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Des Millions Pour un Sou! Mines d'Or de la Californie -- Nouveaux Détails by [California Gold Rush]. [France]

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Seller: McBride Rare Books

Title: Des Millions Pour un Sou! Mines d'Or de la Californie -- Nouveaux Détails
Author: [California Gold Rush]. [France]
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: [Paris]: Typ. Schneider, Rue d'Erfurth, 1, 1849. Very good.. Broadside, approximately 18 x 13 inches. Matted and framed. A pair of short closed tears, repaired, at lower edge. Even toning and light creasing. Contemporary manuscript annotation under caption title. A wonderful, illustrated faux news broadside published in Paris as gold fever coursed through Europe in 1849. The headline promises "nouveaux détails" of the gold mines in California, but the text is in fact a humorous description and light-hearted admonishment of the multitudes thoughtlessly giving up their livelihoods for the hardscrabble life of a gold digger in the California wilderness. The first section runs through a litany of types who are abandoning their lives for adventure and advises them not to consider the difficulties of the journey: "En route pour les mines d'or de la Californie! Partez! Il n'est pas néccessaire que vous preniez de lourds baggages : une cassette et une bonne pioche vous suffriont. Ne vous laissez pas décourager par la peur d'une navigation de cinq mois... elle sera peut-être périlleuse... mais le résultat est si consolant : de l'or!... toujours de l'or!... Qu'importent la colique et les fièvres doublées d'un mal de mer brutal... de l'or!... toujours de l'or!... Qu'importe d'être noir ou jaune en mourant, du moment qu'on se repose dans un linceul d'or pour l'éternité! Partez!" The remainder of the text somewhat sardonically describes life in California, and warns prospective travelers not long for the comforts of home, but rather to concentrate on their sought-after riches: "Par example, ne vous attendez pas à jouir de toutes les douceurs de la vie... Vous n'y trouverez ni biftecks au beurre d'anchois, ni dinde truffées; car les aliments y sont rares... Mais les racines y sont en grande abondance... Vous vivrez un peu à la manière des anachorètes pour un temps... seulement, vous déterrerez de l'or... ce qu'ils ne faisaient pas, que l'on sache..." The illustration, which occupies approximately the top third of the broadside, depicts men and women from all walks of life carrying pickaxes on their shoulders and racing for a ship about to depart. The image carries the printed signature of "B. Netter;" a contemporary manuscript note under the caption identifies the publication date as February 17, 1849. The Bibliothèque Nationale de France estimates that as many as 40,000 French men and women made their way to California between 1848 and 1856. The present broadside is an excellent document of California gold fever in France and the pervasive interest in gold rush news in Europe during the mid-19th century. Rare, we locate just four copies, at Berkeley, UCSD, California Historical Society, and the BNF.

Narrative of a Visit to Brazil, Chile, Peru, and the Sandwich Islands by Mathison, Gilbert Farquhar

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Title: Narrative of a Visit to Brazil, Chile, Peru, and the Sandwich Islands
Author: Mathison, Gilbert Farquhar
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Charles Knight, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. xii,(2),478pp. Four colored aquatint plates and a folding map of the Sandwich Islands. Magnificent binding by J. R. Mitchell in full crimson morocco. The spine in six compartments, gilt, separated by raised bands, gilt. Gilt rolls and rules on the boards, floral gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. The textblock untrimmed. Occasional trance of age toning, some foxing on the map, else a fine, bright copy. Publisher's ads in rear dated 1825. Mathison provides detailed descriptions of Rio de Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, and Honolulu. The book offers valuable insights into the political and social climate of South America and the Pacific Islands during the early years of their independence. He also takes a keen interest in culture, documenting customs, traditions, and everyday life. .

Sir Thomas Lawrence, With a Catalogue of the Artist's Exhibited and Engraved Works by Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Sir; Graves, Algernon (Compiler of catalogue)

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Seller: Swan's Fine Books

Title: Sir Thomas Lawrence, With a Catalogue of the Artist's Exhibited and Engraved Works
Author: Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Sir; Graves, Algernon (Compiler of catalogue)
Seller: Swan's Fine Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Paris / New York: Goupil & Co., Jean Boussoud, Manzi, Joyant & Co., Successor, 1900. Limited Edition. Leather. Near Fine. Lawrence, Thomas. Number 66 of 200 copies, elephant folio size, 191 pp. Limited edition of 200 copies, this no. 66, specially bound in full leather by Bickers & Son, London. Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) remains one of the most renowned portrait painters of the Regency period. A child prodigy, at the age of 10 he was supporting his family with his portraits. He received his first royal commission, a portrait of Queen Charlotte, in 1790 (at the age of 21) and remained the most sought-after portrait painter in Britain for the next forty years. In a recent (2010) retrospective exhibit of Lawrence's work, it was said of him that "he [was] one of the great painters of the last 250 years and one of the great stars of portraiture on a European stage". This superb volume presents 65 of Lawrence's portraits done in Aquatint photogravure, with two of them hand-coloured, with a life of the artist and a catalogue of his work. ___DESCRIPTION: Custom bound by Bickers & Son, London in full green morocco, both the front and back boards have a decorative ruled border in gilt, raised bands on the spine, gilt lettering and decorations on the spine, top edge gilt, sewn headbands in cranberry, blue and ivory, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers in shades of olive green, grey and ivory, limitation statement on the verso of the half-title page, this copy no. LXVI of CC, tissue-guarded hand-coloured frontispiece of Emily, Countess of Glengall, title page in brown and black with publisher's device in the center, many initial capital letters set in a decorative square using brown ink, Preface and life of Lawrence by Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower, Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, photogravures bound in throughout the text with almost all of them being presented both in sepia and grey tones, all with lettered tissue guards, original ribbon marker still present, Table of Contents at the end followed by the List of Illustrations; large folio in size (approximately 15.25" tall), pagination: (i-iii) includes the half-title, limitation and title pages, blank (iv), (i)- iv includes the Preface, 1-97 includes the life of Lawrence, 98 is blank, (99)-176 being the Catalogue, (177)-181 the Table of Contents and List of Illustrations, blank (182), Printer's Statement (183) stating the text and plates were printed near Paris in 1899 - note that pagination excludes the plates. ___CONDITION: Volume is overall in near fine condition, with a strong, square text block, solid hinges, straight corners with a minimum of rubbing, the interior is clean and bright, and it is entirely free of prior owner markings. Due to the book's weight the front joint is just beginning to crack, but the thickness of the boards means it is on the outer surface only and the board is firmly attached, as is the rear board; there is one scrape to the leather on the front board and extremely minor overall edgewear; the spine has sunned to a brownish-green. Internally there is some offset darkening to the free endpapers from the gilt inner dentelles and the book has a very faint musty odor. ___POSTAGE: Please note that due to the size and weight of this work additional postage will apply; we are happy to ship at cost to both domestic and international addresses, please contact us for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

Memoria Technica: or, A New Method of Artificial Memory, etc. etc by [Thomson, Charles] Grey, Richard

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Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper

Title: Memoria Technica: or, A New Method of Artificial Memory, etc. etc
Author: [Thomson, Charles] Grey, Richard
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition: Fair
Description: London: John Stagg, 1737. Hardcover. Fair. Full contemporary calf binding with five raised bands on spine, gilt border to boards, title page printed in red & blank ink. Third edition. With the ownership signature of Charles Thomson, who was Secretary of the Continental Congress. Previous owner has written in pencil that it was from his library, and there is an old newspaper clipping about collectible signatures laid in. Old ink price of 8/6 to front endpaper. Spine ends chipped, front hinge tender, ffep detached. Thompson's signature is clear & sharp. Thomson was the only signer other than Hancock for the first printing of the Declaration of Independence. This book was published when he was 8 years old, and the autograph looks fairly adult; it's possible the 8/6 is the price he paid for the book. No markings to text; soil from use.

Jaws (Original photograph of Steven Spielberg and crew on location for the 1975 film) by Steven Spielberg (director); Peter Benchley (novel, screenwriter); Carl Gottlieb (screenwriter); Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss (starring)

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Seller: Royal Books

Title: Jaws (Original photograph of Steven Spielberg and crew on location for the 1975 film)
Author: Steven Spielberg (director); Peter Benchley (novel, screenwriter); Carl Gottlieb (screenwriter); Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss (starring)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1975. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1975 film, of Spielberg and crew in wetsuits, filming waist deep in the Atlantic Ocean. "Movie Star News" stamp on verso. The film that basically invented the concept of the summer blockbuster, forever changing how movies were greenlit and marketed, and, along with "Star Wars" two years later, effectively signaled the end of the New Hollywood Cinema. Based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley. Winner of three Academy Awards, with a fourth nomination for Best Picture. Set in the fictional Amity Island, shot on location in Martha's Vineyard, MA. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with 1.25 inch closed tear on the upper mid left side, mended on verso with paper tape. Ebert II. National Film Registry.

Souvenir Program Dedicatorial Service. Refuge Church of God of the Apostolic Faith [cover title] by [African Americana]: [California]

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Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC

Title: Souvenir Program Dedicatorial Service. Refuge Church of God of the Apostolic Faith [cover title]
Author: [African Americana]: [California]
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition: Good.
Description: San Diego, 1966. Good.. 16pp. Oblong quarto. Original pictorial self wrappers, stapled. Printed entirely in blue ink. Some staining and wrinkling to covers, waterstain and minor chipping at bottom of gutter throughout, occasionally affecting a few words. A seemingly unrecorded and ephemeral souvenir program published to coincide with the dedication ceremonies for the Refuge Church of God of the Apostolic Faith in San Diego, California. The work contains a biography of the pastor, Bishop John Harry Cannon, along with portraits of him and his large family, as well as a couple dozen photographs of fellow parishioners and the church itself. The final six pages of the work are comprised of advertisements for local businesses, including gas stations, auto shops, a record store, laundry services, markets, and more. The proposed date for the program comes from an ad for Ed Taylor Chevrolet who offers a 1966 Impala for the low, low price of $2566. We could locate no copies of this informative program from an African-American church in San Diego in OCLC or elsewhere.

Experiments in Crime by Frankau, Gilbert

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Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books

Title: Experiments in Crime
Author: Frankau, Gilbert
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Hutchinson & Co, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo., 287pp. plus Hutchinson's Spring,1937 40 page catalog in the rear. Beautiful First Edition bound in black cloth with titles in yellow on spine and front board. Square, tight and clean throughout with perhaps with little or no wear and gently bumped spine ends. Remarkably well-preserved. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, (correct 7'6 net on spine panel), has some rubbing to hinges and wear to spine ends and tips. Spine fairly mildly toned. Light soiling and a couple of tiny closed tears.. Still a solid, complete and pleasing example. A gorgeous collectable copy of an uncommon title, particularly in dust-jacket. (Hubin p.151).

Story and Other Stories by Davis, Lydia

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Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books

Title: Story and Other Stories
Author: Davis, Lydia
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN: 9780935724172
Condition: Fine/Very Fine
Description: Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1983. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/Very Fine. Slim 8vo., 87pp. Wraps. Beautiful First Edition. Square, tight and clean throughout with no discernible wear. No dust-jacket as issued. $5.00 price on rear panel. A gorgeous collectable copy of a surprisingly uncommon item.

Proceedings in reference to the preservation of the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground. by CORPORATION OF LONDON

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Seller: Ursus Books

Title: Proceedings in reference to the preservation of the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground.
Author: CORPORATION OF LONDON
Seller: Ursus Books (United States)
Description: 1867. CORPORATION OF LONDON. Proceedings in reference to the preservation of the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground. Printed by order of the Corporation of London. [4], 88 pp. 8vo, red publisher's binding with gilt insignia and lettering on front outside cover. London: Benjamin Pardon, 1867. This collection of proceedings by the Bunhill Fields Preservation Committee documents the Corporation of London's efforts to ensure the safety of the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, as the Corporation's lease was nearing its end (Christmas, 1867). Bunhill had been a burying ground of Nonconformists and other denominations since the sixteenth century. With the work of the committee, the Corporation obtained an Act of Parliament in 1867 preserving the burial ground as an open landscaped space with seating, gardens and the restoration of some of it most noteworthy monuments, including John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe and William Blake. The appendix contains a reprint of a rare tract from 1717, "Inscription on the Tombs in the Dissenters' Burial Place, near Bunhill Fields." Some wear to edges of binding, else fine.

Means of preserving health and preventing diseases : founded principally on an attention to air and climate, drink, food, sleep, exercise, clothing, passions of the mind, and retentions and excretions .. by Ricketson, Shadrach

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Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

Title: Means of preserving health and preventing diseases : founded principally on an attention to air and climate, drink, food, sleep, exercise, clothing, passions of the mind, and retentions and excretions ..
Author: Ricketson, Shadrach
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: Printed by Collins, Perkins, 1806. First edition. Old calf. viii, 298 pp., one leaf. Closed tear in A2, binding a bit rubbed, internally very good.

The Physiology of Taste. Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy. With an Introduction by Arthur Machen. Illustrated by Andrew Johnson by Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme de

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Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

Title: The Physiology of Taste. Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy. With an Introduction by Arthur Machen. Illustrated by Andrew Johnson
Author: Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme de
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: Garden City: Doubleday, 1925. Johnson, Andrew. Publisher's blue boards, paper spine, slight wear. A very good copy. No. 101 of 500 copies for America in this elegant edition.

ELOISE IN MOSCOW by Thompson, Kay; Knight, Hilary

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Seller: Type Punch Matrix

Title: ELOISE IN MOSCOW
Author: Thompson, Kay; Knight, Hilary
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Near fine in very good jacket.
Description: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. First edition. Near fine in very good jacket.. First printing, in which Eloise tours Moscow, visiting famous monuments and eating Russian food, if not exactly doing as the Russians do. 11'' x 7.75''. Original orange paper boards stamped in black. In original unclipped ($3.75) pictorial printed dust jacket. Illustrated throughout in black and white with yellow highlights and one double-page foldout spread in multiple colors. [68] pages. A bit of rubbing to boards. Jacket with a couple spots of foxing and a few tape repairs to verso.

Eight Days In Eire. Or, Nothing So Urgent As Manana. Photographs by Mike Harding by WILLIAMS, Jonathan

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Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC

Title: Eight Days In Eire. Or, Nothing So Urgent As Manana. Photographs by Mike Harding
Author: WILLIAMS, Jonathan
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: As new
Description: (Rocky Mount, NC): North Carolina Wesleyan College Press, (1990). First edition. One of 500 numbered copies. Inscribed by JW to James Jaffe, his bibliographer. As new. 12mo, wrappers. As new.

The Gentle Giraffe by McCRACKEN, Russell

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Title: The Gentle Giraffe
Author: McCRACKEN, Russell
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Description: Chicago, San Francisco, New York: A Concora Book, Rand McNally & Company, 1945. [MOVABLE BOOK] [TOY BOOK] [JUVENILE]. Susanne SUBA, illustrator. Slotties designed by Barnes & Reinecke, Chicago. 4to; 31, [1]pp + 1 bound-in board with "Slottie Toys" to punch out; blue pictorial boards featuring people and animals in a ring on the front and vignettes of people and animals on the rear; color pictorial title across two pages; black line drawings and color illustrations throughout; last page before punch-out page features directions for assembly of the two giraffe punch-outs; yellow board with die-cut giraffe shapes to be punched-out and assembled is complete and bound-in as last page; bumping of corners and scuffing to edges; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, light chipping and age-toning to edges, very good in vg dj. Not found in Montanaro. This is the story of two giraffes: a young female giraffe and her uncle who lives in the zoo. The young giraffe leaves the circus to go visit her uncle and they have adventures touring the city and eating at a French café. The duo become heroes at a fire when they rescue a kitten. A sweet story accompanying one of the "Slottie" toys located after the last page of the book. Very unusual to find the toys intact.

Dirk Stewen: While You Were Out by STEWEN, Dirk (artist); Yilmaz DZIEWIOR (contributor)

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Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Title: Dirk Stewen: While You Were Out
Author: STEWEN, Dirk (artist); Yilmaz DZIEWIOR (contributor)
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN: 9783865606761
Condition: New in shrinkwrap
Description: New York: Walther Konig, 2009. New in shrinkwrap. 11 x 9 inches. 136 pages. Original boards; pictorial dust jacket. First edition.

Repertorio metrico dei "Rerum vulgarium fragmenta" di Francesco Petrarca by Zenari, Massimo

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Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA

Title: Repertorio metrico dei "Rerum vulgarium fragmenta" di Francesco Petrarca
Author: Zenari, Massimo
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
Description: Padova: Editrice Antenore, 1999. xlii, 562 [1]p., original sitff printed wrappers, mostly unopened, thcik quarto format (Studi sul Petrarca promossi dall'Ente Nazionale Francesco Petrarca, 28).

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Joyleg by Davidson, Avram; Moore, Ward

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Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA

Title: Joyleg
Author: Davidson, Avram; Moore, Ward
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780802755360
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Walker and Company, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($5.95), lightly toned. Red cloth with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collaborative satirical novel about an immortal pensioner in Appalachia.

DECORATIVE ARTS OF JAPAN by Yamada, Chisaburoh F. and Eric Sackheim (editors)

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Title: DECORATIVE ARTS OF JAPAN
Author: Yamada, Chisaburoh F. and Eric Sackheim (editors)
Seller: Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description: London, England: Kodansha International in conjunction with Ward Lock & Company, 1964. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, slipcase. 4to. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, slipcase. 262 pages. A historical survey of decorative arts in Japan, including ceramics, metal work, laquer ware, and textiles, Table of contents, preface, introduction, chronology, list of plates. Tipped in color plates. Slipcase rubbed at corners and sunned. Dust jacket torn near edges.

Sometimes Island, The by Baldwin, Anne Norris

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Seller: E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA

Title: Sometimes Island, The
Author: Baldwin, Anne Norris
Seller: E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: W W Norton, 1969 Hard cover with light shelf wear, gift inscription and previous owner's name on endpapers; color pictorial dust jacket is worn with tears and small losses, previous owner's name written in red on front panel, price-clipped. Set on the coast of Maine, the story of a young boy who sets off to discover why Pine Island is sometimes an island, and sometimes a peninsula. Illustrated in color throughout.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. Illus. by Charles Robinson. 4to.

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