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193210516JParis: Published and Edited by Edward M. Titus March 1932. First Edition. Contains first appearance work by E.E. Cummings Charles Beadle Rupert Croft-Cooke August Derleth A.L. Rowse Paul Valery etc. Paperbound. Very good copy. This Quarter was one of the leading Paris expatriate magazines. Published and Edited by Edward M. Titus unknown books
193110515JParis: Published and Edited by Edward M. Titus September 1931. First Edition. Contains first appearance work by H.E. Bates John Collier E.E. Cummings Hermann Hesse Meyer Levin Ludwig Lewisohn Harold Loeb Herbeert Read A.L. Rowse Jack Woodward Charles Williams etc. Paperbound. Very good copy. This Quarter was one of the leading Paris expatriate magazines. Published and Edited by Edward M. Titus unknown books
193110514JParis: Published and Edited by Edward M. Titus June 1931. First Edition. Contains first appearance work by Sherwood Anderson John Collier E.E. Cummings Rhys Davies Kenneth Fearing Josephine Herbst Ludwig Lewisohn Edward J. O’Brien J.B. Priestly Tess Slesinger Yvor Winters Humbert Wolfe etc. Paperbound. Very good copy. This Quarter was one of the leading Paris expatriate magazines. Published and Edited by Edward M. Titus unknown books
196822832San Diego: Greenleaf Classics 1968. Paperback. 143p. illustrated with drawings very good in camp pictorial wraps. Homoerotic poetry in pulp format. Young 2965 Greenleaf Classic GC 330. Greenleaf Classics paperback books
1805008130London: John Murray 1805. Fold-out letter in facsimile facing page 369 in volume 3. Three frontispiece portrait engravings. Three volumes bound in contemporary mottled calf later 19th c. reback with gilt rules and decorations blind tooled decorations plain brown end papers. Very Good Plus Vols. I and II with volume label missing Vol III label with chip to top corner. Internally clean and bright a very well-bound set. Bonaparte family. . Third Edition. Mottled Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. Small 8vo. John Murray Hardcover books
1930WRCLIT40870Paris: Harrison of Paris 1930. Eight panels of text printed on folded folio sheet. Fine. The first prospectus for the fine press maintained by Wheeler Wescott and Harrison including a mission statement and descriptions of four forthcoming titles. Harrison of Paris unknown books
1931WRCLIT40866Paris: Harrison of Paris 1931. Eight panels of text printed on folded folio sheet with ornamented borders. Near fine. An elaborate prospectus for the sixth through tenth publications with a mission statement and descriptions of the previous five publications. Harrison of Paris unknown books
1742SS13441London:: Printed for John and Paul Knapton. . . 1742-53. 1742. 5 volumes. 8vo. Vol.1: 4 x 11-456 16; Vol.2: 2 407 15 10; Vol.3: 2 422 16; Vol.4: 2 410 14 11-26; Vol.5: 2 426 14 pp. The first 10 pages of the "Addenda" are bound at the end of vol.2 pp.11-26 are bound at the end of vol.4. 44 of 45 engraved plates mostly folding I: 17; II: 6; III: 6; IV: 6; V: 9 of 10 plates pl. 10 supplied in facs. see p. 422 TOTAL: 44 2 folding tables vol. I tables some folding addenda indexes; 2nd wasp plate vol. V with small scrape effecting some of the image. Original speckled calf; rebacked and with later endleaves vols. I III & V with joints gently mended with kozo. PROVENANCE: Bookplates of Henry and Carol Faul mounted on top of the following engraved bookplate for the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: "Sub libertate Florent" dated 1780 "The Gift of . . ." -- also with their gilt-stamp applied to the foot of the later spines "American Academy"; Rubber stamps discarded of the Linda Hall Library Kansas City MO. Very good. HENRY FAUL'S COPY -- WORKED FOR ENRICO FERMI & BIKINI ATOLL TEST. A collection of early scientific papers from leading figures all belonging to the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris the French equivalent to the Royal Society of London. The abridged papers all appeared between 1699 and 1720 and include diverse topics such as anatomy apiculture astronomy incl. Moon chemistry electricity entomology gases geography geology herpetology invertebrates magnetism medicine meteorology mineralogy monsters music mollusks natural history optics physics scientific instruments including the barometer microscope zoology and more. / AMONG THE NUMEROUS CONTRIBUTORS OR NOTABLES MENTIONED: Agricola Amontons Baert Juan de Barros Bernoulli Bignon Borelli Bouvet Robert Boyle Carre Cassini Chazelles Chevalier Coronelli Dampier Descartes Dodart Fermat Fontenay Fontenelle Galileo Gandolphe Gassendi Gesner Gouye Halley Van Helmont de la Hire du Hamel Huygens Jeaugeon Kepler Kircher Leibnitz Lemery Leuwenhoek Malpighi de Marca Mariotte Mollard Gregory Nazianzen Isaac Newton de Nointel Ortelius Parent Picard Renau Riccioli Sanctorius Strabo Tournefort Varignon etc. PROVENANCE: 1 American Academy of Arts & Sciences bookplate: The Academy seal features Minerva the goddess of wisdom science and trade and the arts. Her temple on the Aventine Hill was a meeting place for skilled craftsman writers and actors. She is also depicted as a warrior a symbol appropriate for an organization created in the midst of the American Revolution. Around Minerva are representations of the new country—on her right a field of Indian corn a stand of oaks and the outline of a town; at her feet a hoe a plow and a sickle; on her left a quadrant and a telescope a ship heading for shore and the sun completely risen above the cloud. Over the whole is the motto SUB LIBERTATE FLORENT which suggests that arts and sciences flourish best in. -- 2 Rubber stamps discarded of the Linda Hall Library Kansas City MO. -- 3 Henry and Carol Faul. Henry Faul was a geologist working on Enrico Fermi's team at the University of Chicago. He was responsible for prospecting uranium ore in Colorado and Utah. He also travelled to Manhattan Project sites at Los Alamos and in Washington DC. Following the war Faul continued to work on nuclear projects and participated in the Bikini Atoll test. He received his M.S. from the University of Chicago during the war and went on to get his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ESTC T131275. Printed for John and Paul Knapton. . . , 1742-53. unknown books
2003Embry 193353Picador 2003. First edition first printing. Spine lightly skewed else fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Introduction by George Plimpton. Picador, 2003. First edition, first printing. unknown books
192920898Paris & New York: At The Sign of The Pegasus 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. basket weave cream cloth gilt Bodoni logo front cover. Near fine in worn dust wrapper lacking small portion of lower spine. 80 pages. 30 x 21.5 cm. Limited edition copy 229 of 500 of the English edition on Lafuma Rag Paper in the original types of Giambattista Bodoni. Host of tipped-in specimen pages plus twelve full page woodcuts by Franz Masereel printed recto only which illustrate the operations of the press. Officina Bodoni began operation in April 1925 at Montagnola di Lugano. List of All Book Printed On the Hand-Press. Offsetting from the flaps of the dust jacket onto the endpapers slight lower corner bumps. At The Sign of The Pegasus hardcover books
1988129282London: Thames and Hudson 1988. Hardcover. VG/VG light foxing to block. Dark brown cloth with gilt design on front cover gilt lettering on spine red glossy dust jacket with bw illustration 480 pp. 1840 illustrations including 41 color plates. From the dust jacket: Arranged chronologically from the earliest academic works through the great years of Cubism and abstraction to the final burst of undiminished energy in the last months of the artist's life. It includes many important sketches and studies for major paintings and sculptures. The illustrations are accompanied by scholarly commentaries that place Picasso's works in the context of his life and of the contemporary art-historical scene as well as by a list of exhibitions and a selected bibliography. Thames and Hudson hardcover books
1991330161991. Hardcover. VG/VG- book in very good condition DJ lightly chipped at edges. Pale green cloth pictorial DJ. 588 pp. 360 color plates. First major examination of the full range of French 18th century mythological painting. Works by Watteau Boucher Fragonard David and many others. Published in conjunction with the exhibition The loves of the gods . held at Galeries nationales du Grand Palais Paris 15 October 1991-6 January 1992 Philadelphia Museum of Art 23 February-26 April 1992; Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth 23 May-2 August 1992"--Title page verso./ Includes bibliographical references pages 562-584 and indexes. Contents as follows: In defense of mythological painting / Pierre Rosenberg -- Myth and enlightenment : on mythology in the eighteenth century / Philippe Le Leyzour -- D'un siecle a l'autre : history mythology and decoration in early eighteenth-century Paris / Katie Scott -- Boucher's beauties / Donald Posner -- To see or not to see : the myth of Diana and Actaeon in the eighteenth century / Steven Z. Levine -- Catalogue of paintings / Colin B. Bailey. Scarce in hardcover. hardcover books
1831EEG1043London:: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley 1831. 1831. 4to. Collation: a-b4 B-Z4 2A-2Z4 3A-3Z4 4A2. Pagination: 16 ads xv 1 547 1 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait folding plate of holographic letter facing p. 177 4 woodcut figures pp. 432-3 appendix Ads dated January 1831 tipped in. Original mauve cloth orange gilt-stamped spine label; neatly rebacked preserving original end leaves. Very good copy. PREFERRED QUARTO-SIZE TALLER FIRST EDITION. This is the first edition quarto issue. There was a two-volume octavo issue with the type reset also published in 1831 by the same publisher. Davy is credited with discovering chlorine and iodine and for isolating for the first-time potassium sodium calcium strontium barium magnesium and boron. As befit a well-rounded man of his day Ayrton describes him: "His mind was as vigorous as it was original and no less logical and precise as it was daring and comprehensive; nothing was too mighty for its grasp nothing too minute for its observation; like the trunk of the elephant it could tear up the oak of the forest or gently pluck the acorn from its branch" p.14. While the prose at times can border on the hagiographic the reports of Davy's discoveries and his personal and professional relationships with the great men of his age make for fascinating reading. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. hardcover books
183129546London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. 1831. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1st printing of the 8vo edition; Volume I has an engraved frontispiece portrait Volume II has a folding plate showing a facsimile of Davy's handwriting. Smooth brown leather in gilt and blind double frame gilt stamped spine with raised bands five panels with panels two and four holding the title and volume number. Volume I has a few scuffs to center panel small chip to front free endpaper previous owner's stamp and neat inscription joints rubbed with very small starts at joint heads. Volume II is in similar condition but panel two of spine has its left half chipped away affecting the title and the leather of panel five is missing entirely resulting in 1½" chip showing the underlying binding. The price is adjusted to account for the binding defects. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; I: xvi 416; viii1 pp. 463 pp . Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley hardcover books
CA05B-00041London. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. London: Colburn & Bentley 1831. 2 vols. 1st Edition. xvi416; viii4631pp. lithographed frontis portrait to volume 1 and folding facsimile of a manuscript leaf about potash to volume 2. Untrimmed in original drab boards with paper spine labels. Spines broken rear board to second volume lacking alas! several pages in second volume quite dingy. Scarce. One of the greatest English chemists Davy was famous for his discovery of sodium and potassium and invention of the miners' safety-lamp. Weight: 3 pounds 1.0 ounces = 1.4 kg. Size: 9.2 x 5.8 x 2.8 inches = 23 x 14.5 x 7cm. Inquire if you need further information. Gach London. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. hardcover books
194222608ENew York: Random House 1942. First Edition First Printing. With a New York Herald Tribune clipping laid-in dated April 26 1942 reviewing this book. Decorative endpapers. Near fine copy with just a trace of rubbing to the lettering at the spine without dust jacket. Elliot Paul was one of the noted American Paris expatriates of the 1920s co-editor of Transition magazine and knew all the notables of the period. Of the flowering of writing that came out of 1920s Paris Paul is the only American to write a lengthy memoir of what it was like to interact and immerse oneself in the people of his Paris neighborhood. This book is basically the story of the lives of the people of the street on which he lived the Rue de la Huchette. Paul lived there for the better part of 18 years until the Nazi occupation of France prevented his return. A genuine classic. Random House unknown books
1860WRCLIT51927Dublin: A.M. Sullivan 1860. 471pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Title a bit ragged at lower gutter old stamps and label of a defunct mercantile library else a good copy. First edition in English translated from the French by "J.P.L." and noted as "Simultaneous Publication in Paris and Dublin." The OCLC entry for the second edition identifies the translator as John P. Leonard. A sharp remonstrance addressed to "My Dear John Bull." A.M. Sullivan unknown books
199334993Cambridge UK: Alan sutton 1993. Small 4to pp. 210. Edited translated and introduced by the Richard Vaughan. Illustrated in color. Paper wraps. Cover very slightly soiled o/w a nice copy. The author Brother Matthew "comes across as warm cheerful lively and violently prejudiced." He also is very informative on the life of his era. Alan sutton unknown books
1925167118New York: The Haddon Press 1925. First. Hardcover. VG-. Staining wear to covers. Ex-library with usual marks including stickers and blind stamps. Occasional smudges and soiling in contents but overall clean and tight. SIGNED by author. Cloth over boards olive green and 3/4 white gilt lettering on spine. Top gilt page edging. 91 deckled pp. 53 BW plates. Descriptions of the Detroit Public Library. Chapters include The Library Ceilings The Windows The Art of Painted Glass The Mosaics in the Frontal Colonnade and Pictorial Geography. The Haddon Press hardcover books
196551423New York: Contemporary Classics 1965. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; 127pp. Trivial pulling to crown of board spine else a tight clean unmarked copy. Minor external wear to jacket two small damp stains to front cover of jacket affecting title. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Contemporary Classics unknown books
1995S13588Cambridge:: Cambridge University Press 1995. 1995. Royal 8vo. xiii 1 281 1 pp. Illus. index. Black gilt-stamped cloth dust-jacket. Near fine. ISBN: 0521351685 Hardcover issue. Part B of Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics continues the history of celestial mechanics and observational discovery through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It provides a synoptic view of the main developments and furnishes details about the lives ideas and interactions of the various astronomers involved. Twelve different authors have contributed their expertise to this book that begins with the reception of Newton's inverse-square law. In the remainder a large place is given to the development of the mathematical theory of celestial mechanics from Clairaut and Euler to LeVerrier Newcomb Hill and Poincare. This emphasis is balanced by other chapters on observational discoveries and the rapprochement of observation and theory for instance the discovery of Uranus and the asteroids use of Venus transits to refine solar parallax introduction of the method of least squares and the development of planetary and satellite ephemerides. Lists of "Further Reading" provide entry to the literature of the several topics. This book will be of great interest to historians of science and astronomers." TABLE OF CONTENTS: Part V. Early Phases in the Reception of Newton's Theory: 14. The vortex theory in competition with Newtonian celestial dynamics Eric J. Aiton / 15. The shape of the Earth Seymour L. Chapin / 16. Clairaut and the motion of the lunar apse: The inverse-square law undergoes a test Craig B. Waff / 17. The precession of the equinoxes from Newton to d'Alembert and Euler Curtis Wilson / 18. The solar tables of Lacaille and the lunar tables of Mayer Eric G. Forbes and Curtis Wilson / 19. Predicting the mid-eighteenth-century return of Halley's Comet Craig B. Waff. Part VI. Celestial Mechanics During the Eighteenth Century: 20. The problem of perturbation analytically treated: Euler Clairaut d'Alembert Curtis Wilson / 21. The work of Lagrange in celestial mechanics Curtis Wilson / 22. Laplace Bruno Morando. Part VII. Observational Astronomy and the Application of Theory in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century: / 23. Measuring solar parallax: The Venus transits of 1761 and 1769 and their nineteenth–century sequels Albert Van Helden / 24. The discovery of Uranus the Titius-Bode and the asteroids Michael Hoskin / 25. Eighteenth–and nineteenth century developments in the theory and practice of orbit determination Brian G. Marsden / 26. The introduction of statistical reasoning into astronomy: from Newton to Poincare Oscar Sheynin / 27. Astronomy and the theory of errors: from the method of averages to the method of least squares F. Schmeidler. Part VIII. The Development of Theory During the Nineteenth Century: / 28. The golden age of celestial mechanics Bruno Morando. Part IX. The Application of Celestial Mechanics to the Solar System to the End of the Nineteenth Century: / 29. Three centuries of lunar and planetary ephemerides and tables Bruno Morando / 30. Satellite ephemerides to 1900 Yoshihide Kozai. Cambridge University Press, 1995. hardcover books
1930215723Paris: Harrison of Paris 1930. No. 193 of 394 copies signed by the author on Pannekeok paper. The third publication of Harrison of Paris designed by J. van Krimpen and printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen Haarlem Holland. 46 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to 8-1/2 x 7 inches. Original red cloth fore and bottom edges uncut Fine. No. 193 of 394 copies signed by the author on Pannekeok paper. The third publication of Harrison of Paris designed by J. van Krimpen and printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen Haarlem Holland. 46 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to 8-1/2 x 7 inches. The third book of the famous press founded by Barbara Harrison and Monroe Wheeler. Ransom Check Lists p. 378 Harrison of Paris unknown books
1987Embry 184955U. of California Press 1987. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. B&W reproductions. U. of California Press, 1987. First edition, first printing. unknown books
198227197Paris: Atelier de l'Olivette 1982. First edition. Paris Gabriel. Wrappers 23x 23 cm in publisher's chemise and slipcase. Etched portrait of the author and eight silkscreen illustrations some double-page. One of 10 copies signed and numbered by the author and artist with a page of the author's manuscript an original drawing and a suite of the prints printed on vergé Romana from a total edition of 75 copies printed by hand on Arches paper. 13 poems organized according to the seasons of life. Fine. <br/><br/> Atelier de l'Olivette unknown books
176014266Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Mortier 1760. Boards. Very Good. Vol 1: III-XVI 727 pages. Vol 2: 2 743 pages. Vol 3: 2 648 pages. Vol 4: 8 404 XXXVI 372 2 III-VIII 256 pages. 4 x 6 1/2 inches 12mo. Uniform period leather bindings with gold decoration to the spine panel leather labels and paper label as well on 4th volume. Leather is rubbed and scuffed corners worn spines hard to read. Second volume has tear to leather at top of spine. Bindings are fundamentally sound. Clean internally. First 3 volumes have decorated pastedown endpapers but plain flyleaves. Last volume has marbled endpapers. Not collated assumed complete sold as is. Boards. Roughly translated "A general table index of the matters contained in the history and the memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris from the year 1699 through 1734". Three volumes complete covering the alphabet A-Z. Together with the fourth volume not usually found covering years 1735-1751 and including a history of the Royal Academy of Sciences published in 1760 complete in one volume plus another index. Chez Pierre Mortier unknown books
