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1987C91079Harry N Abrams. As New. 1987. Hardcover. 0810909960 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- 400 pages. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Harry N Abrams hardcover
2006C93672Thalia. As New. 2006. Paperback. 2352780020 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French. 196 pages; illustrated mostly in color. Three III Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Thalia paperback
1811954Edinburgh 1811. Third Edinburgh Edition. Fine Leather Bindings. Near Fine. A complete three volume set in near fine condition an early reback retaining the original boards. Small amount of rubbing to leather. Binding and hinges are excellent pages are bright and clean without marks and minimal foxing. Books measure 8.5"x5.5". Third Edinburgh Edition 215 years old. A beautiful set in remarkable condition especially for its age. . unknown
04374Paris: Maison Martinet - Hautecoeur Frères 1860. With Twenty-Four Superb Hand Colored Lithograph Plates<br /> Depicting All Species of Animals<br /> <br /> ADAM Albert illustrator. ROSTAING Jules. Le Jardin Des Plantes en Estampes. Dessiné et Lithographié par A. Adam. Accompagné d'une histoire De Tous Les Animaux Que Possède La Ménagerie par Jules Rostaing. Paris: Maison Martinet - Hautecoeur Frères 1860. <br /> <br /> First edition. Large oblong quarto 10 3/16 x 13 1/2 inches; 259 x 343 mm. iv 30 1 table 1 blank pp. Twenty four superb hand-colored lithograph plates heightened with gum arabic and with multiple images. Some light foxing to text leaves only the plates bright and clean.<br /> <br /> Publisher's black pebble-grain cloth front cover pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt lower cover with center blind-stamped decoration yellow coated end-papers front inner hinge expertly and almost invisibly repaired. Neat early ink inscription on front fly-leaf dated 1860. <br /> <br /> The wonderful hand-colored plates depict Bison Deer Moose Antelope Lama Goats Birds Giraffe Buffalo Elephant Hippopotomus Rhino Camel Zebra Donkey Lion Tiger Leopard Jackal Wolves Hyena Orang-Outang Monkeys Dogs Birds of Prey Crocodile Snakes Gazelle and People.<br /> <br /> Albert ADAM 1833-1900 was the son of Caricaturist and lithographer Jean-Victor Adam 1801-1867 whom he often assisted with his commissions.<br /> <br /> OCLC locates just one copy - The Morgan Libary NY Gordon Ray copy.<br /> <br /> Unknown to Denise Bibliography of the Jardin des Plantes. Paris: Maison Martinet - Hautecoeur, Frères, 1860 unknown
18401721771840. ADAM V. Nouvel Abecedaire en Enigmes. Original front wrapper and 27 illustrated leaves. Folio 349 x 259 mm. bound in contemporary full morocco. Paris: Rittner and Goupil 1840. A wonderfully imaginative and appealing alphabet by the prolific French illustrator Victor Adam. Despite considerable foxing it is still an extremely appealing work. It is also very rare with OCLC listing copies in the U.S. only in Florida and Princeton and 4 copies in Europe. unknown
1917217987Toronto: Printed by T. & A. Constable at the Edinburgh University Press for the Publisher's Association of Canada Limited 1917. Author' Edition. First edition Number 848 of 875 Impressions on All-Rag Watermarked Paper signed by the Publisher. Illustrated. 23 vols. 4to 27.2 x 20.5 cm. Bound in fulll green morocco upper board with large gilt seal t.e.g. Fine. Author' Edition. First edition Number 848 of 875 Impressions on All-Rag Watermarked Paper signed by the Publisher. Illustrated. 23 vols. 4to 27.2 x 20.5 cm. Printed by T. & A. Constable at the Edinburgh University Press for the Publisher's Association of Canada Limited unknown
1811021345London: J. Maynard and F. Zinke 1811. Early Edition. Hardcover. Light pencil underlining and a few notes text rather clean; owner ink stamp on title page of first volume. Near Fine. Three volumes 5-1/4" x 8-8/8" in contemporary marbled boards rebacked in attractive green blindstamped morocco leather with matching corners all edges marbled lxxi 360; vi 514; v 448 50 pages. First published in 1776 this is a reprint of the Fifth Edition of 1786 the final edition to be published in Smith's lifetime. Adam Smith 1723-1790 spent ten years in the writing and perfecting of THE WEALTH OF NATIONS. The book succeeded at once and the first edition was exhausted in six months. GOLDSMITH 11663; GROLIER 100 ENGLISH 57; KRESS B.154; PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 221: "The certainty of its criticism and its grasp of human nature have made it the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought." <br/><br/> J. Maynard and F. Zinke hardcover
1812RSMIINQ00kwCadell and Davies et al. 1812. Very Good. Smith Adam. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in 3 volumes. The Wealth of Nations. London: Cadell and Davies et al. 1812. 499 523 515pp. Indexed. 8vo. Book condition: Very good. Rebound from original boards. Faint moisture stained edges at beginning of vol.1 through Contents and Advertisement to Fourth edition. First several pages of Index in vol. 2 have spotting and light creasing to fore-edges. Binding and boards are significantly clean and aging well with little chipping to edges. Cadell and Davies et al. hardcover
17912406110London: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell 1791. 6th. hardcover. 6th edition as stated on title page 1791. One of 2000 sets published. All 3 books are in very good condition. Vol.1 has paper tape repair to front and rear gutters. All volumes have foxing soiling discoloration some water stains former owner's name on end papers or title page. Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell unknown
1917030196Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1917. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. Four out of the five volumes that make up the complete etchings of Frank W. Benson including the very rare vol. 1 - the four volumes are vols. 1 3 4 & 5. All volumes are complete with the original Benson frontispiece etchings vols. 1 3 & 4 signed by Benson. Details as follows. Vol. One 1917 no. 48 of an edition of 275 of which 255 for sale with original dust jacket but this fair only with some chipping to the head/tail of the spine and some loss to the rear top corner tears stabilised to the underside with archival tape. Vol. Three 1923 no. 455 of an edition of 525 of which 475 for sale with very good original dust jacket slightly chipped to the head of the spine. Vol. Four 1929 no. 133 of an edition of 600 of which 550 for sale no dust jacket spine a little rubbed and worn hessian covering slightly chipped at the head/tail. Vol. Five 1959 no. 243 of an edition of 400 of which 350 for sale with very good to fine original dust jacket. All dust jackets now protected in clear removable archival sleeves. Contents of all volumes clean and tight. previous owner's name and address to the front end paper of vol. 4 otherwise no inscriptions. A very good set of four volumes. Houghton, Mifflin and Company Hardcover
70488London: J. Maynard and others 1811. EconomicsFINELY BOUND a later edition. Complete in three volumes. Octavo 22 x 14 x 9cm pp.lxxi; 360; pp.vi; 514; pp.vi; 448; unpaginated index. Original marbled-calf boards respined to style with gilt rules black leather title labels combed marble ends. Norman Court monogrammed leather book label to pastedowns of each volume contents clean some vintage pencil marginalia within small marginal paper loss p.x of vol.1 corners and board edges a little rubbed and worn covers pleasingly aged. A very good set. Smith's monumental work in attractive nineteenth century boards. Reputedly stolen by Gypsies at the age of three Smith grew up to become one of the pillars of the Scottish Enlightenment winning fame as a moral philosopher as well as an economist. In 'The Wealth of Nations' Smith laid the intellectual foundations for a liberal free-market society and in so doing revolutionised the understanding of how societies governments and markets interact. He always insisted from 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments' onwards that the 'invisible hand of the market' would regulate capitalist impulses and channel excessive behaviour into productive and beneficent projects. 'The Wealth of Nations' further addresses questions of sovereignty of colonies the origins of coinage and the concept of credit all of which would have a profound influence on the germinating United States of America which declared independence in July 1776 the same year that Smith's work was first published. London: J. Maynard and others, 1811 unknown
201297737Berg Publishers. New. 2012. Hardcover. 1847887848 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 272 pp. 41 illus. 32 in color. -- with a bonus offer-- . Berg Publishers hardcover
#[42641]4° 134120 pag. Gebonden in 20e eeuwse kartonnen band watervlekkig en potlood krassen maar toch acceptabel exemplaar. De titel van het tweede deel: Beschrijvinghe des koninckryckx Persien zijnde het tweede deel van de Persiaensche reyse . met een reyse van daer te landse naer Oost-Indien door Johan Albreght van Mandelslo. Geillustreerd met gegraveerde titelpagina 4 uitslaande kaarten door P. Kaerius en gravures in de tekst Tiele 814. unknown
1819879F13London: William Allason; J. Maynard; W. Blair 1819 . Leather. Very Good. 9" by 6". None. A very smart early nineteenth century edition of Adam Smith's enormously influential work of classical economics. An attractive 1819 three volume edition of this work which was first published in 1776.This edition includes a biography of the author - described by some as both 'The Father of Economics' and 'The Father of Capitalism' - and an essay in which 'A View of the Doctrine of Smith' is compared with that of the French economist Germain Garnier.Smith's work is widely held as perhaps the most influential and foundational text in the field of economics laying the groundwork form modern economic thought and policy and discussing matters including division of labour and the free market and introducing the metaphor of 'the invisible hand'.A smart early nineteenth century edition of Smith's magnum opus the first modern work to treat economics as a comprehensive system and as an academic discipline. In half calf bindings with marbled paper covered boards. Endpapers renewed. Light fading to back strips with light rubbing to joints and board perimeters and a minor chip to the head of volume III back strip. Internally firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned throughout with significant spotting to first and last few leaves of each volume and most concentrated throughout volumes I and II. Light tide marks to fore edge and tail of first nine leaves of volume II. Very Good William Allason; J. Maynard; W. Blair hardcover
2005C87030D.A.P./Schirmer/Mosel. As New. 2005. Hardcover. 1933045175 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 160 pages; 85 illustrations. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . D.A.P./Schirmer/Mosel hardcover
17912306072London: Strahan 1791. 6th edition. hardcover. Very good. A handsome three volume set of the 6th edition. One of only 2000 copies published. Spines repaired but appear to be the original covers. The greatest work in the history of economics. Recounts not just the concept of the "invisible hand" but redefined national wealth in terms of products labor and productivity instead of government stashes of gold. Identical To The Last Revision By Smith And The First Published After His Death in 1790. Strahan unknown
1812BOOKS330034London UK: T. Cadell and W. Davies. Collectible-Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1812. LeatherBound. Provenance W. W. Scranton 1871 of PA. 1/4 leather with raised bands. . 8vo. Hinges weak. . T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
18402132<p>Two hand coloured lithographed broadsides by Lemercier after Victor Adam 1801-1866 and Louis Stanislas Marin-Lavigne 1797-1860 heightened with gum Arabic each with a large central image showing Napoléon on horseback one dated 1800 the other 1815 each framed by 20 further images which relate important steps in his military and political career giving a full account of his reign closing with a view of his tomb on the island of St. Helena. Large folio 660 x 500 mm. Mounted and framed within modern white cardboard passepartouts. Light foxing in margins else fine. <br /><br /><br />Two spectacular large size lithographs in beautiful contemporary hand colouring celebrating Napoleon's life and accomplishments. Many of the small images depict battle scenes others with important political events. Lower margins of each sheet with variant hand coloured allegorical vignette one showing a heraldic eagle the other the Code Napoléon. Well margined copies.</p> Tessari et Cie, rue du Cloître Notre Dame no 4 et chez Aumont, rue J. J. Rousseau no 10
1801171776Basel: Printed and sold by James Decker; Levrault Freres Paris 1801. In the original wrappers An attractively printed continental edition of Smith's masterpiece "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" PMM the first Basel edition to include the 1793 English translation of Turgot's Réflexions sur la formation et la distribution des richesses. The first Basel edition of 1793 did not include Turgot's work which had a considerable influence on Smith. McCulloch described it as "the best work on the science published previously to The Wealth of Nations" p. 49. The preface to its inclusion here notes that "as they are affirmed by the Marquis de Condorcet Turgot's biographer to be the germ from which Mr. Adam Smith formed his excellent treatise on The Wealth of Nations it is hoped the curious reader will not be displeased to find them here in an English dress". The Wealth of Nations was first published in 1776: this edition reprints the text of the fourth edition of 1786. 4 vols octavo. Original blue paper wrappers spines with printed paper labels printer's waste endpapers edges uncut. Manuscript shelf-mark to front cover of Vol. 1. Bumping rubbing and chipping minor foxing to endpapers and contents text otherwise crisp: a very good copy. Goldsmiths' 18148; Kress B4447; Printing and the Mind of Man 221 first edition; Tribe 76; Vanderblue p. 20. John Ramsay McCulloch The Principles of Political Economy 1849. unknown
1797135144Stockholm: Henrik A. Nordström 17971801. First edition of all 50 parts of the Swedish literary periodical Läsning i blandade ämnen containing over 200 pages of passages from various sections of the Wealth of Nations making it the first opportunity for Swedish speakers to study Adam Smith. Georg Sartorius's abridgement of the Wealth of Nations the Handbuch der Staatswirthschaft. had appeared in a Swedish translation in 1800 but according to Tribe a complete translation has never appeared. There are many other translations from English in the periodical including biographies of Samuel Johnson and William Blackstone and poetry by Alexander Pope and Thomas Gray. 50 parts bound in 5 vols octavo 182 x 109 mm. Complete with 5 folding tables folding engraved map and 3 folding engraved plates of agricultural implements; woodcut vignettes on divisional titles. Contemporary red half morocco and marbled or drab boards spines with gilt roll rules green labels lettered and numbered in gilt blue edges silk bookmarkers. Contemporary ownership stamp of Daniel Eberstein to each title modern bookplate to each front pastedown. Occasional light spotting and the odd stain short tear to one leaf in vol. 3 with loss of 1 character; a very good set in an attractive contemporary binding. Vanderblue p. 32; not in Tribe; WorldCat lists copies at Yale Minnesota and Texas. On the influence of Smith in Sweden see Torbjörn Vallinder "University Professors and Amateur Writers: The Wealth of Nations in Sweden up to 1990" in Cheng-chung Lai Adam Smith Across Nations 2000. hardcover
1977C86399Rizzoli. As New. 1977. Hardcover. 084780089X . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 178 pages 136 illustrations. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Rizzoli hardcover
1996C86359Gallery. As New. 1996. Hardcover. 1880146150 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 76 pages well illustrated. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Gallery hardcover
1635I44CZ6VY8TIKLeiden 1635. Folio. Abraham and Bonaventura Elzevier Mottled tanned sheepskin ca. 1730 straight-sewn on 6 cords gold-tooled spine with morocco label gold-tooled board edges curl-marbled endpapers red edges headbands in blue and white. With an integral engraved title page with 3 allegorical figures of Ares/Mars Labore and Industria military surveying and building attributes and a fortification plan divisional titles for the second and third livre 35 double-page engraved illustration plates lettered A-Mm containing 185 numbered figures 8 double-page letterpress tables labelled I-VII and Table du profil woodcut headpieces and decorated initials 1 series. Set in roman and italic types with incidental textura and fraktur. With 2 figures in the plates coloured by an early hand. 8 179 1 blank pp. First French edition of the best most detailed best illustrated and most influential handbook of fortification from the Dutch golden age and an ambitious piece of book production from the golden age of the Elzeviers' printing office. Besides numerous fortification plans and views the plates show for example bridges tools for digging construction and demolition and a horse-powered Archimedes's screw for pumping water while three plates show the arrangement of troops' quarters in camp. While some of the fortification plans are theoretical others show the fortifications of cities of the Low Countries and Rheinland during the Eighty Years' War. The text is divided into three "books" the first covering the origins development and most recent Dutch improvements in the art of fortification the second systematically presenting the various forms of fortification and the third on offensive and defensive tactics of siege warfare. Together with the excellent plates it gives remarkable insight into the working techniques and tools of fortification building ca. 1630. The lexicon gives terminology for fortification and related fields in French German Dutch and Latin and remains an essential source on the subject.With two small drawings an occasional manuscript note some underlining and a bookplate. With some foxing in the engraved title-page and a few other leaves occasional mostly marginal stains and minor browning but otherwise in good condition. With superficial damage to the boards and worming slightly affecting the boards and badly damaging the backstrip which has been restored at the head and foot. First French edition of the most influential fortification manual of its day probably more widely read than the German original.l Berghman Cat. rais. Elzeviriennes 651; Jähns II 117; Jordan Bibl. Gesch. Festungsbaues 1301 4 copies; Rahir 417; Sloos Warfare 8022; STCN 3 copies; Willems 425; for Freitag: www.presseforschung.uni-bremen.de/dokuwiki/doku.phpid=freitag_adam. hardcover
181883GC2FWCCH2ULondon 1818. 4to. back of title-page: printed by A. Straham 19th-century half morocco ROOT bookbinders London richly gold-tooled spine with author and short-title marbled boards marbled endpapers. With 15 hand-coloured aquatints on 11 plates by I. Clark after drawings by author. XIII 295 pp. First and only edition of a vividly written account of a voyage through Germany Poland Moldavia and the Ottoman Empire beautifully illustrated with fifteen coloured aquatints after the designs of the author. Adam Neale ca. 1780-1832 of Scottish descent was an army physician and writer. His first work Letters from Portugal and Spain 1809 was a description of the events he experienced with the British forces under Sir John Moore and Sir Arthur Wellesley during the terrible campaigns of Napoleon in Spain and Portugal. Neale subsequently visited Germany Poland Moldavia and the Ottoman Empire ending up in Constantinople to take up his position as physician to the British embassy. The present work contains his autobiographical account of these travels from July 1805 to March 1806 partly through regions which had suffered and were still suffering the horrors and barbarism of the Napoleonic wars. The battle of Austerlitz had just taken place in December 1805. Neale added also many statistical data on the population number of inhabitants rulers etc.Binding re-backed with the original backstrip laid down. Some faint water stains but overall in very good condition.l Abbey Travel 19; Atabey 859; Blackmer 1186; Tooley Coloured plates 344; cf. DNB XL pp. 137-140. hardcover
18021521London: Printed for A. Strahan Printers-Street; for T. Cadell Jun. and W Davies in the Strand 1802. 10th. Thick 8vo 3 volumes xii 499 vi 518 3 vii 465 45 index pp. original grey paper over original publisher boards recent grey cloth spines with red and gilt leather spine labels lower outside corners of all 3 volumes with recent neat grey cloth boards with a few stains bindings very good original book sticker inside volume one pastedown of 'A. and I. Black and L. I. Parry / Leadenhall Strt Street' typescript note on provenance and rebacking of set tipped into volume one 'W. Fitch 1803' in ink top of titles. "The Wealth of Nations had no rival in scope or depth when published first published in 1776 and is still one of the few works in its field to have achieved classic status meaning simply that it has sustained yet survived repeated reading critical and adulatory long after the circumstances which prompted it have become the object of historical enquiry" ODNB. Absolutely fine copy of Smith's classic work in economics in original publisher's boards untrimmed and volumes 2 and 3 unopened with a recent grey cloth spines and gilt on red leather spine labels contents clean with scattered foxing throughout all three volumes very good set. Printed for A. Strahan, Printers-Street; for T. Cadell Jun. and W, Davies, in the Strand hardcover