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1866C2688<p>164 pages with frontispiece diagrams and indices. Octavo 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to cover and blind-stamped embossed cover decoration. From the library of Harold James Ruthven Murray. Betts 25-6; Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5193 First edition.</p><p>Includes the a selection of 37 games from the Congress of London 1866 Challenge Cup: 1. de Vere; 2. MacDonnell. Handicap: 1. Steinitz and Green 46 from the Dundee Congress in 1867 Challenge Cup: 1. Neumann; 2. Steinitz. Handicap: 1. Steinitz and Fraser 14 games in the Steinitz - Anderssen competition in 1866 Steinitz won 8:6 and was then considered " "best player" in the world and 64 problems.</p><p>The Dundee tournament is reckoned as the fourth ever international tournament of modern times. The first of modern chess is perhaps Madrid 1575 under the patronage of Phillip II won by Leonardo ahead of Ruy Lopez. There is a match tournament at Paris in 1821 between Deschappelles Labourdonais and Cochrane not usually listed - Labourdonnais won 13-1. London 1851 was a knock-out tournament won by Anderssen. London 1862 was an all-play-all tournament again won by Anderssen 12-1. But in 1862 a draw had to be replayed until a positive result was obtained. At Dundee in 1867 this carry-over from knock-out events was abandoned and "it was decided that a draw should be reckoned as half a game to each player engaged in it". The Congress of the British Chess Association President: Lord Lyttleton was held at Dundee with the preliminary meeting being in the boardroom of the Caledonian Railway Company on Tuesday September 3rd. The Congress consisted of three events: 1 The Grand Tourney of Blackburne De Vere G. B. Fraser Hamel Dr. J. Fraser Rev. MacDonnell Neumann Col. Robertson Spens and Steinitz. 2 The Handicap Tournament consisting of all the Grand Tournament players except for Hamel plus seven extra players contested on a knock-out system and won jointly by Steinitz and Dr. J. Fraser "by mutual agreement" after they in the final "owing to an alleged excess of the time limit by the latter Fraser consented to reckon their game as annulled. "This is the result of no rule or procedure being laid down for deciding the penalty for overstepping the time limit. No replay of the final game was possible "as Steinitz had to leave per steamer in the afternoon". 3 The Scottish Championship of eight players all-play-all won by Dr. J. Fraser 6-1. A contemporary newspaper report said about this event "after a very tedious contest".</p><p>Harold James Ruthven Murray 1868-1955 was a British educationalist inspector of schools and prominent chess historian. His book <em>A History of Chess</em> is widely regarded as the most authoritative and comprehensive history of the game.</p><p><strong>Condition:</strong> An autograph dedication by Charles E. Ranken on the front end paper: P. Powter with compliments from the Publisher of the "Chess Player's Chronicle … Nov. 1883. Some foxing. Cover stained with bumped corners spine ends rubbed else very good. Scarce chess item.</p> Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer Company hardcover
1888102057<p>Folio 12" x 15" publisher's leather somewhat crudely rebacked gilt title on front cover illustrated with engraved frontispiece and 119 chromolithographed plates with tissue guards 182 8 pp. Binding shaken top cover and spine and front endpapers partially separated from text block back joint cracked but still attached significant wear to covers around extremities bookplate on front pastedown; contents clean and bright. 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. Size of book will require extra postage. online Cornell library website.</p> The Natural Science Association of America,
1845427571845-1846. Zweite gänzlich umgearb. Aufl. - Leipzig W. Engelmann 1845-1846 Gr.8° XX 1 Bl.Errata 329 1 pp.; XVI 614 pp.; 240 Holzschnitten im Text und 5 lith. Taf. Halbledereinband; Stempel auf einem der 4 Titelblätter. feines Exemplar. The second edition is the first Illustrated and first edition with the subtitle "Botanik als inductive Wissenschaft" Matthias Jakob Schleiden 1804-1881 considered the inductive method the only valid one in biology and the first part of this book constitutes an important document for the study of the methodology of natural history. He declared himself an enemy of all philosophical speculation while at the same time adhering to the views of Kant and rejecting the label of materialist. He completed his attacks against the philosophers with a brief polemical monograph against the philosophy of Schelling and Hegel. The entire structure of Schleiden's textbook was fundamentally new. The lengthy works begins with a study of the material elements of the plant. Next section is a large section of plant cytology and then a treatment of morphology and organology. The book which established the teaching o botany on a completely new basis was often reprinted and appeared in various translations and adaptations. To appreciate the enthusiasm it aroused and its influence in turning young man to the study of botany it is necessary to read the testimony of contemporaries particularly of Julius Sachs a famous botanist and author of the well known history of botany. Schleiden was one of the first to recognize the unique importance of the cell in biology and was a co-founder along with Schwann of the cell theory --- which states that the cell is the basis of both plant and animal life. His fundamentally important textbook of botany which was organized according to this theory contains the first detailed discussion of the structure and function of plant cells and thus marks the beginning of plant cytology. -cf. Marc Klein DSB XII pp.174-175 BMC Nat. Hist. IV 1840. Pritzel 8224; Dibner 31; Grolier/Horblit 93b; Milestones of Science 177; Pritzel 8224; Waller 11732; Norman 1908 all first edition 1842/43 unknown
185443035BBLeipzig, Hirzel Verlag, 1854 - 1960. 16 Bände in 32 Teilbänden (= vollständig)! Einheitliche, jeweils mit Titel-Etikett versehene Privat-Hardcoverbände (ca. 1985). Bibliotheks-Exemplar (jeweils Bibliotheks-Etikett auf Buchrücken / Vorderdeckel, Bibliotheks-Stempel [Ausgeschieden] auf Titelblatt und Schnitt aller Bände). Frontispiz der Brüder Grimm in Band 1 nicht vorhanden! Eine Lage des Bandes 11,2 (Spalte 301 - 3
1824531York County Pennsylvania 1824. Oblong 12mo. 88 pp. Contemporary calf backed wall-paper covered boards; binding rubbed at edges with minor loss of paper and leather otherwise very good. Eichelberger's account book contains a list of expenses as well as income relating to the Eichelberger farm. Entries are organized chronologically and list the item received or service performed as well as the price paid for the item or service. Eichelberger listed prices in both dollars and pounds. Typical expenses include the hiring of farm hands food often dried pork county taxes and the digging of a well. Eichelberger records far more income than expenses. He sold a number of items including wheat apples beef rye and animal fat. Eichelberger provided board to a widow by the name of Miller. Perhaps the most interesting sources of Eichelberger's income are the animals he sold. Between 1806 and 1809 Eichelberger records the sale of 86 horses accounting for the vast majority of his income during those years. He also records the sale of a few steer sheep and hogs but never in quantities as great as the horses. Several pages of the book record Eichelberger's duties as the executor of the will of his father George Allen Eichelberger. These entries list the name of the beneficiary the amount of the estate granted them and the date on which the transaction took place. The final entry in the book which is chronologically out of place and dated 1807 records Eichelberger's activities following the death of his father such as traveling to Carlisle for the reading of the will and appraisal of the estate. Curiously the entries in which the estate is divided among the beneficiaries are dated between 1824 and 1825--seventeen years after the initial reading of the will. This hints at the protracted probate disputes and complications involved in executing a will in the early nineteenth century. Also of note in this book is the inexplicable changes in the way Eichelberger spelled his name. In the earliest entries of the book it is spelled "Echelberger" then appears as "Eichelberger" and finally beginning around 1810 appears as "Higleberger". While the record book mentions no place names other than Carlisle a prosperous farm family by the name of Eichelberger resided in York County Pennsylvania for many years in the eighteenth century. It is very likely that Jacob was a member of this Pennsylvania-German family. unknown
184619359Banks Gould & Co. Very Good. 1846. Hardcover. Second American From the Last London Edition with notes and references to American cases. Rare. Tan calf leather bound cover has significant wear. Front board is detached but present and signatures are loose. Front matter is foxed but only sparse modest foxing and thumbing beyond that and pages are overall in very good condition. A very good candidate for rebinding this very rare title. . Banks, Gould & Co. hardcover
18141358427New-York: Self 1814. Hardcover. Octavo xiv 17-248 pp. Poor; bound in contemporary light green paper with several discolored areas marks and tears to boards and edges with spine hinges cracked; boards shaken and some loose pages to front matter but binding else tight; text block rough and uneven; foxing to pages throughout; INSCRIBED on page vi "Dr. J. Ingersol from his sincere friend The Author;" loose note "Rec'd Monday Feb 23rd 1816 of MD John Ingersoll Sum of 19 dollars 55 cents being in full of all demands Jarves Valentine;" ex-library copy with usual markings including a bookplate to front pastedown institutional stamps to several pages and call number written in pencil; MF consignment. Extremely scarce. 1358427. Special Collections. Self hardcover
181349243London Robert Baldwin 1813. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Marbled boards. Spine lacks and boards loose. In: "Annals of Philosophy; or Magazine of Chemistry Mineralogy Mechanics. By Thomas Thomson". Vol. II. - VIII480 pp. a. 7 plates. Entire volume offered. Berzelius' paper: pp. 276-284 357-368. Some browning and brownspots to plates. <br/><br/><em>First printing of this milestone papers in the history of chemistry where Berzelius introduced his famous chemical symbolism the offered paper is the first on the subject - Leicester & Klickstein calls it the "Preliminary note whereby an element is generally represented by the first letter of its Latin name or in the event of elements having the same first letter by the first two letters. Even though his atomic symbols were introduced in 1813 see the note on p. 359 it was quite a few years before Berzelius's symbols were adopted by the chemistry community. But once accepted they became the new international language of chemistry. Berzelius "contributed more to the development of the atomic theory and to the setting up of accurate values of the atomic weights than did any other worker of the time. Of his contributions moreover to the development of the atomic theory and the advancement of chemical science not the least valuable was the introduction of a chemical symbolism which with slight modification is in use at the present day. By giving his symbols a quantitative meaning - the symbol of an element representing one atomic proportion by weight - it was possible "to show briefly and clearly the number of elementary atoms in each compound and after the determination of their relative weights present the results of each analysis in a simple and easely retained manner". This symbolism was speedily adopted on the Continent but in England only after some considerable time."Findlay "A Hundred Years of Chemistry" p. 14.Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1813 C. - Leicester & Klickstein "A Source Book in Chemistry" p. 258 ff. - Holmberg 1813:28 a. </em> hardcover
184152908Paris Fortin Masson et Cie 1841-47. Bound in 5 uniform contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spines and with gilt lettering. printed on good paper. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First French edition all published of Berzelius's "Arsberättelser." - Partington IV p. 146. </em> unknown
1820EBS100199Stockholm: Tryckt hos Direct Henr. A. Nordstrom 1820. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Bibliotheca Walleriana 11080. Holmberg Bibliografi över J. J. Berzelius 1820:1. "On the use of blowpipes in chemistry and mineralogy". First edition of this influential work which was translated into many different languages. 8vo ¼ calf original marbled boards wear to spine int. VG original edition in Swedish of Berzelius on the blowpipe. Neville I p 147: Absolutely complete 10 preliminary pages not 8 or 6. Stockholm: Tryckt hos Direct Henr. A. Nordstrom hardcover
182659822Paris Crochard 1826. 8vo. In later full buckram with gilt lettering to spine. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago." tome 31. Entire volume offered. Stamp to verso of half title. Light occassional brownspotting. Berzelius' paper: Pp.5-37. The entire issue: 448 pp. 3 plates. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of a milestone paper in chemistry. In this paper Berzelius drew up the table of atomic weights of the elements which with only a few exceptions are similar to those used today. He symbolizes the elements by the first or two letters of the Latin name of the element and he symbolizes compounds by stting the element symbols together together with the number of atoms involved when grater that one. This is the importent revison of his system announced in 1818. "In 1819 Mitscherlich showed that similarity in chemical structure is accompanied by identity of crystalline form Mitscherlich's law of isomorphism. berzelius realized at once that Mitscherlich's findings called for importent changes in his own system. he accordingly published a new table of atomic weights in 1826 the paper offered."Taton "Science in the 19th Century" p. 279. - Holmberg Bibliografi öfver Berzelius nr. 29. The present volume also contain the following important papers: Sur les Minéraux cristallisés qui se trouvent dans les aerolithes Gustave Rose Mémoire sur les Combinaisons du Phosphore et particulièrement sur celles de ce corps avec l'hydrogène Dumas Seconde Lettre sur les Cavernes à ossemens de Lunel-Vieil de Saint-Antoine et de Saint-Julien près de Montpellier Hérault adressés à M. Gay-Lussac par M. Marcel de Serres ; Nouveau Catalogue des cgutes de pierres ou de fer; de poussières ou de substances molles sèches ou humides suivant l'ordre chronologique E. F. F. Chladni Note sur la Communication des mouvements vibratoires Félix Savart Recherches sur les Effets électriques de contact produits dans les changemens de temp </em> hardcover
182660067Paris Crochard 1826. 8vo. In a bit later half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago." tome 31. Entire volume offered. No institutional stamps. Berzelius' paper: Pp.5-37. The entire issue: 448 pp. 3 plates. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of a milestone paper in chemistry. In this paper Berzelius drew up the table of atomic weights of the elements which with only a few exceptions are similar to those used today. He symbolizes the elements by the first or two letters of the Latin name of the element and he symbolizes compounds by stting the element symbols together together with the number of atoms involved when grater that one. This is the importent revison of his system announced in 1818. "In 1819 Mitscherlich showed that similarity in chemical structure is accompanied by identity of crystalline form Mitscherlich's law of isomorphism. berzelius realized at once that Mitscherlich's findings called for importent changes in his own system. he accordingly published a new table of atomic weights in 1826 the paper offered."Taton "Science in the 19th Century" p. 279. - Holmberg Bibliografi öfver Berzelius nr. 29. The present volume also contain the following important papers: Sur les Minéraux cristallisés qui se trouvent dans les aerolithes Gustave RoseMémoire sur les Combinaisons du Phosphore et particulièrement sur celles de ce corps avec l'hydrogène DumasSeconde Lettre sur les Cavernes à ossemens de Lunel-Vieil de Saint-Antoine et de Saint-Julien près de Montpellier Héraultadressés à M. Gay-Lussac par M. Marcel de Serres ; Nouveau Catalogue des cgutes de pierres ou de fer; de poussières ou de substances molles sèches ou humides suivant l'ordre chronologique E. F. F. Chladni Note sur la Communication des mouvements vibratoires Félix SavartRecherches sur les Effets électriques de contact produits dans les changemens de temp </em> hardcover
1832305489New York 1832. 1/2 page. Docketed. Old folds. 1/2 page. Docketed. Olcott was the president of the Mechanics and Farmers' Bank of Albany N.Y. and a prominent figure in New York State politics and finance.<br /> <br /> Reads in part:<br /> " I have your letter of 4st & regret---not get the loan of 1200$. unknown
187031578Paris 1870. Preparation by Ludovic. Engraved by Roussin after a drawing by Jacob. Very good to fine condition. 60 x 40 cm.<br /> This is one of the largest and most dramatic images in the spectacular Bourgery & Jacob set of anatomical atlases. unknown
180211926Northampton: Printed Typographically at Northampton by Andrew Wright - For the Compiler 1802. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Oblong in full leather binding has good joints and is tight yet scuffed and worn with a pill-sized hole in the center of the top cover exposing the wooden board beneath. 5 1/4 x 9 inches; plain rules to spine with no label or lettering. Lacks all free end papers. i-xii 9-150; lacks the last leaf of text final music page and index the 3 of page 83 is inverted. Worming to the top right corner of the title page & next leaf with some loss first few leaves browned at edges rest good. No. 194 in Britton Lowens and Crawford American Sacred Music Imprints 1698-1810: A Bibliography. "98 compositions incl. 7 anthems & 11 set-pieces for 4 voices a few for 3; full text.80 American compositions 12 non-American 6 unidentified." The music is in round notes.Jacob French 1754-1817 b. Stoughton MA; d. Simsbury CT. French was a composer and singing-master; the title page designates him "Musico Theorico." During the American Revolution he served several terms between the years 1775 and 1781. Details of his musical career are scarce with documentation existing showing that he was at times a "Teacher of Musick" at Medway and at Uxbridge Massachusetts and also at Providence. French published The New American Melody 1789 and The Psalmodist's Companion 1793 in addition to the Harmony of Harmony offered here. Printed, Typographically at Northampton, by Andrew Wright - For the Compiler hardcover
