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18197594London 1819. 12mo. 1 192208 pp. <br><br>Essay concerning the currency question. Extracted from the periodical "The Pamphleteer" vol. 14. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â NSTC 2C13872; Goldsmiths'-Kress 22416. Removed. Creased across middle section of pamphlet. Clean free of chipping. Very good. unknown books
1963019217Los Angeles CA: Dawson's Book Shop. Good with no dust jacket. 1963. First Edition. Miniature. Red leather boards with gilt title on front board and spine. Wear along the spine and edges of boards. Illustrated with black and white portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Limited to 1000 copies printed and bound by Bela Blau. 1 5/8" x 1 3/8". Bradbury - Dawson's Book Shop 3. ; 17 pp . Dawson's Book Shop unknown books
1980116909Skokie IL: Black Cat Press 1980. full leather title and author gilt-stamped on spine depiction of Lincoln gilt-stamped on front cover. Miniature Books. miniature book 7.0 x 5.5 cm. full leather title and author gilt-stamped on spine depiction of Lincoln gilt-stamped on front cover. 51 3 pages. Limited to 249 copies. Bradbury Black Cat Press 66. The text of the author's celebrated speech. Publisher's note by Norman W. Forgue. Introductiion by Douglas McMurtrie. Binding by Bela Blau. Black Cat Press unknown books
176ABRAHAM James Johnston. LETTSOM HIS LIFE TIMES FRIENDS AND DESCENDENTS. London: Heinemann 1933. 4to. Cloth top edge gilt. Frontispiece xx 498 pages with illustrations throughout. First edition. A comprehensive biography of John Coakley Lettsom 1744-1815 18th Century physician freer of slaves and man of letters. He was born in the British Virgin Islands into a Quaker family. He is best know as the founder of the Medical Society of London in 1773 -- the oldest medical society in Great Britain and he was on the cutting edge of the latest advances in medical technology and preventative medicinal care for his day. He counted among his friends Benjamin Franklin. In addition to his renown work in the medical fie he is also a major abolitionist who freed his father's slaves in 1767 once he inherited them and continued to advocate for slave abolition all his life. unknown books
18806045011880. gazing at a bust of George Washington after the painting by Alonzo Chappel. 7 1/2" x 10". Very good. ca. 1880. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. unknown books
18806045021880. 3 3/4" x 5" on paper 6 1/2" x 9 3/4". Very good. ca. 1880. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. unknown books
18906045041890. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Very good. ca. 1890. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. unknown books
1715191132Cologne: Chez Pierre Marteau 1715. Leather_bound. 315p. 8x10.25 inches text in French second edition of the second part of a two volume treatise all edges of textblock tinted red mild toning to paperstock general abrasion and wear to pressed-calf casebinding full leather over boards with five raised bands gilt titles and decorations on spine edges stained red. Bits of card show at corner-tips but the hide was well-tanned and would be responsive to restorative measures i.e. the hide could use a coat or two of archival-grade leather dressing. The Dutch Ambassador's guide to the functions of an ambassador and his recollections of his work in France England and Holland and time spent imprisoned in the Bastille. Originally published in 1682 reissued 1690 this being the third edition of 1715. Chez Pierre Marteau unknown books
20151283317London: The Folio Society 2015. First Edition Thus. tall thick 8vo. 489 pp. VG-; brown cloth spine with silver lettering brown pictorial paper boards with sepia photograph of Lincoln to front board; mild bumping to head of spine slight cocking to spine; mild rubbing to corners of boards; very mild shelfwear to fore-edge of text-block; bottom corner of p. 217-218 creased; housed in black slipcase; shelved Folio Society. 1283317. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Folio Society unknown books
1913129551913. With Twenty-Four Photographic Illustrations and a Map. London: Methuen & Co. 1913. 32 pp ads Dated July 1912. Original blue-green cloth. First Edition of this early account of traveling through the Lake District by way of that new-fangled contraption the motorcar. Fourteen sightseeing routes are described in detail -- including the gradient of the steeper climbs since not all motorcars could handle them. Except for some fading of the spine this is a fine copy. <br/><br/> hardcover books
17237654Vienna and Nuremberg: Georg Lehmann 1723. First printing. Vellum. Very Good. 4to. 1841953pp. Index. Title printed in red & black. Copper engraved frontispiece. Cont. vellum a bit soiled hand lettered paper spine label. Paper repairs to small wormholes on recto of frontispiece and verso of title. Cont. ownership signature at top of title. Volume 3 of 3 only. Georg Lehmann hardcover books
19002197274Dunlap Printing Company 1900. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Lightly rubbed. 1900 Hard Cover. xxvi 227 pp. First Annual Message of Samuel H. Ashbridge Mayor of the City of Philadelphia with Annual Reports of Abraham L. English Director of the Department of Public Safety and of the Bureau of Health for the Year Ending December 31 1899. Issued by the City of Philadelphia 1900. Annual reports for the year 1899 include the following: The First Annual Message. Office of the Mayor Philadelphia April 2 1900.; Department of Public Safety.; Thirteenth Annual Report of the Department of Public Safety. Abraham L. English Director.; Bureau of Health of the City and Port of Philadelphia.; Appendix to the Report of the Bureau of Health of the City and Port of Philadelphia for the Year 1899.; Medical Inspector Division of Contagious Diseases.; Medical Inspector of the Sanitary Inspection of Public Schools.; Division of Disinfection.; Division of Bacteriology Pathology and Disinfection.; Physician-in-Charge for the Dunlap Printing Company hardcover books
190735553V.p. 1907-1921. Five volumes bound in one; octavo 23.75cm.; later black cloth gilt-lettered spine. Fine condition. Contents as follows: <br/><br/>1. Sigmund Freud. Der Wahn und die Träume in W. Jensens "Gradiva." Leipzig: Franz Deuticke 1912. Second Edition. 287pp.<br/><br/>2. Karl Abraham. Traum und Mythus: Eine Studie zur Völkerpsychologie. Leipzpig: Franz Deuticke 1909. 273pp.<br/><br/>3. A. Müller. Bismarck Nietzsche Scheffel Mörike: Der Einfluß nervöser Zustände auf ihr Leben und Schaffen. Bonn: A. Marcus & E. Webers Verlag 1921. V31026adspp.<br/><br/>4. Tim Segaloff. Die Krankheit Dostojewskys: Eine ärztlich-psychologische Studie mit einem Bildnis Dostojewskys. München: Ernst Reinhardt 1907. 54pp.<br/><br/>5. L. Frank. Die Psychanalyse ihre Bedeutung für die Auffassung und Behandlung psychoneurotischer Zustände. München: Verlag von Ernst Reinhardt 1910. 47pp. unknown books
1950006012New York NY: Bloch Publishing Company 1950. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. xviii 128 pages of text. Blue hardcover cloth binding; protected in stiff archival mylar. No dustjacket. Illustrated with six black & white plates including maps drawings and portraits. With a Preface by Dr. Solomon Grayzel. With an introduction biographical sketch of the author and explanatory notes by the translator. Translated from the Hebrew by Mesch. Inscribed and signed by the wife of the translator Vellie Mesch to friends in Chicago in 1965. First edition. Bloch Publishing Company Hardcover books
1800D7116Gottingen: Bandenhoef und Ruprecht 1800. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary half morocco and marbled paper gilt-stamped lettering in two spine labels gilt-stamped ornament at spine tips; 12mo 100 x 170 mm; pp. 32 624 plus 12 folded plates tipped onto stubs at rear. Boards and spine a bit scuffed; spine lettering a little faded. Except for a library stamp on title-p. text block is clean and unmarked. An excellent copy of what's become a rather uncommon text book. Kaestner 1719-1800 was a noted academic mathematician and epigrammist and a great influence on a number of his students at the Universities of Leipzig and Gottingen including Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben Carl Friedrich Gauss Johann Tobias Mayer Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes Farkas Bolyai and Georg Klügel. <br/><br/> Bandenhoef und Ruprecht hardcover books
1953S13292College Park MD:: The Physical Review 1953. 1953. 3 Offprints. Original wrappers. From the collection of Abraham Pais. Very good. INVENTORY: 1. KLEIN Abraham. Convergence of the Adiabatic Nuclear Potential. II. Offprint from: The Physical Review Vol. 92 No. 4 pp. 1017-1020 November 15 1953. Signed by Pais. 2. KLEIN Abraham. The Construction of Potentials in Quantum Field Theory. Offprint from: The Physical Review Vol. 91 No. 5 p. 1285 September 1 1953. Signed by Pais. 3. KLEIN Abraham. Invariant Operators of the Unitary Unimodular Group in n Dimensions. Offprint from: Journal of Mathematical Physics Volume 4 Number 10 pp. 1283-1284 October 1963. American theoretical physicist his studies took him to Brooklyn College then to Harvard where he obtained his masters and doctorate in 1950 under Julian Schwinger. The Physical Review, 1953. unknown books
190931679Washington 1909. 60th Cong. 2d Sess. H.R. 25550. Light toning and wear else Very Good.<br/><br/> The Bill introduced by Congressman Rodenberg would appropriate $150000 to purchase Oldroyd's entire collection "of Lincoln relics containing three thousand pieces more or less and for the acquisition.of number five hundred and fourteen and five hundred and eighteen Tenth street northwest Washington adjoining the government property known as the house in which President Lincoln died." An outpouring of affectionate remembrance attended the hundredth anniversary of Lincoln's birth.<br/>Not in Monaghan. unknown books
4844No Place: The Easton Press No Date. Authorized facmimile of The Treasures of the Library of Congress. Two items each one in a folding silk case in an Easton leather hardboard clamshell box. Gilt spine titel and cover. One has two leaves 3 pages is The Preliminary Emancipation Sept 22 1862. The second one leaf 2 pages - The Final Proclamation Jan 1 1863. Previous owner's bookplates pasted down front of inside of box 3 1/2 x 5 inches ow both are As New copies. No markings no ISBN rather uncommon. Lacks promotional pamphlets. For the pair. The Easton Press hardcover books
1995289690Norwalk & Washington: Easton Press & Library of Congress 1995. pamphlet. near fine. Facsimile printing in brown satin and gilt-ruled leather clamshell boxes. 2 separate boxes. Norwalk & Washington: Easton Press & Library of Congress 1995. Near Fine.<br/><br/> Easton Press & Library of Congress unknown books
24234NP ND. Two identical plates each measuring 2.5" x 2.75" and mounted side by side on yellow cardboard backing measuring 6.75" x 3.25". Very Good. unknown books
196319849ELos Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop 1963. First Edition Thus. A miniature book 1 3/8†x 1 5/8â€. Bound in dark red leather with gilt titling. Illustrated with a black & white portrait photo of President Lincoln taken four days before this speech was delivered. Fine without dust jacket as issued. Prints the complete speech of President Abraham Lincoln’s speech given at Gettysburg Pennsylvania on November 19 1863 to commemorate its 100 year anniversary. Dawson’s Book Shop hardcover books
1718102323<p> Newspaper 16" x 22" six columns of text 4 pp. Folded at center several tears and chips at folds and extremities some loss of text Lincoln text less affected some aging and browning and some uneven darkening ; in about fair condition overall for a newspaper from this period. Dated April 17 1865 this is a relatively early account of the Lincoln assassination. Most of the coverage is on the second and third pages of the newspaper. The articles include stories on the "death bed scene" the attacks on Secretary Seward and his son the national reaction and reports on those involved in the plot. Some interesting coverage of a national event in a local newspaper.</p> books
19488706N.p. n.d. Sedalia Colorado: M. Doreal 1948. Octavo mimeographed printed wrappers stapled as issued. First edition. One of the six unauthorized booklets printing Merritt's short fiction. A revision of "The Last Poet and the Robots" chapter 11 of the "Cosmos" round robin serial published in Fantasy Magazine in April 1934 first published in Thrilling Wonder Stories October 1936 and collected later in the The Fox Woman & Other Stories 1949. See also Bleiler Science Fiction: the Gernsback Years #1826. Light chipping to extremities of wrappers mostly along spine panel a near fine copy. #8706 M. Doreal unknown books
1928126207New York: Boni and Liverwright 1928. Octavo cloth. First edition. A mystery thriller in the mode of Sax Rohmer concerning Satan an unusual criminal mastermind who rules a band of thieves bound to his service by an elaborate game. Bookplate affixed to front free endpaper bookstore label affixed to rear paste-down. Some age-darkening to spine panel top edge stain has some loss of color a very good copy. #126207 Boni and Liverwright unknown books
194890799N.p. n.d. Sedalia Colorado: M. Doreal 1948. Octavo mimeographed pictorial wrappers stapled as issued. First edition. One of the six unauthorized booklets printing Merritt's short fiction. The story first published in Fantasy Magazine September 1934 was collected later in the The Fox Woman & Other Stories 1949. A fine copy. #90799 M. Doreal unknown books
