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197692951Andre Sauret. New. 1976. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French. 166 pages; 97 illustrations including 28 in color. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer . Andre Sauret hardcover
1756elala1110Paris: l'Imprimerie Royale 1756. 1756. 12mo. pp. viii 275. full modern mottled calf a few scattered stains. First Duodecimo Edition. Published the same year as the first edition in quarto. This is the French reply to an English memorial addressed to the courts of Europe stating their position on the war on the Ohio justifying their actions and setting forth their claims to the region west of the Alleghenies. Accusing the English of unprovoked aggression and foul play the French sought to demonstrate that it was Washington's 'assassination' of Jumonville in the Fort Necessity campaign among other offensive actions which had sparked the war. Most of the text is composed of 'pièces justificatives' comprising documents and letters written between 1749 and 1755 by La Jonquière Governor of New France Albemarle Rouillé General Braddock Contrecoeur Villiers Sir William Johnson George Washington and Robert Stobo an engineer with Washington who had planned Fort Necessity. Among the more important papers are translations of the instructions given to Braddock by the British Crown letters to and from Braddock and Sir William Johnson and various officials two of Johnson's 'harangues' to the Indians and the first printing although in French translation of extracts from the journal kept by George Washington in the 1754 expedition to fortify the forks of the Ohio that ended with the British surrender to the French at Fort Necessity in July 1754 pp. 109-146. This is quite distinct from Washington's first journal of his mission for Governor Dinwiddie late in 1753 printed at Williamsburg in 1754. Most of these British papers were seized by the French following the capitulation at Fort Necessity. An early work on the French and Indian War described by Lawrence Wroth in his John Carter Brown Library report for 1945-46' as "one of the most important documents in American colonial history." Dionne II 548. JCB I 1123. Lande 657. Sabin 47511. TPL 250. Vlach 549. cfHowes M-787 different pag. cfGagnon II 1369 & cfStreeter II 1013 first in 4to. Wroth American Bookshelf p. 22. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Paris: l'Imprimerie Royale, 1756. Paperback
18371206921837. First Edition. WHEELER Jacob D. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Slavery. Being a Compilation of all the Decisions Made on that Subject in the Several Courts of the United States and State Courts. New York and New Orleans: Allan Pollock Jr. and Benjamin Levy 1837. Octavo modern half brown sheep burgundy morocco spine label. $3600.First edition of this important work on the legal aspects of slavery in the United States one of the earliest digests on the subject.Wheeler's Practical Treatise is one of the earliest digests of virtually all American court decisions on slavery including cases from both the North and South. This book was initially intended for use by slaveholders and other interested parties but it became an important tool of abolitionists who used it for its incidental descriptions of slavery and its attendant cruelty. ""The work bears marks of haste in its preparation but it is a valuable compilation of decisions on practical questions arising under the Law of Slavery in the United States. It will be serviceable to the Profession as a comprehensive digest of authorities on this branch of law and it will afford much instruction to philanthropists and statesmen interested in reconciling the welfare of slaves with the integrity and just operation of Constitutional Law"" Marvin 729. Harvard Law Catalogue 908. Cohen 9883. Work 344. Light to moderate foxing to text a few spots of soiling to edges of text block binding attractive. An extremely good copy. unknown
423914° 8 224 pp. Bound in 19th-century half-vellum. Last page repaired. Tear on p. 6 repaired with tape. Light browning throughout and staining to page edges especially pp. 1-25 but does not affect the text. A good copy.A very rare first edition copy of the English-language translation of Jakob Boehme's 1575-1642 <em>Signatura rerum</em> 1622. The writings of Boehme a German mystic and theosopher inspired the 17th-century Christian movement known as Behmenism. Controversial for its religious heterodoxy Boehme's mysticism nevertheless attracted a great number of followers across continental Europe and England.This first-edition English-language translation was published precisely during the height of Boehme's popularity in England during the years of the Interregnum 1649-1660. A period of political turbulence people turned increasingly to astrology mysticism and the occult. This text the <em>Signatura rerum</em> discusses how God bestowed every object at creation with a ""signature"" that connects the material and spiritual worlds and that can be decoded and intepreted as part of the natural order. The publication of this edition contributed to a larger project undertaken from 1645-1662 by John Ellistone John Sparrow Ellistone's cousin Humphrey Blunden and Giles Calvert to translate and publish Boehme's oeuvre in England.B0859Mystiek - occultisme - astrologie - Boehmenisme - Behmenism also Behemenism or Boehmenism is the English-language designation for a 17th-century Christian movement based on the teachings of German mystic and theosopher Jakob Böhme 1575-1624. The term was not usually applied by followers of Böhme's theosophy to themselves but rather was used by some opponents of Böhme's thought as a polemical term. The origins of the term date back to the German literature of the 1620s when opponents of Böhme's thought such as the Thuringian antinomian Esajas Stiefel the Lutheran theologian Peter Widmann and others denounced the writings of Böhme and the Böhmisten. When his writings began to appear in England in the 1640s Böhme's surname was irretrievably corrupted to the form ""Behmen"" or ""Behemen"" whence the term ""Behmenism"" developed. A follower of Böhme's theosophy is a ""Behmenist"". hardcover
17124343Rome: Francesco Gonzaga 1712. Extremely rare first edition of this luxuriously illustrated anthology of extracts from papal sermons delivered between 1703-09 in Latin prose and facing Italian verse: an unusual example of Baroque ecclesiastical culture from the pontificate of Clement XI. On the basis of extreme rarity and contents the volume numbers among those commemorative and honorific volumes which were never sold in the trade but offered as a ceremonial gift to cardinals ambassadors and other important personagescorroborated by the ownership inscription in the present volume by a monsignor during Clements papacy. The volume is singular in our experience for its contents. Latin extracts of Clements sermons generally rather brief are printed on the left side of the page then freely and somewhat copiously versified in Italian by the poet Guidi. The sparsity of the elegantly printed text leaves positively wasteful margins! Each sermon is preceded by a full-page engraving on the subject of the sermon the Holy Family adoring the Christ Child for Christmas the Resurrection for Easter etc. designed by Pietro Leone Ghezzi one of the principal artists in Clements retinue and engraved by Roman engravers generally also associated with Clementine projects Frey van Westerhout etc. The designs were made expressly for the present volume and are echoed as it were in a series of initials and vignettes devoted to the same theme; as such they must have been engraved for the present volume and not simply taken from the printers stock. If somewhat overshadowed by Maratti in his lifetime and by his epoch-making role as the first professional caricaturist Ghezzi 1674-1755 was nonetheless an important painter of religious subjects who worked on Albanis most prestigious public projects. The surfaces of Ghezzis paintings were considerably less finished than those of Maratti and he seems more receptive to Venetian color and unfinishednessthus showing a different aspect of Albani taste. Ghezzi was commissioned in 1712 the year this book was published to paint The Election of St. Fabian for the Albani Chapel in S. Sebastiano fuori le Mura. Within the next decade he helped paint the frescos the ancient basilica of S. Clemente and the nave decoration of St. John Lateran. His portraits including one of Clement XI are unusually informal and realistic possibly due to Ghezzis experience at caricature. Alessandro Guidi 1650-1712 who translated the sermons was a prolific Arcadian poet. OCLC records a single copy Berkeley and we locate no additional American copies. Large 4to. 28 x 20.5 cm engraved portrait of Clement XI xvi pp. full-page engraving 213 pp. including 5 full-page engravings paginated with text. 18th-c. vellum over boards spine with 5 raised bands and red morocco label gilt-stamped; covers with large blind-tooled central ornament blind-tooled filets and ornaments. Short tears at head and foot of spine and a few nicks there. Early inscription on front pastedown mentions Monsignor Bianchini Prelato Domestico e Camerario segreto di S. Santita Papa Clem. XI. Mild finger-soiling in margins of title and a little foxing on some text leaves but overall a very fine attractive copy. Francesco Gonzaga hardcover
20313The Limited Editions Club. Fine. 1983. Hardcover. Signed by Hersey Penn and Lawrence. Limited edition of 1500 copies this being copy #869. Black aniline leather cover is sunned on spine else fine. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Publisher's notes laid-in. Pages are clean and pristine. 8 beautiful color silk screens. Slipcase has a couple of faint modest scuffs else fine. ; Signed by Author . The Limited Editions Club hardcover
182730<p><b>AN EXTRAORDINARY EARLY AMERICAN INVENTOR AND ENGINEER</b></p><p><b>"THE THEORY OF THIS INGENIOUS METHOD OF ABSTRACTING HEAT"</b></p><p><b>PERKINS Jacob. </b><i>On the Explosion of Steam Boilers. </i>caption-title. 8vo disbound pp. 18 folding plate. N.p. n.d. i.e. London: 1827. <br /></p><p>First Edition. Rare. "In 1823 at fifty-seven years of age Perkins started an entirely new type of activity new to him and almost entirely new to science. This was his experimental work with steam of high pressure."-Dirk J. Struik <b>Yankee Science in the Making </b>1948 p. 69. Our copy is exactly like the BL copy without formal title-page and beginning on sig. "B"1. Inscribed on title: "With the Author's Compliments" and with a single correction in ink on p. 16. In 1823 Perkins invented super heated steam in an experiment called a "flash boiler" one thousand shots per minute using 900psi steam. This steam was later used in nuclear power plants to turn the steam turbines and small flash boilers were used on some steam automobiles and provided quick acceleration. In flash boilers water is delivered to preheated tubes and vaporizes almost immediately. "The theory of this ingenious method of abstracting heat was described by Perkins in a small printed pamphlet published in 1827 entitled <i>On the Explosion of Steam Boilers…</i>This pamphlet consists of eighteen pages and a folding plate engraved with a diagram showing the relationship of the piston and the crank at various pressures. Perkins was very chary of distributing copies of his pamphlet before his patent of March 22 1827 was finally sealed for fear that it might prematurely reveal the nature of his invention. A copy is in the author's possession Perkins has written on the margin of the first page: 'With the author's compliments. Confidential."-Greville Bathe & Dorothy Bathe <b>Jacob Perkins: His Inventions His Times & His Contemporaries </b>1943 p. 123 & note. Perkins says in a long letter to his friend and one-time-partner Dr. Thomas P. Jones in Philadelphia that he is sending him a copy of the pamphlet and that he gave copies to Dr. Wollaston and Michael Faraday "and to several engineers whom I could trust and who all agree that it assigns the true cause of explosions."-<b>Barthe</b> p. 125. Born in 1766 in Newburyport Massachusetts Perkins 1766-1849 was a gifted and prolific inventor running a goldsmith business by age 15! By 21 the state of Massachusetts commissioned him to make the dies for the State's copper coins. At 31 he invented a machine for heading and pointing nails and tacks in a single operation a remarkable invention for its day. He moved to New York later to Philadelphia where he developed probably the first steel plates for banknote engraving a system of preventing banknote forgery. Unable to get financial backing in this country he moved to England in 1819 taking his sons and a group of craftsmen with him. "America's loss was Britain's gain…He started a successful banknote business and went on to develop instruments for measuring ships' speeds for determining diving depths and a score of other devices. When he turned his attention to steam development this amazing man really hit his stride…Then he invented his steam gun. The Duke of Wellington became very interested in this Perkins gun…" and its military uses were explored then spurned by the British government. <i>The London Mechanics Register</i> of Nov. 6 1824 said "If Mr. Perkin's steam guns were introduced into general use there would be but very short wars; since no fecundity could provide population for its attacks." See W. H. B. Smith <b>Mr. Perkin's Extraordinary Steam Gun of 1824</b><i> </i>original published in 1957 and reprinted in <b>Lateral Science: A plethora of science & engineering subjects both real & virtual</b> 8 July 2012. The <b>DAB </b>calls his experiments with high-pressure steam "unique" saying "He received recognition in various countries particularly in England but he was a hundred years ahead of his time." In all Perkins created over 21 inventions and between 1819 and 1836 patented 19 of them. His biography in <b>ODNB </b>is included in the biography of his son Angier March Perkins and in fact gets the longest treatment there. Another useful biography is at <b>madehow.com</b>. For all things Perkins see <b>Baker Perkins Historical Society</b> online. <b>OCLC </b>locates two copies National Library of Sweden & Swarthmore College. <b>NUC </b>adds Univ. of Illinois. First Edition not in <b>COPAC.</b> </p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><br /><p><br /></p>
190311143New York: Macmillan 1903. Later printing. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo 443pp. illustrated. A worn copy in fair condition with the inner hinges cracked and corners worn but internally clean. A singificant association copy SIGNED by Riis on the front free endpaper and INSCRIBED to Danish-American pianist and interpreter of Scandinavian music Inga Hoegsbro Christensen before she took her married name: "Inga Hoegsbro from her friend Jacob A Riis." Laid-in are two postcards from Riis to Hoegsbro one dated in December 1913 and another whose date is unclear. The first postcard with a new year's theme reads: "A Happy New Year to you and may we both steer clear of illness in 1914. was sick nearly all summer. Let us hope it was the darkness before the dawn and that all will be O. K. with the lengthening days. Sincerely yours Jacob A. Riis." A bittersweet and foreboding note as Riis would die that following May just six months after this letter was mailed. Hoegsbro has added a note in ink on the postcard which reads "Always keep from my dear old Papa Jacob Riis. A friend in need for years." The other postcard's front depicts the St. Joseph Sanitarium & Bath House in Mt. Clemens Michigan where Riis was staying during the end of December 1913 after feeling ill for most of the autumn. The small blank area on the front of the card is entirely covered in Riis's writing and as it is in Danish and a rather difficult hand we are unable to reproduce or translate it here. On the verso next to where Riis had inked Hoegsbro's address Hoegsbro has written: "Last card from dear Papa Jacob Riis." The book's endleaves are covered in news clippings related to Riis and a few Danish poems. On the rear endpaper is a typed document written by Christensen entitled "A Tribute to Jacob Riis. Paid by Inga Hoegsbro-Christensen on the Occasion of the Golden Anniversary of the Founding of the Jacob Riis Settlement on Henry Street." Praising Riis for his help in her early career she concludes her remarks by noting: "When I begged from time to time to be allowed to repay Riis for his goodness to me his answer was always the same: Would I help some of his friends among the poor with my music I do not need to add how happy I was to be always at his service as pianist and inscructor in his settlement work." Accompanying the book and these postcards is an inscribed copy to one Frank Burton of Inga Hoegsbro Christensen's autobiography "Inga.Play." In it she mentions Riis several dozen times describing him as "Papa Jacob" the figure who helped her get settled in the United States and who introduced her to the influential New Yorkers who would help her achieve fame and success as a musician and interpreter of Scandinavian music. Altogether despite the book's regrettable condition a fantastic association copy of Riis's memoir which sheds great light on his identity as a Danish-American and a friend to struggling artists of all backgrounds. Macmillan hardcover
194651729St. Ottilien/ Munich: Rabbinical Representative by Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied Zone sic 1946. First edition. Hardcover. vg- to vg. Elephant folios.<br /> <br /> Keddushin: 192 32 28pp. Rebound in modern tan soft leather with blind-stamped star of David on the front cover. Blind-stamped tooling and gilt lettering lettering on the spine. Raised bands. Decorative endpapers.<br /> <br /> Nedarim: 206 32pp. Rebound in modern tan soft leather with blind-stamped star of David on the front cover. Blind-stamped tooling and black lettering on the spine. Raised bands. Decorative endpapers.<br /> <br /> Title pages illustrated in yellow and black depict both the suffering and the hope for redemption of the Jewish people. The bottom shows life in the concentration camp and the top shows the yearning for a new Jerusalem. The images are attributed to the artist Grisha Rosenkranz who was active in the DP camps. Text in Hebrew states: "As afflicted prisoners there we sat learned and prayed in secret."<br /> <br /> These individual volumes were the precursors to the famous full 19-volume set known as the "Survivors' Talmud" or the "US Army Talmud" so-called because it was the first complete Talmud printed in Europe after the Holocaust. At the end of the war Jewish survivors and residents of the DP camps had few or no books. The efforts to provide resources to Jews without access to Talmud study in the direct aftermath of the war fell primarily upon the shoulders of two Lithuanian Rabbis Samuel Abba Sneig chief rabbi of the US occupied zone and Samuel Jacob Rose both survivors of Dachau. <br /> <br /> Utilizing two odd volumes of the 1886 Romm edition of the Talmud printed in Vilna tractates Keddushin and Nedarim found at the monastery in St. Ottillien they began their endeavor. Printing plates from these volumes were created using a photomechanical offset process. It should be noted that when the full set of the Talmud was eventually published it was derived from the later Vilna editions which contain additional rabbinic commentary not found in the earlier editions.<br /> <br /> The rabbis' intent from the very beginning was to print a complete set of the Talmud however these two tractates were the only ones found in good enough to reproduce. Later with the assistance of Rabbis Philip S. Bernstein and Abraham Klausner they were able to print a complete set in Heidelberg in 1948 The Survivors' Talmud. <br /> <br /> Bindings with some minor to light instances of scratches stains scuffing and/or smudges to the covers. Interior of Keddushin with pages age toned and a bit brittle with a few closed tears to the edges throughout and a few instances of minor to light stains in the margins. The first few leaves including the title page foxed and stained in the margins. Interior of Nedarim mostly clean with some staining and rippling along the top of pages from about p.120 onward and a few other sporadic light stains throughout with text mostly unaffected. Ink stamps and handwritten names of previous owners of the Nedarim volume located in the top and bottom margins of the title page and in the bottom margin of the final page. Bindings in very good- to very good interiors in very good- condition overall. Alternate title: Survivors' Talmud<br /> <br /> Grisha Rosenkranz aka Gregory Rosenkranz was a Lithuanian-born Jewish artist and Hebrew teacher. In addition to his work on the illustrations for these volumes of the Talmud he was an active artist in the DP camps after the war and was known to have designed a theater sets for a play produced in the camps. Later he emigrated to the United States eventually settling in Miami where he taught Hebrew Jewish studies and art. He also created art for the PBS tv program 'Living Hebrew'.<br /> <br /> With thanks to Jackie Ben Efraim for her research on these Talmuds. See her illustrated presentation ’Survivors’ Talmud' on YouTube. Rabbinical Representative by Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied Zone [sic] hardcover
1784ABC_47839Altona 1784. 8vo. Johann David Adam Eckhardt Early 19th-century blue marbled paper wrappers. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page and typographical ornaments at the head of every page. The text is set in Roman and Syriac type. 64 1 1 blank pp. First edition of a Syriac grammar for beginners written by Jakob Georg Christian Adler 1756-1834. It starts with a short introduction to Syriac grammar and is followed by excerpts from works by two important Syrian Christian authors: Gregory Bar Hebraeus 1226-1286 a prominent writer and church figure and Jacob of Edessa 640-708 the bishop of Edessa and one of the most important scholars of the Christian-Aramean tradition.Adler was an Orientalist and Syriac language professor at the University of Copenhagen. He was also a Lutheran theologian and became the head of the Bible society in Schleswig-Holstein. He has written multiple works on Syriac and Arabic. With a paper label mounted at the head of the front wrapper and an annotation at the foot of page 17. The edges and corners of the wrapper show some signs of wear with some loss of material at the foot of the spine. With a tear in the lower margin of page 43 without affecting the text. Overall in good condition.l VD18 1437708X. unknown
1719ABC_48566Leiden: ex officina Boutesteiniana 1719. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine red and blue sprinkled edges. 4to. With a general title page printed in red and black 7 engravings 1 folding 5 full-page 1 in the text divisional titles for each part with an engraved vignette 18 decorated woodcut initials 13 woodcut headpieces and 12 woodcut tailpieces. 4 parts in 1 volume. Including: 2 ALPINUS Prosper. De balsamo dialogus.Leiden Cornelis Boutesteyn 1718.3 BONTIUS Jacobus. De medicina Indorum.Leiden Cornelis Boutesteyn 1718.4 ALPINUS Prosper. De rhapontico.Leiden ex officina Boutesteiniana 1718. Early Leiden edition of an important work on Egyptian medicine written by the Venetian physician and botanist Prosper Alpinus 1553-1617. The present work includes a work on tropical medicine by Dutch physician Jacob de Bondt or Jacobus Bontius 1592-1631 which can only be found in the Dutch editions of Medicine Aegyptiorum and a text by Alpinus De rhapontico which can only be found in the present edition.Medicine Aegyptiorum was first published in Venice in 1591 then three times in Paris in 1645-1646 and then in Leiden in 1718 where it was combined with De Bondt's work for the first time. The present edition is a re-issue of the 1718 edition but with a new title page and an extra part. This extra part De rhapontico had been published separately in 1612 but was not published again until it was included in the present work. It discusses the therapeutic properties of rhubarb and is written in the form of a dialogue between Alpinus an Egyptian physician and a Jew. The other work by Alpinus included here De balsamo dialogus discusses the source of balsam and raises questions concerning its identity ancient names and medical uses. It is written in the same format as De rhapontico.The final text included here is De medicina Indorum libri IV by De Bondt which had been separately published in 1642. De Bondt who regarded tropical medicine as an independent branch of medical science spend several years in the Dutch East Indies where he studied the local medical practices. The work includes the first European description of beriberi and cholera.The head of the spine is somewhat worn with a horizontal tear in the vellum obscuring the manuscript title a brown stain on the back board. The pastedowns are detached from the boards but the structural integrity of the binding is still intact the edges of the leaves are slightly browned the last few leaves are stained at the bottom margin from the brown stain on the back board. Otherwise in good condition.l Blake p. 12; STCN 227919599 3 copies Wellcome II p. 36; cf. DSB I pp. 124-125; Garrison & Morton 6468 other ed.; STCN separate entries for ad 2: 227919971 6 copies ad 3: 227920112 6 copies ad 4: 181937085 5 copies. ex officina Boutesteiniana, hardcover
183722302Brussels 1837. 12mo. P.J. Voglet for Société Belge de Librairie Hauman Cattoir and company Modern grained brown half calf preserving the original lithographed wrappers partly uncut. 4 III 1 blank XV 1 blank 239 1 blank pp. Very rare first edition of the French translation of a work on Java by Joseph Jacob Xaver Pfyffer zu Neueck 1798-1853 a German in military service of the Dutch East India Company. The work covers Java's topography natural history ethnography customs religion local inhabitants government etc. and also discusses the Europeans their habits and customs. Included is a short extract with a vocabulary of the Malay language. The original German edition was published in parts between 1829-1832 and contained 15 plates Skizzen von der Insel Java und derselben verschiedenen Bewohnern. A second edition of the French translation appeared in 1854 Description de Java and it was also translated in Dutch as Schetsen van het eiland Java in 1838.Wrappers soiled; trivial spotting inside. Interesting work on Java in good condition.l Bastin & Brommer 197; cf. Haks and Maris p. 236; Tiele Bibl. 858. ABE CAT Anthropology & Ethnography unknown
1974C86490Phaidon. 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-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Phaidon hardcover
1974C86491Phaidon. 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-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Phaidon hardcover
17381210121738. First Edition. CHARLES I HOOPER Jacob. An Impartial History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England During the Reign of King Charles the First London: Printed and Sold by all the Booksellers in Town and Country 1738. Folio 7-1/2 by 12 inches period-style full speckled sheep gilt raised bands red morocco spine label. $3400.First edition of Hooper's ""impartial"" history profusely illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait depicting Charles I on horseback and 26 full-page engraved plates many depicting naval and land battles.Hooper drew on Clarendon Kennet Echard and Rushworth to compile his history. ""Everybody that shall duly consider the whole account of these transactions will be able to impute mistakes miscarriages and faults enough to both sides But we cannot omit making this one observation that where any King by ill judgment or ill fortune of his own or those entrusted by him in the chief administration of his government happen to fall into an interest contrary to that of his people and will pursue that mistake that Prince must have terrible conflicts in the course of his reign On the other hand that people who though invaded and oppressed in their just rights and liberties shall not rest satisfied with reasonable reparations and securities but having got power into their hands will make unjustifiable use of it to the utter subversion of that government they are bound in duty and allegiance to support do but at last make rods for their own backs and very often bring upon themselves from other hands a more severe bondage than that they had shook off"" Preface. Plates bound in at rear. Lowndes 1109. Discreet library markings on verso of title page only.Text and plates generally clean corners rounded contemporary calf covers rubbed. A very good copy of this illustrated history. hardcover
197894068Da Capo Pr. New. 1978. Hardcover. 0306709864 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Text pristine & unmarked tight to the spine - 257 pages. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee Da Capo Pr hardcover
18640001441Very Good. 1864. On offer is a significant historical relic of the Civil War being a book of 71 bound-in original handwritten telegraphs dated from May 19 1864 to December 6 1864. All appear to be handwritten and all have been folded at least 2 times or more. Many have original autographs by the sender. Several different types of paper were used to write them on. All in excellent condition. Examples of some of the subjects of telegrams are: Where to send white and colored recruits; payment amounts for recruits; forbidden furloughs granted to recruits by Provost Marshalls; Arrest Acting Masters Mate Edw. Parsons at Lebanon Springs and have him delivered on board the receiving ship North Carolina at Brooklyn Navy Yard plus many many more. The premium book is 8" x 10" with leather spine and corners with gilt stamped title on the spine attests to the importance of the contents. VG.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; KEYWORDS: CIVIL WAR GRAND ARMY OF THE UNION NORTH AGAINST THE SOUTH WAR BETWEEN THE STATES BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER AMERICANA UNION ARMY HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY AMERICANA Als antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito papel. . hardcover
199187131La Renaissance du Livre. New. 1991. Hardcover. 2871480311 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French. 399 pages; 259 illustrations. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee La Renaissance du Livre hardcover
198794112Bucknell Univ Pr. New. 1987. Hardcover. 0838751032 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 239 pages; over 500 black and white illustrations. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee Bucknell Univ Pr hardcover
1731620531731. Genevae : Perachon & Cramer 1731 Folio 1 587 1; 2 790; 2 570; 2 699 2 pp. 16 gestochene Portraits 4 Lederbände der Zeit mit Rückenvergoldung; minimnal fleckig; feienes Exemplar. Sehr selten - Erste Ausgabe! Die Bibliotheca scriptorum medicorum enthält ca. 4000 Bio-Bibliographien von medizinischen Autoren. Der vollständige Titel lautet: Bibliotheca scriptorum medicorum veterum et recentiorum Joannis Jacobi Mangeti Medicinae Doctoris . Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medicorum Veterum Et Recentiorum : In Qua Sub Eorum Omnium Qui A Mundi Primordiis ad hunc usque Annum vixerunt Nominibus Ordine Alphabetico adscriptis Vitae compendio enarrantur . Sicque Historia Medica Vere Universalis Exhibetur ; Opus Doctis Omnibus Maximeque Medicis Utile . Jean-Jacques Manget latinisiert Joh. Jac. Mangetus 19. Juni 1652 in Genf/Republik Genf; 15. August 1742 ebenda war ein Genfer Arzt der für die Herausgabe verschiedener Sammelwerke. Garrison & Morton No. 11172 unknown
101541London A. Alexander 1773. . First edition; 4to 26.5 x 21.5 cm; engraved Hebrew title page additional English and Spanish title pages approbation leaf by Rabbi Moseh Cohen de Azevedo in Spanish and Hebrew; Hebrew English and Spanish index of the chapters and erratas; preface to the reader in Spanish and English; contemporary mottled panelled calf gilt spine gilt in compartments with red morocco label; edge of first two title pages browned and chipped slight worming to a few other leaves not affecting text. 26 183 1 pp.<br /> A scarce Talmud and holy scripture vocabulary published by the pioneer of Hebrew printing in London A. Alexander. <br /><br />Jacob Rodrigues Moreira was an educated Jewish author associated with the Haskalah movement. This lexicon is his only surviving publication. The work contains an approbation by Rabbi Moseh Cohen d'Azevedo 1720-1784 also known as the Haham of London the Wise Man of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation of London. This biblical lexicon arranged in triple column containing more than four thousand words/idioms each in Hebrew English and Spanish arranged in fifty-eight topical chapters. Moreira carefully arranged the Hebrew terms and phrases according to subject coining new terms where needed and translated them to Spanish. His son Haim Moreira translated the terms to English. The final 58th chapter contains an imaginary dialogue between the author and his son. <br /><br />Alexander Alexander Alexander ben Judah Leib was one of the pioneers of the Hebrew printing in London active in the 18th-19th centuries. He had established his Hebrew press in London in 1770 and published the first bilingual Hebrew-English Common Prayer-book and Haggadah. <br /><br />The engraved Hebrew title page of this volume is signed by M. Marrebeeck an 18th century Dutch print publisher that was most likely working in Amsterdam.<br /> Vinograd London 75; Alston XIV 197; ESTC T168924; Roth B15.40; Not in Vancil or Zaunmuller. London, A. Alexander, [1773]. unknown
1737143528Amsterdam: Petrus Schenk 1757 part II dated 1737. Dutch waterways delineated in contemporary quarter sheep A handsome publication illustrating the technology behind the Dutch waterways their canals windmills bridges and boats. The first part was first issued in 1736 the second in 1737 here a secondary issue with a title page of 1757 the second part keeping a date of 1737 presented in the original trade binding of quarter sheep. 2 parts folio 555 x 347 mm. Titles printed in red and black with engraved printer's device double-page engraved dedication leaves in part I. Complete with all 47 double-page plates 20 in part I 27 in part II many folding with the consecutive numbering I-XXV in part I I-XXV and I-VI in part II but with some folding plates numbered as two. Contemporary red quarter sheep marbled paper sides. Rubbed worn around extremities but binding holding well and unrestored contents generally clean. A very good copy. Bierens de Haan 4836; Brunet IV 568 note; Graesse VII 258. unknown
1812K7BC7632IMESKiel 1812. 4to. Königlichen Schulbuchdruckerei printed by C.L. Wäser Contemporary half calf gold-tooled spine black spine label. With 6 engraved folding plates 3 partly handcoloured. xii 335 1 pp. Rare first edition of a botanical classic the principal work of Johann Moldenhawer published in 1812. This copy was part of the collection of the famous German botanist and explorer of Brazil Philipp von Martius 1794-1868 as the book-plate on the front pastedown shows. The Beyträge reflects the knowledge acquired in the field of plant anatomy during the period 1800-1812 when many new texts on the structure of plant organs were published and Moldenhawer made advances in his own research. This book contains important findings concerning plant anatomy based on Moldenhawer's own experiments where he isolated the cells and the vessels. By completely isolating the cells and vessels in his preparations Moldenhawer demonstrated that the cell wall is closed on all sides. Moldenhawers Beiträge zur Anatomie der Pflanzen the result of eighteen years of unremitting research on plant anatomy reflects his critical insights and methodical observations both in his own experiments and in his analysis of earlier and contemporary research on plant anatomy by others. This makes it a classic overview of the history of plant anatomy.With the bookplate of the explorer Philipp von Martius on the front paste-down. Some folds in the engraved plates not affecting the images binding slightly rubbed and discoloured head of the spine and foot of the black spine label chipped but still in good condition.l BMC NH III p. 1333; Bradley I p. 98; Pritzel 6357; for the author: DSB IX p. 455. unknown
196394113Faber and Faber. New. 1963. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Text pristine & unmarked tight to the spine - 448 pages; black and white images of 446 of Epstein's works. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee Faber and Faber hardcover
#[42340]4° geheel perkament 80 eenzijdig genummerde pagina's = 160 pag.7 pag. Geillustreerd met een aantal houtsneden naar J. Amman op titelpagina's en in de tekst. B0808 unknown