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19463744Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1946. Single sheet 46 cm x 40 cm that folds to pamphlet size 23 cm x 10 cm Minor overall wear. Folds as issued. Informational brochure on Hoover Dam that includes a history of construction and the surrounding area with description of the down stream benefits and the hydroelectric abilities. Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps.<br/><br/>"The once wild Colorado River has been tamed. Now it is doing man's work bringing untold wealth to the vast agricultural and industrial Southwestern empire which it has helped to create. Completion of Hoover Dam in Black Canyon closed an initial chapter in man's long effort to harness the resources of one of the world's most treacherous rivers. U.S. Government Printing Office unknown books
19683745Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1968. Single sheet 23.5 cm x 60 cm that folds to pamphlet size 23.5 cm x 10 cm Minor overall wear. Folds as issued. Informational brochure on Hoover Dam that includes a history of construction and the surrounding area with description of the down stream benefits and the hydroelectric abilities. Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps.<br/><br/>"The American Society of Civil Engineers selected this pioneer Reclamation multipurpose project on the Colorado River in Black Canyon between Nevada and Arizona as one of this country's Seven Modern Civil Engineering Wonders. A bronze plaque - mounted in a concrete pedestal on the upstream roadway parapet at the center of the dam with Arizona on one side and Nevada on the other - records this honor for visitors to see. U.S. Government Printing Office unknown books
1851406078New York: Wm. C. Locke & Co 1851. Wrappers chipped at edges professionally rebacked some unobtrusive offsetting on map. 8vo. 50 pages. Large folding map on three joined sheets 21 x 1788 cm; 8.25 x 61.75 inches. 11 woodblock illustrations in text and with 2 more not recorded in the index but always present. Original printed wrappers with woodblock vignette. SCARCE Hudson River Railroad travel guide published the first year in which the full line was completed. It covers points of interest along the route with woodblocks illustrating the text. Topics include: the history of the Hudson River the history of the construction of the Hudson River Railroad and the cities towns and villages along the Hudson from New York City all the way to Troy. Concerning the West Point Foundry at Cold Spring the guide states: "the iron foundry was established here by Gouverneur Kemble. The works are situated about a mile west of the village upon a small stream which tumbles rapidly down the mountains affording considerable water power. It is the largest establishment of its kind in the country employing nearly five hundred hands constantly." The building of the Hudson River Railroad is another topic in the guide. The project was considered highly impractical since much of the route had to be cut through extremely difficult rock and terrain. This section includes a description of the tunnels which had to be constructed. The railroad was opened in three stages. In September 1849 it allowed passengers to travel from New York to Peekskill. By that December 6 twenty-three additional miles were opened extending to New Hamburg. By the 31st of the month it was open the remaining distance of nine miles to Poughkeepsie. The Hudson River Railroad was an extension of the Troy and Greenbush Railroad which was chartered in 1845 connecting Troy South to Greenbush now Rensselaer on the east side of the Hudson. The Hudson River Railroad was chartered on May 12 1846 to extend this line south to New York City. The full line opened on October 3 1851 the same year in which this travel guide was published. WorldCat/OCLC records 25 copies but it is scarcely found complete with the map and the map is also excluded from the digitized versions available online. <br/><br/> Wm. C. Locke & Co 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
185964413Chicago IL: Press and Tribune Print 1859. First edition. 8vo. 203 51 pp. Folding plate tables. "On the question of whether the railroad bridge from Rock Island Illinois to Davenport Iowa was a hazard to the navigation of the Mississippi River" OCLC. "James Ward a St. Louis steamboat owner filed a bill praying that the bridge be declared a nuisance and ordered removed; in 1866 Congress finally passed an act requiring that the bridge be replaced by another half the cost to be paid by the United States" "The Mississippi River: St. Louis' Friend or Foe" by James Lemly Cambridge U. Press online. Drop-title: "District Court United States. Southern District of Iowa. James Ward vs. Mississippi & Missouri Railroad Company." Chicago Ante-Fire Imprints 413: "Not located title from Heartman Cat. No. 187 June 1926 No. 300." OCLC locates eight copies New York Public Yale Chicago History Museum Harvard-Baker Missouri-St. Louis Cincinnati/Hamilton County Public Library of Congress Newberry. Very good. Original printed olive wrappers some soiling lacking rear wrapper rebacked with archival paper. 10747. <br/><br/> Press and Tribune Print unknown books
19563166Rio de Janeiro: Editorial Imperio Lisbon for: Ministerio da Educacao e Cultura 1956. First Edition. Very good. 4to. 1 f. blank 5 9-377 8 pp. With 9 plates. Original publisher's stiff wrappers printed in black and red edges uncut spine darkened and with one small stain; some minor soiling to covers. NOT ex-library! Important and extremely detailed catalogue of 187 incunables from the BN Rio de Janeiro. "Handsomely printed in Portugal from type specially made in England this compilation meticulously collates 187 items. Following the example of major catalogues of incunabula particularly the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke the author gives all the data that should be necessary to identify the volumes concerned and to compare them with other known copies. Details on place date pagination type and provenance when known are followed by excerpts from selected pages" B.M. Woodridge in: Romance Philology vol. XIII no. 1 August 1959 pp. 94-5. To give but example: No. 160 describes the undated "Sacramental" by Sanchez de Vercial a description which occupies three pages 283-285 and is illustrated with two full-page plates. <br/><br/>¶ From the famed Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana sale at Christies NY 2005 lot 1255 with his penciled accession number penciled on front cover. [Editorial Imperio, Lisbon, for]: Ministerio da Educacao e Cultura unknown books
183730977Watertown N.Y.: Knowlton & Rice 1837. 12mo. 24 pp. <br><br>An interesting take on children and religious life. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Apparently not in American imprints. Disbound. Old faded inscription on title-page. Good condition. Knowlton & Rice unknown books
178029817Madrid: En la Imprenta Real de la Gazeta 1780. Small 4to 19.5 cm; 7.75". 2 X 437 1 pp. <br><br>Third edition "corregida notablemente por los autores" who were both doctors of law of a lively and standard treatise on the civil law of Castile but with a section at the end of each chapter on the differences that obtain in Aragon because of the "fueros" legal exemptions that exist there.<br>Â Â Â Â Earlier editions appeared in 1771 and 1775. Of this edition WorldCat locates only six U.S. libraries reporting ownership. The work was translated and published in English in 1825. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Palau 18719. Contemporary quarter dark leather with marbled paper sides; binding worn and marbled paper very faded and abraded. All edged marbled. Waterstain in upper quarter of most of the volume. En la Imprenta Real de la Gazeta hardcover books
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
1674D6962Venice: apud Franciscum Brogiollum 1674. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio book 5 only 325 x 220mm. 12 159pp. 9 443pp. 21. Engraved woodcut printers device depicting Europa. Title printed in red and black. Tables. Double column. Some woodcut ornamental head- and tailpieces and initials. Later half vellum over marbled boards endpapers renewed light browning and foxing or dampstaining. Pictorial wood-engraved ex-libris by Leo Wyatt for Lord Norwich on pastedown. <br/><br/>Rivières extensive compendium of medicine. There was a parallell edition of Rivières Opera medica universa printed in Frankfurt of this same year Sumptibus Joannis Petri Zubrodt. This volume is book five in his extensive compendium of medicine with sections on physiology pathology semiotics preservation of health and therapeutics. Subjects dealt with include cancer haemorrhaging the amount of food required by a healthy individual the diagnostic significance of bloodshot eyes and the medical properties of various fruits nuts and vegetables. Rivière 1589-1665 professor at Montpellier was the first to introduce the Paracelsian iatro-chemistry or the internal use of metallic compounds to Montpellier and the first to note aortic stenosis. apud Franciscum Brogiollum hardcover books
1739WRCAM52099Manila 1739. 3611 leaves. Small quarto. Slightly later limp vellum spine title in manuscript edges sprinkled red remnants of two ties at fore-edge. Boards with some ink and dampstaining corners bumped. Small unobtrusive stamp on titlepage verso. Contemporary manuscript inscriptions on front and rear endpapers. Light tanning else internally clean. Very good. An exceedingly rare work printed at the University of St. Thomas in Manila the first university in Asia providing instructions to the Order of Dominicans in the Philippines for the completion of their various religious duties. A second work on the privileges allowed to various members of the order and those accorded to natives is also included with continuous foliation. Del Rio was a Dominican who had arrived in the Philippines in 1713. He worked primarily in the town of Pangasinan eventually became the Procurator General of the provincial order and is known to be the author of one other work an account of a small Philippine mission also from 1739. The Dominicans first arrived in the Philippines in 1587 and used Manila as the base of their operations in Asia and the Pacific. Not in the National Library of Spain OCLC locates only one copy of the present work at the Boston Public Library. MEDINA MANILA 207. LeCLERC 2939. PALAU 268230. OCLC 317736434. hardcover books
1953WRCLIT37363New Haven: Yale 1953. Cloth. First edition. The first full-length study of Riviere in English. A volume in the Studies in Modern European Literature and Thought series. About fine in spine-tanned moderately soiled dust jacket. Yale hardcover books
107322Southhampton PA: James River n.d. stiff paper wrappers. Paper Specimens. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 2 pages of text followed by five specimens printed in color. Paper specimen booklet issued by one of the premier paper companies in America. Printed in color throughout. James River) unknown books
6739Madrid: Afrodisio Aguado n.d. 86p. wraps 4.75 x 6.75 inches lightly worn and soiled else very good condition. Text in Spanish. A collection of the thoughts and testament of Primo de Rivera with a testimonial from Franco appended. Afrodisio Aguado unknown books
182520303Windsor Vermont: W. Spooner 1825. 12pp stitched and untrimmed. Widely margined lightly tanned leaves creased. Very Good. With the contemporary signature 'Simeon Adams Esq Marlborough Vermont.' <br/><br/> Delegates are listed by State primarily NH and VT with some representation from CT and MA and Town and their doings recorded. Their Memorial to Congress argues that the Connecticut River "is an object of primary importance in a national point of view" and solicits "the patronage of the National Government" in funding the necessary improvements. <br/>FIRST EDITION. AI 21080 4. Rink 4384 4. W. Spooner unknown books
182520323Windsor Vermont: W. Spooner 1825. 12pp disbound and untrimmed. Widely margined lightly dusted. Signed on the title page 'Hon. Wm. C. Bradley' the Vermont Congressman. <br/><br/> Delegates are listed by State primarily NH and VT with some representation from CT and MA and Town and their doings recorded. Their Memorial to Congress argues that the Connecticut River "is an object of primary importance in a national point of view" and solicits "the patronage of the National Government" in funding the necessary improvements. <br/>AI 21080 4. Rink 4384 4. W. Spooner unknown books
1978134188Paris: Henri Veyrier 1978. Large octavo pp. 1 2-95 96 profusely illustrated wrappers. First edition. A fine assemblage of illustrations of Verne and his milieu. Spine panel nicked at top and bottom a near fine copy. #134188 Henri Veyrier 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
198712259NY: Harper & Row. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0060158646 . Illustrated by Sarah McDonagh. First printing of the American edition. Fine in a dust jacket that would also be fine save that it is price clipped. . Harper & Row hardcover books
1974231945n.p. 1974. 22p. staplebound booklet. An attack on Kissinger's support for anti-socialist politicians in the artist's trademark comix style. This piece was also published in the September 1974 issue of Los Agachados De Rius; the publisher of this separate offprint is not stated. Paper somewhat toned corner curled. unknown books
1356Paris E.Flammarion Enoch & CIE. 1899. Oblong 4to. pp. 40 with 18 color lithographs by Riviere including 15 full page. 1st edition. Original pictorial boards with color printed design by Rivière. Minor scuffing and wear weak spine. A fine example of fin-de-siecle Japonisme and of Riviere's graphic work. Typography and printed decorative fleurons and endpaper by George Auriol. Slightly worn and rubbed. Interior fine. RIVIERE HENRI . Fragerolle Georges. LA MARCHE A L'ETOILE. MISTERE EN 10 TABLEAUX. Poème et Musique de Georges Fragerolle. Illustrations by Henri Rivière. Paris E. Flammarion Enoch & CIE. 1899. Oblong 4to. pp. 40 with 18 color lithographs by Riviere including 15 full page. 1st edition. Original pictorial boards with color printed design by Rivière. Minor scuffing and wear weak spine. A fine example of fin-de-siècle Japonisme and of Rivière's graphic work. Typography and printed decorative fleurons and endpaper by George Auriol. Slightly worn and rubbed. Interior fine. unknown books
14375New York: Hudson River Day Line Albertype Co. Large format postcard for this steamship company printed in colors; No. 102 of the series; postally unused; approximately 6" x 8" size; no date but circa 1920s; some light wear and rubbing to paper edges some mottling to image; good condition. Good. Hudson River Day Line Albertype Co. unknown 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
157810732Rennes: J. du Clos for P. Le Bret 1578. Contemporary vellum soiled and stained later manuscript spine title evidence of four pigskin ties slightly overlapping edges ruled in red. Only Antiquarian Edition: "The Demosterion provides the most extensive documentation of early French Paracelsianism" Baudry tr. Half in French and half in Latin its six parts present an introduction to Paracelsian doctrine a distillation of its principles into three hundred bilingual aphorisms a work on divination a dictionary of Paracelsian terms a chiromantic essay and a balneological and mineralogical description of Brittany. Together the texts address alchemy geomancy astrology ethics dietetics physiology pathology and cures for ulcers leprosy edema plague gout and paralysis.    Schematic the first plate outlines which remedy cures which ailment according to Paracelsian principles. The second plate has a large woodcut with the phases of the Moon passing through a sidereal month noting enterprises and therapies favored on each day along with astrological influences.    Complete and in good condition ink spots on the plates two contemporary title inscriptions one dated 1579 19th-century manuscript shelf labels.¶Trevor-Roper "The sieur de la Rivière Paracelsian physician to Henri IV" in Science Medicine and Society in the Renaissance: Essays to Honor W. Pagel ed. Debus 1972 II: 227-50; Baudry Contribution à l'étude du paracelsisme en France au XVIe siècle 1560-1580.Le Demosterion de Roch Le Baillif passim & 2172; Sudhoff Bibliographia paracelsica 181a n.; Duveen Bibliotheca alchemica 343-4 "very rare"; Brunet III: 897 "rare et curieux". [J. du Clos] for P. Le Bret unknown books
1946533481946. DE DEL RIO Amelia A. With E. Herman Hespelt. LECTURAS HISPANICAS: A CONVERSATIONAL APPROACH TO READING A READING APPROACH TO CONVERSATION. NY: The Dryden Press 1946. 8vo. blue cloth stamped in silver. First Edition. Signed presentation from de Del Rio on the front endpaper: "Para mi querida Mrs. Buchan con un alrago de su buena amiga Amelia A. de del Rio. 29 de octobre 1946- Nueva York." Very Good. $25.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
