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1959338New York 1959. Manuscript Patent Drawing. Oblong 4to. 260 x 385 mm. 10 x 15 inches. Text in brown ink and four drawing in black ink. On coated paper. Small tear to lower margin some minor discoloration to the paper otherwise very good.Patent number 24.375 signed by Clough and Burrell and witnessed by A. Sidney Drane and I. Townsend Cannon. Received by Arthur L. McIntire of Director of the Patent Office. The patent record located online dates the application and drawing to June 14 1859. It reads in part that Isaac Clough and Samuel Burrell "have invented a new and Improved Fly and Mosquito Trap and hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same reference being had to the accompanying drawings. . ." The record goes on to describe all the components of the drawings how the 'trap' is constructed and operated and some information about a competing trap patented by T. Gilbert and T. M. Scott.Attractive drawing showing how the flies or mosquitoes enter the cylinder trap and not allowed to escape. Wonderful exhibition item reinforcing the idea of 'Yankee Ingenuity". A copy of the patent application is supplied. 338. unknown books
185929001365Slate Hill PA: Susquehanna Slate February 1859. General wear. Missing corner. . The item is two letters addressed to Reverend Benjamin William Chidlaw written on a finely illustrated circular. The letters are written on a single page which has been folded in half with the first letter written on the inside fold and the second has been pasted onto the backside. What is perhaps most salient about these letters is the stationary it is written on. The front of this single fold stationary is from Isaac Parker's business Susquenhanna Slate which is "Equal to the Best Welsh" and located in Slate Hill PA. It has a beautiful black and white illustration on the top half of the page which showcases the quarry and excavation equipment used to remove the slate. On the bottom it provides information on the quarry itself such as that the slate is used for roofing materials and that they are the go-to slate quarry who provides materials for the US Government for roofing public buildings. In regards to the letters themselves the first is a letter from Isaac Parker and in the note he states that enclosed is $15.00 to help with Reverend Benjamin William Chidlaw's mission of establishing Sunday schools out west. Reverend Chidlaw worked as a missionary for the American Sunday School Union ASSU which was founded in 1824 in order to fulfill its mission for the promotion of Sunday or Sabbath schools that would help in the early literacy and spiritual development in children. While the mission first started in Pennsylvania it soon grew and began to focus on providing schooling for children in other areas such as the central west. Reverend Chidlaw was the first commissioned missionary of the ASSU to help in this endeavor. The second letter is from Petre Carter who sent the donation for Parker to Chidlaw as Parker didn't know where to send the money. Single fold. Measures 8 3/4" x 5" folded 10" x 7 3/4" unfolded. <br/><br/> Susquehanna Slate unknown books
198837637Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press 1988. Hardcover. Very good. 244pp index. Ink gift inscription on half title page else a very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. <br/><br/> University of Alabama Press hardcover books
286340Cincinnati Chicago: Leo Wise & Co 5633. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. The Revised Edition of Isaac M. Wise's Judaism Its Doctrines and Duties. Lacking front endpaper; bookplate; marginalia and annotations throughout; previous owner's inscription on the rear pastedown. Black cloth with rules and lettering stamped in blind. Good. Good binding. Leo Wise & Co unknown books
194840487New York: Jewish Publication Society of America 1948. First Edition. Octavo 22cm. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 294pp. Tight clean copy Very Good or better in the original dustwrapper slightly chipped at edges Very Good. "Retellings" by Samuel of the Yiddish folk tales of Isaac Loeb Peretz; includes a biographical sketch and several additional essays on Yiddish culture and the art of translation. Jewish Publication Society of America unknown books
1724165615London: J Brotherton at the Bible next the Fleece-Tavern and T Cox at the Corner of Swithin's Alley both in Cornhill 1724. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good overall bookplate of Charles Deane overtop of older bookplate possibly his father Joseph Deane who has written his name across the title page and dated it 1728. Full contemporary leather with geometric embossing no title on spine 5 raised bands. xvi 374 2 pp ads at rear Engraved frontice. Worldcat reference calls for a folding frontis but this book exhibits a non-folding well-fitting engraved portrait appropriately dated and ascribed to this volume. Very nice copy overall in an original binding. J Brotherton at the Bible next the Fleece-Tavern and T Cox at the Corner of Swithin's Alley, both in Cornhill hardcover books
1834243693Worcester: Dorr Howland and Co 1834. Third Edition Revised and Enlarged. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Interestingly this copy belonged to one Eli Wodell of Fall River. He served in the US Navy during the Civil War witnessing the sinking of the Alabama. After the war he married a young woman she was 31 he was 63 living with her at Quadrilateral the house he built in Fall River. His wife committed suicide by hanging under suspicious circumstances in 1875. Wodell was tried for murder and ultimately was acquitted in what was the most scandalous trial in Fall River history until a few years later the trial of Lizzie Borden came along! Eli wrote at length of his life in general and the death of his wife and his subsequent trial in particular in Genealogy of a Part of the Wodell Family.and a Condensed BIOGRAPHY of . Eli Wodell" published in 1880. He concludes his account with an epic poem he penned himself:~~"My wife is dead she hanged herself of course she gone to glory.~She tied the knot and hanged herself Lamentable the story.~And I was persecuted by "the people called Christian"~They raised a cry that murder foul had surely been committed~That ninety-nine of every hundred believed that I did it."~and~"One brazen hag with lying breath.~Declared I plunged my wife to death.~One drunken fellow who deals in ice~said he could prove I killed my wife."~~Great stuff.~Eli Wodell's copy of the "Town Officer or Laws of Massachusetts.". Very Good binding. Dorr, Howland and Co unknown books
184620592<p><b>Original Muggletonian Celestial Astronomical Baxter print</b></p><p><b>System According to the Holy Scriptures</b></p><p> Drawn by Isaac Frost Engraved by Clubb London. Printed in oil by George Baxter.</p><p>Plate 9. Shows the Earth suspended in the firmament showing longitude and latitude lines. Similar to Plate 10 which shows outlines of continents.</p><p>The Baxter oil print shown here was made in 1846 for the private use of the Muggletonians an English religious group that denied a sun-centered solar system. The Muggletonians derived their own view of the universe and these plates are among the rarest of all Baxter prints having been made for private use and never widely circulated. Part of a larger set total eleven prints made for Isaac Frost's <i>Two Systems of Astronomy</i> this print was never bound into a book but remained as a loose printed sheet. It is surmised that the others in this series were lost in the London Blitz when the Muggletonian archives were largely destroyed. The Baxter process a complex and costly printing process produced a spectacular image and the plates are strikingly beautiful. Each Muggletonian astronomical print measures about 7 3/4 x 10 5/8 inches with decent margins. Condition is very good with the slightest of marginal creasing not affecting image. The background color in this print is slightly mottled as seen in image. This is the result of the difficulty of the entire Baxter process and shows perhaps why it was an economically unfeasible process. Small pinhole in upper left corner. Baxter Muggletonian prints are scarce and were unknown to C. T. Courtney Lewis in the first edition of his work on George Baxter.</p><p>The plates we have for sale were printed for a work titled "Two Systems of Astronomy" and were most likely circulated only to members of the sect and not sold as a commercial publication due to the expensive Baxter colour process. These plates were produced to illustrate an alternative to the Newtonian beliefs of gravity and terrestrial and celestial motion and are important in the history of the relationship between religion and science. Our plates were never bound into a book but were separately published as single leaves.</p> George Baxter books
184620594<p><b>Original Muggletonian Celestial Astronomical Baxter print</b></p><p><b><i>The Newtonian System</i></b></p><p>Plate 1. A brilliant image showing the Cartesian view of the universe. On the center is our solar system surrounded by contiguous additional solar systems.</p><p>Drawn by Isaac Frost Engraved by Clubb London. Printed in oil by George Baxter.</p><p>The Baxter oil print shown here was made in 1846 for the private use of the Muggletonians an English religious group that denied a sun-centered solar system. The Muggletonians derived their own view of the universe and these plates are among the rarest of all Baxter prints having been made for private use and never widely circulated. Part of a larger set total eleven prints made for Isaac Frost's <i>Two Systems of Astronomy</i> this print was never bound into a book but remained as a loose printed sheet. It is surmised that the others in this series were lost in the London Blitz when the Muggletonian archives were largely destroyed. The Baxter process a complex and costly printing process produced a spectacular image and the plates are strikingly beautiful. Each Muggletonian astronomical print measures about 7 3/4 x 10 5/8 inches with very decent margins. Condition is very good with the slightest of marginal browning not affecting image. Baxter Muggletonian prints are scarce and were unknown to C. T. Courtney Lewis in the first edition of his work on George Baxter.</p><p>The plates we have for sale were printed for a work titled "Two Systems of Astronomy" and were most likely circulated only to members of the sect and not sold as a commercial publication due to the expensive Baxter colour process. These plates were produced to illustrate an </p><p>alternative to the Newtonian beliefs of gravity and terrestrial and celestial motion and are </p><p>important in the history of the relationship between religion and science. Our plates were never bound into a book but were separately published as single leaves.</p> George Baxter, engraved by Clubb books
184620596<p><b>Original Muggletonian Celestial Astronomical Baxter print</b></p><p><b><i>The Newtonian System</i></b></p><p>Drawn by Isaac Frost Engraved by Clubb London. Printed in oil by George Baxter.</p><p> Plate 6. </p><p>This plate shows a circular Earth orbit about the Sun and a distant fixed star. The engraved text reads "This diagram will show that if the Earth revolves round the Sun as the Solar System states then it will necessarily follow that the Earth will differ in its position with the Sun and any given ï¬xed star on its equator every day throughout the whole year. Now consider is it so If it is not so then it will make much in favour of the Ho1y Scriptures that the Sun revolves round the Earth. Isaac Frost"</p><p>The Baxter oil print shown here was made in 1846 for the private use of the Muggletonians an English religious group that denied a sun-centered solar system. The Muggletonians derived their own view of the universe and these plates are among the rarest of all Baxter prints having been made for private use and never widely circulated. Part of a larger set total eleven prints made for Isaac Frost's <i>Two Systems of Astronomy</i> this print was never bound into a book but remained as a loose printed sheet. It is surmised that the others in this series were lost in the London Blitz when the Muggletonian archives were largely destroyed. The Baxter process a complex and costly printing process produced a spectacular image and the plates are strikingly beautiful. Each Muggletonian astronomical print image measures about 7 3/4 x 10 5/8 inches with decent margins. Condition is very good with the slightest of marginal creasing not affecting image. Baxter Muggletonian prints are scarce and were unknown to C. T. Courtney Lewis in the first edition of his work on George Baxter.</p><p>The plates we have for sale were printed for a work titled "Two Systems of Astronomy" and were most likely circulated only to members of the sect and not sold as a commercial publication due to the expensive Baxter colour process. These plates were produced to illustrate an alternative to the Newtonian beliefs of gravity and terrestrial and celestial motion and are important in the history of the relationship between religion and science. Our plates were never bound into a book but were separately published as single leaves.</p> George Baxter, engraved by Clubbr books
S1900Dodd Mead and Company. Collectible - Acceptable. Signed! Dodd Mead and Company. 1931. 5.25x7" light green cloth hardcover with black lettering on spine and a yellow green white black and red illustration adhered to front cover. 98pp. Includes color frontis and B&W illustrations. Signed/Inscribed by author on front end page. With good dust jacket rubbed and some edges worn/torn. Cover rubbed slightly faded. Spine ends bumped. Inside somewhat clean. One section has wormhole at top corner does not harm text. Front end page top edge cut off and professionally repaired just above author's inscription. Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover books
1942291303Cincinnati: The Stratford Press 1942. Hard Cover. Fine binding. The attractive three volume set in slipcase taken from The Amenities of Literature by Disraeli. The books are: 1. The Invention of Printing; 2. The First English Printer; 3: The War Against Books; they describe the features mechanics and history of English printing. Bound in yellow pink and blue paper-covered boards backed in paper vellum with titling to the spines and upper boards in gilt; and issued in slipcase; the paper label of the slipcase is chipped; the books still have the original glassine wrapper. Fine binding. The Stratford Press unknown books
1968234513New Orleans: The Isaac Delgado Museum of Art 1968. paperback. very good. Illustrated in black and white. Unpaginated large 8vo pictorial wrappers smudge on back cover. New Orleans: The Isaac Delgado Museum of Art 1968. A very good copy.<br/><br/> The Isaac Delgado Museum of Art unknown books
1889002426Toledo OH: Isaac D. Smead & Co. Printed by Henry O. Shepard & Co. Chicago 1889. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Inscribed by Snead under his frontis portrait possibly holographic and FFEP. 4to. 154 pp. With fourteen pages of chromolithographs some full page plates and many other illustrations of schools heating systems and the like. The primary thrust of this promotional book is the application of the heating system to schools but even those not particularly fascinated by the topic will find the illustrations pleasing and as a sales-oriented book this one stands out as especially elaborate for its day. The work also addresses other piquant topics such as "The Dry Closet System of Disposing of Excrement" "The Physiology of Respiration" etc. Much of the text is presented as a dialogue making this work a precursor of sorts for the modern day infomercial. Referred to in RomaineGuide to American Trade Catalogs p. 263. A few shallow blisters of cloth and some other light inconspicuous soiling of boards. Generally clean and tight. <br/><br/> Isaac D. Smead & Co. Printed by Henry O. Shepard & Co., Chicago hardcover books
S1760Williams & Wilkins Co. Collectible - Acceptable. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Company. 1898. 8.5x11.25". Gray Hardcover with red lettering and black drawing. No dust jacket. 94 pp. Pale green pages. B&W frontis and Illustrations by Katharine Gassaway. Cover rubbed corners and spine ends worn/torn. Williams & Wilkins Co hardcover books
186024105Cincinnati 1860. 14 2 blank pp. Caption title disbound. Light wear Very Good. OCLC 144616376 1- Ohio Hist. Soc. unknown books
1974131516New York: Chelsea Theater Center 1974. Original script for the 1974 play. Based on the 1962 short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer and adapted by him and playwright Leah Napolin for the stage the play premiered October 25 1975 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre and ran for a total of 223 performances. Tovah Feldshuh was nominated for a Tony for her portrayal of the title role. <br/><br/>Faithful to the original story the play follows a young woman who begins living as a man named Anshel after her father dies in order to continue studying the Torah in defiance of Jewish tradition. An early exploration of transgender identity as Anshel describes himself as "neither one sex nor the other" and having "the soul of a man in the body of a woman." Yentl's choice to live as Anshel even after being discovered strongly contrasts with the text of the better known Barbra Streisand musical film purportedly despised by Singer where the transgender aspect of the narrative is replaced by a more heteronormative romance.<br/><br/>Blue studio wrappers. Title page present dated 1974 with credits for novelist Singer and playwright Napolin. 155 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Chelsea Theater Center unknown books
1973249469New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1973. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/near Very Good dust jacket. Signed. 342pp. Second printing; signed and inscribed by author on ffep; no pencil or ink markings in text; black cloth binding slightly cocked; dust jacket is price-clipped; small chips and closed tears at top and bottom dust jacket spine; dust jacket protected in a mylar cover; digital images can be made available upon request. Very Good binding / near Very Good dust jacket. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
197825308Garden City: Doubleday 1978. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket with some toning and light wear. Doubleday unknown books
197019226New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1970. Decorative Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Antonio Frasconi. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER on the half-title. A crisp very sharp copy to boot of the 1970 1st American edition translated from its original Yiddish by the author himself and by Elizabeth Shub. Clean and Fine in a bright price-clipped Near Fine dustjacket. Square quarto wonderfully illustrated throughout in rich color by the great Uruguayan-American woodcut artist Antonio Frasconi 1919-2013. <br/><br/> Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
197019333New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1970. Cloth. Very Good . Antonio Frasconi. SIGNED BY ANTONIO FRASCONI on the verso of the title page. A solid copy to boot of the 1970 stated 1st American edition translated from its original Yiddish by the author himself and by Elizabeth Shub. Clean and VG in its purple cloth with light rubbing to the gilt-titling along the spine. Square quarto wonderfully illustrated throughout in rich color by the great Uruguayan-American woodcut artist Antonio Frasconi 1919-2013. <br/><br/> Farrar , Straus and Giroux hardcover books
1966122856New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux FSG 1966. Later printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Toby Holtzman / With my good wishes / Isaac B. Singer." Holtzman was a noted bibliophile and scholar specializing in works by Jewish authors. Light shelfwear at the extremities else Near Fine and unread lacking the dust jacket. Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG] unknown books
1966005824Farrar Straus and Giroux 1966. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mint couple in like jacket.$5.50 on flap.StatedFirst Printing1966. Farrar Straus and Giroux Hardcover books
1980102029New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux FSG 1980. UNCORRECTED PROOF. Touch of shelfwear to rear panel else Fine in printed wrappers. Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG] unknown books
197319229New York: Crown Publishers 1973. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Ira Moskowitz. INSCRIBED BY ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER on the half-title. A crisp very well-preserved copy to boot of the 1973 1st edition. Solid and Near Fine in a bright price-clipped Near Fine dustjacket. Quarto "over 70 paintings and drawings in full color and bllack-and-white" by Ira Moskowitz. <br/><br/> Crown Publishers hardcover books
