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ANATOMIA CORPORUM HUMANORUM by (ANATOMY - ILLUSTRATED IN 18TH CENTURY HOLLAND). COWPER, WILLIAM

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Title: ANATOMIA CORPORUM HUMANORUM
Author: (ANATOMY - ILLUSTRATED IN 18TH CENTURY HOLLAND). COWPER, WILLIAM
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Leyden: Johann Arnold Langerak, 1739. First Edition in Latin. 540 x 380 mm. (21 1/4 x 15"). [70] leaves of text.Translated by William Dundass. Original red quarter vellum over marbled boards, raised bands, UNTRIMMED EDGES. Engraved printer's device on title, large decorative initials and tailpieces, EXTRA ENGRAVED TITLE AND 114 STRIKING PLATES OF ANATOMICAL FIGURES (three folding). Wellcome II, 401; Heirs of Hippocrates 468; Choulant-Frank, pp. 252-3; Russell 213. ◆Vellum on spine rather worn, with three one-and-one-half-inch pieces broken away revealing structure underneath, paper boards quite chafed, other minor problems externally, but an entirely solid unrestored binding. A couple of plates with short closed marginal tears, one folding plate with one-inch closed tear into image (no loss), untrimmed edges a little browned and brittle, with isolated small chips, occasional minor foxing or insignificant stains, three plates lightly browned, but still AN UNUSUALLY ATTRACTIVE COPY INTERNALLY, with the broadest of margins, with especially clean and fresh leaves, and with rich impressions of the plates. With plates of notable visual impressiveness, this was the finest anatomy book in England during the first half of the 18th century; it also was largely a plagiarism, borrowing most of its engraved content from a work by the Dutch physician Govert Bidloo published in 1685. Bidloo's work was the first large-scale anatomical atlas to appear after Vesalius' epoch-making "De Humani Corporis Fabrica," and the plates, which are highly praised by Norman and Garrison-Morton, are characterized by startlingly detailed life-size depictions of the human body (both adult and infant), with figures flayed to reveal muscles, opened to show organs, and unfleshed to exhibit bones. According to Choulant-Frank, Bidloo's publishers sold 300 impressions of these plates to Cowper, probably to recoup some of their money after disappointing sales. Cowper took Bidloo's original 105 plates, added nine of his own, and produced an English translation of the original Latin text to accompany them. Discussing the original plates produced by Gerard de Lairesse (1641-1711), Norman says that the figures are displayed "in an emotional, almost tender manner, contrasting the raw dissected parts with the full, soft surfaces of uncut flesh, placing flayed, bound figures in ordinary nightclothes or bedding, setting ordinary household objects such as books, jars, or cabinets in the same scene as cut-up torsos or limbs. His illustrations brought the qualities of Dutch still-life painting into anatomical illustration, and gave a new, darker spiritual expression to the significance of the act of dissection." When Cowper's version of the atlas first appeared as "The Anatomy of Humane Bodies" in London in 1698 (there was also a 1737 Leyden printing in English before our more scholarly Latin edition), Bidloo complained to the Royal Society and accused Cowper of plagiarism and fraud, resulting in much acrimony and heated pamphleteering between the two physicians. Notwithstanding this scandal, Cowper's achievements and discoveries--including the pair of glands that bear his name--were considerable, and his text improved significantly upon the original work. Unfortunately, as the DNB notes, "the notoriety of this case has served to obscure a true appreciation of Cowper and of his many original contributions to anatomical illustration." The atlases of Bidloo and Cowper appear on the market regularly, but at 540 x 380 mm., the present copy is distinguished by its size, which is significantly larger than what is typically seen with this edition--we have not been able to trace a copy larger than ours from marketplace or institutional records..

NATIONAL IMPROVEMENTS ON AGRICULTURE, IN TWENTY-SEVEN ESSAYS by (BINDINGS - JAMES COLQUHOUN OF LUSS LIBRARY). YOUNG, DAVID

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Title: NATIONAL IMPROVEMENTS ON AGRICULTURE, IN TWENTY-SEVEN ESSAYS
Author: (BINDINGS - JAMES COLQUHOUN OF LUSS LIBRARY). YOUNG, DAVID
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Edinburgh: Printed for, and sold by the author, and by John Bell, Parliament-Square, 1785. FIRST EDITION. 215 x 127mm. (8 1/2 x 5"). xx, 412 pp. Contemporary sprinkled calf, cover with gilt catkin border, raised bands, spine panels with graceful floral sprig, red morocco label. With three engraved plates showing farm plans or machinery, one of these folding. Fussell, "More Old English Farming Books, 1731 to 1793," p. 127; ESTC T78088. See Holmes, Heather. "The Circulation of Scottish Agricultural Books during the 18th Century," in Agricultural History Review 54, I, pp. 45-78 (2006). ◆Shallow scratches in the leather, but AN IMMACULATE AND ESPECIALLY LUSTROUS COPY. This work setting forth a new, practical system for Scottish agriculture is offered here in preternaturally fine condition. The earliest 18th century works on Scottish agriculture focused on particular crops, implements, or varieties of livestock; these were followed by explanations of the scientific aspects of agriculture, based on recent studies. Books like the present one sought to synthesize the knowledge from the first two genres into agricultural systems that could be implemented by landowners. Until the last quarter of the 18th century, Holmes notes, "few books were specifically written for the Scottish agriculturist," and books written for English farmers were of little use, due to notable differences in soil and climate. Young recommends best practices for everything from increasing produce to producing manures, and addresses the problems of rents, prices, and the toll taken on farming by emigration. The book also offers a plan to increase grain and cattle production enough to make up for the loss of the Colonies as a result of the American Revolution. The place and date of publication and the freakishly fine condition make a strong argument that, despite the absence of a bookplate, this volume must have been part of the library of Sir James Colquhoun of Luss (1741-1805), a friend and correspondent of Horace Walpole, and a connoisseur of paintings as well as a bibliophile. He formed a library of mostly 18th century imprints that remained undisturbed--in what must have been ideal conditions (apparently in darkened bookshelves behind curtains)--at the family estate for nearly 200 years before it came on the market in the 1980s. Almost always bound in simply decorated calf, as here, Colquhoun copies are famous for their near-mint condition..

[LGBTQ] Two Collage Photo Albums of a 1960s Fire Island House Party with Drag Queens by [Aggie]

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Title: [LGBTQ] Two Collage Photo Albums of a 1960s Fire Island House Party with Drag Queens
Author: [Aggie]
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: [Fire Island]: N/A, 1960. Near Fine. Two albums, both filled to completion, chronicling a drag queen house party at Fire Island during the late 1960s. Quarto "Easy-Mount" photo album, spiral bound in faux leather with embossed front board, containing 7 double-card leaves protected by plastic covers. Quarto "Scrap Book," cord bound in green paper-covered boards, containing 14 card leaves. Overall Near Fine with light rubbing to covers, light toning to scrap book sheets, and light foxing to photo album sheets with yellowing and some chipping to plastic. A lively collection of snapshots from a Fourth of July house party, likely held circa 1967-68. The photo album uses a postcard and 20 chromogenic snapshots from the two-week party to create a humorous narrative of "Aggie's" unexpected arrival, announced via sympathetic letter from her "sisters" Sarra and Marsha. Aggie's plan to parachute in with a trunk full of goodies dismays her friends, one of whom attempts to misdirect her to the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kwajalein Island instead. The album ends with Aggie declaring defiantly: "I'm still coming on July 3rd - so there!!!" The scrap book is titled "A collection of America's relics" and features 34 more photographs from the party. Lovingly decorated with paint and construction paper, the book is a testament to a glorious summer holiday in a gay mecca. Men of all ages can be seen sunning themselves, dressing up, dressing down, and playing around in their rented vacation home. Booking a summer house is a longstanding tradition at Fire Island, which has been home to gay enclaves since the 1950s. The albums celebrate a joyous period of freedom at a time when it was still illegal for two men to dance together.

[WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR, 1802]. Anacreontis Odaria ad textus Barnesiani fidem emendata by Anacreon. Forster, Edward (editor). Forster, Lavinia Banks (illustrator)

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Title: [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR, 1802]. Anacreontis Odaria ad textus Barnesiani fidem emendata
Author: Anacreon. Forster, Edward (editor). Forster, Lavinia Banks (illustrator)
Seller: Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: London: B.R. Howlette / John Murray, 1813. Second edition. Good. 8vo. [2], 130 pp. Printed in Greek throughout on fine paper. Contemporary English red diced russia calf (rubbed and worn), tooled in blind, outer frame of gilt palmette rolls, all edges gilt, drab endpapers. Front endpaper waterstained; second blank leaf with paper flaw; outer margins of final pages darkened from turn-ins. With faults, and priced accordingly. THE ONLY KNOWN ILLUSTRATIONS BY MRS. LAVINIA FORSTER. Our copy bears learned MS annotations in Greek and Latin. Beautifully printed in a Greek font created especially for William Bulmer by William Martin. Dibdin described the 1802 first edition as an "elegant work [that] confers great credit on the printer." Our copy belongs to the second edition, which was printed in the same Greek font, and retains the 20 fine engraved head- and tailpiece vignettes designed by Lavinia Banks Forster (1774-1858), wife of the present editor Edward Foster. Two of the vignettes are signed (in absolutely miniscule lettering) "Publ. by W. Miller Old Bond Street 1802." Mrs. Lavinia (Banks) Forster was the only child of the sculptor Thomas Banks and his wife Elizabeth. She married the Reverend Edward Forster in 1799, and from 1815 lived in Paris with her husband, who was at that time Chaplain to the British Embassy. There they provided a social center for artists. Her lively and fully accomplished illustrations for her husband's Anacreon represent the only published examples by her that we have been able to trace. "Few of Anacreon's works survive, but those that do focus on wine, love (homosexual and heterosexual), and the overall pleasures of the legendary Roman symposium. Anacreon used various techniques in his writings, including self-deprecation and irony. The collection of miscellaneous Greek poems from the Hellenistic Age and beyond known as the Anacreontea was 'mistakenly labeled' with Anacreon's name" (see William and Mary Law Library online exhibit). The annotator of our copy was one George Houstoun (on title: "Ex libris Georgii Houstoun." Given the lavishness of the binding, and the fact that the book itself was printed on fine paper, perhaps this individual was George Houstoun (1743-1815), 4th Laird of Johnstone, Renfrew, Scotland. Subsequently signed in pencil inside the lower cover: "R. Bradford." Dibdin, Greek and Latin Classics vol. I, pp. 266-267 (1802 edition). See DNB (under Edward Forster).

Screen World. 1949 (-1979) by Blum, Daniel

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Title: Screen World. 1949 (-1979)
Author: Blum, Daniel
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: Greenberg, 1979. first editions. Volumes 1-5 [1949-1954], plus 24 [1973], 26-7 , 29-31 [1975-1979] 11 volumes. Cloth and boards, fine copies in dust jackets (a few jacket spines slightly faded). Extra shipping required.

England's Black Tribunal. by Anon.

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Title: England's Black Tribunal.
Author: Anon.
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition: King Charles was executed in 1649. The monarchy was abolished and the Commonwealth of England was established as a republic. The
Description: London: C. Rivington, 1737. King Charles was executed in 1649. The monarchy was abolished and the Commonwealth of England was established as a republic. The monarchy would be restored to Charles's son Charles II in 1660. Contents as listed on title page - "1.The complete Tryal of King Charles the First; 2.The Loyal Martyrology; 3. An Historical Register; 4. The Loyal Confessors." These events signaled the foundation and short life of "The Commonwealth of England." "Sixth edition, very much enlarged." The 18th century text is bound in later 19th century half calf over marbled boards with spine label. Very good condition, and scarce.. 19 cm. xxxi, (1), 308, (4 publisher's ads) pp. b/w engraved frontispiece.

Argosy August 9, 1941 Vol. 304 No. 6 by [Wellman, Manly Wade]

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Title: Argosy August 9, 1941 Vol. 304 No. 6
Author: [Wellman, Manly Wade]
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Frank A. Munsey Company, 1941. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. About Very Good. Wraps generally toned, crayon price on the front, creased at the back. Firmly bound with three staples, clean internally. This issue features the first appearance Manly Wade Wellman's Sherlock Holmes short story "But Our Hero Was Not Dead," among others.

Thirty Two Impromptu Card Tricks

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Title: Thirty Two Impromptu Card Tricks
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Chicago: Felsman, Arthur P.. Softcover. Octavo; VG; softcover; grey spine with staples; covers have some shelfwear, minor edgewear, small tearing on front tail edge, penning on front cover, rubbing on fore corners and spine edges, rubbing on spine; text block age toned, pen on page 13, foxing on exterior head edge; 24pp; NOTE: Shelved in Room G. 1299960. Full-priced Rockville.

The Kremlin: Nerve-Centre of Russian History (1st American Edition) by Alexandrov, Victor

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Title: The Kremlin: Nerve-Centre of Russian History (1st American Edition)
Author: Alexandrov, Victor
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: St. Martin's Press, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./translated by Roy Monkcom/many illustrations/maps/335 pp. Russian History. RUS5/5072.

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