Secure Checkout

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption

Cart Totals

Promo Code:	– $0.00
Subtotal:	$21,530.00
Shipping:	$65.18
	$0.00
Donation Amount:	$0.00
Total:	$21,595.18
Change Currency:

Contact

Email Address

Re-type Email Address

Shipping

Expedited shipping $150.98 2 - 8 days

Standard Shipping $65.18 2 - 14 days

All fields are required unless marked optional.

Add Shipping Note

Payment

Verified and Secured. Guaranteed.

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption

Please select your payment method from the following list:

PayPal
Credit or Debit Card
Express Wallet

Click the button to checkout with PayPal.

You will be charged $21,595.18 when completing this purchase.

Cart Totals

Subtotal:	$21,530.00
Shipping:	$65.18
:	$0.00
Donation Amount:	$0.00
Total:	$21,595.18
Change Currency:

You are about to purchase:

De Naturae Divinis Characterismis; seu Raris & admirandis spectaculis, causis, indiciis, proprietatibus rerum in partibus singulis universi, Libri II. Auctore D. Corn. Gemma, Louaniensi, Regio Medicinae professore. Peculiarem partis utriusque materiem vel argumentum sequens pagina planius explicabit by Gemma, Cornelius (1535-1579)

2 to 8 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $3.00

Details

$18,000.00

( US$)

Seller: Liber Antiquus

Title: De Naturae Divinis Characterismis; seu Raris & admirandis spectaculis, causis, indiciis, proprietatibus rerum in partibus singulis universi, Libri II. Auctore D. Corn. Gemma, Louaniensi, Regio Medicinae professore. Peculiarem partis utriusque materiem vel argumentum sequens pagina planius explicabit
Author: Gemma, Cornelius (1535-1579)
Seller: Liber Antiquus (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Antwerp: Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1575. SOLE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. A fine, tall copy in its original limp vellum binding (vellum lightly soiled, ties perished). Occasional light marginal foxing and the occasional light ink stain. Some short passages neatly underlined. Small damp-stain at the head of gathering a. Deaccession stamp (and duplicate stamp of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich) on title verso. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts of deformities and monstrosities; anatomical illustrations (relating to obstetrics); kidney stones, minerals and bones; astronomical and atmospheric phenomena, including three woodcut star charts (two of which show the Nova of 1572; the third shows the recorded positions of the comet of March-April, 1556), the forms of various comets, and several eclipses (including a partial solar eclipse). Woodcut Plantin device on both title pages. This work also includes the first scientific illustration of an aurora ever published. Cornelius Gemma, physician, astronomer, mathematician and son of the famous Gemma Frisius, was born at Louvain, where he later held the chair of medicine at the University. He occupied himself largely with astrology and mathematics but is remembered for his observations of a comet in 1556, an eclipse of the moon in 1569 and the "New Star" (Nova) in Cassiopeia in November 1572. He recorded this nova on the evening of the 9th, on which night Gemma tells us "it appeared with a splendor surpassing all the fixed stars and scarcely less bright than Venus". Gemma observed the nova two days before it was seen by Tycho Brahe. An examination of Tycho's personal copy of the present work reveals that Tycho read Gemma's description closely while composing his pivotal "Astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata" (Prague 1602). "Tycho's observations of the nova of 1572, and his revolutionary calculations concerning their distance from the earth, constitute one of his principal achievements in the history of astronomy, leading to the abandonment of the traditional view of the celestial spheres." (Martayan Lan, Inc., Catalogue 28, describing Tycho's annotated copy of Gemma's work).''The present work is a disquisition on portents and prodigies in nature of every description, with their supposed connection with human affairs. Monsters, of which he gives curious pictures, were viewed as special works of the Creator intended to foretell or indicate coming events.'' (Ferguson)Gemma sought to develop "a cosmocritical art which was to scrutinize not only the occult virtues and causes of bodies and singular affections, but also the critical mutations of things which occur in the triple world. More especially, Gemma sought to forecast events that are divinely proffered contrary to the usual run of nature, such as prodigies, monsters and dreams. Cornelius felt that he was the first to develop this particular field, although he recognized that his treatise belonged in the same general category as that of Fracastoro on the sympathy and antipathy of things, that of Fernel on the hidden causes of things, that of Levinus Lemnius on occult miracles of nature, that of Pomponazzi on incantations, and that of Peucer on divination." (Thorndike, History & Magic VI.406-7)It is interesting to note that the author's father, Gemma Frisius, died of complications from "stones". What influence, if any, this fact had on the author's interest in the nature and significance of renal stones and other "lapides" formed within living beings, is unknown.

TANSAI GAFU by [DESIGN BOOK] Yoshida Gyokujo^, compiler

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $8.50

Details

$1,600.00

( US$)

Seller: Boston Book Company

Title: TANSAI GAFU
Author: [DESIGN BOOK] Yoshida Gyokujo^, compiler
Seller: Boston Book Company (United States)
Description: 1934. [DESIGN BOOK] Yoshida Gyokujo^, compiler. TANSAI GAFU. Kyoto, Happpo^do^, Sho^wa 9 [1934]. 2 vols., complete. Tall folios, 36.7 x 25.4 cm, orihon folded album in woodcut printed paper over board covers with printed paper title labels. There are 25 total full page color woodblock prints. Interesting style, mixing flat solid colors with small naturalistic elements in a single print. Good impressions and colors. Complete in clasped chitsu case with printed silk label. Case is worn, books about good. The set eventually ran to 4 volumes, these are the first two produced.

Heald-Menerey's Geographical, Commercial and Recreational Map of California by [California]. [Maps]. Heald, Ralph P., compiler

2 to 4 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $10.00

Details

$650.00

( US$)

Seller: McBride Rare Books

Title: Heald-Menerey's Geographical, Commercial and Recreational Map of California
Author: [California]. [Maps]. Heald, Ralph P., compiler
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: [San Francisco and Los Angeles: The Heald-Menerey Company, 1928. Very good.. Large color map, measuring 44 x 64 inches, cut into eight sections and folded into book form. Original black limp textured cloth, yapp edges, titled in pale yellow on front cover. Moderate edge wear, titles on front cover almost completely worn away. Internally clean. A rare portable version of the large and impressive Heald-Menerey's Geographical, Commercial and Recreational Map of California, produced in the late-1920s. According to the sheet of instructions bound before the map: "The first of its kind ever devised for desk, home or automobile use. It consists of the California Survey, 44 x 64 inches in size, cut into eight strips and folded to make a book of 64 pages. Page No. 1 is the extreme northwest corner of our Survey and page No. 64 is the extreme southwest corner." The instructions proceed to inform the user on how to locate points on the map given its form as a book. The verso of the instructions page is a county index keyed to the pages of the map. The cover title begins, "California Survey" but the remainder is rubbed beyond readability. The map was produced by the Schmidt Lithograph Company of San Francisco. The legend of the map contains symbols representing roads, trails, railroads, streams, springs, swamps, aqueducts, lighthouses, county and state boundary lines, national forests, mountain peaks, township and range lines, base and meridian lines, and more. There are also two inset maps - one showing San Francisco and vicinity and the other Los Angeles and its immediate surroundings. OCLC records just a handful of copies of this book-form map published between 1928 and 1933.

Map of Kings County, California by [California]

2 to 4 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $4.00

Details

$575.00

( US$)

Seller: McBride Rare Books

Title: Map of Kings County, California
Author: [California]
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Good plus.
Description: Hanford, Ca: Hanford Morning Journal, 1909. Good plus.. Folding map, approximately 25.5 x 22 inches. Original printed card wrappers. A couple internal tears and separations along fold lines, repaired with tape on blank verso, with resultant minor losses, slightly affecting printed areas. Otherwise unrecorded, early 20th-century plat map of Kings County, California, published by the newspaper of its county seat, the Hanford Morning Journal. The county, south of Fresno and west of Visalia in the Central Valley, was formed from Tulare County in 1893, and just over 200 acres were added in its northwestern region from Fresno County, perhaps the impetus for the production of the map in the same year. In addition to the plat of the entire county, the map shows the cluster of towns in the northern portion of the county, the routes of the Southern Pacific and A.T. & S.F. Railroads, which crossed in Hanford, the outline of the "mostly dry" Tulare Lake bed, and other water and geological features. Not in OCLC.

Jack of Eagles by Blish, James

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $6.00

Details

$250.00

( US$)

Seller: Bookbid Rare Books

Title: Jack of Eagles
Author: Blish, James
Seller: Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Greenburg, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. First edition with no mention of later printings on the copyright page. A nice clean, square copy. Dust jacket has original price of $2.75 printed on front flap. Minor soiling on back cover and rubbing at bottom edge.

FACING REALITY - FROM WORLD FEDERALISM TO THE CIA [Signed] by Meyer, Cord

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $7.00

Details

$200.00

( US$)

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA

Title: FACING REALITY - FROM WORLD FEDERALISM TO THE CIA [Signed]
Author: Meyer, Cord
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780060130329
Description: New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 433 pages. In Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine blue with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: '15.95.' Dust jacket with some general shelfwear throughout and creasing to spine. Foxing to text block edges. Inscribed by Meyer to the half-title page. With Thomas Hughes ownership ink to the front free endpaper. With profuse underlining and marginalia throughout in black and red ink, including mentions of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research and Thomas Hughes himself. Loose within is an equally marked up photocopy of a book review. Shelved in Case 1 1/2. Thomas Hughes served as the Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (Now known as the Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research) from April 28, 1963 through August 25, 1969, serving under Kennedy and Johnson and resigning under Nixon. He went on to serve as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1971-1991. Originally joining Washington as legislative counsel to Senator Hubert Humphrey in 1955, he worked with then Vice President Humphrey to compose a memorandum from Humphrey to President Johnson warning about the negative consequences of escalation and intensification of the war in Vietnam. From the memorandum, dated Washington, February 17, 1965: "SUBJECT Vietnam. I would like to share with you my views on the political consequences of certain courses of action that have been proposed in regard to U.S. policy in Southeast Asia. I refer both to the domestic political consequences here in the United States and to the international political consequences." "In 1968, with an eye to history, Hughes commissioned an independent "self-study" to evaluate the INR's intelligence efforts during the Vietnam War. Hughes was unaware at the time of the similar but more elaborate project to study the Pentagon's decisionmaking on Vietnam, commissioned by Defense Secretary McNamara. Time magazine, in 1971, mentioned the INR study and dubbed it the State Department's version of the Pentagon Papers. But Hughes's study remained classified until 2004...Hughes, upon the publication of the State Department study of the INR and Vietnam, assessed his and his bureau's role in these terms: "...[we] have the ironic satisfaction of knowing that most of our forecasts have been vindicated by history. We can only lament that, while we were heeded, we were unable to persuade, sway, or prevail when it came to the ultimate decisions." [Smith Bruce L. R and Brookings Institution Press. 2021. The Last Gentleman : Thomas Hughes and the End of the American Century. Washington D.C: Brookings Institution Press.]. 1370473. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

THE HEAD HUMPER by [Pulp Erotica]

5 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: FREE

Details

$80.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix

Title: THE HEAD HUMPER
Author: [Pulp Erotica]
Seller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Good.
Description: np: European Classics, 1968. First Edition. Good.. Smut. Sleze. A piracy of the original Greenleaf Press edition. With a preface touting the book's supression in Europe. Introductions to smut works of the era often warned readers against purchasing piracies like this one. Surviving examples scarce. 190pp. Wraps. 16mo. Printed gray wraps. Moderate handling wear, creasing. Small section of loss from rear cover. Overall sound, good only .

Is the Devil a Gentleman by Quinn, Seabury

2 to 8 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: FREE

Details

$40.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA

Title: Is the Devil a Gentleman
Author: Quinn, Seabury
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Baltimore: Mirage Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A Voyager Book. Illustrated by David Prosser. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($5.95 but with marker price of $5.05 written next to it). Black cloth, lightly bumped, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A posthumous collection of Quinn's best weird tales.

A Two-Dollar Bet Means Murder; The Unholy Alliance Between Gambling and Crime by Cook, Fred J.

2 to 8 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: FREE

Details

$30.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA

Title: A Two-Dollar Bet Means Murder; The Unholy Alliance Between Gambling and Crime
Author: Cook, Fred J.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: The Dial Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($4.50), generally toned and soiled, stains throughout, some rubbing and bumps and tears at the edges. Quarter black cloth with red cloth on the boards, a small bump at the bottom edge. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges and endpapers, clean otherwise. Cook's expose that attempts to show how "the two-dollar bettor who patronizes a bookie does not play an innocent game of tiddlywinks," but rather, "he is helping to bankroll the activities of the most brutal forces in American society -- the thugs, the narcotics peddlers, the pimps, and the killers of the underworld.

Makers of History: Alfred the Great by Abbott, Jacob

5 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $7.00

Details

$50.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Books Tell You Why, Inc.

Title: Makers of History: Alfred the Great
Author: Abbott, Jacob
Seller: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good-
Description: Akron, Ohio: The Superior Printing Company. Very Good-. Hardcover. A Very Good- edition that has tanned pages, soiling to the boards and some chipping to the lower board edges ; A fascinating and well-researched biography of Alfred the Great, king of Wessex from 871-899. Abbott does a great job of contextualizing Alfred within the changing political landscape of the 8th century, and he paints a nuanced portrait of a ruler who was both brilliant and ruthless. Highly recommend.; Vol. 2; 8vo; 229 pages .

A Precocious Autobiography by Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $7.00

Details

$25.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA

Title: A Precocious Autobiography
Author: Yevtushenko, Yevgeny
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: E. P. Dutton, 1963. 1st Edition. Translated by Andrew R. MacAndrew. 124p., b/w illus., dj.

Barbara Morgan: Prints, Drawings, Watercolors and Photographs by Curtis L. Carter and William C. Agee

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $5.99

Details

$15.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA

Title: Barbara Morgan: Prints, Drawings, Watercolors and Photographs
Author: Curtis L. Carter and William C. Agee
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780871002617
Condition: Very Good
Description: Milwaukee: Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of art, 1988. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. 128pp. Edges tanned, else very good in publisher's wraps.

Massachusetts--Reception of the Grand Duke Alexis--View of the Grand Ball Given in Honor of the Duke by the Citizens of Boston, at the Boston Theatre. From a Sketch by Joseph BeckerFrank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, December 30, 1871 by [No Author]

5 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $6.69

Details

$15.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Yesterday's Muse Books

Title: Massachusetts--Reception of the Grand Duke Alexis--View of the Grand Ball Given in Honor of the Duke by the Citizens of Boston, at the Boston Theatre. From a Sketch by Joseph BeckerFrank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, December 30, 1871
Author: [No Author]
Seller: Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Frank Leslie, 1871. Single Sheet. Near Fine. No large chips and no large tears. Minor general wear. 1871 Single Sheet. Illustration of Massachusetts--Reception of the Grand Duke Alexis--View of the Grand Ball Given in Honor of the Duke by the Citizens of Boston, at the Boston Theatre. From a Sketch by Joseph Becker, from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, December 30, 1871.

Secure Checkout