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189710894Santiago de Chile: Ercilla 1897. First Edition — Primera edición. Hardcover — Tapa dura. 175x135mm. 7x5¼". Santiago de Chile Ercilla 1897. En 8º 175 x 135mm. 113 pp. Encuadernación de época en holandesa. Cubiertas originales. Primera edición. Ejemplar de Antonio Cánovas del Castillo. En perfecto estado de grandes márgenes. Ercilla hardcover
1895054951Westminster London: A. Constable 1895. Second Edition . Soft cover. Good Plus. WESTMINSTER : 1895. The Acme Library . First published in 1894. This is the first British and first published edition. Preceded by a handful of copies printed in New York in late 1894 by Theo. L. De Vinne & Co. to secure American copyright. The second book in this Acme Library series. Grey printed paper covers. Tight bright and clean. Neat contemporary owner name; no internal markings. Minor wear and a couple of neat repairs. GOOD; internally VERY GOOD. ix 165 pages. 8pp adverts to rear. ABRAHAM STOKER 8 November 1847 - 20 April 1912 was an Irish author who wrote the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the West End's Lyceum Theatre which Irving owned. In his early years Stoker worked as a theatre critic for an Irish newspaper and wrote stories as well as commentaries. He also enjoyed travelling particularly to Cruden Bay in Scotland where he set two of his novels. During another visit to the English coastal town of Whitby Stoker drew inspiration for writing Dracula. He died on 20 April 1912 due to locomotor ataxia and was cremated in north London. Since his death his magnum opus Dracula has become one of the best-known works in English literature and the novel has been adapted for numerous films short stories and plays. Sm.8vo. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books Cumberland Everyman Keswick Inklings Literature MacDonald Rarities Theology and History. SCARCE. <br/> <br/> A. Constable paperback
1871135435Portland ME: George Stinson and Co. Publishers 1871. Large format lithograph of the Lincoln family by American engraver George Stinson. Framed. The entire piece measures 27.5 inches by 20.5 inches. Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He led the United States through its Civil War and in doing so preserved the Union of the United States of America abolished slavery and strengthened the federal government. Lincoln began constructing his cabinet on election night and sought to create a cabinet that would unite the Republican party. His eventual cabinet would include his primary rivals for the Republican nomination and although his appointees held differing views on economic issues all were opposed to the expansion of slavery into the territories of the United States. The most senior cabinet post of Secretary of State was appointed to William Seward who had recently failed to win the 1860 Republican presidential nomination and Lincoln's choice for Secretary of the Treasury was Ohio Senator Salmon P. Chase Seward's primary political rival and the leader of a radical faction of the Republican party that sought the immediate abolition of slavery. George Stinson and Co., Publishers unknown
183346405Berlin G. Reimer 1833. 4to. In "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik 1848.". Entire issue offered in the original printed wrappers without backstrip. Fine and clean. Entire volume: 392 pp. <br/><br/><em>First printing of Stern's important papers on continued fractions which is the first systematic summary of the theory.As a professor at Göttingen University Stern taught Bernhard Riemann along with Gauss. Stern also helped Ferdinand Eisenstein in formulating a proof of the quadratic reciprocity theorem. </em> unknown
185717454London: E. Gambart & Co 25 Berners St. 1857. First printing. In fine condition. The Departure - Second Class" and "The Return - First Class" are a pair of moralistic narrative works a popular genre in Victorian times and demonstrate the growing trend towards emigration particularly to Australia. The Victorian artist Abraham Solomon depicts a family traveling second class to a port where the young boy will go to sea in "The Departure". In "The Return" the boy returns as a successful middle aged squatter in the first class carriage with his son and daughter. <br /> <br /> Both paintings by Solomon are held in the National Railway Museum UK . Of "The Departure" they write "The painting is a contemporary image of rail travel showing the discomfort of the lower classes traveling in a draughty bench-seated second class carriage. Despite their discomfort this shows how the railways opened up travel to the less wealthy as well as those with money. It also shows how the industry allowed travel nationally and internationally with the posters in the background advertising passage to Australia highlighting the growing trend of emigration. " National Railway Museum UK website. The advertising includes ship departures for Port Phillip and Sydney.<br /> <br /> Published 4th April 1857 with a stated edition of 225 pairs. Engraved by W.H. Simmons. 26 3/4 x 20 3/4" image & text on paper 32 1/4 x 25 1/4". Black & white as issued. E. Gambart & Co 25 Berners St. unknown
185914778Philadelphia: Louis A. Godey 1859. Wraps. Good overall. The monthly issue for December 1859 with the classic Australian two full page steel engravings of the famous railway scenes 'The Departure Second Class Car' and 'The Return First Class Car' depicting a young man leaving to make his fortune in the Australian gold fields with advertising for ships departing to 'Port Phillip' and 'Sydney' visible on the wall behind his head. Here they appear re-engraved in a smaller format by an unknown artist. Originally published in elephant folio size in London this would be the first US publication.<br /> <br /> Godey's magazine covered a range of topics from literature music furniture fiction costume gardening & contemporary events. Individual issue Vol. LIX December 1859. Orig. pp paper wraps black titles covers ruffled at edges & rear cover detached. Not found on Trove digital edition only is available. Louis A. Godey paperback
1844218118Posonii : Typis Antonii Nobilis de Schmid 1844. First Edition. Hardback. Good copy bound in contemporary cloth-backed leather. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Scattered foxing. Some pen underling on pages ix-xii. Minor library marks. Remains quite well-preserved overall. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 75 pages; Description: 1 vol. xxix 11-75 pp.; 23cm. Subjects: Hebrew literature -- Solomon ben Abraham ibn Parhon -- Hebrew philology. Language: Hebrew. With an added title page in Latin and two letters in German. Posonii : Typis Antonii Nobilis de Schmid hardcover
189934573Warsaw: Meir Jehiel Halter 1899. Second edition. 8vo. 88pp. Blue half-cloth over black pebbled cloth. A Zionist tract by one of the founders of the religious Zionist movement. This work was first published in 1891 and is a collection of pro-Zionist statements by rabbis. This Text in Hebrew. Corners worn. Head and tail of spine bumped. Some age toning and rippling to leaves. Overall in good condition. Meir Jehiel Halter unknown
1861269911861. Leiden und Leipzig Harzenberg und F.A.Brockhaus 1861 Folio VI pp. 1 Bl. 68 pp. 1 gef. Tab. 7 getönte lith. Tafeln Halbleinenband mit Rückentitel und Buntpapierbezug; minimal fleckig. Erste Ausgabe! "Im Jahre 1849 traf ich zum ersten Male ein schräg verengtes Becken in meiner Praxis an und konnte die Diagnose mit hinlänglicher Sicherheit feststellen und mein therapeutisches Verfahren darnach einrichten. Bei vier schnell auf einander folgenden Schwangerschaften war ich so glücklich die Frau durch das Einleiten der künstlichen Frühgeburt am Leben zu erhalten und nachdem sie im Jahre 1853 diese Operation beharrlich abgelehnt hatte und bei der Geburt eines ausgetragenen Kindes an Zerreissung der Gebärmutter gestorben war kam ich in den Besitz des Beckens. Wenige Jahre später 1857 begegnete mir ein zweiter Fall dieser Art und zwar bei einer unverheirateten Erstgebährenden in meiner Klinischen Anstalt. Auch in diesem Fall konnte ich nur mit Sicherheit die Gestalt des Beckens diagnosticiren sondern es gelang mir auch ein richtiges Urtheil zu Fällen über die relative Weite des Beckens welches eines der kleinsten war die bis jetzt beschrieben worden sind. Das Kind wurde durch den Kaiserschnitt lebendig zur Welt gebracht die Mutter aber erlag der Operation bereits am zweiten Tage. Diese beiden Fälle erweckten in mir ein sehr lebhaftes Interesse für diese Art fehlerhaft gebildeter weiblicher Becken und bereits im Jahre 1857 fasste ich den Entschluss das schräg verengte Becken zum Gegenstand einer wissenschaftlichen Arbeit zu wählen welche geeignet wäre sich an die klassische Monographie Naegele's anzuschliessen eine Uebersicht dessen zu liefern was in den letzten 20 Jahren von verschiedenen Geburtshelfern und Pathologen darüber geschrieben worden ist und die Lehre des schräg verengten Beckens bis auf unsere Zeit fortzusetzen." Vorrede Abraham Everhard Simon Thomas 1820-1886 studierte in Leyden wo er 1845 promovierte. Er liess sich in Rotterdam nieder wurde jedoch nach Leyden als Professor der Geburtshilfe und Gynäkologie berufen. Hier fing er da die durch Du Pin früher für den geburtshilflichen Unterricht gestiftete Poliklinik ganz vernachlässigt war bald an eine geburtshilfliche Poliklinik zu eröffnen und hat dadurch das Material für den Unterricht speziell für den praktischen Teil so vergrössert dass es fast nie an Wöchnerinnen mangelt welche in ihrem eigenen Hause die nöthige Hilfe von den Studierenden empfangen eine Methode welche für die selbständige Entwicklung der Jüngeren selbstverständlich von grossem Einfluss war. Auch sein theoretischer Unterricht wurde von jedem seiner Schüler als vortrefflich gerühmt. Seine Monographie "Das schräg verengte Becken" gilt bei Sachverständigen für eine echt klassische Arbeit; sein Vorschlag beim verengten Becken nicht auf die Füße sondern auf die Knie zu wenden ist seit dem fast überall angenommen. -cf. Hirsch V p.407f. VI p.1007; Fasbender p.356 unknown
1852604511852. Notiz. Geb. Nat. Heilk. 4 685. - Geburtshülfe u. Kinderkrankheiten 1.Bd. No.46. - Frorieps Tagsberichte. - Weimar December 1852 8° pp.337-344 Rückenbroschur. Erste deutsche Übersetzung des Aufsatzes aus der "Nederlandsch Lancet des Dr. F. C. Donders III. Serie I. Jahrg. No. 8". Abraham Everard Simon Thomas 1820-1886 niederländischer Mediziner; seine Studien beschäftigten sich unter anderem mit dem Schrägverengten Becken und mit der Gebärmutternaht nach dem Kaiserschnitt. unknown
182784953London: by the author and sold by all booksellers 1827. Shakespeare's portraits First edition published three years after James Boaden's work on the same subject. Wivell had risen from impoverished beginnings and an apprenticeship to a wigmaker and hairdresser before reaching public notice as an artist with portraits of the Cato Street conspirators awaiting trial. This led to a commission to draw portraits of the participants in the "trial" of Queen Caroline in the House of Lords thence to abundant portrait commissions from the royal family the aristocracy and leading theatrical figures. This publication however brought his prosperity to a sudden end as its sales failed to cover the expense of producing the plates reducing Wivell "from affluence to comparative poverty" Art Journal 206. He was rescued by an uncle's legacy and his own ingenuity subsequently inventing a rope fire escape that was credited with saving hundreds of lives. Jaggard notes that the edition size was 500 copies of which 50 had plates on India paper and 25 were printed on large paper. Octavo 207 x 135 mm in 2 parts the supplement with separate title. Engraved frontispiece of the Stratford monument 20 engraved plates. Mid 19th-century red half calf contrasting green labels low raised bands attractively gilt marbled sides blue-green endpapers red sprinkled edges. A little stripping to one corner one plate the Gilliland portrait torn across and repaired else a very good copy. Jaggard p. 695. hardcover
1822010472Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed for the author by J. Clark Newgate Street 1822 Book. Fair. Disbound. 62 2 pages. Disbound pamphlet without covers. Spotted and soiled throughout. Final page very stained. Printed for the author by J. Clark, Newgate Street unknown
18015986CB1801. Zürich bey Johann Heinrich Waser an der Marktgass 1801. 8°. 2 Bl. Neuere steife Broschur neue fliegende Blätter. Gedicht auf Lavaters Tod 2.1.1801 mit 10 vierzeiligen Strophen verfasst von "Abraham Rudolf Schweizer im Bureau-Militaire N. 85. auf der Marktgasse in Bern". unknown
1823650951823. Tubingae : Litteris Schrammainis 1823 kl.-8° 31 1 3 gefalt. Tabellen Rückenbroschur d.Zt. Erstdruck! Gustav Schübler 1787-1834 Präses; Victor Abraham Ringier 1802-1880 Resp. Helvetio - Tobiniensis. unknown
1844ABC_47845Leiden & Düsseldorf: Arnz & Comp. 1844. Expertly bound in contemporary gold-tooled half red morocco and red cloth over boards. Folio ca. 51 x 70 cm. With a tinted lithographed title-page mounted on India paper incorporating 11 vignettes illustrative of falconry by and after J. B. Sonderland. Further with 14 hand-coloured lithographed plates of falcons and falconry accoutrements and 2 tinted lithographed plates mounted on India paper of heron hawking. The illustrations are executed by Wendel J. Dillmann Portman and von Wouw after J.B. Sonderland J. Wolf C. Scheuren or G. Saal and Portman and von Wouw. Two parts in one volume. First edition of "the finest work on falconry which has ever been produced; not only on account of the beauty of the plates wherein the hawks are depicted life-size and of the natural colours but also for the general accuracy of the letterpress" Harting. The very beautiful plates include ten after Joseph Wolf which "are by far the finest ever produced in any book on falconry. It is impossible to describe the mellowness and beauty of the colourings" Schwerdt.Wolf is described by Jackson as an "artist who ranks among the world's finest animal painters" and the present images were largely responsible for launching his international career. "Wolf's success lay in his sketching from life after painstaking study of the anatomy of the animals and his care to get the structure correct and then paint fur and feather with extraordinary fidelity. But all the marvelous technique and deep knowledge was subservient to his ability to capture a moment in the life of his subject and preserve it in paint. Archibald Thorburn said of Wolf's pictures 'There is an indescribable feeling of life and movement attained by no other wildlife artist'" Jackson. Sir Edwin Landseer went further describing Wolf as "without exception the best all-round animal painter that ever lived".The letterpress text includes extensive sections on the terms used in falconry on the equipment used descriptions of the birds that were currently being flown and those that were not used. The text continues with recommended methods of catching or taking a suitable bird how this bird should be treated and how it should be trained and then how it should be flown. This is followed by a lengthy historical survey of falconry in Europe Africa Russia Asia and the Americas. The text finishes with a six-page bibliography of works on falconry and an explanation of the plates. According to the exhibition catalogue documenting the falconry books in the Dutch Royal Library The Hague 1993 probably no more than 100 copies were printed of which no more than 50 can be located today.A very good complete copy.l Cottrell 24; Fine Bird Books 1990 p. 138; Harting 194; Jackson Dictionary of Bird Artists of the World p. 496; Landwehr 174; Nissen IVB 832; Schwerdt II 150; Thiébaud 833; Zimmer 554. Arnz & Comp., hardcover
1844ABC_45290Leiden & Düsseldorf 1844. Elephant folio 55.5 × 73.5 cm. Arnz & Co. Stored loosely in the original publishers cloth-backed printed boards. Tinted lithographed title-page with a pictorial border comprising 11 scenes of hawking by J. B. Sonderland 2 hand-coloured lithographed plates of falconry equipment by Portman and Von Wouw and 10 of 12 hand-coloured lithographed plates of hawks by Wendel after Joseph Wolf 8 mounted on paperboard. 4 90 VI 2 pp. First and only edition of a superb work the finest work on falconry that has ever been produced both on account of the beauty of the plates and general accuracy of the text. The lifesize illustrations of the birds are by far the finest ever produced in any book on falconry. It is impossible to describe the mellowness and beauty of the colourings Schwerdt. This famous book on falconry by H. Schlegel and A.H. Verster van Wulverhorst is known chiefly for its lifesize coloured illustrations of birds of prey lithographs after watercolours by Josef Wolf. The extensive research in the literature and the description of procedures by two laymen in the field of falconry still cause amazement among falconers.The work contains 17 illustrations: successively the tinted title-page two coloured plates with hunting gear and falconer's equipment two tinted plates of pictures of the activities of the Loo Hawking Club not present and 12 coloured plates with images of birds of prey in their natural surroundings.The last twelve plates show magnificent figures of hawks. Perhaps the most famous is that of the Groenlandais or white gyrfalcon which Tuijn shows to have been based on a portrait of the bird by Pierre Louis Dubourcq 1815-73. The other plates are from originals by Josef Wolf 1820-99 the German artist who ranks among the world's finest animal painters Jackson.Covers of portfolio somewhat rubbed and stained; spine cloth and extremeties professionally restored. Some foxing and browning in the plates; several marginal tears and chips professionally repaired; rebacked. Lacks 2 lithographed hawking scenes by J. Dillmann after Sonderland. Still an attractive set rarely encountered in the original portfolio as issued.l Harting p. 194 The finest work on falconry which has ever been produced; Nissen IVB 832; Schwerdt II 150; Thiebaud 833; Zimmer p. 554; Pieter Tuijn On the Traité de fauconnerie 1845-53 in: Quaerendo 25 1995 pp. 289-306. ABE CAT Falconry & Hunting hardcover
182743570Wien 1827. Ein Buch zur Lehre und Warnung zur Erheiterung und Gemüthsergetzung für Jung und Alt. In einem zeitgemässen Auszuge. St.a.Titelbl.Ex Libris. Guter Zustand Carl Armbruster 8°. Hln. Deutsche Literatur unknown
181765412mo paginated 225-252. Extracted from volume XI of 'The Pamphleteer' London: A. J. Valpy Tooke's Court Chancery Lane. 1818 1817. Text is clear and complete. On lightly-aged paper. Title page reads: 'An Address to the Guardian Society. London. 1817. No. XXI. Pam. Vol. XI. P'. The following gives an impression of the sceptical tone in which this pamphlet is written. 'Your Society is declared to be "for the preservation of public morals" a most praise-worthy and highly commendable institution. But how do you propose to preserve the public morals Why by "providing temporary asylums for prostitutes removed by the operation of the laws from the public streets and affording to such of them as are destitute employment and relief." This may be very well so far as it goes; but it is certainly going a very short way towards the preservation of public morals.' Both this reprint from Valpy's magazine 'The Pamphleteer' and the original are scarce with the only copies of either on COPAC at the British Library Cambridge and LSE. A. J. Valpy, Tooke's Court paperback
183846465Nyon - Paris - Lausanne : Giral-Prelaz - Risler - Marc Ducloux 1838. 205x130mm. cartonnage. Plats papier marbr auteur et titre dors au dos. Bel exemplaire. 230 Giral-Prelaz - Risler - Marc Ducloux unknown
1835PS8051Nyon and Paris: M. Giral Prelaz 1835. HB. Half green cloth over marbled boards gilt lettering on spine 8vo. Volume I 621 pp. Volume II 555 pp. First two volumes of 7 in all these are Volumes I and II of the first part originally published in 1727-28 covering the years 1516 to 1536. Final three volumes of this edition covering the years 1536-1566 were published in 1838 after the discovery of additional manuscript material in a Swiss library. Books show minor edge wear no marks in text bindings solid. Book condition VG. M. Giral, Prelaz hardcover
18755825BB1875. Bern J. Dalp'sche Buch- und Kunsthandlung K. Schmid 1875. 8°. 69 S. 10 S. Anzeigen. Mit 6 dv. 2 gef. Tafeln u. 5 Textillustr. in Holzstich nach Gustave Roux sowie 1 gef. chromolithogr. Karte 34 x 47 cm. Illustr. Orig.-Leinenband. Wäber S. 123; vgl. HBLS V 718 für Roth. - Einzige Ausgabe dieses Werks des Schweiz. Journalisten u. Schriftstellers Abraham Roth 1823-1880 dessen selbständige Publikationen hauptsächlich historisch-politische Themen u. geographische Gegenstände umfassen. Er war leidenschaftlicher Bergsteiger u. Mitbegründer des SAC. Die Tafeln nach dem Künstler Gustave Roux 1828-1885 zeigen Tägertschi Entlebuch Langnau Werthenstein Hünigen u. Diessbach; die Karte im Massstab 1:200'000 zeigt die Bahnlinie Bern-Luzern. - Leicht gebräunt. Einbandrücken mit altem Material restauriert. Vorsätze teilw. erneuert. unknown
1863017619Coblenz: Karl Baedeker 1863. Book. Near Very Good. Pictorial Cover. First Edition. Illustrated softcover with all 13 plates and with the folded map present uncut pages. Spot foxing marginal wear. bookplate of Charles W. Nettleton later owners signature thus near very good. Dj has browning due to age missing 30% of spine split along the seam very fragile. Scarce in dj. Karl Baedeker Hardcover
187485651Berne : Librairie J. Dalp 1874. 190x130mm. frontispice chromolitho xylographies hors texte 2 cartes dpl. reliure d'diteur. Cartonnage illustr dos et coins toil rouge bord du dos fendu sur le plat infrieur. 256 Librairie J. Dalp unknown
1857103085Neuchtel : Imprimerie de J. Attinger 1857. 235x150mm. XXI - portrait grav broch. Dchirures sur le haut du dos et le bord suprieur de la couverture infrieure petite tache dÕencre ancienne sur la couverture suprieure intrieur propre sans rousseurs. 350 Imprimerie de J. Attinger unknown
1818809Stockholm. Haegström. 1818. Lille 4to. Nydeligt senere hldrbd.m. rygforgyldn. 41332 pp. samt l kobberst. håndkoloreret kort Karta öfwer Norrbotten och dess Lappmarker. unknown