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1659M9569Lugduni:: Antonii Cellier 1659. 1659. Two works bound together. Small thick 4to. 16 535 3; 8 311 9 pp. Engraved frontis. port. engraved title vignettes engraved head pieces engraved initials 5 folding tables index; lightly foxed marginal damp staining to upper corner from half-title-112 & 473-538 pp. first work marginal burn hole 447-448 pp. text unaffected small marginal chip to title second work damp staining 1-14 & at head of gutter 12-74 pp. second work ink stain p. 51 wear affecting text p. 313 second work - index with early repair and ms. replacement of missing letters. Early paper spine preserving original vellum boards; spine & extremities rubbed vellum soiled. Very good. RARE. EARLY EDITIONS. Important works by Riverius on the practice of medicine. Riverius was physician to the King of France and introduced the teaching of chemistry to the University Montpellier. He was one of the earliest advocates of Harvey's doctrine in France and made valuable contributions to the history of dentistry dermatology otology and psychiatry. NLM 17th C. 9694 & 9718; Wellcome IV p. 534 both works. Complete title: Institutiones MedicAe in Quinque Libros DistinctAe Quibus Totidem MedicinAe partes Physiologia Pathologia Semeiotice Hygienine & Therapeutice Dilucide Explicantur. Lugduni: Antonii Cellier 1656. WITH: Observationum Medicarum & Curationum Insignium CenturiAe Tres Quibus Accesserunt Obseruationes ab Aliis CommunicatAe: Necnon Centuria Quarta Post Obitum Authoris in eius MusAeo Reperta; & Cura ac Diligentia Simeonis Iacoz Doctoris Monspeliensis in Lucem nunc Primum Edita cum Obseruationibus Morborum Infrequentium Anonymi Cuiusdam Inter eius Scripta Repertis. Antonii Cellier, 1659. hardcover books
1982131859Hitchin Herts. England: Mandeville 1982. stiff paper wrappers. Mandeville Press. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 12 pages. Limited to 250 copies 35 numbered and signed by the author. This copy is thus signed. Wood engraving by Richard Shriley Smith on title. A collection of poetry. Mandeville unknown books
197953652Iowa City: Grilled Flowers Press 1979. First edition. 32 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers with printed cover label. One of 200 numbered copies. Translated from the original French by Frank Jellinek. Iowa City: Grilled Flowers Press unknown books
200431288London: Spectre 2004. 1st edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. F/F. 266 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Spectre hardcover books
1997010294London: Sceptre 1997. Book. Near fine condition. Paperback. Reprinted from the tenth London edition. Octavo 8vo. vi 634 pages of text. Paperback binding in almost new condition. Text is clean and unmarked. Sceptre Paperback books
4697Offered here is a rare and unusual collection of designs and drawings the work of what appears to be a single binder for Riviere & Son from the late 1920's with a very few possibly later. There are 8 large designs for spines with some drawings tool impressions two of which are in color; 4 smaller designs for spines; 7 small "snippets" of tooling designs; 7 front cover designs some drawings some with tool impressions; 26 rubbings of bindings covers spines etc. various sizes; 4 miscellaneous: a sheet of oasis leather samples used for the Andrew Lang Fairy Books tool roll samples for a set of Shakespeare a small piece of paper with what looks to be time studies for various bindings e.g. ìΩ Plain 50 minî spine design samples from various sets of English authors sheet with various pictorial tools used and which authors titles etc. to use them e.g. a witch on a broom and ìThe Arthur Rackham Fairy Bookî. A variety of paper has been used in these examples some thicker but much of it quite fine i.e. tissue quality. Some small tears and browning from being folded for decades but overall most pieces in nice shape. A most scarce archive of original bookbinding records from one of the most famous bookbinding companies in the history of modern bookbinding. <br/><br/> hardcover books
950Salt Lake City. Gibbs M. Smith Inc. 1983. unknown books
951Paris. Henri Flour. 1907. 4 to. pp. iv 176 4. 42 hors texte plates in color and monochrome and 103 other illustrations. The Deluxe edition of 100 on Rives en Dauphine Velin paper from the total edition of 1000. With a deckled edge. Original wraps bound in. The frontispiece and wrappers were designed by Georges Auriol who also designed the ornaments and type. A Portrait of Riviere by Theophile Steinlen. Original etchings by Riviere "Le coup de Vent" and "Enterrement aux Parapluies". The text includes a catalogue of Riviere's etchings lithographs and woodcuts. unknown books
1981TB06057New York: Random House 1981. First Edition. First printing Fine in decorated black cloth covered boards with red text stamping on the spine and a red embossed open boot on the front board and illustrated end sheets. A small quarto measuring 11 1/8 by 7 3/8 inches. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 299 pages including an index. Illustrated with black and white line drawings throughout. Random House hardcover books
1860WRCAM6253Washington 1860. 501pp. Modern cloth leather label. Occasional foxing small tear to one leaf not affecting text repaired with tape. Very good. The main work is a request for "enlargement of the powers and privileges of said company as will enable them to extend their road to the Pacific at or near Mazatlan." hardcover books
1893WRCAM22985Philadelphia 1893. 39pp. Plus large folding map laid in. Original printed wrappers. Negligible chipping to upper margin of front wrapper. Very good. With John Birkinbine's report on water volume potential of the St. Louis River at the head of Lake Superior. Map depicts portion of St. Louis River in Minnesota showing property of the St. Louis River Water Power Company from Thomson to Fond-Fu-Lac. unknown books
181837090Buenos Ayres: Imprenta de Los Expòsitos 1818. First edition. A near fine copy light edgewear faint toning. Broadside. 4to. Dated and signed in print: Quartel general en Santiago abril 8 de 1818 -Exmo. Sr. José de San Martin. San Martin's second and conclusive report on the success of the Battle of Maipu on the 5th of April which won the Chilean stuggle for independence. San Martin and his rebels completely destroyed the Spanish forces led by General Mariano Osorio. The Spaniards were so completely overrun with nearly 3000 prisoners taken and 2000 dead that San Martin soon swept through and liberated Peru. "Despues de mis repetidos avisos del resultado de la batalla del 5 en el llano de Maypú tengo el honor para mayor esclarecimiento de V.E. de incluir los partes originales que he recibido añadiendo que à la fecha pasan de mas de 2500 prisioneros con 170 oficiales. Los enemigos habian dexado en Talca sus grandes despositos parque equipages y caja militar: yo estoy seguro que todo caera en nuestro poder." The broadside ends: "Hoy salen para esa ochocientos prisoneros americanos y manana de quinientos a seiscientos; es muy buena gente especialmente los Chilotes." Quite scarce. OCLC shows only a single copy at JCB. Not in BN Chile. Zinny: BibliografÃa histórica p. 216 No. 18. BibliografÃa del General Don José de San MartÃn IV p. 135. Imprenta de Los Expòsitos unknown books
18301718221st Cong. 1st Sess.: HD106. 1830. 57 1 blank pp disbound. Light tanning scattered foxing. Good. AI 5155. HD106. unknown books
199323567Macau 1993. Paperback. Very Good. 2 vols. 630 494p. Oriiginal wrappers. 25cm. Title and text in Portuguese Chinese and English. <br/><br/> paperback books
1959012055NY: Basic Bokks 1959. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition of Riviere's translation. Light brown cloth each volume apparently unread. No bookplates either. Solid set. Basic Bokks hardcover books
00231London: various publishers 1748. A Fine Collection of Smollett First Editions <br/><br/>SMOLLETT Tobias. The Adventures of Roderick Random. In Two Volumes. London: Printed for J. Osborn 1748. Together with: The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane. A New Translation by the Author of Roderick Random. Adorned with Thirty-Three Cuts Neatly Engraved. In Four Volumes. London: Printed for J. Osborn 1750. And: The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. In which are included Memoirs of a Lady of Quality. In Four Volumes. London: Printed for the Author: And Sold by D. Wilson 1751. And: The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom. By the Author of Roderick Random. In Two Volumes. London: Printed for W. Johnston 1753. And: The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves. By the Author of Roderick Random. In Two Volumes. London: Printed for J. Coote 1762. And: The History and Adventures of an Atom. In Two Volumes. London: Printed for J. Almon 1769. And: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. By the Author of Roderick Random. In Three Volumes. London: Printed for W. Johnston and B. Collins 1671 i.e. 1771. And: The Adventures of Telemachus the Son of Ulysses. Translated from the French of Messire François Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon Archbishop of Cambray. By T. Smollet M.D. London: Printed for S. Crowder T. Longman G. Robinson R. Baldwin and E. Johnston 1776. And: Plays and Poems Written by T. Smollet M.D. With Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Author. London: Printed for T. Evans and R. Baldwin 1777.<br/><br/>All first editions first edition in book form of The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves. Together nine works in twenty-two twelvemo volumes.<br/><br/>Uniformly bound in early twentieth-century polished calf by Rivière & Son stamp-signed on the verso of the front free endpaper. Covers ruled in blind spines ruled in blind with five raised bands and two olive green morocco gilt lettering labels all edges gilt marbled endpapers. Date in gilt at foot of spine. A superb collection.<br/><br/>Tobias Smollett 1721-1771 "English satirical novelist best known for his picaresque novels. Smollett apprenticed as a surgeon and throughout his life he combined the roles of medical man and writer.In 1748 Smollett published his novel Roderick Random a graphic account of British naval life at the time and he also translated from the French the great picaresque romance Gil Blas. Peregrine Pickle was published in 1751 and The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom.appeared in 1753.He translated Don Quixote from the Spanish 1755 and in 1756 he became editor of The Critical Review a Tory and church paper at the same time writing his four-volume Complete History of England 1757-58.In 1759 he was convicted for libel on Admiral Sir Charles Knowles in The Critical Review fined and sentenced to three months' imprisonment in the King's Bench Prison. He drew on his experiences there for his two-volume novel The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 1762.His finest work Humphry Clinker 1771 recounts the adventures of a family traveling through Britain" Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature.<br/><br/>Rothschild 1905 1910 1912 1919 note 1923 and 1925. Tinker 1924 1927 1932 and 1933. London: [various publishers], 1748 unknown books
90223scSt. Johns River Water Management District Department of Resource Management. Quarto paperbound 26 pp. Fine. Illustrated with maps charts tables etc. unknown books
188313324Philadelphia: Russell & Creamer 1883. Original printed wrappers light soil and staples. 30 clean pages. Very Good plus. This is a scarce prospectus for the Company a Wisconsin corporation formed in 1881 with plans to use the water power of the River. The rapids of the St. Louis River near Duluth furnish "one of the greatest of all the available water powers of the world." Indeed "the water power of the Mississippi at its one place of fall is so much less in available power than the fall of the St. Louis River." When fully developed the area around Duluth will be preferable to Chicago for "the great markets of the East." Much material is presented on the opportunities for development of the lumber trade and available natural resources. Expenses data on area commerce and material on commerical opportunities are presented. FIRST EDITION. 515 NUC 0038380 2. Not in Eberstadt Decker Soliday Graff. Russell & Creamer unknown books
1989265640Tustin CA: R.S.V.P. 1989. Paperback. 48p. 5.5x8.5 inches erotic fiction illustrated with drawings and photographs very good first edition booklet in stapled goldenrod pictorial wraps. Porn star Vanessa del Rio interviews editor Stout and appears in several b&w nude shots.del Rio was born Ana MarÃa Sánchez in NY and is of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent. R.S.V.P. paperback books
187233775Houston: TexasBaptist Herald 1872. First Edition. 171pp. fold table at rear. Original printed wrappers. Unrecorded by Winkler TexasBaptist Herald unknown books
1906277307London: Cassell 1906. First. hardcover. very good-. About 100 Illus. 14 maps. Tall 12mo red cloth cloth lightly dampstained one corner bumped scattered light foxing not affecting illustrations. London: Cassell 1906.<br/><br/> Cassell unknown books
195540432Denver CO: The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company 1955. 1st printings. Beige printed paper wrappers stapled. Light wear to paper faint creasing. A VG set. One of 10 pp. one of 14. Charts housed within. 10-1/2" x 9-3/8" <br/><br/>"The Rio Grande was the epitome of mountain railroading with a motto of Through the Rockies not around them and later Main line through the Rockies both referring to the Rocky Mountains. The D&RGW operated the highest mainline rail line in the United States over the 10240 feet 3120 m Tennessee Pass in Colorado and the famed routes through the Moffat Tunnel and the Royal Gorge. At its height around 1890 the D&RG had the largest operating narrow gauge railroad network in North America. Known for its independence the D&RGW operated the last private intercity passenger train in the United States the Rio Grande Zephyr." Wikipedia. The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company unknown books
195540440Berlin Canada: Grand River Railway 1955. 1st printings. Buff paper printed with black ink. Moderate wear to paper age-toning edgewear with light creasing and chipping no losses to text. Bottom of advertisement torn. An about VG collection. 3 items each of folded single sheets. Single black and white photographic image to advertisement. Varying sizes. <br/><br/>This collection includes: Grand Railway's "The Lake Erie and Northern Railway" Timetables No. 29 & 62 and a "Last Call" Interurban Jaunt advertisement for a farewell trip to the Lake Erie & Northern Railway and the Grand River Railway on May 1 1955. Grand River Railway unknown books
1983242704Yonkers: Hudson River Museum 1983. paperback. very good. Durand Asher B. Introduction by James Thomas Flexner. Catalog by Barbara Gallati. Illustrated in black & white. 96pp. Slim 4to stiff printed wrappers. Yonkers: Hudson River Museum 1983. Slight wear at hinge still a very good copy.<br/><br/> Published for an exhibition at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers NY from January 23 through March 6 1983.<br/><br/> Hudson River Museum unknown books
00454scsAltona Manitoba; The Red River Valley Echo 1997. Quarto glossy pictorial boards hardcover 96 pp. Fine As New. hardcover books
