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1758016251Philadelphia: William Bradford 1758. First Edition. Hardcover. Title page with a few repaired tears hinged with following Preface page; two adjoining leaves pages 441-444 of text lacking and supplied with facsimiles. Contents Very Good binding about Fine. Folio 7-1/4" x 11-1/2" bound in contemporary calf leather with a decorative blindstamped border recently rebacked with a new gilt-lettered and decorated spine preserving original paste-downs and free endpapers; 4 763 pages. Title within rule border decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces. An important compilation of the fundamental New Jersey charters and session laws of the proprietary period 1664 to 1702 up to Lord Cornbury's commission and instructions as Royal Governor when New Jersey became a crown colony under Queen Anne. Publication was ordered by the New Jersey Assembly in 1752 but two years were required to collect the documents to be included while the typesetting and printing took Bradford an additional three. By the date of publication some 170 copies had been subscribed. This title was the largest volume issued from Bradford's press and one of the largest from any eighteenth-century American press. Evans 8205; Sabin 39527. Early owner name on the title page and early twentieth century names on the front pastedown. <br/><br/> W[illiam] Bradford hardcover
197486491Phaidon. As New. 1974. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Corresponds to ASIN: B000TSYAB8. FOUR 4 VOLUME SET. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Complete Works -- with a bonus offer . Phaidon hardcover
197486490Phaidon. As New. 1974. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Corresponds to ASIN: B001IOWXZW. FOUR 4 VOLUME SET. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Complete Works -- with a bonus offer . Phaidon hardcover
41888s.l. s.n. n.d. Strasbourg 1510. First edition 4to Gothic letter 26 252 6ff 2 woodcuts includes the woodcut of the Ship of Fools on the title contemporaneous manuscript on A1-2 E4 G3-4 title-page lower gutter starting to split some pages irregularly trimmed with some edges uncut some toning in places occasional foxed spot a handful of small repaired tears to fore-margins only wormhole/holes to fore-margin throughout both points of condition never affecting text the fore-edge with traces of contemporaneous 16th c ink lettering nineteenth-century vellum over boards lettered in gilt title and colophon leaves with Croydon Public Libraries stamps somewhat erased on the former. The scarce first edition of Johann Geiler von Kaiserberg's thirty-seven sermons delivered at Strassburg from 1501 to 1502 influenced by Sebastian Brandt's Narrenschiff Ship of Fools in which he comments and satirises the follies and vices of his day. One of the sermons deals with libraries and book collectors making mention among other things of Richard de Burys Philobiblon. This edition precedes the 1511 edition better known for its greater number of woodcuts. STC 335; Adams G 315. [s.l., s.n., n.d. Strasbourg?, 1510?] hardcover
42429Delft Boitet 1730-1739. 2 parts in 3 volumes. Incomplete but good copy. Solid half leather with black title shield and marbled boards. Volume I a bit worn on the front. 38 946 52 12 520 78 20 pag. Illustrated with 57 engravings one print with a small tear in the middle. Misses the engravings at pages 38 Scheveningen 70 bird's eye view of The Hague and 753 Mauritshuis. B0897.De Riemer Den Haag - antiek boek - standaardwerk Den Haag - The Hague - Geschiedenis Den Haag. hardcover
17967271<b>Jacob Bryant. <i>A Dissertation concerning the War of Troy and the Expedition of the Grecians as Described by Homer; Shewing that No Such Expedition was ever Undertaken and that No Such City of Phrygia Existed.</i> <br /></b><br />Illustrated with folding map. 4to. Late 18th or early 19th century half-calf over marbled boards leather label on spine. London N.D. 1796 per ESTC.<b> First Edition</b> of Bryant's controversial dissertation in which he ignited one of the longer scholarly controversies of the 18th century asserting that there never was a war at Troy.<br /><br /> Bound with: <br /><b><br />John Bacon Sawrey Morritt </b>'Troy Morritt'.<b><i> A Vindication of Homer and of the Ancient Poets and Historians Who Have Recorded the Siege and Fall of Troy. In Answer to Two Late Publications of Mr. Bryant. <br /></i></b><br />Illustrated with a folding map of the plain of Troy and 5 folding plates. York 1798. <b>First Edition </b>of Morritt's very critical and beautifully illustrated response to Bryant. The 5 folding pictorial views include the plain of troy; the tombs of Ajax; Achilles; Patroculus and Hector; and of Troy from the Scamander. <br /><br />Binding is scuffed and worn with the boards just holding by the cords; text is in very good condition with moderate toning; the plates and the maps being on finer paper are excellent examples. From the library at Ditton Park. Rare.
1680G1ADMF4MUJWBAmsterdam 1680. Engraved map 30 x 35 cm contemporarily hand-coloured. Matted. A copy of the De Witt map of Arabia with fine cartouches.l Al Ankary 79; Tibbetts 137. unknown
1716100847<p>Leiden Petrus van der Aa; Luchtmans & Haak 1716 - 1741. x 500pp; 60 unnumbered ff; titlepage of supplement; pages 501-534. 2 parts in one. Folio. Title in red and black with engraved vignette.With finely engraved frontispiece representing the library interior and heads of celebrated Dutch scholars full page plate of benefactors and plate of the Copernican Globe preserved in the library. Preface and index. Full contemporary mottled sheep rubbed corners lightly bumped head & foot of spine chipped lower back joint cracked. Red morocco title shield. The present catalogue was first published in 1716. When the supplement was completed in 1741 a newer and fuller titlepage was substituted in the copies then unsold but still dated 1716. The supplement has a separate titlepage: Supplementum Catalogus librorum tam impressum quam manuscriptum Bibliothecae publicae Universitatis Lugduno-Batavae. Leiden Samuel Lugtmans & Cornelius Haak 1741 but the pagination is continuous the supplement occupies pages 501-534. Incidentally there is a substantial unpaginated index placed between them of 60ff. The Catalogue of the University Library at Leyden has a certain air of modernity in its carefully listed holdings in theology jurisprudence medicine philosophy philology political economy history belles-lettres classics numismatics etc. A single chapter enumerates the celebrated collection of 1993 Oriental manuscripts in Persian Turkish Hebrew Armenian Coptic etc. Separate chapters list the special collections donated by Huygens Vossius Perizonius De Smet and others. Rare Brunet 31496 says that this is one of the most representative sources of Oriental manuscript holdings.</p>
106981London L. Alexander 1813. . Small 4to 24.5 x 19.8 cm; 4 illustration plates including frontispiece and one folding map with a tear professionally repaired without loss unnumbered some occasional staining contemporary morocco neatly rebacked gilt borders marbled endpapers corners rubbed; ownership dedication and signature in brown ink to front endpaper dated '20 Mars 1823'. Text in Hebrew and Judeo-Spanish. 5 19 ll.<br /> Scarce edition of Sephardic Haggadah printed in London with parallel text in Hebrew and Spanish.<br /><br />The illustrative plates in these Haggadot after the London Haggadah of 1806 were printed separately on unnumbered leaves and their number varies between different copies missing completely in some. Yudlov lists it with 7 illustrations and 5 maps while Yerushalmi lists it with 3 maps and 'various engravings on separate sheets'.<br /><br />'This the only Spanish translation of the Haggadah to be printed in London is also an example of the survival into the nineteenth century of the Spanish language among the Sephardic Jews of England.' Yerushalmi 85. Although based on the earlier London Haggadah of 1806 also printed by Levi Alexander this augmented edition included several innovations and a Haroset recipe on the last page.<br /><br />This Haggadah was dedicated to Don Aaron Cardozo 17621834 a Jewish merchant of Sephardic origin a British patriot and one of the foremost citizens of Gibraltar of his time. He was consul for the Beys of Tunis and Algiers and was one of the principal landowners of Gibraltar cf. Jewish Encyclopedia vol. 3 p. 575; Enc. Judaica vol. 5 col. 163. In 1798 Cardozo was instrumental in uncovering the conspiracy to betray the fortress to the French Cardozo was publicly thanked for his services before a parade of the garrison. During the Napoleonic Wars Cardozo supplied Gibraltar with water and provisions and before the battle of Trafalgar in 1805 he undertook a similar mission on behalf of Lord Nelson.<br /> Vinograd London 197; Yudlov 544; Yaari 381; Yerushalmi 85; Harvard 24:19. London, L. Alexander, 1813. unknown
169617550Amsterdam c1696. 550 by 635mm. 21.75 by 25 inches. Maps""Indiae Orientalis One of only three examples known Engraved map with contemporary hand-colour in full. Rare printing by Jacob de la Feuille 1668-1719 son of Daniel de la Feuille of Nicolas Visscher's 1670 map of Southeast Asia. The map extends to include India Ceylon the Maldives part of China the East Indies the Philippines southern Persia and the northern coast of Australia depicted as """"Hollandia Nova"""". Jacob de Feuille acquired a number of engraved cartographical plates through his marriage in 1696 to Maria de Ram the widow of Johannes de Ram 1648-93 and this map is clearly printed from the same plate as de Ram's map of the same title c1683 with Feuille's name substituted for de Ram's. It is also almost identical to De Wit's 1688 map of the same title. In his imprint de Wit describes the map as """"Editia"""" edited by him whereas both de Ram and Feuille in their imprints attest that the map is """"Auctore"""" authored by them implying that the de Ram / Feuille map precedes de Wit's. De Wit's 'Tabula Indiae Orientalis emendata' of the same area was published in 1662. However Jacob de la Feuille's honour cannot be depended upon. The year following his marriage """"he was already in trouble for he was brought to court accused of having raped his housemaid. A notary act of 1711 registers the complaint of his wife that he left her five years earlier in a poor state and that his present whereabouts were unknown"""" Burden 577. Exceptionally rare: only known in two other examples: bound in a Frederick De Wit composite atlas at the Newberry Library; and in the National Library of Australia. Tooley I 566 Feuille II 35 de Wit unknown
1602177786The Hague: ex officina Bucoldi Cornelii Nieulandii 1602. A portrait gallery of the Reformation First edition a compendium of 50 attractively engraved portraits of famous Protestant theologians each paired with a detailed biography and a list of their works. The illustrator was Henrick Hondius I 1573-1650 one of the most prominent engravers and cartographers in The Hague. This work is uncommon complete with all 50 portraits copies in commerce often lacking gathering "" comprising 2 leaves with the portrait of Berengarius. Hondius's portrait series sometimes referred to in English as "Celebrated Reformers and Men of the Religion" was first published without text in 1599. The artist then collaborated with Verheiden and the printer Nieulandt to include the portraits in this book. The series features all the major Protestant reformers such as Erasmus Luther Melanchthon Zwingli Calvin Theodore Beza John Knox Peter Martyr and Geronimo Savonarola. "The stylistic variation among the portraits may be due to the range of pictorial sources that Hondius seems to have relied upon for depicting each reformer. The portrait of Melanchton for example derives from the well-known portrait engraving by Durer of 1526. thus the entire series seems to have been engraved by Hondius himself during a period in which his style was in the process of transformation" Orenstein p. 64. Other sources of inspiration were the painter Hans Hasper and the engraver Jacques the Gheyn II. Provenance: Henry Yelverton Viscount of Longueville 1664-1704 with his monogram on the covers. Yelverton matriculated at Christ Church Oxford in 1680 but did not graduate and later supported William of Orange during his invasion in 1688. "Yelverton amassed a substantial library whose extent is not known but many volumes are traceable today in libraries around the world in English Latin Italian and Spanish with imprints from the early 16th century to the late 17th. Yelverton's stamp was often applied to books irrespective of their binding when acquired" Book Owners online. A manuscript index of contents was compiled on the final blank leaf of this copy by a late 17th-century hand perhaps by the viscount himself. Folio 302 x 198 mm: 852 A-2C4 2D6 2E4; 122 leaves pp. xvi 226 2. Elaborate engraved architectural frontispiece 50 engraved portraits similar allegorical plate. Contemporary vellum over thin boards flat spine lettered in early manuscript black monogram stamp "HL" surmounted by a viscount's coronet of Henry Yelverton 1664-1704 on both covers yapp fore-edges edges sprinkled red remnants of blue silk ties. Couple of minor near-contemporary marginalia. Head of front joint split but firm a little loss at foot of spine covers slightly bowed tiny rust burn on leaf V2 slightly affecting portrait and a couple of letters small faint damp stain in margin of 3 final leaves. A clean and well-margined copy. Pelc Illustrium Imagines 166; STCN 851224962. Nadine Orenstein Hendrick Hondius and the Business of Prints in Seventeenth-Century Holland 1996. hardcover
1909375909London: Constable & Company 1909. One of 750 signed limited edition copies. 40 tipped in color plates by Rackham. 4to. Original full vellum lettered and decorated in gilt with ribbon ties; some light staining. Deckled fore-edges and tail-edges t.e.g. Endpapers lightly foxed otherwise very clean. Near fine housed in a custom cream clamshell box. One of 750 signed limited edition copies. 40 tipped in color plates by Rackham. 4to. Constable & Company unknown
1873140948037Vienna: L. C. Zamarski & C. Dittmarsch 1873. The Babylonian Talmud complete in 24 books bound in 12 volumes. The title page to the first volume is undated but typically dated 1864 in institutional catalogs; the second volume is dated 1866 the last volume is dated 1872 but the last page of the Taharot Vol. XXIV is dated 1873. Tall quarto each volume measuring 14" x 10". Bound in half cloth and paper-covered boards leather spine labels with gilt lettering. Title pages printed in red black yellow and gilt. Very Good overall lots of edge wear with exposed boards chipping toning and wear to spines. Cloth of volume 7 appears to have been inexpertly repaired; binding tape repair to rear hinge. Other than that the bindings are sturdy; contents have a little foxing with age. Occasional marginal notes presumably from either Ernest or Walter Jacob; a few pages of notes in Hebrew laid in as well. <p>This set has a very distinguished provenance: it came from the estate of Walter Jacob a significant leader in Reform Judaism in America author of 43 books and the chief rabbi at Rodef Shalom in Pittsburgh. His father Ernest Israel Jacob 1899-1974 was district rabbi of Augsburg and was deported to Dachau concentration camp for several months after Kristallnacht in 1938; he eventually emigrated to the US. Walter's grandfather Benno Jacob was considered one of the great biblical commentators of liberal Judaism. Ernest Jacob has written a note on the front pastedown of the first volume: "The textual corrections and marginal annotations in this Vienna edition of the Babylonian Talmud are by the late orientalist Samuel Landauer a great Aramaic scholar formally librarian of the University library at Strasbourg Alsace from whose estate I bought this work. Ernest I. Jacob." <p>A lovely 19th century Hebrew edition of the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the source of Jewish law and theology compiled in the 3rd to 6th centuries in Mesopotamia. <p>International buyers please note: shipping this set outside the United States will require extra charges due to its weight and size. L. C. Zamarski & C. Dittmarsch unknown
1679291101Paris: Chez Estienne Michallet 1679. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Small octavo. 288pp. Folding map. Rebound in lovely 19th Century green morocco gilt with elaborately decorated dentelles. One ink letter on a preliminary leaf and ink correction in errata else very near fine. Guillet's response to Spon's criticism of his brother-in-law's book on Greece. OCLC locates three copies only one in the U.S. and none in France. Chez Estienne Michallet hardcover
1758801511758. LEAMING Aaron and SPICER Jacob. The Grants Concessions and Original Constitutions of the Province of New-Jersey: The Acts Passed During the Proprietary Governments and Other Material Transactions before the Surrender thereof to Queen Anne the Instrument of Surrender and Her Formal Acceptance thereof Lord Cornbury's Commission and Instructions Consequent Thereon. Collected by Some Gentlemen Employed by the General Assembly and Afterwards Published by Virtue of an Act of the Legislature of the Said Province with Proper Tables Alphabetically Digested Containing the Principal Matters in the Book. Phila.: Printed by W. Bradford 1758. 4763pp. Folio. Period-style 3/4 calf and marbled boards gilt-ruled raised spine bands red morocco spine label. Internally clean a very good copy. Evans 8205. Hildeburn A Century of Printing 1596. The Charlemagne Tower Collection of American Colonial Laws 561. Sabin 39527. Benedict Acts and Laws of the Thirteen Original Colonies and States 270. Felcone New Jersey Books 156. An important volume of colonial American laws the third and scarcest official compilation fundamental laws constitutions and documents for New Jersey covering from 1663-64 to 1702 with the session laws from 1668 to 1701. "Prior to the middle of the 18th century all of New Jersey's fundamental documents remained in manuscript form only" -- Felcone. "This handsome volume generally known as Leaming and Spicer's Laws was prepared under the authority of an act of Assembly passed in 1752 and is the largest work issued from the press of Wm. Bradford."--The Charlemagne Tower Collection. Subscribers were solicited beginning in February 1755; the compilers chiefly by Samuel Nevill and Samuel Smith spent almost two years preparing the text. The printing under the supervision of Leaming and Spicer took three more years until it was ready for delivery in May 1758. The subscribers had taken 170 copies and the editors say in the Pennsylvania Journal 11 May 1758 "a number of copies yet remain not subscribed for" and "any person may be supplied" until "the 17th of July next after which we will not further extend the sale." See Felcone for a detailed ten-page study of this highly important colonial New Jersey book. unknown
1876195603Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott 1876. Fourth Edition; revised. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Rubbing along panel edges. J. B. Lippincott hardcover
53131New York Limited Editons club 1981. Gr.-2° 58 x 44 cm 2 Textblatt insgesamt 18 Mappen mit je 2 Orig.-Holzschnitten Lose in OLwd.-Mappe Tadellos. Exemplar Nr. 1 von 50. Bei den ersten 30 Exemplaren wurde jeder der 18 Orig.-Holzschnitten in einem ersten Abzug auf Mohawk superfine abgezogen. Ein entgültiger Abzug auf Torinoko Handmade paper. Beide Drucke signiert betitelt und nummeriert. Fritz Eichenberg Edit. Curt Visel 1987 B9. Fritz Eichenberg 1901- 1990 deutsch-amerikanischer Holzschneider emigrierte 1933 nach New York. Illustrierte zahlreiche Werke der Weltliteratur. 400 New York, Limited Editons club, 1981 unknown
175751848Amsterdam Petrus Schenk 1757-74. Large folio. 55 x 345 cm. A large uncut copy in contemp. marbled boards spine gone and later backed with buckram original corners in leather a bit bumped. Stamps on foot of first title-page. Halftitel title-pages in red/black with engraved vignettes. 22 engraved leafs with dedications 14;28 pp. and 25 24 large double-page or triple-page folded engraved plates 6 additional plates only sometimes present. With a total of 55 plates. On thick heavy paper wide-margined and internally fine and clean. <br/><br/><em>Second edition. "Tileman van der Horst and Jan Schenk produced the Theatrum Machinarium Univesale one of the most celebrated works on the construction of all those elements so necessary to keeping life dry in Amsterdam the place of the book’s publication. It was perhaps the most important work then produced on dikes sluices dams weirs canals and swing-bridges the very elements of existence in Holland. Jan Schenck was the engraver of this work which may also be the most accurate and the most sumptuously illustrated book of its type in Holland in the 18th century - the technical aspects of the rendering was just superb." - Brunet V1082 - Graesse VII 258. </em> hardcover
169141859Leipzig Grosse & Gleditsch 1691. 4to. Contemp. full vellum. Faint handwritten title on spine. a small stamp on titlepage. In: "Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCLXXXXI". 85906 pp. and 13 of 15 folded engraved plates. The 2 first plates lacks but they do not belong to the papers listed.Leibniz' papers: pp.277-281 a. 1 plate pp. 435-439. Johann Bernoulli: pp. 274-276 a. 1 plate. Huygens: pp. 281-282. - Jacob Bernoulli: pp. 282-290 a. 1 plate. <br/><br/><em>All papers first apperance. All 5 of extreme importence in the development of the Calculus. Leibniz' 2 papers on the catenary curve paper 1-2 offered here was written at the instigation of Jacques Bernoulli. Following the example of Blaise Pascal who had initiated in 1658 a contest for the construction of the cycloid Leibniz also provoked the geometers of his time by challenging them to submit at the fixed date of mid-1691 their geometric method for the construction of the catenary curve. Leibniz later provided the answer followed by Johann Bernoulli and Huygens.'These two papers are a historical account of the origin of the study of this transcendental curve and at the same time the first physical-geometric construction showing the species-relationship between the catenary and the logarithmic curves as two companion curves; one arithmetic the other geometric. All of the differentials of the catenary curve are arithmetic means of corresponding differentials of the logarithmic curve; and all of the differentials of the logarithmic curve are geometric means of the catenary.'"The Catenary is the form of a hanging fully flexible rope or chain the name comes from "catena" which means 'chain' suspended on two points. The interest in this curve originated with Galileo who thought that is was a parabola. Young Christiaan Huygens proved in 1646 that this cannot be the case. What the actual form was remained an open question till 1691 when Leibniz Johann Bernoulli and the then much older Huygens sent solutions to the problem to the "Acta" Jakob Bernoulli 1690 Johann Bernoulli 1691 Huygens 1691 and Leibniz 1691 - these 4 1691-papers offered here - in which the previous year Jakob Bernoulli had challenged mathematicians to solve it. As published the solutions did not reveal the methods but through later publications of manuscripts these methods have been known. Huygens applied with great paper 4 virtuosity the by then classical methods of 17th century infinitesimal mathematics and he needed all his ingenuity to reach a satisfactory solution. Leibniz the papers 1-2 and Bernoulli paper 3 applying the new Calculus found the solutions in a much direct way. In fact the catenary was a test-case between the old and the new style in the study of curves and only because the champion of the old style was a giant like Huygens the test-case can formally be considered as ending in a draw." Grattan-Guiness in "From the Calculus to Set Theory 1630-1910.".The paper by JACOB BERNOULLI no. 5 offered here is a milestone papers as it marks the invention of the "SYSTEM OF POLAR COORDINATES" with points located by reference to a fixed point and a line through that point. Although newton had earlier also devised such a coordinate system in 1671 his work was not known so that the credit for the discovery generally goes to Bernoulli. Parkinson Breakthroughs 1691.Further papers contained in this volume of Acta Eruditorum:DENYS PAPIN: Mecanicorum de Viribus Motricibus sententia asserta a D. Papino adversius C.G.G. L. Leibniz objectiones. pp. 6-13. The plate lacks. - and Dion. Papini Observationes quaedam circa materias ad Hydraulicam spectantes. Pp. 208-213 a. 1 plate. This importent paper is part of the LEIBNIZ-PAPIN-CONTROVERSY.JACOB BERNOULLI: Specimen Calculi Differentialis in dimensione Parabolæ helicoidis ubi de flexuris curvarum in genere carundem evolutionibus. Pp. 13-22. The plate lacks. - and J.B. Demonstratio Centri Oscillationis ex Natura Vectis reperta occassione eorum quæ super hac materia in Historia Literaria Roterodamensi recensentur articulo.Pp.317-321.LEIBNIZ: O.V.E. Additio ad Schediasma de Medii Resistentia publicatum in Actis mensis Febr. 1889. Pp. 177-178. and O.V.E. Quadratura Arithmetica Communis Sectionum Conicarum quæ centrum babent.Pp. 178-182 a. 1 plate.TSCHIRNHAUS: Singularia Effecta Vitri Caustici bipedalis quod omnia magno sumtu hactenus constructa specula ustoria virtute superat per D.T. Pp. 517-520 </em> hardcover
18472758Boston 1847. 1st Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. FIRST EDITION OFFPRINT of the first announcement of the successful use of anesthesia during surgical operations one of the greatest discoveries of nineteenth-century medicine. A visitor to Boston Massachusetts would be well advised to take a stroll to the Ether Dome at Massachusetts General Hospital to see the amphitheater where surgery without pain began. On October 16 1846 dentist William T.G. Morton publicly performed a painless surgery through the use of general anesthesia thereby transforming surgical medicine and marking one of the greatest advances in medicine one that not only liberated patients from pain but enabled surgeons to perform more extensive operations. <br /> <br /> Offered here is the first edition offprint of the first announcement of Morton's seminal achievement as reported by Henry Jacob Bigelow in the November 18 1846 issue of The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal Vol. XXXV No. 16 pp. 309-316. Interestingly the offprint omits the last seven paragraphs from the journal article critical of the patent-holders: Drs. Morton and Charles T. Jackson. The redacted paragraphs likely indicates the offprint was issued shortly after the journal. <br /> <br /> Offprint from: The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal vol. XXXV No. 16. 8 pages. As issued without wrappers. Paper uniformly toned. First and last leaves detached from stitching. Small closed tear in margin of last leaf edges rough. Presented in a handsome custom box. RARE. unknown
15801011220071Georg Rabe for Sigismund Feyerabend 1580 1580. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. Reprint of 2nd edition of 1559. Bound contemporary vellum. Front stamped "AVB" and "1587." Numerous woodcut illustrations. 6 100 leaves; lacks A3 with large woodcut of childbirth scene on recto repeated on G4v. Restored binding. Cracking and chip loss to vellum boards. Some foxing. Stains to margins. Extensive early notation and marginalia. Three small worming holes in blank outer margins throughout do not affect text or engravings. Opening leaves frayed restored along edges. Front free endpaper lacking. Lawrence I. Feinberg copy. Adams R 868; Hellman Early Obstetrical Books 31; Waller 8302; VD16 R3583; Durling 3982; vgl. Garrison-Morton 6141; Hagelin Womans Booke 19; Bird 2101<br><br> Georg Rabe for Sigismund Feyerabend, 1580 hardcover
745931920s-1960s. Author's archive A series of nine manila folders containing writings photographs and elements of publishing history from Jacob's career. Folders are as follows: I Tan folder 34 x 25cm containing typed drafts of Jacob's post-WWII articles on Italy which she compiled after moving from her English wartime residence back to her permanent home in Lake Garda. With pieces on recreational subjects such as Italian cookery travel and topography but also more political topics such as life after the war and Italy's relationship with other countries. II Beige folder 35 x 25cm containing a list of eligible British magazines for Jacob send material to compiled by either her or her editor. Following are numerous copies of a letter dated 1946/1947 asking each of these publications whether they would consider taking Jacob's articles on Italy 'in view of the importance of the present and future relationship between England and this country.' Stapled to these copies are the magazines' responses which is frequently a 'no' due to limited space and shortage of paper. Many would only consider apolitical work on subjects such as Italian cookery/gardening. A fascinating glimpse into the lasting effects of war. III Beige folder titled 'B.B.C. Book Me - Philosophically' 34 x 24cm containing typed drafts of chapters for a book Jacob was writing based on some talks she did for the BBC about her opinions on the human condition. With chapter headings such as 'Gossip' 'Growing Old' 'Education' and 'Difficult Days' many inked annotations penned by either Jacob or her editor. IV Light beige folder titled 'Raccoglitore Benaco' 34 x 24cm containing more typed drafts of chapters for 'Me - Philosophically.' With topics such as 'Being Ill' 'Clothes' and 'Children.' Copious inked notes from Jacob or her editor. 'Me - Philosophically' is not listed in Jacob's bibliography so it was either unfinished or its title was changed. V Beige folder with pink pencil to front 35 x 23cm containing other miscellaneous work from Jacob. Includes drafts of blurbs for her novels an advertisement for Foyles' Book Club she wrote at the behest of Christina Foyle and a eulogy for fellow queer poet Radclyffe Hall. VI Red folder 35 x 26cm containing British and Italian theatre memorabilia including a Teatro Reale dell'Opera programme from 1938-1939 and some British theatrical programs circa 1920s when Jacob was regularly acting onstage. Also includes the typescript of her one-act play 'The Ace' and an Italian house-plan. VII Green folder 36 x 28cm containing personal photographs of Jacob and her friends/family/pets as well as numerous copies of a portrait picture used for her author photo in various books. VIII Blue folder 33 x 27cm containing clippings of a few of Jacob's published magazine articles. Includes an Italian travel article a short story for the Daily Sketch a piece for the Evening Standard's 'Did it Happen' series and a critical discussion of Jacob in Lilliput Magazine. IX Russet folder 33 x 27cm posthumous material relating to Jacob including various newspaper obituaries and bank statements dated shortly before her death on August 27 1964. X Loose pen and ink illustration of the Unicorn Hotel Ripon which used to be owned by Jacob's grandfather Robert Ellington Collinson he was also mayor. The drawing is by Yorkshire artist George Jackson. Moderate edgewear and sunning to folders some minor ageing and edgewear to contents but largely fine. Naomi Jacob was a popular novelist columnist actor and socialite of her day. Born in Ripon Yorkshire she began her career as a teacher but soon pivoted to acting starring in both plays and films. She wrote many of her novels whilst living in Sirmione Lake Garda the warm clime a necessity for her lifelong battle with tuberculosis. She was also a suffragette a socialist and queer - delightfully ahead of her time. 1920s-1960s unknown
1757A2DFNA01U79OAmsterdam: Petrus Schenk II & son vol. II: Petrus Schenk III 1757. Red half sheepskin blue-grey paper sides ca. 1800. Imperial folio 50 x 34 cm. With 2 title pages in red and black each with the same engraved allegorical device a double-page engraved dedication plate with 2 large cartouches showing the arms of the Beemster polder and of the 9 members of its water authority and 41 double-page and 7 larger folding engraved illustration plates the folding plates numbered as 2 to give plates I-XXV vol. I I-XXIV and I-VI vol. II. Further with 1 woodcut tailpiece and bands of cast fleurons. Second edition of both volumes of a remarkably detailed set of scale construction drawings plans sections elevations perspective views etc. including many detail drawings of individual parts of 18th-century Dutch waterworks with the accompanying letterpress descriptions and notes. It includes locks sluices bridges pumps pile drivers an ice-breaker an elaborate water-bailing mill and more. Most of the plates measure about 45 x 54 cm with the folding ones about 52 x 76 cm. At least most of the plates depict existing works and the text occasionally gives some historical information. The drawings are so detailed and give such a clear picture of how the mechanisms functioned that one could use them to reconstruct the works shown.A fine copy nearly untrimmed with only some false folds in the half-title and an occasional minor defect in the paper. Plate 23 in volume 1 has no number but it may have been trimmed off at the head. The inside front hinge has partly separated from the book-block but the binding is otherwise good. A fine copy of a magnificent display of Dutch hydraulic engineering.l Bierens de Haan 3818.5 & 4839.5 vol. II only with later ed. of vol. I; STCN 2 & 4 copies of the 2 volumes; not in Berlin Kat.; Roberts & Trent Bibl. Mechanica. Petrus Schenk [II] & son (vol. II: Petrus Schenk [III]), unknown
15163256Oppenheim Germany 1516. Paper binding. paper cover- 36 pp good condition - https://librarywwuedu/node/17464 unknown
185451129Brussels: Comptoir des éditeurs 1854. <p>Bourgery Jean-Baptiste Marc 1797-1849 and Nicolas Henri Jacob 1782-1871. Anatomie élémentaire en vingt planches representant chacune un sujet dans son entier à la proportion de demi-nature . . . Atlas only. Elephant folio. Title-leaf and 20 lithographed plates most hand-colored. Brussels: Meline Cans et Cie; Comptoir des Éditeurs 1854. 888 x 600 mm. 20th-century quarter morocco boards slight wear. A few marginal tears repaired minor dampstaining but very good.</p> <p> Later edition first published in both Paris and Brussels in 1836 of this set of very large anatomical plates that were intended to be mounted on the walls of dissection rooms. All editions are extremely rare-OCLC does not cite any copies of the 1854 edition. This is the only copy of any edition of this work that we have handled in over 50 years of trading. The work was originally accompanied by a small 20-page pamphlet of text that is not present here.</p> <p> The impressive plates in this atlas reproduce the illustrations in Bourgery and Jacob's Traité complet d'anatomie at a much larger scale than their counterparts in the Traité-roughly half life-size. Some plates were lithographed in Paris; others in Brussels. Plates I and II are devoted to osteology and syndesmology; plates III - VIII to myology and aponeurology; plates IX-XIV to angiology; plates XV-XVII to neurology; plates XVIII-XIX to the digestive system; and plate XX to the reproductive organs. The plates were originally sold separately; uncolored versions were priced at 6 francs and colored versions at 12 francs. Currently two uncolored plates from this series are on the market for about $1300.</p> . Comptoir des éditeurs unknown
