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1612ST13801London: printed by Thomas. Snodham. for Iohn Stepneth and are to be sold at his shop at the west-end of Paules Church 1612. FIRST EDITION. 205 x 155 mm. 8 x 6". 18 p.l. 611 1 pp. 601-08 misnumbered 561-68 8 leaves. <br/> New unlettered limp vellum by Courtland Benson in imitation of the original binding. STC 1896; ESTC S124314. ◆Half a dozen gatherings a little browned occasional mild foxing or small rust spots additional trivial imperfections otherwise an excellent copy clean and very fresh in a pleasing new binding.<br/> <br/> This conversation manual by an Italian teacher based in London offers an intriguing glimpse into the lives and concerns of the wealthier classes in 17th century Europe. An early effort to teach language through dialogue the book is part cultural history part guide to better health and it is clear evidence of the importance of the study of Italian in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. The seven dialogues cover subjects from health to travel to servants with Italian and English text on facing pages. Many of the dialogues begin with phrases that will be familiar to all beginning language students: greeting others selecting items of clothing asking prices or directions ordering food. As the conversations progress they explore various topics that one might expect to encounter in polite society. An early morning exchange between master and servant evolves into a discussion of the importance of sleep the optimal amount of sleep for good health and the significance of dreams. A dialogue that begins with ordering meals leads to an involved colloquy about the benefits and disadvantages of fasting and abstinence; the virtues and defects of bread butter meat dairy and eggs; diet recommendations for the healthy and the sick; the best diet for each season; and the importance of a walk after dinner. Other dialogues include advice for travellers observations on the political situation and life at court and finally a discussion of that most eternally fascinating topic: love. This work is of continuing interest and value to linguists as it documents the Benevento Italian dialect which is in need of preservation. It's an extraordinarily rare book probably because it was the sort of volume subjected to hard use: in addition to ours we could trace only two copies in ABPC and RBH since 1948. printed by T[homas]. S[nodham]. for Iohn Stepneth, and are to be sold at his shop at the west-end of Paules Church unknown
2002238j1617Fort Lee New Jersey: Barricade Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 1569802351 . Signed and inscribed by Lenni Brenner upon verso of of half-title. "Brings to light through historic documents the approaches that Zionists made to the Nazis before and during the Holocaust. Some were published in English decades ago and are unknown to the general public. Others are completely translated into English for the first time. The documents were selected so the true historic picture emerges. The evidence proves that Zionism betrayed the Jews in their hour of desperation." - dust jacket. xii 342 pp. Glossary. Index. "Born into an Orthodox Jewish family in 1937 Lenni Brenner formerly known as Leonard Glaser or Lenny Glaser is an American Trotskyist writer. In the 1960s he was a prominent civil rights movement activist and vocal opponent of the Vietnam War. Since the 1980s his activism has focused on anti-Zionism." - Wikipedia. Tight and unmarked with light wear and light foxing to edges and endpapers. Dust jacket now in glossy new archival protection. A high-quality signed example of this stunning compilation of "explosive information historians ignore." - dust jacket. ; 8vo; Signed by Author . Barricade Books hardcover
1931328c6774Paris: Editions R.I.S.S. 1931. First Edition. Paperback. Fair. 225 pages. "Beneath the great westward flow of our civilization there are undercurrents moving eastward. These are impelled by a spirit which looks back to the east to the days of tyrant and slave of luxury and misery and incidentally to the suppression of western culture. The following pages are designed to cast light on these eastern undercurrents which have undermined western states." - Preface. Black and white photographic portrait of Sergius A. Nilus who "published the first complete version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Russia in 1905." - Wikipedia. In this work "the genesis of the Protocols is traced to Asher Ginzberg better known by his Hebrew pen name Ahad ha-Am who supposedly wrote the Protocols in Hebrew in 1880 while in Odessa." - Singerman 0221. Erratum list affixed inside front cover. Unmarked. Above-average wear. Age-yellowing to card covers and contents. Covers nearly detached. Binding tender.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion Zionism Israel Balfour Declaration Jacob Brafmann Russia Asher Ginzberg Political Zionism Ahad ha-Am . Editions R.I.S.S. paperback
1918833j0216Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Fair. 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. "Shortly after I retired from teaching I picked up Conant's 1959 book-length essay 'The Child the Parent and the State' and was more than a little intrigued to see him mention in passing that the modern schools we attend were the result of a 'revolution' engineered between 1905 and 1950. A revolution He declines to elaborate but does direct the curious and the uniformed to Alexander Inglis's 1918 book 'Principles of Secondary Education' in which 'one saw this revolution through the eyes of a revolutionary.' Inglis 1879-1924 for whom a lecture in education at Harvard is named makes it perfectly clear that compulsory schooling on this continent was intended to be just what it had been for Prussia in the 1820s: a fifth column into the burgeoning democratic movement that threatened to give the peasants and the proletarians a voice at the bargaining table." - John Taylor Gatto. "Gatto 1935-2018 taught school for nearly 30 years and was named New York City's Teacher of the Year in 1989 1990 and 1991. In 1991 he retired saying he no longer wished to 'hurt kids to make a living.' He went on to author books on education including 'Dumbing Us Down' and 'The Underground History of American Education'" - Wikipedia. "I moved heaven and earth as it took years to find a copy of this book." - John Taylor Gatto. xvi 3-741 1 10 ads pp. Index tables references graphs footnotes problems for further consideration. Prior owner's name and date upon front free endpaper. Binding tender but intact. Occasional light pencil underlining and markings. Above-average wear to original red brick cloth lettered in gilt upon backstrip. No dust jacket presumably as issued. A rare surviving copy of this profoundly historic documentation.; 12mo . Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
1988655j2566London: Kegan Paul International. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 0710300530 . Signed and inscribed by Uri Davis upon front free endpaper. "Outlines the legal and political history of the Jewish National Fund since its founding including its activities in the territories Israel has occupied since 1967. The Fund was establshed in 1901 as one of the instruments of the World Zionist Organization in implementing its objective - the establishment in Palestine of a Jewish state. The role of the Fund in this enterprise was the acquisition and development of territory for Jewish colonization. The Fund has been virtually ignored in the voluminous literature on the conflict over Palestine. Of the few book-length studies available all are the Fund's own productions. To date this is the only detailed study of the Fund by independent researchers." - dust jacket. "The JNF has faced numerous criticisms for its role in the displacement of Palestinian Bedouins the construction of Israeli military installations the construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank - considered illegal under international law - and its refusal to lease to non-Jews." - Wikipedia. In 2024 the Canada Revenue Agency revoked the charitable status of the JNF Canada. Born a Palestinian Jew Uri Davis b. 1943 is an academic and civil rights activist who has written numerous books and articles on the question of Palestine. xx 390 p. Index. Extensive bibliography and footnotes. Facsimiles of documents. Book clean tight and unmarked with light wear. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. A quality example of this important and rare exposé all the more signed. ; 8vo; Signed by Author . Kegan Paul International hardcover
1939237H1210London: Hurst & Blackett Ltd. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1939. Second Printing. Hardcove. 223 16 ads pp. Index. "The problem of the Jews in Britain and the power they wield in public affairs is a matter of the most absorbing interest in these days when propaganda has clouded the issue and made it almost impossible for the ordinary man to see the subject in its true perspective. This book is a critical but strictly impartial analysis written by a well-known Fleet Street journalist who has studied the whole problem for a number of years in the light of events since the Great War." - from dust jacket. Unmarked with moderate wear to publisher's orange cloth. Binding intact. Small contemporary Buenos Aires bookseller's sticker inside front board. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Singerman 494.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; Britain's Jewish Problem Question Anti-Semitism Palestine Problem Trade Monopolies Gold Commercial Morality Public Morals Communism . Hurst & Blackett, Ltd. unknown
1945441j1322New York: Didier Publishers. Good in Good dust jacket. 1945. Second Printing. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. "The story of the writer's experiences in the Nazi concentration camp of Sachsenhausen the experimental laboratory where the Nazis perfected the techniques in extermination later applied to victims from all over Europe. It was also the training ground for the personnel recruited from the dregs of Germany's prisons. Shows how human fortitude ingenuity mutual loyalty and the will to live can enable men to survive unbelievable degradation; or if they must die to die like men." - dust jacket. "The impact of your memoir is terrific. I think this book is an achievement equalling Zola's J'Accuse." - Manfred George Editor. "We ought to have these stories preserved. The whole race suffers when such things happen." - Pearl Buck Nobel laureate. "Leon Szalet 1892-1958 made a daring attempt to escape Germany in 1939 but was sent back by the British. On September 13th 1939 he was arrested by the Gestapo in Berlin and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp along with another five-hundred Polish Jews who lived in Germany." - Wikipedia. iv 284 p. Second printing of the 1945 first edition. Black and white reproduction of the Alien's Order 1920 which caused Szalet's expulsion to Berlin from England. Inscribed in New York on July 31st 1947 to I. Z. Melup presumably Irene Melup 1925-2016 of the Crime Prevention & Criminal Justice Branch of the United Nations. She joined the U.N. in 1946 shortly after its founding and established a reputation as a defender of victims' rights the world over. Sources: The International Society of Criminology Online obituary. Tight and unmarked with average wear to original red cloth. Average wear to complete dust jacket now in archival protection. A special copy. Kehr & Langmaid 6239 Weiner Library Cat. 7 1819. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author . Didier, Publishers hardcover
451j1948New York: KTAV Publishing House Inc. Good with no dust jacket. 1974. Reprint. Hardcover. "The notion of identifiable 'lost tribes' involves certain presuppositions concerning Hebrew history and masses of supposed local evidence in many parts of the world. These presuppositions and the assumed evidence require a candid and searching anthropological historical examination. This book has no other purpose or method. But the examination brings to light a great body of the real facts of Hebrew history." - Preface. "The main thrust of Godbey's work is to disprove the assumption that the northern tribes taken into captivity by Sargon II in 722/1 B. C. were lost in the welter of international movements following that event." - J. M. Myers. "Godbey is fascinating. He is well worth reading - for his consummate passion for detail for his marvelously intricate tapestry of scholarship in an area where so much is tricky territory. He tells us a great deal about the horizontal development of Judaism." - Morris Epstein. "Allen Howard Godbey 1864-1948 of Missouri was a Methodist minister Methodist historian and teacher writer and scholar in the field of the Old Testament Hebrew history archeology and Semitics. He was a professor at Duke University 1926-1932." - SNAC. Reprint of the 1930 Duke University Press first edition with added Prolegomenon by Professor Morris Epstein. iv-xxxiv 2 802 42 black and white illustrations pp. Extensive bibliography. Index of scripture passages. Topical index. Footnotes. All three foldout maps present and in excellent condition. Former library copy with minimal related markings and moderate wear. Contents very clean. Binding intact. Includes facsimile of the first edition dust jacket which is a quarter inch shorter than the boards of this reprint edition. A sound example of this extraordinary work of erudition. ; Sm 4to; Lost Tribes Jews Jewish HIstory Revisionism . KTAV Publishing House, Inc. hardcover
1967843H2615Ludhiana India: Indological Research Institute 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed and inscribed by author upon half-title page. xvi 196 pp plus six black and white photographic plates illustrating ancient coins and one plate showing coin monograms. Index. Author's inscription indicates this copy was submitted to the British Museum in 1968 for review. "The chief merit of this book is that it reviews all that has been done on the subject by previous scholars both Indian and foreign and embodies the fresh data with fresh interpretations. It is a welcome addition to the existing literature on the subject of ancient Indian history in general and on that of the early Indian numismatics in particular." - Foreword. Small contemporary price stamp upon copyright page otherwise book clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding sound. Bit of writing on front flap of dust jacket which shows average wear and is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this important reference. Indological Research Institute Hardcover
1909441j1345London: Cope And Fenwick. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1909. Eighth Edition. Hardcover. "I have here pointed out even more emphatically than in the original edition that superstition especially the 'blood-superstition' is even nowadays very wide-spread and that it has had in the past as it has in the present deplorable yes and horrible consequences." - Preface. "Hermann Leberecht Strack 1848 1922 was a German Protestant theologian and orientalist; born in Berlin. He was the foremost Christian authority in Germany on Talmudic and rabbinic literature and studied rabbinics under Steinschneider. Since the reappearance of anti-Semitism in Germany Strack had been the champion of the Jews against the attacks of such men as Adolf Stoecker August Rohling and others." - Wikipedia. Translated from the Eighth edition with corrections. New preface and additions by the author. Translated from the German. xvi 2 19-289 p. Index. Bibliography. Footnotes. No dust jacket. The original binding of this title was notoriously short-lived thus this example is expertly rebound in bright maroon buckram lettered in gilt upon spine. Two-inch opening to bottom of page 27. Trivial ink annotations to pages 25 and 37 otherwise tight and clean with light wear. A quality example.; Sm 4to . Cope And Fenwick hardcover
189228822Montreal: F. E. Grafton & Sons. Very Good. 1892. 1st Edition limited. Numbered and signed by the author. Large 12mo hardcover in duo-tone cloth cover: dark green spine over red buckram cloth separated by a vertical wreath of Maple leaves tight textblock pages clean bright and unfoxed the cover has a trace of rubbing at tips front hinge weak endpaper loose book plate of Frances Silcox McDowell else VG. Attractive copy in the duo tone cloth. 149pp illustrated all present including dramatic Victoria Bridge maps top edge gilt. Quite scarce; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . F. E. Grafton & Sons hardcover
1971832j1613New York: Random House. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1971. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0394462831 . "The story of the historic alliance of two groups since the 1800's their struggle for equality with other Americans and of the hostility that has grown between them in the last decades. Concludes by documenting the historical reasons for the Jewish community's fear of Black anti-Semitism and suggests that the tensions surrounding that conflict must be resolved by the entire American community in an effort to realize this country's promise of equality. This book grew out of the highly regarded Case Study of a Riot which the author wrote for the Institute of Human Relations Press." - dust jacket. "A troubling book which illuminates the present by the still more terrifying past." - Michael Novak author of Theology of Radical Politics. "This book is an immeasurable help in certain aspects of my own work." - John Howard Griffin author of Black Like Me. 10 436 pp. Second printing. Tight and unmarked with very light wear to original navy cloth lettered in silver and gilt. Average wear to unclipped dust jacket. A quality example of this extraordinary study. ; Dust Jacket Design; 8vo . Random House hardcover
184830143Wendell and Van Benthuysen. Very Good. 1848. First Edition . Hardcover. Compact octovo hardcover 614 pages tight and square spine/binding pages clean untorn and unmarked text has a scintilla of foxing covers have light wear with intact and readable spine label else VG. Contains 67 plates including Indians flora fauna buildings full page maps etc. Two large folding maps: laid in is "Map of Territory of New Mexico" by Kearney "under instruction from Emory" 1846-47 and "Sketch of part of the march & wagon road of Lt. Colonel Cpple from Santa Fe to the Pacific Ocean 1846-47". Both are serviceable one reattached to stub with archival tape the other laid loose with no tears. Overall solid and intact. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Wendell and Van Benthuysen hardcover
1659048785London: The Newcomb for George Thomason; JD for John Wright; Richard Chitwell and Thomas Cockerill 1659. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Three parts in five volumes in original uniform full calf. First volume with inner joints cracked and endpaper detached and title partially detached paper lifts from the removal of a bookplate on the front pastedown binding still sound and held by cords. Other bindings in fine condition with some surface wear all with neat later rebackings with the original spines laid back down. Rare together and with the folding map in volume 1. The subsequent parts published in 1680 and 1691. Rushworth died in 1690.<br /> <br /> Rushworth was Oliver Cromwell's personal secretary from the execution of Charles in 1649 to his elevation to Lord Protector when Rushworth became Registar of the Court of Admirality and them a member of parliament. His historical collections were enormously influential in shaping the narrative around Charles I and Cromwell and a favorite of Thomas Jeffersons some years later.<br /> <br /> volume I: 691 57pp with frontis portrait folding map later state portrait of Charles I. <br /> <br /> Second Part: 884pp last page with small tear to corner and 884-1388pp 315pp appendix.<br /> <br /> Third Part: Portrait of the author. 788pp index. 988pp index. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Inventory No: 048785. The Newcomb for George Thomason; JD for John Wright; Richard Chitwell and Thomas Cockerill hardcover
1902441j1136London: "Review of Reviews" Office. Good. 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. "Cecil Rhodes 1853 - 1902 was an English mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. He and his British South Africa Company founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia now Zimbabwe and Zambia which the company named after him in 1895. He also established the Rhodes Scholarship which is funded by his estate. He entered the diamond trade at Kimberley in 1871 and with funding from Rothschild & Co began to systematically buy out and consolidate diamond mines eventually gaining a near-complete monopoly of the world diamond market. His diamond company De Beers formed in 1888 retains its prominence into the 21st century." - Wikipedia. Latter day researchers highly value this work as they claim it contributed to WWI and that Rhodes Stead and Lord Milner designed concentric rings of organizations intended to merge Britain with the U.S. to rule the world. x 198 glossy pages. Index. Generously illustrated with black and white photos including tissue-protected black and white frontispiece portrait of Rhodes. Contents clean bright tight and unmarked. Moderate toning to endpapers. Average wear to original green cloth lettered and decorated in white upon front board and lettered in gilt upon backstrip. No dust jacket presumably as issued. A sound example.; 8vo . "Review of Reviews" Office hardcover
2080202103700084Kodansha N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: 22cm A5 Kodansha paperback
19952080202103700245Iwanamishoten 1995. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: 26cm B5 Iwanamishoten paperback
1928347h5608London: Arrowsmith. Good. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. "Whatever place its author may ultimately occupy in future histories of England one thing is certain that in the history of the Jewish people the name of Balfour will enjoy unchallenged immortality evoking comparison with that of Cyrus for the issue of the Balfour Declaration marked the opening of a new epoch in the annals of Jewry which will be recognised as such even in the remotest centuries to come. In this little book have been gathered together all the utterances of Lord Balfour on the interpretation and implications of his Declaration on its political aspects and its practical realisation made during the last ten years." - Preface. 4 5-128 pp. 7" x 4.75". Original spine label present and intact. Front free endpaper professionaly replaced. Tanning to central portion of half-title. Prior owner's ink stamp upon title page. Duplicate spine label bound at p.128. Average external wear. Binding intact with moderate forward lean. Quarter inch notch from top of backstrip. Includes replica dust jacket preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound example of this jewel of Zionist history. Emanuel p.48. ASIN B000852UV4; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; Zionism - History Balfour Declaration Lord Balfour Arthur James Balfour Israel - History Lord Rothschild Palestine Mandate The Hebrew University . Arrowsmith hardcover
1943223j2732New Delhi India: The Manager of Publications India. Fair with No dust jacket as issued. 1943. First Edition. Paperback. An encyclopedic reference "detailing British and Indian officers including names ranks commissions promotions unit assignments and war services during WWII. Served as an official reference for appointments awards and casualties within the Indian Army." - Google AI. 2790 pages in two volumes. Interesting vintage advertisements. Few markings to covers. Above-average wear. Bindings intact. A rare example of this extraordinarily informative WWII reference. ; Sm 4to . The Manager of Publications, India paperback
1960238c6436USA: Chestnut Mountain Books. 1960. Eighteenth Printing. Hardcover. Good in Fair dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. "Reveals how an immigrant group and its descendants have seized control of America's political parties and many of her cultural and educational organizations - even churches." - promotional handbill a facsimile of which is included with this book. Beaty 1890-1961 "was a military intelligence officer during WWII and served in the Office of War Information in Washington DC. During the war he was Chief of the Interview Section and interviewed over two thousand persons most of whom were returning from some high mission delicate assignment or deed of valor. Thus he had a unique opportunity to learn the history resources ideologies capabilities and intentions of the great foreign powers. In its most essential aspects that picture was terrifyingly different from the picture presented by our government to the American people."- Preface to a later printing. "Ought to be compulsory reading in every public school in America." - Senator William A. Langer. "A most pertinent and excellently presented treatise on the cancer on our national set-up." - Vice-Admiral T.G.W. Settle U.S.N. "If my health would permit it I would go on a continuous lecture tour gratis and preach your book and recommendations." - Korean War hero Gen. George E. Stratemeyer. viii 3 267 pages. Extensive index. References cited in text. Moderate wear to clean cerulean blue original cloth brightly lettered in gilt. Unmarked with moderate spine lean. Binding intact. Heavily worn and soiled dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Also included is a four-page reproduction of fascinating 1955 correspondence between Henry Schultz National Chairman of the ADL and Lt.Gen. George Stratemeyer regarding his unreserved endorsement of this book. Seidman B85 Weems p.58 Singerman 829.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Conspiracy United States Government; Signed by Authors . Chestnut Mountain Books hardcover
1922426j0650London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd. Good with no dust jacket. 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. "Twenty-one short chapters devoted to the corruption of England by the Jews with Israel Zangwill receiving the greatest abuse in chapter nine 'The Daddy of the Lot'" - Singerman 0131. Chapter Four The Learned Elders recounts how the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion are argued to be a forgery derived from an 1865 work by Joly. Crosland claims Joly was a Jew and that "it is far more likely that what he wrote was derived from an earlier version of the Protocols than that the Protocols are derived from his book." - p 31. 6-160 p. It is said that this scarce satirical study of the Jewish character was supressed at the time as it annoyed many fine gentlemen Lord Rothschild among them. Unmarked with average wear to original red cloth lettered in black. Binding intact. No dust jacket. A sound vintage example.; 12mo . T. Werner Laurie Ltd. hardcover
1924441j1248London: John Murray. Good with no dust jacket. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. "Religion and Communism are incompatible. The Church must be swept out of our path as an obstacle to the progress of culture." - Pravda p. 5. "The more I studied the details of the great attack which the Soviet Government first launched against the Christian Churches in Russia five years ago and which it has continued up to this day the greater and more complex the subject seemed to grow. Finally I decided that it would be better for me to say something even though that something were fragmentary and incomplete than to say nothing; that it would be well for me to record in a less ephemeral and disconnected form than that of newspaper articles the great story of Patriarch Tikhon's fall and Archbishop Cieplak's condemnation. It is of course the Russian Orthodox Church that has borne in the past and that bears now the brunt of the persecution: 28 of its bishops and 1215 of its priests are said to have been put to death." - p. xii. In 1922 Francis McCullagh 18741956 "traveled to Moscow as correspondent for the New York Herald but was expelled in April 1923 after reporting a show trial of Russian catholic priests. He lectured extensively on Bolshevik religious persecution and published his findings about it in this book." - Dictionary of Irish Biography. "A hostile account by a British Roman Catholic journalist who had worked with the Kolchak regime and was present at the trial of the Roman Catholic Archbishop Jan Cieplak in 1923 to which event half the volume is devoted." - Smele 5838. xxi 1 2-401 pp. Index. Glossary. Eleven pages of black and white photographic plates. Professionally rebacked with original blue cloth lettered in gilt upon backstrip. Binding tight. Foxing to edges and first few leaves. Former library copy with relatively few associated markings. No dust jacket if one was issued. A sound and rare copy of this important history. 9" x 6". ; 8vo . John Murray hardcover
163112London. Fine; Very Early Edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs in Large Folio 3 Volume . Set. 1631-41. Leather. gorgeous matching 3 vol. set professionally rebound in fine leather spine with raised bands and gilt lettering with new marbled boards and end papers. Volume 1 is from 1641 and is 1033 pages long Vol. 2 is from 1631 and is 788 pages long volume 3 is from 1641 and is 1030 pages long. VERY SCARCE AND HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE! A few pages professionally repaired. Each volume is 13 inches tall and 9 1/2 inches wide. Have pictures if so desired.; large size . hardcover
17595386Milan: Giuseppe Galeazzi 1759. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo 20.2 x 14.4 cm. XXII pp. 352 pp. 8 ff. with 1 large 40 x 50 cm folding plate containing 5 illustrations; title-page printed in red and black engraved device on title. Bound in contemporary publisher's binding title in ink on spine. Minor edge wear minor staining to lower cover. Quires C and E loosening internally very fresh and clean retaining deckle at fore-edge and bottom edge toning to plate marginal paper flaw and rear reinforcement of crease to plate otherwise an excellent copy. Rare first and sole edition of this treatise on the proportional compass written by the Jesuit Giovanni Marchelli. The work was expressly written for the use of Marchelli's mathematics pupils in the Jesuit College of Milan and thus provides interesting evidence for the use of scientific instruments in Jesuit education. The text offers an advanced understanding of Galileo's landmark instrument and coming from a Jesuit it is perhaps notable that Galileo's "invention" of the instrument is so candidly celebrated. The proportional compass or 'sector' in fact combines two separate instruments one for making observations by adding a quadrant to its arms the other to calculate various measures like proportion trigonometry and squares and cube roots. Its several scales permit easy and direct solutions for problems in surveying gunnery and navigation. Conceived as a universal instrument the device was adapted for a variety of pedagogical purposes far more diverse than Galileo's sector ranging from pure geometry to such practical operations as taking measurements for the architectural orders p. 11 converting currency and calculating interest p. 42 performing various 'rule-of-three' operations such as the dissolution of business partnerships p. 53 surveying passim and the construction of Napier tables p. 73. The compass scales are well illustrated and the text includes tables giving the positions of the various markings. The large folding plate provides diagrams "for constructing Galileo's quadrant" that show with great refinement exactly where the markings on the quadrant's arm and tangent are to be engraved. The final chapter deals with military problems such as the determination of the caliber of cannon balls. OCLC locates copies at Adler Planetarium Michigan Oklahoma Woodstock Theological. De Backer-Sommervogel V.525 4; Cinti 177; Carli-Favaro 128; Tomash II.M34. <br/> <br/> Giuseppe Galeazzi hardcover
1942163H4369London: Hutchinson & Co. Publishers Ltd. 1942. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 156 pages. Index. Seventeen black and white plates. "In this unusual and important book the author traces the remarkable history of 'The Pilgrims' a unique organization which may well prove the basis and meeting-ground for an even closer fellowship between the the two great English-speaking peoples on whose constant friendship the peace of the world so largely depends." - from dust jacket. "The goal to move America into global government is not new. It was the goal of many British aristocrats specifically Cecil Rhodes and industrialist Andrew Carnegie along with the Pilgrim Society." - Joan Veon 2007. Average wear to unmarked book which is foxed at edges. Above-average wear and yellowed tape repairs to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A worthy example of this elusive title much-sought by conspiracy researchers. Please note that this is not a limited edition copy. Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. Hardcover
