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18675032England 1867. Full sheep embossed in blind with gilt to front board measuring 200 x 160mm and comprised of 155 manuscript pages. A gift inscription to the front pastedown reads "Frances Phoebe Newton A Present from her Mother Mrs. A. Morley. July 31st 1841." On the first page Phoebe has created a formal title page: "Phoebe Newton's Album. July 31st 1841." A dense and research-rich piece in which a young woman documents her reading from a variety of sources including collections of poetry popular magazines and circulars church sermons and oral stories within her community. Potential projects include but are not limited to Victorian reading practices women's reading the intersection of popular and evangelical literatures genealogy and paleaography.<br /> <br /> Within her commonplace book Phoebe gravitates toward poetry and short anecdotes in which the narrating voice calmly uses rhetoric and logic to undermine non-believers or convert doubters. Her faith is the underlying basis for each selection -- even when celebrating a royal marriage or waxing on Queen Victoria's leadership. Early selections such as Doctor Watts and Collins the Freethinker focus on how Christians unshaken in their faith can lead by calm example responding to criticism or even outright scorn by gesturing to the value of their interior relationship to God rather than to any external possessions. Doctor Watts for example responds to a coffeehouse stranger's "contempt at his diminutive appearance" with a short verse concluding "I must be measured by my soul -- The mind's the standard of the man." Similarly Collins the Freethinker "once met a plain countryman going to church" and attempted to confound him by asking about God's size. The countryman's participation in the dialogue -- and his embrace of contradiction -- impress and convert the Freethinker. "He is so great that the heaven of heaven cannot contain Him; and so little that He can dwell in my heart." In this sense Phoebe reveals in addition to her evangelical beliefs an attraction to literary realism. Rather than gravitating to soaring sentimentalism and romance the works gathered here often rely on dialogue and daily settings presenting a realistic world with idealized social outcomes. <br /> <br /> Phoebe's selections come from a variety of sources which speaks to the array of material she had contact with. Some uncredited pieces appear to be stories from sermons or overheard among family. Many include Victorian writers such as Cowper and Toplady. Still others come from popular regional magazines such as the Norfolk Chronicle and the Gospel Standard. More work could be done to identify where she and her family resided and what schooling she had access to. Additional work could be done on at least one other hand in the book several times signed John Newton and potentially her husband given that her mother Mrs. Morley gifts her the book under the name Newton. unknown
1832200244AB1832. No Place London Charles Knight & Co. No Year 1832. Circa 225 pages. Features thirty black and white portraits with many black and white illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with half-leather and buckram boards. Gilt lettering and blind design on spine with raised bands with gilt ornament. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only minor foxing throughout. Some tissue guards loose. With marbled edges and marbled both endpapers and pastedowns. Name of previous owner written in blue ink on free front endpaper "Richard Allen" also featured within in pencil and dated '1832'. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen Translator Erik Haugaard. Includes for example the following portraits and biographies: Dante / Davy / Kosciusko / Watt / Turenne / Boyle / Newton / Michael Angelo / Moliere / Corneille / Halley / Sully / Pascal / Erasmus / Cromwell / Titian / Lionardo Da Vinci / William III / Napoleon / Goethe / Schiller / Correggio / Raphael etc. This volume of 'Gallery of Portraits' appears to be a compendium of selected biographies taken from other 'Gallery of Portraits with Memoirs' volumes. It was a publication by Arthur Thomas Malkin and the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge SDUK. The SDUK was founded in 1826 mainly at the instigation of Lord Brougham with the object of publishing information to people who were unable to obtain formal teaching or who preferred self-education. A Whiggish London organisation that published inexpensive texts intended to adapt scientific and similarly high-minded material for the rapidly expanding reading public it was wound up in 1848. Arthur Thomas Malkin 1803 1888 was an English writer alpinist and cricketer. Wikipedia hardcover
18895358Boston: B. Wilkins & Co. Printers 1889. Octavo 19.5 x 13.25 cm. 64 ii pages. Advertisements. Title on cover: Housekeeper's Hand Book. Index is actually a table of contents. FIRST EDITION. A church recipe collection with two hundred brief entries all attributed. A straightforward chapter of standards called Fancy Dishes claims center stage: Charlotte Russe Strawberry Blanc-Mange Orange Pudding Lemon Creams Jellied Peaches. Shortly after the organization of the first Methodist Episcopal congregation in what is now Newton Upper Falls a private home was purchased by a benefactor and transferred - in 1836 - to the trustees of the First Methodist Episcopal Society of Newton for use as a place of worship. In 1889 the congregants would have celebrated a semi-centenary but in the event the purpose for the fundraiser has not as of this writing been discovered nor is the later disposition of that first church recorded. Several miles west of Boston Newton is a decentralized city made up of thirteen villages seven of which saw the establishment of Methodist Episcopal Churches either before or soon after the Civil War. An echo of their stately façades fades in old photographs; to the extent that there are descendent congregations they converge in a functionalist space as the United Methodist Church of Newton. An edgeworn but sound text block. Some edge staining and rubbing; corners bumped and several stained or chipped. Stapled in now faded red paper wrappers with black lettering separated at the back with an amateur tape repair to spine. Good only. Scarce. OCLC retains a floating bibliographic record for one copy the link to its inputting agency severed; in neither Cook Brown nor Cagle. B. Wilkins & Co., Printers unknown
67546London: Osprey Automotive 1991. Motoring Quarto 23 x 21cm pp.128 illustrated throughout. Publisher's glossy photographic covers. Fine. A history of the Aston Martin marque. Includes a photo of the AMV8 adapted for use in 'The Living Daylights' 1987. From the comprehensive James Bond archive assembled by Jon Gilbert pencilled ownership within. London: Osprey Automotive, 1991 unknown
194735355Buenos Aires: Coleccion Nueva Fantasia / Editorial Codex 1947. First Edition. Slim quarto 27.5cm.; publisher's green pictorial paper-covered boards; 31pp.; illus. throughout many in color including color pictorial endpapers. Boards rather rubbed with chipping to paper front hinge starting to crack along bottom half; externally Good only however interior clean and near fine. Collection of African folktales for children. Unlocated in OCLC as of October 2017 nor in the NUC COPAC or KVK. Coleccion Nueva Fantasia / Editorial Codex unknown
1902744631902. GARDNER Harry Newton. Art Work of Binghamton. Published in Nine Parts. Chicago: The Gravure Illustration Company 1902. 1st ed. Folio. 13 leaves. 58 photogravure plates. Later cloth red morocco spine label original gilt-pictorial wrappers for each part bound in. spine lightly sunned slight wear to rear outer hinge interior fine. Rare Worldcat locates three copies. Photogravure views of Binghamton New York at the turn of the twentieth century accompanied by 13 leaves of text. Includes images of scenic landscapes court house river views interior view of municipal building homes of notable residences panoramic view over city clubhouses cemeteries state hospital street scene parks public and commercial buildings churches schools charitable homes and bridge. unknown
192951572"Oak Knoll":: Privately Printed 1929. First edition; one of 950 copies. publisher's cloth-backed blue boards with printed paper labels in publisher's two-part box lacking the glassine wrapper. Very fine copy in near fine glassine. Light sunning and use to the top half of the box. . Large 8vo. Illustrated. . Signed and inscribed by A. Edward Newton referencing the "shade of Thomas Hardy." Privately Printed, hardcover
192929690Berwyn: Oak Knoll 1929. First edition. Unpaginated. Fine in very good plus original glassine dust jacket. Lacking the original slipcase. One of 950 copies. A privately printed monograph concerning Hardy's publication history and assessing his critical reception; the text is punctuated by holograph reproductions of letters to and from Hardy. Berwyn: Oak Knoll unknown
1990166006Munich: Schirmer / Mosel 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Boldly INSCRIBED by Helmut Newton on the title page: "For - / Congratulations !! / Helmut Newton / London / 6.11.1991."<br /> <br /> Fine and unread in a Near Fine lightly rubbed dust jacket.<br /> <br /> Oversize volume shipping billed at cost. Schirmer / Mosel unknown
193617980New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1936. First Edition Second Printing. Cloth. Very good/very good. The Hoover Administration: A Documented Narrative by William Starr Myers and Walter H. Newton signed by President Herbert Hoover. Octavo viii 2 553pp 1. Blue cloth title stamped in black. The second printing without the Scribner's A on the copyright page. Offsetting to endpapers wear to blue cloth on the spine. Even toning to leaves throughout. Includes a laid-in compliments card from the author Walter H. Newton. In the publisher's dust jacket $3.50 on the front flap a few closed tears pink hue to rear panel light soiling to covers and verso a very good example. Tracey 46 Burns 0469 Signed on the front free endpaper: "The Good Wishes of Herbert Hoover." From Burns: "This authorized account tries to vindicate Hoover's actions in dealing with the depression. He was presented with a unique challenge that has to be appreciated in a more reflective and sober manner than has been assumed by past historians. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
189346305London: Macmillan and Co 1893. Very Good. London: Macmillan and Co. 1893. First Edition. Octavo; red cloth stamped in gilt; green endpapers; 175pp. advertisements. Boards lightly bumped with mild soiling more heavily along spine. Binding sound; previous owners' bookplates to front pastedown; a Very Good and sound copy. Macmillan and Co unknown
193447251New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1934. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1934. First Edition with "A" on copyright page. Thick octavo 23cm; publisher's cloth in white decorative price-clipped dust jacket; xii2674pp.; portrait frontispiece. Moderate wear and soil to cloth and jacket margins jacket spine panel toned front hinge starting; Very Good overall in the rare jacket. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
193647413London: Taylor and Francis 1936. Very Good. London: Taylor and Francis 1936. First Edition. Octavo 21cm; publisher's green cloth gilt-lettered spine; xv386pp.; portrait frontispiece two leaves of plates facsimiles in text. Spine cloth quite faded endpapers a bit toned else Very Good and sound. Ownership ex libris of the late chemist and bibliophile Sydney Ross to front pastedown.<br /> <br /> First appearance in print of this manuscript sold by a descendent of William Stukeley in 1931 when it was purchased by Messrs. Davis and Orioli and presented to the Royal Society. Taylor and Francis unknown
194648025Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1946. Very Good/Very Good. Cambridge: At the University Press 1946. First Edition. Small octavo 19.3cm; pictorial dust jacket with 7s. 6d. net price intact; publisher's blindstamped red cloth with silver lettering to spine; viii128pp.; four plates including frontis all present. Jacket edgeworn with some surface scuffs and smudges. Boards square with light bumping at spine ends. Small bookplate of Dr. Sydney Ross of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute New York to front pastedown. Brief pencil notes to recto of rear free endpaper and rear jacket flap else unmarked. Binding sound. <br /> <br /> A short account of Isaac Newton's thirty-year tenure as Warden and later Master of the Royal Mint written by a fellow Master of the Mint John Craig. Cambridge University Press unknown
189946309London: Adam & Charles Black 1899. Very Good. London: Adam & Charles Black 1899. First Edition. Octavo; red cloth boards; black endpapers; 52pp. index and advertisements. Bumping and light soiling to boards; binding sound; bookplates to preliminaries else unmarked; a Very Good and sound copy. Adam & Charles Black unknown
17715136166113<p><strong>NEWTON MARTIN Benjamin</strong><strong>.</strong> <em>Philosophia Britannica: Or A New and Comprehensive System of the Newtonian Philosophy Astronomy and Geography; In a Course of Twelve Lectures; With Notes; Containing the Physical Mechanical Geometrical and Experimental Proofs and Illustrations of All the Principal Propositions in Every Branch of Natural Science: Also a Particular Account of the Invention Structure Improvement and Uses of All the Considerable Instruments Engines and Machines; With New Calculations Relating to Their Nature Power and Operation.</em></p><p>London: Printed for W. Strahan; J. & F. Rivington; W. Johnston; Hawes & Co.; T. Carnan and F. Newbery; B. Collins; W. Frederick; and sold by the Author at his House in Fleet-Street 1771. Third edition. Complete in four volumes. Three text volumes plus a separate atlas volume of plates. Quarto. Approximately 8.5" x 5.5". Vol. I: xxx 333pp 3 ads; Vol. II: xiv 390pp 2 ads; Vol. III: x 405pp index. Atlas volume with 81 engraved copperplates the majority folding. Contemporary or near-contemporary half marbled calf over marbled boards with one repair to the upper spine of Vol. IV. Bindings sound and well-aligned. Engraved plates clean and strong with no losses; folds supple and correctly opening. Text generally clean throughout with manuscript annotations on the versos of the plates linking them to the relevant portions of text. Overall Very Good to Very Good.</p><p>Third and expanded edition of Benjamin Martin's monumental exposition of Newtonian natural philosophy combining physics astronomy geography mechanics and experimental science into a single unified system. The work includes extensive treatment of optics celestial motion gravitation hydrostatics pneumatics electricity and the mechanical powers alongside detailed explanations of contemporary scientific instruments and experimental apparatus. The separate atlas volume contains 81 finely engraved plates illustrating astronomical systems orreries telescopes microscopes air pumps electrical machines engines survey instruments and mechanical demonstrations.</p><p>This third edition represents the fully mature state of Martin's project as a practical synthesis of Newtonian science for broad professional use in the later eighteenth century. Unlike earlier editions which often survive without the full engraved apparatus this issue consolidates the theoretical text and the mechanical-visual program into a coherent instructional system. The separate atlas format allows for larger clearer mechanical and astronomical engravings than the inline plates of earlier printings making this edition particularly well suited for institutional reference in the history of science technology and scientific pedagogy.</p> Printed for W. Strahan; J. & F. Rivington; W. Johnston; Hawes & Co.; T. Carnan and F. Newbery; B. Collins; W. Frederick hardcover
17521862Spain 1752. 18th-century manuscript. Text in Spanish. 24 handwritten pages in ink in three different hands. Later binding of blank paper using old material. Tiny wormholes at the lower edge of the pages on the first 7 leaves not affecting the legibility. Occasional foxing ink ghosting. Water stains on the last 2 leaves. Overall in fine condition. 18th-century manuscript. Text in Spanish. 24 handwritten pages in ink in three different hands. ff 12. <p><br /> 18th-Century Spanish manuscript about the Spanish involvement in the French Geodesic Mission of 1735 and the Ellipsoid Model of the Earth.<br /> <p><p><br /> The manuscript is an interesting collection of contemporary reports proving the importance of the Spanish role performed by Jorge Juan y Santacilia and Antonio de Ulloa in the so-called French Geodesic Mission 1735 with a particular focus on the polemic over the shape of the Earth. The quotations are conjugated with connecting texts by an anonymous author.<br /> <p><p><br /> One of the important scientific disputes of the late 17th early 18th century was the debate on the shape of the Earth. The assumption of the spherical shape was dominating until the late 17th century when Sir Isaac Newton determined that the Earth was oblate a spheroid stretched over the Equator however at the same time Giovanni Domenico Cassini and his son Jacques supposed that the Earth was prolate stretched along the poles. Eventually in 1735 two expeditions were sent by Louis XV and the French Academy to the Arctic Circle Lapland and to the Equator Ecuador and Peru to gain certainty by measuring the meridian arcs at polar and equatorial latitudes. The equatorial mission was accompanied by two Spanish geographers Jorge Juan y Santacilia and Antonio de Ulloa thus it became the first major international scientific expedition. The findings of the missions confirmed Newton’s hypothesis that the Earth was oblate a rotational ellipsoid.<br /> <p><p><br /> The first part of the manuscript is a lengthy citation of an early Spanish report on the equatorial mission published in the Mercurio histórico y político February 1745; pp. 99–107 which is followed by further references and quotations related to the geographer’s their work and the figure of the Earth such as Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro’s Theatro critico universal 1751 Bernardo’s de Ulloa’s Antonio’s father Restablecimento de las fabricas y comercio español 1749 and articles from the Journal de Trévoux or the Gaceta de Zaragoza. The second part is Diego de Torres Villarroel’s 1693–1770 study Prevenciones in: Libros en que estan reatados. Vol. IV.; 1752 in which de Torres the almanac writer and professor of mathematics of a dubious repute opposes the findings of the missions and Newton’s hypothesis of the oblate Earth.<br /> <p><p><br /> Antonio de Ulloa 1716–1795 was a Spanish scientist and explorer the first Spanish governor of Louisiana who is also credited as the discoverer of the element platinum. De Ulloa was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. His associate Spanish scientist in the Geodesic Mission to Peru was Jorge Juan y Santacilia 1713–1773 who during the mission also measured the heights of the mountains of the Andes. Jorge Juan was the founder of the Real Observatorio de Madrid Royal Observatory of Madrid and he became a Fellow of the Royal Society too. Their co-written memoirs were published in Spanish from 1748 on and their books were very soon translated into French English and German.<br /> <p><p><br /> Literature: Lafuente A.; Mazuecos A.: Gentlemen of the Fixed Point: Science Politics and Adventure in the Geodesic Expedition to the Viceroyalty of Peru in the XVIII Century. pp. 171–203. Retrieved on July 8 2020 from Mayboudi L. S.: chapter 5.1 In: Geometry Creation and Import With COMSOL Multiphysics. Dulles VA USA: Mercury Learning & Information 2019.; Richardson D.; et al: The International Encyclopedia of Geography People the Earth Environment and Technology: Chichester UK; Hoboken NJ: John Wiley & Sons 2017.<br /> <p>. unknown
199679392Canberra: National Gallery of Australia 1996. First edition. 4to. 64 pp w/glossary & list of works. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Newton on the half-title page. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia unknown
38306Seattle: Marquand Editions 2013. Fine. One of 20 copies plus 5 artists proofs. This copy is one of the artist's proofs. This complicated and fascinating artist's book was described and exclaimed over by a number of reviewers and critics at its publication. Most simply it is a magician's case of graphic story books but in reality it is much more than that. Chris Byrne's obsessional graphic novel took a decade to realize and another two years to produce. He and designer Scott Newton worked with Paper Hammer Studios in Seattle to construct an audaciously ambitious bit of publishing magic. The Magician is an epic graphic novel a bookmaking tour de force a mesmerizing art object and the completion of over a decade-long obsession of author Chris Byrne. This enigmatic box of wonders houses a dozen separate publications printed and hand bound using a variety of techniques. Although individual works they are considered parts of the whole. The twelve books include Theogony Handmade Down the Head Mountain Man/She-Wolf Letterpress Flipbook 4-Ply Toilet Paper Moleskine The Magician Manual M'Phase Unfinished Versions Colophon and Curtains From Marquand Editions website. The magician's large case measuring a foot long and foot wide is custom-built with plywood and metal and sits atop casters. It is painted black and decorated by a white rope pattern that crisscrosses its width.<br /> <br /> Wrote art curator and critic Dan Nadel in 2013 about this production: "There is no single apt reference point for Chris Byrne's ingenious The Magician. It is a wunderkammer a Cornell-ian box a visual novel a conjurer's tool kit. Above all it's a moving multi-faceted graphic narrative. There's never been anything quite like it." <br /> <br /> From writer and editor Christina Geyer's review in FDLuxe in 2014: " Chris Byrne is indeed the author. In this case though author is a loaded word - and means much more than one who writes a story. For The Magician which Byrne began working on as an undergrad student in 1987 it refers to conceptualizing illustrating designing and storytelling. The novel - actually 12 stylistically different books in one box - sprang from Byrne's longtime fascination with semiotics and the language of signs. Thus began the idea of creating an alternative comic strip of sorts. It is in short a story about a hermaphroditic magician who was conceived in a public bathroom and who eventually creates the universe. 'It's an exploration of the realms of the unreal; Byrne says. 'It may even be a goof on the creation myth.' The books and their many visuals illustration and symbols are meant to be read. interacted with and interpreted deeply by the reader.The result is a high-design book and a collectible art object." <br /> <br /> In fine condition. Extra shipping costs will apply. ARTB/120821. Marquand Editions unknown
46208London : Newton & Co. 1897. Photographic glass magic lantern slide 82 x 82 mm mount; the black paper border has a ms. caption in white ink in right-hand margin: 'A Summer Evening / July 1894' and a printed label in the left-hand margin 'From Nansen's ""Farthest North"" Copyright'; maker's printed label partially visible at upper left; old collection number in ms. lower left; the slide is in excellent condition with no chips scratches or other marks. Scarce lantern slide reproducing one of the photographs taken on the first Fram expedition 1893-96 under Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen. Photographs on the expedition were taken by Nansen himself as well as some of the other crew members. Although they did not reach the North Pole Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen with a team of Samoyed dogs and sledges achieved a record Farthest North latitude of 86°13.6′N. The set of Farthest North slides was first issued by Newton & Co. early in 1897 around the same time as Nansen's published account of the same name. The following advertisement for the set appeared in the firm's 1899 trade catalogue Catalogue of magic lanterns dissolving-view apparatus and lantern slides: ""499. We have obtained the sole right to re-produce as lantern slides the pictures in Dr Nansen's 'Farthest North'. These Slides are printed from the same negatives as those used by Dr Nansen at his own lectures. Of these Slides 'The Times' of February 9th 1897 says: 'A series of singularly beautiful photographic illustrations of the many interesting and exciting incidents of the Expedition.' The above 52 Slides have been selected as forming a fairly comprehensive set.†unknown
1929227Berwyn Pennsylvania "Oak Knoll: Privately printed 1929. Very good in marbled paper boards with paper spine and cover labels; in partial glassine wrapper and good blue box with paper title label but with wear and one corner torn. First edition thus limited to 500 copies. A facsimile of Richardson's popular 1769 work this was Newton's Christmas greeting sent to friends and associates in 1929.<br /> <br /> 16mo. xv 14 166pp. Fleck 88. Privately printed unknown
192919411929. NEWTON A. Edward. Pamela or Virtue Rewarded. A Facsimile of the Edition of 1769. With an Introduction by. 12mo. Original boards. "Oak Knoll": Privately printed 1929. First edition thus. Limited to 500 copies. Inscribed by Newton. A fine copy. unknown
194122073New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries 1941. 4 volumes including the prospectus volume small folio illustrated throughout; very good set in the dust-jackets. The famous sale catalogue of the library of one of the most famous book collectors of the 20th century. Parke-Bernet Galleries unknown
022453n.d. Print. Fine. Richard Thomas Hood. An 8" x 11" ORIGINAL ETCHING image size of 6" x 8" of the great book collector by Richard Thomas Hood SIGNED by the artist and by Newton. From the Artists Series created by Richard Thomas Hood 1910-1993 Philadelphia artist and Director of the Pennsylvania Art Project WPA. <br/><br/> unknown
1968284341Chicago: Students for a Democratic Society 1968. 16p. staplebound pamphlet 6x9.25 inches subscription application on rear cover has been filled out in pen otherwise very good. Interview reprinted from the August 1968 issue of the San Francisco activist newspaper The Movement. Students for a Democratic Society unknown
