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BERGBAUKUNDE

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Title: BERGBAUKUNDE
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: [Edited by Ignaz von Born & Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebra]. Two fine & large mezzotint vignettes on titles, 13 folding engraved plates & maps, three folding printed tables, & one engraving in the text. 4 p.l., 408, [12] pp.; 2 p.l., 468, [4] pp. Two vols. Large 4to, cont. half-calf & dark red boards (corners a bit worn, minor rubbing), flat spines gilt, green morocco lettering pieces on spines. Leipzig: G.J. Goeschen, 1789-90. First edition and very scarce; this is a complete copy with all 13 plates. Born and Trebra were the founders, in 1786 at Szkleno in Hungary, of the Societät der Bergbaukunde, which had the purpose of increasing knowledge in the areas of geology, mining, mineralogy, and metallurgy. It was a very international scientific society, and other early members included von Heynitz, Lavoisier, Gmelin, Charpentier, Ferber, Poda, Hawkins, and Goethe. This is the first (and only?) publication of the society; “hierin findet sich alles Wissenswerthe des Bergfachs nach dem damaligen Stande der Wissenschaft und Erfahrung vortrefflich und eingehend erörtert.”–A.D.B., Vol. 38, p. 551. The first 34 pages of Vol. I print the society’s plans and by-laws. The remainder of the two volumes contains numerous contributions concerning various mining activities in Germany, Hungary, France, England, Mexico, etc. Each title-page vignette is an extremely attractive mezzotint, and the plates depict geological cross-sections, maps of mining areas, machinery, etc. Fine set of this attractive book. ❧ D.S.B., II, pp. 315-16 & XIII, pp. 455-56. Mikulas Teich, “Born’s Amalgamation Process and the International Metallurgic Gathering at Skleno in 1786” in Annals of Science, 32 (1975), pp. 305-40.

Vanishing Animals by WARHOL, ANDY; BENIRSCHKE, KURT

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Title: Vanishing Animals
Author: WARHOL, ANDY; BENIRSCHKE, KURT
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Springer-Verlag, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY WARHOL TO DIVINE: "to divine / love / Andy Warhol". Also with four illustrations signed by Warhol. Exquisitely illustrated with sixteen color plates after screenprints by Warhol. Additionally inscribed to Divine by (presumably) his manager Bernard Jay. A wonderful association copy uniting two of the most headline-grabbing stars of the 80s. Warhol was, well, Warhol, and Divine was the drag-queen star of John Waters' classic films who became a cult icon. On Vanishing Animals: "Kurt Benirschke's lecture on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Springer-Verlag New York became a valuable book in 1986: Vanishing Animals, illustrated by Andy Warhol. An extraordinary combination of objective information and artistically impressive illustrations, it promoted an awareness of the importance of the preservation of species." (Sawkowski and Gotze, Springer-Verlag: 1945-1992). Animals discussed include: the California condor, river dolphin, mouse armadillo, wild horse, giant peccary, okapi, whooping crane, Komodo monitor, Sumatra rhinoceros, douc langur, Sommerring's gazelle, and Galapagos tortoise. Benirschke was a pioneering geneticist, pathologist, and conservationist known for his work in reproductive biology and the preservation of endangered species. In 1976 he helped establish the Center for the Reproduction of Endangered Species (CRES) at the San Diego Zoo, which advanced research on animal genetics and reproduction and created the first "frozen zoo" for the preservation of frozen cells and reproductive material of highly endangered species. In addition to the Warhol illustrations, Vanishing Animals contains photographs of animals at the San Diego Zoo. Warhol's signed in marker on the front free endpaper, taking up about half the page. Facing it, on the front pastedown is the (more modestly) written inscription: "To Divi: / Merry Christmas, 1986 / Love Jay". "Jay" was almost certainly Bernard Jay, Divine's manager. The illustrations signed in marker by Warhol include: Sömmerring's Gazelle (p3), Mouse Armadillo (p23), Bats (p.71), and (again) Sömmerring's Gazelle (p.83). New York: Springer-Verlag, 1986. Square quarto (approx. 10.5x10.5 in), original decorated cloth, original dust jacket. Some residue at top of front flap and light imprint from this residue on the endpaper signed by Warhol (far from Warhol inscription), a little rubbing and some scratches to dust jacket. A beautiful and important book with a wonderful association.

Les Frères d'Armes by ADAM, Victor; MOREL-FATIO, Antoine Léon, illustrator; MIDY, Th[omas]

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Title: Les Frères d'Armes
Author: ADAM, Victor; MOREL-FATIO, Antoine Léon, illustrator; MIDY, Th[omas]
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: Paris: Librairie d'Éducation, A. Courcier, Éditeur, 1860. 'Brothers In Arms' The Italian War of Independence and The Crimean War The Battles of Magenta, Kinburn and Malakoff ADAM, Victor, illustrator [&] MOREL-FATIO, Antoine Léon, illustrator. Les Frères d'Armes. Par Th. Midy. Ullustré de six superbes gravures a deux teints par V. Adam et Morel-Fatio. Paris: Librairie d'Éducation, A. Courcier, Éditeur, [1860]. First edition. Folio (12 x 8 3/4 inches; 305 x 222 mm.). [1-2, half-title, verso blank], [3-4 vignette title, verso blank], [5]-38, [1, table des matières], [1, advertsisements] pp. Six fine hand colored lithograph plates. Plates lithographed by Sarazin. Publisher's color pictorial boards, head and tail of spine chipped, joints slightly cracked, but still a remarkable survival of a very fragile pictorial binding. The text and hand colored plates bright and fresh. Feint early ink inscription (dated 1876) on front free endpaper. The six hand colored lithograph plates include scenes from The Battle of Magenta which was fought in 1959 during the Second Italian War of Independence; the British and French Navy bombarding the Russian coastal fortifications at Kinburn in 1855 after an Anglo-French ground force had besieged them; and the French forces celebrating their attack against the Russian forces and subsequent capture on the Malakoff redoubt on 8 September 1855 as a part of the siege of Sebastopol during the Crimean War. OCLC locates just one copy in libraries and institutions worldwide: Kunstbiblio Staatliche zu Berlin (Germany) Jean-Victor Adam (1801-1867) was a French painter and lithographer. Born in Paris he was the son of Jean Adam, an esteemed engraver. During the years 1814 to 1818 he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and also in the ateliers of Meynier and Régnault. In 1819 he exhibited 'Herminia succouring Tancred.' He was almost immediately afterwards employed to paint various subjects for the Museum at Versailles, amongst which are, 'The Entry of the French into Mainz,' 'The Battle of Varroux,' 'The Taking of Menin, 'The Battle of Castiglione,' 'The Passage of the Cluse,' 'The Battle of Montebello,' 'The Capitulation of Meiningen;' the last three in association with Alaux. He also exhibited down to the year 1838: 'Henry IV., after the Battle of Coutras,' 'Trait of Kindness in the Duke de Berri,' 'The Postillion,' 'The Vivandiere,' 'The Road to Poissy,' 'The Return from the Chase,' 'Horse-fair at Caen,' and numerous other subjects. He then retired from publicity, till 1846, when he appeared as the exhibitor of some works in lithography, to which branch of art he afterwards restricted himself. In this line he produced a lithographic album, 'Views in the Environs of Paris,' 'Studies of Animals for an edition of Buffon,' &c. He obtained a gold medal in 1824, a second class medal in 1836, besides several others from Lille, Douai, and other cities. He died at Viroflay in 1866. Antoine Léon Morel, later Morel-Fatio (1810-1871) was a French naval painter, Peintre officiel de la Marine, curator of the naval and ethnographic museum of the Louvre, and mayor of the 20th arrondissement of Paris. He added Fatio in 1844 to distinguish himself from a businessman of the same name. It was apparently in reference to a Swiss branch of the family. The Plates: 1. Bataille de Magenta - The Battle of Magenta 2. Un Marché dans une Petite Ville en Russie - A Market in a small town in Russia 3. Une Noce en Bretagne - A Wedding in Brittany 4. La Flotte Devant Kinburn - The Fleet in front of Kinburn 5. La Flotte Devant Schwaborg - The Fleet in front of Schwaborg 6. Prise de Malakoff - The taking of Malakoff.

Watchmen (Original screenplay for the 2009 film) by Zack Snyder (director); Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Billy Crudup, Carla Gugino, Matthew Goode, Malin Åkerman (starring); Dave Gibbons, Alan Moore (comics); David Hayter, Alex Tse (screenwriters)

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Title: Watchmen (Original screenplay for the 2009 film)
Author: Zack Snyder (director); Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Billy Crudup, Carla Gugino, Matthew Goode, Malin Åkerman (starring); Dave Gibbons, Alan Moore (comics); David Hayter, Alex Tse (screenwriters)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: N.p.: N.p., 2004. Fifth Draft script for the 2009 film. Copy belonging to an unidentified cast or crew member, with their name watermarked on every page, and annotations in manuscript ink throughout, indicating weapons and fight sequences. Bound in at the rear of the script is a two-page spreadsheet table of prop weapons needed for scenes in the film (see images). Based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' acclaimed 1986-1987 comic book series, an alternate timeline in which superheroes emerged during the 1940s, thereby changing the course of world history. Shot on location throughout British Columbia. Self wrappers. Title page present, dated 09/10/2004, noted as 5th Draft, with credits for screenwriter David Hayter and writers Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, noted as copy No. 113 in manuscript ink. 134 leaves, with last page of text numbered 131. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, bound with a silver prong, with light rusting on and around the binding.

Placets de l'officier Desbans. by SAINT-AUBIN, Gabriel; Desbans, Edme-Louis; ROXBURG

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Title: Placets de l'officier Desbans.
Author: SAINT-AUBIN, Gabriel; Desbans, Edme-Louis; ROXBURG
Seller: Ursus Books (United States)
Description: 2007. SAINT-AUBIN, Gabriel. Placets de l'officier Desbans. Preface by Neil MacGregor, Director, British Museum. 62 pp. Illustrated with 15 facsimile drawings by Gabriel Saint-Aubin, plus a few head- and tail-pieces. Folio, 360 x 235 mm, bound in full red silk over boards, with the gilt-stamped coat-of-arms of Marie-Antoinette on both covers. Paris: 1775 (i.e. London: Roxburghe Club, 2007). Privately printed for members of the Roxburghe Club. This is a facsimile edition of an original French eighteenth-century manuscript produced in Paris in 1775. Edme-Louis Desbans, born 1728, wrote his own text and orchestrated the production of this superlative manuscript as a petition for his advancement in the French Army. It was intended for two readers only: Marie-Antoinette, the new Queen of France, and her husband Louis XVI. Desbans flatters the new Queen as a patron of a new taste in the arts, architecture, fashion, music (as supporter of her fellow Austrian composer Gluck), and symbolic mother of her adopted nation. For Louis XVI, the petition becomes more down-to-earth and appeals to his sense of majesty, fairness and duty as head of the French nation and the French army. The heart and soul of this Placet can be found in the exquisite pen and wash drawings by Saint-Aubin, which accompany the particular points Desbans is trying to make with the King and the Queen. Two of the most captivating drawings show the performance of Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide attended by Marie-Antoinette and the Coronation scene of Louis XVI at Rheims on 12 June 1775. The manuscript was in the possession of Baron Pichon in the late nineteenth century. It then passed into the collection Baron Maurice de Rothschild. In 1963 it was acquired by Mrs Charles Wrightsman of New York. The facsimile was printed by Santiago Saavedra Ediciones of Madrid. Limited to 75 copies printed for gift and for sale.

Popular Education in France: With Notices of That of Holland and Switzerland by Arnold, Matthew; (Trilling, Lionel)

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Title: Popular Education in France: With Notices of That of Holland and Switzerland
Author: Arnold, Matthew; (Trilling, Lionel)
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts Co, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First separate edition. Presentation copy with the ink inscription in the publisher’s hand “With the Author’s Compliments” at the head of the half-title. Above and below that is a much later dedication to Lionel Trilling and another person. A very nice association between two centuries of literary critics across the Atlantic. Trilling, in addition to being a writer and educator, was one of the most important literary critics of the 20th Century. Arnold is known as the preeminent Victorian-era literary and cultural critic. l, [2], 294, 24 ads pp. Original green cloth lettered in gilt. About Very Good with wear at head and split starting down back of spine, light edge wear, bumped corners, front hinge split but holding.

MAUVE GLOVES & MADMEN, CLUTTER & VINE [Signed] by Wolfe, Tom

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Title: MAUVE GLOVES & MADMEN, CLUTTER & VINE [Signed]
Author: Wolfe, Tom
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780374204242
Description: New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 243 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. White spine with black lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$8.95", has mild shelving wear, and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have mild wear and age-toning along the head and tail edges. Textblock has mild wear along the edges, light foxing along the edges, and mild age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Tom Wolfe on the title page. Shelved Room C. 1395030. Special Collections.

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ANGELS OF DARKNESS [signed] by Woolrich, Cornell, 1903-1968 [author]; Ellison, Harlan [introduction]

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Title: ANGELS OF DARKNESS [signed]
Author: Woolrich, Cornell, 1903-1968 [author]; Ellison, Harlan [introduction]
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780892960385
Description: New York: The Mysterious Press, 1978. First edition; Limited edition, numbered QQ of 250 copies. Hardcover. Octavo, xii, 215 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket and Very Good slipcase. Slipcase in red cloth. Spine is grey with red print. Price unclipped: “$25”. Boards red cloth. Signed in ink by Harlan Ellison on the limited edition page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column N. 1386439. FP New Rockville Stock.

Il Mistero Del Mondo by WOLF, Silvio, Esther Mathis, Roberta Levi, Yusuke Nishimura, and Filippo Guerrieri

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Title: Il Mistero Del Mondo
Author: WOLF, Silvio, Esther Mathis, Roberta Levi, Yusuke Nishimura, and Filippo Guerrieri
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: San Marco: Jarach Gallery, 2009. First edition. Oblong softcover. Exhibition catalog for a group show that ran October 31 through December 31, 2009. Text in English and Italian with biographical information about each artist. Includes images by Esther Mathis, Roberta Levi, Yusuke Nishimura, and Filippo Guerrieri. A very good copy stapled wrappers with some minor wear. Includes a laid in orginal photograph by Yusuke Nishimura. Image measures 5.25" by 5.25" and he has signed and written a note on the verso presenting this catalog to Bonnie Yochelson. Photograph in very near fine condition. A scarce catalog with no copies listed in OCLC.

John Zurier: A spring a thousand years ago by ZURIER, John and Stefan Hordur Grimsson

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Title: John Zurier: A spring a thousand years ago
Author: ZURIER, John and Stefan Hordur Grimsson
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: Peter Blum, 2013. First edition. Exhibition brochure for a show that ran April 25 through June 22, 2013. Single sheet folded once to create 4 pages. Features Stefan Hordur Grimsson's poem "The Night Shed Its Blue Tears." Includes 1 black and white illustration and information about the exhibition. A very good plus copy that has been folded in half (likely for mailing). An uncommon piece of ephemera for this American artist.

[travel] The Route Book Of Devon: A Guide For the Stranger & Tourist To The Towns, Watering Places, and Other Interesting Localities of this County. With Maps of the Roads, County of Devon, and Plans of Exeter, Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse

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Title: [travel] The Route Book Of Devon: A Guide For the Stranger & Tourist To The Towns, Watering Places, and Other Interesting Localities of this County. With Maps of the Roads, County of Devon, and Plans of Exeter, Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good binding
Description: Exeter: Henry Besley, 1850. A New Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 24mo; original cloth with gilt decoration; 403 pages including the index; four folding maps or plans as called for, plus an additional folding plan of Torquay; illustrated with 26 steel engraved plates in vignette; some moderate wear to spine with minor loss at the top and bottom; front hinge repaired with Japanese tissue; just a bit of old tape residue at the top of front pastedown and endpaper; a previous owner’s signature to the front end paper; while this edition is undated, Cambridge University dates it at 1850. Very Good binding.

Algeria; A Series of Invocations Because Nothing Else Works by ACKER, Kathy

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Title: Algeria; A Series of Invocations Because Nothing Else Works
Author: ACKER, Kathy
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Aloes Books, 1984. First Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's original pink decorated card wraps. 29pp. Some minor creasing and scuffing to the edges and extremities, a touch of sunning around the spine area; internally clean. A very good copy. A short piece originally published as a short form story entitled "Girl Gangs Take Over The World." Published immediately prior to "Blood and Guts in High School" often cited as Acker's breakthrough publication, "Algeria" is an intense introduction to Acker's speeding, lush, weird writing style where every event is bitter ammunition for an assault on comfort, complacency, and the things we hold taboo.

The Spanish Cape Mystery: A Problem in Deduction by Queen, Ellery (pseud. for Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee)

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Title: The Spanish Cape Mystery: A Problem in Deduction
Author: Queen, Ellery (pseud. for Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee)
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
Description: New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. (with a Triangle Books (reissue) dust jacket) [a nice clean copy with no significant wear, just a one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase and a brief comment (all in ink) on the half-title page; the jacket is also in beautiful condition, with only some very minor edgewear, all the more remarkable because Triangle Books editions were not known for their production quality]. (illustrated endpaper map) First edition of the ninth Ellery Queen novel (actually the tenth EQ book if you count the 1934 short-story collection "The Adventures of Ellery Queen"), in which a one-eyed giant kidnaps a young heiress and her uncle. This was the final novel in Queen's first period, all books of which shared the "Challenge to the Reader" feature, henceforth abandoned (as were the "Problem in Deduction" subtitles); it was also the first of his works to be adapted for a film (in 1935, with Donald Cook in the role of Ellery). The mismatched jacket (which was on the book as we received it) is probably from a relatively early (pre-1940) Triangle reprint, which retains the same artwork as the first edition jacket (later Triangle printings used different art). (A facsimile of the actual first edition jacket is available (not from us), however, should you wish to dress it up a bit more properly.) .

Kokka : an illustrated monthly journal of the fine and applied arts of Japan and other eastern countries (issue 1373) Maruyama Okyo's "Both Banks of The Yodo River" Handscroll

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Title: Kokka : an illustrated monthly journal of the fine and applied arts of Japan and other eastern countries (issue 1373) Maruyama Okyo's "Both Banks of The Yodo River" Handscroll
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG
Description: Tokyo, 2010. Hardbound. VG. Original tied wraps. appx. 48 pp, many large crisp color plates and bw plates.

Against the Sea. by Barker, Ralph.

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Title: Against the Sea.
Author: Barker, Ralph.
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Description: New York: St. Martin's Press, (1972). "True stories of disaster and survival." Twelve true tales, including the saga of Gloucester hero Howard Blackburn. VG, dj.. 20 cm., 199 pp. b/w plates.

CHATTERTON by Ackroyd, Peter.

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Title: CHATTERTON
Author: Ackroyd, Peter.
Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780241123485
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987. First edition, first prnt. Beginning page toning (common with this title); dustjacket with minimal wear. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with n archival cover. Booker Prize shortlisted. Ackroyd's fourth novel. First Edition. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.The image is of the book described and not a stock photo.

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