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1894240958London: T. Fisher Unwin 1894. Hardcover. xi 463p. cover slightly shelf worn mild bumping of corners else good condition first edition. "Mostly criticism of contemporary society from the perspective of a future eutopia." - p. 52 of Lyman Tower Sargent's British and American utopian literature 1516-1975 an annotated bibliography. T. Fisher Unwin hardcover books
185448575Mexico: Imprenta de Jose Mariano Lara 1854. Paperback. Good. 33p. Original wrapper. 26cm. Back cover has some chips and folds. Extensive ink annotations in margins. Ex lib. Yale Divinity Library. Spanish text. <br/><br/> Imprenta de Jose Mariano Lara paperback books
190047688Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1900. First edition 8vo pp. xiii 1 216; 3 plates; green cloth with gilt title on spine; ex-Yale library with plates and label on spine and call number on colophon; very good. Paul Ehrlich received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his contributions to immunology. The methods he developed for staining tissue made it possible to distinguish between different type of blood cells which led to the capability to diagnose numerous blood diseases. <br/><br/> Cambridge University Press hardcover books
189475693London: T. Fisher Unwin 1894. Octavo pp. i-ix x-xi xii-xviii 1 2-463 464: ad original charcoal gray cloth spine panel stamped in gold top edge untrimmed other edges rough-trimmed black coated endpapers. First edition. "A revolution by labor led by one Carlyle Democritus brings about a new government and major social reform." - Lewis Utopian Literature p. 109. Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 20. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 135. Negley Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 666. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 103. Suvin Victorian Science Fiction in the UK p. 58. Bleiler 1978 p. 120. Reginald 08740. Some faint scratching and spotting to cloth still a near fine bright largely unopened copy. A nice copy of a book that rarely turns up in good shape. #75693 T. Fisher Unwin unknown books
1871D5051New York / Cambridge: Hurd and Houghton / Riverside Press 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Publisher's green cloth gilt-stamped lettering and detail on spine. Small chips at spine tips and corners; paint smudge on fore-edge of front board; FFEP and flyleaf detached laid-in. Scarce. <br/><br/> Hurd and Houghton / Riverside Press hardcover books
181088748Paris.: Courcier 1810. 1st edition. Modern full red morocco untrimmed edges. . Very good rippled pages. 8vo. 22x14.5 cm. . French text. A military engineering work by the pioneer mathematician physicist and politician. Carnot was also a leader in the French revolutionary army. weight: 1.6 lb. Courcier unknown books
1856291047Mexico: Morellia 1856. pamphlet. Latin American pamphlet. 18 pp. 8 x 5.75 inches. 8vo. Abrasions and chips to margins with some foxing.<br/><br/> A response by the Archbishop of Mexico to certain assertions made by the Minister of Justice in their public dispute on church-state relations. Hard to find.<br/><br/> Morellia unknown books
1801214112Paris.: De Crapelet Duprat. An IX= 1801. 1st Edition. Modern quarter red leatherette over red cloth original wrappers bound in. . Very good unread and uncut light scattered foxing pages rippled. 8vo. 24.4x18.6 cm. . French text. First edition of this important text by the famous French mathematician and military engineer. weight: 1.6 lb. Four folding plates. De Crapelet Duprat. hardcover books
187157697NY: Hurd & Houghton 1871. First Edition. 8vo pp. 228. Author's second book only 500 copies were printed. Minor external wear terra cotta cloth a very good tight copy. Dedicated To my friend Ralph Waldo Emerson. BAL 11485; Singerman 2284. Her Scarce second book. A Sephardic Jew born in New York City Lazarus 1849!87 is best known for her poem The New Colossus the final five lines of which are inscribed at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. NAW: "Her second volume Ametus. received critical praise in England and the United States. Revealing a greater interest in contemporary themes it marked as she wrote to Emerson her 'mental journey from Greece to America. Hurd & Houghton unknown books
1889140941538Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1889. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. vi 342; 257 pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt spine lettering top edges gilt. Two volumes. Near Fine with light foxing to edges and endpapers hint of foxing to cloth; very attractive clean volumes. Rare in commerce.<br /> <br /> <p>A posthumous collection by the Jewish American poet best-known for her sonnet "The New Colossus" included in this collection which is inscribed on a bronze plaque on the Statue of Liberty with the famous lines: "Give me your tired your poor / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. / Send these the homeless tempest-tost to me / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Volume one begins with a short biography of the poet from The Century Magazine. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
185064899New York 1850. Beautiful painted trade sign 11 7/8 x 14 inches watercolor and gouache in gold black and several shades of blue with some remaining traces of pencil outlining all enclosed within an embossed gilt border. Signed by the artist in lower corner: "I. L. Lazarus / 179 Broadway N.Y." According to an ad in the Geneva newspaper May 22 1847 Newell would be using a newly developed "Letheon Vapor" as an anesthetic; Newell was still practicing at this address in 1860 from the "Vulcanite: A Quarterly Journal Devoted to the Science of Mechanical Dentistry". The 1848 New York City Directory identifies I. L. Lazarus "manufacturer of ornamental show cards and importer of lever watches &c." at "179 Broadway up stairs." A beautiful trade sign for a provincial dentist. Glazed and in an old frame. 11170. <br/><br/> unknown books