology of Japanese Rulers by Hayashi Shunsai which was originally published in 1663. . According to the preface the translation was made with the help of three Japanese interpreters at Nagasaki who gave Titsingh an oral Dutch translation. Klaproth subsequently checked Titsingh's manuscript against the original Japanese text revised it and produced a supplement for the period covering 1611-1834. . A very important Dutch Deshima study & translation of an important study on Japan's early Imperial history. With notes and preface by M.J. Klaproth: "D'un Apercu de L'Histoire Mythologique du Japon." . REFERENCE: H. Cordier: JAPONICA: 450. . . unknown
16436506London, Flesher, R. Mynne, 1643 ; petit in-8 ; plein veau glacé havane, dos à nerfs richement décoré et doré, titre doré, double filet doré d'encadrement des plats avec au centre les armes de Louis-Urbain Le Fevre, seigneur de Caumartin, marquis de Saint-Ange, comte de Moret (OHR, 651), roulette sur les coupes (reliure fin du XVIIe - déb. XVIIIe) ; (56), 343, (1 bl.), 148, (4) pp. (bien complet du feuillet blanc qui suit le feuillet de titre).
179371714Imprimerie Nationale exécutive du Louvre | à Paris 1793 | 20.50 x 25.50 cm | relié
198645363HEYNE WILHELM 1986. 4. softcover. Roboter-Foundation HEYNE, WILHELM paperback