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1985210774New York: Doubleday & Company 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Light rubbing along panel edges.; Personalized by author on title page.; Signed by Author. Doubleday & Company hardcover
167096655London: William Lee 1670. Ninth edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The Ninth and Last Edition" published in 1670. This edition debuted Francis Bacon"s utopian novel "New Atlantis" tucked away toward the end of the book. Also included for the first time "The History of Natural and Experimental of Life and Death or of the Prolongation of Life." Includes also "an Alphabetical Table of the Principal Things contained in the Ten Centuries." Rebound calf with five raised bands on spine and title in gilt. Very good condition. Light rubbing to edges and one two-inch strip of heavier rubbing along spine. Some leather shedding at this place. Binding is solid. Engraved portrait is present and in fine condition as is the engraved pictorial title on facing page. Some pages have light spotting but the spotting doesn't obscure the text or dominate the page in any way. Most pages are clear and unspotted. The paper is very lightly tanned. It has a crinkle as the pages are turned which is very nice. Overall an excellent copy. From the library of noted California mathematician Charles Greenhall with his ownership signature penciled on the first endpage. On the second endpage there are two inked signatures that look of an era as the book: I Newton and B. Newton. Isaac Newton's signature looks different from this one. Sticker on end pastedown page: Henry Nuss Bookbinder Dallas Texas. 4to. <br/><br/> William Lee hardcover
1759236London: Henry Kent 1759. Seventh Edition. Full leather. Very good. The Complete Angler by Isaac Walton published in 1759 edited by Moses Brown. Twelvemo xxiv 216 217-221 221-340 8 Index. Bound in period brown calf gilt title and decorative work on spine. Gilt top edge with red toning to gilt. Cracking to front joints but stable and firm. Clean pages throughout. Ten plates by Moses Brown. Previous owner's markings and bookseller's markings on front endpaper. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Bound with A Person of Honour - North Roger A Discourse of Fish and Fish-Ponds. London E. Curll 1715. Second Edition. 6 94 2 4-ads. First published in 1653 by Richard Marriot in London. This copy was published in 1759 by Moses Brown who was the first person to offer a revised edition in over 100 years. In 1760 another revised edition was edited and published by John Hawkins likely at the behest of Dr. Samuel Johnson the famous literary critic. Henry Kent unknown books
1979325787New York: Walker & Company 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by David Wool. Very Good in a Very Good clipped dust jacket.; Title page inscribed by Isaac Asimov.; How Did We Find out . Series; 57 pages; Signed by Author. Walker & Company hardcover
197239659HEYNE WILHELM 1972. 4. softcover. Roboter-Foundation Elias Lije Baley & R. Daneel Olivaw HEYNE, WILHELM paperback
1987209969New York: Doubleday 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in leather boards in a Near Fine slipcase.; Signed by author on bookplate on 2nd FEP. Number 41 of 450 signed limited edition copies.; Signed by Author. Doubleday hardcover
1967h409.002GB: CUP Cambridge University Press 1967. Complete set of first editions 1967-1981 all looking almost unopened but with slight spotting to edges of earlier volumes. No dustwrappers. NOT AVAILABLE OVERSEAS. 1st Edition. Hardback. nrFine/No DW. CUP Cambridge University Press Hardcover
184355333Providence: December 14 1843. Folio bifolium approx. 13¾" x 8¼" printed on the first page only; near fine. An anti-Dorrite text urging the election of the Law and Order ticket and the steps needed to be made to ensure a successful outcome. "The undersigned were appointed to correspond with active and influential friends of Law and Order in every town in the state; and to urge upon them the necessity of commencing immediately that efficient organization which cannot fail to secure for the good cause in which we are engaged another and yet more glorious triumph . Defeat would cover us with deep shame and it would bring upon us irretrievable disasters." OCLC locates the Brown University copy only. Not in American Imprints Bartlett or Sabin. DeSimone & Schofield 230 adding R.I. Historical. <br/><br/> December 14 unknown books
184355333Providence: December 14 1843. Folio bifolium approx. 13¾" x 8¼" printed on the first page only; near fine. An anti-Dorrite text urging the election of the Law and Order ticket and the steps needed to be made to ensure a successful outcome. "The undersigned were appointed to correspond with active and influential friends of Law and Order in every town in the state; and to urge upon them the necessity of commencing immediately that efficient organization which cannot fail to secure for the good cause in which we are engaged another and yet more glorious triumph . Defeat would cover us with deep shame and it would bring upon us irretrievable disasters." OCLC locates the Brown University copy only. Not in American Imprints Bartlett or Sabin. DeSimone & Schofield 230 adding R.I. Historical. December 14 unknown
198445361HEYNE WILHELM 1984. 2. softcover. Roboter-Foundation HEYNE, WILHELM paperback
1950142710Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1950. Octavo cloth. First edition. The author's first book and first SF novel. In the far future "Earth is largely a radioactive wasteland populated by a few million inhabitants who are discriminated against by the rest of the galactic empire which has forgotten that Earth was humanity's original home." - Brians Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction 1895-1984 p. 122. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-51. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 237. In 333. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with wear and rubbing at edges mostly along top edge several small nicks and abrasions at upper edge of rear panel mild tanning to rear panel and orange lettering on spine panel mostly faded to white. #142710 Doubleday & Company unknown books
195081888Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1950. Octavo cloth. First edition. The author's first book and first sf novel. In the far future "Earth is largely a radioactive wasteland populated by a few million inhabitants who are discriminated against by the rest of the galactic empire which has forgotten that Earth was humanity's original home." Brians Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction 1895-1984 p. 122. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-51. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 237. In 333. Moderate dust soiling to top edge free endpapers show some offsetting a very good to near fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with some light rubbing to edges corners and folds light shelf wear to head of spine panel small closed tear with crease at upper right corner and touch of fading to spine panel lettering. #81888 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1955138654Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1955. Octavo cloth. First edition. Eternals police human history against disasters making history safe for mankind. "Time guardians rove through the centuries keeping all eras in harmony. The hero rebels preferring the uncertainties of infinity to the carefully controlled boredom of Eternity." - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction second edition 1995 p. 120. ". a complex thoughtful story of time travel time paradoxes and time police considered by some critics to be his best work." - John Clute / Malcolm J. Edwards SFE online. Some age-darkening to endpapers mostly along gutter margins a nearly fine copy in very good dust jacket with internal tanning mostly to spine panel and along flap folds some shelf wear along top edge and several closed tears and associated creases along top edge of front panel. #138654 Doubleday & Company unknown books
19508225Garden City: Doubleday 1950. First edition. A very good plus copy some foxing to end papers in a very good dust jacket shelf wear small 'v' chip to upper spine panel; with some creases mild loss to spine ends and corners light rubbing fading to color of spine panel lettering. 8225. Octavo jacket illustration by Richard Powers Hardcover. Author's first book. Reference: Anatomy of Wonder 1995 3-15. Doubleday unknown
197231941Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1972. First edition. Some very light foxing to top page edges a fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with mild shelf wear to spine ends. 31941. Octavo cloth. "In the twenty-second century Earth and men of a para-universe establish an ideal energy exchange. Through Earthmen's electron pump and the para-men's position pump the energy needs of both worlds are satisfied without energy loss to either. A few probing skeptics men and para-men learn that in time the exchange will explode our Sun but both scientific establishments ignore their alarm. The 'fathers' of the energy pumps puffed with pride and selfishness will not allow their reputation doctrine and achievement to be jeopardized . The blind egotism and leaden conscience of his Asimov's scientific establishments offer no promise that a world ruled by scientists rather than politicians would be more free of it." - Berger Science Fiction and the New Dark Age p. 130. THE GODS THEMSELVES . which was only the second genuine singleton of his career and which won both Hugo and Nebula awards proved to be his finest single creation a complex tale involving potentially catastrophic energy transfers between alternate universes and -- rarely for him -- intriguing alien beings they are considerably more interesting than the humans in the cast." - John Clute / Malcolm J. Edwards SFE online. Written with a verve and economy that are missing from Asimov's later novels." - Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-48. Winner of the 1972 Nebula award and 1973 Hugo award for best novel. Reference: Survey of Science Fiction Literature II pp. 909-14. Doubleday & Company, Inc. unknown
1808427011Cooperstown New York 1808. Very Good. A small archive of about 23 manuscript documents relating to Jerome Clark’s Company of Cavalry also known as the “Light Dragoons†at Cooperstown New York dating from 1808-14. The collection includes a few manuscripts written and signed by Lieutenant Isaac Cooper elder brother of James Fenimore Cooper who was a member of the Cavalry and served as its Secretary. Contemporary folds some modest soiling a few scattered short tears to the edges of the larger folio sheets very good or better overall.<br /> <br /> An interesting cache of documents that sheds light on a little known Cavalry company in upstate New York. Most of the documents date from 1814 and relate to a general meeting of the Cavalry’s officers and upcoming annual Company parade. Also included are three variant copies of the Company’s Muster roll. In addition to the Isaac Cooper documents the archive includes references to and likely autograph signatures of several other prominent persons at Hartwick and Cooperstown such as Major Van Rensselaer and the papermaker Bethel Todd.<br /> <br /> In his 1823 novel The Pioneers set in the Cooperstown “Templeton†of the early 1790s James Fenimore Cooper named the village’s principal tavern “The Bold Dragoon.†The question as to whether the name was taken after Clark’s Light Dragoons remains an intriguing possibility that would warrant further research. A scarce survival.<br /> <br /> A more detailed inventory of the documents is available. unknown
182246London: Sherwood Neely and Jones 1822. Second Edition. Near fine. Isaac Robert Cruikshank & George Cruikshank. Tall 8vo 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches 234 x 148 mm; half-title hand-colored frontispiece title with vignette of St. Paul's xvi 376 pp 8 pp. advertisements. 3 foldout pages of music with Corinthian Tom's Song. 36 aquatint plates with hand-coloring each with protective blank sheet with offset from facing illustration; copious small in-text woodcuts. Later full red pebbled morocco with original spine panel single gilt fillet framing on boards gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers double raised bands with gilt and decorative motifs in compartments all edges gilt; spine very lightly rubbed. <br /> Second edition as stated at the foot of page 9.<br /> Tooley 198; Prideaux 335. A beautifully illustrated and hand-colored volume. Pierce Egan 1772-1849 was a British journalist sportswriter and writer on popular culture best-knows work is Life in London first published in 1821. The book was adapted into the stage play Tom and Jerry or Life in London later that year and it became the first play to have a continuous run of 100 performances in London while at the Adelphi Theatre in the West End. Egan turned to the Cruikshank brothers Robert and George for the illustrations. They produced 21 woodcuts and 36 lively and colorful plates to represent the range of characters and situations described in the book. The success of Life in London was so great that the artists could not color the engravings quickly enough for the demand. The book was adapted for the stage later that year and the play Tom and Jerry or Life in London became the first play to have a continuous run of 100 performances in London while at the Adelphi Theatre in the West End. The book was reprinted in 1822 1823 1830 1841 1870 and 1904. Numerous imitations soon appeared namely Carey's Life in Paris Real Life in London Real Life in Ireland et al. Sherwood, Neely, and Jones unknown
191112909Atlanta: Byrd Printing Company 1911. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. First edition of Memoirs of a Veteran by Confederate Captain Isaac Hermann inscribed by his son Isadore Hermann. Octavo 285pp. Gray cloth title in gilt on spine. Light soiling to spine spotting to both covers. Frontispiece portrait of the author and six full-page illustrations. Solid text block hinges showing some wear but stable. Howes H436 Nevins I: 103 Dornbusch II: 239. Inscribed on the front pastedown endpaper by the son of Captain Hermann: "To Alfred_ Compliments of Isadore Hermann." Captain Isaac Hermann 1838-1917 author of Memoirs of a Veteran has been described as a "champion storyteller whatever his faults as a soldier." Hermann joined the Washington Rifles from Sandersville Georgia in 1861 and saw action in western Virginia Tennessee Mississippi and Georgia. He was released from combat duty due to fevers and old injuries but continued to serve in hospitals until 1865. In Memoirs of a Veteran Hermann tells stories of being penniless in Richmond chasing cannonballs during a battle and being arrested as a deserter in Macon while visiting a cousin. Byrd Printing Company unknown
5153Fine clean crisp copy and a fine dust jacket signed by Maimon. Smart hardcover
1972032097Cambridge Mass: Harvard University Press 1972. Book. Like New. Hardcover. facsimile of the Third Edition 1726. Two volumes. 916pp. Black Boards Silver lettering. Except for a lower bumped corner on Volume 2 this is a fine unmarked set of a facsimile of the Third Edition1726 with variant readings. Diagrams throughout. Text is in Latin with a bibliography in English. Unclipped green ruled jacket has creasing to the upper extremities of Volume one. Of great importance in the history of mathematics and philosophy Principia Mathematica sparked interest in symbolic logic and advanced the subject by popularizing it; it showcased the powers and capacities of symbolic logic; and it showed how advances in philosophy of mathematics and symbolic logic could go hand-in-hand with tremendous fruitfulness. This is a photrographic reprint of the Third edition which allows the reader to see all the changes that Newton introduced and to determne exactly how the last and definitive edition published a few months before Newton's death grew from earlier versions. Size: 8 1/2" x 11 1/4". Harvard University Press Hardcover
176517201Amsterdam 1765. Engraved hand-colored map matted and framed. A beautiful hand-colored map of the American southwest focusing on the Southern California Baja California the Gulf of California and Arizona notwithstanding the title there is no portion of New Mexico depicted. Tirion names San Diego the Santa Catalina Islands Ensenada and Cabo San Lucas on the coast plus Casa Grande on the River Gila which though marked as a mission was a large site of a Native American ruin. He includes images of missions and forts in Baja at San Jose del Cabo and Loretto.<br /> <br /> This is apparently the earliest printing of the map published in Tirion’s Nieuwe en Beknopte Hand-Atlas 1765. It was re-issued a number of times over the next decade. <br /> <br /> Tirion 1705-1765 was a Dutch publisher in Amsterdam. He produced several atlases and Dutch town plans as well as a number of pamphlets which are all quite scarce. unknown
1787WRCAM24484Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Bailey. 1787. 307pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf. Boards bowed one- inch tear along upper front hinge. Scattered foxing. Contemporary ownership name on titlepage. Else very good. The Psalms of David as imitated by Isaac Watts and revised by Joel Barlow for the use of American churches and families. This would seem to be the "large-type edition" described by Evans. An early Federal period printing of the Psalms. EVANS 20229. Printed by Francis Bailey... hardcover books
1848026108Boston: Little Brown 1848. First . Hardcover. VG. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Complete with alll 16 plates 2 of which are attributed to Godfrey N. Frankenstein 1820-1873. Original dark brown cloth binding with original decorative gilt titles on the front cover. This particular example also boasts the ownership signature Fully investigated & referenced of Hiester Henry Muhlenberg 1812-1886 He was a member of the distinguished Muhlenberg family of Pennsylvania. And the bookplate where he/his family apparently donated the volume many decades ago 'The Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery' both on the inside of the front cover. Inside the rear cover is a small trapazoidal piece of manilla card where assumed an inventory card was kept. Book was clearly NOT for public viewing. Plates are in lovely near fine to fine condition with none of the usual foxing as seen in most examples. All are perfect for framing or to keep whole for propserity. The corners & spine ends a bit worn. A very nice example of this cornerstone to any White Mountains Book Collection. Oakes was drowned in the same year of this publication 1848 somewhere between East Boston & Boston. One wonders what he would have done to top this masterpiece had he lived. Bents page 1 Second listing of 'The Classics'. The plates are as follows: 1 "The White Mountains" 2 "Mount Crawford" 3 "The Notch of the White Mountains" 4 "The Lower Cascade of the Notch" 5 "The Gate of the Notch" 6 "The Falls of the Amonoosuck" 7 "The Granite Cliffs of the Falls" two views 8 "The Franconia Notch" 9 "Profile Mountain at Franconia" 10 "The Profile Rock" 11 "The Basin in Lincoln N.H." 12 "The Flume in Lincoln N.H." 13 "Nancy`s Bridge" 14 "Mt. Crawford from the Notch" two views 15 "Mount Washington" two views and 16 "Mt. Washington over Tuckerman`s Ravine." Come by for a look! <br/> <br/> Little Brown, hardcover
1808mon0000072296Samuel Bagster 1808. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. The Complete Angler or Contemplative Man's Recreation being a Discourse on Rivers Fish-Ponds Fish and Fishing. 7th edition 1st Bagster Samuel Bagster 1808 Samuel Bagster hardcover
109384aafAmsterdam, Chez Pierre Humbert M. DCC. XXXI / Suppl.: A Lausanne & à Genève, Chez Marc-Michel Bousquet & Comp. M. DCCXLV, 1731 , 1745, in-4to, ex-libris aux armes de ‘Charles de Pury’, Deux volumes in-4 reliure plein veau (reliure d"époque) / 1 vol. ‘Suppl’. reliure d’attente, carton gris.
