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19363865Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press 1936. First edition 8vo 4 vi & 185pp. fine in orig. green paper-covered boards paper label on spine; printed presentation card from the author laid in. The texts of 13 speeches by the president of Johns Hopkins. <br/><br/> The Johns Hopkins Press hardcover books
166625hardcover. thick 8vo cloth; corners slightly bumped otherwise very good. Belleville: Mika Publishing 1975.<br/><br/> unknown books
1979299303New York: Viking 1979. hardcover. very good. Edited and with a Bibliography by Henry Hardy Introduction by Roger Hausheer. liii 394 pages 8vo cloth-backed boards. New York: Viking Press 1979. A very good copy lacking the dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Viking unknown books
20012279367Princeton 2001. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Good. 2nd printing. Light edge wear. 2001 Trade Paperback. In this outstanding collection of essays Isaiah Berlin one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century discusses the importance in the history of thought of dissenters whose ideas still challenge conventional wisdom--among them Machiavelli Vico Montesquieu Herzen and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation Berlin brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times. Princeton paperback books
022242Worcester MA; 1801: Isaiah Thomas. Octavo. No pagination. 42pp. pictorial head pieces for each month contains historical sketches of earthquakes information for farmers and agriculture recipes for making blackberry jelly how to remove ink from linen poetry Officers of the Federal Government a large listing of roads to the principal towns on the continent from Boston with the names of innkeepers and more. all bound in 3/4 red morocco over marbled paper covered boards slightly raised bands spine lettering gilt previous owner's bookplate and contemporary owner's name on title page. A very nice clean copy. Isaiah Thomas unknown books
18851678San Francisco: Taber Photo 1885. Boudoir cabinet card 20 cm x 12.5 albumen print on a gray mount 29 cm x 20 cm with the title at the foot of the image. Nice image of Cascade Falls The Cascades in Yosemite. I.W. Taber 1830-1912 who primarily photographed the West Coast and Northern California in particular. After assisting in a photographic studio in San Francisco from the mid-1860s until 1871 Taber opened his own business which quickly became one of the premier studios in the city. In addition to his own photographs Taber printed published and distributed the work of other photographers including Carleton Watkins. Taber acquired Watkins's negatives in 1881 as a result of Watkins's bankruptcy. He also sold photographic supplies and manufactured dry plates. Taber Photo unknown books
45097San Francisco: Taber 8 Montgomery Street n. d. Ca 1880s. Card with slightly rounded corners edge gilded. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A bright Nr Fine example. Card with gilt stamped Taber imprint under photograph; verso with elaborate Taber advertisement printed in lavender ink. Albumen photograph of a young lad in a casual pose. Photograph: 5-3/8" x 3-15/16". Card: 6-1/2" x 4-3/16" <br/><br/>A very nice Taber cabinet card photograph which with the verso's advertisement essentially doubles as a trade card. Taber, 8 Montgomery Street unknown books
45100San Francisco: Taber 8 Montgomery Street n. d. Ca 1880s. Card with slightly rounded corners edge gilded. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A bright Nr Fine example. Card with gilt stamped Taber imprint under photograph; verso with elaborate Taber advertisement printed in lavender ink. Albumen photograph portrait of a young lad from the shoulders up. Photograph: 5-3/8" x 3-15/16". Card: 6-1/2" x 4-3/16" <br/><br/>A very nice Taber cabinet card photograph which with the verso's advertisement essentially doubles as a trade card. Taber, 8 Montgomery Street unknown books
46968San Francisco: Taber Photo n. d. Ca late 1880s. Mount now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A bit of waviness to mount. Slight yellowing at left edge of Mission image. Very Good. Taber imprint in Mission photograph bottom band; verso with Adobe image uncaptioned and top of a cropped second photograph tops of palm trees showing. Mission Photograph: 5" x 8". Mount: 5-11/16" x 8-1/4" <br/><br/>The San Jaun Capistrano mission "was founded in 1776 by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order. Named for Giovanni de Capistrano a 15th-century theologian and 'warrior priest' who resided in the Abruzzo region of Italy San Juan Capistrano has the distinction of being home to the oldest building in California still in use a chapel built in 1782. Known alternately as 'Serra's Chapel' and 'Father Serra's Church' it is the only extant structure where it has been documented that Junipero Serra celebrated Mass. One of the best known missions in Alta California and one of the few missions to have actually been founded twice—others being Mission San Gabriel Arcángel and Mission La Purísima Concepción." Wiki A curious gathering of these 3 images obviously not a commercial mount with the 3rd image Palm Trees having been cropped with loss. The first time we've ever seen such a format. Taber, Photo unknown books
46452San Francisco: Taber Photo n. d. Ca late 1880s. Card mount with slightly rounded corners. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Sligh yellowing to image and a slight bow to the card. Faint vertical crinkle to the left side. Very Good. Taber imprint in photograph bottom band; verso with large Taber imprint including woodcut of his building 8 Montgomery Street. Photograph: 4-7/8" x 8". Card: 5-5/16" x 8-3/8" <br/><br/>This an image of the original Palace Hotel which "was built by San Francisco banker and entrepreneur William Chapman Ralston who heavily depended on his shaky banking empire to help finance the $5 million project. Although Ralston's Bank of California collapsed in late August 1875 and Ralston himself drowned in San Francisco Bay on the same day that he lost control of the institution it did not interfere with the opening of the Palace Hotel two months later on October 2 1875. Ralston's business partner in the project was U.S. Senator William Sharon who had helped cause the collapse of the bank when he dumped his stock in the Comstock Lode. Sharon ended up in control of the hotel as well as both the bank and Ralston's debts both of which he paid off at just pennies on the dollar. With 755 guest rooms the original Palace Hotel also known colloquially as the "Bonanza Inn" was at the time of its construction the largest hotel in the Western United States. At 120 feet in height the hotel was San Francisco's tallest building for over a decade. The skylighted open center of the building featured a Grand Court overlooked by seven stories of white columned balconies which served as an elegant carriage entrance. Shortly after 1900 this area was converted into a lounge called the "Palm Court". The bartender William "Cocktail" Boothby was a fixture at the hotel for some years. The hotel featured large redwood-paneled hydraulic elevators which were known as "rising rooms". Each guest room or suite was equipped with a private bathroom as well as an electric call button to summon a member of the hotel's staff. All guest rooms could be joined together to create suites or to make up large apartments for long-term residents and the parlor of each guest room featured a large bay window overlooking the street below." Wiki This grand dame of San Francisco would not survive the 1906 quake succumbing to the fires that ravaged so much of the city. Taber, Photo unknown books
181443079Boston: Printed by John Eliot 1814. First edition. Original blue-gray paper-covered boards with paper label on spine. Spine and label well worn ends and joints chipped institutional stamp on title gift inscription on free front endpaper leaves untrimmed about good. 292 pp. 8vo. Signed with gift inscription to the American Antiquarian Society by Isaiah Thomas. "This valuable collection of important documents relating to the history of America" Sabin. Includes Schermerhorn: "Report to the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and others in North America. Report respecting the Indians inhabiting the Western Parts of the United States. Communicated by Mr. John F. Schermerhorn to the Secretary of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others in North America." Sabin 45852. Sabin 77610. Printed by John Eliot hardcover books
1814797Worcester Mass.: Printed by William Manning 1814. 8vo. 210 x 125 mm. 8 ¼ x 5 inches. 12 8 pp. Removed from pamphlet volume. Remnants of leather spine final leaf partially loose to text block; title-page discolored some foxing and light staining throughout. Established October 24 1812 by Isaiah Thomas this is the second annual report which includes  revised by-laws that governed the Society. The first twelve pages written by Thomas outline in five sections the mission and goals of AAS. He begins by discussion what should be collected. He views the product of the printing press to include books pamphlets newspapers broadsides and discuss how different an American library will be when compared to the great institutions of England and Europe. He suggests that membership should be from all the principal towns and cities in the United States. These representatives should collect local history with the goals of presenting collections from all over the country to the Society. Be more organized as an institution and have regular meetings so new collections and ideas can be reported to all the members. Finally to include into membership "gentlemen who reside in various parts of Europe the Eastindies and China." He concludes with reiteration of the goals of the society: "Our principal objects are to COLLECT and PRESERVE - that which commands our attention . . ." The final eight pages record changes to the governing body and the by-laws. Printed by William Manning unknown books
19364873New York: William Bradford Press 1936. decorated boards paper cover label. Thomas Isaiah. 12mo. decorated boards paper cover label. 7 pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies and signed by the designer Eugene M. Ettenberg. Most of spine covering chipped away. William Bradford Press unknown books
1987222098Oxford 1987. unbound. 3 pages front and back on "Headington House" stationery 8.25 x 5.75 inches Oxford April 28 1987. Written to noted Civil Rights attorney Howard N. Meyer responding to an article that Meyer had written about Wilson and "Patriotic Gore" in small part: ".There was an element of permanent as it were un-critical radicalism in Wilson - hatred of establishments suspicion of the motives of all public men natural reaction to slogans and clarion calls and eloquence in political or national causes within the framework of the establishments of what he regarded as hopelessly bourgeois countries - he thought that all wars certainly since Napoleon were monstrous bloodshed of a horrible kind in the interests of groups disguised as ideals - all that he got from Marx and similar writers - this applied to both World Wars and obviously to the Civil War and rather more plausibly to Vietnam. He obviously did not mind sheer killing as such because that does not emerge in for example 'To the Finland Station' - it was only towards the end of his life partly under the influence of Solzhenitsyn and other irrefutable evidence that he turned against the Soviet Union and became nauseated by Stalin and everything to do with him - and his distaste even turned to the once-hallowed Lenin. I had a conversation with him in which he reminded me that I had said that he was too nice about Lenin - he agreed and the Introduction to the second or a later edition of 'To the Finland Station' altered this approach.I realize and from my knowledge of Edmund whose memory I still revere and of whom I am deeply fond. His loss of faith in Russia which began after his visit in the thirties but still persisted when I first met him was I suppose true of an entire generation of American leftists and British ones too; It was a marvelous mass delusion which I think perhaps has no parallel in history. Of course he must have been right in part about the crushing of the Southern states the exploitation and the bullying.but this should not have extended to respect for his violent and irrational political prejudices ferocious suspicion and desire to discredit honorable human motives just wars general idealism above all Lincoln's reputation. He simply wanted to attack icons and fetishes as such - and in the course of this said a great many untrue unjust and silly things." This letter contains much more fine content and is effectively an unpublished essay and critique of one of the most distinguished writers of the 20th century. Horizontal folds tiny stains and a paperclip impression in the top margins. Still very good condition.<br/><br/> Russian-British philosopher and historian of ideas regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century and as the dominant liberal scholar of his generation.<br/><br/> unknown books
1417D7017Harwich MA 14 April 1763. Paperback. Near Fine. Original wraps; 12mo; completely full with 34 manuscript pages numerous emendataions with one revised page pinned into the volume. Later sticker at top corner of front cover not infringing upon text. <br/><br/>The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War on 10 February 1763. By April news was just reaching the English colonies. This sermon was delivered from Daniel 2:20-21 and reads in part "we no longer hear ye alarm of war but hope for ye establishment of peace on very advantageous terms to us who dwell in this land. Let us consider yt it is God who hath given us this quietness." It is not signed but Dunster's name is penciled on the wrapper and the handwriting matches Dunster manuscripts held at Harvard University. A notation on the front cover shows that he delivered this sermon again in 1773 and 1786. Isaiah Dunster 1720-1791 was a Congregational minister at Harwich on Cape Cod from 1748 until his death in 1791. His headstone in Brewster Cemetery says of him that he was "The most beloved Pastor of the First Church in Harwich. He graduated at the University in Cambridge. In native Town was ordained Nov'r 18 1748. After a judicious pertinent and faithful discharge of related ministerial duties satisfied with Life and confident of Immortality He died Jan 18 1791 in the 71 year of his age and 43 of his Ministry." This remarkable manuscript is an extremely scarce pre-Revolutionary survival. paperback books
194466096New York: American Geographical Society. Very Good. 1944. Hardcover. "Reprinted in 1944 with minor corrections." 228 pages gray cloth with black and gilt stamping. This is a clean nice copy. Very Good in a slightly toned but nice and whole dust jacket. . American Geographical Society hardcover books
1960265014Brooklyn: 'Zagar Press' 1960. One of 4 copies signed and dated "I. Zagar 1960" on last leaf. Artist book in folding concertina format: double-page manuscript coloured title; 5 double-page manuscript coloured text openings each with a colored etching accompanying text. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Original decorated cloth over boards endpapers with decorated crayon images of fish trees etc. Fine. One of 4 copies signed and dated "I. Zagar 1960" on last leaf. Artist book in folding concertina format: double-page manuscript coloured title; 5 double-page manuscript coloured text openings each with a colored etching accompanying text. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Early Work by Zagar. Exceedingly rare early work by Isaiah Zagar b. 1939 visionary vernacular artist who is most widely known for his mosaic installation the Magic Gardens site on South Street in Philadelphia.<br/><br/>One of four copies of illustrations to the familiar nursery rhyme a work produced while the artist studied under Fritz Eichenberg at Pratt. Visual elements expressed during his later career can be discerned here at the outset.<br/><br/>From the artist's mission statement : "It is true to a certain extent; I have been copying Clarence Schmidt my whole career trying to make a total encyclopedic vision that has no parameters and no end. My work is marked by events and is a mirror of the mind that is building and falling apart having a logic but close to chaos refusing to stay still for the camera and giving one a sense of heaven and hell simultaneously."<br/><br/>RARE. Not in OCLC 'Zagar Press' unknown books
181036656Worcester: Isaiah Thomas 1810. library brown buckrum. small 8vo. library brown buckrum. 487; 576 pages. Two volumes. First edition. Bigmore & Wyman III 9; S-K 3602 for binding references. All five plates are present. An invaluable book to the student of American printing and certainly the cornerstone in any collection of books on U.S. printing and publishing history. Also has information on newspapers and publishing. Thomas was the right person to write this title as he was one of the most important American publishers - booksellers of this early American period. His comments on his friends in the field and the beginnings of printing in different locations in the country based on personal knowledge make this a primary source. <BR><br /> <BR><br /> Bound in a later library buckrum binding with gilt on spine. The plate facing page 70 is present but has separated from the binding and torn into three pieces along the creases. Some tears with one effecting the page numbers 495-500 of volume II. Some marks obscuring the text on pages 152-153. A torn sheet on page 221-222 page 491-492 and 493-494. Ex-library stamp from the De Mill Library. Else a lovely copy. Isaiah Thomas unknown books
1875WN5594Philadelphia: Privately Printed 1875. Original dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Spine ends worn with some loss of cloth corners bumped and joints and edges worn. Spine is a little loose. Some foxing throughout. A weighty regimental history including nearly 200 pgs. of biographical and roster information at rear. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. Privately Printed Hardcover books
1875273943Philadelphia: Published by the Author for the Subscribers 1875. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Signed. Signed by General Guss. Civil War historian James I. "Bud" Robertson in the Nevins bibiliography considers this "a useful reservoir of personal narratives for the campaigns along the Atlantic coast" Nevins I 149. The Regiment was commanded by Gen. Henry R. Guss and this copy is Signed by Gen. Guss "with his compliments". In publisher's brown gilt decorated cloth with portrait frontispiece of Henry R. Guss illustrated with portraits plates and maps. Quite an attractive bright copy from the personal library of Bud Robertson with his bookplate on the front endpaper. Nevins I 149. Very Good binding. Published by the Author for the Subscribers unknown books
1948WRCLIT45424Rochester NY: The Printing House of Leo Hart 1948. Gilt red cloth. Portrait and illustrations. First edition. Facsimiles and illustrations. A few small marks at extreme edges of boards bookplate obscured by jacket flap and some offset on endsheets else near very good in moderately used dust jacket with a few tape mends on the verso. The Printing House of Leo Hart hardcover books
1806162750Worcester Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas 1806. pp. 1-48 not paginated several woodcut illustrations self wrappers untrimmed sewn. First edition. Shaw and Shoemaker 10621. Mild foxing and dust soiling to first leaf small damp stain on last leaf a very good copy. #162750 Isaiah Thomas unknown books
179832532Worcester Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas 1798. 12mo stitched. 48 pp. Untrimmed scattered spotting. Good. <br/><br/> This Almanac lists vacation schedules at Dartmouth Harvard Rhode Island and Williams Colleges; currency and interest tables stagecoaches from Boston to various points tables of distances with inns and innkeepers; an abstract of the Act laying a tax on slaves and houses; an advertisement for Thomas's Worcester bookstore; cures for cancer and other health nostrums. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Evans 34652. Drake 3599. Isaiah Thomas unknown books
180021479Worcester Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas 1800. 12mo side-stitched 48 pp. Uniformly tanned moderately worn. Last leaf with a few marginal tears into text but not costing any lettering. Title page woodcut text cuts. Near Good. This Almanac contains a three-page biographical sketch of the just-deceased George Washington some poetry interest tables a French Calendar postal rates a list of stagecoaches from Boston to various points stamp duties tables of distances. FIRST EDITION. Evans 38628. Drake 3625. Isaiah Thomas unknown books
179917835Worcester Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas 1799. 12mo side-stitched 48 pp. Uniformly tanned lightly worn with a bit of light text fading. title page woodcut text cuts. Good. <br/><br/> This Almanac contains some poetry interest tables a French Calendar tariffs for carriages cures for the putrid fever postal rates a list of stagecoaches from Boston to various points stamp duties how to turn salt water into fresh water a list of Masonic Lodges tables of distances with inns and innkeepers. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Evans 36413. Drake 3615. Isaiah Thomas unknown books
