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17977223Paris: Leger 1797. First edition. Octavo. xxvi 2 96 2 pp. Part one only - the planned part two was never published. Publisher's pink pastepaper wrappers with pink paper spine. Binding somewhat loose. Edges untrimmed. Very clean and fresh throughout. A Very Good copy of a rare work on physics for women unrecorded in OCLC.<br /> <br /> This guide to physics and philosophy for women is one of the many works on women's education written during the Revolutionary period in France when a stronger interest in women's education began to arise. The letters cover topics including optics velocity and magnetism. Leger unknown
1876228H4081Glasgow: William Collins Sons & Company Limited 1876. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 214 110 maps 142 index pages. "The continual extension of commerce into new channels the rapid growth of the colonial possessions of the British Empire the recent territorial changes in several kingdoms both of Europe and Asia and the many discoveries of late years in various parts of the world have created a demand for a new treatise in Descriptive and Political Geography." - Preface. "A capital atlas of maps clearly printed in colours and at the very low price of one guinea. The maps are not only ancient modern and historical out of the Northern and Southern Constellations and of the Planetary System - indeed all that can be wanted in an ordinary library. This excellent book meets with our hearty approval." - The Publishers' Circular August 3 1875 p.526. All maps in colour with with many hinged to fold out. Includes indices with upwards of 50000 names. Pattern of tanning marks upon endpapers suggests boards once bore a protective cover which would account for their still brilliant gilt lettering. Narrow opening along front hinge. Dark maroon cloth decorated in black over bevelled boards is worn through along bottom edges corners and in spots along backstrip. Most maps numbered in light pencil. Fold of World Map #2 mostly open with two-inch opening affecting northern Europe. G.P. Putnam's Sons of New York appears to have also published this work in 1875. A quality copy of this marvelous Victorian era cartographic memento. William Collins, Sons, & Company, Limited Hardcover
1919441j1459Paris: Imprimerie Levé. Good. 1919. First Edition. Paperback. "François Bujak professor at the Catholic University of Kraków stood out as a particularly prolific writer on the Jewish question in general and on the notion of Jewish Communism in particular. The Jewish problem had grown substantially during WWI Bujak reported in 1919. From the very moment Jews had entered the Polish lands they had acted either as a 'German avant-garde' or as 'superior instruments in the hands of Russian politicians.' During the war he continued Jews while evading military service were eager to co-operate with the partitioning powers. Only the vigilance of the Polish people had saved the republic from Jewish informers snitches and Bolshevik propagandists as the professor from Kraków concluded." - André W.M Gerrits in "The Myth of Jewish Communism". "In opposing any national autonomy or minority rights for the Jews in Poland Bujak presents them as unpatriotic unassimilable unproductive champions of Germanism hostile to a free and independent Poland." - Singerman 0090. "Bujak 1875-1953 was a Polish academic and historian of economic political and social history of Poland." - Wikipedia. 49 2 p. Text in French. 3/4" circular erasures to front cover and Table Des Matières. Faint illegible writing on backstrip otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Average wear to original beige covers. Contents moderately tanned. A sound vintage example. 24.5 x 16.1 cm. For the benefit of English readers we include an English-language Sons of Liberty edition of this title probably printed in the 1970s.; Sm 4to . Imprimerie Levé paperback
1966463H3834New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston of Canada Limited. Good in Good dust jacket. 1966. First English Edition. Hardcover. 275 pages. Footnotes. "Geula Cohen 1925-2019 was a ranking member of the notorious Stern Gang in its fight against the British for a free Palestine Israel. Her memoirs explode with the ferocious intensity of her terrorist faith her inflexible idealism. An open and intimate portrait of a woman and the conditions that drove her underground to embrace a philosophy of violence and terror." - dust jacket. "I have no doubt that this book will be a proud memorial to the daring fighters who offered their lives for the cause of Jewish redemption. It also attests to the supreme nobility of the soul of its writer." - David Ben-Gurion. Book clean bright and unmarked with light wear. Moderate lean to spine. Soiling to back panel of dust jacket which is otherwise moderately worn and now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Geula Cohen Biography Stern Gang Zionism Founding of Israel Terrorism Palestine Radio broadcasts Eliyauus Hakim Beit Zuri Moshe Barazani Meir Feinstein . Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada, Limited hardcover
441j1567London: Hutchinson & Co. Publishers Ltd. Good with no dust jacket. 1935. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 0837125952 . "A thorough and well-organized publicity campaign on this topic thus for this book has already been launched by no less a person than the Minister of Propaganda in the Third Reich. Its publication therefore comes at an opportune moment." - Translator's Preface. "I confess that I have myself been a theoretical Anti-Semite. When I was much younger I was even a practical Anti-Semite and this for excellent reasons becase I had had the most unpleasant experiences imaginable with Jewish userers. Had I been asked a few years ago when I decided to study the Jewish question and to write a book on it whether this work would turn out Anti-Semitic my answer would most probably have been in the affirmative." - p.18. "To all Philo-Semites and to all Anti-Semites who are disposed to be fair and honest this book offers the possibility of increasing their knowledge on the subject in question and of revising their opinions." - p. 20. "Count Heinrich Coudenhove-Kalergi 1859-1906 was an Austro-Hungarian diplomat whose postings included Athens Rio de Janeiro Constantinople and Buenos Aires. He spoke sixteen languages." - Wikipedia. In 1901 he wrote 'Das Wesen des Anti-Semitismus' The Essence of Anti-Semitism. Given the politics of 1930s Germany his son Count Richard re-issued the book bringing it up-to-date with an essay entitled "Jew-hatred to-day". Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi has risen to prominence in recent years as a result of his 1925 prediction that the man of the future would be of mixed race. Thus has arisen speculation of a 'Kalergi Plan' a.k.a. 'The Coudenhove-Kalergi Conspiracy' a plan to destroy the European peoples. 4-288 24 ads p. Index. Nineteen black and white illustrations. Bookplate of Henry LeRoy Finch inside front board. "Finch 1921-1997 was an American scholar and professor of philosophy and a pacifist organizer." - Wikipedia. Occasional light pencil underlining is more prevalent in chapter VI Emancipation and Zionism. Backstrip mostly open along back board and across the top. Somewhat above-average wear to original dark brown cloth clearly lettered in gilt upon spine. Binding intact. Includes replica dust jacket in glossy new archival-grade protection. ; 8vo . Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. hardcover
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
1944442j1668New York: Reader's Book Service Inc. Fair with no dust jacket. 1944. Reprint. Hardcover. "Black Mail is my report of nearly five years of activity untangling a complicated conspiracy against the unity and security of the United States. The plan conceived in Berlin has fashioned from American business techniques a powerful weapon which has been turned against the peace of our homes and the safety of our fighting men. Since 1919 I have been in the Direct Mail Advertising business. Since then I have been connected with nearly every branch of the industry - five of those years as Executive Manager of the Direct Mail Advertising Association. That is the background you should know before you can understand how our enemies converted this distinctly American selling tool into an instrument for destruction" - Introduction. "The astounding story of a one-man crusade unique in American history. As these lines are written many thousands of our men are giving their lives to crush the Nazi tyranny. It is incredible that this same tyranny in other insidious forms should be spreading its poison here behind the backs of our armies. The Nazis are relying on their active sympathizers within our borders. They continue to plant propaganda on a vast scale. The Nazi spirit must be destroyed once and for all. Because this book is a prime weapon in our arsenal of democracy we consider it a privilege to present it to the public at this critical moment." - The Publishers. "Henry Hoke made a name for himself as an investigator and writer of contemporary real-life mystery in this book." - U.S. Senator Harley M. Kilgore. Complete and unabridged. Printed to War Production Board standards. Eighth printing of the first edition from earlier in 1944. 6 162 pp. Index. Several black and white illustrations. Unmarked. Narrow opening in binding at page 90. Openings along backstrip of the original reddish-brown cloth. No dust jacket. A rare and worthy reference example of this fascinating and little-known history. Hoke subsequently wrote "It's a Secret" regarding the collapse of related sedition trials following WWII. ; 8vo . Reader's Book Service, Inc. hardcover
2001864H4667USA: Theses & Dissertations Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 0967985684 . An unread copy new in shrinkwrap. "Describes in detail the desperate attempt of the German Army to prevent Stalin's plan for a World Revolution by conquering Europe in a war of extermination." - dust jacket. "Stalin conceived and accomplished his war against the German Reich as an extermination war of conquest. To this end Hoffmann furnishes overwhelming data from German and Soviet archives." - Berliner Morgenpost Oct. 10 1995. 416 pages. Light edgewear from handling otherwise as new. Approved by German Public Censors; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Stalin World Revolution German Army NKVD . Theses & Dissertations Press hardcover
1995215j2286New York: Barricade Books Inc. 1995. First English Edition. Hardcover. 1569800421 . Signed and inscribed by author upon half-title of each volume. Stated first printing. Complete in two volumes. "The stirring and passionate story of the man who was both the best beloved and most maligned Jewish leader of our era. Jabotinsky 1880-1940 was the idol of two generations of Jewish youth whom he drew out of the passivity of the ghetto and taught to stand up for themselves. Barred from Palestine by the British he spent the last ten years of his life in exile and fighting to the last he died penniless in New York on the eve of the Holocaust. Katz spent seven years writing this book drawing upon Jabotinsky's personal papers a vast variety of memoirs and most importantly on government archives in Britain France and Poland to produce this scholarly work that reads like a novel." - dust jacket. "Shmuel 'Mooki' Katz 1914-2008 was a Zionist activist member of the high command of Irgun and a member of the first Knesset." - Wikipedia. 10 890 8 2 893-1855 p. Includes footnotes bibliography list of sources and index. Black and white photographic plates. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Unclipped dust jackets now in glossy new archival-grade protection. Slipcase not included. A quality signed example. ; 8vo; Signed by Author . Barricade Books Inc. hardcover
1934227j0884Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company Inc. Good with no dust jacket. 1934. Second Edition. Hardcover. The printing plates for the 1917 first edition entitled "Why Is Your Country At War" were destroyed by federal edict in the 1918 hysteria of WWI. per p.7. "An incisive study of those who stand to benefit from international conflict and of the suffering such conflict brings. The Wilson administration sought to suppress this book during our war 'to make the world safe for democracy.'" - Robert H. Weems in 'A Populist Bibliography' p.163. "In the light of events since this book was written Lindbergh must stand as one of the nation's leading economists. You will realize when you have read this book that 'Here was a Man.'" - Introduction. 6-215 pp. Frontis photo of author and his son the famed aviator. Three additional pages of black and white photographs. Published posthumously as Lindbergh a longtime Minnesota congressman died in 1924. Moderate wear to original red cloth lettered in gilt. Lacking front free endpaper. Name in ball pen at bottom of table of contents otherwise contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this historic title. Weems p. 163 ; 12mo . Dorrance & Company, Inc. hardcover
1921426j0875Kansas City Missouri: Burton Publishing Company Publishers. Good with no dust jacket. 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. "I have written this little volume in the faith that in the last analysis the average American citizen believes in fair play and is not afraid of shadows or of Bogey Men. I have tried to be judicial in both defense and criticism of the Jew but if I have shown some acerbity in my criticisms of his detractors the justice of the cause which this book represents and the illiberality and unfairness of the latest attack upon the Jew must be my apology." - Introduction. "If our critic really is concerned about 'menaces' to our great and glorious country let him tackle the Negro problem." - page 96. "Dr. Lydston's book is a welcome addition to the defensive literature which the recent unwarranted attack upon the Jew has called forth. It should be given the widest possible cerculation especially among non-Jews." - The Denver Jewish News 2 November 1921. G. Frank Lydston 1858-1923 was an American urologist and transplant surgeon who wrote many books most dealing with medicine. 7-136 pages. It is likely this title was written in response to contemporary Jew-related articles in Henry Ford's 'Dearborn Independent'. No dust jacket. Prior owner's details inside front board otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. ; 12mo . Burton Publishing Company Publishers hardcover
1945426j0048New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Good. 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. "The infamous Morgenthau Plan charted a course for Germany post WWII intended to revert it to a pastoral state. Senator Henrick Shipstead denounced it as "America's eternal monument of shame for the destruction of the German people." - Congressional Record Senate May 15 1946 p.5039. Morgenthau's "punishment policy deeply betrayed the will of the American people against indiscriminate vengeance which had been demonstrated in the nationwide condemnation of the Morgenthau Plan." - James Bacque on page 158 of 'Other Losses'. "The Morgenthau Plan would wipe out everything in Germany except land and the Germans would have to live on the land. Thus only 60 percent of the population could support themselves and the other 40 percent would die." - The Memoirs of Cordell Hull p.1617. xiii 3 239 pages. Index. Appendices. Four-page reproduction of a photographic copy of the memorandum summarizing "The Morgenthau Plan" which President Roosevelt took to the historic Quebec conference in September of 1944. Fold-out two-color map entitled "Proposal for Post-War German Boundaries". When word of this ominous plan leaked to Goebbels in the latter stages of WWII he exploited it to stiffen German resistance thus extending the war and adding to the American casualty count. Considerable criticism was thus brought to bear upon Morgenthau. Clean with moderate wear to navy blue cloth. Several markings to front endpaper. Small ink stamp to title page. Binding sound. Includes new replica dust jacket preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this historic work.; Sm 8vo; Germany is Our Problem - A Plan for Germany Suggested Post-Surrender Program for Germany WWII history Politics Harry Dexter White Harsh Peace Morgenthau Plan Starvation Germany Must Perish Theodore Kaufman Genocide . Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
2021214j2709Netherlands: O.L.F. New. 2021. English Edition. Hardcover. 908316506X . "Over the years I have become convinced that the work you are holding in your hands is a unique treasure. From my first read I have not been able to put it out of my mind. I find myself continually drawn continually revisiting - and always considering this time well spent walking away with something new and valuable each time." - Foreword. "The manuscript begins with a letter of instruction written in the year 1255 by the last known copyist of the writings Hidde Oera Linda who briefed his son Okke to also make a copy 'so that they will never be lost.'" - Publisher's Notes. p. 4-256 96 colour plates. A new and unread example of this captivating and beautifully presented work.; 8vo . O.L.F. hardcover
1955863H2073London: Allan Wingate. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1955. First Engish Edition. Hardcover. vi 2 552 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "One of the most important autobiographies of the post-war period for there can be few personalities still alive who have been so intimately connected with the march of world events for so many years. His first great triumph was to rescue the German Mark from the inflation of 1921. As the Nazi avalanche swelled Hitler persuaded him to occupy the Presidential chair at the Reichsbank. but Schacht soon saw that the Fuhrer was driving relentlessly towards war. A quarrel resulted and he left the Government remaining under a cloud until he was arrested towards the close of the regime." - dust jacket. Schact was later aquitted of war crimes at Nuremberg. Average wear to unmarked book. Above-average wear and soiling to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. KEHR & LANGMAID 1217 ALDCROFT & RODGER p.83.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; My First Seventy-six Years: The Autobiography of Hjalmar Schacht Biography Nazi Germany Nuremberg Trials Reichsbank Central Banker German Democratic Party Weimer Republic Hyperinflation Bankers Montagu Norman Mark Inflation . Allan Wingate hardcover
1932227a8341New York: Liveright Inc. 1932. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 375 pages. Index. "When I began my study I looked upon Woodrow Wilson as the villain of the ensuing drama. As I proceeded to delve into the debris of reminiscences and unwritten history he gradually assumed some aspects of a martyr and a saint. There was a time when there was no one in the world whom I distrusted more than Edward Mandell House. Today he seems to me a genuine philosopher and a gifted statesman. Even if his good intentions like Wilson's have helped to pave mankind's way to hell they gave us a glimpse of the Promised Land where peace abides and a new sanction governs the fate of nations." - xiv. It is commonly believed that Colonel House was in fact a Rothschild agent assigned the task of seeing the Federal Reserve Act brought into law thus privatizing the issuance of American money again. If so this book is of major importance to every American. Gift greetings dated 1932 upon front free endpaper else unmarked. Binding intact. Above-average wear and soiling to tan cloth-covered boards. Narrow openings in cloth between backstrip and back board. Liveright Inc. Hardcover
1892736j0874London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. "England thanks to the Huguenots Mr. Cobden the Slave Trade the Jews and an inherent capacity for taking large views of grave national questions has been the last country in all the world to question or even to examine the doctrine that uninterrupted ingress for men women and merchandise of other nations is essential to and advantageous to her national life. There are however no longer wanting signs that the reign of this dogma is not to continue without challenge." - Introduction. "In 1881 and 1882 a violent if somewhat intermittent persecution had been directed against the Jews in Russia. Realizing as best they could such poor possessions as they owned and departing with all possible haste the expatriated wretches made every attempt to reach a more hospitable land: those who could muster the passage-money were bound for America; the rest the more destitute and the elderly ones the great majority of the exodus were hoping to settle in the great English towns." - p 168-169. 8191 pages. Former library copy with usual markings sturdily rebound in green buckram. No dust jacket.; Social Science Series; Sm 8vo . Swan Sonnenschein & Co. hardcover
1958238j1615New York: The Devin-Adair Company. Fair with no dust jacket. 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. "A searching analysis of some of America's most powerful tax-exempt foundations their actions as opposed to their stated purposes the interlocking groups of men who run them and their influence on the country at large. The author as counsel to the Reece Committee which investigated foundations for the last Republican Congress gained a unique insight into the inner workings of the various Rockefeller Carnegie and Ford-created giants. He also witnessed the intense and powerful opposition to any investigation of these multibillion-dollar public trusts." - front flap. "Contributes the philosophical and juridical reflections of this distinguished lawyer based upon the material our committee disclosed and upon other data which have appeared since the closing of our inquiry. Wormser discusses problems of foundation administration and control which are grave indeed and has rendered a great service in preparing this sober and thoughtful work." - Preface. "A tremendously scholarly work. Not only demands importance due to its strict adherence to truthful and factual documentation but is absolutely essential for understanding why American society is in the shape it is in politically as well as economically." - online review by A.M. Robbins. "Packed with information on foundations and the effect they've had on our political policies and education system as well as medicine and the media. It is startling to understand how socialism has silently been pushed on us through the money of these foundations. This book was written in 1958 and it is easy to see in 2020 how they are accomplishing their goal of turning the United States into a socialist nation." - online review. xx 412 pp. Index. Former JBS library copy with a few related markings. Dust jacket flaps and back panel affixed inside book. Front hinge weak but holding. Narrow opening in binding at page 410. Not pretty but a worthy first edition reading copy of this important and enduring work. ; 8vo . The Devin-Adair Company hardcover
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Contemporary cloth bdg. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). [4], [4], 454 p., 21 folded plates including numerous 288 b/w plates. Minor wear on extremities of boards and spine. Dark blue endpapers. A tear on the last plate, not missing. A minor chip on the head page. Several plates are missing. A plate was repaired in its period with a good Ottoman blind-stamped paper. Fading on boards. Otherwise a good copy. Extremely rare first edition of this first physics textbook ever published in the Ottoman Empire, including 32 modern physical subjects in 21 chapters with two articles, by early physics and math teachers in the Mühendishâne [i.e. Ottoman Engineering School] Mehmed Emin Dervish Pasha. This work, prepared to be taught in engineering schools, is valuable for its plain expression, variety of the first subjects in the period it deals with, and its content enriched with illustrations. This rare book is very important to be the first textbook to cover the following topics: Ratio of forces to velocities and their effects on objects, centripetal force, lever, pulley, inclined plane, weight, the pressure of liquids, the balance of gases, barometer, manometer, theoretical views on some musical instruments, heat dissipation force of objects, heat increase forces, thermometer, etc. Dervish Pasha also included in his book the pioneering experiments that he had done in Muhendishane, which attracted a lot of attention during his time in the Ottoman scientific society. (Sources: The First Physics Textbook in Ottoman State: Usûl-ü Hikmet-i Tabiiye (Introduction to the Philosophy of Nature), Akagündüz, S. Y.). Hegira 1281 = Gregorian 1865. Only two institutional copies in OCLC 49368193.; Özege 22161.
1965ZB393883Engineering Economy Committee of the American Society for Engineering Edu 1965. volumes 11; 13-36; 40-43. 1965-1997. partly bound library markings textually clean & tight PRICE IS FOR THE LOT. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Engineering Economy Committee of the American Society for Engineering Edu unknown
19124149Senior Class of 1912 Nebraska State Normal School at Peru 1912 A 1912 yearbook from Nebraska's first college first state-supported college. Stiff card boards full dark brown leather gilt front board lettering/decoration bright 10 3/8 x 8 inches 218 pp. Very good modest edgewear/rubbing; pages clean with no marks and binding sound. Rare. K071. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Senior Class of 1912, Nebraska State Normal School at Peru hardcover
19114148Senior Class Nebraska State Normal School at Peru 1911 A 1911 yearbook from Nebraska's first college first state-supported college. Hardcover full brown leather gilt front board lettering and decoration bright 10 1/2 x 8 inches 232 pp. Laid in: a card with a printed Peru poem. Very good modest edgewear; sunning spine; pages clean with no marks and binding tight. Rare. K071. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Senior Class, Nebraska State Normal School at Peru hardcover
1962108055Berlin, 1962-90.
23395Paris, Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1681. In-4, [2]-561-[7] pp., maroquin janséniste brun, dos à nerfs, bordure intérieure ornée de dentelle dorée, tranches dorées sur marbrure (dos très légèrement éclairci, un accroc et quelques infimes épidermures).
20892Paris, Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1681. In-4, [1]-561-[5] pp., maroquin brun, double filet à froid en encadrement sur les plas, dos à nerfs orné de filets à froid, bordure intérieure ornée de dentelle dorée, tranches tranches dorées (petites épidermures, quelques minuscules taches).
1843ST20896London: William Pickering and John W. Parker and Son 1843-57. Second Edition of volumes I III V VI VIII XI XV XVII. Third Edition of volume II. FIRST EDITIONS of the other 13 volumes. 170 x 103 mm. 6 3/4 x 4 1/8". 22 volumes bound as 13. <br/> Pleasing contemporary calf by Leighton stamp-signed on verso of front flyleaf covers framed with a double blind rule raised bands spine compartments with a single gilt sun tool russet morocco labels lettered in gilt all edges sprinkled. First volume with one plate depicting the brain and one illustration in the text depicting the brains of different animals.<br /> Final volume with an ad for the complete series by John W. Parker. A few light scratches scuffs and spots to leather each volume with offset from ribbon page marker other trivial defects but a fine and attractive set--extraordinarily fresh and clean internally in bindings essentially without wear.<br/> <br/> Containing a rarely seen complete run of 22 separate works in 13 volumes this attractive set represents the joint efforts of a female Victorian polymath and major publisher William Pickering to introduce the general public to a very wide range of subjects partly to contribute to general popular education and partly to alert the public to the need for reform. Caroline Cornwallis 1786-1858 was a writer scholar and feminist activist whose life-long self-directed course of study led her to explore subjects as diverse as mineralogy theology Tuscan law and the Ancient Egyptian language. In 1842 the first work in the "Small Books on Great Subjects" series appeared authored anonymously by Cornwallis she is named only as "A Pariah" and the editorship of the series is credited to "A Few Well-Wishers to Knowledge". Along with initiating and editing the series Cornwallis composed all but four of the books herself the second and third numbers were written by John Barlow #15 by Wilhelm von Humboldt and #16 by David Power. The works cover philosophy psychology chemistry Greek philosophy Christian history and theology biology law grammar geology politics and more and proved to be a great success in Britain and America. Some of the volumes are histories of general interest "A Brief View of Greek Philosophy up to the Age of Pericles" and "Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century"; others are of significant scientific content "The Connection Between Physiology and Intellectual Philosophy" and "On Man’s Power Over Himself to Prevent or Control Insanity; still others are strongly reformist in thrust "On the Principles of Criminal Law" decrying the harshness of punitive Victorian laws and "On the Philosophy of Ragged Schools" dealing with the pressing issue of educating London's poor. Initially "Small Books on Great Subjects" was published by William Pickering but upon his 1853 bankruptcy John W. Parker took over the series. Stray volumes of this series are readily available but complete sets especially in the condition seen here are much more difficult to find. William Pickering (and John W. Parker and Son) unknown
