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19331668891933. CHERNYKOV Iakov. Arkhitekturniie Fantazii Architectural Fictions. 102 pp. Illustrated with numerous textual illustrations and 101 colour plates. Small folio 300 x 200 mm bound in original blue embossed cloth. Leningrad: "Meshdunarodnaja Kniga" Leningrad Section 1933. First Edition of this landmark work of Soviet architectural fantasies lavishly illustrated with dramatic designs of possible cities factories monumental buildings and more. This is the best and most important publication by Chernykov and one of the most exciting books on architecture issued in the twentieth century "an amazing compendium of one hundred and one coloured inventions which still excite the imagination today. The verdict must surely be that Tchernykov's almost unlimited imagination for architectural forms provides a pattern book for modernist architecture rather than a repertoire of viable designs" Compton Russian Avant-Garde Books 143-4. Published in collaboration with D. Kopanitzin and E. Pavlova this first edition was limited to 3000 copies although very few now exist in permanent or private collections. Binding with some minor professional restoration overall in excellent condition. Senkevitch Soviet Architecture 1917-1967 Charlottesville 1974 205. Centre Pompidou Paris-Moscou 1900-1930 Paris 1979 567. Andel Avant Garde Page Design 301-302. hardcover books
1944283739New York. : American Federation for Polish Jews. 1944. . Pictorial stiff wraps. . Covers soiled and dampstained text block taped into cover marginal dampstain to pages otherwise a good reading copy. . 8vo. American Federation for Polish Jews. paperback books
19671771Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne 1967 1st book edition. Limited to 1950 copies. Frontis portrait illustrations endpaper map. Pictorial gilt-stamped blue cloth. Light fading to covers. A near fine copy. Foreward by Kenneth M. Johnson. An account of Stillman's voyage mainly drawn from his letters to friends and his journal. Lewis Osborne hardcover books
19679219Palo Alto: Lewis Osbourne 1967. Hardcover. Orig.blue cloth with front cover illustration in gilt. Very good. 92 pages. Illustrated. Foreword by Kenneth Johnson. The voyage of the "Pacific" took 194 days. There were other notable passengers who were to leave their mark on California history: Mark Hopkins John Ross Browne and A.S. Marvin. Limited edition copy 1437 of 1950. Lewis Osbourne hardcover books
196741272Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne 1967. 1st edition thus. LIMITED to 1950 copies of which this is #397. Blue cloth binding gilt stamped lettering and design to spine and front board. Plain white paper DJ. Map illustrated front endpapers. A Near Fine example in a lightly tanned and worn DJ. 92 pp. Many b/w intratextual illustrations throughout. 11-3/4" x 7-1/2" <br/><br/> Lewis Osborne hardcover books
3545Woodcut device on title two folding printed tables & one folding woodcut plate. 2 p.l. 306 35 1 pp. 4to fine cont. vellum over boards slightly warped. Basel: impensis Thurnisiorum Fratrum 1713. First edition of "the first systematic attempt to place the theory of probability on a firm basis and is still the foundation of much modern practice in all fields where probability is concerned - insurance statistics and mathematical heredity tables."-Printing & the Mind of Man 179. A very fine and large copy preserved in a box. ❧ Dibner Heralds of Science 110. D.S.B. II pp. 46-51. Evans Epochal Achievements 8. Horblit 12. hardcover books
3289Woodcut device on title two folding printed tables & one folding woodcut plate. Diagrams in the text. 2 p.l. 306 35 1 pp. 4to cont. speckled sheep upper joint with short crack bookplate on blank portion of title patched minor foxing spine gilt red leather lettering piece on spine. Basel: impensis Thurnisiorum Fratrum 1713. bound with: BERNOULLI Nicolaus I. Dissertatio Inauguralis Mathematico-Juridica. De Usu Artis Conjectandi in Jure. 56 pp. 4to. Basel: J.C. Mechel 1709. A most attractive sammelband. I. First edition of "the first systematic attempt to place the theory of probability on a firm basis and is still the foundation of much modern practice in all fields where probability is concerned - insurance statistics and mathematical heredity tables."-Printing & the Mind of Man 179. II. First edition. Nicolaus I 1687-1759 nephew of Jacob I and Johann I and editor of the Ars Conjectandi obtained the degree of doctor of jurisprudence with this dissertation on the application of the calculus of probability to questions of law. I believe this to be an important contribution to probability. Very good copies. ❧ I. Dibner Heralds of Science 110. D.S.B. II pp. 46-51. Evans Epochal Achievements 8. Horblit 12. Sparrow Milestones of Science 21. II. D.S.B. II pp. 56-57. Keynes "Bibliography" in A Treatise on Probability p. 435. hardcover books
2000170367Esbo: Schildts 2000. Hardcover. VG-/VG- crease to front cover minor corner and edge wear to book and dust jacket. Black boards with silver spine lettering and design. Glossy black and illustrated dust jacket with gray lettering. 410 pp. BW and color illustrations. Tanslated by Hildi Hawkins and Juri Kokkonen. Schildts hardcover books
40578FALKE Jacob Von. ART IN THE HOUSE. Boston: L. Prang 1879. 4to. Publisher's full brown morocco elaborately bli and gilt stamped all edges gilt. xxx 356 pages added chromolithographic ti page 60 plates. First American edition. Holzenberg # 77. Falke was perhaps the most important German writer on taste in the Aesthetic era. He has written a history of interior decoration--beginning with the Greco-Roman house through the eighteenth century. Critical observations on style and harmony are filtered through aesthetic principles. Successive chapters deal with decorating the house in various stages: the floor wall ornaments ceilings furniture and decorations on the table. His work reflec many of the "artistic" principles in vogue in England and elsewhere: the dependence of Form on function; the importance of good design in everyday living; and the preferred use of historical styles as inspiration rather tha strict models for modern decor. This edition was translated by C.C. Perkins from the third German edition. The 60 plates are a combination of five chromolithographs and 55 albertypes and typographic etchings. In addition there are one hundred and sixty-six in-text figures. Front cover with a gilt stamped vignette; interior of front hinge neatly reinforced; some light foxin Otherwise a very good copy of a heavy book usually found in shaken and worn condition. unknown books
1879343Boston: Prang 1879. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st American ed. trans. from the 3rd German ed. by Charles C. Perkins. Thick 4to. Beveled boards with gilt illus. & lettering on cover & spine. a.e.g. 166 text illus. Slightly rubbed at ends. History of interior decoration from Greek & Roman times to the 18th century with an eye towards aesthetics. <br/><br/>Extra chromolithograph decorative title page 5 chromolighographs & 55 other toned or b/w plates incl. Albertotypes & photo etchings. Prang hardcover books
1879293765Boston: Prang 1879. hardcover. fine. Translated from the Third German Edition edited with Notes by Charles C. Perkins. 60 chromolithographs albertotypes and typographic etchings some in color with tissue guards. 166 text illustrations. 356 pages. 4to rebound in black cloth with the original decorative cover all edges gilt. Boston: Prang 1879. Fine.<br/><br/> First American Edition of the decorative arts classic.<br/><br/> Prang unknown books
1964030930New York London: Thomas Yoseloff 1964. 71p. 2 colored and 46 monochrome plates dj quarto format. Thomas Yoseloff unknown books
10147BAAL-TESHUVA Jacob. ART TREASURES OF THE UNITED NATIONS. New York: Thomas Yoseloff 1964. 4to. Cloth dust jacket. Frontispiece 71 3 pages 50 plates. First edition. Being a guidebook to the paintings murals sculptures mosiacs rugs and tapestries in the United Nations. Very good in lightly used dust jacket. unknown books
3424JACOB A. RIIS 1849-1914. A social reformer Riis crusaded against urban slum conditions; he wrote the influential How The Other Half Lives. He was also close friends with Theodore Roosevelt. ALS. 1pg. April 9 1907. New York. An autograph letter signed “Jacob A. Riis†on his personal stationary from “The Neighborhood Settlement†an outreach program for impoverished and immigrant populations that Riis helped establish in the late Nineteenth Century. Riis turns down an invitation to an event. The letter was written a few months before Riis’s marriage his second to Mary Phillips: “My dear Mrs. Love I am very sorry not be able to accept the invitation of the Packer Collegiate Institute Alliance for May 4th but on that date I shall be out of New York lecturing. Faithfully yours Jacob A. Riis April 9th 1904â€. It is in fine condition. unknown books
1974117010Paris: C. P. I. P. 1974. Hardbound. Very tight and mostly clean but for a few ex-lib. marks some crossed out with black marker; light general wear to dj;. Red cloth with green lettering; bright blue illustrated dj; 90 pp. with color illustrations throughout;. Text in French; part of the ABC Decor series; lovely color photos of the furniture tiles and tapestries of Morocco with excellent descriptive background essays. C. P. I. P. hardcover books
1858008493Boston: Phillips Sampson & Company 1858. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page -"Dr. Coolidge with Dr. Bigelows regards-". 75 pages original brown cloth boards with embossed borders lettered in gilt front cover Very Good stains both covers light wear at spine ends. Bookplate of Edward Delos Churchill front paste down.With excellent medical provenance from the collection of Edward Delos Churchill 1895-1972 a pioneering American thoracic surgeon best remembered for describing the Churchill-Cope reflex. ASSOCIATION COPY both Jacob Bigelow and Dr. Algernon Coolidge 1830-1912 were Harvard graduates Boston doctors and fellow members of the prestigious Boston Society for Medical Improvement. Other members during this time were Oliver Wendell Holmes Charles Elliot Ware Henry Jacob Bigelow and J.B.S. Jackson. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Embossed Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Association Copy. Phillips, Sampson & Company Hardcover books
200240076Edison: Castle Books 2002. Hardcover. Very good. 256pp index. Very good hardback bound in publisher's decorated blue cloth and issued without a jacket. <br/><br/> Castle Books hardcover books
1826100691<p>8vo pamphlet format blue wrappers seven engraved maps. Scattered foxing and browning heavy in some places. Some folds at edges a couple of small holes map of the United States split at center fold about half way up paper spine gone. This work was a children's atlas which contains no text and was meant to accompany Willetts Easy Grammar of Geography. The atlas shows the United States as not really going past Illinois at this point and a significant part of the Southwest is shown as part of Mexico. Much of the upper Midwest is part of what is referred to as the Missouri Territory. Even the eastern part of the U.S. indicates some territories belong to the Indians. The map of Frica shows little detail indicating very large unexplored areas. Willetts is best known for his map of New York State 1815. Rumsey 1210.</p> books
188536023London: Bailliere 1885. Bailliere unknown books
185761586Cincinnati: Cranston and Curts. Very Good. 1857. Hardcover. 528 pages gray cloth with red printing. Hinges started contetns are toned. Covers are scuffed and soiled with rubbed and scuffed spine ends and cover corners. A Good copy. . Cranston and Curts hardcover books
1948148819New York: Columbia University Press 1948. Second printing. Hardcover. G No dj; binding spine and part of front board have faded or aged; pages have aged consistently; a very readable book. Blcak-brown cloth gilt letters on spine 240 pp. Presents the life of British philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill 1806-1873 with a preface by John Jacob Coss. First published in 1924 reissued in 1944 and published as a second printing in 1948. Columbia University Press hardcover books
287443unbound. very good. A.L.S. "Berzelius" 8vo. 1 page no place no date wood-pulp paper c. 1840 in French translated: "I was honored to receive the small box containing the steel. I just received a letter from Mr. Lorent de Gottembourg. He is interested in you. If you talk to Gottembourg discuss with him the best way to get the most out of the patent; I think you will agree with his counsel. I wish a very pleasant trip." A very attractive letter that is boldly signed.<br/><br/> Swedish scientist considered to be one of the pioneering founders of modern chemistry.<br/><br/> unknown books
1814248076West Bloomfield NY 1814. 1 p. plus integral address leaf. 4to on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines minor soiling; near fine. In a green half morocco and cloth clamshell case. 1 p. plus integral address leaf. 4to on a folded folio sheet. A hasty note written by Major General Jacob Brown to New York politician Nathan Williams requesting more arms and equipment for the siege of Fort Erie currently underway. The Americans led by Brown captured Fort Erie on July 3 1814. British forces led by Lt. General Gordon Drummond engaged the Americans at the bloody Battle of Lundy's Lane on July 25th where Brown was wounded; the Americans retreated to Fort Erie and Brown was sent off to convalesce. After repeated sorties and engagements the American commander General Gaines was gravely wounded and Brig. General Eleazer Ripley - who thought the whole operation was doomed to failure - took command. Brown though not quite recovered from wounds taken at the battle of Lundy's Lane the previous month was sent to replace the pessimistic Ripley as the commander of the Fort. Brown had made a name for himself at the battles of Sackett's Harbor and Lundy's Lane and his actions at the Siege would cement his position as a national hero winning him the Congressional Gold Medal in November 1814. Brown jotted this note before setting out to command the troops at the Fort. He writes:<br/> <br/>"My dear Sir I am so far on my way towards Buffalo. The militia turn out better than was expected. We shall I fear be deficient in arms. You will jump into your easy carriage and ride to Rome as fast as possible upon the receipt of this and see that the keeper of the arsenal there forwards fifteen hundred stand with equipments compleat with all the rapidity possible. Your attention is of much importance."<br/> <br/>A wonderful letter written by Major General Jacob Brown on his way to the battle that would ensure his lasting fame. unknown books
30800<p>quarto three pages plus address leaf formerly folded neatly written in ink in a clear legible hand very good clean condition.</p><p> Jacob a city toll gate keeper writes his teen-age sister about the execution of Henry Shorter a 24 year old African American man for the murder of Stephen Brush a 19 year old white youth who offended Shorter inciting an angry exchange and resulting in Shorter's stabbing Brush to death.</p><p> Close to midnight on a September evening in 1848 Stephen Brush a 19 year-old white youth and several friends who lived in a blue-collar industrial section of Buffalo were returning from a Minstrel show laughing about one of the characters in the cast who had played a "Negro servant". Brush apparently used the "N" word just as he was passing two young African American men – 24 year-old Henry Shorter a hotel barber from Fredonia and a friend who had just moved to New York from Ohio. Shorter took offense and an angry exchange ensued. Shorter pulled out a short knife and attacked Brush pursuing him into the street where he stabbed him in the abdomen on the arm cutting off one of his fingers and above the eye. The African American men ran off as bystanders carried Brush to a tavern where he soon died. A police investigation led within hours to the home of Shorter who was awakened and arrested when blood was found on his hands and clothing. He allegedly confessed to the killing saying it was not premeditated "the impulse of the moment" and that his friend had nothing to do with the crime. Local newspapers called this a "cold blooded murder committed in our streets upon an unsuspecting and inoffensive citizen". Brought to trial Shorter was represented by two brothers leading criminal attorneys of Buffalo; they found most prospective jurors had already formed an opinion of Shorter's guilt. During the trial the lawyers argued that Shorter despite his alleged confession had acted in self-defense. Twenty witnesses were called for the prosecution ten for the defense who testified as to Shorter's "good character". The Judge instructed the jury not to regard Shorter as rich or poor white or black but just to consider the facts as presented in court. The jury deliberated for eight hours and returned with a verdict of guilty. Before pronouncing sentence the Judge stressed that he Shorter had received a fair trial as was Shorter's friend who was acquitted of the crime and set free. He then pronounced the sentence of death by hanging as Shorter silently betrayed "considerable emotion". Shorter's lawyers appealed to the New York Supreme Court. Shorter told the Justices that he had "provocation" for attacking Brush and that some witnesses had lied about details of the incident. His Appeal was denied; the execution delayed for eight months was set for August 1849 – the event described in Jacob's letter. According to news reports Shorter's last words on the scaffold were "I am about to leave you. I die innocent of the crime of murder." He hoped "God will forgive" the city officials who had "testified falsely against me". </p><p> "Dear Sister Harriet</p><p> … I have been quite busy since I was down to see you I arrested 8 duchmen sic in one day and on Friday last went to attend the execution of Shorter who was condemned to be hung for the murder of Brush it being the first time I ever beheld a mans life taken amid shouts of applause or joy and that was the case from those from without the limits of the jail yard who could not see but hear when the platform fell and which was heartrending to hear I was one of the officers chosen for assisting in the execution when he was taken down I assisted in extricating the Rope from his neck and then carried him aloft in the jail for his friends to take and there left him it was a solemn thing to behold him drop the distance of six feet and fetch up on nothing but air. When he was led forth from the dungeon dressed in a white robe and a white cap upon his head I was inspired with feelings which I never shall forget I had been in and conversed with him about a week before his execution he seemed resigned to his fate but when he ascended the scaffold and beheld the group of officers ministers & jurymen that were to behold him plunged into eternity he there declared himself innocent and censured the officers & mayor for perjuring themselves against him at that time my feelings left me and I was ready to see him drop when he was led forth on the drop he said I die an innocent man the world knew better. But alas he died with a lie in his mouth … he said nothing more to the ministers there on the scaffold …"</p><p> No printed account of the crime or trial is recorded in McDade <i>The Annals of Murder</i>. </p> books
179819505Mauritius August 3 1798. Some slight loss from the seals; a little browned and soiled; in very good condition. 3 pages on a folded sheet plus integral address 12.5 x 8 inches approx. 480 words. Scandal and affairs of the heart from the remote outposts of American commerce. The American consul to the French colony in the Indian Ocean here writes back to New York "I have to inform you of having dispatched your Ship Huron Capt. Brown for Newport R. Island she left this Colony on 26 May for Bourbon to complete her chargement & sailed from thence about 15 days after for America ñ I must add the malconduct of your Capt. here has been very injurious to the Voyage by forming a connection with a bad woman who came passenger with him from Bordeaut sic ñ with the greatest difficulty he was made to sail without taking this person with him however the whole Island interfered against it & prevented her leaving the Colony because she was a favourite Actress & much wanted on the Stage however she is placed here at the expence of Capt. Brown who has placed funds in the hands of Mr. Roussell Manssell to be appropriated for her benefit and althoà Mr. Roussell is not ignorant that he has a family near Boston in the town of Marblehead he has become the confident & friend in this vile business. Capt. Brown on his arrival addressed himself to me & after finishing a part of his business because I declined the propositions made me respecting the Woman I explained to him with candour his Faults he after placed his property with Mr. Roussell who has engaged to pay her expences until Capt. B. returns to marry her. . . . This favourite woman in question was bound jointly with the other players in the sum of Ten Thousand dollars that she would tarry three years in the Colony in that Company of course these persons opposed her departure. Capt. Brown in order to effect it in my presence offered to destroy a bill of exchange of Ten Thousand dollars which was the amount of the passage money for the same persons. Since that transaction I have been kept in the dark for having found fault with Capt. BÃs conduct & threatening to put him in prison therefor - he did not choose to consult me thereafter." Lewis a Boston merchant had been appointed consul to Å’le de France by Adams and arrived in February 1798--but owing to the Quasi-War and the interruption of commerce betwen the United States and France arrived back in Boston with his family in June 1799. See the National Archives annotation to the summary memorial of Lewis to Thomas Jefferson March 20 1801. Captain Brown of the Huron is certainly Elias Brown; a notice in the Halifax N.C. Journal of October 15 1798 dated Newport September 15 reports the arrival of Brown and the Huron and news that he had prior to his adventures in love been boarded somewhere east of the Cape by the British frigate Garland on June 28--seven of his seamen were impressed and Brown was detained before escaping under cover of a squall. Brown further reports "that the national soldiers were all sent from the Isle de France but that the reports of it being declared independent are false." The first theatre troupe had been established in Port Louis in 1790 by a M. Laglaine though there was a hiatus after the smallpox epidemic of 1792 and one presumes the colonists were not likely to take kindly to seeing a keystone of their local entertainment whisked away by a Yankee merchant captain. For a glance at theatre in Mauritius and some sense of the upheavals on the island in 1798--though this affair does not seem to merit mention--see the 1840 memoir by Andre Maure Souvenirs d'un vieux colon de Maurice. Samuel Ward 1756-1832 the owner of the merchant brig Huron was a Revolutionary War veteran from a prominent Rhode Island family. Neat contemporary arithmetic problems in contemporary ink on the cover page. August 3, unknown books
