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Opere di Galileo Galilei...In questa nuoua editione insieme raccolte, e di varij trattati dell’ istesso autore non più stampati accresciute by GALILEI, Galileo

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Title: Opere di Galileo Galilei...In questa nuoua editione insieme raccolte, e di varij trattati dell’ istesso autore non più stampati accresciute
Author: GALILEI, Galileo
Seller: Martayan Lan, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: THE COLLECTED WORKS OF GALILEO Bologna, HH. del Dozza, 1655-56. 2 volumes, large 4to. Vol. I: [28], 48 p.; 48 p.; [8], 160 p.; [4], 68 p.; 127 p.; [4], 264 p.; 43 p., including allegorical frontispiece signed Stefano della Bella, Villamoena portrait of Galileo, and folding engraved plate of military compass. Vol. II: [4], 41, [1] p., [1] f., 43-60 p.; [16], 104, [4], 105-156 p.; 48 p.; [8], 179, [1] p.; [51]-106 p.; [101]-126 p.; [8], 238 (i.e. 242), [6] p. Numerous woodcut initials and astronomical and mathematical diagrams. Vol. II includes a cancelled leaf, paginated 99-100 and with text from the "Macchie solari" on recto and the beginning of the "Risposta del Sig. Alfonso Antonini di Udine" on verso, inserted between the Castelli and Grienberger letters on the 1618 comet, and with a large section of the lower left corner cleanly cut out, probably intentionally. Bound in contemporary vellum, title written in ink on spine and on lower edges; usual mild discoloration and light foxing on scattered leaves; several quires browned as usual. Generally a fine, wide-margined and fresh copy. First collected edition of Galileo's works, appearing only a year after his death and of great interest for his 17th-century reception. This was the edition in which Newton and later eminent scientists read their Galileo. Included here are not only most of the seminal pieces written and published over a lifetime, but additional publications and letters by both supporters and antagonists. Together in one work they offer a veritable panorama of scientific activity in Italy during the first half of the seventeenth century, and are critical for the history of the formation of Galileo's text. The Opere contains many unpublished or little-known items provided to the editors by Vincenzo Viviani, Galileo's friend and disciple. Among them are a number of Galileo's hitherto unpublished letters and experiments and the La Bilancetta, his first scientific work, written in 1586. Both the Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo ("Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems") and the letter to Christina di Lorena were on the Index of Prohibited Books when the Opere was published, so they are not included. A contemporary hand noted on the final flyleaf of Vol. 2, "La lettura de discorsi legati insieme è interdetta" ("The reading of the discourses bound together is forbidden.").Volume I includes a dedication, other preliminary material, and Galileo's first publication, Le operationi del compasso geometrico e militare ("The Mathematical and Geometrical Compass"), issued in 1606, and related works ([28], 48 p.; 48 p.; [8], 160 p.); Discorso ... intorno alle cose, che stanno sù l'acqua, ò che in quella si muovono ("The Discourse on Floating Bodies"), first published in 1612, and related works ([4], 68 p.; 127 p.; [4], 264 p.); and Della scienza mecanica ("On the Science of Mechanics and its Uses"), based on lectures on statics and simple machines delivered in Padua in the 1590s, and La Bilancetta (43 p.).Volume II includes the Sidereus Nuncius ("The Starry Messenger"), originally published in 1610, in which Galileo describes his astronomical discoveries using a telescope ([4], 41, [1] p., [1] f., 43-60 p.); the three letters on sunspots from 1613 ([16], 104, [4], 105-156 p.); texts related to the comet of 1618 (48 p. and [51]-106, [101]-126 p.); Il Saggiatore ("The Assayer"), Galileo's "scientific manifesto" from 1623 ([8], 179, [1] p.); and his last work, Discorsi e dimonstrationi matematiche ("Mathematical Discourses on the Two New Sciences"), first issued in 1638 ([8], 238 (i.e. 242), [6] p.). * Cinti 132; Riccardi I.518-19.

Comunità. Rivista Mensile del Movimento Comunità. Year I, No. 5 (September 1946) through Year XX, No. 139/140 (November/December 1966)

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Title: Comunità. Rivista Mensile del Movimento Comunità. Year I, No. 5 (September 1946) through Year XX, No. 139/140 (November/December 1966)
Seller: Bernett Rare Books Inc (United States)
Description: Altogether 147 issues, comprised of 7 early issues (Year I, Nos. 5 and 6, and Year II, Nos. 2, 3, 8, 21, and 23) and a large sequential run of 140 issues (Year III, No. 1 through Year XX, No. 139/140, lacking nos. 66 through 69) of the long-running Italian social, political, and cultural journal affiliated with the Movimento Comunità, an Italian socialist and liberal-democratic political party, under the editorial direction of Adriano Olivetti, Giorgio Soavi, and Renzo Zorzi, containing articles and essays on politics, sociology, literature, art, architecture, economics, urban planning, and other topics in Italy and abroad, with contributions from Olivetti, Gerardo Bruni, Vincenzo Mazzei, Mario Praz, Giuseppe Rovero, Alberto Moravia, Giulio Carlo Argan, Luciano Anceschi, Ignazio Silone, Giorgio Bassani, Cesare Pavese, Mario Luzi, Elio Vittorini, Carlo Bo, and many others. Profusely illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings. Early issues tabloid, later issues small 4to. 1946 and 1947 original self-wrpps., 1949 through 1955 and 1961 through 1966 original wrpps., 1956 through 1960 in cloth-backed boards, original wrpps. bound in. Some scattered soiling and foxing especially to wrpps. of earliest issues, some issues with rubber stamps, some issues with old address label affixed to front, Year I No. 6 with some paper loss to back page. Rome, Torino, and Ivrea, Italy 1946-1966. The Movimento Comunità party was founded in Piedmont in 1947 originally as a cultural movement, and was transformed by Olivetti into a political organization. The journal Comunità actually preceded the official founding of the movement and was started in Rome in March 1946 with the subtitle "Giornale Mensile di Politica e Cultura". This first series ran for six issues, through October 1946. In April 1947, publication transferred to Torino and ran for 26 issues, printed weekly and then biweekly through December 1947. The third series began in Ivrea in 1949, and ran until 1992. A rare large consecutive group of this journal, with scarce early issues included.

Oliver Cromwell by CROMWELL Oliver GARDINER Samuel Rawson

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Title: Oliver Cromwell
Author: CROMWELL Oliver GARDINER Samuel Rawson
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Description: 1899. First Edition. GARDINER, Samuel Rawson. Oliver Cromwell. London: Goupil, 1899. Folio (10 by 13 inches), contemporary full tan morocco gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt, uncut. $3000.Limited edition of Gardiners highly regarded biography of Cromwell, one of 1475 wide-margined copies printed on fine paper, illustrated with lithographed color frontispiece portrait, 44 engravings (most full-page) and manuscript facsimiles, handsomely bound by Bumpus.When Scotland began to rise up against Charles I in 1637, Oliver Cromwell was poised at the center of this turning point in British history. Soldier and brilliant strategist, controversial politician and statesman, Cromwell would ultimately be sworn in as Lord Protector in December 1653. Though his is a checkered legacy, Cromwell nevertheless made it possible ""for the first time in three and half centuries, for Jews to live, trade and worship openly in the City of London"" (Schama II:235). Prior to Cromwell, ""no private person had taken power to rule a great European kingdom, no subject had taken it upon himself to sit in judgment on his lawful sovereign, condemn him with the formality of a lawful process, and publicly execute him as a criminal. In a country governed by custom, precedent and the common law, Cromwell completely changed the ancient frame of government, reforming Parliament and imposing a written constitution"" (Cannon, 263). Issued same year as a limited edition of 350 copies printed on Japanese vellum. This is an out of series copy, marked ""Presentation Copy"" for the limitation number. CBEL III:911. Bookplate.Scattered foxing. Beautifully bound.

Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf [Beauty in the Olympic Games] by RIEFENSTAHL, Leni

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Title: Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf [Beauty in the Olympic Games]
Author: RIEFENSTAHL, Leni
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: Minor bumping to corners of cloth boards, with bright gilt Olympic ring design to front panel; near fine. In remarkably bright p
Description: Berlin: Im Deutschen Verlag, 1937. Minor bumping to corners of cloth boards, with bright gilt Olympic ring design to front panel; near fine. In remarkably bright photo-illustrated jacket, with a few nicks unobtrusively repaired to verso; near fine. An exemplary copy, housed in custom cloth clamshell case, with white lettering to spine.. First Edition. Folio. Leni Riefenstahl's gravure paean to the 1936 Berlin games; arguably the most important book about athletics ever published. Published in conjunction with Riefenstahl's film Olympia. (Roth 96-97).

The Sensitive Plant by [Fine Binding - Riviere & Son]; Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Title: The Sensitive Plant
Author: [Fine Binding - Riviere & Son]; Percy Bysshe Shelley
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Robt. Riviere & Son, 1910. A fine example. Square sixteenmo (5 1/16 x 3 15/16 inches; 129 x 100 mm.). 46, [2, blank] pp. Title-page and initial letters printed in red and black. Handsomely bound ca. 1910 by Rivière & Son, stamp-signed in gilt on lower turn-in. Full dark blue crushed levant morocco, covers bordered in gilt surrounding an ornate floral design stamped in gilt, each with twelve inlaid red morocco flowers, spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt board edges and turn-ins, cream paper liners and end-leaves, top edge gilt. Neat ink inscription on front free end-paper and a small gold bookplate. Shelley's poem, The Sensitive Plant, is a beautiful and tragic poem commemorating the brevity of life and immortality of cyclical nature. Written after death of his son, while Percy and Mary Shelley struggled with their grief in Pisa, the poem consists of four stanzas with three sections charting the change of seasons. It is set in a garden bursting with blooms, but highlights the sensitive plant-a mimosa-with its humble leafy foliage. Human will is nothing in the face of the impartial power of nature and time. First published in Prometheus Unbound and Other Poems (1820), here it has been reproduced with a delicate binding to match its subject. "For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower; Radiance and odour are not its dower; It loves, even like Love, its deep heart is full, It desires what it has not, the Beautiful!" "The Riviere Bindery was one of the most notable and prolific shops in London's West End from about 1840 through 1939" (Princeton). Bath-based Bayntun Bindery acquired the firm in 1939, transforming into the "Bayntun-Riviere bindery," which is still in existence and family owned.

Working Together Makes Famous Firsts For American Airlines System by AMERICAN AIRLINES

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Title: Working Together Makes Famous Firsts For American Airlines System
Author: AMERICAN AIRLINES
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Condition: very good(+)
Description: American Airlines, 1945. unbound. very good(+). Color lithograph. Image measures 24" x 36", mounted to 38.75" x 26.75" canvas. In very good condition. Image shows American Airlines employees encircling a globe that shows new US and European flight routes. American Airlines, founded in 1926, is one of the major US-based airlines headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, within the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex. It is the largest airline in the world when measured by scheduled passengers carried, revenue passenger mile, and fleet size

The Knave of Hearts by SAUNDERS, Louise

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Title: The Knave of Hearts
Author: SAUNDERS, Louise
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Description: Racine, Wisconsin: Artists and Writers Guild, 1925. Maxfield PARRISH. [DRAMA] [ILLUSTRATION]. Maxfield PARRISH, illustrator. First edition. 4to (12 5/8" x 11"); [34]pp; stiff color pictorial wrappers, metal spiral bound spine; color pictorial title page; color illustrations throughout with text; age-toned wrappers, small spot on front, lightly soiled; interior clean and bright; very good plus. Brightly colored illustrations by Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966), an American illustrator known for his neo-classical style and use of bright jewel colors.

Really Babies, with Illustrations Reproduced from Photographs Taken by the Author by BROWNELL, Elizabeth B.

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Title: Really Babies, with Illustrations Reproduced from Photographs Taken by the Author
Author: BROWNELL, Elizabeth B.
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally and Company, Publishers, 1908. Cloth. Very good. Elizabeth B. BROWNELL. [VICTORIANA] [POETRY] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN PHOTOGRAPHER]. 4to; 63pp; tan cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering, decorative rondel with a portrait of a toddler on the front, portrait of a toddler onlay to rear; frontispiece of two toddlers kissing; portrait vignette on title page; photographic illustrations of children throughout with text; light scuffing to edges, front upper corner bumped, a few fingermarks, lightly shaken; very good. Sentimental and simple poems about children and childhood, illustrated throughout with photographs.

JIZAIGA KYO^KASHO Dai Roppen by [DRAWING TEXTBOOK] ASAI CHU^, artist

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Title: JIZAIGA KYO^KASHO Dai Roppen
Author: [DRAWING TEXTBOOK] ASAI CHU^, artist
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Description: 1903. [DRAWING TEXTBOOK] ASAI CHU^, artist. JIZAIGA KYO^KASHO Dai Roppen. To^kyo^, Kinko^do^ Shoseki, Meiji 36 [1903]. 1st printing. Oblong 8vo., wrappers. 18.6 x 26.5 cm. This sixth volume of the series A TEXTBOOK OF FREE SKETCHING contains 6 sheets of color woodcut reproducing watercolor sketches by Asai Chu^ and meant to serve as a guide for students in their drawing classes. The Japanese Education Ministry, the Monbusho^, had commissioned Asai Chu^, one of the foremost artists and educators of the day to create a series of such handbooks for schools. This brief notice is not the place to expand but it should be noted that this series represents an important milestone in the see-saw cultural battle being waged between artistic traditionalists and "modern" Western-style artists. The fact that the Asai Chu^ strove to familiarize students with the use of the pencil (and in this case Western watercolor) rather than the traditional brush is significant in that context. Asai, himself, actually, though an accomplished Western-style oil painter who had studied in France was also a skilled traditional painter and a top-rank graphic designer, as well. It appears he believed in giving students all the tools, all the media, available for their expression. His various textbook series are rightly famous though almost never found, being fragile to begin with and meant to be used by students. This volume is in good condition - the pages are loose and the images have a degree of foxing throughout.

Memorandum ... how to saw different kinds of lumber to the best advantage. by Giese & Son Merchants

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Title: Memorandum ... how to saw different kinds of lumber to the best advantage.
Author: Giese & Son Merchants
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Condition: A very good copy; folded; remains of mounting at three spots on verso (inoffensive).
Description: Baltimore: Manuscript, 1847. Unique.. Not bound.. A very good copy; folded; remains of mounting at three spots on verso (inoffensive).. Small 4to. A most interesting two page manuscript memorandum docketed and issued by Giese & Son Commission Merchants, 48 Commerce Street, Baltimore. It is written on both sides of a 4to. size lettersheet. It provides explicit instructions for the sawing of walnut, cherry, poplar, ash, oak, beech, and varieties of pine for the manufacture of scantling, columns, and slats.

Poetical Rhapsodies by CRUIKSHANK, George; FISHER, J.B.

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Title: Poetical Rhapsodies
Author: CRUIKSHANK, George; FISHER, J.B.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: London: William Sams, 1818. To pensive minds, superior truths belong" With a Fine Engraved Frontispiece by George Cruikshank CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. FISHER, J.B. Poetical Rhapsodies. London, printed for the Author, and published by William Sams, 1818. First edition. Crown octavo (6 5/8 x 4 inches; 168 x 101 mm.). [iii-v], vi-vii, [viii-xvi], [1]-144 pp. Engraved frontispiece "Fidelity" engraved by A. Smith after George Cruikshank. Bound without the half-title. Frontispiece offset onto title-page, 'contents' leaf re-inserted on a stub, a few light marginal stains otherwise an excellent example. Contemporary quarter dark green scored calf over drab boards, smooth spine. Chemised in a quarter dark green morocco over green cloth boards slipcase, spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt lettering on spine a little dull. Front joint cracked but sound. An excellent copy. We have been unable to find any biographical information on J.B. Fisher. He describes himself in this work as a 'comedian', and is known to have published plays, poems, and a novel. (Cohn, 318).

An Eulogium on the Life and Character of Horace Binney by Strong, William

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Title: An Eulogium on the Life and Character of Horace Binney
Author: Strong, William
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Description: 1876. A Great Philadelphia Lawyer-Statesman Strong, William [1808-1895]. An Eulogium on the Life and Character of Horace Binney. Philadelphia: McCalla & Stavely, Printers, 1876. 51 pp. Octavo (9" x 5-3/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet, wrappers lacking. Minor edgewear, light toning to interior. $75. * Only edition. Binney [1780-1875] was a leading Philadelphia lawyer who served as an Anti-Jacksonian in the United States House of Representatives. Among his most famous cases are Lyle v. Richards (1823) and Vidal et al v. Philadelphia et al (1844), also known as the Girard Will Case. Nationally famous, he was also well-regarded orator and pamphleteer. Among his publications are three important essays (from 1861, 1862 and 1865) that defended President Lincoln's suspension of the writ of habeas corpus.

Eight Upanisads ... With the commentary of Śaṅkarācārya. Translated by Swami Gambhirananda

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Title: Eight Upanisads ... With the commentary of Śaṅkarācārya. Translated by Swami Gambhirananda
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Description: Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama, 1972. Third impression of the first volumes, second edition of the second volume, 2 volumes, 12mo, pp. [8], 408; [4], 515, [1]; fine copies in very good dust jackets. Volume I contains Isā, Kena, Katha, and Taittirȳa; volume II contains Aitareya, Mundaka, Mandukaya & Karika, and Praśna.

View: Vol. I No. 4 September 1978 - Steve Reich by WHITE, Robin and Steve Reich

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Title: View: Vol. I No. 4 September 1978 - Steve Reich
Author: WHITE, Robin and Steve Reich
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Oakland, CA: Crown Point Press, 1978. First edition. Softcover. 15 pages. The entire issue is devoted to Robin White's interview of artist Steve Reich. Includes several black and white illustrations and a brief biographical text on Reich and a discography A very near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Uncommon.

To the Resurrection Station [Inscribed] by ARNASON, Eleanor

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Title: To the Resurrection Station [Inscribed]
Author: ARNASON, Eleanor
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Description: New York: Avon, 1986. First Edition. First printing (paperback original). Inscribed on title page: "For John - Best wishes," signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Mass market paperback; 276pp. Trace of rubbing at base of rear cover, else a tight, Near Fine copy with minimal tanning to the text margins; publisher's yellow edge-stain bright, even and unfaded.

TOULOUSE-LAUTREC: Das gesamte graphische Werk. Sammlung Gerstenberg. by Adriani, Götz.

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Title: TOULOUSE-LAUTREC: Das gesamte graphische Werk. Sammlung Gerstenberg.
Author: Adriani, Götz.
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Description: Köln (DuMont), 1986.. 435pp. Prof. illus. Lrg. 4to. Cloth. D.j. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Jan.-March 1987.

How to Control the Military by GALBRAITH, John Kenneth

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Title: How to Control the Military
Author: GALBRAITH, John Kenneth
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Condition: Very Good
Description: (New York): A Signet Broadside Published by The New American Library, 1969. Softcover. Very Good. First edition, paperback original. Printed wrappers. Pages lightly toned, a few tiny nicks on front cover, very good.

Invest One Dollar for Peace. Help Elect Delegates to the Democratic Convention / Stop The War In Vietnam - Set Up the Fight for a Better America [donation form resembling currency] by [McCarthy, Eugene]

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Title: Invest One Dollar for Peace. Help Elect Delegates to the Democratic Convention / Stop The War In Vietnam - Set Up the Fight for a Better America [donation form resembling currency]
Author: [McCarthy, Eugene]
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Description: New York: Coalition for a Democratic Alternative, 1968. 8x2.75 inch sheet with form for donor's information at left, with perforations to detach it. Unused, very good.

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