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65490Pebbled cloth boards detached spine perished gilt stamped oval decoration on front board blind stamped oval decoration on rear board. 20 cm. 38 pp. of notes approx. 9000 words in a neat hand. "A.B. Dundor F & M College Sep. 24/61" on front endpaper. The first set of lecture notes entitled "Notes on Psychology" consists of 30 pp. approx. 7200 words. Entered dos-a-dos at the end of the notebook are an additional 8pp. approx. 1800 words from a course of three lectures entitled "Lectures on Philology" by Prof. James DeLauney. An additional note mentions a course on Political Economy given by Dr. Nevin with only one brief entry for Oct. 17 1861. Adam B. Dundor was born in Berks County Pennsylvania in 1838. He graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in 1862 with an A.B. and stayed on to earn his A.M. from the school in 1865. He worked toward his M.D. at Long Island College Hospital and Jefferson Medical College 1863-4. He lived and practiced medicine in Reading Pennsylvania until his death in 1910. see: Bulletin of the American Academy of Medicine Vol. XII p.231 Easton PA: 1911.<br/>Blind stamped name of Irvin H. Hartman Reading PA. in upper corner of the first page of the notebook. Hartman is listed as a witness to Dundor's will and presumably obtained this notebook from the family. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1792304899Speyer Austria 1792. 4 pp. pen and ink on paper in French in various hands with embossed seal. Old folds and light soiling paper repairs at folds. 4 pp. pen and ink on paper in French in various hands with embossed seal. Document payorder for firewood for the French Army encamped at Speyer "pour le chauffage de l'armée au Camp et Corps de Gardes" signed by General Adam Philippe Comte de Custine and Claude Blanchard. Both Custine 1740-1793 and Blanchard 1742-1802 fought in the American Revolution. Custine who lead the French forces in the Rhine campagins that seized Speyer and Mainz was guillotined in 1793 during the Reign of Terror. unknown books
182531622NY: N. Bangs and J. Emory 1825. Hardcover. Very good. First American from the second London edition. 270pp index. Contemporary full calf with red Morrocco spine label. Some wear to extremities scattered foxing throughout else very good. <br/><br/> N. Bangs and J. Emory hardcover books
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2001045678Cambridge Etc.: Cambridge University Press 2001. xx 366p. map dj Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought. Fourth series 51. Cambridge University Press unknown books
196630975New York: No Publisher 1966. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Scarce poetry magazine edited by Lewis Ellingham. A very good copy staplebound in newsprint. Contributions by Snyder George Stanley Anne Waldman and others. No Publisher paperback books
198311897London: Faber and Faber 1983. Hardcover. 312p. very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Faber and Faber hardcover books
198318937London: Faber & Faber 1983. First edition. 312 pp. Near fine in near fine price-clippd dust jacket with light wear to crown of spine. Stories by Rebecca Brown James Purdy Jane Rule Daniel Curzon Aileen La Tourette and others. London: Faber & Faber unknown books
2012141214New York: Madison Square Park Conservancy 2012. Softcover. VG. Pink stapled wraps 28 pp. many color illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2012 installation in Madison Square Park called "Pet Sounds" created by California-based artist Charles Long b. 1958. Includes an essay by Adam D. Glick an artist statement and many color illustrations. Madison Square Park Conservancy paperback books
2009141210New York: Madison Square Park Conservancy 2009. Softcover. VG. Spring green stapled wraps 24 pp. many color illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2009 installation in Madison Square Park of "Flooded Chambers Maid" created by American artist Jessica Stockholder b. 1959. Includes an essay by Adam Weinberg and many color illustrations. Madison Square Park Conservancy paperback books
2007259930Las Vegas NV: Nazca Plains Corp 2007. Magazine. 64p. 8.25x10.5 inches guest editiorial stories reviews erotic illustrations and cartoons very good magazine in pictorial wraps. Bad-boy heir to leathersex traditions of Drummer Mach and International Leatherman. Nazca Plains Corp unknown books
1973149662N.p.: N.p. 1973. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1973 French film showing actress Brigitte Fossey in silhouette.<br/><br/>A man recently released from the hospital falls in love with a woman who is identical in appearance to his wife.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Morbihan France. <br/><br/>9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
18945270Copenhagen: P.G. Philipsens 1894. Second edition "Andet forandrede Oplag". Acceptable/Adam Paulsen the first director of the Danish Meteorological Institute founded 1872 led an expedition to Greenland during the International Polar Year 1882 to conduct auroral and geomagnetic observations. His study of optics was first published in 1874 and is here reprinted in an expanded second edition. 23 cm; 170 pages. 117 illustrations in text. Bound in half pebbled morocco over pale leather sculpted in an unusual "sandy bottom" pattern that is like sand in shallow water. Upper 2 cm of backstrip torn away but present; front joint split halfway up; stain along lower joint. Pages evenly toned; occasional marginal mathematical notations in pencil else clean and unblemished internally. P.G. Philipsens hardcover books
1891WRCLIT70830Chicago: Slason Thompson & Co. 1891. 393pp. Typographically decorated wrappers. Hint of trivial dust soiling to wrappers otherwise near fine. First edition of this libretto by the popular lyricist book collector and briefly bookseller. The opera was notable as Leila Marie Koerber's a.k.a. Marie Dressler first role on Broadway. Uncommon - OCLC locates but two copies at Brown and at the HRC. OCLC: 10239329. Slason, Thompson & Co. unknown books
1974141871Chicago: Allan Frumkin Gallery 1974. Softcover. VG- with very tiny sticker on upper front cover and ex-lib. stamp and sticker to back cover. Color-illustrated stapled wraps with no writing. 16 pp. with 20 bw illustrations. Price list set in. Includes a brief introduction by Adam and the complete list of 38 works described. Catalogue from the gallery exhibition of December 1974. Allan Frumkin Gallery paperback books
2003UADALOV01CTLittle Brown and Co 2003. Very Good. Adam Christina. Love and Country. Boston: Little Brown and Co 2003. 276pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Little, Brown and Co hardcover books
1983Embry 180367Harmony Books 1983. First edition first printing. Fine in fine faintly worn dust jacket in mylar cover. Harmony Books, 1983. First edition, first printing. unknown books
2015203550Berkeley: University of California Press 2015. Paperback. x 221p. wraps very good condition. University of California Press paperback books
170342900London: printed for W. Rawlins R. Chiswel et al. 1703. Fourth edition thick 4to pp. 18 unpaginated lexicon in triple column 18; engraved frontispiece and 2 engraved maps Italy and Ancient Rome; full contemporary blind-tooled reverse calf some soiling spine in 6 compartments gilt-lettered in 1 gilt faded; small losses to spine ends late 18th or early 19th century ownership signatures including that of Wm. Chichester of Balliol on front free endpaper; textblock fine. One of the most famous Latin dictionaries by one of the best-known lexicographers of the Restoration a link in Latin-English lexicography between Holyoke and Cole on the one hand and Ainsworth on the other. See Starnes Renaissance Dictionaries Austin 1954 who devotes a whole chapter to it. Kennedy 2848; Vancil p. 151. <br/><br/> printed for W. Rawlins, R. Chiswel [et al.] unknown books
1678780961678. LITTLETON Adam. Linguae Latinae Liber Dictionarius Quadripartitus. A Latine Dictionary in Four Parts. I. An English-Latine. II. A Latine-Classical. III. A Latine-Proper. IV. A Latine-Barbarous. London T. Basset J. Wright and R. Chiswell 1677 and 1678. Folio. Unpaginated. Second edition the first was 1673 much enlarged. The English-Latin portion is as much thesaurus as dictionary. The "Latine-Classical" is a Latin-English dictionary with etymology including Hebrew; the "Latine-Proper" is a dictionary of personal and place names; the "Latine-Barbarous" dated 1677 contains erroneous and foreign words. A legal dictionary and tables of weights measures coinage chronology etc. crown the work. In 1670 Littleton was made chaplain to Charles II. His dedication to the King explains that he has rejected much of former dictionaries which would not be of use to students. His dictionary remained in print until 1735. An engraved frontispiece rebacked shows the Palatine Library established by Augustus. The engraved map of Ancient Italy and the engraved plan of Rome showing all its monuments and buildings are both present. In an unsophisticated calf binding of the period with plain boards and spine in six compartments with elaborate floral tooling. Hinges cracked externally. Bookplate of Watkin Williams of Penbedw Denbigh probably the Welsh schoolmaster-poet who won the Eisteddfod at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 with a poem in Welsh on George Washington. Cordell 220. BL 612.1.13. unknown books
186542656Philadelphia: Published by John Dainty 1865. Age-toning to engraving with some discoloration sections to margins especially to left. Minor wear to frame. Very Good. Oval image sepia toned 8" x 6-1/8". Period black oval wood frame 13-7/8" x 11-5/8" <br/><br/>Full-length group portrait of Abraham Lincoln and his family. Mary Todd Lincoln and the president are seated left to right with Robert Todd standing behind them and Thomas to Lincoln's right. A portrait of William Wallace Lincoln hangs on the wall. Published by John Dainty unknown books
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194622806London: Collins 1946. First Edition. 8vo pp. 48. Series: Britain in pictures Illustrated with 8 plates in colour and 25 in B&W. VG in litttle yellowed and worn dj. A brief history and description of Scotland. Collins unknown books
1922WRCLIT46436Paris: Georges Crès et Cie / Les Maitres du Livre 1922. Printed wrappers. Portrait by Paul Baudier. Near fine unopened. First edition in this format of Adam's epistolary Utopian fiction first published in 1898. Woodcut decorations by Maurice de Becque. One of 1850 numbered copies on Rives from a total edition of 1950. Adam was influenced by the literature surrounding the utopian experiments in Texas and Illinois. TALVART & PLACE ADAM 25c. NEGLEY 6. Georges Crès et Cie / Les Maitres du Livre unknown books
