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183631978London: Fentum 1836. Folio. Newly bound in quarter dark green leather with marbled boards dark red leather title label to spine gilt. 1f. recto half-title verso with "J. Teuten Printer 188 Drury-Lane" 1f. recto title verso blank vii contents i errata i-xi preface i blank 1- 353 i blank pp. With numerous musical examples throughout and occasional illustrations and diagrams. <br/><br/>Quite a good crisp wide-margined copy although somewhat browned foxed and stained throughout; pp. 237-238 with minor paper loss to blank outer margin. Considered "the father of Australian music" Nathan was an English-born Australian composer and writer of Polish Jewish descent. He is perhaps best known for his highly popular Hebrew Melodies "the first attempt to set out the traditional music of the synagogue" set to text by Lord Byron. Wikipedia.<br/><br/>Of great importance to the history of music in Australia "Nathan set up his own musical type and publishing business gave the first concerts of madrigals and contributed to many early performances of opera in Sydney arranging orchestrating and copying parts as well as directing performances from the keyboard. As a teacher and conductor he assisted early colonial musicians in their concert careers and lectured on music at Sydney College 1844-6. He was responsible for the first operas written in Australia." Elizabeth Wood in Grove Music Online.<br/><br/>Nathan apprenticed to Domenico Corri in London in 1809 who had learned the classical tradition of Italian vocal culture from his teacher Nichola Porpora; his Musurgia Vocalis is one of the few early documentations of this method. Fentum unknown books
18908217Brooklyn: Historical Printing Club 1890. paper wrappers. Ford Paul Leicester. 12mo. paper wrappers. 22 pages. Limited to 250 copies. BAL 6188. Winnowings in American History Revolutionary Narratives No.III. With two pages of notes by Ford. Wrappers worn along edges with pieces chipped away. Historical Printing Club unknown books
189641790New York: Macmillan and Co 1896. Small 8vo pp. v 3 392; text printed in double columns; original blue cloth gilt-lettered spine black glazed endpapers; spine ends chipped light edge wear; contemporary owner's bookplate on front pastedown signature on ffep; interior mostly fine. <br/><br/> Macmillan and Co hardcover books
1803945London: John Murray 1803. First edition. First edition. Quarto. Original light green boards with printed title on cover. Title-page with large woodcut illustration of angel statue in garden. Uncut. Boards soiled corners rubbed spine lacking. A nice copy quite tight with both hinges intact. Scarce. <br/><br/> John Murray hardcover books
1842751London: Henry G. Bohn 1842. Full leather. Very good. 16mo 6.4 in 16.3 cm. 2 blanks i-viii 1-280 2 blanks pp. Eighth edition. Notes at end. <br/><br/>Best known work of Isaac Taylor 1787-1865. Originally published anonymously in 1829 Natural History of Enthusiasm detailed the dangers of false piety with chapter titles such as Enthusiastic Perversions of the Doctrine of Divine Influence Enthusiasm the Source of Heresy and Enthusiasm of Philanthropy. <br/><br/>NCBEL 1604. Finely bound in sheep with elaborately gilt-decorated compartments raised bands and gilt-lettered black leather label to spine; gilt borders and turn-ins to panels. All edges and endpapers marbled. Armorial bookplates of Henry Tongood and Lucien d' Ursin gracefully inscribed; front fly-leaf with small graceful name and penciled summary in Italian. Front joint with small chip and starting panels lightly scuffed corners rubbed preliminary and terminal blanks faintly foxed pages lightly age toned. Henry G. Bohn unknown books
1857RHOLNEW00ECHarper & Brothers Publishers 1857. Good. Holton Isaac F. New Granada : Twenty Months in the Andes. . New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1857. 605pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Reddish brown cloth. Book condition: Good with rubbed edges and short closed tear in head of backstrip. Front hinge delicate and front endsheet is seperated from binding near foot of spine. Front free endsheet to page 17 shows small light moisture stain near fore edge. Previous owner's stamp on front flyleaf. Lacking map from p. 587. Condition noted. Harper & Brothers, Publishers hardcover books
18577467New York: Harper & Bros. 1857. First edition. 8vo 605 pp. with 2 colored maps one folding and one double-page. Numerous wood-cuts throughout some of which are full-page. Harvey Gardiner says of Holton's book in his introduction to the reprint: "New Granada is the fullest and best-written assessment of that country at mid-century by a foreign observer. In 1852 the bespectacled bachelor botanist carrying two bales of paper for drying plants but no passport for himself first glimpsed a tropical landscape.For twenty unhurried months on itineraries of his own choosing he traveled widely visiting many areas more than once. When he bade farewell to New Granada in mid-May 1854 his luggage contained approximately 1800 botanical specimens a diary crowded with details and vast quantities of data concerning political subdivisions mail routes altitude climate weights and measures etc." He style is full of wry Yankee humor as well which make it a good read. The appendices are detailed and in themselves constitute a gazetteer of Colombia. Much was left out of the reprint inc. the maps appendices illustrations etc. Binding is contemporary 3/4 calf over marble boards; very clean text and maps. Very good copy. <br/><br/> Harper & Bros. hardcover books
1857011955New York: Harper & Brothers 1857. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 605 pages of text. Original brown hardcover cloth binding with minor to moderate rubbing to the extremities and minor shelfwear and soiling; protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Contains two double-page hand-colored maps and 33 black & white illustrations. Minor browning to text. Previous owner's name on front endpaper "J. A. J. Kendig" as well as "I. M. Gates" and "An exchange compliments from Sue Halton Warner.". Harper & Brothers Hardcover books
18481803065Daniel Adee 1848. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Near fine TRUE first American edition 1st issue as stated on the title page. Some water stains on page edges. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Rubbing on outside spine and corners and at bottom of spine. Tape at endpapers and pastedowns along gutters. Housed in custom-made slip case. Daniel Adee hardcover books
184865054New York: Published by Daniel Adee 176 Fulton Street Turney & Lockwood's Stereo 1848. First American edition later printing. The first edition was published in 1687. Frontispiece portrait taken from the bust in the Royal Observatory of Greenwich diagrams in text. 8vo. Original green cloth. Head of spine carefully restored some rubbing some light browning mostly at front and back a very good copy of this important work. In a leather-tipped green cloth open-end box. Bookplate of O. Stuck on endpapers. First American edition later printing. The first edition was published in 1687. Frontispiece portrait taken from the bust in the Royal Observatory of Greenwich diagrams in text. 8vo. The first English edition of Newton's "Principia" was translated by Andrew Motte a mathematician who with his brother Benjamin the publisher had edited the abridged "Philosophical transactions." This first English edition was published in 1729 from the third and definitive Latin edition of 1726. Newton's "A Treatise of the System of the World" was first published in English in 1728. The American edition bears a dedication and an introduction directed to teachers "If to educate means not so much to store the memory with symbols and facts as to bring forth the faculties of the soul and to develope them to the full by healthy nurture and a hardy discipline then what so effective to the accomplishment of that end as the study of Geometrical Synthesis . Let the Principia then be gladly welcomed into every Hall where a True Teacher presides." Copyright 1846 but first published 1848; the present copy is printed from stereotype plates wear to terminal page number. "The greatest work in the history of science . the "Principia" provided the great systhesis of the cosmos proving finally its physical unity . for the first time a single mathematical law could explain the motion of objects on earth as well as the phenomena of the heavens" PMM. Babson 23; Gray 26; Karpinski p. 491; Horblit 78; PMM 161 Published by Daniel Adee, 176 Fulton Street [Turney & Lockwood's Stereo 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 books
180889674Paris: L'Imprimerie de J. B. Sajou 1808. Paperback. Good. 44p. Old plain wrapper. 22cm. Wrapper split and worn along fold. Some foxing and browning French text. Printed on verso of title-leaf: Extrait duMagasin Encyclopedique Journal pour lequel on s'abonne chez Tourneisen fils libraire rue de Seine n.o 12 <br/><br/> L'Imprimerie de J. B. Sajou paperback books
183121773London: James Nisbet &T. Stevenson Cambridge 1831. 8vo 23.5 cm; 9". 1 f. xii 250 pp. <br><br>Third edition. In addition to being a physicist mathematician and natural philosopher Sir Isaac Newton was something of a Biblical scholar as well as shown by the present exegesis on apocalyptic texts. His analysis generally reads as being practical in nature as the New Catholic Encyclopedia X 428 says "Newton's writings on apocalyptical prophecies were not mystical or millenarian in any sense but more exercises in deciphering cryptograms." They comport with our sense of him as someone who believed in the scientific method!<br>Â Â Â Â "A new edition with the citations translated and notes by P. Borthwick . . . of Downing College Cambridge. Publisher's quarter green cloth with paper-covered boards. Rebacked in sympathetic cloth and new paper label antique style applied. Boards show age-stains and wear but are solid. Old library pressure-stamp on title-page. In an open back slipcase of green library cloth; spine of box with author title and call number in gilt. => A nice copy sound for reading. James Nisbet, &T. Stevenson, Cambridge hardcover books
1820321194Np 1820. Manuscript throughout in black red and yellow ink. 54pp. with hand colored geometric illustrations. Signed by Isaac Doughten at the head of the first page and within. Stitched. Manuscript throughout in black red and yellow ink. 54pp. with hand colored geometric illustrations. Signed by Isaac Doughten at the head of the first page and within. unknown books
1857716411857. Boston: Federhen & Company 1857. Boston: Federhen & Company 1857. An Accused Adulterer Defended by Richard Henry Dana Trial. Kalloch Isaac Smith 1831-1887 Defendant. Only Full Report of the Trial of Rev. I.S. Kalloch on Charge of Adultery: Complete History of the Affair Doings of the Church Kalloch's Pulpit Defence Arrest Arraignment Trial And Result. With Accurate Portraits of Kalloch and the Beautiful Lady in Black And the Lecture Room of the Lechmere. Boston: Federhen & Company 1857. 64 pp. Woodcut pictorial title page. Two woodcut text illustrations. Octavo 9" x 5-1/2". Stab-stitched pamphlet in pictorial self-wrappers bound into recent quarter calf over marbled boards. Moderate toning and dampstaining to text repairs to edges of first and final leaves. $750. Only edition. "Isaac Smith Kalloch accused of adultery in this prosecution was a Baptist clergyman and was supported by the trustees of his church throughout this affair. . The jury could not reach a verdict in the case which was tried in the Massachusetts Court of Common Pleas Criminal Session in Cambridge Massachusetts" Cohen. Kalloch was defended by the eminent lawyer and politician Richard Henry Dana Jr. 1815-1882. The trial resulted in a hung jury. Kalloch later moved to San Francisco and became that city's mayor in 1879. The Full Report includes the judge's charge but not the jury's final verdict. Kalloch was acquitted. He moved to San Francisco where he continued to generate controversy by skirting the bounds of decency. When he decided to run for mayor of San Francisco in 1879 he came under attack from the San Francisco Chronicle's editor-in-chief Charles de Young who was backing another candidate. DeYoung hoping to end Kalloch's campaign accused the minister of having an affair. Kalloch responded by claiming that De Young's mother ran a brothel. In response DeYoung ambushed Kalloch on a street and shot him twice. Kalloch survived the wounds. Due in part to the sympathy of voters he was elected the 18th Mayor of San Francisco. OCLC locates 7 copies in North American law libraries Brigham Young University Harvard LA County Social Law Library of Congress University of Cincinnati University of Minnesota. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 13700. unknown books
188928097Middletown CT: Self-published 1889. First Edition. Very Good. First Edition. One sheet of 10 x 15 inch bristol board. Black ink on white paper. Some damage to the extremities mostly upper left margins. Inked notes in black and red. Drawing witnesses were D. H. Haywood and C. E. Sundgren. Brown & Griswold were his attorneys. On the verso are penciled notes about the inventor and a note "Amendment Drawing". The assigned patent application serial number was 290167 and it was received by the US Patent Office USPTO on November 6 1888. The patent was issued on May 21 1889 and given design patent number 19110 with a term of 14 years. We have included a printout of the patent text for reference.<br/><br/>NOTE: This is one of a collection of original patent art recently received. If you are interested in knowing about additional items please let us know. Hand-drawn patent drawings while critical to the patent process don't often appear for sale. With only the inventor attorney and USPTO the likely recipients few were made and after expiring many were discarded.<br/><br/>This example is a patent for a hammock with a fine weave and nice tassels down the ends. I. E. Palmer was a Middleton CT manufacturer/dealer in hammocks - at least one firm catalog exists from 1907. <br/><br/>DESIGN PATENTS: what they are how long they last and records management<br/><br/>Design patents "protect the way an article looks." Historically important they verify new design innovations document changing cultural tastes and establish valuable competitive business advantages. New patents preserve for the stated term the inventor's sole ownership and use of the design.<br/><br/>The US Patent Office USPTO calls "the drawing disclosure . the most important element of the application.As the drawing or photograph constitutes the entire visual disclosure of the claim it is of utmost importance that the drawing or photograph be clear and complete that nothing regarding the design sought to be patented is left to conjecture" <br/><br/>To obtain a Design patent inventors submit an original black pen and ink drawing and a description of the innovation to the USPTO typically with the assistance of a patent lawyer familiar with the process. The USPTO assigns the new application a "serial number" and "application date." USPTO patent examiners then vet the application to ensure it is unique and not already protected often with additional communication between the USPTO the inventor and their legal representation. This process can take months if not years. Only if determined to be a new invention will the USPTO issue the inventor a Design Patent number and patent date.<br/><br/>During the active term of the design patent the USPTO retains the inventor's application and drawings for use in patent dispute cases and other inquiries. After the term of the patent the USPTO may discard or return the materials if no longer relevant to their core mission. Today most issued patents are digitized for preservation. Older paper records and patent models have been periodically discarded most often with little fanfare and to address space or fiscal management issues. Self-published unknown books
1858WRCAM32076Washington D.C.: Congressional Globe Office 1858. 7pp. Self-wrappers. Minor edge wear light fold lines minute foxing. Very good. An address by Washington territorial governor Isaac I. Stevens delivered in Congress on May 25 1858 on the subject of proposed Pacific railroad routes. Stevens not only supported the extension of the rail line but proposed there be at least three west coast termini. At the time Stevens was working fervently to promote Washington's territorial interests publishing his well-known CIRCULAR LETTER TO EMIGRANTS DESIROUS OF LOCATING IN WASHINGTON TERRITORY. the same year. Scarce. OCLC locates only seven copies. SABIN 91525. OCLC 44638780. Congressional Globe Office unknown books
1804CAT0006861804. First Edition. Broadsheet. Good Condition. Patent broadsheet form filled out and dated 1804 torn at edges with loss to bottom margin chipping on one long edge short tear and a touch on the other a few pinholes touching letters but not obscuring sense. A sort of receipt for the transfer of manufacturing rights from Jack Johns of Hartford to Francis Bayless of Dighton for 20 dollars. Signed by Bayless Johns with spaces for the names and dollar amount.<br/><br/>The first US patent granted for a churning machine was this one issued to Isaac Baker in 1802. From 1802 to 1870 1047 patents were granted for churning. "Probably in no other department of invention has so much ingenuity been expended to so little purpose." Annual Report of the American Institute of the City of New York 1870<br/><br/>2 copies in OCLC one at AAS accompanied by 3 illustrations not present here one at the Historic Deerfield Library. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Engineering Industrial & Trades. Inventory No: CAT000686. unknown books
18531324576New York: William Gowans 1853. Hardcover. Octavo; G; Hardcover; Dark brown spine with copper text; Boards are severely shelf-worn with bumping to the corners and edges and molds and smudges to the front and rear exteriors; Book is ex- library with class mark to the spine and book plate to the front paste down; Paste downs have rubbing end papers and limited number of pages have brown stains edges are strongly tanned and top and fore edges are slightly frayed pages are moderately discolored otherwise text block are clean; 267p. 1324576. FP New Rockville Stock. William Gowans hardcover books
183619248New-York: D. Appleton & Co. 1836. Stated second edition the second printing of the American edition. Spine faded to tan; one corner bumped; some foxing throughout; a good sound copy. 8vo original embossed rose cloth gilt lettering i-vi 9-278 pages. A philosophical consideration of the state of life after death. The first was published in London by Pickering in the same year; the first American edition was also published by Appleton with this printing done at William W. Allen on Fulton St. The first Appleton printing seems to have been done by G. F. Hopkins & Son. Contemporary ink ownership signatures to the front endpapers and at the head of the title page. D. Appleton & Co., unknown books
183614500London: William Pickering 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original blue cloth spine label slightly chipped. Pickering catalogue bound in at front. Contemporary ownership signature of William Dawson. Small 19th century booksellers' label of Henry Greer Belfast. <br/><br/> William Pickering hardcover books
184553859Boston: S. P. Andrews 1845. Stereotype broadside 7.5" x 10"; printed on blue paper chart of shorthand forms transcription of Psalm 100 and a brief overview of the Pitman system meant to introduce readers to it and to advertise shorthand publications. Light creases from previous folds near fine. An early advertisement for what was to become one of the most popular English shorthands in history. <br/><br/> S. P. Andrews unknown books
190017236Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1900. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19cm; gray pictorial cloth with titles stamped in black on spine and decorative panel in black and orange on front panel; 244pp. Hint of a lean with some soiling and staining to spine right edge of rear panel and upper edge of textblock; light general edgewear and lacking the rear endpaper; Very Good. The second of Friedman's three works of long fiction a sentimental tale of local-color about a Chicago tenement's inhabitants. Discussed by Rideout though not cited among his list of radical novels and quite uncommon. RIDEOUT p.14. Houghton, Mifflin and Company unknown books
187357610New York: Francis Hart 1873. Paperback. Very Good. iv 58p. Disbound removed from a bound volume. 22cm. Author's name is given as J. W. Maclay on wrapper. <br/><br/> Francis Hart paperback books
184744617Philadelphia: for the AMA by T. K. and P. G. Collins 1847. <p>Hays Isaac 1796-1879. American Medical Association. Proceedings of the national medical conventions held in New York May 1846 and in Philadelphia May 1847. 5-175pp. all present. Philadelphia: Printed for the American Medical Association T. K. & P. G. Collins printers 1847. 240 x 154 mm. Quarter morocco marbled boards in antique style. Light browning edges a bit frayed but very good. Embossed library stamp on title.</p> <p> First Edition of the founding document of the American Medical Association the world's first national professional medical association. The Proceedings contains the first printing of the AMA's famous "Code of Medical Ethics" the first national codification of ethics for any profession. The Code's two co-authors John Bell and Isaac Hays drew from the precepts set forth by Thomas Percival in his Medical Ethics 1803 but used them to create "a radically innovative document that transformed and transcended Percival's ideas providing the foundation for what is best described as ‘the American medical ethics revolution'" Baker 1999 p. 19. The Code which was largely the work of Hays appears on pages 91-106 of the Proceedings. It is prefaced by Bell's "Introduction" explaining the Code's methodology pages 83-90 which was omitted from the AMA's numerous later reprints of the Code. Baker "The American medical ethics revolution" in The American Medical Ethics Revolution 1999 pp. 17-69. Baker "Introduction" in The Codification of Medical Morality 2007 pp. 1-21. Garrison-Morton.com 10063. 44617</p> . for the AMA by T. K. and P. G. Collins unknown books
