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1946UMERMET00KTAvon Book Company 1946. Very Good. Merritt A. Metal Monster. Merritt Abraham. New York: Avon Book Company 1946. Murder Mystery Monthly #41. 203pp. 12mo. Illustrated wrappers. Book condition: Very good. Minor wear to covers. Avon Book Company unknown books
186236662Washington 1862. 37th Cong. 2d Sess. SED65. Broadsheet octavo. 2pp. Disbound else Very Good.<br/><br/> Lincoln refuses to mess with the currency believing that the proposed legislation would result in "the serious injury of honest trade and honest labor."<br/>Not in Monaghan. unknown books
192741212Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Cervantes 1927. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good unopened uncut copy with darkened spine chipped at heel browned leaves. 378 pp. Sm. 8vo. Fanor Velasco V ed. Imprenta Cervantes unknown books
190341285Washington: Government Printing Office 1903. 1st collected edition Monaghan 1402. Original publisher's pebbled brown cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to front board. TEG. Cloth somewhat dull. Some extremity wear. A VG copy. 246 pp. Each section prefaced with an engraved image of the slain president. Tissue guards. Small folio: 12-5/8" x 9-5/8" <br/><br/> Government Printing Office hardcover books
18661007628vo original dark brown pebbled and blindstamped cloth front cover decoratively lettered in gilt steel engraved frontispiece portrait of Lincoln 69 pp. Binding with some edge wear and chipping to spine missing about two inches of lower spine hinges a little weak but still firm ends and corners bumped a little soiling pencil signature of previous owner; else very good. George Bancroft who at one time was Secretary of the Navy deliverd this memorial address to both houses of Congress on February 12 1866. This pamphlet was also published in New York but that issue lacked the portrait. Sabin 3132 Government Printing Office hardcover books
199066460Birmingham:: Classics of Medicine Library. Near Fine. 1990. Hardcover. A specially bound facsimile reprint of the 1910 edition. Quarto bound in dark blue leather with gilt lettering and design raised bands along the spine all edges gilt marbled endpapers ribbon book mark. Previous owner's book-plate on front paste-down else near fine. ; 346 pages . Classics of Medicine Library, hardcover books
1990Embry 180192The Classics of Medicine Library 1990. Fine. Full plumb leather decoratively gilt. Includes the "Notes from the Editor." The Classics of Medicine Library, 1990. hardcover books
194444278NY: Tudor 1944. Reprint. 8vo pp. 511. Chronology bibliography index. Brown cloth. VG. Biographies of fourteen Russian composers from Glinka to Scriabin. Tudor unknown books
1970128965New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc 1970. Hardcover. VG- Pages have aged but consistently; plates are still vivid; front cover is slightly bowed; dj is near perfect. Crimson cloth boards with white stamped lettering maroon DJ with color illus. 328 pp. 315 illustrations 63 tipped-in in full color. In English. From the DJ: The more than 300 superb reproductions demonstrate Marini's mastery in bronze wood plaster stone cement and terra cotta as well as in oil tempera watercolor gouache ink and pastel. The illustrations also include some important documentary photographs of the artist at work and with family friends and colleagues. Harry N. Abrams, Inc hardcover books
1936019119Glendale CA: The Arthur H. Clark Co 1936. First Edition. Large Octavo. The editor has combined the manuscripts of Johnston Edwards and Ferguson into one work without making any changes to the text except punctuation and capitalization. All three men participated in the war against Mexico their occupation of New Mexico and California. They march from Sacramento and Missouri to take over this land for the United States under the leadership of General Stephen Watts Kearny and General A.W. Doniphan. Portrait frontispiece 368pp. folding map with an appendix containing muster roll of volunteers. Bound in maroon cloth spine lettering and top edge gilt uncut. A lovely nearly fine copy of this important historical event. The Arthur H. Clark Co unknown books
15846753Antwerp: Ortelius 1584. Map on thick paper measuring 8.75 x 7 in 22.25 x 17.75 cm in the image. Taken from the Theatrum orbis terrarum of Ortelius. One of the earliest maps of the kingdom of Huasteca or Guasteca present-day Tamaulipas originally printed on a single sheet with two other maps of Florida and Peru but here presented by itself alone. This is hand-colored with titles in Latin and ornate title cartouche. Very good. <br/><br/> Ortelius unknown books
5980157 leaves of text paginated 1-124 & 129-317 nothing seems lacking. Large 4to 318 x 215 mm cont. sheep-backed black cloth extremities slightly worn title in gilt on spine. S.l.: c. 1852. A finely written and illustrated manuscript with highly technical observations on French naval artillery training and testing in the mid-19th century which are complemented by numerous hand-drawn marginal diagrams and many tables. The present manuscript was composed by Floucaud de Fourcroy 1831-1929 a descendant of the famous chemist Antoine de Fourcroy as a cadet aboard the Uranie a former frigate converted into a training ship in 1851. By the end of his career Floucaud de Fourcroy was a highly decorated admiral and commander in the Legion of Honor. The present manuscript recapitulates the curriculum of naval artillery in the middle of the 19th century. It begins with a survey of weapons classifications artillery rifles swords pikes axes etc. and the situations in which to use them different types of ammunition and their purposes and the history of their development. There are then lengthy explanations of each weapon's size range reloading time effectiveness etc. Each of these is presented with precise measurements and dimensions. The author recounts the multitude of exercises which a cadet had to undergo and master in order to progress as a naval officer pp. 265-90. There are also extensive notes on his lessons in ballistics often accompanied by intricate diagrams and mathematical formulas. Pages 295-96 feature a section entitled in trans.: "Notes on the Practical Instruction which a Sailor-Gunner must Receive." The drawings in the margins many very complex illustrate the composition of ships weapons ammunition and instruments the trajectory of cannons and firearms the construction of equipment the optimal angles of attack the adjustments necessary to maintain accuracy while the ship is in motion etc. etc. On page 317 Floucaud de Fourcroy has drawn detailed cross-sections of five types of cannons. The tables concern the range of various cannons their effectiveness at specific ranges in terms of speed and their penetration the supply needs of cannons the number of cannons that can fit on a ship etc. A most interesting manuscript in fine condition that captures the state of French naval training and warfare in the middle of the 19th century. Pages 227-28 258-64 and 315-16 are blank. hardcover books
1648001623Paris: Pierre Des-Hayes 1648. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. xviii 342 pages of text. Defective copy lacking five plates the frontis and a final engraved table. Attractive early-to-mid-18th century leather binding with moderate wear to the hinges spine extremities and corners. Raised bands gilt tooling and lettering on spine. Decorative marbled endpapers and blank endsheets supplied at time of binding. Present is the full-page engraved portrait of Michel Larcher engraved armorial dedication to Larcher and the engraved title page following page 58. A complete copy has the plate numbers 151 and 156 used twice totalling 158 plates showing plans and designs of perspective of which 153 only are present in this copy. Lacks plate numbers 110 151 both 154 and 155. However early hand-drawn facsimiles of plates 151 one of two and 155 are supplied and bound-in leaving three images unrepresented. The majority of the plates are double-sided. Plate 156 is in less than good condition with heavy staining and soiling. Engraved title page is repaired with early conservator's tape with no loss. Pages 168 through 193 are bound out of order. Several leaves are affected by damp staining and minor rippling; approximately 15 front and 30 rear. The title page and several adjacent leaves as well as a few at the rear of the text are heavily stained. Some of the staining appears to originate from washed-out markings -- notations to which an attempt at removal were made -- that are in blank areas mainly in the front and rear pages but also in the blank areas in the introduction. Includes Desargues New Theory at the end with demonstrations. Protected in a modern circa 1950 slipcase decorated with marbled endpaper the seams of which are detached at the top edge. Desargues 1593-1661 was a French mathemetician and a founder of modern Geometry. With Pascal he introduced the method of perspective; treated conic sections as projections of circles formulated the so-called Arguesian transformation; developed the theory of involution and of transversals; defined parallels as lines that intersect at infinity. Measures 6-5/8" tall by 4-1/2" wide; printed on thick paper with ample margins. 20th century bookplate of Paul and Verner Mac Alister on front pastedown and a neatly handwritten identification on the 2nd front endpaper. On the same leaf is a contemporary name or marking. French France Fortifications Conics Cartography Projective and Descriptive Geometry. Early editions of Desargues works are quite uncommon. Pierre Des-Hayes Hardcover books
195178342Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America 1951. First edition of this modern classic of Jewish theology. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some chips and rubbing. Jacket designed by Marshall Lee. Man Is Not Alone is a profound beautifully written examination of the ingredients of piety: how man senses God's presence explores it accepts it and builds life upon it. Abraham Joshua Heschel's philosophy of religion is not a philosophy of doctrine or the interpretation of a dogma. He erects his carefully built structure of thought upon foundations which are universally valid but almost generally ignored. It was Man Is Not Alone which led Reinhold Niebuhr accurately to predict that Heschel would "become a commanding and authoritative voice not only in the Jewish community but in the religious life of America." Jewish Publication Society of America hardcover books
1696211506Leyden and Utrecht: Pieter Vander Aa 1696. unbound. very good. Botanical. Copper plate engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 12.5" x 8.25".<br/><br/> Stunning early botanical. Abraham Munting 1626-1683 taught medicine and botany at the Academy of Groningem in the Netherlands. He had a particular interest in the uses of plants especially medicinally. This engraving is from "Naauwkeurige Beschryving Der Aardgewassen". Aging and scattered foxing around edges and margins. Please visit our gallery for more Munting prints.<br/><br/> Pieter Vander Aa unknown books
1983153342New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1983. Paperback. x 273p. no illustrations softbound in 8x5.5 inch wraps. Slightest edgewear a sound clean unmarked copy. Farrar Straus & Giroux paperback books
CA06A-00516Collectible - Acceptable. 4 vols bound in 1. 1st Edition. xxxvi132pp. Early brown buckram with black spine printing and brown endpapers. Front cover damp-bubbled and lightly stained else VG. Weight: 2 pounds = 911 grams. Size: 9.5 x 6.6 x 1.2 inches = 23.8 x 16.5 x 3cm. Inquire if you need further information. Gach. hardcover books
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 books
200441550Nashville: Broadman and Holman 2004. Paperback. Very good. Second Printing. 118pp. Very good in publisher's wraps. Inscribed and signed by Nhial on the half title page. <br/><br/> Broadman and Holman paperback books
18041188409New York: The Shakespeare-Gallery 1804. Eighth Edition. Hardcover. Approx. 4.5" x 7" VG marbled sandy brown hardcover with no text on spine or cover. Rubbing to corners and spine ends of boards. Mild foxing to edges of text block. Hinges starting at front pastedown which opposes first of two title pages one for each discrete section of this directory. Old hand-calligraphed swooping names penned to first title page. A few internal chips and tears to each title page subtly affecting text of Astronomical Calculations subtitle; and a 1.5" x .25" chip to July/August 1804 astronomical charts with resulting loss to a few calculations across a couple of categories. Foxing throughout; binding remains tight. Shelved in Case 13. 1188409. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Shakespeare-Gallery hardcover books
1998011785Westport CN: Auburn House 1998. First Printing. Cloth. Octavo 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 216pp. Text references tables. Bibliography. Index. Bound in dark blue cloth with white titles. Near Fine. Auburn House unknown books
196386775Washington:: Library of Congress. Near Fine. 1963. Paperback. B000P1K2CA . First edition paperback. Laid in is another facsimile reproduced on antiquated parchment 1977 - folded and in original envelope. Near fine in oversize illustrated stapled wraps. . Library of Congress, paperback books
196545554New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston. Very Good. 1965. Hardcover. New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston 1965. 8vo green cloth only light soil to page edges else VG. No DJ. . Holt Rinehart & Winston hardcover books
186534970New York: Currier & Ives 152 Nassau St. 1865. Folio broadside 12" x 16". Black and white bust portrait of a well-groomed bearded Abraham Lincoln. He wears a dark jacket and vest with a white button-down collared shirt and dark bow tie. In very small print below the caption appears to be the number 205 or possibly 105. Moderately tanned small white scattered spots. Several closed tears at edges and corners several archival tape repairs on verso. Good. Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St. unknown books
195139793Los Angeles 1951. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 125p. Hardcover. 23cm. No Jacket. INSCRIBED by Arias-Larreta. Spanish text. <br/><br/> hardcover books
