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cum Regulis confectis per Patres a Tridentina Synodo delectos, auctoritate Sanctiss. D. N. Pij IIII, Pont. Max. comprobatus. Cum Appendice in Belgio, ex mandato Regiae Cathol. Maiestatis confecta by INDEX LIBRORUM PROHIBITORUM

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Title: cum Regulis confectis per Patres a Tridentina Synodo delectos, auctoritate Sanctiss. D. N. Pij IIII, Pont. Max. comprobatus. Cum Appendice in Belgio, ex mandato Regiae Cathol. Maiestatis confecta
Author: INDEX LIBRORUM PROHIBITORUM
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Woodcut printer’s device of the golden compass on title. 119 pp. Small 8vo, 18th-cent. Belgian mottled calf (head of spine a little chipped, joints rubbed), sides gilt, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine (label partly flaked away). Antwerp: C. Plantin, 1570. [as usual, bound after]: PHILIP II, King of Spain. Philippi II. Regis Catholici Edictum De Librorum prohibitorum catalogo observando. Woodcut printer’s device of the golden compass on title. 8 unnumbered leaves. Antwerp: C. Plantin, 1570. In the struggle against the rising tide of Protestantism the need for catalogues of forbidden books became obvious. Local authorities in many countries compiled a number of these. The Council of Trent in 1563 laid down the rules to be followed in the future and made an official index, published by order of Pius IV in 1564. Phillip II tried to improve the list by adding a separate list of prohibited books in the Spanish Netherlands. I. First edition of Plantin’s important printing of the famous index of prohibited books first published in 1564 as a direct result of the Council of Trent. Following the title and the bull of Pius IV (pp. 3-5), the ten basic rules designed to govern and regulate the activities of publishers and censors are published. Then, starting on page 15, is the list itself of forbidden authors and their books which continues through page 55. The books are classified alphabetically within three groups: authors of whom all works are condemned, authors of whom certain works — or parts of works — are condemned, and anonymous works. In the next section, following a four-page preface, we find on pages 61-117 an extensive appendix of books prohibited in the Spanish Netherlands, including books in French, Flemish, and Spanish. Among them are works by Rabelais and books printed by Plantin himself! The appendix was probably compiled by the Spanish theologian and scholar Benito Arias Montano (1527-98) at the order of the Duke of Alva. Pages 118-19 contain an extract from the bull of Paul V. Plantin shared the lucrative monopoly of printing the Indices of prohibited books with the Brussels printer Michel van Hamont. This monopoly symbolized the good relations the two printers enjoyed with the Spanish authorities. There are two issues of this work published in the same year, one with 112 pages and, as with the present copy, 119 pages. According to Voet, the texts are identical and the priority is uncertain. II. As is often the case, this Index is preceded by the edict (or ordinance) issued in the name of Philip II which serves as a sort of introduction to the Index. It includes instructions on how the Index should be implemented: the listed books had to be burned within three months of the publication of this edict. Very good copies of two important works which are scarce on the market. Contemporary ownership inscription on first title dated 1570 with some additional annotations on verso of final leaf of the Index. With a note on the rear free endpaper stating the book was rebound on 17 August 1756. ❧ Voet 1445 & 1443.

On the Inhalation of the Vapour of Ether in Surgical Operations: containing a Description of the Various Stages of Etherization and a Statement of the Result of nearly Eighty Operations in which Ether has been employed in St. George's and University College Hospitals by SNOW, John

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Title: On the Inhalation of the Vapour of Ether in Surgical Operations: containing a Description of the Various Stages of Etherization and a Statement of the Result of nearly Eighty Operations in which Ether has been employed in St. George's and University College Hospitals
Author: SNOW, John
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Three woodcut illus. in the text (one full-page). viii, 88 pp. (lacking half-title). 8vo, modern morocco by Middleton (small wormholes in upper margin of first few leaves), spine gilt. London: J. Churchill, 1847. First edition of a great rarity. Published in October 1847, this was the second treatise on ether anesthesia, and Snow’s first book on the subject. It contains the first illustrated account of Snow’s regulating inhaler, the first to control the amount of ether vapour received by the patient. Snow had published some preliminary comments in the London Medical Gazette, following which he modified the inhaler, and included the description of the final modified version in this book. Fine copy. Stamps of the Wellcome Library on verso of title. ❧ Garrison-Morton 5658.

In the Rough by Blake, Louisa

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Title: In the Rough
Author: Blake, Louisa
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: About very good.
Description: Wellington, N.Z.: Edwards, Russell & Co, 1894. About very good.. 28pp. 12mo. Original red cloth, cover gilt; edges red. Light wear and soiling. Small portion of flyleaf torn away to remove previous owner's name; presentation inscription from the author. Small library ink stamp on rear flyleaf. A presentation copy of the only published work by Louisa Blake (1844-1901), reformer and advocate for women's suffrage in New Zealand. The short collection of verse, largely devotional, also contains an interesting panegyric exalting the role of the Bishop of Mashonaland in saving a comrade during the First Matabele War in Zimbabwe, titled "A True Incident of the Matabele Campaign." Outside of the Antipodes, OCLC locates just four copies, with only one of these in the United States, at the University of Pennsylvania.

TALES OF UNREST by Conrad, Joseph

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Title: TALES OF UNREST
Author: Conrad, Joseph
Seller: Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description: 1898. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. 14 pp undated ads. Original dark green cloth. First English Edition of Conrad's fourth book -- his first collection of short stories (including "An Outpost of Progress," a Congo tale anticipating his later "Heart of Darkness"). The American edition by Scribner's is believed to have come out about ten days earlier. For this U.K. edition Cagle estimates a printing of about 1,250 copies, while Wise and Smith estimate 3,000 (but that figure probably included copies for the colonies); in 1906 copies of this first impression were offered by the Times Book Club. "Some copies have the top-edge trimmed but not gilt, and endpapers of laid paper... This difference is probably indicative of a later binding-up in the batch-binding process" [Supino]. This copy is in this (scarcer) secondary binding state -- with top edge plain, and with laid-paper endpapers. It is in bright, close-to-fine condition (a few faint cover marks). Supino A4.7.0 (secondary binding); Cagle A4c.1. Provenance: early endpaper signature of M. McRorie, "Strathearn" [Scotland]; discreet bookplate of the Conrad bibliographer David J. Supino.

A Letter to the Right Hon. William Wyndham on his late opposition to the bill to prevent Bull-Baiting: By an Old Member of Parliament by Old Member of Parliament

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Title: A Letter to the Right Hon. William Wyndham on his late opposition to the bill to prevent Bull-Baiting: By an Old Member of Parliament
Author: Old Member of Parliament
Seller: De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description: 1800. Second Edition. London: printed by W. Stratford, sold Cadell and Davies, [1800]. (4), 47 pp. Neatly bound in later marbled boards, cloth spine lettered in gilt. A fine copy. Surprisingly rare pamphlet (no first edition located), censorious of the enjoyment afforded the lower classes by the spectacle of torture inflicted on dumb animals, in this case the unspeakable cruelties of bull-baiting. The attempt to outlaw bull-baiting figured significantly in the contest in England between reform and reaction at the time of the French Revolution. Advocated by Wilberforce and others, the bill was defeated by conservative ideologies, such as Edmund Burke and acolyte, William Wyndham, who foresaw in the abolition of such brutality the erosion of the traditions which supposedly bound the lower classes to the existing social order. Put simply, better to torture a poor animal than guillotine an aristocrat-a familiar dynamic in class society then and now.

BLUEBEARD by Vonnegut, Kurt

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Title: BLUEBEARD
Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780385295901
Condition: Fine
Description: NY: Delacorte, 1987. First edition, limited issue of 500 numbered copies signed by Vonnegut on the limitation page. Copy #435. All edges gilt, issued without dustjacket. Cloth-covered slipcase with gilt lettering. Slipcase with isbn-price sticker as issued. Slipcase cloth with light rubbing; otherwise, an unread copy in Fine condition. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Vonnegut's twelfth novel.

Mine Enemy; Translated from the Hebrew by Chaya Amir by Barnea, Amalia and Aharon [Henry Kissinger]

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Title: Mine Enemy; Translated from the Hebrew by Chaya Amir
Author: Barnea, Amalia and Aharon [Henry Kissinger]
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: New York: Grove Press, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Inscribed to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, first edition of Mine Enemy by Amalia and Aharon Barnea.. Octavo, x, 225pp. Beige boards, red cloth spine, title in gilt on spine. Stated "first edition" with a full number line. Bumped top corner, otherwise a fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, faint shelf wear, a near fine example. Author's contact information on front flyleaf. Inscribed on the half title: "To Dr. Henry Kissinger, A teacher and a guide for many years, with the best of wishes, Amalia + Aharon Barnea.

THE MODERN DRAWING; by Elderfield, John

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Title: THE MODERN DRAWING;
Author: Elderfield, John
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Description: New York: MOMA, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Folio. Art from the 1880- - 1950's. 100 color plates. Arp, Ernest, Grosz, Klee, et. al.

THE GRAPHIC WORK by Escher, M.C.

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Title: THE GRAPHIC WORK
Author: Escher, M.C.
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Description: 75 illus. Includes a biography on Escher & descriptions of his work.

Louise Bourgeois: La Famille by BOURGEOIS, Louise; Thomas KELLEIN (contributor)

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Title: Louise Bourgeois: La Famille
Author: BOURGEOIS, Louise; Thomas KELLEIN (contributor)
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ISBN: 9781933045429
Condition: A near-fine copy
Description: New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2006. A near-fine copy. 9.5 x 6.75 inches. 223 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. First edition. "The fear of being born into the world an unwanted girl; the fear of becoming a pawn in the lives of her parents; the fear of failing as a wife, mother and artist: Over the course of her 70 years as an artist, Louise Bourgeois, born in 1911 in Paris, has always placed the psychology of family at the center of her work. Bourgeois left her homeland in 1938, without a degree, to live in New York with her husband, Robert Goldwater, a curator at The Museum of Modern Art. In 1940, the couple adopted their first son, and in 1941 Bourgeois gave birth to two more boys. Her artistic oeuvre deals almost exclusively with the fear of not being able to live up to the roles she was born into and took on. Most of her early works consisted of paintings on the theme of family, many of which have rarely, if ever, been reproduced. When she first began sculpting, she portrayed children and family members as stakes fatefully stuck in the ground, "Personnages," with windows and openings, who occasionally carried small packages, but who seemed mute and paralyzed. Her later work grew more sexualized, and after the death of her husband, she pursued the paternal element intensely. This thematic gathering of 20 paintings, more than 60 drawings, 35 sculptures and 5 embroideries made between 1935 and 2005 is also, by virtue of the centrality of family to her oeuvre, an overarching retrospective, a focused view of her career" (the publisher).

LEAF ON THE HILL (and) CRYSTAL ARABESQUES (and) APOSTROPHES (3 titles) by Carasso, Katherine Valentine

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Title: LEAF ON THE HILL (and) CRYSTAL ARABESQUES (and) APOSTROPHES (3 titles)
Author: Carasso, Katherine Valentine
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Description: Brookyn: Biography Press. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Three titles from a young, now forgotten poet. LEAF IN THE HILL Brooklyn NY: Biography Press, 1939 #225/300 copies signed by the author, in dustjacket. CRYSTAL ARABESQUES. 1937. 350 copies, unnumbered, in chipped dustjacket. APOSTROPHES. 1939. Fine in slipcase. Illustrated by John Levine. 250 copies, unnumbered.

GEOLOGY AND WATER RESOURCES IN THE FRENCH PRAIRIE AREA, NORTHERN WILLAMETTE VALLEY, OREGON by WSP 1833 -- Price, Don

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Title: GEOLOGY AND WATER RESOURCES IN THE FRENCH PRAIRIE AREA, NORTHERN WILLAMETTE VALLEY, OREGON
Author: WSP 1833 -- Price, Don
Seller: Hoffman Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Washington, D.C.: GPO. Very Good. 1967. Softcover. USGS 1967. Wrappers, very good condition (rubber stamp on cover). Complete with all maps and plates. .

WATER RESOURCES OF KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON by WSP 1852 -- Richardson, Donald et al.

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Title: WATER RESOURCES OF KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON
Author: WSP 1852 -- Richardson, Donald et al.
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Description: Washington, D.C.: GPO. Very Good. 1968. Softcover. USGS 1968. Wrappers, very good condition (rubber stamp on cover). Complete with all maps and plates. .

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A Rude Awakening - 1st US Edition/1st Printing by Aldiss, Brian W.

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Title: A Rude Awakening - 1st US Edition/1st Printing
Author: Aldiss, Brian W.
Seller: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
ISBN: 9780394504254
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Description: New York: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1978. First US Edition; First Printing. Cloth spine. 0394504259 . A Fine first American Edition/First Printing housed in a dust-jacket in Fine condition as well; Brian Aldiss's landmark novel of the future, A Rude Awakening, tells the story of a society on the brink of disaster. The world is a polluted, overcrowded, and war-ridden place, and the only escape is the virtual world of the Net. But when a teenage hacker is apprehended by the government, he discovers that the virtual world is only a part of the problem. For the government is using the Net to spy on the citizens, to control their thoughts, and to manipulate their behavior. And the only way to stop them is to break into the government's computers and destroy their secret files. A Rude Awakening is a powerfully written, prophetic novel that asks the question: What would happen if the Internet went away?; 8vo; 228 pages .

CONSERVATION AT THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY, A CASE HISTORY

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Title: CONSERVATION AT THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY, A CASE HISTORY
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Description: (Chicago, IL: The Newberry Library), n.d.. self paper wrappers. Newberry Library. small 4to. self paper wrappers. (8) pages. The case study of the conservation of the library's MS 40: The Mirror of Human Salvation. Illustrated.

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