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122472New York & London John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Chapman & Hall Ltd. 1947. . First edition; 8vo; diagrams within the text note in blue ink on front free endpaper contents faintly toned in the margins; original blue cloth titles to spine and upper board gilt minor horizontal production flaw to the cloth lightly rubbed along the edges a very good copy in the rubbed and partially toned jacket with a few small chips; 212pp.<br /> First edition of a revolutionary work in mathematics and decision theory. Uncommon in the dust jacket.<br /><br />Abraham Wald 1902-1950 a pioneer in the field of operations research earned his PhD in mathematics at the University of Virginia. He emigrated to the US after the annexation of Austria and worked in econometrics joining the Columbia faculty in 1941. Wald studied wartime statistics problems as a member of the Statistical Research Group making the now-famous counterintuitive determination that it was the damaged parts of military aircraft which returned safely that did not need extra shielding.<br /><br />Wald is considered the founder of the field of sequential analysis in which sample sizes in statistical analysis are not pre-determined but data is analyzed as it is collected lowering the time and financial costs of research. He focused on sequential analysis as a tool for industrial quality control but it has found uses in many other fields most notably pharmaceutical clinical trials.<br /> New York & London, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1947. hardcover
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
34913BERTELSMANN CARL. 1. hardcover. Dracula BERTELSMANN, CARL hardcover
76487Disliber. Disliber unknown
1788702L27Boston: John Norman 1788. First edition. Disbound. Fair. 7" by 4". None. An extremely scarce American almanac from the eighteenth century containing ephemerides. An early publication following American independence this work contains many astronomical notes. The first edition of this almanac containing many tables of ephemerides for the year 1789. Undated dated using Library Hub as 1788. Very scarce only seen at auction twice in the last forty years. Both times disbound - as issued Abraham Weatherwise was a pseudonym used for many almanacks from the years 1784 to 1788. It is believed that this is a pseudonym for Samuel Bullard. This is because the astronomical notes on the calendar pages parallle those in his 'An almanach for the year of the Christian aera 1789 Boston'. Disbound as issued lacking the half-title and bookseller's advertisement occasionally seen. This astronomical calendar was calculated for the meridian of Bostonm 'but will serve for the adjacent states'. A very scarce work. Disbound. Externally chipped to the extremities with handling marks and a light tidemark to the front wrap. Internally firmly bound. Chipping has affected the bottom seven entries of the tables which are slightly obscured due to a spill burn. Tidemark to the final three leaves not affecting the text. Occasional spots to pages. Fair John Norman unknown
18013776<p><i>First Portuguese Translation of Bosse's Engraving Manual</i></p><p>BOSSE Abraham. Tratado da Gravura a agua forte e a buril e em maneira negra com o modo de construir as prensas modernas e de imprimir em talho doce. Nova ediçao traduzida do francez. por José Joaquim Viegas Menezes. Lisbon Arco do Cego 1801.</p><p>Tall 8vo 208 x 152 mm engraved title pp. x ix 1 189 1 errata with 21 engraved plates; plates printed on slightly darker stock; a wide-margined clean copy in recent full calf gilt.</p><p>First Portuguese translation of Bosse's classic introduction to copperplate etching and engraving Traité des manières de graver en taille douce. This Portuguese translation by José Joaquim Viegas Menezes is clearly taken from the Jombert edition and reproduces the same plates though newly engraved with subtle adaptations; an extensive introduction precedes the text.</p><p>Bosse's treatise the first manual of copperplate etching and engraving and the printing of intaglio plates was first published in French in 1645. It was aimed both at the professional engraver and at the amateur and is extensively illustrated with detailed engravings based on Bosse's own designs. A second edition of 1701 had contained revisions by LeClerc the third of 1745 those of the engraver Cochin. The Jombert edition added two new plates by Louis-Marin Bonnet the inventor of the Crayon manner of colour printing and a separate chapter on this method of colour printing. In addition to a wealth of technical information the work includes views of the engraving studio and the copperplate press.</p><p>As adaptations were made to all subsequent editions the work has remained an important introduction to print-making which is of practical use to the printmaker even today.</p><p>Innocencio IV 415; Moraes p. 11; see Bigmore & Wyman I 72 and Cicognara 255 for French edition; OCLC: Harvard Getty John Carter Brown Library British Library and V & A.</p> Menezes
55832New York NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1905. History Finely bound Constitutional Edition. Complete in eight volumes. Octavo 22 x 15 x 37cm. Frontispiece of the author with captioned tissue guard. Title page printed in red and black. Handsomely bound in recent dark blue half oasis morocco spines gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands matching blue cloth boards top edges gilt. A fine set. The works include Addresses Letters Political Debates etc. New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905 unknown
1860147733Columbus: Follett Foster and Company 1860. First edition early issue of the most famous debates in American history which cemented Lincoln as a national presidential candidate. Octavo original cloth stamped in blind with rule above the publisher's imprint on the copyright page. In good condition darkening to the edges toning throughout some damp staining inscription to the rear pastedown. Running as a little-known candidate for the Illinois senatorship in 1858 Lincoln challenged incumbent and Democratic leader Stephen Douglas to a series of debates. The result was a memorable chain of lively arguments in front of cheering crowds. Though Lincoln lost the senatorial race “he began collecting a scrapbook of his best speeches particularly those from the just-concluded campaign against Douglas for possible inclusion in a book. Assiduously pasting newspaper accounts of the debates into the scrapbook Lincoln cast about for a publisher. Initial efforts failed mainly because Lincoln wanted the book printed in Springfield which had no local publishing or printing facilities. Eventually however the Columbus Ohio firm of Follett Foster & Company showed interest and he began preparing the first edition… Somewhat surprisingly for an attorney Lincoln did not seek Douglas’ permission to publish a book of their combined speeches although Douglas was later given the last-minute opportunity—he declined—to make corrections to his own remarks†Morris 121. Follett, Foster and Company hardcover
2022x-3030913457Springer Nature 2022. Hardcover. New. 2137 pages. 9.25x6.10x4.96 inches. Springer Nature hardcover
182718472Stockholm: Johan Horberg 1827. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary half polished russet calf and marbled boards. All edges yellow. Fine. 137 pages. 27 1/2 x 22 cm. Forty-seven hand-colored engraved plates with tissue guards plus hand-colored vignette title and two engraved plates of music. Grafstrom poet and historian wrote the text and Forssell made the engravings. Index. List of Plates and errata. Costumes from Dalarna Helsingland Lappland Sodermanland Westergothland Smaland Blekinge and Skane. Lovely copy plates and text clean fresh and bright; bookplate raised bands spine panels richly guilt in floral motifs marbled endpapers maroon morocco spine label printed in gilt. Johan Horberg unknown
1598M3122Antwerp c.1598. Very Good. Notes: Scarce map of Poland and Lithuania during the late 16th century. <br>The map shows major cities and towns as well as geographical features. Includes a charming image of a horse-drawn sleigh in the bottom right corner. <br>Dutch text on verso. Size : 369x482 mm 14.53x18.98 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Category: Maps Europe Poland Lithuania; unknown
16671000441667. Paris Abraham Bosse 1667. Engraved frontispiece 87220pp. With an engraved dedication page. 8vo. Contemporary full mottled calf spine and corners expertly restored. Some browning. Bound in at the end the last 20 pages are: 1 - A. Bosse au lecteur sur les causes qu'il croit avoir euës de discontinuer le cours de ses leçons geometrales et perspectives dedans l'Academie Royale de la Peinture et de la Sculpture & mesme de s'en retirer. Paris A. Bosse 1667. 15pp. And: 2 - Discours tendant a desabuser ceux qui ont creu que l'Auteur d'un Traité qui a pour Titre Entretiens sur les vies et sur les ouvrages des plus excellens peintres anciens et modernes; avoit pretendu m'attaquer dans sa Préface. Paris A. Bosse 1667. 4pp. This scarce book is written in the form of a dialogue between Ariste an amateur who would like to build an architect a painter a "disciple" and the author himself. All the representatives of these different arts are asking for Bosse's advice. This allows Bosse to express once again his ideas regarding perspective in painting and architecture. Abraham Bosse who was born in Tours in 1602 is best known as an engraver but he was also the first professor of perspective at the newly founded Académie Royale from 1648 to 1661 when he was forced to leave due to disagreements with other Académicians. The two addresses that follow the book explain why in Bosse's own opinion he had been forced to leave his lob at the Académie and they also respond to comments made about Bosse by Félibien in the preface to the first part of the latter's Entretiens published a year earlier. c.f. Cicognara 91; Berlin cat. 2381; Abraham Bosse Savant Graveur # 310 311 & 312. unknown
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3733424<p>Springfield Illinois 1865. Photographic image: 7½ x 9 inches on mount with handwritten caption. Period deep-set walnut and gilt frame glazed 9¾ x 11¼ inches overall. Evenly-lightened with the image likely taken on a bright sunlit day.</p> <p>Unpublished and previously unknown. A rare photographic print created from a large format albumen photograph taken in 1865. The image captures Lincoln’s tomb being guarded by the Veteran Reserve Corps. The Reserve Corps were active from May to November 1865 helping to date when this image was first taken.</p> <p>As President Lincoln’s funeral train wended its way from Washington D.C. to Springfield “non-commissioned officers of the Veteran Reserve Corps were detailed to act as a body-guard and major generals of the army were directed to attend the train and keep watch so that at all times during the journey the coffin should be under their special guardianship.†Isaac N. Arnold</p> <p>The majority of photographs of Lincoln’s tomb taken in Springfield in 1865 were captured by two local photographers Ingmire and Tresize. They had a thriving business photographing various delegations in front of the Lincoln home and at the receiving tomb. Jonathan H. Mann</p> <p>Over the past two decades new examples of these tomb photographs have emerged suggesting that many individuals involved in the procession including honor guards made a pilgrimage and posed for the camera. Most of these images are found in carte-de-visite format. Larger formats like the present print hold greater significance and desirability. While the members of the Reserve Corps in this image may remain anonymous there are four individuals of higher rank depicted on the opposite side of the vault door who might be identifiable with closer examination. ibid</p> unknown
195531549New York: The Jewish Publication Society of America 1955. Hardcover. Stated First Edition First Printing. 5.75 x 8.5in. 437pp. Publisher's cloth boards. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper: "Abraham J. Heschel. March 22 1958. B'nai Amoona." The Congregation B'nai Amoona is a conservative synagogue in St. Louis where Heschel delivered an address. NEAR FINE in Very Good dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows a handsome former owner bookplate at the front paste-down marginal shelf rubbing of the edges otherwise remains Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows the extremities shelf rubbed some surface scuffing and handling shallow chips from the head and foot of the spine otherwise is not price-clipped remaining bright colorful and distinct. As pictured. The Jewish Publication Society of America hardcover
257151/1/88. <p><strong>Print of Abraham Lincoln</strong> well framed approximately 2 ft by 3 ft color commemorating the fallen president's work in saving the nation at the expense of his life.</p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /></p> unknown
1606M8988Antwerp c.1606. Very Good. Notes: English text on verso. Size : 341x495 mm 13.43x19.49 Inches Coloring: Original Hand Coloring Reference: Van den Broecke 226. Category: Maps Mediterranean Sea; Maps Asia Near East Turkey; Maps Europe Greece Macedonia; Maps Europe Italy; unknown
1581M10680Antwerp c.1581. Very Good backed on old paper. Notes: First separate printed map of Ireland by Ortelius in his "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum".<br> Size : 350x478 mm 13.78x18.82 Inches Coloring: Original Hand Coloring Reference: Van den Broecke #22. Category: Maps Europe Ireland; unknown
1590M9803Antwerp c.1590. Very Good. Notes: Latin text on verso. A beautiful map of the Balkans. Size : 352x455 mm 13.86x17.91 Inches Coloring: Original Hand Coloring Category: Maps Europe Balkans; unknown
1574M10044Antwerp Belgium 1574. Very Good. Notes: Detailed and decorative map of the Ottoman Empire.<br>It depicts the Middle East by one of the founding fathers of cartography during the late 16th century. This important map features a decorative cartouche. The map depicts cities towns geographical features and has short paragraphs giving the reader information on certain areas. <br>Latin text on verso.<br>Abraham Ortelius April 1527 – June 1598 was a Flemish cartographer geographer and cosmographer from Antwerp in the Spanish Netherlands. He is recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Theatre of the World. Along with Gemma Frisius and Gerardus Mercator Ortelius is generally considered one of the founders of the Netherlandish school of cartography and geography. He was a notable figure of this school in its golden age approximately 1570s–1670s and an important geographer of Spain during the age of discovery. The publication of his atlas in 1570 is often considered as the official beginning of the Golden Age of Netherlandish cartography. Size : 375x500 mm 14.76x19.69 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Reference: Marcel P.R. van den Broecke pg.168 Category: Maps Asia Near East Turkey; Maps Asia Middle East Arabia; unknown
183435602Rochester Boston MA 1834. A collection of six letters ranging in size from 8-1/2" x 11" to 8-1/2" x 12-3/4" five complete and one partial letter. All in ink manuscript on unlined paper. Old folds light toning occasional light foxing two on untrimmed paper. Most are addressed on final blank page and have wax seal remnants with the usual tear where wax was torn open occasional loss to a few letters. Overall Very Good. <br /> <br /> Abraham Holmes was a Massachusetts legislator and attorney. Opposing ratification of the Constitution he was allied with the Anti-Federalist Otis family of Barnstable and Freeman family of Sandwich. He was an Anti-Federalist delegate from Rochester MA to the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention of 1788. He served as Sergeant in Capt. Barnabas Doty's company Col. Ebenezer Sproat's regiment during the Revolutionary War. He was admitted to the Plymouth County Bar in April 1800 at the age of forty-six. Though he had no formal legal education his admission to the Bar was permitted in consideration of his respectable official character learning and abilities and on the condition that he study three months in an attorney's office. He served as president of the Court of Sessions prior to his bar admission practiced law in Rochester until the early 1830s was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1820 and a member of the Executive Council from 1821 to 1823. Davis William T.: BENCH AND BAR OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME II. Boston: 1895. Page 235; Daughters of the American Revolution: LINEAGE BOOK VOLUME 12 1900 Page 15. <br /> William Baylies 1776-1865 and Francis Baylies 1783-1852 were brothers and partners in a Massachusetts law firm. William served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts in 1809 1813-1817 and 1833-1835; was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1808-1809 1812-1813 and 1820-1821; and a member of the Massachusetts Senate from 1825-1826 and 1830-1831. Francis was a Congressman from 1821-1827; a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1827-1832 and in 1835; and the United States Charge d'Affaires Argentina in 1832. <br /> Holmes's Letters are as follows:<br /> 1 Letter to Francis Baylies Member of Congress dated at Boston January 19 1822. Holmes then member of the Massachusetts Executive Council awaits reports of the State legislative committees the incorporation of Boston "which will serve to procrastinate the session" the "suspense of the acceptance of office of the Judge of the Municipal Court" and issues such as criminal trials and the death sentence. "We pass our time here in Boston. the frequent application for appointments of both proper and improper candidates is rather an uncomfortable circumstance; but not so distressing as in affixing the time when convicts shall live no longer. to determine whether a convict shall die or not. It is probable we shall have the trial of both soon as there has been three capital convictions since I was here; one for murder and two for highway robbery. Those trials I attended; a Mr. Simmons formerly of Taunton as I am told managed the Defence; I can not record him as possessing great oratorical abilities but for integrity of arrangement and strength and argument perhaps no man of his years stands higher." Boston was incorporated March 4 1822 and the same year the Boston Police Court for criminal cases and Justice's Court for the County of Suffolk for civil claims were established. <br /> 2 Holmes's Letter to Francis Baylies dated at Boston March 28 1822. Holmes notes that the State legislative session is coming to a close. He anticipates orations which would "cause Tully to wish that he hadn't ever learned to speak; and all this for the good of the Nation."<br /> 3 Letter to William Baylies Counsellor at Law dated at Rochester MA October 24 1828 docketed October 25. An interesting three pages for lawyers anyway written in small yet legible hand on legal size paper. Holmes discusses with "great anxiety" and detail strategies and implications of the case entitled Rounseville Spooner versus Davis et ux. presentation of which had just concluded in the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Holmes and Baylies had represented Rounseville. Judge Wilde issued his decision on the following day October 25th. <br /> The case involved land in Fairhaven conveyed by Alden Spooner to Walter Spooner which later descended to Humphrey Davis's wife; but Alden Spooner later conveyed it again to Rounseville Spooner. What will be done in the case Holmes says "God only knows." Judge Wilde's Opinion reported at page 147 of Pickering's Reports Boston: 1830 gives the victory to Holmes and Baylies. <br /> 4 Letter to William Baylies Nov. 21 1828. Holmes discusses his excitement over a favorable verdict. "I rode into the yard. Mr. Bassett's son met me and informed me that the verdict of the jury was in favour of our client. Do you think I was sorry My heart jumped to my throat and with some difficulty I prevented my immortal spirit from bursting thro' the clay tenement. I am glad now that we did not use Joshua Vincent's Deposition for they would have objected and the point next word illegible for the Whole Court./ The next enquiry is Compensation. But I must stop with my hearty congratulations." Docketed on final page in part "Thomas v. D. & wife Nov. 21 1828."<br /> 5 Letter to William Baylies dated Rochester MA April 11 1834. A lengthy poignant letter discussing his advanced age and retirement. He no longer views political issues with the same interest; despite his overall good health he is troubled with lameness and currently lives with his son and his son's wife. "Some of my old customers are not willing to apply to anyone else."<br /> 6 Partial Letter to Francis Baylies December 1821. ". I dread the power of some of your colleagues. Mr. Saltonstall whose abilities are competent to make white and black synonymous terms I understand -which God forbid is strongly intrenched in a. Battery of Bankruptcy. unknown
1931022770Glendale CA: The Arthur H. Clark Co. 1931. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Red cloth top edge gilt all 1st editions illustrations maps very nice set all VG to near fine with just the slightest edge wear the cloth on volumes 1 & 2 are a little darker than the other 10. Vol. 1. Adventures in the Santa Fe Trade by James Josiah Webb 1931 301 pages Vol. 2. Frontier Life in the Army 1854-1861 by Eugene Bandel 1932 330 pages Vol. 3. Journal of a Soldier Under Kearney and Doniphan 1846-1847 by George Rutledge Gibson 1935 371 pages. Vol. 4. Marching With the Army of the West 1846-1848 by Abraham Robinson Johnston 1936 368 pages. Vol. 5. Southern Trails to California in 1849 edited by Ralph Bieber 1937 386 pages. Vol. 6. WAH-TO-YAH and the Taos Trail by Lewis H. Garrard 1938 377 pages. Vol. 7. Exploring Northwestern Trails 1846-1854 by Philip St. George Cooke 1938 383 pages. Vol. 8. Historical Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest by Joseph G. McCoy 1940 435 pages. Vol. 9. Pike's Peak Gold Rush Guidebooks of 1859 by Luke Tierney 1941 346 pages. Vol. 10. Colorado Gold Rush Contemporary Letters and Reports 1858-1859 edited by LeRoy R. Hafen 1941 386 pages. Vol. 11. Overland Routes to the Gold Fields 1859 from Contemporary Diaries edited by LeRoy R. Hafen 1942 320 pages. Vol. 12. Southwest Historical Series Analytical Index 1943 364 pages. Herd 1385 Mintz 21 Rittenhouse 20 47 49 52 240 268 625. Wagner-camp 182 305:2 339a 346. Six-Score 76 Howes S791 G70 H72 Rader 3592. . The Arthur H. Clark Co. Hardcover
