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1691E0146Volume two only of two. ii324 pages with 15 engraved plates 7 folding and title vignette. Duo decimo 6" x 3 3/4" bound in full leather with raised spine bands with rich gilt spine and red spine label with ribbon book mark. From the library of Lothar Schmid Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 4740; Graesse IV 81 First Dutch edition.<br /><br />Simon de la Loubère led an embassy to Siam modern Thailand in 1687 the "La Loubère-Céberet mission". The embassy composed of five warships arrived in Bangkok in October 1687 and was received by Ok-khun Chamnan. de la Loubère returned to France on board the Gaillard on 3 January 1688 accompanied by the Jesuit Guy Tachard and a Siamese embassy led by Ok-khun Chamnan. Upon his return de la Loubère made a precise description of his travels as he had been requested by Louis XIV published under the titleDu Royaume de Siam. De la Loubère also brought to France from his Siamese travels a very simple method for creating n-odd magic squares known as the "Siamese method" or the "de la Loubère method" which apparently was initially brought from Surat India by another Frenchman by the name of M. Vincent who was sailing on the return ship with de la Loubère. This volume contains a chapter of the "Jeu des Echecsw of Chinois". The panels show inter alia an illustration for Echiquier's Chinois and a coconut tree.<br /><br />Lothar Maximilian Lorenz Schmid 10 May 1928 – 18 May 2013 was a German chess grandmaster. He was born in Radebeul near Dresden into a family who were the co-owners of the Karl May Press which published the German Karl May adventure novels. He was best known as the chief arbiter at several World Chess Championship matches in particular the 1972 encounter between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky at Reykjavic. He was also an avid collector of chess books and paraphernalia. It was reputed that he owned the largest known private chess library in the world as well as a renowned collection of chess art chess boards and chess pieces from around the globe.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Bookplate on front paste down label of Lothar Schmid some light foxing leather scuffed spine heal chipped else a very good copy. Abraham Wolfgang hardcover books
179840475Paris: Firmin Didot 1798. <p>Strength of Materials</p> <p>Girard Pierre Simon 1765-1835. Traité analytique de la résistance des solides et des solides d'égale résistance . . . 4to. lv 238 2 incl. errata 48pp. 9 folding engraved plates. Paris: Firmin Didot; Dupont an VI 1798. 248 x 196 mm. Tree sheep c. 1798 gilt spine with black gilt-lettered label "Ecole royale regimentaire d'Artillerie de Metz" tooled in gilt on front cover light rubbing corners and upper spine extremity a bit worn. Very good.</p> <p>First Edition of the work that named the discipline known as the strength of materials. Girard was trained at the École des Ponts et Chaussées and was one of the few engineers of his time with sufficient mathematical knowledge to read the works of Euler. In 1787 Girard began investigating the strength of wood as a structural material and was able to apply his first results in this field in 1790 when he won the Académie des Science's competition on the theory and practice of canal and harbor lock construction. In 1798 he published his Traité analytique de la résistance des solides containing the results of his researches on the strength and resistance of building stone timber and wrought iron; it was the first book published in France to deal with the theory of beams in all its aspects strength flexural strength elastic stability yield strength. In the same year Girard traveled with Napoleon's army to Egypt where he studied the surface elevation and bed characteristics of the Nile; on his return to France Napoleon appointed him director of the Paris water supply. Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Nouvelle biographie générale. </p> . Firmin Didot unknown books
1883719001883. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1883. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1883. The First Important Work on Evidence Published in America Greenleaf Simon 1783-1853. Crosswell Simon Greenleaf Editor. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence. Revised with Large Additions. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1883. Three volumes. lxxxiv 753; lxxxix 683; xxix 577 pp. Octavo 9" x 6". Contemporary law calf blind rules to boards raised bands and red and black lettering pieces to spine blind tooling to board edges. Light rubbing some dampspotting and a few minor nicks and scuffs to boards and extremities light toning to interiors offsetting to margins of endleaves. A well-preserved set. $1250. Fourteenth edition. Originally intended to be a textbook Greenleaf's treatise was published a volume at a time from 1842-1853. The first important American work on evidence it freed the bar from its dependence on English sources. Crosswell was Greenleaf's grandson. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School 1909 I:827. unknown books
177168470Paris: A. P. et A. chez l'auteur ruë des Arcis maison du commissaire Valade libraire r. 1771. Paris: A. P. et A. chez l'auteur ruë des Arcis maison du commissaire Valade libraire rue St. Jacques vis a vis celle de la Parcheminerie; 1771.<br> <br> A reissue of the sheets to the 1770 edition with pages 17-18 canceled being the divisional title page "Recueil de contredanses et menuets nouveaux et choisis" the final number of the date on the title-page covered in ink and the price information removed from title-page. Twelvemo 6 x 4 inches; 153 x 105 mm. 2 16 19-31 1 pp. With 12 pages of music and 12 colored plates. With two additional leaves bearing the "Almanach d'agenda pour l'année 1771." Printed in red and black pasted to wrappers as endpapers. The Harvard copy notes "letterpress almanac for 1771 inserted following the t.p." Engraved title-page title within ornamental border all hand colored. And with 12 engraved color plates depicting a couple dancing the allemande. These plates were issued both hand- colored and uncolored. An additional 12 pages of engraved dance music by Sauton and Lahante; signed at end: Coulubrier sculp. Also of note our copy has the pages of music printed out of order. No copy at auction of any edition in over 40 years and less than a handful of of all editions on OCLC.<br> <br> Bound in newer cream wrappers. Some wear and fraying to page edges. A small red stamp on bottom margin of title-page. Some occasional soiling to plates generally not affecting image. Traces of glue residue on inner blank margins of a few plates. Music leaves with some dampstaining. Overall a very nice copy.<br> <br> Referring to the allemande "When the dance was introduced in Paris where it became popular in the 1760s and 1770s it was done quite differently from the German way at least according to the French dancing master Simon Guillaume. The main interest of the French version lay in a series of joined hand positions through which the partners moved by passing under each other's arms turning each other around and passing behind each other's back. The steps to the dance were of secondary importance judging from the perfunctory manner in which they are treated in French books describing the allemande and seem to have been subject to some variation.In his Almanach Dansant 1770 Guillaume described two allemande steps out of the several he said existed the main one in 2/4 time and another in 3/8." The International Encyclopedia of Dance.<br> <br> HBS 68470.<br> <br> $1250. A. P. et A. chez l'auteur ruë des Arcis maison du commissaire, Valade libraire r. unknown
1979011586Toronto: Merritt Publishing 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 126 photographs of theatre people each with a statement of love of theatre. This copy signed or inscribed by 24 of the principals to Jane or Bob Emerson who ran the Drama Book Shop in Manhattan for many years. Signatures are from: Jane Alexander David Mamet Lee Strasberg Alfred de Liagre Jr. Michael Kahn and Alan Schneider The Acting Comnpany Colleen Dewhurst John Guare Bob Fosse Gordon Davidson Jose Ferrer Carol Kane Edward Albee Michael Weller Irene Worth Jose Quintero Robin Wagner Estelle Parsons Betty Comden and Adolph Green Robert Lewis Anne Jackson Goeffrey Holder Sam Waterston James Earl Jones Hal Prince Robert Patrick and Neil Simon. Merritt Publishing hardcover books
9818Engraved calligraphic title xii 199 pp. 8vo orig. cloth-backed printed slick orange boards a little worn. Berlin: September 1805.<br /> <BR> <BR> This is apparently the first catalogue of globes maps and printed geographical works issued by Schropp 1751-1817 the leading publisher and bookseller in cartographical materials in Berlin of his time. Approximately 2500 items are listed all priced. Due to Schropp’s successes the manufacture of globes shifted from Nuremberg to Berlin.<br /> <BR> <BR> Very good copy. WorldCat lists no copy outside of Germany. unknown
1539B668Basle: J. Walder c. 1539. A few stains and some light thumbstaining at the beginning otherwise a very good copy. Binding: 18th-century brown ¼ calf with marbled boards spine in four compartments of raised bands and gilt tooling gilt text on two. Notes: This is a rare edition of the Greek dictionary by Simon Grynaeus 1493-1541 distinguished Protestant theologian and friend of Melanchthon and Erasmus. He was professor of Greek at Heidelberg and later in 1536 moved to Basle where the dictionary was published. Size: 4to Illustration: Fine woodcut title-border with central woodcut printer’s device. References: Cordell STC 77. Pages: P. 1148 pp. Category: Book Classics; Book Early Printed 1500; J. Walder hardcover
196755185Carbondale Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Very good to fine condition. Quarto. Original light brown cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on black leather labels of spine in original tan dustjackets with black lettering and ruling on spine. Top edges variant light reds or white. Inscribed "For Jim Richards friend and patron with many thanks. John Y. Simon October 9 1997" on front free endpapers of vols. 4 and 5 the latter dated December 23 1997.<br /> <br /> "For many Americans the eighteenth President of the United States has been an image rather than a man and because he embodied so many of the characteristic virtues and faults of his time and symbolized Union victory in the Civil War this image has reflected the somewhat mixed feelings of Americans about their past. and Grant's life before the Civil War once casually dismissed as "forty years of failure." can now be properly assessed as a series of experiences shaping a complex personality." Publisher<br /> <br /> V. 1. 1837-1861 -- V. 2. April-September 1861 -- V. 3. October 1 1861-January 7 1862 -- V. 4. January 8-March 31 1862 -- V. 5. April 1-August 31 1862 -- V. 6. September 1-December 8 1862 -- V. 7. December 9 1862-March 31 1863 -- V 8. April 1-July 6 1863 -- V. 9. July 7-December 31 1863 -- V. 10. January 1-May 31 1864.; V. 11. June 1-August 15 1864 -- V. 12. August 16-November 15 1864 -- V. 13. November 16 1864-February 20 1865 -- V. 14. February 21-April 30 1865 -- V. 15. May 1-December 31 1865 -- V. 16. 1866 -- V. 17. January 1-September 30 1867 -- V. 18. October 1 1867-June 30 1868 -- V. 19. July 1 1868-October 31 1869 -- V. 20. November 1 1869-October 31 1870 -- V. 21. November 1 1870-May 31 1871 -- V. 22. June 1 1871-January 31 1872 -- V. 23. February 1-December 31 1872 -- V. 24. 1873 -- V. 25. 1874 -- v. 26. 1875 -- V. 27. January 1-October 31 1876 -- V. 28. November 1 1876 - September 30 1878 -- V. 29. October 1 1878-September 30 1880 -- V. 30. October 1 1880-December 31 1882 -- V. 31. January 1 1883-July 23 1885 -- V 32 Supplementary documents.<br /> <br /> Vols. 1-6 price-clipped vols. 8 19-21 23-26 with white top edges. Else in near fine to fine condition. Southern Illinois University Press hardcover
2992Paris: Chez Louis Billaine 1674. FIRST EDITION of this extremely important book on Jewish culture customs and rituals. 52 300 8 pp complete. Partially a translation of Leon of Modena's Storia degli Riti Hebraici 1637 but largely Simon's own work. Small 8vo. Attractively bound in contemporary calf spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands. Wear to edges of boards and a ltiny bit of leather lost from tail of spine but the binding is structurally solid and the joints are strong. Internally very clean printed on very good paper. Sauvy 337; Barbier I 553d later edition; Querard III 349d. Reprinted many times but this first edition is very rare. <br/><br/> Paris: Chez Louis Billaine, 1674 hardcover
1739D18457Amsterdam: Gysbert de Groot Keur 1739. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 155 x 90 mm. Engraved extra title page woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary calf. Rubbed corners bumped spine slightly loose browning. Third edition. <br /> <br/><br/> Gysbert de Groot Keur hardcover
1951123Milwaukee Wisconsin: The Settlement Cook Book Co. Good with no Dust Jacket. Hard Cover. Book is 30th Edition 1951. Boards and pages are clean unmarked bright tightly bound and sharp cornered. <i><b>Scarce</b></i><b> Out Of Print Book. "Treasured Recipes of Seven Decades -</b> The Famous All-Purpose Cook Book for Beginner and Expert. With over 3000 kitchen-tested recipes for everything from appetizers and soups to fruits and other desserts the book contains a bountiful variety of nutritious delectable and ever-popular dishes.<br /><br /><b>Wisconsin Historical Society:</b><br />Born in Milwaukee in 1858 Lizzie Black Kander helped to establish and was president of Milwaukee's first social settlement known simply as "the Settlement" in 1900. With the financial support of the Federation Jewish Charities of Milwaukee the Settlement offered training in vocational and domestic skills as well as classes in English American history and music. Kander believed that food was a powerful means of religious and cultural expression and she used culinary reform to aid in the assimilation of immigrant girls and to introduce immigrant women to American consumer culture. Her involvement in the cooking classes led to the publication of The Settlement's own cookbook in 1901. In these excerpts Kander defines the "Household Rules" offers recipes for cakes and cookies and discusses appropriate foods for invalids. Her sub-text throughout these culinary and domestic instructions is about helping recent immigrants adjust to mainstream American culture.<br /> The Settlement Cook Book Co./ Cramer-Krasselt Co. hardcover
DADAX0026284006MacMillan Publishing Company 0000-00-00. First Edition. hardcover. New. 0.00x0.00x0.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. MacMillan Publishing Company hardcover
1882039051Washington: Bureau Of Navigation Navy Department. 1882. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Xiv 487 Pp. Clean Pages Slightly Aged In A Modern Sturdy Blue Cloth Binding Spine Gilt By Tassinari Bros. Of Indian Orchard Ma. Light Wear. Two New Hampshire Institutional Stamps. Simon Newcomb 1835 -1909 Was A Canadian-American Astronomer Applied Mathematician And Autodidactic Polymath. Newcomb Visited Paris France In 1870 Already Aware That The Table Of Lunar Positions Calculated By Peter Andreas Hansen Was In Error. While In Paris He Realized That In Addition To The Data From 1750 To 1838 That Hansen Had Used There Was Further Data Stretching As Far Back As 1672 And Newcomb Used The "New" Data To Revise Hansen's Tables. In 1878 Newcomb Started Planning For A New And Precise Measurement Of The Speed Of Light Using A Refinement Of The Method Of Léon Foucault. A Letter From Albert Abraham Michelson Began A Long Collaboration And Friendship. In 1880 Michelson Assisted At Newcomb's Initial Measurement But Michelson Left To Start His Own Project. Miichelson Published His First Measurement In 1880 Reprinted Here But Newcomb's Measurement Was Substantially Different And In 1883 Michelson Revised His Measurement To A Value Closer To Newcomb's. In 1881 Newcomb Discovered The Statistical Principle Now Known As Benford's Law Formulating The Principle That In Any List Of Numbers Taken From An Arbitrary Set Of Data More Numbers Will Tend To Begin With "1" Than With Any Other Digit. In 1891 Within Months Of Seth Carlo Chandler's Discovery Of The 14-Month Variation Of Latitude Now Referred To As The Chandler Wobble Newcomb Explained The Apparent Conflict Between The Observed Motion And Predicted Period Of The Wobble As Due To Elasticiity; He Used The Variation Of Latitude Observations To Estimate The Elasticity Of Earth Finding It To Be Slightly More Rigid Than Steel. He Wrote On Economics And His Principles Of Political Economy 1885 Was Described By John Maynard Keynes As "One Of Those Original Works Which A Fresh Scientific Mind Not Perverted By Having Read Too Much Of The Orthodox Stuff Is Able To Produce From Time To Time In A Half-Formed Subject Like Economics." He Was Credited By Irving Fisher With The First-Known Enunciation Of The Equation Of Exchange Between Money And Goods Used In The Quantity Theory Of Money. His Reputation Suffers From His Hostility To C. S. Pierce And Also From Newcomb's Disbelief In The Possibility Of Manned Flight. Source: Wikipedia. Albert A. Michelson 1852-1931 Performed Early Measurements Of The Velocity Of Light With Amazing Delicacy And In 1881 He Invented His Interferometer For The Purpose Of Discovering The Effect Of The Earth's Motion On The Observed Velocity. In Cooperation With Professor E.W. Morley And Using The Interferometer It Was Shown That Light Travels At A Constant Speed In All Inertial Systems Of Reference. The Instrument Also Enabled Distances To Be Measured With Greater Accuracy By Means Of The Length Of Light-Waves. At The Request Of The International Committee Of Weights And Measures Michelson Measured The Standard Metre In Terms Of Wavelength Of Cadmium Light. He Invented The Echelon Spectroscope And During His Wartime Service In The Navy He Performed Research Work On Devices For Naval Use - He Developed A Rangefinder Which Was Adapted As Part Of U.S. Navy Equipment. On His Return To Civilian Life Michelson Became More Interested In Astronomy And In 1920 Using Light Interference And A Highly Developed Version Of His Earlier Instrument He Measured The Diameter Of The Star Betelgeuse: This Was The First Determination Of The Size Of A Star That Could Be Regarded As Accurate. He Was The First American To Receive The Nobel Priize For Physics. Nobel Lectures Physics 1901-1921 Elsevier Publishing Company Amsterdam 1967. With 1985 Purchase Receipt Of Space Scientist Richard E. Bateman From Astronomy Book Dealer Paul Luther. <br/> <br/> Bureau Of Navigation, Navy Department. hardcover
165011443Amsterdam Joan Blaeu 1650. 32 440 425 34 p. Contemporary blind-stamped Vellum with raised bands Folio Some foxing in the margins of the text-block and several pages are browned. First volume of two Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu hardcover
18285406<p>SPENGEL Simon editor. Almanach der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. Erster Jahrgang. Munich Anton Weber 1828.</p><p>12mo 127x100 mm pp. iv lithographic frontispiece portrait and lithographic title xvi 4 323 1; original pictorial boards lithograph by Franz Xaver Winterhalder see Winkler 929 a.e.g. a very good copy.</p><p>The only issue of the almanac for Munich University prepared to celebrate its new location with extensive information on the opening ceremonies staff students library etc.</p><p>Particularly striking are the lithographs decorating the boards illustrating the university seals on the upper board and part of the university buildings on the lower board and the frontispiece portrait by the German painter and lithographer Franz Xaver Winterhalder 1805-1873 best known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century.</p><p>The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich simply University of Munich or LMU is a public research university in Munich Germany. It was originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke Ludwig IX of Bavaria-Landshut and is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operation. In 1800 the university was moved from Ingolstadt to Landshut by Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria when the city was threatened by the French before being relocated to its present-day location in Munich in 1826 by King Ludwig I of Bavaria.</p><p>Köhring p. 14. Worldcat: outside of Germany Harvard.</p> Anton Weber
2016DBS-9781781638309Koros 2016. 1St. Hardcover. New. Koros hardcover
2016DBS-9781781638309Koros 2016. 1St. Hardcover. New. Koros hardcover
GOR003484704Paperback. Very Good. paperback
Z1-C-089-03574Pearson. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Pearson unknown
56950Edinburgh: Printed and Sold for the Editor . and to be had in London of Mr. John Gow 30 Great Marlborough Street Golden Square; in Edinburgh of Mr. Gow 2. Hanover Street . 1816. First edition. 4to. 119pp. Printed boards with a decorative border front & rear. Engraved title page. This copy has been rebacked using the original printed boards backed with a roughly-cut leather strip on the spine the signatures neatly strengthened at the gutters with blue-gray paper tape. Some large chips from the leather at the upper spine printed boards rubbed and quite worn at corners; in general a sound complete very good copy. Ownership signature on the upper title dated 1869. Author's signature and "No. 8" in holograph at the head of the first music page Pg. 11. Of two known varieties of the title page this is of the variety having the text beneath the author's name in script no artist or engraver name beneath the image "EDINBURGH" in lighter type with no colon less punctuation within the title text and no "Entd. In Stationers Hall" or "Price" text at the bottom. Also this variety omits the names of Doig and Stirling and James Smith from the imprint. The boat at the right side of the image has only three figures in it; the image on the later title shows four figures. We theorize that this is an early copy likely for patrons or subscribers based on the "No. 8" in the author's holograph on Page 11 and the overall earlier state of the title page. The copy held at the University of Western Ontario with the later variant of the title page has the author's signature in the same location on Page 11 with "No. 206" by his signature which provides an approximation of the minimum number of copies issued. Also the presence of the Copyright and Price text at the bottom of the title and the addition of publisher's names to the imprint suggests that it is of the variety offered for sale to the public. Text added to the later title indicates that the image on the title is Drawn by J. Brooks Engraved by R. Scott Edin. The text on the printed boards is somewhat different though very similar to the title and includes a section referring to the figures in the title vignette. The imprint on the boards includes other booksellers and beneath the date of 1816 is the text: "230 Melodies - Price of the First Impression to its Original Patrons One Guinea". A scarce compilation of Highland music "being chiefly acquired during the Interesting Period from 1715 to 1745." edited by Captain Fraser a fiddler and composer. A difficult book to find complete. <br/><br/> Edinburgh: Printed and Sold for the Editor ... and to be had, in London, of Mr. John Gow, 30, Great Marlborough Street, Golden hardcover
52129<p>Paris de L'Imprimerie de Poulet 1814. THE FIRST FRENCH EDITION 1814 translated by the Marquis de Caumels with full name of translator and dedication to the Duc d'Angouleme on title a variant edition was issued with title giving only initials of the translator and lacking dedication French text. 8vo approximately 220 x 130 mm 8½ x 5 inches illustrated folding engraved plate printed in colours 6 letterpress tables on 4 folding sheets pages: xvi 1-418 1 including half-title quarter morocco gilt decoration to spine green glazed boards. Binding rubbed with scuff at the top of lower hinge small chip to top of spine boards faded at edges with some amateur colouring applied at sometime corners worn with board showing shelf wear to edges with some chipping some tiny dark brown spots affecting folding tables 2 dark brown spots to page 1 pale foxing and browning to many margins a good copy. The author was librarian of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Madrid. See: Gerard Oberle Les Fastes de Bacchus et de Comus page 536 No. 958; Andre Simon Bibliotheca Vinaria page 263; Gerard Oberle Une Bibliotheque Bachique Collection Kilian Fritsch page 102 No. 127; Andre L. Simon Bibliotheca Gastronomica page 37 No. 352. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.</p> Paris, de L'Imprimerie de Poulet, 1814. hardcover
181643452New-York: Re-printed: For John Reid Bookseller 1816. Hardcover. First American edition. Original Boards. 8vo. 79 pages. 23 cm. In English with some Hebrew. Singerman 0260. <br> Copy belonging to Simon Gratz 1773-1839 with his signature and date 1817 the year after publication on the front end paper and on the title page. The signature matches examples of his signature which can be seen online at <br> www.kaplancollection.org/item/deed-simon-gratz-to-james-duncan-and-2b696467<br> The book then bears the donation bookplate of another later "Simon Gratz esq" 1837-1925 who was a prominent 19th-century Philadelphia lawyer educator and civic leader. The bookplate is from Gratz College which the later Simon Gratz helped found. <br> Nikelsburger takes on an apostate Jew Rev. Frey who is intent on converting his former coreligionists to Christianity. In his opening letter to Frey Nikelsburger does not hold back: "In your eagerness to convert the Jews to your way of thinking you make no scruples of converting and perverting the prophets by turning their words to a meaning which you conceive to be best adapted to your purpose; and in doing this you make them not only flatly contradict each other but themselves also." <br> "For American Jews Koul Jacob seemed an appropriate answer to Frey a Jewish convert to Christianity who had resumed his missionary activities shortly after his arrival in America. It was a well-tempered but firm refutation of Frey's arguments. Moreover its author was an English Jew and if American Christians were to take offense at it its European authorship distanced American Jews from it" Berlin G. Defending the Faith. Albany: SUNY 1979.<br> <br> "Simon Gratz 1773-1839 and Hyman Gratz 1776-1857 inherited their father's business. Their store was at the Graff House 7th & Market where Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. Both Simon and Hyman Gratz were treasurers of Mikveh Israel. They were among the founders of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Simon served in the Pennsylvania Volunteers during the war of 1812." www.ushistory.org/mikvehisrael <br> Simon Gratz' sister was Rebecca Gratz 1781-1869 the founder of the first Jewish Sunday school in America and who was also "said to have been the model of Rebecca the daughter of the Jewish merchant Isaac of York who is the heroine in the novel Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. Scott's attention had been drawn to Gratz's character by Washington Irving who was a close friend of the Gratz family" Wikipeida. <br> In addition Simon Gratz was a participant in the famous US Supreme Court real estate case of 1848 Gratz Vs. Cohen see: Solis-Cohen J. "A FAMOUS FAMILY FIGHT ABOUT REAL ESTATE: GRATZ VS. COHEN." Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society no. 37 1947: 345-52. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43058341 .<br> <br> OCLC: 5192299A copy with no special assocation sold for $1000 with commissions at auction in 2005. Rear board detached light wear to boards some staining nice copy. Good Condition. RAB-58-16-MLDB. New-York: Re-printed: For John Reid, Bookseller hardcover
1968208421968. LGBTQ Drag Film & Entertainment Simon Frank. The Queen. New York: Grove Press. 1968. The Queen is a raw portrayal of the life of drag queens partaking in competitive drag shows in New York during the 1960s. Archive of 8 silver gelatin photographs containing stills from the film. The documentary was shown at Cannes and received positive American press for it's realism of an otherwise underrepresented group it has been referred to as the film that brought competitive drag to the public eye. The Queen follows and is narrated by Jack a 24 year old gay man who performs drag under the name Flawless Sabrina as he MC's the 1967 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Contest. In between rehearsing and performing the contestants discuss topics such as draft boards sexual identity sex reassignment surgery transgender identities and being a drag queen. One contestant Pepper LaBeija recounts receiving a draft notice and being turned away because of his feminine appearance despite requesting to serve and protect his country. One photograph shows Jack as Flawless Sabrina in an extravagant feathered and jeweled outfit with a blonde updo and heavy makeup as he presents the contestants to the audience and judges of which included Andy Warhol and writers George Plimpton and Terry Southern. Other photographs show behind the stage in the fitting room of the other contestants preparing for their on stage debut to the public. Some performers wear tall beehive hairdos popular of the 1960s. One photograph shows a dolled up performer meticulously applying lipstick using a compact mirror. Another shows one of the performers getting fitted into their evening dress by another person. Minor edge and corner wear archive is overall in very good condition. At the time both drag and homosexual relations were illegal in New York State. This groundbreaking documentary was overlooked for many years until it was restored and screened once again in 2019. unknown
180014404Paris: Printed by Langlois 1800. Rare colour-printed copper engraving on wove paper. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling minor foxing and a tiny nick at the edge of the right margin. A beautiful plate with stunning early colour from Lacépède's "La Menagerie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle" an important scholarly work and one of the finest examples of eighteenth-century French natural history illustration.<br/> <br/> A professor of zoology at the Museum of Natural History the French naturalist Bernard-Germain-Étienne Delaville Comte de Lacépède 1756-1825 was a versatile and precocious scholar who published a number of books on zoology physics and music. He was greatly influenced by the pioneering naturalist Georges Louis Marie Leclerc comte de Buffon whom he succeeded as Intendant at the Jardin du Roi which later became the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793. During his tenure Lacépède completed a comprehensive study of amphibians and reptiles Historie Naturelle des Quadrupèdes Ovipares et des Serpens which was published as a supplement to Buffon's magnum opus on animal classification Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière. In 1800-1 he published the first edition of La Menagerie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle a thorough survey of the various species of quadrupeds reptiles and amphibians in the impressive collection of the Museum of Natural History. This magnificent work was comprised of descriptive text written by Lacépède and his colleague Georges L. C. Baron Cuvier 1769-1832 as well as a number of finely rendered plates after the most eminent natural history artists of the period Nicolas Maréchal 1753-1803 Nicolas Huet 1770-1830 and Léon de Wailly 1801-1824. Painted from life on vellum these beautifully detailed illustrations faithfully captured the appearance of the wondrous animals in the Paris menagerie. A pupil of J. G. Wille and C. N. Cochin Simon Charles Miger was a royal academician and a talented engraver who executed numerous portraits and natural history plates.<br/> <br/> Benezit Dictionnaire des Peintres Sculpteurs Dessinateurs et Graveurs vol. 9 p. 611; Anker 275; BMNH IV p. 1517; Brunet III 725; Nissen ZBI 2353. Printed by Langlois unknown
162125590London: Printed for Iohn Grismand 1621. First Edition. Hardcover. 26 317 but actually 315 11 182 185-264 12pp. Recent chocolate brown half calf over marbled boards blind tooling on the sides spine with five raised bands gold lettering and decorations. Engraved title in compartments representing the history of creation by Simon van de Passe head-pieces initials and tail-pieces text enclosed in borders. Index and errata for the first and second week at end. The English translation of Simon Goulart's Commentaires et annotations sur la semaine de la création du monde de G. de Saluste sieur du Bartas. Title page edges and fore edges of eleven leaves skillfully repaired. Sporadic foxing an occasional spot and minor soiling previous owner's name in ink on title. A very good copy. ; Folio. <br/><br/> Printed for Iohn Grismand hardcover books
