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1878442591878. Stuttgart Verlag von Ferdinand Enke 1878 8° XII 372 pp. mit 106 in den Text gedruckten Holzschnitten; 1882 IX 1 pp.383-878; mit 258 in den Text gedruckten Holzschnitten; 2 Halbleinenbände d.Zt.; feines Exemplar. First Edtion! Adam Politzer 1835-1920 "was one of the greatest of all otologists. He was the first Professor of Otology in Vienna and his text book was for many years the standard authority on the subject." Garrison & Morton No.3387 unknown
mon0000643023Adam Cook. hardcover. Very Good. 0.5512 in x 9.2913 in x 6.2205 in. Crease on cover Adam Cook hardcover
1980221507Edinburgh: Paul Harris Publishing 1980. Facsimile Reprint. Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jackets. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Illustrated. Type: Z vpp; 35pp; 5pp; 160 plates. A very scarce limited edition facsimile reprint of the 1812 first edition copy held at the University of Glasgow Library. This limited edition being number 51 of 400 printed with ink number to the reverse of the title page. Leather title block and publishers name block to the spine and leather title block to the front board - all with gilt embossed lettering to the spine. The cloth of the spine is significantly faded with slight associated mottling though the title blocks remain in very good condition. Internally extremely clean and tight. Comes in original slipcase which has a bump to one corner and light bumps to other corners. There is also some light staining to the tail of the slipcase and somewhat rubbed with some light scattered soiling. Remains firm and tight. A very good copy. Paul Harris Publishing hardcover
119368New York Princeton Architectural Press 2001. . First edition number 2 of 20 signed copies with a signed print inscribed by Bartos in black ink in title-page and with an autograph letter signed on Bartos's letterhead; oblong 4to 240 x 278 mm 9½ x 11 in; colour photographs essay by Svetlana Boym; navy printed endpapers rust cloth-covered boards titles in silver to spine and upper side chromogenic print 242 x 350 mm 9½ x 13¾ in signed numbered and titled in black ink on verso in a blue paper folder and housed together with the book in the publisher's lightly rubbed and faded cloth drop spine box fine in a very good box; 176pp.<br /> One of 20 copies with a signed print this copy inscribed by Bartos to Glenn Horowitz thanking him for a beautiful exhibition and book launch.<br /><br />Bartos made these photographs of people and sites associated with the Soviet space program between June 1995 and April 1999.<br /> New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 2001. hardcover
1929355490720205London: Geoffrey Bles 1929. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's red boards with black lettering to the spine. Boards really bright and clean. Pages tanned due to the poor quality of paper used. Overall a VG copy. In the rare price-clipped D/W which has a couple of imperceptible edges tears the one with an accompanying crease to the top edge neatly repaired on the verso. The D/W is also in VG condition which unusually is not darkened to the spine and is an attractive example. The first copy of this book that I have seen for more than 20 years. A Chief Inspector Bramley mystery. Rare in First Edition. Photographs/scans available upon request. Geoffrey Bles hardcover
20182-1493977881Springer 2018. Hardcover. New. 1179 pages. 10.25x7.50x3.00 inches. Springer hardcover
1923246618Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1923. No. 60 of 525 copies. With descriptions and reproductions of 75 plates by Benson plus an original etched frontispiece signed by the artist in pencil. 1 vols. 4to. Original gray paper covered boards beige linen spine with printed label. A few spots on last two leaves of text else fine. Benson Frank W. No. 60 of 525 copies. With descriptions and reproductions of 75 plates by Benson plus an original etched frontispiece signed by the artist in pencil. 1 vols. 4to. A well-produced survey of the great etcher's work dealing primarily with wildfowl. Mill/well/26/1 Houghton Mifflin unknown
1929245993Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company Printed at the Riverside Press 1929. No 62 of 600 copies. With descriptions and reproductions of 62 plates by Benson plus an original etched frontispiece "Flying Pintail" signed by him. 1 vols. 4to. Original gray paper covered boards beige linen spine with printed label. Label scuffed else very good. Bookplate of G. Peabody Gardner & Rose Gardner. Benson Frank W. No 62 of 600 copies. With descriptions and reproductions of 62 plates by Benson plus an original etched frontispiece "Flying Pintail" signed by him. 1 vols. 4to. A well-produced survey of the great etcher's work dealing primarily with wildfowl. The Flying Pintail etching original to this volume is item 275 in the catalogue and was produced in 1927. Houghton Mifflin Company [Printed at the Riverside Press] unknown
180123364Dublin: P. Wogan Gilbert Hodges W. Porter J. Moore B. Dornin 1801. Full calf. Very Good. Very early Irish editions of "The Wealth of Nations" both volumes published out of Dublin in mixed states. Vol. I is the 1801 "sixth edition with additions"; and Vol. II is the 1785 "fourth edition with additions". Thick uniform octavos both volumes bound identifically in their contemporary-to-the-period full calf with professionally handsomely rebacked spines ansd new endsheets. The original text and bindings have held up very well: solid and VG with bright crisp pages. Only the original title page of Vol. I shows notable wear with creasing several small closed tears and soiling along the top-edge. Originally published out of London in 1776 this elegant early set out of Dublin though mismatched editions remains very presentable and deeply historic. P. Wogan, Gilbert, Hodges, W. Porter, J. Moore, B. Dornin unknown
51-1900Paris: Tessari circa 1840s. Lithograph. 375 x 525 mm. cm. sheet size on rag papper. Few repaired mariginaltears.Beraldi no. 10. Plate 32. Printed by Lemercier Benard.Prince Józef Antoni Poniatowski Polish pronunciation: ˈjuzɛf anˈtɔɲi pɔɲaˈtɔfskʲi; 7 May 1763 – 19 October 1813 was a Polish leader general minister of war and army chief who became a Marshal of the French Empire.A nephew of King Stanisław II Augustus his military career began in 1780 in the Austrian army where he attained the rank of a colonel. In 1789 after leaving the Austrian service he joined the Polish army. Poniatowski now in the rank of major general and commander of the Royal Guards took part in the Polish-Russian War of 1792 leading the crown forces in Ukraine where he fought a victorious battle of Zieleńce. Paris: Tessari, circa 1840s. unknown
1821170889Vienna: Imprimerie de J. V. Degen Pierre Mechetti Devant Charles 1821. Leather bound. Binding set many covers are off most spine labels are off. Sold as a reading set only these books have the typical old dusty leather feel to them. 21 volumes in 1/2 brown leather. Some portraits and illustrations. Dates as follows: 1-3: 1803 new edition; 4-5: 1805; 6-11:1808; 12-13: 1811; 14-15: 1813; 16-18: 1818; 19: 1819; 20: 1820; 21: 1821. Uniformly bound but the leather is dry and some covers are off spine missing from volume 1. Contents are generally described as Vols. 1-4: Dutch and Belgian artists; 5-11: German artists; 12-21: Italian artists. The Supplement volume covers Peintres et Dessinateurs Neerlandais and has the front cover off. Scarce as a complete set in any condition. Suitable for restoration which would be very expensive. Imprimerie de J. V. Degen, Pierre Mechetti, Devant Charles hardcover
1814058714Edingurgh: Oliphant Waugh & Innes 1814. Fourth Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jackets. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 3vol.set: Missing the Buchanan Volume; 525542&482pp.index; HBs quarter-bound; blue w/beige&blk.-original boards&paper spines; heavy rub w/heavy stain; covers detached; corners&edges worn; some lt.fox&tan on pages; extensive annotations and underlining in red pencil. "In this fourth edition I have made no alterations of any kind. I now however find myself at liberty to acknowledge my very great obligations to Mr Henry Hope of Amsteram. <br/> <br/> Oliphant, Waugh & Innes hardcover
17958592a<p>Smith's Wealth of Nations had first appeared in French in 1778-9 in an anonymous translation followed by a second by Jean-Louis Blavet in 1781. Roucher's translation first appeared in four volumes in 1790-1. Jean-Antoine Roucher 1745–94 was a poet from Montpellier friend and admirer of J.-J. Rousseau. He welcomed the Revolution but was arrested in the Terror and went to the guillotine.</p><p>Rochedieu 304; Goldsmiths 14106; Kress B 1986. K. E. Carpenter The Dissemination of The Wealth of Nations in French and in France New York 2002 pp. 85-87.</p><p>5 vols 8vo 195 × 110 mm pp. 6 vi 438; 4 494; 4 624 4 411 1; 4 370 one leaf of index in final vol pp. 211-2 bound out of order complete with half-titles the first with printed facsimile of Buisson's signature. Very occasional paper flaws with very minor losses of a few letters here and there. Contemporary quarter sprinkled sheep spines gilt with tan and green labels. A very good set.</p> Buisson ... An 3e [
198884157Forestville CA: Eclipse Comics Studio Proteus 1988. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Wraps. Very good. Adam Warren. Color covers. 24 8 pages plus covers. Illustrations within are in black and white. The Dirty Pair is an original English-language manga written and illustrated by Adam Warren based on the original Dirty Pair characters created by Haruka Takachiho. The American comic company and manga translator Studio Proteus acquired rights to create comic versions of the Dirty Pair in 1988. The first three limited series reprinted in the collected editions Biohazards Dangerous Acquaintances and Plague of Angels were published by the since-defunct Eclipse Comics. Later the rights were transferred to Dark Horse Comics. The first three series were written by Toren Smith and Adam Warren and drawn by Warren—after that Smith left the project and Warren took over writing completely. These stories have a much more cyberpunk style than the other versions. Toren V. Smith April 12 1960 - March 4 2013 was a Canadian manga translator and founder of Studio Proteus. Adam Warren born 1967 is an American comic book writer and artist who is most famous for his original graphic novel Empowered an adaptation of the characters known as Dirty Pair into an American comic book and being one of the first American commercial illustrators to be influenced by the general manga style. Haruka agreed to license the characters for an American comic. This directly resulted in Warren's first major work Dirty Pair: Biohazards which he co-wrote with Smith and published through Studio Proteus and Eclipse Comics in 1989. Kei and Yuri are two Trouble Consultants Criminal Division Class A for the World Welfare Work Association 3WA code-named "Lovely Angels" but known throughout the United Galactica UG as the "Dirty Pair" a nickname given to them by the press due to their bad luck with their missions which always seem to end in complete disaster. But they are always cleared of any wrongdoing by the UG's Central Computer because the extreme damage is never actually their fault though their mere presence has been known to make things worse. They originally met at Meizuru university for Lucien genetic upgrades around A.D. 2134 although it is not necessarily canon they were both misfits within their year and so became friends. Around A.D. 2137 just before graduation from Meizuru university they played a prank on their friends convincing them that they were both psychic. Shortly afterwards news reached the 3WA and they were scouted for recruitment and tested by a parapsychology institute. The pair cheated every which way possible the really short skirts were Kei's idea and they tested positive for clairvoyance; the 3WA considered this to be useful and hired them. Although outwardly they almost constantly fight and bicker with each other they are both loyal best friends always pairing up together to deck anyone that calls them by their "Dirty Pair" nickname. Biohazards is an original English-language manga written by Toren Smith and Adam Warren and illustrated by Warren based on the Dirty Pair characters created by Haruka Takachiho. The series was originally published by Eclipse Comics between December 1988 and April 1989. The Lovely Angels are assigned to Pacifica. Tissue samples and the single surviving brainchip of leading biotechnical engineer Kelvin A. O'Donnell have been stolen by agents of Abraham Streib a rival industrialist maimed in an accident apparently staged by O'Donnell. Enter the Dirty Pair who rescue O'Donnell's brainchip implanted by Streib in a cuddly Pseudo-Fuzzy. Mission accomplished but O'Donnell convinces the Angels of Streib's traffic in illegal bioweapons and persuades them to help him retrieve his tissue samples so he can regain his humanity. His consciousness transferred to a synthetic warbeast O'Donnell leads the Pair to Streib's lab obliterating most of his cronies—and a sizable section of Pacifica's capital city. O'Donnell assures the destruction of Streib's operation and of Streib himself but en route home is arrested by Pacifica Security for unlawful bioweapons production of his own. Eclipse Comics, Studio Proteus paperback
2017Manohar-9781138820777Routledge 2017. Hardcover. New. Routledge hardcover
2017Manohar-9781138820777Routledge 2017. Hardcover. New. Routledge hardcover
CA01A-02791Random House. Collectible - Good. SIGNED! New York: Random House 1968. 5th printing. 8vo Hardcover. 302pp. Signed by 'Adam Smith' pseudonym of George J.W. Goodman in blue ink. Very Good book and Good dust jacket. Some soiling to top edge. Tear to jacket at top of spine in protective mylar cover. In polypropylene bag. stock exchanges investments united states Inquire if you need further information. Random House hardcover
17152091202133211835D.Brown A and F.hurchill M.Lawrence etc. 1715. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 D.Brown, A and F.hurchill, M.Lawrence etc. paperback
178842376Londres Pierre J. Duplain 1788. 8vo Two nice uniform contemporary full calf bindings with gilt spines. Some loss of leather to back hinge and lower capital of volume one and minor loos of leather to spine of volume two all due to worming. Worming is not bad and does not affect anything but outer layer of small parts of the bindings. Apart from the worming a very nice fresh and clean copy indeed. 8 IV 503; 4 496 pp. With both half-titles the advertisment both prefaces and the table of contents. <br/><br/><em>Rare early French translation of Adam Smith's political and economic classic the "Wealth of Nations". Translated by Blavet. The present edition constitutes the third reprint of the second French translation. The second French translation was done by Blavet and is the first translation into French of which the translator and publisher are known. "The reprint of Blavet's version appeared at Yverdon in 1781 in 6 volumes 12mo and at Paris in the same year in 3 volumes 12mo and again at London and Paris in 1788 in 2 volumes 8vo the present edition and revised and corrected with Blavet's name as translator at Paris An ix 1800-01 in 4 volumes 8vo.He Blavet had no intention of publishing it until his friend M. Ameilhon happened to complain of scarcity of interesting articles for his Journal de l'Agriculture du Commerce des Arts et des Finances which had just come under the control of the Mercantilist. It struck him that he might offer it to him which he did with the explanation that it was far from perfect. It was accepted and appeared in the issues of the Journal between January 1779 and December 1780. He did not anticipate that it would go further. The edition of 1788 likewise appeared without his knowledge or consent and was still more marred by errors than that of Yverdon". Lai Cheng-chung. Adam Smith Across Nations: Translations and Receptions of The Wealth of Nations Clarendon Press UK 2000. Hailed as the "first and greatest classic of modern thought" PMM 221 Adam Smith's tremendously influential main work has had a profound impact on thought and politics and is considered the main foundation of the era of liberal free trade that dominated the nineteenth century. Adam Smith 1723-1790 is considered the founder of Political Economy in Britain mainly due to his groundbreaking work the "Wealth of Nations" from 1776. The work took him 12 years to write and was probably in contemplation 12 years before that. It was originally published in two volumes in 4to and was published later the same year in Dublin in three volumes in 8vo. The book sold well and the first edition the number of which is unknown sold out within six months which came as a surprise to the publisher and probably also to Smith himself partly because the work "requires much thought and reflection qualities that do not abound among modern readers to peruse to any purpose." Letter from David Hume In: Rae Life of Adam Smith 1895 p. 286 partly because it was hardly reviewed or noticed by magazines or annuals. In spite of this it did evoke immense interest in the learned and the political world and Buckle's words that the work is "in its ultimate results probably the most important book that has ever been written" and that it has "done more towards the happiness of man than has been effected by the united abilities of all the statesmen and legislators of whom history has preserved an authentic account" History of Civilisation 1869 I:214 well describes the opinion of a great part of important thinkers then as well as now. Considering the groundbreaking views presented in "Wealth of Nations" it comes as no surprise that the work was considered part of the revolutionary cultural development in France. As Adam Smith's friend the Marquis of Lansdowne said after quoting Smith's work: "With respect to French principles as they had been denominated those principles had been exported from us to France and could not be said to have originated among the population of the latter country." Quoted in: Rae p. 291. The ideas of Adam Smith were often considered so dangerously closely connected with French ideas at the time that the term "political economy" almost became synonymous with questions concerning the constitution of governments. "The French Revolution seems to have checked for a time the growing vogue of Smith's book and the advance of his principles in this country just as it checked the progress of parliamentary and social reform because it filled men's mind with a fear of change with a suspicion of all novelty with an unreasoning dislike of anything in the nature of general principle." Rae p. 293. There can be no question that this seminal work greatly influenced French opinion at the time. </em> hardcover
2012__3110207036De Gruyter 2012. Hardcover. New. 2348 pages. German language. 10.00x7.00x6.00 inches. De Gruyter hardcover
31033London: Printed for R. Clavel and G. Sawbridge 1702. 12mo small blind stamp on title 3 folding engraved plates some browning of the text 12 120 191-226 229-234 pp. quite tightly bound contemporary panelled calf spine gilt in compartments upper hinge cracked and almost detached morocco label with the bookplate of the Earls of Macclesfield. "Martindale was a prominent nonconformist preacher who eked out a livelihood as a mathematical practitioner. He invented a 'Plain and Easy Instrument' for making dials and wrote on navigation and surveying besides publishing an almanack 1675-7 covering in fact the whole range of Activities of a mathematical practitioner." - Taylor Mathematical Practitioners Tudor & Stuart 211. Originally published in 1682 this reached an eighth edition in 1711. London: Printed for R. Clavel, and G. Sawbridge, 1702 unknown
1914HISCAN0315001RBRDCXX<p>Complete Set of 23 books.The Edinburgh Edition. Published in 1914. This is Set # 215 of an edition Limited to 875 sets on watermarked rag paper. Each volume contains the printed signaature of the Publisher on the limitation page. The boards in this set are Grey Linen Cloth with leather labels of Title & Publisher in gold gilt on spine and heavy stock dark maroon end papers. Some uncut pages. Full page fronticpiece on each volume. Gold Gilt top page edges others untrimmed.</p><p>General Editors Adam Shortt and Arthur G. D. Doughty. Canada and its Provinces A History of the Canadian People and their Institutions by One Hundred Associates.New France 1534-1760. In 23 Volumes. From the Editor's Introduction "Seldom in the history of a nation has there been such rapid economic development as Canada has enjoyed during the last two decades. Within that time the Dominion has felt the throb of a new industrial life from ocean to ocean. Railroads have opened up the settler vast stretches of fertile soil. Immigration has proceeded vigorously and the country has received a large influx of population from both Europe and the United States. Wide tracts of prairie land which twenty years ago were uninhabited and which appalled the traveller by their unbroken solitude are now dotted with the buildings fo the settler. Cities and towns have sprung up as in a night equipped with the conveniences of modern civilization."</p><p>This complete set of 23 Volumes including Vol 23 - The General Index is in Near Fine Contition. Additional shipping charges will apply based on destination and speed.<br /><br /></p> T.A Constable at The Edinburgh University Press For The Publishers Association of Canada Limited. hardcover
191039038Paris: Devambez / Georges Weil 1910. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF THIS FOUNDATIONAL TEXT IN THE FIELD OF WOMEN'S STUDIES an examination of how art and literature depict the ways society has failed to protect women in vulnerable circumstances. 158 pp. plus numerous hors-texte illustrations including TEN ORIGINAL PRINTS BY Charles Cottet André Devambez Abel Faivre Gaston La Touche Charles Léandre Auguste Lepère Bernard Naudin Alfred Roll Steinlen and Jean Veber. EDITION LIMITED TO 250 NUMBERED COPIES OF WHICH THIS IS ONE OF 220 PRINTED ON FINE ARCHES WOVE PAPER. Folio. Bound in publisher's boards with Japanese paper covers. FINE AND BRIGHT LIKE NEW WITH NO DEFECTS. Housed in the original board chemise and slipcases. PRISTINE AND COMPLETE COPIES LIKE THIS ONE ARE OF THE GREATEST RARITY. <br/><br/> Devambez / Georges Weil hardcover
198120005New York: Summit Books 1981. First edition of this modern classic. Octavo original half cloth. Inscribed and dated by the author on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine with a few closed tears. George Jerome Goodman was an American author and economics broadcast commentator best known by his pseudonym Adam Smith which was assigned by Clay Felker at New York magazine in order to keep his published articles about Wall Street anonymous. "Like the painter Mondrian Adam Smith makes it look simple. Summit Books hardcover
200877London: Hurst Robinson & Co. 1824 1st Edition. Quarter leather 405 473pp. Fine. Two volumes. Frontispiece illus. folding map. Beautiful in contemporary quarter leather and marbled boards. Usual offsetting from frontispiece and map minimal foxing else internally remarkably bright & clean. With the errata on both volumes and uncommon appendix in volume two. Howes H548 says this is the best edition and comments that only some copies have the appendix. Field 705 "Mr. Hodgson's account of his visit to the Creek and Choctaw Indians and the Appendix contain interesting particulars relating to the aborigines and their antiquities.". Hurst, Robinson & Co. Paperback
