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“Über einen die erzeugung und verwandlung des lichtes betreffenden heuristischen gesichtspunkt,” “Über die von der molekularkinetischen theorie der Wärme geforderte bewegung von in ruhenden flüssigkeiten suspendierten teilchen,” and “Zur elektrodynamik bewegter körper” in Annalen der Physik, vol. 17 by [EINSTEIN, Albert]

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Title: “Über einen die erzeugung und verwandlung des lichtes betreffenden heuristischen gesichtspunkt,” “Über die von der molekularkinetischen theorie der Wärme geforderte bewegung von in ruhenden flüssigkeiten suspendierten teilchen,” and “Zur elektrodynamik bewegter körper” in Annalen der Physik, vol. 17
Author: [EINSTEIN, Albert]
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1905. FIRST EDITION. Line-block and halftone text illustrations, one folding table, 3 halftone plates, 1 collotype plate. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, title and date in gilt on spine; an excellent copy with the small stamp of the University of Basel on the fly-leaf, preserved in a clamshell box. First edition, journal issues, of three important early papers by Einstein. In the first paper, “Einstein suggested that light be considered a collection of independent particles of energy, which he called ‘light quanta.’ Such a hypothesis, he argued, would provide an answer to the problem of black-body radiation where classical theories had failed, and would also explain several puzzling properties of fluorescence, photoionization and the photoelectric effect” (Norman). It was for this paper, together with one of the photoelectric effect (“Zur theorie der Lichterzeugung und Lichtabsorption”), published in 1906, that Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. The second paper proved, according to Einstein himself, that “according to the molecular theory of heat, bodies of dimensions of the order of 1/1000 mm. suspended in liquid experience apparent random movement due to the thermal Brownian molecular movement (quoted by R.W. Clark, Einstein, New York, 1984, p. 87). Experimental verification of the predictions made in this paper contributed to proving the physical reality of molecules. The third paper, on the electodynamics of moving bodies, was Einstein’s first statement of the special theory of relativity. In it he argued that all motion is relative to the inertial system in which it is measured, and that matter and energy are equivalent. As he himself remarked, “it modifies the theory of space and time.” I: Weil, 6; Norman, 689; II: Weil, 8, Norman 690; III: Weil, 9, Dibner, Heralds of Science, 167; Grolier/Horblit, 26b, Norman, 691A.

(Deseret) Alphabet Sup II by Bateman, Edward

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Title: (Deseret) Alphabet Sup II
Author: Bateman, Edward
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description: Salt Lake City. 1/5. Two archival pigment ink prints with different color schemes [76 cm x 61 cm] / [30" x 24"] Titled in pencil at lower left margins. Signed in pencil in lower right margins. 'EB' blind stamp and limitation in pencil in the lower margins at the center. Fine. Printed in an edition of five copies. Soup can label printed in the Deseret Alphabet. The label reads "Campbell's Condensed Alphabet Soup." Edward Bateman is an artist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Utah. He received his MFA from the University of Utah in 2003 and joined the faculty in 2008. His work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard University, Art Institute of Chicago, Stanford University, Getty Research Institute, New York University, Columbia University, Amon Carter Museum Library, and George Eastman House, among others. In 1853 Brigham Young directed George D. Watt, an Englishman, and an early Mormon convert, to create a new English language phonic based alphabet and using the, at the time, very popular Pitman shorthand as a framework. Watt came up with a 32 - character system, that was eventually increased to 38. The Deseret Alphabet was used throughout the Territory to help the newly arriving non-English speaking converts, the concept was never fully embraced by the Saints and was quickly abandoned after Young's death in 1877.

Notice d’un Choix précieux de Dessins de l’Ecole moderne, et d’Estampes anciennes et autres…Qui composaient le Cabinet de M. [inscribed in cont. ms]: “Devoix, joaillier.” Par F. L. Regnault-Delalande. Cette Vente se fera…le Lundi 9 Novembre 1818… by (AUCTION CATALOGUE: D[EVOIX], –)

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Title: Notice d’un Choix précieux de Dessins de l’Ecole moderne, et d’Estampes anciennes et autres…Qui composaient le Cabinet de M. [inscribed in cont. ms]: “Devoix, joaillier.” Par F. L. Regnault-Delalande. Cette Vente se fera…le Lundi 9 Novembre 1818…
Author: (AUCTION CATALOGUE: D[EVOIX], –)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 16 pp. 8vo (199 x 125 mm.), modern aubergine cloth, title on upper cover. Paris: Félix & Regnault-Delalande, 1818. A very scarce sale catalogue of drawings and prints; we locate no copy in North America. The present example bears a contemporary ink inscription on the title-page recording the seller as a jeweler named “Devoix,” which is supported by Lugt’s examination of other copies. The 1812 Dictionnaire topographique of the Paris area lists a jeweler named “François Devoix” on quai des Orfèvres, no. 42, also noted as the favored jeweler of the prince and princess Borghese. 61 lots, with drawings by Baltard, Boissieu, Demarne, Taunay, Vauzelle, H. Vernet, Veron, etc. Lots 39-61 are individual prints and ensembles. Each entry provides a concise description and measurements. Fine copy. In the characteristic binding of the Bibliothèque Heim, with the library’s stamp on the verso of title. On the title-page this catalogue is addressed to “Mr Duchesne / rue neuve des Petits Champs, pres de rue Richelieu.” ❧ Lugt 9461.

Exhibition flyer: Artschwager Bei Konrad Fischer (18 June-9 July [1968]) by (ARTSCHWAGER, Richard)

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Title: Exhibition flyer: Artschwager Bei Konrad Fischer (18 June-9 July [1968])
Author: (ARTSCHWAGER, Richard)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Black & white illus. Single sheet, folded as issued. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, [1968]. Flyer announcing the artist’s only show with Konrad Fischer. The exhibition was organized in cooperation with Galerie Ricke in Cologne. Printed on one side of the flyer is a disorienting photograph of Fischer’s famously narrow gallery, with some of the artist’s blps. “In June 1968, Artschwager invaded Konrad Fischer’s gallery space on Neubrückstrasse with his blps, which are black, sometimes white, three-dimensional signs made of wood, artificial turf, or horsehair. blps could be found anywhere, jumping out and surprising viewers in the city, on the street, or in fields and meadows. Artschwager also integrated them as motifs in his paintings…Fischer established contact with Artschwager through Kasper König, and the exhibition at Konrad Fischer’s gallery was the artist’s first solo show in Europe. This was his only exhibition at the gallery, although Artschwager participated in the legendary show Live in Your Head. When Attitudes Become Form…”–Cloud & Crystal: The Dorothee and Konrad Fischer Collection (2016 exhib. booklet), p. 18. In excellent condition. ❧ D. Fischer, ed., Ausstellungen bei Konrad Fischer: Düsseldorf Oktober 1967-Oktober 1992 (Edition Marzona: 1993) 8.

Books on Books by SAINT LOUBERT BIÉ, Jérôme

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Title: Books on Books
Author: SAINT LOUBERT BIÉ, Jérôme
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Many full-bleed black & white illus. throughout. 260 pp. (incl. wrappers). 12mo (160 x 117 mm.), orig. printed semi-stiff wrappers, pictorial flaps, perfect-bound. Paris: C. Daviet-Thery, September 2011. An exhibition catalogue mostly unrelated to the exhibition for which it was published. This volume originates from Christoph Schifferli’s show Books on Books (2009) which he curated at the invitation of gallerist Christophe Daviet-Thery. He displayed 26 artists’ books that concern books and their representation. Daviet-Thery then commissioned book designer Saint-Loubert Bié to create the show’s catalogue. The designer invited artists Yann Sérandour and Jonathan Monk for a conversation about 12 artists’ books he selected. That conversation is reproduced here and interspersed with photographs of the books and the participants. The books discussed include: Bruce Nauman’s Burning Small Fires, Richard Prince’s American English (published by Sadie Coles HQ & Walther König), Monk’s Cover Version, Sérandour’s Inside the White Cube: Overprinted Edition, Martin Kippenberger’s The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s ‘Amerika’, Batia Suter’s Parallel Encyclopedia, etc. As new, this is a compelling work on contemporary book collectors and artists’ books. No stated edition size, but there were 40 copies produced with the printed signatures of Monk and Sérandour added to the inside of the pictorial flaps. Six A.P. and three H.C. copies were also printed. ❧ A. Desjardin, The Book on Books on Artists Books (2nd ed.: 2013) 600.

Elettricismo artificiale di Giambatista Beccaria by Beccaria, Giambattista (i.e., Giovanni Battista).

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Title: Elettricismo artificiale di Giambatista Beccaria
Author: Beccaria, Giambattista (i.e., Giovanni Battista).
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Torino: Nella Stamperia Reale, 1772. Very Good. Quarto (23 cm); viii, 417 pages, and XI folding copper-engraved plates. Bound "alla rustica" in publisher's pastepaper, lettered in manuscript on spine. Pages evenly toned, but an unblemished, unsophisticated copy of a seminal work. References: Gamba, 2150 ("Nella Fisica forma epoca il nome di Beccaria"); La Stampa Reale di Torino, p. 71; Second much-expanded and first illustrated edition of the seminal study of electricity by Giovanni Battista Beccaria, professor of experimental physics at the University of Torino. (The edition published in 1753, without plates, was about half the pages.) It was this edition that Benjamin Franklin and Joseph Priestley brought to John Nourse, noted London publisher of scientific books, to have translated into English and published in 1776 as "A treatise upon artificial electricity. Beccaria (1716-1781) was a principal exponent of Franklin's studies on electricity in Europe, and a principal innovator in Italian experimental science. Indeed, upon reading the earlier copy of Beccaria's book, Franklin noted in a letter to Cadwallader Colden that "he (Beccaria) seems a Master of Method, and has reducd to systematic Order the scatterd Experiments and Positions deliverd in my Papers." Franklin and Beccaria wrote to each other frequently (Beccaria sometimes writing in Latin, which had to be translated for Franklin), and remained keen on each other's work, although they never met face to face. Priestly (in his "History and Present State of Electricity") declared Beccaria " the "great Italian genius" who had "far surpassed everything done by French and English electricians." This 1772 edition, sent to press at the Royal Printers of Turin, includes a dedicatory letter to Franklin, not present in the earlier version.

The Pilgrim's Progress by Bunyan, John; Thomas Scott.

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Title: The Pilgrim's Progress
Author: Bunyan, John; Thomas Scott.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Scott, Webster, & Geary, 1841. Very Good. 12mo (14 cm); xviii, 423 pages, engraved frontispiece and extra engraved title page. Half-title present. Bound in half green pebbled leather over marbled boards. Marbled edges. Edges a little scuffed, some discoloration to marbled boards. Contents clean and bright.

Autograph Letter Signed by McPHATTER, Clyde (1933-72)

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Title: Autograph Letter Signed
Author: McPHATTER, Clyde (1933-72)
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (United States)
Description: This legendary R & B tenor hit the charts in the mid-50s with the Drifters and such hits as "Money Honey," "Such a Night" and "Honey Love" before going solo. ALS, 1p, 8½" X 11", New Rochelle, NY, 1958 January 2. Addressed to Donald. Very good. Yellowed tape stain at each corner and one (1¼") at each side. On delightfully corny letterhead of "Clyde McPhatter's Tune Shop," this rare letter was written shortly after his split from the Drifters and the height of his fame as a soloist. A gracious letter to an admirer, reading in part: "Hope that you will like the little verse, that I am sending you. Very sorry that I don't have any pictures at this time, hope when you write again I'll have some on hand. So until then be good...." Bold full signature. McPhatter, who suffered from alcoholism, died of a heart attack at age 39, making his autograph material quite uncommon.

The Florence Cook Book. Edited by Women of Trinity Guild of Trinity Parish. Second Edition by [Trinity Episcopal Church (Florence, Ala.); Women of Trinity Guild]

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Title: The Florence Cook Book. Edited by Women of Trinity Guild of Trinity Parish. Second Edition
Author: [Trinity Episcopal Church (Florence, Ala.); Women of Trinity Guild]
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: Florence, Ala: [The Church], 1931. Octavo (22.5 x 14.5 cm.), [x], 151, [xxix] pages. Advertisements. Table of contents. Stated Second Edition (likely a corrected printing of the first edition). An evidently well-received collection of nine hundred recipes, following closely upon the first edition of only two years previous (with the same 151 pages). Southern favorites stand in relief: Southern Egg Bread, Okra Gumbo, Bishop Whipple Pudding, Ambrosia, Owendaw, Asparagus Loaf, Blackeye Peas, Elder Blossom Wine, Creole Pralines. But it would be misleading to truncate the story there, for the Women of Trinity Guild could venture out as eagerly as their counterparts elsewhere, from Almond Bisque and Lobster Canapes to Queen of Trifles and Banberry [sic] Tarts. Marginalia on page 110 comments on the Sponge Cake (fine), “…grand but a lot of work”. For more local color, an advertisement on the rear of wrappers is for “Dowdy’s Pit Bar-B-Q, Fish-Chili, Lee Highway.” ~ Florence is a well-known constituent municipality of The Shoals in Alabama’s northwestern corner, the birthplace of W. C. Handy (and by extension, it is often said, the birthplace of the Blues). The seat of Lauderdale County, the city and the surrounding region had become prosperous through its abundant access to water power early in the nineteenth century. Though not the first Episcopalian congregation established in Alabama – Anglicans had already settled in Mobile and Tuscaloosa – Trinity Church, founded in 1836 and still an active community, lays claim to the title of oldest parish in the Tennessee Valley. ~ Several pages splash-stained, but text unobscured throughout. Stapled in blue wrappers, titled in black; stained and faded but nonetheless intact. Good. A lengthy gift presentation handwritten in ink on page [ix], addressed to “a bride” (as per page 48) with corresponding recommendations marking several recipes. Scarce. [OCLC locates no copies of this second edition (though one copy of the first edition and three copies of the revised (third) edition of 1943, are reported); none of these editions in Brown, Cagle, or Cather].

Park & Tilford Quality Group by [Trade catalogue – spirits distributor]; Park & Tilford Import Corporation (New York City)]

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Title: Park & Tilford Quality Group
Author: [Trade catalogue – spirits distributor]; Park & Tilford Import Corporation (New York City)]
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: New York: the company, 1940. Oblong metal ribbon-bound book (14.5 x 22.5 cm.), 41, [12] pages. Illustrated. Images of product on rectos, with descriptive text on versos. A salesman's promotional catalogue for the “Quality Group” line of spirits from Park & Tilford, including Harvey’s Sherries, Marie Brizzard, and champagnes and wines from Heidsieck, Beaulieu Vineyards, Blanchy, Martel & Co., Booths, Sanderson, and a number of spirits under the Park & Tilford brand. The text descriptions contain more technical information, than is usually found in promotional materials of this time. Bound in textured black card stock, with the corporate name stamped in silver. Some light creasing to the edges of the wrappers, otherwise fine. [OCLC locates no copies].

THE PASSIONATE ART OF KITAGAWA UTAMARO by (UTAMARO). Asano, Shugo and Timothy Clark

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Title: THE PASSIONATE ART OF KITAGAWA UTAMARO
Author: (UTAMARO). Asano, Shugo and Timothy Clark
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Description: Japan., Asahi Shimbun., 1995. 4to. Two volumes with text and plates. . Volume I is a catalogue raisonné of Utamaro's print with illustrations in black and white. Volume II is all of his prints illustrated in color, some on fold out pages. Both are paper bound. This publication was limited and sold out quickly when the exhibit took place at the British Museum in London.

Blood Knot by Algozni, Bruce

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Title: Blood Knot
Author: Algozni, Bruce
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780821710739
Condition: Very good
Description: NY: Zebra Books, 1982. Mass market paperback. Very good. Mass market paperback. First Printing. Wraps lightly edgeworn with a small crease to the top front corner, else very good with a straight, uncreased spine.

Fire Watch by Willis, Connie

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Title: Fire Watch
Author: Willis, Connie
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780553260458
Condition: Very good
Description: NY: Baen Books, 1988. Mass market paperback. Very good. Mass market paperback. First Printing. Lightly rubbed with a some minor wear to the extremities, else very good in publisher's wraps. Signed by Willia on the title page.

The Pied Piper of Hamlin by BROWNING, Robert

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Title: The Pied Piper of Hamlin
Author: BROWNING, Robert
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd, 1903. Pictorial boards. Very good. Kate GREENAWAY. 4to (25.6cm); [3] 4-48pp; quarter bound brown cloth with galzed pictorial paper over board, spine printed with title; color illustrations every page with verse all with a thin black border; illustrated end papers; rubbing to board edges with paper loss, previous owner colored areas of loss with green marker; very good. Matches no listing in Schuster & Engen or Thomason's DPL catalog. It most closely matches 157 [3] Schuster & Engen and 19 in Thomson. This copy measures 25.6cm and lacks the p.4 designation of "Printed in Great Britain". Lovely Kate Greenaway illustrations to the verse by Robert Browning.

The German Officer Corps 1890-1914 by [WW1] KITCHEN, Martin

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Title: The German Officer Corps 1890-1914
Author: [WW1] KITCHEN, Martin
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's navy blue cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustajacket. [xxix]; 242pp. Clean and strong, very light wear to corners and minor bumping at spine ends; internally clean and fresh; in a bright pink dustjacket with some light sunning to the spine and a little soiling and edgewear. A very good, bright copy. A highly authoritative investigation of the social and military structures at play in Kaiser Wilhem's Germany in the 20 years prior to WW1. The analysis suggests that the highly stratified and tradition obsessed camaraderie of the Germanic military officer classes resulted in an army structure utterly out of touch with modern requirements and requiring considerable reform and adaptation before being fit for wartime purpose. The question remains whether or not this was a universal factor of turn of the 19th century militaries leading into the unnecessary inferno of carnage that was the trench butchery of WW1; it was Douglas Haig, after all, who said that the British military could safely rely on cavalry, as always, and that a handful of machine guns per battalion would be more than sufficient. When everybody in charge is fighting with long obsolete tactics, it's always a teenage paper hanger from Battersea who pays the full price.

Stella Benson by Bottome, Phyllis

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Title: Stella Benson
Author: Bottome, Phyllis
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. 250 copies printed. Small 8vo. ii, 14pp. Title printed in red and black; marginal titles, one initial and colophon in red. Handset Garamond type. Oxford gray cloth boards with yellow spine, paper label printed in red on front cover. Spine slightly darkened, but a very fine copy. Printed for Albert Bender by The Grabhorn Press. A tribute to the late Stella Benson, the author who found friendship and work through Albert Bender and others of the San Francisco book world. This copy from the personal collection of Carl I. Wheat. "From the library of Albert Bender" in Carl Wheat's handwriting. [Grabhorn: 211]..

FIELD & TUER, THE LEADENHALL PRESS: A CHECKLIST by Young, Matthew McLennan

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Title: FIELD & TUER, THE LEADENHALL PRESS: A CHECKLIST
Author: Young, Matthew McLennan
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Description: New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2010. hardcover, dust jacket. Leadenhall Press. 7 x 10 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 176 pages. With an Appreciation of Andrew White Tuer. "An admirable conspectus.... Young's checklist has certainly broken new ground." - Brian McMullin, Script & Print "As Young explores in this short but well grounded study, the firm... moved from stationery and lithographic trade work into decorative, fine art and small press printing." - David Finklestein, TLS "A handsome and important new work that fills a gap in our shelves... The book includes a beautifully produced inserted signature showing fifty-eight of the covers in color." - Alastair Johnston, Printing History "A useful account of a press whose publications have largely lapsed from current view, Young's essay bringing life to what proves to be a surprisingly long checklist." - David Chambers, The Book Collector This book is the first comprehensive (and long-overdue) bibliographic study of the London partnership of Field & Tuer and their publishing imprint, Leadenhall Press (later the Leadenhall Press, Ltd.). Matthew Young makes a convincing argument for Andrew W. Tuer (1838-1900) as one of the most imaginative and influential printers and publishers of the mid-to-late Victorian period. Known today primarily for old-style facsimile reprints and a few outstanding works such as Tuer's own History of the Horn-Book, the Leadenhall Press in fact published hundreds of titles in almost every subject area, from sixpenny pamphlets to vellum-bound limited editions dedicated by command to the Queen, as well as two important and long-running periodicals: The Paper & Printing Trades Journal and The Printers International Specimen Exchange. The remarkable range of the catalogue is evident in a small sample from 1885: Jerome K. Jerome's first book, On the Stage--and Off; Joseph Crawhall's hand-colored Izaak Walton: His Wallet Booke; The Owls of Olynn Belfry, illustrated by Randolph Caldecott; Sir Montague Shearman's Foot-Ball: Its History for Five Centuries; feminist Emily Jane Pfeiffer's Flying Leaves from East and West; and Songs of the North, illustrated by (among others) Edward Burne-Jones, Charles Keene, Albert Moore, Frederick Sandys, and J.M. Whistler. The book includes a revealing portrait of Andrew Tuer as a man of energy, curiosity, and wit: a successful businessman, inventor, advocate for fine printing, publisher, designer, collector, author, and correspondent. The annotated checklist describes nearly 450 publications issued by Field & Tuer and the Leadenhall Press from 1863 to 1913. Listing details include: month and year of publication, publisher's job number, listed price, brief description of format and cover design, important aspects of content and publication, and location of scarce and noteworthy copies. Appendices cover Andrew Tuer's writings, ephemera, series titles, and institutional collections of special interest. A color section and illustrations in the text complete the story of an important link in the development of printing between the Chiswick Press of Charles Whittingham II and the celebrated publishers of the 1890s. Matthew Young is a graphic designer and book collector. He was the recipient of a 2008 Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship award to examine the collection at the Lilly Library (Indiana University), and he has presented papers on the Leadenhall Press at conferences in England, Canada, and the United States.

ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO; STOCK EXCHANGE TRADING ROOM by Vinci, John

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Title: ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO; STOCK EXCHANGE TRADING ROOM
Author: Vinci, John
Seller: J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Chicago: Art Institute, 1977. Paperback. Very Good. Well illus. Color illus. wraps. Well illus. Oblong 8vo.

Three Eras of New England and Other Addresses, with Papers Critical and Biographical. by Lunt, George.

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Title: Three Eras of New England and Other Addresses, with Papers Critical and Biographical.
Author: Lunt, George.
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Description: Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1857. Book. 8vo, original cloth, gilt spine. Pp. 264. First edition. A near fine copy..

Fra Diavolo. Opera in Three Acts ... with Italian and (the Original) English Words. Edited by Arthur Sullivan and J. Pittman. [Piano-vocal score] by AUBER, Daniel-François-Esprit 1782-1871

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Title: Fra Diavolo. Opera in Three Acts ... with Italian and (the Original) English Words. Edited by Arthur Sullivan and J. Pittman. [Piano-vocal score]
Author: AUBER, Daniel-François-Esprit 1782-1871
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: London: Boosey & Co, 1890. Large octavo. Original publisher's wrappers. [i] (title), [ii] (printer's statement), [iii] (index), [iv] (dramatis personae and story), 287, [i] (blank), [iv] (publisher's advertisements) pp. Wrappers worn and stained; upper lacking; spine lacking at head and tail. Slightly worn.

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