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19511892Girard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius 1951. Paperback. Articles by Ozenfont Van Vechten Venturi et. al. 40pp of drawings. <br/><br/>Signed on the cover. Haldeman-Julius paperback books
1951WRCLIT48836Girard KS.: Haldeman-Julius 1951. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Wrappers faintly darkened but a very good or better copy. First edition signed by the artist on the front wrapper. Includes introductory comments by Carl Van Vechten Katherine Dreier David Ignatoff et al. Walkowitz is now remembered chiefly for his association with CAMERA WORK and Isadora Duncan. Haldeman-Julius unknown books
1946182432New York: Machmadim Art Editions 1946. Signed and Inscribed. Hardcover. Good scuffs scratches & smudges to boards. worn area to back board. front hinge rattled. bumping & rubbing to corners. lower section of spine split; appears firm w/ intact pgs. pgs lightly edge tanned w/ instances of light marks & specks. red flexible boards w/ yellow printing. book vii w/ 48 bw plates. A nice collection of drawings and sketches. Cover endpaper inscribed and signed by the artist. 'Mr and Mrs Frank Kleinholz From Abraham Walkowitz." Quite possibly inscribed to the artist Frank Kleinholz. Machmadim Art Editions hardcover books
1946202144New York: Machmadim Art Editions 1946. First. hardcover. near fine. 7 pages of text in Hebrew followed by 48 black & white plates. Thin 4to flexible cloth. New York: Machmadim Art Editions 1946. First Edition.<br/><br/> Presentation copy to Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Schapiro.<br/><br/> Machmadim Art Editions unknown books
19481894Girard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius 1948. Paperback. Very Good. 26pp of drawings by author/artist. Signed on front cover. <br/><br/> Haldeman-Julius paperback books
194531044Girard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications 1945. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 4to. Unpaginated. Scarce book on Isadora Duncan. Includes introductions by Maria-Theresa Carl Van Vechten Mary Fanton Roberts Shaemus O'Sheel and Arnold Genthe. Fragile wrappers that have now been handsomely bound into hard covers with leather spine corners and raised printed label on the front cover. The wrappers themselves are in near fine condition with just some light toning at the cover edges. Haldeman-Julius Publications paperback books
19501895Girard Kansas: Halderman-Julius 1950. Paperback. Very Good. Signed on cover by author. 20pp of drawings; articles by Carl Van Vechten Arnold Genthe et. al. Special section on Fascism & anti-war. <br/><br/>Walkowitz is known for his drawings of Isadora Duncan. They have been collected in various institutions. Halderman-Julius paperback books
19262310964New York: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1926. Large Softcover. Near Fine. Minor general wear. 1926 Large Softcover. 18 pp. The story of the film adaptation of Wallace's classic tale of a man who must become a gladiator to save his soul. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Production. Directed by Fred Niblo. A short history of this mighty production with many scenes from the photodrama and with portraits of the characters. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paperback books
1917121427New York: George H. Doran Company 1917. Softcover. VG clean and tight. Ivory stapled wraps with black lettering and 14 pp. Wallenstein ponders the plight of the Jews newly under German rule particularly those in Poland the Ukraine and the Baltic States formerly part of the Russian Empire. George H. Doran Company paperback books
177814190London: Published by J. Watts Dealer in Prints & Drawings opposite the Mews Gate Charing Cross 1778. Mezzotints. Printed on laid watermarked paper. In excellent condition. Morning Image size: 9 1/2 x 13 7/8 inches. Plate mark: 10 x 13 7/8 inches. Sheet size: 10 5/8 x 14 7/8 inches. Evening Image size: 9 3/8 x 13 7/8. Plate mark: 9 7/8 x 13 7/8. Sheet size: 10 3/4 x 15 1/8 inches. This is a stunning pair of mezzotints of two hunting dogs catching their quarry by John Watts after paintings by Abraham Hondius.<br/> <br/>Watts was a successful printmaker and publisher who was active in London during the second half of the eighteenth century. He was famed for his rich mezzotints which he exhibited in London between 1766 and 1778. Watts scraped mezzotints after some of the most renowned artists of his day but he had a special penchant for works by the Dutch masters such as this handsome pair after Abraham Hondius the celebrated Dutch animal painter. These rich mezzotints are a superb example of Watts's luxurious style of engraving translating the energy and fluidity of Hondius's beautiful paintings into a dramatic example of superior mezzotint engraving.<br/> <br/>Benezit Dictionnaire Des Peintres Sculpteurs Dessinateurs et Graveurs. Published by J. Watts, Dealer in Prints & Drawings opposite the Mews Gate Charing Cross unknown books
178626305Boston: Printed and Sold by John W. Folsom 1786. 12 leaves as issued. Stitched light to moderate wear. Two closed tears no loss. Good<br/><br/> Folsom's edition is one of three printings of this almanac all from Boston. The almanac includes a "Brief Account of General Washington" and a listing of Connecticut courts.<br/>Not in Evans. Bristol B6383. Shipton & Mooney 45017. Drake 3385. Printed and Sold by John W. Folsom unknown books
1955D7425London et al: Oxford University Press 1955-1986. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. All volumes: blue cloth gilt-stamped lettering on spine. Volumes I III and V in dust jackets. All volumes VG or better some light rubbing here and there the occasional ownership marking on FFEP but all text blocks bright clean and unmarked. Dust jackets a bit wrinkled creased dust-soiled; some light chipping along the edges; price-clipped. A copious reference with extensive notes and bibliographies. An excellent working set -- but heavy and may require additional shipping. <br/><br/> Oxford University Press hardcover books
633xxxx 256 pp. 8vo cont. paste-paper boards minor foxing uncut. Freiberg: Gerlach 1791. First edition. This work by Werner who is known as the father of historical geology describes his "theory of the origin of ore deposits which would be consistent with his general theory of the origin of the earth's crust.Many of its elements were of lasting value. Werner formulated basic questions about the origin and history of veins and their contents established criteria for determining the relative age of veins and vein materials and presented a comparative study of the structure of veins and rock masses.Perhaps the most important contribution of Von den Entstehung der Gänge however was that it made the study of vein formation an integral part of historical geology."D.S.B. XIV pp. 262-63. Fine copy. Hoover 878. hardcover books
1729547681729. Collected Works of Notable Roman-Dutch Jurist Wesel Abraham van 1633-1680. Opera Omnia Antea Diversis Temporibus Seorsim Edita Nunc in Unum Corpus Redacta Nempe I. Commentarius ad Novellas Constitutiones Ultrajectinas Multarum Litium Diremendarum Causa XIV. Aprilis M. DC. LIX. Promulgatas. II. De Connubiali Bonorum Societate & Pactis Dotalibus. III. De Remissione Mercedis Propter Bellum Inundationem Aquarum & Sterilitatem. Editio Nova a Mendis Quibus Priores Scatebant Purgata. Ghent: Apud Cornelium Meyer 1729-30. Three parts each with title page and individual pagination. Main text in parallel columns. Quarto 7-1/2" x 6-1/2". Contemporary mottled calf gilt frames to boards gilt spine with raised bands and lettering piece edges rouged speckled endpapers. Some rubbing to extremities chipping to head of spine corners bumped and somewhat worn residue from bookplate to front pastedown. First title page printed in red and black attractive woodcut head-pieces tail-pieces and decorated initials. Some toning to text. Brief later annotation to front pastedown interior otherwise fresh. $650. Third and final edition with corrections. Educated at the University of Utrecht Wesel was Counsellor to the Court of Vianen where he was a colleague of Paul Voet and fiscal lawyer to the Court of Utrecht. A solid Romanist he was also says Wessels "a great authority not only on the law of Utrecht but also on the law of Holland." Opera Omnia was first published in 1692 and it collects his principal works. The first part is a detailed article-by-article commentary on the Novellae Constitutiones of the Province of Utrecht in Dutch and Latin. The other parts address the Roman and Roman-Dutch law of husband and wife dowry community property and compensation. OCLC locates 1 copy in North America at UC-Berkeley Law School; another copy located at Harvard Law School. Wessels History of Roman-Dutch Law 316. Dekkers Bibliotheca Belgica Juridica 188 4. unknown books
1787WRCAM51205Norwich 1787. 24pp. Dbd. Minor toning light foxing. Very good. In a blue cloth clamshell case gilt leather label. A rare and important Bickerstaff's almanac containing the first printing of the famous Abraham Panther Indian captivity. Titled "A Surprising account of the Discovery of a Lady who was taken by the Indians in the year 1787 and after making her escape she retired to a lonely Cave where she lived nine years" the captivity narrative covers pages 19-24 of the almanac. The captivity account was found to be fictional but was nonetheless popular and reprinted more than twenty times between this first appearance and 1814. Rare with only three copies reported in ESTC. EVANS 20875. DRAKE 416. TRUMBULL 1846. VAIL 767. SABIN 93891. AYER SUPPLEMENT 13. JONES CHECKLIST 608. ESTC W25617. hardcover books
1961RB1132Philadelphia & London:: W.B. Saunders 1961. 1961. 8vo. x 468 pp. Illus. index. Gray blue-stamped cloth; edges foxed. Good. W.B. Saunders, 1961. hardcover books
18871002385New York City 1887. Invitation to Walt Whitman's private reception after his celebrated lecture "The Death of Abraham Lincoln" at Madison Square Theatre on April 14 1887. Whitman had given public readings of his Lincoln lecture variously edited since 1879; one version was published in Specimen Days in 1882-1883. Scheduled on the twenty-second anniversary of Lincoln's assassination the 1887 event was staged as a benefit for the ailing Whitman who remained seated throughout his sold-out tribute to the Union's "Martyr Chief": "there is a cement to the whole people subtler more underlying than any thing in written constitution or courts or armies - namely the cement of a death identified thoroughly with that people at its head and for its sake." As William Pannapacker notes Whitman's passionate public identification with Lincoln was central to his emergence as "The Good Gray Poet" a national treasure: "Whitman's experiments in self-creation finally succeeded with a major segment of the public when he enclosed his persona within the halo encircling the martyred President" Revised Lives 22. The New York audience for Whitman's performance included Mark Twain John Hay Augustus St. Gaudens James Russell Lowell and Charles Eliot Norton; Andrew Carnegie could not make it but purchased a box for $350. At the end of his performance Whitman was surprised by a gift of lilacs from poet E.C. Stedman's young granddaughter a reference to his great elegy for Lincoln "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." In New York City for a single night Whitman hosted a reception in his rooms at the Westminster Hotel after the lecture; this invitation was printed for the occasion. The evening was an important one for New York literary society a celebration "at least as spectacular as the event itself" according to the New York Sun. Looking "like a painting of Jove" Whitman entertained a constant stream of admirers relieved only by the performance of the Afro-Cuban violinist Claudio Brindis de Salas Garrido "El Paganini Negro" who serenaded Whitman on a seventeenth-century Ruggeri violin: "Walt was mightily pleased with the music." A surprising survival a near-fine artifact of the nineteenth-century American literary scene. Ivory card measuring 2.75 x 3.75 inches printed recto only: "Walt Whitman / At Home -- Thursday Evening / April 14th 1887 / Westminster Hotel Irving Place and 16th St. New York." Penciled bookseller note to verso: "April 14 1887 for his most famous lecture Lincoln / WW in NY for only one 1 night." Card lightly toned; half-inch closed tear to head expertly repaired. Housed in envelope fragment with penciled inventory number bookseller note and collector's note: "Whitman card / gift from Capt. Cohn -- / House of Books / Aug 7 1950.". 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
1762WRCAM47563Boston: S. Kneeland 1762. 228pp. Lacks half title. Dbd. Minor soiling. Very good. Sermon preached on the occasion of "the election of His Majesty's Council for said Province." Abraham Williams was the pastor of the church in Sandwich Mass. EVANS 9310. ESTC W29217. S. Kneeland unknown books
177125148Boston: Richard Draper. 1771. Half title 31 1 blank pp. Disbound. Lightly foxed. Very Good. <br/><br/> "As we are made rational and accountable creatures the care of ourselves and of our own happiness is the first natural and reasonable concern of every man. A rational self love though distinct from is not inconsistent with the more noble principles but subserves and promotes them." A footnote states that Hilliard succeeded Reverend Joseph Green who served the Barnstable church from 1725 until his death in 1770. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Evans 12289. 664 NUC 0319346 6. Richard Draper... unknown books
193549210New York: Macmillan Company 1935. 8vo pp. xxvii 1 692; 316 figures and plates original navy cloth with gilt title on spine bookplate of O. C. Lester; fine. "A thoroughly comprehensive sourcebook it deals with all the important developments in science and many of the innovations in the social sciences British and Continental philosophy and psychology." <br/><br/> Macmillan Company hardcover books
1935S12059New York:: Macmillan 1935 1939. 1935. 2 volumes. Royal 8vo. xxvii 692; 814 pp. 316 345 illus. indexes. Navy blue gilt-stamped cloth dust-jackets. Ownership mark of William B. Bjornstad Drake University Des Moines Iowa. Fine. First American edition. Unusually fine set with jackets of the original edition. Macmillan, 1935, 1939. hardcover books
16808291Amsterdam: Adriaen Moetjens La Haye 1680 4 volumes. Second edition revised corrected and augmented. 24mo. Pp. 28 781 16 18 771 20 12 588 12 16 750 16. Illustrated with 2 folding copper-engraved plates. Contemporary full polished calf blind-stamped dentelle on covers spines extra gilt marbled ends. Circular library stamp on each title page. A superior complete set in handsome matched bindings clean and crisp throughout. A very fine set perhaps the finest extant. A rare collection of 17th century diplomatic texts treatises extracts dispatches negotiation and correspondence. This work provides important original sources and contemporary accounts of the Treaties of Peace of Nijmegen. These series of treaties signed in the Dutch city of Nijmegen between August 1678 and December 1679 ended various interconnected wars among France the Dutch Republic Spain Brandenburg Sweden Denmark the Prince-Bishopric of Munster and the Holy Roman Empire. Text in French. Excessively scarce. Only two sets located in France by OCLC; no copies at auction in fifty years. Adriaen Moetjens, La Haye unknown books
2008UWOLUND00CCWCitadel Press 2008. Fine. Wolinetz Geoff Nick Jezarian and Josh Abraham. Under Rated : The Yankee Pot Roast Book af Awesome Underappreciated Stuff. New York: Citadel Press 2008. 205pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine. Citadel Press paperback books
16873053Oxford: Printed at Oxford 1687. First edition. 4to.12260pp. Cont. tooled paneled calf a bit worn surfaces pitted extremities of spine chipped front hinge split but still holding. Calf spine label listing the author as "Walker" chipped. Woodcut title page portrait. Minor worming at top blank margins text unaffected. The first four parts alluded to in the title were separate works published during Woodhead's lifetime. "Part V" is based on unpublished manuscripts found after his death in 1678. Wing W3440. Printed at Oxford unknown books