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1739WRCAM48796The Hague: Aux depens de la Compagnie 1739. Two volumes. 12224; 4254pp. Half titles. 12mo. Later polished calf gilt spine gilt with raised bands leather labels marbled endpapers. Minor shelf wear joints slightly rubbed. A clean near fine copy. In a buckram slipcase. The first French edition of Behrens' REISE DURCH DIE SÜD-LÄNDER UND UM DIE WELT an account of Jacob Roggeveen's 1721-22 Pacific voyage which provided important impetus for further exploration for the great Southern Continent. "Roggewein's is the first certified account of contact with Easter Island and its great stone images as well as the last of the great Dutch circumnavigations" - Cox. <br> <br> The author was a sergeant and commander of marines on the voyage. Contemporary accounts of Roggeveen's explorations were first published in Dutch in 1728 and in German beginning in 1735. This French translation was based on the Frankfurt and Leipzig edition of 1737. "Though some attribute the translation to Charles de Brosses Charles Pierre Claret Fleurieu believed that the style of language revealed the efforts of a non-native speaker. With the text often more a paraphrasing of the German version than a direct translation Fleurieu and others credit Behrens himself with the translation" - Hill. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 739/21. SABIN 4379. HILL 99. COX I p.51. BORBA DE MORAES p.95. HOWGEGO R63 for Roggeveen. Aux depens de la Compagnie hardcover books
1732WRCAM55846London: Printed for D. Midwinter and A. Ward. 1732. 2214197-40016 of 24pp. plus seven plates including frontispiece. Lacks the final four leaves of the index. 12mo. Contemporary calf rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Light shelf wear corners worn. Contemporary bookplate and presentation inscriptions see below. One plate torn lacking the lower left quarter of the sheet repaired with blank paper. One page with early manuscript marginalia. Scattered light foxing. About very good. A remarkable association copy connecting two significant members of the Revolutionary generation who were also united by family intermarriage and whose friendship was riven by their divergent loyalties during the American Revolution. This copy bears the bookplate of Francis Hopkinson 1737-91 signer of the Declaration of Independence author and poet composer judge and Pennsylvania government official. The ANB calls him "arguably the most versatile American of the revolutionary generation." This book was given to Hopkinson by the noted minister Jacob Duché who would shortly thereafter marry Hopkinson's sister and who famously broke with the cause of liberty during the Revolution. <br> <br> A front fly leaf bears the presentation inscription "The Present of Mr. Jacob Duché Junr. to Francis Hopkinson December 1757." The same hand has signed the titlepage with the names of Jacob Duché and Francis Hopkinson and the date 1757. On that page Duché's name has been crossed out indicating that the inscriptions are likely in the hand of Duché and that he crossed out his own name on the titlepage when he gave the book to Francis Hopkinson. Jacob Duché and Francis Hopkinson had a long and complicated friendship dating back at least to their college days at the College of Philadelphia later the University of Pennsylvania. In 1760 three years after giving him this book Duché married Hopkinson's sister Elizabeth. Francis Hopkinson was a prolific author and musician and published forty poems before the Revolution. A copy of HUDIBRAS Samuel Butler's famous satirical poem on English politics would have been a welcome and influential gift. "During the Revolution Hopkinson wrote a number of ballads and essays poking fun at the British cause and the Loyalists. 'The Birds the Beasts and the Bat' written in Hudibrastic verse served to ridicule those persons who tried to take both sides during the Revolution" - ANB. <br> <br> It is impossible not to believe that one of those targets of Hopkinson's ridicule was the gifter of the present edition of HUDIBRAS his brother-in-law Jacob Duché. Duché 1738- 98 born into a wealthy Philadelphia family was only twenty-two years old when he married Elizabeth Hopkinson. He would go on to become a prominent minister and religious leader in Philadelphia noted for his well- written sermons and essays. In 1774 he was asked to serve as the chaplain to the Continental Congress and he therefore gained political prominence as well displaying an apparent zeal for liberty. Duché resigned his official position with the Congress in October 1776 having concluded that the Declaration of Independence - signed just three months earlier by his friend and brother-in-law - would not serve as a tool for reconciliation with England. When the British captured Philadelphia Duché was imprisoned by General Howe and came to a permanent change of heart regarding the revolutionary cause. In 1777 he wrote a rash letter to George Washington urging that Washington undo the Declaration of Independence and negotiate a peace. The publication of the letter destroyed Duché's career and "those whose hearts had thrilled to Duché's eloquence now cursed him as a traitor and even Hopkinson wrote him a burning letter of protest" DAB. Duché and his family soon exiled themselves to London. The conclusion of the Revolutionary War did not provide Duché with an opportunity to return to the United States - anti-Loyalist sentiments were still too raw. It was not until 1792 having by then taken up the tenets of Swedenborgianism that Duché and his family finally returned to Philadelphia where he lived the rest of his life. <br> <br> Francis Hopkinson's bookplate was engraved by the noted artist and engraver Henry Dawkins one of the early engravers in the colonies. Dawkins was born in England but came to New York City in 1754. He found work engraving bookplates maps and music in New York and then in Philadelphia before returning again to New York in 1774. He was arrested there in 1776 and charged with counterfeiting paper money apparently not for the first time for which he was jailed. Later that year he petitioned the New York Provincial Congress for release but the record of Dawkins's life ends there and we do not know what became of him. <br> <br> This is a later edition of Samuel Butler's famous epic poem first published in three parts in London beginning in 1663. An edition containing all three parts together was first published in 1684. This edition contains seven engravings by William Hogarth. In the present edition parts two and three have separate titlepages and that of part three bears the imprint "printed for B. Motte. The text is continuous despite the pagination. <br> <br> A remarkable volume - a gift of youthful friendship inspirational to a signer of the Declaration of Independence whose long and close friendship with his brother-in-law would become a casualty of conflicting loyalties during the American Revolution. ESTC N17078. DAB IX pp.220-23; V 476-77. ANB 11 pp.190-92; 7 pp.4-5. Printed for D. Midwinter and A. Ward... unknown books
1817D12811Milano: P. Hugues 1817. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary half black and green morocco gilt-stamped lettering and ornament direct in spine compartments 5 raised bands; folio 455x300mm; leaves printed on the recto only with wide margins; consisting of engraved illustrated title-p. I-VI engraved text and illustrations 3 scimie dell' antico continente prima classe orang I-IX 2 seconda classe babbuino X-XVII 2 terza classe guenone XVIII-L 3 scimie del nuovo continente quarta classe sapaju LI-LX 2 quinta classe sapaju-sagoino LXI-LXX LXXI-LXXXVIII text 2 indice 6 dei lemuriani ossia maki propriamente detti genere maki I-VIII 2 genere indri IX-X 2 genere loris XI-XIII 2 genere galago XIV 2 genere tarsiere XV XVI indice. Collates complete with printed and engraved text and a grand total of 85 very fine -- and very charming -- engraved plates of monkeys most of whom will remind you of someone you know. Spine tips and edges of boards discreetly renewed; some light scuffing along spine and joints. Marginal browning; a few tiny worm holes to last few leaves; otherwise nice and bright. Bookplates of Cecilia Barbosa de Moura. <br/><br/>An important early monograph on primates including orangutans baboons guenons sapajous lemurs indris loris galagos tarsiers. P. Hugues hardcover books
5252Fine engraved frontis. port. of Klein & 28 engraved plates. 3 p.l. incl. frontis 233 1 pp. one leaf of ads. 8vo fine cont. polished calf spine nicely gilt red morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: C.J.B. Bauche 1754. bound with: -. Doutes ou Observations de Mr. Klein.sur la Revûe des Animaux faite par le premier Homme sur quelques Animaux des Classes des Quadrupedes & Amphibies du systême de la Nature de M. Linnaeus. Et des Remarques sur les Crustacés sur les Animaux qui ruminent & sur la Vie de l'Homme comparée avec celle des Animaux. One folding engraved plate. 2 p.l. 108 pp. 8vo. Paris: J.B. Bauche 1754. I. First edition in French 1st ed. in Latin: Danzig 1734 and enlarged. This is "one of the earliest monographic treatments of the sea urchins. It includes descriptions illustrations and a classification of both recent and fossil sea urchins.Although altered and enlarged this work was a major source of information on the Echinoidermata for zoologists and paleontologists throughout the eighteenth century and remained a point of departure in discussions by such early nineteenth century authors as James Parkinson."-D.S.B. VII p. 401. II. First edition in French 1st ed. in Latin: Leipzig 1743. This work summarizes Klein's feelings about taxonomic methods. His method was based entirely on external characteristics such as the number and position of limbs and the mouth. He vigorously opposed any method including the Linnaean system based on characters not visible externally. Klein 1685-1759 a leading marine zoologist "had many and diverse interests in natural history besides sea urchins. He developed a botanical garden in Danzig founded and directed a naturalist's society there made extensive collections and published about two dozen monographs including studies of birds fishes reptiles and invertebrates other than the sea urchins particularly the mollusks."-D.S.B. The attractive frontispiece depicts Klein standing in front of his natural history cabinet. A very fine and pretty copy. unknown books
04706Sussex: 1933. A Wonderful Pen and Ink Drawing from Arthur Rackham's Little Red Riding Hood.<br/><br/>RACKHAM Arthur artist. "Put the cake and the little pot of butter upon the bread-bin and come and lie down with me." Sussex 1933. <br/><br/>Original pen-and-ink drawing signed "A Rackham" on lower left-hand corner for the full-page drawing on page 275 in the The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1933. <br/><br/>Image size: 4 3/8 x 6 1/8 inches; 112 x 157 mm. Matted framed and glazed 15 7/8 x 13 5/8 inches; 404 x 346 mm.<br/><br/>This wonderfully executed pen and ink drawing depicts the moment when Little Red Riding Hood sees the wolf dressed up as her Grandmother. The wolf is in her Grandmother's bed and tells Little Red Riding Hood to "Put the cake and the little pot of butter upon the bread-bin and come and lie down with me". Of course the rest is history !!<br/><br/>The wolf is dressed in a mop cap wearing glasses and hiding behind the curtains of the bed. Grandmother's slippers are sitting neatly on the floor by the bed and next to the bed there is a candle and a bowl on a small table. Little Riding Hood is dressed in her riding hood holding some flowers she has picked for her Grandmother and carrying a large basket with the pot of butter sticking out of it.<br/><br/>As always Rackham has created a moment in time - one which is universally recognized.<br/><br/>"Little Red Riding Hood" is a European fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. Its origins can be traced back to the 10th century to several European folk tales including one from Italy called The False Grandmother Italian: La finta nonna later written among others by Italo Calvino in the Italian Folk Tales collection. The best known versions were written by Charles Perrault and then later by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Arthur Rackham chose the original Charles Perrault version.<br/><br/>The Moral of the Story. Children especially attractive well bred young ladies should never talk to strangers for if they should do so they may well provide dinner for a wolf. [Sussex]: , 1933 unknown books
19002613551900. Pen and ink on paper 8 pp. stapled booklet chapters I-VII and 2 pp. on single sheet portions of chapters XII-XV. 4to. Light toning. Pen and ink on paper 8 pp. stapled booklet chapters I-VII and 2 pp. on single sheet portions of chapters XII-XV. 4to. Draft Outline of Riis' Autobiography. The autograph outline of the first seven chapters of Riis's autobigraphy The Making of an American 1902 as well as outlines for parts of chapters twelve through fifteen. The opening chapters recount stories from Riis's boyhood in Denmark meeting his future wife Elizabeth Gortz and his arrival in America. "The story commences on a bridge over the river Nibs on the outskirts of the ancient town of Ribe which is on the Danish north seacoast. A boy & girl have met .". unknown books
178625988Ephrata: The Cloister 1786. First edition 4to pp. 6 250 2; printed in black letter throughout; engraved vignette pasted on title page; prelims and terminals waterstained small tear in the lower margin of title not touching letterpress old ownership signature at the top of the title page of Christian Stauffer 1736-1808 and a 30-line poem also presumably by him on the final blank leaf as well as a few marginal annotations; contemporary full calf front cover detached but present; the whole in a new cloth clamshell box. An abstract of the diary of the Brotherhood which had been kept by Brother Lamech and continued and edited by Brother Jaebez Agrippa i.e. Johan Peter Miller. Brother Lamech has been identified as Jacob Gass by Seidensticker First Century of German Printing in America p. 117. Evans 19558: "This biography of Johann Conrad Beissel the founder of the Ephrata Community is the principal source of information regarding that remarkable institution. Brother Agrippa is Johann Peter Miller; and Brother Lamech's secular name is said to be Jacob Gass. An English translation was printed in Lancaster Pennsylvania in 1890." Howes G76 identifying this as the second issue of three with the title page seal pasted on. <br/><br/> [The Cloister] hardcover books
6306One large woodcut diagram in the text. 24 unnumbered leaves. Small 4to modern boards. Nuremberg: G. Schenck 21 September 1502. First edition; this is the first of only two books known to have been printed by Georg Schenck and the author's only book. "In 1502 there was printed at Nürnberg a defense of astrology by Jakob Schonheintz a doctor of arts and medicine and a Franconian. He signs his preface at Würzburg. The immediate occasion of this defense was 'the impudence of a certain man who wishes himself to be considered a theologian although he is anything else than one who had attacked astrology and its professors. Pity for the unlearned who may take his attack seriously has moved Schonheintz to reply. He furthermore regards this preliminary skirmish as a preparation for a future encounter 'not with a cursed scribbler but with the most learned and most eloquent Giovanni Pico Mirandola most generous count of Concordia.' Schonheintz proceeds to say that no one has attacked astrology more bravely no one more learnedly no one with greater force and contention than Pico has."-Thorndike IV pp. 542-43. This book was much read and quoted in the early 16th century. Fine copy. ❧ Zinner 818. hardcover books
1603100584Innsbruck: Daniel Baur 1603. First edition in German after the Latin edition published in 1601. With frontispiece engraved portrait of Archduke Ferdinand II privilege on verso title page two preliminary leaves and 121 of 125 elaborate engraved portraits each with facing biographical notice printed within woodcut border. Lacking 4 leaves portraits 3 24 64 71. Two preliminary leaves printed for William Sterling Maxwell his extensive bibliographical note and index of portraits; a facsimile folding view of Innsbruck inserted after title. Full dark brown morocco spine titled in gilt upper board with Sterling Maxwell arms in gilt a.e.g. by XXXX. Sterling Maxwell's largest bookplate on front pastedown. A few portraits possibly in old facsimile or restrike. 11 leaves loose or slightly sprung a few marginal paper flaws one portrait poorly inked. First edition in German after the Latin edition published in 1601. With frontispiece engraved portrait of Archduke Ferdinand II privilege on verso title page two preliminary leaves and 121 of 125 elaborate engraved portraits each with facing biographical notice printed within woodcut border. Lacking 4 leaves portraits 3 24 64 71. Two preliminary leaves printed for William Sterling Maxwell his extensive bibliographical note and index of portraits; a facsimile folding view of Innsbruck inserted after title. The celebrated portrait gallery of the Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria with portraits of emperors kings nobles and war heroes in historic suits of armor in the Archduke's collection at Schloß Ambras. Compiled by the Archduke's secretary Schrenck von Notzing and translated into German by J.E. Noyse van Campenhouten. With an interesting full page printed bibliographical notice by Sterling Maxwell dated 1870 printed within facimile borders matching the text pages of the portraits. Colas 2691; Brunet V 224; Vinet 2046; Grässe VI 317; Lipperheide 499 Daniel Baur unknown books
18192518New York Nov. 18 1941. JACOB KALICH. COMMEMORATION TO JACOB KALICH. FOR FIFTY YEARS OF PROGRESS AS A PLAYWRITE DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER IN THE YEDDISH THEATRE. SIGNED BY KALICH and his ardent admirers. Over thirty signatures of those in the Yiddish Theatre.Watercolor pen and ink gouache. On vellum. 23 x 15.<br /> Right side: Tillie Rabmovitzty Ben Pepper Dolly Pepper O Salzman Michael Field David Dubin All the best Luba S.C. Cantor Edmond Bayends Blanche d. Ross Rose Dubrow Wm. H. Silverblatt May Glaubeman Jean Joan Grunfield Alias Yor II Sara Libromshow. Center: Hoseph Buloff Jeanne Greene Betty Sims Marvin Lowenthanl Zesnile John Jerome Veltin Miriam Kressyn Minnis Salzman Louis Golding Max Kozyk I. Grazabeman David Dubin Alexander Salzman Yetta Zweilig Clara Picon. <br />Left Side: Joseph Kalich Joseph Rumchinsky composer and writer Non Einhorn Molly Picon Seymour Rechzeit husband of M. Kressyn Abe Eller Slyvia Reger Kline Fred Berns Lucy and Michael German Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Gatevi Jacob A. Zanger R. Gurkin Frieda Rumshinsky/Victor Sims Nelson Picon Aaron Hoffman Ernie Norma's husband Welcome stranger Adelstein. books
01735New York: George H. Doran Company 1925. Limited to 600 Copies<br/>Signed and Numbered by the Artist<br/><br/>NIELSEN Kay illustrator. GRIMM Jacob and Wilhelm. Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm. New York: George H. Doran Company 1925. <br/><br/>American signed limited edition comprised of 600 copies numbered and signed by the artist this being copy no. 49. Large quarto 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches; 301 x 246 mm. 12 275 1 4 blank pp. Twelve mounted color plates with descriptive tissue guards. Ten black and white plates included in pagination. Title and initials letters printed in red and black.<br/><br/>Handsomely bound by The Chelsea Bindery stamp-signed on front turn-in in full black crushed levant morocco covers ruled in gilt front cover with original gilt stamp spine with five raised bands bordered and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt board edges decorative gilt turn-ins plum end-papers original decorative end-papers preserved top edge gilt others uncut. A very fine copy. <br/><br/>There was no signed limited English edition of this book.<br/><br/>"In an attempt to reinvigorate the market for gift books after the war Hodder & Stoughton resumed the publishing of Kay Nielsen's books though on a more modest scale. In 1924 they published a work that Nielsen had begun in 1912 Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales including sixteen stories illustrated with twelve watercolors. Nielsen returned to London and in 1925 his final book for Hodder & Stoughton Hansel and Gretel appeared with twelve color plates" Susan E. Meyer A Treasury of the Great Children's Book Illustrators p. 206.<br/><br/>Larkin p. 13. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925 unknown books
599537; 22; 17; 25; 21 folding leaves. Five vols. 8vo orig. wrappers orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers new stitching. Edo Osaka & Kyoto: 1832. First edition in Japanese and an important book. "Kincho or Rikkyo or Rikkei or Ryukei Sugita 1786-1846 the son of the famous Gempaku Sugita published a work in five volumes in 1830 this is wrong or a typo; the correct date is 1832 entitled Yoka shinsen which was a translation of the Dutch translation of Joseph Jakob von Plenck's Compendium institutionum chirurgicarum. Viennae: R. Graeffer 1780. The Yoka shinsen was important as the first complete translation of a Dutch surgical work into the Japanese language."-Mestler A Galaxy of Old Japanese Medical Books. III p. 157. Vols. I and II are concerned with tumors; Vol. III with ulcers; Vol. IV with wounds; and the fifth volume deals with pharmacology. In this volume many of the drugs appear with Latin and Dutch names and Japanese translations. Plenck 1738-1807 a member of the Viennese School was at one time or another professor of chemistry botany surgery anatomy and obstetrics at the Joseph Academy at Vienna. Fine fresh set. ❧ Sugimoto & Swain Science & Culture in Traditional Japan p. 386-"the crucial work on surgery was Yoka shinsen New selections on surgery by Sugita Ryukei 1786-1845; Genpaku's son by a mistress which was printed in 1832.". unknown books
1741WRCAM37910Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Andrew Bradford 1741. 32pp. 12mo. Printed self-wrappers stitched. Contemporary ink inscription "Jacob Taylor" in upper margin of titlepage; contemporary ink correction on p.27. Cellophane tape joining signature at spine occasional minor foxing. Else bright clean and very good. In a half morocco and cloth box. An almanac by Jacob Taylor who published his important Pennsylvania almanac for the years 1700 to 1746. It is a distinct possibility that the present copy was owned and signed by Taylor as his inscribed name on the titlepage is accompanied later in the volume by a manuscript correction to a poem "manumated" becomes "manumitted". Taylor took the poetry in his almanacs seriously printing excerpts of PARADISE LOST in 1741 and composing well-received verse of his own. In addition to the calendar this 1746 almanac contains a substantial amount of poetry; lists of courts fairs and Quaker meetings; and a discussion of Hannibal's oath before the gods. This he concludes with a quote from the 1739 almanac of "R. Saunders" Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard on the dangers of false wit and pride in the present age commenting favorably on Saunders "By wicked Wit the Truth is often drown'd; Here certain Truth adorn'd with Wit is found" p.23. <br> <br> Taylor's almanac was printed by different Philadelphia printers over time. Some were printed by Franklin but this one was issued by Andrew Bradford one of Franklin's rivals and the son of William Bradford the first printer in Philadelphia. DRAKE 9634. EVANS 4818. ESTC W22747. Printed and Sold by Andrew Bradford hardcover books
6353Two fine folding engraved plates. 9 leaves; 20 pp. one leaf of "Nota." Two parts in one vol. Small 4to modern wrappers. Stuttgart: J.G. Zubrodt 1681 the date is given in an anagram. First edition of this scarce observation of the famous comet of 1680-81; according to WorldCat we find no copy in North America. Apart from its brightness this comet is notable as the first to be observed using a telescope by Gottfried Kirch in Coburg. Other well-known observers included Robert Hooke Flamsteed Newton and John Evelyn. Zimmermann 1642-93 mathematician astronomer millenarian and theologian studied theology at the University of Tübingen and became a Lutheran minister at Bietigheim in Baden. A follower of Jakob Böhme Zimmermann's millenarian views caused him to be removed from his ministry. He attracted like-minded dissenters and in 1693 a group of about 40 people led by Zimmermann left Hamburg for Pennsylvania. Zimmermann died en route in Rotterdam. The remainder of the group established a religious community near the Wissahickon Creek. Zimmermann in his varied life was a professor of mathematics at Heidelberg. He wrote several notable and influential books on comets and was an active observer of the 1680-81 comet noted by Kronk see below on p. 372. Newton mentioned Zimmerman in the first edition of the Principia as an observer of this comet. The first plate depicts the comet's path. The early chapters deal with the comet's movements through the heavens and this is followed by a series of careful computations as to its exact positions at different moments in its progress. Fine copy and scarce. ❧ Kronk Cometography I pp. 369-73. Poggendorff II col. 1411. unknown books
1956WRCLIT61619Paris: Louis Broder 1956. Small quarto. Stiff lithographically decorated wrappers. Lithographed three panel frontis replicating the slipcase decoration and three original full-plate dry-point etchings. Textual illustrations. Fine but see below in glassine chemise and shelfworn slipcase. First edition. One of 150 numbered copies on Vergé de Montval from a total edition of 180 numbered copies all signed on the justification by Pablo Picasso who contributed the three dry-points two of them portraits of Jacob and the lithographs. The textual illustrations are original woodcuts by Georges Aubert after drawings by Picasso. This collection of Jacob's essays was published as a tribute to him on what would have been the occasion of his 80th birthday. In this copy either in error or by action of a previous owner the title-leaf bifolium has in its place the 4pp prospectus with the upper panel replicating the title-page. ARTIST & THE BOOK 238. MONOD 6297. GOEPPERT 78. BLOCH 743-745 802-804. Louis Broder unknown books
1817880761817. THE FIRST BOTANICAL WORK PUBLISHED IN AMERICA BIGELOW Jacob. AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANY BEING A COLLECTION OF THE NATIVE MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE UNITED STATES CONTAINING THEIR BOTANICAL HISTORY AND CHEMICAL ANALYSIS AND PRPOERTIES AND USES IN MEDICINE DIET AND THE ARTS WITH COLOURED ENGRAVINGS. Boston: Cummings and Hilliard 1817-1820. First edition. 60 color plates most with tissue guards: 10 hand-colored copper engravings and 50 plates printed in color a la poupee probably from an etched stone with some plates finished by hand. Six parts bound in three volumes. Octavo in fours nineteenth-century quarter calf bindings with marbled boards red morocco label and horizontal double-rules in gilt to spines. Ex library: each volume has a bookplate and ink stamp on front pastedown a perforated stamp to title-leaf with an ink stamp on verso a perforated stamp in top margin of first text leaf and an ink stamp on p. 51. Plates are unmarked. Bindings are worn and scuffed with joints tender some starting. Plates are clean for the most part though some have offset on versos from text leaves or slight toning from tissue guards. Text is clean. "This is the first botanical work published in America. Bigelow originally planned to use hand-colored copper plate engravings which are employed in the first half of the first volume. This method proving too expensive and laborious he sought a method of printing color rather than applying it by hand. Richard Wolfe who has made an exhaustive study of the work believes that the rest of the plates the book was issued in six parts over a three-year period were made by etching a stone block then applying the colors to the stone 'a la poupee'. The stone inked with multiple colors was then printed in a single impression. This is the only use of such a process an American color plate book." - Reese 19th Century American Color Plates Books #10. Bennett p. n11 Nissen 164 Pritzel 773 Staflue & Cowan 514 Sabin 5294. unknown books
1528870011528. MANLIUS DEL BOSCO Johannes Jacobus et al. LUMINARE MAIUS. Opus eximium quod Luminare Maius dicitur Medicis et Aromatariis perquam necessarium A Greater Lamp for Physicians and Apothecaries. Lyons: Printed by Antonio Blanchard for Louis Martin 1528. Quarto. 1-8 I-LXILXII -LXIV; I-XXVI; I-XXX I ff. This volume contains three separate works: The first Luminare Maius A Greater Lamp for Physicians by J.J Manlius del Bosco contains 11 sections on concocting different forms of medication: pills unguents plasters oils etc. 8 LXIV ff. It was first published in Milan 1494. The second Lumen Apothecariorum A Light for Apothecaries by Quiricus de Augustis of Tortona XXVI ff. intended for the use of pharmacists was first published in Turin in 1492. The third Thesaurus Aromaticum by Paul Suardo. I-XXXI ff. Originally printed in Milan in 1496 it lists medical substances alphabetically. All three Italian treatises from the 1490s are conveniently gathered together and beautifully printed here in one volume. Title-page in red and black with ornamental woodcut border and framed printer's device of two unicorns. Woodcut capital showing Saint Lawrence and foliate woodcut capitals throughout. Internally fine in 19th Century half-morocco showing only a few spots of rubbing. Wellcome I 4017. Rare. unknown books
2968Several woodcuts & extensive tables in the text. 24 p.l. 501 1 pp. Large 4to cont. polished speckled calf initials on upper cover "F.G.Z.S.H.v.W. 1739" spine finely gilt red morocco lettering piece on spine. Nuremberg: J.M. Seitz & C.C. Zell 1739. First edition and a very fine copy from the library of Karl Friedrich Graf zu Sayn Hohenstein und Wittgenstein 1708-56 with his initials on the upper cover one sees books from his library on the market from time-to-time. It must have been a fine and handsome collection. Schuebler 1689-1741 was a prominent Nuremberg mathematician architect and artist who wrote many standard works on the design of houses public buildings and gardens. He was also engaged in various fields of applied mathematics and became a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1735. The present work is a practical introduction to all aspects of calculation including multiplication division trigonometry with references to Napier arithmetical and geometrical progressions etc. A very fine copy and rare with no copy in the U.S. according to OCLC. ❧ Poggendorff II 853. unknown books
178010913Leiden: for H. Mostert 1780. Contemporary Dutch red-dyed pigskin backed marbled paper boards rubbed front panel with paper loss UNCUT. Schultens' collection contained over twelve thousand titles and rivaled the University library in size. Three quarters of his books dealt with the Abrahamic religions systematic theology biblical commentary church history philology and ancient history including INCUNABLES ILLUMINATED VELLUM COPIES AND ONE HUNDRED ARABIC HEBREW PERSIAN AND TURKISH MANUSCRIPTS. Leiden University acquired eighty of the manuscripts its largest single manuscript purchase in more than a century.     THIS COPY IS PRICED THROUGHOUT by Leiden printer and bookseller Dirk II Haak 1754-18-- who signed the title. In good condition foxed two quires heavily last leaves dampstained in the lower margin.¶Vrolijk & Leeuwen Arabic Studies in the Netherlands 79-82; Blogie Répertoire des catalogues de ventes IV: 30; STCN 241214483. for H. Mostert unknown books
16271048964to. Rotterdam: Bij Pieter van Waesberge 1627. 4to 7 parts in one -- 5 parts as called for in Landwehr plus two additional titles bound in at rear as follows: 8 1-35 1 blank 1-315 1; 1-91 1; 1-46 2; 1-2 3-28; 1-2 3-48 6 2 engraved frontis 49-55 1; 36 1-119 1; 16 1-49 29 pp. 109 engravings through the 7 parts as follows: the wonderful engraved title page and 52 emblems in Sinne ende Minne Belden; 43 circular copperplate engraved emblems in Emblemata Moralia; full-page engraving of Phyllis in the Argumentum; a portrait and 4 engravings in Galathee. Full 17th-century vellum expectably soiled yapped fore edges some wear at top of front cover. Manuscript title on backstrip. Parts bound out of order according to Landwehr but complete. A few notable but hardly bothersome defects: A2 with short marginal tear; I3r-I4v small hole; M1 small hole; P1 hole; 2a1-2a4 minor worming; ii marginal tear; Nn4 burn hole in image; marginal dampstaining through a handful of gatherings; a lone stamp from the Los Angeles University of International Relations seen at the top of the final leaf of text. Occasional offsetting; some leaves darkened. Very good. § The only edition of Proteus published in 4to format and containing Cats’ love-emblems with the addition of their English translation done by Josuah Sylvester. Also included is a separate portfolio of 80 additional emblems and allegorical symbols most likely extracted from the 1618 Middelburg first edition of Jacob Cats’ Silenus Alcibiadis sive Proteus Vitae Humanae ideam Emblemate. These are perfect for display or study apart from the text and are in very good condition. Bij Pieter van Waesberge hardcover books
182625234Cumberland Maryland: for the author by J.M. Buchanan 1826. First edition small 8vo pp. 123 1; contemporary roan-backed marbled boards rebacked old spine with gilt lettering direct neatly laid down; all edges yellow; light wear and rubbing to the binding but generally a good sound copy or better. With the bookplates of Frank Deering and Herbert R. Strauss. "This biography of Cresap was written to refute Jefferson's account in Notes on Virginia of Cresap's tendency to murder Indians especially in the famous case of the Indian Logan and his defenseless family. The immediate occasion for this now rare book written by the revolutionary officer late clergyman who had married Cresap's widow was the reopening of old sores by Doddridge in his then recently published Notes of 1824. The defense is complete and the biography is of absorbing interest" Streeter III 1335. American Imprints 24967; Howes J32; Field 769; Sabin 35488; Thomson 640. The Streeter copy brought $650; the Siebert copy $4500. <br/><br/> for the author, by J.M. Buchanan hardcover books
17740000222Leipzig: Bernhard Christoph Breitkopfs und Sohn 1774. Second edition. Contemporary calf. Very Good. 2nd edition. Folio Contemporary full calf with some ware and loss to ends of spine . Collation: 12 1-184 4p. with 51 copper-engraved plates. Internally this is a clean and bright copy with only minor spotting. <br/><br/>Leupold unlike his contemporary Newton was a designerand builder of instruments. In this work Leupold provides information and illustration of numerous devices that he built that were useful in handling water. This is a posthumous reprinting of his earlier edition in 1724which was the 2nd volume of his larger work Theatrum machinarum. Bernhard Christoph Breitkopfs und Sohn unknown books
1817044454Boston: Cummings and Hillard 1817. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Three volumes in one bound in contemporary paneled calf with an embossed eagle motif. Wear at corners and spine ends with a bit of loss to leather rehinged with inner joint strengthened with cloth. Old Yale library plate with a note that it was purchased from Yale as a duplicate in 1882. Modest foxing to text and plates heavier in spots fairly clean overall. 60 engraved plates colored a la poupee some finished by hand. In addition to being the first proper US botanical book Bigelow's Botany is the first US book printed in color. Remarkably two decades before the invention of chromolithography a method for printing in color was invented to print the plates for American Medical Botany. Sabin 5294 xi 1 18-197 1 195-197 1; xvi i.e. xiv 15-199 1; x 11-193 1. Pp. 195-198 of volume three bound at the end of volume one. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Science & Technology; Botany; Americana. Inventory No: 044454. <br/><br/> Cummings and Hillard hardcover books
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 books
1826WRCAM36095Cumberland Md.: Printed for the Author by J.M. Buchanan 1826. 1231pp. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter roan and marbled boards spine gilt. Boards lightly rubbed and shelfworn. Early ownership signature on front free endpaper. Light tanning scattered foxing old light dampstain in lower third of final five leaves of text. About very good. In a burgundy half morocco and cloth slipcase spine gilt and folding cloth chemise. First edition of this biography of Captain Cresap defending him against charges that he slaughtered Indians before the beginning of the Revolutionary War. In particular Cresap became infamous in the case of the Indian Logan and the murder of his defenseless family in 1774. "This biography of Cresap was written to refute Jefferson's account in NOTES ON VIRGINIA.The immediate occasion for this now rare book written by the revolutionary officer later clergyman who had married Cresap's widow was the reopening of old sores by Joseph Doddridge in his then recently published NOTES ON THE SETTLEMENT AND INDIAN WARS OF THE WESTERN PARTS OF VIRGINIA & PENNSYLVANIA FROM THE YEAR 1763 UNTIL THE YEAR 1783 INCLUSIVE of 1824. The defense is complete and the biography is of absorbing interest" - Streeter. <br> <br> The Streeter copy was bought by Sessler for $650 in 1968. HOWES J32 "b." SABIN 35488. STREETER SALE 1335. FIELD 769. THOMSON 640. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 24967. DAB IV p.538 Cresap. Printed for the Author, by J.M. Buchanan hardcover books
