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Trogi Pompei Externae Historiae in Compendium ab Justino Redactae; Externorum Imperatorum Vitae by (Aldine Imprint) Justinus, Marcus Julianus; Aemilius Probus

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Title: Trogi Pompei Externae Historiae in Compendium ab Justino Redactae; Externorum Imperatorum Vitae
Author: (Aldine Imprint) Justinus, Marcus Julianus; Aemilius Probus
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Venice: In Aedibvs Alsi et Andreae Asvlani Soceri, 1522. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. 204 leaves. Contemporary vellum, ink name on spine. Anchor and dolphin device on title page and last leaf. Contemporary ownership name at base of title page. Engraved bookplate of Alfred Petit on the front pastedown. A very good copy in a contemporary binding with only light wear. Housed in a leather backed clamshell case. Justin's work covers the Hellenistic age and gives valuable information on such figures as Philip of Macedon and Lysimachus of Thrace. The second work is a collection of lives of Greek leaders of the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. by Cornelius Nepos, here called Aemilius Probus. Dibdin says that this edition was rare even in his day. In Latin. .

Ten Late Victorian 'Crystographs for Glass Decoration,' designed to represent Stained glass windows, including examples of borders and center pieces by [Decorative Arts]

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Title: Ten Late Victorian 'Crystographs for Glass Decoration,' designed to represent Stained glass windows, including examples of borders and center pieces
Author: [Decorative Arts]
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description: 1890. [No imprint, but presumed to be made by Fandel, Phillips & Sons, Newgate St., London, circa 1890]. 10 examples of colored transparent crystographs of varying sizes, printed in lithograph? on translucent paper; some displaying signs of wear and having previously been mounted; offered together with five extracted advertisements, neatly cut and mounted on card, together with a photocopy of the title-page of the Fandel, Phillips, & Sons trade catalogue; a lovely group of extremely fragile survivors. ß Rare surviving specimens of imitation stained glass transparencies; an interesting and rather lovely example of the Victorian passion for illuminated spectacle and of the democratization of the arts and crafts aesthetic. A vibrant and eye-catching small collection of beautiful late-Victorian transparencies or 'Crystographs' for glass and window decoration, presumably done in lithograph, and we believe produced and sold by the London merchants Fandel, Phillips & Sons of Newgate Street, London. Described as being 'cheaper than any imitation stained glass introduced to the public,' they were developed at the end of the 19th century and soon found popularity, with a number of companies, both in the UK and the US offering them for sale. Relatively cheap to purchase, often bought in boxes "banded in dozens, mostly assorted," the innovation could enable "a large surface of blank cheerless glass... [to] be converted into a rich artistic and antique picture for about one shilling" (Fandel trade catalogue description, provided in photocopy). "The material on which subjects are depicted is a new one, and is unaffected by the atmospheric influence, does not allow the colors to fade, and so affords a scope for talent in adapting the design to any size window, or other glass object that may be desired" (ibid). As one of the accompanying advertisements reveals, the crystographs were divided into center pieces, border pieces, and large sheets, with all manner of themes printed, the present selection including attractive images of birds, flowers and butterflies, a knight on his charger, a medieval lady, together with geometric border patterns. The present collection includes designs of various size, with examples of center pieces and borders. Other advertisements included here note a series of "imitation photographs" of churches, figures from folklore, "scripture subjects," with more prosaic images also available for more commercial use perhaps, such as "hot sausages and potatoes" and "ice creams." With regards to the provenance of this group, it is our understanding that they were originally found within a Victorian trade catalogue issued by Kingsbury & Co, presumably as specimen pieces, accompanied by the advertisements, the catalogue having sadly been broken up some time ago by a previous owner. Kingsbury & Co. seems likely to have been the Fleet Street newsagent Kingsbury & Co., which is listed at being at 7 Racquet Court in the Post Office Directory for 1891. Henry Fandel and Benjamin Samuel Phillips are listed as working together in the London Gazette of 1839, and they are later described in the Post Office Directory as 'Warehousemen, importers of berlin & other wools, toys, fancy & japanese & oriental goods, & manufacturers of every description of embroidery silks, haberdashers & lace warehousemen." We are unsure as to whether the photocopy we have of their "Catalogue of Crystographs to Represent Stained Glass Windows" was bound together with the Kingsbury & Co Catalogue, but it seems likely. We have found online advertisements for other producers of crystographs, including John Thridgould & Co., of London, who promoted them as being "the most perfect substitute for costly stained glass windows" (in the journal Literary World, Vol. 42 1890) and the Penfield [paper] manufacturing Company of Philadelphia, promoting them in an 1892 Church Magazine as being of use in "Churches, Schools, houses, Offices, Libraries etc." Bearing in mind their fragility, a wonderful and scarce survivor. The group includes: 1. Image of Lillies (444 x 168 mm): 'Threepenny Centre Pieces - Series 509, 4 Designs of Flowers in Rich Colors.' (1 of 4 seemingly) ; a little browned, tail edge somewhat nicked with slight loss though not touching image; with original extracted advertisement mounted on card. 2. I. Flowers, Butterfly, and Bee (517 x 195 mm); with foliage and Four Butterflies (410 x 168 mm): 'Sixpenny Centre Pieces - Series 604, 2 Designs of Flowers in Rich Colours' and seemingly both designs; a little browned and soiled, slight cracking towards tail of second sheet; with original extracted advertisement mounted on card. 3. 'Threepenny Centre Pieces. Series 1560. 'Designed in Rich Colours. This series is arranged so that it can be cut to fit dome shape windows if required. I - The Challenge (Knight on Horseback)' (1 of 4). 330 x 228 mm; some discrete tape repairs to verso, upper margin nicked with slight loss; with original extracted advertisement mounted on card. 4. Two penny Centre Piece? Possibly Series 545 'My Lady Bountiful,' depicting Lady in Waiting in Tudor Costume, 190 x 178 mm, some minor cracking visible, with remains of old mount at tail of verso. 5. One Penny Centre Piece? 'Series 208, 2 designs,' (1 of 2) Blue Bird flying over a lily pond (290 x 195 mm), discrete tape repairs to verso; with original extracted advertisement mounted on card. 6. One Penny Centre Piece, possibly Series 208 or 210 (290 x 195 mm); torn and cracked with loss of image at tail, with remains of old mount at tail of verso, and small nick at upper margin. 7. Three geometric cords pieces, (230 x 75 mm; 228 x 85 mm; 230 x 65 mm); each very good.

Early Twentieth Century Photo Album, Containing Cabinet Cards and Cartes-de-visite by [photo album]

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Title: Early Twentieth Century Photo Album, Containing Cabinet Cards and Cartes-de-visite
Author: [photo album]
Seller: Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: likely France, early 1900s. Hardcover. Very Good+. Alligator in metal-framed boards, with heavy fore-edge clasp (though the album is way too full to dream of closing), all edges marbled, inside gilt dentelles; 6.5 x 8 inches; contains 25 heavy cardstock leaves, with either one or two inserts on the recto and verso, accomodating cabinet cards and cartes-de-visite. Nearly full, with just a few empty inserts, for a grand total of 10 cabinet cards and 75 cartes-de-visite (sepia and b/w albumen and silver gelatin prints). Portraits of men (many of them mustachioed), women (a few with exposed shoulders, oh my!), and children -- mostly in formal or military dress, plus one religious (a bishop?), and a few half-nekkid babies. Most of the images seem to be produced in France, though at least two are from Russia (including one cabinet card showing a boy in uniform). A few of the inserts are torn, and some of the leaves are a bit dust-smudged, but the prints are in excellent condition overall, aside from a few instances of light foxing, the majority are remarkably nice and bright.

British Museum General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975 in 37 Volumes. Compact Edition

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Title: British Museum General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975 in 37 Volumes. Compact Edition
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition: Very good condition.
Description: New York: Readex Microprint, 1970. Hardcover. Very good condition.. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine stamped in gilt.

Les fonctions nerveuses: Les fonctions bulbo-médullaires. 2 vols by Bechterev, Vladimir Michailovich

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Title: Les fonctions nerveuses: Les fonctions bulbo-médullaires. 2 vols
Author: Bechterev, Vladimir Michailovich
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Paris: O. Doin et fils, 1909. Bechterev, Vladimir Michailovich (1857-1927). Les fonctions bulbo-médullaires. 2 vols. vi, [6], 372, xii; iv, [6], 603, xii pp. Text illustrations. Paris: O. Doin et Fils, 1909. 178 x 119 mm. Original cloth, light edgewear, a few small marginal dents. Some toning but very good. First Edition. Bechterev, a prominent Russian neurologist, greatly expanded our knowledge of brain structure and how the brain works. .

Evolution of particle physics,; a volume dedicated to Edoardo Amaldi in his sixtieth birthday by Amaldi, Edoardo (1908-1989) & Conversi, M. [Editor]

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Title: Evolution of particle physics,; a volume dedicated to Edoardo Amaldi in his sixtieth birthday
Author: Amaldi, Edoardo (1908-1989) & Conversi, M. [Editor]
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: New York and London: Academic Press, 1970. xxii, 342pp. text-figs., illust. Dark blue cloth, simple line border blocked in blind, title and publiser info blocked in gilt on the front, red spine-label with title and authors' names in gilt, gilt lettering on spine with simple gold tooling. A fine copy. Edoardo Amaldi was an Italian physicist. He coined the term "neutrino" and has been described as "one of the leading nuclear physicists pf the twentieth century.

Barlowe's Inferno by Barlowe, Wayne Douglas

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Title: Barlowe's Inferno
Author: Barlowe, Wayne Douglas
Seller: B Street Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9781883398361
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Galerie Morpheus International, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Artist Wayne Douglas Barlowe's response to Dante's Inferno. With an introduction by Tanith Lee and a foreword from Barlowe discussing his inspiration. Slight wear to the corners of the jacket, protected in a mylar cover. Bumping to the front and back upper corners. The glossy pages are bright (or rather dark) and unmarked. 11.5 x 11.5

Studies in the Evolution of Animals by Bonavia, Emanuel

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Title: Studies in the Evolution of Animals
Author: Bonavia, Emanuel
Seller: Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description: Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., 1895. First edition. SCARCE EARLY BOOK ON EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION PUBLISHED JUST BEFORE KIPLING'S "HOW THE LEOPARD GOT HIS SPOTS". 18x22.5 cm. Original dark red cloth, gilt title to cover and spine, top edge gilt, bookplate of Robert L Chevalier MD to front paste-down, ink signature of J Cloete Jan '06 versi front free endpaper, i-xxxiv, 362 pp, 128 figures, some full-page. Errata slip at p xvii. Light wear to corners and spine ends. Very good copy in custom archival mylar cover. FROM THE PREFACE: "The genesis of these studies was the following Having completed the Flora of the Assyrian Monuments and its Outcomes, I was looking about for something to take up next as a subject of study. In the furriers' windows I was attracted by the Leopard and Tiger skins, which by degrees became objects of interesting study and speculation. Thinking over the rosettes of the Leopards, and more especially those of the Jaguar, and seeing spotted Horses constantly in the streets of London, some new ideas flashed across my mind regarding the origin of all this spotting and rosetting in mammals." EMANUEL W. BONAVIA (1829 - 1908) was a Maltese surgeon in the Indian Medical Service who wrote on many aspects of natural history, economic botany, and pioneered horticultural research in Lucknow. He was the first superintendent of the Lucknow Provincial Museum and the founder of the Lucknow Horticultural Gardens. Emanuel studied medicine at the University of Malta and at the University of Edinburgh qualifying MRCS in 1857. He was commissioned Assistant Surgeon in the Indian Medical Service on 4 August 1857 and was promoted Surgeon Major in 1876 and Brigade Surgeon in 1885. Trained in medical botany, he came to take charge of the Lucknow garden in 1876. He wrote The Villager's Domestic Medicine (1885). He also wrote Studies in the Evolution of Animals (offered here) which examined such aspects as the evolution of spots and stripes in wild cats and the origins of other animal skin patterning. He corresponded with Charles Darwin, and naturalists in India such as Allan Octavian Hume to whom he sent bird specimens. He was one of the founders of the Lucknow museum (Oudh provincial museum), established in 1863. "Dr. Bonavia has been struck by the limited number of ornamental patterns seen on animals, and has tried to account for their origin. To do this, he has studied in detail the markings of mammals, and illustrated them by a number of admirable plates of skins, and portions of skins, with outline drawings showing varieties of the rosette pattern on dappled horses and cattle. His theory centres on the evolution of the 'rosette' pattern, He finds the origin of this complex ornament in an original carapace, composed of rosettes, supposed to have been worn by the ancestors of existing species, which has left its traces on the skin, just as the plates cf crocodile armour have corresponding marks upon the hide. As evidence he takes the carapace of the extinct glyptodonts, which had a complete carapace of bony rosettes, and concludes that the rosetted mammals are descended frcm 'extinct animals with a glyptodontoid carapace'. In the absence of any evidence given by the remains of fossil species that the rosetted cats were descended from creatures like a tortoise, we are deterred from following Dr. Bonavia any further in his ingenious course of reasoning. The connection between the horse and the rhinoceros, and the fact that the latter is covered with a semi-plated skin, makes the theory more tempting in the case of striped and dappled equine creatures than in that of the cats. But the evidence that markings on animals follow the lines of internal structure, seems too strong to be shaken on the evidence adduced by Dr. Banavia."-- REVIEW of Studies in the Evolution of Animals. By E. Bonavia, M.D. The Spectator 4 January 1896. "Perhaps the most important critique of the use of just-so stories in evolutionary biology, and one of the most widely discussed articles in the discipline, is the wondrously titled 'The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm' by Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin (1979). In this article, the authors first describe the adaptationist programme (if perhaps an exaggerated version thereof) and address its pitfalls; then they show that the stories told by adaptationists lack criteria 'to identify proper explanations among the substantial set of pathways to any modern result' (p. 154), which is what makes their accounts 'just-so stories'; finally, they conclude by offering a partial typology of alternatives to the adaptationist programme, advocating for a pluralist view of science."--Marco Schito. The Dilemma of Just-So Stories in Scientific Research. Arcadia. https://www.byarcadia.org/post/the-dilemma-of-just-so-stories-in-scientific-research

The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson (From the Library of Henry Alden Sherwin with his Bookplate) by Walton, Izaac

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Title: The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson (From the Library of Henry Alden Sherwin with his Bookplate)
Author: Walton, Izaac
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Henry Washbourne and Co, 1857. New Edition. Publisher's Cloth. Very Good. 8vo., xlix, 456pp. Sharp First Issue of this "New" Edition, with a new memoir of the author. Bound by Bone & Son London, (ticket affixed to rear paste-down), in brown cloth with blind-stamped borders and decorations on both boards. Titles and decorations in gilt on spine with blind-stamped borders. Illustrated with tissue-guarded portrait frontis of the author as well as of the subjects. Additional in-text illustrations. Square and clean throughout with little interior toning and some very light scattered foxing to prelims only. Mild wear to edges and tips. More so to the spine ends and hinges. Small abrasion on the front paste-down where a price sticker was removed. Small, neat ownership notation on front end-paper. Bookplate on front paste-down of Henry Alden Sherwin (1842-1916) on the front paste-down. Sherwin was one of the founders, in 1866, of the Sherwin-Williams Paint company. He was know to have and intense interest in fishing and books about fishing, and likely would have had at least one edition of Walton's classic, "The Compleat Angler". A very pretty collectable copy of an uncommon edition and at a great price.

Modern Kaluza-Klein Theories by Appelquist, Thomas, Alan Chodos and Peter G. O. Freund (eds.)

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Title: Modern Kaluza-Klein Theories
Author: Appelquist, Thomas, Alan Chodos and Peter G. O. Freund (eds.)
Seller: Brattle Book Shop (United States)
ISBN: 9780201098297
Condition: LikeNew
Description: Addison-Wesley [1987]. Hardcover. 9'' x 7.5''. xvii, 619pp. Various diagrams throughout. Publisher's white and blue boards; no DJ as issued. Ownership signature on ffep. Else As New. ISBN 0201098296 . LikeNew. Hardcover .

Speech of Mr. Benton, of Missouri, in Reply to Mr. Webster: The Resolution offered by Mr. Foot, Relative to the Public Lands, Being Under Consideration. Delivered in the Senate, Session 1829-30 by BENTON, [Thomas Hart]

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Title: Speech of Mr. Benton, of Missouri, in Reply to Mr. Webster: The Resolution offered by Mr. Foot, Relative to the Public Lands, Being Under Consideration. Delivered in the Senate, Session 1829-30
Author: BENTON, [Thomas Hart]
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Washington DC: Gales & Seaton, 1830. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); removed; 74pp. Light foxing and toning to textblock, some brief dog-earing, else Very Good and sound. Speech delivered by long-time Senator from Missouri Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858) criticizing Daniel Webster's orations while debating South Carolina Senator Robert Y. Hayne over the "Foot Resolution" introduced by Samuel A. Foot to limit the surveying and sale of public lands until land already on the market had been sold. "To defeat the Foot resolution, [Benton] attacked the Webster speech in words he afterward regretted" (DAB). Indeed, Webster's off-the-cuff speeche delivered at the occasion is today considered one of the greatest delivered in Congress. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 450.

[BROOKLYN] [PHOTOGRAPHY] School Photograph

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Title: [BROOKLYN] [PHOTOGRAPHY] School Photograph
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Condition: Shaped black and white photo. Very good
Description: c. 1920. Shaped black and white photo. Very good. 16 x 11 cm. Black and white photograph depicting, most likely, a college age co-educational student body. Drawing from the handwritten script on the verso of the photo, the students appear to live in the Brooklyn area. The class seems to have at least one white student and one of the male students is wearing a skull and bones on his sweater. Streets mentioned are: Henry St. Franklin St. and Remsen St. Due to the nature of the edges being trimmed, it is difficult to extract further information. 2 cm. closed tear to one edge.

Bernard Lamotte by -

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Title: Bernard Lamotte
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Condition: Collectible; Fine
Description: Tokyo: Wacoal Art Center SPIRAL, 1987. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Fine. A crisp, clean copy of this catalogue based on the Oct 1987 exhibition at Tokyo's Wacial Art Center SPIRAL. Bright and Near Fine in its dark laminate wrappers.

Breakdown, data on the decomposition of society by Zerzan, John and Paula

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Title: Breakdown, data on the decomposition of society
Author: Zerzan, John and Paula
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Description: San Francisco: Upshot, 1976. Pamphlet. 8p., staplebound pamphlet, very good in grey covers, 5.5x8.5 inches with rounded corners (as issued). Upshot imprint is on the rear cover, but the bottom of page 8 states second printing by Aurora, Madison WI, December 1976. Originally published in an abridged version in the January, 1976 issue of Fifth Estate.

Jaarboek Van Het Centraal Bureau Voor Genealogie 2003

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Title: Jaarboek Van Het Centraal Bureau Voor Genealogie 2003
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9789058020376
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Description: The Hague: Centraal Bureau Voor Genealogie, 2003. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 307pp. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. Text in Dutch.

The National Geographic Magazine, October 1944, Volume LXXXVI, Number Four

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Title: The National Geographic Magazine, October 1944, Volume LXXXVI, Number Four
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Description: National Geographic Society, 1944. Very Good. The National Geographic Magazine, October 1944, Volume LXXXVI, Number Four. Was: National Geographic Society, 1944. 512pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gently bumped spine ends..

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