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MEDIAEVAL ART, FROM THE PEACE OF THE CHURCH TO THE EVE OF THE RENAISSANCE 312-1350 by (BINDINGS - CLUB BINDERY). LETHABY, W. R.

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Title: MEDIAEVAL ART, FROM THE PEACE OF THE CHURCH TO THE EVE OF THE RENAISSANCE 312-1350
Author: (BINDINGS - CLUB BINDERY). LETHABY, W. R.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: Duckworth and Co, 1904. FIRST EDITION. 195 x 133 mm. (7 3/4 x 5 1/2"). xviii, 315 pp. ELEGANT CRIMSON CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, BY THE CLUB BINDERY (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with mitered fillet border enclosing a central panel ruled into nine compartments, the four corner sections tooled with an elaborate fleuron design, raised bands, spine with mitered frame enclosing five vertical parallel fillets rising through five panels, the panels at head and foot with volute corner embellishment, one panel with gilt lettering, turn-ins with gilt fillet border and floral sprays at corners, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt (neat older repair to head of front joint). With 124 figures in the text and 66 plates with black & white photographic reproductions of Medieval art. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of William Fitz-Simon; front flyleaf with ink signature of Ursula J. Morgan, dated 1906. A breath of rubbing to extremities, but A VERY FINE COPY, clean, fresh, and bright internally, in a gleaming binding. This attractively illustrated art history was bound in an appropriately gothic design by the premier hand-bindery in the U.S.--as one might expect for a book from the library of J. P. Morgan's niece. After the Grolier Club was established in 1884, it soon became apparent that the country's few established hand binders were overtaxed in providing repairs and rebinding for the club members' rapidly accumulating acquisitions. As a consequence, in 1895, Grolier members led by Robert Hoe and Edwin Holden, along with other wealthy collectors, instituted the Club Bindery in order to attract European craftsmen to provide, close to home, fine quality binding work rivalling what was available abroad. The Club Bindery was in operation until 1909, with Hoe being its most influential manager and client. It provided bindings that tended to be traditional in style--though frequently with elaborate decoration--and that lived up to its patrons' expectations in terms of excellence. The first members of the staff of the Club Bindery were the Englishmen R. W. Smith and Frank Mansell. They were subsequently joined by a number of French binders, chief among them being Leon Maillard, who had worked previously for Cuzin, Gruel, and Marius-Michel. In the words of the Oxford Companion of the Decorative Arts, the text here was written by a man who "affected the whole direction of twentieth-century European design education." William Richard Lethaby (1857-1931) was an architect who became involved in the Society to Preserve Ancient Buildings and in the Arts & Crafts Movement. He was the first director of the Central School of Arts & Crafts and one of the founders of the Art Workers Guild. DNB notes, "Lethaby was a reformer whose beliefs in the moral significance of art were expressed in the surge of books, articles, and lectures that continued for five decades, amounting to the most impressive body of sustained design polemic since John Ruskin." Former owner Ursula Juliet Morgan (1873-1916) must have shared her uncle's interest in Medieval art and in fine bindings. J. Pierpont Morgan was evidently fond of his niece, and escorted her down the aisle at her 1908 wedding to William Fitz-Simon (1867-1920), rector of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Tuxedo, New York..

The Crystal Structure of Molybdenite; From the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. XLV, No. 6., pp.1466–1471 by Pauling, Linus [with] Dickenson, Roscoe G.

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Title: The Crystal Structure of Molybdenite; From the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. XLV, No. 6., pp.1466–1471
Author: Pauling, Linus [with] Dickenson, Roscoe G.
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Description: Easton, PA: The American Chemical Society, 1923. First Edition. Offprint, 8vo (234 × 161mm), pp. [1], 6, [1]. Original printed green wrappers, staple-bound, toned and lightly rubbed to the extremities, very good. Signed by Pauling on the front wrapper. Pauling's first published scientific paper, and a formative one: the crystallographic habits of mind it demanded (precise geometric reasoning, the disciplined interpretation of structural evidence) would prove constitutive of the scientific sensibility he brought to everything that followed. Published during his graduate work at the Gates Chemical Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Roscoe G. Dickinson (among the first American chemists to apply the X-ray diffraction methods pioneered by W. H. and W. L. Bragg to the systematic determination of crystal structures) this paper was produced at a moment when that program remained sufficiently novel that each successfully resolved structure constituted both a methodological and a scientific achievement. The Gates Laboratory was among a small number of institutions worldwide capable of carrying out such work with precision. Read April 24, 1923, the paper established the complete atomic arrangement of molybdenite (MoS₂), resolving a previously undescribed structural type and demonstrating for the first time the precise geometric relationship between molybdenum and sulfur atoms within the hexagonal unit cell. The layered architecture so revealed (in which planes of sulfur atoms sandwich each plane of molybdenum atoms with only weak cohesion between successive sulfur layers) directly accounts for the mineral's longstanding utility as one of the most effective solid lubricants known, a role it continues to fulfill in high-temperature industrial machinery, aerospace components, and dry lubricant coatings applied wherever conventional oils cannot function. Signed copies of Pauling's graduate-period offprints are of considerable rarity. The investigation proceeded by means of X-ray spectral photographs and Laue photographs of naturally cleaved molybdenite crystals 0.23 mm thick, with measurements made between planes of different classes and comparisons between estimated and calculated intensities tabulated in Tables I and II. The unit cell was determined to have d = 12.30 Å and an axial ratio of 3.90, containing 2 MoS in a hexagonal unit; a unit having d = 6.15 Å was shown to be impossible on the basis of minimum wave-length constraints. Reference to the tabulation of equivalent point coordinates in space groups isomorphous with D³ , C , D³ , and D identified six possible arrangements of the molybdenum and sulfur atoms in the hexagonal unit, of which arrangements 3 and 5 were eliminated as impossible and arrangements 1, 2, and 4 were eliminated by the Laue photographic data, leaving arrangement 6 as the only one consistent with all observations, with the positional parameter u = 0.621 ± 0.004. In the structure so determined, each sulfur atom is equidistant from three molybdenum atoms, and each molybdenum atom is surrounded by six equidistant sulfur atoms at the corners of a small triangular prism whose altitude is 3.17 ± 0.10 Å and whose edge is 3.15 ± 0.02 Å, with the distance from molybdenum to its nearest sulfur neighbors 2.41 ± 0.06 Å, in good agreement with Bragg's hypothesis of constant atomic radii taking the radius of molybdenum as 1.36 Å. The authors note that the great distance between the two sulfur atoms marked A and B in Figure 2, which at 3.40 Å substantially exceeds the value of 2.10 Å required by constant-radii contact, is undoubtedly connected with the excellent basal cleavage of molybdenite, since the planes of weakest cohesion are precisely those sulfur-sulfur planes across which cleavage occurs.

Southey Pays To Repair His Home, Greta Hall by ROBERT SOUTHEY

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Title: Southey Pays To Repair His Home, Greta Hall
Author: ROBERT SOUTHEY
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: ROBERT SOUTHEY (1774-1843). Southey was an English poet from the Romantic School. He was the Poet Laureate for thirty years. He wrote a well-known biography of Horatio Nelson and his best-known poems include Gods Judgment on a Wicked Bishop, After Blenheim and Cataract of Lodore.ALS. 1pg. 7 x 8 . June 3, 1819. Keswick. A scarce autograph letter signed Robert Southey to an unidentified correspondent: The annuities shall be duly discharged. I have paid 1-5-3 for repairing the roof, & rebuilding a chimney shaken by the storms in January, & also the sum of 2.17.3 for a new pump, the old one being so rotten as to be no longer serviceable. The residue, accounting to 3.7.6 shall be sent by the Carrier, if no better opportunity of conveying it should occur. Greta Hall was Southeys home. The letter is in very good condition with mailing folds and it is tipped to a larger sheet. The writing is dark.

Ministerio General del Gobierno del Estado del Salvador. (Decreto Num. 8) Al C. Gefe Politico del Departamento de... [caption title] by [El Salvador]

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Title: Ministerio General del Gobierno del Estado del Salvador. (Decreto Num. 8) Al C. Gefe Politico del Departamento de... [caption title]
Author: [El Salvador]
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
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Description: San Salvador, 1833. Good plus.. Small broadside, 8.5 x 6.25 inches. Disbound, with small stab hole at gutter margin. Light wear and worming; two, slightly larger worm holes in lower margin, repaired with tape. Later bibliographical annotations in pencil. In this early Salvadoran broadside decree, the government nullifies the appointment of Atanacio Urrutia to the Supreme Court and elevates Jose Felix Quiros in his stead. Printing seems to have arrived in El Salvador during the mid-1820s, placing the present work within the first decade of the art there. Evidently rare -- we locate no other copies.

SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH by Williams, Tennessee

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Title: SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH
Author: Williams, Tennessee
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: New Directions, 1959. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 114 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine white with black lettering, title almost completely faded. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "$3.25." Mild tearing along edges of dust jacket. Scuffing to dust jacket. Light foxing to front inner flap. Mild general shelf wear to book spine and boards. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown. Light foxing to front free endpaper, pastedown, title page, and frontispiece. Shelved in Plays. 1399964. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

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