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GEISTLICHE ZUNGEN . . . VON DER GIFFTIGEN ZUNGEN DESS MENSCHEN by (BINDINGS - 17TH CENTURY GERMAN MOROCCO). PELECYUS, JOHANNES

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Title: GEISTLICHE ZUNGEN . . . VON DER GIFFTIGEN ZUNGEN DESS MENSCHEN
Author: (BINDINGS - 17TH CENTURY GERMAN MOROCCO). PELECYUS, JOHANNES
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Munich: N. Henricus, 1622. First Edition in German. 160 x 100 mm. (6 1/4 x 4"). 16 p.l., 699, [3] pp. Translated from the Latin by Sebastian Äntzenhover. UNUSUAL AND QUITE BEAUTIFUL CONTEMPORARY GERMAN DARK RED MOROCCO, GILT, covers with gilt fillet border, central panel with onlaid corner pieces and centerpiece of black morocco stamped in relief to an Ottoman-inspired design of flowering vines, raised bands, spine panels with gilt centerpiece, two leather straps with silver clasps and catches, all edges gilt. Title page with engraving of the Tower of Babel. Top half inch of title page cut away (to remove owner inscription?). VD17 12:103845E; USTC 2019170. A touch of bowing to boards, spine a little crackled, joints and extremities a bit rubbed, occasional small, round marginal marks, apparently made with wax(!) and presumably meant to indicate textual importance, other trivial imperfections, but an excellent copy, clean and fresh, in an unrestored binding with lustrous boards glistening with gilt. This rare work on sinning through the use of wicked words is offered here in a lovely binding that is quite out of the ordinary for its time and place and that may well have a very noble provenance. "Spiritual Tongues: That is, a Salutary Treatise Concerning the Poisonous Tongue of Man--How to Guard Against and Remedy It" is an examination of the sins committed through speaking written by Munich Jesuit Johannes Pelecyus (1545–1623) and first printed, in Latin, in 1620. Pelecyus addresses the evils of gossip, slander, indiscretion, cursing, mocking, and other injurious speech. The first part of the work is a general overview of the topic from a theological standpoint, while the second part is a more practical guide to types of harmful speech, and specific remedies for avoiding and correcting these offenses. Pelecyus concludes with a poem "The Devil's Disease and its Remedy." The binding here is remarkable in terms of its material makeup and the conjectural origin of its design. In the first part of the 17th century, morocco was not commonly used by German binders, who preferred sturdier pigskin, particularly for treatises like this, which could be expected to see much use (poisonous tongues have long been a fact of life and in need of being frequently read about). Morocco was generally reserved for presentation copies or ceremonial liturgical works. In addition to the material, the decoration here is unusually lavish for a text of this sort, with onlays, gilt adornment, and silver clasps that required time and skill from the artisan, and considerable expense for the patron. Significantly, the lovely relief centerpiece design on the boards here also appears on the covers of a Book of Hours originally created for Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519). That volume was later acquired by another similarly named owner, Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria (and is now to be found in the Bavarian State Library: shelfmark BSB 2 L.impr.membr. 64). It is certainly well within the realm of possibility that our later Maximilian (1573-1651) could have owned the present poisoned tongue volume and had it dressed in its elaborate morocco attire in imitation of the original binding design on the emperor’s prayer book. Whoever was responsible for the binding, they surely did extremely fine work, and no doubt for an elite clientele. One other curious feature of this volume is the series of round wax dollops made in the margins, which an owner (the fastidious second Maximilian?) has used to mark passages of interest in the text. While they don't materially affect the value of the volume, they are intriguing in that they inevitably call up images for us of a careful early reader systematically marking with some kind of unknown implement the parts of the text that seemed important. "Spiritual Tongues" is a rare work: USTC and OCLC find just four copies outside Germany, none of them in North America, and we could trace just one copy sold at auction..

VOYAGE PITTORESQUE DE CONSTANTINOPLE ET DES RIVES DU BOSPHORE. [A PICTURESQUE VOYAGE TO CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE SHORES OF THE BOSPHORUS] by (CONSTANTINOPLE - EARLY 19TH CENTURY TRAVEL TO, FACSIMILE PUBLICATION). MELLING, ANTOINE IGNACE

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Title: VOYAGE PITTORESQUE DE CONSTANTINOPLE ET DES RIVES DU BOSPHORE. [A PICTURESQUE VOYAGE TO CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE SHORES OF THE BOSPHORUS]
Author: (CONSTANTINOPLE - EARLY 19TH CENTURY TRAVEL TO, FACSIMILE PUBLICATION). MELLING, ANTOINE IGNACE
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Bern: Ertug & Kocabiyuk, 2002. No. 46 OF 50 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES (of a total edition of 350). 670 x 508 mm. (26 3/8 x 20"). 3 p.l., 10 pp., [63] leaves. Publisher's scarlet morocco by Buchbinderei Burkhardt AG, covers with gilt-rolled border, cornerpieces tooled in gilt, upper cover with gilt calligraphic Arabic centerpiece, lower cover with gilt central heraldic device, marbled endleaves, all edges gilt. With a portrait frontispiece of Emperor Selim III, 48 DOUBLE-PAGE PLATES, AND THREE DOUBLE-PAGE MAPS. ◆A virtually as-new copy. This is one of the deluxe copies of a modern facsimile of Melling's massive and magnificently illustrated work devoted to 18th century Constantinople, a book that provided the earliest interior views and plans of the harems and palaces of Sultan Selim III when it was published in 1819. The illustrations remain the best (and certainly most attractive) record we have of the city during this era in its history. Our edition was produced from a copy of the elephant folio first printing in the collection of the facsimile's publisher, Ahmet Ertug, with images faithfully reproduced in their original mammoth size (650 x 970 mm.). After his arrival in Constantinople in 1795, architect and painter Antoine Ignace Melling (1763-1831) was appointed imperial architect by Selim III. In the course of his duties, he designed and landscaped a seaside palace for Selim's sister, Princess Hatice, and produced these striking panoramic views of the city and its environs. After completing the palace and a number of other building projects for Selim, he returned to Paris and in 1804 issued a prospectus for this work. He established an engraving studio in 1809 to reproduce these drawings and began publishing the completed prints as a series of fascicles that were sent to subscribers. The last one appeared in 1819. The outstanding success of an exhibition of the paintings on which the "Voyage Pittoresque" was based earned Melling the rank of painter to the Empress Josephine. When "Voyage Pittoresque" was originally published, booksellers in England sold copies for £84, a huge sum for a book at the time. The original edition in pleasing condition now fetches between $75,000 and $100,000. Our handsomely bound, actual size facsimile offers an attractively priced alternative..

AS NATURE SHOWS THEM, MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES OF THE UNITED STATES EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS by (COLOR PLATE BOOKS). (LEPIDOPTERA). DENTON, SHERMAN FOOTE

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Title: AS NATURE SHOWS THEM, MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES OF THE UNITED STATES EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
Author: (COLOR PLATE BOOKS). (LEPIDOPTERA). DENTON, SHERMAN FOOTE
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Boston: J. B. Millet Company, 1900. No. 306 OF 500 COPIES. 256 x 181 mm. (10 x 7 1/8"). Two volumes.. Very attractive contemporary olive green morocco, covers with gilt border incorporating an elaborate cornerpiece design of a butterfly; raised bands, expertly rebacked preserving original backstrips, spines gilt in compartments with lacy frames enclosing a large central butterfly, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, leather hinges, all edges gilt. With more than 400 photographic illustrations and 62 ACTUAL ENTOMOLOGICAL TRANSFERS FROM LIFE, all but one of the latter with original tissue guards. Bennett, p. 33; McGrath, p. 177; Nissen ZBI 1079; Reese, "Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books" 107. Spines faintly sunned, two leaves with minor thumbing, one corner crease, otherwise AN EXTREMELY FINE SET, the very appealing bindings quite lustrous and entirely sound, and the text and plates clean, fresh, and bright, with virtually no signs of use. This is a collection of butterfly and moth illustrations printed by direct transfer from the insects, the creation of a leading innovator in the display of lepidoteral specimens. Sherman Foote Denton (1854-1937) came from a family of amateur naturalists who managed to turn their favorite pastime into a global business. Denton patented a butterfly mount that captured a specimen on a white plaster tablet, where it could be pressed under glass, avoiding the mess, smell, and eventual degradation of butterflies and moths mounted on paper using pins. The present publication presents a collection of specimens in a far more portable form that still preserves the color and detail of the insects' wings. The author collected, by his own count, more than 50,000 specimens to produce the color plates for this limited edition. He explained his process: "The colored plates, or Nature Prints, used in the work, are direct transfers from the insects themselves; that is to say, the scales of the wings of the insects are transferred to the paper while the bodies are printed from engraving and afterward colored by hand." Since each specimen could be used only once, it was necessary to obtain 500 perfect specimens of each species pictured. The effort and expense prevented larger runs of such publications, and Reese observes that "new methods of printing color, often too difficult to be practical, were sometimes undertaken by enthusiasts.".

THE STRANGER IN FRANCE; OR, A TOUR FROM DEVONSHIRE TO PARIS by (BINDINGS - PUBLISHER'S BOARDS). (TRAVEL - FRANCE). CARR, JOHN, SIR

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Title: THE STRANGER IN FRANCE; OR, A TOUR FROM DEVONSHIRE TO PARIS
Author: (BINDINGS - PUBLISHER'S BOARDS). (TRAVEL - FRANCE). CARR, JOHN, SIR
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1807. Second Edition. 225 x 140 mm. (8 3/4 x 5 1/2"). [iv], 373, [1] pp. Original blue paper boards and paper backstrip, spine with original printed paper label, EDGES UNTRIMMED. With 12 aquatint plates after sketches by Carr. A Large Paper Copy. First page of text with contemporary ink inscription reading "Ballygarth House." Lowndes I, 377 (1st ed.). Boards with a couple of snags and faint stains, corners minimally rubbed, one plate with vague offsetting, but AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY, showing very few signs of use, inside or out. In its remarkably well-preserved original boards, this is a beautiful copy of a popular travel narrative. Sir John Carr (1772-1832) had originally trained as a lawyer, but after visiting the Continent for his health, made his career as a travel writer instead. The 1803 publication of the first edition of the present work launched him into fame as a writer. His subsequent works proved just as popular, and after the 1806 publication of "The Stranger in Ireland," he was knighted by John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Afterward, Lord Byron (in a suppressed verse from "Childe Harolde") appropriately called him "Green Erin's [i.e. Ireland's] knight and Europe's wandering star." Our copy's inscription indicates it belonged to the library of Ballygarth House, very probably referring to Ballygarth Castle in County Meath, Ireland, the seat of the Pepper family, which dates from the 14th century. While not a rare book, it is uncommonly encountered in its original publisher's binding, particularly in such fine condition as seen here. Even the richly printed aquatints, which would typically be found foxed or causing offsetting, are in virtually perfect condition..

Zopf und Empire in Mittel- und Norddeutschland. 2 Vol.-set (Complete) by Zetzsche, Carl

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Title: Zopf und Empire in Mittel- und Norddeutschland. 2 Vol.-set (Complete)
Author: Zetzsche, Carl
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: g+ to near fine
Description: Leipzig: Baumgärtner's Buchhandlung, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. g+ to near fine. Folio. Part 1: 16pp., 90 plates, Part 2: 16pp., 90 plates. Two portfolios in original three quarter green cloth over green paper-covered board with gilt lettering on cover. Decorative paper-covered inside covers and flaps. Introduction by the author and list of halftone plates and in-text photographs with descriptive text in both volumes. Impressive collection of "Zopfbauten" presented in 180 skillful halftone plates based on the 1906 edition of the same title. Zopfstil is an architectural style developing in the transition from Rococo to Classicism in the late 18th Century. Characteristic for this period is a certain simplicity in design and the participation of the well-to-do middle class in defining the period as opposed to the dominant aristocracy up to that point. The images are espically useful for architects working with restoration of doorways, gates and the enterance of these buildings. Text in German. Portfolios with light wear along edges and some scuffing on covers. Plates slightly age-toned, not affecting images. Portfolios in overall good+, interiors in near fine condition.

Rosa Luxemburg Karl Liebknecht Franz Mehring. Den Führern des Spartakusbundes und Gründern der Kommunistischen Partei Deutschlands by Zetkin, Clara

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Title: Rosa Luxemburg Karl Liebknecht Franz Mehring. Den Führern des Spartakusbundes und Gründern der Kommunistischen Partei Deutschlands
Author: Zetkin, Clara
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: g to vg
Description: Moscow, Leningrad: Verlagsgenossenschaft Ausländischer Arbeiter in der UDSSR, 1934. First edition. Softcover. g to vg. Octavo. 172(1)pp. original tan and brown wraps with brown and reverse tan lettering on cover, brown on spine. Frontispiece. Foreword by Karl Schmückle and various contributions by Clara Zetkin on Luxemburg, Liebknecht, Franz Mehring, Luxemburg's sentencing, a commemoration of Luxemburg, on the revolutionary fights and fighters 1919, fighters and leaders (1920), Luxemburg's Junius Brochure, Luxemburg's life's work, a foreword to a Liebknecht biography, and an address to the Lenin-Liebknecht-Luxemburg Memorial of the Communist Party in Birkenwerder. Illustrated with portraits of Luxemburg, Liebknecht, Mehring, and Leo Jogiches-Tyszka. Text in German. Wraps with light wear along edges, small chips and slightly rubbed. Wraps in overall good, interior in very good condition.

RURAL ARCHITECTURE: ILLUSTRATED IN A NEW SERIES OF DESIGNS FOR ORNAMEN by WHITE, John

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Title: RURAL ARCHITECTURE: ILLUSTRATED IN A NEW SERIES OF DESIGNS FOR ORNAMEN
Author: WHITE, John
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Description: WHITE, John. RURAL ARCHITECTURE: ILLUSTRATED IN A NEW SERIES OF DESIGNS FOR ORNAMENAL COTTAGES AND VILLAS. Glasgow: John White/ Edinburgh: N. Bowack/ London: G. Herbert/ Dublin: G. Young, 1845. Folio. Later quarter calf, marbled boards. (iv), 62 pages, 90 plates. first edition. "Although many works have been published at various periods on Rural Architecture, and some of these possessing merit capable of affording a considerable degree of instruction, I have also endeavoured to add my quota, to do so in such a manner as to assist the amateur, as well as the profession draughtsman, convinced that works of this kind are often of great service to both the Architect and the Builder, in pointing out the proper methods in the execution of the various departments of work connected with the erection of Cottages and Villas." Little is known of White. Weinreb praises his work (justifiably) for their pre-Victorian delicacy and picturesqueness, suggestin that Wheeler and Calvert Vaux almost certainly knew them and that they were influencial in America. With twenty-one plans, with elevations, and considerable details. Very good.

CHILD LIFE IN PROSE by WHITTIER, John Greenleaf, (editor)

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Title: CHILD LIFE IN PROSE
Author: WHITTIER, John Greenleaf, (editor)
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Description: WHITTIER, John Greenleaf, (editor). CHILD LIFE IN PROSE. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1874. 8vo. Publisher's cloth, top edge gilt. Frontispiece, x, 301 pages. First edition. Anthology of stories in addition to Whittier by authors such as Hawthorne, Dickens, Stowe, and Hans Christian Andersen. Illustrated. Title leaf and frontispiece detached, else very good.

Engraved Portrait by A. B. by Caius, John

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Title: Engraved Portrait by A. B.
Author: Caius, John
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: 1620. Print: 158x122 mm. Margin: 167x130 mm. Print has been remargined. Some soiling, small paper defect at top of print. From the "Heroologia Anglica," 1620.

Katharine. A Travesty by Bangs, John Kendrick

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Title: Katharine. A Travesty
Author: Bangs, John Kendrick
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: [Gillis Bros. & Turnuré, Art Age Press], 1888. First edition. A travesty of The Taming of the Shrew. First published edition, greatly enlarged from a rare 23-page pamphlet privately printed the same year, second state of the text. The first book Bangs published under his own name. Original flexible black leather, gilt, gilt edges. Slight wear to edges. Presumably a presentation binding (normal copies were bound in wrappers over boards). Inscribed by Bangs on May 21, 1888, as is a similarly bound copy at AAS. BAL 699.

Horror A Vacui (Signed) by SHAW, Jimmy and Benjamin Weissman

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Title: Horror A Vacui (Signed)
Author: SHAW, Jimmy and Benjamin Weissman
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Condition: Faint soiling to the covers, else near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Description: Vienna: Galerie Krinzinger, 1992. Faint soiling to the covers, else near fine in illustrated wrappers.. First Edition. Octavo. SIGNED by Benjamin Weissman and Jim Shaw. Collaborative artist's book published in the occasion of the important group exhibition of Los Angeles artists LAX, at Galerie Krinzinger, 1992.

A Sir Edmund Hillary Signed Photograph by EDMUND HILLARY

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Title: A Sir Edmund Hillary Signed Photograph
Author: EDMUND HILLARY
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: PS. 6 x 9. No date. No place. A black and white magazine photograph signed E Hillary in black ink on the lower margin. It shows him in academic wear, as he was receiving an honorary Doctorate of Laws. The image is in very fine condition.

The Fijians. A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil

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Title: The Fijians. A Study of the Decay of Custom
Author: Thomson, Basil
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Description: London: William Heinemann, 1908. b/w photo plates. xviii, (2), 396 pp. First edition of a book on the island and its inhabitants by a very forward thinking former colonial official who lived with the Fijians for ten years. In his presentation of the history and lives of these people, Thomson calls into question Victorian assumptions about civilization, morality and racial superiority. Bound in original cloth, lightly rubbed. Inscribed by author.

Modern Wilderness by BABSON, WILLIAM ARTHUR

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Title: Modern Wilderness
Author: BABSON, WILLIAM ARTHUR
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Description: 1940. BABSON, WILLIAM ARTHUR. Modern Wilderness. New York, 1940. xix, 261 p. Plates. Cloth. Ornithology and natural history of the regions adjoining the Passaic River.

The language of life; an introduction to the science of genetics. by BEADLE, George (1903-1989); Muriel (1915-1994).

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Title: The language of life; an introduction to the science of genetics.
Author: BEADLE, George (1903-1989); Muriel (1915-1994).
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description: Garden City, New York:: Doubleday, 1966., 1966. 8vo. x, 242 pp. Figs., index. Cloth, dust-jacket; jacket with slight edge wear, but a very good copy. George Wells Beadle was an American geneticist. In 1958 he shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells. "Organisms' metabolism–the chemical processes within its cells–are regulated by substances called enzymes. George Beadle and Edward Tatum proved in 1941 that our genetic code‚ our genes, govern the formation of enzymes. They exposed a type of mold to x-rays, causing mutations, or changes in its genes. They later succeeded in proving that this led to definite changes in enzyme formation. The conclusion was that each enzyme corresponds to a particular gene." – Nobel Prize. Muriel Beadle was married to George Beadle.

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