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1881184539New York: T. Kelly 1881. Hardcover. VG Cover and spine have general wear fading staining and peeling. front end page missing. Bookblock has age toning. Interior pages have some age toning. Some pages loose from binding. Brown leather boards. Black title blocks on 4 raised band spine. Decorative inside covers and end pages xv 1090 xxii pages : illustrations Decorative bookblock. "Illustrated with one thousand engravings by distinguished artists. T. Kelly hardcover books
2012UABBHIS00AFSkyhorse 2012. Very Good. Abbott Jacob. History of William the Conqueror. NY: Skyhorse 2012. 144pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with faintly rubbed wraps. Skyhorse paperback books
1993284341Glenford: Donald E. Stephens 1993. hardcover. very good-/very good-. Text by authors of the day. 79 photo Illus. 4to blue cloth d.w. and cloth lightly soiled. Glenford NY: Donald E. Stephens 1993. Limited Edition<br/><br/> Donald E. Stephens unknown books
197018302New York: Home News Co 1970. First edition. Paperback. Good . 4to. Uncommon literary magazine with a bent towards women's issues. A good to very good copy in tall photo-illustrated wrappers. The first copy of any issue of this publication that has crossed our desks. Home News Co paperback books
2001103354New York: Tor 2001. Octavo boards. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #103354 Tor unknown books
20042287740Barnes & Noble Books 2004. Reissue. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Reissue. Faint edge wear. 2004 Trade Paperback. After finding employment as a newspaper reporter Riis experimented with photography and he was able to document the overcrowding of tenements the dismal conditions of many dwellings shiftless drunkards decrepit alleys and groups of newspaper boys shoeless!. Meticulously documented conditions census figures and income of his subjects reveal a horrendous picture of "the other half" of New York. Barnes & Noble Books paperback books
1997URIIHOW00HMRPenguin 1997. Very Good. Riis Jacob A. How the Other Half Lives. New York: Penguin 1997. xxvii 228pp. Illustrated. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with old price sticker on rear cover. Penguin paperback books
18901326106New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1890. Hardcover. Octavo; Poor/no DJ; Ex-library; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine blue with gold print library call number in white ink at bottom; Boards quarter bound with blue cloth to spine and illustrated grey paper to boards tattering to spine caps and corners spine head torn away peripheral tanning to paper shelfwear; Text block is detached from cover see photo pastedowns torn away string binding of book signatures loose so that signatures are separating library stamp on front flyleaf and title page light age-toning to paper; xv 304 pages frontispiece illustrated b&w "with illustrations chiefly from photographs taken by the author".<br /> <br /> <p>NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office in bookcases next to Ephemera section. 1326106. FP New Rockville Stock. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1891D17845London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1891. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Good. Original pictorial olive cloth quite worn. Spine cracked and split repaired unprofessionally. With illustrations from photographs chielf from the offer. The extremely scarce UK edition of Riis' famous study published in New York the year prior. <br/><br/> Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington hardcover books
193711735New York: Alexander Publishing Co 1937. First edition. Cloth. Fine/poor. 8vo. 664 pp. Beautiful fine clothbound copy. Original dustwrapper is present but with huge chips and loss of paper. This copy INSCRIBED by Hurwitz and dated in 1939. <br/><br/> Alexander Publishing Co hardcover books
1999167374New York and Scottsdale AZ: Hudson Hills Press in association with Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art 1999. First edition. Softcover. 163 pages. Published in conjunction a traveling exhibition. Text by Arthur C. Danto Mary Jane Jacob and Patterson Sims. Includes 45 color plates and numerous other illustrations checklist list of previous exhibitions selected bibliography and index. A clean very near fine copy in wrappers. Hudson Hills Press in association with Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art unknown books
199929453NY: Hudson Hills Press 1999. Softcover. VG slight scuffing and wear to cover. Black illustrated wraps. 163 pp. 45 color plates. Contributions by Arthur Danto Mary Jane Jacob and Patterson Sims. High-quality images of Tre's sculptures. Howard Ben Tre is a pioneer in the industrial casting of glass for art and has devised monolithic sculptural forms that are both contemporary and reminiscent of archaic forms of many world cultures. He frequently combines glass with stone and metal. This monograph provides a survey of his ouevre. Published on the occasion of the traveling exhibit "Howard Ben Tré: interior/exterior" organized by Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art./ Exhibition held at Palm Springs Desert Museum Calif. Dec. 15 1999-Mar. 12 2000 and others. Hudson Hills Press unknown books
20009009014New York: Hudson Hills Press 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. 164 pages. 110 color plates 20 black-and-white illustrations. Bound in publisher's original cloth. <br/><br/> Hudson Hills Press hardcover books
1732WRCAM55846London: Printed for D. Midwinter and A. Ward. 1732. 2214197-40016 of 24pp. plus seven plates including frontispiece. Lacks the final four leaves of the index. 12mo. Contemporary calf rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Light shelf wear corners worn. Contemporary bookplate and presentation inscriptions see below. One plate torn lacking the lower left quarter of the sheet repaired with blank paper. One page with early manuscript marginalia. Scattered light foxing. About very good. A remarkable association copy connecting two significant members of the Revolutionary generation who were also united by family intermarriage and whose friendship was riven by their divergent loyalties during the American Revolution. This copy bears the bookplate of Francis Hopkinson 1737-91 signer of the Declaration of Independence author and poet composer judge and Pennsylvania government official. The ANB calls him "arguably the most versatile American of the revolutionary generation." This book was given to Hopkinson by the noted minister Jacob Duché who would shortly thereafter marry Hopkinson's sister and who famously broke with the cause of liberty during the Revolution. <br> <br> A front fly leaf bears the presentation inscription "The Present of Mr. Jacob Duché Junr. to Francis Hopkinson December 1757." The same hand has signed the titlepage with the names of Jacob Duché and Francis Hopkinson and the date 1757. On that page Duché's name has been crossed out indicating that the inscriptions are likely in the hand of Duché and that he crossed out his own name on the titlepage when he gave the book to Francis Hopkinson. Jacob Duché and Francis Hopkinson had a long and complicated friendship dating back at least to their college days at the College of Philadelphia later the University of Pennsylvania. In 1760 three years after giving him this book Duché married Hopkinson's sister Elizabeth. Francis Hopkinson was a prolific author and musician and published forty poems before the Revolution. A copy of HUDIBRAS Samuel Butler's famous satirical poem on English politics would have been a welcome and influential gift. "During the Revolution Hopkinson wrote a number of ballads and essays poking fun at the British cause and the Loyalists. 'The Birds the Beasts and the Bat' written in Hudibrastic verse served to ridicule those persons who tried to take both sides during the Revolution" - ANB. <br> <br> It is impossible not to believe that one of those targets of Hopkinson's ridicule was the gifter of the present edition of HUDIBRAS his brother-in-law Jacob Duché. Duché 1738- 98 born into a wealthy Philadelphia family was only twenty-two years old when he married Elizabeth Hopkinson. He would go on to become a prominent minister and religious leader in Philadelphia noted for his well- written sermons and essays. In 1774 he was asked to serve as the chaplain to the Continental Congress and he therefore gained political prominence as well displaying an apparent zeal for liberty. Duché resigned his official position with the Congress in October 1776 having concluded that the Declaration of Independence - signed just three months earlier by his friend and brother-in-law - would not serve as a tool for reconciliation with England. When the British captured Philadelphia Duché was imprisoned by General Howe and came to a permanent change of heart regarding the revolutionary cause. In 1777 he wrote a rash letter to George Washington urging that Washington undo the Declaration of Independence and negotiate a peace. The publication of the letter destroyed Duché's career and "those whose hearts had thrilled to Duché's eloquence now cursed him as a traitor and even Hopkinson wrote him a burning letter of protest" DAB. Duché and his family soon exiled themselves to London. The conclusion of the Revolutionary War did not provide Duché with an opportunity to return to the United States - anti-Loyalist sentiments were still too raw. It was not until 1792 having by then taken up the tenets of Swedenborgianism that Duché and his family finally returned to Philadelphia where he lived the rest of his life. <br> <br> Francis Hopkinson's bookplate was engraved by the noted artist and engraver Henry Dawkins one of the early engravers in the colonies. Dawkins was born in England but came to New York City in 1754. He found work engraving bookplates maps and music in New York and then in Philadelphia before returning again to New York in 1774. He was arrested there in 1776 and charged with counterfeiting paper money apparently not for the first time for which he was jailed. Later that year he petitioned the New York Provincial Congress for release but the record of Dawkins's life ends there and we do not know what became of him. <br> <br> This is a later edition of Samuel Butler's famous epic poem first published in three parts in London beginning in 1663. An edition containing all three parts together was first published in 1684. This edition contains seven engravings by William Hogarth. In the present edition parts two and three have separate titlepages and that of part three bears the imprint "printed for B. Motte. The text is continuous despite the pagination. <br> <br> A remarkable volume - a gift of youthful friendship inspirational to a signer of the Declaration of Independence whose long and close friendship with his brother-in-law would become a casualty of conflicting loyalties during the American Revolution. ESTC N17078. DAB IX pp.220-23; V 476-77. ANB 11 pp.190-92; 7 pp.4-5. Printed for D. Midwinter and A. Ward... unknown books
2003365302003. ISBN-13: 9781584773290; ISBN-10: 1584773294. Larwood Jacob. Humour of the Law: Forensic Anecdotes. Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus 1903. vi 304 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584773290; ISBN-10: 1584773294. Cloth hardcover. New. $24.95 A wonderful collection of over 200 charming anecdotes of timeless appeal including "Court of Sessions and the Butchers" "No Spiders in Westminster Hall" "Our Old Draconian Laws" "A Learned Judge" and "Curran's Sarcasm." Some of the tales involve comical passages about law found in literature or satirical observations on given law book texts. With an index. unknown books
199538642Deerfield: Lake Shore Publishing 1995. First edition. 63 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Poems. SIGNED by Jacob. Deerfield: Lake Shore Publishing unknown books
1740811231740. CATS Jacob. HUWELYCK dat is Het gantsche beleyt des Echten Staats; afgedeelt in zes hoost-stukken Marriage or the whole account of the wedded state divided into six sections: maidenhood courtship the bride the wife the mother the widow. Illustrated with life-like plates. s'Gravenhage Pieter van Thol 1740. Octavo. xxii538pp. 1f. Contains approximately 36 engravings by Noach van der Meer roughly based on Adriaen Van de Venne's illustrations for the first edition of 1625. Although smaller and simplified they're finely rendered. This verse compendium of advice to young women was first published in 1625 and went into many editions until at least 1779. Jacob Cats 1577-1660 the beloved and prolific poet known as "Father Cats" was a jurist statesman and diplomat and for fifteen years Raad-Pensionaris of Holland. With small marginal tears to pp. 3984108183 and 411 small worm hole along inner margin of pp. 108-120 and small dampstain to corners of pp. 378-428 none of these flaws affecting the printed area. Two signatures slightly starting; and the folding plate of children's games torn 4" along the fold line. In early vellum lightly soiled. Light to moderate foxing. This edition not in OCLC BL or NUC. unknown books
198641313NY: Doubleday 1986. Hardcover. Very good. First Edition sixth printing. xxiv 384pp. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. <br/><br/> Doubleday hardcover books
1982UMYEIAN00AFDoubleday 1982. Very Good. Myers Jacob B. I and I Esdras Volume 42 The Anchor Bible. Garden City New York: Doubleday 1982. 383pp. Indexed. 8vo. Cloth. Book condition: Very good with faintly bumped and rubbed extremities. Doubleday hardcover books
19741326878Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company Inc 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 383; G/G; grayish tan spine with black text; dust jacket has slightly sunned spine; taped head and tail front and rear edges; mylar wraps; cloth shows light wear to exterior; mild wear to edges; strong boards; text block has slight tone to exterior edges; deckled fore edge; illustrated;. 1326878. FP New Rockville Stock. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
196541248NY: Doubleday 1965. Hardcover. Very good. First Edition. xciv 200pp indices. Ink name and address on front pastedown else a very good hardback in a tanned jacket. <br/><br/> Doubleday hardcover 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
1681180631Paris: Chez Lavrent d'Hovry sur le Quay des Augustins à l'Image saint Iean 1681. Hardcover. As is needs rebound age toning to block and pages as expected with age but text and illustrations are otherwise clear. Missing covers marble illustrated end pages two volumes/parts in one. Volume 1 has a bw illustrated title page 22 257 pp. with several bw illustrations. Volume 2 has a bw illustrated title page 259 pp illustrated throughout in bw. Text is in French. Both parts are bound together with their own title pages. The beginning unnumbered pages include a preface a table of contents for part one and a table of contents for part two. Part one was published in 1681 part two in 1677. Title translates to: Iconology: or New explanation of several images emblems & other hyerogliphic figures of virtues vices arts sciences natural causes different moods human passions & c. Divided into two parts. Taken from research and figures of Cesar Ripa moralized by J. Baudouin of the Académie Francoise. Chez Lavrent d'Hovry, sur le Quay des Augustins, à l'Image saint Iean hardcover books
1789247021Paris: Chez Barrois 1789. First edition in French. Avec trente-quatre planches. 34 finely etched plates by Copia EXQUISITELY COLORED by a contemporary hand. 4 324; 4 295 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary tan polished calf triple gilt-filet borders smooth spines richly gilt with 2 black leather spine label by Bozerien jeune. First edition in French. Avec trente-quatre planches. 34 finely etched plates by Copia EXQUISITELY COLORED by a contemporary hand. 4 324; 4 295 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Extremely Rare with Hand-colored Plates. An extremely rare if not unique copy of Engel's classic treatise on acting with the plates colored by hand. This is the very scarce first French edition of Engel's famous Ideen Zu Einer Mimik first printed in German in 1785-86 and one of the most important works on the theory and psycho-physiology of acting. Engel 1741-1802 was a German philosopher who was professor of moral philosophy in the Joachimstal Gymnasium in Berlin and following that tutor to the crown prince of Prussia the future Frederik William III. In 1787 he became director of the Royal Theater in Berlin where he wrote many plays which enjoyed considerable success as well as many essays on aesthetic subjects<br/><br/>ONE OF A VERY FEW COPIES WITH HAND-COLORED PLATES. Cohen-De Ricci 346-347; Brunet III 982; Magriel p. 179 Chez Barrois unknown books
1966463431966. SHOUL Jacob W. IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER: THE LIFE STORY OF JACOB W. SHOUL FIELD UNDERWRITER MUTUAL OF NEW YORK. Compiled and Edited by John P. Brion. No Publication Information. 4to. tan cloth stamped in green. First Edition. Signed presentation by Shoul on front pastedown: "To Mrs. Alexander E. Patterson whose husband played such an important part in my life both as a good friend and as a confidant. With kindest regards Jacob W. Shoul June 17 1966." Very Good moderate soil covers. $150.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
