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1785870031785. PLENCK Joseph Jacob. TOXICOLOGIA seu Doctrina de Venenis et Antidotis. Toxicology or the Knowledge of Poisons and their Antidotes. Vienna: Rudolph Graeffer 1785. First edition. 338 16 pp. Octavo calf worn at extremities; front board detached. Small amount of faint spotting else fine internally. unknown books
182642950London: sumptibus Ricardi Priestley 1826. 2 volumes large 4to portrait frontispiece text in triple column; full contemporary calf neatly rebacked; spine a little scuffed; a good sound copy. Supralibros on all covers of The Society of Writers to the Signet. Facciolati 1682-1769 and Forcellini 1688-1768 were both philologists and lexicographers at Padua the latter being the student and later the collaborator of the former. Their editorial work on the 1719 Calepino convinced them of the need for a totally new work. Forcellini spent 40 years reading all of the classical Latin writers. He also studied inscriptions coins and medals. The resulting vocabulary is enormous and proved to be the basis for all subsequent works of the kind. Ebert 7788: "A greatly prized work." <br/><br/> sumptibus Ricardi Priestley unknown books
16222666Middelburg: Jan van der Hellen for Jan Pieterss. van de Venne 1622. 4to 233 x 176 mm. 16 60 19 1 blank pp. Large emblematic publisher's mark on title-page four half-page engraved illustrations by Pieter de Jode 2 Pieter Serwouters and Willem van der Passe after Adriaen van der Venne. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Short marginal tear to title light dampstaining to first and last leaves. Later parchment over pasteboards ms. spine title. Provenance: Samuel Ashton Thompson Yates 1842-1903 bookplate dated 1894.  First Edition of Cats' retelling of the Biblical tale of Queen Vasthi the wife of Ahasuerus who refused her husband's summons to appear before his guests wearing the royal crown and presumably nothing else and who was duly punished. The first part of Cats' word-playing verse adaptation whose title may be translated as The Theater of Manly Respectability is a long speech in the Queen's defense and in defense of all women followed by a speech against her and in favor of "Manly Respectability." The work concludes with the Judgment which is that Vasthi should obey her husband because women's subservience to men is a law of nature. A final poem titled "Aller Princessen Spiegel aller Vrovwen Spoor" is illustrated with an engraving showing the humbled queen wearing a yoke around her neck. The parallels and differences between the Biblical Ahasuerus and Herodotus' tale of King Candaules supplied in Latin and Dutch translations in an appendix whose wife's rebellion was more successful are fully exploited by Cats and by the illustrator Cats' usual partner the painter and engraver Adriaen van de Venne whose brother Jan published the edition.Van de Venne's engravings notably the scene of Candaules' naked wife being surprised by Gyges served as models for a number of Dutch painters. The Van de Venne brothers played a central role in the dissemination of Cats' poetry and it is their joint production that makes the works come alive: "The complete works of Cats together with Van de Venne's illustrations formed a sort of housebook of the Dutch people which remained popular for two centuries." Bol p. 117.Following the privilege on the title verso is a letter from the publisher to all bailiffs officials and readers "Noodige Waersschouwinge." complaining of the many counterfeit editions of an earlier Cats work the 1620 Self-stryt and explaining how to tell them apart. A second edition without the Noodige Waersschouwinge appeared later in 1622 and several further editions followed. De Jonge van Ellemeet Museum Catsianum 97; Bol Adriaen Pietersz. Van de Venne 1989 p. 118. Jan van der Hellen for Jan Pieterss. van de Venne unknown books
19034625Salt Lake City: Salt Lake Brewing Company 1903. Broadside 28 cm x 21 cm printed in red ink. Two vertical folds with minor bumping. About very good. Self-congratulatory proclamation and advertisement from the early Utah brewer Jacob Moritz. Salt Lake City Brewing Company at its height was the largest brewer in Utah and one of the largest in the entire western United States. His brewery was located on the east bench of Salt Lake at 10th East where Moritz's empire dominated the hillside today the majority of the buildings have been torn down with the remaining structure the bottling house now housing 'The Old Salt Lake City Jail' restaurant on the corner of 5th South.<br/><br/>"We respectfully call your attention to the excellent quality of beer manufactured by us this year. We have this last winter added to our already perfect plant all the latest and up to date machinery both in brewing and in bottling department. This superior beer is manufactured from the very choicest malt and select 'A-1' Imported Bavarian Hops and we place it on the market to take the place of the imported article thus helping to build up this particular industry here at home in our glorious West. Let us stand together and build up home industry. You do your part by handling the goods and we will do ours by giving you the best made with no advance in price. When you next come to Salt Lake City consider that you have a cordial invitation to visit our plant the vastness and equipment of which will both surprise and interest you. Salt Lake Brewing Company unknown books
182465311York PA: np 1824. Broadside. 27 x 32.5 cm. Text in three columns. Signed in type by Jacob Barnitz. "Answering charges of personal and political misconduct put forth in the anonymous pamphlet signed by "Many voters" and comparing his own qualifications for the office of sheriff of York County Pa. to those of his opponent Michael Dowdel i.e. Doudel." see AAS listing. AMERICAN IMPRINTS lists no copies and OCLC only the AAS which is described as mutilated. Amateurish repair on to hold tear through first column a few stains. <br/><br/> np unknown books
1992273633Chicago. : Probus Publishing. 1992. 1st Edition. Black cloth gilt spine title. . A very good copy in a very good dustjacket. 26x18 cm. . weight: 2.4 lb. Probus Publishing. hardcover books
23472 p.l. 477 pp. 8vo orig. printed wrappers spine & upper wrappers somewhat chipped some dampstaining & light browning uncut. Paris: Firmin Didot Bros. & J.B. Baillière 1835. Second edition. "The revised corrected greatly enlarged and final French edition of this important work in which the table of atomic and molecular weights is considerably augmented. Very scarce."-Neville I p. 147. The first edition of this book - Paris 1819 - presented Berzelius' electrochemical or dualistic theory which dominated the chemical world for many years. The table presented in the first edition and here greatly enlarged was the first attempt at a complete list of atomic weights. Good copy. unknown books
1955003464Neuchatel Paris: Delachaux & Niestlé 1955. 287p. red buckram ex libris. Delachaux & Niestlé unknown books
2006Embry 182548Compass Group 2006. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. B&W and color illustrations. Compass Group, 2006. First edition, first printing. unknown books
193775757Malden Mass 1937. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis photos maps xvi 136p. Pebbled blue cloth. 23cm. Modest spotting on front cover. No Jacket. An account of a trip to the Holy Land in 1936 by this African American stenographer and AME Zion Elder/Sunday School teacher. <br/><br/> hardcover books
18939016959Chicago: Rhodes & McClure 1893. 1st. Hardcover. Good. Illustrated. Howes F-216. Binding worn. <br/><br/> Rhodes & McClure hardcover books
1610WRCAM51636Amsterdam: Cornille Nicolas 1610. Three volumes bound in one. Described in greater detail below. Folio. Contemporary vellum over boards rebacked with original spine preserved. Bookplate on front pastedown. Light soiling and repairs to titlepages; minor soiling otherwise. Very good. Three highly important Dutch voyages all in their second French editions and bound together as issued in 1610. These three voyages represent the initial Dutch exploration and expansion to the East Indies a significant element in a global commercial enterprise which was to develop throughout the 17th century. The foundational accounts in the present volume originally issued together by Amsterdam printer Cornille Nicolas include: <br> <br> 1 Lodewijcksz Willem: PREMIER LIVRE DE L'HISTOIRE DE LA NAVIGATION AUX INDES ORIENTALES PAR LES HOLLANDOIS. Amsterdam: Cornille Nicolas 1609. 53 leaves. Titlepage with engraved map forty-five in-text engravings including three maps seventeen in-text woodcut illustrations and one plate on separate leaf following printed text. Moderate soiling on titlepage slight edge wear to first few leaves. <br> <br> Second French edition following the first French edition of 1598. Lodewijcksz gives an account of the first Dutch expedition to the East Indies under Cornelis Houtman from 1595 to 1597. The information collected by Houtman on the spice trade convinced the Dutch they could compete with Portugal's monopoly in the East Indies and his narrative served to initiate the explosion of Dutch trading at the turn of the century. <br> <br> "Like the English Houtman's men suffered so severely from scurvy that they had to put in at the Cape of Good Hope and at Antongil Bay in Madagascar to recuperate. But they then sailed straight across the Indian Ocean to the Straits of Sunda and dropped anchor at Bantam in Java without the loss of a ship. At this port the center of the Javanese pepper trade a long time was spent. Both natives and Portuguese showed considerable hostility and Houtman and some of his men were imprisoned. However the Dutch succeeded in making a commercial treaty and departed with a good cargo. They proceeded eastward to Bali and then returned along the south coast of Java thereby acquiring a more correct impression of the width of the island than had prevailed and laid the ghost of Java's being the northern part of the Southern Continent.the Dutch skipper had enough to show for his venture to inspire the merchants of Amsterdam with a determination to exploit the trade" - Penrose. <br> <br> 2 Neck Jacob Cornelissoon van: LE SECOND LIVRE IOURNAL OU COMPTOIR CONTENANT LE VRAY DISCOURS ET NARRATION HISTORIQUE. Amsterdam: Cornille Nicolas 1609. Two parts. 224 leaves. Titlepages with engraved illustrations twenty-two in-text engravings including one map two in-text woodcuts. Leaves D2 and D3 lacking provided in facsimile. <br> <br> Second French edition following the first French edition of 1601. Van Neck who represented the Verre Company commanded three ships which were part of the first successful Dutch trading voyage to the region. The other two ships were commanded by Wybrand Van Warwijck and Jacob Van Heemskerk. Van Neck's vessel became separated from the other two after rounding the Cape of Good Hope and the three did not reunite again until his arrival in Java in late December 1598. Unlike his Dutch predecessor Cornelis Houtman who three years earlier had seized the port of Bantam Van Neck dealt diplomatically with the natives. "Rather than rejecting the inflated prices asked by the local ruler he offered to pay over the odds in order to cement a lasting relationship.Van Neck's was the most profitable of the pre-VOC Dutch East India Company voyages. Despite the apparently high price paid for spices he netted a profit of 300 per cent on his overall costs. In 1601 fourteen fleets comprising sixty-five ships sailed for the East Indies but by that time competition between rival Dutch operators as well as with the Portuguese had inflated prices and none were as successful as Van Neck's first enterprise" - Howgego. While focused on activity in the East Indies EUROPEAN AMERICANA notes the text includes references to Brazil and tobacco from the West Indies. The second part of this 1609 French edition an eight-page appendix of words spoken in Java and Malay includes word lists in French printed in roman type Malay in italic type and Javanese in civilité. 3 Noort Olivier van: DESCRIPTION DU PENIBLE VOYAGE FAIT ENTOUR DE L'UNIVERS OV GLOBE TERRESTRE. PAR SR. OLIVIER DU NORT D'UTRECHT GENERAL DE QUATRE NAVIRES ASSAVOIR. Amsterdam: Widow of Cornille Nicolas 1610. 2611pp. Engraved titlepage vignette. Twenty-five in-text engravings including three maps. <br> <br> Second French edition following the first French printing of 1602. Van Noort a former innkeeper in Rotterdam sponsored by a group of Dutch merchants accomplished the fourth circumnavigation of the globe after Magellan Drake and Cavendish. He was the first Dutch explorer to do so making the trip from 1598 to 1601. The voyage was particularly arduous. Half the crew mutinied his ships were constantly harassed and most of those that didn't mutiny perished from disease. He returned to Holland "with only one battered ship and eight crew left although some accounts suggest that forty-five crew survived. His voyage contributed little to the geographical knowledge of the time but had some effect in opening the way to the establishment of the Dutch in the East Indies.Van Noort's achievement however captured the imagination of his countrymen and the published accounts sold well the first appearing only eighteen days after his return. A more complete edition appeared later that year followed by two amended editions in 1602" Howgego. <br> <br> Three of the most important pioneering French voyages to the Far East bound together as issued. Lodewijcksz: EUROPEAN AMERICANA 609/71. TIELE-MULLER 115. JCB 3II:63. HOWGEGO H105 Houtman. Penrose TRAVEL AND DISCOVERY IN THE RENAISSANCE 1952 p.204. Neck: EUROPEAN AMERICANA 609/93. TIELE 786. TIELE-MULLER 129. HOWGEGO N13. Noort: EUROPEAN AMERICANA 610/79. SABIN 55438. BORBA DE MORAES p.617. W. Klooster THE DUTCH IN THE AMERICAS 1600- 1800 p.12. TIELE 806. JCB 3II:71. HOWGEGO N37. Cornille Nicolas hardcover books
19781323651Boston: Little Brown and Company 1978. First American edition. Hardcover. 18mo; 3 volumes; First American edition; VG-/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spines yellow blue green with black print; Slipcase holds three volumes glossy illustrated paper clean and strong; DJs have slight edgewear small tears at spine ends else clean and bright; Boards have slight wear to spine caps else clean and strong; Title from slipcase; Text blocks clean and tight; 3 vols. unpaged illustrated color. 1323651. FP New Rockville Stock. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
198011437New York: Avon 1980. Octavo printed wrappers. Advance copy uncorrected proof of the first edition. Anatomy of Wonder 1987 4-22. A fine copy. #11437 Avon unknown books
1980103852New York: Avon 1980. Octavo printed wrappers. Advance copy uncorrected proof of the first edition. Anatomy of Wonder 1987 4-22. A fine copy. #103852 Avon unknown books
1988137365Richmond VA: Anderson Gallery Viriginia Commonwealth University 1988. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran September 1 through October 17 1988. Essays by John P. Jacob and Christoph Tannert. Includes numerous black and white images. An about very good copy in stapled wrappers with creasing to the corners. Anderson Gallery, Viriginia Commonwealth University unknown books
193911996New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good- in Fair dj. 1939. 1st U.S. edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . price-clipped ex-lending library book worn but intact markings confined to pocket on front pastedown and remnants of label on ffep; jacket heavily edgeworn moderately soiled top 1-1/2" of spine missing but not affecting spine text torn and ragged along top edge more so to rear panel; see note about wrap-around cover. "The author of the famous novels of Jewish life the Claudia and Gollantz books has this time written the story of a man who was not a Jew but who pretended to be one because he felt it would be an asset in business." NOTE that this copy has an interesting "bonus" feature namely a printed wrap-around paper cover sort of a dust jacket under the actual dust jacket that bears the name of the lending library Ramona Rental Library Los Angeles along with ads for a number of local businesses. . The Macmillan Company hardcover books
19904766Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company 1990. First Edition. 274pp. Octavo 24 cm Burgundy cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Near fine. A previously unpublished journal Hammer's account is one of the few day-to-day narratives known for the 1844 emigration. He traveled with the first "northsider" train moving up the Platte on a route which would later be used by one-third of all migrants including the Mormons. Mattes' Platte River Road Narratives gives a very high rating to this diary for content and style. Rumer's editorial commentary is expansive and thorough. Clark & Brunet 128. Mattes 106. Arthur H. Clark Company unknown books
196567759NY:: Gordon and Breach. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. B0007DQ4IM . Volume 5 in the Mathematics and Its Applications series. First edition. Very good in a very good moderate edge wear with a few small chips age toning dust jacket.; 95 pages . Gordon and Breach, hardcover books
1835S6909Paris:: Firmin Didot and J.-B. Bailliere 1835. 1835. 8vo. iv 477 1 blank pp. Tables; preliminaries foxed. Contemporary quarter calf marbled boards gilt spine; rubbed. Very good. SCARCE. SECOND EDITION revised corrected and enlarged of Berzelius's table of names formulas and atomic weights of nearly 2000 chemical compounds. The work also presents the author's theories of chemical proportions and electrochemistry. "The table appended greatly enlarged in this edition mentions the atomic weights of all elements then known besides those of a large number of inorganic compounds and forms the first attempt at giving a complete list of atomic weights." Zeitlinger. Cole Chemical literature 144; DSB II p. 90; Partington A history of chemistry IV pp. 153-158; Poggendorff I col. 173; Weeks and Leicester Discovery of the elements 1968 p. 308; Zeitlinger I 6190. Firmin Didot and J.-B. Bailliere, 1835. hardcover books
1904151738New York: The Outlook Company 1904. Second printing done in the month of publication. Hardcover. 471 pages. A biography of the 26th President of the United States by his friend Riis. Includes 16 black and white images by Riis as well. An about very good copy in cloth boards with some minor fraying to the spine ends and corners and some splitting to the internal front hinge. No dust jacket. Still a solid copy. The Outlook Company unknown books
190459358New York: The Outlook Company. Very Good. 1904. Hardcover. 471 pages brown boards with gilt stamping slight scuffing to spine rear cover previous owner signed contents are bright and complete. Very Good. . The Outlook Company hardcover books
1927106211Chicago/ New York: The Leonard Company 1927. First edition of this Herzl biography by the British-born Jewish journalist and an early leader of the Zionist movement in the United States. Octavo 2 volumes original cloth top edge gilt pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page "To my friend Louis Karasik Jacob de Haas Oct '27." Fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. With sixty illustrations index chronological table appendices and bibliography. Rare and desirable signed by de Haas. Theodor Herzl was an Austro-Hungarian journalist playwright political activist and writer who was one of the fathers of modern political Zionism. Herzl formed the World Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish migration to Palestine in an effort to form a Jewish state. Though he died long before its establishment he is generally considered a father of the State of Israel formed in 1948. The Leonard Company hardcover books
17740000222Leipzig: Bernhard Christoph Breitkopfs und Sohn 1774. Second edition. Contemporary calf. Very Good. 2nd edition. Folio Contemporary full calf with some ware and loss to ends of spine . Collation: 12 1-184 4p. with 51 copper-engraved plates. Internally this is a clean and bright copy with only minor spotting. <br/><br/>Leupold unlike his contemporary Newton was a designerand builder of instruments. In this work Leupold provides information and illustration of numerous devices that he built that were useful in handling water. This is a posthumous reprinting of his earlier edition in 1724which was the 2nd volume of his larger work Theatrum machinarum. Bernhard Christoph Breitkopfs und Sohn unknown books
193127772London: The Ulysses Bookshop 1931. First edition limited to 650 copies printed at the Sheval Press and signed by Coppard 8vo. pp. 9 73 9; 3 plates of facsimiles; ex-libris Northwestern University with bookplate mounted to front pastedown embossed stamp on title small inkstamps here and there throughout and with pocket and date due slip mounted to back endpapers; overall good and sound in original quarter linen over orange paper-covered boards printed paper label on spine the spine darkened the boards soiled and stained. <br/><br/> The Ulysses Bookshop hardcover books
