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Metamorphoses. Ed. Barnabas Celsanus

Metamorphoses. Ed. Barnabas Celsanus by Ovidius Naso, Publius (43 BCE-17 CE)

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Metamorphoses. Ed. Barnabas Celsanus
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Ovidius Naso, Publius (43 BCE-17 CE)
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Liber Antiquus (United States)
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Vicenza: Hermannus Liechtenstein. 12 August, 1480. An early edition (the first was printed in 1471) of Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’, printed as a companion to the same printer's volume of Ovid's other works, printed in May of the same year. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary Italian calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled and panelled by intersecting fillets (rebacked, worn, wormholes; clasps and catches missing), bottom edge lettered “Ovidij Metam.”. The paste-downs are almost complete leaves from a printed legal work (see below). An attractive copy with wide margins. Some soiling and light stains. With single clean tears (no loss of paper or text) in the lower margin of lvs. B1, D4, L2, M7, P3, S1. Tiny hole in blank lower margin of leaf K7. Wear to two lines of type on leaf M1. This is the first edition to be edited by Barnabas Celsanus (d. 1502) a local scholar in Vicenza. The edition includes the introductory synopses of Bonus Accursius, which first appeared in 1477. On 10 May 1480 Liechtenstein had published a volume which included Ovid’s ‘Amores’, ‘De arte amandi’, ‘Tristia’, ‘ex Ponto’, etc. With the printing of the ‘Metamorphoses’ in August, Liechtenstein had printed all of Ovid’s work. Although intended as a unified printing of the Opera, it is common to find the volumes separately; many of those locations listed on ISTC have only one part. Provenance: The copy (almost certainly) of the Sforza diplomat and councillor Pietro da Gallarate whose ownership inscription appears on the verso of final blank leaf, which reads, “Liber hic est mei Petri de Gallarate filius quondam domini marci de gallarate et cetera”. Gallarate was from a Milanese noble family and was a diplomat under the Sforzas between 1458 and 1495 (see: L. Cerioni, La diplomazia sforzesca, 1970, passim.). In 1477 he became a member of the select consilio segreto ducale constituted by Bona of Savoy. He had links with France, being a brother-in-law of François Royer, chamberlain to the king, and the Bibliothèque Nationale possesses a unique copy printed on vellum of the first edition of the Commentarii of Giovanni Simonetta (1420-1490) published in Milan in 1490, presented to Louis XI by Gallarate with a printed letter of Gallarate to the king. (See: G. Ianziti, Humanistic historiography under the Sforza, Oxford, 1988, p.216.). It should be noted that in this volume the prefatory letter from Bonus Accursius is addressed to Giovanni’s brother, Cicco Simonetta (1410-80). The few annotations which occur in the volume seem to be in Gallarete’s hand, e.g. f. A1v (contents of book VI) at the words ‘Agrestes Lycii in ranas’ is written ‘nota de latona que peperit apolinem et dianam et convertit agricolas in ranas’ (‘Note about Latona, who gave birth to Apollo and Diana and turned farmers into frogs’). On C4r is a correction ‘utereque parentis’ changed to ’uteroque’. F5r (Met. V, 1). H1v has a note again on the conversion into frogs. Most of the annotations are very simple –‘nota’, ‘notabile’, mentions of figures of speech. There are also notes in another hand - C5v ( Met.II, xii) a gloss of ‘caducifer’ ferens caducium [ sic ](carrying the caduceus)’ and ‘Inde caduciator [herald] qui pacem fert’(‘Whence ‘caduciator’, a herald who brings peace’). The pastedowns are from a contemporary edition of Duranti’s ‘Speculum utriusque juris or Speculum judiciale’.
CASTELLO S. ANGELO CON LA GIRANDOLA

CASTELLO S. ANGELO CON LA GIRANDOLA by ROME. FESTIVALS. Brambilla, Ambrogio, artist (active 1579-99)

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CASTELLO S. ANGELO CON LA GIRANDOLA
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ROME. FESTIVALS. Brambilla, Ambrogio, artist (active 1579-99)
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Liber Antiquus (United States)
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Rome: Antonio Brambilla, 1579. FIRST STATE of three. Hardcover. Fine. Etched by Ambrogio Brambilla (active 1579-99) after his own drawing. Signed and dated in the plate "Io. Ambr. Bram. Inv et fe. 1579". Published by Claudio Duchetti, whose name appears at the foot of the plate. Two other states were printed (in the 17th c.). The second state (1602) bore the address of Giovanni Orlandi, which in the third state (printed ca. 1614) was abraded and replaced by that of Hendrick van Schoel. A fine copy of this marvelous print showing the spectacular fireworks display (la girandola) at Rome’s Castel Sant’Angelo in 1579 on the feast day of Saints Peter and Paul during the pontificate of Gregory XIII (1572-1585). The scene is shown from a vantage point of an onlooker in what is now the Tor di Nona neighborhood on the near side of the Ponte Sant’Angelo. This is probably the earliest print depicting this event. From the fifteenth well into the nineteenth century, the Girandola at the Castel Sant'Angelo was Rome's most famous fireworks display. Two elements make it immediately recognizable: the massive cylinder of the castle and the explosion of rockets. The first documented exhibition of fireworks in Rome took place in 1410, but it was only in 1471, at the coronation of Sixtus IV, that fireworks began to be set off at the Castel Sant'Angelo, the fortress-like structure originally built as Hadrian's mausoleum. The earliest published description of the Girandola was in 1540, in Vannoccio Biringuccio's Pirotechnia: "They make use of the whole castle, which is indeed a very pleasing shape.... They shoot many rockets that are a palmo [about nine inches] long and hold three to four ounces of powder each. These are constructed so that after they have moved upward with a long tail and seem to be finished they burst and each one sends forth anew six or eight rockets. Fire tubes are also made and small girandolas, flames, and lights, and even the coat of arms of the pope is composed in fire." The etching by Brambilla, probably the earliest print of the Girandola, has an inscription describing the order of events, as enthusiastic as it is lengthy. It reports that "all the windows, bell towers, and balconies of the city are illuminated." At a sign from the papal palace the Girandola begins with mortars and artillery "such that the whole city trembles"; when the rockets are unleashed, "it seems as if the sky has opened, and that all the stars are falling to earth, a truly stupendous thing and most marvelous to see."… This extraordinary sight was recreated every year at Easter and on June 28, the eve of the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, as well as for the election and coronation of a new pope. The Girandola remained a high point on the itinerary of visitors to Rome until the late 1800s, when it was feared that continuing the explosions could do irreparable damage to the fabric of the building. Many nineteenth-century English writers described it. Charles Dickens, in 1845, wrote not only of the spectacle but also of the aftermath: "The show began with a tremendous discharge of cannon; and then, for twenty minutes, or half an hour, the whole castle was one incessant sheet of fire, and labyrinth of blazing wheels of every color, size, and speed.... In half an hour afterwards, the immense concourse had dispersed; the moon was looking calmly down upon her wrinkled image in the river, and half a dozen men and boys, with bits of lighted candle in their hands, moving here and there, in search of anything worth having, that might have been dropped in the press, had the whole scene to themselves."(Suzanne Boorsch: Fireworks! Four Centuries of Pyrotechnics in Prints and Drawings, New York, Metropolitan Museum, 2000, exhibition cat., p 38-39) Among the features labeled in the print is the "Luogo di Giustizia", a place for executions. In other prints showing this structure, heads on stakes and bodies swinging from the gallows can be seen. Between the smell of the rotting heads and the odors emanating from the fish market (also shown), the air must have been at times unbearable. The “Mirror of Roman Magnificence” Although Duchetti published his “girandola” as a stand-alone print, it was also a new contribution to the organic, open-ended, decades-long project of producing souvenir prints of Roman subjects, which had first crystalized with the association made between two foreign-born publishers operating in Rome, Antonio Salamanca and Antonio Lafrèry. During their Roman publishing career, Lafrèry and Salamanca - who worked together between 1553 and 1563 – produced a high number of engravings depicting Roman architecture (ancient and modern), statuary, inscriptions, views, and Roman ceremonies. The prints could be purchased individually by tourists and collectors, but were also bought in larger groups that were often brought together in bespoke albums. Sometime between 1573 and 1577, Lafrèry commissioned a title page for the series, with the title "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"(The “Mirror of Roman Magnificence”). When Lafrery died in 1577, two thirds of his existing copper plates went to the Duchetti family (his son-in-law Stefano and Stefano’s son, Claudio). The rest of the plates were distributed among other publishers. The Duchetti appear to have standardized production, offering a more or less uniform version of the Speculum to their clients. The popularity of the prints also inspired other publishers in Rome to make copies however, and to add new prints to the corpus. When Claudio Duchetti died in 1585, the firm continued under his heir Giacomo Gherardi, who continued to run the firm until the end of the 16th century. The plates (including this one) were subsequently used by various publishers, including Giovanni Orlandi and the Flemmings Nicolas van Aelst and Hendrik van Schoel.
Catalogue d’une belle Collection de Tableaux, et Bustes en marbre. Dont la majeure partie provient du célèbre Cabinet de…vendue le 22, & jours suivans. Par F.C. Joullain fils

Catalogue d’une belle Collection de Tableaux, et Bustes en marbre. Dont la majeure partie provient du célèbre Cabinet de…vendue le 22, & jours suivans. Par F.C. Joullain fils by (AUCTION CATALOGUE: LASSAY, Armand de Madaillan de Lesparre, Marquis de)

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Catalogue d’une belle Collection de Tableaux, et Bustes en marbre. Dont la majeure partie provient du célèbre Cabinet de…vendue le 22, & jours suivans. Par F.C. Joullain fils
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(AUCTION CATALOGUE: LASSAY, Armand de Madaillan de Lesparre, Marquis de)
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36 pp. 8vo, late 19th-century green morocco-backed marbled boards (extremities a little worn), title on spine. Paris: Joullain, 1775. A rare sale catalogue describing an impressive group of paintings. Lassay (1652-1738), known as the “Don Juan du Grand Siècle” due to his dissipated personal life, was a man of letters and supporter of the libertines. His son, Léon de Madaillan, the comte de Lassay (1683-1750), commissioned the construction of the Hôtel de Lassay, now the residence of the president of the Assemblée nationale. Charlotte Guichard has written that unscrupulous experts continued to employ the Lassay family name to promote sales decades after their deaths, even when little to nothing in the sale had actually belonged to them. This catalogue details 84 lots, all but one are paintings. The paintings include the work of Parmigianino, Albani, Caravaggio, Castiglione, A. Locatelli, J. Brueghel, Bril, Teniers, Jordaens, Rembrandt, F. Bol, Asselijn, Huysum, Callot, N. Poussin, Claude Le Lorrain, Le Nain, E. Le Sueur, Bourdon, B. Boullogne, J. Parrocel, Le Moine, Lancret, etc. Nice wide-margined copy. Foxing to final few leaves. As usual, not bound with the supplement of 12 pages. Engraved bookplate of [H]enry [Pannier] (1853-1935), the Parisian art dealer, and stamp of the Bibliothèque Heim on verso of title. ❧ Lugt 2413. Guichard, Les Amateurs d’Art à Paris au XVIIIe siècle (2008), p. 109.
Exhibition card: “Between and Through,” works by Daniel Buren (13 May-3 June 1974)

Exhibition card: “Between and Through,” works by Daniel Buren (13 May-3 June 1974) by (BUREN, Daniel)

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Exhibition card: “Between and Through,” works by Daniel Buren (13 May-3 June 1974)
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(BUREN, Daniel)
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Printed on one side. Transparent plastic card. Houston: Cusack Gallery, 1974. A brilliant example of Buren’s invitation card design, a see-through card, produced and distributed by Barbara Cusack’s trailblazing gallery. Near fine.
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James Lee Byars: Golddust is my Ex-Libris (June-September 1983) by BYARS, James Lee

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James Lee Byars: Golddust is my Ex-Libris (June-September 1983)
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BYARS, James Lee
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Many black & white illus. Unpaginated. Square 4to, white softcover (spine a bit creased). Paris: ARC, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, 1983. Scarce artist’s book/exhibition catalogue Byars’ 1983 exhibition in Paris. The show was curated by Suzanne Pagé and Béatrice Parent. Near fine.
Exhibition postcard: Change of Scenery, 1973-1978 work in situ done by Daniel Buren (23 September-14 October 1978)

Exhibition postcard: Change of Scenery, 1973-1978 work in situ done by Daniel Buren (23 September-14 October 1978) by (BUREN, Daniel)

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Exhibition postcard: Change of Scenery, 1973-1978 work in situ done by Daniel Buren (23 September-14 October 1978)
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(BUREN, Daniel)
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Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
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Printed on both sides. Postcard, mailed. New York: John Weber Gallery, 1978. Postcard invitation for Buren’s 1978 exhibition with John Weber. Fine. Mailed to photographer Eve Sonneman.
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Atomeysik For Hvermand. by SENDAK (Maurice):

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Atomeysik For Hvermand.
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SENDAK (Maurice):
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SENDAK (Maurice): ATOMEYSIK FOR HVERMAND by Dr Maxwell Leigh Eidinoff and Hyman Ruchlis. Copenhagen: H Hagerup, 1948. Illustrations by Maurice Sendak, his first book "Atomics for the Millions". Tall 8vo, 324pp + [6] index; pictorial colored wrappers (white spine discolored, lightly creased). First Foreign Language translation of a book illustrated by Maurice Sendak, the Danish version prepared by V. Thorsen. The drawings done when Sendak was 18 years old, originally published in New York 1947. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST in graphite on the title-page.
Top Flight [Vol. I, No. 17 (Oct 29 1949)]

Top Flight [Vol. I, No. 17 (Oct 29 1949)]

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Top Flight [Vol. I, No. 17 (Oct 29 1949)]
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New York City: N.P., 1949. Very good -. 10 7/8” x 8½”. Bifolium, printed all four sides. Pp. 4. Very good minus: moderately creased at old folds; a bit toned. This is an issue of a seemingly forgotten periodical that was created by and for high school- and college-aged African Americans in New York City, Top Flight. The issue covers two young men who went on to notable careers, one in business and one in music, Walter Branford and Andrew Frierson. The paper's editor and business manager, respectively, were brothers Arthur and Richard Hardie. We found brief mentions of the brothers in the “Teen Age” column of a few 1949 New York Age issues online, learning that Arthur had recently graduated from Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx and that Richard was due to that year. Top Flight's tagline was “News of the younger set” and this issue posited that “as young people many of us often forget that we owe something to our community, for it is our community that gives us our means of living, our safety and protection.” The leading article shared that the paper's staff had been invited to a press conference at Mt. Morris, “the only interracial voluntary hospital in the U.S.A.” and a photographic image showed a few “of our many young people who are participating in the fund raising campaign to fight Polio.” A “Who's Who” column focused on Delores Hall, “dramatic soprano singer,” student at Brooklyn College and the recipient of a scholarship to study under Lucille Stevenson, a “famous concert artist and the former singing star of the Pet Milk Show.” Great photographic images revealed “Miss Top Flight,” Barbara Fair (a student at Franklin Lane High School), and identified the members of “Club Kopaynes,” an African American social youth group. There was also a feature, with two photographic images, on a dance attended by pledges of the local chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest historically African American fraternity. The paper reported that “the place was just filled with young people from all over the city and beyond” and that the pledges “themselves looked like something out of Esquire.” It noted that “Walter Branford is the only pledge coming from the N.Y. State Maritime College. Walt represents one-half of the Negro population of the school . . .” Branford went on to be president and CEO of Double Eagle Lines, Inc., the first Black-owned steamship company in the United States. A rare and fantastic publication created by young African Americans doing great things. Not located in OCLC or in Danky Hady.
A Grammar of the Greek Tongue on a New and Improved Plan

A Grammar of the Greek Tongue on a New and Improved Plan by Jones, John

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A Grammar of the Greek Tongue on a New and Improved Plan
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Jones, John
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orne, 1804. First edition. 8vo. x, 260pp. Contemporary half morocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt spine title and gilt rules on the bands; marbled paper boards in the Spanish Marbler pattern. Light rubbing to edges and hinges, else this is a very good copy. John Jones (1766?-1827) was a Welsh Unitarian Minister and a lexicographer of note. Besides religious tracts, he published a Latin Grammar and two version of the Greek Lexicon as well as a curious retort on the Explanation of the Greek Article (1827). His Greek Grammar approached the subject in a new way and was frequently reprinted. Copies of the first printing are scarce in commerce. .
[NATIVE AMERICANS]. [METHODISM]. Typescripts of Two Speeches Given About Native Americans

[NATIVE AMERICANS]. [METHODISM]. Typescripts of Two Speeches Given About Native Americans by Blackie, William Reid

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[NATIVE AMERICANS]. [METHODISM]. Typescripts of Two Speeches Given About Native Americans
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Blackie, William Reid
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Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
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[New York], 1922. Good. Two typewritten speeches (15 pp. + 6 pp.), both measure 8.5" x 5.5" and both with manuscript corrections. Leaves toned and dust soiled, some wrinkling, paper-clip remnants and evidence of stapling. TWO TYPESCRIPT SPEECHES DOCUMENTING A METHODIST MINISTER'S EXPLORATIONS INTO THE HISTORY OF NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE NEW YORK REGION, AND DECRYING THE ACTIONS THAT LED TO THEIR DISAPPEARANCE. Ad 1: Typewritten draft of an inspiring address entitled "The Indians of New York City and Vicinity," delivered by W.R. Blackie at a 1922 meeting of the New York State Historical Society. In this oration, he discussed the history of Native Americans of New York City and the lower Hudson Valley, including tribes that may have predated the American Indians encountered by the first white settlers. The draft for this speech concludes mournfully: "The coming of the whites spelled the death knell of the Indian in this region. How numerous they were we may not know, butthat they were deprived of their lands and possessions, their fishing and hunting preserves is a lamentable fact. No longer do they roam at will among the hills or fish in the streams. The avaricious whites laid waste their villages, slaughtered their women and children, robbed them of their caches of corn and even sometimes scalped their warriors. 'All, all are gone, the old familiar faces': gone to the shades of their ancestors or to the happy hunting grounds and all that is left as memorials to them are the implements and a few ornaments that time has not as yet been able to obliterate." Our draft has many substantive variants from the published version of this speech which appeared in "The Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association" (vol. 4, no. 1, 1923, pp. 41-48). Ad 2: Draft version of Blackie's (unpublished?) speech entitled "The Indians of New Rochelle and Vicinity" which delivered at the Huguenot Society of New Rochelle in 1921. In this shorter speech Blackie laid out the history of the Siwanoya who had lived in the area, and gave examples of archaeological relics that he had found to explain what they had eaten and how they had lived. This draft ended dolefully as well: "[...] in closing my talk I desire to look back to those vanished people from your neighborhood. Gone! who knows where; ask the colonists who aroused their enmity by coercion by the burning of their homes, by the slaughter of their women and children until only traces of this once numerous tribes and their imperishable memorials of their civilization." A long biography of Blackie appears on the website of the Ardsley, NY Historical Society, which relates that he was born in Glasgow in 1870 and emigrated to Ontario where by 1890 he had become an itinerant minister in the frontier provinces of Alberta and Northwest Territory. He held pastorates in many towns and cities in New York State, all the while engaging in research on Native Americans and preserving sites and artifacts that he had discovered (the W.R. Blackie is in the New York State Museum). Blackie's lectures and writings inspired many to reclaim what little was left of the Native American presence. Incidentally, as a traveling priest in the foothills of Western Canada, he was the inspiration for Canadian author Ralph Conner's popular 1899 novel, "The Sky Pilot," which sold more than a million copies. Blackie died in Patterson, NY in 1946, for which see his obituary in the New York Herald Tribune and elsewhere. PROVENANCE: Kenneth H. Mynter of Claverack, New York. Mynter was an expert on Native American tribes of the Hudson Valley region, and served as a professor at the University of Rochester and a member of the New York State Archaeological Association. He and other New York State archaeologists excavated an Indian site in Claverack, yielding evidence that the site had been used as a shelter for hundreds of years, thousands of years ago. LITERATURE: Gary S. Rappaport, "The W.R. Blackie Collection (Part 1)" online.
Andy Warhol: Reigning Queens

Andy Warhol: Reigning Queens by WARHOL, Andy

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Andy Warhol: Reigning Queens
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WARHOL, Andy
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Amsterdam: George Mulder, 1985. Faint toning and a few light scuff marks to the covers, else near fine in wrappers, featuring blind-stamped coats-of-arms from the four represented nations to front panel.. First Edition. Slim quarto. A series of color reproductions of Andy Warhol's silkscreen portraits of the four reigning queens in 1983: Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands, and Queen Ntombi of Swaziland. With an introductory essay by Lambert Tegenbosch. Press-numbered as 262 of 5000 copies.
The Florence Cook Book. Edited by Women of Trinity Guild of Trinity Parish. Revised [Third] Edition

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

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The Florence Cook Book. Edited by Women of Trinity Guild of Trinity Parish. Revised [Third] Edition
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[Trinity Episcopal Church (Florence, Ala.); Women of Trinity Guild.]
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Florence, Alabama: [The Church], 1943. Octavo (23 x 15.5 cm.), 171, [v] pages. Advertisements. Errata list page [1]. Cover title. Table of contents. Third Edition. A generous helping of more than nine hundred recipes, clearly an act of perseverance to review and produce during wartime. Southern favorites stand in relief: Cracklin Bread, Hush Puppies, Ambrosia, Daube Glacé, Cabbage Au Gratin, Creole Peas, Fried Bananas, Black Bottom Pie, Pecan Cake. But this is a substantial revision of the second edition and the Women of Trinity Guild were noting with interest recipes from beyond their immediate sphere as much as was the case anywhere else. Three early instances of Italian-American spaghetti exemplify the cuisine's transition from "peasant" food to household staple. 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 handwritten corrections in pencil, otherwise clean and bright internally. In stapled, black-lettered red wrappers, worn at the corners, and with some good sized chips to the spine. Front panel of wrapper is illustrated with a photograph of Wesleyan Hall (University of North Alabama). Good only. Scarce. [OCLC locates three copies of the present revised edition, and one copy of the first edition (1929); a copy of the second edition (1931) is also known; none of these editions is included in Brown, Cagle, or Cather].
A Pacific Bibliography. Printed matter relating to the native peoples of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia

A Pacific Bibliography. Printed matter relating to the native peoples of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia by Taylor, C.R.H.

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A Pacific Bibliography. Printed matter relating to the native peoples of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia
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Taylor, C.R.H.
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Wellington, N.Z.: The Polynesian Society, 1951. Memoirs of the Polynesian Society, Volume 24. Small quarto (25.5 x 16 cm.), xxx, 492 pages. Frontispiece, folding map at end (with small correction sticker laid on), appendices, index. FIRST EDITION. "This volume includes 65 pages of references under 26 subjects, on the Maori of New Zealand. Every island group in the Pacific is covered similarly. It is a guide and handbook to writings on Oceania and its peoples" (jacket text). Red cloth, with very light rubbing to edges of binding; slight bumping to corners. Some chipping to foot of dust jacket spine; some light soil. Near fine in a near very good dust jacket.
Maple Sugar Makers' Guide. Everything for the sugar maker from tapping bit to syrup can

Maple Sugar Makers' Guide. Everything for the sugar maker from tapping bit to syrup can by [Trade Catalogue – Maple Syrup; Leader Evaporator Co. (Burlington, Vermont)]

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Maple Sugar Makers' Guide. Everything for the sugar maker from tapping bit to syrup can
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[Trade Catalogue – Maple Syrup; Leader Evaporator Co. (Burlington, Vermont)]
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Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
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Burlington, Vt: Leader Evaporator Co, 1934. Octavo-sized booklet stapled in wrappers (22. x 15.5 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated. Date from testimonial on page 32. A trade catalogue from a manufacturer of maple sugar making equipment and supplies, including evaporators, gathering tanks, sap buckets, sap spouts, tapping bits, gathering pails, hydrometers, thermometers, filters, syrup cans, pails, and cartons. Instructions for sugaring, and testimonials from satisfied customers are included. The Leader Evaporator Company was formed in 1988. Some light fading to wrappers, otherwise very good. [OCLC locates one copy of this earliest of the Leader trade catalogues (and a number of copies of various later editions)].
Katalog der Inkunabeln der Kgl. Bibliothek in Stockholm

Katalog der Inkunabeln der Kgl. Bibliothek in Stockholm by Stockholm. Kungliga Biblioteket

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Title
Katalog der Inkunabeln der Kgl. Bibliothek in Stockholm
Author
Stockholm. Kungliga Biblioteket
Seller
Bernett Rare Books Inc (United States)
Description
4 vols., catalogue by Isak Collijn of the incunabulae in the Royal Library, Stockholm, including 1122 entries, an essay on Johann Snell and a supplement covering 360 additions from 1915-1939, 150 plates of facsimiles of pages of the works. Texts: Sm. 4to. (vol.1, boards; vol. 2 and suppl. wrpps.); Plates: Lg. 4to. Boards. Stockholm 1914-1940.
Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot by Beckett, Samuel

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Waiting for Godot
Author
Beckett, Samuel
Seller
Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
Condition
very good
Description
Faber and Faber, 1957. third. hardcover. very good/very good. 3rd UK impression 1957. Book very good, foxing and discoloration to end papers. Dust jacket very good, minor wear along edges, toning to edges, foxing to inside of dj.
A Bend in the Road (Signed First Edition)

A Bend in the Road (Signed First Edition) by Nicholas Sparks

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Title
A Bend in the Road (Signed First Edition)
Author
Nicholas Sparks
Seller
Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780446527781
Condition
Near Fine
Description
First Edition/Stated First Printing with the complete number line; a Near Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with only the ghost of a sticker and a PO initials and date to the front free paper, in a clean, crisp, and bright dust jacket. SIGNED by the author to the title page. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.
The Sleeping Beauty of the Wood; an Entertaining Tale, To Which is Added Paddy and the Bear, A True Story

The Sleeping Beauty of the Wood; an Entertaining Tale, To Which is Added Paddy and the Bear, A True Story by [PERRAULT, Charles]

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Title
The Sleeping Beauty of the Wood; an Entertaining Tale, To Which is Added Paddy and the Bear, A True Story
Author
[PERRAULT, Charles]
Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers, 1840. String-tied Cloth over Board. Very good. 16mo (6" x 3 7/8"); 24pp; front wrapper imprinted with a decorative border and small vignette of a girl holding a birdcage high above a sitting cat, rear wrapper is pp24; lacking publisher's string binding, 3" split at fold, light chipping fore-edge; very good minus. The story of a Sleeping Beauty extends back to the 14th century and has been retold many times, first published by Perrault in Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697.
Collecting Light: The Photographs of Ruth Bernhard - Untitled 20

Collecting Light: The Photographs of Ruth Bernhard - Untitled 20 by ALINDER, James and Ruth Bernhard

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Title
Collecting Light: The Photographs of Ruth Bernhard - Untitled 20
Author
ALINDER, James and Ruth Bernhard
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780933286115
Description
Carmel, CA: The Friends of Photography, 1979. First edition. Softcover. 56 pages. Review copy with laid in press release. Features text by James Alinder. Includes 35 black and white plates and a checklist. A near fine copy in wrappers with some very minor wear.
A Minister's Account of His Stewardship: A Sermon Preached in Northborough, October 31, 1841 on the Completion of the Twenty-Fifth Year of His Ministry in That Place

A Minister's Account of His Stewardship: A Sermon Preached in Northborough, October 31, 1841 on the Completion of the Twenty-Fifth Year of His Ministry in That Place by Allen, Joseph

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A Minister's Account of His Stewardship: A Sermon Preached in Northborough, October 31, 1841 on the Completion of the Twenty-Fifth Year of His Ministry in That Place
Author
Allen, Joseph
Seller
Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Cambridge: Metcalf, Torry, and Ballou, 1842. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 36pp. Removed from a larger volume with some residue on spine. Ink historical society stamp on front wrap and title page, foxed throughout, else very good.
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Old Glory by ANDREWS, Mary Raymond Shipman

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Old Glory
Author
ANDREWS, Mary Raymond Shipman
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Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description
New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916., 1916. First edition ("Published, July, 1916"). 8vo. Frontispiece illustration by James Montgomery Flagg . Original 1/2 brown cloth over light brown boards stamped in red, white and blue (rubbed at edges). Very good. 126 pages. No dust jacket.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.
Red Trance
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Red Trance by Zimmerman, R.D.

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Title
Red Trance
Author
Zimmerman, R.D.
Seller
James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
ISBN
9780688130305
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: William Morrow, 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in publisher's original blue quarter cloth and red boards. Signed presentation by the author on the title page.
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NOT ABOUT NIGHTINGALES by WILLIAMS, Tennessee

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NOT ABOUT NIGHTINGALES
Author
WILLIAMS, Tennessee
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Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
Description
(New York): New Directions, (1998). hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. A paperback original, this is the Book Club hardcover publication. Edited with an introduction by Allean Hale. Foreword by Vanessa Redgrave.

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