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181822746Boston: Cummings and Hillard 1818. Sixth edition. 12mo pp. xx 316 with several pages of textural illustrations and two full page engraved plates showing map projections.Bound in original leather backed board internal staining lacks a front flyleaf a good copy. Imprints 43784. Originally published in 1813 this contains a 20 page introduction exlaining geography to teachers. The body includes descriptions of the countries and continents of the world questions to be asked and a gazateer in the end. Cummings and Hillard unknown books
1858303557Paris Aldolphe Delahys 1858. 1858. First edition thus. 8vo. Small 8vo. French text. P.L. Jacob editor. 15 page introduction by Jacob. Foreword by Augustin Asselin. Contemporary 1/2 gilt stamped maroon morocco over marbled boards t.e.g. minor rubbing; marbled endpapers. Very good. 288 pages. Hardcover. Very Good. Paris, Aldolphe Delahys, 1858. hardcover books
6646Leipzig Bernh. Friedr. Voigt 1912. 1st edition. Cloth lettered in gilt on the cover and spine marbled edges viii 392 pp. 100 textual illustrations of machines for the cultivation and manufacture of tobacco and tobacco products. A general treatise on tobacco and its manufacture and taxation. Front free endpaper clipped cloth shows minor shelf wear otherwise very good. Arents IV 2658. <br/><br/> Leipzig, Bernh. Friedr. Voigt, 1912. hardcover books
185626965London: John Churchill 1856. First Edition. Boards. Very Good. First Edition. viii 583 pages. 8vo. 3/4 leather over marbled boards. Wear overall to the binding fundamentally sound. Some issues have stamp of old hospital library. Boards. Contains 12 issues of the Journal and Transactions. Issues include Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Society plus extracts and original articles of interest to the membership. Ethics issues criminal poisoning history of fats notes on materia medica at the Paris exposition experiments with deriving ether electrical apparatus etc etc appear as topics in a quick flip through the pages. A fascinating read with many pointers to other period sources. John Churchill unknown books
194668BOSTON BROWN 1858. BOSTON, BROWN, 1858 unknown books
194669BOSTON BROWN 1858. BOSTON, BROWN, 1858 unknown books
1857280840New York: Harper and Brothers 1857. Half Leather. Very Good binding. In quarter morocco marbled boards with raised bands and titling to the spine; the Volume number "2" is stamped on the spine. Consisting of four books bound together as one each book containing 160 pages. Separately paginated with separate title pages. 1 Aunt Margaret; or How John True Kept His Resolutions; 2 Vernon; or Conversations About Old Times in England; 3 Carl and Jocko; or The Adventures of the Little Italian Boy and his Monkey; and 4 Lapstone; or The Sailor Turned Shoemaker. Very Good binding. Harper and Brothers unknown books
1749286557Amstelodami: Apud Petrum Justice 1749. Nova Editio. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Jacob Vaniere's Praedium Rusticum. A Jesuit priest Vaniere was best known for this poetic work sixteen books written in the style of Virgil's Georgics. Complete with portrait frontispiece engraved half title and 16 additional plates. Collates complete; 6 x 320 6 pp. Minor loss to the extremities of the spine and the bottom of the front joint. Full calf with gilt decoration and a leather label on the spine. All edges speckled red. Very Good. Very Good binding. Apud Petrum Justice unknown books
12760JACKSON KAINEN Jacob. JOHN BAPTIST JACKSON 18TH-CENTURY MASTER OF THE COLOR WOODCUT. Washington: GPO 1962. 4to. Cloth. xii 183 pages. First edition. With illustrations of Jackson's color woodcuts and chiaroscuros including te in color; bulletin 222 by the Smithonsian Institution. Fine. unknown books
1932226143New York: International Workers Order Inc 1932. Paperback. 74 16p. stiff paper wraps with cloth spine wraps slightly toned minor edge wear and bumping 6.75x10 inches minor writing on spine. Lyrics and music to radical songs a few such as Solidarity Hold the fort in English the rest in Yiddish introductory material in Yiddish using Hebrew characters lyrics transcribed using Roman characters. International Workers Order, Inc paperback books
193011377JNew York: Brentano’s 1930. First Edition. Signed by the author Jacob De Haas on the half-title. Former ownership signature. Two inch tear to a blank page a very good copy without dust jacket. A Judaic study of the Balfour Declaration and its influence on Palestine and the Jews. Brentano’s unknown books
196321014New Haven: Yale University Press 1963. cloth. small 4to. cloth. xxvi 495 pages. First edition later printing. Yale University Press unknown books
185957529Boston: David Clapp 184 Washington St 1859. 8vo pp. 24; original printed terracotta wrappers; bookseller's ticket of A. E. Foote M.D. Philadelphia at the top of the front wrapper; rubberstamp of Dr. F. C. Thayer Waterville Me. also on front wrapper; previous vertical folds mild dampstaining; all else very good. Bigelow 1818-1890 was professor of surgery at Harvard and for decades a prominent doctor in the Boston area. His "Insensibility during Surgical Operations Produced by Inhalation" 1846 detailing the discovery of ether anesthesia was selected by readers of the New England Journal of Medicine as the "most important article in NEJM history" in commemoration of the journal's 200th anniversary in 2012. <br/><br/> David Clapp, 184 Washington St unknown books
190055994Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1900. First edition 8vo; pp. 8 267 1; original navy-blue cloth; gilt lettering on front cover and spine; frontispiece of Col. George E. Waring Jr.; 11 half-tone plates; spine extremities and corners slightly scuffed; ex-Merriam Public Library with their bookplate and accession sticker on spine; small deaccession stamps on front and rear endsheets; otherwise very good. Most well-known for his 1890 exposé How the Other Half Lives "Riis was a Danish-American social reformer "muckracking" journalist and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in America at the turn of the twentieth century" Wikipedia. Riis and the photographers he employed were among the first Americans to utilize flash photography. <br/><br/> Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover books
1970146106London: Macdonald Science Fiction 1970. Octavo boards. First British and first hardcover edition. "The hero must escape from a terrifying prison planet and go in search of his own true nature. A confusing tale but vivid and grotesque." - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction second edition p. 66. The author's first book. 1967 Nebula and 1968 Hugo nominee. Anatomy of Wonder 1995 4-14. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I pp. 354-57. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with 14 mm closed tear at top edge of front panel near spine fold. #146106 Macdonald Science Fiction unknown books
1970225London: Macdonald Science Fiction 1970. Octavo boards. First British and first hardcover edition. "The hero must escape from a terrifying prison planet and go in search of his own true nature. A confusing tale but vivid and grotesque." - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction second edition p. 66. The author's first book. 1967 Nebula and 1968 Hugo nominee. Anatomy of Wonder 1995 4-14. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I pp. 354-57. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with 20 mm closed tear at top edge of front panel near spine fold. #225 Macdonald Science Fiction unknown books
1969235London: Faber and Faber 1969. Octavo cloth. First British and first hardcover edition. First book of a trilogy followed by ORN 1971 and OX 1976. Anatomy of Wonder 1987 4-24. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV pp. 1596-1602. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #235 Faber and Faber unknown books
1969139943London: Macdonald Science Fiction 1969. Octavo boards. First British and first hardcover edition. A rebellious misfit becomes a good citizen as the result of harsh behavioral conditioning. "A society sterile and corrupt itself sentences its outcasts to 'Ultra Conscience' and the ring. Ultra Conscience -- the society's moral code imprinted by computer into the subconscious of the outcast -- and the ring -- a shocking device sealed on the finger -- operate in conjunction to form a prison of the mind. Though still holding the same beliefs and inclinations as before 'ringers' many not even entertain a thought contrary to Ultra Conscience without a cruel shock from the ring." - Berger Science Fiction and the New Dark Age p. 107. Perversely the authors' victimized hero "realizes that the ring is in fact a good idea in this vision of an unusually coercive technological utopia." - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction second edition p. 305. Anatomy of Wonder 1981 3-36. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 310. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #139943 Macdonald Science Fiction unknown books
200972997Leiden:: Brill. Fine. 2009. Hardcover. 9789004179387 . First edition. INSCRIBED by Alan Avery-Peck. Fine in glossy printed boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Brill, hardcover books
1974150347Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. VG- DJ has some scuffs or wear; this copy is from Clare Boothe Luce's library and has her blindstamp on the tp. Crimson cloth blue dust jacket 302 pp. BW illus. 4 maps. "The story of General Douglas MacArthur's final days in the Philippine Islands in early 1942 at the start of the war in the Pacific and his subsequent escape via sea and air to Australia. It is also an account of General Jonathan M. Wainwright and the fall of Bataan and Corregidor. The story concerns four other important men -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt Secretary of War Henry L Stimson General George C. Marshall and Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon -- whose decisions and actions determined the fate of 90000 soldiers and sailors in the garrisons of Bataan and Corregidor and of 16 million Filipinos throughout the Philippine archipelago." preface This copy came from the person library of American author and U.S. ambassador Clare Boothe Luce 1903-1987 who wrote the forward. Her blindstamp appears on the title page. University of New Mexico Press hardcover books
174937579La Haye: Chez Pierre de Hondt 1749. A very good copy some toning at the fold. 230 x 272 mm. Copper engraving. Map with cartouche and compass. From Histoire générale des voyages ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre. - Hrsg.: Antoine F. Prévost D'Exiles Nouvelle édition La Haye u.a. Band 6 1748. [Chez Pierre de Hondt] unknown books
1904011936Philadelphai: Wilmer Atkinson Co 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition small 8vo publisher's green cloth stamped pictorial and titles in red and black. Cover reads BIGGLE HORSE BOOK NUMBER ONE BIGGLE FARM LIBRARY. 128 pages illustrated. Superbly preserved apparently unused copy. Wilmer Atkinson Co hardcover books
1967103744New York: De Capo Press 1967. Hardbound. VG/VG. Black cloth with illustrated dustjacket. 257 pp. profusely illustrated in bw. Includes an original lithograph as the frontispiece. Includes the errata slip at front. A very nice copy of a vital book relating to this artist's work. Lithograph is not signed in pencil. De Capo Press hardcover books
18962051Oakland CA: Jacob Wright Harlan 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. 242 pp with frontispiece decorative endpapers. Original brown cloth with decoration in gilt and black. Small ownership label on front pastedown light general wear to exterior front hinge a bit wobbly; else sound and clean. No dust jacket. Second edition. Personal account of Gold Rush California. Harlan opines in the introduction that "every fact relating to the early settlement of California should be recorded and treasured up; in fact that it is the duty of every pioneer to put in writing his early California experience." Cowan 264-5: "The author came by the overland route as a member of the Boggs-Moran party and upon his arrival joined Fremont's battalion." Jacob Wright Harlan hardcover books
193015221930. Hand colored view 16.5 cm x 26.5 cm Better than very good. Nice hand-colored image likely from T. J. Hileman 1882 - 1945 who for decades photographed in Montana primarily Flathead Lake and Glacier National Park originally for the Great Northern Railway. In 1926 Hileman opened photo studios in Glacier Park Lodge and for many years he produced and sold countless photographs of the area. unknown books
