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Singular Pleasures by Clemente, Francesco ; Mathews, Harry

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Title: Singular Pleasures
Author: Clemente, Francesco ; Mathews, Harry
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: The Grenfell Press, 1988. First edition. Clemente, Francesco. One of 26 specially bound copies containing a signed original watercolor. From an edition of 350 copies, signed by author and artist, 152 pages, 67 duotone lithographs by Clemente accompanying Mathews’s text. Printed on Kozo/Gampi. The lithographs were printed by Joe Petruzzelli and Maurice Sanchez, the type cast and set by Michael Bixler. Full leather binding by Claudia Cohen.

Pomponius Mela. Iulius Solinus. Itinerarium Antonini Aug. Vibius Sequester. P. Victor De Regionibus Urbis Romae. Dionysius Afer de Situ Orbis Prisciano interprete. Iter[u]m castigatus & cum Graeco exe[m]plari collatus by Pomponius Mela (fl. ca. 41); Gaius Julius Solinus (3rd c.); Vibius Sequester (4th or 5th c.) Dionysius Periegetes (fl. ca. 118); Publius Victor, (?4th c.) et al.

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Title: Pomponius Mela. Iulius Solinus. Itinerarium Antonini Aug. Vibius Sequester. P. Victor De Regionibus Urbis Romae. Dionysius Afer de Situ Orbis Prisciano interprete. Iter[u]m castigatus & cum Graeco exe[m]plari collatus
Author: Pomponius Mela (fl. ca. 41); Gaius Julius Solinus (3rd c.); Vibius Sequester (4th or 5th c.) Dionysius Periegetes (fl. ca. 118); Publius Victor, (?4th c.) et al.
Seller: Liber Antiquus (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Florence: Per haeredes Philippi Iuntae, 1526. SECOND GIUNTA EDITION (1st 1519). Hardcover. Fine. A tall, unsophisticated copy, in its original limp vellum binding (vellum stained, lacking ties, short split to upper hinge). The text is in very good condition with intermittent foxing, heavier in some gatherings. A compendium of ancient geographical texts, including descriptions of the known world by Pomponius Mela, Dionysius Periegetes, and Gaius Julius Solinus. Shorter texts include a catalogue of the regions within the city of Rome, “De regionibus urbis Romae" by “Publius Victor”. The work is possibly a literary forgery of the 15th century, presented as the work of a newly-discovered author. The name was coined by Pomponius Leto of the Roman Academy. The volume was edited by Antonio Francino (1480- after 1537), a scholar of great talent, who taught in the households of important Florentines, and who produced, starting in 1517, numerous editions of Greek and Latin authors for the Giunta firm. Francino’s opening letter in this volume is addressed to the twenty-year old Pietro Vettori, who would himself become a philologist of great renown. Pomponius Mela’s Description of the World: “A generation earlier than the work of the natural historian Pliny, under the reign of Claudius or Caligula, we find the first Latin author whom, to the best of our knowledge, we can call a pure geographer and whose work has come down to us complete. This is Pomponius Mela, a Spaniard from Tingentera, near Gibraltar, whose Chronographia, “Description of Places” in three books, is preserved… The Chronographia describes the world, taking the Mediterranean as its basic point of reference. It proceeds counterclockwise from the Strait of Gibraltar, whither it returns at the end of the description.”(Conte) “After a short prooemium, in which he dwells upon the importance and difficulties of his undertaking, he proceeds to define the cardinal points, and to explain the division of the world into two hemispheres and five zones. The northern hemisphere is that portion of the Earth which is known, and is separated by the impassable torrid zone from the southern hemisphere, which is altogether unknown, and is the abode of the Antichthones. The northern, known hemisphere is completely surrounded by the ocean, which communicates with the four great seas: one on the north, the Caspian; two on the south, the Persian and the Arabian; and one in the west, The Mediterranean, with its subdivisions. Next follows a description of the three continents: Asia, Europe, and Africa, and an enumeration of its inhabitants. These preliminaries being discussed, the author enters upon more minute details, and makes a complete circuit of the known world. “Thus commencing at the straits of Hercules with Mauritania, he passes on in regular order to Numidia, Africa Proper, the Cyrenaica, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, Phoenicia, Cilicia, Pamphylia, Lycia, Caria, Ionia, Aeolis, Bithynia, Paphlagonia, the Asiatic nations on the Euxine and the Palus Maeotis, European Scythia, Thrace, Macedonia, Greece, the Peloponinesus, Epirus, Illyricum, Italy from the head of the Adriatic round by Magna Graecia to the Ligurian Gulf, Gallia Narbonnensis, and the eastern coast of Spain. (Hispaniae ora citerior.) The tour of the Mediterranean being now completed, a chapter is devoted to its islands. Passing beyond the Straits, we stretch along the western coast of Spain (Hispaniae ora exterior), the western coast of Gaul (Galliae ora exterior), the islands of the Northern Ocean, Germany, Sarmatia, the shores of the Caspian, the Eastern Ocean and India, the Mare Rubrum and its two gulfs, the Persian and Arabian, Aethiopia, and those portions of Aethiop a and Mauritania bordering upon the Atlantic, which brings him round to the point from which he started. It will be seen from the above sketch that the existence of the northern countries of Europe and of the northern and eastern countries of Asia were unknown, it being supposed that these regions formed part of the ocean, which, in like manner, was supposed to occupy the whole of Central and Southern Africa.”(Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography) Solinus: “Gaius Julius Solinus, who probably lived between the middle and the end of the third century, was concerned with geography, though not in the modern sense of the term. His work is entitled Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium, but in the Middle Ages, when it was widely read, it was also known as Polyhistor, to emphasize the great number of curiosities that were collected there. The work is a careful compilation from many literary sources, chiefly Pliny the Elder but also Pomponius Mela and Suetonius, along with various other geographical treatises that are no longer extant. Solinus noted down all the unusual things he came across when reading these works, about peoples and their customs, animals, and plants… “The work opens with a full treatment of Rome and Roman history from the kings to the principate of Augustus. The area examined is then extended to Italy, and then to Greece and the Black Sea, Germany, Gaul, Britain, and Spain; this counterclockwise tour ends with Africa, Arabia, Asia Minor, India, and the kingdom of the Parthians, in accordance with a systematic geographical plan that is one of the most characteristic features of the work. It enjoyed considerable success in the Middle Ages, when it was also read and studied as a summary of the excessively vast Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder. It did not, however, altogether replace it, with the result that it enjoyed, so to speak, a success parallel to that of its more illustrious predecessor.”(Conte) “Referring to the reading of Pliny and Solinus in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Anthony Grafton writes: ‘Generations of readers thrilled, like Desdemona listening to Othello, at these tales of strange creatures, foods, and burial customs – and were no doubt stimulated by them to see the inhabitants of strange lands as literally outlandish, less than civilized or even less than human.’ Charles Raymond Beazley has made note of this remarkable appeal: ‘The compilation of Solinus… became so fashionable in the Middle Ages, and exercised so powerful an influence on the geographical imagination, that it cannot be passed over. It is simply a collection of marvels, chiefly of natural history, brought together apparently on the principle ‘Credo’ or at least, ‘Lego, quia impossibile.’… no one ever influenced Christian geography more profoundly or mischievously.” “References to and borrowings from Solinus can be found in a wide variety of medieval texts, stretching though the whole of the medieval period. Readers of Solinus ranged from Augustine to Bede to Dante, and Solinus’ influence can be seen in examples as varied as the Hereford Mappa mundi (ca. 1300) and Fazio degli Uberti’s verse epic, ‘Dittamondo’ (14th c.), in which Solinus, in the place of Dante’s Virgil, guides a pilgrim on a tour of the known world. The interest in Solinus had not waned by the fifteenth century… While geography was not a primary area of interest for the humanists, Solinus, Pliny, and authors like them were widely read and commented upon by Renaissance scholars… The strong interest in antiquity that characterized the Renaissance continued the medieval curiosity for the Roman compilers who seemed to have succeeded in encapsulating the entire world and all the knowledge in it.”(Dover and McDonough).

Watson's New Map of the Western States Territories, Mexico, and Central America by WATSON, Gaylord

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Title: Watson's New Map of the Western States Territories, Mexico, and Central America
Author: WATSON, Gaylord
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Description: Chicago: W. W. Wadsworth, 1869. unbound. Pocket map. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Image measures 38 1/4 x 29 1/4 inches. A rare separately issued folding map of the western United States, published in 1869, the same year the first Transcontinental Railroad was completed. In addition to the completed route, the map illustrates two proposed northern and southern railroad lines, reflecting the era's ambitious plans for westward expansion and transportation development. The upper border features the Star-Spangled Banner and the Great Seal of the United States, while vignettes of sailing ships animate both the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. The map's state boundaries are close to their current configuration, although the Dakota Territory remains undivided, predating the creation of North Dakota and South Dakota in 1889. Most of Mexico included plus an inset of Central America. Lined, right margin cropped, some repairs along folds, hard to find. Gaylord Watson (1833-1896) was an American engraver and publisher based in New York and Chicago. He specialized in railroad maps and large wall maps, and was known for his vibrant use of color.

Marguerite de la Nuit by MAC ORLAN, Pierre

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Title: Marguerite de la Nuit
Author: MAC ORLAN, Pierre
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: fine
Description: Paris: Emile-Paul Freree, 1925. Limited. hardcover. fine. Gravures sur cuivre de Daragnes. Tall 8vo, handsomely bound by Greuzevault in full crushed black morocco, with gilt dentelles, top edge gilt, original wrappers bound-in. Paris: Emile-Paul Freres, (1925). Limited Edition. Fine. One of 50 copies on Hollande de Van Gelder Zonen. Presentation from Daragnes, signed on the fly-leaf. Fine, in marbled board slipcase.

[AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS - PITTSBURGH 1961]. Application for Charter of the Negro Licensed Beverage Association of Western Pennsylvania by Negro Licensed Beverage

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Title: [AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS - PITTSBURGH 1961]. Application for Charter of the Negro Licensed Beverage Association of Western Pennsylvania
Author: Negro Licensed Beverage
Seller: Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Pittsburgh: Shields, Watson & Washington, Attorneys at Law, 1961. Very good. Together 4 leaves (7 pp.), the first two legal-size (14" x 8 1/2"), the others slightly shorter; brad bound inside a 14.74 x 9" printed chemise folded to 9" x 3.75". Creases at folds; chemise moderately worn; leaves lightly dust-soiled with one small stain. APPLICATION TO CHARTER AN AFRICAN AMERICAN NON-PROFIT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION. IT WAS CREATED IN RESPONSE TO JIM CROW LAWS THAT REMAINED IN FORCE IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND ELSEWHERE. THIS SCARCE PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIAL DOCUMENTS THE NEEDS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS OWNERS TO UNITE IN ORDER TO SURVIVE. Our charter shows that the "Negro Licensed Beverage Association of Western Pennsylvania" (NLBAWP) was a group of African American hotel owners, restaurant owners, and tavern owners. Lingering Jim Crow laws and other societal forces made it exceptionally difficult for such businesses to succeed in the Pittsburgh area (and of course elsewhere). The late 1950s and early 1960s saw the development of similar organizations in Philadelphia (National Negro Licensed Beverage Association) and New Orleans (Negro Tavern Owners Association). Importantly, this document lists the goals of the NLBAWP organization: "To foster, strengthen, and improve business within the Negro community." "To advance the cause of the Negro tavern and hotel owner as a whole." "To give service to members to do things for them which they cannot do for themselves or which can be done better or less expensively if done collectively." "To create and project the proper image of a tavern or hotel owner in the community." "To sponsor, aid, and assist any charitable or civic project approved by the members." One noteworthy incorporator listed here was Vivian Mason Lane. Lane owned four Pittsburgh taverns in the 1960s and was a community leader through at least the 1980s. She led a neighborhood Chamber of Commerce and ran (unsuccessfully) for County Commissioner and the State House. The 1966-67 Negro Traveler's Green Book ("For Vacation Without Aggravation!") lists a grand total of eight suitable motels, tourist homes, and restaurants in Pittsburgh. In any event, we have been unable to determine what -- if anything -- became of the Negro Licensed Beverage Association of Western Pennsylvania.

Cookery and Pastry as taught and practised by Mrs. Mikiver, Teacher of those arts in Edinburgh by MACIVER, Susanna

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Title: Cookery and Pastry as taught and practised by Mrs. Mikiver, Teacher of those arts in Edinburgh
Author: MACIVER, Susanna
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Description: Edinburgh: For C. Elliot, 1787. Book. 8vo, contemp. calf. Pp. xii, [13]-264. Rubbed, moderately browned and foxed throughout; lacking flyleaves; a sound copy. Early ownership signatures of Margaret Johnston and F. A. Bruce. Fourth ed.? A lively and relatively translatable 18th century cook book, first published in 1773. The book concludes with a 7 pp. "List of Things in Season, in Every Month of the Year." As noted by Maclean, "Mrs. Susanna Maciver and her colleague Mrs. Frazer ran one of the few schools of cookery in Edinburgh." MacLean, p. 92; Oxford p. 106, listing 6 editions up to 1800, but not this..

Elecciones de la Provincia de Neiva [caption title] by [Colombia]

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Title: Elecciones de la Provincia de Neiva [caption title]
Author: [Colombia]
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: About very good.
Description: [Bogotá]: Imprenta de Nicolas Gomez, 1853. About very good.. 24pp. Original plain wrappers. Light wear at edges, some bumping at corners. Moderate dust soiling and toning. Following charges of fraud, the winners of of the 1853 election in the Colombian province of Neiva published this scarce pamphlet that contains numerous public and private documents concerning the voting process and results, including the investigation, reports, and findings of the local election committee. Not in OCLC.

A history of the New York Iroquois, now commonly called the Six Nations. by Beauchamp, William M.

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Title: A history of the New York Iroquois, now commonly called the Six Nations.
Author: Beauchamp, William M.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Albany: New York State Education Department, 1905. First edition. Very Good. 23 cm; pp. [125]-461, ads, 17 plates and folding map in pocket on front pastedown. In original green cloth, slightly scuffed and a little weak at the hinges, but very good overall. Ownership signature on front free endpaper.

Lief by Barbara Tompkins

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Title: Lief
Author: Barbara Tompkins
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Description: Los Angeles: Lief. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Handsome catalogue of Danish retailer and interior decorator Leif Aarestrup, who here showcases his high-end shops in Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Beverly Hills. INSCRIBED BY LIEF (AND ON BEHALF OF 2 OF HIS SONS) ON THE HALF-TITLE. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket, with just a touch of wear along the flap-folds. Tall quarto, vivid color photography thruout. Book designed by Kathy Aird and photographed by Kathlene Persoff; text by Barbara Tompkins.

The Wisdom of Conservatism by Witonski, Peter (editor)

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Title: The Wisdom of Conservatism
Author: Witonski, Peter (editor)
Seller: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
ISBN: 9780870001185
Condition: Very Good
Description: New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House. Very Good. c1971. Hardcover. 0870001183 . A Four Volume edition in Very Good condition. Minor edgewear to book and black slipcase in Very Good condition ; An attempt to fill the gap in our understanding of conservatism as to provide interested readers with a comprehensive, ordered, collection of the best of the conservative writing; Vol. 1/4/2026; 8vo; 2396 pages .

Politics & Poetics by Aristotle

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Title: Politics & Poetics
Author: Aristotle
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1979. Special Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Near fine collector's edition from The Easton Press. Part of "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written" series. Full leather bound with gilt detailing and a satin ribbon book marker. Specially commissioned frontispiece portrait and decorative endpapers.

Gallows View (First Edition, inscribed) by Peter Robinson

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Title: Gallows View (First Edition, inscribed)
Author: Peter Robinson
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
ISBN: 9780684192666
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990. First American Edition, preceded by the First Canadian Edition published in 1987 by Viking Canada. INSCRIBED on the title page: "To Frances / Best wishes / Peter Robinson / Pasadena '91." Author's first novel, winner of the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Light offsetting to the endpapers. Jacket flaps moderately toned along the edges.

A TRAVELLER'S ALPHABET by Cohen, Marty

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Title: A TRAVELLER'S ALPHABET
Author: Cohen, Marty
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Description: Portland, Oregon: Prescott Street Press, (1979). 8vo. LIMITED EDITION. NUMBER 28 OF 100 HARDBOUND COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST. Bound in white cloth with pictorial pastedown on cover. Additionally inscribed and signed again by the author on prelim. Scarce in this format. Cloth As New.

Burning Gold by ANDREWS, Robert Hardy

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Title: Burning Gold
Author: ANDREWS, Robert Hardy
Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description: Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1945., 1945. First edition (so stated). 8vo. Green pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket (unclipped; nicks). Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Author's second book, following "Windfall" (better known under the motion picture title "If I Had a Million").. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Theatrical and Musical Memoirs by ARONSON, Rudolf

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Title: Theatrical and Musical Memoirs
Author: ARONSON, Rudolf
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: New York: McBridge, Nast, 1913. Large octavo. Original publisher's full black cloth with decorative device gilt to upper and titling gilt to spine. 283 pp. With illustrative plates. Binding somewhat worn, rubbed, and bumped; former owner's signature to front free endpaper. With an autograph letter from the author dated November 29, 1889 sending a check for the Santa Claus Festival and requesting two tickets. Worn and browned; creased at folds; chips and tears to edges; remnants of former mount to verso.

Swanee River Moon; Waltz Song by CLARKE, H. Pitman

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Title: Swanee River Moon; Waltz Song
Author: CLARKE, H. Pitman
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Very good +
Description: Feist Building, New York: Leo. Feist, Inc, 1921. Ephemera no binding. Very good +. H. Pitman CLARKE, music.. 12 1/8" x 9 1/4"; 5, [1]pp; color pictorial front wrapper; ad for 3 "Blue Ribbon" Music Folios on rear wrapper; 1" split at foot of fold; very good plus.

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