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1703046283London: John Hartley 1703. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Contemporary paneled calf worn and dry rear board detached scattered minor browning and foxing generally quite clean internally. 16 423 1pp. In a custom leather backed slipcase and chemise. Size: Octavo 8vo. Previous owner's book-plate on endpaper. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046283. John Hartley hardcover books
1562046899Antwerp: Bellerum 1562. Second Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. Old colored vellum worn lacking front endpaper title browned and stained mild browning and a few light stains scattered marginalia in an early hand; generally clean. The second edition of the abridgment of Magnus's important history of the Northern people. 8 192 leaves with in text illustration throughout.<br/><br/>Magnus's history of Sweden and the North was enormously successful and popular and was translated early on into Italian German English and Dutch. It describes much folklore and customs not recorded elsewhere - including the first description of making the questionable Northern delicacy lutefisk. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Travel & Places; History. Inventory No: 046899. Bellerum hardcover books
1567046211Petri: Heinrich 1567. Early Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Modern half leather over marbled boards author penned to page edge lacking any blanks and lacking the full page map of Northern Europe with a facsimile tipped in. Collijn in his Swedish Bibliography suggested that the map was printed and inserted separately and only in some copies of the Basel edition. First Basel and Second Latin edition a reprint of the Rome edition of 1555. Illustrated with small woodcuts throughout. Dampstain to upper right from around page 500 on a few scattered dampstains modest foxing - generally a clean copy. 96 854 2 pp. Brunet III 1302. Magnus's history of Sweden and the North was enormously successful and popular and was translated early on into Italian German English and Dutch. It describes much folklore and customs not recorded elsewhere - including the first description of making the questionable Northern delicacy lutefisk. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Travel & Places; History. Inventory No: 046211. <br/><br/> Heinrich hardcover books
1684044178Madrid: Bernardo de Villa-Diego 1684. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Later tree calf light wear at the edges quite sound and attractive. Lacking the front blank and the frontispiece title torn with significant loss at the edges and laid back down. generally mild but pervasive soiling and foxing and a number of tears with loss and repairs to the fore edge of the pages: on page 301/2 with loss of a couple of words 135/6 287/8 221/2 and 269/70 touching a few letters 187/8 touching a few letters and additionally an unrepaired tear with no loss in the gutter page 11/12 with a long unrepaired tear touching a few letters and the gloss 5/6 touching a few letters and 543/4 with a tear on the bottom corner losing a word and a few letters; last two index pages with loss at edges old notes to rear blank. Some other minor loss at the edges which may obscure some glosses scattered stains small tears etc. Otherwise complete 32-548-15 p with pagination errors of 26-27 repeated 382-3 repeated and 399-400 absent. A flawed but essentially complete copy of the first edition the only edition printed in Solís's lifetime. Translated into French Italian English Danish and German the Historia was an enormously influential history of the Spanish conquest of Mexico as well as a much imitated piece of prose. Sabin 86446. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 044178. <br/><br/> Bernardo de Villa-Diego hardcover books
1593046826Cologne: Birchmannica 1593. Later Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. Contemporary vellum soiled and worn but sound title page torn with loss to the right edge age toning and foxing light stains lacking rear blank a few old stamps. 435pp index<br/><br/>Long attributed to John of Damascus this story of the martyrs Barlaam and Josaphat a Christianized version of the Buddha story was written down in the 10th century. Size: duodecimo 12mo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 046826. Birchmannica hardcover books
1600046554Coloniae Vbiorum Cologne: Cholini 1600. Later Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Contemporary full pigskin soiled and stained but sound. A few private library marks old names crossed out on title signatures to front blank modest browning to text block with scattered minor wear and worming to margins mispgination neatly corrected;generally quite clean overall with in text portraits throughout. 8 532 16 83pp blanks intact. <br/><br/>Platina's history of the popes first printed in 1479. He was also the author of the first printed cookbook a collection of recipes from Martino di Como 1475. His description of events in the Vitis Pontificum around the 1456 appearance of Halley's comet during the reign of Pope Callixtus III gave rise to the persistent tale that the comet was excommunicated. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Religion & Theology. Inventory No: 046554. Cholini hardcover books
1982046529Mexico: Fomento Cultural Banamex 1982. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Near Fine Condition. Quarter calf over red silk marbled endpapers. One of 500 sets slight sunning to cloth slipcases split to cloth on one edge of one slipcase spines faintly sunned. A lovely set. Incorporating text and images from the original manuscript of the Historia known as the Florentine Codex. xviii4 355; 6359-745 1pp and 80 color plates outside of the pagination. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Inventory No: 046529. Fomento Cultural Banamex hardcover books
1561046145Paris: Guillaume Morel Gulillaume Guillard et Almaricum Warancore 1561. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Contemporary armorial calf very worn corners worn through spine perished and cords exposed one head band detached binding still generally sound. Upper corner of front blank excised scattered foxing and early marginalia rules line in outer margin in second book some age toning but generally clean and bright internally. 30 639 32; 247 34 pp Two volumes in one printed in part by the successor press to famed Paris printer Charlotte Guillard Gregory of Tours important early history of Gaul and Ado's chronicle connecting the Roman Empire to the Carolingian Empire. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Inventory No: 046145. <br/><br/> Guillaume Morel, Gulillaume Guillard, et Almaricum Warancore hardcover books
1629045230Dilingen: Caspari Sutoris Kaspar Sutor 1629. Later Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. Contemporary vellum soiled but sound with the remains of leather ties. Old signature to title mild persistent foxing some wormholes in the right margins just touching a few letters mostly clean. A nice little Jesuit edition of Livy. 2646pp. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 045230. <br/><br/> Caspari Sutoris (Kaspar Sutor) hardcover books
1604045016Ambrosium & Hieronymum Drouart 1604. Second Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. 5 volumes bound in 9 in contemporary calf. Worn at the edges and corners spines a little dry but intact and attractive overall. Volume 1 with a single title page some copies were apparently bound with a second title page noting Estienne the publisher of the Folio edition. Old bookplates inside covers ownership marks and stamps to titles and first pages occasionally trimmed a little close on the top edge just touching the running title scattered minor pencil marks light dampstain to the corners of a section of vol vii but otherwise clean and a very good set overall. This is the second edition of Thou's history published 1604-1608 and the first octavo edition. It was published just after the Folio edition a few months after for the first volumes and almost simultaneously thereafter. The first two octavo volumes corresponding to the first folio volume and printed in 1604 identified here as Pars I and Partis Primae Tomus II is bound in four volumes as is the second volume published in two octavo volumes in 1606 and corresponding to the Folio volume also published in 1606. They are identified as Tomus Secundi Pars Prima and Tomi Secundi Pars altera. The final volume identified as Libri VI is bound in one and published in 1608 the Folio edition was published in 1607-8. Because Thou was editing and changing his systems of identification as he published the books the naming system is a little odd - this final volume follows the third and fourth octavo volumes and not the first two in how it is numbered. 1005pp index; 1013 index; 958 index; 886 index; 501 privilege index. Kinser pages 10-20. Graesse VII 147. Thou's history is one of the great monuments of Renaissance history and in its scientific factual take on events was much more a work of the enlightenment than the counter-reformation. As a result and despite some minor changes from the first edition all of the later books dealing with the wars of religion and other topics ended up on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1609. A 1620 edition collected all of the history and added Thou's Mémoires. Size: Octavo 8vo. 9-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045016. <br/><br/> Ambrosium & Hieronymum Drouart hardcover books
1592046070Geneva: Henri Stephanus Estienne 1592. Second Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Two volumes in one the Arrianus bound first and published in 1575. The second but first complete edition of Arrianus Estienne published the first in 1551 before the Iberica and Hannibalica sections had been found and added 72 pages of annotations. Contemporary armorial calf rebacked early on - loss tover y bottom of spine surface scratches old bookplate to added endppaers some browning and chipping to pages old repair to verso of Arrianus title page scattered minor foxing and staining - but a very good copy overall of two important Estienne histories both printed in Greek with Latin translation in two columns. 12.1986810; 12x2767172 342pp. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046070. <br/><br/> Henri Stephanus (Estienne) hardcover books
54767Okinawa n.d. Paperback. Good. illustrations 12 sheets mimeo on one side only two holes punched at top two rusty staples at left side. 27cm. All sheets partially stained yellow and slightly waxy but clear and readable. <br/><br/> paperback books
1882038143Portland: Stephen Berry 1882. First Edition. Softcover Pamphlet. Very Good. Card covers over original wraps. Front cover chipped a little at edges rear chipped and a bit soiled otherwise unmarked. 139pp. Williamson Bib of Maine 128 Size: Octavo 8vo. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: History; Inventory No: 038143. Stephen Berry unknown books
193815659New York: Public Affairs Committee Inc 1938. First Edition. Octavo. Blue wrappers; 31pp; illus. Light rubbing along edges; else a very good or better copy with no interior markings. Public Affairs Committee, Inc unknown books
1961254953Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Company 1961. 25p. stapled wraps 6 x 9 inches staples rusted a few small rust stains on pages else good second edition. Democracy Versus Communism Series No. 5. D. Van Nostrand Company unknown books
1957140346Washington: AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education 1957. pp. 39-56 stapled wraps 4x7.25 inches very good condition. COPE publication no. 8. On fundraising for political action. AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education unknown books
WALTER-FILM002147No binding. Very Good. Photo Vintage original 5 x 7"" 12 x 17 cm. black-and-white single weight glossy silver gelatin print still photo USA. The original attached paper blurb on the verso describes this image of Howard Hughes as that in which he is about to give a speech for the event described below: 10 14 July 1938: Howard Robard Hughes Jr. along with a crew of four departed Floyd Bennett Field Brooklyn New York on a flight to circle the Northern Hemisphere. His airplane was a Lockheed Super Electra Special Model 14-N2 registered NX18973. Aboard were Harry P. McLean Connor co-pilot and navigator; 1st Lieutenant Thomas L. Thurlow United States Army Air Corps navigator; Richard R. Stoddart a field engineer for the National Broadcasting Company NBC radio operator; Edward Lund flight engineer. Lieutenant Thurlow was the Air Corps' expert on aerial navigation. Stoddart was an expert in radio engineering. Thurlow Stoddart and Lund were also rated pilots. Before they took off from Floyd Bennett Field the Lockheed was christened New York World's Fair 1939 in keeping with an agreement that Hughes had made with Grover Whalen and the fair's organizers. Photo is dated 1/15/38 and is for his speech upon arriving after the flight. ACME photo stamp is on verso as is stamp for Ref. Dept. N.E.A. which at the time referred to the National Education Association. Shows minor use NEAR FINE. unknown books
1947GG818-189Indianapolis IN: International Typographical Union 1947. Later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Later Edition. 8vo. 8 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches. 10 separate sections separately paginated. Profusely illustrated index; occasional ink and pencil marginalia. Gilt-stamped dark blue cloth; binding square and tight rubbed. Very Good. Lessons in the Elements of Composition 1 through 10 complete plus the index issued as a single volume. International Typographical Union hardcover books
1580046178Geneva: Johannes Laon 1580. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Half red morocco by Lhuinte light wear at edges and hinges first few and scattered other pages including title faded likely from being washed Some minor foxing and soiling. Several paper repairs to margins occasional small edge tears and few closed tears in text few holograph annotations hole in the eye of the Savonarola portrait on B3 with minor affect to text on verso small hole in text on C4 repaired paper loss with affect to border of Paulus Fagius portrait on G2. Still quite clean and attractive overall. 37 portraits and 54 frames with names for future portraits and 44 emblems at the rear. 318pp A mixture of Protestant biography and emblem book - one of the first uses of the emblem book for Reformation purposes the first was Montenay's Emblemmes ou devises Chrestiennes 1571. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046178. <br/><br/> Johannes Laon hardcover books
199130401NY: HarperCollins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0060244054 . Illustrated by Felicia Bond. First printing. About fine in like dust jacket. . HarperCollins hardcover books
16084Early Women Education ALS Jn Howard. Preston. Nov. 29 1823. To his daughter Sarah "My Dear Child." 3 pages Autograph Letter Signed folded from a large sheet with the 4th page showing the original stampless address panel. Usual holes where original wax seal was torn off.<br/><br/>She writes in her hand in Part: "My dear child I had great pleasure in reading your letter to your Brother-and the more-when I understood that you had not only written it but composed it. I feel persuaded you will try to profit every Day by the kind and good instruction of your Cousin and Tutoress:--you must never esteem anything too difficult which you are set to do. If you were the King's Daughter you would have to learn in patient submission; and how much more ready should you be to do so in your situation in Life! Your dear mother and I have always been glad to see your fondness for reading but you must try always to understand and remember what you read-as it is not the quantity of reading but duly improving it which is the thing to be desired-and that makes it of real worth.Believe me dear Sarah we do not forget you but love you much tho' you are at a distance from us--" A touching and encouraging letter from a progressive parent whose interest in his daughter's education is clearly more than the polite drawing room variety. unknown books
1562045392Venice: Domenico Guerra & Gio Battista 1562. Early Edition. Hardcover rebound in leather. Good Condition. Rebound in modern sheep front endpapers replaced minor worming and modest staining throughout but still an attractive copy of this early Italian edition. With historiated initials - separate section titles but continuously paginated. 16 375pp with a printers mark on the verso of page 375. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045392. <br/><br/> Domenico Guerra & Gio Battista hardcover books
199522154New Haven: Yale University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 0300055293 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Yale University Press hardcover books
15265Extensive correspondence collection 1920-1940s. 66 letters by various authors mostly women native to the Indian sub-continent all very unusual in the fact that they are highly educated and in the midst of further studies or early in their careers decades prior to Indian Independence. The letters are addressed to a young teacher Probha who was former classmate to most of the writers as well as a few to her sister Rani or to both and follows them as they finish school enter teacher training college and ultimately fan out over India as bearers of a new generation of independent Indian women. In 1931 Indian female literacy hovered at just under 3% making the experiences of these forerunners and their correspondence incredibly rare.<br/> <br/>Prior to Indian Independence from Britain Gandhi called for uplifting the status of women through education and recognition of their inherent worth as human beings. Determined to inculcate the equality of the sexes into Indian culture Gandhi publicly did household tasks that were traditionally women's work and declared that "the future is with women." Indeed other activists also equated India's independence with new freedoms for women. However by 1931 Indian female literacy hovered under 3% and was often lower in the rural provinces where schools were few child marriage was prevalent and patriarchal norms dominated society. On the cusp of vast cultural change educated women and female schoolteachers and professionals were the rare exception. <br/> <br/>These letters record the interactions between a rare group of highly educated women their thirst for personal and financial independence as well as their conflicting feelings regarding the traditions that defined their lives and restricted them. Their nexus was the Queen Victoria Girls' High School in Agra a small city in the rural northern province of Uttar Pradesh most notable for being the home of the world famous Taj Mahal a symbol of reverence to a much-loved wife of antiquity and of honor to the traditional woman. In its tall shadow young sisters Probha and Rani Thomas attended high school at "QVHS" in the late 1920s-early 1930s where lifelong friendships developed with female students Libawati Ivy Monica Lila Mercy Winnie among others. Most of them became teachers where the extraordinary nature of their achievement stood in stark relief to the lot of most other women "This year only one out of five girls has passed from our village schools." As their lives continued and they spread across the country education became the uniting factor that drove the young women forward and brought them back to each other. "Probha what are you going to do now I am going back to old Q.V. to become a teacher and I am feeling very sad as my dear old class girls won't be there. All these past years seem like a dream. So soon the parting took place.No more Tenthies no more H.M. Club. All have faded like a passing cloud.I shall never find such a jolly set again Probha. This future seems very hard." They were witness to an extraordinary moment in history when the world was changing particularly for women and with their education they are in a unique position to describe the change "It is funny that when it is time for us to be silent we have to look after our visitors and perform useless ceremonies-someday we'll change but not yet." One recalls a train ride in which she sat near "a bold Gandhi's follower.In his eloquent poetical language he was telling people that he had been to jail and was saying that for the love of country he can endure anything." Probha and Rani's father a judge had lessons for them about the danger of Revolutionary activities when one of their friends gets involved "Arel De is intelligent and emotional but he has no self control.You may write to him but make it plain that you will drop correspondence if he writes politics again. He is either already on Police books or will soon be." Though they shied away from direct involvement in politics they encapsulated Indian women's liberation in the early century: striving after independent employment deferring marriage yet with respect for their elders. In one letter Monica sadly reports to Probha "I am not coming back to school. Although I am feeling very bad but yes father has done what is good for me. I asked many times to let me go but he forced me to stay here." And in another poignant letter "Lovey" writes "Rani sis do you remember once we were talking about this problem of getting married Now very soon I shall be facing it. John wants to settle down after my working for one year only & I wish to work for at least two years. I think I shall have to do my parents will decide. Please pray that I may get a chance of working for at least two years."<br/> <br/>In tone the women are warm and sisterly to an extent not found in letters of Western cultural origin and also profoundly honest in reporting to one another their successes and failures; a good or bad test score the struggle to study while encountering difficulties such as lack of clean drinking water and large snakes and even having the security of their families placed on their young shoulders "May God help me. May I pass in the 3rd division only for it is difficult time for us two sisters. Our father's money is nearly spent and if I pass I go for training. Please remember us in your prayers that we may soon become independent." As one of the young women finds out who goes back to QVHS as a student teacher life becomes more complicated as time goes on "My examination result is so bad.my poor mother is working so hard at home. It was too much to disappoint her.I know you would ask me but why have you done so badly The only answer I can give you is that I got 7 periods a week to teach & being a slow writer the notes of lessons & the preparation took all my study time." What they share is a clarify on the value of their education to all their future lives: "All the Normal Students High School and the middle candidates.tell each one of them that I wish them a very brilliant success. Tell them that I remember each one of them in my prayers that they all may pass in the 1st Division with scholarships."<br/> <br/>Cultural references show the writers and recipients of these letters were generally native of India although they often went by Western cognoms. A few of the letters from British servicemen or coworkers offer an interesting perspective on intercultural understanding and friendship in the days when Indian Independence loomed so closely on the horizon. A serviceman befriended by Probha writes "In those days we were very ignorant. We knew nothing at all of the country or the people and their ways and customs. I think we were most surprised to find that you spoke English.We were astounded to see such bad conditions existed for some people and very upset to find such a feeling of bitterness between our two peoples." Reflecting the dichotomy inherent to the lives of these girls several letters are from their mother who simultaneously pushes them on to achieve independence and reminds them of their cultural anchor. anxious for them and resolute that they will have every opportunity possible. An intelligent woman in her own right Probha's mother offers advice on her exams "Your last quarterly should have had better marks. I wrote a few little hints in my last letter. Please keep them in mind.I'll send your saris in a day or two.I couldn't get even a bit of voil in the bazaar. There was no chance of getting it from any out station. I've used the bits I had at home.I pray God to be with my baby & help her to be a true hearted & brave soldier." <br/> <br/>The letters are in English except for a few brief passages in Hindi as English was the primary language of education and commerce prior to Independence. A few are from an object of romance; a male teacher who courts Probha with poetry but does not succeed in convincing her to give up her freedom as a single woman. A rare archive of letters from an extremely uncommon cross-section of pre-Independence society: the forerunner of the modern educated and independent woman of India. unknown books
16083Early Women Education. ALS n.d. but late 1700s to early 1800s Sending Miss Isabella Berkeley to a teacher. Autograph Letter Signed 3 pages folded on a single large sheet with the 4th side serving as the address panel. To "Dear Madam." From "E." Identified as Margravine of Anspach.<br/><br/>She writes in her hand in Part: "I send you Miss Isabella Berkeley the youngest of the young Ladies-Elizabeth will be very little at your house-as she becomes companionable and I shall always have her with me when I can-Isabella has some natural faults which would be rooted in this house-and which nothing but abiding with young women submitting to those who educate them can cure her of-she is inclined to be a very fine lady-curious and what I call fidgety--.she has a good heart and she is laborious liking to be employed-works well at her needle-is charitable humane-I wish her to be made read loud for half an hour every day-to teach her to articulate in speaking-she was a very sickly child-and must eat very little butter-no wine-no coffee.<br/>And in postscript "I would wish her to read religious or moral books-and abridgement of History in general. <br/><br/>Afterwards when the general chronology is placed in her memory-she will read the History of every different country with measure. ". unknown books
