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1855298221London: London Illustrated News 1855. unbound. View. Wood engraving with hand coloring. Page measures 15 3/8" x 22 5/8"<br/><br/> Beautiful bird's eye view of Paris showing the Rue de Rivoli and the Louvre and the Seine River. Bridges buildings major sites and towns are illustrated along the way. Published by the London Illustrated News September 1 1855. Two folds as issued. Minor cropping to lower margin not affecting image.<br/><br/> London Illustrated News unknown books
1939012060Londpn: The American Society of London 1939. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Program for the annual American banquet celebration of Independence Day this annual on the cusp of World War II with Joseph Kennedy father of President John Kennedy presiding as US Ambassador to the Court of Saint James. Ownership copy of Mrs. Sherman P. Haight aka Anne Lyon Haight 1891-1977 noted bibliofile adventurer and author with her place card with an engraved American flag laid-in. Stiff printed covers red/white/blue string-tied 5.5" x 8.5". 24 pages. Contents include: menu six courses; toasts to the King and President with toast proposed by the US Ambassador and the response by His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent aka Prince George seating chart for Table "A" the head table: lists of guests alphabetically floor plan for tables numbered 1- 47; list of guests by table; and lists of committee members. The last page are lyrics to God Save the Queen and Star-Spangled Banner. Laid-in is a one page sheet of a Supplementary List of guests. Beautifully preserved. The American Society of London unknown books
1987236011987. Softcover. VG- cover lightly soiled. Yellow wraps. 36 pp. 15 color 16 bw plates. Includes a five-page essay by Bruce W. Chambers and biographical information on the artists along with the wonderful illustrations. unknown books
1865443721865. <p>City of London Truss Society. Archive of 65 documents including autograph letters signed mostly to John Colley Taunton d. 1858 printed reports and other ephemera. 1822-65. Some documents soiled or dampstained a few with tears but overall good to very good. Calendar of the archive included.</p> <p> The City of London Truss Society a highly successful British charitable organization began operating in 1807 and continued well into the twentieth century Sir Geoffrey Keynes the well-known surgeon and bibliographer served on the Society's medical staff in the 1930s. A notice published in the Philosophical Magazine in 1813 describes the genesis of the Society:</p> <p> "From the great number of persons among the laboring poor who were afflicted with hernia and for whose relief no adequate provision existed on the 14th of October 1807 Dr. Squire Dr. Herdman John Taunton the Rev. H. G. Watkins James Horton Michael Bartlett Joseph Atkinson John Middleton John Gardner and John Whitford met at the City Dispensary and formed themselves into a Society 'for the relief of the ruptured poor throughout the Kingdom the City of London Truss Society'" Philosophical Magazine 43 1813: 316. </p> <p> John Taunton 1769-1821 surgeon to London's city dispensary was appointed the Truss Society's first surgeon; after his death his son John Colley Taunton took over the post remaining there until his own death in 1858. By 1813 the Society was treating nearly 2000 patients annually; by Taunton's death in 1821 this number had increased to over 3500; and by the end of the nineteenth century the Society was employing three surgeons and seeing over 10000 patients per year. </p> <p>The archive we are offering contains 65 documents of which all but seven are handwritten. Of the 58 handwritten documents the majority are letters to and a few from John Colley Taunton. The most notable correspondent represented here is physiologist and surgeon Benjamin Collins Brodie 1783-1862 whose letter to Taunton advises him on a urinary tract infection in a patient. Four of the letters are from surgeon William Kingdon 1789-1863; two of these recommend poor patients to the Society's care. 31 letters are from Samuel Cartwright 1789-1864 a dentist and one of the vice-presidents of the Truss Society; nearly all of his letters have to do with donations to the Society and several include the exact amounts given. Another group of letters is from Mary Tanner presumably a patient; two of these letters include prescription notes in what is presumably J. C. Taunton's hand. Also included in this archive are three of the Society's annual reports for the years 1862-1864; a printed subscription card; and two printed invitations from the Society addressed to Walter K. Taunton. A complete calendar of the archive is included. Royal College of Surgeons Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online. </p> <p>. unknown books
19829010789New York: HarperCollins 1982. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. The dust jacket is price clipped. <br/><br/> HarperCollins hardcover books
190686728London: Edward Stanford 1906. Hardcover. Very Good. Linen-backed folding map in Small cloth portfolio. 18cm. Map folds out to approximately 56 x 66cm. Someone has marked and numbered 5 or 6 ports apparently relating to trip were taking or hoped to take. <br/><br/> Edward Stanford hardcover books
181439223Londini: Ex officinâ Johannis Nichols et Sociorum 1814. Small 8vo 18.5cm 7.25". Frontis. port. 1 f. 62 pp. <br><br>John Colet 14671519 Dean of St. Paul's seems in 1508 to have begun to think about "applying his patrimony to education by the reconstitution of St Paul's Cathedral school in new premises reflecting a preoccupation with education as prerequisite for spiritual regeneration" DNB online. He "opened the doors to St Pauls School in 1509 to educate boys 'from all nacions and countres indifferently' St. Paul's School website.<br>Â Â Â Â Elegantly bound and handsomely printed this is the first edition of this collection for use of the boys of the school and is comprised of "Preces quotidianae ut celebrantur in scholâ Paulina" and "Catechismus cum ordine Confirmationis." The prayers were first published in 1642 and are in Latin while the catechism is in Greek on versos of leaves and Latin opposite on rectos. The engraved frontispiece portrait of Colet is by John Taylor Wedgwood 17831856 a cousin of Josiah Wedgwood.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Late 19th-century bookplate of the Rev. George H. Culshaw; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Contemporary green straight-grain goat spine gilt extra; both boards with a gilt double-rule outer border and an inner center frame of single gilt rule with large gilt corner devices. Board edges with a gilt roll; narrow turn-ins with a different gilt roll. All edges gilt.<br>Â Â Â Â Searches of WorldCat locate only six U.S. libraries IU NjNbT PPiT IEN NNC NNG reporting ownership. Binding as above; spine sunned to olive front cover with scuff sometime well disguised boards showing signs of having been bent some time ago. Bookplate and label as above. A very few light spots of foxing pages overall clean and crisp. Very good condition. => A very attractive book. Ex officinâ Johannis Nichols et Sociorum hardcover books
183557666Walworth: printed by J. Packer Albion Place 1835. 16mo pp. 22 2; removed from binding wrappers wanting; else very good. Includes a list of subscribers and donors. Not in OCLC. <br/><br/> printed by J. Packer, Albion Place unknown books
1437London. Sotheby's. 1991. 4to. paperback auction catalogue. Sotheby's illustrated and private press books children's books and juvenalia the performing arts including magic conjuring & circus related drawings 547 items. unknown books
2004125771London: Sotheby's 2004. First edition. Softcover auction catalogs. October 19 2004. 2 auction catalogs bound with the publisher's wrap-around portfolio. All of the items have full color photographs and some have multiple shots of the item for sale. Artists in the Italian Art Catalog include: Massimo Campigli Mario Sironi Marino Marini Giorgio Morandi Giorgio de Chirico Lucio Fontana Afro Enrico Castellani Enrico Baj Piero Manzoni Michelango Pistoletto Giulio Paolini Luciano Fabro Maurizo Cattelan. Artists in the Libero Grande Catalog include: Vito Accnonci Gerhard Richter Mario Merz Jannis Kounellis Lucio Fontana Joseph Beuys Mimmo Rotella Cy Twombly Andy Warhol. Auction records are laid into each catalog. Both catalogs are in very near fine and tight condition and the wrap-around band in very near fine condition with minute edge wear. Uncommon with both catalogs together. Sotheby's unknown books
199626845London: Sotheby's 1996. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. 47 pages. 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches. Color printed wrappers. Lots 250-259. Full color illustrations. Wraps. Sotheby's unknown books
2005137491London: Sotheby's 2005. Softbound. VG unused but has two labels on cover stamp inside cover showing library ownership. Color illustrated wraps. 314 pp. profusely illustrated in color. A sale of 1122 lots stamps from British Africa that come from the most important collection to appear on the market in more than 50 years. Assembled by Sir Gawaine Baillie 7th Bt 1934-2003 the collection was almost entirely unknown to international collectors and boasts highlights not seen on the market for several decades. The sale was the fifth in a series of ten auctions with an estimated value for the entire collection of $20 million. Foreword by Richard Ashton. Sotheby's paperback books
2005137488London: Sotheby's 2005. Softbound. NF unused but has two labels on cover stamp inside cover showing library ownership. Color illustrated wraps. 286 pp. profusely illustrated in color. A sale of 1504 lots stamps from the British West Indies & South Atlantic that come from the most important collection to appear on the market in more than 50 years. Assembled by Sir Gawaine Baillie 7th Bt 1934-2003 the collection was almost entirely unknown to international collectors and boasts highlights not seen on the market for several decades. The sale was the second in a series of ten auctions with an estimated value for the entire collection of $20 million. Foreword by Charles Freeeland. Sotheby's paperback books
2005137489London: Sotheby's 2005. Softbound. NF unused but has two labels on cover stamp inside cover showing library ownership. Color illustrated wraps. 300 pp. profusely illustrated in color. A sale of 1259 lots stamps from the Australian States & Australian Commonweath that come from the most important collection to appear on the market in more than 50 years. Assembled by Sir Gawaine Baillie 7th Bt 1934-2003 the collection was almost entirely unknown to international collectors and boasts highlights not seen on the market for several decades. The sale was the third in a series of ten auctions with an estimated value for the entire collection of $20 million. Has a personal remembrance by Tommy Sopwith and foreword by Richard Ashton. Sotheby's paperback books
20041373782004. Softbound. As new lloc. Color illustrated wraps. 227 pp 166 lots all illustrated in color. A rather unique catalogue with an introductory essay by Norman Rosenthal and another unsigned essay preceding the presentation of the 166 illustrated lots. LACKS the two sheets of stickers. paperback books
2005135455London: Sotheby's 2005. Softcover. VG- Ex-library with some marks and labels cover shows average edge wear and scuff marks. Black & pictorial wraps 122 pp. numerous BW & color illus. The catalog of an auction held on May 17 2005 as a fundraiser for a women's center in London. Images depict the young and old the famous and the non-famous. Sotheby's paperback books
20051020822005. Softbound. As New. Color illustrated wraps. 84 pp. profusely illustrated in color. From the introduction "This catalogue illustrates and describes some of the exceptional view paintings that will be offered for sale at Sotheby's in London this July 2005. The first five catalogue entries are for pictures that will be included in the Old master Paintings evening sale.the last two are views of London by Samuel Scott. We are greatly indebted to Charles Beddington for contributing the introductory essay and the catalogue entry for Canaletto's View of the Grand Canal from Palazzo Balbi to the Rialto Bridge.he was also responsible for re-establishing the View of San Giovanni in Laterano as the work of Bellotto. unknown books
1978174161978. Hardcover. VG. Green boards gilt design and lettering. 800 pp. Hundreds of color and bw plates. The contents of the volumes are as follows: Vol. I--Old Master Drawings Paintings and Medieval Miniatures; Vol. II--Works of Art Vol. III--Furniture and Porcelain; and Vol. IV--Impressionist and Modern Art. hardcover books
1977118870London: Sotheby's 1977. Hardcover. VG- Ex-art lib. stamp to title page; DJ. worn at extremities; Pages slightly yellowed around edges due to age. Green boards dark green DJ. 119 pp. Numerous color and bw plates. Includes lots 2401 through 3113. Sale code: MENTMORE. Estate sale held on the premises. Place of sale: Buckinghamshire. Date of sale: May 25-26 1977. Sotheby's hardcover books
19771188711977. Softcover. VG- Ex-art lib. stamp to title page; Slight wear to extremities; Pages slightly yellowed around edges due to age. Dark green illus. wraps; 133 pp.; Numerous color and bw plates. Includes lots 1201 through 3739; Includes furniture Chinese porcelain English porcelain gold silver and more. unknown books
19481550London: Sotheby's 1948. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 8vo. 68 pp. 715 lots. 12 b/w reproductions. Original green wrappers stapled as issued. With printed list of prices and buyers' names. Scarce Sotheby's sale catalogue in which is described "a selected portion of the valuable library at Patshull House Woverhampton the property of the Rt. Honble. the Earl of Dartmouth G.C.V.O. including: an exceedingly important collection of sixteenth century maps of Ireland important early manuscript maps of Bermuda Dublin England the Phillipine Islands and Tangier. The Bermuda map almost certainly created in 1609 by Sir George Somers is justifiably considered to THE EARLIEST SURVIVING MAP OF BERMUDA see below. The catalogue also describes important manuscripts relating to the American War of Independence; colour plate books the property of the late Sir Mayson M. Beeton K.B.E.; manuscript charts by Nicholas Comberford the property of Mrs. M.E. Luard Upper Court Kermerton near Tewkesbury; Robert Havell's extremely rare collection of the Birds of Paradise the property of Major J.R. Abbey; Keat's sonnet 'Happy is England! I could be content' in his own handwriting; formerly in the possession of W.C. Hazlitt the property of Albert Wright Esq."<br/><br/>Additionally the sale offered an exceedingly important collection of 16th century manuscript maps of IRELAND namely 27 maps or diagrams relating to nation including a map of Donegal Bay and part of Fermanagh by Baptista Boazio -- a map of supreme importance for Irish history. Only two other manuscript maps of Ireland by Boazio are known. <br/><br/>¶ Concerning the Bermuda map: "One of the most exciting finds of the mid-20th century was the reappearance in the public domain of the MS map made by Admiral Sir George Somers when shipwrecked on the uninhabited Bermudas and despatched in 1610 to the Adventurers in England with a 3000-word description of the Islands bv Secretary-Elect to Virginia William Strachey. His letter addressed "Excellent Lady" probably to Lucy Harington Countess of Bedford an outstanding shareholder was published in 1625 by Durchas who lamented marginally "the map we have not." In 1948 it turned up in the ancestral collection of the Earls of Dartmouth i.e. THE PRESENT CATALOGUE and was acquired for Bermuda. Some names subsequent to 1609 have evidently been added and the arms of Harington appear in the lower margin. Obviously this map predates Richard Norwood's engraved map of 1622 and his two famous surveys on which all subsequent maps were based up to the 20th century."SOURCE: Terry Tucker Bermuda Historian referenced in Bermuda Stamps online. Sotheby's unknown books
197232926London: Solidarity London 1972. Quarto 25cm.; original orange pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 15pp.; illus. text printed mimeograph. Some wear from handling minor cockling and soil from exposure to damp else About Very Good. Account of the Fisher-Bendix sitdown strike which began on January 5 1972 outside Liverpool. London Solidarity Pamphlet no. 39. Solidarity London unknown books
1763401992London: William Johnston 1763. Third edition of vol. 1 first editions of vols. 2-6. Some foxing and browning generally a clean and handsome set/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner M.D. 6 volumes 8vo. Plates many folding. Modern half leather marbled boards untrimmed. A fine set of this important journal with ten notable contributions in the history of medicine:<br/><br/>HUNTER William 1718-1783. "The history of an aneurysm of the aorta with some remarks on aneurysms in general". Vol I pp. 323-357. First recorded case of arteriovenous aneurysm. Garrison-Morton-Norman 2974. <br/><br/>HUNTER William. "A singular case of the separation of the ossa pubis". Vol. II pp. 321-33 and 415-18. A case of osteomalacic pelvis was reported to Hunter by a country practitioner. Garrison-Morton-Norman 6254. <br/><br/>WHITE Charles 1728-1813. "An account of a new method of reducing shoulders without the use of an ambe which have been several months dislocated in cases where the common methods have proved inefficient". Vol II pp. 373-81. "White's method of reducing shoulder dislocations by means of suspending the patient from the affected arm. This method either reduced the dislocation entirely or moved the head of the humerus into a position where it could be reduced by traditional methods such as applying the surgeon's heel to the axilla" Garrison-Morton-Norman 4407. <br/><br/>BARD John 1716-1799. "A case of extra-uterine foetus". Vol II pp. 369-72. "This description of an abdominal pregnancy successfully operated on by Bard was 'the first scientific paper on a surgical subject to come from the North American Colonies' Earle. John Bard was the father of Samuel Bard" Garrison-Morton-Norman 6155. <br/><br/>HUNTER John. "Appendix to Lynn's The history of a fatal inversion of the uterus". Vol. IV pp. 400-09 and Vol. V pp. 388-93. First accurate description of retroversion of the uterus. Garrison-Morton-Norman 6020. <br/><br/>FOTHERGILL John 1712-1780. "Of a painful affection of the face". Vol. V pp. 129-42. Original description of facial neuralgia. Reprinted in Medical Classics 1940 5 100-06. Garrison-Morton-Norman 4516. <br/><br/>DOBSON Matthew 1731-1784. "Experiments and observations on the urine in a diabetes". Vol. V pp. 298-316. "Dobson proved that the sweetish taste of diabetic urine was produced by sugar an observation following on Willis's discovery of the sweetness of diabetic urine. He also discovered hyperglycemia" Garrison-Morton-Norman 3928. <br/><br/>FOTHERGILL John. "Remarks on that complaint commonly known under the name of the sick head-ach". Vol. VI pp. 103-37. First accurate description of migraine. Garrison-Morton-Norman 4517.<br/><br/>HUNTER William 1718-1783. "On the uncertainty of the signs of murder in the case of bastard children". Vol. VI pp. 266-90. "This essay on the signs of murder in illegitimate children is in Garrison's view the most important early contribution to forensic medicine by a British writer" Garrison-Morton-Norman 1732. <br/><br/> William Johnston hardcover books
184818982London: Edward Marsh 1848. 12mo. viii 21 pp. <br><br>bound with Observations on the Christian doctrines and practices of the early friends; with some notice of the state of religion in this country in the early part of the seventeenth century. Being a reprint of introductory remarks to a memoir of George Fox first published in Philadelphia 1837. London: Edward Marsh 1848. 12mo. 2 81 pp. bound with Extracts from approved documents of the religious Society of Friends relating to Christian doctrine. Second edition. London: Darton & Harvey 1837. 8vo. iv 1 623 1 pp. bound with A brief statement on tithes first printed in 1832; and a testimony to the authority of Christ in His Church first printed in 1840. Both issued by the Religious Society of Friends. London: Edward Marsh 1845. 8vo. 3 420 pp. bound with On the Christian doctrine of the teaching of the Holy Spirit as held by the Society of Friends. London: Edward Marsh 1847. 8vo. 3 415 1 pp. bound with The unlawfulness of all wars and fightings under the Gospel. Given forth by the religious Society of Friends at their yearly meeting held in London 1841. London: Edward Marsh 1845. 8vo. 3 416 pp. bound with Historical sketch of the origin of the Christian discipline or church government of the Society of Friends. London: Edward Marsh 1845. 8vo. 3 440 pp. 19th-century full cloth title gilt-stamped on spine. Spine sunned much of cloth of spine chipped and missing; text block separated at front hinge inside; front cover nearly separated from spine. Ex-library; paper shelf label on front cover call number inked out; bookplate on front pastedown; rubber-stamped date on rear free endpaper; pencilled library markings on front endpapers and verso of first title-page. Pp. 7176 brittle with shallow tear in top margin and crease-marks across top outer corner. Edward Marsh hardcover books
186042183London: Society of Antiquaries of London 1860. First edition. Later plain limp cloth covers. Rebound in limp blue buckram; contents very good. 4 245 pp. Illus. with 13 color & b/w plates. 4to. Numerous articles. Provenance: M.A. Veeder. Dr. M.A. Veeder 1848-1915 was both a physician and a geologist. Society of Antiquaries of London hardcover books
