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6519LAZARUS Emma. A DAY IN SURREY WITH WILLIAM MORRIS. San Francisco: Roxburghe/Zamorano Keepsake 1988. 4to Wrappers. 14 pages illustrations. First edition thus. Limited edition of 150 copies. Remembered best as the author of the sonnet engraved on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty Emma Lazarus met Morris in 1883. The article which is reprinted here from the 1886 Century Magazine complete with illustrations w published with Morris' approval and is followed by an extract of a letter fro him concerning his socialist and artistic views. 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
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
197139239New York: Columbia Univ. Press 1971. First printing. Red cloth. Very good. 8vo. Columbia Univ. Press hardcover books
1541253975Basel: Johann Froben 1541. Second edition first printed 1537. 299 305-323 8 pp. a-r4 s6 t-z A-E4 F6 G-M4. Prnter's device on title-page and verso of final leaf; profusely illustrated with wooodcuts many full-page. 1 vols. Small 4to. Modern half calf and marbled boards red morocco spine label. Institutional bookplate and earlier library stamp on title-page and p. 100. Second edition first printed 1537. 299 305-323 8 pp. a-r4 s6 t-z A-E4 F6 G-M4. Prnter's device on title-page and verso of final leaf; profusely illustrated with wooodcuts many full-page. 1 vols. Small 4to. De Re Navali. Lazare de Baïf 1496-1547 was a French humanist classical scholar translator of Sophocles' Electra and ambassador to Venice who flourished in the enlightened reign of François I to whom his delightfully illustrated book on captivities and the naval science of the ancients is dedicated; the book is edited by Charles Estienne. His close connection to the classical humanists in François I's circle has led some to speculate that the fine woocuts herein came from the worshop of Geoffroy Tory. In addition two other works are included: one also by Baïf on costumes and urns; and one by Antonio Telesion "De coloribus" Adams B36 Johann Froben unknown books
667811 folding engraved plates & numerous tables in the text. xxxii 542 2 pp. Large 4to 250 x 215 mm. cont. red sheep maroquiné flat spine gilt covers framed with gilt Greek keys gilt round sides a.e.g. Stuttgart: Cotta 1820. The important German translation of the third and final edition of Carnot's chief work in a most attractive binding. Written at the request of Napoleon and published for the first time in 1810 third ed.: 1812 it concerns the coordination and logistics necessary for a successful defense of fortified positions. The plates are highly detailed with elevations and cross-sections demonstrating his theories of fortification which replaced those of Vauban and improved upon the ideas of Montalembert. The translator von Bressensdorf was a lieutenant in a Bavarian grenadier guard unit. "Known to French history as the 'Organizer of Victory' in the wars of the Revolution and to engineering mechanics for the principle of continuity in the transmission of power Carnot 1753-1823 remains one of the very few men of science and of politics whose career in each domain deserves serious attention on its own merits.Throughout the Napoleonic period he served on numerous commissions appointed by the Institute to examine the merits of many of the mechanical inventions that testify to the fertility of French technical imagination in those years of conquest and warfare."-D.S.B. III p. 70 & 72. An excellent copy. WorldCat locates only one example of this book in North America. Unidentified engraved noble bookplate on front paste-down. ❧ David Eugene Smith "Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot" in The Scientific Monthly Vol. 37 No. 2 Aug. 1933 pp. 189. Jähns 2816. N.B.G. Vol. 8 cols. 788-800. unknown books
1696635Venice: Joannes La Nou 1696. 1/2 calf. Very Good -. 4to. 16476pp. Nicely bound in 20th century brown calf over marbled boards. Old faded water stain to the final 50 pages. Edited and much expandedafter Riviere's death by one of his students Bernardino Christini. The section on astrological medicine is noteworthy. Riviere d. 1655 was an important French professor of medicine. NLM 17th Century #2901 under the editor B. Cristini. Wellcome Med. Cat. IV p. 535 the 1676 ed. See Garrison & Morton #2727 Riviere's OPERA MEDICA UNIVERSA. The only copy currently for sale on-line. Joannes La Nou unknown books
16722295Frankfurt: Johann David Zunners 1672. Scarce augmented edition of this illustrated technological classic "second only to Agricola in the number of original contributions to the literature of mining and metallurgy and the beauty of the graphic treatment of the crafts." Dibner 89 1574. Johann David Zunners unknown books
030169No Binding. Very Good. Quarto one page plus stamp-less address leaf in very good clean condition. Michael Lazarus was a family member of Marx E. Lazarus see above Michael Lazarus was a prominent South Carolina businessman who built the first Reform synagogue in Charleston. This letter is all business and discusses the sale of 10 bales of cotton and the state of the market in Charleston. "Messrs S. Hutchins & Co Gents It is now some time since I have had this pleasure or of that of hearing from you. I contemplate soon to make you a shpt. Of cotton - & have to request of you to keep me advised of the state of yr market prices here are stiffening I bought last Friday between two to three hundred bales fair at 7 7/8 which 800 could be had this day. I think it wd be as well to try to get rid of my 10 Bales long cotton - before your market gets overstocked - Our supply is 100m short of this time last year the planters are holding back for better prices. I think however start next month our receipts will begin to increase greatly & prices may then be a shade lower - The crop is not likely to exceed 2100m Bales & without inducements to forward the crop to market there may not be more that about 20000 Bales recd." <br/> <br/> unknown books
1692157644Frankfurt: Tampachs 1692. hardcover. very good. Title page printed in red & black and with a large woodcut vignette. Illustrated with 42 remarkable woodcuts all large many full-page depicting mining smelting & refining operations. Numerous large decorative initials and tailpieces throughout.1 134 3 leaves. Short folio full contemporary vellum binding a bit soiled and worn but very firm; old signature on title; some pages toned but with very little foxing; pale dampstains at margin of fore edge on some leaves; several small professional repairs. Franckfurt am Mayn: Gottfried Tampachs 1629. Fourth edition. Very Good.<br/><br/> This work is Ercker's crowning achievement. It was highly prized in its time and remained an important technical book for over 200 years because of its precise data concerning the fusion processes of gold silver copper tin iron lead and mercury. "Ercker described laboratory procedures and equipment gave an account of preparing the cupel of constructing furnaces and of the assaying balance and the method of operating it. He used as his model Agricola's De re Metallica yet he was quite original and included on the procedures he himself had tested." -DSB IV 393. Ferguson I 242-5; Duveen 194-5 both listing 3rd edition of 1598; Hoover 282; Partington I 104-7.<br/><br/> Tampachs unknown books
199146295New York: HarperCollins 1991. Hardcover. xvii 486p. first edition first printing very good condition in like dj with flap price intact. HarperCollins hardcover books
1998Embry 187278Times Books 1998. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Times Books, 1998. First edition, first printing. unknown books
127782hardcover. illus. 576pp. 8vo cloth d.w. N.Y.: Times 1998. vg<br/><br/> unknown books
1998021099New York: Times Books Random House 1998. 1st Edition. xiv 576p. b/w illus. dj. Times Books, Random House unknown books
192363215Habana: Editorial Hermes 1923. Paperback. Poor. 98p. 18cm. Wrapper quite soiled and worn. Backstrip heavily chipped and mounted on later underlying reinforcement. Contents sound but with extensive foxing and brown stains. Spanish text. <br/><br/> Editorial Hermes paperback 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
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
195928163London: J. & W. Chester PN J.W.C. 9753 1959. Folio. Original publisher's light blue printed wrappers. i title ii cast list 142 pp.<br/><br/>Wrappers somewhat worn with minor chips to upper; spine slightly worn and torn lacking at head. First Edition. J. & W. Chester [PN J.W.C. 9753] unknown books
194423426NY: Cooperative Book League 1944. 8vo pp. 105. Edited with an introduction by Morris U. Schappes. Paper wraps. Cover little soiled o/w VG. Cooperative Book League unknown books
1970127164Chicago IL: Windfall Press 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 64 pages. Introduction by X.J. Kennedy. A very good plus copy with some minor bumping to the corners in an about very good dust jacket that has a number of edge tears and some soiling to the front panel. Signed and warmly inscribed on the front free endpaper in the year of publication. Windfall Press unknown books
1948225369Oxford: Blackwell 1948. hardcover. fine. 84 pages. 12mo blue cloth. Oxford: Blackwell 1948. First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Blackwell unknown 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
197851169NY: The Smith 1978. First edition. 79 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. This play was one of two selected to launch The Scene Award Series a project designed to highlight the work of emerging playwrights. NY: The Smith, unknown books
19611326973Madrid: Aguilar 1961. Segunda edición. Hardcover. Octavo; Fair/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine grey with gold print; Boards in grey cloth with gold print wear to corners and spine caps stain on rear and small stain on spine shelfwear; Text block has cracked front hinge owner label on front flyleaf significant amount of notes and underlining in ink and pencil throughout; Text in Spanish; xx 893 pages. 1326973. FP New Rockville Stock. Aguilar hardcover books