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Dissertation Physique de Mr. Pierre Camper, sur les Differences Reelles que Presentent les Traits du Visage Chez les Hommes de Differents Pays et de Differents Ages; sur le Beau qui Caracterise les Statues Antiques et les Pierres Gravees. Suivie de la Proposition d'Une Nouvelle Methode pour Dessiner Toutes Sortes de Tetes Humaines avec la Plus Grande Surete, Publie Apres le Deces de l'Auteur par Son Fils Adrien Gilles Camper, Traduite du Hollandois par Denis Bernard Quatremere d'Isjonval. [Physical Dissertation, on the Real Differences Presented in the Features of the Face in Men of Different Countries and Different Ages; on the beauty that characterizes ancient statues and engraved stones. Followed by the proposal of a new method of drawing all kinds of human heads with the greatest confidence. Published after the death of the author by his son Adrien Gilles Camper, translated from the Dutch by Denis Bernard Quatremere d'Isjonval]

Dissertation Physique de Mr. Pierre Camper, sur les Differences Reelles que Presentent les Traits du Visage Chez les Hommes de Differents Pays et de Differents Ages; sur le Beau qui Caracterise les Statues Antiques et les Pierres Gravees. Suivie de la Proposition d'Une Nouvelle Methode pour Dessiner Toutes Sortes de Tetes Humaines avec la Plus Grande Surete, Publie Apres le Deces de l'Auteur par Son Fils Adrien Gilles Camper, Traduite du Hollandois par Denis Bernard Quatremere d'Isjonval. [Physical Dissertation, on the Real Differences Presented in the Features of the Face in Men of Different Countries and Different Ages; on the beauty that characterizes ancient statues and engraved stones. Followed by the proposal of a new method of drawing all kinds of human heads with the greatest confidence. Published after the death of the author by his son Adrien Gilles Camper, translated from the Dutch by Denis Bernard Quatremere d'Isjonval] by Camper, Pierre

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Dissertation Physique de Mr. Pierre Camper, sur les Differences Reelles que Presentent les Traits du Visage Chez les Hommes de Differents Pays et de Differents Ages; sur le Beau qui Caracterise les Statues Antiques et les Pierres Gravees. Suivie de la Proposition d'Une Nouvelle Methode pour Dessiner Toutes Sortes de Tetes Humaines avec la Plus Grande Surete, Publie Apres le Deces de l'Auteur par Son Fils Adrien Gilles Camper, Traduite du Hollandois par Denis Bernard Quatremere d'Isjonval. [Physical Dissertation, on the Real Differences Presented in the Features of the Face in Men of Different Countries and Different Ages; on the beauty that characterizes ancient statues and engraved stones. Followed by the proposal of a new method of drawing all kinds of human heads with the greatest confidence. Published after the death of the author by his son Adrien Gilles Camper, translated from the Dutch by Denis Bernard Quatremere d'Isjonval]
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Camper, Pierre
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Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
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Utrecht: B. Wild & J. Altheer, 1791. First French edition. 1791 LANDMARK THEORY OF CRANIOMETRY BY DUTCH PHYSICIAN, LINKING SPECIES AND RACES, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE FOLDING ENGRAVINGS. 23x27 cm; quarto, original limp paper-covered boards, ink hand-lettered title to spine, 1x1.5 cm paper label bottom of spine. Decorative bookplate of Charles Atwood Kofoid to front paste-down, bookplate of Robert L Chevalier to front free endpaper, untrimmed edges. viii, 114, [2] pp., 9 folding copper plates, 1 folding diagram. Wear to cover edges, 1.5 cm inkblot to bottom of front cover, faint perforated library stamp to title page, small number hand stamp bottom of following page, otherwise unmarked pages with bright clean plates. Very good minus, now in 19th century blue rubbed quarter cloth slipcase with gilt title to spine and cloth-covered folder, in custom archival mylar cover. GARRISON-MORTON No. 158 for the German edition of 1792 (first published in Dutch in 1791). PETRUS CAMPER (1722 - 1789), was a Dutch physician, anatomist, physiologist, midwife, zoologist, anthropologist, paleontologist and a naturalist. He was the son of a local well-to-do minister, who made his fortune in the East Indies. As a brilliant alumnus, he studied in the University of Leiden, earning degrees in both medicine and philosophy at the age of 24. He was offered sundry professorships, being first named professor of philosophy, anatomy and surgery in 1750 at the University of Franeker. Beginning in 1755, he occupied a chair of anatomy, medicine and surgery at the Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam, and later moved to the University of Groningen. He investigated the anatomy of eight orangutans, and claimed it was a different species from the human being, and not simply a "degenerate" type of (white) human, as some contemporary scientists theorized. In his 1778 lecture, "On the Points of Similarity between the Human Species, Quadrupeds, Birds, and Fish; with Rules for Drawing, founded on this Similarity," he metamorphosed a horse into a human being, thus showing the similarity between all vertebrates. Camper is best known for his theory of the "facial angle" originally in connection with two lectures he gave in Amsterdam in 1770 to art students on beauty and portraiture. He determined that modern humans had facial angles between 70° and 80°, with African and Asian angles closer to 70°, and European angles closer to 80. According to his new portraiture technique, an angle is formed by drawing two lines: one horizontally from the nostril to the ear; and the other perpendicularly from the advancing part of the upper jawbone to the most prominent part of the forehead. His theory that intelligence is proportional to the facial angle was later used to justify racism, slavery and genocide. PROVENANCE: CHARLES ATWOOD KOFOID (1865 - 1947) was an American zoologist known for his collection and classification of many new species of marine protozoans which established marine biology on a systematic basis. A faculty member of the University of California, Berkeley he was an early advocate for the development of a marine station in La Jolla that would later become the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Mal Vu Mal Dit

Mal Vu Mal Dit by BECKETT, Samuel

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Mal Vu Mal Dit
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BECKETT, Samuel
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Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1981. 8vo. 76, [1] pp. Original white printed wrappers, entirely unopened; original glassine. Tiny penmark and one small nick to glassine, otherwise fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 42 of 99 copies from an edition of 114 copies (there were 15 hors commerce) on Alfamousse, publisher's numbered limitation ticket.
CORNERS OF GREY OLD GARDENS

CORNERS OF GREY OLD GARDENS by (King, Jessie M.)

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CORNERS OF GREY OLD GARDENS
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(King, Jessie M.)
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London, Edinburgh & Boston: T. N. Foulis, (1917). A reprint of the 1914 First Edition..this issue published in 1917. An octavo of 151 pp. with eight color plates by Margaret Waterfield mounted on heavy stock, illustrate charming essays on gardening by various authors. White paper over boards with a marvelous cover illustrations in vivid colors by Jessie M. King. Top edge gilt. A companion volume to A Book Of Sundials, this is considered by many to be one of the finest examples of Jessie King's inimitable style. Aside from some very light soiling and edgewear, this is an exceptional copy, with the boards and gilt bright and the contents clean and free from foxing. White 112.
Four-page legal document stating that Ebenezer Webster of Londonderry New Hampshire is indenturing his son William to Nathaniel Parker to learn the tanning and currying trade. Nov. 18, 1819

Four-page legal document stating that Ebenezer Webster of Londonderry New Hampshire is indenturing his son William to Nathaniel Parker to learn the tanning and currying trade. Nov. 18, 1819

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Four-page legal document stating that Ebenezer Webster of Londonderry New Hampshire is indenturing his son William to Nathaniel Parker to learn the tanning and currying trade. Nov. 18, 1819
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With an addendum which changes terms of the indenture regarding payment- that instead of leather and cash for payment it will be in form of clothing. Some tears and folds.
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La Banlieue de Paris. Robert Doisneau by Doisneau

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La Banlieue de Paris. Robert Doisneau
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Doisneau
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Published under the direction of Art Vivant & Masako Somogye. New Art Seibu / Libroport, Tokyo,1992. Photographs by Doisneau with Japanise text.Very good.
Gazetteer of the Japanese Empire containing place names from the hydrographic charts and sailing directions on issue in 1936

Gazetteer of the Japanese Empire containing place names from the hydrographic charts and sailing directions on issue in 1936

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Gazetteer of the Japanese Empire containing place names from the hydrographic charts and sailing directions on issue in 1936
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[Washington, D.C.]: Hydrographic Office, United States Navy Department, 1943. 4to, pp. [4], 378; text in double column; text in English and Japanese; original printed tan wrappers; very good and sound. Front wrapper with the word "Restricted" at top right, and back wrappers with a red rubberstamp noting that "This book is charged to Tom Stuart to remain in his custody during his enrollment in the Japanese course given under Navy auspices..." "The Japanese section of the Division of naval intelligence has rearranged in alphabetical order the Japanese compilation issued in 1936 by the Japanese Hydrographic department with English title "Tables of Japanese place names appearing in (Japanese) hydrographic publications, with Roman transcriptions" (preface).
MR. FIELD'S DAUGHTER

MR. FIELD'S DAUGHTER by BAUSCH, Richard

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MR. FIELD'S DAUGHTER
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BAUSCH, Richard
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New York: The Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, (1989). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "For Dick,/this hardest one I've/tried-- 1993."
The Story of the Vollbehr Collection of Incunabula: An Address Delivered before the Eleventh Annual Conference on Printing Education at a Session in The Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, Monday Evening, June 27, 1932

The Story of the Vollbehr Collection of Incunabula: An Address Delivered before the Eleventh Annual Conference on Printing Education at a Session in The Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, Monday Evening, June 27, 1932 by Ashley, Frederick W.; Clauss, Eugene A

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The Story of the Vollbehr Collection of Incunabula: An Address Delivered before the Eleventh Annual Conference on Printing Education at a Session in The Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, Monday Evening, June 27, 1932
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Ashley, Frederick W.; Clauss, Eugene A
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Providence, Rhode Island: Privately Printed, 1932. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Limited edition, #421 of 485 copies. Front joint beginning to split at head and foot, ink stamp on front endpaper, 1 inch chip from top margin of title page, minor sticker removal marks on rear endpapers. 1932 Hard Cover. 50, [2] pp. Davey board covered with Bay Path, Copper, ripple finish cover stock. Printed on San Marco paper, in Monotype Garamont with ornaments.
Romantic Salt Lake City: Being a True if Somewhat Strange story of the Most Remarkable and Romantic City in the United States "The Queen of the West

Romantic Salt Lake City: Being a True if Somewhat Strange story of the Most Remarkable and Romantic City in the United States "The Queen of the West by [Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce]

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Romantic Salt Lake City: Being a True if Somewhat Strange story of the Most Remarkable and Romantic City in the United States "The Queen of the West
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[Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce]
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Salt Lake City: Chamber of Commerce, 1926. 28pp. Sextodecimo [17 cm] Tan illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Illustrated guide to Salt Lake that contains a nice concise history of the town to the early 20th century. "Whatever of individuality or charm may impress you - whatever of beauty or worth you may find, bears the imprint which stamps Salt Lake City as unique among the cities of the world." p.5 Flake/Draper 7487.

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