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La Historia della Citta di Parma et de la Descrittione del fiume Parma by ANGELI, Bonaventura, Ferrarese.; BONAVENTURA, Ange

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Title: La Historia della Citta di Parma et de la Descrittione del fiume Parma
Author: ANGELI, Bonaventura, Ferrarese.; BONAVENTURA, Ange
Seller: Ursus Books (United States)
Description: 1591. () ANGELI, Bonaventura. La Historia della Citta di Parma, et la Descrittione del fiume Parma...divisa in otto libri. [16], 783 (i.e., 795), [1]; [160] pp., illustrated with large woodcut historiated initials at the beginning of each chapter, ornamental head- and tailpieces, plus the printer's woodcut device on title-page and colophon (f. Ddd4v). 4to, 203 x 147 mm., bound by Le Gascon in contemporary French blonde calf, double-ruled in gilt, framing a central armorial device with the monogram of Antoine de Sève at corners of inner panel on each board and in spine compartments (interlacing A.D.S.E.V.; Olivier 683, fer 2 and 3); spine with raised bands and title gilt in second compartment of six, the remaining five with same monogram; endpapers and fly-leaves ruled in red, contemporary document in secretary hand used as binder's waste visible (illegible) beneath endpapers; edges speckled red. In Parma: Appresso Erasmo Viotto, 1591. A history of the city and river of Parma, including regions in the surrounding Emilia Romagna. Angeli's history contains a plethora of detailed information on the buildings, sites, the Bapistry, the Ducal palace of Ottavio Farnese by Vignola, and accounts of the ruling noble families San Vitali, Pallavicino, Rossa, Torella, and Terza. Angeli dedicated his book to the Prince of Parma, Don Ranuccio Farnese. Bonaventura Angeli (ca. 1525-1592) Italian writer from Ferrara, along with his friend Gianbattista Pigna, formed an academy for the cultivation of literature called the Parthian Academy. For some time he was in the employ of the Dukes of Ferrara. His Historia della Citta di Parma is the most important of many works written by Angeli. At the time little was recorded of the city of Parma, of the history of the Parma river, or of the surrounding Emilia-Romagna region. Angeli consulted whatever archives he could locate in Parma and composed the book in eight chapters with several digressions on a general history of Italy. He supplied an exhaustive index of 160 pages at the end, printed in double columns. This volume was in the library of Philippe Desportes (1546-1606), the French courtier poet who was famous for composing villanelles, elegies and sonnets, many copied by English Elizabethan poets. Desportes was one of the major poets competing with Pierre de Ronsard for the favor of the Duke of Anjou. He worked under the patronage of King Henry III, for whom Desportes wrote poems upon royal request. He was granted the abbey of Tiron as a royal benefice for literary services rendered. The other early owner of this volume was Antoine de Sève (d. 1662), a counselor and chaplain to Louis XIV, prior at Champdieu, and Abbey of l'Isle-en-Barrois. His books, forming an important library of more than six thousand volumes on the sciences, were mainly bound by Antoine Ruette and Le Gascon. One of the tools found in this binding was used by de Sève only during his time at Champdieu. Binding extremities repaired. Trimmed close at upper margin near but not touching headline, two pages with small repair obscuring a few words of text, minor browning or foxing in a few quires, a beautiful book overall in an absolutely sumptuous binding. PROVENANCE: Philippe Desportes, with his ink inscription on title-page; Antoine de Sève, with his coat-of-arms and monogram on binding, from his famous library, see above. Adams 1095 (different collation). Brunet I, 287. Affo, Memorie degli Scrittori e Letterati Parmigiani IV, 209-240. Barotti, Memorie Istoriche di Letterati Ferraresi II, 187-194. CNCE 1768 (the pagination matches ours however the publication year given is "1590 (1589)").

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF by Williams, Tennessee

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Title: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Author: Williams, Tennessee
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Near fine in a near fine jacket.
Description: New York: New Directions Books, 1955. First printing. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. Signed first edition of Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning third play, adapted into the 1958 film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman. Tangled in webs of deceit woven for personal safety and personal gain, the characters of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF struggle to come to terms with the truth throughout the play. The 1958 film added another layer to the obfuscation of truth at the heart of the play by removing references Brick's homosexual desires in response to the Hays Code. A beautiful copy. 8'' x 5.25''. Original brown cloth binding with black spine lettering. Original unclipped ($3.00) color pictorial dust jacket, designed by Alvin Lustig. Illustrated with full-page black-and-white plate before "Notes for the Designer." NYT not credited on verso of title page and all other points. xiv, 198 pages. Signed by Williams on the front free endpaper. Trace rubbing to jacket. Top edge of book a little dusty. Else bright and sharp.

The Programme of the London Conference Festival, to be held in the Freemason's Hall, Great Queen Street, On Monday, June 2nd, 1851

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Title: The Programme of the London Conference Festival, to be held in the Freemason's Hall, Great Queen Street, On Monday, June 2nd, 1851
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: [London]: Printed by J.B. Franklin, 1851. 8pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] One large uncut sheet that is not sewn [44.5 cm by 28 cm]. Fine. We are able to locate seven institutional copies. Uncommon. According to Crawley "While tea parties in conjunction with the quarterly or half-yearly conferences were common in the British Mission, the London Conference festival of June 2, 1851, held after the conference's half-yearly meeting, took this practice to a new level and served as a model for a number of other festivals held throughout the mission during the next two years. The London Festival, in turn, seems to have been inspired by the July 24th celebration in Salt Lake City, the preceding year, which was reported in the 'Deseret News' of July 27, August 3, August 10, 1850, and 'Millennial Star' of November 15. Opening with some instructions from conference president Eli B. Kelsey, [this item] outlines the program of the festival, listing the visitors expected to attend - including John Taylor, Lorenzo Snow, Erastus Snow, Franklin D. Richards, George B. Wallace, and Levi Richards - and the various speeches, songs, choir numbers, scripture readings, "laconic phrases," and prayers, with two breaks for refreshments. The festivities were to begin at 3:30 pm "precisely" with two processions composed of a band, twelve branch presidents each carrying a staff, twenty-four young ladies, "appropriately dressed," and twenty-four young men with blue scarves; then twelve fathers of Israel each carrying a staff, twelve young men each carrying the Bible and the Book of Mormon, and twelve young ladies dressed in white with scarves and wreaths of roses on their heads, each carrying a bouquet of flowers. Included in the pamphlet are the words to seven songs: Parley Pratt's, "Lo the Gentile Chain is Broken"; John Jacques's "Oh! Say What is Truth?"; W.W. Phelps's "Glorious Things are Sung in Zion"; Thomas Hastings's "Hail to the Brightness of Zion's Glad Morning"; John Lyon's "We'll Plough, and Sow, and Joyful Reap"; John Taylor's "Go, Ye Messengers of Glory"; and James Craig's "Let's Israel's Chosen Race Rejoice." Jacob Gates comments on the festival in his journal, noting that one thousand or more assembled and the festivities lasted until 11:30 p.m. Appleton M. Harmon reports that eleven hundred attended, the waiters were "dressed in white with wreaths of roses," and the "whole was a rich entertainment with musick and the like we felt first rate." Crawley 579. Flake/Draper 1942a.

A Man of the People [Signed] by Chinua Achebe

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Title: A Man of the People [Signed]
Author: Chinua Achebe
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good +
Description: New York: The John Day Company, 1966. Good +/Very Good. New York: The John Day Company, 1966. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm); 167pp. Publisher’s dust jacket with $3.95 price intact; boards bound in yellow cloth with black stamping to spine. Dust jacket bumped at spine ends and corners; a few superficial scratches throughout. Jacket rear panel and flaps lightly toned. Boards bumped at spine ends and corners; a few instances of discoloration due to previous presence of tape. Binding sound. Textblock and endsheets toned; interior pages clean. Ex-library with expected markings, including sticker at jacket spine, glue and paper remnants at final free endsheet, and stamp at rear. Nevertheless a Good or better, externally presentable copy of Achebe’s fourth novel. Signed by the author without inscription at full title page.

Sechs Vorträge über das thermodynamische Potential und seine Anwendungen auf chemische und physikalische Gleichgewichtsprobleme eingeleitet durch zwei Vorträge über nichtverdünnte Lösungen und über den Osmotischen Druck by VAN LAAR, J.J.

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Title: Sechs Vorträge über das thermodynamische Potential und seine Anwendungen auf chemische und physikalische Gleichgewichtsprobleme eingeleitet durch zwei Vorträge über nichtverdünnte Lösungen und über den Osmotischen Druck
Author: VAN LAAR, J.J.
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und sohn, 1906. FIRST EDITION. Half-morocco over marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. An excellent copy from the Mount Wilson Observatory, with a presentation bookplate to the Observatory by the Dutch astronomer Adriaan van Maanen (1884-1946), and with his signature dated 1906 on the half-title. First edition of this important work in thermodynamics and chemistry.

[Metal card]: The Veterans of Foreign Wars National Encampment, Philadelphia

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Title: [Metal card]: The Veterans of Foreign Wars National Encampment, Philadelphia
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Philadelphia, 1941. Unbound. Near Fine. Metal card. Measuring 3¾" x 2¼". A few light surface scratches and scuffs, near fine overall. A card presented to Walter E. Alessandroni, at The Veterans of Foreign Wars National Encampment in Philadelphia, August 24-30th, 1941. This is likely Pennsylvania attorney general Walter Edwin Alessandroni, who also held positions as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, as well as executive director of the Philadelphia Housing Authority. He passed away in an airplane crash in 1966. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II.

Prepositions: The Collected Critical Essays of Louis Zukofsky by ZUKOFSKY, Louis

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Title: Prepositions: The Collected Critical Essays of Louis Zukofsky
Author: ZUKOFSKY, Louis
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Rapp & Caroll, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 158, [2]pp. Poet Daniel Hoffman's copy with his name penned on front fly, spine mildly cocked, near fine in a very good lightly stained and age-toned dust jacket.

Lectures on Agriculture Chemistry and Geology by [Agriculture] [Chemistry] Johnston, Jas. F. W.

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Title: Lectures on Agriculture Chemistry and Geology
Author: [Agriculture] [Chemistry] Johnston, Jas. F. W.
Seller: Americana Books ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fair
Description: New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1842. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. [1], [8] pages publisher advertisements, iv, 5-255 pages, 40 page appendix, [8] pages publisher advertisements. Green cloth hardcover with blind stamped designs on boards. Gilt stamped title on spine. Small tear to cloth upper spine. Light stains on the front cover. Cloth spine faded to brown. Light to moderate toning and foxing to pages. Inscription written on the right front flyleaf reads "Eugene Lynch from his friend [initials] J.L.C.? Balt. 1842." "Eugene Lynch ??? (not legible) 1842" inscription in old pen on the title page. A faint pencil inscription written top of the title page "From ??? Colburn 174 Balt. St." This copy is possible signed by the author. Found inside the book is a 1981 typed letter by the previous owner thanking a friend? for finding "a signed copy no less..." of this work.

Piet Mondriaan in the Haags Gemeentemuseum | Piet Mondriaan in het Haags Gemeentemuseum

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Title: Piet Mondriaan in the Haags Gemeentemuseum | Piet Mondriaan in het Haags Gemeentemuseum
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG-: Stray marks to the cover. Clean body pages and solid binding.
Description: Hague: Haags Gemeentemuseum, 1985. Softcover. VG-: Stray marks to the cover. Clean body pages and solid binding.. A square softcover book with a color illustration on the front cover. It has a blue spine with black text. 72 pages; illustrated with both black-and-white and color images. Text is in Dutch and English.

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Early Harvest by Greg Bear

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Title: Early Harvest
Author: Greg Bear
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780915368365
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Numbered Edition of which this is #332; a fine book in near fine dust jacket that shows some rubbing to the spine ends and some other general minor shelf wear; a clean, bright, tight copy housed in a fresh mylar cover.

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