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1995290983London: Laurence King 1995. hardcover. near fine/near fine. With chapters by several authors. 235 illustrations 222 in color. 240 pages 4to black cloth d.w. London: Laurence King 1995. A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Laurence King unknown books
192826063Boston: Israel Sack 1928. Softcover. Good or better several ink stains on cover edge tears on both covers. Damp stain and waviness along lower 2 inches of book most plates not affected some have waviness on very lower edge. One page has loss but not to text or plates. Green wraps black lettering. Unpaginated approx. 78 pp. Profuse bw ills. Features annotated antique furniture selections interior views and house sketches from the following estates: Westomere of New London; eighty-five and eighty-nine Charles Street Boston; King Hooper Mansion Marblehead; and King Hooper Shop Boston. Also includes useful notes for collectors. Israel Sack paperback books
189766475New York: The Macmillan Company 1897. Hardcover. Very good. An early printing. A picaresque novel which became a short-lived musical comedy in 1979. A British author Zangwill 1864-1926 was at the forefront of cultural Zionism during the 19th century and was a close associate of Theodor Herzl. Inscribed by Zangwill on the front flyleaf. Octavo. Original green cloth binding with gilt titles and pictorial black stamping. Minor crease to the front flyleaf. Some general dust staining to the top edge. The spine is darkened a bit with a bit of wear to the corners and tips and occasional mild soiling; otherwise about very good. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
197930952NP: Humanities Press 1979. Hardcover. Very good. xi 256pp indices. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. <br/><br/> Humanities Press hardcover books
2015179712New York NY: Scala Arts Publishers Inc 2015. Hardcover. VG. Black covers white lettering on spine. Pictorial DJ. 112 pp : color illustrations color maps. In 1996 a series of exquisite Roman mosaic floors was accidentally uncovered during highway construction in the modern Israeli town of Lod. The mosaics featured elegant and superbly crafted animals fish birds and other creatures dating to around AD 300. They probably belonged to a private house and served as a series of reception or audience halls where visitors would have been met and entertained. The mosaic has just completed a world tour that included the Metropolitan Museum in New York the Field Museum in Chicago the Louvre in Paris the Altes Museum in Berlin Waddesdon Manor in England and the Hermitage in St Petersburg among other prominent venues. It will now be based at its new home at The Shelby White and Leon Levy Lod Mosaic Archaeological Centre in Lod Israel. Published with the Israel Antiquities Authority to celebrate the new museum's opening this lavishly illustrated volume will be the only book on this exceptional archaeological find. Featuring sumptuous photography and an accessible and informative text this captivating volume will be essential for all those interested in Roman mosaics and the fascinating history of the region. Contents as follows: Foreword / Amir Gorzalczany -- Introduction / Glen Bowersock -- Ancient Lod : an historical survey from the Persian through the Byzantine period / Joshua Schwartz -- The Roman manor at Lod / Amir Gorzalczany -- The late Roman mosaics at Lod / Rina Talgam -- Afterword : an early Roman floor discovered in 2014 / Rina Talgam. Scala Arts Publishers, Inc hardcover books
189544556New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1895. First American Edition. Octavo 19cm.; publisher's pale blue decorative cloth stamped in dark blue and gilt; vi2523pp.; frontispiece 13 leaves of plates. Corners slightly bumped faint stain to spine contemporary ownership inscription else Very Good to Near Fine. The Jewish British author's novel based on the life and works of his friend the British Nova Scotia-based artist George Wylie Hutchinson. Though Hutchinson had illustrated some of Zangwill's earlier novels this work is illustrated by the Swedish-American Thure de Thulstrup. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown books
192912092Philadelphia: Saunders 1929. hardcover. near fine. 8vo original green cloth. Philadelphia London 1929. First Edition. Very good .<br/><br/> Saunders unknown books
18873571Salem Mass.: Observer Book and Job Print 1887. 8vo. 11 pp. <br><br>Inscribed by the author. A history of the Ordinance of 1787 which provided for civil government in the Northwest Territory and a formula for eventual statehood. Sewn as issued. Inscribed as above. Once folded lengthwise. Small spot of soiling to back page otherwise clean. Very good. Observer Book and Job Print unknown books
161319332Frankfurt 1613. 10 parts in three volumes small folio. Collations below. A few plates shaved along the foredge. Contemporary calf the covers ruled and tooled in gilt spines gilt with raised bands and gilt morocco labels some wear to covers. Bookplates on front pastedowns an occasional blindstamp see below<br/> <br/>Provenance: Earls of Macclesfield<br/> <br/>The fine Macclesfield set of De Bry's 'Petit Voyages' in a contemporary binding. This work is essential to any serious collection of travel books.<br/> <br/>A complete set of the first ten parts of the first Latin edition of the Petit Voyages of De Bry one of the grandest collections of voyages published in the Age of Discovery with all of the hundreds of maps and plates as detailed below. This series of voyages devoted mainly but not entirely to the East Indies was issued concurrently with the same publishers' Grand Voyages which are primarily devoted to the Americas. The present set is without Part XI and XII the latter so rare that even Church lacked much of the text and the appendix to Part I also a legendary rarity. Both of these parts were issued by a different publisher in 1625 and 1628 long after the rest of the series. Almost all sets lack some plates and maps and assembling complete copies has been a passion of collectors since the beginning of the collecting of voyages in the early 19th century. A number of the maps and plates are also highly prized individually which has contributed to parts being disassembled. The Petit Voyages comprise probably the greatest single collection of material on early voyages to the East Indies and are unique in their extraordinary wealth of cartographical and visual material on Africa India the Spice Islands and South Asia. The De Brys' intention as publishers to present an illustrated record sets them apart from other textual voyage collections such as Ramusio or Hakluyt. Their works are a cornerstone of any serious library of travels and voyages. The collations of the parts in the present set agree with those given in Church for the first Latin editions of each part with parts III and IX being the second issues of the first edition. Full titles and bibliographical details can be found in Church. A summary of the parts and their contents follow: Part I Vera Descriptio Regni Africani 1598. First edition. Fourteen plates and two maps on three sheets. Fillipo Pigafetta's description of the Congo describing Odoardo Lopez' voyage there in 1578 probably the most important early description of central Africa. Church 205. Part II Pars Indiae Orientalis in qua Johan. Hugonis Linscotani navagatio in Orientem 1599. First edition. Thirty-nine plates three maps and portrait of Linschoten at the head of the preface. Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92 were published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book. Church 207. Part III Tertia Pars Indiae Orientalis. 1601. First edition second issue without the map of Nova Zembla on the verso of plate 58. Sixty plates and three maps. In this copy the plates are bound before the text. The large folding map "Descriptio Hydrographica" shows the eastern hemisphere and the routes to the east around Africa. This is a highly important piece of cartography. The rest of Linschoten Cornelius de Houtman's pioneering voyage to the East Indies of 1595-97 instrumental in opening the spice trade to the Dutch and Gerit de Veer's voyage in search of a northeast passage in 1594-96 are included. The plates show scenes in the East as well as Veer's tragic experiences in Spitzbergen where his expedition was attacked by polar bears. Church 209. Part IV Pars Quarta Indiae Orientalis. 1601. First edition. Twenty-one plates image in plate 20 printed upside down. Linschoten and Houtman's voyages concluded and the voyage of Jacob von Neck and Wybrandt van Warwijck to the East Indies in 1598-99. As in the two previous parts most of the plates are scenes in the East Indies. Church 211. Part V Quinta Pars Indiae Orientalis. 1601. Sole edition first issue.Twenty plates. More material on Von Neck and the establishment of Dutch power in Bantam. Church 212. Part VI Indiae Orientalis Pars VI. 1604. Sole edition first issue. Twenty-six plates. Pieter de Maree's description of Guinea in 1600 and other early voyages to Guinea by the Portuguese Dutch and French. This whole section therefore relates to the Gold and Slave coasts of Africa and the growing European trading presence there which laid the foundation for the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Church 213. Part VII Indiae Orientalis Pars Septima. 1606. Sole edition first issue. Twenty-two plates. Joris von Spilbergen's voyage to Ceylon in 1601-4 and Gasparo Balbi's voyage to Pegu via Syria in 1579-88. This part is mainly devoted to India and Ceylon with excellent plates of the latter. Church 216. Part VIII Indiae Orientalis Pars Octava. 1607. Sole edition first issue. Eighteen plates. A collection of five Dutch voyages to the East Indies 1600-6 including trips to China and the Spice Islands all illustrating the rising Dutch power in the East. The plates show various military encounters and a famous double-page plate of Macao. Note that in this copy plate 13 a double-page plate is bound in between plates 11 and 12 i.e. on the verso of plate 11 and on the conjoined leaf. Church 218. Part IX Indiae Orientalis Pars Nona. 1612. First edition second issue. Seventeen plates. A world map appears on the supplementary title to the extra plates section. This part describes the voyage of Admiral Pieter Willemsz to the Spice Islands to seize them from the Portuguese written by one of the officers on the expedition. Church 221. Part X Indiae Orientalis Pars X. 1613. First edition. Three plates and three maps. This part is important on several accounts. The first section gives one of the first published accounts of Hudson Bay describing the explorations of Henry Hudson. The most important of these is the map showing Henry Hudson's explorations which was first published the year before by Hessel Gerritsz in Amsterdam. It is the first map of Hudson Bay and the adjacent country and is present here in a slightly reduced version of Gerritsz's map with the name of the island "Frisland" clearly engraved see Burden. The double-page map shows Hudson's Bay in the west and stretches all the way east to include Ireland and Iceland. Befitting Hudson's extensive explorations the coast line of Hudson Bay is quite detailed and accurate place names are noted and islands in the bay are shown. Hudson did make mistakes however in his charting of the southern part of the bay in a rectangular shape. "This map serves as the foundation piece to Canada's basic economic history. It served as the only functional chart to the northern regions of Canada for several decades and enabled the successful establishment of the Hudson Bay Company which was to dominate trade exploration and the economic development of Canada for a long time" - Kershaw. The second section of Part X of De Bry describes other voyages to the North by Linschoten while the third section relates to De Quiros and his supposed discovery of a new continent "Terra Australis Incognita." The other two maps relate to a search for a Northeast passage. Church 222. A rare opportunity to acquire one of the great monuments of early travel literature.<br/> <br/>Church as cited above. For the Hudson map: Burden 162; Kershaw Early Printed Maps of Canada 53b & pp.55-58; Schwartz & Ehrenberg p.94; Verner & Stuart-Stubbs The Northpart of America 29. unknown books
18266919Philadelphia: Pr. and pub. by M'Carty & Davis 1826. 12mo. 2 blank 108 2 blank pp. <br><br>Text printed lengthwise on page. Sample law forms of various types. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shoemaker 25986. Quarter sheep over marbled paper boards; corners rounded covers stained and with ink signature on the back spine chipped exposing underlying binding matter rear cover attached by a single thread. Ownership inscription on blank pages and front pastedown. Pages soiled and foxed throughout. Loosening in some signatues. A rather worn copy. Pr. and pub. by M'Carty & Davis hardcover books
7744pamphlet. 5 pages pp. 1531-3155 IN: Journal of the American Medical Association vol. 56 no. 21. Tall 4to sewn modern wrappers. Chicago 1911. First Edition. Whole number offered entire.<br/><br/> Preliminary communication of the isolation of bufagin. GM 1901.<br/><br/> unknown books
199138397Tulsa: Vincom 1991. Paperback. 89p. very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. The Mexican American subject of this book founded the Set Free Christian Fellowship in Southern California. Cuban American author. Vincom paperback books
200951765NY: HarperCollins 2009. First printing. 8vo pp. 363. Recipes in collaboration with Melissa Clark. Paper over boards. As new in dj. A novel with recipes. HarperCollins unknown books
1917262039London: Methuen 1917. First. hardcover. good. Illus. 8vo original blue cloth cloth lightly soiled ex-lib corners bumped scattered light foxing to margins including margins of some illustrations. London: Methuen 1917.<br/><br/> Author was an British journalist living in Berlin. He was arrested on suspicion of espionage and kept in the Ruhleben Prison Camp.<br/><br/> Methuen unknown books
198547807NY: Schocken 1985. First printing. 8vo pp. 192. Translated from the Yiddish and with an afterword by Leonard Wolf. Maroon paper over boards. Owner's name n flyleaf. A nice copy in little chipped and soiled dj. Schocken unknown books
19092294751Grosset & Dunlap 1909. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Jacket spine lightly toned small chip along top edge of rear jacket panel. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 1909 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxxii 133 pp. Preface by Israel Gollancz. Introduction by Henry Norman Hudson with extensive comments on the Play and Characters by other Shakespearean scholars. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
1950008444Cleveland OH: The Temple 1950. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto 4to. 62 pages of text. Hardcover binding with minor to moderate rubbing to the extremities. Illustrated with numerous black & white photographs. The Temple Hardcover books
194034071New York: Workers Library Publishers 1940. Pamphlet. 15p. stapled wraps 5x7 inches evenly browned wraps edgeworn else very good condition. Seidman A199. Workers Library Publishers unknown books
1931m2036Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society 1931. 1st edition. Octavo cloth & boards paper spine label uncut x 279 pp. Plates. Near-Fine much unopened. Connecticut Historical Society, 1931. hardcover books
192335561New York: Macmillan 1923. First American Edition. 12mo 19cm. Brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine; 215pp. Spine lettering a trifle dulled; upper edge of text block dusty; else a tight unmarked and Near Fine copy. A somewhat uncommon and surprisingly astute early interpretation of Freud. Macmillan unknown books
191725459New York: Macmillan Company 1917. Revised Edition. Reprinted with corrections." Thick octavo 19.5cm.; original tan cloth upper cover and spine embossed in red and gilt; viii24555adspp. A bit dust-soiled else About Fine. Collection of short works on the early years of World War I by Jewish British humorist best known for his play The Melting Pot 1908. Macmillan Company unknown books
191625457New York: Macmillan Company 1916. First American Edition. Thick octavo 19.5cm.; original tan cloth red paper labels printed in gilt mounted to upper cover and spine; viii24559adspp. Spine label partially perished apparently during the binding process as the gilt lettering has been partly applied directly to spine cloth. All else Very good and sound. Collection of short works on the early years of World War I by Jewish British humorist best known for his play The Melting Pot 1908. Macmillan Company unknown books
1987UHORTOD00HMRNelson Doubleday 1987. Very Good. Horovitz Israel. Today I Am a Fountain Pen; A Rosen by Any Other Name; The Chopin Playoffs. An Israel Horovitz Trilogy. Garden City New York: Nelson Doubleday 1987. Book Club edition. 273pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with smiley face sticker on front free endsheet. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with gentle yellowing and light bumping. Nelson Doubleday hardcover books
1940146602New York: Putnam 1940. hardcover. near fine/good. 345pp. 8vo two-toned cloth d.w. d.w. edgeworn. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1940. Near fine in good d.w. Inscribed and signed by author on front flyleaf.<br/><br/> Putnam unknown books
18191hardcover. 372pp. illustrated. 8vo blue cloth d.w. N.Y.: Dutton 1953. Very good.<br/><br/> unknown books
