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1984201295Venice Italy: Commune di Venezia Assessorato alla Cultura Centro di documentazione de Palazzo Fortuny 1984. Glossy Pictorial Cover. 57p. Text in Italian. Introduction by Silvio Fuso and Sandro Mescola. Contributions by Vittorio Fagone Flavio Albanese Peter Gordon and Studio Azzurro. Color illustrations. Fold out illustration capturing the essence of the set-up as best a static illustration can. On the exhibit "The Swimmer" based on a story by Heinrich Boll. Originally presented at the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice in 1984 this book provides details about the making and images from the exhibit. Commune di Venezia Assessorato alla Cultura Centro di documentazione de Palazzo Fortuny unknown books
196842978Paris: Éditions d'histoire sociale 1968. Facsimile reprint. Paper wrappers. A near fine copy with faint crease to front wrapper. 226 pp. 24mo. Number 149 of 1000 copies. Originally published in 1871 by Imprimerie Ve Blanchard. On cover: Paris libre du 18 mars au 4 avril 1871. Limited reprint of this scarce publication from the Paris Commune. [Éditions d'histoire sociale] unknown books
1955WRCLIT51533Np 1955. Volume one number one. Small quarto. Printed wrappers. Wrappers sunned toward edges very good. Edited by Elisabet Mann Borgese. Published bimonthly in both English and French editions. Prefatory message by Albert Einstein. Articles commentary and reviews associated with the movement toward a World Constitution. unknown books
2013192511Common English Bible 2013-08-01. Softcover. Good/Good. Soft alkaline cover is good with minor wear. Name date and school of former owner filled out on presentation page at front of book. Some light scratches to silver leaf page edges. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. Packaged in a glossy board box. LO Common English Bible paperback books
02226Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by J. Cooke and S. Collingwood 1820. With A Fore-Edge Scene of Oxford<br/><br/>FORE-EDGE PAINTING. CHURCH OF ENGLAND. The Book of Common Prayer And Administration of the Sacraments. And Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church According to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland; Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as They are to be Sung or Said in Churches; and the Form and Manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons. Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by J. Cooke and S. Collingwood 1820.<br/><br/>Bound with <br/><br/>BRADY Nicholas and Nahum Tate. A New Version of the Psalms of David Fitted to Tunes Used in Churches. Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by Samuel Collinwood 1822.<br/><br/>Octavo 8 1/4 x 5 1/8 in; 210 x 130 mm. Unpaginated A-Rr8 Ss4; A-F8. Calendar and tables.<br/><br/>Contemporary full crimson straight-grain morocco with triple fillet border in blind and panel with large gilt corner-pieces of volutes curls and roundels enclosing a central masonic sunburst emblem in gilt with dove and Tetragrammaton to both covers. Heavily gilt tooled compartments and spine head and tail. Gilt rolls to edge corners. Gilt fillets to turn-ins. All edges gilt. With the crimson morocco bookplate of Christ's Church - Middlesex dated 1825. Housed in an early twentieth century red cloth slipcase.<br/><br/>With a splendid early twentieth century fore-edge painting by an unknown hand depicting Folly Bridge and Bacon's Tower at Oxford. <br/><br/>Folly Bridge is a stone bridge over the River Thames carrying the Abingdon Road south from the center of Oxford England. It was erected 1825-27 to designs of a little-known architect Ebenezer Perry died 1850 who practiced in London. The bridge is in two parts separated by an island. The origin of the name is uncertain although it has been suggested that it originated about 1650 after a tenant of Bacon's study. Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by J. Cooke and S. Collingwood, 1820 unknown books
25437BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS AND OTHER RITES CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH. Oxford: Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill and others. 1773. 8vo. Red morocco with gild stamped design all edges gilt. Unpaginated. This prayer book is bound in straight grained morocco with a simple but elega blindstamp design on the front and rear covers outlined in gold and a repeati design along the spine separated by gold bands. Early printed bookplate on front paste-down and two ownership signatures in ink on the verso of the fir blank. Front hinge weak but still attached some foxing browning to spine a edges of boards a good copy. unknown books
106783London: printed by John Baskett and by the assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills 1715. Folio 380 23 3 pp. unpaginated text ends on Aaa4 as per ESTC. Engraved frontispiece by Loggan after Caspars. Title-page printed in red and black ruled in red throughout. Contemporary red morocco covers tooled in gilt with a wide scrolled border central gilt block of the arms of the Duke of Chandos backstrip richly gilt gilt edges a lovely binding of the period in the style of Mearne skillfully restored at head and foot and along joints. Armorial bookplate of John van Hatten. § Lovely prayer book bound for James Brydges 1st Duke of Chandos 1674-1744. It once rested on an embroidered cushion in the Duke and Duchess's private pew in his magnificent chapel at Cannons described by the architect Gibbs as "the finest in England." The centerpiece of the elaborately-tooled binding is the Duke's gilt arms supported by two otters beneath a ducal coronet. Four other bindings with the block are recorded by the British Armorial Bindings database. Full description and provenance available on request. ESTC T81463. printed by John Baskett unknown books
22909THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. New York: New York Common Prayer and Book Society 1853. First edition thus. Original full sheep gilt morocco label gilt. Worn but a solid copy in the original publisher's binding. Twain arrived in New York City after leaving St. Louis and went to work as a type-setter at John Gray's firm on Monday August 29 1853 and stayed there until mid-October when he left for Philadelphia. He wrote home to his mother on August 31 saying that he and forty other type-setters set type for an "immense" number of books and several magazines like The Knickerbocker New York Recorder Choral Advocate Jewish Chronicle Littell's Living Age and the Irish American. Most of the books published by Gray in 1853 were religious pamphlets and some anti-slavery texts; this is one of the few substantial books he published that year. Gray's four story building was next-door to the huge Harper Brothers pre-fire complex and it is possible that they were also farmed out work by Harper for publications without using their own printer's slug. unknown books
185113823Columbus Ohio: S. Medary. Very Good. 1851. Softcover. Minor splitting to backstrip text foxed light soil pp 119 else G . S. Medary paperback books
185553636Peoria: printed by Benjamin Foster 1855. First edition 8vo pp. iv 5-72; some foxing on the early leaves else fine in original printed salmon wrappers. "Root was a former common-school teacher who moved to Peoria County from Ohio in the fall of 1830. He apparently became a farmer after moving to Illinois" Byrd. An eccentric populist attack against big banks and the American legal system from an aging Peoria county farmer who notes that for "more than fifty years I have seen that there was some thing radically wrong in the political and religious world . I exerted myself for more than half a century politically and religiously for the sole purpose of heading and stopping those evils but all to no effect. The public journals both religious and political would not publish my communications because they were Truth." He was apparently a member of the National Reform Association an organization bent on re-Christianizing American society. He puts forth a libertarian philosophy saying that the greatest evils are: first and foremost Land Monopoly; Chattel Slavery; Alcohol; and Monopoly of the Law. Byrd 2346; Graff 3563; Sabin 73131; 4 in OCLC: AAS Newberry Illinois and the Lincoln Presidential Library. <br/><br/> printed by Benjamin Foster unknown books
17783057London: Henry Fenwick 1778. First Edition. Very Good/A very rare treasure-chest of source material on Anglo-American relations in the years leading up to and into the Revolutionary War. In this compendium of communications between the Court of Common Council and George III covering the years 1769-1778 one sees the London court's steadfast objections to trade restrictions placed on the American colonies in 1775 the court's recommendations to "suspend hostilities against our fellow-subjects in North America" and its extended position paper counseling conciliation with the rebellious colonies. The text reports correspondence from the Continental Congress signed by John Hancock and from Richard Price and includes discussion of the Quebec Act of 1774 and the Newfoundland fisheries. Reference: Sabin 451. 19cm; 151pages. Bound in recent half calf over marbled boards in period style with six-panel spine decorated in blind and titled in gilt. Henry Fenwick hardcover books
1778WRCAM44871London: Henry Fenwick 1778. 88; 151pp. bound with: A PETITION OF THE FREEHOLDERS OF THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX. London: Henry Fenwick 1769. 11pp. Contemporary calf spine gilt leather label. Boards heavily worn head and foot of spine chipped. Very minor scattered foxing. Good plus. In a brown half morocco and cloth slipcase. The county of Middlesex essentially London was the heart of radical politics in England at the time of the Revolution and the greatest pro-American feeling was found in the merchants and working classes of the metropolis. The colonists often appealed directly to Middlesex for support. These works contain petitions relating to the American colonies dating from June 1774 to March 1778 including petitions regarding the Quebec Act in which the people express their concern over the encroachment of Catholicism and French influence in the colony. Likewise it includes the text of a letter from John Hancock to the mayor of London dated September 1775 expressing a hope for peace between Britain and the colonies. Adams notes that these two titles are often found bound together sometimes with other publications of the Council. The petition of the freeholders of Middlesex County concerns the John Wilkes case. Wilkes ran for Parliament and was elected as a radical candidate for Middlesex but was arrested and imprisoned shortly thereafter for seditious libel. Wilkes spoke out against the British war against the American colonies and his opposition to the Crown was a rallying point for the American cause. ESTC T108621 T108605 T43921. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 78-65. Henry Fenwick hardcover books
1828SEM18275Boston: From the Press of the Christian Examiner 1828. Third Edition with Alterations and Additions. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 386 pp. Full contemporary leather rubbed. Bookplate of The Bishop Vail Library of Kansas 1889. And later stamp of a seminary library. <br/><br/> From the Press of the Christian Examiner hardcover books
17149Girls' Education. Handwritten monthly Teacher's records from November 1873 to April 1883. Teacher's Monthly Reports for Penns Creek School Number 6 in Limestone School District Union County Pennsylvania. Issued by the Department of Common Schools Union Co. Penn. Harrisburg: Benj. Singerly State Printer 1873. Original paper boards. 92 pages. size: 16 x 11.5 in. Ledgers include names of Male and Female students in separate columns. While there is a sharp gender imbalance recorded in the first month 17 boys to 6 girls by the end of the record book there are even numbers of male and female students; and in some months such as November 1877 there are significantly more girl names listed. In the second half of the 19th century there were rapid gains for women's education in the United States as common schools spread over the Northeast and provided public education for both girls and boys. With the growth of common schools and more educational opportunities for girls more women at this time were also working in schools as teachers and headmistresses. <br/><br/>In these ledger books teachers were to record numerous statistics related to their classes including: Names and Ages of Pupils Attendance Lateness and Absence Number of Days Attended Number of Days belonged. Total Attendance for Term Progress and Conduct and Number of Pupils. "So important are the items of statistics under this head that no teacher should be allowed to draw his salary until he has them all currently entered for the month." The teachers were also instructed to record other important statistics including: Number Admitted since first of June til Date Whole Number in Attendance during Month Average Attendance during Month Average Attendance during Term till date Percentage of Attendance Visits by County Superintendent Books Used Pupils without Necessary Books and Certificates and Receipts. Includes 2 sheets about planning school curriculum pasted to back end papers. Light toning some light stains. In very good condition. unknown books
1900WRCAM35678Np 1900. 321 leaves of manuscript. Early 20th-century three quarter calf over cloth boards spine gilt. Spine worn hinges abraded corners abraded. Institutional bookplate on front pastedown early ownership and authorship signature of "J.H. Alexander" on front free endpaper and leaf facing titlepage. Internally very clean a few leaves on blue paper a few leaves smaller than text block. Very good. A manuscript concordance and analytic index to The Book of Common Prayer dedicated to the "General Convention of the Protestant Church in the United States which is the Witness and Keeper of the Prayer book." The volume entirely handwritten in a clear and small hand includes a preface table of abbreviations and over 630 pages of entries covering letters "A" through "K." The spine is marked "VOL I" in gilt; unfortunately the second volume is not included here. Although unsigned in the text "J.H. Alexander" is inscribed in pencil twice on the preliminary leaves. hardcover books
