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THE VILLAGE ENTRANCE

THE VILLAGE ENTRANCE by PECHSTEIN, MAX (1881-1955)

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Seller: L'Estampe Originale
Title
THE VILLAGE ENTRANCE
Creator
PECHSTEIN, MAX (1881-1955)
Seller
L'Estampe Originale (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
THE VILLAGE ENTRANCE. Woodcut from the suite, Ein Dorf, A Village. 1919. Signed and numbered 4/75. Published on F.W. Zanders laid paper with margins measuring: 17 x 22 . Plate VI. Kruger 199, first state. Fechter H. 130. Image 13 x 16 1/4.
A Synopsis of the Diseases of the Eye, and Their Treatment (With 3 Hand-Colored Plates)

A Synopsis of the Diseases of the Eye, and Their Treatment (With 3 Hand-Colored Plates) by Benjamin Travers

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Title
A Synopsis of the Diseases of the Eye, and Their Treatment (With 3 Hand-Colored Plates)
Author
Benjamin Travers
Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good +
Description
New York and Philadelphia: E. Bliss and E. White, and H.C. Carey (NY), I. Lea (Philly), 1825. 1/4 leather. Very Good +. The 1825 1st American edition, "from the 3rd London edition", of this seminal, early 19th century study of "the diseases of the eye". Written by Benjamin Travers, "surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital" (London) and including "notes and addtions by Edward Delafield, M.D., surgeon to the New York Eye Infirmary, and Lecturer on Dieases of the Eye". Rebound in a handsome, late 20th century 1/4 dark-green calf over marbled boards, with bright gilt-titling along the spine. Additional recent endsheets added as well. Internally, all pages and plates sharp and very clean, with light, intermittent foxing to the text and very minor offseting at the original preliminaries Thick octavo, the 5 full-page plates (the first 3 lavishly hand-colored) are to be found at the rear, following the Appendix, and each figure within each plate is given its own title and write-up). Very impressive early text in ophthalmology (or oculism).
Correspondence and galley proof relating to the Balham poisoning case

Correspondence and galley proof relating to the Balham poisoning case by Taylor, Alfred Swaine; Harry Poland; A. K. Stephenson

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Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.
Title
Correspondence and galley proof relating to the Balham poisoning case
Author
Taylor, Alfred Swaine; Harry Poland; A. K. Stephenson
Seller
Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
1876. Taylor, Alfred Swaine (1806-80). Archive of material relating to the famous Charles Bravo poisoning case, consisting of (1) Autograph letter signed to Taylor from Harry Bodkin Poland (1829-1928). Bifolium. 3pp. Temple [London], 29 May 1876. 205 x 127 mm. (2) 3 autograph letters signed to Taylor from Augustus K. Stephenson (1827-1904). 15pp. total. [London], 3 June 1876 (2 bifolia, 8pp.); 5 June 1876 (bifolium, 4pp.); and 22 July 1876 (bifolium, 3pp.). 184 x 114 mm. (3) [Taylor.] The Balham mystery. Galley proof, corrected in Taylor's hand, of the first portion of an unsigned article in The British Medical Journal (20 May 1876): 631-633. 578 x 148 mm. Together 4 letters and one printed proof. Some rodent damage to Stephenson's letters affecting several words, mended in several places with clear tape. Small lacuna along one fold in the galley proof affecting a few words. Minor dampstaining but good to very good. From the library of Alfred Swaine Taylor, founder of forensic toxicology, an archive relating to the notorious and sensational Charles Bravo poisoning, a case that is still unsolved. The Bravo mystery has inspired several works of fiction, including Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) and a three-part BBC serial titled The Poisoning of Charles Bravo (1975). Bravo (1845-76), a 33-year-old barrister, died of tartar emetic (antimony) poisoning on 21 April 1876, less than five months after his marriage to a wealthy widow; the marriage was reportedly an unhappy one. The inquest on Bravo's death, held on 25 and 28 April, returned an open verdict, but the circumstances of the case were so suspicious that Taylor offered his expert advice to Harry Bodkin Poland, one of the attorneys for the Crown. Our archive includes the letter Poland sent thanking Taylor for "your letter about the Bravo Case and for the offer of further advice and assistance," and informing Taylor that he "will show your letter to Mr. [Augustus K.] Stephenson the Solicitor to the Treasury." Stephenson is represented in the archive by three letters asking for Taylor's expert opinion on the case: "You have read the account of the Post-mortem encl. by Dr. Payne . . . That being so, does it enable you to form an opinion as to whether the antimony was taken in solid food . . . (letter of 3 June). "Assuming small traces of antimony to have been found in the liver of a deceased person-Can you form any opinion as to length of time before death that the antimony was taken?" (letter of 5 June). "Can you tell me whether antimony in the form of tartar emetic wd. if taken in small doses at intervals during pregnancy induce a miscarriage? (letter of 22 July). The last item in our archive is a galley proof, corrected in Taylor's hand, of the first two-thirds of an article on the Bravo case published on 20 May in the British Medical Journal; although the article is unsigned, it was most likely written by Taylor. Based on the medical evidence, Taylor concluded that Bravo had ingested the fatal dose of antimony during his last meal. He severely criticized the investigators in the case for not testing the remains of the bottle of wine he had drunk with the meal-"the only article of food not shared in common with the three who sat at the dinner-table . . . If tartar emetic had been found in this wine much of the present mystery hanging about the case would be removed . . . In tracing the further history of this bottle, we learn that no one now knows what became of it or its contents." .
Gutai: Splendid Playground

Gutai: Splendid Playground by GUTAI (artist); Alexandra MUNROE (author); Ming TIAMPO (text by); Yoshihara JIRO (text by); Hirai SHOICHI (text by)

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Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts
Title
Gutai: Splendid Playground
Author
GUTAI (artist); Alexandra MUNROE (author); Ming TIAMPO (text by); Yoshihara JIRO (text by); Hirai SHOICHI (text by)
Seller
Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN
9780892074891
Condition
Generally a fine copy, with one small scratch on spine
Description
New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2013. First edition. Generally a fine copy, with one small scratch on spine. 11 x 9 inches. 316 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original padded boards. "The Gutai Art Association was founded by Yoshihara Jiro in 1954 in the cosmopolite town of Ashiya, near Osaka. The group spanned two generations, totaling 59 artists and is one of the most radical movements in postwar Japanese art history. Published in conjunction with the first United States museum retrospective ever devoted to Gutai, exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, "Gutai: Splendid Playground" surveys the influential Japanese collective and artistic movement. This exhibition catalogue aims to demonstrate the range of bold and innovative creativity present in the avant-garde movement, to examine the aesthetic strategies in the cultural, social and political context of postwar Japan and the West, and to further establish Gutai in an expanded, transnational history and critical discourse of modern art" (the publisher).
Dentro lo Spazio

Dentro lo Spazio by CAGLIO, Luciana; Nag ARNOLDI

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Title
Dentro lo Spazio
Author
CAGLIO, Luciana; Nag ARNOLDI
Seller
Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition
Jacket with a few small tears at edges but generally bright and clean, internally clean and unblemished
Description
Lugano: Banca della Svizzera Italiana, 1985. Jacket with a few small tears at edges but generally bright and clean, internally clean and unblemished. Text in Italian and English. Folio (12.5 x 11 inches). Illustrated in black-and-white and color. Cloth; dust jacket. Limited edition, number 84 of 198 numbered copies from an edition of 1200. A monograph on the architect Claudio F. Pellegrini's work in Lugano, lavishly printed and illustrated. WITH: Nag Arnoldi. [Untitled]. Etching, 7.5 x 6.25 inches image, 12 x 10.5 inches sheet, numbered 84/99 and signed and dated NAG 85 in pencil. Arnoldi was a post-war and contemporary Swiss sculptor whose outdoor sculptures are featured in the text.
FROM DEATH TO MORNING

FROM DEATH TO MORNING by Wolfe, Thomas

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Title
FROM DEATH TO MORNING
Author
Wolfe, Thomas
Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
New York, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 304 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Spine is black and orange with white lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "$2.50" on front flap, has mild shelving and rubbing wear along extremities, chipping to fore corners and along spine head. Boards fully bound in publisher's brown cloth and have mild shelving wear along spine head and tail and creasing to joints; spine mildly cocked. Textblock head edge dyed orange, edges have moderate age-toning; interior has mild age-toning to endpapers. Shelved Room C overflow. 1405487. Special Collections.
c.1890s Bid for the Right to Run a Poor Farm in Seward County, Nebraska

c.1890s Bid for the Right to Run a Poor Farm in Seward County, Nebraska

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c.1890s Bid for the Right to Run a Poor Farm in Seward County, Nebraska
Seller
De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
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Good with usual folds.

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