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LA MUSICA, POEMA by (BINDINGS - DEROME LE JEUNE). (MUSIC, POETICAL TREATISES ON). YRIATE [or IRIATE], TOMAS DE

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Title: LA MUSICA, POEMA
Author: (BINDINGS - DEROME LE JEUNE). (MUSIC, POETICAL TREATISES ON). YRIATE [or IRIATE], TOMAS DE
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1779. FIRST EDITION. 235 x 150 mm. (9 1/4 x 6"). 10 p.l., 126, XL pp., [1] leaf (errata). EXCELLENT CONTEMPORARY CRIMSON MOROCCO BY DEROME LE JEUNE (his ticket with address of Rue St. Jacques on verso of front free endpaper), covers framed with thick and thin gilt rules, raised bands, spine compartments with central floral sprig surrounded by a lozenge of small tools, volute cornerpieces, gilt titling, gilt-rolled turn-ins, gilt edges, cobalt blue paste-paper endpapers. WITH SIX CHARMING ENGRAVED ALLEGORICAL PLATES after G. Ferre. Front pastedown with morocco bookplate of Mortimer L. Schiff and small book label with a gilt cipher on a red peach. A Large Paper Copy. Palau y Dulcet IV, 107; RSIM B VI, 429; MGG VI, 1403 f.; Gregory-Bartlett I, 129. Three minute dents to front board, a hint of wear to bands and corners, isolated faint foxing, blank recto of frontispiece leaf and blank verso of final leaf with faint blue shadown from endpapers, but all of these quite trivial, and otherwise A BEAUTIFUL COPY--fresh, clean, and bright internally, with very wide margins and strong impressions of the plates, and in a lustrous binding showing with few signs of use. This is surely one of the handsomest poetical treatises on music ever produced, and it is offered here in a binding done by one of the finest craftsmen working in Europe during the period of the book's publication. The work is written in the "silva" form of poetry used by persons of high rank, illustrated with fine engravings, and put into elegant morocco by the finest hands among the large Derome family of binders. According to Palau, our first edition is "beautiful, and printed on fine paper." He says further that, although the strongly expressed opinions of the youthful author on contemporary composers caused the work to be "unfairly attacked," it was "appreciated by professors of music and collectors of literature in that genre," especially in Italy and America. A child of the Enlightenment, Iriate (1750-91) gained entry to intellectual and artistic circles in Madrid through his uncle, who was librarian to the king of Spain. He translated works by Horace and Virgil into Spanish by royal request, and wrote criticism, poetry, and dramas. He is best known for his satirical fables on the contemporary literary scene, "Fábulas literarias." There were no fewer than 18 members of the Derome family who made their livings as binders in Paris from the middle of the 17th century until the first quarter of the 19th, but by far the most distinguished family member was Nicolas-Denis, called "le jeune" (1731-88). Known for the gracefulness of his bindings, and for being capable of "amazing delicacy" (in Hobson's words), Derome le jeune was, simply, the leading binder of the day, and his work was much in demand. Because he refused to turn away customers, Derome was forced to hire a number of assistants, whose work he could not always supervise closely. However, Thoinan says that the binder's best work is indicated by the presence of his ticket, as here. The volume's provenance adds to its luster: it was in the distinguished library of American bibliophile Mortimer Schiff (1877-1931). In Dickinson's words, Schiff, a financier and philanthropist, Schiff "brought together an unrivaled collection of decorative bindings." His library included works by great printers, important illustrated books, and works printed on vellum, but chiefly fine and historic bindings. The "Reliures" database of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France commends Schiff for assembling "one of the most important inter-war libraries," noting that his collection was "renowned for its collection of French bindings.".

Mexico Considerado Como Nacion Independiente y Libre, o Sean Algunas Indicaciones Sobre Los Deberes Mas Esenciales de Los Mexicanos by [Mexico] [Texas] Ortiz, Tadeo

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Title: Mexico Considerado Como Nacion Independiente y Libre, o Sean Algunas Indicaciones Sobre Los Deberes Mas Esenciales de Los Mexicanos
Author: [Mexico] [Texas] Ortiz, Tadeo
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Burdeos [Bourdeaux]: Carlos Lawalle Sobrino, 1832. 8vo, full calf, 598 [2] pp. Chips to head of spine, ex-libris stamp to preliminary page, text block fine, very good to near fine overall. Very Good. A nice first edition copy of Tadeo Ortiz’s second historical work, written during his time as Consul in Bourdeaux and printed in Bourdeaux after he had returned to America to work as official commissioner in Texas. Ortiz advocated free trade and was in support of colonization in the northern frontier. “This idealistic statesman approved of free trade for his country, although he also believed in government subsidization of economic development. He showed a remarkable interest in the geographical aspects of the economy. Though he never played an important role in the Mexican party struggles of his age, he searched and gained support mainly among such conservative politicians as Manuel de Mier y Terán.” - Texas State Historical Association. OCLC 2636766, Sabin 57724.

[Small Album of Annotated Photographs Documenting Concrete Construction and Civil Engineering Projects in the American West During the Early 20th Century] by [Western Photographica]. [Engineering]

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Title: [Small Album of Annotated Photographs Documenting Concrete Construction and Civil Engineering Projects in the American West During the Early 20th Century]
Author: [Western Photographica]. [Engineering]
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very good plus.
Description: [Various locations including Wyoming, Nebraska, and Iowa], 1919. Very good plus.. Forty-two original black-and-white photographs and real photo postcards, most with manuscript annotations, bound into a two-ring leather binder. Two additional postcards laid in. Minor occasional dust soiling, but overall in excellent shape. An intriguing pocket-sized binder containing a collection of photographs and real photo postcards documenting large-scale construction projects in the American West, mostly involving concrete projects such as dams, drainage, reservoir infrastructure, railroads, and more between about 1913 to 1920. All of the projects occur on or west of the Mississippi River, in locations such as Keokuk, Iowa; Ardmore, South Dakota; Grand Island, Nebraska; and Arminto, Wyoming. The projects cover a wide range of subject matter, from a simple base for a railroad mail sack crane to entire dam wall construction, and seem to feature several involving sprayable concrete, commonly known as gunite. This material was rather new in the 1910s, but is still widely in use to the present day. The majority of the images are captioned in manuscript, identifying the project or location or often both. These include a power-generating dam in Keokuk; reinforcement of a reservoir dam near Lysite, Wyoming; widening of a cut for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad through Arminto; memorializing a concrete crib wall for the same railroad at the Bancroft St. Vincent Omaha; the installation of an eighteen-inch wall casting and sinking the Kelly well in Grand Island; documenting frost action on a brick chimney and water tank and also picturing a "concrete gun" in Worland, Wyoming; and others. The images are organized into two sections with small tabs, one reading "Dams" and the other "Miscellan." The compiler of the pictures is not identified, but he or she was most likely involved in the operational aspects of the construction projects. One of the captions is initialed at the bottom, "JRH," which may help scholars identify the compiler with further research. The binder itself was produced in Kansas City, which may be an additional clue to the compiler's identity. A small but focused collection featuring major western construction projects from the early-20th century.

朝鮮時代御眞關係都監儀軌研究 / Choson sidae ojin kwange togam uigwe yongu [= An analysis of the records of the superintendency for painting and copying royal portraits of the Choson Dynasty] by Yi, Seong-mi, and Yu Song-ok and Kang Sin-hang

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Title: 朝鮮時代御眞關係都監儀軌研究 / Choson sidae ojin kwange togam uigwe yongu [= An analysis of the records of the superintendency for painting and copying royal portraits of the Choson Dynasty]
Author: Yi, Seong-mi, and Yu Song-ok and Kang Sin-hang
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: Seongnam: Academy of Korean Studies, 1997. Large 8vo, pp. [2], viii, 438, [2]; text in Korean with English abstract; 56 pages of color illustration; fine copy in original green cloth stamped in black on upper cover and spine. "The study consists of three parts ... an in-depht analysis, from an art historical point of view, of the nine existing manuscripts prepared by the Superintendency for Painting or Copying Royal Portraits of the Choson dynasty, which range from 1688-1903; a study of the official and court costumes of the Choson dynasty as illustrated and documented in those Records; and an analysis and definition in modern terms of groups of specialized terminology often used in the superintendency records.

The two versions of Waerferth's translation of Gregory's Dialogues: an Old English thesaurus by Yerkes, David

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Title: The two versions of Waerferth's translation of Gregory's Dialogues: an Old English thesaurus
Author: Yerkes, David
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: Toronto [et al.]: Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, 1979. 8vo, pp. xxvi, 100; fine copy in original orange cloth stamped in gilt and black. "At King Alfred's command, Bishop Waerferth of Worcester translated Gregory's Dialogues into English during the last quarter of the ninth century. About a century, or a century and a half later, between 950 and 1050, someone, probably again at Worcester, went through the translation with painstaking care, making thousands of changes in vocabulary and phrasing.

Manuscript Address to the Members of the Washington Benevolent Society, no date circa 1810 by Voorhees, James

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Title: Manuscript Address to the Members of the Washington Benevolent Society, no date circa 1810
Author: Voorhees, James
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description: folio, two pages, old folds, some dust soiling and tanning, else in very good, legible condition. "Gent of the Washington Benevolent Society, permit me to call your serious attention to a few observations … I presume you are all acquainted with the principles of this Society … Our great object is to support and promote Charity, Morality, Benevolence and an Union of sentiment; but more especially to preserve inviolate the true principles of our Federal Republican Government. Some of our members have asserted and tried by the dint of argument to make it appear that we are not a political body, and that politicks ought not to enter our sacred walls or have any influence on our political principles. I am sorry to say gentlemen that these are the sentiments of our former President, which has greatly injured the reputation and honour of our society – his openly avowing this to be his candid conception of our Institution, at one of the stated meetings will always be remembered with the deepest regret. What person who understands common language can or will pretend to deny that we are not a political society; does not the principle object of our Institution declare that we must preserve inviolate the true principles of our Federal Republican government - … does not this prove that our very existence depends on our politicks. I say every person before he can be admitted a member of this society must give ample proof to our executive committee of the purity of his Federal Republican principles. …. Gentlemen our country now loudly calls for the immediate and united efforts of this society to exert her utmost endeavours, consistent with our constitution, to save her from that inevitable ruin to which she is now verging. Three days from this time will determine the destiny of our country; and if our opponents should succeed, we may bid our happiness, our liberty and Independence adieu; we will then be no longer permitted to assemble within these walls … no more will we dare to express our sentiments with freedom on the situation of our country, but we will basely have to submit to the friends and admirers of that Invincible and bloodthirsty Corsican Tyrant, whose very breath spreads death and carnage. Ye patriots of seventy six who fought the battles of your country and obtained a glorious Liberty and Independence let me earnestly entreat you to come forward and assert your rights, go to the polls and deposit the pledge of your freedom – And you their offspring; I charge you solemnly to be upon your guard; for there are many snares laid to entrap you, but arise be awake to their wiles and deceit. Remember that you are the sons of freemen and members of the Washington Society – that liberty and equality is your creed that you were bred up in this way when young and that you will not now depart from it… James Voorhees" The Washington Benevolent Societies were grass-roots political clubs set up 1808-1816 by the Federalist Party in the U.S. to electioneer for votes. As shown on the membership certificates printed within copies of "Washington's Farewell Address" that were issued to members, the first of these societies was "instituted in the City of New York, on the 12th day of July, 1808." The President of that first Society was Isaac Sebring, and Secretary was G. C. Verplanck (perhaps Guilan Crommelin Verplanck, Sr.). Societies were also formed in Rhode Island in 1810, as the threat of warfare loomed. Citing a July 6, 1812 edition of the "Federalist" newspaper in New Jersey, it has been reported that: "Coinciding with the first state peace convention, the initial public appearance of the Washington Benevolent Society in New Jersey occurred in Trenton on July 4, 1812." The Washington Benevolent Society helped pioneer electioneering techniques in a democracy. "The promise of participation in the parade and receipt of the badge of the Society had been used as part of the Trenton Society's membership drive, for the Federalists were interested in gaining as many members as possible."[6] Ribbon badges with George Washington's portrait and the words "Pro Patria" ("For Country") printed on silk or vellum were issued to members of the Societies. "Silk ribbons bearing Washington's portrait issued by the society are among the earliest mass-produced partisan objects in American political history." Into the Age of Jackson, an oration on Washington's birthday, February 22, was commonly delivered before the Washington Benevolent Societies in various states, and sometimes it would be printed.

Bates' Patent Self-feeding Boiler, for Low Pressure Steam Warming and Ventilating Apparatus by Bates & Johnson (Successors to Wyllys H. Warner), Manufacturers of Steam Warming Apparatus

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Title: Bates' Patent Self-feeding Boiler, for Low Pressure Steam Warming and Ventilating Apparatus
Author: Bates & Johnson (Successors to Wyllys H. Warner), Manufacturers of Steam Warming Apparatus
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Cortland, NY: The Standard Power Printing Establishment, 1883. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 3/4; pp. [1], 4-14; beige, stiff, card stock wraps, printed in black; age-toning and a bit of foxing to wraps; small chip to lower corner of front wrap; occasional spots of foxing to pages; illustrated with numerous woodcuts, including in-line and full-page plates; overall in very good condition.The business was established in 1860 in New York by Wyllys H. Warner and passed under the control of Bates and Johnson in 1880. The company's self-feeding boiler was patented in February of 1883 and later that same year was installed, as part of its steam-heating system, in the iconic Manhattan Company and Merchants' Bank Building on Wall Street. The booklet described and illustrated the parts of the apparatus, its method of operating, the advantages of using it, etc.

Frankfurtskii Potok (Frankfurt Flow) by Batshev, Vladimir

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Title: Frankfurtskii Potok (Frankfurt Flow)
Author: Batshev, Vladimir
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: Frankfurt: Literaturnoi Evropeetz, 2008. Soft cover. Near Fine. First edition; 8vo; pp. [2], 5-212; original glossy pictorial wraps; 1" crease line to upper corner of front cover; slight curling to bottom corners of first several pages; near fine. Signed/inscribed by the author to Anatoly Liberman, a professor of linguistics, etymology, and folklore at the University of Minnesota. He, himself, is the author of several books and hundreds of smaller scholarly works. In a recent interview, Vladimir Batshev, who lives in Frankfurt, Germany, when asked if he had felt nostalgic about Russia answered: "Nostalgia does not exist. It was a word invented by the Communists to discourage people from emigrating.

Frances E. Willard First Edition: "Let Us Fling Ourselves Out Into The Thickening Battle" 1905 by Frances WILLARD

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Title: Frances E. Willard First Edition: "Let Us Fling Ourselves Out Into The Thickening Battle" 1905
Author: Frances WILLARD
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1905. WILLARD, Frances. What Frances E Willard Said. New York, Chicago, Toronto, London, Edinburgh: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1905. Edited by Anna A. Gordon, a fellow American social reformer. Measures 5" x 7.5". First edition in original maroon cloth boards. 171 pages. Includes frontispiece portrait of Willard with printed signature underneath. A book of suffragist Frances E. Willard's quotations, beginning with "Let us fling ourselves out in the thickening battle; let us live the life of action, which is the only true and happy life. Men tell us God is a force; nay, He is that purposed force behind all forces, that combines head, hand, and heart; God is ACTION-- let us be like God." Large dampstain to endpapers, pastedown, and frontispiece. front and verso; Title faded, spine sunned; corners bumped. Interior is clean and tight, however. Overall in good condition. Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1879 and remained president until her death in 1898. Her influence continued in the next decades, as the Eighteenth (on Prohibition) and Nineteenth (on women's suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution were adopted. Willard developed the slogan "Do Everything" for the WCTU and encouraged members to engage in a broad array of social reforms by lobbying, petitioning, preaching, publishing, and education. During her lifetime, Willard succeeded in raising the age of consent in many states as well as passing labor reforms including the eight-hour work day. Her vision also encompassed prison reform, scientific temperance instruction, Christian socialism, and the global expansion of women's rights.

Fine head-and-shoulders portrait of the noted American conductor. Signed in full by SMALLENS, Alexander 1888-1972

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Title: Fine head-and-shoulders portrait of the noted American conductor. Signed in full
Author: SMALLENS, Alexander 1888-1972
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: 8" x 10", dated "Aug. 3, 1938, Philadelphia, Pa." With minor annotations in pencil and ink and handstamp of "The New York Times Studio" to verso, along with another handstamp of "Henry Y. Porter" to upper right corner. Smallens, a noted Russian-born American conductor, "studied at the New York Institute of Musical Art and, from 1909, at the Paris Conservatoire, returning to the USA as assistant conductor of the Boston Opera, 1911-14. After two years as conductor of Pavlova's touring company, including a South American tour, he returned to become conductor of the Chicago Opera, 1919-23 ... His Chicago association began when he replaced Hasselmans as conductor for the première of De Koven's Rip Van Winkle, and he also gave the première of Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges at Chicago in 1921. He was musical director of the Philadelphia Civic Opera, 1924-31, where he gave the American premières of Strauss's Feuersnot in 1927 and Ariadne auf Naxos in 1928, and was also assistant conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, 1927-34. Later he moved towards a lighter repertory, conducting the première of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess at Boston in 1935 ..." Bernard Jacobson in Grove Music Online.

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GUATEMALAN TEXTILES TODAY by ANDERSON, Marilyn

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Title: GUATEMALAN TEXTILES TODAY
Author: ANDERSON, Marilyn
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ISBN: 9780823021581
Description: NY, WATSON-CUPTIL, 1978. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD-FINE. F. ISBN: 0823021580.

WALL, STONE, CRAFT by Williams, Walter Jon

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Title: WALL, STONE, CRAFT
Author: Williams, Walter Jon
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description: WALL, STONE, CRAFT, Axolotl Press / Pulphouse Publishing, Inc., 1993, first edition, as new. Of 900 copies published, this is 1/75 copies bound in full leather and SIGNED by the author. Along with WALL, STONE, CRAFT, Axolotl Press / Pulphouse Publishing, Inc., 1993, first edition, as new. Of 900 copies published, this is 1/300 copies bound in cloth and pictorial dust-wrapper and SIGNED by the author

GROUND WATER IN THE NEW HAVEN AREA, CONNECTICUT by WSP 540 -- Brown, John S.

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Title: GROUND WATER IN THE NEW HAVEN AREA, CONNECTICUT
Author: WSP 540 -- Brown, John S.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Washington, D.C.: GPO. Very Good. 1926. Hardcover. USGS, 1928, Hardcover, very good condition, complete with all maps and plates. .

THE DUKE by Aldington, Richard

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Title: THE DUKE
Author: Aldington, Richard
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Description: Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. Being an account of the Life and Achievements of Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington. NY, 1943. 405 pages, clothbound, good condition ( binding slightly sunned) . .

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