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Tableaux Topographiques, Pittoresques, Physiques, Historiques, Moraux, Politiques, Litteraires, de la Suisse. [Five Volumes] by Zurlauben, Beat Fidele Antoine de; Jean-Benjamin de Laborde

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Title: Tableaux Topographiques, Pittoresques, Physiques, Historiques, Moraux, Politiques, Litteraires, de la Suisse. [Five Volumes]
Author: Zurlauben, Beat Fidele Antoine de; Jean-Benjamin de Laborde
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Clousier, Rue Saint-Jacques, 1780. Hardcover. Good. Folio. Five volumes, full red leather with gilt stamped decorative borders to boards, 12 raised bands in six pairs to spine, gilt lettering & decoration in spine compartments, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 20-1/4" x 13-1/2", profusely illustrated. Laid in is an 1899 note from Hermann Linde, Art Publisher, which explains that the plates & text were printed separately, and the instructions to the binder are in volume 3 with a general index of plates in volume 5. There are also two other notes discussing the plates. Bookplate of industrialist & railroad owner Robert Heysham Sayre (to whom the Linde letter is addressed). Wear to edges of boards, some hinges tender; front hinge of volume 3 exposed. Damp staining to covers & to some pages and plates--I've uploaded a photo of the worst. Mild foxing, but pages generally clean and bright with nice wide margins. ---PLATE COLLATION: Of the 278 plates listed, it is only missing #212 which is an explanatory plate for the folding plate #211. ---ADDITIONAL PLATES: there is an extra copy of the map "Carte de la partie occidentale de l'Oberland Canton de Berne" -- one is mounted as a centerfold, one is mounted as a folding plate. There are also two folding maps, "Carte Generale de Suisse" and "Carte de Canton de Bale" which are not noted in the list of plates. The allegorial frontispiece to volume 1 is present. And finally, there are two plates marked #219/220 and there is an extra plate marked #169. Good to very good condition. Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping.

The Diary of an Ad Man by Young, James Webb

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Title: The Diary of an Ad Man
Author: Young, James Webb
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Chicago: Advertising Publications, Inc, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Olive cloth boards under dust jacket neither priced nor clipped, first edition with 1944 on title page, 7" x 5", 256 pp. Fine in lightly worn jacket. A consistent seller for us, this is a home front journal by "one of the best copywriters in history" (Ogilvy, Ogilvy on Advertising, p. 82).

Daddy King by KING Martin Luther

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Title: Daddy King
Author: KING Martin Luther
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1980. First Edition. Signed. KING, Martin Luther, Sr. Daddy King. New York: William Morrow, 1980. Octavo, original half russet cloth, original dust jacket. $3200.First edition of the elder King's autobiography, describing his life in the pulpit and the civil rights movement and loss of both his son and his wife to assassin's bullets, inscribed by him ""John Hope II, may God bless you. M.L. King Sr.""""This book is a must for those who seek to understand the source of the inspirations of the civil-rights movement as well as the unique courage which resides in the hearts and souls of black Americans"" (Benjamin Hooks). The recipient of this copy, John Hope II, was a noted civil rights advocate; his father was renowned civil rights activist John Hope, President of Morehouse College from 1909-36. In this biography King describes an encounter with the elder hope when King was hoping to enroll at Morehouse but denied entry due to low test scores. King boldly decided to make his case directly to Hope himself in the president's office, an intimidating encounter that nonetheless earned King entrance to Morehouse, where he eventually earned a degree in Theology in 1931.Minor toning and wear to dust jacket spine. Near-fine condition.

Rivera Typed Letter SIGNED about painting murals and exhibitions by RIVERA, DIEGO

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Seller: Schulson Autographs

Title: Rivera Typed Letter SIGNED about painting murals and exhibitions
Author: RIVERA, DIEGO
Seller: Schulson Autographs (United States)
Description: Although missing the year, Rivera's typed letter to Mr. Reginald Poland, Director of The Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego (1925-1950),small folio, dated March 27, from San Francisco, was penned in 1931. Rivera arrived in San Francisco with Frida Kahlo several months earlier in November of 1930 and went to live with Ralph Stackpole, the American sculptor, painter and muralist at 716 Montgomery Street, a locale that acted as a social center for the artistic community in San Francisco. Rivera and Kahlo lived at that address with Stackpole until they left San Francisco in June, several months after Rivera wrote to Poland. Rivera discusses future exhibitions and current work with the possibility of an exhibition in San Diego. "Thank you for your interest... I took the matter up with Mr. Rollins of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor and tried to arrange for an exhibition in San Diego. But it was impossible because almost the entire exhibit was loaned...." Rivera then explains that he is sending "aquarelles and drawings" to the Detroit Institute of Fine Art and that he is returning to Mexico to "complete my work in the National Palace in Mexico City" and hopes to arrange for an exhibition in San Diego "in the Fall." Rivera returned to the US to begin work on his acclaimed murals in the Detroit Institute of the Arts, but it was not until 1936, that he finally exhibited in San Diego at the California-Pacific International Exposition.

Nouvelle méthode pour reconnaitre les maladies internes de la poitrine par la percussion de cette cavité by AUENBRUGGER, Leopold

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Title: Nouvelle méthode pour reconnaitre les maladies internes de la poitrine par la percussion de cette cavité
Author: AUENBRUGGER, Leopold
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Paris: I’Imprimerie de Migneret, 1808. FIRST EDITION OF CORVISART’S TRANSLATION FROM THE LATIN. Complete with half-title and errata. Uncut in the original wrappers, re-backed with the original spine label. An absolutely fantastic copy, preserved in a slipcase. First edition of Corvisart's classic translation of one of the great medical masterpieces. The results of Auenbrugger's experiments, with the immediate percussion of the chest as a new diagnostic method, were first published in Vienna in 1761. For nearly fifty years this revolutionary technique attracted little attention, until Corvisart (1755-1821), Napoleon's personal physician, published his translation of the original text. It was through Corvisart's reputation and advocacy that the value of thoracic percussion was universally recognized. Auenbrugger (1722-1809) was a physician at the Spanish Hospital in Vienna. Garrison & Morton, 2672.

The large and small game of Bengal and the north-western provinces of India by BALDWIN, Captain J.H.

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Title: The large and small game of Bengal and the north-western provinces of India
Author: BALDWIN, Captain J.H.
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: Henry S. King, 1876. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece plate (detached) with tissue guard, text illustrations. Contemporary cloth, worn, title in gilt with decoration on front cover; interior uncut. From the James Dolan collection with his bookplate on paste down and blind stamp on title page. First edition of a scarce work on hunting in India written by an observer and lover of nature. Baldwin, a Captain in the British Army stationed in India, recounts his experiences hunting for tiger in the Terai, Assam, and Mirzapore regions, and additional hunts for panther, bear, buffalo and various deer species. He provides in-depth desscriptions of animals such as the leopard, red lynx, hyaena, wild dog, Indian elephant Indian rhinoceros, and antelope, among many others, sufficient certainly to hunt. The second part of the work examines India’s sporting bird species. Almost every animal he describes had fallen to his own rifle. The illustrations of Himalayas have been engraved from his own drawings.

Oriental and Western Siberia. A narrative of seven years.. by ATKINSON, Thomas Witlam

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Title: Oriental and Western Siberia. A narrative of seven years..
Author: ATKINSON, Thomas Witlam
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1858. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. With frontispiece plus beautiful 51 illustrations and folding map. Black cloth, author and title in gilt on spine; new endpapers, small waterstain on top edge of pages 48-65, otherwise a clean copy with an ownership inscription that indicates “purchased April 30, 1858.”. First American edition of an incredible journey through Siberia undertaken by the English architect and artist Atkinson (1799-1861). The author traveled nearly forty thousand miles, nearly a third of which he did on horseback. Atkinson provides a vivid account of adventures and misadventures in a frozen and often barren landscape, including numerous close brushes with death from both natural and unnatural causes. He goes into great detail about the populated regions of Siberia, most never visited by Westerners, including the customs and life of its people.

The Strength of Government; The Godkin Lectures at Harvard University by Bundy, McGeorge

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Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC

Title: The Strength of Government; The Godkin Lectures at Harvard University
Author: Bundy, McGeorge
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good/near fine. First edition of The Strength of Government by National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy, inscribed to his landlord.. Octavo, xii, [2], 113pp. White cloth, title stamped in black and red on spine. A first edition, first printing, with no additional printings on the copyright page. Foxing along outer edge of text block, soiling to white cloth, generally clean text block. In the publisher's near fine dust jacket, price-clipped, bright illustrations. Inscribed on the half title: "For Henry & Janet Redmond, Who may not agree with all this, so that they have my apologies in advance for their guilt-by-association in having had the past acknowledged on page x. Mac Bundy. November 20, 1968." In The Strength of Government, former National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy argues that the national government is dangerously weak for the job assigned to it by the American people. He believes the rapid changes in communication and technology place an increased burden on the federal government that it is not equipped to handle. In the view of Bundy, the Executive Branch is dangerously weak, with certain departments being held together by "an administrator of truly exceptional force and skill." McGeorge Bundy served as the National Security Advisor for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson from 1961-1966. Later in life, he joined Robert McNamara as a member of the "Gang of Four," advising the Executive Branch on nuclear policy. Bundy died in 1996.

[Small Archive]: Virginia Transit Company Newsletter

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA

Title: [Small Archive]: Virginia Transit Company Newsletter
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Richmond Virginia, 1957. Unbound. Very Good. A collection of 16 newsletters. All items very good or better with tears from opening, folds, and slight edgewear. A small collection of the newsletter *Transit Topics* produced by the Virginia Transit Company of Richmond, Virginia in the 1950s collected by an employee of the company. The Virginia Transit Company was the transit division for Norfolk and Richmond between 1944 and 1973 when it was split into two separate companies for each city. The company originally operated streetcars but by the end of the 1940s was making a switch to motor buses. These newsletters feature a header which reads, "Transit Topics Go By Bus Leave Worries Behind." Some headlines include, "Suggestion for a Pleasant Visit...Why Not Go by Bus?"; "232 Virginia Transit Bus Operators Here Are Honored This Week for Accident-Free Driving Records"; and "Save and Save and Save!!!" The newsletters boast the benefits of public transportation including savings, rides to church, and flexibility. They also let customers know about new schedules, fares, and rerouting. An interesting archive following 1950s public transportation in Virginia.

[Early Baseball]: Reward of Merit

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Title: [Early Baseball]: Reward of Merit
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: [No place: no publisher, 1878. Unbound. Very Good. Reward of merit. Measuring 4½" x 2¾". Card chromolithographed with a baseball scene, a bouquet of flowers, and a blank line to present the card. This card not presented. Small tape repair of blank verso, very good or better. The catcher seems to be wearing a rudimentary mask, which dates it no earlier than 1876, but probably not much later. Very scarce.

Schönheit des Wohnens: Ein Bildwerk über deutsche Wohnmöbel by Herausgegeben in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Reichsheimstättenamt der deutschen Arbeitsfront

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Title: Schönheit des Wohnens: Ein Bildwerk über deutsche Wohnmöbel
Author: Herausgegeben in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Reichsheimstättenamt der deutschen Arbeitsfront
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: g
Description: Freiburg im Breisgau: Karl Kopp Verlag, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. g. Oblong folio. Unpaginated. Three-quarter gray cloth over illustrated paper-covered boards. Age wear and some staining to binding. Gutters at front- and rear endpapers expertly reinforced with white binders tape. Interesting work looking at the style of furniture used in Germany in the early 1940's. In his foreword, Dr. Steinhauser states that the houses in Adolf Hitler's Germany should not be designed on individual taste but should represent the 'style' of National Socialist Germany. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of designs in color as well as b/w photographs & plans. Shown is furniture for the living room, bedroom, kitchen, office as well as unique single pieces. Compiled by the architect August Grosskinsky. Text in German. Binding in good-, interior in very good condition.

Laws of The Territory of Utah Passed at The Twenty-seventh Session of The Legislative Assembly

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Title: Laws of The Territory of Utah Passed at The Twenty-seventh Session of The Legislative Assembly
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Territory of Utah, 1886. Very Good. Laws of The Territory of Utah Passed at The Twenty-seventh Session of The Legislative Assembly. Salt Lake City, Utah: Territory of Utah, 1886. 72pp. Indexed. 8vo. Law calf. Book condition: Very good, with very light rubbing to extremities. Narrow black smear across front cover, and light spotting to rear. 'Toole County Court'-inkstamps to front cover, pastedowns and title-page..

Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, Volume IX, Part II

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Title: Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, Volume IX, Part II
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Fair
Description: Fair. Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, Volume IX, Part II. Washington, D. C.: NP, ND. Illustrated. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Poor. Rubbing to extremities. Edges bumped and exposed. Water damage causing boards to bow out. Rear hinge has cracked and is taped. Water staining along edges of pages. Part 2: Birds.

I VERMEXIO: Architetti ispano-siculi del secolo XVII. (Collezione Meridionale. III: Il Mezzogiorno Artistico.) by Agnello, Giuseppe.

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Title: I VERMEXIO: Architetti ispano-siculi del secolo XVII. (Collezione Meridionale. III: Il Mezzogiorno Artistico.)
Author: Agnello, Giuseppe.
Seller: Ars Libri Ltd (United States)
Description: Firenze (La Nuova Italia), 1959.. 230pp., 90 plates. Lrg. 4to. Cloth. D.j.

I VERMEXIO: Architetti ispano-siculi del secolo XVII. (Collezione Meridionale. III: Il Mezzogiorno Artistico.) by Agnello, Giuseppe.

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Title: I VERMEXIO: Architetti ispano-siculi del secolo XVII. (Collezione Meridionale. III: Il Mezzogiorno Artistico.)
Author: Agnello, Giuseppe.
Seller: Ars Libri Ltd (United States)
Description: Firenze (La Nuova Italia), 1959.. 230pp., 90 plates. Lrg. 4to. Cloth. D.j.

Folklore and the Sea. by Beck, Horace.

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Title: Folklore and the Sea.
Author: Beck, Horace.
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Description: Middletown, CT: Mystic Seaport, (1973). xvii, 463 pp. b/w plates. Folklore of shipbuilding, weather, navigation, pirates, ghosts, mermaids and monsters, and a chapter on songs with music. #114 in a limited edition of 500 copies. Signed by Beck. Fine in slipcase with prospectus laid in.

Canaletto in England. by Beddington, Charles.

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Title: Canaletto in England.
Author: Beddington, Charles.
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition: This book also served as the catalogue of an exhibition at the Yale Center for British art. It includes essays by Brian Allen a
Description: New Haven.: Yale University Press., (2006).. This book also served as the catalogue of an exhibition at the Yale Center for British art. It includes essays by Brian Allen and Francis Russell. In fine condition with dust jacket. 24 cm. 206 pp. Color reproduction frontispiece. Full page and part page color plates, hand colored engravings and b/w engravings, photographic illustrations. Front and rear pastedowns and blanks decorated with tinted engraved reproductions.

The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde by Wilde, Oscar

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Seller: Sanctuary Books

Title: The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde
Author: Wilde, Oscar
Seller: Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1968. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Copy 81 of a total edition of 1500. 4to. Signed by illustrator, James Hill. Excellent copy in slipcase.

Philosophical and Literary Pieces. by Alexander, Samuel

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Title: Philosophical and Literary Pieces.
Author: Alexander, Samuel
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: London: Macmillan and Co., 1939 First edition. Original cloth. Octavo. Rubberstamp of philosopher Donald Williams, some light pencil. Frontisportrait detached. A very attractive, bright copy in very good d.j.

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