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1904014375New York: The Outlook Company 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Hinges cracked and neatly repaired. Still Near Fine. Second Printing in publisher's original decorated cloth. Illustrated with plates. This copy virtually unique as it is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by both the author and the subject as President. Riis's inscription is dated 5 August 1908. Roosevelt writes: "with the best wishes of/Theodore Roosevelt/The White House/Jan. 18th 1909." The addition of "The White House" by Roosevelt is notable as prior to his administration the residence was known as the "President's Palace" the "President's House" and the "Executive Mansion." It was Roosevelt who officially named it "The White House" in 1901. Of the many books signed by Roosevelt we have both handled and seen we have never before encountered one in which he has noted his official residence along with his signature. <br/><br/>Jacob Riis among the most dedicated advocates for America's oppressed and downtrodden arrived in New York from his native Denmark at the age of 21 in 1870. A pioneer in photojournalism Riis photographed and wrote about the slums and tenements of a New York in the dawn of a new century. Riis came to Roosevelt's attention through his 1890 book HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES. As Commissioner of the New York City Police Department Roosevelt accompanied Riis on his evening travels through the slums and witnessed firsthand the inhumane conditions endured by many of New York's inhabitants. In his 1901 book MAKING OF AN AMERICAN Riis wrote of Roosevelt: "It could not have been long after I wrote HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES that he came to the Evening Sun office one day looking for me. I was out and he left his card merely writing on the back of it that he had read my book and had 'come to help.' That was all and it tells the whole story of the man. I loved him from the day I first saw him; nor ever in all the years that have passed has he failed of the promise made then. No one ever helped as he did. For two years we were brothers on Mulberry Street." Roosevelt in turn wrote of Riis after his death: "It is difficult for me to write of Jacob Riis only from the public standpoint. He was one of my truest and closest friends. I have ever prized the fact that once in speaking of me he said 'since I met him he has been my brother.' I have not only admired and respected him beyond measure but I have loved him dearly . and I mourn him as if he were one of my own family." The Outlook Company hardcover
18234768Paris: Crochard 1823. <p>A beautiful copy bound in contemporary red morocco of the definitive version of this continually evolving collection of important memoirs on electrodynamics by Ampère 1775-1836 and others over the period 1820-1823 beginning with his 'Premier Mémoire' the "first great memoir on electrodynamics" DSB.</p>. DOCUMENTING THE BIRTH OF ELECTRODYNAMICS. <p>A beautiful copy bound in contemporary red morocco of the definitive version of this continually evolving collection of important memoirs on electrodynamics by Ampère 1775-1836 and others over the period 1820-1823 beginning with his 'Premier Mémoire' the "first great memoir on electrodynamics" DSB. "Ampère had originally intended the collection to contain all the articles published on his theory of electrodynamics since 1820 but as he prepared copy new articles on the subject continued to appear so that the fascicles which apparently began publication in 1821 were in a constant state of revision with at least five versions of the collection appearing between 1821 and 1823 under different titles" Norman. Some of the 25 pieces in the collection are published here for the first time others appeared earlier in journals such as Arago's Annales de Chimie et de Physique and the Journal de Physique. But even the articles that had appeared earlier are modified for the Receuil or have additional notes by Ampère to reflect his progress and changes in viewpoint in the intervening period. Many of the articles that are new to the present work concern Ampère's reaction to Faraday's first paper on electromagnetism 'On some new electro-magnetical motions and on the theory of magnetism' originally published in the 21 October 1821 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Science which records the first conversion of electrical into mechanical energy and contains the first enunciation of the notion of a line of force. Faraday's work on electromagnetic rotations would lead him to become the principal opponent of Ampère's mathematically formulated explanation of electromagnetism as a manifestation of currents of electrical fluids surrounding 'electrodynamic' molecules. The Receuil contains the first French translation of Faraday's paper followed by extended notes by Ampère and his brilliant student Félix Savary 1797-1841. Ampère's reaction to Faraday's criticisms are the subject of several of the articles in the second half of the Receuil. The collection also includes Ampère's important response to a letter from the Dutch physicist Albert van Beek 1787-1856 in which "Ampère argued eloquently for his model insisting that it could be used to explain not only magnetism but also chemical combination and elective affinity. In short it was to be considered the foundation of a new theory of matter. This was one of the reasons why Ampère's theory of electrodynamics was not immediately and universally accepted. To accept it meant to accept as well a theory of the ultimate structure of matter itself" DSB. The volume concludes with a résumé of a paper read by Savary to the Académie des Sciences on 3 February 1823 and a letter from Ampère to Faraday dated 18 April 1823 which does not appear in the Table of Contents showing that this definitive version of the Receuil was in fact published in 1823. Only three other copies of this work listed by ABPC/RBH. </p> <br /> <p>Provenance: Marcel Gompel 1883-1944 ex-libris on front paste-down - Répertoire général des ex-libris français: G1896. A Jewish professor at the Collège de France Gompel worked in the Laboratoire d'Histoire naturelle des corps organisés from 1922 to 1940 under the direction of André Mayer. In World War II he became a hero of the French resistance and was finally tortured and executed on orders from Klaus Barbie the chief of the Gestapo in Lyon. When Barbie came to trial the prosecutors used Gompel's case as a particularly clear and egregious example of his guilt of crimes against humanity. His superb library was stolen by the Nazis. </p> <br /> <p>The collection opens with the 'Premier Mémoire' 1 numbering as in the list of contents below first published in Arago's Annales at the end of 1820. This was Ampère's "first great memoir on electrodynamics" DSB representing his first response to the demonstration on 21 April 1820 by the Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted 1777-1851 that electric currents create magnetic fields; this had been reported by François Arago 1786-1853 to an astonished Académie des Sciences on 4 September. In this memoir Ampère "demonstrated for the first time that two parallel conductors carrying currents traveling in the same direction attract each other; conversely if the currents are traveling in opposite directions they repel each other" Sparrow Milestones p. 33. </p> <br /> <p>The first quantitative expression for the force between current carrying conductors appeared in Ampère's less well-known 'Note sur les expériences électro-magnétiques' 2 which originally appeared in the Annales des Mines. Ampère stated without proof that if two infinitely small portions of electric current A and B with intensities g and h separated by a distance r set at angles α and β to AB and in directions which created with AB two planes at an angle γ with each other the action they exert on each other is </p> <br /> <p>gh sin α sin β sin γ k cos α cos β/r2</p> <br /> <p>where k is an unknown constant which he stated could 'conveniently' be taken to be zero. This last assumption was an error which significantly retarded his progress in the next two years before he stated correctly that k = − 1/2 in his article 13 published for the first time in the Receuil. This article comprised 'notes' on a lecture 12 delivered to the Institut in April 1822 in which he surveyed experimental work carried out by himself and others since 1821 he also published for the first time there the words 'electro-static' and 'electro-dynamic'. The full theoretical and experimental proof of the correct value of k appeared in two articles in Arago's Annales in 1822 19 and 20 in an article by Savary 22 and in experiments with de la Rive 17 see below. </p> <br /> <p>On 20 January 1821 Ampère performed an experiment together with César-Mansuète Despretz 1798-1863 intended to support his own theory of the interaction of electric currents against a rival theory of Jean-Baptiste Biot 1774-1862 and Félix Savart 1791-1841 presented to the Académie on 30 October 1820. This was reported in article 21 the first "experimentally based semi-axiomatic presentation of electrodynamics" Hofmann p. 316. A small cylindrical magnet was placed at the same distance from two perpendicular current carrying wires. The Biot-Savart theory predicted that the magnet would experience no net force; Ampère's theory predicted that the magnet would experience a non-zero torque from the nearby currents. But when Ampère and Despretz performed the experiment the magnet did not move p. 343. This defeat together with illness and fatigue caused Ampère to suspend his electrodynamical researches for several months. What little energy he could muster for electrodynamics was mainly devoted to correspondence.</p> <br /> <p>According to Ampère magnetic forces were the result of the motion of two electric fluids; permanent magnets contained these currents running in circles concentric to the axis of the magnet and in a plane perpendicular to this axis. By implication the earth also contained currents which gave rise to its magnetism. It was not long however before Auguste Fresnel 1788-1827 pointed out to his friend Ampère that his theory had several difficulties notably the fact that the supposed currents in magnets should have a heating effect which was not observed. Fresnel suggested that the electric currents circulated around each molecule rather than around the axis of the magnet. In January 1821 Ampère publicly accepted Fresnel's idea. </p> <br /> <p>Not everyone was convinced of the identity of electricity and magnetism however. Humphry Davy 1778-1829 expressed doubts in a letter to Ampère of 20 February 1821 7. Ampère's idea of magnetism created by circulating electric currents was also in direct opposition to a theory put forward by Johann Joseph von Prechtl 1778-1854 and supported by the great Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius 1779-1848 according to which electromagnetism was 'transverse magnetism' - whereas Ampère eliminated magnetism and showed how all the phenomena could be accounted for by the action of two electric fluids Prechtl and Berzelius reduced electromagnetism to magnetic action. Berzelius expressed this view in his letter 3; Ampère responded in a letter to Arago 4. </p> <br /> <p>In April 1821 Ampère wrote to Paul Erman 1764-1851 professor of physics at the University of Berlin and perpetual secretary of Berlin's Royal Academy in response to Erman's Umrisse zu den physischen verhältnissen des von Herrn Professor Oersted entdeckten elektro-chemischen Magnetismus Berlin 1821. Ampère declared that his electric theory of magnetism was established "as solidly as a physical theory can be since in only admitting it at first as a hypothesis it serves to predict and make known in advance all the magnetic phenomena formerly known those which M. Oersted has discovered and the new properties whose existence in voltaic conductors I have made known. When one finds such an agreement between the facts and the hypothesis from which one started can one recognize it merely as a simple hypothesis Is it not on the contrary a truth founded on incontestable proofs" In the same letter Ampère calmly harvested Erman's experimental discoveries as further confirmatory evidence. "The observations described in the memoir which you have been so good as to send me are all the more new proofs of it. For if I am not mistaken they could all be predicted according to the theory in which magnets are considered to be assemblages of what I call electric currents" Hofmann pp. 277-8. Erman's experiments influenced Ampère's investigations of induction in July 1821 in which he very nearly anticipated Faraday's landmark discovery of electromagnetic induction a decade later see below.</p> <br /> <p>Ampère again stressed the 'identity' of electricity and magnetism in a lecture to the Académie on 2 April 1821 5. He also expressed his views on the nature of magnetism in a letter to Gaspard de la Rive 1770-1834 8. "Perhaps in an attempt to accommodate the positivistic inclinations of some of his Parisian colleagues or to avoid the adoption of hypotheses Ampère normally wrote on electricity and magnetism in a phenomenological vein eschewing noumenal questions. But there were exceptions: an example occurred in a letter of 15 May 1821 to the Swiss physicist Gaspard de la Rive which was published in the recipient's journal Bibliotheque universelle. Adopting the two-fluid theory of electricity then prevalent in France he spoke rather in passing of "the series of decompositions and of recompositions of the fluid formed by the reunion of the two electricities of which one regards electrical currents as composed" p. 122. Thus at this time Ampère's aetherian framework was based on electric current regarded as de- and recomposition of fluids and magnetism construed in terms of these currents rotating around each magnetic molecule" Grattan-Guinness p. 927.</p> <br /> <p>As far as Ampère was concerned "The physical theory of electrodynamics was now complete. Given the concepts of the ether and the electromotive force of matter as Ampère had formulated them all the observed effects could be explained; not only explained but subjected to mathematical analysis. The combination was a potent one and the accuracy of Ampère's calculations and the depths of his insight led many to embrace his theory. Ampère however was not satisfied with merely creating a model of electrodynamic action. By 1821 he was intoxicated by his vision and convinced that his electrodynamic molecules really existed. They must then also explain other areas of physics and chemistry.</p> <br /> <p>"In his 'Answer to the Letter of M. van Beck' i.e. van Beek 11 published in October 1821 Ampère turned his attention once again to the problem of chemical combination . What determined whether a reaction would take place and if so with what violence was the electrical condition of the participating molecules. To explain the mechanism of chemical combination Ampère had recourse to another analogy; molecules were not only like voltaic piles but also like Leyden jars. The facts of electrochemistry proved "that the particles of substances are essentially in two opposed electrical states." In order to preserve its electrical neutrality each molecule therefore decomposed the ambient ether to attract the electricity of the opposite sign. Ampère did not say if this was why each molecule was surrounded by electric currents but his use of the Leyden jar analogy would appear to rule out this possibility. The molecule presumably had both an inherent electrical charge and electric currents associated with it. It was the inherent static charge that caused chemical combination; the resultant combination of the two electricities gave rise to heat and light and both the material and energy relations of reactions could be understood in terms of the same mechanism . There can be no doubt that he took his own theory seriously as a general theory of matter. Nor was he alone in this. During the 1820's Becquerel in Paris and Auguste de la Rive 1801-73 in Geneva used the electrodynamic model in their researches in electrochemistry" Williams pp. 150-1.</p> <br /> <p>Late in 1821 however Ampère's satisfaction with his theory of magnetism was seriously challenged by Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic rotation a development which thrust Faraday immediately into the first rank of European scientists. "In the autumn he had to face a powerful criticism from Faraday whose paper 'On some new electro-magnetical motions' came out in a French translation 9 in Arago's Annales soon after its appearance in a London journal. A seminal paper in Faraday's contributions to the topic it announced that continuous rotation could occur if a pivoted cylindrical magnet moved around a fixed wire and also if a pivoted wire moved round a fixed magnet. In October he sent to Ampère and Jean-Nicolas-Pierre Hachette 1769-1834 one of his pieces of apparatus and Ampère demonstrated its working to the Académie in November.</p> <br /> <p>"From the theoretical point of view the chief challenge to Ampère's view was Faraday's conviction that such motions could not be explained by theories based on inter-molecular forces. Faraday's alternative drawn from this and other experiments was to give preference to curved 'lines of force'; but Ampère was anxious to preserve his own approach. Accordingly when the translation was prepared he had a set of appendicial notes 10 made by a new helper Félix Savary polytechnicien of the promotion of 1815 and thus one of Ampère's old students and in 1821 principally a geographer by profession. Ampère added his name to these notes to indicate his agreement with them. In his second note Savary rejected Faraday's implicit claim in the paper that the rotatory motion could be taken as a 'primitive fact' in electromagnetic phenomena and in the next note he showed how that motion could be explained in Ampère's terms" Grattan-Guinness p. 928.</p> <br /> <p>"In his original article describing the discovery of a continuous rotation of one extremity of a current-carrying wire around a magnet as well as the rotation of one extremity of a magnet around a current-carrying wire Faraday stated the following: "Having succeeded thus far I endeavoured to make a wire and a magnet revolve on their own axis by preventing the rotation in a circle round them but have not been able to get the slightest indications that such can be the case; nor does it on consideration appear probable." Ampère on the other hand considered that this new kind of motion might be produced in the laboratory. He was also the first to obtain it experimentally. He communicated his discovery to the Academy of Sciences of Paris in 7 January 1822 14. In order to obtain continuous rotation of a magnet around its axis Ampère initially floated it in mercury by the help of a counterweight in its lower extremity. By closing the circuit a constant current flowed vertically downwards through the upper extremity of the magnet leaving laterally along its lower portion and going through the mercury. When this constant current was flowing through the magnet it rotated around its axis relative to the ground" Assis & Chaib p. 123. Ampère wrote to Faraday in April 1823 describing these electromagnetic rotation experiments 24.</p> <br /> <p>In the letter to van Beek 11 described earlier Ampère described an experiment suggested by Fresnel to decide whether in a ring of copper macroscopic currents would be induced by a nearby coil or magnet. A first trial in July 1821 produced a negative result which fitted well into Ampère's theory of molecular currents. When he repeated the experiment with a more powerful magnet in August 1822 however he indeed obtained an effect and realized that this was the induction of currents by magnets. But as a consequence of his struggle with Faraday's rotations he concentrated on his magnetic theory. Although the positive result of the induction experiment again opened the way for both interpretations of magnetization it did not provide any positive hint concerning which of them should be preferred. Thus Ampère declared only that the result did not refer to his theory and decided not to pursue it further. A decade later when Faraday again discovered electromagnetic induction and gained great publicity Ampère bitterly complained about his former disregard of the result.</p> <br /> <p>Between 1821 and 1822 Gaspard de la Rive van Beek and Faraday performed some experiments showing that the poles of a cylindrical magnet are not located exactly at the extremities of the magnet as was predicted by Ampère's theory. These experiments forced Ampère to modify his conception of microscopic currents. In a letter addressed to Gaspard de la Rive dated 12 June 1822 15 Ampère included a figure which presents the equilibrium configuration of the microscopic currents around the particles of the magnet due to the interaction of all microscopic currents. That is due to the collective interactions between the small current-carrying loops the planes of these molecular currents should no longer remain orthogonal to its magnetic axis . This final conception of molecular currents presented by Ampère with their planes inclined relative to the axis of an uniformly magnetized bar is accepted in its essence up to the present time" Assis & Chaib p. 105.</p> <br /> <p>As described earlier Ampère had concluded in his article 13 that the constant k in his law for the force between current carting wires should be equal to −1/2. This implied however that two collinear and parallel current elements should repel one another when both currents flowed in the same direction towards the same point in space. Sceptical about this prediction he performed with Auguste de la Rive in September 1822 in Geneva an experiment to test it reported in 17 pp. 284-5 . This experiment has received several names in the literature: "Ampère's floating wire experiment" "Ampère's hairpin experiment" and "Ampère's bridge experiment." Ampère himself gave a very clear description: "Two very interesting electro-magnetic experiments have lately been made by M. Ampère in the laboratory of M. de la Rive at Geneva. M. Ampère had been induced from his mathematical investigations to expect a repulsion between two portions of an electrical current passing in the same direction and in the same right line or that every part of an electrical current would repel the other parts a result which may be comprehended by conceiving an endeavour in the current to elongate itself. The experiment which M. Ampère has contrived to illustrate this action of the current consisted of dividing a dish into two parts by a division across the middle and filling each division with mercury a piece of wire was then bent into the form of the letter U but the curved part was bent to one side so that the two limbs of the wire might lie on the mercury one on each cell and the bent part pass over the division without touching it. The wire was covered with silk except a small portion at each extremity by which the communication was established with the mercury" Assis & Chaib p. 145. "Ampere and Auguste de La Rive reported that as soon as a current was sent through the circuit and regardless of the direction of this current the originally stationary floating wire was propelled across the mercury pool away from the terminals connected to the power source. Ampere immediately attributed this phenomenon to repulsive forces between collinear pairs of current elements that is pairs in which one member is an element of the current in the mercury flowing between the bare end of the wire and the adjacent terminal and the other is an element of one of the linear segments of the wire. Interpreted in these terms the experiment represented a striking confirmation of the prediction Ampère had made to the Académie three months earlier. The importance Ampère ascribed to this demonstration was promptly reflected in the way he publicized it. For example in sharp contrast to his ambiguous and incomplete descriptions of induction the text he composed for his verbal report to the Académie includes a thorough and accurate account of the floating-wire demonstration" Hofmann pp. 317-8.</p> <br /> <p>In his article 22 Savary provided further support for Ampère's conclusion that k = −1/2 by analyzing an experiment carried out in 1820 by the chemists Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac 1778-1850 and Jean-Joseph Welter 1763-1852. "Initially they utilized an unmagnetized steel ring which did not interact with a compass needle. If this ring was broken into pieces its pieces also had no influence upon the magnetized needle. They then coiled a toroidal helix around this ring and a constant current flowed through it. The current was then turned off and the helix was removed out of the ring. The ring did not interact with a compass needle placed nearby. However when the ring was broken into pieces each piece did now interact with the magnetized needle. Each piece behaved now as a small magnet. That is each small piece of the ring was magnetically polarized with a North and a South pole so that it became magnetized" Assis & Chaib p. 149. Savary showed that the results of this experiment were possible only if k = 1 or −1/2 and as previous experiments by Ampère had shown that k could not be positive he could conclude that k = −1/2. "Savary's contribution was well publicized by Ampère. He wrote several complimentary reviews for influential journals and wrote to la Rive that Savary's presentation of his work to the Académie marked "a kind of epoch in the history of dynamic electricity" Hofmann p. 321.</p> <br /> <p>List of Contents author is Ampère unless otherwise stated:</p> <br /> <br /> Premier Mémoire. De 1'Action exercée sur un courant électrique par un autre courant le globe terrestre ou un aimant pp. 3-68<br /> AMPÈRE & Gillet de LAUMONT Additions au mémoire précédent - note sur les expériences électro-magnétiques de MM. Oersted Ampère Arago et Biot pp. 69-92<br /> BERZELIUS Lettre à M. Berthollet sur l'État magnétique des corps qui transmettent un courant d'électricite pp. 93-99<br /> <br /> <br /> Lettre de M. Ampère à M. Arago pp. 99-108<br /> Notice sur les Experiences électro-magnétiques de MM. Ampère et Arago lue à la séance publique de l'Académie royale des Sciences de Paris le 2 avril 1821 pp. 109-112<br /> Lettre de M. Ampère à M. Erman secrétaire de 1'Académie Royale de Berlin pp. 113-120<br /> DAVY Extrait d'une Lettre de Sir H. Davy à Mr. Ampère pp. 120-121<br /> Extrait d'une Lettre de Mr. Ampère au Prof. De La Rive pp. 121-124<br /> FARADAY Mémoire sur les mouvemens électro-magnétiques et la théorie du magnétisme pp. 125-158<br /> AMPÈRE & SAVARY Notes relatives au Mémoire de M. Faraday pp. 158-167<br /> Réponse de M. Ampère à la Lettre de M. Van Beck sic sur une nouvelle Expérience électro-magnétique pp. 169-198<br /> Exposé sommaire des nouvelles Expériences électro-magnétiques faites par différens Physiciens depuis le mois de mars 1821 lu dans la séance publique de l'Académie royale des Sciences le 8 avril 1822 pp. 199-206<br /> Notes sur cet exposé des nouvelles Expériences relatives aux Phénomènes produits par 1'action électrodynamique faites depuis le mois de mars 1821 pp. 207-236<br /> Expériences relatives aux nouveaux phénomènes électro-dynamiques que j'ai obtenus au mois de decembre 1821 pp. 237-250<br /> Extrait d'une Lettre de M. Ampère au Prof. De La Rive sur des expériences électro-magnétiques 22 June 1822 pp. 252-258<br /> De l'Action qu'exerce la Terre sur les conducteurs voltaïques pp. 259-261<br /> De la RIVE Mémoire sur l'Action qu'exerce le globe terrestre sur une portion mobile du circuit voltaïque pp. 262-286<br /> Remarks on the preceding memoir pp. 286-292<br /> Second Mémoire. Sur la Détermination de la formule que représente 1'action mutuelle de deux portions infiniment petites de conducteurs voltaïques pp. 293-318<br /> Additions au Mémoire précédent. Extrait d'un Mémoire présenté à l'Académie royale des Sciences dans la séance du 16 septembre 1822 pp. 319-324<br /> Exposé méthodique des phénomènes électrodynamiques et des lois de ces phénomènes pp. 325-344<br /> SAVARY Extrait fait par M. Savary du Mémoire qu'il a lu à l'Académie royale des Sciences le 3 fevrier 1823 pp. 345-354<br /> Observations additionelle pp. 354-364<br /> Extrait d'une Lettre de M. Ampère à M. Faraday Paris 18 avril 1823 pp. 365-378<br /> <br /> <p>Table pp. '357-360' errata on p. '360'</p> <br /> <p>Errata p. 383.</p> <br /> <p>The bibliographical complexity of this work is a direct result of Ampère's modus operandi: "His work was marked by flashes of insight and it often happened that he would publish a paper in a journal one week only to find the next week that he had thought of several new ideas that he felt ought to be incorporated into the paper. Since he could not change the original he would add the revisions to the separately published reprints of the paper and even modify the revised versions later if he felt it necessary" Norman. Our version of the Receuil is more extensive than the most complete copy owned by Norman and is probably that alluded to in the note to item 45 in the Norman catalogue: "Another probably later version has been noted with additional pages 361-378 plus an additional page of errata p. 383 and ten instead of nine plates." This copy additionally has pp. 223-236 which are missing from the Norman copy and to which the additional plate refers.</p> <br /> <p>Ekelof 819; Norman 44-45 less complete issues; Ronalds 10; Wheeler Gift 784 copy with 344 pages only - "The author's classical investigations in electro-dynamics together with experimental illustrations. Also a paper by De la Rive on the action of the earth on a movable circuit carrying a current". Assis & Chaib Ampère's Electrodynamics 2015. Grattan-Guinness Convolutions in French Mathematics 1800-1840 1990. Hofmann André-Marie Ampère 1995. Williams Michael Faraday 1965.</p> <br/> <br/> 8vo 204 x 126 mm pp. ii 1-3 4-167 1 blank 169-250 252-258 1 blank 259-378 1 358-360 383 with 10 folding engraved plates plates 1-5 signed by Adam after Girard one small text woodcut. Contemporary red morocco gilt by Lefebvre flat spine richly decorated and lettered in gilt borders of covers gilt-tooled within double rules inner gilt dentelles all edges gilt. A very fine copy. Crochard unknown
196444629Vietnam Thailand and elsewhere in Asia as well as the United States Europe and the Middle East ca. 1964-1974: Compiled by Jacob Harris an American who served as a Senior Police Advisor in Vietnam and Thailand during the Vietnam War 1964 - 1974. 1964 - 1974. First edition. A large and remarkable archive of images from Vietnam and Thailand covering the decade from the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the beginning of the buildup of American forces in Vietnam to a year before the evacuation of the American embassy. Most notable are the many images showing the training of local security forces by American civil and military advisors. The collection was compiled by Jacob Harris an employee of the United States Agency for International Development USAID Office of Public Safety OPS whose task was to train Vietnamese and Thai police and counterinsurgency forces. Most of the images in the form of photographs and photographic slides were created by Harris his wife or his associates and illustrate all aspects of life in those countries at the time. Harris traveled widely throughout the region and the collection includes images from not only Vietnam and Thailand but also from Laos Singapore Hong Kong Macao Malaysia India and elsewhere. The images also document Harris' lengthy career as a New Jersey State Trooper and his travels in other parts of the world. Jacob Joseph Harris ca. 1910-2005 also known as "Jack" and "Jake" served for thirty-six years 1928-64 with the New Jersey State Police eventually attaining the rank of major. Included herein is a printed card dated Dec. 31 1960 marking thirty years of Harris' service to the state of New Jersey. In 1964 he began what he called his "second career" taking a position with the U.S. Agency for International Development and was stationed first in Vietnam and then in Thailand. As his postings permitted he was joined by his wife of many years Virginia and she appears in a great number of the photographs. Harris was associated mostly with USAID's Office of Public Safety which was established in 1957 to train the police forces of America's overseas allies. The OPS was often used by the Central Intelligence Agency as a cover for its agents abroad and operated in Europe the Middle East Africa and Asia until it was shut down by Congress in 1974. At other times Harris was a part of the State Department's Office of Missions. Whether or not Harris was directly employed by the CIA has not been ascertained and it seems that his actual role in Vietnam and Thailand was in fact the training of local police and paramilitary forces. However Harris' proximity to high ranking officials in the governments of South Vietnam and Thailand as well as the nature of many of the photographs in this collection show that he played an active and important role in training local forces to fight the Vietcong and Thai insurgents. And it is certainly true that the various departments and agencies of the U.S. government in southeast Asia at that time those operating overtly or covertly worked together toward their common goal. Jacob Harris ended his career at the State Department in Washington and retired to Florida in 1975. A slide included as part of the collection explains the "Objective of U.S. Assistance to Civil Police Programs & Paramilitary Forces Overseas." Among these are "encourage humane responsible police administration; enforce the law & maintain public order with minimum use of force; counter subversion & terrorism; improve the character and image of civil police & paramilitary forces binding them more closely to the community." A large percentage of the photographs and slides in this collection show Jacob Harris with the Vietnamese and Thai officials and officers with whom he worked trained and advised during his decade of service. Included are images of military and political leaders members of the Thai royal family and members of military and police forces. A number of the photographs show police operations against members of the Vietcong or other subversive organizations several of them showing dead bodies. One album is devoted to photographs showing a Thai operation against revolutionaries with pictures of soldiers dead and mangled bodies of the enemy and members of the Thai forces recuperating and being commended at their hospital beds. This same album contains a number of typescripts in Thai that appear to describe the actions depicted. A few other photographs have manuscript ink notes apparently in Jacob Harris' hand identifying the scene. One showing a dead body is captioned "Vietcong" while another dated April 2 1969 shows a Thai military force with some members identified with a caption explaining that they were "assigned to eliminate Durae Gang." Some photographs are quite chilling in their juxtaposition as in one album where pictures of the Harrises and their friends at the beach are displayed beside photographs of dead Vietcong soldiers. The photographs and slides show Harris and his American colleagues and often their wives interacting with Vietnamese and Thai officials the local citizenry and each other. One group of images shows a party thrown for Harris and his wife when they were reassigned from Vietnam to Thailand in 1968 in the wake of the Battle of Hue. Several images show Harris visiting villages and interacting with locals and the difficulty of lives of Thai and Vietnamese villagers is clearly evident. Many of these images show villages populated mostly by the elderly women and small children. The absence of most men speaks volumes; they may have left to fight for the Army of the Republic of Vietnam or the Vietcong or they may have lost their lives. It is clear from the images in this collection that despite the hardships encountered by American troops in Vietnam USAID officials lived comfortable lives. Many of the photographs show them at parties vacationing at beach resorts lounging by swimming pools etc. As mentioned though stationed in Vietnam and then Thailand Harris traveled widely throughout Asia including to Hong Kong Singapore Macao Malaysia and Laos. He also traveled throughout the countries he was stationed in and there are images in this archive of Saigon the Vietnamese provincial capital of Dalat Danang Bangkok Ayutthaya Angkor Wat and much more. Many of the images of Vietnam show a country that still bears a heavy French influence before the Communist takeover of the 1970s. Other images show trips taken by the Harrises to Europe and the Middle East as well as photographs documenting Harris' life in New Jersey and his earlier career with the state police. The more than 1700 photographs are a mixture of black and white and color ranging in size from 2 3/4 by 3 1/2 inches to 3 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches though a handful are larger. Included are more than fifty boxes of slides some 2000 original slides in all. The images in the slides appear to have been taken by Harris or his wife and are in color. As with the photographic prints the slides are a mixture of military and nonmilitary scenes: parades assemblies featuring police and military officials pictures of village life aerial views of the Vietnamese and Thai countryside etc. There are many images of American military airplanes and equipment training exercises aerial views of the countryside several images of the demilitarized zone and much more. One group of slides shows an anti-American parade in Vietnam featuring signs reading "Kick out Taylor" protesting the 1964 appointment of General Maxwell Taylor as ambassador to South Vietnam. As a military advisor to President Kennedy Taylor had enthusiastically supported sending more American combat troops to Vietnam. Other slides show Jacob Harris accompanying a Vietnamese delegation on a visit to the United States during which they went to Washington and to New Jersey where they met with his old colleagues in the New Jersey State Police. Yet another box of slides is labeled "Hong Kong" and "Red Chinese border" containing a number of views of Hong Kong in the late 1960s as well as views of mainland China. Other images document visits by American dignitaries to Thailand and Vietnam and there is a series of slides featuring Harris with Army of the Republic of Vietnam general Nguyen Chanh Thi and others showing Harris and police officers at the strategically important Hai Van Pass near Danang. One group of thirty-five slides housed in a box labeled "DMZ bombing" shows the aftermath of an air raid presumably by U.S. forces with bombed-out buildings and ruined villages and countryside. Other images show bombed out buildings in a more urban setting. In all a massive archive of images documenting American activities at the local and police levels in Vietnam and Thailand over the course of a crucial decade. The Harris archive is a wealth of views of all aspects of life in the region during this period which help deepen our understanding of the effects of the American presence in southeast Asia during the era of the Vietnam War. More than 1700 original photographic prints and 2000 original photographic slides plus fourteen audio recordings and miscellaneous documents. Most of the slides preserved in their original Kodak processing boxes. Some photographs loose but most bound into albums. On the whole in near fine condition. Compiled by Jacob Harris, an American who served as a Senior Police Advisor in Vietnam and Thailand during the Vietnam War, 1964 unknown
1609791AD6R1MSG6Frankfurt 1609. 4to. Wilhelm Hoffmann Contemporary vellum sewn on 3 vellum tapes rebacked. With the letterpress title within engraved border including the imprint and 3 series of 42 43 and 32 full-page numbered woodcuts showing exercises with the arquebus musket and pike. 3 parts in 1 volume. 3 1 blank 43 1 blank 44 36 ll. Rare first edition published in Germany with woodcuts instead of engravings of a military manual known in English as The exercise of arms it was written and illustrated by Jacques de Gheyn and quickly became a famous pictorial army manual for use of officers to teach the young recruits how to handle their weapons: the arquebus part 1 musket part 2 and pike part 3. The text here in German and French gives a short explanation of the illustrations. It gives an excellent picture of the successful army of the Dutch Republic after its reform by Prince Maurits who reintroduced exercises and discipline. It also immortalizes Prince Maurits as a military thinker and commander of the most disciplined army of his age.Some faint browning throughout slightly more visible on a few leaves and some foxing on title-page. Binding rebacked and a few stains on the sides. Good copy.l VD 17 39:124359A 3 copies; WorldCat 6 copies incl. 2 the same; cf. Cockle 79 other ed.; Jähns pp. 1005-1007 other ed.; Lipperheide 2057-2060 other eds. ABE CAT Costumes & Uniforms hardcover
16441238251644. Paris: Rolet le Duc 1644. <br /> <br /> Two books in one: 8vo 4 leaves 164 pp; 1 leaf Extraict du Privilege du Roy; 10 leaves 717 71 Appendix Table pp. Contemporary limp vellum with hand lettered label on backstrip. Very early illegible ownership inscription on the rear pastedown. Bookplate of A.R.A. Hobson on verso of first title page. <br /> <br /> § Second edition of Naudé's celebrated treatise on library management "reveuë corrigée & augmentée" by Naudé himself a work of the greatest importance in the history of book collecting and libraries complete with the 'Extraict du Privilege du Roi' an unsigned leaf following L2 p. 164 which is said to be missing from most copies. Together with Jacob's treatise the first comprehensive account of libraries ancient and modern and including some on which notices can be found nowhere else. The account of British libraries occupies 65 pages. Since the Hobson sale only one copy has sold at auction the Bergé copy of the Naudé only for 12000 euros. Of the Jacob Hill notes: As is usual when the two parts are bound together the title-page to the second part has been excised. Hobson also notes: "Lacks the inserted title to part II as often." Peignot 33: "la seconde edition est la meilleure". See Breslauer and Folter 53. Tumarkin 1191: "See Balsamo. where Naudé's humanist message is shown to bear the stamp of. Montaigne Charron Descartes and even Giordarno Bruno's Eroicifurori. unknown
1734170795London: for T. Cox; and sold by J. Wilford 1734. The first scientific study of the question of distribution First edition of "the first scientific study of the question of distribution" Foxwell anticipating the Physiocratic positions on single tax land rents and free trade. "Stewart compared Vanderlint also with David Hume. McCulloch used Stewart's opinions on several occasions and may have provided the basis for Marx's charge that 'Hume follows step by step and often even in his personal idiosyncracies' Vanderlint's work" New Palgrave. "Like Barbon and North Vanderlint had a global vision of international trade and pleaded for free trade. He recognized the mutual benefits that flowed from free trading referring to 'an invincible argument for free and unrestrained trade'" Murphy. Octavo 196 x 121 mm pp. iv ii 170. Contemporary sprinkled calf rebacked spine ruled in gilt in compartments red morocco label. Engraved armorial bookplate of Maurice Fitzgerlad Knight of Kerry Corners. Spine and board edges lightly rubbed light surface wear to sides. Pale dampmark to fore-edge upper outer corner of title page chipped; a very good copy. Goldsmiths' 7227; Kress 4201; McCulloch p. 162; Sraffa 6080. Antoin Murphy Monetary Theory 1601-1758 1996 pp. 46-7. unknown
180560296København ca. 1805-08. 4to. Near contemporary ca. 1850 full brown calf with richly gilt spine and blindstamped border to boards. Spine worn and capitals lacking a bit of leather. Front hinge cracked strengthened from verso. Internally very nice and fresh with only occasional brownspotting. With the book-plate of John Arden to inside of front board. Bound with the original wrappers for the fourth and ninth series. The front wrapper for the ninth has the title written in English in contemporary hand to the top right slightly cropped in ink that seems identical to the "9" denoting the series number. 57 out of in all 72 published engraved an excellently hand-coloured plates of costumes one present in two copies plate nr. 67. All plates with Danish and German text in the plate. Apart from two leaves that are slightly smaller the leaves measure 255x19 cm. The print surface on all measures 205 x 14 cm. <br/><br/><em>An unusually large collection of 57 of the rare plates that constitute the first Danish work on national costumes. The work is of the utmost scarcity with only one known complete copy in public institutions Danish University Library - the copy in the Royal Library is also incomplete. The title is known solely from the wrappers that each series of six plates was issued with. These wrappers are also exceedingly scarce and almost never present. Our copy contains two of them. As always the issue number has been added in hand. Rieter and Senn were both born and educated in Switzerland and both arrived in Copenhagen in 1804. They studied costumes on Sealand the West Sea Islands and Holsten. The series of costumes is divided into two sections the first depicting those of Copenhagen along with Amager and Sealand the other that of Southern Jutland including Holsten and the North Friesian Islands. Rieter left Copenhagen already in 1805 and Senn was left to complete the publication. It is assumed that Senn did most of the drawings. Only very few complete copies of the work are known to exist only one in public collections. Colas states that “I do not know the exact number of plates to have been published in this collection which is very rare. The copy of Lipperheide contains 56 plates and that of the University of Copenhagen has 72.†Own translation from French. Lipperheide 1045 56 plates; Bibl. Danica II: 1080 incomplete; Colas: 2557; Krohn: 873-944. </em> hardcover
020738New York: Limited Editions Club 1989. hardcover. Fine in a Fine suede-lined linen clamshell box with leather label. Jacob Lawrence. Large folio bound in full midnight blue Japanese cotton. Copy #160 of only 400 numbered copies SIGNED on the colophon by Jacob Lawrence who has contributed 8 ORIGINAL SILKSCREENS to this massive 16" x 22" and truly magnificent work one of the high points of the press. These silkscreens are identical except for not being individually signed to the very few portfolios of 8 prints currently selling for upwards of fifty thousand dollars. According to the publisher anywhere from 17 to 21 screens were required to bring out the coloring of each illustration making a total of 144 separate stencils all of which were destroyed after the strictly limited number of some 400 original sets of prints had been achieved on the fine Whatman paper specified by the Osiris Printing Studio in New York. The text was printed on a heavy handmade paper from Cartiere Enrico Magnani of Pescia Italy. Monthly Letter laid in. A gorgeous book. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover
005220Amsterdam: Edente Nicolao Iohannis Piscatore. First Edition. Full Vellum. Ribbon ties. Very Good. One later title bearing the date of 1638; the only copy found on line bearing the primary title is dated 1674. 4to oblong 30 by 38 cm. Partially hand-colored title page 206 copper engraved plates not counting five later title pages and 101 manuscript leaves. In essence then this is two works -- a printed illustrated plate book and a highly scarce one at that and a manuscript commentary on the plates. The captions of the printed plates are in Latin while the manuscript text is in Dutch. The manuscript portion is beautiful with an abundance of ornate letter devices virtually one on each manuscript leaf and the writing besides being rendered generally with a calligraphic hand. These Dutch exegeses are written in a vernacular non-stilted manner. Not referenced in Brunet nor Landwehr. We could locate only one copy of the Visscher work on OCLC. It is at the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek-Klassik in Weimar Germany. It would appear that copy has the same number of plates as ours yet given the higgely piggely ordering of the plates which are often numbered within a series yet there are several instances of numbers missing we can not state with confidence that our printed matter is identical with that of the German library. In terms of the printed work contained herein it is arguable that this is in fact a collection of smaller works as there are other printed title pages. Contraverting this view is that it was not uncommon in the seventeenth century for something issued as a single work to have multiple title pages as was often the case with bibles. In the present work the other printed titles include "Memorabilium Novi Testamenti In Templo Gestorum Icones Tre Decim Elegentissimi AC Ornatissimi"; "Vita Passio et Resurrectio Jesu Christi . . . " ab Adriano Collart and this bearing a date of 1638; "Acta Apostolorum Elegantissimis Iconibus Summo Artificio Delineata a Duobus Praestantissimis Pictoribus Belgis . . . "; "XII. Fidei Apostolicae Symbola Iconibus Artificiosissimis"; manuscript title "Martelisatie der Apostolen"; and "Visiones Apocalyticae Exhibitae Johanni Apostolo in Insula Pathmo Elegentissimis Iconibus Expressae". There are also manuscript title pages among them "De Seven Wonderen der Weerelt" or "The Seven Wonders of the World" which is curiously followed by eight plates of eight different wonders. The bulk of the work as suggested both by the primary title and subsequent title pages covers scenes from the new testament but the first six plates depict the first six days of creation as recounted in Genesis. Notwithstanding the religious thrust of the plates many of them have an appeal that may excite even those not moved by pietistic imagery. More than anything many of the plates provide a window to the landscape society economy and culture of the seventeenth century Low Lands. A good number of the plates have fantastical imagery as well. Finally the plates represent a Baroque artistry tour de force. Rebacked. The older vellum of the boards is soiled and has some smallish chips and edge tears. Browning to the pages. A few tape repairs and some leaves with roughness along their edges. Edente Nicolao Iohannis Piscatore unknown
20254The Limited Editions Club. Fine. 1989. Hardcover. Rare. Signed by the illustrator. Limited edition of 400 copies this being copy #83. Navy cloth cover is nearly flawless. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Two text pages with a thumbprint otherwise pages are clean and pristine. 8 beautiful color lithographic plates. Publisher's notes laid-in. Slipcase has sunning but is in near fine condition. ; Signed by Artist . The Limited Editions Club hardcover
191033635Montrouge Paris: 1910 1910. Original Litho. Original Litho. PICASSO. MAX JACOB. Double Signed Litho. Montrouge Paris Seine. 1910. 14" 7/8 X 10" 3/4 on plain paper stock with the lithograph printed in two tones: Greenish grey for Picasso's drawing and handwriting and black for Max Jacob. Number 17 of only 30 copies. A rare early illustration of Picasso's close friend Max Jacob done in celebration of Jacob's conversion to Christianity. Jacob who had Jewish origins claimed to have had a vision of Christ in 1909 causing his conversion. The illustration of Jacob the first of Picasso's drawings of Max Jacob seated comfortably in a fine armchair dressed in his three piece suit. The printed text: Top A mon ami Max Jacob / Picasso .10 / 22 R. Victor Hugo / Montrouge Seine - Middle L'archange foudroyé n'eut que le temps / de desserrer sa cravate . On aurait sit qu'il / priait encore./ C. Max Jacob. Signed in pencil with his new Christian name: "C. Max Jacob" and by "Picasso" at the bottom. A very good or better example of this rare piece - Max Jacob is regarded as an important link between the symbolists and the surrealists as can be seen in his prose poems Le cornet à dés The Dice Box 1917. Throughout the year of 1901 Picasso traveled to Barcelona & Paris for art exhibitions. During an exhibition in Paris Picasso met Max Jacob. Max Jacob was a poet painter & art critic with connections in the Parisian cultural scene. The two artists developed a friendship after Jacob left an admiring note for Picasso at the art gallery displaying Picasso's work Richardson Vol. I 203. Jacob introduced Picasso to the French language and to French theatre; Jacob was also an actor. Jacob took Picasso to see operas which possibly included I Pagliacci & La Bohème Richardson Vol. I 338. "At night there were frequent visits to the cabarets of Montmartre such as the Chat Noir and when tickets could be found to the Moulin Rouge" Penrose Picasso 76. Picasso & his friends also enjoyed the artistic atmosphere of Le Lapin Agile. Artists & writers would congregate at the small café to listen to recitals exchange ideas & celebrate special occasions such as the opening of an exhibition Penrose Picasso 117. The walls of the café were lined with work by artists that were used as payment for debts. Theatrical entertainment was a prominent part of Picasso's social life in Paris. By 1904 Picasso had established a foothold in Paris and would remain in the cultural center of Europe for the rest of his life. Picasso & Max Jacob cultivated their talents in a dwelling known as the Bateau Lavoir. According to Penrose this place was ". . . composed it seemed of nothing but lofts & cellars all in such a sad state of repair. . . " Picasso 96. Artists of all endeavors were attracted to this bohemian style of living. Picasso's neighbors included painters sculptors writers & actors Penrose Picasso 102. One of Picasso's most influential friends entered his life in 1905: Guillaume Apollinaire. "From the first encounter Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire established a creative dialogue that fostered and inspired some of their finest art & poetry". Apollinaire was a poet & playwright identified as a Surrealist who kept close connections with literary & artistic figures in Paris including Max Jacob & André Salmon. He was a great source for Picasso to meet writers & theatre artists. Many of Picasso's friends encouraged him to frequent the theatre with artists & poets from Paris Picasso Penrose 177. Even though Picasso was not in Paris he managed to find groups of artistic individuals to stay abreast of cultural gossip & happenings. Picasso's connections with writers led him to create several illustrations for books of poetry for friends. For example during summer 1910 in Cadaques Catalonia painting with Derain Picasso was commissioned to illustrate a poetic novel written by Max Jacob titled Saint Matorel issued by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler in 1911. Penrose Picasso 179. This was only the first of a collections of poetry they collaborated on. 1910 unknown
174456102Halle Johann Justinus Gebauer. 1744-1793 4to. Bound in 65 Theil 48 in 3 volumes nice contemporary full calf with raised bands and richly gilt spines. A few volumes have some wear to upper spines. With 58 frontispices 124 engraved plates and 103 engraved folded maps. Internally nice and clean. <br/><br/><em>Brunet III: p. 233 - Graesse III: 309 Both bibliographies erroneously state that the first part was printed in 1746. </em> hardcover
180536079København ca. 1805-08. 4to. Varierende bladstørrelser. Trykflade ca. 20x15 cm. Med 59 kobberstukne og håndkolorerede dragtplancher samt 6 tillægsplancher i tusch og akvarel. Alle med dansk og tysk tekst under billedet. Indlagt i bogæske af helshirt. <br/><br/><em>Af største sjældenhed. Der udkom i alt 72 blade af denne Danmarks første arbejde om vore nationaldragter men en komplet serie kendes kun i ganske få eksemplarer - kun et eksemplar forefindes i offentlige biblioteker UB mens eksemplaret i KB ikke er fuldstændigt. Titlen kendes kun fra de 12 hefteomslag som medfulgte udgivelsen de er ikke til stede her. Rieter og Senn som begge var født og uddannet i Schweitz ankom til København i 1804 de gjorde dragtstudier på Sjælland på Vesterhavsøerne og i Holsten. Serien af dragtplancher er opdelt i 2 afdelinger den første viser københavnske med Amager og sjællandske dragter mens den sidste gengiver sønderjydske Holsten og de nordfrisiske øer. Denne sidste afdeling med ialt 37 plancher foreligger her komplet og blev genudgivet 1909 af Karl Häberlin i "Volkstrachten der nordfriesischen Inseln". Rieter forlod København allerede i 1805 således måtte Senn fuldføre udgivelsen. Antageligt har Senn udført de fleste af tegningerne. De medfølgende 6 originale akvarel-plancher supplerer serien således at den omfatter ialt 65. Disse kopier fra Det 19.årh. har flg. numre hos Krohn: 1317233234 og 35.An extremely scarce series of the first Danish work on National Costumes only known in a few copies.Bibl. Danica II: 1080 incomplete - Colas: 2557 only 56 plates. - Krohn: 873-944 </em> unknown
1987671BASTEI-LÜBBE 1987-07/89. 1.-2. softcover. Inkarnation der Unsterblichkeit Die 2209822104241022411424119 BASTEI-LÜBBE paperback
45783Nürnberg : Johann Jacob Wolrab circa 1720. Original wooden box 270 x 105 x 40 mm with two compartments containing removable cards: 6 double-sided cards for the months and 16 smaller double-sided cards for the days; each card is engraved and hand-coloured but the larger cards also have hand-painted gouache decorations illustrating the months and signs of the zodiac; the verso of the sixteenth day card i.e. the card with '31' on the recto has the engraved imprint of 'Nürnberg zu finden bey Johann Jacob Wolrab'; the cards have an expected amount of rubbing and handling wear one has a recent tape repair but overall they have been remarkably well preserved the colours still vibrant; the wooden box has a short crack on the underside. A rare and charming perpetual calendar made and sold by Johann Jacob Wolrab 1675-1746 a Nuremberg bookseller publisher and art dealer who is perhaps best known for his engravings of dwarf caricatures. The cards for the months contain printed information about each month including variations in day length. It is almost certain that the calendar was issued in an uncoloured state and without illustrations as some traces of the printed text show through the overpainted motifs. However the appeal of this particular calendar lies in these attractive naively executed decorations - unquestionably fully contemporary with the printed cards - that transform it into a unique artwork. No other example traced. unknown
163989174Lugduni Batavorum Leyde Leiden: Ex Officina Elzeviriana 1639. Fine. The very first Persian grammar. Ex Officina Elzeviriana Lugduni Batavorum Leyde Leiden 1639 15.3 x 20.8 cm 2 volumes reliés en 1 Rare first edition. Full vellum binding over boards with flaps smooth spine title inked partly faded at the spine head some blemishes on the boards edges spotted red.A fine and rare copy. Booksellers descriptive labels pasted on an endpaper.Backer & Sommervogel VIII 1339-1340 considers the two parts as separate works. Willems 490 clearly explains that the two parts form a single title published at once and 477 for the Persian grammar which forms a separate title and constitutes the second attempt of its kind for Western use. A most curious composition by the Spanish Jesuit Jeronimo Espeleta 1549-1617 who adopted the name Javier out of deference to his relative the famous Apostle of the Indies presented by a Dutch Protestant Louis Dedieu 1590-1642 with the aim of demonstrating that Catholics in the missions of the East deliberately altered sacred texts and intermixed them with non-canonical fables. Consequently this very first account of the life of Christ and Saint Peter in Persian produced by this devoted missionary at the request of the Mughal emperor Akbar the Great attracted the attention of the Index particularly on account of Dedieus comments. This publication notably offers readers the very first Persian grammar issued ten years before John Greaves together with an excerpt from the first book ever printed in Persian: Jacob Tawuss translation of the Pentateuch. Provenance: William Bolts with his autograph ownership inscription at the head of the title-page: Gulielmi Bolts.William Bolts 1739-1808 a Dutch merchant active in India is best known for his celebrated Etat civil politique et commerçant du Bengale 1775. Ex Officina Elzeviriana hardcover
29047Paris Editions Galerie Simon 1921. 1 vol. 235 x 325 mm. Broché. . Édition originale. Illustré de quatre lithographies hors-texte par Juan Gris. Un des 90 exemplaires sur hollande signé au colophon par l'auteur et l'artiste. Premier livre illustré de gravures originales par Juan Gris et première apparition de la couleur dans la production éditoriale de Kahnweiler : le bleu le vert le bistre et l’ocre sont utilisés. C'est également la première fois que les illustrations portent clairement un titre ou une légende. . « L'ouvrage sera souscrit notamment par Paul Guillaume Jacques Doucet et Paul Poiret. Encore un détail éditorial c'est la première fois que les illustrations portent clairement un titre : aucun des livres précédents n'avait de légende ou de titre pour les hors-texte. Et ici Kahnweiler privilégie le papier de Hollande à l'exclusion du papier Japon. » Librairies Illi et l'Exemplaire Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler éditeur 9. Paris, Editions Galerie Simon, 1921. 1 vol. (235 x 325 mm). Broché. unknown
172910151Leipzig Johann Heinrich Zedler/Register: Leipzig Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf 1729-1733/1740. 12 bindings containing 22 volumes and a register 10 16 588 8 834 8 4 674 14 608 10 16 640 8 674 10 4 548 8 636 14 744 12 576 10 32 664 6 8 651 8 16 742 8 680 6 8 620 6 621 10 720 6 534 6 708 2 380 8 736 2 592 4 224 26 144 882 280 p. Contemporary Vellum Folio H. 345 x L. 225 x W. 7-85 cm. -the complete set is ca. 90 cm. wide- A single wormhole in the bottom margin of volume 13 top of the back covers of volume 19/20 21/22 and the register lack a small piece of vellum the text blocks are slightly browned at some places but not nearly as browned as usual page 451/452 of volume 9 is present a second time in volume 8 all 22 volumes are illustrated with a large engraved head-piece depicting Luther at the beginning of the main text. Firm and complete set of the works of Martin Luther 1484-1546. Included is a useful register which was specially made for this edition by Johann Jacob Greiff 1699-1767. The set is uniformly bound in firm vellum bindings which are in very good condition and surprisingly clean. Altogether a beautiful set of the life's work of the renowned Martin Luther. Leipzig Johann Heinrich Zedler/Register: Leipzig, Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf hardcover
1780ABC_48891The Netherlands 1780. Late 18th-century gold-tooled brown mottled calf sewn on 5 supports bound by the so-called Acorn-and-Foliage Tool Bindery in Amsterdam Storm van Leeuwen. Both boards show the large gold-tooled monogram of the Amsterdam chamber of the VOC as a centre piece sandwiched between the gold-tooled date Anno 1780 all within a gold-tooled floral frame with floral corner pieces in the inside corners spine gold-tooled in six compartments red sprinkled edges. 4to ca. 19 x 15 cm. Manuscript in French written in black ink on paper in a neat cursive script by one hand. With chapter divisions numbered 39-75 and headings. The text is written upside down in relation to the binding. Most leaves show an identical watermark depicting a lion rampant on a pedestal with Vryheyt in a crowned ring with Pro Patria Eiusque Libertate and the letters CR below which is very close to Heawood 3149 date: 1753. Late 18th-century manuscript copy of a French childrens catechism by the Swiss theologian Jacob Vernet 1698-1789 bound in a remarkable late 18th-century binding originally produced for the Amsterdam Chamber of the Dutch East India Company VOC by the so-called Acorn-and-Foliage Tool Bindery which was active between ca. 1760 and ca. 1784 Storm van Leeuwen.It shows the large monogram of the Amsterdam Chamber of the VOC sandwiched between the date "Anno 1780" on both boards. These bindings were usually commissioned as gifts to persons important to the VOC often containing an almanac for the relevant year but possibly also produced as blank notebooks. The present work comprises chapters 39-49 and 58-75 of Vernet's work which form almost the second half of printed editions. The chapters included in the present work are complete and exactly follow the order of the printed text in the Geneva 1742 edition pp. 75-140 checked using a digital copy with a slightly different spelling and replacing some words. For unclear reasons chapters 50-57 dealing with the fourth through tenth commandment have not been copied and several leaves between the end of chapter 49 and the beginning of chapter 58 have been left blank.Vernets religious text was first published in 1741 under the title Instruction chrétienne ou catechisme familier; avec quelques prières a lusage des petits enfans . In 1742 a revised edition appeared with a slightly different title Instruction crhetienne ! ou catechisme familier. Avec quelques passages de lEcriture Sainte & quelques prières à lusage des petits enfans. Nouvelle edition. Revuë corrigée & augmentée. Both works were printed in Geneva for the Swiss bookseller Emanuel Du Villard Emmanuel Duvillard 1693-1776 and subsequently reprinted several more times until 1769. With the book block showing the remnants of 12 removed leaves probably already removed before the manuscript was finished. Both pastedowns partly detached an old annotation Ao. 44305 in black ink on the lower pastedown some foxing. Otherwise in good condition.l For the binding: Landwehr/Van der Krogt VOC pp. XXVII-XXVIII; Storm van Leeuwen I p. 175 p. 196 VOC A-stamp and pp. 612-616 the bindery; for Vernet's work: Google Books digital copy of the 1742 ed. title: Instruction crhetienne ! ou Catechisme familier; physical copy at the Biblioteca Universitaria di Torino; WorldCat 951908419 1 copy 1767 ed.; WorldCat 1040828976 1 copy 1769 ed. no author noted; for the watermark: Heawood 3149. hardcover
1530ABC_47222colophon: Venice: Lucantonio Giunti 1530. Later vellum with more recent end leaves. 8vo. With Giunti's printer's device on the title page a Florentine lily with the L. A. initials. First edition of Jacob Mantino's translation into Latin of the fourth part of the first book of Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine original title: al-Qanun fi at-Tibb divided into 31 chapters. Mantino dedicated it to the Doge of the Venetian Republic Andrea Gritti 1455-1538.Jacob Mantino 1490-1549 was a Jewish doctor rabbi and philosopher. He was born in Spain but he his family and the Jewish community in Tortosa were forced to flee after refusing catholic baptism as decreed by the catholic King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I of Spain. Mantino grew up in Italy and studied philosophy and medicine at the universities of Bologna and Padua. Most of his adult life was spent being a doctor to the pope and other prominent members of society like cardinals bishops and ambassadors in Bologna Verona Venice and Rome. He was also involved in the religious controversy over Henry VIII's divorce from Catharine of Aragon. In 1549 just before his death he moved to Damascus as ambassador of Venice. Mantino's intellectual production focused on the translation of scientific works from Hebrew and Arabic into Latin especially medical and philosophical treatises by leading authors of the medieval period including Moses ben Maimon Maimonides Ibn Rushd Averroes and Ibn Sina Avicenna.The present work was printed by one of the most successful and important late fifteenth and early sixteenth century Italian publishers Lucantonio Giunti 1457-1538. He was originally from Florence but was active in Venice from 1489. He was a member of the Giunti family of printers publishers and booksellers who were active throughout Europe.With owner's inscriptions on the front and back paste-downs and on the title-page and some marginal annotations in brown ink. The paste-downs are partially covered by the newer slightly foxed end leaves. The binding is somewhat stained light water staining to the first half of the work small restored tears in the outer margin of leaves d1 and d2 without affecting the text. Otherwise in good condition.l Catalogue of Sixteenth Century printed books in the National Library of Medicine 397; EDIT16 CNCE 3543; USTC 811590; WorldCat 13827163 320734580 634588783 1150715666. Lucantonio Giunti, hardcover
169555736Amsterdam: Be-veit ha-meshutafim Asher Anshil ben Eliezer ve-Yisakhar Ber ben Avraham Eliezer/ Moses Wiesel 1695. First edition. Hardcover. g to near fine. Small folio 30 by 18.8 cm. Collation: aleph-vav4 zayin2 = 26 numbered leaves. Full period brown paper boards re-backed with a brown leather spine with raised bands.<br /> <br /> Letterpress title-page with ornate floral woodcut device; additional engraved title-page mounted depicting Moses and Aaron along with six small biblical scenes within round borders all against an architectural background. Engraved folding map at rear mounted; main title with woodcut vignette; 14 half-page engraved illustrations in the text.<br /> <br /> This gorgeously illustrated work is the first edition of the famous and highly influential Passover Haggadah printed in Amsterdam in 1695. Simply known as the Amsterdam Haggadah this edition stands as among the most imitated and copied haggadahs in history and was the first to be illustrated with copperplate engravings. Previous illustrated haggadahs had used woodcuts. The popularity of these illustrations can be attested by the huge numbers of reprint editions over the centuries. There are 14 finely printed large in-text engravings plus the full page engraved title page showing Moses Aaron and Adam in the Garden of Eden. Some of these images illustrate the traditional content of the Passover seder and/or the exodus story while some are other biblical stories less directly related. Images include: the Rabbis of Bene Brak discussing the Passover story the four sons Abraham smashing the idols of his father Abraham welcoming the three angels Moses slaying the Egyptian overseer the rescuing Moses from the river Moses and Aaron coming to Pharaoh w/ staves turning to snakes the ten plagues the Egyptian army drowning in the Red Sea the Exodus the receiving of the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai the eating of the Pascal Lamb King David composing his psalms and finally an exterior view of the Holy Temple with the cityscape of Jerusalem in the background. All images are captioned underneath with relevant passages in Hebrew. The engravings were all created by Abraham ben Jacob a German convert to Judaism who had moved to Amsterdam although some sources over the years misattributed them to financier Moses Wiesel 6 of which were adaptations and/or modifications of previous images by Swiss artist Matthäus Merian 1593-1650 from his original work "Icones Biblicae" 1625-30.<br /> <br /> In addition to the in text engravings there is famously a phenomenal fold-out engraved biblical map of the holy land. Measuring a total of 19.5x11.5" the map shows the land of Israel the Sinai desert and Egypt in landscape orientation looking eastward towards the top of the map. It traces the journey of the Israelites starting with the Exodus from Egypt through the desert and into the Land of Israel. The map is detailed showing the areas of the twelve tribes important locations and cities as well as geographic features including the Red Sea Mount Sinai the Dead Sea the Sea of Galilee and many others. The map is decorated with additional illustrations near the bottom and includes a key. This beautiful work also by Abraham ben Jacob is considered among the earliest if not the first map of its kind to be printed within a Hebrew publication. It is now known to have been heavily based on the previously printed 1620 map in Hebrew by Jacob ben Abraham Zaddiq and Abraham Goos 1590 - ca. 1643 which itself was based on the map of 1590 by Christian Kruik van Adrichom Adrichem printed in Latin.<br /> <br /> Text throughout is printed in Hebrew with smaller text in Rashi script underneath containing famous commentary on the Passover Haggadah by acclaimed Portuguese Rabbi and scholar Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel 1437-1508. The verso of the title page contains the order of the Passover seder with brief instructions in both Ladino Judeo-Spanish and Yiddish Judeo-German a nod to the subtitle of Haggadah which references the both Ashkenazi and Sephardic traditions.<br /> <br /> This copy with binding in beautiful condition with being professionally restored includining spine re-backed to style. Book block tight. Interior with some staining to pages throughout from use. Binding in very good to near fine inteiror in good condition overall. Hebrew title: סדר הגדה של פסח ×›×ž× ×”×’ ××©×›× ×– וספרד <br /> Alternate transliterations: Seder Hagadah shel Pesah Seder Hagadah sel Pesah<br /> <br /> References: Friedberg 278 Fuks HTN II 521; Yudlov Haggadah 93; Vinograd Amsterdam 627; Ya'ari no. 59; Laor 876 Map; Nebenzahl pp.138-1389 Map; Yerushalmi plate 59-62; Rosenau "Vision of the Temple" p.135 146-7. Be-veit ha-meshutafim [Asher Anshil ben Eliezer ve-Yisakhar Ber ben Avraham Eliezer]/ Moses Wiesel hardcover
182368858London: Published by C. Baldwyn 1823. CRUIKSHANK George. . GRIMM Wilhelm. ZAEHNSDORF binder. German Popular Stories. Translated from the Kinder und Haus Marchen Collected by M.M. Grimm from Oral Tradition. London: Published by C. Baldwyn 1823.<br> <br> Full description:<br> <br> GRIMM Jacob and Wilhelm. CRUIKSHANK George illustrator. German Popular Stories Translated from the Kinder und Haus Marchen Collected by M.M. Grimm from Oral Tradition. London: Published by C. Baldwyn 1823; James Robins & Co. London and Joseph Robins Junr. & Co. Dublin 1826.<br> <br> First English edition with the second issue title-page for Volume I with an umlaut over the "a" in "Märchen" in the title. "A few copies of the engraved title were printed off before the umlaut was added in 'Märchen'" Otherwise with the following first issue points: With a list of plates on page 218; the title to the tale of "The Travelling Musicians" on p. 9 has no additional words; in the "Notes" at the end of the volume the note referring to "Preface p. vii" comes last; and Baldwyn's advertisement at the end begins "On the First of November was published Price 5s. No. XII. Completing the Sixth Volume of The Retrospective Review."<br> <br> Two twelvemo volumes 7 3/8 x 4 3/8 inches; 190 x 110 mm. 2 xii 240 12 publisher's advertisements; 2 iv 256 1 1 printer's imprint 1 ads 1 blank 12 publisher's advertisements pp. Half-titles in each volume. With twenty-two etched plates by George Cruikshank including two vignette title-pages. The plates in Volume I are printed in brown and black in Volume II.<br> <br> Bound by F. Bedford in full navy crushed levant morocco. Covers triple-ruled in gilt. Spines tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments board edges ruled in gilt turn-ins decoratively tooled in gilt. Top edge gilt others uncut. Maroon coated endpapers. Leaves D2 and D3 in volumes I and B10 and page iv in Volume II with small closed tears to fore-edge margins invisibly repaired and not affecting text. Text is very clean and margins are large. The drab printed pictorial front and back wrappers for Volume I along with the spine are bound in to the end of volume I. The printed paper spine label from volume II is bound in to the end of that volume. Overall an about fine set.<br> <br> "The stories that we know today as Grimm's Fairy Tales were collected from oral tradition by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm philologists and pioneer folklorists. They began to publish the results of their work in 1812 in Germany under the title Kinder- und Haus-Märchen. The tales first appeared in English in 1823 with the publication of the first volume of German Popular Stories. The translator was Edgar Taylor and the book's publication was an auspicious event for at least two reasons. It launched an era in which folklore and the fairy tale would stimulate writers to produce an increasingly imaginative literature for children. And German Popular Stories also put before the public the remarkable illustrations-perhaps his best work-of George Cruikshank. The illustrations evoke wonderfully the grotesque awesome yet matter-of-fact qualities of witch and goblin of Frog Prince Rapunzel Rumpelstiltskin and all the other characters that people the tales. As illustrations to these fairy tales Cruikshank's etchings have never been surpassed" Morgan Library Early Children's Books.<br> <br> Cohn 369. Morgan Library Early Children's Books 197. Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 112.<br> <br> HBS 68858.<br> <br> $10000. Published by C. Baldwyn unknown
140947127New York: The Limited Editions Club 1989. Limited Edition. Fine. Copy number 384 of a limited 400 copies signed by Jacob Lawrence. Bound in publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt on the upper board. Housed in the publisher's navy blue coarse linen velvet lined solander case with title label stamped in gilt. Illustrated with eight original silkscreens by Jacob Lawrence printed on fine Whatman paper by Osiris Printing. 23.5 x 18" elephant folio. Light rubbing to covers else Fine in a Near Fine case with slight wear to corners trivial fading and trivial wear to cloth. A monumental fine press edition of Genesis enhanced with vivid wildly expressive illustrations by Harlem Renaissance artist Jacob Lawrence that express the narrative of the King James Version. The Limited Editions Club unknown
324488New York: The Limited Editions Club 1989. Edition limited to 400 numbered copies signed by Lawrence. This is number 341. Illustrated with eight original silkscreens by Jacob Lawrence printed on fine Whatman paper by Osiris Printing. Original prospectus laid in. Folio. Original blue cloth clamshell box by Karl Folkes at the Spectrum Bindery and John Isakovics of Jovonis Bindery. Fine. Edition limited to 400 numbered copies signed by Lawrence. This is number 341. Illustrated with eight original silkscreens by Jacob Lawrence printed on fine Whatman paper by Osiris Printing. Original prospectus laid in. Folio. The prints illustrate and accompany the King James version of the book of Genesis. "The silk-screen stencils of Jacob Lawrence's paintings were expertly processed in New York City. Anywhere from 17 to 21 screens were required to bring out the coloring of each illustration making a total of 144 separate stencils all of which were destroyed after the strictly limited number of some 400 original sets of prints had been achieved on the fine Whatman paper. Jacob Lawrence one of the great figurative painters of the 20th century. rose to fame in 1941 after creating one of the most original and forceful series of narrative works in the history of American art - the 'Migration of the Negro.' He was the first African American artist to be represented by a major New York gallery and one of the first to have a solo exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art" Regina Hackett. The Limited Editions Club unknown
1729041022Leipzig Johann Heinrich Zedler/Register: Leipzig Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf 1729-1733/1740 1729. Hardcover. Very Good. Des Theuren Mannes Gottes D. Martin Luthers Sämtliche Theils von Ihm selbst Deutsch verfertigte theils aus dessen Lateinischen ins Deutsche übersetzte Schriften und Werke Welche aus allen vorhin Ausgegangenen Sammlungen zusammen getragen Und Anietzo in eine bequemere und nach denen Materien eingerichtete Ordnung gebracht nach denen ältesten und besten Exemplarien mit Fleisz übersehen und verbessert mit verschiedenen in denen Altenburgischen und andern Tomis ermangelnden Schrifften vermehret und mit nöthigen Vorberichten versehen. WITH in Volume XXII: M. Johann Jacob Greiffs Pastoris in Mölbis Vollständige Register über die XXII Leipziger Theile der gesammten Schriften Des seligen D. Martin Luthers Nebst einem auf die Wittenbergischen Jenischen 1740. 22 volumes in 22 bound vellum bindings. Marble endpapers. Interior very good pages evenly browned. Leipzig Johann Heinrich Zedler/Register: Leipzig, Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf 1729-1733/1740 hardcover
