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1848026094Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard 1848. First Edition. Large Octavo. xii 25-635 pages index 36pp. publisher's ads at rear. Illustrated in black and white with 2 hand colored plates. This work introduced American students to the details of physics and meteorological science which was advanced in France and Germany but as this volume was published America science and especially astronomy was making extraordinary advances both in the development of telescopes as well as photographing the planetary system. An important early 19th century work. Bound in publisher's brown embossed cloth spine lettering gilt a very handsome copy without foxing but with toning to title page just a few very minor bumps. Lea & Blanchard unknown books
1845WRCAM50054Philadelphia: John S. Gable 1845. 624pp. plus two large folding plates. Contemporary calf black gilt morocco labels. Spine and edges rubbed. Later bookplate on front flyleaf. Very light scattered foxing. Very good. First edition. An exploration of the conflicts which the armed forces engaged in from the French & Indian War to the Second Seminole War and including a treatise on the art of war. Includes two large and striking plates portraying the murder of Jane McCrea and Peter Francisco's fight with Tarleton's men - these are usually lacking. SABIN 52241. SERVIES 3063. John S. Gable unknown books
1887288689New Ulm. : Verssasers. 1887. 1st Edition. Softcover original printed wraps. . Covers toned sticker removal to front cover spine repaired with archival tape otherwise a very good copy. . 12mo. Scarce. Verssasers. paperback books
1801S3544Vienna:: Prostat apud Fridericum Wappler et Beck 1801. 1801. 8vo. 328 23 pp. Index. Original quarter calf-backed purple boards; rubbed upper joint starting corners showing. Scarce. Second edition augmented first issued in 1785. Brunet 4:712; 7408. Prostat apud Fridericum Wappler et Beck, 1801. hardcover books
1708028007Magdeburg: Zufinden in Rengenischer Buchhandle 1708. Small Octavo. Half-title frontispiece title page in red and black 477 pages index. Text is predominantly in German and Latin This is Jacob Friderich Reimman's attempt at an introduction to the Historiam Literariam in general. Leibnitz considered it fascinating as did Pierre Bayle. The frontispiece of the garden maze is fascinating as the author sees the mystery of the vast early history of the language and its Teutonic origins. Bound in full vellum title on spine in brown ink but faded an early previous owner has written neatly in the upper margins the subjects of each page ad underlining what he believed was important passages. An interesting work in nice condition. Zufinden in Rengenischer Buchhandle unknown books
200821990Stockport England: Dewi Lewis 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Tall 4to. Black quarter cloth over pictorial boards. No dust jacket as issued; in original paper obi. Unpaginated 108 pp. Near fine. <br/><br/>Winner of the 2008 Leica European Publishers Award for Photography. Includes an epigraph from Haruki Murakami and an artist's statement from Sobol at the rear of the book. Sobol's intimate documentation of a Westerner's feelings of isolation in Japan. With approximately 100 full-page black and white photographs. Dewi Lewis hardcover books
1921775661921. WASSERMANN Jacob. THE WORLD'S ILLUSION 2 Vols. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1921. Authorized translation by Ludwig Lewisohn. Volume one: Eva. Volume two: Ruth. First edition. 8vo. blue cloth with minor shelfwear in fragile dust jackets with tears along perimeter more pronounced on spine with cracking along spine. Dust jacket is detached along edge of spine on Volume two. This set is scarce with dust jackets; a very good set overall. unknown books
19797583North Hills PA: Bird & Bull Press 1979. Hard Cover. Fine. Octavo xii121 pages; number 211 of 300 numbered copies printed. Quarter red leather over decorative boards. America's first color plate book: "The two illustrations mounted into this study comprise original engraved plates - one hand-colored and one left uncolored - which Jacob Bigelow had made up when he initially intended to illlustrate his edition in the usual hand-colored way.led him and his cohorts to invent a mechanical method of printing the plates and coloring them concurrently. This resulted in the abandonment of these initial plates some of which had been colored by artists and some left untouched. These surplus plates amounting to several thousand came into the Boston Medical Library in 1927. and it was deemed desirable to mount two of them - a colored and an uncolored specimen - into each copy of this edition." p. ix. A fine copy. <br/><br/> Bird & Bull Press hardcover books
184257496Providence RI: Benjamin F. Moore 1842. First Edition. Small 8vo pp. 171. Appendix. Paper over boards. Name on e.p. Some moderate to heavy foxing throughout cover little worn at edges o/w a VG tight copy. A history of the Dorr Rebellion. Benjamin F. Moore unknown books
184237360Providence RI: Benjamin F. Moore 1842. First Edition. Small 8vo pp. 171. Appendix. Paper over boards. Donor's presentation on flyleaf. Some foxing throughout cover little worn at edges o/w a VG tight copy. Benjamin F. Moore unknown books
1733290309Straeda. : Johan N. Janet 1733 . 2nd Edition. Contemporary full leather raised bands leather clasps. . Good covers worn repairs to boards old ink name to ffep a little marginal worming at the gutters some mostly marginal staining to pages clasps weak. 4to. 19.5x13.5 cm. . Scarce Romansch language psalter with musical notation. weight: 1.8 lb. Johan N. Janet, hardcover books
196920148Amsterdam: P.N. van Kampen & Zoon 1969. cloth. folio. cloth. iiiv8 27 plates; ii10 27 plates; iv6 48 plates. Three volumes in one as issued. Facsimile reprint of the 1734 Dutch edition printed in Amsterdam by Johannes Covens and Cornelis Mortier. A study of mechanical equipment especially windmills with over 100 plates of illustrations. Includes a section on mechanical power for the operation of paper-making equipment. Light rubbing of covers. P.N. van Kampen & Zoon unknown books
19567184Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press 1956. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Textblock Fine. Minor shelf/edge wear even sunning at spine else tight bright and unmarred. Purple cloth board gilt lettering and decorative elements frontispiece teg. 8vo. 160pp. Illus. b/w plates. Numbered limited edition this being 188 of 500. <br/><br/>Designed by Christopher Sandford. Illustrated by Gwenda Morgan. "Among the manuscript note-books of the brothers Grimm are a large number of the fairy-tales they collected with such tireless enthusiasm. A considerable number of these have never been available to the general reader and are virtually unknown. Wilhelm Hansen director of the Lippe Folk Museum had access to the manuscripts and selected fifty of these tales for us tales which Taylor who made the first English translation had described as 'most curious' and 'of great merit' but which he felt bound to suppress 'in deference to the scrupulous fastidiousness of modern taste especially in works likely to attract the attention of youth'. Gwenda Morgan's quaint engravings seemed to compliment these folk tales to perfection." Cock-A-Hoop Golden Cockerel Press hardcover books
18269514Philadelphia PA 1826. Near Fine. Bright and clean. Handcolored plate. <br/><br/>A late American atlas displaying stars only to 4th magnitude. Position of Herculis is erroneous. unknown books
181428139Elizabeth-Town: Printed for the Author by R. and P. Canfield 1814. 12mo. 2 404 pp. Bound in original sheep with gilt-lettered title on red morocco spine label. Text foxed pages 375-382 bound out of order but present. Good.<br/><br/> Joe Felcone's long note on this title explains how "Barclay's 'little troubles' as he called them began to develop into a major crisis." Barclay had a weakness for the ladies and was charged with having attempted to seduce several of them; as well as lying horse stealing baptizing a horse and "of inhumanely beating his 'negro wench' Chloe." Though exonerated he was nevertheless "admonished and his pastoral connection was dissolved." Kerr who was a member of Barclay's congregation appealed and though rebuffed continued to press his case so persistently "that he was barred from attending church." He wrote this book in order to vindicate his position. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Felcone 820. Cohen 11959. AI 31861 2. Sabin 37628. Printed for the Author, by R. and P. Canfield unknown books
2003365922003. ISBN-13: 9781584773368; ISBN-10: 1584773367. Seidman Jacob S. Seidman's Legislative History of Federal Income Tax Laws 1938-1861. Originally published: New York: Prentice-Hall Inc. 1938. xviii 1166 pp. Reprinted 2003 2019 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584773368; ISBN-10: 1584773367. Hardcover. New. $225. This legislative history of the federal income tax laws from 1861 to 1938 will be useful to those arguing or ruling on tax cases. Arranged act by act in inverse chronology it contains the texts of the committee reports and discussions of all provisions that have interpretive significance. "The principle contribution is that it gathers together in compact and organized form these essential materials which are otherwise scattered through many volumes of the Congressional Record committee reports and elsewhere. Many of these reports particularly in the case of the earlier acts are either unavailable or are extremely difficult or expensive to obtain. The work has been carefully and thoroughly done.": A. H. Kent American Bar Association Journal 25:479. Seidman's Legislative History of Federal Income and Excess Profits Tax Laws 1953-1939 is a two volume continuation also published by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. unknown books
CA06A-00229John Churchill & Sons. Collectible - Good. Collectible - Good. London: John Churchill & Sons 1870. 1st Edition in English. First published Dutch in 1863 as Handboek van de pathologie en therapie der krankzinnigheid. xii1582pp. Thin octavo. Blind-embossed blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine and yellow endpapers. Some fraying to the joints & edges but a quite respectable copy. Weight: 13.6 ounces = 386 grams. Size: 9.0 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches = 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.8cm. With the ownership inscription to the colored front flyleaf of "E. T. Wilkins // Resident - Physician // Napa State Asylum for the Insane // May 1876 --". Inquire if you need further information. Gach John Churchill & Sons hardcover books
182457758Boston: Cummings Hilliard & Co 1824. Second edition greatly enlarged to which is added a glossary of the botanical terms employed in the work 8vo; pp. 2 422 2; original green cloth-backed boards; gilt spine label; covers and label rubbed with some staining; spine extremities scuffed; light foxing throughout heavier on endpapers; otherwise good and sound. American Imprints 15401; Sabin 5297. <br/><br/> Cummings, Hilliard, & Co hardcover books
190815880Leipzig: Vogel 1908. hardcover. very good. 8pp. IN: "Archiv fur experimentelle Pathologie und Pharmakologie." 1908 supplement vol. Schmiedeberg Festschrift pp. 8-15. Offered entire. 8vo 1/2 cloth marbled boards. Leipzig 1908.<br/><br/> Second of two papers on this subject showing that there were two poisons in the fungus and that immunity against them could be acquired. G-M 2084.<br/><br/> Vogel unknown books
1943318992The American Federation for Polish Jews 1943. First Edition. Illus. xvi 343pp. 8vo. Cloth rubbed at spine else VG. First Edition. Illus. xvi 343pp. 8vo. The American Federation for Polish Jews unknown books
1927320297New York: Joseph P. Dayt 1927. Each property with photo llustration. 13 pp. 4to. Grey wrappers. Fine tipped in newspaper artricle at front saying the properties brought $1423 000. Each property with photo llustration. 13 pp. 4to. With a flyer for 40 acres in Bedford Hills auction on Feb. 15 1927 laid in. Joseph P. Dayt unknown books
184789026Cincinnati: Derby 1847. First Edition. hardcover. very good. 501pp. 16pp. of ads. Tall 8vo original brown cloth; ex-lib spine repaired. Cincinnati: Derby Bradley 1847. First Edition. Very good.<br/><br/> "Thomson No. 142: `The work is in reality an autobiographical sketch of the author accompanied by facts and incidents of early settlement.'" Eberstadt 112:56. Howes B-997.<br/><br/> Derby unknown books
195229272Roccasinibalda Italia: Caresse Crosby n.d. ca. 1952-1954. First Edition. Octavo broadside 21cm.; Fine. Text entirely in Italian. Manifesto of the pacifist Citizens of the World movement which Caresse Crosby founder of the Black Sun Press established shortly after the end of World War II. This flyer presumably issued after her and the movement's expulsion from Greece where she had initially attempted to set up headquarters. The Greek government gave the reason that the movement was "conceived and initaited by aliens yet tending toward the creation of a super-national organization which may exercise international political influence" cf. Linda Hamalian The Cramoisy Queen: A Life of Caresse Crosby 2009 p. 169. The imprint at the bottom is of Crosby's 16th-century castle Roccasinibalda located in the Province of Rieti which she purchased ca. 1952. There is a chance this came prior to Crosby's expulsion from Greece however; the text mentions the movement's taking inspiration "dall'Umanesimo Greco" and a Greek language Manifesto was also published about the same time. A scarce item: OCLC locates 3 copies as of March 2016 at NYU Indiana U. and Brown. Caresse Crosby unknown books
1894001704Indianapolis IN: The Bowen-Merrill Company 1894. Very Good Plus wrappers have shallow chips at edges. Pages are uncut and are clean and tight and unmarked. "The following papers are petitions to Congress from Northwest and Indiana Territories for the suspension of the sixth article of compact of the Ordinance of 1787 and the admission of slavery to the Territory together with the counter-petitions the reports on them and the accompanying documents." Rare. First Printing. Printed Wrappers. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. The Bowen-Merrill Company Paperback books
1933004514New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1933. 8vo striking cover design on orange and black laminated boards with minor peeling. First published in 1908 this edition is completely revised and reset. Introduction and about 400 recipes for cocktails and drinks of all sorts including juleps punches highballs etc.; some toasts to women and love; index. Includes one of the first "Brooklyn cocktails": rye vermouth maraschino liqueur and a French aperitif Amer Picon. Jack Grohusko was a bartender in a Brooklyn restauarnt. Laminated Boards. Near Fine. 8vo. Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover books
