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1830124608London: Newton Son & Berry c. 1830-1836. Fine pair of rare early 19th century celestial and terrestrial table globes published by Newton Son & Berry. Both the celestial and terrestrial globe measure 12 inches in diameter with a calibrated brass meridian ring and 19 inch mahogany horizon ring decorated with mounted hand colored decorations. Mounted on ebonized oak stands. Each globe is comprised of 12 richly detailed hand-colored gores with polar calottes the terrestrial globe detailing the earth's landmasses major countries and cities and the celestial showing the major stars in various sizes related to their brightness displayed with a table of magnitudes. Major constellations and all twelve zodiac signs are illustrated with detailed hand-colored drawings. The cartouche on the celestial globe is inscribed "Newton's New & Improved Celestial Globe On which all the Stars Nebulae & Clusters contained in the extensive Catalogue of the late E. Wollaston E.R.S. are accurately laid down their Right Ascensions and Declinations having been recalculated for the Year 1830 by W. Newton. Manufactured by Newton Son & Berry Chancery Lane London Published 1836." In near fine condition with some light restoration. Each globe measures 19 inches tall. The sphericity of the Earth was established by Greek astronomers in the 3rd century BC with the earliest terrestrial globe appearing during that period. The earliest known globe was constructed by Crates of Mallus in Cilicia now Cukurova in modern-day Turkey in the mid-2nd century B.C.E. Now known as the Erdapfel the earliest extant terrestrial globe was produced in 1492 by German mapmaker navigator and merchant Martin Behaim in Nuremberg Germany. Traditionally globes were manufactured by gluing a printed paper map onto a sphere often made from wood. Newton, Son & Berry unknown books
18481803065Daniel Adee 1848. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Near fine TRUE first American edition 1st issue as stated on the title page. Some water stains on page edges. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Rubbing on outside spine and corners and at bottom of spine. Tape at endpapers and pastedowns along gutters. Housed in custom-made slip case. Daniel Adee hardcover books
1803122898London: Printed for H.D. Symonds 1803. First complete edition in English of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia the greatest work of physics in the exceedingly rare original boards. Octavo 3 volumes bound in original boards uncut 54 folding copper-engraved plates of diagrams and figures all but one folding; 2 folding tables. with 22 folding. In near fine condition with light toning to the text. An exceptional example rare and desirable in the original boards. Housed in a custom clamshell box. "Newtons Principia is generally described as the greatest work in the history of science. Copernicus Galileo and Kepler had certainly shown the way; but where they described the phenomena they observed Newton explained the underlying universal laws. The Principia provided the greatest synthesis of the cosmos proving finally its physical unity. Newton showed that the important and dramatic aspects of nature that were subject to the universal law of gravitation could be explained in mathematical terms with a single physical theory. With him the separation of the natural and supernatural of sublunar and superlunar worlds disappeared. The same laws of gravitation and motion rule everywhere; for the first time a single mathematical law could explain the motion of objects on earth as well as the phenomena of the heavens. The whole cosmos is composed of inter-connecting parts influencing each other according to these laws. It was this grand conception that produced a general revolution in human thought equaled perhaps only by that following Darwins Origin of Species Newton is generally regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time and the founder of mathematical physics" PMM 161. "It is perhaps the greatest intellectual stride that it has ever been granted to any man to make" Einstein. Printed for H.D. Symonds hardcover books
1870110127New York: Robert Carter and Brothers 1870. Rare early edition of this work by Newton. Octavo original cloth illustrated. Presentation copy inscribed by Moody on the front free endpaper "To John Syme D.L. Moody My dear Brother be useful be earnest be fruitful and the blessing of God will rest on you." In good condition. Signatures of the legendary evangelist are rare especially with such a lengthy inscription. Dwight Lyman Moody also known as D. L. Moody was an evangelist and publisher connected with the Holiness Movement who founded the Moody Church Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publishers. One of his most famous quotes was "Faith makes all things possible. Love makes all things easy." Moody gave up his lucrative boot and shoe business to devote his life to revivalism working first in the Civil War with union troops through YMCA in the United States Christian commission. In Chicago he built one of the major evangelical centers in the nation which it is still active. Working with singer Ira Sankey he toured the country and Britain Europe drawing large crowds with a dynamic speaking style that preached God's love and friendship kindness and forgiveness rather than hellfire and condemnation. Robert Carter and Brothers hardcover books
1831254561London 1831. Miniature globe in turned walnut case with domed lid. 1.5 inch diameter. 12 hand colored globe gores with original varnish and metal pins at each pole which enable the globe to spin in the case. Cartouche set in north Pacific. Stains along the equator in the Pacific.<br/><br/> This terrestrial globe is the smallest version made by Newton and Berry Sumira p. 189. Wonderful detail included for such a small globe. The track of Captain Cook's final voyage of 1776 is shown when Captain Clarke and Gore sail to the Bering Sea after Cook is murdered. John Newton 1759-1844 is the founding member of this family firm. Miles Berry joined the firm in 1803. They also made planetaria and mechanical models. An excellent example of a pocket globe.<br/><br/> unknown books
189163025London: George Bell & Sons York Street Covent Garden 1891. First edition. 8 103 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Gray cloth stamped in black endpapers with ads and 4 extra pp. of ads at front and back for Spaulding Draper and Maynard. Very good copy of an extremely scarce book. First edition. 8 103 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Will Baseball Replace Cricket Written by the President of National Baseball League of Great Britain; Formerly United States Consul Manchester. He advocates baseball in England and his book as "practical assistance to the large and rapidly increasing number of young men in this country who have manifested a desire to acquire a knowledge of baseball."<br/><br/>Advertisement at back for The Baseball Association of Great Britain and Ireland President The Rev. F. Marshall<br/><br/>This book is part of "The All-England Seies." Smith 758 George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden unknown books
18134567London: Printed for G. Kearsley et al. 1813. Lg. 8vo. Unpaginated. 12 vols. Double column text. Illustrated with 355 copper engraved plates 1 a map of which 171 are nicely hand-colored 2 folding. Orig. brown cloth over boards paper spine labels rubbed uncut. Hinges split or splitting but holding nicely. Occasional chipping & fraying at extremities of spine. Hand lettered volume nos. added to tops of spines. Plates with some foxing the color plates only occasionally foxed. The plates are mostly machinery steam engines printing presses hot air balloons ship building etc.; and scientific instruments microscopes telescopes etc. and some printed music. The color plates are of birds mammals reptiles insects fossils flowers etc. Printed for G. Kearsley et al. hardcover books
184865054New York: Published by Daniel Adee 176 Fulton Street Turney & Lockwood's Stereo 1848. First American edition later printing. The first edition was published in 1687. Frontispiece portrait taken from the bust in the Royal Observatory of Greenwich diagrams in text. 8vo. Original green cloth. Head of spine carefully restored some rubbing some light browning mostly at front and back a very good copy of this important work. In a leather-tipped green cloth open-end box. Bookplate of O. Stuck on endpapers. First American edition later printing. The first edition was published in 1687. Frontispiece portrait taken from the bust in the Royal Observatory of Greenwich diagrams in text. 8vo. The first English edition of Newton's "Principia" was translated by Andrew Motte a mathematician who with his brother Benjamin the publisher had edited the abridged "Philosophical transactions." This first English edition was published in 1729 from the third and definitive Latin edition of 1726. Newton's "A Treatise of the System of the World" was first published in English in 1728. The American edition bears a dedication and an introduction directed to teachers "If to educate means not so much to store the memory with symbols and facts as to bring forth the faculties of the soul and to develope them to the full by healthy nurture and a hardy discipline then what so effective to the accomplishment of that end as the study of Geometrical Synthesis . Let the Principia then be gladly welcomed into every Hall where a True Teacher presides." Copyright 1846 but first published 1848; the present copy is printed from stereotype plates wear to terminal page number. "The greatest work in the history of science . the "Principia" provided the great systhesis of the cosmos proving finally its physical unity . for the first time a single mathematical law could explain the motion of objects on earth as well as the phenomena of the heavens" PMM. Babson 23; Gray 26; Karpinski p. 491; Horblit 78; PMM 161 Published by Daniel Adee, 176 Fulton Street [Turney & Lockwood's Stereo unknown books
1900D16386New Hampshire 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. Manuscript Drawing Notebook of Arthur Lee Newton signed by him on the title page. Bound in original 3/4 leather and green cloth; first prize label fixed to front board. 60 pages of drawings; shapes anatomical studies zoological studies and a portrait of George Washington among the efforts. A fine sketchbook displaying strong skill. Newton was a pioneer in the American automotive industry eventually with the title of president of the Glidden Buick Corporation. An obituary stated that he had sold more automobiles at retail than any other man in the world. At Dartmouth he was a track star winning five U.S. championships and became a two-time Olympian. At the Olympic Games in St. Louis in 1904 Newton medalled in both the Steeplechase and the Marathon. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1879WRCAM16824Columbus Oh 1879. 651pp. Forty-seven plates some double-page on 33 leaves. Facsimiles. Color maps. Thick quarto. Contemporary cloth recently rebacked in calf corners expertly repaired. Else a very good copy. A scarce Pennsylvania county history with wonderful plates of local residences businesses farms factories oil wells etc. Contains much material relating to the petroleum industry Oil City and the speculative oil business. An important local historical reference. HOWES N129. hardcover books
186635454Charleston: Joseph Walker 1866. 144pp old rubberstamp on blank portion of title page. Bottom blank tear to title page expertly reinforced. Bound in modern grey wrappers. Good. <br/><br/> A Sephardic Jew Cardozo was born in 1786 in Savannah. Self-educated he was an outstanding economist editor of the Southern Patriot in Charleston and later its publisher. He published 'Notes on Political Economy' and 'The Economic Mind in American History'. An advocate of free trade he wrote many papers on the subject. See Brody 'Jewish Heroes and Heroines in America from Colonial Times to 1900: A Judaica Collection Exhibit' FL Atlantic U. Libraries. "Jacob Cardozo's forays into econometric analysis were outstanding by the standards of his day." Eugene Genovese 'Journal of the Historical Society' Volume I Number 2 March 2000. "This book is VERY SCARCE" Eberstadt quoting from Bradford. <br/> "Cardozo was a resident of Charleston from 1796 onward and editor of the Southern Patriot from 1817" Id. The book is a series of articles on Charleston's agriculture commerce education and free school system chamber of commerce insurance companies fire department the press bench and bar hotels banks libraries railroads charitable and medical organizations cemeteries. An Appendix provides material on the beginning of the Civil War at Forts Moultrie and Sumter as well as the action at Fort Wagner and other Charleston-area sites. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Howes C131. Singerman 1930. 115 Eberstadt 906. III Turnbull 409. Joseph Walker unknown books
187221704St. Paul: H.E. Newton & Co 1872. First edition 8vo pp. 20 ads 415; folding map of Minnesota folding advertisement plate on heavy stock lithograph plate printed on both sides on heavy stock advertisements for local enterprises on paste-downs and free endpapers; orig. brown morocco-backed printed paper-covered boards rubbed also with ads; some wear but generally good and sound. <br/><br/> H.E. Newton & Co hardcover books
183121773London: James Nisbet &T. Stevenson Cambridge 1831. 8vo 23.5 cm; 9". 1 f. xii 250 pp. <br><br>Third edition. In addition to being a physicist mathematician and natural philosopher Sir Isaac Newton was something of a Biblical scholar as well as shown by the present exegesis on apocalyptic texts. His analysis generally reads as being practical in nature as the New Catholic Encyclopedia X 428 says "Newton's writings on apocalyptical prophecies were not mystical or millenarian in any sense but more exercises in deciphering cryptograms." They comport with our sense of him as someone who believed in the scientific method!<br>Â Â Â Â "A new edition with the citations translated and notes by P. Borthwick . . . of Downing College Cambridge. Publisher's quarter green cloth with paper-covered boards. Rebacked in sympathetic cloth and new paper label antique style applied. Boards show age-stains and wear but are solid. Old library pressure-stamp on title-page. In an open back slipcase of green library cloth; spine of box with author title and call number in gilt. => A nice copy sound for reading. James Nisbet, &T. Stevenson, Cambridge hardcover books
189626938Boston: George H. Polley & Co 1896. Hardcover. VG clean contents; art museum ex-lib. bookplate inside front cover; faint sticker remnants at base of spine; a bit of wear to head/tail of spine and points of corners. Tan cloth with maroon cloth spine and corners. 66 loose leaf plates introductory page and table of contents page. With maroon fabric ties. Oversize and slightly heavy. Will require extra postage.0. Illustrated survey of colonial furnishings as they appeared in their colonial interiors. Photographs selected from mansions in Portsmouth Newburyport Salem and Providence each representing the most prosperous era of colonial history. The bookplate shows that this volume was donated by the wife of architect Michel M. LeBrun. Napoleon Le Brun & Sons the sons being Michel and his brother Pierre won the commission to design the new Home Life Insurance Company building in Manhattan a building on the frontier of the "skyscraper" era in New York. George H. Polley & Co hardcover books
1897114580Boston: George H. Polley & Co 1897. Hardcover. Plates all VG with only light age toning to fore edges. Art museum ex-lib. donation plate inside folio front cover. Stamp and title in white ink on spine; general shelf wear to spine and corners. Tan cloth with maroon cloth spine and corners. 63 loose leaf plates introductory page and table of contents page. Maroon fabric ties. Oversize and a bit overweight. Will require extra postage. Illustrated survey of colonial furnishings as they appeared in their colonial interiors. The last four plates in this volume show houses or interiors from Portsmouth NH and Newburyport MA. The bookplate shows that this volume was donated by the wife of architect Michel M. LeBrun. Napoleon Le Brun & Sons the sons being Michel and his brother Pierre won the commission to design the new Home Life Insurance Company building in Manhattan a building on the frontier of the "skyscraper" era in New York. A common title in academic libraries but scarce in the marketplace. Includes Title-page Introduction sheet Contents sheet printed on both sides listing 63 plates and the plates themselves. George H. Polley & Co hardcover books
18801337201880. unbound. 3 pages each fold-out spread measuring 7 x 8.75 inches no place no date circa 1880. Written to a Mrs. Jamison with sincere apologies for a miscommunication in large part: "I am afraid between Leharf and myself you were treated very uncourteously last week in regard to the Salisbury Meeting. But I must say in my own defense that I did not understand from his note that he had deputed me to answer it and not having any information more than he could give himself I did not write. Perhaps you will forgive us for we were both in a hurry." Horizontal and vertical folds; very good condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
189313136.1Philadelphia: A. Edward Newton & Co 1893. 1st edition Fleck F.6.a; Winterich 12. An un-numbered large paper copy from a stated limitation of 100 cc. INSCRIBED by Newton as "The Author" to Captain Claude Bray on the ffep. Original publisher's 3/4 burlap over boards. Printed paper title label to spine. Light shelf wear with wear to paper title label obscuring some lettering. Hinges show discoloration from binder's glue. A VG copy. 143 1 blank pp. Deckled edges. Sm 4to. <br/><br/> A. Edward Newton & Co hardcover books
187716249St. Paul: Pioneer Press Co 1877. 500 copies ordered printed 8vo pp.73; 4 maps 2 folding and in color; in orig. printed yellow wrappers split along back joint but in otherwise excellent condition. Winchell was the nationally-known state geologist from 1872 to 1900 and professor of mineralology and geology at the University of Minnesota. Here he provides a detailed study of the geology of Minneapolis and the surrounding area. He was also the author of one of the most respected works on the American Indian The Aborigines of Minnesota 1911. <br/><br/> Pioneer Press Co unknown books
189626938.1Boston: George H. Polley & Co 1896. Hardcover. Good contents. Ex-library book with typical labels and stamps; perforation stamps on most plates. Cover soiled spine ends and corners slighly frayed each plate bound by cloth hinge. Binding slightly loose. Tan buckram/boards with gilt lettering on spine; introductory page list of plates and 66 single-sided bw plates. Oversize and heavy and will require extra postage. Illustrated survey of colonial furnishings as they appeared in their colonial interiors. Photographs selected from mansions in Portsmouth Newburyport Salem and Providence each representing the most prosperous era of colonial history. An oversized and heavy volume. George H. Polley & Co hardcover books
18905207Washington DC: Judd & Detweiler Printer 1890. Octavo 19.5 x 13.5 cm. 110 pages. Subtitle on cover and flyleaf: A Cook Book. "Index" page 17 is actually a table of contents. Advertisements on pages 1-14 and 95-110. First edition. Two hundred twenty ascribed recipes gathered in support of a beloved urban space where "The seats in the church are free at every service". The dishes bear echoes of a British and conservative culinary orientation: Clam Chowder English Rice Pudding Farcied i.e. stuffed Tomatoes Shrove Tuesday Pancakes Apple Roly-Poly Pickled Lemons Shrewsbury Cakes Soft Gingerbread Fig Pudding. Included is a Plum Pudding that made the rounds in post-Civil War cookbooks attributed to Mrs. General Sherman. Seldom is the immediate fund-raising goal of a church cookbook forthrightly stated but Mrs. Valk and Miss Newton left no doubt: "The ladies who have compiled this little volume hope that it may accomplish the double mission of helping to conserve domestic serenity and of pushing forward the good work to which its proceeds are to be devoted-the erection of St. Paul's Parish Building". The community now known as St. Paul's Parish at K Street was born of the missionary fervor that swept Washington in the aftermath of the Civil War. The first church was constructed in 1868 on 23rd Street between Pennsylvania Avenue and I Street NW not far from Washington Circle. No photographs of this first building appear to have survived. At once resolutely Anglo-Catholic and "free" - that is without reserved or rented pews - St. Paul's has since that time embraced an urban mission at the heart of the District. After the federal government seized the location by eminent domain in 1944 St. Paul's congregation built the church it now occupies on the south side of K Street. A number of pages spot- or splatter-stained a few with marks in pencil. Some soiling to edges of text block; textblock firm despite shaken covers. Bound in red publisher's cloth stained with black titling and blind-stamped decorative pattern; corners bumped. Good. Scarce. OCLC locates two copies; Cook page 49; no in Brown or Cagle. Judd & Detweiler, Printer hardcover books
18841001208vo 9x6 original gilt-lettered green cloth 4 ad 3 311pp. illustrated with numerous wood engravings some of them folding. Extremities slightly rubbed light soiling and front hinge a bit tender; otherwise a near fine copy. Well illustrated guidebook with an advertisement frontispiece of “Yosemite 1884†showing a horse and carriage passing through a carved out sequoia. This installment is considerably expanded from the 68 page first edition published in 1881.A few of the illustrations are folding including one that gives a bird’s eye view of San Francisco opposite page twenty-one and another of the Arlington Hotel which was under construction. Rubberstamp on front endpaper of George Clement Perkins 1839-1923 Governor of California from 1880-1883 and U.S. Senator from California from 1893-1915. C.A. Murdock hardcover books
1813313293London: Printed for G. Kearsley et al. 1813. First edition. Lacking all plates. 12 vols. 8vo. Bound in half contemporary brown calf gilt spines marbled boards and edges lacking plates else very good. First edition. Lacking all plates. 12 vols. 8vo. Printed for G. Kearsley et al. unknown books
1884WRCAM53869New York 1884. vii352pp. plus two plates. Early 20th-century buckram gilt labels. Cloth somewhat dust soiled labels chipped. Hinges crack light wear to edges and spine extremities. Shelf label at foot of spine institutional ink and blind stamps to titlepage and one plate. Occasional dust soiling light tanning internally. Good. A classic case of murder resulting from the exposure of adultery in flagrante. Edward Newton Rowell suspected his wife of having an affair with their former neighbor Johnson Lynch. In October 1883 he informed her that he would be leaving Batavia New York for several days on business and after she had invited Lynch over and taken him to bed Rowell burst in and shot him. The affair was apparently known to the public of Batavia and such was the support for Rowell that he was acquitted on charges of manslaughter the news of which was celebrated in town with bonfires and fireworks. Not in McDade or Cohen. hardcover books
184627944Norwich VT 1846. One sheet containing four uncut handbills or broadsides identical in wording but several variations in type styles. 12" x 17 3/4". A couple of small fox spots Near Fine.<br/><br/> OCLC's entry for the University of Vermont explains that a handbill was "Intended to be packaged with boxes containing medication." OCLC 15232344. "Sheet contains four handbills with description and directions for use of bitters and 4 bottle labels." OCLC 209941964. The "prophylactic power" of the concoction is extolled.<br/>OCLC locates five copies of the broadside under three accession numbers. unknown books
186556517Newport R.I.: Thursday morning Sept. 14 1865. 4to approx. 10" x 8" approx. 20 lines and 200 words in ink; folds and with the original stamped cover "Steam Boat" and with a Providence roundstamp and the stamp of the "American Steamboat Company Sept. 14 1865 steamer City of Newport." Light soiling and spotting of the envelope but generally near fine. Written just after the end of the Civil War Newton begins by apologizing he will not be able to attend a meeting because of "my constant engagements for the past two weeks in closing up the affairs of the Naval Academy . I regret to say that it has been impossible for me to attend the State Committee . to listen to Mr. Bradford's report of the convention which is doubtless very satisfactory judging from the little that I have gathered from the papers and I feel grieved that I have lost the opportunity of interchanging views . upon the prospect of bright hope for better days now dawning . Write me if not too much trouble the most interesting points of your conversation . My regards to Bradford Steere and all good friends in the bonds of democratic truth and love." Miller was a resident of Bristol a member of the Rhode Island Historical Society where he is known to have delivered several papers worked with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey on charts of Narragansett Bay and later was one of the founders of the Bristol and Warren Water Works. <br/><br/> Thursday morning, Sept. 14 unknown books
