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De rebus a Carolo Gustavo Sveciae rege gestis commentariorum libri septem by PUFENDORF Samuel

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Title
De rebus a Carolo Gustavo Sveciae rege gestis commentariorum libri septem
Author
PUFENDORF Samuel
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1696. First Edition. PUFENDORF, Samuel. De rebus a Carolo Gustavo Sveciae rege gestis commentariorum libri septem. Norimbergae: Christophori Riegelii, 1696. Large, thick folio, contemporary full blindstamped white pigskin, raised bands, boards with metal central armorial devices, metal clasps. $15,000.First edition of this history of the reign of Sweden's King Charles XI, providing a detailed account of the Swedish wars with Poland and Denmark in the 17th century, lavishly illustrated with 12 engraved portraits and 115 large engraved maps and views, all at least double-page in size and including the exceptional panorama of Stockholm depicting the funeral procession of Charles X measuring almost 15 feet in length. In a striking binding with armorial devices in metal of Leopold 1st, Holy Roman Emperor, Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Bohemia and Archduke of Austria (1640 - 1705) on the front board and those of the Archduchy of Austria Above the Enns on the rear board.Samuel Pufendorf, best known as a political and legal philosopher and the author of On the Law of Nature and Nations (1672), was appointed the official court historian of Sweden in 1677 by Charles XI; he spent 10 years working on a 33-volume history of Sweden. De rebus a Carolo Gustavo Sveciae rege gestis commentariorum gives a detailed account of his reign and in particular of Sweden's wars with Poland and Denmark in the 1650s; the extensive and sumptuous illustrations by Erik Dahlberg provide an extensive visual record of the Baltic region in the 17th century, with views of Bremen, Christianstad, Danzig, Frederiksborg, Königsberg, Copenhagen, Krakow, Malmö and Warsaw among other places. The plate of the naval and land procession at the funeral of Charles X presents a stunning visual panorama of Stockholm almost 15 feet in length. Text in Latin. Shelf label.Plates beautiful and fine, faint offsetting from text to portrait of Pufendorf; a bit of marginal wormholing to first and last few leaves, not touching text; some text embrowned. In a beautiful contemporary pigskin binding with title on the spine in contemporary ink, boards with metal armorial double-eagle centerpieces, and metal clasps.
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Sundial by JACKSON Shirley

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Title
Sundial
Author
JACKSON Shirley
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1958. First Edition. Signed. JACKSON, Shirley. The Sundial. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, (1958). Octavo, original half gray cloth, original dust jacket. $4200.First edition of Jackson’s bleakly satirical novel, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: ""For Eleanor and Franklin, affectionately, Shirley.""Appearing only one year before her classic horror novel The Haunting of Hill House (1959), Shirley Jackson's Sundial shares that work's psychologically thrilling approach to terror in its own story of 12 people living in an isolated mansion, awaiting the prophesied end of the world. It is a tale that again confirms Jackson's ""jeweler's eye for the microscopic degrees by which a personality creeps into madness"" (Jonathan Letham, Salon), ""written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh"" (Victor LaValle, Slate). Jackson was, as The New York Times observed, always ""a true storyteller, with a rich and haunted imagination, and she could walk unafraid in regions where love and murder have each other's names and speak each other's tongues."" Barron 6-182. Tymn 4-120. Very slight toning and rubbing to spine ends and dust jacket spine. A near-fine inscribed copy.
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Institutiones iuris civilis by JUSTINIAN ALDOBRANDINI Silvestro

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Institutiones iuris civilis
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JUSTINIAN ALDOBRANDINI Silvestro
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1586. (JUSTINIAN) ALDOBRANDINI, Silvestro, editor. Institutiones iuris civilis D. Iustiniani Imp. Venetiis: Apud Iuntas, 1568. Octavo, contemporary vellum-covered boards with early rebacking of blind-stamped vellum with raised bands. $3200.Giunta printing of the Institutes of Justinian, edited and annotated by noted legal scholar Aldobrandini, in a binding blind-stamped 1586.The Code of Justinian was a ""collection of laws and legal interpretations developed under the sponsorship of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I from 529 to 565 CE. Strictly speaking, the works did not constitute a new legal code. Rather, Justinian's committees of jurists provided basically two reference works containing collections of past laws and extracts of the opinions of the great Roman jurists. Also included were an elementary outline of the law and a collection of Justinian's own new laws. The Justinian code consists of four books: (1) Codex Constitutionum, (2) Digesta, or Pandectae, (3) Institutiones, and (4) Novellae Constitutiones Post Codicem… The Institutiones, compiled and published in 533 under Tribonian's supervision and relying on such earlier texts as those of Gaius, was an elementary textbook, or outline, of legal institutions for the use of first-year law students"" (Britannica). The Institutiones were largely forgotten during the early medieval period, but a first printed edition reappeared in 1468. This 1568 printing of Aldobrandini's influential edition came from the press of the famed Giunti (or Giunta) family of printer-publishers, with their fleur-de-lys printer's mark in red on the title page; the text is attractively printed in black and red in double columns with decorative initials and extensive commentary surrounding the main text. Graesse III:505. Front pastedown with ink owner inscription dated Jan. 24, 1882; title page with early ink owner inscription. Contemporary hand-inked list of chapter headings at back; early underlining throughout and occasional small annotations.A few sections with light waterstaining, final leaf with edges chipped; text block sound with a few slightly proud signatures, binding darkened, a bit rubbed and slightly bowed. A handsome copy in an early vellum binding.
A TRUE PICTURE OF EMIGRATION; OR FOURTEEN YEARS IN THE INTERIOR OF NORTH AMERICA; BEING A FULL AND IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT OF THE VARIOUS DIFFICULTIES AND ULTIMATE SUCCESS OF AN ENGLISH FAMILY WHO EMIGRATED FROM BARWICK-IN-ELMET, NEAR LEEDS, IN THE YEAR 1831

A TRUE PICTURE OF EMIGRATION; OR FOURTEEN YEARS IN THE INTERIOR OF NORTH AMERICA; BEING A FULL AND IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT OF THE VARIOUS DIFFICULTIES AND ULTIMATE SUCCESS OF AN ENGLISH FAMILY WHO EMIGRATED FROM BARWICK-IN-ELMET, NEAR LEEDS, IN THE YEAR 1831 by (AMERICANA - 19TH CENTURY ILLINOIS HOMESTEADING). [BURLEND, REBECCA]

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A TRUE PICTURE OF EMIGRATION; OR FOURTEEN YEARS IN THE INTERIOR OF NORTH AMERICA; BEING A FULL AND IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT OF THE VARIOUS DIFFICULTIES AND ULTIMATE SUCCESS OF AN ENGLISH FAMILY WHO EMIGRATED FROM BARWICK-IN-ELMET, NEAR LEEDS, IN THE YEAR 1831
Author
(AMERICANA - 19TH CENTURY ILLINOIS HOMESTEADING). [BURLEND, REBECCA]
Seller
Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description
London: G. Berger, [1848]. FIRST EDITION. 180 x 110 mm. (7 x 4 1/4"). [2]-62 pp., [6] blank leaves. The original printed paper wrappers bound in early 20th century green crushed half calf over marbled paper boards, monogrammed "F. O. L." in gilt on leather corner at lower right of upper board, raised bands, spine compartments gilt with floral sprig, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers. Engraved bookplate of Frank O. Lowden on front pastedown. Howes B-992; Sabin 97133. Spine evenly sunned to a medium brown, small early repair to upper edge of paper wrapper, but a fine copy, the binding with virtually no wear, and the contents extremely clean and fresh with only trivial defects. This is an excellent copy, from the library of an important Illinois politician, of the scarce memoir of a female Illinois homesteader. Our author, Rebecca Burlend (1793-1872) and her husband John, a farmer and schoolteacher, made the choice in August of 1831 to leave their Yorkshire home and travel with five of their children to Illinois. They arrived in New Orleans two months later and began an arduous journey up the Mississippi to their land claim in Pike County across the river from Hannibal, Missouri. The author's description of the trip and their subsequent difficult first few years in the United States provides an unvarnished picture of frontier life. Burlend candidly recounts hardships caused by such things as weather, fire, and squatters, and critically discusses the people she met, many of whom she disliked--writing that "ignorance was the predominant feature of Western character." While she apparently felt the adversity had been largely worthwhile, she intended the present narrative as a realistic guide for other prospective British emigrants. The book concludes with the practical sentiment that "if the account I have given of our proceedings, adverse and successful, does not allure [the reader's] fancy with ideas of visionary prosperity as the invariable result of crossing the seas, it may perchance tend to make him a little better satisfied with his present condition, though it should only be a snug little cottage in the land where his childhood was reared." Her memoir was published anonymously in London in 1848, after she had composed it on a return visit to England with the help of her son. She was not formally identified as the author of the piece until 1936. The present copy is distinguished by its connection to another figure in Illinois history: Frank Orren Lowden (the "F. O. L." on the front cover, 1861-1943) represented Illinois' 13th district in the U.S. House of Representatives and later served as governor of Illinois from 1917-21..
L'Ultimo Rifugio di Dante Alighieri

L'Ultimo Rifugio di Dante Alighieri by [Alighieri, Dante] Corrado Ricci

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L'Ultimo Rifugio di Dante Alighieri
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[Alighieri, Dante] Corrado Ricci
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The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1891. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. with 51 illustrations. Number 7 of 400 copies. Signed and inscribed by the author. Photographic frontispiece of the Basilica di S. Giov. in Laterano. Corrado Ricci (1858 - 1934) was an archaelogist, museum director, Dante scholar, and served as Senator of Italy during the 1920s. His father was a successful set designer and photographer. Ex-library with a discreet stamp to the inside of the front wrapper. Bound in full vellum boards with brown and gilt title label to spine. Vellum is translucent and an old certificate wastesheet can be seen through it. Rubbing, light soiling, and foxing to boards. A few small losses to title label on spine, but title remains intact. Original paper wrappers are bound in, with a repair to a closed tear on the inside of the front wrapper. Foxing to wrappers and to first and last pages, else clean and bright. 539 pages plus index. ITA/080522.
The Fabrics of Mulhouse and Alsace, 1750-1800 (Limited to 600 copies)

The Fabrics of Mulhouse and Alsace, 1750-1800 (Limited to 600 copies) by Albrecht-Mathey, Elisabeth

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The Fabrics of Mulhouse and Alsace, 1750-1800 (Limited to 600 copies)
Author
Albrecht-Mathey, Elisabeth
Seller
The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition
Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket
Description
Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis Publishers, 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Hardcover. 4to. Orange cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and to spine. Interior is clean and bright and filled with illustrations, 4 of which are in full color. Slight yellowing to edges of pages. Red dust jacket with black title to front and spine panels. Minor wear to dust jacket includes fading to spine and a few tiny light spots of soiling to the rear panel. Ltd. Edition, one of 600 copies. A lovely book. Art. ART908291.
The Book of First Books

The Book of First Books by Ahearn, Allen

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Title
The Book of First Books
Author
Ahearn, Allen
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The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
The Quill & Brush Press, 1975. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. First Edition. Paperback. FIRST EDITION LIMITED TO 2000 COPIES. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Beige illustrated side stapled paper wrappers with black title to front wrapper. Light soiling to wrappers. Author's signature to title pages. Previous owner's writing to inside top corner. A few pencil notes throughout though text remains clean and bright. 47 pages. BOB/012220.
[Loring Liquor Store Recipe Booklet] Recipes for Mixed Drinks

[Loring Liquor Store Recipe Booklet] Recipes for Mixed Drinks

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[Loring Liquor Store Recipe Booklet] Recipes for Mixed Drinks
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Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Minneapolis: Loring Liquor Store, 8211. Staplebound. Good. Staplebound. 5.1/2” x 3.1/2”. 16pp. Staple-bound booklet with brown paper wraps, printed in black. Some age toning and minor staining to cover. Rust to staples. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. A charming mid-century cocktail recipe booklet issued by Loring Liquor Store, located at 1401 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, MN. The store, likely named after the nearby Loring Park, advertised "Fine Wines and Liquors" and offered "Free Fast Delivery," a convenience that speaks to the post-Prohibition liquor trade's evolution in the Twin Cities. This 16-page booklet includes a wide array of classic mixed drink recipes, from the Bronx and Clover Club cocktails to the Gin Rickey and El Presidente. The foreword encourages experimentation in drink mixing, embracing a relaxed approach to proportions. The presence of a two-letter phone exchange ("MAin 8911") suggests a pre-1960s publication date, when such dialing conventions were still in use. An excellent piece of Minneapolis ephemera, reflecting both the drinking culture and advertising style of the mid-20th century.
The Railway Lighting & Heating Company. Instructions for Manipulating and General Description of the Frost Dry Carbureter System for Lighting Passenger and Other Railroad Cars. For the Use of Trainmen

The Railway Lighting & Heating Company. Instructions for Manipulating and General Description of the Frost Dry Carbureter System for Lighting Passenger and Other Railroad Cars. For the Use of Trainmen

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The Railway Lighting & Heating Company. Instructions for Manipulating and General Description of the Frost Dry Carbureter System for Lighting Passenger and Other Railroad Cars. For the Use of Trainmen
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Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Philadelphia: Railway Lighting & Heating Company, 1889. Wraps. Very good. Wraps. 6 3/8" X 4 1/8". 19pp. Stiff russet printed paper wraps with spine backed in red cloth. Moderate wear to binding, with small open tear to top corner of upper wrap,creasing, spots of soiling, and scattered rubbing. Binding is sound. Occasional spots of soiling to pages and toning due to laid in insect wing. A quite attractive copy of this 1889 manual used by actual rail workers as evidenced by handwritten note to first page: "Please familiarize yourself with pages 3 & 4," with manicule and underlines to same page.
The City in the Middle of the Night

The City in the Middle of the Night by Anders, Charlie Jane

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The City in the Middle of the Night
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Anders, Charlie Jane
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Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780765379962
Condition
Very good
Description
New York: Tor Books, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition, with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". 366pp. Mild shelfwear to unclipped dust jacket designed by Jamie Stafford-Hill, with some faint cover wear and original price sticker to rear. Bound in full purple paper over boards, with spine lettered in metallic purple. Mild edgewear to binding, with gentle bumping to head and tail of spine. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. A very presentable first printing of this Locus Award finalist by the nationally bestselling author of All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Charlie Jane Anders, the nationally bestselling author of All the Birds in the Sky delivers a brilliant new novel set in a hauntingly strange future with #10 LA Times bestseller The City in the Middle of the Night. WOULD YOU GIVE UP EVERYTHING TO CHANGE THE WORLD? Humanity clings to life on January a colonized planet divided between permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other. Two cities, built long ago in the meager temperate zone, serve as the last bastions of civilization but life inside them is just as dangerous as the uninhabitable wastelands outside. Sophie, a young student from the wrong side of Xiosphant city, is exiled into the dark after being part of a failed revolution. But she survives with the help of a mysterious savior from beneath the ice. Burdened with a dangerous, painful secret, Sophie and her ragtag group of exiles face the ultimate challenge and they are running out of time.
Along the Old Roads of Cape Ann.

Along the Old Roads of Cape Ann. by Anon.

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Along the Old Roads of Cape Ann.
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Anon.
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Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition
Many of the sites in this charming little book still exist... if one looks hard enough. Very good condition in publisher's cloth
Description
Gloucester, MA: Cape ann Scientific and Literary Association, 1923. Many of the sites in this charming little book still exist... if one looks hard enough. Very good condition in publisher's cloth over illustrated boards.. 19.5 cm. 106 pp.
D-Day: June 6, 1944 -- The Climactic Battle of World War II

D-Day: June 6, 1944 -- The Climactic Battle of World War II by Ambrose, Stephen E

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D-Day: June 6, 1944 -- The Climactic Battle of World War II
Author
Ambrose, Stephen E
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Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN
9780684801377
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, 1994. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x1x9. A few smudges to edges. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1994 Trade Paperback. 655 pp. Black-and-white photographs. "Stephen E. Ambrose draws from more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans to create the preeminent chronicle of the most important day in the twentieth century. Ambrose reveals how the original plans for the invasion were abandoned, and how ordinary soldiers and officers acted on their own initiative. D-Day is above all the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their existence, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and determination -- what Eisenhower called 'the fury of an aroused democracy' -- that shaped the victory of the citizen soldiers whom Hitler had disparaged.

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