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1985150794Chicago IL: Museum of Contemporary Art 1985. First edition. Softcover. 152 pages. Exhibition catalog done for a major show that ran May 8 through August 18 1985. Essays by Mary Jane Jacob and Robert Pincus-Witten and with an interview of Matta-Clark by Joan Simon. Includes numerous color and black and white illustration. A clean and tight very near fine copy in wrappers that have some very minor wear. A fresh copy. Museum of Contemporary Art unknown books
194822594Paris: NRF. 1948. Softcover. #278 of 422. Wraps are fine in publisher's glassine. The chemise is fine but for slight sunning to spine in lightly soiled box. 113 full-color gouaches by Jean Hugo. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall . NRF paperback books
1978126494Braunschweig Germany: Waisenhaus-Buchdruckerei 1978. leather leather spine label slipcase. 8vo. leather leather spine label slipcase. 72 pages. Text in German. Limited to 350 numbered volumes 20 bound in leather and numbered with Roman numerals. This copy is thus. Introductory comments afterword. The 25th volume published by the Bibliophiles Association of Braunschweig. Four one-act plays by Jacob Mauvillon first published in Leipzig 1785. Waisenhaus-Buchdruckerei unknown books
1848282248Boston Cincinnati: T. H. Carter U. P. James 1848. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Collection of children's stories by noted authors of the genre. With hand-colored frontispiece of a flower and five inserted plates. Numerous in-text wood engravings and head- and tail-pieces. With initials surrounded by borders composed of printer's flowers. 128 pp. Marbled boards backed in red cloth with titling in gold. Wear to the board extremities. With the childish signature of Willie Meldrum of Washington. We find less than a dozen copies on OCLC. Very Good binding. T. H. Carter | U. P. James unknown books
2000297023University of Washington Press 2000. hardcover. fine/fine. Jacob Lawrence. Volume I: 'Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence': 286 pages with 95 plates and 135 figures most in color. Volume II: 'Jacob Lawrence: Paintings Drawings and Murals 1935-1999'. A Catalogue Raisonne: 344 pages with roughly 800 color illustrations. 4tos burgundy cloth d.w. firm plastic slipcase. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 2000. First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> This 2-volume set is the definitve publication on the work of Jacob Lawrence. It identifies authenticates and documents over 900 paintings drawings and murals between 1935-1999.<br/><br/> University of Washington Press unknown books
19657438Leiden: E.J. Brill 1965. Octavo x cm. 236 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. The first volume of the five volume history of the Jews in Babylonia. Very near fine in publisher's blue cloth gilt-titled on the front board and spine. Inscribed by Neusner on the free front endpaper "For Professor and Mrs. R.B.Y. Scott With good wishes Jack - Suzanne - Samuel Neusner" E.J. Brill hardcover books
12168Leipzig: Vogel. hardcover. near fine. 44pp. IN: Deutsch. Archiv Klinische Medicin 1879 vol. 25 pp. 53-96. 8vo original brown blind stamped cloth. Leipzig 1879. First Edition. Whole volume offered entire. Near Fine.<br/><br/> First description of psittacosis in a human. GM 5527.<br/><br/> Vogel unknown books
150215011Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. First edition. 332 p. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket has a small tear in the front panel light edge wear price intact $9.95. An important economics work in which the author statistically "investigates the way what we want interacts with what we know to determine the course of invention and technological progress generally. Harvard University Press hardcover books
1726D12957Nuremberg: Weigel 1726. Hardcover. Very Good. Early calf rebacked; 8vo 210x124mm; pp. 14 197 11 tables plus frontispiece. No plates. Scarce. <br/><br/> Weigel hardcover books
187333436Ottawa: Robertson 1873. First Edition. 30pp. dbd. Peel 650. Shantz was sent out to inspect land of the Russion Mennonites who subsequently settled in southern Manitoba. Peel 649 is the English version. Published by the Department of Agriculture Robertson unknown books
1966463431966. SHOUL Jacob W. IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER: THE LIFE STORY OF JACOB W. SHOUL FIELD UNDERWRITER MUTUAL OF NEW YORK. Compiled and Edited by John P. Brion. No Publication Information. 4to. tan cloth stamped in green. First Edition. Signed presentation by Shoul on front pastedown: "To Mrs. Alexander E. Patterson whose husband played such an important part in my life both as a good friend and as a confidant. With kindest regards Jacob W. Shoul June 17 1966." Very Good moderate soil covers. $150.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1839M13867Gelnhausen:: J.C. Janda 1839. 1839. 23 cm. xx 674 2 pp. Original printed wrappers; spine replaced with plain brown paper tape edges untrimmed surface soiling some internal browning. First leaves loose. Scarce. Very good. First edition. On diseases of the eye in the newborn child. CONTENTS: Erste Ausgabe. – 1 Geschichte der Krankheit; 2 Etymologie; 3 Begriffsbestimmung der Krankheit; 4 Anatomie und Physiologie der Auges der Neugebornen; 5 Phanomenologie der Krankheit; 6 Von der zeitlichen Verhaltnissen der Krankheit; 7 Von der raumlichen Verhaltnissen der Krankheit; 8 Von der Charakteren der Krankheit; 9 Diagnose der Krankheitsarten; 10 Von dem Sekret der Krankheit; 11 Von der Aehnlichkeit uund Verschiedenheit der Adenosynchitonitis neonatorum mit der agyptischen der genorrhoischen u. der scrophulosen Augenkrankheit; 12 Von den Ausgangen der Krankheit; 13 Von der Ergebnissen der Sektionen der mit der Adenosynchitonitis neonatorum behaftet gewesenen Augen; 14 Aetiologie der Krankheit; 15 Prognose der Krankheit; 16 Therapie der Krankheit. Translated History of the disease; 2 Etymology; 3 Definition of the disease; 4 Anatomy and physiology of the eye of the newborn; 5 Phenomenology of the disease; 6 Temporal relations of the disease; 7 Spatial relations of the disease; 8 Characteristics of the disease; 9 Diagnosis of disease types; 10 Disease secretion; 11 Similarity and difference of adenosynchitonitis neonatorum with Egyptian genorrhoeic and scrophular eye disease; 12 Eye disease outcomes; 13 Results of eye sections affected by adenosynchitonitis neonatorum; 14 Etiology of the disease; 15 Prognosis of the disease; 16 Therapy of the disease. REFERENCE: Grulee 1408. [J.C. Janda], 1839. unknown books
2013282089New York: Monacelli Press 2013. hardcover. fine/fine. Profusely illustrated. 1072 pages. Extremely thick 4to green cloth d.w. New York: Monacelli Press 2013. A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. Presentation copy signed by Robert Stern on the half title also present is a briefed typed letter sign by Stern.<br/><br/> An encyclopedic work on the history of the garden suburb movement.<br/><br/> Monacelli Press unknown books
1903103093<p> Print folio 11" x 15" chromolithograph color plate LIX archivally matted attached at the top with archive tape. Slight aging; otherwise bright and clean and very attractive. Published in several editions the plates are extremely attractive. Studer 1840-1904 was born in New York City and would become a printer and lithographer. He was also an ornithologist and seems to have been active in this field in the Columbus Ohio area after the Civil War. However it is believed that the plates were based on drawings by Theodore Jasper. The plates while very attractive are believed to be designed to help with identification. This plate LIX which features the Golden Eagle shows it in a natural setting. Probably one of the best in the Studer collection. May require extra postage. Cornell online library website.</p> The Natural Science Association of America, books
1903103091<p> Print folio 11" x 15" chromolithograph color plate XV archivally matted attached at the top with archive tape. Slight aging and scattered foxing; otherwise bright and clean and very attractive. Published in several editions the plates are extremely attractive. Studer 1840-1904 was born in New York City and would become a printer and lithographer. He was also an ornithologist and seems to have been active in this field in the Columbus Ohio area after the Civil War. However it is believed that the plates were based on drawings by Theodore Jasper. The plates while very attractive are believed to be designed to help with identification. This plate XV which features the Gray or Sea Eagle shows it in a natural setting. May require extra postage. Cornell online library website.</p><p><br /></p> The Natural Science Association of America, books
1903103090<p>Print folio 11" x 15" chromolithograph color plate LI archivally matted attached at the top with archive tape. Slight aging some scattered foxing; otherwise bright and clean and very attractive. Published in several editions the plates are extremely attractive. Studer 1840-1904 was born in New York City and would become a printer and lithographer. He was also an ornithologist and seems to have been active in this field in the Columbus Ohio area after the Civil War. However it is believed that the plates were based on drawings by Theodore Jasper. The plates while very attractive are believed to be designed to help with identification. This plate LI which features the White Pelican shows it in a natural setting. May require extra postage. cornell online library website.<br /></p> The Natural Science Association of America, books
1921R5253Berlin: Russian Universal Publishers c. 1921. Paperback. Good. Original wraps; pp. 100. Remains of an old sticker obscuring some of the lettering on the front cover; spine tips and corners wrinkled and lightly chipped; ex-library stamps. <br/><br/> Russian Universal Publishers paperback books
36101Sao Paulo: Raizes 1980. Hardcover. 12" x 12". 200pp. Portuguese. Illustrations and B&W photographs throughout text. Brown cloth boards in white and illustrated DJ. Inscription to Milton Glaser on ffep. Light soiling to edges of boards; some soiling to jacket spine and back panel; light marginal toning to pages. Very Good in like DJ. . VeryGood. Hardcover . Raizes [1980] hardcover books
19146827New York: Privately printed 1914. boards leather spine labels slipcase. Lowell James Russell. 8vo. boards leather spine labels slipcase. xvii 136 pages. Compiled from the Collection Formed by the late Jacob Chester Chamberlain with Assistance . Luther Livingston. First edition limited to 550 copies of which this is one of 50 done on Van Gelder paper. Fine copy. Privately printed unknown books
199112356Boston Toronto London: Little Brown & Company 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Ruth Sanderson is an internationally known children's illustrator. Her original fairy tale The Enchanted Wood received the Irma S. Black award for best picture book of 1992 and the Young Hoosier Award in 1995. This copy is INSCRIBED by Sanderson opposite the title page "For Larry on his 1st birthday April 9 1992 from Mom and Dad and best wishes from Ruth Sanderson" in gold pen. Hard Cover. Inscribed by the Author. Little Brown & Company unknown books
199355162Washington DC: The Phillips Collection 1993. First Edition. Lawrence Jacob. 4to pp. 172. Chronology checklist index. Illustrated with full-color reproductions and photographs. Introductory essay by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Tan cloth. Fine in scuffed dj. Includes essays by Lonnie G. Bunch III Patricia Hills Diane Tepfer and others. The Phillips Collection unknown books
191429768New York: Privately printed 1914. First edition limited to 550 copies printed at the De Vinne Press this one of 50 on Van Gelder paper; 8vo pp. xvii 1 136; frontispiece portrait in sepia title-page printed in red and black and a few full-page facsimiles in the text; a fine bright barely touched copy in original gray paper-covered boards red leatherette labels lettered in gilt on spine and original glassine jacket with a handful of nicks along edges. The Van Gelder copies especially in this condition are hard to come by in the trade where the Burt Franklin reprint of 1968 abounds. <br/><br/> Privately printed hardcover books
185844353Berlin: Ferd. Dümmler's Verlagsbuchhandlung 1858. Fourth edition 8vo pp. 56 8 ads; removed and in clear plastic wrappers some toning foxing and dampstaining else very good and sound. Grimm's famous essay on the origin of languages first published in 1851 and containing "the mature expression of all Grimm's thoughts on the philosophy of language" Jespersen. <br/><br/> Ferd. Dümmler's Verlagsbuchhandlung unknown books
180270450New Haven: William W. Morse. Very Good. 1802. Hardcover. - Williams John. THE REDEEMED CAPTIVE RETURNING TO ZION.or A faithful history of remarkable occurrences in the captivity and deliverance of Mr. John Williams minister of the gospel in Deerfield; : who in the desolation which befel that plantation by an incursion of French and Indians was by them carried away with his family and his neighbourhood into Canada.-- / Drawn up by himself. ; Annexed to which is a sermon preached by him upon his return. ; Also an appendix by the Rev. Mr. Williams of Springfield. ; Likewise an appendix by the Rev. Mr. Taylor of Deerfield. ; With a conclusion to the whole by the Rev. Mr. Prince of Boston. New-Haven: : Printed by William W. Morse. 1802. v 2 8-188 p. Later edition of Howes W-461. S/S 3561. . The last leaf has corner torn off losing a few words. Original leather binding worn but holding. The lower couple of inches of the spine is missing. Williams a Harvard graduate in charge of the church at Greenfield when it was attacked by Indians in 1703 was taken with others to Canada. His wife and two of his children were tomahawked on the way. "As a powerful picture of Indian cruelty ranks next to the Rowlandson captivity narrative published in 1682." - Howes. HOWES W461 later edition. Ayer 311. S/S 3561. . William W. Morse hardcover books
18612307958Stuttgart / Bonn / Berlin / Gotha. / Hamburg: J.G. Cotta'scher Verlag / Adolph Marcus / Ferd. Dummler's Verlagsbuchhandlung / C.F. Thienemann / Agentur des Kauhen Hauses 1861. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Former library copy College of St. Scholastica and likely bound together by them with just a few marks on new end sheets. Marginalia throughout Grimm's work with a few instances of underlining. 1861 Half-Leather. 64; 81 1; 56; 23 1; 142; 8; 29; 22 pp. German text. A sammelband of seven pamphlets by German philologists including an essay by Jacob Grimm of The Brothers Grimm on the origins of language. While he is best known for his work with folklore and fairy tales he also wrote several important works regarding language with very detailed research about the history of the German language and its grammar and 'Grimm's law' is a set of statements about Germanic Sound Shift named after him. The scarce Dummler catalogue includes entries with brief prospectuses for 34 titlesby Grimm Bopp Von Humboldt Steinthal and other notable German philologists; a similar Auszug of linguistic works published by Dummler caption title 8 pp. c. 1858 is present between pamphlets 5 and 6. Titles include: Goethe und die Erzahlungskunst; Chaucer in seinen Beziehungen zur italienischen Literatur.; Uber den Ursprung der Sprache; Verzeichniss von Werken aus dem Gebiete der Sprachforschung Erschienen in Ferd. Dummler's Verlagsbuchhandlung in Berlin. December 1852; Der Ursprung der Sprache in Zusammenhange mit den Letzten Fragen alles Wissens. Eine Darstellung Kritik und Fortentwickelung der Vorzuglichsten Ansichten; Auszug aus dem Linguistischen Verlagskataloge von Ferd. Dummler's Verlagsbuchhandlung in Berlin.; Schleiermacher seine Personlichkeit und seine Theologie.; Licht und Schattenseiten der gegenwartigen Culturentwicklung. J.G. Cotta'scher Verlag / Adolph Marcus / Ferd. Dummler's Verlagsbuchhandlung / C.F. Thienemann / Agentur des Kauhen Hau hardcover books
