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195111061Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1951. First edition. A fine copy touch of rubbing to board extremities top edge a little dusty in a near fine dust jacket with mild rubbing to corners and spine ends fade to title color lettering on spine panel. 11061. Octavo jacket illustration by Whitney Bender cloth. Asimov's third sf book and second sf novel. Asimov's first three published novels are set earlier in the galactic empire future history of the Foundation stories but have no direct connection with them. THE STARS LIKE DUST is a space opera in which rebels fight the powerful war lords of Tyrann whose goal is the domination of the Galaxy. Doubleday & Company, Inc. unknown
27111London: Printed by and for J. Roach at the Britannia Printing Office Drury Lane Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. Roach's Edition. 16mo. 8 volumes containing 30 plays with separate title-page and pagination 28 with an engraved frontispiece 28 printed by J. Roach at either Russell-Court/Russel-Court or Woburn-Street with "Roach's Edition" at head of title-page 1 published in Edinburgh by Oliver & Boyd and 1 printed in Dublin "for the Booksellers." Full tree-calf gilt-stamped maroon leather spine labels. Contemporary ink signature to front blank in each volume first four volumes with ink date of 1814. Covers scuffed and rubbed some tanning foxing and offsetting to text some text pages and plates trimmed at lower edge vol. 3 hinge between plate and title-page of "Isabella" cracked though tight and holding. Overall a very good scarce set of early Regency theatricals. Contents include: Thomas Otway - Venice Preserved n.d.; The Rev. Henry Bate - The Flitch of Bacon 1808; T. Knight - The Honest Thieves 1797; Arthur Murphy - The Citizen n.d.; George Lillo - George Barnwell n.d. 1813; Mrs. Centlivre - A Bold Stroke for a Wife 1806; Charles Coffey - The Devil to Pay or The Wives Metamorphosed 1808; Sir John Vanbrugh - Lovers' Quarrels or Like Master Like Man 1806; Artaxerxes. An English Opera n.d. without frontispiece; Thomas Southerne - Isabella or The Fatal Marriage 1811; Kane O'Hara - Midas. An English Burletta n.d. 1802; David Garrick - Bon Ton or High Life Above the Stairs 1811; Shakespeare - Othello n.d 1803; Isaac Bickerstaff - Love in a Village 1807; Mrs. Brooke - Rosina n.d. 1816; Henry Fielding - Tom Thumb A Burlesque Tragedy 1811; The Tailors. A Tragedy for Warm Weather n.d. frontispiece dated 1805; Mr. Bickerstaff - The Hypocrite A Comedy Altered from C. Cibber 1811; Beaumont & Fletcher - Rule A Wife & Have A Wife 1808; Arthur Murphy - Three Weeks After Marriage 1811; George Colman - The Jealous Wife 1807; G. Colman & David Garrick - The Clandestine Marriage n.d. without frontispiece; A. Murphy - The Way to Keep Him 1807; R.B. Sheridan - A Trip to Scarborough 1811; Sheridan - The School for Scandal Dublin 1800; Sheridan - The Rivals 1811; Samuel Foote - The Mayor of Garratt 1809; Edward Young - The Revenge n.d. frontispiece dated 1805; A. Murphy - All In The Wrong 1808; George Farquhar - The Beaux Stratagem 1811. James or John Roach was a bookseller and compiler who kept a shop in Drury Lane near the Theatre Royal. His bookshop on Drury Lane stocked everything from children's anthologies to salacious prints and he is credited with producing one of the first part-publications - a collection of poetry published over two years. He published an infamous pamphlet entitled Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies a notorious catalogue of courtesans and their various specialties which landed him in prison for several months. However with his new found notoriety he released a selection of theatre books which sold very well. Printed by and for J. Roach at the Britannia Printing Office, Drury Lane Hardcover
983804<b>Brun Franz Isaac. printmaker; goldsmith/metalworker; German; Male; c.1535 - c.1610/20. Euterpe Engraving on laid paper last half of 16th century. Strasbourg.</b><br /><br /> Brun Franz Isaac. printmaker; goldsmith/metalworker; German; Male; c.1535 - c.1610/20.<b> Euterpe</b> Engraving on laid paper last half of 16th century. Strasbourg. W<i>hole-length winged female figure in profile to left wearing antique costume and playing a harp.</i> Trimmed to platemark uneven along right margin. Height: 72 millimetres; Width: 50 millimetres. Fine impression. Signed in the plate with monogram 'FB' and inscribed 'EUTERPE' along the upper edge. Image of the muse of music and lyric poetry. From a series of 9 engravings of the muses. Franz Brun b. Pressburg Possibly trained in Nuremburg. active 1559 - 1596 He was a draughtsman goldsmith and engraver from Strasbourg. He engraved several series in the manner of the Nuremberg "Kleinmeister". <br /><br />Bibliography See Bartsch IX 443-472 as Maître FB; Hollstein 26. Provenance: Friedrich August of Saxony lugt 971;two other: Hugo Ahne and a Dr K. O. neither in Lugt.<br /> books
47928Oblong 4to. 1 page seal intact; docketed on verso. Burke and Huger each had prominent associations with the South Carolina branch of the Society of Cincinnati Huger serving as first vice-president and Burke publishing a widely circulated pamphlet warning that the organization would widen the division between "the patricians and the rabble." Folded; some browning but very good. <br/><br/> unknown books
194552255Sofia СофиÑ: The Jewish Consistory of Bulgaria KонÑиÑÑ‚Ð¾Ñ€Ð¸Ñ Ð½Ð° евреитe въ Ð‘ÑŠÐ»Ð³Ð°Ñ€Ð¸Ñ 1945. First edition. Softcover. g to vg. Small quarto. 200pp. Tan paper wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. <br /> <br /> This scarce Bulgarian publication is comprised of a series of documents collected and assembled by Bulgarian-Jewish political figure Natan Grinberg 1903-1988 which provide evidence on the deportation of Jews from Thrace Macedonia and Pirot to death camps now known as the Dannecker-Belev Agreement. These three areas were annexed by Bulgaria in 1941 from Greece and parts of Yugoslavia now parts of Serbia and most of North Macedonia with the assistance of Nazi Germany with whom they were allied. Unlike Jews in Bulgaria proper the Jews in these areas where not considered Bulgarian citizens and were ultimately given over to the Germans per their 1943 request to be supplied with "20000 Jewish captives". It is considered the only known agreement of its kind to have been official recorded and agreed upon in this way between the Nazis and governments of client or puppet states during the war. Ultimately more than 11000 Jews from these areas were handed over to the Nazis by Bulgarian authorities where they were subsequently transported to Auschwitz and Trebrinka. Nearly all were killed. These actions were overseen by the leader of the anti-semitic Commissariat for Jewish Affairs in Bulgaria Alexander Belev 1898-1944 and the head Nazi official in Bulgaria SS-captain Theodor Dannecker 1913-1945.<br /> <br /> These documents where assembled shortly after the war likely to preemptively provide evidence for prosecutors of People's Court in charging individuals collaborating with the Nazis and fascists. It is an extremely early document of its kind to provide documents as evidence of the Holocaust directly following the war and is of foundational importance for the study of the Holocaust in Bulgaria and these areas. In the years since these documents have not been widely publicized as they tarnish the image of a country thought of as being comparatively merciful to its Jewish population during this infamous period.<br /> <br /> The material here includes text from more than 40 official Bulgarian governmental documents from the period including correspondence and numerical tables discussing all aspects of the operation including the logistics and finances. The first text page contains introductory statements from the founder of the post-war Jewish Consistory of Bulgaria Isaac Elizar Française. The final pages contain a facsimile reproduction of the typed 1943 document requesting for the transfer of 20000 Jews showing the signatures of Theodor Dannecker and Belev six captioned b/w photographic reproductions and a table of contents.<br /> <br /> Text in Bulgarian.<br /> <br /> Wrappers rebacked with new spine and back cover. Front cover with some stains and a tear at the top right corner. Period ink stamp on the front cover. A light stain to the title page until page 15. Pages throughout age toned with some light creasing at the top corners. Wrappers in good interior in very good condition overall. Protected in modern mylar. A facsimile edition was finally published in 2015. The Jewish Consistory of Bulgaria (KонÑиÑÑ‚Ð¾Ñ€Ð¸Ñ Ð½Ð° евреитe въ БългариÑ) unknown
189811891Fort Smith Ark: The Phoenix Publishing Company 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo 720pp. illustrated. A very good copy in contemporary green cloth. A thick heavy volume printed on coated paper and originally issued in wrappers this copy like most others was rebound by a very early owner in a more practical and sturdy green cloth hardcover binding with a suitably austere gilt title to the spine. Three contemporary owner's stamps to the prelims including title page else unmarked and quite clean internally. An immensely detailed account of the life of this deeply American character who was the very essence of the "Hanging Judge" of the old west. Howes H203 "b" Six-Guns 929 Graff 1785. The Phoenix Publishing Company hardcover
190040610New York: Fleming H. Revell Company 1900. First Edition. Profusely illustrated. Large octavo yellow cloth spine over illustrated boards is the very scarce dust jacket not in Tanselle. Very Good with very light shelf wear in Very Good dustjacket with a few small chips and a few closed tears one being 4 inches in length. Fleming H. Revell Company hardcover
1760B4388Gothenburg c. 1760. In very good condition. Binding: Contemporary half calf with speckled boards. Notes: Ex Libris Abel E. Berland. First Edition in Swedish after original 1733 First Edition in English. <br><br>Newton's work: Observations on the Prophecies on the Prophecies of Daniel and the Prophecies of St. John. Six years after his death Newton's nephew Benjamin Smith published a small portion of Newton's later writings on the prophetic Books of Daniel and Revelation. For more than two centuries this book provided the only glimpse into Newton's prophetic thought. In addition scientific historians suggest that “Newton was an apocalyptic thinker†Snobelen Canadian Journal of History who “arrived at his theory of gravity partly through his exploration of alchemy and early biblical theology†White 358. Size: 8vo: 115mm x 190mm Volume: 2 Volumes in 1 Pages: P. Title Printer infoforward iii-vi Contents vii-viii 1-324 Category: Book Religious Christianity hardcover
183433065Berlin: Herausgabe der Mischna 1834. First edition. Hardcover. g. Complete 6 volume set. 4to. Three-quarter blue cloth over marbled paper boards with raised bands and red title-labels. Marbled edges all around. Marbled endpapers. Mishnah with Judeo-German translation and the classic commentaries of R. Obadiah Bartenura and R. Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller. This project was headed by the pioneering Jewish historian Isaac Marcus Jost. The Mishnah had previously been translated into German by Johann Rabe in the Onolzbach 1760-63 edition and into Judeo-German in the Vienna edition started in 1817. Text in Hebrew and Judeo-German with a German introduction. Several backstrips chipped. Edges rubbed. Volume 1 front free endpaper detached but still present. Some foxing to page margins. Overall in good- condition. Herausgabe der Mischna hardcover
183038708Philadelphia: Adam Waldie 1830. First edition. Hardcover. g. Octavo. viii 139pp. Rebound blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Gray endpapers. Isaac Leeser's first printed work in America. Translated from the German of J. Johlson teacher of an Israelitish School at Frankfurt on the Maine by Isaac Leeser. "The design of this work is the instruction of the younger part of Israelites of both sexes who have previously acquired some knowledge of the fundamental part in the principal topics of their religion." translator. Includes Appendix: a short account of the ceremonial laws and customs. Rosenbach 321 Singerman 489. Ex-library Text in Hebrew and English. Binding lightly rubbed. Union college bookplate on inside cover. Perforated college stamp on title page. Brief pencil and ink notations on title page dedication page and last page. Last two leaves browned. Binding and interior in overall good condition. Singerman #0489. Adam Waldie hardcover
168314061London: Typis Milonis Flesher sumptibus auctoris prostat apud Mosem Pitt & apud Brabazonum Aylmer 1683. First edition. Hardcover. g. 8vo. 10 450pp. 3/4 Vellum over marbled boards with brown lettering and library plate to spine. Age wearing throughout binding.Some tears discoloration scuffing and rubbing to boards and spine. Some browning and foxing to pages not affecting the script. Welling to pages. Ex library. Library card pocket pasted to inside of front board. Perforation to title page: Philadelphia Divinity school. Inscribed by owner with pencil: "to Paullus Reinhardus." This first Latin translation contains texts from Moshe ben Maimon aka Rambam aka Maimonides 1135-1204 and Yitzchak ben Yehuda aka Abravanel Isaac Abrabanel1437-1508. In Latin with some writing in Hebrew. Cover in fair book in good condition. freely translated: Rabbi Moses Maimonides' volountary sacrifice: An approach to Abarbanel's introduction and commentary on Leviticus and Maimonides' Tractate on the consecrated calendar and the rational calendar change R. Moses Maimonides Rambam was a 12th century Jewish philosopher and halachic legal scholar. A highly controversial figure both during his lifetime and after his death but generally acknowledged as the preeminent Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. He was born in Córdoba Spain but fled as a child from the Almohad persecution. He eventually settled in Egypt where he served as a rabbi physician and philosopher. His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah his only work not in Arabic still carries canonical authority particularly within the Yemenite Jewish community as the codification of Talmudic law. His other work includes a commentary on the Mishnah entitled Kitab al-Siraj Kitab al-Fara'I a book on precepts and the philosophical work Dalalat al-Ha'irin known in Hebrew as the Moreh Nevukhim The Guide to the Perplexed. The major premise is an attempted philosophical/theological reconciliation of the Hebrew Bible and Greek knowledge. This work came to play a central role in all subsequent major controversies over philosophy within the Jewish community during the Middle Ages. Typis Milonis Flesher, sumptibus auctoris, prostat apud Mosem Pitt, & apud Brabazonum Aylmer hardcover
1723332777Londres: Pour le compte de l'Auteur 1723. Published the same year as the first edition in English. Frontispiece and 6 plates 3 folding backed. 12 121 1pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemp. calf front hinge off. Published the same year as the first edition in English. Frontispiece and 6 plates 3 folding backed. 12 121 1pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Martin an English merchant who was arrested in Malaga in 1718 and spent 8 months in the hands of the inquiition. He recounts his experiences in great detail. Pour le compte de l'Auteur unknown
180255778Saloniki Thessaloniki: Mordekhai Nahman and David Yisraeliga 1802. Second edition. Modern cloth. Very good-. Quarto 25 by 16.5 cm. 2 136 leaves. Hebrew text in rabbinic font arranged in two columns. Title within elaborate letterpress borders with textual quotations; woodcut printer's device verso title approbations page; publication date in chronogram. Recent royal blue cloth; text block with speckled edges. Title leaf reinforced with tissue along fore-edge; title with tear along gutter 7 cm and small mostly marginal worm traces; worming vanishes by the sixth leaf with very minimal text loss; slightest marginal worm tracing at final 20 leaves; entry at bottom margins of the title and four other pages excised in black marker not affecting text; several leaves lightly toned else a very good copy with crisp clean text.<br /> <br /> Very scarce second edition of this collection of rabbinic responsa issued by Moses ben Isaac Segal Mintz 15th century. First published at Krakow in 1617 this is the author's only published work. Born in Mainz between 1420 and 1430 Moses Mintz studied with Jacob Weil and Israel Isserlein and while still quite young was appointed rabbi of Würzburg. Mintz led a peripatetic life which allowed him to investigate Jewish customs and communal regulations in many towns. After the 1453 expulsion of the Jews from Würzburg he returned to Mainz until the expulsion of 1462. He subsequently went to Landau and Ulm. In 1469 he was appointed rabbi of Bamberg. Four years later he was in Nürnberg and the following year in Posen. There he made preparations to emigrate to Palestine but for unknown reasons decided to remain in Posen until the end of his life.<br /> <br /> "Mintz's prominence and recognized authority resulted in may other rabbis turning to him with halakhic queries on such issues as issur ve-heter dietary laws and communal customs" Heller. His circle of correspondents included Israel Isserlein Joseph Colon Eliezer Treves and his cousin Judah Mintz. As the present collection notably deals with practical issues of contemporary importance especially civil and matrimonial law -- including customs and the enactments of Rabbenu Gershom -- they provide insight into Jewish life in fifteenth-century Germany. Issues of some notable responsa include taxes placed on Jews by local rulers; obligations of a wealthy man to his wife's poor relatives; a woman who committed adultery repented and swears the child is from her husband; if a person blind in one eye can be a judge in a case of halitzah when a man is released from the general obligation to marry his deceased brother's widow; and if one should mourn for a murderer. "Of special value are three responsa in manuscript entitled 'The Three Branches' which are an important source for the history of the yeshivot rabbinic schools of Germany in the 15th century. They depict the woeful condition of pupil-teacher relations which had broken down as a result of the arrogance of the teachers and their exaggerated concern for their dignity as well as because of the pupils' desire for greater freedom of activity and the acquisition of social status" EJ.<br /> <br /> Approbations of Istanbul rabbis: Ezekiel Refael Chaim Alfandari; Michael Ashkenazi; Moshe Frishko<br /> <br /> Provenance: Ink stamps of the Yeshiva Ha-Metivta ha-Gedolah Jerusalem at approbation page and bottom margin of one text page. References: Enc. Jud. 1st ed. 12: 65-66; M. J. Heller The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book pp. 346-347 first ed. 1617; Vinograd Salonica 515; Cf. Steinschneider 6529.1 ed. Krakow 1617 - but not noting the present edition!<br /> <br /> Title and imprint Hebrew: תשובות ×ž×”×¨×³×³× ×ž×™× ×¥ × ×“×¤×¡ פה ש××œ×•× ×™×§×™ ×™×¢×³×³× ×‘×“×¤×•×¡ מרדכי × ×—×ž×Ÿ וחברו דוד ישר×ליג׳ה<br /> <br /> Date chronogram: 5562 = ×•×™×¨× ×ž×©×”<br /> <br /> Yeshiva stamp: ×”×ž×ª×™×‘×ª× ×”×’×“×•×œ× ×‘×™×ª הר×ש׳׳ל ישיבה תיכון. Mordekhai Nahman and David Yisraeliga unknown
06530London: Printed for J. Johnston 1822. Johnny Newcome Returns: The Soldier's Comic Progress<br /> A Spirited Sequel to the Celebrated Naval Satire - With Fine Cruikshank Plates<br /> <br /> MITFORD John. My Cousin in the Army: or Johnny Newcome on the Peace Establishment. A Poem. By a Staff Officer. London: Printed for J. Johnston 1822.<br /> <br /> First edition. Octavo 9 x 5 5/8 inches; 228 x 143 mm. 4 316 pp. Sixteen hand-colored aquatint plates including frontispiece by Isaac Robert Cruikshank and Charles Williams. Plates watermarked 1821.<br /> <br /> A short marginal tear 3/4 inch to title slight creasing to plates opposite pp. 173 and 285 and a neatly restored outer blank margin to the plate opposite p. 313 loss minimal. Light offsetting from plates as usual and a few minor smudges. <br /> <br /> Handsomely bound in mid-twentieth-century full burgundy levant morocco by Rivière & Son stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper covers with gilt double fillet border spine richly tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt board edges and turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Armorial bookplate of Harry Bradfer-Lawrence on front pastedown. An excellent copy.<br /> <br /> A lively and richly illustrated military satire My Cousin in the Army forms the companion volume to Mitford's earlier and highly successful Johnny Newcome in the Navy 1818 transferring the comic misadventures of the naïve recruit from sea to land. Cast in brisk octosyllabic verse the poem offers a vivid and often irreverent portrait of army life in the immediate aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars blending anecdote caricature and social observation in a manner closely aligned with the Regency taste for humorous narrative.<br /> <br /> The hand-colored aquatints by Isaac Robert Cruikshank and Charles Williams - both central figures in the golden age of British caricature - provide much of the work's enduring appeal. Their plates animated and theatrical capture the follies vanities and absurdities of military life with a sharp eye and a lively palette placing the work firmly within the tradition of illustrated comic narratives popularized by contemporaries such as the Doctor Syntax series and Life in London.<br /> <br /> Mitford himself remains one of the more colorful and tragic figures of the period: a former naval officer present at major engagements of the French Revolutionary Wars later reduced by dissipation and instability to a precarious literary existence. His writing - energetic unpolished and often drawn from lived experience - retains an immediacy that lends authenticity to the comic episodes described.<br /> <br /> A pleasing copy of a work that stands among the more engaging illustrated satires of the post-Napoleonic period enhanced by an attractive Rivière binding and distinguished provenance.<br /> <br /> Abbey Life 370; Tooley 166. London: Printed for J. Johnston, 1822 unknown
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. Small bookplate of Johann Lawrence on the front paste-down. Cantabrigiæ: Ex Officina Joann. Hayes, Sumptibus Henrici Dickinson, 1681 unknown
51-6105London : Printed for T. Egerton at the Military Library Whitehall; Bickerstaff 210 Strand; and Richardson Royal Exchange; by C. Roworth Hudson's Court Strand. 8vo. 12.5 x 21cm. 5 vols. Contemporary tree calf with leather spine labels. Very good. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:5778575: Vols. 4 and 5 deal with the British Navy and contain lists of its ships officials etc. London : Printed for T. Egerton, at the Military Library, Whitehall; Bickerstaff, 210, Strand; and Richardson, Royal Exchange; hardcover
19816136New York: Sweetwater 1981. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto 163pp. illustrated. A fine copy in the publisher's full chieftain deep red morocco with gilt detail. In the publisher's slipcase also fine. Of a total limitation of 475 copies SIGNED by Singer and Moskowitz this is the best edition being number 18 of just 50 copies in the full morocco binding accompanied by a suite of ten signed etchings and also an original ink drawing by Moskowitz. These artworks are housed in a slim clamshell box itself housed in the slipcase. Rare and with no other copies of this most prized limitation in commerce as of this listing. An elegant production; and a high spot in any collection of Judaica or illustrated fine press books. Sweetwater hardcover
1834806311834. TITSINGH Isaac. NIPON O DAI ITSI RAN OU ANNALES DES EMPEREURS DU JAPON TRADUITES PAR M. ISSAC TITSINGH avec l'aide de plusieurs interpretes attaches au Comptoir hollandais de Nagasaki; Ouvrage revu complete et corrige sur l'Original japonais-chinois accompagne de notes et precede d'un Apercu de l'Histoire mythologique du Japon par M. J. Klaproth. Paris: Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland; Sold by Parbury Allen and Co. London 1834. Quarto. 6viiixxxvi460 pp. 27.4 cm. In a modern brick cloth binding with a dulled gilt-stamped title to spine; it is lightly scuffed on lower board and a little faded on spine. Text is quite clean and crisp. Very good plus. Cordier 450. unknown books
1834806311834. TITSINGH Isaac. NIPON O DAI ITSI RAN OU ANNALES DES EMPEREURS DU JAPON TRADUITES PAR M. ISSAC TITSINGH avec l'aide de plusieurs interpretes attaches au Comptoir hollandais de Nagasaki; Ouvrage revu complete et corrige sur l'Original japonais-chinois accompagne de notes et precede d'un Apercu de l'Histoire mythologique du Japon par M. J. Klaproth. Paris: Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland; Sold by Parbury Allen and Co. London 1834. Quarto. 6viiixxxvi460 pp. 27.4 cm. In a modern brick cloth binding with a dulled gilt-stamped title to spine; it is lightly scuffed on lower board and a little faded on spine. Text is quite clean and crisp. Very good plus. Cordier 450. unknown
1842307613London: Henry Washbourne 1842. Extra-illustrated with numerous plates including 23 portraits 8 hand-colored 13 views 2 hand-colored and 12 natural history plates 4 finely hand colored illustrations of raptors and a peahen 9 aquatint plates by Daniell and 2 leaves of music; with woodcut illustrations in text. lxxii 396 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full crushed russet morocco gilt turn-ins spine and boards tooled with angling motifs in gilt a.e.g. by Bayntun. Fine. Extra-illustrated with numerous plates including 23 portraits 8 hand-colored 13 views 2 hand-colored and 12 natural history plates 4 finely hand colored illustrations of raptors and a peahen 9 aquatint plates by Daniell and 2 leaves of music; with woodcut illustrations in text. lxxii 396 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A handsomely bound and richly extra-illustrated copy of the uncommon Washbourne edition of the classic Compleat Angler of Walton and Cotton. Coigney 51 Henry Washbourne unknown books
175679166London:: Printed for T. Osborne and J. Shipton 1756. First edition. old full calf rebacked with a later calf spine and gilt-lettered spine labels. . Three old bookplates on front pastedown; text and plates in very attractive condition with a few double-page plates mis-folded; binding quite scuffed; but tight and sound. Folio. Engraved frontispiece plus all plates listed in the Table of Plates and two additional plates not listed. Although 122 plates are listed the numeration is irregular with double-page plates listed as two plates a few plate numbers repeated and others skipped. Title page in red and black. Additional postage applicable for this very large and heavy book. Printed for T. Osborne and J. Shipton, unknown
179926803London: Printed for John Stockdale Piccadilly 1799. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. Octavo. 2 volumes. Pp. xxiv 427; xii 376 16 - publ. adverts. complete with folding frontispiece map of the Northern States of America with hand-coloured outlines plus 2 folding maps 2 folding plans and 9 plates. Recent rebinding in quarter dark navy calf and marbled boards new endpapers 5 gilt-ruled raised bands gilt-stamped maroon leather spine labels volume number direct to spine new endpapers. Covers fine. Top edges rough-trimmed others deckled. Water staining to top and bottom gutters and along top and bottom edges primarily to prelims and end pages and occasionally scattered throughout most plates affected however frontispiece map is clean and bright. Contemporary ink signature of Edward Tanqueray to title-page of volume 2. The Irish topographer's first youthful work. He preferred Canada to the U.S. but left "without a sigh and without entertaining the slightest wish to revisit it." Well received it went through several editions and re-issues and was translated into French Italian German and Dutch. Howes W235; Cf TPL 708-9. Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly Hardcover
191451982Philadelphia: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology 1914. 1914. First Edition. Two Volumes. #35 of 250 Copies. This copy specifically Presented to Dr. Charles B. Penrose with Presentation Label on front endpaper. Quarto. Buckram with Gilt-stamped Morocco Labels on Spine as issued. ix 341pp. and 191pp. Frontispiece in each volume plus 5 Plates. Large Folding Map at rear of Volume I. The rare first issue; few copies of which were presented to personal friends of long standing with a printed request "to regard its contents for the present as confidential. The remaining copies were placed in a sealed vault and will be withheld from circulation for 50 years." Isaac Wistar was an attorney served in the Civil War was a railroad executive and founded the Wistar Institute at the University of Pennsylvania but is perhaps best known for his role in the development of California and the Far West. Wistar's important overland journal is in day-to-day form and presents minute and interesting details not found in most overland journals. His experiences were wide-spread and noteworthy everywhere he traveled: Trapping and trading in hostile Indian country the California gold fields San Francisco the Northwest Coast the Thompson and Frazer River areas Puget Sound Fort Hall the Black Hills and more. "Largely devoted to the opening and development of the far West from 1849-1860 in which Wistar played a conspicuous part before achieving fame and fortune in Pennsylvania."--HOWES W598. His experiences during the Civil War are covered. In his later life Wistar was a successful lawyer and a Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He founded the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1892. Some very slight rubbing to edges else a fine tight copy protected in a custom slipcase with gilt-stamped leather label on spine. Map in fine condition. As noted above this copy was presented to Dr. Charles B. Penrose with the Presentation Label neatly affixed to front endpaper in each volume. Bookplate of Penrose's son Boies Penrose II is neatly affixed to front free-endpaper in each volume. Small printed notice of this work's confidentiality is neatly tipped-in in front of each volume as issued. Penrose has signed the upper fore-corner of the title page in each volume. Charles Bingham Penrose surgeon and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania suffering from Tuberculosis went west to Wyoming in 1891 for his health. He became deeply involved in the infamous Johnson County War. Penrose "was the surgeon who accompanied the invading cattlemen and thus writes with authority."--Ramon Adams. He was arrested and only his friendship with Wyoming's governor saved him from being lynched. Penrose authored The Rustler Business much of which was written in 1939 but was printed in 1959. The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1914. hardcover
196514160GOLDMANN WILHELM 02/1965. 1. softcover. GOLDMANN, WILHELM paperback
elala2345Metz: Ephraim Hadamar 1829. The most important and influential work on ethics in fifteenth century Jewish literature. The author was one of the leading Talmudic scholars of his day. Zedner p. 381. Friedberg p. 620 no. 2216. 3 Volumes. 8vo. ff. 18 819. engraved frontis. contempoary calf bindings worn but solid some scattered foxing Metz: Ephraim Hadamar, 1829 unknown
